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THE STORY
At nightfall, in the city of New
Orleans, in 1821, Loren Garde, re-
an officer under General
4 is surprised by the ap.
srance of three figures, in an-
cient Spanish costume, two men
and a woman whose beauty en-
hant's him. Resenting the arro-
gance of the elder of the two men,
tiarde fights a duel with him
with swords, and wounds him
He learns his opponent is Adolfo
¢» Fuentes, colonel in the Span-
ith army in Venezuela. Garde,
fleeing from gens de'armes, over-
hears a plot to overthrow Span-
ish rule in Venezuela, Discovered
and threatened, he fights, but is
overpowered. Garde finds himself
a prisoner on the Santa Lucrecia,
a ship bearing contraband arms
and ammunition for the Vene-
laps. On board are the con-
ors, the lady of his love,
brother Polito, and De Fu-
»%, An attempt to seize the
p falls. From the girl, Garde
learns her name is Dulce Lamar-
tina, He loves her, but does not
reveal his love The vessel is
wrecked and Garde reaches the
Venezuelan shore, alone. Making
his way inland, he encounters a
stranger awaiting the arrival of
the Santa Lucrecia. He tells him
of the wreck, and Dulce,
with De Fuentes and Polito
son,
sees
CHAPTER IlI—Continued
wl
He pulled at his
shoulders shaking with laughter, “I
am Monahan" he sald at length,
“Captain in the British legion under
Gen, Bolivar, The Liberator
deeply interested when [I tell
about the American Senor Garde,
who loves the intended of Colonel de
Fuentes and who rides the
the storm al
to grief
my friend.”
pipe, his broad
Simon
will he
him
wings of
ne when his ship comes
Jolivar can
use such men,
There was a frank friendliness
about this transplanted patriot, some.
that called
1 with the Cabildo and completed
count with Tucayan, skipping
those portions which dealt with
failing
when I
the blond
for confidence, so 1
the
utterly in
had done,
Loren
whither
Senorita Lamartina,
my
he said: “Seo
will hie himself to Caracas,
the dark his lady-
is bound, and he will find there
e power of Spain in
and
deletions, for,
beauty,
love
all Venezuela
inst him"
“It is worth a try, at least,” I said
“Of course, but you go, not to a
love tryst, but to fight a battle with
wwe fought such battles before,
mm have
been too close to death in the past to
fear it now™
He chwrkled,
of vours will
also, no doubt: 1 have
“That yellow thatch
sink for it
your identity to all and sundry.”
I touched my chin, which bore about
you, cries
fn week's growth of corn-colored whis-
kei “l fear you right; if
might suggest —
Ie picked up a stone and hurled
it into the foliage of & near-by tree,
anc half a dozen oblects resembling
our huge green walnuts thudded to
the ground. He crushed one under
the heavy sole of a grenadier boot,
“The julce of this palp is an excellent
dye.” he explained; “it will make your
hair and heard a very dark brown,
and it will give to your too fair skin
the deep bronze of a man who has
spent his life with ships. As the pig-
ment will last some weeks, you need
have no fear of It fading before the
Spaniards are prepared to hang you”
So, using a broad flat rock as a
mortar, we crushed from the thick
pulpy covering of a number of the
half-ripe nuts a quantity of pale liquid,
which, on drying, left my skin a red.
«ish brown and my hair and beard
nearly black,
“You have funds?" he questioned.
“None; the leathern wallet contain-
ing & small quantity of money and a
few papers of purely personal valae
was taken from the pocket of my
jacket while I lay unconscious on
board the Santa Lucrecia, The good
Fraceisco probably did it”
“Then,” said Monahan, laughing, “as
a friend of Francisco I would proffer
such financial aid as you may require.”
He placed ten silver pieces the size
of our American dollar into my hand,
“This will buy you a hat and clothes
* that shall be less identifying, and pay
for food and quarters in Caracas for
at least a fortnight” He sighed. “1
“think your need of food and quarters
will hardly last so long.” Then ab-
ruptly : “II cannot disguade you from
this rind mission?”
1 shook my head, and he went on:
“if Caracas is your goal I might tell
you that, in the humble home of Senor
Tomas Carrasco, which lies less than
two hundred meters south of San
Jacinio plaza, you will find safe loay-
ment, and in the Cantina Merida, pre
sided over by the faithful Carrizal, a
few patriots sometimes gather. I am
sure that when you have had further
opportunity to study the methods of
are you
“oy
W NU
SERVICE
Spain in Venezuela you will come to
us, though you will need a vast
amount of luck to get Into Cara.
cas and safely out again”
“And these few patriots who some-
times gather in the menage of Car-
rizal—how shall 1 know them?”
He extended his right hand, third
finger folded into the palm, “That,
in shaking hands, is the sign used by
members of the Sociedad Patriotico,
an organization founded by Simon
Bolivar 2nd Miranda nearly ten years
ago.”
He pressed my hand in a warm firm
grip. *1 think 1 shall not you
again. Too many forces are against
you."
tut he erred, for I was destined to
fight, side by side, with Captain Mona-
han through a bitter campaign against
the Spanish. 1 was yet to meet the
spirits of that famous and
miscalled British legion, which did so
much to win from Ferdinand VII In-
dependence for Venezuela and half of
South America as well; hardy souls,
veterans, most of them, of the Napole-
wars, who, after the fall of the
could not back to the
peaceful pursuits of man, but, chained
to the chariot of Mars, must needs
follow the lure of the sword
Ree
onle
Corsiean, £0
CHAPTER IV
A Wedding Disarranged
As 1 that morning on
road and on the road to
adventures beyond my wildest dreams,
the cool blue dome of the sky was un-
by a The sun swung
and went swiftly down the
path as I trod the smooth
that formed the road. The
set out the
to Caracas,
marked cloud,
overhead
western
stones
ryan sy
“i'll Toke Some Cumana Rum,” |
Said to Carrizal.
short twilight came and went, and a
moon pushed above the tim.
bered range that lay beyond Caracas
In the moonlight, 1 bent my steps
toward the city, where I hoped to find
the lady in white, the gracious lady
who had come into my arms to find
protection from the storm,
The city of Caracas, stronghold of
Spain in Venezuela, and the key to its
control, lies in a vast, fertile basin
called the Vale of Aragon, the north
rim of which forms a barrier between
the city and the sea, As | came in
sight of the city 8 morning sun, emerg-
ing from the mists of the east, touched
the red-tiled roofs with gold, It was
a city of beauty, a city of dreams; it
held, for me, the present as well as
the future, My mad worship would
not permit me to consider the dangers
that might beset me; [I saw only the
face of her whose life, I hoped, was to
be bound up with mine for ever.
I had reached a tiny roadside store
on the outskirts of the city before |
realized that no plan had been made,
no thought of what I might do after
I had entered this, the headquarters
golden
of the Spanish forces In Venezuela.
I went Into the store, traded five sii
ver pleces for clothes and the privacy
of a room where I might change, and
came out again garbed in the coarse,
brown, two-piece suit and the blue,
turban-llke cap affected by many of
the French sailors of the islands,
The round I had taken led to the
Plaza San Jacinto, where I turned
south and asked my way to the home
of Tomas Carrasco, which proved to
be a red and brown, rock and adobe
structure of considerable size.
Tomas was non-committal ; his dark
eyes surveyed me with grave concern,
and after assuring himself of my
“strangeness,” he announced sorrow
fully but with unmistakable firmness
that he had no quarters that might
be offered to travelers, Expressing
my disappointment in halting Spanish,
I offered my hand in parting salute,
As he grasped it, vastly relieved, I
folded my third finger Into the palm.
He gasped, his swarthy face went
an ashen gray, and hls sharp eyes
searched my face, He turned my
hand and studied it,
“There is a comfortable room for
you, Senor, and food, A chiva, lately
baked, frijoles, golden-brown tortillas,
the sauce of papayn; fruit-—luscious
peaches from my own garden, oranges
and melons from Coro, wine from
Madeira, and rum from Cumana
und a house of safety, Senor, If there
is anything you might require—"
“You are very kind, Tomas,” I said,
A dozen listless loiterers sat at
tables or leaned against the bar as |
entered and made my way toward Car.
rizal, who stood behind the bar.
He considered me with the calcu
lating eye of a man who anticipates
a sale, I gave the subject of my or-
der careful thought, I did not dare
to ask for American whisky, and wine
was still considered a European drin®.
While I pondered thusa familiar voice
“There ig no rum in all
Senor, rum from
came to me:
the world,
Cumana.”
“T'll take some Comana rom.” I sald
to Carrizal, as another
with the connoisseur of
connoisseur, back
the
like
Yoice
rum
whose wins
to me, turned nat sound of
voice, turned swiftly, the
the bar and his face
He opened a wide mouth th
showed traces of the bruises from mj
fist and let out a great
fairly rattled the
Loco,” he eried, “the
up its
I stared,
before
poised between
lnugh
windows, “Senor
sea has
dead
aghast, for
Manuel,
fist with p
Manuel
me; who
stopped my
face
had no love £ ie My
Tr
were rm
», and whe sould, theref
re,
though
ing wild
to Bolivar, ! Spanish
Alvarez, accordin the
Dulee, had called him a gopd
and Dulce
stupid Name of
was Manuel in Caracas, drinking and
visiting boldly in a saloon
a square from the plaza;
city, ns unconcerned as though he were
along the levee in the safe
city of New Orleans
“Are not mistaken, Senor? 1
ventured. “Is there anything abox
me that should make you call me
crazy 7’
Now he went
vulsion of
water dye
Captain
Senorita
sirolling
you
off into another con
merriment, “Did the sea
thy whiskers,” he roared,
“and that yellow thatch of thine?
Speak up, Renor Loco, and tell us how
you came here-—and why”
I bad made an unpropitious entry
into the stronghold of Spain, 1
ere 1 had begun, and I had
by a grotesque twist of fate—
f enmity of
who should have been my
friends. Ah, well I could, at
least, show them the American Indif
ference toward death,
“It is Manuel” I said, “no? Manuel,
the sailor, who does not like the
flavor of my fist.” [I smiled, extending
my hand,
He, too, found my third finger fold
ed into the palm. His mug of rum
clattered to the floor, the grin disap-
peared from his face, and the evil
light that had been in his eyes faded;
he drew in a harsh, hissing breath
and spat out a Spanish oath.
“Manuel™ 1 cried, “has this fine
Cumana ‘rum touched your brain, or
do you merely jest with a poor French
sailor stranded at [a Guaira, and
seeking employment in Caracas?
Manuel's left eyelid dropped, and
raised quickly again, and his face was
blank. “I think I should offer apology
to you, Senor; I must have been In
error, for you cannot be the Senor
Loco whom I saw fall from the deck
of the Santa Lucrecia, No man could
have lived in that raging sea. Yet |
have seen you somewhere, or perhaps
failed
failed
the misplaced
thosp
the rum has put a fancy in my head”
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In 'Animateur des Temps Nouveaux,
Charles Prince explains for Frénch
readers the origin of the American
dollar sign. He relates that Spain, in
the Fifteenth century, when practi.
cally all the world's gold was carried
to the Iberian peninsula from the
mines of South America, designed a
coin of eight reals’ value which bore
on one of Its faces a representation
of two columns (the columns of Her.
cules) intertwined by a riband in the
form of a letter 8 bearing the in-
geription, “Plus Ultra.” Englishmen
ealled these coins “pillar dollars,” tak-
ing the word dollar from the German
coin known ns a “thaler.,” When the
United States congress in 1787 decid
ed to strike a coin known as a dollar,
with the same value as the Spanish
“pillar dollar,” accountants naturally
used as the sign, for this new coin
the old device of pillars intertwined
with a garland which is so well known
today in the form of an 8 with a
double bar.-Exchange.
“Jazz” and “Ragtime”
Ragtime seems to have originated
in New Orleans. This was about the
year 1805. Ragtime had the spirit of
jazz, but It was quite a different thing
from the pianist's standpoint. “Alex.
ander's Ragtime Band” wasn't a jaz
song when it was written In 1011. It
was ragtime, as the name implied.
Distinguishing between ragtime and
jazz, Paul Whiteman, In his book
“Jazz,” says: “To rag a melody, one
threw the rhythm out of Joint making
syncopation ; jazz goes further, ‘mark.
ing’ the broken rhythm unmistakably.”
ERARDO MACH-
ado, president of
Cuba, not long ago
scoffed at the danger
of revolution in his
tight little island, But
the threat has materi-
alized In a way to
make him sit up and
take notice, Rebels
fn various regions
staged outbreaks that
alarmed the govern-
Pres. Machado ment and martial
law was declared in the effort to stave
off eivil war, Machado and his eabinet
ministers conferred with military and
civil advisers, and the martial re-
sources of the republic were hastily
mobilized. Troops were sent to the
troubled areas and an effort was made
to improvise a navy by commandeering
private yachts and arming them with
eighteen pound guns,
Meanwhile the authorities were
gathering up all the known and sus-
pected rebels they could catch and
putting them in jail, Hundreds were
arrested and charged with treason.
Former President Menocal and Colonel
Mendieta were credited with the lead-
ership of the revolt and especial ef
forts made to get them, but sat
this writing they still at large.
The most active of the rebels were
in the province of Pinar del Rio, and
it was repgrted to President Machado
that they, with Gen, Balderno Acosta,
mayor of Mariano, us lender, were pre-
i fon of Havana pre
Indeed, there were
skirmis! y a
capital, i
were
are
seve
few miles from
wis
the north coast, ve : in
Pinar Rio, and
out at sea, In
and foreign organized filibustering e
for several
hoth Cuban
del
search of
eral craft Ul
at atten
peditions, Sey
to esd He
bombed bs
the navy patrol
ships
flyers
Late re
and others
POrts sai
were on a yacht
their way to Chaparra, Oriente
Menocal his
pros
nee, where 8 a large num
ber of follow He was at
manager of the Chaparra
the
Ors,
Sugar
the largest in world
TOR the the
German
intest attempt to
—
iliis was
time being, at deast,
for
has failed.
move to dissolve the
through a
republic is safe,
wreck It
the
Prussian
which, If it
imperiiled the Reich,
devised by the Hitlerites or
and that other
the Communists,
though
ly diverse,
the N
fell
complishing iis
The French goverment was
as pleased by the result of the
man plebiscite as was that in Berlin,
for it meant that the growing accord
between the two nations would not be
hroken, and it was said In Paris that
the proposed vizit of Premier Laval to
terlin was now a certainty.
diet
had succeeded,
"he sch
ists, wet
joined with them, al
alms are utter
with the
their uit
But
tional Roc
pate
even
alists the combination
3.500.000 votes short
purpose,
OMe
Ger
NTERNATIONAL
with the task of dovetniling the
Hoover moratorium plan and the
Young plan announced in London that
they had reached a complete agree
ment. which was signed at the treas-
ury office. Their communique sald:
“Complete agreement was reached,
as regards the detailed measures re
quired to give effect to President
Hoover's proposal in case of payments
by Oernoany under the Hague agree
ment of January 20, 1030.
“Recommendation of the experts in
regard to suspension of these pay-
ments have been approved by the gov-
ernments of Australia, Canada,
Czechoslovakia, Greece, India, New
Zealand, Portugal, Rumania and South
Africa,
“Agreement niso was reached in re-
gard to detailed measures for suspen-
sion of interallied war debts to the
United Kingdom, France and Italy of
payments under agreement with
Czechoslovakia,
“Agreement also was reached on the
principle that payments due by Hun-
gary under the Paris agreement of
April 28, 1930, and payments by Bul
garia under the Hague agreement of
January 20, 1930, should be suspended
durinz the year ending June 30, 1982
“But in this case certain adjust.
ments must be made, as complete sus-
pension of these payments might re.
sult In suspension of certain classes
of payments to individuals, Accord
ingly, the committee agreed in prin
ciple that all payments to funds ‘A’
and ‘B' under the agreement signed
at Paris on April 20, 1030, should be
continued during the Hoover year,
“Negotiations are continuing In re
gard to adjustments required in the
case of Bulgaria
experts charged
prANie:s of the fourteen cotton
states of the South are asked by
the farm board to plow under one
third of their crop immediately, in or
der to enhance the price of the other
two-thirds. The board sent telegrams
to the governors of the states urging
that this course be adopted. In re-
turn, said the board, the cotton stabill-
zation corporation will agree to hold
off the market its 1,300,000 bales until
July 31, 1032, and will urge the cot-
ton co-operatives financed by the
board to do likewise,
CDWARD A. O'NEAL, president of
the American Farm Bureau fed.
eration, announced at a meeting of
state farm bureau leaders in Milwau-
kee that the federation “must renew
its demand for an equalization fee"
and that the present marketing act
was Inadequate to cope with agricul-
ture’s “most acute problem-—control
of its surplus crops.” The announce
ment was sald to be unexpected by
the farm board officials and the ad-
ministration in Washington,
“The federation has always stood
for the principle of the equalization
fee, as expressed In the old McNary-
Haugen bill, which provides that each
unit of a commodity produced shall
bear its fair share of the cost of dis-
posal of surplus,” O'Neal sald.
“Desiring to see the marketing
fully tried the organization
two years has not insisted upon en-
actment of the fee principle. It now
appears all too plain that the present
act does not for
the needed surplus
act
out, for
adequately provide
control.”
proBaBLY to his
own
quite =a
though small
FIEOrous
boom
for
in A
igo banker,
Democratic
as the
nominee
1931. It i
in Malone and
Texas,
Mr, Traylor
M. A. Traylor lived and where
a few ye
we president of
boro,
forn
southwestern
would support th
nomination, and tha
» was being formed to fur
not
likely that Mr. Traylor takes the mat-
except as a compliment,
lor's candidacy. It is
ter seriously
feel that the Democratic
go further and
is president of the First National bank
ties
fare worse,
might
international financial
and
affairs
EPRESENTATIVE
Hull of llinois is
members of congress
WILLIAM E
has been
shroad, and he has
from The special
Hull's investigation has
been the Bratt system of liguor con-
Sweden. and his con
Sweden has solved the
which this and
struggling. In a
he finds the Bratt system works well.
“Yery careful to be sure I was get-
ting the information.” Mr.
Hull writes, “1 can truthfully say that
I haven't seen a single drunken per.
son in Sweden since I have been here,
The restaurants are all well patron-
ized, the drinking is light and the
drunkenness is nil. The system is
well organized and a success.”
‘ who
studying things
been heard
ciusion is that
with
are
other
word,
problem
countries
correct
ENATOR FELIX
\J Hebert of Rhode
Island, chairman of
the senate committee
on unemployment,
spent the week end at
the Rapidan camp and
then gave out, appar
ently as President
Hoover's spokesman,
an attack on the ideas
of a government dole
and federal unem-
ployment insurance.
He asserted that the Hebert
latter would inevitably lead to the
dole us it operates In England. Mr.
Hebert based his conclusions upon a
study of the dole abroad made during
a trip from which he recently re
turned. He visited most of the coun-
tries of western Europe for the spe
cial purpose of Investigating unem-
ployment insurance, and he predicts
now that there will be little clamor
in congress for the establishment of
such a system. He said of the dole:
“The main difficulty with the dole
system, as it operates throughout Eun-
rope, with the possible exception of
Italy, is that it is intertwined with
politics.”
Senator
RGANIZED labor in certain parts
of this country is not doing much
to help solve the question of unem-
ployment, Quite the reverse. Take
the Hoover dam, for instance. The
workers on that big project made
wage demands that construction com-
pany holding the contract considered
extortionate, so 125 men quit work,
The superintendent immediately shut
down operations and about 1,000 men
were thrown out of work. The com
pany, he sald was six months ahead
of schedule and could afford to refuse
SH TR EE RES
concessions that would cost $2,000
dally or $3,000,000 during the seven
years allowed for gompletion of the
dam. Living conditions for the work-
ers on this desert job are admittedly
rigorous.
In Chicago thousands of men and
women were thrown out of employ-
ment when more than one hundred
small movie theaters closed rather
than submit longer to the demand
of the motion picture operators’ union
that two operators be employed at
each house, The managers sald this
was unnecessary and that they could
not afford it.
Extensive highway construction op-
erations in Illinois mre delayed and
may not get under way before next
spring, because labor organizations
objected to the rulings of a state board
as to the “prevailing wage” in vari
ous districts, which must be paid for
the work according to the law au-
thorizing it.
These are only a few instances of
the many that might be cited. It
would seem to the ordinary citizen
that organized labor might well strain
a point or two in such a time of stress
The executive council of the Amer-
{ean Federation of Labor adopted a
declaration to the effect that there
must be no reduction of wages,
Nyse MARY AN-
i derson, head of
the women's burean
of the Department of
Labor, is a woman of
ideas and the ability
to express them, Hav-
ing returned from
Europe, she gives out
an address urging =
modern era for cooks
and malds, a higher
status for domestie
service In keeping
with modern Indus-
trialism., Her poogram includes the
establishment of training schools to
fit the worker to the position through
federal ent service, and
independent of the
She thinks mod-
8 not the
worker In
for
Mary
Anderson
the employn
ees life
ern apartment livi m
of the
home ut dae dvantages
eventual
Miss
apartmer
Anderson al points gnt that
necessarily
t-timme
Work.
RESIDENT
seventh birthday
HOOVER'S fifty-
rame on August
the
the
Luke lea, Jr. and
four others were indicted by the grand
we COL
affairs
rust
connection wi
spiracy In
of the defunct Liberty Bank and
HARPLY “third degree"
adminis
i found to be wide
both cities and rural com-
the Wickersham commiss.on
reported to President Hoover that “it
doubt that the prac-
its character and
American tradi
not to be
eriticizing
force
spread in
remains beyond
tice is
extent,
shocking in
ative of
tions and institutions, and
tolerated.”
Citing many instances of police
brutality and unfair tactics by officers,
the n declared that the
“lawlessness in law en
forcement™ has resulted in “a deplor-
able prostration of the processes of
justice,” and urged that congress en-
act a code of federal criminal pro-
cedure which might serve as a model
for the states
commission
trend toward
priBGaTES from nearly all na-
tions were present when the
press congress of the world opened
in Mexico City. Men and women from
North and South America, Europe and
the Orient were welcomed at a recep-
tion given by Senator Don Lamberto
Hernandez, head of the federal dis-
trict. The inaugural meeting was di-
rected by Frank L. Martin, acting
deaa of the school of journalism of
the University of Missouri, and the
guests were addressed by Dr. Don
Jose Manuel Puig Casaurano, secre-
tary of public education. The news.
paper men of Mexico then gave the
delegates a theater party, and next
afternoun they were received at Cha-
pultepec castie by President Ortiz Ru-
bio. On Wednesday there was an ex-
cursion to the archaeological excava-
tions at San Juan Teotihuacan, aod
on Friday, the closing day of the con-
gress, a great fiesta was held In the
stadium,
Of course between these festive af.
fairs the delegates transacted consider
able business, much of it through their
committees, and at the three general
gessions some serious and thoughtful
addresses were delivered.
ARKER CRAMER, the aviator
who was mapping out a northern
alr mail route to Europe, got as far
as Lerwick ir the Shetland islands
safely on his way to Copenhagen and
then ran into trouble that, It is feared
at this writing, resultei in his death.
Colonel and Mre, Lindbergh were
held up at Point Barrow for three
and they took off for Nome. However,
dense fogs compelled them to come
down on the north const of the Se
ward peninsula, about 0 miles from
Nome, which is on the south coast of
that peninsula, ‘hen the fog lifted
they went on to Safety bay, near
Nome,
(8. 1931, Western Newspaper Unlon)