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Mosier Bulletin Twelve Bigg st Breakfast Food Mak ers May Combine. Issued tack frM a r MOSIER.. OREGON EVENTS OFTHE DAY Newsy Items Gathered from All Parts ol the World. '.at* Important but Not Less Inter esting Happenings from Points Outside the State. Looters sight. CEREAL TRUST FORMING. in Paris are being shot on Nine bodies in all have come ashore from the wreck of the Czarina in Coos Bay A schooner was driven ashore in an Atlantic gale and her crew o f 14 are missing. All kinds of Oregon lumber have ad vanced heavily in price in California markets. In the coming English parliament the Liberals will have 274 and the Un ionists 273. Thirty-one men were killed and many others injured by a mine explo sion in Kentucky. President Tatt has pardoned a full- blood llmal ilia Indian chief who was serving a life sentence at McNeil's Is land, Washington, for murder. A big cereal trust is being formed to include all the principal breakfast food factories, and it is thought many large flour mills will also join it. Cattle on Eastern Oregon ranges are too weak to be driven to where they can be fed, and in some cases are being offered for sale at $6 per head. The United States Court of Appeals has decided that a Jap is neither a white man nor an A fric in, and there fore can not become an American citi- sen. A fter going four days without meat, • Chicago sign-painter bought a huge beefsteak, cooked it himself, Bnd be gan eating so ravenously that he chok ed to death on almost the first mouth ful. It is rumored that the stork will vis it the royal house o f Spain in May. Henry W. Taft, brother of the pres ident, is dangerously ill with erysipe las. A big fight is expected on the postal savings banks bill and opponents say it will not pass. An observer at Cambridge says the new comet, known as Comet A, 1910, is traveling from the earth at the rate o f 41 miles per second. Ejection o f a civilian from a m ili tary ball at Charleston navy yard has resulted in a court martial, and the trial is arousing great interest. By changing checks on an old valise and a trunk containing $10,000 worth o f gems and jewelry, two clever thieves got away with the latter. Large quantities of strychnine have been found in the stomach of Million aire Swope, of Kansas City, who died ,recently under peculiar circumstances. The Postal department is consider ing the payment of back salaries due to postmasters in Oregon, and pi rhaps other states, amounting to many thous ands of dollars, and covering a period of over 45 years. Orville W right’s record of an aero plane flight with passengers, one hour 37 minutes, wan broken at Mourme Ion, France by Efitoff, who remained in the air one hour and 60 minutes, and by Vandenbern, who remained in the air one hour and 42 minutes. Rome is threatened with floods simi lar to those in France. It is believed the chances of the irri gation bill in congress are improving. Boise is to'have a thorough invesiga- tion into the high prices of necessities. The coroner’s jury on the Czarina wreck did not fix the blame on any one. Three Seattle policemen have been arreated, charged with levying black mail. Chicago, Feb. 2 — The hungry pub lic, turning from prohibitive meat and other foodstuffs to cereals, is apparent APPLE P R O F IT S GREAT. ly in for another hard shock, as there is every indication that a great com Former Mail Carrier Extols Life of Up-to-Date Fruitraiier. bine in cereals is on the verge o f com Portland— One o f the most interest pletion to be followed immediately by a general boost in prices. Snowballs ing addresses delivered before Portland and sand Beem about the only things Apple Growers’ association was given by I. A. Mason, a prominent Hood left that cannot be cornered. The subject was Advices from Minneapolis today and River orchardist. tonight are to the effect that a great ‘ T h e Apple from Start to Finish,’ ’ the holding company is forming to take speaker giving the large audience pres over several o f the largest cereal fac ent a clear, concise story of apple pro tories in the United State— in short, to duction from the practical standpoint. PerhapB the most interesting part of form a trust in breakfast foods. Ac cording to these reports, these com Mr. Mason’s address was that in which panies probably would be in the com he gave exact figures on the proceeds from an Oregon apple orchard. In bis bine : Hood River orchard he hai just two Northwestern Cereal corporation. varieties, Newtown Pippin and Spitz- Minneapolis Cereal & Milling Co. enberg. In 1906 hiB receipts from the Fruen Wheat Food & Milling Co. Spitzenbergs were $835 art acre, and Minne-Paul Cereal & Milling Co. Malta Vita Food Co., Battle Creek. from the Newtowms $750 an acre. This was the only year, he said, in which Pettijohn Pure Food Co. All Iowa plants of the United Cereal the Spitzenbergs brought larger returns than the other variety. In 1907 tbe Co. It is further declared that in addi average returns were $250 an acre; in tion to these concerns, seven white H08, $1, 00 an acre, and in 1909, $500 flour mills in the territory adjacent to an acre. This year bis trees are 43 Minneapolis would be in the merger years old. “ These figures are exact and not col and that there was a possibility that two of the large baking concerns of ored in any way,” said Mr. Mason. “ It will be seen that my orchard has Minneapolis also would be included. Thomas W. Hicks, o f the National brought me in groes receipts o f $700 an acre as an average for five years. Financing Company, said today : “ There 12 cereal-producing firms in All expense o f maintenance amounted this country, where one holding com to about $200 an acre, leaving a net pany could handle the entire output, j profit of $500 an acre. “ This, o f course, is paving 10 p«r We seek at present to combine these] 12 firms and avoid the throat-cutting] cent on a valuation o f $5,000 an acre. which has been going on for years and ; It looks big, but it is nothing more which has caused many failures. For than any young man who gets hold of a instance, Battle Creek, Mich., which good piece of Oregon apple land can do. has been the center of cereal-produc It can be done in the Willaimette val ing, has been the victim of 42 failures ley. I f you willl only select the right land, plant the best varieties and give in three years. “ The way things are going at pres them proper attention. "Y o u will notice that my orchard ent, the cereal output is a losing prop osition for the food companies. It is a brought in only $500 Bn acre last year. continual fight for contracts and the This, I believe, was because the crop result is that the jobber is the only one was so heavy the year before. The ex traordinary cold snap o f last winter who makes the big money. a ll i co itributed to it. But I want to say right now that this year gives LUMBER PRICES ADVANCE. every indication of being one of the Demand by Railroads Given as Cause best that Hood River has ever experi enced. I believe confidently that my o f Rise. orchard will again bring in at leaBt Los Angeles, Feb. 2.— Rough Ore $1,200 an acre. gon pine lumber has advanced $1, • o ] “ In raising apples it must bn borne $22 and $26 a thousand feet. Shingles in mind that it takes time before the have advanced 25 cents, to $2.26 and trees begin to pay. You will get a $3 a thousand. Shakes are up, $2, to small crop in five years, and a better $29 a thousand. yield each subsequent year. But all “ The reason for the advance in : that time you have been paying out rough Oregon pine,” said J. F. Mullin, ■ with nothing coming in. It w ill take of the Montgomery & Mullin Lumber the crops of the seventh and eighth company, today, “ is the heavy demand 1 years to bring you out even. Then of the railroad companies for this Ium- ] you are in clover. I t ’s all velvet after ber. Not only in the United States is that.” the demand heavy, but it extends to Mr. Mason advocated planting not China, where they are doing an im-1 more than three varieties in one orch mense amount of railroad building. ard, and said two are better, if the “ The railroads use so much lumber right two are selected. He also de that they practically make the market. I clared that in Oregon he does not con When there is a great amount of sider the slope of the ground as mak railroad building the price of lum ing a great deal o f difference, just bo ber goes up. the soil is o f the right quality. “ The outlook for the lumber busi Convention to Carve New State. ness is higher priceB. There has been a tendency toward higher prices since Medford—The Southern leaders in the slump caused by the financial de the movement to carve a new state out pression of a little more than a year o f Southern Oregon and Northern Cali ago.” fornia, to be known as Siskiyou, are active with arraagements to call a con vention to devise ways and means. Three More Bodies Found. According to present plans the con Marshfield, Or., Feb. 2.— Three more bodieB of the Czarina wreck victims vention will gather in Yreka. Siskiyou were found today. One was near the county, California, not later than mouth o f the Umpqua river, a second March 15, and remain in session three Prominent men from all over at Ten Mile creek and the third oppo days. site the wreck. l he bodies are not the territory affected have signified yet identified. This makes nine bodies their willingness to attend and aid in that have been found. It was thought ] the movement. by some that ihe headless body found | As planned, the new state will em several days ago was that of Harold brace seven California counties and The movement Millis, but the father, C. J. Millis, ] live Oregon counties. could not identity it, and the remains grew out of widespread dissatisfaction were buried as an unknown. A with the treatment, alleged to have been accorded the territory by the two watch is kept for more bodies. Btates. California, it is said by those advocating the formation of the new Cherry Mine is Opened. Cherry, III., Feb. 2.— Work was re state, has long neglected its northern sumed in the St. Paul mine tonight by portion, while Southern Oregon has scores o f men, following the removal suffered in a like manner, it is claimed, today of the hermetic seal that had ( at the hands of Portland and the W il kept the suhterreanean passages closed lamette valley. The move to create the for two months. Efforts will be made ; new state is popular through the affect to clear the mine o f noxious vnpors, to ed territroy. wall in any smouldering lire, and to re cover the 160 bodies that have been en tombed since the fire broke out on No vember 18. Spectators at the unseal ing of the mine were mostly young widows, some only 16 years old who Eight dead and thirty injured have had been married but few months. been.taken from a train wreck in Eng land. Paulhan Makes Flight. Florence Sees Bright Future. Eugene— Florence, at the mouth of the Siuslaw river, has been petitioned by T. J. Monroe of Coos Bay for a franchise for an electric light plant. The petition will probabply be submit ted to a vote o f the people. Florence is growing rapidly as a result o f the beginning of jetty work at the mouth Denver, Fch. 2.— Thirty thousand of the river. The citizens are working High food prices have driven thou sands of children to factory work in people swarmed into Overland park to for a railroad to the Willamette valley day to see Louis Paulhan in an exhibi via Eugene. It has been rumored that Chicago. tion flight in his Farman biplane. the Southern Pacific company would Loe Angeles is making a great effort A fter three preliminary attempts, build a line from Eugene to Florence to free her city employes from the Paulhan tw ee encircled the mile to reach Coos Bay, but the citizens clutches of loan sbaiks. track. That the exhibition was not place more faith in the promise of the more successful was due to the crowd promoters o f the Eugene & Western It is reported that Dr. Cook has been itself. They broke down fences, | company, which has made prelimi for several weeks at a German i-anitar swarmed over the field, and the police nary surveys and expect* to begin con ium, under a false name, and has now had difficulty in clearing sufficient struction work soon. gone to Vienna. space to allow the machine to start. It is reported that if the government 12 Cows Earn $18.21, Each, Month Gale Wrecks Sell loner. wins its suit against the railroad mer Roseburg — That dairying in this ger, a syndicate composed of Rockefel Norfolk, Va., Feb.2 — With a north county is a profitable business, when ler, Morgan, and Kuhn, Loeb Co., will west wind blowing at 52 miles an hour, conducted in accordance with scientific take up all the bonds and stock of the | the three ma«ted schooner Frances, rules and principles, is proven by a re roads involved. Captain Coombs, from New York to port made hy the Oakland Creamery Jacksonville, Fla., was washed ashore The recent trip abroad of the Immi on the IIalters! roast this morning and company, o f Oakland. The report is gration commisaion is alleged to have was pounded to pieces. Fourteen men made from 12 cows owned by L. E. been but a junket expedition and an in are supooeed to have been lost before Warner, who lives near Yoncalla, and shows that a total of 577.49 pounds of vestigation has been railed for. the life-savers could reach the vessel. butter fat was secured, which is esti Taft decides to continue the suit to None o f the bodieB have been washed mated at 861.43 pounds of butter, for dissolve the Harriman railroad merger. ashore. wh ch Mr. Warner received $218.52, or $18.21 per cow. This for the Violation of the rules o f etiquette Gait 41 Miles a Second. m mth o f December. may cause the retirement o f the Aus Cambridge. Mass., Feb. 2. Forty- trian premier. Flectric Clocks at Klamath Falls one miles a second is the speed at Transcontinental Passenger associa W iich "Com et A. 1910“ is traveling Klamath Falls—O. B. Gates, agent tion grants convention rates to Port from the t arth, according to statement for the Western Union Telegraph com land for Rose Festival. announced at Harvard college observ pany. has secured i2 c ntracts for in atory today, from Lick observatroy. stalling clocks with telegraph service Pinchot's friends are active in the Tbe telegram says that Albrecht pho in business houses in the city. The Ballinger investigation. tographed the spectrum of the comet company only sent Mr. Gates 12 con Both parties admit the British elec and found the sodium lines displaced, tracts. This is a most creditable ^hew tion was fought on the tariff issue, and indicating the motion of the luminary. ing for a city o f this aiz*. It v »< not both claim the victory. expected that over three of four clocks Los Angeles autoists are protesting il<p Can't be U. S Citizen. could be installed, as that is usually loodly against the new ordinance pro Richmond, Va., Feb. 2.— Under an the number used in towns even larger viding jail terms for speeders. npmtot handed down in the United than this. Two robbers in a taxicab robbed the States Circuit Court of Appeals today 12-mile house, east of Port'and, then in the rase o f Namyo Itesspo vs. The The Oregon Library commission will proceeded to the 7-mile house and at United States, a Japan*ee in law is be glad to loan nrogram material to tempted to rob that place, mortally neither a white man nor a person of teachers for Lincoln’s and Washing woonding an attache who resisted African descent, a d therefore is not ton’ s birthday. The only charge will them. Posses were in pursuit inside entitled to naturalization in this coun be postage. Address Oregon Library o f an hour. try. commission, Salem. S T A R T BIG PRUNE ORCHARD. Syndicate Will Plant Big Tract Near Capital City Salem— One hundred and sixty-five acres of raw land have been purchased by a syndicate of Salem business men in the center of one o f tbe best fruit districts in the vicinity of Salem, the Rosedaie district, and it will be Bet out at once with Italian prunes. The trees have been ordered for 60 acres of the purchase, and they will be planted at once. The land is located seven or eight miles south o f Salem, and will be trav ersed hy the Oregon Electric when that line is extended on to Albany. The purchase was made o f Arthur Ed wards by Charles McNary, Dr. T. C. Smith, Harry E. Albert and Frank Durbin, an attorney, a dentist, a banker and a hop grower and buyer. It is the first time that a group of nfen have entered the prune business in so systematic a way in this vicinity. The whole tract is not to be set out at once. The best methods will be adopted and studied with a view to making money. Other improvements will be put on the tract, including a unique summer home, which may be occupied from time to time by one or more o f the families of the men who are the proprietors of the model or chard. It will be a plantation for farmers and prune growers in Marion and Polk counties to emulate, and as an educational feature alone it will be a valuable asset to the prune growing in dustry in those counties. CHAPTER X V III.— (Continued.) Hitherto the place had been so si lent, so apparently deserted, that both Hope and her attendant paused and looked anxiously down the road, which made a sharp bend at the point from which tney had begun to walk back. The sounds of a deep, rough voice, uttering observations In an unknown tongue which seemed hawked up from the pit of the speaker's stomach, next made themselves heard; presently ap peared a tall, thin man, clad In hol- land overall trousers, a dark-brown knitted waistcoat, and a holland jack et, neither of the lighter garments having lately seen the washtub; a wlde-brlmmed Btraw hat, turned up at the back, projected far over his eyes, which, as he looked up, showed black and piercing under bushy grizzled eye brows. Long lantern Jaws, thick un- trlmmed moustaches, and a skin like wrinkled leather gave him the air of a countrified Pantaloon. Behind him fame a broad-chested gray horse, al most white from age, his harness Fruitgrowers Will Gather at Dufur much mended with rope, and a long Dufur— Extensive arrangements are fore-lock falling Into his eyes. He being made here for (he fruit growers’ was drawing an old, rusty, ramshackle institute, to be held February 26 and cabriolet, the hood drawn forward and 26. A meeting was held by the Dufur j nodding at every step of the attelage. Valtey Fruitgrowers’ union to arrange He was led by an old, thick-set man In the details. A t the institute lecturers a blue blouse and a cloth cap pulled and speakers, including one from th e ' down nearly over his ears. As the Oregon Agricultural college, will talk flr3t 0f the curious couple approached on different subjects o f value and in- them, he ralsed hlg straw hat with an terest to the fruitgrowers. It is ex- a|r ot much elegance to Hope and her pected that this will be the largest and companion most interesting institute ever held in j ~Well, that a g u y r exclaimed Jes this section, and a large attendance is Bop - j am sur0 he would not do for expected. any one's young man, even In a desert like this. He'd want the Witch of New Brick School for Klamath Falls Endor to keep him company, he Klim ath Falls— Plans for the new would." public school building, which is to be ] "I was rather Interested by ha* erected on tne west side o f the river, ' face," said Hope. “ He has a most have been approved by the school1 expressive countenance, and fine eyes.” board. The building w ill be two story ] "Law. miss! I wonder what your with basement and large attic, and voung^entleman would"‘ say"to your covers a ground space 82x92>£ *ee** ! taste?” It will contain eight class rooms, with i * _ . . . . Ai two rooms in the basement, and one I ' A " d 1 wonder wh° he 1bT contln’ large room 25x80 feet in the attic, |U€d, y >pe' . . „ which will be used as an assembly and I v I ^ r e say I shall soon find out at i the hotel, returned Jessop. "And now H 1 U B 1 L ruuill. j . . . . . . , _ _ ----------- we had better step out; for I am suro Negotiate for Light Plant. my mistress does not like being left Marshfield— Negotiations are on fo r .* 00 *on* by herself, the sale of the Coos Bay Gas & Electric ' Hope found Mrs. Seville surrounded company. Billingsby & Co , o f Chi- by P«nB- lnk- and PaP«r : she ba<l <*vl cago, whose representatives are now denUy been busy with her pen, for in the city, are handling the deal, number of freshly-stamped letters lay The property consists of the electric beside her. and the hearth was cum and gas plant furnishing light and bered with a large amount of charred (lower for the Bay City, and certain fragments. Moreover, Mrs. Savllle did franchises for a street railway in not seem aware that Hope had been North Bend. It is understood that the long absent. The sunset that evening Justified the deal will probably be closed. landlord's euloglum, and Mrs. Savllle Potato Rate Reduced. gazed at It long In deep thought It Salem— An order has been issued re- ] waB perhaps a contradiction In her ducing the rates on potatoes and onions rather complicated nature that she en to the same general level as the grain Joyed fine scenery— Indeed, beauty In rates on the Southern Pacific road, any shape. This she said very little which is one of the few roads In the about, as she looked upon such tenden- Northwest that has charged more for cles as indicative of weakness. Sud- the transportation o f potatoes and denly she turned to Hope and said. “ 1 onions than for grain and mill feed remember Just such a sunset over this The railroad commission has decided little bay nearly twenty years ago, that these charges o f the Southern when Hugh was a little fellow, and in Pacific are unreasonable. all those years he was a satlsfacttou to me till— till he destroyed my hopes $1,000 for Lane County's Fair. forever. We had been traveling, and Eugene— The Lane County Fair as I wanted to see the old Norman sociation has decided to ask the county churches. There are some very fine court for an appropriation o f $1,000 specimens of Gothic In this part of the annually for the fair and appointed a country. We stopped for a day or two committee to interview the court at its at Caen, when Hugh, who was with next meeting. me for his holiday-time, showed symp toms of fever. They advised me to PO R TLA N D M A R K E TS. take him to Salnte-Crolx, where the air was pure and bracing. He was Wheat— Track prices — Bluestem, wonderfully happy here. Madame d’Al- $1.16; club, $1.06; red Russian, bevllle was then at the chateau. I *1 04; valley, $1.06; 40 fold, $1.10. had known her brother In London. He Barley—-Feed and brewing, $28.50 was one of the French attaches. He («29 per ton. happened to be at the chateau, too. Corn— Whole. $36; cracked, $36. They found me out, and were wonder Oats No. 1 white, $31.60iiz:32 ton. fully hind. It Is one of the few pure Hay- Track prices— Timothy, W il ly pleasant memories I have, those lamette valley, $18(«20 per ton; East weeks. The marquise and I never ern Oregon, $21(«22; alfalfa, $17@18: quite lost sight of each other since clover, $16; grain hay, $16(11)17. When we were In Paris she told me Butter—City creamery, extras, 37@ she would be here all July and Au 39c per pound; fancy outside creamery, gust. It Is a great disappointment not 35(« 37c; store, 20(«'22t^c. Butter fat to find her here.” prices average 1 \ c per pound under “ I can understand that,” said Hope, regular butter prices. softly. Her Ups trembled as she spoke, E ggs—Eresh Oregon extras, 31(d! and her eyes dwelt with a strained, 82c; Eastern, 17 '-y(« 22c. anxious expression on the delicate, Pork— Fancy, 11c per pound. strong face of her patroness. Poultry— Hens, 16 )*(« 17c; springs, She began again In a quiet tone, as 16 Si(d 17c; ducks, 21(« 22Hc; geese, If unconscious of Hope’s presence: 12(«14c; turkeys, live, 22(«25c; dress “ Poor Hugh! He has earned his own ed. 22H f«30c; squabs. $3 per dozen. punishment. I am glad I destroyed V eal—Extras, 12(«12Hc per pound. my laat will.” And she glanced at the Fresh Fruits — Apples, $1(«’8 pt-r fireplace. Then, suddenly addressing box; pears. $1(«1.60; cranberries, $8 Hope. "You will be glad, too. You («9 per barrel. Potatoes — Carload buying prices: seem to have espoused his cause. Mr. Oregon. 7fl(«9flc per sack; sweet pota Kawson was always devoted to Hugh, and you have caught his enthusiasm to»«, 2t4(« 2 S c per pound. Vegetables — Artichokes. $U«:1.25 That parcel which came to me before perdoxen; cabbage, $1.75(<?2 per hun we left Paris from Mr. Rawson's office dred; pumpkins, 1 l4(«’1 '*c per pound; was my will. 1 wanted to read It. I squash, 2c; tomatoes, $1.50(«2.25 per thought of adding a codicil, but I l o t ; turnips, $1.50 (»■ sack; carrots, could uot make up my mind. I have dreamed of that will, and struggled $1.25; beets. $1.50; parsnips, $1.60. with my heart, my pride. This after Onions— Oregon, $1.60 per sack. Hops—19u9 crop, prime and choice, noon, as I sat alone. I seemed to see 20(«22H cper pound; 1908s, 17)sc; Hugh, to hear his voice, and the Im pulse came on me; I thrust the paper 1907s, llS ,c . Wool Kastern Oregon, 16<«23c per that doomed him to poverty Into the fire. It Is done with." She paused. pound; mohair, choice, 25c. Hope could not speak. Cascara bark, 1 s c per pound. "But I am not going to leave him Hides— Dry. 18(rfl8^c per pound dry kip, 18«i 18S c ; dry calfskin, 19<<i more than a competence; no. he does 21c; salted hides, lO pilO S e; salted not deesnre that I should give him ease of circumstance; but I have a calfskins, 16c; green, lc less. Cattle Best, steers. $5; fair to •will’ form with me. and to morrow I good, $4.50(«4.75; strictly good cows, will fill It up. t have planned what I $3 75(« 4; fair to good cows, $3(« ahsll put In IL I will not be harsh; I 3.60; light calves, $5(u6.S0; heavy will be Just." "And you will be ever so much hap calves, $4<« 4.60; hulls, $3.60ftf8.75; pier. dear Mrs. Savllle." stags. $3iu 4. “ Happy! Do you know, I doubt If Hogs Top $9; fair to good, $S.50oi I know what happlnes« is?" 8.75. "That ts very extraordinary.* Sheep—Best wethers, $5.50; fair to "Is It? Havs you known much hep good, $5oi'5.60; good ewes, $4.75oi5; pluses.' lambs, $6«t'6.50. early to-morrow morning, and. If pos sible, bring a nurse with me." So Hope was left with a sinking heart to watch the sick-bed. to admin ister what medicine was ordered, to cool the burning Bkln by applying a lo tion which smelt of camphor, to pray for strength and courage. She sent the courier to the nearest telegraph- station, describing Mrs. Savllle’s con dition. and begging that Mr. Rawson and Richard Savllle might be sent for. Meantime, a note or terror had spread through the household. Some precautions suggested by the doctor gave rise to exaggerate Id.-a* of In fection, and Hope soon began to per ceive that the service of the sick-room was becoming a difficulty. The doctor was faithful to his word, and returned with a sturdy, broad- faced Sister of Mercy, who was an Im mense help. Then the sad routine of Hope seemt ' to think for a moment, a sick-room was instituted. Gradual then an ’ idescrlbable sweetness, a eud ly Hope came to know that the enemy den light, came into, her eyes. with which they had to contend was " I have known glimpses of great severe typhus fever. The whole weight happiness; of smaller happiness, of of attendance fell on Hope and the Sis ten ; of bitterness and sadness, now ter. At times Mrs. Saville was wildly and then.” excited, striving to get out of bed and “ A varied experience for so young a wandering deliriously. In her worse woman. By the way, I never think of state Hope’s voice and touch had a you as a girl; yet you are quite young certain degree of Influence upon her. — I see and feel that. Now let us read The weary days, and still wearier the English papers which came this nights, dragged their slow length evening. I was glad to see them; for along. Letters came from Mr. Raw the post at these out-of-the-way places son's partner assuring Miss Desmond Is always uncertain!” that he was In hopes a letter would And Mr. Savllle in the Island of Rü CHAPTER XIX. gen, where his bankers believed he The next day Mrs. Savllle did not feel equal to write or attend to busi would make a short stay, and that he ness. Her head felt heavy and giddy, had telegraphed to Mr. Rawson, who ought to be at Basle on the 7th; no she said; so Bhe ordered the ram doubt that gentleman would lose no shackle carriage and drove to the cha teau, hoping the air would revive her. time in going to Salnte-Crolx. Still the days and nights rolled It did not, however. She said she felt Inclined to sleep— that the air was too heavily on. and no one came. “ I f all our care falls," thought Hope, strong for her, or rather that she had grown too weak for the air— that the "what a terrible position for me! I place made her melancholy, and she have done my best; but will Mrs. Sa would leave next day. Hope persuad vllle’s people thin . 1 have? If she die* ed her to try and rest. She covered unreconciled to Hugh, what a trag her over with wraps; for, though the edy!” What moments Hope could day was warm, she complained of cold, spare from the sufferer she swent In and shivered a good deal. Hope took writing, covering the pages rapidly. her knitting and' sat patiently beside These letters she sent by the courier her for more than an hour, during to the market-town, that they might which Mrs. Savllle slept heavily, some escape the uncertainties of the Salnte- Crolx post-office. times moaning; then she woke sudden “ Mademoiselle will kill herself," ly, aa if startled, and thought she heard several people enter the room said Sister Marie, th§ nurse, one morn noisily. She was better, and Insisted ing. "You do the work, the watching, on taking a little walk on the beach. of two. And you are Imprudent; yon At dinner she could not eat, but com let her hold your hand and lean plained of great thirst. Feeling severe against you. It Is unwise. You must headache and drowsiness, she went take some rest. Trust me a little." " I do, dear Sister, I do. But I can early to bed. Hope felt more uneasy than she cared to confess, and persuad not rest. You do not know how my ed Mrs. Savllle to let her maid sleep life seems to depend on hers." "And you are not her daughter!" In her room. (T o be continued.) Then she retired herself, first to write at considerable length, then to BRITAIN'S RACE PROBLEM. seek forgetfulness In her bed. But In vain; her nerves were strained, and an T r i a l o f W h i l e M e n b y B la c k J u r ie s Irresistible presentiment of evil weigh In A fr ic a C au ses C o m m en t. ed her down. Americans who have lived In th« The long, wakeful, restless night Southern States or who have enjoyed wore through. At early dawn Jessop came into Miss any sort of colonial experience will Desmond's room with an alarmed look appreciate the apprehension that hai been caused In England by the discov on her face. “ I am afraid Mrs. Savllle Is very ery of a new danger to white men In 111, miss. I have never seen her like the English colonies in the tropics. It this. She has been wandering off and has been described as "the new black on all night about Mr. Hugh and her peril,” and Is no other than the posal- husband, that no one ever hears her billty of the trial of a white man by speak about. Just now she Is asleep. a Jury composed exclusively of blacks. That It Is far from imaginary Is What will become of us In this poor, miserable place If my lady gets really proved by the fact that two English 111? Why, we couldn't get a doctor; men were recently tried and convicted though that queer man we saw on the on the West African gold coast under road yesterday, they tell me, Is a very these circumstances, and one of them clever doctor, but he lives miles and Is serving out his three years’ sentence to-day In Portland prison, with no ap miles away.” “ I shall get up and dress at once,” parent prospect of release, says an returned Hope, much alarmed. “ I English correspondent. The other Englishman, after under will come to Mrs. Savllle directly.” She dressed accordingly, little think going six months' Imprisonment, was ing how long It would be before she only released a few weeks ago, thanks to the determined efforts made In his should again go regularly to bed. Mrs. Savllle seemed quite herself behalf by Sir Gilbert Parker, M. P., A third Englishman when Hope reached her bedside, except the novelist. that her hands and skin were dry and would almost Inevitably have shared burning, her eyes bright and restless. the same fate as the other two had She wanted to get up In order to ..re he not succumbed to blackwater fever pare for her Journey to London. She on the very eve of his trial. seemed feverishly anxious to be at The most amazing feature of this home once more. Then she began to amazing case Is that the men were speak about Mr. Rawson as If he were not even present when the offense for there, though they both knew he had which they were tried was committed, started with his daughter for Switzer and the question of their being accea land; also she talked of her will, and sorles to it was not even raised: her fear that If she died intestate her I f the reader can Imagine how ths son Hugh would get as much of her news of the trial of a white citizen property as his brother. of the United States by a Jury of ne As soon as she could get away, Hope groes In the South would be received called the landlord and begged him to In America he will gain a faint Ides dispatch a mounted messenger for the of the extraordinary sensation that doctor, to whom she hastily wrote a has followed the discovery of the gold note describing the condition of the coast incident. So concerned Is Sir sufferer as accurately as she could. Gilbert Parker, despite his wide colo This done, there was nothing for It but nial experience, with the condition of waiting. affairs disclosed that he has brought This waiting tried Hope severely. the whole question of the trial to th« She felt, moreover, what a weight of attention of the House of Common», responsibility lay upon her. » and the government has ordered an Though Jessop was full of expres Inquiry to be made. An amazing, »It- slons of sympathy and woe, her pale nation Is revealed for the first time by face and nervous manner showed how the replies made to Sir Gilbert In Par unfit she was for a sick nurse. liament by Colonel Seely, the under Hope waited for the doctor's report secretary of state for the colonies. before she wrote to Mr. Rawson's part In the gold coast colony apparently ner for help and counsel. It rests entirely with the court to Richard Saville was away cruising, decide whether or not a white prisoner nobody knew where; Mr. Rawson was shall be tried by a Jury of whites, a traveling; Lord Everton— who could Jury composed of four blacks and find him? and she felt, she knew, that three whites, or a Jury composed sx. Mrs. Savllle was going to be very 111. clustvely of negroes. At last, after what seemed ages, but really as soon as he could come, the P le n ty - o f R m i o m . doctor appeared. Johnny— What makes that new baby Though rusty and dislocated In ap at your house cry so much. Tommy? pearance. he was kindly and Intelli Tommy (Indignantly)— It don't cry gent. After examining his patient, he so very much—and anyway. If all your asked Home If she was her daughter. teeth was out, and your hair off, and “ A much attached friend, then?” he your legs so weak you couldn't even said, when she answered In the nega stand on them. I guess you'd feel Ilk* tive. crying yourself.—Spare Moments. " I fear the poor lady Is seriously 111. It Is rather difficult to foresee how H U Bad B reak . these feverish attacks may turn, and H «— Indeed. Miss Rox, yon are tbe we can only help nature. There Is lit only girl I ever loved. Ah, you smll». tle to be done. I have brought medi Well. I suppose you've had that sort of cines with me, thanks to the descrip thing said to you for the past twenty tion In your note. Salute-Crolx boasts years." no chemist's shop. You must watch Miss Rox (Indignantly)— S ir!— your patient constantly. Give her Boston Transcript milk when you can get her to take anything. I will speak to th - Imdlord A a E a s y C aav eet. about a few precautions Wilch It “ So you believe in telepathy?" would be as well to take, a n I think "Yes," answered Mr. Meek ton. you had better have a nur--— a sick- "F or what reason?" nurse— to assist you. It seems to me "Because my wits believes In It and that Madame has been a healthy wom It's too warm to argue.” — Waahlngtoa an?” Sur. “ Remarkably healthy. I believe." "That Is well. A reeerve force of Ths fur trade of the world makas untried strength Is the best help In use of mors than 1,000,000 cat these cases I will come over svsry year.