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BY J03EPH H. AFFLEGATE.
T IS A pretty difficult thins to land
right. Particularly, when on ta
up in th air. It mimi half the
Came to gtt one's feet down solidly.
The earth feels mighty friendly. Lieu
tenant Louis F. Kloor, of the United
States nary, on of the three naval
Balloonist whose trip to the Canadian
wilds last winter in a gas bag made
naval history, will tell you so. Lieu
tenants Walter Hinton and Stephen
A. Farrell could corroborate him.
Lieutenant Kloor will tell you
something else. also, fie will assure
you that making a landing la ventures
outside voyaging about In the cir
cumambient is just as much of an
achievement. Particularly, when one
Is up In the air over a love affair.
How he came to reach the haven of
his heart's desire is that which con
cerns this narrative and the charming
little Miss Irma Harrison of New
York City-
The circumstances Indicate that he
landed right in love by applying th
lessons he and Lieutenants Farrell
and Hinton learned at the cost ot
physical suffering in the great out
doors of pines and hemlock and un
broken snow up north. He was up
against & stiff proposition when he
made that mistaken landing from that
balloon. The next time you go fish
ing or hunting up there ask the In
dian guide to recount it. He'll point
to his canoe, fashioned out of the ex
pensive covering of Uncle Sam's
wrecked gas bag, and assure you that
it was a plucky fight. The chances
are, too, that, having in mind the
shortness of the span of life of a
canoe of birch bark, he'll ask when
the great white father of the United
States will send another bag up there.
Plunging ahead over all obstacles
was the lesson taught Lieutenant
Kloor in the "silence you most can
hear." Out of that stumbling, stag
gering battle against the step-hindering
snow, nights made hideous
With, the howling of wolves, days
made terrible by the sense of loneli
ness in the vastness of trackless
white, there came added will to go
.head full speed and damn the tor
pedoes, sir! Many times he and his
companions turned attentive ear to
the whispering Invitation of the pines
to sleep, just a bit. before pressing on.
But ever the traditional spirit of the
navy overcame the snow sired and
added fresh strength to their heavy
feet.
His G aiding Beacon, Light.
But Lieutenant Kloor had also a
beacon light encouraging him every
step of the way, the mental picture
of a pretty girl at Rockaway, N. Y,
with soft brown eyes and golden
brown hair. She seemed to be with
him in his most trying moments. She
was his very present strength in time
of trouble. The whole world knew of
this before Lieutenant Kloor arrived
home. It, was gleaned out of the let
ters he sent to Miss Alexandra Flow
erton, lines which first gave to mil
lions who were awaiting word the
first details of that stupendous and
triumphant battle of three little men
against the mighty forces of snow
and wind and night.
But Lieutenant Kloor was destined
tc experience in love another similar
struggle before landing right! And
very foot of t recalled th physical
struggle up there In th wilds. For
when he reached home and was ban
queted and feted and even kissed by
many maidens with that warmth of
welcome Hiss America always feels
toward one of her sailor boys escaped
from wx or. fither danger, be Xouod
that, even as was the ease up there
in Canada, there was a rough road to
travel before reaching the place de
sired. Along the trail of love were thre
faces Alexandra, Consuelo, Irma. A
forntidable triumvirate to dictate th
affairs of any marryable young man,
with rich honors heaped upon him.
It was something he did not count on
while making the fight for life in the
woods. It was a condition brought
about by those whimsical twlatlngs of
fata that make love and life interest
ing and worth while. The first Indi
cation of it came when he began to
assert that he really was not en
gaged to Miss Alexandra, that he had
Just written to her because ha liked
her. It had really happened when he
first looked at the picture of her sis
ter, Consuelo.
He saw the likeness on a poster
suspended from a wall In the battle
ship Tennessee, a lithographed draw
ing by Howard Chandler Christy. And
be fell in love with it or, at least,
his friends say, thought be did. H
did not even know who th young
woman was. So, his surprise may be
Imagined when, on day, after due
announcement of her coming visit,
Miss Consuelo arrived In Rockaway
from Hollywood, Cal and stood b
for him, th girl of th poster.
But the trouble was. It seems, that
the girl in the poster had something
to say about it. It appears that th
thoughtless Miss Consuelo had gone
and got herself engaged to another
man. Which is circumstantial sup
port to Lieutenant Kloor's emphatic
denial that he ever did lore Miss Con.
suelo or that he ever was engaged to
her. . But his friends said he did and
was and the daily press duly reported
same.
How that report came to be made Is
very interesting. When tthe romance
between him and Miss Alexandra was
punctured she burst Into print with
a statement that she could not afford
to become the wife of a man on the
officers' payroll of the United States
navy. It wouldn't make ends meet, she
declared. And when Lieutenant Kloor
heard this, instead of weeping, or
even crawling into the mouth of one
of the big disappearing guns of the
fort at Rockaway, he spiked her
weapon with a cool and calm state
ment that he never was engaged to
her.
And then it happened that a re
porter, calling at the Flowerton home
to investigate this' refutation of the
engagement by the naval hero, thrust
his reportorlal quill right through the
romance, or alleged romance, of our
hero and Miss Consuelo. But he in-
Alexandra Flewertoa, fiancee No. 1, wit said
he eonld not live n aa officer's ay.
flated it, so to apeak, before
pricked It.
"I would be quit willing, In fact,
am willing to share an officer's pay,"
said the charming Consuelo, in the
published Interview. "In tact, I be
lieve that love should not consider
money."
Off had sped the reporter, certain
that he had learned a secret, and In a
few moments had rattled off the ro
mantic story of how the gallant naval
officer had spurned Miss Alexandra
for Consuelo. It made an interesting
story, too.
Coaaneloa Naive Kxplanatloa, .
Love that shuts the-eyes to wealth
is indeed wonderful. Rare things gen
erally are wonderful. But one may
find such cases nowadays up, in the
woods, where Lieutenant Kloor floun
dered through snow last winter seek
ing the warmth of civilization, cold
hearted as it sometimes becomes.
Lieutenant Kloor was a fortunate
man. Also, It went a long way toward
proving that all show girls are not
flighty nor inclined to have a green
cast to their thoughts. Some horrid
folk have openly said 'as much.
Shouted it, in fact.
And they shouted It again, with a
few "I told you so's" thrown in, when
Miss- Consuelo, coolly, calmly, dispas
sionately, came forth with a sweep
ing denial of the whole report. Not a
word of truth in it, she retorted to
those who talked about the engage
ment She assured them that her af
fection was in an entirely different
section of the country.
"It was trua that I said I would be
willing to liv on an officer's -salary,"
she declared, when approached on th
subject by the same bewildered news
paper reporter. "But I meant another
naval officer. On out in San Diego.1
So It was that Lieutenant Kloor
rose free again of love anchorage.
His friends thought so, anyway.. And
they began to jibe him about the way
he juggled the hearts and hopes ot
raarrtable girls. On suggested that
he give a bachelor party in honor of
the escape from married servitude.
You get away lucky," spoke up a
friend. "Look at all the poor swains
who pay heart balm.'
"But I never was engaged to either
one of them," was his reply.
When he said it the lieutenant was
thinking of a different kind of en
gagement. It was a date, in other
words, with a cut little brunette
who lives with her mother at the
Palace Siotel, New York city. Her
name is Irma Harrison and her face
Is well known to thousands who have
seen her in the pictures. She's just
th right sise, too, for th lieutenant,
who is sort of sawed off and ham
mered down. A Mary Pickford type
of girl with a personality all her own
and quite original. And th man on
the street no doubt will be shocked
to learn that th engagement the
really, truly, honest-to-goodness be
trothal of Lieutenant Kloor and Miss
Irma Harrison is the latest announce
ment. It was a oonditlon known to
Miss Harrison looks like an "oldVfasaloaed" girl la thla beautiful costume aad talks like one whea declare
that love should Ignore moaey aaestlona.
th closest of their friends all the
tlm. And they'll be married that
is, unless
"The kid Is th grandest little man
In all the world," volunteered Miss
Harrison, when found In her apart
ment where she laughingly shrugged
her shoulders when Informed that the
secret of her engagement was out.
When will we get married? That's
telling. Maybe never. Who knows?
But an officer's pay is big enough
for me. I despise the girl" gracious
how she scowled! "who would per
mit dollars to come between her and
her lover. Of course. I don't mean I
would marry a really poor man. For
we all know that when bills come In
love flies out th window. But
Lieutenant Kloor arns enough to
well take oar of a wife."
Thus ends the second runaway
adventure series of Lieutenant Kloor.
There were thre in each case, him
self and two others. In both in
stances he wandered far before he
found a landing. In both adventures
he had to travel over rough ground
before he reached th haven he
desired.
But he Is confident that ho landed
right at last when he anchored la
the affections of Miss Harrison. He
ought to get three rousing cheers for
his Iron nerve. It Is a feat to bump
through such entangling places and
escape without injury. But he's on
solid ground at last and his frlenda
wish him luck.
PACK TRAIN NEARING MT. JEFFERSON
Noted Author Views Wonders of His Own Land.
(CoaMnned From Drat Page.) 1 cl'mb, l about 50 miles due south of
slbility of man - to describe. One of Mount Hood.
V,a 1att Trninfta .r t thai .iHAn '
At the base of the mountain is a
the latest projects -of that section
is the Skyline boulevard, a road along
the crest of the Cascade mountain
range. This great highway bids fair
to be realized within a few ..years,
for the forest service employes have
already managed to connect up many
trail links until the routs begins to
have an Individuality of its own. Al
ready it is possible to go over a great
portion of the breathless and royal
road by means of pack train, or on
foot and it seems no more than fair
to predict its construction as an auto
road within the next very few years.
Mount Jotiexsofl, where they did their
park in what was known to the pio
neers as Hanging valley. A branch
of the Southern iraciflc extends to
Detroit about IS miles in a straight
line west of the mountain. A trail
lead to th mountain from here.
Waplnltla, to th east on a main auto
road. Is the nearest town to the sum
mit from that side. From eastern
Oregon points this mountain range,
w'th Mount Jefferson as on of Its
outstanding peaks, gives a splendid
idea of what a solid mountain wall
Is, th peaks rising in straight line
as a fence and seeming to shut off
that section of the state from the rest
of the world to the west. It is also
possible to enter the region from
Government camp, on the slope of
Mount Hood, and thence make one's
way south over the serrated peaks
towards the great dominant Jef
ferson. Waters Leave Mountain Ranges.
This entire region shows evidences
of the great volcanic flow that was
responsible for th creation of the
country. The whit heads of the
great snow peaks rls in regular
array from darker ruff of timber.
Th rugged mountains dominat th
foreground with deeply riven canyons
Intervening. The skyline to the west
Is distinct possibly 35 miles aray,
and the intervening space is an in
terrupted though closely packed se
ries of mountain tops. Tbos In the
distance seem fully as high as those
close by, and geologists point out
that many of them have flattened
tops and argue that from this we
have the indications of the huge lava
blanket the high peaks marking the
level ' of a great plateau on whose
surface th Innumerable streams and
glaciers have cut their way, leaving
th lofty peaks outstanding.
If this has been th case It has
taken hundreds of thousands of years
for the waters to do their work, and
they are yet at their labors. Of one
thing we can rest assured, that this
erosion or land-carving by natural
means has wrought in Oregon a won
derland that is arousing th envy of
the rest of th country, a land of
beauty with a drawing power which
estimate. If Oregon will first begin
to appreciate her own possibilities,
and she seems to be doing it and
then let the rest of the world get an
inkling ot their existence, there will
be no stopping the flood of tourists.
The country is here, men skilled in
the game of putting description on
paper admit It and when their story
Is read their many friends will come
to verify their Impressions. This day
does not seem far distant
A Ready Solution.
Ketcham was a struggling young
attorney in a Nebraska town, and it
was. therefore, with great delight
that he received th call one day of
a well-to-do farmer, who wanted ad
vice in regard to a suit he desired to
bring against a neighbor.
The youthful lawyer looked up th
statutes and adv'sed his client as to
most Oregonlans are prona to under- th proper ours to pursue. Aa th
farmer rose to leave the office h
asked: "What's your fee?"
"Oh. let us say 1," carelessly re
plied the struggling attorney.
Then the client proffered a 15 bill.
The young Jurist was visibly embar
rassed. He carefully searched his
pockets and the drawers of bis desk
without producing the necessary
change. Finally ha solved the diffi
culty by pocketing the1 bill and
added, as he reached for a digest:
"And now, my dear sir. It seemt
that I shall have to glv you f 3 worth
ot advice mora," ,
Port Officials to Mtrt.
'SEATTLE, Wash. Port officials
and waterway men from th United
States and Canada will gather here
October 11 to 14 for the tenth annual
convention of the American Associa
tion of Port Authorities. On ad
journment delegates are invited to
attend a four-day meeting of the Pa
clflo Coast Association of Fort
Authorities at Vancouver. By&