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The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-04
Russia Needs 100000. 900 More

Petrograd, May 4, Via London, p
M.-An imperial ukase published to-
day directs the issue on foreign mar
ketS Of FIVE per cent. treasury bills ag
gregating 200,O00,000 rubles (s1O0,
000,000).
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-05-04

A dispatch received in London yes
terday said that another Russian in
ternal loan of $500, 100000, the sue
cess of which was assured, would be is
sued within a fortnight.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-11-06

| what spirit of reckless bravado. be-
cause it was my home; and you made
the decision apparently without any
consideration for me; without any
thought of the endorsements and
difficulties in which it might involve
me-"
Truly, the heavens had fallen and
the solid earth was reelingl Griswold
lay back in the deep lounging chair
and fought manfully to retain some
little hold upon the anchorings. Could
this be his ideal; the woman whom
he had set so high above all others in
the scale of heroic faultlessness and
sublime devotion to principle? And
she was so much a slave of the con-
ventional as to be able to tell him
coldly that she had recognized him
again, and that her chief concern was
the embarrassment it was causing her?
Before he could gather the words for
any adequate rejoinder, she was going
on pointedly:
you have done everything you
could to make the involvement COM
plete. You have made friends of my
friends, and you came here as friend
of my father. You have drawn Ed
ward Raymer into the ENHANCEMENT
and helped him with the stolen money.
In every way you have sought to make
1T more and more impossible for me to
give information against you-and you
have succeeded. l can't do it now,
without facing a scandal that would
never die in a small place like this,
and without bringing trouble and ruin
upon a family of our nearest friends.
And that is why I sent for you today;
and why l say you owe me some
thing"
Griswold was sitting up again, and
he had recovered some small measure
of self-possession.
81 certainly owe you many apologies.
at least" he said, ironically. 81 have
really been doing you great injus-
tfce, Miss Farnham-a very grave in
justice, though not exactly of the kind
you mention. 1 think have been mis-
apprehending you from the beginning.
How long have you known me as the
man who Is wanted in New Orleans ?"
"A long time; though 1 tried not to
believe 1t at first. 1t seemed incred-
IDLE that the man l had spoken to on
the Belle Julie would come here and
put me in such a false position"
Good heavensi" he broke out; "is
your position all you have been think
ing Of? Is that the only reason why
you haven't set the dogs on me?"
"It is the chief reason why couldn't
afford to do anything more than
have done. Goodness knows. l have
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-11-06

You have Just come from Doctor
Bertie'sf she inquired
yes
And Charlotte doesn't want. to
marry your"
Heavens and earth." he exploded
Who put the idea into your head that
/ wanted to marry herr"
You did"-calmly.
Then. for PHYS sake, let me take
1t out, quick If I were the last man
on earth, Miss Farnham wouldn't
marry me; and II she were the last
woman, / think I'd go drown myself
in the lakei"
The young woman of the many met
amorphoses was laughing again. and
this time the laugh was letter-perfect
imitation of a schoolgirl giggle-
"Myi" she said. How dreadfully
hard she must have sat on you'll
please don't laugh" he pleaded:
unless you are the heartless kind of
person who would laugh at a funeral.
I'm down under the hoofs of the horses,
at last. Margery. girl. Before you
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-11-06

tried In every way to warn you, even
to pointing out the man who is shadow
ing you To do 1t. have had to de-
ceive my father. l have been hoping
that you would understand and 90
away"
Wait a minute" he commanded.
Let me get it straight you still be-
ieve that the thing did was a Grim
inal thing?"
We needn't go into that part of it
again.. she returned. with a sort of
placid impotence. Once 1 thought
that there might be some way in which
you had justified yourself to yourself.
but now"
That isn't the point" he interrupted
roughly What 1 want to know is this:
Do you still believe it is a crime?"
OF course. it is a crime: l know IL
you know it. all the world knows it"
Again he sat back and took time to
gather up a few of the scattered
shards and fragments When he spoke
1t was to say: Il think the debt is on
the other side. Miss Charlotte. / think
you owe me something. You probably
won't understand when / say that Won
have robbed me of a very precious
thing-my faith in the ultimate good.
ness OF a good woman You believe
you have always believed-that l am q
criminal; and yet you have been weak
enough to let expediency seal your
ups am truer to my code than you
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-11-06
CHAPTER xxvIII-continued.

After the introduction to Johnson
his hand had gone mechanically to his
coat pocket The demon at his ear
was whispering "killi kill" and his
fingers sought and found the weapon
While he was listening with the out
ward ear to Bainbridge's cheerful rem
fniscences, the little minutiae were ar
ranging themselves; he saw where
Broffin would step. and was careful to
mark that none of the bystanders
would be In range. He would wait un-
til there could be no possibility OF
missing; then he would fire-from the
pocket
1t was Johnson who broke the spell
While cambridge was insisting that
Griswold should come in and make a
social third at the hotel dinner table,
the teller picked up his handbag and
mounted the steps. Griswold's brain
fell into halves. With one of them he
was making excuses to the newspaper
man; with the other he saw Broffin
stop Johnson and draw him aside.
What the detective was saying was
only too plainly evident. Johnson
wheeled short to face the sidewalk
group, and Griswold could feel in ev-
cry fiber of him the searching scrutiny
to which he was being subjected.
When he stole a glance at the pair
on the porch, Johnson was shaking
his head slowly; and he did it again
after a second thoughtful stare. Girls
void, missing completely now what
cambridge was saying, overheard the
teller's low-toned rejoinder to the de-
tective's urgings: It's no use, Mr.
Brofhn; I'd have to swear positively
to 1T. you know, and 1 couldn't do
that. No, 1 don't want to
hear your corroborative evidence; it
might make me see a resemblance
where there is none. Wait until Mr..
Galbraith RECEIVERS; he's your man."
Griswold hardly knew how he made
shift to get away from cambridge
finally; but when it was done. and
he was crossing the little triangular
park which filled the angle between
the business squares and the lake
fronting residence streets. he was
sweating profusely. and the departing
fear-mania was leaving him weak and
Passing the stone-basined fountain
In the middle of the park he stopped.
5erked the pistol from his pocket.
spilled the cartridges from its maya
zine. and stopped to grope for loose
stone in the walk-border. With the
fountain base for an anvil and the loos-
ened border stone for a hammer he
beat the weapon into shapeless inutili-
ty and flung it away.
God knows whom / shall be tempt
ed to kill. next" he groaned; and the
trembling fit was still unnerving him
when he went on to keep the appoint
ment made by Charlotte Farnham.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-11-06

view avenue. striding along moodfly
with his head down and his hands be-
hind him. when he collfded violently
with Raymer going in the opposite d.
rection- The shock was so unexpected
that Griswold would have been
knocked down IL the muscular young
iron founder had not caught him
promptly At the saving instant came
mutual recognition
Hello. there." said Raymer. you
are the very man I've been looking for.
Charlotte wants to see YOU
mot now she doesn't" was the
rather grim contradiction. Il have just
left her"
"Oh"
There was a pause, and then Girls
void cut in morosely.
so you did take my way out of the
labor trouble. after all. didn't your"
Raymer looked away.
'1 don't know just how you'd like to
have me answer that. Kenneth How
much or how little do you know of
what happened?"
Nothing at all''-short1y.
well, it was Margery who wrought
the miracle. of course. / don't know.
yet, just how she did it; but it was
done. and done right
And you have asked her to marry
your"
Suffering Scott, how you do come
at a mani Yes. 1 asked her, if you've
got to know"
''Well?" snapped Griswold.
'She-she turned me down, Ken
meth; got up and walked all over me.
That's a horrible thing to make me
say, but it's the truth
81 don't understand it, Raymer. Was
it the No that means No?"
81 don't understand it, either" re-
turned the iron founder, with grave
naivete. And, yes. guess she meant
it. But that reminds me- She knew
1 was looking for you and she gave
me note-let me see. I've got it here
somewhere; oh. yes, here it is-gilt
monogram and all
Griswold took the note and pocketed
ing at it.
Were you going to Doctor Ber-
tie's?" he asked.
81 was. Have you any objection?"
mot the least in the world. It's a
good place for you to go just now.
and 1 guess you are the right man
for the place. Goodnight"
At the next corner where there was
an electric light. Griswold stopped and
opened the monogrammed envelope.
The enclosure was a single sheet of
perfumed note paper upon which. with
out date, address or signature was
written the line:
"Mr. Galbraith is better-and he is
grateful
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-11-06
CHAPTER xxx.
Dust and Ashes.

A full moon, blood-red from the
smoke OF forest fires far to the east
ward. was rising over the Wahaska
hills when Griswold unattached the gate
of the Farnham. Enclosure and passed
quickly up the walk
Since the summoning note had
stressed the urgencies, he was not sur
prised to find the writer of it await
ing his coming on the vine-shadowed
porch In his welcoming there was
curious mingling of constraint and i'm
patience. and he was moved to marvel
MISS Farnham's outlook upon life, the
point of view of the ideally we'll bal
anced. was uniformly poiseful and self
contained. and he was wondering IL
some fresh ENHANCEMENT were threat
ening when she motioned him to a
seat and placed her own chair so that
the light from the sitting-r room win
COWS would leave her in the shadow.
You had my note?" she began.
Yes 1t came while / was away
from the hotel. and the regular trip
OF the inn brake was the first convey
ance l could catch Am later"
Her reply was qualified THAT re-
mains to be seen"
There was a hesitant pause. and
then she went on: DO you know why
1 sent for you to conner"
mo. not definitely"
I was hoping you would know: IL
would make it easier for me. You owe
me something. Mr.. Griswold."
owe you a great deal" he admit.
ted. warmly ut is hardly putting II
too strong to say that you have made
some part of my work possible which
would otherwise have been impos
sible."
didn't mean that" she dfssented
with q touch of cool scorn- Il have nc
especial ambition to figure as a char
acter. however admirable, in a book
Your obligation doesn't lie In the lit
erary feld: 1t is real-and personal
You have done me a great Injustice
and IL seems to have been carefully
premeditated-"
The blow was SO sudden and &C
calmly driven home that Griswold
gasped-
An injustice-to your" he protest
ed; but she would not let him go on.
Yes. At first. thought 1t was
only a coincidence-your coming ts
Wahaska-but now know better
Won came heca. In goodness knows
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-11-06
Surely Prize seareerow.

An American tourist had been boast
ing again in the village inn. says Lon
don Tit-Bits-
Talking of scarecrows." he said.
with a drawl. why. my father once
nut one UP. and 1t frightened the
crows SO much that not one entered
the field again for a year
He looked triumphantly around mis-
audience. Surely that had settled
those country pumpkins
But he was to meet his match
That's nothing" retorted one farm
er. "A neighbor o. mine once put a
scarecrow into his potato patch and IL
terrified the birds so much that one
rascal of a crow who had stolen some
potatoes came next day and put them
back
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-11-06
CHAPTER xxx.
Apples of lstakhar.

The swinging arc light suspended
above the street crossing sputtered
and died down to a, dull red dot of in
candescence as Griswold returned
Margery's note to his pocket and
walked on
There are crises in which the chief
contention looms so large as to leave
no room for the ordinary mental proc
esses Griswold saw no significance
in the broken line of Margery's mes
sage. The one tremendous revelation
the knowledge that the dross-creat-
ing curse had finally fallen upon the
woman whose convictions should have
saved her-was blotting out all the
subtler perceptive faculties; and for
the time the struggle with the sub
merging wave of disappointment and
disheartenment was bitter.
He was two squares beyond the
crossing of the broken-circuited arc
light. and was still following the curve
of the lakeside boulevard, when he
came to the surface of the submerg-
ing wave long enough to realize that
he had entered Jasper Grierson's por-
ton of the waterfront drive. The great
house, dark as to it's westward gables
save for the lighted upper windows
marking the sick room and its ante
chamber, doomed in massive solidity
among its sheltering oaks; and the
moon, which had now topped the hills
and the crimsoning smoke haze. was
bathing land and lakescape in a flood
of silver light. whitening the pale yell
low sands OF the beach and etching
fantastic leaf-traceries on the gravel
of the boulevard driveway
There was no inclosing fence on the
Mereside border of the boulevard. and
under the nearest of the lawn oaks
there were rustic park seats. Jasper
Grierson's single concession to the
public when he had fought for and
secured his property right-of-way
through to the lakes margin. Griswold
turned aside and sat down on one of
the benches The disappointment was
growing less keen He was beginning
to understand that he had made no
allowance for the eternal feminine In
the localized F1delia-for the feminine
and the straitly human But the dis
heartenment remained. Should he
stay and fight 1t out? Or should he
take pity upon the poor prisoner of
the conventions and seek to postpone
the day OF reckoning by flight?
He had not fitted the answer to
either of these sharp-pointed queries
when a pair of light-fngered hands
came from behind to clap themselves
upon his eyes. and a wellknown voice
said. Guess"
"Margery!" he said. and she laughed
with the joyous unconstraint Of a
| happy child and came around to sit
| by him.
Il was doing time out on the veran-
| da. and 1 saw you down here in the
moonlight. looking as If you had lost
| something" she explained. adding:
Have your
Il don't know; can you lose that
which you've never had?" he returned
musingly- And then: Yes: perhaps
did lose something Don't ask me
what 1t Ia. 1 hardly know. myself
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-11-06


came, was wondering If the game
were at all worth the candle"
Her mood changed in the twinkling
of an eye. THE battle is over, and
won." she said. speaking softly.
Didn't you know that?" And then:
"Oh, boy, boy! but it has been a des-
perate fight! Time and again 1 have
thought you were gone, in spite of
all l could dol"
You thought was gone? Then
you know"
"Of course 1 know; I have known
ever since the first night; the night
when 1 found the money in your suit
case. What silly. silly thing it was
for you to do-to leave the Bayou State
Security slips on the packages!"
But you said"
mo, 1 didn't say; 1 merely let you
believe that 1 didn't see them. After
that, 1 knew it would be only ques-
ton of time until they would trace
you here, and hurried; oh. hurried!
1 made up my mind that before the
struggle came, all Wahaska should
know you, not as a bank robber, but as
you are. and l made it come out just
that way. Then Mr. Broffin turned up.
you, and 1 Swallowed him-or had
Johnnie Fergus do it for me. 1 knew
he'd try Miss Farnham first, and there
was only one hope there-that> she
might fall in love with you and so re-
fuse to give you away. She did, didn't
she?"
Most emphatically, she did not" he
denied. You have greatly misjudged
Miss Farnham. The reason-the only
reason-why she did not tell Brofin
what he wanted to know was a purely
conventional one. She did not want to
be the most-talked-of woman in Wa
haska"
His companions laugh was not
pleasant.
I'D rather be a spiteful little cat,
which is what she once called me, than
to be moth-eaten on the inside like
that!" she commented. Then she went
on with Miss Farnham out of it
and knew she must be out of it.
since Broffin didn't strike-there was
still Mr.. Galbraith. You didn't know
why was SO anxious to have you get
acquainted with him. but you know
now. And 1t worked. When Broffin
asked him to identify you, he couldn't
or wouldn't Then came that un-
lucky drowning accident"
Griswold nodded slowly. Yes, Mr.
Galbraith knows me now"
He Doesn't" she exulted. He is
a dear old saint. and he will never
know you again as the man who held
him up. Listen: He sent for Broffin
this afternoon, and gave him a new
commission-someth about bonds
in California And he told him he
must go on the first train"
Once more the castaway was run
ming the gamut of the fiercely varying
emotions
Let me understand" he said. You
knew 1 had taken the money. and yet
you did all these things to pull me out
and make the holdup a success. Where
was your moral sense. all this time.
little girl?"
She made charming little mouth
at him.
II am Joan. and the Joans don't have
any moral senses-to speak of-do
they? That's the way you are writing
it down in your book, isn't ft?" Then.
with a low. laugh that sounded some
| unfathomed depth of loving abandon
ment: 1T was a game; and l played
it-played it for all 1 was worth. and
won You are free: free as the air.
Kenneth, boy. If Broffin should come
here this minute and put his hand
on your shoulder. you could look up
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-01
KITCHENER CALL FOR more men

hasa
a o
which is between
ionists
Kitchener
but m one At least he knew more about his business than
from feet inches to inches newspaper critics told him that this
best fighter by reason OF being able to v on less food
ing eaupping feeding asrng and drilling the new FPm
the order was jumped up to so90o suits Of woolsn
undercothes
supplies in proportion Besides training
prepared and officers the &
cared Kitchener
to feet inches for the bantam battasions,
The fact that England 9anaged
scripton is the chief upholders Of yomk
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-07-01
AUSTRALIA not
CORDIAL TOWARD
UNCLE sam nov
Al 6. Livingstone Says Feeling
OF Hostility Toward Ameri.
cans Has Increased

That most Australian people are
SORE" at America and Americans is
the opinion given out by A. ExLiving-
stone. traveller, explorer and magazine
writer who last week arrived In Ho-
nolulu from trip to the common
wealth. and IS stopping at the Alex
ander Young hotel Mr.. Livingstone,
Is great,grandson of the famous Afri.
can explorer. Though Of Scotch Eng.
lish ancestry he is American born, be.
ing native Of California.
was deeply and unpleasantly i'm
pressed on my trip to Australia this
time. said Mr. Livingstone. with the
ccolness and at times almost contempt,
with which American travellers are
being treated The Lusitania Incident,
instead Of serving to ,Faw us closer
to the colcnists, has irf reality given
them the impression that the United
States is the eneny OF England be-
cause she did not at once take up
arms against Germany, The people
have also strong feeling against us
on account oik the Dacia incident.
AS an example of this, Shen ar
rived in Sydney and dropped in at the
hotel where always stay, II noticed
CONTINUED on page twoJ
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JAPAN
FREIGHTERS TO
CONE FOR COAL
Nippon Yusen Kaisha Ships to
Call at Hon0IuIu-BreWer
&Company, & Agents

One of the largest steamship COM
panies doing business ID the Pacific
win send its steamers to Honolulu
regularly every fortnight. beginning
Saturday CT this week, when the Nip
pom Yusen Kaisha's Tottori Maru,
from New York and other east coast
ports. with large cargo for delivery
to the Far East. is expected to remain
here some hours before steaming to
Japan
= c. Brewer & Company has announc-
ed the acquisition Of the agency for
the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, 1t main
tains the largest fleet Of steamers sail
ing under the Japanese flag. The lire
has inaugurated a new Americana ORR
entail service. At least five big cargo
carriers are due to call at Honolulu
in the next so days. The Tottori
Maru passed through the Panama ca
nal June Is, and expected to get into
wireless communication with island
stations tomorrow.
C. Brewer & Company say the n
Y. K. Tokushima Maru, from New
York t6 Japan and China. will follow
the Tottori at Honolulu ion July Is.
The local representatives have been
asked to expect the Tsushima Maru,
Wakasa Maftl and Tokooka Maru at
an interval CT about Is days each.
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DEMOCRATS SURE
Of HAVING Voice
At CHARTER meet
Republican Candidates With.
draw in Certain Precincts
!. to Allow Minority Rep
reSentation

The Democratic party now Is asSur
/ ed of minority representation at the
charter convention. This was learned
today when It developed that the char
ter convention election. to be held
BsKt Tuesday, instead of being non
partisan will be merely bipartisan In
division of seats
In several of the precincts certain
Republican candidates have Withdrawn
or will withdraw. thereby reducing the
number of candidates to the number
to be elected, and by doing away with
& contest assuring certain of the Dem
ocratic candidates of seats In the CON
rention next September
According to reports circulating In
the various political camps of the city
the several meetings held in the
various precincts under the auspices
of the Republican party were not the
only sessions held for the purpose Of
selecting candidates for the special
charter election.
The information IS to the effect
that unadvertised sessions were called
by the leading Democrats in the var.
ious precincts, some under the aus.
pices of the precinct chairman oftthe
Democratic party, and that ticket
was nominated TO uppose the candi'
dates nominated at the meetings held
by the Republicans.
In any event the non-partisan slate Is
being opposed in several precincts. In
Precinct "A of the fifth district four
Republicans we're nominated at the
Republican ,party's meetings This
slate Is opposed by four DEM
ocrats, who are said to have been
nominated at one Of these semi.secret
sessions of the Democrats. J. A.
Baker, Fred A. Luning, David Kali.
Sr., and w. w. Buckle are the Bour.
boTis and ]. N. Keola. j. G. Pratt.
Chang Chau and A. K vierra are the
"nouspartisan. Republicans.
viefra aunonnced on the closing day
for filing domination papers that he
had withdrawn, but the county clerk
declates he has not been notified ot
the aileged withdrawal. vierra is en-
ployed in the city roads department,
and supervisor ,Hollsnger says that If
he IS elected he can not receive pay
from the city while serving as a dele
gate at the convention. Four candi-
dates are to be elected in this pre-
cinct.
An active Progressive candidate is
A. L. d Atkinson, from Precinct IL,
and he has no one running against
him. so zone Bull Mooser" will be
sure to Be In the convention Francis
J. Green zof Manoa is the other Bull
MooserT who is running.