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ROGUE RIVER COURIER, GRANTS PASS, OREGON, AUGUST 10, 1906.
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PAYSLIPS KILLING.
Altrie Pavslip, the mltntnl young ttnof
rapfirr of the burtau ui a r. i: ns ..ration, had it
all figured out on Vnim.'ay forrnoon
he leaned tnnafi the i.o-air ri-gisler and
mailed for tbe chief to summon him. AJgie
was o,fi(( to kill 'em out at limning. He
lin'l Koine to lxit(-a!aunter 'em, or pot
the whole rd over, or cot a bunch of
tenneloua, or drive 'em all off the block
be waa juirt joing to kill 'em. He- had ao
announced to three of his (articular friends,
with a crafty Iik i! in hit ), on the nig.t
before and he miant it. Aigie Payslip al
way means evci; tiling he says.
"I don't know," be miwJ, ai he leaned
cloaer still to the hot-air reenter, "whether
I'd better reAu thi miserable little 12J
job to-morrow morning, or hang on pntil
the end of the month, so'a to give 'em a
chance to get another shorthand man. It'll
be hard to hang on, though, when I'll have
bout t! 4,000 in cool .fellow rash in my
homespun when I get bark from Kenning
this evening," and Algie leaned back and
closed bia eye dreamily and thought of
the pleasant, patronizing manner he'd as
sume toward the chief of the bureau of
adumtiration on the morrow.
"He a good enough old codger in hi
way," reflected Algie, "but he think th
nuaaley little old 13,000 a year he'a getting
i big money, even for the support of hi
large family. w
And then, Algie, freed from hi steno
' graphic cares, was out at the track, with
the little roll of NO in his vest that he bad
crrwded with great difficulty from a
brusque gentleman who had not only re-
, quired, an indorser, but the somewhat usu
rious interest of 120 per cent, per annum.
"'"Algie also had carefully tucked away in
his waistcoat pocket the sjio given to him
on the afternoon before by a sharp fea
tured young person from New York. The
lip contained the paint (if the winner at '
i CO "t tbt six raits 611 the ar.l, each guar
anteed to be at a price of 30 to 1 or bet
ter, and the ten dollar remnant of. tits last
pay day which Algie had cheerfully given up
for this potential piece of pajer had seemed
a mere bagatelle to the talented young ste
nographer when compared with its possi
bilities. ' "Caninu to win the first race," mused
Algie, a he made hi way into the betting
ring before the slates went up. "And guar
anteed to be'at least 80 to 1. I'll put ten
dollars on ( ninusfo0 ought to be enough
lor a starter."
4 Forcing till way up to a bookie's stool
Vhtn the betting began, Algie 1'ayslip was
delighted to linil that ( aninus was the rank
outsider at 100 to 1 in the belting. Anil so
be gut (1,000 for his ten dollar", the book
maker smiling at him sardonically as he took
the money. Then Algi niuuulcd the stand
to, watch, till ram . 1
' N'u description of that remarkable rare is
necessary the news report of the day's
rare gave it in full. la inn us got off lust,
gradually worked Ins way to the front and
Won on the wire by none from the odd
on favorite. Algie repressed his inward ex
citement in a dcaii-giiine manner, and wht-n
be collected the (1,010 from the bookmak
er' cashier h favored that chagrined ill
dividual with a satirical smile that wu
meant to be, and probably was, exceedingly
cutting.
"Urn a fair start, that," said Algie to
himself, languidly, as he strolled over to the
liar and refreshed himself with a quart of
th restless amber product of Haul. "Strum
Holler to win the second-guaranteed to lie
at 20 to I," my information read. "I shall
invest a little matter of j0U, then, on Steam
, Holler to win."
Which Algie did. He had, however, to
take odds which were cut before hi ad
vance along the line the rumor of a new
plunger having spread with its custonmiy
rapidity in the ring. Algie felt an inward
sense of triumph when he pciccived that
the bookmakers were not only gazing at
him with respect, but that they were rub
bing out the prires on their slates when he
mad his appearance. Algie got some of
his $.iH) down on Steam Holler at '20 to 1,
but when the scared bookie saw him com
lug they quickly began to Mliave, so that he
had finally, at post time, to accept four In
one. When he had plared all of the .VKI
he stood to win about f,0"0 if Sfeam Holler
romped home, as Algie had evrry reason to
espect.
And, as will be recalled by readers of the
race reports, of course Algie's expectation
was rralired. It wan Steam Holler's ran
from start to finish, and he won pulled up
by five lengths.
"Oh, well, not so liad," said Algie to him
self, as he invented in a hniidlul of cigars
at one dollar cie li and coolly inlnrcd of the
bar ra'.cin if he didn't hate in Meek a few
bivttleH of JohitiiniNlieigei- of the vintnge of
'00. My this time news of the iiuim-iifc suc
cess of the stranger in the ring had spread
all over the grand stand, so that when AI
gie, after betting H IMI on Ins inforimint's
selection for the thud race at ten to one,
was positively embarrassed over the way
the pretty girls in the boxes pointed linn
out coyly with their programmes. How
ever, he contrived to hold onto a bearing
that was b.ttli ili lionair and inditlcreiit. He
was particularly delighted to otii've that
a number of his fellow rleiks, seated in the
stand with tlurir wives, weie regarding him
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with green-eyed envy tnat, however, utvir
theless had in it also a gleam of admira
tion. He waa generous enough to banh
the resent fuln- be felt over the predic
tions of some of them, made the day before,
that he wouldn't win a bet, and to give them
the name of the horse he had plaeed to win
the third race whereupon, needless to lay,
they rusiied down to the ring and "tapped"
themselves upon Algie' word.
Toe melancholy yellow sun drew close to
the horizon" Algie, ICS.OGO to the good at
the finih of the fifth race, reached t'-e
s- and to watch the six!h and lt event. He
had bet enough to make hisaftet loon's win
nings an even $100,000. As he st-id en fe
(rand atand steps, with bis lsrul
jauntily at his eyes, men and women t aid
more attention to Algie Payslip, the war
velously successful stenographer of the bu
reau of adumbration, than they did to the
horses psradii g to the post. He bad, it was
known, e impelled at least 12 of the bock
makers to take down their slates and close
their satchels, and it was whispered aronnd
the ring that if he won the lat rat e, too.
nn of the most famous of the bookmak
er, after year of unvarying success, would
have to put up the shutter. . 4
The horses fretted at the post for a mo
ment, and then .Mars t'assidy gave the cry
and Algie stepped down to see which of the
bunch had secured the roll, and in doing
so he-
Fell off hi chair in the bureau of adum
bration and woke np with a start. Twomo
auni later be was taking bis chief dic
tation, toe chief having already refused 'n
let him off foe tb afternortn on account o(
the pressure of work. Algi still ha the
MO and the dip. None of th borwi came .
on the slip, by the war, rn one. two. thiee.
But Algie i going to take the HO out to the
track the first afternoon he succeeds in get
ting on, when he expects to realize that
trance- Je had before the hot-air register.
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PHILIP'S PB0P0S.IL.
BT ETHEL COLSOI. ,
(Copyrighted by th Dally Story Pub. Co.)
Old Mr. Hrewer believed himself to be
acting in a manner most broad and liberal
minded indeed when ht told young I'hilip
Maintenon that be might call on hia
daughter Gertrud as often as be liked
provided he spoke or wrote no word of love.
to th young woman. This embargq H as ;
to last until Gertrude, who had just passed ;
her eighteenth birthday, wai 20 and I'hilipj
eorresH)ndiiigly older. The young man ac
cepted its condition unwillingly but with j
I moderate degree of cheerfulness in the j
beginning; he smarted under them coo-,
siderahly as they became more familiar. I
It waa delightful to see Gertrude fci often '
aa h liked, certainly, especially after the i
long week in which he bad wondered how I
much longer ht would be a WMtwme viaitor
at th Hrewer mansion, but k- soon found
that th permission to lier often meant
far lea than it had apmrd to. do at first
sight. He was not the only young man
who at her frequently, to begin with.
Gertrude wa a pretty girl, brigit and
popular in th bargain; i'lulip began to
live in a chronic state of fear lest some
other fellow wise enough to speak to th
girl first and thn the father afterward,
should atp in ahead of him. The girl
herself did not seem, to hi eicited faney,
to take nearly so much interest in hi at
tention a ah had done heretofore. Some
time he wa on th point of throwing up
the whole thing for a year or two and going
wt. All of which wa precisely what
Mr. Hrewer had counted upon when h
had consulted her husband to make term.
"Gertrud is both headstrang and im
pressionable, my dear," ah had said when
Mr. Hrewer had spoken of forbidding
i'hilip the house for the time being, "and
if you do that sh will immediately fancy
herself deeply in love with him, whether
sh i or not. Merely tell I'hilip that ah
is altogether too young and ton incomplete
'y educated, as yet, to think of such things,
and that he must not dream of telling her
that h love her or thinks that he does
for Kime time. Ten ehanre to on they'll
both tire of th fancy ahortly, and if it'
really love between them th waiting will
do no barm."
After a time, however, Philip berame o
deadly tired of waiting that he gave up the
idea of going out west and decidod to
change his tactics entirely. He had prom
ised to write or speak no word of love to j
Gertrude, rertninly, but proposing had !
never been mentioned. Surely it was pos-
slide to make a proposal of marriage
without uttering love sick speeches' tea,
he would certainly propose, and that as
oon as the opportunity oil, rid.
Hut tl pi'ortunity was long incoming.
Mrs. Hrewer had a "inc for news" which
would have made the fortune of a metro
politan newspaper reporter, and while ir
did not exactly suspect I'.olip of emli avor
ing to briak hi compact, o l e nic ! er
lusliand to understand, still s:ie mi int lum
to have no temptation of tl nt order The
bones of her oppoition were too nuely
clothed in the llcs!i of conventional courtes
for I'hilip or any other man to disi.nei
them, but she si rove against them in xain
Never a moment alone with Gertrude e uiil j
he tind or obtain. Kven when they went
upon photographing expeditions together!
-both being enthusiastic pliotogiaplue ania
leurs they nere invariably nrconipnnied I
by Gertrude's brother llctijamm, a spoiled I
vouth of 14, his mother's darling, ami nlso!
bail!)- ulllictcil with ti e picture taking I
ira.e And yet it was tliroii(li a photo I
v-rhpluc process that Philip finally carried
out Ina Kill in regard to li:s inanioriia uud '
ir ununited her mother's care. I
The Inig nt idea occurred to him one Sun
day alt ri noon, as he worked over Ins new
st lens, and le lost no tire u t'yig it.
I arefully pruning a rerta.n 'ignnl upon
lan'parent w'nle pal er. :e no e.i 1 1 e pa
per up against fie window . me '.mil went!
over it again, more boldly and on the wrong'
side, with a cliaicoal crayon Then he at-!
taclird the pawr, still wrong side out-i
wards, to the wall and photographed the'
legend- backward. I
He carried it with him when he called'
upon Gertrude the following evening. The!
Hrewer were orthodox people and he!
fmred to try his plan on Sunday. Gertrude;
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fell in with it as delig itfhlly , innocently
and ran upstairs to her own little room
to develop the plte irrmed lately. Philip
nan explained that he tnmtg t she would
understand the new experiment he wanted
to share with her more clearly if she her
self developed the negarixe. His hesit gaxe
a wild uinp w"nen Benjamin announced
that he wanted to watch toe development
alo. But once mors Gertrude came to th
rescue nobly, although quite aLeonscioo of
any need for so doing.
"No, Bennie, you can't," h told him,
shutting the dark-room door with gentle
decision; you make me too nervous when
I let you come in. I'll tell you all about
the experiment afterward."
Philip really doubted that she would keep
her word, but be said nothing. It needed
all hia self-control and patience to talk
commonplace calmly with Mrs. Brtwer
onl-1 Gertrude returned.
The girl, meanwhile, had received a start
ling shock.
"Metol hydrol I suggest a a developer,"
Philip had told her as he ran upstair
with th plateholder containing the "ex
perimental" negative, and thi agent ah
bad accordingly prepared. She rocked the
little tray back and forth for two or three
minute, then exposed it to theravaof the
red lamp. Hlack and white "value" arc
alao reverted upon a photographic nega
trv o th message which stared np at
her waa outlined in gleaming whit letter
upon an ebony background. And thi was
the message:
"My Dearest Girl: WiD Job marry dm?
Philip Maintenon."
' The girl grew whit and pink a ah read
it. Then lb laughed merrily and sat down
to consider. Ten minute later she went
down to the parlor and explained that sh
bad broken the precious negativ. Whether
by accident or design sh did not lay.
Philip colored hotly, and Mr. Brewer,
pitying hi fancied disappointment over th
lost negative, took Gertrude gently to task.
"I don't see how you could be so careless,
my daughter," ah remonstrated. "Nobody
know how much trouble Mr. Maintenon
may have taken to secure th negativ
you bav destroyed. Can't you make it
up to him in tome way?" .
"I don't know, mm," answered Ger
trude, smiling and blushing adorably as
he turned her face away from her mother
and toward Philip. "1 don't knoy. 1
shouldn't care to repeat the, experiment
myself, even if I knew how to do to.which
I do not. But we might poeaibly present
him with some othr work of art, if yon
think bet. Suppose we try."
A sudden thought made her cheek burn
yet mwre brilliantly, and she took from th
mantel a smnll planter figure of the con
Ventionalized "Chicago," and offered it to
Philip. And whether by accident or
design, again, it would be difficult to My
her small forefinger pointed to-the inscrip
tion: "I will!"
LOVE OF MRS. FERRIS
BT ETHELYX LKHI.IB HOISTO".
(Author "8ong of Solomon," etc.)
(Copyrighted by The Daily Story Pub. Co.)
"You are a peculiar woman," Mr. Dacre
aid, reflectively, lira hostess ltxined for
ward and pl..c--d a little scarlet uevil ash
receiver in close proximity to his cigar,
then twisted her lithe body comfortably
among the cushions of a long, low chair
that was her etfpecial weakness.
"You were saying?" she murmured, lax
ity. "Oh, yes; I am, no doubt. But in
what does my peculiarity make itself par
ticularly worthy of comment juat now?"
Mra. Kerriss had large, shadowy eyes that
were either green or yellow or gray, her
friends were never sure which. She now
tared throLgn the tun haze of perfumed
moke that drifted from hi cigar around
her bronze head, and added gialuitnu.-ly :
"Y ou are rather nice looking when you are
amoking, don't you know. You look quite
amiable."
"Hy which, the natural infsranc would
be that I usually appear"
"Napoleonic yes," cheerfully. "H was
alway scowling, you know. I quit wonder
how Josephine could ever har loved him
as ahe did."
Mr. Dacre'a strong white teeth doted
down on his cigar, which promptly as
aumed an angle of 4.1 degrees. He took it
from between his lips and regard d it
gloomily as he rolled it tietween iiis fingers.
"Tricre now, you are l'euipcror," Mrs.
Ferriss remarked, resting her two elbows
on the broad arm of her chair and her
chin on her palms.
"W hen that sword cut between your
eyebrows sink deep the way it does now,
all you need is to pull some of your hair
down over your forehead. T ii way !"
"Vive I'Enipereur!" she said, saluting
gravely. "You are rather tall for the 'lit
tle corporal,' but otherwise you are he to
the life."
"I thank you."
Mr. Dacre lighted a fresh cigar, while
Mis. Kerns put two more cushions in her
big chair and then seated herself, t are
fully attttiiug one of the cushions to tit tli
small of her h.r k. si c sig'ied . onti ntedly.
"1 am at pea. e u it'i all t .e w orld. The
Leader has aicrpted two of my stones and
my rent is paid up to last mouth which
is quite as much us any w-ill-rty-i ,'ted
landlord should expect. Had he not 1 n i:
o amenable to reain, 1 should I r.vc
bought a new gown and had the rent three
months behind. Hut 1 believe in envoui ag
ing good behavior, and he seemed duly
gni'el'ul."
Mr. Ihvre leaned forward and look! at
hr searchuigly.
"Are you actually that much in debt,
Mary?" he asked.
"That much in debt! Only two months!
lrithe, monsignrur, have you been a
lave of the quill for 30 year to find them
millionaire? 1 was an months behind in
April!"
, And sh settled her head back among
the cushions with an air of coaaciou rec
titude.
"Why don't you marry Harland?" he'
asked, slowly, aftec a moment. "He coifld
give you wraith, luxury, release from this
'dcmnition grind?' And bt is good looking
aid no fool,"
"M yes," murmured Mrs. Ferriss,
thoughtfnlly. "Tl mold do, and u, all
that. And perhaps" '
"Well?" said ler. sharply.
"IXar me, you quit mad m juxnp!"
very plaintively.
"Y, I ksow-I am alwaya doing or say
ing something. You once said that if you
married me, I would break your heart."
He threw his cigar into th fir and suxrsd
at the Haines moodilv.
"Yew -but 1 t'-nk I added that you would
not bore me Wiu-h the greater of the
two evils?" sud, comfortably. "Hut
you did not ti l! me wherein 1 waa a pe
culiar woman at this particular tim?"
He lookej at her intently for a moment.
"Well. I cannot altogether understand
you." Hia voice sounded dull a". weary
Mr Ferns frowned. T n i ruing up
from her cushions, she K.v, to ,at th
D'-or lowly, her soft tea gown trailing in
ilverj folds behind her.
"Go on," she said, presently.
He stared into the fire and did not apeak.
Soon sh went to her desk and took out t
letter.
"Do you recollect one time my writing
you of Angelo? Where I said 'there; i al
wy a Laura.' "
Going over to him, ah laid a Uttar on hi
knee.
"That was your answer. Do yon romeat
btr
Bending over him, she read:
"Of course, dear, there is alway a Bea
trice or a Laura. I think Michael Angelo
lost bis Laura, or Laura, mayhap, waa of
clay. Strong man like Angelo arc ever th
prey of designing women and little men
That accounts for Michael' hardness of
hne and the grins, stern quality in so much
of hi work. Greek beauty is fluid his
was full of angle. How yo and I would
gloat over th old Muff in Rome, Venice,
Florence! Yet, I do not know you r a
delicate .woman, beautiful and fond of th
luxurie. I'm worse than Michael Angelo
I have the rind on. I sleep bard and dine
cheap aid walk alone in th bleak, black,
winter' night, through sleet and driving
rain. Then I know you never could endure
a man in fls-nel shirt mi t'firk brxts!"
"Y'ou orite reveled in metaphor, wVen
you wo- t at." Ke laughed, a little,
low, odd Is -gj, then went from him back
to her cushion.
"The -first and th last of our being is
doubt, you say. And you do mor yo
doubt all the time."
Her vor wss low aid sweet. H lifted
ki bead, and hr ye, arailiag, inscruta
ble, met hi.
"l'ou are not a er pretty man. Neith
er were Angelo and Napoleon and Pant
Yon ar an intellectual succes and you
have a bank account a well aa a brain
But that brain ! an ever-prent Iago
it is it one weakness. Y'ou loved me. but
you did not trust me. You knew tHst mv
debt followei m thick n Anthony , fltet
of hip-" Je "mil; little bitterly.
"And you rloubteJ alwaya. Then Mr. Har
land appeared upon the scene. He is, a
you say, not only distinguished looking.
but rulthy. And, lr"
"T -r m rrao.v : .tend to marry?"
H.a fac cned in vrn in granite a be
rO'C lo ni fiet uii'! .a -ed ' er. She, too,
bad rnen and i.ir lace l ad paled.
Sh looked at him a long momeat, then
he said, very gently:
"Yes."
M-s, Ferris moved softly to hi side and
dipping her hand up to ki fact, ahe
turned it toward her.
"Do you think you could trust me now?"
she Af-ked. her lips smiling a little, but the
eyes !uik and wist:'nl. He looked down
into her face, a sudden light and warmth
ofteniug hia own. .
"Y'ou mean?" he whispered.
"That I have loved you alwaysah, my
beloved!"
And a her lip met hi, at last, h un-
.erstood.
Grain and Gr&ssea Wurxted j .
There Is not an exhibit of the agri
cultural product of Josephine oonntT
to be seen in Grants Pans and strangers
In the city noting this fact and that
tne bills abont the city are yet in
their primeval wildness, draw the in
ference that there is little farming
carried on here. To prove that the
soil of this county does produce grass,
grain, frnits and vegetables not to be
excelled by any other coontv in Ore
gon the Courier will undertake to
collect an exhibit of these products.
Grains and grasses should be tied
in bunches and dried in the shade and
handled csrefolly. Samples of this
year's growth of fruit tiee limbs and
of grape Tines would add to the in
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