i THE LIGHT IN THE ELEARINI? A TALE OF THE NORTH COUNTRY IN THE TIME OF SILAS WIGHT IRVINB DACHELLERw UtN HOUEN. tttt AND I, DAMU. Of TH1 IUSSID OUX WfW )t WITH Ulilt, tTC, tTC 1 remember vividly tliti evening w look out Hie hooka ami leudi rly felt llnlr cover untl r-nd Ih.'lr titles, TIiitb re "t'rulkuhiinks'l'oinlc Alniu iiik" Bud "IIihxI'i Cumlo Annual"! Illicit by Washington Irvliitf nml Juim K. I'nulillnl nml NiillmiiM lluwlliurnu nml Mini Mltfciril u ml Jlim Austin; Hie ihh'iiu of John Mlllim nml rVUHn llcranne. (if Ilic Irt'HHuri-M In the link I hint) now lu my iMiwu'dKlon : A llf tif Washington, "The Ufa nml Writ limn of Doctor Dufkwtirlli," "The Kltilfn Child." by 'Jiilm tliill, Kw."j HuHlne Lnviil," hy "Mr, Hmlth"; Her. nam ami Kuy by Wlllium Kllery ('Imnnliig. We found In tin) ln also, thirty number ui tlitt "United Hteles Muguilne dii J Democratic Hevlew" nml sundry copies u( the "New York Mirror." Aunt Dwl began with "The (Union Chllil." Khe rend alowly ami often paused fur comment or explanation of laughter or to touch thu corner of llli eye With corner of tier handker chlef In momeute tthru wo were nil deeply moved by the nii.ifortiiiiea of our favorite characters, which were mult anil numerous. In Ihoiw iniigiiilnea wo rrnid of tlio great Went IitHir nran'a pnrU' dine" "the attitieh-M land of plem ly"; of 11 delightful climate, of the ease with which the fimner prospered on Its rich Milt. I'nclv I'cithmly sike piuyfully of going Went, lifter Unit, but Aunt lt'l timtlo no answer und concealed her opinion on that tub' Ject for a long time. A for myself, 1 the reuillng hud deepened my Inter cm in the nt and went and north oud mith and la the skies above III, 'in. How mysterious and Invltlug they hnd become I One evening a neighbor hud brought the Itepuhllcun from the post-olllee, I opened It und rend aloud these words '. l large type at the top of the page mna MtiaiMMaM, ama aoaua "Hllas Wrlgnt hiectefl to llw V. B. Reiiiite." "Well 1 wnut to know I" Uncle I'm biHly Mflallnetl. 'That would make me forglt It If I was gold' to lie hung. Go on and rend whut It any. I read the choosing of our fitcnd fur the seat uuitle vucant ly the res lltniitlon of William I-. Murey, whu hnd been elated governor, and the part which most Impressed us were IheiHi wurilH from a letter of Mr. Wright 10 Aziirlnh of Albuny, written when the former was asked to accept the place! "I am too young ami too poor for auch an elevation). I have not butt the cxiierlcnco In that great theater of politics to quullfy me for a place na exulted ond responsible. 1 prefer therefore the humbler position which t uow occupy." That'a hl wuy," Bttld Uncle I'cu- btHly. "They bud hard work to con vince him thut he knew enougn to ue Surrogate." "Itlg men huve llllle conceit ayes!' laid Aunt Ivel with I significant glance lit me. The candle had burned low nod I wua watching the shroud of one of them when there enme a rup nt the dtKir It wan unusual for uny tire to eouit to our door lu the evening utitl we were a bit atnrtlcd. Uncle I'en body oH'ned It ond oltl Knte entered without apenklng and nodded to my mint and uncle and nut down by the fire. Vividly I remembered the day it the fortune-telling. The Biime ge tie unite lighted her fitce n she looked at me. She 1,11 up her bund with four Angers Hprend above It. "Ayes." wild Aunt Keel, "there are fnnr perllii." My guut rose and went Into the but'ry while I mil Blaring at the H-in-A M ttomnn Unr h'llr vvnt while now ami purity rovered by t mm (IIP Monmouth and Independence Auto-Bua Schedule 6. DO a. m. .North Bound 7.30 a. m. 1.60 p.m. " " 2.25 p.m. 5.15 " " ' 6.48 " 10.00 . m. South Bound 10.34 a. m. 3.15 p.m. " " 3.61 p. m. Wright for neurlMg,3Q " " 7.12 " GRAHAM k SON ProprWton If you have pride in the farm thut Rives you a home and a living why not show it by naming; thefftrm and doing your corresponding on printed stationery? Ask us about it. O-tJJN- Buy and Bank ' In Monmouth TELL your friends and tell them to tell their friends to make Monmouth their lusinees and banking center. You ran see what an endless chain of welfare promot ing that willbe, It will work ' to the advantage of both our town and the country surrounding. Help tho First National Bankjn its Upbuilding" plans.' Ira C. Towell, President; J. B. V. Butler,. Vice .President; E, L. Kiltn. Cashier; Emma Parker, Asu't Cashier FirstMtionmBank Monmoulh 1 Ureopn. Read your ovn Herald VF Uncle Ptabody Opened It and Old Lata Entered Without Speaking. worn nml fulled bonnet. Forbidding Hit Kbit wut I did not mint the'aweet- new In her amlle and her blue eyea when she looked at me. Aunt Deel rntne with a plnte of doughuuta and hiend and butter and head cbccM and tiild lu a voice full of pity: " "Poor ol' Kuto nyea 1 Here's some- thlu' fr ye ayeal" (the turned to my undo and said: "I'enbody Huynea, whut'll we do I'd like to know ayeal hhe coat rove all night," "I'll git aome bluuketa ah make l bed for ner, gooa nougn lor uny botly, out In the hired man's room over the shed," n!d my uncle. lie brought the lantern little lower of perforated tin and put t llgbled candle Inside of It. Then be beckoned to the stranger, who fol lowed hlin out of the front door with the plule of food In her hands. "Well I declare 1 It's a long time since she went up this road ayes!" anld Aunt Reel, yawning as she re sumed her chulr. "Who Is ol" Kuter I asked. "Oh, Jnt a poor ol' eraiy woman wanders all 'round ayes I" ' "What made her craiyr "Oh, I gueoi somebody misused and deceived her when she was young ayes I It's an awful wicked thing to do. Come, Hurt go right up to bed now. Il'a high time ayes!" 'I want to wait 'tH Uucle Pcubody cornea buck," suld L "Whyr . "I I'm afrojd she'll do somethin' to Mm." "Nonsense! Ol' Knte Is Just as hurm- lesa as a kitten. .You take your can dle and go right up to bed this mln uie ayes!" I went up-stalrs with the candle und undressed very slowly and thoughtfully while I listened for the footsteps of my uncle. I did not get Into bed until I henrd hlin come In untl blow out his luutern and start up the ituirwuy. As he undressed he told uio how for ninny yeura the struma woinun hnd been roving In Hie ronda "up hill and down dale, thousiintia u' thousuntiB 0' miles," and never reaching the end, of her Journey, ' ' In u moment we heard a low wan above the souuds of tho breeze thut shook the lea tea of the old "popple tree nbove our roof. "What's that?" I whispered. "I guess It's ol' Knte ravin'," said I'nde rcfibody. It touched my heart and May lis tening for a time, but beurd only the loud whisper of tho popple leaves. CHAPTER V. mutual acionimodiilliin Served t help us over the rough going. Mr. (Jrlnndiiiw, however, demanded his pay In m.h end that I find was main ly the huMt of the money lenders. ; We were poor but our poverty wa not like that of these days In which I am writing. It was proud and etanly and wsU-fed. Our fathers had seen heroic lervlce In the wars and we knew It I was twelve years old when 1 be gan to be the reader for our little family. Aunt Reel had long com plained that she couldn't keep up with her knitting and read so mud). We had not seen Mr. two yenrs. but be bad sent ns the novel of ttlr Wulter Scott snd I had lid Hi' ui heart deep Into the creed bo (tie. ot Old Mortullty. Then came the evil duya of 1837, when the story of onr Uvea began to quicken Hi pace and excite our Inter est In ltt coming chapters. It gave as enui(h to think of, tied knows. Wll'l speculation la Und aod the Aineiimn puper-iuoney tysteia had I hroiiL'hl li Into roiiL'h rolii?. The hanks of the city of New York bad suspended payment of their note. They could no lunger meet their en giigenienla. As usual, the burden fell heaviest on the poor. It was hard to get money even for black salts. Cm le Pcubody had been silent and depreKwd for a month or more. He had sinned I note for Rodney Burnee, t cousin, long before and waa afraid that he would have to pay It. 1 didn't know what a note was and I renjein ber that one night, when 1 lay think. lug about It, I decided that It must he something Id the nature of horse colic. My uncle told me that t note was a trouble which attacked the brain Instead of the stomach. One autumn day In Canton Uncle Peabody truded three sheep and twea ty bushels of wheat for a cook stove and brought it home In the big wagon. Itodney Burnet came with him to help set up the stove. He was a big giant of a man with the longest nose In the township. I have often wondered bow any one would solve the problem of kissing Mr. Barnes In the Immediate region of his nose, the same being In the nuture of a defense.. Thnt evening I was chiefly Inter ested In the stove. What t Joy It was to me with Its damper and grid diet and high oven and the shiny edge on its hearth 1 It rivaled, in Its nov elty and charm, any tin peddler's cart that ever came to our door. John Axtell and bla wife, who bad seen It nuns their house, hurried over for a look at It Every hand was on the i stove as we tenderly carried It into. the house, piece by piece, and set It , up. Then they cut a hole In the up per floor and the stone chimney and fitted the pipe. How keenly we wntdied the building of the Are. How quickly It roared and began to heat the room I When the Axtells had gone away Aunt Reel aald: "It's grand! It Is aartln but I'm frald we can't afford It ayes I be!" "We can't afford to freeze any longer. I made up my mind that we couldn't go through another winter as we have," was my uncle's answer. "How much did It costr she asked. "Not -much dlffcr'nt from thirty- four dollars In aheep and grain," he answered. i Rodney' Barnes stayed to supper ; and spent a part of the evening with . us. Like other settlers there, Mr. Bnrnes was a cheerful optimist. Every thing looked good to him until it turned out badly. He told how he had heard that It waa a growing country near the great water highway of the St. Lawrence. Prosperous towns were building up In It There were going to be great cities In Northern New York. There were rich stores of lead and Iron in the rocks. Mr. Barnes had bought ,xo hundred acres at ten dollars an acre. He bad to pay fee of Ave per cent, to Orlmshaw't lawyer for the survey and the popera. This left him owing fourteen hundred dollars on his farm much more than It was worth. Continued next week EVANGELICAL CHURCH PrreaCoNKLiN, Pastoe Sunday School, 10.00 a. m. Preaching Service, 11.00 e. m. Y. P. A. Meeting, 6.16 p. m. Preaching Service, 7.30 p. m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday, 7.30 p. m. Swope & Swope, Lawyers, 1. 0. 0. F. Bldg. Independence ' DR. F. R. BOWERSOX PHYSICIAN tt SVRGEOS PHONE NOS. OFFICE . 33M HOUSE 1MJ L. C. PRICE, M. D. Office and residence Kurre Apartments Phone 1903 BAPTIST CHURCH E. B. Pack, Pastor Sunday School, 10.00 a. m. Preaching Service, - 11.00 a. m. C. U. E. Meeting, 6.30 p. m. Preaching Service, 7.30 p. m. Prayer Meeting Wednesday, 7.30 p. m WALTER G. BROWN Representing the "PENNSYLVANIA" Fire Insurance Co. of Philadelphia Notary Public Blank Deeds, Mortgagee, Etc Monmouth Transfer and Feed Stable All kinds of transferring done promptly and on short notice FRANK SKEEN, Proprietor. Monmouth,. Oregon Willamette Valley Transfer Co. Leave 'Portland daily between Salem, Independence, Monmouth and Dallas at 7 A. M. Our trucks are at your service for all kinds of short or long distance hauling, furniture moving etc. Prompt and careful service Leave orders at the Herald Office until depot is opened. Don't Start The New Year with a disabled or halting timepiece. Bring it to me and have it put in order. WALTER G. BROWN Watches and Jewelry, Repairing Hf STOMACH til LIU ,X 1BDMI5 1 AN IRRITABLE, fault finding disposition is often due to a disordered stomach. A man with good digestion i3 nearly always good natured. A great many have been permanently cured of stom ach troubles by Chamberlain's Tablets after years of suffering. These tablets strengthen the stomach and enable it to perform its functions naturally. Try them.' They only cost a quarter. Good Printing is the Product of the Herald Print Shop The Great Stranger Some utruuKors came nloug the road those days hunters, peddlers and the like and their coining filled me with f joy which mostly went away with them, I regret to say. None of these, however, appealed to my Imagination as did old Kute. But there was one stronger greuter than she greater Indeed, than any other who came Into Kiittlerond. He came rarely and would not be long detained. How curiously we looked - at him, knowing hla fame and power I This great stronger wna Money. I shall never forget the day thai my uncle showed me a dollar bill and a Hftle shiny, gold coin and three pieces of silver, nor can I forget how ciiiefullv he watched them while they lay In my hands and presently put them back Into his wallet, mat was long before tho time of which I inu writing. I remember hearing him say, one day of that year, when I asked him to take us to the Caravan sf Wild Beasts which was coming to Ihe village: "I'm sorry, hut It's been a hundred Sundnya sluce I had a dollar In my wallet for more than ten minutes." I have his old account booh for the yenrs of 1S37 and 1838. Here are some of the entries: "Eulnnced ac- muts with J. Doro thy and gave him my note for $2.15 to be nuld In salts January 1, 183S. Sold ten bushels of wheat to E. Miner at 00 cents, to be paid In goods. ' "Sold two sheep to Flavlus Curtis and took his note for SO, payable In boots on or before March the first. Only one entry In more thnu a hundred mention money, and this waa the sum of eleven cents received In bnlunce from a neighbor. I So It "'HI seen that a stilrlt of . 1 FORDSON TRACTORS Oliver Plow No. 7, Roderick Lean Disc. The Tractor i made by Ford & Son, P16w and disc made under their personal supervision Your order now will insure Spring delivery -Write or phone , for further information VICK BROTHERS VALLEY MOTOR CO. 2fifi HiaK Street " 127 State Street SALEM 1995 PHONES 442 OREGON Tractor and Plow on display at . Graham and Son Garage, Selling Agents, Monmouth.