WORLD HAPPENINGS
OE CURRENT WEEK
GERMANS SERVE IN
MEXICAN ARMIES
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
Teutons Said to Be With Both
Carranza and Villa.
M lU D E T M
O F
T1HE
P
A
I L O
N
ETHEL HUESTON
IL L U S T R A T E D BY
W .C .T A N N E
NEW REVOLUTION IS GAINING
COMPILED EOR BUSY READERS
(C o p y r ig h t.
Oil Field« at
E vent« o f Noted People, Government«
Tampico
Protected
and Pacific Northwest and Other
Four Thousand Men in Pay o f
Things Worth Knowing.
Foreigners - Railways Cut.
The tenth pair o f twins are born
in Portland since the first o f January.
by
tbs
B obb s-U errlll
Companys)
THE MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION FORGET THAT
THE PARSONAGE FOLKS NEED MONEY FOR CHRISTMAS,
SO LITTLE CONNIE TELLS BANKER SOME PLAIN TRUTHS
“ What In the world?” she began,
gazing out Into the room, half llghted
by the moonehlue. and »««In g Carol and
Lark ehiverlng beside her bed.
"Sh ! 8b I Hush I” whispered Lark.
T h ere's a burglar In our room I”
By this time, even sound-sleeping
Fairy was awake. “ Ob, there la I” aha
| scoffed.
“ Yes. there la," declared Carol with
some heat. “ W e beard him, plain aa
day. H e stepped Into the closet, didn’t
1 he, Lark?”
“ He certainly did,” agreed Lark.
“ Did you see him?"
“ No, we heard him. Carol beard
him first, and she spoke, and nudged
me. Then I beard him, too. He waa
at our dresser, but be shot across the
room and into the closet He closed
the door after him. He's there now."
“ You've been dreaming,” said Fairy,
lying down again.
“ W e don't generally dream the same
| thing at the same minute,” said Carol
j stormlly. “ I tell you he’s in there."
"And you two great big girls came
j off and left poor little Connie In there
j alone with a burglar, did you? Well,
i you are nice ones, I must say.”
And Prudence leaped out o f bed and
started for the door, followed by Fairy,
with the twins creeping fearfully along
In the rear.
“ She was asleep,” muttered Carol.
“ W e didn’t wunt to scare her,” added
j Lark.
Prudence was careful to turn the
switch by the door, so that the room
i was In full light before she entered.
The closet door was wide open. Con
nie was soundly sleeping. There was
no one else In the room.
“ You see?” said Prudence sternly.
“ I'll bet he took our ruby rings,” de
clared Lark, and the twins and Fairy
ran to the dresser to look.
But a sickening realization had come
home to Prudence. In the lower hull.
Washington, D. C.— German officer»
Mr. Starr, a widower Methodist minister, comes to Mount Mark,
are serving with the armies o f General
la., to take churge o f the congregation there. He has five charming
Germany has released the 72 A m eri
Carranza and General Villa in Mexico.
daughters, the eldest o f whom. Prudence, uge nineteen, keeps bouse
cans who were taken prisoners by the
Information to this effect has reached
and mothers the family. H er younger sisters are Fulry, the twins
German raider in the South Atlantic.
the State department.
As Carranza
Carol and Lurk, and Constance, the "buby.” The futnlly’s coming stirs
The Oregon troops returned from
the curiosity o f the townspeople. A fter a few weeks the Sturrs are
and V illa are enemies, it would seem
the border Wednesday, and on Thurs
well settled. Prudence has her hands full with the mischievous young
that the Germans would offset each
day a great parade was held in Port
sters, but she loves them devotedly despite their outrageous pranks.
other. If, however, the anti-Am eri
land.
It is a joyous household, but the parsonage girls are embarrassed at
can sentiment should force co-opera
Christmas time because the congregation has failed to pay the pastor's
The second daughter o f Senator and
tion by Carranza and V illa— the situa
salary. Little Connie needs clothing, and sadly disappointed, takes
Mrs. Harry Lane, o f Oregon, was mar
matters Into her own hands.
tion German agenta desire— the Ger
ried to Dr. S. D. Hicks, o f Norfolk,
Va., Monday.
man officers would act together in
operations against the United States.
A
bone-dry prohibition bill was
C H A P T E R V I— Continued.
In front o f the First National bank she
passed by the South Dakota house late
The State department also has been
paused, but after a few seconds she
Friday by a vote o f 88 to 10. The
informed that a new revolution is
“ Oh, I had her dressed warmly un passed by. On the opposite corner was
measure now goes to the senate.
making headway in
Mexico.
The derneath, very warmly Indeed," de uuother bank. When she renehed It,
The Washington state senate passes
Tampico oil fields are “ protected” by clared Prudence. “ But no matter liow she walked In without pausing, and the
a bone-dry law which w ill be signed by
warm you are underneath, you look massive door swung behind her.
4000 men, whose chief is well paid by i
M AJOR G E N E R A L FREDERICK F l'N S T O N .
Goveronr Lister.
The bill becomes
cold i f you aren’t visibly prepared for
The four older girls were at the
the foreigners owning and producing winter weather. I kept hoping enough table when Counie came home. She
effective 90 days after the adjourn
the oil. ThiB is in addition to the ex- ‘ money would come In to buy her a exhaled quiet satisfaction from every
ment o f the legislature.
the fleet with everything it may need
; to repel attacks. The navy yards are port tax paid to Carranza.
pore. Prudence glanced at her once,
coat for once In her life.”
One hundred and sixty-six Demo
W ere the Tampico chief supplied
She has been looking forward to nud then looked away again. "She bus
| receiving supplies and being placed in
crats and Republicans in Indianapolis
have been indicted by the Federal Fatal Stroke of Acute Indigestion condition to repair any ships that may with ammunition, it would be a com- one ,ong enough,” put in Fairy. "This reconciled herself,” she thought. Din
paratively easy matter for him to cap
will be a bitter blow to her. And yet ner was half over before Coustuuce
grand jury charged with conspiracy to
Comes at San Antonio.
1 be
and construction.
puah 10 eomf)1‘!tion ture Vera Cruz. He needs cartridges, 1 It Is not such a bad-looklug coat, after burst her bomb.
the damai?e,‘
vessels under
corrupt the 1914 election.
but the embargo applied by the United
all." And she quickly rau up a seam
“ Are you going to be busy this after
States
prevents him from getting
The Minnesota senate has passed the
San Antonio, T e x .— M ajor General
noon, Prudence?" she asked quietly.
on the machine.
Farm
Loan
Bonds
Exempt.
them.
bouse bill submitting to the people a
“ Here comes Connie!” Prudence
“ We are going to sew a little,” said
Washington, D. C. - To correct re
proposed
prohibition
constitutional Frederick Funston, commander o f the
There ia another revolutionary fo r c e '
hastily swept a pile o f scraps out of Prudence. "W h y?"
amendment. The measure would be Southern department. United States ports published in Western states to in the state o f Oaxaca which is ar
“ I wanted you to go downtown with
sight, and turned to greet her little
voted on at the 1918 election, and if army, since February, 1915, died sud j the effect that Attorney General G reg ranging to co-operate with that in the
me after school."
sister with a cheery smile.
adopted would be effective July 1, denly at a hotel here Monday night, a ory had given an opinion holding un- Tampico district.
I f the junction
“ Come on In, Connie,” she cried,
“ Well, perhaps 1 can do that. Fairy
few minutes after he had finished din- I ! constitutional the law exem pting from takes place Carranza w ill be faced by
1920.
ner. He collapsed while seated in the taxation mortgages taken and bonds a large body o f men in addition to with n brightness she did not feel. will be able to finish the cout alone."
Francisco V illa
has disappeared
"You needn't finish the coat— I can’t
lobby o f the hotel talking with friends, issued under the farm-loan system, the V illa ’s army and the troops under Gen “ Fairy and I are making you a hew
from his command after promising his
and was playing with little Inez Sil- Farm Ixian board issued a statement eral Zapata. Railroad connection be coat. Isn’t It pretty? And so warm ! wear father's eoat to church. Pru
men that he would return at the end of
verberg, o f Des Moines, la., a guest, saying: “ The fact is that the opinion tween Vera Cruz and Mexico City is See the nice velvet collar and cuffs. dence. I t ’s a— It's a— physical impos
three months and g ive them some
with her parents, at the hotel, when o f the attorney general declares the frequently cut by the Zapatistas, and W e wunt to fit It on you right away, sibility.”
“ startling” news, according to reports
dear."
The twins laughed, Fulry smiled, but
he fe ll unconscious. Death was almost law perfectly constitutional.
Farm it is no longer safe to go from one
brought to the border by passengers
Connie picked up a piece of the Prudence gazed at "the baby" with
instantaneous.
General Funston was loan bonds are declared to be legally point to the other.
from Mexico.
tender pity.
61 years old.
The administration strongly desires goods and examined It Intently.
and constitutionally exempt from all
“ Don’t you want some fudge, Con
“ I'm so sorry, dearest, hut we haven't
Principal railroads o f the country
Ever since March, 1916, when he taxation. ”
to avoid being drawn again into M ex
have taken summary action to relieve was placed in command o f all United
ico, but it is realized that there is a nie?" exclaimed Fairy, shoving the the money to buy one now."
the shortage o f freigh t cars and the States forces on the Mexican border,
“ W ill five dollars be enough?” In
grave danger point which may become dish toward her hurriedly.
Land Scandal Charged,
Connie took u piece from the plate, quired Connie, und she pluced a crisp
traffic congestion at Eastern seaports, General Funston had worked at an un
menacing as a result o f activities o f
Washington.,
D.
C.—
By
a
new
con
and thrust it between her teeth. Her new bill beside her plate. The twins
again approaching the acute stage be usual pace. A t critical times in bor
German agents.
eyes were still fustened upon the brown gasped! They gazed at Connie with
cause o f the curtailment o f trans-At der developments he frequently re struction o f a law relating to soldiers’
additional
homestead
rights,
announced
lantic sailings by Germany's new sub mained on duty 24 hours o f the day.
furry cloth.
(lay. ,
"
:
, ."
new respect. They were Just wishing
Villa's Voyage is Doubted.
by Secretary Lane, heirs and adminis-
i
marine policy. *
“ Where did you get this stuff?” she they could handle flve-dollur bills so
The handling o f regulars d lisnoseH
El
Paso,
Tex.
—
A
report
that
Villa
,r
j,er
trators
o
f
estates
o
f
C
ivil
w
war
vete
inquired, as soon ns she was able to recklessly.
Pacificists generally and W illiam J. various stations on the borde
rans, other than widows or minor chil- had gone in disguise to the West coast
“ W ill you lonn me twenty dollars un
Bryan particularly were attacked in shing expedition, and o f late, re-ar Ulren and their guardians, are excluded and taken a ship for Japan on a poli speak.
"Out of the trunk In the garret, Con til after Christmas, Counie?” queried
the house by Representative Gardner, rangement o f regular troops, while from the right to acquire public lands. tical mission has been known to Car
providing
for
the
return
o
f
National
nie.
Don’t
you
want
some
more
fudge?
Fairy.
o f Massachusetts, in making reply to
Speculators have made large profits by ranza officers and officials here and in
previous declarations by Representa Guardsmen, have entailed an enor securing letters o f administration on Juarez for several days, Eduardo Sor I put a lot of uuts In, especially on
But Prudence asked, “ Where did you
tive Moore, o f Pennsylvania,
that mous amount o f detail work, probably estates o f soldiers and, says the Inter iano Bravp, the Mexican consul here, your nccouut."
get this money, Connie?”
" I t ’s good,” said Connie, taking an
Great Britain seeks to draw the U n it exceeding that which has fallen to any ior department, “ the appropriation o f said Sunday night.
“ I borrowed It— from the hank,” Con Prudence Dropped Her Head on tha
commanding general o f the United
other piece. She examined the cloth
ed States into the war.
Table and WepL
nie replied with proper gravity. "I
“
V
illa
has
not
been
accounted
fo
r,
public
lands
by
such
means
has
ac-
States army since the C ivil war. Only
very closely. “ Say, Prudence, Isn’t this
have two years to pay It back. Mr.
since he fled to Parrel after his defeat
The first party o f children from the Monday General Funston completed 1 quired the proportions o f a scandal.”
under the staircase, was a small dark
Hint old brown coat o f father’s?’
Harold says they are proud to have my
at Jiminez about six weeks ago,” said
occupied portion o f France, numbering orders for the return o f the guards
closet which they called the dungeon.
Fulry shoved her chair back from the trade.”
the consul.
“ W e have had many re
Grain Inquiry Ordered.
250, arrived at Roozendall, Holland, men.
The dungeon door was big and solid,
machine, and ran to the window.
ports that he was in different places,
Thursday. Their ages ranged from 8
Prudence was silent for several long and was equipped with a heavy catch-
The picturesque and (lashing rapture
Boston United States D istrict A t
“ Look, Prue," she cried. “ Isn’t that
but
no
evidence.
However,
we
are
in
to 14 years. They presented a most o f Aguinaldo, the rebel chief, was the torney George W. Anderson, who is in
seconds. Then she inquired in a low lock. In this dungeon, Prudence kept
Mrs. Adums coming this way? I won
distressing 8|>crtnrle, bearing evident achievement which brought Funston charge o f a Nation-wide inquiry into clined to doubt the story that he has
voice, "Did you tell him why you want the fam ily si . erware, and all tha
der—
’’
suggestions o f having endured hard prominently to the attention o f the the high prices o f f(xxi and other nec gone to Japan. It may have been in
ed it?”
money she had on hand, as it could
“
No,
It
Isn’t,”
answered
Connie
ships, and all told stories o f scarcity American people, hut he performed essaries, announced Tuesday that he vented to account for his absence, i
“ Yes, I explained the whole situa there be safely locked away. But mors
gravely. “ It's Just Miss Avery getting
o f food.
many services for his country besides would order a special investigation in His friendliness to the Japanese g ov home from school.— Isn’t tt. Prudence? tion.”
often than not, Prudence forgot to lock
ernment gived it plausibility.
It is
“ What did he say?”
it
In the U. S. senate drastic amend that which were probably more difli- to the grain situation at Chicago and
, Father's coat, I mean?”
j
believed
more
likely
that
he
is
in
hid-
“ He said he knew Just how I felt,
other middle Western cities to deter
ments to the postal appropriation bill (i 11.
“ Yes, Connie, it is,” said Prudence,
ing in the mounatins, either to try to
because he knew he couldn't go to
His administration o f affairs
in mine whether conspiracies existed to
were agreed to which would make
reorganize his bands there, or because \ very, very gently. “ But no one here church In his w ife ’s coat.— No, I said '
criminal the imfiortation o f liquor into Vera Cruz, where he carried out the raise the price and delay shipments to
; has seen tt, and It Is such nice cloth—
Have you ever awakened to
he
is
sick
or
wounded.
that myself, but he agreed with me. He j
He also said the
states which prohibit its manufacture President’s orders with a firm hand, Eastern markets.
find a burglar in your room?
“ Salazar is in command
in th e' Just exactly what girls are weartug
did
not
say
very
much,
but
he
looked
j
and sale for beverage pur|x>aea, and simply holding the city when every in high prices o f potatoes, beans and
What did you do— pretend sleep?
North, but there is a report that he now.”
which would exclude liquor advertise fluence about him was centered u|s)n onions are being investigated.
“ But I wanted n new c o a t!" Connie sympathetic. He said he anticipated i
Or shout? Or keep still at hie
split with Villa and is acting indpen-
great
pleasure
In
seeing
me
In
my
new
j
ments from the mails in states which forcing the American army into actual
command?
dently. They were old-time enemies did not cry. She stood looking at Pru-
fighting with the Mexicans, protmtily
coat at church next Sunday.”
legislate against such advertising.
Norway to Get Its Coal.
until reconciled during the Chihuahua ! dence with her wide hurt eyes.
was the most notable service o f his
“ Go on with your luncheon, twins,” |
“ Oh, Couule, I'm Just as sorry as
Harhita, N. M. — Lem Spillsbury, career.
Ixnulon A dispatch to Reuter's City attack September 16 last.”
(TO BE C O N TIN U ED .)
you are," cried Prudence, with starting said Prudence sternly. "You'll be late j
Mormon scout, and companions late
TelegrHtn company from Christiania
Mr.
Soriano
Bravo
said
he
heard
the
Two weeks ago General Funston
to school. W e’ll see about going down
Thursday
discovered the bodies of
says the special restrictions imposed raid on the Comer Ranch was used by tears. “ I know just how you feel about
suffered an attack o f indigestion. To
Andrew P. Peterson, Hugh Acord and
by Great Britian on the export o f coal Salazar as a diversion in order to It dearest! But the people didn't pay town when you get home tonight, Con SYMBOL UNTOUCHED BY WAR
use use his own expression, " I fought
Now, eat your luncheon, and |
Burton Jensen, American sowboys kid
to Norway have been
withdrawn, smuggle ammunition over the border. father up Inst month. Maybe after nie.
itjout alone.”
Later he placed him
Christmas we can get you u coot. They don’t talk about coats any more."
naped
last Monday when Mexican
while Norway has stopped licenses for
Lion of St. Mark Has Escaped De
self under the care o f Lieutenant Col
When Connie hud gone hack to
bandits raided the Corner ranch, 60
the ex|x>rt o f pyrites to Germany,
pay up better then.”
struction, Though Hand of Time
Holland Gets Apology.
onel M. W. Ireland, o f the medical
school,
Prudence
went
straight
to
Mr.
miles southwest o f here. The bodies,
The latter question, which is the main
Has Been Heavy on IL
“ I think I ’d rnther weor my summer
London— In reply to a protest by the
corps, Southern department, and re
Harold's bank.
Flushed and embar
badly mutilated, were found on the
|X)int o f difference between the two
coat until then," said Connie soberly.
gained normal health and
spirits.
Dutch government regarding the shell
Mexican side, three miles south of
“Oh, but you can't, dearest. It Is too rassed, she explained the situation
The lion o f St. Mark still stands.
“ For three days,”
Colonel Ireland governments, w ill be referred to two ing o f the Dutch steamer Oldamdt,
Monmuent No. 63. It as believed they said, 1
eminent lawyers, and should N orw ay’s
j cold. Won’t you be a good girl now, frankly. "M y sympathies are all with
Curiously enough, while utmost pre
General Funston had been en-
December 29, by German coast batter and not make sister feel badly about Connie," she said candidly. "But I am cautions have been taken to preserve
were taken across the international
contention
be
upheld
licenses
w
ill
be
tirely w e ll.”
ies while the steamer was being taken It? It really is becoming to you, nud It afraid father would not like iL W e are
line and killed when they attempted to
again granted.
the edifices and monuments o f Venice
to Zeebrugge, aecording to an Am ster Is nice and warm. Take some more dead set against borrowing. A fte r—
break away from their captors.
against the ruthless hand o f the avi
Navy
Ready
to
Strike.
dam
dispatch
to
Reuter’s,
the
German
our
mother
was
taken,
we
were
crowd
Nets Placed at New York.
fudge, dear, and run out-of-doors a
ator, this symbol o f the republic, one
The English government has agreed
government says the shelling was “ ac while. You'll feel better about it pres ed pretty close fo r money. So we had
to set aside a day for discussion in the
Washington, I). C. Preparedness is
New York A steel net designed to
of the chief artistic nnd historical glo
cident o f force majeure. ”
The Ger
to go in debt. It took us two yeurs to
ently, I'm sure."
house o f commons o f the Irish admin the order o f the day and even o f the protect the Port o f New York from
ries o f the city, still poses on Its col
man government, the dispatch says,
get It paid. Futher and Fairy and I
istration, as requested by the Nation night in Washington.
hostile submarines and other craft in
Connie stood solemnly beside the
umn In the Plnzzetta with never a
expresses sincere regret that subjects
talked It over then, and decided we
alists.
The Navy department is equipping the event o f war was put in place at
table, her eyes still fustened on the
sandbag, masonry shield, or wooden
o f a friendly power were killed or in
would
starve
rather
than
borrow
again.
the entrance o f the harbor Monday.
jured and expresses readiness to pay (Mat, cut dow n from her father’s. "Can Even the twins understood It, hut Con covering to guard It from harm.
Charles J. White, professor emeritus
For the present it w ill be kept in po
Ambassador to Protest.
I go and take a walk?” she asked
The lion o f 8t. Murk long has been
compensation to their relatives.
nie was too little. She doesn't know
o f mathematics at Harvard University
finally.
Washington, I). C. One o f the first sition only between sunset and sunrise
an Interesting relic, source o f some
and author o f several books on as
how
hear'breaklng
It
Is
to
keep
hand
and w ill bar all ships from leaving or
"May I. you mean.” suggested Fairy.
Ship Reported Stolen.
tronomy, was found dead in his chair official acts o f Henry P. Fletcher, the entering the harbor during the night.
ing over every cent for debt, when one speculation und an endless amount o f
“ Yes, may 1? Maybe I can reconcile
in hia room Monday.
He had been new American ambassador to Mexico, In case o f war its construction pro
is Just yearning for other things. I do historical legend more or less authen-
Galveston W on! was received here
myself to It."
ill fo r several days with grippe.
will be to protest against confiscation vides for placing it as a permanent Monday that the 60-ton schooner Ga-
wish she might have the coat, but I ’m | tic. There is a tradition that when
"Yes. go and take a walk," urged
of minea not in operation on February barrier.
afraid father would not like It. She Napoleon carried It to Paris there
late has been stolen from her owners
The "gra titu d e and thanks o f the na
Prudence promptly, eager to get the
14.
Mr. Fletcher’s arrival at the
gave me the five dollars for safekeep ! were diamonds in Its eyes. They were
at
Pensacola,
and
had
secretly
departed
tio n " have been conveyed by the B rit
small sober face beyond her range of
| really white agates, faceted.
Mexican capital Sunday was reported
ing. and 1 have brought It back.”
into the Gulf.
Unconfirmed
re- (
1917
Wool
Clip
Sells
High.
ish government to James W. Gerard,
vision.
It Is conjectured that the Hon may
Monday to the State departm ent
Ills
ports
said
she
was
fitted
with
war
sup
Mr.
Harold
shook
his
head.
“
No,
former American ambassador at Ber
Salt Lake City Contracts for nearly
“ I f I am not back when the twins
formal presentation to General Carran
plies, which according to one rumor
Connie must have her coat. This will have formed a part o f the decoration
lin, for hia work on behalf o f British
80 per cent o f the April clip o f Utah
za probably w ill not be later than
were for Cuban revolutionists.
A n get home, go right on and eat without be a good lesson for her. It will teach of some Assyrian palace centuries be
civilians and prisoners of war in Ger
Thursday and immediately afterward wool, which, it is estimated, w ill other rumor was that she is to get into me. I ’ll come back when I get things her the bitterness o f living under d eb t! fore it became the symbol of the Vene
many.
amount
to
15,000,000
pounds,
have
he will begin making representations
communication with German subma stralchtciied out In my lulml.”
Besides, Prudence, i think In my heart tian patron saint St. Mark. The band,
been signed and show prices rangng
When Connie was qnlte beyond hear that she Is right this time. This Is a except for the crown, the mane, and
rines, which are reported to have been
Oregon legislature
passes a law on varioua questions at issue between
from 30 to 38 cents a pound.
The
sighted in Gulf waters.
Broadcast or ing. Prudence dropped her head on the case w here borrowing Is Justified. Get r*1e larger part o f the body aud lega.
which doubles the tax on automobiles. the two governments.
lowest price« were pr.id for southern
ders have gone forth to vessels and : table and wept. “ Oh. Fairy, If the mem her the coat, and I'll square the ac except the claws, are much elder than
wool and the higher prices for north
An executive order to exclude spies
Zionist Relief Goes.
land authorities to apprehend the boat bers Just knew how such things hurt, count with your father.”
Then he other portions of the figure. The wings
ern wool, but, as an average, they
and other undesirable persons from the
maybe they’d pay up a little better.
New
York
The
provisional
Zionist
added, “ And I'll look after this salary and paws are of a much later date,
represent the highest market ever
Panama Canal sone and g iv e the gov
How do they expect parsonage people
Eight-Hour Bills Introduced.
business after this. I'll arrange with while the rump part and the tall are
ernor virtually unlimited authority to committee announced here the diplo offered for wool in Utah.
Washington, D. C. — Senator Robin to keep up appearances when they the trustees that I ntn to pay your fa restorations executed after the lion
regulate immigration there haa been matic situation between the United
son. o f Arkansas, and Representative haven't any money?'”
ther his full salary the first o f every had been sent back from Paris early
signed by President Wilson.
Family Perishes in Fire.
Statea and Germany had not interfered
"Oh. now, Prne, you're worse than month, and that the church receipts are In the last century.
Keating, o f Colorado, Monday intro
Lethbridge, Albreta
Six persons duced identical bills to prohibit inter Con a le ! There's no use to cry about to he- turned in to me. And If they
The authorities o f Nictheroy, Brazil, with its distribution o f relie f funds in
The lion Is In a condition that care
are believed to have perished in a fire state shipment o f goods made in whole It. Parsonage |>eople have to find hap do not pay up. iny lawyer epn do a lit is required even under ordinary condi
five miles east o f Rio Janeiro, have ar Palestine, Poland and Lithuania.
rested two Germans who were photo-
With the approval o f the Danish which destroyed the home o f Fred or in part by women employed more piness In spite o f financial misery. tle investigating: Little Canale earned tions to prevent Its disintegration.
graphing the fortress of Imbuhy. The government and the support o f Minis Dase in a lonely district five miles than eight hours a day or more than Money Isn’t the first thing with folks that five dollars, for she taught one There are rents and fissures through
Coroner six days a week.
prisoners are Frita Meyer and Johan ter Egan at Copehnagen. it was said, south o f Taber Sat unlay.
like ns,"
trustee a sorry lesson. And he will out the body, and the portions are held
nes Karl, employes o f
commercial Danish Jews have taken over the com Humphries, o f Lethbridge, said that
“ Poor little Connie!
I f she had have to pass It on to the others in self- together by Iron rivets that have rust
The bills, drawn on the lines o f the
houses.
m ittee's work in three districts, to the bodies o f Dase. his w ife and his Federal child labor law, would nation cried about tt, 1 wouldn't have cared so defense! Now, ntn along and get the ed away. Many Initials mark the metal,
which more than $1,000,000 already w ife 's sister, Mrs. John Tankrantx. alize conditions for American working much. But she looked so— heartsick, coat, and If five dollars Isn't enough presumably engraved by artists em
The Italian lines in the district east has been sent.
had been recovered from the ruins and women.
didn’t she. Fairy?"
you can have as much more as you ployed In various restorations.
o f Gorizia, Italy, which had been pen
that search waa being made fo r the I
Connie certainly was heartsick. More need. Your father will get his salary
The Lion o f St. Mark could be de
etrated in some places in Austrian at
budics
o
f
three
children.
Big Oil Melon Indicated.
thnn that, she was a little disgusted. after this, my dear. If we have to mort stroyed with little e ffo rt It has sur
New Ruler ie Demanded.
tacks late last week, have been re-e*
Sacramento, Cal.- Making an affi
Ixindon— The speaker in the house '**'•> felt herself aroused to take action. gage the parsonage I"
vived the chances of war to the pres
tablished completely, the war office an
Salvationists' Aid Shown.
ent.
o f commons, the Right Honorable Things had gone too fa r ! Oo to church
nounces. In the operation more than davit that their net aaaets are in ex-
eeaa o f their capital by $25,000,000.
C H A P T E R VII.
Chicago
Statistics made public James W illiam Ix'Wther, declared here In her father's coat she could not I She
100 prisoners were taken.
the Stadard Oil company o f California here Tueeady by the Salvation Army Monday night it waa impossible for walked sturdily down the street toward
What He L eft Mother.
Aecording to the Copenhagen Ham haa made application to the State covering the entire country fo r the British statesmen to make any agree the "c ity "— ironically so called. Her
A Burglar’s V is it
“ Tour father was pretty rich whew
burger Narhrichten. two large ammu Corporation commiaaion to isaue $24,- last ten years, show that the army ment with the German government as face was stony, her hands were
“ Prue !“
he died, wasn't he?” asked the young
nition factories at Thorn, East Prus 843,300 worth o f stock as a stork d iv i furnished approximately 34,000,000 now constituted. It would he neces clenched. But finally she brightened.
A small hand gripped Prudence’* man in search o f an helreaa.
sia, and at Glueckauf, in Quirkborn, dend to the stockholders o f the com beds for indigent*, nearly 44,000,000 sary before signing
peace or any H er lagging steps quirkeoed. She shoulder, and agalu came a
• hoersety
"Oh. y e s !” replied the World-wise
near Hamburg, were destroyed by e x pany. A similar stock dividend was meals were provided and 343,418 per agreement, he said, to insist that it skipped along quite cheerfully. She whispered:
maiden.
plosions last week.
Sixty-three per declared a year ago.
The company son* sent on Summer outings.
” P ru e !”
must be with a government different turned westward as she reached the
"D id he leave your mother muchP'
sons were killed and the aame number has 745,300 shares o f stock, worth $7.-
More than 30,000 tons o f coal were in eesence and conatitution from the , corner o f the square, and walked along
Prudence sat up la bed with •
“ About twice •
wounded.
453,000, pow outstanding.
that business street with shining eyre. bounce.
given for emergency purpose*.
j present one.
Answers.
FUNSTON EXPIRES SUDDENLY