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The next oay wr». ui sons. made nonobjection to rneir ueiug together, aud when they separated she uoujiced that she must go to London to Invited Chenoworth when he came to do some shopping. She charged her M O RO. OREGON. 'England to call upon them at their daughter to take good care of the guest during her absence, which was entirely home to that country. F R ID A Y ................. July 28. 1916 Perhaps neither Chenoworth nor unnecessary. for it was evident that Miss Smithson realized the delicate Miss Gladys was as much enamored The price of The Observer is $1.50 per bond that had been slowly forming of Chenoworth ns he was w ith her. peer, 75 cent» lor six month«. 50 cento lor between them till the moment of sep The lovers were In a seventh heaven our «nor»*1»«—hut if nsid in «dvance we during the mother’s absence, which accept 52.50 in hill tor 2 years. Shorter aration came. Gladys gave him her erra« than one year 12 X cento per month. hand at parting, and he held It Just lasted several days. A young Rsssten named Ivan Ivano Chenoworth was puzzled. W hy did A Bine Mark here will an«wer so in- a trifle longer than at an adieu be vitch, living a t. Kars, not many miles tween mere friends. Miss Smithson Mrs. Smithson leave him with her Mery, when entered upon our calendar, jivng the date ol the paper as the date at looked at the floor. Chenoworth look daughter during this Interval? Why north of th e , boundary line between »hich your current subscription expires. ed Into her face, then released her had she changed In her treatment of Russia and Turkey, found employment band and turned away. him? There was jf o explanation. On across the border and while there fell He met many young women on hl^ her return the mystery deepened. She in love w ith a young Turkish girl. H e r travels, but none of tbem caused him would not hear of Chenoworth’* de father refused her to him unless he to lanish from a spot very near to his parture. saying that she was planning would renounce the Christian religion heart the image of Miss Smithson. .He some social functions at wiiich she de and become a Mohammedan. Ivan was had planned a trip to Russia, but, sired his presence. averse to doing so, but It la easy for bearing In his memory the Image of his Chenoworth was beside himself. Hie one who la In love to find a salve for companion In Switzerland, he shrank attentions to Gladys were very notice his conscience, and be finally consent from a visit to that cold country and able, aud her mother was encouraging ed. H e professed adhesion to the resolved to forego the trip and give them. She had no Information con prophet, and the two were married. bimself more time in England. cerning his standing In America nor This is a simple matter w ith the When Chenoworth arrived to Lon as to his Income, which. It was evident Turks, for the bride la conducted to the don he sent his card to the Smithsons from his careful expenditures, was not groom’s house and left there with him. at their ancestral home In the county large. Why, then, was she giving him There is no soch ceremony as among of Kent, with the result that he re every opportunity to win her daughter Christians. ceived an invitation to visit them for when tbut daughter might make a O f course the yoqag husband’s con a week end. As he was driven Into very advantageous match? version was a form, but be was obliged By F. A. MITCHEL the place between two imposing gate Chenoworth was anxious to hunt up to go to prayers hi the moeque like any way pillars and up to the manor house, the records of his ancestry, and he Mohammedsq and otherwise conform through an avenue arched with trees to that rellgiosC 'A fte r awhile he grew When James Cbeuoworth, having lost that had been hundreds of years grow realized that to do thia he must go to tired of this and, taking his w ife w ith London. Gladys had told him that both father aud mother, decided to sell ing, his heart sank within him, for he the homestead and g o . abroad for realized that an American with a beg he had better go to an office of her him, went beck to the other aide of the awhile he aat hltnaelf down to exam garly two thousand a year could never aldry. But whenever be proposed to border. Now, it was not long after the Ivano ine a large number of papers that bad aspire to the hand of the girl who depart Mrs. Smithson objected, and vitch fam ily made thia m ere that the he deferred his going. been accumulating for many years. In would Inherit such a splendid home. And so It was that Chenoworth kept Grand Duke Nicholas marched by. Im deed, there were documents among Whether Mrs. Smithson had discov pressing men Into his army as he ad them that dated buck more than two ered In her daughter a disposition to putting off Ids departure until one vanced, taking Ivan among the num centuries. There w’as a tradition In the |!ne for Chenoworth and scented dan evening, while out on the terrace with ber. When the latter found that 4J>ey Gladys, under the moonlight, he told family that the first Chenoworth In ger. certaiu it Is that the mother re were marching on Erzerum he was her that ho loved her, but he knew America had been a soldier of King ceived him without the cordiality he much concerned, for it waa near that Charles under Prince Ru|>ert and. when expected. Her daughter, on the con that owing to his limited means a m ar city that he had married his wife, and the Protector Cromwell prevailed, had trary, welcomed him with a mingling riage with her was Impossible. Then they conferred together upon If be should be captured and recog corns to America to make a new home of pleasure and embarrassment. D ur what Mrs. Smithson meant by encour nized fighting In a Christian army for himself. ing his brief visit there were moments aging this match, but as neither of against the followers of Mohammed be The family documents were kept in of exquisite pleasure for both him and them knew they simply wondered. It would suffer as dreadful fate as could what was called a hair trunk, from be Gladys, succeeded by moments of de was finally agreed between them that be visited on a reuegade. ing covered with the skin of some ani presslon. There was a unlflirSf hearts, Ivanovitch was on the flank of his Chenoworth should learn what was to mal from which the bair had not been but they were constantly reminded army and ten miles to the northwest of store for them hy^aHklug for (llady’s removed. James Chenoworth spent that any other union was lmjiosslble. Erzerum. There he was captured by When Chenoworth was making this hand. many hours over the contents of the the Turks and carried w ith them to He approached Mr. Smithson with trunk, reading the papers. In time be visit, one afternoon while Gladys was their retreat before the Russians to took up a paper which he unfolded. It engaged, he was entertained by her doubt and fear. He was given to un ward Trehlzogd. derstand that If he was acceptable to was a fragment yellow with age. The mother. He mentioned the fact that Just before the Russian advance Into the daughter he w ’ould be acceptable Ink was also faded and almost IHeg his ancestors had come from England Turkey, Mine. Ivanovitch went on a Ible. James put it In bis pocket. In Uuid his discovery of the fragment to the parents. This thrilled him, and visit to her people and was there d ar tending to try to decipher it later, for among his family papers. The lady be went to Gladys with the good news ing the surrender of Erzerum by the words to It which be could easily read was doing some kind of knitting white a t once. At a subsequent Interview Turks. One day while looking at some seemed to refer to his ancestors. What he was talking to her, on which she he gave Mr. Smithson a statement of Russian prisoners whe were being kept her eyes, but Chenoworth noticed his flnnn<inl affairs, to which the geu marched by, ahe saw her husband he ultimately made out was this. “ At the beginning of the parliamen that as he passed from one ¡mint to tleman listened with respectful atten among them. tary wars James Chenoworth, son and another she was becoming deeply in tion. but made no comment. I f Cheno- The good woman was seized w ith terested. Finally she asked abruptly worth's tulnd had not been taken up the same trepidation as Ivan, that he heir of Sir Ralph Chenoworth, with love, curiosity would have come to see the fragment to which he had oot to fight for tiie king. Ilia m ight be recognized as a Mohammed referred. Taking It from hla i>orte- In to claim Its share of attention. Artbyr, two years hia an renegade. Wishing to be near him Chenoworth did no^ lenve the manor monnale. he handed It to her. the parliamentary forces, to afford him such protection as she bouse till he departed on his wedding For some time her eyes were bent brothers were enough might be able, ahe followed the prison When he returned he was ers, their captors taking tbem along upon It, while the American’s were Journey A t the end of the war bent upon her. Evidently there was saluted by his mother In-law and every to retreat, and eaw them go Into having been lost, something in this bit of yellow paper, one else ns Sir .lames. When the first bivouac fo r the night went to America, torn In half, that moved her profound- excitement attending the couple’s re his home and Now, there waa no opportunity for a She handed It back to him wlth- turn had worn off Chenoworth was In woman to mingle among teen In T u r When the out remark, but be noticed a slight formed of what had been going on key, for Turkish women and men do Chenoworth tremor of her hand as she did so. Pres during his conrtshlp. James. not associate together as to o tte r conn- Mrs. Smithson had Inherited her es tries. The only way Mme. Ivanovitch ently, evidently nerving herself to worth tate through the female branch of could go among the soldiers and prison something, she asked: ChenO She was aware that er« was by assumfhg man’s attire. En Mr. Chenoworth, do you Intend to Chenoworth«. Chenoworth resolved that daring his travels he would visit England and look up your ancestry while In Eng the hslr to the title had two centuries tering the women’s quarters of a house before disappeared in America. ; Qn ne&x by; ahe prevailed upon a w ife to hunt op hla ancestral record. Placing land T" She awaited bis reply w ith sUppress- receipt of a copy of Chenoworth’s frag the fragment In hla portemonnate, he' procure her a suit of her husband's, merit she ted taken U to s terald of 1 emotion. ------------ _i~ .. — made his preparations and In d u e tu n e “That Is my intention," he replied. flee to London, and they had given her own clothe! Is a bundle under her arm, w ent abroad. A t a hotel In SWltser- But I don't know where to begin." the following'reading of it when com went to the place where the prisoners land, where he found a mixture of There was no reiHy to this. Later plete: were. There she made friends with Cngllah and Americans, be fell to “ At the beginning of the pnrllamen the guard and offered her services for w ith an English fam ily named Smith- Miss Smithson -reappeared, and the two young persons went out Into the tary wars James Chenoworth. son and any duty she might perform. She was heir of Sir Ralph Chenoworth. went told that she najght take part in watch The main attraction to this family grounds together. brother, ing the prisoners, and, obtaining a Chenoworth was to return to London out to fight for the king, was Miss Gladys Smithson, a girl •b o u t twenty years old. Both she and the next morning. W hat was bis sur Arthur, two years his Junior, joined gun, she stood guard with the rest Toward midnight she took position Chenoworth were fond of winter prise before going to bed to be asked the parliamentary forces. The two ■porta, and they were where they by Mrs. Smithson to remain longer. brothers were enough alike to be twins near her husband and dropped her eonld enjoy them to perfection. Miss He replied that nothing stood In the At the end of the war. the king’s cause bundle beside Him, at the same time Smithson was the only child of her way of his doing so, and bis departure having been lost, James Chenoworth making signs to him to roll Into some parents, and Chenoworth learned that was deferred. Mrs. Smithson’s treat went to America. Arthur returned to underbrush a few yards from him. through her mother she was an heir ment of him seemed to be undergoing his home and succeeded to the title Slowly edging to that direction, he eea Since he possessed an Income of a change, though she did not seem to When the restoration came James came to the edge of the brush. Moat barely 12.000 a year, be repressed any have made up her mind with regard Chenoworth had died, leaving a son. of the guard were drowsy. One of The sons of James Cheno them was near enough to observe desire he felt to make love to the to hla attentions to her daughter. On John. the second day after her Interview worth are the rightful heirs to the Ivan, and Mine. Ivanovitch placed her young lady. self between the two. Then the pris This was fortunate, for Miss Smith with him during which he bad showed Chenoworth title and estates." Mrs. Smithson’s action was explain oner rolled into the brush. eon's mother, who had an Internet to her the fragment she asked him to let As soon ns he examined the con her daughter's adding to rather than her see It again. He did so, and she ed. By taking James Chenoworth for dividing her prospective fortune, not asked him If he would object to giving a son-in-law she revived the baronetcy tents of the bundle he saw hia w ife’s suspecting that there was any especial her a copy of it. He at once complied and secured for her daughter the es design. As a man In Russian uniform tates which were legally his. It would be Impossible for him to Interest between the two young par- with her request make hla way through the Turkish lines, but as a woman be would have every advantage, especially aa the face of a Turkish woman la always hidden by a veil. Under cover of the dark ness he took off his clothes and put on those of hla wife, then made hla way out of the bivouac of guards and prisoners. ¿A Coming to thia* road over which he had been inarched during the day, he walked along it till he came to a house. — its flavor is so different and so There he took refuge in an outhouse delightfully good; till morning, when he rapped at the — it can’t bite your tongue; women’s quartern. He was admitted, made up a story of having been to see — it can’t parch your throat; an.officer to whom ahe (he) was mar — you can smoke it as long and ried, and was treated w ith kindness. Here be was in double danger, for he as hard as you like without any was not only a renegade Mussulman, comeback -but real tobacco hap but a man In the. women’s quarters, a piness! place where not even a husband may enter unless his Wife la without visit On the reverse side of every Prince ors. However, he Insisted on remain Albert package you will read: ing veiled and got out ea soon aa he ** P R O C E S S P A T E N T E D could without exciting suspicion JU L Y 3 0 t h , 1 0 0 7 ” Following the road beck toward the That means to you a lot of tobacco en Russians, he modestly withdrew to one joym ent Prince Albert has always been side on meeting Turkish soldiers who sold without coupons or premiums. W e were hurrying before their conquerors. prefer to give quality I A t last he met the Russian advance and, lifting his veil, revealed himself ns a man and a R ” The next meeting between Ivanovitch and his w ife was la a hospital w ithin the Russian lines. H e bad been taken ill and relegated to the quarters of the sick. Mme. Ivanovitch had made her way back toward Erzerum and had been hoping that he had made good hla escape. She had g00® w ith Red Cross nurses to help to the hospital, aud one day as waa passing his cot the two m e t ” T > She was free to kneel beside him, and the two embraced with thanks, the ooa to God. the other to Allah. T h e O bserver 54? Chenoworth Baronetcy It Was Lost and Was Revived nis Prince Albert gives s m o k e r s su c h delight, because in goodness and in pipe satisfaction is all we or its enthusi astic friends ever claimed faritl It answers every smoke desire you or any other man ever had! It is cool and fragrant and appealing smokeappetite that you will get chummy with it in a mighty short tim e! W ill you invest 5c or 10c to prove out our say- so on the national joy smoke? Angry. “She trumped hla ace." “ Did he say anything?" •‘H e couldn’t have said more If he had been married to h e r’’—Detroit Free Press. W ine and the Bush. In olden times ivy buahes owed to be bang over the doors of taverns as sign- hoards because the plant was sacred to Bacchus, the god o f wine. VICTORIA’S LETTERS. - . - /. Royal 8eorets Thst Are 8tored Away In Buckingham Palace. “W e may wonder If the world win ever be allowed to see the private cor respondence amassed by the late Queen Victoria," says a writer. I t Is stored sway in a strous room built into the walla of Buckingham palace, and tbs queen shared her confidence with no So long aa she waa physically able to do so she opened and closed the safe herself and arranged Its contents. When she was too feeble to do this she employed an old and trusted secretary, hot even he bad to work uader tbs royal eye. He wsa never allowed to keep the keys nor to read the letters that he handled. Queen Victoria waa always a volumi nous letter writer, and ahe was In con stant communication w ith most of the royalties In Europe. Every domestic secret and privacy of royalty daring half a century la said to be represented by the contents of this wonderful safe and It la easy to believe that the mod ern historian would find bis hands fall If he were permitted to browse among these letters. But probably be w ill have to w ait a few hundred years, and then his pop alar audience w ill be a languid one. It is one of tbe ironies of life thst we can never have a thlug when we want it.— Pittsburgh I’resa. Real Estate Bargains L a n tF L o c a te d in S h e r m a n Co. No. 1. 1280 acres; 900 under cultivation; 320 seres in crop. First close 12 room house, hot and cold water, good well and wind m ill,, lota of water both at house and pasture. Good fences, moat all hog tight, railroad flag station on place; one mile haul to ware house; 3 miles to school and store; 7% miles to county seat. Price, with crop, $30 per acre, will take some trade, y ? . . 1 No. 2. 800 acres, all tillable except about 25 acres: 400 acres to crop. Close to town. Lots of water. Fair buildings. W ill take $9000 to trade, balance crop payments, 6 per cent interest. • No. 3. . 640 lots . . acres . . west - of - Grass ---- Valley, B good buildings, . whh bal> of water, close to school, Frice, $25 per acre, part cash anee on ter mt. No. 4. 960 acre ranch, fair buildings, close to town, running water the year round, about 600 acres to crop. Price, with crop, $30 per acre. No. 5. 400 acres, 350 tillable. Close to school and church. Good well of wetpr. Price $25 per acre, either cash or good sec urity for first payment of $3500; balance, time to suit. — ■■I— ■ ■ ■ !■ ■■ ■■ ■■ W R ITE OR CALL ON SKETCHING MARK TWAIN. Cartoonist Ward Found the Humorist an Impatient Subjeet. Many of the difficulties experienced ky tbe cartoonist are related by Leslie Ward In his volume. "Forty Years of 8py.’ " He writes as follows with ref erence to America's great humorist: "M ark Twain was another subject who came under the category of the walkers.’ - I had u good deal of dlffl- fulty In getting hold of him. but when 1 eventually caught him at hla hotel I found biro decidedly impatient 'New you mustn’t thiuk Pm going to sit or stand for you.* he told me. ’for once I ’m up I keep on the go.' "The whole time 1 watched him be paced the room like a caged animal, smoking a very large calabash pipe and telling amusing stories. The great humorist wore a white flannel suit and told me in tbe course of conversation that he had a dress suit made all In white that he wore at dinner parties. He bad just taken bis honorary degree at Oxford, and be wanted to pat his gown on, but I preferred to ‘do* him In the more characteristic and widely known garb. He struckNme as being a very sensitive man, whose nervous pac ings during my Interview were the re sult of a highly strung temperament Tbe only pacifying influence seemed to be hla enormous pipe. which he never ceased to smoke’’ ......................................................................... ■ ALEX HUNTER M ORO, OREOON THE FIRST COURSE , coniitfing of soup whets your ap petite and gels you on edge in an ticipation of what*s to follow. W e have such a variety of good things to eat that we often congratulate ourselves on our good fortune. But we never raise prices. Large airy rooms with or with out baths. HOTEL ALBERT THE DALLES, I H I n » 4 4< ’ ’ ’ • ’ • t i l l ’ 14 n - - OREOON i l 1 I 144 14-4ri4-4-4ri H ‘ H 1 I m il» 4 L Special Summer Rates ? NEW HOTEL PERKINS:! Fifth and Washington St«. PORTLAND. ORE. Room with privilege of bath, single, 75c up: double $1.00 up *' Room with private bath, single $1.50 up; double $2.00 up. Auto Meats Trains. Street cats from Union Depot ; ass our doors. Transfer at 5th and Glisan streets from North Bank Depot. A TERROR OF THE SEAS. This Fish Resembles a Torpedo end le Just as Dangerous. His shape resembles a torpedo, and his attack too. Fishermen and bathers • I 4 I I I I I 44-4 1 I 4 4-4-44 !■ I 14 4 4 -11-14 1 H 1 4 + In sees where he la found regard him ■a almost aa deadly as tbe torpedo OOOOOOCXXXXXXJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCXX? and fa r more common in peaceful wa ters. Fishermen and fish alike ire enemy to him, and he will attach with a ferocity surpassing eves the shark. He’s called the barracuda. ---- —------------- Hla body la long and round, and hla R H. M cK ean , M a n a g er, W a sco , O regon bead pointed. His wide mouth bristles with large, sharp teeth. There are more than a dozen varieties scattered over the oceans, all of them fierce and hungry. 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In the matter of the Estate of Ssidee A. White, detested. Notice js hereby given, that the under signed has been duly appointed adminis trator of the estate of Ssidee A. White, deceased, by order of the above entitled court, and that all persons having claims against said deceased, or her estate, are hereby required to present the same duly verified, with the proper vouchers, in the manner provided by law, to said adminis trator, at his office in Moro, in said county and state within six months from the date of this notice. Dated at Moro, Ore., this 6th day of July, A. D. 1916. J. M . PAR RY, Adminsstrator of said Estate. Bright A Bryant, Attorneys for Admr. Notice of Execatrix. Notice is hereby given that the under signed has been duly appointed by the County Court of the State of Oregon for Sherman County, executrix for the estate of John Johnson, deceased, and has quali fied. A ll persons having claims against the estate of said deceased are hereby no tified to present the same to me at the law offices of Bright A Bryant in the city of Moro, Ore., verified aa by law required, within six months from the date of first publication of this notice. Dated and first published at Moro, Ore., July 7, 1916. G E R H A R D IN E JO H N S O N , . Executrix of the estate of John Johnson, deceased. Bright A Bryant Attorneys for Estate. DOING BUSINESS? If Tas Want Ta Trade Yoar Property Write to E. M B R A 8 H E M SOI - 2 Nortkwert Baikhnf I t is not the insnireetion of ~ that la dangerous, bat tbs revolts of Portland, Oregon. K. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO^ WinaAore-Satosn, M. C < P o r c e la in Z J3ath hop Tub. Everything First Gass an J up to date. Agent for Model Steam Laundry of The Dalles Shop in Brick Building next Observer Office C H SS M o M cK IN N E Y , r o , ----------------- O P r o p r ie to r . ie g r o x x .1 j BARGAINS! BARGAINS! BARGAINS! 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