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’• * * * — ______ You Can’t Do Better YOUR UtUAM fO Min* The Old Reliable mm CREAMERY llilest In Portland ' . VVc pay th>‘ I k press and the Highest P n i'T t. </v/> r / h r b r i c e s U C E N bT D 11 S T HR J >1 f u .:rm o f ' ’riti d ii d Customers N ot In A itj C om bin ation C o rre a W eights rind Tests (iunrnnteed Get Shipping Tags at Mail Office Yours For a sq u are Deal Sunset Creamery Co. Portland, Oregon 281 F irs t S t. i ►♦♦♦♦♦<. * ♦ « • « ♦ * * < .♦ * < » * ■ T Ä r'- * g TOP to rounder what r GOOD BANK ACCOUNT DI8UHE8. The lin'in1 i.mu can employ the bett help and insure SERVICE. Dc- preuior - *y come in his line, but his big CASH ON HAND means SECURITY • tin- U m of credits may be drawn tight, but none will question his ' i ’ BILITY. Give your business SERVICE, SECURITY r.nd STABILITY with your bank deposits. S S TA YTO N STATE BANK A share of the banking business of Stayton and vicinity is solicited. You are assured of a safe deposi- » * tory and courteous treatment at this bank, by ample capital and long experience in the banking b u sin e ss. Fanners & Merchants Bank of Stayton. Oregon C a p ita l $25,000.00 nr tho (.> ello . iot. Phe t t d,ni. min .hi I ¡.lining B rill h -i.. i i ,i in.- l.i' l Him Ila eggs i.ny i,. n¡ lini li I lune of any i.itier h , ns. tiigiiig fumi dark reif- disti In I to i .ile green The female gullleni • i) s only one egg at a finiti but. Ill 10- mother of un only child, »he pu.i* gie.il attention to It. l o hatch It she hold» II between her legs as »lie sits fa cln g 'th e elllTs. Taking the eg Is a regular profensión In »o,uc p ,o s , such us nt H a in borough Head, where Ilio lilids congregate In great ii :■ ¡ubera. The albumen obtained from liti in Is said to bo used In cla rify ing wines ami in the preparation of patent leather.— Loudon Standard. >• - *•* A Comet'» TKwaj Part». A comet has three purls. The nu cleus Is the bright, starlike point which la tho kernel, the true potential com et Around this Is spread the cm in. a sort o f luminous fog. shndlng from tho nu cleus and forming with It the head. Still beyond Is the delicate tall, stretch lug nwny Into space Anil this to the world In general Is tho comet Itselt though always the least dense of the whole. Sometimes entirely wanting or hnr ly detectable, the tall Is again un ex tension millions of udles In lenglh Although usually a single brush of light, comets have been seen with no few er than six tali». TEN Y E A R S A FTER By SADir. OLCOTT r\ ousin My < From t A menea Is Going Dy EUNICE BLAKE Up I '1 lie You Muellers ore one of tbe old- i , fam ilies In Pnissla. But tbere have k i n spendthrift* In the fam ily, men v.h.i despised the making of money i »’ d who have laid no other profession Jic n ttie army, wldi-li, to say tbe least. Is not lucrative. Tbe original fumUy i 1 1 '.tale» were conferred on Otto von I Mueller for military service. bin; of my uncles, Cnspar von Mnel- , lei rather tlian lie u pour aristocrat In I i sla chose to It- a rich commoner I A in .rlra. At any rate, be went tin re to attem pt to make a fortune. He | . "le d , and at the beginning o f tbe tu< iitii-th century was ibo only rich * < I no fam ily. Ho w aa loyal to in relatives and entered upon a cor- respondence with my father. Ids broth er. with a view to starting the family ■ a o new career o f prosperity by means of ids great wealth. Ho bad only one j child, a son, and bis plan was to mar- , ry him to one of the fam ily In Prussia. '1 ia n the young man was to remove to : the fatherland and by means of his . wealth secure a position a t tbe kalaer's ic o u r t Onr Von Muellers In Cerm any wero •pill« plea "1 with the plan. Tbe arls- tociui y and the commercial classes bad lx-en drawing closer together. T b e k a t t.-r blin.'.clf owned a pottery. Caspav ion Mueller's millions, though acquired In trade, were not to lie despised. To make a long story s h o rt It was ar ia ng'-d that be should come over to H iruiany, and I, being tbe only girl Von Mueller o f suitable age for him. It w i hoped th at u m atch might be ar- raiigc-d between him and me. One evening a lot o f us Von Muellers were sitting In a public- garden listen ing to an orchestra and drinking wine or Is-cr. Tw o young uieu cam e In and to- i: -cuts ut a tabic near us. They "■i d to be English—a t least they ¡o tho English language. The feel- in against tbe English people was very strong, and even the language ' - Irritating. B u t oue o f the young j i. c i opposite me was very handsome, > d I could not belli glancing a t blm onally. W hether or no be was • raced by' this or because be ad min d me, he gazed at me continually. i h illy my brother Otto, a lieuteuaut the army, noticed Ida eyes continu- . ly bent <>n me. Rising, Otto went to liie table where tbe young man was fitting and said, “I will pig stick you," ai 1 threw a card on tbe table bearing bis name and'address. This was equivalent to a challenge (o lig h t As soon as Otto returned to us I gave him a piece o f my mind, tell- i 11 - lidu that I did not need him to pro- ic -t r e and he had no right to chal- le; go a man simply fo r admiring me. I bid not know whether the stranger j would fight, but I determined to pre- veut ¡i mooting if possible. My cousin ii iv. a boy o f fifteen, was o f our ; ly. and. O tto having left us, taking lav with mo. I went to the table - bore the two strangers were sitting and said to tbe one who had been look- i Ing a t me: " I have u request to make of you. j sir.” Bising and removing his hat, he ask ed to be Informed what It was. I spoke In German, and he replied in the same language, though with a foreign accent. •‘I b a re seen my brother challenge you. I liog th at you will decline to fight.” "B u t your Gerrnnn men expect”— "Never mind what our German men export. You have the request of a German woman. It should he o f great er import to you than the demand of any man.” He hesitated fo r a few moments, then said; "Kraulelu, I shall consider your re quest n command. 1 beg to offer an apology for looking so Intently upon you In the first place. I lost n sister a few years ago who greatly resembled you In the second place, I admit that you excited my admiration the moment l looked nt you.” "No apology Is necessary. I thank you very much for granting my re quest." Wltuey, A 1 v. c.i turning away to rejoin the Martha Bon !. w 'mot a i \\ • par! a t our table he said: m-y tieeane- Ii:t. t - - f I In i M v I a-k, frnuieln, to be informed Ing. and ip his wife he fc*:: I n - - l - to whom 1 have the honor to obey?" manager, v.lic was In...-n d- 1 i "I am Bertha von Mueller." saving. Tl. two got on t lie look'd nt me with an expression enough till they saved n . ii n: :io> will Ii 1 did not understand, but said | to work with, then began to ntvu un nothing further. late a fortune. ; he duel, of course, did not take Ten year» p used. A ¡rot I d -t : My brother In speaking o f It happen in ten y e a n The V it i ..nt< • •; non sly that the man was i iM'u> now w- it I > do and paid ; ■ .''.'less an Englishman anil the Eng- 1 lentlon to na-i.il life. One n in . v oil'd not fight. A few days a fte r when nt a ftn t!"ii W itney w. ■ ..i . t i c ' tmv: e my father told me that dured to a Mrs. Iletberlngton, a in.-. < otisln d come from America and serai. - ' an o f about thirty, v.' in - I i -ill : ie uext afternoon. Fattier scant; c> eieil collar hones did : i: , 1 i hut i would make m yself as det'-r her ■from wearing u ilei- dli a- n cable ns possible. costume. W itney was about t > i i next day w hen 1 went down Int» on to nvo • getting tied up with t' ;in drawing room to see my cousin I unprepo e n g bunch o f skin i i. ' loss with astonishm ent. bones when she said: Iio |o - -d nt me with an amused “Algy!" le. He was Hie man who had nd- lie looked a t her, vainly trying to ¡, ted t ie at the garden and whom 1 place her lud prevented lighting my brother. “Can It be that you have forgotten "Cousin S c rth a ." he said, "th a t was : le. Algy quBe an episode, my meeting the girl Heavens! Could this tyr Alma 1’ 1 had cine across the water to see. t< n tin- ri-tnnn he had loved? was it not?" rlir o ';« w«-ro hollow; the Iceth, . • ••liidi' I It w as!" I stammered. n-bii • tic v.gli fragile, wore lute; I m i n i 'll iay cousin, but instead of ,1 i iih d rued.or bra e.l with •: ’ 1 t reu'c'iilng in Germany I went back .in's But this was nothing to \\'. I a him to America He m id lie did be l i t v.. rn she began to talk i f r . are to ret'i i'n where n man whs time-.. It was all well, be ' ’ u* io i"- pig stuck for ndtalrlng a -Ped It horrible. can. Besides, he preferred the hc - Mho hud married a man for bis tivlty o f life iu America. | moneyI Algernon U lim y wim n romantic /on, . ill« in' : hi i unit l be very op: o- »U p . Kir# wiis ii liunl lieudel, matti - r of fin i v. ululili. Siili ii Algy w» i grow In» up tin rn Ut lhì unir By (tie W it ney* n fuiully of Dauluu*. They were wealthy, while Ilio Wltuey» v ir o lo moderalo clreuiuhlancr». Alimi Unitoli, un only child, tv un about A lio '* ai;c. miti ilio two children were p lay m ate Alimi wa» il d e.icale child unii v.us very «meli petted. svim i Algy reached an u;:« lo tliiiik of marriage bis mother noi lin i litui lio limi A in a wore l ■ .in ulti.; lo look ui>oti rai-li olii' r in u d if ferent light fru ii wbut thè;. 'lui m eliIMren. (Ino day »he mild lo In r u n : "1 tv lab you lo under .land th at ou no u' i ount will I consent to your marry- Ini; Alma U nitoli." "W hy not, inotberY' "T b u t I don't ' aro lo tell you. I f }ou *i-e ber tea or fifteen years troni lio-.v you will know without my having [old you." Alley wan aouietvlmt Kurprlhed at his nioilmr'H ol'Je'-tlon. T h e Benton* being wealthy ami Alum betuie the »ole In-lr to their property, be bail supposed that blu mot ber. v. bo »i i-im- i to li-ivi- n keen t ) « to perum ui, advantage... would bave urged rntber tlinu opposed tbe uiuti-b. Allnu waa ju.it tbo kind of girl to plemiu n young man f nine teen. All ber motion», her word*. her acts, were »ubdueil. Even her laugh wan dell'-flte. In spite bis inotber'a warning, Algy lost iilu heart to tier. T here was another girl In tbe neigh borhood that Algy met tK-e.i.-Jouuily, but did not fum y ut all, whom bo reckoned bln mother would be pleased to *ee bint marry. Martlm B'urlleld tin» next door to homely, leit she was bmely sixteen, and f i n e pi. is when I titxlng fr iii clill.llm - t in' ■ n hood ure like a grub ebanging luto a butterfly. Martha inherited from her mother a good ileal of bard e. B ut tin.-, W. im lo..t on Algy. The pink ami while com plexion, the coral lip* of Alma were i;ulte enough with him to outweigh all the common sense of a dosen gir u. But when Martha'« rod huir aiod fro« kies were conr..de«-d tiee te m í a ■oil was cs(>eclally odious. Tlhere was trouble for the young h.»V- ers ou both hides of the hDlls*-. T he TM j , uii finally w re us uiu< Il oppa-,cd Co IJio uiub'li as the Witneys. They de signed tlielr daughter for a r •«-1» hus band. A taste for riches Is a growing taste—tbe more wo have the inure we wont. The u|»diot of it ull was that Alma was dominated by her norther. Her lover hud the uniulln. -s to th 'x s e for himself. But mure the girl he wanted would not murry him wii'm; t her ] ar- euts' con scut he was obliged to content himself without her. Several years pa . ed. Al. a Henlou, under her mother's 1-adershlp, ¡nude a matrimonial eumpaigu abroad, but cumo hack to America unmarried. Al gernon Y.'ltney u f n r h r d i.a n .u o found nothing to remember about her any more than u ligure painted ou ebiun, and. though he strur-gled 1 ul to nmke him self believe that he was heartbroken, bo was finally convinced tbut, though be could never love again, lie was not suffering. Meanwhile M artha Bonlleld's hair had turned from Its original dull red to uu burn, and her fie. kl» . had ill-appear ed. When Witney fell bon d he used to go to see her for an evening’s chat. Some o f his romance linil evaporated, mid he was o n te .’ui; upon un ago vvh i U career intercsH-d him. When he fell Into romance Martha shut up l ke a clam ; when he talked In a practical vein she occasionally said something th a t struck huu forcibly. One Jay he i said to his mother: "M other, I have always b e lie .c l t! it you would like t > se - me make a match with M.i'i ha B o ii ' that If M artha I.- v illlnr I am n :•!> to accede p> your v i- ’ ' “Nonseii i-i You're not g h i : to eerie to my wishes at all. You have discovered that tin e's t- na ihing In Martini that you v m t." This turned oir be true AlgerU' -i A Every Day ou had better look over your stationery and order your let te r heads, envelopes, statem ents, bill heads and any other supplies you may need before fu rth er ad vances. Y are heavily stocked in some lines, and can serve you a t the old prices. A fte r the old stock is gone, no one knows w hat prices will be. Order now. W The Stayton Mail “Quality Printers” STAYTON, - - OREGON “ WEINHARD’S GOLDEN NECTAR” “ WEINHARD’S AMBER NECTAR” " T h e D rink that Satisfies and does not In to xicate” ICE COLD AND ALWAYS ON TAP IN KEGS AND BOTTLLS AT Fred Rock’s The “ Pastime Billiard and Cigar S ’cte STAYTON, - - - OFEGdN SUBSCRIBE FOR The Stayton -a ir '>*, HOME L IF E . Te a young person afflicted with discontent R. L. Stevenson w rote: ” 1 gathered th at your home is depressing. Every one's home is depressing, I believe. It is your difficult duty to make it less so.” O REGO N an d W A SH IN G T O N 9 fj i j . I 0 Business Directory |; A D irectory of each C ity, Town anti V ira c o , giving d escrip tive Bketch o f e a c h p lace, location, population, teie«^ ;>T V? chipping and banking po in t; inspifled Directrry, com piled by lv !. and profession. iji t o. , ' . ; : i -fl Moslem Divorce. Moslem writers an,l their supporters lu this country frequently emphasize the superior status of the women of Islam in comparison with their west ern sisters. Some recent divorce court proceedings bring to light the fact at least th at when u dissi.lutlon of the m arriage relation is desired In Moslem lands the husband is the only one pos sessing the right of divorce 'Hie wom an's only recourse appears to l>e to change her religion, by which means she autom atically disposes o f her bus- band.—Literary Digest. The Snail's Horns. A sn ail's manner o f withdrawing his horns is very interesting, lie dues uol pull them la k bodily Into their re- ceptaelcs, but turns tbeiu inside o u t Just as one sometimes turns the flu- gers of a tight glove , Two Good Reason*. Tw o men on the street car were talk ing abn-.it a third inuu. -E v e r get aim out to visit you?” the tlrst man asl-eil. "Nope, never can." was the reply. "Been tryln' for e ght years to get him out, and he j . t ke ps premisin' and promisin', but he never t omes. Always saj-s w in i lie's n v. orkln’ be enn't af- tord to lay off to come, and says when he a in 't a-workin' he can’t afford to take his savin's to come on, so I've wbout give up gettln' a visit out'u Jim ." -In d ian ap olis News. | j j f IPOPULARMEr AVAG AZ 2AT1C' 300 ARTICLES-3 0 0 ITEEP informed of the \ Fncri Engineering, M echanic Father and Son ami All the toallclasses -Old and Youn:-: ogrea? ilion. F« ii. •''PP1 Mm and Wood I t la M th e FavoriteU F a v o rite M-wiaziu tm aK ino > in thooM tHou«* ndspi hom eeth th ro n jfh ......................................^ o u t th o w orld. 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