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0 WAR LORD LOSTATSfA BRinSil CLAIM GERMANY’S LOSS IN NAVAL flGHi WAS IKAVIfR WORLD’S DOINGS NEWS ITEMS Of CURRENT WEEK About Oregon Of General Interest London— The British admiralty Mon day issued a statement saying there was the strongest ground for the be- ' lie f that the British navy in the bat tle with the Germans off Jutland last week had accounted for a total o f 18 | German men-of-war, and that there was nothing to add to or substract from the original announcement o f the British losses. The statement gave the German losses as two batttleships, two dread naught battle cruisers, four light 1 cruisers, nine torpedo boat destroyers and a submarine. The pessimism which prevailed as a Live News Items of All Nations and result o f the adm iraltiy's original statement of losses, which is consid Pacific Northwest Condensed ered to have bc-?n needlessly candid for Our Busy Readers. and conservative in underestimating the extent o f the German losses, as Warship Hampshire Car compared with those o f Great Britain, has been greatly lessened by the latest | Thn mayor of Boise, Idaho has been rying Minister and Staff statement. ousted by recall. A dispatch from Copenhagen says Sunk by Mine or T o r Austrian troops are aiding the Ger rumors are current in Hamburg that pedo— All L ost two additional German warships be mans in the Verdun battle. sides those announced in the German Carranza's note demanding with communication the battleship West- drawal o f American troops is consid- falen and the battle cruiser Lutzowd— ered offensive at Washington London — Adm iral Jellicoe, com were Bunk in battle. A wireless dis Tw enty persons were killed or mander o f the British grand fleet, has patch received here Saturday from reported to the admiralty that the Berlin said the German admiralty ad wounded in an outbreak at Maracaibo, Venezuela, against General Garcia, British cruiBer Hampshire, with Earl mitted the loss of the Westfalen. Kitchener, British minister o f war, The admiralty statement declares who has been appointed president of and his staff aboard, has been lost off that the German losses in the fight the state o f Zulia. the W est Orkneys. The Hampshire were not only relatively, but absolute The planting of 600 acres o f land in was sunk either by a mine or a tor ly, greater than those o f the British. the Sutherlin, Ore., district to sugar pedo. Adm iral Jellicoe reports there Maintaining its practice o f caution, i beets has been completed and the is little hope that there [were any sur the admiralty still refrains from g iv growing crop is considered one o f the vivors. ing the names of the lost German 1 best pros|iects in the Northwest. Eari Kitchener was on his way to ships. Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles, o f Los Russia. The names o f the members The official list o f the casualties o f Earl Kitchener’ s staff have not yet among officers shows that hardly a Angeles, has been elected president of been learned. Sir W illiam Robertson, single officer o f the line escaped from the General Federation o f Women’s chief o f the imperial staff, is in Lon the British cruisers Bunk in the battle. i Clubs by a large majority, defeating ; Mrs. Samuel B. Sneath, of Tiffin, O. don. An additional casualty list o f petty Accompanying Earl Kitchener as his j offloerM shows that 43 o f them were A resolution asking the President to staff were Hugh James O Breine, for- SHVWj f rom the Queen Mary, Invinci- report on the restrictions imposed by mer councillor o f the British embassy |,|e< Fortune, Ardent and Shark. None the belligerent nations on importations at Petrogad, and former minister at W|tl) 8ave<j from the Indefatigible, De- ! o f food supplies for suffering inhab Sofia; O. A. Fitzgerald, Earl Kitch- f en8ei m a(.|< Prince, Tipjterary, Turbu- itants o f Poland was adopted by the ener's private m ilitary secretary; )ent Norna(J or Nestor. j senate. Brigadier General Ellershaw and S ir __________________ _ Contracts totaling $150,000 and in- Frederick Donnldon. \ volving approximately 3000 tons of Admiral Jeliicoe’s report to the ad- : (jfpflt Oriental Freight CafPO m iralty follow s: . . . . ® „ ., cherries, . , gooseberries, strawberries, Brief Resume of General News from All Around the Earth. Earl Kitchener Goes Down With Ship. UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHEL1 ON WAY TO RUSSIA - I have to report with deep regret I iffld SdQ ErantlSlO Pier Blim ° KHnbtrr,0H- * W le*- I * a™ * " d p™ nea' that His M ajesty’ s ship Hampshire, ______ b“ ve m* de b> the balem- ° re- Captain H erbert J. Savill, R. N.. with _ _ ... „ j Fruit Union. t i lt '* t . . tr . .. San rrancisco— Francisco— r F iv ive e thousand ton«: tons . . . . . . . , . ~ , Lord Kitchener and his stair alx>ar<l, # . . . - A Herlin dispatch to the Copenhagen ... , . i . u . l o o r f frieiiht .... friegh t from the Orient, which was sunk Monday at about 8 p m U. were wcre unloaded un|oltl)e<i Sunday Sunday from fronl the the Shin- shin- ‘ 8" yH t,hat the court wb!ch the west o f the Orkneys either by a yo Maru Maru No. N q 2, a ¿ a|imneae freigh ter. h? Preliminary examination Japanese freighter, mine or a torriedo. * , .. . . J _ ! , ... o f Dr. Karl Liebknecht. the Socialist and a concrete pier recently erected by •Four boats were seen by observers (hu .... ..... h decided that he should be pun- . . . .. T, , i the state at the mouth o f Islais Creek, ; I*“ 11" : on shore to leave the ship. The wind destrnved in a inectacular bla/c IBhe<i for trea8on- whs north northwest and heavv seas wtro uestroyea in a B|M.ciaiuinr maze .’ „ , , , , , of unknown origin here early Monday. The Cologne Volks /eitung says it is were running. a ro vesse s a i< <« The Shinyo and the General Forbes, reported, although not confirmed, that s royers h once pro<ee e< o « s|>o ano^her freighter, which were tied to King Victor Emmanuel and his special an a par y was sen a onK^^‘ ^ oaa^ jj the pier, were slightly damaged before staff have departed from the Italian search, but only some 1 they could be removed from the fire's general headquarters at Udine on ac- capsized boat have been found. As reach. Steamship men said the loss count o f the Austrian offensive and re- the whole shore has been searched would reach dose to $800,000. j tired to Venice. from the seaward I greatly fear that The Shinyo arrived Wednesday, hut P rio rity o f invention o f the hydro there is little hope o f there being any the cargo was not touched until Sun aeroplane was awarded by the District survivors. day, when its owners granted the de Supreme Court o f Washington, I). C., “ N o report has yet been received mands o f the striking longshoremen. to A lb ert S. Janin against Glenn II. from the search party on shore. H. The boat was emptied at 11 o ’clock M. S. Hampshire was on her way to I Stindn v n iv h t t h r e e hours b e fo r e th e Curtiss, on the ground that Janin had cmaniisneti a uaie oi conception tnree fire started. years ahead o f Curtiss. T w o coal barges and several box Pierre Dreyfus, son o f Commandant cars were also damaged. One o f the barges, the Melrose, the largest on the Alfred Dreyfus, o f the famous “ D rey hay, which was tied to the pier, d rift fus Affair, ” who has been serving on ed out into the stream with her cargo the Verdun front as second lieutenant ablaze when her moorings burned. She in the artillery, has just been cited in bumped another coal barge, which was the orders of the day for having “ par- anchored off the pier. Both burned | ticularly distinguished him self during ! freely until fire tugs flooded the coal. I the violent engagements o f F’ ehruary ifted [ 26, 27 and 28’ ’ in the battle o f Verdun, Peking— Yuan Shi Kai, president o f Later the two broke loose and drifted the b**y bay with the Chinese republic, died Tuesday. I | “ down 0* » «■«« with their cargoes Representatives in congress from Prem ier Tuan Chi Jui immediately •mouldering. Tugs caught up with woman suffrage states at a special advised Li Yuan Hung, the vice presi them off the Ferry building. hearing before the house judiciary Several narrowly esca|>ed dent, o f his succession to the presi committee insisted on a report on the burned. Customs Lieutenant Patrick dency. | Susan B. Anthony amendment for Yuan Shi Kai had been ill for sev Barrett and a pier watchman were on j woman suffrage, so that the issue may the pier when the fire started. The be squarely voted on. A number of eral days with stomach trouble, which was followed hy a nervous breakdown. I flames spread rapidly and drove the j members opposing suffrage le ft the i two men aboard the F ’orbes. room, and the committee was confront- Quiet prevails in the capital. The When the lire broke out, Japanese 1 death o f the president apparently no quorum. swarmed from the Shinyo's forecastle solves the heated political problem. Annett and W C. Reddy, i and spread over the ship, seeking ref- I W illiam Li Yuan Hung’s succession to the | who had been prospecting and trapping preaidency meets the demands o f the uge. One jumped overboard, but his matea hauled him hack on a life pre on the Arctic Ocean for years, arrived leaders in the Southern provinces. at Dawson and enlisted in the Cana server. F'rom nearby cities and from far out dian army fo r service in Europe. Set- British Lose Late Gains. at sea the sheets o f fire and the glare ) ting out months ago, the men tramped British Headquarters in F'rance — could be seen. The blaze was the j for hundreds o f miles across ice and The British and Germans are fighting most s|iertacular and destructive that through snow from the Arctic shores hard in the region of Ypres, where last has visited the local waterfont in to F’ ort Yukon, and there awaited the lin t steamer to Dawson. Saturday the Brtiish in hand-to hand years. encounters recaptured most o f the Beginning June 1 and henceforth Shackleton Relief Fixed. trenches the Germans had taken from during the continuance o f the war and Iwmdon — Plana for the relief of them peviously in the sector from the until peace is declared all places li- Ypres-Comities canal to Hooge Point. Lieutenant Sir Finest Shackleton, i censed for the sale o f liquor in the In the face o f re|x*ated attacks the [ who, with several o f his men, is rna- province o f British Columbia must British have been unable to retain the ! monad in the Antarctic, were com I close at 10 o'clock p. m. and must not bulk o f the recaptured ground, but still pleted at a meeting o f a committee of open until 11 o'clock next morning, are fighting strenuously to keep what the Royal Geographical society. A except in the case o f Saturday, when they have and to recapture what they relief ship w ill sail from London hy they must close at 10 p. m. and remain have lost. August 1 for Weddell Sea by way of shut until 11 a. m. Monday, PRESIDENT CHINESE REPUBLIC IS DEAD b e ln > r J Flood Menaces Wichita. Wichita, Kan. Packinghouse whia- tles sounded warnings to citizens Tues day night to flee to high grounds Fivery policeman in the city, the entire fire department and every available boat and motorcar were pressed into service to rescue fam ilies marooned along the creeks in the northern part o f the city. The L ittle Arkansas river le ft its banks and is flooding a large portion o f the city as the result o f a heavy rainfall. The rainstorm was general throughout Western Missuori, Eastern Kansas aial Oklahoma. $711,828 Awarded Indians. Waahington, D. C. — Judgment against the United States for $711,828 was rendered by the Court o f Claims in favor o f the M ille lair tribe of Chippewa Indians, Minnesota, in con sideration o f landa and timher taken by the government, homesteaders ami the state o f Minnesota. The judgment is basest on an award to the Indiana of credit for 31,692 acres o f land and $2f>2,S18 on account o f value o f timber cut from the land* with interest. Pablo L o p *t Is Executed. Chihuahua City. M ex.— Pablo Ixvper, V illa 's chtrf lieutenant in the raid up on Columbus. N. M., Tuesday paid the penalty for his crimes. He faced a firing squad o f constitutional 1st» sol diers at Santa Rosa Huenoa Aires and the F'alkland Islands. The ship probably w ill follow the plan o f the Aurora, the auxiliary bark o f the Shackleton expedition, which drifted from her moorings, and w ill be fitted out in Buenos Aires. Secretary Classifies Lands in Whitman National Forest F ifty men ended a 72-hour battle Marines Are Reinforced. Tuesday extinguishing a forest fire San Diego, Cal.— The Fourth re g i that burned 300 acres arid threatened Italians Reputes Attack. ment o f Marinea, stations«! here, has the town of Gascon, N. M. F’orestry Rome Austrian attacks in the lai- left for New Orleans, where it w ill officials report nine fires this spring in garma valley, where a vigorous at embark for H aiti and Santo Domingo the Santa Fe national forest alone, tempt wae made to carry the import on the transport Hancock. It is un- which they say were at arte, I by human ant Italian positions at Coni Zugna, derstisx! the Fourth regiment w ill sup agencies. Approxim ately 3000 acres were repulsed with heevy losses, the plement the marines already on duty were devastated. Another fire la re war office announces. | in the turbulent island república. i ported in Pecos county. A Story of the French Legion in A lgiers Portland- Announcement is made by j the district forester, George H. Cecil, I Portland, Ore., o f the classification, by the secretary o f Agriculture, of practically all the lands within the boundaries of the Whitman national SYNOPSIS. forest in north eastern Oregon. A net — 10““ area o f approximately 879,218 acres is Sylvia Omney, her lover. Richard Far- quhar, finds, has fallen In love with Cap embraced in this classification, and a tain Arnaud of the Foreign Legion. In Captain Sower's room Farquhar forces small area of 2742 acres is le ft for ex Sower to have Pttraiuu'g 1 O. U 's re amination later. turned to him. Farquhar is helped to his rooms by Gabrielle Smith. Sower deuiai.aa The Whitman national forest lies in an apology. Refused, he forces Farquhar to resign his commission in return for the Blue mountains, and, according to possession of F arquar’s father’s w rit the report, consists mainly of a large ten confession that he had murdered Sow er’s father. Gabrfelie saves Furuuhar body o f positive forest land. The re from suicide. To shield Arnaud, 8yivla’s fiance. Farquhar professes to have stolen port shows that there is a stand o f war plans and tells the real culprit why did so. As Richard Nameless he Joins about four billion feet of valuable com he the Foreign l egion and sees Sylvia, now Mme. A.naud, meet Colonel Destlnn. mercial timber within the forest, fifty Farquhar meets Sylvia and Gabrielle. and per cent of which is western yellow learns from Corporal Goetz of the col- onel's cruelty. Arnaud becomes a drunk- pine. There is also a considerable ard and opium smoker. Sylvia becomes friendly with Colonel Destlnn. Arnaud stand o f young tim ber and inferior becomes jealous of Farquhar. Farquhar, guard ut a villa where a dance Is In species which has a high value fo r wa on progress, Is shot down by Arnaud. A r naud justifies bis insanely Jealous action tershed protection for the streams , to Colonel Destlnn. Arnaud goes to a dan- which are uesd for irrigation OUtside cliig girl who loves him for comfort. f • • the national forest. This forest, it is Baid, has little ag Opium is a deadly drug, but it j makes men dream away their i ricultural value, and isolated, scattered Jives In a sort of artificial peace. J tracts only could be used for farm pur Burdened with the grief of de- J poses. The soil, although fertile, is sertion, racked by disease that ? rocky and shallow, and although rec ords are meager, the rainfall is known j is fatal, buffeted by fate and * to vary from 10 to 40 inches, the snow- j thoroughly disheartened, a mid- J fall from 20 inches to 30 fe e t— in the f dle-aged man smokes opium to r higher altitudes the snow comes as , keep his senses deadened. Do | t late as mid-June or as early as the J you think his action justified? last o f August; the killing frosts oc- I cur every month in the year. The C H A PTE R X— Continued. temperature is also known to vary from 30 degrees below zero to 1201 *'i tried to kill him,” he said quietly above. Practically the entire forest is at elevations from 4000 to 10,000 but distinctly, “ and I mean to kill him. feet. The topography is rough, char That is the only change.” "Is that any change? Has it taught acterized by deep, precititous canyons, and jagged peaks. Although over 70,- your fair, pure young w ife to love and 000 acres o f alienated land exist with honor yon?” He ground his teeth to in the forest boundaries, taken up un gether without answering, and she der the homestead and timber and went on, her voice grown suddenly stone acts, it is claimed that most at harsh and contemptuous. "You are a tempts at agriculture have proven fa il fool. Desire. You are a fool, like all ures, and a large |>er cent o f the pri men. What Is there In this one wom vate lands have eihter been abandoned an that you should care? She Is pretty, or are being held for their tim ber and hut others are prettier. I have seen grazing value. her, for it amused me to have a glance In view, therefore, o f these circum at the wonder who could drive two stances, and with the exception of men to the devil. And wtiat Is she? A small isolated tracts, aggregating 2742 charming doll with a child's eyes and acrea le ft fo r later examination, the a sparrow’s brain. What else— ” secretary has classified the entire area The girl rose. She took one of the o f the Whitman national forest as long-stemmed pipes from the table and chiefly valuable for forest purposes lighted It at the brazier. The red em and not suited to agriculture or list- bers glowed up on to her fact, where able under the act o f June 11, 1906. | was written a somber Inscrutable bit terness. She came back and placed the pipe In his inert hand. 27-Year Wait Is Rewarded. "T h ere!” she said simply. “ That Is Marshfield — G eorge W. Suydam, wbat you have come for. Forgetful ness.” *iiu nas a secret preparation for pre He nodded. Silently bp cowered back serving woods, waited 27 long years before realizing on his knowledge of among the ragged cushions and with . , , „„ „ half closed eyes began to smoke. In chemicals. Nearly 30 years ago Mr. (l„. hove, there waa p,.rfect sllence A i Suydam, who is a resident o f Den- the minutes passed the subtle magic mark, Curry county, prepared with his perfume sleeping beneath the rank process a number o f different woods sweetness awoke, the lurking dreams and placed them away with woods of the same variety to see what time would do with each o f his keepsakes. Now that the woods have been ex amined and passed upon by experts, it is found that those which were treated 27 years ago are as well preserved as when they were put away, while the wood which was not treated has rotted away and decayed. L. E. Swan, o f Detroit, Mich., hear ing of the successful preservative, came to Curry county and, after an investi gation, purchased a half interest in the secret process and w ill finance its exploitation. Voters Order Irrigation. V a le — Land owners in the Malheur valley voted 84 to 11 Saturday to or ganize an irrigation district, which contemplates construction o f a dam at Riverside, holding 200,000 acre-feet o f water. Government engineers have reported it to be the most feasible and cheajiest project in the West and 26,- 000 acres o f new lantl w ill be put un der cultivation. Ten thousand acres are owned by the Oregon Western Colonization «-om- pany, of St. Paul. Directors are George McLaughlin, R. FI. Weant, James Harvey, C. W. Mallett. A. W. Trow, and treasurer, T. W. Ilalliday. The United States cruiser Tennessee has arrived at Santo Domingo from Stockmen Plan Picnic. Norfolk with several humirtnl marines Carlton— A t a m eeting o f the exe to reinforce the American f«irees now cutive committee o f the Carlton Board engagtai in p«>licing the republic. of Trade, there were present a number Attended hy members o f the Y ale o f brc«-ders o f fine st«>ck and a tempor Corporation, the faculties o f the vari ary organization o f the Carlton Stock- ous departments, members o f the stu men's Picnic association was made and dent laxly, and distinguished alumni, preliminary arrangements were made the funeral o f Rev. Timothy Dwight, to hold the first annual picnic in Carl ex-president o f Y ale University, was ton on Saturday, June 17. The stock- helii Wednesday from Battle chapel on men and the board o f trade are co-oper the college campus. ating in arranging for the picnic. 1‘almer H. FMIengsen was killed near There will be barbecued beef, mutton Tacoma. Sunday, when struck above anti pork, and the usual picnic dinner the heart with a pitched ball during an provided. Alaska Flood Takes Span. Nome, Alaska Ojien water in Ber ing Sea was visible Monday for the first tim e since Novendier 12. The Unite«! States coast guard cutter Bear is experte«i to arrive next week with mail. A freshet in Snake river, which winds through Nome and empties into Bering sea, destroyed the bridge across the stream, demolished many bulkheads and damaged vessels o f the amateur baseball game. He died al mosquito fleet. Warm weather in the most instantly. interior sent a torrent o f water down The sessions o f the 27th General the river under the ice, which was lif t conference o f the Methtxlist Episcopal ed suddenly. church, held at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., during the last four weeks, were Ice Sweeps Alaska Town. conclude«! We«ines«iay. Nome, Alaska Council C ity was al Ia><> by Secretary Tumulty, employes most completely swept away by float ing i«-e cakes from the Neukluk river of the W hite House w ill march in the late Sunday. Many buildings in the preparedness parade on Flag Pay. President W ilson probably lower part o f the town were demnl- June 14. ; ished. The ice jammed in a canyon a will review the parade. short distance below the settlement, An auto occupied by four persona causing the water to back up, and, with plunged over a 26-foot embankment ita burden o f heavy ice, to flood the near Gaston. Oregon, turning a com streets. A blizzard raged here also, plete somersault, landing righWjnde-up and sluicing operations which began a without injuring either «if the persons. few days ago, were suspende«!. T h e Red M i r a g e Road Fund Contributed. Dallas- In an effort to secure the location of the West Side Pacific H igh way through M cMinnville, Am ity, Per- rydale, and Dallas, a joint meeting has been held between the automobile clubs of M cMinnville and Dallas. Citizens o f Perrydale and vicin ity raise«! $2500 by contribution to improve the road be tween Perrydale and the Yam hill coun ty line. The Polk C«mnty Court met this contribution with an offer o f 1600 yards o f rock, together with the sum o f $2500 to improve the road between Dallas and F’errydale. Bankers Organize Group. Ashland - Organization o f Group 4, Oregon State Rankers' association, embracing Jackson, Klamath, Curry, t.akr and Josephine counties, was per fected here this week and adjourrwxi, after electing J. W McCoy, cashier First N'athmal Bank o f Ashland, chair man; W. H Gore, o f Mtxiford, vice chairman; Marshall Hooper, Grants Pass, secretary and treasurer. M eet ings will be held semi-annually. B y I. A. R. W Y L I E «All r 1*1.1, reserved. The Robbs-MernU C o .) “ Madame. It’s Abou-Yakoud who necessary to play comedy.” be an ventures before you," be said In bis swered with brutal directness. "You soft Arab F'rencb. “ Abou-Yakoud, had my note?” "Y es— ” She crimsoned and faltered wbo has seen Mecca aud who reads Destiny as an open book. Give me and be swung himself to tbe ground, your baud, madame. For a little franc, looping the bridle over his w rist "W e must get away from the crowd.” I will tell you good and evil— wbat he said in the same"curt, imperative was aud what is to come.” Sylvia Arnaud started slightly and tone. " I t Is fairly quiet behind the mosque. Take my arm. Tbe rougli turned. “ You shall not come In here.” she ground Is excuse enough.” “ I f anyone saw us they would said impatiently, aud yet not without a childish touch of hesitation. "B eg think—" I "Nothing that Is not true, madame.” Now he gone!” 1 ging is forbidden. She hesitated, half resentful, half She tossed a handful of mouey on to I | the white stone flags. Each coin rang afraid. “ I am beginnlug to ask myself what out like a note o f jangling laughter, which still echoed after her as she Is the truth, colonel.” “ That is what I have come to tell passed iuto the shadows o f the gate- you.” day. They walked on. Overhead, from the Abou-Yakoud bent and gathered the high towers o f the moaque, an Arab nickel pieces from the ground. When chant drifted down to them through be looked up again be stood straight the quiet air— and ertH-t, nnd the heard had vauish«td. " I extol the greatness o f tbe Lord, "G abrielle!" be said softly. o f God tbe most high— ” She turned a little. Tbe warm gold They were quite nlone now. On o f evening was on her face aud soft- their right tbe white walls sheltered eueil tbe stern lines to a mild aad noble sereulty. “ I know.” she sold. “ Your voice betrayed you. And then— sooner or later I felt that you would come, though for what purpose God knows.” I “ Let us hope he does not.” he an swered sardonically. “ I am here on my own busiuess, nnd my own busi ness has no sanctity abont it. I must | keep eontro. If 1 am to win through to tbe things I want." “ The things you want!” she echoed with deep sadness. “ What are they now, Stephen?” He knelt on tbe marble edge o f the fouutaln and caught her hand. “ Gabrielle!” be repeated hoarsely. "G abrielle!" She looked down at him. Her free hand she laid quietly upon his. "You are cruel to yourself," she said. “ Why have you come, Stephen?” "God knows. I have lied so much In all these ghastly years, Gabrielle. I have lietl most o f nil to my own con science. I have called you an episode — a folly. I have heaped contempt ou you, on my memory of you, nnd al ways you have risen ns now— the one pure thing that I have loved, my one virtue, my own fidelity—” "Hush, St«qiheu, we have buried our dead.” "You hav<!— I ennnot. I tried. At first it was remorse that would not let mo— the knowledge that I have ruined PeCtTo« you—dishonored you— ” "That ts not true," she Interrupted rAcrm/qt-" proudly. "N o- woman— no man— has ever lieen dishonored by one action. Honor Is not a possession to be lost or broken. It Is ourselves— wbat we are. I f you bud dishonored me I should be dilten-nt: but I am not different. I have grown stronger—that Is all. I see clearer. I am happy." "Happy? And your name— your po- sitlou—your people— all lost!" She smiled 'ainlly. “ Those griefs are old and healed. Stephen. 1 Lave a name and a posi tion. They are my own, and 1 am a little proud o f them. I owe you my knowledge of m yself nnd my own strength—some hours’ Illusion, n broad er outlook, a deeper understanding of other women’s failures. Let that suf fice between us— ” " I ennnot.” He sprang up «vltb a wild gesture o f protest. " I t Is not re morse that haunts me. I am not tbe man to feel remorse. I half loved and half despised you. Then—that night when I came back aud fou nl that you knew me for wbut I was— u liar, n cheat, a common spy. to lie bought nnd sold hy every mail—nnd had left me on the very eve o f my atonement to yon—then 1 knew my own mnduess F’ rom that hour I wanted you.” “ It’s too late. Stephen." she said, "too late. I have buried my dead, dear. I cannot call the dead to life. W e are free and we stand aloue. We must go our ways. Stephen.” " I won’t plead. Gabrielle. | know you better." Then suddenly he turned and stumbled blindly iuto the dark ness of tbe passageway. "Those Griefs Are Old and Healed, Stephen.” them; to the left the open sunscorcbed plateau. Colonel DestlDn stood still and fat ed his companion. “ W ell,” be said, "have you notblDg to say to me?” “ I?” She lifted her lustrous brown eyes to bis In simple luqulry. “ What should I have to say?” "Your husband is safe." “ Oh, Desire! Yes, I bad forgotten about it almost. It was an nccideut. He thought I was about to be attacked. He Is so nervous and excitable, anil the night was dark. He explained It all— " "Yes. Captain Arnaud explained everything." There was a block of stone beside him and he set bis foot upon it. leaning forward so that their faces were on a level. "Madame A r naud! Do you really thluk I believe you or lu you? Xly child. If your lius- Iniud had acted ns you say. he would have been caabiered for an intoxicated lucapable; but lie gave me bis expla nation. It was an explanation which men among themselves— some men— understand mid accept— madness on account o f a woman. I let your hus- Itnnd go free. Do you thank me?" 8he made uo answer. The graceful knowl edge of her power was gone. Her eyes hung on his with tbe blankness o f n will In abeyance. "You do uot thank me." he went on deliberately. “ You ” 1 Tried to Kill Him,” He Said Quiet would like to. You would like to play ly but Diatinctly, "and I Mean to the role o f the faithful wronged wife. Kill Him.” But I am the one person before whom and fancies came out from among you ennnot act, either to yourself or to C H A P T E R XI. their shadows and mured lightly to others. I have seen through you, aud and fro iu the brightening circle of your little shallow soul knows It. All Behind the Mosque. firelight. Arnaud smiled wistfully at artifice between us Is useless. Do uot Colonel Destlnn rode through Sldl- move— stay there!" He caught her them. Little by little the terrible line* of pain drawn about bis feature* be I-Abbes, and many o f those he hands aud held them in a grip o f lrou. passed, leaving them a white peace passed looked after him. One or two A sigh broke from bis loosely parted o f his observers were soldiers wearing lips. a red and blue uniform of the legion. W ill Sylvia be strong enough They saluted first nnd grimaced only "S ylvia —S y lrls — my w ife— " to resist the fierce fire of sen HI* bead dropped back—the strange- a fter a Cautious Interval. sual temptation which Colonel “ Nora d’tiu Petard! Will the devil stemmed pipe *llpp«-d from bis power- Destlnn holds to her scorching lex* fingers and fell with a soft Hind | nev«>r grow old?" soul? W ill the fall into a moral to tbe floor. The woman bent over him I Women looked after him— Arab abyaa? and kissed him. A single tear, drawn women from Iwhlnd mysterious veils, from a well o f savage pity, had J and F!uropeans— all with the same fem dropp«xl on the untroubled brow. Inlne Interest in what Is strong. F’ or CTO B E C O N T IN U E D ) "tloil o f our fathers." she whispered l Colonel D«mtinn sat his horse with from between clen«-b«*d teeth. “ Tbou I grace nnd «vise, nnd the slight erect Saved From Bull by Watch. knowest I am bad— rotten to the heart figure carried the yt*nrs lightly. How John F. Beck o f New Providence —but thou knowest also I am uot so | many the years were no one knew. owes his life to a watch which be wore bad a* the woman who sent this man Thus he rode slowly through tbe when he was attacked by a bull while to me.” pleasant shad«xl avenues, sklrtlug tbe driving the cows and the bull Into the she knelt down, and with her dark ' nigger qnsrter. till he reached the stable. The animal auddenly turned head against the sleeper's knee plateau. There he drew rein, bis keen on him and knocked him down and be ryrs sw w ping the low girdle o f olive gan to horn him. Tbe horn waa Im watch«*! and waited. All was quiet. But on the other trees and clustering native hovels to bedded in the watch and the animal side o f the curtain an Arab crouching the far side, where the mosque rose up was driven off by a farmhand. T ae beside the braxler awoke. There was In stately purity against the turquoise watch acted aa a shield.— Philadelphia Through the graceful archway a Inquirer. a slight smile about bis lips as though sky bis dreams had brought him food for double line o f Arabs drifts,! backward a muse, I reflection, and with a quick and forward In a soft flowing, un Pineapple Industry Large. glance at his mot Ion less companion he broken stream o f worship, and sudden The pineapple production of the Ha- got up and slipped out Into the street ly Colonel I«estinn set spurs and gal It was now toward evening and the loped over tbe hard day. scattering the | w&tian Islands for ISIS will approxl- { mate 2.500,000 cases of rteased product, great heat o f the day was broken. At stragglers to right and le ft a white-walled villa on one o f the so experts report. Y ear« ago the pine "Madame Arnaud!” broad avennea be glided through a She turned with a little start o f sur apple canneries threw away the cores. Moorish doorway into the passage. Be prise. and freeing herself from the ' parings and trimmings aa refuse. Now fore him lay the courtyard where two cumbersome red slippers which en adays the onetim e refuse is convert women talked, tbetr low voices min cased her Infldel fe e t she came to 'd into a mash from which plnaapple gllng musically. At laat be came out meet hint, her hand ou tat ret«* Led tn Juice is extracted, the cores are cut Into tbe ligh t Ills manoer was In gracious welcome. into rubes and used in the manufac imitable In Ita suggested homage and "W hy. Colonel Destlnn! T oo !” ture of glace fruit, and no part c f the a baud red unspoken flatteries. ’ There * no one here for whom It la , pineapple la loau
