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About Corvallis daily gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon) 1909-1909 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1909)
1 inem PliilHiiery and Furnishings SMLE EVERYTHING AT RE DUCED PRICES Sale on all Millinery Goods. Must reduce stock at once. Furnishing Goods all go at special low prices. Call and see us L & G. B. Inderson I i Benton County Lumber Co. Manufacturers of all kinds of " Fir Lumlier, Mouldings, Cedar Posts, Sawed and Split. Cedar Shakes Dealers in ' . Doors, Windows, Lime, Biuk Cement, Shingles, etc Occidental Lumber Co. Successors tdj Corvallis Lumber Co. We are here to supply your needs in the Lumber line. Please call on J. B IRVING for information and prices. And take notice that if we have not got exactly what you want we will gei 11 ior you. G. 0. BASSET f, Local Mgr. WOODS BROTHERS GENERAL REPAIR SHOP prompt attention given to repairing all kinds of gasoline en- . ginss, autos, bicycles. Plows and axes sharpened. Saws filed. All work guaranteed satisfactory and done on short notice- Give us a call. We can please you. Located back of Beat Bros-' blacksmith shop on Second street. Phone No. 3145 Ind. Woods Brothers corvIgon The Best Paint There is no betterjpaint made for appearance and durability than : Acme Quality Paint Specially prepared for exterior and interior use. "FLOOR VARNISH THAT WEARS" A. Ij, Miner WALL PAPER AND PAINT STORE Second Street, Near Palace Theater YOU GET WHAT VE BET ?Wf Our books are open for your inspection. llE&4Bm Buyers name given if wanted. We not only get top prices, but yon can satisfy yourself tfHQfffluw absolutely at any time that you get what w EMiFrrrwti&' PROMPT CASH RETURNS CrBIOklEkJS Ship your produce to us. Writ to us now for coops, tags, etc SOUTHER! OREGON 00DDI88I0II CO. VV. Hi McCqrqucdale. Prop. 95 Front St., Portland, Dregm 3O0OOO0O0OO0OOOOOOO o Hotsy She Came g o . 60 Her Ot&n 0 O ' o oopoooooooooooooooo By AMY C. CURTISS. Copyright, 1909, by American Press Asso ciation. . The story of how Jeannette Bourne caine to her own is a series of strange incidents. Yet incidents comprise but balf the story, for without the work ings of nature's inexorable laws they would not have occurred.' . '.' ; :.. Jeannette was an orphan: Her fa ther had died in the war between the states, and her mother had soon after gone to her long home. At fhe time of her mother's death Jeannette was but a year old. There was no near relative to take her, and before she was five years old she had had several homes. When she was at an age to make in quiries as to her past there was no one who knew much about it. A little money had been left for her, which was expended on an education. Then she began teaching. Jeannette felt the loneliness of her po sition. When she was a schoolgirl and saw other girls going at vacation time or the end of a term to their homes she would be heartbroken. And when she became a teacher she would regret that there were such intervals of work as vacations. When she was twenty two years- old, having saved some money, she resolved to pass the sum mer vacation in a trip abroad. Joining a party, she went for a short trip to the continent of Europe, reaching Eng land late in August. ' While Jeannette was sightseeing in London she went to a loan collection of old portraits. One portrait especially attracted her attention, it was that of a young British officer in the uni .orm of the latter part of the eighteenth century. As she stood before this"pic ture a very singular sensation took possession of her. It was something wistful, akin to that love which exists between parents and children, broth ers and sisters. Several times she went back to look at the face, which seemed, to beam- kindly upon her through its blue English eyes. The last time she returned to it a lady also looking at it said to her: "What a strong resemblance you bear to the portrait. Had the officer not lived a hundred years ago I should suppose him to be your brother." "I don't even know who he was," re plied Jeannette, ' secretly pleased that a resemblance should have been re marked. The lady had a catalogue in her hand and turned to the number fixed to the portrait. "No. 72," she read, "Captain Hugh C. Bourne, Royal artillery; killed in Amer ica at the battle of Monmouth' Jeannette looked at the lady with many emotions. "Why, my name is Bourne," she said. "Indeed.'." ' . "Yes, and I am from America.' ; "Well, then," said the lady confident ly, "I am sure you are one ; of his grandchildren." Jeannette was advised to apply for information concerning the portrait to the managers of the exhibition. She did so and learned that it had been lent ' by Alonzo Warrick-Bourne, the owner of a country estate not far from London, where he spent most of his time. The next day she appeared at the manor house on the property and inquired for the owner. She expected to find a middle aged or elderly man and was surprised to find one about her own age. She told him her story. He sat listening to it with marked at tention. When she had finished he sat for some time mute, then said: "I've always believed that I was holding property that did not right fully belong to me, and I am now of the opinion that your having seen Cap tain Bourne's portrait will open up a case that will sooner or later take it away from me." ,:. "That is not. my object," said the girl. "All my life I have been lonely. I wish only to find some of my own flesh and blood." , . "There are old papers," the young man continued, "which hint at a se cret marriage on the part of Hugh Bourne while in America with a lady named Hildreth." r "My father's name was Hugh Hil dreth," said Jeannette. surprised.' "And that was his father's name too." ' "In that case," said the young man, rith a touch of mournfulness In his tone, "there was such a marriage, and Hugh Bourne's descendants . are the rightful owners to this property. At the time of his death America was a far country and little was known here of his life there. Not supposing him to have been married and he having no brothers or sisters, his property passed to the nearest of kin. a cousin, my great-grandmother, Elizabeth War rick. Her son, my grandfather, took the name of Bourne in addition to his own. That same has come down to me with the property. You have only to bringjiroofs of Hugh Bourne's mar riage and that you are his heir and I will turn over to you the property." "I shall do nothing of the kind." "I think it probable," said the young man, "that I shall go to America . and satisfy myself whether or: no I am holding some one else's property. , If so, I shall surrender it" And such was his decision. The same ship that carried Jeannette back to her duties took her relative. There he found in the records of one of the smaller cities of New Jersey entered while Gfeneral Howe was commanding the British forces In that region a rec ord of the marriage of Hugh Bourne and Jeannette Etfldreth. Why after her husband fell ,at Monmouth the wife failed to claim what was hers la doubtless a lost story. But a compromise was enTected as to the property' by a wedding between the Englishman and the American. A New Line of Vici and Patent Colt. The very latest styles and marked at the lowest prices. A choice assortment, just the right thing for this sunshine weather, in Taffeta and Pongee. its it For Men and Boys in'thp newest patterns and all grades. Prices cut to' suit every pocket book. We are SOLE AOENTS here for this Popular Line. H H A. 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