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I OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST I
MODEL ORCHARD.
Scientific Apple Culture Will Be Ap
plied in Marion County.
Salem The Salem Fruit Growers'
union is promoting a plan of develop
ing a model orchard of 100 acres near
Salem. The orchard is to be devoted
to apples and the trees are to be
reared under modern scion t ilia metb,
ods.i The company will invest in suit
able laud and have it put in the high
est state of cultivation by early spring,
when it will be planted in the best
varieties of apples under the super
vision of one of the ablest horticul
turists obtainable.
Since this project has been agitated
it has also become known that a large
eastern syndicate is quietly taking op
tions on several thousand acres of land
within 10 miles of Salem. If the neces
sary quantity can be secured and this
fact is now practically certain, these
lunds will all be similarly treated. The
fruit, however, will not be confined to
apples, but the land will be planted to
whatever fruit it is best adapted to.
This movement is one of the most
important in the history of the fruit
development in Marion county, and
will do much toward advancing the
fruit interests in the Willamette val
,lcy. The method of this syndicate is
to sell the orchards in small tracts to
eastern buyers.
GOOD ROADS FOR MARION.
Rig Mass Meeting Will Convene at
Salem for This Furpose.
Salem Marion county is to have
good roads. A movement has been
started to interest the people of the
entire county in a enmpaign for better
highways. To secure the widest co-operation,
a mass mooting has been called
for Decomber 8, 9 and 10, when farm
ers and business men will seriously con
sider the advancement of the county,
the building up of the rural communi
ties and the gathering of funds to fur
ther the work.
Already eight road districts are mak
ing special levies of taxes for road
building. They are scattered well over
the county, showing something of the
interest in the movement.
" It is believed that the coming year
will soe an unpamlloled development of
good rond building in Marion county.
For this reason a good start is dosired,
and the co-operation of every man in
the county is earnestly sought.
' The principal business of the mooting
will be to devise methods of securing
funds for the promotion of pormanent
road work. This is an all important
topic in connection with the movement,
and it is probable that there will be
idoas advanced which will be of won
dorful value, to every one.
Thore are GO road districts in the
county. Knch of these districts has a
supervisor, and it is probable nearly all
of the supervisors will be hero. The
meeting is for every man, no matter
what his occupation or his standing in
the community, tto long as ho is inter
ested in road building.
New Corporations.
Rnlom Articles of incorporation were
filed in Mie office of the secretary of
state as follows:
Astoria Ixidga, No. ISO, Benevolent
and Protective Ordor of Elks; incor
porators, R. J. Pilkington, J. C. Clinton,
W. J. Laws, t J. Carnoy and i U.
Fox.
Bijou company; principal office Port1
land; capital stock, $5000; incorporat
ors, O. A. Metzger, I. L. Cohen and
llelenu F. Adumson.'
Portland Stationery & Woodenware
company; principal omee, Portland;
capital stock, $150,000; incorporators,
(!. D. Briniii, T. Wnllneo Dnist and
Charles C. Duncan.
Notarial Commissions.
Snlem Notarial commissions have
been issued to Hen M. Patterson. Cornu
nnpia; Joo M. Flaherty, Lebanon; T. J,
McClary, Untes; A. J. Morgan, Morgan
John W. Oliver, G. L. Webb, Isaae
Sweet, M. A. M. Ashley and Alice Ag
ler, Portland; M. Langley, Forest
drove; T. T. Bonnett, Marshfield; J. L
Campbell, Glendalo; Bartlott Cole, H,
Y. Conner and D, J. Forbes, Portland
Walter J. Logus, Nohalom; Samuel G.
Whito, Cove; K. D. Whiting, La Grande
I.c Roy Park, The Dulles; K. W. Haines,
Forest Grove; C. W. Corby, Nowberg,
and Ixnt Ij. Pearco, Salem.
First Bank for Curry County.
Port Orford Curry county is to have
n bank, the first institution of the kind
that han ever opened its doors to th
patronage of that ' wealthy section of
Oregon, says the C oos Way Harbor.
county nearly as largo the -state o
Khodo Island and without a bank 1" ai
item of more than passing interest. The
bank will be at Port Orford. George
1). Wood, of Applnton, Wis., who made
an inspection of the county early last
fall, is tho prime factor in the enter
prise.
New Telephone Line Ready.
Ontario The new independent lino
connecting Ontario with Hums, Prewsoy
and Harney, a distance of 150 miles, is
now completed. . and Manager r..
Kraser, of the M. M. company, was th
first nmn at this end of the line to talk
over the long distance line. This now
new line now gives direct conimunica
tion between Ontario, Vale, Wostfall,
Heiilsh, Drewsey, Harney and Hums,
Governor Benson Returns.
Salom Governor Benson and Dr. R.
K. L. Stolncr, superintendent of tho
tte asylum for the insane, at Salem,
arrived at the capitol front the south,
where both went early last week to en
joy a short duck-shooting trip en the
roast at Winchester bay, at the mouth
of the Uuipqu.it river, in Douglas county.
Box Factory at Klamath Falls.
Klamath Falls W.' F. Barnes is es
. tablisuing a box factory near the depot,
where ha purposes to use tho output of
the Meadow Lake mill. The plant will
use 8,000,000 foet of lumber annually.
FRUIT MEN TO GATHER. V
State Horticultural Society to Convene
in Portland.
Oregon fruit growers from the or
chard districts in every part of the
state will meet in Portland next week
for the twenty-fourth annual meeting
of the Oregon State Horticultural So
ciety. In addition to the business ses
sions of the society, which are of great
nterest to horticulturists generally, it
is expected that the finest display oi
apples ever made in Portland will be
shown in the auditorium on the fifth
floor of the Meier & Frank annex,
where the sessions of the society will
be held.
About (1000 in premiums in cash and
medals will be offered exhibitors for
the best fruit displays, and this feature
of the meeting promises to be a notable
one.
Many who are interested both in hor
ticulture and in dairying will attend
both the meetings of the Horticultural
society and those of the Oregon State
Dairy association, which will hold its
meetings in the Woodmen of the World
hall immediately following the horti
cultural society meeting. . The railroad?
have ottered special rates of a fare and
third for the round trip for both
meetings.
Valley of Orchards. j
The Rogue river valley now has some
of the largest orchards in Oregon.
Thousands of acres ore given to apples
and pears, the latter having been very
profitable in recent years. One of the
largest orchards in the valley, if not
the largest in the state, is that of the
Western Orchards company, consisting
r luiiu acres, all set to young treeB.
The farm consists of 1700 acres, all of
which will be set to trees within the
next few years. Next spring 250 acres
will be sot to apples and pears, the land
having received special cultivation this
yoar. The orchard now , represents
U4U,uuu, and is owned by men in Chi
cago, who became interested in Oregon
rruitgrowing a row years ago. J. A.
Westerlund, an old railroad man, it
manager oi tne property.
Less Rain at Eugene.
Kugono During ' the month of No
vombor, just passed, the total rainfall
according to the records kept by the
local weather obsorvcr, was 9.15 inches
which is more than threo inches less
than fell at Portland and four or more
inches than at Tacoma. The averago
at Eugnne is about three- inches and a
half, although there is no official record
for the past years, as thore lias been no
weather observer here until the past
two years.
Newport Short of Fuel.
Nowpnrt With wood all nrnund us,
dry wood cannot be had in the local
markets. Dealers say they cannot eel
enough cut in the summer to last during
tne winter, yet thore are people who
complain that there is no work to be
had. Dealers offor good wages to wood
cutters, but few there are who care to
labor. i , .
i
Prinevillo The Redmond Commercial
club has launched a systematic cam
paigu for a direct county road from
t-rinevuie to lfedmond. The club is
conferring with the county court, and
is talcing other steps to got plant per
leciea xor tne now road.
Country Schools Costs $16,000.
Freewater To erect a school o.nntino
f.16,000 in a district where a few years
ago the land was worthless, is the ac
complishment of the Ferndale school
district, three miles north of Freewater.
PORTLAND
MARKETS.
Whnat Track prices: Bliicstem
$1.15; club, $1.0.1; red Russian. $1.01 Vj
valley, (1; Turkey red, $1.01; forty
roui, vi.ui.
Barloy Feed, $28.50; brewing $28.50
per ton,
Corn Whole, $.13.50; cracked. $31.50
per ton.
uats xmo. l white, 3irrt3i..'o r.er
ton.
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley,
$15(j)19 per ton; eastern Oregon, $18(i8
si ; auaifa, lB(aio.5U; clover, $15(i 115
cnoat, fi.iftiio; grain hay, aiarcvlu.
Fresh Fruits Apples, $l(ff3 per box
pears, f uni.nu per box; quinces, fl.2,
(ffl.50 per box; cranberries, $9(o!9.50
per barrel.
Fotatoes Oregon, G0(70c per sack
sweot potatoes, le per pound.
Vegotables Artichokes, 75c pen doz,
beans, 10c per pound; cnbbngo, (flc
per pound; celery, $.1.75(rP4 per crate
norseraciisn, yyriuo per dozen; pump
Kins, i((0iviic; sprouts, So per pound
squasn, i.ju; tomatoes, Tac(n I
Sack Vegetables Turnips, 75c((T$l
per sack; carrots, $1; beets. $1.25; ruta
bagas, $1.10 per sack; parsnips, $1.25.
unions uregon, si.50 per sack.
Butter City creamery, extras, 3fte
rancy ouisuie creamery, 3'j ,( .too per
pounds store, a-JMiOf'-Mo. (Butter fat
prices average lMi por pound under
regular butter prices.).
F.ggs Fresh Oregon, extras, 45c per
uozen; eastern, s.in axo per dozen.
Poultry Hens. 15(a)15'ir; springs.
15(ri5V!c; roosters, OdilOc; ducks, l;"ii)
life;, gwsfl, liaise; turkeys, live, 20e
dressed, lac. -a
Pork Fancy, lOe per pound.
Veal Extras, 12(i)12M.e per pound,
Cattle Best steers, $4.50(M.63t f
to good, $4(?i4.25; medium and feeders,
$3.50f3.75; best cows, $3.50(JTS.75
medium, $.1(u3.75; common to medium
$2.50ri3.75; bulls, $2(d)2.50; stags,
$2.00(1(3.00; ealves, light, $5.255.50
oeavy, fi(o4.7o.
Hogs Best, $8(fT8.10; medium, $7.50
(fP7.8.l; stackers, 4(D4.75.
Sheep Best wethers, $4.25(34.75
fair to good, $3.75(T4; best ewes, $2.7
(if 4; fair to good, $3.503.75; lambs,
3(iiO.S3.
Hops 1909 crop, 18CT23c; 1908 erop,
nominal; 1907 erop, J2ej 1906 crop, 8c
Wool Eastern Oregon, lfl(f?23o per
pound. , Mohair -''r.nice, E5e pound.
THE BUSINEB3 SIDE OF FARMING
Professor Bexell Gives Some Valuable
and Interesting Pointers'.
Oregon Agricultural College, Corval-
lis, Dec. 0. The Oregon Agricultural
college has just issued a bulletin for
free distribution emphasizing better
business methods on the farm.
Professor Bexell, the author of the
bulletin, says in his introduction:
"It is a truism to say that the finan
cial side of farming is of the utmost
importance. But the xact remains that
this side of the world's greatest indus
try is almost entirely neglected by both
the farmor and the schools. Professor
Bailey says on this subject: 'In visit
ing practically every farm in one of
the counties of the state (New York)
we did not find one man who knew
how ni in- li it cost him to produce milk
or to raise any of his crops.'
"The secretary of agriculture, in re-
ent year books, points out the remark
able prosperity of the farmer; that the
xport of farm products 'is vastly in
excess of all other exports combined;
that a million agricultural debtors
ave been transformed during the last
ten years into the same number of sur
plus depositors; that 'contrary to his
reputation, the farmer is a great or
ganizer, and he has achieved remarka
ble and enormous successes in many
lines of economic co-operation in which
the peojilo of other occupations have
either made no beginning at all or have
nearly if not completely failed.' He
points out that most farmers live bet
ter than the averago merchant or me-
hnnic.
"The business of farming assumes
two distinct phases: the productive
phase and the exchange phase. The
no aims to extract the treasures from
the soil; the other to place them in
tho hands of the consumer. It is lm
portant not only to raise abundant
crops, but also to sell the products to
advantage.
"The importance of the exchange
phase is often' lost sight of. A farm
may be forced to yield to its maximum
capacity, labor may be managed prop
erly and waste reduced to a minimum;
and yet the net result may be a loss
at the end of the year. As a general
economic, proposition, it might be said
that largo crops often result in serious
loss to society as a whole. If the net
value to the consumer is less than the
labor and capital expended on the crop,
society is the loser by the difference.
Hence the importance of a thorough
understanding by the farmer as well
as by the merchant and manufacturer
of tho laws and methods of exchange
or commerce.
'That farming is a scionce has been
emphasized so much that the fact that
t is also a business is often lost sight
of. It is a real business, and one which
pays the United states close to eignt
billion dollars annually. It has been
demonstrated ropeatodly that no legit
imate business pays better than farm
ing. It may be a little more up-hill
work at the start, since most farmers
begin business with small capital, but
is incomparably safer in the long
run, and will insure, a coinpotcnco for
old ago with greater certainty than any
other occupation. But let it ever be
borne in mind that the condition for
success is that farming must bo con
ducted on business principles.
"JNot many generations ago it was
considered sufficient for the average
manufacturer merely to record his cash
receipts, and expenditures and to keop
a tolerably accurate check on the cash
balance. In many instances the loft
trouser pocket served as the dobit side
and tho right as the credit side of the
'lodgor.' Modern business methods and
sharp competition have changed those
notions until today it is nocessary to
Know tho cost of production In ad'
vance to the smallest detail. Ancient
business mothods prevail vet, very gen
orally, on the farm. The wonderful
progress of the American farmer is due
to marvelous natural resources, labor
saving inventions, and natural inge
nuity, rather than to wise and prudent
management.
"In certain respects a farmer must
combine the methods of the manufac
turer and the merchant. He must learn
not only how to increase production
but also how to facilitate the profitable
exchange of bis products, lie must re
duce the cost of production to the min
mum by increasing the quality and
tno quantity of his products, and by
getting full value out of. labor. He
must manage so that his working force.
farm hands, children, horses, all are
constantly employed. This requires
most skillful management in the rota
tion of crops, in the division of laoor,
in selecting seeds, fertilizers and stock
and, above all, it requires general pru
dence in purchasing equipment and
supplies, and in markoting products,
This class of farmers require a variety
or records to assist in tne proper man
agement of their business. A first
class set of books is just as indis
pensible to them as to the banker or
to the manufacturer."
Tho bulletin is illustrated with 20
full-pago engravings. It will be sent
free on request. Address Professor J,
A. Bexell, Corvallis, Ore.
Missing Rosenjack Seen.
Cherry, 111., Deo. 6. Admission late
today by Fred II. Buck, clerk in tho
office of the St. Paul Mining company,
that he had seen and talked with Alex
ander Rosenjack, the missing witness
who, it is believed, can clear up the
cause of the recent mine disaster, came
as a climax to a day of interesting
developments in the investigations by
uiu ruriuina nuu me siaie investigar
tug commit tee. wick told the jury
that he had seen Rosenjack in Cherry
last night, and made no effort to ad
vise the authorities of his whereabout
Citizenship in Balance.
Denver, Colo., Dee. 6. Hundreds of
persons in Colorado, New Mexico, Wy
ming ami Utah may lose their citizen
ship rights as the result of orders re
ceived in Denver today by Theodore
(rhmurker, chief of the naturalization
bureau here. The victims will include
all who have received their final ecr
tificates within 30 days of a general
election of a local nature, and who
voted on the strength of the granting
or the certificates.
The Redemption
! fl&vid (Jorsot?
' By CHARLES FREDERIC GOSS
Copjrrlsnt, 1900, by Tha Bowas-MerriU Cwptar.
CHAPTER VIII. (Continued.)
Tne doctor rattled on with an un
ceasing flow of talk, while the mind of
the Quaker plunged into a serious of
violent efforts to adjust Itself to this
new situation. He tried to force him
self to be glad that he had been mis
taken. He for the first time fully ad
mitted the significance of the qualms
which he felt at permitting himself to
regard this strolling gypsy with such
feelings as had been in his heart.
"But now," he said to himself, "I can
go forward with less compunction. I
can gratify my desire for excitement
and adventure with perfect safety. I
will stay with them for a while, and
when I am tired can leave them wlth-
ut any entanglements." When th
ltuatlon bad been regarded for, a little
while from this point of view, he felt
happier and more care-free than for
weeks. He solaced his disappoint
ment with the reflection that he should
still be near Pepeeta, but no longer tn
any danger.
At this profound reflection of the
young moth hovering about the flame,
let the satirist dip his pen In acid, and
the pessimist In gall! There la enough
folly and stupidity In the operations of
the human mind to provoke the one to
ontempt and the other to despair.
CHAPTER IX.
The spring and summer had passed,
autumn had attained the fullness of
Its golden beauty, and the inevitable
had happened. David and Pepeeta had
passed swiftly though not unresisting
ly through all the Intervening stages
between a chance acquaintance and an
Impassioned love.
Any other husband than the quack
would have foreseen this catastrophe;
but there Is one thing blinder than
love, and that Is egotism such as his.
His colossal vanity had not even eus
pectsd that a woman who possessed
htm for her husband could for a single
Instant bestow a thought of Interest
on any other man.
David had abandoned the Quaker
Idiom for the speech of ordinary men,
and discarded hla former habiliments
for the most conventional and stylish
clothes.' Contact with the world had
sharpened hla native wit, and given
him a freedom among men and women
that was fast descending Into aban
don. Success had stimulated his self
confidence and made him prize those
gifts by which he had once aroused
the devotion of adoring worshipers In
the Quaker meeting house; he soon
found that they could be used to vie
tlmtxe the crowds which gathered
around the flare of the torch in the
publlo square.
A transformation had been taking
place In Papeete. Under the sunshine
of David's love, and the dew of those
spiritual conceptions which had fallen
upon her thirsty spirit, the seeds of a
beautiful nature. Implanted at her
birth, germinated and developed with
astonishing rapidity. Walking stead
II y in such light as fell upon her path
way and ever looking for more, her
spiritual 'vision became clearer and
plearer every day; and while this af
fection for God purified her soul, her
love for David expanded and trans
formed her heart. Her unbounded ad
miration for him blinded her to that
process of deterioration In his charac
ter which even the quack perceived,
To her partial eye a halo still sur
rounded the head of the young apos
tate. But while these two new affec
tions wrought this sudden transforma
tion In the gypsy and filled her with
a new ana exquisite happiness, the
circumstances of her life were such
that this Illumination could not but be
attended with pain, for It brought ever
new revelations of those ethical incon
sistencies in which she discovered hex-
self to be. deeply if not hopelessly In
solved.
David had chosen an old plan . to
compel Pepeeta to abandon her hus
band. For its execution he had al
ready made a partial preparation in
an engagement to meet the justice of
the peace who had performed her mar
riage ceremony. The engagement was
conditioned upon his failure to per
suade the gypsy to accompany htm of
her own free will.
Immediately after supper he took
her to the place appointed for the
meeting. This vlvtl offloer had been a
companion of the quack's for many
years. His natural capacity, which
was of the highest order, had secured
him one place of honor after another
but he had lost there through the prae
tic of many vleea. and had at last
sunk to that depth of degradation In
which he was willing to barter hla
boner for almost any price.
: The place at which he had agreed
to meet David waa a log saloon In one
of the moat disreputable parts of the
city, and to this spot the Infatuated
youth made hla way. Now that he
waa alone with his thoughts, he could
not contemplate his purpose without a
feeling of dread, and yet he did not
pause nor seriously consider Its aban
donment Hla movements, as he el
bowed his way . among the outcasts
who Infested this degraded region,
were those of a man totally oblivious
to his surroundings.
Having reached the door of the sa
loon. David cast a glance about him,
as If ashamed of being observed, and
entered. It was a fitting plaee to hatch
aa evil deed. The floor waa covered
with filthy sawdust; the air waa rank
with the fumes of sour beer and adul
tented whisky; the lamps were not
yet Mcnted. and his eyes blinked as he
entered the dirty duek of the Interior.
The door which he pushed open ad
mltted him to a parlor scarcely laea
dirty and disgusting than the saloon
AU RujhU Reaarred
Itself, at the opposite end of which he
beheld the object of his search.
Well, I see you 'are here," he said.
drawing a chair to the table.
And waiting," a deep and rich but
melancholy voice replied.
'Can't we have a couple of can
dles? These shadows seem to crawl
up my legs and take me by the throat.
feel as if some one were blindfold
ing and gagging me," said David, look
ing uneasily about
The Judge ordered the candles, and
while they were waiting observed:
You had better accustom yourself to
shadows, young man, for you will find
plenty of them on the road you are
traveling. They deepen with the pass
lng years, Along every pathway; bui
the one which you are about to set
your feet leads Into the hopeless dark.
"What I want Is help."
"And so you have appealed to me?
Tou wish me to go to this woman and
tell her that her marriage was a
fraud V
I do."
Young man, have you no compuno
tlons about this business?" said the
Judge, leaning forward and looking
earnestly Into the blue eyes.
Compunctions?" said David, in a dry
echo of the question. "Oh! some. But
for every compunction I have a thou
sand desperate determinations."
1 will help you. There Is no use
trying to save you. You are only an
other moth! You want tfie fire, and
you will have It! (You will burn your
wings off as millions have done before
you and as millions will do after you
What then? Wings are made to be
burned! I burned mine. Probably If
I had another pair 1 would burn them
also. It Is as useless to moralize to
a lover as to a tiger. I am a fool to
waste my breath on you. Let us get
down to business. You say that she
loves you, and that she will be glad
to learn that she Is free?"
"I do! her heart Is on our side. She
will believe you, easily!"
'Yes, she will believe me easily! She
will believe me too easily! For six
thousand years desire has been a syno
nym for credulity. All men believe
what they want to, except myself.
believe everything that I do not want
to, and nothing that I do! But no
matter. How much am I to get foP
this Job?"
They haggled a while over the price,
struck a bargain and shook hands the
same symbol being used among men
to seal a compact of love or hate, vir
tue or vice.
"Be at the Spencer House at 11
o'clock," said David, rising. "You will
find us on ths balcony. The doctor Is
to spend the night in a revel with th
captain of the Mary Ann, and we shall
be uninterrupted. Be an actor. Be
great actor, Judge. You are to deal
with a soul which possesses unusual
powers of penetration."
"Do not fear! She will be no match
for me, for she is Innocent and when
was virtue ever a match for vice? She
la predestined to her doom! Fare
well! Fare-Ill,. I mean," he muttered
under his breath, as David passed
from the room.
Having regained his calmness by
long walk, David hurried back and
reached the open space along the river
front where peddlers, mountebanks
and street venders piled their crafts,
Just in time to meet the doctor as he
drove up with his horses.
CHAPTER X.
After the doctor had vanished that
evening, David and Pepeeta passed
down the long corridor and out upon
the balcony of the old Spencer House,
to the place appointed for the Inter
view or tne juage. Tne night was
bright; a refreshing breeze waa blow
ing up from the river and the fre
quent Intermissions In ths gusts of
wind that swept over the sleeping clt
gave the impression that Nature waa
holding her breath to listen to the
tales of love that were being told on
city balconies and In country lanes.
Under the mysterious influence of the
full moon, and of the silence, for the
nolsee of the city had died away, their
Imaginations were aroused, thsir emo
tlons quickened, their senslblllttss
stirred. It seemed Impossible that life
could be seriously real. Their concep
tlons of duty and responsibility were
sublimated Into vague and misty
dreams, and the enjoyment of the mo
m ant's fleeting pleasures seemed the
only reality and end of life.
"Pepeeta, you have long promised
to tell me all you knew of your early
life; will you do it now?" asked Da
vld.
"Of what posslbls Interest can It be
to your' ahs answered.
"It seems to me," he replied, "that
I could linger forever over the slight
est detail. It la not enough to know
what you are. I wish to know how
you earns to be what you are.
"Tou must reconcile yourself to Ig
norance; the origin of my evtstence Is
loot In night It Is too sad! I do
not want to think of anything that
happened before I met you. My life
began from that moment Before, I
had only dreamed."
They eeased to speak, and sat silent
ly gaslng Into each other's faces, the
heart of the woman rent with a con
flict between desire and duty, and that
of the man by a tempest of evil pas
sions. At that moment, a alow and
heavy step waa heard In the hallway.
They looked toward the door, and In
the shadows saw a man who contem
plated them silently for a moment and
then advanced. David rose to meet
1 bag your pardon." he said, feign
lng embarrassment, "I had an errand
with ths lady, and hoped I should find
her alone."
You may speak, for the gentleman
is the friend of my husband and my- .
self," Pepeeta said.
"I will begin, then," he responded.
by asking If you recognise me?" And
at that he stepped out into ths moon
light .
Pepeeta gave htm a searching glance
and exclaimed In surprise, "You are
the Judge who married me."
He let his head fall upon his breast
with well-assumed humility, remained
moment In alienee, looked up mourn
fully and said. "I would that I had
really married you, for then I should
not have been ' bearing this load of
guilt that has been crushing ms fee
months." . . .
At these words, Pepeeta sprang from
her seat and stood before him with her
hands clasped upon her breast.
Be quick! go on!" she cried, when
she had waited In vain for him to pro
ceed. Prepare yourself for a revelation of
treachery and dishonor. I can conceal
my crime no longer. If I hold my
peace the very stones In the street will
cry out sgalnst me."
Make haste!" Pepeeta exclaimed.
Imperatively.
'Madam," continued the strange
man. "You are not married to your
husband. I deceived you as I was
bribed to do. I waa not a justice. I
had no right to perform that ceremony.
It was a solemn farce."
These words, spoken slowly, solemn
ly, and with a simulation of candor
which would have deceived her even
if she had not desired to believe them,
produced the most profound Impres
sion upon the mind of Pepeeta. She
approached the judge and cried: "Sir, I
beg you not to trifle with me! Is what
you have told me true?"
"Alas, too true.'
"Oh! sir," she cried, "you cannot un
derstand; but this Is the happiest mo
ment of my life!"
Madam?" he exclaimed, interroga
tively and with consummate art
It Is not necessary for you to know
why," she answered; "but I thank
you."
What can it mean? I Implore you
to tell me," he said.
"Do not ssk me!" she replied. I
cannot tell you now! My heart Is too
full."
"But does this mean that I have
nothing to regret and that you have
forgiven me?"
"It does. I bless you from the bot
tom of my heart!"
She gave him her hand. He .took It
In his own and held It, looking first
at her and then at David with an ex
pression of such surprise as to deceive
his accomplice scarcely less than his
victim. Young, Inexperienced, Inno
cent In this sin at least, she stood be
tween them helpless.
It Is one thing for a woman delib
erately to renounce her marriage voks,
but quite another for a heart so loyal
to duty, to be be betrayed Into crime
by an Ingenuity worthy of demons.
Child If misfortune that she was,
vlctl mof a series of untoward and fa
tal circumstances, she had reason all
her life to regret her credulity; but
never to reproach herself for. wrong In
tentions. Her heart often betrayed
her, but her soul was never corrupt
ed. She ought to have been more care
ful alas, yes, she ought but she
she meant no sin.
(To be continued.)
Ways of Women in Tunnels.
Father Knickerbocker is 283 years
old, but he Is still learning things
about women. His latest experience
may be of value to younger and cal
lower cities, so declares a writer in
Success. .
Some time ago William G. McAdoo,
who has built up a thriving little
business under the Hudson river, run
ning 'trains between New York and
the United States, set aside a special
car for the exclusive use of women.
The people hailed the innovation with
joy. Here, at last, women could ride,
safe from Jostling, seat-grabbing, tobacco-scented
men. True, some fun
was" poked at the "Jane Crow" cars,
and there were .sly suggestions about
mirrors and perfumery and , powder
boxes, but nevertheless Mr. McAdoo
was hailed as a public-spirited busi
ness man and a perfectly lovely gen
tleman. Polite uniformed attendants
at the stations Informed ladles of ths
special car and everything went beau
tifully. ' - -
There was only one drawback to the
scheme. The women would not , use
the car. Giving the uniformed attend
ants, oh, such a look, the ladles crowd
ed Into the co-educatlonal department,
leaving their special car half empty.
After three months' trial ths gallant
Mr. McAdoo has ordered ths ladles'
car discontinued.
A ttaawallc Coaversmtloa. -
"How's your garden coming on?"
"Why do you ask that question f
demanded the suburbanite suspicious
ly.
"Just out of politeness."
"Glad to hear that. I thought may
be I had promised you some vegeta
bles." -
lime One ( Her Own.
' Rector I did not see you at our so
cial gathering last week, 'Lisbsth. Why
was that?
'Llabeth Well, I had a little gather
ing o' my own last week, sir.
Rector Dear me! Where was that?
'Llabeth On the back of me neck,
sir. Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday.
A Great AeaneT.
"But this house Is twenty live mils
from the railroad." '
"Just the Marathon distance,' my
friend. Think of what exercise you'll
get running for the trains." Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
Alwtri line; .
"Sets a good table, ehf Haw's tit
meat?" . i
"Fine! Chopped steak!"
' Our occupation Is that whioa we se
lect, our interruption Is that wbioh la
sent us. v