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OREGON NEWS OE GENERAL INTEREST
College Stations Inspected.
U. S. Has Free Employment Bureau.
Klamath Falls— “ Resolved, That the
bonding plan for building state roads
in Oregon, as advocated by the advis­
ory board of the State Highway com­
mission, be and is hereby indorsed by
the Tri-State Good Roads association,
and that the Pan-American Road con­
gress, to be held in San Francissco and
Oakland September 13-17, be and is
urged to give the plan its hearty sup­
port and indorsement.”
This resolution was passed at a
meeting of the directors of the Tri-
State Good Roads association, embrac­
ing Oregon, Washington and Califor­
nia, in this city Saturday night during
the visit of the advisory board of the
State Highway commission, Mr. Boos
being executive secretary and Mr.
Worden treasurer of the board.
The project contemplates bonding
the state for $10,000,000 to construct
trunk roads.
The road which will
affect Klamath county most will be a
trunk road from the end of the Colum­
bia Highway down through Central
Oregon to Bend, to Crater Lake, to
Klamath Falls and thence out to the
Pacific Highway.
Ten Cars Box Shooks Sent.
Klamath Falls— Ten cars of box
shooks were shipped from the Klam­
ath Falls freight yards by the Ewauna
Box Factory, each car being valued at
$500.
The Ewauna plant has an­
nounced that it will run all winter this
year, since they have a contract to
work 17,000,000 feet o f lumber into
box material.
The capacity of the
mill is about 1,250,000 feet a month.
The plan to put on a night force has
been abandoned and some o f the con­
tracts turned over to the plant of the
Algona Lumber company, north of this
city.
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Blooded Cattle Arrive.
Baker— Nine head of fine Hereford
cattle from Norway, la., purchased by
George Chandler, arrived in Baker and
were taken out to the Chandler ranch
this week. The cost of the stock was
$10,000.
Three of the animals are
bulls, and six are heifers. O f the first
class, one will tip the beam at 2400
pounds. Mr. Chandler w ill send three
of the new arrivals and some from his
present herd that has produced prize­
winners at the Portland Stock Show,
to the Washington State Fair at North
Yakima and the Spokane Fair.
Bachelor Home Raided.
Eugene— The bachelor apartments
of T. F. McGlynn, a well-to-do resi­
dent, were raided by the sheriff and
McGlynn was arrested on a charge of
violating the local option law. A five-
gallon barrel, nearly two-thirds filled
with whiskey, and a number of bottles
were said to have been confiscated by
the officers.
McGlynn was placed in jail. He is
said to own a large farm 12 miles west
of Eugene. The officers say that fre­
quent visits of friends led to the arrest.
Tw o Gillnetters Fined $50 Each.
Astoria — Antone Lampi, a gill-
netter, and Alfred Nort, his boatpul-
ler, pleaded guilty in the Justice court
to a charge of violating the state fish­
ing laws, and each was fined $50 and
$5 costs, which they paid.
The men
were caught making a drift close to
Cape Disappointment.
Six salmon
which they had in their boat were con­
fiscated. Frank Isotala, another gill-
netter, was released under $55 bail.
Free Reign Given Love,
Oregon City— " I remember the time
when I was young myself,” said Mayor
Jones, when asked if spooning in the
public parks will be prohibited this
summer. The executive added that no
stumbling blocks will be put in love’s
sweet path. Sheriff Wilson made the
same statement. As far as he was
concerned, he declared, he saw no logic
in Portland’s attempt to stop love-
making.
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Crater Lake Travel Record Broken.
Medford — New records for Crater
Lake travel are being made every day.
On Monday all records for tourist
travel from Medford Were broken when
a party of 40 from Lancaster, Pa., left
this city in 10 automobiles to pass two
days at Crater Lake lodge.
Washington, D. C.— Destruction of
the American ship Leelanaw by a Ger­
man submarine drew sharply to the
attention of officials of the United
States government the fact that Ger­
many was insisting on her own inter­
pretation of the Prussian-American
treaty of 1828 in disregard of two
American notes on the subject.
The Leelanaw, from Archangel,
July 8, for Belfast, with a cargo of
flax, was sunk July 25 by a German
submarine off the northwest coast of
Scotland.
All the members of the crew were
saved. They were taken into Kirk
wall in their own boats.
In three instances of American shijw
destroyed or damaged -the Gulflight
the Nebraskan and the William P
Frye— Germany has agree«! to pay
damages.
In the last case the Berlin
government took the position that it
had not violated the treaty o f 1828,
but had exercised a right given her by
inference from the language in the
pact. Officials of the Washington gov­
ernment were apprised of the destruc­
tion of the Leelanaw, but beyond add­
ing another incident to the already
strained relations between the two
governments, there was no indication
that the case would lead to a new turn
in the general situation.
The fact that the members of the
crew were saved caused a relief in offi­
cial circles, but there were many evi­
dences of apprehensions that if Ger­
many continues to promise payment,
yet destroys more American ships, a
new situation might be created which
would require further warning to the
Berlin government.
The fact that the Leelanaw carried
a cargo of flax, declared contraband by
Germany on April 18,does not alter the
view of the United States government
that the contraband might have been
removed and the vessel spared. Under
the general rules of international law,
the destruction of a neutral vessel
carrying contraband was not admitted
until the famous “ night commander”
case in the Russo-Japanese war.
The United States government here­
by notifies faarmers, ranchmen, stock-
men, fruit growers, hop raisers and all
other employers that through the Em­
ployment Branch of the Department of
Labor it is prepared to furnish free of
charge workers in any number, male
or female, skilled or unskilled, native-
born or foreigners, English-speaking
or those o f alien tongue.
The government’s employment serv­
ice is a national affair, with branches
in every large city of the United
States. Through an interchange of
information between these numerous
offices, all the various districts or
zones are kept advised of labor condi­
tions throughout the country. I f op­
portunities for work can not be filled
by the district in which they originate,
they are referred to other branches for
action.
A large number of men and women
have registered for work at the Port­
land branch.
From this number it
should not be difficult to secure help of
any particular kind.
Many of those
who have found employment through
the government’s service are English-
speaking aliens who have had thorough
agricultural training and experience in
their native lands.
Their thrift and
steadiness, together with their knowl­
edge of intensive cultivation, makes
them valuable as farm hands in this
country.
The government is particularly well
fitted to supply seasonal labor, such as
berry and apple picking and packing,
hop picking, grain harvesting and
other tasks that require the concentra­
tion of a large number of hands for a
short but busy season.
This was demonstrated in the Hood
River valley during the recent straw
berry harvest, for which the govern
ment employment branch supplied the
majority of pickers, an inspector being
detailed to Hood River to personally
supervise the distribution of workers.
Arrangements have already been made
to register hop pickers for the ap­
proaching harvest, and applications
are now aeing received from the grow­
ers for parties of pickers to be sup­
plied at the opening of the season.
Washington, D. C.— A definite step
Any postmaster or agent of the de­
toward settling the Mexican problem
partment of Agriculture is authorized
will be taken by the United States
to receive applications for help from
government in the near future. Au­
employers or requests for work from
thoritative announcement to this effect
those desiring same. Or, better still,
was made at the State department, al­
such applicantions may be sent direct
though the nature of the contemplated
to the Employment Branch, Depart­
action was not disclosed.
President
ment of Labor, 424 Railway Exchange
Wilson is understood to be revolving
Building, Portland, Oregon, by which
several suggested courses in his mind.
office they will be promptly acknowl­
His decision probably will not become
edged.
known before his return to Washing­
ton from Cornish, N. H.
Delay of Line Arouses.
Mr. Wilson is known to have been
Roesburg—Chagrined at the attitude reviewing the situation for some time,
of a few Roseburg citizens who, by le­ the warring Mexican factions having
gal procedure, are attempting to block failed to heed his suggestion o f two
the progress of Roseburg’s proposed months ago that they accommodate
railroad and sawmill, several hundred their differences and restore peace in
taxpayers of the city assembeld on the the distressed country. Apparently he
business streets of the city here re­ has determined that the other meas­
cently, where they held an indignation ures which the W’ ashington govern­
ment announced it must take if the
meeting.
Among the speakers were O. H. battle of the factions continued must
Porter, representative, and Charles now be resorted to.
The President’s
most
probable
Hopkins, an attorney. Both said that
the opposition to the bonds represents course, it is reported, would be to urge
less than 6 per cent of the assessed General Carranza for the last time to
valuation of the city, and that the confer with other faction leaders in an
bonds were originally authorized by a effort to bring about peace. Should
Carranza again refuse this plan, it is
vote of more than 8 to 1.
The meeting was one of the most said efforts will be made to assemble
enthusiastic ever held in Roseburg and other Mexican leaders who will repre­
more than three-fourths of the tax­ sent a majority of the Mexican people.
Such a conference, it was suggested,
payers of the city were represented.
Those opposed to the bonding of the might be held in Northern Mexico, if
city were invited to speak, but none it is possible to free it from military
accepted. The Roseburg Juvenile band interference. I f not, it might be held
across the border in the United States.
furnished music.
The conference would arrange for a
constitutional convention which would
Accidents Many in Week.
plan for an election and establishment
Salem — The State Industrial Acci­ of a government.
dent commission announced that 197
accidents for the week ending July 22
were reported to the department. Two
were fatal. Steve Dencheff, a logger
London— Official dispatches concern­
of North Bend, was drowned, and Wal­ ing the operations along the Euphrates
ter H. Howell, a logger of The Dalles, river in Asiatic Turkey announce that
was killed by being caught in a belt.
the British forces, after rushing and
O f the accidents reported, 93 of capturing the Turkish advance and
those injured were subject to the work­ main entrenched positions, occupied
men’s compensation act, 86 were em­ the town of Nasiriyeh on the morining
ployes of public utility corporations; of July 25.
12 were employes of firms and corpora­
A British gunboat Bhelled the city
tions having rejected the act, and six on the previous night, and the Turks,
were employes of companies not em­ disorganized,
retreated
northward.
ploying persons in hazardous occupa­ The British, during their advance,
tions.
captured 11 guns and two machine
guns. Several hundred prisoners were
Forest Fires Have Begun.
taken and 500 dead Turks were found
La Grande— Forest fires in the tim­ in the main position.
ber beltB of this and Wallowa counties
Mailman's Bicycle To Go.
and grass fires in La Grande indicate
that the month of August will be a
Washington, D. C.— Use of bicycles
busy one for the fire department and
motocytcles in the rural delivery
for the forces combatting forest fires.
service is prohibited by an order just
In the hills and timber belts about La
issued by Postmaster General Burleson
Grande the Union-Wallowa Counties
effective January 1, 1916.
association guardB and lookouts are
In announcing his order, Mr. Burle­
kept constantly at work with flames by
son holds that vehicles of these types
which, fortunately, have to date been
do not have the carrying capacity
in slashings principally.
The biggest
needed for the parcel post service and
one yet discovered by the lookouts on
do not afford necessary protection for
Mount Emily was near Elgin, on In­
the mails in bad weather. The order
dian creek, near the Wisdom mill.
will affect about 8000 carriers who
now use bicycles or motorcycles to
Sheriff Is Not Shocked.
cover their routes.
Roseburg — Acting upon the com­
plaint of Roseburg’s woman juvenile
Vienna Press Doubts U. S.
Vienna, via London— The Neue Freie
officer that many of the bathing suits
worn by women in the Umpqua river Presse expresses itself as unable to
were too abbreviated, Sheriff George understand why the United States re­
Quine recently inspected the public fused Germany’s proposal for protect­
ing the lives of American citizens at
swimming resort near this city.
When he returned he was so pleased sea, and although seeking the sanctity
with what he saw that he purchased a of American passengers, declined the
bathing suit for his little daughter. practical means offered for securing
In his official report to the district at­ this end.
" I t is a question,” the paper says,
torney he said the bahers were garbed
much the same as those at the most "whether the same stiff-neckedness
would be observed against England.”
fashionable seaside resorts.
Oregon Agricultural College. Cor-
vallis — An inspection o f the Eastern
and Central Oregon branch experiment
stations by President W. J. Kerr, of
the Oregon Agricultural college, mem
bers of the board of regents and other
college officers, is now under way
This inspection is being made for the
purpose of estimating more exactly
the progress o f the work in these im­
portant lines of scientific agriculture
as it progresses from year to year.
These inspections^also serve to secure
information upon which the work of
experiment stations, extension and
resident instruction are more closely
related. It requires about two weeks
to make the journey. Following is the
itinerary of the party on its inspection
tour:
Moro station, located nea- Moro,
Sherman county; Hermiston, in the
irrigation section of Umatilla county;
Union, a dairy farming and livestock
experiment station of Union county,
and the Burns station, dealing with
dry land plateau conditions in Harney
county.
In addition to the stations visited
the party stopped at Portland. Baker
City, Ontario, Lakeview, and Kla­
math Falls.
Road Bonds Indorsed.
GERMANY DEFIANT WITH LATE
AMERICAN NOTE, OTflCIALS ADMIT
Definite Step in Mexican Affairs
Promised Soon by High Officials
British Take Turk City.
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ravalry, tiik n t» hi» i|tiart»r» to rnt»« tiy
h»mi » mmhrriiisa tristi terrier pup, ami
iiuMi.» it l ’tt,-houli» Ile ili»»« wlth III*
M»ri|ul»e d'Kw'IIsnac «mi iii»»t» M I«» Ju­
lia Ketlnium], Atuerli un hetre»» II » I» or*
ilered to Alrlt-r» but I» noi «llo w *d to
l»k e » m a n i » or doga
M I»» Itrdmond
l»k e » i'»r » o f rili-lioune, alio, lonslns for
hi» master, run» «w a y freni her. T h »
niarqula. pian» to marry .lolla lo tlie l'uc
de Tremotìi. l'Itehoune fo llo «» Huhron to
Alglera. dog and niaator miei, and Salirmi
»e t» nernilaalmi to k.ep hi» ilo* wlth hltn
T h » P u r de Tremotìi nuda th» American
lielreaa oaprlcluu»
Huhron. wounded In
aa engagement, full» luto thè dry hed of
a rlver and 1» «ntehed over by Pltchoun».
After a borritilo nl«ht und dnv Pltchoun»
trave» hltn Tremont take» Julia and th»
maruut»» to A laici*» In III» vachi hot ha»
dnubta ahout Julia’» Red Oro»» mlaalon.
After Imi* »earch Julia «e t» i r a i » of Ha-
bron’» whereuhouta
Julia for t h » mo­
ment lurn» matclimaker In behalf o f T re ­
motìi
Hamutet Abolì teli» th» M a r­
quise w hcr» h» thlnk» Hahron tnay b»
found
Tremont decide» to «u wlth Itam.
met Ahou to flnd Hnbrmi litrhoutir fimi»
» v illa *», twelve huuri Journey away. and
toiiiehow make» Katmi Anni underatand
h i » master’» despernt» pll*ht. Huhron 1»
resi-ned by th» v it i»«» men but «r o w »
weaker wtthout proper caro.
CHAPTER XXIII,
Two Love Stories.
If It had not been for her absorbing
thought of Sabron. Julia would have
reveled In the desert and the new ex­
periences. As It was. Its charm and
magic and the fact that he traveled
over It helped her to endure the Inter­
val.
In the deep Impenetrable silence she
teemed to hear her future speak to
her. She believed that It would either
he a wonderfully happy one, or a hope-
essly withered life.
’’Julia, I cannot ride any farther!”
sxclalmed the comtease.
She was an excellent horsewoman
knd had ridden all her life, but her
riding of late had consisted of a can
ter In the Bola d# Boulogne at noon,
»nd It was sometimes hard to follow
lulla’s tireless gallops toward an ever
llsappearing goal.
’ FYirglv- me.’’ said Miss Redmond,
and brought her horse up to her
friend's side.
It was the cool of the day, of the
fourteenth day since Tremont had left
Algiers and the seventh day of Julia's
excursion
A fresh wind blew from
the west, lifting their veils from their
felmets and bringing the fragrance of
the mimosa Into whose .»canty forest
they had ridden. The sky paled to­
ward sunset, and the evening star,
second In glory only to the moon,
hung over the west.
Although both women k i.e w per­
fectly well the reason for this excur­
sion and Its Importance, not one word
had been spoken between them of
Sabron and Tremont other than a
natural Interest and anxiety.
They might have been two hospital
nurses awaiting tbelr patients.
They halted their horses, looking
over toward the western horizon and
Its mystery. "The star al.lnes over
their caravan,” mused Madame de la
Maine (Julia had not thought Therese
roetlcal), "as though to leac* them
home.”
Madame de ia Maine turned her face
and Julia saw tears In her eyes. The
Frenchwoman's control wai. usually
perfect, she treated most things with
mocking gayety. The bright softness
of her eyes touched Julia.
“ Therese!” exclaimed the Ameri­
can girl. "It Is only fourteen days!”
Madame de la Maine laughed. There
was a break In her voice. "Only four­
teen days.” she repeated, “anil any
one of those days may mean death!”
She threw back her head, touched
her stallion, and flew away like light,
and It was Julia who first drew rein.
‘Therese!
Therese!
We cannot
go any farther!”
’Lady!” said Azrael. He drew his
big black horse up beside them. "W e
must go back to the tents."
Madame de la Maine pointed with
her whip toward the horizon. "It Is
cruel! It ever recedes!"
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“ Tell me, Julia, of Monsieur de j
Sabron,” asked Madame de la Maine j
abruptly.
“ There is nothing to tell. Therese.’’
“ You don’t trust me?"
"Do you think that, really?"
In the tent where Azrael nerved
them their meal, under the celling of
Turkish red with its Arabic charac­
ters in clear white, Julia and Madame
de la Maine sat while their coffee was
served them by a Syrian servant.
'A girl does not come’ Into the Sa­
hara and watch like a sentinel, does
not suffer as you have suffered, ma
chore, without there being something
to tell.”
"It Is true,” said Miss Redmond,
and would you be with me, Therese.
If I did not trust you? And what d*
you want me to tell?” she added
naively.
The comtesse laughed.
"Vous etes charmante, Julia!"
"T met Monsieur de Sabron,” said
Julia slowly, “ not many months ago In
Tarascon. I saw him several times,
and then he went away.”
"And then?" urged Madame de la
Maine eagerly.
‘He left his little dog, Pttchoune,
with me, and Pltcnoune ran after hla
master, to Marseilles, flinging himself
Into the water, and was rescued by
the sailors. I wrote about It to Mon­
sieur de Sabron, and he answered me
from the desert, the night before he
went into battle."
“ And t’ at'» all?” urged Madame de
la Maine.
“ That’» all." said Miss Hodmoud.
She drunk her coffee.
“ You tell a love story very badly,
mu chere.” «
“ Is It a love story?"
“ Have you come to Africa for char­
ity? Voyons!"
Julia was silent. A great reserve
seemed to seize her heart, to stifle
her an the poverty of her love story
■truck her. She sat turning her cof-
fee spoon between her Angers, her
eye» downcast. She had ver* little
to tell. She might never have any
BUIVe to tell. Yet thin was her love
story. But the presence of Sabron
was so real, and »he saw his eyes
clearly looking upon her as sho had
seen them often; heard the sound of
hi» voice that meant but one thing—
nnd the word* of his letter came back
to her. She remembered her letter
to him, rescued from the field where
he had fallen. She raised her eyes to
the Comtesse de la Maine, and there
wan an appeal In them.
The Frenchwoman leaned over and
kissed Julia. She asked nothing more.
She had not learned her leaaona In
discretion to no purpose.
At night they sat out In the moon­
light, white as day, and the radiance
over tho sands was like the snow-
flowers. Wrapped In their warm cov­
erings, Julia and Therese de la Maine
Iky on the rugs before the door of
their tent, and above their heada
shone the stars so low that It seemed
us though their hands could snatch
them from the sky. At a little dis­
tance their servants »at around the
dying Are. and there came to them the
plaintive song of Azrael, .is he led
their singing:
And who ran give again th« love o f yea*
terday ?
Tan a whirlwind replace the earn! a f te r It
la scattered?
W h a t cun h**;»l the heart that Allah haa
smitten?
Can the mirage form again when there
are no ey«*a to aeo?
“1 was married,” said Madame de la
Maine, "when I was sixteen."
Julia drew a little nearer and smiled
to herself In the shadow.
This would be a real love story.
"I had just come out of the con­
vent. Wo lived In an old chateau,
older than the history of your coun­
try, ma chere, and I had no doL Rob­
ert de Tremont and I used to play to­
gether In the allees of the park, on
the tirrace. When his mother brought
him over when she called on my
grandmother, he teased me horribly
because the weeds grew between the
to bed, and 1 went down to the Inker
terrace where the weeds grew In
plenty, and told Robert. Homehow, I
did not expect him to inuko fun, ul
though we always joked about every
thing uutll this night. It was aftel
nine o’clock."
The comtesse swept one hand ti>
ward the desert. “ A moon like this—
only not like tble ma chore. There
wus never but that moon to me rut
muny year».
“ 1 thought at flret that Bob would
kill me be grew so white and terrible.
Hu «uemeU suddenly to have uged ten
yours. 1 will never forget Ills cry as It
rang out In the ulght. ‘ You will marry
that old mail when we love each oth­
er?' I had never known It until then.
"W e were only children, but he
grew suddenly old. I knew U then,"
■aid Madame de la Mulue tuleusely, “ I
knew It then."
Sho waited for a long time. Over
the face of the desert there seemed to
be nothing but one veil of light. The
■lleuie grew so Intense, so deep; the
Arabs hud »topped singing, but tbu
heart fairly echoed, and Julia grew
meditative— before her eyes the cara­
van she waited for seemed to come out
of the moonlit mist, rocking, rocking—
the camels and the huddled figure» of
the riders, their shadows cast upou the
aand.
And now Tremont would be forever
changed In her mind. A man who had
suffered from hi» youth, a warm heart­
ed boy, defrauded of hla early love. It
seemed to her that he was a charming
figure to lead Bubrou.
“ Therese,’’ she murmured, "won’t
you tell me?"
“ They thought 1 had gone to bed,"
»aid the Comtesse de la Maine, “ and I
went back to my room by a little stair­
case. seldom used, and I found myself
alone, and I knew what life was and
what It meant to be poor."
"But,” Interrupted Julia, horrified,
"girls are not sold In the twentieth
century.”
"They are sometimes In France, my
dear. Robert was only seventeen. Ills
father laughed at him, threatened to
send him to South America. We were
victims."
“ It was tho harvest moon,” con­
tinued Madame de la Maine gently,
“ and It shone on us every night until
my wedding dny. Then the duke kept
his threat and sent Robert out of
France. He continued his studies In
England and went Into the army of
Africa."
There was a silence again.
"I did not see him until last year,”
■aid Madame de la Malue, “after my
husband died.”
CHAPTER XXIV.
The
M e e t in g .
Under the sun, under the »lurry
nights Tremont, with his burden, Jour­
neyed toward the north. The halts
were distasteful to him, and although
he was forced to rest he would rather
have been cursed with sleeplessness
und have Journeyed on and on. He
rode his camel like a Bedouin; he grew
brown like the Bedouins and under the
hot breezes, swaying on hla desert
■ hip, he sank Into dreamy, moody and
melancholy reveries, like the wander­
ing men of the Buhara. and felt him­
self part of the desolation, as they
were.
“ What will be. will b e!" Hammet
Abou said to him a hundred times, and
Tremont wondered: "W ill Charles live
to see Algiers?"
Babron Journeyed In a litter carried
between six mules, and they traveled
■lowly, slowly. Tremont rode by the
sick man's side dny after day. Not
once did the soldier for any length of
time regain his reason. He would pass
from coma to delirium, and many
times Tremont thought he hud ceased
to breathe. Blender, emaciated under
his covers, Babron lay like the linage
of a soldier In wax—a wounded man
carried as a votive offering to the
altars of desert warfare.
(T O U K C O N T I N U E D . )
At Night They Sat Out In the Moon­
light.
stones of our terrace. He was very
rude.
“ Throughout our childhood, until I
was sixteen, we teased each other
and fought and quarreled.”
“ This is not a love-affair, Therese,"
said Miss Redmond.
“ There are all kinds, ma chere, as
thero are all temperaments," said
Madame de la Maine. "A t Assump­
tion—that Is our great feast, Julia—
the Feast of Mary—It comes lu Au­
gust—at Assumption, Monsieur de la
Maine came to talk with my grand­
mother. He was forty years old, and
bald— Bob and I made fun of his few
hairs, like the children In the Holy
Bible.”
Julia put out her hand and took the
hand of Madame de la Maine gently.
She was getting so far from a love
affair.
” 1 married Monsieur de la Maine In
■lx weeks,” said Therese.
"Oh,” breathed Miss Redmond, "hor­
rible!”
Madame de la Maine pressed Julia's
hand.
"When It was decided between my
grandmother and the comte, I escaped
at night, after they thought I had gone
Things That Hava Been Condemned.
If we banished from our tables all
the commodities which — like pota­
toes—have been condemned In print
our diet would bo decidedly monoto­
nous. “ Food faddists are most aggres­
sive persons.” Henry I-abuuchere once
complained. “ In my time I have known
them preach that we should give up
meat, tobacco, alcohol, aoup, starch
(Including bread and potatoes), salt,
tomatoes, bananas, strawberries and
bath buns.
I have also witnessed
movements for giving up boots, waist­
coats, hats, overcoats, carpets, feather
beds, spring mattresses, cold bathA
linen clothes, woolen clothes, sleeping
more than six hours, sleeping less
than nine hours and lighting Ares at
the bottom."
8oma Lost Motion.
A Philadelphia mathematician haa
figured It out that the telephone com­
panies lose 12G hours' work every day
through the use of the word "please”
by all operators and patrons. Another
has discovered that the froth on the
beer pays the freight. But as yet no
one has estimated tho total horse
power wasted In swallowing cigarette
smoko and forcing It through the nose
Instead of blowing It from the mouth.
—Newark News.
Scandinavian Housekeeping.
In Scandinavia the peasant wom­
en who worked all day In the fields,
have had their tireless methods of
cooking for a long time. While break­
fast was cooking, the pot containing
the stew for dinner was brought to
a boll then placed Inside a second
pot, and the whole snugly ensconced
between the feather beds, still warm
from the night's occupancy. Rome of
these women had a loosened hearth«
■tone and r. hole beneath.