FLED WITH YOUTH Advancing Years Destroyed Illu­ sion of Old-Time Fair. m K tE P WATCH ON EXPRESSION I One’s Face Pretty Generally Reveals the True Thoughts and Fsslings of Its Possessor. M o re Sftciils No doubt you would readily recog­ nise your features If you met them In the street. You see them In the glass Qildsd Caravan«, With Their Wonder- dally uud many times u day, and prob­ ably you think you study them with ful Contents, Which Entertained peculiar care. But thut Is Just the the People of English Villages. point. Whenever you see them. y**u Recalled to Memory. are studying them. The expression Is The fair always appeared at the conscious, artificial—the expression of H i s t ditto aud at the aaiue place In u person who Is being watched and the particular town each year, in obe­ studied. You know what the photog­ dience to aome mysterious calendar raphers “look pleasant" produces. that probably never got Into print, but You know how you feel and can Im­ that, nevertheless, was perfectly well agine how you look when you are known to tM show folk. No ouo «ware that someone Is observing you. knew exactly, *>r cared exactly, I Think of the expressions you watch whence these showmen and show on others' faces when they are com women came. They seemed to com­ pletely unconscious, not giving • prise a veritable peripatetic army, thought to how they look. Some faces whose whole duty was to travel from are sweet, kindly, sympathetic, de­ one end of Grvat Britain to the other lightful. Some faces again, often the and entertain and instruct less fortu­ same faces, are and, anxious, dreary; nate people. Judging from the glar­ others still are harsh, hitter, angry or ing posters on their wagons, but more selfish. Remember that all those ex­ particularly from the huge paintings pressions are likely to come on your which adorned their show front*, 1 own face, too. When you look iu the they had traveled to the uttermost glass you do not find them thefe. Your parts of the earth. In order to find mere curiosity erases them as a wet the subjects for their “unique and re­ sponge erases figures on a slate. Rut fined entertainment," aud had been re­ they come just the same. Select your Christmas Gifts trom our vast and varied assortment of bargains and we will store and deliver Remember how you love to watch the. warded by the patronage of most of them free when ordered. the crowned heads of Europe aud the kindly look in others and how yon presidents o f the American republics. shrink and turn away from the ugly They rode for the most part in showy and the hateful. Perhaps the memory caravans, adorned with pictures and and the consciousness will help you neat little white curtains drawn to control the uncomely expressions In across little windows, and topt>ed by yourself. Or. since expressions arc not smoking chimneys. Or they drove easily controllable and are In nny case wagons plied with properties, or vnn3 an unfailing Index of the feelings thut the front ends of which could be let preduce them. perha|>s you will set down and transformed into an Impos­ more busily about the task of repress­ ing show front, while the opposite ing and subduing feelings that make end could be mysteriously elongated, faces look as you wish thut they should and lo! there sprang into being, with­ not. The great secretary of war. Edwin in the space of a few minutes, a long, M. Stanton, once tefused to be Intro­ tubular rifle gallery! The news of the arrival of the first duced to a man because he did not like wagon, or the first gilded caravan, or the man's face. “ But,” urged a friend, o f the setting up of the first tent pole, “ he ts not responsible for his face.” $9.50 Solid Oak Rocker, With Brow.) Imita- $12.50 45-Ib. Cotton Combination Mattress the sure sign and symbol of the com­ “ Every man over forty years old Is re- tion Spanish Leather Seat ing of the annual fair, was always a aponsible for his fuce." answered the source of Intense interest aud expec­ secretary.—Youth's Companion. $5.50 Large Downy Comfortcis $10.50 Extrr Heavy Sagless Sanitary All tancy to the young generation in the Metal Springs , town. Straggling detachments of Comma Once “ Killed” a Bishop. boys and girls would soon he movlug A Kent (England) urban council. It $24.00 Floor Lamp, Mahogany toward the fair ground to get first Im­ Is believed, has about reached the limit $24.01» 50-lb. Pure Cotton Felt Mattress, with pressions of the pleasure to come. of “war economy" by forbidding the $ Imperial Edge and Heaviest Art Tick And when the opening day of the use of punctuation marks In all official fair had actually arrived, or. better documents, with the result that re­ Several Good Patterns, $ 1.5J 6 ft. Linoleum still, when the day of days, which was ports of its proceedings are published S4.50 Full Quartered Oak Full Box Seat Sq. Yard market day, had come, and the without even a comma. But the ab­ Diners grounds were packed with people, and sence of punctuation may prove per­ Several Excellent Patterns $1.75 12-foot Lin- one had already “ done” the circus ilous. Hill 70. on the western front, oleum Sq. Yard twice, watched the gorgeous street was “ taken" by a missing comma. $3.50 Solid Oak Diners procession of “ lords and ladles” aud Worse still, a bishop, for want of a $42.00 9x12 Best Brussels Rugs howdahed elephants, and had almost comma, was temporarily killed. The beggared oneself for the sake of see­ present bishop of Bath and WHl*. ing the “greatest wild-beast show In when he held the see of Adelaide, $4.25 Porch Rocker the world, with the only live gorilla found what he thought was a dead sea $13.75 27x54 Beautiful Wilton Velvet Rugs serpent Dear Coffin bay. at a time when In captivity.” at feeding time, which ! o f' course was the most expensive ' an Influenza epidemic raged In that $18.50 Cedar Chest time, there was nothing to do but to , district. He was pardonably proud of $22.50 Solid Oak 6-ft. Extension Table j go through the fair once more. The the “ discovery,” which was wired to last penny for that day had been England in a portmanteau telegram «pent, it was true, but one might which ran: “Influenza prevalent nu­ $47.50 Golden Oak Spanish Leather Daven­ $18.00 White Enamel Desk have the good fortune to come ocrt».< merous deaths Bishop Adelaide found port, Mattress Inside In some corner or byway of the fair, dc-nd sea serpent 00 feet Coffin bay." the awesome person who “ate fire." A news agency thought the last slg or the wonderful man who lifted words a separate message, and an­ $15.00 6-ft. Solid Oak Extension Table $22.50 Reed Rocker (Cretonne Upholstered) heavy weights like tops, or “ swal- nounced the death of the bishop. lowed swords.” Sense of Speed. Never, so it seemed, could there be $4.50 Large Pillows, Pair $ 17.50 2-in. Post, Simmons Beds, Any Color W. P. Benzell says In an article in so much for one to do or to enjoy; • never coold there be ugain, or any­ a New York paper, telling some of Ills • where else, so much delight as was flying experiences: “ Very little sense of speed comes to one In the air. crowded inlo those avenues of noise by day and noise and Darning naphtha There Is. of course, the tremendous lights by night, where a dozen brazen rush of air past one's fuce, but a whirl­ bands played simultaneously, a dozen ing propeller will give that before one There are no organs screamed and trumpeted and has left the ground. a dozen big drums bangisl from the landmarks in the air, and It is by steps of the shows; where hundreds land marks that we measure the speed o f rattles rattled, and stentorian of trains and automobiles, for in­ voices bellowed to the crowds to pat­ stance. The earth is so fur below that it seem* to he passing at about the ronize this and to look at that. That the old-time fair was ulwav* I rapidity of a horse car. After a lime sure to he much the same, year after the landlubber la-gins to realize that year, did not much detract from its what he wus regarding as suburbua gorgeousness or fascination in the plots are really farms, that the fish eye* of those youthful patrons who ponds are town reservoirs, that the had been “ saving up” for weeks to brooks are rivers, und that by hold­ enjoy its prospective delights. Yet It ing out his hand he can blot from view I* true that, as time went past, some­ a county. When that happens he be­ thing of the ertmn of the fair went gins to get a proper perspective of with if. The “ kings" and “queens” himself.” -•eemed to he less royal, the gold more Passive Resister, Perhaps. tinsel, the colors more garish, the A few months ago Jeffersonville re­ nrrtse more apparent, the music more list this week. home Mrs. Lietz Tuesday. cacophonous and the show people less ceived some new city cars which ex­ Lew Lang was in Silverton Ed Jackson had less than an Mr. and Mrs. Jake Seiverson Interesting. Then It was that the cited much admiration. They are flt- acre of land planted in potatoes Monday transacting business Interest lagged, disillusion crept In, ed with all the newest devices, safety spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Miss Myrtle Brown and Mrs. on his farm and got 60 bushels and at last the fair ceased to attract. doors that will not open until the car John Peterson. i Miss Idris Russell o f Stayton is It had. Indeed, become a very ordi­ stops and that will not let the car VVillis Brown visited at Mill City potatoes, all nice large ones. start again until they are closed, pay- Miss Waisle Miles called at the nary thing. i visiting relatives in this neigh­ HK-yoii-euter arrangements and so last week. That seems pretty good as this borhood this week. H. A. Brown home Sunday a f­ forth. But pride had a fall a few Not W holly German Rivers. Those visiting at the Ed­ summer was so dry. ternoon. Not only Is the Rhine not the nights ago when one of these nice new Mrs. H. A. Brown called on | ward Jackson farm the first of Alta Hiatt o f Gooch was in city ears tried to buck a small auto­ boundary river of Germany, hut neither Harry Tolz made a business Mrs. L. Lang Tuesday. Its mouth nor Its source is In German mobile of a make of widely known re­ last week were Albert Bass and Lyons' Sunday visiting home trip to Silverton Monday. pute. nnd snpfMised to he ns addictisl territory, as C h a r l e s if. Pepper points Gabriel Volz called at Chas. wife of Portland, Mrs. E. E. folks. out In the Washington Star In the to the way of peace as the man whose Trask, Mrs. M. Mrs. Lew Peterson and son Martin, and Mrs. Fred Morral got word ^ 'e3*ak « Tuesday, course of a dlseiiss|(«i of the Rhine c* name they hear. The automobile was Filing made a business trip to Miss Ethel Swank. standing j>erfeetly quiet—Just like “ tar a factor In i»eace negotiations. Tills I that her brother Glen Little was Mrs. Cieslak was a guest at Silverton Saturday, returning ha* long been a cause of mortification baby”—aud "not sayin' nuffln,” when Miss Alta Brown and Mrs. killed in France Oct. 5th. the Volz home Monday. to Germany, and to it Is partly due the the car bucked It. When the fracas Sunday accompanied by I^eonard D. Brotherton visited at Gooch Mrs. Alice Huber visited at rl*e of the Pan-German movement and was over, the auto had a slight limp In (Too late for last week) Peterson and Loren Mdes both Its renr parts, hut the city ear was de­ last Friday, the dreatn of a Mittelenropa. The Grandma Shelton last week. Messrs. John and Lew Peter­ employees o f the Silver Falls Rhine flows Into th ■ North sen at Rot­ railed by the Impact. Honors were Mrs. A. Ring called on Mrs. Mrs. Ed Jackson called on son called at the Lewis Lang Camo. terdam In Holland. Just ns the other given tin- gasoline vehicle by the po­ / R. Brown last week. great German river, the Scheldt, flows lice.—Indianapolis News. Mrs. S. D. Brown last week. home Monday. Clarence Peterson and Vincent Into the North sea through Belgium. John Rossell is busy moving Well, the flu is about over Mrs. George Reading has been Hobson’s Choice. Even the Haniihe pmir* into the Black Neal are victims of tonsilitis this J. E. Kimsey’s to their farm at One afternoon u noncommissioned around Lyons. Those that were on the sick list. sea, hut this fact wn* not f<-lt as a week. humiliation by the pan-Genoens be­ oflicer found and awoke two strag­ down in bed with it were: W. H Macleay. . ________________ glers behind the American line* in cause of the subservient relation of Mrs. John Peterson and Miss Johnson, Mrs. i Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rabens Elizabeth Wilkens spent Tues­ Austria to Germany. But for a long France. They had visibly a bottle of Trask, J. H. time It hns been their custom to nsnert, champagne. Frank Johnson and son Paul, S. of Stayton motored up to Silver day evening at the Lew Peter­ “ Where did you get that cham- I). Brown and son Denton, Chas. sometimes In the most offensive lan­ Creek Tuesday. guage, that Germany must control the jMigne?” asked the officer (with mo­ son home. Hiath, Edward Jackson and Mrs. Rhine and the Scheldt to their mouths. tives beyond question). John Kimsev o f Macleay mo­ Mrs. Lew Peterson and family call- L. D. Watterman. All are able' Fred Volz was a business “ Well,” explained the smaller of the tored up to his Tanch at the left for Toledo Thursday, where pulr. “ we hadn't had anything to eat to get around again. Indigestion. We are