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»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦a» Second Eieiry Took Ann at tier Word, but Little Jim- my Rebelled. ' > ; I < 1 By LOUISE OLNEY <1 < ’ ■ .|>y> I«.'.!. 1- •. by Associated I.lt- erary Press. : A.nn Mark'* eye flushed. Direct as ber name, site refused to marry Henry Jasper. He stood before her a little awkwardly, but yet a man that most women would have considered kindly He was uot forty, well off for the sim ple community, highly respected, and his wife. Caroline, had been dead three years Being a mere man. bow could be know that Anu, his old schoolmate, hud suffered agonies when as a young man he hud courted and married her cousin? No one knew why Ann had not mar ried. Site never wore her heart on ber sleeve. Now, in spite of herself, her heart softened to him. noting how his hand ruffled his hair as it always did when lie was puzzled and unhappy. “I never did think 1 could hr» second best in any man's life,” site went on rather cruelly. “And I don't see how at my age, thirty-five, and I don’t care who knows it—I don't see itow I can begin playing mother to another wo man’s child. The boy will hate me, a« all children do a stepmother. No; ask some other woman.” The man flushed angrily. "Don’t insult me. Ann. You know I don’t want any other woman. I’ve al ways—you know I can't tell yon what I always thought of you. It wouldn’t seent fair to Caroline, who did her best by me.” The world know sho had been a weak, fretful, untidy woman. Jealous, thriftless, her baby beauty gone in a few years. And It knew of his loyalty. He could not tell tills woman how in the years she had been about his house helping Caroline Ills henrt had gone out to Ann’s cheery strength, her wholesome, healthy kindness. He tried one word more. “Ann. If you knew how I needed you in every way you would come. Do you think I have forgotten how to love?” Still site shook her head. He turned slowly away, climbed into his buggy and drove to his own farm. Ann sat thinking, for she remembered many things. She finally rose and went into her sister's house, where she was visit Ing. Molly looked at her curiously as she entered, waiting to be told some thing. for she had guessed Henry’s errand But she was forced to respect Ann’s silence. In the crisp September morning Ann started out for a walk She went over the hill where she used to play witli Molly and witli Henry nnd Caroline How strangely things bad worktsl out! She thought of her busy life as fore woman in a big shop, her practical, busy, useful, lonely life, now soon ber visit to the old place would be over! Beaching tlie top of the hill, she sat down in the falling leaves, pushing the heavy dark hair back front her face. Her big eyes were soft and kind and dark, like an animal’s e.ves. She was tall and vigorous. Down in the valley she could set* Henry Jasper's bouse and bn rnyard. He was hitching the bays to the bug gy. and presently he drove away. A sudden temptation assailed her. Stie had heard Molly say his most recent housekeeper had left Should she go and have a look nt tilings? She did not see the boy about. Probably Jimmy was at his grandmother's. She rose and walked across the stubble. The door was locked, but sho found the key under tlie mat nnd entered. She could have groaned at sight of the kitchen—dishes unwashed, floor ditto, disorder rampant. The sitting room, the bedroom, everything was a sorry sight to her housewifely eye. for she was first anti always a housekeeper. Things had been bad enough in Caro line's time, but now they were impos sible. She hnd no compunction about en- terlng. She had always been in and out before she went to the city, lie would not care. She looked at the clock and calculated that he could not get back from town under two hours. Then she rolled up her sleeves and skirt and went to work—dishes first, then the floor, then sweeping, dusting and making beds, Before she knew it three hours had gone and it was Doon. She found a bite to eat and de- cidi*d to go on even tf he caught her at it. She did not care. Knowing It would take weeks to get everything as It should be, she chose those points to put to rights tHat would make for sheer comfort. She made ■ome pies and ginger cookies and doughnuts anti Etoiled some corned beef front the barrel, trying not to see the condition the cellar was in. Tlie after noon wore on, and still Henry did not return. She mended some of Jimmy's clothes, poor child! She had decided that she would keep at work as long as possible and then slide out tlie back way when she saw him coming, tint It was not to be About 4 site suddenly was aware of a walling In the yard anti from the door beheld Jimmy, fish pole In hand, limp ing along nnd crying at every step. He was a boy of ten. like his father as one pen to another She ran to meet bint t»d sow that ills foot was cut ant! bleeding She picked him up nnd car ried him In. washed Ills foot, dressed it and put him <<n the sofa, where she fed him. As sh» came to take away the plan be tuddealy 1« the uioat na- be'lik* fashion. snatched her about ♦Utt Bt-s'k and'kisseii her. Then lie fell n«let|». By till* time «he had no thought of going buck till tlie child's father came. She moved about the kitctien and din ing room in her orderly, effective way n way businesslike, eminently wom anly and good Tlie wuate apparent everywhere annoyed her thrifty soul She saw forty ways to better and save. She set the table with a fresh cloth and put a gcrsl supper to cook on the store she had blackened at the cost of Iter pretty, plump hands, iter one Iteau ty save her eyes. It was nearing 0 o’clock. After a little Jimmy awoke and without warning began to cry. refus- Ing to tell what troubled hint, hut de nying that it was Ids foot. Finally Ann got a low rocker, took the child in her arms and Etegan to rock him. Great Etoy that ho was. he snuggled to her. his unloved little heart accepting the comfort, trusting this soft voiced, smiling, mother armed woman who called herself Aunt Ann. As she sat thus, her attention quite absorbed. Henry Jasper came wearily to the kitchen door, his arms loaded with groceries, his face hopeless He had heed wondering where to look for Jimmy, who had been allowed that morning to go to a neighbor’s. Then with unbelieving Joy be saw the clean room, the spread table, the new air of comfort, and. best of all. tn Ann Mark’s kind arms he saw his sleeping motherless child—a child near ly as unmothered before his own moth er’s death as after it. She looked up at him and smiled. "He cut his foot nnd came home cry Ing. I came over, and when I saw so much to do I went to work. I knew you wouldn’t mind, Henry.” Mind! The hard thing was that she should come Just to go again; that she should give him a taste of this calm comfort, let him see her like this and deny him a continuance of ft. He was very miserable in his gratitude. "Put your packages on the sink,” she commanded, "and when I have laid Jimmy down 1 will put them away. Will you open tlie door and look at the biscuit?” He Bbeyed her. then stood looking while she deftly put everything in its place. The milk pail shlnlngly waited for him to take it and go out to milk, but he lingered. And Jimmy awoke and wanted to tell his father about the enormous fish that nibbled at his hook and got almost caught and how lie had cut his foot on the broken bottle and found Aunt Ann to bind it tip. “Supper is ready, and you had better eat before you do the rest of the chores. Henry.” she said, helping the boy to limp to his place. They ate Joyfully, talking, laughing, the man wondering how many min utes would pass before she rose to go. The future yawned emptily. Site was asking him about his housekeepers, what he paid them, advising him what he should do. Finally when she rose he rose too. They stood facing each other, and her clear eyes smiled. “You are— Oh. Ann. you have been good!" he said awkwardly. “Shall 1 hitch up nnd drive you home, or will you walk?” So he had taken her at her word, It was evident that he had no thought of anything permauent in all this, But the woman had. She saw here her place, her opportunity, The old hurt and anger had passed. nnd she was again nt henrt the simple girl who had loved in secret this man who was at last hers, She paused a moment, still looking at him. There was now no thought of being “second best." Site would make tierself all to them. ‘•I’ll wash the dishes up first, and then after you have done the chores you can walk back witli me.” Jimmy set up a sudden wnil from Ills chair, where he still sat at the table. "I don't want you to go away,” he cried, "ami I won’t stay alone while papa goes with you! !” Ann went be- hind his chair and put her arms around him. She dl<l not look at the child’s father. "Listen, Jimmy. Auntie must go to- night, but if you will be good till papa comes back 1 will come again. ♦» "When will you? How long will you stay?" lie demanded, with the definite ness of childhood. No uncertainty for litntny! Site did not hesitate. “I will come back— in the morning-- and 1 will stay nlwavs—if papa says that 1 may!’’ Jimmy, forgetting his foot, jumped at her neck like a little boa constrict or. But bls father set him down, wanting iter himself Just then. “Are you going to let her stay. papa ?” Then Henry Jasper laughed, and the burden of unhappy years roll- ixl from his shoulders. Ann was pres- entl.v forced to hand him the milk pail ns a Hint to let her get at the dishes. Pantomime Performances. Most pantomime characters were orig inally borrowed from the Italians. The first real English pantomime was pro duced at a theater in Lincoln's Inn l'ields in 1720. It was called “Harle- quin Executed," and its suittitle was “A New Italian Comic Scene Between < Scaramouche. a Harlequin, a Coun try Farmer. His Wife nnd Others." The performance was very successful. About the middle of the eighteenth century the character of pantomime performances was completely altered, chiefly because of the genius of the famous Grimaldi. who made the ciown the first figure in the pantomime. Gri maldi first appeared nt Sadler's Wells theater, where he played the part of a monkey. He was actively engaged on the stage for forty-nine years, nnd at the close of his career ho took a itene- flt nt Drury Lane theater which renl- Izod nearly fillio He nlso received £l<10 from the Drury Ijtne fund This was In June. 1828 He died In 1837 and was burf.'d in the churchyard of St James' rbapa*- Ftntonvllle Hill MOORISH SOLDIERS. Their Methods In Battle and System of Signal«. Th- r At fighting on borsebui k the Moori are adepts and extremely mobile. But they are incorrigibly lazy and seldom indulge iu night attack When they attack iu force the horsemen usually give u lift to the foot soldiers who ac- AMiipauy them or allow them to ruu alongside and bold ou to a stirrup iron. The mounted meu then make a charge, wheel rouud and retire and make way for the footmen, who craw! along the ground. almost invisible, nnd who rise to the attack if they come witbin strik ing distance of the enemy, As a rule, tile Itittians prefer to lure detached parties into an ambush or detile and thus inflict heavy loss upon them, The mounted meu seldom dismount to tire, and their tiring, being from the sad- die, is very Inaccurate. Should th»1 ad vance of tile white troops lie stow or hesitating the .Moors effect a bold combination between horsemen and footmeu and generally succeed iu in ilk ting heavy losses on their enemy.. The prime tactics of the Moors are to delay the advance of an enemy as much as possible by mounted rifle tire until tliey cau discern its extent and direction and subsequently to try en veloping the advancing force. The tribes also indulge in sniping, hilt not to a very great extent, and they also fight individually, They do not neglect opportunities for stratagem and cau effect some very clever ruses, They tire also guilty of abusing the services of the white flag iu action. Tlie Moorish intelligence system Is an excellent one, and the tribes are seldom without information regarding the movements ot an enemy. Tliey have also an excellent system of sig naling at night by means of small fires dotted about the hills and ravines, which are obscured and revealed in accordance witli an ingenious code of I I signals known to themselves.—Chicago News. F. J HAYES REGISTERED OPTOMERIST Will visit Bandon the 22d and 23d of each month Office at Gallier Hotel. Expert services and honest prices guaranteud Achievements Visions In Sleep. Born of It is well known, says H. Addington Bruce in Success Magazine, that dreams have stimulated men to re markable intellectual achievements and have even supplied the material for these achievements, Tims Cole- ridge composed “Kublal Khan” in a dream. Tartini got his “Devil's So- nata” from a dream in which the devil appeared and challenged him to a mu sical competition. It was a dream that gave Voltaire the first canto of his “Henriade," and Dante's “Divina Corn media" is likewise said to have been inspired by a dream. Many novelists on their own admis sion have obtained the plots for some of their best works from materials provided In dreams. A particularly impressive Instance is that of Robert Louis Stevenson, whose “Chapter on Dreams" in his Etook “Across the Plains" should be read by all who would learn what dreams can do for a man intellectually. Tlx* solution of baffling mathematical problems, the ideas necessary to complete some in vention. have been supplied by dreams. Occasionally the dreamer has been known to rise in his sleep and Jot down the information thus acquired. In such cases he usually forgets all about the helpful dream and on awak ing Is greatly surprised at finding the record he has made of it. which shows that—as witli the visions so potently Influencing health—it is possible for dreams to aid a man in an intellectual way without Ids being consciously aware of them. Bird's Milk. “I fed him witli bird’s milk.” This curious expression was used by the old sultan of Turkey, while a prisoner on hl* way to Salonlki. with reference to ids brother Mohammed. his prede cessor on the throne. Abdul Hamid was lamenting ills own fate and tell ing his captors how little lie deservtsl it and how kind he had been to his brother. "I fed him with bird's milk." he Mid, as if that were the greatest kindness he could show. What is bird's milk? Not the Turkish equiva lent of the milk of human kindness, but a European brand of condensed milk bearing on the can a picture of a liird on a nest. His Conundrum. "Mistah Walkah. kin yo' tell me de diff'unce ’tween a cold in de head an' a—a chicken coop wit’ a hole in de rufe?” “No. Sam; that's a hard one. What is the difference between a cold in the head and a chicken coop with a hole in the roof?" “De one am a case o’ influenza, an' de uddali am a case o' out flew hens, sub." “Ladles nnd gentlemen, the vixal wonder. Professor Wabbles Izzeers. will now sing the popular ballad en titled ‘The I.lps That Caress a Stogy Shall Never Touch Mine.' "—Chicago Tribune. What's In a Name. Returned Traveler By the way. Mr Wann, your daughter. Miss Etta, Is married. Isn't she? old Resident—No; she could have married a fine young fellow once, but she threw him over on account of his name. She mid it was bad enough to be Etta Mann, but she drew the line nt Etta Knox -CBL eago Tribune. No Economy Thors. Bronx—in Russia they never J. “What's in a name?" Tx»nox-Why not? Bronx—It's taken for granted that It's the whole alphabet — Lippin cott'«. ADLER’S R. ti. ROSA. 5 Pres C. TIMMONS, Pres. A. E HADSELL, Treis (i. T. TREAI1G0LD, A. I). MORSE Sec Mgr Bandon Invesment Corporation Real Estate, Loans. Insurance DREAM INSPIRATION Intellectual WE FEATURE Of Marshfield, Oregon OIR SPECIALTIES Timmon's Waterfron and Felter’s Addition Y H' will admire the st vie of | In- garments we are showing for this Autmn and Winter season. You will be pleased with the nob* v. rich fal rics, and the prices will con vince yon of the fad that this is the store. for real value We believe in qualitv, and we give our customers the best it is possible to procure. In featur it g AIM.PR'S COLLEGIAN CLOTHES we realize that we have had a c ns i d e r a b I e amount of experience with these splendid garments, ami we know that they can not be equalled at anywhere near their price. I: v.m are ready to buy your Ball Suit or Win ter Ovtrcoat let us quote you some prices ami show you some sty les Smith Bros. & Sidwell If your Piano is worth anything it is worth Expert Tuning Any other kind will ruin it All my work guaranteed Drop a postal card and I II call I ? Homer Street Bandon, Oregon E. B. Kausrud Bandon, Oicgon Notice of Sale of Tide Lands Notice is hereby given that the State Land Board oi the State of Oregon, will sell to the highest bidder, at its office in the Capitol build ing at Salem, Oregon, on December 14, at 10:00 a. m., of said day. all the state’s in terest in the tide and overflow lands hereinafter described, giving however, to the owner or owi. ers of any lands abutting or fronting on such lid and overflow lands, the preference right to pur chase said tide and overflow landa at the highe price offered, pro iding such offer is made ir good faith; and also providing that the land will not be sold nor any offer therefor accepted foi less than $5 00 per acre the Board reserving the right to reject any and all bids. Said lands are situated in Corn county, Ore gon, and described as follows; Beginning at a point on the meander line of the Coquille river at the northwest corner of lol 6, which said point is 1320 feel east and 1965 feet north from cornets »ectioiu 17, 18. 19 and 20, running thence along mcande line a follows, to-wit: S 84 ° e I 30 feet. S 74 0 45’ e 492 feet. North Mi feet to low water line. N 75 0 15' w 257 feet along low water i line. N 73 0 10' w 232 feet. N 80 0 w 137 feet. S 100 feet to place of beginning, cnntdimm 1.31 acres, br ing lide land fronting on west bali <>f lol 6. «v 17,'T 28. S R 14 Wol W M. Applications and bids should be addressed |o G. G. Brown, Clerk State Land Board, Salem, Oregon, and marked "Application and bid to purchase tide lands." i G. G. BROU N, 39.1IX Clerk Stale i .and Board Dated this Sept. 28. 1909. Bandon Foundry & Machine Shop A. THE CITY MEAT MARKET Under New Management Garfield Mill and Steamboat Work Our SPECIALTIES SPECIAL MACHINES IH ILI EO If you are looking for a good piece of meat just call in and see us. Fresh and Salt Meats of all kinds ORDER i Pattern Shop in Connection I Doyie & Sergeant • I I Proprietors II you wish a bottle cold--- Call at the Eagle, i ne El Dorado If you love the goods ’bat's old-- Call at the Eagle, I aint no use to sit and blink li you really need a diink. Just make a sign or ring a bell, /And you l>et they'll treat you right Down at the Elagle Rasmussen Bros., Props Alvin Munck, Prop. BANDON, OREGON Notice Notice is hereby piven. That the common Council of the cuy of Bandon, by resolution parsed at a regular meeting Nov. 1st, I9G), pro poses sidewalk improvement upon streets as fol lows: On South Fourth street, on the south side thereof, extending from the northwest corner of the U aterman s ¡’ark addition east to ihe plank toad thence south whera thereu no walk at th'« time to Fifth street. Also on Pacific avenue (otherwise known a Little and Wood street) on both sides thereof (where walk has not already been built) extend ing from Atwater to Sixth streea. Said walk to be six feet wide and oi usual q ’cificalions. Now unless a seperate written rentons .ance aga-nst each or either of the above dewnbed and pro[<Med improvements be signed by the owners of two-thirds of the real property ad|acent to and abuiiing upon such streets or parts thereof a- contained in each or either improvement, and ■uch re mor «trance or remons antes be filed with the rc order on or before the 8th day of Decr-m Iter, 1909, then the common council will pars an ordinance declaring and ordering such improve ments. and lioth ot them, or either oi them that may not have beta wmonstrat*d against, which ordinance will a ess the cct thereof to acitsern property, and provide for the collet.ion th ixv-i Dated at Bandon, Oregon, November 18th. 1909. C. R WADt, City Recorder. 45- 3t Clarence. V. WINE5, LlQUoR.5 AND banpon — Lczee O regon hruggitt and ./1 iiothec. u rtf C16AR.5 Bandon T oys . Notions, Dishes Ladies' and Children's Furnish ings. Men's Shirts and Overalls WE ARE JI ST RECEDING A LARGE STOCK OF HOLIDAY GOODS Isjnst in receipt of n new stock of DrngH and Cliomicals. I’nteru and Proprietary Preparations, Toilet lr tides. Druggist Sundries. Perfumes, Brushes, Sponges, Soap. Nuts and Candies, <’igars. Tobaccos at.d Cig arettes, Paints, Oils, (Mass and Painter's Supplies. SOOTS - AND - SHOES You can’t expect to get $2 worth for $1, hut you can get your money’s worth at B R E IJ E R Dealer in Boots and Shoes. Repairing neatly and promp tly done at lowest lie« inf prices
