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A philanthropic but misguided fish doctor in New York city has succeeded in saving the life of a German carp. Cni bono? Anyhow, Mark Twain has made snre that his patent on Huckleberry Finn Shall not expire for a long, long h".v,e happened." opens in Wash- ... ^^ilTflJion with the United States and Japan time. | on the verge of war. Guy Hillier, see- - • 1 rotary of the British embassy, and Miss Norma Roberts, chief aide of Inventor Roberts, are introduced as lovers. At the most inopportune moment Japan declares war. Japan takes the Philippines. 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 Japa. All ports are closed. Jap fle-et is fast approaching western coast of Amer­ ica. Siego, 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 nounces intention to attack seaports. Tokio learns of missing Japanese fleet and whole world becomes convinced that United States has some powerful war agency. England decides to send a fleet to American waters as a Canadian pro-, tection against what the British suppose Wq ! Is a terrible submarine flotilla. Hillier is also sent to Canada to attempt to force hjs way through American lines with message to the president in order that Orville Wright manages to get about on crutches, which is some progress toward his practice of ignoring terra flrma altogether. A Milwaukee doctor has married his cook. But the scheme doesn't work. Jnst as soon as you marry them, they quit being cooks. A Parisian journal asks the ques tion: "Should actresses marry?" should say the answer is: "Not so often as they do." We should imagine, from some of the rambling remarks of Prof. Hugo Muensterberg, that applied sociology was a good thing until one came to apply it. Gold, silver and lead mines are, it is said, to be worked extensively in the bleak district of Innishowen, Coun* ty of Donegal, Ireland, overlooking the Atlantic. "Forget it" is said to be the favorite maxim of the German emperor. Our guess is that he has recently been compelled to work his favorite maxim overtime. One of the doctors says cocktails su­ perinduce pneumonia. He must be trying to allay the fears that cer­ tain people have had concerning pneumonia. Those countries now adopting old- age pensions may not know the trou­ ble they are bringing on themselves, since the professor is about to show in all how to live to be young at 150. When it comes to doing damage, men are puny things, after all. The six months' bombardment of Port Ar­ thur by land and sea did far less dam­ age to that city than the earthquake did to Reggio. President Roosevelt is expected to capture alive in Africa for the Wash­ ington Zoological park an oryx, a kleene-boc and a kahau. Probably ho will be successful. He has captured queerer game in the United SYNOPSIS "Yfanlshinar Fleets." story of what 'hiti-iW> wwc. Record-breaking work continues in the Panama canal zone. The total ex­ cavations during December were 3,261,- €73 cubic yards, against 2,920,404 yards fa November and 2,201,734 yards in December, 1907. And with like prog­ ress in other directions the finish is steadily and rapidly drawing near. A man in New York was arrested aad sent to prison for begging for a cup of coffee with which to sustain Ms feeble strength while looking for work to feed his starving family. And from the fact that so many great crimes go "unwhipped of justice," this treatment of poverty as a crime is one of the worst travesties upon oar mod­ ern civilization. Here is proof that the courts are not respecters of persons and do not draw the color line. By a decision of the United States district court in Oklahoma "Zeke" Moore, a colored man, is awarded royalty on oil lands which will make him the richest negro in the state. "Zcke" is also an ex- convict, but his good fortune should help'him to mend his ways. The fact that the new president of the New York Central railroad says in the next 15 years the railroads mur.t spend billions, calls attention to what an immense difference it would make if everybody was content to stay in one place. It also emphasizes the fact, declares the Baltimore American, that persons who have passed their whole lives in one home or even in one town, or who have never been on a railroad journey in their lives, are written up in the daily papers as hu­ man curiosities. The invention of the seismograph for the study of earthquakes has led to the discovery of the surprising sensi­ tiveness of the £rust of the globe to forces that might have been thought loo insignificant to cause distortion. The Indiana farmer who caught a - iMeighbor whom he suspected of steal­ ing corn from hlB crib, by driving uaiis fcfttc a lot of his corncobs, so that the local constable afterward found in the neighbor's hogpen an armful of cobs with nails buried in the pith, showed ipeal Yankee ingenuity. </ King Leopold of Belgium has con f"'-! v fcrred on Cardinal Gibbons the grand. |V J cross of the Royal Order of the Crown t' ' ' as a mark of his personal esteem and Ik recognition of his great services in toe cause of Christianity and hn- (i • * Baanity throughout the world. » ----- all the oil fields in the world the remarkable is that at Summer- JanV, cVl., where nearly 200 wells are being pumpec! ip the surf of the sea. In 1898 -the first oil well ever drilled to the sea was sunk from a low wharf #rer the Summerland. protection for the fleet may be assured. Japan appeals to Britain for aid. British fleet departs, amid misgivings of English. Fleet mysteriously disappears, a sailor picked up on a raft being the only evi­ dence of the loss. Powers begin to fear for their safety. CHAPTER IX. Barred by Bayonets. Rested by his sea voyage, and glow­ ing with a determination to win his way across the border, but with no definite idea as to what method he should pursue, Guy Hillier landed in Montreal. His first effort was to gain what details he could as to the nature of the embargo which had been placed on travelers between the two coun­ tries, after which he lost no time in personally studyihg the habits of the border camps. Long residence in America had lessened the broadness of his A's, and with a little practice his R's were almost those of the, aver­ age New Yorker. The meager information ho suc­ ceeded in gathering was not alto­ gether trustworthy, as he was soon to learn. He had been told that certain Americans, In Canada at the time the line of blue was drawn, were per­ mitted to pass, and thus regain their homes, and on this he based his first sally. There was no trouble whatever in gaining the encampments nor in interviewing the officers in command of that section of the defense. A smart-appearing sentry passed him over to the guardianship of a soldier off duty, who conducted him to one of the regulation tents which dotted Che hillside back of the line.. On the orderly's presenting his card, a voice from within hailed: "Come in!" and he entered the little house of canvas to find three officers engaged in some game of cards which he did not understand. "What can I do for you?" the com­ mander inquired, rising from his camp stool and still holding the visitor's card in bis hand. "I am anxious to cross the line," Hil­ lier replied. The officer laughed and shook his head. "I'm sorry, sir, but we have had as hifch as 100 applications of this nature in one day, and my orders for­ bid my acceding to any such re­ quest." But you pass Americans, do you not?" Again the officer smiled tolerantly, replying with good nature: "Not un­ der conditions like these. We have no choice in the matter. If you are an American, I thoroughly appreciate your anxiety to go home; but I cannot help you." It began to look less easy. "Is there no way at all?" asked Hillier. "My dear sir," the officer answered, "the prophet Moses leading his band across the Red sea had an easier trip than you could make through our lines." For a moment the courier lost pa tlence, and then as a last resort he de­ cided to make a clean breast of his errand. "Colonel," he said, "I am not an American; I am the secretary of the British embassy in Washington-- or was up to the time of this war. I come as a special messenger from my country, bearing important dis­ patches, which I am to deliver only Into the hands of his excellency, the president of the United States*. The accomplishment of my mission may have a grave bearing on this conflict, and it possibly may prevent blood­ shed." The colonel turned to one side and threw down the playing cards which he had been holding before making any reply. His companions looked highly interested; but their faces gave no hope. "Mr. Hiiller, there have been at least 20 men before me with similar Important messages, many of whom have come direct from other foreign powers. The first of these I took from them and sent forward by special couriers of my own. In each case 1 was given a reprimand. Come here," he Bald, and preceded Hillier out into the open where a bulletin board was nailed against a tree. In the very center of a collection of orders pasted thereon was one which read: "General Order No. 27,007: Order No 16,004 which was delivered to all oiheers, bulletined and read to all men, permits of no modification what­ ever It read: 'No man shall pass through the lines, either in or out, and under no circumstances shall any communication be passed, either in or o»»t. save on the written permit duly Swam the Point Where the Soldier 8tood, sealed and signed by the president of the United States.'" "Is that emphatic enough?" he asked, turning to Hillier, who re­ luctantly admitted that it allowed of no misinterpretation. "But," said the latter half jokingly, "suppose I make a run for it?" "In that case, Mr. Hillier," the offi­ cer answered gravely, "my men would unhesitatingly drill you full of holes, and I should be sorry to see a man whom I take to be a gentleman make such an attempt. This may look like play; but underneath gloved hands along this border are the claws of war. Don't, please, make me un sheath them!" The secretary, baffled, declined the proffer of a drink, and was promptly escorted back across the Canadian lines; but on the way he made new plans. He was only rebuffed by his first failure, and with doggedness he set his jaws and swore that by some means or other he would go to Wash­ ington. Time was becoming more and more valuable, so much of it had been expended in his first inquiries and overtures. He would now be driven to stealth and disguise. He returned to the city, bought a shabby suit of clothes from a second­ hand dealer, checked his luggage in the hotel, put the precious dispatches in a pocket within his shirt, and called for an automobile. The machine car­ ried him rapidly down a well-rolled road till night fell, when he paid the chauffeur, and as an additional pre­ caution for the sake of secrecy walked ahead till satisfied that he had put many miles between himself and any­ one who might have observed his com­ ing. He had seen enough during the day to be convinced that under „ ordinary circumstances it would be impossible, to pass the sentries, whose beats were exceptionally short, and who formed almost a continuous line as far as he had been able to observe. His in­ quiries had elicited the information that somewhere in the vicinity a small river flowed between the two coun­ tries, and he purposed using this tribu­ tary of the St. Lawrence as a means to gain the other country. His plan was rendered more tenable because the moon, being in the full, favored him. The night itself seemed most propitious, as from the west a dark bank of clouds was slowly coming for­ ward, promising to lend obscurity at a time when it should be most needed. Cautiously he proceeded aloqg the river bank, gaining a position in as close proximity to the moving sentries as he dared, then slipped off his cloth­ ing, secured it into a bundle, and awaited the moment of darkness. At the very instant when the edge of the cloud began creeping across the moon he lowered himself quietly into the water and began swimming to­ ward the boundary line. In his days at Oxford be had been an athlete of note, and in all his later years had maintained excellent physical condi­ tion, and was thoroughly at home in the water. He swam with a low stroke, catching breath from the cor­ ner of his mouth as he turned bis face sidewise, and exposing as little of himself to view as possible. The bun­ dle of clothing lashed to his shoulders proved something of an impediment, but not sufficient to stay his progress. The current caught him now and then, throwing him out of his course, and when he discovered this to be the ease he was almost against a bank. There­ after he lifted his head at intervals. In orter that he might remain in the canter of the stream. He surmised that he was nearing the line of sen­ tries, and elevated his chin for an­ other glance, when a sudden blinding flash of light smote him in the eyes, causing him instinctively to duck his head. When he came up for air after swimming for some distance under water, the light was still on him. and a drawling voice hailed him from the shore. "Stranger, when you get tired of swimming you might come in. I guess you'd better, because there's four or five men up beyond me might take you for a duck, and they're all pot hunters." His chance was lost. He wondered why he had not thought of search lights, and realised that nothing but the brilliance of the night had pre­ vented their employment at an earlier hour. Fairly gritting his teeth in anger, he swam to the point where the soldier stood, and crawled out upon the beach, seating himself until he could fully recover from his effort and regain his breath. A tall, lean man, whose color emblems showed him to be from Missouri, stood above him, while farther back and at a higher point the buzzing of the cal­ ciums and the long restless ray of light showed the location of, this searcher of the night, geneath it he could dimly discern the tower-like structure on which it was mounted. "You'd better get your clothes on," suggested the sentry; "or, if you want to, I'll call one of the other boys and get him to lend you a few dry duds. Sorry we couldn't have used the lights a little sooner and saved you the trouble of swimming up this far and gettin' all wet; but the boss is a little Bhy on carbons now, so he thought he'd make the moon work for an hour or two this evening." Hillier, discomfited, started to don his wet clothing; but the guard in­ sisted in homely phrase that he'd be a heap sight better off and run no risk of catching his death of cold if he would just lpt one of the boys loan him Bome clothes for a little while, and to this he finally assented. This infinite politeness and good humor, coating inflexibility, was a little try­ ing. "You seem to keep a pretty good watch along this border," he growled. Yes, fair to middlin'," the sentry said, with a chuckle. "We've been expecting you all day long. In fact, I suppose you're being expected from here clear through to Vancouver. You're the Englishman that's hanker ing to go to Washington." 1 Hillier turned toward him in amaze­ ment. What perfection of espionage was this? "For Heaven's sake, man!" he asked bio captor in.surprise, "how do you do it?" "Watch that streak of light tor a minute," the sentry answered, and as It leveled its ray along the line he saw here and there field booths with double iineB of wire entering and emerging from them. "One's tele­ graph and telephone, and the other's this freak thing that shows men's pho­ tographs. Yes," he concluded, "your picture taken in live different posi­ tions has been In there since you first tried to cross the line to-dpy, and anyway if you'd got past us fellows, you'd have been picked up before you got very far into the interior." Hillier sat stupefied. "Has anybody ever really got across this line?" "Yes, three or four of them, here and there, mostly out west where the hills is rougher; but they all got gath­ ered In sooner or later. One of 'em who tried it was a Jap, and the boys accidentally shot him. Another fel­ low was an Englishman, who made li, over from Canada Into Detroit, so I've h6ard." "What happened to him?" Hillier asked, suspecting that this was the first bearer of the message who had preceded him, "They didn't want to turn htm loose, because he knew too much; so they decided he was a vag, and run him in till the war is over." Hillier knew now what had been his predecessor's fate, but made ho teply. His informant after a pause con­ tinued: "There's been only one ac­ cident besides that which happened to the Jap, and that was a poor devil that undertook to go over in one of these newfangled airships. He certainly got his tire punctured all right, and came down mighty sudden." The sol­ dier stopped for a moment and heaved a long sigh, and then concluded in a Bofter voice: "I was awfully sorry for that fellow. He wa'n't no spy nor nothing like that, but just a young newspaper chap doing the best he knew how to get the goods. He was done for when the boys picked him up. The colonel felt about as sorry as any­ body else, and got special permission from the Canadian government to send a squad back with him as a guard of honor." By this time Hillier had donned the dry garments that had been provided, and stood awaiting the further instruc­ tions of his captor. "Well, what am I to do?" he inquired, seeing that the man stood motionless. "Oh, yo.u can go back across the line, or if you want to one of the boys will find a place for you to bunk till morning. Yon see, you're kind oI a distinguished guest. We all had or­ ders to treat you nicely, and the colo­ nel will have a machine here to take you back wherever you want to go to­ morrow." Baffled by vigilance and overcome by courtesy the secretary, after bid­ ding his captor good-by, retired for the night to a camp cot in the quarters of a lieutenant of infantry. It was long be fore he succumbed to a sleep of utter exhaustion. He was awakened by a bugle call in the morning, and found his host shaving himself before a small mirror suspended from the tent pole. Good morning,- Mr. Hillier," the officer said. "Not 4uite as pleasant quarters as the secretary of the Brit­ ish embassy is entitled to, and not many conveniences; but you're wel­ come to my razor if you'll wait a min­ ute." Hillier sat up, rubbing his eyes. Nealty stretched out on a camp stool before him were his shabby clothes, Improved by washing, not only dry but pressed. He stared at them in sur­ prise, while the officer laughingly oon- tinued: "Yes, we did the best we could for them; but I don't think you made a friend of my orderly, as he swears he has worked on them all night long, and has requested a day's leave on the strength of it." Thanking the officer for his hospi­ tality, Hillier slowly garbed himself and stepped through the tent fly. Be­ low him and stretching away as far as the eye could discern were gray- brown embankments, one line within the other, and excavated with military precision. "Intrenchments," came a voice be­ hind him, observing his curloub in­ spection. "We have to keep the boys busy, and besides the government didn't want to take any chances. Those pits stretch across this continent now, and there won't be any trouble for a good many years to come for people to tell just where' the border is located. Like 'em?" be concluded, whimsically. "No, I can't say that I do," Hillier responded with equal good nature; "but they look business like." "Oh, they're the goods sure enough," his Informant continued; "but that isn't all. See that little mound over there?", and he pointed a bare brown arm over his guest's shoulder. Hil­ lier nodded assent and looked Inquir­ ingly at his companion. "Behind that there's a brace of Oatling guns. Got them too every little ways. Never had to fire 'em yet, and hope we never will. But you never can tell. Same work's been done along the Mexican border line; but it's easier to guard. This war certainly has educated a lot of fellows: so that when it's over there'll be plenty of men can show callouses that were sever decorated with "em before. Tbls country's bot­ tled up now as tight as if the Lord Almighty had set a can over it," and be laughed at his own joke. <TO BE CONTINUED.) . Club for the Babies. A Paris journalist has founded a babies' club. It is a spacious and pleasant building, with a garden and a clubhouse where games of all kinds are provided. There Is a Punch and Judy show, and a cafe, where sweets, cakes, tea, milk and various kinds of lemonade are sold to members and .heir parents, while thftre are also many toy ships and a theatefr. - HIS GOOD MONEY THROWN AWAY. Why Old Man Potts Regretted Glvlno | Bill College Education. T -Well," observed old m*n Potts, "I've spent a heap of money on my boy Bill's education, more'n $900 Jest to see tym through Yale. And I ain't through yet. It shorely makes me sore to think of the money I'm wastln' on a boy who ain't got as much sense now as he had before he went to col- lege." "What's the matter, father?" asked Mrs. Potts. "Mebbe you're a little hard on Bill." "No, I ain't, Mary," answered the old man. "Jest to show you--a little while ago I says to him I thinks it was going to rain to-morrow. What fool answer d'ye suppose he made me?" "I'm sure I don't know, father." "lie begged my pardon!"--Harper's Weekly. ' " • ' * THE PERUNA ALMANAC. The druggists have already been sup­ plied with the Peruna almanac for 1909. In addition to the regular astro­ nomical matter usually furnished in almanacs, the articles on astrology are very attractive to most people. The mental characteristics of each sign are given with faithful accuracy. 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