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Evening star., 1909-05-16

to search out phrase from one of her old warm let
He referred to the picture that hung above his
desk If he had been to blame in anyway it must
have been through absorption in his work; but the
work had been for the sake of her Now he was pre-
pared to come for her. Was she not ready to have
him come? He wrote SO touchingly, tenderly that
again the tears in his eyes, and when he read the
letter it seemed to him true and also rather
beautiful.
THE letter was despatched and in due time the
came The first page OF it obEterated all his
wavering and hesitation Katharine had not been
insensible every word of Jerome's letter had been
reproach to her. and her agonized reply commun
Gated to him exalted sorrow Her proud, sweet
spirit felt the wrong she had done him. She begged
forgiveness she could not make atonement. Per-
haps she had grown unfeminine; anyway, she was
the paramount interest of her life She could
yield it to love- to the duties of wife; she could
never exchange her present freedom for position of
dependence and subordination. There man
she liked better whose friendship she more longed
to keep; she hoped he would be forgivng.
Jerome recognized the truth underlying katha-
rine's letter She had the larger, freer talent the
broader independent view. She could never
tamely minister to his own life and work; she would
dominate him and overpower him, and he would have
to merge his identity in hers He unwilling to
submit to such fate-and began to tear up her let
ters
With that decisive tearing sound there to him
the realization that for the first time in all these
years he free Exutation swept over him; he
continued the work of destruction with light heart.
Soon it the turn of the love letters He drew
from its envelop and then his hand was stayed Sen
Evening star., 1909-05-16

no comment on the change he adapted his tone to
hers He thought that perhaps might have the effect
of piquing her and reawakening the desire for his de
voton. Instead, her responses indicated sense of
relief: she seemed to suspect that he had tired OF
her and to be thankful for it.
He was not sure just how much he did care.
He had not seen her for two years He felt that if
he was see her again, his old love might at once
revive; on the other hand long as he did not
her he was not now he had been at first, always
longing for her Would it be wise for him to seek to
restore and bring to consummation the relationship
that had once been SO sweet! She running her
own course independently of him: she more in
terested in it than in love Even if he could prevail
over her, it would be only temporarily. With her
passion and talent for achievement she was bound
he as factor in her life would be overpowered and
thrust to one side 1t would not be comfortable to
be dominated exceled, outshone, by ones wife
These thoughts presented themselves to his cool
deberation day as he sat at his desk after hav-
ing read for the third time her last letter in which
had been quite definite the friendly implication that
all romance at end between them He laid
the letter down and looked up the engraving above
his desk the picture she had given him his birth
day; and at once the old longing rushed into his
heart
From the drawer in the desk he took out the packet
Of her letters and began to read them from the be-
ginning Tears in his eyes when he had finished
She had loved him truly and he had loved her; why
should they have ceased to love each other Nothing
beautiful and inspiring had come into his
life 1t must have been only the separation of time
and place that had awakened difidenCe and dstrust;
once let them again and all must be as before
He wrote to her ardenty. stopping now and then
Evening star., 1909-05-16

eggs literally by the ton they have slaughtered i'm
mense numbers of the feathered occupants Natu-
in the number of wild fowl Henry w. Elliott, a well
known naturalist speaks of having seen six men
Walrus Island load boat with four tons of eggs of
the Pallas
AT the mouth of Tuxedni Harbor, in Cook Inlet on
the South Alaskan coast two small islands, called
respectively Chisick and Egg These breeding
ground for sea birds of many kinds, including thou
sands of puffns and guilemots There are also few
elder ducks. proclamation from the White House
has made the islands refuge
Another recent proclamation created the Bogos-
lof Reservation in the neighborhood of the Aleutan
Chain Bogosof Island is the largest and most i'm
portant breeding rookery of lions, and is nest
building home for myriads of sea birds, including
INJURIES, auks, and cormorants.
Protection in H.waii
A I the extreme western limit of the Hawaiian
Archipelago dozen more small isets and
reefs which from time immemorial have been
pied tor breeding purposes by sea fowl For many
years has been the practice of Japanese plume hunt
to slaughter the birds by wholesale shipping the
wings and feathers by way of Asiatc ports to Europe
This forbidden by our Government at the time
Hawaii was annexed; but extensive poaching of the
kind has been going ever since Recently
who calls himself the King of Laysan Island (this is
the most famous breeding resort in the world for
albatrosses) made contract with japanese feather
Dealers by which their agents were to be allowed to
do all the killing they wanted. But the Government,
however has now declared all these islands, includ-
ing Laysan refuge
Laysan Island by the way, is about the most inter
esting breeding ground for wild birds in the world
volcanic rock three miles in length and trfe less
in greatest width largely covered with valuable
deposits of guano resulting from thousands of years
occupancy by mutltudes of sea birds Enterprisng
dealers carried off the guano in ships, and incident
ally the eggs of the abatrosses and other sea fowl
were gathered by the carload, for the most part
Evening star., 1909-05-16

pufins gulls and several species of cormorants
From this time on, in accordance with presidential
proclamation, all the rookeries will be safe from dep
relation, the limits of the refuge include Middle
and North Farallones Islands and Sea Lion Rock
Seventeen Reserves in the West
Mr.. ROOSEVELT a short time before he left the
~ White House, set aside seventeen of the great
tracts in the West covered by irrigation projects
refugees for wild birds Fourteen of these
are in regions where edible water fowl breed, while
the remaining three Tin Arizona and New Mexico)
in parts of the country sought by winged migrants in
autumn for winter homes.
Other proclamations during the last year have set
aside various lakes, with their islands, which wild
birds breed; such, for example, Chase Lake in
North Dakota Lakes Malheur and Harvey in Oregon,
and Loeb Katrine in Wyoming.
Another (set aside in August of last year, IS called
the Key West Reservation and includes Marquesas
Keys and large number OF small islands IN the same
neighborhoOd Another covers the Dry Tortugas. in
the same region, which likewise embraces numerous
isets, which sooty terms, noddy terms, and few
least terms raise their families. Another still is the
Island Bay Reservation, containing several hundred
small islands off the west coast of Florida. Else
where on the same coast are two more refugees; one
of them in Pine Island Sound, where three islets
afford home for colonies of green and blue herOnS:
and the other in Matlacha Pass where upward Of
four thousand brown pelicans and two thousand
Florida COr1nOrantS live
Likewise created within the last year is the Cuebra
Reservation, off the coast of Porto Rico 1t includes
many small islands, which are breeding resorts for
birds
1t is at the earnest solicitation of the Audubon So
CieteS that the Government has set aside all these
refugees. In every such instance warden, who IS
officer of the United States put in charge He gets
only one dollar month from the treasury, the sOcr
eties paving his wages; but he wears brass buttons
and position to repel poachers and other tres
pas.ers
Evening star., 1909-05-16
UNCLE SANS HOMES FOR BIRDS

for the purpose of feeding workmen.
Most seafowl eggs are good to eat,
and they command fair prices. Thus
for a great many years the eggs 0
INJURIES have been collected for the San
Francisco market on the Farallones
Islands, thirty-fve miles west of San
Francisco, commonly bringing from
twelve to twenty cents dozen The
business has been in the hands Of
Greeks and Italians. whose practice it
has been to take all eggs at the be-
ginning of the laying season. gathering
them once every forty-eight hours
In this manner it is estimated, FIVE
hundred thousand eggs were taken
from the rookeries in single summer
In addition to INJURIES, the bird colonies
on the Farallones include pigeon
guillemots, auks, ashy petrels, tufted
Evening star., 1909-05-16

time almost exterminating the feathered population
Such the situation when in March, 1903, Peli-
can Island (as the mud flat is caed) was formally de-
clared refuge sacred from intrusion by poachers
other bird foes Since that .date-and this is the
point Of real interest-he population OF brown pell-
cans has increased with such Tapidlty to become
overcrowded, and to overflow for breeding purposes
to other mangrove covered slets nearby This the
reason the President issued special proclamation
extending the limits of the reservation to make
it cover nearly square mile.
Refugees in Alaska
DERHAPS the most remarkable of the Govern
ments efforts for the preservation OF wild birds,
however, is represented by a recent proclamation
setting aside vast area in the delta OF the Yukon
River, approximately equal in extent to Massachu
Sets refuge for breeding wild fowl: the most i'm
portant species concerned being geese and ducks.
There are, of course many Our-fOoted animals OF
game species in the Yukon delta which will obtain
incidental protection 1t is noteworthy that the
proclamation setting aside Fire Island, in Alaska,
refuge the only made SO far that provides for
the future safety of mammal In this instance it is
the valuable and rapidly disappearing Alaska moose
that is concerned Fire Island is the favorte breed
ing place for animals of that Species which, at the
when their young are born swim across to 1t
from points the mainland Thus the newborn
young made safe from wolves and other enemies
Except man, of course: and, when they old
enough to take of themselves escorted back
to the mainland by their parents
Up to April of last year fifteen refugees for wild
birds had been created by federal authority Since
then thirty additional have been set aside.
One of them two small islands of the Prblof
group, known as Warus and Otter Islands, in Berng
Sea. On these slets numbers of sea fowl breed,
including horned putins parrakeet auks, kittwake
gulls gaucus winged and Point Barrow gulls, and
INJURIES.
For many years egg hunters have made a business
of robbing Walrus and Otter Islands by
wholesale, And, not content with carrying away
Evening star., 1909-05-16

THERE has recently come to pass an
i event much more than ordinarily
interesting to all lovers of birds 1t is
merely an enlargement, by presidential
proclamation, Of refuge for pelicans,
already set aside as such by the Govern
ment, in Mosquito Inlet, Florida; yet
it signifies much
This reservation was the first one es-
tablished for the purpose by the Gov
ernment. 1t is a small island,-a
mere mud fiat, less than four acres in
extent, partly covered by mangroves,
with few sparse patches of salt grass.
Yet it had prosperous colony of brown
pelicans, which bred there by thou
sands, until egg hunters and sports
men" invaded it, robbing the nests
wholesale, shooting the magnificent
birds 'i1St for fun" and in a short
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-14
More of Chinese
Legation Called
Home with WI
Evidence that Complete Change Will
Be Made to Get Rid of
Reformers.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-That there will
be a complete change In the Chinese lega-
ton here was made evident today by the
receipt of a cablegram recalling DR.. Yen
Wei Ching. second secretary, to Picking.
DIR. Yen ia a graduate OF the University
Of Virginia and came here with Mr.. WI.
DIR. Yens sympathy for the reformers of
China was one of his distinguishing traits.
Minister WI, who is now on his mission
to Peru, will hasten to Washington.
Officials who are close to the Chinese
legation, while disavowing any knowledge
Of the reasons for Mr.. wu's recall, believe
he will be engaged at Peking in concluding
the codification of the laws Of China, which
work was begun by him when he was first
recalled several years ago.
Chang Yin Ting. who will become minister
here, is regarded as in perfect accord with
Mr. WI in his general views on the de-
velopments of China. Both the present
minister and his successor are Of the pro-
gressive element
Chang Yin Ting has a brother and a
son who are being educated in this city
preparing for college. Another son of the
new minister was sent to this country ten
years ago. Under the name of Henry
Chang he went through the grades Of the
public schools Of this city and graduated
from the University OF Pennsylvania
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-14
Gets Money Due Half
Century on Friday, 18th

cavalry was sent out under McCook TO
destroy Hoods army train, the maneuver
being known in history as the '.AdcCook
raid" The fighting Eighth was cut 10
pieces by the cOnfederstes, and Mr.. Temple
ton was taken prisoner and sent to Ander-
sonville prison on July 30 Eight long
months afterwards he was exchanged and
sent home on a furlough.
Naturally, the unfortunates in that
southern prison paid little attention TO ar
fairs and when Mr. Templeton finally goV
out he was so pleased 10 be az liberty
again that he never once thought about
his pay or figured up the time since last
pay day, TO be sure he got all that was
coming to him Now after forty-five years
the government has found that there was
still due the soldier one months pay ps
a shortage OF 81 when he was discharged
and a shortage in clothing allowance OF
q cents; total AA2
What gets me, though" said Mr.. Tenn
pleton, is that the government failed &c
pay the interest on this money II GOULD
have had this money out at ints1Sst thes,
fOrty-five years IL would more than tripled
In value even ~ per cent
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-14

Friday the 18th was a lucky day for W.
O. Templeton. secretary and treasurer of
the Union Loan and Investment company.
with offices in the Bee building, for on
that day he received from the United States
treasury department a certificate for Sl4. 43
for back pay due when he was a soldier
OF Uncle sam during the civil war nearly
a half century ago.
Further, the money came as surprise
TO MI. Templeton, as he did not know until
its receipt that the government owned him
anything He had always thought that
when he was discharged from the army he
was square and had no idea the govern
ment was holding out on him. He has
now taken IL for granted that the tl4.S re-
ceiyed from the national treasury is all
right ana that It wAs justly earned and he
will therefore keep H.
Mr. Templeton was member or the
Eighth Iowa cavalry, serving under General
Croxton as brigade commander. and Gen
sral McCook as division commander. the
Eight cavalry being a part OF sherman
army on his memorable march from At
lantA to the sea. In July, 1854. the Eighth
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-14
MONTANA SITES NOT FILED ON
Sensational Charge Against Ballingel
Denied at Washington.
NO FILINGS DURING INCUMBENCY
Statement sixteen Thousand Acres of
Land for Power Purposes Had
Been Acquired for Trust Re-
Gently Declared Untrue.

WASHINGTON Aug 1s.-"At no time
during the administration OF Secretary Bal
linger have any power sites been filed on
in Montana" says Acting Commissioner
Schwartz Of the general Hand office, in a
statement today. The statement, which is
significant at this time in view OF the issue
which has arisen over water power sites,
was issued as a denial of the story which
alleged that in the Bozeman, Mont, land
district one jeremiah Collins on June II
filed or 15,S6S acres of land, valuable for
power sites. in the interest Of large power
companies.
The only water power sites on the water
sheds Of the Missouri river not now under
the control of the government under Sec
retary Ballinger's order of suspension are
sites which have been in private owner
ship for several years" says Mr.. Schwartz,
"and two additional sites which are i'm
proved and developed to run the street
cars and lighting Of Helena and Butte and
| the mines in Butte.
! These rights, however, are mere revok-
able permits as distinguished from vested
! easements, and these permits were approved
| jointly by the Departments of the Interior
and the forest service in the years 1907 and
lSOS"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-14
Spanish Navy is
Ordered to Melilla
Will GO to Relief of Troops Threat
ened by Strong Force Of
Moors.

MADRID, Aug. 13-All the vessels of the
Spanish navy have received orders to con-
centrate at Melilla where a Spanish force
Of some 1000 under General Merina is
threatened by a strong gathering OF Moors;
who resent Spsin's punitive expedition for
the murder by the Moors OF eight Spanish
laborers.
MELILLA, Morocco, Aug. 14-Friendly
natives bring In reports that although the
Spanish artillery fire is destroying the
camps OF the Moors, II 10 not causing great
loss Of life as the Riffs have built a series
OF subterranean chambers and passages
under their locations in which they take
refuge
The Moors made an attempt last night
10 cut the Spanish railroad. Searchlights
however, revealed their purpose and they
were driven back.
The Spanish artillery continues to bonn
bard Mount Gurugs, the headquarters OF
the Moorish positions.
PENON DE LA GOMERA, Morocco, Aug.
l3.-The Moors who surrounded the Spanish
garrison here kept up an ineessant attack
all day Thursday.
One by one the telegraph wires connect
ing Alhucemas and Ceuta with Penon De
La Gomera have been cut by the Moorish
bullets and It is probable the garrison here
very soon will be Isolated.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-14
Printers Adopt
Insurance Plan
Scheme for Creating Mortuary
Benefit Fund Will Be Sub
mitted to Referendum.

ST. JOSEPH. Mo. Aug. ia plan for
establishing a mortuary benefit fund was
adopted by the fifty-fifth annual conven-
tion of the International Typographical
union this afternoon. 1t provides for bene-
fits ranging from SIS to 800. according to
the length of membership and will be sub
mitted TO the referendum vote OF the
printers. A tax on all earning Of one
half of l per cent is proposed. The mem
bers Of the union now earn over $40 .OOC
year, so the income would be about
$500 900 year.
Reports show that the union is in pros
Porous condition A resolution to aid the
hatters in their strike was adopted. The
union has already loaned the hatters 5000.
A night session was held and the con
vention will close about noon tomorrow.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-14
BRICKS NEEDED IN OMAHA
Famine Threatened as Result Of Last
Councils Action.
IT SHUT OFF MORE YARDS
John Latenser Fears This Scarcity of
Supplies May Cripple Build
Ing Operations Before the
Season is Over.

Omaha is now face tc face with a brick
famine.
Shortage in the brick supply has al
ready been felt by local contractors and
John Latenser, architect for number OF
the larger business buildings now being
erected, Is authority for the statement that
contractors will do well II they get through
the year without having to cut down their
forces, to say nothing about stopping work
altogether for a time.
The shortage IN material is largely due
to the legislation OF the old democratic
council. which prohibited the location Of
more brick yards in Omaha and those now
in the city are utterly unable to furnish
all the brick needed in Omaha this year.
Sioux City brick yards have been ''mllked
dry" and nearly all the brick from the
natural gas belt in Kansas has been con-
traeted for. Freight rates prohibit buying
brick at points farther removed from
Omaha.
Caldwell g. Drake, the contractors for
the new court house, are In about the best
shape Of any of the contractors, accord
ing to Mr.. Latenser as they have enough
material TO keep going for sometime. They
bought about half their brick in Sioux
City, intending to buy the rest in Omaha.
The Thompson g. Starrett company, con-
tractors for the Brandes theater and Of
flee building hoped to secure all the brick
they needed in Omaha, but, with the local
yards working night and day, a full sup
ply OF material Is away short. Sioux City
brick was bought exclusively for the large
addition being built TO the academy Of the
Sacred Heart, while Kansas gas belt brick
was bought for the block long addition to
the ST. Joseph hospital
No More at sioux City.
Sioux City has no more brick to sell,
! understand" said Mr.. Latenser, and the
giving out of the supply OF natural gas ir
Kansas has practically stopped the manu-
facture there. Local yards are utterly un
able TO meet the great demand made this
year by building contractors, and with sc
many buildings Of all kinds, from small
brick flats and store buildings TO sky.
scraper office buildings, we will DO wei
II we get through the year.
The railroads are doing extremely wei
by Omaha this year and delivery has not
been as prompt in five years"
e. T. Petersen chief clerk OF the city
engineering department. said that the rush
of building material to Omaha has thrown
his department behind some as it has had
great difficulty in getting through cars Of
asphalt and cement The street repair
crew was tied Up for several days unit
Thursday, when one car Of asphalt go
through and two crews were put to worl
again on the streets.
Failure TO get heavy rails for the stree
car company for several streets has de
layed rspsving in some localities, notably
Cunning street where paving brick hai
Seen piled on the sidewalk for month";
while waiting for the company TO lay new
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-14
Record for Cross Country
Flight in United States

Mineola at 5:26 a m. today IN an attempt
70 make a new worlds record cross-coun-
try flight. His route lay around an irregu-
lar square and carried him from Mineola
over Garden City. Westbury and Hicks
Vile and sack 10 Mineola- Leaving Min
cola Willard sailed the machine about 80
feet in the air. and going off at a fast clip
his machine was quickly a speck on the
horizon Soon Il disappeared behind the
trees. Nearly fifteen minutes had elapsed
when the speck again appeared miles away
in the direction OF Westbury. The machine
began 10 glide slowly downward and landed
in a field between Mineola and Wsstbury
but the magnetic was deTanged.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-14

AINEOI4A, l. l., Aug. la-What is said
70 be a record for cross-country distance
flight for an aeroplane in this country was
made by c. Foster Willard In the Golden
Flyer today, when he covered twelve miles
in 1914 minutes. This exceeds the ten-mile
flight made by the Wright brothers aero
plane from Fort Mysr 10 Alexandria, Va,
and return several weeks ago. Much longer
flights within a short circle have however,
been made by the Wrights and longer
cross country flights have been made
abroad.
M willard, who has been making short
flights almost daily In the machine belong
ing TO the AeronSutie society. started fTeS
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-14
Much Interest in
Alaska Frauds
Government Officials, However, Re-
fuse to Discuss Evidence in
Absence of Chiefs.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-Much interest
was manifested here today by Interior de-
partment officials in reports from Denver,
Colo that a hearing in Seattle, Wash,
next month will disclose proof of gigantic
frauds in connection with v-sal lands in
Alaska. They declined In the absence OF
Secretary Ballinger and General Land Com
missioner bennett, to discuss the nature
Of the evidence. 1t Is learned that upwards
of 700 entries on coal lands in Alaska, in
volving about ll2OOO acres and containing
valuable veins, have been suspended by
the department during the last three years
The lands are estimated to be worth so.
10000