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! A Shrew
With an lrt:rrupiion
Sroujht a Climax.
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By Martlia McCuiloch-Williams.
Pretty Kitty ilyde was not really a 1
shrew. She li:ul merely been bom im
perious mid had grown up absolute
monarch of an adoring family.
I'liti! she was rising eleven Douglas
Norton had Uvu also of her subjects.
Fate whisked bhn away then to inherit
nn uncle's fortune and go racing about
the world, thereby giving Kitty her
tirst realizing sense that things could
happen otherwise than according to her
will.
Tile process was unpleasant. By a
curious mental alchemy Kitty uncon
sciously stored the unpleasantness as a
grudge against the absent Douglas.
So when lie came home teu years
later and fell openly and instantly a
victim to her charms she whs in two
minds as to what to do with him, and
she yielded in favor of the mind that
advised her to do something unpleas
ant He was a dear fellow, suiting her ex
actly in some of her moods. In others
but In those others nobody suited her,
least of all herself. Those other moods
would probably have made her send
Douglas about his business If he had
not had the lucky misfortune to have
the Ackroyds for friends.
The Ackroyds. whom Kitty loathed,
gave up days and nights to warning
Douglas against her. The warnings
were not wholly disinterested. Though
the two Miss Ackroyds were quite old
enough to le his mother, there was
Lena Shotwell. their niece, over In Kit
tredge town, for whine establishment
they were most anxious.
Given the facts, the temperaments
and the situation, the resulting engage
ment follows logically. Kitty excused
herself to her conscience for it with
the special pleading that It would cha
grin the Ackroyds and that if she final
ly broke the engagement the making
of it would save Douglas from worse.
Of course she would not think of
marrying him for years. Meantime she
would revel in the Ackroyd discomfi
ture. Then her people were so happy
over the prospect. That really meant
a lot to her.
Dimly at the bottom of a very warm
heart she felt that, on the whole, she
had not made them as happy as she
might have done.
So altogether she was not HI content
with the estate In life wherein she
now found herself until Douglas ob
stinately insisted upon her naming the
day.
"Go away! The role of Impatient
lover does not fit you In the least"
she said to him with the most fetch
ing pout. "You know you'd be dread
fully upset if I agreed to anything so
insane. We can be married when we
are too old to care for tearing about
When you are thirty-five I shall be
thirty-two. That will be quite time
enough to do the Darby and Joan act
Until then well, we shall stay as we
are."
"We will not!" Douglas asserted,
seizing both her hands. "Understand,
I'm going to be a married man before
the year is out"
"I dare say you can get Lena Shot
well or somebody like her all on a
sudden this way," Kitty Interrupted,
trying to pull away her hands.
Douglas held them tight. "I'm going
to marry you nobody else," he said.
"Make up your mind to the fact, lady
kin, and give up gracefully while there
is time."
"Of all impertinence!" Kitty flashed
out at him. "Let go my hands so 1
-can take off your rubbishy ring! I
won't marry you now, never nor next
day, I won't even speak to you ever
again if you hold me a second longer."
"What a peaceful home we shall
have!" Douglas murmured, letting go
her bands, but catching her la his
arms. He pressed her close and went
on, with his lips against her pink ear:
"Little darling, 1 ought to want you
to be sensible, but the fact is I don't
It is ever so much more thrilling to
take you thus In spite of yourself.
You have never even let me kiss your
hand. No matter wheu we married,
this would have, to come some time.
You know you need mastering, but I'm
too generous to ask you to admit it.
Come along. I want you to hear me
tell daddy all about it. Mother Clyde
has already agreed with me that the
wedding had better be on your birth
day." Then Kitty forgot herself, her years,
her grownup estate. She screamed.
He did not pay any attention. She
became so angry that she tried to claw
his cheek, but none of her efforts or
shrieks availed.
He lifted her as if she were only
five years old and carried her into the
sitting room, where her father rose in
affright. Mrs. Clyde, pallid, but more
cotnimsed, stood beside him, her hand
laid detalnlngly upon his shoulder.
."It is hard to bear, mighty hard,"
cue whispered. "We we ought to bear
it for the child. Spoiling her so Is our
work. But for heaven's sake keep
still! Her whole future depends on it
Douglas is the man of men for ber,
and she will throw him over If she
has the least chance,"
"Daddy! Oh, dear daddy!" Kitty
panted, trying to reach out appealing
arms. Douglas pinioned them fast and
went close to Major Clyde, saying,
with a laugh that was not quite easy:
"Major, this girl you gave tne Is be
having so Imliy! 1 think you might
throw in one of old I'lossy's pups to
even up the trade."
At that Kitty screamed afresh. The
major's, breath came haul, his face
grew apopUvtic. but bis wife's hand,
closing and unclosing convulsively,
wr.rii.'d lii:u not to interfere.
lie tried to assume a judicial air and
say, "The case admits of argument."
but at the second word the door open
de to admit Miss Alicia Ackroyd, who
usurped and irbused privileges of inti
mate ncighborliiiess.
The Ackroyd house stood just across
the road. The two sisters had been
on watch in the front windows ever
sime they saw Douglas ri.'.e through
the Clyde gate.
They had be nd the screams and had
made their incursion. "Somebody must
be killing somebody over there. I'm
going to find out who," Miss Alicia
said to Miss Patricia, not even stop
ping to snatch at a bonnet as she sped
through the front door and down the
walk.
After one startled "Oh!" she stood
stili. starii'g at Douglas, who had
loosed his hold of Kitty, but kept her
hand. Kitty had beeu in a white rage.
Now she Hushed brilliantly and
looked at the intruder with ber most
infantile smile. "Dear Miss Alicia, did
I really frighten the neighbors?" she
a'sUed. "I'm so glad. Do say I did.
We hive just had an impromptu re
hearsal. Douglas, wretch that he is,
insists that 1 can't act, that lie is not
depriving the stage of a great orna
ment lu marrying me, and I was bound
to prove liim In the wrong."
"Oh!" Miss Alicia said again, this
time with a mighty different inflection,
yet one that still lucked something of
conviction. Miss Patricia, fully bon
neted, here punted In.
Wheu the stir of settling her ended
Miss Alicia returned to the charge.
"You ought to have called in a bigger
audience, dear Kitty," she said in the
suave voice that always meant mis
chief. "But do tell me what the play
was. 1 don't seem to recall"
"Of course you don't. 1 belong to the
new school," Kitty said brightly. "The
new school exists, you know, to prove
that until it came nobody ever played
Shakespeare quite right. Maybe it's
because of my name, but I've always
felt that I could give a new rendering
of Katharine, you know, in 'The Tam
ing of the Shrew' "
"She did do it and was most con
vincing." Douglas interrupted grate
fully. He had beeu going hot and cold,
wondering if there were any escape
from the valley of humiliation open
before them. He knew that only by a
miracle could the Ackroyd tongues be
stopped.
"So convincing!" he went on. "I see
I must marry her right away. Miss
Alicia, Miss Patricia, will you come to
the wedding? It's to be Just three
weeks from now."
"You are a wretch, an ingrate!" Kit
ty said to him half an hour later when
the Ackroyds had reluctantly taken
themselves away. "1 saved you and in
doing It trapped myself beyond escape.
What punishment do you not deserve,
sir?"
"Nothing short of imprisonment for
life," Douglas said. "Kitty, darling,
you showed yourself a genius and a
heroine. In reward you shall go on
having your own way."
"1 don't want it except sometimes,"
Kitty answered, racing away to kiss
the major and Mrs. Major and at last
tor pet old I'lossy's precious puppies.
National Forest Timber.
In lno.'j the timber sold from the na
tional forests aggregated 00.000,000
board feet, which brought the govern
ment no more than $85,000. In 1013
more than S.OUO.liO'MH'O feet brought in
contracts amounting to $4,500,000. Not
all this money was received in any one
year, because national forest timber
is sold on contracts which range from
one to twenty-five years, and it Is paid
for as cut.
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! PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.!
4 Treatinn Pain.
J Pain has its uses. By means
of It the physician is often help- f
,: ed to hi diagnosis. He cannot X
f take the patlcnt.'s word for the ?
severity of the pain, for what X
one person will bear with com- t
T parative equanimity another
will describe as intolerable an,-
guish. The doctor nott's tlio 4.
patient's attitude, his facial ex-
prosslou and, above all, his 4.
pulse rcte. Real pain always f
makes the pulse rapid, and, as a,
rule, the more severe the pain
the more rapid is the pulse. That
is a good rule to remember, t
Physicians often detect malln-
gerers by their entirely normal J
pulse rate, and mothers can with
safety use the same test to do- J
termine the reality or severity of .j.
tile pains of which their children J
complain. It is not always wise
J cr kind to give instant relief, J
4. even when the suffering is great 4.
In certain intestinal disorders, j
4, for example, nn anodyne will .5.
quickly change the victim's j
. groans to quiet, heavy sleep.
j But the symptoms are only T
4, masked, and the trouble that
'-auscd the pain may progress
X until It is too lute for the opera-
J tlon that might have meant a
cure. Aue saiesc means 01 re
lieving pain until the doctor
comes Is the application of ei
ther heat or cold. For some pain
there is nothing like a hot water
bottle. When there is much con
gestion the same bottle filled
with ice water will give more
relief.
L
K. C. Maddock was iu lieppucr
this week.
! C. B. Sperry of lone was in the
cit Monday.
Ceorge Lund is in the city, after
an absence of several months. j
E. E. Rugg and wife, of Rhea
creek, wero in the city Monday.
Dave Brown and wife of Black
horse, were in the city Monday.
S. P. Devln was down from his
Willow creek farm on Saturday.
W. P. McMillan, Lexington busi
ness man, was in Heppner Monday.
Ed Musgrave was down from his
home near Hardman the first of the
week.
W. W. Gillette, well known Pen
dleton resident, was in Heppner last
Sunday.
Born On Friday, Oct. 9, 1914, to
Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Mikesell, of Hepp
ner, a son.
Robert Allstott was in town from
hi3 home in the Eight Mile section
on Tuesday.
Henry Johnson and sons have pur
chased the red R. C. H. car from
Clyde Wells.
Lou Davidson of Rock creek, trans
acted business in Heppner several
days this week.
C. W. Lavvson, prominent farmer
of south of Heppner, was trading in
our town on Saturday.
Mrs. Ralph Becket and children
were in the city from their Rhea
creek home on Monday.
John Kilkenny, extensive sheep
man, transacted business in Heppner
several days this week.
Omar Stanton ond family and Fred
Ashbaugh were down from the Hard
man Section on Saturday.
Jack Hyd, of Cecil, and his brother
W. G. Hynd, of Sand Hollow, were
Heppner visitors over Sunday.
J. B. Coxen and wife of Lexington,
passed through Heppner Monday.
Mr. Coxen is the barber at Lexington.
W. G. Scott, of Lexington, banker
and business man of our neighpijr-
ing town, was in the county seat on
Saturday.
Mrs. Fred Elder returned home
from Portland Monday, after visit
ing with relatives in that city for
some time.
Nels Magnusen returned from Mc
Duffee Springs this week. He says
he had a fine time and feels greatly
improved in health.
A. B. Grdver, prominent resident
of the lone section, spent Sunday
evening in this city, returning to his
home Monday morning.
Guy Huston, prominent farmer of
Eight Mile, was in the city 011 .Mon
day. He was accompanied by Mrs.
Huston and the children.
E. Jay Merrill, progressive farmer
of the Hardman section, was a Hepp
ner viaitor on Friday last, returning
home with a load of supplies.
House For Rent, Good ro?!d?r.!c
property, largo enough to accommo
date fair sized family. Also good
barn on premises. Inquire at this
..dice. If.
Nino m iiion bushels of grain is
tied up in Portland, awaiting the
arrival of boats. The shortage, of
boats is attributed to the war in
Europe.
Miss Viva Jones has accepted a po
sition with the U. M. Hart confec
tionary store, to fill the vacancy
made by Dave Wilson, who li:is en
tered High School'.
Your attention is called to tlio new
adv. of the City Meat Market in this
issue. J. Frank Hall is now the sole
proprietor of this shop where you
will find everything first-class in the
meat line.
G. H. Hayden and wife, of Spray,
were in Heppner on Sunday. These
people were residents of this county
at one time, Mr. Hayden being en
gaged in the saw mill business near
Hardman.
Albert Hahn has taken a five-year
lease on the Holt farm on Balm Fork,
and moved onto the same with his
family this week. He has been farm
ing for the past two seasons near
Lexington.
Mr. Lee, the man who keeps things
nice and clean for the First National
Bank and Patterson & Son, returned
Monday evening from Portland,
where he had been visiting with rel
atives for several days.
W. A. Richardson and wife depart
ed for Portland last Sunday morning
where Mr. Richardson goes as a dele
gate to the grand lodge convention
of the Knights of Pythias. They will
1 spend the week in the metropolis.
the
JpOR the entire week we will offer a
reduction in prices of The STAR
Brand Shoes in Mens' Womens' and
Childrens'.
5.00 Mens' Shoes, The PATRIOT, for - 4.50
4.50 Mens' Shoes - - - - 3.50
3.50 Mens' Shoes .... 2.95
2.50 Mens Shoes - - - - 1.15
4.50 Ladies' Fine Shoes for - - 3.50
3.50 Ladies' Fine Shoes for - - - 2.75
One Lot of Childrens' Shoes, $2 quality, 98c.
M.
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