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About Estacada progress. (Estacada, Or.) 1908-1916 | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1912)
POLICEMAN W INS MARATHON. Current Ente ol Interest C a lM From the World et large: General Resum e o f Im portant E ven« Presented In C ondensed Form fo r O u r Busy Reader*. One av iato r was killed a t P aria and one a t Sebastopol Tuesday. P resident T a ft will be officially in form ed of hia nom ination A ugust 1. Prospects o f a huge w heat crop are sending the prices down in the C hi cago m arkets. L orim er has decided to go back to Chicago and go to work. He may seek re-election. P resident T a ft sent a m essage of congratulation to the A m erican a th letes a t Stockholm. E ngland’s pro test against the pro posed Panam a bill finds considerable support in the senate. Two K lam ath fishermen claim a tro u t w eighing 11 pounds jum ped into th e ir boat on Lake Ewauna. T hree women bathers were drowned n e ar S anta Cruz. Cal., w hile one of them was try in g to save the o th er two. i G reatest Event o f Olympiad Goea to 8oulh Africa. Stockholm — South A frica, which heretofore has played a m odest p a rt in th is Olympic dram a, came to the cen te r o f the stage a t the m om ent of its culm ination, w inning the m arathon race, the most im p o rtan t num ber on the Olym pic program . T his m ight have been honor enough for a small nation, but South A frica also won sec ond place by a secure lead. The w inner of the classical m ara thon was K. K. M cArthur, a tall T ransvaal policeman. His com pat riot, C. W. G itshaw, came second into the stadium several hundred yards be hind, and third to appear was the Am erican, G raston Strobino, [of South Paterson A thletic club, who put up a b raver fight than m ost of the runners, for his fe et were skinned and bleeding and he was suffering g re at pain. He never lost hia nerve, though, and made a brave a tte m p t a t feeling hap py w hile he traversed the stadium track a furlong behind the second man a t the end of the perform ance. The A m ericans gave a death blow to the theory th a t the a th letes of the U nited S tates are b e tte r a t contests which require quickness and agility than in te s ts of endurance. W hile 3000 spectators in the sta dium strained th e ir eyes tow ard the archw ay from under which the runners em erged, they saw the Am erican shield on the breasts of six of the first ten men who entered. l i n i DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE MILL WASTE TO BE USED . CLEM EN T H ITS OREGON. C o o t Bay W ood Pulp Plant Will Be C om pleted Within Y ear, Portland— R obert N erdrum and Hy- alte Nerdrum , young N orw egians who are interested in the Coos Bay Pulp A Paper company, of Marshfield, have been a t the M ultnomah hotel for sev eral days aw aitin g the arriv al o f th e ir wives from Norway. H yalte N erdrum , in speaking of th is new industry a t Coos Bay, said: “ It will be a y ear before we begin the m anufacture of wood pulp, as it takes th a t long to com plete the build ings of reinforced concrete, and in stall the m achinery. The m achinery will largely be m anufactured in this country but some p a rts w ill come from Europe. “ The process o f se p a ra tin g the wood fiber in th is country is known as the soda process, w hile we are to use the sulphate of soda process. “ We are jo in tly in terested in the en terp rise w ith the C. A. Sm ith Lum ber company and our raw m aterial will consist o f the refuse from the mill of th a t company, which is now destroyed. “ Our u ltim ate plan is to o p e rate a paper mill a t Coos Bay, but th is will not be attem p ted a t p re se L ” Lack o f C orporation Law C ause of “ C rookedness ” Salem —T hat Oregon is the stam p ing ground for crooked prom oters from o th er states, who m ake it a p ractice to come here to organize fake com panies because the law s of Oregon do not give the sta te authority to look into the affairs of corporations is one o f the declarations m ade by E. C. Clem ent, U nited S ta te s postoffice in spector. Am ong other things, he told of one person alone who was fleeced of $40,- 000 by the Columbia R iver O rchards company and the Oregon-W ashington T ru st company, in which these com panies deliberately led him into a tra p to secure the money and branding him as a “ su ck er” in le tte rs which passed back and forth betw een those in te rested. “ I am now on the tra il of certain men who did not dare organize in the sta te w here they live, but have come to Oregon to file th eir papers and have already floated m illions of dollars of w orthless stock all over the W e st,” he declared. “ The Columbia R iver Orchards com pany affairs furnishes a good illu stra tion of the way in which g ra fte rs flock to th is sta te to float th e ir crooked en terp rise s. These people had to have a dummy corporation to act as a tru s tee. T hey couldn’t organize it under the law s of W ashington, so they came to P ortland end organized the .Oregon- W ashing ton T ru st company under the law s of Oregon. T his company was supposed to hold $125 w o.th of securi tie s fo r every $100 w orth of the obli gation of the Columbia R iver O r chards company. W hen the crash cam e i t developed th a t th eir alleged se c u rities were absolutely w orthless. Even th e office fu rn itu re was not paid for and the stenographer was cheated o u t o f her salary. The public was fleeced o u t of about two and a q u a rte r m illions of dollars on th is g ra ft, which would not have been possible if there had been a sta te law providing for the supervision of corporations, such as the proposed blue-sky law, which I e arn estly hope may be adopted. I do not know o f anything th a t would be of g re a te r benefit to honest corporations than some such act to give the sta te control o f crooked prom oters and cor p o ra tio n s.” NEW CHERRY GROWN. Max P racht, Ja c k so n County, Devel ST A R T HAZARDOUS TRIP. The U nited S ta te s c irc u it court of ops Luscious Variety. appeals has decided th a t an Indian Ashland—Since re tirin g from the trib a l m arriag e according to rite s of Four A m ericans to C ro ss Atlantic In governm ent service a t W ashington, th e trib e is a legal m arriage. Small M otor Boat. Max P racht, has developed into a New York — Thomas Flem ing Day, practical h o rtic u ltu rist. More Pullm an cars w ere taken to He resides and from Portland during the Elks who la st y ear navigated the 21-foot near Ashland, Jackson county, w here convention week than were handled at yawl Seabird across the A tlantic from he first came into prom inence as a suc Los Angeles d uring the convention in Providence to G ib raltar w ith two com cessful peach cu ltu rist. More re ce n t panions on board, sta rte d from New ly he has produced a new v a rie ty of th a t city in 1909. The U nited S ta te s court has lim ited Rochelle harbor on another long and cherry, which is pronounced by e x venturesom e voyage. He is try in g to perts to be one of the best comm ercial the liab ility of the steam er San Pedro take the 36-foot m otor boat D etro it to va rie tie s th a t is grown in th e Pacific to 316,600 for sinking the steam er Queenstown and incidentally will try N orthw est. T his cherry in m any re Colum bia off the C alifornia coast in to m ake a new record for m otorboats spects resem bles the Bing, being 1907, when 80 lives w ere lost. across the ocean. The record now is large, firm and of exceptional flavor. A woman rancher in C alifornia was 36 days, m ade in 1904. Mr. P ra c h t sent a sam ple box o f the bitter, by a ra ttlesn ak e while ir r ig a t Accompanying Mr. Day are Charles ing her a lfa lfa field. She killed the C. E arle, who is m ate, and W. New- fru it, which he has christened the P rach t Im perial, to his friend, Phil snake and then walked a m ile to her stead and W alter Morton, both from M etschan, p roprietor of the Im perial house and applied home rem edies. D etroit, who are engineers. hotel a t P ortland. The dem and for The D etro it is 6 feet long, 9 fe e t 6 " j u s t a ta s te ” of the c h erries was so H e tty Green, the richest woman in inches beam , and 5 fe e t 6 inches d raft. g re a t th a t the supply proved insuffi the world, has joined the church a t She is equipped w ith a tw o-cylinder, cient to go the rounds. the age of 78 years. 16-horse-power Scripps m otor, which Denver au th o rities turned down a will drive the yacht seven m iles an bill for autos used to haul voters to hour. She carries 1200 gallons of MILL AIDS EM PLO Y ES. th e polls. gasoline in seven steel tanks. The yacht carries 200 gallons of W illamette Pulp & P a p e r Com pany Canal tolls issue leads to protest to Build Model City. from England, and a diplom atic stru g fresh w a te r and stores for 90 days. She is fitted w ith a small rig for use gle is on. Oregon C ity— In order to aid its in case o f accident to the engine. Puyallup valley, W ashington, is A fte r reaching Queenstown the De employes and m ake them b e tte r sa tis calling loudly for harvest hands and tro it will proceed to England. She fied w ith conditions the W illam ette berry pickers. will sail up the E nglish channel to the Pulp & P aper company w ill found a N orth sea, then to the B altic and on little city for them on the W est Side Two women w ere killed and a third to St. P etersburg. near the schoolhouse. The concern badly injured by being run down by a has about 750 employes, and a t M ilwaukee tra in n ear Seattle. lea st half of them w ill be benefitted ICE ENDANGERS T R O O P S . w ithin a year. A tra c t o f 66 acres B urglars stole some wine and sever has been purchased which will be al boxes of cig ars from the residence Sixteenth Infantry Safe In Am erica cleared im m ediately and platted this A fter Thrilling E xperience. o f Bishop Scannell, in Omaha. sum m er. It is the com pany’s plan as T acom a—A fte r having narrow ly es outlined by Mr. McBain, mill m anager, A plague of g n ats hit W enatchee, land into quarter- W ash., and surrounding country, caped being sen t to the bottom by the to divide th e m any horses being seriously injured ice floes encountered in B ehring Sea, acre trac ts, lots 100 by 100 fe et or 60 the U nited S ta te s arm y tran sp o rt by 200 feet, as desired, and to reserve by the pests. Sheridan arrived in Tacom a w ith the one block for park purposes. A three-hours' conference has been S ix teeth U nited S ta te s In fa n try reg i Modern dw ellings will be erected by arranged betw een Champ C lark and ment. the company for the employes, to be his successful rival for the Demo The men aboard told of th eir th rill paid for on m onthly installm ents equal c ratic nom ination. ing escape from death when caught in to rent. No in te re s t will be charged. the g rip of the ice in N orthern seas. T his method of hom e-building and The big new A ustrian dreadnaught, For seven days, off St. Law rence built a t a cost of $12,000,000, is found Island, to the w est of Norton sound, buying, Mr. McBain declares, will to be practically useless, ow ing to en route to Nome, th e Sheridan lay m ake it possible for every employe to own his own home w ithin a few years. fau lty designing and construction. icebound, m aking but 90 m iles in this I t is estim ated th a t 10,000 Elks w ere in line in the grand parade in Portland. S tre e t cars and railroads leading to the c ity did the heaviest traffic ever known. P resident Mohler, of the Union Pacific, announces th a t an order has been given for $2,000,000 w orth of new rolling stock for the Union Pa cific and Oregon Short Line. PORTLAND MARKETS. tim e. F or 48 hours her captain, Mike Healy, and P ilot K rarasky w atched cn the bridge o f the ship and a t tim es the cap tain stood on the prow, d ire c t ing the slow advance of the ship through trem endous ice floes. The enlisted men em barked endured untold harsdships from cold, the steam ing fa cilitie s of the Sheridan be ing inadequate, and two died of pneu m onia en route. The officers of the S ix teen th regim ent aboard the tra n s port, re tu rn in g to the U nited S tates, have presented C aptain H ealy w ith a loving cup. The Sheridan is en route to San Francisco. Fresh F ru its—Cherries, 26/; 10c per pound; apples, old, $1.60613 per box; new, $1.60f>i 1.75; peaches, 666r75c; Lins is Drawn on I. W. W. currants, $1.60661.75; plums, 90e@ $1.25; pears, $1.756i2; apricots, San Diego, Cal.— F or the first tim e $1.26; grapes, $2.50 per crate. in several w eeks Ind u strial W orkers B erries — R aspberries, $1.50 per c ra te ; loganberries, $ 1.25@ 1.60; and th e ir sym pathizers a tte m p ted to hold an outdoor m eeting on a stre e t black caps, $1.50. Melons — Cantaloupes, $2.75 c ra te ; ju st outside o f the re stric te d d istric t. Police appeared and forced the crowd w aterm elons, l6f l f c per pound. One m an resisted and V egetables — A rtichokes, 656675c to move on. per dozen; beans, 8(/69c; per pound; was arrested . A cting C hief of Police cabbage, 1661ic; cauliflower, $1.25 Meyers says the S ocialists and o ther per dozen; fcelery, $5o/6 per c ra te ; organizations may speak in the stre ets corn, 30c per dozen; cucumbers, $1 outside the re stric te d d istric t, but th a t per box; eggplant, 25c per pound; Industrial W orkers m ay not because head lettuce, 12c dozen; peas, 8'q9c they are deemed an arch ists whose pound; peppers, 126/ 16c; radishes, speeches a re likely to cause a riot. 15di20c dozen; spinach, 46/6c pound; H onor Fam ous G ardener. garlic, 8M10c; carrots, $1.76 sack; Paria — A ndre L enotre, the m ost turnips, $1.25. Potatoes — Jobbing prices: Bur famous gardener o f history, the cre banks, old, '$16/1.25 per hundred;! ator of the gardens of V ersailles, g a r dener-in ordinary to Louis XIV of new, per pound, l$66l$c. Onions—C alifornia red, $1.25 sack; France, has but recently had his re nown comm emorated by the erection yellow, $1.60. W heat—Track prices: Bluestem, 88 of a sta tu e in Paris. Now more honor 6/ 89c; club, 846/85c; red Russian, 84 is to be paid him. The French m in 6185c; valley, 84(g85c; 40-fold, 8466-1 ister o f public instruction has ap pointed a com m ittee to consider the 85c. H ay—T im othy, $146616.50; alfal best m eans o f c elebrating the three- fa, $1.25; clover, $10; oats and hundredth anniversary of his birth. The approved scheme is a retrospec vetch. $12; g rain hay, $9. MillstulTs — B ran,” $25.50 ton; tive exhibition of the gardening a rt. shorts, $26; m iddlings, $32. O ne It Killed in W reck. Corn— Whole, $39 ¡cracked, $40 ton. O ata— No. 1 w hite, $346/35 ton. Fargo, N. D. — One man was killed Eggs—Case count, 24c; candled, and several passengers are said to 25c; e x tra s, 27c. have been injured when the O riental B u tte r—Oregon cream ery, cubes, or Lim ited, the G reat N o rth ern ’s fa st solid pack, 28c pound; prints, 29c. Pacific Coast train , was wrecked a t P ork— Fancy, 106i'10Jc pound. Ashby, a small station 74 m iles east of V eal— Fancy, 136/ 13$c pound. here. The cars le ft the track and P o u ltry —Hens, 12$c pound; broil rolled over an em bankm ent. They ers, 176/17$c; ducks, young, 106611c; then took fire and six of them were geese, 106/11c; turkeys, live, 18c; consumed. All passengers w ere re dressed, 246/ 25c. moved from the cars before the fire C a ttle —Choice steers, $6.75667; started. ____________ good, $66/6.50; m edium, $5.756/6; C hinese M inisters Quit. choice cows, $5.76666.26; good, $5.60 665.75; m edium , $66t5.60; choice Pekin — The m in iste r of finance, calves, $76/8.25; good heavy calves, Hsiung Hsi Ling, and four other m in isters, have resigned. The finance $66/6.50; bulls, $3.60665.10; [stags, m inister is re tirin g to devote him self |4 75666. Hogs — L ight, 986/8.36; heavy, to the reh ab ilitatio n o f the financial ; situation. He, to gether w ith the pre $6.256/ 7. Sheep—Y earlings, $36/4.26; w eth m ier and Chose Tezchi. com prise a ers, $3.906/ 1.50; ewes, $3663.76; special com m ittee to deal w ith foreign loans. lam bs, $4.60666.60. Je w s T ake to A griculture. The H ebrew A gricultural associa tion of Oregon came into corporate existence recently in the vestry rooms of the Hall s tre e t Synagogue, P o rt land, w ith the appointm ent of a com m ittee on co nstitution and by-laws, the securing of a c h a rte r from the S ta te of Oregon and the election of officers. The o bject of th is organiza tion is to encourage a g ric u ltu re among the Jew s. T his organization will lend money w ithout in te re st and otherw ise a ssist Jew ish farm ers in th e ir voca tion. ________ TA RIFFS PLACED ON FILE. R oads Nam ed on Which Interchange* able Books Are Good, Salem — T ariffs for the new in te r changeable m ileage books have been filed w ith the S ta te Railroad comm is sion, to become effective A ugust 15. The m ileage books will be good a t the ra te o f one coupon a m ile on the follow ing roads: Camas P ra irie ; Chicago, M ilwaukee P u g e t Sound; Corvallis & E astern ; Idaho, W ashing ton & N orthern; N orthern Pacific; Oregon E le ctric; Oregon T ru n k ; O.- W. R. & N .; P. R. A N . ; P o rt Town send Southern; Salem, Falls C ity & W estern; Spokane & Inland; Spokane In tern a tio n a l; S. P. A S . ; Southern Pacific in Oregon, including towns on K lam ath Falls branch via Weed, C al.; Tacoma, A E astern, and W ashington, Idaho A Montana. The roads on w hich m ileage from m ileage books will be accepted on the basis of the local fa re are as follow s: Coeur d ’Alene & St. Joe T ran sp o rta tion company, G reat N orthern in B rit ish Columbia on local lines, Pacific & E astern, Reid T ransportation com pany, and U nited Railw ays. B rook T ro u t Planted. Portland — The w ork of stocking Oregon stream s w ith brook tro u t is going forw ard rapidly. Ten cans of tro u t fry w ere taken down the riv er to be lib erated in stream s near Scap- poose. The work of d istrib u tin g these fish is being shared by m em bers of the Multnomah A nglers' club. Cans of fish are being transported to various points in autom obiles belong ing to club m em bers. A nother ship m ent o f E astern tro u t is soon to be Hood River Has R ecord Hay Yield taken into the m ountains of the Cas Hood R iver—The Hood R iver valley cade range for lib eratio n in the lakes. w ill have one of the larg e st hay crops Rain Ruins Big Hay C rop. this y ear in its history. The acreage F orest Grove— H eavy rains have is unusually large and the continuous destroyed thousands of do llars’ w orth rains have produced heavier crops than of hay in this section, besides the late in form er years. The first power stra w b erry yield and the early cher b aler ever used in the valley was de ries. Clover hay for th e m ost p a rt livered here la st w eek. In Odell dis has been ruined, as the g re a te r por tric t, w here a g re a t deal of hay is tion of the crop w as cut a t the be raised, nearly every rancher will have ginning o f the rainy w eather. Much q u a n titie s of feedstuffs to sell, w here tim othy hay also has been destroyed. as in form er years nearly every one is One fa rm e r cut 100 acres during a a purchaser of the product to tide over period o f fa r w eath er b u t w ith the the w in ter months. heavy rains he w ill suffer a total loss. The rains, however, w ere of special Bridge to Span W est Fork. benefit to potatoes. Hood R iver—The county court has le t a contract for a bridge to span the Fair to Get New Buildings. W est Fork of Hood river, w here the A storia — A t the m eeting of the lake branch en te rs th a t stream . The board of d irectors of the Lower Co bridge will replace the old wooden lum bia F a ir association, the bid of stru c tu re which has stood for so many Fred E llio tt & Son, o f G earhart, for years. The new bridge will m ake a the erection of four o f the exh ib it passable route for autom obiles to a buildings was accepted and President point near L ost lake. H eretofore G. L. Rees was authorized to en te r heavy cars have not crossed the old into a contract w ith them a t once. The bridge. T his region is a fav o rite one buildings are to be com pleted by Sep for the h u n ter and fisherman, and tem ber 1. Mr. Rees w as also appoint m any cam ping p a rties every y ear visit ed to arrange for the clearing of the the region. grounds. ________ Road Builder* at O ntario. O ntario — F orty-nine cars loaded w ith railroad construction m aterial have arrived here. In the lot w ere 17 cars of steel. N early every tra in a r riv in g brings laborers contracted for the grade work. Bridge carpenters also have arrived. A track forem an, who has been laying track on the Ida ho N orthern branch, is here and it is understood the construction tra in will follow in a few days'w hen the w ork of laying the steel will begin. Tillamook Factory S its )8ought. Tillam ook—A site is being selected here for the location of a factory to m anufacture m ilk products, including condensed whipped cream , cream of rice, ready-prepared cocoa and choco late and o ther products req u irin g the use of large quan tities of m ilk. It is proposed to expend $100,000 on a plant, which will be opened some tim e in the fall. ” B usiness F o rm ” is Lost. Oregon C ity—The business form of governm ent proposed for Oregon City in piece o f the presen t councilm anic form, w as voted down a t a special election by a vote of 342 to 66. L ike w ise the proposed bond issue to the am ount o f $17,000 to e rect a m unici pal e le v ato r to tak e the place of the long sta irste p s leading up to the re si dence section, was voted down by 222 to 176. H aw lty S e c u res New Route. Salem — A fte r repeatedly having the proposal to establish rural route No. 7 from Oregon C ity rejected. R epresent a tiv e Haw ley continued to collect facts and argum ents from the people living along the W illam ette riv er on the Clackam as county side, opposite the town of W illam ette, and has at last secured a favorable decision from the dep artm en t p e rm ittin g the desired service. At the bec tr 'n s of g r e a t autom obile r a c e t h e m e c h a n i c i a n or t h e M e r c u r y , B t a n t o n ' a m a c h i n e , d r o p s d ea d. S t r u n g e y o u t h . J e s s e Floy d. v o l u n t e e r s , a n d Is a c ce p te d . I n t h e r e s t d u r i n g t h e t w e n t y - rour hour race S tan to n m eets a stran g e r. Miss C ar li s le , w h o I n t r o d u c e s h e r s e l f. C H A P T E R II.— (Continued.) "My fath er la president of a tire company," she idly rem arked. “ His tires are being used on some of the cars, the Mercury for one, I believe, and he wanted to w atch their testing under uae. So, after a dinner engage m ent we could not escape, we mo tored down here from the city. You see I have not viewed much of the race. I adm it this does not look very perilous and I am a bit disappointed. I," again her short crystal laugh, “I shall hope b e tte r things of the famous Stanton; I w ant to adm ire him very much. But I am detaining you, and you were leaving! Every thanks for your patience.” “Hardly leaving, since the twenty- four hour race is not six hours old,” he corrected briefly. “I am glad to have been of any use to you.” She returned his salute; then, upon the cool impulse of one accustom ed to doing as she chose, put her question directly: “Ah—I am Miss C arlisle; I would like to know who has been good enough to aid me in my Ignorance^” “My name is Stanton,” he complied, and went on. From the shelter of the obscurity he looked back. She had taken a step forward into the light and her veil had slipped aside as she gazed after him with an expression of acute and eager interest. She could not have been older than twenty-four or five, with a finely cut, beautiful face fram ed In waves of fair hair. Floyd was sitting on a camp-stool outside the tent, chatting with a group of men, when Stanton returned. The re st had brought back the m ech anician’s color and anim ation; in fact, he looked ridiculously young and ir responsible. But he sprang up read ily at the driv er’s nod. “Tim e?” he asked, his gray eyes like burnished steel. "Yes,” Stanton confirmed. And to the n earest m an: “Bring in the ca~.” There was an obedient commotion. Several men ran to flag the other driver; Floyd caught up goggles and cap, and knelt to tighten a legging strap. As Stanton m ade his own prep arations, Mr. Green bustled up to him. “W e’re leading,” he rem inded su perfluously. “There isn’t, really, any need for e x tra fast work, Stanton.” Stanton snapped a buckle, saying nothing. “I telephoned to the office and told R upert he needn’t come. 1 told him th at you had a new m an.” “W ell?” “He said, ‘Poor m ut.’ ” The driver straightened to his full height, his firm dark face locking to bronze inflexibility. “You had b e tte r report his sym pa thy to Floyd, whom it’s m eant for,” he advised hardly. “I’m not interested. If the company doesn't like the way I drive, let them get some one in my place; but while I do drive the car, I drive, and not R upert or Floyd, or— any one else. I’ll neither take risks nor shirk them to order.” The a ssista n t m anager choked, speechless. He had no way of know ing why Stanton flashed a sullen glance toward the row of autom obiles before the grand stand, or who was m eant by th a t “any one else.” Mean while, he was intractable, he was In subordinate, and he was obstinate— but he was Stanton. The Mercury rolled in, the two men climbed from th eir seats, and there was a m om entary delay for tank fill ing. Stanton took his place, experi m entally speeding and retarding his m otor while he waited for the work men to finish. “8top a m inute while I fix the car buretor,” requested Floyd, from be side the m achine. “It’s colder late a t night like this. W ait, you’ve dropped your glove.” Stanton silenced the engine. Some thing In the fresh voice, the boyish grace of the slight figure, the ready courtesy of the act, stirred him with a strange sensation and pricking sham e at his own brutality. “Poor m ut,” a whisper repeated to his inner ear. W hen Floyd offered the gauntlet, the other dropped a hand upon his shoul der. “Are you riding with me because you want the money badly enough to chance anything.” Stanton demanded harshly, "or because you are willing to trust my driving?” Taken by surprise, open astonish ment crossed the younger m an's face, but his eyes did not flinch from the ones behind the goggles. "I think you’re the best driver on the track,” came the steady answ er “And I’d ra th e r tru st myself to your recklessness th aa to some one else’s. m istakes. If you w ant to know. I guess you can ste er straight enough for both of us.” Stanton's hand relaxed Its hold. “Go fix your carburetor. Yes, I can ste er—straight.” Again the blue-black eyes flashed sneering defiance toward the grand stand; for the m oment. Miss Oir* lisle’s hope of w itnessing desperate feats by the Mercury car seemed far from realization. But the Mercury had not circled the mile oval four tim es when the Duplex, its choked feed-pipe cleared at last, burst from the paddock with Its mas ter driver at the wheel and bent on the recovery of lost time. The Mer cury was on the back stretch o £ track, running casually near a lity *\iles a t the moment Stanton raised his head, alert a frac tional second too late, and his closest rival shot past him, roaring down the white path. It was too much; Floyd and Miss Carlisle sank out of memory together, as Stanton reached for thro ttle and spark. The Mercury snarled and leaped like a startled cat. The dull period was over. The Mercury car was slightly the faster, but the Duplex held the inside line, and the difference between the drivers was not in skill so much as in daredeviltry. Slower machines kept conservatively out of the way as the dangerous rivals fought out their speed-battle. T hree tim es Stanton hunted the Duplex around the track, gaining on each lap, until the last cir cuit was made with the cars side by side, a flaming team. The spectators, scanty at this hour before dawn, rose, applauding and cheering, as the two passed again, still clinging together. But gradually it became evident that Stanton, who held the outside, was steadily crowding the Duplex toward the paddock fence. Nor could the Duplex defend Itself from the m a neuver which must ultim ately force it to fall behind at one of the turns or accept destruction by collision. The m achines were so close that a sw erve on the part of either, the blow-out of a tire or a catch in the ruts cut in the track at certain points, m eant un gentle death. Mercilessly, gradually, Stanton pressed his perilous advan tage. And at the crucial m oment he heard a low, exultant laugh. “Cut him clo ser!” urged his m ech anician’s eager, excited accents at his ear. "W e'll get him on this turn— he’s w eakenin’— Cut him close!” The com rade trium ph came to Stan ton as an unaccustom ed cordial. They were passing the grand stand. Just ahead lay the worst curve. It was partly reputation which won. If the Duplex had held firm, the Mer cury m ust in self-preservation have yielded room. But the driver knew Stanton, guessed him capable of wrecking both by obstinate persist ence in attack, and dared not meet the issue. T here came the gun-llke reports of a shut-ofT motor, the Du plex slackened its furious pace, and Stanton hurtled past him on the turn itself, lurching across the ruts, and led the way down the track. The w itnesses in stands and pad- dock went frantic. Floyd pumped oil. Stanton snatched a glajice at the m in iature watch strapped on his wrist, over his glove, and slightly reduced speed. The m aneuver had been suc cessful, but the driver knew th at it m ight have called down upon him the Judges’ Just censure and have sent him from the track, disqualified. The num ber of laps steadily grew on the bulletin register. A faint, dull light overspread the sky, the fore runner of the early sum m er dawn. At four o’clock the M ercury unexpected ly blew out a tire, reeling across to the fence line from the shock" and the ja r of sharply applied brakes. Stanton said som ething, and sent his car limp ing cautiously around to the camp w here its repairers stood ready. Floyd slid out of his hard, narrow seat ra th e r stiffly. The cold grayness was bright enough now to show the streaks of grimy dust and oil wher ever the m asks had failed to protect of tho men. “T hey’ll w ither fast enough.** The new tire was on. As Stanton turned to his machine, a fte r tearing the card to unreadable fragm ents, he saw Floyd watching him w ith curious Intentness. A raw, wet m ist had commenced to roll in from the near by ocean. The promise of dawn was recalled, a dull obscurity closed over the m otordrom e, leaving even the search-lighted path dim. The cars rushed on steadily. The night had been singularly free from accidents. Only one machine had been actually wrecked, although three had been withdraw n from the contest. T he officials In the Judges’ stand were congratulating one a n other. at the m oment when the second disaster occurred. The m ist had grown thicker, In the lights a dazzling silver curtain before m en’s eyes, and the track had been worn to deep grooves a t the turns. The Mercury was sweeping past the g ran d stan d , when one of the two slower cars, being overtaken, slipped its d riv er’s control, caught In a foot- deep rut, and swerved crashing into the machine next it. Twice over It rolled, splintering slckeningly, but flinging both of its men clear of the wreck. The car struck, plunged on around the curve into the m ist, ap parently unhurt. Out across the damp dusk pierced the shriek of the klaxon, mingled with the cry of the people and the tiukle of the hospital telephone. Stanton, sw inging wide to avoid the pitiful wreckage, kept on his course. “S to p !” Floyd shouted im peratively beside him. “Stop, Stanton, sto p !” Stanton sped on, disregarding w hat he supposed was a novice’s nervous sym pathy. He could not aid the stunned men lying on the track, and one glance had told him th at they could be safely passed; as indeed they had been. "S top!” the command rang again! and as Stanton merely shook his head with im patient annoyance, the m echanician swiftly stooped forward. The m otor slackened oddly. Before the astounded driver had tim e to grasp the situation, the power died from under his hands and the car was only carried forward by Its own momen tum. Autom atically he Jammed down the brakes and turned in his seat to confront his companion iu a w rathful am azem ent choking speech. Floyd faced him, even his lips white beneath his mask, but with steadfast eyes. "I know,” he forestalled the tem pest. “ You’ve got the right to put me off the car—1 threw your switch. I’ve got nothing to say. But the m ist lifted and I saw what lay ahead.” W hat lay ahead? The klaxon was shrieking madly, from all around the track caipe the sound of halting cars. The rising wind pushed along the fog walls again, and they opened to reveal the second m achine of the late acci dent, not twenty-five feet ahead, a tilted, m otionless heap. A fter the collision it had staggered this far, to go down with a broken rear axle and two lost rear wheels. Its m en were still in th eir seats unhurt. T here was an instant of silence. The avoided disaster was no excuse for the m echanician’s interference, nor did Floyd offer it as such, well aw are that his driver was perfectly justified in any course he chose to take. There can be but one pilot at any wheel. “Since I suppose you are not equal to cranking a ninety Mercury, you had better fix the spark and gas while I sta rt it,” dryly suggested Stanton. “And—never do that again.” He stepped out and went to the front of his car, seizing the crank and startin g the big m otor with an ex ertion of superb strength which would indeed have been impossible to the slender Floyd. W hen he retook hia seat, the m echanician made his equal ly laconic apology and acknowledg m ent of error. "I never will,” Floyd gave his word. The wind shook the m ist more strongly, stream ers of pink and gold trem bled across the sky. The day had commenced. • (T O B E C O N T I N U E D . ) GAVE OF SURPLUS WEALTh Rich Man In O th tr Day* Lavish In T halr Donations to T halr Fa vorite Cities. “ For Mr. Stanton,” the Boy Insisted. the m en’s faces, and the effects of fa tigue and strain of watching. Stanton looked for the Inevitable pitcher of water, but found him self confronted Instead with a grinning, admiringly awed m essenger boy who held out a cluster of heavy purple flowers. “W hat?” m arveled the disgusted driver. "W hat idiotic tric k —” "F or Mr. Stanton, sir,” deferential ly Insisted the boy; who would have addressed the president as "bo,” and gibed a t the czar. Stanton caught the blossoms rough ly, anticipating a practical Joke from some fun-loving fellow-competitor, and Raw a white card dangling by a bit of ribbon. "T hank you,” he read In careless penciling. “ I have no laurel w reaths here, so send the victor of the hour my corsage bduquet.* , . She had had the imprudeiTce, or the cool disregard of comm ent, to use one of her own cards. Valerie Atherton Carlisle, the nam e was engraved across the heavy pasteboard. She had thought th at wild duel with the Duplex was an exhibition given /or her, that at her wanton whim he had jeopardized four lives, one his own. W ith a strong exclam ation of con tem pt Stanton moved to fling the flow ers aside to the path before the Mer cury’s wheels, then checked himself, rem em bering appearances. The or chids curled limply around his warm fingers; suddenly the magnificent a r rogance of this girl struck him with angry* humor, and he laughed shortly. * them in the tent, Blake,” he requested, tossing the bouquet to one “ Many a man who has Inherited mil lions,” once said Frederic Harrison, ”1» gnawed with envy as he watches a practical man turning an honest penny. How he would like to earn an honest penny! He never did; he nev er w ill; and he feels like a dyspeptic Invalid w atching a hearty beggar en joying a bone or a crust. Many a rich m an la capable of b e tte r things; but he does not know, how to begin!” The ancient law suggests a restoration of the liturgies, the public services of rich men as they were organized In the model Greek republics. “At Ath ens th e liturgies were legal and con stitutional offices Imposed periodically and according to a regular order by each local comm unity on citizens rat ed as having capital of more than a given amount. . . . It alw ays re mained a public office, a duty to b* filled by taste, skill, personal effort and public s p ir it Rich men contend ed for tha office. The chief amhltlon of a rich man came to be th a t of mak ing splendid gifts to hia fellow citi zens, and th eaters, stadium s, colon nades, aqueducts, gardena, libraries, museums, pictures, statues—all were showered upon favorite cltle* by wealthy men who possessed or covet ed the name of citizen.” A few mul- '.(millionaires In our American repub lic have made public benefactions. May th eir trib e Increaae! The gift of a public hospital or a school build ing la alw ays In order.—The C hristian Herald. Fireman's Unique Wedding. A firem an's wedding In a burnt-oat church Is certainly snanethlng of a nov elty. Such a wedding Jiaa Just ta k tn place In the chancel of 8L George’s, Leicester, the g reater part of the building having been destroyed by fire laet year. It was the first fireman's wedding In Leicester, and the bride groom 's colleague, formed a guard ot honor and arranged an arch of azaa, etc under which the bride and bride groom passed out after the ceremony Firem an Sturges, tha bridegroom, was among tboee who fought the la m e s el St. George's laat October.—London TIL Bit*.