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TE' RICE BELT JOURIAL WELSH PTG. CO., LTD ....... Pubs WELSH : : ::: LOUISIANA SOUL OF A LITTLE CHILD. Nearly all women are fond of jew els, and one of the most acceptable gifts they can receive is a valuable piece of Jewelry. They take great pleasure in wearing it, or looking at it and showing it to others, and they are very careful not to injure it or to lose it; but far more precious than rubles or the most costly jewels of earth are the souls of the little children commit ted to their charge-and often so light ly valued by them, says the Charles ton sews and Courier. Few mothers, no matter how bad they may be in other respects, are indifferen. to the health and comfort of their children; " val and there are few mothers who will might not sacrifice a great deal in order to on ton secure these things for their little retary ones. In the care of this precious P.ber trust even a conscientious mother wrt often errs, because she does not rea- cause lize clearly enough how sensitive a Guy child's mind is, and how quick to note Norm every word and action of those around terio him. It is not enough for parents to the F fulfill the promises given at the bap- is asa tism of their child, that they will see prepa that he is taught "those things neces- earth sary for his 'soul's health" in the FIe e form of prayers and his religious du- down ties; for unless the lives they lead in n the home agree in every particular and with what they teach him, their labor Un will likely be in vain, so far does the to A force of example outweigh the spoken is a word. his Danger of injury is not the strongest feet objection to sending the Liberty bell Flee across the continent. That is to be pick considered, but there are reasons fore enough why the bell should stay at dens home without imagining impossible perils. It should stay at home because it belongs here, says the Philadelphia lier Ledger. It derives its significance for from its association with the old state in 1 house, where it should remain en- no shrined. People come from all parts dal of the world to visit Independence ten ball. They have beard of the old bell evi and look for it there. The shrine of Sul liberty seems to have lost one of its to jewels when the bell is not there. To the take it away is to desecrate this na- bri tional sanctuary. There is scarcely pa more reason for lending out the bell ar for exhibitions elsewhere than there foi would be for a similar misuse of the ha table on which the Declaration was bo signed or any similar object of patriot- in ic interest. Their interest comes from hii and belongs to the place. .ne ----L----th Mexico went to the gold basis in El i good season. She has long been noted for her rich silver mines. In fact, she fo is by far the greatest silver prodpcing th country in the world. Her output of in gold has also been considerable, tc . though she ranks low in that respect as compared with the United States s and several other nations. But she W may do better from now on. It is an- he S nounced that the richest placer gold tl fields ever found there have been dis covered in the state of Oaxaca. The deposits are found in an area of 22,000 acres, and if the proportion of gold n reported shall'hold out there will be o an enormous addition to the world's b suppfy. . - There was a birthday party at t Pasagena, Cal., which had some rather . unusual features. The affair was given i in honor of a young lady who had Just reached,eaiggeen and who was the Ju nior menibge of the. family. The S mother of th7e five children died sev- I eral years ago, leaving an estate of $2,000,000 anid a will providing for dis tributing the fortune when the young eat should come of age. So the party : was made the occasion of disposing of the monbey, and the "favors" to the 1 f ivte consisted of their shares of the big estate. It is quite likely the par ticipats in the distribution quite en 4: ' joyed tthe znque addition to ordinary : "doihng' at such functions. i A Sp': i ' rltualiatic socilety in Illinois 'iJ//- r wats to establish a phantom detective ..r.a..in which the aid will be sought S4.: s litd noted sleuths to clear up S m·P:~ ,sof crime. It is to be feared, ...i. that the spirits cialled upon : *111s ot be responsive to the demand, t -athe law would not insist on medimums o learnin the truth 1)'jSpirituallstic ones, But even i~ s d are getting the & nin-and rushing on to the '1i~;sa lado propositionu -bft t talk o the people on ttI Harvard says - ,poooo,ooo, Some -idr is a high price, ~gbts.-m. ~k~0r A - "M O "ýN w. O :· j. .. IL T TD .r N. ® IILl.S'JPA TD ha o ýj::: :I ,:: i ;; -~ t I d li ( I 3(Tnld Them They Mighrt 8*arch Him. SYNOPSIS. "Vanishing Fleets," a story of "what might have happened," opens in Wash Ington with the United States and Japan on the verge of war. Guy Hillier, sec retary of the British embassy, and Miss Norma Roberts. chief aide of Inventor Pt.berts, are introduced as lovers. At the i lost inopportune moment Japan Adeclares war. Japan takes the PhilippinYs. The entire country is in a state of turmoil be cause of the government's indifference; Guy Hillier starts for England with se cret message and is compelled to leave Norma Roberts. who with military of ficers also leaves Washington on mys terious expedition for an isolated point on the Florida coast. Hawaii is captured by the Japs. All ports are closed. Jap fleet is fast approaching western coast of Amer ica. Slego, Japanese spy, discovers secret preparations for war. He follows auto carrying presidential cabinet. He un earths source of great mystery and flees. murmuring: "The gods save Nippon." Fleeing to Pacific coast, Siego is shot down just as Journey to get awful news to Japan seems successful Japan an 1 nounces intention to attack seaports. Tokio learns of missing Japanese fleet and whole world becomes convinced that r United States has same powerful war agency. England decides to send a fleet B to American waters as a Canadian pro tection against what the British suppose Q is a terrible submarine flotilla. Hillier is also sent to Canada to attempt to force his way through American lines with a message to the president in order that protection for the fleet may be assured. t Japan appeals to Britain for aid. British fleet departs, amid misgivings of English. Ii Fleet mysteriously disappears, a sailgr pieked up on a raft being the only evi dence of the loss. Powers begin to fear s for their safety. Hillier makes a failure of effort to deliver message to the'presi it dent. CHAPTER IX.--Contlnued. The motor car was placed at Hil La ier's disposal as promised, and be e fore night fell he found himself back te in his room at the hotel no worse and n- no better for his experience. For ten ts days thereafter he made useless at. ce tempts to forward his message by ll every means that his ingenuity could of suggest. Once, he allowed it out of his ts hands, intrusting it through extremity to the care of a fisherman, and on-the the following day, with seals un Ia- broken, it was returned to him by a ply polite officer of the United States eli army in civilian dress. Were it not ire for the gravity of his task he would he have come to regard it as a joke, a ras boy's game of prisoner's base or tag, at ot- in which he was always "it." om And then, as if to reproach him for rt his failure, there came from the clear- re .ness of the sky a swift and terrible oi thunderbolt. It was a message from England reporting the disappearance o1 of that immense fleet which was to 01 she follow on his heels, and depended upon S ing the delivery of his message for its of immunity from attack. He had taken ble, too long! te ,ect Stunned by this overwhelming dis rtes aster, shuddering in each nerve, and d she with every fiber of his body quivering, t an- he sought the seclusion of his room, a threw himself upon his bed and buried t dis his face in the pillows. Repeatedly f ihe there ran through his mind the self reproach that had it not been for his 000 failure this shocking toll of war might c gold never have been collected. An armada be of greater strength than that which "id's had fought off Cape Trafalgar had sailed gallantly out to its doom, trust ing to him to avert disaster, and he in at this hour of stress, when the fate of ther nations hinged upon his resource, had proved inefficient! Over"and over- he jrsn reviewed the struggle he had made to, just accomplish his mission, but found B ju- even in this stern self-criticism no flaw, The of endeavor, But in his hour of bitter sev- ness he thought that God might have of more kind. dis- - ung. CHlAPTER X. ,arty An Emperor Disappears. ig of . Such was the effect of the strange the happenings of May and June that the the poise of all Europe seemed trembling and unstable. Men who in all their ee- lives had respected law and society arbegan to question the value of com. nar munal authority, when even the most carefully reared power proved unable to protect itselff against what appeared inois to be only one invention. Taxation ctive had created government, which in turn ought had devised armies and navies and ex r up pended more and more money in-their ared, equipment. It had now been demon strated that the discovery of somei. one apon new force, some one engine of destruc and, tion more powertful than aniy other t on known, could destroy the values of truth navies and armies in a day.' And yet even in this frame of mind, where anarchy the seemed less terrible and governmnents the at best but weak organizations, the greed for aggrandizement aid con queat reasserted itslf. pIe on I 4RussaL the revolutionists took I says heart and hoped to possess the land. Some In the Balkans, reeking with the blood price, of past strife; new forces,were forming ad for independence. Rulers of neigh e tel thorig powers stadied- the.. map of STurlkey, dreaming of what portioa I~mibt be -selsed. (hina, ebtibtated .or aggression by Japan herself, re Sitted a compact ,with the siriaer ~ wg prevented tesmure, Britain. The Hohenzollerns, a line of bi warriors, still held the ancient throne, I and the kaiser was ambitious for his lu country's advancement. An astute br ruler of exceptional capacity, he al- at ready had advanced Germany's flag of trade beyond all seas, and by this as means alone practically dominated all w of South America. In all earlier days tii of this trade conquest the United at States had been busied in her home hi enterprises,- saying to herself that of when she chose she could find a way tc to take the traffic of the southern con. A tinent with ease. With her eyes swad- al dled in silly egotism, she had waited C till too late, and then, when her, band ages were removed, suddenly learned s5 that commercial brains were not con- p fined to America alone. The sleeping fi giant had lost commercial supremacy p in a continent which was hers by right b t of location and needs, to a race of in- a s dustrious workers across the sea. p SNor had Germany neglected her fight for trade at home. There, too, t she found egotists, so swollen with I sn elf-sufficiency that by disastrous t tariff methods they had been bested. 1 England, failing to protect her pro e ducers had driven her own farmers and t , carriers from the'feld, until, as one dis I gruntled farmer said: "You can't pick I up a cabbage in a stall which% don't( r- bear the words 'made in Germany;'" I re and if a new crown was needed for the king, Germany would have stood a fair chance of booking the order. In a natural revulsion which had reached fever heat before the Japanese-Ameri ,e can war broke out, England was try et ing to obstruct this encroachment. Ig The feeling thus engendered between ir the two nations culminated in one of ty envy on the part of Great Britain and n. one of hatred on the part of Germany. st The kaiser, calmly reviewing times le and conditions, decided that the time 8d had come to strike. n England, with power sadly dimin rn ished through the loss of her great - fleet, and at the mercy of the' United air States, in her richest colony, stood a- open to attack. While she was .still us: mourning defeat, Germany .took ex. li- ception to the tariff laws in a very ter carefully worded message. It was one of that un4er normal, circumstances ret would have provoked demands ' for by apologies, or, in a refusal of such, al its most instant war. But now the lion he was driven to temporize. That the Dn- kaiser hoped for an open rupture and intended to leave no stone unturned ok for such an outcome, was demon ad. strated by his sending more curtly eod worded notes.. lugs The .English press retailed these gh- to the publio; and accused the kaiser of of deliberately plotting war ,with a! ion foreign Country to ofset the spread of ted .socialim which threatened himn at re home, hoping by combat abroad to re ler usiitV his own people. ire, The Italser demanded an apolqgy fed. fromi tkhe p' batBi - tt. . .e Ef 'e·breb . C ~ "12 R bility4 might cause the loss of life. me Lacking nothing in bravery, they re- tic( luctantly faced a crisis rather than thu brook humiliating domination. Their fri( answer therefore was bellicose. I Germany at once began an ominous for assembling of her fleets in strategic thr waters from which on a moment's no- se tice they might sail forth. France ing stood diplomatically aloof, hoping per- it haps that when the world had wearied t of fighting she might be in a position we to gain by plunging into the fray. gal Alsace Lorraine was still mourned, ern and her monument in the Place de la idE Concorde draped. we Then, at the very moment when it the seemed that England would be com- hii pelled to beat back an invading army tui from her shores there came an unex- the pected lull. The British press had the been predicting a declaration of war wl within 34 hours, when the change took an place. At the first day's delay the on well informed wondered, and when two days had passed, and finally three, it became certain that some very un- be usual event had taken place in Ber- fri lin. hi Rumors began to creep to London, to Parts, and soon the whole world knew, despite Germany's attempts to keep the matter a seeret, that on the th very eve of a crisis the kaiser, the tb most dominant figure in Europe, had disappeared. Nor was that all. SAs if to emphasize the fact that it tt s could have been through no mental it i aberration that he had gone, the chan cellor of Germany had disappeared at 1 the same time. That something inex plicable had taken place was known within a few hours after the kaiser ,f and chancellor were last seen. On" d the night of their disappearance they ! r, had been closeted together with- the s most trusted military adviser of the e empire. This . latter officer, fatigued to by duties which had tried him beyond 1. his years, had left the consultation 0 tt at midnight. In the room where .it 4 was held there was a telephbne used d only by certain privileged ones who, 11 by means of a stated signal to the K. switchboard operator, could gain comr y munication. Who these were none but te the kaiser knew. , m This operator told the secret service ýr men of the empire that a few minutes !-. past midnight he had answered a call )n and received the password which ie caused him to make the desired con Id nection with the emperor's telephone, ad and a conversation of some minutes ,n. ensued, which, owing to the arrange ly ment of the instruments, he was un. able to hear., soe Th guards of the palace were er called to the council room and in a structed by the kaiser in persoh to ad; of -mit a man `who would present a' plain at card within a few minutes, They re re- portedtht.at~carriage drove up to the .oater gates and a gentlemanly appear p tn% stranger :who S poke perfect Ger m dLn:os4it a slip of` pastebona f o otiug whateverm was their master's instructions, that the man might be an anarchist, the guards had hesitated, whereupon the visitor, reading their suspicions, told them that they might search him if they wished, which they did. This was Pink carried out with even more than or- me a dinary care, and the man was found back: to have absolutely nothing in his pock ets. He was dressed in the regulat. Jn megg" me. dinner suit, as if he had lately come Mihil from some club. Th Still suspecting something unusual sand in such a singular visit and admission conf at this hour of the morning, the guards Mast escorted him to the council room and Lydi waited at attention in the doorway pour when his presence was announced. To actu their surprise the emperor smiled as ease if in recognition, bade his visitor have "Good evening" in English. and dis- ennl least missed the soldiers. Reassured by this ble action, the men had resumed their ac- ting customed posts, thinking no more hopt of the matter, and regarding it simply M as one of the unusual appointments invi which are made in such troublous her times. had In less than an hour, during all of which time the guard at the door had heard voices in seeming conversation participated in by the three persons with the room, he heard the emperor and the chancellor burst into most un usual and hearty laughter. A few minutes later he was surprised when the emperor came from the room and went to his dressing chamber, from which he emerged in the plainest of civilian clothing, after which he beckoned to his two companions. His imperial majesty cautioned the guard to let no one know that he was leaving or of the nocturnal visitor, and, still accompanied by the unknown man and the chancellor, passed from c the palace. From this on he was doz traced to the very carriage door, which rte was closed behind the party by an other attendant. The vehicle drove away in the night, the glow of the fe. men's cigars being the last thing no re- ticed by the man who escorted them, 1 an thus showing that all were on very mi air friendly and intimate terms. is The conveyance itself was traced on us for several miles into the country, pe Sic through the fact of its having passed pit no several other rigs. There was noth- a Lce ing in its appearance to distinguish ms er- it from any other, and only the fact be led that the streets at that time of night fee ion were deserted enabled the officers to on ay. gather any idea of its direction. Oth co ed, ers had been observed; but all were m: la identified and accounted for, and it m was by a process of elimination only he it that the one carrying the kaiser and ril )m- his companions was tracked. The re Pi my turn journey of the vehicle, if such ex- there had been, was not noticed, and therefore led to the theory that some war where within the empire the kaiser 'C ok and chancellor were being held pris the oners. w hen The puzzling feature of the occur- c ee, rence was that the emperor must have ue- been acquainted and even on terms of b friendliness with the man who decoyed on him away. No anaicshistic attempt Drld could be deduced from the situation, to because with the careful search that the had been made it was certain that the there could have been no assassina ad tion unless a most remarkable conceal ment had been made of all evidences St of the crime. Nor *as it even tenable ntal that the party had crossed the border an- line, because in a condition of threat d at ened war all travelers were being nex-closely watched. I own Over every foot of the empire and seinto the most inaccessible portions, Ssearch was being made for the place On where thq nation's rtler and the chan h cellor might be held; but so far there the had been nothing whatever that ed theirw even the faintest ray of light ond on their whereabouts. The attempts of the secret service men and mem tiot bers of his majesty's family to keep usad his disappearance a secret failed, and who indeed was unnecessary, for the the ople thenqfelves had to be enlisted coin a quest involving the whole country. It was at this juncture that a Ro many horse trader, scenting a reward, d offered his services and a suggestion utes Co the police which was promptly call acted upon, He described having met which the carriage which was supposed to have taken away the emperor, and, hone, following the instincts of the horse nute man, he scrutinized the animals more closely than the conveyance. He said ange he was walking round a turn in the uroad, and was almost run over be fore he had time to gain a free way. were One of the horses almost brushed him Id in- In passing, and he noticed not only a singularity of gait, but a peculiar plan white mark on the animal's flank. (TO BE CONTINUED.) to the ppear- Be Slow in Judgment. L-' Climate determines every phase of oard Ibmanm existence and makes the hab w itsi of aili nations. Be chafritable, then, l to th 'Ili.nP" ot the whole world, AFTER ONE YEA Cured by Lydia E. Pi ham'sVegetableCompn Milwaukee, Wis. - "Lydia E. ham's Vegetable Compound has me a well wo and I would lI tell the whole of it. I fromfemale and fearful my back. I best doctors' they all dec that I had a in addition to' female trouble advised an o tion. Lydi s Pinkham's Vegetable Compound me a well woman and I have no I backache. I hope I can hel o telling them what Lydia E. Vegetable Compound has done me."-MRs. ExxAIMSE, 833 SMilwaukee, Wis. 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To test its I pinches it at frequent ie a dinner party of men and: i made the usual test after tha t became greatly excited to t felt no sensation from a o ous pinch. "It has come,~ come!" he cried in alarmn e my leg is completely pe t matron sitting next to him y hoarsely: "Excuse me; It, d rifled and it is not yours!' Press. The Cause of War The fair young debutanýt rounded by, an admiring r icers at the colonel's bai1 was standing near by, s cently at her daughter's'. cess. The discussion WUS re quarrel of the day before brother officers. "What was the casus t the fair debutante. ", "Maud!" exclaimed at shocked voice. "How at told you to say stomach ' Magazine. 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