THE TURNER TRIBUNE
VOL.
TIJK N KH, O It BOON, TH U RSD AY, M A Y
VI I I .
WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resurre Most Important
Daily News Items.
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Kvaata o f Noted People, (.ovrrnm roU
•ad Pacific N o r t h « » ! , and Other
T k l i p Worth K ao*tag.
C. W. lloruor, proprietor of a (turn
at tbo Hoauburg. Ur*., ramp (round.
Tuesday received through tha mall hla
« I f « ' , «oddlu g ring and a highly prli
od hooch atolou from hla homo 11
jroara ago.
Caught I d a (0 mile galo In l.ak«
Superior Sunday, tbo wooden steamer
Orinoco foundered and went down
with a loan of four of her craw.
Tbo chlorine gaa treatment for colda.
ona of tbo discoveries of the chemical
warfare service. waa taken by l*re«i
deut Coolldge Tuesday In an effort to
remove the remaining trarea of the
bronchial Infection which confined
him to the W’ hlta House last Saturday
and Sunday and star# baa troubled
him allgbtly.
Tbo rulna of an old aynagogue In
Capernaum, tha !*a!«atlnlaa village
• hero Jesua first preached to the
Jews, were unearthed Tuesday, ac
cording to a cablo from Haifa, from
the Danish scholar, Dr. Sommerfleld.
who la carrying on excavation« In that
region.
Tbe right of women to a vo le « In
the government In tha Treabyterlan
church In tha United States was sus
tained by tbe llt h general assembly
at Han Antonio. Tea.. Tuesday. Tbe
assembly vuted to permit womon to bo
elected to Important executive com
mlttees.
Another record baa been added to
the list o f achievements o f Oregon
bred Jersey cattle by the lung distance
swim performed recently by four
belter calves belonging to Ham Car
son of llenulston. Tbe four swam a
distance of nine miles down an Irri
gation ditch.
Lieutenant llosaoutrot. French avia
tor, broke the altitude record for a
plane carrying 3000 kilograms In his
flight on Saturday. It waa officially
confirmed Tuesday.
H e rose l l U
meters, breaking the record o f 1(29
meters set by Lieutenant 11. Harris of
the United Stales.
The Indictment of Senator Wheeler,
democrat, Montana, by a federal grand
Jury !u hla own slate was Justified by
the evidence, Kenator Sterling, repub
lican. South Dakota, a member of th>
special
senate Investigating
com
mittee. asserted In a minority report
read Monday to the senate.
Tbe lifting of restrictions In the
Method let church law against amuse
menta. Including only “ dlvorsiona
which cannot be taken In tbe name
of the Lord Jeans," were recommend
ed by a standing committee o f the
Methodist Episcopal general confer
ence In Springfield, Mas«.. Monday.
That a superior court Judge as a
peace officer has the right to carry a
weapon was the contention of Super
lor Judge Hlrurktneyur of Maricopa
county, Arisons, Tuesday, who dis
missed a complaint against Superior
Judge Abbey of Final county, charg
ing the Jurist with carrying a pistol.
Itnpubllcan members of the senate
foreign relations committee were told
by President Coolldge at the Whitt
House conference Tuesday that his
position with reference to the world
court question was the same as In
dlcated In hla message on the subject
and In various statements since made.
The Gooding bill, restricting the In
terstate commeroe commlaslon In Its
application of the loOfc and short haul
of tho Interstate commerce act, waa
passed by the senate Monday, (4 to
23. The bill la thdhOrst Important one
on railroad questions passed at this
session by the senate and concludes
a ffkht carried on more than 20 years
by the Intermountain rate territories.
The measure had been under debate
for a week.
li>a $10,000,000 agricultural credit
corporation,
originally
tentatively
formed In Chicago at the suggestion
o f President Coolldge for the relief of
the agricultural northwest, already has
come to the relief of more than 1(0
banka In North and South Dakota.
Montana, Iowa and Minnesota, It waa
disclosed Tuesday by James R. How
ard, a vice-president of fhe organisa
tion and president of the National
Transportation Institute. The corpora
tion has been In actual operation
scarcely more than a month.
SIGN S JAP E X C L U S I O N B I L L
Coolldge Derides on Measure aa Whole
Approval la Itelurtanl.
Washington. D C. Prvaldeut Cool
Idge deploring Its provision for Jap
anese exclusion, but heartily approv
ing Its main features. Monday signed
tho Immigration bill.
Steps were taken Immediately by
the department of labor to prepare for
administration of tbs law, which pro
vIdea for further resM ctlon of Immi
gration after Juna 30 when the exist
ing quotation law expires and for total
exclusion of Japanesn Immigration
ufler lhat dale.
The president approved the bill re
luctantly, Issuing a statement after
ha had affixed hla signalurs in which
he said bo regretted the Impossibility
of severing from the measure the ex
elusion provision which he and Hecre
lary lluahea had opposed strongly dur
lug tho course of the legislation
through congress.
"T h ere Is scarcely any ground for
disagreement as to the result we want,
but this method o f securing It la un
necessary and deplorable at this time,"
the president said with reference to
the exclusion section. “ I f the exrlu
alon provision aiuutL alone 1 should
disapprove It without hesitation, 'If
sought In this way at this tim e "
Tbv president pointed out that the
bill pul before him waa a compre
hensive art dealing with tbe whole
subject of Immigration and setting up
Improved administrative machinery
and also that the existing act auto
m allraliy expires June 10.
" I must, therefor«, consider the bill
aa a whole and the Imperative need
ef the country for legislation of this
geueral character.” he added. "F o r
this reason the bill la approved."
Occasion waa taken by tha president
In hla statement lo declare (hat he
gladly recognised that the enactment
of the exclusion provision "doea not
Imply any change In our sentiment of
admiration and cordial friendship for
the Japanese people, a sentiment
vhk-h has had and will continue to
have abundant manifestation.”
Secretary Hughes, who had opposed
vigorously the proposal to exclude
Japanese Immigrants by law, holding
that exclusion should be accompllsh-
«d by diplomatic arrangement, con
'erred with the president Just before
the bill waa approved.
1'ropom nts of Japanese exclusion In
mngreaa expressed gratification over
the signature of the hill by (he presl
dent, although they had held that
shuuld the executive veto (he measure
they
could
command
sufficient
strength to pass it over hla veto. Chair
man Johnson o f the house Immigration
committee, one of the strongest of the
exclusion advocates, called at tbe
White House after the bill was ap
proved and waa presented with the
pen with which the president had
signed the measure.
Masanan llanlhara, Uio Japanese
ambassador, whose note of April 11
auggeeilng the possibility of "grave
consequences” If the exclusion sec
tion wax adopted had the effect of
making an Isiue of the exclusion
clause, called at the state department
after the president had signed the bill
The ambassador waa furnished with
a copy of tho president's statement,
but at the Japanca« embassy It was
said be would have no statement to
make "at this time.”
T A X C OM P R O M I S E
V O T E D BY H O U S E
JAPANESE HONOR
II. S. M FLIERS
Transpacific Flight
Declared
Epochal by Japs.
MEN EAGER TO BE OFF
Next Prw Days to lie I’aaaed in Tun
eeeeeec
STATE N E W S !
IN BRIEF.
j T he R ed Lock
Eugene The governor of Arixona
has refused to sign tbe requisition
papers for L - v lii Arnold, under ar
rest at Phoenix and «ranted here for
alleged larceny by bailee of two dia
mond rings.
By D AVID A N D E R SO N
Author o f " T h e Blu« k iooa”
Gust on Orton Hortne and Swede
I-alaen. farmer buys uf Gaslun, receiv
ed $130 fur six gunuysacks of Gbit-
tain Imrk. representing two weeks' {
work In tbe woods. They sold it in ,
Portland.
Salem.—Copies o f the proposed new j
ing Up Craft for Leap Over
slate Income lax bill to be Initiated by j
Sea lo Chinese Coast.
the state grange at tbe November !
election have been printed, and tbe
necessary petitions w ill be placed In '
circulation within the next fe w days.
Toklo
The American army around
tho-world filers, after a busy round of
entertainment In Toklo, during wblcb
they received much praise for their
achievement In croestng the Pacific,
left Hunday by rail fur Kasuinlgaura
with the announcement that they
would bo glad to "get back to work"
In preparation for the resumption of
Ihelr flight.
Japanese, Rritlsh and American of
flclals Joined tn paying trlbuts to the
aviators after tbetr arrival here from
Kaaunilgaura.
where they landed
Thursday. T b elr planet were left at
Kasumlgaura. Tbe aviators said they
expected to apeod four or fiv e days
overhauling their craft and to hap off
from Kushlmoto next Friday or Satnr
day.
An elaborata Japanese banquet at
the famous Maple club, at which Idea
tenant General Yaaumltau. chairman of
the Joint army and nary reception
committee
.was
boat,
concluded
Toklo’a program of entertainment. Of
fleers of high rank In tbe army and
navy were present, as were also mem
hers of the staff of the United States
embassy.
General YaaumltaB ym grat ulated
(he aviators on the auccess of tbelr
Glght thus far. American Ambassador
Woods also spoke.
Hunday afternon the filers were re
ceived by Prince Kuml, honorary presi
dent of the Imperial Aviation society.
Tho prince congratulated tbe Am er
icana In behalf of the Imperial family.
"Y ou r glory la shared by the whole
of mankind." the aviators were told
this morning by Yoshlnao Koaal, presl
dent of the Toklo Imperial university,
In an address at the university. The
minister of education attended this
meeting which was under auspices of
(he university and the Aeronautical
Research association of Japan.
Eight Are Drowned in Lake.
Spokane, Wash. — Eight persons
were drowned In Christina lake, Brl
(Ish Columbia, when a launch In which
ten persona were riding brokp uprfrl
Hunday afternoon, according to word
rocelvod here. The dead are: Daniel
Knglund and son Danny of Wenat
chee; Ruth Sturman, school teacher.
Colville, Wash.; Axet Carlson. Cas
cade, B. C.; Ben Johnson. Cascade, B
C .; Knutn Palm. Hiltop, B. C.;■ Mc
Donald, K ettle Falla. W ash , and
Skamds, Cascade, B. C. A man nam
ed Ferguson and his sister of Kettle
Falls were rescued. Knglund for ten
years was In charge of a <00 acre apple
orchard at Klllsford. near Orovtlle,
Wash. Recently he was In charge of
an irrigation project at Cascade.
Bogus Coin Plant Found.
Washington, D. C.—Tho tax reduo
tlon bill was put up to President Cool
ldge for final enactment Into law Mon
day by congress.
Like the senate, the house, by an
overwhelming majority, approved the
conference compromise on the main
provisions. The vote was 376 to 9.
An early decision by the president
wns forecast by those cloao to him
on the bnsla oi ils Insistent demands
that congress hasten action on tax re
duction.
The bill provides for a 2b per cent
reduetlon on income taxes payable
this year; permanent revision down
ward of the Income, miscellaneous and
excise taxes; additional reduction
after this year of >S per cent on earn
ed Incomes of $10,000 and under, and
numerous changos In the administra
Hon provisions, most of which were
proposed by the treasury.
Although carrying the democratic
proposal for reductions In tho Income
ralea, the bill was acclaimed by load
ers of both partlea In the house, as
was done also In the senate, as “ fair
and Just.”
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Portland, Or.—In a liquor raid Sun
day night on the home o f W F Jen
nings, (436 Kaat Highly first street
Houlheast. members of the police vice
squad came upon a complete counter
felter«’ outfit and arrested fiv e per
sons who were turned over to W . S.
McHwaln. federal agent, pendltg In-
vestlgatlon. Those arrested were: Mr.
and Mrs. W. F. Jennings, Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Jennings and Luke Jen
nlngs. Officers reported that all para
phnrnalia necessary for making $10
gold coins, $1 coins and 60-cent and 10-
rent pieces was found tn the home. In
cluding acids, chemicals, moulds and
metals of various kinds. The raiding
officers found no liquor In the house.
Four Burned to Death.
LM>, 1»‘J4
’ Eugene.— Nine p ^ ltton . containing
mure than 600 signatures asking that
an election be ordered for tile recall
uf Wllttard A. Elkins and Mrs. Roy
Luonils, members o f tbe school board,
have been filed with the school clerk |
here.
Albany The lark of rain in this
section Is seriously damaging tbe
spring j?ruin and to some extent the
fall grain. Clover also is being dwarf-
ed by the lack o f moisture. Farmers
are fearing a repetition of a failure o f
spring crops such aa struck the valley
several years ago.
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Salem.- Modification of (he quaran ,
line against California producta prob
ably w ill be modified In a proclama
tion to be Issued here. This was an
nounced by Governor Pierce Saturday
following a conference with Dr. W. H
Lytle, state veterinarian and secretary
of tbe state livestock sanitary board
Pendleton.—The sale o f wool at
Pilot Rock, originally set for Satur
day, May 31, has been postponed un
t.l Tuesday, June 3, according to a
statement by Mac Hoke, secretary of
the Oregon W ool Growers' association
Approximately 400,000 pounds of wool
will be offered at auction at the sale
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TH K BOUND BOY
T h rs s «e n e r e tlo n e a g o Ilfs on
tbs banks o f Dig W abash w as tbs
Ilfs of tb s fr o r m s r — o f tbs back-
woods — o f ths ou tposts uf civili
sation. I J fs th srs w as sim plu—
and strsnueus. Msn w srs stro n g
and
tbo
p r im itiv e
«m o tio n s
swsrod them And th is Is s tola
o f Lbs dsrs o f ou r g ra n d fa th e rs
and e f those conditions.
D a v id Anderson, s n s tlv s o f
th is region , kn ow s it as tsw do.
I l l s "B lu e M oon." w h ich told o f
tbs p earl fishers, w ee a g roa t
sueasaa. "T h s Ked L o c k " tsk o s
up a tim e a lit tle is t e r — w hen tbs
p earl fishers w ere g iv in g place to
perm anent settlers. It Is a ta le o f
tbs F la tw ood e .
T e e : w s h ev# no can al c o n
stru ction In th is story. T h s red
lock Is a lock o f b s lr rec u rrin g la
tbs g en e ra tio n s o f ths C olin s— on
In b o rlta n co from s p lrs t# ances
to r w h o even In those d a r e w as
reg a rd ed as s o u ndesirab le e ltl-
saa.
A n d th is red lock played
tha m isc h ief w ith a n y C olin so
adorned
Bo w s h ov e K e n C olin, who
m y sterio u sly
disappeared.
rede
lock end a ll; T r s le . hla p re tty
end lo y a l sis te r: B ig J a ck — hound
hay w h o lo v e s T e sts, and variou s
red -blood ed pio n eer people w ho
a re In vo lved tn tha resu lts o f ths
rea p p ea ra n ce o f ths red lock.
N a tu re lo v e r s and woodsm an
w tu find much hera tn in terest
them. F o r the au th or Is clo se to
n a tu r a e heart and his pages
sh ow his relation sh ip .
And B ig
Jack is an adept In w ood cra ft,
w ith an efllctant a y s fo r an e n
em y's t r a il and the quickness o f
tha w ild a n im al life o f tha F la t-
wooda
C H APTE R I
Tha Bound Boy.
A girl came out of tbe back yard of
a red-roofed cottage at the up-stream
Eugene.— Lark BUyeu, pioneer at edge of Buckeye, passed around a
torney of Eugene, for many years rather tastefully built barn, with Its
prominent in democratic pgrty activi Itank’nl; cribs and pens, crossed tha
fallow pasture lot In a corner of which
ties In Oregon and 33d-degree Mason,
It stood, climbed the fence and picked
died at the Pacific Christian hospital
her way up the face of tbe cliffs that
here Saturday at the age of 72. Today roughly wallad tha village od three
was his birthday. He Is survived by aides, until she stood at last smoug
his widow and one son, Coke I. lillyeu j tha Jagged and broken pinnacles at
Salem.— Three fatalities were due j tha top of Black rock, a lighter speck
to industrial accidents in Oregon dur against tha gray greeu background of
ing the week ending May 23, accord- | tho Flatwooda.
ing to a report prepared here by the | Away beyond the bend »h e ro the
placid Wabash lost Itself among the
state indnstri.il accident commission. '
bills tha sun crawled toward the rim
The victims included Carl Mathias.
of the Weet. Pendant above tbe dis
Holbrook, laborer; William A. Bal ’ tant timber line its round splendor,
lard. Albany, laborer, and Clemejit burnished bright by ,lh e wonder of
Oster. Bend, falter.
May, turned a lingering glance at tba
Salem.— “ When ft coats more to aerena world.
But tha girl was not watching the
market products through a co-opera !
tire organisation than through the sunset. The splendor of tbe wide
present marketing system, that organ spread landscape at her feet was lost
on her.
isation will never get very far.” This ^
Crawling out from under the sunset
was set out In a letter prepared by C. |
halving tha village and winding away
K. Spence, stato market agent, which up tha river between cliff and bottom,
was received at the executive depart
ran the River road, the one slim
ment here recently.
artery that connected Buckeye with
Medford.—Accordln to a telegram the great world outside the Flatwooda
The girl's eye« were on the road.
received Saturday by the Rogue River
V alley Canning company, the Cali Far up the river— twenty miles of
fornia Pear Growers' association has gravel and gray sand— it led to the
etty. On clear days she had some
announced the opening price for
times made out the haxy whiteness of
Bartletta for canning purposes as fol
Its roots and spires— the gateway of
lows: No. 1 grade. $55 per ton; No. another world—a world that the er
2 grade. $32 50 per ton. The price rant fancies of girlhood peopled with
last year waa $50 and $25.
many a wonder.
Sevan years ago to a day she had
Albany.— The home o f Mrs. Jennie
K elley In north Albany was destroyed stood there and w-atched the Milford
by fire Friday. Mrs. K elley, who had stage carry her brother away to the
lived in the house for the last 45 years, and o f that road— through the dim-
is blind. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kelley
lived with the aged woman and Work
ed her farm. Only hy courageous fight
ing was (he Albany fire department
able to save tho barn and other out
buildings.
Baker.— W hile a large part of
Raker's population wns attending the
baseball game with W elser. five
prisoners escaped from tho Baker
county jail about 3 o'clock Sunday
afternoon. They broke out through the
roof of the courthouse and easily
reached the ground. Search waa start
ed within an hour. Farmers and near
by cltloe were notified by telephone.
Cottage Grove.— Mrs. George Kap-
pauf claims the honor for the first gar
den peas for the season. She served
them upon the fam ily table uopn May
21, which is somewhat early even tn
this favored portion o f the famous
fertile, fruitful W illam ette. Peas are
going to be a good crop this year. So
fnr weather conditions have been ideal
anil there have been no aphids to
bother them.
Pocatello, Idaho. — Mrs. Isaac Ko-
vene and her three sons, aged 4, 6 and
*, were burned to death early Satur
day when their home at Georgetown.
Idaho, near Montpelier, was destroy
ed hy tire. An Infant girl was found
hy neighbors some distance from the
burned home and It Is believed Mrs.
Kovene carried the baby to safety and
then was trapped when she entered
Salem. -Dairymen of Marion county
Sentanca Glvan Girl.
the burning borne to reacue her at a meeting held acre Saturday night
nakerafletd, Cal. Eleanor Walling. sons.
went on record opposed to the refer
20, who confessed to being a principal
endum o f the so-called oleomargarine
In the holdup of the State bank of
Toulouse, France. — "Somebody law enacted at the last session of the
Taft, waa sentenced to serve an In smashed a basket of eggs In front of legislature.
The law prohibits the
determinate term at Han Quentin peni your store," said a well-dressed strang sale o f oleomargarine In the state and
tentiary by Judge II. A. Poalrs Mon er to the proprietor of a Jewelry shop is being attacked by the asaoclated In
day. In her confession Mias W alling In (he Place President W ilson Satur dustries of Oregon, wl;h headquarters
Implicated “ Scotty” T aylor and Illll day. The Jeweler took a broom and In Portland. Enactment of the oleo
Crockett aa being the two who entered went out to clean up the mesa. When margarine law was one of the out
the bank March 13 and at the muxxles he returned the atranger had vanished standing features o f the 1923 legisla
of guns relieved employes of $5700. and so had a rase containing 100,000 ture. and was preceded by numerous
Taylor has confessed.
franca’ worth of Jewels.
debates nod public hearings.
- q A Tale
o f the
Flatwoods
•«van Years Age Today Shs Stoq^
Thar« and Watched tha Milford
•tags Carry Her Brother Away to
tha Knd af the Road.
aptred gateway and out Into the great
world beyond. The East— It swallows
up many a man of the West. It had
•wallowed her brother np. It never
gave him back.
The eye«, grown pensive, turned
slowly to tha upstanding pinnacle of
sandstone, polished smooth by a thou
sand winds, allva In the hronxe glow
that struck up from the distant riffle.
Three nainee had been rudely carved
there, one above the other, zo long ago
that storm and frost had begun to ob
literate them.
Tba girl picked op a piece o f rugged
shale and with a sharp corner scraped
clean each knife stroke, till the three
names stood out clear as the day they
»e r a first carved there;
KEN
T K X IB
JACK
She dropped the piece o f shale;
thoughtfully passe-1 her fingers over
the name« and glanced down at the
foot of the upstanding pinnacle. In
a sheltered pocket o f the great rock,
where only tbe tempered rays of the
tun could strike it. lay a tiny bed of
leaf mold set with dumps of yellow
orchids not yet abloom— "lady slip
pers," In tha quaint and expressive
vernacular o f the Wabash country—
that bad doubtless been transplanted
from the deep woods
The girl stooped above the tiny Sow
er bed—a friendly «pot In Ita setting
of stern rocks; plucked away an ob
trusive weed or tw o; let her sobered
eye« «tray back to the red-roofed cot
tage, serosa a small orchard that lay
spread at her feet, and out over the
rather pretentious farmstead to which
the orchard belonged.
Pretentious—Just that; a promise of
comfort and affluence never fulfilled.
There was every evidence that the
farmstead had been laid out on a scale
much more elaborate than was usual
In the Flatwooda, but nothing bad
been finished— an attempt that failed;
a dream that never came true.
Outlined among the weeds and en
croaching brambles lay tha extensive
foundation of the farmhouse, but It
had been carried little beyond the
foundation. A few sills— huge squared
log«, cut and hewed In tbe upland
woods— had been laid. O f the few
timbers of the superstructure, some
bad fallen entirely, others bad fallen
at ona end and hung straining, while
even the firmest canted far out of
plumb.
Back of this creaking skeleton of
time-blackened timbers, and nearer the
cliff, stood a mite wf a log cabin, rude
ly constructed, where doubtless a man
bad housed while dreaming bis un
finished dream of bouse and bams and
happy homestead. Rooted beside the
door and almost completely covering
the cabin, a crimson rambler of many
years' growth— a far wanderer that no
surroundings can degrade— offered a
fragrant suggestion that a woman had
shared the dreams of the man.
Three horces grazed In the bam lot
down near a big elm that Stood at tbe
roed g a te ; some geese squatted along
tbe diminutive rivulet leading from
tbe spring; out In tbe feed lot lolled
e bunch o f cattle, fine aud thrifty as
could have been seen the length of
the Wabash.
The eye* o f flie girl suddenly waked
from brooding; darted to a point a
short distance up tbe c liff; livened.
The alouch hat and drab corduroy
hunting blouse of e tall young woods
man with an Immense spread of shoul
der had flitted past a break In the
bushes as he sprang down the «Jeep
and rugged path that picked its way
among the rocks from the uplands.
She was Just tn time to see him reach
up, put hla hand ou the top rati of
the fence and vault over into the bam
lot. . The girl missed a breath. Few
men In the Flatwoods could have made
that leap.
Down by the big elm at the road
gate one Of the horses, a powerful
gelding, glossy black save for one
white lock In his foretop, raised hla
head; came trotting up the lot. The
big woodsman put his arm about the
arched neck; laid hla face against fhe
glossy man« and stroked the soft uosel
"Good ol’ Oraylock 1“ he muttered—
"bound T free, t‘ you a man's a man— "
• g shadow subdued the bold frank
ness o f hts face, as a chance cloud
draws seres« a fair field; be gazed
hard at the wind-staggered akeleton
of tbe unfinished farmhouse.
His roving Vye’.’ Tollowing the glow
of approaching sunset, found the girl
upon the'rock', her pliant Body softly
outlined against the silver-green back
ground of the woods.
"Texle— w'y— f*
In another moment he was racing
up tlje cliff. The girl was waiting for
hhu "by the upstanding pinnacle of
sandstone, a half sadness In her eyes
that gradually subdued the eagerness
in his. He laid hla b'lg hand on her
shoulder; slid It down te r arm and
gathered her fingers In his great palm.
Thera waa not even a twitch o f re
sponse.
He dropped the fingers,
backed away a step and stood study
ing her.
"Jack— T Do y’u know what day
tbla la)"
He puzzled to find tbe answer she
doubtless had In mind; finally ven
tured tba only one he could think of
"Tuesday, May 10th, 1B49."
She flared around at him. "You
know that ain't wbat 1 mean.”
The girl pointed to the carved
namee on the monolith of sandstone
He followed the motion; stepped past
her and ran hts hand over tbe three
namee, lingering an Instant over the
middle one.
"Pore Kao— ” ha muttered, ”— ba
could
be'n anything be wanted to.
«'most.”
Tha girl's eyes flinched and tumad
back to tha dim frayed end of tbe
roed; the man stood silent.
"Seven years ago t’day,” she mused,
"you aud me stood up here on Black
rock and watched the Milford stage
haul 'tin away off yonder to the etty,
and out In the big world t' college,
and then we— cut them name«— ”
She paused. He seemed to feel that
an answer was expected o f him. but
made none.
"T w o year* we got letters— wonder
ful ones at first.
1 Tow you ain’t
frg o t how we use' P coma up here—
you and me— and read ’em.” She
spoke more to herself than to him.
"Then the letters got fewer and farth
er b’tween. till fln ly they got s’ tri
flin' ther* wasn't no satisfaction In
glttln' 'em.
"Then, y'u know, that terrible one
come from the president o f the col
lege, tailin' how awful—Ken waa car-
ryln' on, and advisin’ father t' take
'lm home. But he never couie, and a
And What Word Could Alter tha Starn
Fact That Ha Wna a Bounty B a y -
Bound Out to Har Own Father.
little while afterwards the president
writ another letter, tellln’ how Ken
had—killed a man and run away fYotu
school, leavin’ all them debts. That
was five years ago— and the last wa
ever bear'd— "
It la curious and Interesting how
some o f the greatest names of tbe
Anglo-Saxon race have lodged, like
river drift, along the byways and wa
terways of what was once the great
American woods
, Ken, Texle, Jack— the first two Co
lins; the third a Warbope— names that
have been spread w ide on English his
tory. And of the two ancient fam
ilies, probably no purer strain existed
than the far-fltmg thread that had
found lodgment here In this out-cf-
the-wuy corner of the earth—tha great
Flatwooda that seventy years ago
stretched for many an unbroken mile
along tha north bank of the upper
Wabash.
The man swept a hand toward the
distant end of the road. The girl
glanced at him.
“ Ten more days"— there waa a
strained firmness In his voice, as If
what he was about to say came hard
to hlrh—"and I ’m ridin’ out yonder
m'self.”
He felt her eyes upon him.
"Ten more,” he went on. “This la
tha tenth of May. When It’s tha
twentieth. I'll be- twenty-one— and
free. Ten more-el.be'n countin’ ’am.”
A
deep senouquees clouded hia
fa c e ; lie stared dojvn at the warped
skeleton ot the unfinished farmhouse.
The girl fumbled the bit of ribbon at
her waist.
” My father dreamed ttuit dream,’’ ha
went on. ” B' fore It could come true, tha
Seminóles bolted ti*elr reservation and
he dropped everything and rushed
a(Ta/1o tha head of' rWk‘ rangers. You
krtow how he— felt at Okechobee.”
He paused a moment; gripped hla hat
and went on.- "Mother never saw a
well day no more. You know how aha
lingered along down there under the
roee vine till I was twelve. When she
— died. It was found out Pap Simon
had a mor’gage on everything. Ha
foreclosed; bad me— bound out to 'lm ;
and— "
The girl stole a Idok it hla face. It
waa so hard add bitter that she dared
not venture a worjl. And what word
could alte.r. the styrn fact that ha was
a bound boy— bound out to her ova
father?
"W ild and savags and terrible,
like ol’ 'Rvd Colin' must *a’
looked.”
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