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SECRET
By M ARG ARET C. QUINBY
Copyright by A m erican P ir n Asso­
A share of the banking business
ciation. m i.
of Stayton and vicinity
is solicited.
You arc assured of a safe deposi­
tory and courteous treatment at
this bank, by ample capital and
long experience in the banking
business.
Farmers & Merchants
Bank of Stayton Oregon
,
Capital $25.000,00
Pastime Pool Parlor
G E O . W A R F O R D , Proprietor
You will be assured of the right kind of
treatment in our rooms. Every­
thing Clean, Bright and New.
A PART OF YOUR TRADE IS SOLICITED
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Stayton Cash Produce Co.
W e Buy
EGGS, P O U L T R Y , H O G S . V E A L , HIDES, Etc.
HIGHEST MARKET PRICES FOR PRODUCE-Farmers
Your Produce and Get Cash in Return.
G U A R A N T E E
F A I R
Bring Me
T R E A T M E N T
LEE KERBER, Manager
P O O L : BILLIARD PARLOR
E. T . M A T T H I E U , Proprietor
A Good Place To Spend a Pleasant H our
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H. A BEAUCHAMP,M.D
Physician and Surgeon
I f your eye* trouble you or your glass­
OREGON
STAYTON.
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•ye (train,
see thoe yesight specialist
and optician
C. H. BREWER, M. D.
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before
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from
Prices
class work.
F IR S T
reasonable for
first
W e use the modern meth­
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, O regon
2nd Door West of the Masonic
THE
Hall
OPTICIAN
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A. M„ M. D.
PHYSICIAN
and
SURGEONl
Office at
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P
aten ts
TRADÌ anannn
D tS IO N t
COAYRIOMT* * C .
Anvnnasowdtnf a «lt«e h ani d»crlptloc ms»
.„lenir aacrtalil onr «pliiinn frac whainar in
hit.ntlnn la prnb.hi, patemahlAi'nhimiinlra-
lim i. .1 noi Ir ri'nflrtantial. NANOBOM <w. I .trilla
■ani fra*. CT(a.» a*.ne 7 tasernrlneyaianta.
r.i.m a takan thrnnàh Munii A Co. racalT»
merlai
ermi noitee,
notier, wlihoo»
wlihout oharaa. In th#
tha
Sdentine American
A h a n i.n m .ir I1ln.*ratai ww.Hr.
lA rra.1 .Ir
New York
, fa» r Ma wasaiastoo. o . 0.
"1 am aosry, Helen, to have been
(bilged to ask you to come to the o f­
fice to execute these papers, but you
and I are not the only ones concerned.
However, I have got matters In such
shape that all can be attended to
right bare."
“Thank you, guardy."
“ Now If you w ill sign bere mid here
and bere— There; the transfer baa
been effected, and you are the posses­
sor o f your property, to do with It as
you like "
“ W eren’t you rather young for motb-
er to put all my Inheritance In your
bands 7“
“ I waa only twenty-seven, but I bad
had ray profesalon four years, and—
well, your mother waa Inclined to“ —
“ 8he was very fond o f you."
“ You don't know anything about
th at You were too young to notice her
partiality for me.’’
“ Girls o f tw elve to thirteen are
usually aet down aa not knowing any­
thing. D on't you believe it. Wbeo I
was thirteen I knew a lot.
Mother
uaed to talk to me abont you. and 1
knew very well what abe thought of
you. That's the reason she left all my
property In your hands. She told me
all about that too
8be sold to me.
‘Helen, Jim la not only honest, but be'a
smart. I'd rather trust blrn to handle
your property after I'm gone than
many older men.’
“ She was a mighty good woman,
your mother. A fter what you bate
said 1 can't compliment her Intelli­
gence without directly complimenting
myself.”
“ Hho told me a great deal more, too—
that Is, when she made the will she
bad an object In making you my guard-
Ian.”
“ W hat object?"
•That would be telling.’’
“ Did she forbid you to tell me 7“
“ N o”
•Then why don’t you tell 7"
“ Because I’ m not going to do It."
‘T h e re ’s no getting around thnt rea-
sou There are no promises, po deduc­
tions, no conclusions. 1 call that flat
reasoning.’’
“ And I call It my own individual
reasoning.”
“ Rather It Is woman’s reasoning. I
must discover some method o f getting
It out o f you.“
"H o w are you going to do It?"
'T h a t would be telling."
“ Oh, I'm to be hoodwinked Into tell­
ing you my secret."
“ So It Is a secret! W ell, how many
know It?"
“ Only I."
“ Who would be most Interested to
know I t r
"D oh’t you wish you knew?" (making
a wry face.»
“ Was this object o f your mother
solely for your benefit, comfort, pleas­
ure?"
She was looking fo r a trap and con­
sidered her reply before giving It.
“ Well, that depends."
“ On what?*'
“ Whether It would give comfort or
pleasure to some one else.”
"N ow we are getting on."
“ Is this a twenty question game?"
" I t la my method o f getting your se­
cret."
"Oh. well, go on!”
“ Is this other person masculine or
feminine?"
•That's not fair. It’s n direct ques­
tion. 1 decline to answer It."
"You might as well have admitted
that the reply, If made, would be mas-
online."
“ n o w do yon make thnt out?"
“ I'm not submitting to a process; It
Is you. H aving learned thnt this other
person who would be Interested In
your secret Is masculine, perhaps 1
can find out more about him by learn­
ing his age. Is he old. middle aged
or young?"
"Young.”
H e started. There was n look o f
disappointment on his face.
“ I would divide a man’s life Into
three sections—young from his birth
to thirty, middle aged from thirty to
fifty, old from then till death.”
“ I wouldn't divide It that way. A
man Is young till forty-five.”
n o drew n breath o f relief and went
on catechising, bnt took another tack.
“ Wonld this p a r t y " -
"H e Isn’t a party; he’ s a man."
“ Would this man who would be In-
tere>-ted In this secret be Interested In
It pecuniarily?"
"N o ."
Again the man atsrted and looked
disappointed.
“ Then he conld not be Interested In
you. because you have a fortune."
"Oh. 1 didn’t mean that. H e wonld
not love me for my” —
4
She stopped short nnd blushed.
The questioner wns happy. He had
tnlned an Important point. In fact,
rio had learned the whole secret, of
which he had lieen reasonably sure at
the first, hut had from tw o o f her re­
plies received n bad senre.
" I think." he said, “ thnt I ’ll try to
learn this secret on another occasion
W ill yon he at hone Ihls evening?"
“ I suppose so."
“ W ell. I’ll drop In «b o o t half past
A. Yon nre so smnrt about It that 1
haven't much hop«’ o f worming the se­
cret out o f you. bnt 1 can still try.
you know."
“ Yes. yon can try."
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Tie called the same evening, hut It
wns she who learned his secret, not
he hers. When be left her they were
engaged.
VONiE m LEADER
L IF E ON A BOER FARM .
The House a Chamber of Horrors, the
Housewife Hopelessly Dull.
An American woman traveling In
South Africa waa drtalned by floods
and compelled to speutl a mouth on a
Boer farm. ‘T h e first night's monoto­
A S long ago as tlie* last half o f ny,” abe writes, “ was broken by the
roaring o f the oetrtcbee under our win­
the eighteenth century it dow. We thought It waa a tame lion.
•The farm er and his fam ily lived
waa the press that molded
chiefly on sour bread und sour sklin-
public opinion. The famous “ t a t ­ tnllk. and 1 waa therefore hungry
e w
ave |
i BBoat o f the Ua“ ! “ D<1 the ripe figs
ter* o f Junius” started th
the
wave
bunging in clusten were pretty allur­
that finally resulted in widespread- ing. A fte r pushing back the skin o f
ing reforms in England.
The the fig and enjoying the soft fruit,
with its tropical taste, 1 bad a refresh­
“ Rights o f Man” and other pam­ ing night’s sleep, only to awaken In
phlets had a prodigious circulation the morning pretty well acared. for my
tongue was so swollen and black that
and exerted an immeasurable in­ I could not talk.
fluence toward the same end«.
*T b e Boer w ife laughed and enjoyed
A little book, “ Common Sense,” my discom fort and explained that the
skin o f the fig bad numerous fine
set the colonies on fire fo r inde* thorns and I bad not been careful to
pondenoo, and the printing o f Pat­ remove them when eating.
"W hen I told the farm er’s w ife that
rick H en ry’s and Samuel Adams’ 1 liked buttermilk in quantity I no-
DF ÏHE WORLD
1
speeches, o f Franklin’s and other i U c e r t l b a t
h a d a c°Pio1 or
*1 ™
.
,
, me, but she threw It by the pailful to
papers and o f I nomas 1 aine s ; the pigs. They were o f far more con-
“ Crisis” was a powerful aid in the sequence to her than I. fo r they would
American Revolution.
I t was the writings o f V oltaire
and Rousseau and the news o f our
own war fo r independence th a t
brought
on
n
trance.
the
revolution
in
#
“ Uncle T om ’s Cabin,”
which
was first published in a
r
newspaper, had tremendous influ-
ence in freein g the slave.
j
IN T H i
PRESENT DAY AN
ALERT. VIGOROUS AND COURA­
GEOUS PRE88 W IL L BE POUND
BEHIND EVERY POLITICAL U P­
RISING. EVERY ADVANCE MOVE­
MENT.
W H O C A N M EASURE TH E
PO W E R OF A G REELEY?
one
period
London
At
Times
the diplomacy o f Europe.
swayed
The
the
American
newspapers
and
magazines are largely responsible
fo r the present transformation o f
p o litic a l
States
th o u g h t
in
the
U n it e d '
The press, w h ich was a p o w e r
150 years ago, has become all po­
tent today.
AND
I T IS T H E V O IC E
LEAD ER
W O RLD .
OF
TH E
O nly by follow ing it
can one keep abreast o f the move­
ments o f our own time.
TAKE
Tins
NEW SPAPER.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
Farmers and Merchants Bank
of Stayton, In the »tAt« of Oregon, al the close
of business Feb. JO, 1912.
Rnotmcu.
Loan» and discounts........................ t 40,232 48
78 39
Overdrafts secured and unsecured.
«.445 90
Banking house..................................
2,780 81
Furniture and fixtu re«.....................
15,183 86
Due from approved reserve banks..
408 45
Checks and other cash item s..........
8,400 59
Cash on hand..................................
2,933 43
Expenses....... ...................................
T o t a l ............................... 1 76,478 (1
L iab ilit y it*.
Capital »took paid In ...................... f 25,000 00
1,466 46
Undivided profits................... ......
Individual deposits subject to check
35.424 86
Demand certificates o f deposit.......
9,810 00
Tim e certificates ot deposit............. . 4,777 50
T o t al ............................... t t m : s si
State of O re f on (
County ot Marionj
1.3. L. Stewart, Cashier of the above named
bank, do .olem nly «wear that the above state­
ment 1« true to the best of my knowledge and
belief.
3. L. S t k w a r t , Cashier.
inihscrlb. il and «worn to before me this 27th
day of Feb., 1912.
E. B. WATTKRS
Notary Public
C o rrect-A itest:
A. p. G amut SR,
162 26
Overdraft», secured and unsecured...
Bonds and warrants........................ . 15X8)0 00
Dancing and Kitalng.
5.500 00
Banking house,.................................
The old time ballroom smacked o f
Furniture and fixtures..................... . 2,*00 00
.73,350 00 the kiss
Other real estate ow n ed..................
Without It the dance was
758 06 Incomplete
Due from banks (not reserve banks)
It wns claimed as a tig h t
7
¿51
13
Due from approved reserve bauks .
And given freely. The very Idea o f
87U
84
(’ hecks and other cash item s..........
such Hn omission would have caused a
5337 16
Cash on hand.....................................
strike, ns these lines foretold:
828 15
Expenses...........................................
870 UO Hut «onto reply. WTint fo o l* would uaunce
OUier resource».................................
I f that when daunce Is doone
T o t a l .............................. •123,1*3 •51 H e may not h ave at ladya'a lips
T h a t which In daunce he w o o n ?
LIAB ILITIE S
—London Tatler.
00
181 60
Undivided Profits............................
Jolting Hia Lawyer.
Individual deposits subject to
70.275 60
cheek..............................................
Church—What was the name you
18,674 41 Calleil your law yer?
Time certificates of deposit.............
9,000 00
Notes and bills rediscounted .........
Gotham—Necessity.
“ But that's n funny name. Why do
T o t a l ............................... 1123,133 51
you «nil him Necessity?"
State o! Oregon
j ,,
County of Marlou |
“ Because be know* no l a w " —Yon
Dimeter*.
Preaching every Sunday at I I a. m
and at 7:30 p. m. by Rev. A . C. Bat
on. Sunday school at 10 a. m., A . J
Caldwell, supt. B Y P U at 6:30 p. m.
M r s . Eaton, president.
Catholic
or t u b I m m aculate C o m ; bp
tion, B taytoo; Rev. A . Lai nek
priest in charge. H igh m i ; » . » s e n .m l
fourth and fifth 8anriays 8:30 a. rii.,
Prieat’a address: Sublim ity, Oregon.
T. B o . h ipace ’ s C ath o lic C h u r c h ,
.Sublimity; Rev. A . Lainck, rector*
Low mass 8 a. m , high mass 10:1k*
a. m., first and third Sunday* in 'lie
m onth; high mans 10:30 a m.t -**c-
end, fourth and fifth Sundays Ves
pers at eventide.
C hurch
stay longer with her and were her fa ­
Christian
miliars. I was n ot
“ Then, again, when I was hungry for
Services will be held every Sunday
butter on my bread a white, clammy Preaching at 11 s. m. anti 8 p. rd.
substance made from sheep's tall fat ¡Sunday school at 10 a. m., Mrs W H .
was handed to me. and 1 could not al- ‘ Hobson, superintendent. Y . P. 8. C E.
at 7:30 p m, W , A . W eddle preeMci.«
She sold her batter I d the village close Ladies A id society meets each Wed
by at 75 cents a pound, more or leto. j neaday at 2:30 p. m., Mrs. Frank Les­
ley, president.
and
' t? wi err1"
(plenty o f tbemi were considered good
enough.
Methodist
•This Boer fam ily was one o f the
Methodist Episcopal Church, order o f
wealthiest o f their kind. There was
services: Sunday school at 10 a. rq.,
not n ripple o f fun or exuberant Ufe
A.
S. Pancoast,
superintendent-
In anything but the live stock. Con­
preaching service 11 a. m.
Epwoxth
versation was a dead language—un­
League 6:46 p. m., W ard Holford
known.
“ The women are mete beings, ac­
President. Preaching service 7:46.
cepting their destiny with deep still­
Prayer meeting every Wednesday
ness. The w ife gives up her strength
evening at 7:46. Business meeting
to the lim it and dies after givin g birth
o f Epworth League the first Thursday
to a dozen or more children, to make
«f.each month.— Rev. MacePastor.
way fo r w ife No. 2, who give* another
dozen children to her country. H er
adobe house, with its dirt floor made
o f ant hill clay mixed with beef gall,
SUMMONS
la a chamber o f horror* to an Ameri­
In the Circuit Court o f Oregon for
can traveler.
“ The farm er depends upon bis ten or Marion County. Department No. I. '
State o f Oregon. Plaintiff, -vs- E. B.
eighteen children o f all sizes to help
him. A Kaffir ns an employee Is unde­ Fletcher, Administrator o f the est;-t
pendable as the winds that blow. Yet o f John Cashion, deceased, and ad ot)
that Kaffir l* the hired man In the er persons interested or concerned
mines and elsewhere In South Africa. said estate, defendants.
The white man as a day laborer la a
To E. B. Fletcher, and all those in­
general failure. H e cannot be worked
terested or concerned in the estate o f
In drove* like the Kaffir from the In­
terior. whose language. In clicks and John Cashion, deceased—
In the name o f the State o f Oregon:
vowel sounds, is hardly human.
•The Boer Is not long lived. One You and each o f you are hereby requir­
seldom met -an aged Boer o f the old ed to appear and answer the informa­
stock. Oom Paul Kruger, who was tion filed in the above entitled cotr-fl
seventy-five years old when he died, and cause within six weeks from the
was an exception. Hatred toward the date o f the first publication o f this
nitlander nnd the Inst for gold and
summons, to w it; the 1st day o f Feb­
power were what kept the fires o f life
burning nt white heHt within him."— ruary, 1912, and if you fail so to appear
and answer said information, plaintiff
Health Culture.
will apply to the court for an order de­
claring the sum o f $84.52, the amount
Oratory No Longer Soars.
“ Oratory Is a lost art.” said a Cleve­ now in the hands o f the administrator
land man the other day. “ I used to go o f the estate o f the said John Cashier,
down to the courts Just to hear the to be escheated to and vested in the
lurid speeches. Nothing doing In that State o f Oregon.
line any more. The lawyers do not
You are further notified that this
talk about flowers, rainbow* and sun­
summons is served upon you by pubb. j -
beams today.
tion thereof in the Stayton Mail, a
•There was a law yer la Cleveland
years ago—Bill Robinson was bis name weekly newspaper o f general circttia-
—whose addresses to a Jnry nlwny* at­ tion published in Marion County, Ore
tracted a crowd. 1 will forever remem­ gon, pursuant to the order o f the hon­
ber one o f his sentences. The man be orable W m . Galloway, Judge o f this
was fighting In the suit had a reputa­ court, made on the 25th day o f Janus
tion ns something o f a miser
ry, 1912, and you are notified that the
" ‘ Who is this man—who is he?' thun­ date o f the first publication o f this
dered Robinson
‘You know and I summons is the 1st day o f February,
know that he bolls his potntoes In wld
1912, and the last publication thereof
ows' tears
will be on the 14th day o f March, 1912.
“ This phrase caught the Jury, and
John H. M cXarv, District Attorney
Robinson won his case, but one does
not bear any such ‘oratory’ as that fo r Marion County, Oregon. By W . C.
Winslow, Deputy Dist. A tty ., A tto r­
nowadays."—Case and Comment
neys fo r plaintiff.
The Real Trouble.
“ Oh. doctor." sighed the patient. “ 1
am so glad you have come.
1 feel
dreadful, and I don't know what In
the world is the matter with me My
husband says tt Is nothing but nerv­
L . 8. I. im b k r t
/
ous Indigestion, but his mother Is posi­
Directors.
tive 1 am going to have appendicitis,
and my mother declares 1 have Inter­
mittent fever, nnd my sister says It
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE
looks to her like creeping paralysis, and
Aunt Henrietta says I've got malaria.
Stayton State Bank
Whnt do you think I’ve g o t doctor?"
at Stayton, in the State of Oregon, at the
"W e ll." frowns the physician, “ from
close of b u rin e», Feb. 70th. 1912.
these symptoms 1 should say offhand
RESOURCES
that you have too many relative#.” —
Loans aud discount«.........................
Chicago Post.
I.W.Rlchardson.Cashter ot the »bove named
b»nk, do «olsm nly swear th *t the tb o re State­
ment l> truc to the best of my knnwledge and
bettet.
W. litt lUktwiN, Cnshtcr.
Snbacrtbed and »v o r n to betöre me th i» 27th
d »y of Feb., 1912.
8. L . S tk w a r t
N ot»ry Public
Correct—Attest:
G ko . S panio l
L s « T a t »
Baptist
kers Statesman.
A Matter of Fractions.
B igg»—My half brother Is engaged to
my w ife ’s half sister. Diggs—When
will they be mnde one?—Boston Tran­
script
An evil speaker only wants an op-
p»rt unity to become an evtMoer.—Qaln-
tllle.
SUMMONS.
In the Circuit Court o f the State o f
Oregon fo r the county o f Marion.
Charles N ey, Plaintiff, vs. N ettie
N ey, Defendant.
To N ettie N ey, the above named de­
fendant.
In the name o f the State o f Oregon,
you are hereby required to appear and
answer the complaint filed against you
in the above entitled Court and' cause
on or before the 29th day o f February,
j 1912, and i f you fail to answer fo r want
j th ereof the plaintiff will apply to the
i Court for the re lie f prayed fo r in his
I complaint to w it: That the bonds o f
j matrimony existing between the plain-
| tiff and defendant be dissolved and that
he have such other and further relief
as to the Court may seem just end
equitable.
This summons is Berved upon you by
| publication in the Stayton M ail by or­
der o f Hon. Percy R. Kelly, judge o f
the above named Court, dated on -the
; 17th day o f January, 1912, the first
publication to be on the 18th day o f
January, 1912, and you are required to
appear and answer on or before the
29th day o f February, 1912.
J a s . G. H e l t z e l ,
Attorney fo r Plaintiff.
W. A. W E D D L E
C O N TR A C TO R
B U I o DER
an d
Plans and Specifications Made and Fur
¡shed on all Contract Work.
Room 4 State Bank Building
STAYTON
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OREGON