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Newspaper Page TextOREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST CO-OPERATIVE IRRIGATION. Baker County Farmers Don't Need Outside Capital. Baker City Baker county has more co-operative irrigation projects than any other county in Oregon. There are no large ditch systems, the farm ers being banded together in small groups, and co-operating in building of inexpensive ditches and in the division of the water therefrom. Very much the same conditions as to the ease with which water is utilized for irrigation prevail in Eagle and Pine valleys where a superabundance of water flows from the mountain gorges which has in it power enough to run the machin ery of a small empire. The Lower Powder has several systems which have been expensive, built by private farmers,, and corporations, and which irrigate tracts of alfalfa land, in Burnt River valley are a number of private ditch companies irrigating bot tom and foothlil land, which produce good results but which are compara tively inexpensive. The largest irrigation system in Baker county is that which covers the bench lands on the east side of Baker valley, beginning about eight miles above Baker City and extending in a northerly direction and terminating at present about five miles northeast of the city with the probability of it being extended later and covering the whole east side of the valley. This canal has been built at a large expense, having been cut of solid rock for a con siderable distance along the mountain side. In a distance of 28 miles of canal there has been UBed only about 400 feet of flume, and the work is of a much more substantial nature than is ordinarily used in private irrigation works. FAIR TO BE BETTER. Gresham Makes Improvements In Buildings for Coming Display. Gresham Multnomah county's fair promises to be the equal this year of the two preceding ones. About $2,000 worth of the treasury stock has been sold since the last fair, which has cre ated an ample fund for making im provements. The sum of $500 is avail able out of the state appropriation for premiums on exhibits this year, which sum will be increased by the gate re ceipts and the money from sale of con cessions. A large force of men are at work on the new stock buildings and out-of-doors pavilion. It is intended to use the main exhibit building for no other purpose after this than to house the displays of agriculture, horticulture nd art, together with exhibits of bus iness houses. The new building will be used as an auditorium and dance hall and other public functions. The new stock pens will be ample and commodious and permanent, those of last year having been torn down. A n-iw fence will be built around the grounds and suitable booths will be erected for small concessions. Phones to Sound Fire Alarm. McMinnville This city is installing the latest standard fire alarm system. The apparatus, purchased from a New York firm, is being placed in position and the city council will be asked to district the city into 'eight fire wards, or districts, to conform to the require ments of the new system. I An electric bell striking machine will be connected with the automatic transmitter, which will be installed in the office of the McMinnville Local & Long Distance Telephone company, and thus, for the present, each public or private tele phone belonging to that company in the city will serve to transmit an alarm of fire instead of the regular automatic fire alarm boxes. Building Santlam Bridge, Lebanon Preparatins for the con struction of the bridge over the San tiam river at this place are being made as rapidly as possible, for the new line between Lebanon and Crabtree of the Oregon & California railroad company. A gang of nearly 100 men are now at work on the new structure. The bridge is going to be one of the longest bridges in the country, being nearly 400 feet crossing the river, with a tres tle of some 2,000 feet on the west ap proach to the bridge. The bridge will cost in the neighborhood of 100,000. Paper Railroad Is Formed. Salem Articles of Incorporation were filed today for the Albany, Leb anon & Bend railway company. The incorporators are J. C. Mayer, Ed. Kellenberger and George B. Whitcomb, and the capital tock $10,000. It is proposed to build a road from Albany to Bend by way of Lebanon. Articles were filed today by the Oregon-Washington Railway and Timber company, capital stock, $1,000,000. Incorporat ors are T. H. Ward, Ralph E. Moody. Income Tax Is Fought. Salem Arguments were heard be fore Judge Burnett in Circuit court in the case of the State vs. the Wells Fargo Express company. The express company is resisting the'paymenta of the income tax, and the defendant's de murrer will be taken under advisement by the court Hunting Makes Revenue. Albany Linn county has contrib uted $1,863 to the state game fond al ready this year, 997 hunters' licenses and 866 anglers' licenses having been issued from the county clerk's office bsre. TRAIN ROUTE FIXED. Demonstration Special to Stop at Seven Eastern Oregon Towns. Portland Its shibboleth "A crop for every acre every year," the demonstra tion train of the O. R. & N. will leave Portland, October 25 on an anti bar renness crusade in Sherman, Gilliam and Moro counties. The intinerary of tne educational tram as finally decided upon provides a four-days' trip in which seven stops will be made. lone, Heppner, Clem, Condon, Grass Valley, Moro and Wasco will be vinitpd hv th demonstration train and at each place six lectures will be delivered by mem bers of the faculty of the Oreonn A or. ricultural college at Corvallia, profes sors of that institution, with a few railroad officials to be the only passen gers of the demonstration Bpecial. The complete schedule for the dem onstration train is as follows : Tuesday, October 26 lone, 9 a. m. to 12 noon; Heppner, 2 p. m. to 5 p. m. and 8 p. m. to 9 :30 p. m. Wednesday, October 27 Clem, s a. m. to 12 noon; Condon, 2 p. m. to 5 p. m and 8 p. m. to 9 :30 p m. Thursday, October 28 Grass Valley, 9 a. m. to 12 noon; Moro, 2. p. m. to 5 p. m. and 8 p. m. to 9 :30 p. m. Friday, October 29 Wasco, 9 a. m. to 12 noon. Bohemian Colony Coming. Klamath Falls Unless aomn unfnr. seen obstacle arises there will be lo cated in the southern portion of the Klamath basin one of the largest Bo hemian colonies ever established in anv state. Sixty representatives of the colony nave spent several days going over the 3,000 acres of land on which options have been secured. The colony is in the form of a club and consists of approximately 500 families. Official of the club visited this section several weeks ago and secured options on the large LiaKesme tract. The 60 members who havn henn hnro for several davs are a final committee to pasB on the land. If they recommend me acceptance oi tne land the settling up of this large area will be begun at once. Postal Receipts Gain. Corvallia Th noHt.nl rppoinfa rt thin city for the quarter ending September 30 shows a gain of 16.2 per cent ovtr me receipts ior tne corresponding quar ter of 1908. The train for tho nnrt ending September 30, 1908 over that oi me year previous was 23 per cent. The fallinc off in thB nornf. gain this year is attributed to the fact mat v. . c Degan us work a little later this fall. The reeeinta fnr tha quarter just ended were $3,512.82. Odd Fellows to Spend $5,000. Condon The Odd Fellows have be- gun excavating for their new two-story DricK Duuaing on spring street. The building will be 30x100 feet, and will cost $5,000. The order expects to be able to occupy its new Quarters about January 1. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Track DriceB : Bluestem. 96c; club, 88c; red Russian, 85)c; vaney, auc; tire, 88c; Turkey red, 88c; 40-fold, 90c. Barley Feed, $26; brewing, $27. Oats No. 1, white, $27.50ri28. Corn Whole, $35; cracked, $36. Hay Timothv. Willamette vllv $15f(i)16 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $18 (019: alfalfa. $14: clover. 214: cheat $13(3)14.60; grain hay, $1516. Butter City creamerv. extras Sfi? fancy outside creamerv. 33rtf36e ner pound; store, 22(u)24c. Butter fat prices average lc per pound under regular butter prices. fcggs Oregon ranch. 32Wr33e nnr dozen. Poultry Hens. UdlUMe 14(14Hc; roosters, 96:l0c; ducks, 16c; geese. 9(ii1l0c: turkevs. IRriiilflr,- squabs, $1.76(i!2 per doz. Pork Fancy, 9fti)9 He per pound. Veal Extra, 10(ii)10.c per pound. Fresh Fruits Apples, new. si.2Rfiii 1.75 per box: pears. $lft1.75: neachna. 76cGi$l. 25 per crate; cantaloupes, 50c ((Wi.zo per crate; plums, 2550c per box; watermelons, lc per pound; grapes, 85c((f$1.25 perorate, 20(f25c per basket: casabas. Jl.fiO! miinnna $l(il.25 per box; cranberries, $910 per carrel. Potatoes Buvintr nrieea: Orpirnn 60(i65c per sack: sweet notatnnn. 9t per pound. Onions New, $1.25 per sack. Vegetables Beans, 4f?5c; cabbage V('flc; per pound: cauliflower. E0cr $1 per dozen; celery, 60(i)76c per aoxen; corn, io(20e perdoxen; egg plant, 76cCe$l per box; garlic. 7tf8c per pound: horseradish. 9rM0e pound; onions, 12H(J15c per dozen; parseiy, 3oc per dozen ; peas, 7c per pound; peppers, 4(tf5c per pound; pumpkins, lMle: radishes. 15c nor dozen; squash, l),0l?4'c; tomatoes, bum: roe. Cattle Steers, ton auulitv. 11 9.W 4.40; fair to good. $4: common, 1.1 fin (C3.75; cows, top, $3.25(t:3.85; fair to good, Sex 3.10: common to medium. 2.50(C2.76; calves, top, .$5d5.25; heavy, $3.60i4; bulls, $2(i2.25; stags, $2.60(iC3.60. Hogs Best, $8; fair to good, $7.75 CT7.85; stackers, $6(J.7; China fats, $7.600t8. Sheep Top wethers, $44.25 ; fair to good, $3.50(3.75; ewes, io less on all grades; yearlings, best. 4((j 4.2; fair to good, $3.60!i3.75; spring lambs, $501.5.60. Hop 1909, Willamette valley, 20l 24c; Eastern Oregon, 20(i23c; mo hair, 1909, 2361240 per pound. FARM CENSUS ECONOMY. Director Durand Hopes to Save Sev eral Hundred Thousand Dollars. Washington, Oct 11. U. S. Census Direcotr Dana E. Durand hopes to save several hundred thousand dollars in taking the census of agriculture and also to increase the accuracy of the statistics. The director stated today that at the census of 1900 the agricultural data were handled by means of mweheri cadrs. For each farm a larce of cards had to be punched, as the numDer 01 lacts recorded regarding a farm was far greater than the number of facts required regarding an individ ual in me population census. Director Durand said the atatiatira of population and of acrricultnrA Bra collected by a different force from that empioyea in garnering the statistics of manuafctures. The population and agricultural data are secured by enum erators 01 whom there will be about 65,000 at the present census, they in turn being appointed bv the or, of whom there are about 330. The difficulty of securing competent and faithful enumerators is verv on-pat. The length of service is very short, 15 aays in me cities ana 3U days in the country districts. The pay is small, averaging perhaps three dollars per day in the country districts and a trifle more in the cities, practically the pay of ordniarv mechanics. Not nnlv therefore, are most of those who seek to De neumerators able to command only moderate nav in their ftrmina. tions, but many of them are men who can noi command regular employment and who are looking for odd jobs. The director hones that A nnnniripr. able number of the colleegs and univer sities 01 tne country may see fit to give leave of absence to their students for the short time required to do this work of enumeration. The college student is a very useful enumerator in some cases, dui 11 is exceedingly desirable that enumerators should actually live in the distritsc where they work, and tnere are multitudes of diatricta wWo no college students reside or where such siuaeniB are in institutions Hundreds or thousands of miles from their homen Another class who can render ennd ar. vice as enumerators are school teach ers, but, with the enumeration taking place in April and Mav instead of June as formerly, few school teachers can be sparea irom tneir duties to take the DRY FARMING CONGRESS. Great Interest Is Shown From All Parts of the Country. Billings. Montana. Oct 11.. An in. terestinsr example of the wideanreari interest in the dry farming movement was given in the morning mail received py tne secretary the other dsy when fourteen states and Canada were rep resented in the membershins recorded These ranged from the Pacific coast on tbe West to Pennsylvania on the East ana irom Canada to New Mnrirn. There were several memberships from Canada. The states from which the applications came were California, Col orado. Idaho. Montana. Minnesota. Missouri, Nebraksa, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Wsahington and Wis consin. Memberships are beinir received at sucn rate that the edition of the Hand book of Information, which contains the report of the third session of the congress, has been exhausted and the secretary has been compelled to an nuonce to new members that there are no more of these valuable books avail able. All persons joining the congress from this time on will receive the ae. ond annual Handbook which will con tain the proceedings of the Fourth Dry r arming congress which will meet at Billines. Montana. October 26-28. and a resume of the contents of the first edition. 1 The officers of the cnnirreaa apt nut after the close of the Cheyenne meet ing with the ambition of making the membership 01 the congress total 10, 000 before the Billings meet in or nnri the indications are that they will come very near that goal. In one day re cently the secretary received 180 memberships coming from all parts of this country and from several foreign tanas. ,very man brings more. Wins Riohes in Old Age. Los Angeles, Oct. 11. By a decision of the United States circuit court of ap peals today, Timothy Carroll, a pioneer of Southern California, wius his fight to compel the Los Alimitos Sugar Com pany to pay him royalty on his patont beet dump. The decision crowns with victory the struggle of Carroll, who is 70 years old, against poverty and hard ship. It will make him independently rich before the expiration of his pat ents six years hence. It will put an end to litigation that commenced 12 years ago, whon the sugar company refused to rocognize Carroll's rights. Improve Immigrant Station. El Portal, Cal., Oct. 11. One direct result of President Taft's trip to the West has been the immediate improve ment of immigration conditions at San Francisco. By the president's direc tion Secretary Nagel ordered that the new immigrant station on Angel island, San Francisco harbor, be opened at onco. The opening of this station had been held up for a long time for want of an appropriation for furnituro and supplies. Riches Fall on Old Man. San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 11. .Tames Fniran. an seed switchman hnr m. eoivod official word today that a Car- negio pension 01 iu,uuu was awaiting his disposal. Fagan worked on the Pennsylvania railway when Mr r.. negio was his division superintendent, ami mo u,uuu is accumulation of a snutt nersion nut aside mnm nan for the switchman. The Main Chance BY- Meredith Nicholson Coptcioht 1903 Tn Bosbs-Mbsbili, Covfaht CHAPTER XXIII. (Continued.) John Barton sat In the office of the Traction Company on a hot night In July. Fenton Lad just left him. The transfer to the Margrave syndicate had been effected and John would no more sign himself "John Sax ton, Receiver." His work In Clarkson was at an end. The Neponset Trust Company had called him to Boston for a conference, which meant, he knew, a termluation of his ser vice with them. He had lately sold the I'oindexter ranch, and so little property remained on the Neponset's books that It could be cared for from the home office. He had not opened the afternoon mail. He picked up a letter from the top of the pile, dated from San Fransisco, and read: "San Francisco. "My Dear Sir: "I hesitate about writing you, but there are some things which I should like you to understand before I go away. I had fully expected to remain with you and Bishop Delafield and to return to Clarkson that last morning at Polndex ter's. I cannot defend myself for having run sway ; it must have seemed a strange thing to you that I did so. I had fully intended acting on the bishop's advice, which 1 knew then, and know now, was good. But when the west-bound train came, my courage left me; I could not go back and face the people I bad known, after what had happened. I told you the truth there In the ranch house that night ; every word of it was true. May be I did not make it clear enough how weak I am. Things came too easy for me, I guess; at any rate I was never worthy of the good fortune that befell me. It seemed to me that for two years everything I did was a mistake. I sup pose If I had been & real criminal, and not merely a coward, I should not have entangled myself as I did and brought calamity upon other people. When I reached here I found employ ment with a snipping house. I have told my story to one of the firm, who has been kind to me. He seems to understand my case, and Is giving me a good chance to begin over again. I suppose the worst possible things have been said about me, and I do not care, except that I hope the people in Clarkson will not think I was guilty of any wrong-doing at the bank. I read in the newspapers that I had stolen the bank's money, and 1 hope that was corrected. The books must have proved what I say. 1 understand now that what I did was worse than stealing, but I should like you and Mr. Porter to know that I not only did not take other people's money, but that In my foolish relations with Margrave I did not re ceive 0 cent tor the shares of stock which he took from me neither for my own nor for those of Miss Porter. I don't blame Margrave; if I had not been a coward he could not have played with me as he did. "The company la sending me to one of Its South American houses. I go by steamer to-morrow, and you will not hear from me again. I should like you to know that I have neither seen nor heard anything of my brother since that night. With best wishes for your own happiness and prosperity, yours sincerely, "JAMES WHBATON." On his way home to the club Saxton stopped at Bishop Delafield' rooms, and found the bishop, as usual, preparing for flight Time did not change Bishop Dels field. He was one of those men who reach 00, and never, apparently, pass it. He and Saxton were fast friends now. The bishop missed Warry out of his life; Warry was always so accessible and so cheering. John was Lot so accessible and he had not Warry's ligntness, but the Bishop of Clarkson liked John Saxton. The bishop sat with his inevitable hand-baggage by his side and read Whea ton's letter througa. "How Ignorant we are 1" he said, fold ing It. "I sometimes think that we who try to minister to the needs of the poor In spirit do not even know the rudiments of our trsde. We are pretty helpless with men like Wheaton. They are appar ently strong; they yield to no tempta tions, so far as any man knows ; they are exemplary characters. I suppose that they are living little tragtdles all the time. The moral coward is more to be pitied than the open criminal. You know where to find the criminal ; but the moral coward is an unknown quantity. Life Is a strange business, John, and the older I get the leas I think I know of it" Ha sighed and handed back the letter. "But hes doing better than we might have expected him to," said Saxton. "A man's entitled to hspplness If he can And It He undoubtedly chose the easier part in running away. I can't Imagine him coming back here to face the community after all that had happened." "I don t know that I can either. Preaching is. easier than practicing amt I'm not sure that I gave him the best ad vice at the ranch house thkt morning." -well, it was rae only tiling to do" Saxton answered. "I suppose neither yeu nor I was sure he told the truth; It was a situation that Was calculated to make one skeptical. It isn't clear from his letter that the whole thing has Im pressed aim In any great way. He's anx loos to have ns thing well of him a kind f retrospective vanity." 'But his punishment Is great It's not for. na to pass on its adequacy. I must be going, John," and Saxton gathered np the battered cases and went out to the car wkh him. Bishop Delafield always brought War ry back vividly to John, and as they welted on the corner he remembered hie fasSMetirgr with the bishop, la Warry's rooas at The Bachelors'. And that was very long sgo I CixAPTER XXIV. TTnmrtnlntv and doubt filled John Sax ton's mind and heart, snd he saw no light ahead. He had seen Evelyn several times before she had left home, on occa- alAn. Trr 1. 1 n i n wati n t Vl n lirillaA with Fenton for conferences with her father. He bad intended saying good-by to ner, but the Porters went hurriedly at last 'and he was not sorry; It was easier that way. But Mrs. Whipple, who was exer cising a motherly supervision over John, to Orchard Lane during the time that sne and tne general were to be wltn tne Porters in their new cottage. When he went TToar Rovtrui mattaA Anmn At Ilia club In Boston, and pretended that it was good to be at home again; but be went about with homesickness gnawing hia heart. Hp hitrl rpjiann tn he hannv and satisfied with himself. He had prac tically concluded the difficult work which he had been sent to Clarkson to do; he bad realized more money from their as sets than the officers of the trust company had expected; and they held out to him fthft nromlap nt Mnnlmrmont In tholi Rno. ton offics as a reward. So he walked the lamlllar streets planning his future anew. He had succeeded In something at last, snd he would stay In Boston, having, he told himself, earned the right to live there. The assistant secretaryship of the trilflt oomnanv. which hftrl hoan manrtnn. ed to him, would be a position of dignity ana promise. He had never hoped to do so well. Moreover, it would be pleasant to be near hia sister, whn llvsit at Wor cester. There were only the two of them, ana mey ougnt to live near together. It is. however, an nnnlAnannt hnhtt nf ths fates never to suffer us to debate simple problems long; they must throw in new elements to puzzle us. While he deferred eolnr to OreWH r.a na a nav perplexity confronted him. One of Mar grave s people' came from New fork as the representative of the syndicate that had purchased the Clarkson xractlon Company, and sought an Interview. John had met this gentleman at the time the sale was closed ; he was a person of con sequence In the financial world, who came quickly to the point of his errand. He onerea jonn the position of general man ager of the romnnnv The next day John thought he saw 11 an more clearly. He went out and walked aimlessly through the hot streets. He realized presently that ha hail mn. into a railway, office and asked for a sub- urDan time table. He carried this back to the club, and ahirllorl tha Hat nf rw. chard Lane trains. He found that he could run out almost any hour of the uay. ne slept and woke refreshed, with the time table still rraaneil In hia honrl He had been very foolish, he concluded; it would be a simple matter to go out to urcnara lane to call on the Porters and Whlpples. The next afternoon he went up to Orchard Lane. It suited his mood that he should find no one at home at Red flahloa hut Mr Porter, who played golf all the morning and slept and experimented at landscape gardening all the afternoon. He wel corned John with unwonted mrdialitv There were some details connected with the transfer of the Traction Com pany to Margrave's syndicate which Por ter n&a not lully understood, or which Fenton had purposely kept from him; and he pressed John far new light on these matters. John answered or parried as he thought wisest. John left his greetings for the rest of the household. There was a train at 0 o'clock : It was now B and ha lnltarp along, stopping often to look out upon ine see, A group oi people was gathered about a tea table on the alnnlno- lan in front of one of the houses. Toe colors of the women's dresses were bright against the dark rreen. Tt mi a a - " w ft "J company: their lauffhter fl nptaH nut a him mockingly. He wondered whether Evelyn was there, as he passed on, beat ing the rocky path with his stick. Evelyn was not there : but her iWtna. tion was that particular lawn and Its tea table. Turning a bend in the path he came upon ner. tie bad bad no thought of seeing her; yet she was coming down the path toward him, her picture hat framed In the dome of a blue parasol. He had renounced her for all Hma nA he should meet her guardedly; but the blood was singing in bis temples and throbbing in his finger tips at the sight of her. "This Is too bad!" she exclaimed, as they met "I hope you can come back to the house." She walked straight up to him and gave him her hand in her quick, frank way. "I'm sorry, but I must be In to town on this next train." ha ananranxl TT. turned In the path and walked along be side ber. "This happened to be one of our scat tering days, for all except father." "We had a nice talk, he and I. Your place la charming. Don't let me detain you. I'm sure yon were going to Join these lotus eaters." "I don't believe they need me," she an swered, evasively. "They seem pretty busy. But If you're i-ungry or thirsty, I can get something for you there." They passed the gate, walking slowly slong. He knew that he ought to urge her to stop, snd that he must hurry on to catch his train; but It was too sweet to be near her; this was the last time and it was his own I They paused finally and John held open a little gte In a stone wall. He was grave and something of his seriousness communicated Itself to her. Clearly, be thought this was the parting of the ways. "Won't you come In? There are plen ty of trains and we'd like you to dine with us." A great wave of loneliness and yearn ing swept over her. Her Invitation seemed to create new snd limitless dis tances that stretched between them. He spoke Incidentally of the offer he hsd re ceived from the Clarkson Traction Com pany. "I have refused the offer," he said, quietly. He bad not Intended to tell her; but It was doubtless just as well; and It would alter nothing. "My work in Clarkson Is finished," he went on. "War ry's affairs will make It necessary for me to go back from time to time, but It will not be borne again." "I'm sorry," she said. "I thought you were to be of ns. Bnt I suppose there Is a greater difference between the East and West than any one can understand who has not known both." They regard ed each other gravely, as If this were, of we wnoie matter at issue. "1 can't go back it's too muchi I can't do it," he said, wearily. "I -now how It must be this last year and Worry 1 It was all so terrible for all of us." She was looking away. John looked at her. It was natural that she should include herself with him In a common grief for the man who had been his friend and whom she had loved. She had always been kind to him; her kindness stung him now, for ' he knew that It was because of Warry; and a re solve woke in him suddenly. He would not suffer her kindness under a false pre tense; he could at least be honest with her. "I can't go back because he Is not there; and because because you are not there 1 You don't know you should nev er know, but I was disloyal to Warry from the first. I let him talk to me from day to day of you ; I let him tell me that he loved you ; I never let him know I never meant any one to know " He ceased speaking; she was very ctill and did not look at him. "It. was base of me." he went on. "I would gladly have died for him if he had lived; but now that he Is dead I can betray him. I hate myself worse than you can hate me. I know how I must wound and shoe, you "Oh, no I" she moaned. But he went on ; he would spars him self nothing. "It is hideous It was cowardly of ms to come here." Ills hands were clenched and his face twltphed with pain. "Oh, If he had lived 1" She rose now and looked at him with an infinite pity. "If he had lived," she said, very softly, looking sway through the sun-dappled aisles of the orchard, "if he had lived It would have been the same, John." But he did not understand. His name as she spoke It rang In his ears. She walked away through the orchard path, which suddenly bec-ame to him a path of gold that stretched Into paradise; and he sprang after her with a great fear in his heart lest some barrier might descend and shut her out forever. "Evelyn I Evelyn !" It was not a voice that called her; It was s spirit, long held in thrall, that had shaken free and become a name. (The end.) . BAM SOTHEB.IT NOT SAM AT ALL. Hia Alliterative Name a Sample of Hia Father's Jocularity. Probably there Is not one In twenty of the fellow members of bis profes sion, either here or in England, who knows that the name of Sam Sothern, the actor, Is not Sam at all, the New York World says. Mr. Sothern came back to New York on Friday In response to a hurry call to act with Sir Charles Wynd ham In "The MoIIubc" He has been absent from this country more than fifteen years, although he made his first theatrical appearance in this country with the late John T. Ray mond, a friend of his father, E. A. Sothern, in "The Private Secretary." During the early days of the starring career of his brother, E. H. Sothern, Sam, who is not Sam, acted in his support at the old Lyceum; If Sam Sothern had registered in New York as George Evelyn Augustus T. Sothern possibly his own brother might not have recognized him. George Evelyn Augustus T. was named to please his mother. His father, who was a comedian off the stage as well as on It, didn't like the long handle. He wanted a name that was short and expressive.' He was appearing in "Brother Sam" In Lon don at the time, and, for convenience, tacked the name of the play on the newly born Infant. Brother Sam has kept It ever since. Another thing that Sam Sothern received from his father this by in heritance was the tattered yellow manuscript of "Our American Cousin." It didn't seem like a large inheritance at the time, for the elder Sothern had played the piece to a standstill both In this country and in England. 80 Sam cast the prompt book Into a trunk, where It slumbered twenty years until EH. Sothern, two years ago, decided to revive the play under the name of "Lord Dundreary." All these years a small fortune bad been lurking in the crumpled bunch of papers. As it was Sam's property E. H. Sothern had to pay a fat royal ty on it, and as "Lord Dundreary" has been one of E. H. Sothern's big gest successes in recent years a steady; stream of. American dollars has flow ed Into Sam's English pockets. Caused a Breach. Askitt Why are you so down on, Walker? You used to be the best of friends. Eggbert Yes, I know; but last fall he took my part, and I haven't spoken! to him since. Askitt That sounds queer. Eggbert Not necessarily. You see, he's an actor, too nd I wanted the part for myself. Rer Experience. Mrs. Brown Do you believe that marriage Is a lottery? Mrs. Green No. I consider It mora of a faith cure. Mrs. Brown Why, how's that? Mrs. Green Well, I had Implicit faith In my husband when we were first married and now I haven't Deeply Interested. Said -She Oh, I'm Just awfully In terested in baseball. I have a cousin who belongs to a college bunch. Bald He Indeed! And what post tlon does he play? Said She WelL I forget Just now whether he's knocker or a stopper. The Explanation. " Edyth Why did Clare Insist on ha. lng a quiet wedding? Mayme Oh, I suDDoee she thons-ht It would make talk. It Is estimated that there are g.00o 000 telephones now In use In the wesjo.