AUG. 31, 1932 KITCHEN RANGES ever seen in Halsey is on display at the store of HILL & CO., with bright porcelain and shining nickel which need no polish. Up- to-date cooking appaiatus; latest improvements. F U R N IT U R E Our prices sell goods RUGS L IN O L E U M S CONGOLEUM S a greener tenderfoot tKan ever I tool I had left She was of tha true breed. you for. Bruce, the law up here Is Bruce. You'll call her a hag, but the law of force. The strongest wins. she's a woman to be reckoned with. Tlte weakest-dies. W ait till you s rt She could hate too—worse than a Sinior^ Xoy'U understand theu— and she-rattlesnuke hates the man that joh ll shake'in your shoes?* killed her mate—and hating la all The words grated upon him. .vet he ------ kept — _. , that's her __ alive. You shrink didn't resent them. “I ’ve seen Sl- when I say the word. Mayhe you mon," he told her. wnn't won't ahHnk shrink u.l.an when T*M I ’m done. She glanced toward, him quickly, ‘‘This old woman tried to get Io and it was entirely plain that the quiet tone In his voice had surprised communication with every stranger that visited the hills. You see, Bruce, she couldn't write, herself. And the one time I managed to get a written message down to her, telling her to give It to the first si ranger to m a ll- one of iny enemies got it away from her. I expected to die that night. I wasn’t going to be alive when the clan came. The only reason I 'didn't was because Simon— the greatest of them all and the one I hate the m o s t- kept his clan from coming. He had his own reasons. From then on she had to depend on word of mouth. But at last—Just a few weeks ago— she found a man that knew you. And It Is your story from now on.” (To be continued.) I has been selected as manager of go, William H. Robertson and the county fair aud Rex W Davis Fred Robins, as ssristaut secr< tary Charles Sterling sod wife and a W. F. Price, ou route 1 pro- Par,J friends were in Halsey l>’ses to make a change sod id ... offers 10 »u advertisement thia week to Ed Zimmerman aud family of »11 — l..e • sell a lot of farm apparatus cheap Shedd are taking a week’s rest at at a private sale. Cascadia. The county commissioners ask L. B. Neal of Halsey is one of those who oau to do their trucking the buyers of Dew cars from Vick before the rams. Later on, when B rother* Albauy the ground is soft, ihe loads al-1 r Mrs, Garnjobst and the two lovable may necessarily be strictly oldest boya weut to the circus at limited. Salem Saturday. Only half as many hunters’ and Henry Zimmerman and fam ily fishers’ licenses have been issued from tbeir n this county this year as last. got borne Saturday Give the price another hitch up. outing at Cascadia. ward and the number w ill be re­ T. J. Skirvin, hit nieco Margaret duced still more. aud Miss Buena Albertson visited Lyle and Ted M cC irt of (he tbs county seal Saturday. Hsrri.-burg H'dslein club and I.or- W illiam Zelimer aud family of ette Sommer of Scio will represent Poller left ou Friday for a few Litiu county at the state fair days' outing at Newport. Oue more representative is wanted P. H. Pehrwon s n l wife and and a lie is to bccided fcr the daughter aud Miss Anna Peuuall fourth. vent to Cascadia Saturday for a ’) he teachers of the Shedd schoo’ stay of a few days. will be; Primary room, Mrs. W. E. D. Farwell of Shedd has tbs Turner; intermediate, Mrs. Frances best field of silage corn he ever Sperstra; advaucad grades, Mr», raised, ft is above ihe head of a Nash; principal, Mr. Nash: assist­ ■nan on horseback. ant high sch iol teacher, Mr»- R Tomkins. Mr». 0 . F. Neal and daughter Meiba went Tuesday to Portland Though gome hop growers de­ aud Vancouver for a visit with clare that on account of the low- relatives aud friends. iess of Ihe price they will not bar M iry E. Darling of Brownsville vest their crop this year, there is work for sll who want to pick and is suing W- 8. tor Divorce and Bea­ the dste of opening many schools custody of the children, will be governed hy that of Ihe trice, 13, Marie, 14 and Ftank, 13. closing of the picking season (GcntinueJ ou pave 4) The yards best cared for have the best hops. Pickers are advertised for in this paper to work in a yard Hint has no superior. learn all the details; most of them I first time he began to despair, feeling . that another night of overpowerloc got from my aunt, cld Elmira, whom you talked to on the way out. Par) impatience must be spent before, lie of It I knew by Intuition, and a little conld reach Trail's Fnd. The stars of It is still doubtful. begun to push through the darkening “You ought to know first hoW hard sky. Then, fainter than the gleam of I have tried to reach you. Of course, a firefly, he suw the faint light of a I didn't try openly except nt first— far distant camp fire. the first years after 1 came here, and Ills heart bounded. He knew what (Continued from page 3) before I was old enough to under was there. It was the end of the stand.” She spoke the lust word with trail at last. And it guided him the John Salaeh and wife are hoo e a curious depth of feeling and a per rest of the way. When he reached from Cascadia. ceptlhle hardness about her lips and the top of a little rise In the trail, the e/£s. “I remembered just two things. The three Dunlap drugstore tit- whole scene was laid out In mystery That the man who had adopted yon below him. , ier* of Brownsville and iheir moth­ The fire had been built at the door was Newton Duncan; one of the er visited in Shedd Sunday of last of a mountain house—a log structure nurses at the asylum" told me that. week. Jnd I remembered the name of the of perhaps four rooms. The firelight Mrs. Horner Mornhinweg of played In Its open doorway. Some­ city where he had tuken you. “You must understand the difficul- Perhaps the Faintest Flicker of Ad- Shedd had a visit iari neck fiom thing beside It caught his attention, her sister, Mrs. Mildred Alleu oi and Instinctively he followed It with ( ties I worked under. There is no m iration Camo Into. H er Eyes. Tacoma. his eyes until It ended In an Incred­ rural free delivery up here, you know, her. Perhaps the faintest flicker of ible region of the stars. It was a Bruce. Our mall Is sent from and The engine aud boiler rooms of great pine tree, the largest he had ! delivered to the little post office at admiration came Into her eyes. "He tiled to Stop you, did he? Of the South Sautiam Lumber com­ ever seen— seemingly a great sentinel , Martin's store — over fifteen miles from here. And some one member of coarse he would. And you-came, any pany at Lebanon burned Friday over all the land. But the sudden awe that came over a certain family that lives near here way. May heaven bless you for It, Loss $1200. him at the sight of It was cut short goes down every week to get Ihe mail Bruce!” She leaned toward him, sp- Miro A lta Hayes was at tbi iienling. “And . forgive me whut by the sight of a girl’s figure In the for the entire district. oouuly metropolis from Sundai ' . ' “At first—and that was before I •aid." firelight He had an Instant's sense A. Cornelius, who got home really understood—I wrote you many Bruce stared at her , amazement. Until Tuesday. that he had come to- the wilderness' i’ridav f o n a trip Io Cow creek, He could hardly realise tb it this was hturt at last, that this tall tree was letters and gave them to one of thia Some pickers of evergreen black- ■•avs deer were verv plentiful. He the same voice that had been so torn berrie< a t H arritburg have been »aw ns tnwiv a« 22 and saw eigl t its symbol, that If he could under family to mail for me. 1 was Just a with passion a moment before, in an making $3 a d a y . stand the eternal watch that It kept child then, you must know, and I men while in the mountains the instunt all her hkrdnesg was gone, over this mountain world, he would lived In the same house with these »econd day of (he eea-ion. There I l is expected that the rocking and the tenderness of a sweet and have an understanding of all thing., people. They were Just baby let but all these thoughts were submerged ters from— from Llndn-Tinda to Bwov- wholesome nature had taken its place. >f the Ash Swale road will be were lots of hunters going and ■omirg All claimed success. In the realization that he had come aboo— letters about the deer and the He felt a curious warmth stealing oinpleted thia week. He onlv heard of one man in that back to Linda at last. berries and the squirrels—and all the over him. • - D elb ert T a n d y of H a rris b u rg , He had known bow 'the mountains wild things that lived up here.” ‘They meant what they said, Bruce. who was in H a ls e y S a tu rd s y and part of the country woo was mis- would seem. All that he had beheld ' aken for a deer and had to be "Berries !" Bruce cried.. "I had some Believe mo, If those- men can do no today was Just the recurrence of on the way up.” Ills tone wavered, other thing, they p m keep their word. ■Sunday, has brought home two carried out. He thinks there is a strain on the eyes, but if you things beheld long ago. Nothing had and he spewed to be speaking far They didn't just threaten death to d er since th e season opened. should be a very sever« penalty wear glasses especially made for you the seemed different from whst he hud away, “I had somg once— loqg ago. or the man who shoots another me. I could have run the risk of that. Wednesday, S«pt 6, at 2:30 p. strain is entirely eliminated. espected; rather he had a sense that “Yes. You will understand, soon Badly as I wanted to niuke'thein pay for a deer, as it is ail unnecessary. We grind lenses to your prescription, a lost wurld had been returned to him. J didn't understand why you didn't before I died, I would have gladly m , the corner stone of the new Methodist old people's home si and It was almost ss If he had never answer my letters. I understand now, run that risk. The following names of Halsey, so they will be as required. Don't neg­ Salem will be laid. been away. But the girl In the fire though. You never got them.” ites who have made income tax re­ lect your ejes. Let us examine them "You arc amazed at the free wny I light did not answer In the least de “No. I never got them. But there speak of death. The girls you know. I t is said that frogs being raised turns is posted in the poetoflice, today. gree the picture he had cnrrled of are several Duncans In my city. They In the city, don't qvep know the word. in tins county for loud will grow with the announcement that more Linda. might have gone astray.” They don't know what It means. They tv a foot in length aud that the may he milled to the list: Bert 8. He remembered her as a blond: "They went astray—hut It was be­ Clark, Rodney H. Cornelina (re­ headed little girl with Irregular fea­ fore they ever reached the post office. don't understand ^he sudden end of legs of one will m ake a mea'. tures and a rather unreasonable al­ They were never mailed, Bruce. 1 the light—the darkness—the cold— T h e W oo lridg e peach orchard moved), H. 0 . Davis, Eva A From, C. H. lowance of homeliness. All the way was to know why, later. Even then the awful fear that it Is ! It's a real­ has reduced th e price of peaches Evans, O, W. he had thought of her as a baby sis It was part of the plan that I should ity here, something to tight against and potatoes and »nnouiiees the Kootnz, George VV- Laubner, D. S, A L B A N Y . Q A tB ter—not as a woman in her flower. never get In communication wllh yon every hour of-'every day. There are McWilliams, Elisa R, and I.ixzie Just three things- to do In the moun­ new prices in an advertisement in For a long second he gazed at her In again—that you would be lost to me Harold Albro. Penland, Joe R. Pittman, D. tains— to live and love and hate. this paper. speechless amazement. forever. Taylor, Grant Taylor, W , A. Rin- Manufacturing optician. There's no softness. Ttyere's no mid­ Her hair was no longer blond. 'When I got older, I tried other Alfred Sleinhuuer and wife of True,, It had peculiar red lights when tacks. I wrote to the asylum, enclos­ dle ground.” She smlied grimly, I ’ve lived with death, apd I've Greenleaf »pent Thursday night the firelight shone through It; but he ing a letter to you. But those letters The lady is heard of It, and ,I've seen It all my with the Wheelers. knew by the light , of day It would be were not mailed, either. We sell life. I f there hadn't been any other the granddaughter of the Enter­ deep brown. He remembered her as "Now we can skip a long time. I «‘ay, I Would have seen it In'the dra­ prise peoplo. an awkward little thing that was grew up. I knew everything at Iasi hardly, able to keep her feet under and no longer lived with the family mas of the wild creatures that go on Joteph K irk and wife, who re­ bar, Thia tall girl had the wilderness I mentioned before. I came here, to around me all the time. You’ll get graft»—which Is the grace of a deer this old house—and made It decent down to cases hire, "Bruce—or else cently moved from Portland to Come in and hear it play These men said Sugene, visited Mr. K irk ’s broth­ and only blind syea eanoot see It. He to live In. I cut my own wood for my you'll run All phonograph records and needles. dimly knew that alia wore a khaki- fuel except when one of the men they'd do Averse ttypgs to me than er Frank here. Joseph is a rail, klfl Tiie—hnd I didn't dare take the road engineer. colored skirt and a simple blouse of tried to please me hy cutting It foi risk The best dish for children, as wall as white tied with a blue' acarf. Her me. I wouldn't use it at first. Oh. grown people, during the hot days of F. E. C allhter, vice-president of "But once or twice I was able to srms were hare in the flre'a gleam. Bruce— I wouldn't touch i t !" summer time, is a piate of pure, neb ice And there was a dark beauty about tbi First National oauk of Albany, Her face was no longer lovely. Il cream. There is nothing to cooling and her face that simply could not be was drawn with terrible passions denied. nourishing as this. T ry it amt be cool. But she quieted at once. She came toward him, and her “At last I saw plainly that I was s Cold drinks hands were open before her. And her little fool— that all they would do for Í 2 Bereaved fcieqds committing to my care for preparation and burial 5 I fneqds committing to my care for p rep aratio n _________ lipa trembled. Broca could see them me, the better off I was. At first, 1 ) the'remaina of &loved one» may feel assured of the same respectful and in the firelight. almost starved to death because 1 It was a strange meeting. The fire­ wouldn t use the food that they sent ) tender treatment I w mid wish In be given my own dear ones. Every « 5 light gave It a to n e jif unreality, and me. I tried to grub It out of the hills »-wish carried out in .detail and prices guaranteed to satisfy. Beat o f 2 «8 ________ _ the whole forest world seemed to But I came to It at last. But, Bruce, ’ equipment and complete stock. ™ , . > pause In Its Whispered business as If there were many things I didn't come to watch. It was as If they had been to. Since I learned the troth, I have «B Seven loom house, large barn, 8 lots, plenty oi fruit. A hargsin if 3 brought face to face by the mandates never given one of them a smile ex­ of an Inexorable destiny. taken at once. See 5 LICENSED M O RTICIAN AND FUNERAL cept In scorn, not a word that wasn't directors “So you've come?" the girl said. a word of hate. , , LE B A N O N , ORE. The words were spoken unusually 2 'You are a city man, Bruce. You 1 Dav or m e li! filimi» 9 soft, scarcely above a whlsppr; but don't know what hate means. Lady attendant » If they were Inexpressibly vivid to doesn't live In the cities. But It lives Bruce. They told first of a boundless tip here. Believe me, If you ever be­ relief and joy at his coming. But lieved anythfhg—that It lives up here. more than that. In these deep vibrant The most bitter and the blackest hate tones was the expression of an un­ —from birth until death! It burns quenchable life and spirit. Every out the heart, Bruce. But I don't fiber of the body lived in the fullest know that I can make you under­ sense; he knew this fact tlje (nstant, stand.'’ that she spoke. She.-paused, and Bruce looked away She smiled at him. ever eo quietly. Into the pine forest. He believed the “Bwovehoo," she said, recalling the girl. He knew that this grim land name by which she called him in her , was the home of direct and primitive babyhood, ''you've come to Liuda." emotions. Such things as mercy and j remorse were out of place In the CHAPTER IX Commercial and Swings accounts Solicited j game trails where the wolf pack. ! hunted the doer. A t the fire burned down to coala “When they knew how I hated and the stars wheeled through the j them,” she went on, “they began to •by, Linda told her story. . The two watch me. And once they knew that of them were seated in the .soft grass I had fully understood the situation. •wcw«w«W'wt4FWw«<««<*ww«u ninat realize Vhat it cannot hi»e your earning power la the