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C R O F T O N , o , A g l, D enoK , t a g « P r o p r ie t o r . tu g s do, MT W E very bottle positively guaranteed farmers READ THE k 1 » W EEKLY OREGONIAN OF PO RTLAND For the general newsof u?e W o rld a l« > f o r in fo r m a tio n a b o u t k w t o o W a ln -a » i n c u ltiv a tin g ib e s o n . S t o c k Raisin$,FruitGrowin$ etc- You can secure this esceBed*. p o p e rb y V / T H E OUTER. DARKNESS. A Social Impossibility D Ice cold d rinks and ioe cream in sea son. Soda water, bottled and fountain, y glasses. “This man Is the very embod found himself In the center of a press Drusllla regarded him amusedly. iment of the spirit fostered by this of struggling figures. “I thluk it would be Intel He received beautiful game j of you rrf-b ulli for a meet some of that class,” said she. blows aud felt the Impact of hts hand human chopping block or battering against flesh as be returned them. *“I can introduce you to one,” said be. ram, as the case may demand! By the “ When?” Drusllla Inquired eagerly. “ Where are you, Deabro?” he shout- exertion of those muscles for which bs ed. “Slog out!” "Now,” said he, rising and bowing Is no more responsible than Thompson gravely. “Here,” came a choking voice from B x J / D A C y H. C O L I. there for his red hair he brings down behind him, “quick!” “You!" she gasped. mi his richly undeserving head the “Even I," he said, unsmiling. A club struck Babblngton’s arm w ith Copyright, 1 9 O T . by C. H. Sutcliffe. There was a somewhat embarrassed frensied cheers of a sport erased a numbing shock, but he kicked the crowd, lie sends a man less fortunato- man who wielded It into insensibility pause. Ackroyd broke tt. Bono? if. f/o/nnr. |i “ I shall never bo happy until I offer Iv endowed physically than himself aud the next Instant was tearing an Ackroyd moved his chair from the }/. na '»w fito a few moments of uuhappy obllv- other ruffian from off I>esbro’a pros corner that he might have an unob myself to you. 1 don’t expect to be Copyright. HOT, by Donal H. M ^ R i l | too snd then grins at you w ith crass trate form. Tw o of the aeeallants lay structed view of Brasilia's face. Hhe happy afterw ard. I shall merely Join naMgsdp | satisfaction when you cheer him—not on the ground, mere blotches In the was seated near the piano lamp, osten the others In the onter darkness, and 1 himself or or l*cause I »ecause his his name name means means darkness. The others bad disappeared. sibly examining tho score of a recent the suspense w ill be over.” ; for for himself Drusllla rested her chin on her palm ■ 8 B B O shifted In his seat, set- | m ythlng. but simply for w hat he has anything, Deebro rose to his feet slowly snd musical farce he had brought her. H er tied his eyeglasses more firmly done. chin rested In one little upturned palm, agnln. A big of added color flushed her took a step toward his rescuer. upon bis nose and, with bis “This Babblngton comes out of no- “ I say,” ho commenced, then stopped and her eyes were fixed pensively on cheeks. ITer eyes were pensive. gloved bands folded on the top wlipre,” Desbro continued, "a grace abruptly. "So thia la the cheap ‘coals the music In her lap. Ackroyd watch ’T ’ve l>een very much a coward,” , f bis cans, turned bis glance again less, coarse ftbered clod, with a giant’s of fire’ method you pursue, Is It?” he ed her silently for some moments. lie M id Ackroyd. ‘T was afraid you’d laugh. That is why I ’ve been allent so to the Held o f play. On all side» of strength nud the broad ideas of a goat, continued, with a sneer. was loath to disturb that pose. him men and women were abandoning hungry for notoriety of the sort his “I saw Ted Briggs today,” he said at long.” A sudden easy smile passed over themselves to excesses o f enthusiasm, great muscles can command, and you Rabbington’s face. He leaned forward In hls chair. Hls length, aud be said It with the evident but his cold neutral tinted eyes fol pamper his cheap cravings w ith unc “No,” he answered shortly; “this Is expectation of a flutter of excitement manner was pleadingly earnest. Dru- lowed the movements o f the muddy tion. You sit In the stands and about what I came for,” and he struck Des on Drusllla's part. In this, however, sllla moved uueaslly. “W hy don't you offer yourself, then, figures on the gridiron without a trace yourselves hoarse while he Is battering bro squarely In the face, felling him he was dlsappoluted. Hhe turned a of excitem ent though they loot no de some peor fellow in the arena, and you Instantly. page of the score without raising her and have It oyer?” she asked. Ackroyd squared hls shoulders. " I tails of the play. w ill go further. You w ill desire the For an Instant the knowledge of the eyes. - do offer myself, Drusllla," said he. “I bag your pardon”—Desbro's high capture of this athletic lion In spite of “Did you?” she said calmly. strength In his great muscles frig ht pitched, nervous voice cut Incisively the fact that he Is a—a social Impossi ened him, and he leaned over Desbro “I d k l^ h o affirmed. “Had a sort of "M y silence has been such a long one the laugh should l>e doubly merry,” he into the throaty cheer of which the bility, and you w ill bo crowding around anxiously. Satisfied that he had struck an all gone a ir about LU™” added bitterly. man next to him was delivering him trying to put your fraternity pins on Drusllla was silent. Drusllla turned to the piano. She self— "but can you tell me who la the his coat. Bah! “ Looked ns t f he needed some one tn black haired man at tackle T ' sympathize w ith him—or kick him,” ran her fingers over the keys in soft I talked with the man, looked into little minor harmonies. Ackroyd w elt ’Babblngton,” snapped the other Ackroyd pursued. his gr&M. oxi Ike eyes—dead, devoid of ed Impatiently; then he strode to the shortly and turned again to his cheer Another page of the score waft turn the spark of real life”— piano and l>ent over her. Something ing ,W hile Deabro murmured courteous ed. but Drustlla snhl nothing. The unfinished sentence broke abrupt “Haven’t seen him round here late glistened on her lashes, and there was ly, and every eye In the room followed Turning a pair of fleldglasses upon ly,” said Ackroyd, ami his tone sug a shining streak down either cheek. Desbro's startled glance to tho door- J ’’Good heavens!" cried Ackroyd In the field, Desbro watched the strug -tested ranch. ---- • ay, where, turning his cane In his gling figures Intently fo r a few mo “I t ’s something over a week since he sudden comprehension. He laughed And»'and staring at the speaker with happily. ments; then, laying Hhe blpoculatw called last,” Bald Drusllla Innocently. an expression wholly Indescribable, “ I t —It--Isn’t funny. I —I —d-don’t feel •aids and lighting a cigarette, he-com stood Babblngton. For a moment there a bit like 1-laugliing,” confessed Drn- menced to talk to hlomelf In a low was the dead silence of utter embar silla. tone, oblivious of bis surroundings. rassment; then one by one the men Aud Ackroyd was thereupon relieved L matchless physique,” he mutter- turned to the tables, while Babblngton from any fears of “the ¿.outer dark ed “coupled w it h « face which m ight Cleared his throat and spoke. ness.” , _____ have been Adam's—ns devoid of the " I came to see if possibly I hadn't spark of totelU ^nce as an ox's—the misunderstood you,” he said, turnlufe The Animal Machine. very embodiment of the game ba Is to I>esbro. “T hat name you mention Tho animal machine wears out playing.” ed was Mortou, wasn’t It?” (grows old) In Its blood vessels; other H is Intent gaze noted a sodden con Desbro, redder than any man had machines w ear out at tho points of gestion of the padded figures below ever seen him, nodded without speak friction or strain. The kind of blood him and an eager craning of necks ing we keep sending day by day through from the seats of the big stand. One I thought possibly I hadn't under our blood vessels decides for us the of the opposing players lay stretched stood,” Babblngton explained, backing length of life. I f the blood be made on the tu rf w rithing In pain, while a aw kw ardly not of the door, “«nil I did pun» by suitable food and drink and group of the visiting eleven’s support know a man named H orton.” kept pure by fresh sir aud sunshine, ers leaned from their seats and point A few moments later Desbro passed by good action of the bowels, kidneys, ed lmpotently accusing fingers at the the door of the billiard room, wearing lungs nud skin, by enough but not too __ n called Babblngton, who stood the raincoat and slouch list which he much active exercise aud finally by a looking down at the prostrate figure Invariably wore on the evening walks restful mlud—to o . large to worry snd w ith his hands on his massive hips. wbl< b were as much a part of his ex fret—the vital rubber or elastic tissue cold little sneer gathered about istence as his meals. In the walls of the blood vessels w ill the corners of Desbro's mouth as he No man pretended to know the object age normally and last the allotted watched the incident. of these nightly walks of Desbro’s. To time. I f the blood stream be fre ’W h a t callousness,” he exclaimed all Inquiries he responded th a t “they quently polluted by excesses, errors In ••WILL TOO SHAMS HANDS, BABBINOTON ?” softly, “ w hat savagely unconaclous^tal- gave him a chance to think without In diet, late snd Irregular hours, vicious HM ASKSD. lousnessl Is the man an anachronism terruption.” habits, overwork, habitual confine or only a brute? Such simple m in d*! no harder than he intended, he leaned A t the gate Desbro paused to light a ment indoors, lack of exercise from unconcern for physical agony canned against the Iron post panting from his cigarette, and the flare of the match any cause or a fretted, anxious mind, by one’s own hands Is the m a rk o f , ns he shielded it from the snappy Oc exertions.' The two roughs on the the blood vessels become Irritated and mere coarseness or a throwback. ground recovered their senses and tober wind brought his thin features Inflamed aud in time dlseaaed or hard “I must see more of this strange Into prominence against the darkness. scuttled off Into the night. He could man,” he told himself and walked to Babblngton. standing under a tree not hear Desbro’s watch ticking and kept “ WOW,’’ SAID HE, n i s r x o and bowino nud Inelastic, which means premature old age, disability, d e a th .-W h a t to E a t the gymnasium, where he sat fo r an URAYBLT. a dozen yards away, turned as the sul- track p t the seconds for two full min hour gsxlng at the ceiling w ith a Ackroyd smiled grimly, but Drusllla's ' phur sputtered and saw. Ills great utes. Then he noticed that the fallen Stung ths Lawyer. preoccupied air. When Babblngton's man was bareheaded and puttered eyes tiring on the score Its meaulng hand clinched Instinctively Into a fist, The famous lteuu Hickman of Wash great balk emerged from the floor lead 1 and ho had already taken a step for- about ou his hand* and knees In the was lost ou her, ington whs once a witness tn a pending tng to the baths an hour later, Desbro I ward when Desbro turned and started dead leaves and the filth of the gutter “game old story, I presume,” said he. case aud, having testified In the course rose and walked to meet him. until he found Desbro’s h a t “ W h at’s tho same old story?” she quickly down the street of bis examination In chief that the M r. BabblngtonT’ he asked., Tb<‘ “Can you walk?” he asked shortly. said, w ith some emphasis, Babblngton waited a few moments, client of the attorney on the other hide The disheveled figure nodded, apd In other nodded. “Got bis conge, eh?" then stepped lightly on to the sidewalk Was without funds, was bring aharply M y name Is Desbro,” he w ent on silence they mads their way back “W hat are you talking aliout?” and followed, quietly at first aud then cross examined by that barrister. Hick rapidly, bis suddenly keen eyee search through the deserted streets. In front “Ted Briggs.” without caution ns Desbro paid no at man averred that the client had h im of the fraternity house they separated tng the other’s face. “I come from the “ W ell, what alxmt him?” tention to the footfalls liehlnd him. He same part of the country that you do. “lie seems to have been cast Into the self told him of hla penniless state. Ths . glanced now and then at the receding without words. Desbro gave up his nightly walks for outer darkness with hls Innumerable lawyer Insist«! that the exact lan I lights and then increased the length of guage Is* repeated. Illcknlan hesitat • week and was seen but little outside predecessors,” Ackroyd observed. his strides ns Desbro’s phrases tbrob- ed, but when, pressed under threat of his room. He explained his marred Drusllla shrugged her shoulders, I»cd thro u g h - hlfc mind. check and a stiffness In one leg by a “ I don’t see why I should fret my contempt proceedings he finally M id, “Social Impossibility!” he muttered, “Well, air, If I must answer, he told self over that," she said. gritting his teeth over the phrase. " I ’ll fall through a broken crossing. • • • • • • • “ For casting him there, of course,” me this morning that he had no mon teach the little whelp!” ey." "W ell, sir, what language did he “Going to mako another character said Ackroyd severely, His eyes never left the little spark use?" “Why, I asked him to lend me "AdthiHIhg I dtd," «ntrt Drustttn w ith study of the game, Desbro?" which marked the other's position, but half a dollar, aud he M id be couldn't, challenge In her voice. Desbro shook his head and smiled. every time he started to close the gap “Ted Briggs Is a particular friend for you had robbed him of every cent “I'm continuing one," he answered between them something checked him. of hls money and If he didn’t get out of mine," Ackroyd began. Ills thoughts refused to run to any but shortly. "M ust I marry all your particular of your clutches very soon hls children I t was with a more interested, less a given p o ln t-a fierce desire to get his would starve.” hands upon the man who had held his coldly critical expression that he fol friends?” said Drusllla with sardonic By the tim e the laughtgr h id sub Ignorance up to a roomful of men lowed the movement* of the men on deference. sided and the lawyer had time to col Ackroyd’s eyes flashed angrily. the white striped field beneath him. while be stood and listened helplessly. “You knew all the time ho was tak lect hls thoughts the case was decided As he had stood under the tree In front The problem confronting the varsity ing things seriously,” he remonstrated. against him. team was a different one from that of the bouse he had felt only a sense of impotency, of shame, a gulping feel which Desbro had watched ou the first “You m ight have a little mercy on W hittier at Close Range. ing of disappointment which was not occasion, for Instead of feebls oppo- such chaps." W hittier belouged to those natures “Oh, don’t let's sqnnbble every night Lwho h o would only afford them easy to understand, a sickening realisa n e n t^ w who would advance w ith firmness snd tion that some of Desbro's words had gond^wactlco they faced an eleven of you come here, said Drusllla wearily. Joy to martyrdom In a good cause, but “H ere’s the T ’ulm' song. Shall I sing their oWn class. rung true. are never comfortable In society, and From the first the enemy’s tactics It to you. Max?" Block after block the man In front She seatwl herself at the piano and who Impress one with the Idea that walked, turning now to the right and had t>ecn obvious. They realized that In Babblngton there was a living oppo sang w llh nil her Inimitable little droll they would like to run out of the door now to the left, sometimes walking When she hud finished she at any moment. Yet few enjoyed the sition which barred all progress to the eries. rapidly and again Idling along at a varsity's goal line, and toward flic swung about to face Ackroyd. society of congenial frienda aa did the snail’s pace. They passed through the “Did tliut soothe your snvuge breast, Quaker poet No one relished a good wearing down of his great strength business streets, lonely and deserted story more or related one with better they had directed t^elr efforts. Men Maxle?” she asked sweetly. under the harsh glnre of the arc light*. Ackroyd scowled. "When w ill you grace. Hls sense of ths ludicrous was had been led to the side lines pale snd Here Desbro paused to talk w ith a po very vivid, and the absurdities a t life bleeding, and ths list of the visitors’ ever he serious?” he said. liceman w ith whom he seemed to be “I was never so serious In my life,” and Its situations struck him never substitutes was diminished, bat still on excellent terms, and, turned sudden more forcibly than when they Involved Babblngton formed the center of every she asserted. ‘‘Indeetl 1 am complete ly cold at the sight of the patrolman. attack and was the rock about which ly weighed down wllh responsibility himself. Aa W hittier’s nephew and Babblngton crossed tho street aud biographer has asserted. It would bo a split ths enemy’s onslaughts. I t was and remorse. Yon don't Imagine he II mistake to suppose that gentleness was nearly lost his man. who wheeled not s showy exhibition, b it It was a take pruaalc acid, do you. Mux?” she a necessity of hls nature. His was In m what 1 abruptly Into- n dark side street. splendid place of physical stamina, snd ended in tragic tones. Babblngton was conscious that a the great crowd was appreciative. They Ackroyd looked at her with cold dis reality the result of resolute eelf con trol aud the habitual government of a and I thought poeaibly you might give struggle bad commenced w ithin him saw that Babblngton’s endurance approval. .me newe of an old friend, Morton— srfrt lhat the first heat of anger was would make victory possible, snd they “Between old frie n d « "- he began. tempestuous spirit. Indeed, ths poet had hls shrewd, assertive snd almost Harold M orton. Did you happen to passing. He grew ashamed of his rose in a great wall of color and cheer But Drusllla at once cut him short. 1, fearful lest the cool- ed him furiously. 4 “Now, Max, I ’m aw fu lly sorry, but If vindictive side, else he had never been know him?” j growing calmness, “Morton?" he said slowly. "M ortonl tog influence i nflUenco of the t walk rob him of you begin to scatter any of that fa so successful a politician and ref os m "Babblngton! Babblngton!” e r .— Caroline Tlcknor In Harper*» the merited retaliation which bo knew No, don’t believe I know him.” Close to the goal posts Babblngton therly advice about hero you'll have to “Ah, df course,” DAkbro hastened to kls massive arms could administer. raised his great frame from the tangle go home, and I counted on a delightful Weekly. ________________ Desbro stopped abruptly to light an m /, *T thought perhaps”- And h< of the last attack which had shattered evening w ith you here,” she said ten One sf ths Msao Ones. w o v e a few sentence« otf easy A rili Other cigarette, and his pursuer halted Ils force upon him and faced the shout tatlvely. A worthy old Gentleman In ths Coun "Nevertheless.” said Ackroyd. “1 midst — of - n stride. For an In- ing crowds. Hlowly he raised a huge a p tly before turning abrup . on his heel. to tho -------------- ____ ___ It In the face of the mul- shall say what I set out to, be the pen try, having employed an Attorney, of A few hours later be sat In the bil stant he paused irresolute, divided be- fist and shook whom he had a pretty good Opinion, to w hlch grew wonderlngly silent, alty what It may." liard room of his fraternity house lis tween the lingering desire to cloeo his Proallln rested her elbows on ths do some aw Business for him In Lon van.” be be shouted, shouted, snd and ths the tening curiously to the talk of the men fingers on Desbro's neck and a sudden — “Curss you,” don, he was greatly surprised on hls which centered about the game of tho Impulse to run, to get away from ev sound of hls hoarse voles carried to keys and looked at him archly. “I was about to remark.” Ackroyd coming to Town, snd demanding hls afternoon. The compaenta were all U«to erything, back to the life where other every part of ths stands, ‘Heave my went on. "that In the social sea you Bill of L aw Charges, to find that It ien had lived and talked like himself. name alone!” ly, enthusiastic, on the team’s chances, are a aort of uncharted reef on which amounted to at least three Ttmee the on the individual prowess of the men. The hotter sensation triumphed, and Desbro smiled quietly. and constantly recurring in the hum ol Babblngton had taken three quick, “In the term *eoelal Impossibility,’ " the affections of many aertons minded Sum he expected; the honest Attorney assured him that there was no Article .«onvsraatlon wee Babblngton’s name. lithe steps toward his victim when, al he muttered, “I was guilty of gross In young men are shipwrecked." "W hat a m riaphorl" ahe taunted. In hls Bill tmt what was fa ir and “The finest type of a player the crqf lant as the shadows from which they justice.” of new men hae produced,” • t * ,r b * ng, a little knot of men throw When the whistle sounded the end of "Their shipwrecks don’t seem to bs aonMble. Nay, said the Country Gen They tleman, hero is one of them I ed man w ith • M g voice called f» the half, he scrambled down from hls alarm ing calamities, however. jemeelves a t Desbro. cannot t»e so, for you have set down Ths shock of ths attack not only sent, climbed tbs w ire fence Inclosing survive them." one and o f the smoky room. “ And there are others who are In three Shillings snd four Pence M r fin “Bight you are!” Desbro broke is drove from Babblngton's mind every the field and walked toward Bsbblng- ing to Southwark, when none o l my suddenly. The men around the tablas vretlge of bis own wrath, bat bereft ton, who. with hanging head, was danger of walling straight on to the Bustneso lay, that Way; pray wfint to reef, knowing all Its dangers." said he. tunj.'d In astonishment, for to hero him for an Instant of tho powér of mo walktng stowly toward the side lines. “ Dear ms!" said Drusllla. “They ths Meaning of that Sir; Oh!J U r| sold Desbro offer comment on matters <d tion. H e heard Desbro give a low ex “ W ill you shake bands, Babblngton 1” should taka a course to navigation.” clamation snd saw by the last flicker he aaked, smiling thia nature was unusual. "Ths fear of ridicule may kee|> them Turkey from the Carrier«, thaff yea I Babblngton looked' np In surprise. ' “Bight you are, I say,” he repeated of the match the alight figure attempt- ng buck to Ms chair sad s«rt«y- ing to ' shield Itself by leaping behind t%ea Ms somewhat heavy feature« •w a y for • time, but in the end they*va tosuefi to tw s p t t« to M ke aM& kwtoua Ho* through Mt •S Iron puls. U another ’»stont I n «■Med «Pi t»< to» M< UM »W * a d d ressin g th e S h erm an C ou nty O b server and e n c lo sin g $ 2 .5 0 , w h e n w e w ill sen d y o u th e S h e r m an C ounty O bserver, price $ 1 .5 0 and th e w e e k ly O regonian, price $ 1 .5 0 e a c h for on e y ea r, y o y s a v in g 50 c e n ts b y so doing. , -// J I ‘ . ■ —— V l - * i .^.45 I *' *>»?. V b »