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and the University Porter
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.Tutuiini there was a new inai.l in the
l.':il;nu -in. SoiiH'tliing about her tlnrli.
I'lisc lining dross. her small, milled
:iproii nvA her i:irtiHl liair. tied villi a
l;:; Miii-k I"1"' lit the back of her neeU.
Mv.'vresti'il a French maul much more1
ilian ;i :mlent. IUit the fact was that
Mo.lv Poile really was u poor south
ern pirl workin? her way through the
vomau's department of this big uni
versity. Purlug the three or four hours that
Molly was not attending lectures she
liiul to stay in the stone floored, locker
lined cloakroom and be ready at nny
time- to get studeuts' hats and coats or
jmt them away in their owners' lock
vrs. At first it had seemed not at nil bad.
for Molly had a soft, lovable, southern
v,;fy of talking and honest brown eyes
that made all the girls like her. But as
the months passed they became accus
tomed to seeing her every day. and
They passed her thoughtlessly by. It
would not have been so hard if Molly
L:ul been intellectual, but she was not
at ail foil 1 ft books. In fact, if sh
had had a chance she would probably
Lave been a little frivolous.
But there were two things that made
Molly's life bearable. One was the
thtily visit of the university porter, and
the other was the appearance now and
then cf new r.::d pretty hats and
wraps. Molly had a little mirror over
l:er desk in the cloakroom, and when
ever a ay specially charming hat ap
peared on the clothing counter she
would wait till the girls had left the
Toom and then with it on her own pret
ty head steal an admiring glance at
herself over her desk.
And the porter! Well, he used to
come over from the university every
Jay with the students' mail, which It
was Molly's duty to sort and distrib
ute. Of course a woman student of
Thornby college ought not to have
fiirted with so humble a personage as
the university porter, but Molly was
only half a student. The half that was
cloakroom maid looked forward with
impatience to the dally visitation of
the porter's cheerful smile and conta
gious laugh.
On rainy days Molly had to handle
countless damp aud muddy rubbers
and galoches and dripping umbrellaa
That alone would have made her dis
like the rain, but besides that students
always wore their old hats when It
rained.
She was looking out of the iron bars
cf her basement window at the gloomy
tky one dark day in March when all at
once there swept in a stately senior, a
veritable billow of soft black furs. She
carelessly slipped them off. smiled at
Molly and hurried off to her class.
-What a dream!" thought Molly.
"And on a day like this! But what
does it matter when one has a car
riage?' Mol'y raised the soft pieces gently
from the counter and started to put
them in their locker. But the tempta
tion was too great. She came back and
replaced them lovingly on the counter.
Then very carefully she pinned the
toque over her piquant little face and
glanced approvingly at her Image in
the mirror over her desk. If only she
could see the rest, 6he wished. In a
flash she jumped over the counter,
closed the door into the hall and slip
ped into the luxurious coat Then she
stepped up to the students' long pier
glass.
"If only It were a little longer," she
thought. And then, turning around at
the sound of the opening door, she
faced the porter. lie closed the door
quickly and stood against it Then he
turned to Molly aod laughed. But Mol
ly didn't laugh back. She slipped out
cf the furs,, sprang over the counter
and. with a guilty blush, took the
morning mall.
The next day when the porter came
Molly was deep iu a volume of Horace.
"Nice book you're reading. Molly,"
remarked the porter, and Molly, the
student, smiled coldly without raising
Ler eyes.
After that the porter left off the
"Molly" from his morning's salutation,
uud Molly had no difficulty in repress
ing him. In fact, she was a little dis
appointed that he took hi3 squelching
to willingly.
About u month after the" episode of
the furs there was a dance i:i the col
lege gymnasium, and Molly, as was her
custom on such occasions, took her
j'lace as inn id in the dressing room.
Here Hie buttoned gloves and slippers
rtnd arranged ru tiles and bows for her
more favored colleagues till her lingers
vver numb. Then during the long
Lours of the dance she was supposed
io sit find guard the wraps and lend
Ler aid in case of a dilapidated coiffure
or torn r utile. But tonight strains of
the dance music took possession of
Molly's soul and skirted Ler dainty
feet tapping 011 the stone t!oor. Her
curiosity and her loneliness had the
upper hand, aud she slipped out of the
dressing room, ran along the corridor
and up the wide stone stairs toward
the gallery overlooking the gymnasium.
As she was hurrying timidly along
be had to pass one of the lecture
rooms, which had been converted for
the occasion into a men's checking
room. Three young men were standing
Sdlj smoking. There wu something
tin Borrowed I
about the cut of un evening coat that
fascinated Molly, and she turned lu the
shadow to look.
Suddenly her heart stood still. It
really was the porter, the tallest one.
with the light hair. He was laughing
now. She was just turning to run
when he faced about. And just for a
second his eyes met hers through the
darkness of the dimly lighted corridor.
She had been discovered desertlug,
and by the porter! As she couldn't go
back to the dressing room now with
out being seen openly, she lied to the
gallery and slipped into a seat.
So the porter was probably a studeut
from the university! The porter whom
she had tried to repress was a friend
of some girl at the dance. Her head
swam with the excitement of the infor
mation.
Just then the violins struck up a
dreamy waltz. She leaned forward as
far as she dared to see the dancers.
Oh. if only she had that blue satin
gown! She seized it enviously in her
imagination. Aud then as the dancing
becau her thoughts floated out on the
music, and she danced with them.
Just then she heard steps behind her.
and, looking back into the shadow, she
saw dimly outlined the face of the por
ter.
"Hello. Molly." he said cheerfully,
"Sh!" She put her baud to her lips.
"Some one might hear."
"Well, let's sit somewhere else. 1
hate to whisior."
"All right." Molly rose timidly.
They passed by a short cut out in the
starlit campus.
"This is a great deal better." he said
as he helped her on to a secluded ledge
of the great stone building. "You look
ed lonely up there watching the dan
cers." "I wasn't lonely. I like to see them."
"Oh. they aren't bad." he said dryly.
"But when a feilow's working his way
through his last year he hasn't much
time to waste. I say," he said, looking
at her.curiously. "what were you think
ing about up there?"
"Oh. I wasn't thinking at all! I was
just making believe waltzing off In
that soft blue satin dress. The music
gets hold of me like that and drives
away the cloakroom and the wet um
brellas and rubbers and cross sen
iors" "And obtrusive college porters who
catch you dressing up in other peo
ple's furs?" he laughed.
"Oh, no!" she said, without 6miling.
"I never can make the porter fade
away with the wet umbrellas and rub
bers. He seems to stay and watch me
float around in other people's blue
satin dresses, dancing with other peo
ple's partners. He just stays and
laughs." She looked up at him. "Only
there won't be any porter in the cloak
room any more. There will just be a
poor student working his way through
college like the cloakroom girl. I shall
miss the porter, I think."
"But he couldn't stay, you know."
he said. "The cloakroom girl liked
him at first, and the porter used to
look forward all day to seeing her the
nest Then one day she remembered
she was a student and he was only a
porter, and after that she was cold
and distant. But the porter went
right on dreaming about her. And
now," he said, taking Molly's tired lit
tle hand in his. "he is going to let the
poor student try his luck."
ADd that luck was in his favor was
proved by the absence of Molly in the
cloakroom when college opened In the
fall.
Song of the Ancient Spinning Reel.
The first reel that was invented was
the hand reel, the yarn being wound
into skeins by turning the wheel and
fastening the skeins after counting a
sufficient number of strands. The flax
was first woven into thread or yarn
on the spinning wheel; then the bob
bins full of yarn were placed on the
hand reel and yarn wound off them on
to the wheels nto skeins. The strands
were carefully counted and the lieben
fastened on them to keep them togeth
er. The lieben was a thread running
across the skeins to keep them in
place.
A later invention was the clock reel
with a face on which numbers were
printed, and it bad two hands like a
clock. When the wheel was turned,
reeling off the strands from the bobbin,
the clock would tick when a certain
number of strands were wound on the
reel, and the housewife. Instead of
tediously counting the threads, as on
the earlier invented reel, would fasten
on the lieben.
In a quaint old ballad eutitled "Mis
tress Tolly at the Reel" occurs this re
fraiu: H kissed Mistress Polly as the clock reel
ticked,
the kissing being done at the propi
tious moment when Mistress folly
was busy fastening on the lieben.
A Lecturer's Amusing Experience.
I was giving a lecture with the aid
of .1 lantern, said Mr. Harry Furniss.
and I was showing some portraits of
Mr. Gladstone in my entertainment
"The Humors of Parliament." I was
telling my audience as I pointed to the
pictures on the screen that one mo
ment he looks like this and at another
I he looks like that, when there was a
I preat burst of laughter,
j I proceeded to Fpeak about Glad
1 stone's flashing eye and noble brow.
and by the time I mentioned some
thing about his aquiline nose ray audi
ence KTned to be in hysterics.
Thinking that by some mischance
the wrocg picture was being thrown
on the ecreen. I turned round and was
at first horrified to see a gigantic Cy
apparently walking about on the nose
of the Grand Old Man.
It appeared that the By had got into
the lantern, had been caught between
the lenses and was being magnlned a
hundredfold on to the ncnea. London
Tit-Bits. i
THE SPORTING WORLD
Gibson's Great Work.
There is always one man on n ball
club around whom the playing machin
ery ivviflvos. That man is the catcher.
Ho may not be spectacular, and lie
may be neither n good base runner nor
a good hitter, but he must bo reliable,
quick of thought and quick of action.
Without a good catcher no ball club
can win a'pennant.
We may talk of the Tinkers, the
Mathewsons, the Leaches, tho Clarkes
and the Wagners, but there is one
man .who could-have been withdrawn
from the lineup of the Pirates ti month
or so ago and the club would not lmve
had a chance to win tho pennant. The
athlete In mind is Catcher Gibson.
Gibson has been the backbone of tho
rittsburg club since the beginning of
the season, and the Importance of bis
CATCHER GEOKGE GIRSOV
BTJ11US.
OF THE riTTS-
work can be seen from the fi'.ct that
he has caught practically every game
the Tirates played.
It is the business of a catcher to pre
vent the other team from scoring, lie
Is the major general of tho club when
it is playing on the defensive. He
must work his pitchers so as to handi
cap the base runners and when it
comes to a showdown and he is forced
to throw his heaves to second must be
as true as a rifle shot. Gibson has been
In charge of that work for the Pirates
this season, and the answer is found
in the standing of the clubs. Four
years ago Gibson was considered a
second rate catcher, but he has stuck
to the job so faithfully and has im
proved with such rapid strides that his
great work was instrumental in the
Pirates winning the pennant. "Without
him they would be lost.
Consumptive Home For Ball Tossers.
A home for veteran ball players who
fall victims to consumption to be es
tablished In Colorado and maintained
by the club owners, or. rather, by the
patrons of two major and two minor
leagues, is the plan fathered py Bill
Everett, the former Chicago National
league star, whose home Is in Denver.
He hopes to see it put in effect within
a short time.
As outlined by the veteran, only a
decidedly moderate sum of money
would purchase a comfortable home In
Denveror its vicinity, and a small an
nual income would maintain it, pro
viding a superintendent, a nurse when
necessary and the services of a' physi
cian. The necessary money Everett
suggests raising by setting aside for
a brief period 1 per cent of the 'gate
receipts of all games played In the Na
tional and American leagues and the
American association and the Eastern
league.
Admission to the proposed ' home
would in that case be restricted to
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In tho minor leagues named. Only
those suffering from tuberculosis or
similar ailments, for which residence
In Colorado is almost compulsory,
would bo eligible.
Baseball In Germany.
A baseball game was played in Ber
lin recently for the benelit of the
American Women's club, of which
Mrs. Thackara. wife of the American
consul general. Is president. The ball
was thrown on to the diamond by Am
bassador Hill. The two nines were
made up of Count von BernstorlT. the
German ntnbassador to Washington;
Captain Heath of the British embassy,
the members of the American embassy
and representatives of the American
colony.
New Hurdler For Penn.
Jack Hall, the old Mercersburg hur
dler and Interscholastic champion, has
said that he would enter the veterinary
department of the University of Penn
sylvania this fall. Hall has a record
of 15 4-5 seconds for the high hurdles
aud I!3 seconds In the low and Is sure
to prove n valuable man to Mike Mur
phy. Some Pitching, This.
Frank Dick, the Memphis (Tenn.l
Southern league pitcher, performed
the unusual feat recently of disposing
of his opponents, .the crack City
league champions, wilhout a run. hit.
base on balls and without a runner
reaching first base. The professionals
won. to 0.
Sprinter Lurghi May Go to Yale.
Einilio Lunghl. t lie phenomenal mid
dle distance runner, who recently came
to this countrv from Italy, where he
Is n graduate of the Polytechnic School
of Genoa. Is to make Bridgeport. Conn.
his homo in tho future. It is Lungbl's
Intention to eventually enter Yale uni
verslty.
In Passing.
"I'm lonesome," said the price of beef
To the price of the new- silK gown.
"In my upward climb 1 see, with grief.
Bo few of you coming: down!"
Chicago Tribune.
The Drop From the Sublime.
"Well, no matter which of 'em dls
covered the pole. It was a magnificent
undertaking."
"I just wonder If either of em was
seasick." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Johnnie's Idea of It.
The foot that rocks the cradle
Is the foot that rules the sphere.
The hand that spanks the trousers
Is tho hand we mostly fear.
Los Angelo3 Express.
Just Possible.
"Man was made to mourn," quoted
the moralizer.
"Yes." rejoined the demoralizer, "and
woman was made to see that he does
lt."-New York Sun.
Why He Gave Up the Auto.
"I motored once, but gave it up,"
The sad eyed person said.
"The own?r chased me In the rear.
The cops stepped In ahead.-'
Boston Traveler."
The Cheapest.
"The best of girls has just refused
me." groaned the simple one.
"Which proves," snapped the cynic
"that the best is cheapest in the end."
Ptineeton Tiger.
Limitation.
Man wants but little, so they say,
And this tls safe to jray for.
The shops won't let you get away
With more than you can "pay for.
Washington Star.
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BOX 19
"Well Irrigation of Small Farms
n the Willamette Valley" is the
title of a booklet recently issued
)y tbe passenger department of
O. R. & N. and Southern TaciGc
Comanv lines iu Oregon, of which
Wm. McMurray is the general
pnFsecgfr agent. Tho author is
R. M. Brereton, of Portland. The
publication is devoted to an ex
planation of , ths well-irrigation
system and the advantages which
may be derived therefrom, and a
copy of it ehonld be in the hands
of every farmer and agriculturist
in Oregon. Copies of tbe pamph
let may be obtained free of charge
on application to Wm. McMurray,
Portland Oregon.
For Infants and Children.
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DIRECTORS
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C. E. WOODSON
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ELECTRIC LIGHTED . . .
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Renovated and Befiitted. Best
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Civil Engineer, Surveyor,
Aneayer. Chemist,
Mining Engineer,
Contractor and Builder.
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Notice For Publication.
Department of the Interior.
U. S. Land Ottice Rt Lgrnnd, Orpoii,
;Octolcr 11, wen.
if Notiee is hereby given thet Artimui Brown
of Heppner, On-con, who, on July 11th, l'.'ul
nia'lo hinpHteal entry No. 1396, aerial No.
P7r,7, forS'.i NKK N'i BE!., section IS. town
ship 5 tj. Kanire 27 E. W. M haa Bled notice of
Intention tj make final five year proof, to ea
tablixh claim to the land above described, bo
fore J. V. Willinmi, 0. 6. CommUaioner, at tils
office in Heppner, Oregon, on tha 6th day of
December. VM9.
Clrimmt namei a wltneaees:
fharlea Kidgeway. Enoch Cave, John F.
Ridirewar and Walter Davla, all of Bappner,
Oregon.
Ocl4Novl8 F. C. BKAMWtXL, Register.
Knlffhti f Pythias.
Doric Lodg No. 20, K. of P. Meets eetr
Tossday evening, Viaitlng members invited.
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