HALSEY ENTERPRISE. HALSEY. OREGON. MARCH 1. 1928 or three of the hardier native women nnder the water. There a'n't nobody H a rd to Get Around trudging along at a respectful dis In the cove. Gay." Ignorance Like This tance In the rear, they at last began Gay brushed past him, her hand on Dr. Van Fardleah o f the American the hard descent over the rocky cliffs the door. medical commission, recently assigned and ledges that bordered the cove. "Where you goln’ ?” “ To the cove To see for myself. to work In the Near East, remarked Helping one another as best they that medical effectiveness In the Orl- could, scrambling each man to keep I don’t believe a word of It," she de pace with the man ahead, all alike clared feverishly, with no thought for ! ent would never be established until B y Taking Lydia L P in k h am ’a anxious for the first frightful, horrid the rudeness of her words In the the masses were better educated. Vegetable Com pound “ A peasant woman," he said, “ had view, they stumbled over the rocks, shock of her surprise. “ You haven't Mveral children and when one of grunting, swearing softly In the nasal been there at a lt You are deceiving Manchester, So. Dakota,—" I was la New England drawl, and reached the me. Of course there Is a body In tbe them was taken 111, we Insisted that a te rrib ly weak and run-down cond™ the others be vaccinated. Much cove at last, leaning forward, staring cove!" tlon when a frland about them. With Ineffable patience, despite his against her w ill, she finally consented. told mo about Lydia "Two days afterward she stormed E. Plnkham'g Vego Then they stood erect, with sheep weariness, the Captain set out to fol table Compound. I ish grins, and looked the length and low. After a few hot running steps Into the relief hospital and upbraided began taking it and breadth of the cove. There were Gay waited for him to come up to her. us because one o f the recently vac a lte r a short time "Yon needn’t go. Captain," she said cinated children was dead. many footprints In the sand, there I fo il better. We " ‘Dead I’ I exclaimed, 'but how were scattered logs, bits of driftwood, kindly. “ You are tired, and It Is such are a fam ily o f five could he be dead? He was all right the wreck of an old boat, there were a hard way.’’ and live on a 360. shells and seaweed and fallen trees. “ Oh, that's all rig h t I'm still good when we vaccinated him.' acre farm, g<> j “ He fell down and broke his neck,’ But there was no drenched, sea- on my legs ” have quite a good washed body on the sand, no trace of deal to do both la- They did not speak again until they scoffed the woman. 'A lot of good vaccination does.' ” doors and out. At red blood on the clean yellow, no sign entered the wood, when the Captain, , ? rst 1 was «“ able rather diffidently, broke the silence. way." cornea with thought of treasure of human driftwood from the sea. to do anything and had to have a girl "Yon oughtn’t to live there by your borne by the aea. < but after taking the Vegetable Corm THE START self, Gay. Women ha'n’t no call to CHAPTER IV pound I finally gained my strength “Treasure trove," she whispered live alone. It a'n’t accordin' to natur" On th e v e rg e o f nervo us c o l back and also gained considerable in “ Pirate's prize. Finders keepers." lapse. due co o v e rw o rk , G ay D e w eight I w ill gladly answer letters Satisfied at last that their eyes did They get queer. They get to thlnkln' Now It swept far forward on the lane, successful N ew Y o rk a r tis t, from women In regard to your medi wave. Then It receded again, sucked not deceive them, that In very truth things, they get to seeln’ things— seeks rest a t Id le Island She cine. —M bs , O tto J. G eyeb , R. F £> j . re n ts a c o tta g e , the "Lon e P in e ,” back by the outgoing water. But there wns no body In the cove, the ghosts an’ sech. You better go to the Box 20, Manchester, So. Dakota, fro m an Is la n d c h a ra c te r, the hotel. Gay, for the rest o f the sum men of the searching party drew to- caught full at last by the surging tide. " C a p ta in ," and his sister, A lic e (Take a L ittle Salts If Your Back It swept close In to shore. gethei, looked from one to another mer. I'll let you off on the rest of A n d o v e r, " a d m in is tr a to r ." G ey SC H O O L FO R M EN the house. It a'n’t accordin' to natur’. Hurts, or Bladder la finds th e c o tta g e Is te n a n te d by “ Oh, I do bellev, It Is a sea-chest- with sheepish deprecating grins. livin’ alone." an e ld e rly la d y , " A u n ta lm lr y ,'' Troubling You wrapped In rugs—or—something." she “ By gar, she done ns,” roared Lum- w ho consents to m ove to a n Gay made no answer, but she smiled cried aloud Joyously. “ Oh, I believe ley Lane with his great guffaw. “ The o th e r abode, th e "A p p le T r e e .' at him, and when they came at last ----------------- ' It Is!" little New Yorker done us right." A w a k in g fro m sleep. G ay Im a g to the precipitous cliffs that girt the ines she seer th e face o f a C h in a No man or woman can make a mis She ran out a few steps, regardless Led by the Captain, they tried the m an p e e rin g In th e w in d o w . She take by flushing the kidneys occasion of the water that splashed about her doors o f the boathouse, of the Little cove, she led the way, stumbling, gild s ettle s dow n In h e r new home, ankles, leaning far forward, ready to club Itself, but all were locked se Ing falling, while the Captain grunt ally, says a well-known authority. a n tic ip a tin g m onths o f w e ll- Use Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh earned rest and re c u p e ra tio n . catch hold when It came nearer. Sud cure and silent. They called a few ed and softly swore beneath bis Eating too much rich food creates back for Srat bottleIf not Kited. deaioK. breath behind her. In the cove, at acids, which excite the kidneys. They denly It turned, swung toward her. times, loud halloos, but received no last, she turned with her usual brisk become overworked from the strain, Gay cried out, faintly. She saw It, answer. B e n e fic e n t S n e e ze assurance, and flung out a hand get sluggish and fa ll to filte r the waste CHAPTER Ilf— Continued plainly. It was the body of a man. “ Was she fllm-flammln’, Gamp?" A sneeze relieved C. A. Kinney, toward the spot where the body had and poisons from the blood. Then we The hands beneath the water showed asked one of the Budlong boys. lain. get sick. Rheumatism, headaches, eighty-three years old, of Seneca, Pa., faintly radiant, the face shone palely. "No," said the Captain, with his Thp farthest of these houses, built Then her eyes widened, her lips live r trouble, nervousness, dizziness, from the effects of Injuries he suf Grating In the sand, surging In the | usual soft decisiveness. "She was at the last stand, where the forest water, It slid up on the shore, swung cryln’, her face all streaked and parted and she stared, aghast sleeplessness and urinary disorders fered In a fa ll downstairs about two and the shore-line merged, was the years ago. He had been unable since The captain was rig h t There was often come from sluggish kidneys. at her feet, and the receding waves Lone Pine. Be.vond all others, farther, to move his head and neck freely. no body on the sand. Except for sucked at It Jealously. The moment you feel a dull ache In higher, alone It stood, aloof, remote. themselves, the cove was void of life, the kidneys, or your back hurts, or If Then came the sneeze, something Stifling her Innate repulsion, Gay Beyond the Lone Pine, on the pen as It was void o f death. Flashes of the urine Is cloudy, offensive, fu ll of snapped, and Ills head and neck func insula of forest land that ended In thrust out a stiff, resentful, unwilling light swam before her eyes, and she sediment, Irregular o f passage or at tioned normally. sheer rocky cliffs, was but one other hand, closed her Angers firmly on the swayed dizzily. tended by a sensation of scalding, be building This was known as the flapping lapel of the coat, and with Revenge is not so sweet as a change “ I'll Just sit down a minute to get gin drinking a quart o f water each I the help of the next Incoming wave, Little Club house. my wind back,” the Captain panted, day, also get about four ounces of Jad of scene that utterly shuts out the t i . o t m i. ».. a k . . . a Rhe drew 11 h,* h UP ‘ he sand be- The Little Club had been a daring yond the B.atPr ||np and dropped down heavily on a low Salts from any pharmacy; take a object o f vengeance. social venture for a group of Port rock, mopping away great beads of tablespoonful In a glass of water be No hope of resuscitation for that land business men In the years when perspiration with his red handker fore breakfast and In a few days your B roadcasts G ood N ew s unfortunate. Already It was set In sailing was the foremost summer chief. kidneys may act fine. W hittier, Calif.—"Dr. Piarce'a Fa- sport along the coast. In those days, the rigidity o ' death. And over the Gay pulled herself together. This famous salts is made from the vorlto Prescription and the 'Golden every man of means In the city had temple gaped a great dark bullet- "Somebody took him away while acid o f grapes and lemon Juice, com Medics! Disco vary' have been used In Ids own boat, and the Little Club wound, where the stiff hair, dripping I was gone," she said in a low voice. bined w ith llthla, and has been used our fam ily off and house was their summer rendezvous. salt water, clung thickly In the blood " I was not fooling you. I left him fo r yea-s to flush and stimulate the on for a long time that had drenched it, the edges As the men of Portland took up right here. See, the sand Is wet from kidneys; .Iso to help neutralize the and they have al washed flabby-white. motoring, the vogue for sailboats where he lay.” ways given us en acids In the system, so they no longer Gay turned away from It, Instinc passed. Tear by year the Little club tire satisfaction. I " It splashed from the surf," he cause Irritation, thus often relieving tively recoiling, her natural thought have taken tbe ‘Fa In the cove saw less and less of social said. bladder weakness, vorite Prescription' life, and Anally, for a period of seven to run quickly far from the terrible “ I put his hand on his breast, and Jad Salts is Inexpensive; makes a and to has my years. It had been opened but once sight. But as she turned her eyes my handkerchief I spread over his delightful effervescent llthia-water mother. It was a each summer, when the remnant of fell on the hand that lay flung out face. Captain, do you think I'm wonderful benefit drink which everyone should take the old group came by motor boat for on the sand, a long fine hand, a hand crazy?’ she demanded Indignantly, to us. I think It now and then to help keep the kid a great week-end orgy of lobster, flsh, that even In death suggested the emo hat no equal. No, Gay, no, I don't think you’re neys clean and nctive and the blood tions of life, desire, tenderness, pas and, It was rumored, forbidden brew. . U ,7i , My ,aLber always crazy," he said stoutly. “ But you pure, thereby often avoiding serious took the Golden Medical Discovery’ For the last three years even this sion, that had tingled In Its finger hadn't ought to live alone. It a'n't kidney complications. tips. when he fe lt rundowil, and It never mild hurst of diversion had been good for women, makes 'em queer; Gay's eyes hung to It, spellbound, failed to build up his general health abandoned, and the famous old Little a'n’t accordin' to natur’.” Tery ,h o rt time."—Mrs. J. g. P ig e o n L iq u id a te d D e b t club was as dead as the oldest gray and then, slowly, swept to the face Hllyard, 118 a. W hittier Ave. Gay smiled rather wanly. “ I am again. It wns a tired face, worn, all pine In the woodlnnd. Pigeons were welcome visitors at I f your druggist la out of the “Medl- sorry for all the trouble I have caused The l.lllle Club house was built set Into grim hard lines; had prob cal. or "Prescription." you, I am sure you know that I had the window of the Cincinnati (Ohio) ably been a handsome face In life, with the natural rock of the shore as send 66 cents to Dr. Pierce, Buffalo, no desire to deceive ~ou, deliberately apartment of Mrs. Amoretta Fitch, al the head finely shaped, the forehead She Struggled On Until She Reached N. Y., for a package of the tablets. a g neral base, ns Indeed were most the L ittle Stretch of Sheltered I am very sorry. W ill you go on home ways receiving a few morsels of food of the Island houses along the const. high, the rhln slender and clear-cut. until their hostess discovered they Beach. now, and leave me? I have my sketch A wide plazzn circled three sides of The lips had been delicate and tine pad In my pocket I am going to had begun to eat her cherished win the house, and on the north gave it a before that last grim anxiety had white, tremblin' all over. She didn't draw the face from memory, and per dow plants. Then she put up a screen locked them Into this hard cast. fur view of sen and sky. Gay was not Gay shuddered, hurled her face In aim to flim-flam nobody. She thought haps you w ill recognize I t I want to to shut out her feathered callers. A long In discovering this deserted plaz- do It while It is all fresh In my few mornings later a single pigeon her hnnds. Then she stood up, sud she saw something, that's alL" 11.,,1;,. , wvoi ll tn. and sometimes went with her . V/U lia d lo S ta tio n s “J a .” t 6:80 d in e v a r N v a tio n -w id e came to the window and hovered about They returned the way they had thought" »ry murala v sketching pad, which she carried on denly determined, and called for help come, and although the men hung on the sill ns If to attract her atten and UTTÍÑT'íJ"“ “ f"r “"«öi^VkCNHBT The Captain demurred, but Gay all occasions, and sat there. Idly again and ngaln, her clear high voice about the Captain's door, hoping for ringing and reverberating among the stood firm against him, and his objec tion. She shooed It away, but It came E X Stailo?. draw ing In the pleasant shade. rocki that bound the cove. It was a glimpse of the erratic New Yorker tions dwindled. He went off at last, a right back and dropped a shiny, new Gay often leaned far out over the who had sent them on their hard sturdy little figure, for all his frailty dime on the sill and flew away, not piazza railing, trying to see beneath, seldom that strollers came through to return. the woods so far, and the cottages chase for the wild goose, the Captain and bis bent shoulders. wishing the distance were less, that were far removed. There was no an considerately, left them without and Gay picked out a seat for herself she could drop down And then one swer. although she continued to call closed the door behind him. O h , T ra n s p a re n t M a n among the rocks and fell at once to day, when her strength had come when she had ceased to expect The Captain looked compassionate work. She could see It all so vivldlv Doctor—You had better be X-rayed. again, and her most venturesome mood even N orth A m erican D ye ( o r p o r a tlM response. ly at Gay. “There wa'u’t nobody that her flesh crawled as she repro M t.V era o n , N. y . was upon her, she slipped under the I atient There's no need. Get my drownded,” he said gently. "There And so at Inst, bravely, she took re duced the picture from memory-the railing on the eastern side of the wife—she Is always able to see right wa'n’t nobody shot There w a n t sponsibility to herself, set her lips small hit of sand below the rocks, the through me. dub house, and holding with both nothing but aticka and stones In the limp body In Its drenched clothes, the W' N- U ■ PORTLAND, NO. 9-1 »28. bands, now to the wild branches that hard and bent down to draw the body cove.” higher on the sand, beyond reach of •lark hair, the fine head, the gaping grew In the crevices, now to the A V e ry W o m an Gay leaped to her feet giddily, and wound, and outflung on the sand the B o b b y ’s E x p la n a tio n rough and ragged rocks themselves, the tide at Its highest point. She “ Is your wife fond of listening In?" slowly, stumbling, falling, splashing lifted the outthrown hand and laid the women fell back, respectfully, to P“ le ha" d- lonS. «Urn and powerful, ' ltle Sister—I wonder w h , Feb- “ N o ; Margaret much prefers speak the hand of a gentleman, hand of a herself with water In the lower It gently back upon the breathless give her room. L !ttle “ B20tSay<’ eVery fourth yearf ing out." breast, and spread her wispy hnndker- •choiar hand that betrayed Intensify "There—wasn't?" she gasped. “ But places, cutting and bruising her hands, sllh ? r° th.er~ Don't y" n know, Wa’ ,he hand ,hat " nd she struggled on until she reached clilef. pitifully, over the pale set face. there was! He had dark hair, and s tlriT r 20th of February‘c a T h '6 b° rn ° " Then, In a fresh accession of horror Ithe product of a tight shoe or an long One hands—oh, nonsense !—I can stirred Gay roost deeply, and when the little stretch of sheltered bench. once in . wh“ e “ h8Ve ' blrth<,a* she ran wildly upon the rocks of thè see him this moment as plainly as— It lay before her |0 her penciled oak tree Is a-corn. “ 1 knew I could do It," she said cliff, clambering over them, strug My handkerchief, I spread It over bis sketch, delicate and strong, she burled cocklly. waving sway the reproachful her face hpr two hflnda stinging of her torn hands. " I said I gllng feverishly In her haste, and her poor face. Did you bring my hand terror was magnified by her flight, so kerchief?" Into nervous weeping. But In a mo- would, and I did." You're all tired out. Gay," he said . T * s * ControI,ed »erself, shook She ran at once to the club house, that she sobbed aloud, fell often In under the piazza. She found a full' her foolish frenzy, and cut herself gently. "You work too hard. You away her tears crossly, and dabbed at but did not feel the pain. seen a hallucination, that's all |t . „ „ V ™ J ' ” 1 ,h* bacli of her hnnd. lower story of the • <«e showing Out of the rocks, disheveled, soiled, was driftwood rldln' In. Seaweed, lacking the wispy handkerchief that there, with a wide door, and two win dows, hul they were heavily framed her pale face streaked with tears, she maybe. Things alius looks like men was gone. (TO BE CONTINUED.» In wooden shutters, further protect- stopped to recompose herself, adjust •d by stout Iron gratings, and secured ed her blouse and belt, and tried to wipe the telltale marks of fear from X X X X X <• x-> X •> with heavy patented locks. Gay shook the rusted lock Impa her face. In a semblance o f order at last, she ran through the woods, and tiently. "I'd love to get In," she thought down the lane to the Captain's bouse The Captain, shocked by her white Japanese soldiers do not give much wistfully. “ Perhaps It Is a haunted and frightened face even more than trouble to the quartermaster’s depart. drawn Into the weed on the shore, chateau. Whoever heard of an Island n ’ o brushy saplings being ar by the Incoherent tale she told, extri menL In the field they are capable without a haunted chateau?" ranged In long, parallel rows where cated himself from the fold of dog The little cove wns a pretty one, and cats with nervous Impatience, and of great endurance on a diet of d^led tne tide ebbs over them twice dally. rice, dried flsh, dried seaweed .-»d marveloudy well protected. On thè Gradually, the green fernlike weed brushed against two granddaughters pickled plums. The seaweed is Wracne.t left side the rocky ledge ran far out. In his haste to get Gay Into a chair round the rice and used as a " rffllL - collects on the branches, and flour- Jtirvlng like a bow. It was among before she fainted. to It. Given a tin , Are, « stewpsn, and shes there until the farmers harvest die rocks on the left thst the old It Is then carefully picked over "Do tell," he chattered gently, the rations mentioned, the, are ¡,»r- boathouse stood, but although Gay “ dear, dear, now, what are things fe c tl, content, whatever the weather and dried for future use. pulled at the lock, even banged at It coming to?—I.lda, give Mlsa Gay here and however long the marches with a stone. It would not yield Kv some good hot tea. I'll go right down Seaweed Is grown specially for food O n e T hing to L ive For ery crack was sealed, and the win there and—" purposes, being cultivated with ns Mrs. Nagger had married a wealthy down were hoarded and barred. “ I'll go back with yon and show much care as an, other crop, After husband and as a consequence had "Stingy things," the said crossly. you," Gay proffered quickly. the typhoon season, the women may spent much of her married life la •'The way they keep themselves "No, no, mlsa, tea's what you need, be seen hearing great loads of vouni travel. At home she had had her ev locked op you'd think they were a quiet's what you need. I.lda, give tree, which have been stripped of ery wish gratified almost Instantly, fa hand of bootleggers." her some more te a - I'Il take the boys their leaves, though «11 ,hp , ma„ fact nothing Interested her any more. As she stood In the sandy beach, with me. W eil have to work it up branches are left intact These are She was bored with life looking out. her ryes shone with over those rocks some way." "Sometimes,” she said one after pleasure She forgot the hard strug P " ’ W - « tld k n o A „ v * 1 He hurried away, an eager, brave noon to Mrs. Holland, who had gle with the rocks, she did not think fra il little figure. D isguised C om plim en t dropped In for tea, "sometimes I feel o f her torn and bleeding hands It Naturally, the Captain did not go was very lovely. A bond man In New York added to I have nothing In tbe world for which direct to the cove. He went first to to live." “ The tide was coming In, nearly full, the Pier grocery store to recount the his a c th llle . the pw,, of Mrs. Holland shook her head sadly, and she was obliged to move back a grewsome tale. Then he stopped by farmer' on Long Island Before etep or two to avoid a wetting But the way to pick np the Rudlong boy*, ing h l. place for a trip to Europe h. then suddenly brlghteoed. “ Well, there's spite, my dear, there’s Id to h it head man : she could not tear herself from the two drivers from the taxi stand. Hr "Flaherty, 1 have t0 be a w » fo, . spite." place. And then, as she Mood, she Allenby, the weather man. and Lum saw the Incoming waves bore freight ley l-ane With these enforcement*, month or two. I hope everything will run smoothly on (he firm ." S ta n d s in H igh P la ce —■ barrel—no, a aack —n o - and followed by a troop of a doxen “db. said Flaherty, heartily. Let us never forget that the cuM Gay watched It curiously and fell more small boys sbou'lng direr .ton t do a hit o' harm. sir. when you ro ration o f the earth la the most In the little th rll' of excitement that at WESTERN GIRL STRENGTHENED ¡Quart of Water ] Cleans Kidneys To Cool a Burn Are You Listening In? Seaweed Harve.t of Importance in Japan SPIRIN ’ 1 I 1 Physicians prescribe Bayer Asm™ - rt d»es NOT affect ¿ e h e £ ’ * “ ««ceti * S kU cjlteM g