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je . r*r- ■am i sv | | r- ' B ri?-& gg| | | CLARENCE B U T T Through the Little Blue Door C. R. CHAPIN LA W YE R tioe in all om its; Probate, Deeds, B? VIRGINIA BLAB* came to make a R obuvoa Crusoe o f yourself behind the blue door.” • I led the way to oar little dining room. i “ Our coffee is ready," 1 said, “ and f Julia made the rolls with her own fair hand«.” The chowder was delicious, and the big man at the head o f the ta ble served it with a larish hand. That was the beginning o f our good fellowship, bat it was th ree! weeks before Marion confessed why ' he had shat himself ap behind t h e : blue door, and in those weeks he had fallen hopelessly in lore with Julia. “ Bat why,” she insisted one night ss we all sat in the moonlight, “ did von shut yournelf up behind the blue door?* “ I was writing a book, and 1 wanted to be absolutely «lone. The publishers had insisted that 1 finish it by October.” “ And this,” said Julia, “ is the last o f A u gu st” She stood ap and leaned against the porch rail. “ And a man who can write books spends his time making chowder and frirokng with young ladies.” “ But,” he excused eagerly, "1 couldn't write after you came. 1 could see you from the tower, and you distracted my thoughts so that 1 couldn’t fmt down a line. A t la s t in despair, I moved downstairs and went to work. But I couldn’t write there. I— 1 kept wondering what you were doing. And then I began to plan ways and means o f getting acquainted, and then Jack’s letter came.” All this he said to Julia. “ It’s ridiculous,” Julia said, “ to fritter away your time this way. Go and write your book.” “ But I want to be with you.” not purchase goodness and beau- “ D o y o u think,” said Julia inflex-» It will not afford loving mem- ibly, 'That 1 am going to be the s o f days that are past or the cause o f the world’s losing a m as le o f a true friend or a m other’s terpiece? I have a perfect con >. T he great things o f lifa are tempt fo r a man who will neglect to be bought and sold in the his work fo r a woman.” ket place.— Dale H- Carnagey “ So that is it,” hip said slowly, and as be stood up < they measured glances. “ WeU, I shall lock the blue door, and, no matter what hap “ What is the most perfect form pens, I won’t open it until you government?” was once pro- ask me.” unded at the court o f Periander, And when the key had turned in ig o f Corinth, one o f the seven the latch Jolla said somewhat for*- se men o f Greece. His six fai lornly, “ Now we will have peace.” - rs were present, and o f them Bias “ Y ou ’ll miss him,” I prophesied^ Bwered first, giving as.hjs opinion, “ Y ou 'll miss him.” v Hiere the laws have no superior.” One week passed and two and talcs o f M iletus, the great aatron- not a sound or sight o f our neigh ter, declared, “ Where the people bor. ■ neither too rich nor too poor.” But one night there waa no light his turn mid Anacharsia, the in the tower, and Julia mid, “ I f . anything should be the m atter!” ’ “ He could telephone,” I assured her. v- - ’ #- 3j£ i i conferred upon tbs virtuous “ There isn’ t a phone,” She said. ever upon the base.” Said When four more nights had pass xlus, “ Where the citixens fear ed and no light flashed from the more than punishment.” Said tower Julia couldn’t stand i t the Spartan, “ Where the laws “ I ’ve got to go over there,” she M>re regarded than the ora- said. “ But you can’t,” I protested. T be last to reply was the young “ I shall climb over the wall,” mid est but wisest o f them all, Solon o f Julia firmly, “ and you’ ve got to Athena, who said, “ Where an injury help me.” done to the meanest «abject is an I waa getting a little worried, and in iolt to the whole community.” when it was late enough so that The Qame of Quintain. there were no people passing on The game o f quintain survives the road we earned our stepladder mW in the village o f Offham Green, over and set it against the wall. Julia climbed up and looked over. n K ent, England. It is ao named “ There ia an apple tree on the oth rom an instrument used in tilting er aide,” .she mid, “ and we can step >n horseback with the lance. It oiuristed o f an upright post, sar- down on the branches.” Silently we crept through the nounted by a crossbar turning on pivot, which had at one end a fiat bushes and over the neglected lawn. It was very ghostly in the darkness, •oard and at the other a bag o f snd not a light burned in the house. and. The object o f the til ter was o strike the board at such a rate >f; speed that he would be pm t and m l o f the way before the bag o f aa it whirled round cool n the back. A high gray wall skirted the house across the way, and entrance was made through a blue door with a brass knocker. We had lived in our own little cottage fo r three weeks and had seen ho one go out or in. “ There must be some other en Office over First National trance,” Julia said. Bank “ But there isn’t,” I* declared posi Phone White 8-1 tively. “ And they can’t be away,” said Julia, “ because we can aee lights in the tower window.” ‘T e a ,” I said, “ and tha rural de DR. A. M. DAVIS livery carrier unlocks the box and takes o a t the mail every m orning so there must be soma one who writes the letters.” “ WeU, I ’ll ask him,” >»id Julia promptly. But the mail mah knew nothing. “ 1 just take out the letters,” he said, “ and put the mail in, but I never pee a soul.” “ How are the letters addressed? Surely you must know whether a man or a woman is shnt np there.” “ N o’m,” the man protested stol idly. “ The letters just my ‘Marion Fuller*— neither ‘ Miss’ nor ‘ Madam’ Office’ over U. S. Natl. Bank nor ‘Mr.’ ” Phone Black 171 “ O f course it’s a woman,” I said when the carrier had gone. “ W hy?” Julia asked. “ Because a man would have to cook fo r himself, and all that” — D r . J o h n 8 . R a n k in “ And no man who could help it would want that name, Think o f a PHYSIClA^aá* SURGEON man named Marion!” Office over ü . S. National Bank “ I ’m thinking o f O ffice phone Blue 171 Jack,” I mid regretfully. “ I f he tResidence Phone Black 115 were only here, Julia!” Then Julia turned on me wratb- fully. “ That’s always the way,” she said. “ N o matter what I h r to my, you always come back to Jack. Y ou engaged people always harp on ] j L ittlefield & R om ig one string.” Silence reigned for a moment, and tbep to break the ice I began, : a n d SU RGEON S “ I’ m going to watch the blue door after dark.” ; Office in First N st’ l Rank ß t% . “ How can you watch anything after dark ?” “ It’fl moonlight,” I reminded her, “ and 1 could certainly aee the out line o f any one who came o u t ” DR. THOS. W . HESTER That night as I sat on the porch 1 sniffed. “ Julia,” I said solemnly, Physician and Surgeon “ do I smell onions ?” Office in Dixon Building Julia’s aristocratic nose was ele Pfc— Offic* W U u 2 2 , tb m . Ma* SO vated. “ Onions it ia,” she said. ' NEW BERG - - OREGON “ They are in a delicious combi nation with something,” I said. “ It is the nearest thing to a fish chow der that I have known since the days o f shore dinners.” DR. SARAH E. SMITH “ Chowder?” Julia demanded. P h ysician a n d S u rg e o n “ Where would they get their fish ?” “ Catch 'pm,* I said briefly. “ Any Office in City Hall one who would drop a line from Office Phone—W hite 147 that stone wall on the other side Residence Phone—Blue 68 could fish in the river.” j NEWBERG OREGON “ Then you think?” Jolia ques tioned. “ I think that if it ia the fra grance o f fish chowder that is being wafted toward us on the evening air the tenant behind the bine door G r .J — t . mmJ is a man.” tl- x . - i -------“ • m veterinary rnysiciai & And even as J spoke the bine Office and hoepiul at Gordon'• Ban. door opened, and a young man came College and Hancock. Pirone Black 47 forth carrying a steaming dish. Calk answered dar or nickt. Stock in “ Well, o f all things!” said Julia spected and tested tor intentate alsi| in ■! under her breath. P H O N E SX The young man came up the steps. “ I am your next door neigh W . W . Hollingsworth 8 l Son bor,” he announced, “ and 1 thought F uneral D ire cto rs A E m b a lm ers that this chowder might be my in troduction. It is a most exclusive A U TO FUNERAL C A R recipe, which I 1 have shared with I «truck a light. Calls Answered Day or Night Julia dro ipped on her knees be- only one friend, Jack Carson.” Lady Assistants. No extra charge “ I knew something had Office, White 25 Rea. Black I I sat up straight “ Jack ___side him. ned.” son?” I exclaimed. “ Why, be ia— NEWBERG, OREGON we had sent to town for he is” — the doctor and nurse and he was “ T he man you are engaged to— exactly," said the young man with made comfortable Julia and I the chowder. “ This morning 1 had crept in. “ And the book?” Jolia whispered. a letter from him saying that yon W e’ pay h ig h est cash price fo r “ It and it i» is ia finished, iiniBiieu, ana u is dedicated were somewhere in the neighbor strictly fre sh e g g s to y you. I should like,” he contin- hood; 1 knew from the description Fancy and Staple Groceries that you were the young ladies next ued, “ to write the dedication ‘ to my door, and 1 felt that his letter and wife.’ ” A twinkle came into his DUN LAPS GROCERY this chowder would constitute a suf eyes. “ May I, Ju lia?" Phone Black IS 110 Main Street And when Julia, blushing, had ficient introduction, and so 1 have promised we went home together presented myself.” And be hand thriragh the little bine door. ed me Jack’s letter, with a bow. And while I read it I heard Julia Moist Air Savoa Pool. •ay, “ So you are Marion Fuller?“ Dryness o f the air tempta to over “ Yea.” “ I thought it waa a girl,” Julia heating o f the living rooms, for dry murmured, dimpling ana sparkling. air increases the evaporation o f per spiration from the skin, thereby in- “ T he name is so— 4b feminine.” “ But now that you have seen creasing.tbe sensation o f chilliness. Dry air at 76 degrees will feel about me?” he questioned. “ I shall not think o f you— at ally4’ aa chilly as moist air at 65 degrees. shasaid. 8toves, coils and furnaces should al me with chowder,” he ways hava open vessels o f water ex "C om fort me with” — H e posed to evaporation for thrf pur N e w b e r * M a n u fa c t u r the dish out toward me. pose o f properly moistening the air. Thia moistening o f the sir will in g : & C o n s t r u c t io n C o . “ T on’ll accept It, won’t you?” “ Indeed I will,” 1 said promptly, prove a saving of both coal bills and r « r Windows, Onora A Catterai Mill ^ “ and you «hall tell me bow you doctor** P. F. HAWKINS D E N T IS T DENTIST ! PHYSICIANS :: Dr.C.E.Brown,D.V.S. | Fresh Eggs Wanted Work. 4M N. M ala * treat seems probable that there were ere in England long before the duction o f tobacco, - according e London Graphic. Pipes hare discovered embedded in the ax o f Churches built before Eu- ■ first acquaintance with tobao- nd it seems only reasonable to lee that the people o f that day ed herbs o f some sort, either jinally or fo r pleasure. Coltsj ess inhaled fo r asthma, though her a pipe was used in the ged for a new h a t So to worry her husband for new dress! Can’t afford i wanted gloves or a new ildn’t mind. But a new rell, don’t get flurried, >u know I always give V Oato PHtod. What does “ gold filled” Probably moat people who buy gold| filled watchea fancy that they are mysteriously impregnated with gold. The term ia misleading. Gold fill ing consists in taking two sheets o f gold, between which is placed a sec tion o f solder coated base metal. This metallic sandwich is heated snd pressed, so that the three parts are welded together, with the gold outside-— Chicago News. Brasilian Coffaa. wealthy Brazilians are great coffee drink ers. Numerous cups are drunk each day by the average man and “ Thpay- woma is. made very strong irage \ The beve? and verv awéet. It produces an ex hilaration of a more intense and lasting kind than beer. Those ad dicted to this habit become very restless and scarcely able to sit still •*r «fend' still wren for s moment. gen tine m eta nothing, has aj . In the first plaoe, in all the eight months he never saw a baby on the streets o f Buenos Aires, although he was moving about pretty aotive- A . J. TO W E R CO. in two-thirds o f a year in any o f the observer’s rambles and visits in all parta o f this remarkable city. Hereto Remedy. Zeke bad gone to town with the mole and the light wagon. The mule balked just in front o f the doctor’s office, and Zeke spent a half hour and all his ingenuity in trying to make him start. Then the doctor came out with a small bottle in his band. - “ I’ll make him go, Zeke,” the doctor said. Zeke smiled broadly.' “ Less see uni, m h.” The doctor poured from the bot tle some vicious acid upon the male’s tail. Presently all they could see was the mule going over the hill in a Cloud o f dust. Zeke’a look o f admiration shaded off into oon- cern. . K fo* . M l . . , '’ “ Y ou got m o’ in dat bottle?1* he asked. “ Yes,” answered the doctor. Zeke spoke a trifle reluctantly, but duti- fully: “ Well, sah, I reckon you’d better spill er tas’e on me. I’s gotter cotch dat m ulel” — New York P ost- Oregon, actingin ( ¿ « a it Judge, and N otice ia hereby given that tha. undersigned. W . S. Allan, as guardian o f tha parson and estate o f John W . Sommers, sn incompetent person, by an order o f the County Court o f the I itate o f Oregon fo r Yamhill County, duly made and entered on October 16th, 1915, has been duly authorized and directed to sell the Northeast quarter Hew to Sea Under Water. o f the Southeast quarter o f Section A lena for seeing under water is Twenty, Township Three South Range described as producing an effect Three W est o f the W illamette Meri dian. Yamhill County, Oregon, and that which is both astonishing and de lightful. It gives distinct vision to °bj © off from twenty to thirty feet below the surfaoe which are usually out o f ordinary eye range. The eye’s loss o f extending vision when under water is owing to the fact that an entirely different focus ia re quired. T h e spectacles which can adjust this focus are made by put- ting two watch crystals back to back or with thq concavities outward Try it'and be surprised.— Exchange. County Oregon, A Splctor With a Lasse. Spiders have a number o f in genious ways o f alluring and catch ing their prey. Them u an Amer ican spider which haunts evergreen trees and snares its dinner by means o f a kind o f lasso. The web o f the ipider is trisngmar in form. Two corners o f the triangle ere attached to twigs, but the other corner, which ends in a single thread* is held by the spider, perched on a neighboring t w » . When a fly strikes the web the spider loosens his hold, snd the elastic threads instantly en tangle the victim. E. McNay. do when you Friendship vane’ which, when i f he didn’ t it is flawed by beat or violence or in pay?” accident, may as wall be broken at once. It can never be trusted again. you ? What f o r f ” The more graceful and ornamental he said I’d saved him from it was the more clearly da we dis »tic note.” — 8 t cern the hopelessness o f •patch K to its former a tot«» I I g iS V ' -• 1 ’ * i v+Jt}l:jtiïkêL
