Clarence H. Wilson PORTLAND *** •dHIVH»# * g ** •# » * ****** a »• Meridian added s few passenger * to the train list, among them Harvey FOR YOUR PRODUCE Collier, suavity Itself. Dressed styl Ishly, manicured, polished and per fumed, he seemed out of place tn tne ************ ** IHHUMHHHHUHft PsrtlaM. O tmoi ▼AUDBVnXB PHOTO PLATS dingy day caach. But It was a ques­ Complete Change 8a tarda? Adulta. Weeh ' tion of business with blm, and he lost lay Matinee. 30« ; Evenings, Mr. Contine ' ooe 1 to 11 p m. Children 10 oonte all times । no time In setting about his work Standing In the d«s>rway of the car T Select Residential & Transient he sized up the field. Observing Mr 15th and Yamhill. Port'and. Ornron. Purvis of Pensacola, he smiled. He H By HINTON GILMORE M xlirn — Fireproof — American Plan almost went forward to take the va E RATES MODERATE 20. cola dealer In bides and pelts, tallow scure town In northern Mississippi, 400 Dekum building, Portland, Oregon. and beeswax. and tb * beglrdled stout man peruse«) a NORTONIA HOTEL A Mild Laxativ« hbrthlng ' of greater pith occurred deed, reciting a consideration of $000, A System Budde* You Will Feel Ri^ht at Home Here between Fenancola and Mobile than cash in hand, paid for certain city lot * ‘sic aaJ Get/al Reasssable Rates. the minor Interruptions of a young In tlie tow n of Bubaqua, located, had This handeom* "movie” »tar recent­ Excellent i^fe. Special Weekly Axsiit* Nature to Re­ mun with a semi-uniform, who hud he but known, twenty mllee out In the ly returned from abroad wher* *h* par­ Katae. bus Meet« all Traina. 11th and Stark. gain and Maintain viands and magazines to sell, for Mr. Gulf of Mexico. PORTLAND. OREGON ticipated In on* of bar most *ucc***ful i'urvla. with thrift, chose to ride In a Good Health. Without further Incident, early plctur*pl»ya Sh* i* a favorite of CLEANING AND DYEING day couch. For reliable Cesn n< and Dye- morning brought the train to St. Louis, ‘rir «endre «end par> el« to ua At Mobile there boarded the train and the hide dealer from Florida, thousand» of psopl* who enjoy her It Cott* So Little to We pay return poet«««, inform­ one "Oriole Joe" Maxey. It would more wearied than rented by an awk- clevtr work. ation and prices given upon re­ Give it a Trial and -------- O--------- quest. not b«t a bud guess to venture that wanl sleep gained while he crouche«) be convinced of it* ENK K’S CITY DYE WORKS.. "Oriole Joe" carried in hl * satchel his angular self between resisting iUBbiiihf V). Portland. Ore true miritt. an ordinary gold brick of commerce, ■ent *, arose, stiffened from bls ungain­ whose core, were it pier ed by * sus­ ly slumbers, and walked, blinking. We - peclalize in pecting gimlet, would buie assaytd Into the station. Remaining just long At your Drug Store Hides, Fel't, 4cs>, Mobair, TaCcw, Cascara, heavily In lend. enough at a convenient lunch counter Cregca Gape Root (oat Sluu, Hone Hair By Margaret Morison His purpose In getting on at Mobile t<> engulf a cup of coffee, be wandered DRUGS BY MAIL * wa twotuld to avoid the awakened aimlessly in a direction which he Write *or Ehippinr Tami A latest Price List Let ua a«nd you your Liru^a by mad—Special attention of the police, and to sell Imagined would bring him Into the P ortland H ide W ool C o . aarviea iv n * mall one gold brick to the best commercial business section of the city. Uf union ArfNGt oostm fostiano omnb . OLD FRIENDS LAUE-DAVIS DRUG COMPANT ' Branch at Pocatelkx Idaho * advantage. At five o’cl«»ck a. m. In outlying * True Eipcrta 173 Third St.. Portland. Ora "Oriole Joe" entered the car and streets little traffic stirs tn St. Louis. XX7HEN Peg's train gave her. after alaed up the occupants. He wa * quick But at a darkened comer two men ’ * twenty year«, a couple of hours Food for Goldfi *h. to note the trusting eje und the re­ *to«>«l In the shadow am! observed to spend In the city where she hnd Animalculae in water are not suffi­ ceding chin of the i’ensacolan. In the whatsoever might be moving. They been brought up, she telegraph«-«! three third seat beyond, he also observed saw the approaching Mr. Purvis an«! of her oldest friends to meet her at cient food for goldfish. If commercial Europe and Return from Portland another promising looking prospect. noted with satisfaction that he wore Port's, that famous old caterer *, for fish food Is not available, goldfish may Truly, this began to look like a pros­ In the bosom of hl * seventy-five-cent whose Ices and frappe in her exile be fed crushed vermicelli, ants' eggs, perous sally into the marts of trade, *hlrt a diamond stud, which sparkled from the land of her birth she had so small worms, aquatic larvae and green SPECIAL ECONOMY TOUR and he bemoaned the fact that hl * often sighed. They hud all v me in stuff in the form of lettuce and water­ K«yiy. 48 DAYS ABROAD extreme poverty prevented Ids pur­ The shadowed shadows decided from the country on their re< dpt of chase of lend sufficient for two mar­ upon seizure am! forfeiture. A minute Peg's message on that hot «1 y, and cress. Bread crumbs may be used, but ffQCA including all expense * and they should not be allowed to stand ketable bricks. With one. It was a or so, and the prize was almost within vises from Portland and re­ Ann had actually deserted her home in the water. question of choosing between Purvis grasp; being merely a question of a turn. Visiting 9 countries. Sailing 8. S. and family for an afternoon. There and the other prospect, a farmer who quick blow In the back of the man's Gripsholm, June 20; Returning S. S. they waited, Ann and Nan und Fan, bad just settled a mortgage on hl * Varnish for Wall Paper. Berengaria, August 21. head, a hasty pinch at the shirt bosom and wondered If Peg's train l ad been home and was heading for New Or­ and a speedy getaway. late, for they had the big place to A home-furnishing suggestion is the ALASKA leans to buy an automobile. Closer came the priy. Suddenly themselves except for a stranger years use of varnish applied to wall paper. Agents for Ail Steamship Lines Drawing a coin from his pocket, he younger than they, at another little By this means it is said that the pa­ Special Tours to Dawson, Atlin, designated Purvis, the pelt dealer, “Lop-Eared” Hunt whispered: round table across the room. "Nuttln' doin' tonight, txt I I've lost Fairbanks per is preserved longer than ordi­ "tails," and the farmer who pined for “I dare say that Peg isn't as quick the rabbit's foot out of me pocket I" rapid locomotion, "heads.” There was narily, and when necessary it can be HONOLULU Which goes far In explaining why in getting about as she used to be," a trifling spin of the disk. Maxey ob­ cleaned with a damp cloth. The rather Special Independent and Conducted served the result with a satisfied Mr. Purvis. In perfect good health and suggested Nan. who wus rheumatic at shiny finish might, however, prove a Tours forty, bookish, who never walked if humor, much refreshed by his walk smile, and forthwith struck up an so AROUND THE WORLD CRUISE from the station, came Into the Conti­ she could ride, and who liked her full drawback. qualntnnce with the farmer. East Bound—October 24, 1925 four * course at breakfast. nental hotel, aroused a sleepy night Ensuing events have no interest ex­ West Bound—February 9, 1926. "I hope she hasn’t had a giddy turn, Gave Name * to Region *. cept to ii New Orleans automobile clerk ami Inquired for a room. $1600.00 and up The Continental had hut two empty or anything of that sort," foreboded dealer, whose well-devised plan of Mount Everest, the highest known Make Reservations Early follow-up letters fall«-«! to bring In a rooms for the price at which Mr. Nan. who considered herself a di­ point in the world, was christened in promising prospect just when he Purvis desired to be housed. They gestive Invalid, who lived in a social honor of Sir George Everest, surveyor were numbered. If you chance to be whirl, who never walked If she could seemed cinched. general of India; the Victoria falls, 105 3rd St., Portland, Ore. Miss Celeste Adair, very attractive, Interested in such trifling, statistics. ride, and who picked at her food. “Perhap * she changed her mind,” on the Zambesi, in honor of Queen General Steamship and Tourist Agents though overdressed, boarded the train 1323 and 1313. Given but two chances, of Mr. Purvis of Pensacola, at New with the m^esslty of making a choice, said Ann, who was neurasthenic, had Victoria; and Albert Nyanza, a lake Work Independently. Orleans, ticketed ostensibly for Mer­ the clerk became vacillation personi­ no tastes of her own. never walked If in East Central Africa, in honor of idian. But alie hud something more In fied. He seemed unable to select. she could ride, and was house-kept Queen Victoria's prince consort. The trouble with a good many talk­ view than a short smoky ride upon the First his hand stretched for the key with a cook book and a treatise on ers is that they cannot get their cars. Briefly und bluntly, Miss Adair to room 1313, and back again to No. diatetics. tongues and their brains to collabo­ First Silk Stockings. Just then the stranger from across 1323. was low In funds. Life In New Or­ At that moment bell hoy No. 13, the room approached Them : “Is it— leans Is expensive, und the young Henry II, who was king of France rate.—Boston Transcript. woman, being a devotee of certain rc- seeking Instructions relative to Ice are you by any chance—can this be?" from 1547 to 1559, was the first to Had He Mentioned It? flned palaces of chance, longed for the water desired, urgently, by a bibulous she hesitated, glancing from one to wear silk stockings, which he donned The Ananias Club—‘T’ve had a cold wherewithal to make an uphill climb reservoir In No. 417. came within view another of the three distinctly middle- in 1559 for the wedding of his daugh­ against Luck. Her object In taking of th«1 hesitant clerk. He saw the aged and rather heavy ladles before for three weeks and not a single per­ ter, Elizabeth, to Philip II of S, ain. a trip at this time wus to make the boy's badge with Its emblazoned "13" her. son has told me a sure cure for it," “Peg!” they all cried together, and acquaintance of some married person and considered the matter settled prm said he.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Fire Caused bv Lightning. of hometown respectability, from pitlously, handed key No. 1313 to the made room for her at the table. Then, when all the conventional whom funds might be drawn by that menial who had charge of the new That fires kindled by lightning can­ Edible Muskrats. Inelegant but often effective proced­ guest's solitary suitcase—shabby se­ questions had been asked and an­ not be put out with water is an old swered. Nan begun: "My dear, how ure of blackmail. Miss Adair chose curity for n much-desired ransom. myth without foundation in fact. Fire The flesh of the muskrat for hu­ "Please call me at eight o'clock In do you manage to look so—so active?" the day coach as the most likely Held started by lightning is just like any man food is variously esteemed, but "So blooming?" put in Fan. the morning." the Pensacohin adinon for her endeavors. these animals are sold extensively in other fire.—Exchange. "And so young?” ended Ann. Scarcely liad the train left New Or­ Ished as he vanished toward the ele­ some markets of the East and Middle Peg hesitated for a moment and then leans when she observed Mr. Purvis. vator. West. In the retail markets they are Scentless Flowers. At eight o'clock, a dutiful servant she said. “I am active, and if I look Here. In all Innocence, was game. He looked just prosperous enough to rapped lightly on the door of Room bleomlng ami young, as you say, it’s Only about one-fifth of the total sold as "marsh rabbits” and have a stand for about a 1'250 monthly gouge 1313. No response came, and the rap­ for that reason. My husband and I numbers of flowers have any fra­ flavor somewhat like the wild duck. for perhaps a year, before threshing ping Increased In rapidity and vigor. walk ten miles in the country evety grance. Red and yellow flowers are Sunday." It out over his own lares nnd penates, Still no response. Portuguese Dislike Mistletoe. “We believe In the habit of exer­ the most liable to smell, white and then appealing to the police. Mr. There came through the transom a The Portuguese have a superstitious Purvis, unconscious of the unkind wispy odor of fugitive gas. Quickly cise," went on Peg. warming to her violet-blue flowers rarely have any scheme, scanned the quotations of the apprehensive (gas being expensive), subject. "When there’s skating, were scent. There are 308 varieties of dislike for the mistletoe and will never Hide and Pelt Dealer's Guide. the t>oy summoned his superiors, and out on the ice an hour every after­ violet-blue flowers, and only 12 bear #use the plant as a decoration. Miss Adair made her survey more the door was unlocked with a key sent noon before dinner. In summer we go fragrance. Another Theory Blasted. Inclusive. The car yielded, however, up from the desk. There was an un­ swimming on hot evenings at a beach, but one other prospect—u professor, deniable presence of gas. It wasn't a short ride from the city. We’ve fit­ Decision by beauty specialists that Sentry Kills Corporal. perhaps. In u small school, or pastor even necessary to light a match to find ted up our back yard as a playground mental vigor makes hair luxuriant Honolulu.—Corporal William Crum­ tending the spiritual grazing of a the point of escape, for a low hissing for the children, and ’at our age’ I’m should set bald-headed men to think­ smalltown flock. From either of the from a pipe In the corner of the room learning to play baseball. The chil­ back was shot to death here Sunday ing.—Rochester Herald. dren are going to ride nnd sail, too; night when he failed to heed the two men the adventuress felt that gave a quick clew to the break. After there might be an Income derived. It pausing to shut off the supply at the we ourselves haven’t been able to af­ challenge of a sentry at Schofield bar­ Capacious Tub. was a matter of no consequence to her point of intake, the hotel servants ford that. I hope they will even fly 1" racks. The sentry fired five shots, Kennebec Journal — “He returned Her contemporaries slumped In upon all of which took effect. which one paid. Being a follower In gave attention to the unconscious fig­ the ragged train of Chunce she left It ure on the bed. Life existed In the themselves; bewildered and dulheyed, Saturday from Bangor and passed the Crumback’s home was in Detroit, crumpled heap of humanity, but at * as Peg ended: "This country must to her fickle highness. week-end in bath with his family.”— Mich. The sentry was provisionally Thrusting a dainty finger between low ebb. Physicians were summoned, look out with all her hardheadedness Boston Transcript. the pages of a book she carried, fhe restoratives were placed In operation, If she doesn't want to become a soft charge«! with murder. agreed with herself that if the num­ and very slowly the gentleman wus nation. We can’t disregard the habit FISH ber under her hand proved to be an brought back from the hem of the of exercise and not pay the penalty." Columbia River Smelt shipped direct same day The Lawless Average. caujtht. 11.00 a box. 50 lb«.. F. O. B. Kelso. A. A. HAVE YOU THIS HABIT? even numeral Mr. Purvis should by hereafter. One trouble with the average man Fisher, Box 643. Kelso, Washington. that edict be chosen to rehabilitate the A reporter, Inquisitive as his clan Is that he generally considers himself PLEATING SPECIAL lowering funds of the young woman; must ever be, sought. In addition to above the average.—Des Moines Reg­ Cut. Ham, hem nnd mnchln * Ci AA if the numeral were odd, the distinc­ Information gleaned from the hotel nleat eklrte ready for band. wltUV ister. tion would descend upon the dignified register, to learn more thoroughly the Hemstitching, pleotlng and tucking. EASTERN NOVELTY MFO. CO. gentleman with Hie clerical costume. subject matter for bls first yarn of UH Fifth Btr ** t Portland, Oro, At Meridian, a man with beetling the day. With no pang of Impropri­ brow and formidable chin boarded the ety he searched the clothing of the train nnd hurriedly approached the man «ho was being resuscitated. In Made From Old Carpet* “Wear Like seat where Miss Adair sat in mirthful an upper vest pocket, the reporter Iron.” WITH OtTARANTXXD conversation with her companion. found a card which shall be read In 8KCTIONAL INCH ■ Deal Direct with the Manufacturer. Absolute BATO*. Mad* in two Satisfaction Guaranteed. Send in Your Ma­ There were harsh words spoken low. your presence and the reading shall riiw,21Canc to Dr. Pierce's Invalids’ Hotel Buffalo. N. Y., for trial pkg. When a Man'» Hard-Boiled. “Hard bulled" came into genernl use during the world wnr. It 1» slang and Is applied to a person hardened In mind or fueling and Insensthlo to thci sufferings of others. Originally, of course. It referred merely to thu con dltlon of a hard-boiled egg. Manifestly Unlikely. "The new minister must be mad," said the village woman, meeting an­ other of the parishioners on the street. "He told my husband, who weighs 240 pounds, to beware lest ho should be weighed in the balance and found wanting." Formed Human Map. Among the most striking episodes of the pageant of the empire at Wem­ bley, England, was a human map of Australia, formed by hundred * of anti­ podean visitor . * Table Talk. "I have live«! in 869 boarding houses," say * Bill Rigby, "and heard the same thing In every one of them: ■You'll like It the way we cook It.’"— Akron Times. The Other Angle. As long as the world's population Is growing all the time, isn't It entire­ ly possible that if sin is Increasing so Is virtue?-Detroit News. Many of Them Do. "My niece," said Mrs. Blunderby. “has had a college education. She speaks several languages quite flip­ pantly." Uncle Eben. 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