speak openly, do you believe that you silly about each other. In fact I re
would be unable to stand forty-eight member, now, that she did have a
Farmers and Merchants
hours of me without leaving the com scratch on her arm; I blamed It on the
pany?”
Write us for our cash offer on your
kltten.”
Farm and Dairy Produce. If we
He
was
still
pale,
and
paid
the
"No?”
don’t handle it will refer you to re
check without looking at hi» compan-
liable buyer. pea RSON-PAGE CO.
“No. I am very certain that I could ion.
stand much more of you than I am
Portland. Oregon.
“Your nerves are out,” Stanton
ever likely to get, Ralph Stanton. We
frankly
commented, contemplating
are blocking traffic here, aren't we?”
him
with
curiosity.
"One would think
For one passing moment he had
IDEAL FRUIT PICKERS’ BAG.
Send us one dollar and we will mail you sample
looked Jessica herself; Stanton saw It was you who were Just over the ar
Ideal Apple Pickers’ Bag1. Positively the best
again the girl’s sorrowful face as she rest You’ll have to get in form be of
picking bag on the market, allowing man to use
both hands. Barker Manufacturing Co., 35 Am
bent over the embroidery, and heard fore we strike a race-track.”
"Don’t you worry," besought Floyd, brose St., Rochester, N. Y.
her answer "often” to his question of
her loneliness. They were not alto his gaiety and color rushing back to M/T _ _ L
- Second-Hand Machin-
gether sufficient for each other, then, gether. "I'll take some smelling-salt»
.nd
exchanged: engines,
twins? They might possibly ad with me in case I feel faint when you boilers, sawmills, etc. The J.
E. Martin Co.. 76 1st
P££DEIX THORNBURGH these
mit a third? Stanton caught his commence to speed up."
SL, Portland. Send for Stock Liat and prices.
breath; a slow strong pulse of vague
Outside the two paused. Floyd look
him," Floyd urged. “He, he's thin and excitement began to beat in him, and ing at his watch.
SYNOPSIS.
frayed out—Stanton, he looks hungry.” thereafter was never stilled until a day
“I’ve got to go over to the office,”
"Do you want to help him?" the when all his world crashed into blank he said. “Shall I see you again be-
At the beginning of great automobile
rolls developed, 10c, any
♦»ce the mechanician of the Mercury driver queried, astonished.
"Do you stillness.
fore we leave?"
size.
Largest and best
■tanton e machine, drop» dead. Strange
shop
in Northwest. Com
They
went
on
to
the
quiet
French
care
about
a
man
you
do
not
know
“When is that?”
Floyd, volunteers, and 1» ac
plete price list on request.
restaurant that Floyd had chosen; so
cepted. In the rent during the twenty- and never see again?”
Best results guaranteed.
“Nine o’clock from the Grand Cen
four hour race Stanton meets a stranger
recovering
tone
on
the
way
that
they
Don t you? asked Floyd simply.
tral. We always start a few days
< arllsle. who Introduces herself. The
Mercury win. race. .Stanton receive«
"I’m not from Paradise,” dryly an contrived to disagree over the merits ahead of you. of course."
„2 r* £om M,s" Carlisle, which he 1g-
of rival speedometers and argued en
P.-I. Build’g, Seattle
E.’inton
Miss Carlisle on a swered Stanton. “Tell him anything
“Better shake hands, then," advised
ergetically all through the dinner.
"■ . They “llxht to take walk, and you like, but be quick.”
Stanton.
train leaves Stanton and Miss Carlisle
They spent a long time over the sim
Hand Woven,
Uublocked
He looked at the reporter again,
, n a2*° Accident by which Stan-
They did so, and separated.
wlth*H^U,r "
Ho.vd. at lunch with a new use of his eyes. Floyd ple meal, enjoying themselves com
At five minutes past nine, that even
with Stanton, tells of bls boyhood. Stan-
pletely. But at last they sank into a
PANAMAS
ing, the Chicago special pulled out of
•
n..meets Mls* Carlisle and they was right; the man was threadbare
FROM WEAVER TO WEARER
Jlck hnt"01"; Stanton comes to track and gaunt, and pathetically young. thoughtful silence, w hich Stanton was
New York. Ten minutes later a hand
Can be worn nnblocked
the first to break.
Sint bnl
face. They have accl-
by women. Blocked in
«I n n -
not "' rlously. At Stanton had a rebuked consciousness
any size, shape or style
"I saw that Miss Floyd’s arm was was laid on Floyd’s shoulder, as he
?< ’ , r
’«11» Stanton of Ms twin of being strong and brutal in his
for men. Brims 3 and 6
'
J,'«flca Stanton becomes very HI
hurt, the other evening. I hope It Is sat gazing out the window at the fly
inches.
Light weight.
Bent postpaid
Da id on
on receipt
, .
ing darkness and brightness that was
kt. i, , ? ™n»clouaness. On recovery, at strength, successful and selfish in his better.”
j of price. Money refunded if not satisfactory. Get s
V Zit. *' ?,an,"n receives Invitation and success.
the
outskirts
of
the
city.
durable, stylish hat for the half of what it would cost
v>«lts Jessica They go to theater togeth-
Floyd raised hts head, starting so
| you elsewhere.
Address NEW MODE HAT CO.
•r. and meet Miss Carlisle
“You are an educating companion," violently as to overturn the goblet of
“Do you want to talk, or shall I go : g. H. MeuMdorffer. Prop.
227 1-2 Washington St
Twenty yean in Portland.
Portland. Or.
he observed, as they went out with an water beside him.
back to my own section in the next
CHAPTER VIII—(Continued).
officer.
car?
”
Stanton
Inquired.
“What do you mean?" he exclaimed
Don t see or hear too much, and
"Why?” Floyd Inquired, puzzled.
His mechanician turned swiftly, in
sharply. “What do you mean? Her
ton't tel) me If you do," advised Stan
But Stanton would elucidate no arm?”
credulously.
ton suddenly, and leaned forward
further.
“Stanton? Really you?”
The shattering of glass and the con
The Mercury jitton d"TTvIbrant roar
The ordeal before the magistrate was sequent flood brought their waiter on
“Since you had to start to-night, I
EM BUSINESS COLLEGE
that cleared the Parkway for a quarter not long. Stanton was held in a thou-
WASHINGTON ANDTENTH STS
saw no reason why I should not do
a
run,
but
Floyd
did
not
even
glance
of a mile ahead, and leaped.
J
f ,
PORTLAND. OREGON
sand dollars ball for future trial, pro down at the wreck, his eyes upon likewise. I hate train travel; we’ll
Ja^L
WRITE
FOR CATALOG
Floyd kept his eyes upon the road In duced a surety company’s bond, and in
get
it
over.
You
haven
’
t
answered
my
The
School
that
Places
You in a Good Position
Stanton;
who
returned
the
gaze
in
ut
Front, carefully avoiding view of the fifteen minutes was free
question yet.”
and once ter amazement.
hubbub left in their wake. He had a more In his seat behind the
“I didn’t know that I had to,” smll-
Mercury’s
“What do I mean? I say that your
fleeting glimpse of one scandalized offi wheel.
Grecian Head-Covering.
ed
Floyd.
sister’s bracelet slipped oft and
ce> struggling with bls rearing horse,
The
Greeks wore a hat called a
"We ’ will reach the offi^e on time," scratched her arm, the night we went
And indeed there had been no pos-
as they thundered past, and he enter commented
petasos, which was soft and light, be
the
lawbreaker.
slble
mistaking
of
the
welcome
and
to the play, and I asked you if she
tallied no doubt of the number in their
“You do it like a veteran,” Floyd were well. What is the matter with pleasure in his cry. or in his truthful ing made of felt; it was strapped un
rear.
mused with mock suspicion.
face. Stanton took the seat opposite der the chin to fasten it firmly to the
you?”
"She steers a Ifttie stiff," Stanton ob-
and
pulled a folded newspaper from head. But only the lower classes
At the office they left the car. but
Floyd pushed back his chair to per
■erved, twisting between a limousine
among the Greeks, such as herds and
not each other. There was growing mit the waiter's ministrations, his his pocket, passing it across.
• nd two carriages. "But we can fix
travelers,
wore hats, and both sexes
“I suppose you have seen that,” he
upon Stanton more and more the de lashes falling.
that at the track. What?"
wore hats of the same shape. The
Inferred.
sire for Jesse Floyd’s companionship.
“You gave me a turn,” he exclaimed,
Greek nobility and gentry wore no
I wo motor cycle policemen are Just
“Race gossip?" questioned the other,
covering for the head out of doors,
behind," communicated Floyd, devour
taking the paper.
and women only adorned their hair
ed by silent mirth "Had enough?"
"Court news,” was the correction.
vlth a wren*’-
"J haven’t seen them yet. I can’t let
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
out the machine hero, of course, but—
was that a dog?"
London Plays a New Game.
"Poodle.”
There is a new game which sports
"But It seems all right,"
men are playing. To travel by train
Around a curve ahead darted a blue-
is our pride—our hobby—our Btudy for years and
the greatest distance in twenty-four now
our success, and oarw is the o< st painless work
uniformed figure on a motor cycle, one
hours—on paper. For it is played with to be found anywhere, no matter how much you
arm raised Stanton Instantly checked
pay.
Compare our Prices»
a Bradshaw. The astonishing Idea of
We finish plate and
bls car, Floyd throwing out hfs hand
studying Bradshaw for pleasure re
br’dKfc work 01 out
of toA-n natrons iu
In warning to those behind. There was
calls Lord Chatham’s hobby. Lord
one day if desired.
a mad series of explosions from the
Painless extraction
Chatham boasted that he had read
free when plates or
abruptly halted motor-cycles In pursuit.
bridge work is order-
Bailey's dictionary through twice. And
e^. Coniultation free.
“You're under arrest!" shouted
there was another genius who found
MolarCrowns $5.00
fhr»e voices Ht once, as the Mercury
consolation In queer literary fields.
22k Bridge Teeth 4. GO
• H<1 to a standstill.
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn had no
Gold 'illinps
1.00
"Is 11 possible?" Inquired the driver,
need of the new novel. He read Euclid.
Enamel Filling* 1.00
removing his goggles.
“Even now,” he said, "1 often read
Silver Filling,
.50
Good Rubber
some pages of it for pleasure.” There
more motor cycle officers were
Plates
5.00
coming up, three mounted on horses
is no accounting for literary tastes, as
Best Red Rubber
Plates
7.50
the man said who read Bradshaw and
were arriving from side paths. Sur
WISE, rrtiiDixT mo M imm . Painless txtr’bon .50
Bailey and Euclid ¡—London Chronicle. DR. W. 21 A. YUM
rounded by the outraged eight and all
UUtlltNIO IN PMTUM
BEST METHODS
the population In the neighborhood,
AI! work fully guaranteed for f.fteen years.
the Mercury stood quiescent.
Woman's Concoctions.
“Will you follow to the police sta
"When a woman prepares refresh
Painless
Dentists
tion, or will we have to take you?"
ments for a party,” said a cynical Filling Building,
Third and W»shln(tM PORTLAND ORK
came the crisp question. “We've got
male person, “she takes the insides
OUice Hours: I A. M. to 8 F. M. Suluja. Vtol
your number."
out of something and puts in it the in
sides of something else.
Then she
"I'll follow wherever you like," en
pours a yellow mixture over the re
gaged Stanton, "l^ad the way."
sult and Its success depends upon the
*1 hey started, preceded by one officer
difficulty the guests have in telling
and followed by another, also by a
what It was before she began fooling
shabby young man on a bicycle. Into
with it.”
the station they went, accompanied by
their three attendants.
His Sacrifice.
The charge was three fold: exceed
"I
suppose,
like all government offi
Ing the »peed limit by some fifty miles
cials,” said the man who sneers, “you
an hour, resisting arrest, and violating
are making personal sacrifices in or
the »moke ordinance. That set forth,
The Mercury Uttered a Vibrant nuar and Leaped.
der to serve your country.”
the usual Interrogatory was put, Stan
“Yes." replied the village postmas
a final rebellion of nature against his
ton replying with concise brevity
with hurried lightness. “I wondered ter; “it’s pretty hard to have to keep
“Name and age?"
lonely existence.
if Jessica had hurt herself and not
"Ralph Stanton, twenty six.”
"Do you have to stay here?" he de- told me. We've only got each other, reading addresses when I’d rather be
"Occupation?"
manded, upon concluding arrange and we are twins—I suppose we are looking at the pictures on the post
cards.”
"Automobile driver "
ments at the office
"Name of car?"
"No,” Floyd replied.
“Mercury."
"Come to dinner with me. then."
The mechanician shook his bronze-
"The Mercury Company "
curled head tn laughing refusal.
The shabby young man Interrupted
"There has been enough of that. Mr
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proceedings by a stifled gasp, grasping Stanton; you come to dinner with me." Homing Instinct Is Shown by Some
the labeled crustaceans had been re
the sleeve of Floyd, who stood looking
"At your home?" escaped Stanton
Recent Experiments In
captured and full data tabulated.
Involuntarily. He had a sudden vision
England.
THE CHINESE HERBALIST.
With regard to the Norfolk crabs
"That’» Stanton? Stanton? And you of Jes and Jessica together, a pre
The Chinese system of medicine differs from all
—who are you?"
monition of mental bewilderment be
Some remarkably interesting de liberated in the places from
-------- Whlcn others. It employs only purely herbal remedies
"Jes Floyd, his mechanician," was fore the spectacle of their incredible tails regarding the movements and the they were originally obtained, fifty- and adhere, to principles that have been thor
likeness
the wondering response
homing instinct of the edible crab two were recaptured within one mile oughly tested for thousands of years. When a
patient comes to C. Gee Wo for treatment he is
"I
would
like
that,
but
you
know
we
were
presented to the Eastern Sea of their first home, but one traveled given a careful examination and he ia told what
Stanton glanced that way, as Floyd
live
up
town,
and
I
have
got
to
be
During the as far as Flamborough Head, a dis- ails him Then he is given sufficient herb reme
; Fisheries Committee.
was drawn to the other side of the
room by hts excited captor, but turned back here in an hour, Mr. Green past two years Fishery inspector H. tance of ninety-eight statute miles dies for a course of time and told to report again
j Ikmnlson has been carrying out In Nearly three hundred had traveled to have hia condition not«!. In moat cases pa
back to answer the remainder of the wants me"
"Oh,
anywhere
you
say.
See
here.
vestigations on behalf of the com only three or four miles from where tients notice a decided improvement in their
examination. When the ceremony was
health in a week's time. This is particularly so
why
can
’
t
you
wait
and
come
on
the
mittee, and the results of bls work they were originally taken— London in netsous diseases and where the system is run
ended, he signaled to his mechani
train with me to Indianapolis? We cannot tall to be of considerable use Standard.
cian.
d’wn. The system itself when toned up to nor
mal is often able to throw off sickness. If you
“Come: I’ve got to go before the might make the trip less monotonous to those concerned In biological
for each other.“
are ailing don't continue to suffer when the help
search.
The Gloom of English Clubs.
magistrate
and
bail."
he
of harmless remedies is so near at hand.
Taken by surprise. Floyd hesitated.
In the course of an exhaustive
summoned Impatiently.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, at a din
"I—you are good to think of It— port he stated that between July and
CONSULTATION' FREE.
Floyd came serosa to him. shining
but Mr Green would never consent. September, 1910, nearly two thousand English clubs.
Out-of-town people ean begin treatments by
eyed and eager.
He has arranged for me to go on to- crabs were captured, and after being
"There la something very trlste sending 4c in stamps for symptom blank, which
“Stanum, that la a reporter; he night."
labeled were again set free along the very depressing." he said, “about th« is to be filled out and returned.
wanta us to tell him about your doing
"Why shouldn't he consent? Tou Norfolk and Lincolnshire coasts. The
really fashionable clubs of Pall Mall
this He needs a fresh story to make
would be there tn plenty of time."
crabs bad recently cast their shells, SL James' street and Piccadilly. Th« C. Gee Wo Chinese Medicine Co.
good with hie paper—can't we give It
Floyd turned his mischievous gray and new ones were then in process stiff dignity, the
to blmT"
somber quietude oi
eyes to the other man's, guarding si of hardening
St w. Morrison.
Portiani Of.
these clubs, gets on an A meric*®'i
Stanton surveyed bls companion. lence Rut Stanton halted In the mid
Rewards were paid to fishermen nerven
eyebrows lifted
dle of the sidewalk, his face locking upon returning the crabs when recap
"An American vlsltor
“Why should we? The newspapers In his steel bard anger and determina
F. N. U.
’t
No. 37—'11
tured They were returned to the sea one. »aid that the air of to the Whlte
pi*c«
will get it. whatever »e do. Cerne"
tion.
at varying distances from the shore,
"but he needs It; It would help
"I know what you mean, Floyd And. and up to the present 21 per cent of »♦emed to him to auggest that th«
Ring lay dead upstairs.”
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