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.
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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.
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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.