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.
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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.
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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.
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