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V THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY, MORNIV. NOVEMBER 8t 1908. - 3 1 Fl jl Qj (IJ HACK By Mildred Wyekoff. IT all happened In a moment And to this day, the Hon. Jack Raymead, who was driving along a pleasant nglish lane, cannot explain how the accident arose. A moment of hesitation, a slight swerving a crash! And here was his brand new Parisian automobile overturned In the ditch, barely a square foot left eound and un spllntered. Hit beautiful American companion the woman ha loved lay faint and atill amid tbe confusion of tha amaahup, and heaven alone knew how serious ber In juries might be. To use his own expression it was the "tightest corner" the Hon. Jack had ver been In. Looking about In his bewilderment lis seemed to be the only living person . within a five-mile radius. Looking down at the unconscious Trinda Trenton, he felt like .beauty's murderer. Miss Trinda, by common consent of the county, had been voted tha smartest and prettiest girl who had ever visited Foxshire. Though "a southerly wind and a cloudy sky" proclaimed a hunting morning. Jack and she had refused a run with the foxhounds. They had come out together in tha spring sun shine to try the paces of a racing auto mobile, Just home from Parts. The Hon. Jack had made up his mind to try his matrimonial fortune at tha same time. He intended to slow up at some soli tary and sentimental spot and pour out the measure of his devotion. Perhaps the prospect made him nervous. Anyway, he had driven a trifle reck lessly, lost his head at a critical bend In the road and now he was contem plating his morning's work with rueful and unavailing remorse. Foxshire at first sight and with con spicuous lack of originality had chris tened the American beauty tha Bella of New Tork. And here lay" the belle "his belle" as the Hon. Jock fondly hoped white and tunned and no possible help within hail. Pulling himself together, he extri cated some) cushions and rugs from tha heap of debris, lifted her tenderly onto the impromptu couch and draw a silver bunting flask from his pocket. He must try to force a little " brandy between the white lips. Thank Ood! he waa not badly hurt Aa ha gently supported her head On hia arm she half opened her eyes and looked into hia. - "Jack," aha said in soft and halting tones, "why don't you apeak you must know that I love you," The confession came out In little sob bing gasps. And her companion stooped ' and kissed her white hands reverently J - Now tha Hon. Jack was a, gentleman to his fingertips. And "I'm hanged if a chap can be such a beastly cad aa to listen to what an unconscious girl aaya," waa his drat thought But what lsa could a man do? It waa Impossi ble to leave her and hera they were amid a dreamy stretch of farm fields and turnips.: Jack looked ' hopelessly round - and thought vaguely of wireless telegraphy and tha general futility of scientific re search. "It's all a mistake, dear," aha went on, "to think about money. I'm rloh enough for both. Jack I don't mind your being poor, deaf"" Now this was rather a punier to Jack, who was certainly not "poor." "But, of course, I haven't much com THE CARBURY MURDER By Desmond Cooke. THERE were lights, people, muslo -everything was cheerful In the large hall; yet tha man shud- dercd. Close by him a boy, with the superior pity of 1. Uughed shrilly athiS mother, who had vainly sought to press sixpence into the hand of a waxen program seller, But Gideon Tranter- shuddered. As sightseers passed endlessly behind the rroups of wax flgurea which formed the center of the room, these very effigies seemed to his excited flerves, to shift and turn. With Bet stare, as or one oent upon some purpose, he hurried, without a further glance on either side, to the far end of the room. And then he hesitated. The Iron turn- stiles that passed one to the "extra rooms," suggested prison gates. As two women, with copious giggles, made their way within, the double click of the metal semed to him to be the snap of handcuffs. Mechanically he moved his wriiits. He felt the cold, inquiring eye of the commissionaire upon him. Should he go on or should he turn back? Some nnwpr ifimMl tn draw him on. a. cower other than that which made him sigh Tor fllBht. At least he was not alone the gig ling women would be there. He slapped Jad accused Gideon Tranter of murder Is sixpence down upon the metal plate l"? the woman anri almriA riatArminprilv tnvaril tMan flight of steps Hanked by walls of Stone, on which notices pointed inviting- ly to "The Chamber of Horrors." Ha knew the way well enough; for more than a do ten years he had never mlised Every year he had been down those steps. But today the air seemed to waft up in chill blasts! the stone walls had a damp, hopeless look. He halted nervously and ones Rgain the thought V Somebody coming from hehir.d. He must move; and. in a kind of panic, he stepped downward. U sting ea-h Blab with his foot almost rh if In fear of r1S?HirV. 1?LSZ L ipraway .UCJ iwt,cauvfht, e i!.JS?hn t 111 2, 1b,In,'h-(P,f raping provincials, past the guide, lurid- Iy detallina- the caieer of a criminal J'W. thMivMrML'1, friend- ship, on his shoulder. Gideon had eyes i or noinixiK un iitj reaciieu me uui uum-iuuiih ..in muio, uruncii window, overturned chair, all shut -be- hind glass, which bore the legend: -Actual scene oi me arrury muroer. no ureir mo w.. nun .uui'i nB men he realized it was the band! Old have come so often? Tet he felt he eon tried to force a smile his features owed it somehow, to Mary. For, he would betrav him. He looked nervously had loved her. Tea, loved her still, around to see if anyone were staring at even though he had robbed her of life him. He could tevl millions of inquir- -na rauruerou ner, ubcsubs ne jovea ner. "Mummy. I don't see the horror here.", complained a rat-haired girl, taring dully at the homely, if disor dered cottage. "Ah. but there is. lovey. Just you wait" came from a florid elder, as she contentedly turned the pAgea of her catalogue, in sure hope of something terrible, wen In thla ordinary room. Gideon Tranter saw the "horror in it The whole scene came before him, as if it were 'all acted again, on the as if it were 'all acted again, on the " " " .-reu in ir oeing pro other side of that thin sheet glaas. He yinclal; he cursed them for liking that fould see Mary, sitting by the table that very table with the lamp shining on her startled look ss he came In. "Olilftoni So late " "Tesi vou know why. I have had a miiir . '"e'T,.W"l,'. . . . probed further. ; aaw f-ar. and he oi V i . i V . no need ror a murderer to iook a brute. Gideonl-ryou don t think Surely one of them had moved t Again I are engaged to you," he said. I a uA6In heat aurged over him. His i'S-.r,i?tvt0i.kB-,'.w v w . lm felt looaely knU together; his toes She sank back' into her ehalr. "Yon - gmed to press against his boots; an twist trust me" she said simply, anguish, almost pleaaant. held him for "Whatever you hear or aee. you ought, moment; ha was left trembling, mis to tru m" era bis, Fuddenly his yi W ypon-a stick 'Nerves! He tried to smile, but he that lay across, the table. A thidt stick, could sot What need when thefe Wsf t alotlj carved the stick that was -nobody to him? His nerves were all u? . tjaea; He took It up. ' ..r , . l", he- shouted furiously, I''rhtona stick! Ltarl Ton " . y ro aitaln. The chair fell, Pl It lay now. "Gideon, she cried. t-r .'"' . "w Bsameq irota ser eyes. But pared with those American millionaire chapa," ha concluded en second thoughts. Trinda .waa tha only child of Gen eral Trenton, the distinguished United States ambassador to France, and this waa her first visit to England. Early the' previous fall she had de serted the social gaieties of the Paris embassy for a' good winter's hunting In Foxshire, and had come to stop with Countess of Leicester, whose husband was master of the smartest pack of hounds in tha country. .-..- - , .' Jack Raymead had been her most de voted admirer since that first day when she rode into tha field, "sitting on her horse as lightly and daintily aa a but terfly." as one sentimental hunting man 6. fierce rival of Raymead put It At each succeeding meeting of the pea son tho Hon. Jack had ridden close behind her. He knew every inch of the country, tbe short cuts, the ditches and fences 'safe for a lady.'" And on many notable occasions Trinda Trenton had been the only woman "In at the death," the Hon. Jack invariably at her side. His brother ' bachelors. Jealous Of Jack's privileges, agreed that "she must find hia eternal escort a beastly bore." But she showed no signs of boredom. And her collection of silver-mounted fox brushes was the envy of every "mighty huntress" in the district But none of the sharp feminine eyes' " that watched had been able to detect her in giving Raymead the least marl monial encouragement. Nevertheless, the sporting spirit of the neighborhood was aroused, and betting ran high as to whether "our Jack," the pride and best parti of the country, would "make the running" with the American beauty. All the mothers of marriageable daughter to s y nothing of the daugh ters united in a sporting, though most un-Chrlstlan prayer that he would "come a cropper" In the contest Why should an American girl come, see, con quer and-carry off the best matrimonial prise in their field? It would be easier almost to relinquish him to a friend and neighbor! The - Hon. Jack himself was most despondent Trinda was always friend lymuch too falendly he reflected de spairingly. 1 But there had been no sign of senti ment or deeper feeling in her attitude toward him, She was gay and -charming Wit she was that to everybody. "Perhaps American girls have a dif ferent way of love-making,' waa his comforting conclusion. And now tha sweetest words he had ver heard from a woman's lips were singing in his heart - "Jaclt.' why don't you speak? Tou . must know that I love you " "Why didn't the heavens fall when delightful surprises of this kind came to a 'man " "Tou know that I lova you." And Jack looked with tender man. llnesa at the graceful form lying so still on his improvised bed of cushions. Her shining- golden hair fell loose from lta plna as he gently removed her daintv hunting hat The blue-veined lids hung heavily, over the lovely eyes. She looked like a' "beautiful bit -of w"hH alabaster. What a delight, ha thought when she waa recovered to ask hia goddess to become hia wife. And he would never breathe a hint of her sweet, uncon scious confession. Of all the beautiful -countesses of his ra and name thars wis none to com pare with hef la tha family portrait gallery at hoWKv He was the onlWaon of Lord Lassing ton. and in coujsfe of time his lovely Gideon wae blind with fury. Someone stirred behind the window curtain. Ho 1 PZfc She fell across the table. The stick 'all from his graap: he realixed. In. 'T?,'gUhreatdedfiftehVnSd1?hUr- tains, and as If with no other thought De"t v Mary. - . ,dtn , whoU Men- V-)J a stood, like One dead, 'staring through f 1f- B, did he stand that a om.nad','?: tfct'fc wis waxen, and resolved not to be dooeived again, prodded him with a contemptu ous Jest to her companion. Gideon awoke with a shock. He felt that he Jiad been detected. Clammy panio Jooeened his limbs; he started and Su.rneL uon ,the woman, who with un- 1"I,ed shrieks forged hurriedly toward tne exit , Another scene came back to him He aaw Edward Ulghton, pale and confident at first standing in court, a guard on either side. He saw the vil- lags conatable, swollen with pride, stat- ing how, drawn to the spot by one loud shriek, he found Mary Gardner limp upon the blood-stained carpet leaning over her. with firreat re1 enntu unnn his ragged shirt, and how (this with still more pride) he took him In charge. Tes. the prisoner had nrotested. He And at that a Stir, a WOrdlleas hum. had gone around the crowd. Bince it was known hat the two were rivals for the hand Mary. Witness after witness proved that her heart lay with Gideon. Me couia nave no motive, ilut the pris oner, his love rejected by the murdered flrL Friends gaaed with pity on his "".,tl"e8J features; they could scarcely credit it. In spite of all. But when the constable, now perilous ly roseate with the flush of duty done. produced a thick, shapeless blackthorn. 'U8.1111!!'1 r Til?, .t J m rvJ wuh tli Bn'5.t!ck' n wlth- monogram t. - , ... "?uty"; could see the prisoner hur- riefl 3cW ateep steps oatlhs, protesta- ,,on". truth roning from distorted fea- tures. suddenly he gave a start. A strang BOUn1 hJ struck upon his ears a wall. rlt.nn. thin t nn. 4 n ... stood, limp, and unnerved by an unrea- sonlng terror. Againl The cry swelled plaintively through the cold stone chamber. And inp, moeKing eyes. It was a relief, st first, to find that there had been no witness of his self- accusing terror. But siowlv the truth came in on mm he was alone. That was why the dim wail of the band wa4 borne to him He knew the tune. Who did notT It was te!a-tlme. and the band was playing the sad, voluptuous valse that after maddening the continent had come to madden Lptvlon. To the sightseers It was probably a great attraction. Cur then-, H cursed them for being pr Curse - e cursea lnera Ior i'avmg mm alone. v .... .. Alone! That was what he hated From n,B earliest days he ha loathed soll- tude now loathed . lt more than ever, no couia nor unaersiana nermits nH nohnHtas Slirh awful Innn.hl. alone! And now error of those leer- tV ha t awful wa I i.J'i 1 .7. v. . j . ,u - flushed. In the roadway outside. The man with sunken' eves, in tbe long black mwiatoh Sad been so terribly like Jjihton. Nerves! Alt the week he had started a sound ever sines he. haxl, raad i t a Uat sordid pvagxapiu , ,. It- . a sr a :m t t it - Jt jss" vr.iayrr. -w . smm rm ar a a i . .M If .M:i- . . - M K ! HI If ' lVlfJI .BT I Iff If I 'r, I "J , i i i r r. Jfnttn'fA, iiv a iijiijr 1111 "JACK," SHE SAID IN SOFT "Kdward Dlghton, the Carbury mur derer, having obtained the maximum number of pnoA marks, was released from gaol this morning." Pah: Nerves! D'ghton would -never find him now; he ha 1 covered his tracks up too well. He was known to nobody as (ii.Joon Tranter, and his very face was different With a mad. sudden laugh, he lingered his loner beard And yet that figure in the mackintosh. This nervousness was fatal: anyone seeing him would be suspicious. Ha must get away, and never come again. He haxi been a fool to come at all thfa year; it was so different with Dlghtofi free. He must get rlslit away into the country. At all costs, he must escape from the place of terrors. He moved a step or two; then hesi tated. That way lei him past the fhaatly son of murderers, rained on a las, at the end of which stood Dlghton. Dare he pass that model? Why not? He had seen It so many times. His eyes were used to It, but did his con science grow more fasy? That was the nuisance of It all his conscience! He cursed his parents, cursed his early training. Why a con. science? Dlghton hal not been hanged. He would not have allowed an Innocent man to die for the sin that he had com mitted; he would have confessed. But the evidence had been merely circum stantial; Dlghton had been reprieved. The sentence was only penal servitude for life. Certainly he would pass the figure of "the Carbury murderer," would rather pass It than see again the little room, behind its sheets of glass, so full of hideous memories, and the slimy stones that lined those cheerless stairs? This way led straight to the bright lit tea rooms. He would soon be free of his depression. He moved - forward startled bv the echo Of his steps in the empty recesses of the pillared room. The moanln music faded out again. He scarcely glanced at the hard faces that flanked his way they seemed to mock at him. But of a sudden his eyes were drawn to one of them drawn as If by power of wilt He turned to look, then started nervoualy. The figure had been moved It was Kdward Dlghton'a face that already stared on hlsl The shock to Gideon waa terrible; he could have borne the figure In its ex pected place st the far end but here! He reeled limply against the wooden dock behind, and stared In fascinated terror at the model. It was like too like! But how lined, how broken. The likeness was so wonderful that for a moment he had forgotten; the figure should not age. And yet In the old days. Dlghton was not It must be a new figure, unless Panic seised him. He could have sworn that the cold eye had blinked. One minute more of the accursed place, he would be mad. It was Dlghton Dlghton himself, and no wax figure. He felt sure of It Then hia eye fell on something sprawled across the dias, black and vaugely horrible. It suggested what? He could not tear his gase from it Tes, a mackintosh. He had seen it. Where! Was It this afternoon or years ago? His thought conjured slowly a grim figure In the street outside with piercing eyes that burned, eyes like Dlghton a eyes like those that glared upon him. The truth flashed over him; his limbs seemed to waken from the nightmare of Inaction. He stumbled a step to ward the door. But in that moment Edward Dlghton flung himself upon him, the cold composure of his features gone, words rushing. Incoherent from dry lips. Gideon knew little of It his reason, already tottering, had given way; this figure with wolrllke teeth between the .drawn hark Upa.se?med to. him legs real than what had gone before. He felt that he would wake soon and laugh at It He tried to wake. e At first the feel of the fingers that nressed noon his throat waa not tin- pleasing but he did not like the dis torted lace that seemed to breathe hot threats on- hia Further off other cruel white faces leered upon him.. Ha tried to, move.' Perhaps he was lying on hia "buck that always brought such hideous dreams aa this. Suddenly tbe hot breath bore a sound cf "Mary. ' Sense eame back to him. Re realised hia agony; be was being throttled; H was not asleenT "'-r---t -t - "1 loved her," he gain ad out Prob ably the other could not' hear? "Dlsb too I m. sorry." 1 onlr those fingers AND HALTING TONES, "WHY DON'T YOU SPEAK YOU MUST KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU." - would relax, he could speak loudly, Dlghton would not kill blm! He heard naught but words that poured forth without any orders taunts, rather, and threats'. The awful face began to fade, as If receding. He could hear the mut tering no longer only a awell of the distant music, plaintive, soothing. His breath came more 'freely. He felt that he could shriek, Tes, he could hear It. Then a hurried' atlr, an oath, the scorching breath, the torturing fingers again! He thought he could hear steps, far otf above, on the stone Stairs. Something seemed to snap somewhere. He surely must be waking. e Edward Pighton started back. Now that the man was dead tils vengeance seerhed rather contemptible at any rate, less noble. The face upon ,tha stone floor looked so calm; and he had he gained anything? Whispers and nervous Shuffling made him realize his danger. Vaguely he could see startled faces peering from the steps, half sickened by the horror which, human-like, all had flocked to witness. In the front a commissionaire and a nollceman stood, hesitating, hid ing their fear by the pretense of con sultation.. They looked dervously at him. He suddenly discovered that he held in his hands a huge ' bar of wood. He must have seized it In the instinct of self-defense. As he, rasped It auto matically the two men In uniform stepped back. He laughed raggedly and dropped the weapon. The constable grew cheerful, seeing his promotion near. "Why. that'a the cove what was only let out last week," he said suddenly. "Who's that? inquired the commis sionaire, who welcomed any dialogue that might delay events. The murderer was still perilously near that heavy bar. "Why, you ought to know." The po liceman moved forward, with some pre tense of courage "the Carbury mur derer." Dighton saw and heard It all aa in another world. He fejt as though he had no part in it "Not the Carbury murderer he seemed to hear said, rather than to say, "but the man who murdered him." To the vast belief of the policeman he hold out his wrists dully for the manacles. Can't Agree Among Themselves. The Japs have a reputation for being a calm and unruffled people, whose peace of mind Is very difficult to dis turb. That may. hold good In their own country, but they are apparently hot so peaceably disposed here. In tan Francisco there are two Japanese news paper editors who are so far at logger heads as to have to Invoke the law. The war started over a little exchange of personalities. First came Editor K. H. Hiragana. of the morning Japanese New World, who swore oat a warrant of arrest one morning for Kampo Ku wabara, of the Telegraph, the evening paper, charging that the Telegraph had fublished, things about the New World hat would be held unprintable by an American paper under - American laws. Kuwabara. in return, ho sooner heard of Hiragana's intentions - than he in structed his attorney, L. Vf. Lovey, to cause the arrest of his rival for crim inal libel. All right. If the Japs car. stand It, we can. Maybe they are as tender as ourselves abo,ut taking "back talk." The Way Turkey Doe" It. In Turkey, we are told, the press cen sor, a government official, never allows a newspaper to say that any ruler has dleda violent "death, on "account of the effect such news might have on the minds of the people. Therefore, when the king and crown prince of Portugal were assassinated tha Levant Herald tetated that they "died on their way back to the palace after an excursion,' The. Stamboul announced that "Don Carloa iilead. Hl son Manuel has succeeded to the throne'- When Xing Alexander of Servia and his queen were murdered the Turkish newspapers asserted that they "died of Indigestion at the dead of night." This is where the .government controls what goes Into' the newspapers, as some persons think tne government should control the contents, here. It seems to be a question IfjanyUUn la gained by tha scheme. Vtkl pi m ' OUR NATIONAL MENACE FROM FOREST FIRES Continued From the First Page of This Section It will be gone, at the current rate of cutting, within 83 years. "Within seven years the production of building stone has Increased 90 per cent pig iron nearly 100 per cent, and Portland cement 700 per cent. People hoped that with metal and cement we would use less lumber. But within that period the lumber .production has In creased 8 per cent. The increase in its price during the past decade has been twice as great as that of other commod ities." 8o, to sum up the official records and estimates, we have been using up, burn ing up and throwing away our lumber aa no other nation In the world ever dreamed of destroying a national re source on which It depended for the very perpetuation of ita existence. And that has gone on this year more appallngly than during any other year of the past quarter of a century, .in spite of the faot that the grudged moneys, which the national government has so stingily granted for tbe Insur ance of Its own priceless forests, have abundantly proved that we could be multl-mllllonatres in lumber If. in all, ws were to expend $3,000,000 annually for forest fire insurance. The total cost of fighting and putting down fires for the season In the na tional forests has been only $30,000, ex clusive of the salaries of forest of ficers. That monsy represented Uncle Sam's Insurance against fire on his 168,000,000 acres held in reserve by the national government. - The records of theatre patrols of the United States forest service show that they have reduced the burned-over area on the national f oresta from .48 of 1 per cent In 1904, which was the year before the national "foyeet. were put under its control, to .14 of 1 per cent In 1905. to .11 per cent In 1904, and to .07 in 1907, when the total area burned over was 109,410 acres, as against &88.S72 acres destroyed In 1904. On the basis of the forest service ex perlence with the national- forests oil Which the total administration per acre, Including fire patrol, amounts to only 1 cent the entire forest-area of .tire country could be patrolled and protected for less than $3,000,000 annually.-ef feot lng a saving of yearly losses close, to $25,000,000 in timber alone. The methods- for controlling forest fires In the national reserve are per fectly adapted for use on lands other wise owned. It is simple enough and, as any one who can comprehend the meaning of the word "eoonomy" can perceive, undoubtedly cheap enough. There Is a constant patrol of the areas Included within the national for est boundaries by-a picked fores of rangers and guards, numbering 1.151 men, each required, on the average, to protect the grotesquely disproportion ate area of 121,504 acres. It is like ap pointing one police to protect Chicago. Nevertheless, this solitary regiment of guards, dispersed as they are over every climate the continent knows, have so -educated and trained the Scattered population of their various forests to cooperate in fire-fighting and firfi-2"" ventlon, that they have steadily reduced the ravages of tha common enemy. It is, however, not merely men alone who furnish the forest safeguards. The most efficient protections are to be found in the construction of roads and trails, by which large forces of people can be massed to fight any fire out break, together with the running ef telephone lines connecting ranger sta tions with headquarters, so that infor-' mation can be Instantly transmitted. 1 Up to June 80, 1908, the year's work had included the making of 160 miles of road, 8,600 miles of trail, and 8,600 mllea of telephone. Then, too, numerous fire breaks, from to 190 , feet in width, have-been constructed, from which all inflammable .- material was removed, so that any outbreak of fire would encounter a bare space which It could not overlap. But the equipment Of the national re serves remains yet to' be completed In respect to such indispensable aids as flre-fighflg tools. all the commen tary that could be made upon tire nig gardly comprehension- of the vastnest of their forest responsibilities by con gress and the state legislature, even in cluding the farcical provision 6f one guard for an area of 181.606 acres, the most significant Is the fsct that there are still lacking essential supplies of axes, ahovels and other tools, together with tool boxes and cabins, for , arrest ing the fires that 4o break out i . ' r- American bride would dp tha honors and ' hospitalities of tha old eaatla. A.t tha preaent women V tha Honor able Jack's castlea weravery much in tha air. But ha was suddenly startled -out f hia jroseat vlslona by tha pros of a pack of hounds in tull. cry. .. - ' The pictureaaua posse came quickly toward , them, moat of the field ft ..; bright "pink't coata - and fuU hunting kit Aa good luck would hava It, tha vracent had led tha pack to tha scene of tha accident and two surgeons were "out" with tha flald. : ...... 'J- 5 "81lht ahocfc Nothing rioua, Keada a few days in bed," waa tha, doctor's: diagnosis of tha case. . f ' "Vou must put her up At FOxshlre ' Court," said Dr. Duncan somewhat mis chievously to tha lovesick; Baymead. , Tha court waa - Jack's own little --- bachelor hunttne;-box known among hia friends as "the houae that Jack ' built," and waa within aaey driving dis tance. Jack borrowed a horse and set off In all haste to prapara th courthouse keeper for tha comlnt of tr invalid. And he intended to see ' fo himself that his fastest team was hitched to tha wagonette and a soft mattrtfss placed on the carriage floor for hia lady's love's eaae and com- t fort . ' ' , "I ahall mova ovaf t6 tha noma farm - and wire for Lady 'Leicester and soma nurses," ha announced with as much calmness aa he could command.. Tha thought of Trinda aa a gilest In his house was a ,blt of luck that Jack could not contemplate with coolness. - Mlsa Trenton was soon aafely and cosily disposed In tha "bast bedroom," the little hunting-box contained. "Bleea her sweet face" - said . Mm Betts, the housekeeper, who acted aa temporary --nurse. ''She keeps a-eay ing I'm not to tell Jack about tha aocl dent." - , . Of course the housekeeper knew as . housekeepers always do far more about her master's love affaire than he knew himself.- And with the privilege of an old ser vant she put her seal of approval on tbe Hnoroable Jack's choice. - Lady Leicester, accompanied by two) -trained nurses, drove over In post haste - to put her protecting chaperonage over the affair. Jack had meanwhile tele- graphed he news to 'Trlnda'e father nnd learned that he was coming over by the night mall from Paris. "And son-in-law might well be proud of so soldierly and arlatocratlo a man as Oeneral Trenton," was Jack's un spoken thought aa he met him at the station. ' .- But who waa the atalwart, handsome '' young man traveling along with- the ' general? What right had any stranger and a confoundedly good-looking one, too to Intrude himself into the midst of family affaire. Oh I he waa the secretary, of the United States embassy, was hat Of reurse, under those circumstances he had an official right to be with his chief. But that didn't furnish a rea- - von why he should be so ylalbly anxious and agitated about Miss Trinda'a con dition. He seemed te think the entire British nation waa not competent to look after one sick girl. Talked about telegraphing for tha best London surgeons or cabling for a New York specialist?. Now Jealous Jack resented any other man's anxiety about Trinda. He hadn't closed hia eyea all the previous night in terror lest she might be suffering. But that was altogether different. Cyril J. Custance Jack glanced at the card the stranger gave hljn had bet ter confine his energies to the united States embassy that waa the end of the business. . But Raymead soon recovered his good temper. He could afford to be generous Perhaps tbe best illustration of the whole momentous subject of the na tion's forest, fire losses would not be the spectacular blase which threatened to destroy the California grove of big trees, endeared to the imagination of all Americans, but one of the confla grations which wreak their fury upon the very opposite) of the giant red woods such afire as has devastated the Hibblng and Chlsholm districts. In Minnesota, and burned out the very earth that should nourish seedlings. After a tour of the fire region there. Smith Riley, chief inspector of the national forest district which includes the Minnesota territory, declared that the fires there were due to a com bination of bad conditions, local Indif ferences, and lack of thoroughly ef fective protection. .- The woods, after a prolonged drought, are very Inflammable. Fires are cer tain to occur, and the only thing to do la to put them out quickly wherever they appear. Forest officers, constant ly on the watch, rush to put out any fire they observe or learn of, before it has the chance to develop into a general menace. Mr. Riley said: In Minnesota there seems to be little sentiment against fires which do not threaten settlements or valuable stand ing timber. The state has a fire war den system, but it is altogether In adequate under such conditions as the ? resent Bear In mind that nearly all he pine country of the Lake states has been cot over and burned over In the past, so that it is either brush land or infertor timber, of which no one takes much account Consequently no one is interested in putting out smol dering fires. I mysslf, when I was in Minnesota a few days ago, saw a number of these fires which were due to oarelessnens of campers in leaving their fires un extinguished. The whole country was overhung by a pall of smoke, and the woods were like tinder. Yet parties moving through the wilderness would leave -their camping places on the shores of the lakes without taking tho trouble to aee that the camptlres were put out. .' Other --fires I saw were the result of brush' burning by farmers, and still others had started from railroads. These are mostly the causes of forest fires carelessness In the ' use of fire by sportsmen, camping parties and others In tha woods, brush burning, and lo comotive sparks. They will always have to be reckoned with, and the fire prob lem is, how to reckon with them. Fire patrol during the dangerous sea son la absolutely necessary In forested regions, If fires are to be kept down. In regions of heavy timber the own-, ere maintain a patrol system of their own. But from the point of view of the . future, the greatest need is to keep fires out of cut-over lands which the owners are generally unable or unwilling to protect. The fires on such lands are not spectacular: yet, as they run over the ground, they will kill every little seedling, and so make Im possible a future forest Observations such as these, made all over the country by experts such as Mr, Riley, have led those interested in forest protection to aver that - the forested states ought to find It worth while toprotset their timber lands as cities, through their -fire departments, protect city property. Indeed, a well-organised state sys tem can be made of great educational importance, while It furnishes, ms well, a means Of attacking flree after they start The different can be taught I that small, ftres are dangerous; the culpably negligent can be forced to realise some measure of the - penalty that should attach to the careless use of fire-in forests, f -- - " Education, In fact, more, than laws,' .penalties and money outlay. Is the main hope for the future that is held by the foreetry officers who are struggling with tne giant iaK or guarding tne national reserves. Therein lies the key to an amasing but comforting .paradox, which was -drawn by the forestry aerv ice at -Washington while the fires of this fall were at their height. ------ " "The- fires have done good in one way,i . read a message sent out from Washington by tbe officials of the Service. "They have focused ' th peo ple's attention on the seriousness of the forest fire problem, and have start ed a widespread moyemeiit in many states- to check - them, by . adopting rational systems of protection. "Among thinking . people' - there has to a poor devil who waa outside tha gates -of paradise. . , Trinda eay: ' "Jack, ? why don't you speak. - You know that -I love you." - uvn i..waiiv lunuu mi . - r.n.r. 1 kU.. tha nflrtV YfO r H Afl the. court ''I must see my little daughter jright away." - Luftch was Just over, the cigarette a and coffee stage reached.' and Raymead . was on ine point. 01 aeciaing iimi ins new American gtiest was the "finest, w.iubuiii0V Ulllll w . Iiu vvor when the general came back, smiling and genial. "Jack,1 he began, "Trinda says I'm to take you to her at once." :, Both men started, up eagerly. 'I guess she means me," said Jack Custanoe quietly. . ' " . " -f '" .' "" T" Newspaper Advertising. A" rdadi n attractive show window may be ade ant) the value of, the day's adver tising greatly enhanced by displaying tne features advertised In the daily pa pers, carded "As advertised today." This plan Is In successful operation by some of our best advertisers , sometimes happens that a reader will be attracted by. tome feature in an -advertisement, but ,ln an offhand way assumes It is not juat what is wanted, and consequently will not take the trou ble to investigate, Paaslng the Window supplementing the advertisement with a display ot the particular article, the al most is changed to fully persuaded and rour customer enters with more respect or your nespaper message. This doe not always apply, and It may be contended It the advertisement Is properly constructed Its argument should be complete and thoroughly con vincing, but in oases where description la difficult the show window is a poweiful aid, to ray no more of its advantages. Then, again, when the advertisement and this "follow-up" eystein suffices to get a customer Into the store, the goods and tbe clerk behind the ounler are tn evidence with their story of many other things needful. Really, tbe prime ob ject of the advertising has been accom plished when the customer, with a wish unsatisfied, is Induced to entui- tli) door, , Emphasising an Idea Is always worth while if It is conceived from good grey matter , Spruce Importation Grows. There was a marked increase in lest year's importation of spruce, which h.is always been the most populir wood for paper pulp. Some llgures in the Ifst report of the census bureau bring out Interesting facts wbfch show the rapid - frrowth of the paper-making and allied ndustrles during the last decade. There were 1,962,8(0 cords of wood used in the United States in the manufacture cf paper pulp last year, just twice as rrucli as was used in 1898. More than t iOO.QOO tons of pulp were produced. The pulp mills used 800,000 more cords of wood in 1907 than in the previous year. x The increased, price of spruce has turned the attenyon of paper mnnu facturers to hemlock and other wooda. Large quantities of hemlock were ul by Wisconsin pulp mills, and the reo!t ' shows that that state now ranks third In pulp production. New York and Maine ranking first and aecond, respectively. 'Poplar has been used for a Unix tme in the manufacture of high-gVade paper, -but the supply of this wood is limited and the consumption of It has not in creased rapidly. been awakened an Intense interest In throwing a better protection around the forests, wtiich grow more Important aa the timber supply dwindles. In nearly every instance probably in every in stance these devastating fires might have been prevented if the various states had provided an adequate num ber of men to patrol the woods and ar rest all such fires in their inciplency, and if lumbermen and other users of the forest had been careful to dispose of brush after logging." - But it is not local education alone that Is required to prevent us from becoming timber-beggared; it la nation al education, sufficient to create na tional opinion and keep alive national sentiment Increased line of Small Motors. From Klectrlb News Service. Each year the small electrio motor finds new tasks to do until now almost everything about the house, office, shop or country home which requires small power Is operated with a motor wher ever eleotrlcity Is available. The differ ent kinds of work which are required of these motors every day Is past all at tempts at cataloging and more exten sive than any one not connected with the business would imagine. In fact' new "Jobs" are being found every day for these tireless little workers, and the expense of running them is very slight as they use current only In pro portion to the work done and, best of all, they require little, if any, atten tion. In the home the fans, sewing ma chines, washing machines, meat chop pers, ash sifters, massage rails, lawn mowers, carpet sweepers, grinders and buffers, Ice cream freexcrs, dish wash ers, bread mixers, dumb elevators', are all driven by electric motors if desired. The convenience of electrio power In the household has long been recognized and the use of motors has become practi cally a necessity. Where an electric current is available on the farm small motors are most use ful. Besides ths various household uses to which the motors are adapted they can be used to saw the wood, cut the ensilage, run the water pumps, cream separators and churns, in the repair shop, for grinding chicken feed, supply ing power ior cider presses, corn shelt ers, bottle cleaners, milking machines and a dosen other things. Evenvthe work in the business man's office is facilitated and the comfort of the employes promoted by the use of the small motor. It is used to run the fans, tha ventilators, letter copying ma chines, cash registers, pencil sharpen ers, letter openers and adding machines. Jewelers, tailors, tinsmiths, lock smiths, tinkers, dentists, printers, car penters and machinists, all make prac tical use of tbe small motor in their work. In the machine shops the lathes, drills, emery wheels; and grinders, drill presses, boring mills, etc., are motor driven. The carpenter uses the power ' to run his saws, shapers and planers. Among the many novelties In motor driven machinery arejthe door planora and waxing brushes .for use in large hallsi the motor-driven vacuum curry comb for horses and cattle; the shoe blacking machine; the stamp canceller for postofflce work; an automatic en gine stop to prevent - an - engine from running away in case the load Is sud denly removed ;air compressors for use in barber shops; air pumps, automatic musical Instruments, adding machines, hat cleaners, eoffee grinders, horseradish graters, candy pullers, ice crushers, cash carriers and a large variety of small special machinery. , ' Tbe smaller typeof motors' range In slse from -a diminutive little fellow which can almost be carried in the -vest pocket to a five-horsepower machine. So Would Others. From the Delineator. Little Freddie wae told by the nurse ene morning that the stork had visits 1 'the house during the night and left him"' a little baby sister, and asked if he would like to see her. - "I don't care nothing about the baby,"-' said Freddie, "but I d like to see .the stork."--- i - - I . ,
