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Show J s MAGNA TIMES, MAGNA. UTAII, THE Friday, J t ed News Review of Current Events the World Over Statesmen at London Conference Try to Pull Germany Out of Financial Morass President Hoover Oilers Plan. By EDWARD W. PICKARD POUR resolotlon of recommend devised by tlon th committee of minister finance and adopted by the even-pow- er con- ference In London, comprised th total remit of th parley, and It was th opinion of expert that littl if anything had been don for th actual relief ef Germany. The pin Indudes tb suggestions of President Hoover, which Secretary SUmson said were really both American and British In conception. Here, briefly summarised, are the recommendation adopted: First That tha central banks and the World Bank for Interna-Uona- l Settlement extend the German credit for a further period of three month. Second That private bank be urged to ieav their credit now in Germany In German hands for tb $100,-000,00- present Third That world bank com-- . mittee b appointed to consider the loans to 'question of short-terGermany and tha conversion of exloans to lAng-teristing short-terloans. ' Fourth That th conference "not with mtlsf action" tha action of German Industrialists in creating a reserve of approximately 1125,000,000 on tha German gold discount bank. After the conference adjourned. Chancellor Bruenlng and Minister Cnrtlus consulted the American delegates concerning the possibility of arranglug a new long-terloan. If France refused to participate, they thought tb loan might he made by America, Great Britain and several other countries, - Herr Bruenlng also conferred with Premier Laval of France on the possibility of the latter visiting Berlin within the next three months. That France Is not at all in sympathy with the Hoover credits proposal was made dear by Premier Laval when be informed the conference: Our country saved herself in 1928, That la an example which Germany should meditate upon." Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald presided over the sessions of tha conference, and at Its opening he sought to Impress on tb dele-gat- e the tnperative need of speedy and decisive action. "If we cannot And a eolation of tha present crisis," said he, "no on can foretell the political and flnandal dangerathat will ensue. It will be difficult to stay the flood before It has overwhelmed the whol of central Europe, with consequences social nd political, as well as purely flnandal, which no man can estimate. , Tim Is against ns. Every day adds to the risks of a collapse which will be outside of human con- m -- L trol W HILE in states- - men Lon- - don were trying to reach r ES conclusions that might result In era undertaken to prevent aggression by a military force, Tlktdoe-umen- t no precise figures on Frances armament, bat did declare that those armament have been reduced to the lowest possible point under present conditions in Europe and tha world. National security la atill tb slogan of Franca, and aha insist on guarantees if her armaments are to be gav modified. ' . The memorandum tends that Insecurity means Insecurity for idea of neutrality la wth th notion of state Announcement finally con- for one atate ail, and the incompatlbl solidarity of is made by at Canton. China, that It will begin operations against tbe Nationalist government on Angust 1, when Gen. win lead an army Chang Fat-Kainto Klangsl province, which la nominally Nationalist territory. This decision followed the announcement that Gen. Shlh had begun hosan tilities in northern China. General Shiba operations north of the Yellow river caused tbe declaration of martial law in Peiping and Tientsin and the invocation of a news censorship by Nationalist authoriYu-Sa- ties. Transported from ei Paso, Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the Interior, entered the New Mexico pen- itentiary at Santa Fe to serve a sentence of a year and a day for He bribery in federal oil lease was put la th prison hospital, where he la expected to serve his The usual photographing, time. finger printing, classification and numbering routine waa dispensed with until Fall Is reported by the prison physician. Dr. E. WpFisk as able Jo stand these detajs. Interviews by tbe press with Fall were forbidden by the United States Department of Justice in a letter of Instructions to Warden Ed Swope of the New Mexico penitentiary. SHOULD "Alfalfa Murray, governor of Oklahoma, aeelt any other offlc4t Is likely he would receive a large part motorist of t h vote of the state. He has been engaged in contest with Gov. Rosa & Sterling of Texas -- overtoil and free Gov. Murray bridges across the Red river, which separates the two state and for a time at least tbe result was that automobiles crossed the river on free span excepting the one at Denison, Texa and the owners of toll bridges were doing no business. At tbe south end of the Denison free bridge Texas rangers were stationed by order of Governor Sterling to stop traffic after Oklahoma officers had torn down a harrier that had been erected. In retaliation. Governor Murray had highway crew a tear up the approaches to toll spans that are near two free The Denison toll bridge bridge was blocked at the Oklahoma end, deforcing traffic to make a tour to the free bridge at Preston. Oklahoma highway employees nld they had recelved orders to begin' tearing up a section of road qear Achllle, Okla, leading toJC, O. A G. railroad bridge at Carpenter's Bluff, eight miles east of Denison. The railroad bridge has a toll runway for vehicle Involved tn the controversy are a federal injunction and a contract with toll bridge owners. J. J. Ley, Texas state senator, prominent in highway affair informed Governor Sterling . that he considered tb Texas executive had overateppd his authority In sending rangers to block The the Denslon free bridg bridge waa closed by a federal In Junction and keeping It closed was a matter for federal officer Loy said. t the complete abandonment of the Austro-Germa- n projected customs union by the German government, the World court In The Hague opened a hearing on the proposal that has Dr. Rotten, been so dear to the berg hearts of the In Berlin. Before the court took up the case President Adatd of Japan installed Judges le Bustsmente of Cuba and Wang of China, who were not present at the last session. After this preliminary, th full court, including Frank A Kellogg of the United State began the hearing, with the governments of Germany, Austria, France, Italy a and aa parties to the case. . They were represented by an army of agent counsel adRAD vocate and assistant The Ausconditions trian agent, Prot Eric Kanffmann, 'marred the 1931 was accompanied by an American. national A S. Feller, of the New York bar. elimination balloon race Dispatches from .Vienna Indicate started at .that Austria la not nearly so eager which Ohio, and for the customs union aa she was Akron, debefore the present financial crisis tha contest was cidedly unsatisfachit Germany. Indeed, tha Austrian tory. First place government may drop the plan enwaa won by the In trytirely. It la now engrossed United States navy ing to extricate Austria from its bag which waa piown financial difficulties. Dr. Frans loted by Lieut T. Rottenberg, who, until recently was M. Settle and Lieut Bushdirector general of the Bank of Aus- G. nell , Bushnell. tria. baa been called on for help Wilfred and baa been made director of the Second place went offi-da- ls Czecho-Riovakl- his task to arrange a national credit and budget system which. It Is hoped, will puTI the nation out of the bol E'RANCK took advantage of tbe 1 International confabs --to start a camaplgn for putting teeth In tbe Kellogg pact and In the League of Nations covenant. A memorandum Issued at the Qua! dOraay, replying to tha leagues request for Information on armed strength, contained tbe official view that disarmament cannot be accomplished unless an International armed fore la set up under tbs aegis of tha league, or reciprocal obligation VIII piloted by Frank Trotter, and third honors to the W. J. II ef De- troit guided by Ed J. Hill and thur Schlokser, , Ar- The navy balloon landed at MaN. Y, after covering a distance of 215 mile ; The Goodyear came lo earth about two hourr later at Stevensvllle, Ont, 190 mllea from her starting point, while the W. J. R. came down at Wesleyville, Pa. near Erl after covering only 115 mile The fermy balloon No. 1, pi tied by Capt Kart g. Axtater and Lieut 11 8. Couch, had to cover-onl- y about 80 miles to take fourth plsce In the contest This bag came down et Custard Pa., after running into nila. -- storm. Tb same storm forced down L. P. Fnrcnlow and John RIeker, th Akron balloon pilot who landed four miles north f Ravenna to taka fifth place after traveling only ahont 20 mile A second army balloon, piloted Edgar Fogesonger and by Lieut John A. Tarro, waa last, with a It covflight of only 88 minute ered only 12 miles befort coming down. Aa a result of tb contest, th navy and Goodyear balloons will represent tha United States along with W. T. .Van Orman of Akron In the international Gordon Bennett race. v EdnaForbor h cruis eight new 10,000-toit has been found, roll o efbadly In rough water that the Imfectiveness of their gunfire la paired. Therefor they are to be g tanks altered. Already and larger bilge keels are being put In the Pensacola and the Northampton and if these changes are successful the ether cruisers will hav them. Navy officials said the CHAPTER X Continued seriousness of tha roll bad been 16 cruisers seven The exaggerated. a whit frame Sabra built modified ao been have now building bouse In of the day, with the tenstyle tha that was In design. It said, turret tower minaret cupola dency to roll will be eliminated. and scroll work. There was a HAT waa said stained glass window In tha hall. In yelto be the larg- purple and red and green andenterlow, which, confronting thp est prohibition ing caller, gave him the" look of aver being suddenly stricken with bucams undertaken ta a climax In Bal- bonic plague. Thera were parlor, sitting room, dining room, kitchen timore when n on the first floor; four bedrooms on grand Jury reand a bathroom, turned three In tbe second floor, full-size bathtub, dlctments charg- actually, with a a toilet, and a marble waahstand ing 53 corporations In the cellar and individuals in with varicose vein New York, New there was a hot air furnace. "Aa long as were building and Jersey, Delaware, furnishing." Sabra said, It might Maryland, i Michi- aa well be the best" She bad gona gan and Ohio with conspiracy to vio- about planning the house, and furlate the prohibition law nishing it, with her customary enThe investigation waa begun In ergy and capability. With it all August. 1929, after the seizure In the found time to do her work on Baltimore of three big atllls used the Wigwam for without her the compaper would hav been run to the for cracking and mercial alcohol for beverage pur- ground In six month Osage bad long since ceased to consider it poses. Mora than 130 wltnesse Director queer that ah a woman, and tbe Including ' Prohibition Woodcock, Dr. James M. Doran, wife of one of ita most prominent former director and officials of tbe citlxen should go to work every attorney generals office appeared morning like a man. before tbe Inquest, which cost tb Sabra, in common with the other o housewives of tha comgovernment $500,000. Among those indicted were the munity. employed an Indian girl United States Industrial Alcohol aa a bouse servant Thera was no company, and Its subsidiary, tha other kind of help available. After United States Industrial Chemical her hideous experience with Arita ah had been careful to get Indian company of West Virginia-a- nd Maryland, the largest Industrial al- gtria older, more settled, though cohol company in the country. ' this was difficult She preferred the Osage girl These married, young, According to the charge conspiracy was started In 1927, and often before they bad finished their todies at the Indian schoot corporations were formed for the Ruby Big Elk had been with purchase of Industrial alcohol so It could be resold to other Individuals Sabra now for three year A curl-o- u for conversion Into beverage chanbig, silent girl of about twenty-tw- o nel almost handsome one of six children a large family for an to be a tlva Osage. Sabra was somewhat taken WHEAT forcontinues a considerable part aback, after the girl had been with for some month to learn that of the country population, and her she marscarcely a day passes without eith- ried. already had been twice er an attack on the policy of tbe "What became of , your h farm board or a defense of Ita way Ruby?" of doing business. Tha price havDied." 7 ing dropped to 21 rents a bushel She had a manner that bordered or even lower In tha Southwest, th growers are nslng their grain on the Insolent Sabra put It down In ways heretofore unknown. In to Indian dignity. When ah walked lie scuffed her feet ever so littl the Texas yuinhandle It Is accepted aa admissions to theater and by and thl for some Inexplicable rea dentists and newspapers In lien of on, seemed to add Insolence to her Oh,, do lift your feet. cash. Many of the southwestern bearings Don't scuflle when yon farmers are feeding wheat to pouf- - Ruby I v The girl made no reply. try. rattle and hogs and nslng It walk." for fuel. A Judge In Podge City. Went on scuffling Sabra discovKan., offers to liarry couples for ered that she was lame; the left ten bushels of the grain, and In leg was slightly shorter Gian tbe several cities motor companies right She did not limp or, rathtake II In exchange for need car er, hid th tendency to limp by the Irritating sliding sound Her walk at the rat of 50 cents a bushel. was straight, leisurely, measured. Sabra was terribly embarrassed; a lot are to the Indian The apologized Syndicalists Spain,causing and It Is a girl only looked at her girl and said new the whether republic a little question nothing Sabra Riotous shiver. She had repressed will be able to survive. never got accusresulted In Seville demonstrations tomed to th Indian In the death of nearly a score of Rubys father. Big Elk, had person and martlaP law was pro- been chief of the Osxge tribe by claimed there. election for ten year. though . .and . , It waa predicted that when the . was formallLConstltuted assemhly mce. wa aa much looked np the cabinet would resign immedl to In the Osage nation. He had would ately,.thst Alcala Zamora sent his six children and actually be elected president and that he his fat wife to the Indian school, either Manuel but he himself would summon steadfastly refused Azaha. present war minister, or to speak a word of though Alejandro Derroux, foreign minis- he knew enough ofEnglish, the language. ter, to the premiership. He In conversed Osage, and when The proclamation declaring marused an Interpreter. It tial law In Seville set forth that necessary was a kind of stubborn Indian troops would fire on the 'slightest pride In him. It waa hla enduring warning and that therefore, resito the white man,-Y- ou dents had best keep off the streets challenge Resistance have not defeated me. and out of balconte It slowly dawned on Sabra that to tha military will result In Immel. The troops young Cim waa always to he found diate were ordered to use heavy artillery lolling In the kitchen, talking to to destroy houses from which snip- Ruby. Ruby, she discovered to her horror, was teaching (1m to apeak ing baa been going on. Osage. A difficult language to tbe white, he seemed to have a natural Ky the aptitude for It. She came DOWN in Hodgenvllle. upon cabin In which Abraham them, their heads close togethei Is to dedicated be Lincoln was born over the kitchen table, as a memorial on October 4, 5 and and talking and alnglng. laughing Rather, 8. and the occasion will be marked Ruby Big Elk was singing a But tbe with a curious rhythm, and song by a big celebration. (to United Confederate Veteran will Sabra ear. at least) no melody. not participate. An Invitation was Clbt was trying.' to follow the quite properly sent the organization range , guttural slur ud acby Gorenor Sampson of Kentucky, cent bis eye fixed on Rubys face, and was declines! by Gen.' C. A. his own. expression utterly abDesanssur Its commander In sorbed, rapt. chief. General Pershing and repWhat are you doing? What Is resentatives of the Grand Army of this? the Republic will be there, gnd the The Indian glrla face took on Ita meeting, a 'The governor stated, customary expression of proud nation-wide, non will be political She rose. Teach urn song," and she said ; which was queer, for the General DesanSsnre wrote to felpoke English perfectly. low officers of the U. G, V. asking Well, l must say, Cimarron Cratheir views aa to participating. In vat I When you know your father his letter he said the celebration Is expecting you down at the ofappeared to be an effort to dis- fice" She stopped. Her quick eye count or offset the recently develhad leaped to the table whece lay oped emergence of a true portrait the little round peyote disk or mesof Mr. Lincoln which Is not at all cal button which b tbe hashish of To his credit and which denies to the Indian. him the God like nafnre and qualShe had beard about It; knew ities with which Interested persona bow prevalent among the Indian have deified him. . . . tribes from Nebraska down to We are further asked to Join In Mexico had become the habit of tha exaltation of Mr. Lincoln aa a this little buttonllke top of eating pattern for our children, while of Mexican cactus plant. In-- anape II the characters before tha world a disk about an Inch fend a half In Mr Lincoln Is easily among those diameter and a quarter of an Inch whom I would least wish my thick the mescal or peyote gave the s and great-ggrandchildren eater a arrange reeling of .ghtnesa, inda to follow or emulate." dialled pain and fatigue, canned S atan Nmniw Vila.) ft visions of marvelous beauty, and QUR Illustration byj S Irwin M U0vs anti-rollin- fed-fer- al well-to-d- os-ban-d , court-martia- dia-dal- n. ftiil-'Jre- W73.1J" grandeur. The use of It bad become aa Indian religions rit Like a fury Sabra advanced to tha tab! snatched np tb round button of soft green. She whirled on Cim. Peyote "What are yon doing with this thing?" Clm'a eyes cast down sullenly. Hla bands In hla pocket ha leaned against the wall, very limp, very bored, very Infuriating and Inso- r lent . servant sent from Kanaa She ran the paper alon as she wished It run. She ordered tha house as ah wished It. Sha very nearly ran the town dr Osage. She waa a power la tha territory. And Yancey waa Sabra had refused to comgoo promise with Ilf and Ufa had taken matters Cut of her hand Donna was away at an eastern finishing school Miss Dignnma on the Hudson. Yancey had opposed that, of course, it had been Sabraa Idea to send Donna east to school. "Eastr Yancey bad said. Kansas City?" "Certainly not." "Ob Chicago." I mean New York." Your craxy I dont expect yon to approv I suppose you'd Uke her to go to an Indian school. Donnaa an girt. She'a not n beauty and never will b bnt ahea brilliant, thats wbat she 1 Brilliant 1 dont mean Intellectual. You needn't mU I mean that shes got tha ambition and the Insight and the foresight, too, of a woman of twice her ag Pm aorry to bear that "Pm not She'a Uke mamma In many way only ahea got tntelll-genand drive. Sha doesn't get along with the girls here Msurine Tnrket and Gaseilo Slaughter and Jewel Riggs and Czarina McKee, and tbos Shea different They go switching np and down Paw-fansavenue. They'U marry one of these tobacco-chewin- g loafers and settle down like vegetable Well, aha wont III aea to that." "Going to marry her off to an an-usu- al et ka Ruby waa Just teaching ma on of tha Mescal ceremony song Darned Interesting. It's the last song. They alng It at sunrise when theyre just about all In. Goes Ukt eastern potentate at fifteen .Yon wait Youll see. She knows thl" Shell get It, too." To Sabra'a horror be began an what she want "Sure It isnt yon who knows eerie song as ha stood there leaning against tha kitchen wall, his what yon want her to want?" ' Bnt Sabra had sent her off to ayes half dosed. Stop It I" screamed Sabra. With Mias Dignuma on a diet of prunes tbe gesture of a tragedy queen ah motioned him ont of tbe kitchen. He obeyed with very bad grace, hla going more annoying, in Ita manner, than hla staying. Sabra followed him, silently. Suddenly aha realised she hated hla walk, and knew why. Ha walked with a queer littl springing gait, on tha very VV'o soles of hla feet. It cams aver her FV that It always had annoyed her. She remembered tbat some one had laughingly told her (that Pet PUcblyn, the old Indian scout, lounging on hla street corner, bad aid about young Clm: Every time 1 sea that young Clmsrron Cravat a cornin down the street I expect to hear n twig snap. ,v I J v Walks like a story-boo- k Injun." fnrlhe privacy of the sitting room Sabra confronted her aon, tha bit of peyote atill crushed In her hand. So yon'va coma to this! Pm ashamed of yon 1" Come to what?" She opened her hand to show the button of pulpy green crushed In her palm. Peyot A aon of min Id rather aee you dead" mom Oh, for heavens aak don't get Biblical, like dad. To bear Yat This Thing Wa ta Her Way yon a person would think yon'd ef Thlnkirg, Monstrous. found me drugged In a Chinese - and prisms that even her oplnm den." 1 think Td almost rather." old grandmother Felice Its nothing bnt n miserable tit- Venable approved. tle piece of cactus.. Andwbat waa Cirarwalking tbe prairies beyond 1 doing bnt sitting In the kitchen Osage with that peculiar light step listening to Buby tell how her f- of hi hla eyes cast down; prowlather" ing the draws and sprawling upon -- "I should think a man of almost the clay banks of'lhe river that eighteen could find something bet- ran so red through the Red Man ter to do than sit lb a kitchen In territory, said that be wanted to be the middle of tbe day talking to an a geologist He spoke of the ColoIndian girl. Wheres your pride I" rado school of mine He worked lo Clm'a eyes were still cast dowrf. the Wigwam office and hated IL He He- - still lounged - Insolently, his could pi a case of type more quick"How about ly aud completely than a drunken hands In his pocket these stories youve told me all tramp printer. Even Jesse Rickey, your life about the love you south- his mournful mustache more drooperners had for your servants and ing than ever, protested to Yancey. bow old Angle waa like a second She cant nmke a newspaper : man out of that kid." he said. Not mother to you?" , They were different They knew In a million year Newspaper men their place." are born, not .mad Clm, he Just He raised the heavy eyelids then naturally hates new let alone a and lifted his fine head with the newspaper office. He waa born menacing look that she knew so without an arm or something. You well la his father. You're right cant grow It If you havent got ' TheyaredllTerent In the -- first it. I know It," said Yancey, wearRuby Isn't an Indian hired pine girl. She Is the daughter -- of an ily Hell find a way ont," For the first time a rival newsOsage chief." Osage fiddlesticks I What of It?" paper flourished In , the town of Ruby Big Elk Is Just aa Im- Osag The town was scarcely portant a person In tha Osage na- large enough to support two dally tion as Alice Roosevelt la in Wash- paper but Yanceys political attiington." tude so often was at variance with Now, listen her Cimarron Cra- the feeling of the territory polivat! Ive heard about enough, A ticians that the new dally, sliplot of dirty Indians! Just yon shod and dishonest though It wa march yourself down to tbe Wig- and owned body and aoul by terriwam office, young man, and don't torial Interest achieved a degree -yotf ever again let me catch yon of popularity. , unable to talking In tbat disrespectful mandictate tbe polSabra, ner about the daughter of the Pres- icy of the Wigwam with Yancey at ident of tha United State And If Its head, had to content herself 1 ever hear that youre eaten a with the management of Ita mechanbite of this miserable staff" ah ical workings and with Ita Increasheld out her hand, shaking a littl ingly Important social and club colthe mescal button crushed In her umn Osage swarmed with meet-tin- g PH have your father thrash palm committee lodge - Knights you within an Inch of yonr Ilf big of This and Sisters of That. The as yon are. Aa It I be ahalL bear Phllomatbeen and the Twentieth of th!" Century cluba began to go In for But Yancey, n being told, only Civic Betterment, and no Osage looked thoughtful and a little sad. merchant or professional man waa Its your own fault, Sabr Youi j safe from cajoling and unattracbound that the boy shall live the tive females in shirtwaists and life you've planned for him Instead skirts and eyeglasses of the one be bant So hes trying bis name signed to thisdemaqdlnf or that to escape Into a dream Ilf Like petition (with a contribution. Whatthe Indian Its all the same ever yon feel that you "tan glv Mr. Hefner. Of coura thing." aa a leadI dont know what ou're talk- ing business man . . ing about. I dont think yon know, They planted shrubs about tbe i cinder-strew- n either." environs of the San'"The Indians started to eat pey- ta Fe and the Katy depot They ote after the whites bad taken their agitated for the Immediate paving religions and splritml and decent of, Panhnska avenue (It wasnl physical life away from them. done). The Ladles of the Eastern Man cannot live by bread alone. Star. The Venus todg Sisters of le has got to have dream or life Itebeksh, Daughters of Is unendurable. So the Indian They came Into the Wigwam turned to tbe peyot He finds office with notices to be printed peace and comfort and beauty In about lodge suppers and church sohis dream" ciables. Strangely enough, they A horrible - suspicion darted were likely to stay longer and to through Sabr.. Yancey- - Cravat, chat more rreely If Yancey and not have yon ever " Rabra wer there to receive them, He nodded his magnificent head Subrfe was polite but buainemllke slowly, sadly. Many time Many to her own sex encountered In oftimes." fice hour But Yancey made himself utterly charming. He could no CHAPTER XI more help It than he could help hrtmthlng. tt was almost functionwaa nineteen, Donna fifteen. al with him. lie made tha stout, now Sabra lived' quite commonplarmiddle-agewomen alone In the new house on fvlhekeh feel that thev were roval and He fl.tllered them with hla street, except foe a colored woman r -- J -- ell - d tbe postoffic fa eyes; he bowed . door their eyeglasses tk ouh was Lkely, on their dec crumpla their carefully , tic and throw tt on th t bra, though ah made of th visiting Venule".' bekah ran their notice am essary, carefully rewrote tt God Amightyr wu full of office Is. Year -- Adi h dinner at noonday groan SCI H. A. J Venn morning, Uke a (warts stuffed locust" Sabr was at the head of . of these Betterment bh Also if there could b ay anything ao formal aa tot Osag Sabr Cravat waa ti. er of It She waa the Cm u trtfy the ladles of the T Century Culture club by i them Waldorf salad that a1 able . mixture of ppl t chopped nut whipped eream. Th club fell n mayonnals with littl ertea and nmr Thereafter It waa served at meetings until Osag husband turning home to supper t;u days work, and being offered i salvage from tha feast, would p it aside with masculine eoni for ita contents and roar, l eat thla stuff. Fix me some t and egg" From this culinary and sotiti umph Sabra proceeded ta and marshmallow salad, c recipe for which had been sent t by Donna In th East Its t red effects were fatal. When tt again became her ti to act aa hostess to tha member tha clnb she made her p repent! for tha afternoon meeting, l at tb grisly hour of halfp two. Refreshments were Invert served at fonr. With all arm menta mad eh was eonfron by Ruby Big Elk with the tstem lng statement tbat this wu i great Indian festival day (Septr ber, and lb corn dances wen a and that she must go to the t ration la time for the Mescal tt Length o! longest croc ra which have he United State eeti ,RENT YOt pm-p- I Almost evar needs o lew and it U on up iomethwc greatly redu i " j moRy. Yon cant go aald Sabr I ly. Midday dinner waa over. ? cey had returned to tha office C waa lounging In tha hammock i the porch. For answer Ruby tuns and walked with her stately, t rltating step Info ber own rcj Just off th kitchen and closed ti door. Well," shouted Sabre la tt tone of Felice Venable herself, n yon do go you neednt come back She marched out to the front pord where the sight of the lounglar Cim only aggravated her anno; ance. This ends It That girl has got I to Ieav" . " I "What girl "Ruby. Twenty women this aft , noon,-anshe says shes going b the reservation. Theyll be her two." It waa rather at balf-pacoherent, but Clm, surprising!) enough, seemed to understand. "But she told yon a month ago. Told me what? How de T know?" Because she told me sha told yon, ever so long ago." "Maybe she dlL, She never me t tioned tt again. I can't be expected to remember every time the Indians I told have one of the powwow her she couldnt go. Shes tn them getting ready. Well, this ends It I She needn't come back." She flounced out of the kitchen, There stood a young Indian girl unknown to ber. What do yon want?" I am here," the girl answered, composedly, to take Ruby Big Elk's place this afternoon. I an Cherokee. She told me to com" She plucked Ruby's blue and white checked gingham kitchen apron off the hook behind the door and tied waist it around-he- r Well t" gasped Sabra, relieved, but still angry. Through tb kitchen window she saw Clm hitching np the two plntoa to the racy little yellow phaeton that Yancey had bought She must run out and tell him before ha left Ha had seemed dlsturbed- - She was glad he was clearing out She liked having the men folks out of the way when afternoon company was dtr ' Ruby's door opened. Tb girt came ont Her appearance was amazing. She wer a dress ef doeskin banging straight whit from shoulders to ankle and as soft and pliable aa velvet. The hem was fringed. Front sleeve collar were finely beaded In an Intricate pattern that was more like embroidery than beading. On her feet were moccasins In Ivory white and aa exquisitely bended as tha dress. It was the rob of a princes Her dark Indian eyes were allvt Her skin seemed to. glow. In contrast with the garment. The girl wa for the moment, almost beautiful. Theresa Jump. . . . Hell This Is Theresa Jump. She will do my work this day.. 1 hav told ber. I will be back tomorrow morning" - She walked slowly out of tbe house by way of the kitchen-dooacross the yard with her slow Insolent dragging step. A stab of suspicion cut Snbra. She flew to ward the barn, dm drove out with phaeton and pinto He saw th Indian woman In her white doeskin dress. His eyes shon enormous. He lifted his head as though to breathe deeply. At that look In his face Sabra ran across the yard. One hand waa at her breast, aa though an Indian arrow bad pierced her. Rnby had aet one foot In Its cream-whit- e moccasin on the buggy step, Clm held out his ree hand. Sabra reached them, panting. Where are you going?" Fra driving Ruby ont to the res--' r d to-- ) j mild-manner- ed 1 r, ! t t erratlon. No, youre not No, youre not" She put one hand In a futile gesture on the buggy wheel, aa though She to atop them by itulffTorc knew she most not lose her d'gnlty before this Indian woman before Yet this thing ws to her her so way of thinking, monatmu I TO BS CONTINUED t Ail Hard at It Habit gets the best of wme men. Many a man who worked hi way through college is now working bis sons way through. ' |