THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY. DECEMUkk so, lyii.
Cuban Interests
Oppose Fordney
Tariff on Sugar
Spokesman for Industry ia
United States Tell of Bene
fits From Protecting '
Producers.
Washington, lc. 19. Extended
argument for and against retention
of the present temporary duty of 1.6
i cent a pound on Cuban raw sugar
were presented today to senate tariff
frameri.
Spokesmen for American sugar
companies operating in Cuba declared
that the rate would prevent rehabi
tation of the industry there, hile rep
resentative of ' the beet sugar in
dustry in this country asserted a re
turn to the Underwood rate of 1
cent a pound would prevent develop
ment of that industry, if it did not
destroy it. ' .
Those representing American com
panies in Cuba declared that more
than a mere tarilT question was in
volved; that the rehabilitation of
Cuba depended upon the sugar in;
dustry and that the United States
was morally bound to aid that coun
try. They also argued that, there was
$1,000,000,000 of American capital
invested in the Cuban industry as
against $200,000,000 in the industry
in this country. ,
Highest In 30 Years.
It was argued that the duty pro
posed to be made "perinament" by
the Fordney bill was the highest in
30 years and that it represented a
tax of $162,000,000 annually on the
American people, $81,000,000 of which
would go to American sugar pro
ducers. Attention was also called by
witnesses that Cuba imported last
year $515,000,000 worth of American
products and that since the economic
life of the island depended on its
sugar crop, much of this trade would
be lost unless the United States help
ed rehabilitate the Cuban sugar in
dustry.' ' 1 '
Finally it was argued that the
clause in the Fordney bill permitting
American refineries to import at
three-fourths of the normal duty two
pounds of sugar for each pound of
domestic sugar refined from beets or
cane was a violation of the spirit, if
not the letter of the reciprocity treaty
with Cuba giving a preferential rate
of 20 per cent below the full rate on
imports from that country. .
It also was contended that this was
a discrimination in' favor of certain
American interests and injurious to
others. " '.
: Smoot Defends Plan.
Senator Smoot, republican, Utah,
took exception to many of the statej
nients of the witnesses presenting the
case for the American companies, H
declared conditions in Cuba were no
worse than those in this country and
announced that he favored the protec
tion of American capital invested in
this country as against American cap
ital invested in other countries.
Spokesmen for the industry in the
United States testified that, the beet
sugar industry has been developed in
17 states; that there was invested in
it $200,000,000, with 95 factofies. It
is now producing annually 1,000,000
tons of sugar( or nearly one-fourth
of the domestic consumption, and is
reclaiming waste land because the
beets will grow where other produce
will not. The acreage now is 880,
000 and the farmers raising the crop
number 100,000, who give employ
ment to an additional 85,000. .
Given proper protection, the wit
nesses argued, the industry would
expand where it would supply most
of the domestic demand and in case
of war make the country independent
of foreign countries. It also was
contended that the raising of beets
improved farm lands.
. As to the tax on the people repre
sented in the duty, it was contended
that this amounted to only $1.44 for
each inhabitant each year and that
the industry was worth such an ex
penditure. Picture Worth 500,000
Francs Awaits Owner
Paris, Dec. 18. No one has so far
claimed the picture, said to be a Paul
Veronese, which has been for some
years waiting to be called for in the
lost property office at Paris. The
:anvas was Drought in curing tne
war by a soldier who seemed to have
met it by accident on his route, and
although the legal delay imposed on
objects found has long since expired,
the man has not returned to claim
what is now his own property. A
. value of 500,000 francs has been set
' on the work, which looks decided'
out of place among the umbrellas anil
bags and .capes and other miscellan
eous property left by absent-minded
people on." the public highway or in
public vehicles. For a Paul Veronese
to go begging is a piquant incident
' in the history of old masters, yet
that seems to be the case with this
mysteriously lost and acquired pic
ture at the prefecture of police of
Paris.
Construction of New State
Capitol to Be Begun in June
A Lincoln. Dec. 19. (Special.)
Construction on Nebraska's $5,000,
,000 capitol building will start by
the middle of June, Governor Mc
Kelvie said today on his return from
a conference of the state capitol com
; mission with Mr. Goodhue, the archi-
tect, in New York City.
The governor said the state will
save about $250,000 by eliminating
the contractors' "cuts" by awarding
. contracts directly for the various
kinds of work instead of giving one
contractor the whole job and letting
him award the subcontracts.
Advertising- for bids will start
next month.
Widely-Known Theatrical
Manager Dies Suddenly
Chicago. Dec 19 John C Fisher,
widely known theatrical manager.
- died suddenly yesterday when about
to leave for Pittsburgh. He was with
his company, the Irish Players, and
had just concluded five weeks' en-
; itagement He was one of the pro
ducers of "Florodora." which netted
its owners nearly $1,000,000.
Ratifications Exchanged
Paris. Dec. 19. The exchange of
ratifications of the peace treaty be
tween the United States and Hon
( pry took place yesterday, accord
ant; to a, Budapest dispatch.
By RUBY AYRES.
(CaallnOMl rrant tfaturdar.)
The Fortune Hunter had made a
swift movement to stop Anne's im
pulsive action, but lie was too late;
the little rinif went zigzagging down
into the clear, stilt water, and disap
peared into the dark rushes in the
bed of the river.
Anne looked tip into his white
face and laughed, though there were
tears tit her eyes,
"I never believed I could do a
thing like that!" she said. "Cut now
I'm glad it's gone! I'm glad it's
irone!" '
"And some day," the Fortune
Hunter said grimly, "some day you
will throw me out of your life in
the same way."
Her face named into passion.
"And if I do," she cried, "wllose
fault will it be? Why, yours, yours
only"
"Perhaps yours, a little as well,"
he answered her. "You've judged
me unheard."
She. turned round, looking1 up at
him directly as he stood behind her,
the water dripping from the punt
pole, which he had taken up again.
"Unheard I she echoed bitterly.
"When I have begged you, and beg
ged you, to tell me the truth I What
ever it is! However, bad it is! Even
if it's that that you find you don't
care any more now you've come
home."
He gave a little stifled cry of pro
test, but she went on ruthlessly:
"I'll tell you something now
something that I meant to keep to
myself, because I hoped I was fool
ish enough to hope that you would
tell me about it yourself if I waited!
But now I know you never will, and
so it's just this that day you went
to London I know why you went. I
know whom you met, and so that's
why I threw your ring away."
The Fortune Hunter cried out
fiercely:
"Foster told you! The sneaking
hound. He came back here and
told you "
She closed her eyes for a second
as if in actual physical pain. "It was
the truth, then! You did go to
meet a woman!"
"I did! I'm not denying it, but
it was for a very different reason
to the one you are thinking.Anne
I swear to you"
"You swore to me once before
that her photograph was not yours,"
she said faintly. "That you did not
even know her."
"It was the truth! If I could only
explain everything " She gave a
cold little laugh.
"It would make no difference. I
shall never believe anything you tell
me now!
The sunshine had clouded over,
and a few drops of rain began to
splash heavily down. The punt had
drifted out into midstream again,
and there was no shelter at hand.
The Fortune Hunter picked up his
coat and put it around Anne's shoul
ders. "You'll get wet oil, my coat
won't hurt you!" he broke out iron
ically, as she protested.
She submitted then and held it
closely around her shoulders. A
cool breeze had come up with the
rain clouds, and the face of the riv
er was ruffled.
"It looks like lasting," the For
tune Hunter said, glancing up at
the sky. "Shall I make for liome?
"I don't think it will be much
if you get under the bank the trees
will shelter us."
She did not want to go back to
the house; there was a kind of fore
boding to her heart that this was
to be one of the few hours when she
would have this man to herself. Al
though she guessed nothing of the
real tragedy between them, instinct
told her that the end of yet another
dream was near, and, woman-like,
she clung to it tenaciously.
There was a faint scent of tobac
co smoke' clinging to the coat he
had put around her shoulders, and
the touch of its rough . surface
against her throat reminded her of
that night in the garden after the
Fortune Hunter came home, when
he had 4 taken her in his arms for
the first time She thpught of her
own words to him: "Now I am quite,
quite, happy!"
How foolish 1 when surely nobody
in the w'orld was ever quite happy.
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The Fortune Hunter had turned
the punt about, and was making for
the bank where the trees drooped
over the river with thick sheltering
branches. The leaves were falling al
rady, and the bosom of the water
was strewn with twin, creeii, brown
and yellow, like little Uiry boats.
"And so FoMer told you he saw
me in London," the Fortune Hunter
said after a moment, dryly. "Very
k nd of him, I m sure! Had he any
othrr interesting news to impart at
the same time?
She did not answer, but her si'
lencc was eloquent, for lie broke out
again presently
"Did he tell you some cock-and
bull story that he had seen me a year
ago, in an rrancisco, running a
gaming .saloon? .He told it to me
most eloquently. I fjrant him that!"
he laughted hardily. "No doubt it
was easy enough to convince you
that he spoke the truth) Via lie ten
vou that. Anne"
"And if he did" she broke out
tremulously. "I suppose you are
not going to deny th.t a g truer lie
shrugged his shoulders,
"Why should I deny anything,
when you have told me already that
you will not believe a word I say?"
Jle ran the punt alongside the bank
and sprang ashore, securing the
mooring rope to a tree stump.
' The rain had not increased at all,
and as yet the leaves overhead af
forded an efficient shelter.
The Fortune Hunter lit a cigaret
and sat down on the tree stump, his
eyes on Anncs face, and once again
ths burning desire to take Garry
Cannon's advice and tell her the
truth rushed through him.
Would she believe him and, what
mattered more greatly, would she
forgive him? Her pretty face
seemed1 to have lost something of
its soft childishness, he thought
with a pang, to have grown thinner
and harder. She shivered a little,
and he rose hurriedly and piled the
cushions more cjosely around her.
"We'll go back as soon as the rain
stops," he said. "You ought to have
brought a coat. I'm afraid you will
take cold."
"Thank you, I am not cold."
There was a little silence, and
the Fortune Hunter looked away
down the gray, deserted river and
wondered how many times in the
future he would think of these days
and long for them to come again.
"Is that Fernie's cottage on the
opposite bank?" he asked suddenly.
He pointed across the stream to a
small white-washed house with a
crooked chimney, standing by itself
at the end of a waterway.
"Yes" Anne followed his gaze
"yes, that's Long-End cottage."
The Fortune Hunter ' rose and
came to stand beside the punt.
"It's raining harder than ever. I
think the best thing we can do is
to cross the river and ask him to
give us shelter." He glanced up.
"The rain is coming through the
leaves now."
He began to unfasten the mooring
Cope, but Anne cried out in protest:
I will not go over there. X would
rather get wet. I hate Fernie and
I will not go into his house."
"If we stay here we shall be
drenched to the skin look at the
rain now." The river was a mass
of bubbles, raindrops dancing up and
down like mischievous sprites. He
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threw the rope into the punt and
followed it, pushing off from the
bank determinedly.
"I will not go into Fernie' house,'
Anne said again, excitedly. "John-
please, I beg of you."
But he was already pushing out
Into mid-stream strongly; the rain
was pouring down now, and after
a moment lifts thin shirt and bare
arms were running with water.
Anne glanced at him and said no
more, but she kept her eyes fixed
apprehensively ahead to where the
smoke trom the crooked cnimney ot
Long-end cottage curled up into the
gray sky,
"I am sorry to disobey you," the
Fortune Hunter said after a mo
ment. "But it's madness to stay
under those trees; you'll take your
death of cold."
She laughed. "If I did, you
would be free then." v
The Fortune Hunter made no an
swer; he, too, was looking towards
the cottage. lie was conscious of a
queer sort of eagerness to meet
Fernie again; he was curious to see
what sort of a home the man had,
and what greeting he would give
them. . . . , . .
As they neared the-opposite bank
they saw that Fernie was standing
at the open door, his slouched hat
pulled down over his eyes as usual,
smoking placidly.
He wstched them without mov
ing, until the punt entered the
waterway leading up past his cot
tage; then he knocked the ashes
from his pipe and sauntered leis
urely down to the bank.
"A sudden shower," he said: he
made a clumsy sort of attempt to
raise his hat to Anne. "You're wel
come to come in, Miss Harding,
and shelter."
'There's really no need," she an
swered hurriedly. "We're so wet
now that we might as well go
straight home."
You re welcome, and I ve got a
fire in the kitchen," was his only
answer.
The Fortune Hunter was already
on the bank, and he held out his
hand to help Anne ashore. Her
fingers felt cold in his, and he kept
them in his hand for a moment till
she drew them away.
"Is the rain going to last, do you
think?" the Fortune Hunter asked of
Fernie as thev went ud to the cot
tage together.
Shouldn t be surprised: the
wind's in the right quarter." was the
laconic answer. He went ahead of
them and opened the door wider:
he seemed to be deliberately avoid
ing the Fortune Hunter's eyes.
'It's a small place, but you'll find
it clean," he said in the same dis
interested fashion.
It was a diminutive kitchen, with
a bright fire burning in the erate
and a chair drawn up close to it.
Anne, looking around with appre
hensive eyes, noticed the orderly
array of china on the dresser and
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shades to match; cut fclass dome
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Move pockets at sides of rear seat;
jeweled 8-day clock; magnetic
speedometer on ebony-finished in
strument board; collapsible steer
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headlights; artistic coach lamps;
three piece rain-vision windshield;
windshield wiper; adjustable venti
lator in cowl.
jlMjKr Suppose you come in and see this car today. f-7VS
Then, if you wish it, we'll be &lad to co- A L
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the frcthly scrubbed floor, and she
felt vaguely surprised.
'Tull up to the lire, M is llurdinc.
and warm yourself," Fernie .iid
more affably, as she shivered; for
the first time he looked at the For
tune Hunter, and added, hesitatingly:
"I don't know that I can offer you
a change of clothes, Mr Smith"
his eyes scanned the Fortune Hunt
er's wet shirt. "Hut, perhaps you're
used to weather of all sorts," lie
added.
"I am! Weather never troubles
mel" the Fortune Hunter answered
He shook the rain drops from his
hair, and dried his wet arms on his
handkerchief.
A sudden gust of rain had lashed
the window, and, glancing out, he
saw that the river was blurred and
almost hidden from view in driving
mist. "We could have been almost
home by now," Anne said ungra
ciously, though in her heart she was
grateful for the warmth and shelter.
She leaned forward, holding her
hands to the flames, her eyes still
wandering curiously around her. j
ihcre were none' of the many
curiog visible, of which Tommy had
spoken so often with such enthusi
asm. The kitchen was almost bare
in its tidiness. An old print of the
balaclava Lharec nunc over the hieh
mantelshelf, on which stood a clock
and a couple of pewter mmrs. one
of them filled with paper spills.
Mie asked an impulsive question.
"Who docs you work for you, Mr.
Fernie?"
"My work? Do you mean who
cleans, the cottage, Miss Harding?
Well, I clean it myself, every bit of
it! and do my own cooking, . too!
And I dare say that's more than
you can do, Mr. Smith," lie added,
looking up at the Fortune Hunter
"Oh, I've cooked many a meal in
my time' the Fortune Hunter an
swered, laughing. "And scrubbed
the floor of many a shack, too. I
remember when I was in Frisco"
He broke off, as Anne turned and
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looked up at him, the color rising to
her face.
"Oh. so you have been in 'Frisco,
thru, after all?" she said slowly,
(t'uiitlniird In Tli lie loinurruw,)
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his faith to "stop your ears to pagan
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, from your homes as you would an
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"Children," the pastoral read,
troops down from heaven because
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law of n.ituri a fiverl hv rli ft it.
na! decree of God himself."
He described divorce as "a nation
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