The news=record. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1907-1910, January 12, 1910, Wednesday Edition, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextI HAPPENINGS FROM AROUND OREGON NOT BUILDING LOGGING ROAD President of Pacific Railway Declares Grade I First Class. Portland "Who ever heard of a log ging road constructed at a cost of f 40, 000 per mile?" This the question E. E. Lytle, presi dent of the Pacific Railway & Naviga tion company, propounded when asked in regard to a report emanating from Astoria to the effct that the line being built from Hillsboro to Tillamook will be nothing more nor less than a log ging road; that it is npt intended for passenger and freight business. "Why, it is absurd," Mr. Lytle con tinued, and laughed heartily. "Of course the report came from Astoria; Astoria does not want the road built at all. It never did. "We are pushing the work as rapid ly as possible, and expect to have trains in operation by August 1. At present 1,500 men are engaged on the work, and they are certainly doing something." "The report has it that the road contains too many sharp curves, and too steep a grade to make it practical forjmssenger traffic," Mr. Lytle was told. "Curves and grades? We have no steeper grade than the maximum of the Southern Pacific to California, which is 3 per cent, and as for curves, there is not one exceeding 15 degrees. You must not loee sight of the fact that we have 18 tunnels on that stretch of road from Hillsboro to Tillamook. These tunnels shoudld do away with ome of the grade that seems to fright en those who might have started the rumor. "The road will cost in the neighbor hood of $4,000,000, including the cost of equipment, and passenger and freight trains will be operated to supply every demand. "As far as losreinar goes, we do not own a tract of timber in that district. Of course, it taps a rich timber coun try, and logs will, of course, be haul ed if they are offered, but it will only be part of the business." Douglas Roads Improved. Roseburg Douglas county made greater progress in the year 1909 than in any year in its history. Over $106,000 was expended, during the year on the improvement of the county roads. It is said that in a fe years Louglas county will become as fam ous" For its good roads as it was for its bad ones. Commercial clubs have been organized in the smaller towns, such as Oakland and Glendale, and the Rose burg club occupies as fine club rooms as can be found in the state, outside of Portland. In Roseburg alone nearly $500,000 was expended in improve ments. Eighteen blocks of hard sur face pavement were laid at a cost of over $70,000, and it is expected that about twice that amount Iwill be ex pended for the same purpose during 1910. Water mains and telephone poles were replaced over the entire business sect'on at a great cost to the reepec tive ompanles. Many new buidings were erected, in eluding the new four-story Masonic temple, costing $25,000; a new Pres byterian church, at a coat of nearly $15,000, and Hon. J. H. Booth's new residence, built at a cost of $17,000, About two miles of new 12 foot ce ment sidewalks were laid in the paved district. . Northern Umatilla Gets Telephone, Pendleton After many years of waiting the Holdman country ia to have telephone communication with the outside world. The work of dis tributing the poles has been started and the stringing of wires will follow in a few1 days. It is said that the line will be in operation by the first of Feb ruary. This line is considered import ant for the reason that it will cover a vast expanse of country which has hitherto been without wire communi cation. The main line will be 20 rjiiles long, will consist of four wires and will be put up in a very substantial manner. In addition to the main line there will be numerous feeders added from time to time until the whole northwestern part of the country covered. To begin with, IS ranches will be supplied with the phones, but It Is expected that this number will be rapidly Increased. Woodburn Asks SI 0,000 for Armory Salem F. W. Settlemler, captain of Company I, Oregon National guard, lo cated at Woodburn, has asked the county court for Marion county for an appropriation of $10,000 for the pur pose of erecting an armory in that city. Captain Settlemier seta forth In his petition that the state military board will set aside a similar sum so that a creditable building can be built at Woodburn adequate for all pur poses. Wallowa Pottoffice Goes Up. Wallowa Postmaster Tulley has re ceived notice that the Wallowa post office will be placed in the third class list January 1, and that his salary will be Increased to $1,200 per annum. The advance is due to the rapid in crease of business which this office has shown. ' Orchards In Linn. Albany The planting of thousands of acres of orchards in Linn county, through the organisation of orchard companies, Is the real awakening spir it created during the year, and which will mean the dividing op of the pres ent large tracts of land. LAND READY FOB WATEE. Owyhee Ditch Company, Too, Will Join in Larger Flan. Ontario 'A plan to include all acre age eovered by its ditches in the new ublic irrigation district being formed near Ontario, to water lands below the Malheur river and along the Owyhee river in Malheur county, through the extension of the Boise-Owyhee project being worked out here. The acre age to be watered may reach 150,000 acres. Not only do the directors of the Owyhee Ditch company propose to ex tend its canals to irrigate the arid ands, but it is now proposed to work into the general project a plan by hich the so-called wet lands can De included, providing the owners consent to come into the project. Petitions for the creation of the proposed district were presented to the county court of Malheur county at Vale December 5, but a postponement was asked for (he purpose of allowing wet land owners to come into the Owyhee district and also give the Trowbridge-Niver com pany ample time in which to thorough ly inspect the big project, for this con cern is entitled to the handling of the bonds December 19 a meeting was held at which time it was decided to consult with . the Owyhee Ditch com- nanv to include all of its lands. If an aereement can be reached practi cally every acre of land lying below the Malheur river will be included in the one irrigation project. Wallowa's Lumber Industry, Wallowa In 1909 the chief advance ment in the county was the lumber in dustry. t the beginning of the sea son there were only three small mills in the immediate vicinity of Wallowa; at the close of 1909 there were ten mills, many of which have a capacity of 20,000 feet per day. The largest of these mills is the Nibley-Mimnaugb Lumber company's mill, located in this city. It is a modern band mill, with capacity of 50,000 leet per day These mills will market more than 80,000,000 feet of lumber annually, all of which will be sent from Wallowa. As the lumber industry increased rapidly in the past year the population of the county increased. Wallowa aa vanced from a little hamlet to a mod' era town with many magnificent resi dences. Wallowa county built a modern court bouse within the past year, which is located at Enterprise. Pendleton Debates to Start. Pendleton The preliminary debat ing for the high school league will com mence on the evening of January 14, and on that evening Pendleton will have two teams on the rostrum. One will debate the Athena high school in this city, while the other will meet Weston. The subject for debate is, 'Resolved, That life imprisonment, with restrictive power of pardon, should be substituted for cap'tal pun ishment in the state of Oregon.' Potatoes on New Land. Clatskanlo E. D. Tichenor is show ing splendid Burbank potatoes grown on new land and planted June 1. The land had lust been cleared, and but one plowing had been given. The crop was marketed at good prices. PORTLArtu MARKETS. Wheat Track prices: Bluestem, $1.20; club, $1.10; red Russian, $1.09 Valley. $1.10. Barley Feed and brewing, 3Uj) 30.50 per ton. Corn Whole, $35 ; cracked, IS6 ton, Oats No. 1 white, $32.5033 ton, Hsy Timothy: Willamette Valley, $1820 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $18 ($21.50; alfalfa, $1616.60; clover, $15(316; cheat, $1516; grain bay, $15(316. Butter City creamery extras, aye fancy outside creamery, S4(tf39c per oonud: store. 22X6224C Butter fat prices average lc per pound under regular butter prices. Poultry liens, i6J4(r$ie; springs, 15 W(316: ducks. 20c; geese, 12c; tur keys, live, 22c ; dressed 26c. Eggs Fresh Oregon extras, 41h) 42Xc per doien; Eastern, 2830c per dozen. Pork Fancy, lOtfilOJic per pound, Veal Extras, lKdillc per pound Fresh Fruits Apples, $1((;3 box pears, $Ki;1.60 per box; cranberries, $9 per barrel. Potatoes Carload buying prices Oregon, 66(i.85e per sack; sweet po tatoes. 2c per bound. Vegetables Artichokes, $l(iil.75 per doten; cabbage, $1.601)1.60 per hundred; cauliflower, $1.75 per dosen celery. $3.60 per crate; garlic, lOe pound; horseiadish, 12Xc per pound pumpkins, UiCiilKe; sprouts, 6(ii.7c per pound; squash, ICile; turnips, $1 per sack; carrots, $1; beets, $1.60 parsnips 11.50. Onions Oregon, $1.50 per sack. Hods 1909 crop, 206021c; olds, nominal. Wool Eastern Oregon, ' '16(23 pound; mohair, choice, 25c pound. Cascara bark 4 Wc pound. Hides Dry hides, 18(419 pr pound dry kip, 17(C18c pound; dry calfskin, 19r21c pound; salted hides, lolie salted calfskin, 1516e pound; green lc less. Cattle Best steers, $4.604.75 fair to good, $4((f4.26; medium and feeders. $3.25(36.60; cows, top, $3.60 4; fair to good, $3(33.25; ommon to medium,' $2.50(33.75; bulla, $S.25 5.60; heavy, $4t4.75. Hogs Beet, $8.60(38.65; medium, $7.608.25; atockers, $6.506.75; Sheep Best wethers, $5. 60(8,6.75; fair to good, $4.60615; ewes, J,e leas, yearlings, best, $6(35.26; fair to good, $4.60(34.76; lambs, $66.25. WHERE MEN WILL FLY. Aviation Field at Los Angeles Is Ideal Place. Los Angeles, Jan. 10. On a level and broad field, where but a week ago a herd of cows grazed in peace, a minia ture city of tents and plain wooden structures today marks the spot where the first aviation meet in America is begin, and above which the first competitive trials of speed and endur ance between heavier-than-air machines will be seen on this continent. Aviation .camp is 13 miles from this ty on the lines of the Pacific Elec tric extending to the. numerous beach resorts along the Pacifie coast. On a stretch of high ground at one side of the field a high grandstand has been erected, rising 40 feet in the air and extending for 700 feet along the course over which the trials of air craft and speed contests will be held. Stretching out across the aviation field from a point in front of the grandstand is a long row of tents that now cover numerous flying machines and will house many more during the ten days or the aviation meet. Un an other side of the broad field another line of tents are placed and here the United States army dirigible balloons and many other dirigible airships are being assembled, ready to be inflated. Aviation camp is on ground made his toric in the days of the Spanish Dons. it is a part ol the famous Dominguez ranch given to Lieutenant Juan Jose Dominguez of the army of Spain in the year 1784, and its extent was de termined in the grant by a clause which said that the gallant soldier, for valiant services, was entitled to as large a tract as he could ride around between sunrise and sunset. The soldier waited until one December 21 to ride the boun daries of his land. PEELIMTNAEY FLIGHT A SUCCESS Three Men and Two Women Make Short Balloon Veyage. Los Angeles, Jan. 10. The big bal loon "New York," carrying its owner, Clifford B. Harmon; "Mrs. Alvin French and her niece, Jean French, as passen gers, and George B. Harrison and George Duessler, balloon pilots, landed at Casaverduga, in the Glendale val ley, at 4:47 yesterday afternoon after a flight of nearly two hours. The landing was made with ease, and no discomfort or danger attended any portion of this, the initial flight of the aeronauts who have gathered here for the aviation meet events. An altitude of 5000 feet was attained and observations were taken by Mr. Harrison and Mr. Duessler. When the great gas-bag was cut loose at Huntington park at 2:55 in the afternoon, its flight was almost straight up until it had attained height of 1000 feet. Then a strong current bore it to the northward until it passed out of sight beyond the haze that lay over the mountains. Spectators of the night believed it was the intention ef the aeronauts t attempt to sail over the Sierra Madre mountains, but. those on board say this would nave been impossible. At height of 5000 feet, another current took the balloon to the westward, and when they were over the Ulendale val ley the aeronauts decided to come to earth. A distance or about 25 miles was covered. BOSTON HAS FIERCE CAMPAIGN No Party Lines, But $250,000 Is Spent by Various Candidates. Boston, Mass., Jan. 10. Boston Sat urday night wonnd up, except for the finishing touches, the fiercest municipal campaign in its history. The election Tuesday will be the first under the new non-partisan plan and for a non-partisan campaign this has certainly been a revelation to the sponsors of the new order of things. One of the candidates for mayor con fesses be has spent nearly $10,000, and he accuses his chief opponent of having spent more than $200,000. This charge is not denied. The other two candi dates, without a ghost of a chance of election, have spent about $5000. The various candidates for the city council have probably spent $20,000, so that the cost of the campaign to the various aspirants figures up close to a quarter or a million dollars. The ballots on Tuesday will bear the names of the candidates without party or other designation, and the campaign nas oaen non-partisan except so far as the known Dolitical affiliations of the candidates have influenced voters. White Rhino Hunt Began. Butiaba, Jan. 10. The Smithsonian African scientific expedition arrived at Rhino camp, the basis for the hunt for the oargorly-sought white rhinoceros. today. Rhino camp is on the Congej side of the tfartl-Jabel river. The ex pedition, as made up in the present hunt, consists of Colonel Roosevelt, Kermit, Mearns, Heller, Loring, Cun- ntngname and 3U porters and boys. They have 200 loads of supplies. The party has temporarily left Uganda for the territory remarkable for the pres ence of the white rhinoceros. Jury Justifies Lynching., Cslro, 111., Jan. 10. The grand jury which investigated the murder of Miss Anna Pelley and the lynehings of uonry saizner and will James, the laV ter a negro, adjourned today. The re port stated that it was evident the so callod lawless element was not con cerned in1 the lynehings, and "we be lieve no Innocent man met his death at the hands of the mob." Baltner was aceuaed of murdering his wife. James was suspected of causing Miss Pelley 's death. Hookworm in College, New Orleans, La., Jan. 10. Coaster at ion prevails among the 100 or more students of Tulare college following the examination of every student for hook worm. It is announced that more than a third of the members of the were found to be infected. The Redemption By CHARLES FREDERIC GOSS CaayricM. not, ay Ta Boaaa-MarriB Coatptar. CHAPTER Xta After wandering aimlessly about the I city for a while the half-crazed gam bler turned his footsteps toward home. He entered, both hoping and fearing that Pepeeta would be asleep. He had vague presentiment that he was on the verge of some great event The guilty secret so long hidden in th depths of his soul seemed to have fes tered Its way dangerously near to the surface, and he felt that if anything more should happen to Irritate him he might do something desperate. ' So quiet had been his movements that he stood at Pepeeta's door before she knew that he had entered the house, and when he saw her kneeling by her bedside he stamped hla foot In rage. The worshiper, startled by the Interruption, although she was mo mentarily expecting It, hastily arose. She smiled him a welcome which re vealed her love, but did not conceal her sadness nor her suffering, and. ap proaching him. extended her hands for an embrace. He pushed her aside and flung himself heavily into a chair. 'You are tired," she said soothingly. and stroked his hair. He did not answer, and her caress both tranqulllsed and ' frenzied him. She placed before him the little lunch which she always prepared with bar own hands and kept In readiness for his returned. Take It away. How often have I told you never to let me And you on your knees when I come nomer ne asked, brutally. "Oh! my beloved." she exclaimed, "you will at least permit me to kneel to youl See! I am here In an atti tude of supplication! Listen to met Answer me! What Is the matter T Do you not love me any moreT Tell me! Will you never love me again T" With a violent and convulsive ef fort he pushed her away and excltim- sd fiercely, "Leave me! Do not touch met I hate you!" "Hate me?" she cried, "hate met Oh, David. Tou cannot mean It You can not mean that you hate me?" "But I do!" he exclaimed, bitterly. "I hate you. Tou have ruined me, and now you confess its From the time that I first saw you I have never had a moment's peace. Why did you ever cross my pathT Could you not have left me alone In my happiness and In nocenceT Look at me now. See what you have brought me to. I am ruined! But I am not alone. Tou have pulled yourself down with me. What will you say when I tell you that you are Involved In a crime that must drag us both down?" "A crime?" she cried, clasping her hands in terror. Tee, a crime. Tou need not look so Innocent Tou are aa guilty as I, or at least you are aa deeply involved. We are bound together In misery. We are doomed." "Doomed! Doomed! What do you mean? Tell me, I Implore you do not speak in riddles!" "Tell you? Do you wish to know? Are you in earnest? Then I will! Tou are not my wife! There! It la out at last!" Pepeeta sprang to her feet and stood staring at him in horror. "1 deceived you. Tou were married to your beast of a husband lawfully enough; but as you would not leave htm willingly, I determined that you ahould leave him any way. And so : bribed the Justice to deceive you." "T ou-brlbed-the-Justlce-to deceive' me?" "Tea, bribed him. Do you under' stand? Tou see now what your beauty has brought you to?" She stood before him white and si lent He had risen, and they were confronting each other with their sins and sorrows between them. "This, then." she said, "is the clue to all this mystery. The tangled thread has begun to unravel. Many times this suspicion has forced Itself upon my mind; but It was too terrible to believe! And yet L who could not endure the suspicion, must now sup. port the reality." . , . "wen, ne saia, -wnat are you go ing to do about It?" Dor she said, do? Must I do something? Tes, you are right We cannot go on as we are. Something must be done. But what? Ia it poasl ble that I must return to my husband? How can I do that I who cannot think ef him without loathing! What Is the matter? Why do you tremble so? It then as terrible to you as to me? I see from your emotion that I am right And yet I cannot see what good It will do! How 'can it undo the wrong? It will be a certain sort of reparation. but It cannot bring him happiness, for I cannot give him back my heart Oh! David, why have you done this? And yet I see my duty! If he is my hus band, I must go back to him. A wife'; place la by her husband's side. I do not see how I can do It but I must How hard It la! I cannot realise It The very thought of seeing him again make me shudder! , And yet I must go!" "It Is Impossible,", gasped the trem bllng creature to whom she looked for confirmation. "Why Impossible?" "Because, because he Is dead,' he whispered, through his dry lips. "Dead? Did you say dead?" Pepee ta cried. "When did he die?. How did he die?" "I killed htm," he shouted, springing to his feet and waving hla hands wild ly. There! It has told Itself. I knew It would. It has been eating Ita way out of my heart for months. I ahould have died If I had kept It secret for another moment I feel relieved al ready. Tou do not know what It means to guard a secret night and day AU RlchU Rtsarrad for years, do you? Oh. how sweet It Is to tell It at last I killed him! I kUled him! I struck? him with a stone. I crushed his skull and turned him face downward in the road and left him there so that when they found him they would think that he had fallen from hla horse. It waa well done, for one who had had no training in crime! o one has suspected it I am in no danger. And yet I could not keep the secret any longer. And now that I have told It I feel so much happier. I am like myself again. I feel as If I should never be unkind or irritable any more. .The load has fallen from my heart Come, now. and kiss me." , Extending hla hands, he approached her. Aa he did so, the look of horror with which she had regarded him in tensified and she retreated before him until she reached the wall, looking like aeablrd hurled against a precipice by a storm. Such dread was on her face that he dared not touch her. -What ia the matter?" he said. "Are you afraid of me?" Forgive me," she said, "for seeming even for a moment to desDlae and ab hor you. It was all so sudden. I do not mean to condemn you. I do not mean to act or feel aa if I were any leas guilty than you are in all thla wrong. But when one haa to 'face something awful without preparation, It la very hard. No wonder that we do not know what to do. We are both guilty, David. I think that It Is be cause I have' had so large a share in all the rest that has been wrong that cannot now feel towards you aa I think I ought It is true that you have Injured me terribly and Irretriev ably. It la true that your hands are stained with blood, and yet I love you! mjt heart yearns for you this moment aa never before since we have known each other. But there is a voice with in my sou! that tells me that we must part We could not respect and there fore we could not truly love each oth er. Into every moment of our lives this guilty secret would Intrude. No, It Is Impossible. I see It clearly. Ev ery passing moment only makes It more plain." We shall not part!" he cried. springing towards her and seizing her' by the wrist "We are as firmly linked by vice as by virtue. This secret will draw us together! We cannot keep away from each other. Let the dead past bury Its dead! Let us be hap py." No," she answered, calmly. "It is Impossible. Tou need not argue. Tou cannot change my mind. I see it all too clearly. We must part' Oh! pity me," he cried, falling on his knees. "What shall I do? I can not bear this burden alone. It will crush me. Have mercy, Pepeeta. Do not drive me away. I cannot ire to go forth with this brand of Ca' - up on my forehead and realise that I shall never hear from your lips an other word of love or comfort Pity me." But my beloved, I am not acting for myself. It is not my mind or heart that speaks. It ia God speaking through me. I feel myself to be acting under an influence apart from myself. We have resisted these voices and this influence too long. Now we must obey them." But, Pepeeta," he continued, "you do not really think that you have the power to suppress the love you feel for me?" "I shall not try," she answered. She smiled on htm with unutterable tenderness, and with her eyes still fixed upon his haggard face began to move slowly toward the door. He did not stir; he could not move, but re mained upon his knees with his hands extended towards her In supplication. Like some exalted figure in a dream he saw her vanish from his sight; the world became empty and dark; his powers of endurance had been over taxed; he lost all consciousness, and fell forward on the floor. CHAPTER XIV. A month of dangerous and almost fatal sickness followed. When at last through the care of a faithful negro "mammy," the much-enduring man crept out from the valley of the shad ow of death, he learned that Pepeeta had secured a little room in a tene ment house and was supporting her self witn ner needle, in the use of which she had become an expert In those glad hours when she made her baby s clothes, and those sad ones when she sat far Into the night await ing David's return. On the morning of the nrst day la which he was permit ted to leave the house he made his way to fepeeta s new quarters. "And so this Is to be her home," he said with a shudder as he looked up to the attlo window. Every day thla pale young man was seen, by the cu rious neighbors, hovering about the place. As for the object of his love and solicitude, she began at once to be a bread-winner. ' The delicate girl who never in her life until now had experienced a care about the neceasl ties of existence began to struggle for bread In company with the thousands of poor and needy creatures by whom she found herself surrounded. The only hunger she experienced waa that of the heart She soon became con sclous of David s presence, and de rived from it a pleasure which only added to her pain. She avoided him aa best she could, and her determlna tlon and her sanctity prevented him from approaching her. He wrote her a letter In which, after passionately pleading for her love, he asked her to give him a sign of wll Ungness to take him once more back into her life. "If I may cherish hope of yeur ultimate relenting;" he wrote. "place your candle on the wtniw sin. I will wait until midnight and If you extinguish It then, I shall accept your decision as final, and you will be re sponsible for what follows. I am a desperate man, and life without you has become intolerable." Having thrust the letter under the door, David fled hastily down ' the stairway and Into the street where he began to pace back and forth like a sentry on his beat .Never did a' con demned felon In a cell watch for' the coming of a messenger of pardon with more wildly beating heart than his as he gazed at that window up In the wall of the gloomy tenement house. Never did a mariner on a storm-tossed vessel keep his eye more resolutely fixed on beams from a distant Mgt house. - ' - Finally, and after what seem un counted ages, the great cock struck: the hour of midnight One, two, three he stood like a man rooted to the ground four, five, six his heart beat louder than the bell seven, eight nine . the blood seemed bursting through Is temples ten, eleven, twelve! the light went out! The universe seemed to have been instantaneously swallowed up in darkness. He could not see the figure that crept to the window and gazed down upon htm from behind the drapery of the curtains. He did not know that Pepeeta had fall" - her knees In an agony deeper than his own, and was gazing down at him through streaming tears. In those few succeed ing moments the sense of his personal loss waa displaced by a sudden and overpowering sense of his personal guilt The full consciousness of his sin burst upon him. He saw the selfish ness of his love and his wickedness in a light brighter than day. "What next?" he said aloud, as If speaking to some one else. . Receiving no answer, he turned Instinctively to ward his gambling house, and went stumbling along through the deserted streets. What Is a man, after all, but . atumbllng machine? Progress ia made by falling forward over obsta ces! The poor stumbler tottered across his own threshold into that brilliant room where he had always received an enthusiastic welcome, but which he had not visited since his sickness. If ever a man needed kindness and encourage ment it was he; but his sensitive splr- lnstantly discovered that all was changed. His superstitious companions had not' forgotten the broken glass, and ' had heard of his subsequent calami ties. With them the lucky alone were the adorable! The gods of the templea of fortunes are easily and quickly de throned and the worshipers had al ready prostrated themselves before other shrines. The coldness of his greeting sent a chill to his already benumbed heart and Increased his desperation. He was nervous, excited, depressed, and feel ing the need of something to distract his thought from his troubles; he sat down and began to play; but from the first deal he lost lost steadily and heavily. Within a few short hours he had staked his entire fortune and lost It It had gone as easily and aa quickly as It had come. "I guess that Is about all," he said. pushing himself wearily back from the table at which he had Just parted with the title to hla desolated home. The sun waa Just .rising. The first faint stir of life was perceptible in the city streets; the green-grocers were coming In with their fresh vegetables; the office boys were opening the doors and putting away the shutters; there was a bright morning look on the faces which peered intd' the haggard countenance of the gambler as he crept aimlessly along, but the fresh, sweet light gave him neither bright ness nor Joy. His heart waa cold and dead; he had not even formed a pur pose. And so he drifted aimlessly until the current that was setting toward the levee caught him and bore him on with it The sight of a vessel Just putting out to sea communicated to his spirit Its first definite Impulse and he ascended the gang-plank without even Inquiring its destination. In a few moments the boat swung; loose and turned its prow down the river. The bustle of the embarkation distracted him. He watched the hur rying sailors, gased at the piles of merchandise, walked up and down the deck, listened to the fresh breese that began to play upon the great sonor ous harp of the shrouds and the masts, and when at last the vessel glided out Into the waters of the gulf he lay down In a hammock and fell lnte a long and dreamless sleep. (To be continued.) Maadarin. - Mandarin is not, as la generally sup posed, a Chinese word, but one given, by the Portuguese colonists at Macao to the officials of the Flowery King dom. It Is from the verb "mandar" (to command). There are nine ranks of the mandarins, distinguished by the buttons in their ca'pa first, ruby; sec ond, coral; third, sapphire; fourth, an opaque blue stone; fifth, crystal,' sixth, an opaque white shell; seventh, wrought gold; eighth, plain gold; ninth, silver. . ' Bees. Bees were unknown to the Indiana, but they were brought over from Eng land only a few years after the land ing of the Pilgrim fathers. It was more than two centuries after the first white invasion of New England, how ever, before modern beekeeping began. The Industry of the present day datea from the invention of the movable frame hive by Langs treth in issjj. terka of Kmrt, Were It not for the multitude e storks that throng Egypt every win ter there would be no Uvlng in soma parts of the country, for after every Inundation frogs appear la devastating Took Bias at Bla Warm. v Blobba What's the matter wltk. Henpeckef He seems quite depressed. Blobbs Oh, I made the mistake at tailing him to make himself feel quit at kootsv Philadelphia ReoorO.