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
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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