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For an hour Ber31nln sat smoking in
tho silent room-one cigar after another,
deep IN thought his yellow eyes staring
at nothing. Into his countenance deep
lines had etched themselves. giving to
his coldly repellant look an expression OF
malignant force ana intention.
All at once there came a chirp from
the cage in the corner and its tiny occu-
pant, walked by the electric light, burst
into song as clear and joyous as though
before it's free wing lay all the meads
OF Eden. A look more human, soft and
almost companionable came into its mas
ters massive face. Bersonin rose and,
whistling opened the cage door and held
out an enormous forefinger. The little
creature stepped on it. and, held to his
cheek it rubbed its feathered head against
#. For a moment he crooned and whistled
10 it, then held his finger to the cage
and II obedienty resumed its perch and its
melody. The expert took a dark cloth
from a hook and threw II over the cage
and the song ceased.
Bersonin went to the door Of the room
and fastened 1t, then unlocked desk and
spread some papers on the table. One
was u chart. drawn to the minutest scale,
OF tine haTbor OF Yokohama. on it had
been marked a group OF projectile-shaped
spots suggesting a flotIlla Of vessels at
Snchor. For long time he worked alb
srbedly setting down figures, measuring
nth infinite pains computing angles-al-
rays with reference TO small square in
the maps inner margin, marked in red.
lie covered many sheets Of paper with
his calculations. Finally he took another
paper from the safe and compared the
/, two. He lifted his head with a look OF
satisfaction.
Just then he thought he heard a slight
noise from the hall. swiftly and noise
lessly as a great cat he crossed to the
door and opened II.
Ishida sat in his place scratching labor
tously with a foreign pen,
Bersonin's glance OF suspicion altered
what are you working at so industri-
pusly. Ishida?' he asked.
The japanese boy displayed the sheet
with pride.
Il was an ode to the coming squadron
BersOnin read II:
Welcome, foreign men-of-war!
Young and age,
Man and woman,
None but you welcome!
And how. our reaches know you but e
Nor The Babylon nor the Partisan yor
TO treat,
Be Il ever so humble
Yet a tidbit with our heartl
What may not be accomplishment Rising
SUM-
by II. Ishida with best compliment.
Bersonin laid it down with word Of
appreciation. "Well done" he said
You will be a famous English scnolal
before long" He went into the dressinl
room. but an instant recollected the paper
on the table The servant was IN an,
laboratory when his master hastily re
entered he was methodlcally removing thi
coffee tray.
Alone once more, Ishida reseated himsel
at his small desk. he tore the poem care
fully 20 small bits and put them into IN
waste paper basket. Then, rubbing the cak
Of lndai ink on its stone tablet, hebrew
with brush held vertically between thum
AID forefinger began 20 trace long, dele
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said the woman, pridefuny fitting the
pillow so as to show the tiny, vacuous
face. Are not its hands degradedly we'll
formed?"
wonderfully beyond saying! The father
IS still exaltedly ill.,"
1T is indeed sol 1 have not failed to
sprinkle the holy water over Jizo, nor to
present the straw sandals to the Guar
dans-of- the-Gate Also have rubbed each
day the breast of the health-god; yet
OBinzuru does not hearken. Doubtless It
is because Of some sin committed by my
husband in a previous existence! have
not knowledge of your Christian God, OF I
would make my worthless sacrifices also
to Him"
He heals the sick" said Haru, but
He augustly loves not sacrifice-as He
exatedly did in olden time" she hastily
supplemented, recalling certain readings
from the Old Testament
The gods Of Nippon divinely change not
their habit" returned the woman. ALSO
my vile intellect can not comprehend why
the foreigners God should illustriously
concerns Himself with the things Of another
land"
THE Christian Divinity" said Haru, is
a God Of all lands and all peoples"
The other unused. ut passes in my de-
graded mind that He, then, would lack
a sublime all-sympathy for our Kingdom
of-slender-swords. You are transcen-
IDENTIFY young, Ojo-San, but / am 3D. and I
hold by the gods of my ancestors"
"Honorably present my greetings TO
your husband" Haru said, as she bowed
her adieu. May his exalted person soon
attain divine health! Tomorrow l will
send another book for him to read"
he bo,. IL
on her tired face-the japanese smile that
covers so many things. She looked at the
baby's face on the pillow. Praise shaka,"
she said, aloud. there is milet yet for
another week. Then we must give up the
shop. Well can play the samisen, and
the gods are not dead"'
Behind her a dimnutive figure had lifted
himself upright from a fton He came
forward from the gloom, his single sleep
ing robe trailing comicaly and his great
black eyes round and serious "Why must
we give up the shop. honorable mother?"
Go to sleep, Ishikchi," said his mother.
Trouble me not so late with your rude
prattle"
But why, Okka-san?"
Because rent money exists not. small
pigeon she answered, gently 80 long
as we have ignoGy lived here, we have
paid the banto who brings his joy-giving
presence on the first Of each month Now
we have no more money and can not pay"
why have we no more money!
Because the honorable father is sick
and YOU are too small to earn. But let II
not trouble your heart, for the gods arc
good. See-we have almost walked the
Aka SAM
She bent over the pillow and began again
the elfin drumming at the infants ear.
But Ishkichi lay open-eyed on his fton
his baby mind graphing with a new and
painful wonder.
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CHAPTER xii.

In the Strect-of-Prayer-tO-t
Haru Unattached a gate across which
twisted a plum branch with furnished sill
yer bark II hid a garden so tiny that Il
was scarcely more than rounded boulder
set In moss, with a clump OF golden icho
shrubs. She rang a bell which hung from
a cord.
The ambassador went TO him hurriodly,
but Bersonin shook off the hand on his
shoulder and rising, sim emitting his
dreadful laughter, staggered across the
lawn and out OF the gate.
The appalling mirth re-echoed from far
down the quiet road.
"Hai-ai -ai-al-ee!' sounded long-drawn
voice from within, and IN a moment little
maid slid back the shoji and bobbed over
10 the threshold.
Her mistress stepped from her geta into
the small anteroOm. A voice was audible
reciting in drOning monotone. II stopped
suddenly and called Haru's name.
She answered instantly, and parting the
panels, passed into the next room, where
her father sat on his mat reading In the
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-08
International Romance by ffaIlie Erminie Riyes

Author. fJata1

she was laughing silently. what is it?'
he asked.
1--WE seem so tremendously acquainted"
she said, for people who" she stopped an
instant, You don't even know who am. -
In the references TO her coming he had
heard her name spoken and now by a sheer
mental effort he managed to recall IT.
you are Miss Fairfax" he said. And
my name. perhaps / ought to add, is Daunt.
l am the secretary of embassy. hope,
after our little effort of tonight you will
not consider diplomacy only high class
vaudeville. Such comedy scarcely repre-
sents our daily bill"
Poor brute!' she said. Il hope he will
inJure nobody"
Luckily the children are off the streets
at this hour" he answered. Hell not go
far; the police are too numerous. am
afraid our very efficient performer is per-
manentH retired from the company. But
l haven't yet congratulated you. You
didn't seem one bit afraid"
Il hadn't time to be frightened. Twas
thinking of something else The fright
came afterward, when l saw you-when you
left me on the railing" She spoke a little
constrainedly, and went on quickly: II
things. l should never dare to go up in
an aeroplane. for instance as Patsy tells
me you do almost every day. She says the
japanese call you the Honorable Fly
There's no foreign theater in Tokyo, and
no winter opera" he said lightly. we
have to amuse one another. and the Glider
is by way OF contributing my share Of the
entertainment, 1t is certainly an uplifting
performance" He smiled, but she shook
her head
Abr she said, Il know! l was at Fort
Logan last summer the day Lieutenant
Whitney was killed. l saw it,"
The smile had faded and her eyes had
just the look he had SO often fancied lay
in those eyes he had been used to gaze at
Lcross the burning diiftwood-his Lady OF
the Many-Colored Fires" lie caught him
self longing to know that they would INST
and soften II he, too, should some DAY
come 10 grief in such sudden fashion.
How brazen you must have thought a."
he exclaimed. MY impromptu solo,
mean. l hardly know how I came to do IL
suppose it was the moonlight cit doe.
make people idiotie sometimes you know
in the tropicsD and then when YOU played
that dear old song! ! used to sing il
years ago II reminds me"
Yes
"Of the last evening at college. Il wa,
night Ike this, though not so lovely.
sang II then-my last college SOLO
Your last?" She was leaning toward
him. her lips parted, her eyes bright on h
face.
Yes" he said, Il left town the mex
day"
Her eyes fell, She turned half away and
put a hand 10 her cheek. oh she sale
vaguely. "Of course"
But II was brazCn." he fin shed lamely
4 promise never to do IL again
dulled, weird sound from the stree
reached their ears-the monotonous hand
tapping OF a small, shallow drum
Some Buddhist deyOtee." he said
making a plous round OF holy places
lie is talking along IN a dingy, white cot
ton robe with red characters stamped al
over it-one from each shrine he ha
ylsited-and here and theirs in a d0orwa.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-08
CHAPTER n.
In n Garden of Dreams.

In NuEArh oh DEeAmhs
In the garden the moons faint light
glimmered on the broad satiny leaves OF
the cameliias and the delicate traceries Of
red maple foliage. At its farther side,
amid Towering bushes which cast long in
digo shadows, stood a small pRgoda,
brought many years before from Korea,
and toward this Daunt and the girl whom
he had held for a breathless moment In his
arms, strolled slowly along a winding,
pebbled path tremulant with the Pickering
shadows OF little leaves. The structure had
a small platform, and here on bench
they sat down, the fragrant garden spread
out before them.
He had remembered that guest had
been expected to arrive that day from
America, and knew that this must be she.
But strangely enough, II did not seem as
II they had never before met. Nor had he
the least idea that. since that short sharp
scene, they had exchanged scarcely a
dozen words. In its curious sequel, as he
stood listening 70 the echo of BersOnin'
strange laughter, he had momentarly Tor
gotten all about her. Then he had remem-
bered with a shock that he had left her
perched. in evening dress, on the high
railing Of the arbor,
Il wonder II YOU are In the habit, 'she
had said with a little laugh, "of putting
underground girls on the tops OF fence:
and going away and forgetting all about
them?'
Her laugh was deliciously uneven, bu
il did not seem so from fright. He hat
answered something inordinately foolish
and had lifted her down again-not hold
ing her so closely this time. lie remembered
that on the first occasion he mad held he
very tightly indeed. lie could stil Zee
the touch OF wisp Of her hair which. il
his flying leap, had fallen against hi
cheek. II was red-bronze and IL shon'
now in the mOonlght like molten metal
Her eyes were brown and when sh
smiled
He wrenched his gaze away with a start
But il did not stray far-merely 10 the poin
OF a white-beaded slipper peeping from
the edge OF ruffle OF gauze that ha'
mysterousiy imprisoned fiimy sprays o
lily of the-valley.
lie looked up suddenly, conscious tina
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he will stop to chant prayer in return
for a handful OF rice"
How strange! 1t doesn't seem to be-
long, somehow. with the telegraph wires
and the trolley cars. Japan is full Of such
contrasts, isn't It? 1t seems to be packed
with mysteries and secrets. Listen!' The
deep, resonant boom of a great bell at a
distance had throbbed across the nearer
STUNNING. That must be in some old
temple. Perhaps the man with the drum
is going there to worship Does any one
live in the temples? The priests do, I
suppose"
Yes" he answered. Sometimes other
people do, too. 1 know of foreigner
who lives in one"
What is he? European"
mo one knows. He has lived there fiji
teen years. He calls himself Aloyslus
Thorn. I used to think that he must be
an American, for in the chancery safe
there is an envelope bearing his name and
the direction that it be opened after his
death. 1t has been there a long time. for
the paper is yellow with age, No doubt
1t was put there by some former Chief-of-
Mission at his request. He has nothing to
do with other foreigners; as a rule he
won't even speak to them. He is some
thing Of a curiosity. He knows some lost
secret about gold lacquer, they say"
rs he young?'
mo"
Married."
"Oh, mo- He lives quite alone. He has
one Of the loveliest private gardens in the
city. Sometimes one doesn't see him for
months. but he is here now
She was silent, while he looked again at
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a gauzy hem. The silence seemed to him
an added bond between them.
1T can't always be so beautiful in
Japan" she said at length.
NO, indeed" he agreed, cheerfully.
There are times when. as my No, boy
says, honorable weather are disgust In
June the nubai. the rainy season is due,
il will pour buckets for three weeks with
out stop and frogs will sing dulcet songs
in the streets"
Yet now" she said, softly, 1T seems
too lovely TO be real! shall wake pres
emily TO find myself in my berth on the
Tenyo Maru, with Japan two or three days
off"
He fell into her mood. I'VE are both
asleep. That was why the dog vanished
so queerly Dream-dogs always do And
don't wonder at my singing. either PEG
pie do exactly what they shouldn't wher
they are asleep. But no. l really dom
Ike the dream version at all want this
to be true"
''Why?"
Her tone was low, but it made him tin
gle. A sudden melee Of daring, delicious
impulses swept over him. Because have
dreamed too much" he said, in as low
voice. Here in the east The habit grows
on one; We dream Of what all the beauty
somehow misses-for us. But tonight, a
least. is real / shall have Il TO remembe
when you have gone, as IL suppose yo'
will be soon"
She leaned out and picked a slender ma
pie leaf from a branch that came n
through the open side OF the pagoda, and
holding Il in her fingers, turned towar,
him. Her lips we're parted, as II 10 speak
But suddenly she tossed It from her, ros
and shook out her skirts with a laugh
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Carriage wheels were rolling up the drive
from the lower gate.
Thank you" she cried, gaily. But no
hint shall move me. l warn you that in
tend to stay a long time!"
In the lighted doorway, as Patricia and
her mother stepped from the carriage, she
swept him a courtesy.
"Honorably deign to accept my thanks, j"
she said, for augustly saving my insig-
nificant life! And, now, perhaps, we can
be properly introduced"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-10-12
MRS. DOVER HEADS 0. E. S.
GAINESVILLE Woman Chosen President
of State Eastern Star at Mil
waukee Meeting.

Milwaukee.-Mrs. Jennie Dover,
GAINESVILLE, was elected grand worthy
matron of the grand chapter of
Wisconsin of the Order of the
Eastern Star at the closing session
of the twenty-first annual gather
ing in the Masonic temple.
Other officers named are: Grand
worthy patron, Michael Barry, Phil
lips; associate grand worthy matron,
Mrs. Edith Beard, Beloit; associate
grand worthy patron, H. G. Gle.
Marshfield; grand worthy conduc-
tress, Mrs. Ada B. Cooper, Eau
Claire; associate grand worthy con-
ductress, Mrs Flora Hurlis. Amigo;
grand worthy secretary, Mrs. II. N.
Latin, Milwaukee; grand worthy
treasurer, Mrs. b. F. Parker, Milwau-
kee: trustee, William A. Lawrence.
Sturgeon Bay; members of the home
board, Mrs. Anna p. Parkinson, Min
eral Point; Mrs. Rose r. Mead,
Plymouth.
The reports showed the order to
be in flourishing condition. About
LOO members were added during
the last year. The order has men,
bership of over 1900 in the state.
The next annual gathering will
be held in Milwaukee
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-10-12
.Dlv|DE BLAME IN
CROSSING CRASH
CORONER'S JURY AT NSENAH
DECLARES DRIVER AND RAIL
ROAD BOTH NEGLIGENT.
BELL ALARMS ARE PRAISED
General Manager of Northwestern
Road Says Warning Gong Prevents
Many idents-Dangerous Cross.
ings to Be Eliminated.

Neenah.--That the fifteen persons
who died as a result Of the grade
crossing horror of Sept. "a came to
their deaths as result of the care
lessness of Driver Peter Hanson,
and that If the crossing had been
properly guarded the accident would
not have occurred, was the verdict
OF jury in the inquest. The july
deliberated thirty minutes and after
inquest was concluded an investi-
CATION by the state railroad commits
sion was held. The concrete result
was that the commission will hasten
It's efforts to eliminate grade cross
ings in Wisconsin. which Chairman
Roemer said is the ultimate purpose
of the commission in dealing with
this branch OF the commissions
work.
One of the most important wit
nesses was w. d. Cantillon, general
manager of the Northwestern rail
road. He admitted, when the mat
ter of trains speed was brought up,
that in order to satisfy the demands
of the travelling public the company
must violate the city and village
ordinances and the state law which
attempt to regulate the speed Of
trains. He also said an electric
alarm bell system is good on any
crossing and there was no report OF
any accident on the Northwestern
road where bells have been installed.
Mr.. Mcdonald suggested 10 the
commission that the apparently UNI
necessary crossings in this city be
eliminated. Engineer II. II. Hovey
of the commission was instructed to
investigate at once and report. He
stated three dangerous grade cross
ings in this city could be eliminated
by diverting streets.
Before the commission. Peter Han
son testified that but for the bill
board near the crossing the accident
would not have happened.
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Some Mosquitoes,

Yes" said the traveller who had
just returned from South Africa. Il
was one day so annoyed by mosquitoes
that | was compelled to take refuge in
an old iron safe which lay discarded
on the veldt
MY first, emotions of Joy at my
happy deliverance were hardly over
when the mosquitoes seeming me, be-
gan to drive their singers through
the safe Fortunately, | had a ham,
mer in my pocket, and as fast as their
stingers came through the iron l
clnched them. until at length such
Il. host of them was fastened down in
this way that, when they started to
fly away. they carried me and that
safe miles.
Then, one by one, they died with
the exertion, and | was able to come
out with safety. Yes, wonderful
things happen In foreign parts
Ideas.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-10-12
STATE BAPTiSTS END MEET
Condemn the Proposed Attendance of
Secretary Wilson at Brewers Con-
vention-Pck Racine for 1912.

Janesville.--With Racine named
as the next convention city, follow
ing the election of officers. the bust
ness session of the sixty-seventh an
nual session of the Wisconsin State
Baptist association closed The most
important action of the convention,
aside from uniting with the Free
VIII Baptists, was the passage O. a
resolution condemning the proposed
visit of Secretary Of Agriculture Will
son to the coming brewers conven-
ton.
The convention also approved of
the movement to make the divorce
laws more rigid, approved the clos
Ing of the postoftices on Sundays,
approved of President Taft's arbitra-
ton treaties, and Of the general ten
cts of the church as laid down by
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Eau Claire, where money is also be-
ing raised for the relief of the home
less and penniless here.
The bulk of the stocks of the
stores could have been saved had
their owners needed the warning sent
them when the water broke through
at Hatfield, but they refused to be-
lieve that the situation was serious
until the food struck them. Then
it was too late to save anything but
their lives. Helpless while their
property was being destroyed, men
went frantic, and all about out Of
reach of the water, single and in
groups, people fell upon their knees
praying the Almighty to stay the
work of destruction.
What remained of the small dam at
Black River Falls was dynamited in
an unsuccessful effort to turn the
stream back from the business streets
into its old channel.
Fear was entertained here for
towns further down the river, but
telephone messages from Melrose,
nineteen miles from here with pop
ulation of 200, and North Bend, TWEEN
ty-five miles away with a population
of 100 contained the information that
both towns We're safe.
The defective construction of the
municipal power plant is held by en-
gineers to be partly responsible for
the disaster. The concrete dixie of
the city dam, just completed, was laid
diagonally to the course of the river,
instead of at right angles, throwing
the flood waters toward the business
section when the torrent was re-
leased Had this protective dixie been
built straight across to the side bank,
the eddy through which the food got
it's first opening into the bank where
the business section was located
would not have existed.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-10-12
SPLENDID CANADIAN
Crops
Wheat, Oats and Barley Uni.
versaIly Good Throughout
Manitoba, Saskatchewan
and Alberta.

The reports that come to hand from
the wheat fields of the western Cana.
dian provinces show remarkably good
yields In all parts. Yields are record
ed Of wheat going 35 and 40 bushels
In many places, and oats from 60 to
100 bushels per acre. Barley and flax
are splendid. The thousands of Amer
leans throughout the United States
who have friends in Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan or Alberta will be pleased
to learn of the great success that
has followed their forts. Many of
these have not confIed themselves to
the growing of grain. but have also
luxurious grasses that are so abun-
dant there. in almost all districts.
make this Industry safe and profitable
The land sales reported by the rail-
way companies and by the different
land companies show the great in
crease that will likely take riace
during the next year in farming oper-
atoms What has been said time and
time again may now be well repeated,
that there is no place on the Ameri-
can continent where the same oppor-
tunities are afforded the man looking
for home, for the young man start
ing out in life, the man with grow
ing up family, who desires wider
scope for his ambition. The Cana
dian government agents located at
different points in the states will be
glad to advise the reader of the condi-
tons, and relate to hin instances Of
the great success that has followed
farming in Western Canada.
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MAKE GRAIN RATE PROTEST
Wisconsin State Millers Association
Files Complaint With Interstate
Commerce Commission.

Washington, d. C.--The Wiscon-
Sin State Millers' association have
filed a complaint with the interstate
commerce commission against the
Milwaukee a. Northwestern Rail-
way companies, alleging the collec-
tion of an excessive, unreasonable
and unjust freight rate of So cents
per 100 pounds on wheat and 142t
cents per 100 on corn and oats, in
carloads from Council Bluffs, Ia,
and Omaha, Neb., and 14% cents
per 100 pounds on wheat and Is 81
cents per 100 pounds on corn and
oats In carloads from Kansas City to
points in central and northern Wis.
consin.