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.
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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.
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