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CONTROL SUGAR SALE
President of Cuba Appoints Body
to Formulate Rules.
Commission of Seven Appointed in
Effort to Save Principal Indus
try of Republic.

Havana. Feb. 14.-COntrol Of the
sale and shipment of Cuba's l92O-2l
sugar crop has been placed in the
hands of a governmental organization
known as the sugar finance commits
sion. This commission, appointed by
President Menocal, consists OF seven
members, and will formulate rules and
regulations governing the whole opera
ton Of marketing the sugar crop OF
the island. Members of the body will
receive no compensation.
The decree appointing the commits
sion, which was published in the OIL
cial Gazette, directs sugar buyers or
sellers to file, before February 2O,
sworn statements covering all sales
contracts made with firms in foreign
countries.
Provisions of the decree were ex-
planned here by r. B. Hawley, presi-
dent of the American Sugar company,
and one of the members of the COM
mission. After pointing out the seri-
Gus economic conditions prevailing in
Cuba, which, he said, were largely
due to the artificial depression of
sugar." Mr.. Hawley declared that the
Cuban government had adopted the
plan of creating a commission ITO save
the sugar industry of the island"
1.-THE Cuban government" he con-
tinued, "seeks not only to defend its
own industry but also to defend the
A ,,or,.;oo,, oo,,cI7y,,o,. q Uo inst ohnOrnla1
conditions. By the method adopted the
government undertakes to normalize
and stabilize the price at which Cuban
sugar may be delivered in the United
States and other countries depending
upon Cuba for their supplies of sugar.
1t is not the purpose to hold or hoard
the product, but at all times to offer it
freely wherever it is needed at the
lowest prevailing prices"
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the shady side, and back in the cark-
ness of the scar, they could not see
him at all. The three of them drew
together in consultation. The Pearl
hunter could not make out their words,
BIT the manner in which they handled
tE~ir rifles, which they had managed
ia drag up with them, indicated only
too plainly the general drift of what
was being said.
With a final nod all around, they
faced the pocket, and one of them
raised his rifle The bullet struck the
roof of the scar just in front of him,
showering him with dust and bits of
shale. The second fired. The bullet
passed close to his eeet and lost it.
self far back in the crevice where the
two strata of shale converged.
1t was now the third ones turn.
There came the hot spit of smoke +;
the vicious slap of the report. But
even before he saw the one, or heard
the other, he felt something like a
red coal sting his side just under the
armpit
His side! A thousand flames had
got at it. Som thing warm and sticky
ran down under his tattered shirt and
made it mussy. The flames reached
his face and twisted it. The air seemed
to forsake the pocket. He crawlen to
the front of the scar.
He couldn't take his eyes away from
the water glancing along at the foot
of the cliff. The flames had scorched
him dry. If he could only have one
sup of the water to mCisten his lips
so that the breath could get through,
He crawled a little nearer the open
ing; held his face out over the ledge.
The ledge seemed to be rocking up
and down; the trees were dipping and
going around in queer whirl that
made him dizzy. He had never known
trees to act like that. The tops of
the gorge were bending together. The
gorge came together-slowly-shut out
the air-shut out the sky.
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Clerical Expedient.

The English preacher. Stephen Jenk-
ms, was not highly educated man,
but he had a native wit which often
helped him out of difficulties. One
Sunday while reading as the Scripture
lesson the third chapter of Daniel, he
came to batch Of words that gave
him trouble. "At what time We hear
the sound of the cornet, flute, harp,
sackbut. psaItery, dulcimer," etc. Now
this list Of instruments is repeated sew
eral times in the chapter, and the sec
ond time he stumbled through it with
even greater difficulty than the first.
Before he reached it again, however,
he had discovered a way Of escape. So
the third time he relieved both him
self and his listeners by reading with
the utmost gravity, "And the band
played as before. Boston Transcript.
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half glad for the snug pace to lie in
like a fox in his burrow, while the
hounds beat up the woods at fault.
Lack of water was the greatest
drawback. Thirst was already begin
ming to annoy him. He took out his
sandwiches and ate two more of them
saving the other two until later in the
day. The salty bacon made the wa
ter more tempting still. He drew back
little space from the brink of the
ledge out of sight of it. The sound of
it still tempted him.
Voices reached him suddenly, break
ing upon the silence from around a
sharp turn of the gorge down stream.
He drew his face back from the brink
of the ledge and lay listening. 1t was
far too risky to look. His ears made
out three of them-three tongues, al
going at top speed, sure sign that
eyes and ears were not as busy as
they might have been. Opposite the
cliff where the fugitive lay, the steps
stopped.
w nat lIdI up
1t was a gruff and heavy voice that
asked. thick still with the flare of tenn
per that had not yet cooled.
"Wolf den, more'E likely" answered
one of the others.
eff we wus up tn bluff cross there
furninst the hole, we could see in,"
suggested voice.
The other voices grunted; and the
Pearlhunter heard them hopping back
across the stream, heard them clawing
their way through the tangled under
brush up the opposite bluff. The scar
in which he lay dipped slightly to-
ward the rear. He rolled back as far
as possible, so as to have the protec-
ton afforded by the slightly higher
edge; stretched himself on his right
side; and waited for them to come
into view.
Fortunately the sun hit their side
of the gorge, and the Pearlhunter
could see them well, while, being on
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about right for the take-off, he leaped
at the falls, and, half to his surprise.
landed on the fiat rock outside. 1t
was like breaking through the crust
of creation into a new world Mar
yelling at the small amount of water
that had chung to him, he sprang over
the two intervening rocks to the shore.
He hurried around to the front of
the cabin raised the latch, entered
and closed the door. Snatching up
some cold biscuits and strips of fried
bacon. he hurriedly made six sand
wiches and stuffed them into his pock-
cts. Resting at the spring long enough
to eat two of his sandwiches, he
drained gourd of water, crossed the
branch below the falls and hurried
away up the bluffs into the deep
woods.
A mile and more north of the wa
terfall Wolf Run bends west to dou-
BILE and twist and loop through tan
gle of hills and gulches known as Fox
Den, the widest and most inacceSsi-
BILE district of the FlatwoOds. The
Pearlhunter had heard Of the place.
lie resolved to take his chances there.
The spot was no great distance above
the three gabled cabin.
Away up the bare front of cliff his
eye lighted on the mouth of what APP
peared to be cleft in the rock. Wolf
Run washed against a narrow ledge at
the very foot of this cliff. He spread
himself fiat against the face of the
rock and strained from crevice to crew
dce. 1t was a prodigious task, but all
tasks have an end-either at the bot
tom or at the top. The Pearlhunter's
task finally ended at the top. 1t
had to.
The strata gaped apart half the
height of a man, leaving wide-open
scar in the face of the cliff. 1t was per-
haps ten feet deep, and seemed to be
closed at the back by the dipping to-
gether of the two strata.
Rolling back as far within the open
ing as the converging strata would
comfortably allow, he dropped his bat
tered head upon his arm to sleep the
rest of the night away.
The Pearlhunter walked with the
woods. His. limbs and breast and
shoulders were SO sore that he was
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CHAPTER lx-continued.

Jumping lightly from rock to rock
On the shallow water of the pool, the
bandit approached the cataract, the
third leap laDding him upon the hat
top of a rock almost within the very
wash of the falling water. Pauslng
an instant to pull his hat tight and
turn up the collar Of his coat, he
sprdng straight into the thin blade
of the falls. His leap must have car
ried him completely through to the
other side. 1t was the first the Pearl
hunter knew, or even suspected, that
there was an open space beyond. so
completely did the falling water hide
everything back of it that probably
the man who had just leaped and
the man who watched him were the
only two who knew there was any
thing back Of it.
The Pearlhunter stretched himself
fiat under cover of a clump of sprouts
growing about an old white oak
stump. and kept his eyes fixed on the
waterfall.
Time goes slowly to one who
watches and waits. 1t was probably
not more than ten minutes, though it
seemed far longer, when. without so
much as a diverted f1eck of spray in
warning. the waterfall flung forth up
on the fiat-topped rock a 1.-the and ac-
tive figure that sprang lightly to shore
over the two intervening stones.
Pausing on the brink of the pool
barely long enough to shake his coat
by the lapels ard to knock his hat
against his hand, he Immediately set
out along the bluffs toward the, vii
lage, as unconcerned as if he had not
just pulled OIL about the most sensa-
tional stunt ever seen by Flatwoods-
man.
The Pearlhunter slipped out of the
cover and softly followed; trailed him
up the bluffs, through the corner of the
woods and out to the river road where
it angles north through the cut in the
cliffs; listened at the fence, near
where the path crossed it, till the re-
ceding steps were well on their way
TO the village.
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WARRANTLESS RAID ILLEGAL
United States Judge Rules Garage
May Not Be Searched for Rum
Without Permit.

Cincinnati, Feb 15.-The entry
without permission, express or i'm
piled, into a private garage, without
warrant, on a mission of search and
seizure by prohibition agents of the
United States is unlawful, under a
decision handed down in United States
District court by Judge John w. Peck.
'0The right of the people to be secure
in their houses against unreasonable
searches and seizures is not limited
to dwelling houses, but extends to
garages, warehouses, shops, stores, of
fees and even a safety deposit vault," "
Judge Peck. said "The discretion Of
an officer, however good and well in
tentioned, is not a substitute in law
for a search warrant issued by a
proper magistrate"
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like the happy water curling agains.
the ledge. He laughed back. He
couldn't help it. The restraint was
broken; the smart gone.
He glanced down at the ledge before
leaving to see that no teIl-tale blood
spots or bits of cloth were left. A
needless precaution-1er woodcraft
was as fine as his own.
How she managed to lead him, hale
carry him, out of the rocky and bros-
en- gulches of Fox Den and down the
rough banks of Wolf Run to the cabin
of the three gables she never knew.
Neither did he. 1t always remained a
matter of wonder to him. Who does
know the source of power-that mys-
terious augmentation of strength-that
comes to a woman in a crisis?
She led him into the house and to
the sofa in the main room; the queer
little Ieather-covered bed that had
stirred his curiosity the afternoon of
his first visit two days before
The old man was not in the room.
She must have caught his eyes search
ing for him.
Daddy" she answered to the eyes.
s.He often spends hours away. Therell
be little pass in the woods today that
he won't see, though nobody will see
him. Poor Daddy!"
''We'll send for that surgeon tomor-
row." be said.
She was back in a moment, carrying
a pan of wafer fresh bandages. and a
formidable-looking brown bottle-cam-
phor, the universal first aid in the
Flatwoods The blood-soaked ban
dages were deftly removed and the
wound re-washed. She picked up the
brown bottle.
81 am sorry to hurt you," she said.
''But it will keep the fever down."
You're the DOCTOR" was his slow
answer.
She uncorked the bottle and applied
some of its contents to the wound with
bit of cotton. Hurt! It.hurt so that
he laughed.
Anything to get ready for tonight"
he grinned, under the bite of the pow
erful antiseptic.
Tonight" she repeated blankly.
"Why, you mustn't think"
II must, though. Big things depend
on tonight" She saw a sternness
gather in his eyes. He'll think I've
left the Flatwoods," he muttered on,
more to himself than to her. "It's
what he's been waiting for. His game
tonight land!
The girl saw the, fingers of his right
hand clench against his palm-doubt-
less quite unconsciously-wh the
knotted ridges of his great forearm
punched and swelled; but the full
meaning of the muttered words hap
PLY missed her.
CTO BE CONTINUED
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lying the Knot.

The performance of the marriage
ceremony is often spoken of as ETY.
ing the knot" The expression may
be Of comparatively recent origin, a
figurative phrase referring to the fact
that the contracting parties are united
or bound together in wedlock. Quite
as reasonable supposition is that
II has come down from the ancient
Babyionians.
At any rate it was the custom in
old Babylonia for the priest who Off
ciated at the wedding to take thread
from the garment of the bride and
one from garment of the groom.
He would then knot the two together
and present them to the bride, SYM
Dol of the matrimonial tie joining her
and her husband.
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CHAPTER x.
The Candle in the Granny.


All the way back to Fallen Rock the
Pearlhunter pondered the scene he had
gazed on through the chink in the
cabin wall: the mans TRANSPORTED
face; his actions with the picture
above all-the picture. 1t puzzled him,
angered him. That such man should
have her picture; his mother's-with
the darkly beautiful face and wonder
full eyes-warm against his breast 1t
was another reason why he should
hunt him down.
The Pearlhunter was as brave as
the woods make them but it is no dis
credit to his manhood to say that
his blood ran a little faster as
he stepped down off the rock into the
water and waded through the falls.
Every inch of the way had to be felt
out with his fingers before his feet
could be trusted to follow.
The roar of the falls had dulled a
little when suddenly a sound came out
of the dark just ahead-a sound like a
garment rubbing against some rough
surface. The Pearlhunter stepped to
one side of the passage and flattened
himself against the wall. Out of the
dead silence the sound came again. A
grin loosened his face. The very
sound he had half expected-a horse
contentedly munching his hay.
The Pearlhunter came out from
against the wall and inched his way
deeper into the blackness of the pass
age. 1t abruptly widened until he was
no longer able to reach from one wall
to the other with his outsrretched
arms. Though denied the use Of his
eyes, he knew that the passage broad
Iy expanded just there and became a
cave. He stood in the very entrance
of it.
The next step-there was no help
for flight! Desperate and danger
ous-the first spark, and the cave
might spring to life. Still, it was bet
ter than to stumble over sleeping
man; or walk into a knife. With his
revolver balanced, his face to the open
cave, he reached his left hand along
the wall to the farthest stretch of his
arm, bringing his body as far as posi-
BILE from the light, and with his fin
gers fumbled out a spot suitably
smooth and dry-for there must be no
failure The match scraped. A tiny
flame leaped away from the rock. 1t
lighted up the place surprisingly.
The cave was not large-,hardly
twice the size of an ordinary room.
The first swift glance showed him that
except for the horse--it was empty.
The stub of a candle caught his
eye, stuck by its own tallow to an out
standing stool of shale just beyond the
mouth of the passage. He crossed the
passage and held the match to the
wick. In the better light he studied
the place more closely.
The cave could not have been far
below the ground, for an oak root had
found its way through the wall. 1t
was to this that the horse was tied.
For moment he was strongly
tempted to stay where he was till his
prey returned the following night and
then rid the Flatwoods of him, and
trust what evidence he already had to
prove his case.
But a better plan had been forming
ever since he came, into the cave. and
there was much yet to be done though
the cave would have made a good hid
ing place during the coming day-al-
ways provided the bandidt did not
chance to return before his time.
Selecting SPOT that he judged to be
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The man whose pay was not inflated
by war times is encouraged to believe
the ditty: when you're up you're up
and when you're down you're down,
but when you're only half way up
you're neither up nor down.
Bombay had a riot because boys
killed two pigeons. Maybe they were
peace doves.
Kansas proposes a law to pay wages
to housewives. Will it provide for
overtime when baby has the collie?
The proposed two-cent piece comes
too late. We have returned to the
nickel era.
Another type of fellow man that we
dislike to have business dealings with,
though it means well, is the one that
does some little thing around the
house for us and when we ask how
much it is replies "Oh, whatever you
think is right"
Germany's former crown prince
wants to be a farmer Maybe he's
been reading about Cadmus, the old
geezer who raised soldiers by sowing
dragons teeth.
The thirty Oklahomans poisoned BY
we'll water might go on the lecture
circuit as horrible examples.
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SENATE o. KS FARMERS LOAN
Approves $1oo,ooo,ooo Bonds to Pro-
vide Immediate Agricultural
Credits.

Washington, Feb. 14.-The appro-
priation bill rider authorizing the sec
rotary of the treasury to purchase
$1OO,OOOOOO of federal farm loan
bonds to provide credits for farmers
pending decision by the Supreme
court in the litigation testing consti-
tutionaIity of the farm loan law, was
adopted by the senate. 1t now awaits
approval by the house.
A substitute by Chairman Mclean
of the banking committee to limit pur-
chase of farm loan securities to 49,
100000 annually for ten years was
defeated
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Weiahina a Perfume.

It was the, italian physicist Salvioni
who devised a microbalance of such
extreme delicacy that it clearly dem
onstrates the loss of weight of musk
nv volatilization. Thus the invisible
perfume floating off in the air is in
directly weighed. The essential part
of the apparatus is very thin thread
of glass fixed at one end and extended
horizontally. The microscopic objects
TO be weighed are placed upon the
glass thread near its free end and the
amount of fiexure produced is OBJ
served with a microscope magnifying
100 diameters. A mote weighing one
thousandth of a milligram perceptibly
bends the thread.
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WILL TALK PEACE AT REvAL
Roumania Accepts Esthonian Capt.
tai for Meeting With Soviet
Russia.

Vienna, Austria, Feb. 15.-The Rou-
manian government, according to a
dispatch from Bucharest, has accept
ed Reval, capital Of Esthonia, as the
seat of the peace negotiations be-
tween Roumania and soviet Russia.
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sentence seven in cobIenz.

Coblenz, Feb. 16-Seven persons
have been convicted of selling cocaine
to the American troops. They have
been. sentenced to one year imprison-
ment each by the American military
courts.
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TWO Killed in Italy Riot.

London, Feb. 15.-Two persons were
killed and Is wounded in conflict be-
tween communists and extreme nation
alists at the naval shipyard at Man
falcome, Italy, says a Rome dispatch
TO fine London Central News.
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President Visits New Home,

Washington, Feb. 15.-President
Wilson passed several hours at the
house where he will make his home
after his retirement from office on
March 4. It was the Presidents sec
ond visit to. the house.
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court upholds MLaoer" Label.

Louisville, KY, Feb 12.-Federal
Judge Walter Evans permitted a
Louisville brewery to use th2 vord
'lager" on its cereal beverage labels
and thereby upset regulation of the
Department of Internal Revenue.
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can mn iliouor Is sejzed

Detroit, Mich, Feb. 14.-Liquor said
to be worth more than $4,000 was
seized by agents of the state food and
drug department in a raid in an ex-
elusive district here, Walter Lange
was arrested.
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Headless Body of Girl Found.

Chicago, Feb. 14.-The headless
body of girl apparently about TWEEN
ty years old, was found in the Ca1u-
met Sag canal near Blue Island. Both
arms had been chopped off, apparently
with a heavy, sharp knife.
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Resions as Canal Governor.

Panama, Feb. 14.-Col, Chester
Harding, governor of the Panama
canal zone, sailed for the United
States. His resignation and depar-
ture leaves Col. Jay J. Morrow as act
ing governor.
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Vice President Gets Raise.

Washington, Feb. 14-An amend
ment to the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill, providing
for an increase in the salary of the
vice president from $4,000 to SIS, 900
was passed in the senate.
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CHICAGO MARKETS.
Grain. Provisions, Etc.

FLOUR-Hard spring wheat-ShOrt pat
ent, SS.75@9O0; first clear, $7.25@7.5O Sec
ond clear, s6.2596.5O; special mill brands.
in 9S-lb. cotton sacks, $9OG@9.25; ware
wheat-Short patent, $9.5O@975 Hard
winter wheat-Short patent, $S.75Q9OO;
first clear, $7.25@75O. Rye four-White
patent, IS. 25@8.50 dark, $6.OO96.25B
HAY-No. / timothy. $24.00@25.OO; stand!
ard and No. light clover, mixed, $22.00@
24OO: No 2 timothy and No clover.
Mixed $2OO0Q220O; No 8 timothy, $1,000
1900.
BUTTER-Creamery extras. go score.
44c: higher scoring commands premium:
firsts, 81 score, 40c; $500 score, 36@41c:i
seconds, 1887 score, 25Q35c; centralized,
431ac; ladies, 22G24c; packing stock, d4@
1Sc Price to retail trade: Extra tubs,
47c; prints, 49c.
EGGS-Fresh firsts 3703712c; ordinary
firsts, 33@S4c; miscellaneous lots. S4@36c;
extras. packed in wildwood cases, 450.
46c; checks. 2s@SOc; dirties, SOQS1c.
LIVE POULTRY-Turkeys, 43c; fowls,
zoe; spring chickens, soc; ROSTERS. 22c;
ducks, S4935c; geese, 24c.
DRESSED POULTRY-Turkeys 54a55c:
fowls, SIC; spring chickens, soc: ROSTERS.
20621c; ducks, S6c; geese, 2S2
POTATOES Sacked and bulk, 100 lbs
northern round white, $1.05@1.25.
ONIONS-75c0$1. per sack.
CATTLE-Prime steers, $8.00Q10.2 S; good
to choice steers. $7.S5@9O0; fair to good
steers $625@7. so: yearlings, fair to choice.
s.. OO019.25; heifers, $5.OO@8.OO; cows. good
to choice. $55O0675; fair to good cows,
$4,000. so; Gamers $2.5O@3.0O cutters, $500
@4.25; bologna bulls, $4.25Q5.OO; veal calves.
$10.Q0@12.OO
HOGS-Choice light butchers, $9.75@10. 05:
medium weight butchers. $9-S5Q9.S5; far
$4,000 I{obt co o5I110 TX. heavy butchers
2D-325 lbs, $S75@9 %; heavy packing. $S.25
@S.75; rough packing. $7.5O08.25; pigs, IS. 80
01O.0O
SHEEP-Native lambs $6.O0@S75; fed
western lambs, $7.OOG9OO; Colorado lambs.
s6OO6S.OO; feeding lambs, $6.75@SOO; weth-
ers, 81. 5O@5.25; yearlings. s5.25@7.5Q; ewes.
$SOO@4.75.