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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1913)
,Oowri<*<. MM. V Ba kke »«Tt U OcQ SYNOPSIS. The story opens on Long Island, near New York city, where Miss Emily ich. ______ a relativa of Ethan ____ Ffrench. n^MSL-. ________________ manufacturer of the celebrated "Mer- •ury" automobile, loses her way. The car has stopped and her cousin. Dick FYrsnch, la too muddled with drink to direct It aright. They meet another car which is run by a professional racer named Lestrange. The latter fixes up the Ffrench car and directs Miss Ffrench how to proceed homeward. Ethan neh has disinherited his son. who disappeared. He Informs Emily plainly that he would like to have her ■tarry Dick, who la a good-natured but Irresponsible fellow It aipears that a partner of Ethan Ffrench wanting an ex pert to race with the "Mercury” at auto «vents, has engaged Lestrange. and at the Ffrench factory Emily encounters the young man. They refer pleasantly to their meeting when Dick comes slong and recognizes the young racer. Dick likes ths way Lestrange Ignores their first meeting when he appeared to a disad vantage. Lestrange tells Emily that he will try to educate her indifferent cousin as an automobile expert. Dick under takes his business schooling under the tutelage of Lestrange. Dick Is sheer grit, and In making a test race meets with an accident. Lestrange meets Emily In the moonlit garden of the Ffrench home voder an Impulse he cannot control he kisses her and she leaves him, confessing ther own heart that she returns his V«. CHAPTER VII.—(Continued). "I thought there was to be no more trouble." she faltered, distressed. Lestrange looked down at her stead ily, his gray eyes darkening to an ex pression she had never seen. “Have I no right?” was his question. “Is there no canceling of a claim, is there no subsequent freedom? Is it all no use, Emily?” Vaguely awed and frightened, her fingers tightened on his arm in a panic of surrender. “I will come to you, I will come! You know best what is right—I trust you to tell me. Forgive me, dear. I wanted to—" He silenced her. all the light flash ing back to his face. “A promise; hush! Oh, I shall win tonight with that singing in my ears. I have more to say to you, but not now. I must see Bailey, somehow, be fore I go.” “He is at the house; let me send him here to you.” “If you come back with him.” They laughed together. “I will— Do you know," her color deepened rosily, "they call you ■Darling;’ I have never heard your own name.” “My name is David,” Lestrange said quietly, and kissed her for farewell. The earth danced under Emily’s feet as she ran across the lawns, the sun glowed warm, the brook tinkled over the cascades in a very madness of mirth. At the head of the veranda steps she turned to look once more at the roof of the white pavilion Among the locust trees. ■“Uncle will like you when be knows you," she laughed in her heart “Any one must like you.” The servant she met in the hall said that Mr. Bailey bad gone out, and Mr. Ffrencb, also, but separately, the former having taken the short route across toward the factory. That way Emily went in pursuit, intending to overtake him with her pony cart. But upon reaching the stables, past which the path ran, she found Bailey himself engaged in an inspection of the limousine in company with the chauffeur. “You’ll have to look Into her differ ential, Anderson,” he was pronounc ing, when the young girl came beside him “Com«, pl«ase," sh« urged breath lessly. “Come?” repeated Bailey, wheeling, with hie slow, benevolent smile. "Sure, Miss Emily; where?” She shook her head, not replying un til they were safely outside; then: “To Mr. Lestrange; he is in the pa vilion. He wants to see you." “To Lestrange!" he almost shouted, halting. Lestrange here?” “Yes. There is time; he says there la time. He is going back as soon as bo sees you.” “But what’s he doing here? What does he mean by risking bls neck without any practice." "He came to see me,” she whip- pored, and stood confessed. “God!” said Bailey, quite reverently, after a moment of speechless stupe faction. “You, and him!” She lifted confiding eyes to him. moving nearer. “It is a secret, but I wanted you tt> know because you like us both. Dick ■aid you loved Mr. Lestrange." "Yes," was the dazed assent. "Well, then— But come, ho Is waiting.” ■ho was sufficiently unlike the usual Miss Ffrench to bewilder any one. Bailey dumbly followed her across th« park, carrying hie hat tn hie hand. A short distance from the pavilion Emily stopped abruptly, turning a startled face to her companion. "Sonn on« is there." she said. "Some on« is speaking. I forgot that Uncle Ethan had gone out." She heard Dailey catch his breath oddly. Her own pulses began to beat with heavy Irregularity, as a few steps farther brought the two opposite the open arcade. There they halted, trosen. In the place Emily had left, where all her feminine toys still lay, Mr. Ffrench was seated as one exhausted by the force of overmastering emo tion; bls hands clenched on the arms of the chair; his face drawn with pas sion. Opposite hint stood Lest range, colorless and still as Emily had never conceived him. listening In absolute silence to the bitter address pouring from the other's lips with a low toned violence indescribable. “I told you then, never again to come here," first tell upon Emily's conscious bearing. "I supposed you were at least Ffrencb enough to take a dismissal. What do you want here, money? I warned you to live upon the allowance sent every month to your bankers, for I would pay no more even to escape the Intolerable dis grace of your presence here. Did you imagine me so deserted that I would accept even you as a successor? Wrong; you are not missed. My nephew Richard takes your place, and Is fit to take it. Go back to Europe and your low-born wife; there is no lack in my household." The voice broke in an excess of sav age triumph, and Estrange took the pause without movement or gesture. “1 am going, sir, and I shall never come back," he answered, never more quietly. “I can take a dismissal, yes. If ever I have wished peace or hoped for an accord that never existed be tween us, I go cured of such folly. But hear this much, since I am ar raigned at your bar: I have never yet disgraced your name or mine un less by the boy’s mischief which sent me from college. The money you speak of, I have never used; ask Bailey of It, If you will." He hesitat ed, and in the empty moment there came across the mile of June air the roaring noon whistle of the fac tory. Involuntarily he turned his head toward the call, but as Instantly re covered himself from the self betray al. “There is another matter to be arranged, but there Is no time now. Nor even In concluding It will I ever come here again, sir." There was that in his bearing, in the dignified carefulness of courtesy with which he saluted the other before turning to go, that checked even Eth an Ffrench. But as Lestrange crossed the threshold of the little building, Emily ran from the thicket to meet him, her eyes a dark splendor in her white face, her hands outstretched. “Not like this!" she panted. “Not without seeing me! Oh, I might have guessed—’’ His vivid color and animation re turned as he caught her to him, heed less of witnesses. “You dare? My dear, my dear, not even a question? There Is no one "Well, Then—But Come, Walting.” He Is like you. Say, shall I take you now, or send Dick for you after the race?" Mr. Ffrench exclaimed some lnartlo- ulate words, but neither heard him. "Send Dick,” Emily answered, her eyes on the gray eyes above her. "Send Dick—I understand, I will come.” He kissed her once, then she drew back and he went down the terraces toward the gates. As Emily sank down on the bench by the pavilion door, Bailey brushed past her, running after the straight, lithe figure that went steadily on out of sight among the huge trees planted and tended by five generations of Ffrenches. When the vistas of the park were empty, Emily slowly turned to face her uncle. "You love David Ffrench?" he asked, his voice thin and harsh. "Yes," she answered. She bad no need to ask if Lestrange were meant “He is married to some woman of the music halls." "No.” "How do you know? He has told you?" She lifted to him the superby confi dence of her glance, although nervous tremors shook her in wavellke suc cession. “If he had been married, he would not have made me care for him. He has asked me to be bls wife." They were equally strange to each other In these new characters, and equally spent by emotion. Neither moving, they sat oposlte each other in silence. So Bailey found them whan he cam« back later, to take his massive stand In th« doorway, his hands in bls pockets and his strong Jaw set "I think that things ar« kind of mixed up her«, Mr Ffrench," he stated i grimly. “I guess I'm tb« on« to l » 'A "W 1 I I 1 . !■ »I I W'l straighten them out a bit; I’ve loved' Mr. David from the time he was a kid 1 and never saw him get a square deal ' yet You asked him «hat he was do Ing her«—1'11 tell you; he is Le strang«." Ther« Is a degree of amazement FUN WITH COMICAL FIGURES which precludes speech; Mr. Ffrencb looked back at his partner, mute. Boy May Csuse Merriment By An "He Is lestrange. He never meant ranging Funny Head to Long you to know; he'd have left without Stick, Covered With Cloth. your «ver knowing, but for Miss Km lly. I guess I don't nc«d to remind Much amusement may be given by you of what he's done; if it hadn't any boy on a winter's night by arrang b«en for him we might hav« closed' ing a funny head to the end of a long our doors some day. He understands 1 stick. Around the neck gather a loose th« business as non« of us back-num I skirt of some cheap diirk material, her, old fashioned ones do; ha took' long enough to reach to the ground hold and shook some lite Into it We when the stick Is held at arm’s length can make cars, but he can mak« peo above the head of the boy who will pl« buy them. Advertising! Why. be Inside. The material should be Just that fool picture be drew on the coarse, so that the boy Inside can see back of a pad, one day, of a row of through. About the height of bls thermometers up to ona hundred knee wire the skirt to make It stand forty, with the sign ’Mercuries are at out, and another wire the height ot the top,' made more people nolle«.” the neck will keep the view clear and Bailey cleared his throat "He was always making people notice, and laughing while he did it. He's risked his neck on every course going, to bring our cars in first, he's lent his fame as a racing driver to help us along. And now everything is fixed the way we want, he's thrown out. What did he do It for? He thought he needed to square accounts with you, for being born. I suppose; so! when he heard how things were going 1 with us he came to me and offered his help. At least, that’s what he said I believe he came because he couldn't bear to see the old place go under." There was a skein of blue silk swinging over the edge of the table. Mr. Ffrench picked It up and replaced it In Emily's work basket before re plying. "If this remarkable story Is true." he began, accurately precise in ao- cent. "You don't need me to tell you t\ ■ Comical Giant. Is,” retorted Bailey. “You know, what my new manager's been doing. | why, you disliked him without seeing keep the folds of the skirt awsy from him, but you had to admit his good his face. When the person is Insid« he will look like a funny giant, and work. And I heard you talking the attitudes and movements be makes about bls allowance, Mr. Ffrencb. He will please his audience. The accom never touched It, not from the first; panying pictures will give some of ths it piled up for six years. I.ast April, when we needed cash tn a hurry, he drew It out and gave it to me to buy aluminum. When he left here first he drove a taxicab in New York city un ■ til he got into racing work and made ' Darling Lestrange famous all over the ! continent. I guess it went pretty bard for a while; if he’d been the things' you called him, he’d have gone to the devil alone In New York. But be didn’t” An oriole darted In one arcade and I out again with a musical whir of Amusing Dwarf. wings. The clink of glass and silver sounded from the house windows with a pleasant cheerlness and suggestion movements and show the change from a giant to a dwarf. If the performer of comfort and plenty. "He made good,” Bailey concluded, is deft, he can make up attitudes and thoughtfully. "But It sounded queer introduce funny speeches while he gl- to me to hear yon tell him you didn’t rates about the room Had Kspt Her Bargain. An lusenlous trick was recently played on some women of Mau Ik Jun J, Madras, India. They handed sums of money to a woman who said that she possessed the power uf doubling the contents. Th« victims had their packets returned to them after seven days, when th« silver coins they had contained wero found to hav« bu«li changed Into copper ones. CHILDREN want him around because Mr Dick took his place. I know, and Miss Em ily knows, that Dick Ffrench was no use on earth for any place until Mr David took him in hand and male him fit to live. That's all, I guess, that I had to say; I’ll get back to work.” Hs turned, but paused to glance around. "It's going to be pretty dull at the factory for me. And between us we've sent Lestrange to the track with a nice set of nerves." His retreating footsteps died away to leave the noon hush unbroken. As before, uncle and niece were left op posite each other, the crumpled news paper where Lestrange's name showed In heavy type lying on the floor be tween them. The effect of Bailey's final sentence had been to leave Emily dizzied by apprehension. But when Mr. Ffrench rose and passed out, she aroused to look up at him eagerly. "Uncle.” she faltered. Disregarding or unseeing her out stretched band, he went on and left her there alone. And then Emily dared rescue the newspaper. "A substitute,” she whispered. "A substitute,” and laid her wet cheek against the pictured driver. No one lunched at the Ffrench home that day, except the servants. Near three o’clock in the afternoon Mr. Ffrench came back to the pavilion where Emily still sat. "Go change your gown," he com manded, in his usual tone. "We will start now. I have sent for Bailey and ordered Anderson to bring the auto mobile." "Start?" she wondered, bewildered. He met her gaze with a stately re- pellence of comment “For the Beach. I understand this race lasts twenty-four hours. Have you any objection?” Objection to being near David! Em ily sprang to her feet. <TO BE CONTINUED.) ORIGIN OF DIFFERENT WORDS Common Slang Term “Mash" Is From Gypsy Word, “Mafada” Meaning “to Charm By the Eyes.” "Pow wow” comes from the North American Indians. The word boss conies from the low Dutch and means master. Kidnap comes from the napping or stealing of a kid, gipsy for child. Calaboose, a prison; picaroon, a pi rate; palaver, to talk, are all Span ish. *'A rum chap" is simply a gipsy lad; it has no relation to the product of the still. Pal is a brother, and "conk," for nose, comes from the spouting foun tain, the concha of the Romans. Demijohn comes from the Arabic damaghan, Itself taken from the Per sian glass making town of Demaghan. The common slang word “mash" Is from a beautiful gipsy word, "mr- fada,” which means "to charm by the eyes.” Why should a man be called a spoon? Why spoony when he is mak ing love? Simply because he Is a "loeffel,” which also means spoon. A tinker’s dam has nothing to do with (wearing. It is merely the dar or stoppage, mnde of flour and water, which which the tinker stops the gap he la mending until the tin or the pewter he is using had cooled. RIDDLES. What is it we all often say we will do and nobody has ever yet done? Stop a minute. What word contains all the vowels in their proper order? Facetious. What word of fifteen letters is there from which you can subtract twelve and leave ten? Pretentiousness. Why have poultry no future state of existence? They have their necks twirled (next world) in this. What is It that never was and nev er will be? A mouse's nest in a cat’s ear. Why is a locomotive like a belle? Rhe scatters the sparks and trans ports the malls. Wholesale Burning of Books. The French should win Edmund Gosse's commendation for the whole sale manner in which they have de stroyed books. They have even gone to the extent of coining a special word, "blblfolytle," to donate "la de struction volontaire des livres." The greatest date In the annals of blbllo- lytle is 1790, when church property was confiscated by the revolutionary government. During that year, in Satisfied. Paris alone, 808,120 volumes taken Uncle John—Willie, if you could from monasteries and convents were have your way, who would you rather burned, and throughout the whole be than anybody else? country the total destroyed is said to : Small Willie—Just me—if I could al have amounted to 4.194,400. ways have my way. | H < eves White Vs« Walk. Allan's FiMii-Ea*« ia ai-erlaln curator hot. ««callus,rallua,ami •wollau, m-liluc teal. Hold by allbrugxl.l*. Price .Ik’. 1‘on'i m - ccu I any «u bell lute. Trial .... kace rilkk. A-U lece Allan H Olmctc.l, t.a liny, N. V. _ BAD ROADS WASTEFUL Antiquated Methods In Illinois Cause Big Loss. Accomplishing. It la vary Important that th« young man select his Ilf« work early and band «v«ry energy toward accom pllshlng something. One of the iikmi I common causes ot failure In this Ilfs Ilea In the fact that men do not see the important)« of being thorough uu- til It is too late Horence Vidette, Conference Held st Peoria Approves English Stump Speech. Program for “Pulling Illinois Out A correspondent. “Old Briney,*' of Mud”—Recommend State send« us th« following specimen of frenzied stump oratory: "Follor Prisoners to Be Uoed. blokes! Thanks tor th* guv'ment, yer Bankers, farmers, sutomobtlists, got yor d'nilnlahln' wage, and yer Hi Wotcher got educators, labor and business MS ll« loaf, m * all that from all over Illinois met at Peoria ter do now la ter go fer devllootlon the other day aud approved unani and local anatomy, an' go It bllud!" mously a general program for "pull (Loud cheers.) I-ondon Globo. ing Illinois out of the tuud.” Be thrifts on little thlncc like bluing. IX-n't on. After three rousing meetings they Kt wclvr fur bluing A.k for 1U.I I' ium Poll ic, the nUi z « bm 1 value blue. prepared a resolution to the next stale législature setting out the Unes ou By Installments. which they think state luglalatlou The "epoch making advice" of a should be baaed bookmaker to a colleague tn distress The Illinois highway Improvement Is related In Vanity Fair. The col commission, which called the meeting, league had been paid £25 on a bet declared 455,000,000 will bo wasted lu Illinois during ;hu next twenty years by a certain captalu, who, in a fit of absent-mindedness, paid him the same unless tho present antiquated meth amount again next day. "What shall ods are changed. I do about It?" asked the bookmaker To prevent this waste the confer of his friend: and prompt cam« the ence urges the creation of a small answer: "Ask him for if again." state railway commission to replac« the present army of local commission Steel Stays »topped Bullet. ers, more active assistance by the Steel stays have saved many a wom state for the trunk Hues, and mor« an's life Not long ago Mary lleneasy active insistence by th-) public on was taken to Bellevue hospital with good roads a flesh wound In tho aldo, and Dr. It is proposed that prisoners In the Drury discovered that hud It Dot been state penitentiaries be used not only for a steel stay which deflected tho for tho preparation of road building bullet tho wound would have been materials, as nt present, but. If possi fatal, for the slug had boon traveling ble, for actual construction work toward a vital or--.» through the state. Clogged Sewing Machine. It Is proposed to follow the Colora When a sewing macblnn will nol do method, using tho honor system, and sending tho gangs out with work, stand It near thu Ora so that guards. th« oil may malt, and then clean with The legislation recommended by pur« paraffin, putting It into «very oil bole. Work tho machine well, and tho conference would provide: State and county co-operation tn then wipe every part with a clean the construction and maintenance of cloth. When perfectly clean, lubrl cate with machine oil. main highways and bridegs A non political state highway com As a Man Thinks. mission of at least three competent Jennie—"He must have a soft spot members, who shall devote their en in his heart for me." Wennle—"Why tire time to their duties. Improvement In such counties as so?" Jennie—"He says he Is always elect to come under the provisions of thinking of me." Wennle—"But, you the law, of main, contlnuoua inter know, a man doesn’t think with his county highways connectlug county heart. The soft place must b« In bls seats and other important cities, prin bead.”—London Telegraph. cipally at the expenso of the state and Mothen win find Mrc Window's Roointni county; such roads to be selected and Syrup L' a beet reinedv to use 'ue Ibali vUUdzea improved by county authorities, sub fur lug .he teething period. ject to the approval of tho state high Happiest Home. way commission and after improve But tho happiest home la built ment to be turned over to the state when the twain together meet ths for perpetual maintenance. Improvement, maintenance, and con trials and catastrophes that comi trol of remaining roads (about 80 per from the outside world with the good cent, of the whole) under supervision health, the common sense, the humor, the patience and courage that will of county and township authorities. Effective measures to guarantee rout them It should not be necessary maintenance after roads are once con for these qualities to be used by the one to combat the faults of the other. structed. Use of tho state automobiles tax. — Barbara Bovd. together with such other funds as the Learning by Love Letter. legislature may appropriate in the Im ”Ix)ve letters between young men provement of highways. and women are an excellent method Use of state prisoners—under state of teaching literature," says Dr. Ar direction—on an honor system. In ao- thur Holmes But it must bo done tuai road work when practicable. tactfully. We have known a young Payment of all road taxes in cash. lady who broke off an engagement Compulsory dragging ot all earth because her fiance returned her love roads. letters with the spelling errors neatly Proper construction and guarding corrected In red ink of crossings at railroads and inter section of street and highways. TO CtllK A COLD IN ONE DAY The “platform" of the conference ’Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets Includes resolutions In favor of fed ?!;;•'»“!• mfun.l money It It fall« to eura. E. W. jICO V t, S dgnstura icon each buz. ZAc. eral aid for postroads and national highways, and calls attention of Illi Not Inconvenienced. nois congressmen to this position. “Did the dissolution of your gigantic Jesse Taylor of Jamestown, O , told corporation cause you Inconvenience?" the convention the difference between "Not the slightest,” replied Mr. Dustin hauling cost In Belgium and America. Stax. "I needed an enlarged and ink- 13 cents a mile, meant a waste of proved system of branch offices any 8127,500,000 In this year's farm crops how." alone. Wanted to Llv« in History. Rome men’s Idea of fame la cen Egg Material. The laying mash has become gen talnly a distorted one. A murderer erally recognized as tho most conve In Routh Carolina pleaded for tho nient as well as economical method privilege of being th« first man to be of providing a hen with egg material. electrocuted when that new mode ot The following is a good formula: execution was introduced into ths Coarse wheat bran, coarse middlings, ground corn and oats, alfalfa meal, No Us« for Boy« Any More. meat scraps, each 100 pounds, linseed Somebody has Invented an electric meal forty pounds, fine table salt ten lovlce that will split kindling wood. pounds. This 550 pounds ot feed, cost Gradually we are gottlng It so ar ing around |10, should be enough to ranged that the world will have ab- last a flock of 100 hens one month lolutely no use for small boya. and should produce during that time, at December and January price«, from |50 to worth of eggs. There la not another anlcnnl on the ranch that will show thiB profit from the same amount of feed given In addition to the regular rations. Plant Food. When plants run to vines and tops it is a sure Indication that the soli Is full of nitrogen and lacking In pot ash and phosphoric acid. This fre quently comes from the use of large quantities of stable manure. A fer tilizer low In nitrogen and rich in potash and phosphoric acid will bal ance up the plant food ration. Difficulty With Guinea«. One difficulty about raising guinea« 1« that the young birds ar* vary aasUy killed by mites and 11c*. ■ PISO S RLMEDY B m < C«B<h >ymp. T m ( m Good. U m In time. Bold by Dniitirti. nmouCHUNDcniDS 1 “