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THE TURNER TRIBUNE VOL. V* TITIINKK, OB KUJON, TH U H SD AY, ROY G A R D N E R F L E E S AGAIN Mall OF CURRENT WEEK Itubbrr Noted for Daring Ka rapet M cNeil's Prison. Tacoma, Wash, hoy Gardner, Cal SEND SOLDIERS 10 MINE FIELDS ifornia mall rubber, eacaped from Me Kvorelt Impyn, Camp l^twls soldier, re n t;::, Daily News Items. stSUbood to life Imprison ment for a criminal attack on a nurse, H, 1921. NO. .TO. : STATE N E W S IN BRIEF. Bend.— That the lumber Industry la now on the up grade was the declara Nell's Island federal prison Monday. Brief Resume Most Important 8EPTEM1IEB Uncle Sam Prepares to End Miners’ Insurrection. tion here o f E. L. Carpenter, vice- president o f the Hhavlln-Hlxon com pany, on hla annual luapectkin of the company's weatern plants. Brownsville.— It haa fallen to the lot of the American Legion post recently organized here by that efforts of Jesse Gardner and I.awardus llogart, also K. II In man, ex-commander of the As serving life sentence for the same o f toria po«t, to Inaugurate a movement fense as Impyn, participated. which will give Brownsville a com Events o f Noted Tropi», Government» , llogart was shot and recaptured and Forrea Seat Into Weal Virginia Well munity hall. was shot and killed during the at COMPILED FOR YOU ■ nil I’ ariAr North «r o l. and Other T ilin g. Worth Knowing. An audit of the nprndlturea made by tho army, navy and the war rlah bu reau In rompenaallon to aervlcn men wna ordered Tunaday by Controller HgQMi Mlaa Ann Knoehnr o f Philadelphia wna bound and gagged In her aulte at a bench front hotel at Atlantic City, N. J . Tueaday night and robbed of Jewel r y valued at 1 10,000. Approximately MOO employe» o f the Johnaton ration mill* In Charlotto and Itoek lllll returned to work Monday, accepting the aanie baala of pay and houra of labor prevailing when they quit. Klx peraona were killed In Ilelfaat Tueaday during renewed rioting here and many othera were wounded, aome nrrtouuly. Numeroua raaea of gunabot woumla are under treatment In the boapllala. The Farmers and Merchants' State bank of Marietta, Minn., wna rloaed Monday and taken over by the atate aupertntrndent of banka. Ilepleted re ■erve la given na the cause. The In ■llfutlon‘a rapltal at.uk waa $30,000 and aurplua 110,000, Tho vlalble aupply o f American grain ahowa the following rhangra: Wheat decreased 2.853,000 buabela, corn Inrreaaed 150,000 buabela, oata Inrreaaed 5,550,000 buabela, rye In- m u s ed KGI.noo buabela, barley Increaa- .-.I 40.000 buabela. Private Marl.dlna T. Abernathy, at larked by a ahark while bathing on an la land In Manila bay Tueaday waa ao aev.-rely bitten that he died ahortly aflerward. Ilia rompanlona, who wit- neaae.1 the attack, aent a rail for aid. and n aeaplane waa dlapatrhed to hla aaalatanre. Vlnrent do Oeatano, a New York diver, met death Monday on the bot tom of tho Harlem river when he be- ramo entangled In battleahlp tinea and waa »low ly aaphyxlated aa he atruggle.) to free hlmarlf. With two- other diver» he waa engaged In laying n aubmurlno electric cable In a con crete bed. Immlgranta admitted to the United Stut.-a during the flacal year ended June 30 numbered 805,228 aa compared with 420,001 for the prnvloua flacal year and with an average of 1,034.940 during tho pre-war year» from 1910 to 1914, It waa ahown In figure» made public Tueaday by the bureau of Im migration. Might mldahlpmen who havo Juat re turned to Annupolla from the annual aummer practice crulae aboard tho five wurahlpa o f battleahlp aqundron No 1, Hear Admiral Charlea F. Hughe» commanding, havo realgned the naval aervlcn nml their realgnatlona have been accepted. It la announced. They preferred a career In civil life. Application for an Increnae of 20 per cent In all preaa matter handled waa made by the Weatern Union Tele graph company Tueaday to tho Cal ifornia »lain railroad commlaalon. The application aald the preaa to ll» were not affected by the wnr emergency and were llkewlae omitted from nil adjust- ment when the wire utilities were re lumed to private control. A new bnala of taxation to tnko the place of tho houao revenue measure and practically ,ul present tax lnws wna proposed Tunaday by Senntor Smoot, republican, Utnh, who an nounced ho waa prepnrlng a bill em bodying the plan, which he estimated would yield 13.895.000.000 thla year. He added that he would take the ques tion up with the »ennte finance com mittee when It begins consideration of revenue questions Thursday. tempted Jallbreak In which ha and la In the prison hospital, possibly fa tally Wouoded. IRELAND REJECTS O F F E R OF PEACE London.— The Irish republican par reply to Prem ier I.loyd George's latest communication, made public In Ixmdon and Dublin Sunday, rejects the Ilrltlsh government's pro posals for Kqulpped; llombing Alrplanra Heady for Service. Warden Maloney and his deputies went confident Garduer had not es caped from the Island unless be had confederate» who were waiting. The break of Oarde-r and hi» com panions took place at 3:20 o'clock In the afternoon. The convicts had been given a holiday for I-abor day and about 250 of them wero watching a baseball game between two prison teams. Gardner. Impyn and llogart had con trived to seat themselves together at the extreme rear o f the crowd o f spec tators. The trio hod evidently made careful preparations for the attempt and timed their movements to the second. They waited until a tense point had been reached In the ball game and then suddenly bolted. Gard ner was the fleetest of the three and reached the barbed wire 150 yards dis tant several yards In advance of bis companions. He had stolen a pair of pliers from the prison tool shop and. whipping these from his pocket, be used them so quickly that he had cut an opeulng through the fence before his escape waa noticed, the prison of ficials slated. Impyn aud llogart. however, bad scarcely got away from the crowd be fore the guards saw them. In an In- atant pandemonium reigned. H alf a doxen guards opened fire on the fugi tives while the rest of the officers directed their attention to keeping In check the prisoners, many of whom, seeing Ihe gap In the truer, started to surge toward U. Itupyu and llogart fell at the very threshhuld of liberty, but Gardner wormed hla way through the hole In the fence and sprinted for the woods, braving a fusillade of bullets from the guards' gutts. It Is only a short distance from the baseball field to the woods and Uard ner quickly disappeared. Ilelier 11. Votaw, superintendent of federal prisons and brother In law of esldent Harding arrived at the prison Monday morning at 8 o'clock on a trip of Inspection and witnessed the dush for liberty. liament's DISPATCH 2100 MEN settlement of the Irish question on the ground that they are Washington, D. C.— The war depart ment set In motion Friday machinery to apply Irresistible force to disorderly elements In tho five mining counties of W est Virginia, where labor dis orders have qmouldered Into what o f ficials term Insurrection. By train from four army campa an expedition ary force numbering 2100 men waa routed for deatlnatlona on the edge of the mountain country. Brigadier-Gen eral II 11. Baudholfz, the government’! agent on the scene, haa been placed In command. Behind thla force. Secretary Weeks aald. were, at reserves, another 2000 men and bombing airplanes which al ready have arrived In the disturbed area. President Harding's proclama tion. formally putting Fayette, Mingo. Ixtgan, Kanawha and Boone counties under martial law, la In the hands of General BandbolU and will be Issued at the discretion of Secretary Weeks. The government's action In sending troops Into West Virginia. Secretary Weeks said, evidently bad the ap proval of the union officials aa well na the civil authorities of W est V ir ginia. who had asked for them. H e re ferred to General BandbolU’a report that Philip Murray, International vice- president of the United Mine Workers, had Joined In urging recommendation for troops. "W hen railroads are closed up and armed bands of men, establish them selves la the country, marching to and fro. overpowering resistance," the secretary aald. "you may call It what you please. W e call It Insurrection." The 19th Infantry from Camp Sher man and Columbus, O., and the 28th from Camp Dlx, N. J„ which wero the first to move, are provided with ma chine guns, H ow ltiers, radio and head quarters machinery, one-pounders, specialists In gas warfare, as well as rifles, riot guns, automatic rifles nnd revolvers. The enlisted strength of tho two organizations, according to latest reports. Is 2100, exclusive ot the personnel of the 88th light bombing squadron, estimated at 150 men. The 19th Infantry was brought to field strength by replacements from the 10th Infantry at Camp Sherman and Columbus., the 40th Infantry at Camp Knox. Ky.i and two companies tram Fort Thomas, Ky. Officers of tho war department fam iliar with martial law precedents and the policy of the administration, auld the extent and duration of Its ex istence In W est Virginia, If declared, would depend largely upon the dis cretion of General Uundholtz. not bused on a dominion status for Ireland. It leaves the way open for further negotiations, however, by o f fering st once to appoint plenipoten tiaries on the basis of thn principle of government by consent o f tho gov erned. Tho reply lo the British premier by Knmonn He Valera had been preceded In the Ilrltlsh and Irish press by ap parently Inspired statements that It would create a grave situation. I’erusul o f the reply, however, af fords little reason to fear the Imme diate breakdown of the negotiations unless Ihe cabinet council meeting Wednesday should decide to Impose a limit within which Ireland must ac cept or reject tho government pro posals. Liquor Inquiry Ordered. Washington, D. C .— Investigation of all outstanding liquor permits la to he begun shortly, and many cancel- latlona may follow, prohibition of- filia l» said Monday. It Is the Inten tion of the authorities to comb out all hut bona fide users of certificates. They assert that at present the prohi The motive of tho Klu Klux Klan bition enforcement bureau has no ac was being sought In Chicago Tuesday curate Information as to how many In n federal Investigation of the or outstanding permits are forgeries or ganization Initttuted by John V. Clin- are being used for Illegal purposes. nln, assistant United States district at torney. He asserted that he would Coolidfls In Accident. Investigate allegations that the klan la Williamsburg, Mass.— Vice-President nn "absolute monarchy" opposed to public policy, that It collects |10 year Cool Id ge and ten other men escaped ly from enrh member with apparently Injury Sunday when the speaker's no accounting, thnt It chargea $8.50 for platform on which they wero stand regalia coaling less than $2. thus be ing collapsed. Tho vice-president, un ing a corporation operating for profit, perturbed, climbed out of the debris, and thnt numeroua luwlra* acta have made his way to another platform and been aaerlhed to peraona acting under delivered tho address nt a celebration of the 150th anniversary of this town. the guise o f the klan. Profiteers May Escape. Washington, P. C.— Criminal prose-, cutlon of several war contract fraud rasea by the government may be bar- rod by the statute o f limitations, it was said Friday at the department o f Justice. Tho federal criminal statute, officials explained, runs for three years after the committee of an overt set In rase of a conspiracy to defraud the government, and many o f tho war time contracts were completed when the armistice was signed November 11. 1918. The federal statute, however. It was said, applies only to criminal cases and does not affect civil suits for recovery by tho government. These cases. It was explained, were gov erned by the different stato statutes, which generally put ihe limitation at about six years, Ford Assets $263.368,199. Lansing, Mich.— Totnl assets of the Ford Motor company st the close of business June 30, were $263.368.199. according to a statement filed by the company with the department of state. Tho assets Include $54.844,538 lo cash nn hand In banks; plants, Includ ing lands, buildings and Improve ments, valued at $46.926,010; machin ery and equipment valued at $21.183,- 990, and good w ill valued at $20,- 517,985. Big Bomber Is Wracked. Fairmont, W. Va.— A largo bombing plane, In charge o f Lieutenant Leslie Arnold and containing two arm y bt- flcers ns passengers, bound fo r the trouble zone In southern W est V ir ginia, was wrecked three miles north ot Fairmont Friday night. Yamhill.— The members of Yamhill lodge No. 98, Knights of Pythias, ex emplified the fraternal spirit recent ly vhen they went to the farm home of John Estes, ■ member o f the order and helped him erect his new barn. M r. Katea recently lost hla barn by fire. About 60 members of the order were present Salem — Twenty-seven thousand acres of unreclaimed land In Malheur county bids fair to be taken over for reclamation by the North Canal com pany. providing Its officers can con vince the state desert land board that they are capable ot meeting all legal and financial requirements. Medford.— For the first time In the history of Oregon, a county has start ed suit agalnat the resident of another county for the collectidn o f delinquent taxes. It Is the suit of Jackson coun ty against J. C. Henry of Eugene, I aim- county, an automomlhle dealer, to collect $186.34 taxes assessed la 1919 against personal property in this city. Copyright. U90, by L ittle . Brown A Co. mark of the disease on hls face. A* he shook hands, be tried hls best to read the mountaineer's expression. It was all too plain: tn undeniable look of disappointment. The truth was that even In spite of all the Chamber of Commerce head bad told him, Lennox had still hoped to find some Image o f the elder Dan Falling In the face and body o f hls grandson. Because o f the thick glasses. Lennox could not see the young man's eyes; but he didn’t think It likely they were at all like the eyes with which the elder Falling saw hla way through the wilderness at night. O f course he was tall. Just as the fa mous frontiersman had been, but while the elder weighed one hundred and ninety pounds, bone and muscle, this man did not touch one hundred and thirty. Evidently the years had brought degeneracy to the Failing dan. Lennox was desolated by the thought. He helped Dan with hls bag to a lit tle wiry automobile that waited be side the station. They got Into the two front seats, and a moment later were starting up the long, curved road that led to the Divide. I luring the hour that they were crossing over the foothills, on the way to the hlg timber, Silas Lennox talked a great deal about the frontiersman that bad been Dan’s grandfather. A mountain man does not use profuse adjectives. He talks very simply and very straight, and often there are long silences between hls sentences. Yet be conveys hls Ideas with entire clear ness. Dan realized at once that If he could be. In Lennox's eyes, one-fifth of the man hls grandfather had been, he would never have to fear again the look o f disappointment with which hla host had greeted him at the station. But Instead ot reaching that high place, he had only— death. He knew what bis destiny was In these quiet 8YNO P8I8. Warned br hi» ph y aid » n that he h »» not more than »ts months to Uva. Falling alt» despondently on a park bench, wondering where he should »pend thoee all months. A friendly squirrel practically decide» the matter for him. Hie blood 1» pioneer blood, and he decides to end hi» days In the forest» of Ore gon. Memorise of hU grandfather sad a deep love for all things of the wild help him In reaching a decision. In a large southern Oregon city he meet» people who had known and loved hls grand father. a famous frontiersman. Ha makes hla home with Blla# Lennoz, a typical westerner. The only oth er members of the household are Lennos's son. "B ill." and daugh ter. "Bncwblrd." Their abode le many tulles from "dvUlaatlon." In the Umpqua divide, and there Falling plans to llvs out the short span of life which he has been told Is hla. Hls extreme weakness tn the face o f even a slight exer tion convinces him that the doctor had mads a correct diagnosis of hls ensa. C H APTE R 11— Continued. Yes. Steel* knew Bill. Bill weighed two hundred pounds, and he would rhoose the biggest o f the steers he Jrove down to the lower levels in the arlnter and. twisting Its horns, would I nske It lay over on Its side. Besides, Klamath Falls.— Harvesting of mint >oth of the men assumed that Dan on the Caledonia marsh will start nust be only In the first stages o f hla about September 15, according to : Malady. And even as the men talked, the James K. Watkins, manager of the Pa cific Coast Mint company, which has I train that bore Dan Falling to the about 125 acres to cut. One hundred some o f hls ancestors was entering for the first time the dark forests of acres was planted lata this spring and pine and hr that make the eternal will not yield heavily this year, said yarkground o f the Northwest. He was Mr. Watklna. It w ill produce some a-holly unable to understand the oil at this cutting. ttrange feeling o f fam iliarity that he bad with them, a sensation that In Salem.— Most o f the jo odd thousand bis dreams he had known them al ex-service men In the state will soon ways. and that he must never go out receive bonus application blanks, ac it the range of them again. cording to Harry C. Brumbaugh, secre tary o f the world war veterans' state Dan didn't see hls host at first. For aid commission, who placed the last the first Instant he was entirely en- o f the blanks in the malls here Sat grossed by a surging sense o f disap urday. The forms were forwarded to pointment — a feeling that he had been tricked and had only come to another the various American Legion posts, of City after all. He got down onto the which there are 104 in the state. gravel o f the station yard, and out on Hood River.— The Hood R iver Fruit the gray street pavement be heard the clang o f a trolley car. Many au company Thursday night shipped the tomobiles were parked Just beside the first carload of the valley's 1921 apple itatlon, some o f them foreign cars of tonnage, estimated now at an approxi expensive makes, such as he supposed mate 2250 cars. The Initial shipment, would be wholly unknown on the destined for consumption In Chicago, frontier. A man In golf clothes consisted o f Gravensteins, harvested brushed hls shoulder. Dan looked up to the hills, and he from the Boneboro orchard of Burt Van Horn, owner of large local and felt better. He couldn't see them pla'a- ly. The faint smoke o f a distant for- New York state apple orchards. cst fire half obscured them. Yet he Salem.— The sum of $21.505.20 was saw fold on fold o f ridges of a rather spent by the state board for vocational peculiar blue In color, and even hls education. In support o f 16 depart untrained eyes could see that they were clothed In forests o f evergreen. ments of agriculture, employing 19 In Over the heads o f the green hills Dan structors. according to the annual re could see a few great peaks; Me- port ot the board, which has Just beeu Laughlln. even and regular as a paint- forwarded to the federal board in ed mountain; Wagner, with queer charge ot the administration ot the white gashes where the snow still lay Smith-Hughes law by J. A. Churchill, In Its ravines, and to the southeast the misty range o f snow-covered hills executive officer for the state board. thnt were the Slckeyons. He felt de Corvallis.— Thirty-four head of dairy cidedly better. And when he saw old cattle have been shipped from the Silas Lennox waiting patiently beside college herd for entry In the Spokane the station, he felt he had come to Interstate fair, September 5 to 9. From the right place. It would be Interesting to explain 8pokane the animals will be sent to why Dan at once recognized the older the Montana state fair at Helena. Sep man for the breed he was. Silas Len tember 12 to 17, then to the Washing nox was not dressed in a way that ton state fair at Yakima. September would distinguish him. It was true 19 to 24. and back to the Oregon stale that he wore a flannel shirt, riding fair at Salem, September 26 to Octo trousers and rather heavy, leathern boots. But sportsmen all over the ber 1. face o f the earth wear this costume at Monmouth.— Between July, 1920, and «undry times. Mountain men have a July, 1921, the Monmouth Co-operative peculiar stride by which experienced Creamery sold 278.675 pounds o f but persons can occasionally recognize ter, receiving $136.108.73, an average them ; but Silas Lennox was standing »till when Dan got hls flrst glimpse of of 45.2 cents a pound. A total of 210,- him. The case resolves Itself Into a 317 pounds of butter fat were bought, simple matter o f the things that could from which the producers received he read In Lennox's face. $97.870 78. or 46.5 cents a pound. In Dnn disbelieved wholly In a hook addition to butter a small amount of that told how to read characters at Ice, Ice cream, and miscellaneous pro sight. Yet at the first glance o f the loan, bronzed face his heart gave a ducts were manufactured. curious little bound. A pair o f gray Gold Hill.— Activity In the revival of eyes met hls— two fine black point* In a rather hard gray Iris. They didn’t gold mining In the Elk creek district look past him. or at either side of him, Is evidenced by the rush of miners and or at hls chin or hls forehead. They prospectors from the southwest states. looked right at hls own eyes. The skin This district Is up Rogue river and around the eyes whs burned brown by Elk creek about 40 miles from Gold the sun. and the flesh was so lean that Hill, the nearest shipping p oin t The the cheekbones showed plainly. The elevation o f the district varies from mouth was straight; but yet It was 2000 feet to more than 5000 feet. It neither savage nor cruel. It was sim ply determined. Is a heavily forested urea and Is with Lennox came up with a light, silent in the Crater Lake national forpst. tread and extended hls hand “ You're Bend.— 8ettlers on the central Ore Dan Falling’s grandson, aren’t you?" he asked. "I'm Silas Lennox, who gon Irrigation district will have a tax nsed to know him when he lived on o f $1.25 an acre to pay It the budget the Divide. Yon are coming to spend favored by the district directors Is ac the summer and fall on my ranch." The Immediate result o f these cepted. The budget, which Is for ap proximately $115,000. takes care o f all wonts, besides relief, was to set Dsn outstanding Indebtedness, and is actu wondering how the old mountaineer had recognized hint. He wondered If ally for a three-year period. Including he had any physical resemblance to accounts for 1920 and the first eight hls grandfather. But this hope was months o f 1921, and estimated ex shot to earth nt once. Hls telegram penses for the remainder of the pres had explained about hls malady, and o f course the mountaineer hail picked ent year and for all of 1922. him out simply because he h id the \ i j j ; i i ■ I ! I | i [ J [ I never saw anything like It In my life." "In this very stream,” the mountain eer told him Joyously, "you may occa sionally catch trout that weigh three pounds." But as he got back Into the car the look of Interest died out o f Lennox's eyes. O f course tn y man would be somewhat excited by hls first glimpse o f the wilderness. It w ia not that he had Inherited any o f the tra il» of hla grandfather. It was absurd to hope that he had. And he would soon get tired o f the silences and want to go back to hls cities. He told hls thought — that It would all soon grow old to him ; and Dan turned almost In anger. "You don't know," be said. “I didn't know myself, how I would feel about It. I'm never going to leave the hills again.” “ You don't mean that." “ But I do." H e tried to speak fur ther, but he coughed instead. “ But I couldn't If I wanted to. That cough tells you why, I guess." “ You mean to say—" Silas Lennox turned In amazement. “ You meaq that you're a— a goner? That you’ve given up hope o f recovering?” "That's the Impression I meant to convey. I'v e got a lUtle over four months— though I don't see that I'm any weaker than I was when the doc tor said I had six mouths. Those four will take me all through the fall and the early winter. Ami I ho|>e you won’t feel that you've been Imposed upon— to have A dying man on your hands." “ It isn't th a t" Silas Lennox threw hls car Into gear and started up the long grade. And be drove clear to the top of It and Into another glen before he (poke again. Then he pointed to what looked to Dan like a brown streak that melted Into the thick brush. “ That was a deer,” he said »lowly. “ Just a glimpse, but your grandfather could have got him be tween the eye». Moat like as not, though, he'd have let him go. He never killed except when he needed meat. But that— as you »ay— ain't the Impression I'm trying to coovey." H e seemed to be groping fo r words. “ What la It, Mr. Lennox?” Dan asked. “ Instead o f being sorry, I'm mighty glad you've come.“ Lennox told him. “ It's not that I expect you to be like your grandfather. Y’ ou haven't had hi» chance. But It'» always the way of true men, the world over, to come hack to their own kind to dies. That deer we Just saw— he's your people, and so are all these ranchers that grub their Uvea out of the forests— they are your people, too. And you couldn't have pleased the old man's old friends any better, or done more for hls memory, than to come back to hls own land for your last days." The words were strange, yet Dan Intuitively understood. It was as If a prodigal son had returned at lost, and although hls birthright was squandered and he came only to die, the people o f hls home would give him kindness and forgiveness, even though they could not give him their respeeb C H A PTE R III. “ You're Dan Failing’s Grandson, Aren’t Your hills. And It was true that he began to hnve secret regrets that he had come. But It wasn't that he was dis appointed In the land that was open ing up before him. It fulfilled every promise. Ills sole reason for regrets lay in the fact that now the whole mountain world would know of the decay that had come upon hls people. I’erhnps It would have been better to have left them to their traditions. He had never dreamed that the fame o f hls grandfather hnd spread so far. For the flrst ten miles Dan listened to stories— legends of a cold nerve that simply could not be shaken; of a powerful, tireless physique; of moral and physical strength that was seemingly without limit. Then, us the foothills began to give way to the higher ridges, and the shadow o f the dee|H>r forests fell upon the narrow, brown road, there began to he long gaps In the talk. Ami soon they rode In utter silence, evidently both of them absorbed In their own thoughts. Dan did not feel oppressed at all. He merely seemed to fall Into the spirit o f the woods, and no words came to hls Hits. Every mile was an added delight to him. Not even wine could hnve brought a brighter sparkle to hls eyes. He had begun to experi ence a vague sort of excitement, an emotion that was almost kin to ex ultation, over the constant stir and movement o f the forest life. Once, as they stopped the car to refill the ra diator from a mountain stream, Len nox looked at him with sudden curi osity. “ Y'ou are getting a thrill out of this, aren't youT" he asked wonder- Ingly. It was a curious tone. Perhaps It was a hopeful tone, too. He spoke as If he hardly understood. “ A thrill I" Dan echoed. He spoke as a man speaks In the presence of some great wonder. “ Good Heavens, The Lennox home was a typical mountain ranch-house— square, solid, comforting In storm aud wind. Bill was out to the gate when the car drove up. He was a son o f hls fa ther. a strong man In body and per sonality. He too had heard of the elder Falling, and he opened hls eyes when he saw the slender youth that was hls grandson. And he led the way Into the white-walled living room. “ Y’ ou must be chilly and worn out from the long ride." Lennox suggest ed quietly. He spoke In tho tone a strong man Invariably uses toward an Invalid. Dan felt a curious re sentment at the words. “ Pm not cold,” he said. " I t ’s hard ly dark yet. I ’d soouer go outdoors and look around." The elder man regarded him curi ously, perhaps with the faintest glim mer of admiration. “ You'd better wait till tomorrow, Dan," he replied. “ Bill will have supper soon, anyway. You don't want to overdo too much, right at flrst." "But, good heavens! I’ m not going to try to spare myself while Pm here. It's too late for that.” Daa Falling la introduced to “ Snowbird.” who provea to bo a decidedly inlareet in f mambar o f Iba Lañaos family, and Dan ehowa naw Inlareet In life In tba nest installment. IT U BE C O N T IN U E D .) Witch Exp en d itures. I f he who 1» always hard up will but keep a record of hls expenditures he may find that he Is more lacking lu sense than In dollars. Or a “ Situation.“ When a statesman runs into a brick wall and sees no way to get over or under, he emits it few sharp yelps aud calls It a crisis.— Baltimore Suu.