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About The Columbia register. (Houlton, Columbia County, Or.) 1904-1906 | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1905)
"Z- J? iaa j a. i a a !- - 1 yOLANBE I nV WTTTTill TIT CHArTEIl VIII.-Contlnued. KU wis vtrr lndlmintM said young !slle, laughing, "when iu wouldn't ! your nam put on the tablet iu Uit choul house." "What tablet r said' Vol. n.U. -Oh. tablet saying that Mr. Melville had built tba aebool and presented It to ttl pOp of GreSS." "Ami I never contributed farthing r ht said. "Hb did the whole thing. Well, now, that shows bow artificial the por tion U; and, necessarily, It won't last We have for so long been hypocrite (or tb public good let ua aay It waa for the public food; but tbera uiuat coma an nd.H It waa really a moat enjoyable, confi dential, pleasant Tfnlng; but It had sU) to an rtid; and when the two young men loft. both Yolanda and her father acconipauled thetu to lha door. Tba moon waa risen nw; and tha long, wld glen I'Miktxl beautiful enough. "Well, dow, tr. Melville," aald Win terbourtie, aa they were going away, "whenever y.m hare an Idle evening. I liopa you. will rvuK-mW ua and take 1'lty ou iu." "Voii iimy see too mmh of me." "That U Impossible." aald Yolande, julrkly: and thn ahe added, very pret tily: "You know, Mr. Melville, If you ne often enough you will find It quit natiirnl that Ihincan should play for you Melville's Wel.v.ms Home." lie tHid for a moment uncertain; It waa the first sign of embarrassment be Jia.l shown that nlk'ht. "Well," aald he, "that la the moat friendly thing that haa been paid to me for many a day. Who could resist etii'h ma luvltatlouT Good night good tilght!" CIIAITKK IX. One evening John Shnrtlanda and Jack Melville were tug-ether atandlng at the bvir of the lodge, liMiklng down the glen. The big. burly M. 1. looked Vexed, per turbed, Impatient. "Mr. Melville," he aald. abruptly. In M broad Northumbrian liitouatlou, "will ' ?( '.--" .- . . .a 4 l I I III. I NOT ONK OF THEM AlTKAltS TO you walk down the glen for a bit!" "Yes; but ws should fetch Miss Win tcrlioiirno to show her the skies ou fire." "No; it's about her I want to apeak to jroil. Or, rather," aald bis companion, when they had got aa far na the bridge, ""about her father. Wlnterbourna la an old friend of mine; but the way ha la iroltiR on nt present, shillyshallying, frightened to aay this, frightened to any that, la enough to worry a stronger man than he la Into hla gra-ve. Well, If be won't spenk I will. 1 hV'e mystery! My motto is out with It! And ho would never have got Into thla precious mesa If ho had taken my advice all through.' M civil In wna aurprixed; but he did not Interrupt. John HhortlnmU seemed h trllle angry. "Tho immediate trouble with blm is this: Ought he, or ought ho not, to con fldo certain mutters to you n a friend of young Leslie? Well, I am going to tnko that Into my own band. I am going to tell you the whole atory and a niia crnhlo buxineHS It la." "Io you think thnt Is wise?" 4he younger man siild, calmly. "If there Is anything disagreeable, shouldn't tho knowledge of It bo kept to as few people as possible? I would rather have my llluHlona left The Wlnterbournea have been kind to me since they came here; and It has been delightful to me to look At these two the epectacle of father and daughter " "Oh, hnt I have nothing to aay against either of thiin. I suppono you know that your friend Leslie and Yolande are en gaged?" "I have nndordtood as much." "Hut did he not tell ye?" said ghort lands, with a ataro. . "Well, yea," the other anld, In rather : cold way. "But we did not have much talk about It. Arciilo Leslie la ft very fine fellow; but he and I don't always ;agreo in our ways of looking at things." "Then, nt all events, In order to dls aKreo you must know what his way of looking at things Is; and thnt Is Just the point I'm coming to," said Bhortlands, In hla blunt, dogmatic way. "Yolande Wlnterbourne has boon brought up all her life to believe that her mother died .when she was a child; whereas the moth er is not dead, but very much alive worse lack; and tha point la whether ha .'.-. f"' V. Sii-.. rCv J 1 -'iif1 '" ' '"'V i a i -i j w i mm lm m i - ought to be told, whether ha would con sent to keep thla kuowMge back from Yolande, who would only ba allocked and borrltled by It, Do ya understand T" "Hut, aurely," exclaimed Melville, with wide-open eyea, "surely tha beat thing tha natural thing would ba to tell tba girl beraclf. Brat of all!" "Mao aliva, Wlnterbourna would rath er rut bla throat! XWt you aea that bla affectum for tha girl la quits extraordi nary It la tba sola paasloo of bla Ufa; a neadle-acratch on Yolande' a finger la Uka a knife to bis heart I saaura you tba m leery ha has endured la keeping this secret la beyond anything I no tall you; and I do b1levt ba would go through tha whole thing again Juat that Yolande's mind should be free, happy, careless. When ha goes about with her ha forgets all worry thank goodness for that; and certainly alia Is high-spirited enough for anything; you would think aha bad never known a rara or a trou ble In all her existence; and I suppose that'a about the truth." "I suppose there la no necessity that 1 should know why the girl haa been kept In Ignorance of bcr uiother'a exist ence?" "Oh, I will tell you the story misera ble aa It Is. You cannot Imagine a pleaa anter creature than that was when Win terhourtH) married her. lie waa older thnn alia was; but nut much. It waa neuralgia that began it; ahe suffered horribly. Then some Idiot advised her to drink port wine I suppose the very worst thing she could have tried, for If It bad for gout. It must be bad for rheu matism and neuralgia, and such things. However, It southed her at first, I sup pose; and no doubt she took refuge In It whenever a bad attack cauia on. Hut mind you, It waa not that that played tha mlachlef with her. She herself be came aware that aha waa being tempted to taka too much; for -quite auddenly aha went to her husband, told him frank ly that tha habit waa growing on her, and declared her resolution to break the thing off at once. . ..... . -, , ' IlllSll ill ! 8KK WHAT Ol'tiHT TO HE DONE. "She did that I firmly believe she did keep her resolution to the letter. Hut then the poor wretch had worse and worse agony to bear; and then it waa that somebody or other recommended her to try some of those patent medicines they make up from opium or morphia. I dure aay it was harmless st first No doubt she began with small doses. Hut it seems that those druga are twenty tlmea worse than brandy or whisky In destroying the power of the will; and so I suppose the poor creature went on and ou, Increasing the doses and destroying her brain at the same tlmo, until In the end she was simply a how-less drunkard. It seems miraculous how women can go on destroying themselves with those In fernal drugs without being found out. I don't know whether Wlnterbourne would ever have found It out; for he la nil Indulgent sort of chap, and he was very fond of her; but one night there was a acene at dinner. Then he diseov ered the whole thing. The child was sent away, for fear of further scenes; and this so terrified the mother that she mndo the moat solemn promises never to touch the poison again. Hut by thla time her power of self-control had gone. Man alive, I can t tell ye what Winter bourne had to go through. Ills patience with her was superhuman; and always the promise held out to her was that Yolande waa to be restored to her; and sometimes she succeeded so well that every one was hopeful, and ahe seemed to have quite recovered. Then again there would be another relapse; and a wild struggle to conceal it i from the frlenda of the family; and all the rest of it. "What a life he has led all those ycara trying to get her to live In some safe retreat or other; and then suddenly finding that she had broken out again and gono to some people, Romneys or Romfords, the name is, who have a most pernicious influence over her, and can do anything with her when she Is In that semi-maudlin state. Of course, they uso her to extort money from Winter bourne; and she has drugged half her wits away; and it is easy for them to persuade her that she has been Ill-treat' ed about Yolande. Then ahe will go down to the house, or hunt him out at hla lodgings. There Is only ona fortunate thing that tha Bomfords ara not swart af Ua terror in which ho Uvea f Is land getting to know tha truth, or elsa they would put tba screw on a good deal mora forcibly, 1 reckon." "But that terrorism Is perfectly fright ful " "How ara you to avoid it?" aald Short- Is mla, coolly. "There la tba ona way, of course. There La tha heroic remedy. Tell Yolanda the whole atory; and then, tba next tlma tha stone Is thrown, summon ths police, give tha woman In charge, bind her over in recoruhcancea, and bars sll your namea In tha next day'a paper. pome men could do that interbouma couldn't; he hasn't the nerve." Tha answer to thaa waa a strange one. It waa a remark, or rather an exclama tion, that Melville seemed to make al most to himself. "And not ona of them appears to sea what oi(ght to ba dona!" "What would you do, then?" "IT aald Melville and John Short- landa did not obeerva that the refined, In tellectual fact of hla companion grew a shade paler aa be spoke; "IT I would go straight to tha girl herself, and I would say; That la tba condition In which your mother la; go and aava her!" "Then let ma tall you thla, Mr. Mel ville," aald Shortlanda, "rather than bring euch ehame and horror and suffering on bla daughter, George Wlnterbourna would cut off hla fingers ona by one." CHAPTER X. "Ha might have spared her he might have spared her!" waa Mr. Winter bourne's piteous cry, aa he sst In his friends room, sod gssed out through tha streaming window panes on the dis mal landscape beyond. And who was to tell her? Who was to bring grief and humiliation on that fair young life? Who was to rob her of tha beautiful dream and vision that her mother had always been to her? Not be, for one. He could not do it And then might she not misunderstand all thla that had been done to keep her in Ignorauce. Might she nt be angry at having all her life been surrounded by an atmosphere of concealment? If she were to mistake the reason of her father having stooped to subterfuge and deceit? Waa Y'olando going to deopise biin, then she, the only being In the world whosa opinion he cared for? And always hla speculations, and fear, and anxious con' Jectnres came back to this one point: "He might have spared ber be might have spared her. "Now, look here, Winterbourne," John Khortlanda said. In his plnin-sjNiken way. "If I were you. before I would aay word of this story to Yolande, I would make aure that that would be sufficient for Inllr. He says that Yolande must be told; but will that Bufflce? Is that sll he wanta? If I were in your place I would have a clear understanding. Do you know, I can't help thinking there Is something behind all this that hasn't come out If this young fellow ia really In earnest about Yolande if he Is really fond of her I don't think be would put this stumbling block in the wsy I don't think he would exact this sacrifice from you unless there was some other res son. Yesterday afternoon Melville said as little aa he could. He didn't, like the job. Hut be hinted something about the disagreement between young Ieslie and hla family over this marriage." "I guessed aa much," snid Winter bourne. "Yes, I have suspected it for some time. Otherwise I suppose his father and aunt would have called on Yolande. They knew each other. Yo lande stayed a night at the Towers when Mra. Graham first brought her here until the lodge was got ready "Of course, if the fellow has sny pluck, he won t let that stand in his wsy. Io the meantime, a domestic row isn't pleas ant; and I dare say he la Impatient and angry. Why should he revenge himself on Yolande, one might ask? But that is not the fair way of putting it I can see ona explanation. I didn't see it yes terday; and the fact waa I got pretty wild when I learned how matters stood and my own impresaiou was that kicking was a alght too good for him. I have been thinking over it since, though; the rsln laat night kept me awake. And now I can understand hla saying. 'Well, I mean to marry in spite of them; but I will take care, before 1 marry, to guarJ agaiust any risk of their belug able to taunt me afterward. "When I took this shooting," Wlnter bourne aald, absently, "when the place was described to me. on the voyage out I thought to myself that surely there Y'olande and I would be safe from all anxiety and trouble. And then again up the Nile, day after day I used to think of her being married and settled in this remote place, and used to say to myself that then, at least everything would be right Ami here we are, face to face with more trouble than ever And who is to tell her? The shock will be terrible it may kill her." "Nonsense nonsense! Whoever is to tell her, It must not be you. It will tarn out all right And you, for one, should be very glad that the Maater, aa you call him,. now knows the whole story for after the marriage, whatever hap pens, he cannot come back on you and aay you had deceived him." '"After the marriage! And what aort of a happy life is Yolande likely to lead when his relatives object to her al ready?" "There you are off again! Why, man these things must be taken aa they come. You don't know that they object and I don t believe they can object to her though the old gentleman mayn't quite liKe the color of your politics. But sup posing they do, what's the odds? They can't interfere. You will settle enough on Yolande to let the young couple live comfortably enough. I don't see any dif Acuity about It" - (To ba continued.) Good humor Is the clear blue eky of the soul, highly favorable to the dis coveries and progress of genius. Shaftesbury, OREGON STATE ITEf.IS OF INTEREST TO BROADEN ENGINEER COURSE I increased Attendance at Agricultural College Forcaa Enlargement. Corvallia The proposed expansion of the department of mechanical en glneering at tha college, determined on a. the annualboard meeting, is in part made essential by the largely increased attendance of students, which laat year nearly toadied 700. The present plan waa installed when'the attendance waa leaa than half that Dumber. While tha change is being made, it is planned to broaden and perfect tha course of instruction. The matter ia in the bands of a committee that, with Prealdent Gatcb, ia to perfect plana. One feature in contemplation ia the ad dition of a graduate year to the coarse, so that many atudenta now going abroad (or farther instruction, euch as Cornell, Berkeley, Stanford, and ao on, can get it at their home college. President Gatch't recommendations on the aub- ect embody the establishment of s foundry and pattern making course. Action taken for the improvemsnt of the mining department embodies the purchase of addition equipment. The old chemical laboratory now houses the department and there ia already fair eqipment for laboratory work, but it is proposed to perfect the work in this line. Chester Pioebstel, who waa elected as instructor in the enlarged department, is a graduate of the col lege, w ho spent last year in the mining department at the University of Cali fornia. He is a Portland boy. Plan Big Vinegar Output. Eugene The Ingham & Zimmer Cider and Vinegar company, a well known manufacturing concern of Eu gene, baa just filed supplementary ar ticles of incorporation with the Lane county clerk changing the name to the Ingham vinegar Co. The owners of the Northwest Conserving Co.'s big plant at Tacoma, have purchased an interest in the local plant and the one at Medlord, operated by the same com pany. The contract has jast been let for the erection of new buildings for the Medlord plant, the capacity of which ia 4,000 barrels per year. The Eugene plant will be enlarged to the same capacity. Miners Less Hostile. Sumpter Quite a number of sheep men have driven their flocks into the Sumpter district this season, and all state that grass conditions were never better than at present. A more peace ful understanding seeems to exist be tween miners and stockmen, as lees threats are heard against the latter than in frmer seasons. This is ac counted for from the fact that the ranges are in better condition and that there is plenty of feed to go round without sheepmen encroaching on the domain of the miners. No reports are received that the sheep are being rang' ed on the government reserve in this vicinity. Fair Grounds Are Improved. Salem When improvements now under way are completed ten days hence, Oregon will have the beet state fair grounds on the Pacific coast. Cal ifornia is making improvements which may possibly bring the exposition grounds of that state up to the same standard as those in Oregon, but for the, present it is declared that Oregon fair grounds will be the best. The im provements made here were paid . for with tLe appropriation which would have been used for the premiums if the annual state fair had been held. Healthy People at Sumpter. Sumpter From investigations made here during the past month it is learn ed that Sumpter iB without doubt the most healthful town in the state. At present there is not a case of sickness in the town that can be considered dangerous. Nor has there been a death from disease during the last six months Accidents at the mines have furnished severs', funerals at the city cemetery during that time, but none of these can be considered as belonging to the town. Many Threshers Are Running. The Dalles The past few days have been the longest continuous hot spell recorded in Wasco county for several years. The hot spell is not doing any damage to grain, as everywhere xit is too far advanced to be idjured by heat. However, it is hastening harvesting, as spring grain is now ripe and must be harvested along with fall grain. Most of the threshers are now running, and good yields are reported. Smelter Has Big Run Ahead. Sumpter Concentrates are being re ceived here daily for the smelter from the big producers of the Cracker creek district. The ore bins at the smelter are rapidly filling up and a large sup ply will be received this season from other sections near by, thus insuring steady operation of the plant for an in definite period. FARMERS HOLD THEIR WHEAT Are Offered 70 Cents at Pendleton. but Expect Highor Price. Pendleton W. 8. Byres, the miller. haa purchased a few small lota of wheat in the vicinity of Pendleton for 65 cents, part of the wheat being club and part blueetem. He ia offering 70 centa for No. 1 blueetem, with few farmers willing to accept this price, believing that a abort time hence will bring them an advance over the present prices. The farmers who A1 early last year missed the popular prices by nearly 12 cents a bushel, as the price rose from 65 to 77 cents a bushel. For fear of being in the wrong this year, many will bold until the market is established at solid mark. Mr. Byers has also purchased a Jot of barley from E. L. Smith, paying 85 cents a hundred, with the understand ing that all Mr. Smith wished to turn in would be taken at that price. The amount sold in the transaction is not known. Schools of Baker County. Baker City The annual report of County School Superintendent John A Peyton, just filed, shows there are 6,- 348 persons between the age of . 4 and 20 years in Baker county, 4,046 of whom are enrolled in the different Softools. The numbsr of teachers em ployed is 102, with an average salary for males of $62 5 per month; females, $48.47. The receipts for the past year to the county school were $99,757.23, while the expenses amounted to $77,- 187.89, leaving a balance of $22,574.32. The estimated value of school houses, grounds, etc., is $154,805. The aver age district tax is 8.1 mills. Hop Yards on the Market. Salem Krebs Bros., reputed the most extensive hopgrowers on the coast, are said to be in the market for the sale of their hop ranches in this and Polav counties,' aggregating 1,053 acres, of which 624 acres are set to hops. It is reported that the price set upon the In dependence yards, consisting of 400 acres of hops, which will come in full bearing this season ia $150,000, and that two offers have been received upon them, neither of which has as yet been accepted. The price fixed on the Brooks yard of 224 acres is not given. Bu'lding for Medical Department. Salem Plana have been completed for the erection of a $15,000 building for the medical department of Willam ette university. The building will be located on the northwest corner of the college campus and will be of brick and three stories high. Money for the con struction of the building has already been subscribed. O. A. C. Regents' Election. Corvallis-J. K. Weatherford was re elected president, John D. Daly secre tary and B. F. Irvine treasurer at the annual meeting of the board of regents of the Oregon Agricultural college held here. Their terms are for two years each. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, new, 7lK72c bushel; blueetem, new, 75 76c; per val- ley, new, 75c. Barley, Feed, $21.5022 per ton; Oats No 1 white, feed, $2930 per ton; gray, 129. Hav Timothy. $13015 per ton clover, 13. Fruits Apples, new, $1. 501.85 90c (a $1 per crate; peaches, 6090c per crate; plums, 25c 90c per crate; Loganberries, $1.25 . it j e- i per crate; Diacxrjerries, (goc pouna; cherries, 712$c per pound; currants, 8c per pound ; prunes, 85c$l; rasp berries, $1.25 per crate. Vegetables Beans, l4c per pound; cabbage, lOlJic' per pound; cauli flower, 75 90c perdoxen; celery, $1 per dozen; corn, 15 25c per dozen; cucumbers, 4050c per dozen; lettuce, head, 10c per dozen; parsley, 25c per dozen; peas, 25c per pound; toma toes, 90c$l per crate; turnips, $1.25 1.40 per sack; carrots, $1.25(31.50 per sack; beets,"$l1.25 per sack. Potatoes Oregon, new, 75c$l per sack. Butter Fancy creamery, 2022)o per poand. Eggs Oregon ranch, 2lK22c dos. 13 14c; mixed chickens, 1212)c old rooeters, voiuc; young roosters, -a..' a i 1 : i D in . - 113 lie; turaeya, live, xoiiv; geeee, live, 607c; ducks, old, 13c; ducks, young, 10014c ter Dound. live, - - a Hops Choice 19U4, 17lc per best, i ac cording to shrinkage; valley, 2527o pvr puuU uiuuau, i.uutvV iri pound. Beef DreBsed bulls, l2c per pound; cows, 34c. Mutton Dressed, fancy, 5c per pound; ordinary, 4c. Veal Dressed, 3K7c per pound. Pork Di eased 67c per pound.
