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MIKGS OFTHE WEEK Current Events of Interest Gathered From the World at Large. General Resume o f Important Event* ^resented In Condensed Form fo r Our Busy Readers. Turkey and Italy are reportei to have »igned preliniinaiy articles of peace. The steamer Senator arrived at Se attle from Nome with $1,200,000 in gold dust and a large cargo of furs. A noted Chicago artist has been ar rested charged with circulating num erous hand-painted counterfeit $10 bills. Jules Vedrine, a French aviator, won the world’s speed championship at Chicago by a flight averaging 105.5 miles per hour. Blistering heat continues from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic. Cows refuse to eat and the milk sup ply is almost cut off. A Norwegian explorer declares he has found the descendants o f the Norsemen who were lost in the Arctic regions 500 years ago. Masked and armed robbers held up the stage between Fort Bidwell and New Pine Creek, Or., relieving the passengers of about $150. Secretary Knox and suite arrived in Japan as special envoys to the funeral o f the late emperor Mutsuhito, and re ceived a cordial welcome. James J. Hill has organized a trust company with a capital of $2,000,000 and it is believed he intends to em bark in the steel business. B G GUNS SMASH TARGETS. Fort Stevens Seeds 6-Inch Sh Its Home at 6-M.le Range. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE Fort Stevens— The third $1800 sea FARMERS IN NEED OF AID. going battleship target is a mass of splintered wreckage as a result o f the most sensational target practice ever Présidant o f Agricultural Collage Makes Tour o f Stats. held at Fort Stevens. The last target Corvallis—That Oregon is ready for was demolished by the Thirty-fourth company with a six-inch shell. Im- j the installation o f a statewide system mediately 70 men under Lieutenant o f agricultural education and rural Norton, and ordnance officer, were inspiration is the belief o f President placed at work putting together an W. J. Kerr, who has just returned other target. Working for eight from an extended inspection tripsin The people every hours without ceasing they accom Eastern Oregon. plished what ordinarily requires fully where seem to he convinced that the a week’s effort. rich agricultural heritage o f Oregon The target, made o f 10x10 timbers, cannot be realized until intelligent with three steel masts enmeshed in and scientific methods are applied in netting, was towed out from the Co all phases o f the agricultural indus lumbia river to sea by the steamer tries, according to Dr. Kerr. But, Fornance. more than this, they seem to be con Getting on its course 9000 yards vinced that this can be brought about from the battery, the Fornance only by organized effort which should steamed full S|>eed ahead with the reach into every community in the ocean spray dashing over the target. state. The gunners sprang to their positions, He reports that as a result o f his the huge 625-pound shell was rammed investigation o f the work which has home, the breech-block slammed shut, been done during the past year at the the 36-ton steel barrel arose above the branch experiment stations and the cement breastworks, seemingly pois demonstration farms, and in co-opera ing itself like the striking head of a tion with these by the farmers o f serpent. Central and Eastern Oregon, he is A minor correction by the gun» convinced more than ever that this pointer, the command to fire, and the great work o f organization and ex- projectile, propelled by 175 pounds of j tension of agricultural education will high explosive, was on its way toward be done in large measure through the the target. use o f demonstration farms, hranch As it traveled through the air to experiment stations and the general wards its destination, a second shell extension agencies o f the college was hurled from another rifle. The working in co-operation with the first shell struck, scattering the wood farmers in the various localities of en framework in all directions; almost the slate. instantly afterward the second projec “ The two things most needed for tile buried itself amongst the tangled successfully carrying forward the ag wreckage o f the $1800 target. ricultural extension work” , said Dr. The largest British dreadnaught Kerr, "a re demonstration farms and planned is 700 feet long. These tar traveling agricultural advisors.” gets are 60 feet long; therefore such In support o f his theory. President an enemy would represent a striking Kerr cited the success o f the work place for shells 12 times the size of now being done at the demonstration the target used for representing battle farms at Metolius and Redmond, and, conditions. particularly, in connection with the branch experiment station and demon M O TO R C Y C LE K ILLS TWELVE stration farm in Harney county, .and the work undertaken in connection Racer Going 90 Miles an Hour with the county high school at Klam ath Falls. He feels that the value of Crashes Into Crowd. Newark, N. J. — Eddie Hasha, o f this line of work has already been Waco, Tex., holder o f several world’ s demonstrated in these sections. ROAD NEARS END. Grading la Flnlahad a> d Rails Laid Most of Way to Friand. Dufur— The work o f extending the Great Southern railroad from this cily to Friend, about ten miles distant, is nearing completion, and it is expecteu that regular trains will be in opera tion to Friend within a month. Raila are being laid on the last two miles o f tho work, the grading being all finished and the rails laid up tc within about two miles o f the pro posed terminus, and work trains are being operated over the new road for this distance. Sixty-pound rails are being used and the roadbed and bridges are being cnnstructud in the best |jossible man ner so that the heaviest kind o f traffic can be run over the road when com pleted. A fte r the completion o f this exten aion the line from here to The Dalles will be repaired, both roadbed and bridges, anti put in first-class shape. The extension o f the terminus will probably necessitate the moving of the trainmen and their families to Friend. The officers of the Great Southern company are seriously considering the advisability of purchasing some sort of a motor car to add to their passen ger service. It is yet undecided whether they will purchase a gasoline motor or a car propelled by an electric storage battery. However, as soon as the business warrants the addi tional service, it w ill be made as sug gested. The addition of a motor car will cut the running time to The Dalles ami return nearly half, and be o f great convenience to the people along the line. The Great Southern expects a large freight business, both in grain and in fruit, this fall, and is making prepar ations for handling this traffic. /S tantqn WxoWINSJ é le a n o r m t ; IN G R A M / ’ o f TJte G áuteaml fíe Candb Tini fiutati M erciuy ek. % FR E& C SYNOPSIS. A t the begin n in g o f gre a t a u tom obile race the m echan ician o f the M ercu ry. Btantun'e m achine, drops dead. S tra n g e youth. Jessu I- loyd. volu nteers, and U a c cepted. In the r.-et du rin g the tw e n ty - rour hour race Stanton m eets a stra n ger. M ies Carlisle. w ho Introduces herself. The M ercu ry w ine race. Stanton re ceives (tow ers fro m M ies C a rlisle, which h e Ig nores. Stanton m eets Miss C a rlisle on a Ira n. T h e y a ligh t to ta ke w alk, and train leaves. Stanton and Miss C a rlisle fo llo w In auto. A cciden t by w hich S lan- ton U hurt Is m ysterious. F lo yd , a t lunch w ith Stanton, tells o f his boyhood. S ta n ton a gain m eets Miss C arlisle end (h ey (line togeth er. Stanton com es to track sick, but m akes race. T h e y h a v e a c c i dent. F lo yd hurt, hut not seriou sly. At dinner F lo y d tells Stanton o f his tw in ■ '" t e r Jessica. Stanton becom es v e r y III And Joses consciousness. On re co v ery , al . , hotel S tan ton re ceives In vita tion and visits Jessica. T lm y go to th eater to g e th er. and m eet M iss C arlisle. CHAPTER VIII— (Continued). “ Don’t see or hear too much, and don't tell me If you do." advised Stan ton suddenly, and leaned forward. The Mercury uttered a vibrant roar that cleared the Parkway for a quarter of a mile ahead, and leaped. Floyd kept his eyes upon the road In front, carefully avoiding view of the hubbub left In their wake. He had a fleeting glimpse of one scandalized offi cer struggling with his rearing horse, as they thundered past, and he enter tained no doubt of the number in their rear. “ She steers a llttle stlff.” StantoiToP served, twisting between a limousine New born monkeys at Baltimore are and two carriages. “ But we can fix to be raised as nearly like human ba that at the track. What?” bies as possible, in an effort to learn “ Two motor-cycle policemen are Juet to what extent the Darwinian theory behind,” communicated Floyd, devour will hold. ed by silent mirth. “ Had enough?" MEDFORD W ILL BUILD ROAD. Mrs. Malcolm D. Whitman, former “ I haven't seen them yet I can't let ly Miss Jennie Crocker, o f San Fran out the machine here, of course, but— cisco, arrived in New York with her records for motorcycle racing, plunged Citizens Determined to Have Rail was that a dog?" C A N 3 Y BRIDGE L O C A T E D . husband and $60,000 worth uf pet over the rail of the course o f the N ew "Poodle." Line to Seaport. ark motordrome, into a crowd, caus dogs. "But It seems all right.” ing the death o f six persons, including Electric Railway Viaduct to Be 900 Medford— Medford is to have a rail Around a curve ahead darted a blue- The city museum o f Portland, Or., himself, while six are dying and 13 Feet Long, road to the coast. Tired o f promises uniformed figure on a motor-cycle, one has been presented with a copy o f the are bady injured. arm raised. Stanton Instantly cheeked Canby— Engineer R. H. Hollenbeck by railroad companies and outsiders, Boston Gazette o f March 12, 1770, in The only three of the six dead posi his car, Floyd throwing out his hand which is an editorial urging colonists tively indentified .up to a late hour has definitely located the bridge by prominent Medford business men have In warning to those behind. There was decided to do the job themselves. which the electric lines o f the Port to refuse to buy tea from England. were Hasha, Johnny Albright, a Den mad aeries of explosions from the land, Eugene & Eastern railway will Papers were filed for the incorporation Indications are that the apple crop ver motorcyclist who was riding third cross the Willamette at Rocky Reef, a o f the Medford & Crescent City Rail abruptly halted motor-cyclea In pursuit. You're under arrest!” shouted will not be up to expectations, and in the race, and Edward Fischer, a 17- point about two miles northwest of way company, and the preliminary year-old boy o f this city. The other prices are advancing. capitalization has been placed at $50,- three voices at once, as the Mercury Canby. The bridge is to be construct three dead were boys and young men slid to a standstill. 000 . Two o f the ed o f steel and will be 75 feet above Mexican rebels are reported to have among the spectators. Is It possible?” Inquired the driver, That such a road will be o f incal low water mark as required by the sacked and burned the town o f Ahuah- probably fatally injured are Edward government regulations concerning culable benefit to Medford and the removing his goggles. Kolle and Frank J. Amburg, each 17 uetilan, cremating one merchant in Two more motor-cycle officers were river traffic, where draws nre not Rogue R iver valley cannot be gain years old. his sture. said. It will open up a virgin mineral coming up. three mounted on horses Five thousand spectators were w it maintained. This height will allow were arriving from side paths. Sur Hundreds o f horses have died In nessing the finish of a four-mile free- any boat operating on the upper river and timber region, will tap the fertile rounded by the outraged eight and all Kansas from an epidemic o f spinal for-all race when the daring young to pass under the bridge at any water but undeveloped Applegate valley, and the population In the neighborhood, will bring a great reduction in freight meningitis. rider, doing 90 miles an hour, took his stage. The steel portion of the new electric rates. With the construction o f the the Mercury stood quiescent fateful plunge. He was pitched head A sack o f gold containing $10,000 Will you follow to the police sta Panama canal, it w ill mean that fruit His body railway bridge will be about 900 feet is mysteriously miBsing from the office first 50 feet into the air. in length, the approaches on either and produce can be shipped by water tion, or will we have to take you?" was shapeless when it was picked up, of the treasurer o f Mercer county, to Atlantic Coast ports, and incident came the crisp question. "W e ’ve got almost at the feet o f his wife, seated side o f the river being o f wood and California. each being approximately 1200 feet ally a delightful summer resort will your number.” in the bleachers. be within easy distance o f this city. The German army is to have a new " I ’ll follow wherever you like,“ en _________ Albright was thrown head first in in length. dirigible balloon capable o f a sustain gaged Stanton. “ Lead the way.” the other direction into the enclosure LINN FAIR IS SU CC ESSFUL. ed flight of 60 hours and a speed o f 50 They started, preceded by one officer OREGON N ATIVES GO EAST. of the track, when the champion's miles an hour. and followed by another, also by a wheel came sliding down the steep Oppressive heat brings misery to bank and struck him. He was picked “ Spend Money on Shows, Not Re Albany Couple to Devote Nine shabby young man on a bicycle. Into the station they went, accompanied by Chicago and the Middle West. Two up for dead, but he lived in an uncon form Schools,” Says Ben Selling. Months to Extensive Tour. their three attendants. persons died o f sunstroke and 26 scious state more than two hours. Scio—The sixth annual Linn County Albany— Robert L. Burkhart, one of The charge was three fold: exceed were bitten by rabid dugs. fair came to a successful end this the beat-known breeders o f Jersey ing the speed limit by some fifty miles Queen Is Learning Golf week, even though the rain prevented cattle on the Pacific Coast, has startpd an hour, resisting arrest, and violating Arizona cowboys have organized a Aberdeen, Scotland— Queen Mary is some o f the races and was also the on a trip East, during which he will m ilitary company and declare they the smoke ordinance. That set forth, will invade Mexico and rescue im learning to play g olf at Balmoral in cause o f many people staying away. inspect the leading Jersey herds of the usual Interrogatory was put, Stan Both the Linn county school child perilled Americans in Señora. the country. On May 20, last, Mr. ton replying with concise brevity. emulation o f her daughter, who has ren’s industrial exhibit and the Linn Burkhart Bold the Jersey herd which "Name and age?" Engineer Modjeski reports that the recently been playing daily there. Her county general exhibit were good. he had been developing for several “ Ralph Stanton, twenty-six.” proposed wagon bridge across the Co Majesty has often expressed amaze This was the first school children’s years for $17,000 at one of the largest “ Occupation?” lumbia at Vancouver will cost $1,987,- ment over the infatuation for the fair, and its results were gratifying public sales ever held in Oregon. "Automobile driver." 200, with $500,000 additional for game by ardent golfers. A t the con "Name of car?" Both Mr. and Mrs. Burkhart, who elusion o f her first lesson she ex both in extent and quality. Many rights o f way for approaches. children only 9 years old exhibited "Mercury.” The State department is making pressed the opinion that the game was first-class poultry, vegetables, sewing, are native Oregonians, have never "Owner?” visited the Atlantic Coast Hnd they Her every effort to get arms and ammuni “ very bracing but tirin g.” cooking, drawing and mechanical ar will devote nine months to an exten “ The Mercury Company." tion to Americans in Canmnea, Mex daughter, Princess Mary, is quoted as ticles. The shabby young man Interrupted sive tour o f the East. the queen’s playing; ico, that they may protect themselves saying o f Among the noteworthy visitors at proceedings by a stifled gasp, grasping against the rebels who infest that dis “ Mother’s driving is strong, but oc the fair was Ben Selling. Mr. Selling the sleeve of Floyd, who stood looking casionally wide.” First Box From Eugene. trict. says that money had better be spent on. Eugene— The first freight sent out on the school children's fairs than on “ That's Stanton? Stanton? And you Pearl Fisheries Opened. o f Eugene over the new Oregon Elec — who are you?” reform schools. PORTLAND MARKETS San Diego, Cal. — David Zarate, trie railway was shipped to Junction "Jes Floyd, his mechanician,” was mayor o f Ensenda, estimates that Oats 55 Bushels to Acre. City by the owners o f a local grocery the wondering response. Wheat— Track prices: Club, 80c; 5000 persons, residents of Lower Cal Gold H ill — Oats on the Pankey and meat market. They sent to one Stanton glanced that way, as Floyd bluestem, 82«(83c; forty-fold, 81c; ifornia, will obtain employment as a result o f the reported revocation of ranch in Sams valley yielded 64 bush o f their customers a consignment of was drawn to the other side of the valley, 81c. the pearl and other fishing concessions els to three-quarters o f an acre. meat and vegetables, the shipment room by his excited captor, but turned Barley—[Feed, $25.50«/26.50 ton; going in a box car drawn by the con back to answer the remainder of the along the Lower California and Gulf They were sown on March 29. On a The track layers examination. When the ceremony was brewing, $28.50(0 29 per ton; Mill- coasts. Aurelias Sandoval, in charge four acre place in the same neighbor struction engine. stuffs— Bran, $23.50 ton; shorts, $26; of the Sandoval interests o f Los An hood. sown April 19, 220 huhsels were i have reached the business section of ended, he signaled to his mechani geles, has controlled the pearl fishing threshed, or an average o f 65 bushels the city, but the crossing has not been cian. middlings, $32; rolled barley, $28. made at the intersection o f West Fifth “ Come; I’ve got to go before the Owing to the decreased Corn — Whole, $38.50; cracked, and other concessions as far south as an acre. and Blair streets at the edge o f the magistrate and give ball,” be Magdalena, his firm having held a grain acreage resulting from the $39.60 ton. summoned impatiently. monopoly. The privilege now is open planting o f fruit trees two threshing city, where the P. & E. lines run. Floyd came rcross to him, shining- Hay— Eastern Oregon timothy, $15; to all Mexican citizens. outfits now do all the threshing in Hops Burn, L o tt S8000. eyed and eager. valley timothy, $12«/13; clover, $10; Rogue river valley. A few years ago Forest Grove — The hophottse, in "Stanton, that is a reporter; he Mobilization Is Indicated. it took half a dozen. Several flouring oats and vetch, $10«(11; grain hay, cluding 18,000 pounds o f dried hops, wants us to tell him about your doing Douglas, Ariz.— Movements o f Mex mills have shut down. $ 10 «/ 11 . belonging to Robert B. Porter, which this. He needs a fresh story to make ican rebels below this point indicate a Oats— Spot, $29«(30 ton. is located about three miles north good with his paper—can't we give It mobilization. Rafael and Emilio Dallas Damage Slight. west o f this city, burned to the to him?” Fresh Fruits— Apples, 50c«/$1.50 Campa, two rebel chiefs, have joined D allas— An investigation covering Stanton surveyed his companion, per box; peaches, 35«iC5c box; their forces 20 miles south of Agua prnctii ally all sections o f the county ground, entailing a loss o f about The cause o f the fire is not eyebrows lifted. plums, l(ii lc pound; pears, 2c; grapes, Prieta, the Mexican town which ad has shown that the damage done to $8000. “ Why should we? The newspapers $l(o 1.60 box; blackberries, 50c(il) joins Douglas. Salazar’s avowed in hops so far has not been as great as known, but it is believed to have started from a defect in the heating will get It. whatever we do. Conte.” $1.35 crate. tention o f moving west along the bor was feared. The worst damage in “ But he needs It; it would help Onions— Walla Walla, 75@85c sack. der and attacking Cananea would in any part o f the county seems to have system. Insurance amounted to $7000. About one-fourth o f the hops had been hint.” Floyd urged. “ He. he's thin and Potatoes — Jobbing prices: Bur dicate a general mobilization o f all been in the Falls City district. It is banks. 60«/ 65c hundred. rebel forces, numbering 1000 men, reported that in this section nearly all picked, which amount was consumed. frayed out— Stanton, he looks hungry.” The remainder o f the crop will be "Do you want to help him?" the Vegetables — Artichokes, 65«/)75c and superior to federal commands. the trellis hopyards arc seriously dam driver queried, astonished. “ Do you dried in a neighboring hophouse. dozen; cabbage, 1«; 1 Jc pound; cauli aged, the hops being down. The pole care about a man you do not know flower, S1 (»»1 25 dozen; celery, 50(B! Salazar Makes Apology. yards have not suffered as much. The and never see again?” 75c; corn, 15(o25c; cucumbers, 50c Big Hop Yard Is Down. Hachita, N. M. — Conferences be potatoes o f this county are far above "Don't you?" asked Floyd simply. box; head lettuce, 20 n 25c dozen; tween United States army officers sta the average this year. Grants Pass— Borne down with the They are peppers, 6«/ 6c pound; tomatoes, 50«/ tioned here and the Mexican rebel " I ’m not from Paradise." dryly an great crop o f hops, with the added larger and better. 60c box; garlic, 8(<i 10c pound; carrots, leader Inez Salazar, took place on the weight o f the rain on the dense foli swered Stanton. "Tell him anything $1.60 sack; turnips, $1.25; beets border about 50 miles southwest of age. the entire Flanagap-Cornell hop- you like, but be quick.” Graphite Vein Found. $ 1 . 50 . : He looked at the reporter again, here. Major Sedgwick Rice rode to Coquille— E. C. Barker, o f Marsh yard o f 100 acres lies flat on the rain- Eggs— Case count, 22(fr)23c; can the boundary to talk with the rebel field, has struck in 18-inch vein of soaked ground, the supporting wires with a new use of his eyes. Floyd dled, 25(«/26c; extras, 28«/29c. leader. Salazar apologized to the graphite on his ranch, six miles north having broken under the strain. Pick was right; the man was threadbare Butter — Oregon creamery, cubes, American officers for the incident a o f Coquille, and is sending a quantity ing had been in progress in the yard and gaunt, and pathetically young. 33c pound; prints, 34«/)34$c. few days ago, when Mexican rebels of of the material to the Oregon A g ri for several days, but two weeks’ work Stanton had a rebuked consciousness Pork— Fancy, 11$«/12c pound. his command crossed the line and fired cultural college to he tested. The is yet to be done before the crop is all of being strong and brutal In his Veal— Fancy, 14$«/lfie pound. strength, successful and selfish In his on American soldiers on patrol duty. vein is only 16 feet from the surface in the bale. A force o f men is busy Poultry — Hens, 13Jc; broilers, and where struck is near the banks of raising the vines to supports, and if success. 14J«/)l5c; ducks, young, 10c; geese, Morgan Would Buy Ruin*. You are an educating companion,” the north fork o f the Coquille river, no furtheiftain falls the quality o f the 8(o 12c, turkeys, live, 22c; dressed, be observed, as they went out with an Rome— Newspapers here say that J. where the power necessary for mining hops will not be damaged. 26c. officer. P. Morgan has submitted [to the Ital operations is easily accessible. Cattle — Choice steers, $7(o 7.25; ian government a plan for completing "W hy?” Floyd Inquired, puzzled. Dallas to Install Fountains. good, $6.25(o6.75; medium, $6«/6.25; the excavations o f Pompeii and Her But Stanton would elucidate no Gilliam Crops Are Big. Dsllss—To accommodate the travel choice cows, ($6(0,6 26; good, $5.50«( culaneum. It is said that Mr. Morgan Condon -H arvest is nearly over in ing public, the visiting farmers and further. 5.76; medium, $5(0 5.25; choice cal is willing to bear the entire cost of The ordeal before the magistrate waa Gilliam county, with a good average the local citizens, Dallas it to have ves, $7(018.60; good heavy calves, uncovering Herculaneum. yield all over. In some cases the crop four public drinking fountains in not long Stanton waa held In a thou $6 25«i7; bulls, $3«/4.50; stags, $5 was enormous. James Coutuse, o f stalled on four o f the principal corners ■and dollars ball for future trial, pro «(5.75. Airsh;p Falls; Four Killed. Ferry Canyon, has the banner crop. o f this city. There is to be a large duced a surety company's bond, and In Hogs— Light, $8.76(o9.26; heavy, Gray, France— An aeroplane got He threshed 3480 sacks o f 40-fold fountain for horse* at the Main street fifteen minutes waa free and once $8(o 8.50. out o f hand at an aviation meeting wheat off 140 acres. Tho wheat is intersection. An effort is to be made more In hla seat behind the Mercury’ s Sheep — Yearlings, $3.60(0 4 65; here and swept to the ground, crush worth at present prices. $5000, about to get the drinking fountains in be w h e e l. wethers, $4«/4.60; ewes, $2.85(03.75; ing a score o f spectators, four o f double the price Mr. Coutuse paid for fore the Harvest Festival and School- "W e will reach the office o lambs, $5«/5.60. whom were killed outright. this land a few years ago. I children's Fair, October 3, 4 and 6. THORNBURG! commented the lawbreaker. “ You do It like a veteran," Floyd mused with mock suspicion. At the office they left the car, but not each other. There was growing upon Stanton more and more the de aire for Jesse Floyd's companionship, a final rebellion of nature against his lonely existence. “ Do you have to stay here?" he de manded, upon concluding arrange ments at the office. "No," Floyd replied. "Come to dinner with me, then." The mechanician shook hla bronze- curled head In laughing refusal. "There has been enough of that, Mr. Stanton; you come to dinner with me.’’ "A t your home?” escaped Stanton Involuntarily. He had a sudden vision of Jes and Jessica together, a pre monition of mental bewilderment be fore the spectacle of their Incredible likeness. "I would like that, but you know we live up town, and 1 have got to be back here In an hour. Mr. Green wants me." "Oh, anywhere you say. See here, why can't you wait and come on the train with me to Indianapolis? We might make the trip less monotonous for each other." Taken by surprise. Floyd hesitated. “ I—you are good to think of It— but Mr. Green would never consent. He has arranged for me to go on to night." "W hy shouldn't he consent? You would be there In plenty of time.” Floyd turned bis mischievous gray eyes to the other man's, guarding si lence. But Stanton halted In the mid dle of the sidewalk, his face locking In his steel bard anger and determina tion. "I know what you mean, Floyd. And, speak openly, do you bellevo that you would be unable to stand forty-eight hours of me without leaving the com pany?" "No.” “ No?" "No. I am very certain that I could stand much more of you than I ant ever likely to get, Ralph Stanton. We are blocking traffic here, aren’t we?" For one passing moment he had looked Jessica herself; Stanton saw again the girl’s sorrowful face as she bent over the embroidery, and heard her answer "often" to his question of her loneliness. They were not alto gether sufficient for each other, then, these twins? They might possibly ad mit a third? Stanton caught his breath; a alow strong pulse of vague excitement began to beat In him, and They spent a long tlm* over the zlm pie meal, enjoying Ihemselvea com pletely. But at last they sunk Into a thoughtful alienee, which Stanton »a t the first to break. "1 aaw that Mlaa Floyd's arm was hurt, the other evening. I hope It li better." Floyd raized hla head, starting so violently as to overturn the goblet ol water beside him. "What do you mean?" he exclaimed sharply. "What do you mean? Her arm?” The shattering of glass and the con sequent flood brought their waiter ou a run, but Floyd did not even glance down at the wreck, hla eyes upon Stanton; who returned the gaze In ut ter amazement "What do I mean? I »ay that your ■later'a bracelet slipped off and scratched her arm. the night we went to the play, and I asked you If site were well. What ta the matter with you?" Floyd pushed back his chair to per mlt the waiter's ministrations, his lashes falling. “ You gave me a turn,” he exclaimed, with hurried lightness. “ I wondered If Jessica had hurt herself and not told me. We've only got each other, and we are twins— I suppose we are silly about each other, in fact I re member, now, that she did have a scratch on her arm; I blamed It on the kitten.’’ He was still pale, and paid tlie check without looking at hla compan ion. “ Your nerves are out," Stanton frankly commented, contemplating hint with curiosity. "One would think It was you who were just over the ar rest. You'll have to get In form be fore we strike a race-track.” "Don't you yorry,” besought Floyd, his gaiety and color rushing back to gether. " I ’ll take some smelling salts with me In case 1 feel faint when you commence to speed up.” Outside the two pnused. Floyd look ing at bis watch. ‘T've got to go over to the office,” he said. “ Shall I see you again be fore we leave?” "When la that?" "Nine o’clock from the Grand Cen tral. We always start a few days ahead of you, of course." "Better shake hands, then.” advised Stanton. They did so. and separated. At five minutes past nine, that even lng, the Chicago special pulled out ot New York. Ten minutes later a hand was laid on Floyd's shoulder, as he sat gazing out tho window at the fly lng darkness and brightness that was the outskirts of the city. "Do you want to talk, or shall I go back to my own section In the next car?" Stanton Inquired. His mechanician turned swiftly, In credulously. "Stanton? Really you?" "Since you had to start to-night, I saw no reason why I should not da likewise. 1 bate train travel; we'll get It over. You haven't answered my question yet.’’ "I didn’t know that I had to," smil ed Floyd. And indeed there had been no pos sible mistaking of the welcome and pleasure in bis cry, or in bis truthful The Mercury Uttered a Vibrant Roar and Leaped. thereafter was never stilled until a day when all bla world crashed Into blank stillness. They went on to the quiet French restaurant that Floyd had chosen; so recovering tone on the way that they contrived to disagree over the merits of rival speedometers and argued en ergetlcally all through the dinner. face. Stanton took the seat oppoelts and pulled a folded newspaper from his pocket, passing It across. "I suppose you have seen that,” hs Inferred. “ Race gossip?" questioned the other, taking the paper. "Court news,” was the correction. (TO B E C O N T IN U E D .) Crab’s W alk of 98 Miles Homing Instinct Is Shown by 8omo Recent Experiments In England. Some remarkably Interesting de tails regarding the movements and tne homing tnstlnct ot the edible crab were presented to the Eastern Sea Fisheries Committee. During the past two years Fishery Inspector H Donnlson has been carrying out in vestigitlons on benatf of the com mittee. and the results or hla work cannot fall to be ot considerable use to those concerned tn biological re search. In the course of an exhaustive re port he stated that between July and September, 1910, nearly two thousand crabs were captured, and after being labeled were again set Tree along the Norfolk and Lincolnshire coasts. Tne crabs had recently cast their shells, and new ones were then In process of hardening. Rewards were paid to fishermen upon returning the crabs when recap tured. They were returned to the sea at varying distances from the shore, d os to the present 21 per coat of the labeled crustaceans bad been re captured and full data tabulated. With regard to the Norfolk crabt liberated In the places from wnici they were originally obtained, fifty two were recaptured within one mils of their first home, but oue traveled as far as Flamborough Head, a dls tnnee of ninety-eight statute ntlles Nearly three hundred had traveled only three or four miles from when they were originally taken.— Londol Standard. The Gloom of English Clubs. Alfred Owynne Vanderbilt, at a din ner In New York, was talking abou English clubs. "There Is something very trlste very depressing.” he said, "about th< really fashionable clubs of Pall Mall SL James’ street and Piccadilly. Tht •tiff dignity, the somber quietude o these clubs, gets on an American'i nerves. "An American visitor to Whlte’i one« said that the air of the plan seemed to him to suggest that tht kins lay dead upstairs.”