MEASURED BY INCHES LITTLE THINGS GOVERN LIFE'S SUCCESS OR FAILURE. A Little Contemplation Will Show th* Truth of the Statement—Man Who Consider. It I. the One Who Succeeds. ne KM 5TODY MARir VAN VOD5T > ILLUSTRAT ION5>? RAY WALTE R5 I cut him down In the prime of hit youth. and now, according to Brunel "there wasn't much use'" i'ltchoune wna bandaged around hit ! hind quarters and his adorable little head and forepaws came out of th« handkerchief bandage. "He won't eat anything from me | mon Capitaine," said Brunet, and Sabron ceromoiilously opened th« pup py's mouth and thrust down a dose Pitchoune swallowod obedlonlly. Sabron had just returned from « long hard day with his troops, and tired out a* he wan. he forced hlmacll to give hts attention to Pitchoune A second Invitation to dinner lay on Ml table; he had counted the day* until this night. It see tuod too good to be true, he thought, that another picture wai to add Itself to his collection' lie! had mentally enjoyed the other* often, giving preference to the first when he dined at the chateau; but; there had been a thrill In the second! caused by the fluttering of the whits dress down by the poplar walk. To-night he would huve the pleasure of taking In Mias Redmond to dinner ' See. mon Capitaine,” aald Brunet "the poor little fellow can't swallow I It" The water trickled out from either | »Ide of Pitchoune'* mouth The sturdy , terrier refused milk tn all form*, had | done so since Sabron weaned hint; but Sabron now returned to hl* nursery days, made Brunet fetch him warm milk and. taking the quill, dropped a few drops of the soothing liquid, into which he put a dash of brandy, down LEARN Pitchoune’s throat. Pitchoune swal AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING AND DRYING lowed, got the drink down, gave a at th« twMt «qulpiMki. !•»•«•< up to-daf« and only Aut«>m*>bU« School In th« Northwest feeble yelp, and closed his eye*. When Eraclfcal .AM Auto Repair Co . JAS Am. Pwtl»< Or he opened them the glazed look had gone. The officer hurried Into hl* eve nlng clothe* and ordered Brunet, aa hr Nrw and Second-hand Aif«nta ft Thor anti K»i-«l Wr't» h>r Cat ah« lima and Second-hand !■»»■ •« tied hl* cravat, to feed the puppy a lit •lor LtoU Art! lit Till lO. 124 1.1 IM Tl. PeWaJ 0"«a> tie of the stimulant every hour until Everybody knows what a little thing an inch is. but few realize what a big coh-cuvr Jr / w ¿aaas wvtut a thing It is. Few stop to contemplate what the difference of an inch really means, says a writer in the New York CHAPTER I. and busied himself at bls table with American. A tailor knows when an his correspondence Among the let inch too much or too little has cost A Serious Event. ter* was an invitation from the Mar­ him anywhere from JIS to ISO. A Le Comte de Sabron. In the undress quise d Keclignac. an American mar dressmaker knows when an inch too uniform of captain tn the------ Cavalry, ried to a Frenchman, and the great little of the goods on hand may cause sat smoking and thinking. . . . lady of the country thereabouts. her, after an arduous day of planning, What is the use of being thirty years "Will you not." she wrote, "come to to abandon a chosen pattern for an­ old with the brevet of captain and dine with us on Sunday? I have my other. An engineer knows when his much distinction of family If you are niece with me She would be glad to train, with its carload of human a poor man -In short, what is the good see a French soldier. She has ex freight, has gone one inch off the track of anything if you are alone In the pressed such a wish She comes from over a precipice. world and no one cares what becomes a country where soldiers are rare. We Some men have minds one inch off of you? dine at eight " the judgment track, and that causes He rang his bell, and when his Sabron looked at the letter and its all their schemes, gigantic and bril­ ordonnance appeared, said sharply: fine clear handwriting It* wording liant as they may be. to run amuck. "Que diable is the noise in the sta­ was less formal than a French Invlta Every calamity and every success in ble. Brunet ' I»on't you know that tlon Is likely to be. and It gave him life is controlled by inches. when 1 smoke at this hour all Taras- a sense of cordiality He had seen, Men rarely go to their doom in an oon must be kept utterly silent?” during his rides, the beautiful lines hour; it is inch by inch. Tarascon is never silent. No French of the Chateau d Esclignac. Its tur­ All successes are won inch by inch. meridional town is. especially in the rets surely looked upon the Rhone As inch by inch the waters of life warm sunlight of a glorious May day. There would be a divine view front creep in to ingulf us. so inch by inch “The noise, mon Capitaine." said the terraces It would bo a pleasure Have in Arctic Bunk? the obstacles that impede our progress Brunet, "Is rather melancholy.” to go there He thought more of what A "bunk" houae Is an Arctic hotel move aside. "Melancholy!" exclaimed the young the place would be than of the people mad* of logs, with moss eblnka, a The man who attempts to leap over officer "It's infernal. Stop it at once.” In it, for he was something of a her­ dirt roof and a dirt floor. A great the inches to reach his goal gets there The ordonnance held his kept in his mit. rather a recluse, and very re­ ■beet Iron stove keep* It warm Two with a broken leg. hand. He had a round good-natured served. row* of bunk*, covered with gras* or The word inch has a forbidding face and kind gray eyes that were lie was writing a line of acceptance bru*h. extend aloug the wall* The sound. It is because it holds us in its used to twinkle at his master's humor when Brunet came in. a Muy bundle in old (aahlonrd string and latch hold the clutches. We cannot ignore an inch, and caprices. bls hand ahlp-*a»«d door closed and there I* or it immediately thwarts our inten­ "I beg pardon, mon Capitaine. but J "Put Pitchoune over there In the a place to cook the meals. To atny tions. Every simple thing is performed a very serious event is taking place." sunlight," ordered the officer, "and we over ulght costs * dollar by man. as the saying goes, "within an “It will be more serious yet, Brunet, shall see If we can bring him up by CnniP In ” yur mouth ©«»ininml inch of his life.” if you don't keep things quiet." Il < ere. Whit. You Welk. ' Olili III hand.” Allen'. Foot r.».. I. * .ertala cure for hoc ! » K \ " h( I \ | , All diseases move Inch by inch. Be­ "I am sorry to tell, mon Capitaine, •M >ting.ralla*,a».I .wollen. a< hing '.,l huld A-‘»ll>‘» Waahina<«»n Hl-. Portland fore the scarlet fever breaks out in a that Michette has just died.” CHAPTER II. t>r all liruggi.t. frier ..w Ih.n’t ac< 11 any a.:-- I Ill i. A.blr,*. "Mlchette!" exclaimed the master. child it has been developing inch by _ JUTLAND BARBER COLLECT^ Allei, H. Ulm.le.l, I.« Boy, S. V “What relation is she of yours. Bru­ inch for nine days. Julia Redmond. Teach « ni the Traile 8 Week*. Scalp. A man built a magnificent structure net?' He remembered all his life the first Do Your B**t. Far« M dmuuh a Specialty. Tool* Free, the other day at an enormous expense, "Ah. mon Capitaine,” grinned the or­ dinner at the Chateau d'Esdlgnac, Poaitiuna Guaranteed. PAY while LEARNING. Play th* gam»' Wo are not her« and when it was proved that he had donnance. "relation! None! It is the where from the terrace he saw the Fort la nd. Oreana. 2B3 Madison HL. to whine and complain, to *l*y down encroached a few inches on the land little terrier that Monsieur le Capi- I Rhone lying under the early moon­ because we sro knocked down, to of another man the law accorded the taine may have remarked now and light and the shadows falling around J?; blame the Inequalities of tho ground then in the garden." other man the right to pull It down. fort anti ntany rurce; pajmrnt« Il week. with the castle of good King Rene. or tho unfalrne** of the umpire. munrt-bark vunrantee Writ* f^r FR> K l»»»k. Sabron nodded and took his cigarette The overstepping of an inch in the As he passed in. bis sword clanking Where there are no difficulties them Jay W. Wilson. Commcr«-al Club huibhn*« proprieties of life brands us. If a girl out of his mouth as though in respect —for he w-‘-nt in full dress uniform to Portland. Orogwt- can be no victories. Wo are hero for the deceased. In a theater laughs an inch too loud dine with the Marquise d’Esdlgnac— to win If we can In every condition "Ah. yes," he said, "that melancholy he saw the picture the two ladles made the audience locks around and puts that confront* u«, to do our best In little dog! Well, Brunet!" upon her the stamp of “not a lady.” In their drawing room: the marquise auy case, and to do It to tho end. Uth «ad Wa«hla«u*rnt ,'ir.ti new baseball league? Ito*. Finnegan. Mgr. Victor Brandt. !'n«> “There are six,” vouchsafed Bru­ nounce. in a dress so simple that of Deportment is measured by inches, GrevO«—It mean* war lu tho base­ and woe unto the man who falls to ob­ net. "of which, if mon Captains is course he never could forget it! He ball world. serve its dictates. Even In the deep­ willing, I should like to keep one.” remembered for a great many years “Sum, it will be diamond cut dlw est grief, if one goes too far in his “Nonsense,” said Sabron, “on no ac­ the fall of the ribbon at her pretty ■ mmu L” wailings the grief is questioned, if not count You know perfectly well. Bru­ waist, the bunch ot sweet peas at her ridiculed, and sympathy turned aside. net, that I don't surround myself with girdle, and he always remembered the Hepplneee. An inch too far in the poet’s flight to things that can make me suffer. I face that made the charm of the pic­ Happinoja Ilea In tho consciousness 1 ture. imagination's realms and the world have not kept a dog in ten years wo have of It. and by no means In the try not to care about my horses even laughs at his best efforts. way the future keepa its promise.— Their welcome to him was gracious. A single inch in any direction may Everything to which I attach myself The American girl spoke French with George Hand. throw away a man's chances for the dies or causes me regret and pain. an accent that Sabron thought be- I.Wryot R RKAL kbtatb ani » Resourceful Ssllr.re. world's approval, and yet some men And I won't have any miserable little wllderingly charming, and he put aside KuBtnsMM Opportunités« with nw. 20 A tale from the Pacific relates that puppy to complicate existence.” activ« »glchiiH-n hunting f<«r ru*’«'ffi do not even consider the yards. some of his reserve and laughed and “He Won't Eat Anything From Me." rr« mil th« t!nv K m I Calais and Ituihlinr Mara«Inr a steamer whose rudder unexpectedly It is the man who considers life "Bien, mon Capitaine.” accepted the talked at his ease After dinner (this Contain*« 200 drarrpti«>ns -.f city pt - ¡x-rtir«. farm*, stock ranch«», tfrnhrr and btiaiitcnd ««p|»or ♦ unit tra broke was Hteered for several days by within an inch of every detail present­ ordonnance tranquilly. “I have given ho remembered with peculiar distinct­ he should return. Pitchoune* eye*, for aa'r aiw! ««chanr«. I'rrhap« it contains juat packing bote* hung over the «Idea. ed who succeeds. away five. The sixth is In the stable; ness) Miss Redmond sang for him. and now open, followed hl* handsome ma* what you »tr look in* for if Monsieur le Capitaine would come although he understood none of the ter to the door. As Sabron opened It 1 UMlt ntarni-B is. W. Mct'OY, l-arffrat Realty Advertiser. Dally Thought. down and look at it . . words of the English ballad, he learned he gave a pathetic yelp which made 132 ( ham ber of Com merer, Portland. Or. World’s Richest Church. No man at bottom mean* tnjustte« ,• Sabron rose, threw his cigarette the capitaine turn about. the melody by heart and It followed Trinity church, New York, which t la always for some obscure distort­ "Believe me, mon Capitaine." said has just voted a handsome donation away and. following across the garden with him when he left. It went with 'd Imago of a right that ho contends. to the preservation fund of St Paul's In the bland May light, went into the him as he crossed the terrace into the the ordonnance with melancholy fa $9.000 <»ffrrr*l for certain —Carlyle. n stable where Madame Mlchette, a V rut Ion«. I B* ’ 1|OW t «» < »M/el »I tallty, "it I* no use If I am Mt Alli moonlight to mount his horse; It went cathedral, is the most richly endowed n I'ntrnl’* and “What to liiweni** home with him; be bummed It. and Pitchoune it will be to *<«e him die I parish in the world. It has a fast-in- arti I free. Send rough sketch for frr« A Dsfinltlon. rr|M»rt as bi patentability. Patenta a-b when he got up to bls room be hummed know bls spirit, mon Capitaine. He creasing income—not fully disclosed, vortlsrd f«»r «alo al <>ur eipeuao In Man* William—"Pop, what's a paradox?" lives for you alone." a fact »I n*r«' Journal*. it again as he bent over the little roll but believed to be about 12,500,000 a CMANDUE A CHANDUE, PrtAt Atty's Father—"A paradox, ray son. Is n worn- "Nonsense," said the young officer of flannel in the corner and fed the year—which Is mainly "unearned in­ cut«« 10341. St. WaüSegtm. 0.0. tn who wears silk stockings and tries impatiently, drawing on hl* glove*. puppy hot milk from a quill. crement," derived from lands given by to keep It a secret." Puck Pitchoune gave a plaintive wall from Queen Anne that have become price­ This was a painstaking operation Worse Than Work. less through the growth of the city and required patience and delicacy, . the bandage* and trted to stir. Chase th* Mice Away. "A* for feeding him, mon Capitaine," “After a man has loafed awhile.” during two centuries. Out of this both of which the big man had at his Mice will not reopen a hole which vast revenue are paid the stipends of finger-tips. The tune of Miss Red­ the ordonnance threw up hl* hand*, aald Uncle Ebon, "he generally de­ ha* h«en filled with any mixture con­ cides dat he’d rather go to work dan taining lye Hour and lye make a good the clergy and choirs of Trinity and of mond's song did for a lullaby and the “he will be «tiff by the time . . .” But Sabron was half way down the be co lonesome." eight daughter churches, and the ex­ puppy fell comfortably to sleep while paste for the purpose penses of Trinity hospital and Trinity Sabron kept the picture of his eve- [ atair*. The door wan open, and on the r ■ cemetery, and contributions to poorer ning's outing contentedly In his mind. ‘ porch he heard distinctly a third ten­ Photography and Tact. No. 17. ISIS P. N. U. parishes, and charitable institutions. But later he discovered that he was ! derly pathetic wall. A photographer has to be a man of (TO BE CONTINUED.) Some time ago Trinity vestry voted not so contented, and counted the rare tact In order to get his subject WUKN writing to sdortlm. a subscription towards the repair of hours when he might return. to look pleasant Instead of laughing tlon thlw papor. the organ of Bow church. Cheapside, himself. He shortly made a call at the Cha­ FACTOR IN MODERN WARFARE ■ England, and were delighted with two teau d'Esdlgnac with the result that return gifts, which consisted of a he had a new picture to add to his col­ Commanding General* Could Not Handle Present Enormous Armies Roman tile and a chunk of stone from lection. This time It was the picture Without the Motor. the old Norman crypt. of a lady alone; the Marquise d'Eri- cllgnac doing tapestry. While Sabron With millions of men drawt up In found that h" bad grown reticent Salts Down Frog Chorus. again, he listened for another step and battle array at one and the same time, Cudahy, Cal., boasts of a magician another voice and hoard nothing; but! to handle them effectively by old time ■who has power over frogs. This mar­ before he took leave there was a hint methods would have been impossible. vel, a woman, lives where the ground Even before "e opposing front* were of a second invitation to dinner. is low and the water gathers when it extended to their fullest degree in The marquise was very handsome rains And in the rain the frogs come France alone, they were officially de­ that afternoon and wore yet another home to roost and to croak. clared to have attained a length of bewildering dress. Sabro’ 's simple Mrs. M. H. Murphy, who lives on 300 mile«, and one of 270 miles In the taste was dazzled. Nevertheless, she east—fig”r/»s which not only convey Mary street, stood the serenade the 6abron Looked at the Letter. made a graceful picture, one of beau­ first night very well. But the second some Inu.cation of the stupendoua night her nerves got ragged around small wire-haired Irish terrier had ty and refinement, and the young sol­ size of the engaging forces, but even the edges and on the third night she given birth to a fine family and her­ dier took It away with him. As bls more emphatically suggest tho tre- racked her brains for a way to silence self gone the way of those who do horse began to trot, at the end of the mendeu* responsibilities of the com frogs. .heir duty to a race. In the straw at alley, near the poplars at the lower manders in chief. Her subconscious mind came to the his feet Sabron saw a ratlike, unpre­ end of the rose terrace he caught a Nevertheles , although they have to rescue and suggested a remedy she possessing little object, crawling about glimpse of a white dress (uu- by thousands, the commanders concerned to feed the melodious frogs with salt. ishment, uttering pitiful little cries. Madame d'Esdlgnac). have never had their forces so com­ Five pounds of salt covered Frogtown Its extreme loneliness and helpless­ pletely under .ontrol; in every phase CHAPTER III. next morning and the singers moved ness touched the big soldier, who said of the warfare, whether of transport, In S. S. S. You Get a Twl.d on Rheumathm that SctUea It. curtly to his man: out. attack, defense or supply, the keynote Many a rheumatic sufferer has been to them neutral and scatters those peculiar A Second Invitation. "Wrap it up, and if you don't know of the operation ha* been effectiveness the drug .tore for a bottle of 8. H. 8. nn>l formations In the nervo centers that how to feed it I should not be sur ­ "I don ’ t think, mon Capitaine, that it of tho completeat kind. Entirely Too Modern. been handed something claimed to be enuse such mystifying ami often bafflln. prised if I could induce it to take a Is any use,” Brunet told his master. "Chicago censors say three feet of The motor, in short, has “speeded "Just aa rood.” Truly, to n*k for bread rheumatic pains. Sabron, in his shirt-sleeves, sat be­ up" the war In a way that could never and bo riven a Mono It atilt In practice. film is long enough for a moving pic­ little warm milk from a quill. At all And best of all thia remarkable remedy If you are troubled with rhemnatlxm In ture kiss. Los Angeles censors think events we shall have a try with IL fore a table on which, in a basket, lay have been dreamed of by former gen­ any form bn auro to uxe 8. 8. 8. and note Is welcome to the weakest stomach. If you have drugged yourself until your Fetch It along to my rooms." Mlchette’* only surviving puppy. It erations. Never have the movement* Its wonderful Influence. two feet a plenty. What is your opin­ B. 8. 8. baa the j>ecullar action of aonk- stomach I. nearly paralyzed, you will bo And as he retraced his steps, leav­ was a month old. Sabron already knew of troop* been so rapid; for, Instead ion?” Ing through the Intestine, directly Into aatonlahed to And that 8. 8. 8. gives no Measuring kisses by feet, eh? Weil, ing his order to be executed, he how bright Itn eyes were and how al­ of men having to wait for ammunition the blood. In five minutes Its Influence la sensatlan but goes right to work. Thia I. thought to himself: The little beggar luring Its young ways. and food supplies, these have been at work In every artery, vein and tiny because It la a pure vegetable Infusion, I. personally I prefer the old-fashioned "Be still, Brunet,” commanded the conveyed by motor wagons which can capillary. Every membrane, every orrnn taken naturally Into your blood Juat as method of measuring a kiss by the is not much more alone in the world pure air la inhaled naturally Into your clock on the mantelpiece."—Exchange. than I am! As be said that he re­ officer. "You do not come from the travel. If need be, much faster than of the body, every emunctory becomes In called a word in the meridional patois: south or you would be more sanguine. the armies themselves—Charles I* effect a filter to strain the blood of Im­ , Ô Zottle of S. B. 8. today, and ask purities. The atlmulatln. properties of 8. Pitchoune, which means "poor little Pitchoune has got to live.” Frees ton In Scribner's Magazine. 8. 8. compel the akin, liver, bowels, kid for 8. 8. 8. Fires Caused by Lightning. neya, bladder to all work to the one end The puppy's clum*y adventuresome Tou may depend upon It that the afore Of the 3.691 fires occurring in the thing.” of caatln. out every Irrltatlnr, every pain. that sells you what you ask for la a good "I shall call it Pitchoune," he feet had taken him as far as the high­ Will Not Stick. forests of Idaho, Montana. Oregon and Infllctlnr atom ot poison; It dislodges by place to trade. Write to the Swift To prevent postage «tamps from Irrigation all accumulations In the Joints, Washington last year 2,032 were thoughL "and we shall see if it can't road, and on this day, as it were In Specific Co, lot Hwlft Illdg, Atlants. Ga­ do better than its name suggests.” order that he should understand the «ticking together, rub them over tbs nausea acid accretion, to dlsvlv«, renders fur their book on Jtheumatlam. ' caused by lightning. Ho went slowly back to his rooms struggle for existence, a bicycle bad hair before putting them away. MOTORCYCLES»»» BICYCLES r—8AVE YOUR TEETH—« p RUPTURED HOTEL CARLTON TYÛ0R1DEAS Gets Right Twist n Rheumatism Makes Short Work of Cleaning Ont Your Entire System—Aches and Pains Go Fast.