Irish Countess Sentenced to Jail for Life.
BIG PARADE VOICES
l). S. PREPAREDNESS
About Oregon
T h e Red M i r a g e
Equality in Distribution of
State School Money Shown
A Story of the French Legion in A lgiers
O f General Interest
New York Demonstration Has
150,000 in Line of March.
A ll CLASSES IN PATRIOTIC PAGEANT
Twelve Hours of Mankind Pass Re
viewing S ta n d -G re a t Awaken
ing Is Shown by People.
N ew York— N ew York expressed its
attitude on the question o f national
preparedness Saturday by holding the
greatest civil parade in the history of
the country. An almost countless host
o f men and women, estimated at more (
than 150,000, representing all walks;
o f life in the nation’ s metropolis,
marched for 12 hours, 20 abreast, be- j
hind bands playing patriotic airs, ;
through dag-bedecked streets lined
with hundreds o f thousands o f cheer
ing spectators.
A ll the professions and trades which
make up the complex life o f the city
were represented.
In one division were the street
Saw Countess at Head o f Irish Rebels.
sweepers in their uniforms o f white,
while in another were the dignified
New Y ork__Dr. Cecil C. McAdam, o f Melbourne, Australia, who was at
justices o f the Supreme court o f New tached to the Koyal medical corps o f the British army during the Gallipoli
York.
campaign and who was besieged in the Shelbounre hotel in Dublin, Ireland,
There also were the clergy— nearly during the recent rebellion there, arrived here Monday on the steamship
200, representing every denomination Philadelphia from Liverpool.
in the nation’ s greatest city.
Law
Dr. McAdam said he saw the Countess Markiewiez attired in men’s cloth
yers, physicians, trained nurses, vet ing and wearing a brace o f revolvers, leading the Irish rebels. He was in
erans o f the Spani“ f>-American war, formed, he added, that she had shot six o f her followers because they re
were in line. Hut the most popular fused to obey her orders.
division was made up o f the c ity ’s 10,- | Countess Markiewiez has been sentenced to penal servitude for life for
000 National Guardsmen — infantry, her part in the uprising in Dublin.
cavalry and artillery who brought up
the rear.
on the war and terrified by the indig-
“ Th is,” declared Major General
j nities and hatred they have stirred up
Leonard Wood, in command o f the de
in mankind, are tryin g today to make
partment o f the East, who reviewed
; the world believe that the eatente al
the parade, " i s the greatest argum ent,
lies alone are responsible for the pro
Am erica has ever known in favor of
Washington, D. C. — A standing longation of hostilities— a dull irony
preparedness against elements that are army of 206,000 men, capable o f being which w ill deceive no one.
at present unknown. It shows an in
“ N either directly nor indirectly have
expanded in emergency to 254,000 and
terest in preparedness that amounts to
| our enemies offered us peace. But we
backed
up
by
a
Federalized
National
a National awakening. This is what
do not want them to offer it to us ; we
we need. I t shows that the time has guard o f 425,000 as a reserve, finally w a iT t h e m t O M k it o f ‘ua. W e do not
come to do something in the matter of was agreed on Monday by the house want to submit to their conditions;
National preparation.”
and senate conferees on the army bill, we want to impose ours on them. W e
The mammoth pageant began au
The agreement w ill be rejiorted to
no* wl4nt a peace which would leave
spiciously.
Just as Mayor Mitchell
imperial Germany with the power to
and a party o f municipal officers left congress at once and the measure, the recommence the war and keep Europe
the city hall at the head o f the first first o f the administration prepared eternally menaced.
division an aeroplane appeared above ness bills, is expected to be before
“ So long as that peace is not assured
lower Broadway and hovered around
President Wilson for his signature to us; so long us our enemies w ill not
the great skyscrapers.
recognize themselves as vanquished,
The paraders marched rapidly, more soon.
we w ill not cease to fight.”
Advocates o f adequate National de
than 10,000 passing a given point
within an hour.
fense regard this conference agree
W ith few exceptions, the marchers
ment as a triumph.
carried small American flags. Most of
The minimum
enlisted strength |
them also wore buttonhole emblems.
would be attained under the conference
Washington, D. C.— Taxes on in
A t frequent intervals came one o f the agreement within the next five years
comes, inheritances and war munitions
200 bands and musicians were the only
and it is stipulated that at no tim e |
w ill be depended on to pay for the
persons in the civic divisions who wore
shall the total be less than 160,000.
uniforms.
program,
Chairman
Tho conference report also provides i preparedness
for government nitrate manufacturing Kitchin, o f the house ways and means
plants to cost not to exceed $20,000,- committee, said Monday after a con
000, for vocational education in the
ference with Secretary McAdoo.
The
regular army and for establishment of
plan
has
the
sup|»rt,
Mr.
Kitchin
said,
m ilitary training camps for volunteer
citizens, whose trans|x>rtation, cloth o f President Wilson.
Chicago— An attack on the plan to ing and subsistence expenses while in
What amount w ill have to be raised
form a woman’s party was issued training would be paid by the Federal cannot lie determined until the navy
Monday by the Illinois Equal Suffrage government.
and army bills are completed.
Mem
association, while officials o f the Con
Other salient features o f the meas bers o f the ways and means committee
gressional Union, promoters o f the ure
__ provide for a board to investigate
^
w ill begin work on this problem as
idea, were o w n in g registration head- the advisability o f establishing govern quickly as possible, however.
Other
quarters at 73 East Washintgon street. | merit munition plants and a hoard to than a decision not to lower the pres
A t the same tim e a campaign was recommend mobilization o f industries. ent exemption lim it for incomes, $3000
launched by the Union with posters, Authority is given to the government for unmarried and $4000 for married
banners and various advertising de to seize and operate private munition men, none o f the details o f the tax
vices to boom the woman’s party con plants in time of war.
plan have been worked out.
vention, which w ill be held June 5, 6
and 7 at the Klackatone theater during
Bandits Make Another Raid.
the tim e the Republican convention is
Marathon, T e x .— Another raid into
in progress at the Coliseum.
Tw evle
American territory by Mexican bandits
woman speakers w ill begin holding
was made Friday night at McKinney
brief meetings at once under the au
Nancy — President Poincare, in an Springs ranch, 67 miles south of Mara
spices of the Congressional Union, on
street corners, in factories or shops, address here Monday, responded to thon and 23 miles north o f Boquillas,
offices, college dormitories and at la Germany's suggestion regarding |>eace, along the Marathon-Boquillas road, ac
contained in the German reply to the cording to H. E. Stafford, an attorney
bor union gatherings.
o f El Paso. Mr. Stafford arrived here
"Confusion
and
duplication
o f ' American note.
to which
“ France does not want Germany to Tuesday from Itoquillss,
work” will lie the effect o f the Con
gressional Union’ s activities in Chi- j tender peace, ” said the president, place he had accompanied Major I.ang-
but wants her adversary to ask for horne last Saturday as a guide.
cago, it is declared in the statement
He secured his information from
issued by the Illinois Equal Suffrage peace.' ’
“ France,” he continued, " w ill not ranchmen in the McKinney Springs
association. The pro|x>sal to form a
party “ on sex lines” is also assailed, expose her sons to the dangers o f new district as he was passing through
The central empires, there en route to Marathon. There was
siul the union is defined as “ a detached aggressions.
haunted by remorse for having brought no shooting, he said.
group o f Eaatern suffragists.”
FOES OF ADEQUATE NATIONAL
DEFENSE LOSF; CONFEREES AGREE
Income Tax to Remain.
Plan to form Woman's Party
Attacked by Illinois Suffrage Society
frame Wants Central Powers to
Ask, Not to Offer, Peace
All Other Flags Taboo.
Tacoma, Wash. None but the Amer
ican flag w ill be allowed in the Me
morial Day parade in Tacoma.
This
action was taken Monday by joint
committees from patriotic bodies in
which they decided that at this time
individual banners o f fraternal socie
ties and the like were not in keeping
with the spirit o f the day.
The veterana believe that the whole
observance should he for the soldier
dead, and as a consequence only the
Stars and Stripes should be carried in
the lines of March.
NEWS ITEMS
More Whisky Being Made by 19 ,-
000,000 Gdlions: Beef Falls O ff
Washington, D.
Notwithstand
ing the fart that prohibition laws have
become effective in seven states since
July 1, 1915, approximately 7,500,000
gallons more whiskey has been pro
duced in the United States so far dur
ing this fiscal year, ending June 30,
than ever before. Returns to the in
ternal revenue bureau approximate the
total increase for the year at 10,000,-
000 gallons.
Rate Rite !a Suspended.
Dominicans Heed Warning
Washintgon, D. C .—Tariffs propos
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
— The warning o f the American min ing increases o f from $5 to $20 a car
ister, W. W. Russell, that the city of in refrigeration charges on fruits aid
Santo Domingo would he taken by vegetables from points in Oregon and
force unless it was given up by the Idaho to points in Colorado, Arizona,
rebels not later than Sunday morning, Illinois and other states were suspend
resulted in the evacuation o f the city ed by the Interstate Commerce com
mission until September 12, pending
Saturday night.
The rebel leaders, soldiers ami rural investigation. The present refrigera
guards stripped the fort o f guns and tion charge to points in Colorado is $40
war materials and withdrew from the » car ami the proposed charges, $45.
city, leaving the civil police in charge | To Arisona the charge is $50 and the
They notified Mr. Russell o f their proposed charge $70. To Illinois the
withdrawal.
rate is $50 ami the proposed rate $60.
Panama Police to Disarm.
Ci.rl Accepts •12.600.
Panama — W illiam K. Price, the
S e a ttlo -T w e lv e thousand five hun
American minister, Monday delivered dred dollars in real money ia lletter
to the Panama government the final de than a gamble that might win $25,00«)
mand for the surrender o f 1200 rifles or nothing. Mrs. Carols B. Jones, the
used by the Panama National Police 19-year-old *» ife c f Thomas C. Jones,
The disarmament o f the police force who obtained a verdict for $25,000
has heen sought on account o f riots against her father-in-law, Thomas E.
which resulted in the deaths o f Am er Jones, for alienation o f her husband's
icana. It ia understood the adminis sfffections, so derided in the Superior
tration ia opposed to the surrender of court here. Jmige Frater offered to
the rifles, but delivered up the arms give her a judgment for $12,600, or
under protest.
I grant a new trial.
That the state and county officials of
Oregon are much more zealous in safe
guarding the school funds than are
lome o f the neighboring Btates is
shown by an investigation Btaited a
short time ago by the legislative com
m ittee o f the state o f Washington
representing the State Federation of
Labor, the Farmers’ Union and State
Grange. The secretary of the commit
tee wrote to State Superintendent J.
A. Churchill calling attention to the
fact that 25 per cent o f the moneys
derived from the sale o f tim ber and
rentals o f the forest reserves is paid
by the Federal government to various
states and that the law provides that
it shall be by them divided among the
counties in which the forest reserves
are situated, and the money expended
for the benefit o f the public schools
and the public roads thereof, and not
otherwise.
A comparison o f the way this money
1 is divided ir. the different states is
quite interesting.
This committee
sent a statement which shows that in
many counties o f Washington all the
money is expended for the benefit o f j
roads, and the schools receive nothing
In some counties a very small sum is
spent for roads and schools and the
balance is “ otherwise” expended.
Superintendent Churchill sent a let
ter to each county o f this state asking
for a statement as to how the money
is expended in Oregon. He has re
ceived letters from nearly all the coun- 1
ties, and in every instance the money
is equally divided between the school
fund and the road fund.
Government Crop Report for Oregon
Washington, D. C.— A summary of
the May crop report for the state of
Oregon, as compiled by the Bureau of
crop estimates, U. S. department of
Agriculture, is as follow s:
W inter wheat— May 1 forecast 12,-
400.000 bushels; production last year
(final estim ate),
16,200,000;
two
years ago, 13,684,000; 1909-13 aver
age, 12,955,000 bushels.
Rye— May 1 forecast, 436,000 bush
els; production last year (final esti
mate), 414,000; tw o years ago, 336,-
000 bushels.
Meadows— May 1 condition 93, com
pared with the ten-year average of 96.
Pasture— May 1 condition 93, com
pared with the ten-year average of 95.
Spring plowing — Per cent done to
May 1, 1916, estimated 89 per cent,
compared with 92 May 1 last year and
84, the ten year average.
Spring planting — Per cent done to
May 1, 1916, estimated 75 per cent,
compared with 86 May 1 last year and
80, the ten-year average.
Hay— Old crop on farms May 1, es
timated 75,000 tons, compared with
120.000 a year ago and 173,000 two
years ago.
Prices— The first price given below
is the average on May 1 this year, and
the second, the average on May 1 last
year:
Wheat, 87 and 116 per bushel. Corn,
85 and 89.
Oats, 39 and 51. Pota
toes, 77 and 77.
Hay, $13.10 and
$9.50 per ton. Eggs, 20 and 19 cents
per dozen.
Timber Sale Approved.
Announcement is made by the Forest
Service that the district
forester,
Portland, Ore., has just approved the
contract for the sale to Brown Bros.,
* Hubbard o f 3,900,000 feet o f timber
on the Crater Lake National forest in
Southern Oregon.
The tim ber is located on Crystal
Creek on the west side o f Klamath
lake and consists mostly o f western
yellow pine, although there is some
sugar pine and other species. The
prices paid for the timber are $3.20
per M feet fo r the yellow pine and
sugar pine, and 60 cents per M feet
for the other species.
Mill Refuses Business.
M a n M a U Frank W. Rehft'lil. a
m yrtle wood manufacturer here, has
more orders than he can fill and had to
turn down u large contract fo r m yrtle
bobbins for spinning mills in Calcutta.
Myrtle wood novelties have become
much sought since they were exhibited
at the San Francisco exposition, and
orders for the wo<xl are being received
from many sections o f the United
States. The Rehfeld plant is now busy
on an order for 1,000,000 auto writers,
a contrivance used in teaching children
During the same period ttie produc- to write.
tion o f beer has fallen more than
Fruit Pest Fight Planned.
1,600,000 barrels, or 45,000,000 gal
lons from last year's figures.
The
Hood R iver— Professor L. F. Hen
total production o f beer for the year derson, form erly head o f the depart
eraling June 30, it is estimated, will
be about 60.000,000 gallons less than ment o f botany o f the University of
Idaho, who has just been appointed
it was in the last fiscal year.
county fru it inspector to succeed H.
An extraordinary increase in the M. Holbrook, w ill wage a campaign
amount o f cigars, cigarettes and to to keep the orchards o f this district
bacco is rep o rt«! for the current year. free from disease pests.
Non-resident
The tax collected during the nine owners w ill be made to clean up tracts
months ending March 31 shows an in that have grown to weeds.
“ It was
crease o f approximately $5,000,000 on gratifyin g to us o f the Upper Valley
tobacco.
community to meet with such co-oper
ation from Professor Henderson.” said
170 Indians Are Citizen*.
Colonel W. F. Tucker.
Greenwood Indian Agency, S. D.—
7000 Acres Reclaimed
Franklin K. lan e, ccrctary o f the in
Klamath Falls — Seven
thousand
terior, has granted full citizenship
rights to 170 residents o f the Yankton more acres o f rich farm lands will
Sioux reservation. Mr. la n e made an soon be add«I to Klamath county's
address in which he urged upon the tillable area, as a result o f the recla
redmen the full measure o f responsi mation operation* carried on by E. P.
bility which has been imixmsed on MeCornaek. a director o f the First Na
them. T itle to 80,000 acres o f land, tional bank o f this city. He ha« been
which has been held in trust for In working on this project for two years,
diana, was transferred to them.
using a large dredger in diking. The
The ceremony was full o f color, land just reclaimed is o f the same type
many o f the Indians appearing in the o f soil as the famous MeCornaek ranch
traditional dress o f the tribe.
near the scene o f the last reclamation
work, which has given exceptional
Islands to Sell Silver.
yields for several year*.
Manila
Jeremiah I . Manning, in-
Mill Burned: Loss •1 6 .0 00
aular treasurer, has gone to China to
Tillamook The Y ellow F ir lumber
investigate the silver market with a
view to selling a portion o f the 20,- mill, 11 mile* south, was destroyed by
000,000 pesos silver which the govern fire one morning this week. The flames
originated in the engine-room from a
ment has at Corregidor.
There was no insurance.
Owing to the demand fo r silver in hot box.
China, which has caused the Chinese The loas is put at $15,000. Some 30,-
government
declare a partial mora- 000 feet o f lumber was burned. The
torium. the
ilver held by the govern- plant w ill be built immediately to fill
ment is salai 1 at a profit o f 35 per big orders ahead, according to Frank
Long, owner.
cent.
B y I. A. R. W Y L I E
(All rights reserved. The Bobbe-Mcmll Co.)
8YNO PSI8.
—
7
—
Sylvia Omney, her lover, Richard Far
quhar. finds, has fallen In love with Cap
tain Arnatid of the Foreign Legion. In
Captain Sower's room Farquhar forces
Sower to have Preston’s I. O. U ’s re
turned to him. Farquhar Is helped to his
rooms by Gabrlelle Smith. Sower demands
an apology. Refused, he forces Farquhar
to reHign his commission In return for
possession o f Farquhar'* father’s writ
ten confession that he had murdered Sow
er’s father. Gabrlelle saves Farauhar
from suicide. To shield Arnaud, Sylvia's
fiance, Furquhar proft-ssee to have stolen
war plans and tells the real culprit why
he did so. As Richard Nameless lie joins
the Foreign Legion and sees Sylvia, now
Mme. Arnaud. meat Colonel Destlnn.
Farquhar meets 8ylvia and Gabrlelle, and
learns from Corporal Goet* of the col
onel’s cruelty.
t
Do you believe In divorce?
What If you came home some
day and learned that your wife
was madly In love with another
man— your employer?
Would
you leave her, or would you
force her to go with you to an
other town and begin all over
again*
:L
C H A P TE R VII— Continued.
smelling street he attracted little no
tice, the more so as dusk had already
set lu and deepened the eternal shad
ows to a concealing darkness. Captain
Arnaud eutered the unguarded door
way. He was evidently on a serious
errand, for be did not appear ngaln.
lustead, some ten minutes later a man
In ragged. III fitting clothes lurched out
on to the pavement and sluuk on
deeper Into the labyrinth o f alleys aud
liglitless passages. H e wore a broad-
brimmed hat pulled well over bis eyes
and a bunch o f roses stuck In bis bnlf-
open coat. He chose a narrow passage
running between two empty bouses,
and felt Ids way over the uueveu flags,
his hands touching either wall to keep
him from stumbling. The music sound
ed nearer.
Abruptly the pnssuge
twisted Into an open square, dimly
lighted, nud the music became a deaf
ening discord o f voices. The contrast
after the dark eastern reticence of the
region behind him was bizarre and
brutal. Ited lanterns had been strung
across from one low-roofed house to
another, and tlielr soft light fell on a
scene which might have heen painted
from a wild dream o f Montmartre. The
place was full. Long tables built a
rough semicircle round a centra! table,
laden with empty bottles nnd chipped,
wlue-stnined glasses. On n free cor
ner n woman sat with folded arms
nnd sang. Her voice was rough and
feelingless, but It harmonized with
what surrounded her— It was like a
shriller note o f the red-tinted utmos-
Instant the mad orgy bad begun again.
Tbe girl looked dowu triumphantly at
the man beside her.
“ They are like sheep,” she said,
laughing. One cau make them follow
any way one wants.”
" I t Is not hard to follow such a shep
herdess,” he returned, lifting Ills hat
with a half mocking, half-admiring d e f
erence.
And It was then that Ills eyes
chanced to meet the eyes of the legion
ary standing by the piano beneath tho
cluster o f red lanterns. No sign of
recognition passed between them. Yet
from that moment onward the noisy
crowd vanished.
Tbe shouts nnd
laughter dissolved Itself Into a swift,
deadly duologue.
Richard Nnuieless
came straight across to the man who
bad worn tbe roses.
“ Captain Arnaud!" he said quietly.
“ I f you say my name again here I
will shoot you down,” was the quieter
answer. "W hat are you doing lu that
masquerade? Spying?"
“ Perhaps. The meeting 1 promised
you has taken pluce. You can't turn
me out o f this company, cun you, Cnp-
tuln Arnaud?”
“ I have told you to leave my unrne
alone. What do you want?”
" I want to know something— what
are you doing here— with that wom
an?”
“ That Is my affair.
"Aud your w ife? This Is the w ay to
tlu- devil."
"T h e way she has driven me.”
"Y ou are a liar and a coward. I
warned you once, and I warn you
ngaln. It would be far better for you
to be dead than that you should drag
her Into misery nnd disgrace. .She be
lieved in you—”
"B elieved?" The hesitancy passed
from Arnaud’s face. H e leaned for
ward; his eyes alight aud deadly with
some sudden flash o f Intention. “ You
have seen her?”
"Y es.”
"You have spoken with her?”
“ Yes.”
Arnaud burst out Inughiug.
He
turned and, catching tbe Jewess In his
arms, kissed her savagely.
“ Good
night— good night! This gentleman Is
sending me home, petite. He doesu’ t
approve of either o f us.” He laughed
and flung her from him so thnt she
stumbled against the table. "That's
my answer, Farquhar.” he said coolly.
“ Good night.”
Someone touched Farquhar ou the
shoulder. He turned.
“ Ah, you. Goetz!”
“ Yes.
Who was that you were
speaking to Just now?”
‘‘Captain Arnaud.”
“ That’s to be regretted. Come, we
must be getting off. It’s near mid
night."
H e slipped his arm through bla com
panion's.
At thnt moment an Arab, who had
been loitering In the background, hts
dirty burnoose drawn over his face,
slipped past them nud disappeared Into
the shadows.
lie lifted her baud to bis lips, his
eyes still ou her face, and, returulng
Arnaud’s salute, strode across the
sunlit courtyard nud disappeared Into
the shadows.
Husband and w ife
watched him In slleuce. Then Arnaud
guve u short, half-angry laugh.
"W hen the devil goes abroad It Is
usually to some purpose,” be suld.
"H o w did be come here?”
’’ I Invited him."
"H e had not called on you.”
She shrugged her shoulders prettily.
“ That was Just what made me do It.
1 was bored and lonely, and bored
and lonely people are bound to do
something mad."
"You are very often bored, Sylvia.”
"Y es,” she agreed. ‘‘ But does that
mean I am very often mad?”
He looked up at her, bis pale eyes
full o f moody wlstfulness. "H o w much
can happen In a year where a woman
is concerned. A year ago you would
not have beeD bored, Sylvia. You
thought then that there waa no more
lovely place on earth than Sldi-txd-
Abbes, and that there was no other
mati for you than myself. Now you
are restless and discontented. You
hate the place and— perhaps your bus
band.” The last words broke from him
with a petulant violence. It wus the
Irritable accusation o f h man who does
not believe what he Is saying nnd ex
pect« contradiction. None came. Syl
via Arnaud's fair head was still bent
over her flowers. He sprang upright,
his face ashy with passion. “ Do you
hate me, Sylvia?” he stammered. She
lifted her eyes for a moment, but not
lo him. In their brown, velvety depths
there were pathos and melancholy In-
flnltely touching.
“ Oh, no, I don't hate you. Desire,”
she said In her soft voice. “ I have
never bated anyone. But you don't un
derstand. How should you? You are
“ What Are You Doing Here With
a man, nud not even a man o f uiy own
That Womafi?”
C H A P TE R VIII.
race. Women are so different. They
live In such a narrow circle, Desire, phere, or the articulate spirit of the
At the Villa Bernotto's.
and their dreams are everything to madness which caught up the refrain
“ Look well, though, don’t I, Miss
them. They hold up Idenls for them nud yelled it back to her In drunken
selves, nnd the whole world Is glorified triumph. She sang the "Marseillaise,” Smith? White Is, after nil, the most
In their eyes. How natural when a her splendid eyes fixed on the red, becoming. But one must have a good
man conies to them they should hall white and blue strip o f bunting nailed skin. Mine Is still quite smooth. No
him ss the consummation o f nil they on the wall opposite, her mouth, even one would think 1 had heen a year lu
hoped nnd fancied— how nnturnl that as she snug, curved 111 a subtle line of this dreadful place, would they?”
' No,” was tlie calm answer.
they should wnke up one day nnd And mockery. A little to her right n Chns
the glorious world a desert nud their ' sour d’ Afrlque crashed out an accom
Sylvia Arnaud considered herself for
Idol* shattered forever.”
paniment on a tinkling piano, which a moment longer In the glass. Then her
“ Have I done that?” She made no quivered under his merciless hands. A eyes wandered past her own reflection
answer, and he sprang at her and zouave, scarce aide to keep his feet, to that o f her companion behind her.
setzod her by the wrist In a paroxysm reeled backward nnd forward, banging Miss Smith, in n pearl gray dress of
of excitement. “ Have I done that? out the rhythm o f a pulr o f cymbals— severe cut. was more than usually un
Am 1 the broken Idol?”
compromising. The soft brown hair
"Allous, eufants de la i ’ntrlt— ”
She released herself with gentle-de They rose like ouc man. ehnsseurs. had been dragged back and smoothed
cision from bis desiierate grasp.
zouaves, a few French legionaries, nnd Into order with a merciless hand, leav
"It's too late. Desire." she said sadly. shouted with tlieir empty glasses held ing the small, oval face without a
"When a man breaks a woman's faith high above tlielr beads.
While they softening line. Sylvia laughed gayly.
It Is always beyond repair.”
sang the woman was silent, her sleek The contrast with her own radiant
She moved away from him to the head with Its massive colls o f smooth, femininity pleased her.
curtained door leading Into the house, I black balr bent so that her face was
"Sometimes I really think you are
but he sprang after her, barring her hidden In shadow. The man with the not a woman at all. Miss Smith,” she
path, bis eyes pleading and full o f a roses crossed the Intervening space nnd said quizzically.
"And now I am
worship that might have touched her. sbxxl oppoelte her. She turned slightly ready.”
"Sylvia, I will do anything. I have and looked at him.
lieen thinking—the Second regiment Is
“ Good eveulng. Mademoiselle Ra
ordered to Tonkin. Shall I exchange? chael."
Look out for that Arab! He'i
It will give you fresh surroundlugx—
spying either for the Jewess, foi
"Good evening, monsieur.”
fresh society. The climate Isu’ t bad
Sylvia or for Colonel Destinn—
"You see, I have come again."
now. Or shall I get leave— I shall
what is your guoss about him
"A fte r nil th«'se months?"
take you to England for a mouth—two
and how do you think ha wil
He nodded.
months—o r we shail travel— ”
act?
"Monsieur is married 7 ’
She flushed suddenly.
"So they say.”
“ It Is not necessary. I do not want
She laughed, throwing back her bead
(TO BE C O N T IN U E D I
to take you from your duty.”
so that the light fell on her bold
His hand dropped from the curtain. Semitic features. He laughed, too, and
Use for the New Daby.
Beneath the half-closed eyelids there held the flowers outstretched. For a
A New Englander who Is a great
flickered two dangerous points o f light. moment she glanced at him with a angler and whose fish stories are lis
"In other words, you won't attempt sharp, suspicious questioning.
tened to most attentively by his elght-
to bridge the gulf that has come be
"W hat does tluit mean, monsieur?” yearold son, recently became a father
tween ua— at your wish, as I verily
“ What It has always meant."
for the fifth time, another boy being
believe. Very well, whatever happens—
brought by the stork.
"Things are to be as they were?"
on your head be IL”
"Yes.''
The eight year-old was told of the
He turned away, and for a moment
She bent and kissed him on either arrival of this new brother, and he
she healtatad, looking back at him like cheek.
was very curious to see him.
The
a child endeavoring to penetrate the
They had sung the refrain for the father took the first opportunity to
meaning o f tome vague threat o f the third time. The zouave had collapsed gratify the lad's curiosity.
The kid
future. Then the curtains fell softly In a corner, and the self appoint«! ac dle gazed at the bit o f red human
behind her.
companist remembered apparently that ity for quite a while, and then, with
Sldl-bel-Abhes baa two great street* he was thirsty. He got up. and with great gravity, he looked Into bla fa
running nor^h to south and east to the last tinkle o f the piauo the singing ; tber's face and said:
weat. In between are tb# little for died Into a mingled hlccuping and
"Dad. he'd make a first-rate halt,
gotten byway*, unknown to the great laughter.
wouldn't h eT '— Harper's Magatlns.
m e« who saunter about the Place Car
Then the girl on the table sprang up.
not llatanlng to the hand, or take their glass In F
1. H er face, lifted to the
Kissing tha Mistletoe.
• balntha on the gaudily decorated cafes red light - js diabolically beautiful lo
B ill—This paper says mistletoe is
' f tha Algerian boulevards. None tb* Its mocking laughter.
proving a peat In the lumber regions
eat these unsuspected byways exist
"You drunken fools!" she ss'ld shrilly. o f the northwest, and steps are being
They are very narrow and very dirty. "Behold. 1 w ill give you a toast which taken by the government foreetry «e rr
Oa the border o f this region liea the you can all drink with a good heart ice to combat I t
Cafe du Tonkin. It la comparatively To the devil who brought us here—
Jill— What's wrong? Do yoq sup
respectable, and occasionally a tourist hurrah!"
pose the men have to marry the girl*
*r newly arrived official under escort
She tossed down the fiery liquid at they kiss?
makes his appearance in the bar In one draft, and her audience answered
order to acquaint himself with what with a wild cheer o f gratitude. Forget
Much Metal Wasted.
be conceives to be the “ real thing." fulness at all costs! One young chas
Tbs waste of metal from coins
Therefore when CapL Desire Arnatid seur started the latest chanson from blng together Is said to amount to
sauntered along tha narrow, eell- the Parisian boulevards, and the next tons of silver annually.
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