Wallowa County chieftain., November 18, 1909, Image 2

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OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
SEAECH TOR PLATINUM.
Government Experts Investigate Pros
pects in Coos County.
Marshfield Th.it platinum exists in
Coos eounty seems to be the opinion
of experts and that the development
of the mineral is being looked into by
men of money there is no doubt. Dr.
D. T. Day, who has charge of the min
eral division of the geological survey
in Washington, D. C, has Deen mak
ing investigations. He was sent out
for tho purpose of investigating the
possibilities of platinum mining devel
opments along the coast. He is quoted
as saying that he has found some plat
inum in the ore examined so far, and
has stated that he will give instruc
tions to miners as to how to save the
platinum which he believes is now lost
in large quantities in the process of
mining for gold. A. L. Macdonald of
Schenectady, N. Y., where mining ma
chinery is manufactured, is accompany
ing Dr. Day. They have gone down the
coast to make further investigations.
The Tesults of the work will be of vast
importance to the mining interests of
Coos and Curry counties.
CO-EDS TO HAVE HOME.
Society Women of Eugene to Assist in
Building Bungalow.
TTniversity of Oregon, Eugene. To
build a handsome bungalow to serve as
the general headquarters and center of
co-ed student life at the university of
Oregon is the unique plan of a number
of prominent Eugene society women,
including the wives of several univer
sity professors.
The bungalow is to cost about $2000,
and will be constructed along craftsman
lines. It will have one large room for
meetings and social affairs, with a
small kitchen, bath and rest room. The
building will be constructed on a lot
just outside the college campus, owned
by the University Young Women's
Christian association, which will be in
charge of the bungalow after it is com
pleted. President Campbell is much pleased
with the interest the women are taking
in the bungalow.
Big Orchard Near Dee.
Dee Portland people are preparing
to plant 500 acres to apples south of
Dee. The building of the Mount Hood
railway from Hood River to Dee and
the establishing of the Oregon Lumber
company's plant here has in three years
settled the valley along Hood river.
Many fine apple orchards have been set
out. Logged-off lands have been cleared
and where three years ago stood the
giant firs now are seen buildings and
orchards.
Largest Hatchery in World.
Salem The largest salmon hatchery
in the world, to be owned and operated
by the state of Oregon, will be formally
opened at Bonneville, Monday, Novem
ber 15. The new central hatchery cost
more than $12,000, and has an egg ca
pacity of 60,000,000 and nursery ponds
sufficient to feed 5,000,000 young fry.
The hatchery is now nearly completed,
uml is being operated under the direc
tion of Superintendent J. W. Berrian.
Antos Take Place of Stage.
Prineville J. H. Wenandy of Bend,
who has for the past two years ope
rated the stage line in conjunction with
the D. I. & P. company between Bend,
Redmond and other points to Shaniko
by way of Madras, has disposed of his
entire stage and livery business ex
cepting Bome holdings in Bend, and has
put five up-to-date automobiles into the
stage service covering all points in the
interior.
10,000 Bushels of Potatoes.
Oregon City J. II. Brown, of New
Era, comes very near being the "potato
king" of Oregon. He -raised 10,000
bushels this year, beside 3400 bushels of
wheat and 250 bushels of clover seed.
Mr. Brown ships nearly all of his prod
ucts to California, where the excellent
results of his scientific farming are well
known.
Linn County Gets New Town,
Albany The Linnbaven Orchard
company, which plans to set out a
3000-acre orchard in tho northern part
of Linn county, will establish a new
townsite. It will be called Linnhaven.
The site of this new town has not been
definitely chosen, but it will bo near
the center of the colossal orchard.
Capital Stock Increased.
Klamath Falls At the adjourned
meeting of the Klamath Watersuers' as
sociation the capital stock of the asso
ciation was increased from $2,000,000 to
$6,000,000 by 9000 majority, while the
proposition to increase the par value of
the stock from $20 to $30 per share was
lost by 2145.
Poultry Show for Pendleton.
Pendleton At the meeting of the
Umatilla-Morrow County Poultry asso
ciation, January 25, 26 and 27 were set
as the dates for the big exhibition
of birds. Great interest is being man
ifested, and it is expected that there
will be the finest display of poultry in
the history of this section.
Big Turnip at Dallas.
Dallas William Shewey is exhibit
ing a turnip which measures 34 inches
in circumference. It is solid through
out and very heavy. The turnip was
grown on fern land a few miles from
town.
Dry Land Potaoes.
The Dalles A. II. Fligg has taken
1,330 sacks of potatoes from 14 acres,
grown by the dry land farming process.
Mr. Fligg is exhibiting numerous spec
imens weighing three pounds each.
Hopyard Sella for Good Price.
Dallas It. E. Williams and I. N.
Yoakum have purchased of Thomas
Holrrfln 100 acres of hopyard, located
near EoIa; for $20,000 cash.
FARMERS ARE COMING,
Kansans Take Contracts to Buy Large
Acreage Near Grants Past.
Grants Pass Development of the
country by the colonization method has
been started in Rogue river valley.
Several large projects have been ad
vanced that bas caused a general move
ment in this direction, particularly the
talk of an electric line from Grants
Pass to Ashland.
Another feature that has gone far to
ward the rapid development of much
land bas been the inauguration of
large irrigation system for both high
and low land.
A project to colonize P., 000 acres
within a few miles of this city was an
nounced a few days ago by W. B. Sher
man, who asys he has contracts with
sufficient people to take up this land in
40 and 80-acre tracts. Nearly all the
buyers are farmers from near Kansas
City, and they and their families will
begin to arrive shortly. The advance
guard will select the improved land
this fall, in order to be prepared for the
spring crops. Following in the spring
another body will arrive, and within a
year the entire tract will be settled
with Eastern farmers.
The price to be paid by the colonists
for the unimproved land will vary from
$8 to $20 an acre.
"Fake" Label on Apples.
Hood River The members of the
Hood River Apple-Growers union, which
comprises 90 per cent of the orchnrdists,
are up in arms over the report from
New York that quantities of apples
were on the market there bearing the
wrappers of tho union which were not
up to the high standard of quality main
tuincd by that organization. The wrap
pers of tho union are regarded as an
absolute guarantee of high quality in
the east, and when these apples were
found to be inferior in selection and
pack, many complaints poured in upon
Steinhardt & Kelly, who bought the en
tire output of the union this year.
Douglas Plans Good Roads.
Roseburg This year Douglas county
spent $100,000 in good road building.
That the work is to be continued, only
on a larger scale, is proven by the pur
chases recently made by the county
court, fceveral " weeks ago the court
purchased the rock quarry and bunkers
vacated by the Warren Construction
company, upon the completion of the
company's paving contract in this city.
This included all crushed rock that had
been left by the company.
New Sawmill for Wallowa.
Wallowa Plass Bros., a well-known
sawmill firm of Elgin, have shipped
their machinery to this city, where they
will consolidate with tho Bear Creek
Lumber company, a new corporation re
cently formed. The Plass mill will be
installed on tho new company's hold
ings to cut the timber for a new mill,
which will be installed next season.
The company will put in a new band
saw with a capacity of about 40,000
feet per day.
Beet Weighs 30 Pounds.
Eugene Ole Casperson has brought
back to Eugene a beet grown in his
garden that beats all beets in this sec
tion. The vegetable weighs just 30
pounds.
Portland Markets.
Wheat Bluestem, $1.05; club, 95c;
red Russian, 92Mc; Valley, 9495c;
Fifo, 92(a93c; Turkey red, 9Cc; 40-fold,
95(a9Gc.
.Barley Feed, $27(a27.50; brewing,
$27.50 per ton.
Corn Whole, $33; cracked, $34 per
ton.
Oats No. 1 white, $28.5029 per
ton.
Hay Timothy, Willamette Valley,
$1417 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $18
20; alfalfa, $15(5)16; clover, $14; cheat,
$1314.50; grain hay, $1415.
Butter City creamery extras, 36c;
fancy outside creamery, 3036c per
pound; store, 22V224c. (Butter fat
prices average iy2o per pound under
regular butter prices).
Eggs Fresh Oregon extras, 40r)
42V.C ner dozen: Eastern. 30rffi34e. tier
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dozen.
Poultry Hens, 13,214c; springs,
13Vj14c; roosters, 910c; ducks,
15ffi15c; geese, 10c; turkeys, live,
1617c; dressed, 2021c; squabs, $1.75
2 per dozen.
Pork Fancy, 99e per pound.
Veal Extras, 94(5)10c per pound.
Fruits ADDles. SltfB2.25 hnx;
75c$1.50; grapes, 50e$1.15 per
crate, iu(giay2e per DasKet; casabas,
$1.251.50 per dozen; quinces, $1
1.25 per box; cranberries, $8.509.50
per barrel; persimmons, $1.50 per box.
Potatoes Oregon, 5060c per sack;
sweet potatoes, l2c per pound.
Vegetables Artichokes, 75c per doz-
lc; cauliflower, 90c$l per dozen; ceT
ery, 50(S85c; corn, $11.25 per sack;
horseradish, 910e per dozen; peas, 10c
per pound; peppers, $1.50; pumpkins,
l(S)lc; radishes, 15c per dozen;
sprouts, 8c per pound; squash, $1(5)1.10;
tomatoes, 2560c; turnips, 75c(5$l per
sack: carrots. . heels ii mfi.
bagas, $1.10; onions, $1(5)1.25 per sack.
Hops 1909 crop, 23(5)25c; 1908
crop, 20c; 1907 crop, 12c; 1906 crop, 8c.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 1623o per
pound; Mohair, choice, 24c.
Cattle Best steers, $4.254.50; fair
to good, $3.854; medium jind feedors,
$3.503.75; best cows, $3.25(&3.50; me
dium, $3; common to medium, $2.50(5)
2.75; bulls, $2(5)2.50; stags, $2.50(a;3.50';
calves, light, $5.255.50; heavy, $4
4.75.
Hogs Best, $7.85(5)8; medium, $7.50
7.75; stockers, $56.
Sheep Best wethers, $4.25(5)4.50;
fair to good, $3.754; best ewes, $3.75
(5)4; fair to good, $3.503.75; lambs,
$55.35.
REFORESTATION IS EASY.
Observations of a Practical Timber
man Clearly Set Forth..
(by J. "S. Young, Innian-Poiilsen Log
giug Co., Kelso, Wash.)
The Tiinbennaii: As the question of
cuuserviug our present forests and re
forest iug our logged-off lands is now
commanding so much uttention, a few
observations from one who has given
the subject considerable thought may
not be out of place.
I'eople who are dealiug with statistics
and theories tell us that our forests will
be practically exhausted iu fifty years,
at the present rate of cutting; and as
the rale of consumption will undoubt
edly iucrense, it would Seem that our
only hope of a supply for future gener
ations is in growing more trees.
The question of conserving and pro
tecting our forests aud raising another
crop of timber to take tho place of tho
one wo are now cutting and destroying
is purely an economic one, and not gov
erned by academic theories. Hence, we
will conserve and protect our present
forests, plant and raise a new crop of
trees on our logged off lands just as
soon as we find out that it pays to
do so.
Tho writer remembers doing a lot of
hard work, in early life, along with
many others, destroying our forests that
we might raise grain and garden truck
to cat and hay for our stock; and why
Because these things to us had a value,
and trees had none. We could not cat
them and nobody wanted to buy them.
But mark tho change today. Tho trees
have a value; our lorests are at the
present time one of tho chief sources of
wealth to tho states aloug tho Pacific
Coast, and where the conditions for re
foresting aro so favorable, they can be
made a source of wealth for all time to
come. Hut as approximately only 20
per cent of the standing timber of the
country is iu tho hands of tho govern
ment and about SO per cent under pri
vate ownership, tho question of refor
estation presents some serious difficul
ties. What is the age of our present for
ests What are the means to be em
ployed to retorest our logged-off lands
What length of time will it take What
benefits can be derived And then
the great question, Will it pay
To the first question, I would answer:
"From 100 to 400 years." Tho na
tional government is at the present time
gathering tho data to answer questions
two and three.
The writer has made some observa
tions regarding the growth of timber,
which lead him to believe that growing
timber will pay. 1 have found trees 13u
years old 52 inches in diameter on the
stump, that cut over six thousand feet
of merchantable lumber. The annual
growth showed these trees were 24
inches on tho stump at 40 years aud at
that time should cut 900 feet of lumber.
From my observations, extending over
several sections of timber, 100 trees 10
to 18 inches in diameter can bo grown
on each acre in 40 years and these will
make 30,000 feet of merchantable lum
ber; these same trees will cut 70,00(1
feet at tho end of 125 years. The
question is, What will bo tho value of
this 30,000 feet of timber grown on an
acre in 40 years or tho "5,000 feet
grown on an acre in 125 years I will
hazard a guess that 30,0U0 foot of
standing timber will bo worth $8 per
thousand in 40 years, and that an acre
of land planted to fir trees will earn $(
per year for tho entire period, not
counting the small trees that can bo
taken out and utilized for wood, posts
and poles during the 40 years.
I do not think there is any use to
which wo can put our mountainous,
rocky, logged-off lands that will yield
as much wealth, though to tho indi
vidual 40 years is a long time to wait
for a harvest, bit not long to the state
or nation.
To my mind, tho phase of tho ques
tion that presents the most serious diffi
culties is tho problem of taxation. I
have no hesitation in saying that our
present system of taxation, particularly
regarding growing timber, is all wrong.
1 do not propose to discuss tho matter
as to whether the timber interests have
paid too much or too little of the taxes
in the past or at tho present time, but
a system that does not tax tho growing
crops of tho farmor, the gardener, or
the fruit grower, aud taxes the growing
crop of timber over amfovcr, and at a
rate that will confiscato the entire crop
in 30 to 35 years, when it takes from
40 to 100 years to raise this crop, is cer
tainly open to valid objection. As a
substitute for our present system of
taxing timber, based on values, I would
advocate a cutting tax to bo paid when
tho timber is cut; a portion of this tax
to bo set aside to bear the expenso of
reforestation by the state; and a por
tion to pay tho expense of protecting
our present forests from fire and depre
dation. I shall not attempt in this article to
enter into the details of such a scheme.
I am told on good authority that rais
ing trees by the state or national gov
ernment pays in European countries. If
so, why not here on our western coast,
where the conditions are almost ideal!
(Concluded next week.)
Cook's Photos Assailed.
New York, Nov. 15. Professor Uer
schel C. Parker, of Columbia Univer
sity, who was a member of Dr. Cook's
Mount McKinley party, in a lecture be
fore the Patria club of New York, de
clared that after a thorough consider
ation of the evidence, he was convinced
that Dr. Cook did not get within 10
miles of the peak. "The photographs
which Dr. Cook claims are of tho sum
mit," he said, "were taken from
Brown Ridge, 20 miles away. I know
positively that they are not pictures
of the main peak."
Freed, He Sues Heney.
San Francisco, Nov. 15. A. R. Mc
Kinley, one of the United Railways
detectives, who was arrested several
months ago on n charge of stealing
documents from the office of District
Attorney Langdon, entered suit today
against Rudolph Spreckels, William J.
Burns, Francis J. Heney, Harry Wil
bur and "John Doe" Burns for $50,000
damages for conspiracy and false im
prisonment. The chargo against Mc
Kinley was dismissed last week.
Cannot
Author of "A Crooks ""'L
WonWo Wit." 'Booton'. Brln." A LIU Intoro.t.
"Monk's Cboioo." "A Womon Hoart.
CHAPTF.lt VI. (Continued.)
Miss Desmond had been little more
than a week at Inklefleld. when, re
turning home from the neighboring
vicarage, whence she had been dls
patched with a message respecting
some of the local charities to which
Mrs. Bavllle contributed, she entered
the drawlngroom through one of the
French windows which opened on a
veranda and thence on to the grounds
The lady of the house was not there
but lounging comfortably In her cspH
clal chair sat a gentleman, who, dl
reotly Miss Desmond entered, rose and
made her a bow a bow which proved
that bowing was not yet quite a lost
art. He was a tall, elderly man ot un
certain ape, slight and elegant, with
fine aquiline features and l'ght-blue
laughing eyes that looked rs If boy
hood still lingered there In spite of the
wavy hair that curled round fl rathei
low but well-shaped forehead. He was
carefully, admirably dressed, and lnde
scrlbably fresh and cool, though It was
a burning August day.
"Allow me to explain my appearance
here," he said, In a pleasant, youthful
voice. "I have taken the exceedingly
uninteresting journey from Ixindon to
this place, and I now await Its amla
ble mistress's pleasure as to whethei
she will see me or not."
"Has she been told you are here?"
asked Mls3 Desmond, taking off a large
garden-hat, which she continued to
hold In her hand, wondering who this
could be. Mrs. Savllle's visitors had
hitherto been few and far between, her
acquaintances at that season being
scattered In remote regions.
"Yes, 1 believe her major-domo has
conveyed my pasteboard to the august
presence." And the stranger, with the
air of being very much at home, drew
forward a chair, which Miss Desmond
did not accept.
"Pray, has Mrs. Savllle been long
here?"
"About a fortnight."
"And you have you been here all
that time?"
"Xot quite."
"Ah! what wonderful resisting pow
er! I should have Imagined you would
both by this time be extinct from men
tal Inanition." Miss Desmond laughed
a sweet, well-amused laugh.
"And you can laugh like that!" he
continued. "Then your vitality has ol
course kept my revered sister-in-law
alive. It must, however, exhaust your
own vital powers to give out ozone
no, what do they call It? electricity
to such a degree. There is nothing to
tne so soul-destroying, ro deadening, ns
suburban rusticity. Won't you sit
down? I can't stand any longer mv
self."
"Then pray do not. I do not sit
down because I am not going to stay.
I thought Mrs. Bavllle would come In
Immediately," said Miss Desmond, who
began to perceive In some way that
this pleasant, talkative personage was
a good deal older than he seemed.
"Since you permit It, then." And h
sank Into his chair with a sigh of re
lief. "You see," he went on, "this sort
of place is Just far enough from Lon
don to cut you off from all the con
veniences of town life, and too neat
for any of the legitimate amusements
and occupations of the country."
Here the butler appeared, and said
"Mrs. Savllle will see you, my lord, If
you will come this way." The gentle
man rose, and made another elegant
bow as he passed Miss Desmond.
"What an amusing person! I won
der who he Is. Some relation, 1 sup
pose, or he would not speak so freely
thought Miss Desmond. "1 must not
go to Mrs. Savllle at present." She
too left the room by a different exit
and ascended to her own pleasant
apartment, which looked out to the
front; a dressing-closet opened from
It, and, except for the bed, It was fur
nlshed like a sitting-room. After lean
ing from the window for some mln
otes, apparently In deep thought she
went to her writing table, and,' un
locking a desk with a key which hung
to her chain, she began to add some
lines to a closely-written letter which
lay therein.
8he had written for a considerable
time when the sound of wheels and
horses feet drew her to the window
from whence she saw the gentleman
with whom she had spoken In the
drawing-room descend the hall door
steps to enter a very rusty fly or sta
tion cab. He had a comically rueful
expression of countenance, and, look
Ing round over the front of the house
his quick eye caught sight or Miss Des
mond. To her annoyance, he lifted his
hat and gave a slight expressive shrug
before stepping into his cab, which
drove off immediately.
"I wish I had not looked out" she
thought; then, smiling at the Idea, it
truck her very like an "expulsion.'
No doubt Mrs. Savllle could be very
evere-even cruel; but she Is good to
me. I had better give her tho vicar's
nwasage; yet I feel half afraid. This
I
v ill not do. My best, my only chance
Is fearlessness."
She paused a moment, then locked
away her wrttlng again, and proceeded
down a long passage and a short stair
to the wing In which was Mrs. Sa
vllle's boudoir.
She knocked at the door, and was
Imperatively told to come In. Mrs.
Savllle was walking up and down, evi
dently much disturbed.
"I beg your pardon," hesitatingly.
"Oh, come In, come In! I have been
worried by an Importunate fool; but I
am not so overset that I cannot attend
to anything else. Did you see the
vicar?"
"I did; and he Is very sorry, but he
has already returned the plans of the
cottages to the builder."
"Then he must get them back," very
sharply. "I will walk over myself to
the vicarage. I want movement. Did
yon happen to see Lord Everton?"
"The gentleman who has Just left?
Yes; he was In the drawing-room
when I came In."
"He Is one of the most contemptible
men In England," continued Mrs. Sa
vllle "a mere butterfly at sixty-three.
He has only existed for pleasure his
whole life, and even now pleasure still
pleases. His sense of enjoyment has
been his ruin. A trlfler of the most
trifling description, without an ambi
tion or an aim; worst of all, reckless
of how he may throw others Into temp
tatlon or difficulty. He has Injured
me past forgiveness, and yet he comes
meandering here to try and talk me
over to Induce me to pardon the cruel
lest Injury that could be Indicted. I
told him my opinion fully; but to be
seriously angry with such a creature
is like taking a howitzer to shoot a
humming-bird. Come, Miss Desmond
let us go out Into the open air. What
o'clock is it? Nearly five? I shall
walk round the grounds until It Is
time to find the vicar."
They paced somewhat slowly across
the grounds to a wooded rising ground
on the left of the house, from which a
vlow of It and Its surroundings could
be obtained, and when they had ac
complished the ascent Mrs. Savllle sat
down, as If tired, on a sent placed at
the best point of outlook, Her com
panion had observed that the keen,
active woman was stronger In spirit
than In flesh, and felt a sort of pity
for this rich, prosperous, resolute lady.
"What a sweet, beautiful place this
Is!" she exclaimed, after gazing at
the smie before her for a few mln
utes. "I think it Is the most charming
I have ever seen."
"Then you have not seen much," re
turned Mrs. Savllle. testily.
"That Is true. I have not seen any
fine places in England, and tne palaces
and chateaux abroad are so melan
choly; but wh could desire anything
beyoi.d the exquisite, graceful, home-
II he beauty of Inglefleld?"
It wan, in truth, a delightful abode,
sheltered on the east by the upland
from which they now looked down;
the ground sloped steeply from the
opposite side, giving a wide view over
a richly-wooded country; while the
house, gardens and grounds occupied
the level space between. Fine trees
stood about, for Inglefleld was an old
country-house dating tolerably far
back, built In the half-timbered style
the first story of fine bricks, the upper
part beams and plaster, with high
chimneys and many-gabled roofs. -The
large additions made by Mrs. Savllle's
father had been carried out In strict
accordance with the original plan, and
the garden designed to suit It also A
circular lawn, surrounded with flower
ing shrubs and dotted with several
large spreading trees, separated the
house from a wide avenue which open
ed exactly opposite the entrance, over
arched by a double row of great old
elms at either side. Beyond, on the
left, from a wooded hollow, through
which a trout-stream had been widen
ed and dammed Into a miniature lake
glimpses of which could be caught
when the sunlight fell upon It, rose the
smoke from some unseen chimney.
"Home-like," repeated Mrs. Savllle.
"There Is an Immense amount of non
sense talked about home. I wish you
could see Klngswood. Lord Everton's
Place; it 'Is one of the finest seats in
England full of family treasures and
historic relics and he would not make
the faintest effort to retain it He
might have entered diplomacy or
taken a foreign appointment and saved
money. But he is quite content to de
rive his income from the rent a Man
chester millionaire pays him for his
ancestral halls, when he might have
married the millionaire's daughter
and kept It for himself."
"Well, if the daughter was not the
sort of woman he could love, he was
right," said Miss Desmond, thought
fully 'Suppose she was not corapan
tenable, that he could not love her:
the finest place In the world could not
make up for that"
n!5U, &re f00U8h chlldt Th thg
called love sooa avaporates. Rank, Im
portant, high position, last: ana .
ties due to one's station nil m
satisfactorily T i. . " UP Ufl
" lOW, mean
ceptlon of existence to spend itln
sonal pleasure." ln Iw
"Ye., certainly. Ton are right - ,
gerly. "To live for one's self
In any way. U miserable. n,,i JV"
right to try and be ,." .".." nM
"You have been tolrM. .
hat vou . ..m " ' '?.r' ""a
unkindly. "Have you been haZr'
Her Interlocutor paused before .s.
replied, "Yes. on the whole I havVb!
happy. Sometimes It has been tnta!
to feel shabby and to be unable tor2
a new dress, to know that lovely Z
ture. and delightful music were wl
In your reach, yet Inaccessible Th.
worst Is to want nice delicate thIB
for some one you love and not to h.
able to get them; that Is bitter StllL
nothing can be so poverty-stricken u
to have no one to trouble about .
one to love or live for, no one to low
you." '
"It Is, then, very unfortunate for
person of your disposition to have lost
your home." remarked Mrs. Bavliu
coldly.
"It Is sad enough; but I have been
fortunate ln finding friends like Mr
Rawson and his daughter. It ,
ter. too, to believe that there la some
pleasant sheltered nook round the ne
turn of the road than always to look
for sandy deserts. Loneliness Is thi
worst evil of all: It Is what I feu
most."'
Mrs. Bavllle did not answer imm
dlately; then she said, abruptly
"What Is your name your Chrtatian
name?"
"My name? Hope Desmond."
"I thought so. It Is very apprt
prlate. You have-given me a curloui
mental picture. I suppose It Is true,
though It Is incomprehensible to mi,
hut you glvs me the Idea of being sen
sible and accurate. Do you not feel
that your life bas been lost, frultleM,
passed as it has been In this constant
struggle?"
"No." cried Hope, her dark eyei
lighting, and lifting her head with an
unconscious but dignified movement
"It has had much sweetness, and I
have been of some use. Though I an
not clever, I have done what I could;
and that will always comfort me. I do
not fear the future. Work will come
to me. I would not change with any
one. I prefer to remain the 'me' that
I am."
"You are an unusual specimen, Mlsj
Desmond, and really a profound phi
losopher; yet you have refinement and
taste, aye, and culture enough, to ena
ble you to enjoy beauty and elegance,
literature and art. I congratulate you;
only, if every one was as easily pleas
ed the world would stand still."
"Perhaps so," said Hope Desmond,
with a sigh. "I can only Bee life ac
cording to my lights."
Then, after some minutes' silence,
the observed how prettily the smoke
curled up from among the trees down
ln the hollow.
"Yes," said Mrs. Savllle, "I suppoM
Lord Castleto.i has arrived. Inglefleld
Court belongs to him. It Is an older
aud much damper place than this. I
must call to-morrow." She heaved I
deep sigh as she spoke. "Miss Dacre
Is one of the fortunate ones according
to lr.y estimate. . She Is her father'i
sole heiress, and takes the title, too,
when she succeeds him. She Is pretty,
rather accomplished, and decldeilj
popular. I used to see a good deal of
her at one time; now " She pain
ed aud frowned, then, rising, she said,
peremptorily, "Come, I feel rheumat
ic; I have sat here too long."
Few words passed between the com
panions till nlmost at the gate which
opened from Mrs. Savllle's ground on
a foot-path which crossed the vicarage
fields, when that lady said, suddenly:
"1 expect my son to-morrow."
"Your eldest son?"
"1 have but one son," returned Mn.
Savllle, icily.
(To be continued.)
One? on Mark Twain.
Years ago Mark Twain, who ha re
cently celebrated his seventy-second
birthday, used to be fond of telling
this story:' At the dinner table on
day there was a party of guests, for
whom Mnrk was doing his best In the
way of entertaining. A lady turned to
the daughter of the humorist, then
little girl, and said: "Your father b
a very funny man." "Yes," responded
the child, "when we have company."
Philadelphia Record.
A Sporting Event.
"My husband doesn't mind walking
the floor with the baby at night any
more," aald Mrs. Blnks.
"Why is that?" asked Mrs. Jinks.
"He makes believe It's a Marathon,'
said Mrs. Blnks." "He covered tt
twenty-six miles before 10 o'clock Ia'
night." Brooklyn Life.
A Mont Important Crop. -
"How do you desire to be uplifted'
Is the question a writer ln the New
York Sun puts Into the mouth of the
commissioner at the farmer's door.
"Wal," replies Farmer Hayrick, 7
might start ln by growing a better
class of city boarders." Youtn
panlon.
H If I'd known how sarcastic you
were. I never should have married
She You had a chance to notice
it Didn't I say, "This Is so sodden
when you proposed to me after to"'
years' courtship? Boston Transcript
Um4mr TH ArtlH sT.
Clerk at Marriage License Buretf
What's the lady's first name?
Prospective Bridegroom HeaTC"
I never thought to a