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SYNOPBIB.
CHAPTER I—K. C. Rlckard, an engi
neer of the Overland Pacific, la called to
the office of President Marshall In Tuc
son, Arts. "Casey" Is an enigma to tha
office force; he wears "dude" clothes,
but ha had resigned a chair of engineer
ing In the Bast to go on the road as a
fireman and his promotion had been spec
tacular. While waiting for Marshall Rlck
ard reada a report on the ravages of the
Colorado, despite the efforts of Thomas
Hardin of the Desert Reclamation com
pany. This Hardin bad been a student
under Rlckard and had married Oerty
Holmes, with whom Rlckard had fancied
ha was In love.
CHAPTER ll—Marshall tell, Rlckard
the Overland Pacific has got to step In
to save the Imperial Valley and sends
him t6 the break. Rlckard declines be
cause he does not want to supplant Har
din, but la won over. "Stop the river;
damn the expense," says Marshall.
CHAPTER lll—Rlckard Journeys to
Calsxlco, sees the Irrigated desert and
learns much about Hardin and his work.
CHAPTER IV—At the hotel he meets
Mr. and Mrs. Hardin and Innea Hardin,
Hardin's half sifter. Disappointed In her
husband and an Incorrigible coquette,
Mrs. Hardin sets her cap for her former
lover and Invites him to dinner.
CHAPTER V—Rlckard visits the com
pany's offices and takes control. He finds
the engineers loyal to Hardin and hos
tile to htm. Estrada, a Mexican, son of
the "Father of the Imperial Valley," tells
him of the general situation.
CHAPTER Vl—Rlckard attends a
meeting of the directors and asserts his
authority. Hardin rages. Estrada tells
Rlckard of his foreboding that hie work
will fall. "I can't see it finished."
CHAPTER Vll—lnnes Is discovered In
her garden. She tries to cheer up Hardin,
who Is furious against Rlckard.
CHAPTER VIII—A family luncheon of
the H&rdlns which throws light on them.
CHAPTER IX—feardln discovers that
Rlckard Is planning a levee to protect
Calexlco and puts him down as Incom
petent. Oerty thinks her lord Jealous.
CHAPTER XI.
The Fighting Chance.
"Casey's back, spying!" announced
Wooster at mess one evening. By that
time the feeling against "Marshall')
man" was actively hostile. There had
been a smudge of slumbering fires be
fore Rlckard had left the towna
Fanned by much talk during his ab
sence, It had burst Into active blaze.
They were ready to show their resent
ment against the man who had sup
planted Hardin, their Napoleon, If It
cost them their places. By this time
the cause of the desert was as com
pelling to these hardy soldiers as were
the lily banners of France to the fol
lowers of the Little Corporal.
Rlckard wns not expected. He had
been gone less than a week. The ef
fect of his return was that of a per
son who returns suddenly Into a room,
hushing an active babel of tongues,
He knew what he would And, ample
reasons why! He was not given the
satisfaction of locating any particular
act of disobedience. The men pre
sented a blank wall of politeness, rea
sonable and Ineffectual. Silent ex
plained briefly that he had not been
able to collect enough men. Most of
the force was busy In the No. 6 dis
trict, trying to push the shattered Wis
taria through by a new route before
that year's crops were entirely ruined.
A gang was at Grant's Heading; the
floor needed bracing. Another squad,
Irish's, wns In the Volcano Lake re
gion, where they were excavating for
the new hendgate.
"No hurry for that." Rlckard was
glad to pick a flaw In such a perfect
pattern. "You might have withdrawn
those men and put them to work on
the levea."
"I was given no authority to dc
that"
The chief pretended to accept the
reason; else It were a case of chang
ing horses In midstream. What he
had seen at the Heading, his peep at
the exposed valley, his gleaning of
the river's history had convinced blm
that In haste and concentration lay
the valley's only chance. He inust re
fuse to see the Insubordination of the
engineers, the seasoned desert sol
diers. He needed them, must win
their confidence If he could. If not,
they must nave the valley anyway)
The Imperturbable front of Silent, hli
bland, big stare, exasperated hlmj
easier to control the snapping terriei
of a Wooster. He had told Silent dis
tinctly to gather his men and rush th«
levee. A good soldier had made a bet
ter guess than his, and had stopped
.the casual work at Black Butte, or
had found Indians! Thoughtfully
Rlckard followed that last suggestion
across the ditch Into Mexleall.
He gathered nil the recruits h«
needed that morning. The Indians,
lazy Cocopnhs, crept out of their hut*
to earn a few of the silver dollars held
ont to them by the new white bo**
A few Mexican laborers were bribed
to ton op earth to the west of th«
town. Kxtrada, at his request, put a
squad of his road fttrce at the service
of the manager. He could not spurt
many men.
The railroad had already started
the line projected by Htardln to Mar
shall the year before, a spur aeros«
the desert, dipping Into Mexico be
tween the lean, restless sandhills,
from Calexlco to Tuma. The Mexican
government had agreed to pay Or*
thoiuuind dollars a mile were the road
completed at a certain period. Estrada
wu keping his men on the Jump to
All the contract to make his nation
pay the price. The completion of tbf
road meant help to the valley; sup
plies, men, could be rushed through to
the break.
In spite of his haunting sense of
ultimate failure the growing belief In
the omnipotence of the Great Yellow
Dragon as the Cocopalu visualized It,
Estrada's work was as intense as
though he were hastening a sure vic
tory. The dauntless spirit of the
Estrada pushed the track over the hot
sands where. danee at times
to keep his feet from burning. Many
of the rails they laid at night.
"Rlckard's gone hog-wild," Hardin
told his family the next morning.
"Building a levee between the towns!
The man's off his head."
"There Isn't any danger?" Gerty's
anxiety made the deep blue eyes look
black. A
Innes looked up for Tom's answer.
His face was ugly with passion.
"Danger! It's a bluff, a big show
of activity here because he's buffa
loed ; he doesn't know how to tackle
the Job out there."
It had begun to look thnt way to
more than one. It was talked over
at Coulter's store; In the outer office
of the D. R. company where the engi
neers foregathered; among the-chair
tllters who idled In front of the Des
ert hotel. "The man does not know
how to tackle his Job!" A levee, and
the gate held up! What.protection to
the towns would be that toy levee If
the river should return on one of Its
spectacular sprees? A levee, and the
Intake Itself not guarded? He wns
whispered of as incompetent; one of
Marshall's clerks. He was given a
short time to blow himself out A
bookman, a theorist.
"As well put sentinels a few miles
from prison and leave the Jail doors
open !" This was Wooster's gibe. All
saw the Colorado as a marauder at
large. "And a little heap of sand
stacked up to scare It off! It's a
scream I*'
Mrs. Hardin fpund It difficult to
meet with diplomacy the confidences
which Inevitably came her way. As
Hardin's wife she was expected to en
joy the universal censure the new man
wns acquiring. Gerty's light touches,
too slight for championship, passed as
a sweet charity. Her own position
those days was trying., She did not
yet know her diplomatic lesson.
Apparently unaware of the talk,
Rlckard spent the greater part of his
time superintending the levee. He
could trust no one else to do It, no
one unless It were Estrada, who was
rushing his steel rails through to the
front and was needed there.
Things were moving under his con
stant goading. The extra puy was
showing results. He should be at the
Heading now, he kept telling himself,
but he was convinced that the Instant
he turned his back, the work on the
levee would stop; and all the reasons
excellent! Some emergency would be
cooked up to warrant the withdrawal
of the hands. Chafe as he might at
the situation, It wns (p be guerrilla
warfare. Not a fight In the open, he
knew how to meet that, but that baf
fling resistance, the polite silence of
the office when ho entered —"Well,
they'll be doing my way pretty soon,
or my name Isn't Rlckard. That's
flat."
He was fretting to he at work, to
start the wheels of the O. P., JtH vast
machinery toward his problem. lie
knew that that organization, like well
drilled militia, was ready for his call.
The call lugged, not that he did not
need men, bat there wax no placo
ready fur them. The camp, that was
another rub. There was no camp! It
was not equipped for a sudden Infla
tion of men. The Inefficiency of the
projectors of this desert scheme had
never seemed so criminal as when he
had surveyed the equipment at the In
take. "Get ready first; your tools,
your stoves, your beds." That was the
training of the good executive, of men
like Marihnll and MucLean. Nothing
to be left to chance; to foresee euer
gencles, not to be taken by them un
aware. The reason of Tlardln's down«
fall was his slipshod habits, I low could
he be a good officer who bad never
drilled as a soldier? There was tho
gap at the Intake, Hardin's grotesque
folly, widened from one hundred feet
to ten times the original cut; widening
every day, with neither equipment nor
camp adequate to push through a work
of half the original magnitude. Cut
ting away, moreover, was the Island,
Disaster Island; It had received apt
christening by the engineers, Its bap
tismal water the Colorado. The last
floods had played with It us | Vmgh It
were a har of sugar. There was no
rock at hand; no rock on the way, no
rock ordered. Could anyone piece to
gether such recklessness?
Rlckard knew where hit would get
his rock. Already he had requisitioned
the entire output of the Tarns and
I'atagonln quarries. Ho had ordered
steam shovels to be Installed at the
quarry back of old Hamlin's. That
rock pit would be his first crotch, and
the gravel bed —that was a find! A»
he paced the levee west of the towns,
he was planning his campaign. Por
ter was scouring Zncatecns for men;
he himself had offered, as bait, fret
transportation; the O. P. he knew
would back him. He was going to
throw out * spur-track from the Head
ing, touching at the quarry and gravel
pit, on to the main road at Yuma.
Double track most of the way; siding*
every three miles. Rock must I*
rushed; the trains must be pushed
through. He Itched to begin. It never
occurred to him that, like Hardin, h«
might fall.
"Though It's no pink tea," he told
himself,. "It's no picnic." At Tucson
GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY. APKIL 10, 1919
he knew that the sltnatloa was ■
grave one, but his talk with Brandon,
who knew his river as does a good In
dian, made the year a significant
eventful one. Matt Hamlin, too, whoaa
shrewd eyes had grown rlver-wlsc, he,
too, had had tales to tell of the tricky
river. Maldonado,. the half-breed, bad
Maldonado Had Confirmed Their Por
tents.
confirmed their portents while they sat
together under his oleander, famous
throughout that section of the coun
try. And powerfully had Cor'nel, the
Indian who had piloted Estrada's party
across the desert whom Rlckard had
met at the Crossing, deeply had he Im
pressed him. The river grew Into a
malevolent, mocking personality; he
could see It a dragon of yellow waters,
dragging Its slow, sluggish length
across the baked desert sands; deceiv
ing men by Its Inertness; luring the
explorer by a mild mood to rise sud
denly With Its wild fellow, the Gila,
sending boat and boatmen to their
swift doom. 1
Rlckard was thinking of the half
breed, Maldonudo, as he Inspected tho
new stretch of levee between the
towns. He had heard from others be
sides-Estrada of the river knowledge
of this descendant of trnpper and
squaw, and had thought It worth while
to ride the twenty miles from down
the river to tnlk with him. The man's
suavity, his narrow slits of eyes, the
lips thin and facile, deep lines of cru
elty falling from them, had repelled
his visitor. The mystery of tho place
followed him. Why the 'dobe wall
which completely surrounded the
small, low dwellings? Why tho cau
tious admittance, the atmosphere of
suspicion? Rlckard had seen the wife,
a frightened shadow of a woman; had
seen her flinch when tho brute called
for her. He had questioned Cor'nel
about the half-breed. He wns remem
bering the wrinkles of contempt en the
old Indian's face as he delivered him
self of an oracular grunt
"White man 7 No. Indian? No I
Coyote !•"
Though he suspected Maldonado
would lie on principle, though It might
be thnt two-thirds of his glib tlssuo
were false, yet a thread of truth co
incident with the others, Brandon and
Hamlin and Cor'nel, might be pulled
out of his romantic fabric.
"When the waters of tho OII« run
red look out for trouble!" He doubt
ed that they ever ran red. ' He would
ask Cor'nel. He had also spoken of
a cycle, known to Indians, of a hun
dredth year, when the Dragoir grows
restless; this he had declared was a
hundredth year.
Following his talk with Maldonado
and the accidental happy chance meet
ing with Coronel at the Crossing Rlck
ard had written his first report to Tod
Marshall. Before he had come to the
Heading ho hod expected Co ad visa
against the completion of the wooden
hendgate nt the Crossing. Hamlin
had glvoo him n new viewpoint. There
was a flflitlng chance. And he wanted
to he fair. Next to being successful
he wanted to be fair.
"It's time to be hearing from Mar
shall," Rlckard was thinking, as he
walked back to the hotel. "I wonder
S what he will say." Ho felt "It had
1 j been folr to put It up to Marshall;
■' personally, he would like to begin with
■ a clean slate—begin right. Clumsy
1 work had been done. It was true, yet
l there were urgent reasons now for
! haste; and the gate was nearly half
done! He had gone carefully over
' the situation. The heavy snowfall, un
precedented for years, a hundred, ac
-1 cording to the Indians—on the Wind
I Rover mountains—tho lokes swollen
1 j with Ice, the (Jlla restless, the summer
1 floods yet to bo met; perhaps, he n«M»
1 thought, he had been overfalr In em-
I phasl7.lng the arguments for the bend
j gate, for the hundred feet were now
a thousand feet—yet he had spoken
of that to Marshall: "Calculate for
yourself the difference In expense
since the flood widened the break. It
Is a vastly different problem now.
Disaster Island, which they figured on
j for anchor, Is a mere pit of corroding
sugar In the channel. An Infant Col
orado could wa*h It away. However.
a lot of work has already been done,
and a lot of money spent. There Is a
fighting chance. Ferhaps the bad year
Is all Indian talk."
A guess, at best, whatever they did!
It was pure gamble what the tricky
Colorado would do. Anywoy. he hod
given the whole situation to Marshall.
In his box at the hotel was a tele
gram which had be-n sent over from
the office—from Tod Marshall. "Take
the fighting chance. But remember to
speak more respectfully of Indiana."
"Marshall all over," laughed his an In
ordinate. "Now It's a case of hustle!
But dollars to doughnuts, as Junior
aays, we don't do It I"
CHAPTER XII.
Hardin's Luck.
Two doys later there was a shock of
: earthquake, so slight that the lapping
j of the water In IMckard's bath was his
! Intimation of the earth's uneasiness.
In the dining room later he found ev
eryone discussing It "Who could re
member an earthquake In that desert 7"
Tl>e first shake!"
During the morning, nnfntherod, as
rumors are bom, the whisper of dis
aster somewhere spread. Their own
slight shock was tLe edge of tho con
vulsion which had be«n serious else
where, no one knew quite where, or
why they knew It at all. The men
who were shoveling earth on the leveo
began to talk of Ban Francisco. Some
one said that morning that the city
was badly hurt. No one could confirm
the rumors but It grew with tho duy.
Rlckard met It at the office late in
the afternoon. He went dire£ to the
telegraph operator's desk.
"Get Los-Angeles, tho O. P. office.
And be quick about It"
In ten minutes he wns talking to
Babcock. Babcock said thnt the dam
age by the earthquake to that city was
not known, but It wns afire. Snn Joso
had confirmed It. Oakland had report
ed the flames creeping up the resi
dence hills of that gny Western city.
Cinders were already fulling In tho
trnnsbny town.
Rlckard dropped the receiver.
"Where's Ilardln?"
Tom Hardin emerged from a knot
of men who were tulklng In a corner
by the door.
"Where's that machinery?"
"What machinery?"
Rlckard saw the answer to his ques
tion In the other's face.
"The dredge machinery. Did you
attend to thnt? Did you send for it?"
"Oh, yes, that's all right. It's all
right."
"Is It here?"
Hardin attempted Jocularity. "I
didn't know as you wanted It here. I
ordered It sent to Yuma."
."Is It at Yuma?"
Ilardln admitted that It was not yet
at Yuma; It would be there soon; ho
hnd written; oh. It wns all right.
"When did you write?"
Hardin reddened under the eute
chlsm of questions. He resented be
ing held up before his men. The oth
ers felt the electricity In the air. Har
din and his successor were glurlng at
each other like belligerents.
"I asked when did you write 7"
"Yesterday."
"Yesterday I" Rlckard rlpocd out
an oath. "Yesterday. Why atyll, rd
Hko to know? Did you understand
thnt you were ordered to get that
here? Now, It's gone."
"Gone?" The others crowded up.'
"Snn Francslco's burning." Ho
walked into his Inner office, mud clear
through. He was not thinking of the
ruin of tho gay young city; not a
thought yet did ho have of the human
tragedies enacting there; of homes,
lives, fortunes swept Into that huge
bonfire. As It affected tho work nt tho
river, the first block to his cumpnlgn,
the catnstrophe came homo to him. He
had a picture of tortured, twisted
Iron, of ruined mnclilnery, the ma
chinery for his dredge, lie saw It lying
like a spent Laocoon, writhing In Its
Inst struggle. He blamed himself for
leaving even such a small detull as the
hastening of the parts to Ilnrdln's
care, for Hardin wasn't fit to be trust
ed for anything. No ono could tell
him now the man was unlucky; he
wns n fool. A month wasted, and
days wero precious. A month ? Months.
Hardin's luck. Oh, hell!
Then he began to speculate as he
cooled over the trouble up yonder. A
whole city hunting? They would sure
ly get It under control. He begun to
think of the Isolation; the telegraph
wires all down. Thnt might happen
anywhere! He walked to the door
nnd looked thoughtfully nt the eom
pany's big water tower. That wasn't
inch a had Idfa! lie picked up hU
Hat. and went out.
CHAPTER XIII.
The Wrong Man.
Mr*, nardln heard from every
source but the right one thnt Rlckard
had returned. Each time her tele
phone rang. It wa* hi* voice she ex
pected to hear. She began to r*ad a
meaning Into hi* alienee. She could
think of nothing else than the strange
coincidence thnt had brought their
live* again close. Or wa* It a coinci
dence? That Idea sent her thoughts
far afield.
She was thinking too much of him,
for peace of mind, those day* of wait
ing, but the return of the old lover
bad made a wonderful break In her
She Spent Most of Her Days at th«
Sewing Machine.
life. Her eyes were brighter; her
smile was less forced. She spent most
of her days at the sewing machine. A
lot of lace wa* whipped onto lingerie
frocks of pale colors. She was a dis
ciple of an Kastern esthete. "Women,"
he had said, "should buy loce, not by
the yard, but by the mile."
As ber Angers worked among tho
laces and soft mulls, her mind roved
down avenues that should have been
closed to her, a wife. She would have
protested, had anyone accused her of
Infidelity In those day*, yet day by day,
she wos straying farther from her hus
band's side. She convinced herself
that Tom's gibes and 111-humor were
getting harder to endure.
It waa Inevitable that the woman of
harem training should rellv» the l,qw-
rence days. The enmity of those two i
men, both her lovers, was pregnant j
with romantic suggestion. The drama
of desert and river centered now in tho
story of Gerty Hardin. Rlckard, who
had never married f The deduction,
once unveiled, Inst all Its shyness. And
every one saw that he disliked her hus
band!
She knew now that she had never
loved Tom. She had turned to him In
those days of pride when Itlckard'a
anger still held him aloof. How many
times had she gone over those unreal
hours! Who could have known that
his unger would last? That hour In
the honeysuckles; his kisses!. None of
Hardin's rougher kisses had swept her
memory of her exquisite delight—de
lirious as was her Joy, there was room
for triumph. She had seen herself
clear of the noisy boarding house. Her
self, Gerty Holmes, the wife of a pro
fessor; able to have the-things she
croved, to have them openly; no lougec
having to scheme for them.
It wns through Itlckard's eyes that
she had seen the shortcomings of the
college boarding house. She had ac
quired a keen consciousness of those
quizzical eyes. When they had Isolated
her, nt last, nppeallng to her sympa
thy or amusement, separating her
from all those boisterous students, her
dream of bliss had begun.
In those days, she had seen Ilardln
through the eyes of the youug Instruc
tor, younger by several years thun his
pupil. Her thud of disappointed anger,
of dlsllker when the face of Hardin
peered through the leafy screen I To
have waited, prayed for thut moment,
and to have It spoiled like that! There
had been days when she liad wept bo
cause she hud not shown her unger 1
How could she know that everything
would end there; end. Just beginning!
Her bourdlng-house training had
her to be civil. It was still
vivid to her, her anxiety, her treinu
lousness —with Hardin talking forever
of a play he had Just seen; Itlckurd
growing stlffer, angrier, refusing to
look at those lips still warm with his
kisses 1
And the next day, still angry with
her, . Ah, the puzzled desolation of
those weeks before she hud sulved her
hurt; with pride, and then with love I
Those days of misery before she could
convince herself thnt she had been In
love with love, not with her fleeing
lover! Hardin wns there, eager to ho
noticed. That affair, she could seo
now, had lacked finesse.
Rlckard had certainly loved her, or
why hud he never married? Why had
ho left so nhruptly his boarding houso
In mldteriu? Doesn't Jealousy confess
love? Home day. he would tell her;
what a hideous mistake hers had
been! She ought not to have rushed
Into that innrrlage. She knejv now It
had always been the other. But life
was not finished, yet!
The date set for her summer
"widowhood" had come, but she lin
gered Various reasons. splendid and
sacrlflciui, were given out. There wns
much to be done.
"I wish nho would be dcfliilte," In
nes' thoughts complained. 3110 was
restless to mi'ke her own pin ns. It
hud not yet occurred to her that Oerty
would stay In nil summer. For she
never hud so martyrized herself.
"Some one must bo with Tom. It may
spoil my trip. But Oerty never thinks
of thnt." Sho believed It to lie n
simple matter of clothes. It always
took her weeks to get ready to go any
where.
"But I won't wait miy longer than
next week. If sho doe* not go tlien, I
will. Absurd for u* both to bo here."
It wa* already fiercely hot.
Gerty, meanwhile, hml been wonder
ing how ithe could suggest t!i her sls
ter-ln-lnw that her trip bo taken IlrHt.
Without .1 rousing suspicions! Ter
ribly louil In her earn sounded her
thought* those day*.
Her husband flung a letter on the
table one evening. "A letter to you
from—Casey."
Bhe tried to in like the finger* thnt
rloNed over the letter move casually.
Hhe could feel them tremble. Wlint
would Hhe any If Tom asked
It was addrextted to her In
hand's care. Hardin had found l( al
the ofilce In hi* mull. And slic going
each «lay to tho postofllce to prevent
It from falling Into hi* hands! She
gave It u Quick offhand glance.
"About the drive, of cottrsn, Sup
per'* gelling cold. at that ome
lette. Don't wait to wash up. It will
be like leather."
When she had finished her rnenl, she
rend her letter with a fine show of In
difference. "He *ctn a data for tho
drive." She put the letter carelessly
Into her pocket before her husband
could stretch out bis hand. It would
never do for Jealous Tom to read thnt:
"Your letter was received-two weeks
igo. I'ardon me for appearing to have
forgotten your kindness."
"The nerve." growled Tom again,
his mouth full of (Jerty's omelette.
"To take yoti up on an Invitation like
that. I call that pretty raw."
"You must' remember we are such
old friends," urged Ills wife, "lie
*Bew I meant It seriously."
nq oj,
- -Hi
HOWARD E. MADSEN,
Sergeant, Co. D, 115 th Infantry.
Sergeant Madsen wan deeornjed for
conspicuous gallantry In action at
Hols 1 e-Consenvoye, Krnnce, October
22, 101 H. When the platoon which ho
was commanding wa* held up by an
enemy machine gnn ne*t. Sergeant
Msdsen, taking an armful of
advanced alone over ground swept by
machine gun fire, put the machine gun
out of action, routed the enemy and
permitted the platoon to advance with
out casualties. Hi* mother, Mrs. Mary
V. Madsen, lives In Baltimore, Md.
MM
riUBIJY|
COMMENT IRONICAL
GOHGERNIHG TREATY
COUNCIL OF FOUR IS SADLY
TRYING PATIENCE OF THE
WORLD BY DELAY.
FEELING OF UNREST 6ROWIK6
Arrival of King Albert and Premier
Paderewskl Taken as Sign of Crit
ical Nature of Discussions.
Paris.—The institution of the coun
cil of four 10 days ago met with a
certain amount of ironical comment
which merely indicated how far thf
patience of the world had been tried
up to that point, but on the whole the
new development was hailed wltb
general approval In all the capitals ol
the allies, as a means by which the dl
latory discussions of the larger bod)
might be cut short and the essentia!
terras of the peace treaty speedily
arrived at.
Unfortunately, little has taken place
during the last few days to encouragt
this first hope. On the contrary, the
feeling of unrest and distrust Is grow,
Ing stronger and stronger. The presi
is semiofficially Informed from day
to day that satisfactory progress hai
been made during discussions, but the
general impression nevertheless ob
tains that no definite decisions have
been reached on any of the most vital
points In the treaty, that there has
been and Is likely to be much discus
sion nmong the chief delegates upor
questions which it was understood it
would be the duty of commissions to
decide, and, finally, that proposals
were being put fofrward which at any
rate In some quarters were regarded
as little short of disastrous.
The sudden arrival of King Albert
In an aeroplane wits taken as a sign
of the critical nature of the council
of four dlscussiops.
The arrival of Premier Paderewskl
is interpreted In the same mway, aa
the consequence of the uncertain hand
ling of the Danzig problem by th«
council of four.
DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY
INCORPORATE IN WABHINQTON
Louisville, Ky.—Among recommen
dattona adopted nt the annual conven
tion i»f tho United Daughter! of the
Confederacy here, wan the Incorpora
tion of the organization in the Dls
trlct of Columbia, which was accepted
by a two-third* majority vote of the
approximate total of 500 delegates at
tending.
Miss Mary E. Popponhelm, of Char
loston, 8. C„ president-general of the
organization, submitted the recom
mendatlon together with other*, which
included discontinuance of varloui war
activities; appointment of a commit
tee to revlae rule* for crosses of hon
or; selection of a committee to ar
pange suitable recognition of Confed
erate descendants serving In tho
world war; completion of the educa
tional endowment ffund of 150,000 and
Investment of the fund In the United
States government bonds.
Many addresses were made, all eufo
glzlng great Confederate men and wo
men.
REDUCTION OF ACREAGE IS
ANNOUNCED AS 31 PER CENT
Columbia, R. C.—The smith's cotton
acreage In lflltt will be 31.08 per cent
less than In the previous year, accord-
In* to a .report on ocregae reduction
est Imo tea from all the cotton growing
states submitted by the South Caro
Una f'otton Association here. The re
port presented before a cotton reduc
tion convention, at which It wan an
nounced 800 delegates were present,
representing every county In th«
state, also announced unfavorable
weather for planting In 90 per cent
of the cotton bell.
That 60 per cent less commercial
fertilizer will l>e used this year, that
there Is a marked labor shortage, and
"Inroads of the boll weevil will be
more serious than for years past"
were other statements made In the
report
COVENANT OF LEAO'JPE NOW
CONTAINS ANOTHER ARTICLE
Paris—Tim league of nations draft
ing committee has completed 15 arti
cles of the league of nations covenant,
which now contains 27 articles I' ll
not known what the additional article
Is.
A full meeting of the league com
mission will be held to consider the
revised covenant, which doubtless will
undergo further changes before It Is
Kubmilted lo the representatives of
fTic tlvi big nations.
ABE L. ALLEN,
Corporal, Co. B, 28th Infantry.
Corporal Allen won I>l*tln
gnished Service Cross for bravery In
action near Cantlgny, France, May 22,
1018. During a heavy bombardment
of the front line, although severely In
jured by the explosion of a shell. which
burled tjvo comrade*, he promptly and
courageously dug them out with til*
hands and took them to shelter, being
subjected all the time to severe fire of
■hell and shrapnel. Corporal Alien'*
lioiue 1* In Leesville, I-u.
—l*
QAIL H. SAGER,
Corporal, Co. O, 108 th Infantry.
Corporal Sager -was decorated fot
extrnordlnnry heroism In action rrrnr
Itonssoy, France. September 29, 1018.
Upon being wounded In the hand, Cor
poral Sager bandaged the wound him
self and advancing olont; toward ma
chine gun nests, which were holding
tip his company, was killed after pro
ceeding only a short distance. Cor
poral Soger's widow Uvea In Buffalo,
N. Y.
NO. 9
Graham Church Directory
Graham Baptist Church—Rev. L. U
U. Weston, Pastor. : -if
Preaching first and third
Sundays at 11.00 a. m. und 7.00 '
Sunday School every Sunday at
8.45 a. m. W. I. Ward, Supt
Prayer meeting every Tuesday at
7JO p. m.
Qraham Christian Cbnrch—N. Main V
Street—Bey. F. C. Lester.
Preaching services every Sec- -
und and fourth Sundays, at 114*
Sunday School every Sunday at
10.00 a. M.—W. R. Harden, Super
intendent,
New Providence CEristian ChurcU"*'
—North Main Street, near Depot-
Rev. P. C. Lester, Pastor. Preach
ing every Second and fourth Sun
day nights at 8.00 o'clock.
Sunday School every Sunday at
8.46 a. m.—J. A. Bayilff, Suuerin
undent.
Christian Endeavor Prayer Meet* j
ing every Thur ,ay night at 7.45.
o'clock.
Friends— Mortl of Graham Pub
lic School, Rev. John M. Permar,
Pastor.
Preaching lßt, id and 3rd Sua- 1
days at 11.00 a. ». and 7,00 p. m.
Sunday School svery Sunday at J
8.46 a. m.—Belle achary, Superin-ifl
tendent.
Prayer meetii every Thursdajfl
evening at 7.30 tlock.
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Main and Map Streets, RAP JW
R. Edwards, P tor. .
Preaching av ry Sunday at 11J#£
a. m. and at p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday slrf
9.45 a. m.—W. B. Green, Supt.• |
M. P. Church—N. Main Street.
Hev. H. S. Troxler, Pastor.
Preaching first and third Huo
days at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.
Bunday School every Sunday at
8.45 a. m.—J. L. Amiclc, Supt.
o Presbyterian—Wat Kim Street-,
Kev. T, M. McConneil, pastor.
Sunday School eyery Sunday at
B. Williamson, Su
perintendent. .
, P fs ,b 7. t#ri,n (Travora Chspel)-
f. W, Clegg, pastor.
Preaching every Second and
fourth Sundays at 7.M p. m.
Sunday School every Sunday at
130 p. m.—J. Harvey White, Su
perintendent.
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