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The Elbert County tribune., 1916-02-18

Yes. young American Of youth
and much beauty. She was in this
country on business OF her own. With
out plan she became involved in AZ
fairs between these two monarchs.
She has been the victim Of evil for
tune. not through fault of her own.
Now, am telling you the truth-since
have gained my purpose OF an audi
ence with you. You may rely upon
what have said, captain. This is the
truth, so far as know It,"
Then why not let them sail for
their own country-if she has been in.
jured here why not let her go back to
her own country? am booked for
New York. II that be city of her
native land. why not that port as well
as any other? And how shall / know
your own motives?"
Count Frederick paused In thought
at this. "True-that is true" said he.
Very well, we will search your ship.
When we find the young woman let
her decide what she wishes to do. II
she says she wishes to go back to her
home, j will not prevent 1t. But il
she be asked to go back against her
will. then / shall take her with me,
no matter at what cost. At least she
should have the choice of decision
she should not be slowed aboard like
dumb beast with no volition of her
own"
1--WE are quite at one as to that"
assented the captain. Good, we will
search the ship-I am convinced we
shall not find these persons in any
of the cabins"
Stay" he added an instant later,
81 recall that a short time back there
was complaint of noises below decks! I!
/ sent some men to look into that.
Where are they?'
He pressed a bell and soon one OF
his assistant officers came.
60, bring me the men / sent to ex-
anime the cargo while ago. There
was some talk of noise as of loose
animals in the hold"
After time the officer returned,
pushing before him two seamen. They
were the same who had been dis
patched on the errand mentioned. But
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hurried search in the confused freight
age of the ships hold. At last he
found that which he sought.
She tried feebly to raise herself as
she heard footsteps, heard voice she
knew to be that of her friend.
"Mademoiselle-than God!" was all
Count Frederick could say.
1T is you, them" was her reply.
What has happened? Why are you
here?"
Il am here, my dear mademoiselle,
to save you-to care for you. l heard
of the plot against you. My own boat
lies alongside have come. am here
to take you from this ship. If SO you
wish. Come then, let US hasten. There
Is scant time"
They all crowded now to the lad
| ders up from the hold, and, rapidly as
they might, found their way back to
the upper deck. There came confu-
sion, noise, trampling. shouts, sounds
| not ordinary at this stage of the voy-
age of vessel putting out to sea. The
passengers themselves suspected
something 10 ne wrong. lney crowd
ed now about the captain excitedly, ex-
postulating. The muster of the ship
pushed them aside.
| We'll, Miller" he demanded again
of the oil-stained engineer who hurried
up, what is it?"
| at may be minute, sir-or less!"
| In an instant they were face to face
with the ultimate peril of the seas
fire. explosion on shipboard.
There came from below that sound
which had been expected, dreaded-a
mufIled, heavy roar, comparable to
nothing in the world in terrifying quail.
ity at such a time as this. The ship
SO lately safe and strong beneath them
all, now trembled. Midway her decks
rose, spread apart, fell. A cloud OF
binding white steam rolled from the
engine rooms. sitting and scalding all
within its way. Cries of anguish came
from below decks. cries of despair. TIC
these were added now the far more
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"Captain-quick!" he exclaimed.
There Is trouble with the engines"
"What's vrong7" inouired the ahip'r

"Captain-quick!" he exclaimed.
There is trouble with the engines"
Whats wrong7" inquired the ships
master.
The right-hand tubular has gone
bad" exclaimed the engineer. She
has been pounding like million ham
mers. The water is low. and the in
takes clogged Something's wrong
cannot tell what We have tried to
shut her of and can't. The boiler may
go at any minute"
calmly.
The engineer could only nod.
Stay called Frederick at this
juncture. Let the engineer go back
to his work. Let us first find the help
less persons below. II danger impend
let US bring them up to have their
chance for safety"
The captain, gallant man withal,
turned to him and nodded grimly. go
back to your post. Miller" he said to
the engineer I'VE will Join you pres
entity
He himself led the way to the lift
which led to the lower decks and the
hatchway which covered the ladders
into the ships hold.
They found themselves at last deep
in the bowels of the vessel, among
the bales and casks OF the cargo,
where for time all was darkness and
mystery. But as they hurried here
and there, commanding the guidance
of the two recreant seamen and cast
ing the rays of their lights hither and
yon, at last they saw a trussed-up
bundle behind bale of goods WHICH
seemed to have Some human sem
blance. 1t was Roleau. Frederick
himself was first at his side. He bent
over him, freed him, and after time
revived him.
"Monsieur-your excellency." said
he at length. ''It is you
Where is she?" demanded Freder-
lex. Was she here?"
Il have known nothing for some
time, 1t seems. Yet she was here, yes
she is gone, / know not where"
Frederick left him to continue his
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numerous cries of those in mortal ter

numerous cries Of those in mortal ter
ror.
Obedient to their orders for a time,
the crew held to their posts. The boats
were lowered one after another. Yet
into each there piled senseiess mass
Of packed humanity. overcfowding and
rendering 1t useless as 1t reached the
surface of the sea.
Children and women and strong men
fought now for place in the last of
the boats. Discipline broke and failed.
What had been happy party of trav-
elers was now a disorganized mob.
His arms supporting Kitty on one
side, those of Roleau on the other,
Count Frederick did his best to reach
the rail. Useless. hopelessl They were
forced back time and again
"Jumpi" cried Frederick at last.
Jump! We will swim for it. We
must take the last chance"
| The look on the face of the girl at
his side was one in part of despair,
but more of trust. Unhesitatingly the
| three sprang together.
The sea closed over them. They rose
after an agonized instant which
seemed death itself-rose but to see
the giant ship which had carried them
raise her bows aloft, shiver and
tremble, and slowly slide back and
| down beDeath the waves. In the whirl-
pool which marked the spot they were
| but little human units. floating as best
they might among scores and hun.
dreds of others.
This wayi" cried Frederick, and he
and Roleau aided Kitty to a floating
piece of wreckage. But others saw ii
also. Time and again they were
fought back from 1t as others strong
er or more remorseless claimed it as
their own
In all this commotion of shouting
and struggling men. of wailing WON
en-. of failing arms and beating fists
| Frederick and Roleau lost sight OF
Kitty at last-she had gone, they knew
not where, in that chaos of the sea.
Where is she?" demanded Fred.
erick weakly. himself well-nigh spent
Which way?"
Il know not" gasped Roleau, him.
cannot tell, but fear that she is gone
They swan about for a time in
search. but could not make out the
whereabout of her whom they sought
then they hoisted themselves one on
each side of a floating spar and rested
"Allow me, excellency." said Roleau
| and flung across the end of his belt
Let us lash fast. I cannot hold much
| longer"
Spent and hopeless, they rested as
they might and allowed fate to have
| its way with them.
"our boat-the yacht, excellency,
exclaimed Roleau at length. Where
| is she-the vessel which brought yor
out?"
Frederick could only shake his head
Cone" said he. 81 doubt not she was
scuttled by the heavy ironwork blown
out by the explosion. There is nc
hope"
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SYNOPSIS.

Kitty Gray, newspaper woman. finds in
. curio shop half OF "A broken coin, the
'rrutiIhted inscription on which arouses
her curiosity and leads her. at the order
Of her managing editor. to go to the prin-
Cip8lity of Gretzboffon to piece out the
story suggested by tho inscription. She Ia
followed. and ON arrival In Gretzhoffcn
her adventures while chasing the secret
Of the broken coin begin.
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CHAPTER XIII.
Kitty. the Castawax,

If Count Frederick and Roleau had
been dismayed wher they saw Kitty
Gray swept away from them in the
mad struggle for safety in the sea,
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in the service The others were wiped out around Ypres-killed, captured, or crippled beyond further service Rich ardson was hit twice in the right leg and once on the back by fragments Of she'll and was mustered out with an honorable discharge because the sur geons thought he would never be fit for soldering again. But he got well and strong and promptly enlisted again, this time with hos own countrymen, and was given a commission. When they looked him over they noted down 24 scars from wounds on his body
 It is said that more than half of the men in the Ninety-seventh have seen service. Pioneer Sergeant James Carson scaled the walls of Peking during the Boxer uprising. and before that was in the battle of San Juan hill Lieut.. Col w l.. Jolly was a major in the Ameri- can army and has served in three cam paigns. Five graduates of West Point and two of Annapolis are serving, and about 50 men who were recently in the Mexican war are enlisted.
 Nearly all the men who have not had army service are of the adventurous type. Some are mining prospectors, others bushmen. cowboys. ranchers or anything else that has called for a wild, stirring life. They are all men who have enlisted because they want to see fighting, and as 1t is threatened to use them to reinforce the shattered but re- constructed Princess Pats they are in a
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Canada Yankee Battalion

James H. Hare in LeSlie'S.
 In Canada they have--or had recent ly; it may be over seas by the time this appears in print-a Yankee Bat talion." The American newspapers call 1t the American Legion. and that is the way the inscription on the badges worn on the mems caps and the officers tunics reads. too but throughout Can ada it is the Yankee battalion. It was 1900 strong the day I visited it's camp near Toronto. and was fine and fit and most anxious to be off across the sea.
 Almost the first man I met was an old acquaintance of my last Mexican campaign, Lieutenant Richardson he is now, but two years ago. at Vera Cruz, he was just Tracy Richardson. late of Francisco Villas machine gun corps. He has had a hand in several other disturbances and is typical of the sol dier of fortune element in the Yankee battalion-which. by the way. is car ried on the official rolls as the Ninety seventh Overseas Battalion, c. E. F.
 When the war broke out Richardson hurried to Canada and enlisted. He was mustered into the first contingent of Princess Patricias regiment. and is one of the few men-sone say only six-of that contingent who are still
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bers of the cabinet shall be delegated 10 assume the duties of the President.
 Ic LIBERAL, MEASTRE

The bill is liberal measure, de- signed to put a curb on the power CT the administration during the electoral period. Although lawyers generally be- lieve the bill to be unconstitutional, it will shortly be presented in the House of Representatives With appar- ently a good prospect of its passage. In that event it is considered certain that President Menocal will refuse to approve it when the liberals say that they can rely on sufficient number of votes to pass it over the veto should the veto stand the liberal leaders talk of appealing to Washington, claiming that without the protection of this law they have no assurance of a fair cleo tion, especially as it will be held in the presence of troops of the regular army, ostensibly to maintain order at the polls, but as they claim. for the ob- ject of intimidating liberal voters This has given rise to much loose and Vio- lent talk as to what extreme of vio- lence the liberals will proceed rather than be defrauded of the fruits of vic tory to which. they say, their iegiti- mate preponderance of voting strength entities them.
 Fl Mundo sounds an editorial warn ing of the urgent necessity that the elections shall be conducted without disorder or any suspicion of unfair ness as essential to the avoidance of another American intervention It de- clares that the electoral period marks the danger point in all Spanish -Ameri- can republics and recalls that the four presidential election held in Cuba, two. conducted under American supervision, were marked by perfect tranquility. Of the other two under native administra- ton, the first under President Palma. was turbulent. and was the precursor of the revolution of August. 1906, and the latter. under President Gomez, was attended by disorders that were only prevented from becoming serious by the presence of the troops
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Great Possibilities of Alaska

Hon. A. Barton Hepburn in Lesle's
 Alaska has the same latitude as Den mark, Norway. Sweden and Finland, and similar climatic conditions. The same development may be expected in Alaska that has obtained in those Scandinavian countries. increased and intensified by her enormously great latent resources The Scandinavian countries have lG,- 900 square miles under cultivation and 75,0D0 square miles In grazing. Our department of agriculture has classified G0,tCo square miles in Alaska ass suit able for cultivation. located mostly In the Susitwa. Panama and Kuskowim valleys, with an additional 1000 square miles of reindeer range. This estimate makes available for aericul- tural purposes 260.000 square miles of the 566, 446 square miles whicn consti- tute Alaska's total area. Alaska's an- nual output of gold is $20,0o0,000. Fish cries produce nearly as much; it has the richest and largest copper deposits in the world; it has coal deposits equal ing those of Pennsylvania and West Virginia in quality and surpassing them in volume.
 The four Scandinavian countries have 13.00n 000 population and 14,00o.006 head of live stock. Applying the-sams ratio to the available lands of Alaska would give her population of 30.0o0.O00 with 50,000. 900 live stock. The present pop ulation of Alaska is. last census, 64,356 including natives. Her growth in popu- iation and commerce is bo,...d to be steady and pronounced iflnot phrnom- enal Alaska has 4000 miles of ravi- gable rivers. The governmea. has sn- propriated $35. 1000. .00o.o 900 for railway construction. now in active process, which will connect the commerce of these rivers and render accessible sthe great coal fields and mines. and forest and agricultural products and will in vite settlement by making ingress aEd esress easy of accomplishment
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AIaska's Entertainments

Hon. A. Barton Hepburn in Leslies.
 Cooks Inlet. with it's arms and reaches. has many bewildering chan nels, resulting from the numerous rugged islands. The forbiding and em- battled shores rising into lofty noun tains, and at present swathed in white almost to the waters edge, possess @ virility, grandeur and sublimity which require the most poetic imagination and most facile pen even faintly to portray. The grand panorama reaches its eli max in Mt McKinley-monarch of the North American continent. With its ai- titude of 20.460 feet it stands alone in lofty pride and is distinctly visible from the vessel. notwithstanding the very great distance. This fact well es- tablishes the quality of the clarified and invigorating atmosphere of this far north country.
 A careful reading of literature per- taining to Alaska prepared me in part for what the journey was bound to dis close, but seeing is the only sense thar can give knowledge and secure appre- citation of the grandeur. the sublimity, the fascinating beauty of mountain, sea, stream. ford. falls. islands, forests. cloud, and the glorious color effects which the dazzling rays of the sun bring into existence. In connection with all these is land of encharft : ment for all who love and can appre- ciate nature.
 The Thousand Islands. with all their beauty. would scarcely serve as. a pre- Jude to the surpassing grandeur and loveliness of the many thousand islands that adorn the 5000 miles of Alaskan coast The fiords of Norway, the far famed glaciers of Switzerland cannot compare with their counterparts to be found in Alaska in number, variety. size, color effects and al the qualities that give charm to these works of na- ture.
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SEPARATED BY FEET

The party halted near the walls of what once had been a huge country kitchen built under the lower side of a house, fac ing toward the mountain top. Within stood men against the fall with rifles in their hands peeping out little apertures. On the other side of this wall not two feet away, stood silent enemy watchers, have been a tomb, so silent were it's occupants Thel only sound came from the floor where Anen were sleeping with their faces covered with blankets to deaden their snores
 This place of Zagora, with its silence fraught with expectant danger, was more impressive than any open field filled with the shriek of bursting shells. The party crept from this silent corner through dark tunnelled ways and zig-zagged about other ruined foundation walls. where other soldiers stood, and on, down a line, until the Austrian trenches could be seen through a maze of barbed wire defenses.
 An officer pointed to the barbed wire and said: "We are on such intimate re- lations with the Austrans that we and they use the same barbed wire protection. There isn't room to plant any more and their wires prevent them from getting at us, as well as keeping us from getting at them" Then, with dulled expression, he pointed to the bodies of soldiers lying in the open space, caught in the wires, fruit of attacks and counter attacks. "The Austrians won't let us pick up the dead. so there they lay,' he explained. They play the mitrailleuse there until they die. Sometimes it takes a long time. This morning a man died who had been there for three days, with a fractured leg. At least he doesn't move any more, so he must be dead"
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VISITED IN MORNING


 1 It was decided that the best time to see zagora was in the early morning when the actual firing was desultory. Many miles of walking before breakfast over a pontoon bridge spanning the Isonzo river, and up mountain side protected from artillery shells by tunnels, brought the rarty to the headquarters of the officer in command of the hill forces. The com mander conducted his visitors still further up the mountain towards Zagora, already visible as a heap of ruins of what once lad been the peaceful homes of peasants The visitors went up at an angle of 50 de- grees, in the shelter of old trenches that once had been front trenches. At every turn were visible little plots of wooden crosses where Italian or Austrian sol- diers had fallen during the terrific fight ing carried on by the Italians to gain their way up the face of the mountain.
 Tt has been like sword duel between us all the time" said the commander with little artillery fire because either side using guns would, in view of the closeness of the opposing trenches, kill both friends and enemy"
 Its wonderful the way the soldiers have kept up their spirits here," he went on. For a whole month last fall when the mountain was a mass of wet rock and mud, when it was possible to get food up only at night, when the men could not be relieved, when to strike a light meant death from a snper when our trenches were but hastily constructed piles of stone, left by the Austrians as we pushed them foot by foot towards the mountain top, the men held on with amazing cheer fulness. Not even the wounded com plained. The death struggle developed the best qualities of our men. Even the social ists among them, whose principles do not include fighting, became some of my best soldiers
 As the visitors came full upon the shat tered blackened stone walls of the hamlet of Zagora, the commander advised: "Stoop low, now, and run quietly. When you reach our front line, don't talk, don't t even whisper The Austrians will hear you and begin an attack, thinking we
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POLITICS BEGINS ID
 WARM UP IN CUBA Lull Lasted by Agreement Through Grinding Season TWO GREAT PARTIES President Menocal Is Choice of Con- servatives, While Liberals Rally
 Around Alfredo Zayas, the
 Former Vice President

Havana, June 21-(Correspondence of the Associated Press.)-With the approach of the close of the sugar grinding season and the release from employment of many thousands of workers, interest in the presidential campaign is beginning to command in- terest. By a tacit understanding be- tween the leaders of the various fac tions, political activities during the grinding season were confined mainly to committee and conference work for the purpose of consolidating the two great national parties. the conserva- tives, following President Menocal. and the liberals, whose nominee is former Vice President Alfredo Zayas.
 So far neither of the parties appears to be organized. there being insurgent clements in both camps in addition to numerous groups of independents who are awaiting opportunities to make the best terms possible for their sup port of either side Important among these is the following of former Gov ernof Asbert of Havana province. whose ambition is to be governor again. CONSERVATIVES FOR MENOCAL The party favorable to the reelection of President Menocal comprises the great bulk of the conservative party, backed by the power of the administra- tion but in Santa Clara and Oriente provinces there are insurgent groups who profess to object on principle to a second term. It is probable, however, that their adhesion will be gained.
 The liberals continue greatly disor- ganized but strong efforts are being made by former President Jose Miguel Gomez, Juan Gualberto Gomez, Orestes Ferrara and other influential men to consolidate all the factions in support of Dr. Zayas. Reports that Dr. Men dieta, who resigned from the vice presi- dential place on the Zayas ticket, has decided to withdraw his resignation. is considered very encouraging for tue cause of liberal unity. Former Presi- dent Gomez will probably manage the Zayas campaign and will accept d sen- atorship from his home province of Santa Clara, A great deal of confu- sion exists regarding the nomination for the important position of mayor of Havana, there being-half dozen claim ants. including the present incumbent, Gen. Freyre de Andrade.
 The most important political action taken hitherto has been the passage by the senate of the bill of Senator Maza V Artola, which provides that any President nominated for reelection shall cease to exercise the functions of his office 65 days before the election. AS the bill was only passed as a whole, the various articles have yet to be de- bated, so that it is a matter of doubt whether the vice president or the men
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Husband a Private Luxury

"A husband or a wife is personal taste a private taste." writes Elsie Clews Parsons. we'll known femiris1 and member of one of New York's old est families. in the New Republic, apropos of the time honored custom or inviting dinner guests as couple.
 ITO force your predilections un oth- CTS is generally accounted in bad taste. In this case you not only obtrude your matrimonial taste on others, you ob- trude 1t crassly and irresponsibly. You do not even sit next to your husband or wife at the dinner table or talk to him or her in the entr'acte. You may enjoy walking or motoring with him or her to the party and talking it over afterwards; but surely to demand, that