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MORNING ENTERPRISE SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1912
Twenty . thousand Chinese soldiers
voluntarily withdrew their names from
the pay list in order to relieve the
Strain upon the public finances. There's
bravery for you.
Capstone.
The active principle of capsicum, or
red pepper. U a volatile oil known as
capsicine. It is so exceedingly acrid
that a quarter of a grain exposed to
the air in a room will diffuse itself
throughout the apartment and cause
all present to cough and sneeze as
though the pepper had been taken into
the mouth or nostrils.
At the Portland Theatres
A New and Very Swift Craft
For Air and Water Travel
A TIMID
LITTLE GIRL
LAST CAR LEAVES FOR OREGON CITY AT MIDNIGHT
Hot griddle'akes with caviar is the
newest Newport dish for openinjj din
ners. What do they have fur dessert
do yoit suppose?
By SUSAN YOUNG PORTER
"Where are you goiug. my pretty
maidr
The words were spoken by one of
those elegant looking fellows who, aft
er spending some ten thousand a year
In college, think the next aristocratie
move to be made Is ranching. They
argue thaf while business is beneath
them and they are too lazy to either
study or practice a profession there
is something eminently respectable in
raising animals or vegetables on their
broad acres. Having purchased and
stocked a ranch they have their photo
graphs taken in cowboy costume to
send to their friends in the east and
thereafter consider themselves on the
same footing with the lords of British
landed estates.
Ned Perkins, the man who spoke the
above words, was one of this type.
He was riding along with a rifle and
a lariat slung to his saddle dressed as
a wild westerner on the dramatic
stage, when he met a little Mexican
girl with very black eyes, a rose in
full bloom on each cheek and a pair
of buds for lips who looked up at him
innocently and, making a courtesy,
said:
"Good morning, senor."
Then to his question she replied that
she was going to the store a mile down
the road to buy a dress.
"You don't need anything prettier
than the costume you have on," he
said. "That skirt- bedecked with gold
lace, that jacket adorned with the
. same material, that Spanish headgear,
are exceedingly becoming. IS you will
get np behind me I will turn about and
take you to the store. The distance Is
too long for you to walk."
She looked at him shyly without re
ply for some moments, when he dis
mounted, took her hand, led her to his
horse, she raised her little, foot, he
took it in his hand and lifted her into
position behind the saddle. Then,
mounting himself, he started for the
store.
Perkins liked ranching well enough
except for the absence of feminine
companionship. He bad no trouble in
becoming companionable with little
Inez, whose father owned a few cat-'
tie, but whose principal business was
gambling. There was something unique
about the girl, who was sixteen years
old, but unduly developed, as are girls
who Inhabit tropical climates. It did
not occur to the young ranchman that
there was any harm in passing some
of his time in her company. Joking
with and 'jollying her to his own In
finite amusement.
He invited her to go with him to
dances that were held In the neighbor
hood and noticed that none of the
cowboys asked her to dance with them.
It was some time before he realized
that they regarded her as belonging to
him, and none of them would trespass
on his domain.
It was then that he began to under
stand the situation. He did not fear
any trouble in breaking with the girl
she was such a gentle little soul but
it occurred to him that he might have
trouble with her father or one of her
brothers. From this moment he did
not act the same toward Inez herself.
He tried to do so and thought he was
succeeding, but any woman can see
such a change in a man.
Perkins was becoming tired of ranch
ing, and he did not find that it was
likely to pay him. Besides, he was
pining for his associations in the east.
One day he made up his mind to go
back there. He kept his resolution to
himself: he did not offer his ranch
for sale: he simply determined to leave
It when no one would be aware of
what he was going to do and not come
back. He could sell it without staying
there for the purpose.
He formed this resolution not long
after he had begun to consider his
companionship with the little Mexican
girl liable to cause him trouble. Inez
appeared no different than she had
been. In fact, he doubted if after all
his going would make much difference
to her. True, no other man was atten
tive to her. They had all withdrawn
when he began to notice her.
The evening before his intended de
parturehe was to start at 2 o'clock in
the morning and ride ten miles to a
station, where he would take a train
he was with Inez till 10 o'clock. Nei
ther by word nor act did she indicate
that she suspected his departure. Be
fore starting for his ranch he said
some very nice things to her, for his
heart smote him; then, holding her
hand for a few moments, he dropped
It and sallied forth, as he had done
often before.
It was his habit to smoke a pipe be
fore going to bed. His favorite pipe.
was a large merschaum bowl with a
cherry stem. Taking the pipe from 8
rack, he found It filled with fresh to
bacco. He was somewhat surprised,
but thought that perhaps he had filled
It during the day. Intending to smoke,
but had laid it aside without doing so.
Putting the stem In his mouth, he was
about to light the tobacco when he re
membered that he had not smoked
since the noon meal and had not filled
It after smoking. Dropping the match,
he turned the contents of the pipe out
on the table. On the top was a layer
6f tobacco, beneath which was well;
If he had smoked the pipe as it was he
would have been blown to atoms.
Without waiting for morning he
- went out Into the night and boarded a
train at another station from the one
he had intended.
He wondered how the little girl had
managed it all.
Famous Journalists.
Among famous journalists must be
Included Cardinal Richelieu, who was
frequent correspondent of the Mer
curie Francais. and Louis XIII., who
also contributed to Its columns. Dis
raeli the elder, who gives us this in
formation, adds. -Many articles In the
royal handwriting and corrected by
the royal hand are still In preserva
tion." Golf Hardened.
Many a golf player is Just as horny
handed as any son of toil. Chicago
Record-Herald.
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THE GREAT RAYMOND
Coming Events Cast Their Shadows
Before.
Much interest is being manifested
is the coming engagement of the
great Raymond, the world-famed
American magician, who is just com
pleting his third round of the world
tour and returning to America via
Honolulu and San Francisco. Col
umns and columns of the most flat
tering press comments from all coun
tries and in all languages attest to
this entertainer's wonderful success
both at home at abroad. Many of the
press criticisms of his performances
declare him to be the greatest magi
cian the world has ever seen. It is
said that his stage settings and equip
THE CALL OF THE NORTH
The Baker Players to Present Thrill
ing Play of the Wilderness
This Week
Starting next Sunday matinee the
Baker players will open their second
week of the season with the stamp
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usual merit and ability ha been
talked about and the public was key -
ed up to looking for juSt what they
got a splendidi experienced organi
zation of people possessing personali
ty and ability far in excess of even
the highest expectations as judged
from past records. A long successful
season is undoubtedly ahead for Man
ager Baker and the Baker Players.
The second week's bill which begins
Sunday matinee, is Robert Edeson's
fascinating play, "The Call of the
North," -with scenes laid at one of the
frontier trading posts of the great
Hudson River Company, and its char-
Postcard Invitations.
Although it is not the best taste in
the world to use picture postals for
Invitations, they may pass between
friends at the time of some impromptu
social happening or other, the sender
of the Invite apologizing, however, for
her use of one. Thus she would write
in this case: "Excuse postal, but we
are getting op a dance and long for
you. Tomorrow night Write you will
make us happy by coming.
"Indeed, yes," with her signature be
low, would be quite enough for the
card of the invited girl If she herself Is
pressed for time, but it would be pretty
to add a word more "How good of
you to remember mel"
A verbal response to Invitations
requires, as I have said, some good
feeling behind it, and If it comes from
quite an old lady or gentleman here is
truly the time for a gush of enthusi
astic pleasure. Old people love to feel
that they a,re still of importance, as
Indeed they are when they are inter
ested in the welfare of young folks,
and they can never be too tenderly
treated. .
Stage Milkmaids.
"I thought I would introduce a real
cow Into my comic opera."
"How did It work?1
"Didn't work at alL The milkmaids
frightened the cow." Louisville Cou-rier-JonrnaL
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ment surpass anything of the kind
seen before. Throughout Europe Ray
mond is known as the "Royal Con
juror", he having appeared before the
most of the crowned of Europe from
whom he has received many decora
tions. Ledgerdemain has ever been a pop
ular source of amusement and crowd
ed houses will doubtless be the order
of the day at The Heilig when the
Great Raymond opens his' season of
mirth and mystery on Sunday next
for a limited engagement and it is
safe to say that no magical and illus
ion show of such magnitude has ever
visited this city before. Raymond
carries 70 tons of baggage and illus
ions and it requires 16 assistants to
handle this colossal Miracle Enter
tainment which has received the
stamp of approval of all nations of
the earth.
acters composed of the people one
naturally would look for at such a
place. Trappers, traders, Indians
and a motley collection of people
whose lots have brought them here.
The action concerns one Ned Trent,
a young daredevil free trapperi who
has been arrested and brought to the
Post for poaching on the Company's
land. Condemned to be sent to the
companied by a young Indian whose
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the assistance of the daughter of the
Factor of the Post, he secures a rifle
and escapes, but is recaptured and
brought back. The old Factor learns
of his daughter's- part in the affair
and in his rage, condemns her to ac
company Trent -on "la longue tra
verse" as the punishment was called.
But at the critical moment Trent ob
tains proof or a murder the Factor
was guilty of and turns the tables on
him. - The situations and characters
are such as fit naturally into location
and story and -are rugged and wild.
Like The Wolf, The Barrier and oth
er plays of the great Northland, the
scenery is beautiful from the first
great snow and ice field panorama to
the third act which takes place in a
deep forest on the hanks of a flowing
river. The Baker Players, the plays
and the prices have the true ring of
popularity. Monday night is the
splendid Bargain every week, and'the
Matinees take place Sundays, Wed
nesdays and Saturdays, the Wednesday-
being a Souvenir Performance.
MASTERS OF THE WORLD
The masters of the world mold
ed their own destinies. They grew
great step by step and year by year.
They stayed great because each
inch of their progress was a contest
with somebody else until they had
defeated by sheer ability every op
ponent Herbert Kaufman.
- Heartless.
"Why am I gloomy?" demanded the
nndesirable suitor whom she had
heartlessly Ignored. "Isn't it enough
to make a man gloomy to he cut by
the one he loves best?"
"The idea!" exclaimed the heartless
girl. "X didn't even know that you
shaved yourself." Catholic Standard
and Times.
Why He Was Cool.
Average Man There's a run on nil
other bank. Just look at those deposi
tors crowding in The fools! That's
what makes money tight The whole
crowd should be carried off to a luna
tic asylum.' Friend Tou are allowing
your deposit to remain, I presume?
Average Man Urn er I haven't any
funds in that bank. Exchange.
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as they already fly faster than the birds of the air Glenn H. Cur
tiss has built what he calls the "flying boat." which is a combination
of the aeroplane and hydroplane motor speed boat It has a light
hull, which Is surmounted by the standard biplane structure. An eighty
horsepower motor drives it along the surface of the water at fifty miles an
hour, while the speed attained In flight is sixty miles. It Is said to be
handled easily in either element. The boat Is so strongly built that It can
be beached with safety, even through a high surf. The hull Is twenty-six feet
long, three feet wide and three feet deep. The Illustrations show It In full
flight and Just as it Is rising from the water.
STUDY YOURSELF.
In order to judge of the inside of
others study your own, for men in
general are very much alike, and,
though one has one prevailing pas
sion and another has another, yet
their operations are much the same,
and whatever engages or disgusts,
pleases or offends you in others will
engage,-disgust, please or offend
others in you. Chesterfield.
A small classified ad will rent that
vacant room.
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outdo the swiftest denizens of the deep,
cola.
The first mention which we have of
gold is in the eleventh verse of the
second chapter of Genesis, or. in other
words, 4,004 years before Christ Gold
was used as money by the ancient
Egyptians at a very early date. He
rodotus tells that the invention of the
coinage of gold belongs to Lydia, about
750 B. C. Authorities conflict about
the first coinage of gold. Some say it
was Miletus and some the Persians,
but there are no records to show just
when.
If it happened it la In the Enterprise.
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Regulated Bakers.
Regulations in regard to bakers in
France are very strict. For instance. In
large , fortified towns they are com
pelled to stock a certain quantity of
bread In ease of war. Further, they
have to deposit a sum of money In the
hands of the local authorities as a
guarantee of good conduct, and the mu
nicipal council regulates the price of
bread.
Rage or Rouge?
"You should have seen her change
color." "With rage or rouge?" Boston
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A Forgotten Diamond.
Lord Lawrence, former governor gen
eral of India, was so absentminded in
matters of external display that when
the Kohinoor diamond came into his
bands for transmission to Queen Vie
toria after the annexation of the Pun
jjab in 1849 he kept it for six weeks in
; his waistcoat pocket, having forgotten
all about it. and only discovered it
there by accident.- London Globe.
A Polite Editor.
"Why did you tell that poet to hitch
his wagon to a star?"
"That," answered the editor gloom
ily, "was my polite way of saying 1
wished he'd get off the earth." Ex-
i change.