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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
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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:
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, 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,
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b“ ve
m* de b> the balem- ° re-
Captain H erbert J. Savill, R. N.. with
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Lord Kitchener and his stair alx>ar<l,
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A Herlin dispatch to the Copenhagen
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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.
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and a concrete pier recently erected by
•Four boats were seen by observers (hu
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decided that he should be pun-
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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
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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
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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
. ,
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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
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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