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WORLD’S DOINGS OF CURRtNT WEEK ENTENTE AUKS CONFERENCE IN PARIS OF GREAT IMPORT BRITISH SEAPLANES NEWS ITEMS BROUGHT DOWN a m fre g ó n P aris The most important confer ence o f the entente allies since the out break o f the war begun in Paris Mon day under the presidency o f Premier Briand. The premiers o f Great B ri tain, Italy, Belgium and Serbia par ticipating. The British foreign seiretary, Sir Edward G rey ; secretary o f war, Field Marshal Karl Kitchener, and comman der of the continental forces, General Sir Douglas Haigh; the French com mander in chief, General Joffre, and the Italian general, Cadorna, also have seats at the council table. Russia is represented by the foreign minister, Uve News Items of All Nations 8nd M. Iswolsky, and General Gilensky, Berlin Claims No Damage Done by aide-de-camp to the emperor; Japan Bombs- Crews of Fliers Made by the Japanese ambassador at Paris, Pacific Northwest Condensed and Serbia by Prince Alexander. Prisoner — Patrol Sunk. for Our Busy Readers. Probably nothing will be disclosed concerning the questions under discus sion or the decision reached, but it is expected that the allied (towers will Berlin, by wireless to Sayville, N. Russians take three line* o f German come to an agreement concerning com Y .— Not few er than three British hy trench«*» with bayonet*. mon m ilitary and political actions. droplanes, among them a fighting aero plane, were brought down Sunday by V illa i» reported to have held op a German guns on and about the island train and «earched it for Americana, o f Sylt, during an air raid on North bat found none. ern Schleswig, according to a German One o f the American columns pene official communication. The crews trated 60 miles into Mexico before it were taken prisoner. was discovered by the natives. Chicago — Blizzards, abnormally Bombs dropped in the district of It is believed the government will warm weather, rain and snow much the Hoyer water gate did no damage, colder weather, all crowded into a few says the statement, which follows; anon define clearly its attitude toward days, have combined to cause much "F ro m two ships, which were s e the entire submarine question. sickness and distress in Middle West companie«) by a cruiser squadron and President Wilson was back in Wash ern states. Floods also are now tak a flotilla o f destroyers, five English ington Friday after a b rief visit to ing a toll in human life and destroying hydroplanes started for an attack Philadelphia to have his eyes examined. property. against the German aeronautic estab Northern Illinois cities report many lishments in Northern Schleswig. Congress avoids any unnecessary discussion o f the Mexican question, streets submerged and light and (tower “ Not few er than three o f them, but is ready to authorise war measures stations out o f commission. Warnings among which was a fighting aeroplane, are issued in Chicago and all the were force«! down by the defensive at a moment's notice. Northern Illinois territory o f immi «ervii-e on and about the island o f Sylt. Yuan Shi Kai renounces the throne nent peril o f typhoid. Eastern Iowa The occupants o f the machines, who o f China and proclaims the restoration and Southern Mirhigan, Northern In were made prisoners, are four English o f the republic, but his opponents say diana and Uhio are also facing typhoid officers and one non-commissioned offi- the change it too late to save him. conditions. cer. Dispatches from Southwestern W is Instructions to recruit the IS Na "Bom ba were thrown only in the tional Guard companies o f Arixona to consin accentuate recent rep«irts of district o f the Hoyer water gate. No Seven have been damage was d on e." war strength immediately were trans flood damage. mitted to the mm|>any commanders by drowned, with many districts entirely ------- _ inaccessible. Almost one-eighth of London - Three British aeroplane« order o f the War department. the state is affected. Reports tell o f which took part in a raid on German An army aviator was found by a one drowned in Rock county, one in airships in Schleswig-Holstein Sunday wagon train after being lost in the Richland county and one in Grant are missing. Mexican desert far 48 hour«. He re A dispatch says that two German county. T w o perished when a bridge paired his leaking tank, received a gave way. Others were drowned try armed trawlers acting as patrols were supply o f gasoline and was aoon on his ing to get through flooded streams by sunk by the British outside Sylt har way. bor. fording. The house education committee vote«) The admirality also report« that s One in Grant county died trying to unanimously to take no action on petui- lea«! his cattle from the stable to the torpedo-boat may have been in collis ing bills to reojien the North Pole con hills, when they became so freightened ion with another o f its own fleet in the venture. No fears for the crew are troversy. Dr. Frederick A. Cook re that they trampled him 'to death entertained cently aske«i the committee to investi The follow ing official statement was gate his claims. u k issued: The Hay army Increase bill, provid “ An attack by British seaplanes was ing for a regular army peace strength deliver««! Sunday morning on German o f 140,000 fighting men instead o f the airship sheds in Schleswig-Holstein present 100,000, passed the house by Waahintgon, D. C .- - President W il eastward o f the island o f Sylt. The a vote o f 402 to 2. It goes to the sen son has issued a warning that “ sinis seaplanes were conveyed to their ren ate for immediate consideration. ter and unscrupulous influences” are dezvous close to the Greman coast by A dispatch to the Italkan agency spreading alarmist reports about the an escorting force o f light cruisers and from Bucharest says the chief clerk o f Mexican situation with the obje«-t o f destroyers under Commmiore Tyrwhitt. the American legation at Sofia is re forcing intervention by the United "T h re e of the seaplanes which took ported to have been arrested by the States “ in the interests o f certain part in the attack are missing. The American owners o f Mexican proper Bulgarian authorities, accused o f g iv destroyer Me«iu»a was in collision with ties. ’ 1 ing a present to an employe for using the destroyer Lavrock and it is feare«l In a formal statement the President that in the stormy weather which pre greater haste than ordinary in issuing told the people o f the Unite«! States to passports. vailed the Medusa may have been lost, lie on their guard and not cr«*«lit such Men o f the Hungarian lamlsturm stories. He urged those who dissem but no m isgivings are felt as to the Tw o German born in 1808 and 1869 and also the inate news to test the source and au safety o f the crew. men belonging to the classes o f 1866 thenticity o f every report from the srme«i patrol vessels were sunk by our and 1897, wh«i hitherto have been em bonier, ami called attention again to destroyers. " N o tietailed report has yet been re- ployed in making war materials, rmw the government's announcement that are dismissed from this service and th* sole object o f the punitive expedi- ceived, but from Danish press dis ordered to join the army on April 5, tion now in Mexico was to punish patches it would appear that this operation, which was carrie«! out with according to a Keuter dispatch. V illa ami his followers. in the enemy’ s waters, achieved its The news services supplying news object." I.naae« in the Russian army, kill««!, wounded and missing, for the year 1916 papers ha«l been asked, the President were 2,642,639, according to IViris S. said, to assist in keeping this view Schumacher, a Jewish newspaper cor constantly before the Mexican and respondent, who exhibited prmteii lists American people, to the emi that the which he said were official Russian re expedition should take on the color of ports and which he said he secretly ob war. San Antonio, T e x .— Six persons lost tained while in Petrograd. their lives early Sumiay in the burning In a telegram to President Wilson o f the fashionable San Antonio Coun the Aero Club o f Am erica offered for Portland A fte r striking a 80-foot try club. army use in Mexico two high-pnwere<) sunken log. which tore a huge hole in F ive ««f the victim s were guests at aeroplane«, which, the club says, excel her hull at the port bow, the steamer the club, which was the scene o f sev in every way the present army flying Twin Cities, o f The Dalles-Columbia eral week-end parties, bringing to equipment. The telegram also said line, began to sink near the mouth of gether a large number o f persons the club had already liate«l 19 licensed North Portland harbor Satuniay night. prominent in social and business cir aviators as volunt«>er» for service in She was »uoceasfully l>eai'ht*d after a cles to the Southwest. Me\ struggle. Quirk work on the («art of The dead are: Mr. and Mrs. J. B. A dvice« receive«! from Dover by the the officers in charge, and the coolness Waltham. Judge J, E. Webb. Homer Preas association say that a second o f the mem tiers o f the crew, prevented J«in«'«, San Antonio; Mrs. Mmco Stew- srt. Galveston; Helen C«>ckrell. maid German seaplane was brought down loss of life. The 10 passengi-rs aboard, and the at the club. after the raid made by four German The fire had its origin in a collection aeroplanes over the Kent coast, last livestock which forme«! (»art o f the Sunday. It is said a British airman cargo. were landoi in safety before o f paint store«! in the basement o f the who was crossing the Channel in a the v«‘»ael s*-ttle«l in the shallower three story frame clubhouse. It spread new aeroplane saw the rani in prog water near the bank. The steamer lay quickly to a stairway trailing to the ress, and joining in the chase o f the [lartially submerge«! at the south bank, first floor and rapidly communicated Germans, succeeded in bringing down near the mouth o f the North Portlami to the other tw o floors above. harlnir A portion o f the rail ar«Hind Abtnit 15 guests asleep in the buiM- one o f their machine*. the upper deck was awash and the ing had narrow escapes, many jumping Astoria, Oregon, is visited by a water, which was rising rapidly, was from the seeond story windows, so 160,000 fire. expert««) to flood the passenger cabins. quirk was the spread o f flames. Brief Resume of General News from All Around the Earth. German Aviators Defeat Three of fleet of five Raiders. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL LONDON ADMITS LOSS OF DESTROYER Property Destroyed and Traffic Blocked by Middle West Floods President Wilson Warns P M Against Mexican War Rumors Six Lise Live in Lxrlusive Country Hub Confiofraboa Slfdmff Hits log; Sinks. Foo«i supplies are said to be becom ing short in the Torreon district of Mexico and rioting is feared. A German aviator has dropped sev eral smoke bomba near a French bat tery. it is retorted from the front This is the first tim e since the war be gmn that such bumba have been usvsl N«»t In themselves dangerous, the bombe g ive forth an intense sm«>ke which persists for a long time and serves as a guide for the hostile ar tillery. The immense Simpson holdings in Coos Bay district have been sold for a sum sani to be near $1,000,000. Shackleton Ship Is Safe. I.omion Reports received here Mon day state«! that the auxiliary ship Au rora. of the Shackleton Antarctic ex pedition, which was tiamagevi in the ice. is n«iw prix-t-eding to New Zealand for repairs and is not in distress or in need o f assistance. The latest message indicatre that th* Aurora is prooceed- ing under her own steam. A New Zealand wireless station is in commun ication with her. Sir IVuglas Mawson. the Antarctic explorer, expresses the opinion that there is no cause for alarm. Fortune Goes to W orker. Seattle — Harold Richard Clements, 19, who has been working in s depart ment store at a smail salary, has beer notified by Arthur 1‘syne. attorney, of IxHiisville. K y.. that he has inherit««! the $3. i X h >,000 estate o f his grand mother. Mrs. Mary Clements, who died there recently. Young Clements is th* son o f Harry Curtis Clements, formerly (»resident o f the Denver Traction com pany. who died nine years ag«». When Mr. Clements died he left th* bulk o f his estate to hi* mot her. only a small allowance going to hi* son. A Portland business man ia fined for hugging girts who applied to him for work President W Iron's name ia tbs only on* for presidi >nt that w ill be on tbs primary ballot in Georgia tb it spring A North Yakima. ima. Wash., Wash . lad o f 9 obtains a nfl*. in tbs absence o f bis parent*, and are »dentally shoot* hi* playmate, who, it Is thought, w ill die. Fires W orst In Oregon. Washington, D. C. More than 72 per rent o f all tbs damage done by fixest fire* in governp,ent forest re serve* during 191$ was in l»re*«'n. ac cording to a bulletin just issued by the Fixest service. During the past » ear forest flree burned over 300,000 acres o f fixest reserve lamia, and destroyed 166,000.000 fret o f timber, valued at $190,000. The report says that 97 per cent o f the total torn was confined to i V agón. Washington and IdaJwv Astoria— W ith the acquisition o f 1200 feet o f frontage on Young's Bay, at the foot o f Seventh street, in this city, the J. A. McEachern company, o f Seattle and Astoria, Monday completed final details that w ill g ive Astoria a $300,000 shipping concern with ex pansion unlimited. W. W. Clark, vice president, who built the battleship Nebraska for Moran Bros., now with the Seattle Construction & Dry dock company, w ill be manager. Soundings have been made and show that deep water fro n t« the property with a deep channel to the main chan nel entrance. The concern w ill employ 400 men when the plant opens. The firm is low bidder on barges for the Alaaka Railway commission, and has other bids in for vessels. Tim ber ran be secured close at hand. I*oeal capital is interested in the enter prise. The capacity o f the yards as to wooden vessels w ill be unlim ited Grangers Hear Address. Portland - In his address on “ Money and M arkets" before Woodlawn Grange Saturday, A. D. Stillman, o f Helena, Mont., pointed out that farmers can assist themselves through co-operation and said that under the regional bank- ing system farmers may organize na- tional banks, saving from 3 to 4 per cent on short-time loans. This has been done, he said, in Montana, with the result that the farmers are gettin g money to handle their crops at 6 per cent- “ Before this co-operation," said Mr. Stillman, " th e farmers were paying 8 per cent for money to pay for the marketing o f their crops. When they asked the banks for 6 per cent, they were told the banks could not loan them money for leas than 8 per cent. The farmers got together with the result that they moved their crops last year on 6 per cent money.” Long Closed Mill Busy. R ainier — A fte r closing down for more than two years, the old Pacific National Lumber company's mill, re cently sold to the Multnomah Box A Lumber company by the receiver, started sawing lumber Tuesday. This same company has purchased the O. K. Mill, one o f the Dodge prop erties. which adjoins the Pacific N a tional mill, and, according to Manager Mitchell, the new owners w ill take enough o f the machinery from the O. K. mill to bring the capacity o f the other up to 175,000 feet a day. The remainder o f the machinery w ill be sold and the buildings razed. This w ill give the mill about 8900 feet o f water front and for yanis and loading facilities. _________ Cattlemen Lease Range. Baker— To make possible the run ning o f s large number o f cattle in Eagle Valley, for which grazing p riv ileges were denied by the Forestry service,the Cattle and Horse Raisers' association o f the section w ill lease all privately owned range lands remaining on Pine Creek, according to Forest Supervisor Barnes, who returned re cently from a trip to Eagle Valley. The stockmen also decided to im prove on the state regulations provid ing a minimum proportion o f one bull for each 60 head o f stock, making the porportion one to 25 instead. Mr. Barnes reported that the range is in fine condition. Rangers Will Gather. Baker— To conduct the annual meet ing for the foresters employed on the Minam National forest. Charles H. Flory. assistant in the district super visor's office in Portland, arrived in Baker this week. A ll phases o f for estry work w ill be gone over. »{xtoial attention, however, being paid to the subject o f Are prevention. Although it :» thought that the fire season this year w ill be a comparatively short one, due to the heavy snows, forest officials are determined to take no chances. $80,000 Ore Is Reported. Baker A gold strike so rich ** to be almost unbslievabls has just been made on Canyon Mountain by Denver Ixed y and Lynn Georgs, who have been working on a claim belonging to J. A. Mukhick. Average samples o f the ore, which have been taken to Canyon City, assay from $60.000 to $80.000 a ton. The mine had been yielding only average returns until last week, when a smiden increase in the values contained in the vein was manifest. It is reported that there is more in sight, but it is not known how largs the high grad* ore body w ill be Beavers Cut Fruit Trees. Albany — H. F. Struckmsisr, o f Thomas, has appealed to the county Water Poisons Soldiers. Douglas, Ari*. — Employes o f the authorities for assistance in protecting Nacoiari railroad brought a report his property from th# beavers, who from t'abullona Monday that several are frequenting his fruit orchard. They hutxlred Carranat soldiers had been have cut down 50 prune tree*, accord killeil re«-ently in th* Yaqui R iver V al ing to a statement mad# j/ the county inspected the ley in Western Sonora by drinking fruit inspector, who water that had been poisoned by the premise«, and they also cut down five Ysqui Indiana. They said that M e t - 1 peach tree*. During the recent high lean employes o f the railroad had re- water a portion o f th# orchard was un coived the information in letters from der water, and it is supposed that the Hermosillo that those poison«! were beavers cut down th* trees in an effort men of th* F ifth Bnga«le o f the So to keep the water on the orchard. Army Bars Bald Heads. The effort to increase the army bill Chicago — Baldh«*ad«*d men are not to 220,000 enlisted men was defeated by the house. The bill w ill probably wanted in the pursuit of Villa. It is remain at 140,000, expandable to 175,- warm along the txirder and they might becvme affected by th* heat. S«« an- 000. nouneed Lieutenant Kenney Monday in Through arguments before the R ail refusing to enlist Stanley Twooney, o f road commission o f California, it is Syracuse learned that the H ill linea wish to T«money sought enlistment ami was enter that state through I wkeview. rejected because of his bahtneas. He Ore., and also the Western l'ari fit- returned wearing a w ig and waa ac seek* to extend a fe e le r into Reno. cepted. W hile he was awaiting trana- Nev. portation to Jefferent. Barracks the de ception was di»«-overvd and he was rt* »r* troops. Mexico wants a pursuit protocol again re je c t«!. 900 men. with the United States. W . J. Bryan opens the Nebraka campaign for state- wilts prohibition. Seattle Firm Will Establish $300,000 Shipyard at Astoria Th* detachment number* Villa General Is Killed. Queretaro. Mexico — General Pedro Go*man and 22 others, all membsra of V illa's band, were killed in battle in the neighborhood o f Laguna and Dina mita Sumiay. In this action between government force* and bandit* 10 pris oner* also were taken and summarily executed This information cam* ia a message to the mimeter o f war. Gen eral tRiregon. who was informed that the campaign against the Villietaa was being wage«) with the utmost vigor. WOMAN wm/wa Author o f üheAlWEUR ŒACK5MAN. RAFFLES. Etc. ILLUS-tii.\T10NSr W C H A PTE R XIV— Continued. — 13— T oy* cocked his head at both ques tion and answsr, but Inclined it quick ly as Cazalet turned to him before i proceeding "I went in and found Henry Craven lying in bis blood. That's gospel— it ess so 1 found him—lying just where be had fallen In a heap out of the fa th e r chair at bis desk. The top right band drawer of bis desk was open, the key In It and th* rest of the bunch still swinging! A revolver lay as it had dropped upon the desk— It had upset the Ink—and there were cartridges lytng loose In th « open drawar, and the revolver was loaded I swept It back Into th « drawer, turned th « ksy and removed It with the bunch But there was something else on the desk— that silver mounted truncheon —and a man's cap was lytng on tbs Door. I picked them both up. My first instinct. 1 confess it, was to r » move «very sign of manslaughter and iw leave th « sesns to be reconstructed Into on* of accident—seizure— any thing but what it w as!” He paused as If waiting for a ques tion. Non* was asked Toys'* mouth might have been iswn up. bis syss war* like hatpins driven Into his bead The other two simply stared. “ It was s mad Idea, but I had gone mad,” continued Cazalet “ I had hat ed the victim alive, and it couldn't change me that be was dead or dying; that didn't make him a whit* man. and neither did It necessarily blacken ibs poor davll who had probably suf fared from him Ilk« tbs rest o f us and only struck him down in self- defense The revolver oa the desk made that pretty plain. It waa out of the way, but now I saw blood all over th* desk as wall; It was soaking Into th* blotter, and it knocked the bottom out of my idea. What waa to b* done? I had meddled already; how could I give the alarm without giving myself sway to that extent, and God knows how much further? T h « most awful moment of th* lot came as I hesitated—the dinner gong went off In th* hall outslds the door! I remem ber watching the thing on th* floor to se* If It would move. T hen 1 lost my head— absolutely. I turned the key In the door, to give myself a few seconds' grace or start; It reminded me of the keys la my hands One of them was on* of those little round bramah keys. It seemed familiar to m * even after so many years I looked up. and there was my father's Michael Angelo closet, with Its little, round bramah keyhole I opened it as the outer door waa knocked at and than tried But my mad Instinct of altering every pos slble appearance, to mislead the po Itca. stuck to me to the last And I took the man s watch and chain Into th* closet with me. as well as the cap and truncheon that I had picked up before. "1 don’t know how long I was above ground, so to speak, but one of my fathers objects bad been to make his rstrsa: sound tight, and I could scarce ly hear what was going on In the room That encouraged me; and two of you don't need telling how I got out through th* foundations, because you know all about th* hols I made my self as a boy in the floor under the oilcloth It took some finding with •Ingle matches; but the fear of your ueck gives you eyes In your finger ends, and gimlets, too. by Jove! The worst part was getting out at tbs other end. Into the cellars; there were heaps of empty bottles to move, ons by ons. before there was room to open ths manhole door and to squirm out uvsr tbs slab; and I thought they rang llks a peal of bells but I put them •II back again and apparently . . uobody overheard In the scullery. "Ths big dog barked at me llks Mass*—be did again the other day— but nobody seemed to hear him either 1 got to my boat, tipped a fellow oh tbs towing path to take It back and pay for It— why haven't tbs police got bold of him?—and ran down to th* bridge over the weir. 1 stopped a big car with a smart shaver smoking his pipe at ths wheel 1 should have thought bed bsv* com* forward for «he reward that was put sp. but 1 pro tended I was 1st« for dinner I bad In tewm. and I 1st him drop ms st ths Grand H otel He cost ms a fiver but I had on s waistcoat lined with notes and I d mors than five minutes ta band •t Charing Cross If you want to Stow it was ths time In hand that ( * « • me the whole !d*a of doubling hack to Genoa; I mast bats been half way up to town before I thought of I t !” He had told tbs whole thing at be always could tell an actual expert- sere that was on* reason why It rang so true to on# lietener st every point. Rut th* tick mans sunken eyes bad advanced from their sochere In eumu *t!v* amaiement. And Hilton Toys laughed shortly when ths end was reached -Ton figure seme on our credulity!” was Ms first comment T doa't figure on anything from you. Toy*, except n pair of handcuift •• n first msrallmee; * Bacteria Fraud Alleged Eugec. — Two men selling bacteria T E R M O F M U C H S IG N IF IC A N C E for the inoculation o f clover seed are victim ising Oregon farmers, according to J M Alcorn, Lane county agricul turist. He states that these men oper- atetl in Lane county laet week selling bacteria at s rat* amounting to $20 an acne. “ Thee* men are holding up the farm ers.'' he said " T h * bacteria can he obtained from the Oregon Agricul tural College sufficient to inoculate 13 acre* for 60 cent* '' In carrying oa their traffic th* peddlers are overes tim ating the necessity for inoculating. Phree* “ Seuth #f Panama” Means Much Mere T h «* Merely a Gee- graphical Lccat on. "S csth of P tr.sm s" I* a phrase • ktcb has s m ghty s:gs:!caxcu It means sot msro.y g#» g-spfc cai locu- Oca It e g'- -*s vast <trg;s areas of towiasd aad sptaud contrasted with fallow va.leys and lofty plateaus pop slated and raJtivated tb roagi centa _ _ ths othsr door. “ W ell? Aren't yon going too? You wars near enough. you see! I'm an accessory all right” — bs dropped his voice— "but I'd be prin cipal If I could Instead of h im !" But Toys had come back Into th* room, twinkling with triumph, even rubbing bi* hands. "You didn't see? You didn't see? I never meant to go at all; it was a bit of Muff to make him own up. and It did, too, b u lly!” The couple gasped. "You mean to tell me," cried Casa- let. "that you believed my story all th* time? "Why, I didn't havs a moment’s doubt about I t !” Cazalet drew away from tba chuck ling creature and his crafty glse. But Blanche came forward and held out her band. "W ill you forgive me. Mr. T oy *? " "Sure, If I had anything to forgive. It's th* other way around, 1 guess, and about time 1 did something to hslp." He edged up to ths folding- door. “ This is a two-man Job, Caialet. the way 1 make It out. Uusss It's my watch on deck !” "The other's the way to the police station," said Cazalet densely. Toye turned solemn on ths word. "It's the way to hell. If Miss Blanche will forgive me! This is more like the other place, thanks to you fo lk * Guess I'll leave the angels In charge!” Angelic or not, the pair were alone at last; and through ths doors they heard a quavering croak of welcome to the rather human god from the American machine. "I'm afraid he'll never go back with you to the bush," whispered Blanch* "Scruton?” "Y es." " I ’m afraid, too. But I wanted to take somebody else out, too I was trying to say so over a week ago, when we were talking about old Venus Potts. Blanchle, will you corns?" (T H E END.) Toye ros« In prompt acceptance of the challenge. "Seriously, Cazalet, you ask us to believe that you did all this to screen a man you didn't have time to recognize?” “ 1'ee told you the facts.” “ Well, I guess you’d better tell them to the police.” Toye took his hat and stick. Scruton was struggling from his chair. Blanche stood petri fied. a dove under a serpent's spell, as Toys made her a sardonic bow from the landing door. "You broke your side of the contract. Miss Blanche! I guess It’s up to me to complete.” " W e lt !" It was Scruton's raven croak; he had tottered to his fest. "Sure,” said Toye. " If you've any thing you want to say as an Interested party.” “ Only this— he's told the truth!” “ W ell, can he prove It?” “ I don't know," said Scruton. “ But I ca n !” "Y ou?” Blanche chimed In there. “ Yes. I'd like that drink first. If you don't mind. Cazalet " It was Blanche who got It for him. in an Instant. “ Thank you! I'd say more If my bless ing was worth having— but here's something that Is Listen to this, you American gentleman: I was ths man who wrote to him In Naples Leave It at that a minute; It was my second latter to him; the first was to Austra O N E ON T H E F L O O R W A L K E R lia. In answsr to ons from him. It was ths full history of my downfall. I Presumably He Knew Duties of His got a warder to smuggle It ou t That Position, But H# Was Not Pro letter was my ons chance.” ficient In Spelling. “ I know it by heart." said C azalet "It waa that and nothlDg else that The worst thing about tbs following made ms leave before the shearing.” Is that it is true, and «b a t's more, “ To meet ms when I came o u t!” that It happened In one of Pittsburgh's Scruton explained In a hoarse whisper. stores. "T o— to keep me from going straight The girl, stylishly attired, stepped to that man. as I'd told him I should up to the still more stylishly-attired In my first letter! But you can’t hit floorwalker and Inquired where she these things off to the day or the would find the chiffon. The floorwalk- week; he'd told me where to write j er consulted a notebook. Her surprise to him on his voyage, and I wrote to | cam* when be gravely told her that Naples, but that letter did not get I they did not keep chiffon. " W h y !" she gasped, “ you cannot I possibly mean th a t" In her eagerness she stepped cloeer to th* stylishly-attired man than Elea nor Gale says a stylishly-attired wom an should, and looked over his shoul der at the notebook. “ Oh! 1 see,” she said, flatly, as she moved off to ask the girl st ths glove counter about ths chiffons Tbs man | had been looking under the s '* — Bal timore Star. Trapping Partridges. How partridges are trapped in Vir ginia and North Carolina, !u ths win ter, is described ss follows: A net measuring from 16 to It) feet, and about eight Inches high, is put down with stanchions; horizontally in the center is an opening similar to th* hoop nets fc: fishing; the opening in the net is cone-shaped, diminishing In else. The better mounts a horse and starts at the distant side of the ! held, riding In a walk backward and “ You Broke Your Sid* of the Con forward, his objective point being ta* tract, Miss Blanch*." j net. If he encounters a bunch of birds they will run before the hors* smuggled ou t My warder friend bad He then begins to so direct bis bore* got the sack. I had to put what I'd as to drive them to th* net. being got to say eo that you could read it always careful cot .o Bush them. two ways So I told you. Cazalet. I was When be reaches the net the birds dis going straight up the river for a row cover the opening and enter, thu —and you can pronounce that two whole process being similar to driving ways And I said I hoped I shouldn't sheep Into a pen. When the birds break a scull— but there's m other way are safs the cetter dismounts and set of spelling that, and it was ths other : cures his game. way I m eant!” He chnckled grimly. 'T wanted you to lie low and let me Food by Proxy. 11* low if that happened. I wanted Most of us know some particular Just on* man in the world to know I'd done IL But that's how w* came to food or drink, the desire for which ta stimulated In us by reading about it. mlee each other, for you timed It to a tick. If you hadn't misread me about But the writing must bs skillful, or If not skillful, artlessly good. The crude* the river.” method of the stage produces the same He drank again stood stralghter and effect; all smokers have szperienced found a fuller voice the almost overwhelming desire to "Y e t I never meant to do It unless smoke which come* upon them wbea be made me. and at the back of my someone lights a cigarette on the brain I never taougbt be would. I stage; these itrange and rapid restau thought he'd do something for me. rant meals of the fashionable theater, after all he’d don* before! Shall 1 when a party sits down at a table and tell you what he did?” Is whirled through six courses ta "Qot out hit rev o lv e r!" cried Caza about 0v* minutes, surrounded by let In a vole* that was bis ewn Justifi champagne bottles in Ice buckets end cation as well trays of liquors, havs an absurdly ex "Pretending It was going to be his citing effect. check book’ " aald Scruton. through his teeth "But I beard him trying to Net a Nation of Singer*. cock It inside his drawer. There was In this country, though « • havs pro his special constables truncheon duced many fine voices, as have never banging on th* wall— silver mounted, become a nation of singers. T te rs a:«, 'or all the world to know bow he'd it is true. In most of ths lead.ng cities stood up for law and order in the sight choral societies, but ths singing of of men! 1 tell you tt was a Joy to largs groups of people Is comparative feel the weight of that truncheon, and ly uncommon among us Hers Is a to see th* hero of Trafalgar Square matter for regret, for among all Largu fumbling with e thtng be didn't un bodies of singers a hers there has been derstand' I hit btrn ss hard as God more or less training ths effect Is beau would let me— and ths rest you know tiful and Inspiring In fact, there are — except that I nearly did trip over few things in music more Impressive the man who swore It was broad day than th* singing of hundreds e< light at the tim e!” rote**. He tottered to the folding door* and stood there a moment, pointing to Throttling • Scourge. Caialet with a hand that twitched as Prediction is mad* by government terribly as h!s dreadful fa c * health officials that in a few more "N o — the rest you did—the rest you years typhoid fever will be s.moet aa did to save what * u a t worth see rare as smallpox This prophecy is !ng' But— I think— 111 bold out long based on the rapidly increasing uss of enough to thank you— Just a U tile!" ths vaccine and consequent Immuattu- He was gone with a gibbering emtle j Uon of entire localities from the die- Casalet turned straight to Toye at 1 It means barren and burned tuo un tains and dreary deserts mingled with forested and watered siepe*, grassy I’-anoe and pampas and fioweriag sa vacnaa It mease ths mixing of slmoet tor » 'ten aboriginal ra.es sed surviving lu d '*« types » th ths isie.ieciual and r e ir * d descendants of oarly Spaniards and Por .g-.eee and Lbs ist#.- sprin kling of sdvratureuomu German* italiana English and Americans It mesas ar. a: ting Inca* rulas, aid , Moorish sad Spanish architecture 11 tbs «leaping cltlos and towns wtu strongs peoples and conditions barb ing back to far centuries, hard by l new ciTilltattoa, modern shyesrmpen and boulevards ta growing sommereta entrepots and ambitious capitals wltl progressive peoples and condiucai which rival ths boat that ths old Ess and the sow Wast of North A m e n « Rsgby ecbool waa founded and am- dewed to 1447
