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the : quickening FRANCIS LYNDE Copyrtcht. 1906. by F rane 1 1 LyncU ■ M Hut slowly as he looked ft curious change came over him. She was the same Nan Bryerson, bareheaded, bare legged, with the same tousled mat of dark hair, and the same childish In difference to a whole frock. And yet she was not the same. The subtle dif ference, whatever It was, made him get up and offer to shake hands with her— and he thought It was the newly-made vows constraining him, and took cred it therefor. "You can revile me as much as you like now, Nan,” he said, with prldefol humility. “You can't make me mad any more, like you used to. I'm older now, and—and better, I hope. I shall never forget that you have a precious soul to save.” Her response to this was a scoffing laugh, shrill and challenging. Yet he could not help thinking that It made her look prettier than before. “You can laugh as much as you want to; but I mean It,” he Insisted. “And, besides, Nan—of all the things that I've been wanting to come back to, you're the only one that Isn't changed." And again he thought It was righteous guile that was making him kind to her. "D ’ye reckon you shorely mean that, Tom Gordon?" she said; and the Ilf which lent themselves so easily to scorn were tremulous. She was Just his age, and womanhood was only a step across the threshold for her. "Of course I do. Let me carry your bucket for you.” She had hung the little wooden plg- gln under the drip of the spring and It was full and running over. But when he had lifted It out for her, she rinsed and emptied It. "I Just set it there to cool some,” she explained. “I’m goln’ up to Sunday Rock afte' huckleberries. Come and go 'long with me. Tom.” He assented with a willingness as eager as It was unaccountable. If she had asked him to do a much less rea sonable thing, he waa not sure that he could have refused. And us they went together through the wood, spicy with the June fra grances, questions like those of the boyhood time thronged on him, and he welcomed them as a return of at least one of the vanished thrills—and waa grateful to her. When they were fairly under tho overhanging cliff face of Sunday Rock, she darted away, laughing at him over her shoulder, and daring him to follow her along a dizzy shelf half-way up the crag; a narrow ledge, perilous for a mountain goat. This, as he remembered later, was the turning-point In her mood. In Im agination he saw her try It and fall; saw her lithe, shapely beauty lying broken and mungled at the cliffs foot; and In three bounds he had her fast locked In his restraining arms. Shu strove with him at first, like a wres tling boy, laughing and taunting him with being afraid for himself. Then— . Tom Gordon, clean-hearted as yet, did not know precisely what happened. Suddenly she stopped struggling and lay panting In his arms, and quite us suddenly he released her. 'N an !" he said, In a swiftly sub merging wave of tenderness, “I didn't go to hurt you!” She sank down on a stone at nls feet and covered her face with her hands. But she was up again and turning from him with eyes downcast before he could comfort her. (To be continued.) of the vision, dropping on his knees at CHAPTEB VIII.— (Continued.) The limeHtene pike was the same, the bedside. "O God, let me see Thee And the creek was still rushing noisily and touch Thee, and be sure, sure! over the stones in its bed. as Tom re he prayed, over and over again; and marked, gratefully. But the heaviest » finally sleep found him still on his of the buffets came when the barriei knees with his face burled In tha bed hills were passed and the surrey hors«*i clothes. made no motion to turn in at the gate C H A PTER IX. of the old oak-shingled house beyond For the first few vacation days Tom the Iron-works. “Hold on!** said Tom. “Doesn’t the rose with the sun and lived with the Industries, marking all the later expan driver know where we live?” “That’s the sup’rintendent’s office and sive strides and sorrowing keenly that lab’ratory now, son. It was getting to he hud not been present to see them be tolerably noisy down here for your taken In detail. One morning he ran plump Into mammy, so nigh to the plant. And w«1 allowed to s’prise you. W e’ve been the Major, stalking grandly along the tile-paved walk and smoking a war bulldin’ us a new house up on the time cheroot of preposterous length. knoll Just this side o’ Major Dabney’s. The despot of Paradise, despot now It was the crudest of the changes- the one hardest to bear; and it drove only by the courtesy of the triumphant the boy back Into the dumb reticence genius of modernity, put on bis eye which was a part of his birthright. Had glasses and stared Thomas Into re spectful rigidity. they left him nothing by which to re ' Why, bless my soul!— If It Isn't Cap member the old days— days which were Well, well, you already beginning to take on the tain Gordon’s boy! young limb! If you didn't faveh youh glamour of unutterable happiness past Tom saw well-kept lawns, park-like good fatheh In eve'y line and lineament groves and pretentious country villas of youh face, I should neveh have where he had once trailed Nance Jane known you—you've grown so. Shake through the “dark woods,’’ and his hands, suh!" Tom did It awkwardly. It Is a gift father told him the names and circum stance of the owners as they drove up to be able to shake hands easily; a the pike. There was Rockwood, the gift withheld from most girls and all summer home of the Stanleys, and The boys up to the soulful age. Hut there Dell, owned, and Inhabited at intervals was worse to follow. Ardea was some by Mr. Young-Dlckson, of the South where on the peopled verandas, and the Tredegar potteries. Farther along Major, more terrible In Ills hospitality there was Falrmount, whose owner wai than he had ever appeared In the old- a wealthy cotton-seed buyer; Rook time rage-fits, dragged his hapless vic Hill, which Tom remembered as the tim up and down and around and about ancient roosting ground of the migra In search of her. "Not say 'Howdy' to tory winter crows; and Farnsworth Ardea? Why, you young cub, where Park, ruralizing the name of Its build are youh munnehs, suh?" Thus the er. On the most commanding of the Major, when the victim would have broken away. hillsides was a pile of rough-cut Ten nessee marble with turrets and many It was a fiery trial for Tom—a way- gables, rejoicing In the classic name of pleklng among red-hot plowshares of Warwick Dodge. This, Tom was told, embarrassment. How the well-bred was the country homo of Mr. Farley folk smiled, and the grand ladies drew himself, and the house ulone had cost their Immaculate skirts aside to make passing-room for his dusty feet! How a fortune. At the turn In the pike where you one of them wondered, quite audibly, lost sight finally of the Iron-works, where In the world Major Dabney had Tom there was a new church, a miniature In unearthed that young native! native stone of good old Stephen was conscious of every fleck of dust on Hawker’s church of Morwenstow. Tom his clothes and shoes; of the skllless knot In his necktie; of the school-desk gasped at the sight of It, and scowl when he saw the gilded cross on the droop In his shoulders; of the utter superfluousness of his big hands. tower. And when, ut the long last, Ardea “Catholic!” he said. “And right here wus discovered sitting beside a gor In our valley!” geously attired Queen of Sheba, who “No,” said the father; “It’s ’Piscopal- lan. Colonel Farley is one o’ the ves also smiled und examined him minute tries, or whatever you call 'em, of St, ly through a pair of eye-glasses fas Ml chael'a yonder In town. 1 reckon he tened on the end of a gold-mounted wanted to get his own kind o' people stick, the place of torment, wherever round him out here, an he built this and whatever It might be, held no deeper pit for him. What he had church, and they run It an a sort of alde-ahow to the big church. Your climbed the mountain to find wns a THE F A T MAN. mammy alwaya looka the other way little girl In a school frock, who had sat on the yellowing grass with one S le e p s B e t t e r a n d I s M u r e C h e e r f u l when we come by." Tom looked the other way, too, arm uround the neck of a great dog, T h a n I .e a a U r u t h e r . watching anxloualy for the flrat Bight looking fesrlcssly up at him and tell Despite the fact that Julius Ctesar, ing him she was sorry he was going of the new home. They reached It 11 good time, by a graveled driveway away. What he had found was a very through his authoritative spokesman, leading up from the white pike between staturesque little Indy, clud In fluffy Shakespeare, expressed a preference rowa of foreat trees; and there waa a summer white, with the other Ardea's for men of flesh, "sleek-headed men, second negro waiting to take the team, slate-ldue eyes and soft voice, to bo and such as sleep o' nights," succeed tyhen they alighted at the verunda sure, but with no other reminder of the ing degenerate ages have shown a dis lost avatar. atepa. position to admire the lean and poke The new houae was a two-storied From first to last, from the moment fun at the fat man. brick, ornate and palpably assertive, she made room for him, dusty clothe Women are not to be considered. with no suggestion of the homely com and all. on the settee between herself fort of the old. Yet, when his mother und tho Queen of Sheba, Tom was con Forever Inscrutable, while the prevail had wept over him In the wide hall scious of but one clearly-defined Ing fashion of their dress would seem and there was time to go about, taking thought—an overmastering desire to to Indicate their admiration of slen It all In like a rat exploring a strange get away— to be free ut any cost, nut derness In their own eex. It by no garret, It was not ao bad. the way of escapo would not disclose means follows that they are attracted Hut there were compensations, and Itself, so he sat In stammering misery, to the bean-pole type of man. Simi Tom discovered one of them on the answering Ardea's questlous about the larly. when sex Is considered, man first Wednesday evening after his ar sectarian school In bluntest monosyl rival. The now home waa within easy lables. and hearing with his other ear himself Is of various taste; a Turkish Walking distance of I.lttle Zoar, and he a terrible Major tell the Queen of She woman who Is not absolutely fat Is a went with his mother to the prayer- ba all about the railroad Invasion, and Turkish woman destitute of charm meeting. how he—Tom Gordon— had run to find The subject Is a broad one, with many The upper end of the pike was un punk match to fire a cannon In the and historical aspects, from the time changed, and the little, weather-beaten Dabney cause. when I’eshurun. as we read In Deuter church stood In Its grovlng of pile He e sea pod finally from the entan the same yesterday, to-day and for glements of Mnjor Dabney’s hospital onomy, “ waxed fat and kicked.” Just now It is given a serious and ever. Hotter still, the congregation, the ity. On the way down the cliff path small Wedneaday-nlglit gathering at the fire burned nnd the revival zeal wus very Interesting discussion by Dr. least, held the familiar fares of the kindled anew. There had been times. George M. Niles, In the Journal of the country folk. The minister was a In the last year, especially, when he American Medical Association. Every young missionary, zealously earnest, had thought coldly of the disciple's one Is aware of the value of fat as n and larking as yet the quality of hard culling and was minded to break away source of energy for the development ness and doctrinal precision which had and be a skilled cruftsmnn, like his been the boy's dally bread and meat ut father. Now he was aghast to think of heat. That phase of the fat man's the sectarian school. What wonder, that he had ever been so near the brink condition may be passed by. Another then, that when when the call for testi of apostasy. With the river of the one is of larger Importance. Says Dr. mony was made, the old pounding and Water of Life springing crystal clear Niles: heart-hummerlng set In. and duty, at his feet, should he turn away and "It has been commonly known from duty, duty, wrote Itself In flaming let drink from tho bitter pools In the wil the earliest antiquity that fat people ters on the dingy walls? derness of this world? With prophet are more contented, more optimistic, Tom set his teeth and swallow'd ic eye he saw himself as another Hoan- than lean ones, and that their view hard, and let a dozen of the others rls» rges, lifting, with all tho Inspiring point of life In general Is largely gov and speak and alt again. He could feel loquence of the son of thunder, tho erned by this prosaic attribute. Now, I the beating of his mother's heart, and laptlst's soul-shaking cry, Repent ye: he knew she waa praying silently for for the kingdom of heaven Is at hand! might compare the supply of fat to the him, praying that he would not deny The thought thrilled him, and tho ample bank account of a busy and his Master. For her sake, then • • • fierce glow of enthusiasm became an provident man. That he possesses this but not yet; there wus still time enough Intoxicating ecstasy. The tinkling drip surplus does not prevent him from —after the next hymn—after the next of falling water broke Into the noonday diligently following his usual avoca testimony— when the minister should Hence of the forest like the low-voiced give another Invitation. He was chain cnll of a sacred bell. For the first time tion (sic), but the knowledge of Ita ed to the bench and could not rise; his since leaving the mountain top he took presence lends a mental satisfaction tongue clave to the roof of his mouth note of Ills surroundings. He was that would be absent were he living and his lips were like dry leaves. The standing beside the great, cubical boul right up to his dally Income.” silences grew longer; all, or neurly all. der under the cedars—the high altar In This may be true; who can say? It bud spoken. He was stifling. nature's mountain tabernacle. Is so easy to generalize and, as a mat "Whosoever therefore shall confess Thoinua Jefferson had the deep peace me before men, him will I confess also of the fully committed when he rose ter of fact, so Impossible to be certain before my Father which la In heaven. from his knees and went to drink at about such things. One might partlcu- larlze through a column or two and Hut whosoever shall deny me before the spouting rock lip. It was decided men, him will I alao deny before my now. this thing he had been holding arrive at no definite conclusion. Naix> Father which la In heaven." It wns the half-heartedly In abeyance. There leon was a fat little man and Infinitely solemn voice of the young minister, and would be no more dallying with temo- greater than the lean Wellington; Dr. Tom staggered to his feet with the tatlon, no more rebellion, no more Ir Johnson and Gibbon were grossly fat, lamps whirling In giddy circles. reverent stumblings In the dark valley but Emerson and Carlyle were bare to "1 feel to say that the I,ord is pre of doubtful questions. More especially, the bone. And so forth. cious to my soul to-night. Pray for ho would be vigilant to guard against One thing, at least, seems clear; the me. that I may ever be found faith those backslldlngs that came ao swiftly ful." fat man may not be as spry on his on the heels of each spiritual quicken He struggling through the words of feet as his lean brother; he may not, the familiar form gaspingly and sat ing. Ills heart was fixed, so Irrevocx- as a rule, be as agile of mind, but he ly, ao surely, that he could almost down. A burst of triumphant song wish that Satan would try him there eats a better meal and enjoys a arose: and then. Hut the enemy of souls was sounder sleep. He Is more cheerful; nowhere to be seen In the leafy arches his laugh Is heartier. In fart, some “O happy day, that fixed my choice of the wood, and Tom bent again to of him have laughed and grown fat. On Thee, my Saviour and my Clod!" take a second draft at the spouting And then, again and finally, It Is prob- and the ecstatic aftermath came. Tru rock lip. ably easier to be fat and get lean than He was bending over the sunken bar ly, It was better to be a doorkeeper In to be lean and get fat.— Philadelphia the house of God than to dwell In the rel A shadow, not his own, blurred the Pres«. tents of wickedness. What bliss was water mirror. He looked up quickly. "N a n !" he cried. there to be compared with this heart r k s a t l r l r r l » i ia G a n ia w a a ip . She was standing on the opposite melting, soul-llftlng blessing for duty Hank Stubbs— Slme Hadley hea done? side of the barrel basin, looking down It went with him a good part of the on him with good-natured mockery In moved all his henhouses an' chicken way home, and Martha Gordon respect the dark eyes. coops Into his front yard an’ onto his I 'lowed maybe you wouldn't have front plasxy. ed his silence, knowing well what heights and depths were engulfing the such a back load of religion after you'd lllge Miller—Yea. Slme thought et young spirit been of? to the school a spell,” she said, how It would make a great hit with But afterward—alas and alas; that pointedly. And then: "Does It always there should always be an "after make you right dry an' thirsty to say folks looking for summer board.— Bos ton Herald. our prayers. Tommy-Jeffy." ward"! When Tom had kissed his mother good-night and was alone In Tom sat t>ack on his heels and re A D lffe r e a e * . his upper room, the reaction set In garded her thoughtfully. Ills first Im Patience— What reason had «he for What had he done? Were the words pulse was out of the natural heart th e outpouring of a full heart? Did rageful. wounded vanity spurring It on. marrying him? Patrice— Why, he had money . th ey really mean anything to him. or It was like her heathenism Imperti “ That la not a reason; that Is aa ax- to those who heard them? He grasped nence to look on at such a time, and «eeualrlngly at the fast-fading glories then to taunt him about It afterward. cuse."—Gateway klagailne CURRENT EVENTS 0FTHEW1 Joings of the World at Large Told in Brief. General Resume o f Important Events Presented In Condensed Form fo r Our Busy Readers. Exporters are again buying wheat for shipment from Coast ports. Statewide prohibition will be the slogan of the Idaho Republicans. The Southern Pacific has advanced the rate on lumber to San Francisco. Sever meat dealers at Lawrence, MasB., were indicted for giving short weight. WOMEN IN HARO STRUGGLE. England's Chain-Makers Striving to Better Conditions. Birmingham, England — Just how hard the struggle is sometimes be tween capital and labor, is shown by the strike of the women chainmakers of Cradley Heath, England's most cry ing industrial scandal. When the Trades Boards act was passed last year to fix the rate of pay for such sweated trades as this, the employers got the women to contract out; that is, to sign away any benefits under the act, by presenting to them documents they did not understand. So still there are 500 women, mothers most o f them, slaving at the hardest labor o f forging chains, for not more- than a dollar a week, made up o f six 14-hour days. It is an eye-opener to visit this ac cursed district, where women toil harder than men. Now they are struggling to gain five cents an hour, an increase of 150 per cent. It will bring them about $2.65 a week if they win. Sickly children are seen in numbers round these home forges, and even the mere tots are pressed into the labor, Many of the women are not trade un ionists, because they have never been able to afford even four cents a week as subscription to the union. Their fight for existence is one o f the worst that has ever stained modern indus trialism. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE NEW O. A. C. P O U LT R Y C O N T E S T PE N D LE TO N PLA N S “ R O U N D UP Joint Eugene Y. M. C. A. in Organ Commercial Club to Send Excursion to Wild West Show. izing Work for Children. Two sleepers carrying Portland rail Corvallis— The poultry department of the Oregon Agricultural college, un road men will go out on the faat mail der Prof. James Dryden, is organizing on the evening o f September 30, bound » ’ poultry raising contest for the boys for Pendleton, where the railroad rep and girls o f Eugene, in co-operation resentatives will witness the final with the Young Men’s ¡Christian asso day’s festivities in the Pendleton ciation here. Some 50 entries have “ roundup.” The “ roundup” ia advertised by Pen been made. The^college offera $200 in dleton to be “ wild and woolly, faat and cash prizes. A t the college ten acres of land are furious.’ ’ Among the frontier sport» given over entirely to the poultry and pastimes to be shown will be bron husbandry department, which has now cho buating, steer roping, relay and about 2,000 chickens. /There are 20 pony express races, wild horse races, colony brooder coops and^H colony lay packing contests, horseback tugs of ing houses, beside thejneubator house, war, steer riding, horseback pistol containing 16 incubators [o f six d if shooting, fancy riding and roping. ferent makes, and the brooder house, HOP CR O P LARGE AND GOOD. The work of the department is largely that o f proving the laying qualities of the principal varieties, including P ly Scarcety of Labor May Prevent Some The resignation o f Senator Lorimer Being Harvested. mouth Rocks, Leghorns, and crosses of from the Hamilton club, o f Chicago, these two breeds. Eugene— The hop crop about Eu haa been accepted. In a recent letter from St. Peters gene this year ia large and o f fine qual burg, Russia, Prof. Dryden was as All o f the 13 racing balloons which sured by one o f the government lec ity, but the help is ao scarce that it ia left Indianapolis Saturday afternoon have alighted safely. turers on poultry raising there that the doubtful if some o f the growers will O. A. C. poultry bulletins have been of be able to harvest their crop. Hop On account of danger from hydro great value in her work, teaching her, picking ¡ b now in full blast in the most phobia, General Funston has ordered BRYAN B O LTS HIS T IC K E T . she said, “ juat what to say, and how all cats removed from the post at Fort to Bay, many things in a few words.” important yards, and on account of Leavenworth and all dogs kept se Refuses Support to Democrats on The bulletins are published for general the dry weather the hops have develop curely tied. distribution in the state, and may be ed to a large size with very few leaves, Account o f Option Law. Germany has discarded dirigible bal ao that picking ia easy. In the Rob had upon request. Lincoln, Neb.— In a statement in loons for army use, on account of the ert Hayes yard 150 more pickers could which he declares that the crusade many accidents that have befallen the ROAD C O S T S $100,000 PER MILE be used to advantage, and unless some Zeppelin airships. Aeroplanes will be which he feels impelled to wage unforeseen circumstance relieves the against the liquor interests of tne state used exclusively. situation some o f the hops in this yard and nation overshadows a personal and O, R. & N. Cutoff From Pendleton cannot be harvested. Stockholders o f the O. R. & N. at political friendship o f 20 years, W il ;to Yoakum Nearing Completion. their annual meeting at Salt Lake liam J. Bryan announced he had bolted Pendleton— One o f the most expen Mosier Apples Pay Better Than Ever City October 12 will be asked to in the head of the Democratic state ticket crease the capital stock by many mil in Nebraska and would not support sive bits o f road building the O. R. & Hood River— Great excitement pre N. Co. has ever undertaken is now in lions, the money to be used in con James C. Dahlman for governor vailed among the Hood R iver fruit progress between this city and Yoa structing a line across Oregon from Mr. Bryan says he regrets that he is growers when they learned that the east to west. compelled to take the stand he does— kum and will be completed within the Mosier fancy apples had been bought next two or three months. The work T aft and Roosevelt held a conference his first departure from political regu covers but 12 % miles o f construction by the Davidson Fruit company o f this and T a ft promised to aid in the New larity— but says he feels it his duty to but will cost approximately $1,200,000. city at a price in advance o f that re ceived by the Hood River Apple Grow do so because of the position taken by York campaign. The improvements in progress in ers’ union for the Hood River crop sold the Democratic nominee on the liquor volve a complete change o f the main to Steinhart & Kelly, o f New York. A Louisville pastor was forced to re question. sign because he indulged in baseball The statement, which in a way is line o f the O. R. & N. Co. between The Hood River crop always has Pendleton and Yoakum; none o f the brought the highest price o f any ap and other athletic sports. apologetic in tone, does not indicate old line will be used. The work short ples sold in the Pacific Northwest, The attempt to cross the Alps in that Mr. Bryan will support the candi ens the present line 1.7 miles; elim i aeroplanes met with failure, though date o f any other party, but announces nates 1361 degrees o f curvature; re- and if reports are true Mosier growers will hold the record for the year 1910, that he is a pronounced advocate of one machine rose 7,456 feet. duees'the maximum degree of curves county option and the early saloon from 10 degrees to 4 degrees, and re Evidence o f manipulation o f stocks Farmers Will Study Irrigation. closing law, both of which he insists duces the grade from eight-tenths o f 1 by railroads to hide dividends was are menaced by Mr. Dahlman’s can Weston — Promoters of the Pine per cent, uncompensated, to six-tenths brought out at the rate hearing. didacy. Creek irrigation project have planned o f 1 per cent, compensated. A Klamath Falls bricklayer collected a public meeting for September 16 On the new line there will be $7 due him for work, at the muzzle of with a view to acquainting farmers “ DOLLAR A DAY FOR LIFE.” one 500-foot tunnel, cutting out the a shotgun, and was immediately ar with the benefits o f irrigation. It ia horseshoe bend; a high fill and a steel rested. Grand Army Men Begin New Pension bridge o f two 150-foot spans with con proposed under this project to conserve the flood waters o f Pine creek with an Campaign. The senate committee has begun its crete piers and abutments, through the immense dam, to be built about three official investigation into the alleged reservoir o f the Fumish-Coe Irrigation Atlantic City, N, J. — Veterans at miles above Weston, and to irrigate bribery in connection with the election tending the national encampment of company. thousands o f aares o f rich land devoted of Senator Lorimer. the G. A . R. were formally welcomed to wheat raising. Plans and maps S ALM O N RUN LIG H T. Two children were burned to death to Atlantic City at a monster meeting have been prepared. in their home st Douglas, Alaska, on the Million Dollar pier. The big event is the parade Wednes Catch o f Fall Fish on Columbia while their aunt, with whom they Coos County May Get Sawmill. day. Vice President Sherman will re lived, was gone to the store. River is Very Poor. view the veterans, with Commander in Marshfield— It is reported that the Prince Tsai Hsun, head o f the Astoria — Reports from all the Brookings Lumber & Box company, of Chief Van Sant and Lieutenant Gen Chinese navy, arrived in San Francisco eral Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A ., re streams, both along the Oregon and California, may build a sawmill in Buffering severely from bronchitis Washington coasts, are to the effect Curry county either at Chetco or at tired. and threatened with pneumonia. One thing noticed at the various that good runs of fish are coming in Arch Rock. The company owns 25,000 Chaa. R. Heike, an ex-ofHcial o f the meetings waa the definite shape the and the packing plants are doing ex acres of timber in Curry county. sugar trust, was fined $5,000 and g iv movement for increasing the pensions ceptionally well. The gasoline schoon en eight months in the penitentiary of veterans ia taking. The cry waa er Gerald C, which arrived Saturday PO R TLA N D M AR K E TS. for his share in the sugar weighing “ A Dollar a Day for L ife .” The na from Nestucca, brought 871 cases and frauds. tional encampment ia expected to take ten tierces o f salmon for Elmore & Co. Wheat— Track prices, export basis; The catch of fall salmon on the A member of the royal Holstein up the matter. The National Association of Naval Columbia river ia very light at the Bluestem, 92c; club, 84c; red Rus family of Denmark, and heir to many present time, and some of the gillnet- sian, 82c; valley, 88c; 40-fold, 87c; millions, was found working in the Veterans believes it haa a solution of ters who have been fishing with large Turkey red, 84@90c. commissary department o f a railroad the matter of placing a statue o f Gen mesh nets have taken them out o f the Barley— Feed, $22«;,22.50 per ton; eral Robert E. Lee in the capitol at company at Seattle. Washington. The association at ita water. Now that the weather condi brewing, $23. Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il Contracts have been let for a rail convention adopted resolutions in tions are changing, however, a good lamette valley, $19<fr:20 per ton; East road from Fernley to Lassen, in North which it did not oppose the placing of run of silversides ia looked for. ern Oregon, $21@22; alfalfa, new, $15 ern California, which road will event Lee’s statue in the capitol provided it @16; grain hay, $14@15. ually be extended to Klamath Falls, appeared in civilian attiae. The naval Salt Salmon Prices Rise. Com— Whole, $32; cracked, $33 ton. Oregon, giving the Northwest another veterans elected William G. McEwen, Astoria—Judging from the present Millstuffs — Bran, $23@24 per ton; road through to Los Angeles. Philadelphia, commodore. market conditions the Alaska salmon middlings, $31; shorts, $25«z:26; rolled American apples are bringing 8 to packers who have not yet sold their barley, $24.50<ffi25.50. packs o f salt salmon will make unus 12 cents a pound in England. Fur Catch Unusually Big. Oats— White, $27.50 per ton. Last Edmonton, Alberta— Edward Hagle, ually large profits this season. Secretary of War Dickinson met Green Fruits— Apples, new, 60c@ year Alaska salt salmon waa selling one of the largest independent fur with a hearty reception at Pekin. $1.25 per box; plums, 40«i)76c; pears, dealers in the North country, who haa for $6 a barrel, but it ia now quoted at Two freight trains met in head-on passed half a lifetime B t the business, $9, with a strong demand and the in 76c@$1.25; peaches, boxes, 40«;:76c; collision near Cairo, III., killing four ia authority for the statement that the dications are that the price will ad lugs, $1.10@1.25; grapes, 25cffi$1.26 box; $1.35 per lug; 20(w22}4c basket, men. fur catch o f the past winter, which is vance to $10. It ! is understood that cranberries $8.50 per barrel; water the Alaska Fishermen’s Packing com President Taft will ask $2,000,000 now beginning to arrive from the melons, $1 per hundred; cantaloupes, to begin the fortification of the Pana North, will net the trappers more than pany, of this city, haa fully 3,000 bar 75c@$1.50 per crate. $250,000. Mink and marten have been rels of this salmon, which it has not ma canal. Vegetables— Beans, 3@5c per pound; more plentiful this year, he says, but yet disposed of. cabbage, 2c; cauliflower, $1.50 per The Spanish parliament ia expected foxes and beaver were very scarce, sil dozen; celery, 90c; com, 12<i£15c; cu to fully endorse the policy o f Premier ver foxes especially so. This year only Pears Bring Top Price. cumbers, 25@40c per box; eggplant, Canalejas. 15 foxes were taken in the Mackenxie Medford — Banner prices are being 6c per pound; garlic, 8(ajl0c; green Union and Confederate soldiers min river district. realized by Rogue River pear growers onions, 15c per dozen; peppera, 6c gled at Grand Army reunion at A t in Eastern markets. Dillon Hill, who pound; radishes., 15«z20c per dozen; lantic City, N. J. Noiseless Gun Kills Man. received an average price o f $3.33 a squash, 40c per crate; tomatoes, 30«$ Los Angeles— While he was enjoy box for three carloads of Bartletta, re 60c per box; carrots, $1@1.25 per By an alliance with Bulgaria and Servia, Montenegro is elevated from a ing the moving pictures in a roofless ceived as high as $3.90 a box for some sack; beets, $1.50; parsnips, $1@1.26; principality to the ranks of a full “ airdrome” here, Rudoplh Gastelum, of them. George E. Marshall received tumipa, $1. a visitor from Calexico, was mortally $5.90 a box for his shipment o f Buerre Potatoes — Oregon, $1.25 per hun fledged kingdom. wounded by a bullet fired by someone d’ Anjous. The prices reported from dred; sweet potatoes, 3c per pound. New Orleans is disappointed at the whom the police ao far have been un the East for the late shipments of Onions— New, $1.50 per sack. poor showing made in the census, and able to find. Gaatelum died on the pears ate higher than those o f earlier Eggs— Oregon current receipts 31@ fears it may affect her chances for the way to the hospital. ahipmenta. The reason given is that There waa no 32c; candled 32@34c. 1915 Panama exposition. warning of the shooting until Gastelum the California pears are now out of Butter— City creamery, solid pack, Three out o f 13 entries in the balloon toppled over in the aisle. There waa the markets. 36c; prints 37«£37)*c; butter fat 36c; country store 24«z25c. contest which itarted at Indianapolis much confusion in the darkness for a Stock Stalls Secured. returned to earth within 24 hours, few seconds. _ One police theory ia Poultry— Hens 17c; springs 17c; that the bullet was fired from one of The Dalles— The management o f the ducks white l e o n i n e ; geese 1 0 @ llc; having made about 400 miles. the new noiseless guns. district fair, which w ill be held in this turkeys, live, 20c; dressed, 22>y@26c; Sccretsry Wilson pays postage on city October 4 to 8, has secured stall squabs, $3 per dozen. copies of his speech which were sent False Light Causes Wreck. room in the east end o f town for the Pork— Fancy, 13c per pound. through the mails, refusing to take Vancouver, B. C.— Mistaking a light atock exhibit. In former years this Veal—Good average, ll@ 1 2 c pound. advantage o f the franking privilege. on shore for a light on a landing float, exhibit haa been held at the grounds Cattle— Beef steers, good to choice, the small steamer Belcarra, Captain J. o f the Driving Park association, about $5.25?a6.60; fair to medium, $4.25«$ Captain Klaus Larsen, in a small a mile out, making it inconvenient E. Fulton, owned by the Sechelt 4.75; choice »payed heifers, $4.60«$ motor boat, traversed Niagara rap Steamship company, dashed on the both for exhibitors and those wishing 4.75; good to choice beef cows, $4.25 ids for a distance o f 4 ^ miles below rocks at Dempeey’a camp, Agamem to view the atock. With the change (d4.65; medium to good beef cows, the falls, but was finally thrown on the non channel, Jarvis inlet, early Satur which haa been made, there will be $3.75«i:4.26; common beef cows, $2@ rocks and hauled ashore by a rope. day morning and ia now a total losa in many more exhibits entered. 3.75; bulls, $3.75@4; stags, good to The boat was losL 65 fathoms o f water. The [crew and a choice, $4«t.4.25: calves, light, $6.75 German Families Coming. @7; heavy, $3.75@5. Charles M. Schwab, ex-president of dozen passengers got off in safety, but Hogs— Top, $10@10.75; fair to Medford — H. A. Vogel baa pur the Steel trust, says that San Francis all hope o f saving the vessel waa aban chased the C. W. McClendon farm in medium, $9.50@10. co is “ obsessed with unionism," and doned. Sheep— Beat ML Adams wethers, $4 Sams valley, 20 miles from Medford, that in case he gets the contract for a Japan Buying Cotton Again. for $50,000. The farm contains 604 (d.4.25; best valley wethers. $3.25«$ number o f new battleships for China, Seattle—The ateammahip Minnesota, acres of land. Mr. Vogel intends to 3.50; fair to good wethers, $3(o3.25; they will not be built there. lambs, ■tiling for Japan, took in her cargo subdivide the property and improve best valley ewes, $3(o..60; King Emmanuel, o f Portugal, haa 560 4>ales of cotton, the first big ship each division to suit the tastes o f Ger choice Mt. Adams, $5.25(ii6.50; choice appointed 16 new peers, all supporters ment in two years. This consignment man families from Iowa, his home valley, $5(o5.25. Hops— 1910 crop, nominal; 1909, 10 of the present ministry. ia looked upon as the beginning of state, who are planning to move to @ llc ; olda, nominal. Oregon in search of a milder climate. Governor Haskell, o f Oklahoma, heavy shipment», the trade having Wool— Eastern Oregon, 13@17e per been heavy before the business depres charges Roosevelt with insincerity. pound: valley, 17@19c; mohair, sion from which Japan ia emerging. Train Service Alleged Poor. choice. 32@33c. Roosevelt defends his “ New Nat Salem— Complaint has been filed by Cascara bark— 4 S @ 4 \ c . ionalism” in an address at Oyster Bay. Cleveland Has 660.663. the Upper Hood River Valhy Progres Hides— Salted hides, 7@ 7X e per Washington — The population o f sive association with the State Rail- pound; ______ ____________ “ Uncle J oe" Cannon haa been re salted calf, > ___ 13c; salted kip, 8c; Cleveland, O., ia 560,663, an increase nominated for congress by a «mail ma road commission alleging that service salted stags, 6e; green'hides 1c H’l eM: o f 178,895. or 46.9 per cent, aa com jority. on the Mount Hood Hood railway ia in- dry hides, 16.S@17c; dry calf 17«$ r l o n u a f o on.i ------------* -------. n a ___ __ ______ J pared with 381,768 in 1900. The pop a adequate and that on some occasions a < 18c; dry stags, 11(h:12c. San Francisco police are charged by ulation o f Joliet, III., ia 34,670, an in distance o f 23 miles between Hood Pelts— Dry, 10 l*c; salted, butchers’ the mayor with protecting dancehall crease of 5,317, or 18.1 per rent, as River and Parkdaie is made in six take-off, 40«t76c; spring lambs, 25«j proprietors. compared with 29,353 in 1900. hours. Representative Tawney was defeat ed for renomination at the Minnesota primaries. i 4 8 c*