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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-09
SPAIN SENDING TROOPS
TO REINFORCE GARRISON

MADRID. September give thousand
Spanish troops have received orders from
the ministry of war to reinforce the
Spanish garrison at Mellila. on the Riff
coast of Morocco. The government S
action is due to the constant reports re-
ceived from the commander of the garri-
son, saying that the natives continue to
annoy the soldiers by their attacks on
the Spanish outposts.
Germany's Reply to France.
PARIS. September ?.-The text OF Ger
many's reply to Frances proposals, oner-
ed with view to a settling Of the Moroc-
can DISPUTE. only reached the French am
bassador at Berlin, NJ. Cambon, las
evening
The draft of the German counter pro-
posals was revised after the intervie"
between the French ambassador and the
German foreign minister. Herr Won
Kidcrlen- Wac chter. last Thursday, and
the text is not expected to reach the
French foreign office until tomorrow. No
immediate development in the situation.
therefore is likely.
No reliable information is available in
Paris concerning the details of Germany
reply, but the general impression mere is
that much further negotiation VIII De
necessary before an agreement on the
Moroccan question is reached.
Two-Year Men Held in Service.
Premier Caillaux was in consultation
today with the minister of foreign at
fairs, NJ de Selves, and the minister oil
war. NJ Messimy, as to whether 1t Wouio
be prudent to allow the two-year-servlce
men whose terms in the army expire
September ~. - and 26 to leave the col
ors in view of the tension with Germany
The decision reached by the ministers
1t is understood. was to keep the mer
in service unless Germany releases mel
two-year men whose terms are que tt
expire between September ~ and sep
TENDER -.
France appears to be slowly transferring
her troops to points closer to the nortn-
eastern frontier as an ordinary mhi'ar :.
precaution. which it would be erroneous
to infer means the expectation or Wai
The movement means. In the oplnich u
persons well informed regarding the SIT
uation. only the beginning OF france
preparedness for depiorable continSehcs
and a reply to the consloerdoie iiiiii'a
activity beyond the Rhlne-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-09
Schools Open Monday.

Books and states will be the order Of
the day early Monday morning, and by .
O'Clock all of .Alexandria's younger gen.
Grafton who have secured permits to at
tend the public schools will once more be
cation, and the city will be minus its
daily throng of youngsters until the noon
bells ring, dismissing them for dinner.
AL of the school buildings have been
given a general oVerhauling. Many
changes have been made, principal among
them being the establishment of a high
school for co-educaton, which will be
taught by w. \. Anderson, jr., at Lee
School building.
In point of attendance the schools with
the opening will have the largest in their
history, there being a general increase
of 10. including 126 at the white and ~
at the colored schools
Fire Alarm System Tested.
An automatic fire alarm system was
tested yesterday afternoon in the cham
Der of the board of aldermen before
the members of the joint committees
ON finance, streets and police, mem
bers of the board of fire wardens, Chief
city officials. The question of installing
modern system Will be again aGitateu
before the city council.
NJ. ID. Corse Camp, Sons of Con
federate Veterans, will hold a meeting
Monday night at Lee Camp Hall, when
plans for changing the date for the
meeting of that camp will he taken up,
and other business disposed of.
Potomac Lodge of odd Fellows held
Il meeting at it's hall last night, at
which the initiatory degree was con
ferred on a candidate. and other bust
ness was transacted.
Marley Encampment of Odd Fellows
will hold a meeting at odd Fellows
Hall Monday night next, when the
patriarchal degree will be conferred on
three candidates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-09
ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS
Home of Defunct Bank BOUGHT
for Newspaper Office.
SOLD UNDER THE HAMMER
Purchase Price, $4,000, Regarded as
Low-Monday to Be Busy Day
for the Courts.
'ecial Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va. September 8. 1911.
The handsome banking building of the
defunct Virginia Safe Deposit and Trust
Corporation was sold at noon today by
Capt. r. F. Knox. auctioneer, for the
commissioners of sale, and Purchased by
the Alexandria Gazette G "a alton for
the sum of $4,000. The bu - was bid
up fo- the Gazette by j. NJ. Hill. This
sale is, of course, subject to the confirma-
ton of the corporation court.
The sale was largely attended and the
bidding at times spirited. The opening bid
was 5000 Most of the other bids We're
increases of 500 and $500 each. The
bidding seemed to wane after it had
reached $500.
The price paid for this building is re-
garded as very low, although no one ap
peared to want it very badly. this being
due to the fact that the structure is more
adapted for banking purposes than any
thing else. and no new banks evidently
contemplate opening up in this city.
The building is one of the handsomeSt
and most commodious bank buildings in
the city. It is situated on the north side
of King street between Royal and Fair
fax streets. and is equipped with all mod
ern banking conveniences.
The sale was made for Special Com
missioners &. l.. Boothe, S. G. Brent, r.
G. l.. Moncure, j. G.. Hyden and H. w.
Smith, who We're recently appointed by
Judge Barley in the corporation court
to sell the property.
These commissioners will, September Is.
sell at public auction large amount of
property in Culpeper county, which was
turned over to the defunct corporation
by G. Jones RiXey, its president.
Robert S. Barrett. president of the
Alexandria Gazette Corporation, said this
afternoon that as soon as the sale is con-
firmei by the court he will have the
Gazette office transferred at once to this
building. which will be the new home of
this historic old paper, which only few
months ago changed hands. The struc-
ture is regarded being admirably
adapted for newspaper office. Mr.. Bar
rett has already ordered a new press,
adapted for getting out an eight-page
paper, which will soon be installed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-09
Busy Day for Courts.

With the corporation court, the circuit
court and a special grand jury in session
next Monday morning at 10 o'clock the
courts will have very busy day.
The circuit court. which will be pre-
sided over by Judge j. B. T. Thornton,
room. The docket will be called and
cases set for trial. Should any case be
tried at this term 1t will be heard in the
room of the United States court for the
eastern district of Virginia, in view of
the fact that several cases are slated to
be heard before the corporation court a
10 o'clock.
The special grand jury will be charged
by Judge Barley, and it may take up
some matters, it is understood, besides
the indictments which will be presented.
Among the two criminal cases which will
be presented to the jury is that of Ed
ward Travers held for the death of Mary
Gallahorne, who died the result of
fall from the porch of her home last
month
The case of William Harris, colored,
charged with the murder of Mamie Mar
tin colored. which occurred August 1:S
last will be presented. Harris stabbed
the woman in the throat with razor,
and she died few hours afterward. He
was captured a short time after her
death.
The grand jury summoned is composed
of following: w. T. Balm. George Young.
f. f. Lawler. c. b. Marshall, Thomas W.
Robinson Charles II. Callahan, J. d. Nor
moyle, T. Clifton Howard and w. b.
Smoot.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-09

Harry Shenk, while driving a one-horse
team across the Cumberland Valley rail-
road tracks at Shippensburg, Md, was
struck by passenger train. Shenk was
thrown fifteen feet sustaining severe In
juries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-09
DANCING.

ASSEMBLY DANCES NOW OPEN
NATL Rioes' Armory. Dancing, $50 TO II. every
Sat eve Davisons' Academy. Il9 9th NV; les
cons any hour class and dance Tues. ewes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-09

Edward Brewer of Lynchburg, Va, this
year raised a cluster of six tomatoes on
one stem which weighed four and one
half pounds. The tomatoes were about
equal in size.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-09
CONGRcG ATIONAL.

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. cor
ner 10th and & SIS. NV. Rev. Samuel H.
Woodrow ID. D. pastor; Rev : H. Swift, as
sistant pastor-li am. public worship. with
sermon 10y the assistant pastor, subject
.'MTNTTFS'': music hy the quartet and chorus
choir; g.ia Am. sunday school pm, " L.
l. M GXeuing service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-09

EMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH, 18TH ST.
and Columbia road nv. Rev. ii. s. Pinkham.
pastor. Sunday. Sept. To- Bible school, $3.50
am. Mr.. Percy $. Foster, supt.: morning
worship. II o'clock: evening service. O'Clock;
Christian Endoavor Society meeting. pm.
Rev. VIM. u. Mcfurdy of Martinsburg. W. Va:
will occuply the pulpit both morning and
evening \ cordial welcome To all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-09

If you want work read the want col
umns Of The Star,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-07-14

working without fatigue and without
Notwithstanding so long as the
moonlight lasted.
He was Just setting out with his last
load when, glancing skyward to see
caught a glimpse of Cayley on the
wing. The sight occasioned him no
return-not even momentary-of the
old terror. He cursed a little because
he had not his rife with him; the sky
man soaring slowly and not very high.
presented a mark he could almost GER
tainly have hit.
II was surprising, OF course. to see
him alive, but Roscoe, in his present
state. never thought OF looking to SUI
pernatural means to account for the
fact Indeed. he was hardly more than
a moment in approximating the true ex-
PLANTATION. There might well be. he
supposed, up somewhere in the face
of the cliff a cave, or shelter, of which
he knew nothing, and easily Access
sible to anyone who happened to pos
sess flying machine.
Skirting the cliff and keeping well
in its shadow. he made his way with
AAc Ae&oe AoANs coSh " MIS- SoNV. AACi q
he spent few minutes cleaning his
rife. making sure that the mechanism
Of the breech was working perfectly.
and filling its magazine full OF car
tridges.
The moon was Just setting. but the
sky was still bright enough to give
him a good hope of making out Cay
ley's winged figure against 1t.
Roscoe squatted down in the lee of
the great hummock of ice. surveyed
the heavens with keen, practised eyes,
munching on strip OF dried walrus-
meat which he had brought with him
and waited very contentedly.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-07-14
SYNOPSIS.

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has north to seek s ssas
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Eayiey. Fanshaw declares that 1t is an
rom re sssa to sh sSs
fy e /, T fshns sDr u1asFsa
t. to- t,nS q. the seareheEs; Tom processes his
Der fathers diary. which disclose the ess
ann returns to the hut and sees Jeanne.
ae is intent on murder; when the sky
man swoops down and the rufflan fees.
Jeanne gives Cayley her fathers diary
70 read The yacht disappears and Ros-
Jeanne's only hope ia in cayley. The
seriousness OF their situation becomes ap-
parent to Jeanne and the sky-man. Cay
Glue to the hiding place OF the stores.
Roscoe is about to attack the girl when
Of the sky-man swooping down. Measures
are taken to fortify the hut Cayley kills
1rst intimation that Roscoe possesses
nrearms. A fssure in the ice yields up
Hunters body and Roscoe. finding It. re-
moves the dead mans rifle. He discovers
that Cayley is human being and not a
SPIRIT. The ruffian is bafned in his plan
10 murder Cayley when the latter and
Jeanne take refuge in the cave where a
curious storm keeps them imprisoned.
They confess their love for each other.
Sayley, resolving to seek the ruffian and
XIII him, finds Roscoe's cave.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-07-14

He had not long to wait. Long be-
fore the moon twilight had gone out
of the sky he saw In 1t silhouetted
against it, the sight from which
he had once fled with such mad
mans wings.
Instead of firing, he scrambled up to
the top of the nearest Ice hummock
and from there watched Cayley' flight
to his landing place.
He laughed aloud when he saw that
1t was not in the side of the cliff, as he
had feared, but quite at the crest of 1t
where 1t was as accessible to a man
who could climb bit as to one with
wings.
He did not move from his attitude
of strained attention. on the summit
of a little ice hill. until he saw a faint
glow of golden light diffusing itself
from the mouth of the tunnel that led
to the pilot house. Then, with that
queer shufiiing gait of his. which was
neither walk nor run, he began max.
ing his way inshore. over the ice. to
ward the foot OF the cliff
Cayley's tunnel was not at right
angles to the crest, but bore off dag
onally westward. Roscoe had noted
this fact, and he figured It out from
the top of the promontory. which
formed the western boundary of their
strip of beach, he should be able to
command view straight into the tun.
mel. Also. there was at this point a
precipitous trail up the cliff. No one
but Roscoe would have called 1t a
trail, but that was the way It existed
In his mind.
His calculation of the angle OF the
tunnel proved to be correct, for from
his newly-gained coign OF vantage. he
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-07-14
CHAPTER XXI.
In the Pilot House.

Cayley had been right in assuming.
as he did in his conversation with
Jeanne. upon the subject, that Roscoe
and the other people of the Walrus
had never noticed the ice chimney, nor
house upon the cliff-head. Also, he
had followed correctly the track of
Roscoe's mind in the deduction that
the two latest castaways upon this
land-that is. Philip and Jeanne
must have persisted in the great storm
which began on the night when he
fired the hut, and continued for SO
many weeks that he, like them, lost
all trace of reckoning.
During the storm he had lived in
the cave, much as Philip and Jeanne
had lived In the pilot house on the
cliff; he had. that is to say. in some
purely automatic fashion. kept on ex-
listing. The mere momentum of a ma
ture mans vitality makes 1t hard for
him to die. But when the storm
abated and milder weather came. he
bestirred himself. as Cayley did. and
set about digging tunnel of his own
through the great drift which had
blocked the entrance to his cave.
The next time the moon came up,
after he had completed the tunnel
from the cave, he set out down the
beach toward the ruins Of the hut.
1t was not mere curiosity which
attracted him, nor any lurking fear
but simply the hope Of making some
salvage from the wreckage of the hut.
or possibly. from the bodies of his two
victims, In case he was lucky enough
10 find them. He had no doubt at all
that they were dead.
His pleasure over the quantity and
condition of the stores he found in
the ice cave compensated for his
disappointment over not finding the
bodies of his two latest victims.
Evidently they had not even at
tempted to use such shelter as the ice
chamber afforded. for 1t showed no
mark of human habitation at all. They
had probably wandered outside and
died in one of the nearby drifts. Per-
haps he would find them some day,
For the present. however. the stores
occupied his whole attention.
Very methodically he set to work.
carrying them on TO his own cave,
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-07-14

she was safe, he told himself. She
was armed with a heavy revolver. was
a good shot and had plenty of nerve.
She was in a place. the only avenue
of access to which would give her a
tremendous advantage over any in
vader. So that even supposing the
worst-supposing that Roscoe's abb
sence were taken to mean that he had
gone to make an attack on the pilot
house, there could hardly be a doubt
that Jeanne would kill him.
His reasoning was all based on the
assumption that the pilot house was
inaccessible to any wingless creature
except by way of the ice chimney.
Even now, when his fear for the girl
was amounting to a superstition of al
most irresistible intensity, 1t did not
occur to him to question that.
He steadied himself as best he could
and crouched down in the shelter of
the big rock to await Roscoe's return.
He had hardly settled himself here
when he saw something that made
him shake his head impatiently. and
swear q little. It was the winking
glow of an aurora borealis, off to the
north.
Cayley gazed at the spectacle unwill-
ingly, but still he gazed. And, some
how, though he fought the feeling des-
perately. 1t began to assume a per-
sonal Significance to him-a signifi-
canoe of mockery. The whole sky was
quivering with vast, silent laughter.
Was 1t because he, with his fancied
cleverness and daring in finding Ros-
GOES lair and waiting for his return to
it. was really doing precisely the thing
that Roscoe would have had him do?
Were those sky-witches laughing over
what was happening up at the pilot
house while he sat here and waited
No intelligence, no sane power of
consecutive reasoning can resist this
sort of thing definitely, and at last
Cayley's power of resistance came to
an end.
He sprang to his feet, at, last. drip
ping with sweat, in spite of the cold,
caught up his bundled wings. unfurled
them and took the air with a rush.
Once he had jerked himself aloft to a
height little above the crest of the
cliff, It was hardly more than a mat
ter of seconds before he came oppo-
site the dome-like mound of snow
which covered the pilot house.
There was no light shining out Of
the tunnel entrance. But that Was
as he had expected It to be. He made
1t out easily enough; and in another
moment had alighted there.
"Jeanne!" he called.
1t was not the exertion of flight. but
a sudden intolerable apprehension that
made him breathless. The word had
halted little in his throat. Exact
ly as he uttered It he saw down the
tunnel, and in the pilot house itself.
a tiny spark of fire. and heard the
click of steel against flint.
What the spark illuminated were
the fingers of gigantic, hairy hand.
"Jeanne!" he called again. and now
his voice came clear enough. wait a
minute and I'll make light for you"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-07-14
CHAPTER xxI.-continued.

Probably no apparition of the mon
ster he expected to find there-no
sight of him towering expectant.
armed. anticipating all that Cayley
hoped to do. and ready to Illustrate 1t,
could have been SO terrifying to Philip
- the thing he actually saw, which
At least. SO far as a
nrst glance into the cave would re-
veal. his enemy was not there.
Cayley shuddered. not with fear.
and yet with a sensation stronger
than disgust. 1t was as If a leopard
had been standing over the deserted
lair Of a hyena. A wild beasts lair
Il was and not a human habitation.
The floor was Uttered with feathers
and half-gnawed bones. The rocky
walls dripped with oil SCOT of his hor-
rible cooking. The foul air Of the
place was actually iridescent. But
the real horror of 1t lay in the fact
that Roscoe was not there.
Cayley's reasoning faculties attack
ed that blind, irrational horror with
all their force. From the condition of
the fire 1t was evident that Roscoe
had been gone several hours. 1t was
almost certain that he would return
soon. Cayley's arrival in his absence
really gave him an immense advant-
age. A man always comes unwarily
into the place he calls home. II Ros-
coe came back now he would have no
chance at all against Cayley's quick
spring and the fash OF the long knife
blade.
Certainly It was reasonable to ex-
pect that Roscoe would wait for an
other moonrise before setting out on
any serious sort of expedition, and, If
that assumption were correct, he
might be returning to the cave at any
moment
/ He strobe abruptly back to the cave
mouth. AS he did so. however, his
tNs,e alighted on something that made
pause-something so strangely
out of keeping with its surroundings
that 1t caused him-or he thought that
was the reason-a sense of recogni-
ton. almost of familiarity.
The thing which so evidently did
not belong to Roscoe that 1t seemed
almost to belong to Philip himself,
was gold locket. 1t lay on fat bit
of rock, which seemed to serve Ros-
GOES purpose as a table. The objects
which surrounded tan irregular
piece of raw walrus hide. an over
turned bottle of whale oil, with a
smudgy wick in 1t, sailmaker's
needle and some Rawlings of canvas,
together with some scraps OF food-all
spoke SO loud Of Roscoe and made such
contrast with this bit Of jewelry that
Cayley's action in STOPPING to pick It
up was automatic.
He held 1t In his hand a moment as
II he did not know quite what to do
with 1t, then put i. in his pocket and
went out of the cave. Only during
the moment when 1t had first caught
his eye had 1t really commanded his
attention at all. By the time he got
outside of the cave he had forgotten
It.
Two or three breaths of the clear
air outside of the cave were all he
needed to revive him. physically. But
to his surprise they did not suffice to
rid him of the feeling which he re-
garded as superstitious. namely. the
impulse to fly back to Jeanne as fast
as wing could carry him.
He lad every reason TO believe that
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-09-07
Tainted Money IIyprocrisy
tOUaha Hcy.I

\ ut,l. more than two years ago
thc democratic legislature OF y bras
X. driven Dog frantic outer, of the
local democratic organ against faint.
ed money. voted down resolution
authorizing supcwnnuatod university
professors to quality for Carnegie
foundation pensions Al tho changes
were rung on the disgrace OF accept
ing th" bou1ty or % mau like Nj car.
n'gie, who had JmJ.sed % fortune by
The usual methods OF dig business.
which have sine, como into moor, or
less diSrcpute.
The Hypocrisy that prompted tho
onslaught ON a." Carnegie pensions is
now thoroughly cNrnsrd. Here We
have AN acceptance for the city of e
donation of property trarythlo 10 u
much more questionable source but
not Il word of protest against tainted
money from our s,lf-righteuus hNph-
onatrd contemporary L. 1Irucgip's
money tainted merely bccauso polite
teal capital may be made out 81 10"
Does money lose its faint whom b
carries no partisan political adyant-
ages WHY so Wucl buncombc about
tainted money 80 ono time and such
acquiesc'ns. in 10 at another
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-09-07
The Divorce Problem.

Gun" Nov NuTk NAL
$50 form. pf legislation b.. so ,on.
pl'tc'y barred Co congress as divorce
legislation. because mo- ur,tgxt az
trade, no ur,t,Vt of national defense.
no sugcstiou ui lh, Other devices by
means of watch n, constitution hrs
been stretched uitlr from time to
time. can bring this subject within
the scope OF federal action
What about uniformity, then. by
Do" action Of the state legislatures
w may gain an idea of "a, ikclt-
hood of such action hy considering
tl't 90 r." are IN states nov in IN.
union have exactly fnrts-eight dit
''rrnt kinds of WNs ou thc subject.
ranging from nu divorce u lu 200
South Carolina .u d,orrc-ls.you-
p.ru-r % Nevada
Uniform divorce" agitation b. a
w,str OF good moral onort CoHsor.
NatN poopl should .Imu thoir sc-
uNiti's " This regard To- the staie In
which they I've Thsy should work
thcr, 'or the best hw they can get
and. Incidentally. set such An cx-
ample In their own ltvcs AS viii Tend
To make marriage, nd aitnmlno.s
in marriage. honorrd