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Newspaper Page TexttlQMT INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON mm (l XSti'Jl Kitchener, and ol Tic COW PUNCHER t J.C.Siead :fver poems -,i! DAVE BECOMES WEALTHY. Synopsis -David Elden, son of a drunken, shiftless ranchman, al most a maverick of the foothills, Is breaking bottles with Ms pistol from his running cay use when the first automobile he has ever seen arrives and tips over, breaking the le? of Doctor Hardy but not Injur ing his beautiful daughter Irene. Dave rescues the Injured man and brings a doctor from W miles away. Irene takes charge of the housekeeping. Dave and Irene take many rides together and during her father's enforced stay they get well acquainted. They part with a kiss and an implied promise. Dave's father dies and Dave goes to town to seek his fortune. A man named Conward teaches him his first les son in city ways. Dave has a nar row escape. Is disgusted and turns over a new leaf. Fate brings him Into contact with Melvin Duncan, who sees the inherent good In the boy and welcomes him to his home, where he meets Edith, his host's' pretty daughter. Dave becomes a newspaper reporter and advances rapidly to a position of responsibility. Hi: CHAPTER VI Continued. 10- During the following days Dave had a keener eye than usual for evidences of "industrial development." He found them on every hand. Old properties, long considered unsalable, were chang ing owners. Money moved easily; wages were stiffening; tradesmen were in demand. There was material for many good stories In his Investiga tions. He began writing features on the city's prosperity and prospects. The rival paper did the same and there was soon started between them a com petition of optimism. The great word became "boost." The virus was now In the veins of the community, pulsing through every street and byway of the little city. Dave marveled, and won dered how he had failed to read these signs until Conward had laid their por tent bare before him. But as yet it was only his news sense that respond - ed; his delight in the strange and the sensational. He was not yet Inoculated with the poison of easy wealth. His nights were busy with his inves tigations, but on Sunday, as usual, he went out to the Duncans'. Mrs. Dun can explained that Edith had gone to visit a girl friend in the country; would be gone away for some time. Dave felt a foolish annoyance that she should have left town. She might at least have called him up. Why should 6he call him up? Of course not?. Still, the town was very empty. He drove with Mrs. Duncan in the afternoon, and at night took a long walk by the river. He had a vague but oppressive sense of loneliness. He had not real ized what part of his life these Sunday afternoons with Edith had come to be. A few days later Conward strolled in, with the inevitable cigarette. He smoked in silence until Dave complet ed a story. "Good stuff you're giving us," he commented, when the article was fin ished. "Remember what I told you the other day? It's just like putting a match to tinder. Now we're off." Conward smoked a few minutes in silence, but Dave could not fail to see the excitement under his calm exterior. He' had, as he said, decided to "sit" In in the biggest game ever played. The intoxication of sudden wealth had al ready fired his blood. He slipped a bill to Dave. "For your services in that little transaction," he explained. Elden held the bill In his fingers gingerly, as though it might carry in fection, as in very truth it did. Ele realized that he stood at a turning point that everything the future held for him might rest on his present deci sion. There remained In him not a lit tle of the fine, stern honor of the ranchman of the open range ; an honor curious, sometimes terrible, in Its in terpretation of right and wrong, but a repeated. "It's Just ten per cent of my profit." "You mean you made a thousand dollars on that deal?" "Exactly that. And that will look like a peanut to what we are going to make Inter on." -We?" "Yes. You and me. We're going Into partnership." "But I've nothing to Invest. I've only a very little saved up.'' "Invest that hundred." Dave looked at Conward sharply. Was he trifling? No, his eyes were frank and serious. "You mean It?" "Of course. Now, I'll put you onto something, and it's the biggest thing that has been pulled off yet. There's a section of land lying right against the city limits that Is owned by a fel low over In England; remittance man who fell heir to an estate and had to go home to spend It. I am arranging through a London office to offer him ten dollars an acre, and I'll bet he Jumps at it. I've arranged for the nec essary credits, but there will be some expenses for cables, etc., and you can put your hundred into that. If we pull It off and we will pull it off we start up In business as Conward & Elden, or Elden & Conward, whichever sounds better. Boy, there's a fortune in it." "What do you figure it's worth?" said Dave, trying to speak easily. "Twenty-five dollars an acre?" "Twenty-five dollars an acre!" Conward shouted. "Dave, newspaper routine has killed your Imagination. Twenty-five dollars an acre ! Listen 1 ! tended probably will be by the time this deal goes through. Then it Is city property. A street-railway system Is to be built, and we'll see that it runs through our land. We may have to 'grease' somebody, but It's a poor en gineer that saves on grease. Then we'll survey that section into twenty-flve-foot lots and well sell them at two hundred dollars each for those nearest the city down to one hundred for those farthest out average one hundred and fifty total nine hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Allow, say, sixty thousand for grease and there Is still nine hundred thousand, and that doesn't count resale commissions. Dave, It's good for a cool million." Dave was doing rapid thinking. Sud denly he faced Conward and their eyes met. "Conward," he said, "you don't need my little hundred to put this over. Why do you let me in on it?" Conward smiled and breathed easily. There had been a moment of tension "Oh, that's simple," he answered. "I figure we'll travel well In double har ness. I'm a good mixer I know peo ple and I've got Ideas. And you're sound and honorable and people trust you." "Thanks," said Dave, dryly. "That's right," Conward continued. "We'll be a combination bard to beat." Dave had never felt sure of Con ward, and now he felt less sure than ever. But the lust of easy money was beginning to stir within him. The bill In his hands represented more than three weeks' wages. Conward was making money making money fast, and surely here was an opportunity such as comes once In a lifetime. "I'll go you," be said to Conward, at last. "I'll risk this hundred, and a little more, If necessary." "Good," said Conward, springing to his feet and taking Dave's hand in a warm grasp. "Now we're away. But you better play safe. Stick to your pay check here until we pull the deal through. There won't be much to do until then, anyway, and you can help more by guiding the paper along right lines." "It sounds like a fairy tale," Dave demurred, as though unwilling to cred it the possibilities Conward had out lined. "You're sure It can be done?" "Done? Why, son, it has been done In all the big centers In the States, and at many a place that'll never be a cen ter at all. And It will be done here. Dave, bigger things that you dare dream of are looming up right ahead." commanded a view of the long general oflice where a battery of stenographers and clerks took care of the details of the business' of Oonwnrd & Elden. And Dave had es tab 11 shed his ability as an oIlU'o manager. Ills fairness, his fear lessness, his Impartiality, his courtesy Ills oven temper save on rare and ex disable occasions had won, from (he staff n loyalty which Ouuwai'd, with all his abilities as a good mixer, could never have commanded. He had prospered, of course. Ills statement to bis banker run Into seven figures. Dave was still n young man not yet In his thirties; he was rated a millionaire; be had health, comeliness, and personality; he commanded the respect of a wide circle of business men. and was regarded ns one of the matrimonial prizes of the city; his name had been discussed for public office ; he was a success. And yet this night, ns he sat In his comfortable rooms and watched the street lights come fluttering on ns twl light silhouetted the great hills to the west, be was not so sure of his sue cess. He was called a success, yet In the honesty of his own soul he feared the coin did not ring true. He felt that the crude but honest conception of the square deal which was the one valuable heritage of his chlldhod was slipping away from him. He had little in common with Conward outside of 'if "It Would Be Mean to Put Over Any. thing Like That on a Man, and a Girl Wouldn't Have Me." "I Can't Take That Much," Ho Ex claimed. "It Isn't Fair." fine, stern honor nevertheless. And he instinctively felt that to accept this money would compromise him for i'vermore. As he turned the bill In his fingers be noticed that it was for one hlllHlt'frf rlnllnra ITa fhnnrrlif ft umu ten. "I can't take that much," he ex claimed. "It Isn't fair." "Fair enough," said Conward, well pleased that Dave should be Impressed by his generosity. "Fair enough," he. CHAPTER VII. David Elden smoked his after-dinner cigar In his bachelor quarters. The years had been good to the firm of Conward & Elden; good far beyond the wlldness of their first dreams. The transaction of the section bought from the English absentee had been but the beginning of bigger and more daring adventures. Conward, In that first wild prophecy of his, had spoken of a city of a quarter of a million people: already more lots had been sold than could be occupied by four times that population. Dave had often asked himself where It all would end. The firm of Conward & Elden had profited not the least In the wild years of gain-getting. Their mahogany-finished first-floor quarters were the last word In office luxuriance. Con ward's private room might with credit have housed a premier or a president. Its purpose was to be impressive rather than to give any other service, as Con ward spent little of his time there. On Dave fell the responsibility of oflice management, and his room was fitted foi efficiency rather than luxury. It their business relationship. He sus pected the man vaguely, but had never found tangible ground for his suspicion. He was turning the matter over In his mind and wondering what the end would be, when a knock came at the door. "Come," he said, switching on the light. . . . "Oh, It's you, Bert! I'm honored. Sit down." Roberta Morrison threw her coat over a chair and sank Into another. Without speaking, she extended her shapely feet to the fire, but when its soothing warmth had comforted her limbs she looked up and said : "Adam sure put it jover on us, didn't he?" "Still nursing that grievance over your sex?" laughed Dave. "I thought you would outgrow it." "I don't blame him," continued the girl, Ignoring his Interruption. "I am just getting back from forty-seven teas. Gabble, gabble, gabble. I don't blame him. Wre deserve It." "Then you have had nothing to eat?" "Almost. Only Insignificant indi- gestibles " Dave pressed a button, and a Chi nese boy (all male Chinese are boys) entered. "Bring something to eat. Go out for It, and be quick. For two." "You've had your dinner, surely?" asked Bert. "Such a dinner as a man eats alone," he answered. "Now for something real. You stick to the paper like the ink, don't you, Bert?" "Can't leave it. I hate it and I love it. It's my poison and my medi cine. Most of all I hate the society twaddle. And, of course, that's what I have to do." Bert," Dave said, suddenly, "why don t you get married?" "Who, me?" Then she laughed. "It would be mean to put over anything like that on a man, and a girl wouldn't have me." "Well, then, why don't you buy some real estate?" he continued, Jocularly. Every man should have some dlsslpa tlon something to make him forget his other troubles." 'A little late In the meal for that word, Isn't it? But the fact is, I have Invested." A look came Into his face which she did not understand. "With whom?" he demanded, almost peremptorily. "With Conward & Elden," she an swered, and the rogulshness of her voice suggested that her despised fem ininity lay not far from the surface. "Were you about to be jealous?" "Why didn't you come to me?" She realized that he was In deep earnest. "I did," she answered can didly. "At least, I asked for you, but you were out of town, so Conward took me In hand and I followed his advice." "Do you trust Conward?" he de manded, almost fiercely. Well, he's good enough to be your partner, Isn't he?" The , thrust hurt more than she knew. He had his poise again. puss, mousi:, a snniw. BKOWX MOl'SK "i" "f ,,N hole m ihowull, whirl, laml-d him right on n shelf In lh I''"'-.v-hole was hidden by ""1 Mouse never tluu:;l,i of such n H'lin; us that the pan-: mk-lit ' m..vc.l. One day he was bold -tenu:!i to run out In the daytime and slaved, me! potting n bad frk'ht from seeing 1'u-w come into the pnutry, h ran out "f the door Into the klkhen und out Int.i the yard. Here he nmnngod to o.'npe by run nlng under the steps, where 1M could not follow lilm. All dav he stnyed there and nil night, too, and it win not until the next day that he could got tm'k o his own home. But what was his surprise, when he went to the hole In the wall I" lhl I urn Mr I Nifoiu.' inn! mulit of Mil ll 'It . Kill' K" I"' t break l"' l'1'' -v 1 'V Mll'l'l'l not to tnlvo ad.i tl, frail iTi-aiH ' lliuiicht. "I '"' ;- homo. "poll'! !' Mr. Mini"'', in-,.. I can by li'uli! I" I'uss will I''' vmirsi'lf en--1 be destroyed " , , . Mudnm Sp.d.-r mhl shecoubl ,hk Mm . ..omd, ami off In- run ,),. u new d to Mh """ " wall. , lifter thii u nuji''"" hold iimim nun i" hdiim spider," Kiild ; ,.,y Ivl.l Wier .VHII . It.tltlll ,V IIUIKI' M " 1 " i i.nd I do '"( mi here. ' your lioliie f-tiall Ihllil undo' lint "yet ciosjrav the pan had been removed and that Madam Spider had woven a web right over the opening and was sitting there, waiting for n stray tly. "You have closed up the door to my house," protested Drown Mouse. 1 am afraid I shall have to tear away your web, for I really must get In. You know, It Isn't safe for me to be out here!" "Oh, denr, what shall I do!" walled Madam Spider. "It took me so long to find this place, ami I worked so hard to weave this beautiful pattern, and now you an." going to destroy It. "Of course I cannot protect myself against such a big, strung animal ns you, Mr. Mouse, so I must submit. Oh. dear; oh, dear; how miserable I am." Mr. Mouse grew thoughtful. "I Some linn i m.ihs-i" i. row t ,",f i ho pantry one day and I'm MV hli'i. roui! I the U'ehen she chased Mill, ,", ,v and by she had Win cmore,,. Uo could not get back to the pantry, n,l I'uss win very uro of gettinu !,,, so she at quite Htllt nml watched poor trembling Mr. Motiao, who was Htire his end wn H"'tr. Tt,.f he had a friend clou by, ' though he did not know It, for right I over I'uss' head win the new lumio of i Madam Spider, and when slu- looked down and saw wnni wns k.miiK knew It win time to pity her debt of riiitltude to Mr. Mmise. Madam Spider let hericlf !""' by a slender thread right over Pun. Then she swung herself right Into one of Puss' eyes. Pusi bent her head and brushed her eyes with one paw. It took only a wink of time, but It was enough. Mr. .Mouse wax wived, for when Pus opened her eyes iik'aln be w;is gone. Madam Spider. tm, was wife up In her home nt,'"!", feeling very .-onti-tit-ed, for had she Hot sav. d the life of Mr. Mouse, Who otuv had Quired her home? That night, when Mr. Mouse wn thinking over nil that bud happened, he suddenly n-iueliibered the Spider that sated Mm. "Why, I do believe It liui-t have been Madum Spider, whose home I spared a long time ago," he sold. "Well, well! Ymi en it never tell w hen you will nerd u friend, and i vi-n the Weilksf ones sometimes nre able to do the biggest d Is of kindness." (CoIiyrlKhL) Now we pick up Irene Hardy again. (TO-BE CONTINUED.) The smallest known bird Is a Cen tral American humming bird that It about as large as a blue bottle fly. OMB people titik war ee.s no stop pa yet. Other ninlit I go see flghta for prize and heesa eiula up vveeth beega scrap over sornatlng, I dunno. one place gotta w ind,, lot rope on and I nska man wat doesa fur. He say ring for maka fight cen. Iiut bees too moocha square and no 'nux.cha go round for ring. Preety soon two feller mine out woeth no moodm clothes en only u leetle bit. I gotta Idee they link hoes Saturday night and try for taka bath eon water bucket. One man whosn all dress up ilka Sunday maka speech for exphiirm list a bout. But he no saw wot gnima fight bout. Dese two feller whosn lenva their ciothea home maka frlcns wneth shaku bunds. Nexta moonute somebody rlngu A... - U-.li 1 1 . . .... u-m;i ueu uiki ii'1'j.Mi nnr. r;reair; looFe wceth dees two feller whosn ready for go to bed. When rla hell ring seemn Ilka both tink other one gotta hees lunch. Somatlmf- love and hug and no fight. Other time all fight and no hug. Somebody holler "break!" and both pusha some more een da face. Man weeth docnerbell rlna for supper and stoppa da fight Hoth fighter getta scared and no sect to gether. Pretty soon bell rlna for breakfast and fight breaka loose all over some more. I gotta gooda time but I dunno wot for everybody fighta so mooch. I tlnk hees better fight eef somebody stoppa dat guy from play weeth dinner hell. Jusa getta start and ringa da bell and putta fight on da bum. I no understand!! wot for nobody Bmasha dees feller whosa all dress up. He starta all da trouble and no getta push een da face once. Wot you tlnk? 0 Small Farms In Egypt. Seventy-five per cent of the land un der cultivation in Egypt Is held by persons owning less than two acres 0 "OffAgiiv. , GivAgiiv (t'upyrlKhl ) The Trajedy. Ho wan a tivit mid nn rr i.-.l ;i runt A mutlrc:nfl. niTl.upn, wo nl,.,iil'l my. Kiieh drifted mi In u;i :no!i-ul, rut For many u weuriaon.e l.iy -ioi !l liu ppcru norim- Ho iitartdl to Kro'.v tlnr When it leant 1h i- lod -,ir.,i irnon Their mating ai in.e nt tl;.. rniirllal crimen That the devil consldi m a ,.m HOW TO AVOID APPLE SCALD Sclntlt Hv DUcovccd Tint t Uln Fati md Olli Reduei Dl," at to Minimum, l'rit.r.l by th UnlW 8uiM t, tneitl of Agricultural W jwom iMM'pia iimva leiin.ed that, t lift-!! Ill nil UllVelltllnti flM. they poltwiii thriii,.veii wit), ulf exhaled In tliflr own hr.nth. lim'? l-robiihly !t not occurred to om, pfipl Hint lipph-M ttNlrrp (,r mijj mailt lit cold utoriigB-dii exnctiju, Mima thlntf. It had nut occurrd k anybody, to fnet, until very rtww!, when lotuo npuclalUti In tj of plant liiiliintry. worked It oat & I not ftlwny poinlblo t0 it.tt, j, window ornn In th ilm-nlnir ffVlM art mo apple, utlt th dpo' laltiu J,, found a wny 0f Mtlni' around in, dimeulty In eiperhneiitnl quantity i, the nhriorxitloii In certain. fti tn oil of the poliiou Hint I brwtk out by th apple. Till! dln,fM Ulllch inn. I., a. ........ ,, ug rnuied In applet tm known at ifjfc m-nld and mmilfcM ltmlf by tamiq th akin of tho tipj.lo brown. the aoleiitlmt hnvo UUcovered that ttt dloontio I dim to a or breathed out by tho applr. the; hit, not linen nhla to Identify the gut sawn. Hut they hnvo dlncotirt! thnt. If the applea are placed In Wfij, p r Impregnated u lth rertala hs anl oil, tb polnort U nhorbil isi tho dlrwiaw either pritveiiteil or i duc'd to a negligible quantity, u Imrrtd vnprlnieritj In which onlyam of tho fruit wn wthmhmI. tha tn!i wn greatly reduced on applet i4 rent to the wrnppt! one. Ord'nifj iitniiierclnt applo wraniwra can1 little il.vrm a In aeahl and pariSi wrapper wrr but llttlo better. S-vernl other polnta of Irnportaim wt determined a rexult of lit cTI'.-rlmciiti. Mntur fnilt nrntdi It ihuu Immature, but frull Jum rtasir lug from grn o ycliow hn tralM vvnrno than rltber erVen or ytllo fruit. Well-eotored rtl fruit turfjm hn been practically Immune. licit? Irrigation of nppflt trve IncrefttMl til sllK-optlblllty to IM'llId III the ippitl irii.!ui i-il, Apple In ventilated to rein .li vilopttl h'K tlilill a third II She utaye. a nfi.' her, ii i 1 A ri rl tier life c ri . f tils wit. Now tell rn' -would d'Uy or ""? Where, wherf Is !n; w,. ,' wan- I'm rcit hhutilnit Ty ' I.lni.r. n t' i.-il? (Tho qnnnllnn Ih r,! 1 m i , Krown ol'l, And the ,'uimv-r In vet i,) t. la It rlcht ,r, ,i:u., i. fi'iin ifii'i. i', When 1 i.-iri ' " : . f "... r.-, ,,,.,... " 'rMi l.ai ir.,;:.,,!',') L ft V . Lf Sl:K 'ir f HOW THEY VOTED if i now Oici you two vote in t fi late election?" ''Well, Brown hrr Smith, to he voted for J. knew Jontu Smith." I Yot"J in lenow n-. J for 'ih of in- ym U'll '1 A Misconception. "(!lv.. in,., ,., (,,;lr u.t bcllii loiiriM , pii.; ... " "4 .1 .11..-,. ir:( worth of bej,, "ai v.-nut 1,1 ii,,. ..,,., , want with th.it i,,u,h ,,f dniK?" ,''Vt ''!"! '""l of lead,. s Kiuiii-rwirlcii, ni;: ioiu ruo tiellml,,!,,, the pupils," o somebody CROSBY'S KIDS CnrJlna and Packing Fruit rrtfv tory to Placing In Cold Stortfl. much scald rt t!inn In nnrunorclil biirreln If both wera held In a atorop rw 'hill received ocmiiloiial vmiilt tleii. If tho NtornKO room wuh not tw tllnted, or If It wim only poorly en Minted, the ventilated barruN f Mry llttlo decreiuo In caM. App' iseiir tho nlalo or near n dmir acald fur lesn than thoso In tho bottom of the Htack. Uoxed apples exposed tt rontlnuoin air current of 8S wit nn hour were vractlcnlly free 'roa K iiid while Hlmllnr appleii that did recidv tho constant fannlnR becao' badly Bcaldcd. Stirring tho storage n lr wan found to be more Important than renewing It. Scald wan greatlj increased on fruit delayed In stora unlesH wellvcntllnted during the delay. What the Sphinx Says By Newton Newklrk. bmall wonder life Is miseruhle to a rniaflt fjft en If tho preach er could swap jobs with the 4nan, both might oe happy." ITNtVER RAWS WAY TO PRUNE RASPBERRIES Advlinble to Perform Oparatlon I" Spring When Buda Start No Detriment to Canei. H 1b generally advised to prun nispberrles In the uprltiff, nml not ui full, boenu.se of their lluhlllty to d' lniek during winter. If pruned In th full, the ehnncoH ure that nnolln'i' liruD' ln would bo required In the Hprln mill double labor Involved. Kvi'ii when Kprlni; eomca It Is often pruilent to wait till the buds start so that no mi ta Uo can ho made n to Jiiht Imff tho live wood extends, says ft write' I" mi exchange. There is no dtrl' Mient to tho canes In ouch a pructlce. 'md I have found It of value nlso 10 the nine, of tho blackberry, especially In the enso of such varieties ns ue Karly Hiirvest and King, which nr Injured by sovere winters. Tho Vv sitlou of tho blossom buds cannot ways bo discerned until they begin to open nnd show white, I hnvo never obnerved any Injury as the reuult ) such late pruning.