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f A fair Exehaage. j
Original.
fie was a southern beauty Just
nineteen, be West Point cadet
two years her senior. She bad been
graduated at a young ludies' finishing
ichool; be was about to be graduated
Into the United States cavalry. She
bad learned to write an essay. She
didn't need to learn to write a love
letter. Sbe was burn tbnt way. Just as
a poet la born, not made. lie bad
learned analytical geometry, conic sec
tions and all that. lie didn't need to
learn to talk soft to a girl; be breathed
the spirit of "spoon" In with the West
Point air. The atmosphere there has
been so long ludon with It that It's Im
pregnatedthat Is. In June, when the
roses bloom. They were dawdling in
' flirtation walk.
"What an odd necklace." he remark-
ed. glancing at a circlet of finger rings
! fastened together by gold links she
wore about her neck "each ring dlf-
ferent!"
j , ."The donors were all different too."
j "What do you mean by the donors?"
; "Each ring was given me by"
"An accepted suitor?"
"Well"-
"Don't deny it Rather tell me about
. them." u
"The rings or the suitors?"
"Both." .
"Well, this turquoise cluster was
, given me by a flaxen haired, blue eyed
' boy when I was fifteen. He said be
was desperately In love with me, and
. he was for a month. This marquise
j solitaire I got from a young planter In
," Georgia, lie tried to ride over a precl
iplce later on, but bis horse balked.
This gypsy set pearl was from a pro
fessor, lie was an old fellow, thirty
one at least. lie taught Scandinavian
or Egyptian literature or something of
the sort. He'd never been anywhere,
but he could talk so beautifully about
the places be hadn't seen that he'd
make you wish to go there. A doctor
'gave me this sapphire. He had been
all over the world, but you'd never
know It He couldn't say boo to a
goose. I used to say to him. My friend
the professor could go through China
town nnd make you lielleve he'd been
at Tekln when the allied forces en
tered; you would make a marionette
squabble out of the battle of Gettys
burg.' "
, "I'll bet the doctor knew a lot more
than the professor."
"Not for women."
"Well, go on with this atrlng of
bleeding hearts."
"The man who gave me this ruby
was splen M.'t-trYotmg like us. He was
so fierce. Are you nu angler?" '
"Xo. What's that got to do with It?"
"Then you won't understand. My
ruby lover splashed about, darting this
way and that way, one day treating
me with sovercigu cou'.einpt the next
with eng.-r. till I thought I'd never
land him."
"And did you?"
."There's Uie ring to show."
' ' "How about the fellow who gave
you the opal':"
"Oh, that furuI;Ue;l iu with a dead
easy thing la the breaking. I was
afraid he'd Interfere r lth the diamond
between rnpi :M:v?. nnl I had to cut
him short I told bl:a he'd broken my
heart, for 1 never could marry a man
who'd given nie an opal nothing but
nnhappluess could possibly result from
such a union. ISut now tell me about
your boots of beauty. Your chum Btole
it for me .wsterday out of your room."
"The rascal!"
"I've brought It with tue to return It
to you. There's Xo. 1. this black
haired, black eyed girl. She'd be pretty
If she hadu't such a homely mouth
and n pug nose. How long were you
engaged to her?" . . . . i
"Oh, there girls aren't girls I've been
engaged to.. They're girls who have
refused me. I only thought I loved
them. I never really knew what love
was till now."
"When did It strike you?"
"Just after guard mount yesterday
morulng. I was marching off the old
guard, and I raw. a group of girls
amo'.ig tl'.e lookers ou. One face among
them made me tremble. 1 recognised
uiy 'belle dame sans mere!. "
"You talk Just like the professor.
What does 'liclle dame sans merci'
mean?"
He stopped nnd gazed at her with all
the fervor of bis handsome eyes, hot
with au expression of despair In them.
"IJcautlful one without merry." he re
plied. She turned and looked down through
an opening lu the trees on the Hud
son, evidently to conceal a deep emo
tion. "Oh, If I could only trust you.1" she
said In broken tones. "You, the only
one of all My punishment la more
than I can bear."
"I awear" , , r ' . f . '
"It "has come at last, but to mock
me! Let go my haud!". , -
Her blddlttg was obeyed suddenly,
so suddenly that she was surprised. At
the same time the wooer exclaimed,
somewhat Irrelevantly, "Great Scott!"
"What's the mutter?"
"Officer and we're off limits!"
An officer with several ladles passed.
The cadet faced,drew biuitelf.upstlff
as a raSirod and brought his' for
finger to bisfap like a dummy worked i
by wires.
Tlyit night when the pair parted a
ring set with twin diamonds a amlly
belrloxm passed Into the necklace,
and her photograph passed into his
book of beauty.
Five years later they met again,
both married. There was a delayed
recognition. Then began a skirmish
very different from the one In which
they had eng;med at West Tolnt Nei
ther could remember the other's name
EMMALIXE C BUItKE.
Independence.
Lee Robinson is home for a
short time.
Maurice Butler has returned
from Portland.
Mrs Charley Williams is visit
ing in Salem this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Morrison attend
ed the Cherry Fair at Salem.
Miss Eva Huston, of Portland,
has been visiting friends in this
city.
Charley Sperling and wife at
tended the Cherry Fair in Salem
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Taylor have
gone to their Corvallis hop ranch
for a few days.
Tom Fennel, of Ma-ion county,
is delivering some fine cherries
in town this week.
Little Gerald Richardson has
been quite sick with a fever but
is much better at present .
Lucile Messner, of : McMinn
ville, who 1 as been visiting here,
has returned to her home.
' Harold Fitchard has returned
from Marshfield with his automo
bile, and reports a fine time.
! Rev. Sherwood, of Willamette
1 University, occupied the pulpit
of the M. E. church last Sunday,
j Mrs. Charley Allen arrived
i Saturday from Eastern Oregon,
'and is visiting Mrs. W. H. Walk
er.
Mr. Fitchard left Tuesday
morning for Portland and Los
; Angeles where he will visit his
son Thomas.
! Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Cooper have
gone to Seattle to visit the fair.
They will stop in Tacoma to visit
their daughter Pearl. ,
! Miss Fugate, who has been
; teaching the second grade here
; has resigned. It is not , learned
who will take her place.
' Mrs. Shrunk, . who has been
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Jas.
Reynolds, south of town, returned
to her home in Salem the last of
, the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Moore
j left Monday for Slab Creek with
1 a load of merchandise. Their
son will have charge of the store
during their absence.
Deputy District Grand Master
F. L. Hooper and Mr. Ferguson
went to Falls City Saturday night
to install the new officars of I. 0.
0. F. lodge, No. 148. They re
port a good time.
Prof. Kirk has resigned his po
sition as principal here, and has
accepted a position in Corvallis
at a greatly increased salary.
Corvallis is to be congratulated
while we mourn our loss.
J. W. Richardson Jr. has re
turned from Siletz, where he has
been for several weeks. . He will
go to Corvallis next week where
he will help build "a fine bunga
low for Dr. J. R. N. Bell.
Geo. Murphy, principal of the
Clatskanie public school, spent
several days here visiting. Mr.
Murphy left here for Falls City,
and then to Clatskanie, where he
will remain for another year.
Among those attending' the
Cherry Fair last week were: Mrs.
D. A. Hodge, Mrs. 0. A. Kramer,
Mrs. L. Damon, Mrs. Hooper, and
Miss Shank.?. The Cherry Fair
was well attended and the exhib
its were fine.'
Stiver.
Johnnie Olltough is helping Mr.
Neal with his hay. - -
0. M. Allen and wife visited
J. E. James Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Loy have
moved into the old Loy place.
Miss Alma Ruef is staying
with Mrs. Arthur Steele at present-Mrs.
J. H. James called on
Mrs. Thurston last Friday after
noon. , Misses Nina Jones and Edyth
Bagley are home from Portland
on a visit .
The rains did not do the hay
much good but the gardens and
grass look better.
Will Steele is hauling lumber
for the new house which he in
tends building soon.
Mrs. King, of Seattle, is visit
ing at the home of her brother,
Mr. Kreutz, this week.
Mr. McCready and daughter
Nina, , went , '.to Jefferson after
Miss Lillie McCready, last Friday.
Mrs. Anna Brown and children,
Mabel and Earl, are improving
after a long spell of the measles
and typhoid fever. -'
The ball game between Wells
dale and Suver was quite well at
tended last Sunday, the game
ending 7 to 19 in favor of Suver.
Monmouth Heights.
John Walker was a county seat
visitor Saturday.
Wiliiam Herren made a busi
ness trip to Falls City Friday.
Born, Tuesday July 6, to llr.
and Mrs. Clarence McCaleba son.
D. Harrington and wife spent
Sunday in Monmouth visiting
friends.
John Sumpter, of nar Falls
City, was a visits o.; ale Heigh ts
the past week. -
Miss Fay Shipley, Of Corvallis,
is visiting relatives end friends
here this week. ,
Ed Smith and Flossie Grooms,
of Bridgeport, were over the
Heights Sunday.
Miss Katie Barnes, of Corvallis
is a guest of her grandparents
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Towns.
Arthur Grooms and wife, of
Cochrane, were seen in this vi
cinity the first of the week.
John White and son Orville, of
Lewisville, are erecting Page
wire fencing for Mr. Chaney.
Several families of the Luck
iamute valley purchased cherries
of John Stump the past week.
William Fishback, who is car
pentering for Peter Cook, at
Rickreall, spent Sunday with his
parents.
Mrs. Henry Lewis and Mrs.
William Phillips, of Lewisville,
were in this locality Monday
gathering cherries.
Rutheford Crosier, of Amity,
passed over the Heigths enroute
to the Luckiamute valley Sunday
to see his best girl.
Mrs. Newt Grooms and daugh
ter, Flossie, of Bridgeport were'
pleasant callers at .the home of
Mrs. E. Clark Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Sullivan
and daughter . Bessie, of Mon
mouth, Sundayed with her mother
Mrs. E. Clark and family.
Miss Blanche McKinney,' of
Dallas, and her friend Silva
Hageman, of Nebraska, visited
two days of the past week with
Ina and Lettie Fishback.
Jay Butler, Jr. and W. J. Mul
key, Jr. were visitors at the Her
ald office yesterday s and were
very much interested in the ac
tion of the big jobber. No doubt
they will become famous machin-
Summer Rates East
During the Season 1909 if,
via
Southern
from
Monmouth
r
To OMAHA and Return - - . $62.10 j
To KANSAS CITY and return - $62.10
To ST. LOUIS and Return - - $69.60
To CHICAGO and Return- - - $74.60
. ',
and to other principal cities in the East Middle west and South
Correspondingly low fares. . '
On Sale June 2, 3; July 2, 3; August 11,12
To DENVER and Return - - - $59.10. ;
On Sale July 1, August 11
Going transit limit 10 days from date of sale, final return, limit
October 31st '
; These tickets present some very attractive features in way of
stopover privilege, and choice of routes; thereby enabling passengers
to make side trips to many interesting points enroute. :
, "Routing on the return trip through California may be had at a
slight advance over the rates quoted. " , - ' ' l' '
" ... Full particulars, sleeping car reservations and tickets will be
furnished by any Southern Pacific local agent, or
WM. McMURRAY, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon.
Polk County Realty Company
Transacts a general Real Estate business
and attends to collecting rent for out of town
owners.
We have buyers
If you have any land for sale list it
with us.
Monmouth
Hotel Hampton
D. M. Hampton, Proprietor
15 years in Monmouth
Under Same Old Management
Everything strictly firstclass
A Snap
160 acre farm, 50 under cultiva
tion, 70 pasture, 40 timber, 7
in hops, all under good fence,
6 springs on place, 7 room
dwelling, 4 room tenant house,
good hop house,, two good
barns, fine for fruit or dairy,
three miles to railroad, one
half mile to school. Price $30
per acre. Polk County Realty
Co., at Herald office, Mo -mouth,
Oregon.
L L Hewitt, M. D.
Independence, Oregon
Office in Cooper Building .
Office hours: 9 to 12 a. m. and
2 to 6 p. m. Both Phones.
ists some time.
That it pays to advertise in the
Herald is manifest from the fact
that 0. C. Zook received a letter
this week from 0. C. Zook, who
is a banker in a Michigan city,
he having seen our Mr. Zook's
ad in the Herald. Whether they
are relatives or not has not yet
developed.
Wood for Sale
60 cords of oak top wood for
sale on the N. W. Heffley farm
in Pleasant Valley. $1 a cord on
farm. 47-2tp
the
Pacific Co.
t t
Oregon
Church Directory.
Evangelical Church
L. C. Hoover, Pastor
Morning service at 11:00 o'clock
Evening service at ' 7:00 o'clock
Sunday School at 10:00 a. m.
Y. P. A. Meeting at 6.30 p. m.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH. :
W. A. Wood, Pastor.
Morning Service at . 11. a. m.
Evening Service at 7:00 p. m.
Sunday School 9:45 a. m.
Y. P. S. C. E. ' 6:30 p. m.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday 7:30 p. m.
Baptist Church.
Sunday School 10 a. m.
Preaching 2:30 p. m.
W. C. T. U. .
Local Union meets every sec
ond and fourth Friday in the E
vangelical church at 2:30 p. m.
CITY MEAT MARKET
' H. C. Chamberlin, Prop.
' Dealer in
All kinds of Fresh and Cured
Meats. Fish and Game in Season
Lard a Specialty
Cash Paid for Poultry
Oysters
. A.well located lot 50x100.
quire at the Herald office.
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