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; A handfuls!, ,Now .am I, determined to put ier Hway 'forever: She:h.qfds me to my promise ia the matter of money. For pity's sake, give orders I need not payj I have given you infhe foregoing, American reader, a brief glimpse, out Haji, the First "Suffraget" of the Orient. of the Orient, but the plot of it all comes frxm the West the new wo man. Hadji has learned ihat orien tal though she is, sh is no longer a slave. She works iri a pearl' factory that has recently been, started in Damascus, .and she had gained, in dependence. She Would no longer , support Jie? lout of, a. husband M idle a'ess.WhenMhadrflnished'his speech to the Uadi, she stepped forward and thus' spoke: "O Hadji," murmured, the veil covered hps, "i stand repudiated. He Says he saysVthat he-vould be free of me forever. I bear witness, I bear witness, that his word ih rtiy wish in this matter!" ; . ao . AMERICANS ARE AT SCENE OF BATTLE BOOKED .FOR TODAY Mexico City, Jan.1 23. American men,- women and children are at Puerto, Mexico on Gulf coast, where battle , is expected today between rebels, and' federals. Some American warehlpsTflay be sent to Puerto, Mex ico, to protect Americans and for eigners! " " Charge . jQ'Saugnessy, criticized for helping1 S'enor "EstanoL, former cabinet, member, under sentence of death, to1 escape from co.untry, saya he acted entirely on his own initia tive, without any word from Wash ington, and1 interfered because Es tanol,is an old friend. v " 0 Or-: THE LEWINSOHN CASE Further documents in the charges made by Mrs. Sol Lewinsohn have been ,made public showing that her husband, the missing bondsman, paid to Harry A.. Parkin, assistant district attorney, tiwo checks one of $200 and the other tot $100. Mr. Parkin said that, the $200 check was forllegal services rendered to Lewinsohn and' the. .other was a loan. The federal grand jury" will review the case today.. " o o MRS., WILSON CLAIMS EIGHTY x ACRES IN CALIFORNIA Los .Angeles, Cai., Jan. 23. Mrs. Woodrpw Wilson, wife of the presi dent, filed suit to oust H. L. Goddard from 80 acres of land near Calexfco; Cal, on which a homestead claim was filed by Goddard after Mrs. Wil son purchased the land.