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EDWARD ARNOLD. JOEL MCCREA FRANCES FARMER COMING SHORTLY TO HONGKONG
Barney Glasgow, once a shanty boy, married Emmy Loulae 110- wilt, his boss' daughter, and ve- came the most powerful lumber baron in Tisconsin. At fifty Burney became desperately fe fatuated with Lotta Bostrom, the nineteen-year-old daughter of Mis old friend, Bwan. Explo, Darnay's daughter, tous in love with a mill hand and Richard, his son, in an
·attempt to get Lätta out of his fothora way had fallen in love with her himasif. Unaware of this were Darnej and Bưan.
Chapter Six
had come true at last. Emmy Louiao ambraced Evvia with tear- filled eyes. She kissed Tony. They. looked so happy, sho couldn't help crying just a ́litio. Mrs. Bchwerko enfolded mvvio in her ample, moib- orly arma. Swan, Karls and Lotta crowded around and wished the couple happiness.
When Evvie and changed into her travelling dross she stopped at Richard's room expecting to find Tony there. The door was slightly lajar and she suddenly stopped, par- alized by what sho anw. Richard and Lotta wore standing in th middle of the room, locked in each other's arms. They were completely oblivious of hår presence.
Evvio walked quickly down the stairs and detached her father from Sho kissed him tenderly a circle of smiling friendo,
"De me one moro favor," aho said.
Barney entered the darkened house and mounted the stairs to at a time, hoping to find Emmy Louise still awake, Bho was. 36T left my bag with the railrond foro broaching the subject upper moat in his mind ho decided to tell her about Evvie and Tony, do holataire, At the threshhold of Rich- expected, she took it badly.
“Aren't you going to stop it?" she cried indignantly.
"You can't stop a thing like that ---not when two people really love each other. No, Emmy Louise, you
tickets up in ttchard's room-
Barney chuckled and went up
ard's door he stopped dead In Isla tracks. Richard was kissing Lotta with passionate adoration. At the sound of his entrance they turned, their arma stili ontwined. "Barney' face was terrible to behold. His
let her alone.”' Ha braced himself | mouth nung open and ho TYON and continued with quiet force, breathing like a man who had been "gbo's not going to make the same || running, Without a word of warn- mistake you and I did."
ing he lunged at Richard, Richard ducked, ovading him.
Emmy Louisa looked at him with startled eyes, hardly daring to un-j derstand.
"Lotta and I are gonna be mar ried ho began,
**I want a divores," he went on, "You_fool!” cried Barney, “She's “I'll give you anything you wantTM| my girl-sho's my girl!”
"Lotta and I are gonna de married ----" Richard-began."
mil the money you can spend-you | Lotta rushed at Barney, her éyou can write your own ticket and Tilblazing.
aoo that it's all kopt quiet-no "Don't you bollovo him, Richard. "Barnard Glasgow, you're omsy. It's a lie. Ask Aunt Karlo-nak
#candal, no
Fa. Ho never touched me—I
Richard advanced toward · hlæ father, his fat doubted.
"Bay you're lying-nay it's a He- what you just said, or I'll lick you
father or no father
As Barney and Richard struggled breathlessly, Lotta cried out in terror:
Emmy Louise broke in, her face dia- wouldn't let him. He's lying- forted with fright. "Are you in love with someone? Is it that girl of Bwan's? Are you trying to trade an old wife for a new one? You're another of thond allty middle-aged rich mon that want to marry a young girl and be made a fool of!"
"I'm asking for freedom, Emmy Louise Barney said evenly.
"You're a fool! You're an idiot! "Richard-let him bo-let him be! You married me and a fortune with You'll hurt him. He'a' an old man me, You never cared for me, didi—ho's your father" you? Answer mol" Then, as Bar Clutching at Richard's 'coat, sho ney gald nothing, she continued dragged him away from Barney, hysterically, "No, don't say it I who stared at her, stricken by her know it's true, I've alwaya known words, "Ho's an old man."" His how you folt. But I loved you- breath came in choking gasps. you could never understand loving Turing slowly like a man in a ike that I was like a dog crawling daze, he walked out of the room. At the bottom of the stairs Xmmy after you.
Louine awaited him..
"That precious son of yours -- I "Dou't do thin to me.” she begged. I threw him out!” He looked III. Ila "I know you'll leave me if you want ieyas wero sunken and glazed. but I'll never give you a divorce-she stared, at him, uscomprehend- never! You'll never marry that girl | Ing, he went on, “That girl.
onid he was going to mar. There if I can help It!"
hot." Barney looked at his wife in "Is that all? Is that anger and contempt. What was the was relief and joy in Emmy 407. He started for the door, his Loulada oysɛ. "I don't care, not as feet dragging Behind him there long sa it fan't you-I thought- was a sharp cry. Her hands out- | She wiped away the tone that stretched, trambling, Emmy Louisa rolled down her face. I think came toward him. She was alaking levio's going to be happy—maybe to her knees. He caught her quickly, Richard and this Lotta can be foo. roughly. Abo Tooked at him, with | Things seem to be taken out of our terrible, tragio eyes.
hands. Maybe it's better that
“I'm terribly, sorry."- Barney said almost in a whisper,
As
Ho
You're all I've got-alt I've ever way had in the world. I don't care who Bamay put his hand gently on Hvyle marrice—If you'll only stay his wife's shoulder and, looked with me!... If you say he's all right) about for Evvio, Evels-she had it's alt fight with me-nnything you sent him upstairs on purpose! Well, say, only don't leave me!" " he was glad of It, it was what hó Binking loto a chair, Emmy needed to bring him to his senses. Loulee buried her head in her arms | Amid general goodbyw, kisses, toarn and began to weep in long, tearing and a shower of rice, the newly- Bobs. A torrent of pity welled up weda made their departure. The within · Barney, pity so great that bußer was announcing lunch, Put- -oven his resolvo was shakon. With | ting his arm around Swan's should- awkward gentleness he put his hand | era, Bargey turned and faced his on her aboulder and walked from | guests: 1350 face was twisted in:a She room.
strangely bitter smile but he was”. calmed
The Glasgow house was filled with: "Come and get it!" bə anið, saho- wedding gussta. Evvio and Tony lng the old familiar ery, Evory- ware being married. When the body, come and get it!"" coremony was over. Devla, looked.
at Toby with Love and pride
shining in her eyes; her dream
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Spark That Started The Spanish-American War
N February, 1898, the Forty Years Ago
Spaniards
were still wearily trying to rẽ- duce their
refractory Cubans to order. Cuba, as
the truth?" The question is imporis. ant. If the Maine was blown up by the Spaniards the Americans could
To-Day the American scarcely be blamed for their drastic
the last fragment of their Cruiser. Maine great American · Empire,"
Betion; but if the explosion was in- ternal American intervention was un- justified.
There can be little doubt na to how -the Maine was destroyed. In 1911, at immenso expense, the wreckage was brought to the surface and examined. The most important, dis- covery was é curved, bottom plate, which indicated, almost beyond ques- The proceedings of both inquiries tion, that at this point the Maine had
necessarily restricted. The come in contact with a mine,
was very precious to them Sank in Cuba and they were most reluc tant to allow her to go the way of the other colonies from revolt to. indepen- Spaniards, who: professed their be · Immediately ́`above the plate was. dence.
Hef in an interior explosion, had the the six-inch magazine, where black
of the harbour, but could hardly
ignited by the explosion.
were.
run
But while the Spanlarda controlled trespass on the wreckage or inaleter was stored, which must hava |
that the
the towns and the coastline, the overmuch on examining survivors. There are of course, two sorts of Interior of the island was seething The Americans, who were sure that mines, those which explode on contact with rebellion, whole tracts being the Maine had been mined or tor- and those which are controlled. by in the hands of Autonomists, who pedoed, were unable, in the delicate electric cable. Since the Spaniards carried on a ceaseless' guerrilla war state of International relations, to would hardly have scattered the first fare against the troops sent to
sup- Insist on
the harbour and sort in a harbour full of shipping, the press them.
the Spanish
Maine must have been destroyed by Nearly as serious as the rebellion Each Inquiry, in short was pre- one of the second. was he attitude of the United States. eluded from exploring the ground When the Spaniards declared that
The Spaniards had been in Cuba where its members might expect to they could and no trace of an. before the Americans were in and evidence confirming their pre- electrle cable in the harbour, they America, so that there could be no conceived theories..
were lying and knew that they were question of invoking the Monroe
The Spanlarda gol their report lying. Doctrine; but the American news out
Arst
Since there were, no mines; papers openly expressed their hope in Havana harbour and no one could upshot of the troubles have fired a torpedo without official would be the final expulsion of Spain cognisance, the.
explosion, they from the New World and were al argued, must have been Internal ready beginning to talk of · Inter-
FROM Spanish sources it is They went on to make a number
clear that the harbour of vention.
of Interesting and to the Americans Havana was protected by mines, --highly irritating suggestions as to 100 of which had been sent out from what could have caused it. Sponta- Spain the year before. The anchor. neous combustion in the coal bunkers, age of the Maine being fixed by T this unpropitious moment perhaps, or an accident in the the port authorities, it is probable the Americans elected to magazine, or the generation of gas that an electrically controlled mine send
she watertight compartment, or was placed at the spot where warship, the Maine, to a Havana.
come carelessness In, leaving Inflam- would ile. The explanation that the Maine mable materials about.
Curiously enough, on the evening had been sent to pay a courtesy visit. The American Inquiry had the of the explosion she had swung. deceived nobody and was regarded advantage of being able to carry round on her moorings until she was by the Spaniards as a gratuitous in out a thorough inspection of the in the very position she would take. sult to their intelligence, ··
wreck. Divers were sent down, up if she were engaging the Spanish They protested, but were too late and although it was
imposible
to
the eventuality batteries on shore, to stop the Maine; all that they discover much from a tangled mass for which the mine was presumably could do by way of reprital was to of steel imbedded in soft mud, they intended. send one of their own cruisers to did bring to. Ught certain facts.
In view of the strained relations Now York.
It appeared that the bottom plating between Spain and the United States The Maine arrived in Havana "to of the ship had been violently bent the precaution was perfectly legiti find 凸 chilly
The and the keel similarly bent and mate
· reception. Spaniards, in their indignation, had broken, a result which, in the opinion To this day no one knows how_or exaggerated her size and armament. of the court, could only have been by whom that mine was fired. The Actually the
was a second-class produced by the explosion of a mine, secret is perhaps locked away among battleship of 6,082 tons, carrying four ten-inch and alx six-inch guns. The authorities of Havana were. frigidly polite to her conumlander, Captain Sigsbee, and his officers, and no more; the population was not
...
records of Madrid; or perhaps it was thought wiser that there should be no_documentary evidence.
But the Spaniards must have dis- FURTHER, the Court had covered the true couse and tried to
Ittle difficulty in squash- conceal
to take
always even polite. Passengers in n ing all the ingenious suggestions put a s
can scarcely be, supposed that ferry-boat booed and cat-called as forward by its Spanish rival.
authorities themselves were so they crossed the Maino's bows, and
To the The two courts could not be left mad as to fire the mine. But it may when Captain Sigsbee attended a to agree to differ, and a month later be that on the night of Feb. 15 some bullfight, he was received by a battery Congress recognised the Indepen one obtained access to the electrical of black looks.
dence of Cuba, and Instructed Presi- gear controlling the mines in the
McKinley However, the Americans had not deat
such harbour. He saw, by the dropping been expecting bouquets and took measures as might be necessary to of these outbursts in good part. Ou expel the Spanish forces from the swung round until she was in con- a shutter, that the Maine had the evening of February 15 all was island.
tact with a mine, and he could not quiet aboard and in the city. It was The Spanish Minister at Washing resist the temptation.
heavy, rather breathless night, ton at once demanded his passports, The moment of exhilaration which following o kot, sunless day.
and so began the war, which was to he must have enjoyed was dearly The cafes were still full of people be a continuous disaster for Spain.
bought at the price of Spain's when at 20 minutes to len some- But what. It may be naked, was colonial empire. thing happened which sent, everyone" hurrying to the water's edge,
A report, as though a sporting gunf had been fired, was followed by a tremendous explosion, and from the spot where, a moment before, the Maine had been lying at anchor, a great column of flame and smoke rose skywards.
For some minutes the smoke hid everything, and when it cleared all that could be seen of the battleship was a burning heap of wreckage crowded with men.
Boats were lowered by an Ameri« can steamer and a Spanish cruiser. and the survivors were taken off, but the casualties were terrible; 254| men perished, and only 100 wert rescued.
What had happened? The ne counts of the survivors differed slightly.
Captain Sigsbee, who was writing letters in his cabin at the time, de scribed the explosion as "s burning, rending and crashing, sound.". Ho also declared that immediately after- wards he had heard cheering fromi the shore...
One man described a "trembling and buckling of the decks," followed by an explosion; another saw the whole starboard aide of the deck "spring up in the air."
SOME were positive there had been two explosions; others were equally sure they · hadi heard only one. All were agreed 'on' the violence of what had happened. The ship had been split in pleces, and men" hüd beers tossed · ·rbout "like- ; scraps of paper, -ang bank.
Next morning the inevitable i trouble begang Tho Spanish nowe- poperi · expressed - thole · profound sorrow that, probably owing to somo defect in construction, the Maina should have blown up and so many brave men have lost their lives,num24 The American papers registered their burning Indignation at the treacherous-destruction of one
battleships lying in the harbour. of so-called friendly Powere
thele
of
The Governments of both countries announced that an inquiry, must, i be held, and within a week two rival opuris were sliting The obvious alternative of one court of peutral judges doen not appear to have oc- curred to either parlyddig
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1 In business I make extravagant
talle (0).
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little Edward
what sort of performance it was (8).
0 Approach (6).
10 An Indoor game with An
anomatopoeic name (8)
12 For I who hold 'sage's rulo the best, welcome the coming, speed the parting guest" **(Pope), (B).
13, Descriptive of perfect service at
tennis (9).
15 Bird (3)
16 English girl who is always. In
France (8).
17 Material from a llama (0), 22,Heraldic métal (8),
24 own of Belgium (5).
27: Bird (3),
28 This man might be of use in
two capacities
(0),
31-fliver of France (3)
a cattleboat
32 Languid like a lady who has lost
her shopping memoranda (8),
33 This knight was 'n Belinh * * dramatist (0),
34 Evidence of underground ex-
cavation (8)
35 Experienced, not necessarily in
poetry (6).
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