Love Malch That Was Broken 0!f and Happily renewed. D, MARTHA MX.-WILLIAMS, .dim') liiili'M w,t I hi- In-iiiiij- of I ho t'lltlc ( Tl l U III ll.lllr.Hll.HHl. ICVI'll HlnIlT Mi mI.Iii-. iiiluilllril im nun h In plle of r..l.nl - Jiullic. Jaiiry won U1 have Ik i n III, I he .i f l Intel hoi In I'll M I'I'H l Hit H fn. I PVlT M I - alio iil tic ln-r lut I r unit I. I il.mu lu-i frnk Hull kIii- nut. In iii'IhIiIhiiMhhhI I 1 i rn "iwiriiiiiKcl property." I'lill Mayta-ii limt In lil claim lu lit-r when lii- came hardly to hi rllmw. II lini, furtliiT, li t iiuliiHly llniiiip I hi' claim even BfliT mii rniiii' limit fr.uii hoarding wlinnl. fearfully mill wonderfully .-i'iiinillli ril Ih- ii a I'Ih follow. iiiiiri" Jaw ell mill .iinri' lii-nili'il, wbo in nil nth tnit for liMikif tiiili'KN they il 1-11 1 1 with flenn-. Al flirurin Iih wa tiiurveliiualy 1 ii It k iiml i'Ii'vit-ko i li-vi-r It wm until Ilia" f.ir lilm In aluiup miiH'wiHlrv m li'ml liuialim cvi'n t limit h llli'.t were rolled bred, while lii knew iinllilnii blither llinil tin iirluhliorliiuil it'-mli'iiiy. I'ulhly It waa h trlnuiili tif Mil" ml whli h had And hulled the iinwnt hiMilimiNl'T. I .limn nl TriiliiH'. . tn try rniii'liiiliiiii) wlih lilm In Hi field of Minn J ii iir) ' fnviir. J amy lored limiko In ill fridiet, iiiimt whole Ih'iuIimI rnxlilmi. Tralme could Inlk liiHiku by I tii' liiuir nml tnlk very well Twiliirtilly hi" fiiiinil hliiiMi'ir welcome nt tlii (Sate liomcleiid. i n 1 1 a nat urally I'lill Mavhen nwntiit hi pres ence there nmt huwcd It otitriulit. n ft ir llu' iiimiiiiit ol ii tniiHii-rrul in ii n rmxlly'lii love. Tim liy fat and free will nml th nliHitnlliin of luMpliallly 4 11 in-t we In n manner forced to lake I niliiu-'n inrt. Ttii remit wa very po'tty (iunrri'1 and the trutiufcr of I'lill' attention to Ml inr Meakln There bad been no set eimnni'iiii'iit to lirenk. That made I'bU'a attitude ml the more neirrnratlwr. Janey wm fur mouth liltHTly uuhniiy out Hi rtiptun, althouitb h let nobody ee It. nut even her mother, outwardly Ii wa itaycr I linn ever mid ifl charming l-eimard Trnbuu quit lout hi hind. II Iiml Ini'iMil nl tlrt only In iuiilnh Hint pcllleiil fi'llow, May- ieii-lneldoiitully, of courne, to divert lilimu'lf mnl 'ii limp otherwUe heavy oil til Imiiilii. Teaching nil merely lop gap. Literature wa hi rhiHtun vixiiili.il 11 iiii-iint to enter uihiii It through tin- gate of newspaper work n wui Ii hi hi crupo together a four hundred dollura. The l in t en were not rli'li folk, but nil piiiiifnrtiililr off. nml Jmit'j mi only c-hllil. It U lit Jut lo ijr the fmt Iiml lltll to lu wllh Trabue' falling In love. Thill rnine upon lilm unnwttivi. Hut otn h Iiml rnllr.l III friiin of ITi'clli'ii Ii tiH'k full -o-iilr.iinr of It. Mis lit It not b nli-r to iimkc lilnmclf Immorlnl creu liro In th iHi'p country, with I rlinrmliiu wlfu nml nuri'l roniforl Hi n u out In the IiubiIo nml tiurly burly of city T To tlli It out of baud b propoaiHl iliimply lo Jntiey. Ho wm Umi'il lo ct it rvfiiiMil. tllntroinieil. l- inot trnrful. Next niTk the county pnir prltilrd, wllb llnttorlnu comim-nt. love rhymi' luooil "LiNifrlc." fnno Crk nnd It Iwcauti rrnillnir the pnipr thnroiiulily ccrtnlnly the pnrt of thrift. If not of Clirlmlnn duty. Ht lit. It fvlt no cu rlmlly n to the authorship until III rural prcM quite Bi'iicrnlly copliil mnl timlM-d the rhyino. A woinl bit of verae got reprinted In Ihruo city pn ht. o upon the ninninoe of the third lofrlc'a UK'iilliy Ikhiiiiio a burn InK innnlliin. one Hint the editor hi in elf could not ninwor. All h knew wa that the copy rnme lo him by Hie Im nil of Mr. Murdock. a IciiiIIiik Inw yer. All winter long l.eofilc wrote Inter nilHently. Ihk'oiiiIiik moro mid umre a riddle nml a iiciViiinire. All winter long. too. Hill Miiylieii n to ftiinilnydln nera nt the Menklu' tnltle. nml l.eou aril Tniliuo tnlked booka nnd the world to Janey (lute. He wtia playing waiting KAine. ro8olvHl lo win her In tilto of beraelf nnd I'lill MnylH'n. Jnney'a beiirt win RluKUlnrly aloud fnt. HI III. there were time when ulie tbmiKlit Tniliui" would Kiln-lid. I'lill' ColiiH hud left tier diwolnte Indeed. He could never have eared .u he pretend ed or he would not lie nlile to ntu.v awny. Of coui's he could not make the flint inovo to reootiellliitlon, eKpe clnlly Blnce ho wn o taken iii with the Meaklin Keiierntlon. Kline he wn forever lust to her It win fur froui'iin pleimniit to sun herself In Trnhue' devotion. Spring came with ain li a rush thai year the picnic eiiou opened In lulu Mny. Sister Menkln nnd Sister Hod Kin. '" I'lw'ed miHnl autocrats, got up the first one nnd et the plnre fur It Clear Spring, Just a little way off the (Into pnsiuie. The spring wiih. In fact, (lutes' property, ho Slmer Meiikln let tho owner know she thought II would be. no more Hunt neighborly of lilm to put up tallies, seiils and Rlnkr-s for the gypsy kettle, to say nothlni of the wlnirs. There I'lill Miiylieii In terfered. "Yuii don't play II lone hum nt till game with me. around. Nipilre, be nld lo Janey' father. Tlnm It fe out Hint fur two day before Hie picnic he wa nearly a much In Janey' eyes a be bud been nil winter In her inlnil, It nniucod and somewhat frightened - hop to find how eiinnbly ulie regiuilc lilm. Sipilre (line briiiigbl him to din tier, whether or no, and Janey abnok band wllh him and chatted gnyly throughout t lie meal without the least flutter of the heart. She even watched hi in go away with no ai-cesa of tjcutl- incut. If only Tralme had spoken thorp nnd then! -But he was Invisible uutll next All Work Guaranteed. Have your children's eyes examined. f they are going to school, they are using their eyes all the time. If the eyes are sore, rod and painful, if they run water, if they complain of a tired feeling in the eyes, or have pains over tii eyes, it is a sure tiling that they need attention. I lit glasses and fully guarantee my work. Dr. W. J. Cnnns, Eyesight Specialist, Rooms 14 and 15, Adamson bldg. Office hours from 2 to p. p. m. i 1-M The picnic crowd gathered rly. wua (he II f ut H. though Dora iiit I'dklin iui k In hi in llk limpet, v even ImiwiiI civilly lo Tralme, w ho hung aboiil Juiiey, III eyi il" iii iihI. hi look preoccupied. 'I h end of the liool term wua J iul three week bend, llefore lie cam lo t tin I parting iv way tie fell Hint be uiiml know exactly bere lie IihI. Jiim-y bud rowii illatliH-tly kinder. Ml III. tbi-re a miiiietliliig In her kliiilnex" Itml put lilm further nff. She would lie an leal wife for lil in. A In. Id aii-iik would o It now. A year heme would be quite too lute. While the laughter mid chatter were t tlood he drew lu-r apart mnl Hiirt-d out to her hi Iiomk. aspiration, plant Uiv he barely iiiiiiiikI. Might ttu-y not. he pleaded, be Intellectual iiiinrailinT Kiila!ncd by her conipauloiislili he felt blnmelf cnpiibl of gnut thing le had Iroiuly made l gl lining, and he wa all unwittingly the Inspiration of what he bad done. Then lie tried to Ink her band nucy withdrew It gently. "Tell Die all Itoiit 11," he whUpered. hoverlni; inllo NlMiut her III Trabue Ih-iiI to i-r ear and ld burrleilly, "Von umsi not niciillon It, aweelheart, but I nm .eofrlc IHifrlc. who wrnle i.-oliite nil dinpnlrlng IblugH Imiuuh ymi re uwd him." "Indi'ed!" Janey said, gelling up from r mousy ruck tn slip past Mm. Then, over her boulder, "lie milled: "You III pli'imo wait uiiill afieruium for your answer. I hum go help uIhiiii he dinner. IHiuicr wn flue a feast l awver Miinl'Mk dislnrril he felt more Hum paid fur bl long diiv nut from town. He wn Squire liule' mill of biilinis nd Janejr'a woru friend. Therefore nobody wondered at their confidential talk aside, and even I'lill Mnyhcn smiled approval when the lawyer kiss ed Janey In greeting. Hut In-sure there wa a tlr a Lawyer M unlock pulled aney to the middle of Hie crowd. raised III voire and said, with twin kllirg eye: "Ladle mid gentlemen. I like unmasking humbug. " permit me to present to Jou Iofrlc. the pool ens f Can Creek. I 'ou t reiiiemtier II against her that slip I a pm-ii-sn-lt's all the fault of Hint coundrcl. I'lill Maylien"- It won't be any longer, Mr. Mur dock." I'lill wild, hurtling through the crowd to catch Janey In hi iirms and hide ber blushc In tils breiisl. " know I've been even kinds of a fool.' he went on. "I don't deserve Jiim-y- nohody doe, for that matter but I'm going to have ber or die trying. You're got ber." Lawyer Miird.sk aid. wringing I'lill' baud. Dora Menkln turned her back and went off with her bead high, but Mr. Ionard Trabue atayed not op the order of his going. NolHxIy In Cine Creek neigh borhood ever aw lilm again. Anolsnt Egyptian Mortgsg. Of all the mi lucrum Kgypliun pnpyrl dating from the Greco-Human (leTlod und preserved In the llrlllali uinseuin none can he said to be of greater Inter est than those throwing light on the octal coiidllloii and manner nnd cus toms of the period. Many of these doc ument are mortgage, bill of ale ml mnrrlnge conlructa. Of the first im mod chis a very liiteresilng one I dated lu the tucntletll year of Cleo patra and I'lolemy. It appeurs that a shepherd named Men Ih a ami hi moth er, 'J'u us I r. finding themselve In dltU cultlcs, mortgtiged their field to a wo mnn iinuicd Klo for the um of OIK) ple of llver, which they promised to repay lu eight months' time with interest, lu case of failure of I his cou dillou they were willing 10 forfeit the Held without further trouble or litiga tion. After giving the measurement of the Innd and particular of Its Umuil a rlii the document I attested by Horu se-esi. acrlbe of L'slr-ur, alias Aincnhclep. Loudon (Jlohe. Prsurving 8pidn' Wb. Ni t urn list a employ mi Inleiestlng uiethod to preserve all kind of spi ders' w eb. 'The web are th at prnycd with nu utomir with nrtlsi'a aliellAc, and then. Mlnuild they be of Hie or dinary geometric form, they ure press ed carefully ngaiust n glass plate, the upportlng strands being nt the mime time severed. After the ghelluc bit dried the plute currying the webs can be Btorod away lu a cabinet. Even dome Imped web may be preserved lo their original form by spraying them with Hlielluc and then ullowlug them to dry before removal from their uiinoit. Many spider' welia are very lieiiutlful, and nil are cliarncter' Isllc of the apeclea to which they be long, ho that, from a sclentllle stand point, their pernuinent preservntlon I very desirable.-Harper Weekly. A Country Doctor'! Rtcord. Dr. James Morris, who waa oue of the oldest isctllrnl in'iicl II loners lu Scolliiud, Im Just died at Duuferm Hue. When be celebrated hi Jubilee as a doctor some ten year ago he mndo tills statement: "During my fif ty year In practice I have attended 50,000 patients, lulinlnlslered chloro form 10.000 limes with alisolute Im munity from fatal result, hud !S,000 birth (1,000 consecutive cuae without a dentin, made about l.OOO.lKX) visits mid traveled about riOO.OCO miles." Not a bad record for a country mod Icul num. Westminster Cuaetto. Skyscraper. The second generation of Bkysrrnpers In lower Muiiluittun has uppeiired. The twenty story building nt the corner of Wall and Niihkihi street la now being torn down iih obsolete lu order to make way for u new mid much higher thirty two story Btructure. New York sky scrapers limy soon be classified like battleship nt the end of ten years "obsolescent," nt the end of twenty "obsolete" nnd then the scrap heap. Springfield Itepnbllran. Personal Health and Purity. Up-to-date American Literature, adapted for all sorts and conditions of people, may bo seen or had nt Dr. Kox's olllee, Main street. Prinevilla, Or, 12-8-tf Notice. Notice iB hereby given that the firm of Kranklii & Cooke lias dissolved partnership, and W. S. Cooke will con tinue the business at the old stand. A number of second hand cook stoves wanted tor which I will pay cash. 2-2 W. 8 Cooke, rrineville, Ore., Feb. 2d, 1011. DIGGING THE BIQ DITCH. Hw th 6Um hevsl Mk th Dirt Fly at Panama. . Th team hovels stand on terraced levels and lu fifty minute loud train of eighteen flat car, which are up loaded In II ft ceil minutes more amid a vl.ower of dust. The line of car I followed by "premiers." Alt through the cut puff of steam here ami lljei Indicate where the shovels are burrow ing their way and pushing the work forward. Wutehlug lmvel '.'J I, I stood on eiiglu No. '." wheu he wn at work. Knglins-r Harrison, hi hand on the lever. nis pushliig Hi car up In due course us the stcnin shovel Oiled them, while th conductor, rain ing and lowering a flag, directed a "shove-up," so thai even while loading It I oiuetliiie necessary for an en gineer to keep lit hand on Hi throt tle. One hovel accomplished proba bly M tinr-li work In a day a could be dou by 000 men. and there I a great deal of rivalry among the operator to make the best record, Th record of stcnin shovel 223 for on hot day how how the dirt file on the Isthmus. Three hundred and thirteen car were loaded In 470 min ute lu the tniiguiigo of Larry O'Ura dy, Hits wa "g'.lug otue," almost 0 average of a car a minute, with eleven second grace, or a rule of a cubic yifrd of earth every seveu second. A remark was made by and eyed man of iiiikuouu leiilounllly. "It look a though the dirt had wing, doesn't II 7" Over hojXM ruble yard of rock hare Is-en tnkeii ml In twenty-five working day by one shovel, and a completed inunel through the cut I eneiivated within every month. Joe Mil. hell Chappie lu N.itlonul Maga nine. A F0RE3TCIANT. Monster Tr Trunk Thst Rival th Famou Fl!n Monarch. A rival i.f-ilie glnut tree, the Fallen Monarch, familiar In pictures with a tligccoach on lop of It trunk, has bii'll found on the lope of lluld mountain, in northern Tulare county Il Is In a region little visited and was fli-Hi noted by It. II. Cnlhigber, on old Yosciiilie at age driver, two yeiir ago. When tlnllagber irliil to return to It he lost the trail and did not find the great tree again for mouths. The great trunk He 111 the forest the lower two or three feet of It burled lu the soil which ha been accumulat lug for age. It I believed that hun drills of year have passed luce the great tree fell, and the tire of age have rolled over It through tho forest Much -of the bark ha been burned awny. yet originally It wn from twen ty to forty luetic thick. The truuk now I more than 100 feet In clrcuiu fcrciice. mid It 1 a bard climb to get on top of It. ttald peak 1 midway between the Sequoia .National park and the General (iraiit National park. Neur by w Ued wood mountain, on which there are snld to be IlMKK) glnnt trees. Tho re gion, which I northeast o( Vlnalia, I reached by tuge to Eshom talley tweiity-oue mile, where Callugher has a ciimp called Junnlta cauip. Los Ad- gele Lx press. Grmn Aoutns. The egg cups Imported Into India at one time all came from Great Itrltaln The Indian eggs are, however, very small, and the egg cups did not fit German traveler noticed this small Item ami got his Onn to make smaller egg cuhj "und export them there. All the trade I now In German bands. lu Africa the aclsors Imported from Shellleld were found to be rather dan' gerou weapon to place In tbe band of the native, owing to their sharp points. The Sollngeu Steel works sent a lot of round pointed ncwsor out. which found favor, and uow Germany has captured the whole market From Germany of tho Ocrniaus." Saving th Edlwi. The edelweiss, responsible for so many deaths. I becoming rare. The plant when It Is culled Is not of partic ular beauty, but the fascination of picking It I lu an Inverse ratio. N fives of the poorer class gather the flower, and tourists buy It for tbe same reason as certain anglers buy trout The Bnvarian government Is so. alarm ed at the threatened destruction of the mountain "orchid" that a law has been passed to penalize the gathering with out a permit. The measure is some what drastic, for evcu a proprietor who wishes to gather the flower must first obtain a permit-London Globe. 8aotrl. Modern Investigations as to tbe ori gin of diseases bnve brought the little organisms called bacteria Into so much prominence that search has been made to ascertain whether tbey existed dur ing the early geological periods. Not long since the tact was announced that Ilegnault bad discovered bacteria In coal. Continuing hi researches, he found evidence that bacteria were probably coeval with the first appear ance of organic life on the earth. They attacked vegetable tissues as well as .he bones und teeth of animals; but, as a rule, tbey belouged to species distinct from those of today. A Romantio Career. Cnld Helton, tbe youug Eugllsh of ficer who. at the age of tweuty-slx, became commander tu chief to Mulal Ilnfld and helped him wlu the throne of Morocco, has bad a stranger than" Action career. At ulueteen he received bl commission for bravery In South Africa, soon lifter achieved his cap taincy in Somnllland. entered Mulal Ha lid's service lu 1008, and now ev erybody In Morocco calls bim "the kingmukcr." Application for Grazing Permits, Notice is hereby given that all appli cations for permits to- graze cattle, horses and sheep within the UMPQUA NATIONAL FOREST dur ing the season of 1911, must be filed in my office at Roseburg, Oregon, on or lie'fore March 15th, 1011. Vull infor mation in regard to tho gracing fees to be charged and monk forms to oe used in making applications will be fur nished upon requeat. 2-2 0,10 8. C. BAUTRUM, Supervisor NEWFOUNDLAND SEALS. Very Different From These Hunted en th Peifi Coast Th Newfoundlander kill -ol each prltig to the mi in 1st of from 200.000 to 2.10,000. These ncal are chiefly val uable for the oil traded from their fat and are yery different from those bunted on the 1'iclflc const, which ar ought for their fur. Th former r two distinct kinds, known a hart)" and "bood." The liarti come from th northern const of Canada. In the region of Hudson bay: th hood from Hi coast of Greenland. These n nt inn I dew-end In enormous herd at th commencement of winter, meeting off the const of Labrador, and continue southward In two Immense column. parallel and separate, the barp on (be Inside, the hood on th outside, until they reach th vicinity of Hie bank. where they return In like order. About tbe end of February, in Ihe neighborhood of tbe strait of telle Isle, they mount the lee and drift southward again. It I then that their young are born. At birth they have a covering of soft white fur and are called "white coat." Thl they lose at the end of about a month, giving place to a coarser and darker fur. tbe back of each being marked with a Inrge spot of black In the form of a lyre or barp. from which tbe name Is derived. The ynung hood Is Isirn at the same time and I much larger than hi cousin, tho harp, and differently marked. Tbe male I provided with a membrane which cover the nose and which he I able to Inflate by blowing through he nostrils hence bis name. I'p to four year ago It wa not thought afe to go to the Ice except In wooden vessels, but In W05 a apeclally constructed steel ship wa Introduced with o much ucees that other of tbe same type quickly followed, and last spring there wa dded to the fleet a liner plying between New York, nal If ni and St. John's, built of (tee!, to engage In tho eal fishery when taken off ber regular route. The ahlp I 3,080 ton gm and 1.0S0 ton regis ter. Iter maiden trip. In spite of pre diction to the contrary, wa crowned with complete uccc. Not only did she return from tbe Ice practically nn Injured, but he wn the first to arrive with a eatcb of over 30,000. Harper's Weekly. Locomotive That Runs Cab First 'A rather curious development lseen la tbe In test type of locomotive on the Southern I'acltlc. which are run cab llrst. tbe smokestack end bringing up the rear. Kxperience gained lu op eratlng these engines through tunnels and snow-sheds has proved the de sirability of placing the engine crew where a better view of the track can bo obtained. Accordingly the new Southern I'nclUc locomotives are de signed to ruu with the lire box first and tbe tender track of the smoke box With a coal burning locomotive such a plau would, of course, be lmpracu cable, but no difficulty Is anticipated when using oil as fuel. In the new design the cab Is entered through side doorway, reached by suitable ladders. An unobstructed view of the track 1 obtained through the front windows. The cnb fittings are conveniently ar ranged within easy reach of the en gtiieman. who occupies tbe right hand side when- looking ahead. Hallway and Locomotive Engineering. An Opaliisd Snak. What Is supposed to be an opallzed snnke bus been discovered by a pros pector at White Cliffs opal fields, South Australia, from whom It has been secured by an Adelaide resident named S. Saunders. On what appear ed to be a piece of Ironstone, dark brown In color aud therefore making an excellent background to show off the precious stone, was Imbedded tbe form of a small snake or lizard of pure opal. The coiling body measures about two Inches In length, aud tbe head and eyes ore to be plainly seen, Even tho scales of the back can discerned. Before Mr. Saunders se cured It the specimen bad been submit ted for examluation nt tbe museum. and be was Informed on making tbe purchase that It was a reptile of some kind ossified and then opallzed. Ade laide Advertiser. High Hwls and Fir Escap. Women's "skyscraper" heeled shoes have come In for another drubbing, this time an official oue In Chicago. Building Inspectors have decided, aft er careful scrutiny of tire escapes ou buildings where large numbers of wo men nre employed, that the Freuch heels are a menace to life and limb in case of panic. "The slim, pointed heels would catch between the Iron slats of tbe steps of most Hre escapes, said one Inspector. "The stairway and the heels together constitute a ter rible danger to the girls working all over Chicago where this style of fire escape is used. The stairways should be made lu such a way that heels will not catch or working girfe should wear some other kind of shoes." Shoes In Porto Rico. There are about 1)0,000 children at tending the public schools of l'orto Rico, nearly all wearing shoes, and tboso in the country districts wbo do not bnve them look forward to the time when- they can. Mnuy of the laborers do uot wear shoes, very few of the ox cart drivers wear them, but the time will soon arrive when all tbe Inhabitants of the island will be wear Jig them, ns the physicians claim thut bare foot are the chief cause of anae mic Infection, nnd with tbe chauge lu the organic law It is stated au effort will be made to have an enactment compelling all persons to wear foot covering. In the cities of the Island very few people jnow go barefoot. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given by the under signed, the administrator of the estate ot Patrick J. Kennedy, deceased, to all per sona hav hie claims aeaim-t said deceased to present the same, with the proper vouchers, to the undersigned at the office ot M. R. Elliott in l'rineville, Oregon, within six months from the first publi cation of this notice. Dated this 2nd day of Feb., Ml. R. F. HECKMAN, Administrator of the Kstate of Patrick J. Kennedy, deceased. CHINESE CUNNING. An Offieil' Subtle Scheme F or Setie Ing Hi Prisoners. On of th funniest storlen about Chinatown I not really Chine. It wa told by a ilrltlsb consul at on of he treaty port. He ar"led nine de linquent Chinese, Intending to turn hem over to Hi tender roertie of the native magistrate next morning. Mean while he guv them into the custody of a Chinese policeman, telling him to lock them up, though there wa no jail the consulate. Hut the polk-emmi wa equul to the emergency. H sol emnly saluted, saying. "I obey!" and marched bl men off. Soon he return ed and announced that tbey were safely caged. The consul was curiou to see how nd where. He followed hi police man to the yard. There he saw the blue prisoners daw-lug round the con- ulate flngstuff, lugubriously chanting he Chinese equivalent of "ring around rosy." Whenever the dnme showed lgn of flagging Ihe policeman Btirred hem up with a long po'- They seem ed at first (Ight to be holding each other" band, but looking closer, the consul saw that tbey wera handcuffed together. Well." nld the consul, "If tbey are chained In a ring around tbe flagstaff hey can certainly not get away. But why do you make them dancer" Ah," answered the Chinese police man, with Infinite cunning, "so that hey cannot climb up tbe pole and get awayr The consul broke out Into a loud British laugb and tried to explain to the Chinaman that the nine prisoner could certainly not all climb up the pole at once, but the Chinaman bad hi Idea and held to It. So tbe dance went on. Harper' Weekly. AWED THE STUDENTS. Jn Richtpin's First Lsson a an In structor In Litoratur. At tbe age of twenty-two Jean Rlche- pln. tbe French poet and dramatic au thor, accepted a place a Instructor In ternture tn a school which prepared student for tbe military college of St. Cyr. Ills employers warned bim that the future army officers took very little Intercut lu belles lettre and that their principal occupation In class was raising chaos. Itichepln's first lesson began amid a storm of whistling and catcalls. But tbe young Instructor' voice lioomed out above the uproar and Imperiously commanded silence. "Gentlemen." be said. "1 am not here because I like it 1 am here for my living. Is any one of you going to staud In the way? If there Is. 1 should be obliged If be will tell me so face to face on tbe Place du Pantheon, where I am ready to meet him at any time. Aud Inasmuch as we nre all of us about the same age. you understand, of course, that the Inter view w ill be with bare fisfs." And. so saying, young Rlchepln brought his clinched hand down upon Hie desk, aud the desk broke in two. and he and hi pupils lived happily ever afterward. Thus run the official legend. Argonaut. Crafty M. Blano. Blanc, the founder of tbe Monte Car lo gambling resort was well aware of the desperate character of many of his customers. Knowing that tbey included the scum and riffraff of the world, he took precautions against them. He never carried any money. which fact he announced bo frequently and publicly that It was known every where along tbe Riviera that tbe mil tionaire Blunc never bad a penny on his person. But he carried in a pocket- book a draft on red paper for severtfl hundred thousand francs, payable to the Indorsee. He feared kidnaping as much as robbery, and In case of ab duction be Intended to ransom himself with this draft. But the instructions at his office were not to cash a red draft with his signature unless a tel egrum was received from him ordering it to be done. A Painful Pro cots. I was quite surprised one day when upon telling my little five-year-old girl, wbo was of a saving disposition, that I would put her pennies In tbe bank to have her educated to find that she burst Info violent mecplng and shout ed, "1 won't be educated: It hurts." "Hurts?" I queried. ' "What do you mean?" "1 know," she sobbed. "Tbey take a knife nnd scrape your arm and It swells up. 1 .wou't take my money to be educated." Delineator. Friends In Need. "I don't put much faith In proverbs." said Brown to Jones. "For instance, look at the oft quoted one, "A friend In need Is a friend Indeed." Now, most of my experience with friends In need has been that they wanted to borrow. Give me the friends that are not lu need." Th Other Way. "Then you don't want to leave foot prints upon the sands of time?" "Nix,," answered the politician guard edly. "All 1 -want Is to cover up my tracks." Louisville Courier-Journal. Th Nois Explained. She (sternly) 1 heard a noise very late. He (facetiously) Was it the ulght falling? She No, it wasn't. It was the day breaking. Baltimore American. ' Th Glory of Lif. To b8 a sirong hand to another In tbe time of need, to be a cup of strength to a human soul In a time of weakness, Is to know the glory ol life. It Is Impossible to be just if one Is not generous. Roux. ,. Read in February Sunset Magazine "San Diego The City of Dreams Come True," beautifully illustrated in four colors. "Tetrazzini Singing in the Streets of San Francisco, Christmas K.ve." Now on sale, all news stand's, 15 cents. l-2-3t Wheat Wanted. 4000 bushels of wheat wanted this month. Will pay 65c a bushel, de livered at my ranch on Crooked river, Will keep team over night for 50c meals Hoc. 1. f . mouallistkb. z-jj i Various Davieo That Hv Bn Ud b Fettering Prionrs. n Vergil I to be fonnd tbe first re corded lustare of the use of hand cuffs, for th poet tell u that Proteus wa thiia fettered nd rendered pow erlc by Artatacu. wbo apparently knew that even tbe god tliemselvee were not proof against thl form of persnnsloa. In the fourth century B. C. an army if victorious Greeks found several chariot full of handcuffs among the baggage of the defeated Carthaginian, aud It I highly probable that tbe an cient Egyptian bad some contrivance of the kind. The word I derived from the Anglo-Haxon "bandcop," whence come evidently the ilang term "copper." In earliest Hnion day "bandcop" were used for noble and "foot cops" for king, but lu tbe fourteenth aud fifteenth centuries tbe word la up planted by the term "aback bolt" and "awlvel manacle," and tbe Instrument were a cumbersome a the namea by which Uiey were known. L'p to the middle of the last century there were two kinds of handcuff In general use. One, known aa tbe "flexi ble," was very like that which is still used; the other kind, called the "figure eight." wa used to restrain violent prisoners It waa so fashioned that tbe captive could not move his bands aud was universally dreaded. for the puln caused by a limb Immov ably confined la almost unbearable. A simple but powerful device for ae curing prisoner wa the "twister.1 now ubolbtbed owing to tbe Injuries inflicted. It consisted of a chain with handles at each end. Tbe chain was put around the wrists, and tbe handles were brought together and twisted until a firm grip was obtained. Tbe least struggle on tbe part of tbe captive and tbe chains bit deep Into bl wrist. Of tbe same nature, but made of wire. Is "la llgote," while In an emergency wuipcoro nas proved perfectly satisfactory. Tbe handcuff used In some parti of eastern Europe Is most primitive. It consists of a V shaped piece of metal. lu which tbe wrists are Inserted, tbe oiien ends being then drawn together by mean of a cross hook, which must be kept taut tbe whole time. Tbe most bandy form of cuff, which la In general use at present,- comes from America. It Is lighter and much less clumsy than the old "flexible.' It Is no easy matter to clap the "bracelets" on a person who Is strug gling violently. Inventors should turn their attention to the subject, for much remains to be done before tbe fighting nrisoner P.nn tie nuicklv and strnnfflv ecured without harm to imself or his captor. London Globe. Th Tuareg. In his book "Across the Sahara" Hans Viscber writes: "On a spot re cently uncovered by the wind 1 picked up blunt arrowheads aud knives, Car thaginian coins, money lost by Ro mans and Arabs, aud fragments of beautifully colored marble slabs which probably once adorned some Roman villa on tbe hills." Strange peoples were met In that long march across tbe Sahara tbe Tuaregs, for instance, wbo need not a suffragist attack to bring them to their senses, for "among tbe Tuaregs It Is tbe man, the brute, who by ail the laws of tbe country baa to obey the woman. Descent is traced through tbe mother. Woman shows ber proud face to all the world, while the man goes veiled." Th Artist and Hi Work. The great artists, like the great he roes, have always done whatever came to hand. Michelangelo grumbled and said be was a sculptor wben Julius II. set bim to paint, but be paint ed the roof of tbe Sistine chapel. Shakespeare chafed at the popularity of the fool In tbe drama of his time and then produced the fool In "Lear. If either of them had waited for per fect conditions and an Inspiration un trammeled by circumstances be would have done nothing. Tbey produced masterpieces . because they made the best of things as they were. And this is the business of tbe artist In life. London Times. Hi Pockt Wr Empty. Damoreau, an actor, fought a duel In 1S34 with an orator named Manuel The orator proved the better swords man and would have run Damoreau through the body had not bis sword struck a five franc piece which hap pened to be in the actor's pocket This drew from a notoriously Impecunious Journalist the exclamation, "Alas, if bad been tn Damoreau s place it would have been all over with mel" New York Post Domestio Joys. Wife I came across a bundle of your old love letters today. Husband- Did you read them over? .wife les. Husband And what wjis the effect of that perusal? Wife I wondered which was the bigger fool you for writing them or I for marrying you after re ceiving them. Th Tt., "They seem to be In love." "Yes; I really believe those two think as much of each other as they do of themselves." Louisville Courier Journal. Pa' Definition. , Little Willie-Say, pa, what Is a mat rimonial prize? Pa A matrimonial prize, my son. Is tbe woman some oth er man married. Chicago News. The actions of men are like the In dex of a book they point out what la most remarkable tn them. Notice for Publication. Department of the Interior, U. 8. Land Office at The Dalles, Oregon January 13, lull. Notice Is herebv Riven that WII.I.IAM H. UASK. of Prinevtlle, Ort'ison, who on September 23rd, HUM. made Homestead No. tlSDD, Serial No. 03811", for NS NWtf BF.'tf NWU, NWW XK Section 28. Townghii'14 south. Range m East Willamette Meridian, has filed uotlce ot In tention to make Final five-year proof, to es tablish claim to the land above described, -before Warren ltrown, County Clerk, at his otliee at Prineville, Oregon, on Ihe 28th day ol Febru ary, lull. Claimant names as witnesses: E. A. Poe Lafollette, Edward M. McCord, Ira Ray, Arthur Mlnltler, ail ol rrineville, urenon. M!lp C. W. MOORK, Register, HANDCUFFS. Good Wagon Roads Necessary. Railroad rates cost a ceut grid a half to three centa a ton mile. People kick at the coat. The av erage good Oregon wagon road transportation costs 25 centa a ton mile. The great majority ot Oregon roads are not good and cost from 50 centa to 11 a ton mile. A hard furfuce rood of macadam construction cost eight cents for transportation a ton mile, yet it Is only the farmer wbo mires his empty wagon when he tries to go to town in tbe Oregon winter that kicka at the cost. The figures just given were ob tained after careful computation from every section of Oregon by the Oregon Good Roads Associa tion. Tbe contrast in costs on good and bad roads has given the Association more courage to con tinue its fight for better-built highways in this state. Railroad rates make much difference in costs to consumers and profits to producers. Thus says 'the Good Roads Association the in creased transportation cost of bad roads takes money from the farmer's pocket and adds to the price of living without profit either to the producer or the con sumer, since the mud, swallows all the difference and never makes returns. When advocates of good roads from every section of Oregon went before the legislature last week tbey had the tremendous cost and the effective develop ment restriction of bad roads in mind. They were a little dis appointed when some of the legis lators urged that each county should conduct its own road building without help. It was believed that broad-minded legis lators wculd know that the very purpose of their gathering to make laws was to work in unity for the good of the state and for eivery county in the state, and that concerted action in road building was perhaps more Im portant and more essential than any other state activity. Gov ernor Oswald West, in an inter view, answered this mistaken idea on the part of the legislators when he said "It is a notorious fact that the road work of the state has been done in the past upon a crazy-quilt hit and miss plan which gave no permanent relief from bad and often times practically impassible roads. There can be no boubt concern ing my desire for the inaugur ation of a sane and sensible sys tem of building good .serviceable, permanent highwanys in the State of Oregon. I am heartily in favor of the construction of good roads, and hope to see the time 'speedily arrive when the pubic highways in this state will be second to none. I trust, therefore, that the gentlemen, who are now banded together for the promotion of the good roads movement will keep ever in mind the idea of the practical and economical, and that out of their united efforts will come for Oregon a uniform and desirable system of public road building. " It was necessary for Judge Lionel R. Webster, Dr. Andrew C. Smith and others of the good roads Association to say forcibly before the Senate for the benefit of uninformed opposing senators that the proposed highway board and commisioner does not spend money obtained either from State Aid or by counties bonding for road building in counties, but the county authorities locate the roads and sbend the money while the state board and highway commissioner give advice aua direction as to scientific con struction of roads in each county. The vote that fallowed showed that a majority of the senate were not slow in understanding nor narrow in development ambition. When the Highway Board and Commissioner bill was approved great satisfaction was felt by the hundreds who had come before the legislature, because it was on the bill that the whole great system of road making planned for counties depended. Oregon It was thought then that to secure the passage of the other bills would not be difficult, because upon count it was found that a major ity of Oregon legislators stand for progressiveness and develop ment and not for obstruction.