THE ALAMANCE GLEANER
VOL. LU.
WHAT'S GOING ON
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
No Tax Legislation This
Session —Smith Named
Illinois Senator.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
WITH the prospect of n surplus in
the government treasury of about
1500,000,000 on July 1, 1927, the Demo
crats in congress are loudly demand
ing that a general tax reduction bill
be passed at this session. But the
majority members of the all-powerful
ways and means committee of the
house will not agree even to President
Coolidge's suggestion that there be a
temporary reduction In the income
tax payable next year. It has definite
ly decided that no tax legislation what
ever shall be introduced during the
short session, adopting what it called
the alternative plan of the President,
that the surplus should be applied to
ward reduction of the public debt.
This latter plan for disposal of the
huge sum of money, thte Republican
leaders hold, will inure to the benefit
of all taxpayers, whereas, tos Senator
Smoot asserted, the flat percentage
cut in Income taxes would mainly
benefit only a few large corporations.
Under the plan of the Republicans the
debt reduction during the fiscal year
1927 will-reach the huge total of ap
proximately $1,070,000,000, which, with
single exception of the year fol
lowing the close of the war, will be
the greatest amount of debt retire
ment accomplished in any similar
period thus far.
Senators Swbnson, Harrison, Cope
land and King all arose In the senate
Wednesday to protest against the de
cision of the Republicans. Swanson
said ( tax legislation was being side
tracked with the deliberate view of
reducing taxes next year shortly In
advance of the Presidential* election.
Copeland said the administration was
guilty of "legalised larceny" in col
lecting upward of $500,000,000 more
j, money In taxes than needed, without
'■* providing some method of refunding
the surplus to the taxpayers. Senator
Harrison demanded that the Demo
crats and Republicans forget partisan
differences long enough to enact a
Mil reducing taxes at this session.
WHEN the house passed the treas
ury appropriation measure It
scotched the plan of Assistant Secre
tary Andrews to obtain $500,000 for
the payment of prohibition spies to
be expended witnout accounting. Last
week General Andrews tried to have
this provision re-inserted In the bill lu
the senate, but Senator Bruce raised
• point of order and was warmly sup
ported by other eminent wets, and
again the scheme was defeated. The
employment of spies in enforcement
the prohibition law was roundly
denounced; but of coarse what killed
the plan was that the clause In ques
tion, permitting advances from the
enforcement fund, would violate a
federal statute and also was an at
tempt to legislate in an appropriation
bill. ~
AS WAS related last week, the
house naval affairs committee
discovered that the budget bureau
estimates for naval construction dur
ing the coming year make no provision
f or completion of tbe 1924 cruiser
building program or for the building
of two dirigibles authorised .by con
gress. The committeemen were angry,
and their ire was increased when Sec
retary of the Navy Wilbur submitted
• "Is annual report showing how the
administration's retrenchment policy
was cramping and crippling the navy,
wherefore the committee, by unani
mous vote, sent Chairman Butler to
the White House with a letter which,
though secret, was known to appeal
j° the President for his sanction for
Immediate action to build up the navy
Jo the limit fixed by the 5-53 Wash
ington treaty. The committeemen
• * ay 'he navy is now in third place
anl is fast falling to fourth place,
,"d approximately $500,000,000 is
deeded to bring It up to its :igbt
fr®aty strength. They want as much
or construction during the coiping
Je&r as finances and facilities will
Televisor Hailed as
Big Scientific Triumph
Modern science, which recently
® af ie possible telephonic conversation*
• Cr o3« the Atlantic, now has added a
"ailing new possibility, that per
ils who telephone also see those to
they speak.
That prospect of vlstoD may grow
®« of an apparatus called the tele-
I £* )r . tor which a scientist sees a
I ir lte futur ® ss a means of trans-
K wotUw nleture* by radio.
permit. The procedure of the com
mittee is without precedent.
W/'HEX. the senate took up the
rivefr and harbor bill, included In
which Is authorization for the devel
opment of the lower Illinois river as
part of the lakes-to-the-guif waterway,
, the senators from states that have
been fighting Chicago's diversion of
lake water for the sanitary-*'canal
threatened a filibuster because they
feared the measure would approve of
that diversion. However, the leaders
of both sides in the controversy hefd
an all-day conference and Wednesday
night reached a compromise jyhlch
seemed to assure the speedy passag?
of the bill. It was agreed that this
amendment should be Inserted:
"Provided that nothing in-this act
shall be construed as authorizing any
diversion of water from Lake Mich
igan."
pvISREGARDING all warnings.
J-* Governor Small of Illinois on
Thursday appointed Frank L. Smith;
senator-elect, to fill out the unqppired
term of the late Senator McKlnley. It
was expected that Mr. Smith would go
to Washington in a few days and at
tempt to take the seat, and that the
Democrats and some Republicans
would undertake to exclude him be
cause of the slush-fund scandal at
tached to his primary campaign. Tfte
Republican leaders had hoped that
this fight would not be brought on
until next session because if precipe
Itated now it would delay necessary
legislation. Mr. Smith had Indicated
that he wished to present his defense
to the senate at this time, but he yras
warned that If possible an Immediate
vote on the question of admitting
him would be had, so he would have
no chance. Governor Small declared
that In appointing Smith he was fol
lowing the wishet of the Illinois elec
torate as expressed at the polfe In
November, and that not a charge of
undue Influence or corruption at that
election has been made. Senator
Ashurst of Arizona Introduced a reso
lution designed to prevent Smith from
taking his seat.
ALBERT B. FALL, former secre
tary of the interior, and Edward
L. Doheny, oil magnate, are not guilty
of conspiring to defraud the govern
ment in connection with the leases of
the naval oil reserve at Elk Hills,
Calif. Such was the verdict of the
jury that heard the case against the
two men in the Supreme court of the
District of Columbia.
The celebrated case, Involving the
leasing of {he naval reserve oil lands
to Doheny and the SIOO,OOO transac
tion between them while Fall was sec
retary of the Interior In 1921, had
been on trial for 23 days, with 17
lawyers dealing in a great mass of
technical evidence. The jury delib
erated for many hours and brought In
Its verdict of acquittal on Thursday
morning. Counsel for the government
at once took up the second of the oil
lease criminal cases. In tbls one FaU
and Harry F. Sinclair are the defend
ants and it involves the lease of the
Teapot Dome oil field to Sinclair's
company.
DEBATE on the agricultural bill In
the house Wednesday served to
give the Lowden Presidential boom an
airing. Representative Dickinson of
lowa alhided to the Illlnolsan as a
leading champion of the new McNary
bill for farm relief, and Mr. Howard
oi Nebraska asked the lowan If "his
candidate" was not a little beyond
the desirable age for a President. Mr.
Dickinson retorted that the two-term
limit for Presidents was of more con
cern to the American people than the
age of a President
WARNING to Christian civiliza
tion that "Its foundations are be
ing again attacked and undermined"
by religious restrictions In Mexico Is
contained In a long pastoral letter is
sued by the Catholic episcopate of the
United States. It sets forth fully the
church side of the controversy with
President Calies' government, whose
charges against the church Jt says
have been fabricated for campaign
purposes. The bishops declare the
letter Is not an appeal for political
Intervention or for action of any kind
by the American government.
Some of the foreign oil companies •
doing business in Mexico have accept
ed the Mexican petroleum law. apply-
The device as it operates at present
and ita possibilities were explained at
St Louis by Dr. E. F. W. Alexander
son, consulting engineer of the Gen
eral Electric company and" the Radio
Corporation of America.
In experiments preparatory to
trans-Atlantic telephone service, engi
neers have talked with New York re
cently from London, and some per
sons btlleve that with a phone circuit
paralleled by a perfected televisor*per
sons talking may see each other.
An Invisible ray that permits seeing
Ing for confirmation of their conces
sions. Luis Morones, minister of In
dustry and commerce, v?as In warm
controversy last week with the Stand;
ard OU company over the question
whether or not its representative had
made such application. The Associa
tion of Producers of Petroleum in
Mexico, meeting in New York, stood
pat on its opposition to the Mexican
law. ,v
Z"''HANCELI.OR MARX* and Foreign
Minister Stresemann are not hav
ing an easy time maintaining their
majority in the rejchstag. but Mart
is defiant. Last week he «>{fered an
alliance to the Socialists, promising to
give them representation In the cab
inet, and they refused. When he told
this to the reichstag the Nationalists
abused him and left the chamber.
Philipp Scheidemann, Socialist leader,
attacked the cabinet bttteHy» especial
ly Minister of Defense Gesaler. H-J
charged .that a secret fund existed in
the budget for the manufacture and
hoarding of arms . and airplanes in
Russia. He asserted that the allies
knew all about "the rotten militaristic
conditions In Germany" and added:
"We might as well correct these con
ditions ourselves as have the allies
act for us." All of which was nuts
for the French opponents of Brland's
policy of conciliation.
II ELATIONS between %taly and
France continue rather strained
and movements of French troops to
ward the frontier are going on, while
by January 12, it is expected, the en
tire French fleet will be in the Medi
terranean. Mussolini 'stated recently
that he had 30 divisions north of
the Po river. Of course no one pre
dicts actual warfare, but everyone is
nervous. The Italian government
also has annoyed Great Britain by
falling to invite the British fleet to
visit Italian ports during its maneu
vers in the Mediterranean early next
year.
TURKEY, with both Italy and Eng
land in mind, is trying to arrange
protecting alliances. A London cor
respondent says: "Within the last
few days Turkey has offered an offen
sive and defensive alliance to Persia
on the same lines as the treaty It re
cently made with Afghanistan. Great
Britain is now subsidizing Persia
through the Anglo-Persian Oil com
pany to the tune of £4,000,000 ($20,-
000,000) annually, but It will have to
dd even better if it wishes to keep
Persia, which is threatened by Tur
key, Russia, and Afghanistan, In line."
DISPATCHES from Barcelona say
another conspiracy to assassi
nate King Alfonso and Dictator de
Rivera has been discovered in Madrid
and many of tbe plotters arrested.
They bad planned to shoot the pre
mier from a closed motor car In front
of his office and tben to kill the king
with grenades when he was attending
Gen. de Rivera's funeral.
OFFICIAL announcement Is made
in Warsaw that the Polish army
now has 258,095 soldiers and 179,000
officers, and that the navy has 2,124
sailors and 236 officers. These forces,
which do not Include the militarized
police, will cost about $76,500,000 In
1927. With the police and the special
guards on the Russian and Lithuanian
frontiers, Poland has nearly 400,000
men under arms. It Is thus the great
est military power In central Europe,
with an army four times as big as
Germany's and reflly much stronger
than Russia's.
DENMARK has s new cabinet
formed of members of the Farm
ers' party with Madison Mygdal as
premier. The foreign minister Is Dr.
Phil Moltensen, member of the Dan
ish delegation to the League of N«t
tions and president of *he Danish In
terparliamentary group.
PRESIDENT ADOLFO DIAZ of Nic
aragua has again asked for help
from the United States, this time re
questing that it create a naval neutral
zone along the entire east coast of
Nicaragua. This, be says. Is "the only
mesns of preventing the Mexlcan-suj/-
ported rebels from advancing toward
tbe capital and overthrowing my ad
ministration." Only a;few days ago
a gun-running vessel landed at an
east Island with arms, 4,000,000 rounds
of ammunition and troops.
in total darkness, has been demon
strated feasible through an Invention
of John L. Balrd, British scientist.
Mr. Balrd's televisor Isolates and
then employs rays which are outside
the visible spectrum, th? sensitive
electric eye of the apparatus readily
selecting
eye., In a demonstration Balrd's In
visible "searchlight" projected on a
screen the outlines of a man sitting
In total darkness. Darkness will no
longer give security as a cloak
military ope rations.
GRAHAM, N, C., THURSDAY NOVEMBER 4, 1926.
ABOUT «8»
AUSTRALIA
(c\ War -voce ~«>oc/ .
Hauling Wool In Australia.
(Prepared by the National Geographic
Society, Washington. D. C.)
AUSTRALIA, most remote of the
large overseas units of the
British "empire" that recently
have been given a status that
almoat amounts to Independent nation
hood, is 12,000 miles ftora the British
Isles. Its isolation has made it In
some ways the most self-reliant and
democratic of Britain's offspring.
Although more than 7,000 miles from
the United States, Australia has been
very strongly influenced governmental
ly by the latter country. The institu
tions of this Southern commonwealth
are more nearly like our own than
are those of any other important coun
try.
The commonwealth of Australia
(which has been In existence as such
only since 1901) consists of six states:
New South Wales, Victoria, Queens
land, South Australia, Western Aus
tralia and Tasmania. As In our own
Union, the states delegated only cer
tain specific powers to the federal
government and retained all the rest
themselves.
The law-making machinery consists
of a senate and a house of represent
atives. The members of both are
elected. There Is provision for non
voting delegates from the unorganized
Northern territory, paralleling the ar
rangement In the United States where
by Alaska, Porto Rico and the Philip
pines send non-voting delegates tc
congress. The federal parliament ol
Australia has an advantage over the
American congress in Its smallness.
There are now 36 senators and 70 rep
resentatives.
There is in Australia a federal dis
trict like our own District of Colum
bia, outside tjie boundaries and Juris
dictions of the states. In this district
a permanent federal capital city is
now being built, and it is planned that
the next parliament (that meeting in
1927) will be held there. Pending the
building of this capital the city of
Melbourne has been the temporary
seat of government.
As in Canada, the executive power
haa In the past been exercised by a
governor general, In theory represent
ing the British king, but In some re
spects acting as representative of the
existing British government Under
the most recent London agreement as
to the status of the dominions, the
governor general will In the future be
merely the personal representative of
the king, a sort of official figure-head*
standing by while the all-Australian
premier, cabinet and congress n>n the
country.
Government of the States.
Until the formation of the common
wealth in 1901 the present states of
Australia were separate colonies. New
gouth Wales is both the oldest and
the roost populous of the units, but
It is exceeded in size by both Queens
land and Western Australia. Its popu
lation is more than two million.
In form of government and methods
of election {here are much greater dif
ferences between the states of Aus
tralia than between those of the Unit
ed States. New South Wales, aa be
comes the oldest of the units, is most
conservative, having an upper house
whose members are appointed for life
by the British king. None other of
the six states haa such a feature. In
the make-up of Its lower bouse. New
South Wales swings to a democratic
extreme and employs proportional rep
resentation. Like all the other states.
New South Wales haa an appointed
governor and a cabinet.
In Victoria the members of both
houses are elected, those of the up
per for six years, those of the lower
for three. Those who vote for uiem
bers of the tipper house, however,
mast own a certain amount of prop
erty. Members of the lower house are
elected by universal suffrage.
Queensland la the most democratic
of the states.* It has gone so rar as
to throw overboard the idea Inherited
in our own country from England that
the legislatures of states should con
sist of two housefe. In 1922 Queens
land abolished Its upper house and Its
laws are now made by a single house
of representatives whose members are
elected for three years by universal
suffrage.
South Australia and Western Aus
tralia both have governments like
that of Victoria, legislatures of two
houses, the upper elected under prop
erty qualifications, the lower by uni
versal suffrage. Tasmania has an
upper house made up In the same way
but the members of Its lower house
are selected under a system of pro
portional representation.
Big aa the United Statu.
Australia Is almost exactly the same
size as the continental United States,
having an area of 2,974.581 square
miles. Nearly half the commonwealth,
however, is in the tropics. Tasmania
has the coolest climate; It lies In lati
tude corresponding to northern In
diana and th« southern half of Mich
igan. Melbburne, the southernmost
big city of the mainland. Is in latitude
corresponding to that of Washington;
while Sydney, Australia's New York,
Is In a position like that of Raleigh.
N. C.
Going northward along Anstralla'a
eastern shore, one advances Into
warmer and warmer territory. By
the time the city of Brisbane, capltul
of Queensland, Is reached, one has at
tained a latitude comparable to that
of Palm Beach, Fla. From there the
state of Queensland sweeps on until
Its' northernmost point is nearer th*
equator than southern Mexico.
This "hot country" Is Australia's
sugar bowl, much of the tilled groumi
being devoted to the growth of can#
as In America's South. As In the lat-'
ter region, too, cotton grows well an«l
Its production Is becoming a greater
apd greater Industry.
The north central portion of Aus
tralia, making up the northern ter
ritory, la little developed and ail but
unknown. There, and In the northern'
parts of Queensland and Western Au«\
tralla dwell most of the few thousand
remaining Australian natives, the
"blackfellows." A large proportion
of these are still savages. «
The northern and western portion
of South Australia, and most of the
Interior of Western Australia are
desert lands. They are more pro
nounced deserts than the great arid
belt of the United States east of the
Rocky mountains. The Australlau
desert regions are practically uninhab
ited and unused. Arquad the rrtnge
of this super-dry region, however, is
a semi-arid area In which millions of
sheep and cattle graze. In the better
watered, agricultural regions wheat la
the principal prodoct.
Minerals, especially gold, have been
found in various parts of Aostralla.
Western Australia, a crafts the conti
nent from the older settled communi
ties of southeastern Australia, owea
Its development largely to the discov
ery- of s*Jd.
The traditional policy of the com
monwealth is for a "White Australia,"
a policy as firmly grounded there aa
Is the Monroe Doctrine In the United
States. It is not that Australia de
spises Immigration. It la rather that
she has clung tp her ideal of "a homo
geneous people of Drltliii origin," and
■till believes In IV '
AMONG
HIS OWN
PEOPLE
By BOYD GURNEY
(Osrrlsht Sr W. O. Chapman.)
I
{/fT""WE sentence of the court Is,
I that Private Albert Ksne be
X dishonorably dismissed from
the service of the goverp
ttebt."
Colonel Scott snapped out the
Words, Private Albert Kane raised his
. head stid looked at the officers for the
first time. Wasfrel, outcsst, he had
expected a minimum of two years' Im
prisonment. And that was all his sen
tence —to be dismissed from tbe reg
iment.
"You're lucky, Kane. Wish I was
in your shoes," said one of his com
panions, as he gathered,bia things to
gether. "Going I suppoee?"
"Yes," snswered Ksne nonchalant
ly, end walked toward the entrance
of the camp.
Kane was free. He had enlisted
six months before, after a year of dis
sipation, in the rain hope of forget
ting the past. Once, so long ago that
the memory of that time was like a
dream to him, he had been a decent
man. He had bad a good position
In a western city, and be had loved
Dorothy Davis, whom he knew to be
the one womsn in tbe world whom be
must love forever. At last be bad
been In s position to ask her to be
come his wife, v And she bsd broken
the news to him that she was engaged
to be married. It was to Colonel Scott
s msn considerably her senior; and
Kane had gathfred that If he had
asked her sooner . . . however,
there waa no use apeculatlng about
that. '
Kane gave up his position, and be
hardly remembered anything of tbe
year that followed. Suffice it that, at
the end of It, he found himself pen
niless outside an army camp In Texaa.
He had the sadden thought of redaem-
Ing himself. Here, at least, there
would be a life of action. Kane en
listed. ,
He found the monotony of army lite
in the little border post Intolerable
He found that Colonel Scott was hla
commanding officer. He found that
every week be saw Dorothy. He fled
from tbe sight of her, and fortunately
for him, she did not recognise him la
his soldier's uniform. Once be was
sent on an errand to her home, aad he
left the message with tbe servant and
fled. He ate bis heart out. He he
csme known as tbe worst soldier la
the regiment. He waa continually
punished. At last he committed a
graver offense against discipline and
wss tried by court-martial and die
Tionorably dlacharged.
In his relief from bis fete he re
solved to go East and try to make a
msn of himself. But as be stepped,
with his bundle upon Ma arm, serosa
tbe enclosure, be saw Dorothy coming
toward him.
In vain he turned his eyes awny.
She saw him; she knew him. He saw
the look of recognition In her eyes.
She Hopped. Kane hurried paat her,
not daring to look back. He gained
the entrance to tbe barracks. But
he did not go toward the railroad ata
tlon, as be had planned Instead, ha
turned southward toward tbe border.
He walked jauntily past tbe custom
house, over the bridge, snd flung him
self upon the ground. He wss In Mex
ico, aad he meant never to return.
n
Albert Kane looked up Into the sky
and searched the distant hills.
Tbe summer sun waa declining, aad
aa the meacai want out of him he real
ized his aha ae meat.
For fifteen months be bad lived In
tbe squslld Mexican village twelve
mllea beyond the border. At first
looked on with suspicion, be had be
come identified with the
villagers. He sprawled In tj>e adobe
hut. an thing, like tbe creep
ing lizards sbont him.
Few men have sunk to such depths
aa Kane had reached. Now, deep ta
bis heart an elusive memory stirred.
It waa a memory of America, which
had once been dear to him, of a civi
lized land where human faces looked
Into hla Instead of the brutish peas
anta' eyes.'
What waa It ha was remembering?
He know now. Somebody had
kicked him. It waa the rebel leader,
Santoa, riding by with a hundred
troopers. And what was It had been
aald? *
"That Gringo la always In a stupor.
He la harmless. Do not kill him."
Santoa bad kicked him eontompto
oOsly and' ridden on bis way. Bat
Kane renumbered now. He remem
bered tbe whispered colloquy. No
body knew that he understood msch
Spanish, for he aeldom spoke to any
one. But Kane had gathered that the
troop waa to raid the American camp
at sunup.'
Slowly the realization of thta crept
NO. ,3«J.
Into his mind. He heard again the
langhter of the Mexican leader, his
boast of what he would do to the
Oringos, his talk of the American
women . . . thai slowly, like a
flower, Dorothy's face unfolded before
his eyes against the fading West
Kane staggered to »his feet and
looked ahont him. Tethered to a near
by hnt was a One stajfNon. the prop
erty of Santos, which be had left there
till bis return on tbe morrow, not
wishing to risk it in the impending
fight, if fight was to be. Net
body was guarding It
Kane crept toward it He saw the
saddle and bridle at the door of a
near-by but. In a moment he had
placed the saddle on tbe animal's hack
and fastened tbe girth.
, He fitted the bridle, hearing shoots
as the Mexicans saw him and divined
his purpose. Men ran toward him.
Kane cot tbe halter and leaped «a
tbe stallion's back. la a moment he
was «Wj, galloping along tbe road
that led toward tbe border. Behind
him be still beard tbe criea of tbe
stupefied Mexicans.
11l
Once oat of sight of tbe Tillage be
moved slowly, for before him. lattea
away, outlined against the buili—.
be saw the cavalry of Santoa inareb
ing. Tbe day died and tbe stare
came oat. Kane rode along tbe de
serted road.
It was midnight when be saw tmr
off the winding Rio. looking down,
he saw tbe ramp of the raMere at tbe
foot of tbe hill. A high bank am either
side of him, rising ido tbe nwntaba
ret off all possibility of a diloni. Ha
mast ride tbroagb the camp.
He gave bia horse a rent; then,
mounting, be csatinqped. very mnUana
ly. until, topping tbe last Mil. be saw
the pickets under bin. Then biunad
his bores to tbe gallop. *
Faster and faster be drove tbe atnl*
lion down tbe hilL He benid tbe
shoots of the gaard. be eaagbt n dsba
of men. risen trom sleep, aiailog at
him; and then be waa renirfng tbe
gaantlet between two lines of Mexi
cans. He heard their excited shootn.
Bullets whissed past hint. He frit an
It were tbe sting of a betas tbroagb the
forearm, tbroagb the ihoolder. On
right hand, pierced, iliuwtl nerve
leaaly from tbe«jretns. Be frit the
Mood stream dawn hiss.
Then be had peased these, aad aa Mo
snorting horae gathered Itself together
beneath him. he hoard the liia» wMh
wild yells, take ap the psnrit. Tbe
river gUatened before Mm. The car
rent ran fast and Strang. Only a aae
ment he hesitated; sad. aa be dM m
he felt another ating sndsr tbe sees.
Then he drove the ataman lata the
water.
Tbe balieta whipped the water abaot
and an awfal feiatnesa. He Mt tbe
Icy water wrap him iswnd Hbs a
abroad. BMUnd Mm his paranare hod
from the aaath to tbe north hank ad
the Rio in feed time.
The comet wns imaging Ms
away. Bat betece Mm ha anar. whlta
against the eight tbe tents mt Ma sere
people. With a last effort Kane
sparred the tagging beast henaatb tbe
water. The ktaHlon saerted and and
denly began ta tread ap— tbe river
bottom.
Splashing and plaaglng. It gained
the Americaa aide aad roshi* op tbe
bank. Behind Mm tbe Mexlcaaa ween
still firing. hot now the ballets wont
wild Kane wa* ta no danger. M only
he coald poll himself together and
reach Ma goal!
He reined In the stallion with Ma
last tit! re strength. He walked It
slowly through the entrance ta the
camp. Mea ' were already alert,
s roused by the shots, and telling In.
Kane beard the colonel's voire. He
saw a woman standing at hla aide. He
stopped the horae in front of the com
manding officer.
"Santos Is leading a party to attack
tbe camp, sir* he faltered. "I came
to —ware you—"
And Kane fell from his horse into
the arms of the colonel's orderly.
They carried Mm Into the colonel's
house. Kane opened his eyes after a
long interval, to see faces looking inta
his. He saw the doctor shake hla
head. A sense of supreme Joy .thrilled
him. It was good to die—lt waa good
that thta should be ended—and ha end
ed thus.
And among the feces he saw that of
the colonel'a wife. Her tears Ml over
him. Kaaa tried ta speak, but there
waa no need of speech. In that last
interchange of looks all was explained,
and the reconciliation effected He
had aaved others—what did It matter
If he coold not fare himself?
And, with his eyes still hnldlag Dor
othy's, ha fell asleep
Faithfuln***
Give us a man, young or old, high or
low, on wh«in wo know wa can tbor
ooghly depend—who will stand Arm
when Othar* tell—the friend faithfol
and true, the adviser boneat and fear
lees. the adversary Just and cMval
rous; In «ofch an one there la a frag
ment of tie Rock of A gee.—Dean