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NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT WEEK TAFT PRAISES OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST Message to Congress Denies Aims Are Purely Material. Washington, D. C. - A note of warn ing to European powers which by in direct means continue to discriminate against American trade; a strong ap peal to the congress to uplift the great foreign policies o f America above mere questions o f partisanship; Great Britain and Germany are triumphant vindication o f the diplo working together to avert a general macy o f the administration, which European war. characterized as that o f “ dollars ver On motion o f the prosecution, four sus bullets’ ’ ; a masterful pride in the o f the defendants in the dynamiting enormous expansion o f American cases were discharged. trade as a result of the foreign poli Woodrow Wilson attended a session cies o f his administration; and an ear o f the Bermuda parliament and lis nest appeal for joint action by con tened to a tariff discussion between gress and the executive to open new markets for American industries members. these are the more striking features In turning his sled to avoid striking of President T aft’s fourth annual mes some smaller boys, a Salt Lake City sage sent to congress Tuesday. lad aged 15 received injuries which The message is the first of a series caused his death. of such communications which he will Three big Atlantic liners arrived in send to congress in the early days of New York in one day, all more or less the session, and deals entirely with damaged by a fierce storm through the foreign relations of the United States. Beginning with the usual re which they had passed. ference to the existing good relations At the opening session o f congress, with foreign powers, the President Speaker Clark broke two gavels hold adds that these have been strengthened ing the enthusiastic members o f the by “ a greater insistence upon justice house down to business. to American citizens, or interests, Mrs. Clara B. Colby, o f Portland wherever it may have been denied, will try to have a bill passed by con and a stronger emphasis o f the need gress allowing all women to vote for o f mutuality in commercial and other congressional candidates. relations." For the first time in its history, The secretary o f the treasury has recommended the appropriation o f $2, says the president, the State depart 132,000 for the improvement of the ment has obtained substantially the most-favored-nation treatment from Columbia river and tributaries. all o f the countries o f the world. Senator Ashurst, o f Arizona, ap Therefore, he says that it is only nat pears on the new congressional direc ural that competitive countries should tory as a lumberjack, cowboy, cashier view with w>mc concern the expansion in a store, reporter, hodcarrier and of our commerce. Hence the warning lawyer. “ If in some instances the measures A L ob Angeles man was stricken taken by them to meet it are not en blind while drinking ice cream soda, tirely equitable, a remedy should be and was then robbed o f all his money found. ” To this end, the president strongly by a stranger who escorted him to the recommends the enactment of the bill receiving hospital. recommended by Secretary Knox last The first woman jury in Kansas opened its deliberations by prayer, December, permitting the government then, all talking at once, decided in instead o f imposing the full maximum three hours a case in which a men’ s rates o f duty against discriminating jury had previously disagreed after countries, to apply a graduated Beale of duties, up to the maximum o f 25 two days o f balloting. per cent. Republicans will actually be in the "F lat tariffs are out of date,” says minority in the next session o f con the president. "Nations no longer gress. accord equal tariff treatment to all The great Harriman railroad mer other nations, irrespective o f the ger, created when the Union Pacific treatment from them received. It is bought 46 per cent o f the stock o f the very necessary that the American gov Southern Pacific, has been dissolved ernment should be equipped with by the Supreme court as a violation of weapons of negotiation and adapted to modern economic conditions.” the Sherman anti-trust law. The State department, “ an archaic President-elect Wilson has sum and inadequate machine" at the be moned Bryan to a conference after his ginning of this administration, the vacation in Bermuda is over. president says, has become a new or ganization, with highly specialized bu Senator Chamberlain, o f Oregon, reaus and experts dealing with every favors putting soldiers’ homes under phase o f American trade and diplo control o f the War department. macy. Kidnappers made away with the two daughters o f a rich Mexican mine PEACE PROTOCOL IS SIGNED owner residing in Galveston, Texas. Resume of World’s Important Events Told in Brief. Greece Alone Refuses to Comply have Quarrels With Bulgars. United States authorities blocked the efforts o f Japan to obtain a steamship coaling station in Hawaii. The steamer Burin lay disabled for two days in the Gulf of Georgia, pass ing ships ignoring her signals o f dis tress. Servia has taken possession o f Du- razzo, a seaport in Albania, ignoring the Albanian proclamation o f inde pendence. Ufa® DiRnra® DIPLOMACY London-—A Vienna dispatch to the Daily Telegraph says that official quarters there have received informa tion that dissensions between the Greeks and Bulgarians have become serious and that 250 Greeks were killed when 3000 of their troops at tempted forcibly to occupy the town o f Serres, which was already occupied by Bulgarians. Defendants in the dynamite cases London- The protocol arranging an have been placed under increased armistice was signed late Wednesday bonds, which they find difficult to get, by the Turkish and Bulgarian dele gates, the latter representing also and all may have to return to jail. Servia and Montenegro. Prior to this Five hundred thousand school child there had been a long sitting of the ren o f California have sent a petition Turkish council of ministers to con to Philadelphia asking the loan o f the sider fresh proposals submitted by the Liberty Bell to the Panama-Pacific allies. fair in 1915. Apparently the latter representing also Servin and Montenegro. Prior to Snow storms ant' universally cold this there had been a long sitting of weather swept th Southern states, the Turkish council of ministers to many |x>lnts in Tex as and Mexico be consider fresh proposals submitted by ing as cold, or colder, than Canada on the allies. Thanksgiving day. Apparently the Greek delegate'did not sign the protocol. At present nothing is known definitely on this PORTLAND MARKETS point or o f the terms o f the armistice Wheat Track prices: Club, 7760 as revised. 78c; bluestem, 806081c; forty-fold, Germany Wants Aerial Fleet. 78c; red Russian, 76c; valley, 79c. Corn Whole, $36; cracked, $37 ton. London—Reports that India is giv Millstuffs Bran, $22.50 ton. ing Great Britain 12 warships, accord Barley - Feed, $24.50(1/25 per ton; ing to the Berlin corresj/ondent o f the brewing, nominal; rolled, $270/28. Duily Express, is responsible for the Oats No. 1 white, $26 ton. remarkable proposal o f . Germany, Hay -Timothy, choice, $16,500/17 abandoning her effort to control the ton; oat and vetch, $12; alfalfa, $12; sea for an attempt to win supremacy clover, $10; straw, $66/7. o f the air. The National Zeitung pro- Fresh Fruits—Apples, 50(<z $1.60 per jx/ses a fleet o f a hundred Zeppelins, box; jiears, 75cf</$1.50; grapes, $1.35 divided into 25 squadrons o f four each, 6/1.50; Malagas, $8 [>er barrel; cran which, while the cost is only as much berries, $11.50 per barrel; casabas, as one dreadnaught, could eventually $2.50 per dozen. destroy England’s fleet. The proposal Onions -Oregon, 90c6/$l per sack. is endorsed throughout Germany. Potatoes — Jobbing prices: Bur banks, 656/75c per hundred; sweet po Films Shown in Prison. tatoes, 1)0/2c per pound. Joliet. III. Convicts lauded and ap Vegetables Beans, 12c; cabbage, lc ; cauliflower, $1.75 per crate; cel plauded like children when the first ery, $3.50 per crate; cucumbers, 50(/z series o f motion picture entertain 60c per dozen; eggplant, 10c per ments was given at the state prison Two comedies pound; head lettuce, $2.25 per crate; by Warden Murphy. peas. 124 c pound; peppers, 10c pound; and one Alpine scene were shown. radishes, 150/20c per dozen; sprouts, Only a few o f the prisoners ever had 8c; tomatoes, $1.50 per box,; garlic, seen a motion picture, many o f the 50/6c pound; pumpkins, l j c pound; spectators being long-term men who turnips, 75c per sack; carrots, 76c; had spent years behind the bars before the “ little theaters” came into vogue. beets, 75c; parsnips, 75c. Eggs -Fresh locals, candled, 45c Similar entertainments will be given weekly. Only prisoners with good per dozen; Eastern, 2246/ 32Jc. Butter — Oregon creamery, cubes records were allowed to see the show. 354c per pound; prints 3646/ 37c. Russian Must Not Help Chinese. Pork—Fancy 104o/llc pound. Veal Fancy 134<</ 14c pound. St. Petersburg The plans o f Avia Poultry -Hens 12(<z 13c pound; broil tor Kusminski to open a flying school ers 12( k 13c; turkeys live 20c; dressed in Pekin to teach the art o f aviation choice, 22(</23c; ducks, 124 6/ 14c; to Chinese army officers were halted geese, 1240 / 14c. by an order from the Russian govern Hops -1912 crop, prime and choice, ment warning Kusminski that he 1460 16c pound. will be prosecuted for treason unless Wool — Eastern Oregon, 14/<z 18c he leaves Pekin at once. With a clash pound; valley, 214 o / 224 c ; mohair, between Russia and China imminent choice, 32c. over the possession o f outer Mongolia. Cattle -Choice steers $6,856/ 7 ;R<nod. Kusminski's act was regarded as most $6.50d/6.$5; medium steers, $6<//6.25; daring. choice cows, $66/6-50; good, $5.50 Times' Home Dedicated. (ii.5.75; medium, $4,500/5.25; choice calves, $7.50d/8; good heavy calves, Los Angeles The new Times build $66/7; bulls, $3625; stags. $56/6. ing. the $.'>00,000 turreted structure of Hogs — Light, $7.86<<t,8; heavy, steel, marble and granite erected on $6,766/7.25. the site o f the old building which was Sheep—Yearlings, $4.25r>/5; weth blown up with dynamite October 1, ers, $3,606/4.75; ewes, $36t4; lambs, 1910, was dedicated formally Wednes $4 676.30. day. General News o f the Industrial and Educational Development and Progress o f Rural Communities, Public Institutions, Etc. PLAN IS TO BLOCK HILL LINE D IS T R IB U T IO N IS POOR. Harriman Interests Rush Survey Apple Expert Says Lacks of System Throughout Country Apparent. Up McKenzie Valley. Eugene— Intention o f the Harriman interests to forestall the Hill people in the building o f a railroad up the McKenzie Valley is evidenced by the copy o f a resolution o f the board o f directors o f the Oregon & California Railroad company, filed with the sec retary o f state and with the Lane county clerk. This resolution authorizes the con struction o f a trifle over 24 miles of railroad from a point on the Natron- Klamath cut-off, a few miles east o f Springfied, up the McKenzie Valley to Martin’s rapids, where the Oregon Power company is doing the prelimi nary work on a hydro-electric project. The action of the Harriman inter ests came rather as a surprise here, as it was definitely known that Portland, Eugene & Eastern surveyors had been at work all summer checking up on old surveys made when A1 Welch first planned the Portland, Eugene & East ern system, and it had been understood that an electric line was to be built. In fact, President Strahorn, o f the Portland, Eugene & Eastern, has made /nnouncement that his company was considering the building o f this line, but at that time had no definite news to give out. The Oregon Electric, since it has acquired water power rights at Clear Lake, capable of developing 33,000 horsiqiower, was also popularly sup posed to be planning the construction of a railroad . up the McKenzie, and thence to a junction with the Oregon Trunk east o f the Three Sisters. Hood River—" I have been attend ing the Spokane apple show and the Portland land and apple show, ” said Chris R. Greisen, formerly associate editor of Better Fruit, who is now with a St. Joseph, Mo., paper. “ I find some of the growers o f the North west are a little pessimistic over the market conditions of the present sea son’s apple crop. My advice to all o f these would be to take a trip over the Middle West and study the system of distribution that prevails, or rather the lack of it. In my mind, that is the great reason for the slow move ment of the year’s apple crop. “ During the last two months I have been over Nebraska, Missouri, Michi gan, Indiana, Western New York, Ohio and other sections of the country. I find all of the larger centers, cities that should not only consume apples, but be distributing points, chock full of fruit. Yet nowhere on the streets, that is, at the stands, can one get ap ples for much less than the usual price. The consumer pays all the way from $3.50 to $6 a box for the fruit, owing to the size and grade. “ The grower is satisfied with prices for the same fruit ranging from $1.25 to $2 a box. Yet when the consumer has to pay these prices this is not in creasing the demand for apples, nor is it aiding with the distribution. There is too much profit made between the time the fruit leaves the grower and the time it finds its way into the hands of the consumer.” FIRST EQUAL SUFFRAGE VOTE C O M P E N S A TIO N B ILL READY. Oregon Women Take Prominent Measure Provides Payment for Every Kind of Industrial Injnry. Part in City Elections. Oregon City— Mrs. Kate Newton, first woman candidate for mayor in the state, lost by 836 votes, Linn E. Jones going in easily. There were 1182 votes cast. Powder puffs, mir rors and umbrellas were left in booths Albany—Complete new city charter adopted; E. A. Johnson elected to council, although name did not appear on ballot. Women cast 194 votes or 28 per cent o f number cast. Newport—“ Drys” win 237 to 191, $10,000 bond issue for water system carries. Women defy rain to vote. Gladstone— All election officials are women; Mrs. Minda Church elected city treasurer over male opponent by 25 votes. Tillamook—Wets win by eight votes. Women cast half o f votes, favoring ‘ dry” candidates for mayor. Mayor Harter’s election may be contested. Salem — The workmen’s compensa tion bill, drafted by the commission appointed by Governor West, is now completed and will be submitted to the governor at once. It provides for life payments to a workman totally disabled in a hazard ous industry, and for life payments to a widow of a workman killed in such an industry. Payments are provided for all manner o f accidents. All em ployers in hazardous industries come under the provisions of the bill, unless they elect to abide by the provisions of the present laws. The fund is raised similar to the Washington state plan. The employer pays 3 per cent of his wage rolls into the fund, the laborer one-half of one per cent of his wages, and the state pays an amount equal to that paid by the laborers. Oxygen Explosive Is Made. TO P R O TEC T S TO C K . Astoria—-“ On Thanksgiving day, 1912, we began the commercial manu facture o f oxygen explosives at our Oregon plant.” Such was the word contained in a letter received by Frank Patton, cash ier o f the Astoria Savings bank, from E. Hoffman, president o f the Gov ernment Standard Powders company which is establishing a powder factory at Woods Landing, near the eastern line o f Clatsop county. While the manufacture o f powder has been started, the construction work is not yet completed and several weeks will necessarily elapse before the plant will be in full operation. As the new mill will utilize by-products that have heretofore been regarded as .worthless, its establishment is pre dicted to provide a market for large quantities o f material now thrown away. Rich Oil Strike Is Expected. Portland—Oil within 30 days is the expectation o f the Central Oregon Oil & Gas company, which is sinking its first well in its properties in Harney county ubout 18 miles south of Burns. J. C. Turney, president o f the com pany, who was in Portland this week, from Burns, made this prediction. Should the expected success come upon the enterprise, a pipeline from the Harney County fields to Portland to deliver the product will soon be projected. This has been under con sideration since the preliminary sur- eys o f the fields were begun in 1909 and the engineers of the company de clare it to be a perfectly feasible plan. The project was begun following the discovery in the wells o f the Pacific Livestock company o f unmistakable signs o f oil and gas, when the drill had reached a depth of only 6690 feet. Coos Bay Canning Finished. Marshfield The salmon canning season on Coos Bay and the Coquille river has closed. On the latter water way the co-operative cannery put up about 7000 cases o f salmon, and did not have as good a season as usual. In Marshfield, the Tallant cannery had about the most successful season of any o f the plants o f the county, and turned out about 15,000 cases. The salmon brought to the fishermen of the county quite a large sum o f money, and many received employment both as fishermen and in the canning plants. Oregon Has Small Klondike. Canyon City There is enough gold in the Canyon mountain to cause a stam|>ede on Canyon City almost any day, says the Eagle. Specimens of quartz and placer gold are taken from the old mountain every day. and the belief is now reigning that a veritable hidden Klondike exists in the old hill side. The writer on the Eagle says he saw a 10-pound lard bucket full o f the gold displayed on the streets and that little or no interset was created by it, so common has the finding o f the precious metal apparently become. Monster Radish Grown. Eugene The monster radish o f the season has appeared at Iamdon, and J. N. Hogue is the owner. It weighs 18| pounds and is 254 inches in cir cumference and 254 inches in length, and this is gospel truth, since Rev. J. H. Moore vouches for the measure ments. Em fly sat quit* helplessly, b « r eyes Need of Live Stock Sanitary Board Urged By Dr. Withycombe. Portland — That Oregon is in sad need of a state live stock sanitary board, because of inefficient work in the state veterinarian’s office, was the contention of Dr. James Withycombe, of the Oregon Agricultural college ex periment station, in his address at a meeting of the legislative committee of live stock breeders o f Oregon at the Portland commercial club. He also urged a closer federation of the agricultural interests o f the state, state assistance for an exhibit of stock and agricultural produce at the Panama exposition. Southern Pacific Under Fire. Salem—Complaints that the South ern Pacific, in installing private road crossings, is compelling the signing of ironclad contracts, is the burden of numerous complaints being received by the State Railroad commission. It is charged that the road in these con tracts absolves itself from all liability and from any damages which may be sustained on such crossings; that the individuals are compelled to bear the expense of installing the crossings and that many other obnoxiuos clauses are contained. The commission has re ceived a complaint from Winchester in regard to the morning service on the Southern Pacific out of that point. - £ r E [L E A W < ra /ai/jm rm j cof>Y/?/c//r /9/0 a r oaaa3-Yts/r/?/¿¿ ca 0 (1 0 yo/n s in * a *- Eastern Fruit Market Glutted. Freewater — J. H. Hall, o f Free water, who has been East in the in terests of the Milton-Freewater Fruit Growers’ union, reports to the direc tors of the union that the Eastern markets are glutted and will remain so for some time. Few sales could be made direct and nearly every carload is going by auction. •YNOPSIS. T h e s to r y op e n s o n L o n g Isla n d , n ea r N ew Y o rk city , w h e re M iss E m ily r fre n ch , a re la tiv e o f E th a n F fre n ch , m a n u fa ctu re r o f th e c e le b ra te d “ M er c u r y " a u to m o b ile , lo se s h e r w a y . The c a r has stop p ed and h er co u sin , D ick F fre n ch . Is to o m u d d led w ith d rin k to d ire ct It a righ t. T h e y m eet a n o th e r c a r w h ich la run by a p ro fe s sio n a l r a c e r na m ed L e s tra n g e . T h e la tte r fixes up the F fr e n c h c a r an d d ire cts M iss F fr e n c h how to p ro ce e d h om e w a rd . E th a n F fre n ch ha s d isin h erited his son, w h o has d isa p p ea red . He In fo rm s E m ily p lain ly that he w o u ld lik e to h a v e her m a r ry D ick , w h o Is a g o o d -n a tu r e d but Irresp on sib le fe llo w . It a p p e a rs th a t a p a rtn e r o f E th an F fre n ch w a n tin g an e x pert to ra c e w ith th e “ M e r c u r y " at a u to even ts, has e n g e g e d L e s tra n g e , and at th© F fre n ch f a c t o r y E m ily e n c o u n te rs the y o u n g m an. T h e y re fe r p le a s a n tly to th eir m eetin g w hen D ick co m e s a lo n g and re co g n iz e s th e y o u n g ra ce r. D ick likes the w a y L e s tr a n g e Ign ores th e ir first m e e tin g w h en he a p p e a re d to a d isa d va n ta ge. C H A P TE R IV__(Continued). Rupert got up, his dark, malign lit tle face twisted. “If I’d broken a leg they’d have sent a cart for me,” he mourned. “ Now I'll have to walk, and I ain’t used to It. Hard luck!” “If you go around to the stables they will give you my pony cart,” Emily offered Impulsively. “You," her dimpling smile gleamed out, "you once put a tire on for me, you know. Please let me return the service." Rupert’s black eyes opened, a slow grin of appreciation crinkled streaks of dust and oil as he surveyed the young girl. " I ’ll put tires on every wheel you run Into control, day and night shifts,” he acknowledged with sweet cordial ity. "But I’m no horse-chauffeur, thanks; I guess I’ll walk." “ He Is a gentle pony,” she remon strated. “Any one can drive him." He turned a side glance toward the motionless car. "That’s all right, but I’m used to be ing killed other ways. I’ll be going." "Jack Rupert, do you mean to tell me that you will race with Lestrange every season, and yet you're afraid to drive a fat cob?” cried the delighted Dick. “I'm not telling anything. I had a chum who was pitched out by a horse he lost control of, and broke his neck. I’m taking no chances." “ How many men have you seen break their necks out of autos?” “ That’s In business," pronounced Rupert succinctly. “I’m going on. Dar ling; It’s only a two-mlle run.” "Here, wait," Dick urged. "Emily, I’ll stroll around to the stables with him and make one of the men drive him down. You don't mind my leav ing you?” "N o ," Emily answered. “I will wait for you.” She might have walked back alone. If she had chosen. But Instead she sat down on a boulder near the hedge, folding her hands In her lap like a de mure child. The house was so dull, so hopelessly monotonous contrasted with this fresh, wind-tossed outdoors and Lestrange In his vigor of life and glamour of ultra-modern adventure. "You and Mr. Ffrench are very good,” Lestrange said presently. "I am afraid I appreciate it more than Ru pert. though." “Is he really afraid of horses?” "I should not wonder; I never tried him. But he is amazingly truthful.” Their eyes met across the strip of tunny road as they smiled; again Emily felt the sudden confidence, the falling away of all constraint before the direct clarity of his regard. “You won your race,” she said Ir relevantly. "1 was glad, since you wanted It.” "Thank you,” he returned with equal simplicity. "But I did not want It that way, so far as I was con cerned." "Y et, It was the next step?” “Yet. it was the next step. I meant that one does not care to be victor because the leadlDg cars were wreck ed. There Is no elation In defeating a driver who lies out on the course. BuL as you say. It helped my pur pose. You,” he hesitated for the right phrase, “ you are most kind to recall that I have a purpose.” It was the convent-bred Emily who looked back at him, earnest-eyed, ex- altedly serious. “I have thought of It often. Every one else that I know Just Uvea the way things happen— there are only a few people who grasp things and make them happen. That Is real work; 10 many of us are Just given work we do not want— ” she broke “ If we do not want the work. It ly probkbly not our own.” said Le- ■trange. “Unless we have brought it on ourselves by a fault we must un do— I need not speak of that to you. One must not make the mistake of as suming some one rise’s work.” He spoke gently, almost as If with a clairvoyant reading of her tendency to self-immolation. "But may not some one rise’s fault be given us to undo?" she asked eag erly. “ May not their work be forced on u s?" • “No.” he answered. “No?” bewildered. "I don't think so. Each one of us has enough with hts own. at least so It seems to me. Most of us die be fore we finish I t ” Emily paused, contending with the loneliness and doubts which Impelled her to speech, the feminine yearning to let another decide her problems This other's nonchalant strength of decision allured her uncertainty. “I am discouraged.” she confessed. “And tired. I— there Is no reason why I should not speak of 1L Tou \ know Dick, how he can do nothing in the factory or business, or In the places where a Ffrench should stand j All this must fall Into the hands of strangers, to be broken and forgotten, when my uncle dies, for lack of oaese Psnitentiary Guard Goes. Salem— Sleeping at his post while guarding 16 men in the’ foundry at the state penitentiary coat R. J. Woolery his position. Incidentally his dis- charge was the first act of authority on the part of B. K. Lawson, the new superintendent. I j / v » * Class Studios Oregon History. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis—“ Something new in instruc tional method is being tried at the Oregon Agricultural college in the his tory classes under Prof. J. B. Homer. The course in Oregon history intro duced this year is being worked out on a unique plan. Each member of the class has chosen a subject relative to some phase o f Oregon history, and is preparing to talk to the class one period. The lectures will be illus trated with photographs thrown upon the wall by stereopticon. off. Grade to Be Made Past able. Eugene — Through the efforts of Clyde R. Seitz, supervisor o f the Cas cade national forest, the forestry de partment has appropriated $1250 to be used on the county road leading through the reserve near the summit of the Cascade mountains. This sum will be used on a dangerous part of the road known as Dead Horse grade. This sum. together with $1776.76, which is Lane county’s regular allow ance from the forestry department for use on roads, will go a long way toward putting this road in fine shape. oin J c é i m m £ '< £ > AUTHOR OF THE GAME AMD THE CAUDLE one who would care. And Uncle Ethan seems severe and hard, but It grieves him all the time. His only son was not a good man; he lives abroad with his wife, who was an ac tress before he married her. You knew that?” as he moved. “ I heard something of It in the vil lage,” Lestrange admitted gravely "Please do not think me fond of gos sip; I could not avoid It. But I should not have Imagined this a family likely to make low marriages." “ It never happened before. I never saw that cousin, nor did Dick; but he was always a disappointment, always. Uncle Ethan has told me. And since he failed, and Dick falls, there Is only me.” "Y o u !” She nodded, her lip quivering. "Only me. Not as a substitute— 1 am not fit for that— but to find a sub stitute. I have promised my uncle to marry the first one who Is able to be that." The silence was absolute. Lestrange neither moved nor spoke, gazing down at her bent head with an expression blending many shades. "It Is a duty; there Is no one ex cept me,” she added. "Only sometimes I grow— to dislike It too much. I am so selfish that sometimes I hope a sub stltute will never come.” Her voice died away. It was done; she, Emily Ffrench, had deliberately confided to this stranger that which an hour before she would have be lieved no one could force from her Ups In articulate speech. And she neither regretted nor was ashamed, although there was time for full reali zation before Lestrange answered. "I did not believe,” he said, "that such things could be done. It Is non sense! It Is the kind of situation. Miss Ffrench, where any man Is Justi fied In Interfering. I beg you will leave the affair In my hands and think no more of such morbid self-sacri fice.” Stupefied, Emily flung back her head, staring at him. "In your hands?" "Since there are none better, It ap pears. Why,” his vivid face questioned her full and stralghtly, "you didn’t im agine that any man living could hear what you are doing, and pass on?” "M y uncle knows— ” "Your uncle— Is not for me to crltl- black with excitement. Slowly recol lection flowed beck to her of a change In Dick since his light contact with Lestrange; his avoidance of even oc casional highballs, his awakening In terest In the clean sport of the races, and his half-wistful admiration for the virile driver-manager. "I almost believe you could," ehe conceded. “ I can." repeated Lestrange. "Only,” he openly smiled, “it will be hard on Dickie.” It was the touch needed, the anti dote to sentiment Emily laughed with him, laughed In sheer mlaohlef and relief and leap of youth. "You will be gentle— poor D ickie!" " I ’ll be gentle. He is coming now, I think.” He took a step nearer her. "You will leave this In my care, whol ly? You will not trouble about— a substitute?” “ I will leave It with you. But you are forgetting your own doctrine; you are taking some one else's work to do." “ Pardon, I am merely making Ffrench do his work. I have seen a little more of hTm than you perhaps know; I understand what I am under taking. Moreover. I would forget a great many doctrines to set you free.” “ Free?” she echoed; she had the sensation of being suddenly confront ed with an open door Into the unex pected. “ Free," he quietly reasserted. "Free to live your own life and draw un hampered breath, and to decide the great question when It comes, with thought only of yourself." She drew back; a prescient dismay fell sharply across her late relief, a panic crossed with strange delight. "H e ’s off,” called Dick, emerging from the park. "I made Anderson take him down with the limousine. At least, Rupert is driving while Ander son sits alongside and holds on; when they came to the turn In the avenue, your previous mechanician took it full speed and then apologized for going so slowly because, as he said, he was an amateur and likely to upset. Is he really a good driver, Lestrange." “ Pretty fair." returned Lestrange serenely, from his seat on the edge of the ditched machine. "W hen I’m not using him, he's employed as one of the factory car testers: and when we’re racing 1 give him the wheel tf I want to fix anything. However, I'm obliged to that steering-knuckle for breaking here, Instead of leaving me to a long wait in the wilds. Come down to the shop tomorrow at six, and Rupert and I will even up by taking you for a run.” “W ho; me? You’re asking m e?” "W h y not? It’s exhilarating.” Dick removed his hat and ran his fingers through his hair, gratification and alarm mingling In his expression with somewhat the effect of the small boy who Is first Invited Into a game with his older brother’s clique. "You— er, wouldn’t smash me up?” he hesitated. ■*s "You Are Most Kind." elze. But do not ask any other man to let you go on.” Her Ideas reeling, she struggled for comprehension. “You. what could you do?" she mar veled. ’’The substitute— ” “There won’t be any substitute,” rb- plled Lestrange with perfect coolness “I shall train Dick Ffrench to do his work.” “ You— ” “I can, and I will." “ He can not— ” “ Oh, yes. he can; he Is Just Idle and spoiled,” the firm lips set more firmly. “He shall take bis place, I can handle him.” “ I haven’t smashed up Rupert or myself, so far. If you feel timid, nev er mind, of course; I’ll take my usual companion." Dick flushed all over his plump face, the Ffrench blood up at last. "1 was only Joking,” he hastily ex plained. " I ’ll come. It’s only that you’re so confoundedly reckless some times. Lestrange, and— But I’ll come." Lestrange gave his fine, glinting smile as be rose to salute Emily. "A ll right. If you don't get down to the factory In time, I'll call for you," be promised. (T O B E C O N T IN U E D .) Bit o f a Scotch Puzzle Because Scotch Policeman Is Not Po liceman on Sunday ' ^ vea Question Uneettlej. players contend, any self-respecting policeman, if called upon, would do his duty. When 1* * policeman not a police man? This la a question that haa se riously agitated the Scotch players appearing In “ Bunty” at the Comedy theater. New York, elnee they re ceived a letter from a dlstlnguiahed resident Scotchman. I d the letter be objected to the use of the word “po liceman" in "Bunty." and auggested that "bailiff" or "sheriff" be used In- ttaad “ Policemen,” ha insisted, would never be heard In Scotland. Scotch policemen, in certain com munities. do not work on the Sabbath Thkre ts no such thing as a Sunday polloeman In Scotland, but upon any extraordinary occasion, the Scotch Will Jaxone, who plays the part of the policeman. Insists that, although he has had no personal experience with Scotch policemen, he has had a social acquaintance with many of them, and that the word “policeman" ts the only description of these men be has ever heard. Alao Graham Moffat, the author, has also used the word "policeman” In the actors' lines. “When we were boy» we all had a good deal to do with a policeman," eaye George Ingleton, the stage man ager. However, the point made by the writer of the letter is not settled, be cause a Scotch policeman Is not a po liceman on Sunday.
