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About The Forest Grove express. (Forest Grove, Or.) 1916-1918 | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1918)
vmryrinrymrsTnnrmrBTrmrïTrTTVTmroTTmrTmrrmrmry^ o o o o ° 0 o ° o e A new m ystery develop« In t h l» Installm ent of “T h e Destroying Angel.” W h itaker finds much in Miss Fiske’s m anner to puzzle him and make him w onder If— well, read fo r yourself. You w ill recall that W h itake r, returning to New Y o rk several years after his supposed death, discovers his w ife, now a fam ous actress known as Sara L a w , about to m a rry Drum m ond, his oid partner. Drum m ond disappears, supposedly a suicide, and Sara, ask- log her husband to agree to a divorce, also drops out of s ig h t W hitaker, m ysteriously assaulted, goes to the country horns of his frien d M artin Em ber. He makes the acquaintance o f p retty Miss Fiske, a neighbor, finds spies are w atching her, and follow s her abductors when they kidnap her in a m otor b o a t Both c rafts are wrecked on a reef, W h itaker and the g irl are tossed u p o n an Island lately abandoned. rooflaflflflQe flaflflflB 8 f l p g Q ttftagttBnAA.tt-g flg p Q O P O f l Q Q O Q o o o o o o o o j 1 l thla section of tho Atlantic coast M I knew anything of such matters, U would be easy enough to tell from that Just about where we are. If thnt Information would help un.” "But, if we cun see their light, they’ll see ours,— won't they?—and «end to find out what's the matter." “ Perhaps. At lenst—let’s hope so. They’re pretty sure of It, but they may think the native« here are merely cele brating their silver wedding, or Roose velt's refusal o f a third term, or the accession o f Edward the Seventh—or anything." “ Please don’t be silly—and discour- aging. Do get to work nnd build tho Are.” He obeyed with humility and ex pedition. pnnnrs'o'o o b b b b b b b b b 8B8 b on r- prised her Intent gu*e, laughed sheep ishly, and laughing, sighed with reple tion. A smile of sympathetic under standing durkened the corner« o f her lips. “ It’s coming on night,” said he. "You huven't forgotten our stgnnl Area? I've got my work cut out for me, to forage for fuel. 1 must get right at It.” The girl rose quickly. “ Do you mind waiting a little? I mustn't neg lect my dishes." ® W here do you think M i«« She worked rupldly above the stenm- Fiske learned her rescuer*« first Ing dish-pan, busy und Intent, the fair name? Do you believe sh« ° head bowed, the cheeks faintly flushed. kn o w « more about th « kidnap- o Whitaker lounged, profoundly In •ra and the ir Intention than « h « ° trigued, watching her with sober and n wishes W h ita k e r to know? o studious eyes. What did it mean, this o o Impression that had come to him so LBAB.flJLfi_C_BJLfiJLg.g H . B B B B fl.fl.fllLB B J» suddenly, within the hour, that he had iTo UK CONTINUED.) known her, or someone strangely like her, at some forgotten time— as In some previous existence? It was her voice that hud made him Ingenious C itizen of F a r W est Not think that, her voice of marvelous Bothered by Cost of Gasoline— ullure, crystal-pure, as flexible us tem Uses Novel Device. pered steel, strong, tender, rich, com passionate. compelling. . . . Where When a certain Ingenious citizen of had he heard It before, and when? tlio far West goes for a Jauiit with “ It's almost durk,” her pleasant ac ilia little canoe he forgeta all ubout cents broke In upon his revery. “ I’m the rising cost o f gusollne und engine quite finished." The girl scrubbed her trouble and propels himself up und arms and hands briskly with u dry dowu stream with a hand and foot- towel nnd turned down her sueves, o|H*rnted boat of bis own construc facing him with her fine, trank, friend tion. ly smile. “ I f you’re ready . . .' Hand lovers are connected with a “ Whenever you are,” he said with an crank which carries n gear, and this oddly ceremonious bow. meshes with another gear which drives T o his surprise she drew back, her the propeller shaft. brows and lips contracting to level Pedal cranks ure connected with the lines, her eyes Informed with the light snmo crunk which is operated by hand of wonder shot through with the flash levers, so tlu t the boat can he driven ings o f a resentful temper. by foot ns well nu by hand power. In “ Why do you look nt me so?" she this way the operator can iiib either demanded sharply. “ What are you one hun-J or two bunds or both feet thinking . . . ?” She checked, her alone, or both bunds und feet togeth frown relaxed, her smile flickered soft er. The uppurutus weigh* ubout forty ly. “ Am I such a fright— ?” « pounds. “ I beg your pardon,” he said hastily. “ I was merely thinking, wonder N itrates From A ir. ing . . ." When the thirteenth annual conven She seemed about to speak, but said tion of the American Electro Chemical nothing. He did not round out his society is held iii New York city from npology. A little distance apart, they September 1*7 to September 30. mem stood staring at one another In that bers will discuss the problem of ob weird, unnutural light, wherein the taining nitrates from the atmosphere. glow from the lamp contended garish- : Nitrates are not only important as ly with the ebbing flush of duy. And fertilizers, hut they are a husic in C H A P T E R X I I I — Continued. door, finding themselves in the kitchen — IS— — that mean and commonplace assem The reminder had an effect singular- bly room of narrow and pinched lives. ty distressing. He turned a little faint, The immaculate cleanliness o f decent, was seized with a slight sensation of close poverty lay over It all like a giddiness, at the thought of food, so blight. Whltnker busted himself im that he was glad of the catboat for mediately with the stove. There was a full wood box near by; and within a support. • “ Oh, you a re !" Compassion thrilled very few minutes he had a brisk fire her tone. “ I ’ m so sorry. Come— If you going. The woman had disappeared In can walk.” She caught his hand as If the direction of the barn. She returned to help him onward. “ W e can build a In good time with half a dozen eggs. Are and have something h ot; there’s Foraging in the pantry and cupboards, she brought to light a quantity of sup plenty o f fuel.” plies; a side o f bacon, flour, potatoes, “ But— what did you do?” “ I— oh, I took my eggs au natural— sugar, tea, small stores o f edibles in barring some salt and pepper. I was tins. " I ’m hungry again, myself,” she de in too much o f a hurry to bother with clared, attacking the problem of simple a stove— ” cookery with a will and a confident air “ Why In a hurry?” She made no answer for an instant that promised much. The aroma of frying bacon, the steam He turned to look at her, wondering. To his unutterable astonishment she of brewing tea, were ail but intolerable not only failed to meet his glance, but to an empty stomneh. Whitaker left the kitchen hurriedly and. In an en- tried to seem unconscious o f i t The admirable ease and gracious dmtvor to control himself, made a self-possession which he had learned round o f the other rooms. There were to associate with her personality as in two others on the ground floor; In the alienable traits were altogether gone. upper story, four small bedchambers; Just then— obliterated by a singular, above them an attic, gloomy and echo exotic attitude of constraint and diffi ing. Nowhere did he discover any dence, of self-consciousness. She thing to moderate the Impression made by the kitchen. It was all Impeccably seemed almost to shrink from his re neat, desperately bare. gard, and held her face a little averted Depressed, he turned toward the from him, the full lips tense, tasbes head o f the stairs. Below a door low and trembling upon her cheeks. whined on Its binges, and the woman Halfway up to the farmhouse a mem called him, her voice ringing through ory shot through Whitaker’s mind as startling as lightning streaking athwart the hallway with an effect of richness, a peaceful evening sky. He stopped deep-toned and bell-true. He was stag with an exclamation that brought the gered by something in the quality of that full-throated cry, something that girl beside him to a standstill with smote his memory until It was quick questioning eyes. and vibrant, like a harp swept by an “ But the others— 1" he stammered. old familiar hand. “ The others?” she repeated blankly. "Hugh?” she called; and again: “They— the men who brought you “ Hugh! Where are you?” here— ?” He paused, grasping the balustrade, Her lips tightened. She moved her and with some difficulty managed to head in slow negation. “ I have seen nothing of either of articulate: “ Here . . . coming . . ." them.” “ Hurry. Everything’s ready.” Horror and pity filled him, conjuring M aitlng an Instant to steady his up a vision o f wild, raving waters, mad nerves, he descended and re-entered with blood-lust, and in their Jaws, arms and heads helplessly whirling and toss the kitchen. The meal was waiting—on the table. ing. The woman, too, faced him as he en “ Poor devils.'" he muttered. She said nothing. When he looked tered, waiting In the chair nearest the But, once within the room, for sympathy in her face, he found It stove. he paused so long beside the door, set and inscrutable. He delayed another moment, think his hand upon the knob, and stared ing that soon she must speak, offer him so strangely at her. that she moved some sort of explanation. But she re uneasily, grew restless and disturbed. mained uncommunicative. And he A gleam o f apprehension flickered In could not bring himself to seem anx her eyes. “ Why, what’s the matter?" she ious to pry into her affairs. "W hy He took a tentative step onward. asked with forced lightness. She responded instantly to the sugges don’t you come In and sit down?” He said abruptly: “ You called me tion, but in silence. The farmhouse stood on high ground, Hugh I" She Inclined her head, smiling mis commanding an uninterrupted sweep o f the horizon. As they drew near It, chievously. " I admit It. Do you Whitaker paused and turned, narrow mind?” ing his eyes as he attempted to read “ Mind? N o !" He shut the door, the riddle of the enigmatic, amber-tint advanced and dropped into his chair, ed distances. still searching her face with his T h e re W as N ot a Sail Visible. There was not a sail visible in all troubled gaze. “ Only," he said— “ you the blue cup of the sea. startled me. I didn't think— expect— again he was mute In bewildered In “ I don’t know,” said Whitaker slow hope— ” quiry before that puzzling phenome ly. ns much to himself as to his com “ On so short an acquaintance?” she non o f Inscrutable emotion which panion. “ It's odd . . . it passes suggested archly. “ Perhaps you’re once before, since his awakening, had me . . .” right. I didn't think . . . And yet been disclosed to him In her mnntling “ Cnn’t you tell where we are?” she —I do think— with the man who risked color, In the quickening o f her breath, inquired anxiously. his life for me— I’m n little Justified and the agitation of her bosom. In “ Not definitely. I know, of course, In forgetting even that we’ve never the timid, dumb questioning o f eyes we must be somewhere off the south met through the medium o f a conven grown strangely shy nnd frightened. coast of New England. There are tional Introduction.” And then, In a twinkling, an Im islands off the south const o f Massa “ It Isn’t that, but . . . ” He hesi patient gesture exorcised the Inex chusetts— a number of them : Nan tated, trying to formulate phrases to plicable mood that had possessed her, tucket, you know, and Martha’s Vine explain the singular sensation that and she regained her normal, self- yard. This might be either— only It had assailed him when she called him, reliant poise as If by witchcraft. isn’t, because they’re summer resorts. a sensation the precise nature o f “ What a quaint creature you are, T h at"—he swept his hand toward the which he himself did not as yet un Hugh,” she cried, her smile whimsical. land in the northeast— "might be derstand. “ You’ve u way of looking at one thnt either, and probably Is one of ’em. At She interrupted brusquely: "Don’t gives me the creeps. I f you don’t the same time, it may be the mainland. let’s waste time talking. I can’t wait stop it, I swear r shall think you’re I don’t know.” another Instant.” the d e v il! Stop it— do you hear me, “Then . . . then what are we to Silently submissive, he took up his sir? And come build our bonfire.” dor knife and fork and fell to. She swung llthely away and was out He looked round, shaking a dubious o f the house before he could regain his head. “ O f course there’s nothing like C H A P T E R XIV. wits and follow. a flagpole here. We might nail a Off In the north, where Whltnker plank to the corner o f the roof and a T h e Beacon. had marked down the empurpled head- table cloth to that, I suppose." The girl was the first to finish. She innd during the afternoon, a white "And build fires, by night?” had eaten little In comparison; chiefly, light lanced the gloom thrice with a He nodded. “ Best suggestion y e t I’ll perhaps, because she required less sweeping blade, vanished, and was re do that very thing tonight— after I ’ve than he. She rested her elbows easily placed by a glare o f angry red, which had a bite to eat.” on the table, cradled her chin between In Its turn winked out. She started Impatiently away. “ Oh, her half-closed hands. Her eyes grew “ What Is It?" the girl asked. “ A come, cornel What am I thinking of, dark with speculation, t nd oddly lam ship signalling?” to let you stand there, starving by bent He ate on. unconscious of her " N o ; a lighthouse— probably a first- in ch ea r attitude. When he hod finished, be o rd e r light— w ith Its characteristic T h e y entered the house b y the back leaned back a little in bis chair, sur flash, not duplicated anyw here along POULTRY • TKTS • TURKEYS ARE EASILY RAISED B ird la E specially Adapted to G ra in and Stock Farm s W here Th e ra is Am ple Range. (Prvpnred by the United Hlstrs P «'p »rt- ment of Agriculture ) No one is in n better position to re spond to tlie present campaign for the Increased production of poultry on tlie farm than tlie turkey raiser. The tur key is a farm bird, first ami last, um l is especially suited to the grulli uml »lock farms where there Is ample rang ing ground abounding In such turkey food as grasshoppers and other In sects. weed seeds, waste grain, such PROPULSION BY HAND POWER gredient in tlie manufacture of ex plosives. The world tins been depend ing upon Chile for Its supply, and the deposits there will probably lust SO years longer, hut the United States Is endeavoring to make Its-lf Independ ent o f liny foreign source of supply, and the electro-chemists are endeavor ing to find a practicable method of ex tracting the nttrutes from the nitrogen gns which forms 80 per cent o f the air. The first plant for the manufac ture o f nitrates was erected at Niag ara Falls. Exercise and Good Nerves. A certain world's champion may be seen sometimes jogging nt a dog trot, like n prizefighter, around Central park. New York city. You might guess thut lie was a lightweight pugilist or u ’ distance man.” hut the match for which he is training is a test of nerves more.than o f strength, for ull he wields Is n 15-ounce cue, Charles I*. Cushing writes In the World's Work. His uame Is W illie Hoppe, the champion bil liard player o f the world. He knows well what he Is about; steady nerv’es und confidence keep coinpuny with good health; and one o f the beat ways to win such boons, the experts say, is to peel off your coat and go ufter them. A N atural Condenser. The rain tree o f Colombia measures about 50 feet high when at maturity nnd about three feet in diameter nt the bnse. It absorbs a 3 Immense quantity of moisture from the atmosphere, which It concent roles, nnd sub.* equent- ly semis It forth from its leaves and brunches In a ***:ower, In some In stances so abundantly tl.iit the ground In Its vicinity Is converted inti- u quag mire. It possesses this curious prop erty In Its greatest degree In the sum mer, precisely when the rivers are at their lowest und water most scarce. T h in k fo r Y o u rse lf. Some people are so undecided that when they think they want to do a certain thing they hesitate to do It until they have assurance from others that It’s all right to do It. and when they have such ussurnnee they still remain In doubt. Good Nests fo r Tu rk e ys. ns Is left In the fields after harvest, nnd nuts o f such varieties as beech nuts, chestnuts, pecans, pine nuts and acorns. On such a farm, the present prices o f grain affect the turkey rais er hut little, for with the exception o f what Is used at fattening time, tlie feed consumed is largely of such u kind us would otherwise tie wasted. EACH BREED HAS ITS PLACE A ll Have Been Made and Developed on General P rinciple of Practical Q u a lity and Value. (Prepared by the United Stale» tnent o f Agriculture > tiepnrt- T o tlie novice in poultry keeping It often appears that there Is iio real necessity for ho tunny breeds ami va rieties ns have been standardized In America. Further acquaintance with them, however, shows that although color differences are I ii most cases tmide merely to please the eyes o f persons having different preferences for color, the differences in shape nnd size which make breed character have been developed with a view to adapting ••nch to particular uses or particular conditions. I.envlng out o f consideration the breed* kept ns novelties, most o f which originated before Industrial progress crented a large demand for poultry products, all the standard American breeds o f fowls have been made anti developed on the general pilnclple of practical quality, the foundation of breed, character nnd value. In harmony with this principle the common classification o f breeds ac- cording to their place In the general scheme o f poultry production divides them Into three principal classes, name ly, laying breeds, meat breeds that are not as ready and persistent egg pro ducers us the Inylng breeds, nnd not ns menty nnd as easy to fatten ns the meat breeds, yet combine In one Indi vidual fowl v e r y good Inylng rapacity with very good table quality. The Leghorn, Minorca, Andalusian, Ancona uml Camplne are well-known breeds of the laying class; the Brah ma, Dorking, nnd Cornish o f the meat «•lass; the Plymouth lloek, Wyandotte, Rhode Island Bed and Orpington of the general purpose clnss. CONTENTED FOWLS ARE BEST Easier to Keep H ens H e a lth y and to Reproduce Stock U nder Colony House System. (Prepared bv the United States Depart ment o f Agriculture ) A contented hen Is a profitable pos session, and contentment with the hen Is commensurate with the comfort o f her home. Hence henhouse building should receive more than passing no tice from one who would profitably produce poultry. Hens do not do well In npartmenta; R ely Upon Slides. even semidetached houses nre not de Panama Official (to friend who has sirable; separated (colony) houses, been taken with cramps while buthlng each with Its own yard, give best all- In the canal)— Keep up for five min around satisfaction. utes, BUI I Something will slide in by It Is easier to keep the birds healthy then und you can walk out I and to reproduce the stock under f?»e colony system If the birds are allowed T h e Usual W a y. free range. Breeding stock, nnd espe H enderson— F o r five years I was cially growing chickens, should have on the lookout fo r a wife. an nhundunt range, while hens used W illiam son— H o w did you come U solely for tho production o f market find her? eggs may he kept on s very small aim. Hander son— She saw me A ral '