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INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE S TA TE LEVY SE T A T 3 5 M ILLS URGE CRATER LAKE ROAD. IM PERIAL TR O O PS M U TIN Y. J0e> Premier Yuan Shi Kai May Yet Pre vent Formation o f Republic. Pekin — Seven hundred soldiers guarding the Lanchow arsenal have mutinied. They are a part o f the im perial government troops, among whom there has been [a movement for some time past in favor o f a republic. The commanding officer fled to Kaip- ing, whence he sent a message to the railway authorities at Tientsin warn ing them that the mutineers intended to stop all railway traffic. The feeling in Pekin, nevertheless, is that the throne has taken on a new lease o f life. There are some competent observers who believe that Premier Yuan Shi Kai will yet prevent the consumma tion o f a republic. The imperial cabinet has accepted the resignation o f Tang Shao Y i, who was sent to the Shanghai peace con ference as the representative o f Yuan Shi Kai and the imperialists. The government has also telegraphed to Dr. Wu Ting Fang, leader o f the rev olutionists at the peace conference, saying that In future it will negotiate by telegraph. The government declares that Tang went Leyond his instructions when he signed the agreement calling a nation al convention to decide on the future form o f government. Premier Yuan adheres to the points o f his original suggestion regarding the national convention, namely, the proper election o f delegates and the selection o f Pekin as the gathering place. Premier Yuan has again offered his resignation, but it was not accepted. The court also received a round robin from the generals commanding the imperialist troops in the vicinity o f Pekin, in which they demanded that the princes o f the imperial clan with draw their wealth from the foreign banks, where much o f it has been placed recently, and deliver it into the hands o f the war office. Prince Ching, the former premier and foreign minister, received a letter from representatives o f the Manchu troops in the vicinity o f Pekin, threat ening to destroy his palace unless the hoarded money is delivered over to them. When negotiating for a foreign loan, Yuan explained that about $10,- 000,000 would carry the governent on for six months. By that time, he de clared, discord would have occurred among the rebels in the south and the provinces would return gradually to their allegiance. Fuan Shi Kai now has obtained from the Empress Dow ager more than $2,000,000, which will permit the carrying on o f the govern ment beyond the period which the rebels have fixed for the assembly o f the national convention. Oregon Citizens to Be Required to Engineer Recommends Completion or Work Before 1916 Fair. Pay 83,100 000 in Taxes. Washington, D. C.— “ It is doubtful Salem— The people o f Oregon will have approximately $3,100,000 in if any view existing in the world to state taxes to pay in 1912. The state day Is as impressive and at the same levy will be 3.6 mills. The total as time as beautiful as the view o f Cra sessed valuation appraised by the ter Lake from the rim ,’ ’ said Major State tax commission on public serv Jay J. Morrow, o f the Army engineer ice corporations will be $108,000,000 ing corps, in transmitting a report to and by assessors $784,000,000. The the War department, recommending amount, $3,100,000, which the people the expenditure o f $642,000 for the construction o f roads and trails in the o f the state will be called upon to pay Crater Lake National Park. will be the jhigheBt in the history o f Coupled with his appreciation of CHAPTER I. the Bcenic beauty o f Crater Lake park. Oregon for one year. The levy o f 3.6 mills will not be the Major Morrow urgently recommends " I’m N. G.— that’s a cinch! The highest, however. In 1904 the levy that the main roads, for which he has sooner I chuck It the better!” made surveys and estimates, be rushed was 7.006 mills, the highest in the Caught tn the swirl of the busy history o f the state, and the lowest to completion in order that thousands city's midday rush, engulfed In Broad who visit the San Francisco exposi was the territorial levy o f 1 mill in way's swift moving flood of hustling 1868. In 1904, when the levy was the tion in 1915 may, en route to or from humanity, Jostled unceremoniously Portland, Btop off a day and see the highest, only $1,225,000 was raised by the careless. Indifferent crowds, on a valuation o f $173,978,888, as park. I f these roads can be completed discouraged from stemming further compared to the $890,000,000 valua in time. Major Morrow thinks the the tide of pushing, elbowing men and Crater Lake tour will prove to be one tion o f this year. women who hurried up and down the o f the favorite side trips o f travelers. While the figures given above for great thoroughfare. Howard Jeffries, About 62 miles o f good roads and 1911 are not final, the change will be tired and hungry and thoroughly dis so small as to be comparatively in 100 miles o f trails, in the opinion of gusted with himself, stood still at the Major Morrow, will enable the tourist finitesimal. corner of Fulton street, cursing the The Tax commission practically ar to reach the most important spots in luck which had brought him to his rived at its final conclusion recently, the park with facility, and, while the present plight. working for the final extreme results, estimated cost is high, he believes the It was the noon hour, the Important expenditure is fully justified, particu which probably will be known soon. time of day when nature loudly claims larly as it is proposed to build the The total o f $3,100,000 includes the her due, when business affairs, no Com appropriations for the University of roads for automobile travel. matter how pressing, must be tem pared to the cost o f building roads in Oregon and the Monmouth normal porarily Interrupted so that the hu the Yellowstone and Rainier National school, which in themselves amount to man machine may lay In a fresh store parks, where the topography is simi more than $500,000. of nervous energy. From under the The valuation, as given by the as lar to that in the Crater Lake park, portals of precipitous office buildings, sessors this year o f more than $789,- Major Morrow says the figures cited mammoth hives of human Industries, in his estimates are not excessive, but 000,000, show a decided increase, which to right and left soared dizzily about on a par with the actual cost of while the valuation o f $108,000,000 from street to sky, swarmed thou building roads over like territory in placed by the State Tax commission sands of employes of both sexes— the two older parks. on public service corporations is prac clerks, stenographers, shop girls, mes It probably will be somewhat diffi tically an increase o f $11,000,000 over senger boys—all moved by a common cult to secure an appropriation of last year's valuation o f $97,263,000. Impulse to satisfy without further de The final figures represent the ap $100,000 this session for beginning lay the animal cravings of their phys work on the Crater Lake roads, for portions! valuations, the year’s valu ical natures. They strode along with the house is inclined to hold down ap ation on public service corporations quick, nervous step, each chatting and propriations, and national park im going well above the $166,000,000 laughing with his fellow, interested provements are never regarded as of mark. The tax levy for 1911 is more for the nonce In the day's work, ma However, it is than 1 mill increase for 1910. Last vital importance. king plans for well-earned recreation year it was impossible in making up probable that some members o f the when five o'clock should come and the levy to ascertain what the appro California delegation will join hands the uptown stampede for Harlem and with the Oregon delegation in urging priations o f the legislature would be, home begin. a liberal allowance, and, jointly, these and hence the increase. The young man sullenly watched two delegations may be able to get the scene, envious of the energy and what the army engineers are asking. activity of all about him. Each one WORK STAR TE D A T VALE. Crater Lake park is about as acces In these hurrying throngs, he thought sible to San Francisco as it is to Port bitterly to himself, was a valuable Extension o f Oregon Eastern Road land, or will be when the Natron cut unit In the prosperity and welfare of Begins in Earnest. off is completed, and California will the big town. No matter how humble benefit as much as Oregon from tour his or her position, each played a Vale— Actual construction work on ist travel. part tn the business life of the great the Oregon & Eastern railroad has city, each was an unseen, unknown, been started at mile post 15, near the CULVER SEES FIR ST SNOW. yet Indispensable cog tn the whirling, mouth o f the canyon. Over 100 men complicated mechanism of the vast are located at thiB camp and more are Crop Prospects Look Good and Far world metropolis. Intuitively he felt being sent out daily. that he was not one of them, that he mers in Central Oregon Happy, Thirteen heavily-loaded wagons, be had no right even to consider himself longing to the Utah Construction com Culver— The first snow o f any con their equal. He was utterly useless pany, left the past week for the can sequence to fall this season is here to anybody. He was without position yon, where tents are already erected and crop prospects for the coming sea or money. He was destitute even of a and everything ready for work. On son are exceedingly good. Many acres AM ERICANS IN SAFE PLACES. shred of self-respect. Hadn't he Wednesday fresnos, scrapers, teams o f potatoes will be planted this spring, promised Annie not to touch liquor and wagons le ft for mile post 16. and a potato growers’ association will Few Remain in Inaccessible Regions, again before he found a Job? Yet he On Thursday, camp No. 2 o f the he formed for marketing the product. Says Official Report. had already Imbibed all the whisky Utah Construction company left for The crop will be sorted and packed Washington, D. C. — Virtually all which the little money left in his mile post 40. Work on the big tunnel as carefully as are the fruits in the there is now under way. the American residents in China, it pocket would buy. fruit section o f Oregon. Involuntarily, Instinctively, he The Wasatch Construction company, This year many potatoes were grown was reported to the State department, shrank back Into the shadow of a Bub-contractors, have located a large in this section weighing from two to are safely at the treaty ports. F ig doorway to let the crowds pass. The camp in the canyon, and upon the re four pounds each. J. L. Windon turn from Salt Lake o f Thomas O. raised three and four-pound spuds ures from American diplomatic repre- pavements were now filled to over Creer, in charge o f the company’ s this year, and one hill weighed 16 sentaives in China show that 190 for flowing and each moment newcomers eigners, including 36 Americans, were from the side streets came to swell work, will start work immediately on pounds. This farmer lives to the a big cut in the canyon about 30 miles southeast o f Culver in the Haystack reported on November 8 to have de the human stream. He tried to avoid parted down the Yangtse river from observation, fearing that some one from Vale. section and others there did equally as The local yards present a busy ap well. On the west side o f the Des Chunking, Sze-Chuen province, under might recognize him, thinking all could read on his face that he was pearance. All kinds o f construction chutes river is a territory o f some the convoy o f a gunboat. The total number o f Americans in a sot, a self-confessed failure, one of material is piled up there to be sent thing like four townships that is being into the canyon. Part o f the material connected with the railroad here by a the province o f Shengsi is reported to life's Incompetents. In his painful will remain here, as the Utah Con new wagon road and bridge now under be 12 adults and nine children; in self-consciousness he believed himself struction company will start grading construction and this section also will Kansu province 11 American adults the cynosure of every eye and he and seven children. These people are winced as he thought he detected on work from Vale as soon as W. L. be a large potato producer. certain faces side glances of curiosity, in the inaccessible regions. Wattis returns. He is in charge o f This section o f the country west of Several Americans are said still to commiseration and contempt. all the Utah Construction company's the Deschutes lies from six to 12 be in the provinces o f Hunan and Hu Nor was he altogether mistaken. work. miles from Culver and has been iso More than one passer-by turned to Permanent headquarters in the Vale lated from the railroad by reason of peh. All American women and children look In his direction, attracted by yards have already been built for this the fact that they were compelled to company. A large number o f tents drive 40 to 60 miles to reach transpor have left Chang Chow and other in his peculiar appearance. His was a have been stretched, sheds erected, a tation until the new road is completed. terior points in the southern part of type not seen every day In the com post-graduate warehouse is being built, water mains Foot bridges have been built for use Fukien, while those in the immediate mercial district—the from the city water system have been while the wagon road is being built vicinity o f Hoochow have withdrawn college man out at elbows. He was smooth-faced and apparently about 26 tapped for the camp’s supply, and and a mail service and postoffice to be to that port. years of age. His complexion was electric lights are being installed. A served from Culver have been pe fair and his face refined. It would K intas Towns Hungry. large building is also to be erected by titioned. Topeka, Kan. — The towns o f Jet- have been handsome but for a droop the Oregon Eastern people in the local yards for use as headquarters o f Con Smallpox Scare is Over, more and Dighton, Kan., on branch ing, Irresolute mouth, which denoted more than average weakness of char struction Engineer Osborn and his as Corvallis— “ The rumor that Corval lines o f the Atchison, Topeka & Santa acter. The face was thin, chalk-like sistants. lis might be quarantined on account Fe, have notified the public utilities In Its lack of color and deeply seamed The new $11 ,000 depot is now open committee that they have had no train and passenger trains are all stopping o f smallpox is nothing but ridiculous service since Deeemebr 26, and ask with the tell tale lines of dissipation. gossip,” said Dr. H. S. I’ernot, city Dark circles under his eyes and a there. health officer. “ We have not had immediate relief from a threatened peculiar watery look suggested late coal famine. A t Jetmore food provis thirty cases all together, and they hours and overfondness for alcoholic Dairy Interests Thrive. were carefully quarantined and every ions are running low. The commission refreshment. His clothes had the cut Deschutes- The new year is open precaution taken against the spread of is urged to get a train through to re of expensive tailors, but they were ing auspiciously for Central Oregon. the disease. The main means o f con lieve the situation. The nowfall in the shabby and needed pressing. His linen Sherwood Rros. have just unloaded a tagion was the city public schools.” vicinity o f these towns has been very was soiled and hts necktie disar carload of 24 registered Jersey dairy People coming to the college for heavy, and railroad tracks have been ranged. His whole appearance was rattle for their farm two and one-half the short course would be running no entirely blockaded. careless and suggested that reckless miles north o f Deschutes. They ex more risk o f exposure than they would ness of mind which comes of general Darrow Not to Aid Defense. p e c t to ship in two carloads more i f they stayed at home. demoralization. Santa Monica, Cal. — Clarence S. soon. The shipment o f cream to Port Howard Jeffries knew that he was a Darrow, o f Chicago, the attorney who failure, yet like most young men land creameries by some o f the farm Training Teachers o f Agriculture. defended the McNamara brothers and ers in this vicinity has begun, about mentally weak, he Insisted that he Oregon Agricultural College, Cor one ton a week now being shipped. vallis— The fact that the Oregon law who is here for a brief vacation, gave could not be held altogether to blame. Farmers are receiving 32 to 34 cents now requires the teaching o f agricul out a statement that he would not be Secretly, too. he despised these sober, a pound for their cream, and 40 to 46 ture and domestic science in the pub connected with the defense o f Olaf Industrious people who seemed con cents for butter. lic schools makes the work o f the Ore A. Tvietmoe, Anton Johannsen, J. E tented with the crumbs of comfort gon Argicultural college in preparing Munsey and E. A. Clancy, the labor thrown to them. What, he wondered Winter Reported Mild. young men and women for such teach leaders who were arraigned in Ix>s Idly, was their secret of getting on? Pendleton—This is one o f the most ing positions o f particular importance Angeles on a charge o f having con How were they able to lead such well open winters Eastern Oregon has en just now. The coming graduating spired to transport dynamite in viola regulated lives when he, starting out joyed in many years. Very few stock- class will furnish a number to follow tion o f the Federal statutes. " I a m with far greater advantages, had men have fed so much as a fork full in the footsteps of Mr. Fred L. G rif not in those cases,” he said, "and failed? Oh, he knew well where the trouble lay—tn his damnable weak o f hay. Cattle and horses are both in fin, formerly a student here, who is shall not be.” ness of character, his love for drink. the best o f condition and hay, which now instructor in agriculture in the Foreign Pests Barred. That was responsible for everything. during the past few years, has been in Boise, Idaho, high school. Sacramento, Cal.—The state o f Cal But was It his fault if he were bom demand at from $12 to $20 a ton, is Asylum Farm is Plan Now. ifornia now has power to declare a weak? These people who behaved now going begging at $4.60. The hay is so far from market it can only be Salem—That the 640 acres o f land quarantine against any foreign coun themselves and got on. he sneered, handled to advantage by feeding, and at Union, bought several years ago try for the exclusion o f pests which were calm, commonplace tempera cattle are so high the ranchers cannot for an Eastern Oregon branch asylum prey upon fruit or vegetables. This ments who found no difficulty In c«m- They alford to purchase animals to eat their site, be used for an asylum farm in j was made possible by Governor John troling their baser Instincts. hay for them. connection with the new Eastern Ore son signing the bill passed by the leg did right simply because they found gon institution at Pendleton, is a sug islature at the extra session a week It easier than to do wrong Their vlr- Baker Ships Heavy Cattle. gestion made by Governor West to the ago. The bill provides a way for the William A. Cover, o f Pine Valley, state board, and it is probable th a t! state to combat the dreaded tropical holds championship honors for the the board will ask the legislature to , fruit fly which has gained a foothold shipment o f the heaviest weight steers give the board power to utilize the in the Hawaiian islands. that have gone out o f Baker for a long land as it sees fit. Snow Covers Death Trap. Marvelous Note Emitted Wee Great time. He shipped recently to the Centennial Money Maker. Seattle, Wash. — A rotary snow Union Stockyards, Portland, four car Effort, But Entirely Unpre loads o f cattle, six steers in the lot Astoria — The Astoria Centennial plow that was fighting drifts on the meditated. averaging over 2,000 pounds each, committee has issued a financial state Copper River railroad at Mile 76. ; Alaska, ran into a gulch that had un while one weighed 2,500 pounds. ment showing that its receipts from ; It w u Mme Hlghnote's first ap all sources amounted to $115,891.47, til a short time before been spanned ! pearance. and she was on her trial Money in Alfalfa Seed. while its expenditures in carrying on by a bridge, and Engineer J. E. Reed, j trill. The audience sat spellbound. A lfa lfa seed has become one o f the the recent celebration were $109,- [ o f Cordova, was crushed to death be First came a cadenza, and then—the The bridge had high C Would she do It? Mme. profitable crops o f the Ontario region 613.36, leaving a balance on hand o f neath the rotary. o f Eastern Oregon. More than $30.- $6,278.11. What will be done with been destroyed by fire but owing to Hlghnote thought she wouldn't 000 has been realized from the sale o f the money remaining in the hands o f the snow the engineer did not detect. She was Just about to attempt the the gap. the treasurer has not been decided. seed this season. * > TBICD DEGREE A RSßDÜOÜÄUW E (MT .^CHARLES KLEIN . Y w 5 ARTHUR HORNBLOW Y ILLUSTRATIONS BY RAY W ALTERS ComecsT,Teoe, ev c.w. pu lin ch a h consmr He Was a Type Not Seen Every Day in the Commercial District. tue was nothing to brag about. It open arms. With a youth of his pro was easy to be good when not ex-1 clivities and inherent weakness the posed to temptation. But for those outcome was Inevitable. At no time born with the devil in them it came j overfond of study, he regarded resi hard. It was all a matter of heredity dence in college as a most desirable and Influence. One’s vices as well as emancipation from the restraint of one’s virtues are handed down to us home life. The love of books he con ready made. He had no doubt that sidered a pose and he scoffed at the In the Jeffries family somewhere in the men who took their reading seriously. unsavory past there had been a weak, The university attracted him mostly vicious ancestor from whom he had by Its most undesirable features. Its Inherited all the traits which barred sports, its secret societies, Its petty his way to success. cliques, and its rowdyism. The broad The crowds of hungry workers grew spirit and the dignity of the alma bigger every minute. Every one was mater he Ignored completely. Directly elbowing his way Into neighboring he went to Yale he started In to en restaurants, crowding the tables and joy himself and with the sophisticated buffets, all eating voraciously as they Underwood as guide, went to the talked and laughed. Howard was devil faster than any man before him rudely reminded by inward pangs that in the entire history of the university. he, too, was famished. Not a thing Reading, attendance at lectures, be had passed his lips since he had left came only a convenient cloak to con home In Harlem at eight o'clock that ceal his turpitudes. Poker playing, morning and he had told Annie that automobile joy rides, hard drinking he would be home for lunch. There became the dally curriculum. In was no use staying downtown any town rows and orgies of every descrip longer. For three weary hours he had tion he was soon a recognized leader. trudged from office to office seeking Scandal followed scandal until he was employment, answering advertise threatened with expulsion. Then his ments, asking for work of any kind, father heard of it and there was a ready to do no matter what, but all to terrible scene. Jeffries, Sr., went Im no purpose. Nobody wanted him at mediately to New Haven and there any price. What was the good of a followed a stormy interview In which man being willing to work If there Howard promised to reform, but once was no one to employ him? A nice the parent's back was turned things look-out certainly. Hardly a dollar went on pretty much as before. There left and no proapect of getting any were fresh scandals, the smoke of more. He hardly had the courage to which reached as far as New York. return home and face Annie. With a This time Mr. Jeffries tried the plan muttered exclamation of Impatience of cutting down the money supply and he apat from his mouth the half-con Howard found himself financially em sumed cigarette which was hanging barrassed. But this had not quite from his lip, and crossing Broadway, the effect desired by the father, for, walked listlessly In the direction of rendered desperate by his Inability Park place. to secure funds with which to carry He had certainly made a mess of on his sprees, the young man started things, yet at one time, not so long In to gamble heavily, giving notes for ago, what a brilliant future life hts losses and pocketing the ready seemed to have In store for him! No money when he won. boy bad ever been given a better Then came the supreme scandal start. He remembered the day he which turned his father's heart to left home to go to Yale; he recalled steel. Jeffries, Sr., could forgive much hts father's kind words of encour in a young man. He had been young agement, his mother’s tears. Ah, If himself once. None knew better than his mother had only lived! Then, he how difficult It Is when the blood maybe, everything would have been Is rich and red to keep oneself In different. But she died during bis control. But there was one offence freshman year, carried off suddenly which a man proud of his descent by heart failure. His fathhr married could not condone. He would never again, a young woman 20 years bis forgive the staining of the family Junior, and that had started every name by a degrading marriage. The thing off wrong. The old home life news came to the unhappy father Ilk* had gone forever. He had felt like a thunder clap. Howard, probably in an Intruder the first time he went a drunken spree, had married secretly home and from that day his father's a waitress employed In one of the roof bad been distasteful to him. Yes, "sporty” restaurants in New Haven, that was the beginning of his hard and to make the mesalliance worse, luck. He could trace all hts misfor the girl was not even of respectable tunes back to that. He couldn't stand parents. Her father, Billy Delmore, for atepmother, a haughty, selfflsh, the poolroom king, was a notorious supercilious, ambitious creature who gambler and had died in convict had little sympathy for her predeces stripes. Fine sensation that for the sor's child, and no acruple In (bow yellow press. "Banker's Son Weds ing IL Convict's Daughter.” So ran the Then, at college, he had met Robert "scare heads" in the newspapers. Underwood, the popular upper class That was the last straw for Mr. Jeff man. who had professed to take a ries, Sr. He sternly told hla »on that great fancy to him. He. a timid young he never wanted to look upon his face freshman, was naturally flattered by again. Howard bowed his head to the friendship of the dashing, fascinat the decree and he had never seen hie ing sophomore and thus commenced father since. All this the young man was review that unfortunate Intimacy which bad brought about the climax to his trou ing tn his mind when suddenly his re bles. The suave, amiable Underwood, flections were disturbed by a friendly whom he soon discovered to be a gen hall. tlemanly scoundrel, borrowed his “ Hello, Jeffrlee, old sport! Don't money and Introduced him into the you know a fellow frat when you tee "sporty" set, an exclusive circle Into him?" which, thanks to bis liberal allowance He looked up. A young man of from home, he was welcomed with athletic build, with • pleasant, frank Fame Thrust Upon Singer note when a little brown mouse ran across the footlights. The diva shrieked, gathered up her skirts, and ran. “ My prospects are forever blight ed.” she moaned. At that moment there came a fever Ish knocking at the door. It was the manager’s assistant "The manager.” he exclaimed, "wants to know whether you ran away face, was standing at the news stand under the Park place elevated station. Quickly Howard extended his hand. "Hello, Coxe!” he exclaimed. ‘‘What on earth are you doing In New York? Whoever would have expected to meet you In this howling wilderness? How’s everything at Yale?" The athlete grinned. “ Yale be hanged! I don't care • d— . You know I graduated last June. I'm In business now—in a broker's of fice In Wall street. Say, It's great! We had a semi-panic last week. Prices went to the devil. Stocks broke 20 points. You should have seen the ex citement on the exchange floor. Our football rushes were nothing to I t I tell you. It’s great. It's got college beaten to a frazzle!" Quickly he added; "What are you doing?" Howard averted hla eyes and hung his head. “ Nothing,” he answered gloomily. Coxe had quickly taken note of his former classmate's shabby appear ance. He had also heard of his es capades. "Didn’t you hear?” muttered How ard. “ Row with governor, marriage and all that sort of thing? Of course,” he went on, “ father's damn ably unjust, actuated by absurd pre judice. Annie's a good girl and a good wife, no matter what her father was D— n It, this Is a free country! A man can marry whom he likes. All these Ideas about family pride and family honor are old world notions, foreign to this soil. I’m not going to give up Annie to please any one. I'm as fond of her now as ever. I haven't regretted a moment that I married her Of course, it has been hard. Father at once shut down money supplies, making my further stay at Yale Impossible, and I was forced to come to New York to seek employment We've managed to fix up a small flat In Harlem and now, like Mlcawber, I'm waiting for some thing to turn up.” Coxe nodded sympathetically. "Come and have a drink,” he said cheerily. Howard hesitated. Once more he remembered his promise to Annie, but as long as he had broken It once he would get no credit for refusing now. He was horribly thirsty and de pressed. Another drink would cheer him up. It seemed even wicked to decline when it wouldn't cost him anything. They entered a bar conveniently close at hand, and with a tremulous hand Howard carried greedily to hla Ups the Insidious liquor which had undermined his health and stolen away hla manhood. "Have another?” eaid Coxe with a smile as he saw the glass emptied at a gulp. ’’I don’t care if I do,” replied How ard. Secretly ashamed of his weak ness, he shuffled uneasily on his feet. “ Well, what are you going to den old man?” demanded Coxe as he pushed the whisky bottle over. “ I ’m looking for a Job,” stammered Howard awkwardly. Hastily he went on: “ It Isn't so easy. If It was only myself I wouldn’t mind. I’d get along somehow. But there’s the little girl. She wants to go to work, and I won’t hear of i t I couldn’t stand for that, you know.” Coxe feared a “ touch.” Awkwardly he said: (TO BH C O N T IN U E D .) Illusions. It Is true we labor under many IV- luslone, but If these were to be done away with we ebould bardly deem tt worth our while to labor at all. Almost none of the things which man so ardently pursues In the belief that they will make him happier te really capable of doing to, and yet It is needful that he keep up the pursuit for the sake of what he Incidentally achieves In behalf of destiny. The Illusions we labor under par take, In fine, of the nature of aanltary conditions, though they chiefly affect the health of the spirit, and by that have no municipal functionary ap- pointed to look vigilantly after them. Nor, In fact, do they need any such, since providence has been so kind a* to see to It that Illusions we ihall al ways have.— Puck. __________________ , — i Being Natural. Can you. If you be the gentler sex. walk down the street behind an ele gantly gowned woman and restrain the Impulse to Imitate her poise of bead, her carriage end the fascinating ways she possessed Have you ever been In a crowded room where one woman was the center of attraction and seen someone trying to Imitate her? A woman la moat charming when «he la natural. A woman who In natural, even In her erratic moods, does not give offense. One cannot Imi tate the ways, manners and style of another without appearing ridlculou*. The nicest women we meet are those who do not pose or seek to Imitate some one else. from the curtain because you were year 1030. It was adopted In Spain u ir about 1060, in England about 1080. ” No. 1 am well. It was only—" According to this famous treaty, a ces “ And he wants me to tell you that sation of all violent quarrels was en high C you let out at the end was the joined. under heavy penalties, during finest he had heard for years, and the all church festival«, and from every audience it crazy over you. You must Wednesday evening until the follow give an encore." ” 1 can't— I can't.” walled the prtma ing Monday morning. This left only donna; "not unless j8>u get another about 80 days In the year available for shooting and stabbing one's neigh mouse.” bor*. The truce seems to have a » compllshed much good, notwithstand The Truce of God. The "Truce of God” was Introduced ing the fact that It was very Imper by the clergv of Gulenne around the fectly observed. 1 /
