CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
TWO PROMINENT FIGURES IN WORLD’S PEACE MOVEMENT.
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
Qwncral Return« o f Important Event
Presented In Condensed Form
for O u r Busy Readers.
President T a ft says he will stand bv
reciprocity, even at the cost o f votes.
Diaz’ promise to resign as soon as
peace is restored is having little effect
on the people.
A San Francisco laborer has a fam
ily o f nine children, the oldest being
less than nine years.
Armed sluggers are active in the
Chicago machinists’ strike, and police
are unable to stop the disturbances.
It is decided that a strike o f rail
way mail clerks would be punishable
the same as any case o f obstructing
the mails.
It is predicted that the Hill rail
roads will be extended south from
Oregon to Los Angeles, and thence
eaBt to Denver.
Alaska coal miners and others who
need coal are planning to work the
vast deposits there in defiance o f the
United States government.
Mexican rebels become mutinous
over delays in the fighting and attack
Juarez, many bullets falling in Amer
ican territory and five American spec
tators being killed by stray shots.
A rancher near Eugene, Or., un
earthed an ancient Indian bowl made
o f blue flint and used by the Indians
for grinding com and roots.
It is
well carved and weighs about 50
pound*
The Steel trust has purchased the
Rlsdon Iron works o f San Francisco.
Cam igie has given Cornell univer
sity $60,300 for a new chemistry
building.
A scheme has been presented to the
British parliament for state insurance
for working men and women.
Seismographs at Santa Clara, Cali.,
recorded an earthquake in the Pacific
ocean o f one and one-half hour’s dur
ation.
Delegates from Oregon and Wash
ington were prominent in the meet
ings o f the Northwest Development
league at Helena, Mont.
Ila r o n
l> 'l‘X < > u r n r llr a d e C u antan t.
UNITED STATES
IS NOT GREEDY
Taft Denies Ambition to Ex
tend Domain.
Allusion is to Mexico— Says V/e Know
What War Means—Want
None o f It.
negie and more than a dozen leaders
in the movement for world peace sat
Baltimore, May 4.— President T a ft on the platform with the president.
in his Bpeech ut the opening o f the
LABOR WAR RAGES.
Third National Peace conference here
today, said the United States would
keep hands off and not Beek to extend Chicago Workers Forced to Flee for
Lives—Strike Spreads.
its domain or to acquire foreign terri
For the second time in a woek a
vessel entering San Francisco harbor
encountered a school o f whales, one
Chicago, May 4.— Professional slug
60-foot specimen being bumped se tory. He made no mention o f Mex
gers and hired “ gun men” ran riot in
verely by the steamer.
ico, but to those who heard him it was
the city today, while government and
evident that he referred to the south
state officials,
architects, building
Citizens o f Cordova, Alaska, threw
ern republic.
contractors and international labor un
several hundred tons o f British Colum
‘ ‘ One of the difficulties the United
ion officials worked in an effort to re
bia coal into the bay, as a protest
States finds is the natural suspicions
store harmony in the industrial field.
against T a ft’s persistent ignoring of
that the countries engaged have o f the
Late tonight all negotiations be
the Alaska coal land qusetion.
motives the United States has in ten
tween the freight handlers and the
dering
its
good
offices,”
continued
the
PO RTLAN D M ARKETS.
railroads were declared off and a
president.
‘ ‘ Asseveration o f good
strike will probably be called tomor
Wheat— Track prices:
Bluestem,
faith helps but little where suspicion
92c; club, 86(r;;87c; red Russian, 85c; is the rule, and yet I like to avail my row. This will involve the territory
in an area from the Canadian border
valley 87c; 40-fold, 87c.
self o f an opixirtunity in such pres
to New Orleans and the Pennsylvania
Barley— Choice feed, $28 per ton.
ence as this to assert that there is not
It w ill also
Millstuffs — Bran, $24( k .24.6U per in the whole length and breadth o f the line to Western Iowa.
bring in the teamsters in all affected
ton; middings, $31; shorts, $25.5fl(f/j
United States among its people any
cities.
26; rolled barley, $29.50(<£30.50.
desire for territorial aggrandizement
A new element o f discord was in
Com— Whole, $29;
cracked, $30 and that its people as a whole will not
jected into the troubled building
per ton.
permit its government, if it would,
Oata— No. 1 white, $29(0,29.50 ton. to take any steps in respect to foreign trades situation when the Otis Eleva
Hay — Timothy, Eastern Oregon, peoples, looking to a forcible exten tor company hired elevator construc
tors to take the place o f the ma
No. 1, $21.60(n22.60; light mixed, sion o f our political power.’
chinists who have been doing the
$19((£29; heavy,
mixed,
$17.60(u
“ We have had wars and we know
18.60;
alfalfa,
$14(<£15;
clover, what they are. We know what re work for two years. Sluggers work
$12.50ft£13.60; grain hay, $13.50(0 sponsibilities they entail, the burdens ing for the machinists who were ous
ted by the company raided a number
14.60.
and losses and horrors, and we would
o f buildings and attacked the elevator
Fresh Fruit— Strawberries, Florin,
have none o f them. We have a m ag-,
$2.25(<£2.50 per crate; Ix>§ Angeles, nificent domain o f our own in which , constructors, with the result that one
$1.76(<il.85; apples, fancy, $2(</2.50; we are attempting to work out and man is in the Alexander Brothers’
choice, $l(r£1.50; commons, 76c(o$l show to the world success in popular hospital and a number o f others are
seriously injured.
per box.
government, and we need no m ore,
In the plumbers and stearrvfitters’
Vegetables- -Asparagus, 90c(u $ 1.75
territory in which to show this.
B u t'
per crate; cabbage, new, $2 per hun we have attained great ^prosperity and war, international association steam-
fitters were driven at the points o f re
dred; cauliflower,
$1.60(ol.75 per great jxiwer.
We have become a i
dozen; celery, Caifornia, 75o/90c per powerful member o f the community i volvers from two school buildings
dozen; cucumbers, $1.50(u,2.25; e g g o f nations in which we live and there where they were employed.
plant, 16c per pound; garlic, 10<«/ 12; is, therefore, thrust upon us necessar
lettuce, 50c; hothouse lettuce, $1.50 ily a care and responsibility for the
Woman Mayor "M eets” Alone.
@ 2 per box; peas, 7(di8c per pound; peace o f the world in our neighbor
Hunnewell, Kan.— Hunnewell's new
peppers, 30((£85c; radishes, 15c dozen; hood, and a burden o f helping those
mayor, Mrs. Ella Wilson, has clashed
rhubarb, 2}(u;3c per pound; sprouts, nations that cannot help themselves,
with the city council.
On Mrs. W il
9c; tomatoes, $2(<£3.25; carrots, $1.25 if we may do that peacefully and
son's motion the council voted last
6£1.50 per sack; parsnips, $1.25(u effectively. ”
week to meet in a local hotel. The
1.50; turnips, $1.25(<cl.60;
beets,
The president spoke
to several five councilman went to the hotel to
$1.50.
thousand persons in the I.yric theater. hold their meeting, but Mrs. Wilson
Potatoes — Oregon, jobbing price, Cardinal Gibbons, Secretary o f War
“ met” in a feed store. She had the
$2.50 per hundred; new, 7<5t7Jc per Dickinson, Senator Gore, o f Okla
clerk’s journal and other papers, but
pound.
homa, Count Leo Tolstoi, Andrew Car- as she alone was not a quorum, neither
Onions— Jobbing prices: Oregon,
session
transacted
any
business.
$3 .50 per hundred; Australian, $3.50;
Letter Brings Fortune.
Meanwhile two women who were to
Texas, $2.25 perorate; California, $2.
I.eipsic, Saxony— A t an autograph have been appointed city clerk and
Poultry— Hens, 16Jc; broilers, 30c;
sale
here a letter written by Martin marshal, still lack their commissions.
turkeys 20c; ducks, 22(<£27c; geese,
Luther
to Emperor Charles V’ was
nominal; dressed turkeys, choice, 25c.
Grange is Most Practical.
Eggs Oregon ranch, candled, 20(o bought by a Florence dealer for $25,-
500. The purchase is said to have
The grange is just a plain, ordinary
21e per dozen; case count, 19Jc.
It goes
Butter—City creamery extra, 1 and been made for J. P. Morgan. The organization for the farmer.
2 pound prints, in boxes, 24c per letter, which is in Latin, was written with him and the rest o f his family in
pound; less than boxes, cartons and in 1521 during the reform er’s return all walks o f life and has its influence
journey from Worms, describing the in every community where one is or-
delivery extra.
proceedings and defending his attitude anized. The grange is the parent o f
Pork— Fancy, lOotlOJc per pound.
Veal— Fancy, 85 to 125 pound, 10J before the diet. The epistle was en the farmers’ institute and institute
trusted to an Imperial herald, who workers say the can tell when they
(i£llc per pound.
Hops— 1910 crop, last sale at 204c; gave Luther safe conduct through the are in a grange community by the in
Thuringian forest.
terest taken and the intelligent ques
1909 crop, 15c; 1911 contracts, 20c.
tions asked.
The Washington state
Wool— Eastern Oregon, nominal, 12
Rain ie Aid to Farmers.
grange has been established 23 years,
fd)14c per pound; valley, 12(u 15c; mo
Walla Walla Breaking a month’s and has safely passed tho experimen
hair, choice, 37Jc.
Cattle — Prime grain-fed steers, dry weather, rain began falling here tal age. It has accomplished much.
$6.75(<u7; hay-feed steers, $6.i0(»' Friday and has continued at intervals
Rainfall Insures Crop.
6.80;
choice, $ 6 . 2601 . 6 . 66 ;
good, since and a continuation o f showers is
Spokane
Another rainfall wet
About a quarter o f an
$5.76(>£6; fair, $5.60o/6.75; common, predicted.
$4.76(<£6; prime cows, $5.50oi6; good, inch has fallen in this city. The rain down tho l’alouse and North Idaho re
$5(i£5.25; fair, $4.75«/.5; poor, $4.50 is not general throughout the valley, gions and it was sufficient to satisfy
(<£4.75; choice heifers, $5.60«£6.75; however, and outlving districts, par everyone. In the Big Bend and Cen
choice bulls, $4.76 ol 6, good, $4.5(ko ticularly Eureka Flat, report little or tral Washington regions, however, the
4.76; choice light calves, $7.75(./M; no precipitation. Towards the foot rainfall has not been heavy. Watcr-
good. $7.5(Vo.7.75; fair,
$7(0,7.50; hills the rainfall was heavier and ville reports enough moisture in the
Wheat was ground from winter snows to insure a
choice heavy calves, $5.60«i.6: good, grain was well soaked.
county.
$.V«i:5.50; choice stags, $5.25ft(5.75; badly in need o f the moisture, and bumper crop for Douglas
Grant, Adams, Lincoln and Chelan
farmers are pleased.
good, $4.50(ii,5.
county wheat fiehls need rain, which
Hogs Good to choice light, $6.75<«
Indianapolis Waxes Indignant.
is prom isod by heavy clouds.
7; choice heavy, $6.25ei6.60; good,
Indianapolis The Merchants’ asso
$5(r£6; common, $5(<r.6; stock, $7.60
Frenchwoman is Spy?
ciation o f Indianapolis passed resolu
ft£7.76.
Cologne, Germany Mme. Thirion,
Sheep — Grain-fed wethers, heavy, tions "unequivocally demanding that a
$4.606|5; choice yearling wethers, most thorough investigation he made an attractive Parisian resident here,
grain-fed, $5(r£5.50; old wethers, $4 i , i into the recent charges which connect was arrested charged with being a spy
4.60; good shorn wethers, $4.25ei Indianapolis with the many dynamit and obtaining the secret mobilization
4.60; cheiee ewes, grain-fed, $4.60 m ing outrages which have taken place plans of the German army from an
4.75; fair ewes, $3.76of4; good slairn throughout the country in the last two army officer. The prisoner offers the
ewes, $3.76(i£4; choice wool lambs, years.” The association also offers romantic defense that she had asked
grain-fed, $6.50M.6.76; good. $5.25w its support to city and state officials in for the plans in order to test the honor
6.60; good, $5oi,5.25; fair, $4. 76 m all legitimate efforts to discover and o f the officer, who was a suitor for her
hand.
punish the guilty parties.
6.26; culls, $2.60«{3.60.
SSL£_ ^ZOUIfdOJIPHifafCL,
C O P Y S M3MT 1 90 7 —
T H ( R O B M - W t M i L L CO.
S Y N O P S IS .
" M a i l " D an M aitland, on rea ch in g his
N e w Y o rk bach elor club, met an a ttr a c
tive you n g w om an at the door. J a n itor
O’ H a ga n assured him no one had been
w ithin that day. Dan discovered a w om
an's fin ger prints In dust on his desk,
alon g w ith a letter from his a ttorn ey.
M aitland dined w ith llannerm an, his a t
torney. D an set out fo r G reenfields, to
get his fa m ily Jewels. D u rin g his w alk
to the cou n try seat, he m et the young
wom an In g ra y , w hom he had seen le a v
ing his bach elors' club. H e r auto had
broken down. H e fixed it. B y a ruse she
" lo s t " him. M aitlan d , on rea ch in g home,
surprised lady In g ra y , cra ck in g tho sa fe
con tain in g his gem s. She, apparently,
took him fo r a w ell-k n ow n crook, Daniel
\nlsty. H a lf-h y p n otized . M a itlan d opened
th erefrom the Jewels, and
g a v e them to her, first fo rm in g a p a rt
nership In crim e. T h e real Dan A nisty,
sought by police o f the w orld, appeared
on the sam e mission. M aitland overca m e
him. H e met the g irl outside the house
and th ey sped on to N e w Y o rk In her au
to. H e had the Jewels and she prom ised
to m eet hint that day. M aitlan d received
a "M r . S n a itli,” Introdu cing h im self as a
detective.
T o shield the g irl In g ray,
M aitland, about to show him the Jew
els. supposedly lost, w as felled by a blow
from "S n a lth 's " cane. T h e la tter proved
to he A n isty h im self anti he secured the
goms. A n isty. w h o w as M a itla n d ’s dou
ble. mnstpieraded ns the latter.
The
crim inal kept M a itlan d 's en gagem en t w ith
the girl In g ra y . H e g a v e her tho gems,
a fte r fa llin g in lo v e at first sight. T h ey
w ere to m eet and d iv id e the loot. M a it
land re v iv e d and regretted m issing hls
en gagem en t.
A n isty. m asqu erading as
M aitland,
n a rro w ly
avoid ed
captu re
through m ysteriou s tip. T h e g ir l In g r a y
visited M a itlan d ’ s a p artm en ts du ring hls
absence and returned gem s, being dis
covered on return.
M aitland, w ithout
cash, ra ile d up hls hom e and heard a
w om an ’s vo ice expostu lating.
A nisty,
disguised as M aitland, told her hls real
,len til v en d rea lizin g h im self tricked
tried to w rin g from her the location o f
the gem s. Th en he proposed m arria ge. A
rash w as heard at the fron t door. M a it
land sta rted fo r home.
C H A P T E R X I.—Continued.
In the cab, Maitland, turning to
watch through the rear peep-hole, was
thrown violently against the side as
the hansom rocked on one wheel Into
hls street. Recovering, he Beized the
dashboard and gathered himself to
gether, ready to spring the Instant the
vehicle paused In Its headlong career.
Through the cabby's misunderstand
ing of the address, in all likelihood,
the horse was reined In on Its
haunches some three houses distant
from the apartment building. Mait-
land found himself sprawling on his
hands and knees on the sidewalk,
picked himself up. shouting: ‘'You'll
wait?” to the driver, and sprinted
madly the few yards separating him
from hls own front door, keys ready in
t&ai.
Simultaneously the half-winded po
liceman lumbered around the Fifth
avenue corner, and a man, detaching
himself from the shadows of a neigh
boring doorway, began to trot loutish-
ly across the street, evidently with
the intention of Intercepting Maitland
at the door.
He was hardly quick enough. Mait
land did not even see him. The door
slammed in the man's face, and he,
panting harshly, rapped out au Im
precation and began a frantic assault
on the push button marked “ Janitor."
As for Maitland, he was taking the
stairs three at a clip, and had his pass
key in the latch almost as soon as his
feet touched the first landing. An In
stant later he thrust the door open and
blundered blindly Into the pitch dark
ness of his study.
For a thought he stood bewildered
and dismayed by the absence of light.
He had thought, somehow, to find the
gas jets flaring. The atmosphere was
hot and foal with the odor of kero
sene. the blackness filled with strange
sounds sad mysterious moving shapes.
A grunting gasp came to his ears, and
then the silence and the night alike
were split by a report, accompanied by
a streak of orange flame shooting
celllngward from the middle of the
room
■rsa
lts light, transient as It ws3, gave
him some inkling of the situation. Un
thinkingly he flung hirnseK
«-ward,
ready to grapple with that wi. . t first
should meet his hands. Something
soft and yielding brushed against his
shoulder, and subconsciously, in the
auto-hypnosis of his excitement, he
was aware of a man’s voice cursing
and a woman's cry of triumph trailing
ofT Into a wall of pain.
On the instant he found himself at
grips with the marauder. For a mo
ment both swayed, dazed by the shock
of collision. Then Maitland got a foot
ing on the carpet and put forth hls
strength; the other gave way, slipped,
and went to his knees. Maitland's
hands found his throat, fingers sinking
deep Into flesh as he bore the fellow
backward.
A match flared noiselessly and the
gas blazed overhead. A cry of aston
ishment choked In his throaat as he
recognized hls own features duplicated
In the face of the man whose throat he
was slowly and relentlessly constrict
ing. Anisty! He had not thought of
him or connected him with the sounds
that had thrilled and alarmed him over
the telephone wire coming out of the
void and blackness of night. Indeed,
he had hardly thought any coherent
thing about the matter. The ring of
the girl’s “ N o !” had startled him, and
he had somehow thought, vaguely,
thatO'Hagan had surprised her In the
flat. But more than that—
He glanced swiftly aside at the girl
standing still beneath the chandelier,
the match In one hand burning to
ward her finger tips, in the other An
isty's revolver. Their eyes met, and
In hers the light of gladness leaped
and fell like a living flame, then died,
to be replaced by a look of entreaty
and prayer so moving that his heart
in its unselfish chivalry went out to
her.
Who or what she was, howsoever
damning the evidence against her. he
would believe against belief, shield her
to the end at whatever hazard to him
self, whatever cost to his fortunes.
Love is unreasoning and unreasonable
even when unrecognized.
His senses seemed to vibrate with
redoubled activity, to become abnor
mally acute. For the first time he was
conscious of the imperative clamor of
the electric bell In O’Hagan's quarters,
as well as of the janitor's rich brogue
voicing his Indignation as he opened
the basement door and prepared to as
cend. Instantly the cause of the dis
turbance flashed upon him.
His strangle hold on Anisty relaxed,
he released the man, and, brows
knitted with the concentration of his
thoughts, he stepped back and over to
the girl, lifting her hand and gently
taking the revolver from her fingers.
Below,
O'Hagan
was parleying
through the closed door with the late
callers. Maitland could have bleased
hls hot-headed Irish stupidity for the
delay he was causing.
Already Anisty was on hls feet
again, blind with rage and crouching
aa If ready to spring, only restrained
by the sight of hls own revolver,
steady and threatening in Maitland'«
hand.
For the least part of a second the
young man hesitated, choosing hls
way. Then, resolved. In accents of
determination; "Stand up, you hound!”
he cried. "Back to the wall there!”
and thrust the weapon under the burg
lar's nose.
The move gained Instant obedience.
Mr. Anisty could not reasonably hesi
tate in the fare of such odds.
"And yon," Maitland continued over
hi* shoulder to the girl without remov
ing hls attention from the burglar, “ Into
the alcove there, at once! And not a
word, not a whisper, not a sound until
I call you!”
She gave him one frightened and
piteous glance, then, unquestioning,
slipped quietly behind the portieres.
To Anisty, again: "Turn your pock
ets
out!”
commanded
Maitland.
"Quick, you fool! The police are be
low; your freedom depends on your
haste.”
Anisty’s hands flew to hls pockets,
emptying their contents on the floor.
Maitland’s eyes sought In vain the
shape of the canvas bag. But time
was too precious. Another moment's
procrastination and—
“ That will do,” he said, crisply,
without raising hls voice. “ Now listen
to me. At the end of the hall, there,
you'll find a trunk closet, from which
a window— ”
“ I know.”
“ Naturally you would. Now go !"
Anisty waited for no repetition of
the permission. Whatever the mad
ness of Mad Maitland, he was con
cerned only to profit by it. Never be
fore. had the long arm of the law
stretched hungry fingers so near his
collar. He went, springing down the
hall in long, soundless strides, vanish
ing into Its shadows.
As he disappeared Maitland stepped
to the door, raised hls revolver, and
pulled the trigger twice. The shots
detonated loudly In that confined space,
and rang coincident with the clash and
clatter of shivered glass. A thin cloud
of vapor obscured the doorway, sway
ing on the hot, still air, then parted
and dissolved, dissipated by the en
trance of four men who, thrusting the
door violently open, struggled Into the
hallway.
Blue cloth and brass buttons moved
conspicuously In the van, a grim face
flushed and perspiring beneath the hel
met's vizor, a revolver poised menac
ingly In one hand, locust as ready In
the other. Behind this outward and
visible manifestation of the law’s
majesty bobbed a rusty derby, cocked
jauntily back upon the red, shining
forehead of a short and thick-set per
son with a black mustache. O’Hagan's
agitated countenance loomed over a
dusty shoulder, and the battered silk
hat of the nighthawk brought up the
rear.
"Come In, everybody,” Maitland
greeted them cheerfully, turning back
into the Rtudy and tossing the revol
ver, shreds of smoke still curling up
from Its muzzle, upon a divan.
“ O’Hagan,’’ he called, on second
thought, “ Jump downstairs and see
that all New York doesn't get In. Let
nobody In !”
As the Janitor unwillingly obeyed,
policeman and detective found their
tongues. A volley of questions, to the
general purport of “ What’s th’ meanin’
of all this here?” assailed Maitland as
he rested himself coolly on an edge
of the desk. He responded, with one
eyebrow slightly elevated:
“ A burglar. What did you suppose?
That I was Indulging in target practice
at this time of night?”
"Which way’d he go?”
"Back of the flat— through the win
dow to the fire-escape, I suppose. I
took a couple of shots after him, but
missed, and, Inasmuch as he was
armed, I didn't pursue.”
Hickey stepped forward, glowering
unpleasantly at the young man. “ Yeh
go along,” he told the uniformed man,
“ 'nd see 'f he's tellin' the truth. I ’ll
stay here ‘nd keep him company.”
His tone amused Maitland. In the
reaction from the recent strain upon
his wits and nerve, he laughed openly.
“ And who are you?” he suggested,
smiling, as the policeman clumped
heavily away.
Hickey spat thoughtfully Into a
Satsuma jardiniere and sneered. “ I
s'pose yeh never saw me before?”
Maitland bowed affirmation. " I ’m
sorry to say that that pleasure has
heretofore been denied me.”
"Uh-buh,” agreed the detective,
sourly, ” 1 guess that's a hot one, too.”
He scowled blackly in Maitland's
amazed face and seemed abruptly to
swell with mysterious rage. ‘‘My
name's Hickey,” he Informed him, ven
omously, “ and don't yeh lose sight of
that after this. It’s somethin’ it won’t
hurt yeh to remember. Guess yer
mem’ry’s taking a vacation, huh?”
"My dear man," said Maitland, “ you
speak in parables and—if you'll par
don my noticing it— with some un
called-for spleen. Might I suggest that
you moderate your tone? For,” he
continued, facing the man squarely, “ If
you don’t, It will be my duty and
pleasure to hoist you Into the street."
“ I got a photergrapht of yeh doing
It,” growled Hickey. “ Still, seeing as
yeh never saw me before, I guess it
won't do no harm for yeh to connect
with this.” And he turned back his
coat, uncovering the official shield of
the detective bureau.
"A h !" commented Maitland, polite
ly. “ A detective? How interesting!”
“ Fire-escape winder’s broke, all
right.” This was the policeman, re
turned. "And some one's let down the
bottom length of ladder, but there ain't
nobody in sight."
"N o," Interjected Hickey, “ 'nd there
wouldn't’ve been if you’d been waitin’
in the back yard all night.”
“ Certainly not,” Maitland agreed,
blandly; “ especially If my burglar had
known It. in which case I fancy he
would have chosen another route— by
the roof, possibly."
“ Yeh know somethin' about roofs
yehself, donchuh?” suggested Hickey.
"W ell, guess yeh’ll have time to write
a book about It while yeh— ”
He stepped unexpectedly to Mait
land's side and bent forward. Some
thing cold and hard closed with a
snap around each of the young man's
wrists. He started up, face aflame
with indignation, forgetful of the girl
hidden in the alcove.
"What the devil!” he cried, hotly,
jingling the handcuffs.
“ Ah, come off,” Hickey advised him.
"Yeh can't bluff It forever, you know.
Come along and tell the sarge all
about it, Daniel Maitland, Es-qulre,
alias Handsome Dan Anisty, gentle
man burglar. Ah, cut that out, young
fellow; yeh’re foxy, all right, but
yeh’ve pushed yer run of luck too
hard.”
Hickey paused, perplexed, finding no
words wherewith adequately to voice
the disgust aroused in him by hls pris
oner's demeanor, something far from
seemly, to his mind.
The humor of the situation had Just
dawned upon Maitland, and the young
man was crimson with appreciation.
“ Go on, go on !” he begged, feebly.
“ Don't let me stop you, Hickey. Don’t,
please, let me spoil it all. Your Sher
lock Holmes, Hickey, is one of the
finest characterizations I have ever
witnessed. It is a privilege not to be
underestimated to be permitted to play
Raffles to you. But seriously, my dear
sleuth!” with an unhappy attempt to
wipe his eyes with hampered fists,
“ don’t you think you're wasting your
talents?”
By this time even the policeman
seemed doubtful. He glanced askance
at the detective and shuffled uneasily.
As for the cabby, who had blustered
in at first with Intent to demand his
due in no uncertain terms, apparently
Maitland's bearing, coupled with the
inherent contempt and hatred of the
nighthawk tribe for the minions of the
law, had won hls sympathies complete
ly. Lounging against a door jamb,
quite at home, he genially puffed an
unspeakable cigarette and nodded ap
probation of Maitland's every other
word.
But Hickey— Hickey bristled bellig
erently.
"Fine,” he declared, acidly; “ fine
and dandy. I take off my hat to yeh,
Dan Anisty. I may be a bad actor, all
right, but yeh got me beat at the
post.”
Then turning to the policeman; “ I
got him right. Look here!” Drawing
a folded newspaper from his pocket,
he spread it open for the officer's in
spection.
“ Yeh see them pictures?
Now, on the level, is it natural?”
The patrolman frowned doubtfully,
glaclng from the paper to Maitland.
The cabby stretched a curious neck.
Maitland groaned Inwardly; he had
seen that Infamous sheet.
“ Now listen,” the Jetective ex
pounded with gusto. "Twict to-day this
here Maitland, or Anisty, meets me.
Once on the stoop here, 'nd he’s Mait
land ’nd takes me to lunch— see? Next
time It's In Harlem, where I’ve been
sent with a hot tip from the c'mmis-
s'ner’s office to find Anisty, 'nd he’s
still Maitland 'nd surprised to see me.
I ain't sure then, but I ’m doin’ some
heavy thinkin1, all right. I lets him
go and shadows him. After a while
he gives me the slip ’nd I chases down
here, waitin’ for him to turn up. Com
ing down on the car I buys this paper
’nd sees the pictures, and then I'm
on. See?”
“ Uh-huh,” grunted the natrolmnn,
scowling at Maitland. The cabby
caressed hls nose with a soiled fore
finger reflectively, plainly a bit pre
judiced by Hickey’s exposition.
“ One minute," Maitland Interjected,
eyes twinkling and lips twitching.
"How long ago was it that you began
to watch this house, sleuth?”
"Five minutes before yeh come,”
responded Hickey, ignoring the insult
“ Now—”
“ Took you a long time to figure this
out, didn’t it? But go on, please.”
"W ell, I picked the winner, all
right,” flared the detective. “ 1 guest
that'll be about all for yours.”
(T O
BE
C O N T I N U E D .)
HISTORICAL RECORD OF RINGS
H ave Im portant Part In the Annala of
the W orld.
The ring began when man thrust
hls finger through a hole In a pretty
shell, and later learned to make rings
of jet. The ring is very magical.
Lord Ruthven, who helped to kill Riz-
zlo, gave Queen Mary a ring which
was “ sovran” against poison, and she
generously replied with the prerent of
her father'» wonderful jeweled dagger
of French work, no longer In exist
ence. Whether Ruthven tooled with
this magnificent weapon in the affair
of Rizzlo or used a cheaper article Is
uncertain. At all events Mary based
on the ring that was an antidote to
poison a charge of sorcery against
Ruthven. The Judges of Jeanne d'Arc
regarded with much suspicion her lit
tle ring of base metal, a gift from her
parents. Inscribed with the sacred
names Jesus Marla.
It was usual to touch the relics of
saints with rings; Jeanne d'Arc said
that her ring had touched the body of
St. Catherine, whether she meant of
the actual saint or a relic of the saint,
brought from Sinai to Flerbola. The
ring might contain a relic, or. later, a
miniature. I fear that I do not believe
in the virtues or vices of poison rings.
Our ancestors practically knew no poi
se n but arsenic, and Carthaginian
science can scarcely have enabled
Hannibal to poison himself with a
drug contained under the alone of a
ring.—Andrew Lang, In London Poat.
W hera F r u it Is Cheap.
Fruit Is cheap in Morocco.
The
warm African sun la there tempered
by the Atlantic breezes which the west
wind wafts obligingly all the summer.
These are rivers which flow through
the country from the great range of
mountains which form its eastern wall
and shut It off from the hot sands of
Sahara. It has a soil so rich and fer
tile that with no further cultivation
than that afforded by the wooden
plowshares which have been In use for
1,000 years three crops a year can be
garnered.
Grape cuttings
stuck
roughly In the ground will in a few
years yield good fruit without care be
ing bestowed on them. Last year the
best black grapes cost only one cent
a pound and figs one cent a dozen.
Melons can be had for nothing.
O beying the Im pulse.
Slowly, almost reverentially, the
young clergyman who was taking hls
first trip scrota the Atlantic bowed
hls head over the vessel's rail.
“ I'm doing this.” he muttered with
pale Ups. "in reaponae to an Inward
prompting.”
Thereupon the other* drew away In
silence and left him communing with
the great deep