The most enticing line of
K IT C H E N
RANGES
NOT CLASSED AS ORNAMENTS found, said to the sheriff: "Boes,
I ee been working ’round here eber
since des been any sawmill, and I
hain’t never seen no vires.”— Off the
Record.
k«y. but they bore a suspicious re
semblance to certain familiar mis
sionary hymns.
As the girls sang, their song«
Seven thousand years ago jewelry
G R A F TO L O G Y
grew more stirring, and one by ona
e ve r seen in H alsey is on d isp la y
was in use. Probably it had its
' at th e ^ to re of
old warriors of the young king’s
origin not so much in the desire for
“Why arc you opposed to a censor father grouped themselves about the
personal adornment as in the belief
ship of the movies?”
door. Suddenly in the midst of a
in magic. The earliest jewel was a
I am afraid,” answered Senator war song, one of these old men,
talisman
of
some
sort,
often
a
stone
w ith b rig h t porcelain and s h in in g
Sorghum, "that some of the censor* without a word, threw up hia harfds
n ic k e l w hich need no polish. Up-
of no intrinsic value.
might
be susceptible to pecuniary and pitched across the threshold—
to-date co o kin g ap p ara tu s; latest
Jewels began to be objects of or
im provem ents.
persuasion.
Varieties of g ra ft,a re dead. H it heart had given out un
nament, as well as of magic, about
already sufficiently numerous, with der the passion stirred by old re
the time when stones possessing
F U R N IT U R E
out introducing a photograft.”
membrances.
some inherent beauty began to be ,
RUGS
used, at some indefinite period prior i
L IN O L E U M S
FUSSING OVER A TRIFLE
to 5000 B. C.
I
T h is
CONGOLEUM S
The period from 5000 to 2500
B. C. was marked by wonderful ad- N E ’W
—
- _ -- rances in the making of jewels, and
,,
. ,
- : the art reached its highest point in
In tha Early Days of the Wor|d Jewels
Were Looked Upon and Priaed
aa Talismans.
Come to
Linn
C ounty's
ra ir
HILL & CO.,
m o d e l
fie to me ?"
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browse on the parched grass. n«ve i r _ _ . „ c ,,,,
, .. 6 , . 1
felt a little tremor of excitement at
‘ ,
the latter date;
“H e dfd. What could I d o t'
"And now yon want him potte«^— the thought that If It were not Bruce, | , t)own from the paleolithic period
from ambush."
it was more likely the last of the had come the necklace, and, with
grizzlies, the Killer.
The previous the early Egyptians jewels were still
"W hat’y the use of waiting? Wlio'd
know?” The two men stood face to night the gray forest king had made necklaces. These had developed in
an excursion Into Simon's pastures
face In the quiet and deepening dusk
and had killed a yearling calf; In all three forms; Tubular beads, prob
of the barn; and there was growing
probability he would return tonight to ably bones; spherical beads, such as
determination on each face. “Every
finish his feast. In fact, this night drilled pebbles, etc.; and disk beads
day our chance Is less and less," Dave
would in all probability see the end of
went on. “With this land behind him.
made from ostrich egg shells cut
the Killer. Some one of the Turners
he’d be In a position to pay old debts.
would wait for him. with a loaded into small disks, which were pierced
I ’m telling you. We should have met
and strung. But these crude forms
rifle. In a safe ambush.
him on the trail and let the buzzards
began
to be rapidly replaced by
But
It
wasn't
the
Killer,
after
all.
It
talk to him.”
was before his time; besides, the attractive stones to which certain
“Yea," Simon echoed In a strange
shadow was too slender to be that of
half-whisper. “Let the buzzards talk
magical virtues were also attributed.
the huge bear. Dave Turner watched
io him."
—National
Jeweler.
Dave took fresh heart at the sound a moment longer, so that there could
be
no
possibility
of
a
mistake.
Bruce
of that voice. “No one would have ever
THEY FIXED IT
knowed It." he went on. "No one 1 was returning; he was little more
would ever know it now. They’d find than a half-hour's walk from Linda's
home.
his hones, some time, maybe, but
Turner Swung on his horse, then
there'd be no one to point to. They'd
Inshed the animal into a gallop. Less
never get anything against us. I tell
you—It's all the way, or no way at all. than five minutes later he drew up to
a halt beneath the Sentinel Pine, al
Tell me to wait for him on the trail."
“Walt. W alt a minute. How long inoqt a mile distant. For the first
time, Dave began to move cautiously.
before he w ill come?”
It would complicate matters If the
"Any time now. And don't postpone
this matter any more. W ere men. two women had already gone to bed.
not babies. He's not a fool or a cow The hour was early—not yet nine—
but the fall of darkness Is often the
ard. either. And he's a shot—X saw
going-to-bed time of the mountnlu peo
that plain enough—and how'd you
like to have him shoot through your ple. It Is warmer there and safer;
windows some time? Old Elmira and and the expense of candles Is les
Linda have set him on, and he's hot sened. But tonight Linda and old
for It."
Elmira were sitting up, waiting for
“I wish you'd got that old heifer Bruce's return.
A candle flame flickered at the win
when you got her son," Simon said.
F a th e r— Now my watch has
He still spoke calmly; but It was dow. Dave went up to the door and
•topped again. I suppose it needs
plain enough that Dave's words were knocked.
having the desired effect. “So he's
“Who's there?” Elmira called. It a cleaning.
taken up' the blood-feud, has he? I was a habit learned In the dreadful
Little H arry — No, daddy, it
thought I gave his futher some lessons days of twenty years ago, not to open
In that a long time since. Well, I sup a door without at least some knowl doesn’t. Junior and I cleaned it in
pose we must let him have his way!" edge of who stood without. A lighted water this morning.
"And remember, too," Dave urged, doorway sets off a target almost as
CLEANING UP LONDON
"what you told him when you met him well as a field of white sets otr a black
in the store. You said you wouldn't bull's-eye.
warn him twice.”
Dave knew the truth was the proper
Twenty-two of the worst slum
“I remember." The two men were course. “Dave Turner," he replied.
areas in London are to be wiped out
silent, but Dave stood no longer mo
A long second of heavy, strange si by the London county council. The
tionless. He was shivering all over lence ensued. Then the woman spoke
with malice and fury.
agnln. There was a new note In her work is to be spread over the next
"Then you've given the word?" he voice, a curious hourseness, but at the ten or twelve years and the govern
asked.
ment will assist in it.
"I've given the word, but I'll do it
“When the scheme, which involves
my own way. Listen. Dave.” Simon
nothing
less than the clearance of
stood, heud bent, deep In thought.
all the slum areas in London is com
"Could you arrange to have Linda
pleted,” says Colonel Levita, chair TOO
and the old hag out of the house when
Bruce gets back?"
man of the housing committee, “it
jR r u n s iv ic k
ONLY $200.00
Mr. P ester—The baby’s been play-
ing with the cards again. There are
five missing from thia deck.
11 m Wife—W hat if there are?
There are plenty left to go around
in that old four-handed poker
of yours.
CALLED "RACE OF LIARS"
400-Acre Farm
W OODW ORTH
DRUG <§,
Albany
same time a sense of exultntioo and
excitement.
But Dave didn’t notice
It. He might, however, have been In
terested In the singular look of won
der that flashed over Linda's face ns
she stored at her aged aunt. Linda
was not thinking of Dave. Her whole
attention was seized and held by'the
unfamiljar note In her aunt's voice,
nhd s strange drawing of the woman's
features that the closed door prevent
ed Dave from seeing. It was a look
almost of rapture, hardly to be ex
pected In the presence of an enemy.
The dim eyes seemed to glow in the
shadows. It was the look of one who
had wandered steep and unknown
trails for uncounted years and sees
the distent lights of his home at last.
CHAPTER X V II
(To be continue I.)
The day (v a i quite deed when Dave
Turner reached hie poet on top of the
ridge.
: Fortunately, the moon
early
PASSING T H E BUCK
have h . . . I . . . I ,
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H , a id , ', h a ,»
F o r i h « . n c , *L « t G e o rg .
At the
end of a half-
M g ID wg|t.
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4o it.’ ”
“That means
bn,.k »n
means naasinw
passing the
the buck
to
hour be saw. thsough
through the field glasses,
glasses.
the wavering of a strange black
shadow on the distant meadow
He
tried to get a better focus. It might
be Just the shadow of deer, come to
someone else.
In England you
would say, ‘Let Lloyd George do
i t ’ ”—Louisville Courier-Journal.
The store with rf square
deal for ©.very customer.
ALBANY, OREGON
Visit our music booth
at the F A I R next week.
For the First Time, Dave Began to
Move Cautiously.
' t CTJT i WWU' * *
T w a in CLOT h T ngco
The natives « f Togoland are a
race of liars, says an official report
FOR R E N T
on that British mandated sphere in
Africa, which was taken over from
Germany, The report has just been
issued as a B ritish “white paper.”
Fair building».
Three miles from
Togoland was at one time a German Halsey.
oolonial possession in west Africa,
W J . RIBELIN
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e
and has a population of 900,000.
“The natives have no letter«, arts
or science,” says tifc report. “Con
cealment of design is the first ele
ment of safety, and as this axiom
has been consistently carried out for
All work dona prom ptly and
generations the native character is
strongly marked by duplicity. Even reasonably. Phone No. 2CV.9
in matters of little moment it is rare
for them to speak the truth.”
F, M. GRAY.
Drayman.
Period Models $150 to $ 3 6 0
will have entailed the displacement
of gome 45,000 people and an ex
penditure of many millions of
pounds. The mam idea is to make
Ixtndon a slumless city.
“Such work cannot, of course, be
done on a strictly economic bYsis,
|but London will benefit gTaatly by
the intensive campaign it ie intend
ed to pursue, for better homing all
round will mean bettor health and
therefore a happier people,”
and make this store your
h eadquarters— the store
that has been boosting
Linn county for almost
threescore years.
Everything for Men and Boys
This new number
the Double LTltona, a
wood amplifier and Rec
ord Filing Cabinet, just
like the more expensive
numbers.
“We've got to work this thing right.
W e can't operate in the open like we
used to. This man has taken up the
blood-feud—but the thing to do—Is to
let him come to us."
“But he won't do It. He'll go to the
courts first."
Ml men's face grew stern. “I don't
want any more Interruptions. Dave. I
mean w» will want to give the Impres
sion that he attacked us first—on his
own free will. What If he comes Into
our bouse—a man unknown In these
parts—and something happens to him
there— In the dead of night?
It
wouldn't look so bad then, would It?
Besides— If we got him here— before
the clan, we might be able to find out
where that document Is. First, how
can you tell when tjie'e going to
come?”
"He ought to be here very soon.
The moon's bright and I can get up
on the ridge and see his shadow
through your field glasses when he
crosses the big south pasture. That
will give me a full half-hour before he
comes.”
"It's enough. I'm ready to give you
your orders now. They are—just to
use your head, and on some pretext
get those two women out of the house
so that Bruce can't find them when he
returns. Don't let them come back
for an hour. If you can help It. I f It
works— all right. I f It doesn't, we'll
use more direct measures. I ll tend to
the rest "
He strode to the wall and took
down a saddle from the hook. Quick
ly he threw It over the back of one of
the cow ponies, the animal that be had
punished. He put the bridle In Dave's '
(land
"Stop at the house for the
fpen ride to the ridge at
once," be ordered. ”Th*fl kyep tyatch.
O C T O B E R 3. 4» 5, 6
Oregon
MUCH FOR OLD WARRIOR
War Song of Fijian Girls Strained
A gad Fighter's Heart to the
Bursting Paint.
T H E JUDGE E X PLA IN S
TRUCKING
Hay, Grain, stock hauling, etc. Heavy
“ You part friends?"
hauling a specialty.
"Certainly, your honor,” said tha
Phone
woman who had just been granted
W . H. B E E N E
her divorce decree, “and I ’d liko to
Halsey, Oregon
ask you a question.”
“Well?”
“ I’m not used to liv ingllone. If
I should become frightened at night
would it be all right to ball John,
here ?”
“I wouldn’t do that. You are no
Dealer in
longer dependent on one man for
protection. The entire police de
partment is at your disposal.”—Bir
mingham Age-Ilerald.
Halsey
Meat Market
Fresh and
Cured Meats
We were dinner guest» of the king
of .Mhau in Fiji. We were nerved
with the most delicious meal 1 had
B R EVITY WON T H E WAR
while in the South Seas. When din
50 days* credit
Because most all of the noted suc
ner was over fifteen girls, their
[F A L K B R O S ., Props.
coarce hair brushed astoundinglv cessful leaders had names contain
ing
at
the
most
only
eight
letters,
erect and mad« even 'blacker than
natural, if possible, by a preparation “ Brevity is the la teat answer to the
of soot, took their places in a semi mooted question, *-Who won the
circle for a sitting meke, one of the war?” On the successful side are
We make a
«
ALL BUT TH E VIA
native dances, writes Edward A. placed the names <Jf Koch, Haig,
Specialty of
Diaz, Jacques and Pershing. On I
Recently a chattel mortgage in Salisbury in Asia Magazine.
Friendship,
the
defeated
side
are
placed
such
I
While they moved their bodies
a rural district was foreclosed on the
names
as
Von
Hmdenburg,
Von
Lu
back and fo rth ' and waved their
Engagement mid
following:
dendorf end Prince Rupprecht.
Wedding
“ Eight oxen, viz. one yoke (2) arms in undulatihns of the dance,
Rings
named Tom and Bill; one yoke (2) they sang, keeping time to the mu
' T H E O TH ER K IN D
named Spot and Black; one yoke sic by tapping their fe?ton the floor.
F. M . F r e n c h a, S ons
(2) named Red and Sam ; one yoke One girl, almost a child, with a
The Jailer—So you got the goods
high
soprano
voice,
would
chant
the
)
ALBANY
OR C O .
(2) named Jake and Bright."
on that fellow you just brought in ? j
The sheriff m adefhis levy, and first few notes of each verse. Then
The Constable— You bet I have
reported that he had made diligent the others would join in, the move An’ they ain’t dry goods, either.
search around defendant’s premises, ments of their bodies illustrating
Even aa He Is Pure.
hut had been unable to find the the words of the song, which usu
Beloved, now are we the anna a t
‘yii.” An old negro, who worked ally was a tale of native life—of
Ood. and It doth not yat appear what
WILDEY LODGE NO. 05.
at the sawmill where the oxen were hunting, fishing, war, love. The we ohall be; but we know th a t when
tunes were chanted in a high minor , He «hell appear, we ihall be like H im ;
Regular meeting next Saturday
I. O. 0 . F.
for we ehaU see Him aa Ha la. And
•»ery man that hath this hope In hhn
purlfleth htmealf, even aa ha la pure —
I Jobo 8:241.
F o r the best cash prices see
0. W. FRUM
H A Y , G R AIN . FE E D
A N D _ _ LIVESTO
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First-class grinding and grain cleaning done
at any time
Net Afraid.
I U M me down and slept; I • wakedt
for the I^ird sustained me. I will net
ba afraid of ten thousand people
1‘salrn 6.-.M.
the primal urge
“Young man, before thing» go
soy further, I must nek what you
mean by spending every evening
with my daughter. Are your inten
tions serious r ’
"Well—er—to tell the truth, sir,
it e ao oold everywhere elee, and you
keep it eo niae and warm here, that
T simply can’t resist the opportu-
tu ty J u d g e .
r p,
j
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night.
Amor A. Tussing
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B rowxsvii . i .», O reodm
C .C . B R Y A N T
atto rney a t la w
Cusick Bank Building.
A lbany, Oregon.
FARMERS
a n a lly havete
-----accumulation of
article* no louger’needed. ar succeeded
by batter eats, which so"«»body would
like to obtain. Ao advertisement the
stae of this, costing 2Sc. might find a
buyer and covert what is C' A 0 T J
now oa I v trash into good V / Y o f J