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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1912)
SYNOPSIS. The »tery open« on Long Island, near W«w York city, where Miss Emily Ffrench. a relative ot Ethan FTrench, manufacturer of the celebrated "Mer cury“ automobile, lose« her way. The ear ha« «topped and her cousin. Dick Ffrench. 1« too muddled with drink to direct It aright They meet another car which la run by a professional racer named Lestrange. The latter Axes up the Ffrench car and directs Miss Ffrench bew to proceed homeward. Ethan FTrench has disinherited hl« «on, wo has disappeared. He Inform» Ern'ly plainly that he would like to have her Marry Di k. who Is a good-natured but Ir responsible fellow. It appears that a partner of Ethan Ffrench wanting an ex pert to race with the “Mercury" at auto •vents, has engeged Lestrange. and at the Ffrench factory Emily encounters the rounr man. They refer pleasantly to their meeting when Dick come« «long «nd recognizes the young racer. Dick likes the way lestrange Ignore« thetr first meeting when he appeared to a disad vantage. Lestrange tells Emily that he W1U try to educate her Indifferent cousin as an automobile expert Dick under take« hl« business schooling under the tutelage of Lestrange. Dick Is sheer grit. -"O In making a teat race meet« with an accident. Lestrange meet» Emily In foe moonlit garden of the Ffrench horns. CHAPTER VI.—(Continued). Lestrange hesitated, himself trou Vied Her soft loveliness In the dell- eats light that left her eyes unread able depths of shadow, her timidity and anxiety for h'.s safety, were from their very unconsciousness most dan geroua. And while be grasped at self- control. she came still nearer to the head of the steps and held out her •mall fair hand, mistaking his silanes for leave-taking. “Good night; and I thank you for •omlr.g 1 am not used to to much consideration.” Her accents were unsure when she would have made them most certain, with her movement the handkerchief Cell from her girdle to his feet Me chanically Lestrange recovered the bit at linen, and felt It lie wet tn bls fingers. Wot— • “Emily!" he cried abruptly, and «prang the brief step between them Her white, terrified face turned to ! him tn the moonlight, but he saw her •yes. And seeing, he kissed her. The moment left no time for •peech. Some one was coming down the drawing-room toward the long windows. Dick's Impatient whistle •ounded shrilly from the park. Pant ing. quivering. Emily drew from the embrace and fled within. She had no doubt of Lestrange, no question of his serious meaning—he had that force of sincerity which made his silence more convincing than the protestations of others. But •lone tn her room she laid her cheek «gainst the hand his had touched. “I wish I had died in the convent,” ■he cried to her heart. "I wish I had filed before I made him unhappy too.” CHAPTER Vtl. Morning found a pale and languid Emily across the breakfast table from Mr. Ffrench. Yet, by a contradiction of the heart, her pride tn loving and being loved so overbore the knowl edge that only sorrow could result to berself and Lestrange. that her eyes •hone wide and lustrous and her lips curved softly. Mr. Ffrench was almost in high spir it«. "The boy was merely developing," tie stated, over his grape-fruit. "I have been unjust to Richard. For two months Bailey has been talking of his interest In the business and atten dance at the factory, but I was in credulous. Although I fancied I ob nerved a change—have you observed • change in him, Emily?" “Tee." Emily confirmed, "a very great change. He has grown up, at last " "Ah? I cannot express to you how it gratifies me to have a Ffrench rep resenting me in public; have you seen the morning journals?" "I have just come down-stairs." He picked up the newspaper be side him and passed across the folded page. “All in readiness for Beach Con test." the head lines ran. "Last big driver to arrive, Lestrange is in Mer cury camp with R. Ffrench. represent tali ve of Company." And there was a blurred picture of ■ speeding car with driver and mech anician masked to goblinesque non Identity, with the legend underneath: "•Darling’ Lestrange, in his Mercury on the Georgia course.” "Next year I shall make him part owner. It was always my poor broth er’s desire to have the future name •till Ffrench and Ffrench. He was not thinking of Richard then; he had hope-of—“ Emily lifted her gaze from th« pic ture. recalled to attention by the break. “Of?" she echoed vaguely. “Of one who la unworthy thought Richard has redeemed our family from extinction; that is at rest" He paused for an Instant. “My dear child, when you are married and established. I shall, be content." Her breathing quickened, her cour age rose to the call of the moment “If Dick is here. If he Is instead of a substitute." she said, carefully quiet tn manner, “would it matter, since I am only a girl, whom I married. Uncle Ethan?" The recollection of that evening when Emily had given her promise of aid. stirred under Mr Ffrench's self- absorbltton. He looked across the ta ble at her colorless, eager face with perhaps his first thought of what that promise might have cost her. "No," he replied kindly. “It Is part of my satisfaction that you are set f.ee to cllow your own choice, with out thought of utility or fortune. Of course, I need not «ay provided the man is of your own class and asso ciations. We will fear no more low marriages." She had known It before, but It was bard to bear the sentence embodied tn words. Emily folded her hands over the paper In her lap and the pleas ant breakfast room darkened before her. Mr. Ffrench continued speaklug of Dick, unheard. When the long meal was ended and Eer uncle withdrew to meet Bailey in the library, Emily escaped outdoors There was a quaint summer house part way down the park, an ancient white pavilion standing beside the brook that gurgled by on its way to the Hudson, where the young girl often passed her hours. She went there now, carrying her little work basket and the newspaper containing the picture of Lestrange. “I will save it." was her thought. "Perhaps I may find better ones—this does not show his face—but I will have this now. It may be a long time before I see him." But she sat with the embroidery scissors In her hand, nevertheless, without cutting the reprint Lestrange would return to the factory, she never doubted, and all would continue as be fore, except that she must not see him. He would understand that It was not possible for anything else to hap pen. at least for many years. Perhaps, after Dick was married— The green and gold beauty of the morning hurt her with the memory of that other sunny morning, when he had so easily taken from her the task she hated and strove to bear. And he had succeeded, how he had succeeded! Who else in the world could have so transformed Dick? Leaning on the ' table, her round chin in her palm as she gaxed down at the paper In her lap. her fancy slipped back to that night on the Long Island road, when she had first seen his serene genius for setting all things right. How like him that elimination of Dick, instead of a romantic and impracticable at tempt to escort her himself. A bush crackled stiffly at some one’s passage; a shadow fell across her. "Caught!” laughed Lestrange's glad, exultant voice. "Since you look at the portrait, how shall the original fear to present himself? See. I can match.” He held out a card burned at the corners and streaked with dull red. "The first time I saw your writ ing, and found my own name there." Amazed. Emily sat up, and met in his glowing face all incarnate joy of life and youth. "Oh!” she gasped piteously. "You are surprised that I am here? My dear, my dear, after last night did you think I could be anywhere else?" “The race—" "I know that track too well to need much practice, and I had the machine out at dawn. My partner Is busy prac ticing this morning, and I'll be back in a couple of hours. I was afraid,” the gray eyes were so gentle in their bril liancy. "I was afraid you might worry, Emily.” 8ereneiy he assumed possession of her, and the assumption was very sweet. He had not touched her, yet Her Accents Were Unsure When She Would Have Made Them Most Certain. Emily bad the sensation of brutally thrusting him away when she spoke: "How could I do anything else," she asked with desolation, “since we must never meet each other any more? Only, you will not go far away —you will stay where I can sometimes see you as we pass? I—I think 1 could not bear it to have you go away.” “Emily!” The scissors clinked sharply to the floor as she held out he- white hands tn deprecation of bls cry; the team rushed to her eyes. "You know, you know! I am not free; I am Emily Ffrench. I cannot fall my and« and grieve him as bls ■on did Oh. I will never marry any one els«, and we will hear of each other; I can read in the papers and Dick will tell me ot you. It will be something to be so close, down there and up here." "Kmlly!" “You are not angry? You will not be angry? You kuow 1 can do noth ing else; please say you know." He came nearer and took both cold little hands in hl« clasp, bending to her the shining gravity ot hlH regard. "Do you think me such a selfish ani mal. my dear, that I would hate kissed you when I could not claim you?” be asked. “Did you think I could forget you were Etuliy Ffrench, even by moonlight?” Her fair bead fell back, her dark eye« questioned his. "You—mean—” “1 mean that even your uncle can not deny my Inherited quality of gen tleman. I am no millionaire Incognito. I have driven racing cars and managed this factory to earn my living, having no other dependence than upon my self. but my blood 1« as old as yours, little girl. If that means anything." “Not to me.” she cried, looking up Into his eyes. "Not to me, but to him. I cared for you—" He drew her toward him. unresist ing. their gate still on each other. As ♦ THE •’* SCRAP BOOK OLD STYLE ROAD IN PENNSYLVANIA f. HARO TIMES IN JAPAN. The semi-official Japan Times gives a pitiful account of the miseries throughout the country cuused by the Increased cost ot commodities. Masses of people, always ou the border line of starvation, have been forced over the line by the elasticity of prices and the rigidity of pay. "Tho labor ing men cannot support their families with the scanty wuges they got. Tho little storekeeper« find it impossible to balance their ledger« with the cred it ahead of the debit, and are uni versally discouraged by dull business. At homes their wives need money and their children are simply crying aloud from starvation The hard-pressed and miserable husbands go out in the morning to search for work, and mauy of them never return again at night.” The results are similar to those in other countries. Crime has vastly In creased; so has suicide; and the conn try la rent by labor quarrels and strikes. In the arsenals alone there are 20,000 men clamoring for increased pay.—Argonaut « | DIRT ROADS ON THE PRAIRIE ! Chief Assistant In Information De partment at Washington Says First Cut Down th« Mill«. We have had a great deal to «ay In ’ the Inst twenty year« on the read quee- j tlon. We have believed that, «peak ing generally, in the prairie country ' we «hall have to be satisfied with dirt road«, having macadam or other hard | roads wherever the material 1« avail able. which 1« only here and there. We have maintained that a very good road for most of tho year could be made from dirt, provided the road b<-d had lost Its vegetable matter In the course STATE HELP FOR ROAD WORK of travel, provided it »»■ properly drained, graded and maintained by the Wisconsin Highway Commission Rs- UM of the road drag, and provided the calve Report« That Larg« Incrsass I culverts and bridges are of concrete MEREDITH'S POETRY. In Fund Has Been Voted. I or tron and the grades reduced to the I minimum There Is no doubt thnt Into the Full report« have been received by It affords us some gratification to poems went the most of Meredith's the Wisconsin highway commission know that Mr. M O. Eldridge, the "message"— and, however wo dislike of the money voted for state aid. road chief assistant In the Information de the word, Meredith most emphatically and brtdgo construction tn 1913. There partment of the roads division of the had a message. There la little In the are 1,196 town« In Wisconsin, of which department of agriculture, nt Wash novels to compare with tho down 865 voted for state aid road construc ington. who Is now Investigating the right doctrine of the poems; it is in tion on 1.267 different pieces of road, roads In low», full endorses all these them that his words have most con asking for state aid to the total propositions, says Wallace's Far spicuously tho zeal of the man who from the first, there was no shyness .lare not cease from believing that the amount of 8757.273. Two hundrod and mer. He Is apparently ns firm a be between them, but the strange, ex- | labors of his brain are meant for th« five tow^pa voted for the construction liever in tho dirt road properly man quis.fi? understanding now made per | good of his kind. One may assume I of 337 bridge«, a total amount ot aged as he would be If bn had been fect. I that the pregnant and earnest teach »107.754, which call« for »..3,877 state brought up on a drag In an Interview Mr Eldridge says “I was right to come to you." be i Ing which Meredith packed (some- I aid. In al). 883 different town« In 68 declared, after a time. "Right to fear | what tightly packed) Into his poetry 1 counties voted for state aid. a total thnt he regards the first thing to do la that you were troubled, conscientious Is pretty well known to the cultivated amount of »865.027, calling for th» to cut down tha hills, and remarks that Iowa has morn steep hills than lady. But I must go back, or there nowadays. Be strong* Is his favorite I sum of »811,150 in state aid. These figures show a very large In Hwltxerland This la no doubt due to will be a fine disturbance at the »ord; whatever other virtues may be Beach. And I have shattered my oth desirable, the prlmo necessity for a 1 crease, both In number of towns vot our habit of laying out roads on sec er plana to insignificant fragments, or man. if he is to profit by life, and still I Ing and amounts voted, over last year tion lines Thia reminds us of our ex you have If I did not forget by moon more If life Is to profit by him. Is i Last year 511 towns voted a total of perience tn New York and Pennsyl light that you were Emily Ftrcncb, 1 strength—spiritual strength And It »422,200 for roads, and 125 towns vol vania. From Ithaca to Harrisburg we certainly forgot everything else." Is from Mother Earth man Is to draw ed »55,100 for bridges, tn all. 632 were never outside of the mountain She looked up at him, her softly- his strength; from wholehearted and towns in 65 counties calling for »452. section, and yet on that whole trip we did not cross as many sleep hills ns tinted face bright as his own, her yel loving acceptance of earth.—Lascelles SOO state nld tn 1913 The state highway fund for 1913 will bo found in going from Des low hair rumpled Into flossy tendrils Abercrombie work Is »350.000, to which Is added in Moines to Winterset. or across nny of under the black ribbon binding It. accordance with law, onequarter of the counties In the southwestern part “Everything else?” she echoed. "Is COUNTRY GIRL'S CHARM. tha net proceeds from the automobile of Iowa The roads there are not laid there anything else but this?" license of »5 p.-r car, amounting to out on section lines, but take the beat "Nothing that counts, to me. You Every girl has her own particular about »28,000 This total «urn of grades. In Pennsylvania, where the for my own, and this good world to charm, but certainly the country girl I »378.000 is »433,150 less than the full same custom prevails, we used to live in—I stand bareheaded before it possesses some extra specially be amount of state aid requested Some think they were determined by the all. But yet. I told you» once that 1 ' gulling ones. I few counties will get th» full state aid springs The cows who roamed the had a purpose to accomplish; a pur To begin with, she Is so much requested, ns the votes of the towns woods made paths to the spring, and. pose now very near completion. In a ! younger than her town slater—for all were light, but about 60 of tho coun being excellent engineers, they chose few months I meant to leave Ffrencb- that the years may declare different ties will get less than they asked for, tho best grades Tho houses were wood." ly. So Infinitely fresher In mind, ns many of them getting less than one built at the springs The roads fol Emily gave a faint cry. she Is rosier In complexion and fifth of tho amount requested. lowed tho cow paths to the bouses; “Yes, for my work would have been brighter of eyes. Amusements that It Is hoped that some method will bo and hence good grades, no matter how done. Then I fell in love and upset have ceased to be amusements to the devised whereby tho state may give far around they hnd to go Mr El everything. When I tell Mr. Ffrench town dweller fill her with keenest en each town what It expected to receive dridge believes that no road should that I want you, I will have to leave joyment. Perhaps it Is in delicious when It made Its appropriation, says have more than a five per cent grade. at once.” and frankly displayed joy of life that the Wisconsin Agriculturist. Tho One great difficulty In the hilly parta the country girl most excels. "Why? You said—" growth of the movement for better of Illinois. Iowa. Missouri and adjoin Her tongue may be less ready, her "How brave are you, Emily?" he roads In Wisconsin has been so rapid ing states la that tho roads have been asked. “I said your uncle could not general appearance lees smart than It that legislation has not kept pace with laid out on section lines, and the question my name or birth, but I did she had grown among brick walls and It. In 1907 permanent road construe bouses built with reference to the not say he would want to give you to shop windows, but the country girl's lion was practically nothing; In 1913, roads. We very much f«-ar that they me. Nor will he; unless I am mis bright face takes all hearts by storm If the state could pay its full share, it will remain there for all time, as the and the gentle friendliness that is the taken. Are you going to be brave would be fully »2.642.000 There has expense in cutting down the hills enough to come to me, knowing he Inevitable result of country neighbor never been in tho United Blates a would bo terrific. has no right to complain, since you llness makes friends for her wherever movement for better roads so state Mr. Eldrldgo further says: "When and I together have given him Dick?" she goes. wide. or so generally popular and the once a road is made, it Is essential "He does not know you; bow can result« so far secured under the state that It should be dragged after every you tell he does not like you?” she MODEST HERO. aid road law promise well for tha fu rain of consequence The only way to urged. ture development of the roads of Wis do this satisfactorily la to have a su Israel Greenberg, seven years old consin "Do you think he likes ’Darling’ I>w pervisor for each township or county, wns playing on the string piece of strange of the race course?" whose duty it la to get out men with The sudden keen demand discon pier 21. East river, New York, when drags No man should have more AUTOMOBILE AND GOOD ROADS he tripped and fell Into the water. A certed her. than three miles of road to take care "I bear a little down there," he woman who saw him fall ran for help, of. After each storm, then, tho super added. "I have not been fortunate and the first person Bhe met was a Farmer Who Bought Machine Imme visor can call upon tho men to get to diately Starts to Make Improve neatly dressed man who had come off with your kinsman. No, it is for you work at the right time. Tho man In ments on Nearby Highways. The to say whether Ethan Ffrench’s unjust one of the New Haven boats. charge must know when the time caprice is a bar between us. To me man dropped his valise, ran to the cornea to do tho dragging." On this (By M A. COVERDELL.) spot, and dived into the water. Ho it la none.” Some months ago ono of our neigh wo remark that tho county Is too large swam to the boy, and, grabbing him, (TO BE CONTINUED.) a district. There Is frequently a two- managed to get him aboard a sand bora purchased a good, substantial Inch rain in one part of tho county, automobile Ho and another neighbor barge. Patrolman Meyers found the The Very Best Make. which would necessitate Immediate In the course of an after-dinner man and the boy on the barge, and drew an oak saw log to the mill and dragging, and a more sprinkle over had material sawed for two good road asked the man his name. "You don't speech in praise of woman, Samuel tho rent of It, nnd there In never any , Untermyer, the New York lawyer, want my name." said the man. "That drags, the timbers being 11 foot In good done by dragging a dry road. Isn't necessary. Jurt show me a length, one foot wide and three Inches said in Pittsburg: Mr. Eldridge next answer» the ques "A commercial traveler remarked place where I can change my clothes thick. tion an to what kind of a road could The edges that moved the dirt were That Is all 1 want." The policeman the other day to a storekeeper: he made under this system, an fol “ 'Make yourself a Christmas pres called an ambulance, and the boy wns faced with pieces of Iron four Inches lows: "With the right kind of work, ent of a cash register. It will keep removed to the Hudson Street hos wide and three eighths of an inch a solid roadbed can be mado from the strict and accurate account of all you pita). Then Meyers led the rescuer to thick. soil In this state. It should be round After constructing this most effec receive and all you disburse. It will a seaman's lodginghouse. ed, and traffic should be In the center tive implement for road making our show what you save and what you and not ono road on each aldo of a neighbor hitched three horses to the squander, what in you spend foolish LIGHT LIKE THAT OF DAY. ride, that will soak up the water." drag, climbed Into it and proceeded ly and what you spend wisely, where He then adds: “Good roads will to drag tho road (he lives at • cross you should spread out and where you Patents have just been taken out In coma whan tho farmer realize» the should retrench, what you waste and Berlin for using marble Instead of road), and how he does improve every benefits that will accrue to his land how you waste It—’ glass In lamps, which has the effect highway he traverses. from having them. With good roads He makes frequent trips with his " ‘But,’ said the storekeeper, 'I’ve of making the illumination scarcely tho farmer can raise products that will drag to town, four miles away, and already got a cash register which does distinguishable from daylight. Innu pay better profits than those ho now all that and more.’ merable experiments have been made already good effect of his owning an raises. It costs more now to transport automobile Is being observed and felt " ’Whose make Is it?’ asked the with tinted and patterned types of grain from a farm nine miles from a salesman, frowning glass with the idea of producing this on our roads, far and near. railroad than it docs to transport the " 'God's make,’ the storekeeper re effect, but all have been failures. As Rami' grain from Now York to Liver Hints for Pear Growing. plied; and with a smile at once rev a last recourse a sheet of white mar pool." All of which is undoubtedly erent and grateful be nodded toward ble was planed down until It was The pear tree grows best and yields true. his handsome wife seated In the cash semi transparent, and then different the most fruit when planted upon land Intensities of light were shown from modorstely moist, and yet not cold. ier's cage." Agricultural Wealth. ■ behind. Tho result was exactly what To insure this condition there is noth Official estimates of tho department After a girl has waited several so many hundreds of experiments had ing better than a side hill location, of agriculture are that the total of years for a young man to come along failed to produce. though one more level may do well if Developing this discovery the pat underdrained, and then It is better for agricultural wealth to be produced In and marry her because she does the the United Rtates this year, Including housework, she puts a pulf In her entees have fitted lights to the cor receiving a wash of sand from the tho crops, stock raising and dairying, nice of a room with such success that hair, gets a peekaboo waist and fishes lands above it, which help« to warm will be »9,000.000,000. a half billion It Is difficult to prove that it Is arti U up. just like the others. dollars more than laat year. ficially lighted. J I /