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Show r" ' . ;- -f ' . . --- --. - . . 'V'vx "' JJ-""- By EDISON MARSHALL CHAPTER III Continued. Ished. him. 11 S4! I 1 '' iV ' hp if s- It ' ' r Indian chiefs on steps of the carrftot at Olyrapla, Wash., where the; went to lobby for their fisilng rights W." Frank Persons, elected vice chairman In charge of domestic operations of the American tied Cross. 3 Immigrants at Ellis island being examined for traces of typhus, several cases of which " ' -'- ' ' " ' developed In New fork. 1EWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVEHTS with resentment that the President-- ; elect last week granted an Interview to a committee of the "German!Ameri-ca- a Citizens' league headed by the notorious George Sylvester Viereck, former editor of the Fatherland. Why cannot this man and his colleagues, who still cling desperately to their hyphen, lie quiet until time and good behavior have somewhat rehabilitated them In tbe opinion of decent Ameri cans? Here are the demands, requests and opmions which these hyphenates had the effrontery to present to the . Harding Still in Doubt About Three of the Cabinet Places., Vesident-Ele- ct : President-elec- t iOOO FOR THE PHILIPPINES? ersek's Hyphenates Present List of Impudent Demands Attempt to Impeach Judge Lindis Senate Passes the Emergency Tariff Bill. That Americans of German birth should participate equally with 'their By EDWARD W. PICKARD. As March 4 draws near interest In of Mr. Harding's cabinet is, at wi acute. The President-elec- t a writing, believed to have decided on sVen of his ten advisers, while men to whom be will entrust the labor and , commerce portfolios rj, 1 fere to be definitely selected. Lowden of Illinois has ised the place of secretary of the make-u- p Form-Govern- or secretary of labor four men are considered. They are James J. tsroT "Pennsylvania." fornw. steel er ; T. T. O'Connor of New York, t of the Longshoremen's onion; s Duncan of Massachusetts, who een an official of the American atton of Labor and of the Granite s union, and John L Nolan of nla, member of congress and o moulder. Mr. O'Connor was f Mr. Harding's visitors in t, tine last week, and It was an-- d that he would confer with esldent-elec- t again this week. ite southern states are to have resentatlve In the cabinet and art urgently claiming such recog It may be be will be the new ary of commerce. Many south-- t think this would be fitting In of the existing movement for In al expansion In the South. Three men from below Mason and i' line hav been especially receded to Mr. Harding. 7 They are , Huston and Newell Sanders of Congressman C Bas-?se, and Slemp of Virginia. 'Many petl have been tent to St Augustine g that either Herbert Hoover or nays Hammond be given the tercr portfolio, and among others ioned for the post Is Charles D, former chairman of the Nation- publican committee. . Harding and those called Into rence with him of course have onflned their discussions to cahl sppolntments, for the new Presl will have .innumerable diplomatic other Important positions to nil onnaJ announcement about any of i places has been made, but It Is t ; ard Wood will be made governor i of the Philippines to succeed erlck Burton Harrison. This ap-rae- nt probably would meet., with approval of alt except .those who In favor of giving the Islanders f Independence Immediately, re-!ess of , their ability to govern iselves or to protect themselves not the possible encroachments ot Japanese, American prestige In Inlands Is . said to have declined edly nnrfer Governor Harrison the movement for Independence crown corrwpondlngly. General il'a ability as a colonial admlnls-- r Is nnqutttioned. and doubtless him American authority In the 'pplnes would he strengthened and iJefense 4n- - the Wands would be t -- : (JtJ. J I no xied. ' , bert Fletcher, ' who as one ot nardfng's guests during (be boet cruise In Florida; Is staled a. iimbasKador to appointment He was a Ilooaevelt Rough r and served as minister to Mexl n. tihsbly Mr. Harding cannot well e to meet delegations of presum--! g cltltena that Journey t. Augustine, but matiy thousands iiirlcsns whose memory of events 'he war has not faded read assured that Mr. Wilson will veto the bill, and the vote in. the senate Indicated that It cannot be passed there over the veto. Party lines among U senators were broken In tbe voting. Among those who amailed the meas ure most bitterly were Moses of New Hampshire and Edge of New Jersey, both Republicans, and Reed of Mis- aourl. .Democrat The senate U now going to get through with the 11 big appropriation bills which It haa not yet passed and which Mr. Harding Is has especially requested acted at this session. shall be en- 1. fellow citizens In the government of "our country." 2. Immediate peace with Germany and tbe rejection of the "Infamous" peace of Versailles. 3. A protest against the French an nexation of the "ancient German " provinces of 4. Immediate of the withdrawal American forces from the occupied portions of Germany. 5. Condemnation of British action In Ireland as "In violation of tbe principles for which American blood was shed and American treasure-lavisheIn defense of the British empire dur ing the World war." 6. Condemnation of tbe "attempt to embroil this country in a war with Japan for tbe benefit of Great Britain, 7. Repeal of the Panama canal tolls act, which It has been said would be violation of our treaty; with Great Alsace-Lorraine.- Dt-- . d Britain. , . . , ....',. 8. O position to entangling alii ancet, "especially any alliance with Great Britain." 0. Investigation .of . the government handling of alien property Is de Only an Immedltfte application of the principle of collective bargaining will settle tbe -- railway labor controversy- and avert a national crisis In the transportation. Industry, accord. ng to B. M. Jewell of the railway, employees' department of the American He told the Federation of Labor. railway labor board last week that the fight of tbe executives on the national agreements was a smoke screen to obscure the. fundamental Issues, and . made these suggestions: ;; , board that the refer the na First, tional agreements which are now be fore It .to a Joint conference of the representatives of the railroads and of the Jabor organizations with the recommendation that their agreements be adjusted by negotiations as soon as posslblethe board agreeing to pass immediately upon any points of difference' which may arise from the " ' " negotiations. "Second, that the hoard request the ' . representatives of tbe railroads and representatives of the labor organizations to meet the board In conference to consider the establishment of boards of adjustment as contemplated manded. by the transportation pact. 10. Immediate release of JSogene V. 's "third, that In reply to Mr. Debs. notice to the boardand Ms 11. Resentment of attacks against subsequent letter to the chairman adcitizens of German descent vising blm that he contemplates filing is. rroniDinon condemned as "a a flood of Individual complaints to rebreeder of death, corruption and con duce the wages of unskilled employees, tempt for tbe law." the board recommend to Mr. Atter-bur-y u. a study or immigration "In a that he meet In general conferliberal spirit" urged. ence with the representatives of the employees affected so that tbe existAnother roan, who during the war ing general . agreements will not be made himself only a little less ob- Impaired and the matter brought to noxious than Viereck Oswald Garritbe hoard In the form of single son Vlllard ran Into a hornets' nest ........ complaint." when tie undertook to deliver a Lincoln birthday address at the Woman's That dreaded pest typhus, has InA great City dub in Cincinnati vaded the United Statea through the made crowd, up largely of ex service men and men and women who lost port of New York and there have relatives In the war, tried to break been several deatha already. It comes from the Infected areas of Europe, up the meeting, and only the Inter and Its spread here Is being effectualveotion of the police saved Vlllard from possible Injury and enabled him ly fought by the strictest Inspection . .. Atter-bury- v -- A i to go on with his speeeh. of all Immigrants. Discoveries made and documents ueciaeaiy interesting ir not very Important Is the attempt to Impeach seized by the police of Paris. BarceUnited States Judge Kcnesaw M. lona and Milan have revealed a great Land Is of Chicago. .The attack on communist conspiracy to overthrow tills, spectacular Jurist,: who la both the governments of France, and mucn .loved and much reared, came Italy, the date set for tbe Spain revolution from two sources and was based on being May L Funds for the two grounds, but the actual move for tor? came from Berlin In theconspiraform of his Impeachment Ms'madejixJKejirC!:, .rback ao4-we- e tranmnltTwinhrotlgtl' tentative. Benjamin ,Veltyof- - Ohio, an American- - financial organization who asks the senate to remove the. that has European headquarters In Judge from the bench because he ac Paris and branches In Berlin and cepted $be olBre of Supreme arbiter Vienna. The French police say of. organized baseball. The house' Soviets have been orgnnlzed through-ot- u committee on Judiciary took up tltt France ready to take over" the Wei ty charge, and also received an hanks, railroads and all civil aervlces. opinion from Attorney General pul mer who ruled that Judge had 'With the opening of the British parcommitted no' offense In holding ttje liament Jast week Premier Lloyd two positions. The other attack on George once more "faced the hardest, the Judge was made by Senator N. B. fight of his career." But he Is used Dial of Smith Carolina, who was en to jjtat now, and prohnhly will. again raged because Lendl. In hearing the enterge victorious over bis opponents. rate of an emlietzllnj hank clerk. To be sure, the npposlrlmi Is unusualcriticized the bank directors, for po.v ly 'powerful this time. snd.. has been Ing only SSrt a month l a yoons tpnn by the addition of the who was required to handle large rVcll brothers. ,ord Robert and lAtrA snm.' T1e Jiidce Plsl's nugh. who are quite Influential. Aa challenge with glee and said some soon as . Kins , Georre had uVUrered rather cutting thing about the n-- 1 the brief address from the throne the a tor's Interests Jn banks, cotton mills flrrht began In the house of commons, and chIM tobor. As Dial has not been Herbert Asqulth. former and uremler, an especially Influential member of Thomas, Inbor leader, heading tbe senate It Is not likely his outbreak the attack.. Naturally, the Irish queswill have results. . tion supplied tbetr. chief ammunition. In reply to questions the premier snld The emergency tariff bill, supposed the situation tn Ireland had Improved ly designed for the relief of the farm greatly In the last six. months and that er, was paca dj, tne senste on If the British people would have paWednesday, but wrlh such consider- tience order would soon be restored. able amendments that tbe senate and "Boycotting has completely ceased." bouse conferees faced a hard task In he said. "Sinn Fein courts hsve distrying to complete the measure for appeared: the police are recovering submission to the President Anyhow their authority, and the magistrates their labor probably is wasted, for It are coming back to the courts." -- JIL. . He sat up straight, and her arm that had been about his neck felt at her side. He took her hand firmly in his, and their eyes met. "We must go .home, Snowbird," he told her simply. Tm not so badly .hurt but thst I can make It." She nodded; bi't olherwlse scarcely seemed to hear. Her eyes still flowed with darkness. And .then, before his own ejea, their dark contract. The hand he held filled and throbbed with life, and tbe fingers closed around his., She leaned toward knowledge requisite of The mountaineer knows life to Its simple phases with little trudi-tlo- u n. or convention to blur Death la a very Intimate acquaintance that may be met in any snowdrift on my rocky trail; and these conditions . ire very deadly to any delusions that him. S he has In regard to himself, He ac-"Listen. Dan.-"- she satd quickly,1 julres an ability to see Just where he "You heard didn't you the last thing itands, and of course that mean! that he said?" This quality had something "I couldn't help but hear, Snow to do with the remarkable record that bird," : the mountain men, such as that Her other hand sought j for 'his. warrior from Tennessee, made "Then If you heard payment must be In the late war. Yob see what 1 mean, Dnn. made. . ..Cranston knew exactly, what Snow Maybe yw can't ee, knowlng the girls that live on the plains. You were the bird would do. Although of a higher order, she was a mountain creature. cause of his saying it and you must even as himself. She meant exactly answer " , It seemer to Dan that some Stern what she said. If he hadn't climbed from Dan's prone body, site would code of the hills, unwritten except In have shot quickly and very straight. If the hearts of their children. Inexorable he tried to attack either of them now, as nlcht was speaking through her her finger would press back before be Hps. This was no personal thing. In some dim, could blink an eye, and she wouldn't way. It weep any hysterical tears over his went back to the basic code of life, dead body, if he kept his distance, "People must fight their own fights. the wouldn't shoot at ail. He meant up here, she told him. - 'The laws to keep his distance. But he did know of the courts that the plains people that he could Insult her without dan can appeal to are all too far away. ger to himself. And by now his lips There's no one that can do It, except had acquired their old curl of scorn. yon Not my father. : My father can't "ril go. Snowbird," he said. "I'll fight your battles here. If your honor leave you with your sissy. But I guess Is going to stand. It's up, to you, Dan. you saw what I did to him in two You can't pretend that you didn't hear blm. Such as you are, weak and alck minutes." "1 saw. But you must remember he's sick. Now go." "If he's sick, let him stay In bed and have a wet nurse. Maybe you can. be that." The lids drooped haliway over her gray eyes, and the slim finger cut-lemore tightly about the trigger. "Oh, I wish I could shoot you, Bcrtr she said. She didn't whisper it dr hiss It or hurl it or do, any of the things most people are supposed to do In moments of violent emotion. She simply said It . and her meaning was all the clearer. "But you can't. And 11 pound that milk-soof yours to a Jelly every time I see him. I'd think, Snowbird, that yon'd want m man." He started np the trail; and then she did a strange thing. "He'a more of a man than you are, right now, Bert" she told him. "He'll prove It some day." Then her arm went about Dun's neck end .lifted his head upon her breast; and In Cranston's plain sight, she bent and kissed him, softly, on the lips. , Cranston's answer was an onth. It dripped from his lips, more poisonous, more malicious than the venom of a snake. His features seemed to tighten, the dark lips drew away from his teeth, lo words could have made him such an effective answer as this little action of hers. And as be turned up tbe trail, he called down to her l Gusss You Saw What I Did to Him." ' a name that most dreadful epithet that foul tongues have always used to be beaten to pulp In two minutes, to women held In greatest scorn. you atone will have to make him anDan struggled In ber arms. The swer for It I came to your aid and kiss on his lips, tbe Instant before, now you must come to mine." had not called blm out of his Her fingers no longer clasped his. It bad scarcely seemed Strength had come back to him, and real, rather Just an Incident In a blisshis fingers closed down until the blood ful dream. But the word called down went out of hers, but she wss wholly the. trail shot out clear and vivid from unconscious of the pain. In reality, the sliqnce. Just as a physician's face she was conscious of nothing except will often leap from the darkness afthe growing flame In bis face. It held ter the anesthesia. Something Inflnite-l-y t,er pves In passionate fascination. Ills warm and tender was holding hlnu pupils were contracting to tittle bright pressing him back against a holy place dots In tbe gray Irises. The Jaw was that throbbed and gave blm life and setting. as she had never seen It be-rtrength; but he knew that this word fore. yhad to bo awwei-A4rtnot other words, could be Its payment even have to ask me 7" he demanded. All the voices of his body called- to TWt y. think I nnderstand? And him to tie still, but the voices of the It won't be In yonr defense only my ' spirit those higher, nobler promptings, own duty." from which no man. to the glory of "Rut be is so strong and yon are the breed from which be sprung, enn so weak" ever quite escape, were stronger yet , "1 wont he so weak forever. I nevHe tugged upward, straining. But he er really cared much about living bedidn't even have the strength to break fore. Pit try now, and youH see the bold that the aoft arm had about oh. Snowbird, wait and trust roe: 1 bis neck. It's my own nnderstand --everything. fiirlit when you kissed me. and he "Oh, If I could only pull the trigger!" she was crylnR. "If I could cried down that word In anger and only kill hlra ". Jeelonsy. It put the whole thing on me. "Let me." he pleaded. "Give me No one else enn make hlra answer; no one ele bss the right. It's my honor, the pistol. I'll kill him " "' no one else's, that, stands nr falls." And he would. There wss no flinchHe lifted her hand to his lips' and ing In the gray eyes that looked up If .to klswed It acaln and acsln. to her. She leaned forward.-as urr And for Jhe. first .time he saw the J put the ..weapon Jn. his Jiands. but at And then a single tears gathering In ber dark eyes. "But j once drew It back. sob caught at her thmsL An Instant you fought here, didn't you,' Dant later they heard Cranston's lauehter she ssked with painful slowness. "You dldnt put np yonr arms or try to . as he vanished around the turn ot the run away? I dldnt come till he had trail. For long mlnntes the two of them yon done, so I dldnt see." She looked were still. The glri still held tbe man's at htm as If her whole Joy of life hung on his answer.'- ". .. bead upon her breast The pistol bad fallen In the'' pine needles, and her Fonght! I would have fought till nervous hand plucked strangely at the I dledl But that'lsnt enough. Snow-birIt Isn't enough Just to fight. In leaves of a mountain flower. To Dan'a a casAlke this. A man's got to win I eyes, ther was something trancelike, s hint ot paralysis and Insensibility I would have died If yon hadn't come. shont her posture, ne had never seen And that's another debt that I have r ilk, this. The light that he to pay only that debt I owe to you." j She nodded slowly. The lives of bcbcld in them bad van- the-vislo- in theYokltna river. 2 11; n know!-lg- in absolute .1 ill.'! plains-a- But i a plainsman has not the . !lu extremely doubtful if a would have possessed this knowledge of life itself that the mountaineer lias, simply because he dos sot see It In the mw. And he has not Salt the intimate of death, T3) i U Their utter darkness startled pupll-begfttt- -te - ' J mag-olfice- ' Co, , by .Little. Brewn the mountain men are not saved by their women without Incurring obliga tion." Site attempted no barren denials. Site made no effort W pretend he had not Incurred tremendous debt wheu she bad come with her plstot. It was an unavoidable fact . A life for a life Is the code rthelfootintaras:,"'': "Two things I must do before 1 can ever dare to die,." he told herober!r. ' One of them Is to pay you; the other Is to pay Cranston for the thing be said. Maybe the vhanee wlir never ' come for tbe first QfJbe two; only 111 ; pray that It will Maybe It would be ' kinder to you to pray that It wouMu't; yet I pray that It will! Maybe I canj. pay that"debt only by being always ready, always watching for a, chance. to save you from any danger, always trying to protect you. r You dldnt come In time to see the fight I made. ' Besides I lost, and little else mat-- , terv . And that debt to yon can't be paid uotll sometime I fight again for you an(T tn ;He gasprd from his . weafcness,"but went on bravely. Til never Ibe able td' feel at peace. Snow-blrdntil I'm tested In the fire before your" eyes! .' I want to show you the srid of me are. not true that my couiage will stand the Copyright. p , . - , - . - d. 1S20, things-Cransto- teSt- - - - .. ' .; f "It wouldn't be the same, perhaps. with an Eastern girl, j Other things matter In the valleys. But I see how ' " . it Is here; that Jhere standard for men and by that' stand ard they rise or fall. "Things In .the ' the essen- - mountains are . o tlals." . - 'g;..,--.;.) He paused . and struggled for strength to continue. "And I know . what yon said to him," he went on.-..as I was, I reraem- ber every word. Each word Just seem to burn Into me. Snowbird,1 and Ftl make every, one of tbem good, You said I. am a better man than he, and -sometime It would be proved find U'i the truth ! Maybe In a month,, maybe ' In a year, Tm not going to die from this malady of mine; now,. Snowbird." Tve got too much to llvs tor too . many debts to pay, In the end, I'll , prove your words to him." " 1 ' - Hia eyes grew earnest and tbe hard fire went out of them. "It's almost as If yon, were a queen, a real qneen ot some great kingdom," he told with a great awe that was over him. as a mist steals over' ' stealing wster. TAnd because I bad kissed " your fingers, for ever and ever I was your, subject,. living, only, to fight your fights maybe with a dream In the end to kiss your fingers again. When you bent and kissed tne on that hillside for hlin to see It was the same: that I was sworn to you, and nothing mattered In my life except Ihe service and love I could give you. And It's more than yon ever dream. Snowbird. It's all yours, for your .battles and your happiness." . The great pines were'silrnt above them, shadowed and dark. Perhaps they were llstenlns' to an sge-ol- d of service and self- story, ''those-vowgained worth by which. the race baa struggled upwsrd from the darkness.-- . "But I kissed you once, before," she reminded him. ', Tbe voice was Just a whisper, hardly louder th:n the stir of the lesves In the wind. "But that kiss didn't count" he told her. ' "It wasnt at all the same. I loved yon then. 1 think, bat It didn't ' mean what It did today." "And what " she lesned toward nim, her eyes full on his, "does It ' mean nowr . . All that's worth while In life, all that matters when. everything Is said, that can be said, and all la done that ran be done. And It means,' plessa Cod, when the debts are paid, that I "may have such a kiss again."she told him,"" "Not ) until then , whispering. 5CntllIben... t make oath that l; ask W. or receive r 1f Tow won t should give It" It goes too deep, dear-es and It means too much," . Tills was their pact. Not until the debts were paid and her word made, good uoold those lips be his again. There was no need for further words. -Both of them knew. In the skies, the grsy cloiid were gathering swiftly, ss slwsys In the mountains. The raindrops were falling one and one, over the forest. The d come summer was done, and fall In earnest. ' . "Hnlf-unconsclo- . - , ; s , . -- ' tTO BR CONTtNTED.) V Ancient History.- Ancient history henlni with the first recorded history and extends to the fall of the Roman empire, 476 , D Inclndtng all the hlstnlcal events Included In the B hle.' The preMstorle' period la Ihe period abont whlvh nothing Is known, either from the Bible er other sources. 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