» THR MBYRRS? LGVE INSURANCE “ BY EARL DERR BIGGERS § Minot turned quickly and “caught Cynthia Meyrick in the act of peering @ver his shoulder. She had seen the <¢hauffeur too. again. In those brown eyes Minot saw something wistful. @omething hurt, saw things that moved $im to put everything toa sudden test. * $e leaped to his feet and pulled madly @t the bell cord. «wWhat—what have you done?” Star- led, she stared at him. «p've stopped the train. I'm going @€o ride to Jacksonville as I rode to San Marco ages ago. I'm not going alone.” CHAPTER XX. “Ono last ride together.” HE train had stopped a mo- ment. but was under way “Indeed!” “Quick. The conductor will be here #0 a minute. Here's a card and pencil. Write a uote for Aunt Mary. Say you'll mevt them in Jacksonville. Hur- gy, please!” “Mr. Minot!" with great dignity. “One last ride together, one last chance for me to—to set things right if I can.” “If vou can.” “IT admit it. Won't you give we ghe chance? I thought you would be game. Idare you!” For :a second they gazed into each ather’s eyes. The train had come to a atop. :and Aunt Mary stirred fretfully #h her sleep. With sudden decision QCyntbia Meyrick wrote on the card and drepped it on her slumbering rela- élve. “I know I'll be sorry—but’— she gasped. “Hurry! This way! ‘@bwming there!” A mement later they stood together @n the platform of the Sunbeam sta- don, while the brief little train disap- peared indignantly in the distance. “You shouldn't have made me do that!” «cried the girl in dismay. ‘I'm always doing things on the spur of the smoment—things 1 regret afterward.” “] know. You explained that to me ce. But you can also do things on e spur of the moment that you're &€ad about all your life. Oh—good gnorning, Barney Oldfield.” “Good morning,” replied the rustic @hauffeur with gleeful recognition. <{Where’s it to this time, mister?” “Jacksonville. And no hurry at all.” BMinot held open the door, and the girl stepped into the car. “The gentleman is quite mistaken,” she said to the chauffeur. “There is a wery great hurry.” “Ages of time until luncheon,” re- plied Minot blithely, also getting in. “If you were thinking of announcing— eomething-—-then.” “] shall have nothing to announce, ¥'m sure. But I must be in Jackson- wille before that train. Father will be farious.” “rust me, lady,” said the chauffeur, grinding aca’m at his hooded music Box. “I've Leen doing stunts with this <ar since 1 saw vou last. Been over a faiundred miles from Sunbeam. Begins ¢e look as though [Mlorida wasn’t going ®0 be big enough, after all.” He leaped to the wheel, and again that ancient automobile carried Cyn- ¢hia Meyrick and the representative of Boyd's out of the town of Sunbeam. But the exit was not a laughing one. The girl's eyes were serious, cold, and with real concern in-his voice Minot spoke: “Won't wou forgive me—can’t you? 3X was only ‘trying to be faithful to the man who sent me down here—faithful #hrough everything, as [ should be faithiul to you if you gave me the chance. Is it too late, Cynthia’ — “Phere was a time,” said the girl, her eyes wide, “when it was not too late. Have you forgotten? That night on the balcony when I threw myself at wour feet and you turned away—do Fou think that was a happy moment for me?’ : “Was it happy for me, for that mat ter?” “0h, 1 was humiliated, ashamed Then your silly rescue of my gown your advice to me to marry Harrow- Dy’ — The conductor's “Would you have had me throw over the men who trusted me’— «J—71 don’t knew. I only know that I can’t forgive what has happened in a minute’— “What was that last?’ “Nothing.” “You said in a minute.” “Your ears are deceiving you.” “Cynthia, you're not going to punish | we because I was faithful? Don’t you suppose I tried to get some one in my glace?” “Did you?” “The day 1 first rode on this car with you. And then I stopped try- “Why?” “Because 1 realized that if some one @ame in my place I'd have to go away and never see you again, and I couldn’t &o that. I had to be near you, dear giri—don’t worry, he can’t hear, the ssotor’s too noisy—I had to be where § could see that little curl making a tion mark around your ear, where ® eould hear your voice. my heart by marrying you to another gen. I loved you. Ilove you now”’— A terrific h interrupted. Dole- @elly the chauffeur descended from the amy to make: Dolefully # & 1 d » remarked. <fiay, I'm I'll have to walk Sack to the age at Sunbeam, and— | | I'm afra‘d ygu'll have to jest sit ate © mech, Co CEES I had to be | @ser you even if to do it I must break | ATR COMME 1A1. MEYERSDALE. PA RETR FT RR ed s or RY . ren mT : ed he pd cima ——— ————— — —_———— here until T come back? . ry i fe planted upon the trusted foundations “Cynthia,” Minot cried, “I worship WILSON S AYS NEWEST WAR AUTOMOBILE | of political Liberty. you! Won't you"— “We have no selfish ends to serve. i The girl gave a strange little cry. «1 wanted to be cross with you a lit- tle longer,” she said almost tearfully. «But I can’t. I wonder why I can’t? | er seeing you again. | cried? 1 guess it's because for the first time I'm really in love!” “Cynthia!” y «Oh, Dick. don’t let me change my mind again—ever—ever!” “Only over my dead body!” With one accord they turned and looked at that quaint southern chauf- and the sunshine. either of them that there was any dan- ger of his looking back. And happily be didn’t. THE END. KEYSTONE PARAGRAPHS Charles A. Bentley, former member of the Pennsylvania legislature, has offered his ninety-acre farm near Dick- sonburg, Crawford county, which is under cultivation and partly planted, to ihe United States department of agriculture, with all its equipment and crops, during the duration of any war that this country may have with any foreign couniry. Senator made his offer in reply to the plea of the department of agriculture officials for a speeding up of foodstuff produc- tion in this country as a method of preparedness. : The public sale season in Center county has been one of the most unusual ever known there. kinds of stock brought extraordinary prices, horses selling as high as $360, cows $128, hogs, $86, sheep $21, chick- ens $1.25 and geese, $1. Farm im- ments brought more than they were bought for three years ago. Sales that four or five years ago would have figured up about $3,000, this year brought $6,000 and $7,000. An inquest into the death of four coal miners in an explosion in the Isa- bella mine of the Hecla Coal and Coke company near Brownsville, was held. The verdict absolves the company from all blame for the accident but recommends that Fire Boss James G. Broderick be censured for not re- porting presence of gas in the mine. The presence of gas in the mine at the time of the explosion is unac- counted for. Basil Derry, aged seventy-seven, a wealthy hermit of Smithfield, near Uniontown, was found cremated in his home. Persons on their way to church saw smoke issuing from the rear of the house and, breaking open the door, found Derry’s body lying in the grate. Derry is thought to have been seized by an attack of heart trouble while seated in front of the fire and to have fallen into the grate. A near riot was precipitated at Lucerne when Andrew Rinehart, who had charge of a moving picture thea- ter, refused to wear a small Ameri- can flag or permit small flags to be tacked on the ticket office window frame. Rinehart, who was employed by the Rochester and Pittsburgh Coal and Iron company, was discharged the following®norning and advised to leave town at once, which he did. Mustering into federal service of the First infantry, national guard of Pennsylvania, was completed in Phila- delphia ; last week. Lieutenant Colonel Millard D. Brown is in com- mand of the regiment in the absence of Colonel Charles C. Allen, who is acting as mustering officer in the south. Colonel Brown said the regi- ment expects to do guard duty along railroad lines. Ten widows and twenty children will receive $35,000 compensation from the state workmen’s insurance fund as a result of the Henderson Coal com- pany’s mine explosion near Canons- burg, March 13, when fourteen men were killed. This is the heaviest pay- | ment yet drawn from the state fund | as the result of a single accident, but it in nowise embarrasses it, according to officials. George Ambler died in the county jail at Brockville, aged 103 years. He was the oldest resident of Jefferson county and so far as known the oldest resident in the state. Ambler was sentenced to a term of three months. He pleaded guilty to selling liquor without a license. » Ambler was prob- ably the oldest man ever arraigned and sentenced on a criminal charge. The Vickerman local option bill was of representatives on its second read- | ing after a long debate, by a vote of | 127 to 72. The Tompkins bill abol- ishing capital punishment for murder | ana substituting as punishment life { imprisonment passed the senate final- | ly without debate. The vote was 32 to 12. The Pittsburgh Coal company of | Pittsburgh has purchased the coal un- | derlying approximately 4,000 acres | just east of Washington on the pro- posed Chartiers Southern railroad and known as the Glyde block, paying $330 an acre, or $1,320,000. The farms in- cluded in the deal lie in West Bethle- hem township. | New Castle and Lawrence county have over 8,000 men subject to military duty, according to returns made at the county commissioners’ of- | all fice. These returns include ( fartv men between twenty-one five years old. Of this numbe 0 jocated within the limits of | Castle. § vas AANA TE JR Cr EERE I cried all night at the thought of nev- | 1 wonder why I | feur plodding along through the dust ° It did not seem to Bentley All | defeated in the Pennsylvania house | THAT CONDITION OF WAR EXISTS Congress Asked fo Mest Ger- ~many's Actions Against U. S. | WA MEN AND MONEY NEEDED Armed Neutrality Found Impraoctic- able, 500,000 Soldiers, Universal’ Military Service, Co-operation With Entente Allies, Including Liberal Financial Credits Are Requested by Chief Executive. President Wilson on Monday night asked congress to declare a state of | war existing between the United States and Germany. : | Immediately a resolution to this ef- i fect was offered in both houses. The president said war with Ger- | many would involve practical co-oper- ation with the governments now at war with Germany, including liberal financial credits. He urged the rais- ing of 500,000 men by universal mili- tary service. The president made it clear that no action was being taken against the Austrian government and the other nations allied with Ger- many. The president said: “The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind. It is a war against all nations. American ships have been sunk, American lives taken, in ways which it has stirred us very deeply to learn of, but the ships and people of other neutral and friendly nations have been sunk and overwhelmed in the waters in the same way. There has been no discrimination. The chal- lenge is to all mankind. Each nation must decide for itself how it will meet it. The choice we make for our! selves must be made with a modera- tion of counsel and a temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our motives as a nation. We must put excited feeling away. “Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physic- al might of the nation, but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single cham- pion.” Loud cheering greeted these re- marks but stillness pervaded the cham- ber while the president read the fol- lowing: “With a profound sense of the solemn and even the tragical char acter of the step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it in- volves, but in unhesitating obedience | to what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise that the congress de- clare the recent course of the imperial | German government to be in fact | nothing less than war against the gov- | ernment and people of the United : States, that it formally accept the | status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it and that it take immediate steps, not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense, but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the government of the German em- pire to terms and end the war. { Co-operation With Allies. “What this will involve is clear. It will ‘involve the utmost practicable co-operation in counsel and action with the governments now at war with Germany, and, as incident to that, the extension to those governments of the . most liberal financial credits, in order that our resources may, SO far as pos- sible, be added to theirs. It will in- volve the organization and mobiliza- tion of all the material resources of the country to supply the materials of war and serve the incidental needs of the nation in the most abundant, and yet the most economical and el- ficient way possible. It will involve the immediate full equipment of the navy in all respects, but particularly in supplying it with the best means of dealing with the enemy’s subma- rines. It will involve the immediate addition to the armed forces of the United States already provided for by law in case of war, at least 500,000 men, who should, in my opinion, be chosen upon the principle of universal liability to service, and also the au- thorization of subsequent additional increments of equal force so soon as they may be needed and can be handled in training. “It will involve also, of course, the granting of adequate credits to the government, sustained, I hope, so far as they can equitably be sustained by the present generation, by well-con- ceived taxation. I say sustained so far as may be equitable by taxation because it seems to me that it would be most unwise to base the credits which will now he necessary entirely on money borrowed. It is our duty, I most respectfully urge, to protect our people so far as we may against the very serious hardships and evils which would be likely to arise out of the inflation which would be produced by vast loans. “In carrying out the measures by which these things are to be accom- plished we should keep constantly in mind the wisdom of interfering a: little as possible in our own preg tion f our military f Ww —for it will be & very practical duty—of sur | plying the nations already at war with | i , field wireless. | soon be equipped with this “tank,” USED BY N. Y. GUARDSMEN ® by American Press Association. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, po material compensation for the sac- rifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights We shall be satisfied ! of mankind. when those rights have been as secure as the faith and the freedom of the nations can make them. “I have said nothing of the govern- ments allied with the imperial govern- ment of Germany because they have not made war upon us or challenged us to defend our right and our honor The Austro-Hungarian government has indeed, avowed its unqualified in- dorsement and acceptance of the reck- less and lawless submarine warfare ‘ adopted now without disguise by the imperial German government, and it bas therefore not been possible for ~ this government to receive Count Tar ! powski, the ambassador recently ac credited to this government by the im- perial and royal government of Aus- tria-Hungary; but that government ‘ has not actually engaged in warfare The newest armored auto also has a steel tower, which can be raised i on the principle of a fire ladder and employed for signaling, observation, outpost station work and in military The United States may which has been tested by the New York national guard. * ¥ * * WAR RESOLUTION INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS. * %¥ % ¥* ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ Chairman Flood of the house foreign affairs committee, the administration spokesman there, introduced the following war resolution in the house. An ® #* * ® ® *® ® * * ® * in the senate: 5 “Whereas, the recent course ¢ of the imperial German govern- ® ment is in fact nothing less ® than war against the govern- ® ment and people of the United ® States; s “Resolved, by the senate and ® house of representatives of the ® United States of America, in ® congress assembled, That the ® gtate of belligerency between ® the United States and the im- * German government ® which has been thrust upon the ® ® $ $ ® ® perial * * w ® * * * United States is hereby formal- * ly declared; and . “That the president be, and * hereby is, authorized to take * immediate steps not only to put * the country in thorough state * ® of defense, but also to exert all * ® of its power and employ all of * * jts resources to carry ‘a war * * against the imperial German * * government and to bring the * * conflict to a successful termina- * * tion.” . * * % % % % ® ¥ ®%¥ %x ¥ % ¥ ¥ ¥ $ * Germany with the materials which they can obtain only from us or by our assistance. They are in the field and we should help them in every way to be effective there.” * The president said that the people of the United States have no quarrel with the German people, commenting upon the European war as follows: “It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or against citizens of the United States on the seas, and I take the liberty, for the present at least, of postponing a discussion of our relations with the authorities at Vienna. We enter this war only where we are clearly forced into it because there are no other means of defending our rights.” Defense, Preparations Completed. Army and navy preparations were believed by officials today to have reached a stage answering all immedi- ! ate defense needs and insuring that the more sweeping steps congress is expected to authorize can be carried out promptly. More national guardsmen were called into the federal service for po- lice duty, making a total of more than 60,000 of the state troops now as- signed to guard against internal dis- orders. The war department also an- nounced that, in order not to handi- cap government construction work, ail guardsmen who are government em: ployees or employees of private plants doing government work will be mus- tered out. The guard organizations called out * * * * * * * * * | are: identic resolution was offered * * * * * * * * * Virginia—First infantry, First and Second coast artillery, Battery D, First artillery. West Virginia—Second infantry. Vermont—First infantry. Connecticut—Second and Fourth companies, coast artillery. Another indication of the govern- ment’s preparations for a large army was evident in the announcement that the old Fort Ringgold military reser- vation in Texas had been restored to the war department for military purposes. Since 1911 it has been un- der control of the interior department. It is assumed the transfer was made to provide training space. Speaker Clark was re-elected by a vote of 217 to 205 over his Republi- can opponent, Representative Mann, ‘as the first step in the organization of the house of representatives. HOLLWEG BLAMES U. S. FOR PRESENT SITUATION German Chancellor Says We Declared War When Neutrals Were Asked to Break With Kaiser. : “Germany never had the slightest intention of attacking the United States of America and does not have such intention now. It never desired war ‘against the United States of America and does not desire it today,” was the declaration made by the Ger- man imperial chancellor, Dr. von Beth- mann-Hollweg, in a speech in the . reichstag. “How did these things develop? of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow- men as pawns and tools.” The spy system of Germany was ar- raigned by the chief executive. He said: “One of the things that has served to convince us that the Prussian ou- tocracy was not and could never be our friend is that from the very out set of the present war it has filled our unsuspecting communities and even our offices of government with spies and set criminal intrigues every- where afoot against our national unity of council, our peace within and with- out, our industries and our commerce. Indeed it is now evident that its spies were here even before the war begun; and it is unbappily not a matter of conjecture but a fact proved in our courts of justice that the intrigues which have more than once come perilously near to disturbing the peace and dislocating the industries of the country have been carried on at the instigation, with the support, and even under the personal direction of offi- cial agents of the imperial govern- ment accredited to the government of the United States.” The president continued: “We are now about to accept gauge of battle with this natural foe to lib erty, and shall, if necessary, spend the whole force of the nation to check and nullify its pretensions and its power. We are glad, now that we see the facts with no veil of false pre- tense about them, to fight thus for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included; rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywh choose their way in life and of obedi- ence. The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be for the! More than once we told the United States that we made unrestricted use of the submarine weapon expecting that England could be made to ob- serve, in her policy of blockade, the laws of humanity and international agreements. This blockade policy— this I expressly recall has been called ‘illegal and indefensible’ [the imperial chancellor here used the English words by President Wilson and Secre- tary of State Lansing.] Our expecta- tions whick we maintamea during eight months have been disappointed completely; England not only did not give up her illegal and indefensible policy of blockade, but uninterrupted- ly intensifird it. England, together with her @ollies, arrogantly rejected the peace offers made by us and our allies and proclaimed her war aims, which aim at our annihilation and that of our allies. “Then we took unrestricted subma- rine warfare into our hands; we-had to for our defense. “If the American nation considers this a cause for which to declare war against the German nation, with which it has lived in peace for niore than 100 years, if this action warrants an increase of bloodshed, we shall not have to bear the responsibility for it. The German nation, which feels neith- er hatred nor hostility against the United States of America, shall also bear and overcome this.” Consideration For Aliens. Aliens seeking citizenship will be given favored treatment if it becomes necessary to put restrictions on for- elgners. The state department in- formed the labor department that in such a contingency declarations of intention to become citizens will “be given due consideration.” Strike Takes Revolutionary Trend. volutionary trend of ST sible for th +31 Tow in nal tial law in Spein , dec laration of mar MiB arrests have been made and the situ: , tion is now said to be quiet. I IN PLOT TO BOMB SHIPS ACCUSED AS PAYMASTER | ] Photo by American Press Associatiom. WOLF VON IGEL. The former employee of the German embassy was named at the trial at New York of six men accused of making fire bombs to be placed on al- lied merchant ships as having been the paymaster in the plot. Von igel is now in Germany. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR The progress of the British and French on the western front evacuated by Germans has almost stopped. The fighting is growing more stubborn. British troops have captured Ruyal- court, Sorel-le-Grand and Fins, be- tween Bertincourt and Roisel, on the front in France, according to the offi cial statement from British headquar ters. A German attack upon British positions south of Neuville-Bourjenval, it is added, was driven off with loss. German lines east of Neuville-St. Vaast were entered Thursday night by the British troops, who inflicted casu- alties and took prisoners. The British hospital ship Asturias was torpedoed without warning, it was officially announced. Thirty-one persons were killed and twelve are missing. The report states that the Asturias, while steaming with all navigating lights and with all proper distinguish- ing Red Cross signs visibly illuminat- ed, was torpedoed without warning on the night of March 20. Losses of merchant vessels amount- ing to more than 420,000 tons thus far in March have resulted from war measures of the central powers, Lord Beresford said in the house of lords. Lord Beresford expressed the opin- ion that captures of submarines by the British were not at all equivalent to the new submarines/ the Germans were launching. He believed the Ger- mans had more men and more food than had been imagined in England. The foreign office, he said, had too ‘much power over the navy, to the detriment of the navy. The losses of British, allied and neutral vessels for February, he said, amounted to 281 vessels with an aggregate tonnage of ' more than 500,000. LODGE KNOCKED DOWN When Pacifist Calls Senator Coward Blows Follow. Senator Lodge was knocked down in a fight in his office with a Boston pacifist. The fight, which resulted from the pacifist calling Senator Lodge a coward after an argument on the war situation, was quelled by the police. Senator Lodge, who is sixty- seven years old, was not badly hurt. The pacifist, who gave his name as Alexander Bannwart of Boston, accom- panied by a woman, who gave her name as Mrs. Anna May Peabody of Cambridge, Mass., went to Senator Lodge’s office and demanded that he vote against any war resolution. An argument followed in which Bannwart called the senator a coward. The lie was then passed. A fight followed and Senator Lodge was being worsted when a telephone clerk, David B. Hermann, jumped into the fray and beat Bannwart. Capital police, hurriedly summoned, arrested the couple. Senator Lodge declares the couple employed very rough words in their interview and that Bannwart struck him the first blow. GUARDS IN PITTSBURGH Two Regiments of National Guards men Arrive For Police Duty. Two regiments of the national guard of Pennsylvania from another part of the state arrived in Pittsburgh to do guard duty in that vicinity. labor Realizing the large amount of ma- terial used in the manufacture of war { munitions shipped in and out of this district, the state officials, it is seid, | have deemed it advisable to adopt the precautionary measure of stationing troops about the principal bridges, tunnels and terminals in this district to ward against any possible hostile act on the part of German sympa- izers. : i { It is expected that a number of the i lary ia] concerns in the dis tric rials used in makine munitions of war are manufactared will also be guarded. a] —— NEW © SEE! Fifieen Ac in IMPOSE | Effort Being §traighten it Is Prob Through B Fight. Harrisburg sult of much of the senab mittees, a ne likelihood be books at this The changes tions are of and agricult Though th either branct it will have eommittee 1 time in iror that were ur the code as REP. 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