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Mosier Bulletin I h m 4 Each M fier WORK OF POSTAL DEPARTMENT. Fourteen Billion Pieces of Mail Posted In Course of One Year. Washington, Dec. 29.—Some idea of the postal service of tbe United States and the magnitude of its business can SPfcND »7 7 .0 0 0 On Road«. 8 U R V E Y O R 8 FINISH W O RK be gained from a brief review o f tbe salient facts disclosed by tbe latest an Clatsop County Has Nearly 200 Miles Now Ready to Establish a Permanent nual statistics. These figures show o f Permanent Highways. Survey to Klamath Falls that the service now has about 325,000 Astoria— As • result o f Improve Klamath Falls — Southern Pacific employes, and that these employes han ments during tbe past few years, Clat surveyors who have been establishing dled during the last fiscal year nearly sop county has 24 miles e f macadam the permanent survey between Klam 14,000,000,000 pieces of mail. The num ised roads, 23 miles o f graveled roads, ath Falla and Natron have completed ber of postoffices in operation is 80,144. 28 miles o f planked or punebeoned the work and have departed for Red Cats Important but N ot L o w Inter There are 26,852 domestic transporta roads, 14 miles o f roads covered with ding, Cal., where they are to take up esting Happenings from Points tion routes, aggregating 448,618 miles in rock and 96 miles o f graded road that the permanent survey o f the road from length, with an annual travel of 542,- baa not been covered, much o f which Redding to Alturas and thence to this Outside the State. 151,121 miles. A delivery service by w ill be completed during tbe coming city. Large forces are employed on carrier is provided on 40,628 rural season. tbe road to the north o f Klamath routes, and in 1440 cities and towns. Under the Carnahan road law the Falls. Winter quarters have been es France is in a panic at the inroads of Ordinary postage stamps to the number CHAPTER X II. several roua districts are permitted to tablished. About three miles north of American commerce. of 8,712,907,031 were sold during the Back In bright Paris, now decked In levy a special tax o f not to exceed 10 Klamath Falls a small temporary city President Taft is being urged to make year, and domestic money ordors to the value of $491,074,844 were issued. The mills each year for road improvement has been established. In this vicinity her garden-party dress of chestnut- active war oa tbe trusts. total receipts for tbe fiscal year 1909 purposes. In that manner over $36, it is necessary to make several deep blossoms, lilacs, and laburnums, some Zelaya boards Mexican gunboat under were $203,562,383.07, an increase of 000 was raised by the individual road cuts and large fills. It will require six or seven months afterwards. eyej of American marines Mrs. Savllle had spent s very tran 6.31 pc£ cent over the receipts of the districts in Clatsop county this year. several months to complete these diffi J. D. Warren, who pursued and helped previous-year. The total expenditures All that has been expended in building cult undertakings. Construction camps quil winter. She had rarely been free amountcjl to $221,004,102.89, an increase highways as well as slightly over $28,- are strung out for a distance o f more from Irritation for so long a period. to capture Jesse James, is dead. of 6.07 per cent. 000 additional that was appropriated than 20 m iles._________ For a week or two at Christmas she Storm in 8pain wrecked five vessels In its early days the postal service by the county court from the general had been a good deal tried by a visit at tbe mouth of the Douro river. New Partner in Weston Mill. was self-supporting. For 30 years, from fund, making a grand total o f $65,000 from her son, who, to her surprise, A Texas man has made $15,000,090 1789 to 1819, it failed only once to yield that has been spent or contracts let for Weston — E. S. Isaac, o f Walla an annual profit, but in recent years, al during tha past 12 months in better- Walla, one of the northwest’s most brought his cousin. George Lumley speculating in cotton for two years. with him. That over, she settled down PlizzardB sweep the east from Win most without exception, there has been ir g th e public highways o f Clatsop successful flouring mill men, has pur again to her books, her fancy-work, of a deficit. So long ns the deficit amount chased an interest in the Weston flour nipeg to Illinois, and Chicago faoes a ed to only a few million dollars, and did count. In addition to this over $12- ing mill. Tbe mill has been running which she was rather proud, her game coal famine. of whist with some old Grafs and Bar not increase in proportion to the growth 000 has been used in building and re The famous Qardea of the Cods was of tbe service, it attracted little atten pairing bridges, making in all slight with power from a large gas engine, ons attached to the little court, some but under the new management it is gives to the eity of Colorado Springs tion; but when, in the last few years, It ly over $77,000 which the property of whom had dabbled In diplomacy for a Christmas present. leaped to upward of $10,000,000, and owners o f Clatsop county have donsted probable that the long contemplated and even spent s few years In London, plan o f using the waters o f Pine creek finally in 1909 exceeded $17,000,000, or to that most commendable work o f de The greatest labor struggle in his during a portion o f the year for pow and frequent visits to the opera, for tory is said to be impending between dinary business prudence suggested veloping the agricultural districts. almost her only real pleasure was mu er w ill be put into execution. that the causes be definitely located. the railroads and their employes. , sic. The loss on second-class mall matter Several thousand bushels o f wheat OREGON M O S8 BRINGS CASH. If, six months before. Mrs. Seville The bones of Cortez, the ancient con has been increasing for many years, un still remain in the bands o f farmers in queror of Mexieo, are said to have been til it now amounts to $64,000,000. this section, who are bolding out for had missed her companion when she found after a search of nearly a con The loss from rural delivery, a serv Valuas Reach New High Figure— the expected” $1 a bushel.” Never was absent for s couple of days, tbe tury. ice begun hardly a dozen years ago and Demand For More theless, close to 8.000 bushels were Idea of parting with her now would growth, reaches as Six eoaches full of Christmas travel of unprecedented _ _ Portland— Oregon’s moss crop has bought by Frank Price the past week, have struck her with dismay. She had softened gradually but considerably— ers were stalled on a car ferry in the high as $28,000,000. In these two "items nlo/ie the postal been feund a most valuable production the agent here for the Kerr-Gifford Detroit river, and had to wait till the so gradually that Hope Desmond had company, paying 95 cents per bushel. Orders for it are constantly increas service now suffers an annual loss of* u “ “ **“ * '" ice was eut away to look back and recall her first lm more than the entire national deficit of ing and it has been several years since presslons to measure the change. Traction Company Incorporated. Kailroad officials and switchmen the last fiscal year. the supplies have been adequate for The weather was fine, the sky blue, hold conference in St. Paul. Salem— The Oregon A Washington The most striking fact disclosed by the demand. Value of the Harrlman estate is ques recent investigations is the tremendous A t this time holders o f Oregon for Traction company, a Washington state and sunshine beautified all things. It loss on account o f second-elass mail. est moss are asking as high as $55 a corporation, organized for the purpose seemed Impossible not to partake of tioned by gossips in the east. While this class of mail provides a rev the general exhilaration which pervad Brjrau is suffering from pneumonia enue o f little more than 1 cent a pound, ton for the growth, f. o. b. cars, and in of furnishing eleetric power and build ed the atmosphere. Yet Mrs. Savtlle’a recent years the price has advanced as and is too ill to make a speech. ing a system of electric railroads in the expression, If less hard, was Infinitely the cost to the government for its hand Albert I is crowned king o f Bel ling and transportation averages 9.231 high aa $60. inland empire, comprising parts of Ore giuni and promises reforms in Congo. cents a pound. The annual loss thus I “ Dick” Hoskins, tbe well known gon, Washington and Idaho, filed ar sadder than formerly, and, though neurrod, as already stated, is about: <niit broker o f this city, is perhaps the ticles today at Salem. The principal Miss Desmond's eyes were calm, and Schley demands that Peary also sub her air composed, there were shadows mit his records to the Danish univer $64,000,000. The growth in the quantity fiTeatesat shipper o f moss in the coun- place of business of the corporation will beneath the former and a somewhat of second class matter sent through the **7. « nd Practically all o f his supplies be Walla Walla. The company is in sity. mails has been extraordinary. Since come from tbe little section around corporated for $500,000. The electric worn look In her expressive face. She The Northern Pacific has bought 14 the passage of the act o f 1879 prescrib- I Gates, on the Corvallis A Eastern line will connect Walla Walla with was thinner, too, as If she had borne blocks for terminal grounds in North ing conditions under which publications railroad. Pendleton, Baker City and other promi some mental strain. Portland. may be mailed at second class rates the | “ I have already shipped out five cars nent cities. It was afternoon, and the Champs- Ex-President Zelaya has fled from weight of such mntter has increased o f moss this season,” says Mr. Hoe- Élysées were crowded with streams of Nicaragua and taken refuge on a Mexi more than 1300 per cent. Last year kin,, »,11 0f it going to California. I Water Fight Promised. equipages pouring dut to the Bois. t amounted to over 700,000,000 pounds. 1 have orders for several more cars, but can gunboat. Salem— Judge William Oalloway, In Stemming this current, Mrs. Savlils have been unable to fill them. Eight are killed and hundreds have the equity division of the circuit court and Hope returned from their earlier MEXICO MUST CHOOSE. “ The moss that I ship is taken from for Marlon county, has granted an or drive, and on arriving at the hotel narrow escape from explosion in llii nois coal mine. the forests and is utilised by the as I f Diaz Recognizes Zelaya, W ill Lose paragus shippers o f California, as well der allowing State Senator Hart, of found another open carriage drawn up A fierce storm swept the Corean Baker county, to file a writ o f review at the entrance, from which a gor Friendship of United States. aa the florists o f that section. I have demanding that the state board of water geously-dressed lady was leaning while coast, destroying fishing fleets and Washington, Doc. 29.— While some paid as high aa $37.50 s ton for good control be required to remand its order she spoke to the porter. He made a drowning 2,000. Secretary Knox has notified Presi porsons believe thnt Secretary o f State moss, but the price is considerably relating to the proposed irrigation pro gesture towards the new arrival, The ject of Thief valley. Senator Hart rep whereupon the lady looked round and dent Madriz, Zelaya's successor, that Knox has been too Severn and undiplo- above that figure at this time. Zelnya, the ex-presl — '7- '— **— -------- 1 best moss comes from along tbe line o f resents the Cookingham and Finklen displayed the well-known features of he will be held responsible for the safe nintlc in hnnilling dont o f Nicaragnn, there are those on the Corvallis A Eastern and is in heavy burg interests, who are attempting to ty of Americans in his country. Miss Dscre. the Inside who know that Mexieo, with demand. gain rights in the valley. _ How fortunate!’ she cried. "Here, Explorers find that the treasures of the “ blood thicker-than water” prece the island of Tiburon, in tbe Oulf of dent has offered a deliberate insult to Riverton Hss Fine School Building. open the door; let me out!” And she Buys Apple Land. California, are mythical, but the island the United States, nnd may have to be Coquille— Riverton’s public school is sprang upon the ground. Pleasant Ridge — Dr. J. A . Pettit, is alive with deer and wild pigeons. called to time with the rest of the My dear Mrs. Savllle, I only Just completed. The diminsions o f the S. C. Pier and Stanhope Pier have re Mark Twain has returned heme with little row breeding dictatorships of Cen cently purchased a 400 acre tract o f building are 82x34 feet, with three- heard by the merest accident that you out benefit to his health from his ocean tral and South America. I t ia were In Paris. We have been at Pau Whilo the state department had a apple land at Pleasant Ridge, Wasco foot cornices and a porch 8x16. trip. built on a concrete foundation and has for two months, and are on our way county, 12 miles south o f The Dalles. tentative understanding with President It is definitely known that 18 per Diaz through Enrique Creel, special The land is to be planted in the best a basement nine feet high. The new home." sons perished in a department store commissioner, regarding permission for varieties o f apples and sold in 10 acre building hss been erected at a coat of Oh. Indeed," returned Mrs. Savllle. (re in London. Zelnya to hoard the Mexican gunboat tracts. An abundance o f water may $3,000 and would be a credit to a town rather dryly, as she descended very de A monster benefit was given in New Guerrero, it is said here that any effort be had for irrigation purposes, which many times the aiae o f Riverton. The liberately and submitted to be kissed York eitv to help the cause of home on the part of Dinz to entertain the it is proposed to bring to the tract. progressive citisens o f that village by her young friend. “ I am sorry for man who has apparently stolen millions The country around Pleasant Ridge is may well be proud o f iL rule for Ireland. your poor father. Why could you not from his country and committed nil let him rest In peace among his tur Cook’s first prize was $25,000 from iunnn-er of outrages on friend and foe very similar to the Hood River dis Oil Near Dufur. nips and mangel-wuriels?" two leading nowspapers for his “ ex alike, will bo considered as an un trict, the soil and climate being much Dufur— J. E. Porter, who haa been clusive” story o f his trip to the Pole. friendly net, to say tho least. tbe same, and it is believed by scien Why, I must think of myself, you drilling a well at Three Mile, struck a know. How do you do. Hope? I am Abdication of the king of Greece Thn abuses heaped upon the plain tific apple growers that the famous is considered inevitable and the crown people in the Centrnl American so called Hood River apple will grow to perfec small flow o f oil at a depth o f 167 feet. so glad to see you! I can’t say you Operation hss been stopped and a com are looking very flourishing. I sup prince’s son has been chosen by the republics has been a matter of knowl tion there. pany ia being formed to raise money pose you are coming In, so I can pay Military party. edge to the nations of the world for Bast Peach Land In Oregon. to sink s deep well. you a nice visit, though I have a hun Leopold’s legal wife will not at deendos. The wonder is that Europe Portland— W. H. Lang Co., have dred and one things to do. I suppose tempt to put her son on the Belgian has not called upon the United States sold the C liff farm, located on the W il New Bridge Near La Grande. you have your old rooms. Mrs. Savllle. throne, but will fight for his fortune to exercise some sort of jurisdiction lamette river 18 miles above Portland over the little “ Central American trou La Grande— The bridge at Oro Dell ia We are at the Bristol. I wonder yon of many millions. ble breeders,” and two miles from Canby. It has finished, and the county court w ill in stay here. It Is so slow." The successful uprising o f the Young The most serious side o f the situa one half mile o f river front, boat land "Quite fast enough for me; but come Turk party in Turkey has made P a f tion is the turn taken by Mexico in ing on the place and is one o f the best spect it for acceptance early in Jan _________ up-stairs.” estine free for the first time since the harboring the fugitive Zelnya. The located farms on the Willamette River, uary. Christian era began. state, war nnd navy departments aro is nearly all improved, has fairly good "She Is as cross as ever.” whispered P O R T LA N D M A R K E TS . The committee from tha University watching with calm deliberation the de Miss Dacre to Hope as they ascended buildings and is well stocked. The of Copenhagen reports that Cook’s rec cision thnt shall have been reached by to Mrs. Seville's apartments. " I don’t Wheat Track prices; Bluestem, ords are wholly insufficient to establish Diaz as to whether or not he shail consideration was $18,760. It contains wonder at your looking worn ou t” his claim that he was at the Pole. choose between tho friendship of Ze 160 acres, part o f which is the best $1.20; club $1.10; red Russian, $1.08(d) Hope laughed and shook her head. peach land in Oregon. The peaches John R. Bradley, who fitted out the laya or the friendship of President Taft. off 450 trees adjoining this land this 1.09; valley, $1.08. "You are comfortable enough here, Barley— Feed and brewing, $30(fr31 Cook expedition to the Pole, says he I must say," resumed Miss Dacre, look season sold for $1,500. per ton. Woman Tries to K ill Children. is thoroughly disgusted with the whole Corn— Whole, $36; cracked, $36 ton. ing round the handsomely-furnished business. Cincinnati, Dec. 29.— Becoming sud Local Man Invest In Apple Land. Oats— No. 1 whits $32.600/33 ton. . room, which was sweet with flowers Oregon conservationists declare that denly insnne, Mrs. Mary Lipp, 38 years Winston— Dr. Byron E. M illler and Hay— Timothy, Willamette Valley, |*nd floodw1 wlth §oft "K ht- th« »fo n g two or three varieties of insects do of age, attempted to cremate four of Henry Fos. a retired capitalist from «Bering through the outer more harm to the forests of the north her eight children. Tho lives of the Duluth, Minn., have closed a deal with $18((/20 per ton; Eastern Oregon $18 ,un«hlne 0/21.50; alfalfa, $160/16.50; clover, blinds west than forest fires do. “ Well, dear Mrs. Savllle, and how four little ones were saved by neigh T. R. Sheridan, president o f the First $169/16; cheat, $16((//16; grain hay, The supreme court o f Oregon has bors. When the mania seized tho woman National bank o f Roseburg. for the are you after burying yourself alive In $150/16. ordered that the Portland Railway she is reported to have set fire to an , - purchase o f a portion o f the Sheridan Butter— City creamery extras, 39c; Oermany all the winter? It Is such a company must reduce fares to Milwau- outbuilding nnd to have hurled the » nd A lfr« holdings o f apple lands, !o- fancy outside creamery, 340/39c; Qu**r place to go to " kie to 5 cents, and Oak Grove to 10 'a.-aly dog into the flames. The neigh | cated near Winston. This is one of " I like Oermany. and I am remark store, 22>$9/24c per pound. Butter eonts. l>ors arrived barely in time to prevent1 the choicest tracts o f fruit lands in fat prices average lj$ c per pound un ably well." Twentyeeven persons were drowned the four children from suffering th e1 Southern Oregon. The purchasers in- "Well, you don’t look so. We had a by the collapse of a wooden bridge in samo terrible fate. She felled one of tend planting about 260 acres o f the der regular butter prices. wild time at Herondyke. T was there Poultry— Hens, 16c; springa, 16c; Russia. the rescuers with n chair before she tract to commercial apples during the ducks, 20c; geese, 12c; turkeys, live, for nearly a month. Lady Olivia Is Two negroes and one white man were was overpowered. coming year. quite too good-natured. Then she and 20c; dressed 25c. killed and six negroes wounded in a Eggs— Fresh Oregon extras, 4lR£ the girls came over to Castleton. but race war in Louisiana. Four Miners Dead in Explosion. Network of Roads to Cover State. your son persuaded George Lumley to The probation officer of the night Ceutralia, 111., Dec. 29.— Four miners Portland—President Geo. B. French, 42He per dozen; Eastern, 28(</.32c. go with him to Dresden. A great mis Pork— Fancy, 109/ 10l%c pound. court in New York says the white slave were instantly killed in a coal mine of the Spokane, Portland A Seattle line, Veal— Extras, 119/11 )$c per pound. take! Captain Lumley was quite cross trade is on the increase. near here today. The bodies of the returned from Spokane, after having Fresh Fruits— Apples, $19/3 box; when he returned—said It was a God- Provisional President Estrada, of Nicaragua, has requested official recog men were taken from the gallery soon accompanied the James J. Hill party pears, $19/1.60 per box; cranberries, forgotten hole! I met Mr. Vlgnolles at Pau"—etc., etc. And Miss Dacre after the accident. They were badly over the North Bank road in a special. $9 per barrel. nition from the state department. Potatoes— Carload prices: Oregon, turned on a rapid flow of gossip. As Miss Anna Morgan, daughter of J. P. crushed by the falling coal and tim!*ers, Mr. French said that the veteran rail- Morgan, and Mrs. O. 11. P. Belmont ami the limbs of one of the men were road magnate had divulged n» plans for 66/// 85c per sack; sweet potatoes, 2c soon as she made a pause for breath. Mrs Savllle said, wearily: have taken up the cause of the striking found some distance from the trunk, publication at this time. That Mr. Hill per pound. having been blown off by tho explosion. shirtwaist workers of New York City. Vegetables— Artichokes. 75c domen ; "Miss Desmond, the tea Is ready. Tho cause of the accident Is unknown, has in view the spreading of a network beans, 10c per pound; cabbage, 1 ije Give me a cup." A final appeal in the rase of John but it is supposed that a small pocket of roads over the state of Oregon to "By all means. The Parisians have R. Walsh, convicted banker, has been of gas caught fire from an open lamp in serve as feeders for the Hill system is per pound, cauliflower, $1.86<</2 doten; made to the United States supreme the hands of one of the miners and ex firmly believed to be on tho program celery, $3.609/4.00 per crate; horse Improved Immensely, but they have radish, $1.50 per box; pumpkins, it * not arrived at the height of good af court. ploded the coal dust that filled the air. for the near future. (d ljfic ; radishes, 15c dosen; sprouts, ternoon tea yet." Leaders of the American Federation 8c per pound: squaah, l(<z l i 4e; U>ma- Silence on the part of Mrs. Savllle. Petition for Train. Crazed by Storm Troubles. of Labor urge Secretary Nagel to make „ , . . . . toes, 76c(<!$1; turnips, $1 per sack; while Miss Dscre sipped her tea. Philadelphia, Dec. 29.— B. H. Bail, Salem A petition signed by several carroU> „ . $1 ,60. a thorough investigation into the varl "When do you come back to Lon ous phases of industrial education. second vice president and freight traf hundred people residing along the line $1,50. fion. Mrs. Seville?” Onions— Oregon, $1.60 per ssek. Dr. Braahear, a noted astronomer of fic manager of the Reading railroad, ef the Corvallis A F.sat-rn railroad, be “ Not this year I may go to Ingle- Cattle— Best rteere, $4.609/1.75; fair field In the autumn." the university of Pittsburg, says he suddenly became insane in his offices tween Albany and Hoover, was for does not believe either Coon or Peary here today, lie was removed to an warded to the railroad commission by to good. $49/4.26; medium and feed- " I suppose you know Richard Is e«\n furnish any good proof of having asylum. Bail is known to have been E. L. Payne, asking for a Dain for the ers, $3.259/6.50; cows, top, $3 509/ | bringing out a work on 'The Romans reached the pole. greatly worried by the traffic demorali passenger traffic alone. The petition 3.85; fair to good, $39/3.25; common |n Lincolnshire.' Illustrated, with zation caused by the recent storms that sets forth that patrons of the road are Savants of the Danish university are have swept the Atlantic seaboard. His compelled to use s logging train, and to medium, $2.509/3.75; bulla, $6.25 notes and appendixes? It will cost s «Dali fortune, they say.’ deeply embarrassed by their former efforts to keep freight moving during that it takes five hours to go from 9/5 50; heavy, $491175. Hogs— Hast wethers, »S.60W5.75; "They say ? Who say?" championship o f Dr. Cook, as they are this period are believed to be partially Hoover to Albany, s distance of 58 fair to good, $4.50w 5; ewes, jqc leas; unable to find any acceptable proof that responsible for his collapse. “ Oh. the literary world. I am think miles. yearlings, best, $5o/5.25; fair to good, ing of publishing extracts from the he reached the pole. Value o f Property M ere than Doubles $4.509/4.75; lambs, $6«/6 25. Archives of Castleton Forest Thera Satolli Cannot Recover. A party of American explorers re Klamath Falls- One million, four Hops— 1909 crop, 209/21 H e; olds, are lots of old deeds and letters In the Rome, Dec. 29.— The condition of Car ported to have been devoured by canni hundred and ninety-six thousand, sev nominal. munlment room. especially about the bals on the inland of Tiburon, in the dinal Satolli, who Is suffering from en hundred and eighty-six dollars ia Wool— Eastern Oregon, 169/ 23c; mo- Long Parliament times. One mush gulf of California, have arrived ssfs 1 nephritis, complicated by an attaek of the aaeeeeed value o f pereonal and real hair, choice, 25c pound really write something now." at a small town on the Mexican coast. I *»tood poisoning, is unchanged. The Caacara bark, 4 tqe pound, I attending physirinns say he will prnb- property in Klamath Falls. Thia ia an "Indeed! Can't you compile n time over last Hides — Dry (Irani! Duks Michael, of Russia, is ably linger several days. ■ His ■ m recovery m ..- increase ___ o f 100 per cent .__ ■ _ year. i ■ ■ hides. 18W19c w table of the trains between Castleton. IS considered impossible. Messages of The council made a levy o f 9 mille for pound; dry kip, 17«/ 18c pound; dry dead. Upton, and London, copying Bradshaw sympathy continue to pour in from all genera) purposes, and 2 mills for pay- calfskin, l 9/2e; pound salted hidee. freely? It would answer all purpos The I. W. W. o f Rpoksse hss givss over the world, and particularly from ing tha interest on outstanding bonds 1 0 /,/ H e ; salted calfskin 5 «> 6c: es, and give you very little trouble," friends is tbe Caited States. sad to crests a sinking fund. green, lc op the fight for fres speech. MOSIER.. OREGON EVENTS OFTHE DAT Newsy Items Gatbered from All Parts of tbe World. unhappy your ton must ha. parted from you at ha is. and eh, think of the sad future of self reproach and re gret you are creating for hla unhappy wife." “ Do not talk such santlmental rub bish to me, Miss Desmond. It Is not like your usual quiet good sense. Haa Mr. Rawson placed you with me to plead Hugh's cause? I f so. It la wast ed Ingenuity. I will not be talked over; nor does Hugh think It worth while to make any attempt at recon ciliation." "Probably he fears It would only embitter you were he to try." “ No; It Is pride and obstinacy. He has something of my own nature. How proud I was of him once!” "And so you will be again." cried Hope, cheerfully. "Foolish, faulty, he may be, but he has done nothing un worthy of a man of honor. Does a "Dear Mrs. Savllle, what an idea! marriage of affection Incapacitate a Now I want youto do me a favor. Let man from distinguishing himself In Miss Desmond come with me to the his profession? Do you not believe Opera Comlque this evening. My that when the heart Is satisfied and at father haa Instituted s headache, and I rest, the Intellect works more freely rather want a chaperon. It will not and clearly ?" be very late." “ And do you think that the heart "Miss Desmond Is perfectly free to will long rest satisfied when the lot of do as she likes." Its owner Is poverty and obscurity? " I f you can find any other chaperon There, that Is enough. I will not hear I am quits ready to stay at home,' excuses or pleading for my son. I f I said Hope, smiling. thought Mr. Rawson suggest«! such In "Now, do not be disagreeable, terference, I would beg you to leave at want you to come with me.” once." Hope did not answer and It was ar "Which I can do to-morrow, If you ranged that Miss Dacre should call for wish,” said Hope, her pale cheek flush her favorite confidante that ovenlng ing quickly, though she spoke with a en route for the theater. pleasant smile. " I have a hundred and one th'.ngj Mrs. Savllle laughed. "You know I to say to you.” whispered Miss Dacro should not like you to leave me." aha when Hope Deamond escorted her to said, more genially than Hope once the stair after she had taken leavs of thought she could ever speak. "N or Mrs. Savllle. "The same mysterious need you do so. If you will avoid vexed fate still dogs me. I do not know what queetlons.” Hope bent her head. "Tall spell binds George Lumley to silence. me." resumed Mrs. Savllle, " If you did Poor fellow! I am so sorry for him! leave me. what should you do?" I rather Imagined he thought I was “ I am not absolutely without re going to Dresden last winter— heaven sources," returned Hope, "and I should only knows why. You will be ready try to find pupils or some similar em at 7:86. will you not?" ployment to this.” "Yes, certainly." "But you would prefer staying where you are?” CHAPTER X III. "Yes, very, very much.” When Hope returned to Mrs. 8a "There Is a tone of sincerity hi villa she found that lady's maid re your words. Pray read to me for • moving her out-door garb and arrang while, and let us have no more agita ing her mistress on the sofa as If for tions." a siesta. This long wtshed-for opening appear " I would have saved you from this ed to Hope to have done very little Infliction If I could," she said, pres good. She wrote an account of it to ently, when Hope thought she was go Mr. Rawson. Indeed, her correspond ing to sleep. "Mary Dacre was always ence with the Rawson family was very foolish; she Is now absolutely Idiotic. constant. Every week a thick letter I am not surprised that Hugh had no went to Miss Rawson. and every week patience with her; Hugh was always c&mo a punctual reply. 9ometlmee Instinctive. He Is like me In many these letters sent Hope to her dally things." task with a soft, happy smile on her Hope listened with norvous atten Ups; sometimes her quick-falling tears tion. growing alternately red and bedewed the paper as she read. But, white. Never before had Mrs. Savllle through smiles and tears, she never named her offending Bon, and Hope failed In her duty to her employer, feared to utter a word that might of who grew more and more dependent fend or divert the current of her on her daughterly care and attention thoughts. (T o be continued.) " I am always doomed to disappoint ment." she went on. as If speaking out PA IN T E D W A L L SIGNS. her thoughts. "There Is Richard; he W h y L e t t e r e d In E n z l l l h , E v e n l a will be a dilettante and a nobody all D is t r ic t s . I n t e n s e ly F o r e i g n . the days of his life. I never wasted "To be sure,” said a man In the wall any anticipations on him. But Hugh might be anything— a statesman. • sign advertising business, according leader of men. I would have done to the New York Sun, "there are vari anything to push his fortunes. All ous districts of the city populated al my hopes, all my ambitions, centered most exclusively by people of foreign In him; and you know— you must have nationality, still speaking their native tongue, practically foreign quarters heard— how he repaid me.” "Yea, I have heard," returned Hope, within the city’s limits; and you might In such tremulous accents that Mrs. think that In painting wall slgna in Savllle looked up, as If surprised and these localities we would paint them touched by her keen sympathy. "It In the languages there most f&mlltar; but we don’t; almost all wall adver seems very cruel." " 8eems! It la. To be forgotten, tising signs of a general character are thrown over, for the sake of a pretty everywhere painted in English. "Of course In these various locali face, a whim of passion, after years of devotion! It Is Intolerable; It Is ties you would find no end of strictly not to be forgiven. An unsuitable local Blgns, store signs and «0 on, la wife Is a millstone round a man’s neck the prevailing language of the neigh that will drag him to perdition; but borhood; but I am speaking now of leave her punishment to him. He wall signs of a more or leas general will tire of her, and he will curse the character. “ A while ago we painted In an Ital day he ever saw her. and sacrificed his mother and his career— everything ian quarter of the city, for a city clothing concern, a sizable wall sign, —to a passing fancy.” covering the side of a tenement. In "It was a terrible mistake, a----- " Italian, but this was an exceptional She stopped suddenly. "Are you 111? You look white and case, where the store and the patron fa in t!" exclaimed Mrs. Savllle, roused age sought were not very far apart; to attention by the sudden cessation of while the bulk of the wall s%m adver her voice. tising is of things intended for uae "Only a little giddy and dazed: the everywhere and these signs are com sun was so strong to-day," returned monly painted In English wherever Hope, steadying her voice by a strong they may be placed. effort. “ I felt faint when we were “ Over on the east side of town. In driving round the lakes. But. dear the Jewish quarter, we hare painted Mrs Savllle. may I say that greater a few wall signs In Yiddish. In thesa blame attaches to the girl who allowed signs, advertising a food preparation, your son to sacrifice himself for her. appears the figure of a man In cos than to him?” tume, and this figure Is, of course, "No doubt she Is a designing minx. painted here the same as everywhere; But she will find that she reckoned a picture, as you might say, appealing without her host when she caught my In a universal tongue, and the name, son. Existence as the wife of a poor the title of the preparation, it here naval officer la not quite a bed of put up in English lettering In Its usual roses." form, but the rest of the lettering, tha ‘And suppose she proves a devoted descriptive matter, Is done In Yiddish. wife, prudent, careful, self-denying; “ These wall signs In Yiddish would would you not In time forgive her. and be novel and striking to anybody, and pardon him for hts misfortune In fall they have proved attractive and Inter ing a victim to— her designs?" esting to the people living In that lo ’You suppose what Is highly Im cality; and still they are unusual; probable; but even If this woman even In districts foreign such signs prove a gem of the finest water, that are commonly painted with their reg will do nothing towards pushing my ular English lettering. Everywhere son In hit career. All must come from the children go to school and learn him; and a wife endowed with money English If their elders do not; and or Interest or both, can do so much then we have many foreign cltlxena for a man. Maddening as all this Is. of various nationalities who speak what embitters me most Is my sou’s English as well as their own native contemptuous disregard of me. To tongues, and everywhere there are marry without a word of notice, an at people who can read the slgna for tempt to win my consent, was an In those who cannot; and then living In sult." or passing through our foreign dis 'But Mrs. Savllle. If I may venture tricts there are always more or lass to speak on a subject so near your people to whom English Is the moth heart do you not think that the hope er tongua. lessness of gaining your consent held "So aa to wall signs of a general ad him back from making the attempt?" vertising nature it 1 * commonly con " I t should have h?M him back also sidered good business to make their from such ungrateful disobedience. He knew he would break—no. not break lettering In English wherever they my heart—mine 1 * not the kind of may be put; and 1 suppose you might heart which breaks— but harden It say that besides serving their primary 1 th a hardness that palna, with a purpose these signs thus lettered are dull. Indescribable aching.” And the In some localities In a measure edu cational." pressed her hand on her bosom. "Oh. yaa. It was wrong—terribly rong." cried Hope, and there was a sound of tears In her voice. ” vnt you know your son’s nature. Rightly or wrongly, he loved this girl wl'h all his heart, and she was singularly desolate, friendless pennlleea How could he ■ert her. being the man he Is? how rould be help her effectually save as her husband? It was Imprudent I know, and very wrong, but not unpar- donabla Dear Mrs. Savllle, think h aw R ev 9 H ope. "This play In Its Intensity." said the go-out-between the-acts young m »» "fairly takes my breath away." " I only w,sh It would!” gloomily re marked the lady In the next seat.—Ttt- Blta. ______________________ 14« M a t t e « A fo r e ! h A a f k t . He— How is It you are always eat whea I call? Bhe—J u t luck.—Ufa. V»
