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CUTS PAYROLL
OF UNEMPLOYED
Government Reduces Number
of Persons Receiving
Allowances
Ixmdou, Aug. 2.—The payroll of
the unemployed to whom the gov
ernment Is making a weekly dole
haa been reduced by about 500,000
names since May last when the gov
ernment drew its purse strings
tighter. From November to May
the weekly benefits were paid to
about 1,250,000 persons. Payments
are now being made to about 760,-
000.
At first the amount paid the men
out of work was $6 a week, $5 to
women, $3 to boys and 32.50 to girls.
There were smaller grants for
children, so that it was possible for
an unskilled workman with four
children to draw nearly sll a week,
which was more than some could
earn at work.
When the joyful news of this pay
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SATURDAY EVENING,
for doing nothing spread many tired
workers immediately resigned their
jobs and came upon the government,
according to testimony in the courts,
while others who never had done
nor wished to do any work found
themselves in the happy position of
gathering unexpected manna from
the heavens.
Instructions from the government
to disbursing officials were to lean
toward the side of generosity and
this policy appears to have pre
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Red Cross Workers
Reduced in Number
Throughout Siberia
Belgrade, Serbia, Aug. 2.—Workers
of the Red Cross commission in Ser
bia who have numbered about 175
during the recent months when re
lief work was most urgent, now are
being reduced to about 50. Captain
Harry W. Frantz, secretary of the
Red Cross commission to Serbia, an
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will devote themselves to medical
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Dorothy's Imprisonment by Langwidere
Princess Langwidere's sitting room
was panelled with great mirrors,
which reached from the ceiling to
the floor; also the ceiling was com
posed of mirrors, and the floor was
of polished silver that reflected every
object upon It. So when Langwidere
sat in her easy chair and played soft
melodies upon her mandolin,her form
was mirrored hundreds of times, in
walls and ceiling and floor, and
whichever way the lady turned her
head she could see and admire her
own features. This she loved to do,
and just as the maid entered she was
saying to herself:
"This head with the auburn hair
and hazel eyes Is quite attractive. I
must wear it more often than I have
done of late, although it may not be
the best of my collection."
"You have company, Your High
ness," announced the maid, bowing
low.
"Who is It?" asked Landwidere,
yawning.
"Dorothy Gale, of Kansas, Mr.
Tiktok and Btllina," answered the
maid.
"What a queer lot of names!"
murmured the Princess, beginning
to be a little Interested. "What are
they like? Is Dorothy Gale of Kan
sas pretty?"
"She might be called so," the maid
replied.
"And is Mr. Tiktok attractive?"
continued the Princess.
"That I cannot say. Your Highness.
But he seems very bright Will Your
Gracious Highness see them?"
"Oh, I may as well, Nanda. But
I am tired admiring this head, and if
my visitor has any claim to beauty
I must take care that she does not
surpass me. So I will go to my cab
inet and change to No. 17, which I
think Is my best appearance. Don't
you ?"
"Your No. 17 is exceedingly beau
tiful," answered Nanda, with another
bow.
Again the Princess yawned. Then
she said:
"Help me to rise."
So the maid assisted her to gain
her feet, although Langwidere was
(he stronger of the two: and then the
Princess slowly walked across the
silver floor to her cabinet, leaning
heavily at every step upon Nanda's
arm. .
Now I must explain to you that the
Princess Langwidere had thirty
heads—as many as there are days in
the month. But of course she could
only wear one of them at a time, be
cause she had but one neck. These
heads were kept in what she called
her "cabinet," which was a beautiful
dressing-room that lay just between
I.angwidere's sleeping chamber and!
the mirrored sitting room. Each
bead was in a separate cupboard
lined with velvet. The cupboards
ran all around the sides of the dress
ing room, and had elaborately carved
doors with gold numbers on the out
side and jewelled-framed mirrors on
the inside of them.
■When the Princess got out of her
crystal bed in the morning she went
to her cabinet, opened one of the vel
vet-lined cupboards and took the
head it contained from its golden
shelf. Then, by the aid of the mir
ror inside the open door, she put on
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the head—aa neat and straight as i
could be—and afterward called her
maids to robe her for the day. She •
always wore a simple white costume, \
that suited all the heads. For, being .
able to change her face whenever '
i she liked, the Princess had no in- j
i terest in wearing a variety of gowns,
as have other ladies who are com
peled to wear the same face con
stantly. 1
Of course the thirty heads were in 1
great variety, no two formed alike
but all being of exceeding loveliness.
There were heads with golden hair, 1
brown hair, rich auburn hair and
black hair; but none with gray hair. 1
The heads had eyes of blue, of gray,
of hazel, of brown and of black: but
there wereno red eyes among them,
and all were bright and handsome.
The noses were Grecian. Roman, re
trousse and Oriental, representing all
types of beauty; and the mouths
were of assorted sizes and shapes,
diplaying pearly teeth when the
head smiled. As for dimples, they
appeared in cheeks and chins where
ever they might be most charming
and one or two heads had freckles
| upon the faces to contrast the better
| with the brilliancy of their complex-
I ions.
One key unlocked all the velvet
j cupboards containing these treasures
j—a curious key carved from a single
1 blood-red ruby—an 1 this was fasten
ed to a strong but slender chain
| which the Princess wore around her
j left wrist.
j When Nanda had supported Lang
! widere to a position in front of No.
j 17, the Princess unlocked the door
| with her ruby key and after handing
head No. 9, which she had been
wearing to the maid, she took No. 17
from its shelf and fitted it to her
neck. It had black hair and dark
eyes and a lovely pearl-and-white
complexion, and when Langwidere
wore it she knew she was remarkably
beautiful in appearance.
There was only one trouble with
No. 17; the temper that went with it
(and which was hidden somewhere
under the glossy black hair) was
fiery, harsh and haughty in the ex
treme and it often led the Princess
to do unpleasant things which she re
gretted when she came to wear her
other heads.
Rut she did not remember this to
day and went to meet her guests in
the drawing-room with a feeling of |
certainty that she would surprise
them with her beauty.
However, she was great'y disap
pointed to find that her visitors were
merely a small girl in a gingham
dress, a copper man that would only
go when wound up and a yellow hen
that was sitting contentedly in Lang
widere's best work-basket, where
there was a china egg used for darn
ing stockings.*
"Oh!" said Langwidere. slightly
lifting the nose of No. 17, "I thought
DESCRIBES SCENES!
AROUND KALUT
i Woman Tells of Volcanic
! Eruption That Destroyed
26 Villages
Singapore, June 21, via Tokio, Aug.
i 1- The awful scenes which prevail
! Ed when the volcano of Kalut in Java
| burst into eruption on May 20, des- |
troyed 26 villages and caused a loss
; of life estimated by some at 50,000
are vividly described by Miss E. W.
Cranen who has arrived here from
| Sourabaya.
A river of boiling mud and lava
which overwhelmed the village of
Blitar where Miss Cranen was stay
ing, she says, was ten miles wide and
i four feet deep.
The first symptoms of the coming
eruption. Miss Cranen said. were
sounds like thunder and vivid flashes j
iin the sky. Enormous boulders were j
flung from the volcano into the low j
lands around it for immense dis- J
tances. There was pitchy darkness j
! owing to a rain of ashs.
River of Lava
! Then came warning to the occu
i pants of the hotel at Blitar that the
river of lava and mud was approach
; ing. "We were almost beside our
! selves as to what to do to avoid a
hideous end." she said. Twenty-four
1 of those staying at the hotel escaped
death in the boiling mud by fleeing '
aboard a motor car driven by the wife j
of the Assistant Resident Commis- j
sioner.
j According to Miss Cranen the river
lof mud ran for three hours and
; wrought fearful damage to life and
some one of importance had called."
"Then you were right," declared
Dorothy. "I'm a good deal of 'por
tance myself and when Billina lays
an egg she has the proudest cackle
you ever heard. As for Tiktok, he's
"Stop Stop!" commanded the
Princess, with an angry flash of her
splendid eyes. "How dare you an
noy me with your senseless chatter?"
"Why you horrid thing!" said
Dorothy, who was not accustomed
to being treated so rudely.
The princess looked at her more
closely.
"Tell me," she resumed, "are you
of royal blood?"
"Better than that, ma'am," said
Dorothy. "I came from Kansas."
"Huh!" cried the Princess scorn
fully, "You are a foolish child and I
cannot allow you to annoy me. Run
away, you little goose and bother
some one else."
Dorothy was so indignant that for
a moment shp could find no words to
reply. But she arose from her chair
and was about to leave the room
when the Princess, who had been
scaning the girl's face, stopped hci
by saying, more gently:
"Come nearer to me."
Dorothy obeyed, without a thought
of fear and stood before the Princess
while Langwidere examined her face
with careful attention.
"You are rather attractive," said
the lady, presently. "Not at all beau
tiful, you understand, but you have
a certain style of prettiness that is
different from that of any of my
thirty heads. So I believe I'll take
your head and give you No. 26 for
it."
"Well, I b'lieve you won't!" ex
claimed Dorothy.
"It will do you no good to refuse,"
continued the Princess; "for I need
your head for my collection and in
the Land of Ev my will is law. 1
never have cared much for No. 26,
and you wi'l find that it is very little
worn. Resides, it will do you just as
I well as the one you're wearing, for
all practical purposes."
"I don't know anything about
your No. 26 and I don't want to," said
Dorothy, firmly. "I'm not used to
taking cast-off things, so I'll just
keep my own head."
"You refuse?" cried the Princess,
i with a frown.
"Of course I do," was the reply.
"Then," said Langwidere. "I shall
lock you up in a tower until you de
cide to obey me. Nanda," turning to
her maid, "call my army."
Nanda rang a silver bell and at
once a big fat colonel in a bright red
uniform entered the room, followed
by ten lean soldiers, who all looked
sad and discouraged and saluted the
princess in a very melancholy fash
ion.
"Carry that girl to the North
j property. It covered the railway
I station, buried the locomotives and
j cars and destroyed virtually every
house in Blitar, Wlingi and Srengat.
I A Mr. Boekhont managed to rescue
his wife and some of his children, but
owing to the velocity of the mud
riv.er was unable to save two of his
little ones who perished before his
eyes. One European, while in bed in
his house, was carried away and de
posited miles distant.
50,000 Lives Lost
A Sourabaya paper which places
the total loss of life at 50,000 says
that 15 Europeans perished, and that
after the volcano subsided the arms
| and ,legs of the victims were seen
protruding through the mud all over
Kediri district, in the vicinity of Kal
ut. Many thousands of persons are
reported missing.
It is learned that three lava streams
flowed from the volcano all taking
the same course as in the eruption
of 1901. On of these destroyed Blitar.
Government geologists who ascended
to the crater of Kalut after the erup
tion found it empty.
The Dutch Government of the
devastated district reported that 5,100
I persons were killed in the eruption
] of Kalut.
Edward S. Keeley
Dies in Hospital
New York, Aug. 2. Edward S.
Keeley, Assistant Treasurer and
j Manager of the United States Sugar
j Equalization Board, formerly vice
i president in charge of traffic of the
'Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railway, died yesterday in a Summit,
N. J., hospital from peritonitis fol
lowing an operation for appendicitis.
He was 61 years old and leaves a
widow.
Tower and lock her up!" cried the j
Princess, pointing to Dorothy.
"To hear is to obey," answered the
big red colonel and caught the child
by her arm. But at that moment
Tiktok raised his dinner-pail and
pounded it so forcibly against the
colonel's head that the big officer sat
down upon the tloor with a sudden
bump, looking both dazed and very
much astonished.
"Help!" he shouted and the ten
lean soldiers sprang to assist their
leader.
There was great excitement for the
next few moments and Tiktok had
knocked down seven of the army,
who were sprawling in every direc
tion upon the carpet, when, suddenly
the machine paused, with the dinner
pail raised for another blow, and re
mained perfectly motionless.
"My ac-tion has run down," he
called to Dorothy. "Wind me up,
quick."
She tried to obey, but the big col
onel had by this time managed to
get upon his feet again, so he grab
bed fast hold of the girl and she was
helples to escape. 4
"This is too bad," said the ma
chine. "I ought to have run six
hours lon-ger, at least, but I sup
pose my long walk and my fight with
the Wheel-ers made me run down
fast-er than us-u-al."
"Well, it can't be helped," said
Dorothy, with a sigh.
"Will you exchange heads with
me?" demanded the Princess.
"No, indeed!" cried Dorothy.
"Then lock her up," said Langwl
dere to her soldiers and they led Dor
othy to a high tower at the north of
the palace and locked her securely
within.
The soldiers afterward tried to lift
Tiktok. but they found the machine
so solid and heavy that they could
not stir it. So they left him standing
in the center of the drawing-room.
"People will think I have a new
statue," said Langwidere, "so it won't
matter in the least, and Nanda can
keep him well polished."
"What shall we do with the hen?"
asked the colonel, who had just dis
covered Billina in the work-basket.
"Put her in the chicken house,"
answered the Princess. "Some day
I'll have her fried for breakfast."
"She looks rather tough, Your
Highness," said Nanda, doubtfully.
"That is a base slander!" cried
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BUlina, struggling frantically in the
colonels arms. "But the breed of
chickens I come from is said to be
poison to all princesses."
"Then," remarked Langwidere, "I
will not fry the hen, but keep her to
lay eggs; and if she doesnt do her
duty I'll have her drowned in the
horse trough."
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Editor's Note.—ln our next story
"Ozma of Oz to the Rescue" we meet
our old friends again—the Scare
crow, the Tin Woodman, the Saw-
Horse and the wonderful "Ozman of
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lease the Royal Family of Ev trom
the thrall of the Noma King and
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