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The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

"They stole the Flash"
 "Stole it. Who?'
 "Oh who?' The tone of infinite con- tempt Why, the little pink whiskered guy and the bony dame. Stole it. And now where did they goT'
 "rhe yacht-what's her name?' The overcoat and cap still hazy Tho cap turned gropingly to- ward the hamper. the adjoining dock where the name stood out in blunt white letters, "Hilarity!' The
 yrhe HlIarityr' Bill Wolf stopped with his hands his knees to stare at that information which had been in plain sight all night Me for telephone Gee look at that boat go.v
 Upon the swelling waves rode the Harity and all on board of her. the officers of the night and one other sound asleep.
 That was June Warner She had noiselessy dressed herself in yachting costume, and now she slowly removed bar which held the sliding of secret panel she had discovered in the wall of her cabin. Then she showed it to side until the opening large enough to admit her 1.-the, slen- der figure She found herself in Q stateroom fainty ilumined by the glowing of the dawn and in that room, on a chair and still wearing the evening raj ment of the night before, sat. his head bent upon his shoulder, Orin Cunningham. With shudder of aversion June sped to the door .of Cunnngham's cabin and opened it. She passed through the salon. There on the bench stretched Tommy Thomas, one tapering arm bent over her head and her dainty slippers crossed in slumbrous ease.
 Swiftly silently. June gained the deck Creeping clOSe tO tne cuDlnS, Sne rounded the Stern The Hilarity had dropped anchor and the landing stairs with their silken hand rail had been let down. At the platform bobbed the motor tender
 Swiftly silently. the runaway bride crept out and down the side of the yacht and dropped as noise- lessy a cat into the motorboat while the lonv pink fingers of the dawn swept athwart the yellow ing sky.
 With humping heart June started the motor and at the sound Gilbert Bye's dark handsome face appeared above the rail.
 ITo coNTrSuED.1
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Ju7,e Rushed Toruasrd

head. On the lips of Edwards there had come a firm set, and his heavy lidded eyes had narrowed. Without word Cunningham handed the glass to the stewardess, but between the two there passed look which was full of meaning. Blye, with his glowing eyes on the glass, smiled suavely.
 'I brought you the water. dearie," said the stew ardess, entering Junes stateroom.
 "Oh!' An exclamation of delight from June her eyes widened with the beauty of the delicate Venetian goblet.
 That's something else I made for you in the pantry dearie,' explained the stewardess. in her coaxng whine and bobbed her neck. "Its fine stimulant and soothing to the nerves"
 June took the fragile glass in her hand It's sheer beauty had won her. She inhaled daintily. The fragrance was most appealing. She looked at 1t again and smiled She did feel faint and weak She lifted the glass to her lips and the tip of her tongue caught the delicious flavor. Suddenly. she tilted the glass to drink, she caught the pad eyes of the stewardess fixed eagerly upon her. The womans mouth was half open, and she was breathing hard
 With flash of intuition June jerked her lips from the glass and threw it, crashing and spntering, into the fireplace.
 "Why, dearie," exclaimed the stewardess and in great agitation she pushed button at the side of the mantel
 June's eyelashes lowered for an instant and her lips set then quietly she went into the little blue boudoir and sat thoughtfully upon the daintily up holstered settee.
 The steward came pompously in.
 'Wel, you've done it again. you" he growled as he surveyed the spintered fragments of the delicate Venetian glass.
 'No Percy" whined the woman and glared to- ward the boudoir door with her pallid eyes She jerked her thumb in that direction and then she winked.
 That's you." snarled Wilkins. "You always say it's a guest"
 How muchy' whispered the woman in sibilant hiss. which carried 1t was intended to do
 Them glasses is $12 apiece, and it'll be taken from your wages. That comes out of my pocketw
 June bit her lips. Twelve dollars! It was a lot of money to girl who had found dollars coming slow ly and independence hard to win but she picked up her purse. After all, she had no proof that the woman meant anything but kindliness
 "Is this breakage charged against you?" asked June
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
CHAPTER II,

TN the dock adjacent to the one from which the U 4m Hilarity's motor tender had departed there paced, almost perceptbly, a night watch
 man, who consisted of overcoat, cap and two gnts of eye. To him there came as the docks intensified their loneliness, a brisk little chauffeur with thin mustache and woman with high cheek bones.
 "The Hilarity!" stated the little chauffeur, with accusing tone, and with a sweeping gesture he pointed to that adjacent dock where stood big hamper with the word "Hilarity" glaring white on it's side. "She is gonew Then Henri stepped back
 Yep rumbled frosty voice.
 But her tender" objected Henri, "also is gone. Listen my friend" insisted Henri, stopping in front of the oyercoat and cap, but moving aside it came irresistibly "The facts like these. Mademoisee has gone board the Hilarity. Be hold, here is the maid of the charming made moisele. She was also to have gone on board the Hilarity. How then, shall she go?'
 Dunno"
 The maid of the charming mademoiselle now stepped forward.
 Gan you drive motorboat?" she asked
 "voilav' And Henri snapped the fingers of both hands, snapped them three times. "voa, made moisee, Marie! If it goes can drive it.''
 Cant we hire this boat? and the resourceful Marie pointed to trimjlittle craft.
 The overcoat and cap wheeled slowly in Marie's direction and shot forward frosty breath.
 Nope"
 .But comrade." And Henri jerked his cap on the back of his head as he wheeled at right angles
 "It is important Look. Here is money. I take the swift little boat. swish out of the slip swish down the river. swish across the bay. Like light ming swish, and overtake the yacht Hilarity. I deliver the charming maid"-a little bow here-"and kiss from the finger tips to the charming made moiselle and immediately swish back. Nothing is lost! All is safew
 "Get off the dock," came the answer.
 "But, monsieur"
 Hike"
 "I, Henri, detest you" was the angry response. And he followed Marie of the dock
 Up on the street stood the Willard touring car and as Marie and Henri climbed in 1t fat figure sIunk out of the shadows and hung on behind grip ping thick cigar butt between its teeth Up and down the docks ranged Henri and Marie but not one motorboat could they nnd. Wherever they stopped the thick fat figure dropped on the car and slunk into the shadows.
 Henri had another idea. He drove to nearby
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
Our Dsa9zter ss .,r DsnsSr!-

"Why, it's MT. Ned and Miss Iris. Why, good evenn'. The folks is to home'
 Stern John Moore listened with silent attention while Mrs. Moore, her hand upon her breast stined the emotions to which Iris Bethering gave full play the "kidnaping' was described
 There was but one conclusion among the men, and Ned, composing his voice he passed from the mention Of Blye. stated that conclusion.
 'It is a matter for the police" he declared and picked up the telephone
 "Our daughter is in danger said the grave voice of John Moore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
TENTH EPISODE. A Prisoner on the Yacht
CHAPTER I.

N FED WARNER, in front of the blazing win
 MI dows of the New York cafe, stood one in daze, deaf to all the words of Robbie
 and Iris Blethering, who feared, from the ashen pallor of his face that his murderous frenzy might react upon himself. He saw again his lovely runaway bride being forced out of the cafe against her will by the man with the white mustache and that internal scoundrel with the black Vandyke. Gilbert Bye. He saw himself prevented by the frightened Robbie and Iris and the socitous wait from dashing among the gttering tables and grapplng Blye by the throat and strangling him to death. He himself rushing to the ornate trance through which they had taken his beautiful June and arriving in time only to her whirl
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Copyright 1915, b, Serial Publication Corporation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21

By special arrangement for fhis poper phofo-dronia corresponding 10 the insfoH- nenfs of "Runaway June" may now be seen at fhe leading moving picture thenfers. By arrangement made with fhe Mutual Film Corporation it IS not only possible to read Runoway June" each week, buf also otfer- ward 10 see moving pictures illustrating our story.
 Copyright, 1915. by Serial Publication Corporation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-03-21
CHAPTER III.

NHE arrival of an envelope by messenger
 dered unnecessary the immediate need of police aid for the Moore family
 With fingers which trembled in spite of his habitua control, the father of June opened the telegram and read this strange message:
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-06
ADMIRABLE DISCIPLINE

TINE admira BILE discipline and high
efficiency maintained by the
Pennsylvania Railroad is DEMON
strated in the semiannual report of
tests made under all kinds of working
conditions on the line and in the yards.
OF the 1854 men employed during
the period almost every one was letter
perfect in his duties in so far as they
applied to the safety first" principle,
of which the company now makes so
much. OF more than 100000 traps
set for the men only one in a thousand
was successful. The average of
efficiency was 99.9 per cent, the best
in the history of the railroad.
That the tests are representative of
the efficiency of the employees is shown
by the fact that as the average of at
teption to duty increased, the number
of accidents and number of fatalities
and injuries among the men decreased.
There is comfort in the thought that
one may board a train on any of the
lines leading out of Harrisburg calm
in the assurance that he will reach his
journeys end without mishap and that
his way along the vast stretches of ties
and steel is being guided by men tried
and not found wanting.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-06

ana Uncle Sans managing editor, was
soZ4, ,oOl.1S, of which printing and
blnding cost $442,190.S1. In return
ior this expenditure, the people of the
united states received 25,691,692 cop
les OF l,l52 bulletins. reports. circulars
ana pamphlets. bringing the average
cost or each publication distributed to
little more than two cents. which is
cheap enough when one considers the
great amount of time and trouble
Whlch is laVished upon the prepara-
tion of every booklet that issues from
the governments book store.
Farming Bibles"
While every care is taken to insure
the equable distribution of these book
lets and pamphlets, it often happens
that representative who halls from
a rural district will use up his share
OF the Farmers Bulletins within a
snort time after the opening of a ses-
sion OF congress. There are many sec
uons OF the country, particularly in
the Middle West, where the govern
ment's publications are looked upon as
veritable farming Bibles, and no ag-
rlculturist would dare admit to his
nelghbor that he had not received a
copy of the last word on intensive
farming or the like. For this reason
II behooVes the congressman to sup
ply their constituents with these
booklets, and the representatives of
urban communities are often besieged
by their country confreres to turn over
10 them their share of the bulletins
which interest only dwellers In the
open.
In this connection there is a story
which recently went the rounds of the
nails of congress concerning a repre-
sentative of one of, the congested Sec
uons of a big eastern city, who was
approached by a congressman from
the prairie district with the request
that he deed over to him his share of
the farmers bulletins. The city con-
gresham, being new at the game,
agreed willingly. not thinking that his
constituents would care for this kind
of reading. A few weeks later, how
ever the representative of the tene-
ment district came to the western con-
gresham and withdrew his contribu-
ton of farmers bulletins.
I've received thousands of applica-
tons for these very publications, ex-
planned the city representative, from
persons in my district who claim that
they read everything the government
has published concerning farming and
the open country. Men and women
who hardly ever see a blade of grass,
write me that they read these PAM
phlets with intense interest"
When readers can obtain Vicarious
vacations through the medium of the
printed page of technical booklet, it
is certainly a high tribute to the abil-
ity of the authors to visualize their
subject. The government publications
appear to be running the movies a
close race for popularity.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-06
WILSON AND MEXICO
New York Sun1

Turn over the page and shut out
from further consideration the follies
and mistakes and tragic consequences
of the Mexican policy of the past.
No citizen contemplating with eman-
.cipated judgment the conditions to-
day existing south of the Rio Grande
will doubt that the time has come for
a new policy as different from watch
full waiting" and Chautauqua exhor-
tation as a policemans club is from
a dictionary, as common sense is
from sentimental claptrap, as Robert
Lansing is from William ]. Bryan.
The Mexican conditions call insist
emily for the long deferred perform
ance of this Governments purely self
ish duty to itself and to its own citi-
zens; and Washington, all will OBJ
serve with profound qualification, now
clearly perceives the fact
A positive, definite. vigorous course
of action with regard to Mexico.
whether undertaken in cooperation
with the other leading republics of
the Western Hemisphere or pursued
upon the sole responsibility of this
nation, the nation most closely con-
cerned, will meet with the universal
approval of President Wilson's fellow
citizens and bring to his Administra-
ton their loyal and united support.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-06
THE LUMBER INDUSTRY

COME startling facts, coupled with
y some good advice. have been laid
before the Federal Trade Com
mission in its investigation into con-
ditions in the lumber industry.
The disadvantages under which
American lumbermen are now doing
business embrace, first of all, a dis
tinct element in favor of Canadian
timberland owners in the matter of
freight rates, it being shown that the
Canadians. by reason of their strate-
gical location, can send lumber into
the United States by the lake route in
foreign bottoms and make delivery for
50 a thousand feet to cities like Mil
waukee, Chicago, Bay City, Detroit, To-
ledo. Cleveland, Buffalo, Tonawanda
and New York. while the average cost
OF Transporting the same grades of
lumber by rail from Wisconsin or
Minnesota is from $3.50 to s6 a thou
sand, or about 200 per cent. greater
than from Canada. In some instances
this advantage in freight rates is near
ly 500 per cent. in the Canadians
favor.
In addition. to this, labor in Canada
averages full 10 per cent. cheaper than
in the United States. To aggravate the
situation, Canada offers nothing in
the way of reciprocal relations, having
imposed a duty of S2h per cent. upon
dressed lumber and 7a per cent. upon
rough lumber. while the United States
has removed the duty. BY having re-
moved the tariff on lumber the mar
kets of our 1oo.o0o.OOO people are
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-06
OUR COUNTY SCHOOLS

CUPERINTENDEN SHAMBAUGH
y has done much in the brief period
of the year he has been head of
the public schools of Dauphin county,
but indications are he has merely
made a beginning. Professor Sham
baugh is an indefatigable worker,
but he could not be superintendent,
assistant superintendent, clerk and
stenographer all in one, although those
who are acquainted with his work say
he tried hard enough. A new law will
change all this. Already he has been
provided with an assistant and a
fstenographer is also to be hired for
him.
This is not overlooking his Office,
by any manner of means. Harrisburg
has big force of clerks and super
visors in charge of it's school system,
and needs every man and woman em-
ployed. In the county there are more
separate schools than in the city, yet
Professor Shambaugh was expected
to visit all these, supervise their work,
suggest improvements, instruct teach
ers, take care of his office work, talk
to visitors, speak at commencements
and local institutes, and perform all
the other duties devolving upon the
office. alone and unaided. The Won
der is that with so much to do he was
able to accomplish anything. Our
county schools are every bit as i'm
portant as those of the city and the
county superintendent should receive
all the aid necessary to a proper per-
formance of his duties.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-06
CITY PLANNING

SO long as casual labor broods in
squalid lairs in sunless streets, and
ugly dwellings are its only habitation.
we shall continue to turn out nervous
manikins instead of enduring men.
Motherhood, childhood, youth, society
and the race demand the demolition
of the soul destroying slum. The
mean street produces mean men, the
lean and tired women and the unclean
children.
plan the town if you like; but in
doing it do not forget that you have
got to spread the people. Make wide
roads but do not narrow the tene-
ments behind. Dignity the city by all
means but not at the expense of the
health of the home and the family
life. Right Hon. John Burns, NJ. P.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-06
"LAFOLLY'S FOLLY

VTTHAT a far-sighted statesman
wv is Senator LaFollette! Some
time since he undertook a lit
tie "up-lift" work for the American
seaman. His effort had the support
of the Democrats in Congress. To-
getheF they wrote upon. the statute
books of the nation-with the sane
tion of President Wilson-a law that
was designed to elevate the common
sailor. And elevate him it has
lifted him right out of his job, in fact.
LaFollette and his fellow bunglers
were informed in advance of the eff
feet of this measure, but they called
the warning the coersion of the ship
ping trust" and would have none of
it.
on November 4 the LaFollette law
goes into effect. On November the
steamship Mongolia. sailing from San
Francisco, will be the last merchant
vessel to leave that port under the
American flag. The Pacific Steamship
Company has announced that this will
be the final voyage of any of it's FIVE
ellpS on the racine. Inc 1uJure OIL
this corporation is "problematical,"
say its officers. 1t has been ruined
by the LaFollette law and the sea-
men the law was to have benefited
will be scattered jobless to the four
winds. Says the company:
The LaFollette seamen's law
goes into effect on November 4,
and as our trans-Pacific steamships
carry American officers and AsiatiC
crews, they are unable to meet the
language clause of that law.
Thus "LaFolly," as somebody has
Rptly dubbed him. has passed the
control of the Pacific, for which we
were supposed one day to fight Japan,
absolutely over to that island king
dom without a stroke of defense or
3 penny for the boon conferred. And
our Democratic friends not only looked
on complacently. but lent a helping
hand.
Is it any wonder that Republicans
become impatient when they think of
the long period that comes between
the present dark days and the dawn of
that new era certain to come with
March 4, 1917?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-06
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

DIR. J. A. Brashears, voted the
most eminent Pennsylvania, has had
song dedicated to him.
John A. Flaherty, the head of the
knights of Columbus, lives in Phila-
delphia and is serving his fourth
term
H. w. Borntraeger, prominent
Pittsburgh music lover, had a pipe
organ built in the big hall Of his
home.
&C. H. Kemp, of Myersdale, has
gone to Florida. He Will come back
by motor boat.
Bishop Courtlandt Whitehead. of
Pittsburgh, conducted prayer services
for peace at Pittsburgh.
w. A. Glasgow, Jr., the Phila-
delphia lawyer, is spending August in
Vermont. ,ts
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-06
A SUMMER PUZZLE

IT<HOSE supercilious friends of the
| President who are inclined to
dismiss Mr.. Bryan from con-
politically speaking, will do we'll to
refresh their recollection of the cleo
ton returns when either Wilson or
Bryan has figured.
In 1912 Wilson received 6,29S,019
votes. This is a smaller number than
Bryan ever received. In 1896 the Ne
braskan polled 6,5O2.925 votes. In
1900 he carried 6,35S,133 of his fellow
citizens with him. And in 1908 no
less than 6.409,104 voters registered
their confidence in him. And even in
the Presidents own State of New
Jersey, Bryan. in 1908, succeeded in
securing the votes of 1S2,567 Jersey
men, whereas the best Wilson could
do in 1912 was 17S,2s9, which was
more than $4,000 below his vote for
governor in 1910.
When DR.. Wilson ran for governor
he was a new man, for whom any
thing and everything could be prom
ised and of course he polled a big
vote. In 1912 New Jersey had come
to know Governor Wilson and $1,000
of the men who had voted for him
two years earlier refused to travel
farther with him, despite a specious
plea of State pride and all the other
political bunk" with which a candi-
date seeks home support.
In 1915, reckoning at the same
ratio of loss, what will be the Wilson
vote in New Jersey? Please send
answers to the Editor of the Com
moner, Lincoln, Nebraska.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-06

thrown open for the benefit of the
100000 of Canada, thus inflicting a
useless loss upon this industry, the
American people. and the United
States government. 1t would seem
that the Federal Trade Commission
would be warranted in recommending
to Congress an adequate import duty
as a partial protection to the lumber
industry, to labor in general. and to
the many diversified interests that de-
pend for their prosperity upon the
lumber trade in this country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-06
THE PEOPLES CELERRA ALTON

TINE municipal improvement cele-
bration planned by the Cham
Der of Commerce is to be YOUR
celebration. The Chamber is only
leading the way. Therefore, get busy
and help make it success. 1t will
be so only If everybody joins efforts
to that end. If you have an idea tell
Manager Hopkins about it. He needs
your cooperation, so don't be afraid
to speak up.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-06
THE WAR OUR PROTECTION

TINE protection to American in
IL dustries afforded by the Euro
pean war is we'll illustrated In
the report of the Department of La
Dor, recently made public, on foreign
food prices as affected by the war.
The report shows that administrative
and legislative measures to check the
rise in the cost of necessaries were
very generally taken.
Denmark, Egypt, Great Britain,
Italy, Russia, Spain and Turkey pro-
hibited the export of practically all
foodstuffs. France, Norway and swe-
den listed certain articles which must
not be exported, and Holland placed
an embargo on butter and cheese.
The embargo placed by Great Bril-
tain on Australian exports OF fresh
meats to the United States destroyed
the hopes of an organized attempt
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-06

London. Aug. 6.-Harry Pilgram, an
ex-chemical worker of Runcorn, has
invented a new form of respirator for
the British troops fighting against the
gas-using Germans in the trenches.
His invention is the fruit of eighteen
years study in the bleaching powder
business. At a recent test before war
office officials he remained in a chic
rlne-filled room for thirty minutes by
the aid of his respirator with no i'll
effects. The apparatus weighs but 2h
pounds and can easily be carried in the
pocket.