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CHAPTER v.

The shoulders of watchel's
huge figure shook with an effort
at contemptuous laughter. But
that laughter was as mirthless as
the cackle Of a guinea hen. Kest-
ner did not even deign to observe
1t. He turned sharply about to
the watching woman. q
In the meantime I want you
to take a botta direct to the Amer
lean embassy. Ask for Schuyler
there, tell him / sent you, and
wait until come for YOU
Watched made a move Of heavy
tmpatience. The change in his
own face denoted his determine.
ton to waste no more time over
non-essentials.
"she can't do it. And you may
as well know it now"
why can't she?"
Watched unbuttoned his Inver-
ness and tossed 1t to one side.
Because at the bottom Of that
stairway, my young friend, arc
two officers waiting to place her
under arrest for selling Italian
military secrets to the agent OF a
foreign power
It was Kestner's turn to laugh.
"Call them upw he commanded.
81 don't need to call them up"
retorted Watched, .visibly dis-
turbed by his opponents confident
manner.
You can't call them up" broke
s IN Kestner. "And nj tell you
the reason why. Those men are
because Of my orders. Do you
not there And they're not there.
understand that? And from this
evening on, Herr Watched, ALIAS
Gustav Wimpffen,, alias Adoyrh1
Keudell, you're going. to have
something more than a lonely girl
20 fight against!' 81
Watched, with an assumption of
leisure, proceeded to remove his
immaculate gloves.
'sAnd what, must I fight
against?" he inquired with a lift
Of the eyebrows.
Against meg, barked out Kest-
ner as he crossed the room. Then
he swung about to Maura Lam
bert again. Have you got q
key for this desk?"
EYES," she answered.
''Where'd you get it?"
ct had duplicate made after
losing the first one. two days
ago."
"And who got the first one?"
81 don't know"
"But I do. And this man
Watched does. Open the desk,
please"
Kestner strobe to the door and
closed it. standing with his back
to the heavy panels. The girl
crossed to. the teakwood desk and
with shaking fingers fitted a key
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Metropolitan Opera Company
and One of the Most Beau
tifuI Women of the Day.
" HE time Of the year has
come when more than at
u any other season we live
out-of-doors. The mild air, the
beauty Of the country and vaca-
ton plans all help to bring about
this result, which inevitably is
beneficial.
Direct contact with sunshine and
fresh air is wonderfully inWgorat-
ing and refreshing.
But there is one drawback to
all the fun and benefit that go
with life in the open. We soon
find ourselves becoming discol-
ored-disfigured If you look at the
matter in that Lightly tan or
freckles or sunburn. possibly by
all three.
Tan is the least troublesome Of
these summer problems. In fact,
tan Is so fashionable just now
that 1t can hardly be called a
problem, bat rather an added at
traction to the appearance of
beautiful woman.
Freckles, however. are gener-
ally more or less Of an annoy
ance to the girl who Is subject to
them. She imagines that they
destroy her beauty, for some
times she is leased about them.
Sunburn is rather pretty the
first day. when 1t adds a becom.
ing flush to our faces, but by the
second or third day 1t is neither
attractive nor comfortable, for 1t
generally causes painful blisters,
which vanish only to peel off.
The best remedy for all Of these
blemishes, as for most of the ills
Of life, Ia prevention.
And the best prevention in this
case Is a good coat Of cold cream,
rubbed we'll into your skin, then
rubbed off and followed--if you
Likely a light busting Of talcum
or other simple powder.
A cream with a slight bleach
ing tendency Is bet If 1t agrees
with your skin. You might try
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WV 1NTER days love 70 HuS-
~ tie when the north wind
w raves and roars, gladly
taxing every muscle, I 80 whis-
Ting out of doors. Heavy tasks
cannot upset me and hard work
is my delight, nor does any hard
ship fret me, though I dig. from
morn till night. For there's pep
per in the breezese rushing down
from Polar lands, and g fellow
surely freezes Ii he sits and folds
his hands. So my step. is always
snappy in the dark December
days; Sim Legree would be quite
happy could he see my busy ways.
But a change comes with each
season and / find along in June,
though I cannot tell the reason,
work and are not in tune. was
fresher than daisy when the
earth was locked in ice; but III
June I'm slow and lazy, labor
loses all it's spice. So lou beside
the river through the lengthy
Summer day, where the willow
branches CULVER and the sun and
shadow play. Where the song
birds trill gay measures, robin
thrush and bob-o' link; where
Dame Nature flaunts her treas
ures all along the rivers brink.
There are violets that listen to the
tale the waters tell, buttercups
where dew-drops glisten, MOSES in
the rocky dell. And through all
the south wind creeping, with its
lazy, laughing tune, till I'm more
than halfway sleeping--who could
work in sunny June? In the
Winter I'm a hummer, chopp'2g
stove wood, sweeping snow; 40
along in early Summer ! begin to
move in low. Willow branches
near me swishing, breeze and bees
that softly Groom, till I'm most too
tired for fishing in the golden days
Of June.
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By Virginia Terhune
Van de Water,

Author Of Nationwide Reputa-
ton and Writer Of Popular
Novels and Short Stories.
tcopyright. 1923. by Star Company
<<r HAVE been thinking" he
said suddenly that you
ought to go away some
where this summer. The city is
too hot for you"
she shook her head. 81 do not
want to co." she declared. my
apartment is lovely and cool. and
gets all the breezes from the
river. You won't"-leaning for
ward anxiously.'make me go
away from New York when do
not want to go?''
Her face was 50 anxious that
his heart smote him. mo. dear
child-not IL you really object to
going" he assured her. But
why should you mind?"
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WHO SAID TT
AND WHERE?


r. "All men have their price"
That was the conclusion Sir
Robert Walpole (1674-1746) came
to in his day concerning. politi-
clans.
r
"Annihilating time and space.
These words that are employed
in modern parlance of inventions
that bring the remotest parts of
the world into close relationship
are found in these lines Of Pope:
eye gods! annihilate but space
and time.
And make two lovers happy"
y"Chaste as ice."
Shakespeare uses this figure in
Hamlet's conversation with Ophelia:
Be thou chaste as ice, as pure
rs snow,
Thou shalt not escape caIunlny.'
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Syndicate. Inc.
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The Story of Cremation.

before the Christian cremation was prevalent
- among nearly all nations. Later, burial in the
ground became common. Of late years sanitation is
responsible for the revival and gain of cremation
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declared the American as he threw
off his coat and tossed it into a
corner Of the room.
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THE RHYMING
OPTIMIST
In June.
BY Aline Michaelis

IVY INTER days love to hus-
" tie when the north wind
~ y raves and roars, gladly
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BY Maria Jeritza.

The Famous Prima Donna Of the
Metropolitan Opera Company
and One of the Most Beau
tifuI Women of the Day.
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WOMAN DRY OFFICER
UNSYMPATHETIC FOR.
MOONSHINE DRINKER
When Wrapped In "Wooden
Overcoat" Get What De-
serve She Says

CHICAGO, April linen who
drink moonshne and then get all
wrapped up in wooden overcoat'
are getting just what they deserve,
in the opinion of Miss Georgia Hope
ly, the only woman prohibition Off
Ger, who stopped in Chicago Tuesday
en- route west, where she will make
a series of lectures on the evils Of
home home brew.
Miss Hopely hasn't one bit of sym
pathy for the moonshine victims h
they want to keep on drinking poison
then let them go right ahead. she
says.
Just at present the only woman
nooze sleuth says she is far more in
terested in taking the pop out OF
popping home brew bottles and III
making the home safe for the chill
dren.
My business is to back the milk
bottle against the whisky bottle.
said Miss Hopely. Most prohibition
officers work against the bootleg
gers and saloons in an effort to wipe
out the regular Illicit booze trade
NY woro<, on the contrary. is to get
at the liquor situation in the homes.
want to wipe out the home brew
Miss hopely took a terrible rap at
the white -collared workers and gave
ing the two classes with reference to
enforcement of the dry laws.
The people who do the drinking in
their homes are vastly more danger
Gus in their influence than the pro-
fessional bootleggers. because the
children are affected" she said.
Stage comedians are suggesting
that bootleggers buy and wear
badges in order to keep from selling
their product to each other. Miss
Hopely suggests something even
better than that-a bootleggers
union.
Il should suggest. almost seriously
bootleggers' union" she said
Then at least we could try to license
the profession and keep out those
who have no business there. The
other agents could take care of thu
professionals.
Miss Hopely is sister of Senator
James Hopely of Ohio, and vas Obi,
publicity manager for President
Harding during his presidential cam
paign.
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he would be accused of seeking to
join the league.
Opponents of the court plan ave
hispia3Ine the same shrewd skill
which enabled them to kill the Yer
saiiles treaty. They have started a
flank attack by centering their fire
on the fact that Great Britain has
SIX votes In the league assembly and
would therefore have undue influ-
ence in the selection of judges for
the tribunal Administration officials
reply that the league council also
must approve all judges and that in
TINS body each nation has only one
vote.
another complication has been in
!ected by the activities of Senator
George Wharton Pepper of Pennsyl-
Vania, who is making speeches al
most nightly now advocating Ameri-
can entry into revised League of
Nations. His speeches are regarded
as having two purposes.
First. to arouse the american peo-
pie to support the league; and second,
to let the European powers know
that revisions in the covenant might
make it acceptable to the United
states. Peppers high standing as a
lawyer and the fact that he assist
ed in the defeat in the Versailles
treaty s head of an anti-league or
ganiza ton make him a powerful pro-
tagonist. He is likely to start many
new cross currents in the republl-
can party which may prove trouble
some for the President.
Harding has thrown his whole
energy into the court fight just as
ne did for the ship subsidy. He will
fight for it stubbornly as he did
after he fell into the clutches Of the
filihuSter of the last Congress.
Senator Watson, though personal
ly opposed to joining the court under
existing conditions, is anxious to
find some way by which he and his
colleagues may support the admins
tration. He has suggested "A plan
to Hughes whicN may solve the diff
ficulty II successful negotiations
can be concluded with the influen-
tial powers in the league. Neither
Hughes nor Watson would discuss
this plan for publication. Other Esa
stors viii, consult Hughes in the near
future.
President Harding regards the sue
cHSs Of his court plan as the second
most important achievement which
could be recorded in his administra
ton. 1t holds place in mis- heart
ference. With those two programs
successfully completed. Harding
would regard his administration as
having made a place in history for
itself This being the case. he is
setting out to make the fight of his
career for the court.
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Willy V DE-: VALERA
LEADER Of REBELS
STILL At LIBERTY
Was He Taken Prisoner by
Mistake" Question Many
Are Asking
CONTINUED from Page Oncl

where he would collect funds to con-
tinue the fight and then return,
broke from his party in January last
year when the majority of the mem
bers of the Dahl Eireann voted to ac-
cept the Irish Free State government
which gave Erin autonomy but not
complete independence,
Since then DeValera has been di-
recting a relentless warfare against
the Free State government. Promi
nent Free Staters have been murdered
or kidnapped and their homes burned
by the rebels. The insurgents act
in assassinating Michael Collins
alienated many of their followers.
o O O
Supporters Singled Out.
DeValena's most able supporters
Rory O'Connor, Erskine Childers,
Harry Boland Liam Lynch - have
been singled out by the government
and killed.
Just about the time of DeValera s
reported capture, the Free State gov
eminent in Dublin made it known
that six insurgents had been execut-
ed at Tuam after they were found
guilty by court martial of bearing
arms against the government.
DeValera was born in New Yorl
city in 1889 His mother was an Irisf
woman from Cork and his fathe
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League of Nations in any sense. The
connection of the court with the
league is indeed remote. Its sole re-
ldtlonship is that the judges are
elected as provided in its own sta
tute. not by the league, but by the
representatives of the nations to the
league acting as an elective body for
TINS purpose. 1t Is this elective body
that we join, not the league.
ITO some people, the league is such
an anathema that even it's many good
acts are bad. Let us admit frankly
that there are among our people
many thousands. perhaps hundreds
OF thousands who, as regards the
phrase, League of Nations are still
under the tyranny of emotions as
ISOLATED with that phrase during the
political controversy of the last four
years. 1t is unhappily true that in
such controversies phrase is given
an odium which disturbs the orderly
march of entirely disassociated ideas
What they would willingly assent to
Is thing standing, they shrink
merely because 1t has ASSOCIATE
with phrase.
There are few people who APP
parently maintain an open mind on
international cooperation by rear
rangement of their prejudices. The
court is already in existence. 1t is
largely the handiwork of American
thought and American hands. For
us to insist upon 1t being torn down
and re- corrected just because it was
created by~a conference called by
the league Gin which Americans
took part, is one of the most un-
seemly suggestions of national self
ishness that can be conceived.
Another section of the opponents
of President Hardng's proposal con-
denim it because it does not go far
enough; because it has no teeth in
it. This is the basis of Senator
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HOOVER CALLS LEAGUE
COURT KEY TO PEACE
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cally excluded. We dc not need to
submit any case to the court unless
we feel like doing so at the time the
case arises
NO other nation can summon us
into court except with our consent
The court itself cannot summon us
IN. nor in any manner or degree ex-
ert upon us any kind tf compulsion.
not even moral. Our proposal to en-
ter the court and the act of adhesion
to it which President Harding has
asked, is based upon the assumption
that compulsion is not necessary for
peoples of good will and a sense of
justice.
Other Nations Enter.
1T is true that part of the other
nations, in joining this court have
joined it in slightly stronger de
gree. These other nations have been
moved either because they have
greater faith in the processes of in
ternational cooperation than Amer
lea is able to show in its present
mood of dstrust or else because
harsh suffering has made them more
fearful to the menace of war
But the adhesion which President
Harding proposes to the iuterna tional
court is strictly limited by carefully
drawn stipulations which will no
doubt be fully considered by the SEN
aec. ~ We w ~ we TdllIy RES
ident Hardinss proposal-all the
promises we make-the only obliga
tions we take are these and only
these: We promise to pay a share
of the running expenses of the court,
a matter less than $4,000 a year; and
we promise t. take part with 48 other
nations in the choosing of the judges.
The judges are men of international
reputation who sit nine years and are
freed of all prejudices except to
maintain principle and law
There Is another section Of OPP
ponents of President Harding's pro-
posal who condemn the idea not be-
cause they do not a gree to its pri-
mary IAirpose and method. but solely
because 1t was erected under the aus
pices of the League of Nations. But
We are not by this act entering the
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it was submitted to the Senate, he
called in a few influential members
and even those who approved of the
court idea warned the executive that
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HARVEY RECALLED
To AID PRESIDENT
IN |. Is BATTLES
Ambassador To Hold Confer
ence With Lead ing IRE
ConciIabIe Senators

WASHINGTON April 11.-Admin-
stration forces are modifying their
heavy guns to save the Harding
Hughes international court project
from the league of nations DOGGY
which has been raised by irreconcila-
Die republican senators.
Ambassador George Harvey is re-
turning from London in May for a
months leave. He is expected TO do
much valuable missionary work here
among the anti-league senators who
ire opposing the international court
plan. thinking it means the first
,tep toward becoming a member of
he League of Nations. Harvey
ought the league when he was be-
'ore the Senate and his word that
there is no plot afoot to smuggle
he United States into the league
would go farther than anything else
,oward bringing the irreconcilables
nto line
Harvey will be here at least
month and although many senator's
Will be scattered in their home
states. he may be expected to con-
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PRESIDENT WILL SEEK
TO STRAIGHTEN OUT
TANGLE IN TARIFF LAW
Members of Commission Will
Meet Executive at
Conference

WASHINGTON. April 11.-Presi-
dent Harding will attempt soon tc
straighten out the tansle in the tar
iff commission growing out of the
variance of opinions among mem
bers as to procedure under flexible
provisions of the tariff law. MI
Harding has made a tentative en-
gagement to confer with the commits
sion members Friday and indications
today pointed to a thorough inquiry
by the executive into the controversy
which has held the commission al :
most in deadlock for some months.
Inc question of the commission $
investigation into the sugar situa-
ton, being made at the President s
request, also will be discussed at the
conference. Chairman Marvin of the
commission said he expected to have
the commissions preliminary state
ment on the Investigation in the
hands of the President by tomorrow
night. The report to be made at this
time Will be largely statistical. but
VIII serve. it was declared. to affirm
the Presidents reported belief that
the import duties in the present tar
IF law have mad no influence on
sugar prices.
Other than to proceed with an in
vestigation of the tariff rates on II
comm ODDITIES. none of which have
been regarded as highly controver-
tial, the commission has been able 10
make little progress with its study
to determine whether the present
duties are equitable. The work done
on the limited list of articles and
rates was not attempted until Presi-
dent Harding, then on his vacation
in Florida, interviewed and instructed
the commission to go ahead with an
inquiry into the rates against which
complaints had been filed
The controversy arose as to wheth-
er the law intended that the commits
sion should make comprehensive
STUDY OF all rates and adjust them
on scientific basis or whether it
should consider adjustment only of
the rates against which exceptions
had been taken. Vice Chairman Gull
berson held out for the complete in
vestigation and was supported by
enough of the board membership Ia
defeat any program outlined by
chairman Marvin, who. while claim
ing not to be against the larger in
a o,lr, insisted that the commission
should have some suggestion from
the President as to Interpretation et
the flexible provisions of the law
NO limitations of the Presidents
view on the provisions has become
known except such as may be de
duced from the step he took in or
derins the commission to go ahead
with its investigation of rates on
which complaints had been made
Most members of the commission
were not inclined. however to inter
pref that action as giving any indi.
cation of what Mr.. Harding will dc
IN deciding the larger question OF
pollcy by which the commission is tc
be guided in its future activities
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suit with some of the more influ-
entail DIRECTORS.
O o o
Administration Active.
The administration is active in
many directions trying to combat the
anti-leasuers. Secretary of State
Hughes spent more than an hour
with Senator Watson of Indiana
Wednesday, Watson was impressed
by the secretary's logic, but came
away unconvinced that the United
States ought to join the court while
the league covenant retains it's pres
ent form.
Secretary OF Commerce Hoover, in
a speech at Des Moines Wednesday
night, devoted attention to the ex-
treme anti-leasue forces and denied
that joining the court would mean
entering the league in any sense.
William Randolph Hearst called on
the President late Wednesday and
may have discussed the court plan, to
which he is strongly opposed
This all follows the positive decla
ration Tuesday by an official spokes-
man of the President that there Is
nothing whatever in talk that the
United States is trying to get into
the league.
President Harding was warned long
in advance that this argument would
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Borah's objection. | admit the en-
lightenment and the courage of his
position. He would have an inter
national court of such strength that
it would try war itself and would
have US join it in such manner
that we would be obligated to its
jurisdiction. Senator Borah's inter
national court in it's relation to the
nations would be somewhat an an
alogy to the supreme court of the
United States "A its relation to odr
states.
Now, by all means. let us have no
quarrel-on the contrary. let us have
admiration and respect for those who
show the vision and the courage to
go this whole distance. But let us
admit that as a practical matter, for
reasons familiar to all of you, Amer
ice is not ready to go this far"
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suit with some of the more influ-
entail DIRECTORS.
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