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About The news=record. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1907-1910 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 29, 1909)
I OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST I OREGON RICH IN GOOD OIL. Reported Big Strike Hat Been Made in Malheur County. Vale Every day's boring in. the Vale oil fields increases the certainty that Oregon is destined to become one of the greatest oil producing states in the country, say prospector and oil ex perts who have witnessed the results of the well-sinking now in progress by half a dozen different companies in Northern Malheur county. The Malehur Oil & Gas company, af ter sinking a well 1,700 feet and get ting well into a chocolate formation, which is regarded as a sure forerunner of oil, capped the well and refuse ab solutely to allow visitors to approach it This action is believed by others operating in the district to have been prompted by the fast that oil was act ually struck in the Malheur well and that the company prosecuting the de velopment work has some reason for not allowing it to become known that oil has actually been found in commer cial quantities. The Baker-Malheur company is down 900 feet and has let a contract for sinking its well 1,100 feet deeper, having taken this action after oil expetts from Pennslyvania and California had expressed the be lief that oil would be struck at a depth of 1800 to 2000 feet The Columbia Oil & Gas company, which is largely owned in Spokane, is down 1200 feet with a 12 inch drill and is passing through the same form tion that was found in the cel ebrated Kern river district in South ern California. It was from this well that the sample of oil was procured by the special government representative of the geological survey whose report on the discovery resulted in a recom mendation being made by Secretary of the Interior Ballinger that the whole district be withdrawn from entry and reserved as a source of fuel supply lor the future use of the United States navy. The well being sunk by the East em Oregon Oil company is down 800 feet and has passed through, two stratas of oil sand. The drill in this well recently encountered hot salt wa ter, which is regarded as a sure indica tion of oil in commercial quantities. The Mammoth Oil & Gas company is another of the companies sinking a well in the district. This company is owned by mun who have operated in other oil fields, and they express the greatest confidence in the district , One of the best drilling rigs in the dis trict has just been set up by the Vale Oil & Gas company, which is prepared to expend 125,000 in developing its claim. D. M. Hunt, who has had 25 years' experience in the oil fields of West Virginia, Ohio and California, , and who is now superintending the de velopment work of one of the largest concerns operating in the Vale oil fields, says: "The Vale district is the most promising that I have ever seen, and I shall be greatly surprised if it does not turn out to be one of the greatest oil producing sections of the United States." . Buys Apple Land. Pleasant Ridge Dr. J. A. Pettit, S. C. Pier and Stanhope Pier have re cently purchased a 400 acre tract of apple land at Pleasant Ridge, Wasco county, 12 miles south of The Dalles. The land is to be planted in the best varieties of apples and sold in 10 acre tracts. An abundance of water may be had for irrigation purposes, which it is proposed to bring to the tract The country around Pleasant Ridge la very similar to the Hoed River dis trict, the soil and climate being much the same, and it is believed by scien tific apple growers that the famous Hood River apple will grow to perfec tion there. Bast Peach Land In Oregon. Portland W. H. Lang Co., have old the Cliff farm, located on the Wil lamette river 18 miles above Portland and two miles from Canby.. It has one half mile of river front, boat land ing on the place and is one of the best located farms en the Willamette River, is nearly all improved, has fairly good buildings and ia well stocked. The v consideration was $18,750.. It contains , 160 acres, part of which is the best peach land in Oregon. The peaches off 460 trees adjoining this land this season sold for 1 1,600. Water Fight Promised. 1 Siilem Judge William Galloway, Id tlio equity division of the circuit court for MHrion county, has granted an or ' dor allowing State Senator Hart, of linker county, io file a writ of review demanding that the state board of water control be required to remand Its order relating to the proposed irrigation pro jeet of Thief valley. Senator Hart rep resents t lie Cookingliam and rinklon burg interests, who are attempting to gain rights in tho valley. Local Men Invest In Apple Land. Winston Dr. Byron E. Milller and Henry Foe. a retired capitalist from v Duluth, Minn., have closed a deal with T. R. Sheridan, president of the First National bank of Roaeburg, for the purchase of a portion of the Sheridan and Agee holdings of apple lands, lo cated near Winston. This is one of the choicest tracts of fruit lands io Southern Oregon. The purchasers in tend planting about 250 acres of the tract to commercial apples during the coming year. " ' SURVEYORS FINISH WORK Now Ready to Establish a Permanent Survey to Klamath Falls Klamath Falls Southern Pacific surveyors who have been establishing the permanent survey between Klam ath Falls and Natron have completed the work and have departed for Red ding, Cal., where they are to take up the permanent survey of the road from Redding to Alturas and thence to this city. Large forces are employed on the road- to the north of Klamath Falls. Winter quarters have been es tablished. About three miles north of Klamath Falls a small temporary city has been established. In this vicinity it is necessary to make several deep cuts and large fills. It will require several months to complete thaae diffi cult undertakings. Construction camps are strung out for a distance of more than 20 miles. New Partner in Weston Mill. Weston E. S. Isaac, of Walla Walla, one of the northwest's most successful flouring mill men, has pur chased an interest in the Weston flour ing mill. The mill has been running with power from a large gas engine, but under the new management it is probable that the long contemplated plan of using the waters of Pine creek during a portion of the year for pow er will be put into execution. Several thousand bushels of wheat still rnmain in the bands of farmers in this section, who are holding out for the expected" $1 a bushel." Never theless, close to 8.000 bushels were bought by Frank Price the past week, the agent here for the Kerr-Gifford company, paying 95 cents per buBhel, Petition for Train. Salom A petition signed by several hundred people residing along the line of the Corvallis & Eastern railroad, be tween Albany and Hoover, was for warded to the railroad commission by K. L. Payne, asking for a train for the passenger truflic alone. The petition sets forth that patrons of the road are compelled to use a logging train, and that it takes five hours to go from Hoover to Albany, a distance of 58 miles. A.-Y.-P Prize Certificates Received Salem Certificates for grand prizes awarded to the state of Oregon for its general educational display, for its hops, wool and complete display of woods at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific ex position have been received by Govern' or Benson. A certificate of honorable mention for the flax display from this state was also received. Hood River Will Pave Streets. Hood River It has been . decided that Hood River will have paved streets before another winter. - It is estimated that it will cost between $50,000 and $60,000 to da the project ed street work. Oil Near Dufur. Dufur J. E. Porter, who has been drilling a well at Three Mile, struck a small now of oil at a depth of 167 feet. Operation has been stopped and a com pany is Doing lormea to raise money to sink a deep well. PORTLAND MARKETS Wheat Track prices : Bluestem, $1211.22; club, $1.10; red Russian, $1.08: Valley, $1.05. Barley Feed and brewing, $3031 per ton. Corn Whole, $36; cracked, $36 per Millstuff s Bran, $26 per ton ; mid dlings, $33; shorts, $28.60(if29.60; rol led barley, $31. Oats No. 1 white, $32.60(33.50 Hay Timothy, Willamette Valley, $18(11,20 per ton ; Eastern Oregon, $18 (TS21.60; alfalfa, $160i!l6.50; clover, $15(316; cheat, $1516; grain hay $16((i!l6. ButterCity creamery extras, 39c fancy outside creamery, 3c35c per lb.; store, 22ii!24c. Butter fat prices average lc per lb. under regular butter prices. Poultry Hens, UOP.UXc; Springs, 14fi)14Xc; roosters; 9((iH0c; ducks, 18 (ftl9c; geese 14c; turkeys, live, 22r dressed, 26(i28c. Eggs Fresh Oregon extras,42) per dosen; Eastern, 30(i 35c per doien. Fresh Fruits Apples, $13 box pears, $11.60 per box; cranberries, $9 per barrel. Potatoes Carload buying prices Oregon, 60(f 80c per sack ; sweet pota toes, l?4((i 2cper pound. Vegetables Artichokes, 75c per dosen; cabbsge, ijcper pound; eel ery, $2.75(83.25 per crate; garlic, 10c per pound; horseradish, $1.60 per box pumpkins, i,((j;ihc; sprouts, He per pound; squash, lHic; tomatoes, 75c Sack Vegetables Turnips, $1 per sack ; carrots, $1 ; beets,$1.60; parsnips $1.50. Onions Oregon, $1.60 per sack. Cattle Best steers, $4.604.75 fair, to good, $4rtis4.25; medium and feeders, $3.50(d 3.75; common to me dium, $2.60M3.75; bulls $22.50 stags $2.603.60; calves, light, $5.25 5.60; heavy, $4(C4.75. Hogs Best, $8.6018.75; medium. $7.50w!8; stackers, $6 60(i6.75. Sheep Best wethers, $5.005.75 fair to good, 4.Z0Qt.7o; best ewes, $4.60(35.00. Hops 1909 crop, 1 8(0.22 )tc; 1908 crop, normal: 1907 crop, 12c; 1906 crop, 8e. Hides Dry hides, Icq;i9c per pound; dry kip, 17(18c per pound try calfskin, 19i21c per pound; salt ed hides, lOtdillc; salted calfskin, 16(iC16c per pound ; green, lc less. CONFLICT SEEMS IMMINENT. Railroads Say They Can't Pay Higher Wages. Washington, Dec. 27. Some members f the interstate commerce commission and many railroad officials believe they can see rapidly approaching one of the severest contests between labor and capital in recent history. This does not necessarily mean that railroad men gen erally are expecting big strikes in the aliur world. Such strikes, however, are always among the possibilities when alior and capital clash. It is firmly elieved by the railroad men that this struggle will be begun by the railroad ilior organizations, will rapidly spread o other lines of work and may even ually result in a complete readjust ment of industrial conditions. The situation with respect to railroad labor is unique in the history of this or any other country. Never before has labor enjoyed such high wages. During the recent periods of great pros perity wages in the railroad field have mounted very high. As a result, labor men have become accustomed to living on an entirely different plane from for merly. They are living m better neigh borhoods, are dressing bettor, are edu cating their families, and altogether are taking a different view of life. Notwithstanding the fact, however. that exceedingly high wages, compara tively speaking, have enabled the la boring classes in the railroad field to better their conditions, they now find themselves unable to live on their pres ent rates of pay. One of two things must result, namely, cither the railroad iiborer must return to his old styles of ivhig or he must have increased wucos. Railroad managements everywhere rec- ugm.e mis economical tact. They say, however, that thev would be willing to increase wages if they could do so without menace to the property intrusted to thoir care. They say, with some show of reason, that it s impossible for railroads to continue to absorb the increased cost of living on behalf of their employes and at the same time stand the increased cost of all material and everything which en ters into the operation- and maintenance of a railroad. The point has been reached, they insist, where railroads must receive more for the transporta tion services if they are to continue in creasing wages. Upon this platform tne rauronds say they must stand firmly. BLIZZAED IN THREE STATES. Trains Stalled and Chicago Faces Coal Famine. Chicago, Dec. 27. The entire west nnd northwest, from Winnipeg, Man., to tho lower tier of Illinois counties, along the Ohio river, are hard and fast in the grip of the Storm King. An average of seven inches of snow blan kots all this vast territory, crippling all transportation lines, bringing intense suffering to the poor, making acnto the coal famine which menaces Chicago and other big cities and reducing supplies of all kinds because tho railroads can not transport farm products to the cities. Menirer renorts from Michiirnn imli. cnte thai state has suffered most se verely. A few telegrams drifting nirougn ten or blockades in "all direc tions. Grand Trunk and Pere Mar quotte trains are absolutely snowbound. At Detroit streetcar traffic is badlv im- paired, and tho car ferries have been fast in the ice of tho Detroit river for 24 hours. Trains into Chicago from all direc tions are from three to ten hours late, mid unless the storm soon abates con ditions will be much worse. While the elevnted trains aro running fairly well tne surface roarls are badly handi capped. Not only is Chicago's trans portation badly hampered, but the city is racing a coni lamine. It becanio apparent three days ago that tho supply would run short, and every railroad tapping Illinois and Indiana coal fields had raado arrange- ments to' tako advantage of the doul lo liolulny to rush a big supply to thif nnd other cities. With the roads bend ing every effort to get passenger trains through the snow, howover, the moving of freight was absolutely out of the question, and the Urge Biipply of coal waiting to be moved still remains on the sidetracks. Charitable associations are burdened to the limit by calls for assistance. Jump to Save Is Fatal. Camden, N. J1., Dec. 27. White Christmas brought death and sorrow to two families at Malaga, N. J., this afternoon. Mrs. Mary Price was killed by a train. William Hageman, who made an attempt to save her, received injuries from which he died. Mrs. Prico was standing on the platform at Malaga when she slipped and fell on the tracks, just as the train was pulling in. Without hesitation Hageman jumped to rescue her, but before he could drag her from danger both wero struck by the locomotive. "Tramp" Pays Old Score. Denver, Colo., Dec. 27. Seven years ngo James L. Harvey, now a Rio Grande switchman here, was brakemaa on a freight in Oklahoma, and befriend ed a tramp. Today Harvey receive 1 a letter from the tramp, Charlen Mc Namara, now a rich miner of Mur.-ay, Idaho, enclosing a check for $500 m a Christmas gift. Harvey permitted Mcs Nnniara to ride over his division, gave him clothes, a meal, a bed and a 2 bill. Dying Woman Effuses Aid. Los Angeles, Deci 27. Mrs. Polly Rolotin, who suffered frightful burns last night, when she used kerosene to encourage the fire under the family's Christmas turkey, died early today, bo spite her fatal burns, Mrs. Bolotin re fused to accept medical aid until as sured by sight that her five children were safe. The Redemption 1 fJcvVid (Jorsot? By CHARLES FREDERIC GOSS Copyright, VXHK by Th Bowen-MerrlU Company. CHAPTER X. (Continued.) 1 Now that the confidence of Pepeeta had been secured, David's part In this drama became comparatively easy. He listened to the brief conversation In which by a well-constructed chain of fictitious reasonings the judge riveted upon the too eager mind of the child wife the conclusion that she was free. When this arch villain had concluded bis arguments every suspicion had vanished from her soul, and as he rose to depart she took him by the hand and bade him a kindly and almost af fectionate farewell. "Do not afflict yourself with this painful memory," she said gently. "I shall not need ft afflict myself," he replied; "my memory will afflict me, for I am as guilty as If tho result had been what I had expected; and If In the coming year you And a moment now and then In which you can lift up a prayer for a man who has forfeited his claim to mercy, I beg you to de vote It to him who from the depths of his heart wished you joy. Good-bye." With many assurances of her par don, Pepeeta followed him to the door and bade him farewell. When she re turned to David her face was lumin ous with happiness, and although he had begun already to- experience a re action and to suffer remorse for his successful Infamy, it was only like a drop of poison In the ocean of his joy. Did I not tell you that all would be well?", she cried, approaching him and extending both her hands. "But how sudden and how strange it is. Ii is too good to be true. I cannot real ize that I am free. I am like a little bird that hops about its cage, peeps through the door which its mistress' hand has opened, and knows not what to think. It wishes to go; but u is frightened. What shall It do, David? Tell It! Shall It fly?" "I also am too bewildered to act ana almost too bewildered to think," he said, with unaffected excitement and anxiety, for now that the time and op portunity for him to take so momen tous a step had come, his heart failed him. It was only with the most vio lent effort and under a most pressing necessity that he pulled himself to gether and continued: The little bird must ny, ana us mate must fly with It. There are too few hours before daylight and we must hot lose a single one. But are you sure that you are quite ready? Is your mind made up? Will you go with me trustfully? Will you accept what ever the future has in store 7 She took his in her strong arms, printed her first kiss upon his Hps, and said: "I will go with you to the ends of the earth! I will go with you through water and through Are! The future cannot bring me anything from which I shall shrink', It it lets us meet It hand In hand!" Silently and swiftly they gathered together the few necessities of a sud den journey, stole out of the quiet building and hurried away to a livery stable. In a few moments they were rattling down the rough cobble-stone pavement to the river. The ferryman who had been retained for this very purpose, pretended to be asleep. They aroused him, drove onto the platform of his primitive craft and floated out upon the stream. As the boat swung clear of the shore they heard music Issuing from the cabin windows of a steamer under whose stern they were passing. It was the "Mary Ann." They listened. The music ceased for a mo ment and a deep voice called out "B-b-bravo! Another song!" They recognized it instantly, and Pepeeta pressed close to the side of her lover. "You hear It for the last time," he Whispered. The swift current seized the boat. twisting it hither and thither till It seemed to the now trembling fugitive a symbol of the stream of tendencies upon which he had launched the frail bark containing tneir united lives. "I wonder If I am strong enough to stem It?" he asked himself, as the boat grated on the beach. "Can we And a minister who will marry us at this time of night?" Da vld said to the ferryman, although he bad been careful to ask this question before. "Two blocks south and three east. second door on the right hand side,' he answered laconically, as he recelv ed the fare. Such adventurers passed often through his hands and their ways were nothing new. The fugitives drove hur rledly to the designated house, knocked at the door, were admitted and In few minutes the final act which sealed heir fate had been performed. CHAPTER XI. When he awoke the next morning from a revel, the doctor crawled back to the hotel aa best he could, his head throbbing with pain, his wits dull and his temper wild. Stumbling up the long flight of stairs which seemed to him to reach the sky, he burst open bis door and entered the room. It was empty. Pepeeta was nowhere to . be seen. It took him some moments' to comprehend that he did not compre bend. Then he called, "Pepeeta! Pe peeta!" The silence at first bewildered, then aroused him, and crossing the corridor be entered David's room. It, too. was empty. He was now thoroughly as tonlshed and awake. Recrosslng the hall he once more entered his room and began In earnest to seek an ex planatlon of this mystery. It did not take him long, for on the table were tying the Jewels In which he had In veeted his profits and which he had confided to Pepeeta and bealde' them a piece of paper on which he slowly availed out these startling words: AU Right Referred "I have discovered your treachery and fled. PEPEETA. He drew his hand across his eyes, took a piece of his cheek between his thumb and first finger and pinched It to see if he were awake, then read the words again, this time aloud: "I have discovered your treachery and fled. Pepeeta." "Treachery?" he said. What t-t-treachery? WhOse t-t- treachery? Fled? Fled with whom, fled where? I wonder if I am . still d-drunk?" At last, and almost with the rapid ity of a stroke of lightning, the whole mystery solved Itself. It flashed upon his mind that Pepeeta had abandoned him, and In company with the man he had bo Implicitly trusted. The ser pent he had nourished in his bosom had at last stung him! Tearing the paper into shreds, and stamping upon the floor, he cursCd and raved. A purpose shaped itself instantly in his mind, and he began its execution without delay. He made no confidant, took no advice; but having smoothed his ruffled clothing and combed his disheveled hair so as to excite no comment and provoke no question, he" passed through the hotel corridor and office, greeting his acquaintances with his accustomed ease, and made his way to the livery stable. He went at once to the stalls where his famous team was accustomed to stand, and to his astonishment and delight found his horses both there. "Tom," he said to the hostler, "did you hire a horse and b-b-buggy to a young couple last night?" 1 did not," answered the surly groom. , "I am in no mood for trifling. Out with It, you scoundrel!" he cried, seiz ing him by the throat. With a sign of terror the groom In dicated his readiness to come to terms, and the doctor relaxed his grip. Still trembling, he told the truth. "Do you know which road they took?" He waved his hand toward Ken tucky. "Put a saddle on Hamlet no, on Ro meo, he ordered, tersely . The groom entered a box stall and let out the black beauty. The doctor glanced him over and smiled. And well he might, for every muscle, every motion betokened speed, Intelligence, endurance. The pursuer made a single stop on his way to the river and that was at a gun store, from which he emerged carrying a pair of saddle bags on his arm. In the holsters were two loaded pistols. He smiled as he mounted, having al ready consummated vengeance In his heart. Once across the river and safe upon the Louisville pike, he loosened the reins. The horse, whose sympa thetic heart had a) ready been Imbued with the spirit of his rider, shook his long black mane, plunged forward and pounded along the hard turnpike. His hoofbeats sharp, sonorous, rhythmical seemed to be crying for vengeance; for hoof-beats have a language, and always utter the thoughts of a rider. The forests, hills and houses flowed past him like a river. Occasionally he halted an instant to inquire of some lonely traveler If he had seen a horse and buggy passing that way, but he was cunning Inough to conceal his anxiety and to hide his joy as every answer made him more certain 'that he was on the trail of the fugitives. The road was perfectly familiar. He had traversed it a hundred times, and not having to Inquire the way he had only to remember and to reflect An undercurrent of speculation had been flowing through his mind as to where he should overtake the fugitives. For a mile or two the road was per fectly straight and the rider, shading his eyes, glanced along It. In the dis tance a moving object attracted his at tention, and as he gazed at it, long and strainlngly, the terrible Bmile once more wreathed his white Hps. There were only two things present to his consciousness the carriage upon which he was swiftly gaining, and the fierce smiting of the horse's hoofs which seemed to be echoing the the cries of his heart for vengeance. On he swept, nearer, nearer, nearer. He was now within hailing distance, and his brain reeled; he forgot his discre tion and his plan. - . "Halt," he screamed, in a voice that cut the silent air like a knife. - A face appeared above the top of the buggy, and looked back. It was his foe. With a howl of rage, he snatched a pistol from the holster and fired. The bullet went wide of the mark and the next instant he saw the whlp-lash cut the air and descend on the flank of the startled mare. The buggy lurched forward, and for aa In stant drew raplaly away. Overwhelm ed by the fear that he might be baf fled In his vengeance, he drew the -other pistol and Bred again more wide of the mark than' before. He flung the smoking weapons Into the road, and again drove the spurs In to the steaming sides of his horse. There fcould be no doubt as to the re sult of the chase after that. The half- maddened animal was overhauling the fugitives perceptibly at every , enor mous stride, and In a few moments more shot by the buggy and up to the head of the terrified mare. As he did so, his rider reached out his left hand and caught the mare by her bridle. reined up his own horse and threw both of the animals back upon their haunchea in another instant tne two men stood confronting each other on the road, the quack black and terrible, the Quaker white and calm. Not a w was spoken, and like two wild beasts emerging from a jungle they sprans; at each other's throata. They were add ly, but not unequally, matched, 'rol while the doctor was short, ihltk-set -and muscular, but clumsy and awk ward like a bear, David was tall and slim, but lithe and sinewy as a pan ther. Locked In ' each other's arms, they seemed like a single hideous mon- ' ster in some sort of convulsion. As It waa impossible for them in this dead ly embrace to strike, they wrestled rather than fought, and Lit with teeth and tore with hands with equal feroc ity. At the Instant when the two infuri ated men seized each other in this . deadly grip, Pepeeta fainted, while the terrified r mare backed the buggy Into the bushes by the roadside. ' Romeo, snorting and pawing the ground, snuffed at them a moment as Is pro foundly concerned at their strange maneuvers, then .turning away, began to crop the rich blue grass In entire indifference to the results of this mad quarrel between two foolish men. The combatants surged and swayed back and forth along the dusty road, tripping and stumbling in vain efforts to throw each other to the ground. Their danger lent them, strength, and their hatred skill. At last, after pro tracted efforts, they fell and rolled over and over, now one on top, now the other. Suddenly and as If by a single Impulse changing their tactics, their right hands unclasped and began to feel for the other's throat A sudden slip of David's hold permitted the doc tor to turn him over, and sprawling across his breast he pinioned him to the earth. - His great hand stole to ward the throat of his prostrate foe' and fastened upon it with the grip of an Iron vise. The beautiful face turned Bale, then grew purple. This would have been the last moment In the life of the Qua ker had not his right hand, convulsive ly clawing the road, touched a piece of broken rock. It was as If a life-line had swung up against the hand of a drowning man. The exhausted youth untwisted the grip of the iron hand, flung off the heavy body, mounted up on It, crowded the great head with its matted hair and staring eyes down In to the dust, seized the stone with his right hand, raised it and struck. The effect of the blow was two-fold paralyzing the brain of the smitten and the arm of the smlter. Across the low forehead of the quack it left a great gaping wound like a ' bloody mouth. A death-like pallor spread it self over his countenance, the lids dropped back and left the eyes storing hideously up Into the face above them. David's arm, spasmodically uplifted for a second blow, was suspended in air. He did not move for a long time; and when at length his ' scattered senses began to return h threw down the stone, rose to his feet and exclaim ed in accents of terror, "I have killed him." He could not overcome the fascina tion of-the lifeless face and wide-star ing eyes. They drew him towards them; he stooped down and felt for the nulse, which waa imperceptible; laid his hand upon the heart, but could not feel it beat; he raised an arm, and It fell back limp and lifeless. Suddenly one elemental passion gave anger, and now In Its turn gave way to the Instinct of self-preservation. Ha looked toward the carriage and saw that Pepeeta had fallen Into a swoon. "Perhaps Bhe has not seen what has happened," he said to himself, and a cunning smile lit up his pale face.' Stooping down, he seized the loath some object lying there in the dust of the road and dragged it off into the thick shrubery. Stumbling along, he came to a hollow made by the roots of an upturned tree. Into this he flung the thing, hastily covered it with moss and leaves, and stood staring stupidly at the rude sepulchre. He ex perienced a momentary feeling of re lief that the hideous object was out of sight; but the consciousness of his guilt and his danger soon surged back upon him like a flood. In such mo ments the mind works wildly, like a clock with a broken spring, but some times with an astonishing . accuracy and wisdom. (To be continued.) The Family Pair. The wriggly stillness of the study period was broken by a slamming door, and a thin boy in dirty, ragged clothes slouched across the room. Half-way to the teacher's desk he drawled, "Pa wants that you should let Jim go horns right now." As Miss Davis looked a little doubtful, he added, "He kin corns back right away." , The permission given, the two badly soiled, half-starved sons of the most shiftless family In the district shuffled down the stairs. Very shortly. Jim re turned, wearing a pleased and lmpor tant smile on his pathetic little face. "I come as soon's I could. Pa's brother's dyln' to Poplar," be an nounced, cheerfully. 'That's why pa wanted 'me." "But you weren't gone long you didn't stay home. I can't see why you went at all," answered the bewll ered Miss Davis. , . "Why, pa's goln," explained Jim. . "Yes. but what has that to do wlU. your' asked the. teacher. "Pa had to have his suspenders," was Jim's matter-of-fact reply. Salted Blm. "These summer girls would rathe wait than eat," remarked the hotel clerk. "Think so?" inquired the proprietor. "They say so themselves." . "Then I guess I'll add a walu or two' to the dance program and cut a couple of courses off the dinner bllL" Louisville Courier Journal. . Breaklaa- It Ocatly. Her Richard! Why on earth ar you cutting your pie with a knife? - Him Because, darling now, under stand, I'm not' finding fault, for I know that these little oversights wll occur because you forgot to give me a can opener. Cleveland Leader. The blessed work of helping the world forward happily does not welt to be done by perfect man. George Bitot - 1 - - -
