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............................................ .......... I REVENGE IS SWEET Lunche Meals at all hours / All Kind"- o f Ü Hot D rinks Beef Tea. Tomato Coifee Oyster Cocktails Flip, ULLOM’S U. & I. BAKERY TINWORK and PLUMBING Bath Tubs, Lavatories and Lanitarv fittings— Farm- e rs -W e carry a Hne o f pumps, leader water sys tems, etc. Gasoline engines. all JACOB SPANIOL Shooting Gallery Best o f Guns and Targets PRIZES Win that $5 in GI VEN Gold with the best score. CROSS C U T S A W S F IL E D A . S. D A V IE For Sale BRICK, CEMENT, PLAS TER W. A. Weddle MONUMENTS Now is the time to order a mo laracnt We can furnish Marble, Granite or Bronzt A b o build Stone or C oncrete Wd!b to order. Oon’t fori to get prices before you buy. L. L. THOMAS, STAYTON. OREGON. City Meat Market Jos. Sestak & Sons, Props. In fresh, Salt and Smoked 1 MEATS tftfheol Market Price Paid for Slock and Hides. STAYTON. OREGON SATISFACTION GU AR AN TEED Third Street one half block south Stay- ton State Bank. Real Estate I f you have property to sell come in and list it with us, and we will find a buyer. W e already have a number o f choice farms listed. I f you desire to make an investment it will pay to see us. W e Sell the Earth . THOMAS & LEE Office next to Stayton Hotel AUCTIONEER 30 years’ Experience. G E R M A N A N D E N G L IS H Satisfaction Guaranteed. Terms Reas onable. Phone or w rite and reserve dates 6E0. K O E N E K E , Stayton, Oregon COLONIST FARES By HENRY D. STANLEY By ELMER WINSTON Br M. QUAD Copyright by American P ro »» A«»o- Copyright. 1*11. by A m o c I » I * 4 L it erary 1'rmts ,'tatton. m i . The Locket c o p y rig h t by Am erican l*r»M A sso ciation. mi A young tuuu nud a girl o f tweuty Abraham Scott, who wit», o f courao, She was au incorrigible flirt At last, were iluiiclug together lu n ballroom. called Abe by all who culled him nuy- bavlug declined a number o f suitors, thlng. bad reached the age o f tweuty- 1 A Iw ket o f peculiar material and 'h e became curated to a multimillion H e had workmaushlp tints about from her aire, and her mother determined that flva before he fell lu love. The should not bave a ebanee to throw been a farmer's hired ututt for years bosom us site whirled. On Ihe third | over ihe opportunity. The girl was and years, aud It had come to that (luger o f her left hand was a ring 1 scut into the country on a plea o f 111 point where he was spoken o f ns an with nn Inexpensive alone. Wheu the liwiltli in the deed o f winter to remain ohl bachelor aud a man whom Cupid uranic ceased she took the « sn u 'J arm. util they strollod away Into a side t'o re till a week before the wedding could uever lead astray. There is a psychological moment In room, where there was no one except day. ..: aunt agreed to take her to her the life o f every human being, and themselves Seating herself on a sofa, Abe Scott's moment came one day she said; summer residence, open It and live when he was mowing hay by the road- "Tlm t's our last dance." there with her during the season of side. Au agent for a patent eoru “ You don't care lo w ait?" her captivity. There were plenty of sliellor got down from his wagon to “ While w alling my i-lutncea In the young men about lu summer, but now take a seat oa the fence anil have a matrimonial market would be passing there was not one within fifty miles talk with the sweating mower. away. In ten years | shall he thirty “ See here, man." he said, “ you are and my opportunities for marriage re except a few countrymen. The Jan uary winds were blowing c o ld ^ n d she making a slave o f yourself, and It Isn't duced at least Til per eeut, at thirty- right. Why, you ought to have a farm live say IKt per cent, aud at forty I sat all day reading novela or dolug o f your own and In* working for your won't have one chance In a hundred fancy work, occasionally turning to self." i that 1 have now." look through the window at the bleak "H o w am 1 going to get a farm ?" “ Yon will always have me whatever view. < asked Abe its he thought o f the hun be your age." There was a Uttle lake a few hun dred dollars saved up in his trunk. *T wouldn't trust to your constancy. dred yards distaut, Jnst outside the "M arry one, and a mlghfv fine look W e girls ns we grow older I »ecu me walls o f her prison grounds. One cold ing widow with it«" either fat or skinny. Aud I know you night it was frozen over, and the next "Shoo; \Vhi>*d have me?” too well lo believe that you will ever morning the suu shone bright, and the "W b o'd have you? Let’s see about love either kind." air was still and full o f oione. that. About twenty-four or twenty- “ I s w e a r"- live years old. Stroug and rugged. A mau was skating on the lake. “ Don't swear. Go out, na you pro She arose, dressed herself iu a be Not handsome, but manly. Good dispo Would treasure a good wife. pose to, to tbe mining districts and coming skating costume. took up a sition Would make a farm blossom In every when you return. If unmarried and 1 pair o f skates and went to the lake Putting on her skates, she weut on the fence corner. Would be elected county am unmarried and you want me. you Bui you won't Why. will doubtless gel me lee. at first timorously; then, gathering supervisor within two years. want me " man, there are dozens o f widows with confidence, she sailed off. graceful ns a She took off the ring on her Unger, farms who are waitiug for you.” swa u. “ I never heard o f It." said Abe as n unclasped the locket from about her The mau.-evidently a farm hand, cat neck and bunde«! them to him figure eights, did the Dutch roll and thrill came to his heart. “ Keep them.” he sakl. "not as typi "W ell, you hear o f It now. I ’ve got all manner o f flubdubs. The girl sw ay ed her skirts gracefully to one side, u widow in mind at this very moment. cal o f nn engagement, but ns trinkets." “ Slnre yon wish It I will.“ then to the other, as she skated. It Site's jnst bought the Smith farm, two “ Uoodby. 1 leave by nn early trnln. was a case o f couutry boy showing off miles down/he road That was a long afternoon for Abe. I must go. I have things to do yet before city girl and city girl before country boy. Then she purposely fell He had thoughts- many thoughts, lie before going to lied." “ Goodby and good luck In? with you." on the ice and lay there till be came \ had so tunny thoughts ami he took so Tw enty years passed. The man dur- much time to wrestle with them that and picked ber np. the farm er for whom be worked said | ing all that time had all he could do “ Are you hurt, miss?” to keep his bead above water; then bs Where had she heard a voice like to him when siijqier time runic- Upturning to hla "Abe. you must bave eaten too much struck n bonanza. that? She looked up Into the young man's ice. and behind a stubble beard pork and bean* today, and it tired yon former home for tbe purpose o f or ganizing a mining company, lie reach- o f five or six days' growth she saw out to lug them around." That evening tbe hired mau did e«l It In the winter season, when the somethiug that reipinded ber o f some somethiug that astonished the farmer gnyetv was at Its height. On bt* way one she had seen before. family beyond measure. He dressed from dining with a friend he passed “ Not much." she said. H e was Turning away when she up in his best und set off down the the building where tw o decades before struggled or pretended to struggle with road aud did uot return until mid he had parted with bis love. . S**elng At the breakfast table next the place lighted np and hearing tbe a lame ankle. " I fear I must ask you night. morning they tried to pick It out o f strains o f music, he entered. Couples to help me off the Ice.” she said. She rested heavily on his strong arm him. but be was blushingly silent. He were dancing, and there was tbe lady as she shambled to the shore, and wouldn't have told for three months’ from whom be had perit-d whirling, when she get there he took from about wuges. aud yet he bad only gone on a while on her bosom was the never rest- his neck an enormous woolen com fort scout. He had walked past the wid Ing locket. er and. folding It. put it on the ground ow's farm and felt guilty as he did so How she bad manag«-d to preserve for her to sit on. Then be asked what On the next evening he did the same her youthful looks and her tmanty he else he could do fo r her. Her ankle thing, but felt bolder. On the third was at a loss to know. She must be continued to palo h er-so she said—and evening he got up the courage to call unmarried, for no woman who had the she would neither try to get home nor and ask fo r a drink o f water. The care o f a family i*ould look no young. try to skate. The consequence was widow fetched the dl|>r>er with -her As she danced by Idm. the locket flirt that he stood an the verge o f the ice own hand« and passed a few remarks, ing as o f yore, ttu-lr eyes met. but he cutting flubdubs and talking to her. and A!>e went home feeling what love saw at once that he was not remem • A fter awhile she took o ‘T her skates was. He realized that he was struck tiered. and llrapod borne—that is. she limped on the widow, and yet he felt that she “ Who Is that lady?" he ask«sl o f one till he was bidden by the trees in the was so far above him that he would who stood near. grounds o f her prison, then sbe walked never dare npproneb the subject o f “ Miss Clarkson." as well as ever. matrimony. He said this to the corn “ 1 thought so." he said, then to him It was the beginning o f the ice sea sbeller agent when he rnine along. aa<l self; “ I must have «-bunged much more son. and fo r several weeks there was tbe man replied; than she." good skating There is nothing attrac " I didn’t figure that you would do He concluded n«g to make himself tive to a city girl In a rnw country any courting In tbe ordinary way, but known then and there, but announce man, though this one was raw only in that romance would help you out." his retnm by note the next day and appearance, and. having an original ” 1 guess I’ll give It up,” said Abe In ask permission to «mil. This he did mind and a pleasant way with him. despair. and receive«! a very gracious note In be gradually threw n singular spell "And I guess you won’t! I'v e set reply, stating that Miss Clarkson would over ber. Perhaps It was because he out to do a good thing for you. and be happy to receive him. The same tv B8 the only man about. The lake I'm going to put It through. Now. evening he went to her residence. Sbe was crescent shaped, the far horn o f then, get down here In this fence cor was living In the same house, and on the crescent being hidden by a hill. ner in the shade and let me talk to being ushered Into the drawing room Fearing her aunt would interfere, she you like a Dutch uncle." there sat u woman so fnt tlmt her first met the countryman at the farther That talk lasted an hour. Fortunate effort to rise was a failure, ami In born. The first thing she knew she ly for Abe, the farmer was away from stead o f mnklng h second sh«- held rim was experiencing a singular sensation home that day: otherwise he would ber hand to him. she had never felt before. have been down to see If his hired man "Pardon me." she said. "It's very Then eauie sleighing, and the coun was asleep. Abe's behavior the rest hard for me to rise. I told you when tryman met her by appointment where o f tbe day set Ihe good w ife to won you went away that we women must no one in the prison would see with dering if he was losing his mind. He expect to grow fat or skinny, and you a sleigh and a pair o f horses—be sold was very silent, but she saw on his see that I belong to the first i lnss." be had obtained leave to exercise them face a look site had never noticed there He c-ontrolle«l himself suffliientty to for their good—and the two rode side b efo re-a look of grim determination. by side to the jin gle o f bells. So the She wondered If he was going to do conceal the shock, hut ns to nrtlng winter passed, and one day she awoke or die He didn't leave the house that like a returning lover he found It Im to the fact that the sleighbclls would evening, but the next morning he an- possible. As soon ne he her-aine com noon be replaced by wedding bells and nounc«-d Ihiit he was going to the vil posed he said: “ The first tiling I wish lo know upon she would lie given over to a man she lage. tw o miles beyond the widow's my return Is have you still the ring didn't want. farm. So explanations whatever. He and the locket I gave yon." By and by she pot to talking spooney Just put on tils Sunday best and start “ The ring Is now locked In my bu with the countryman and told him her ed «iff. He was going t<i call on tbe reau drawer upstairs. The locket 1 story. H e heaved a sigh which sound- widow, not only In broad daylight, bnt lent to my niece. Julia Clarkson, to id like a blacksmith's bellows. That | In the forenoon. His knees were weak wear at a hall which she was to at made her feel more spooney still. and his heart thumping, but he forced lend last ev«ftilng.” They were sleighing at the time, and biniselt forward. At the gate he gave He was satisfied with fhp explana somehow ber hand collided with one a gasp, but his legs took him to the tion and knew why he had Ix-en led o f bis under the rob«*« Touch— n good side porch, where the woman sat peel Into an error. conductor o f love—broke her up. H e ing F<otnto«-s for the 12 o'clock meal. The lady made It very easy for him. begged her to run away with him and She recoguiz«Hl him us the man she She had not expected that they would get m. ried. She hesitated, then said had served with water, but hail not liegin where they had left off twenty she didn't see exactly how she eould. sftokpn yet when Abe stood before tier years before. Indeed, It was evident FTe urged her. and «he told him If he from the expression on her former would 1«? at the usual rendezvous the with uncovered h«-ad and said: "W id ow Kodney. I’m AI k - Hcott, hired lover's fnce flint he had no mind to next day with the sleigh she would I'm worrit keep his filedge that, though she w«-re meet him and come to a decision. He man fo r Farmer Taylor. |<erstin«’ied her to leave her derision In $100 and a hustler to work. I'm iu fat and forty, he was still hers. She a note placed In their "postofflee” In love with you and want you for a wife. asked him what he had Iwen doing all I can piny on the fiddle, play < he-kers. those long years, and he told her that a thicket. and I don't snore. If you don't say he had been struggling with adversity. She cried all that night. All the butterfly had gone out o f her under a yes I'll abduct you and Imprison you He falleil to acquaint her with the case of real love. In the morning she In a cave until I break your haughty f«c t that he hnd come home to form a yielded to temptation. She resolved spirit. Answer me yes or no and at company that would glvp him nn enor to elope with the countryman. She «tnce. for I mu a man not to tie trifled mens Income. Instead, he left her to suppose that he was still struggling. wrote him to that effect, conveying w ith!" The widow beard him through and Before leaving he tried to stammer the note to their exchange letter box herself, in tlie evening Just before then laughed so heartily that some o f -omefhlng like his words when they dark she went to the rendezvous. The Hie potatoes rolled out o f the pan. Abe Were half their present nge. hut failed •Don’t.” she said. Interrupting him. Heigh was not there. She walt«*d stoorl for a mom«yit with n very red •.while, then went home. face and then turned and walked fo r “ W hat I told you has come to pass. fie had almost reached It Go marry some woman between tw en The next day she received a letter the gate, ty and thirty years o f age and be hap from the countryman telling her that when the woman called: he was her first reject,si sultora-ono ' "H old on. there! f.’ome back and let a p r " n e sold “ N ever!" very faintly, bnt whom sbe had well nigh forgotten and talk It o ver!" tbe next day hunted among his old bad not recognized In hla humble ap Hlx months Infer they were married, friends till he found one who would pare!. and for the next ten years the com H e had his revenge, m d she was sbeller man rottld not think o f the In- Introduce him to the younger Miss Clarkson. Again the locket (lapped, very mad. She returned to the city c|«lent without exclaiming to himself: but this time while he danced with and. like a sensible •»n. serried the "»Josh all hemlock, hut what a fool t w h !" | the niece, whom be finally married. multimillionaire. H. C. Downing EXPERT WATCH AND JEWELRY REPAIRING A THREAT TO ABDUCT ■M M Rack to the farm 1« now the slojntn, »nd tire low i « à yi I '' - -, \ bU N E .L T \ í *J» From the Multile und Kantern liortiona of the United States To Oregon and the Northwest prevailing dully March 1 to April 15, '12 over the SOUTHERN PACIFIC (O C D IN L S ! v >TA] ROUTES / is the bs»t moans of carry mg it out.— Faros from C H IC AG O ST. LOUIS OM AHA K AN SAS C IT Y ST. PAUL . .......... ................... . . ........... $33.00 32 00 26.00 28.00 25.00 .. Colonist Faros are West Hound only, hut they can bo prepaid from any point. I f you have friends or relativea in the East who desire to "G e t back to the F a rm ," you can depo»it the value o f the fare with your nearest local agent und a ticket will be telegraphed to any aildroaadesired. G ill on the undersigned for good instructive literature to send East. JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent PORTLAND. OREGON Banking Here Is Pleasant and Safe Safety of your funds is not the only advantage tnis bank can offer. In addition to the un questioned safety that our strong directorate, business-like management, and well chosen sé curités give to our depositors' money, this i* a pleasant place to do business. You ’ll like the way you are received if you bring your account here, and we hope to see you do that soon. W e ’ ll try to make the connection mutually helpful. T H E STAYTON t « . V - ST A T E BANK -* > .« ' - r ■ g “ Jeff and Mutts” Place | J O N E S & C O R N IS H , Proprietors S A L E M B E E R ON T A P G O O D A N D C O LD , T U S T AS Y O U L IK E I T . 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