she might here formed since last he started from her reverie and turned to­ saw bee I t might be that the terrible ward him. H er face looked pale and longing In his heart was never to be weary, ae if life had lost some of Ito I t made him pause a moment satisfied. and then the necessity for charm speech became almost Intolerable. It but he gulped hard and spoke again. P o r c e la in B a th T u b a . was Iwcause of this that he bad spoken FRIDAY “C ynth y, there to a reason foe'the In the old fashion. “Cynthy. s’poee ws failure of ooutentment for me. I t to a tell what has happened since last we * Parse na I T a lk W ith Y e a . m etT’ I f you do not read T h e Observer And Cynthy had not resented the re­ Agent for the Best Steam Laundry Why Not? turn to old speech or the use of her j Shop in Brick Building next Observer Cffice Weaboald like to have you take uame, but had answered simply. IL and we Know It would be profitable to “S’poeln',” and Lem was not disposed E D G X R L K W 1 9 , P r o p r ie to r . vou to become a subscriber. We aend ,• to quarrel about the answer. two year« for $2-60; oneyear $1 80; 12Hcts But It was one thing to decide to a month la a ’t much. Try It. Order by speak and quite another to And the postal Card, and pay for It when you can. words one wanted. W hile he was still A t any tim e when requested to do seeking them Cynthy said, “S'poee I ao, the paper will be discontinued. But we begin F* O A L IT T L E M ISSIO N AR Y W O R K IN Y d U R G ratefully Lem accepted their re aspect that all arrear« w ill be paid before anch request 1» made. It la easy to ask us versed ‘ positions and answered In hla idle days by telling your neighbors of the good for a statement, which will be cheerfully turn, ‘S'posln’.” Cynthy found a comfortable spot and qualities of The Observer * If you can’t get their sub­ sat down, while Leq» threw himself at scriptions, send us their addresses and we will send her feet. Then she began In a almple, anaffected way to tell the story, which them sample copies. We pay for all soliciting you do the man eagerly drank In. So much depended upon that story. I t would either open hla lips or seal them for­ ever, and he knew IL H e composed himself to listen, determined that nei­ ther by word nor look should he em­ barrass her or make It difficult for her to give him this glimpse of her life. H e Could not help wondering If it meant as much to her as to him. “There Isn’t a great deal to my story. Lem." said Cynthy. " I did not know how fond of the old place I was until we had moved away. They say that those who are le ft behind feel I Architecture * Bookkeeping Stenography worse than tboee who go because new ► Banking and Banking Law, Commercial Law, Advertising thtpgs take up the attention. I dare ! Show Card Writing Chemistry say that to true in a way at least, but J Mechanical Drawing Electrical Engineering there Is a kind of longing for old Newspaper Illustrating, Civil Engineering, Steam Engineering places and old friends that to worse . Civil Service, Mechanical Engineering, than physical pain when It strikes and 4 Gas Engineering, Mining Engineering, Locomotive Running, their narrow lives which hla a w rw a ra that only the absentee can feel. True, ,1 Plumbing, Heating and Ventilating, # tongue and self conscious mind almost It Is not always there. One could not II French, 'German, Spanish, taught with Edison Phonograph. prevented hla laying before her. Cyn­ stand It If It were." Cynthy spoke In a reminiscent tone, more to herself than | J Full information furnished free upon request by •*B’F0M»’." thy was nefc given to many words her- to him. and Lem felt a sort of comfort aelf, and so when he finally managed In the knowledge that he was not the reason so old that I had not recognized It and at the same tim e so new that It to suggest “S’pose we go berrying Sat­ only sufferer. urday?” or skating, as the season “I went to school and gave my whole brings more pain than Joy. Cynthy, m ight allow, Cynthy had always con­ attention to my hooka, as I had de­ you are the reason.” 64 1-2 Sixth street, Portland, Ore. H e paused again and saw the blood tented herself w ith replying “S'poeln’." termined to fit myself for a teacher. surge up Into the girl’s face. H er H e saw himself again as he was in Somehow I think It always lay back breath came In quick gasps, but she those days, big for his years, hands In my mind that I should return here turned toward him w ith a look that and face tanned almoat a leather color some day. I w ill not deny that the de­ was partly Inquiry, partly surprise and sire became less a conscious purpose w ith aun and wind, a shock of unruly than a subconscious dream as the some, doubt, but there was no repug­ brown h air and eyea of almoat the years went by, but about six months nance. T h a t encouraged him to take aame shade. H e did himself but scant ago it flamed into a purpose that would up his narrative where he had so ab­ he oro justice as fa r as appearance went. I t brook no opposition.’’ ruptly stopped. bserver “I love you, Cynthy, but I did not did not occur to him that he bad been Here Cynthy paused and fell to a goodly lig h t to look upon even at thinking. Lem noted the fast chang­ know It until a week ago. I thought 1 th a t time, for he had been then aa now ing color now, and his heart tan k a waa too busy to care for girls; but, the seeming embodiment of rugged little. H e wondered w hat had roused Cynthy, It was because you had all my health. Looking at Cynthy, he saw Cynthy to the sudden determination heart, and I did not know I t i t was traces of the same a ir of fragility that and whether It boded good or ill for really for you that I studied aud won had characterized her aa a child and him and his hopes.. Every moment my w ay to success. I was too wholly •eemed to set her apart from the other seemed to make It more a m atter of a hoy when you w ent aw ay to under­ children. H e had long known th a t It life and death that be should know hla stand w hat gave me auch pain to part waa not an Indication of weak health,1 fate. w ith you. But even then I must have but waa due rather to a certain trans­ W ith heightened color and eyes that loved you.” H e paused for a moment as If to parency of akin which neither aun nor looked steadfastly at the fa r horizon, w ind seemed to affect. H e felt just aa Cynthy resumed her story, apparently steady himself for w h a t must follow. big and overgrown beside her today aa unconscious of the anxious scrutiny of Cynthy said nothing, but ahe drew he had done years ago, and Cynthy’s her companion. “ About a year ago a nearer to him as I f unconsciously assent to hla latest suggestion had fill­ young student came to board w ith us. draw n, and her face was lighted w ith ed him w ith the same sense of wonder Aa you know, I never had a brother, a smile th a t even Lem savf waa the and delight aa In t $ t old time. and before long we became excellent outward expression of Inw ard Joy. He H e would have liked to know I f Cyp- frlenda. - I t waa very nice to have some drew her Into hla arms, and she did thy waa thinking of those old days In one to depend upon, ever ready to do not resist. For a moment be held her the same way aa be was. He recalled w hat one needed, to play escort and so, w hile he waited for his heart to th a t In th a t faraw ay tim e he used to ‘big brother.’ T h a t waa w hat we both steady. Then with a tw tnkle In his speculate whether that simple word o f called It at firs t B ut it seemed to honest brown eye he turned her face assent “ » ’posin'” caused Cynthy any grow to be more, and—and—why, then, up to his and before kissing her said. of the pleasurable sensations it gave he asked me to m arry him. I t waa a “Cynthy, s’pose we get married?” And Cynthy answered, “S’posln’.” M m to hear IL H e had never dared surprise to me at firs t but a fte r aw hile to ask such a question, and he wonder­ I thought I would aay yea. Then It oc­ He Won’t Always Be One. ed I f he ever would. There was a de­ curred to me that before tying myself •T have a clerk." n New York whole- ligh tfu l possibility that be might, and to a promise that I m ight not he able hto heart beat higher a t the thought. to keep I should see more of life. 1 anle merchant remarked the other day. I f be had stopped to consider th a t fact, was not sure I could be a m inister’s “and he sometimes manages to hand he would have known It waa quite un­ wife, and besides I ' did not know back a teth er good one, though as o necessary, as that organ had not been whether I loved him or n o t I needed rule lie la little short of stupid, appar doing normal work for a week past absence to prove my feeling to myself. ently. As a mutter of fact, I suppose and before thia last Increase had been So that to why I am here. I applied he to one of those dreamy sort of h n i*. «»d you upver enu tell about going to an alarm ing rate. Indeed, for and finally got the position of w ere there no prospect of a decrease teacher, and here I am, out w ith yonj k it kllttf. even the sturdy frame of Lem Minturn Just aa In the old daya, and It hardly! M O R O .O R E O O N . .; could not long have withstood Its on­ seems as If It could be six years sln c ^ slaught. But no thought of danger then. Does IL Lena?” V | l wan sor” .’ o ffer I up Id It," he con from th a t cause rose In the young Something In the question made the “lint r e i - c i i t h e lrul made a aaan's mind. There were more dan­ young man’s heart leap and the hot TOst unnecerfHar.v blunder, mid I lost gerous things for him to consider than blood rush to his heed. He looked J> M . D U N A H Ä ) , Proprietor and Manager. my temjicr. sharply at Cynthy, but ahe appeared ” ' I Bay. .tones.' I eueered, 'you’d to be merely wondering aloud, and make a pretty good, clerk, niayl»«. If hope died down again. But It was time Ta » ’ m e from The Dallas sv any Sherman seaaty potol for hla story now, and. moreover, he you hud n little more eeime!' ServiM furnished to or from Moto to aay “H e looked nt me for a minute with felt aa If he could tell IL Indeed must OUR M O T T O “PUass the pubUc.* a sor/ of hull’ smile. ‘D idn’t It ever tell IL let the outcome be what It occur you. Mr. Prow u,’ he said, Record to Herald. m ig ht EVERYTHING NEW AND UP-TO-DATE, “ I t seems to me. Cynthy, ’h he said, •that If I had a little more sense’ 1 Golfer. wouldn’t l»e A a Royal clerk nt all?’ ’’ —Chicago “th a t perhaps without my knowing It K ing James I I . was a line golfer In SPECIAL RATES TO COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS you have always been a big factor In my life. I bad taken your friendship the sense of fond: ess for the game and In other penrea too. He It was, as as such a matter of course that If 1 Duke of York, who, when challenged thought of It at all It was as something by two English noblemen nt the Scot that could not be changed. Therefore tish court to a ni'a'ff h, the duke' to take your going off to the city that way any partner whom he could find, took was a blow that stunned me. I could to hto side an Rdinhurgb shoemaker not get used to lL I did not once think named John Paterrone. The duke and of asking you to w rite to me. In fa c t Pntarsone won, and the latter, being I could think of nothing but that you given h alf the stake, built for hlmaelf were going. The place seemed mighty a house, which to to lie distinguished lonesome a fte r you were gone, and I by the record upon It In Canougato to gave myself up to my work In the mill this day.—F ry ’s Mugazlne. as If thaL too, would never change. But It bothered me that you were going to have opportunities In the city Do You Open Tour Month that would put you away out of my class. T hat thought was discouraging Like a young bird and gulp down what« until one day 1 aald to myself, *Cynthy. ever food or medicine may be offered you ? s’pose we both study T And It seemed Or, do you want to know something of the to me that I could hear you aay. composition and character of that which ’S’posln’.’ T hat settled IL I began, you take Into your stomach whether aa and after a year or two. u iirlcx which food or medicine? M in t Intelligent and sensible people I had beeu steadily advancing In ths now-a-daya insist on knowing what they mill, I asked this question: ‘Cynthy, employ whether as food or as medicine. Reoor 2 ,» X . Fra“ ' »'pose I go away and take a technical Dr. Pierce believes they have a perfect etooo 212, and T oMtots and dams o f Hoton coarse and fit myself for assistant su­ right to tnstot upon such knowledge. So he Noria X W X . <*»»• M Otover perintendent?* And again you seemed publtohee.'-ksoadcaat and on each bottle- 2 21 and 4 Others, Hired by Blsctlonsr wrapper. what3jTf7tMMl< ’n** ara made of to answer, ’B’postn’.’ N o 125, Hire of Iff« 111 280 ion lu d log Arion “I talked the m atter over w ith the anaviKlfle«Jto’nHTeT--**xlb T K 'U h L l2 £ ii 2 07, soM fcr »125,000; Bonol 1<*X , sold auperlntendenh who had always been “a rasa wa oo ssaaTrsa. '’ r n t a _ û r a » ! c h hto isedtoine» ------ W ~~~ ¿ 5— toe 140,¿00; Palo A lta 2 08X; Dam oi Uau- the state of hto h ea rt In fact. If qoss a good friend, and he heartily approv­ re *tiir curatlvt viril t.t.’îjqnrp. knew It too w e l l to used to give It fu r­ and put In some bard studying for the next few yean. During vacations I For the cure of woman*» peculiar weak« ther consideration. H e wee more alarmed about the condition of another worked in the m ill and got thoroughly neasen. Irregularitlos and derangements, acquainted with Ito needs. I have not giving rlae to frequent headaches, back­ 1st Ihm , Briniette, dam of Lady Smith, 2 .2 5 .. heart which be wanted for hto own. ache, <1ragglng-ein M inturn, aud now as been too busy, end—well, th a t seeais panied, oftUmea, with a debilitating, 3d Dam by Alwood 927 he stood beside Cynthy, looking down to be all there to to 1L Here I am la pelvic, catarrhal drain and kindred aymp- 4th Dam by Waterloo by HamWetonian Mambrino No. 5241, a t her w hile she looked off toward the tha position I worked far, and I a r­ torn* of wsaknesa. Dr. Plsrce’s Favorite Volunteer 55, Sire of 8t. Julian 2:11 by C. M. Clay. Prescription to a moat efficient remedy. horizon. It traveled over all the little rived Just the same day you did.” I t la equally effective In ju rin g painful bypaths of memory the very approach “T h a t to a coincidence, to It not?” periods. In giving strength to nursing es to which he had apparently forgot­ aald Cynthy aa ! * m paused “ We are mothers and In preparing the system of ten until that day a week ago when he both locky, I think, to have found the expectant mother for baby's coming, had aeen Cynthy for the flrat time In things going our way. Now that yon thus rendering childbirth safe and com­ paratively pafnleea. The "Favorite Pre six years. Ever since then hto thoughts have proved your dream true are you •crtptlon * b a most potent, strengthening had been busy with olden days. He content?” tonic to the general system and to tha could recall all the chief events In the “I thought 1 waa, Cynthy, until the early life of both from the tim e when night I got back; then suddenly It cam« ahe was a tiny mite In pinafores and to ms that there was something lack nervous prostration, neuralgia, hysteria, spasms chorea or St. Vltu» « dance, and ho was a sturdy tod rejoicing In hto tog." Aker distressing nervous symptoms a t first real pockets. There was no break “ Isn’t that always ao with dreauia tsndant upon functional and organic dis­ until ahe was fifteen years old and her that come true, Ixon? It seems to me eases of the distinctly feminine organa. A host of mi diral authorities of all the fam ily had moved aw ay to the city, that the only happy dreams ere those where there were more sdvantagee for that stay dreams," said the girl, w ith a several sshoois of practica, recommend Term s—Season, $ lo . sack of the several Ingrodtonto of which slight stgh. •Favorite Prescription" to made for the Insure. »ISS cott *® ,t> n d »uck Lem made no direct reply to tkto bit sure of the diseases for which It Isclalmed to be a curs Yon may read what they of philosophy He was In the mood of say /o r t/oid Ins a postal card having hto dreams come true and risk­ request for a /res booklet of extracts ing the contentment. The suspense from the leading authorities, to Dr. B. 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