tice repeated the oath to the preai-
dent.
Mrs. Wilson, seated on a lower
level, climbed on a chair at the edge
of the platform and peered up at her
husband as he repeated the oath after
the chief justice at 1 :35 o ’clock. In a
moment her daughter, Margaret,
pulled another chair forward and
joined her. A moment later, as Pres
ident Wilson began his inaugural ad
dress, Mrs. Marshall joined them and
peered over the rail.
Lieutenant Commander Rodgers,
Fire swept the town o f
White
naval aid at the White House, placed
Plains, N. V., causing $700,000 loss.
chairs for the other women and they
A Kansas sexton dropped dead of
Washington, March 4.— Woodrow President Taft bowed to the crowd as stood on tiptoe for a near view o f the
heart disease in a grave he was dig
Wilson became president o f the Unit they took their seats in the center of proceedings.
While President Wilson was deliver ging.
ed States today amid imposing cere the platform.
President-elect Wilson sat at the ing his address, the first van load of
monies and tumultuous scenes of pop
Snow and cold have almost stopped
ular greeting. Standing at the his right of President Taft, while Vice- the Wilson family’s belongings reach the fighting between Turks and Bul
toric east front o f the capitol he took President Marshall took his seat at ed the White House from Princeton. garians.
the constitutional oath o f office, and in the left o f President Taft at the edge There were seven trunks, 11 suit
The first'Alaskan territorial legisla
his brief inaugural address made a o f the platform and talked with Sena cases, 11 umbrellas and several walk
ture
met at Juneau, March 3, with 24
ing
sticks.
There
also
reached
the
tor
Bacon.
fervid appeal to all patriotic men for
members.
counsel and aid.
A burst o f applause and cheers White House a large cake, which
“ This is not a day o f triumph, ” he greeted Champ Clark as he passed on graced the Wilson dinner table in the
T aft’s last day in the White House
It was surmounted by a was one o f the tfbsiest and apparently
said; “ it is a day o f dedication. to the inaugural stand at the head of evening.
brown donkey and a purple elephant.
Here muster not the forces of party, the line of house members.
happiest o f his administration.
President Wilson’s voice at first
Major-General Wood directed the
but the forces o f humanity.
Men’s
The senate voted to promote three
hearts wait upon us; men’s lives hang closing in o f the troops before the failed to carry into the crowd, but as colonels in the army, and turned down
in the balance; men’s hopes call upon guests had all been seated and the he raised it he secured close attention, several other Taft appointments.
us to say what we will do. Who shall | crowd gradually edged toward the in which he held throughout the reading
Fire destroyed almost the entire
o f his address.
Although he had
live up to the great trust? Who dares augural platform.
fail to try? I summon all honest men,
Speaker Clark leaned toward Presi memorized much o f his address, he ad town o f Numadzu, Japan, burning two
all patriotic, all forward-looking men dent-elect Wilson and the two shook hered closely to the reading o f the thousand houses and causing $3,600,-
000 loss.
to my side. God helping me, I will hands, bringing more applause from manuscript.
A burst o f cheers greeted the Presi
not fail them if they will but counsel the crowd.
More than 600 Indiana suffragettes
and sustain me.”
Applause came from the crowds near dent’s 'declaration, "ou r work is a stormed the legislature and a resolu
Vice-President Marshall had been the entrance of the capitol as former work o f restoration,” and it swelled tion was introduced granting
full
inaugurated in the senate chamber Speaker Cannon emerged, swelling into cheers and hats were thrown into suffrage rights to women.
the air when he said:
American officers at Douglas, report
“ A tariff which cuts us off from our
proper part in the commerce of the the discovery o f a plot to capture
world, violates the just principles of Douglas, New Mexico, and Agua Pri
taxation and makes the government a eto, Mexico, by Mexican rebels.
facile instrument in the hands o f pri
Dr. Freidmann has been informed
vate interests.”
by New York medical authorities that
From time to time as the President he must have a physician’s license in
spoke the sun peeped from behind the order to administer his tuberculosis
clouds and shed a feeble light on the serum in America.
scene.
Senator Fall, of New Mexico, bit
A moment later the crowd voiced its
approval in cheers at his declaration terly assails the Mexican border policy
that “ justice and only justice shall of the United States, declaring the
troops are a menace instead of a pro
always be our motto.”
A storm o f cheers greeted the end tection to residents.
ing o f his speech at 1 :54.
A ship’s butcher was arrested by
William J. Bryan was the first man customs officials at Honolulu trying to
to shake hands with the President. get ashore with a big string of sau
He then shook hands with Mr. Taft. sages, which were found to be stuffed
The party then prepared to head the with about $4,800 worth o f opium.
procession back to the White house,
The congressional conference com
and this time President Wilson sat on
the right-hand side o f the carriage. mittee has allowed $1,000,000 for a
The procession to the White House new postoffice building at^Portland.
started at 1 :57 p. m.
The great suffragist parade in Wash
Vice President Marshall returned ington was forced to fight its way
frorp the inaugural stand to the sen along the entire line o f march, jeers
ate. Mrs. Wilson with other members and insults meeting them on all sides.
o f the family party took carriages for
Portland Rose Festival plans for
the White House.
1913 to cost $100,000 are announced.
WILSON IS INAUGURATED
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Greatest Crowd in History Witnesses
Ceremony —Seventh Democratic
Resume of World’s Important
Events Told in Brief.
President Now Holds Reins.
Society women o f Corvallis, Or.,
BE R E W A R D E D have agreed not to go above a $7 limit
for hats.
Good Roads Congress W ould Give
Eastern Oregon farmers traveled
Incentive fo r Highway W ork.
100 miles to attend the college course
Chicago — The Fifth International for farmers at Burns.
Good Roads congress closed here Sun
President Taft pardoned four Feder
day after adopting resolutions urging al prisoners on account of their pre-
the employment of convicts on public vious good character,
highways at a commutation o f 10
All requests for tuberculosis serum
only shortly before, and at the con into a large volume as William J. days o f their sentence for every 30 are being refused until the U. S. sur-
clusion of President Wilson’s inaug Bryan came forward 'with the other days o f labor. The resolution reads:
•We urge' the adoption by every ? eon-general has made satisfactory
ural address the party hurried back to guests comprising the membership of
tests.
the White House, ahead o f the inaug President Wilson’s cabinet. Governor state o f the convict labor system o f j
ural procession, where Mr. Taft said Fielder, successor to President-elect Colorado, giving all available convicts j British merchants resent the Chinese
goodby to President Wilson and pre Wilson as governor o f New Jersey, the privilege o f working on the public war on the opium trade, as it is in
pared to leave at once for Augusta, came out to the stand with Senator highways with a commutation o f 10 juring also the trade in opium from
days for every 30 days’ work.
We India.
Ga. President Wilson shortly after Martine.
took his place to review the proces
Mr. Bryan, Mr. McAdoo, Mr. Red- urge the state and national construc
Secretary Meyer blames Wilson for
sion.
field, Representative Burleson, Mr. tion o f post roads and the construction
While Vice-President Marshall was Daniels, Franklin K. Lane, Represen o f a national Lincoln memorial high the defeat of the two-battleship plan.
swearing in new senators and return tative Willipm B. Wilson, Professor way, connectiong Washington with
Money trust investigating commit
ing ones, the remainder o f the com Houston and the others o f the new the capitals o f every state in the tee recommends revision o f national
Union.”
pany began the march to the stands cabinet were escorted to seats as the
The next International Good roads banking laws.
on the east front, where the inaug crowd voiced its approval by cheers.
The U. S. senate has allowed an
uration o f Mr. Wilson was to take Mrs. Wilson and her daughters took congress will meet in San Francisco in
amendment to the sundry civil bill of
place. President Taft and Mr. Wilson seats close to the square platform at 1915.
$1.500,000 for a government exhibit
were greeted with loud cheers as they the left. At. Mrs. Wilson’s request,
at the San Francisco exposition in 1915.
came out the main door.
Probers Cannot Agree.
Mrs. Marshall took a seat beside her.
Immediately in front o f the presi The two women walked forward to the
Washington, D. C. — The senate
Official circles in Washington be
dential platform Major-General Wood rail to look at the crowd. The Wilson campaign expenditures
committee lieve General Huerta will be equal to
and his general staff held a space girls joined them.
made to the closing congress no report the Mexican situation and that affairs
“ Oh, isn’t it wonderful” ? said Mrs. upon its exhaustive inquiry into cam in that country will soon be running
clear. Across the open space loomed
a battery o f nearly 100 cameras and Wilson, as she looked out over the im paign expenditures for 1904, 1908 and smoothly.
motion picture machines, trained on mense gathering that extended so far 1912, and into the relations of John D.
the Bingle spot where President Taft that faces were not recognizable.
Archbold and the Standard Oil com
At 1 :29 the last restraint on the pany with members o f congress and
was to pass his mantle o f office to
PORTLAND MARKETS
President-elect Wilson.
Back of the crowd was removed, and across the Federal offiers. Members of the spe
West Point cadets stood the Kssex empty space o f asphalt came a cheer- cial committee have found it impossi
Wheat—Track prices: Club, 86®-
troop, President Wilson’ guard o f ing mass o f men and women waving ble to agree upon the report, and the 86Jc per pushel; bluestem, 98(ff99c;
honor, and near them the Black Horse hats, flags and coats upward in the di question is to be carried over to the forty-fold, 88c; red Russian, 85®
rection o f the president-elect.
In a new congress, when it is believed bet 85Jc.
troop o f Culver.
Barley— Feed $23.50 per ton; brew
The troops were prepared to give moment a dense sea o f people touched ter progress can be made.
ing, nominal; rolled, $25.50®26.50.
way when the delivery o f the inaug ” | the very edge o f the inaugural stand,
Millstuffs — Bran, $21® 21.50 per
Election Bettor On Hike.
ural address began so that the crowd the military preserving their places
might close in to hear the new presi with difficlty. Somebody in the crowd
Portland, Maine — Leading a 22- ton; shorts, $23(023.50; middlings,
$30.
dent. There was a lull in the cere shouted :
Hay — Eastern Oregon timothy,
"Three cheers for Miss Nellie Wil year-old donkey and wearing a khaki
monies as the company assembled.
uniform, B. H. Anderson, of Butler,
A mild wind blew over the stands, son,” and a good-natured laugh went Pa., left Portland Tuesday to settle an choice, $15(u 17 per ton; mixed, $10®
12.50; oat and vetch, $12; alfalfa,
and the West Point cadets and sailors up.
The Wilson cabinet on the stand in election bet on Theodore Roosevelt by $11.50; clover, $10; straw, $6®7.
ran about in little groups to relieve
walking from this city to Portland,
Oats— No. 1 white, $27® 28.
the tedium, while the presidential cluded all but James C. McReynolds, Oregon. Anderson, who was a page
Apples—Spitzenberg. extra fancy,
the
new
attorney
general,
who
had
party slowly assembled.
The east
in the national house o f representatives
front of the capitol, sweeping down been unable to accept the invitation to in 1901, was a follower o f Colonel $1.25®$ 1.50; choice, 75c® $1; Yellow
Newtown, extra fancy, $1.25®!1.50;
from the dome to the ground and out be present.
Roosevelt and laid a wager on his elec choice, 75c® $1;
Winesap,
extra
as far as the Congressional library
President Taft, who had sat with a tion. The distance Anderson will lead fancy, $1.25® 1.50; Red Cheek Pip
and neighboring apartment buildings good-natured smile on his face as the
the donkey is 4300 miles, and he ex
presented a brilliant scene of color. crowd surged about, burst Into a pects to complete the journey in eight pin, extra fancy, $1.25®1.50; Arkan
sas Black, extra fancy, $1.75® 2;
The weather still was cloudy, but there hearty laugh when some one yelled, months.
Baldwin, extra
fancy,
$1®1.52;
was no immediate sign of rain.
“ Where is Teddy?”
choice, 75c®'$l; Rome Beauty, $1.25
It was 1:11 o ’clock before the pro-
It was 1:34 o ’clock when Chief Jus-
(«T 1.60; small sizes, all varieties, less;
Strike May be Averted.
cession to the stand had got as far as ( tice White stepped forward and the
Ben Davis, etc., common pack, 60®
London
There
are
prospects
o
f
an
the diplomatic corps, so slowly did it party arose and President-elect Wilson
60c.
amicable
settlement
o
f
the
dispute
move. This was because many re raised his hand to take the oath of
Vegetables— Artichokes, $1.50 per
which threatened to cause a strike on
mained behind to see new senators office.
Cheers which greeted the all the Hiitish railway systems. The dozen; cabbage, lc pound; cauliflow
sworn in. President-elect Wilson and rising fell to a hush as the chief jus-
Midland Railway company has issued er, $2 per crate; celery, $2.50®4
a letter offering to reinstate the crate; peppers, 30c pound; rhubarb,
M adero’ s Guard Prom oted.
Falls 17 Floors; R olls Cigarette.
offending guard, Richardson, whose $2.75 per box; sprouts, 10c; toma
Mexico City— Major Cardenas, who
New York John Brunnon, a marble dismissal because he refused to violate toes, $2 per box; garlic, 5® 6c pound;
was in charge o f the escort o f Fran worker, fell from the 17th floor o f the the company's written regulations at turnips, 90c®$1 per sack; parsnips,
90c®$1; carrots, 90c®$l.
cisco Madero and Jose Pino Suarez on Municipal building to the bottom of the order o f his foreman, led the rail
Onions—Oregon, $1 per sack.
way
men
to
threaten
a
strike
in
order
the day they were killed, was promo an elevator shaft and treated his ex
Potatoes — Jobbing prices: Bur
The
ted from the rural guard to the same perience so lightly that those who ran to compel his reinstatement.
rank in the regular army.
A general to his aid found him rolling a cigar- company makes certain stipulations, banks, 50c per hundred.
Poultry— Hens 16c; broilers, 22c;
inclination to recognize General Huer» ette and casually inquiring if an am- which it is believed will be accepted.
turkeys,
live,
18®'20c;
dressed,
ta’s administration is being manifest bulance could be summoned.
Much
choice, 25c; ducks, 17c; geese, nom
ed by the rebels in all parts o f the re shorter falls have taken scores o f lives
Jail Preferred to W ife.
inal.
public. Nearly all the rebel leaders on the recent skyscraper buildings,
Des Moines, la.—John Davis was
Eggs Fresh locals, candled. 19c
have now fallen in line. Many o f the but Brunnon was saved from being sentenced to a year in the penitentiary
rebels, however, display sensitiveness dashed to pieces because he landed in the District court here Monday for per dozen; current receipts, 17® 18c.
Butter—Oregon creamery cubes, 37c
in regard to the amnesty bill, which on a bundle o f empty bags.
He suf wife desertion, after he had told the pound; prints, 39c.
they say wrongly implies their defeat. fered fractures o f the leg.
judge that he preferred hard labor in
Pork— Fancy, 10® 10c per pound.
prison either to returning to Mrs.
Veal— Fancy, 14® 14c per pound.
Foreign Comments Favorable.
Davis or contributing to her support.
Loeb to Be Guggenheim Dirctor.
Hops 1912 crop, prime and choice,
London—That Woodrow Wilson is
New York The resignation o f Wil- Davis was in court a week ago and 16®'18c per pound; 1913 contracts,
splendidly equipped to handle the liam I,oeb, Jr., collector o f the port o f was given that much time to deter 15c.
wheel o f the American ship o f state la New York, has been sent to Washing mine which he would prefer— impris
Wool Early shorn, east o f moun
the opinion here. The Chronicle de ton. Mr. Loob's withdrawal from of onment or reconciliation. His liberty tains, 15® 20c pound.
on
a
bond
qf
$100(1
was
offered
him.
clares: “ Woodrow Wilson represents fice was forecasted recently. A posi
Cattle — Choice steers, $7.50®'8;
the new spirit visible In more than tion as managing director o f the Gug
good, $7 ( i t 7.30; medium. $6.50®7;
one country, but nowhere so clearly as genheim companies, with a few o f
Foreign Steamers Fired On.
choice cows, $6.50® 7; good. $6®6.50;
in America.”
The Daily Gazette which he Is associated as a director,
choice
calves.
Constantinople— French and Italian medium, $5.5(>®6;
says:
“ Woodrow Wilson has Im has been created for him.
Woodrow steamers passing Charkeii have been $8<u 9 ; good heavy calves, $6.50(0'
pressed the Anglo Saxon race o f both Wilson, as president, will act upon the fired upon by the Bulgarians. One 7.50; bulls. $5.60®6.
the old and the new world with his resignation, which Mr. Ix>eb asks to Italian vessel was badly dam aged and
Hogs — Light, $8 ® 8.50; heavy,
sterling honesty.” The Morning Post: have accepted on or before March 8. as a consequence was beached. It is $6.50® 7.
“ Few American presidents have en On that date Mr. Loeb's bond o f reported that British vessels also have
Sheep -Yearling wethers, $."><,! 6.50;
tered office so well equipped.”
$480 ,000 as collector expires.
ewes, $4®5.25; lambs, $6®7.1&.
attracted the fire o f the Bulgarians.
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“What Is It?” I asked him, a s h«
panted up.
"I want you—come along," he whis
pered. and started back, by the way
he had come.
We passed round the right-hand
wing, under my bedroom window, and,
stopped where the yew walk endea'
To right and left of the entrance two
stone fauns leered upon us under the
starlight.
"This thing you call a dog—could
you see It as far as this?"
“No; the angle of the wing pre
vented me."
“You saw It pass In this direction.
Are you certain It did not go back the
way It came?"
“ Yes. I am quite certain."
“Then It must either have turned
up the road. In which case I should
have met It; or down the road, where
you would have seen It as It passed
under your windows; or else have
run straight on. If we take these
facts as proved, It must have ruD
straight on."
“That Is so.”
We had our backs to the laughing
fauns.
Before us lay a broad tri
angle of even snow, with the chapel
and wing of the house for Its sides,
and for Its base the carriage-drive on
which we stood. There was no shrub
or tree In any part of It that might
conceal a fugitive. Close to the wall
of the house ran a path ending In a
small side door. The chapel, which
was Joined to the mansion, had no
entrance on the garden side.
“If It entered this triangle and dis
appeared—for I am certain It was not
here when I ran by—we may con
clude that It found Its way Into the
house. It had no other method of es
cape. Kindly stay here, Mr. Phillips.
This snow Is fortunate, but I wish
the sweepers had not been so con
scientious about their work on the
paths.”
He drew a little electric lantern
from his coat, touched the spring, and
with an eye of light moving before
him, turned Into the path under the
wall.
He walked slowly, bending
double as he swept the brilliant
circle now on the exposed ground,
now on the snow ridges to right and
left. The sills of the ground floor
windows were carefully examined,
and when he reached the door he
searched the single step before It
with minute attention.
A curlour
the corner of the wing came a man.
running with a patter of little strides,
while a dozen yards behind him were
a pair of less active followers. What
they wanted I did not consider; for
at that moment the sight of my own
kind was Joy enough for me. The
electric lamps In the room behind
(Continued.)
me threw a broad golden patch upon
It was a quiet, moonless night, lit the snow, and as the leader reached
by the stars that blinked In their It he stopped, glancing up at where I
thousand constellations. Though the stood. The light struck him fairly
snow lay deep, the air struck mild In the face. It was Addington Peace!
ly. Indeed, If It were freezing. It
“Did you hear that cry?” he panted;
could not have been by more than and then, with a sudden nod of recog
two degrees. Upon the edge of the nition: “I see who it Is, Mr. Phillips
distant cliffs robes of confusing mist —well, and did you hear It?’’
curled In veils as thin as moonlight;
“It came from over there— In the
but In the foreground the yew walks fir avenue,” said I, pointing with a
and aisles of ancient laurel showed trembling finger. “I don’t understand
clearly upon the white carpet. Abyut it. Inspector; I don’t Indeed. There
the central avenue of firs which was something that came up that
carved the gardens Into the dark yew walk behind you about a minute
ness lay Impenetrable pools of shad afterwards. I should have thought It
ow. As I watted, the silence was would have passed you."
startled by a bell. It rang the four
"No, I saw nothing. What was It
quarters In a tinkling measure, fol like?"
lowed by eleven musical strokes. I
“A sort of a dog," I stammered;
knew that the sound must come fr:>m
I for under his steady eye I had not
the little church that lay to my
nerve enough to tell him of my pri
right; but, though I leant from ajy vate imaginings.
window, the angle of the wing In
"A dog—that’s curious. Are all the
which I was, hid the building from
rest of you In bed?”
me.
“ No; they're gambling."
I feel that the story which I have
“Very good. I see there Is a door
now to tell may well turn me Into an
at the back there. Will you come
object for ridicule. I can only de down and let me In, after I've had a
scribe that which I saw; as for tire look around the gardens?”
conclusions at which I arrived there
“ Certainly."
are many more practical people jn
"If you meet any of your friends,
the world than myself who wojld
you need not mention that I have ar
have Judged no differently. At best
rived. Do you understand?”
It was a ghastly business.
I nodded, and he hopped away
I had returned to the dressing-table
across the lawn with his two eom-
and was changing my dress-coat foy a
panlons at his heels.
comfortable smoking-jacket when I
I slipped on an overcoat and made
heard It—a faint and distant cry, yet
a cry which was crowded with such
terror that I clung to a chair with
my white face and goggling eyes star
1 RUSHED TO THE WINDOW, PEERING
ing back at me from the mirror on
OUT INTO THE NIGHT.
the table.
Again It sounded, and
again; then silence fell like the abut
ter of a camera. I rushed to the
window, peering out Into the nl^ht.
The great gardens lay sleeping in
the dusky shadows. There was noth
ing to be heard; nothing moved save
the curling wreaths of mist that i»me
creeping up over the cliffs like the
ghosts of drowned sallormen from
their burial sands below. Could It
have been some trick of the Imagina
tion? Could It—and the suggestion
which I despised thrust itself upon
me— could It bear reference to that
grim tragedy that had been played
In the old fir avenue so many years
ago?
And then I first saw the thing that
came towards me.
It was moving up a narrow path,
hedged with yew, that led from the
gardens and passed to the right of
the wing In which I stood. The yew
had been clipped into walls some five
feet high, but the eastern gales had
beaten out gaps and ragged Indenta
tions In the lines of greenery, so that
In my sideways view of It the path
Itself was here and there exposed.
It was through one of these breaches
In the walls that I noticed a sign of
movement. I waited, straining my
eyes. Yes. there It showed again, a
something, moving swiftly towards my way quietly down the stairs. spectacle he made, this little atom ol
the house with a clumsy rolling From the roulette-room, as I passed a man, as he peeped and peered hit
It, came the chink of money and the way like some slow-hunting beast on
stride.
It was never nearer to me than murmur of merry voices. They would a cold scent.
It was not until he left the path
fifty yards, and the stars gave a not disturb us, that was certain. I
shifty light. Yet it left me with an reached the garden doors In the cen for the snow-covered grass-plot that
Impression that It was about four ter of the main building, turned the I saw him give any sign of success.
Inspector Peace dropped on his
feet In height and of a dull white key, and walked out Into the gloom
knees with a little chirrup of satis
color. I remember that Its body con of a great square porch.
As I have said, the temperature was faction like the note of a bird. Then
trasted plainly with the dark hedges,
but melted Into uncertainty against scarcely below freezing-point, and If he rose again, shaking his head and
a patch of snow. Once It stopped and I shivered In my fur-lined overcoat It staring up at the windows above him
half raised Itself on Its hind legs as was more from excitement than any In a cautious, suspicious manner.
For a good Finally he came slowly back to me,
If listening. Then again It tumbled great chill in the air.
forward 1(1 Its shambling, ungainly twenty minutes I waited listening and with his head on one side, staring at
fashion—now hidden by the yew wall, peering Into the night. It was not a the ground before him.
"You thought It was a dog?" hg
now thrust Into momentary sight by pleasant time, for my nerves were
a ragged gap until It disappeared Jangled, and I searched the shadows asked. “ Why a dog?”
"It looked to me like a big dog—
round the angle of the house. Doubt with timorous eyes, half fearing, half
less It would turn to the left, round expecting. Heaven knows what hide or a wolf,” I told him boldly.
"Whether It be beast or man, oi
the old chapel, across the snow-bound ous apparition. It was with a start
park, and so to the woods—where a which set my heart thumping that I both, I believe the thing that killed
saw Peace turn the corner of the him Is In the house now.”
wolf should be!
I jumped back, staring at him with
I was still staring from the win right-hand wing and come trotting
dow In the blank fear of the unknown, down the drive towards me. There a sudden exclamation.
"Who has been killed?” I stam
when I heard the swift tap of feet was something In his aspect that told
mered out.
upon the road beneath me. Round a story of calamity.
“ Baron Steen. We found him on
the cliffs yonder. He was badly cut
about.”
“It’s Impossible, Inspector," I cried.
“He left the roulette-table not a quar
ter of an hour before you came."
“Ah—he was a cool hand, Mr. Phil
lips. It was like him to put off
bolting till the last minute. The war
rant against him for company frauds
is In my pocket now. But some one
gave the game away to him, for his
yacht Is lying off the beach there,
Worth eat down with pencil with a boat from her waiting at tha
BORROWING AS A FINE ART and Mrs.
patiently made an alphabetical list foot of the cliff. But we've no tlms
Proof That This Bad Habit Is Impos of all the articles she could remem to lose— come along.”
ber.
sible to Eradicate In Boms
Before the big garden porch the In
Jimmy took the list and disappeared. spector's two companions were wait
People.
A half-hour later he once more reap ing. He drew them aside for a min
Day by day. as Mrs. Worth s house- peared at the back door and an ute's whispered conversation before
lold and kitchen furniture and grocer nounced:
they separated, and disappeared Into
ies slowly disappeared, she saw that
"Ma says If you’ll lend her the wash the night. What had they done with
the moment approached when a final boiler to carry 'em In. she'll bring 'em the body? I had not the courage to
stand must be made. One morning, home."—Youth's Companion.
Inquire.
when Jimmy, son of the borrower, ap
We entered the house, moving very
peared at the back door with the state
softly. In the hall Peace took me by
First
Use
of
Asphalt.
ment. “ Ma wants the wash-boiler," Mrs
the arm.
Asphalt, with which so many roads
Worth determined to act.
"You’re a bit shaken, Mr. Phillips,
"You tell your ma that when she are paved, was found by accident. and I'm not surprised. But I want
brings back what she has already bor Many years ago. In Switzerland, nat your assistance badly. Can you pull
rowed, I will lend her the boiler.” ural rock asphalt was discovered, and yourself together and help me to see
In a little while Jimmy reappeared for more than a century It was used this through?"
"Ma wants to know what she bor for the purpose of extracting the rich
“TO do what I can."
stores of bitumen It contained. In
row-ed."
"Take me up to your room, then.”
’♦here Is a quart of flour.” began time it was noticed that pieces of rock
We were In luck, for we tip-toed
___
Mrs Worth, "a peck of potatoes, a cup which fell from the wagons and were ap the great stairs and down the
of sugar, a can of coffee, a half-pound I crushed by the wheels formed a mar- long passages without meeting a guest
of lard, some onions, and butter and velously fine road surface when
or servant. Once in my room, the In
spices: the screw-driver, the hatchet, slated by the heat of the sun. A prop spector walked across and pushed
a pair of scissors"—she paused, recol er road of asphalt rock was then the electric bell. Three, four minutes
leettng—"three spools of thread, a pa made, following upon the discovery, went by before the summons was an
and In 1854 an experimental roadway swered. and then It was by a flushed
per of needles, and—”
But Jimmy was gone. Presently he was laid In Paris. From that tlms the and disordered footman who bounced
use of rock asphalt for the making of Into the room and halted, staring open-
rapped on the back door again.
"lta says for you to writs am down roads and pavements has Increased mouthed from me to my companion.
| and extended to many countries
l forgot some of saa"
(C B K O N IC L X a TO BE CONTTM L'ED.)
THE TERROR
IN THE SNOW