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WORLD M OF lUT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Events of Noted People, Government nd PadficNorthwf st, and Other Thing! Worth Knowing. Presidential headquarters for Sen ator W. G. Harding were opened in Chicago Monday. Notices announcing a wage increase of 15 per cent affecting 2500 employes were posted in Rockville, Conn., Mon day in the seven woolen mills. The condition of Dowager Queen Alexandra, who is suffering from a bronchial cold, Is causing anxiety, says the London Star. Alexandra is 75 years .old. The noted Madrid toreador, Gallito, whose real name was Joselito Gomez, was killed Sunday night at Place de Talavera, as he was about to dispatch the fifth bull of the evening. Thomas Annear, superintendent of the Denver United States mint, has received instructions to purchase bar silver in the open market; The gov ernment price will be ?1 an ounce. The peace resolution adopted by the senate Saturday was formally pre sented to the house Monday and laid on the table. The Chloago Motor Liverymen's association has announced a 20 per cent increase In the prices of horses and cabs for funerals. The U. S. supreme court failed again Monday to decide the validity of the prohibition amendment and the en forcement act and recessed until June 1. The cold storage bill requiring that the date of the entry of goods into cold storage be marked on them when they are offered for sale and limiting the period of such storage was passed Monday by the senate. It now goes to conference. The world's altitude record for a pilot and three passengers was broken at Mineola, N. Y Monday by Clarence E. Coombs, who rose to the height of 17,150 feet. This is 50. feet higher than the altitude reached by Captain Lowell II. Smith, commanding officer of Puryear field In El Centro, Cal., last Monday. The federal grand jury In Drooklyn returns indictments against Morris & Co. and the Cudahy Packing company of Chicago, charging profiteering In foodstuffs. The Morris company was alleged to have sold "City pork" to a dealer at 39 cents a pound, although a few days before the price had been but 33 cents. The Atlantic fleet, which has been at anchor in the Hudson river for the last two weeks, put to sea Monday. After maneuvering and practice runs, it is understood the fleet will go to Hampton Iloads. Rumors were also current that additional ships may soon be sent to the Gulf of Mexico to join the Oklahoma and the destrpyors now on duty there. Government authorities captured 17 Chinese, six quarts of some liquid thought to be an opiate, 1000 quarts of whiskey, 1500 quarts of cognac, 14 five-gallon demijohns of aguardiente and five demijohns of Cuban wine on board the Cuban schooner Iteemplazo off the coast of Florida at Tarpon Springs. The liquor was takon into Tampa, Fla. The high cost of clothing, partlcu larly women's appare,' slumped in San Francisco Monday. Advertise ments appearing in the morning and afternoon newspapors" announced re ductions, either temporary or until further notice, amounting to 20 per cent. Several haberdasheries also an nounced material decreases hi men's furnishings, exclusive of clothing, Exclusion of aliens from control of oil resources within the empire, gov ernment aid In developing new sup plies In other countries and restriction against disposal of oil stocks hold by British nationals are features of Great Britain's petroleum policy, tho senate was informed Monday by President Wilson. The Information, given in a special report from the state depart ment, was In answer to a senate reso lution asking what disabilities attach ed to American participation In world petroleum resources. The governmen tal policy of Great Britain, the report added, also contemplated financial and technical aid to pioneer companies. mm : STATE NEWS S IN BRIEF. Roseburg. With the close of busi ness on Saturday, May 8, approximate ly 500 applications had been filed In the Roseburg land office for Oregon and California grant lands, which were opened for filing on April 12. The Dalles. A controlling share In the stock of the Norman Cream com pany of this city has been purchased by the White Clover Ice Cream com pany of Portland. The new manage ment proposes to make the local creamery one of the largest in eastern Oregon. Corvallls. Peter Whitaker of Pine Cake ranch reports a turkey that has laid an egg every day for 62 days and the agricultural college hen record of shows no signs of quitting. This beats 55 eggs In 55 days and the record of the G. B. Coon white leghorn hen which laid 67 eggs in 67 days. Roseburg. The Drager company has begun erecting what they declare to be one of the biggest fruit packing plants In the state. The present build ing, a frame structure 130x45 feet and part of it three stories high, is being wrecked and a modern packing plant 160x50 feet, with an annex, will be built. The Dalles. Due to Increased pro duction of the five-mile sawmill, lum ber prices, effective last Thursday, have been cut 6 per cent by a local yard. It is hoped here that the re duction In the price of lumber may tend to relieve the serious housing shortage which has gripped this city for the last year and a half. Baker. The 12th annual show of the Union Livestock Show association at Union will be held Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, June 2, 3 and 4. There will be racing, wild west car nivals, dancing and other amusements. The automobile highway to Union has been improved. Many Baker people plan to go to Union for the show. Bend. That black volcanic cinders, inexhaustible deposits of which are found in the immediate vicinity of Bend, may solve the problem of find ing a light aggregate to take the place of gravel in bridge concrete, which has been confronting the state high way commission for some time, is the belief of District Highway Engineer Stebblns. Hood River. Workmen are now en gaged in completing new garage, ware house and residence structures here, the total cost of which will exceed $75,000. One of the garages will cost in excess of $26,000, and another $20, 000. Both will be equipped with every metropolitan convenience. A new coal bunkers and warehouse will cost about $15,000. The remainder of the total sum represents residence build ings. Salem. An unasslgned surplus of $841,618.51 is shown In the report pre pared by the state industrial accident commission here Friday and filed with Governor Olcott. Assets set out In the report include bonds in the hands of the state treasurer amounting to $3,691,201.65; cash, $316,978.14; cash In bank, $98,477.67; premiums In course of collection, $40,093.69, and accrued interest estimated at $60,- 385.83. Monmouth. Both bonds and special tax for a new high school gymnasium carried in the special election held here Wednesday, It was an easy vic tory, the tax of $6000 carrying by a vote of 27 to'13, and the $5000 bonds was voted for 62 to 29. Mr. Bergraff, an Albany architect, has planned building for the sum to be expended and in addition to Its use as a gym nasium it will be used for community gatherings. The gymnasium will have a seating capacity of 800. Salem. Bonds Issued by the Grants Pass, Medford and Ochoco irrigation district will be certified by state Irri gation securities commission as soon as the records of each project are com pleted and filed with the state en gineer, according to a decision reached at a conference held here recently. The Grants Pass district, in Josephine county, has voted bonds In the sum of $184,000, the Medford district $1,250,- 000, and the Ochoco district $100,000, The three projects are now under de velopment. The Dalles. The Dalles will build a civic auditorium at a cost of $125,000 This was decided Thursday, when citi zens went to the polls and gave the project a majority of 154 votes. Six hundred and twenty-four votes were cast. General obligation bonds to the extent of $50,000 also were voted. The bonds carried by a majority of 285 While considerable opposition to the auditorium bond issue developed, the valiant work of the American Legion which Is strongly behind the propost tton to gtvo music, literature and art a home in this city, carried the project over by a safe margin. TheCowPuncfier Cnnvr1fl.ht ti ITftnwr A Brothers CHAPTER XI. Continued. 17 Bert Morrison's confession had, how ever, set up another very Insistent train of thought in Irene's mind. She realized that Bert, with all her show of cynicism and masculinity, was really a very womanly young woman, with just the training and the insight into life that would make her almost irresistible should she enter the mat rimonial market. And Bert and Dave were already good friends; very good friends indeed, as Irene suspected from fragments of conversation which either of them dropped from time to time. Although she never doubted the singleness of Dave's devotion, she sometimes suspected that In Bert Mor rison's presence he felt a more frank comradeship than In hers. And it was preposterous that he should not know that Bert might be won for the win ning. And meantime ... Another winter wore away ; another spring came rushing from the moun tain passes; another summer was upon them, and still Irene Hardy bad not surrendered. A thousand times she told herself it was impossible, with her mother to think of and always she ended In indignation over her treatment of Dave. It was outrageous to keep him waiting . . . and some where back of her self-lndignatlon flit ted the form the now seductive form of Bert Morrison. Irene Hardy chose to be frank with herself over the situation. She had not doubted the sincerity of her at tachment for Dave Elden; but, hud she experienced such a doubt, the en try of Bert Morrison into the drama would have forever removed It. In fairness she admitted that things could not continue as they were. If she continued to trifle with Dave Elden Tes, trifle. She would be frank. She would not spare herself. She had been trifling with him. . . . She would lay her false pride aside. In the purity of her womanhood, which he could not misunderstand, she would divest her self of all convention and tell him frankly that that She was not sure what she would tell or how she would tell it She was sure only that she would make him know. At the very next opportunity. It came on a fine summer's evening In late July, while Dave and Irene drifted In his car over the rich ripen ing prairies. Everywhere were fields of dark- green wheat, alreauy Beginning xo glimmer with the gold of hurvest ; ev erywhere were herds of sleek cattle sighing and blowing contentedly In the cool evening air. Away to the west lay the mountains, blue and soft as a pillow of velvet for the head of the dying day; overhead, inverted Islands of brass and copper floated lazily in an Inverted sea of azure and opal ; up from the southwest came the breath of the far Pacific, mild and soft and gentle. "We started at the wrong end in our nation building," Dave was saying. "We started to build cities, leaving the country to take care of Itself. We are finding out how wrong we were. Depend upon It, where there Is a pros perous country the cities will take care of themselves. We have been putting the cart before the horse " But Irene's eyes were on the sunset ; on the slowly fading colors of the cloudlnnds overhead. Something of that color played across her fine face, mellowing, softening, drawing as It seemed, the very soul to cheeks and lips and eyes. Dave paused in his speech to regard her, and her beauty rushed upon him, engulfed him, over whelmed him in such a poignancy of tenderness that It seemed for a mo ment all his resolves must be swept away and he must storm the citadel that would not surrender to siege. . . . Only action could hold hlin resolute; he pressed down the accelerator until the steel lungs of his motor were drinking power to their utmost capac ity and the car roared furiously down the stretches of tho country road. It was dusk when he.had burnt out his violence, and, chastened and spent, he turned the machine to hum back gently to the forgotten city. Irene, by some fine telepathy, had fol lowed vaguely the course of his emo tions ; had followed them In delicious excitement and fear and hope. She sensed In some subtle feminine way the impulse that had sent him roaring into the distances; she watched his powerful hand on the wheel ; his clear, steady eye; the minute accuracy with which he controlled his flying motor; and she prayed and did not know what or why she prayed. But a color not all of the dying sunlight lit her cheek as she guessed she feared she hoped that she had prayed that he might forget his fine resolves that nls uCnrt m'ght at last outrule his head. ... In the deepening darkness her fin gers found his arm. The motion of the car masked the violence of her trem bltng, but for a time the pounding of her heart would not allow her speech. "Dave," she said, at length, "I want to tell you that I think you that we that I Oh, I've been very selfish and proud" Her fingers had followed his arm to the shoulder, and the car had idled" to a standstill. "I have fought as long as I can, Dave. I I always wanted to to lose, you know; and now I surrender." Elden lost no time in facing the un pleasant task of an Interview with Mrs. Hardy. It was even less pleas ant than he expected. "Irene is of age," said Mrs. Hardy, bluntly. "If she will, she will. But I must tell you plainly that I will do all I can to dissuade her. Ungrateful child!" she exclaimed, In an outburst of temper, "after all these years to throw herself away in an infatuation for.a cow puncher when there are men like Mr. Conward " "Conward!" interrupted Dave. "He has the manners of a gentle man," she said, in a tone intended to be crushing. "And the morals of a coyote," Dave returned hotly. "O-o-o-h I" said Mrs. Hardy, in a low, shocked cry. That Elden should speak of Conward witti such disdain seemed to her little less than sacrilege. Then, gathering herself together with some dignity: "If you cannot speak re spectfully of Mr. Conward you will please leave the house. I shall not forbid you to see Irene; I know that would be useless. But please do not trouble me with your presence." When Dave had gone Mrs. Hardy rang up Conward's number. "Oh, Mr. Conward !" she said. "You know who is speaking? . . . Yes. You must come up tonight. I do want to talk with you. I I've been insult ed in my own house. By that that Elden. It's all very terrible. I can't tell you over the telephone." Conward called early in the evening. Mrs. Hiirdy had heard the bell and bustled into the room. She had not yet recovered from her agitation, and made no effort to conceal it. - "Come into my sitting room, Mr. Conward. I am so glad you have come. Really, I am so upset. It is such a comfort to have some one you can de pend on some one whose advice one can seek, on occasions like tills. I never thought " "There, there," he said. "You must control yourself. Tell me. It will re lieve you, and perhaps I can help." "Oh, I'm sure you can," she re turned. "It's all over Irene and that that I will say it that cow puncher. Flatterers Are Seldom Proof Against Their Own Poison, To think it should have come to this! Mr. Conward, you are not a mother, so you can't understand. Ungrateful girl ! But I blame him. And the doctor. I never wanted him to come West. It was that fool trip, In that fool mo tor" Conward smiled to himself over her unaccustomed violence. Mrs. Hardy must be deeply moved when she for got to be correct. He had readily sur mised the occasion of her distress. It needed no words from Mrs. Hardy to tell him that Irene and Dave were en gaged. He had expected It for some time, and the Information was not al together distasteful to him. He had come somewhat under the spell of Irene's attractiveness, but he had no deep attachment for her. He was not aware that he had ever had an abid ing attachment for any woman. At tachments were things which he put on and off as readily as a change of clothes. He planned to hit Dave through Irene, but he planned that when he struck it should be a death blow.- Their engagement would lend a sharper edge to his shaft. It may as well be set down that for Mrs. Hardy Conward had no regard whatever. Even while he shaped soft words for her ear he held her In con tempt. To him 6he was merely a silly old woman. From the day he had first seen Mrs, Hardy his altitude toward her had been one of subtle flattery, partly be cause it pleased his whim and partly on that same day he had seen Irene, and he was shrewd enough to know that his approach to the girl's affec tions inust be made by way of the ac quaintanceship which he would estab lish under the guise of friendship for her mother. Since his trouble with Dave Conward had a double purpose In developing that acquaintanceship. He had no compunctions as to his method of attack. While Dave was Br Robert J. GSteid Author ot "Kitchener and Other Poems" Jltustrationt by IRWIN MYERS manfully laying siege to the front gate Conward proposed to burglarize the home through the back door of family Intimacy. And now that Dave seemed to have won the prize Con ward realized that his own position was more secure than ever. Had he not been called in consultation by the girl's mother? Were not the inner af fairs of the family now laid open be fore him? Did not bis position as her mother's adviser permit him to assume toward Irene an attitude which, in a sense, was more Intimate than even Dave's could be? He turned these matters over quickly in his mind and congratulated himself upon the wisdom of his tactics. "It's very dreadful," Mrs. Hardy was saying, between dubbings of her per fumed handkerchief on eyes that bore witness to the genuineness of her dis tress. "Irene is not an ordinary girl. She has in her qualities that justified me in hoping that that she would do very different from this. Need I conceal from you, Mr. Conward from you, of all men what have been my hopes for Irene?" Conward's heart leaped at the con fession. He had secretly entertained some doubt as to Mrs. Hardy's pur pose in opening her home to him as she had done; absurd as the hypothe sis seemed, still there was the hy pothesis that Mrs. Hardy saw In Con ward a possible comfort to her declin ing days. He had no doubt that her vanity was equal to that supposition, but he had done her less than justice in supposing that she had any directly personal ambitions. Her ambitions were for Irene. She had hoped that, by bringing Conward Into the house, by bringing Irene under the influence of a close family acquaintanceship with him, that young lady might be led to Bee the folly of the road she was choosing. She had hoped that he would be the successful suitor for Irene. And Conward's heart leaped at the confession. "I suppose I need not conceal from you," he answered, "what my hopes have been. It is reasonably safe to judge a daughter by her mother, and by that standard Irene is one of the most adorable of young women." "I have been called attractive In my day," confessed Mrs. Hardy, warm ing at once to his flattery. "Have been?" said Conward. ."Saj rather you are. If I had not been ren dered, perhaps, a little partial by my admiration of Irene, I well, one can scarcely give his heart In two places, you know. And my deep regard for you, Mrs. Hardy my desire that you shall be spared this ah threatened humiliation, will justify me In using heroic measures to bring this un fortunate affair to a close. You may trust me, Mrs. Hardy. Irene Is you will forgive me, Mrs. Hardy, but Irene Is, if I may say it, somewhat head strong. She Is" "She Is her father over again," Mrs. Hardy Interrupted. "I told him he should not attempt that crazy trip of his without me along, but he would go. And this Is what he has brought upon me, and he not here to share it." Mrs. Hardy's tone conveyed very plainly her grievance over the doctor's behavior in evading the consequences of the situation which his headstrong folly had created. "She is set in her own mind," Con ward continued. "We must not openly oppose her. We must adopt other tac tics." "You are very clever," said Mrs. Hardy. "You have been a student of human nature." Conward smiled nleasurably. Little as he valued Mrs. Hardy's opinion, her words of praise fell very gratefully upon him. Flatterers are seldom proof against their own poison. "Yes, I have studied human nature," he admitted. "The most interesting and the most profitable of all studies, And I know that young couples in love are not governed by the ordinary lawB of reason. That Is why it is useless to argue with Irene sensible girl though she is on a subject like this, We must reach her some other way. "The way that occurs to me Is to create distrust. Love is either ab surdly trustful or absurdly suspicious. There is no middle course, no bal anced judgment. In the trustfulness of love little virtues are magnified to angelic qualities, and vices are quite unseen. But change that trust to sus picion, and a hidden, sinister meaning is found behind the simplest word or act. We must plan two campaigns One, which I have already suggested, and one, if that should fail, to cause Elden to distrust Irene. No, no," he said, raising his hand toward Mrs. Hardy, who had started from her seat, "there must be no vestige of reason, except that the end justifies the means. It is a case of saving Irene, even if we must pain her and you In the sav ing." "It's very dreadful," Mrs. Hardy re peated. "But you are very thorough you leave notning.to cnance. 1 sup pose that Is the way with all big busi ness men." "You can trust me," Conward assured her. "There is no time to be lost, and I must plan my campaigns at once.' (TO BB CONTINUED. 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