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    OREGON
VOL. XX.
ST. JIELENH, OUEGON, Fill DAY, FEUllUAItY 27, 1903.
NO. 11.
MIST
VnOFESSWXAL.
lScrAHY Yy,w, UintvavAmisu.
J. B.GODFREY.
ATTORNEY-AS-LAW.
Heal Estate and Timber Lands Sold
AIIHTHAOTH MADKl
FT. HELENS, . ORE'lON
ATTOUXE Y-AT-LA W.
with K K Quick,
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CHAPTER XXII.
"I do not eueuevt you of auytlilng." anid
June, with a quiver In her voire, "but I
kuuw Hint hateful woman baa T"t a'iiie
dreadful lutlueuce over you, and ia al
wnya pluttitiK to cauae unliaiiplm-aa l
tween ua. Here I have tieen away and
waa routing back happy aud dclikhtcd to
you, and I am iimde wretched the
limtiint I aet foot iu the houae, and all
thnrtiKli herT'
"No, Iio,"aaid Tom. "He Juat. Put the
anddle on the riirht homo. All throui-h
Mada-v. If ahe hadn't come aneaking and
apying up here thia uiorning abe wouldn't
have got my hack up and made me aay
what 1 did, and -which ahe moat richly
dcucrvcd. Aa for the other poor girl, no
one waa ever more niiatakeu In thia world
than you are about her. Why, ahe Bix-aka
of yon In the ktndeat way."
"And," proceeded June, working her
aelf up more and more, and teara auain
ruablng to her eyea, "now you have de
prived rue of my only friend here, and
the only person I have to atutiae me, I
hope you w ill tie happy."
At thia laat atab, given merely in
nauahtlneaa of temper. Tom rose, tnlftbt-
lly grieved and wrathful. He never aald
anything he did not mean merely for the
momentary pleasure of wounding, but,
on the other hand, he rarely could be
brought to retract anything he had once
aald.
Then." he said, "if that la tire caae.
heaven help your huahand and child!"
And. with tbat, be atroue rrotu me room.
leaving Juue with a aickeuing aenae of
general miaery.
June bad aotue Bound good aenae wnen
It waa not obarurcd by temr, aa the
aky in blue though the elotida hide ita
color. And presently ahe told hentelf
that thia atate of things rutiat be atopped,
and stopped at once.
So. auddenly ahe rune, and fled down-
ataira to Tom's room. He waa sotting
a'aring gloomily in ike6re, atatorbed. no
doubt. In rcflectiona aa miserable aa thoae
in w hich ahe hail been indulKiug tipatairs.
nit he had a refuge and reaouree which
ahe had nothia pipe.
June had not come to argue, to figlit.
the quarrel over again, and poawibly to
make a worse ending than before; ahe
had brought a flag of truce, and left all
eiplanationa for a future ttnie. She eat
herself down on bla knee, took the pipe
from hia mouth, put her pretty anna
round bis neck and her red lips to hia, and
aald, with a faltering voice:
'My darling, don t let ua have any more
miatiudenitandinga!"
And. with that, Tom clasped her pas
sionately to hia heart, and a sob rose in
hia throat, snd for the moment they forgot
everything but that they loved each other.
When June paid Iter promised visit to
Madge next day, she felt rather perturtiod
ml uncomfortable In her mind. Madge
would of course eipwt to bear that she
had vannulshed Tom in aingle corobat,
ml hml come to take ber back in triumnn
to the Hall, from which yesterday she hnd '
been ao igmtniiiiioualy turned away. Rut I
June was painfully conscious that It was
ahe who had lieen vanquished, for, fear-1
fill of any rupture of their new-born har
mouy, ahe hnd not mentioned the name of ,
either cousin to Tom. She knew instinc
tively thnt he would not give lu: if he
made auy atm'ttdc to Mndge, it would
only Ire on eonditiou of hia w if e doing the .
same to Agnes.
Her Indyshlp. therefore, waa forced to
answer Madge's eager crosa-questloning
aotnew hut lamely and haltingly, and grad
nnllv there came Into that shrewd youna-
Indy'a face an expivaaion of profound di-!
apxint nieiit.
"Thou," she aald, in a mortified totie,
"you did uut take my part, and you have
not been even with Tom!"
"My dear child," replied June, desper
ately, "if you are married to a man, it ia
ImiHisslble to live In a atate of atrife and
quarreling with him, Unless you want to
break your own heart. What Is to be
gained by my being on bad terms with
Tom?"
"Well," replied Madge, "I don't under
stand it. I should bare thought you, who
are fifty times cleverer aud have fifty
timea more spirit than Tom, would have
turned him round your finger. Why, any
child could do it."
Two days passed, and, though Sir
Thomas and Lady Nevll were apparently
on the beet ot terms, neither waa really
at eaae. June missed Madge aud wanted
to have her back at the Hail, but wwa
afraid to broach the subject, and Tom
knew that she missed her cotialu, aud felt
vexed about the misunderstanding, but
waa convinced that he would be doing
wrong to Amies and conniving at an in
justice If Madge returned to her old rela
tione at the house while Agnes was left
out in the cold.
On the third day June, feeliug the hope
lessness of the situation, said, in a matter-of-fact
voice at luncheon, In the pres
ence of the servante:
"Shall we ask them all at the rectory
to come up and dlue to-morrow V"
And Tom responded moat heartily, and
with an enormous souse of relief:
"Ay, my dear, do,"
Her ladyship was the more disposed to
rutike the concession in thnt her husband
had met her wishes about taking a house
In Loudon In the kindest manner. That
he did not like the idea waa evident, but
so far from combating the proposal, he
had given in to it at once, and agreed that
hia mother should tnke a house aud make
all ueceasary preparations. He would not
give any promise about going up much
himself, but If June came down every
week he and the boy would manage to get
along for the rest of the time.
I.miIv Nnvll wrntA sir ikrT.totlnnute note
to Mr. Bryan asking them all to dine the
following evening. She thought it not
improbable that her cousins would refuse
to come. ISut both had reasons for not
wbthing the estrangement from the Hall
to Ik prolonged, and were, heidcs, anx
ious that their parents should be ki-pt ip
ignorance of the unpleasantness which
hnd occurred. Thia, however, contribut
ed to make the evening a thoroughly un
pleasiiiit one for their host and hostess.
Madge met Tom in the most auprrcilious
manner, scarcely deigning to give him her
linger tips, awl behaved afterward as
though he did not exist; neither shaking
nor hsiking hia way all the evening, but
devoting herself to June. Agnes, on the
contrary, redoubled her attentions to Torn,
and hung on every word with a pert ina
eious affection which nearly maddened
Juue. Frequently, too, Agnea would smile
at her with an expression of mingled
sweetneea and triumph which her ladyship
understood only too well.
The weeks passed. Easter was at hand,
and June looked joyfully forward to hav
ing visitors in the house, I'allaa among
them. She felt his cheery face and voice
would bring light and life to the Hall,
which certainly waa not very lively just
at present. Madge came up eomettmea,
but avoided Tom aa much aa possible, or,
when ahe met him, treated him with Ul
conrealed hostility. Agnes came, too,
and invarlulily aet every nerve in June's
body tingling with Irritation.
CHAPTER XXIII.
Mrs. Ellesmere and Dallas arrived to
gether Just at the propitioua moment
that ia to say, three-quartera of an hour
before dinner, lu time to exchange greet
ings, to have five minutes' chat, and then
to go off and dress for dinner.
The dinner waa of the merriest. Jnne
waa in the highest spirits Dallas the
same Mrs, Ellesmere in her very best
mood. The dinner waa perfection, and
conversation never Bugged for a moment.
Totu'a perceptions were not particularly
quick, but they must have been slow in
deed had he mat observed the transforma
tion in his wife. She had been so quiet
lately, and dinner had been rather a sol
emn performance, not enlivened by any
very brilliant conversation. But to-night
her ladyship's charming face was dimpled
by smiles, ber eyes were full of light. He
supiHed she wore a different sort of
gown, for she looked, somehow, even pret
tier aud more elegant than usual. Dallas
had the old manner which Tom had been
wont half to admire, half to be amused at.
His mother waa a good talker, and the
three seemed to have topics of interest
and amusement which were Greek to
Tom. The talk was chiefly of people, mu
tual friends, and it was evident that they
found it immensely engrossing and alworb-
ing, aud all took equal pleasure in it.
The two following daya there were more
guests at the Hall, for June took the op
portunity of Mrs. Ellesiuere's visit to give
dinners to their country neighbors, and
some who came from a distance stayed
in the house. Dallas waa invaluable in
helping to entertaiu them, and Madge
brought her services from the rectory.
Rut Dallas confided to hia hostess that
he was perfectly delighted when they were
nil gone, and expressed a hope, couched in
defereutlol though emphatic terms, thnt
she would never consider it necessary to
uk any one there for Ins benefit, as it
only prevented his enjoying the society of
the lady from whose presence he derived
the most pleasure.
It was now the fourth day after his ar
rival. The omnibus had departed with
the last batch of gueets; the morning was
wet, and they were wondering how they
should amuse themselves, when her lady
ship had a happy inspiration. Battledoor
and shuttle-cock. These were found after
a search; the battlcdoors were dried by
the hall tire, and the ahuttle-eocks had
their feathers rearranged, and Dallas and
June begau their game. Now, to thor
oughly experienced playera, there ia not
very much excitement in the game of bat
tledoor; the playera stand still In the
same place and the shuttle-cock takes its
flight regularly and unbrokenly between
them; but to beginners it Involves a great
deal of nulling and tearing about, violent
dashes forward and backward, aud ia pro
vocative of a great amount of laughter.
At the moment when the game was at its
height, and peali of mirth were issuing
from the llpa of Dallas and Juue, Agnes,
arrayed In her waterproof, arrived at the
hall door, and the same Instuit Tom hap
pened to issue from hia den, and proceed
ed to let her In.
"Ia that June'a voice T" she asked, put
ting on the most surprised and shocked
expression her puritanical face was ca
pable of. "What la she doing V
"She and Dal are playing battledoor,"
answered Tom, and then, for the first
time, the Idea occurred to him, or rather
was forced upon him by Agnes' face, that
their mirth waa rather exuberant.
"Oh!" she uttered, putting a volume of
expression Into the word.
Juue had just sunk, breathless from
laughing and running. Into a chair, and
Dallas leaned against the wall In much
the same condition. Both their faces
were becomingly flushed from excitement
and exercise, aud, to unjauudiced eyes,
they would have seemed the picture of
two handsome, happy and innocently
amused young people. But not to the en
vlotia eyes of Agues, and she allowed them
to express to June how very much scan
dalised ahe waa by auch levity. In a mo
ment June read her cousin's face, and a
thrill of auger and defiance shot through
her breast, which the previous moment
had been a harbor of peace and happi
ness. "How do you do?" she said, nodding,
aud tnaklirg her battledoor an excuse for
uut shaking hands. "I am quite exhaust
ed. Would yon like to have a turn srMi
Torn?"
"No, I thank yon," replied Agnes, frig
idly. "I did not know it was a gams
grown-up people played."
"Did you not?" said June, lightly. "Ah,
thnt comes of living in the country. One
sees and knows so little." , .
"Perhaps one ia the better for that,"
returned Agnea. In her most achoolmls-trens-llke
manner.
"I doubt it," retorted June. "Now, Dal,
1 have recovered my breath. Shall w
go on?"
It was the first time she bad ever called
him by his Christian name, and she would
not have done it now but that Agnea had
Inspired her with a furious desire to do
something that would give her cousin
cause to be allocked.
"May I go and we darling boy?" said
Agnes to Tom, with a glance of deepest
commiseration, and he replied cheerily
thnt be would go with her.
The game no longer had any charm for
June; ahe felt aa though the serpent bad
entered paradise, and, after five minutes,
she declared she waa tired.
"1 must go and write some letters,"
ahe said, and Dallas pleaded tbat he
might be allowed to occupy himself in t).
same way in ber company. So they be
took themselves to her ladyship'a boudoir,
where she supplied him with the requisite
materials, and then sat down to ber writ
ing table.
Dallas had come for the inside of a
week, and sorely sorry waa his hostess to
see him depart on the Satnrdny morning.
It waa like sunshine going out of the
house.
Juue went to the door to se- her guest
off, and returned to her room v. i;l. it de
cided sinking at her heart, knowing that
hia bright face and voice would make
themselves terribly missed, and auddenly
burst into a tit of crying. Agnea pass
ed the window, and stnptied for a moment
to look in. Aa ahe reached the ball door,
Tom was coming round from the stables.
"Oh, Tom," she said, with well-feigned
anxiety, "there is nothing the matter with
darling boy, ia there?"
"No," he answered, atartled "certain
ly not But why?"
"Why, I Just came round past the morn
ing room," returned Agnes, Innocently,
"and I aaw poor June crying so dread
fully that I thought I was afraid "
"June crying!" exclaimed Tom; and
then he paused abruptly, aa a moat un
pleasant thought smote him.
Dinner that night was a very different
sort of function from what it had been of
late. A gloom seemed to have fallen on
the party.
"How silent we all are!" observed Mrs.
Ellesmere, aa it was drawing to a close,
"and how dreadfully I miss that dear boy!
Don t you, my dearr to June.
"Yes," answered June, and at that mo
ment ahe caught Tom's eye fixed on ber in
a manner she neither quite liked nor un
derstood, and was deeply mortified to find
herself growing crimson.
(To be continued.)
THE GREAT AUK.
Eones of a Fine Specimen Recently
Found In Ireland.
Slowly but surely a number of crea
tures are disappearing from the fauna
of the world, and the process has be
come more rapid during; the last hun
dred years. Among these lost or mori
bund species is the great auk, which Is
now only known from specimens lu
collecttoiv. or from the occasional dis
covery of Its bones in circumstances
which In themselves often help to ex
plain the cause of its disappearance.
It has Just been announced that some
bones of the great auk neve been found
In a kitchen midden In the north of Ire
land. The phrase Is Indirectly an epi
taph: "Killed and en ten by man" was
the end of this bird. A kitchen mid
den Is nothing more nor less than a
primeval refuse-heap. The term is the
translation of the Scandinavian namo,
for, as It happens, theae refuse-heaps
are particularly large and abundant on
some parts of the Iunlh coast. Prac
tically, they are shell-mounds. Prime
val man, when he lived upon the sea
coast, made full use of the food which
he found ready to hand. To be a fish
erman requires some skill; but to gath
er mussels from tbe rocks may be done
by the lowest savage. So 'She first
oyster" was an experiment of such a
remote aurrliiulty that we know not by
what manner of men 1t was made. Per
haps they had not even gotten so far ns
to chip a rnts Into shape; at any rate.
In all probability their handicraft was
very primitive, their notions of dress
rudliueurary. In Denmark, oa ths
easitern coast, heaps of shells, of which
the contents have been eaten, are by
no means rare. Sir John Lubbock de
sTlles, in his "Pre-hlstoric Times,"
one of the largest, at Mellgard, In
northeast Jutland, as a great flattlsh
mound, about ten feet thick In the mid
dle, composed almost entirely of shells.
These usually belong to four species
he oyster, fire cockle, the mussel aud
the periwinkle, the first being the com
monest at that particular place. All, It
will be noticed, are still eaten, though
the oyster, from an ordinary article of
food, has become a luxury. Besides
these, as might be expected In a refuse
heap which, no doubt, was formed
close to a settlement, other odds and
ends are found, though much mora
rarely, suh as bones of various beasts
and birds, dripped flints or other stons
Implements, and fragments of a very
coarse pottery. These relics belong to
the Neolithic age that Is, to a time
when men were suttlcleDtly advanced
to bave acquired tbe art of making
weapons of polished stone, though they
were Ignorant of the use of metals.
Such refuse heaps are met with In oth
er countries, more especially on the
coasts of Wales, Scotland and Ireland,
though they are usually smaller In size
than those of Denmark. In them, more
than once, the bones of the groat auk
have been found. Time has brought
about its revenges. In those days the
bird was, no doubt, valued, but sim
ply because It was good to eat, and
there was plenty of it. A hundred
years ago sailors took exactly the samo
view as man in the Stone Age. Now
H is difficult to imagine what price a
specimen In the flesh would command;
for In April, 1808, a bid of 350 guineas
was refused for a skin, aud at the same
time an egg sold tor ISO guineas.
THE LEGISLATURE
WHAT THE LAWMAKERS OP OREGON
ARE D0INQ AT SALEM.
Bills of Importance That are Being Intro
disced and Acted Upon la Both Houses
Measures Signed by ths Governor
Progress of the Balloting for United
States Senator.
Friday.
Final ballot Fulton 4A, Oeer 3,
Wood 17, Scott 21, scattering and ab
sent 3.
The senate To appropriate 1 100,000
for Indian war veterans, passed. To
make taxes payable in tbe fall, passed.
To require that tbe polls at general
election be kept open antil 7 P. M.,
passed. '
The House For bureau of mines,
passed. To provide great seal for the
state, paired. To provide for licensing
of plumbers, passed.
Thursday.
The vote FuRon 33, tieer 27, Wood
17, Wiliuuis C, scattering 5, absent 2.
Tbe Senate To repeal scalp bounty
law, psssed. To change natno o! Re
form school to Industrial school, passed.
To create a bureau oi labor, psssed.
The House To change boundaries of
Washington and Colombia counties,
reconsidered and passed. To fix salary
of state printer, passed. To extend
terms of assessors to four years, passed.
Wednesday.
The vote I niton 33, Geer 27. Wood
16, scattering 10, absent and paired 6.'
Tbe Senate To pat initiative and
referendum into effect, passed. For
creation of a bureau of mines, pissed.
To appropriate $ 10,000 per year for
state fair, passed. F'or the construc
tion of a bridge across tbe Willamette
at Portland, passed.
The House A resolution was adopted
allowing the widows of the three peni
tentiary guards killed by Tracy $1,000
each was adopted. To fix boundary of
Washington county, failed. To ioiii
pensate Indian war veterans with f 100,
000, passed.
Both houses adopted a resolution to
adjourn Friday night at midnight.
- Tuesday. -
Tbe vote Fulton 33, Geer 25, Wood '
15, Williams, 6, scattering 6, paired 5.
The senate To create office of state
examiner of public teeords, passed. To
authorize Indian war veterans to .bring
suit against the state upon their claims,
passed. To repeal law exempting pub
lic officers from garnishment proceed
ings, passed. The senate adopted a
resolution to adjonrn Friday, February
20, at 12 o'clock P. M.
The House To provide tor flat sal
ary, passed. To change name of Re
form school to Industrial school,
passed. To fix boundary of Wallowa
county, passed. F'or new bridge across
Willamette at Portland, passed.
Clackamas county school teachers
will bold an institute at Oregon City
February 28.
Labor anions of Oregon City blame
Senator Brownell for the failure of the
eight hoar bill to pass.
TtlA mnnnmanf fn btt ILuv,nJ OMmn
dead has been placed in position at
ttiverview cemetery, rortiana.
Work on the lewis and Clark fair
grounds has commenced.
Professor James M. Martindale, pres
ident of the Weston normal school, died
last Sunday after protracted illnesc.
Another rich strike has been made in
the old Virtue mine, near Baker City,
a pocket being found which will yield
tbonsands of dollars.
The Marion county tax roll for 1902
baa been placed in the handa of tha
sheriff for collection. The roll repre
sents a total of $22,604.69.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Walla Walla, 75077c; blue-
stem, 88c; valley, 78(8 80c.
Barley Feed, 23.50 per ton; brew
ing, $24.
Flonr Best grade. I4.30a4.85: irah-
am, ,3.453.85.
Millstuffs Bran. 118(319 tier ton:
middlings, 123 9 24; shorts, I1920,
chop, 18.
Oats No. 1 white. 11.15 1.20:
gray, ,1.1201.15 per cental.
Hay Timothy, $11(312; clover,
$8(39; cheat, $9(310 per ton.
Potatoes Best Eur banks, 60075c per
sack; ordinary, 4050c per cental,
growers' prices; Merced sweets, $23
2.25 per cental.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, 12c;
yonng, 11012c; bens, 12c; turkeys,
live, 15316c; dressed, 18320c; ducks,
$7(37.60 per dozen; geese, $78.50.
Cheese Full cream, twins, 16, V (3
17)ie; Yonng America, 17,(318ic;
factory prices, ll4o less.
Butter Fancy creamery, 30332Ko
per pound; extras, 30c; lairy, 20(3
22,c; store, 1518c.
Eggs 22K24 per dosen.
Hops Choice, 22(3 27c per pound.
Wool Valley, 12i15c; Eastern
Oregon, 8(314)ic; mohair, 26328o.
Baef Gross, cows, S3)ic ,pei
pound; steers, 44Jic; dressed, 7tC
Veal 7M8Jic.
Mutton Gross, 4c per ponnd;
dressed, 7Kc.
Lambs Gross, 4c per pound;
dressed, 7e.
Hogs Gross, OJe per pound;
dre8el737Xc.