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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1931)
Tine Maim of Afcaltaaaa. It win th testimony of th UU limn Oliver Cvirwood that thr wm nor fact thsn (lotion In this novel; that the heroine. Marie Antoinette Tonteur, and her fierce olil father lived nd loved ai deeorlbed In the story; that Catherine Uulsln and her valiant on were flesh and blood of their day; (hat Tlaoga. Sh'i.dss, Sllvc Heels and several other of the more Important character were not creature of fan cy; that "The Plalna of Abraham." like Mi other tale. 'The Black Hunter," to which It la closely related, I larae ly a romance of life It was lived nd not as It might have been lived. Th author alio asserted that th Fathering of th material had been th moat thrilling adventure of hi llf; th traveling foot by foot ovr th hallowed ground, the reading of letter written by hand dead a hun dred and fifty year or more, th dreaming over yellow manuscript written by priest and martyr and, lastly, the unveiling of loves and hates nd tragedies and happiness of th al most forgotten period embracing th very birth of both th American and Canadian peoples, and weighted with happenings that shook the foremost nations of th earth and largely mad them what they are today. The tory passes through romances, adventures and other stirring phase of llf In th Champlaln and Richelieu regions and reaches Its finals on the Plains of Abraham at Quebec In that historic struggle which curbed the sm bitlons of the French, established th ascendency of th English snd drew th first crude boundaries of th fu ture United State and Canada. CHAPTER I On t sunny afternoon In May, a dog, boy, a man. and a woman had crossed the oak opens of Tonteur's Mil and were trailing toward the deeper wilderness of the French frontier westward of the Richelieu and Lake Champlaln the dog first, the boy following, the man next, and the woman last It was a reversal of proper form, Tonteur bad prowled as he watched them go. A fool's way of facing a savage-Infested country that had no end. The man should have marched at the head of his precious column with his long gun ready and bis quest ing eyes alert; the woman next, to watch and guard with him; Uien the boy and the dog, If such nuisances were to be tolerated In travel of this kind, with evening coming on. Tonteur was the one-legged warrior aelgneur from whose gristmill down In the valley the four were going borne. . His eyes had followed the woman with a subdued and appraising hunger In them. Henri Bulaln was a strange man, be had thought He might be a little crazy, might even be a fooL But be was also a very lucky husband to possess a woman with the sweet face and form and the divinely chaste heart of Catherine, his wife. Jeems was a fortunate boy to bare her for a mother. Even the dog was a scoundrel for luck. An Indian dog at that A sneaking, good-for-nothing dog. A wreck of a dog without a soul, to be fed by her, petted by her, smiled at by her as be had seen her smile. Tonteur was first of the long string of berolc fighting barons settled by France along the Itlclielleu to hold the English and their red barbarians back. He was Doorkeeper to the waterway that led straight to the heart of New France, If the English came with their scalping fiends, the llohawks and the Senecas, they would have to pass over him first of all. No general could be given greater distinc tion than that Honor. Wealth. A wide domain over which he was king. And yet He envied nenrl Bulaln. It was mldafternoon. Maytime shad ows were growing longer toward the east It was the hour when birds were singing softly. Morning had beard their defiance, a glorious and fearless challenge of feathered min strelsy to all the spirits of darkness; but with late afternoon, sunset, eve ning, these same slim throated song sters found a note of gratitude and of prayer In their chastened voices. Flowers crushed underfoot In the open spaces they carpeted the earth with white and pink and blue. Flow ers and birds and peace a world filled with a declining sun a smiling heaven of blue over the treetops and with them a dog, a boy, a man, and a woman advancing westward. Three of these, even the dog, Ton teur envied. This dog bud a name which fitted him, Tonteur had thought For be was a wreck of a dog even more a wreck than the splendid seigneur him self, with his stub of a shot-off leg and a breast that bore Bvvord murks which would have killed an ordinary man. The dog, first of all, was a homely dog, so hopelessly homely that one could not help loving him at sight. Ills hair was bristly and unkempt UIs paws huge. His tall was half gone, which left him only a stub to wag. He walked with a limp, a heavy, never-fulling limp that seemed to shake his long body from end to end, fT his left fore paw like Tonteur's foot was missing. A crooked, cheery, Inartistic, lovable dog to whom the womnn In a moment's vlslonlng of the fitness of things had given the name of Odds-and-Ends, So Tonteur was half right In think ing of him as a wreck of a dog, but In one other thing he was wrong. The dog did have a soul a soul that be longed to the boy, his master. That soul had a great scar seured upon It by hunger and abuse In an Indian camp where Heurl Bulaln had found him four years before, and from -which, out of pity for a dying crea- By James Oliver CunvoooV $ by DoubWay roran Co., I no. WNU Service. ture, he had taken him home to Jeems. It was a scar cut deep by clubs and kicks, a wound that had never healed and that made the dog what he was a tin-loss and suspicious hunter of scents and sounds in the woods. Of the four who were filing west ward, he seemed to be the only one who watched and listened for danger to come out of the beauty and still ness of the world about them. Now and then he glanced up at his master. Trouble lay In the hoy's face and eyes, and the dog sensed It after a little and whined Id a questioning way in bis throat Panlel James Bulaln was the boy's name, but from babyhood his mother had called him Jeems. He was twelve and weighed twenty pounds more than his dog. Odds and-Ends, called Odd for short weighed sixty, If the scales in Tonteur's gristmill were right. One would have known the dog and the boy belonged together even had they been In a crowd, for if Odd was a battered old warrior, the boy, on the other hand, gave every evidence of an am bition to achieve a similar physical coin! It Ion. "Why, he's dressed np like a bold, bad pirate come to abduct my little girl and hold he for ransom." Ton teur had roared, down In the valley, and Jeems' father had Joined the baron In his laughter; then, to make the thing worse, Tonteur had turned him round and round, slowly and an- Th Man Should Have Marched at th Head of His Precious Column. pralslngly, with lovely little Marie Antoinette looking on, her dainty nose upturned In patrician disdain and with Paul Tache, her detestable cousin from the great city of Quebec, openly leering and grimacing at hlra from be hind her back. And this after he had prepared himself with painstaking care for Marie Antoinette's eyes should she happen to see him I That was the tragedy of it lie had put on bis new doeskin suit He carried a gun which was two Inches longer than himself. A big powderhorn swung at bis waist In his belt was a knife, and over his shoulder hung the most treas ured of his possessions, a slim ash bow and a quiver filled with arrows. He bad worn his coonskin cap of fur In spite of the warmth of the day, bo cause It looked better than the lighter one, which was stripped, and In this cap was a long turkey feather. Odd, the dog, was proud of his martial-looking master, but he could not under stand the change that -had come over the boy or why he was going home with such a strangely' set and solemn face. From her position behind the dog. the boy, and the man, Catherine Bu laln looked upon her world with a Joy ous and unafraid pride. No boy, In her opinion, could equal Jeems, and no man her husbnnd. One could see and feel her happiness, and as Tonteur secretly built up the fire of his yearn ing when he was alone, so she loved to exult in her own possessions when her men folk were ahead and could not see all that came and went In her face. This desire to hold within herself some small and sacred part of her rejoicing was because she was Eng lish and not French. That was why Daniel James had an English name, Inherited from her futher, who had been a New England schoolmaster and Maya Indians Have Been "Pioneers" in Corn? At Qulrlgua, In the republic of Guateinula. there exists a number of most Interesting ruins, apparently the remains of temples and other public buildings. There are many Individual monoliths, erected as monuments of different sorts, sculptured with human faces and figures nnd animal designs, as well as hieroglyphics, which arcbe ologlsts have not as yet been able to decipher accurately. One such stone bears a date In Mayan chronology which has been computed to coincide with 535 A. D. of the Gregorian cal endar. The carving of this monolith, which is the largest of the surviving remnants, Is Bill! clear and perfect, despite the long procession of cen turies that has passed over It In scriptions and representations on this and other stones tend to the belief afterward an agent of the Penns down in Pennsylvania, it was on the frontier of that far province that Henri had found and married her. Tonteur was aware, possibly even more than Henri Bulaln, that Cath erine's adoration of her men folk and of everything that went with them, even to the primitive discomforts of the wilderness life which had claimed her, was built up against a hunt ground of something more lhau merely being the mute of a man and the mother of a son. Culture ami learn ing and broadness of vision and thought, nurtured In her first by a gentle mother, and, alter her death, developed and strengthened by a schoolmaster father, had given to her a medium of priceless value by which to measure happiness. Because of her adroitness In fash toning beauty and perfection out of simple and inexpensive things, and also because she was of the spuwn of the despicable English. Madame Henrlette Touteur had conir to re gard her with much the same aversion and dislike with which she would have looked upon a cup of poison. Touteur knew this and cursed In his honest heart at the woman who was his wife, with her coldly patrician face, her powdered hair, her Jewels and gowns and her platonlc Ignorance of love and then thanked his God that little Marie Antoinette w:is grow ing less like her with each day th.it passed over her pretty bead. For Marie Antoinette was lempestiioti. like himself, a patrician without douli. but with a warm and ready p.isslou to offset that curse, and for this. tou. he blessed the fortune which In one way had been so kind to him. Behind her husband and boy Cnth erlne had been thinking of Tonteur and of bis wife, the aristocratic Hon rlette. For a long lime she had known of Madame Tonteur's hatred, but It was not until this afternoon that the other discovery had come to her. for In spite of hi most heroic efforis. Tonteur had betrayed himself when suddenly she had caught hlin looking at her. Catherine had seen the shitd ow of his secret like a ghost swlfily disappearing. Up over the hill she hn.t added many twos and twos together, until. In the sure way of woman, she knew what Tonteur was thinking and did not fear or distrust hlro for It. And Madame Tonteur hated her. Disbelieving whatever good might have been said of Catherine, she hated her first as a deadly enemy of her race, and hated her then because she dared hold her head as proudly as a baron's lady, and bated her last of all because, nothing more than the wife of a worth less backwoodsman like Henri Bulaln, she was Impudent enough to be the prettiest woman anywhere near the Tonteur selgneurie. And, so far as It was In her power, she had planted and nurtured this hatred to growth In the heart and mind of her proud daughter, Marie Antoinette, until Tonteur, blind to the feline subtlety of a woman In such matters, wondered why it was that his girl whom he worshiped above all other things on earth, should so openly display unfriendliness and dislike whenever Jeems came to Tonteur manor. Of this same thing Jeems had been thinking as he walked ahead of bli father and mother. His mind, at pres ent, was busy with the stress of fight ing. Mentally, and physically In a way, he was experiencing the thrill of sanguinary battle. Half a doze.) times since beginning the long climb over Tonteur's hill be bad choked and beaten Paul Tache, and In every mo ment of these mental triumphs Marie Antoinette looked on with wonder and horror as be pitilessly assailed and vanquished her handsome young cousin from the Dig city of Quebec, Even in the heat of these vivid Imaginings, Jeems was sick at heart and it was the shadow of this sick ness which Odd caught when he looked up Into his master's eyes. From the day Jeems had first seen Marie Antoinette, when she was seven and he was nine, he had dreamed of ber, and had anticipated through weeks and months the Journeys which his father permitted him to make with him to Tonteur manor. On these rare occasions he had gazed with childish adoration at the little princess of the selgneurie and had made her presents of flowers and feathers and nuts and maple sugar and queer treasures which he brought from the forests. These tokens of his homage had never served to build a bridge across the abyss which lay between them. (TO EE CONTINUED.) that Indian corn was first cultivated In Guatemala. The cornenkes of the Mayan Indians were probably the first attempts to cook corn, or maize, and these rakes are still today the staple of the Guatemalan and Mexican diet Seedless Oranges The original seedless oranges were produced In Brazil by means of bud ding and the orange trees of this type In the United States all descended from two imported Brazilian trees. Buds or budding sticks are taken from seedless orange trees In spring or fall and inserted In two-year-old seedling orange trees of ordinary type. When thejjuds send out shoots the seedlings are cut back so that only the budding portions develop. PICTURE ON SHELL BRINGS BOY WEALTH Chinese Youth Charging 10 Cents a Look. Shanghai. He was only a poor Chinese country boy, who managed to kwp his rice and noodle bowl filled by catching crabs and selling them to the residents of Swutow, a South China seaport, at prices so low a New York restaurant could servo crab meat cocktails ut a nickel each and make 100 per cent profit That was less than six months ago. Today this same boy has more money than ho knows what to do with, snd all because of a sluglo crab. Ills name Is Wuttg Chllxe, and ho Is a direct descendant of a long line of Kwatigtungese farmers and fisher men, simple folk, who worked and be lieved In legends. It was a legend that helped make Wang rich. D tired to Becom a Fish. One of the tales In which Wang's people took great stock concerned one of his great-great great grandmothers. The. story goes that she was a beauti ful woman, who believed In the trans migration of souls and cherished a di al ro to become a fish after her death. She was burled In the ocean several miles from shore. Inspecting his basket of crab one night sometime ago, Wang noticed one whose shell seemed to bear the out line of a human face. A close look revealed the face was that of a charm ing Chinese woman. Wuntf was con vinced the old story about bis ances tor was true. lie spent the next few days show ing the find to his customers. News of the discovery spread, and soon the boy was spending all his time showing the crab to throngs of curious farm ers and townspeople nt 10 cents a peek. Business at a Carnival. Three months ugo Wang came to Shanghai and a carnival nuui offered him a booth. Wang engaged an Eng lish speaking Chinese to explain the attraction to the foreigners who might come to see it and opened up for busi ness. Twenty thousand persons, mostly Chinese, pold 10 cents each the first week to see the crab. Business In creased the second week. It Is esti mated that fully 2."-0,0m Chinese have viewed the creature. Many foreign residents of the city, too, visited the carnival for no other purpose than to see the wonder. The majority of foreigners, however, are Inclined to regard the lady of the shell as an extraordinary piece of carving. Boy Engineer Succeeds Where Other, Failed Lebanon, Mo. The dream of an nn successful engineer has been fulfilled, and soon lights will glow and In dustry will bum with electricity from the harnessed power of the Nlangua river. A twenty-five year old engineer, two years out of college, has accomplished what veteran constructors fulled to do building a $I,0iO,0(i0 dam across the Nlangua. II. E. Murray Is the young engineer He graduated from the Minnesota School of Engineering two years ago. The Nlangua dam was his first project It consisted of more than the mere construction of a dam, as J. B. Qulg ley and his engineering firm discov ered many years ago. Qtilgley organ ized the Missouri Water Power com pany nnd began construction of a dam In 1020. The project was too big, and after spending $2.18,000 Qtilgley wns forced to quit The Missouri Electric Power com pany, subsidiary of the Utilities Power and Light corporation, employed Mur ray to build the present dam. The most outstanding engineering feat Is an 850-foot tunnel, lined with concrete, cut through the baite of a mountain. When In operation the dam diverts the water through the sloping tunnel, nt the opposite end of which Is the hydro-electric power plant. College Prexy Say Man Is to Become Extinct Utlca, N. Y. Man will follow the dinosaur in extinction because he is a "terminal twig" and cannot keep on developing, according to Dr. George B. Cutten, president of Colgate uni versity. Doctor Cutten, In a speech here, suld that the species of man must pass out of existence In ages to come, In keep ing with biological precedent. Then, too, man Is overspeclnllzed, Doctor Cutten asserted. One example of over specialization lies In the fact that he walks upright. If be would avoid appendicitis he must revert to all fours. Another fault of overspeclnllzatlon Is that, although ho knows "alcohol Is bad for him," he wants It to escape from life's realities. Open Diplomats' School Moscow. factory workers who are being prepared to assume diplomatic posts abroad will be given a speclnl one-year training course. The for eign office has opened the course, which Is expected to truln good dip lomats. Latter Brings $23,000 New York. A letter, written by Thomas Jefferson on July 1, 1770, In which he told of drafting the Declara tion of Independence, was sold at auc tion recently for $23,000, a price said to be a record for Jeffersonluna. - .if Cargo Boat on lrrr1 r the National 0srsnle Boi'lalr, WuhlHStvH. I). C ) TUB treaty between Great Brit ain and her most Important man dated territory, the Kingdom of Iraq, which has been before the representatives of the two countries for nearly three years, has recently been definitely ratified. It recognises Iraqan independence to take effect when Iraq becomes a member of the League of Nations. Iraq, present day heir of ancient Babylon In the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates, has had an up hilt Job since the World war, in Its efforts to transform itself into a modern state. It has had constructive plans for physical development; but politics, re ligion, and the age-old social customs of some of Its people have Interposed stubborn obstacles In the paths of the contemplated progress. The Iraqis have sought a status comparable- to Turkey, Persia and the Ilejas, all important and Independent Mohammedan states, rather than that of a mandated area on somewhat the same footing as smaller snd less pop ulous Syria and Palestine-Trans-Jordan. Ever since the treaty of Versailles, placing the country under mandate to Great Britain, became operative In 102O, Iraq has obtained a greater and greater degree of independence. It I the only one of the twelve mandated territories which has a king, parlia ment, and responsible government As a result of Irnql Insistence, the rela tions between mandatory and man dated territory were defined In 1!22 In a treaty between the governments of Iraq and Great Britain which looked to the termination of the mandate when Iraq could enter the League of Nations. This treaty was later re vised twice with Great Britain under taking more specifically to use her In fluence to obtain membership for Iraq In the League If Iraq continued to make progress. Still Inter Great Brit ain agreed to drop this provl-yi and to seek league membership fur Iraq un conditionally In V.Wl. It Is the treaty so altered that has now been ratified. Great Britain now lias both a civil ami a military place In Iraqan affairs. A British high commissioner resides In Bagdad and advises the king mi International ami financial matters. A British air force Is maintained In the country under the command of an air vice marshal. British military officers are training the Iraq army, and a number of British gornmcntal experts are employed In the various civil offices of the Iraq government. These contacts will continue under the new treaty after Iraq Is admitted to the League of Nations. Restoring Its Irrigation, Embracing the potentially fertile valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates and large stretches of semi arid and desert lands, Iraq has always, been primarily nn agricultural and pastoral country. In Babylonian and Grecian days the valleys wero herring boned with Irrigation canals and these were kept up by the Arabs In the days of the Caliphate. The lands of Iraq were exceedingly productive and Its people were highly prosperous until 1258 A. D. when the Mongol Invasion destroyed the Irrigation embankments and head works. Afterwards under Turkish rule Iraq became less and less prosperous, much of Its once fertile valleys turned Into wilderness- and malaria-breeding swamps. The aim of the most thoughtful lead ers In Iraq la to restore the Irrigation works which the valleys possessed during their golden age. This, bow ever, would be a tremendous task, re quiring vast amounts of capital, which Iraq Is at present unable to command. The government has organized a de partment of Irrigation nnd tinder Its supervision Is slowly bettering exist ing Irrigation works and undertaking new ones. One of the most Important steps has been the construction of a permanent weir In the bed of the Ttlvei DIJala to replace earthen dams which were constructed annually, only to bo washed away each flood season. Sev eral river regulators and cscapos wore constucted In 1028, and canals were extended to revive areas that were passing out of cultivation and to bring tens of thousands of acres of new land under Irrigation. Railway System Incomplete. In transportation agencies, other than railways, Iraq has made a marked advance In recent years. The natural A' A. A "A the Tigris Rlvr. outlet for the country Is southeast ward along Its rivers to the Persian gulf. But Its customers and client asc chlelly to the northwestward and the northeastward across extensive deserts and mountain range. These barriers have not yet been bridged by steel rails. Gap set 111 exist In the famous proposed "Purlin to Bagdad' railway so that it Is not even possible to move Iraqan product as far as th eastern Mediterranean port by rail. There are close to a thousand miles of railway track In Iraq, but It Is en tirely an internal system. At no point doe a railway enws the Irsq border. The rail system, however, does per form two Important function In Inter national trade. It carries exports ami Imports to snd from the port of Basra, head of navigation on th Shalt al Arab for ocean going ships; and It con nect at Khanaqln near th Persian border with a motor road over which Is tarried on Irsq'i sizable transit trade with Persia. In th absence of railways to the north snd west, all of the heavy freight leaving and entering ftsq must move by water through the Persian gulf. But within the last few year an effi cient and rapid system has been set up for the transfer of psssengera, mail and light express overland be tween Bagdad and Basra on th southeast, and Dama'cut, Be)routh, Jerusalem and Cairo on (ha northwest. Good, bard surfaced highways have been constructed through long section of the river valleys. Across th desert that separate Iraq and Syria the way sre merely natural earth roads, but they are In fulr condition, and over them power, fill American built busses carrying passengers, mall and express cover t) miles In 21 hours. The quickest malls, however, travel by the weekly airplane service whl h extends from Basra to Cairo. Airplanes fly ap proximately over Ihe highway route for a considerable part of the way between Bagdad and the west. At the halfway point, Itulhah Wells, the Iraq government has established a station which Is used for refueling and rewaterltig by both planes and auto mobile, and there a desert police force of considerable strength I maintained. At this station a restau rant Is conducted, and even over night accommodations are provided. Of the two great rivers of Iraq, only the Tigris can be used by boats. An Important freight service, moving hun dreds of thousands of tons In large river steamers. Is operated between Bagdad and Basra. Special shallow draft stern-wheel river boats ply the Tigris up the river from Bagdad tn Mosul; and above the lattur city con siderable quantities of supplies are brought downstream on raft.' Below the Junction of the Tigris and Ku ph rates the combined tidal stream Is known as the Mhntt al Arab, The com merce on the Shatt ol-Arab has been greatly facilitated ami Increased sine Ibo World war by the deeper and deep er dredging by the Iraq government of the bar at the river's mouth. Ships of 20 foot draft can now cross the bar nt low water and ships of .'10 foot draft nt high water. Products and Industrie. Although some progress bus been made In recent years toward the de velopment of Industry and the extrac tion of mineral wealth from the ground, Iraq Is still predominantly an agricultural and pastornl country. This condition is reflected In the ex ports and Imports. During the fiscal year BI27 28 the exports, Including goods In transit, amounted to about $ 10,000,000, while the Imports were valued at approximately $51,000,000. Dates, valued at close to $(I,000,om, led the list of exports, followed by cereals and flour, $.',000,000, nnd wool, $2,500,000, Among ha leading articles Imported were textiles, val ued at approximately $8,500,000; and sugar worth $;i,(XX),0O0, The few Industries carried on In Iraq are on a small scale. The resi dents maintain factories for spinning, knitting, carpet mnklng, and shoe man ufacture, copper smelting and flour milling. It Is only a matter of time, how ever, until the country will have nn Important place nmotig tln regions producing and refining petroleum. Twe financially strong companies have con cessions to explore and develop th Iraqan oil supplies, and hoi ti have brought In producing wells within the past two year,