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PACE SIX PREPARE FOR HARVEST McCORMICK BINDERS and MOWERS ARE RECOGNIZED THE WORLD OVER AS THE SUPERIOR ARTICLE ON THE FARM. CcCORMICK MA. CHINES ENABLE THE FARMER TO HARVEST HIS CROP QUICKLY AND CONSEQUENTLY A LARGE AREA CAN BE DEVOTED TO GRAIN. WE WILL BE PLEASED TO SHOW YOU THE SUPERIOR ITY OF McCORMICK CONSTRUCTION. ANO GIVE YOU ANY INFOR MATION YOU MAY DESIRE RELATIVE TO THE MACHINE McCORMICK McCORMICK MOWER-4i and 5 FOOT CUT. McCORMICK NEW BIG 4 MOWER 6 and 7 FOOT CUT. ASK US ABOUT THEM. THE McCORMICK HAY RAKES THE TEETH ON McCORMICK RAKES ARE MADE OF SELECT SPRING STEEL, HAVING GREAT STRENGTH AND RESILIENCY. THE POINT OF THE TEETH ARE SO SHAPED THAT THEY WILL GET THE HAY WITHOUT DIGGING INTO THE GROUND OR PICKING UP STONES. BOTH THE SELF-DUMP AND HAND DUM? RAKES CAN BE OPERATED WITH ONE OR TWO HORSES BY SIMPLY ADJUSTING THE SHAFT. HANNA BROS., Agents. WE HAVE THE SWEL LEST LINE OF HARNESS GOODS IN POLK COUNTY, AND INVITE YOU TO CALL AND LOOK OVER OUR HARNESS DEPARTMENT. THIS IS THE MONEY SAVING FEATURE FOR HARNESS USERS. WE HANDLE NONE BUT THE BEST. The Sharpies Tubular BINDER S, 6 AND 7 FOOT CUT. BEST ON EARTH. m "lllWb LAWN MOWERS 'NUF SAID. ... i ? VMM! u I GETS ALL THE CREAM FROM TH MILK, LESSENS AND LIGHTENS ALL DAIRY WORK, IS THE LATEST DEVELOPMENT IN , CREAM SEPARATORS. THE TUBULAR IS THE BETTER BY ALL THE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE THAT HAVE COME AND GONE SINCE CENTRI FUGAL SEPARATING BEGAN. IS DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHERS WITH THE KIND OF DIFFERENCE THAT ARE IMPROVEMENTS AD VANTAGES TO THE DAIRYWOMAr WHO USES IT. THE TUBULAR IN ITSELF AND IN ITS SERVICE IS AS FAR IN ADVANCE OF OTHERS AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. THESE ARE WORDS, BUT YOU CAN HAVE PROOF FOR THE ASKING. CALL AND SEE THEM. , HANNA BROS., THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE. INDEPENDENCE. OREGON. I Cream Separator I- Woman-Proof - Heart I fv JOANNA SINGLE (Copyright, mi, by Associated LUtrrr l'rM.) Thlnit began to happen In John Porr'a hitherto quiet Ufa. 1U had bean bead drauahtsmau ton yea.-t. Tban, one June mornlni, ater, the senior partner, railed him to tba In car omoa. Tauton. tha other firm mimlxr, waa grinning In hla happy fashion. "You're Junior partner, florr, from thla time forth! How do you Ilka It?" Itoth older man rose and shook banda with blin. Their frlendllneaa vaa personal aa wall aa lu bualuusa. Dorr's ateady dark eyes lighted happily. H waa probably thirty threa or four, of tha alow B.olng but abaotutoly aure sort, lie aald nothing could ba better. And (ben they dta cuaaed tha fluandal aide. An hour later ha waa leaving them, bn Tauton atopped him Jocularly. "We've only one fault to find with you. John. You're not quite human with that woman-proof heart of youre! You aeem never to even ae a girl and they all aee you! Marry and be one of u, and have aome reai life In that Utile cottage of youre. Eh?" Dorr laughed1, but hla reserve waa not broken. "Some marry, like you; some, like me do not. I consider myself a auccessful bachelor." He left them, not saying that love had toemed to piuta hliu by. Ha would marry. If ever, because love came and found him, not because other men married. The next astounding thing hap pened the next morning. Miss Gray, always at her desk early, waa wait ing for him. No one else was down yet, and she followed him to the In ner room and closed the door. In the year she had been In the office she bad spoken to nobody there save on business, and alnpuit never to Dorr. Now she laid a shining hand ful of Jewelry on the desk before him. and stood, lull and slender, her face grave, her gray eyes serious. She spoke as if conferring rather than asking a favor. "Could I got $200 on these? I know nothing about pawning things." Through hla amazement he noted the depth of her clear eyes, the way her fine, smooth brown hulr framed her face, the little lines at her tem ples. She could not have been much under thirty. He examined the heavy old watch of fine gold, two diamond rings, one very good; a little sap phire, like a blue eye, and other trinkets. "I should think so. Why not let as the firm advance the money?" She shook her bead firmly. "That would not do. And I need the money this afternoon, too. I thought you could tell me the best place to go." "They are all horrlblo places. Properly managed, some of them might lend It. I'll go for you. You couldn't go to a place like that." She turned aa If the matter were settled. "Thank you very much," she said pleasantly and went back to her desk. He liked It that ehe did not ex plain, that if she had troubles she did not mention them, and that, whnt ever It wbb, Bhe came to her own firm. Hut It set bis thoughts upon her. How came she to have such ex pensive things? Why (lid she need money? She hnd a good salary, lived very quietly, and Inexpensively ha knew where she boarded, and had a vague Idea that nil her people were dead. He thought he would why, ho would nuletly keen her Jewels and give her the money himself! Then he knew ehe would not accept It. jig was driven to deceit. He pawned the watch only, as less perHonal, and when he gave her the envelope of hill merely showed her the ticket, explaining that he would keep it and get the things when the CO days were up. Dut the matter disturbed him, and he wished it had not occurred. He furtively studied her. She was a lady. The quietness of her dress and manner, the perfection of her toilet, above all, her reserve, showed that. Her voice was cultivated, and ber work showed the grasp and accuracy of a trained mind. As the hot June days passed he saw a change in her. Miss Taylor, the bookkeeper, had gone on her va cation, and as business was light, MIbs Gray did her work In her ab sence. Was it too much for her? Dorr noted that for the first time since he had known her, she seemed inrrtrl. Her eyes were shadowed, her face pale. He spoke to her about It one Saturday noon arter tne otners bad left and were not to return. She was bending over a ledger. "Miss Gray, it's pretty hot in here. You'd better not stay let it go until Monday. Shall I work at It for an, hour? I can." She seemed to shrink from him, and protested. "No," she said, "let me do it. I'm learning you know I'm not an ex perienced bookkeeper I'll get along all right." He left her, but he thought her manner strange. Was anything wrong? Surely not. nut when Mon day morning came, she was there at the office when he entered, bending over the ledger with a little frown on her brow. He walked straight up to her. "Has anything gone wrong?" h asked lu his steady, eldur brother manner. Jler eyes met hla almost gratefully. In a sort of resolve or relief, tfha asked a trans thing of him, "t'ould you stay and help nie moment toulghl a ben the others are gone?" If It had been any one lse, any one leas perfectly dignified and Imper sonal, be would not buve liked the request. Just then Foster entered, and Dorr knew omeihlug had hap pened to him-he had a hot dmlie to shield her from Foster's look from eveu the thought of any one else. H aa a protective Impulse that sprang up to defend her. and set a ateal upon him. 11 never forgot bow she looked at that muuitul Hor eyea were Ilka flowers. That evening aha went straight to tha point She put tba books before him. "I'laasa go over everything since Mlsa Taylor left," she said. "Hh'll ba back In the morning, and I ran t find all the money. I missed It the day after she left. It has frlghteued m to death." Ha began to go over the flgurea with ber, his voice reassuring "IVm't worry we'll find It. It often happens" Ha went over all tha fig urea once then twice. "H mm! Two hundred short" Ha stopped suddenly and looked at ber. "Was that why you got ma to" Tawn my father's things, and my mothers. Yes. If It was my fault I waa going to make It good. I was afraid I hadn't ' w atched when the safe was open, or something" He laughed outright. "I am sure it can't be Mini Taylor's mistakeshe Is so accurate, and I wanted her to find everything all right." Again he laughed to see bow little mm Iff "Couldn't I Get $200 on Thais?" of a business woman she really was. how feminine, how helpless, and still how self reliant she was! The wave of protecllveness thut bad selxed upon him thut morning came back and with It another thing -the knowl edge that he loved this woman. It came like light, In an Instant. And before he could steady his thought the door opened, and Nina Taylor, sunburned and happy, breezed in upon them. "Well, old business plodders though you look more like plotters what Is up? Figuring how much I em bezxled?" She laughed. "Well," answered DortN "for a fact, we can't seem to locate J200 that isn't on the bank book, and ought to be. Its been lost ever since you left." The girl crime to lean over Sylvia's shoulder, running a practiced eye over the books. Her face was serious, and she bit her lip. Then, with a whirl, bhe turned to the safe und opened It. She rummaged a moment, and brought out a little canvas bag. "There's your cash didn't you hear mo tell you to bank It the day I left, Miss Gray?" She laughed. "I was too lute for the bank, you will remember." Slyvla did remember, then. The younger girl snatched something sho wanted from her desk and win gone again in a moment, John Dorr rose from his chair, and looking at Sylvia Gray suw how pule and tired she looked. All sense of anything but her and her loneliness left him. Ho reached out for both her unresting hands. "Sylvia," he snld, "if only you could love mo Could you? Could you love me and marry me?" There was still much of her old re serve and dignity left to her, but It was the dignity of ylolding what one longs to give. She looked quietly at him. "Do you love me?" he inHisted. "Oh," she answered, "I do I Of course I do!" "Tha Frankfort University." The proposed creation of a univer sity at Frankfort is receiving a great deal of discussion. The city author ities have proposed to combine a number of scientific academies and In stitutions of learning already existing into a university. These Institutions dispose of large endowment funds, and funds necessary to complete the university organization would, accord ing to the proposal of the city coun cil, be secured by voluntary contribu tion, in order to avoid increasing tax burden. The proposal has been sub mitted to the Prussian government. Considerable opposition to the "Frank fort university" has arisen, particular ly In smaller university towns, such as Marburg and Giessen, which claim that students would be drawn away from the smaller colleges in this part of Germany by the creation of an im portant, well endowed seal of learning at Frankfort EIGHT PAGES Are You Poorly? 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