A TAKER OF
CRUMBS
By Charming Pollock
Copurlaht, 1PC4, by Chsnning Pollock
"The red sun slipped over the edge
of the earth and left her fitting there.
She was very lonely. After a moment
she walked to the window and begau
rending her letter for the fiftieth time.
'Dear Lady o' Mine' was its first Hue
Dear Lady o' Mine.' "
Anne Staoey's laggard fingers drop
ped from the typewriter keys into her
lap, and she whispered the last words
of the paragraph to herself almost lov
ingly. The story was too nearly fin
ished to be written all over asnuu. ami
yet that was the very phrase which
opened the note lying at her side.
To epitomise the roir.aiuv of her own
life was one thing, she thought: to use
its language was another. For .vu in
stant she was disgusted at the nw'ltv
tion that she had intended to o:er any
part of the little history for s?Je. and
she was about to tear the page from
the machine. Then came the reset ion.
She rentes: tvred hew inar.y empty
hours slie had spent in an attempt to
force foutething purely imaginary from
her brain. She knew the story she had
lived and written was an interesting
story and that she could dispose of it.
ifter awhile the tired finsers returned
listlessly to the keys, and the sentence ! ner ver' own.
In her mind staggered across the white
sheet before her.
The end of the procession had been
reached when the dinner bell rang.
Anne Ptaccy laid the completed manu
script cm her desk and added the note
to n small bundle locked in her bureau
drawer. Then s-he stood before the mir
ror aud i in tied her .soft brown hair in
.several places. The face that stared
back at !.! v.-as a plain face r-weet
and honest, but far from, beautiful.
The mouth was too large, the nose too
small, the eyes sufficiently far apart
to denote in' !;. tuality, but not near
ly close enough for that pret tineas
which is worth so much more to a wo
man. Anne had been told these things
almost from the time that her eldest
brother hit I n able to talk, but she
sighed as s.d.e crossed her tiny room and
walked into the hallway. A mingled
odor of cabh. Mid burned beef as
cended the ::!. with the noise ot
mrjiy voti-es. The:' the b-H r:iug again,
and Anne wer.t to dinner.
She had o.v.c Uu to make corrections
ue creature had pliea numnerTess dance
programmes, fans with names scrawl
cd across them and a couple of period
icals containing verse from the pen of
the irrepressible Will.
Of the three men Will had been most
In earnest. The afternoon of the mar
riage he had gone west to work for a
i Chicago newspaper and to forget. The
latter part of this purpose was set.
forth, beautifully in one of the letters In
the packet.
Anne Stacey, who had written "on
space" for a living since girlhood and
who had never had a sweetheart, had
rescued the bundle from the Japanese
wastebasket. She recalled Will aa a
fine, broad shouldered young fellow
who up to the time that he had ceased
visiting her chum, a few months be
fore, had paid no attention whatever to
the large mouthed, sir.' 'I nosed, intel
lectual girl who alwa. ;!e a point of
having an engageme:: -'where with
in ten minutes of ti.. - .or of his ar
rival. Anne had m-rer been noticed,
and she didn't expect it. She prompt
ly forgot being snubbed and remem
bered only lh."t once Will had pressed
l.er hand qr.it tightly while he said,
"Little woman. I think you understand
what this means to me."
Recollecting this, Anne had adopted
the letters. At first she had enjoyed
them only as love letters letters which
were real and which said just what
she had been making her people say
for ever so long. Then, as the deser
tion of the bright little creature came
to be realized as an endless desertion
"Well," said the head waiter, "we
usually has, but I regrets to say, sir,
that the last we had was broke this
morning." Washington Post.
Animal That Shed Tears.
Humboldt states that he bad a mon
key that shed tears when it was seized
with fear. Itengger noticed that the
eyes of a small South American monkey
filled with tears when it was prevented
from getting some coveted object or
was much frightened. Darwin cites a
third case of a monkey from Borneo
which in the zoological gardens was
frequently observed to cry when griev
ed or even when much pitied. Sir E.
Tennant, describing the capture of le
phants in Ceylon, says that when
hound some of them lay motionless
with no other indication of suffering
than the tears which incessantly ,flow
ed from thefr eyes. The keeper of the
India?, elephants in Regent's park has
several times observed tears rolling
down the face of the old female ele
phant when her young one Was taken
away from her.
A Woman's Ruse
Original.
Many years ago Edward Bixby left a
loving wife and their little ones to seek
"And now," said Mrs. rnxuy, -r wr
lieve the picture of the woman Clark
hid with the other articles to have
something to do with the murder. Re
lease me, and I will endeavor to find
out"
Mrs. Bixby was released and set
about the task she had assigned her
self. It was not long before she discov
ered the picture to be that of a woman
who had left her husband for Clark.
The erring woman's husband was ar
rested for the murder, but he was not
brought to trial. The sympathy of the
people was in favor of one who had
simply avenged a wrong in a way that
they considered legitimate. The pris
oner confessed that be bad long looked
for Clark and when he found him gave
him a fair chance for his life. But,
fearing arrest on charge of murder, he
had fled as far as possible from the
scene of his revenge.
There was a great deal of sympathy
for Bixby, who had come so near being
hanged for a murder he had not com
mitted, and a great deal of admiration
for the woman who had saved him. lie
remained in hiding till Ills wife had un
covered the real facts of the tragedy;
then, on an invitation from the people
of the region, he returned, took up the
work on his mine where he had left j
it and became rich.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Don't be a misfortune teller.
If you can't do anything else, try to
keep out of the way.
You don't have to be impolite to peo
ple because you dislike them.
Don't think up mean things in your
mind which you Intend to say if you
get the chance.
Don't tell your wrongs to your friends
unless you want to discover that their
enthusiasm is very weak.
When an accident happens, there la
always some one present to tell how
it could have been avoided. f
A man never knows till he gets out
of the rut how many jolts and bruises
he would have missed by staying in it.
It is figured that one rich man's son
who has all the money he can spend
will spoil ten poor young men iu the
course of his life and not half try.
Atchison Globe.
Wrunjtel and the Artist.
Adolf Menzel did not care much for
women, and he was apt to treat them
with scaut courtesy, no matter what
their rank. When he was making his
picture of the Konigsberg coronation
the Empress Augusta came to the con
clusion that the women in it had not
been sufficiently considered, so she sent
Field Marshal Wraugel to tell him so.
the name of Clark. One day Clark took
and as she made no new friends, those j Bixby to a little pocket of rocks neat
in l.cr rir
when she
ride. Ivt;
iv afterward and to post it
wcr.t ori for her usual car
ad. f-h.e i.uleet-ed the drawer.
Jr..
'ma -
' I, ."-. '''' -
l!yiii-y$':i;,ji,i!iifljitt
iWU& ""'wiliililllk
.tin.
HI ft
ft 28
ardent notes had commenced to seem
Their author was her
lover. She read them over and over
j and over, making them more personal
, with each reading. For three years
! she fed her hungry soul with them.
! and then, being temporarily destitute
of ideas for stories, it had occurred to
her that they were the clew to one
ready made a story of which she was
the heroine.
"A Taker of Crumbs" was duly fin
ished that very night and dispatched to
the mail box in charge of the young
woman in the room adjoining, who was
going out to buy ice cream. Anne
thought about it a great deal in the
days that followed. A dozen times she
would have given the world to have
had it back, if only long enough to
have substituted fanciful terms for the
oues she had taken from the letters.
"Dear Lady o' Mine!" Twice at night
she dreamed that Will had come out
of the west to rebuke her for stealing
his love words aud to take the packet
out of her keeping. At the end of a
month she got a check from the maga
zine to which the manuscript had been
sent, and after that she merely waited
for the appearance of the story in
type. When it did appear, illustrated
with a picture of a very tail girl hold
ing two extremely long arms toward an
astonishingly lowr door In the middle
distance, she was surprised that no one
seemed to take the least notice of the
tale.
Anne went back to her work and
wrote other stories. By grace of these
and a kindly providence she whs able
to pay $7 to her landlady regularly on
Saturday evening and to take three
car rides a week. Every Wednesday
morning she walked uptown and drew
a little money from a newspaper for
which she wrote a column called "libit.
for Home Makers." She dined at 0,
revised manuscripts until 10 and cried
awhile over the bundle of letters before
going to bed. Now and then the st jo.I
at the window, looking out upon the
hurrying throng and remembering that
not one person in all that throng eared
whether she lived or died.
Three weeks after the publication of
"A Taker of Crumbs" she found lying
The Bixby case produced a great
his fortune in the west. Bixby became change for the better in the court be- j The artist took the criticism very ill
a prospector in Colorado and bought a foi"e wnicl1 It was tried. The court had , aud bluutly told the marshal that he
claim which he worked with a im.n hv i Deen Piacea in an aDsurtt position in iiaa oetter nimu nis military auaim
' I il At i . i 1 . -a
convicting uie wrong man, dui naa
been set right by the trickery of a wom
an. Circumstantial evidence was there
after not in favor.
MARY ALICE BOND.
the mine and showed him where he had
placed some articles he did not care ta
keep on his person. There were some
money, a revolver, a gold pencil case a
bunch of keys and a picture of a wo
man.
"I want you to know where these
things are in case anything happens to
me," Clark said, and, having covered
the pocket with a broad, flat stone, left
no sign of the concealed articles.
Some time after this Clark was taken
ill and, having no relative to leave any
property to, made a will leaving his
interest in their claim to Bixby, though
there was then no great apparent value
in the hole they were sinking. Clark re
covered, but the will was not destroyed.
One day Bixby left the claim for a
day to buy provisions, and when he
came back he found that Clark had
been murdered during his absence.
There was no trace of the murderer,
and Bixby was much puzzled as to whe
had done the deed. Bixby went on dig
ging and finally -tiuek very valuable
ore. Then he filed Clark's will.
He had been suspected of Clark's
murder, and now that it appeared he
had a motive he was arrested. He
could not prove that the murder was
committed during his absence, and no
one else was known to have an inter
est in Clark's-death. Persons who had
sold him and Clark the claim they had
worked when It was thought to be ol
little value, hoping that if Bixby waa
hanged they might get it back, manu
factured evidence against him, and
he was convicted. The usual efforts
were made by his lawyers to sava his
life, but they were all failures, and
finally they told him he must prepare
for death.
It was only a few days before the
execution was to take place that a
young man, an effeminate, apparently
half witted fellow, entered a saloon
at the county seat where Bixby had
been tried and was to be executed.
Going to the bar, he called for a drini
and in payrtent offered a revolver
and leave art to artists. After a vio
lent altercation Menzel pointed to the
door, and Wrangel, red with rage, re
tired with the word, "You are a nau
seous1 lr
nancMHwrwuij
The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of
and has been made under his per-
Afyj sonal supervision since its infancy.
-""ww- 7llov no one to deceive vnuin tint).
- v
All Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-good" are but
Experiments that trille with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic
substance, its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms
and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind
Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation
and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the
Stomach and Dowels, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTOR! A ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
r
SHE LOCKED THE LKTTK. ENVELOP!! AND
ALL, JN UEH Dl'REAU.
took out the packet of letters and be
gan reading them. An observant by
stander would have noticed that none
of them was Inclosed in an envelope.
There was every reasn why all should
have teen hidden from the prying gaze
In that manner, for they were love let
ters. Anne had burned the envelopes
three years before, doing her best to
avoid seeing w bat was written on each.
Not one of the lot had been addressed
to her. Not one of the lot had been
meant for her. Tbey were the oxs let
ters of another woman.
"What's the ham?" Anne had asked
Lers-elf when she had adopted them.
The other woman had been married the
day of the adoption uud not to the au
thor of the letters. She M-as a bright
little creature, fluffy from the hems of
her various skirts to the topmost curl
of her fair hair, ami she had kept as
many men wrapped around her small
est finger as there were rlngn around
the other seven. An author of love let
ters more or Jess had not meant very
much to her. So, when she finally de
cided upon Fred, the epistles of Joe and
Will had found a mutual resting place
at the bottom of an extremely dainty
Japanese wastebasket which occupied
at least a twentieth of the floor space
In the room the girls had tenanted to
gether. On lop of .them the brihMit-
on the table in the lower hall an en
velope without the name of a newspy j The barkeeper while examining it no
per on it. The postmark was New ( tlced scratched upon the handle "Jar
York. She climbed the steps leading : vis Clark." the name of the man who
to her room and sat down on her
couch to read the letter. "Dear Lady
o' Mine" yes, it was addressed to her.
"Who would have believed that there
was so loving a little woman in the
world? May I call tonight? That's
rather soon, I admit, but well, I am
very lonely too. Will."
Anne Stacey got up and dropped
the packet of letters in the Japanese
wastebaaket. She locked the one let
ter just received, envelope and all, in
her bureau drawer in a place left for
it
Juat Oat of Them.
A lawyer who Is fond of a joke went
to supper after the theater with a par
ty of friends, and he ordered coffee:
"Please bring it in a cup with the
handle on the left side," he said confi
dentially to the waiter. "I'm left land
ed, and I can't use any other kiDd of a
cup."
"Yes, sir," stammered the waiter. "I
will, Fir."
lie was seen to hasten away and con
fer with the head waiter. The head
waiter bore down on the party.
'What sort of a cup was that you
wanted, sir?" he asked.
"Cup with the handle on the left Hide.
I'm left handed," said the lawyer.
The head waiter disappeared to re
turn a little later obviously perturbed.
"The cup you" he began.
"What?" said the lawyer. "Do you
mean to tell me that in a first class
cafe you haven't such a thing as a cup
with the handle on the left side? Ab
surd! Why, I couldn't p sibly use
anj other kind. You must have plenty
had been murdered. The barkeeper
took the revolver in payment for the
drink and immediately sent it to the
authorities. The young man who had
offered it was arrested, aud on his per
son were fouud two of the other articles
Ciark had buried, the gold pencil ease
and the pit-tore of a woman. Tht
man coukl give no account of himself,
and since Clark had shown the picture
to several persons they were enabled to
Identify it as his property. Bixby was
released aud the young man was put
on trial for the murder of Clark.
Bixby's lawyers advised him to spare
no pains to convict the accused, thus
vindicating himself, but Bixby declar
ed that his misfortune had shattered
his nerves and he would go east to
be nursed back to health by his wife.
The prosecuting attorney had objected
to his being permitted to depart Bix
by, however, got away before any legal
move could be made to detain him.
He had had plenty of time to reacb:
a safe distance when the young man
who was about to be tried sent for the
prosecuting attorney. When that offi
cial appeared the prisoner said to him:
"I'm not a man. I'm a woman and
the wife of the man you hoped to hang.
My husband wrote me where Clark had
concealed certain articles. I came here,
found them and produced the revolver
for the purpose which has been achiev
ed. I had arranged It all with my hus
band." The astonished official ordered the
prisoner to be examined by a woman,'
who fouud her claim to be. true..
The KM You Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years.
THt eCNTAUH COMPANY, TT MURRAY TRCCT, NEW YORK CITY.
figsT Rational Bank
(I. A
T.
II FIE A.. .
OF HEPPNER.
.President ! (1. W. i'ONHEK
.. Cashier
Vio-President E. L. FREE LAN D . . Abbip hi i Cash tor
Transact a General Bankinq Business.
paid on Time Deposits.
Four per cent.
EXCHANGE ON ALL PART8 OF THK WORLD BOCl.HT ASh HOLD
Collection made on all pointgonreasonableternis. Surplus and undivided profits 135,000.
F ?ia I 9:1 Y II
w
PflLflCE HOTEL
IHEPPNER, OREGON
Leading Eastern Oregon Hotel
MODERN CONVENIENCES
ELECTRIC LIGHTED . . .
Under New Managemeut. Tbcrongbly
Renovated aDd Ilefiilted. I8t
Meals in Ida City.
HE MEKCMS, Jr, Trop.