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WHY CONNIE STONE CHANGED HER MIND Chance Remarks Hoard In a Bridle Path Unite Two Loving Hearts. BY CLARISSA MACKIE. black mare was Phil Baring's favorite mount and the saddle was empty. In auothor Instant Brown Ben was flying down the path and Connie's eyes were half fearfully searching for a limp form In the rood. All at once she came upon It. A still gray-clad form stretched beside the road. Connie slipped from her horse and knelt beside tho form of her fiance. "Phil, oh. Phil!" she cried broken ly as she slipped a warm little palm under hls chuek and endeavored to turn hls face to hers. Slowly hls eyes opened and stared at her In wide surprise. Stiffly he turned, roue to an elbow—a perfectly sound and good elbow, to Connie's amaxement—sat upright, stared again at Connie, at Brown Ben and then gazed around In startled fashion. "Where's Nellyblrd?" be cried, jumping to hie feet. “Oh, are you all right?" cried Con nie, standing beside him "You see, I met your mare running away—and I I thought you were dead or hurt— and so 1 came." Rhe paused with a little break In her voice. "You came and found mo napping beside the road—Nellybird must have become frightened and bolted. I'm sorry, Connie- ■ I hope you were not disappointed at finding me unhurt?” He smiled rather wryly at this pretty distant cousin. Connie tried to smile, blinked and suddenly began to cry softly. “Connie! You didn’t care, did you?" he asked In a sharp whisper. "Of course you wouldn't believe me If I swore that I loved you and that your coldness Is making me wretched — but, ah! Connie, do you care? Can you?" ■ Connie found her answer when their eyes met, and what she said was perfectly satisfactory to Phil Bar ing Ixive had performed a bit of magic that June morning, for he bad turned a plain bridle path Into a rose- strewn bridal way. FEDERALS SUR ROUND OROZCO lebds Burn Their Trains and Take to Horses. The path followed the winding» of Government Scouts On Every Hand— the well macadamised highway and Insurrectos buffer for Food afforded a leafy, ahaded way for mv - and Forage for Horses. eral mile« before It took a sudden. un expected turn and wandered off through the deep wood« to the river aud the bridge. Juarez, Mexico — Pascual Orozco, Connie Htone rode dreamily along commander-in-chief of the tebel forces the bridle path, her brown eye» fixed in the North, is caught in a trap 100 on the greon perspective ahead. From miles wide and 200 miles long, accord the highway came the Bound of swift- ly Hying motor care and the rumble of ing to advices received here by Gener carriage wheels to the accompaniment al Joaquin Tellez, federal commander of horaea' hoofs. of this zone. The official announce "It would be lovely if It were not ment is verified by railway reports for the noises from the road," sighed and from various other sources. Connie at test. Hhn flicked Brown Ben lightly so that they would reach Orozco now has only about 600 men. the turn In the path and ride toward He is surrounded by federal forces ag the river. gregating 10,000 men, that are spread “Ah. 1 wish something might hap out from the city of Chihuahua on the pen—something perfectly lovely!" she sighed again. "My life Is so cut and south to the border at this point, and dried—pldhty of money and even mv along the Mexican Central, running future husband selected for me! If directly north to the border, and the Undo Remus had only spared mo that Mexico Northwestern, which runs The very fact that I am bound to mar from Chihuahua City west and north ry Phil Baring has prejudiced me against him I can't bear him—I wish to Juarez. he would go away!" Orozco left Villa Ahumalea, a sta This unhappy victim of match-mak tion midway between Chihuahua and ing parents and a worldly old uncle Juarez, Saturday. Three times he and guardtnn sulked openly as she attempted to move away from the rode along, for now her grievance railway, only to have hie scouts en against the world tn general, and Phil counter some federal forces On his Baring In jmrtlcular, quite overpow final departure he burned hie trains, 65 ered her delight In the fresh morning cars, destroyed three locomotives, and air. mounting his men, rode away to the A saddle girth had slipped and Con southwest. The rebels are suffering nie alighted and bent to tighten It greatly for want of food for them As she did so. standing there In the green-brown woods only a stone's PUT MUCH RELIANCE ON ANT selves and their horses. Coincident with the last depature of throw from the highway, she heard a motor car jar to a sandstill close at Use of the Little Insect In Medicine Orozco for the southwest, the Mexi can Northwestern railway was cut be hand and two feminine voices engag and Surgery Has Been Well-Nigh tween Pearson and Cumbre. ed In conversation Universal. But the communication was cut — and we all think It was per fectly horrid of old Remus Barrie to Among the lust of the remedies pro only temporarily. Seventy-five feder agree with the girl's parents that vocative of nausea of the Imagination al cavalrymen were sent out from when Phil was twenty-five he should to disappear from the lists of official Pearson and met the rebels near Cum marry the girl No. I've never seen remedies have been preparations made bre. The insurrectos were routed ut her. but you may take It for granted from ants. Ruch preparations, how terly, losing three killed and 26 cap that she's a fright. Adele! If she ever, have not obtained much recogni tured, besides suffering the lose of were not her parents wouldn’t have tion in this country even among the their ammunition and provision train. been to such pains to marry her off." wise old women In domestic practice The road has been repaired and traffic "And so Phil Isn't quite happy over —though In parts of Europe they are resumed. It?" asked n laxlly amused voice. yet In use. Ant baths, made by boil "Wretched! Why—you know, my ing ants in water, are yet In use by dear. It's no secret that he's breaking Bavarian peasant for rheumatism and his heart over little me—and there's gout, and also In Hessen and in Hun that fright of an heiress standing like gary. In Bohemia, It is said, for par a mountainous wnll of money bags be alysis of the lower limbs patients are Salem, Or. — Governor West Tues tween us. Of course, Phil couldn't placed in an ant hill and allowed to re day morning removed District Attor marry ma without some of hla fath main until the whole body Is covered ney Cameron, of Portland, from his er's fortune—and there you are.” by the Insects, which are then shaken office and appointed in his place Wal “Poor Elisabeth!” derided the voice off when the cure Is effected. In ter H. Evans. The removal was made of Adele "If you only know Phil Bar Brandenburg an aching tooth is rubbed under the statute providing that when ing was free to marry, you wouldn't with blood by means of a crust of broad ever a district attorney shall fail to care two pins for him!" and the crust la then placed tn an furnish the governor with the com "Adele!" ant bill. Impoverishment of blood is plete statement of facts in a pardon “And so he has poured out his cured by means of an egg burled In ease, the governor may remove him. troubles to you?" the bill of the large red ants. The “No. He Isn't that sort? and you eggs must have been laid by a pure This is the first move of the gover know It, Adele. Only he iooks mis white or pure black hen, and must nor in his avowed campaign to “clean erable. and I understand the reason.“ have been found when still warm. In up’’ Portland. The prosecutor made The motor suddenly started nois Oberwatz the crushed eggs and larvae the statement that he would resist ily and drew away from tho spot of anta arc stirred up with cream and West’s attempt, but added that he where Connie Stone stood, a crim used as a remedy for colic. A salve would make no move until officially soned. palpitating eavesdropper. With made from wood auts, dog fat and coal informed of the governor's action. a swift movement she pulled out a dust Is said to be used by Hungarian gold vanity case and scanned her re gypsies against goiter. There is also flection In the little mirror. SEATTLE GETS «3,100,000. In use In Montevideo th« “ant suture," She saw a blushing face framed In In domestic surgery. Those who had a mist of Jet black hair, brown eyes been bitten by ante noticed that the Deal With New York Company In with golden specks in them, a perfect heads remained clinging to tho skin sures Harbor Improvement ndse and mouth and a white chin with when the body was torn away, being Seattle —The Seattle Port Commis a deep dimple. held in place by the powerful man "If she calls me a fright I wonder dlbles. The Idea was thus suggested sion has signed a contract with the what she looks like!" exclaimed the that the ant's jaws could be used to Pacific Terminal company, a New Indignant Mias Stone, and she mount close the edges of wounds The edges York corporation, providing for har ed Rrown Ben and flashed down the of the cut are pressed together, an ant bor improvements to be made here at bridle path. is held so that its jaws will grasp both a cost of $3,100,000. A large block of Harbor Island As she rode along the leafstrewn aides and Its head la cut off. Several *wny she thought of her first meeting are applied along the wound and serve property is leased to the New York concern, which agrees to make im with Phil Baring He had returned Instead of the usual catgut stitches. provements similar to the Bush ter from a long residence abroad, and al though he was a very grave, good- STAND ASIDE FOR ELEPHANT minals in Brooklyn. The term of the lease is 30 years. looking young man without much to any for himself. Connlo hnd mistaken Animals of the Jungle Have Well-Rec The contract was signed by Commis sioners Chittenden and Remaburg, a his silence for awkwardness and she ognized Etiquette Observed at majority of the commission. was angry with him from the begin Drinking Places. ning Francs and Russia in Pact. When he did try to be agreeable A moving picture flrm has been tak and displayed some admiration for ing some remarkable pictures at a wa Dunkirk. France — Premier Ray this cousin who wns to be his bride, ter-bole in Abyssinia of animals which mond Poincaire has returned here Connie became contrary and erratic come there from miles around to from his diplomatic mission to Russia. In her moods. Somehow she felt that quench their thirst. At a luncheon given in his honor Pre hls admiration was affected. He was It Is the etiquette of the jungle for mier Poincaire declared that hia visit trying to play hts part. the elephant to drink first. No mat to Russia had resulted in a complete And all the time he wan In love ter how many animals are around the understanding in regard to the com with a horrid creature named Ellzn- water bole, they all stand aside for mon action to be taken by France and beth, who shrieked when she talked. the greatest beast of all. Many of Russia to meet all eventualities likely Connie could have spared herself the animals come 40 or SO miles for a to arise out of European complications any qualms—he wns not In love with drink, and there Is a truce between either at the present time or in the her. He wan miserable nt the Idea of even the most deadly enemies. After future. This united action, he con this foreordained marriage. He was the elephant comes the rhinoceros. cluded, had been immensely strength unhappy. Although most of tho other animals ob ened by Great Britain. "I hnte him!” cried Connie as she serve the water-hole truce faithfully, flew around the sharp bend away from two rhinos will fight over their preoe- Trouble-Makers Caught. tho high road and Into the stillness of dence. The cinematograph operator San Diego, ’Cal.—Captain “Jack” the thick woods. obtained wonderful pictures of two of Hollons and W. Albridge, prominent Here the trees grew gnarled and un these huge animals going at it hammer members of the Industrial Workers of shapely, bending down from the high, and tongs. The tight only ended by the World, according to the police, mossy banks on both sides to form one of the animals being killed. were captured by Chief of Police Wil arches overhand. A scarlet tanager When the rhinoceros bad finished son and a posse in Cottonwood creek. flashed across tho road and made a the giraffes drink their All, followed The seven men arrested recently at El spot of gorgeous color against a by zebras. Zebras always travel In Cajon will be turned over to the fed brown tree trunk. herds, and sometimes 40 or 50 will ar eral authorities, as statements made A hermit thrush snng from some rive at the water hole at a time. Ac hidden covert and a thrill of unearth cording to the etiquette of tho jungle, by two of them indicate they were sent out by a Mexican junta at Los ly happiness was In hls tender notes. however, thoy only come In fourth for Angeles to invade lower California. Tears sprang to Connie’s eyes for the drinking stakes. The first four this love and happiness that would animals are fixed in order, but the rest Canal Rat« War Denied. not be hers. get a drink Just how and when th« Paris—The Suez canal company de "I ought to have had a chance------ ” can.—Pearson's Weekly. clares that it is a mistake to imagine Her mutinous voice broke sharply, for that a reduction of ten cents a ton of ahead of her there came the thud of A Political Wrangle. the Suez canal dues is in any way con hoofs on the bridle path. "1 hear your club was divided over nected with the Panama canal. The Rhe drew Brown Ben aside under tho trees as the hoof beats became ■ «commending a suffrage plank for company at its annual meeting in June reported an increase of $856,000 louder. Then a black mare streaked the Democratic platform." "Yes. Some wanted a maple wood in its receipts, compared with the pre pest and disappeared In tho direction plank, but the others held out for ma ceding year, and this, it was said, whence Connie had come. justified a further reduction in the Connie felt sick and faint Tho hogany with a dull finish." tariff on ▼•■Mln. OREGON GOVERNOR OUSTS DIST. ATTORNEY CAMERON LIFE WORK WIPED OUT. Butt« Woman Beggared By Veto of Shoshone Bill. Washington, D. C.—Mrs. Katherine MacDonald, who mad« a fight to over ride the president’s veto of a bill that meant success or failure for herself and her husband, is returning to a home in Butte, Mont., from which she soon will be evicted. Her struggle of years was nullified by the lack of just six votes in the house. A bank in Butte, which holds the mortgage upon her property, has withheld foreclosure pending congressional action which would decide whether the government would honor time checks given labor ers upon one of the biggest undertak ings of the government, the Shoshone irrigation project. Mrs. MacDonald and her husband conducted a grocery store in Butte. The time checks of construction com panies engaged in government proj ects were accepted aa cash. The Mac Donalds handled thousands of them. The contractor failed and the sub contractor failed. The MacDonalds held about $11,000 in time checks. The government completed the work. It cost the government about $180,000 more than the original con tract price. The contractors were bonded for $75,000. The United States has priority in suits against the bondsmen. Therefore the bank must foreclose the mortgage, the home must be sold and Mrs. MacDonald and her husband must start life anew. AMERICANS IN DANGER. More Marines Needed to Curb Over bearing Rebels at Managua Washington, D. C.—More American bluejackets and marines probably must be landed on Nicaraguan soil if the safety of American life and prop erty there is to be assured. This was made apparent to the officials Man agua, the capital, with the American railway station, steamboat wharves, legation and the residences of the American customs officials, and many others, is considered safe, but Ameri can Minister Weitzel has informed this government that he has taken no tice of the report that General Kele- don, one of the rebel leaders, has promised his men that they may sack and pillage the capital. Minister Weitzel had determined the rebels shall not be allowed to do so. There is grave apprehension of a clash between the American forces and the rebels, who appear to have as sumed an overbearing attitude. The rebellious movement appears to have extended to the Gulf coast of Nicara gua, and because of many incendiary attempts to destroy the town. Com mander Edwin Durell, of the gunboat Tacoma, landed 54 officers and sailors to police the town. As in the case of Managua, the American forces were called into service by the Nicaraguan government itself. Ringling Big Top Burns. Sterling, Ill.—While 25,000 persons stood waiting an opportunity to gain admission to Ringling Bros.' circus, a blazing shingle from a barn that had caught fire a few minutes previously lit in the center of the big tent and soon the tent was a mass of flames. The blazing canvas fell inward and carried to the ground with it all of the scenery and trappings that were to have been used a few minutes latet in entertaining the crowd. The loss, ac cording to various estimates, is placed at from $10,000 to $50,000. Infantile Dread Appears Sacramento—Santa Cruz and River side have been placed upon the map in the offices of the State board of health as places where infantile para lysis has made its appearance. One case was reported from Santa Cruz and two from Riverside. To date this year, no fewer than 298 cases have been reported in the state, out of which 52 child victims have made up the death toll, most’of which came from Los Angeles. One Battleship Allowed. Washington, D. C.—By a £vote of 151 to 50, the house adopted the con ference report on the naval appropria tion bill. The measure, which will now go to the president, provides for one battleship and a number of sub marines, colliers and auxiliary ves sels. Thirteen members opposed to the battleship voted “present” The bill as it goes to the president carries $123,220,707, an increase of approximately $4,500,000 over the measure as it passed the house. VETO UPHELD BY SENATORS Action of House Nullified and Taft Is Pleased. Amendment Agreed Upon—Commerce Court Retained—Decisive Vic tory for Administration. REBELS MASSACRE CAPTIVES. Garriton of Leon, Nicaragua, Butch ered By Insurgente- Managua, Niaragua—Nearly the en tire detachment of 500 Nicaraguan troops, comprising the garrison of the City of I .eon, to the north of Mana- gna, was massacred by a force of in surgents, according to reports which reached the capital. On Friday news was received by the government that the Liberals at Leon had risen in revolt and General Cha morra dispatched troops to suppress the movement and to reinforce the garrison of the city. The government troops on reaching Leon camped on the plaza in the cen ter of the town. The insurgents, who greatly outnumbered the government force, attacked the city Saturday and ifter a fierce engagement the garrison surrendered. Instead of bolding their captives prisoners of war it is report ed that the rebels slaughtered them. Out of a force of 500 all except 70 were killed. After the repulse of the insurgents last Wednesday night after a four days’ battle at Managua, in which American marines and bluejackets played a prominent part as defenders of the capital, the insurgents retired, ostensibly to their headquarters at Masaya. The insurgents, however, had sent large quantities of arms and ammunition from Masaya to Leon through the mountain passes and were hurriedly concentrating their forces at the northern town. General Mena, the deposed secre tary of war, and leader of the insur rection, whose health has been greatly impaired, was in Leon directing the operations of the men. ---------------- s---------- Washington, D. C.—For the khird time the house passed a legislative, executive and judicial bill over the veto of President Taft by a vote of 154 to 53, but in the senate the effort to pass it failed, 34 to 27. As a re sult, the bouse amended the measure to provide a continuing appropriation for the Commerce court until March 4, 1913, passed it and sent it to the senate appropriation committee with good prospects that it will pass the senate. The solution of the deadlock be tween congress and the whole White House is believed to have been found and as a result adjournment now looms appreciably nearer. When it was found that the chief executive had been overruled by the house by a 3-to-l vote, there was a tumult of applause. But when it was put through after the failure of the senate to follow the house lead, there were less than 30 members in their seats, there was no debate and scarce ly an audible vote. Mr. Taft expressed bis delight at GENERAL BOOTH IS DEAD. the failure of the Democratic plan. No intimation was given at the White Venerable Commander of Salvation House as to whether the new compro Army Yields to Old Age. mise would be acceptable to the presi London — General William Booth, dent, but senate and house leaders are commander-in-chief of the Salvation confident the measure will be signed. Army, is dead at his home in this city. He was born in Nottingham in 1829, being 83 years old at the time of his death. The veteran Salvation Army leader was unconscious for 48 hours before Lakeview, Or. — Without audible he died. The medical bulletins bad cry or noticeable struggle. Charles B. not revealed the seriousness of the Merrick, postmaster of Portland, sank general’s condition, which for a week, to bis death in a shallow bathing pool, one and one-half miles south of Lake it is now admitted, was hopeless. Twelve weeks ago General Booth un view. Subsequent examination re derwent an operation for the removal vealed that death was due to heart of a cataract in his left eye. For two failure, and this was the cause as days after the operation indications signed by the coroner’s jury which gave hope of bis recovery. Then sep assembled and held an inquest. tic poisioning set in, and from that The Lakeview bath house is fed by time, with the exception of occasional a natural hot spring, the water rising rallies, the patient's heatlh steadiy de from the ground at nearly boiling point but is cooled in passage to the clined. The general recognized that the end pool by running through a shallow was near and often spoke of his work trough. The depth increases gradually from as being finished. Throughout the commander-in- about two feet to a maximum of six chief's illness his son, Bramwell Booth, feet six inches, but in only one corner chief of staff of the army, and Mrs. is the water over the head of a man Bramwell Booth, gave their unremit of average height. The temperature ting attentions to him. of the water at times is high, being The evangelist died in his residence, at a stage usually that would be called the Rockstone Hadley Wood, eight a “hot bath” in the home. miles from London, where he had been confined to his bed since the operation. _ MEDFORD PEARS «2.50 BOX. POSTMASTER MERRICK, OF PORTLAND, DIES SUDDENLY Sale of Fruit at High Prices Prosperous Season, Means Medford, Or. — With six cars of Bartlett pears sold, averaging $1.70 a box f. o. b. Medford, and another car sold in New York averaging $2.50 f. o. b. New York, the ranchers of the Rogue River believe they are entering upon the most prosperous year in their history. In 1911 $1.50 was the maxi mum, and many cars sold as low as $1, while there were practically no apples in the valley. Thia year the pear crop is three times as large as last year, the pears are unusually uniform and large-sized, and it is predicted that now the Cali fornia crop is practically disposed of the Southern Oregon fruit will enter a constantly rising market The entire output will approximate 150 cars. The apple crop is a record-breaker. The trees are so heavily loaded that scaffolding has to be used throughout the orchards to prevent the limbs from breaking. Where there were less than 100 cars shipped out in 1911 there will be between 500 and 600 in 1912. and the size and color of the fruit will be the finest in the history of the valley. Gold Pen to Sign Bill. Washington, D. C.—President Taft will sign the Panama canal bill with a gold pen supplied by William R. Wheeler, representative of the San Francisco chamber of commerce. To Wheeler’s work is due more than any other man, as is generally acknowl edged here, the fact that free tolls for American ships are provided for in the bill and railroad ships barred from the Towns Get Obsolete Cannon. canal. Wheeler will take the pen Washington, D. C.—Under Senator with him when be leaves for San Jones’ amqpdment to the bill passed Francisco and present it to the cham by the senate, obsolete cannon now ber of commerce. owned by the government will be pre Mineral Soap Discovered. sented to the towns of Everett, Bel Vancouver, Wash.—S. A. Heater is lingham. Vancouver, Wenatchee. Walla Walla, Olympia. Ellensburg and being congratulated on a discovery re North Yakima, Wash.» to be placed in cently made on his property in the form of a mineral soap. The soap has their public parks. the power of lathering, scouring, and Alaska Report Adopted. cleaning as good as many of the pat Washington, D. C.—The conference ent cleaners on the market, and it is report on the Alaska administration being tried by the neighbors, who bill, providing for two branches of a soeak highly of it as a cleanser. Mr. legislative assembly and a railroad Heater has been prevailed upon to commission, was adopted by the have a large quantity on exhibition house. Ita approval by the senate and at the Clark County fair in September. the president’s signature will provide Drastic Law Proposed. “home rule” for Alaska. Denver—Among the new bills be Wood to See German Maneuvers. ing prepared for introduction in the Washington, D. C.—Major General next term of the legislature is one Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the vesting in any court of record the army, will accept the invitation of the power to order operations upon all German government to attend the persons convicted of a crime against The bill is being maneuvers of the German army thia public morality. drawn by the attorney general. fall. OPIUM BY MAIL. Smugglers Reap Rich Harvest Oriental Steamers. on 1 Honolulu—Smugglers of opium in their efforts to circumvent the cus toms authorities at American ports have been using United States mail bags as carriers of the contraband drug and evidently have succeeded in bringing many thouands of dollars’ worth of opium into island and possi bly mainland porta. The discovery of this method of smuggling, which was made some time ago, has been kept secret by the government officials who have been investigating. On the steamer Man churia, which arrived at Honolulu on August 8 from the Orient, a mail bag was found which, instead of contain ing letters, was stuffed with $5000 worth of opium. Either mail bags long have been used for this purpose by collusion be tween postal employes here and at some Oriental port, or the bag had been opened aboard the Manchuria, the mail destroyed and the tins of opium placed in the bag. Fumes of Asphalt Fatal San Francisco—Risking his own life to save three employes, Joseph Sin clair, superintendent of the Pacific Roofing & Refining company, descend ed into a reeking asphalt still in this city and brought them out alive. Ray mond Giovanni and Louis Pruzzo en tered the stil to clean iL Both were overcome. Rudolph Strang, a fellow workman^ went down after them. As he was carrying their inert bodies to a manhole he, too, collapsed. Sinclair managed to get out all three. Gio vanni died on the way to a hospital. Mad Elephant Escapes. Chicago—An elephant, crazed, it is said, by its keeper's failure to give it water, burst its chains and escaped from a wild west show in Englewood. Hundreds of persons were terrorized by the maddened beast, which, in its flight, smashed fences, uprooted trees and overturned several small build ings. Police sent in wagons to cap ture the elephant were forced to cimb trees. Showmen finally coaxed it into a corner and shackled it. Washington Farmer May Get Aid. Spokane — Governor Hay declares that he will send to the next legisla ture a message recommending a con stitutional amendment permitting the state to lend to farmers at easy rates of interest the $9,750,000 which has accumulated from the sale of school and public lands.