A N O PEN
SECRET
By MARGARET C. QUINSY
Copyright by American Proas Asso­
ciation, mu.
“ 1 urn sorry, Helen, to have been
obliged to ask you to come to the o f­
fice to execute these papers, but you
• nd 1 are not the ouly ones concerned.
However, I have got mutters I d such
shape that all can be attended to
right here.”
"Thunk you, guardy."
“ Now If you w ill sign here and here
and here— There: the transfer baa
been effected, and you are the posses­
sor o f your property, to do with It as
you like."
“ Weren't you rather young for moth­
er to put all my Inheritance In your
hands?-'
" I was only twenty-seven, but 1 hod
had my profession four years, and—
yell, your mother was Inclined to” —
“ She was very fond o f you.”
“ You don't know anything about
that You were too young to notice her
partiality fo r me.”
“ Girls o f tw elve to thirteen are
usually set down as not knowing any­
thing. Don't you believe It. When I
was thirteen I knew a lot. Mother
used to talk to me about you. and I
knew very well what she thought of
you. Thnt's the reason she left all my
property In your hands. She told me
all about that too. She said to me:
'Helen, Jim Is not only honest, but he’s
smart. I ’d rather trust him to handle
your property after I'm gone than
many older men.’
“ She was a mighty good woman,
your mother. A fter what you have
said 1 can’t compliment her Intelli­
gence without directly complimenting
myself.”
“ She told me a great deal more, too—
that is, when she made the will she
bad an object in making you my guard­
ian.”
“ W hat object?”
“ That would be telling.”
“ Did she forbid you to tell me?”
Statistic* recently collected show the
horse population o f the world to bo
111.000. 000. O f this number there are
11.000. 000 In Asia. 28,000,000 In North
America and 43,000,000 in Europe.
•No."
EVERY ARTICLE IN M Y STORE GREATLY REDUCED-
GEO. G. PATERSON’S
■ r 9V J*C A J* M . S M I T H
With prime mink pelts worth all the
way from (7 to (12 apiece It is not sur­
prising Hint a good many boys and
men have their traps out and make
regular trips o f inspection during the
( J I V H a man a choice between going
winter mouths.
to a concert and playing the agree­
six months before the child Is able to his maiden aunt and he will
„id enough to be affected by evil lo- bunt a bowling alley.
Ituences o f whatever kind is the time
The person who has never invested
i to begin his Instruction lu morals, and
In a get-rich-qulck scheme has never
wlth most kids o f average Intelligence
known the wild thrill o f opening a let­
and perception this is while they are
ter with the secret hope that it con-
still at breast or bottle.
ulna a check for (1,000.
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
S T 1 C,m “ n tha‘ never 1 When a city m .n geta the back to
hi
im
1611 e comea to 1>aj’ the land fever his w ife seldom has the
tre s s ™
,,88es8! r? ,aud forethought to hire him to a farmer
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^ m a n and it Is a for a month as a thoru boJ.
good plan to look into the charges
which a fellow has to pay for living
One nice thing about winter is that
In a civilized and orderly society.
your w ife no longer tells you five
times a day to be careful about letting
Oue who keeps close tab on the but- ^ the flles'
ter situation states that within the past
few weeks thousands of tons of this
The man who can always tell you
commodity, bought during the summer just bow to do It is as about popular
of 1910 and held through the dlsas- | In the neighborhood as a family with a
trous slump which came u few months
goat.
later, have been put on the market at
prices ranging from 28 to 30 cents or
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Is the girl with the drug store com-
about 8 cents below the price paid for !
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western extras
! P,exlon
“ nd the
ta llo r m ade
flSure
who marries the aged millionaire guilty
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o f obtaining money under false pre­
tenses?
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That the average flock of hens do not
have tbo dust butb privileges that they
would tike Is plainly indicated In the
avidity with which they will get on to
a pile of usbe8 or pick out a dry spot
of mellow earth lu some sheltered spot
most any time during the winter
months. This dust bath is one luxury
the hens should not be denied, is easi
ly provided and will do much toward
keeping them free from verrniu.
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President Taft helped stow away a
fifty dollar prize pie that was present-
ed to him by a lady friend eighty-four
years old. This Is how it was made:
Two pints of apples cut in squures.
half a pound of sugar, a pint of water
and a teaspoonfui of grated nutmeg.
The crust of this prize winning culina­
ry creation was made of two pounds
“ No."
of flour, a pound of butter and half a
“ Then why don't you tell?"
pound of lard. Do you notice that
“ Becuuse I ’m not going to do It.”
"There’s no getting around that rea­ shortening?
son. There are no promises, no deduc­
tions, no conclusions. I call that flat
reasoning."
“ And 1 call it my own individual
reasoning."
"Rather It Is woman's reasoning. I
must discover some method o f getting
It out o f you."
“ How are you going to do it?"
“ That would be telling."
“ Oh. I'm to be hoodwinked Into tell­
ing you my secret."
"So It Is a secret! W ell, how many
know It?”
"Only I.”
"W ho would be most Interested to
know It?”
“ Don’t you wish you knew?" (making
a wry face.)
“ Was this object o f your mother
solely for your benefit, comfort, pleas­
ure?”
She was looking for a trap and con­
sidered her reply before giving It.
“ Well, that depends."
“ On what?”
"W hether It would give comfort or
plensure to some one else.”
"N ow we are getting on.”
“ is this a twenty question game?”
" I t Is my method o f getting your se­
cret.”
"Oh. well, go on!”
“ Is this other person masculine or
feminine?”
“ That's not fair. It's a direct ques­
tion. 1 decline to answer it."
“ You might as well have admitted
thut the reply. If made, would be mas­
culine.”
"H o w do you make that out?”
“ I'm not submitting to a process; it
la yon. H aving learned that this other
j>er*on wno would be Interested In
your secret Is masculine, perhaps I
cun And out more about him by learn­
ing bis age. Is be old, middle aged
or young?”
“ Young."
n e started. There was a look o f
disappointment on his face.
” 1 would divide a - man's life Into
three sections—young from hi* birth
tn thirty, middle aged from thirty to
fifty, old from then till death.”
" I wouldn't divide It that way. A
man la young till forty-flve.”
n e drew a breath o f relief and went
on catechising, but took another tack.
“ Would this party” —
"H e isn't a party, he’s a man.”
“ Would this man who would be In­
terested In this secret be Interested In
it pecuniarily?”
Humor and
Philosophy
That there Is still a good sized nig­
ger In the wood pile somewhere In the
transit o f apples between producer uud
consumer is showu In the prices paid
growers in central and eastern states
for apples the past season—In some
cases as low as 37 cents a bushel—and
the price now being paid by the chap
who eats ’em—from 3 to 5 cents apiece.
Any oue who will locate this Ethio­
pian anil chase him out o f the wood pile
will confer a favor on his fellows.
Our idea o f a self sacrificing w ife is
one who buys her clothes to please
I her husband.
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. ° " 8tandard °\ pr° 8perlty , 8 f l l £
b\ th° amouat o t money our frlends
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When he hears that an enemy has
said something nice about him the wise
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“ “ “ “ f a" ake nl« hts wondering what
he is PlannlnB
Furniture, Rugs, Carpets, Linoleums, Oil­
cloth, Mattings, Paints, Oils, W a ll Paper, Etc.
A s my lease expires January 1, 1912, and I haven’t se­
cured a store building to move into, have decided to sell
my $9,000 stock of Furniture, Pianos and in fact every­
thing in my store at a big discount— in fact some articles
below Cost— in order to make a quick turn.
Every
article will have the old selling tag on and the discount
price m arked in plain figures.
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The first customers will have the cream of the sale.
stock is exhausted the sale is off.
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Not So In Lift.
Behold the villain on the stage
Who hangs about the Joint
And has In manner and In speech
Not one redeeming point.
He never has one kindly thought
In all his monstrous heart.
One grain of pity, only one.
Would outrage so his art.
P a i n t s tZu. Varnish
In life, were you to look around.
You would not And a lad
Constructed as the villain la.
Of that you may be glad.
There’d be no living with a man
Or standing for his game
Who didn't have a single speck
Of goodness to hts name.
ly as possible at Cost.
The villains that you meet in life
Are very pleasant chaps,
N ot working at It all the time
Or half the time perhaps.
And, on the whole, they average up
W ith others. I'm afraid.
Who are not thought to be so much
Addicted to that trade.
My Entire Stock of Varnishes will be Sold
. . . . at a Discount. . . . . . . .
wakes
up
H ave
a good assortment of colors on hand.
It."
“ But the nights
are so short.
If you intend to paint in the near
future, it will pay you to take advantage of this.
The villain struts about the stage,
W hile the usual time for using the
Hla only thought to kill,
King road drag is Just follow ing rain»
T o rob and plunder and elope
during the open weather o f the spring,
Or else destroy the will.
summer or full, there is no time when
But If he feels that way in life
His sails he has to trim.
bettor work can be done with j»ne o f
With such bad acting day by day
these drags than during pleusant win
W e wouldn't stand for him.
ter weather when there is no snow on
the ground and when the surface of
Too Protaio.
the dirt rouds has been softened and
“ H ow are your good resolutions com-
mellowed by warm wealher. Especial­ lug?”
ly is such work with the road drag to
“ I didn't make fcny."
be urged when the roads froze up
“ Why not. It doesn't cost any­
rough and rutty.
thing."
"1 can never keep them.’*
It w ill be a very natural mistake for
“ Say, have you no Imagination 1"
the farmer In the northern part o f the
corn belt to make this year to select
Dazzled.
larger ears o f corn for seed than will
“ H e can't see anything that we put
muture In an nverage season. The past before him. no matter how much we
seasou was one of unusual length argue i t "
between frosts, there being 1GT> days
“ Certainly n o t”
instead of 120 days, as is often the
"B ut why?"
case. This made possible the ripening
“ He's always In the limelight.”
o f huge, deep kerneled ears, seed from
which It would he decidedly unsafe to
Bosot.
use next year for any considerable por­
“ Isn’t she beautiful.”
tion o f the field crop.
“ Sure, she is beautiful, and do you
kDow she is the busiest woman In
The calln lily Is a favorite plant with town?”
many and reaches its highest i n f e c ­
"W h at is she busy about?"
tion during the winter month* when It
“ Just being a widow.”
has had a couple o f months' rest dur
lng the summer and is put in a well
Too Brief.
drained pot and fertilized generously
While prepared fertilizers give good re­
“ I dreamed last
sults. pulverized cuw or sheep manure
night that I had
Is excellent. A liquid made by soak
fallen heir to a
lng some o f the fertilizer In water for
u few hoar* should be applied at least
million.”
once a week. The calln being a warm
“ That is so un­
country plant should be given pleuty
satisfactory.”
of sunlight and should uot be allowed
to get a chill.
“ I rather enjoy
Catalpn seeds for spring planting
may l>e kept through the winter nicely
by mixing with sand, putting in a box
and burying Just below the surface in
a dry place until spring. In the pre­
paring of nuts for seed It Is well to
reproduce In a general way the condi­
tions which are to be found during the
winter months In the wood lot where
not trees grow—a covering to take the
place o f leaves and yet sufficient ex­
posure so that they will be subject to
frost, but not to alternate thawing and
freexing. as would be the case where
the nuts are entirety exposed.
PEMOVAL SALE
ODe
before
half the money is
spent."
Again the man started and looked
disappointed.
Natural Question.
"Then he Could not be Interested In
“ So you are going to m arry T "
yon. because you hsve a fortune."
“ No.”
"Ob, I didn't mean that. H e wonld
“ No? I heard you were."
not love me fo r m y "—
“ Living I* too high.”
8ba stopped short and blushed.
“ W ell, don't you ex|»ect to live If you
The questioner was happy. He had
don't marry?"
gained an important point In fa c t
There may be some readers o f these
he had learned the whole secret, of notes that do not know how to best
Sure Sign.
which he had been reasonably sure at prepare the grapefruit for the table.
“ Percy Is such a sentimentalist."
the first, but had from tw o o f her re­ W hile the fruit may be cut In halves,
“ W h e w !"
plies received a bed scare.
the seeds removed and served at once
“ W b a tr
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“ I think.” he seld. “ that I ’ll try to with plenty o f sugar, a much more sat­
"1 didn’t think you’d let him get
learn this secret on another occasion. isfactory way la to prepare them the
etuck on you."
W ill yon be at home this evening?*'
night before. A fter cutting them at
“ I suppose so.”
right angle* to the seed axle the cen­
Explained.
"W ell. I l l drop In about half past tral seed core should be removed by
“ I am not afraid of anybody."
ft. Too are an smart about It that I snipping the tough membrane* or walls
“ Why did you back down before Bob
haven't moch hope o f worming the se­ with a sharp pair o f setsaora. The
cret out o f yon. but I can still try. membra nee should also be cut where then?”
yon know." ,
they Join the rtDd. T w o or three ta-
" H * h: B ob * nobody."
“ Tee. you can try."
biespooofula o f sugar should then be
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H e called the same evening, but It put I d the center and scattered over
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sms she who learned his secret, not th ecu ta u rf.ee. By morning the fruit
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be hers. When be left her they were will be properly rweetered had most
That their husbands owe their greatness
engaged.
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. appetising.
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To their wives' meet leader care.
I have a big stock on hand.
Hurry, it is yours
I have a beautiful prize in my window
for the one holding the correcct num­
ber.
A number will be given with
each $1 purchase, which gives you a
chance to win i t ..................................
D I T/^1 Q
Great and
I \ U U J "
Small
consisting of Body Brussel, Axminster, Jap. Brussels, Velvets, English Art Squares,
Grass, Wood-Fiber, Ingrains, W ool, Half W ool, Etc,
Among other things too numerous to mention are IRONING BOARDS, PICTURES,
BABY WALKERS, BABY BUGGIES, MATTRESSES, Ostermoor, SEWING MA­
CHINES, PORTIERES, Table Cloths, Towel Racks, Clock Shelves, 4 Mission
Clocks, at cost; Hall Racks, Shades, Pillows, Paint Brushes, Trunks, Suit Cases,
Sulkies for the baby; Baby Jumper, Toy Doll Buggies, some Doll Furniture, Or­
gans and a thousand more things, all reduced.
Don’t forget to get tickets on the
Valuable Prize in the window
i Need the CASH, You Need the GOODS, and
I am Here with the Goods
GEO. G. PATERSON
Furniture and Pianos
No Term* on Price«
Forest Grove, Oregon