*
M
7
gua *’"1
-:-+++H
noon drinking in half sadly the joy of
“M ill you tell me for wliat you want
, not been credited, lie p:-.,. tc. «n al
the forest and of being near each other.
lowance of a counter claim.
In a week the camping party would be the money';” she asked.
The young man caught tlie note of
The auswer «as tiled yesterday af
breaking up. and Hilda must return to
the city. It was uncertain when they distrust. At once, instinctively, his
ternoon. McKinley gives the amount
us n confidence vanished. 11c ' drew
would be able to see each other again.
paid an 1 dates ns follows: January,
Suddenly the girl broke off and put within himself again the power of
11901, 8180; November,
1901, Í100-
justifying
himself
with
the
needed
her fingers to her lips. For some time
February.*|1902, 8100; March, IMS,
,
word.
dimly an inter: ilttent and faint sound
By STEWART
"Tlie firm
8100; May, 1903, 8100; October,
had b
■ • '.’tan actually
EDWARD
8100.—Portland Jour lai,
heard, like the irregular muffled beat | said he.
Her in xt
stiou countered instan- Eugene Precincts Will Hold Con
WHITE
ing of a heart. Gradually it had insist
taneous
ed
on
the
attention.
C or vriü ht.
ventions Tomorrow Evening
“Does the firm need the money more
Ed tv a rd
“What is it?” she asked.
Thorpe listened. Then his face lit 1 than you do me';"
at Voting Places.
They stared at each other in the sl-
mightily with the joy of battle.
| lence of th« situation that bail so slid-
“My axmen," he cried. “They arc
(Guard Special Service.)
I ilenly deve|o|>ed as a dust cloud springs
stirred"*« kindly surface smile over n cutting the road.”
--» continued .
The Democratic voters of tbe Eu
Irving, April 6.—D. C. Bruce, ot
I
up
on
u
plain.
full heart. Then suddenly, without
A falut call echoed. Then without
U.iAP'lEl: X a IH.
"You du not mean that. Hilda?" said gene precincts are requested to meet Rosebuig, is visiting in Irving.
w it hand, and the sharp I
IIIORI’E returned to Camp Oue transition, it dropped to the lower reg warning i
Fliorpe
quietly. “It hardly comes to at their several places of voting
Fred Parker has arrived from Og
shortly after dark. He found ister and began to sob and wail In the ring of au ux sounded through the for that.”
this evening, Thursday, April 7 b, den, Utah. He
full
vibrating
power
of
a
great
pas-
est.
expects to make hi«
there a number of letters.
at
7:30
o
’
clock,
to
make
tbe
nomira
“
Indeed
it
does."
she
replied,
every
home near here, Still they continue
I among which >vas oue from slon.
nerve of her tine organization strung to tion« for delegates to be voted for at to come and the
And the theme it treated was love.
CHAPTER XXIV.
Wallace Carpenter.
best tbiug is most of
excitement. "I should be more to yon the primaries Saturday, April 9th. as
At last the poignant ecstasy seemed
OR a moment th»y sat listening j than any firm."
After commending the camping par
them are well pleased with our cli
sloflow
:
slowly,
slowly
to
die.
Fainter
and
to the clear staccato knocking
ty to bis companion's care tlie young
mate.
“Sometimes it Is necessary to look
North Engene. No. 1, at Socialist
of the distant blows and the
fellow went on to say that affairs were fainter ebbed the music. Through It as I
after
the
bread
and
butter."
Thorpe
Geo Boyd left f„r Portland ou Wed
through
a
mist
the
solemn
aloof
forest
Hall. Entitled to 8
more forceful thuds of the
going badly on the board.
reminded her gently, although he knew
nesday ’s train.
“Some Interest tliut I haven't been began to show to the consciousness of man nearer at hand.
b
Touth
Eugene,
No.
2,*'
at
McFar
"YVhat are they doing? Are they cut that was not the real reason at all.
able to make out yet baa been bam the two. They sought each other's eyes,
Miss Li via Bond returned to
"If your firm can't supply it. I can." land’s new budding, West-*Kightb
merlng our stocks down day after gently smiling. The music was very ting lumber?" asked Hilda.
math Tuesday morning after
street.
Entitled
to
7.
she
answered.
"It
seems
strange
that
“No.” answered Thorpe; "we do not
day,” he wrote. “I don’t understand soft and dim and sad. They leaned to
North Eugene, No. 1. hose house on days' visit at home.
you won't grant iny first request of
it, for the stocks are good and lutrin- each other, with a sob; their lips met: cut saw logs at this time of year. They
you merely because you ihmh I a litt»■ Eleventh street. Entitled to 7.
J no. Barton went to Eugene Tues-
the
music
ceased.
are
clearing
out
a
road.
”
«ically are worth more than is bid for
money."
South Eugene, No. 2, city ball. En day to work iu the mat ■h’factory
“Where docs it go to?”
them right now. Some powerful con I And over behind the trees, out of the
"It isn't a little money." he objected titled to 6.
cern Is beating them down for a pur- 1 light and the love and the beauty, lit
"Well, nowhere in particular—that
Miss Lizzie Keopp came down from
pose of its own. Sooner or I-iter they tle Phil huddled, his great shaggy head Is, It is a logging road that starts at catching manlike at the practical ques
JOHN HIGGINS,
Engene Monday for a short visit with
tion.
“
You
don't
realize
what
an
bowed
In
his
arms.
Beside
him
lay
his
the river and wanders up through the
will let up. and then we’ll get tldugs
J. J. WALTON,
her parents.
amount a elump of pine like this stands
back In good shape. 1 am amply pro violin and beside that his bow, broken woods where the pine is.”
J. D. MATLOCK,
I
for.
Just
in
saw
logs,
before
it
is
made
Thin tine weather is well improves
“How clear the axes sound. I would
tected now. thanks to y««i. and am not He had snapped it across his knee.
L. BILYEU,
by the farmers and a) I ar« busy. There
at nil afraid of losing my holdings. That day he had heard at last tlie like to know more about it,” she sigh into lumber, it will bo worth about
Precinct
Chairmen
are a few prophesying that April will
ed. a quaint little air of childish petu $;j<UKXt. Tliei"*'« “10.000 profit in it."
The on'y difficulty is that I am unable
The girl, exasperated by cold details
lance graving two lines between her
tu pr-dlct <■■ :ctly when tlie other fel
be a wet mouth, tha; there will be
eyebrows. "Do you know, Harry, you at such a time, blazed out. “I never
l«v -
..
. .. i they luivc. act
continued rain.
We siuoeiely hope
heard
anything
so
ridiculous
in
my
V.'
are a singularly uncommunicative sort
pi...., « w
« vi-r lacy are nbcll
they may prove false prophets.
life!"
sbe
cried.
“
Either
you
are
not
at
of a being. I have to guess that your
let up. It
y a. i lie before next y
life is interesting and picturesque all the man I thought you. or you have
Ill tliut
1 i-iiuldti't help you out on
Sometimes I think you are not nearly some better reason than you have giv
those notes when they come du«. So
Letter List.
poet enough for the life you are liv en. Tell me, Harry; tell me at once.
put in your best licks, old man. You
ing. Why. you are wonderful, you Y’ou don't know wliat you are doing."
nm.v have to pony up for a little while,
“The firm needs it. Hilda.” said
men of the north, and you let us ordi
though of course sooner or later 1 can
Eugene, Oregon, April 7,1904
nary mortals who have not the gift of Thorpe, "in order to succeed. If we do
put ft all thick. Then, you bet your
Callahan, C 8.
divination imagine you entirely occu not cut this pine we may fail."
life. I keep out ot it. Lumbering's
Reason Why Portland Baseball
Gamer, Barry.
“If I were a man.” she said, and her
pied with how many pounds of iron
good enough for yours truly.
Team Has Not Been Winning
McCallister, IL
voice
was
tense
—
“
if
I
were
a
man
ami
chain you are going to need during the
"By the way. .von might sliine up to
Plank, Charley.
winter.” She said these things light!,.. loved a woman, I would be ready to
Hilda Fnrrnnd and Join the rest cf tlie
More
Games.
Pickens, Al.
as one who speaks thing* not for sen- I i give up everything for her. My riches,
fortune limiters. She's got it to throw
my pride, my life, my honor, my soul
ous belief.
to the birds and in h r own right. Sc-
Potter, Chas.
even,
they
would
be
as
nothing.
as
less
"It is something tr.at way.” ht
riously. old fellow, don't put yourself
The Portland Journal of yesterday
Sorensen, S 1).
than nothing, to me if I loved. Harry,
agreed, with a laugh.
•nto a f-ilse position through ignorance:
rays:
Walker, Mrs Kate.
"Sit there," she breathed very soft- don't let me think I am mistaken. Let
not that there is any danger to a hard
The loss of yesterday's game at
Warren, Miss Etta M.
1y, pointing to the dried needles on this miserable firm of yours fail, if fail
ened old woodsman like you."
J. L.
it must for lack of my poor little tem San Francisco may be attributed to
which her feet rested.
Thorpe w ent to tlie group of pines by
ple of dreams.” She held out her hands Pitcher John Tbielmau's indifference
He obeyed.
the pole trail the following afternoon
“Now tell me." she breathed, still in with a tender gesture of appeal. The aud apparent effort to throw down the
Lcea'jse he bad said lie would, but will,
affair had gone beyond the preservation Portlaud management. It has been
the fascinated monotone.
a new attitude of mind. He bail come
of a few trees. It had liecome tlie ques ■ eported on good authoritv that Thiel-
"What?” lie inquired.
into contact with the urtlflcfalltv of
“Your life; what you do; all about it. tion of an ideal. Gradually, in spite of rnaii is dissatisfied over some Uiianeia.
conventional relations, and it stiffener?
lierseif. the conviction was forcing it arrangement with Manager Ely, and
You must tell me a story.”
him.
Thorpe settled himself more lazily self upon her that the man she had he is taking unfair means to get
They sat down on a log. Hilda turn
loved was so different from the rest
and laughed with quiet enjoyment.
ed to him with lier graceful air of con
“even,” as he terms it.
’The story of the woods." he began, that the greed of the dollar had cor
fidence.
If Johu Thielman could strike out
rupted
him
too.
By
the
mere
yielding
“
the
story
of
the
saw
log.
It
would
take
"Now talk to
a bigger man than I to tell it. 1 doubt to her wishes she wanted to prove the 27 men in a game, steal every base, <»rcgon City Mining Co., Strikes
“Certainly.”
am' field with a percentage of 1090,
if auy one man ever would be big suspicion wrong.
practical tone of voice,
do you
They sought each other’s eyes.
Good Ore- -Will Erect a
"I cannot. Hilda.” lie answered stead-' his services would not be worth 16
enough. It is a dream, a struggle, a
want me to talk about?"
cents a season if he would dleiberate-
She shot a swift, troubled glance at heart song of the violin and, uttering battle. Those men you hear there av fly-
Mill.
“You sell me for $10.000! I cannot ly lose a game because of any misun
him. concluded herself mistaken an. It, had bestowed love. But be had that only the skirmishers extending th.
believe
it!
Harry.
Hurry,
must
I
put
It
firing
line.
I'll
have
to
burry
now
t<
day
lost
what
be
cared
for
most
in
nil
said:
ilerstnndiug with the management.
get those roads done and a certain I to yon ns a choice? Don't you love me Last year two members of the present
According to J. W. Mitchell, of
“Tell me about what you do up her the world—his friend.
enough to spar» me that';”
creek
cleared
before
the
snow.
Ther
Little
Phil
disappeared
utterly,
tak
Blue River, a rich find has Loen made
—your life—all about It”
i team employed similar tricks, but
H<
i
did
not
reply.
As
long
as
It
re
ing
with
him
bis
violin,
but
leaving
his
we'll
have
to
keep
on
the
kii
’
ll
move
fi
“Well," replied Thorpe formally, “V
in the Gregon City Mining Compa
mained a dilemma he would not reply their exhibitions proved very raw.
broken bow. Thorpe has It even to CniBb our cutting before the deep snow
haven't much to interest a girl 111.
If John Thielman wants to remain on ny's property in Blue luver district.
ne was In the right.
this
day.
The
lumberman
caused
to
haul
our
logs
before
the
spring
you. It is a question of saw logs wit
“Do you need the money more thn" the Portland hall nine lie hud better The property is situated on Simmons
search and inquiry on all sides. The thaws, to float them down the river
us." And he went on in his dryes
cripple
was
never
heard
of
again.
while
the
freshet
water
lasts.
Wliei
you
do mo. more than you do love?" ( ’ come to h>s senses at once. Any de creek and the strike was made while
most technical manuer to detail tl
we
gain
a
day
we
have
scored
a
vic
she
begged.
Iler soul In her eyes, for sin viation from the honorable ethics of crescuttiug the ledge while driving a
"I
saw
you
long
ago.
”
said
Hilda
to
process of manufacture. It might i
Thorpe—“long, long ago. when I was tory. when the wilderness puts us bad was begging also for herself. “Think, i j the game should be deemed sufficient 65-foot tunnel.
Well have beeu bricks.
Harry, ft Is the last chance!"
qntte a young girl. I had been visit an hour we have suffered a defeat."
The owners, 8. K. Green nnrl IL B.
| cause for rhe immediate benching of
The girl did uot understand. SI
He was face to face with o vital de- 1
The girl placed lier hand on his shoul
was hurt. As surely as tbe sun tai
ing in Detroit and was on my way ali
the violating player. Portland has Nichols, are pushing development
alone to catch an early train. You der. He covered it with bls own.
gled in the distant pine frond, she hr
ciklon. n« experienced no conflict of one of the fluest ball teams in the worx and are very etilbusiastio over
"But we win!” he cried. “We win!”
seeu in his eyes a great passion. No
> rood on the comer thinking, tall and
league aud can win games, if they the discovery, The close proximity
“That is what I like,” she said softly, mind, no b-sitatiou. for the moment
straight and brown, with a weather
it was coldly withdrawn.
play hall. They know how to do it, to the county road and easy access to
no
regret.
During
nil
his
woods
life
beaten old hat and a weather beaten “the strong spirit that wins.” Sbe hesi lie had been following diligently the
“What has happened to you?” si
the mine make It a favorable proper
now let them do it.
tated,
then
went
on
gently:
“
I
went
asked finally out of her grAt sincerity old coat and weather beaten old moc
trull he hud blazed for Ills conduct.
ty to det'lop. it is the intention of
walking
yesterday
morning
before
you
casins, and such a proud, clear, un-
"Me? Nothing." replied Thorpe.
Now his feet carried him unconscious
The Albany amateurs defeated tbe the owners to erect a mill, which will
d- ..»ed look on your face, I have re- came over, and after awhile 1 found ly to the same end. There was no oth
A forced silence fell upon him. Hili',
' myself in the most awful place—the
WeideniHii theatrical troupe’s baseball be run I y electric power generated by
seemed gradually to lose herself iu rev membered you ever since."
er way out. In answer to Hilda’s ques
And then he told her of the race to stumps of trees, the dead branches, the
| team yesterday hv the score ef 2 to 1. the stream on which the property la
erie. After a time she said softly:
I the land office. while her eyes grew trunks lying all about and the glarlra: tion he merely inclined his head.
“Don’t you love this woods?”
The Weidemana have beeu winning a situated. There are seven c.aitns in
“
1
have
seen
n
vision,"
said
she
slm-
"It’s an excellent bunch of pine,” re brighter and brighter with the epic hot suu over everything. Harry, there ply. and lowered her head to conceal number of games in California lately the group, all of which show good
plied Thorpe bluntly. “It’ll cut 3,000.- splendor of the story. She told him was not a single bird iu all that waste. her eyes. Then she looked at him and this is their second defeat In gold value«.
000 at least.”
. that she had loved him from that mo- » single green thing.” Sbe seized his again, “There can be nothing better eleven games.
“Oh!” she cried, drawing back, her' nient. and believed her telling, while fingers in her other hand. “Harry,” she
than love.” she said.
bands pressed against the log either he. the unsentimental leader of men. said earnestly. "I don't believe I can
"Yes. one thing.” said Thorpe—“the
ever
forget
that
experience
any
more
persuaded himself and her that li« li.-ul
Bide of her. her eyes wide.
Yesterday's Coast League scores:
duty of success."
After a moment she caught her breath j always in some mysterious m-.uuer than I could have forgotten a battle I The man had stated his creed, the Oakland, 2; Portland, 1. Tacoma, 7;
field
were
I
to
see
one.
”
convulsively, and Thoriie became con carried her image prophetically iu his
San Francisco, 1.
Seattle, C; Loe
The man twisted his shoulder uneas woman hers.
sclous that sbe was studying him fur heart. So much for the love of it.
She left him then anil did not see Angeles, 9.
In the last days of the month of de ily and withdrew his hand.
tively with a quickening doubt.
“Harry,” sbe said again after a him again. Four days later ting camp
After that, by the mercy of God. | light Thorpe received a second letter
pause,
“you must promise to leave tbit ing party left. Thorpe sent TlnfYihear1
from
his
partner,
which
to
some
extent
there was no more talk between them. |
Woods
until the very last. I suppose it er over us his most efficient man to see
Rev. Father Bentgeu, rector of the
Unconsciously the first strain of oppo I awakened him to the realities.
must
ail
be cut dowu some day, but I that they got off without difficulty, but
Eugene
Catholic church for the past
"My dear Harry,” it ran. "I have
altion and of hurt surprise relaxed.
bi mseif retired on some excuse to
Each thought vaguely bls thoughts.1 made a startling discovery. The other do not want to be here to see after it is Camp Four. Three weeks gone in Oc-,
two years.^ba« tieen transferred to
ail
over.
Men
do
not
care
much
for
Then in the depths of the forest, per fellow is Morrison. I have been ,-i I li In 1.
Portland and will leave here in a few
tober be received a marked newspaper
haps near at hand, perhaps far away, a stupid dolt and am caught nicely, You keepsake«, do they. Harry? But even :
days to take up his new work. The
announcing
the
engagement
of
Miss
single hermit thrush began to sing. Hisi can't call me any more names than 1 man can feel the value of a great beau Hilda l-'arrand to Mr. Hildreth Morton
reverond father has won much popu
song was of three solemn, deep, liquid have already called myself. Morrison tiful keepsake such as this, can’t be. of Chicago.
larity among the people of Eugene
dear?
Our
meeting
place
—
do
you
re
has
been
iu
it
from
the
start.
Uy
an
ac
notes, followed by a slight rhetorical,
dur
ing his stay here and it is with re
member
bow
I
found
you
down
there
The
following
dispatch
apfieared
In
cident
I
learned
he
was
belilad
the
fel
pause as of contemplation, and then de
gret that they hear of his intended re
yesterday’s Portland Journal:
llberately three notes more on a differ low who induced me to inv«s . and it is by the old pole trail staring as though
CONTINUED.
ent key. It 1« tbe most dignified, the be w ho bad been hammering the stock you had seen a ghost? It must al way-
“Ilwaco, Wash., April 6. — Business moral.
most spiritual, tbe holiest of woods ut down ever since. They couldn't lick lie our most sacred memory. Promts
Trustful.
men of South Bend are making stren
terances. Combined with the evening you at your game. s.> they tackled me me you wfll save it until the very, ver
C. C. Matlock a hie, < Io and hard
“A woman will not esteem a man uous efforts to induce the proprietor«
shadows and the warm soft air it of at mine. I’m not the man you are. last.”
v .L ju
be cannot trust,’’ said the mor of the Haines tannery, which is to be ware eslablishtn’nt io 'he Walton
Thorpe remained silent.
fered to tbe heart an almost Irresistible, Harry, and I've made a mess of It. of
moved from Eugene, to locate at block has recently added some new
In selecting the districts for the sea
appeal. Tbe man's artificial antago course their scheme is plain enough on
"Y- J.” answered Mr. Meekln, “and I
South
Bend, and a building location iron working machinery and shop fix
son's
cut
be
had
included
in
his
e«t!
the
face
of
it.
They're
going
to
involve
nlsm modified, the woman’s ‘dlsen-1
nm delimited to note that Henrietta has beeu offered free. It was expected tures and th»«
now h I.I o to do all
mates
this
very
grove.
Other
bodies
0
me so d««ply that I will drag the firm
chantnieut began to seem unreal.
always trusts me to put the cat out
timber promising a return of $10.00
ord «X the furnace Are und lock the to move the tannery from Eugene kinds of "ou work ii tbe tast man
Then subtly over and through the down with me.
were not to be found near the rivet
“If you can fix it to meet those r
bird song another sound became aiull-
ba.-, .ent door and do a lot of things." several months ago, on account of ex- tier possible. A big ilftW Intlio has
cetidvs lreight tn iff» and a scarcity just been added, '.so » htui per. The
ble. At fl>'«t It merely repeated th« they can't do it. I have ample mar; i and time now lacked for the cutting o
’»» aaluugton Star.
roads to more distant forties.
of hemlock Hark, which Is used for establishment now ha» twn 1 Htbes and
three not«« faintly Ilk« an echo, lint to cover any more declines they may
"Hilda," he broke in abruptly at last
Perhaps It Wn«.
with a rich, »-id nnilertoTia that brought able to bring about. Don't fret about
tanning. The proprietor« have ainoe under the direction of K. L Gilo ■ an,
Just as sure as you cun pay tl.at “the men you hear are clearing a roai
‘‘1 wonder what Erne M Ty's yom.. keen looking for a location, and have a splendid mechanic, th*« ! J.-wi Is
tears. Then timidly ai
to this very timber."
iM>. just so sure we ll be ahe
man left last night,” said mamma.
elaborated the thcuie.
visited a number of cities ou the low turning out some fine or k'.
“What do you mean
she asked,
I this time next year.
“It must 'a' been exactly 1 «’clock er coast. Aberdeen has also offered
out tin 'Ugh
uber
is
marked
for
cuttln
] J o -
All ntxt we«k Dr. 1
get a move on yo
ma,” said the younger hr. ther.
ter aud
a free building site, The tanneryrm n
-inter."
don't, the firm 'll
“The Idea! How do you know?"
optician, will b« in 1.
sound.
have not positively decided where
I’t pay. I'll bust two
“Why, just as bi* was leavin' I hr
OO-
lmacn.
11 you 1 ave h«nd or •
they w lil locate. ”
k
him ask Mary
lion, and '
JTl’t
oled with iiervou» i'
Hut y
—Pbila '.
, »
fail to luve him t.-.1 < <
rry. I
sibiy glasae« is all y-
mid
stoo<
ind
¡
’
re
no
right
V
«le tli® L-i
>r* slow
uble and leav<
JOT)*
Th« law yero in th« •
Grind'
k of getting out n
fere
test finished their en
>«r I'm going to In
Judgv Kincaid la-t e
t bo
•■condì
a salary," etc. •
nd
judge baa tuki-u t
«d
quietly,
aroused all Thorpe'
v.semerit before malt
ot time to cut :
Now at last the m
■
r
bunch
ot
pin«
In
bit
answer
to
the
suit
for
Morrison
by a master"
f h ni
Drives out all in
alleged to be due on a note given the coiled* 1« on«’» »
y hushed, an
■»< ,
then*
’
tl. 4
once the
■ji in nbandotieil tbe «
Bank of Brownsville, Horace G . Mo- strengthen» ami bu . I r ur
hi«
will
tiring.
”
'•on«,
u
ui
r
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