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.
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LAWN MOWERS 'NUF SAID.
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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
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Wauldn't a Praachtr.
J. II. Uhby, tba cement contrae'er,
waa discusilDg tha future of his little
grandson, Harry Hoffman. "We
haven't any parson In tha family." ba
said "I guati wall Juat make a
minister of Harry," "No, sir," the boy
stoutly protested. "No preaching for
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Clavetand leader.
SHE GOT
WHAT SHE
WANTED
This Woman Had to Insist
Strongly, but it Paid
Chicago. 111.-" I tmfferel from a f.v
male weakness ami atom;u h troiil-K
store to fet bottla
of I.ydU I'ink.
ham's Y'eRetabla
('omiMUiml, but tli
clerk tliil not want
to let nm huve it
ho said it was no
food and wanted ni
o try something
else, but knowing
till about It 1 in
sisted and finally
rr.,t it mill I am so
glad I did, for it bus cured tue.
" I know of so ninny canes w here wo.
men have been cured by I.ydiai l'in'j
ham's Vegetable Comjioiind t.d Ion
any to every suffering woman if thai
medicine does not help her, thero il
nothing thnt wilt." Sirs. Jakltzki,
aitoa Arcb K., Chicago, III.
Thla la the npe of stibstltutlon. and
women who want a cure should inslnt
niKn Lydia K. Hnklmm'a Vegetable
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notacreotionietlilngi'lHeon which tin
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Women w ho are passing through thl
critical period or who are Buffering,
from any of those distressing Ills ie
cullar to their sex should not lose sljjhl
of tho fact that for thirty years I.ydla
JO. Pinkham'B Vegetable Compound,
which Is mudo from roots and hvrii
litis been tho standard remedy for lv
malo ills. In almost evrycoinmunlt j
you will Hnd women who have been
restored to health by l.ydia I'ink,
Jtjam'a V'tgutablo Compound.
Experience Boy Will Remembe-.
While exploring; one of the big dl
used Martello towers, nonr Waterford
hitrbor, Irelund, which was formerly
used for military purposes, a boy
nnmed Charles Cummins had a ten
rlblo cxperlenco a few days ago,
When he pushed open one heavy iron
door It suddenly banged and shut ?
bis fingers. In agony, he shouted f
help, but he was kept a helpless
prisoner all nisht, and till lnte next
morning, when he was rescued by I
uusBor by.
The Lengthy Lobbies.
"Why do they eall Washington th
city of niagnlncent distances?" "Be
cause," answered the offlce-Beeker, "II
is such a long way between what you
go after and what you get"
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