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EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS. THURSDAY. MAY 10. 1027 «• BUSINESS AND The Recluse of Fifth Avenue CHAPTER I PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY Page 3 By W Y N D H A M M ARTYN C op yrigh t In th e U n ited Statua W N U S ervice \ or apprehension from the man he hated. Perhaps, after nil, there was I something about men like Mllman 1 different from him. Then the thought | of his two millions reassured him and he lumbered to the window and watched Ills former client cross the road. The great limousine opposite would presently take Herman Loddon V E R W O R K , worry and lack of to his lavishly appointed apartment, rest, all put extra burdens on tho where he would dine largely, lie pic kidneys. When the kidnoyw slow up, tured Milman's solitary and dismal waste poisons remain in the blood meal. There would ipd he many more and are apt to make one languid, for him In the family home on Lower tired and achy, with dull headaches, Fifth avenue. The l ’atrlclun uge was dizziness and often a nagging back gone. ache. A common warning of imperfect Peter Mllmnn reached his home kidney action is scanty or burning without encountering anyone who secretions. Doan s Pills assist tho “knew hint. Fashionable New York kidneys in their eliminative work. with her residences and clubs had Are endorsed by users everywhere. long passed on her northward way. Ask your neighbor I Those few houses which, like his own. 50,000 Users Endorse Doan's t were still owned by their builders' M r * . F . E . W a t i o n , 7 H l^ h S t ., L y n n . families, were mostly unoccupied save M a s » . , b u ys : “ T h e tim e cam e w hen 1 fou n d m yself in had health. T h e k id n ey secretion « for a few weeks In the year. With w ere «c * k iin ¿ an d coused mo much an n oy ance. M y back ached con sta n tly and I had these people Mllman had now nothing a tta c k « o f dizxinesa. D o a n '» P i l l t w ere prom p t In common, lie had rejected their i~- h.'lpum m e and I «hull n ever cease to b « g ra te fu l to th em .“ overtures. They spoko of him with pity, almost with contempt. A legend of eccentricity grew up about hint and presently gave way to rumors of men STIMULANT DIURETIC 3 , KIDNEYS tal deterioration. IòsWr M.1'ium Co. Mtt.Ck«J)u«J<xNY Sneed, who concerned himself great ly with the sudden change In his em ployer's habits, saw him return with obvious relief. Sneed had read the papers and realized the extent of ’ Theres quick, positive; relief in Hazen Brewer’s troubles. He wished he dared ask Mr. Mllmnn If he, too, were badly hit. Peter Milman’s face — cene nous sot box . . told him nothing. Nor was his cus A t A lt Druflûiol* — Monty tack ù u .iin U , . » V . l . Ä H V c V . U t L CO ....v ie ... (ih . tomary manner changed. "I am going over the upper rooms after luncheon,” said Mllman. "Please see that they nre In order.” The upper rooms. It was In these spacious chnmhers that the old fur niture was stored about which experts MITCHELL EYE SALVE raved. The six rooms were arranged heals Inflam ed eyes, gran u lated Udsk styes, eto. Sure. Safe. Speedy. 25oat ns a museum. Mllmnn moved from a ll d ru ggists. H a l l * R u ckel, N. Y.CS. piece to piece. Everything had Its definite association. He stopped be W a r m in g the Ocean fore an Eighteenth century card table covered with sealskin. On this table. The German Inland wuterlng place In 174f>, n I'eter Mllmnn had lost a Westerlnnd has now been connected thousand pounds on a out of cards with the mainland by railroad. The with u blue-blood of South Carolina. enrs cross the marshes on n newly- Those six chairs, called “ banister- erected dam. Westerlnnd Is very am backed by their creator, Heppel- bitious und expects to have a winter white, had been made to order for u as well as a summer season. When cold weather comes the bathing cabins Mllnmn. There was one room devoted to the nre to be heated; nlso the covered Dutch furniture that had come to the ways lending to the water. And thu Mllmans from a marriage with a Van water Itself? That Is the most re- Sluyter heiress. Peter Mllmnn bent mnrkitble part of tho project. Huge artificial electric “ suns" are to he In down to look at n Dutch church stool stalled, making a winter dip lu the which a Van Sluyter servant had car sea practicable. ded to a place of worship two hun dred years before. It was black In color, and on one side bore n picture Bcll-Ans R eally Sure R elief of the Last Judgment and some ap Thousand, of Testimonials From Doo- propriate verses. tors, Nurses and Dentists Say So. “ I don't read Dutch,” Mllmnn ob served, “ but I remembered the trans For correcting over-acldlty and lation. Listen, Sneed, It may do you quickly acllevlng belching, gas, slek- good.” “ Certainly, sir,” said Sneed respect lieadnclie, heartburn, nausea, bilious ness and other digestive disorders, fully. 1IELL-ANS has been proved of great "T h e Judgm ent o f G n rl Is now prepared: value for the pnst thirty years. Not there Is s till time, leave u n w is i laxative hut a tested Sure Relief lor dom. Indigestion. Perfectly harmless and The pious w ill be separated from the w icked. God's wisdom encircles pleasant to take. Send for free snmples the U n iverse." to: Bell & Co., Inc., Orangeburg, N. Y. “ Very true, Mr. Peter, sir,” sold —Adv. m * It vrai characteristic o f Peter Mil- man that he should hear the shock of the second of Ills life's tragedies with was Hazen Brewer who had arranged no visible symptom of emotion. The first of these blows had been the mortgage on the Mllman home. It was Brewer alone who had profited by dealt hint twenty-five years before the affair. And this mortgage was He had suffered It In this same rich ly furnished room of his house In shortly to fall due, and there was no Lower Fifth avenue. Sneed, the but money to pay It. I ’eter Miltnan could have sold the ler, who had Just handed him the morning papers, had brought him— a house and lot and retired to some oth Quarter of a century ago— the letter er place In relative comfort until the In which his wife told him she had end o f his life had he been less ob stinately desirous of remaining wheio gono away and would not return. The second blow swept away his he had been born. "You can't stay there, If that's what couifortuble fortune. At fifty, with out near relatives and long estranged you are trying to figure out," Loddon from old friends, Peter Mllmun would said brutally. “ The taxes are heavy be compelled to move from the house and you have some outstanding debts. In which he had been horn— the house My account, for Instance. Soli It and where he hoped to die—to mix with live in Italy Is my advice.” lie yawned the world he had forgotten, among rudely. Peter Mllmnn's question turned his people he had grown to mistrust. The three morning papers Sneed red face a deeper hue. “ Have you always hated me, Lod placed before him, nit hough they varied somewhat In their telling of don?” The lawyer did not unswer Imme Hnzen Brewer’s failure, had substan diately. This hate of his was n com tially the same account of It. Brewer's liabilities were fifteen mil plex tiling, less the result of n deep lion dollars. His assets were given injury than of a thousand envies. He is less thnn five thousand dollars. Somewhtwe, sandwiched among these . net debts, was Peter Mllmnn's modest ullllon. The butler, sensing 111 news from he hnstlly read captions, grew re- leved when he saw his employer take >ut his pocket-scissors and begin to •Up such extracts from the papers ns nterested him. I.ater these clippings vould be arranged systematically with he thousands of others which during ong years MUman had gathered. In he library, steel-lined drawers, enre- tilly locked, held the harvest of these cleanings. At three o'clock re fe r MUman came town the stairs and selected a cane. Ie was dressed as though he were colng to pny an afternoon call. He vas one of those slight, small-honed nen so often seen In the dwindling amities of races near extinction. Ills martly cut coat, his Immaculate silk lat and distinguished cane made him eem, from a rear view, a boyish tig- ire. It was when one saw the pale, ined fuee, the tired eyes, and the hin supercilious mouth, that one renl- zed this was a man to whom the vorld has long since seemed empty anity. On the whole, Peter Mllmnn resented the appenrance of one to “ H a v e Y o u A lw a y s H a te d M e, L o d don?" vhom familiarity would he distasteful nd friendship the slow growth of had always resented Milman's dis ears. criminations when social functions He was on his wny to see his law- were still a part of his life. It Is true er and find out how he stood llnun- that he had dined many times In the lally. lie felt almost certain that he Mllman house, but his wife had never md fallen with Hazen Brewer. Not been asked there. He came to under or more than twenty years had Peter stand in the end that he was asked be Ulman been so much disturbed. Ruin cause Peter Mllman found It a less neant giving up his home. The idea tedious business than going to Lod vas Intolerable. don's office. lie entered the private office of Iler- It was this funded slight to his wife non Loddon os one assured of his which most angered the lnwyer. She losltlon and certain of his welcome, was n social climber, and the magic of tssuredly Loddon, who owed so much the Mllman name was a tradition in 0 the Mllmans, would be uble to sup- New York. Her husband, ashamed of l.v him with the Information he de- his obscure origin, had claimed to have lred. been at school with Peter Mllman, and The first direct Intimation of the Mrs. Loddon felt that, were he to In Ufference between a millionaire and sist, she could he a guest In the en 1 poor man was given him as he en- vied home. Sneed. There was a look on his em I f the T re n d Goes On ered Loddon'g room. Loddon re- Loddon hated Mllmnn heenuse, de ployer's face that he did not under T. W. w rites: “ Women who think nalneil seated. Hitherto he had risen spite his unwise boasting, he knew he stand, something hard and ruthless. lumslly to his feet at sight of his had never convinced Mllnmn of his “ There nre some of the wicked 1 about nothing htit clothes are going llstlnguished client and with awkward important!«. should very much like to separate to have h lot of time oa their hajnls In about ID-40, judging from the pres features motioned him tp the seat of “ Always," he said slowly, with n from the pious without walling for mnor. And his face had been wreathed rush of relief ut being at last able to post-mortem Judgments. I am not suro ent trend of things."— Boston Tran vlth smiles. For the first time Peter voice his emotions. “ Yes, I hated you that such an net would not he a logical script. Itlman saw the man Herman Loddon when my father drove you to school way of acquiring merit. I take It, Too many people think opportunity s he really was. Loddon hated him, and I couldn't get either Inside with Sneed, that in your essence you are means a chance to get money without nd had always hated him. There could you or on the box with hint. I've law-abiding?” earning It. ■e no other explanation of his lack of hated you for your friends and the “ Always,” snid Sneed with con curtesy and the sneering smile with tyay you've expected me to come when scious rectitude. “ In that respect, Mr. vhlch he greeted his client. For a you felt like culling.” Loddon laughed I ’eter, I ’m like you.” iiiarter-century he tiud worn n dls- sneeringly. “ But that’s all done with. “ A very admirable frame of mind," rming smile. Hazen Brewer's failure I’m on top and only pity you now.” Lacies Can said Mllman. lad swept away the necessity for us- “ I think I prefer the former emo W ear Shoe« Sneed had rarely known him com ng It any more. Things, then, were tion,” Mllman murmured. ment oil any o f the exhibits before. on« size smaller lesperate. “ In future,” Loddon said majestical To day It seemed he had a word fol and walk or dance Milman's manner was still as loftily ly, “ I shall have too many big things everything. in comfort by using •ourteous as ever. A l l e n ' s Foot-Eaae. to attend to to have time for yon. I’ll “On this settle with folding candle “ I hojie you have been nhle to find turn your affairs over to my munuging th e A n t i s e p t i c , stick,” he observed, "Benjamin Mil- m,\ I Healing Powdor to iut the extent of Mr. Brewer’s mla- clerk.” man fell asleep In the Revolutionary I• k i «hake intoyour shoes. ’ortnnes," he said. “ Thank you," Mllman suld, rising. war ami was captured by a red coat “ Misfortunes !” Loddon cried. “ Ills “ I shall not come again. Send In your major, who gave him liberty owing la •rimes, you mean.” bill at once. You have been loyal to his pretty skill on a six string hast “ I nm not asking you to prejudge our Interests, and that is why we em viol. The viol Is In the next room I ny friend,” I'eter MUman said quietly. ployed you.” I ’eter Mllman passed These three mahogany pieces,” ha ‘I want to know If the morning papers over the Loddon outburst of hate ns said, pausing before a six-legged hlgli | ire correct In stating that his entire though It had not Interested hlin. case of drawers, “ once belonged ts | BAEIFS LOVE fortune has disappeared.” Herman Loddon wutched him depart the man whom Aaron Burr speaks of “ They are,” Loddon answered with with the feeling that his triumph had M 3.W ÍÜ 1 3V 3 SYRUP •ns my friend Hamilton whom in appearance of satisfaction, “ und as not been as assured as he could huv*» [ Tka Infant«’ and C.bildrta’x RtfaUtor killed.' you wouldn't take my advice about wished. He had won no look of fear Pleasan t to ftlve—pleasant to (T O BE C O N T IN U E D .) take. Guaranteed purely v «g - vour Investments, your money has • ta h le «n d absolutely harm le*«. I t qu ickly overcom e« colic. gone too. I tell you, Milronn, you've ❖x<-x- x v x : x ->x<frx<»x->x<-x*x-: x v x : x-:-x-:-x-:-x-:-x-:-x-: x-:-x-:-x-:-x-:-x :-x»x« d 'irrh f,ea , flatulency .;-i only got what I prophesied a million o t t * r lik e dlAnrder«. T h e o p e n published times." fo r m a l« Mllman 1 Never before had Hermnn F N / V evs ry f ir s » . Loddon presumed so much. Loddon'« father had been the Mllmnn coach Some persons assert that John How fields of Italy while he was visiting f man at their country place at Hast ard Payne wrote his wonder song, that country. After writing the words, ings years before. When he had been “ Home Sweet Home,” while In a debt he Jotted down a semblance of the killed In a runaway accident, Peter ors’ prison. Others say he wrote It tune he had heard In Italy ami sent Mllman, the elder, had taken charge at a time when he was penniless and the suggestion to the composer, Harry of the son's education and had even homeless, stranded In London. Payne, E. Bishop, who produced the air that tually set him up In practice and however, leaves behind him the state ao admirably flta the worda.— Kansas given him his first case. ment that he was a fairly successful City Stur. V o f d i i f i f u r i n f blotch«» and "Then nothing Is left?" Mllman I playwright, with a good supply of irritation*. U m money and excellent prospects ahead asked. F o lly o f Fashion “ Not a cent. You’re luckier than when he wrote the song. He did ad "So great w h s tho weight of t h « Brewer Is, because you've got a valu mit that he was somewhat depressed able lot on Fifth avenup, and there arc at the time he penned the words, but elaborately padded garments worn by | fifty men waiting to make you an o f he attributes his depression to a dull men In England during the reign o l fer for It and put a big building where October day, merry crowds passing his Henry the Eighth,” points out Fred window as he sat and watched them. erlclt Tisdale In an article In Liberty, that mausoleum of yours stands.” Quick relief from pain, Mllman said nothing. lie allowed He was lonesome. Being a wander “ that a bench was built along the «ho« prestar«. Loddon's sneer at his home to pass er. he had strayed far from home, hut house of parllanowt h o the falntlnj j A » öS drug and tfioe it o n i Loddon did not know that, when at times he had memories of the days dandles could rest their muttressea Hazen Brewer Incurred the enmity of he spent In happy childhood with a thighs.” put rm t on tha great financial Interests, and was so mother he adored In a humble cottage P u tn ts gon a Out of Yellowstone park's total i hardly pressed for money, he had at Eu«thampton, L. I. The tune he come by night to Mllman and begged adapted from a song he had heard s of 3,34*t square miles, each American W . N. U., P O R T L A N D , N O . 2 0 -1 9 2 / In utter desperation for a loan. It peasant girl singing to herself la the citizen owns an area 30 feet squar«, Slowing U p ? O EARL L A „ FORGE “The Square Deal Barber” Estacada’s Leading Tonsorial Artist Popular Prices — Robbing a Specialty Baths Shop on Broadway Estacada, Ore. R. G. 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