Hawk Feather

did not ramlt untiRfactorily

people desired. The Indians made dc-

P^iH Q FioKf mBnds ,hat ,he coloneI coul d not grant 1 a i/t'IH and. althouch he did his best to smooth matters. che> went away grumbling. ago. in making a tour of the E'en the little incident of Ralph’s dostopped at one of the frontier fense of Hawk Feather was robbed of see Colonel Hall, the com- H* Rood effect by the unprovoked att of the post, who was an old , ,ac k made by the trooper. In spite of end of mine. The Indians all 1,1 e fact that the boy’s prompt interthe West were quiet, but the ference had saved the young Indian hose reservation lay near the trom harm. Hawk Feather was not getting restless, and sc-ri unmindful of the debt he owed for that was feared. interference, but his feelings did not y a deputation of them came count in a grave dispute between his fort to have a "talk" with the people and the government. •d Colonel Hall. In the hope of Deeming themselves wronged and some objectionable regulation knowing only one way to get redress.

the Indians went on the warpath.

were six in the part}, five The crisis came within two weeks as the men are called, and “f'er the co- ference at the lort. and. a handsome young fellow of although I had been warned by th" thereabouts. He was the colonel that it was almost sure to e chief that headed the depu-. come. I preferred to remain and have 'd had been allowed to come , another taste of active service, for I suppose, to gratify his curl- ,lil d seen some fighting during the in anything else. His name Civil War. Indeed. I do not believe i romantic fashion of his peo- , ^ lnt • could have got away if I had Hawk Feather. desired to do so. for the Indians left wild beauty and graceful no avenue of escape unwatched, attracted my attention and ad- (,ne evening scouts brought inteMithe moment I saw him. genre that made the colonel decide lly. wrhru you look at an In- to take the offensive and move feel like giving him a cake *'ards the enemy next morning, and sending him to the nearest rcadiiy gave me permission to go with hut this boy was neat and ,liln as a sort of volunteer aid. and d his deerskin hunting shin w ' l ‘‘ n the battalion was mustered not without a certain jaunty *he parade ground soon after day became him well. But, above break. I was a good deal surprised to traded me by his intelligent see the major’s son Ralph the the honest, fearless light armed and acoutred precisely as 1 w. ■lie eyes. Hp had begged his father that he was a boy in the fort, the son i m 'Rht he allowed to go with the party Williams, who was the same and the major, being very proud of e young Indian, and ii struck 'he boy’s physical strength and galcoincidence worthy of note hint spirit, had given his consei as as fine a specimen of the The scene that met Us as we rode e as Hawk Feather was of °ot upon the prairie was one of great

beauty. It was the first week of May.

ently events made this co- and the fresh grass of spring made even more striking, for 'he broad pine a delight to the eye. or fate, or something threw The monotony of the green hnrbage together and formed a link was broken to thousands of pieces by them that never has been, 'he bright tints of wild flowers, aps, never will be broken. ,n some places the blossoms were the older Indians were having * n thick that our horses' hoofs crushed It with Colonel Hall and the »hcm by the hundred. This the colonel's headquarters, poetry of our expedition: the prose

ther. noticed by the officers eamo lat.T on.

in. but molested by no one. had come upon the bostiles early about the fori, looking a’, in the afternoon and had been fighting with wondering eyes. wi, li varying fortunes, for three hours, il new and strang to him. Slowly, but steadily we were now forceours*-. he marveled at it. but inc them hack over a rocky ridge in

Noted Italian Prince Becomes Heir to Host

- lose the impassive, which they had found lodgment. ' manner of ids race. ° ur "ten fought with the utmost gal---p of cavalry formed part of lantry, but none more so than the ’’liti. and the men were groom- He major ’’ as they called Ralph. A jr horses at the time that Hawk number of brave deeds of his came was making his tour of in- under my own eye. and I took time to wonder ; t the boy's coolness and cour-

i high-tempered Irish- age.

it happened, had brought his Finally, the colonel determined to t cf the stable, and was rr.b- carry the enemy’s position by assult. n down with a wisp of straw, and horses being useless on the ground sefs coa. shone in a way quite the the advance would carry us over, i in that country of hard ser- he ordered the battalion to. dismount and the young Indian stopped to Then, forming his lines with the skill the operation <,f lhe old Indian fighter, he led us to ioper was evidently not aware Uie attack. > were Indians in the fort. 1 am not going to describe the ■ Hawk Feather-, he details of that fearful conflict. The C his work and stared at him in central figure in the bloody drama, so far as we are concerned, is the boy neeming to take the boy’s Ralph. i affront, anti appi Ten'- - I’e seemed like one transformed Into j wa y to an uncontrollable the very incarnation of battle, d of his race, he ordered him to threw himself into positions of the E. using language of the most greatest danger with reckless indiffer1 and threatening kind. enre to even the common dictates of i boy did not understand the prudence. S, but he did understand the In our f.nal charge over the rocks. I b jnatner. and he drew himself found myself quite near the boy. He proudl> while his black eyes had met a big painted warrior face to bed with indignation. This an- face, and his rifle being empty, he had e Irishman all the more. and. clubbed the weapon and rushed toup a stable rake that lay ward the Indian, intending no doubt he raised it and rushed at to brain hin^vhere he stood. _ther like a fury. His burly antagonist as if disdaining ; Indian did not stir an .to fire at so young a foe. dropped his blaze of anger and and de- gun. seized that of Ralph, as the latter loned his dusky face, and aimed a blow at him and jerked it out hand upon his hunting of his hands. Then, with the bV com- ,• for the unp'-ovoked at- pletelv in His power, h drew his knife

and raised it to strike.

eed to draw his knife I rushed toward them, but before I

to leave a considerable balance. But : the existence of the Pacca law, dating from pontifical times and prohibiting

fo TT• , • 'he sale of an> Italian art treasures to Histone I itles foreigners or for export witbort the sanction of the State, which reserves

Ikm Sclpio Borghese has just sue- Its righ* to take the object at its own reeded to the chieftainship of the his- valuation, prevented t.ie trustees from toric house of Borghese and to the making any advantageous sale, t'ltimany hereditary honors associated mately the government insisted upon with it. Those honors include the taking over the collection of paintings

French dukedom of Borghese. the Ital- and statuary at the preposterously

ian dukedoms cf Bomarzo. of Giulliuno figure of *900.000. representing less

and of Poggio Native, the Spanish than a tenth of its value

title of Prince Sutmona, as well as the mined by international experts, while Grandezza of the firsi class, and the the city of Rome abtalned in a similar pap! title of Prince Vlvaro. dating from manner and at a merely nominal price 1609. when il was bestowed by th> the exquisite Villa Borghese and it

Borghese pope. Paul V. upon his superb gardens and park,

nephew and heir as well as the dignlt The greatest sorrow, however, to the of prince of the Hoi' Roman Empir -. Borghese was the necessity of abanThe succession followed the death M doning the historic Borghese Palace, his mentally afflicted father in 'he one of the most magnificent in Rome, beautiful palace of Ca de Court, on he dating from the Borghese pope. Pai Grand canal of Venice and he is popu- V. and built, as are so many palaci

Western Union II-

Defies the U. S.

lariy known as Don "Scipio Asiaticus It may be recalled that Scipio Pubilus Cornelius, one of the greatest of Roman generals who flourished 2t ) before Christ, de'eated Hannib:

of that era. with stone and •naterial taken from ancient inonumen The palace was not sold, but its .arious flooi-s were let to strangers, the magnificent State apartments being leased.

saved the Eternal City, ended victr r- through third parties, to the Grand icusiy the second Punic War. conquc--- Orient of tie- Order of Freemasons in eed Carthage and received as a rewar i Italy which is frankly and avowedly the surname of African us from hi- atheistic. This tenancy, so horrifying fellow citizens. The new chieftain it to all the old Roman patriciate, and indebted for his surname of "Asiat* more especially to the court of the cus” to the remarkable feat w! -ch ’.e '’atlean, was only brought to a close accomplished in driving his motorcar aft.the marriage of Don Scipio. who from Pekin to Paris. used some of his wife's dowry to buy The distance of more than 10.000 out the remainder of the Masonic

mil across the trackless and un lease.

explored Gobi desert, the great central Don Scipio's French dukedom of Siberian plain, over rivers and bogs. Borghese is a creation of the first Nathrough primeval foreests. mountain poleon. who bestowed it in 1805 upon gulleys and gorges, through hordes of Prince Camillo Borghese when he inarMongol bandits and packs of ravenous ried Pauline Bonaparte, the most beauwolves. was accomplished in the same tiful of all the sisters of the emperor. in which he started in fifty days. It was she who sat as the model for breaking every record. And what is Oanova's world-famed statute of Venus still more remarkable 1st bat he was and who. when asked whether she had accompanied by his wife. Donna Anna not been rendered uncomfortabl by the Maria, only child and sole heiress of extraordinary scantin**ss of her costhe colossaily rich Duke Gaetano tume when pislng. replied. "Oh. no! Ferrari of Genoa, and of hia Russian You know there was a fire in the

wife. Maria Annenkoff. sister of that

Phonograph Used „ to Answer Phone

Philadelphia—How the automatic

e put in use iu thi.-

had n

h, the major’s son e moment, dashed -ocked the rake ai i trooper a push that

me could i

nbetwet

a slight form was a flash of ’ell dead at the

■each the sj

mg forward, thi •1 and the warrit •nt him boy's feet.

Hawk Feather had paid his debt:

of the soldiers now interfered, but. in slaying the warrior, he had iph. telling the trooper that he made himself amenable to the vengthe affair to the colonel, ance of liis own people, and he placed ding the young Indian follow himself under our protecUon. went towards the By this t lie the battle was over and The talk that had the Indians all killed, captured or in ng on there ended just as the retreat. Hawk Feather went back tc B arrived and Colonel Hall, the fori with us. and when peace was

Ralphs somewhat excited gave him immediate attenis enough to say that he comPalph's action in the matter

offending t mopes -k Feather, mean

ad told the story to his father ler. in his stolid way ’young white cbief’ fot

ding his son.

Indians were about to leave Hawk Feath-r approach'd

took his hand, looked at him a Plant two

with eyes full of kindness and dr ied date in good, rich soil and keep i, and then, without saying a we n wa! ered. A pretty palm for the

3 Dd umrd, U.<- b . r „„u was standing near the boys.

all my intercourse with men on ^ half te^poonful of baking

fruit pie. the upper crust will not sink

established, he asked to be sent to one of the Indian schools in the East. Ralph went East with him. and the two boys, now men. have been warm

friends to this day.

Hawk Feather has grown to be a wise, useful and able friend of his j- ople. and the good that he has done among them speaks well for the noble efforts that have been made to educate

the indian.

e.-ds of the ordinary

never seen a more beautiful . stte,™ mudIe«»Uon o! !«1HUS P 01 ' < * er •* u ” <1 , ' >r t1 ’'

t made by this savage.

unately. the talk at the fort i in and become soggy.

G-neral Annenkoff who created the Trans-Caspian Railroad. The four" of the late Duke Ferrari, which went in its entirety to his daughter, was acquired in the manufacture of silk, and especiall of velvet, and amounted 10 *25.000.000, added to *5.-

OQO.OOO which Donna Anna Marie had telephone, so

received from her parents on the oc- c | ty can j, e u(; pd as a fire alarm, a casion of her wedding. watchman and various other purposes. Don Scipio, who is a tall, slender. was sh own to the members of the clean shaven man of much reserve and Chamber of Commerce at their lunchsober!ty of manner and speech .with a on in t ) 10 Bellevue-Stratford. E. I most pleasing smile and a great sim- Grauei. field engineer of the Automatic plicity of manner, was at one time Telephone Company, gave a demonfreely mentioned in the American and S | Rlt ion. Perhaps the most remarkforeir- nress as a suitor for the hand . lblp ,, art of his demonstration was a of Miss Consueio Vandervilt, of New phonograph attachment whereby a York, wh subsequently married the ln:in cou i d i eaV e a message behind him Duke of Marlborough. But in th end ^-hi-n he left the office, which would be he married one his own countrywomen transmitted to whoever called his numhis present wife, by whom he has two b er during his absence, daughters but no son. So that on his j n introducing Mr. Grauei. Alba B. death his many honors will pass to j obnKon president of the chamber,

his brother. Don Uvio Borghese. who sa i,j ;

passed some time in the United States .- A Mexican representative at a r<“as secretary to the Italian legation and CPnt meeting stated that Mexico was who is now minister plenipotentiary at not n ^dy to start a system of univerVienna. sal education because Mexico needed Half Hungarian through his late loo much manual labor and that edumother. Countess Helene Appunyi. who ration made people unwilling »o do was brought up in England, when- her lb j s b ind of work. That was a startfather was amuassador of the Dual ;jng .-.tatement of a brutal truth. Empire, am! with a strong strain of "There are three ways for us here French blood in his veins through his lo mePt sur j, a situation. One is the grandmother. Theresa de la Hochefou- Mexican method of neglecting educacauld. daughter of the Due d’Eslissac. ,j on Tho second is- to follow the the new Prince of Borghese has been t- n ttod States way of .levating the able to restore, in a measure, thanks to people through education, and then his wife’s great wealth, the shattered find people from less developec nafortunes of his family. They were ,j ons to do the drudgery; or the third wrecked by his father. For In the [g to do this drudgery with tnereal estate and building boom which ,. ba nical means.” Mr. Johnson made followed the transformation of the that the automatic telephone did Eternal City into the metropolis of tbp i a t ler by eliminating the operators United Italy, and which was character- and r ,.leasing these girls for other

ized by ihe wildest speculation. Don wor j.

Paolo was anion gthe most reckless Mr Grauei said that the automatic and extravagant operators . When the system of telephoning was really the collapse of the boom came sorot eight 0 ] d est of the two methods. Philadel

years afterward, amid i

traordinary panic, resulting in tue of thousands upon thousands of Urns. Don Paolo was among the

jlly hit- His fortune was ent eked, and to add to the c-.nfu mind gave way/md he had t

under restraint, withdrawing with , his devoted wife, the once celebrated beauty. Helen Apponyi. to their place . the Grand canal, at Venice, which , bad been saved for their use through the intervention of relatives, notably his brother Julius, who. marninc .he daughter and sole heiress of Prince Alexander Torlonia. had been com- , ■lied by the latter to assume the .me and arms of Torlonia. in lieu of s patronymic, and to take up the ,

Torlonia dukedom of Ceri.

■hia. he said, would be one of the first ,f the large cities to install such a ystem for general use To make his tatement clear the ballroom of the lotrl was rigged up with automatic elephones on eacli table and a central switchboard was set up at one side

.f the room.

Mr. Grauei first showed the practical vorkings of the machine by calling everal of the tables and then discus sed the details of its construction. He spoke of the dial as nearly perfect as any invention could be and stated that in his opinion it would still be in us? one hundred years hence. Mr. Grauei

•ontinued:

• The automatic telephone is so conaructed that the human element is eliminated except in the case of long

linancia! disaster of the late distance calls. The operator calls the Prince Paul necessitated the sale of number himself by means of a rotating the celebrated Villa Borghese and its dial. It is so arranged th magnificent grounds, which may be signal is given immedi.

institute the heart and lungs called is in use. of the city of Rom..* and the alienation is called the

-f the world-famed Borghese coilec- trunk;

i busy

tely if the line

If th-» wrong nui.iber ■achtne automatical!''

•he call through to an operator

Washington.—Notice was given thAmerican government by Newcomb P. Carlton, president of the W Union Telegraph Company that his company intends to connect its cable' from Barbados with its lines in the United States by means of existing cables to Cuba regardless of the opposition of President Wilson and the

State Department.

Mr. Carlton’s statement was made before a Senate Interstate Commerce Commission subcommitlee. which has before it an administration measure giving the executive department absolute control over the landing of cable lines on American soil He was one of four witnesses examined "at the opening of an inquiry into the whole subject of cable communication from chose testimony the committee de■eloped among other things that the All-American Cables. Inc., an American concern, was engaged, with the support of the State Department, in a fight against the Western Telegraph Company, of Great Britain, and the era Union, in an effort to break cable monopoly enjoyed by the

British company in Brazil.

also was testimony that the Ail American company enjoyed cable monopolies in several Central and South American countries, that the in-

•raational communications

ace here had reached a tentative agreement that nn censorship should be imposed upon cable messaclassing throu’h relay point.' that then 1 was no cable communication between the United States and Germany except over British controlled lines: that some foreign governments were subsidizing news agencies disseminating reports in other countries and that the Western Union planned further independent conn lions through American cable lines Italy. Holland and Scandinavia. • Elihu Root. Jr., appearing for Ihe all-America cables, gave an entirely version of the controversy. He said the question of slopping the Miami cable landing was that it might lead to the British company giving up its Brazilian monopoly and charged that the Western Union had entered into a contract with this British company by which the American would direct the British lines all the business collected in the United StatActing Secretary’ Davis, of the State Department, testifying as to the troversy between the government and the Western Union, said the Presidin' had refused to permit the landing of the Barbado. s cable because it would connect with the British, which enjoyed a monopoly in Brazil, and that this action was in ’’conformity with American precedent and tradition." Walter S. Rogers, of Washington. >e of the American commissioners to the communications conference, said had heard a great deal of complaint that American business message; passing through British censorship in the war were copied and turned

British trade interests.

Lava Bottomed Valley Made Into Reservoii

«y a simple, yet successful, engi•ring expedient the ever present bogey of a summer water shortage has ben banishd from Portland. Ore. A great reserve of more than 2.000.000.000 gallons has been carried to aug•xisting supply, says the Popular Mechanics Magazine, the feat being an inten-sting development in me of the most remarkable municipal rater systems in America. Tlie reserve supply was mad" possible by damming Bull Run Lake and controlling the impounded water by a gateway through the dam. Bull Run Lake is unusual in that has no surface outlet. The lake wan originally formed by the deposit of glacial material around a bed of volcanic lava. The lava bottom is very irregular and frequently broken by it has been presumed that Bull Run Lake was thus the source of the river, although it has been a subj--ct of controversy. and engineers never were tertain of it until the present outlet vas created. When the new dam was completed, he temporary dam was dynam'ted, and the watre released against -he permanent barrier. Then as the gale raised the water rushed down a gulch and into a natural sump, where it disappeared. Within a few minutes engineers who were watching the springs a mile away, observed the flow noticably increase. Twelve hours later the addl'd flow was apparent at the beadworks oi the Portland water system, twenty-two miles down .he river. The increased flow at the springs demonstrated for the first time that the lake and river were connected by underground passages, and made certain the success of the new pro-

ject.

Before the plan to control, the water of the lake was originated, it was thought that reservolrsmust be built, and they had already been designed, it between *3.000.000 and *4.000.The expense of the work just completed was less than *40.000. and the blanketing process that is still go-

ing o

jstly.

•ortland’s me ximum water consumption is about 50.000.000 gallons a day. In hot weather, when Bull Run River is at its lowest stage, the total flow was utilized and city officials feared that a prolonged dry spell might cause serious shortage. The new impoundig system makes it possible to double the flow of the river at any time. An added 50.000.d00 gallon a day could be turned in ofr a period of nearly two months without exhausting the sur- . so that it is evident the city’s t i biem has been solved for No Metric System

in Turkey

The Rajha and the Seidlitz Powder An English doctor attached to palace of the rajah made himself almost indispensable to his highness. The doctor had fortunately made a friend of the prime minister. On one occasion his highness. The doctor had fortunately made a friend of the prime minister. On one occasion his highness. being rather indisposed, had taken, by the doctor’s advice, a seidHtz powder, with which he expressed himself delighted. Us tendency to "boil and fizz ready to blow your no.-e off,” seemed to him to "scatter coolness." and he appeared so much hi tter after taking it the.: the dactor felt himself justified in joining a hunting

party.

•esently a horseman from the pali nthe confidential employ of the prime minister galloped to him. ly master bids me." the messenger said, "to tell you that his highness has broken open your medicine chest, and taken first all the whit" powders and then all the blue.” "Gracious goodness!” cried the doctor; "there were twenty-three of each of them!" "My mas‘or adds,” continuis] the messenger, iropping his voire, “that you had better make for the frontier without a moment's delay.” lis the doctor did. and very qulc

*dlinaugimgosydklmafrbyl S shrd s In connection with agitation for the compulsory use of the metric system in this country a report from Consul General Ravndal from Constantinople. Turkey, on the "Use of the Metric System in Turkey." is issued by the United States Department of Commerce. The Turkish government, it is stated, legally adopted the metric system as the official standard in 1975. Consul General Ravndal says: "So far. outside of official circles, the metric unit is little used. In fact, in the interior, the system is practically unknown. and it is doubtful if it will be popularly accepted for many years to come if at all. The people find the *w system very much simpler from mathematical point of view, but iis units are meaningless to them u,.iil converted into the units of the old decimal i system.” The American InOitute of Weights and Measures. ' nich opposes the compulsory adopion of the metric system in ihe Unifei States, in commenting on the report of the Consul General, says: "How :an people find the new system much Impler if to them the new units are neaningless? We notiie that the adoption' of ane wsjstem is by no leans equivalent to its ’intnxhic-

painter in the Pa lined some re landscapes and a

a ion

which !

i-theatres. He later •own as a painter of part inventor of the

of old masters, of books and well who corrects the error

nigh priceless manuscripts; also the "n the automatic telephone there is unrivaled collection of statuary. Had such secrecy no one can interrupt a the liquidators of his bankruptcy been ,-all. The automatic telephone will do permitted entire freedom i nthe dis- everything that the operator system

1 of all these assets, there is no will do, and a great deal more." doubt but that a sum would have been

i-alized sufficient to pay off his re- U takes a photographer tc throw

maining liabilities of *8,000.000 and light upon a subject.

The Camera’s Centenary The centenary of the discovery of photography is soon to be celebrated in the village of Bry-«ur-Marne. near l-.-ris, where l>agurre spent the last years of his life, and where in 1820 he carried on the experiment which resulted in the daguerreotype, fron. whichmodern photography, including the motion picture, has been devel-

>f lights gave illusion to the painted scenery of the theatre. He was generally supposed to have developed at first a camera obscura which reflected which he painted, and that the idea occurred to him to attempt some means of making the reflection on lhe screen permanent. This proved a great difficulty and for many years he worked in his laboratory to discover

nical i

inula

I’ould

make his screen sensitive and retain the reflections. He finally discovered it by accident. He one night left a spoiled plate near a dish of mercury and in the morning he had his formnla.