SERIAL
STORY
Eleanor M. Ingram
Author of
The Game and the Candle"
Illtutration By
RJY WALTERS
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SYNOPSIS.
The story opens on Ixjng Inland, nar
Nw York city, wlierw MIkh Ernlly
Ffrnch, a relative of Ethan Ffrench,
manufacturer of th celebrated M
oury" automobile, loses her way. The
car haa slopped ami lier couuln, Dick
Ffrench, Id too muddled with drink to
direct It aright. They meet another car
which la run by a profeaHlonal rac
named IstranKe. The latter nxes up
ths Jfrench car and directs Midi b french
how to proceed homeward. Ethan
Ffrsnch has dlHlnhcrlted his son, who
haa dlHHiipcared. lie lnforma Emily
plainly that he would like to have her
marry llck, who Is a (food-natured but
Irresponsible fellow, it appears that
partner of Kthan Kfrenr-h wanting an ex
pert to race wllh the "Mercury" at auto
evsnts, has enRaed IiCHtrantfe, and at
the Ffrench factory Knilly tneuunleis the
young- man. They refer pleasantly to
their meeting when Dick comes alonK and
recognises the young racer. lJlck likes
the way JyostrariKe iKnores their lira
mestlnic when he appeared to a dlsad
vantage. l.itranKe tells Ktnlly that he
will try to educate her Indifferent cousin
as an automobile expert. jmck under
takes his business schooling under the
tutelage of T.eslrane. IHck is sheer Krlt,
and In making a tent race meets wllh
an accident. Ijestrange meets Emily In
the moonlit garden of the Ffrench home.
Under an Impulse he cannot control he
kisses her and she leaves him, confessing
In her own heart that she returns his
love.
CHAPTER VII. (Continued).
"I thought there was to be no more
trouble," she faltered, distressed.
Lestrange looked down at her stead
ily, his gray eyes darkening to an ex
pression she had never seen.
"Have I no right?" was his question.
"Is there no canceling of a claim, Is
there no subsequent freedom? Is It
all no use, Emily?"
Vaguely awed and frightened, her
fingers tightened on his arm in a
panic of surrender.
"I will come to you, I will come!
You know best what Is right I trust
you to tell me. Forgive me, dear, I
wanted to "
He silenced ber, all the light flash
ing back to his face.
"A promise; hush! Oh, I shall win
tonight with that singing In my ears.
I have more to say to you, but not
now. I must see Bailey, somehow, be
fore I go."
"He Is at the house; let me send
him here to you."
"If you come back with him."
They laughed together.
"I will Do you know," her color
deepened rosily, "they call you
'Darling;' I have never heard your
own name."
"My name la David," Lestrange said
quietly, and kissed her for farewell.
The earth dunced under Emily's feet
as she ran across the lawns, the sun
glowed warm, the brook tinkled over
tho cascades In a very madness of
mirth. At the head of the veranda
stepB she turned to look once more
at the roof of the white pavilion
among the locust treeB.
"Uncle will like you when he knows
you," she laughed In her hoart "Any
one must like you."
The servant she met In the hall said
that Mr. Itallcy had gone out, and
Mr. Ffrench, also, but separately, the
former having taken the short route
across toward the factory. That way
Kmlly went In pursuit, Intending to
overtake him with her pony cart.
But upon reaching the stables, past
which the path ran, she found rialley
himself engaged In an Inspection of
the limousine In company with the
chauffeur.
"You'll have to look Into her differ
ential, Anderson," he was pronounc
ing, when the young girl came beside
him.
"Come, please." Bhe urged breath
lessly. "Come?" repeated Halley, wheeling,
with his slow, lienevoleut smile. "8ure,
Miss Emily; whore?"
She shook her head, not replying un
til they were safely outside; then:
"To Mr. LostraiiKe; he Is In the pa
vilion. He wants to see you."
"To Lrstrange!" he almost shouted,
halting. Lestrange here?"
"Yes. There Is time; he says there
la time. He Is going back as soon as
be sees you."
"Hut whafs he doing here? What
does he mean by risking his neck
without any practice."
"He came to see me," she whla
pered, and stood confessed.
"God!" said Uailoy, quite reverently,
after a moment of speechless stupe
faction. "You. and him!"
She lifted confiding eyes to him,
moving nearer.
"It is a secret, but I wanted you to
know because you like us both. Dick
said you loved Mr. Lestrange."
"Yes." was the dazed assent.
"Well, then Hut come, he is
waiting."
She was sufficiently unlike the usual
Miss Ffrench to bewilder any one.
Bailey dumbly followed bar aaroaa
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the park, carrying his hat in Ills
hand.
A short distance from the pavilion
Emily stopped abruptly, turning a
startled face to her companion.
"Some one la there," she said.
"Some one Is speaking. I forgot that
Uncle Ethan had gone out."
She heard Bailey catch bis breath
oddly. Her own pulses began to beat
with heavy irregularity, as a few steps
farther brought the two opposite the
open arcade. There they halted
frozen.
In the place Emily had left, where
all her feminine toys still lay, Mr.
Ffrench was seated as one exhausted
by the force of overmastering emo
tion; his bands clenched on the arms
of the chair; his face drawn with pas
sion. Opposite him stood Lestrange,
colorless and still as Emily had never
conceived him, listening in absolute
silence to the bitter address pouring
from the other's lips wllh a low-toned
violence Indescribable.
"I told you then, never again to
come here," first fell upon Emlly'B
conscious hearing. "I supposed you
were at least Ffrench enough to take
a dismissal. What do you want here,
money? I warned you to live upon
the allowance sent every month to
your bankers, for I would pay no more
even to escape the Intolerable dis
grace of your presence here. Did you
Imagine me so deserted that I would
accept even you as a successor?
Wrong; you are not missed. My
nephew Richard takes your place, and
Is fit to take It. Go back to Europe
and your low-born wife; there Is no
lack In my household."
The voice broke In an excess of sav
age triumph, and Lestrange took the
pause without movement or gesture.
"I am going, sir, and I shall never
come back," he answered, never more
quietly. "I can take a dismissal, yes.
If ever I have wished peace or hoped
for an accord that never existed be
tween us, I go cured of such folly.
But hear this much, since I am ar
raigned at your bar: I have never
yet disgraced your name or mine un
less by the boy's mischief which sent
me from college. The money you
speak of, I have never used; ask
Bailey of It, If you will." He hesitat
ed, and In the empty moment there
came across the mile of June air
the roaring noon whistle of the fac
tory. Involuntarily he turned his head
toward the call, but as Instantly re
covered himself from the self-betrayal.
"There Is another matter to be
arranged, but there Is no time now.
Nor even In concluding It will I ever
come here again, sir."
There was that in his bearing, In
the dignified carefulness of courtesy
with which he Baluted the other before
turning to go, that checked even Eth
an Ffrench. But as Lestrange crossed
the threshold of the little building,
Emily ran from the thicket to meet
him, her eyes a dark Bplendor In her
white face, her hands outstretched.
"Not like this!" she panted. "Not
without seeing me! Oh, I might have
guessed "
His vivid color and animation re
turned as he caught her 'to him, heed
less of witnesses.
'You dare? My dear, my dear, not
even a question? there is no one
Then But Come,
Waiting."
like you. Say, shall I take you now,
or send Dick for you after the race?"
Mr. Ffrench exclaimed some Inartic
ulate words, but neither heard him.
"Send Dick," Emily answered, her
eyes on the gray eyes above her.
"Send Dick I understand, I will
come."
He kissed her once, then she drew
back and he went down the terrace
tow ard the gates. As Emily sank down
on the bench by the pavilion door,
Halley brushed past her, running after
the straight, lithe figure that went
steadily on out of sight among the
huge trees planted and tended by five
generations of Ffrenches.
When the vistas of the rark were
empty, Emily slowly turned to face
her uncle.
"You love David Ffrench?" he asked,
his voice thin and harsh.
"Yea," she answered. She had no
need to ask If Lestrange were meant
"He Is married to some woman of
the music halls."
"No."
"How do you know? He has told
you?"
She lifted to him the auperby confi
dence of her glance, although nervous
tremors shook her In wavelike suc
cession. "If he had been married, he would
not have made me care for him. He
haa asked me to be his wife."
They were equally strange to each
other In these new characters, and
equally spent by emotion. Neither
moving, they sat opoalte each other
In silence. 60 Bailey found them
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111
"Well,
when he came back later, to take bis
massive stand in the doorway, his
bands In bis pockets and bla strong
Jaw set
"I think that things are kind of
mixed up here, Mr. Ffrench," he stated
grimly. "I guess I'm the one to
straighten them out a bit; I've loved
Mr. David from the time he was a kid
and never saw him get a square deal
yet. You asked him what he was do
ing here I'll tell you; be la La-
strange."
there Is a degree of amazement
which precludes speech; Mr. Ffrench
looked back at his partner, mute.
"He Is Lestrange. He never meant
you to know; be'd have left without
your ever knowing, but for Miss Em
lly. I guess I don't need to remind
you of what he's done; If It hadn't
been for him we might have closed
our doors some day. He understands
the business as none of us back-num
ber, old-fashioned ones do; be took
hold and shook some life into it. We
can make cars, but he can make peo
ple buy them. Advertising! Why
Just that fool picture he drew on the
back of a pad, one day, of a row ol
thermometers up to one hundred
forty, with the sign 'Mercuries are at
the top,' made more people notice.1
Bailey cleared his throat. "He was
always making people notice, and
laughing while he did it. He's risked
his neck on every course going, to
bring our cars in first, he's lent his
fame as a racing driver to help us
along. And now everything la fixed
the way we want, he's thrown out.
What did he do it for? He thought
he needed to square accounts with
you, tor being born, I suppose; so
when he heard how things were going
with us he came to me and offered his
help. At least, that's what he said
I believe he came because he couldn't
bear to see the old place go under."
There was a skein of blue silk
swinging over the edge of the table.
Mr. Ffrench picked it up and replaced
It In Emily's work basket before re
plying.
"If this remarkable story la true,"
he began, accurately precise In ac
cent.
You don't need me to tell you li
is, retorted Bailey. "You know
what my new manager's been doing;
why, you disliked htm without aeelng
him, but you had to admit his good
work. And I heard you talking
about his allowance, Mr. Ffrench. He
never touched It, not from the first;
It piled up for six years. Last April,
when we needed cash In a hurry, he
drew It out and gave It to me to buy
aluminum. When he left here first be
drove a taxlcab In New York city un
til he got Into racing work and made
Darling Lestrange famous all over the
continent. I guess It went pretty hard
for a while; If he'd been the things
you called him, he'd have gone to the
devil alone In New York. Bfr -he
didn't."
An oriole darted In one arcade and
out again with a musical whir of
wings. The clink of glass and silver
sounded from the house windows with
pleasant cheerlness and suggestion
of comfort and plenty.
'He made good," Bailey concluded,
thoughtfully. "But It sounded queer
to me to hear you tell him you didn't
want him around because Mr. Dick
took his place. I know, and Miss Em
ily knows, that Dick Ffrench was no
UBe on earth for any place until Mr
David took htm In hand and made him
fit to live. That's all, I guess, that
I bad to say; I'll get back to work."
He turned, but paused to glance
around. "It's going to be pretty dull
at the factory for me. And between
us we've Bent Lestrange to the track
with a nice set of nerves."
His retreating footsteps died away
to leave the noon hush unbroken. As
before, uncle and niece were left op
posite each other, the crumpled news
paper where Lestrange's name showed
In heavy type lying on the floor be
tween them.
The effect of Bailey's final sentence
had been to leave Emily dizzied by
apprehension. But when Mr. Ffrench
rose and passed out, she aroused to
look up at him eagerly.
"Uncle," she faltered.
Disregarding or unseeing her out
stretched hand, he went on and left
her there alone. And then Emily dared
rescue the newspaper.
"A substitute," she whispered. "A
substitute," and laid ber wet cheek
agalnBt the pictured driver.
No one lunched at the Ffrench
home that day, except the servants
Near three o'clock In the afternoon
Mr. Ffrench came back to the pavilion
where Emily still sat.
"Go change your gown," he com
manded. In his usual tone. "We will
start now. I have sent for Bailey and
ordered Anderson to bring the auto
mobile." "Start?" Bhe wondered, bewildered.
He met her gaze with a stately re
pellence of comment.
"For the Beach. I understand this
race lasts twenty-four hours. Have
you any objection?"
Objection to being near David! Em
ily sprang to her feet.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Wholesale Burning of Books.
The French should win. Edmund
Gosse's commendation for the whole
sale manner In which they have de
stroyed books. They have even gone
to the extent of coining a special
word, "blbllolytie to donate "la de
struction volontalre des Uvres." The
greatest date in the annals of blbllo
lytie is 1790, when church property
was confiscated by the revolutionary
government. During that year. In
I'arls alone. ?0S.i:0 volumes taken
from monasteries and convents were
burned, and throughout the whole
country the total destroyed u said to
have amounted to 4.191.40A.
PRICE-FIXING TO BE TESTED
Suit Is Begun Against Breakfast
Food Concern.
Detroit The Kellogg Toasted Com
Flake company is alleged to be violat
ing the Sherman law in a petition in
equity filed in the United Mates di
trict court here by order of Attorney-
General Wickersham to settle for all
time the extent to which a manufac
turer can control retail prices.
The company and its officers, en
gaged in the manufacture of Kellogg's
toasted corn flakes, are charged with
fixing prices at which the flakes are
sold to retailer and consumer, prevent
ing competition which would reduce
the price to the public and creating a
monopoly by concentrating the entire
interstate traffic in this commodity in
the hands of jobbers and retailers who
abide by price agreements exacted by
the defendants. It is alleged that the
defendants have invoked the patent
laws through the use of a patented
carton in which the flakes are packed
as a mere "subterfuge and device" to
escape the provisions of the Sherman
law.
The government asks for injunc
tions to prevent the company, its ofn
cers and agents from controlling the
price of the breakfast food after i
leaves the hands of the manufacturer,
The suit is regarded by Jthe govern
ment as of vast importance because of
its bearing on the right of a manufac
turer to control prices to the consum
er. It is alleged that the company
sells only to jobbers, refusing abso
lutely to deal directly with the con
sumers or with the retail trade. The
commodity, according to the petition.
is sold to jobbers at a uniform price,
under an agreement that the jobbers
will sell to retailers at a price fixed by
the defendants. J. he defendants are
charged with strictly enforcing the
agreement of sale by absolutely refus
ing to deal with any jobber who fails
to maintain the specified price.
MEXICAN SHOPMEN STRIKE
Higher Wages and Shorter Hours
Demanded by 7000.
Laredo, Tex. Seven thousand shop
employes of the National Railway of
Mexico struck t riday because of the
refusal of the management to grant an
eight-hour day and an increase in
wages. The strike was called simul
taneously at Nuevo Laredo, San Luis
Potosi, Mexico City and Aguas Cal-
ientes. At Nuevo Laredo 100 skilled
mechanics and 100 other employes
walked out. The shops are closed.
Because of the demoralized condi
tion along the line of the railway as
the result of the rebel activity the
strike has caused the greatest concern.
Railroad officials refuse to discuss the
situation beyond saying that the strike
will not cause a tieup of the lines and
that they believe regular train service
can be maintained.
At several points bridges and sta
tions have been burned by the revolu
tionists and long stretches of roadbed
destroyed.
The employes presented their de
mands some weeks ago with an ulti
matum that if they were not acceded
to, a strike would be called before the
end of the year. No intimation had
been given that Friday was selected as
the date of the walkout.
Admiral Dewey Young- at 75.
Washington, D. C. Admiral'George
Dewey, hero of the battle of Manila
Bay. Thursday celebrated quietly his
75th birthday. The veteran sea fight
er said he never felt better in his life,
and friends who called to congratulate
him on the anniversary of his birthday
declared that he looked like an en
sign." The admiral attributed his
splendid condition to constant riding
and to the further fact that he keeps
away from midnight banquets. He
said that he abandoned attending ban
quets long ago.
"So should any man," he declared,
"who wants to feel as young as I do
when he is 75."
Admiral Dewey passed a few hours
at his office as president of the general
board of the navy. Later he went for
a drive with Mrs. -Dewey and there
was an informal family dinner in the
evening.
Smallpox Under Control.
Washington, D. C. Rigid steps by
the public health service have brought
under control a threatened serious out
break of smaHpex along the West
Virginia-Maryland border. Dr. B. S.
Warren, detailed to investigate the
situation, who has just returned to
Washington, reported 11 cases in the
vicinity of Martinsburg, W. va.
These cases, all within from three to
ten miles of the city, are under proper
control. All suspected persons in the
region will be vaccinated and kept un
der observation for 15 days.
Gum Chewer Discredited.
Chicago United States Judge Car
penter revealed one method he has of
judging whether a person is testifying
truthfully. If the witness chews gum
and talks rapidly the chances are no
great weight should be attached to his
satetmenta. the court said. This de
veloped when the court toluV Joseph
Burns, a witness chewing gum while
on the witness stand : "The harder a
person chews gum the less responsibil
ity you can place in his testimony."
Sehrank Model Fatient.
Oshkosh, Wis. John Sehrank, who
attempted to assassinate Theodore
Roosevelt, is reported to be a model
patient at the Northern Hospital for
the insane. The superintendent savs
he is faithful in his work and spends
much of his time reading and writing
and doing work around the criminal
ward as it is required of patients
'.her.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
General News of the Industrial and Educational Development
and Progress of Rural Communities, Public Institutions, Etc
MUTUAL AID FARMERS' AIM
Meeting at Oregon City Results in
Plan to Regulate Market.
Oregon City In the parlors of the
Oregon City commercial clubc ongre-
gated Saturday more farmers than
ordinarily get together. The Farm
ers' Society of Equity, an interstate
organization of agriculturists, has had
an organizer in this district for some
time, and the meeting was a result of
his labors.
Nearly four-score bona fide farmers
came together to see if it is not possi
ble by means of this society to estab
lish a closer connection between the
producer and the consumer. Crops
are to be regulated so as to avoid
waste energy and a glutted market ;
farmers being notified from headquar
ters just what price to demand for
their products.
Locals are to be organized through
out the county, which will be con
trolled by the county local. The state
committee will report to the National
headquarters.
PORTLAND FOURTH ON LIST
Wheat Export Exceeded Only By
New York "and Two Others.
Washington, D. C. Portland's
wheat exports thus far reported by the
department of commerce and labor
have been lighter this year than last,
but are still considerably above the to
tal export of Puget Sound. The
monthly statement of the department
shows that during the last 11 months
Portland exported 5,238,139 bushels of
wheat, as against 6,244,833 bushels in
the same first 11 months of last year,
Puget Sound's total exports this
year have been 4,322,707 bushels, an
increase from 2,870,087 bushels over
same months of 1911. Portland is
now fourth on the list of wheat ex
porting customs districts, New York
being far in the lead, with 4,500,000
bushels and Galveston and New Or
leans following with more than 6,000,-
000 each.
GAME LAW CHANGE URGED
Umatilla County Association In
dorses Proposal of Commission.
Pendleton At one of the largest
meetings ever held here the Umatilla
county Fish and Game association
heartily indorsed, by resolutions, the
proposed change by the State Game
commission of the grouse and deer
law, which provides that the season
for hunting both will be from Septem
ber 1 to November 1.
Besides warmly indorsing the excel
lent work generally done by the State
Fish and Game commission since its
organization, the matter of removing
protection from female deer was also
fully discussed, the majority present
being opposed to the change.
Another propositi receiving favora
ble consideration was cutting the deer
limit from five to three, while a good
ly number stood for even greater re
duction. Fisher Is Noncommital.
Washington, D. C. Representative
Hawley and National Committeman
Williams called on Secretary Fisher
and entered a protest against the re
cent cancellation of 17 Siletz entries
that came within the provisions of the
Hawley act, pointing out that the en
tries held for cancellation were among
those before the department when it
drew the Hawley bill and, inasmuch
as that bill had been drawn in the de
partment to facilitate the patenting of
these identical entries, it was unjust
now to read into the law requirements
as to cultivation and residence that
were not in the law when it was writ
ten by the department and passed by
congress.
Representative Hawley said after
the conference that he had hoped Sec
retary Fisher would reverse the re
cent adverse action in the 17 cases, but
the secretary made no promises.
Health Resort Planned.
Bandon A modern sanitarium is to
be erected at Bandon by H. C. Dipple.
The sanitarium will contain one of the
largest covered swimming pools on the
Pacific Coast.
Every summer a large number visit
Bandon-by-the-Sea to recuperate. The
climate is mild, never hot, the air
bracing and the scenery beautiful.
The erection of a sanitarium with a
swimming tank open to the public will
no doubt do much to increase the pop
ularity of Bandon as a seaside resort.
Poultry Association Organized. .
Eugene The Oregon branch of the
American Poultry association was or
ganized here by the adoption of a con
stitution and by-laws and by the nomi
nation of a set of officers. As there
was but a single nominee for each
office, the following are the probable
officers: E.J. McClanahan. Eugene.
president; H. Kinghouse, Clackamas,
vice president; B. F. Keeney, Eu
gene, second vice president; Ed
Shearer, Estacada, secretary; B. Lee
Paget, Portland, treasurer. A ban
quet closed the meeting.
Boy Scouts to Organize.
Albany Albany will soon have an
organization of Boy Scouts. More
than 20 boys of this city met and
formed a troop and permanent organ-
zation will be effected in January.
Professor Hans Flo, of Albany col
lege, will be in charge of the organiz
ation here.
CLEAR LAKE IS WONDERFUL
Ideal Source of Water Supply for
Valley Towns.
Albany Clear Lake, which the state
board of health is planning to utilize
as a source of water supply for the
cities and towns of the Willamette
valley and the state institutions at
Salem, is situated in the southeastern
part of Linn county, about 77 miles
southeast of Albany. It lies about
two miles from the Willamette Valley
& Cascade Mountain Wagon road and
is about four miles from the summit
of the Cascade mountains.
The main body of the lake is about
two miles long and three-fourths of a
mile wide. Connected with the main
body of the lake by a neck of water
on each side of a small island, is a
smaller body about one-half mile long
and one-fourth of a mile wide. The
lake is remarkably deep, so deep, in
fact, that no one who has ever visited
it has had a line long enough to meas
ure its depth. The water is so clear
that the bottom of the lake may be
seen in some places, notwithstanding
it is many hundreds of feet deep. The
bottom is irregular and there are evi
dently high cliffs at various places,
though they appear as small precipi
tous formations from the surface.
A most peculiar feature of the lake,
which makes it unique among all the
lakes of the state and probably of the
country, is that it contains at least 50
petrified trees, standing upright. The
trees are in the north end, or smaller
portion, of the lake. Most of the
trees stand in groups, only a few feet
apart.
Some of these trees appear to be so
close to the surface that they could be
reached with an oar, but it is evident
from attempts that have been made to
reach them by lines that they are hun
dreds of feet below the surface of the
water, though the portion of the lake
where they stand is not so deep as the
remainder of the lake.
The water of the lake is""remarkably
cold. So penetrating is its coldness
that a person cannot keep his hand in
it very long at a time. A large
spring, which bubbles up on one side
of the lake and which is one of the
leading 'sources of the lake's water
supply, is even colder than the lake it-
seu. it is a practice among people
who have visited the lake before to
offer to wager those visiting it for the
first time that they cannot keep their
hand in this 'spring for one minute.
This has been tried many times, but,
so far as known, the feat has never
been accomplished. So cold . is the
water of this spring that if one allows
his hand to remain in it for 20 seconds
pain becomes apparent both in the
hand and arm as well.
Clear Lake is a very beautiful body
of water and its charm is enhanced by
beautiful natural surroundings. The
Three Sisters are many miles from the
lake, but a beautiful view of them is
obtained looking across the lake from
north to south.
There is a large "quantity of lava in
the vicinity of Clear Lake, and as no
crater has been found nearby, it is
supposed that the lake may be an old
volcano, though the border of the lake
dos not have the appearance of a cra
ter now.
The lake is the main source of the
McKenzie river. The river flows out
at the southwest corner of the lake
and about one and a half miles from
where it leaves the lake the river
plunges over a cliff 60 feet high, form
ing a beautiful waterfall.
Investigations which have been
made disclose that the water of Clear
Lake is of splendid quality and admir
ably adapted for supplying cities and
towns with water for drinking pur
poses. Teach How to Grow Vegetables.
Four vegetable growing courses will
be given at the Oregon Agricultural
College short course, Jan. 6 to Feb. 7.
Commercial vegetable growing, mar
keting, vegetable and flower forcing,
and home gardening will be covered.
A large per cent of the vegetables
we consume, except onions and pota
toes, are imported, says Prof. C. I.
Lewis. "The state should be an ex
porter of vegetables instead of ship
ping in hundreds of carloads. Oppor
tunities for production here are un
surpassed, and the demand constant."
Fort Rock Sees Activity.
Fort Rock A surveying outfit form
ing part of the Harriman system has
been working through here for several
weeks setting stakes along the right
of way surveyed for the proposed Ore
gon & Eastern railway, which is to
run from Vale, where it taps the Ore
gon Short Line, to Crescent. There it
will join the Natron cutoff of the
Southern Pacific It is currently ru
mored that actual construction work
will be going on through here before
next fall.
Himalaya Berries Grow.
Newport Carl Herren, a Newport
lapadist, is exhibiting branches of
Himalaya blackberries in his window,
which were grown in his garden with
out glass and are ripe and of excellent
flavor. Mr. "Herren was induced to
attempt to produce ripe berries for
Christmas after learning that Peter
Schirmer, the Burbank of Lincoln
county, produces ripe strawberries
every month in the year.