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Company Builds LAND IN SIGHT AS LINER SINKS Power Big Generating Plant 9 5 4 Lost W hen Empress of Ireland Is Rammed By Collier at Mouth of St. Lawrence River. BIG STEAMER GOES DOWN IN 14 MINUTES Storstad Tears Great Hole in Side of Canadian Vessel—Explosion Adds to Horror In Foggy Stream—Rescuers on Scene In 20 Minutes, But Too Late. Springfield— In anticipation o f the early operation o f the Booth-Kelly Lumber company’s mill, requiring the furnishing o f a large amount o f elec trical energy, the Oregon Power com pany is making extensive improve ments to its Springfield plant. A fuel bin, 50 by 70 feet and more than 40 feet high, has just been com pleted east o f the power house, and the j conveyor systems are in place. One long trough leads from the Booth-Kelly mill, across the millrace, to the top o f the main bin. Through the length of this bin, in a tunnel especially con structed, another system o f chains hauls the sawduBt and planer shavings to an elevator for lifting to the auxil iary bin from which the furnaces are automatically fed. All o f this machinery has been re ceived and the chains are in place. Each unit will be driven by its own electric motor. Within the power house, the dutch ovens o f the furnaces are being over hauled and given new linings o f fire brick. New spouts are being installed to lead from the main supply o f fuel, Rimouski, Quebec — Sinking in 90 liner Alsatian, which was lying at the The first-class and injured feet o f water within 15 minutes after wharf. passengers were transferred in auto being rammed amidships in the upper mobiles and other vehicles to the reacheB o f the St. Lawrence river Chateau Frontenac. A staff o f doc early Friday, the Canadian Pacific tors and .nurses took charge o f the in __________________ liner Empress o f Ireland carried down jured. Managing towns is a new profession with her more than 900 o f her passen Action of Collier Costs just beginning to open for young men, gers and crew. O f the 1387 persons Lives of M any Passengers according to “ Choosing a Calling,” a on board only 433 are known to have Quebec— The story o f a tremendous booklet just issued by the University been saved, making the probable death list 954. explosion on board the Empress o f Ire o f Oregon at Eugene for high school Looming up through the river mists land after she was hit by the Storstad students. In Oregon, La Grande and as the Empress o f Ireland was lying one or two other cities o f good size to, waiting for the 4fog to lift or day was told by Philip Lawler, a steerage have placed the administration of town to break, the Danish collier Storstad passenger from Brantford, Ont. Law- business in the hands o f a business crashed bow on into the side o f the big ! ler was on his way to England with manager, and their example seems Canadian liner, striking her about | his w ife and Bon. likely to be followed widely in the midway o f her length and ripping her “ People were simply shot out o f the state. An ardent advocate o f this side open clear to the stern. new mode o f running towns is Profes The crash occurred not far from the j ship into the sea by the explosion,” sor Don C. Sowers, the municipal ex shore off Father Point, 150 miles from Mr. Lawlor said. “ I was pushed over- pert secured by the state university Quebec, which the Empress o f Ireland \ board with my w ife and boy. The boy from the New York bureau o f muni left the night before, bound for Liver could swim, so I tried to take care of cipal research, whose business it is to pool, and 10 miles from this point on give free counsel to Oregon communi the St. Lawrence. In reality, there i my wife, but she slipped from my ties in administrative matters. fore, although the liner was heading grasp and sank.” “ Choosing a Calling” says: for the sea and the collier coming in Dr. Johnston, chief medical officer “ Within the last few years hundreds from it, the disaster was not one o f on the Empress, said that had not the of American cities have altered their the ocean, but o f the river. Unlike Storstad backed out so soon from the charters and placed their corporate in the Titanic’s victims, the Empress o f Empress, a large number o f the pas terests in the hands o f city managers, Ireland’s lost their lives within sight j sengers would have been saved. He o f shore in land-locked waters. said that when the collier pulled her Concrete Vault To Be Immediately the ship’s crew re- j self free the sea surged into the hole Opened in 2 9 1 4 -M a y b e covered from the shock o f the collision she had torn in the side o f the Em and it was seen the liner had received j press and the liner quickly sank Eugene— If a little building o f solid a vital blow, a wireless “ S. O. S. ” ! “ Virtually every leading officer of call was sounded. the Salvation Army in Canada is- concrete lasts through ten centuries, The hurried prayer o f the sea was gone,” said K. A. McIntyre, o f Tor future generations will have permis picked up by the govtifiment mail ten onto, who was saved. “ Out o f our sion 1000 years hence to open a vault der Lady Evelyn here and the govern Salvation party o f 150 on board, prob in the new Hope Abbey mausoleum, which stands virtually completed in ment pilot boat Eureka at Father ably less than 20 were rescued. Point. Both sped to the rescue, arriv “ I was on the upper deck and there the Masonic cemetery in Eugene, and ing 20 minutes after the collision, j fore had a better chance to get to obtain documents o f the present-day So deep was the wound o f the Em safety than those in the lower berths. hermetically sealed within. "T o be opened in 2914,” is to be press, however, and so fast the inrush The water came in through the port o f water, that long before either of holes o f the lower decks before the deeply engraved upon the marble face the rescue boats could reach tho scene passengers there realized their dan o f one o f the columbarium niches which honeycomb the streuture, com the liner had gone down. ger. Only floating wreckage and a few j “ I was aroused from sleep by the pleted at a cost o f $40,000. The urn lifeboats and rafts from the steamer, impact and awakened the others in my containing the records will be sealed Thursday. buoying up less than a third o f those cabin. who had set sail on her, were Tto be j “ I grabbed a life preserver and found. The rest had sunk with the went out to the deck. On deck there Queen and Maids o f Honor Tour. liner, had been crushed to death in the were no life belts and quite a number Portland—Queen Thelma, queen o f Storstad’s impact with her, or had j o f people were standing about appar Rosaria, by virtue o f her victory in been forced from exhaustion and ex ently unable to determine what to do. the recent voting contest, and her 11 posure in the ice-chilled Northern w a I gave my belt to a woman o f our ters to loose their hold on bits o f party. I tied the belt on her m yself.” maids, who ranked with her as the 12 most popular maidens in the race, wreckage that had supported them and j have been showered with entertain had drowned. ment almost every day and night since Only a few persons were picked up An dree’s Hal loon Once their elevation to royal eminence. by the Storstad, which was badly More Reported fou n d They have started on their triumphant crippled herself by the collision, and Stockholm, Sweden — What is be journey, during which they will make these were brought here by the collier, together with those saved by the Eu lieved to be the remains o f the balloon calls at the leading cities o f the Coast and where they will be entertained in reka and the Lady Evelyn. in which Professor Salamon A. Andree Twenty-two o f the rescued died ascended from Dane’s Island, near lavish elegance At each stop they will sing the praises o f Oregon and the from injury or exposure. The others, Spitzbergen, July 11, 1897, in an at rose festival. At each city Queen most o f whom had jumped into the boats or plunged into tho water scant tempt to reach the North Pole, have Thelma will plant a choice Portland ily clad, were supplied freely with been found in a forest in Eastern Si rose as a souvenir o f the trip and a such clothing as the town had, and beria, according to a telegram re g ift to the hostess city. later those who were able to travel 1 ceived at the Swedish foreign office were placed on beard a train and start Polk to Exhibit at Fair. from Yakutz. Investigation o f the re ed for Quebec. Ruena Vista — Preparations are un ported discovery has been ordered by der way by the farmers and livestock the government. breeders o f Southern Polk county to The A rctic explorer was accom Quebec and Levin dive panied by two scientists, and after make a big exhibit o f products at the A id to 396 Survivors they left Dane’ s Island no report was Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915. The breeders o f goats, sheep, horses, Quebec - A full equipment o f am received from the (tarty. Although traces o f Andree's balloon cattle and hogs expect to have their bulances supplied by the city o f Que Growers o f bec, by the town o f Levis, on the op have been reported at various places, stock well represented. posite side o f the river, and the army and while even the body o f the famous hops, prunes and grain say they will medical service corps, was awaiting at Swedish Arctic explorer was said to collect samples and send them to San Levis when the special survivors’ have been discovered on the coast o f | Francisco in a gigantic lot from Polk train arrived here. The passengers Labrador, nothing has ever been es- | county. The committee for the county, were immediately transferred to the tahlished definitely us to what actually | recently appointed at a Salem meet ferry steamer, which had been wait happened to the expedition or what ing, is active in the Fair preparation work. ing to facilitate the transfer to Que became o f the balloon. bec. Jackson County Plans Exhibit. It was a pitiful sight when the Huerta Would Relinquish Rower. Ashland — Instead o f entering a ferry steamer Polaris docked on the Vera Cruz Re(k>rts reached here Quebec side and the 396 men and Rogue River Valley general display at Thursday through private sources that women saves! from the Empress o f Ire the Panama Exposition, Jackson land trooped falteringly down the President Huerta has committed him- j county will have a specific exhibit em self to turn over the government to a gangway. Few o f them possessed a bracing agriculture and horticulture, complete outfit o f clothes, the major commission composed o f members of lumbering nnd mining. Work has be the various factions in the republic. ity wearing only shirts, trousers and gun in a horticultural way, especially He is also said to have agreed to relin boots. in the line o f processed fruits. This Heads were bared as the injured quish power to any successor which specialty is under the supervision o f were brought ashore. The second and such a commission might select. H, O. Frohbach, o f this city, the Coun The report further says that Huer third-class passengers and the crew ty court having appropriated a sum for ta's determination has already been were made comfortable on the Allan the purpose. Strawberries and cherries communicated to the Mexican delega are being handled in this manner, and tes and probably direct to the Wash Only Two Children Saved. other fruits will be handled in season. ington government. Quebec — Only two children are Railroad Situation Told. known to have been saved from the Oregon llox Wins Point. Cottage Grove "The railroads of wreck o f the Empress o f Ireland. A Washington. D. C. Representatives thrilling rescue was one o f these little Hawley and Sinnott, of Oregon, and the nation can do nothing until it '* 8-year-old (¡racie Hanagan, daughter Raker, of California, appeared Thurs again possible for them to borrow o f the leader o f the Salvation Army day before the house committee on money at a reasonable rate o f inter band. Her father and mother were coinage, weights and measures and est.” said F. L. Burkhalter, division drowned, (¡racie was not told o f her urged a favorable report on the Raker superintendent o f the Southern Pacific, loss. Asked how she was saved (¡racie bill adopting the Oregon apple box as in his talk before the Commercial club replied: "O h, I saved m yself.” She the standard container for apples recently. “ While government control is perfectly proper, it has. during its was entirely unconcerned, apparently throughout the U nit«! States. not realizing what she had been A fter hearing their argument the experimental stages, gone to such an through. She had clung to a piece of committee agreed to take the bill up extreme that money is hard to get to drift until picked up. for action immediately and the W est put into railroad construction work. ern members were led to believe the The Southern Pacific is anxious to make many necessary im provements." Notable* Among Missing. bill will be favorably reported. New York— Laurence S. B. Irving. 1 Full Inquiry Demanded. State Reserves Right. who was a victim o f the Empress of j Ireland, was an actor, author and man- ! London — The London morning pa Salem — That persons desiring to ager. His plays are widely known. pers, in commenting editorially on the mine river beds in the state must ap In 1908 and 1909 he presented sketches disaster, call for a thorough investiga ply to the state land board is the o f his authorship in England and tion as to whether the bulk-heads were opinion rendered by Attorney General America. On May 3, 1910, Mr. Irvirg closed, and if so, how it was that the Crawford, at the instance of W. C. addressed the Equal Suffrage league at most modern system o f water-tight Hodges, o f Los Angeles. While the New York. Sir Henry Seton-Karr is compartments failed to keep the ship mining laws provide that any citizen a son o f the late George Berkeley from sinking. may take up as a claim any unappro Seto?,-Karr. In 1906 he was defeated The claim for the Empress o f Ire priated part o f the public domain, they for member o f Parliament in the gen land will be the heaviest sustained by do not apply to river beds, which are era! election. In 1910 he attended a the Lloyds underwriters since the sink owned by the state and are not a part dinner to Colonel Roosevelt in Ixmdon. , ing o f the Titanic. o f the public domain. down to the furnaces themselves. The old spouts ta|iered, and were found un satisfactory, in that the fuel frequent ly choked. An auxiliary pump has been in stalled for a boiler feed, as a guard against delay if the regular pump fails. “ We are taking every precaution to prevent a delay in our service,” said W. L. McCulloch, chief engineer in charge o f the steam plants o f the Oregon Power company. “ We are placing duplicate machinery in many instances, just to provide for emerg encies. “ Another plan we have adopted in the interests o f efficiency o f operation 23 is that o f shifting men from one plant [ SYNOPSIS. to another, so that they may become ; thoroughly familiar with each o f the : C o w b o y s o f th e F ly in g H e a rt ra n ch are h ea rtb rok en o v e r th o loss o f their m u ch - plants— that at Springfield, at Albany, prized p h o n o g ra p h b y the d e fe a t o f their and at Dallas. W e want all the em ch a m p io n In a fo o t -r a c e w ith the c o o k o f the C entip ed e ra n ch . A hou se p a rty is ployes o f the company to be able to on at tile F ly in g H eart. J. W a llin g fo rd shift from one plant to another with Speed, ch e e r leader a t V ale, an d C u lv e r o vin g to n , in te r-co lle g ia te ch a m p ion ru n out difficulty, should occasion arise.” C ner, are e xp e cte d . H elen H lake, S p e e d ’ s In pursuance o f this policy, C. L. sw eeth ea rt, -suggests to Jean C hap in , s is ter o f the o w n e r o f the ra n ch , that aho Brower, chief engineer o f the Dallas Induce C o vin g to n , her lover, to win b ack plant, was in Springfield the first of th e p h o n o gra p h . H elen d e cla re s that if C o v in g to n w o n 't run. Speed will. The the week. c o w b o y s a re h ila riou s o v e r the p rosp ect. Speed and his va let, I.a rry G lass, tra in e r at Yale, a rriv e. H elen B la k e asks Speed, w h o has p osed to h er as an ath lete, to ra ce a g a in st th e C en tip ed e m an. T h e co w b o y a Join in the a p p eal to W a lly , and fe a rin g that H elen will find him out, he ’onsenta. H e Insist, h o w e v e r, that he shall be entered as an u n k n ow n , figu rin g that C o v in g to n w ill a rriv e In tim e to take his p lace. F resno, g lee clu b sin ger from S ta n fo rd u n iv e rsity a n d in love w ith H elen, tries to d iscre d it Speed with the ladles and the c o w b o y s . S peed an d G la ss put In the tim e th e y are su p p osed to be tra in in g p la y in g ca rd s in a seclu d ed spot. T h e c o w b o y s tell G la ss it is up to him to ■ce that S peed w ins the race. W illie, the gunm an, d e cla re s the tra in er w ill g o b ack ast p a ck ed In ice, if Speed fails. A t e le gram co m e s fro m C o v in g to n s a y in g he is in Jail a t O m a h a f o r ten d a y s. G la ss in a p a n ic fore.-s S peed to begin tra in in g In earnest. T h e c o w b o y s fo r c e Speed to eat in the tra in in g q u a rters and p rep a re him a diet o f v e ry rare m eat. M iss B la k e b ak es a ca k e fo r S peed and is offen d ed when I-nrry re fu se s to a llo w him to eat it. C o v in g to n a rriv e s on cru tch e s. He sa y s ho b rok e his to e In O m aha. M rs. K eap, en g ag ed to C o v in g to n and in love w ith J a ck C hapin, e x p o s e s S peed to H elen, b eca u se S peed had failed to p r e vent C o v in g to n from Joining the p a rty. Speed d ecid es t o crip p le him self, but Skinner, the C entip ed e ru nner, a p p ears with a p ro p o sitio n to th ro w the race. G la ss a ttem p ts to e sca p e a t night, but is captured. F resn o g iv e s G a llag h er, the C entipede fo re m a n , $.”00 to bet against Speed fo r him H elen B la k e h ea rs o f it and bets i.MJO on Speed. G la ss reco g n iz e s S kinner as a p ro fe s sio n a l runner. Managing o f Towns Is Recognized Profession K V thus copying a system that has proved efficient in Germany. In Germany, a city manager who has shown special ability at the head o f the government o f a small city may reasonably expect a call to the executive chiar o f a larg er municipality, and if he has the qualities he will be promoted from city to city with increasing remuneration, both in money and in honor. Not only is the city manager him self a trained man, but he wishes to employ trained men in municipal posi tions. He cannot succeed if he expects political heelers to do high-class work. A glance into the future reveals a calling here which the young man of the present day has still a chance to enter on the ground floor and which will lead to positions o f dignity and honor.” Courses o f training suggested for city managerships are economics, po litical science, sociology, history, com merce, English and journalism. B o y s’ Short Course in Agriculture June 13 to 30 CHAPTER XVII.— Continued. Instantly a full lunged roar went up that rolled away to the foot-hills, and the runners sped out of the pandemon ium, their legs twinkling against the dust-colored prairie. Down to the turn they raced. Speed was leading. Fright had acted upon him as an elec tric charge; his terror lent him wings; he was obsessed by a propelling force outside of himself. Naturally strong, lithe, and active, he likewise pos sessed within him the white-hot flame of youth, and now, with a nameless fear to spur him on, he ran as any healthy, frightened young animal would run. At the second turn Skin ner had not passed him, but the thud of his feet was close behind. This unparalleled phenomenon sur prised Lawrence Glass perhaps most :of all. Was this a miracle? He turned to Covington, to find him danc ing madly, his crutches waving over his head, in his eyes the stare of a maniac. His mouth was distended, and Glass reasoned that he must be shouting violently, but could not be sure. Suddenly Covington dashed to the turn whence the runners would be revealed as they covered the last half lap, for nothing was distinguish able through the fence, burdened by human forms, and Larry lumbered aft er him, ploughing his way through the .crowd and colliding with the box upon ■ which stood the Echo Phonograph, of ■New York and Paris. He hurled Mariedetta out of his path with brutal ■ disregard, but even before he could In connection with the regular sum mer session o f the Oregon Agricultur al College, a two weeks’ short course in Agriculture will be given for boys o f the Seventh, Eighth, and High School grades. A special illustrated circular o f 16 pages has been issued and mailed to all county school super intendents and to city and village su perintendents and principals. Copies may be secured o f them or o f the di rector o f the summer school, Prof. E. D. Ressler, Corvallis, Oregon. The circular contains a description o f the instruction to be given, full in formation in regard to R. R. rates, cost o f board and room, supplies and clothing to be brought by boys, meth od o f application for enrollment, etc. There are also pictures o f the boys o f last year’s course in class, laboratory, field, swimming pool, on hikes and at games. Thirty-five boys, representing over a dozen counties, attended the first session. Accommodations for one hundred boys are provided this year. Four to five hours each day, includ ing Saturday, are devoted to study and the remainder o f the time to play, with Wednesday and Saturday after noons free. A general leader, assisted by three to five senior or graduate col lege boys, will keep careful oversight o f the boys day and night, both to keep them from getting into mischief and to see that each boy gets his share o f all the work and fun. The boys will be organized into groups, accord ing to age and development, for both the instruction and play. Each group will have one o f these leaders who will be a sort o f big brother. Any boy in Oregon is eligible, but not more than one will be accepted from one district or ward school in the towns so long as there are applicants from schools not represented. All ap plicants must be approved by the coun ty or town superintendent, both as to character and ability to profit by the course. No tobacco users will be ac- | cepted. Boys, teachers, parents or others I who may be interested should secure a copy o f this circular. (iillnetters Will Appeal. Astoria— A mass meeting o f gillnet- ters was held at the Fishermen’ s Union hall to discuss the recent order issued by Colonel McKinstry, o f the United States Engineers, prohibiting gillnet- ters from drifting in the channel close to the mouth of the river. Secretary Lorentsen reported that he interview ed Colonel McKinstry and was told he could not change the order, which came from Washington. The gillnetters will not resist the order, but will appeal to the secretary o f war, with affidavits from steamer masters and pilots. Defendants Win Case. Roseburg — After a deliberation of less than 20 minutes a jury in the Cir cuit court recently found a verdict for the defendants in the case o f R. S. Howard, receiver o f the Title. Guaran tee & Trust company, o f Portland, against L. R. and Melvina Ferbrache. o f Glendale. Suit was brought by the plaintiffs to recover the sum o f $30,- 000, alleged to be due as principal and interest on a promissory note. The defendants made a claim that the note had been paid. The case will be appealed to the Supreme court. termination. Down through the noisy crowd he pounded at the heels of his antagonist, then out upon the second lap. But now his fatigue increased rapidly, and as it increased, so did Skinner’s lead. At the second turn Wally was hopelessly outdistanced, and began to sob with fury, in an ticipation of the last, long, terrible stretch. Back toward the final turn they came, the college man desper ately laboring, the cook striding on like a machine. Wally saw the rows of forms standing upon the fence, but of the shouting he heard nothing Skinner was twenty yards ahead now, and flung a look back over his shoul der. As he turned into the last straightaway he looked back again and grinned triumphantly. Then— J. Wallingford Speed gasped, and calling upon his uttermost atom of strength, quickened the strides of his leaden legs. Skinner had fallen! A shriek of exultation came from the Flying Heart followers; it died as the unfortunate man struggled to his feet, and was off again before his op ponent had overtaken him. Down the alley of human forms the two came; then as their man drew ahead for an instant or two, such a bedlam broke forth from Gallagher's crew that Law rence Glass, well started on his over land trip, judged that the end had come. But Skinner wavered. His ankle turned for a second time; he seemed about to fall once more. Then he righted himself, but he came on hob bling. The last thirty yards contained the tortures of a lifetime to Wally Speed. His lungs were bursting, his head was rolling, every step required a separate and concentrated effort of will. He knew he was wobbling, and felt his knees ready to buckle beneath him, but he saw the blue tight stretched ribbon just ahead, and continued to lessen the gap between himself and Skinner until he felt he must reach out wildly and grasp at the other man's clothing. Helen’s face stood out from the blur, and her lips cried to him. He plunged forward, his out- flung arm tore the ribbon from its fastening, and he fell. But Skinner was behind him. CHAPTER XVIII. HE only thing in the world that the victorious Speed wanted was to lie down and stretch out and allow those glowing coals in his chest to cool off. But rough hands seized him, and he found himself astride — - . IX. of Stover's shoulders and gyrating about the Echo Phonograph in the midst of a war-dance. He kicked violently with his spiked shoes, whereat the foreman bucked like a wild horse under the spur and dropped him, and he staggered out of the crowd, where a girl flew to him. "Oh, Wally,” she cried, “I knew you could !” He sank to the ground, and she knelt beside him. Skinner was propped against the corral fence opposite, his face distort ed with suffering, and Gallagher was rubbing his ankle. ” 'Taint broke, I reckon," said Gal lagher, rising. "I wish to hell it w as!” He stared disgustedly at his fallen champion, and added: "W e don't want y'all for a cook no more, Skinner. You never was no good no how. He turned to Helen and handed her a double handful of bank notes, as Berkeley Fresno buried his hands in his pockets and walked away. "Here's your coin, miss. If ever you get an other hunch, let me know. An' here's yours, Mr. Speed; it's a weddin'-pres- ent from the Centipede.” He fetched a deep sigh. "Thank the Lord we'll git somethin' fit to eat from now o n !” Speed staggered to Skinner, who was still nursing his injury, and held out his hand, whereat the cook winked his left eye gravely. “ The best man won," said Skinner, reach his point of vantage the sprint "and say—there's a parson at Albu ers burst into the homestretch. Larry querque." Then he groaned loudly, Glass saw it all at a glance— Speed and fell to massaging his foot. There came a fluttering by his side, was weakening, while Skinner was running easily. Nature had done her and Miss Blake's voice said to him. utmost; she could not work the im with sweetness and with pity: "I'm so sorry you lost your posi possible. As they tore past, Skinner tion. Mr. Skinner. You're a splendid was ahead. The air above the corral became j runner!” "Never mind the Job. miss. I've got blackened with hats ns if a flock of vultures had wheeled suddenly; the something to remember it by.” He shriek of triumph that rose from the pointed to a sash which lay beside Centipede ranks warned the trainer him. “The loser gets the ribbon, that he had tarried too long. Heavily | miss." he explained gallantly. Off to the right there came a new he set off across the prairie for New outcry, and far across the level prairie York. The memory of that race awakened a strange sight was revealed to the Speed from his slumbers many times j beholders. A fat man in white flan in later years. When he found th e nels was doubling and dodging ahead brown shoulder of h is rival drawing of two horsemen, and even from a past he realized that for him the end considerable distance it could plainly of all things was at hand. And yet. be seen that he was behaving with re be it said to his credit, he held dog markable agility for one so heavy. gedly to h is task, and began to fight Repeatedly his pursuers headed him his waning strength with renewed de off. but he rushed past them, seeming i ly possessed by the blind sense of di rection that guides the homing pigeon or the salmon in its springtime run. He was headed toward the east. "Why, It’s L arry!” ejaculated Speed. "And Cloudy and Carara." “ Wally, your man has lost his rea son !” Chapin called. At that Instant the watchers saw the Mexican thunder down upon Glass, his lariat swinging about his head. Lazily the rope uncoiled and settled over the fleeing figure, then, amid a cloud of dust, Carara's horse set itself upon its haunches and the white-clad figure came to the end of Its flight. There was a violent strug gle, as if the cowbody had hooked a leaping tuna, cactus plants and sage brush were uprooted, then the pony began to back away, always keeping the lariat taut. But Glass was no easy captive, as his threshing arms and legs betrayed, and even when he was dragged back to the scene of the race, panting, grimy, dishevelled, the rope still about his waist, he seemed obsessed by that wild Insanity for flight. He was drenched with perspi ration, his collar was dangling, one end of a suspender trailed behind him. At sight of Speed he uttered a cry, then plunged through the crowd like a bull, but the lariat loop slipped to the neck and tightened like a hangman's noose. “ Larry,” cried his employer, sharply, “have you lost your head?" “ Ain't they g g-got you yet?” queried the trainer in a strangling voice. “ You idiot, I w on !” “ W hat!” "I won—easy.” “ You w on !” Larry's eyes were starting from his head. "He sure did,” said Stover. Didn’t you think he could?" Glass apprehended that look of sus- « “ I'm So Sorry You Lost Your Posi tion, Mr. Skinner.” picion. “ Certainly!” said he. “ Didn’t I say so, all along? Now take that clothes line off of me; 1’vo got to run some more.” That evening J. Wallingford Speed and Helen Blake sat together in the hammock, and much of the time her hand was in his. From the bunk- house across the court-yard floated the voice of the beloved Echo Phono graph, now sad, now gay; now shril ling the peaceful air with Mme. Mel ba's “ Holy City,” now waking tne echoes with the rasping reflections of “ Silas on Fifth Avenue.” To the spellbound audience gathered closet beside it, it was divine; but deep as was their satisfaction, it could not compare with that of the tired young son of Eli. Ineffable peace and con tentment were his; the whole wide world was full of melody. “ And now that I’ve told you what a miserable fraud I am, you won’t stop loving m e?" he questioned. Helen nestled closer and shook her head. There was no need for words. Jack Chapin came out upon the porch with the chaperon. “ Well, Free- no caught his train,” he told them. "And we have had such a glorious drive coming back! The night is splendid!” “ Yes, so nice and m oonlight!” Wal ly agreed pleasantly, whereat Jack Chapin laughed. “ It's as black at pitch.” “ Why, so it is !” Then as a fresh song burst forth from the very heart of the machine, he murmured affec tionately: “ By Jove! there goes 'The Baggage Coach Ahead' once more! That makes ten times.” “ It's n beautiful thing, isn’t it?” Miss Blake sighed dreamily. "I—I believe I'm learning to like It myself,” her lover agreed. “ Poor Frez!” • • • • • • • • • • The bridesmaids wore white organ die and carried violets. THE END. Down the Scale. A certain bride is very much in love with her husband and very willing to admit it. She likes to sound his praises to her mother and to her girl friends She has a number of original expressions. When her husband Is good she says he is “ chocolate cake, three layers deep.” When he is very good he is "chocolate cake, four layers deep.” and so on up the scale. Occa sionally, however, things take a turn. The bride's mother dropped In the other day. The bride was a trifla peevish, but her mother pretended not to notice this. “ And how was John today?” was her inquiry. "Chocolate, four layers deep?" “ No." "Three layers deep?” “ No.” "Two layers deep?” "N o.” This with a pout. "Then what is he?” “ Dog biscuit!"— National Monthly. NOT AN OCCASION FOR MiRTH standing on thp seat. She was some-' Not far from Washington square ______ __ what uneasy at the unusual means of there Is a little house where a young Thoughtless People L a ugh ed at Hu locomotion, and being of a loving dis- mother lay dead and a sick Infant was morous S ight but T h e r e W a s position, she «ould snuggle up to the crying for comfort, and the man with Deep Pathos in Incident. i driver and lick across the face, and the queer passenger had that picture l.a (irande Hen* Prolific. ____ j nose his hair whenever the swaying before him while nanny and the on- La Grande— One hundred eggs from Why will we be so much amused vehicle gave her a chance To a bus .lookers made free with his dignity.— four hens in one month, with one con tributing two eggs the last day, is the at the other fellows woe? The other full of people with nothing to do but. New York Press. ----------------------------- performance o f four Silver Campines fellow In this story was driving, and look on it was very funny, and calls Defining a Dentist, owned by C. A. Nichols, o f this city. the horse was going at a clip, to the and Jeers to the busy driver did not One who pulls out the teeth of oth- The eggs are so fertile that an average driver hud his hand* full to steer add to his peace of mind. But had o f 95 per cent o f chicks have been safely through the crowded streets the hooters only known that the goat era to obtain employment for his own. hatched. These are the first Campines The only other occupant of the con was being hurried through the city —London Evening Standard. "Do you keep polos la the bean?” in this section o f the Grand Ronde •syance was a large nanny goaL j streets to sav* a UlUa Ufa! valley. | «
