were, xlifhtly raised at the corner*, f i r
M AJ.
GEN-. W IL S O N .
ing their owner the half-sad, half-won
dering expression of an animal.
O n f o f th e N in e l u r v l T l n g G e n e r a l»
He smiled now— an odd, twisted smile.
o f th e t 'i s l l W a r .
" It is not always that I have been on
O f the 253 m ajor generals and those
the front seat of a motor, signorina.”
o f superior rank, upon whom fell the
Then, breaking off abruptly, "This is m ilitary res]>onsihiiltieti of the held
Andelys,” he said, in his usual tones.
during the course of the Civil War,
"That spire— it is a good piece of Nor
^
only nine survivors.
Of
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man
architecture,
do
you
not
think
so?"
there
are
By
All right» reserved.
But Annette only gazed absently ahead these M ajor General James Harrison
Edith Morgan Willett
as *he motor tooled
through
crooked j Wilson, famous cavalry leadei ana^en-
► ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
♦ ♦ ♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ 4
streets at a pace that gave chickens and gineer officer, Is president of the Cat-
small children scant time to get out of airy Society of the Armies of the Unit-
the way.
! ed States.
The Place to Go for Perfect Rest and Every Conceiv
When they had left the little town | <;eueral
________ Wilson was horn In Shaw-
In line with the best modern productions of fiction quite behind, she turned to her compan- [ ncct~nvn> m .f in 1837. His grandfather
able Form of Healthful and Delightful Recreation
o t tiie founders of Illinois and
which we are offering, this serial is timely, intensely entertain ion again. "N o w I am going to make a | wa#
conjecture " this abruptly
.P j* «
J» |
wua an ..„sign In the w ar
ing and dramatic, and should be received with enthusiasm French, the p.mfuilly correct French of
a
|„ the »la c k
Best of food and an
by every reader who delights in a bright, interesting story. the boarding school. Do you know — t or A
abundance of it. Fresh water from springs. A ll modem
she flushed a little, inwardly surprised H awk W ar. General Wilson was edu-
It is entitled,
he
hauffbur and the ewels
and at her own audacity— " I ’ve been wonder- (rated at McKemlree College and at the
necessities, such as telegraph, telephone, markets freshly pro
««side from the automobile element, which is fascinating, ing— tell me If I'm not right in fancy- United States M ilitary Academy, ir o n
vided
every day. Fuel in abundance. Cottages partly fur
has a wide range in land and ocean travel and includes Ing that at some time or other In the n-|,jclj he graduated ill 1880. H e w as
course of your life you've been a «<>1- I assigned to the cor|>8 of toiKlgrapblcal
nished or unfurnished to be had cheaply. Strict municipal
scenes and incidents of varied interest.
T h e gifted dier; you know there ia such an unmis- en gineer* and w as the chief engineer
sanitary regulations.
takably martial look to y o u r shoulders |of fh(>
Koyal expedition, lie then
dith
organ
illett the story
authoress is
The chauffeur smiled.
^ ou ha\e ■
,
w
0
u
1 m tBaiu •• h*» «».id
of the South,
finely written and interest is maintained to the very last great discernment, mademoiselle,
is reached by way of the Southern Paci
ne saia . served in the Department
*
politely. "Vea, I have been in the For- ¡»id acted as aide-de-camp to General
chapter.
fic to Albany or Corvallis, thence Corvallis & Eastern R. R.
region— you know nothing of that . George H. McClellan, Itelng present at
T h e heroine is A n n ette Bancroft, the daughter of a elgn
Train service daily and the trip a pleasure throughout.
organization? It Is an extraordinary af- tile battles o f South Mountain and An-
retired army officer, whose home is in Washington.
Miss falr. the Foreign Legion"— hi» tones tietam. Appointed lieutenant colonel
Bancroft and her mother pass a wonderful year visiting quickened, gaining .1 certain enthusiasm ¡„ t|1(1 vo|U|,teer staff of the army, hi
most marvelous chemical solution \ ovelll|M,r »^112, he served as ctilef en-
England in May, summer in Switzerland, the T yrol in in "the
existence, capable of (Jep.’iv ‘ .r a man
glueer and Insjiector general o f
the
,
„
Septem ber and the winter in the Riviera, where their — anv man— of hi« identity auu turning
him 'into a bit of military mechanism. Army of t(ie Tennessee, mid w as active
automobile was bought
T h e y are robbed in a mysterious neither m ore nor less. I served in the Di tile operation« around Vicksburg. lie
| became captain o f engineers in May,
manner ot very valuable jewels, and this incident forms ranks for two years.”
Our elaborate new Summer Book gives a concise description
He stopped short, and as suddenly the 1S8,'{. tnd brigadier general o f volun-
the central point in the romance.
Complications ensue
of Newport, including a list of hotels, their capacity and
light, the vigor of an unwonted exalta- . teers
In October o f that year ami was
1
rates. Call on, telephone or write
and around these are grouped plot and counterplot and tion, went out of his face, which settled engaged in tbe operations near Chat-
tlle lmtt..... . Missionary Ridge
numerous incidents that are intensely depicted. There is into its habitual impassivity. Replacing
hi* goggle*, he lowered his cap over his *
a strong element of love and devotion all through the eyes, and folding his arras sat looking
story, ending in a dramatic way that is original and imperturbably ahead down the long road
— a motionless leather-encased figure sug
striking
gestive of motor cars and naught beside.
General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon
T h is serial has a further e’ement of fashionable society
This attitude was not conducive to fur
life that lends a pleasing variation to its development. ther confidences, but Annette Bancroft at
twenty-one had all the instincts of a born
T h e double im(>ersonation, the loss of the jewels, the rapid biographer,
and when once on the scent
change in «sc ne, all continue to maintain the interest, and of possible romance was not to be turned
aside.
the result is a story of superior power and merit.
" I suppose," she hazarded at last, join
ing the loose ends of his unfinished story.
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‘that after you left the army you took
IN T H E
"All right," laconically agreed Mrs. this up?"
C H A P T E R I.
Springtime in France— a poet’* theme ! Waring, and the car shot on. "M r. Buist
Her companion hesitated, twisting his
The charm of a gray-blue sky strung with : h not an admirer of ruins," remarked the long, brigand-like mustaches.
bead-like clouds, of level fields, of dis chauffeur sotto-voce, and then, as his
‘Well, not immediately," he responded
MUTUAL HIRE RELIBP ASSN.
tant spires and turrets jotted picturesque companion acquiesced with a whimsical guardedly, still speaking in French.
"I
ly on the horizon ; and always the white shake of the head, he shrugged his leath got down here by degrees; that is the
road, glistening, undulating ahead, keep er-covered shoulders and sat staring at way it generally happens. Let me see—
ing step with the windings of the Seine! rhe Englishman's square back with eyes I started by tutoring a bit in Switzer
ns t h e :
It was with the safety of utter enjoy which glittered behind their goggles.
land ; the boy had consumption and died
ment that Annette at hist closed her tired
The chauffeur himself was not an in in less than a year. After that one took
eyes and, leaning back on the crimson effective figure, in spite of the goggles, up what came easiest. The transitions
cushions of the tonneau, gave herself up the heavy brown beard, and brigand-like do not amount to much, but"— he laughed
,,,
to the twin luxuries of perfect motion moustache, not to mention an automobile suddenly, a frank, gay. wonderfully light-
th<*
Kuuxville. Placed ill
and perfect air.
livery which could not quite obliterate hearted laugh— "in the course of
my i*>iuiuaiid o f the third division of the
<’hugchug, snorted the motor as it swept the graceful lines of his person and the checkered career I have been respectively C a v alry Corps In tbe A rm y o f tbe
ahead, consuming space at the rate of straightness of his nose.
guide, courier, croupier, and even cabman I'otoniHe, lie bore a conspicuous part in
sixty kilometres an hour. Over the girl’s
Six weeks ago it was that he had ap on occasions, besides officiating aa motor the operations under (¡eneral Philip II.
head rollicked a merry wind, now steeped peared miraculously on the wide, shallow,
pilot for various racy individuals— not. of Rherldan, Including the Richmond raid
in sunshine, and again chill with the orange-potted steps of the Hotel de Baris,
course, including Hia Highness the Prince j nj t¡lt, combats near Petersburg. H e
breath of far-away ice fields. Behind lay at Monaco, at the very moment that Mrs.
led Ids division through tbe Shenan-
Paris, left that very morning, and now Waring was descending them, and. ap del Pino.
Dealer in
He paused with a faint shrug of the
campaign, including tbe battle of
only a confused, composite memory of de proaching her with a low bow, presented
lights which hail been crowded Into three to her a coroneted missive, in which no shoulders.
Dpequnn, until October, 1884, when he
delicioua weeka.
Ahead the teleacopic less a personage than the Prince Kode-
For an Instant the girl gazed at him Wtls ilss|Kne(j to the command of the
...
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....
,. , .
•yea of Iha motor pointed to Havre; and rigo del Pino sang the praises of one with eves that were unnaturally dilated.
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* uvalry C orps o f the military division
"IIo w interesting!” she murmured at
...
. .
then -Mine Hancroft ahivered alightly— Ludovic Sarto, who had managed his
" f ,hp Mississippi. Organizing a mount-
there would lie the Channel croiodng. new forty-horse power touring car for last, inadequately.
The chauffeur made a slight bow.
««•
llf 1
“ >«'»• he contributed
ftouthampton, Liverpool, and eventually two years in a trip which must have tak
"Rouen already!” he ejaculated, dis largely to the success won In the west
— home!
en in all the corners of the globe, dis
Home. To the girl In the tonneau that playing nerve, resource and science in missing the subject and glancing around, by the armies of General Thomas and
magic word algnitied chiefly an nlmde in all motoring exigencies, besides intimate then relapsing into his careful, conscien- General Sherman, particularly by bis
capture of
Selma aiul Montgomery,
H afreet, one of Washington’* unfsshion
fellowship with Baedeker and "unusual tious English.
"See you our auberge at the end oi \|;,
and Columbus and Macon, (ia.
able thoroughfare«, where bay-windowed linguistic ability." The effect of all this,
that
little
atreet?
How
have
we
made
"twenty-foot fronters" elltow each other endorsed by the coronet, had its influence
A tto rn e y -a t-L a w
In 28 days lit* captured live fortified
He pulled out hia watch.
with offenaive familiarity; where walls on Gussle Waring, who engaged the par the run?"
cities. 2.'! stands of colors, 288 guns
“Good!
Seventy
kilometres
in
as
many
are narrow, and ceilings low, and tile agon on the spot.
•'»id 11,820 prisoners, among them Jef Forest Grove,
Oregon
• inell of cookery Imunts the air.
And h o Ludovic Sarto steered the new minutes."
ferson Davis. April, .1885, he w as pro
It wfis in orje of these so-called "desir Napier motor over the upper Cornice,
W h iz! buzz! anng the
motor,
it*
able reeldetu*«” that Annette’« father « down to Monaco and Monte Carlo, and breath expiring like a wounded sky-rocket, moted m ajor general of volunteers.
In January. 1888, lie w as mustered
retired army officer on half pay -and her finally tip to Nice, where, Mr. Gerald aa it drew up in front of a red brick
two little brothers had been keeping bach Buist. 1 1 1 1 ancient ally of Mrs. W aring’s Normanesque facade.
"itt o f tiie volunteer service and in July
elor's hall without her for the past year. t besides being second son of Lord Lind
"S a rto !" called Mr*. W aring peremp w as commissioned lieutenant colonel of
However, Major llaneroft was a wise say ), appearing on the scene, the new' torily.
the Thirty-fifth Infantry and lirevetted
parent, as well as a kind hearted if some chauffeur was relegated ignominiously to
Tender, Juicy, Steaks,
She stood, minus her dust-cloak and m ajor general in the I'. S. A. fo r gal-
what prosale mortal, and when Mrs. the tonneau and the society of Miss Ban
goggle«. a dazzling tailor-made
vision lant and meritorious .services during Forest Grove,
Ore
gon
Dick Waring, who was a distant cousin croft.
with a big bunch of violet« at her waist, the war.
Roasts and Stews,
of his lafe wife's tind 11 handsome woman
A month is a long enough time to reg smiling with unwonted graclousness to
In 187» he was honorably discharge«!
to boot. had taken him off forcibly in her ister an impression, and in Annette’s the chauffeur, who hastened to do her bid
•»id engaged in large railroad and en-
Sausage and Bacon
victoria one tine day of the previous diary it will he found recorded that there
ding. Then, accepting hia hand, regard-
.
,
spring, ynd begged "the loan of that nine are worse things in this sad world than less of the Englishman beside her. the
“^ r a t io n s
nt home and
girl of Ilia for twelve months on the other being whirled through space in a comfort landlord in the doorway, and an obsoqui- a '|1‘0jul.
Ill May, 1808, he w as coni-
A il kinds of Fresh
aide of the ocean." he Imd aaid " Yes" able arm-chair, tete-a-tete with an agree ous commis-voyagpur who was pressing missioned m ajor general in the volun-
HAIR CUTTING A SPECIALTY
without hesitation.
able individual who has apparently been forward to her assistance, she stepped teor service for tiie Spanish w a r and
After all, when a man has a penchant everywhere and seen everything and who
Forest Grove
nimbly to the ground ami passed into the commanded the First and Sixth A rm y Postoffice Row
for doing his own marketing and divides knows how to talk about it all in excel
inn. followed by her cousin.
Corps In Georgia and Cuba and took .
hia time satisfactorily between the eluh lent idiomatic English.
Mr. Gerald Buist with an expression- part in the Porto Rico campaign. He
and hia newspaper, an only daughter is
"Chauffeur!*,” if there be such a word,
not
always
Indispensable— especially is a curious craft, which admits of its less countenance sauntered off to the Wlls wlth the ch in a R e|,e f Expedition
postoflice,
wondering
what
possessed
^
when she writes regularly and doesn’t re votary working like a coal heaver and
‘ommanded the co-operating- force
Gussie Waring to make such a fool of
quire an allowance.
Reside«, whst an engine driver combined, while at the same
herself;" hut the man whom she had l,f A,,terloan an'1 H rltl" h fo o p s in the
opportunity for the child!
Europe at time preserving the manners and appear delighted to honor stood by the motor '«I'tu r e o f eight Chinese temples. H e
Forest Grove
-
-
Oregon
twenty-one !
A witching combination, ance of a gentleman.
rooted to the ground, gazing in a rapt. " lso commanded the American forees
even with an exacting chaperone to ofset
"I know he’s a gentleman." Annette reverential nay at
hia leather-covered In Peking. When K ing E d w ard o f En- '
Its charms.
told herself irrelevantly, and for the gloves.
gland w as crowned General W ilson rep
"Y ou know,” Mr«. Waring had inform twentieth time, that June day, as they
(T o be continued.)
resented the United State« Army. He
ed her proposed charge very frankly. "I've left Chateau Gaillnrd— a pin point on the
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:
j was placed on the retired list In 1001
quarreled with Julie— and. any way. one sky line speeding on to Andelys, which
o n l r an «n ic e B o r .
h.v s|>eelal act of Congress as brigadier
get« tired of traveling forever with a shimmered alluringly through
a
blur
maid, « « I’ve had to do ever since poor haze.
" I f you want a ready-tohand study general of the U. 9. A.
I>lck departed this life— French women
Above the front seat a veiled hat and In the downright eussednesa o f human
---------------------------------- -
of that class have no Ideas to speak of a gray auto cap could be seen in close nature unw arped," sabl an Insurance
To° , , " rd *“ fr o n o o n r e .
FJREST GROVE
PACIFIC AVE
and are anch poor travelers. You won't propinquity, while their owners indulged agent, "ju st watch the office Imys In
A well-dressed man entered a flor-
mind hooking me up behind sometimes, in absorbed conversation, and the swing
your own or any other place o f busl- ¡, , s «hop In a certain city recently,
Everybody knows that
will you. dear, and packing mv trunk«? ing car traced eccentric scallops on the
ness.
In four cases out o f five the threw down a dollar and said
he
W e'll have a beautiful lime together ami broad road.
V e te rin a ria n
wanted some flowers to take home. He
we keep the best Meats
ere everything within reach."
**We will be in the ditch without doubt thing will come out this w a y :
" A new boy is engaged. H e
Is meek
'Vi,s finite unsteady, evidently taper-
And so Indeed they did. the wonderful if Mecster Buist ia not more careful."
County Stock Inspector
year linking a chaplet of experietfi-es that commented the chauffeur aside, in his pre- and mild, apologetic o f bearing and !nr- ° f f a spree, and the flowers were
to be had, but this is to
Annette, like a good t’atholic, was for cise foreign English. He hit his lip and courteous of «|s«« h. He is apparently nppnrontly
Intended
as
a domestic Office at Hancock & Gordon’s Livery
scowled as the motor skimmed the edg.« seeking an excuse for daring to make peace offering. T b e florist picked out
ever conning over and over.
remind you to give us a
Barn. Phone Main 33, Ind. 744
England In M a y ; summer In Switzer of the roadway in a tigiag course of per
a living. H e looks reproachfully at tbe a collection of hyacinths, and
the
ilously
acute
angles.
call.
land ; the Tyrol through September: then
head office boy. w ho orders him around caller started to leave, but at the door
The girl beside him laughed softly.
Italy and a winter on
the
Riviera,
in a rough, catcb-aa-cateh-can
style hesitated.
“ I say,” he said, thickly,
"H
ow
you
want
to
be
on
that
from
*eat
where the automobile had lieen bought.
Sush rudeness pains him.
(" w h a t ’s these flowers cnlled?”
“ H ya-
At this most exquisite point in Mi«« at this moment!" «he ejaculated.
"Xote this boy a little later.
Ilia cinths," said the florist. The customer
Sarto turned his head.
Bancroft'« rosary of recollections, a voice
F o re s t O ro v e , O re .
W EEKS G R A N IT E e o .
walked
"Sonsi, »¡Knorina?" he asked, eyeing rude superior has resigned or been die- shook bis bend. and. as he
broke in upon them.
3
0
1
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t
h
at.
P
o
r
t
l
a
n
d
.
O
r
e
.
hi«
companion
with
an
intent
glance
that
mimed,
and
he
Is
now
head
office
boy.
back
to
the
counter,
s
a
id
;
“Hotter
"W h e re «re we now?" it demanded, in
Jlr*. W arin g'« dear, trenchant tones, that gave way to one of reluctant admiration. Is he meek and mild, apologetic and have something easier. Gimme a dozen
f u r I k s q n « i n i P ric e s see
Annette Bancroft wa« not a beauty; reproachful? Say. he's a worse young roses."
carried above the whistle of the wind.
the
small
oval
fare,
with
Us
delicate
“ W h at'« that in the distance. Sarto?"
ruffian than his predecessor bullyrags
A rt nm l T r a n .
"Chateau Gaillard. madame."
Then, childlike features, had none of her cous the newcomer. Ignores the cuspidor,
“ I suppose jo u sometimes shed real
in's
emphatic
brilliance.
Xeverfhrles*.
Local Agent
F a re d G rove
to Annette. "There, to your right.
uses language not tit to print and conn's
tears at the theater?" said the ad
Annette opened her eye«.
Reside her the girl s *hy grace was hill of poten
dnngeronsly near 'snsslng’ his employer.
mirer.
the chauffeur was leaning forward and tiality hints half uttered, yet unmistak
He knows it all. anti a little more.
pointing to distant battlements.
Far able, of the charm that was to he.
" I am tempted to.” answered Mr. '
fine work
"There
are
exception«,
but
they
“ Why do yon imagine that I covet the
above the road on a rocky height the cas
Stormington Barnes, “when I look over
prove
the
ru
le."—
New
York
Globe.
I White Shirt - - 10c Dm w en
-
8 to 15«
tle towered— a sullen mam of ruiua, blot- front seat, signorina?” he inquired curi
the box office statement."— Washington.
| Soft
" . . .
10c White Waists - 10 to 20c
ously.
•ing the fair landscape.
9tar.
.
| White Skins - 10 to JO t'nderskirto - 1J to 25«
T h r
W ro n *
One.
________________________________
Again Annette laughed. " A h ! I know
The two people on the front seat of the
Undershirts -
-
Sc Stockings -
-
2I4e
Lady— I ’m looking for a governed*
W hen a woman Invites another to h*
motor had turned their heads and were you must long to he at the helm again,"
Handkerchiefs - - 2c Collars -
she surmieed sympathetically, "in your for my children.
- 2c
her guest, and finds that she has a pre-
staring up.
Men's White Vests 10 15 Pants -
- 25c
“ W hat's the use of stoppin' and over rightful place, with your hand on the
Manager
of
Intelligence
Office—- vtoua engagement, she feels that so far
C o m
.
- 10 20c Lusters
15 20c
haulin' that old den?” demanded the huge, •teering wheel."
Didn't we supply you with one last as she is concerned the slate has been
Towles . - 20c Do* Napkins
20c Dm
“ In my rightful place!" echoed the
broad -houldored. thick-set personage who
w eek ?
washed off.
The follow in* articles 50c per dot Pillow
The man had taken off bit
was grasping the steering wheel.
“ If chauffeur.
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Bed Sheets. Tablecloth«, Night Gowns. W _
Houses Rented and Rents Collected
y e're goin' to reuch Rouen this afternoon, g I «sees an unusual action with him—
Drawers, Underwear. Aprons and Corset Coven.
"W e ll, madam, according to her re
T h' n“ D wh”
* n5' >,,° '* * l* ° »P »
and
without
their
somewhat
grotesque
we'd better pueh. etraight on and keep
port, you don't need a g o v e r n «». l o g * ° u k * u|> * >,m‘
Y °u r ,lnw>
O“» « _
_
a^r nerve and muscles and temper for the protection hia eyes gleamed out unfamil
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a
tamer
anxious to heat
O rest
iar!/; long, heavy-lidded brown eyea they
Ore
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