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About The news=record. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1907-1910 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1910)
I HAPPENINGS FROM AROUND OREGON RAILS TO CENTRAL OREGON Preparations Go Forward for Con struction of Huge Bridge. ' Madras Preliminary preparations are going ahead for the immense steel bridge which is to span Willow creek at Madras. This bridge is on the Des chutes Railway company's line and will be the highest as well as the longest bridge projected for Central Oregon. Another immense steel structure will be the Oregon Trunk bridge across the Columbia at Celilo. This will be the second bridge the HiU people have built across the Columbia within. 100 miles of Portland. A large number of new men were added to the construction crews on both roads during the past week. Car loads of laborers pour into the Harri man camps over the Columbia South ern railroad to Grass Valley and Shan iko. While the Harriman people are thus mustering forces by way of their line through Sherman county, the Hill contractors are daily receiving re cruits at The Dalles and Dufur. As many as 100 laborers are reported to have been lodged at Dufur, the termi nus of the Great Southern spur from The Dalles, at one time, while to Grass Valley, on the Harriman road, even larger numbers were gathered. June is set as the time for the com pletion of the Harriman road into the Deschutes vaeelly. Twohy Bros., gen eral contractors for that road, are au thority for the date. It is the general belief the Deschutes road will be the first completed to Redmond. State Wins Battle for Taxes. Salem The state has won th first battle for the collectioon of several thousand dollars of accrued taxes dur ing 1906, 1907 and 1908, nnder the gross earnings act of 1906 from the Wells-Fargo Express company. Suit was instituted several months ago in the circuit court for this county. The attorney general demurred to the an swer the of the corporatino, and the de murrers were sustained by Circuit Judge Burnett. The court held that to answer to the complaint made by the corporation to . the effect that the gross earnings tax was unconstutitional because it was enacted by the initiative, was not suffi cient, for the Supreme court of the state M Oregon has held the Initiative amendment valid. The point has been carried by the Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph company - to the United States Supreme court for final deter mination in the case similar to the one now being prosecuted by Attorney Gen eral Crawford against the Wells-Fargo company. -' . ' ' '' Big Steel Bridge lor Wallowa. Enterprise The contract for build ing toe 176 loot span steel bridge cross the Grand Rondo river at , Troy has been let by the county court to the Columbia Bridge company ox Port laati for $7,984. The bridge will be the largest in the county and will rest on concrete-tilled steel piers. About 50 tons of material and tools, including 36 tons of steel, eight tons of cement and four tons of tools, will have to be hauled by wagon from this city to Troy, a distance of 47 miles. The bridge is to be ready lor traffic by August 1, 1910, . . $1,000 for 1910 Boost Fund. Eugene There remains nearly $1,' 000 in Eugene's 1909 publicity fund ' It will be applied to the 1910 fund, which has reached the sum of $13,000, The boaid of governors haa'not yet se lected successor to John H. Hartog, the publicity manager who recently re signed. The board has elected the fol lowing officers: F. M Wilkins, presi j nf h n-ll -. : i j t. . n McMurphy, secretary and treasurer. Sells Farm for $18,000. Baker City The E. A. Chambers farm, about 24 miles north of this city, comprising 240 acres of land and well improved, has been sold to Ed ward York at $75 per acre, or $18,000 Before purchasing the Chambers place Mr. York sold his Warren Spring farm between Muddy creek and North Pow der, 60 acrea, to Lorin Perkins, for $5,100. Rumors of New Railroad. ' PaUley What does it mean? An nouncement la made that the Nevada-California-Oregon railroad company has signed a contract with the Nugent Richardson Construction company for the grading of the extension from Al turai to Lakeview and that work will begin some time in January. It is stated further that the new line will be broad guage. Thousand Pairs of Birds Shipped. Corvallis During the season juM past the Simpson pheasant farm, of Corvnllia, shipped out of the state to the Idaho game preserves KKRi pairs o China pheasants, to be used for props gation purposes. Under the state game laws these birds cannot be shipped be yond the borders of Oregon except un dor permit from the game warden. Thirty Musicians In Joseph Orchestra Joseph Joseph baa one of the beat orchestral in Eastern Oregon. There sure 80 musicians In the organisation a number of them having played in pro fessional organisations at other places. , , : Clatskanle for Good Roads. Clatskanle At a meeting of the cit liens of Clatskanle and vicinity ft tax ix and one half mills was voted. The good roads people carried the day by a large vote. WATER 2.0O0 ACRES IN CROOK Homesteaders Near Bena cooperate i to Keciaim vaiiey tana. Bend L. D. Wiest has secured a water right from Fall river 25 miles it n i i in : a. t Ann I soum oi uena, ana wm irrigate ,uuu nures ucAb jreor a vuuipaujr uu w Irnnain oa f ha Poll Pivai Irr icrsstinri company will be organized in the near future. - I The land to be irrigated is located I between the mouth of Fall river I Hill lines are not available, the man on the South and Spring river on. the aeement refusinsr to eive anv detailed Worm, on We West eme or Me He- i-.- - il t L. : 1 . . I scnuies, K18 nunato ireing .iuiwi, ward's the north and east. The cultivation and irrigation of the same quality of soil in the vicinity hns proved that it will produce immense crops of timothy hay and vegetables. A remarkable feature of this project is that there, will be no waste land be-1 tween the canal and the river, as there are no high ridges and no rock what- The lands UUlUCObCBUVlDi BIJU dUQ VUIIJ LJBnilV TV 111 I De organ lzea ana tne capital stock owned entirely by them. Among these are M. J. Main, John Usher, A. D. Lewis, John Peters, Joe Hoffman, Bob I Bowser and Harold Palmer. Th main cnnnl will ha eiffht feet wide on the bottom and six miles long. Big School Population Increase. La Grande One thousand four hun dred Bixty-eight school chlidren, vary ing in ages from 4 to 20 years, popu late the La Grande school district ac a; ,. fliH .-i, n,. f school'superlntendent from this dis- f .nf Tki. nn n J Q7 I n.vw u.o .n ... im. ' IBBt year S scnooi population. mere yet remains one district in the county to be reported before Superintendent Bragg can compile the county school I population. r.t... r; c:.u oa La Grande Adolph Newlin is t-' paring to construct a lake on his tract of land near town. By some excava- tions and dyke work a pond can be con- structed which will cover about four I acres of ground and will be several feet deep. The lake will be stocked with mountain trout. The site is ideal, it being surrounded by a heavy growth of trees and shrubbery. DevelOD Limestone Ouarrv. Rn.oh Th. k; i(rno.fnn .. j:, , n. .t cement deposits a few miles south of vuib ciiv are w ue ueveioueu nexv yenr. ni..t in k. tu. - I urn hi uianu vii ura uivu- erty aoon, with a capacity of 100 bar- rels per day. The big cement plant of J tne company is being- located near Portland and will have -a capacity of 1500 barrels per day. Most of the ma- terial for its operation will be shipped th. pnukn. Telephones In Central Oregon. Madras The Deschutes & Harney Telephone company is the new name nf a concern that will build a line from Roseland to Silver Lake, extend the Paulina line from Hardin to Burne. h.,iM . tn lir.. D.jmn-j u.j. ras vi. Culver and install an exchange at Madras. V PORTLAND MARKE TS. Wheat Track prices: Bluestem. I $1.20; club, $1.10; red Russian, $1.08 1.09; valley, $1.08. Barley Feed and brewing, $3031. Corn Whole, $35 : cracked, $36 ton. Oats No. 1 white. $32.5'J33 ton. Hay Timothy: Willamette Valley. 21.60; alfalfa, $1616.50; clover, $1616; cheat, $I5($16; grain hay, $15((016. Butter--City creamery extras, 89c; fancy outside creamery, 8439e per pound; store, 22 24c. Butter fat nr cti ivrnira 1 Ui nor nnnnrt nnrlur regular butter prices. Poultry-Hens, 1416c; springs. liUfiillfic: duck.. 20C! cmb. tr. keyB, live, nominal ; dressed, 24fti25!, Eggs Fresh Oregon extras, 42ic per docen ; Eastern, 28(U'30c per dosen. Pork Fancy, 10(ei0.HC per pound. Veal Extras, ll(fill He per pound Fresh FruiU Apples, $1(3 box; Dears. $1S1.50 box: cranberries. $9 per barrel. Potatoes Carload buying- prices:! Oregon, 6585 per sack ; sweet . pota- toes, 2e per pound. Vegetables Artichokes 75a per doi- en; cabbage, 91.60(gj)1. 75 per hundred; celerv. $3.50(3:4 per crate: horserad - lata. $1.60 per box. pumpkins, liitfl IKe; sprouts, 6(C7c per pound; squash, lftilVic; tomatoes, 75c$l; turnips. $1 per sack; carrots, $1 beets, $1.60; parsnips, $1.50. Onions Oregon, $1.301.40 sack Hops -1909 crop, 2021c; olds. nominal. Wool Eastern Oregon, 160230 pound; mohair, choice, 2&c. Cascara bark 4c per pound, Hides Dry hides, 18ttl9c pound; dry kip, 17(i18e per pound; dry calf - skin, lynmc per poum; salted hides, lOfitllc; salted calfskin. 15(16c: green, le less. Cattle .Beat steers. $4.60(i4.75: fair to good, $44 25; medium and feeders, $3.25:6.60; cows, top, $3.60 3.85; fair to good, $3(i3 25 ; com mon to medium, $2.5003.75; bulls, t5.256fD.5u; heavy, 4W4..5. Hogs -Best, $3.50(.C8.65; medium, 7.oU(ji:8.-Jo; stackers, $6.60(36.75. m t 1 . 1 oneep oesi wemers, o.oufE6.7&: fair to good, $4,606X5; ewes. We less: yearlings, best, $6(i 5.25; fair to good, $.DU6J4.7&; iambs, f 66J6.25. COLONIST TRAVEL HEAVY. Tear of 1909 Was Record-Breaker. More Expected In 1910. Chicago, Jan. 3. The colonizing work done by the railroads in the west and Pacific northwest during the spring end fall of 1909 broke all rec- I ords in railway history. Figures pre- )areJ by the manage'ment of the Har riman lineg gnow that the numier 0f colonists who were taken into the Pa- cifie coa8t territory far exceeded the number in any other year. The increase over the colonist move' ment of 1908 was fnT 70 Per ent J uttvo oen m excess oi mis, Figures for the movement over the information rorardinir tha number nf - . makers th(,v tr.r,nTt,,d int !!tZlslDJj JJ: ? ZV ' S:V. JL an effort to gecure coioni8tg ag they have made in former years. This fact is said to be due to trouble in the colonist department of the Northern Pacific which led late in the year to the resignation of C. W. Mott, general immigration agent. On the. Great Q0rtiIW6Bt Tt js understood that in 1910 the management of both the Great North- ern and the Northern Pacific, aided by the management of the Burlington, are to make a special ettort toward , popu Mating the vacant, lands along their Iinef in the fertile Btat8 of the nortn- west. In each year the railroads have two short periods which they call . colonist periods. The spring colonist period is from March 1 to April 30, while the fall period is jrom September- 13 to October IS. In the fall period of 1909, the Harriman lines sold a total or 11,- t,,C ' . " ' ' ' . ' Utah, Colorado and Wyoming points. Tn the correBDondinir neriod of 190. the same lines sold a total of 6,227. The increase for 1909 was 6,314 tickets. This is an increase for the fall period of 85 per cent, in the fail or laua col omul ticKeis were boiu Deiween oep iiomoer l ana vciODer oi, auring which . i t a v i 1 n. a ; 1 ' 1 pre-Iirqir ti-,vBtn Aoi-nrriimriv in -int I . r ,hn If nwimnn linn anlH n Into 1 r half the time in the fall of 1909 the Hurriman lines sold within 4,275 tick ets of the number sold during the 60- day period of i)m, DYNAMITERS IN TOILS, striking Kailroad Machinists Attempt violence, is Belief, Baltimore, Jan. 3. Following an at- tempt last evening to blow up the Gay street bridge of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, three men were, arrested on a cu of coriBpiracy with inient to,dy- mito tha v,,i .r.A ia th Ttrm,r,t . ii n,r niRP.hinn r inns nf the nnmnnnv. The bridge wan not seriouslv damaged William K. Shipley, Hamilton W. Lighter and William 11. Zimmerman, all machinists, were later taken into cus tou.v- 'elective uaptam iiumpnrey r'i'' iu vo evjuuuce mrecuy impu eating the men. JJVbU jaill IIIVJl 111 It 11 OIII4 UU1 1 J t TT U W wont nut nrith iia af ti Ir i n ft nmliStiifltB of th Baltimore & Ohio here last Mav in formal statements today confessed I they had engaged in e plot to blow up I the Mount Clair shops last nieht. ' In the shoP8 at the tlm "e oomh w?8.to be eroded were more than workmen, and the alleged plot "Ir. killed by the explosion. Detectives are looking for three other men, whom they say tney can connect with the plot. Prison Cruelty Alleged. Atlnnta, Ga., Jan.' 3. General Dodd formerly overseer of the city prison testifying before the investigating committee, in addition to corroborat ing the stories of cruelty to prisoners, and of filthy and unsanitary conditions, oners was unfit even for the lowest kind of animals. Prisoners frequently showed bread containing flies, be said, and one man brought him a piece of I bread containing a spider. He declared t,le P,ace was overrun with vermin. rean nryan, one or inree wnite women who wa hun VP by rinK9 while at ITJAT17T:. , " V""B, Ta" " w o-'y down when they saw blood running down nor arms, Mount Pelee Is Active. St. Thomas, D. W. I., Jan. 3. Cable advices received here report a violent rthqiiake in the French island of Martinique and the British island of St. Vincent early today. Mount Pelee a volcano on the island of Martinique and La Souffriere, in St. Vincent, are reported active. A message from Fort Me Prance, Martinique, says an earth 1 quake shock was felt, but no-damag was llone- coming nas been neara from St. Vincent since early todav. Considerable anxiety is folt,here about Kingston, Jamaica. Paroled Convict Is Shot Chicago, Jan. 3. Harry Feather stone, a paroled convict, who has a long police record, was shot and seriously injured here today in a chase whic followed a robbery of a South Side sa- liinn. r-ViAthanttiinA anil Ivn .mnii. ions were pursued after thev had rifled 1 the till and a policeman who jo!ned in the chase sent a bullet into Feather stone s nacre. earen was oegun lor I his companions. According to the po- P'1' therstone has participated in m"ny Labor Fights Big Trust. Washington, Jan. 3. Officers -of the American Federation of Labor tonight Issued a call oa its 1,540,000 members to subscribe 4o a fund with which to wage a fight on the steel trust The innv n rr.t.rn. h .nrnn(nn u:; L.l both io labor and ta the eountrv land as a violator of the laws. The 1 sura of $154,000 is to be raised at once. "he Redemption El f)dvid (Jorson , By CHARLES FREDERIC GOSS Copjrliht, 1400, by The Bowen-MerriU Company. CHAPTER XI. (Continued.) It occurred to him that if he left the body where it was and it should be eventually discovered, it would afford the gravest suspicions of foul play; but that if he dragged it back again to the road and laid It with Its face in the dust, against the rock with which the deed was done, it might pass for an accident. Once more that hideous smile of cunning lit up the face which in these few moments had undergone a myste rious deterioration. He hastily remov ed the heap of rubblBh, shuddered as he saw the loathsome thing once more exposed to view, but seized It, dragged it back, and placed It with consum mate art In the position which his criminal prescience had suggested. As It lay there in the road nothing could have seemed more natural than that It had fallen from the horse; he felt another momentary relief from terror, in which he cunningly concelv-' ed a still more sagacious plan, on no ticing Romeo. They were the best of friends; It was easyjto catch him. He did so, removed the'saddle, broke the girth and placed it near the prostrate figure of the quack. Nothing could have more perfectly resembled an ac cident An adept In crime could not have performed this task with nner skill, and he was free now to turn to the rest of the work that he must do to conceal this ghastly deed. . Approaching the buggy, he found to his Immense relief that Pepeeta was still unconscious. With swift and si lent movements he freed the mare, led her out Into the road and drove bur rledly away. As he emerged from the wood tney came to another brook, so similar to the one by the side of which the strug gle had occurred, that he conceived the. Idea of stopping by Its side and awaK enlng Pepeeta from her stupor there. She will not notice the difference he said to himself; "and If she did not witness the fatal blow I can persuade her that I overpowered the doctor and forced him to return while she vrcu in her swoon." Stopping the horse, he lifted her In animate form from the carriage, bore it to the side of the brook, laid it gen tly upon the bank and dashed a hand ful of the cold water into her white face. She gasped, opened her eyes, and, sitting up, looked about her with n expression of terror. "Where am I? she asked. "Do you not remember T Tou are here In the wood where the doctor overtook us," he replied, "And where is net" "He has returned." "But I saw you clench with each other, and it was awful! What hap pened then? I must have fainted. Do you mean that he has gone back with out tneT How did you persuade him to do that?" 1 persuaded him with my fists. Tou should have seen me, Pepeeta!" Did he acknowledge that he had deceived me?" "He did indeed. Tes, he has gone, never to return. He made his confes slon and relinquished his claim. And so we have nothing to do but forget him and be happy. Are you feeling better now?" "Tea, I am better; but I am not well; I cannot shake it off. It seems too dreadful to have been real. And yet how much better it is than if one of you had been killed 1 Oh I I wish could atOD seeing It. Tet us got Let us leave this gloomy wood. Let us get out Into the sunshine. Seel It is getting dark. We must not stay here any longer." "Tea let us go," he said, rising, lift ing her gently from the ground and leading her back to the buggy, in Which they took their seats and drove rapidly forward. Pepeeta's thought were full or glad ness; ana uavia s run ot agony mey rushed tumultuously back and forth through his mind like contrary winds through a forest 1 "Was it not enough that I should be an Adam, and fall? Must I also be come a Cain and go forth with the brand of a murderer on my forehead?" He kept saying to himself. CHAPTER XII. The morning after the fight David and Pepeeta hurried on to Louisville, and from there took a steamer to New Orleans. Pepeeta was radiant with toy as they embarked. "How happy ml" she cried. "It seems as if I had left my old life and the old world be. hind mel" . "And I am happy to see you glad." uiswered the wretched youth, whose heart lay in. his bosom like lead and whose conscience was writhing with torture of whose like he had never even dreamed. They embarked un' known and unobserved; but as soon as the first confusion had passed, their slugular beauty and unusual appear anoe made them the cynosure of every eye. "Who la that splendid fellow?" worn sn asked each other, as David passed with Pepeeta on his arm, while under their breaths men declared that his companion was the loveliest woman who had ever set foot on a Mlsala slpol steamer. David was In need of excitement The thought of hie crime was con stan tly agitating his heart, the pros trate form of the doctor with the bloody wound oa his forehead was never absent from his mind, and through ail the ceaseless rumble around him he could hear the dull thud of the atone upon the hard skulL The efforts which he made to throw off these horrible weights that crushed htm were like thoee of a man awaken Ins treta a nightmare. He earealy All RilhU Reaernd dared to speak for fear ' of uttering words which would betray him and which seemed to tremble on his Hps. Had he been on shore he would have fled to the solitude of a forest; but here he was reslstlessly Impelled to that other solitude a crowd. The ne cessity of being gay with his beautiful bride and of concealing every trace of his terror and remorse taxed his re sources to their utmost limit, and tn his nervouBness he kept Pepeeta mov ing with htm all day long. At Its close she was eompletely exhausted; and re tired early to her stateroom. Freed from her company and craving relief from thought David made his way straight to the gambling tables where the nightly games were tn full swing. In the months which they had spent together the quack had Indoctrinated David into all the best-known secrets of this vice, and besides this, had fa miliarized him with the use of a cer tain "hold out" of his own Invention, with which he had achieved Incredi ble results and which was new to the fraternity of the river. Having watch ed the players for a long time, David convinced himself that he could em ploy this trick successfully, and took his place at the table. David felt his way along with a coolness that astonished himself, and his very nrst experiment with tne aen cate apparatus concealed In his sleeve was such a brilliant triumph that he saw it was undetected. With a strengthened confidence, he made the stakes larger and larger, and his win nlngs Increased so rapidly as to make him the center of attention. The crowd swarmed round the table. The specta tors became breathless. The gamblers were first astonished, then bewildered. As their nerve failed them, David's as surance increased, and when day broke ten thousand dollars lay upon the ta ble before him as the result of his skillful and desperate efforts. Their loss astonished and enraged the gamblers to such a degree that with a preconcerted signal they sprang at their opponent determined to re gain their money by violence. The move was not unexpected, nor wa e unprepared. He fought as he had played, and so won the sympathies of the bystanders than in an Instant there was a general melee in which he was helped to escape with tv '-1- ntngs. . He was the hero of the trip, and a career had opened before him. Satel Utes began .to circle around him and to solicit his friendship and imtro- When he disembarked at New Orleans he had already entered into a part nership with one of the most notable member of the gambling frater- and purchased an .interest '- tj of those "palaces" where games of chance attracted and destroyed their thou sands. The newspapers made the c-y throngs of that gayest of all oltte- fa miliar with the incidents of Dav''s advent He and Pneta became the talk of the town. Thev rented a fash ionable house, and swung out into the current of the mad life of the metropo lis of the South. . , For a little while this --"-ment and glory softened the pain in- the heart of the man who believed himself to be a murderer and encouraged him to hope that it might eventually pass away. He played recklessly but sue cessfully, for he was a transient favor lte of the fickle goddess.- When gam bllng lost Its power to drown the voice of conscience, there was the race, the play and the wine cup! To eaoh of them appealing In turn, he went whirl ing madly around the oi- circles of the great maelstrom In which so many brilliant youths were swallowed In those ante-bellum days. For two years David and Pepeeta lived together in New Orleans. They were years full of Import and of trou ble. A baby came to them, lingered a few weeks, and then died. David pur sued the occupation he had . chosen, with the vicissitudes of fortune usual ly attending the votaries of games of chance, and the moral and spiritual deterioration which they invariably de velop. Pepeeta altered strangely.. Her bloom disappeared and an expression of sad ness became habitual on her face. She was surrounded by luxuries of every kind, but they did not give her peace. With an ambition which never flagged she sought self -Improvement and at tained it to a remarkable degree. En dowed with an Inherited aptitude for culture, she read and studied books, observed and Imitated elegant man ners, and rapidly absorbed the best elements of such higher life as. she had access to, until her natural beauty and charm were wonderfully enhanced Tet she was not happy, for her life with David had brought her nothing but surprise and disappointment: something had come between them, she knew not what "Dey des growed a pant," said the old negro "mammy,", who was with them during those two years. "Seem ed to des tech each other like mahblea at a single point stade of aneltln' to. gedder lak two drops ot watah runnln' down a window, pane. Mars' David, he done went he own way, drinkln' and garablln'; he lak a madman when he baby die. He aeem skeered when he see- Miss Pepeeta. She look at him wld her big black eyes full of wonder and s'prlae, stretch out her U'l han's. and when he run away- or struck her, she dee go out to the U'l baby's grave, creeping along lak a shadder through the gyahden, sort lak and still. Dar she des set down all alone and sigh lak de breese In he old pine 'tree. Some days she gone away all alone and de brack folks say she wanner all aroun' In de woods. . When Sunday nine, she des slip into de churches lak a U'l mouse and nibble up de gospel crumbs and den run away before de priests c'otch her. Dark days dose, in de old Ballantrae mansion! And den come de night when dey pahted. Tou done heah about dat?" The old colored mammy was right "They Just grew apart," as it was in evitable that they should. Perfect self manifestation Is the true principle and law of love, and when a guilty secret comes between two lovers, suspicion and fear inevitably result They be come Incomprehensible to each other. It was a frightful discipline; but she was sanctified by It Day by day she became more patient gentle and re signed, and tn proportion as she grew In these graces, her lover's awe and fear Increased, and so they drifted far ther and farther apart. Such rela tionships cannot continue forever, and they generally terminate in tragedy. After the first few months' excite ment of his new life, David's conscleno began to torment him anew. He be came melancholy, then moqdy, and finally fell into the habit of sitting for hours among the crowds which swarmed the gambling rooms, brood ing over his secret From stage to stage In the evolution of his remorse he passed until he at last reached that of superstition, which attacks the soul of the gambler as rust does Iron. And so the wretched victim of many vices sat one evening at the close of the second year with his hat drawn down over his eyes, reflecting upon his rest What's the matter, Davy?" asked a player who had lost his stake, and was whistling good-humoredly as he left the room. . "Leave me alone," David growled, and reached for a glass mug contain ing a strong decoction to which he was resorting more and more as his troubles grew Intolerable. A strange thing happened! As he put It to his Hps its bottom dropped upon the ta ble and the contents streamed Into his lap and down to the floor. It was the straw chat broke the camel's back, for It had aroused a superstitious terror. With a smothered cry he sprang to his feet and gazed around upon hie companions. They, too, had observed the untoward accident and to them as -well as to him It was a symbol of dis aster. Not one of them doubted that the bottom would fall out of his for tunes as out of his glass, for by such signs as these the gambler reads his ' destiny. He pulled himself together and made a jest of the accident, but it was Im possible for him to dissipate the im pression It had made on the minds of his companions, or to banish the gloom from his own soul. And so after a few brave but futile efforts to break the spefl of apprehension,, he slipped quiet ly away, opened the door and passed out into the night (To be continued.) PKEY OF THE TIQEB. Hm Preference for Human Flesh After Once Taatlngr It. In the Intervals of rest and recrea tion, which Mr. Rees doubtless allowa himself he may do worse than give his most attentive consideration to certain facts mentioned by a writer in the Indian Forester bearing upon the evolution of the forest tlger'a taste, first for cattle and then for hu man meat, the India Daily News says. When tired of the monotony of the 1 menu provided by deer or wild pig the forest tiger develops a taste for domestic cattle, and then its modus operandi l a very interesting study. The menue Is changed from deep .for est to cattle-breeding area, where tha tiger leisurely carries on its depreda tions until shot an operation which. however it might shock Mr. Rees, la one of the most beneficent acts of tha sportsman. As the writer in the aforesaid periodical says, the transition from cattle slaying to man slaying la not a great step. Where cattle abound hu man beings are, and once the tiger has tasted the human meat it develops an extraordinary passion for it. And so It must Have its dally feed. It goes anywhere in search of food. Many years ago a tiger swam tha Rangoon river, nearly a mile In width. and lended in the heart of the local ity, crept under the raised Boor of a Burman hut and was promptly slaughtered. ' About six years ago a large tiger was observed on the platform of tha Shwe-Dogan pagoda at Rangoon and was shot by a party of soldiers told off for the purpose. The superstitious Burmese attributed the outbreak ot plague in Rangoon to the shooting of this tiger, which they declared waa some particular manifestation of tha Buddha. It is a curious fact, how ever, that the plague outbreak oc curred shortly afterward, and tha. cuy nas not since Deen. rree OI Ina scourge. A Compromise. "You'll have to send for anothet doctor," said the one who had been called after a glance at the patient . "Am I bo 1U as that?" gasped tha sufferer. ' "I don't know just how ill you are," replied the man of medicine, "but I know you're the lawyer who cross-examined me when I apepared as an ex pert witness. My conscience won't let me kill you, and I'll be hanged It I want to cure you. Good day." Phil a delphia Inquirer. Before After. 1 She waa a frivolous, fashionable, young woman with beaux galore, but one man with only a small -. income seemed to be the favorite. ' "Youll have to work hard befora you win that girl," aald his mother. "And a good deal harder after yon win her," answered his father. whs knew what ha waa talking about Tlt-Blta. Kindness in ourselves la tha honey mat munis tne sting of unkind in another. Peabody,
