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■ 4 -H -l ■1-1 ■l- l- l-l-l-l11 l-l-l I I I 'f H H » > the reason for our being shadowed by the young man w as a possible need of protection. One morning I met with a surprise. I lived iu a pension on the fifth lloor of a large building on the Fsqulllne hill. The floors beneath were occu pied for different purposes apart ments, studios, music rooms, and the like. I usually descended and ascend ed by an elevator. Hut on this occa sion, preferring not to wait for it. I 'walked down the stairs. Coming up between the second and third floors | w hom should 1 meet but my young friend. My look of surprise was met Alexaon Building | by the same pleasurable expression I East End First S t. ! had seen on his face before. I wished There is something pleasing in light | to thank him for his attention to me hearted youth ou the threshold of man at Frascati, but he gave me no oppor hood or womanhood, all unconscious tunity, bounding up the stulrs so light ly as to seem to be made of air. of the vicissitudes that flesh is heir to. I wondered if he lived lu the build PROPRIETOR Such a person l met during a sojourn ing, and. iu order to find out, after that in Home. He was about twenty years I usually w’alked downstairs, hoping to old. tall, lithe and handsome as Adonis. meet him when he came up. I did not Indeed, 1 never looked at him that he have to make many such trips before did not remind me of the statue of I saw a door opened. He came out the Apollo Belvedere in the Vatican and descended the staircase directly gallery. He gave the impression the ahead of me. This time he did not see Keek the Flies Out of statue gives-that he was about to me, for he was in haste and did not look back. Your House spring off Into space. Determined to open an acquaintance I first saw him in the gardens on the with him, I resolved that the next time Pincian hill. He was standing beside I met him I would drop something. He the great basin of the fountain, spat would pick It up. hand It to me, I tering the water with a light cane with w’ould thank him, and in this way the AlsoJScreen Safes, Ironing Boards, childlike interest. I have compared conventional gulf between us would be Bread Boards and Step Lad him to a statue. Perhaps a better com bridged. An opportunity soon occurred. ders of any size parison would be one on the Capitoline Entering the building in which I lived, hill, the Faun. While he had thè light I saw him coming on the street. In ings of the former, he had the relaxed- stead of taking the elevator. I walked COQUIU j E OREGON I m ss of the latter. I was standing on upstairs, and when 1 heard a footstep j the opposite side of the basin from behind me I purposely dropped my ! him. and he suddenly looked up to glove. take me unawares. Then I heard the comer behind me Ha saw that my whole soul went out mounting twro steps at a time, and pres to him. not exactly as a woman’s ently a voice beside me said: would go out to a strong man, but as “Slgnorina!” has installed a modern Steam Pres to a younger brother, for I was twen I turned, and ray friend was handing sing machine, and is prepared to ty-five years old. and my ideul of the my glove to me. I said. “Thank you serve his trade better than ever. man I would marry was some one very much,” whereupon he shook his Bring me your work. head mournfully, indicating that lie did older, more massive. SPRING SAMPLES ARE READY Though our stay at the fountain was not understand me. I knew enough See my display of suitings for spring but for a few minutes, though no word Italian to say “Gracia" (thanks) nnd and summer. New and nobby pat was spoken betweeu us, something told moved on, but the disappointment in terns at lowest prices. me that two kindred spirits had met my face was reflected in his. Bring your Repair Work to me. Those w’ere the first and last words and mingled. There is a certain kind of mating between a boy and a girl a spoken between us. I saw him once few years older than himself that may Front Street last well Into his manhood. The young man had returned my gaze in kind, his own indicating “I like you.” I could understand how he. skimming along the surface of the waters of life like a young bird, would find a com- !: My Platonic ij SKOOKUM Friend RESTAURANT Or Was It Above Earthly !! Love ? Rooms in Counetion GEO. C. T H E R A U L T Quick Says: by putting in Screen Doors and Windows. He makes them to order SCREEN DOOR FACTORY J. E. Q U IC K K. Halverson K. HALVERSON I should next meet him. I kept this paper with me always and never went out of or entered the building but I wus ready to hand it to him should I meet him. A week passed, and. though I entered and went out, climbing and descend Ing the stairs, I did not see him. Then one dny I received a letter through the mall addressed to Slgnorina Worthing ton at the pension where I lived. I opened it and found it w-ritten in the Italian language. The signature was unknown to me. Since I could not read it I took It to a friend, who trans lated it for me It was as follows: ! M y F r ie n d — I g o t o fig h t a d u el. If I liv e y o u w ill n e v e r re c e iv e th is l e t t e r ; if I file It w ill b e s e n t you b y m y sec o n d , who I h a s I n s tr u c tio n s to do so. I t Is sa id t h a t ' th e r e c a n be no s u c h th in g a s f rie n d s h ip j b e tw e e n th e s e x e s . 1 h a v e d isp ro v ed t h e I s t a t e m e n t by c o n c e iv in g a p u re a f fe c t io n | f o r you w ith w hom I h a v e no a c q u a in t - ; a n c e . S o s t r o n g Is t h is fe e lin g w ith in m e j t h a t I h a v e no d e s ire to iove o r b e lov ed ! w ith a view to m a r r ia g e . 1 c a n n o t b e lie v e | t h a t you w ill re c e iv e t h is le tte r , f o r it I d o e s n o t s e e m to m e t h a t I c a n e v e r d ie a n y m o r e th a n t h a t 1 c a n g ro w old. B u t j If you do re c e iv e it b e a s su re d , d e a ro e t s lg n o r in a , th a t , th o u g h m y body perish, m y a f fe c t io n f o r you Is e te r n a l. My reception of the missive was proof that he had fallen. Home, which till this moment had been full of inter est, suddenly became repulsive to me. It seemed typical of the w’orld of change in which we live. What is that gap of time from Augustus to Victor Emmanuel? It seemed to me rather a precipice toward which all Homans have been marching and over whose brink they have been pouring like the waters of a cataract. The Eternal City is rather the city of the dead. Of no other have we such records—of its men and women who shone resplendent for a brief season, then mingled with the oblivion of the past. I returned to America with a sad ness that has never entirely left me—a sadness occasioned by one with whom l had no acquaintance, yet between whom and me there existed a pure af fection unalloyed with human attri butes. Of all my momentary meetings with him the most vividly remember ed is that last, when I saw him on the brink of the chasm, yet as light heart ed as a bridegroom going to meet his bride. B eau tifu l S ou th ern B elle Is O ne o f J u n e ’s P retty Brides Str. 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LEONARD Boere ef Olroetor* “Your lather is dead.” The announcement was made at 10 o’clock ut night to Albert Huntington, I a young man who stood in the room ! where physicians had been attending a dying patient. The son covered his face with his hands as if to shut out a ! realization of his bereavement. Then, | suddenly taking them away, he said: “Why could he not have lived two 1 hours longer?” “What purpose would his living those two hours have served?” asked Dr. Pulsifer. “I cannot explain to you without en tering Into a loug series of legal tech nicalities. But I can say briefly that my father's estate will pass into the hands of a guardian for me. which will involve endless litigation. Tomorrow will bo my birthday. At 12 midnight I will be legally of age and could en ter upon the administration of my in heritance myself.” The doctor made no reply. He seem ed lost in thought. Then he drew the other physicians into a consultation in low tones and in a few minutes return ed to the young man and said: “Send for your notary.” “He is waiting below.” “Very well. You have heard of the recent discoveries, I suppose, In refer ence to what we call death—that when a man is pronounced dead and is what we have always supposed to be dead he Is not dead. He is like a man un conscious under water. If he Is per mitted to remain there he eventually rots. If he is drawn above the surface he may be resuscitated. Your father may be brought back to life and possi bly held there till after midnight.” “Do you mean it?” "I do. At any rate, I and my col leagues are willing to make the experi ment. But to take advantage of our efforts if we succeed you should have witnesses here to testify that the pa tient lived the day you became of age.” “Doctor,” exclaimed the young man, grasping the physician’s hand, “if you do this you will make a friend of me so long as 1 live. There is a reason why I am so anxious In the matter that I have not yet given you. A mar riage was arranged by my father and the parents of si girl I love that by the terms of his will is indirectly depend ent upon my coming of age and inher iting as a man instead of a minor. By prolonging my father’s life two hours you will not only save my estate from being decimated under an expensive lawsuit, but you will unite a pair of lovers." While tills dialogue was going on tiie assistant doctors were administer ing a hypodermic injection. Dr. Pul sifer while waiting for the effect oc cupied the attention of young Hunting ton, commenting upon the discoveries on which the expected result was based. “It has been shown,” he said, “that every function of life except conscious ness may be kept up after death. We hope to show that your father per forms those functions. If his heart beats and he breathes he is, in the eye of the law, alive. Experimenters have not yet reached a point where con sciousness may be restored, blit it is not unlikely that result may lie at tained.” One of the assistant physicians, who had his ear on the dead man’s chest, announced to Dr. Pulsifer that the heart beat faintly and asked if he should administer another injection. I)r. Pulsifer looked at his watch nnd saw that there still remained an hour and ten minutes to midnight. “Wait twenty minutes,” he said, “unless the heart beats cease.” “Doctor,” said young Huntington, “may I announce what you are doing to those waiting below?” “I would advise you to sny nothing.” “I may at least give hope to the girl whom I love and who loves me, may I not r “Yes. blit I would only give hope. I would not explain the matter to her.” Huntington ran downstairs, and when he returned a second hypodermic injection was being given to the dead man. In ton minutes the physician, who Imd administered it and who sat beside the bed holding the wrist, an nounced that he could feel a slight pulsation and. placing his ear on the left breast, found quite a strong beat. Dr Pulsifer took lip a hand mirror, held it over the nostrils, examined it, touching it here and there with a cam bric handkerchief, nnd announced that there was a slight moisture on It. This meant that breathing had recom menced. Huntington ran downstairs again and told his fiancee that his father was bet ter. kissed her and ran back Into the room where his father lay. At 11:40 by the clock the patient’s heart was beating with considerable strength, and his chest was rising and falling peceptibly. At 11:55 a Inst hy podermic was administered, and at 12:05 it was announced to those below that the patient had not long to live, and they were asked to go to the cham ber where he lay. Dr. Pulsifer stood with his watch in his hand and point ed to the patient. Several persons ex a mined ills heart nnd took note of his breathing. The lovers stood together, the girl’s arm within that of her fiance, looking on with awe. At 12:15 Dr Pulsifer made an examination of the patient and pronounced him dead. The notary looked at his watch snd took a deposition from every one pres ent that the exact hour of death was 12:15. POLK'S' CHICHESTER S FILLS k. E SHINE, V . - P r t s . L. t i. HAZARD, Cashier panion in a woman four or five years bis senior more readily than lu a young girl more like himself. And so I thought about him n great deal and wished that I might know' him. But. though I met tdm again and quite often, there was no way for me to make his acquaintance except by speaking to him without an introduc tion. I would not have hesitated to do so except that in a country where so milch attention is paid to conventional forms I feared to give him an incor rect idea of my status. As for him, doubtless he would have considered addressing me without being duly pre HEN invitations were sent out for the wedding of Miss Ethel McCor sented an insult. I presumed he was mick, one of the prettiest daughters of the south, to Francis H. Mo an Italian, though I did not know’. Adoo, son of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, on June 21 a buzz One day I w’as walking on the Jani- of interest was manifested among society circles in Washington, Bal ctilum, a hill on the same side of the Tiber with S t Peter’s, where the land timore and New York. Miss McCormick’s beauty is of the pronounced southern is devoid of buildings and has some type. She Is as talented as she is vivacious nnd charming She is the daughter thing of the sylvan appearance about of Mrs. Isaac E. Emerson and stepdaughter of Captain Emerson, who live at ancient Home, when, leaning against a Brooklandwood, a fine country estate twenty miles from Baltimore. The wed tree, I saw the young man who had so ding was scheduled to take place there. impressed me. lie had taken a posi tion similar to that of the statue of the Faun In the gallery on the Capi tolfne hill. For a moment my faucy more. I had made an engagement to H is M istake. ran away with me, and I w’ent back go on one of the many excursions in Gallyer- What mistakes men do In imagination 2,000 years, when fauns the environs of Home, nnd the only and satyrs and such creatures w’ere available train left early In the morn- I make! I was just rending that Colum supposed to Inhabit this very hill. On ing. I descended in the elevator, and bus thought ho had discovered the In seeing me a pleased expression came when I reached the ground floor, hear dies. Aspley-There are worse mis over his face—not a smile nor a look ing a step on the staircase, I turned takes than that When I married first of recognition, but simply a sudden rip and saw ray friend coining down. He I thought I had discovered paradise! was dressed in a dark suit, his coat ple of pleasure like a sunny pool stir buttoned close under his chin, conceal- | Discouraging a Vocalist. red by a light breeze. Our party passed on. leaving the ing his shirt bosom and even his white I Why a rertain parrot never learned collar. He raised his hat and smiled— j to talk Current Opinion tells in thyse young man behind. We descended the not a sad smile such as I would have words: hill toward St. Peter's, which stood out expected had I known the errand on j white against the green hills and a which he was going, blit the smile of I Kerrigan went ou a trip to South America and while there bought a little below’ us, and on reaching the one who has not yet learned how thin . pretty Spanish parrot as a present for Tiber took a car to our hotel. is the crust on which mortals walk and ' his friend O'Brien. He shipped the One day in company with a friend 1 the certainty of breaking through to bird to O’Brien at once, and when he rode on the electric railway across the destruction at Inst. Indeed, he seemed got back home he said: Campania to Frascati, n village In the light hearted ns a boy. “Dinny, did ye get the fine parrot I direction of Alba Ix>nga. from w’hich, Soon after this, yielding to my desire tradition says, came the people who to know him, I asked my landlady, who sint ye from Rio Janeiro?” “I did that. Kerrigan, and I want to first settled Rome. While taking some spoke both English nnd Italian, to refreshments at the hotel another car write for me on a bit of paper In Ital tell ye that 1 never put me teeth into a tougher bird iu me life!” came, and I saw’ my friend descend from the outside seats. T lost him Tn ian some sentences to hand him when the crowd, but when my companion, a woman, and I were climbing the hill Have you paid the p rin te r? back of the hotel, turning. I saw him , following us. We wandered about in O REG O N a n d W A S H IN G T O N the country, and I noticed that he never lost sight of us until we had de Manufacturers of scended. The C elebrated Berg m an n Shoe A D ire c to ry o f e a c h C ity, Tow n and . T H E 1HAMONI» nit\N1>. a V illa g e, g iv in g d e scrip tiv e sk e tc h of On returning to Home, having told f n illfu t A n k J “ The S tro n g est and N earest W ater < M • h c a .f r r'n each p lace, lo cation , p op u lation, tele what we had done, w’e were inform«! IMIU m I f . J g rap h . sh ip p in g and b a n k in g p o in t; ~ i that we had taken a great risk. Just Proof shoe made for lo g g ers, miners n o o th e r. R ut # f J «L . also C lassified D irecto ry , compiled by prospectors an m il) men. AsW ' r C J I I f tfl I T ITS beyond where we had gone is a town b u siness an d profession. l» l.\ M o > n B R A N D F l l . I . S , f. r li 5 years k n o v a «s B est, Safest. \ « ays R eli ahi« nearly ail the inhabitants of which 21 Thurm an S tre e t r . i . ro i.it * co., s f a t t l e are criminals. Then for the first time P out land , O a lo o x . SOLD BY DRDGtilSIS tYLRYMHLIF W à A J. SHERWOOD Pré«. Business Directory Correspondent* R .O . Dement, ^ A. J. Sherwood, National Hank o Commerce, New York ( L. Harlocker, L. 11. Hazard, | Crocker Woolworth N ’lBauk, Son F r a n i Isaiah Hacker. R .E . Shine. First N at’l Hank of Portland, Portisi«- « « « « « « **« *« -♦ « « « + / R. ¡S. K nowlton , President G eo . A. R obinson , Viee-Pres. R. II. M ast , Cashier. 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