THE TEMPTER
Adam Didn't Wait For Eve to
Offer Him the Apple.
By KEITH GORDON.
The ptrl on I ho porch In lit hor book
f:ice downward lieslde hor. faint,
skeptical smile visihle about hor iihu!li.
"H do Jiu go about !t?" was the
question, that hor eves asked of tho ra
diant landscape. "It's all very well to
my that a woman, If she lias not a
lump upon her Kick, may marry whom
iho will, hut how would she M about
it-"
Tho sonitelmij of a match broke tho
stillness, and her meditations were sud
denly precipitated fmut the general to
the oonorete. She glanced where a
aian's fonu lulkel in one of the huge
wicker chairs, Willi his hand forming
a screen he was lighting a fresh ebr.ir,
seemingly oblivious to everything In
life except that and a journal ou engi
neering w UK h lay in his hip.
lie was her brother' best friend,
ami she had known him for years, uot
with much satisfaction, It must le con
fessed, sitnv he was notoriously a
"Iran's man." living In a nniu's world
and regarding the rustle of femiuine
skirts wi;h something of tho same feel
ing that he did the bmuiuiug of a mos
quito. But ho was good to look upon o
good that a sudden, quick resentment
hot through her heart at his Indiffer
ence. It assumed the likeness of ier
sor.al affront, a sort of insult to her
lex. It would serve him right If some
girl should just make np her mind to
Biarry him and do It, too, lofore he
knew what he was about.
Meanwhile he had tossed away the
match and picked up the journal again
as frupertiirhsibly as if he were alone,
a pair of half indignant eyes watching
him Willi a combination of pique and
amusement.
It certainly would serve him right,
kcr thoughts ran on. If some lady
should just wind Mm im:id and round
her finger, make him fete!) and carry
it her lock and call, reduce him to a
perfect nmsli of sentiment. Something
ai hor stoatly gaze can.-ed him to move
itieas:!y, then lo k up. j
"I'iit you speak "J" j
lie had the perfunctory manner of a
person who kn -ws lie must keep guard ;
over himself or lie will K guilty of i
some remissness. A heroic resolution j
to (lo his duty was visible in his face. ';
"No,- she drawl, d, "I didn't speak, j
But it you don't mind very much I !
think t will. I'd like to ask you, for I
instance, if you have ever had a la- j
dies' day?"
"A ladies" day!" he repented help-
lessly. shaking off his eyeglasses with j
a characteristic movement, while his
tormentor watched him as If he had
been some sort of specimen that she
had impaled upon a pin. Then a light
dawned upon him.
-You mean such as they have at the
ciulis a day wh"n the place is given
. ,z , occupied hr a weasoi.
that I ever had." j
"Don't you think it is time?" she 1
Tentured. j
'Possibly. he admitted, but he still ;
sold the jonrnnl in a way that sug-
posted a well nigh unconquerable d-
ire to return to it. She stretched out I
her hand. Iteluctantly he handed It j
ftver.
"bid it ever occur to yon." she asked ;
blandly, "that the creature who tempt- j
d Adam so successfully, who Is at
the bottom of everything as it were, !
must be as as Intricate as your old 1
snirlueoring prob'ent-,7" '
"I have always considered Adam ,
weak, very weal;." was bis evasive au-
u't like that nowa- ;
had returned to the closely printed col
umns before htm, but after a half hour
he rare up.
"I'm stale," he murmured, throwing
the paper on the table. "Wonder
where' she none. Never before real
I zed bow Interesting she is- for a girl.
Had 1 ever bad a ladles' day? 1'niph!
That was funny!" And he smiled at
the recollection of It.
tor the next two or three days she
voided him as much as possible.
"1 must give hliu plenty of line." she
decided craftily, "mid never let him :
suspect that lies taken Hie bait"
Pit the third day be proposed a long
tramp to her. j
"You don't want a silly thing like j
mo." she protested, with modest self I
depreciation. "I can't talk alut I
bridges and buttress,", and caissons i
and all these intcivsiing ihingn that j
you Know about. 1 shall only bore ,
you." j
"What was It you said the other ;
day about the coat ure that tempied .
Adam';" was his laughing reply. "1'er-
haps I want to take up a new line of :
study." I
"1 just made him think I was tho
most deemlent thing that ever lived."
she oontided shamelessly to her mir
ror that night. "My timid little feet
could scarcely got over the ground
without help, and as for climbing
fences"--
She went, off into a peal of laughter
as siio ronicuilHuvd how solicitous he
had been aUv.it her getting over a
fence that was In their way- aud she
' who could turn a handspring as well
as either of her brothers:
j -of course I couldn't do It If I really
' liked htm." she murmured. Then the
I girl in the mirror averted her face
quickly. "I'm just going to give him a
much needed lesson, you know." she
went on. This time the girl looked Into
her eyes for a moment. After that she
threw herself on the IhhI and burled a
hot face in the pillows.
As the weeks wont by the startling
conviction that there was one girl in
the world who never boird him. never
made him long to escape and got lack
to his own kind, came to lie a certain
ty to the man. With the coming of
this knowledge the world seemed a
brighter, livelier place.
The idea of marriage, which had
hitherto seemed as remote as that of
suicide, came and bulged within his
brain as if ll were an old friend. He
thought, with some scorn, of his former
views.
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They wen- sumling under the big
anple tree in the luck gar.ien. From
the ground she picked up one of Hie
round. smo-ta apples and N'goi to
eat it. Something in the action brought
back to him tho conversation they once
had about Adam, and he wondered how
ho could ever have Nvn so cross, so
dense. Ho held out his hand.
"Please, Kve." he lvsinvhcd.
"But yon are uot like Adam." she
begin an hly.
No." he sudl meaningly. "He wait-.
ed for temptation. I don't Intend to j
wait" ;
And that night she whispered to the '
girl In the mirror, "What Thackeray i
says is truer 1
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Finest Brands of Wines,
Liquors and Guars.
LAGER BEER ON DRAUGHT
F. E. BROSIUS, Proprietor
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days.
At these l.ca.s;.r;. n-,,r,s a resolutr
that hail l. cm t-!::::. f.
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There vv.is a ii"W n-'t
It vas at the s.nr.e tit
and mi appeal.
As ;f it were something absolutely
new It came lo his mind tliat girls !
were delicate, helpless creatures, and ;
a wave of tenderm-ss f t the ser swept '
over him. Still he was very positive :
that lie wouldn't have eaten the apple. 1
and something in the soft, babyish, yet
dependent way in which she looked' at
him caused him to explain at great i
length why.
"Has talked fifteen minutes by the
clock." she was thinking In high glee. !
but outwardly she was all deferential, !
honey sweet attention. j
"I'm sure he wouldn't have yielded j
if he'd been like you!" was her earnest I
comment when he finished speaking. !
and at the words he was conscious of !
a pleasant expansiveness, a caressing 1
sense of satisfaction as delightful as
ft was unusual. It was as If he were
growing taller, broader and more se
Terely strong, before her very eyes.
"Go back to your reading. I'm not
going to bother you another minute." j
the jumped up and. laying her hand
on his arm, finished Ingenuously: "You
ion't mind my bothering you, do you?
-i girl gets so tired of woman talk! A ;
ehat like this is like a plunge in a cold '
stream." And she vaulted Into the j
house and scurried to her rooui, where '
she threw a kiss to her image in the j
mirror, with the remark, "You're doing !
wen ror a beginner, my love.'
Down on the broad piazza the man 1 worth.
The Dispute.
A rabbit went out walking one day.
and when he came home he found his
He was
greatly astonished at finding a stran
ger in his house.
"See here. Madam Weasel." he said,
"what are you doing here? This is not
your home. Tlease get out of my bur
row." "Your burrow, Indeed:" cried the
weasel. "I'll do no such thing. I am
perfectly at home."
"Well, now." said the rabbit gently,
"let's take the dispute to (irimalkin."
Now, ilrlmalkin was n cat, the Judge
of all controversies that came up in
the forest, and so the weasel could
do nothing less than consent to do as
the rabbit suggest"! They set ont
together and scion arrived N'fore the
judge.
"ionie near to me, my children,"
said (Irimalkin: "I am dinf."
They i.boycd. not dreaming of any
harm that might come, and the cat,
' asrliig oat a lawed foot at each side,
gripped then l'th ni.d sotthd the dis
pute by eating them one after the oth-
Millinery
July Clearance Sale
Prices on all kinds of Millinery
greatly reduced after July 1st
Mrs. Estes
Millinery Parlors.
PRINEVILLE,- OREGON.
Moral.- People of! en ruin themselves
by lawsuits. It is better to come to
r.a agreement out of court. French of
Perrin.
j " RECEPTION "
i
Smith & Allingham, Props.
C'hauip Smith's old stand.
Imported and Domestic
Cigars
Famous Whiskies
Loafing.
"I loaf and Invite my soul," sang
'Walt Wbifniitn in (ino nt liiu "lei rt.oiy.
yawps- that has sounded "over the J Old Crow; Hermitage; Red
roofs of the world." And it Is no doubt
the N-st. profoundest and highest
thing ever said or sung about loafing.
The soul if we may tie so fortunate
as to have one in the real and high
significance of the word will hardly
come to our mundane aid, no matter
bow often we may Invite it. unless we
loaf. We do not in our ordinary busi
ness of living give It a chance to vis
it ns. Like the virtues of art, it de
mands a large leisure and far horizons.
That is why the ioots and thinkers
possess "soul" and we ordinary mor
tals do not. Our life Is too narrow, too
"cabined, cribbed, confined." Soul es
capes or shuns us while we grope In
our huddled and cluttered existence.
We must "loaf and Invite it.
Loafing Is good for us now and then.
As a habit It is very bad, but even a
"good custom." as Tennyson assures
ns. would "corrupt the world" were it
not for wholi-some change and variety.
And an occasional loaf, whether vol
untary or enforced, may be salutary.
Columbia State.
J Top Rye; Yellow Stone;
t Canadian Club; Cream
: 4 Rye; James E Peppei
, 4 Moore's Malt
J Porter, Ale and Olympia
Draft Beer on Tap.
; 5 Imported Wines
r;
and
Liquors.
j A straight line is the Khortest in
i mnmls or in mathematics. Edce-
Notice to Creditors.
nti , !i hcrt-l-y sriven thr th un1er!(rnd
ha lr.-n ly the county cmrt of Crook county,
Suie of ' irt-Kon, 'luly appoint"! Administrator
of the eslBt oi (reoriffr W. Bar no, tiwt-a!,
anil All r.vuiti havi'iic lini nifuimt enid eit-18U-
art hTfiy rrquirvl to prv:nt the name,
duly vt'rit)(-1, toiuiiil a'ttiiint-lrutor at the law
offl'-; of r. C. Brix, iu Ithm-viUc. On-iron, Hh
in nix months from the date oi the tirat puhli
nation of thiw notice.
Intel iubilhel first time July 13th,
A. D. ltfU.
WILLIAM H. PV,:VK.
Administrator of th' r-i' of
1 Oeorgt W. barm, dectastd.
STRAWS STRAWS
That sizzling sound Ss only the Thermometer Boiling
internally. It's great weather for wearers of straw hats.
Come in and let our Clerks show you some of our styles
Better visit our SHOE DEPARTMENT
and see those nifty models
in Black and Tan Oxfords
$3.50 and $4.00
See the new Pug Toe, Flared Soled oxfords;
the new raised toe shapes, and the many
other special styels not Freaskish, but very
distinctive. All sizes.
THE LEADER
Mrs. I. Michel Prineville
I lere's great news for you men
who like smart shirts. We've
just received a lot of new effects
in plain and striped Shirts that
Will certainly make a hit with
the Critical Dresser. Big doings
at $1.25 to $2.50
and a complete line
of work shirts
50c
You can't beat them
THE LEADER
Mrs. I. Michel PtineviOe
D. P. Adamson & Co.
Druggists
Prineville, - Oregon
ALMOND AND CUCUMBER CREAM.
Prolerl llic Complexion, ll prevents injury to tltf Lire and hands il applied
Wore exposure lo the sun, wind and wrallier. When not so used il promptly
relieves all distressing conditions ol llie skin il applied on relurnlny indoors.
Almond and Cucumber Cream is nol a greasy preparation, and does not re
semlilc the paste lorm creams and cosmetics, ll is a pure antiseptic lulion. pos
sessing remarkable rleanipg and healing properties that have been used and
tested lor years by the highest society ladies ol the land. It will give the most
gralilying restdts in soliciting rough, dry or irritated, skin resulting Irom any
cause Price 50 cents.
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Thoroughbred Hata
Summer Exhibit
of
Peters Shoes for
Men and Women
Mod
era
"The Kind Gentlemen Wear.'
Cloth
es
' ITH the opening ol our Spring and Summer Season, we wish to express our heartiest
(hanks to our many customers and hit-mis who have shown us their patronage during I tie
past year. We hope that our methods ol doing business have been s.ilislarlory lo one and
all and once a cuslomer always a customer. Our methods will be the same lor this coming year:
Everything Marked in Plain Figures and One Price to One and All. We don't
sell you an $10.00 suit lor $15.00; our $18.00 suils are marked SlH.00. that's our price; no
other. But we are nol talking prices, Quality First and Last. Wc are today carrying the
B t Clothes to be found in Prineville. Modern Clothes designed and laid out by
Brandegee, Kincaid & Company, Utica, New York
riottiea well neliwU-1 and worn cannot lie overlooked by wiln of iliieriiuiiiiitinn. l-'xeUiimtions of (jrciit
joy arc certain to be called forth by our dinpliiy of "Collrite Cloii" Cliithee, bt'cuimo of tlieir imrticulsrly
brii"k style, ami lieeaime they tit ') perfectly that tliey cunnot lint be well worn.
Tbe fabrics are totally different from tlioim ordinarily een. The many Kraceful and eharaeleriatic features
which liiftinituish the well-dressed man from the multitude of careless dressers will be found in these splen
did garments. Knowing how to design and how to duvelop his mudo "College Chap" Cloths what they
are, "tho clothes you want."
Clifton & Cornett
AT THE OLD BRICK STORE.
DR. K. D. KHTCIIUM
Drugless Healer
Spinal Adjustment! and
Specialty
Dietetics a
CONSULTATION FREE
Hours 7;10 to 12 a. la. 1 lo 5 p. in.
Calls ansirerfcd promi-lly.
Rooms 16-17 Adan: son BVg.
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MuiiufiictuRT of ami denier In
Harness, Saddles, Chaps, Bridles, Silver-Mounted Bits
and Spurs. Reatas, Quirts, Ladies' Stride Saddles.
E. H. Smith, Prop. Prineville, Or.