NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume of World’s Important
Events Told in Briet
The assay offices at Boise, Idaho,
and Helena, Mont., close June 30.
Eight deaths from heat are reported
in Philadelphia, and three in St. Louis.
Oregon weather bureau states that
the rainfall for the year is five inches
short.
Two women in California are run
ning on opposition tickets for the
office o f lieutenant governor.
An “ arson squad” of suffragettes
caused extensive damage to the Epis
copal church at Ballylessen, Belfast,
Ireland.
Seven contestants in the recent Ore
gon primaries were tied. A stenog
rapher in the state house drew lots to
settle the contests.
“ Divine Sarah” Bernhardt was suf
fering from a severely “ twisted knee”
when she arrived in Lorient, France,
from A ix Les Bains.
Scott East, 64 years old, is traveling
afoot from Boise, Ida., to Los Angeles,
in search of his brother. They have
been separated 45 years.
A big celebration and street parade
was given the convicted dynamiters at
Leavenworth, Kan., when they arrived
to begin serving their sentences.
The $30,000,000 dry goods firm of
H. B. Claflin & Co., of New York
City, the largest in the United States,
has gone into the hands o f a receiver.
Charles H. Moyer, president o f the
Western Federation o f Miners, is be
ing guarded against gunmen, at Butte,
Mont., where mining troubles are rifle.
A t the general conference o f the
Church o f the Brethren, in session in
Seattle, a resolution was passed urging
members to "work against fashionable
and immodest apparel.”
The 200 or more Hindus marooned
on a Japanese ship in the harbor at
Vancouver, B. C., are said to be penni
less and without water, and with a
poor chance of getting aid.
Under a “ new constitution o f free
dom” for business given by anti-trust
legislation soon to be passed by con
gress, President Wilson promises the
country the greatest business boom in
its history. This was the President’s
final answer to the opponents of trust
legislation at this session o f congress
and to prophets o f evil times delivered
with determined expression and every
word emphasized with a clenched fist.
A plan is under consideration in the
Navy department to divide the battle
ship fleet and maintain half o f it with
a permanent station on the Pacific
coast after the opening o f the Panama
canal, according to word received by
the Navy officials at Mare Island.
President Wilson Refuses
Demands of Suffragettes
Washington, D. C. - Five hundred
members of the General Federation of
Women’s clubs marched to the White
House Wednesday and drew from Pres
ident Wilson a final refusal to accede
to the demands that he support the
movement
for a woman suffrage
amendment to the Federal constitu
tion.
The President reiterated his state
ment to previous delegations that his
party had not embodied this question
in its paltform, and then for the first
time announced his personal conviction
that the suffrage issue was one for
settlement by the states and not by
the Federal government.
The women went away plainly dis
appointed and chagrined, some of them
talking of immediate action against
the Democratic party.
Headed by
such leaders as Mrs. Ellis Logan, Mrs.
Harvey W. Wiley, Miss Rheta Chile
Dorr and Miss Alice Paul, they had
marched to the White House with
bands playing and banners flying. They
massed themselves in the historic east
room,
many carrying babies, who
added their share to the unusual scene
by cooing or crying accompaniments
to the speeches.
Once inside the White House, the
women made no demonstrations and
allowed their leader to do the talking.
There was no applause as the Presi
dent entered the east room, accom
panied by Colonel Harts, his military
aide, in full dress uniform.
Mrs.
Ellis Logan, president o f the District
o f Columbia Federation o f Women’s
clubs, told the President o f the adop
tion of a suffragist resoultion at a re
cent general convention of her organi
zation in Chicago.
She then intro
duced Mrs. W iley and Mrs. Dorr.
The later spoke of the strength of
the suffrage movement and said that
the situation has changed materially
since the Baltimore convention. There
was a short pause, and then President
Wilson stepped forward and addressed
his callers.
Senators Clash in Hearing
On Nicaraguan Treaty
Washington, D. C.— Senators Root,
of New York, and Smith, of Michigan,
had a lively clash in the foreign rela
tions committee Wednesday during the
discussion of the Nicaraguan treaty,
which some senators feared at one
time might develop into a personal en
counter.
James Brown, New York
banker, was testifying.
According to senators who heard of
the trouble, Senator Smith was ques
tioning Mr. Brown about the payment
several years ago o f alleged revolu
tionary claimH amounting to more thun
21,000,000
pesos
to Nicaraguans
friendly to the administration o f Pres
ident Arlolfo Diaz, and asked him if
these payments were not a crime on
the people of Nicaragua.
Senator Root is said to have sug
gested to the witness that he refuse
to answer the question.
This inter
ruption led to a wordy interchange, in
which Senator Smith was said to have
declared that Mr. Root favored the
proposed Nicaraguan treaty and an
nounced that hereafter his remarks
about the New York senator would be
made publicly.
Slit skirts, open at the sides and in
front, are the newest thing in women’s
wear for tennis at the Casino or on the
lawns at Newport, R. I. Sometimes
West Virginia "D ry."
the Blits permit just a glimpse of
Charleston, W. Va.— With the toll
white, blue or pink pantaloons that are
gripped at dainty knees by elastic ing of church bells throughout the
bands.
state, West Virginia at midnight
Theodore Roosevelt and his leading June 30, entered the column of prohi
associates
finally Bettled questions bition states. The last day o f licensed
which, it is felt, will decide the fate sale of liquors was beclouded by five
of the Progressive party in New York tragic deaths. One man was murdered
in a saloon and robbed of 90 cents.
state this fall.
A fter it was all over
Colonel Roosevelt made a statement Mingo county had the bloodiest record,
as four deaths occurred there. When
setting forth their decisions.
three deputy constables attempted to
Nearly half the “ Old Witch C ity” arrest Hiram Prince, who had drawn
of Salem, Mass., rich in historic build a gun in a saloon, and in the shooting
ings and traditions, was devastated by which followed all were killed.
a fire that caused an estimated loss of
$20,000,000; destroyed 1000 buildings,
Fears Felt for Observers.
including a score of manufacturing es
Red Bluff, Cal. Grave apprehension
tablishments and made 10,000 of the exists for the safety o f a party of ob
45,000 residents homeless.
servers who left Warm Springs to vis
it the crater.
No word has been re-
ceived'from them since the new out
PORTLAND MARKETS.
burst o f the peak and it is generally
feared that serious injury may have
Wheat— Track prices: New club,
befallen them.
A report is current
77ft/78c per bushel; new forty-fold,
that a party o f forest rangers was near
79c; new bluestem, 82c; old club, 86c,
the crest o f the peak when the eleventh
nominal.
eruption began and that harm was
M illfeed—Bran, $23 per ton; shorts,
done to them by the shower o f rocks
$26; middlings, $30.
and volcanic substance.
The report
B arley— Feed, $20ft/21 per ton;
cannot be verified.
brewing. $21.50ft/22; rolled, $23.50.
Hay— Choice timothy, $16(nl7 per
Leper Studies Wireless.
ton; mixed timothy, $12(<;15; valley
Washington,
D. C.
Archibald
grain hay, $10ft/12; alfalfa, $10fti'tl.
Oats— No. 1 white milling, $22 ft/ Thomas, a leper, confined at the leper
colony at l’enikes Island, near New
22.25 per ton.
Bedford. Mass., will receive a license
Corn— Whole, $35; cracked, $36.
Vegetables — Cucumbers, 75cft;$l from the Navy department as an ama
per dozen; eggplant, 15c per pound; teur wireless operator, should he prove
peppers, 20c; radishes, 15ft/17 Jo per himself competent, and it is said there
Thomas has
dozen; head lettuce, $1.75 per crate; is no doubt he will.
artichokes, 85c per dozen; celery, learned wireless telegraphy by work
$1.50; tomatoes, 75cftz $1.50 per crate; ing with a poor equipment during the
spinach, 5ft; 7c per pound; rhubarb, ‘ five years he has been a member o f the
2Jft;3c; cabbage, l|c; asparagus, $lft; colony.
1.60 per dozen; peas, 4ft; 5c per pound;
l>eans, 6ft; 7c; corn, 30ft; 35c per dozen.
Housewives in Spain Riot.
Onions— Red, $3.25; yellow, $3.25
Madrid Fix'd riots caused by high
per sack; Walla Walla, $2.500/2.75. prices began here Wednesday. Bands
Green Fruits Apples, old, $1.50ft; of housewives demanded that the price
2 box; new, $10/1.25 per box; cher o f potatoes should be lowered and,
ries, 3ft/8e pound;
apricots, $1.601 their demand not being complied with,
box; cantaloupes, $1.25o/2
crate; they seized many sacks at the market
peaches, 50co;$l box; plums, $lfti ! and threw the potatoes into the street.
1.25; watermelons, lfo ;2 c pound;] Similar procedure was carried out at
loganberries, $lft;1.15; black caps, $1 the bakeries. The police are having
0/1.25; casabas, $2.25 dozen; pota great trouble in coping with the mobs.
toes, Oregon, new, lfft;2c pound; tur-j
nips, new $1.25; carrots, $1.50; beets.
"Father o f fsirds" Dies.
$1.50.
London The Earl o f Wemyss and
Eggs — Fresh Oregon ranch, case
count, 22) ft; 23c; candled, 26 ft; 26c. March, the father of the house of
Poultry Hens, 15c; broilers, 18ft; lords, died Wednesday. Born in 1818,
20c; fryers, 20ft;22c; turkeys, live. the Earl of Wemyss was until recent
20o; 22c; dressed, choice,
25o; 26c; ly considered one o f the liveliest mem
bers of the house of lords. At the age
ducks, 10c; geese, 8ft; 9c.
Butter — Creamery prints, extrs, of 82 he contracted a second marriage,
with Miss Grace Blackburn, niece of
27)c pound; cubes. 22ft; 23c.
the late lord Blackburn, although at
Pork— Fancy, 10ft; 10Jc per pound.
the time he had several great-grand
Veal Fancy, 12)ft;13c pound.
Cattle — Prime steers, $7.250/7.60; children.
choice, $7ft/7.25; medium, $6.75ft; 7;
choice cows, $6.25ft;6.60; medium, $6
0;6.25; heifers, $6.25o;6.75; calves.
$6ft;.8.50; bulls, $3ft;5; stags, $5ft;6.25.
Hogs — Light, $7.25o;8.05; heavy,
$6.250/ 7.25.
Sheep — W’ ethres,
$4.20fti4.76.
ewes, $3.250/4.25; yearling lambs.
$4.500/4.75; spring lambs, $5.50o;6.
W ool— Valley, 20ft; 23)c; F.astern
Oregon, 16ft/20|c; mohair, 1914 clip,
27qi.28c.
Island Strife Spreads.
Washington. D. 0. Dominican rev
olutionists have been defeated at San
Pedro Macrois, on the southern coast
of the island, according to reports to
the State department.
This is the
second battle on the south coast, in
dicating the spread o f hostitlities,
* 1 which until recently hail been con
fined to Puerto Plata and the northern
districts.
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SYNOPSIS.
E lean ora de Toscana w as sin gin g In
Paris, which, perhaps, accounted fo r E d
ward C ou rtian dt’s appearance there. M u l
tim illionaire, he wandered abuut where
fa n cy dictated, li e m ight be in Paris one
day and K a m ch a tk a the next. F ollow in g
the opera he goes to a ca fe and Is a c
costed by a pretty young woman. She
gives him the address o f F lo ra I'esim one.
vocal riva l o f Toscana, and F lo r a gives
him the address o f Eleunora, whom he Is
Determined to see. Courtlandt enters
E lean ora's apartm ents. She orders him
DUt and shoots at film.
C H A P T E R IV .
C a p tiv e o r R u n a w a y.
His name she did not know, bavin* I Irish «11 over. But for all that, yon
been with the slguorlna bat two weeks. will And that her disappearance will
Celeste Fournier, the celebrated | turn out to be a diva's whim. Hang
young pianist and composer, who it, Suds, I've bad some experience with
shared the apartment with the mise- singers.”
"You aro a blockhead!" exploded
ing prirna donna, stated that she
hadn't the slightest idea where her the younger man.
"A ll
right, I am.”
Courtlandt
friend was. She was certain that mis
“ Come on over to the Souf-
fortune had overtaken her In some in laughed.
explicable manner. To implicate the flet and have a drink with me."
"I'm not drinking today," tersely.
Italian was out of the question. He
was well-known to them both. He had “ There's too much ahead for me to
arrived again at seven, Saturday, and do."
“ Going to start out to find her? Oh,
was very much surprised that the sig-
norina had not yet returned. He had Sir Galahad!” Ironically. "Abby, you
waited till nine, when he left, greatly used to be a sport. I ’ll wager a hun
disappointed. He was the Barone di dred against a bottle of pop that to
Monte-Verdi in Calabria, formerly morrow or next day she’ll turn up
military attache at the Italian embassy serenely, with a statement that she
in Berlin. Sunday noon Mademoiselle was »disposed, sorry not to have noti
Fournier had notified the authorities. fied the directors, and all that. They
She did not know, but Bhe felt sure do it repeatedly every season.”
that the blond stranger knew more
“ But an errand of mercy, the
than anyone else. And here was the strange automobile which cannot be
end of things. The police found them found? The engagement to dine with
selves at a standstill. They searched the baron? Celeste Fournier’s state
the hotels but without success; the ment? You can't get around these
blond stranger could not be found.
things. I tell you, Nora isn't that
Abbott's eyes were not happy and kind. She's too big in heart and mind
pleasant just now. They were dull to stoop to any such devices,” vehe
and blank with the reaction of the mently.
“ Nora! That looks pretty serioue,
stunning blow. He, too, was certain
of the Barone Much as he secretly Abby. You haven't gone and made a
hated the ltaliafh, he knew him to be a fool of yourself, have you?”
"What do you call making a fool of
fearless and an honorable man. But
who could this blond stranger be who myself?” truculently.
appeared so Binisterly in the two
"You aren't a suitor, are you? An
scenes? From where had he come? accepted suitor?” unruffled, rather
Why had Nora refused to explain kindly.
"No, but I would to heaven that I
about the pistol-shot? Any woman
had a perfect right to shoot a man w ere!” Abbott jammed the newspa
who forced his way into her apart per into his pocket and slung the stool
ment. Was he one of those mad fools over his arm. "Come on over to the
who had fallen in love with her, and studio until I get some money.”
“ You are really going to start a
had become desperate? Or was it
some one she knew and against whom search?"
"I really am. I ’d start one Just as
she did not wish to bring any charges?
Abducted! And she might be, at this quickly for you, if I heard that you
very moment, suffering all sorts of in had vanished under mysterious cir
dignities. It was horrible to be so cumstances.”
helpless.
“ I believe you honestly would.”
“ You are an old misanthrope. I
The sparkle of the sunlight upon the
ferrule of a cane, extending over his hope some woman puts the hook into
shoulder, broke in on his agonizing you some day. Where did you pick up
thoughts. He turned, an angry word the grouch? Some of your dusky
on the tip of his tongue. He expected princesses give you the go-by?”
“ You, too, Abby?"
to see some tourist who wanted to be
informed.
“ Oh, rot!
Of course I never be
“ Ted Courtlandt!” He Jumped up, lieved any of that twaddle. Only, I've
overturning the stool. "And where the got a sore head today. If you knew
dickens did you come from? I thought Nora as well as I do, you'd under
stand.”
you were in the Orient?"
"Just got back, Abby.”
Courtlandt continued toward the
The two shook hands and eyed each exit, his head forward, his gaze bent
other with the appraising scrutiny of on the path. He had the air of a man
friends of long standing.
deep in thought, philosophic thought,
“ You don’t change any,” said Ab which leaves the brows unmarred by
bott.
those corrugations known as frowns.
“ Nor do you. I've been standing Yet his thoughts were far from philo
behind you fully two minutes. What sophic. Indeed, his soul was in mad
were you glooming about? Old Silenus turmoil. He could have thrown his
arms toward the blue sky and cursed
offend you?”
“ Have you read the Herald this aloud the fates that had set this new
tangle at his feet. He longed for the
morning?”
“ I never read It nowadays. They jungles and some mad beast to vent
are always giving me a roast of some his wrath upon. But he gave no sign.
kind. Whatever I do they are bound He had returned with a purpose as
to misconstrue It.” Courtlandt 6tooped hard and grim as iron; and no ob
and righted the stool, but sat down on stacle, less powerful than death,
the grass, his feet in the path. "What's should divert or control him. Abduc
the trouble? Have they been after tion? Let the public believe what it
might; he held the key to the mys
you?”
Abbott rescued the offending paper tery. She wae afraid, and had taken
und shaking it under his friend's nose, flight. So be it.
“ I say, Ted.” called out the artist,
said: “ Read that.”
Courtiandt’s eyes widened consider “ what did you mean by saying that
ably as they absorbed the significance you were a Dutchman?”
Courtlandt paused so that Abbott
of the heading—“ Blleonora da Toscana
might catch up to him. "I said that I
missing.”
was a Dutchman?”
“ Bah!" he exclaimed.
"Yes. And it has Just occurred to
"You say bah?”
"It look« like one of their advertis me that you meant something.”
"Oh, yes. You were talking of Da
ing dodges. I know something about
singers,” Courtlandt added.
"I en Toscana? Let’s call her Harrlgan. It
will save time, and no one will know
gineered a musical comedy once.”
"You do not know anything about to whom we refer. You said she was
Irish, and that when she said a thing
her,” cried Abbott hotly.
“ That’s true enough." Courtlandt she meant it. My boy, the Irish are
finished the article, folded the paper notorious for claiming that. They
and returned it, and began digging in often say it before they see clearly.
Now, we Dutchmen— it takes a long
the path with his rane.
"But what I want to know Is, who time for us to make up our minds,
the devil is this mysterious blond but when we do, something has got to
stranger?" Abbott flourished the pa bend or break.”
“ You don’t mean to say that you are
per again. "I tell you, it's no adver
tising dodge. She’« been abducted. going to settle down and get mar
ried?”
The blond!”
" I ’m not going to settle down and
Courtlandt ceased boring into the
earth. "The story says that she re- get married, if that will ease your
mind any.”
"Man, I was hoping!"
"Three meals a day in the same
house, with the same woman, never
appealed to me.”
“ What do you want, one for each
meal?”
At the age of twenty-six Donald Ab
bott had become a prosperous and dis
tinguished painter In water colors,
ills work was individual, and at the
lame time it was delicate and charm
ing. One saw his Italian landscapes
as through a filmy gauze; the almond
blossoms of Sicily, the rose-laden walls
of Florence, the vineyards of Chianti,
(ho poppy-glowing Carnpagna out of
Koine, ilis Italian lakes had brought
him fame. lie knew very little of the
grind and hunger that attended the
careers of his whilom associates. His
lather had left him some valuable pat
ents— wash-tubs, carpet-cleaners and
other labor-saving devices— and the
royalties from these were quite suf
ficient to keep him pleasantly housed.
His earnings (not inconsiderable,
lor tourists fouud much to admire in
both the picture« and the artist) he
spent in gratifying his mild extrava
gances. So there were no lines in his
handsome, boyish, beardless face; and
his eyes were unusually clear and
happy. Perhaps once or twice, since
his majority, he had returned to Amer
ica to prove that ho was not an ex
patriate, though certainly he was one,
the only tie existing between him and
Ills rative land being the bankers who
regularly honored his drafts. And who
shall condemn him for preferring Italy
to the desolate center of New York
state, where good servants and good
weather are as rare as are flawless
emerulds ?
Half after three, on Wednesday aft-
ernoon, Abbott stared moodily at the
weuther-tarnished group by Dalou In
the Luxembourg gardens— the T ri
umph of Silenus. His gaze was de
ceptive, for the rollicking old bibulous
scoundrel had not stirred his critical
sense nor Impressed the delicate films
of thought. He w'as looking through
the bronze, into the far-away things.
Ho had arrived early that morning, all
the way from Como, to find a thunder
bolt driven in at his feet. Across his
knees fluttered an open newspaper,
the Paris edition of the New York
Herald. All that kept it from blowing
away was the tense If sprawling fin
gers of his right hand; his left hung
limply ut his side.
It was not possible. Such things did
not happen these unromantlc day« to
musical celebrities. She had written
that on Monday night sho would sing
In La lloheme und on Wednesday,
Faust. She had since vanished, van
ished us completely as though she had
taken wings and flown away. It was
unreal. Sho had left the apartment
in the Avenue de Wagram on Satur
day afternoon, and nothing had been
seen or heard of her since. At the
last moment they had had to find a I
substitute for her part in the Puccini |
apera. The maid testified that her |
mistress hnd gone on an errand of
mercy. She had not mentioned where, I
but she hud said that she would return
,n time to dress for dinner, which
proved conclusively that something
DUt of the ordinary had befallen her.
The automobile that had carried her
»way hnd not been her own, and the
rhaufTeur was unknown. None of the
directors at the opera had been noti
fied of any change in the singer's
plans. She hnd disappeared, and they
s ere deeply concerned. Singers were
generally erratic, full of sudden indls
positions, unaccountable whims; but
the Signorlna da Toscana w as one in j
i thousand. She never broke an en- j
fagement. If she was ill «he said so
»t once; sho never left them in doubt
mtil the last moment. Indecision was
not one of her characteristics. She j
was as reliable as the sun. If the di
rectors did not hear definitely from
Her by noon today, they would have to
Itid another Marguerite.
Ho T u rn e d , an Angry W o rd on the
The police began to move, and they
T ip of His T o n g u e .
itlrred up some curious bits of infor
mation. A man had tried to bribe the fused to explain this blond chap's
linger'« chauffeur, while she was slng- presence in her room. What do you
ng at the Austrian ambassador's. The make of that?”
rhaufTeur was able to describe the
“ Perhaps you think the fellow was
itranger with some accuracy. Then her press agent?" was the retort.
•amo the bewildering episode In the
"laird, no! But it pjoves that «he
t part men t: the pistol-shot, the flight knew him. that ehe did not want the
>f the man, the astonished concierge police to find hint. At least, not at
o whom the b. auttful American would that moment. Who's the Italian?" sud
>ff»r no explanations. The man (who denly.
.allied with the description given by
I can vouch for him. He Is a gen
.he chauffeur) had obtained entrance tleman. honorable as the day is long,
jnder
false
representations.
He even If he Is hot-headed at times.
•laimed to be an emissary with Ira Count him out of It. It's this unknown,
,-ortant Instructions from the opera. 1 tell you. Revenge for some imag
lhere was nothing unusual In this; ined slight It's as plain as the nose
nessengers came at all hours, and sel- I on your face.”
m ie $:nm> ono twie$ so the con-
“ How long have you known her?”
*rge*i n ru*p!clon* ha d not
boon asked ('curtiandt prt ■sently.
1 Another «ten
A tall hand
“ Abtvut two years. S h e 's th e gem
m*» Italian ha<t cattied at eleven o f th e whole lot. Getitle, kindly, un-
Saturday morn in es K-j» fhf* # i * . touched1 by flattery. . .
Why, you
rt.m h a d kont down ^ *ord that
must hi ive seen ami 1
heard h e r ! ”
u M t u^t pee him. The m a i d recall ' !
“ 1 ha
idt stared Into the
At ÎU r mis tree* had
ended » 0 d!no h o i « he had d u g V o l Ice like an a n g e l ’».
-it £ •«lit wttu tQo I-.il-
gentle man. w ith a face like Bel llni'» donna, and
Jonathan
Crabshaw’s
Qlorious
O, SIR,” said Jonathan
Crabshaw, “ I ain't got any
money to waste in any
such way. If the rest of
the people of this town
want to make fools of
themselves, that's their
business.
Let 'em go
ahead and do it, but you
needn’t expect me to put
a cent in this fund you're
raisin'. What do I care
how much the people of Greenville are
goln’ to spend celebratin'? Let ’em
spend a million if they can raise it.
They'll only have that much less to
spend for things that might do their
town some good."
“ But don’t you see," said Thomas
Spurgeon, “ that we can’t afford to let
Greenville get ahead of Paddington in
this matter? Since the old-fashioned
way of celebrating the Fourth has
been done away with every town that
amounts to anything has a general dis
play which is for the benefit of every
body. By stopping the sale of danger
ous explosives and all that sort of
thing we can have a day of comfort
and safety; but we owe something to
the youngsters, so we propose to have
a fine' exhibition of fireworks in the
evening. It will be in charge of men
who know how to handle such things,
and you can readily see that it will b j
much bigger and more thrilling than
it would be if everybody celebrated
in his own way. Besides, there will be
no chance for the boys to lose their
fingers or have their eyes put out.
The people of Greenville have been
boasting that they beat our town in
everything, and we want to show them
for once that they can’t do it. Don’t
you feel that you can afford to con
tribute a couple of dollars?”
“ No, I wouldn’t contribute a couple
of cents for any such foolishness. I
tell you it’s all poppycock. It’s nothin’
more nor less than burnin’ money up.
What’s the use teachin’ the kids that
they’re to expect something every time
we prevent ’em from actin' like a lot
of crazy young savages. I ’m glad the
shootin’ has been stopped. I wish
they’d stop everything— fireworks and
all. Them'B my sentiments, and that's
all I've got to say."
It was on the following day that
Jonathan Crabshaw’s wife received a
letter from their son in the city.
"Jonathan,” she said when he came
In from the garden, “ William’s wife’s
got to go to the hospital.”
“ That’s Just like them city women,”
he grumbled. "They’re always goin'
to hospitals. If William had married
a girl from the country he’d be a
blamed sight better off than he is.
Why ie he writin’ to us about her
goin’ to the hospital, anyhow? I
s’pose he's hard up and wants money,
eh?”
“ I ’m afraid your heart’s hardened,
pa,” Mrs. Crahshaw replied. “ What’s
the use feelin' so bitter? William's
the only child we’ve got, and if his
wife ain't our kind that’s no reason
why we should treat him as if he was
our worst enemy. I « ’pose he thought
It would be different when he married
her. Now she's got the appendicitis
and there’s no knowin' what may hap
pen. He wants to send little Henry
saw g little boy who bad just «tapped
inside. No little boy had ever entered
there before. Jonathan Crabshaw’s
garden was forbidden territory. Even
his wife was afraid to go into it.
The little boy stood for awhile, look
ing at the “ hard” old man who was
half leaning upon his hoe.
“W ell," the old man asked, “ what do
you want here?"
“ I want to come in and help you,”
the little boy replied.
"Get ou t!”
“ Are you my grandpa?"
“ Your grandpa? What do you
mean ?"
“ I ’m Henry. Grandma told me you
was out here all alone.”
Jonathan Crabshaw dropped his hoe
and began rubbing the dirt from his
hands.
“ How did you get here?” he asked.
“I came all by myself on the train,”
the little boy eaid. “ My papa put me
in the car and grandma was waiting
for me when I got here. My mamma
is very sick.”
1 There was a big apple tree in one
| corner of the garden, near the gate.
Under it waB a seat which Jonathan
Crabshaw had made for himself. He
, went to it and sat down.
“ Come here ” he said.
The little boy went to him and
j leaned upon his knee.
The old man had a "hard” look, but
in spite of that the little boy bore a
strong resemblance to him.
"So your name’s Henry, is it?”
J “ Yes. And your name’s grandpa,
isn't it I ”
The “ hard” look eeemed to fade out
of Jonathan Crabshaw’s face.
“ Well,” he said with something that
was almost a smile, “ that ain’t exactly
my name, but you can call me It
(T O B E C O N T IN U E D .)
Man of Spirit.
Few persons ever stop to consider,
says the Journal of the American Med
ical Association, that when they
speak of "a man of spirit” they are
really, however unwittingly, employ
ing the language of the days of Claud
ius Galen, a noted Roman physician,
born A. D. 130. That the term is yet
used is testimony that the old doc
trine of spirits is not obsolete. Galen
perhaps had a conception of nerve
trunks as conductors of something—
he called it spirits—to and from the
brain and spinal cord. The natural
spirits were that property which gave
to blood the capacity of nourishing
the tissues of the body.
The vital
spirits were acquired in the heart;
and when at last the blood with its
vital spirits went to the brain and
experienced a sort of refinement for
the last time, the animal spirits were
separated from it and carried to the
body by the nerve trunks. The animal
spirits of Galen have become the
nerve impulses of today. These are
not electricity, but they produce it.
and can be manifested by it.
W ild D ee r Beg Food.
Starving and exhausted chamois,
stags and roe deer (chervreuils) are
descending from their mountain fast
nesses in the Canton of Grisons and
the Swiss Tyrolese frontier Alps into
the villages, practically begging for
food and with all fear lost.
On these mountains the snow Ilea
six feet deep and the cold has been
Intense Even above Arosa and Klos-
ters famished deer have been found,
while near Davos a large stag was
discovered in a stable.
In the Praettigau Talley eight
chamois and twelve deer are now
"en pension" In the vtllages, but a
number of the animals have been
found dead on the paths and roads. It
Is forbidden by law to harm these
animals in the canton, and when they
are restored they will be liberated.
A further *all of black snow Is r®
ported from Macolln. near Rlenna.
while at Wet »ikon. Canton of Zurich,
gray snow fell
“ N o , I W o u ld n 't C o n trib u te a C o u p le of
C e n ts fo r A n y Su ch F o o lis h n e s s .”
down here to stay with us for a week
or two.”
“ Oh, that's what he wants, is It? It's
a wonder he feels like trustin' him
with us. Here he is. nearly ten years
old, and we ain't never seen him. And
they named him after her pa, too, ]
when, by rights, he ought to been I
i named after me. Write back and tell
’em to keep him there. I don't want
no boy around here— specially no city
boy.”
Mrs. Crabshaw looked at her hus
band for a long time. He was gen
erally considered a “ hard" man. Every
body knew that he had plenty of
money, but no one ever saw him spend
any of It. His wife, who was growing
feeble, was compelled to do her own
housework and get along upon the
barest necessities. He had driven his
son away from home and then blamed
him for not returning, humble and
penitent. Most of hie time was spent j
in his garden. It was the only thing
he semed to care for.
Having given his wife orders to I
write that they had no place for their
grandchild, the old man took it for
granted that the matter was settled
j and w alked out of the house
It was on the second of July that
j Jonathan Crabshaw, who was busy in
| his garden heard ¡he hinges of the
I gale squtav:ng. He look.d up and
“ Are Y o u M y G ra n d p a ? "
You’ve got another grandpa, though,
haven’t you?”
“ Yes, but I don’t think I like him
as well as I like you.”
"W hy not?”
“ He hasn’t any nice garden like this,
and he never sat under a nice big tree
like this alone with me. Why doesn't
grandma come out here with us?”
“ I— I don’t know. Maybe we will
have her come out here with us some
time.”
"Grandpa, do you know what?”
“ No. What?”
“ Day after tomorrow's the Fourth of
July.”
"Good gracious! Is It?”
“ Yes. You have the Fourth of July
here, don’t you?”
“ Of course we do.”
“ And fireworks?”
"Fireworks? Um, yes, we have fire
works here, too.”
“ Goody!
W e’ll have some, won’t
we?”
"Certainly.
And
your
name’s
Henry?”
“ But that’s only part of it.”
"Oh! What’s the rest of it?”
“ My name ie Jonathan Henry Crab
shaw.”
A rough old hand was laid gently
upon the little boy’s head.
“ How would you like it if I called
you Jonathan instead of Henry?”
“ I ’d like it. That’s what papa al
ways calls me when I do anything
that makes him glad.”
Jonathan Crabshaw's contribution to
the celebration fund made it possible
for Paddington to “ put it all over”
Greenville In the matter of Fourth of
July fireworks. When the old man
and his wife and their little boy got
home after witnessing the splendid
display Mr. Crabshaw eaid:
"Mother, I never really knew before
what the Fourth of July was for. Ain’t
it been a glorious day all around?"
Then he kissed the little boy and
after that he put an arm around his
wife and kissed her and said:
“ I'm mighty glad Mary’s out of dan
ger. As soon as she's well enough to
get around again I guess we better go
up there and see about buyln’ ’em a
hou6e. Little Jonathan ought to have
a nice yard to play in. and I can show
him how to start a garden of his own.”
THE FLAG.
Let It idly droop or sway
To the wind's light will:
Furl Its stars, or float In day;
Flutter, or be still!
It has held Its colors bright.
Through the war-smoke dun;
Spotless emblem of the Right,
Whence success was won.
I-e- it droop In graceful rest
For a passing hour—
Glory's banner. last and best;
Freedom’s freshest flower!
Each ted stripe has blazoned forth
Gospels writ in blood;
Every star has sung the birth
Of some deathless good.
Let It droop, but not too long!
On the eager wind
Bid it wave to shame the wrong;
To Inspire mankind
"With a larger human love;
With a truth as true
As the heaven that broods abov«
Its deep field of blue.
In the gathering hosts of hops.
In the march of man.
Open for it place and scope.
Bid It lead the van;
Til! beneath the searching s k i««
Martvr-blood be found.
Purer than our sacrifice.
Crying from th« ground:
Till a flag with some new light
Out of Freedom's sky.
K
s thrr
the gulfs of night.
Holier blazonry.
I-rt Its glow the darkness drown!
Give our banner sway.
Till its joyful stars go down.
In undreamed-of day!