C E N T R A L P O IN T HERALD. THURSDAY. M A Y
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Matchmakers
OUR ICE CREAM!
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Did you use it last
Summer? I f you did you will be a cus
tomer this Summer, for everybody says it
Announcement to the Public:
Commencing' April 1st. we will put in a complete
stock of high grade
C on aLn e. D'Arcy Mackay.
C o p y rig h te d . 1908. b y P . C. Eaatm cnt.
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7. 1908
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Rough and Dressed Lumber
It was during the first course that |
Kiln Dried Flooring and Finish.
Helena Brent made her entrance, and I
all the boarders at Mrs. Pennington's j
SASH, DOORS, M O U L D IN G S , SHINGLES.
table looked up with soup spoons aus- ]
pended. The dingy background of the |
We will be pleased to figure on your needs in
dining room wall heightened rather ;
than diminished Helena's
beauty.
all classes o f building material.
Against Its dull tan and brown pattern
her supple young figure stood like a
brilliant bas-relief.
So Professor Mncklyn thought as he I
looked nt her quizzically from behind
his steel rimmed eyeglasses. She was
youth personified, and youth was at a
premium nt Mrs. Pennington's, where ]
elderly bachelors and maiden ladles
and middle ugod married couples sup
E. C. W E LC H , Manager. Office east o f school house
ped nightly on the viands Mrs. Pen- 1
nlngtojr sparingly set forth.
Helena Brent was different from all
these, and Professor Mncklyn's own spoken to me about I t But last night-
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middle aged heart was going out to her I couldn’t help seeing It—there was a
In furtive sympathy when he caught I diamond ring on her bureau In a little
the stealthy glance that little Miss white satin case.”
| JEROME L. RAWHOUSER
Eustls sent to the other end of the j The professor beamed.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
table, where sat Ramsay Sturgis, the | “ And of course they’ll go to house
only young man In the house, a pleas- keeping. Ramsay has always said that
Office second floor John Ross building,
ant, frank eyed, broad shouldered fel If ho were married he'd have au apart
over Herald office, Pine street.
low for whom Professor Macklyn had ment.”
Call residence from office phone when
always felt an Instinctive liking.
"There will be furniture to see to,
necessary, day or night.
The professor's glance followed Miss and china and kitchen ware, but the
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Eustls' and rested there, while Ram dear children are so engrossed with
say Sturgis Imperturbably went on their love affair that they haven't time
with his dinner, unaware of any hover- for anything practical.”
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lugs of romance, for as the professor
“ W e might look up the things before
looked quickly away again his eyes for hand, nnd then when the young people
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
a second time encountered those of are ready give them the benefit of our Office in Carney Building, next door to Pootoffice.
Miss Eustls, and In their depths he saw j superior wisdom,” the professor sug
Lives at Central Point Hotel.
the light of a born matchmaker before gested.
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OREGON.
her lids drooped and hid the tiny spark.
After that, on Saturday afternoons, CENTRAL POINT
She had a tender heart, this little he and Miss Eustls roamed to far parts
Miss Eustls, In spite of her prim, spin- of the city to furniture, china and pic
lsterial ways, and when the profesror ture stores and to brass shops down JJR. H. P. HARGRAVE
let himself into the chilly boarding on the east side.
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house hall a few evenings later he
There were bookstores, too, where
found her there on guard.
tho professor reveled. What, he ques
Office over First National Bank
From the parlor came sounds of a tioned, could give more cheerful as
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clear soprano voice, and presently an pects to a room than volumes of limp
other voice, undeniably masculine, red leather and andirons of hammered
joined in. Miss Brent and Mr. Stur brass. They even found an apartment
gis were singing a college glee. Miss which combined the amazing trilogy
Eustls held up a warning finger.
of cheapness, beauty and light.
“ Don't disturb them,” she begged.
It was when they were secretly re
" I t ’s so difficult to becomo really ac joicing over this discovery that tho
quainted In a house like this, and they bomb fell. Miss Brent accosted Miss
are getting on famously. She told me Eustls at the hour of kimonos and
last night that they had discovered candlesticks.
quite a number of mutual friends.
“ I've come to tell you,” she said sim
They are both from the west, you ply, "that I ’m going to be married.”
know, nnd strangers to New York.”
"1 knew It all along, dear,” said lit
The professor disavowed any Inten tle Miss Eustis, and kissed her. "Tho
tion of entering the parlor and, leaping professor and I consider Mr. Sturgis a
back against tho wall, with his books splendid fellow.”
Amazed laughter broke In ripples
balanced on one arm, listened content
across the face of Helena.
edly to the music.
All Work Strictly First-class.
Miss Eustls listened too. Into tho
"Mr. Sturgis!” she cried. “ Why, how
dally routine of her life had come perfectly fu n n y ! Didn't you know he
something bright and vital, and her was engaged to a girl out west? He
faded face glowed under the new Im told me so the first night I ever met
Jdm. And he knows my fiance, Mr.
petus.
The professor likewise felt a sud Holbrook. Thnt's what we used to
den quickening Impulse. There was a talk about when we went walking.”
“Then you were nothing—ever—hut
certain relish and novelty In playing
the role of matchmaker. It occurred just—friends?" Miss Eustls' voice was
to him that he had kept too steadily very faint. She was wondering dimly
to his books, and now a voice within how she was ever to break the news
him that he had long believed silent to the professor.
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“ Nothing but friends,” echoed Hele
cried out for life and companionship,
na Brent, and, with an odd little My Bread etc is strictly first-class
n e turned to Miss Eustls.
"W hat do you think they'd say to a twitch of her lips, she bent and kissed
and is second to none in thestate
little theater party and oysters?” ho Miss Eustls again.
At breakfast Miss Eustls Intimated
demanded whlsperlngly.
Miss Eustls’ eyes widened.
She to the professor that she had some Special orders solicited for fine
thing to tell him which was of su
caught her breath.
cakes. Satisfaction assured.
"W hy, professor,” she gasped, “ I j premo Importance, and they sought
the
nearest
avenue
of
the
park.
didn’ t suppose that you"—
Give me a trial.
“ Knew what the taste of a good time 1 Spring was in the land. The green
grass
was
liko
a
verdant
shadow
on
was? Well, I did once, but I ’ve been
a bookworm these many long years, the brown earth, and by the fountains
and It's time I learned the flavor of sparrows were twittering noisily. An
ungovernable lump rose In Miss Eus-
festivity again."
I t was a flavor for which Helena tls' throat. The only romance at which
Ilrent and Ramsay Sturgis were both she had ever assisted was at an end.
equally keen, and so a radiant party Briefly she told the professor, while
of four clambered down the slippery, he listened, agitated, disappointed and
sand strewn steps of Mrs. Penning dismayed.
"Then It's all over?” he said.
ton's boarding house Into the crisp
“ All over.”
wintry starlit night.
“ And I had thought of them In the!
Through the hardening process of
own
home with all tho things we chose
uneventful years Miss Eustls had j
reached a dreary apathy concerning around them.”
“ Oh, so had I !”
clothes, but as It dawned on her that
The professor looked at Miss Eustls
the theater party was only the first of
He
had been realizing of late ho,
a long series of occasions when she
would be forced to play the chaperon pretty she bad grown, with the dell
her wardrobe began to receive partle- cate, fragile prettiness of a late sum
mer rose.
nlar and minute attention.
It came to him with a sudden, star
Her hair was loosened from Its se
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tling
wrench that he would miss their
vere little knob at the back of her
B esid es an accurate, p ra c
neck and curled softly around her walks nnd drives as he had missed
tic a l, and s c h o la rly vocab u
temples as It had not done since she nothing else in bis meager, lonely life
la r y o f E n glish , e n la rg ed
was a girl. A stiff, uncompromising There rose before him the vision of the
w ith 25,000 N E W W O E D 3 ,
walking hat was replaced by a toque house that they had planned together
tho In te rn a tio n a l contains
mysteriously composed of violets and His hand closed over hers.
a H is t o r y o f th o E n glish
"Elizabeth,"
he
said,
"as
matchmak
L a n gu a ge, G u id o t o P r o
tulle.
nunciation, D ic t io n a r y o f
Nor was the professor to be left be ers we're a distinct failure, unless
F
ic tio n , N e w G a ze ttee r o f
you're
willing
to
retrieve
It
by
marry
hind In his sudden orgy of fashion.
th e W o r ld , N e w B io g ra p h
His rusty overcoat gave way to a hand lng me. For, after all, that house that
ic a l D ic tio n a ry , V o c a b u la ry
somely tailored garment of black. Ills we dreamed of Is our house. Our
o f S crip tu re N am os, G reek
loose, uncertain colored neckties were hearts and souls went Into It, not
and L a tin N am es, an d E n g
removed and succeeded by the crisp theirs!”
lish C hristian N am es, F o r
She had meant to light the flame for
est, most up to (late adornments the
e ig n Q uotations, A b b re v ia
others. Instead It had been lighted
haberdasher's window displayed.
tions, M o tr ic System , Etc.
1B3HO P a n e s . R O O D I l l n a t m t l o n s .
“ W e owe It to our young people," he for her. She gave the professor an il
SHOULD YOU HOT OWN SUCH A BOO* ?
declared as he and Miss Eustls strolled In mined look.
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" I believe It Is so, John,” she said
eat o f oar abridfmenta.
K e jr j'w and Thin
through the park one February after
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noon. A little way ahead of them softly. "But, oh," she added a mo
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walked Helena Brent and Ramsay ment later, "they'll say It was they,
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not we, who made the match!"
Sturgis.
“ Let them say!” returned the pro
Every now and then Helena’# laugh
irai
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ter drifted back to them, mingling with fessor happily.
Ramsay's happy tones.
The young
man's salary bad been doubled within
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Hhooping Cough.
the mouth, and Helena had begun to
“ In February our -’aughter had the
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•mbroidsr Initials on certain filmy mus
whooping cough. Mr. Lane, o f Hart-
One 60-gallon kettle and cast furnace,
lin with a furious zeal.
The professor looked questloningly at land, r e c o m m e n d e d Chamberlain’ s one lard pres» and cider mill combined,
Miss Eustls. "Wbat do you think?'' be Cough Remedy and said it gave his one sausage staffer, one platform scale.
queried.
customers the best o f satisfaction. We All the above as good aa new.
“ I don't think 1 I know!” she answer
found it as he said, and can recommend
R. C. H e n s l u Y,
ed, and then added In ev ident trepida
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tion: "But perhaps I oughtn’t to have it to anyone having children troubled
told you.
I fancy the dear young with whooping cough,” says Mrs. A
things want to keep their secret a lit Goss, o f Durand, Mich. For sale by
Subscribe for the H k r a ld .
tle while longer, and Helena hasn't Mary A. Mee.
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