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By REX BEACH.
Copyright by Otis U Wood.
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"1 IwKII t a mull look Ilk«* tli«> devil In
the««* loirs?" Austin posed awkwnnlly
In front of » mirror.
“There's only one |x-r«on that can
look worse In rilling clothes than n
man. Tbat'a u woman.*'
"Wtiat heresy, particularly In a socl
ety doctor! But I agree with you. 1
leurncd to ride oil her nicoutit. you
know
As a luntier of fact, I hate IL
The sight of a horse Illis me with ter
ror.”
I'r. Kuydnm laughed outright at thin.
"8bc tells me you have u very gtxxl
neat."
"R«*allyr Austin's eyes gieamed sud
detily. "You know I never bad a ctmn<*e
to ri<le when I wns a youngster. In
fart, 1 never hnd nil op|x>rtunlty to do
anything except work. That's what
makes me so crude and awkward,
What 1 know 1 have picked up during
the last few yearn."
"You make me tired!" declare«! the
former. "You aren't”—
"I don't skate on waxed floors, nor
spill trs. nor clutch at my chauffeur In
a tight place, but you know what I
mean. I f«*el lonesome In n «Iress nulL
a butler Alls me with ghxmi. and—well.
I'm not one of you, that's all."
"I’erliaps tbat'a what makes a hit
with Alarm Ion. Hlie'n uaed to the other
kind.”
"It s«*rms to me that 1 have always
work«*«!." ruminated the former s|x>nk
er. "| don't remember that I ever hud
time b> play, even after I came to the
city,
It's a mighty «nd thing to rob
a tx»y of his childhood: It makes him
a dull. unattractive sort when lie grows
Up. I use«! to read nlxiiil people Ilk«»
Miss Mixirt* but I never ex|>ect<sl to
know them until I met yon of course
that «-orn «leal rather changed things."
"Well, rather!” Siiydam agreed with
emphasis.
"The result fa that when I am with
her I forget the few things I have
«lone that are worth while, ami 1 lie
come tho farm hand ngnln I'm natu
rally rough ami lingular, mid she sees
It ’
"Oh, you're too sensitive! You hnve
a heart like a girl underneath that
saturnine front of yours, and while
you look like the Hphynx, you are
really as much of kid at heart as I am
Where do you ride t«xlay?"
"Riverside Drive."
"What horse Is she riding r
%
"Pointer."
The doctor shook hla head, •Too
many automobiles on the Drive. Tie's
a rotten nag for a woman anyhow. Hla
mouth la as tough as a sflrntp, and be
has the disposition of a tarantula. Why
doesn't she stick to the park?"
"You know Marmlon.”
"8ay, wouldn’t It be great If Pointer
bolted and yon saved her life? She
couldn't refuse you then."
Austin laughed. "That's not exactly
the way I'd care to win her. However.
If Pointer liolted I'd probably get rat
tie«! and fall off my own horse. 1 don't
like the brutes. Come on I I’m late."
"That's right Throw me out the
minute I get comfortable." grumble«l
the younger man ns he rose.
"Stay here If you prefer. Th«™ •—
in«« cigars— you snhw me place. '
"Hurel Anil watch the squirrels oui
yonder In the park while you mnk«*
loy«* to the nicest girl In New York No.
sir. I'm going down to the office and
amputate aomelxHly."
They descended the single flight t<*
th«* street, where Austin's grrmin wu*
struggling with a huge black.
"It's coming pretty soft for you
broken." the doctor growled xs IH m
companion swung hltnself Into H m * mu <I
dte "Th«« next time I get a friend I'll
keep him to myself."
AttaVlu leaned forward with a l'x>k of
grave anxiety upon his rugged feature«
mid «aid:
"Wl«1i me luck. D«x- |'m going to
nxk her lodity."
ood for von. old f. Ilow." The.-t
great fondness In the yonngei
« eyes as he wrung th«* rider'•
and wav«v| him ndleu. then
lic<! film <1lsa|>tx*nr »round thecor
•'ll take
"Khe's it
York has
He hulled
n-d to Ills oil
ns jierl
• mu -rd
ulti eve
then be went back to the aldo of bls
friend, where other bands less uusteady
were nt work
"Poor lonely old Bob!" be murmur«L
"Not a soul to care except Marin Ion
and me. uml God knows whether abe
enrea or not”
But Robert Auatln did not die. al
though the intending surgeons said be
would, said he Bliould. In fact «-Ise 18
teachings of their science were at
fault He even offended the traditions
of surgery by being removed to Ids own
apartments in n wee!: There Kiurdam.
who bad watched hliu night and «lay.
told him ttiul Mlns Moore Lad a broken
shoulder and hence could not <*ome to
see him.
"Poor girl!” said Austin faintly. "If
I’d known more nl>out horses I might
have snveil her."
"If you'«! known more about horses
you'd have let Pointer run." declared
his friend "Nolaslv but an Idiot or u
Bob Austin would have taken the
chance you did How Is your head?”
The sick man closed his eyes «en
rllv
"It hurts nil the lime
Whnt'e rhe
matter with It?"
"’.Ve've non«* of
ro«'*r what Isn't
Why In thunder <
long?”
"Because I - I love her. I suiqxixe.
“Did you nak her to marry
Kuydarn had I h -»- ii Itching tu
question for «lays
L*<*l tin]
I was
r bdled
<*d to Ills chniiffeur In such to|n*« I nt«xl!*-al hdi ixer. mid ¿vhiie lie r«*gulu
lb«* fellow tan to the Marling j ed the most of his bodily vigor the In
guv«* ft out* violent whirl. tb«*n jury to Ills eve« b:i!l)e«i even the most
d to his seat.
' skillful «jM*clnlists
He wuis very
up MitdlMin avenue, theres lex« brave iitxint it. however, mid wrung
there
And for God's afcke the heart of Dr Suyduiu by the tin
hurry f
«omplalning fortitude with which tn* I
During two years' service with Ne« bore examination utter cxai:.iii:it! n.
York’s ntoxt fasltionnbl«* physician the operation upon <>|ienitlon.
1-earned
«triver had never received a cotumami «x'ulists theorized vaporously ntxiut op
like tills, and In* opened up his mu tic atrophies, fractures and brain pres
chliii*. A policeman warned him ut sure of one sort and another, and
Thirty third, and the car slowed down, meanwhile Robert Austin, in the high
at'wlilvli Sttydam leaned forward, try est perfection of Ixxllly vigor. In the
Ing roughly:
fullest possession of those fncultl«*»
"Never mint! the regulations! There's thnt hail raise*«! him from an unschool-
a uinn dying!"
<«l farm tiov to an eminence in the
Tin* last word was Jerk«*«! from hlui business world, went slowly blind.
as In* was snnp|i«*d back Into the ton The shadows crept in upon him with
tientt. Ilecardl«*ss of admonitory shouts a deadly, merciless certainty that
from iiatrultucu, the French car sang would have flll«*d the stoutest heart
Its growling song, while truck drivers with gloom, and yet be maintained a
bellowed curses and pedestrians fl««i smiling stoicism that deceived all but
from crossings at the scream of the hts closest associates. To Dr. Suydatn.
siren. A crosstown car block«*d them, however, the tncontrotable progress of
and th«* brakes screech«*«! hi agony the malady was frightfully tragic. He
wbllo Dr. Suydiitu was well nigh ent alone knew the man’s dominant spirit,
apult««! into the street, then they were bls lofty ambitions and bls active hab
under way again with the car leaping its. No one but he knew of the over
from sjH*«*d to ipml. It was the first mastering love thnt had come so late
time tho driver hail ever dared dlsre and was destine«l to perish unvoiced.
gard those upraised, white gloved an<l he raved at the maddening limits
bands, and it flll<*«l his joy riding soul of bls profession. In Austin's pres
with exultation. A street repair loom ence he strove to be cheerful and
e«l abend, whereupon, with n sicken llghttui the burden he knew wns crush
Ing skid they swung Into a aldo street; Ing hitn. bnt at other times be bent
Hie gears clashed again, and In au In every energy toward a discovery of
stant Inter they shot out upon Fifth some means to check the affliction,
avenue At th«* next comer they lay some hand more skllle«! than those be
motionless In a blix-knde, while the knew of. In time he recogniz«»d the
motor shuddered, then they dodged futility of Ills efforts, however, and re-
through an opening where the mud slgnixl hlms«*lf to the worsL
"Why?" questioned Suydatn savage
guards missed by tin Inch and were
whirling west toward Broadway
At ly. “Why don’t von ask tier to mnrry
O ik * Hundred and Ninth street a bi you. Bob? Sh<> couldn’t refuse, and
*«
cycle officer stared in aniazcmeiit ut G«xl knows you ne«*d her!"
"That’s Just it; she couldn't refuse
the dwindling numlier iH'iientli the
rear axle. then ducked his head ami This Is tlx* sort of thing a fellow must
began to pedal. He overhauled the bear alone She’s t«x> young and beau
speeding machine as It throbbed be- tlftil and fine to lx* haruesstsl up to a
for«' the doors of Mercy hospital, to be worn out old cripple."
"Cripple!” the other choked. "Don't
greeted by a grinning chauffeur who
waved him toward the building anti talk like that. Don't be so blnmed re
signed
It tears my heart out. 1—1—
told of n doctor's urgency
why. I believe I f«*el this more than ,
inside Dr. Suydaui, pallid of face
| you do."
and shaking in u most unprofessional
Austin turn««! Ills face to the sjieaker '■
manner, was bending over a figure In
' with a look of such tragic suffering |
riding clothes, the figure of a tall,
j thnt the younger man fell silcnL
muscular man, who lay silent, deaf to
Dr. Suydatn hnd a furious desire to
tils words of greeting
acquaint Martnlon Moore with the
They told him all there wns to tell.
truth nnd to tell her. with all the bru
In the deadly, int|>ersoual way of emer
tal frankness he could muster, of her
gency hospitals, while he nodded swift
part in tills calamity.
But Austin
comprehension. There ha«l Iteeu a run
would not hear to IL
away; a woman on a big, evil eyetl bay
"She doesn't dream of the truth." j
I hat had taken fright at an automo
the sick man told him. “and I don t
bile; a swift rush up the Drive, a want her to learn. She thinks 1 am I
lungo over tho neck of the pursuing merely weak, anil It grieves her terri
horse, then a man wrenched from bls bly to know I haven't recovered. If
saddle and draggtsl beneath cruel, mur she really knew It might ruin her life,
derous hoofs. The bay had gone down,
for she la a girl who feels deeply. I i
and the woman wns senseless when
want to spare her thaL It’s the least
the ambulance arrived, but she^i»*! re_
1 can do.”
rived and had lx*en hurried to her
••But she'll find It out some time.”
home. In the man's hand they found
“1 think noL She comes to see me
the fragments of a bridle rein gripped
every day."
with such des|>cratlon that they could
"Every day?"
not remove It until he regnlne«! con
“Yes; I'm expecting her soon.”
sciousness He had askeil regarding
“Ant! she doesn't know?"
tlie girl’s safety, then sighed himself
Austin sfiotik his head. “1 never let
Into oblivion ngnln They told Suydatn her see there's nn.flhing the matter
I hut he would die.
with my slghL She drives up with hec
With sick heart the listener runted mother, and I waft for her there tn
nil high spirlt«*d women mid high the bay window It’s getting hard for
strung horses, declaring them to be me to distinguish her now. but I recog
works of the devil, like automobiles- nize the hoof beats. I can tell them
V
every <i>oe
"But I don't im«ier«tan<!
"I pretend to he very r.eak."
plnlned the elder man with a guilty
flush* "1 alt In the l>lg < hair yonder
and my Jap t«oy waits on tier Mbe 1«
very kin«! " Austin’s voice grew husky
"I'm sorry to lose sight of the park out
yonder, an«! the trees and the children
I-J like
they're growing Indistinct
children I've always want««! sonx for
I've dream«*! about IL" Hla
myself
thin, haggnrd face broke Into a wist-
ful smile
"1 guex« that Is all ovei
with now."
"I'm glad I cun tilde my feelings.'
he eaid slowly, "for that Is what I
have to do every instant she Is with
me. I don't wish to Inflict unneces
sary psln upon my friends, but don’t
you xupr>ose I know «vhut It means? It
means the destru<*tlon of all toy tine
hopes the death of all I hold dear tn
the world I love uty work, for I am
—or I was—a success; this means I
must give It up. I am strong In body
and brain: this robe me of my useful
ness. All my life I have prayed that
! might some time love « woman
That time has come, but this means I
must give her up and be lonely all my
days. I must grope my way through
the dark with never a ray of light to
guide me. Do you know how awful
the darkness Is?*' He wrung tils baud-
"I must go hungering through the
night with a voiceless love to torture
me Just at the crowning point of nil
Ife I've tx»en snuffed out I must fnl
oehind anti se«* my friends desert me
"Bob’" cried the other In ahocked
denial
“Oh. you know It will come to that
P«*of>le don't like to f«**?l pity forever
F'vp bw»n n lune I ;
tugging at them
fellow snd toy friends- nre numbered
For s time they will come to see me
and try to ebe«*r me up: they will even
■ pleasures
trv t<> Include rue In their
Then when It I» no tonffer a new stor«
Don t Let Skin
Troubles Spread
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Pendleton Normal School
Proven Necessity
(Copied from Portland Oregonian.)
MONMOUTH, Ore., June 26.—The Oregon Normal
school opened this week . . . students enrolled 785,
largest on record for state Normal in Oregon ....
how to care for large student body a problem ....
800 being crowded into auditorium with seating ca
pacity of 550. Galleries filled with extra chairs In
aisles. More than 150 students seated on platform.
New boarding houses completed, additions to room
Ing houses built and tents used. One hundred girls
sleep on upper floor of school.
The official school report gives 150 grads pupils
in Monmouth, for teacher practice.
Read what those you have elected to handle the
affairs of your state and who are thoroughly informed
regarding school conditions in Oregon have to say
concerning measure 308 on the ballot at the coming
election:
By James Wlthycombe, Governor of Oregon:
••Oregon Is unquestlonsbly In need of more normal
school work and Pendleton is the logical place for a
school of this class in Eustern Oregon "
By J. A. Churchill, State Superintendent of Public
Instruction:
"I trust that the voters of the State will assist in
raisins the standard of our schools by establishing a
State Normal School at Pendleton *
By P. L. Campbell, President of the University of
Oregon:
"At least one additional Normal School 1s urgently
needed In Oregon "
By W. J. Kerr, President of the Oregon Agricultural
College:
_
■ Since the people of Pendleton are Initiating a measure
for the establishment ot a Normal School at that place,
it will give me pleasure to support this measure.”
By J. H. Ackerman, President Oregon Normal School,
at Monmouth:
"A careful analysis of the situation will convince any
»ne that Oregon needs a Normal School In Eastern Ore
gon and Pendieton fills all the government requirements.”
By «re County School Superintendents of Oregon:
”> «solved, that It Is the sens« of th« County School
Fu, .-rlntendents of the State of Oregon, In convention
assembled, that th« h«st interests of the schools of th«
State demand Increased facilities for the training of
teachers, and that we, therefore, endorse the initiative
measure to establish a Normal School at Pendleton ”
By Mrs. Charles H. Caatner, President of ths Oregon
Federation of Women's Clube:
"1 most heartily endorse th« location of said Normal
School at Peudleton "
Prof. Robert C. French, Former President of the
Normal School Located at Weeton:
"An Immediate establlehment of such a school at some
central point such as Pendleton would prove a great aaaet
to the State of Oregon ”
B. F. Mulkey, Ex-Presidsnt Southern Oregon Normal
Sahool:
"1 shell support ths location ef an Eastern Oregon
Normal School at Pendleton ”
State Board of Regents of Oregon Normal School
declares that “the necessity for additional Normal
school facilities in Oregon is apparent.”
Portland Chamber of Commerce endorses measure
308 and say Pentileton most logical location for Nor
mal school in Eastern Oregon.
vote for your children
Eastern Oregon Stat« Normal School Commttt««.
By J. H Gwinn. Bevy.. Pendleton, Or«.
Ecn
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Kern Park Chris tain Church
Corner 09th St. and 40th Ave. 8. E.
10 a. in. Bible School.
11 a. m. and 7:30 p. in. preaching eer*
vice.
6:30 p. tn. Christain Endeavor.
7:30p. m. Thursday, mid-week prayer
meeting.
A cordial welcome to all.
*
Rev. G. K. Berry, Pastor.
One block south of Woodmere station.
Holy Communion the first Sunday of
each month at 8 p. m, No other ser
vices that day.
Every other Sunday the regular ser
vices will be as usual.
Evening Prayer and sermon at 4 p. m.
Sunday School meets at 3 t». m.
B.
Boatwright, Supt , L. Maffett, Sec.
Rev. O. W. Tavior Rector.
Lents tvanqelicai Church
D. SWIFT & CO.
(raid Adv I
Seventh Day Adventist Church
10 a. m. Saturday Sabbath School.
11 a. tn. Saturday preaching.
7 :30 p. m. Wednesday. Prayer meeting
7 :45 p. in. Sunday preaching.
Sermon by the Pastor, 11 a. m. and
7:15 p. tn.
Sunday School 9:45 a. in., Albert
Fankhauser, Superintendent.
Y. P. A. 6:45 p. m. Paul Bradford,
F resident.
Prayer meeting Thursday 8 p. m.
A cord:al welcome to all.
•
T. R Horuachuch, P.iator.
- f «tu SLARCH
.'.ilitjr. Weaetnat-
e far our ti-e buck
308 X YES is a
St. Peter s Catholic Church
Sundays:
8 a. m. Low Maas.
10:30 a. tn. High Mass.
8:30 a. m. Sunday Sohool.
12 M. Cboii rehearsal.
Week days: Maes at 8 a. m.
St. Pauls t pise opal Church
(Contino <1 next we* k.)
NEW STYLES FOR MEN
At The Churches
i
Trivial blemishes are sometimes the ■_
first warning of serious skin diseases.
Artete Baptist Church
Neglected akin troubles grow.
Dr.
9:45 a. tn. Bible School.
Hobson’s Eczema Ointment promptly
11 a. tn. Preaching service.
8:00 p. m. Evening services.
stops the progress of eczema, heals
7:00 p tn. B. Y. P. V. meeting.
stubborn cases
of
pimples,
acne,
8:00 Thursday Prayer meeting.
blotchy, red and scaly skin, The anti-
Everyboiiy welcome to any and ail o!
septic qualities of Dr. Hobson’s Eczema these services.
W. T. S. Spriggs, pastor.
Ointment kill the germ ami prevent the
spread of the trouble. For cold sores or
chapped hands, Dr. Hobson's Eczema Millard Avenue Presbyterian Church
Ointment offers prompt relief. At your
IG a. tn. Sabbath School.
11 a. m. Morning worship.
Druggist, 50c.
7:p. tn. Y. P. 8. C. B.
Linn county will pave 200 miles of
7 :45 p. m. Evening worship.
7 JO p. m. Thursday, midweek service.
county highways in five years.
8 p. Mt. Thursday, choir practice.
Rev. Wm. H. Amos, Pastor.
/
Lents friend’s Church
9:45 a. m. Bibie School. Clifford
Barker Superintendent.
11:00 a. tn Preaching services.
6:25 p. m. Christian Endeavor.
7:30 p. m. Preaching Services.
8:00 p. m. Thursday,
mid-week
prayer meeting.
A cordial welcome to all these ser
vices.
John and Net ie Riley, Pastors.
Lents Baptist Church
Lord’s Day. Bible School 9:45 a. m.
Morning worship, 11 a. tn.
Elmo Heights Sunday School, 2:30
p. tn.
B Y. P. U., 6:30 p m.
Evening worship, 7:30 p. m.
A cordial welcome to these services.
J. M. Nelson, Pastor
Fifth Church ot Christ
Fifth Church of Christ. Scientist of
Portland, Ore.
Myrtle Park Hall,
Myrtle Park.
Services Sunday 11a. tn.
Sunday School 9:30 and 11 a. m.
Wednesday evening testimonial meet
ing 8 p. tn.
Lents M. t. Church
Sunday School 9:45. a. m.
Preaching 11:00 a. m.
Bible Study Class, 5:30 p. m.
Epworth League 6:30 p, m.
Preachihg 7:30 p. m.
Prayer meeting Thursday evening at
7:30.
F. M. Jasper, pastor.
Residence 5703 Bird St.
Laureluood M. E. Church
9:45 a. m. Sunday school.
11:00 a. in. preaching.
12:30 a. m class meeting
6:30 p. m. Epworth League.
7:30 p. m. preaching.
The pastor is assisted by a chorus cho r
and the Amphion Male Quartette.
8:00 p. m. Thursday evening, prayer
service.
Dr. C. R. Carlos, pastor.
GermdH Evangelical Ketormed/hurch
Corner Woodstock Ave., and 87th ..St.
Rev. W. G. Lienkaemper, pastor.
Sunday School 10 a. in.
Morning Worship. 11 a. m.
Y. P. 8. at 7:30 p. m.
German School and Catechetical Class
Saturday 10 a. m.
Third United Brethren Church
10 a. m. Sunday School.
11 a. m Preaching.
3 p. m. Junior Christian Endeavor.
6:30 p. m. Senior Christian Endeavor.
7:30 p. m. Preaching.
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Brentwood M. E.JChurch
10 a. m. Sunday School.
11 a. m. Preaching service.
Rev. W. L. Wilson, Pastor.
LODGE DIRECTORY
Magnolia Camp No. 4026, Royal
Second
Neighbors, meets
regular
and Fourth Weilneedays of each
month at I. O. O. F. Hall. Second
Wednesdays social meeting. Neighbors
bring your families and friends.
Fourth We«inee<iay, business.
All
Neighbors requested to come. By
order of the Camp.
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