A Municipal Report
Baking Powder Week
W e have a large supply of high-grade
Baking Powder
Prize
Medal
Brand
which we offer SP E C IA L for this week
at 45c per can
A valuable prize of crockery or glass
ware goes with E V E R Y can,
many of them worth nearly
the price asked for the
Baking Powder.
Every Can Guaranteed
“ The Quality Grocers”
W atertwy & Chapm.in
Estacada,
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Oregon
Wall Paper
Clean lip Sale
28 rolls Muray ceiling paper roll
9
45
M
71
Oiled kitchen ceiling ”
’ * Kitchen papers
63 ff
ft
20c
50c
12c to 20c
Flowered papers
20c to 30c
Fancy bed room papers 15c to 20c
New Matting Rugs Just Received
Ask to be shown our furniture bargains.
Estacada
Furniture Co.
Green Trading Stamps
$2. a day.
Undertaken
$10. a week
The Hotel Estacada
Modern Conveniences
On« ol the most delightful
Resorts on the Coast
Local and Tourist Trade Solicited
Quality is Remembered
W e are in business to sell Good Goods
at Lowest Prices. The mail order
houses neither buy your pro
duce, help pay your taxes or sup
port your schools.
Trade At Home.
Estacada Pharmacy
Azalea Adair up«» u*«l m tiny, worn to escape another, but fie was one or
I purse uiid drew out a dn.lur bill, a del- those despicable, routing, advertising
lia r hill with the upper right li.md tor
bibbers who must have brass bands
ucr missing, torn in two pie« es and and fireworks attend upon every cent
pasted together again with a strip of that they waste in their follies.
blue tissue paper. It was one of the
With an air of producing millions lie
hills 1 had given the pirath-al negro— drew two one-dollar bills from a pock
there was uo doubt of it.
et and dashed one of them upon the
"Go up to Mr. Baker's store on the bar. 1 look«*d on«*e umre at the dollar
eorner. Imp.v." she said, handing the bill with the upper right hand «muer
girl the dollar hill, "and get a quarter missing, torn through the middle, and
of a pound of te a -th e kind he always patched with a strip «»f blue tissue pa
send« me—mid 10 rents’ worth of sugar per. It was my dollar bill again. It
rakes. Now. hurry. The supply of tea could have be«*n no other.
in the house happens to he exhausted,"
I went up to my room. The drizzle
she explained to me
and the monotony of a dreary, event
linpy left by the hack way
Before less southern town had made me tired
the scrape of her hard, hare feet had and listless.
King Cetewayo was at his po«d the
died away on the hark porch a wild
shriek-1 was sure it was hers—tilled next day and rattled my bones over
the hollow house. Then the deep, gruff tile sttmes out to 8dl. lie was to wait
tones of an angry man's voire mingled and rattle me hack again when I was
with the girl’s further squeals and un ready
intelligible words.
Azalea Adair looked paler an«i «‘lean
Azalea Adair rose without surprise I ! er ami frailer than she had looked on
or emotion and disappeared. For two ; i the day lief ore. After sin» had signed
minutes I heard the hoarse rumble of the <M>ntrn«-f at S cents per word she
the man’s voire, then something like an grow sj!II pal«»r and began t«* slip
oath and a slight Seattle, and she re out «*f her chair. Without much tron-
turned calmly to her chair.
1 e I managed t<» g«*t lu»r up on the
"This Is a roomy house." she said, antediluvian horsehair sofa and then l
"and I have a tenant for part of It. I ran out to the sidewalk and yelled t«>
am sorry to have to rescind my Invita the «*offee c«ilore<l pirate to bring a
tion to tea. It was impossible to get doctor. With a wisdom that I had
the kind I always use at the store. not suspect«*«! in him he abandoned his
Perhaps tomorrow Mr. Baker will be team nial struck off up the street afoot,
realizing the value of sp«»ed. In ten
| able to supply me.”
I was sure that Imp.v had not bad minutes tie rettirne«1 with a grave,
time to leave the house. I inquired con- ! gray liitir«*«I and capable man of uiedl
reining street car lines and took my dne in a few wonfs iworth much l«*ss
leave. After I was well on my way 1 than «*eiits each« l explained f«» him
remembered that I had not learned my pn*seii«-e in the hollow house of
Azalea Adair’s uame. But tomorrow mystery» If«» bowed with stately un
derstanding and turned t«» the old ne
would do.
That same «lay 1 started In on the gr«>
"rinde Caesar." he said calmly, "run
course of iuiquity that tills uneventful
city forced upon me. I was in the uj' fo my house and ask Miss Lucy to
town only two days, but in that time give you a cream pitcher full or rrosn
1 managed to lie shamelessly by tele- | milk aud half a tumbler of port wine.
graph und to be an accomplice-- after And hurry hack. I*>tft drive—run. 1
the fact, if that is the correct legal , want you to get back some time this
term—to a murder.
week."
As 1 rounded the corner nearest my \ Tlie doctor look«*d me «»ver with
hotel the Afrlte coachman of the pol.v- j great p«»lit«*ness and as much careful
chromatic, uoupariel coat seized me. | calculation until lie had decided that
swung open the dung«*ouy door of Ids ! I might do.
peripatetic sarcophagus, flirted his
" it is only a « ase of insufficient nu
feather «luster and began Ids ritual:
trition." he said—"in other words, the
•'Step right in. boss Carriage Is clean I
result of poverty, pride and starvation.
—Jus* got hack from a fuuerai. Fifty j
Mrs. Caswell has many devoted friends
cents to any’’ —
who would be glad to aid her. but she
And then he knew uie mid grinned will nccept nothing except from that
broadly. " ’Sense me. boss; you is de old negro, Uu«de Caesar, who was once
gen Turn n what rl«l out with me tils owned by her family."
inawnin'. Thank you kindly, suli."
"Mrs. Caswell!" said I In surprise.
"I am going out to 861 again tomor And then I looked at the contract and
row uftcruoou at 3.’' said i. "and if saw that she liad signed it "Azalea
you will he here I ’ll let you drive me Adair Caswell."
So you kppw Miss Adair?" I couclu«i
"I thought she was Miss Adair." I
ed. thinking of my dollar hill.
said.
"I belonged to her father. Judge
"Married to a drunken, worthless
Adair, suh." he replied.
loafer, sir." said the doctor. " It is said
"I Judge that she is pretty p«»or" l j that he robs her even of the small
suhl.
"She hasn’t much money t«»
sums that her old servant contributes
speak of. Inis she?'
toward her support."
For an instant I looked again at the ! When the milk and wine had been
tierce coimlemiiice of King Cetewayo. , brought the doctor soon revi veil Azalea
and then he changed back to au ex ! Adair. She sat up and talked of the
tortionate old negro hack driver.
beauty of the autumn leaves that were
"She ain’t gvvim* to starve, suh," lie ' then In season and their height of col-
said slowly. "She has reso’ces. suh: or. She referred lijihtly to her fainting
she has resoVes.’
seizure as the outcome of an old palpi
"I shall pay you 50 cents for the tation of the heart. Impy fanned her
trip." said I
as she lay on the sofa. The doctor
"Dat is puffeckly correct, suh." he was due elsewhere, and 1 followed
answered humbly. "1 jus* bad to have him to the door. 1 told him that it
dat $2 dis mawilin'. I» oms .’’
was within my power and inteuti«»u*
to make a reasonable advance of
1 went to the hotel and lie«l by elec
tricity.
I wired the magazine: "A. money to Azalea Adair on future con
tributions to the magaziue. aud Ue
Adair bolds out for 8 < ents a word."
The answer that came I wick was. seemed pleased.
"Give it to her quick, you duffer." '
"By the way." he said, "perhaps you
Just before dinner Major Wentworth would like to know that you have had
Caswell bore down upon me with the royalty for a coachman. Old Caesar’s
greetings of a long lost friend. 1 have grandfather was u king in Kongo.
seen few men whom I have so instan Cuesar himself has royal ways, as you
taneously hated and of whom it was so may have observed."
As the doctor was moving off i heard
difficult to l>e rid. I was standing at
the bar when he Invaded me. There Uncle Caesar's voice inside, "Did lie
fore I could not wave the white rib git bofe of dem $2 from you. Mis' Za
bon in Ills face. I would have paid j lea Y*
gladly for the drinks, hoping thereby » "Yes. Caesar." I heard Azalea Adair
answer weakiy. And then I went ¡11
and concluded business negotiations
with our contributor. 1 assumed tne
responsibility of advancing $50. put
ting it as a ms'ettsary formality m
binding our bargain. And then duele
Caesar drove it«* back to the hotel.
Here ends all of the story as far as
1 can testify as a witness. The rest
must be only Imre statements of fa«ts.
At about I» o'clock 1 went out tor a
stroll. Cuele Caesar was at his ••«»?•-
uer. He threw open the door of his
carriage, nourished his duster and be
gan his depressing formula: "Step right
in. suh. F ifty cents to anywhere in
the city. Hack’s puttickly clean, sun.
•Ins' got back from a funeral’’ -
And then he recognized me. I think
his eyesight was getting bad. Ilia coat
hail taken on a few more faded similes
of «-olor, the twine strings were more
frayed and ragged, the last remaining
button- the button of yellow horn - was
gone. A motley descendant ot kings
was Uncle Cuesar!
About two hours later 1 saw an ex-
cited crowd besieging the front of a
drug store In a desert where uothiug
happens this was manna, so I edged
my way inside. On an extemporized
«•ouch of empty I Mixes and chairs was
stretched the mortal corporeality of
Major Wentworth Caswell. A do« tor
was testing him for the immortal in
gredient. His «lecisiou was that It was
conspicuous by its absence.
The erstwhile major had b«»eu found
«lead ou a dark street and brought ny
curious und eimulet! citizens to tin»
drugstore. The late human being had
been engaged iu terrific battle—the de-
tails showeil that. Loafer ami repro
bate though lie Imd been, he had been
also a warrior. But he bad lost. His
hands were yet clinched so tightly time
bis Huge re would ifl»t be opened. The
gentle citizens who had known him
sto< h 1 about anil snirchnl their vocab
ularies t«> rind some good words. If It
were possible, to speak of him
One
kind looking man said after much
thought. "When Cas was about fo’teen
lie was one of the best s e lle rs in
s«*hool."
While I stood there the ringers of
the right hand of "the man that was."
which hung down the side of a white
pine box, relaxed and dropped some
thing at my feet. I covered it with
one foot quietly and a little later ou
I picked it up and pocketed It. I rea
soned that in his last struggle his
hand must have seize«! that object un
wittingly and held it iu a death grip.
At tin* hotel that night the main top
ic of con versa thut. with the possible
exceptions of politus and prohibition,
was the demise of Major Caswell, i
heard one man say to a group of lis
teners:
"In my opinion, gentlemen. Caswell
was munlured by aome of these uo ac
count niggers for his money. He had
$50 this afternoon, which he show«*«l
to several gentlemen In the hotel
When he was found flu* in«»n«»y was
not on Ills person "
I left the <*ity tin* next morning at !».
and as the train was crossing the
bridge over the Cumberland river l
took «Hit of my p«»cket a yellow horn
overcoat button the size of a fifty
cent piece, with frayed cniis of cor. r-^e
twine bang ng from It. and cast it .n't
of the win;» >w Into the slow, muddy
waters h e lo
1 wonder what’s doing in Buffalo!
T h e end.
Sheep to Test Various Feeds.
rhree fin ml red iambs, averaging
fifty five fain,ids each and costing $6.80
per inn. or a I «out $4 each, will t>e used
by the animal husbandry department
of the Kansas Agricultural college this
winter In an attempt to answer these
quest urns:
What Is the comparative fe«llng
mine ot alfalfa and cowpea hay?
What Is the difference between corn
mil Kaffir for fattening purpose«?
l!«»w «loes silage compare with dry
reed ?
wn.if Is the difference In feeding vaL
.e o« tween ground on I whole feed?