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crust of the snow, but galloped over 1t as he would have galloped over summer road of soft dirt.
 Down the creek he travelled. keeping at a brisk gallop. Pretty soon the horse threw up his head, snorted and stood still. Then a voice from the snow called feebly: "Who comes there2 May I have a helping hand?"
 Tommy recognized his fathers voice. and beside a form half buried In the snow. The elder Dearling had fallen and could not gather strength to rise again. Tommy had not come q moment too soon, for the frost was beginning to get into his fathers blood
 With Tommy's assistance-for he was a strong little chap-Father Dearling was soon inside the sleigh and wrapped snugly in the warm fur robe, and soon his blood was flowing freely in his veins again.
 Tommy cried to the horse to turn about and the animal-seeming to possess some strange supernatural intelligence did as bidden and went off at a round gallop toward the Dearling house. "Oh my wood!" cried Father Dearling q forgot 1t. and left it lying in the snow!" But just as he spoke another horse dashed up beside the one that drew their sleigh and hitched to him was huge load of fine dry wood. The horses galloped abreast and Father Dearling looked on in amazement. At last he spoke: Where did this horse and sleigh come from, Tommy"
 Tommy began to explain just as they were dashing across the creek And be- fore he had finished his first sentence something happened. over the sleigh went, spilling both Father Dearling and Tommy out in the snow. At the same moment the horse dragging the wood became de-
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had come just at the moment Mug fell, and as dog knows boy better than he knows any other being, the little fellow at once understood the child's dis tress. So he went straight to Mug and began licking with his warm tongue the cold little hand that had failed to re ceive any aims on that winter morning.
 When the pretty lady saw Binko and then saw the boy he was trying to warm with his little tongue, she hurried to the spot and bent tendery over Mus, questioning him. Then she hastily beck oned to her chauffeur, and within a few seconds Mug was safely stored away in- side the great, warm automobile. He smiled faintly whispered something about heaven. then swooned away.
 It was q long time before Mug was again himself. Weeks passed over him while he lay very Ill In beautiful room with the attentions of a doctor and a trained nurse. And every hour during the day the pretty lady came to inquire about her charge. and once she let Binko enter the room and stand beside the sick childs bed, his little paws resting on the pillow. But Binko seemed to un- derstand and turned softly away, going quietly out of the room. He knew the little boy could not speak to him now,
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but he had the dogs instinct and knew that before many days his new-found friend would be about playing as boy should play.
 The time passed by very slowly for boy and dog, for both wanted to be out in the open. The boy hated si kness and the dog hated confinement. One day after Mug had been sitting up for sev- eral hours the pretty lady came to talk with him. She told him how Binko had found him. and how she had taken him in her car and brought him home.
 Tt was an act of providence" she said, firmly. "A supreme power sent my dog to find a child for me-a child who needed a home, a mother. And since I have been unable to locate anyone who claims relationship with you or anyone who wants to take you as their former charge, shall call you my boy and give you home and the love of Q childless woman.'
 Mug felt happiness swell up in his heart Then tears rolled down his pale face. "A home." he said. caressing the word. ''I never had one In my life It
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shape of pennies, to pay the price of living in 1t. So he had shifted about from one hidden corner to another where he might steal nights sleep.
 One morning Mug awoke in his cellar bedroom to find himself numb from the cold. blizzard had blown during the night, and the cellar Mug had found at nightfall was beneath an unoccupied building; therefore. had no artificial warmth of any kind. And to make mat. ters worse, the door to the cellar was so broken that 1t would not close. and was hanging by one hinge. Into the eel lar the storm had poured at It's own will. and Mug had shivered in the corner best protected from the wind. But when he awoke in the morning he found his limbs stiff and his hands and feet numb.
 "I'll have to get some coffee this morn- ing,' he unused as he rubbed his thin little hands together, coaxing the blood to them. "I'll go down to the corner of the fashionable avenue and maybe some rich person will give me a nickel It takes so long to get together five pennies for when the weather is cold, people won't stop to give beggar anything" Ten minutes later Mug was standing at the crossing of very fashionable avenue and a fine street of shops and offices. The throng of vehicles passed
 him by, their fur-wrapped occupants
 never giving a second thought to the little beggar who stood In the snow,
 holding out his shivering hand. The blizzard had subsided, and now only in tense. quiet, sunshiney cold prevailed.
 But 1t bit to the bone.
 And while Mug stood there waiting for
 some rich person to hand him the price of a cup of restaurant coffee, which
 might warm his little body a bit, an other scene was being enacted few
 doors from where Mug stood. Inside a
 magnificent house, curtained. carpeted,
 warmed, a, pretty lady was preparing to go out She was putting on her rich
 furs. And about her frisked and parked q dog-none other than that same Binko of whom you read In the first of this story. Binko knew his mistress was about
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to leave the house and he knew that she would take him also. He did love the t-of-doors, and was never so hap py as when running along the street or through a nearby park. So his impa- tience grew as the lady's preparations for going out were being completed.
 But once outside the great door, Binko's heart dropped, so to speak. There In front of his mistress's house stood the great heated automobile. thing he hated abolc. all things that had been a part of his lfe. He wanted to run about in all sorts of weather, Just as Nature had made him to do, for his coat was fine and heavy, and riding in heated automo- piles and living in a pampered way was not to his taste.
 When Binko saw the automobile he frisked off down the street as fast as hls four legs could carry him. At the moment his mistress did not see him, for she had turned to give some parting or der to one of her servants in the hall. The chauffeur did not see Binko run ming away, for he was too intently watching another chauffeur up the street. So Binko had gone a block before his absence was discovered by his mistress Then she began to look about for him, calling his name. The chauffeur got
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> HE winter had been n fine one till the middle of January. Then
 the heaviest snow ever known by
 " the Bunnies fell. In the early fall
 MT. Longear Bunnie had found what he thought to be a fine house for the winter. It was q very playground stump, but not tall one, measuring about two and half feet high. At the very base of the stump-right against the ground-was an opening leading inside the stump, which was hollow. This cavity was quite large enough to serve as home for Mir. Long ear Bunnie and his family, So Mir Bunnie decided to fix the place up nicely before showing 1t to Mrs. Bunnie. He set to work decorating 1t with his own paws. He dragged out all the old decayed wood, and swept the walls down with his ears. Then he dug out little alcove-sort of place at one side' which was to hold the family proven der. This was soon stored with nuts and grain. Mir. Bunnie had chosen his location near to big farm, on which were broad fields of different kinds of grain. And much of this delicious food was to be found about the granary, for the farm hands would spill quantities of 1t on the ground when filling sacks With wheat to carry to m1ll.
 After the house was all done and as nice as any good Mrs. Bunnie could wish for, Mir. Longear Bunnie carried his family there one fine autumn day. And you cannot imagine happier fam- fly than there assembled. Mrs. Bunnie fixed a fine supper on their first even- ing, and invited several of their favor ite friends to join in their housewarm- ing.
 So everything went along gaily dur ing the autumn and winter, and noth- ing unusual happened-save a close chase by a dog occasionally when Mir. Bunnie went to get grain at the farm CTS granary-till the very deep snow fell!
 We'll, the morning after the heavy snowfall Mir. Bunnie jumped from bed and went to the door to take q look at the weather. What was his amazement when, on trying to push the door open 1.-the shutter pushed outwards) he found 1t heavily barricaded with snow. Ill vain did he try to push away the snow. It lay in q deep pile against the house. Worse than that-it lay over the very house roof.
 "Wel, we'll, well" said Mir. Bunnie. "whnt is the matter here? It must have showed in earnest-to cover rabbits houses!"
 
 called out from the bed: Whats the matter?'
 Mr. Bunnie soon explained their d. lemma. Were showed under, my dear. Now, how shall we get out?"
 Don't ask me, my dear Longear," re- piled Mrs. Bunnie "If you, in all your wisdom, can't solve the problem, am sure can't"
 Then 1t was that Jackie Bunnie, the young son of the Bunnies, jumped out of his trundle bed and ran to take peep at the snow. Cant get door open, sonny" informed Papa Bunnie.
 Let's all put our strength against 1t" suggested Jackie.
 ''Good idea," smiled Papa Bunnie. Come, Mamma, you and Jackie and may be able to get the door partly open. And call to Pinkie, her strength will help lttle."
 Come, wake up. daughter" cried Mrs. Bunnie. shaking her little daughter Pinkie.
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will seem very nice to have a warm be- and things to eat-like other folks. Oh, begging was so hardin the winter. It was not so bad In the summer, for slept in the park. And one don't mind being hungry in the summer-it don't hurt so bad. But In the winter-oh!"- and look of pain a1 Mugs face.
 "YouT beg no Id" said the pretty lady. "A frou tn's day you are my son, and as soon lS fcl are strong enough you shall Go sctrts And-there comes Binko. He 1rfs ,e' He is yours-your little playfelIc
 "Minel" And Mug. laughed with la api- ness. He's such a eee-u-tiful dog, af 1t was him at found me in the snow. Tn always look out for him, I will.''
 And from that day Mug-who became known as Martin Thomas. son of the rich Mrs. Thomas--and Binko were the best of friends, and now, while Martin Is In school he keeps Binko near him at q little boarding house where they allow dogs. for Mrs. Thomas said when sending Martin to boys school. "He must haEe his very best friend with him, Binko."
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looking up and down the creek, wonder ing wlere his absent parent might be. ''I wonder If l dare cross the creek in search of him?' he asked himself. "He may be in need of me-he may have fallen from fatigue and cold Certainly, my son." spoke a voice above Tommy's head. Tommy quickly looked up and beheld the most beautiful icicle hanging from n bough just over aim. It glistened like diamonds, and suddenly, while Tommy was watching 1t with wonder in his eyes, a tiny face appeared on the side of the icicle. Then 1t glowed and dag zled and changed form, becoming a fairy like figure sitting on the limb. Ger tainly, my son, cross the creek and go in quest of your father. He needs succor."
 q shall go in quest of him at once," cried Tommy. "But-which way shall I turn? If my father went deep Into the woods, l ], do not know which direction
 "But you-a little chap of ten-are you not afraid to go In quest of him?' asked the voice. 'Why, even the wild crea- lures that are used to this sort of weather will not venture from their places Of shelter on such an evening. If the frost gets into your blood, you are lost"
 But I must find my father" cried Tommy. If he needs aid, am the only person who can go to him. Mother can not leave the baby Besides, mother is not as able to brave the storm as l am. l must go to my father-if can find him.
 And you shall find him. declared tae fairy-like icicle. ''Close your eyes till speak again." Tommy did as requested. and the voice sang out after a minute: "Open your eyes ana look behind you"
 Tommy opened his eyes and looked be- hind him. There stood fine horse, blanketed and hooded against the cold. hitched to a splendid sleigh in waich were may fur robes. Jump in and follow the said the voice.
 Like one in a dream, Tommy got into the sleigh, drew the fur robes around him, and snid to the horse; "Gee-up, horsey. Follow your nose."
 The horse sprang away, and the sleigh .glided over the snow without effort The horses hoofs did not break through the
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BINKO AND THE BFGGAR

- INKO was very fine dog. He had
 A a very fine home in a very fno city. That is, some parts of tho
 city were fine; but other portions
 of 1t held poverty and misery. Binko had never been in the slums and knew only the happy side of life-the side of plenty. Binko's mistress was q wealthy lady, whose knowledge of much of the world (the under world,'' so to speak, was as limited as was Binko's. And that is why she learned some things through Binko. her dog.
 In the same city that gave Binko home there lived a little beggar boy. But his place of residence was long way of from the almost palatial home in which Binko lived. In fact, the little beggar boy, whose name was Mug, slept about in cellarways, deep doorways, old outhouses and in packing-boxes, so that he had no fixed place of abode. And dur ing the day he begged in the streets for enough money to keep him from starving.
 In that part of the town where Mug lived (and by the way, his name had been bestowed upon him by queer old beg garman) he was called the "waif" and the "tramp-kid," for none had ever known him to have a parent sister or brother, nor had he living relative that anyone knew of. And Mug himself could not re- member a mother or a father. All that he knew was that when he was very, very young an old beggarman had him In his shanty teaching him how to beg. dt was a mercy that the old fellow had not taught him how to stealD
 Mug was nine years old at the time of this story. For year his aged comrade- the beggarman-had been dead. And from that event Mug began life Ion his owu hook," as the people of his world said. His town hook," however. consisted of living pretty much as the old man had taught him to live-by begging from gen erous-looking persons on the street. And the shanty that the old beggarman had paid small rent for. and which stood on the very verge of tho river embank- ment, down near the docks, was no longer his, for he found 1t impossible poor child-to get sufficient money, in tho
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III support or tI1e cause
 Of a beast without claws, Unable to scratch for his rent.
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who was still in the Land of Nod. Come, dear, we're showed under''
 Pinkie was soon wide awake and jumped out of bed in jiffy. Like her brother, she was a sprightly, happy little rabbit.
 Soon the combined strength of the four Bunnies was put against the door and 1t went "creak-,creakl" Then 1t opened a little way, having crushed the snow into hard wall just over and around the opening.
 Cant open it further" said Mir. Bun
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M Our Puzzle Corner @
LETTER ENIGMA.

My first is in cat, but not fin mouse: My second is in cottage. but not In
 house: My third is in ring, but not in bell: My fourth is in write, but not in spell: My fifth Is In country, but not in lea My sixth is the same as my fifth, you
 see:
 My seventh is in inch, but not in meas
 ure:
 My eighth is in diamond. but not in
 treasure: My ninth is in nose, but not in toe; My tenth you have found in my fourth
 also. My whole spells man
 Who makes pictures, queer,
 That appear in the papers
 Throughout the whole year.
 HIDDEN NOVELIST. The name of a favorite novelist Is hid den in the following five sentences. each sentence containing a one-syllable word whose initial letter helps to spell the hidden name After words have been rightly chosen write them together in order and the name of the novelist will be spelled in the first letters of the words.
 1. The sun is eyer bright to youth. 2. The mice will play when the cat is away.
 8. A person is never too old to learn 4. An old-fashioned tune has sweet G You cannot make wild beast tame
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Find the boy who built the snow man.
 ANSWERS TO LAST WEEKS PUZZLES.
 DIAGONAL; Country. Cross-soords, l. Catfsh 2. Toilers. 8. Flutist. 4. Fur. nish 5. Sputter G. Bdnkers. T. Sprinov.
 PRIMAL ACROSTIC: Bdrrett. Crosse cords, l. Beet. 2. Aunt. 8. Rich. (. Rin0. 5. Ecls. 6. Tune. '. Totl.
 BEHEADINGS AND CURTAILINGS: 1. PedrL-ear. g. Stars-tor. 8. Chotrs-hotr. (. ProUlrot0.
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Continued from First page.)

When Coke was pronounced fit for
comfortable travel David Verify and
Dickey Bulmer conveyed him home.
They took with them drafts on Lon
don bank for amounts that satisfied
every sort of claim for the sinking of
the Andromeda. Judged by the COM
pensation given to the vessels sur
vivors. there could be no doubt that
the dependents of the men who lost
their lives would he well provided for.
At odd moments David and Dickey
Bulmer discussed the partnership.
The young people would be home in
two months. and then Philip was to
come into the business.
Were growing old, David" said
Dickey. ''l've got plenty of money. an
you'll ave tidy bit now, but there's
one thing neither of us can buy, an
that's youth"
Il don't want to be young again."
said David, "but I'd like to go back
just year or so-no more"
"Why?"
NSh' lhClo . Dlu LILIES w eH-W en-
I'd ave acted different. Wot do you
say, Jimmie?"
Coke, thus appealed to, glowered at
his employer.
Say" he growled. Il say nothink
know you, David"
Philip and Iris attended Carmela 8
wedding during their honey The
cathedral at Rio de Janeiro was pack
ed. and Iris was quite inconspicuous
among the many richly attired ladies
who graced the ceremony by their
presence. Nevertheless Colonel Saliva
dor San Benavides favored her with a
peculiar smile as he led his bride down
the central aisle.
She laughed, blushed and looked at
her husband.
Yes, l saw him." he whispered
But | never feared him. 1t was you
that made me sit up. BY the way. old
girl, let us cut out the reception.
want to call at the bank and at a shop
in the Rua Grande. You will be inter-
ested."
Well, being good and loving wife.
she was interested deeply. Ten thou
sand pounds was Dom Corria's finan-
cial estimate of the services rendered
by Philip. and Iris was absolutely
dumfounded by the total in milreis.
But her voice came back when Philip
took her to q jewelers. and the man
produced gold cross on which blazed
four glorious diamonds. Dom Corra
had given her necklace many times
more valuable. but this
"For remembrancew said Philip.
"Oh. my dear, my dear" she mur.
INJURED, and her eyes grew moist.
THE END.
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OREGON AS A LEADER.
Washington Correspondence oi

washington Correspondence of
Louisville Courier Journal.)
The Far West will blaze the way
for the rest of the country in the
fight for the control of the Republi-
can and Democratic National conven-
lions. Two months before either of
The conventions is held, Oregon will
vote under its recently adopted sys-
tenn for the choice of delegates to
The conventions. These delegates are
instructed for both Presidential and
Vice-Presidential candidates.
The Oregon primary will take place
early in April, 1912.
While it is over a year off it de-
veloped here today that in both the
big parties the contest is already on
and that no stone win be left unturn.
ed to carry the state for the mflu.
ence it may have upon others in the
selection of delegates.
Western politicians generally be-
lieve that La Toilette or some other
progressive will carry the state by
thousands of votes over Taft and
hat delegates will be sent to the
convention instructed for progress
sive candidate. 1t is stated to be
the Intention of the Administration
70 contest and under the direction
of Postmaster-General Hitchcock, Ore
Son will assume an important posi-,
ton on the political map.
More interesting, perhaps, than
the Republican situation is that
among Democrats. 1t was asserted
oy several Democratic congressman
favorable to the nomination of
hamp Clark for the Presidency
that friends of Woodrow Wilson and
.ilson Harmon are preparing to take
up the Oregon situation at an early
date. One of Mr.. Clark's friends
received letter from Portland. Or,
that the Missourian is the strong
est man among the Democrats of that
state, but that unless his campaign
was put in the hands OF competent
men and an Organization effected,
The New Jersey man or the Ohioan
may walk off with the prize, But,
he added, as matters now stand,
Clark is the mdoubted leader, and If
the primary we've held today he
would easily secure the oregon dele
gates to the Democrats National
convention.
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The very best bill introduced into
he almost deceased but unmourned
legislature was one requiring all bills
hat are to be considered at a session
1f the legislature shall be filed with
the secretary of state 80 or 60 days
before the convening of the legisla-
ture. This would prevent snap judg-
ment, give time for intelligent consid-
Grafton of the measures and enable
The legislator to find out the wish
es of his constituency before he left
for Salem. We hope this bill will
be taken up by initiative petition.
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 19tt.
PARTS OF ONE EVIL.

Socrates is credited with saying:
"There are two things which the mag
istrates of Athens will be careful to
keep out of our city-opulence and
poverty. Opulence because it engen-
ders weakness and effeminancy; power
ty because it breeds baseness and
crime; both because they lead to
revolution. One cannot exist with,
out the other. They are the two ex-
tremes of one evil"
Worth thinking over, isn't it? The
United States is filling rapidly with
the two extremes. Any party, any
church, any citizen who does not
place the abatement Of those twin
evils first among the dangers beset-
ting our country is short sighted or
unpatriotic for the truth as express
sed by Socrates is writ in the down
fall of all nations that have ceased
to be. 1t is as ancient as historic
experience; not the rant of modern
radicalism, as the rich would like to
think.
There is no question of the danger
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RAcE CENSUS or oREeoN.

OF the total population of Oregon.
672,765, there are 655,610 whites, 152
negroes, 50O1 Indians, 1917 Chinese
1886 Japanese, 1S Hawaiians; Fiji
pinos and Koreans.
In Wallowa county at the time of
taking the census, April Is, 1910, there
were / negro, no Indians, Chinese,
10 Japanese, and adj the remainder,
1851, whites.
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Just suppose all lawsuits that
would ordinarily be carried up to the
Supreme court, be tried first and fl
nally by a member or members of
that court on circuit. Wouldn't that
be a big saving to the taXpay ers
And wouldn't it give the poor litigant
an evener show against a rich oppon-
emf?
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to society, nay of the immortality of
great riches. But even if excessive
wealth was innocuous of itself, it can
not exist without it's attendant sprite,
poverty. That is a divine law.