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Mosier Bulletin Issued Each Friday B A K E R 'S C R A T E R A C T IV E . Vapor May Be Seen Riaing From the Mountain at Tim es. Bellingham, Wash., Aug. M O S E R .......................... OR E G O N EVENTS OF THE DAY Newsy items Gathered from All Parts of the World. Less Im portant but N o t Less Inter esting Happenings from Points Outside the State. The recent heat w ave at St. Louis has caused 37 deathB. Excessive heat caused an epidemic o f murder and suicide in Chicago. Governor Hughes, o f N ew Y ork , has returned home fu ll o f praise fo r the Seattle fair. Charles Dakin, a m elter at the Den ver mint, has been arrested, charged w ith stealing governm ent gold. The N iaga ra Falls has claimed an other victim , a young boy who was swim m ing in the rive r above the falls. The reported acquisition o f the New Y ork Central lines by Harriman would g iv e him a second transcontinental route. The provisional governm ent o f Crete has sworn allegiance to the king o f Greece and the powers w ill have to step in and take charge. The fire ch ief o f Rosw ell, N . M ., shot and killed a man accused o f being an incendiary a fte r he had been fatally wounded by his antagonist. Mexican officials say there is no doubt but that congress w ill g iv e Pres ident D iaz permission to cross the border into the United States to v is it President T a ft, who w ill later return the visit. Corn is suffering in Nebraska from intense heat and lack o f moisture. The B ritish house o f commons has passed the South A frica n confederation bill. The Pirate 8.— Stor- j ies o f amoke seen arising from M ou n t; Baker’ s snow-crowned dome follo w in g LUM BER C U T HEAVY. the earthquake in this territo ry last w in ter do not appear so far-fetched, N ew Milt at Tillam ook Turns Out 5 0 ,0 0 0 Feet P e r Day. follo w in g the investigations made by the Maznmas o f vents in the crater o f Tillam ook— The Tillam ook Lumber the huge extin ct volcano. Secretary M anufacturing com pany's new sawm ill John A . Lee, who returned to this city in this city is turning out 50,000 fe e t o f lumber daily most o f which is being today, declares that at a favorable used fo r building purposes in and hour in the early m orning he has no around Tillam ook C ity. The company doubt but tl "'- the vapor could easily was organized by G eorge B. Lamb, be seen from this city , 50 m iles away, Carl Haberlach, H. T. Botts and Fred C. Baker, and the sawm ill has an ideal with a goor pair o f field glasses. location, being at the head o f n aviga The “ vents” in the crater appeared tion and righ t in the heart o f Tillam ook especially active this year to some o f county and city. I t took over $40,000 the Mazam aj. Secretary Lee, how for its site, buildings and machinery. ever, who ascended the mountain in The m ill haB tw o large high-pressure 1900 and again in 1906, concludes that boilers, tw o engines, large circular on the whole there is not any increase sawm ill and a pony m ill, w ith planers, in the ac tiv ity o f sulphurous gases box machinery and dry kiln and em blowing out o f the so-called “ vents.” ploys about 30 men. I t is en tirely lo “ The actual crater o f the mountain,” cal capital at the back o f the new en said Mr. Lee, “ is that portion lyin g terprise. between the secondary peak and the Several shipments o f spruce have main peak. I t is easy to see that the been sent to Portland on the steamer peaks origin ally constituted the north A rgo , which docks at the company’ s and south sides o f the crater rim . The warehouse in Hoquarton slough. This easterly and w esterly sides have been is as fa r as steamers can go inland in broken and crumbled away by the ac Tillam ook county, which is at the tion o f weather, thus leavin g the v a l bridge on the road g o in g north. The ley or so-clalled ‘ saddle’ between in company has obtained the rights to between. boom I gs on tho east side o f the bridge “ One o f the active vents is situated in Hoquarton 'dough, where sev* ral at the easterly end o f this depression, m illion fe e t o f logs can be stored. A and the. other at the westerly end. The cut was made from the slough to the east vent is apparently by fa r the most end o f the log slip, the governm ent active, the w esterly one consisting at diedge being used fo r that purpose. this tim e m erely o f cracks and fissures Tho Pacific R ailw ay & N a vigation com in the snow and ice through which the pany w ill run a spur from the depot vapors escape. The west vent, how along the w aterfron t o f Tillam ook City, ever, consists o f a hole extending down the track running on the north side o f into the snow to the porus rocks be the sawm ill and through the company’ s neath. I t is perhaps 20 to 30 fe e t in lumber yard. This w ill g iv e the T illa diameter. The vapor puffs out in ter mook Lum ber company railroad and m ittently, risin g up in dense clouds, shipping fa c ilitie s on its own prop and the snow is crusted w ith sulphur erty. The new sawm ill has given the ricqtosits. I am inclined to believe that city a steady monthly payroll o f about most o f the visib le vapor is m erely $2000, and as soon as the local demand steam ari-in g from the overheated for lumber diminishes it w ill be in the rocks, though the gases sometimes are m arket fo r export lumber. almost overpowering. IR R IG A T IO N P R O G R E S S E S . R U LE V A N D E R B IL T L IN E S . San Diego, Cal., police w ill arrest women appearing on the strees w ear W izard o f Wall S treet Has Option on C ontrol o f System. ing kimonos. N ew Y ork, Aug. 18.— The elim in a Mexican officials deny the report that Porfirio Diaz, son o f the president, tion o f the Vanderbilts fre.n N e w York has been assassinated. Central lines and the complete ascend Seven men and three women were ency o f Edward H. Harriman in the mangled by an explosion o f natural control o f more than 12,000 m iles o f gas at Cleveland, Ohio. railroad comprised in that system is The reports that Abdul Hamid, ex declared to be the next im portant move sultan o f Turkey, is dangerously ill, in the railw ay world. are denied at Constantinople. I t is reported on what seems to be Harrim an has secured control o f the good authority that the Harriman back Vanderbilt system, thereby adding ers have secured an option on the g re a t about 12,000 m iles to his lines. er portion, i f not all, o f the Vanderbilt K ie fe r , Oklahoma, bank robbers sur holdings and w ill soon close a deal in prised at th eir work, killed the city the interest o f tips “ Napoleon” o f the marshal and fa ta lly wounded the cash railw ay world. The option which has ier. been obtained, it is stated, is on $50,- Prince A lb e rt Leopold, heir to the 000,000 worth o f N ew York Central, Belgian throne, has just returned from which is to be purchased for Mr. H a r the Congo and says conditions are sat riman at $150 a share. The last report o f the Union Pacific isfactory. road shows that it has in its treasury An earthquake has been recorded by $14,000,000 worth o f N ew Y ork Cen the instruments in the weather bureau tral securities and it is gen erally be a t Washington. The origin was e sti lieved that Mr. Harrim an and a fe w o f mated at about 2,500 m iles distant in his friends have large personal holdings C aliforn ia or M exico. o f N ew York Central securities. The total capitalization o f the N ew A ll records fo r attendance are being York Central is $178,632,000 and it is broken at the Seattle fa ir .; understood that the option, i f exper- Moorish tribesmen make almost con cised, w ill g iv e Mr. Harriman and his stant attacks on the Spanish forts. friends absolute control o f the com The uncertainty o f the wheat market pany. This carries w ith it the control w ill cause storage o f much o f the Cali o f the W est Shore and practical con trol, though not by stock ownership, of fornia crop. all roads in the N ew York Central lines There is serious difference between system. G reat B ritain and her colonies on the naval policy. Germ ans Fight Yankees. The Rock Island railroad has placed Paris, Aug. 18. — A dispatch from an order fo r 5,000 fre ig h t cars and 50 P ort au Prince, lla y ti, says that a locomotives. group o f Germans who for years have The powers w ill send a fleet to Crete monopolized the commerce o f that to force the removal o f the Greek flag country, are conducting a violen t cam paign against the Am erican bankers and prevent a Turkish attack. who art> negotiating for a railroad sys A storm in Chicago caused three tem in lla y ti. Germans control the deaths by drowning and a number o f newspapers o f the country, which injuries. The property loss is heavy. print strongly worded articles against An explosion on a Russian submarine the Am ericans and predict the annexa boat caused injury to 14 men, one fa tion o f lla y ti by the United Slates. tally. The vessel was Am erican built. The Germans fe a r that i f the railroad is built it w ill end their monopoly. M illionaire Bradbury, o f San R afael, Cal., sentenced to serve a term in the Sw edish Strike Dwindles. penitentiary fo r perjury, has received Stockholm Aug. 18.— The police to a reprieve, bput w ill have to serve 30 day prohibited a great demonstration days in the county ja il. arranged by the strikers. The attem pt The shah o f Persia is married. He to force the agricultural workers to is 11 years old. strike and to refuse to harvest the crop Hotel propriet There are rumblings o f a revolution has p roven a failure. ors are appealing to the m ilitary g o v in Northern M exico. A hot wave in London has been the ernor o f the city fo r permission to sup ply liquors to guests who take substan cause o f many deaths. tial meals in their places, on the ground W holesale executions and fighing that the prohibition against such serv have been renewed at Barcelona. ice is seriously atTecting th eir tourist Thaw has been given a few days' trade. A ll the newspapers are now respite before returning to the insane appearing as usual. asylum. Sh'p N eeded at Inquiry. Alm ost the entire town o f Milton., D el., has been destroyed by fire. The V allejo, Cal., Aug. 18.- The N avy loss w ill reach $100,000. department having failed to issue or Johnson P orter says there Is room ders tem porarily detaching from the along the Deschutes for two railroads, cruiser South Dakota Lieutenant Com mander H. O. Stickney and Lieutenant each having double tracks. J. 0 . Fisher, who are members o f the Greece w ill ask the advice o f the beard o f inquiry into charges o f a l powers before answering the last note leged inefficiency against Edward K av- o f Turkey on the C rete affair. anaugh, it is expected the South Da Mrs. Parkhurst, the English suffrag kota, on her return to Seattle, w ill be ette leader, w ill soon v is it the Uniteid ordered tn return to Mare Island to States and deliver a sreies o f lectures. complete the inquiry. R iotin g has occurred at Stockholm. Bogus Cash M ade Abroad. Sweden, in connection with the strike. Philadelphia, Aug. 18.-—W ith the Dynam ite has been used to blow up arrest o f Guiseppe Spies, o f N ew street cars. York, secret service operators believe M inster Wu, o f China, has been re they have unearthed an unusual coun te rfe itin g plot. Spies is alleged to be called. in b ague with a band o f counterfeiters W illian K . Payne., son o f the house who have their plant in Italy, manu leader, has been appointed deputy assis facturing Am erican silver certificates. tant attorney general at a salary o f He was held today under $2,000 bail $6,000 a year. fo r the September grand jury. The earnings o f the Northern Pacific show an increase o f *250,000 over last Nebraska H ecord t Broken. year. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 18.— A ll local An Evanston, III., tailor has had a hot weather records fo r this year were diamond set in the nail o f his little broken yesterday, when the weather bureau reported a temperature o f 103. finger. Suffering has been intense. There Chinn has sent a nots to Japan in have been no rains in this section for which the mikado's policy regarding tw o weeks and reports from the coun the railroad rights is callad unjustified try are that the corn crop has already been seriously damaged. aggression. H UG E FAR M P R O F IT . Gain is Ten Tim es Annual Rental for W illam ette Valley Ranch. Alb an y— A . C. Arm strong, a farm er residing four miles northwest o f Plain- v iew and 10 miles southeast o f Albany, w ill realize a profit o f $4,800 on 120 acres o f vetch he threshed last week. Incidentally he w ill clear up about $6,- 000 this year on a farm o f 400 acres, for which he pays an annual rental o f $600. Some other Linn county farm ers a re tlo in g almost as w ell, and farm ing in the W illam ette valley is paying better this year than fo r many years. Arm stron g had 140 acres in vetch this year. He mowed 20 acres o f it, and a fte r storing his barns full o f loose hay for his w in ter’s supply had enough le ft over from the 20 acres to bale 20 tonB, which is worth $13 a ton. The vetch on the rem aining 120 acres was threshed fo r seed by the thresher and cleaner o f Parker Bros., and Arm strong had 70 tons of threshed and cleaned vetch seed from his 120 acres. Th is is worth four cents a pound in the present m arket and a fte r Arm strong pays all expenses o f threshing, cleaning, etc., he w ill realize a net profit o f $4,800 on the vetch seed alone, to say nothing o f the vetch hay he baled. In addition to his 140 acres in vetch, Arm strong has 200 acres in spring oats, which is in splendid condition and w ill doubtless return a b ig yield and g iv e him an additional profit o f several hun dred dollars fo r the past y e a r’s work. RUPERT SARCENT HOLLAND Ifiit&lT Author of T h e Count at Harvard,” etc. Copyright, 1008, by J. B. Lippincott Company. C H A P T E R V. Three days paused before anything fur ther happened to disturb my equanimity i f mind, and I was getting back to my iccustomed serene outlook on the beach when at dinner I found a tiny note lying it my plate. Charles frequently stopped it the Penguin Club on his way from marketing, to see if by chance any mail had lodged thpre for ine. This time he had discovered the diminutive missive iforesaid tucked into the box that was reserved for me, and which usually con tained only the daily papers. The en velope was square and of a delicate shade between violet and gray, and my name was written on it in a fine, bold hand. Inside was a single sheet: “ My Dear Mr. Pirate or Hermit (which ever you are) : “ I shall visit the Ship Friday after noon— when the tide is low.” There was no namp, not even a bare initial. I looked at my calendar— I was apt to forget the days of the week— and found that it wfii already Friday. 1 folded up the note and put It In my pocket, hardly knowing whether to be vexed or pleased. The truth of tho matter ia that I found Big Deal in Fruit Land. M l»» Graham'« la»t visit disconcerting. Hood R iv e r— A large land deal has It seemed absurd, but ahe had in »ome just been consummated here by the arrange manner changed tho tone of the purchase by J. E. Robertson, A le x S. beach. Instead of being u place for calm, Reed and J. M. Culbertson, local cap solitary musing. It had asaumed the as italists, o f 800 acres o f unimproved pect of a «pot made for company. I had fru it land from the Stanley-Sm ith never before folt the need of pointing out Lumber company. The tract, which is the pink shade« of the »and« and the golden crest« of tho rolling comber«, nor considered one o f the best in the val of requiring another’s admiration of the ley, is situated six m iles w est o f the circling gull». Now 1 did, and the result city, and sold fo r $57 an acre. I t is was that the more beautiful the beach, the intention o f the purchasers to cut the more restless was I, and this did not it up in small tracts. A large spring, suit me at all. I was not so dull as to Big T ra ct Being Placed Under W ater which has been mentioned as possible miss the cause of this change, and that for a w ater supply fo r the city, is s it was the reason why the note both vexed In Rogue River Valley. uated on the land. and pleased me. I was vexed that I Grants Pass—Construction o f the should be glad, and yet glad that I was g ra v ity canal and high line irrigation the way of being further vexed. Liberal Fund fo r Roads. ditches which are to bring w ater from I looked at the barometer after din Marshfield— N ever before in the his Rogue riv e r to the arid lands in and ner: it was falling. I glanced nt the around Grants Pass is progressing tory o f Coos county has there been such sky: It was still a deep, dome-like blue, rapidly. The most difficult portion o f extensive road building work as is in but there were cloil'is stealing across it For new roads that betokened storm. The wind was the g ra v ity canal, that near the power progress this summer. dam, was attacked w ith tw o powerful and improvements a total o f over $110,- eering into the northeast; we might hydraulic giants. By this method the 000 is being expended. In many cases have bad weather at a moment’s notice. At the appointed time I went up the cemented ground and huge boulders the property owners by their own vote were easily removed. The g ra v ity have brought about a special assess beach and clambered aboard the ship. canal is 12 fe e t w ide at the bottom, 18 ment fo r road work. The ranchers not There was no one on hoard. I descend only favor good local roads, but also ed into the cabin; that was empty. I fe e t at the top and 5 fe e t deep. T w o high line ditches have been con advocate strongly the building o f a climbed the stairs, and. coming ngaln on leek, saw Miss Graham starting across structed, one on each side o f the river. thoroughfare from Coos bay to Rose- the causeway. It was low tide, and the These w ill irrig a te all o f Grants Tass burg, over which fast passenger travel path was above water, covered with and much o f the country adjacent can be made. shells and barnacles. I threw over a to this city. The south bank ditch rope-ladder that I had made and hung at Sand Island Is Gold Mine. w ill reach and cover the orchards and the side, and helped her on boarl. She The D alles— T w o notices o f location had on a soft, white lace hat that drop farmB o f tho Fruitdale district. Money o f m ining claims have been filed w ith fo r the undertaking was en tirely sup- ped at the edges and looked delightfully County Clerk A n gle. The claim s are summery. Her gown was white; indeed, lied from Grants Pass. located on an island near the mouth o f the only color she wore was a gold chain Will Visit H ood River. the Deschutes rive r. Hugh R itchie and locket that hung low about her neck. Hood R iv er— Several hundred o f the files on 20 acres in the name o f the Red She pointed proudly to her »tout tan most prominent residents o f the a g ri W in g Placer M ining claim, and Emma walking shoes. cultural colleges and experim ent sta S. Ward files on 10 acres in the name " I am wiser to-day,” she said; ‘‘much tions o f the United States, accompanied o f the Columbia placer claim . The more of a sea-woman.” by th eir wives, w ill v is it Hood R iv er island contains 60 acres during low I had thought once before that I hat valley, August. 21. The party w ill water. Mr. R itch ie asserts that his tasted fully the sense of exploration of leave Portland by special train and w ill claim assays 50 cents gold to the yard. the Ship, but now I found that I haJ not. Like two inquisitive children play be m et at Hood R iv er w ith automobiles ing at being explorers, we ransacked and carriages and he given a drive over Land Used fo r 55 Y ea rs. every corner of the cabin, thumping the the valley to witness the splendor o f Cottage Grove— Threshing has begun Hood R iv e r's o-chnrds. It is planned in fa ll blast in the v ic in ity o f Cottage boards for secret hiding-places, peering into the dim recesses of the bunks. She to Serve the guests w ith a genuine Grove, the grain yields in some cases opened the brass-bound chest. “ There Hood R iv e r luncheon, in which the exceeding the expectations o f the was nothing found In It?” she asked. famous Gravensteins w ill form a prom farm ers. A field belonging to F elix “ Nothing.” inent part on the menu. The distin Currin, four and one-lmlf m iles east of “ It seems a shame. How are we ever guished visitors w ill be guests o f the this place, that has been in crops suc to find the clue If not in the chest?" Comtnerical club w h ile in the Apple cessfully fo r 55 years, w ill y ield 30 “ W e must look for It out of doors,” I city. bushels to the acre in wheat o f excel •aid. "Perhaps if we wish hard enough, lent quality. Other farm ers expect the spirits of the old rovers will come G overn or N it r e s D elegates. back.” about the same average. Salem — D elegates to the first Na So I took cushions that lay with my tional Conservation congress to be held painting things and made her a seat on at the auditorium o f the Alaska-Yukon- PO RTLAND M ARKETS. deck, and I lighted my pip*, and told her Pacific exposition, Seattle, August 26, all 1 had dreamed about the Ship, and 27 and 28 have been appointed by G ov W h eat— Bluestem, 93c; club, 88c; bow I was sure, if we only had sufficient ernor Benson as fo llo w s : J. N. Teal, Red Ruessian, 86>£c; valley, 8 9)$c; faith, that a man would come out of the chairman Oregon Conservation com Turkey red, 88c; forty-fo ld , 89>sc. sea to sail her again and bring her as mission, Portland: Edward H. M c A l B arley— Feed, $3 6 per ton; brewing, fine adventures as any she had known. lister, dean o f the School o f Engirmer- $27. "H ow different you are from most of the men l have m et'” she said. “ Now, ing. U n iversity o f Oregon, Eugene; Oats— $28(o 29 per ton. you seem quite in your setting. It al G eorge M. Cornwall, editor Pacific H ay— -Timothy, W iila m ete valley, Tim berm an, Portlan d; W . K . N ew ell, $12(016 per tot.; Eastern Oregon $17(o most makes me doubt that I'm only six hours from town.” member state board o f •horticulture, 18; mixed, $15.50(<t16.60; a lfa lfa , “ You're not, you're a thousand miles Gaston; and E. W . W r ght, editorial $13.50; clover, $11@13; cheat, $13 from town, tn another world, in another w riter, Portland. (<; 14.50. sphere. W e don't talk the language of Grain bags— 5 >ic each. town out here on the Ship; we talk a C ar Com pany Incorporated. B utter— C ity cream ery, extras, 31 >..c different tongue.” Salem — A m illion dollar corporation, per pound; fancy outside cream ery, She shifted so that «he could look over to be known as the Pacific Car & Foun 27}s((i31 l ac ; store, 21(d’22c. Butter the sea, her chin still propped in her dry company, to have its principal fa t prices average l \ c per pound under hand. “ Talk that tongue,” she said In offices at Portland, has fib d articles o f regular butter prices. that little tone of command peculiar to incor|>oration with the secretary o f E g g s — Oregon ranch, candled, 27C>i her. state. Full power is given the new en 2 7 S c per dozen. I talked of the sea and ships, of treas terprise to purchase and acquire the j F ou ltry— Hens, 15c; springs, 16?*(it ures hidden under the waves, of derelicts necessary property and equipment to 16cperpound; roosters, 9(<t 10c; ducks, that floated for years without being mine and extract ore, to manufacture young. 12S<"13 c ; geese, young, 10f<i sighted, of the Ancient Mariner and the iron, steel and manngunese articles and i 11; turkeys, 20c; squabs, $1.75(d2 per Flying Dutchman and all the thousand and one legends of ghost ships and their to engage in contracting engineering, I dozen. crews. Meanwhile I watched her, took bridge building and general work o f a Pork— Fancy. 11(011 % c per pound. in the dreamy lustre of her eyes— gray character such a p roject is required to ! V e a l— Extra, 9H(<£10c per pound. that shaded to blue— the soft brown color perform . Fruits— Apples, $1(02.25 per box; of her cheeks and brow, the curling gold pears, $1.50(0*2; peaches, 75c(o$1.50 of her hair beneath her big white hat, Eugene G ives' M o re M oney. per cra te; cantaloupes, $1.75(o2.50; and the delicate little hand that pillowed Eugene The third day o f the active plums, 35(u75e per box; watermelons, her chin. I noted the locket, oval and canvass fo r funds fo r the railw ay from 1 *4(o I S c per pound; blackberries, flat, with her Initials B. G. Intertwined, Eugene to the Pacific coast resulted in $1.60(o 1.75 per crate. and the heavy gold links of the chain a total o f $3000. T h e work o f tho . Potatoes— 75c(o$l per sack; sweet that softly atirred with her even breaths. .She was a child listening to world-old three da>s has amounted to $12,000 [ potatoes, 3 S c per pound. stories, but I knew she was also a woman and the co lim ittees are gratified wtih Onions— $1.25 per sack. who had come to change Alastair. the progress that has been made. V egetables— Beans, 4(o5e per pound; I stopped, and for a time we both sat Those in charge do not doubt that the I cabbage, 1(01 S c ; cauliflower, 4bc(d$l $150,000 required w ill be raised. The per dozen; celery, 5 0 c (o $ l; corn, 15(o silent, while the benediction of that glo rious afternoon rested upon our spirits. plan to build to the eoast and then con 20c; cucmubers, 15(o20c; onions, 1 2 S There seemed no limitation to the world. nect w ith C *i s bay by a cosst line is j mi 15c; peas, 7c per pound; radishes, The sea stretched out far past the Shift receivin g good support here. 15c per dozen; tomatoes, $l(o 1.35 per ing Shoal and melted into the sky, and box. that in turn rose immeasurably high. Elmira Will A'd Rc?d. H ops— 1909 contracts, 21c per pound; Only the white clouds flecked the deep Eugene— The citizens o f Eugene* 1908 crop, 14(015c; 1907 crop, 11c; blue, casting patches of lbade. silver- who went to E lm ira in the interest o f tipped, upon the waves, and that gave 1906 crop, 8c. the Eugene & Western rnilw ay w ere | W o o l— Eastern Oregon, 16(*i23c per us the lure of contrast. w ell received by the people o f that lo Barbara looked up— I think It was pound; valley, 23 m i 25 c ; mohair, choice, cality, and several thousand dollars in then that I first called her Barbara to 24(if26c. money was promised the promoters o f myaelf— and over at me. C attle— Steers, top, $4.50; fa ir to the road i f it should go through or "The world itself la no much more good, $4(04.25; common, $3.75(04; near Elmira. Labor and suppiies were wonderful than anything It contains, and cows, top, $3 50; fa ir to good, $8(0 also promised by citizens who are anx the beauty of it all so much greater than 3.25; common to medium. $2.50(02.76: ious to secure the road. any single beauty. Isn't It?” calves, top, $5(o5.50; heavy, $3.50(04; I could not agree, looking Into her C ro p Outlook Prom ising. bulls and stags, $2.75(03.25. deep, aertoua eye», so I held my peace. Portland A fine outlook fo r crops Sheep— Top wethers, $4(04.25; fa ir “ Why la It, I wonder, that we only through W estern and Southern Oregon to good. $3 50(03.75; ewes. S® less think theee things, only really lire, to ia evident, according to General Man on all grades; yearlings, besL $4; fa ir rarely r ager J P. O 'B rien o f the Harriman to good, $3.50(03.75; spring lambs, There was something in her words that lines, who has returned from a w eek's $5.25(05.50. made me hope: they seemed to say that inspection trip over the west side line, Hoga— Best, $8.75; fa ir to good. $8 sba had often felt thus. the Woodburn Natron line and the C or mi 'S.50: stockers, $6 mi 7; China fats, I “On* exists so much, but lives so llt- vallis A Eastern. $6.76(rf7. U%” I said, “ but I coaid Imagine circum A ll rlfhta reserved. stances when one would be alwaya fir ing.” Her eyes changed, the depths in them vanished, there lay only the surface light that mocked me. “ One?” ehe echoed. “ Two,” I answered. The moment of thought was over; she had changed aa swiftly as the shadow of one of those clouds flying beneath the sun. “ You are a great dreamer,” ehe said. ‘‘Are you also a man of action, I won der ?" ‘‘Give me the chance.” "G ive you the chance? Men of action don’t wait for the chance ; they make it.” " I f I were Canute, I would order the tide to come In.” The red blood flushed her cheeks, her eyelids dropped. I forget everything but the picture that she made— the loveliest picture that I had ever eeen or dreamed. Next moment she sprang up. “ But the tide is still out,” she said, "and all your wishes wifi not bring it in. I must lie poing home.” I wns up and standing beside her, lean ing on the bulwark. “ But you will come again? You’ll come again to the Ship und take tea with me, or take supper on the Ship? When wifi it be?” “ W a it; not for a day or two.” She crossed the deck, and, drawing out a small handkerchief, held it to the breeze. “ The wind is from the northeast,” she said. “ Thqt means a storm. W e may have to wait many days.” “ Several, not many,” I answered. She gave a little c ry ; the handkerchief had blown from her band and over to the shore. ‘‘Get it for me," she said. The inland sea was lo w ; I recovered the handkerchief and came back, to And her half way across the causeway. "Thank you. This Is the second way you devised of leaving the ehip on foot.” “ But it's not the best way,” I answered. I went with her to the great gate of the club and said good night. “ O h !” said she. "W e forgot and left the cushions lying on the deck. It may rain.' A good sailor should make things tight." " I wifi,” I assured her. A storm was certainly coming; It sang in the boughs of the pines as I hurried through them, it grew in the gathering clouds that hid the beach, It roared in the loud wave« that threw themselves on the shore. I crossed the mussel-backed path, and climbed on the ship. As I picked up the cushions something slid from them on to the deck. It was a locket, the locket ehe had worn on the chain about her neck, and it lay open, face upward, looking at me. I saw a small, round photograph of Rodney Islip. C H A P T E R VI. There was no mistaking those fea tures: they belonged as unquestionably to the man in tweeds as did the locket to Barbara Graham. Moreover, the photo graph did him justice, and showed an ex tremely preposessing, slightly smiling face, and that I considered added insult to the Injury. I snapped the locket together and put it In my breast pocket; then I hurled the cushions down the cabin-steps, pulled over the hatches, and left the Ship. I was in a very different humor from that of an hour before. All the way down the beach I pondered the matter. How came the locket to have dropped from the chain, how came it to hare fallen open when the catch seemed so strong? But these were petty, trivial questions, the merest introductions to the great, all-absorbing question— how came Rodney Islip'a picture there? Alas, there seemed only one plausible explanation, and I remembered the slight air of proprietorship, the amused smile as though at some hidden joke, that had struck me when Islip had come upon ue drinking tea. So they were in all like lihood to be married, and I a poor joke that had been batted back and forth like a shuttlecock between them. I tried to laugh aa one should who sees a clown, head In air, stumble over a broomstick, but the laugh was not even a passable Imitation. The storm was coming, and I was glad of it. I wanted no more of this fine weather when a man was led to lapse Into rose-colored dreams snd fancy himself a prince with the world as his realm. The rain began to spin against my face. The storm wae coming fast, and the waves barked angrily at my feet, like iiounds yelping. But I would not run, I would not even turn up my coat-collar to keep off the w e t; I would walk stolidly and let myself be soaked, for the poor- muddle-bralned Idiot that I was. But what of her? Barbara Graham looked to me like a consummate flirt, playing with me when she was a trifle weary of the company of her accredited admirer. I knew that women sometimes did such things: I did not consider that she waa the worst of her sex, but merely a strftlng Instance of the sex’s Insincerity. Yet she had looked like a child, as guile less as a maid in short skirts and braid ed hair, when she had watched the sea, and then I remembered those sudden flashing changes when the imp of subtle mischief had danced in her blue-gray eyes. She was just a bundle of mischief, to whom a new man waa simply so much sport. Yet I envied Islip with all the strength of my heart, which shows how strangely inconsistent I had grown. Charles had foreseen the storm and had made things tight about the cottage; moreover, he had built a fire in the liv ing-room. which was also the dining-room, to take the chill out of the rapidly damp ening air. Ordinarily, I would have been glad to get in and change into dry clothes and stand In front of the fire, snug and comfortable, bnt now I waa as much out of aorta as though the cottage had been a house of cards and had suddenly tum bled down about my head. Poor Charles 1 He was soon to feel the rawness of my temper. I had no sooner ciosed the door than I called to him to get into his oilskins and go to McCnllom'a with an order to him to have my horse at the back door by 8. "Yea. Mr. Felix," mid Charlee. “ It’a going to Jte a bad night, air, asking your pardon.” "I'm going to the Penguin Club, Charlea,” I answered, "and I don't enre If the hanvtna (nil an the way." “ Tea. sir, very good, s ir ;" and Charles departed, wondering, doubtless, at the strange new master be had found. He knew what I thought of the Penguin. I changed into my storm clothes—• heavy riding breeches, with a leather jacket that buttoned up to my chin. I put the locket in a little pasteboard box and placed It In an Inside pocket. Doubt less Miss Graham valued that small gold oval triuket with her monogram woven on the outside and her lover ensconced inside, and she should not have to wait until the storm passed to learn that she had not lost It. It would do no harm for her to be disturbed for a few hours; then I would end it. Charles came back and said that Nero would be around at 8. I had supper in silent state, and then sank into gloomy thought before the tire. Confound me for being such a simple, gullible fool, I who had scarcely laid eyes on a woman before at Alastair! That was the trou ble with the affair. In town I should have been prepared, properly gyved and breast-plated, but here she hail come up on me in my own natural wilderness, on my own simple beach, in my Ship of day dreams, where everything was «a free and open as the sea. Charles eyed nte askance aa I pulled my oilskin hat about my ears and vault ed upon Nero Even the poor beast must have looked at me suspiciously, for this was no night for riding on any simple errand. I must be the bearer or tidings, a figure stepped out of a rough and-tutu- ble »tory. Ilad I only known how that night was to carry me far afield, and how that ride be the first swift gallop in to a strange and swirling enterprise! The pines ahot their water into my face aa I galloped along the narrow road. The sandy footing gave now and again, and I had to let Nero’s instinct save us fiom foundering in the bogs which the heavy rain was making of the country. The night was black as pitch ; the wind, risen to a hurricane, screeched through the forest In s thousand varied voices, each more harsh and ominous than the last. Several times, riding out from the middle of the road, wet branches driven by the gale flung themselves against me and almost thudded me from my horse. I crouched low, bending forward for safe ty and that I might peer into the murky blackness of the road. Several times Nero stumbled snd I almost pitched over his head. The lights at the gate of the club were out; they were evidently not expecting visitors. I rode Nero to the stables, left him with a groom, and strode into the club's main hall. I must have presented a sorry spectacle; my tight-buttoned leather Jacket, my riding-breeches and hoots, all soaked and running with water, my hair and face dripping when I took off my oilskin hat that buckled under my chin. “ Take ray nanie to. Miss Graham,” I said to the clerk at the desk, and he rec ognized me and sent a buttons to find her. “ Miss Graham Is in the sun-parlor on the porch to the right of the main-door,” reported the buttons, "and says she will see you there.” (T o be continued.) M ARY I L A U G H L IN S A R T . D o m es tic C risis N o t H lch M »ile H er l*re«l, and Fam ous. If ‘‘And what,” asked the guest, a fter the first excitement of meeting was over, and the tw o old friends had set tled down for a "good talk,” ‘‘and what has become o f M ary Iatughlin? Is she still ns wonderful ns ever?” " A hundred times more so,” her hos tess answered, promptly. "W h a t Is she doing? Has she be come a famous artist, as you e x a c t ed? The last thing that I heard defi nitely wns that Rhe took the first prize at the academy, and you looked for great things from her.” The other woman smiled the slow smile o f one whose thought wnuders back through memorled years. “ M ary Laughlln Is greater than we ever drenmed," site said. “ F or six years she has been painting dinner» cards and favors.” ‘'Fainting dinner cards?” ‘‘They are exquisite dinner cnrds,k the friend declared, whimsically. “ They are all the rage.” “ But dinner cards! Helen Andrews, what do you mean?” " I mean,” M ary’s friend said, gent ly now, “ that M ary has proved herself greater than her art. The year that she was to go abroad her sister's hus band died, leaving her with no means and four little children. She could not support them and care for them too, so M ary came to the rescue. T o make name and reputation great enough to support them by paintings would have taken years, and money was needed at once. Bo she began dinner favors. They are all living together, as they have fo r seven years. The children adore her.” “ But— her genius!” the other woman cried. “ W hat a cruel sacrifice!" M ary’s friend smiled again. “ W alt until you see Mary,” she said. They saw Mary a fe w days later. From being an Impulsive girl, she had grown into a woman, strong, poised, self-reliant. Joyous. That she had had her battles no one could doubt, but the completeness o f her victory was shown by her generous, unenvlous rec ognition o f the successes o f her old comrades at the academy. Bhe talked much o f them—o f the one who had won fame ns a portrait painter, o f the two who had become well-known Illustra tors and o f many others. And all the tim e she talked the guest was conscious o f the exquisite atmosphere o f the sim ple little home. Bhe had not meant to speak o f It, but the question came In spite o f herself. “ Don't you ever long for It— the painting— yourself?” M ary Laugblln's steady eyes met hem quietly. “ I was narrow." she Bald. “ I thought art was the one thing tn the world. I was In danger o f missing— woman hood. I am not only content, but glad.” On the w ay home the guest broke the silence but once. “ You are right— your M ary Laugh lln la great," she said.— Youth’s Com panion. Tb< l .u t W ore. Bhe— And do you believe that a wom an always turns to the last page first when she picks up a book? He— W ell, I have no reason to doubt It. I know It In the nature o f the fa ir sex to want the last work.— Pick Me-Cp. Reeking and blundering are ao fa* good that It Is by seeking and b,anger ing that we learn.— Goethe *