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About The Columbia register. (Houlton, Columbia County, Or.) 1904-1906 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1905)
Dead $1 By MRS. LOVCTT CUAPTKH VI. "A n! pray whrr have you been hiding ynnraelf fur the past wk? Why wera jrua not at Ascot? I hur you threw rr three Inrltatlona for lb wwk with ut ever living reason. I hi jrou not know that tlit whola IuMn world tht f male worlil. 1 mean -haa been languish ing and I'liilnf without you 7 The Park km been a wllirtiM tint Ilurllnghatii desert wait. ltuumr aaya you hart I icon away making lora to a rustic beauty among the rsea, ami all tha women hav rrM their eyea out for anlta ami envy!" "Yntira remain bright enough, at any rat!" aalil Irauioml, In answer to thi almve iiiwh, aa ha aauk down Into a chair by tha aneaker'e aide, ami looked at her with a flattrlng aiullt of admira tion. "Ah, you can't toll tha state my heart baa bran In, though!" rtnlld the lady. Wi waa a handsome woman, with dark Imka arranged In a wonderful ahot-k cr-r her broad browa. To know Mra. Talbot waa to know a woman of fashion who waa certain to amuse you, who waa ready tn flirt or to pick her most familiar frlatida' characters to pieces, who waa a walking encyclopedia of. tha aaylng and doluga of all tlia men and women altout whom thi'ra waa anything worth knowing: and who hud that kind of lin iiulalva and delightfully affectionate man lier whlrh leaila one to suppose, tliat you am tha only person of her acquaintance gainst whom aha could narar utter word of disparagement. I'veti aa aha alia now la the auuimer unshlne of the park, with her whit lace paraaol tlpied well orer her head, and Iter large, unfaltering eyea turned fully upon him, aha la wondering whether thia absence of hla la In any way connected 'with the aerloua part of hia life, or beara tixn the secret ah ia bent upon unrav ling.' "What hart you been doing)' aha re peat a. "Eating rherrlee, principally, ha re- liea, amiling. "I waa assisted by ear ral thousand bird and on tree elf," "And what waa aha Ilka? Young and pretty, I auppoe."r "Hh may hare been." Hhe aaw that ah had gone fr enough and adroitly turned the auhlect. "Have you heard," aha aald, "that IV llcla (irautley, that good looking girl who rami out last year, haa been whipped off Into th country br her father, who wants to force her Into a mariage with her cousin, who la younger than herself? Oh, It'a ijulte a tragedy, I aasure you The poor girl between you and me, don t admire her, aha la too ecraggy came to lunch yeaterday with nit. and aha cried her eyea out." "What, for mer "For you, Mr. Vanity! Not a bit of It lor lrd Auguaiua Wray, a lourth ton you know, with not a penny, and auch a acampl Of course, Felicia haa money and doesn't cart a farthing about bia character, but her father won't hare it, and will havt her marry her couain be came there'a an old place and a baron tcy; and they aay young Hoy Grantley la In love with aome one elae, ao there ia material enough fur a three-act dfania for you! "Itoy (Brantley," repeated Brian, thoughtfully. Where had he heard that nnnm before? Waa It not Kitten who bad apokett once of a Itoy Grantley wh wiia a boy and who worshiped her? It would be odd If It ahould turn out to be the tame. Ho waa not In love with Kitten; he had no aymptoma of any Jealous feeling concerning her; but ye( he bad a curi ous feeling of atitisfaction at hearing that aome one else waa to marry thia unknown youth. . ' "The beat thing Misa Grantley could, do, I ani aure," lie aald. ' "Her father la quit right to aave her from a black Kiuird like that." "Do you think aoT Rut then If a wom an loves a mnn madly, desperately, do you think ahe enrea what he la 7" Thia Mra. Talbot aald softly, under her voice, and flashed her bold eyea meaningly Into hla. "Oh, well, ahe ought to care!" an awered Brlnn, carelessly. "Kxcuse me!" ii nd he jumped' suddenly up from hla chair. "I act a friend 1 want to apeak to." He daahed away down tha crowded path. Gertrude Talbot waa red with en ter; aha leaned forward and followed him eagerly with her eyea. Who had he left her for? After what woman had he rushed away to precipitately? It waa no woman, only a bent, white-haired old man whom the aaw him run after and arrest. "What, Trofoaaorl la thia Indeed you, loitering In Hyde Park at 1 o'clock In the day? Wondera will never cense. But, Mr. Loyboume, you are not looking well." "I am not well," he anawered, "a little over tired, I think. I am up in town for thia great scientific gathering of wh luh, no doubt, you know. Would you like to hear me apeak?" indeed the ProfesHor auddenlyj "have you attended 'any of my lectures? Then would you like to go to-night?; I am not, of course, worth listening to In comparison with Wentley and Sliulton and aome of our lost men; but I hare a ticket to give away, a good place clone to the platform, you would henr Well, I have been 'flaked for It, but I have It here In my pocket, -..J T l I aAnnoa olffA mvrvit I Ua UUU I UUU DWiiri b "Ma mond, than to iiy mere acquaintance. Here it ia. would you like to go?" Rapidly through Desmond's train floated the plana of the day'a amusements Past s CAMERON tht pony races at Ilanelagh, th little dinner at the club with chosen friend, the hoi at the opera to which It had bn asked, tht Invitation to tht a up per party afterward. Waa ht dentlned to give op all thia for a stuffy lecture room crowded with old tnta, to listen to a earned discourse upon a aubject which ht knew tod cared nothing about? II healtated. "Kitten would bt pleased if aht thought you were there to bear mt apeak," aald Kltten'a father with a smile, and Brian rellriijulhel the ordinary Joys of lift without a murmur, and took the green admission card from tht I'rofee aor'a hand. 'Thanks, very much. I shall likt to go extremely. Ana, ry me-way, now is Misa Kitten r "When I left her ah waa quit well. pesmond, if I die, you will bt kind to mr little girl, will you not?" bt aald wistfully. "Kind to her! Of course. I aha II; but you are not going to uit, air. i-ay Ixirune." X "I don't know I don't know lift and death art mysteriea; who can tell bow soon the on condition may b over and tht other entered upon? It la a great weight off my mind that you art to be my child's lawful guardian; that thought should make me live." The lecture hnll In Burlington House waa crowded that night, when, somewhat late, In apltt of a hurried dinner, Brian cam In to take a seat. The Professor had already begun hia lecture, yet hli erea Unshed a momentary greeting to ward him aa he sat down. Then, without listening over much to th auhlect matter of the dlacourse, Brian looked at the crowd of eager, ven erable faces, watched the straining eyea and ears, and wondered at th hushed si lenc aa th great men around Mm hung upon tht naturalist'a words. II heard tht volrt, which waa at first somewhat feeble and faltering, auddenly warm to tht work. II aaw how tht fact of the pal old man fired Into a glow of glorious nthuslasm for hla aubject; how hla eyes ahont and gleamed, bow hla thin hand trembled aa he atretched It forth, how tht man became forgotten In tht aage! Then of a audden tht alight, bent fig ure upon the platform awayed and tot tered. There waa a cry, a atnothered murmur from the crowd, a rush of hasty footsteps, and tht sound of a dull, heavy fall. - Brian, with the rest, sprang upon the platform and forced hla way among the frightened throng. There went tip a great wall of terror and lamentation from the bystanders. Brian aauk upon hla kneea and pi! lowed th white, atlll face upon hla breast. "Air! Air!" he cried, hoarsely; "atand back, and fetch a doctor!" But neither heaven's air nor human doctor could aid Professor Lay bourne any more tne great naturalist waa dead. CHAPTER VII. "Coming down by last train to-night. To Mlaa Laybourne, from B, Des mond." Kitted atood reading the telegram over again for the twentieth time; the grav childlike eyea ahone with an in ward gladneaa, there waa a peach bloom upon her soft, delicate face. "He ia coming to-night!" ahe repeated to herself In a whisper; "to-night I ahall ace him again!" And then ahe fell to wondering a little, why it waa that It waa he who had aeut the telegram and not her father, for, of courae, ber father waa coming home too. "But my Daddy In ao busy when he ia up in Iondon," he told heraelf In explanation, "so many great people want him, perhaps1 even the Queen herself might have sent for him to Windaor. Yea, that ia It, no doubt; after his lecture last night he will be made more of than ever." She took a letter out of her pocket which the had received, that morning. "I am going to lecture to-night; there will be a great crowd, I believe. 1 wish I had my fairy with me to ropy out my notea; they art a aad scrawl, but one haa time for nothing In London'a great heart Never uiiud, my little girl, I ahall aoon be home again now; I cannot aay for certain what day, but it la sure to be soon." "Evidently," said Kitten to. heraelf, he found unexpectedly that ht could get away to-day and told Mr. Desmond to telegraph for blm, for he has prob ably gone to Windsor to aee the Queen, and then Mr. Desmond said he would come, too." The day wore away happily enough. wii... t.i a .i lviiien rinea tnt garuen xor nowers vo decorate her father'a study and to aet forth the almple supper table like a royal feast She sang over, her labors and waa as happy as a bird. The little refrain kept ringing itself over and over again In her heart. ' "He Is coming to-night to-nlght I shall see him!" It wna like a peal of Joy bells within her. " . She would see him! Oh, happy time of youth and love when to see the one dear face Is enough to All one's heart with divine rapture! There comes a timo, after change nnd coldness and the cruelty of life have-swept over what wo love, when- the eight of that one dearest face, can only stab the heart with pain, and fill the soul with hope less anguish and the miserable mocker) ftf happiness that is past and gone from us forever. When she had filled every bowl and dish and vaae In the house with flowers. ahe rail ad bar dog' and went oat Into tht fltlda, tracing over again all tht pat ha through tbt nueadowa and tht woods wbtrt aha bad wandered with Brian. It waa a aweet delight to ber; aht rcalld hla words, hla looks, bla slightest gesture; each field, each atilt, each tre aeemcd to bring back tbt aw lft daya of tncbantinent mor vividly to ber. And It will all com over aggala. tbt aald to heraelf with rapture, "litre and ber w ah s II. walk again at thia gatt wa ahall linger, along tbia green meadow wt ahall aauntrr, aldt by aid; hert, at thia plank acrosa tbt stream h will reach out hia hand to grasp mint to help mt over, Just aa ht did tht last tluia wt camt to It; It will bt th asm thing all over again!" Hht waa too young to understand that things that art past never return, that Joy that are gout com bark no mora. Kltteu waa dancing around tht supper table In a fever of excitement aad de light; It waa after nine, at every Instant tht travelara might arlve. How pretty tht labia looked, thought Kitten aa aht ttoopd over tht flower to fix a rebel lioua roaebud in Ita plact or to put tht final touch to tht apraya of jessamine ahe bad laid upon the anowy tablecloth. The glasa and ailver glittered under the rost-ahadtd lamp. Tbt chain were aet ia their places round the table; three chain, for Kitten did not mean to be sent away to-night, and by the aide of the profeasor'a chair there lay bia eaay alipper Just aa be liked to find them whan b came home. Everything waa ready; would the tra elen never come? All at once the door bell rang. Th bell! Where waa her father? He would urrer ring at hia own door, he had but to turn the handle and aik In. hne ran. Into the hail; Keziab waa opening the door. Itrian Desmond came In alone. In a moment ahe aaw that aometbiug waa wrong. Desmond waa aa whit a ashes; he came up to her with out a word and took her hand In hla. "Where la my father?" ahe said. "Ia he not coming? Could he not come?" "Oh, my poor child, my poor child!" waa all that itrain could utter; "bow am I to tell you?" "Do not, ahe said aimply; "I know, my daddy ia dead." CHAPTER VIII. lie had expected a terrible acene of grief and anguish he had pictured to himself how ahe would cast herself down and weep; how the small, childish frame would be shaken with aoba and the beau tiful, grave eyea dimmed and blotted out with her tean. All the way down from town he had dreaded what waa before him, for he waa one of those men to w hom the aight of woman a teara la ter rible. hat really happened waa ao extra ordinarily different to what he expected that it seemed to blm that bt muat bt dreaming. '1 know," Kitten had aaid; "he is dead." Then ahe turned rnuud and went back into the dining room. He heard the loud wailing cry of the old woman behind blm, but from tha dead man s daughter not a sound. Her lips framed out word, which waa barely audible. "When?" "Lett night it waa, quite audden he waa lecturing at Burlington House. It was all over In one moment; he could not hare suffered at all, Kitten; we muat be thankful for that. He waa apeaklng, and then he fell forward, and It waa over." "And there was no time? I could not have gone to him?" "Impossible. It was all over In a few seconds. Your father expected thia. Kitten; he knew hia death might bt sud den. He had spoken to me about it when I waa here." "Oh, yea; 1 know, It waa hia heart Brian waa surprised.. "You knew He did not think you suspected it. No; I pretended not to know; it would have grieved him, but I have known It for a long time; 1 have been prepared for thia." The extraordinary self-control with which ahe spoke, the intense calm of her whole manner, terrified him. She looked ao small and childlike, and her words were so old and impnsaive. Bralu thought' he would sooner have had to deal with those teara, and sobs which he had dreaded, than with thia strange un natural tranquillity. He moved nearer to her. "My poot little girl, what can I aay, what can I. do to comfort you? "You can aay nothing, do nothing; It a ridiculous yet ridiculous to say that to me. I have lost my all." ' For a mo ment ahe flung, un her arms with Sertpairing gesture, then ahe paused, and they fell again nerveleasly by her side "And you talk about comfort! Unless you can give me back my dead, you can do nothing!" ' ' She moved away toward the door, with the slow, lingering step of a person who Is very 111, but she turned back again to say to him: "You must be very hungry, eat something; I will send Ketiah to yotl; your room is ready, the aanie room, you know." He watched her clamber painfully up the ataircases to her own bedroom door. A sort of terror of what would follow possessed him. It is thia sort of grief, he told himself with horror, that un hinges the mind and drives people Into brain fever or kills them outright (To be continued.) llonettted. "Do you enjoy a holiday?" "No," answered the candid person "but I derive benefit from one. After plnylng baseball or rldlug in crowded ears for six or eignt nours orunmry work scorns' much pleasnuter," Vasli' Ington Star. t ! . , Altera It, ;", ; ': "Are you, or are you not, master In your own house?" ' "Well ybu see, I've got my house In my wife's name." Cleveland Lead' er. r . ; 1 OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST HO R TAG 6 ROAD WILL PAY. Low Water In River Haa Interfered I With Its.Traflfic. Salem "fbat the Portage railway will be tell auataining when regular traffic haa been established, thr ia no doubt," eaid Superintendent L. 8. Cook, of the Celilo Portage railway, when in Salem to attend a meeting of the Portage commiaeion. "For various reasont we have not been getting the business we should have had at the start, but present difficulties will he re moved and avoided in the future. for the boats on the upper river to take on wheat at some placea to bring it down to Celilo. For example, at Quentin there was 12,000 sacks of wheat piled up on the shore, but the water was to low the boats ccr'.d not get near enough to load. Some 150,000 sacks of grain along the Upper Colum bia have been shipped out by rail, when nnder normal conditions of water, it would have come down by boat and the portage road. "I cannot give exact figures at pres ent concerning the expenditure and in come, because we have not made settle ments with transportation companies when the charges are collected by one line and the amount apportioned. In round numbers I should ear that it costs us f 800 a month to operate the road and our income is about $600 a month. If we were getting a!! the traffic that is available and naturally tributary to the portage road, we would have an income of $1,200 a month and an expense of perhaps $1,000. We have handled 10,000 to 15.000 sacks of wheat this month, whereas we would have handled much more if the boats could have reached it.' WANT WATER FOR CANAL. Deschutes Irrigation & Power Com pany Files on Water Rights. Salem The Deschutes Irrigation & ower company has made two water filings to secure new sources of water supply for its extensive irrigation sys tem near Bend. The present source of supply is about two miles above the town of Bend, hut it is understood that the land upon which the headgate is located is owned ot controlled by A. M. Drake. The Deschutes conpany has now made a filing for 1,000 cubic feet of water per second about three miles further up the stream. The filing is ior the purpose o( securing water for the Central Oregon canal. The other filing is lor 1,500 cubic inches per second at a point about 10 miles above Bend, at Beham falls. The filing is for the purpose of securing water for the Benham falls canal, which will ex tend eastward and northward a distance of SO to 40 miles, bringing the water to Prineville and irrigating large areas of land north of the canal. The Portland Irrigation company. represented by Edwin Mays, of Port land, has filed on 15,000 inches of water in Chewaucan creek, Lake coun ty, the point of diversion being in tion 34, township 33 south, range 18 east. . Fruit Drier Closes Down. Freewater J. P. McMinn, proprie tor of the large fruit drier north of Freewater, has closed for the season, after a very short run, owing to the scacrity of prunes and the active de mand and high price paid for the green fruit, 75,000 poundB being the outpnt this year as compared with 200.000 poundB last year. Heretofore he has shipped his prunes east, disposing of the same in the large cities at prices from 3 to 3 cents a pound. He has sold half of this year's output at 6 cents a pound to Pendleton and Walla Walla merchants. Sandlake May Talk. Cloverdale The Cloverdale Tele phone company this week completed ten miles of new telephone line to 6andlake. The company has also late ly completed its line to Dolph.- This gives Tillamook City telephone connec tion with every voting precinct in the south part of the county: There is hardly a farm house from Tillamook to Blab creek that has not telephone Icon- j 14 j- i j "in utuwuu, aim it is uupeu udh year win see the system extended to the valley by wayof Willamina.' The system now embraces over 60 miles of wire., '. - ; " niwer irrigation a ouccess. i Milton W. T. Shaw, the well knwn Hudson bay rancher, was in the city recently and reports that irrigation on the line of the Hudson ' Bay ditch' is increasing. This ditch uses the sur plus water of the Walla Walk river, and as a result it can only irrigate when the ordinary irrigation season ends. Car Shortage Felt. . ' ; Freewater Owing to the scarcity of cars pa this division the Peacock and Eagle mills are working at a great dis advantage on account of storage capaci ty being blocked with millBtuffs ready to ship. Manager J. H. Hall advises he has 20 cars of flour and 'feed ready to move and can get but one car a day. NEED NOT VACCINATE. Children Cannot Be Forced to Taka Precautionary Meaturet. Salem In anawer to an inquiry from 6Ut Health Officer Robert C. Yenney, of Portland. Attorney General Craw ford haa rendered a decision holding that the State Board of Health haa no authority to require that children ahall be vaccinated before training admission to the public schools. The attorney general quotes from tha la ci eating the board of health j show ing that the board haa general -supervision of the health of the stale and power to establish quarantines. The vaccination rule would, not belin the nature of a quarantine: hence the quarantine; board cannot find ita authority in that provision. : Neither does Mr. Crawford think the clause giving the board general uper- vision will authorixe them to establish a new qualification for admission;to the public schools nnlesa there is apparent danger of an epidemic of smallpox. , AIDS THE CATALOGUE HOUSES. Baker City Merchants Protest Against jJNumbering of Rural Boxe. Baler City The merchants of Baker City sire circulating a petition asking the postmaster general to withdraw hia order. to the effect thai all rural mail boxefmuet be numbered in consecutive order. . Jn thia work they have asked the ml of all the merchants from Boise to Sjkane, and petitions have been sentatb these towns for circulation. Ttie merchants allege that the num bering of the mail boxes on the ruial free delivery routes would give the cat alogue houses in the large cities like New -York, Chicago and St. Louis a grea advantage, as these big concerns woula be enabled to send out their cat alogues and other literature to every patron along every rural free delivery route without knowing the names jol the sprties, as the literature could be addressed to Box 24, or any number, and leach ita destination. Start Free Library. Baker City Baker City now haa a free public library, the council having ratified the appointment of the library commission as named by Mayor C. A. Johns. A special library tax will be voted on the the next Jane election. and in the meantime Andrew Carnegie will be asked to renew the offer of $1,000 made about a year ago for the establishment of a library in this city. The present library waa instituted by a private library association and con ducted for the benefit of the public at a small membership fee. Nucleus of Permanent Exhibit. Ontario The Malheur county exhib it returned from the fair at Portland ia being installed in the office of Don Carlos Boyd. It is to be made the nu cleus of a permanent exhibit of the products of the county. , PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 73c per bushel : blue- stem, 75c; valley, 7475c; red, 69c. Oats IN o. 1 white feed, $26; gray, $26 per ton. 1 Barley Feed, $21.5022 per ton; brewing, $2222.50; tolled, $22.50 23.50. Rye $1.501.60 per cental. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $15 16 per ton; valley timothy, $1112: clover, $89; grain. $89. Fruits Apples, $11.50 per;box; huckleberries, 7c per pound; pears, $ 1.25 1.50 per box; grapes, $11.25 per box; Concord, 15c. per basket; quinces, $1 per box. 1 Vegetables Beans, wax, 1012c per pound; cabbage, ll"c per pound; cauliflower, $ 1. 25 1.50 per dozen; cel ery, 75c per dozen; encumbers, 5060c per dozen; -pumpkins,' &lc per pound; tomatoes, $1 per crate; sprouts, 7c per pound; squash, Jlc per pound; turnips, 90c$l per sack; car rots, 6575c per 'sack; beets, 85c$l per sack. ' Onions Oregon yellow Danvers, $1.23 per sack 4 Potatoes 'Fancy , graded Burbanks, 75 85o per sack; ordinary. 55360c: I . . . . . ' . juercea sweets, sacxs, fl.yu; crates, $2.15. Butter Fancy creamery, 2527o per pound. Eggs Oregon ranch, 82c per dozen. . Poultry Average old hens, 10lle per pound;,- young roosters, 910c; springs, 10 11c; dressed chickens, 1214c; turkeys, live, 17018c; geese, live, 810c; ducks, 1415c. Hops Oregon,-1905, choice, 9llc; oldB, 7&10c. , j 1 Wool Eastern Oregon average best, 1921c; lower grades down to 15o, ac cording to shrinkage; valley, 2527c per pound; mohair, choice, 30c. : Beef Dressed bulla, l2c per pouni; cows, 34c; country steers, 404s'c. . .Y Veal Pressed, 87)c per pound. Mutton Dressed, fancy, 77c per pound ordinary, 45c; lambs, 7i8c. "Pork Dressed, 67i'c per pound.