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By HALL CAINE
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CHAPTER II Continued
There are momenta when the sense
of our destiny is strong upon us and
this was such a moment to Red Ja
son He saw Michael Sunlocksfor the
first time but without knowing him
and yet at that sight every pulse
heat and every nerve quivered A
great sorrow and a great pity took
hold of him The face he looked
upon moved him the voice he heard
thrilled him and by an impulse that
he could not resist he stopped and
turned to the warder leaning on the
musket and said
Let me do this mans work It
would be nothing to me He is ill
Send him up to the hospital
March shouted his own warders
and they hustled him along and at
the next minute ho was gone Then
the bell stopped for an instant for
Michael Sunlocks had raied his head
to look upon the man who had spok
en He did not see Jasons face but
his own face softened at tho words
he had heard and his bloodshot eyes
grew dim
Go on cried the warder with the
musket and the bell began again
All that day the face of Michael
Sunlocks haunted the memory of Red
Jason
Who was that man he asked of
the prisoner who worked by his side
S How should I know tho other
fellow answered sulkily
In a space of rest Jason leaned on
his shovel wiped his brow and said
to his warder What was that mans
name
A 25 the warder answered mood
ily
I asked for his name said Jason
Whats that to you replied the
warder
A week went by and the face of
Sunlocks still haunted Jasons mem
ory It was with him early and late
the last thing that stood up before his
inward eye when he lay down to
sleep the first thing that came to
him when he awoke sometimes it
moved him to strange laughter when
the sun was shining and sometimes
it touched him to tears when he
thought of it at night Why was
this He did not know he could not
Think he did not try to find out But
there it was a living face burnt into
his memory a face so strangely new
to him yet so strangely familiar so
unlike to anything he had ever yet
seen and yet so like to everything
that was near and dear to himself
that he could have fancied there had
never been a time when he had not
had it by his side When he put the
matter to himself so he laughed and
thought How foolish But no self
mockery banished the mystery of the
power upon him of the mans face that
he saw for a moment one morning in
the snow
He threw off his former listlessness
tnd began to look keenly about him
But one week two weeks three weeks
passed and he could nowhre see the
same face again He asked questions
but learned nothing His fellow pris
oners began to jeer at him Upon
their souls the big red fellow had
tumbled into love with the young chap
with the long flaxen hair and maybe
he thought it was a woman in dis
guise
Jason knocked their chattering
heads together and so stopped their
ribald banter but his warders began
to watch him with suspicion and he
fell back in silence
A month passed and then the chain
that was slowly drawing the two men
together suddenly tightened One
morning the order came down from
the office of the captain that the pris
oners straw beds were to be taken
cut into the stock yard and burnt
The beds were not old but dirty and
damp and full of foul odors The
officers of the settlement said this
was due to the filthy habits of the
prisoners The prisoners on their
part said it came of the pestilential
hovels they were compelled to live in
where the ground was a bog the walls
and roof were a rotten coffin and the
air was heavy and lifeless Since
the change of warders there had been
a gradual decline in Hthe humanity
with which they had been treated and
to burn up their old beds without
giving them new ones was to deprive
them of the last comfort that separat
ed the condition ol human beings
from that of beasts of tho field
But the captain of the mines was in
no humor to bandy parts with his
prisoners and in ordering that the
beds should be burnt to prevent an
- outbreak of disease he appointed that
the prisoner B 25 should be told off
to do the work Now B 25 was the
prison name of Red Jason and he
was selected by reason of his gieat
bodily strength not so much because
the beds required it as from fear of
the rebellion of the poor souls who
were to lose them
So at the point of a musket Red Ja
son was driven on to his bad work
and sullenly he went through it mut
tering deep oaths from between his
grinding teeth until he came to the
log hut where Michael Sunlocks slept
and there he saw again the face that
had haunted his memory
This bed is dry and sound said
Michael Sunlocks and you shall not
tako it
Away with it shouted the warder
to Jason who had seemed to hesi
tate
It is good and wholesome let him
keep it said Jason
Go on with your work cried the
warder and the lock of the musket
clicked
Civilized men give straw to their
dogs to lie on said Michael Sun
locks
It depends what dogs they are
sneered tie warder
If you take cur beds this place will
be worse than an empty kennel said
Michael Sunlocks
Better that than the mange said
j the warder Get along I tell you
x he cried again handling his musket
and turning to Jason
Then with a glance of lothing Ja
son picked up the bed in his fingers
that itched to pick up the warder by
the throat and swept out of the place
Slave cried Michael Sunlocks af
ter him Pitiful miserable little
hearted slave
Jason heard the hot words that pur
sued him and his face grew as red
as his hair and his head dropped into
his breast He finished his task in
less than half an hour more working
like a demented man at piling up the
dirty mattresses into a vast heap and
setting light to the damp straw And
while the huge bonfire burned and he
poked long holes into it to give
it air to blaze by he made excuse of
the great heat to strip off the long
rough overcoat that had been given
him to wear through the hard months
of the winter By this time the
warder had fallen back from the
scorching flames and Jason watching
his chance stole away under cover of
deep whirls of smoke and got back
into the log cabin unobserved
He found the place empty the man
known to him as A 25 was not any
where to be seen But finding his
sleeping bunk a bare slab resembling
a butchers board he stretched his
coat over it where the bed had been
and then fled away like a guilty
thing
When the great fire had burned low
the warder returned and said Quick
there put on your coat and lets be
off
At that Jason pretended to look
about him in dismay
Its gone he said in a tone of as
tonishment
Gone What Have you burnt it
up with the beds creid the warder
Maybe so said Jason meekly
Fool cried the warder but its
your loss Now youll have to go in
your sheepskin jacket snow or shine
With a cold smile about the corners
of his mouth Jason bent his head and
went ahead of the warder
If the Captain of the Miines had
been left to himself he might have
been a just and even merciful man
but he was badgered by inhuman or
ders from Jorgen Jorgensen at
Reykjavik and one by one the com
mon privileges of his prisoners were
withdrawn As a result of his treat
ment the prisoners besieged him with
petitions as often as he crossed their
path The loudest to complain and
the most rebellious against petty
tyranny was Michael Sunlocks the
humblest the meekest and most silent
under cruel prosecution was Red Ja
son The one seemed aflame with in
dignation the other destitute of all
manly spirit
That man might be dangerous to
the government yet thought the
Captain after one of his stormy scenes
with Michael Sunlocks That mans
heart is dead within him he thought
again as he watched Red Jason work
ing as he always worked slowly list
lessly and as if tired out and longing
for the night
The Captains humanity at length
prevailed over his governors rigor
and he developed a form of penal
servitude among the prisoners which
he called the Free Command This
was a plan whereby the men whose
behavior had been good were allowed
the partial liberty of living outside the
stockade in huts which they had built
for themselevs Ten hours a day they
wrought at the mines the rest of the
day and night was under their own
control and in return for their labor
they were supplied with rations from
the settlement
Now Red Jason as a docile prisoner
was almost the first to get promotion
to the Free Command He did not
ask for it and he did not wish for it
and when it came he looked askance
at it
Send somebody else he said to his
warders but they laughed and turned
him adrift
He began to build his house of the
lava stones on the mountain side not
far from the hospital and near to a
house being built by an elderly man
much disfigured about the cheeks who
had been a priest imprisoned long
ago by Jorgen Jorgensen out of spite
and yet baser motives And as he
worked at raising the walls of his hut
he remembered with a pang the mill
he built in and what a
whirlwind of outraged passion brought
every stone of it to the ground again
With this occupation and occasional
gossip with his neighbor he passed
the evenings of his Free Command
And looking toward the hospital as
often as he saw the little groups of
men go up to it that told of another
prisoner injured in the perilous labor
of the sulphur mines he sometimes
saw a woman come out at the door
to receive them
Who is she he asked of the
priest
The foreign nurse said the priest
And a right good woman too as I
have reason to say for she nursed me
back to life after that spurt of hot
water had scalded these holes into
my face
That made Jason think of other
scenes and of tender passages in his
broken life that were gone from him
forever He had no wish to recall
them -their pleasure was too painful
their sweets too bitter they were lost
and God grant that they could be for
gotten Yet every night as he worked
at his walls he looked longingly across
the shoulder of the hill in the direc
tion of the hospital half fancying he
knew the sweet grace of the figure he
sometimes saw there and pretending
with himself that he remembered the
light rythm of its movement After
a while he missed what he looked for
and then he asked his neighbor if the
nurse were ill that he had not seen
her lately
111 Well yes said the old priest
She has been turned away from the
hospital
What cried Jason you thought
her a good nurse
She was too good my lad said
the priest and a blackguard warder
who had tried to corrupt her and
could not announced that somebody
else had done so
Its a lie cried Jason
It was plain enough said the
priest that she was about to give
birth to a child and as she would
make no explanations she wag turned
adrift
Where is she now asked Jason
Lying in the farmhouse at the edge
of the snow yonder said the
priest I saw her last night She
trusted me with her story and it was
straight and simple Her husband had
been sent out to the mines by the old
scoundrel at Reykjavik She had fol
lowed him only to be near him and
breathe the air he breathed Perhaps
with some wild hope of helping his
escape she had hidden her true name
and character and taken the place of
a menial being a born lady
Then her husband is still at the
mines said Jason
Yes said the priest
Does he know of her disgrace
No
Whats his name
The poor soul would give no name
but she knew her husbands nuirber
It was A 25
I know him said Jason
Next day his hut being built and
roofed after some fashion Jason went
down to the office of the Captain of
the Mines and said I dont like the
Free Command sir May I give it up
in favor of another man
And what man pray asked the
Captain
A 25 said Jason
No said the Captain
Ive built my house sir said Ja
son and if you wont give it to A 25
let the poor woman from the hospital
live in it and take me back among the
men
That wont do my lad Go along
to your work said the Captain
And when Jason was gone the Cap
tain thought within himself What
does this mean Is the lad planning
the mans escape And who is this
English woman that she should be
the next thought in his head
So the only result of Jasons ap
peal was that Michael Sunlocks was
watched the closer worked the hard
er persecuted the more by petty
tyrannies and that an order was sent
up to the farmhouse where Greeba
layin the dear dishonor of her early
motherhood requiring her to leave
the neighborhood of Krisuvik as
speedily as her condition allowed
This was when the long dark days
of winter were beginning to fall back
before the sweet light of spring And
when the snow died off the mountains
and the cold garment of the jokulls
was sucked full of holes like the hon
eycomb and the world that had been
white grew black and the flowers be
gan to show in the corries and the
sweet summer was coming coming
then Jason went down to the Captain
of the Mines again
Why said the Captain what
have you been doing
Nothing said Jason but if you
dont prevent me Ill run away This
Free Command was bad enough to
fear when the snow cut us off from
all the world But now that it is gone
and the world is free and the cuckoo
is calling he seems to be calling me
is calling he seems to be calling me
and I must go after him
Go said the Captain and after
youve tramped the deserts and swam
the rivers and slept on the ground
and starved on roots well fetch you
back for you can never escape us
and lash you as we have lashed the
others who have done likewise
If I go said Jason defiantly you
shall never fetch me back and if you
catch me you shall never punish me
What Do you threaten me cried
the Captain
Something in the prisoners face ter
rified him though he would have
scorned to have acknowledged his
fear and he straightway directed that
Jason should be degraded for inso
lence and insubordination from the
Free Command to the gangs
Now this was exactly what Jason
wanted for his heart had grown sick
with the longing for another sight of
that face which stood up before his
inward eye in the darkness of the
night But remembering Jasons ap
peal on behalf of Michael Sunlocks
and his suspicion regarding both the
captain ordered that the two men
should be kept apart
To Be Continued
Census Taking in Russia
The first general census in Russia
was taken in January in 1897 but
as may be expected in such a vast
country the difficulties are so great
that the returns cannot be vouched
for as absolutely correct Compared
with western countries census taking
in Russia is rather crude Prior to
1897 the census had been taken ten
times but this was to find out how
many males there were who paid or
ought to pay taxes The first census
took place as far back as 1724 when
the number of inhabitants was set
down at 14000000 in round figures
in 1897 the number was given as 129
000000 including Finland Pearsons
Weekly
Regiment on Ski
In Norway the ski is in constant use
during the winter and the ease with
which great distances can be covered
is surprising feasants are thus able
to get about their work and visit
friends in far- way districts Sports
men with gun en back and stick in
hand set out in pursuit of game on
ski and the soldiers are reduced to
this means of getting about when ex
ercising A regiment of soldiers on ski
is a sight by no means uncommon In
and around Chistiania The Traveler
Paris Gibson Honesty
Montanas new senator Paris Gib
son is a popular man in Minneapolis
Minn He started the first woolen
mill in that city but failed in the pan
ic of 1877 owing his employes nearly
10000t Soon after Gibson went to
Montana and a decade later returned
to Minneapolis and paid off every
cent pf his indebtedness with inter
est at 7 per cent
Guns of Svrlss Army
The quick firing artillery with which
the whole Swiss army is to be
equipped forthwith consists of nickel
steel guns 74 centimeters caliber fir
ing 10 shots a minute with a range of
5800 yards
fi in in
Timely Topics Intelligently Dis
cussed By Bryan
IHE0D8RE R00SEYELT ON DUTY
Something About the Prosperity of Some
Sections of the Country Prediction
- of Panic By United States
Investor Notes
Roosevelt on Duty
Tho vice president delivered a speech
a few nights ago before the Home
Market Club of Boston A perusal of
his remarks convinces one that he
shares with the president the tendency
to apply the term duty to those
things which he desires He says
l For good or for evil we now find
ourselves with new DUTIES in the
West Indies and new DUTIES beyond
the Pacific We cannot escape the per
formance of these DUTIES All we
can decide for ourselves is whether we
shall do them well or ilL
The fact that these duties were
self imposed and are clung to in spite
of the fact that they involve a violation
of American principles cuts no figure
It is all in the definition of duty Ac
cording to republican logic it is very
wrong to steal unless you find some
thing which is very valuable then
larceny becomes a duty The fact that
you may be compelled to take human
life in order to get the thing desired is
immaterial call it duty and sin be
comes a virtue
A little later on in his speech the real
secret of the Philippine policy leaks
out Mr Roosevelt says
In developing these islands it is
well to keep steadily in mind that busi
ness is one of the great levers of civili
zation It is immensely to the inter
est of the people of the islands that
their resources should be developed
and therefore it is to their interest even
more than to ours that our citizens
should develop their industries The
further fact that it is our duty to see
that the development takes place under
conditions so carefully guarded that no
wrong may come to the islanders must
not blind us to the first great fact
which is the need of development
The reasoning is complete Business
is a civilizer the Filipinos need civi
lizing and we are nothing if not business-like
Therefore it is to the inter
est of the Filipinos that we should
develop them for their good This is
strenuous life and lest some might be
restrained by conscientious scruples
the Vice President felt it necessary to
impress upon his hearers that the first
great fact is the need of develop
ment The duty to see that the de
velopment takes place under conditions
so carefully guarded that no wrong
may come to the islanders is simply a
further fact and must not blind
us to the principal thing the need
of development
Nowhere does Mr Roosevelt discuss
jthe effect of the new policy upon our
itheory of government nowhere does
he attempt to explain why a colonial
system was wrong in 1776 and right
now His whole argument can be
summed up as follows We are in the
Philippine Islands no matter how we
got there we are there whether there
for good or evil we cannot get away
Jit looks as if it were providential for
them and besides there is money in
kt for us
The President Contradicts Himself
At Decatur Alabama the president
took occasion to defend the adminis
tration against the charge that it fa
vored militarism and viewed blood and
carnage with indifference But in his
anxiety to make the defense complete
lie found it necessary to contradict
What he had said during the negotia
tions of the Paris treaty The conflict
between the speech made at Decatur
and the instructions given to the peace
commission can best be shown by pre
senting the two
Decatur Speech
We have never gone to war for con
quest for exploitation or for territory
but always for liberty and humanity
and in our recent war with Spain the
people of the whole United States as
one man marched with the flag for the
honor of the nation to relieve the op
pressed people in Cuba
Instructions
United States Peace Commission
Paris Nov 3 1898 10 a m For the
president Special After a careful
examination of the authorities the
majority of the commission are clearly
of the opinion that our demand for the
Philippine islands can not be based on
conquest Djly
Department of State Washington
Nov 3 1898 The president has re
ceived your dispatch of this date and
awaits your letter Meantime how
ever the question may ba ultimately
determined He assumes you have not
yielded the claim by right of conquest
In fact the destruction of the Spanish
fleet on May 1 was the conquest of
Manila the capital of the Philippines
Hay
Extract from- correspondence be
itween Day of the Peace Commission
and Hay Secretary of War
All the protection that arc American
Industry needs when backed by Amer
ican skill and ingenuity is protection
against the rapacity of modern jugglers
of financial stocks
A London paper calls J Pierpont
Morgan the Bonaparte of trade
Napoleons of finance have existed be
fore but the St Helena of bankruptcy
is covered with their bones
The soundness of Senator McLaurins
democracy may be measured by noting
that it is receiving the plaudits of the
men who have opposed democratic
principles all their lives
Is This Prosperity
The Philadelphia North American
in a recent issue gives a discouraging
description of the depression which
prevails in the textile trade The facts
and causes are condensed by it into tho
following brief statement
Total number of textile employes
in Philadelphia 75000
Number at steady work 30000
Number on half or three
quarter tfaoe 25000
Number idle 15000
Number unaccounted for 5000
causes of depression
1 Overproduction during prosperity
2 Underconsumption due to- low
low wages
3 The war in China
4 Competition of substitute com
modities
5 Change in styles
G Change in centers of textile in
dustry
If we had a low tariff protectionists
would recommend a high tariff as a
remedy if we had bimetalism the gold
standard would be proposed as a pana
cea but as we have a high tariff and a
gold standard this depression will be
explained as one of those natural and
necessary conditions which cannot be
prevented by foresight or remedied by
legislation It comes too at a time
when the stock markets are booming
and when the speculators are boasting
that railroad stocks have gained more
than flve hundred millions in market
value within a few months
The North American gives interviews
with employers and employes Here is
a sample from each side John Hamil
ton proprietor of the Montgomery car-
pet mills says
This thing is all a scare The busi
ness is bad for some and other manu
facturers are running about the same
as usual We are running short hand
ed but that is because it is the end of
our season The talk about people
starving is only the vaporings of labor
agitators There is no necessity for
people starving If they cant find
work in the textile trades let them get
to work at something else I have no
reason to offer for the depression be
cause there is no depression I
Mr Hamilton is not worrying about
the lack of employment or the lack of
food complained of by some of the
others It is evident that his salary is
paid regularly
Edward Thornton business agent of
the allied textile trades is quoted as
saying
The busy season so long expected
has not come Since November there
has been no season at all In the up
holstery trade not seventy five per cent
of the thirty two mills are running on
anything like full time A weaver in
this line of work could make S13 a
week but now the most skillful barely
average 5 a week The weavers can
make a fair wage as long as there is
work but the periods of idleness are
disastrous There has been a great
overproduction and a tendency to lower
the quality of the goods manufactured
The tariff on wool has played havoo
with the ingrain trade and has created
a field for Japanese and Chinese mat
tings In fact people are not buying
carpets as they did at one time As yet
there have been few appeals for help
but this will come later if the depres
sion continues Our men are living on
credit to a great extent but this if
bound to end
Predicting Panic
A marked degree of pessimism con
cerning business conditions is notice
able in many republican papers This
is particularly true of great financial
journals The United States Investor
financial publica
one of the leading
tions appears to be particularly blue
The Investor points out that the condi
tions at present are very similar to the
conditions of 1893 immediately prior
to the great panic of that year It says
The whole industrial and financial
structure in this country may be liken
ed to a man in mid air on a tight rope
and it adds that the conditions might
very well suggest to Wall Street the
Advisability of getting things in snug
condition
The United States Investor informs
us that trusts are the agency which
will produce the next panic in this
country and the Investor is of tho
opinion toat the wreck will equal any
that have preceded it How does it
happen then that the financial jour
nals like the Investor that were so
anxious for the repeal of the purch
ing clause of the Sherman law that
were so bitterly antagonistic to any
thing in the form of bimetallism that
held out to us such alluring promises
if we would but adopt the single gold
standard how does it happen that
these publications have no word of pro
test to utter against the system which
they now openly declare will be re
sponsible for a disastrous panic When
they thought or pretended to thins
that silver was responsible for our ills
they didnt hesitate to speak out When
they thought or pretended to think
that the prospect of bimetallism aggra
vated our conditions they did not hesi
tate to protest against bimetallism
When they thought that the single
gold standard would provide a remedy
for our financial evils they did not hes
itate to urge the application of that
remedy How does it happen that at
this moment they are content with
making dire predictions as to the re
sult of the trust system without enter
ing any protest against the encourage
ment of that system
The North American is a republican
paper and is owned by a son of exf
Postmaster General Wanamaker Its
portrayal of the industrial situation in
one of the great trade centers will be
profitable reading for those republicans
who believe that universal prosperity
is the constant and necessary attend
ant of a republican administration
Scientists are trying to frighten the
people by predicting the exhaustion
of the fuel supply but it has no effect
on Messrs Carnegie Morgan and Rock
efeller They have money to burn
ROOT MAKES MS REPORT
Sovereign Commander Woodmen of the
World Gives Years Resume
COLUMBUS 0 May 15 The fourth
biennial encampment of the Sovereign
camp Woodmen of the World con
vened here today with Sovereign Com
mander Root of Omaha presiding Del
egates representing twenty one states
are present The session will con
tinue for a week
After the delegates had been called
to order addresses of welcome were
made by Secretary of Slate Laylin
who represented Governor Nash now
In California Mayor Hinkle and Sec
retary of Board of Trade Bassell Re
sponses were made by Sovereign Bank
er Sheppard of Texarkana Tex and
Sov Advocate T A Fallenbark of
Denver Following the open session
secret work was taken up
The report of Sov Commander J
C Root of Omaha showed that the
order now has a membership of about
250000 in nearly 4500 camps in the
United States and Canada The rec
ommendations in the report will not
be made public until it goe3 to the
committee on officers reports and has
been acted upon
The supreme forest Woodmen Cir
cle an auxiliary organization also
convened here today Mrs Emma B
Manchester of Omaha supreme guard
ian presiding The report of the su
preme clerK J G Kuhn of Omaha
showed the membership of the Circle
had increased from 5260 to nearly 15
000 in two years
NO CHANCE fOR NEBRASKA
This State Baa Complete Representa
tion at West Point
OMAHA May 16 A number of ap
plications have been filed with Sen
ator Millard by young Nebraskans
who have an ambition to become of
ficers in the regular army The West
Point cadetships are filled however
with no chance of imedlata vacancy
and Senator Millard can give the as
pirants no encouragement The ca
dets appointed by Senators Thurston
and Allen will not graduate until 1904
and 1905 and until these years no other
appointment can be made From
present reports the Nebraska cadets
are doing good work and there is little
prospect that they will fail in their
examination or for any other reason
leave the military school before the
completion of their course
In a recent letter on the subject Ad
jutant General Corbin said There
will be no vacancies for the admission
of senatorial candidates from Nebras
ka until the cadets now representing
that state at large shall have left thev
military academy One of these wilL
not graduate until June 1904 and the
other in June 1905
CATCH AMERICAN BRIGANDS
Manila Police Take Leaders of Band of
Canning Murderers
MANILA May 15 Detectives and
the police have broken up a band of
American brigands who have been
operating in the province of Pmpan
ga north of and not far from Ma
nila George Raymond TJlrich Rog
ers and Oscar Mushmiller have been
captured and Andrew Martin Peter
Heise George Muhn and two others
are still being pursued
The band committed murders and
other outrages at Baeolor Pampanga
province and in that vicinity Sun
day last they killed Henry Dow an
American The band sometimes rep
resented themselves as American de
serters and at others as American sol
diers George Raymond wore the uni
form of a captain Raymond and
Martin were formely policemen at Ma
nila
tabor Troubles at Albany
ALBANY N Y May 15 A thou
sand National Guardsmen and 100
v
mounted men will occupy Albany
streets today and attempt to force a
riotous crowd to let the cars of the
United Traction company run with
non union men The Twenty third
regiment of Brooklyn the Tenth bat
talion of Albany and the Third Sig
nal corps will make up the comple
ment of men They will be reinforced
by 200 special deputies 300 policemen
and over 100 Pinkerton detectives
Mrs Nation Fonnd Gnilty
TOPEKA Kan May 15 The jury
in the case of Mrs Carrie Nation
charged with joint smashing this
evening returned a verdict of guilty
The trial Was before the district court
and sentenced will be pronounced to
morrow morning It is the general im
pression that she will be released on
the payment of a fine and costs -
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Order Three Warships Home
WASHINGTON May 15 The navy
department sent orders to Rear Ad-
miral Kempff acting commander of
the Asiatic station to send home the
ships Concord Marietta and Castine
during the latter part of the summer
This is in pursuance of the policy an
nounced some time ago of reducing
the naval strength in the east The
Bennington Petrel Oregon Newark
and Brutus already have been ordered
home
