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 ?" ' ”--------------- — 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 , “1 * » • > A m ,,,. 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. ---------- ---------------------- 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 _____ 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