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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY, MORNIV. NOVEMBER 8t 1908. -
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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 . ,