THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C., WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 1, 1,921.
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CABBAGES AND KINGS
By O. HENRY
Copyright, 1921, by Dftubleday, Pa 4 Co.; Published fey PeUl
arrangement with the Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.
ROUGE ET NOIR.
Continued from yesterday.
It ha? been indicated that disaffection
oli0wTil the elevation of Losada to the
This leeung continued to
J,r0,v. Throughout the entire repub'ie
fhfre spen'ed to be a spirit of silent,
iin i MSCOntclii. uvcii uib uiu ju:u-
rti n-iitv to which Goodwin, Zaval'a
rj (i( HOI jJdmi'La iiau icui iiiix
Fresh taxi s.
tling airs from Verdi's operas. Senor
Espirition of the office of the Minis
ter of Finance, attempted the sandbasc
ging in behalf of Anchuria.'' The' meet
ing took place in the cabin of the "Sal
vador," of the Vesuvius line.
Senor Espirition opened negotiations
by announcing that the government
contemplated the building of a railroad
to skirt the alluvial coast lands. &.ft-.r
touching upon the benefits such a road
would confer upon the interests of thi
Vesuvius, he reached the definite sug
gestion that a contribution to the
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ch inipdri aunts ttnu, mure man ail,
n c ..;i;f.ni Yw this mlHtJrv Vi-i1
i sion 'road's exnensps rf sav flftv thrtnnnn:i
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ijfiit sim-e .l,ie despicable Airoran. The
oinritv iu nis vwu v;a.imiev were out
1WJ .1... IV, tv TV.
CVTlllUll T 1 L 1 1 Jlllll. ClllltV,
n-hich lie I'iiu luuucu ujr fcimife it n-
pcf to tyrannize, had been his main,
lmi thus far adequate support.
a Bui the most impolitic of the admin-
Jstration s moves na.ii uevn wrien n in-
. ...pnized tne- Vesuvius rruit uom-
pr Villi n -u...v.,,..u.v
, rCcr than Anchuria s surplus and
jfbt combined.
ijkp thf Vesuvius would become irri
,,p,i having a small, retail republic
w-itVi no rating- at all attempt to squeeze
go when me govei nmeiu proxies ap-
L'te refusal. The president at once
his train. Of course, there was nothing
menacing about its arrival a business
firm does not go. to war with a nation
but it reminded Senor Espirition and
others in those carriages that -ihe'Ves-!
uvius Fruit Company Was undoubtedly
carrying something up its sleeve for,
them.
By the time the. van of the pro
cession had reached the government
building. Captain Cronin,' of the "Val
halla", and Mr. Vincenti, member of
the Vesuvius Company, had landed and
were pushing their way, bluff, hearty
and nonchalant, throwgh the crowd on
the narrow sidewalk- Clad in white linen
big, debonair, with an air of (jood-hu
mored authority, they made conspicu
ous figures among the dark mass of
unimposinC Anchurians, as they pene
trated to within a few yards of the
steps' of the Casa Morena. Looking
easily above the heads of the crowd,
they perceived another that towered
above the understzed natives. It was
the fiery poll of Dicky Maloney against
the wall close by the lower step; And his
broad, seductive grin showed that he
recognized their presence.
Dicky had attired himself becoming
ly for the festive occasion in a well-fit-
Jting black suit. Pasa was close by his
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siae. ner neaa covered wun me udi-
at her atten-
pesos would not be more than an equiv
alent to benefits received.
Air. i ranzoni denied that his com-,
pany would' receive any benefits fromtuitous black mantilla
a contemplated road. As its represen- Jar. vincenu iooKea
tative hf must 1tHno in rttrihiii I tively.
fifty thousand pesos.- But he would as- "Botticelli's Madonna," he remarked,
surae the responsibility of lofferins 'trayely. "I wonder when she got into
twenty-five. 1 I the game. I don't like his getting
Did Senor Espirition understand Se- tangled with the women. I hoped he
nor Francini to mean twentv-flvi 5 would keep away from them."
thousand neoAc? Cantftin Cronin's laue-h almost drew
attention from the parade
pes s.
wtiiilated by clapping an export duty
"w 1 sV. - C 1 X
(f rnO veai ptl uuiitii ui nana ma a.
'ping unprceaentea in iruu-growing
Countries. The Vesuvius Company hai
isteu large sums in wnarves ana
along the Anchuria. coast,
invest
. ...fiAna
an 1 rno
thPli ilKIllo ii.-4 v.tv mis uuinca III
,(.e towns where they had their heacl-.-'rt
rs. and heretofore had worked
jUh the republic in good-will and with
advantage to both. It would los
n imniense um if compelled to move
PUt The selling price of bananas
f0,n !-a Cruz to Trinidad was three
rfaic per bunch. This new duty of one
rfal would have ruined the fruit grow
,r5 in Anchuria and have seriously
incommoded the Vesuvius- Company
it declined to pay' it. But for some
feasnn. the Vesuvius continued to buy
Anchuria fruit, paying 'four reals for
it: 'and not suffering the growers to
jipar the loss.
This apparent victory deceived His
Excellency and he began to hunger for
prr of it. He sent an emissary to r
qipst a confertnee with a representu
ilve of the fruit company. The Vesu
vius sent Mr. Franzoni, a little, stout.
,-Wiful man. always cool, and Avh5.?-
f and .
217 S. Tryon St.
Men's Tan and Black
S n i p -t-i i 1- -k - 3
i an rjngnsn jxiorus
Tan Brogue Ball Strap
and English Oxfords
$m
Send Us Your Mail
Orders
thousand pesos?
By no means. Twenty-five
And In silver; mot in gold.
"Your offer insults my government,"
cried fSenor Espirition, rising with in
dignation. "Then," said Mr. - Franzoni. in warn
ing tone, "we will change lt."
The offer was never changed. Cou.!d
Mr. Franzoni have meant the govern
ment?. This was the state of affairs in An
churia when the winter season open
ed at Coralio at the end of the second
year : of Losado's administrtaion. so,
when the government and society
made its annual exodus to the seashoi"3
it? was evident that the presidential
advent wild . not be' celebrated by un
limited rejoicing. The tenth of No
vember was the day set for the sn
trance into Coralio of the gay com
pany from the capital. A narrow
gauge railroad runs twenty miles lnfo
the interior from Solitas. The govern
ment party travels by carriage from
San Mateo to this road's terminal
noint. and proceeds by train to Solitas.
From here they march in grand pro
cession to Coralio where., on the day 0t
their coming, festivities and cere-
k monies abound. But this season saw
an ominous dawning of the tentn ox:
November.
Although the rainy season was over,
the day seemed to hark back to reek
ing June. A fine drizzle of rain fe-1
all during the forenoon. The proces
sion entered Coralio amid a strange
silence.
President Losada was an elderly man,
grizzly bearded, with a considerable ra
tio of IncHan blood revealed, in nis cin
namon complexion. His carriage head
ed the procession, surrounded and guard
ed by Captain Cruz and his faxious troop
of one hundred light horse "El Ciento
Huilando." Colonel Rocas followed, with
a regiment of the regular army.
The president's sharp, beady eyes
glanced about him for the expected
demonstration of welcome; but he fac
ed a stolid, indifferent array of citl
zens.X Sight-seers the Anchurians are
by birth' and ftabit, and they turned out
to their last able-bodied unit to witness
the scene; but they maintained an ac
cusive silence. They crowded the streets
to the very wheel ruts, they covered
the red tile roofs to the -eaves, but
there was never a "viva" for them. No
wreaths of palm and lemOn branches
or gorgeous strings of paper roses hung
from" the' windows and .balconies as
was the custom- Thej-e was an apathy,
a dull," dissenting disapprobation, -that
was the more ominous because it puz
zled. No one feared an outburst, a re
volt of the discontents, for they had no
leader. The president and those loyal
to him had never even heard whisper
ed a name among them capable of cry
stallizing the dissatisfaction into oppos
ition. No. there could be no danger.
The people always procured a new idol J -
before they destroyed an oia one.
At length, after a prodigious gallop
ing and curveting of reel sas'u-l ma
jors, gold-laced colonels and epauletted
generals, the procession formed :'or its
annual progress down tne L,aue ur uue
to the Casa Morena, where the cere
mony of welcome to the visiting presi
dent always took place.
The Swiss band led the line of march
After it pranced the local comandante,
mountejj. and a detachment of his
troops. Next came a carriage with four
members among them the Minister of
War old of the cabinet conspicuous
General Pilar, with his white
moustache and his soldierly bearing.
Then the president's vehicle, containing
also the Ministers of Finance and State;!
and surrounded by Captain Cruz's light
horse formed in a close double file of
fours. Following them, the rest of the
officials of state, the judges and dis
tinguished military and social ornaments
of pubUc and private life.
As the banl struck up, and the move
ment began,, like a bird of ill-Omen the
-Vnlhalla". the swiftest steamship of
the Vessuvius line, glided into the har
aside, "what do you think of the pros
pects? It's a species of. f ilibusterine out
of my line." : -
Viricenti glanced again at Dicky's
head and miled-
"Rouge et noir," he said. "There
you have it. Make your play, gentle-
(To b Continued.)
O'BRIEN RESIDENCE ATTACKED.
Dublin, June LArmed men made an
attack on the residence of Hon. Ed
ward Donough O'Brien, at Roselevan,
Ennis, yesterday, wounding one person.
At tennis game was m progress When
forty men suddenly appearey, shouting
"Hands up." xney commences firing.
wounding W. H. all. A motor car
was stolen and anoyier was burned
during the raia. several women
fainted.
. REFUSES TO RESIGN.
San Antonio, Tex., June 1. Hugh H.
Robertson. United States district attor
nev for th western district of Texas.
today announced he had refused a re
quest of Attorney General Daugherty
that he resign. He characterized the
Attorney General's request as a "piece
of cheap and petty pouues."
ARE TO SEARCH
FOR LOST RIVER
Lost River Bed in Alaska
Believed to Contain Vast
Amount Gold
With that head of hair! Keep away
from the, women! And a Maloney!
Hasn't he got a license? But, nonsense
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Edmonton, Alta., June 1. Search for
a lost river a river Of gold will be
undertaken this year by several pros
pectors, including old-timers from the
Yukon and Alaske , who are now here
Outfitting for the long journey into the
north country. This lost riVer bed,
where the Peace River once flowed,
is somewhere in the big bend of the
Peace, bisected by a line drawn from
Fort St. John to the mouth Of the Bat
tle River.
Some years ago an Indian brought
into Ft. St. John a fair sized gold hug
get, which, according to the tale told
by old timers of the north, he discov
ered in a stream in the country to the
north-east of the' post.
Soon after this an old trapper, a white
man, who made Fort St. John his head
quarters, came into the Fort with a
quantity of coarse gold which he had
Washed frOm some tream in a similar
direction to tnat trom wmcn tne In
dian hailed. .
He never Visited his trap, lines after
this, living on the fat of the land in
carefree idleness at the post. He often
disappeared, whenever his supplies of
necessaries ran low, and would be away
for a few. days, always returning with
a fresh supply of gold.
. . This aged trapper lived in this man
ner for a number of ; years.' . He died,
as many trappers and north country
men have, on the trail- His body was
found frozen. With him went his secret,
he never having told to anyone the loca
tion of his find. The books of the Hud
son's Bay Company still contain a large
cerdit account in the name of the nld
trapper.
Northmen, who tell the story of the
mystic El Dorado north of the Peace,
declare that the gold was only available
after a heavy fall of snnW, With which
the old fellow apparently washed his
mineral. From an analysis of the cir
cumstances generally, it is thought that
the place from which the gold was
taken was some old river bed where
the Peace once flowed, but whether
the story is correct or not remains to be
proved.
Prospectors, however, are putting up
good money to test the truth of the
theory that he precious metal does ex
ist somewnere io me norm or vtear
Hills in large quantities.
DOBY SENT TO TEN"
Sheriff W. O. Cochran returned Mon
day night from Raleigh, Where he Went
to . take Claude Doby, alias Joe Burke,
young' white man convicted at the last
criminal court of being a Pullman car
thief. He also stopped at Goldsboro to
place a patient in the negro . hospital
for insane.
FOREST EXPERIMENT STATION
Asheville, June .1. A forest texpeiri
ment station for the South, with head
quarters in Asheville, will be establish
ed July 1, according to a statement by
W. B. Greely, chief forester in wash
ington. Tuesday. Four technical for
esters workout of the office to be "es
tablished here.
LABOR SITUATION IS ,
BECOMINQ CRITICAL
Aires .Tim' i ifiv The Asso
ciated Press.)-The labor situation In
iseunos Aires is growing more cnucai
hourly, while the police continued to
raid the headquarters of the extreme
elemtnes. r
Several unions have joined the strike
m vaiiffo.in-a hi-iinHnir th total num
ber of strikers out today to more than
thirty thousand. The Maritime eaera-
tiorv has decreed a general striae to
hpcin tnd v tn tift ud all maritime traf
fic under the Argentine flag.
. The police raided a joint . meeung
Of the Argentine branches of the Am
sterdam communist Organization and
the Argentine labor federation and ar
rested 180 persons.
Tha Tahnr PrAtortlvfc Association.
assisted by. the. Argentine Patriotic v
League, is marsnauing non-union jauui
ers to replace the strikers.
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KING BORIS TO VISIT US.
Sofia. Bulgaria, June I. Premier
Stambuliwski, of Bulgaria, declared
here yesterday that King Boris would
visit the United States during the com
ing" autumn arid that he would accom
pany BOris.
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