SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 8, 1021
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0. HENRY ad AL. JENNINGS
(Continued from lat wnki
CHAllF.i: FIKTY-KICJIIT
If I'ortcr CMUght the; Voire 01
the Cit as no other h;-?; it lie
reached tho veins ludin;; t li t
heart. It Is because h an n
vt'ttrate prospector, iort.vpr hull
ing hlk pick into the anpluut. Ho
struck it rich, In th streeta ami
restaurants oil Manhattaa. Run
ning through the hardfaetd gran
ite of Its materialism, he came
opon the deep shaft of ro:nari
and poetry.
Shot throush every humdrum
strata, the mellow sold of humoi
and pathos, r! nted h-fore hi.
NewYorfc wast his (.oWi.lc.d Hut
hla lucky strike "a-as muscled by
Itelentlec I'urpoie, not Chance.
No story writer ever worked 'more
persistently than O. Henry. He
wao the Insatiable Explorer.
The average man adopts a pro-
fcettlon of a trade.
be I gfad to turn hi attention to
1-11 already separated, as in the
-.tory Sue told him. Sometimes
iIhti' was but a xpuikle. In fact,
it wa.H heldom that he took thine;.
ii.: ho tound them.
I Ha pravel went through many
a'vtfh htfr-re It can: out O. H.-n-ly's
unalloytd .'od. What v.ouhl
hae been but so much crushed
rock for another, pleamed with
nunet durt fof hirn. So it was
ulth -The Halberdier of the
Itbejnschloss."
"I'll Introduce you to Pilsner."
he said to me one night, when we
r-farted out on our rounds. "You'll
like it better than your coffee
strong enough to float your bandit
bullets."
We went to a German restaur
ant on Croadway. We took a lit
tle table near the foot of the ;
stairs. In one of his stories; O, . !
Henry says that "the proudest I
In hla klnure ronsummaiion or a .ew ior?r
ambition Is to shake hands wain,
other hobbles. With O. Hi-nry. h h
work made up the sum total of
bis life. The two were insepar-1
able.
He could no more Lelp noticing
and observing and mentally stock-;
Ins up than a negative could avoid ;
recording an imacn when the
Jlght strikes it. He had a mind!
that innately select and recount 1
the story
l'nalloyrl Gold
Found In Gravrl.
Sometimes he came upon the
1 a spaghetti chef or to receive a
j nod from a Broadway head wait
! er." That mark of deference was
' often his. i
Story Written
lu Twelve Hours.
When I got to his room the bl
tal,i." when? h did his wilting
was littered with sheets of pap-r.
All over the floor were neraps
written in long hand.
'When I pt the returns on 1
this I'll divvy up with ou " I'or-
ter picked up a thick wad of j
sheets.
Why?" i
'"It was yo;i that rravo nv th - j
thought." I
"You mean the ciarelte fiend j
in tljo ariiior?"
"Yes; I've jut finished the i
yarn."
He read it 'o rr.e. Jut the !
merest ulint had come to him
from that stfl p'ated armor. The ! ate
iiaioTUier niinreir would never
have recognized the gem Poiter's
M-niun had polished for him. The
story just a it stands today was
written by Porter some time be
tween midnight and noon.
And yet h looked as fresh and
rt-ted as though he had slept ten
hours.
"Ik you always grab off an in
rpi ration like that and dash it off
without anv trouble?"
Porter opened a drawer in the
WHAT HAS DEED DONE WITH POULTRY
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IIIL.IIU Umi UL UUIlLi IIL.IIU III III
The Success of a Well Known Douglas County Man
With Poultry on a Commercial Scale Can be Repeat
ed in the Salem District; Including Nearness to Markets.
as many advantages to the poul
tryman as does Douglas county,
and more, from th faet thai soil
and climatic conditions are slml
i. . .,, tht Auirirt i- much near-
1 I O 1 , U 11 1 1 1 1 1 uirtiii - . .. .
er the Portland market, and otner
I large markets, affording tne aa
I vantage of cheaper freight and
j express rates for all poultry pro
j ducts, as well as suca feedstuffs
! as the poultryman tfoes not raise
himself. V!th all the Advantages
fonnd here In the way or cheap
foothill, stump, or gravelly land.
all well adapted t9 poultry rais
Ing, plenty of building material
right at band for ufceded improve
ments, good roitdsfljiind a nearby
city niarkft. mont jny man with
a little capital and some W
edge of the uoultrr ... s 1
thould
be
ponurr:
able to duDlt.r
hero la the Willamette tt!lC;tt
The Pilsner was gooi, dui ine dwk. "Look at those." He point
thing of chief Interest to me wasjpj to a crammed-down heap of
a ridiculous figure standing at the( papers covered w ith his long 'free
landing of the stairs tricked out hand,
as an ancient Halberdier. I could
not take vnf glance from him. Hexroab! in Maklne
'int. nut
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had tbe shiftiest eyes and tho
weakest hands. The contrast to
his mighty coat of steel was laugh
able. It's a tood Ktory
Kays Bill Porter.
"Ixok at that weak-kneed sap
head. Bill. Picture him as an an
clent man-at-arms!" His fingers
were yellow with nicotine to the
knuckles.
Porter looked at him, sat bark,
finished his beer In silence. It's a
rood story-" That was all be said.
We went home early and both of
us were sober. Wbenerer this hap
pened we used to sit In Bill's room
and talk until 1 or 2 o'clock. This
night It was different.
"Are you sleepy tonight, col
onel?" he said. "I think I shall
retire."
Whenever his mind was beset
with an idea be lapsed into this
extremely formal manner of
speaking. It was bitterly Irritat
ing to me. I would leave In a
kind of nuff determined not to
bother him again. But I knew
that he was not conscious of his
coldness. He was remote because
bis thought bad built a barrier
about him. He could think of
nothing but the story In his mind.
I bad an appointment with him
for noon time. I decided not to
keep it unless he remembered.
At about 10 minutes after 12 he
called me np.
"You're late. I'm waiting," he
said. ' t
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One Story "Go."
"Sometimes I can't make the
story go and I lay It away for a
happier moment. There is a lot
of unfinished business in there
that will hae to be transacted
some day. I 'lon't dash off stor
I'm always thinking about
them, and I seldom start to write
until the thin Is finished In my
mind. It doesn't take Jong to set
it down."
I have watched Mm sit wih
pencil poised sometime for hours,
waiting for the story to tell It-1
self to his brain.
O. Henry was a careful artist.
He was a slave to the dictionary.
He would pour over it. seeming
to take an infinite relish in the
discovery of a new twist to a
word. .
One day be was sitting at the
table with h!a back to me. He had
been writing with Incredible rap
idity, as though the words Just
ran themselves automatically
from bis pen. Suddenly be stop
ped. For half an hour he sat
silent, and then he turned round,
rather surprised to find me still
there.
"Thirsty. Colonel? Let's get a
drink."
"Bill," my curiosity was. up,
"does your mind feel ' a blank
when you sit there like that?"
The question seemed to amuse
him.
"No but I have to reason out
the meaning of words."
"Bill Porter Truest
Man I've Known
There was no ostentation in
Porter, either in his writing or in
his observations. I never eaw
him make notes in public, except
once 10 a while be would jot a
word down on the corner of his
napkin.
He didn't want other people
to know what he was thinking
about. He didn't need to take
notes, for he was not a procras
tinator. He transmuted his
thoughts into stories while the
warm beat threbbed in them.
Careless and irresponsible as
he seemed almost aimless at
times I think there was in Bill
Porter a purposiveness that was
grim and so determined that he
would allow no external influence
to interfere with his plan of life.
I have sometimes felt that this
passionate will to be himself at
all times made him so aloof and
reclusive. He sought companion
ship freely with strangers, for Le
could dispense with their com
pany at will. He wanted to Hve
untrammeled. And he did. He
was Incorrigibly stubborn minded.
Of all the men I have ever known
Bill Porter ran truest to the nat
ural grain.
(Continued next week).
J II. C'larlc. Winchester, Or..
poultryman, has Just completed
a new laying house to accommo-
800 chickens. which ad
dition gives him one of tie larg-
:-t an'l uio.st modern poultry
frrnis in southern Oregon. Mr.
Clark has made many substantial
Improvements on the farm which,
he recently bought and now han
what is perhaps the best equipped
plant In Douglas county. The
building was started several
weeks ago and is of the very lat
est type and contains many new
features which will greatly assist
in handling and caring for poul
try In addition to providing suit
able nests. Dust banks are lo
cated under the front part of the
structure, which is 80 by 82 feet
in sire, makinr a vry valuable
?-idition to equipment already on
the place.
Mr. (.'lark was one of the first
residents cf the Hoseburg district
to go into the poultry business
on a commercial basis. He start
ed with a 10 acre tract in Eden
towr, where he was able to carry
iibout 1000 chickens. He devel
oped this place to a very high
point and was finding it very
AT THE LIBRARY
1 ne liampugiitcr was
dead; the kindly old
man's injuries had hur
ried him to the great
hcyond. See the beau
tiful 4story that has
I won written around
him and a little girl,
with Shirley Mason, in
her greatest photoplay,
"The Lamoliehter."
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"England After the War," com
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"The History o' the A. E. F.'
by Captain Shipley Thomas
"A Short Hstory of the Italian
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"Is Violence the Way Out or
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High Speed In Typewriting.'
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Harold Bindloss.
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"Bird Gossip," by Harriett Wil
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Stories to Act." by F. C.
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"The Holton-Curry Primer," by
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profitable when ne sold it at a
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and will have his place thorough
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in conducting the business in a
thoroughly efficient and profit
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His present location gtves him
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Mr. Clark started In with a
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Douglas county as a suitable place
for poultry raising, and has dem
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belief as well as provided him
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to engage In the industry nntil
at the present time the county
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