CURRENT EVENTS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
OF THE WEEK
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
IR R IG A T I O N
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Resume o f Important Events
P re s e n te d in Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
Democrats propose 30 to 50 per cent
cuts in the steel tariff.
The railway linking Key West with
the Florida mainland is now in opera
tion.
The Japanese foreign minister reit-
erates Japan’s friendship for the
United States.
Portland East Side business men
propose that thi stats buy the Home
Telephone system.
Dr Sun Y a t Sen accuses Premier
Yuan Shi Kai o f trickery, and some
o f the premier’s closest friends say
they do not know what his ultimate
objects are.
The proposed advance o f ten per
cent in freight rates on hops from the
Northwest to the Atlantic coast has
been held up until May by the Inter
state Commerce commission.
San Francisco officers searching a
house frequented by alleged safe
crackers found two pounds o f nitro
glycerine, 1,000 assorted cartridges
and a quantity o f fuse, caps, etc.
Rutherford B. Page, a Yale grad
uate, was instantly killed by falling
from his aeroplane at the Los Angeles
meet. He was flying for the first
timé as a regular licensed aviator.
The county clerk at Willows, Cal.,
has requested all women who come to
his office to register as voters to dis
pense with all artificial methods o f
hair dressing, so that he can correctly
measure their height.
The Chicago Northwestern railway
is again taking active steps to secure
an entrance into the Pacific North
west.
Oregon bankers in session at Cor
vallis expressed themselves strongly
in favor o f the "back to the land’ ’
movement.
Cuban veterans have agreed to sup
port President Gomez in maintaining
order and Cuba’s revolutionary crisis
seems passed.
An Indianapolis grand jury has
taken up the pursuit o f Schmidt and
Caplan, alleged dynamiters.
A Russian and a Hungarian arrested
as spies in Germany, have been sen
tenced to three years imprisonment.
Woodrow Wilson, governor o f New
Jersey, says many o f our laws are
Archaic, and that politics fail to keep
pace with industrial demands.
Being convinced that Ranker Morse
has but a short time to live. President
T a ft "commuted
his
penitentairy
sentence to expire immediately.”
New York policemen are to have a
thorough course in wrestling.
Pekin is in fear o f wholesale mas
sacres when abdication o f the throne
becomes an actual fact.
The United Mineworkers o f Am er
ica have indorsed President John
Mitchell and rejected a resolution
committing the organization to Social
ism.
F ifty thousand women members o f
the Ulster Unionists’ association have
called upon their sisters in Great
Britain to aid them in defeating the
home rule bill.
P O R I LAND
M ARKETS
W heat— Track prices: Bluestem,
85c; club. 82c; red Russian, 81c; val
ley. 82c; forty-fold, 82Jc.
MillstulTs — Bran, $23 per ton;
shorts, * 2 i; middlings, $30; rolled
barley, $37(0)88.
Data—No. 1 white, $31(0)31.50 per
ton
Hay—No. 1 Eastern Oregon tim
othy. $17(i/18; No. I valley, $16«i)16;
alfalfa. $13«/)14; clover, $12; grain,
$120/13.
Barley— Whole, $40 per ton.
G>m— New, whole, $33; cracked,
$34; old, whole, $36; cracked, $37.
Cranberries. $100/11.50 per barrel.
Potatoes — Buying prices: Bur-
hanks. 90c0/ $1.15 per hundred.
Vegetibles - Artichokes, $1.25 per
dozen; cabbage, lio / ljc per pound;
cauliflower, $2.60 per crate; celery,
$5.25 per crate.; garlic, Hvj 10c per
pound; pumpkins, lo/l$c per pound;
sprouts,
8c;
squash, llo/T$c per
pound; turnips, $1.26 pet sack; ruta
bagas, $1.25; carrots, $1.25; par
snips, $1.25; beets, $1.50.
Onions— Association price, $2 per
sack.
Apples— Fancy Rome Beauty. $2.50
per box; choice Rome Beauty, $2;
fancy Yellow Newtowns, $2.60; fancy
Spitzenbergs, $2.75; Delaware Red,
$1.75; Winesap, $2; Northern Spy,
$1.60; Baldwin, $1.60<</2; Ben Davis,
$1.25.
Butter — Oregon creamery, solid
pack, 38c; prints, extra; butter fat,
38(i/ 40c f. o. b. Portland.
Poultry— Hens, 13c; springs, 12$c;
ducks, young. 20c; geese, 12$c; tur
keys, live, 18c; dressed, choice, 22c.
Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, can-
died, 30c per dozen.
Pork-Fan cy, 8«/8|c per pound.
Veal Fancy, 13J«t 14c per pound.
Hops 1911 crop, 43$«i44$c; olds,
nominal, 1912 contracts, 26c; three
years, 19c; five years. 15c.
Wool Eastern Oregon 9bz 16c; val
ley 16o/ 17c; mohair choice 35«/37c.
Cattle — Choice steers $6/i/6.20;
good, $5.75«/ 6; choice cows, $4 90«/
6.10;
good,
$4.40«z 4.60;
choice
spayed heifers, $5.35«/ 5.50; good to
choice heifers, $F«z5.25; choice bulls,
$4.25*/4 60; good, $4«/4.25; choice
calves, $7.60«/8; good, $6.75/</7.
Hogs— Choice light hogs, $6 50«/
6 65, good to choice hogs, $6.25«l
6.50; smooth heavy hogs, $5.75«/6.
Sheep — Choice yearling wethers.
$4.50 >/4.86; choice killing ewes, $4
«14.25; choice lambs. $5«/5.60; good
to choice, $4.60«(4.76; culls, $3.76«!4
C a ll
M EET POPULAR.
to C o n g re s s H e r e W in s
sponse F r o m A ll S ta te .
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Portland— Answers to the call is
sued last week for an irrigation con-
grest to be held in Portland, February
19, 20 and 21, are being received in
steadily increasing volume at the
Commercial club promotion bureau in
Portland, which indicates a wide
spread and active interest in the com
ing meeting.
William M. Colvig, president and
manager o f the Medford Commercial
club visited the Portland Commercial
club recently to inquire about the
coming congress and declared that
Medford would issue an invitation
urging the congress to meet for its
second annual session in Medford.
William Pollman wrote from Baker
acknowledging the receipt o f the call
for the congress and said he would
come to Portland at an early date to
communicate with officers of the Ore
gon Development league regarding the
delegation o f representatives to be
sent from his territory. Other letters
and communications o f a similar na
ture have also beeen received.
John
II. Lewis, state engineer, and H. C.
Brodie, assistant secretary o f the Des
ert land board, will both be in attend
ance throughout the sessions.
Full information as to the extent of
the attendance from all sections o f the
state is expected to be in within the
next two weeks and officers o f the De
velopment league will make complete
plans for the program o f the congress
at that time.
PO ULTRY
S ta n fie ld
P R O F IT S L A R G E .
M a n M a k e s B ig Finan cial
S u cc ess a t B usiness.
Stanfield— F. M. Curtis, living five
miles west o f Stanfield,, a prominent
poultry breeder, is increasing his in
cubator plant. He is preparing to in
stall a mammoth plant o f 6,000-egg
capacity.
Heat will be provided by
means of a boiler and hot water. All
the old oil-burner 400-egg machines
which he now has will be discarded.
Not quite five years ago Mr. Curtis
settled on the land where he now
lives, taking it as a homestead from
the government. A t that time he had
lots o f faith and hope in the chicken
business, but not many chickens and
very little cash.
The first year he
erected his small home and outbuild
ings, dug a well, cleared a portion of
his land o f sagebrush and prepared it
for cultivation.
But his small flock o f chickens were
good layers and eggs brought from 25
cents to 60 edits a dozen at the stores,
and bo he made expenses from the
start and increased his stock. In the
succeeding years he has entered the
business of raising the fanciest breed
ing stock and during the last two
years has rather made a specialty of
furnishing “ day-old chicks.”
Last
year he had orders for day-old chicks
or eggs for hatching from nearly
every state in the Union, from Alaska,
Canada and Mexico.
Many orders
were received in excess o f the number
he could fill.
This year he has booked orders for
about 70,000 day-old chicks, which he
expects to be able to supply. These
day-old chicks sell for 12J cents each,
and some o f them for 15 cents. Mrs.
Curtis and he have been doing all the
work on the place, but this year he
will have one assistant to do the heavy
work, while Mrs. Curtis and he super
intend the plant. Next year they may
locate closer to the railway station; if
not, they intend to use an automobile
to facilitate the handling o f orders.
Mr. Curtis says that there is lots of
room in the poultry business in Ore
gon, and opportunity is favorable for
anyone to succeed.
Last year 3,000,000 baby chicks
were shipped into California, Idaho,
Washington and Oregon.
O f this
number only about 50,000, or one-six
tieth, were hatched on the Coast, the
remainder coming from east o f the
Rocky mountains. With the mild, dry
climate o f Umatilla county, which
permits poultry to exercise out of
doors every month in the year, with
alfalfa easily available to furnish
green feed the year around, with
wheat and other grains available at
primary cost from the adjacent large
dry-land wheat ranches, and the cost
o f housing and shelter at the mini
mum, all natural conditions have been
propitious for the success o f this Stan
field poultryman.
rum her entire life. She tnuet end it HU erect ngur*>, idmiraoir set oir ra
now—once for ell. She had already
given him to understand that their
intimacy'must cease. Now he must
stop his visits to her house and de
sist from trapping her friends into his
many schemes. She had written him
that morning forbidding him to come
to the house this evening. She was
done with him forever.
These thoughts were responsible for
the frown cn the beautiful Mrs. Jef
fries’ bejeweled brow that particular
Sa/urday evening. Alicia gave a sigh
and was drawing on her long kid
gloves before the glass, when sudden
ly a maid entered and tendered her
mistress a note.
Alicia knew the
She had met Robert Underwood years handwriting only too well. She tore
before. He was then a college boy, the letter open and read:
Dear Mrs. Jeffries: I received your let
tall, handsome, clever. She fell in
love with him and they became en ter telling me that my presence at your
huuse to-night would be distasteful to
gaged. As she grew more sophisticat you. As you can imagine,’ it was a great
ed she saw the folly of their youthful shock. Don’t you understand the harm
Infatuation. Underwood was without this will do me? Everybody will notice
fortune, his future uncertain. While my absence. They will jump to the con
clusion that there has been a rupture,
in this uncertain state of mind she und my credit will suffer Immediately
met Mr. Jeffries, then a widower, at with your friends. I cannot afford to let
a reception. The banker was attract this happen now. My affairs are in such
that it will be fatal to me. I
ed to her and being a business man condition
need your support and friendship more
he did things quickly. He proposed than ever. I have noticed for some time
and was accepted, all in the brief that your manner to me lias changed.
time of— five minutes. Robert Under Perhaps you have believed some of the
stories my enemies have circulated about
wood and the romance of her girlhood me. For the sake of our old friendship,
were sacrificed without question when Alicia, don’t desert me now. Remember
it came to reaching a prompt decision. what I once was to you and let me come
She wrote Underwood a brief letter to your reception to-night. There’s a rea
son why I must be seen in your house.
of farewell, telling him that the action
Yours devotedly,
she had taken was really for the best
ROEEEiT UNDERWOOD.
interests of them both. Underwood
Alicia’s face flushed with anger.
made no reply and for months did not Turning to the maid, she said:
attempt to go near her. Then he met "There’s no answer.”
her in public. There was a reconcilia
The girl was about to close the
tion. He exerted the old spell—on the door when her mistress suddenly re
married woman. Cold and Indifferent called her.
to her husband, Alicia found It amus
“ W ait a minute,” she said; “ I ’ll
ing to have her old lover paying her write a line.”
court and the danger of discovery only
Taking from her dainty escritoire a
gave the intrigue additional zest and sheet of perfumed notepaper, she
charm. She did not lead Underwood wrote hurriedly as follows:
to believe that he could induce her to
" i f you dare to come near my house
forget her duty to Mr. Jeffries, but to-night I will have you put out by the
she was foolish enough to encourage servants.”
Quickly
folding the note, she
a dangerous Intimacy. She thought
she was strong enough to be able to crushed It into an envelope, sealed It,
call a halt whenever she would be so banded It to the girl, and said:
“ Give that to the messenger.”
disposed, but as is often the case she
The servant disappeared and Alicia
overestimated her powers. The In
timacy grew.
Underwood became resumed her work of drawing on her
bolder, claiming and obtaining special gloves In front of her mirror. How
privileges. He soon realized that he dare he write her such a letter? Was
had the upper hand and he traded on her house to be made the headquar
It. Under her patronage he was In ters for his swindling schemes? Did
vited everywhere. He practically lived he want to cheat more of her friends?
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S Y N O P S IS .
Howard Jeffries, banker's son, under
the evil Influence of Robert Underwood,
a fellow-student at Yule, leads a life of
dissipation, marries the daughter of a
gambler who died in prison, and is dis
owned by his father. He tries to get
work and falls. A former college churn
makes a business proposition to Howard
which requires
cash, and Howard
Is broke. Robert Underwood, who had
been repulsed by Howard’s wife, Annie,
In his college days, and had once been
engaged to Alicia, Howard’s stepmother,
has apartments at the Astruria and is
apparently in prosperous circumstances.
Howard recalls a f.'.O loan to Underwood
that remains unpaid, and decides to ask
him for the U.UVO he needs.
C H A P T E R III.
The handsome townhouse of How
ard Jeffries, the well-known banker, on
Riverside drive, was qne of the most
striking among the many imposing
millionaire homes that line the city's
splendid water front. Houses there
were < in the Immediate proximity
which were more showy and had cost
more money, but none as completely
satisfying from the art lover’s stand
point. It was the home of a man who
studied and loved the beautiful for its
own sake and not because he wanted
ROSE SH O W PLANS M ADE.
to astonish people with what miracles
his money could work. Occupying a
large plot on slightly elevated ground,
S o ciety to E n g ag e A rm o r y f o r T h r e e
the house commanded a fine view of
D ays In F e s tiv a l W e e k .
the broad Hudson. Directly opposite,
Portland — Special plans have been
across the river, busy with steam and
laid by the classification committee o f
sailing craft, smiled the green slopes
the Portland Rose Society in the office
of New Jersey; in the purplish north
o f Alfred Tucker, secretary, in the
frowned the jagged cliffs of the precip
Sherlock building, to capture the ex
itous Palisades.
hibits for the annual show from the
Tne elder Jeffries, aristocratic de
small householders. A tentative op
scendant of an old Knickerbocker
tion has been taken on the armory for
family, was proud of his home and
June 12, 13, and 14, days in the latter
had spent large sums of money In
part o f Rose Festival week. More
beautifying it. Built In colonial style
than $4,000 will be expended on the
of pure white marble with long
show, which it is hoped to make self-
French windows and lofty columns
supporting, not only by the member
supporting a flat, rounded roof, sur
ship fees but by admission charges.
rounded by broad lawns, wide-spread
The harmonious relations existing
ing shade trees and splashing foun
between the society and the Rose Fes
tains, It was a conspicuous landmark
tival association have been cemented
for miles. The Interior was full of
and an agreement has been made by
architectural beauty. The stately en
which the Rose Show shall be an en
trance hall, hung with ancestral por
tirely exclusive function, but one that
traits, was of noble proportions, and
will have any possible deficit defrayed
a superb staircase, decorated with
by the Rose Festival funds.
statuary, led ofT to tastefully decorated
Floral displays by nurserymen o f a
reception rooms above. To-night the
character other than roses w ill be
house was brilliantly Illuminated and
barred from the show, but a special
there was considerable activity at the
provision has been made that nursery
front entrance, where a footman in
men, being professional exhibitors,
smart livery stood opening the doors
may display both hothouse and field
of the carriages as they drove up in
roses. Unusually fine trophies will be
S T A T E S C H O O L T H R IV E S .
quick succession.
hung up for these exhibits.
Mrs. Jeffries' musleales were always
T ra in in g
In s titu tio n
H ead
M a k e s largely attended because she knew
A sylum W ill U s e O le o m a rg a rin e .
A nn ual R e p o rt.
the secret of making them Interesting.
Salem— Hereafter oleomargarine in
Her husband's wealth and her fine
Salem — Superintendent Looney, of house enabled her to entertain on a
stead o f butter w ill be used at the
State asylum for the insane.
In this the state training school, has prepared liberal scale, and she was a tactful
connection the agent for the oleomar his annual report and submitted it to and diplomatic hostess as well. She
He announces that not only cultivated the right kind of
garine company secured the contract the governor.
principally by "s li jp irg one over” on many of the boys who left the school people who were congenial to each
are doing well and are self-supporting, other, but she always managed to
Superintendent Steiner.
Surreptitiously he succeeded in re and that the school is accomplishing have some guest of special distinction
placing the butter supply in the super much for the welfare o f its inmates. whom every one was eager to meet.
intendent’s refrigerator with oleo In his report he says:
Her own wide acquaintance among
"T h ere were 92 boys in our care at the prominent operatic artists and her
margarine and the family used it un
knowingly for several days.
When the beginning of 1911; released dur husband's influential position in the
this became known to the superinten ing the year, 65; away on leave of world of finance made this policy an
dent he tried the same plan on officials absence, 7; admitted, 68; escaped, easy way of furthering her social am
nnd members o f the staff with like not returned, 4; returned on account bitions. She would always invite
o f poor home condition and also for
success.
some one whom she could present as
Four o f these
Superintendent Steiner says that breaking parole, 20.
the lion of the evening. One week it
the change from butter to oleomargar youths came back o f their own accord, would be a tenor from the opera house,
ine will result in a saving o f several as they had no work and no suitable another tim evi famous vlollnisL In
thousands o f dollars on the mainten place to stay for the winter. Two this way she managed to create a lit
ance fund. The oleo can be secured were placed with farmers, who kept tle artistic salon on the lines of the
for 21 cents a pound, and butter is them during the summer and as soon famous political salons In which the
now at practically 40 cents.
The as the fall work was finished returned brilliant women of the eighteenth cen
maintenance fund is now about $9,000 them to the school, showing that they tury molded public opinion In France.
ahead o f the appropriation, but Su took them to get all the work out of
Alicia knew she was clever and as
perintendent
Steiner says radical them they could and then were through
she stood admiring herself In front of
measures will have to be used to keep with them. The highest number in
a full length mirror while awaiting
out the red figures during the coming school at any time during the year
the arrival of her guests she congrat
was 106.
year.
In January we had one case of ulated herself that she had made a
diphtheria, but since then have had success of her life. She had won those
E ug ene Rians B ig F a ir
things which most women hold dear
Eugene— In the expectation o f se no serious contagious illness o f any —wealth and social position. She had
sort. Four boys were operated on for
curing the district fair for Eugene adenoids during the past year and married a man she did not love. It
this year, the Lane County Fair board their health greatly benefitted as a was true, but other women had done
that before her.
If she had not
is planning fur an extra large fair this result.
fall, and E. M. Warren ha« been ap
Work on the trades building was brought her husband love she at least
pointed to attend the meeting o f the finished in October. We have installed was not a wife he need be ashamed
of. In her Paquln gown of gold cloth,
second Southern Oregon Fair board at machinery and are ready for work.
with sweeping train and a Jeweled
Roseburg. Two years ago, failing to
tiara Ih her hair, she considered her
get the fair,
Eugene organized a
H e lp F r u it G r o w e rs .
self handsome enough to grace any
county board, provided grounds and
Corvallis — Requests are coming man’s home. It was Indeed a beauty
held a very creditable exposition. A
from
fruitgrowers'
associations
and
which she saw In the mirror—the face
larger fair was helJ last year. The
county conrt gave $2,000, and this, it from individual fmitmen to the Ore of a woman not yet 30. with the fea
is expected, will be repeated this year. gon Agricultural college asking in tures regular and refined. The eyes
formation as to the manufacture of were large and dark and the mouth
their own lime-sulphur solution.
All and nose delicately molded. The face
F e r r y to R ep lace O ld B rid g e
Albany— A t the site o f the old who wish information on this subject 1 seemed academically perfect, all but
Green’s Ferry on the Santiam river, and explicit directions for the erection ! the expression. She had a cold, cal
which was a famous crossing-place in o f a manufacturing plant or the con- culating look, and n cynic might have
pioneer days, a new ferry is to be I struction o f a small home plant, may charged her with being heartless, of
maintained. The big bridge which ! secure it by addressing the college, stopping at nothing to gain her own
replaced the old ferry 36 years ago, which will send an expert when pos ends.
went out in the high water recently sible to confer with the association or “ To-night Alicia had every reason to
feel Jubilant. She had secured a so
and the county courts o f Linn and individual and advise them.
cial lion that all New York would talk
Marion counties are preparing to es
C o lle g e Buys M o r e L a r d
about— no less a person than Dr.
tablish a ferrv there to handle traffic
Corvallis— Secretary E. E. Wilson Bernstein, the celebrated psycholo
until the stage o f the river will per
mit the rebuilding o f the bridge. o f the board o f regents o f the Oregon gist, the originator of the theory of
psychology.
Everything
This crossing is on the road from Agricultural college announces the ' scientific
purchase o f an acre and a half o f land seemed to go the way she wished; her
Jetferson to Scio.
just north o f the present court o f musleales were the talk of the town;
F o re c lo s u re S u it Is Big
honor, west o f the engineering shops, her husband had Just presented her
Cottage Grove— Probably the larg as a site for the school o f mines build- | with the Jeweled tiara which now
est foreclosure suit ever brought in ing. "T h e contention that land about graced her head; there seemed to be
Lane county was taken under advise the college is being held at too high a nothing In the world that she could
ment by Judge Harris, in the circuit figure is disproven,” said Mr. Wilson. not enjoy.
Tet she was not happy, and as she
court at Eugene this week. The case "T h e college ottered $2,000 to Prof.
is the Trust Company o f America vs. Kneisley, the owner, and upon his re gazed at the face reflected before her
the Oregon A Southeastern railroad, fusal o f the sum a board o f condemna- In the glass she wondered If the world
guessed how unhappy she was. She
and is for $300.000. The trust com . tion made the amount $3,500.
knew that by her own Indiscretion she
pany holds the bond.* o f the railroad
issued under a first mortgage for the N e a rly 9 , 0 0 0 A c re s o f T im b e r S o ld was In danger of losing all she had
Astoria. — A deed was file«! for re won, her position In society, her place
amount stated. The road runs from
Cottage Grove to Disston, a distance cord here whereby the Whitney com In the affections of her husband,
pany, limited, sells to the Columbia everything.
o f 20 miles.
River company 8,948 acres o f timber
When she married Mr. Jeffries It
E u g en e S e c u re s B ig P la n t.
| lands in the Blind Slough district, as was with deliberate calculation. She
Eugene A. C. Mathews is clearing well as its logging railroad, machin did not love him. but. being ambitious,
the ground for a building 100 feet ery and other equipmenL the consid she did not hesitate to deceive him.
square to be erected for the Cement eration named being nominal. The He was rich, he could give her that
Tile company o f Grants Pasa. which is latter corporation is a subsidiary o f prominent position in society for
The fact that
to move its plant here.
Land has the first and was organized for the which she yearned.
been leased from Mr. Mathews ad purpose o f handling all the Whitney she was already engaged to a man for
joining his rock crusher, on the river company’s timber interest in Clatsop whom she did care did not deter her
county.
for a moment from her set purpose.
bank.
t
loctc
Y
a well-cut dreia coat suggeetsd the
soldier.
"W hat are you doing alone here,
dear?” he said.’ “ I hear carriages out
side. Our guests are arriving."
“Just thinking, that’s all,” she re-
plied, evasively.
He noticed her preoccupied look
and. with some concern, he demanded:
“ There’s nothing to worry you, is
there?”
"Oh, no— nothing like that," she
said, hastily.
He looked at her closely and she
averted her eyes. Mr. Jeffries often
wondered if he had made a mistake.
He felt that this woman to whom he
had given his name did not love him,
but his vanity as much as his pride
prevented him from acknowledging
it, even to himself. After all, what
did he care? She was a companion,
she graced his home and looked after
his creature comforts. Perhaps no
reasonable man should expect any
thing more. Carelessly, he asked:
“ Whom do you expect to-night?”
"Oh, the usual crowd,” replied
Alicia, languidly-. "Dr. Bernstein Is
coming—you know he's quite, the rage
just now. He has to do with psychol
ogy and all that sort of thing.”
“ So. he’s your Hon to-night. Is he?”
smiled the banker. Then, he went on:
“ By the by, I met Brewster at the
club to-night. He promised to drop
In."
Now It was Alicia's turn to smile.
It was not everybody who could boast
of having such a distinguished lawyer
as Judge Brewster on their calling
lists. To-night would certainly be a
success— two lions Instead of one.
For the moment she forgot her worry.
“ I am delighted that the Judge Is
coming,” she exclaimed, her face
beaming. “ Every one is talking about
him since his brilliant speech for the
defense in that murder case.”
The banker noted his w ife’s beau
tiful hair and the white transparency
of her skin. His gaze lingered on the
graceful lines of her neck and bosom,
glittering with precious stones. An
exquisite aroma exuding from her per
son reached where he stood. . His
eyes grew more ardent and, passing
his arm affectionately around her
slender waist, he asked:
“ How does my little girl like her
tiara ?”
“ It's very nice. Don’t you see I'm
wearing it to-night?” she replied al
most Impatiently and drawing herself
away.
Before Mr. Jeffries had time to re
ply there was a commotion at the
other end of the reception room,
where rich tapestries screened off the
main entrance hall. The butler drew
the curtains aside.
“ Mr. and Mrs. Cortwright,” he an
nounced loudly.
Alicia went forward, followed by
her husband, to greet her guests.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
DANGER IN LICKIJlIG STAMPS
P ra c tic e H a * Been K n o w n to Cauee
A cu te In fla m m a tio n o f th e
T o ng ue.
Do the people who Jeer at the cau
tious ones who refuse to lick a post
age stamp as "cranks" know that there
Is a defined disease known as “ the
postage stamp tongue?”
This is an acute inflammation of the
tongue, directly traced to the germs to
be found on the gummed side of stamp
or envelope.
Other and more serious diseases
have been caused by this habit that Is
so universal and seems so harmless.
One throat specialist in a hospital
declares that many chronic affections
of the throat are found among persons
who have as their livelihood the ad
dressing and stamping of envelopes.
Bad skin diseases have ben known
to follow this habit, and It baa even
caused pulmonary troubles.
It is after all but a habit, and a bad
one. It takes no more time and is
quite a3 easy to moisten the stamp
with a damp sponge or rag.
Where many letters
must be
stamped and sealed there are good pa
tent inventions by which the sponge
is kept moist.
H a n g in g on th e W a ll.
She
at
Least
W as
Not
a
W ife
on her friends. He borrowed their
money and cheated them at cards.
His real character was soon known to
all, but no one dared expose him for
fear of offending the influential Mrs.
Jeffries.
Realizing this, Underwood
continued his depredations until he
became a sort of social highwayman.
He had no legitimate source of in
come. but he took a suite of apart
ments at the expensive Astruria and
on credit furnished them so gorgeous
ly that they became the talk of the
town. Thp magazines and newspa
pers devoted columns to the magnifi
cence of their furnishings and the art
treasures they contained. Art deal
ers all over the country offered him
liberal commissions if he would dis
pose of expensive objets dart to his
friends. He entered In business rela
tion with several firms-and soon his
rooms became a veritable bazaar for
art curios of ail kinds. Mrs. Jeffries'
friends paid exorbitant prices for
some of the stuff and Underwood
pocketed the money, forgetting to ac
count to the owners for the sums they
brought. The dealers demanded resti
tution or a settlement and Underwood,
dreading exposure, had to hustle
around to raise enough money to
make up the deficiency in order to
avoid prosecution. In this way he
lived from day to day borrowing from
Peter to settle with Paul, and on one
or two occasions he had not been
ashamed to borrow from Mrs. Jeffries
herself.
Alicia lent the money more because
she feared ridicule than from any real
desire to oblige Underwood. She had
long since become disgusted with him.
The man’s real character was now
plainly revealed to her. He was an
adventurer, little better than a com
mon crook.
She congratulated her
self on her narrow escape. Suppose
she had married him— the horror of
It!
Tet the next Instant she was
filled with consternation.
She had
allowed him to become so intimate
that it was difficult to break off with
him all at once. She realized that
with a man of that character the In
evitable must come. There would be
a disgraceful scandal. She would be
mixed up In 1L her husband's eyes
would be opened to her folly, it might
He
N eed Be A sh am ed O f.
The more she thought of all he had
done, the angrier she became. Her
eyes flashed and her bosom heaved
with
indignation.
She wondered
what her husband, the soul of honor,
would say if he suspected that she
had permitted a man of Underwood's
character to use his home for his dis
honest practices. She was glad she
had ended it now, before it was too
late. There might have been a scan j
dal, and that she must avoid at any
cost. Mr. Jeffries, she felt certain,
would not tolerate a scandal of any
kind.
All at once she felt something
brush her cheek. She turned quickly.
It was her husband who had entered
the room quietly.
"Oh, Howard,” she exclaimed, peev
ishly; “ how you frightened me! You
shouldn't startle me like that.”
A tall, distinguished-looking man
with white mustache and pointed
beard stood admiring her in silence.
"The way pictures are hung make*
such a lot of difference In the appear
ance of a room," said an interior dec
orator a few days ago. "That fact la
thrust upon me nearly every day. I
go into some parlors where the pic
tures are bung so high that all per
spective is lost, and the celling seems
to be hopelessly high. Other folks
hang theirs so low that it hurts your
spine to look at them, in addition to
straining your eyes, spoiling the
beauty of the room and taking from
the value of the picture.
"A ll pictures should not be hung on
the same level, as they so often are,
yet all should be as nearly on the
level with the eyes as possible. If
square and oblong pictures are alter
nated Irregularly with round and oval
ones the best possible effect is gained."
A cco u n tin g fo r It.
Art Lover (standing before "The
Bath” ) —“ Did you ever see such col
or?”
Philistine.— "N o wonder. You must
remember that the lady ain't through
washing herself yet."—Judge.
World*s Supply of Ivory
In both India and the Congo forbids
the export of tusks weighing less than
six pounds.
But even allowing 100 pounds a
In spite of the great demand« of pair, the amount taken to Europe in
the arts and trades for Ivory, the quan a year means the death of more than
tity Imported at Antwerp. London and 10,000 e’ephants. probably twice that
Liverpool, the principal markets of number, for many elephants are killed
the world, remains almost constant that yield no Ivory, females, for in
The total was 484 French tons In 188* stance.
The price varies from $1 to $3 •
and 469 tons in 1908. In the years
between It has been as high as 688 pound, according to quality.
tons. In 1900.
M u ch M o ney In Ju n k .
Antwerp was unknown as sn Ivory
Much money is made by tbe sale
market SO years ago. but now sur
passes London In the size of its trade, of old rope and string. Thousands
owing to the opening of the Congo of dollars are netted by the buying
and telling of old fishing nets alone;
region.
Occasionally tusks are found weigh but the amount la a mere bagatelle to
Ing 150 pounds, but one of 50 pounds the cash that Is turned over In tb e
1» considered a fine specimen. The law | handling of old cordage at the dock«.
Ten T h ou san d E le p h a n ts S lau g h tered
Y e a rly to M e et th e D em and f o r
th e P ro du ct.