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Electrical Voting Device
Is Proposed for House
General Resume of Important Events
Tlircuaiiout the WorkL
P resident W ilson has signed
Portland-V ancouver bridge bill.
the
T w enty persons applied for loans at
P o rtlan d ’s Remedial Loan office the
first day.
Marconi has succeedeed in lig h tin g
an electric lam p a t a distance o f six
m iles by w ireless.
The F xieral in vestigators of the
strik e situation in Colorado are having
some storm y sessions.
The Sum pter D redge company, w ork­
ing near Baker, O r., reports the find­
ing of a nugget w orth $1500.
Co-eds a t the U n iv ersity of C alifor­
nia have ruled out the tango, m axixe,
one-step and hesitation waltz.
B urg ars spent two hours blowing
up the safe of the N orthern Pacific at
Olym pia, and obtained 18 coppers for
th e ir trouble.
"A ll the 107 employes of the Savory
hotel, in S eattle are to work on the
profit-sharing plan, divisions to be
made m onthly.
frtendt didn’t come. There'i nobody
due now but Culver Cor—”
W ashington, D. C.—The alow pro­
cess of rollcall in the house of repre­
sen tativ es m ay be done away w ith in
the near fu tu re in favor of an elec­
trical appliance for re g iste rin g the
votes of the 435 m em bers alm ost in­
stantaneously.
A sub-com m ittee of
the rules com m ittee has outlined a
feasible plan which has th e approval
o f S peaker C lark and M ajority Leader
Underwood.
The proposal for a voting machine
was m ade by R epresentative W alsh, of
New Je rse y , an e x p ert in electrical
appliances.
Rollcall in the house now requires
45 m inutes, and is resorted to when a
filibuster is declared by the m inority.
The new scheme would elim inate this
from legislative procedure.
The sub­
com m ittee’s plan would provide a
locked device a t each m em ber's 6eat
w ith buttons representing his vote,
aye, nay or present. These would cor­
respond w ith spaces beside the mem­
b e r's nam e on the indicator boards
placed about the room, show ing the
detail of the vote in colored lig h ts and
also a t the c le rk 's desk, w here a card
FRANCIS XAVIER MATTHIEU.
would be punched and tabulated me­
chanically, serving as a full record of N oted Pioneer of th e N orthw est and L ast S u rvivor of Convention of 1843, Who
Died on His Old D onation Land Claim a t ltutteville, Or., Feb. 4, Aged 96.
the vote in every case.
FRANCIS XAVIER MATTHIEU,
PIONEER OF NORTHWEST
FRENCH OFFICERS ARREST
ALLEGED GERMAN SPY
The president of the M ercantile
Bank of Memphis, T enn., is in jail,
Toul, F rance— A m an g iv in g the
charged w ith the em bezzlem ent of
nam e of Theodore Burgard, whom the
about $1,000,000.
police believe to be one of the clever­
Silas Christofferson, a Pacific Coast
e
aviator, broke the A m erican long dis­ st Germ an spies in F rance, wa3 a r­
tance record by flying from San F ra n ­ rested while photographing the fo rti­
cisco to Lerdo, Cal., a distance of 306 fications a t th is place. The police as­
miles.
se rt B urgard has been supplying in­
Colonel G oethals has removed the form ation to the Germ an m ilita ry au­
head o f com m issary dep artm en t of the th o rities for the last 16 years.
canal zone fo r alleged acceptance of
He ostensibly engaged in farm ing
. g ra tu itie s from those who furnished
in a small way near Nancy.
supplies.
A search of the m an’s house brought
M ilton H. Lee, 73 years old, has con­ to lig h t 50 sta ll m aps and plans of
fessed th a t he is the “ gentlem an ban­ fo rts on the northeastern fro n tier.
d i t ” who has operated in Montana, Correspondence o f an alleged compro­
W ashington, Oregon and C alifornia m ising nature, w ritte n in Germ an,
for the past tw enty years.
was also found.
T he rifle belonging to Outlaw Lo­
pez, and which he took w ith him into Haitiens Elect President;
the Apex m ine when driven to bay by
Foreign Troops Withdraw
officers, has been found beneath a tre s ­
tle n ear the m ine, which fa c t is taken
P o rt Au Prince, H a iti — O restes
as evidence th a t the outaw made good Zamor was elected president of H aiti
his escape.
a t a m eeting of congress Monday by a
M exican rebels have captured Maz- vote of 93 out of 105 ballots cast. It
atlan, which gives them th e ir first sea­ was announced th a t a fte r the election
the detachm ents from the foreign w ar­
port.
ships would retu rn to th e ir ships, as
P resident W ilson gives unqualified conditions w ere tranquil. The revolu­
approval for the building of two new tionary troops under Zamor occupy all
battleships.
the m ilita ry stations. There w ere no
disorders on the arrival of the revolu­
Spokane, W ash., celebrated “ A pple
tio n ists from Gonaives.
D ay” w ith the therm om eter a t zero.
O restes Zamor form erly was gover­
R ep resen tativ e B rem ner died from nor o f the N orthern departm ent, and
cancer in spite of several w eeks' tr e a t­ held th e portfolio of the w ar m inis­
try in 1911. He headed the revolution
m ent w ith radium .
in the city of Gonaives last Ja n u a ry
In stru cto rs in the “ tan g o ” were ap and his forces a few days la te r won a
plauded a t B aker, O r., but could not victory over the revolutionists under
g e t enough pupils to pay.
Senor D avilm ar Theodore, who had
Gold in paying q u a n titie s has been proclaim ed him self com m ander-in-chief
Theodore returned to
found on a side hill w ithin the city of all rebels.
Cape Ila itie n , w here he has set up a
liib its of A berdeen, W ash.
provisional governm ent.
B itin g cold grips the Middle W est,
Sioux City, Iowa, re p o rtin g zero and
Freedom for Philippines
Cheyenne, W yo., 18 below.
Contractors Prepare to Complete
Big Northwest Projects Soon.
Eugene to Coos Bay In Oregon, Te-
nino Cut-Off In Washington,
Will Employ Many Men.
Portland — Em ploym ent for more
than 3000 men will be provided about
March 1 by th e operations of a single
Portland concern — th a t of P o rter
Bros , railroad contractors.
P o rte r Bros, are a rra n g in g to re ­
sum e work on the Coos Bay line of the
Southern Pacific betw een Acme and
Marshfield and on the Tenino cut-off of
the N orthern Pacific south of Tacoma.
Both of these projects, which have
been under way fo r several years,
have been idle on account of the w in­
te r rains.
A bout 2500 men will be
employed on the Southern Pacific
work and about 600 men on the N orth­
ern Pacific project.
I t is planned to com plete the Tenino
line by Septem ber 1 and the N orthern
Pacific expects to have train s running
over the cut-off soon a fte r th a t tim e.
As a d irec t resu lt o f operations a t
Tenino the O.-W . R. & N. company
will begin construction o f a new line
betw een a convenient point on this
cut-off and Olym pia.
C ontracts for
th is work have not been let, but a con­
siderable force of men w ill be em ­
ployed.
PRESIDENT WILSON OPPOSES
EXEMPTION FROM TOLLS
F rancis X avier M atthieu, the m ost
picturesque link betw een the old Ore­
gon o f trad in g posts and canoes and
the new Oregon of railroads, steam ­
ships and departm ent stores, .died
W ednesday m orning a t the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Rose B ergevin, a t
B utteville, Or. Mr.' M atthieu was a
pioneer o f 1842, and the sole survivor
of the fam ous Champoeg convention of
May 2k 1842, when it was voted to
organize an Am erican provisional gov­
ernm ent. It was his vote th a t decided
the issue and probably saved the g re at
te rrito ry o f Oregon, W ashington, and
a large p a rt of M ontana, Idaho and
C alifornia, to the U nited S tates, in ­
stead of allowing it to become a p a rt
of G reat B ritain.
Mr. M atthieu would have been 96
years old A pril 2, 1914. H e had been
ailin g for the past year, b u t retained
his m ental faculties until the end.
BORAH PLEDGES AID TO
COLUMBIA AND SNAKE
L ew iston, Idaho — The Lew iston
Com mercial club received the follow­
ing le tte r from Senator B orah:
“ I am pleased to acknowledge re ­
ceipt o f your le tte r o f Ja n u a ry 23,
calling a tte n tio n to the im portance to
our s ta te o f an am endm ent which it is
understood Senator Cham berlain, of
Oregon, w ill introduce to a bill th a t
will seek an appropriation of $50,000
for a survey of the Colum bia and
Snake rivers, in connection w ith
plan of canalizing the sam e from nav­
igation, which
will, incidentally,
through the necessary dam construc­
tion, provide fo r the »generation of
electric power. T his m a tte r will have
my earn est atte n tio n , and I am glad
to have the view s o f the Lew iston
Commercial club for consideration in
connection w ith th e subject. I thank
you for w ritin g m e .”
According to an e stim a te o f John H.
Lewis, sta te engineer for Oregon, the
w ater power on th e Snake riv e r oe-
tween Lew iston and H untington is
capable of developing up to 800,000
horsepower.
B altim ore—P resident W ilson, in a
le tte r to W illiam L. M arbury, of this
says th a t the
exem ption of
Would Bring Disaster city,
A box of gold n uggets w orth about
Am erican coast-w ise ships from P an­
$40,000 was found by a K ansas home­
W ashington, D. C. — “ The Moro am a canal tolls “ constitutes a very
stead er buried n ear his farm .
would m ake short work of local Fill m istaken policy from every point of
A bill to p rohibit the in te rsta te pino governm ent,’’ says B rigadier view and benefits for the present, at
The
tran sp o rta tio n of strik eb re ak e rs has G eneral Pershing, in his la te st report any ra te , only a m onopoly.”
as governor of Mindanao, to S ecretary P resident also pays a high trib u te to
been introduced in the house.
G arrison.
S ecretary of S ta te Bryan.
A divorce granted a woman in B utte,
“ The actual relations betw een them
M ont., specially declares she shall are such th a t any a tte m p t a t Filipino
Protest Moving Liberty Bell.
have absolute onw ership of the fam ily governm ent would lead only to rebel­ Militant Suffragists Tire
Philadelphia — Mrs. Cora Rogers
dog.
lion and disaster.
Peace in the Moro
of Rule of Radicals Bleakley.
president general o f the N a­
P resid en t W ilson a sserts him self as province can be m aintained only by a
London — Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, tional Soceity o f th e D aughters of the
positively opposed to exepm tion of continuance o f A m erican control. If d a u g h te r o f the m ilita n t suffragette Revolution, presented M ayor B lanken­
A m erican vessels from Panam a canal we are to honestly carry out our obli­ leader, announced her secession from burg a petition containing thousands
gations to the trib e s who have yielded
tolls.
to our a uthority and who expect us to the W om an’s Social ana Political un­ of names p ro testin g a g a in st the re
guide them to som ething b e tte r, the ion, the m ilita n t w om en's organiza­ moval of the L ib e rty Bell from Inde­
e n tire island o f Mindanao m ust be tion. The E ast End o f Iaindon fed­ pendence Hall.
PORTLAND MARKETS
Mrs. Bleakley told th e m ayor th a t
governed and controlled perm anently eration, which hith erto has been a
branch of the parent organization, will among the signers w ere veterans of
W heat—T rack p rices: Club, 89® by Am erican officials and under A m eri­ henceforth be entirely independent.
the Civil w ar, u n iv ersity presidents,
90c per bushel; bluestem , 98®99c; can sov ereig n ty .”
The r i f t am ong the m ilita n t suffra- j professors, bankers and editors.
The a m in istratio n ’s Philippine pol­
forty-fold, 90c; red Russian, 87c; val­
g
e
tte
s
is
said
to
be
due
to
Miss
Sylvia
Mayor B lankenburg is not averse to
icy has not y e t been worked out far
ley, 90c.
P a n k h u rst's u ltra-revolutionary
as­
O ats— No. 1 w hite, m illing, $25 ton. enough to indicate how fa r the gen­ pirations, which the leaders of the j sending the L iberty Bell to San F ra n ­
Corn—W hole, $35 to n ; cracked, $36. e ra l’s views are shared in W ashing­ W omen's Social and Political union cisco, where it is w anted for the P an­
ama-Pacific Intern atio n al exposition.
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B arley—Feed, $22.50 per ton; brew ­ ton.
are beginning to believe are dam aging
ing, $23.50; rolled, $26®27.
th
e
ir
cause.
New Sacrifices Coming.
Strike Shooting Is Told.
H ay— No. 1 E astern Oregon tim ­
Several of the younger and more
Stockholm —T h irty thousand Social­
othy, $16.50; m ixed tim othy, $14; al­
Houghton, Mich. — D escribing the
am bitious m em bers o f the W omen’s
falfa, $14; clover, $9® 10; valley, ists held a dem onstration a g ain st in ­ Social and Political union view w jt |, shooting a t her home a t Seeberville on
g rain hay, $12®13.50.
creasing the expenditure for arm a ­ unconcealed sa tisfac tio n the P ark - A ugust 14, when two o f her boarders
M illfeed—Bran, $21.60 per ton; m ents, and demanded th a t the m inis­
h u rst feud, believing th a t it will end were killed, Mrs. A ntonia P u trien te s­
shorts, $23.50; m iddlings, $29®30.
ters work ra th e r for peace and fra ­ the au tocratic sw ay the Pankbursts tified S aturday a t th e tria l o f two dep­
V egetables—Cabbage, 6c per p m n d ; tern ity . The prem ier, M. S ta af, re ­
have exercised over the society since uty sheriffs and th ree Waddell-Mahon
head lettuce, $2.50 per c ra te ; garlic, plied in spite of his sym pathy in the
Mr. and Mrs. F rederick P ethic Law ­ detective agency guards th a t the face
1 2|c per pound; sprouts, 8® 10c; a r ti­ question of international peace, he
rence w ere d .iv e n out of it last year. of a babe held in her arm s w as burned
chokes, $2 per dozen; squash, 1 f f/r 2Jc was convinced th a t the Swedish people
by powder from th e officers' pistols.
per pound; celery, $3.60 per c ra te ; would be compelled to m ake a new and
The w itness denied th a t any shots
Work on Locks Nears.
hothouse lettuce, 50@75c per box; g re a t sacrifice for the country.
The
W ashington, D. C. — In the opinion were fired from inside th e house.
spinach, 76®80c per c ra te ; horse­ governm ent, however, he added, was
The strik e rs continued to assem ble
radish, 8® 10c per pound; turnips, $1 not inclined to accede to the dem ands of ex-S enator Jonathan Bourne, actual
w itnesses to ap p ear before the con­
per sack ; carrots, $1; parsnips, $1; for prolongation o f in fan try service.
work on the W illam ette locks may be gressional investig atio n n e x t week.
beets, $1.
sta rte d this m onth. The Federal en­
G reen fru it—Apples, 75c®$2.26 per
gineer has procured for th e secretary
Engine to Be Strongest.
Boiling Wells Spit Salt.
box; cranbessies, $12(0 12.50 per bar­
Chicago - A contract for the larg est of w ar the recom m endation he rep o rt­
Bucharest, Roum ania — Phenomenal
re l; pears, $1®1.50.
ed to the d e p artm en t of ju stice, th a t
Onions—Oregon, $3.50 per sack; and strongest gasoline m otorboat en­ the question o f the easem ent on the geysers throw ing up boiling w a ter and
buying price. $3®3.25 per sack a t gine ever built was closed Monday by W illam ette locks would not in te rfere steam heavily im pregnated w ith sa lt
Commodore Jam es A. Pugh, o f Chi­
have a ttra c te d num bers o f geologists
shipping points.
w ith the engineering construction.
P otatoes—Oregon, 80c® $l per cw t; cago, who ordered the building o f an The secretarv is expected to sign the to the oil fields a t Fiiipesci de T irgu,
The w a­
buying price, 60®90c a t shipping engine o f 1400 horsepower. T his mo­ report, in which esse final action au­ in the province o f Prahova.
to r will be installed in the D isturber
te r issues from borings m ade in the
points.
thorizing
the
tra
n
s
fe
r
o
f
title
prob­
search for oil.
Eggs - Oregon fresh ranch, 34®35c IV, the new hydroplane racer w ith ably would be taken next week.
which Mr. Pugh hopes to brin g to
I t is throw n to a g re a t h eig h t and
per dozen.
is accompanied by a terrific hissing
P o u ltry —Hens, 16$®17c per pound; Am erica the H am sw orth trophy, em ­
100
To
Speak
on
Roads.
roar th a t can be heard five or six
springs, 16$®17c; turkeys, live, 20® blem atic o f the w orld’s cham pionship.
W ashington, I). C.— W ith m ors than miles. Around each boring a heavy
21c; dressed, choice, 26® 26c; ducks, The new engine will be o f the 24-cylin-
100
m
em
bers
listed
for
speeches,
the
j
dcr type, arranged In two blocks of 12
crust of sa lt has been deposited w ithin
14® 17c; geese, 12®12Jc.
house Saturday held its first of a series a radius of 500 yards.
B u tte r— Cream ery prints, extras, cylinders each.
of
n
ig
h
t
sessions
to
d
ebate
the
Shack­
314® 32Jc per pound; cubes, 30c.
leford good roads hill. R epresentative 1 Kentucky Legislators Vaccinated.
Jobless Ones Want Days.
P ork— Fancy, 10Jc per pound.
G hicago—Resolutions reeom mending Shackleford, of Missouri, opened the
Veal— Fancy, 14® 14ic per pound.
F ra n k fo rt, K y.—Several m em bers
H ops— 1913 crop, prim e and choice, a N ational Jobless day sim ilar to the discussion, o u tlin in g the project. He I of the K entucky leg islatu re and m any
explained
th
a
t
the
bill
proposed
a
residents of this c ity a re nursing sore
21® 23c per pound; 1914 contracts, annual Labor day celebration were [
adopted here a t a m eeting of the U n it­ m axim um of $25,000,000 of Federal arm s, the result o f vaccination due to
16c.
appropriations,
allotm
ents
to
be
con­
a smallpox scare w hich developed re­
Wool — Valley, 14ft/16r per pound; ed Brotherhood W elfare association.
The resolutions w ere forw arded to ditioned upon equal local appropria­ cently, when it was announced th a t
Eastern Oregon, 10ft<15c; mohair,
tions,
the
expenditures
ra
nging
in
Samuel Gompers, president of the
Senator P orter and R ep resen tativ e Ol­
choice. 1913 clip, 26c.
Am erican Federation of Labor, w ith three classes, from $15 a m ile for d irt iver w ere ill w ith th e disease.
Cascara b a rk —Old and new, 5c.
roads
to
$60
a
m
ile
for
m
acadam
roads.
C a ttle —P rim e steers, $7.25ft/7.80; the request th a t the F ederation aid in
Turkish Women to Learn.
choice, |7 ® 7 .2 5 ; m edium, $6.75®7; estab lish in g recognition o f th e men
To Allow Betting on Games.
choice cows, $ 6 . 260 ( 6 . 60 ; medium, $6 w ithout jobs.
London— A d ispatch to the Daily
® 6 . 2 6 ; h e ife rs, | 6 ® 6 . 7 5 ; lig h t cal-1
~
H a v an a—G eneral F rey re Andrade, T elegraph from C onstantinople an­
ves. $8 ® 9 ; heavy calves, $6® 7.76;
S t r i k in g W a itre s s e s A rre s te d .
m ayor o f H avana, is about to issue a nounces th a t a decision has been
bulls, $ 4 ® 6 .75; atag s. $6ft/6.60.
C hicago—Seven strik in g w aitresses decree, it became known recently, al­ reached to adm it T urkish women to
H ogs— L ig h t, 97.50® 8.30; heavy, who continued p icketing a down-town lowing free b e ttin g on baseball games. the u niversity.
Special lectures on
$6.60® 7.26.
re stau ra n t w ere a rrested
Monday. Public baseball w agers have not been hygiene, gynaecology, dom estic econ-
Sheep — W ethers, $5® 6.86; ewes, They w ere charged w ith “ lounging perm itted here since the occupation of omy, science and w om en’s rig h ts will
Cuba by A m erican troops.
$ 3 . 60 ® 4 . 7 6 ; lam bs, $ 6 ® 6 . 60 .
I and loafing.”
be delivered for th e ir benefit.
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BEACH A1TO BttJL ARMSTRONG
C O P Y R IG H T
1 9 1 0 B T HARPER BT » R O T H E R S
SYNOPSIS.
Cowboy« o f th e F ly in g H e a rt ran ch are
h e a r t b r o k e n o v e r t h e lose of t h e i r m u c h -
p rlie.l p h o n o g r a p h by th e d e fe a t o f th e ir
c h a m p i o n In a f o o t - r a c e w i t h t h e c o o k of
the t e n l l p .d e ranclp
A h o u s e p a r t y Is
on a t th e F l y i n g H e a r t
J. W a ll in g f o r d
Sp e e d , c h e e r l e a d e r a t Yale, a n d C u l v e r
C ovlniiton, Inter-collpsrlnte c h a m p i o n r u n ­
ner, a r e exp ected .
H e le n Hluke. S p e e d 's
s w e e t h e a r t , b e c o m e s i n t e r e s t e d in t h e loss
o f th e p h o n o g rap h . S h e s n ^ e s t s to J e a n
C h ap in , siste r o f th e o w n e r of th e ran c h ,
t h a t s h e i n d u c e C o v i n g to n , h e r lover, to
w in b a c k th e p h o n o g rap h . H elen d e c la res
t h a t if C o v i n g t o n w o n ’t r u n , S p e e d will.
T h e cow boys a re hilarious over th e p ro s­
pect.
Speed a n d his v a le t. T .arry G lass,
t r a i n e r a t Yale, a rr ly e . H e le n H la k e a s k s
Speed, w h o h a s posed to h e r a s a n n th -
Iete, to r a c e a g a i n s t t h e C e n t ip e d e m a n .
i he c o w b o y s jo in in th e a p p e a l to W a lly ,
a n d f e a r i n g t h a t H e l e n w i l l f in d h i m o u t .
h e c o n s e n ts . H e In sists, h o w e v e r , t h a t he
sh all he e n te re d ns a n u n k n o w n , figuring
t h a t C o v i n g to n will a r r i v e in t im e to t a k e
his place.
Speed beg in s tra in in g u n d e r
G l a s s ’ d irection.
"N ot a t all. W hen C ulver arriv es—”
"Oh, th a t is w hat I w ant to talk
over with you," Mrs K eap broke in,
nervously.
"T hen it isn’t about the foot-race?
You are not angry?" Speed brightened
amazingly.
"I'm not exactly angry; I’m su r­
prised and grieved. Of course. I can't
forgive deceit—I dare say I am more
particu lar than m ost people.”
"But you won't tell?" Mrs. K eap in­
dicated in soma subtle m anner th at
she was not above m aking term s,
w hereupon her com panion declared,
warm ly: "I'm yours for life! Ask
me for my watch, my rig h t eye, any­
thing! I ’ll give it to y o u !”
"I assure you I sh a ’n ’t ask anything
so Im portant as that, but I shall ask
a favor.”
“Nam e it and it is yours!" Speed
w rung the hand she offered.
"And perhaps I can do more than
keep silent—although I don’t see w hat
good It will do. I’erhaps 1 can help
your suit.”
"G racious lady, all I ask Is th a t you
th ru st out your foot and trip up
Berkeley Fresno w henever he stu rts
tow ard her. But him out of the play,
and I shall be th s happiest m an in
the world."
"A greed."
’’Now, in w hat way can I serve
you?"
Mrs. K eap becam e em barrassed
while (he sam e shadowy trouble th at
had been observed of late settled upon
her.
"I simply hate to ask It,” she said,
"but I suppose I m ust. T here seem s
to be no o th er way out of it.” T urn­
ing to him suddenly, she said, la
low, intense voice: "I—I’m in trou­
ble, Mr. Speed, such dreadful tro u ­
ble!"
"Oh, I’m so so rry !” he answ ered
her, with genuine solicitude. "You
needn’t have m ade any conditions. 1
would have dons anything I could for
you."
“T hat's very kind, for I don't like
our air of conspiracy, but”—Mrs. Koap
was wringing her slen d er hands—"I
Just can't tell the girls. You—you can
help m e.”
Speed allowed her tim e to grow
calm, when she continued:
“ I—I am engaged to bo m arried.”
"F elicitations!"
“Not a t all,” said the young widow,
wretchedly. "T hat is the awful part
of it. I am engaged to two m en !” She
turned her brown eyes full upon him ;
they were strained and tragic.
Speed felt him self im pelled to laugh
im m oderately, but Instead he ob­
served, in a tone to relieve h e r anx­
iety:
"N othing unusual In th a t; it has
been done before. Even I have been
prodigal with my affections. W hat can
I do to relieve the congestion?"
“Please don’t m ake light of it. It
m eans so much to me. I—I’m in love
with Jack Chapin."
“W ith J a c k !”
“ Yes. W hen I cam e here I thought
I cared for somebody else. Why, I
w anted to come here ju st because I
knew th a t—th a t somebody else had
been invited too, and we could be to­
gether."
“And he couldn’t come—’’
“W ait! And then, when I got here,
I m et Jack Chapin. T hat was less than
a w eek ago, and yet in th a t sh o rt tim e
I have learned th a t he is the only
m an I can ever love—the one m an in
all the world.”
“And you can’t accept because you
have a previous engagem ent. I see!
Jove! It's quite dram atic. But I don’t
CHAPTER VI.—Continued.
During the ensuing pause Mrs. K eap
took occasion to call Speed aBide.
"I have som ething to contribute to the
training-quarters If you will help me
bring it out.” said she.
T he young man bowed. “Most glad­
ly.”
’’W e’ll be back In a little while,"
the chaperon announced to the oth­
ers. and a m oment later, when she and
Speed had reached the veranda of the
house, she paused.
"I—I want to speak to you,” she
began, hesitatingly. "It was ju st an
excuse.”
W ally looked at h e r with concern,
for It was plain th a t uhe was deeply
troubled.
“W hat Is It?"
"I have been trying to get a word
alone with you ever Bince I heard
about this foot-race.” T he young m an
chilled with apprehension as Mrs.
K eap turned her dark eyes upon him
searchingly. "W hy do you w ant to
run?"
“To win back the cowboys' tre a s­
ure. My h e a rt is touched,” he de­
clared. boldly. Mrs. K eap smiled.
”1 believe the latter, but a re you
sure you can win?"
"A bso-bloom lnglutely.”
”1 didn't know you w ere a sprin­
te r.”
Speed shrugged his shoulders.
"H ave you had experience?”
"O ceans of i t ! ”
Mrs. Keap m used for a m oment.
“Tell m e,” said she, finally, “a t w hat
in terco lleg iate gam e did you run
la st? ”
j “I didn’t run la s t; I ran first.”
It
was im possible to re sen t th e boy’s
smile.
"Then a t w hat game did you last
run? I hope I’m not too curious?’’
“Oh no, not a t a il!” Speed stam ­
mered.
“Or, if it is easier, a t w hat college
gam es did you first ru n ? ” Mrs. K eap
was laughing openly now.
"W hy the clear, ringing, rippling
laughter?" asked the young man, to
cover his confusion.
“Because I think it is very funny."
“Oh, you do!" Speed took refuge be­
hind an attitude of unbending dignity,
but the young widow would have none
of it.
“I know all about you," said she.
“You a re a very wonderful person, of
course; you are a delightful fellow at
a house-party, and a m ost suitable In
dividual generally, but you are not ah
athlete, in spite of those beautiful
clothes In your tru n k .”
“Who told you?”
"C ulver Covington."
“I didn’t know you twro w ere ac­
quainted.”
Mrs. Keap flushed. "H e totd me all
about you long ago. You w ear all the
athletic clothes, you know all the talk,
you have tried to m ake the team a
dozen tim es, but you a re not even a
substitute. You are m erely the V ar­
sity c h ee rle a d er. Culver calls you
'the head-yeller.’ "
"Columbus has discovered our con­
tin e n t!” said Speed. “ You are a very
wise chaperon, and you m ust have a
corking m emory for nam es, but even
a head-yeller is b e tte r than a glee-club
q u a rte r back.” He nodded toward the
bunk-house, whence they had come.
"You haven’t told anybody?”
’’Not yet.”
" ’Yet,’ ’’ he quoted. "The futurity
implied in th a t word disturbs me.
Suppose you and I keep it for a little
secret? S ecrets a re very delightful
a t house-parties.”
"D on't you consider your action de­
ceitful?”
"N ot a t all. My m otto is 'W e strive "Mr. Speed Goln’ to Live H ere?" In­
to please.’ ”
quired the Forem an.
“T hink of H elen.”
"T h at's it; I c a n 't think of any­ see why you are so excited? If the
thing else! She's mad about athletics, o th er chap Isn’t coming—”
and I had to do som ething to stand off
"B ut he Is! T hat is w hat m akes it
th is w eight lifting ten o r.”
so dreadful! If those two m en should
“Is it any w onder a woman d istru sts m eet"—Mrs. K eap burled her face in
every m an she m eets?” m used the her hands and shuddered—“there
chaperon. “H elen m ight forgive you. would be a tragedy, they a re both so
frightfully Jealous." She began to
I couldn't.”
"Oh, it's not th a t bad. I know w hat trem ble, and Speed laid a com forting
hand upon her shoulder.
I'm doing.”
“You will cause these cowboys to
“I think you m ust be exciting your­
self unduly," said he. “Je a n 's o ther
lose a lot more money.”
HAS TW O PER IO D S O F R E S T
Division of Time of Slum ber P revent­
ed Breakdown of Man W orn Out
by Overwork.
Two hours In bed In the early eve­
ning la the lete st health recipe for the
busy m an whose day begins early In
the m orning and lasts till late a t night.
The "trea tm e n t.” which consists
■Imply of going to bed from 6 till 7
o’clock, was described by a m edical
m an who prescribed It for a business
man whose m anifold in te rests had
been com pelling hlni to crowd two
days' work into one, to the detrim ent
of his health.
"My p atient now has two distinct
days and two distinct recuperation
period* every tw enty-four hours,”
the doctor explained. "H e begins
work w ith his sec re tary -a n hour be­
fore moat business men a rs think­
ing of getting up In the m orning. At
five o'clock in the afternoon h it first
day’s work ends and he goes to bed
for two hours’ com plete r e s t At sev-
“T h a t’s who it is ! ” R oberta ra iled
her pallid face aa the young m an fell
back.
“C ulvert G reat Scott! W hy, he's
engaged—”
“W hat I"
"N othingI I—I—” Speed paused,
a t an u tte r loss for words.
“ You see, he'll discover th e tru th ."
"Does he know you are h ere?”
“No. 1 Intended to surprise him. I
was Jealous. I couldn't bear to think
of his being here w ith o th er girls—
men a re so deceitful! T h a t’s why I
consented to a ct as chaperon to Helen.
And now to th in k th a t-1 should have
m et my fate In Ja c k C hapin!"
“I see. You w ant me to break the
news to Culver."
“No! n o !" Mrs. Koap w as aghast.
“If he even suspected the tru th he’d
become a raging lion. Oh, I’ve been
quite distracted ev er since Ja c k left!"
“Well, w hat am I to do? You m ust
have somo p a rt laid out for m e?”
“ I have.
A d esp erate situation de­
m ands a d esperate remedy. I ’ve loBt
all conscience. T h a t’s why I agreed to
protect you If you'd protect me."
"Go ahead.”
"Culver Is your friend.”
"W e’re closer th an a chord In 0 .”
"Then you m ust wire him —”
"I have— "
“—Not to com e.”
“W h a t!” J. W allingford Speed atart-
ed as It a wasp had stung him.
"You m ust w ire him a t ouce h o t to
come. 1 don't care w hat excuse you
give, but stop him. Stop h im !”
Speed reached for a pillar; he felt
th a t the porch was spinning slowly
beneath his feet.
“Oh, see here, now! I can’t do th a t! ”
“ You prom ised!” cried Mrs. Keap,
fiercely. ”1 have tried to th in k of
som othlng to tell him , but I'm too
frightened.”
“ Yes, but—but I—w ant him here—
for this foot-race.” W ally swallowed
bravely.
"F oot-race!” storm ed the widow, in­
dignantly. “Would you allow an Insig­
nificant thing like a foot race to wreck
a hum an life? Two hum an lives?
T hree?”
"C an’t you—w ire him ?”
Mrs. K eap stam ped her foot. “If he
dream ed I was here he would hire a
special train. No! It m ust come from
you. You a re his b est friend.”
"W hat can I say?" dem anded the
bewildered Speed, unhappily.
”1 don’t care w h at you say, I don’t
care w hat you do—only do som ething,
and do it quickly before he has tim e
to leave Chicago." T hen sensing the
hesitation In h e r com panion’* face:
"Or perhaps you p re fe r to have Helen
know the deceit you have practiced
upon her? And I fancy these cowboys
would re sen t th e Joke, doivt you?
W hat do you think would happen if
they discovered th e ir cham pion to be
m erely a cheer lead er with a trunkful
of new clothes, who can’t do a sin­
gle out-door sport—not one?”
"W a lt!” Speed mopped his brow
with a red-and-blue silk handkerchief.
“I’ll do my best.”
‘‘T hen I shall do my p a r t ” And
Mrs. Keap, who could not b ear decep­
tion, turned and w ent indoors w hile J.
W allingford Speed, a prey to sundry
misgivings, stum bled down th e steps,
his head in a whirl.
CHA PTER VII.
ERKELEY FRESNO was de­
voting him self to
Miss
Blake.
"W h at do you th in k of
our decorations?" she in­
quired.
"T hey are more or less
ath letic,” he declared, “Was
it Mr. Speed's idea?”
“Yes. He w anted training quarters."
" It’s a joke, Isn’t it?"
"I don’t think so. Mr. Fresno, why
do you dislike Mr. Speed?”
Fresno bent a w arm glance upon the
questioner. "Don’t you know?”
Helen shook h e r head with bland
innocence.
"T hen you do dislike
him ?”
“No, indeed! I like him —he m akes
me laugh." H elen bridled loyally.
"Did you see those m edals he wore
yesterday?" the young man queried.
"O f course, and I thought them
beautiful.”
“ How w ere they Inscribed? He
wouldn’t let me exam ine them .”
‘N aturally. If I had trophies like
th a t I would guard them too.”
Fresno nodded, musingly. "I gave
mine away.”
"Oh, are you an a th lete?”
"No, but I tim ed a foot-race once.
They gave me a beautiful nearly-
bronze emblem so th a t I could g et In­
to the Infield.”
“And did you w in?”
"No! no! I didn’t run! D on't you
understand? I was an official.” Fresno
was vexed a t the g irl’s lack of percep­
tion. “I’m not a n ath le te . Miss Blake
I ’m Just an ordinary so rt of chap.” He
led her to a seat, while Jean enlisted
the aid of L airy G lass and completed
the finishing touches to the decora­
tions. "A thletics don’t do a fellow any
good a fte r he leaves college. I'm go­
ing into business th is fall. H ave you
ever been to C alifornia?” Miss Blake
adm itted th a t she had never been so
far, and Fresno launched him self upon
a glowing description of his native
sta te ; but before he could shape the
conversation to a point w here hli
h e a re r m ight perchance express a de­
sire to see its wonders, Still Bill Sto­
ver th ru st his head cautiously through
the door to the bunk-house, and al­
lowed an adm iring eye to rove ovei
the transform ation.
“Look* like a b a z a a r!” he exclaimed.
"W hat the idea?”
"T rain in ’ q u a rte rs,” said Glass.
“Mr. Speed goin’ to live here?” In­
quired the forem an, bringing th e r e
m alnder of his lanky body into view.
(TO B E C O N T IN U E D .)
en o ’clock he is up again, bathes,
dresses and dine*. He is then fresh
for another four o r five hours’ b a d ­
ness o r social duties. Hla tw o re st
periods combined give him alm ost
nine hours in bed. T he ‘patien t’
gets through a g re a te r am ount of
work and enjoys b e tte r health.”
T h eir W ay.
"W hy should you women w ant to
vote? You can’t fight?”
"C an 't we? J u s t try us and w atch
us com* to the scratch .”