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CLARENCE B U T T
W ill practice in all tha coarta of the
C. R. CHAPIN
LAWYER
w«.
plea remained together. How could
they knew that partner« were
changed the minute they got from
under surveillance ? The girls were
airy, radiant, innocent, tne young
men calm, impervious to comment
N
ever ^ passing the
or question.
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bounds o f propriety, they still bnf*
Too v a , “ is
A Cnee Where the Old Folks
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n. LOUISE o l n e y
tie« in all courts; Probate, Deeds,
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Perplexed, he gaaed at Sallie.
H tr blue eyes flashed welcome, but
her words turned him down. A ll
summer she had been refusing to
be seen with him. This tim e it was
the club dance. As they had been
friends from babyhood, he asked fo r
reasons.
“ S allie, what’s the m atter? I f
Office over First National
you really hate the sight o f me IT1
Bank
keep away i f it kills me, but some-
Phone White 3-1
how I don’t believe you do. W hat
have I done? O r is it Tracy, or
don’t you care, or w h at?" In the
P.F. HAWKINS
DENTIST
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Tom was always with Sallie, Rob
in the wake o f Mary. The couple«
weren’t matched to suit the elders;
but> f roul fearin g they were engag-
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r south Ruaata. the sea of an
>op of tbe Greek Orthodox
the center of a fine university
headquarters of tbe Seventh
commentTby reason of several I The port Itoa oa the «bore of tba
oadea. obviously innocent, ap- Black
«boot midway between tbe
S tiyA ccid en tal7 They all came
e one day dripping wet from ^
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home ten miles after the
m otor broke down — by arrange-
m en t It wag firet one thing, then
m oth er. Fin ally the parents com-
DR. A M. DAVIS
DENTIST s
UFE ON SWAN ISLAND.
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DENTIST
Office over U. S. Natl. Bank
Phone Black 171
D r. J o h n 8. R a n k in
Littlefield dt Romig
PHY8ICIAN8
and SURGEONS
Office in F in i N a ti Bank Bldg.
Phene, Black 81
DR. THOS. W. HESTER
Office ia Dixon Building
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DR. SARAH E. SMITH
Office in City Hall
Office Phone-White 147
J M n gX C T tete'J M J
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Br.C. E. Brown, D.V.S.
A U T O FUNER AL CAR
Calls Anawerad Day or Night
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Newberg Kanufactur.
ing èc Construction Co
Far Windows, Doors * General MU
Werk,
«M N. Mata Street
We pay highest cash prie« for
strictly fresh eggs
COL. W . 0. D U N N
-The 8py.” by Jama« Kenlmore Cooper
and tllen comments oa It:
.“Every Uanbattanaae knows the dif
ference between Manhattan Island and.
the Island of Manhattan. The first Is
applied to a small district In the vicin
ity of Corlear’s Hook, while the last
««braces the whole Island, or tba city
and county of New York as It le term
ed lb the laws.
“In other words, the latter to tba
present borouxb of Manhattan. Man
hattan Island waa a knoll a Ion« the old
water front of the Bast river «boat an
acre In extent surrounded by creeks
and salt marsh and mads an tola ad by
the tide. Near It was Henry Eckford’a
shipyard, an ancient landmark. .It
may be Identified on General Egbert L
Yleie'a map or the water courses.
“In tbs reticulation of tba present
streets R lay between Rlvtngtoo and
Houston. Sheriff and Cannon streets.
Columbia and Stanton streets Intersect
on what was about tbe canter of the
Island. Just north of It waa one o f tba
tidal mouths of a stream that arose
near First avenue an Sixth street.
Sewed through Tompkins square and
reached tbe river between Manhattan
Island and Burnt Mill or Braqda Mu-
nab Point about Third and Lewte
ALASKA'S FERTILE LANDS.
ded, flushing with anger as he Con
tinued: “ I don’t blame you, Sallie.
I hate it too. I " — But she turned
on him lik e a little tiger, leaping to
her fe e t to face him.
“ W hy don’t you go away, then?
D o you think that I — are you ask
ing me evenrwhere because you
think I " —
For answer he swept
her suddenly into his arms, holding
her face to his—a happy face, fo r
she had always loved Robert M ar
tin.
“ D ear, you must know how 1
want you— now, alw ays! But why
couldn’t our people be decently re
luctant? It's all so hi
ned! W e both hate b
vered in to marriage,
fe n i f I look at Mary-
but not y o u .'
“ And dad
tic at mere
everything
sight o f T<
dad and I don’t want— but when he
and m other greet me at breakfast
with that repressed 'H aven ’t you
go t som ething to te ll ns V a ir I could
gleefu lly announce Tom as th eir
future son. T h a t would be real re
venga. -Not that Tom wants me.”
T h e tw o looked ap ju st in tim e to
see S allie’s m other carefu lly steer
ing the children sway from the
summerhouse. It wad maddening.
S allie stamped her fo o t
“ 1 «im ply can’t be engaged to
you,’ Bob, with the fam ily sm iling
benighly and a ll th e old pussies pur
ring over the fitness o f the match 1
I can’t I"
. “ W ait till you’ re asked," ha re
torted, grinning. “ S allie, we want
each other, but we must le t them
worry.
They sim ply must worry
aw h ile! Did you know that poor
old T racy hatee me because he
thinks I want M ary?"
“ Stupid b oy! Anybody could see
where her heart is by the way she
hatee me when I chasten dad by
goin g out with Tom . W onder why
he asks m e."
“ T o get even because 1 play
Mary’s little lamb to bother mother.
You see, M ary’s fam ily goes no fa r
ther beck then Adam . 1 suppose
yours and mine antedate old Eden.
I aay, S a llie "—
But he sew Tom
Tracy goin g past with his machine
and ran a fte r him with a shou t
T b e tw o men talked a lon g tím e be
fore Robert came back to Sallie.
“ G et your veil end things and
come fo r a «pin.
W e’ll stop fo r
Mary, have lunch at some little
town, have dinner at Baxter, call
op my m inister U ncle John aad get
home by m o o n ligh t"
“ And a chaperon V Though the
fe e r had always known each other,
S allie was goin g a t least to mention
proprieties. Bob’s wise eyes twin-
“ I think 1 can hunt up a young
married woman somewhere,” he
remarked, but refused explanation
till Traay le ft the car to persuade
Mary. Than Bob did his gallant
beat to make things d ear. H e suc
ceeded. S allie g o t in fro n t with
Tom , leaving M ary to on apparent
ly all too devoted Bob, w hile they
paraded past th eir respective homes,
for bs it said that the T revors and
the Tracys had
wished Mary
and Tom to like
other. *
It was rather too late that night
to please SalMe’s fath er when Tom
le ft her reluctantly at her own door.
And Bob, m otbar questioned, m id
he had been m otoring w ith M ary.
T h at was the beginning. D aring
August the four were inseparable,
and tbe parents worried. T h e only
nation. A ll they would insist on
was a knowledge o f tbe facts.
A t this juncture Tom and Sallie
strolled in, follow ed by the other
tw o, all showing a d eligh tfu l sur
prise st the parental presence.
“ I t looks lik e a council o f w ar,"
commented Tom , while his fath er
glow ered, and then began the at
tack, follow ed by Same’s fath er and
the interpolations o f the others,
“ I I you are engaged," Mrs. T revo r
finished, “ we insist on having it
properly announced. U you are not
— w ell, you ought to be. I hope
you understand our point o f new .
A silence follow ed, broken only
ed. We fu lly ap
sembled wishes,
how we can be ei □gaged. I t is,
"
H e looked
fa ct, imj
and that young man
T om to
rose to the occasion. H e waa even
e b it dram atic as he faced the tour
fathers, the fou r mothers, sittin g in
stern conclave, hut visibly softened
by th e well bred, beautiful yopng
qu artet before them, young people
charm ing and, a fte r a ll, old enough
to know th eir own minds. Thomas
spoke to his own mother.
* “ T h e fact is, ws all hate non
sense. W e hate planned matches
and being engaged to order with
diamond rings to advertise the fact,
and the society pussies purring and
fashionable weddings preceded by
‘showers’ o f stuff that only a fire or
some other special dispensation of
Providence can rid you o f.
And
th en "— he took a law yer-like tone
b efittin g the ju n ior partner o f the
'firm o f T racy A Tracy, “ we cannot
be engaged because" — be paused
fo r effect end go t it, fo r e sudden
suspicion sent to e parents as one to
th eir fe e t— “ because we are already
m arried," he finished leisurely, “ a
month ago at Baxter, by Robert’s
uncle John, who also hates fuss and
feathers.” W ith s quick movement
Tom moved— pact Sallie— and took
M ary by the hand, leading her to
hia m other, and Bob had Sallie by
both hands, looking s t her only,
forgettin g tbe others.
L id when it finally became evi
dent to the bewildered fam ilies that
the righ t children were to g e th e r-
to s t Sallie had married Robert,
that Tom had married M ery— the
re lie f went fa r on the way to for-
givenesa fo r toe elopem ent
“ But why elope?” Sallie’s father
finally asked. “ I think I may aay
fo r my friends that these marriages
T h is instance o f what a mistake
o f a comma can produce has been
n oticed : t
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“ L o rd Palm erston then entered
upon hia bead, a white hat upon his
fea|, large but Well polished boots
upon his brow, a dark cloud in his
hand, his faith fu l walking stick in
Ms eye, a dark menacing glare say
ing n oth in g."
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months or waive tbelr-right to tree re
turn transportation. Tboae remaining
tbe foil period of cervice are returned
to their homes hr way of one of the
Central American porta and are grant
ed six weeks’ vacation with rail pay.
Strangely enough, there Is bo dUB-
colty In obtaining men ito men the «ta
ttoo. Applicants. { Indeed, exceed the
number of vacando«. Board and lodg-
west. Ha had knelt and touched bto
forehead twice to the bench and waa
going on with the Mussulman prayer
when tbe captain, a rather elegant
young man who bad served In the
uavy, murmured something as he pass
ed The soldier looked round thought
fully. Without embsrraasjpeat, surprise
or hurry he stepped from the eMtee.
pointed It toward tbe Asiatic shore
and. stepping up again, rasumad hto
devotioutt.
Five times that day. as tba faithful
are commanded, be «aid pis prayer, a
■Ight that followed oa everywhere that
week.
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Soldiers up In tbe Gallipoli bills, tbs'
captain on tba bridge, a stevedore
working on a lighter In tba btaae of
noon with the winch engines squealing
round him—you turn round to find a
min, buay the moment before, stead
ing like • statue, bands folded In front
of him. faring tbe east
Nothing stops him. No one seems to
Me him. He stands Invisible in the
visible workl -tn a world apart. Indeed,
to which the curious, self conscious
westerner to uot admitted, where doubt
lew be la no more than tbe dust which
tbe otter shakes «frum bto feet l*for.
be to fit to «dilre-s* hie God.—Arthur
rtnhl in Collier's* Weekly.
Fasta About Our Vast and Little Un
derstood Territory.
Alaska to the moat misunderstood
and misrepresented set-tlon of tbe Unit
ed States.. People generally, and sin
cerely. believe that tbe name Alaska to
syoonymoUM with suow ami lee and
couple It accordingly with Ice cream
freexers anu cold drinks. Tat tbe prin
cipal ritte* or Alaska along Its south
ern roast line—Juneau. Ketchikan. Cor
dova. 'Valdes and Seward—do not av
erage as cold ID midwinter as New
York aad are seldom as cold as Balti
more and Washington during cold
wave«.
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Alaska Is ope-fifth tbe stae of Ike
With tbe«« I
eot always
The Stery of -H ard H A * ’
“Mr. Orchard sou, If I tjougbt that
by killing you I could paint a picture
Ilka yours 1 would «tab you to tbe
heart.' Socb waa tbe remark made U*
Pellegrini, tbe famouw caricaturist, to
tbe Royal academlrteB. Sir Wllllsoi
Orchardano. wbea at a private view be
first saw “Hard Hit.“ tbe pktare of
tbe ruined gambler. “It was." a id
tin. arttoL “tbe greatest compliment 1
could have bad.“ Curiously enough,
tbe model wbo «at for tbe raised
gaitTTtt- wad rather fond of cards
himself. One day the artist noticed
that be looked somewhat depressed
“What to tba matter?" be asked. “1
was awfully hard bit lest night.“ be
answered. “By Jove.” replied the art-
tor. jumping op with delight. “I've got
It at toot! ’Herd Hit.' of conns.“
And that to how the picture got toe
Levar and Mary Somerville. Levar
waa In residence et Spanta tntennlttont-
ly for some years, and there wrote
three of pto books. Bet a more tragic
Interest to attached to tbe magnificent
bay. for K will be recollected that It
was while sailing to a new beet acmes
the gulf to bto borne st ¿arid that
Shelley was «ow ned.
Attorney for Guardian.
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