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
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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
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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-
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“ 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!”
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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