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that he grew listless. George made no
complaint. however Charlton summoned
II physician. who reported that there
was nothing the matter with the boy.
The doctor failed to list inconsistencies
among acute ailments.
Toward the end OF the second week
George moped even more Then. one day.
he departed.
That he was seventy miles from home
mattered nothing to George. That his
only sustenance was a two-week-old
cake mattercd even less. That his total
cash capital consisted OF 3 cents was
4 cause of rejoicing rather than regret.
Seven days later. just as dusk was
setting in. there came a knock on the
orphan asylum door Miss Davenport
opened it. There stood George weary.
bedraggled. small boy. whose bare legs
were marked with briar scratches and
whose shoes were worn to tatters.
1--WE come home" said George.
Miss Davenport was speeches.
Il walked" continued George. because
| didn't have money TO ride: and want
ed TO see YOU"
Walked Seventy miles,
kicked the cinders-foIlowed the ties
hit the grit
Georges voice took on a quality Of
pride as he demonstrated this enlarge
ment in his vocabulary. And while Miss
Davenport. who is unacqusinted with the
language of the road. tried to digest this
hobo talk" George continued his tale.
Il had scow too" he said a tramp
gave me some mullisan. You put every
thing you've got in 1t and cook II in
tin can"
Poor child said Miss Davenport.
I'm all right" replied George sleepily.
1T amt much Of walk IL you know
where you want to 60"
Miss GLADYS MAYER Is YfEitinr Mr. ara
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Miss Gladys Mayer is visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Leo Loeb, in Glenridse. New Jersey.
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D0WNEY'S SON NAMED.
Treasury Clerk Appointed by Presi-
dent at McAdoo's Request.

Pesident Wilson has issued an exec
utive oder appointing Alexander c.
Downey. son Of the former Comptroller
of the Treasury, who served as private
secretary TO his father. a clerk in the
competitive classified service without
compliance with the civil service rules
The order was issued upon the request
of the Secretary OF the Treasury The
Civil Service Commission concurred in
the request because it was shown that
Mr.. DOwney had special training for a
certain class of work
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personal" RURAL LOANS, AIM
Leaders in Congress May Provide
for "short" Time Loans,

Leaders of Congress in presenting their
rural credit program this winter may urge
legislation aiding loans on personal prop
erty in addition TO that for loans on rea.
estate
About year ago the federal rural cred
its commission in recommending long
suggested that short loans with person
al property as security might be left for
consideration by the various communities
1t is now believed the time has arrived
for legislation dealing with both kinds.
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DR.. William T. Davis is attending the
meeting of the Clinical Congress OF
Surgeons of North America and tn.
annual convention of the College of
American Surgeons in Boston, Mass
achusetts.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-10-25
PASTOR LAUDS WILSON
FOR WATCHFUL WAITING
Rev. John McMurray Condemns Pre-
paredness Propaganda as
... Dangerous.

President Wilson's policies were COM
mended and the preparedness propa-
ganda was condemned last night by Rev.
John McMurray. pastor Of Union NJ. E.
Church
The unselfsh and praiseworthy pol
icy of watchful waiting pursued by a
wise and prudent President and a sane
and sagacious Secretary OF State" said
Rev. Mr.. Murray. already begins to
reap and will continue to reap a harvest
Of happily oaieted and calmly settled
governmental conditions In a sister ma
ton and the fruitage of fraternal good,
will and cemented friendship Of all the
American republics. "a
How much better this than the sick
ening sight Of our dead and wounded
soldiers lying on battlefelds: our Ameri-
can nation has lost but little and gained
much by the steady course followed by
our Chief Executive at the helm OF ma
tional affairs in guiding TIE ship of state
through the troublous seas of world
wide politics.
III We SOW seeds Of selfish militarism
We shall reap international strife. The
sight of a man heavily armed In a cow
boy town leads those who are armed to
seek a fight, and those who are not
armed &c. arm themselves
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The COUNTESS TANESSESCo Who Thrilled New Yorks Brodayes
Few Days Ago by Appearing FadRusan Boots With Skirt
OF Length Display the Boots Advanashe Countess Appeared
in Washington a Year Ago in Local Theater.
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When the second 42-centimeter shell
struck the Liese Notifications It is sup
posed to have killed 100 men. And since
the cost of those shells is less than 5000
this must have been one OF the least ex-
pensive massacres of the war.
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Facing a Grave Crisis.


serious crisis that it has faced at any
time. We will have to decide, ana
quickly, whether we shall hold our own
by common sense methods. or shall lay
ourselves open to attack from another,
and perhaps a weaker. nation, but one
better prepared for backing up de-
mands by force of arms. Recalling
the immortal words of Senator Pinck-
new of South Carolina, Millions for de-
fense. but not a cent for tribute, which
have been written in words of gold on
the pages of our history, I ask: Can
we today, in our present unprepareo
CONDITION. repeat those words TO
f;rst-class power? We could. but they
would have about as much force as
command to the sun to go to rest or
tn the wind to cease to blow, ana the
Sraat Almighty God alone can foreteli
the Iisa ster that will result to the ma
ton from our present short-slShteo
All is well with the nation while the
beautiful white dove of peace Is !ockeu
securely within its golden cage enjoying
the bright sunshine, but when the hun!er
anpears with his gun, shoots TINS pro
who is behind it's golden bars. helpless ana
unnrepared to fly, when those snow wnl,e
feathers are stained by the BLOOD OF
slaughter, who is responsible:
we depend upon our cage OF golo' our
arrogance our trust in human nature ara
scraps of paper for protection. But the
price. unprepared, Inundated, and per-
haps defeated, this shall be the TOLL.
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HONOR FOR D. A. r. LEADER.
Reception Planned for Mrs. George
Thatcher Gurnsey of Kansas.

Among the prominent Daughters of
the American Revolution now in Wash
ington to attend the silver jubilee of
the D. A. r. is Mrs. George Thatcher
Gurnsey of Independence, Kan. who
has announced her candidacy for presi-
dent general of the organization in
1917.
In her honor a musical and recep-
ton under the auspices OF the District
officers and Chaplin Woman's Christian
Temperance Union will be held tomor-
row evening at o'clock at the head
quarters, 522 9Th street northwest. Mrs.
Gurnsey has been elected honorary
president of the charter union of the
District.
A blanket invitation has been ex-
tended to all the temperance women
and Daughters of the American Revo-
luton in the city to attend the recep-
ton by the chairman on arrangements,
Mrs. Helen Nelson DOGGY.
All the women high in club life will
receive with Mrs. Gurnsey. The pre-
sensations will be made by Mrs. Will
liam Henry Beck, widow Of Brig. Gen.
Beck, U. S. A.
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DR.. HOWARD FISHER BACK
FROM LABORS IN FRANCE
Survivor Of Lusitania Disaster Aided
in Establishment Of Hospital
for Wounded.

DR.. Howard Fisher of the Mendoza,
Goth street and Kalorama road. who
has been working for the last Eve
months in France. establishing a hos
pital for the wounded at Ris-Orangis,
has just returned to Washington.
DR.. Fisher was one of those who es-
capped in the Lusitania calamity. He
was en- route for England with his
sister-in-law, Miss Dorothy Conner.
who had been a nurse in Washington,
to join q brother -in-law Harold Reck-
lit. in the establishment of this hos
pital, when the Lusitania was sunk.
Hiss Conner also was rescued.
The hospital, of 200 beds, was found
ed by Mr.. Reckitt. whose father is a
member of the peerage in England
and by Lady Johnston, sister of Gift
ford Pinchot With the return to
Washington Of DR.. Fisher the hospital
is in charge Of DR.. Joseph Blake OF
New York, who formerly was surgeon
of the American motor ambulance in
Paris.
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civil war surgeon, DR.. A. b. Beattie.
was adopted as the Official song of the
National Defense League, and was sung
at the closing meeting by Mrs. Thomas.
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If it was not one of the finest Offered,
with the highest class type of enlisted
men of any army in the world, it would
not have been possible to have carried
on the work that it has been called
upon to do.
take the coast artillery, for instance.
This branch is the guardian of more
than 5000 miles Of coast line. of bill
lions of dollars worth of property and
millions of lives. If 1t was assembled
at one of our large cities and was
taken in body to one of the big base
ball parks, it would not represent the
number of paid attendance of a double
header base ball game under ordinary
conditions. Just think of it, the en-
tire branch of service upon which We
must depend in time of war for the
our very lives. smaller than a local
base ball crowd.
I'VE are not military people, but we
are fighting people. While it is not
necessary that this country should
have an immense standing army, it
should. at air times, have a large and
efficient. paid reserve, such as the
United Spanish War Veterans advocate.
Compulsion for the Future.
Compulsory military training at
present cannot prevail in this country.
1t seems to be contrary to the spirit
of Americanism. Our country is most
ly made up from the men and the de-
cendants of men who have left their
mother countries to escape the helmet
of miitarism and wear the hat of the
freedman. This man, a voter, is nu-
merous enough to defeat any public
official for public office who would
boldly dare to advocate such a PROPOSE
ton. 1t Is possible that it may come
later.
All public schools, which are kept
up by taxation. should teach a certain
amount of things military. Boys
should be taught the rudiments of tao
tics and military sanitation; they should
be formed into companies and drilled
Military instructors could and should
be provided. from the contemplated reg
ular army reserve. The simple princi-
pies of soldiers duty taught the boy
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at this impressionable age will leave a
mark upon his mind when he is young
cate BY this one method alone we
have a soldier in the making. The
regular army will probably, never be
larger than 100000 men. This. Of
course, will be our first line Of de-
Tense. The second line will be our mi
litia or National Guard, while the third
will be our reserve. The veterans of
the Spanish-Amercian war, Philippine
dition. realizing the condition Of I'M
preparedness and the necessity for
strong reserve, owing to the sad expe-
rience of our volunteers during the
trouble of 1898 and 1902, have gone on
record, time after time, against this
policy of unpreparedness."
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SUGGESTION Is Made at Closing
Session of National De-
tense Conference.
PLAN is OUTLINED BY
LIEUT.. MURPHY OF D. C.
Proposes Organization Into Regi-
ments and Annual Camp .Instruc-
ton by Regular Army Officers.

Suggestion that 100000 Boy Scouts
be banded into regiments and be given
military instruction and training under
army officers to fit them to take or
ganized action in defense of the ma
made at the conference on national de-
Tense, closing a three-day session in
the New Willard Hotel.
Nearly 300 delegates who attended
these conferences are on their way
home to all states of the Union today,
with definite instructions as to the
work that they can perform in arous
ing public demand for more adequate
army and navy reserve forces suffi-
cient to meet any armed attack.
The suggestion for training of the
Boy Scouts won much favorable atten-
ton. 1t was made by Lieut. j. j.. Muir
ply of the seventh police precinct, who
attended the conference as a delegate
from the Army and Navy Union. Lieut..
Murphy served in the 5th Cavalry and
was in the Custer campaign against
the Indians, in which that leader was
mastered He was given medal OF
honor from Congress for his services.
Suggests Pay for Services.
Lieut.. Murphy's proposition was that
each Boy Scout should receive s2o TO
$50 year for his services to the nation,
and that one month each year, about
July or August, when it would not in
terfere with school duties, they should
be assembled in camp in charge OF an
.rmy officer and be drilled in maneu-
vers, camp life and the use of arms.
The United States Song" an anthem
by Mrs. Jessie Beattie Ihom-
as. widow of former Representative
Judge John r. Thomas, daughter Oh a
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PREVENTS LOSS OF INTEREST.
Depositors to Get 80 Per Cent Of
Value of Foreign Gold.

Superintendents of the New York as
say office and the San Francisco mint
were authorized today to issue checks
to depositors for 80 per cent of the
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value Of foreign gold coin deposited
with them. Heretofore only 80 per
cent of the value of such deposits was
paid at the time of deposit, per cent
a few days later and the remainder on
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Army Reserve Is Advocated
as Third Line of Defense
by Spanish War Veterans

Netice that Congress will be asked at
the next session to enact legislation es-
tablishing an army reserve corps as a
powerful defense arm Of the government
was given by Commander ]. S. Holmes,
speaking for the United Spanish War
Veterans. This plea was made by that
organization Gin the name Of humanity,
in the name of peace, which era we hope
shall never be broken" He urged such
action "as one of the great stones in fhe
walls of national defense which you are
building, and let US continually pray for
peace, but. of necessity, let us be pre-
pared to fight for it,
Commander Holmes said the country
is facing the greatest crisis in its history
and that the coast artillery defense has
dwindled to such small number OF men
that the entire corps could be packed into
any one of our large base ball parks He
said. in part:
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the completion of the assay. The new
regulation will prevent loss of interest
by depositing bankers. the government
retaining only one per cent until the
coins are assayed.
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Regular Army Scattered.

"Our regular army today consists OF
about $4,000 men, 1t is scattered to the
four winds of the earth. The sun never
sets upon the American flag. Such small
attachments as represent the power OF
this government are in many climes
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-04-29
CHAPTER KIN.
campGor ,hs.NIaht

We'll. Eenta!" the driver observed
eAserfulIy. Withdrawing head and
hands from long and intimate com
munion with ths stubborn genius be-
Meath ths hood II reckon you-all
mays we'll make up yore minds TO
christen this hyeh Aalubrioua spot
Camp oF-tha,Nigh You wont be
goin' no fartheh--not just I present
Pulling this old wagon through them
desert sands back yORdeh has Just
naturally broke the heart Of that en-
ainel"
What, preciaeiy. II the trouble?"
Alan Law Inquired. rousing from anx-
tOua prooceupatlon
Plumb bust all TO hell" the chauf.
teur explained teraeiy.
Nothing could bo fairer. more en-,
act and comprehensive than that. /"
Tom DaTcus commented.
Law nodded q head too weary 10
respond TO tho others humor. Ills
worried eyes reviewed tho scene OF
che breakdown.
whats TO DO doAer' Mr., Law won.
aeFad aloud
Take II calm" the aftable chauffeur
advised, ''Frettin' won't got you-all
mothips II II was mo. ia call Il a
day. make = Are. set them cushions
out Of tho eyah. and set some rest
You cant do nothin' titl I got back.
anyway. and that won't be much be-
fore sunup~
+wheFe ara you goinGF' naFeua Dc.
mannded
waikiki. friend! iusa waikiki"
what iOFf''
~To fetch help leaAtwAya, onlesn
y0'vs got Some kick comin' and 'ud
gatheF stop hyeh permanent"
lie turned on and busted himself
With preparations against hta Journey
-lt'n simply things like this make
mo believe this isn't. after all. moth.
ana more nor leaa than a long drawn,
out nightmare" narcua observed pom.
alvaiY
hdt MF Law was no more attend,
taK he had turned away and was Just
ahea stAndiag by the running board OF
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standing OF Judith. Eyeing her mar
rowly though furtiyely. Mr. Barcus
saw her handsome face darken omin-
ouAly
And her father Was as quick TO
recognize these portents OF trouble
and TO seek to advantage himself Of
them.
His head eransd out horribly on his
long. wasted neck as he pitched a
SIbiIant whisper for her ears. and his
face In the moonlight seemed TO glow
with the reflection OF that inferno
which smoldered In his evil
But one was silenced. the other
quenehed. all In a twinkling His
daughter turned on him In a flash OF
imperial rage.
Barcus caught snatches OF the WON
ans TRADE,
BE SILENT" he heard her say. BE
silent. do you hear? Don't ever speak
TO me again unless you want me to re.
place that gag say. don't sF=ak TO
met I am finished with you
once and for all time: never again
shall you pervert my nature TO your
damnabls purposes-neyer again shall
word or wish OF yours drive me 10
lift my hand against a man who has
aeysr done you the least harm, though
your persecution OF him would have
acquitted him Of charge OF man.
slaughter In any court-on grounds OF
self-defensel Understand mel"
she ragged, Tim through. Henceforth
! go my way, and you yours -
Her voice broke. She elenched her
hands into two tight fists with the
effort at seifcontrol and lifted u
wrlthen face to the moonlight.
God help us both" she cried
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1915-04-29
CHAPTER XVI.
Flood and Fire

Screaming to make himself heard
above the roar of the deluge, Barcus
hammered In Alan's ear:
That DEVIL He's found the reser-
voir-opened the sluicegates-turn
1t into that shaft! We're done fort"
Alan had no argument with which To
gainsay him Silently getting on his
feet, silently he CROPPED for Rose in the
darkness, momentarily becoming more
dense as the fall OF water shut ont
the light, and drew her away with him
up the slight incline that led back To
the bulkhead
The water mounted rapidly. With.
In hve minutes 1t drove them back IN
the elbow in the tunnel: within ten it
tapped their ankles as they fingered
there doubling which was the greater
peru, to advance or to stand fast and
let the flooding tide snud out the fires
OF life. To return 70 the neigbbor.
hood OF the bulkhead was to court the
death indicated by the fuse and the
6eg OF blasting powder
or a sudden the thought crossod
Aian mind that Marrophat had ar
ranged the latter solely to keep them
away from the bulkhead. Now that he
thought Of it, he felt certain that the
powder room had been deliberately
disclosed to him by Jimmy.
Probably, then, the key and fuse
were but stage properties-or DOS
sibly
whether or no. was death In one
form preferable to the other?
he was decidedly Of the opinion
mat II were better to be extinguished
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to the bottom of the shaft-a descent,
he estimated shrewdly. OF something
like q hundred feet.
A hideous screechIng followed, the
protests OF rusty and greaseless ma.
chinery. Twisting his neck, Barcus
saw the dim opening OF the shaft
slowly closing. as II a curtain we're
being drawn down over II. Jimmy
was closing the bulkhead door, leav-
ing them definitely prisoners, beyond
human aid. there In that everlasting
black hole.
With final squeal and thump the
hulkhead settled into place. A con-
fusion of remote sounds thereafter In
dictated that Jimmy with, perhaps.
Marrophats assistance) was making
the bulkhead fast beyond question
wedging and blocking 1t with tlmbers.
These ceased--and the silence was
broken by Alans voice
"Barcusl"
The latter grunted soultully by way
OF answer he could do no more.
I've worked my gag loose" Alan
pursued In hurried whisper, but my
hands are tied behind my back. Are
yours Grunt once for yes"
Dutifully Bracus grunted a solitary
grunt,
Then roll over on your face and
give me chance to work them free
that way, given time :"
Timel" was the mirthless thought
OF barcus, Haven't we got all eter,
nityf"
For all that. he wasted no time
whatever in obeying Alan's suggestion
then lay for upward OF ten minutes
with his face in the mold OF the tunnel
while Alan chewed and spat and
ehewed and spat and chewed again At
the ropes round the wrists OF his
friend
IL Il were In truth no more than ten
minutes it seemed upward OF an hour
before the bonds grew slack and Rar.
Gus with an effort that cost him much
81 the skin on one wrist worried a
hand free, then loosed the other "a.
moved and spat cut his gag. aud set
hastily about freeing his friend. That
took but a few instants-little mora
than was needed TO rid Rose OF her
bonds
That much accomplished. a nauss
OF profound CONSERVATION followed
The darkness was absolute in the tup.
nel. Jimmy having taken the candle
away with him; and its silence was
rendered uneanny by the sobs and muir.
murs OF the lovers, that sounded some
how fearfully remote and inhuman 70
hareus-who had tnrued immediately
TO the eulkhead and was, without the
shEhtest hope, cropping about its Joints
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CHAPTER XIV.
The Bowels Of the Earth.

Awaking befell Mr.. Barcus in a
fashion sufficiently sharp and startling
to render him Indifferent to the beuen
cial effects OF some eight hours of
dreamlesa slumber,
He discovered himself lying fiat on
his face. with somebody's inconsider.
ate. heavy hand purposely grinding the
said face into the aged and spllntery
planks OF the shed flooring. At the
same time other hands we're busy
binding his own together by the
wrists and lashing the same TO the
small OF his back by means OF a cord
passed around his middle, while his
natural II somewhat spasmodic efforts
TO kick were sadly hampered by the
fact that his ankles had already been
secured by means OF half dozen half.
bitches and square knot.
Ills hands attended to. his head was
released. Promptly he lifted 1t and
essayed to yell, an effort rendered
abortive by the gag that was thrust
between his teeth the instant his
Jaws opened
Then be heard = laugh. cold.
mtrthless chuckle.
Now the blood Of Thomas Rarcus
ran cold tor he thought Il did: which
amounts to much the same thing
For II hts senses had played fair. The
laugh he bad heard was the laugh Of
Mr. Marrophat head.deviI In the serv,
ice OF Seneca Urine
lie twisted his head to one side
and glanciBg along the rOor. saw moth
inx bat the wall Twisted the other
way. at the cost % splinter tn his
nose the eaort vas repaid BY the dis.
coycry Of Rose Urine In a plight like
his own-wrists and ankles bound
gagged into the bargain the .std,h OF
the shed between them.
Hut % Alan Law. no sixu.
The heart ot Mr. Barcus checked
7 momentarily. he shut his ewes and
shivcrrd In an uncomfortable seizure
Of dread
Then. iormcnted beyond endurance
by the fears he suffered for the sa,s,v
. Of his friend. be began 20 wrigrla ara
sauirm like a crippled snake main.
fully inchinS his way across the e.
toward Rosc-WIth what design heav.
en- alone knows, Dtuly his msr.
tai vision compreheuded the bars nos
sisiliiy Of bis being able. with hi, ,ss,.