PAGE n '1,' T ?J . . . ' Jyy v-""- 5 . IttuWiom ENTER EDITH DUNCAN. Svnopsis.-David Klden, son of a drunken, shiftless ranchman, al most a maverk-k of Hie foothills, is breaking buttles with his pistol from his rimnlns cay use when the llrst automobile he lias ever seen arrives and tip over, breaking the leg cf Poetor llnrdy but not injur ing his beautiful daughter Irene, Pave rescues the injureil man and brings a doctor from 40 miles aunv. Irene takes charge oi the lionsekee;.ins. Pave and Irene get veil acquainted during hor enforced stay. They part with a kiss anil .an implied promise. Have's father dies and Pave goes to town to seek his fortune. A man named Oonward teaches him his first lesson In city ways. Pave has a narrow escape. Is disgusted and turns over a new leaf. CHAPTER IV Continued. Fortunate fate, or whatever good in gel It is Unit sometimes drops nn ixpoeted favors, designed that young Clden should the following tiny deliver ;oal lit the home of Mr. Melvin lHm :an. Mr. Duncan, tall, quiet and forty lve, .was at work in his garden its Dave turned the team in the lane ami , aoked them up the Ions, narrow drive wnneeting with the family coal chute, is the heavy wagon moved straight ;o its objective Mr. Duncan looked on ivith approval that heightened into ' idiniration. Dave shoveled his load n-ithout remarh. hut as he stood for i moment at the finish, wiping the iweat fi'otti Iks coal-grimed face. Mr. Duncan engaged him in conversation. "You handle a team like you were lorn to it." he said. "Where did you tet the knack V" "Well, 1 came tip on a ranch.' said Dave. "I've lived with horses ever lince I could remeniher." "You're a rancher, eh?" queried the jlder man. "Well, there's nothing like the range and the open country. If 1 could handle horses like you there Isn't anything would hold tue in town." "Oh, I don't know." Dave answered. "You might get sick of it." "Did you get sick of it?" Elden .shot a keen glance at him. The conversation was becoming per lonal. Yet there was in Mr. Duncan's manner a certain kindliness, a certain ippeal of sincere personality, that dis armed suspicion. "Yes. I srot sick of it." he said. "1 lived on that ranch eighteen years and never was inside school or church. Wouldn't that make you sick? . . . So I heat it for town." "And I suppose you: are attending church regularly now, and uight school, too?" Dave's quick temper fired up in re sentment, hut again the kindliness of the man's manner disarmed him. He was silent for a moment, and then he said : "No, I ain't. That's what makes me sick now. I came in here intendin to get an education, an' I've never got even a start at it, excer;' for some things perhaps wasn't worth the money, there always .seems to oe Bomethiu' else in ahead." "There always will be," said Mr. Duncan, "until you start." "But how's it lo be done?" Dave questioned with returning interest. "Schools an' books cost money, an' 1 never save a dollar." "And never will," said Mr. Duncan, "until yuu start. But I think I see a plan that might help, and if it appeals to you it will also he a great conven ience to me. My wife likes to go driv ing Sundays, and sometimes on a weekday evening, but I have so many things on hand I find it hard to get out with her. My daughter used to drive, but these new-fangled automo biles are turning the world upside down and many a buggy with it. Well as I saw you driving in here I said to myself, 'There's the man for that job of mine, if I can get him;' but I'm not rich and I couldn't pay you regular wages. But if I could square the account by helping with your studies a couple of nights a week I used to teach school and haven't altogether forgotten why, that would, be just what I want. What " do you say?" "I never saw anything on four feet I couldn't drive," said Dave, "an if you're willing to take a chance I am. When do we start?" "E'irst lesson tonight. Second les son Thursday night. First drive Sun day." Mr. Duncan did not explain that he wanted to know the boy better before the drives commenced, and he felt that two nights together would satisfy him whether he had found the right man. Dave hurried hack to the coalyard and completed the day's work in high spirits. It seemed he ''was at last started on n road that might lead somewhere. After supper he sur prised his fellow laborers by changing to his Sunday clothes and starting down a street leading into the resideu - tial part of the town. There were speculations that he had "seen a skirt." Mr. Duncan met him at the door and showed him into the living room. Mrs. Duncan, plump, motherly, lov able iu the mature womanliness of forty, greeted him cordially. She was sorry Edith was out ; Edith had a ten ids en succulent. She was apparently Tfvc HER W PU N I, By Robert J.C.Siead '-sbs ttutlior of Kitchener, and other poem by If win Myw -" deeply Interested in the .voting limn who was to he her coachman. Dave had never been in rt home like this, and his eyes, unaccustomed to com fortable furnishings, appraised them as luxury, lie soon found himself Kill ing with Mrs, Duncan about horses, and then about his old life on ibe ranch, and then about coming to town. Almost before he knew it he had told her about Ueenie Hardy, bur he had cheeked himself In time. And Mrs. Duncan had noticed it, without com ment, and realized that her guest was not a boy but a num. Then Mr. Duncan talked about gar dening, and from that to Dave's s'JII in hacking his team to the coal chute, and from that to coal Itself. Dave had shoveled coal all winter, but he had not thought about coal except as something to be shoveled and shov eled. And as Mr. Duncau explained to hiui the wonderful provisions of na turehow she luul stored away in the undiscovered lands billions of tons of coal, holding them in reserve until the world's supply of timber for fuel should be Hearing exhaustion, and as he told of the Immeasurable wealth of this great new land in coal resources, and of how the wheels of the world, tratlic and industry and science, even, were dependent upon coal and the man who handled the coal. Dave felt his breast rising with a sense of the dignity of his calling. He had had to do with this wonderful substance till winter, and not until tonight had it fired the divine spark of his imagina tion. The time ticked on, and although he was eager to be at work he almost dreaded the moment when Mr. Duncan should mention his lesson. But be fore that moment came there was a tipple of laughter at the door, and a girl in tennis costume and a young man a little older than Dave entered. "Edith," said Mrs. Duncan. Dave arose and shook hands. Then Mr. Allan Forsyth was introduced. Mr. Forsyth shook hands heartily, but Dave was couscious of being caught iu one quick glance which embraced hitu from head to heel. And the glance was satisfied self-satisfied. It was such a glance as Dave might give a horse when he would say, "A good horse, but I can handle him." It was evident from that glance that Forsyth had no fear of rivalry from that quar ter. And having no fear he could af ford to be friendly. Dave had no distinct remembrance of what happened just after that, but he was conscious of an overwhelming desire t hear Miss Duncan sing How n how Like Recnie She Was! like Reenie she was ! And just as he was beginning to think Mr. Duncan must surely have forgotten his lesson he heard her asking him if she should sing. And then he saw Forsyth at the piano why couldn't he leave her to do it herself, the butt-in? and then he heard her fine, silvery voice rising in the notes of that song about the land where the sun should never go down. . . . And suddenly he knew how lonely, how terribly, terribly lonely he was. Aid he sat with head bowed, that they might not know. . . . And then there were other songs, and at last Mrs. Duncan, who had slipped away unnoticed, returned with a silver teapot and cups of delicate china, and sandwiches and cake, and they sat about and ate and drank and talked and laughed. And -when he looked at his watch It was eleven o'clock! "I guess we didn't get any lesson tonight," he said as he shook hands with Mr. Duncan at the sidewalk. "I am not so sure," replied his tutor. "The first thing for you to learn Is that all learning dues not come from books. A good listener can learn as much as a good reader If he listens to the right kind of people." And as Dave walked home the thought deep ened In him that It really had been a lesson, and that Mr. Duncan had in tended it that way. And he wondered what remarkable fortune had been his. The air was full of the perfume of bairn o' Gilead. and bis feet were light with the joy of youth. And he thought much of Edith and of Keenie Hardy. In .subsequent lessons Dave was rap Idly Initiated into many matters be sides parlor manners and conversa tion. Mr. Duncan placed the first and greatest emphasis upon learning to write and to write well. They had many philosophic discussions, In which the elder man sought to lead the ,41k I THE INDEPENDENCE Younger to the acceptance or umn that would not fall Mm In the strain of nfter life, and when a con.-hisim, had been agreed upon It was Mr. I'm. can's habit to embody It Iu n op.v 1 1 Pine's writing Icsm'M. As soon as I ave had learned to re; n little Mr. 1 mnean took him "tie d. to the public library, and the ,vom man groped in amazement up m down (he groat reus of book-. Pro cully a strange sense of Ina-bipiai-ness came over loin. "1 can uev. read ail of those boo!;, nor !:;:!!' hem," he sum!. "I suppose one an: read them in order to be v ell I formed." Mr. Duncan appeared to change lb Mb vet. "You l.ke fruit?" he itkeil. ' es. of co'.u-so. Why--" "When you go hue a fruit store ! yon stand and say, 'I can never ca' itll of that fruit, crates and crates o it, and carloads more in the ware house?" Of course you don't. Yon cat enouidi for the good of your sy tem and let it go at that. Now Jus: apply the same sense to your reading Head us much as you can think about and no more. The trouble with many of our people is that they do not read to think but to save themselves the trouble of thinking. The mind, lefl to Itself, insists upon activity. So they chloroform It." Dave's talks with Mr. Duncan be came almost nightly occurrences, ei ther nt the Duncan home or when he drove the familyfor the master of the house often accompanied them or when they met downtown, as fre quently happened. And the boy va not slow to realize the broad nature of the task to which Mr. Duncan bid set himself. His education was to be built of every knowledge and expen ence that could go into the rotmdii".' of a well-developed life. The climax seemed to be reached when Mr. Duncan invited Dave to ae company him to a dinner at vhi-h noted thinker, just crossing the con tinent, had consented to speak. "It will be evening dress," said Mr. Duncan. "I suppose i'"n !ire hardly fitted out that way?" "I guess not." said Dave, smiling broadly. He recalled the half-humorous sarcasm with which the Met ford gang referred to any who might be seen abroad in their "Hereford fronts." He had a sudden vision of himself running the gantlet of their ridicule. But Mr. Duncan was continuing "I think I can fix you up," he said. "We must be pretty nearly of a size, and I have a spare suit." And almost before he knew it it was arranged thai Dave should attend the dinner. It was an eventful night for him. His shyness soon wore off, for during these months he had been learning to accept any new experience gladly. And as he sat among this company of the best minds of the towu he felt that a new world was opening before him. His good clothes seemed to work up in some way through his subcon sciousness and give him a sense of ca pability. He was in the mental at mosphere of men who did tilings, and by conforming to their customs he had brought his mind into harmony with theirs, so that It could receive suggestions, and who knows? ret urn suggestion And he was made to thiri, think, think. CHAPTER V. Hie summer was not far gone when Dave, through an introduction fur nished by Mr. Duncan, got a new job. It was in the warehouse of a h hole sale grocery, trundling caes and sacks of merchandise. It was rlcnncr than handling coal, and the surround ings were more congenial and the wages were better fifty dollars a month to begin. "The first thing is to get out of the deadline," said Mr. Duncan. "I am not hoping that yot: will have found destiny In a wholesale warehouse, but you must get out of the deadline. A long as you shovel coal you will shovel coal. And you are not capable of anything better un il you think you are." "But I've liked It pretty well," said Dave. "As long as I was just work ing for my wages It was dull going, hut it was different after I got to .see that even shoveling coal was worth while. I suppose it is the same with groceries, or whatever one does. As soon as you begin to study what, you handle, the work loses Its drudgery. It isn't a man's Job that makes him sick of bis job; it's what he thinks of his Job." ( A light of satisfaction was In his teacher's eyes as Dave made this an swer. Mr. Duncan had realized that he was starting late with this pupil, and if there were any short cuts to education he must find them. So he had &et out deliberately to Instil the idea that education is not a matter of schools and colleges, or courses of reading, or formulae of any kind, but a matter of the five senses applied to every experience of life. And be knew that nothing was coarse or common that passed through Dave's hands. Edith becomes interested in Dave. (TO BE CONTINUfliU.) Soldiers' Hat Cords. The colors of the cords on the hats of soldiers .stand for distinctive branches at the army. Blue Is for in fanlry; yellow, for ctvalry; red fo artillery; red and white, for englneei corps; salmon and white, signal corps . maroon, medical corps' black and red ordnance corps; buff quartennnstei corps ; gold . and blacl couimlssione t officer. 14 ENTERPRISE! .NDEPENPENCE, OREGON- How Squirrels Earned and Continue to Earn Right to Live and Rejoice in Lite. ! creating the squirrel Tamlly lure performed one of her most era is und henChv... acts " writes A tht.r F. hlcelu an art Mo on I Footed Folk" "I beys' Idle. s... .mule the striped squirrel for llu-cry mt.,.11 hoy. the red squirrel lot bo lBrB,.r boy and the gray squirrel fo. the big boy iron. Ili'leen to sexe.WJ years of age, and .brew In Hying squ r Ms and black squirrels and fo np. r rolsasan evidence of her generous dls position to please everybody. She del imited the stumps and mossy rocks ttllll t'nv, beaut I I'M forms and added pUMuroMpio life to the rail fences and .stone walls with a clmrmii.g race or busy little creatures whose graceful motions and Interesting h.ihlt com tribute much to the entertainment of nil mankind. "II was In the eternal Illness or things that the squirrels should do something for nature In return for the gift of ft jovet.s existence; so (boy set about helping her to plan, her garden. The chipmunks burled beech nuts and chestnuts and acorns In the ground, nod thus did their part In the scheme of scientific forestry. The red squir rels dropped hazelnuts, btltten.ut.l cherry stones and pine cones along the walls and fences and straightway there sirang up along these avenues of squirrel travel fruitful shrubs and lusty trees where other squirrels find a feast, where the birds build their nests and under which the cattle en joy n grateful shade. So Ibe squirrels earned, and continued to earn the right to live and to rejoice In life." Graphic Chart Shows That Human Life Appeared Late in the Quaternary Period A geologist, writing to the Scientific American, describes by mentis of a graphic chart the comparative lengths of the different periods of the age of the earth. He places the age of the earth arbitrarily at T'J.iVhhi years, represented by a clock dial of -I hears ;!,0oO,CMM) years to each hour. On the above basis the first six hours of the clock represents A zoic time, the earliest conjectural period cf the earth's formation m.nnn.um years; the next six hours Fuzole and the next eight Palezolc time ls.ooo.ood and " I, OOO.OOO years, respectively periods of mineral and vegetable format ions. In the next three hours animal life de veloped Mesozole time, n,non,H hi years that Is, from the twentieth to the twenty-third hour. Thus the last hour of the "4 M.ooo.noo years of geologic time represents Neozoic time, which Includes the appearance of human life In the Quaternary period. This last division of the 21 hours, the Quaternary period, Is shown as only 10 minutes In other words, 500, 000 years. The existence of human life n ,he earth, therefore, bears the same relation to the age of the earth as 10 minutes does to 21 hours. Hut since the period of written history Is esti mated roughly at only 0,000 years, this last division Is aid shown on the chart, since It would only be 12 seconds In duration. THE MIDDLE AGE , Our youth be?an i !h tears and bIkIih, "With seeking who w could not llnd; Our verses were ail I hreriodlcs, In elegiacs still 've whined; Our ears were e ;if, our eyes wore blind, We sought, and 1 new not what we Bought. "We marvel, no v .ve look behind; Life's more ami.-siiu; than we thought! Oh, foolish you'll, untimely wine! Oh, phantoms of the sickly mind! What? not content with seas and sklei. With rainy clouds and southern wind, With common cares and facm kind, With pains and Joys each rnornlni brought? Ah, old and worn, and tired we find Life's more amusing than we thought! Though youth "turns spectre-lhln and dlei," To mourn for youth we're not Inclined; We set our souls on salmon file. We whliitle where wo once repined, Confound the woes of humankind! By heaven we're "well deceived, " I wot; Who hum contented and resigned, "Life's more amusing ..than we thought"! ENVOY. O nate mecum, worn and lined Our fares show, hut that Is naught; Our hearts are young 'neath wrinkled r!nd; Life's more amusing than we thought Andrew Lang. Big Men Who Are Unusually Bright Are in the Minority It Is generally accepted that great development of . the powers of the brain Is usually accompanied by only moderate animal or physical life, in those cases where high development of both Is found, It Is emphatically mark ed by shortness of existence or defec tive vitality In the structures of or ganic life and low organization. Men tal celebrities of large stature have been In a noticeable minority, and the standard of health very low; In fact, according to John o' London's Week ly, from Alfred the Great to Schiller the physical defects have been pain fully apparent, and the roll of death less names seems to be the list of a gathering of invalids and cripples. Care of Toys. Always examine your children's toys before allowing them to play with them. The paint may come off with sucking, or there may be rusty pro jecting nails in them. fPiM(y ' - )L -C'iiA flavor IpF Why are M JMV 1M VU 11 flavors like the pyramids of Egypt? Because they are lone-lasting. And WRIGLEVS Is a beneficial as well as long-lasting treat. It helps appetite and digestion, keeps teeth clean and breath sweet, allays thirst. CHEW IT AFTER EUERV MEAL Sealed Tight- Kept Right Good Timer I support.- no one has looked more In dustriously or In timre places, for u good time than I hitve. Uesults have been so meager that I have concluded that a good time Is more or lens of a phantom. E. W. Howc'h Monthly. A Basket of Eoa ' l'ittiiluina. center of the larg'-st poul try district iu the world h-ti t to the California Industries and hind nlmw a basket holding 7L',r,L'H eggs. The bas ket was feet long. feet high and S feet. wide. Truest Sympathy. The noblest and the tno.-t powerful form of sympathy l.i not merely the re sponslvc tear, tin: ei -h sigh, the an sworihg loi.k; it Is tlo- embodiment of the seidiiiH-nt In actual lo-lp Kx- change. They Suffer for Other's Sake. "Docking up an anarchist," Miid Hill the Ilurg, "is good for him. Hut it 'h kind o' touh on the other felb-rs that have to live in the name jail." SeleiitlstH say that an ordinary whale lives to the age of five hundred years, whib; Home whah-H lmv been caught whose appearance indicates they have lived an many as a thousand years. The first auto mail koi-vIco in the Orient, has been Introduced i;: Madras, India. NAME 'BAYER' MEANS ASPIRINIS GENUINE Safely slop headaches as told in "Hayer packages" .VT-7 V ' Millions, of men and women i,.,., proved "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin"! wmii.li. nayur t;ross" on tablet h u (liiickest, Bin-pat, safest relief for their Headaches, Colds, Neuralgia, Tooth acho, Karachi;, JtheiimutiHm, humbaeo Neuritis. Pain Keems to l'mie xvm away. h Buy only a Hayer package, contain ng proper directions. Always 'Hav Hayer. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost but a few centa. I)ruKsialu also hoII larger "flayer packages. Aspirin is Li !rx(1 mark of I!ayr Manufacture) add Ad"0 l0BtCr f Sa,icyllc- V r? i tv i r K'QHT PAQt, rTTPnnni f tin nil I I II II I 1 Ai It Works! Try It Tell, how to loosen a sen. tender corn so It Hfti out without pain. No" humbug! Any corn, whruI hard, soft or between tb. toes, f j loosen right up and lift out wlUV.; a purilcli of p. In or .ormcus. This drug Is called frewzone sn4 a compound of I'thor dlcovere4 Cincinnati mull. . Ask at any drug itor for I m bottle of freezono, which will eortfc a trifle, but Is aufflclent to rid ow feet of every corn or callous. Tut a few drop. Ulructly upon t tender, aching corn or callous, l sirtiitly tho soreneaa disappear! u, shortly tho corn or callous will low and can bo lifted off with the floi This druit freezons doesn't t tho coma or callousei hut ibrl'ri ihem without even Irritating tb ' rounding nkln. Just think! No pain at all; non' nous or smarting when applying It' afterwards. If your drugRlt have freezone bavo him order u you Ad. "Water Chestnut" th. Latest From China nan been obtained li "water chestnut," tho tubers of eaten raw or In Htews, am a iop of much gratification to the paM1 of pig tailed eplcureg. They are sliced and shredded for Hoiips. A Kind Provision. Apparently tho men who talk' .ho tlmu never grow dumb, but U who are compelled to llaten a" time have a tendency to deaftf Nature protects her children tiUImfr ly. Houston Tost. Vital Step. "I have croHsed the- rubicund,"11111' mured tho. woman who had Juat reled with her red faced cook. I)root 1 y ii Kagle. If.... til. .1 m ..." rtl... norfiCi iicuiu! ih i.ne iasnion. i u w Tou, tho herb luxatlvo which P""1- . i. . i i . ... ...... l Aa. mo mood ami brings good ncunu Wedding Superstitions. The suporfitltlon that It i had to get married on a rainy day cow'1 from the old saying. "Happy lB hrlde that the Him unities on." Thc' Is another old superstition thtttti' "snowy wedding prophesies wealth- ''reipiently three crops a 'ar a' i-ained in Abyssinia. Cutlcura Soap fot the Complex1011' Nolhlng hotter than Cutlcura dally nnd Ointment now and Uc needed to make the complexion cc sculp denn and hands soft and vrt) ; Add to this tho fascinating. frflgr Cutlcura Talcum nnd you have Cutlcura Toilet Trio. Adv.