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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.