HOOIMfclVBli OliAClEK. THQ&fiJJAY APRIL 1916
Six
INVEST IN OREGON OIL
Reeeat developments in Malheur County indicate that
thr Katern Oregon oil fields will be as productive as
those of California.
The Nysa Oil & Gas Co.
slock offers exceptional opportunities to the small in
vestor. This company hM 3 sections of land in the
heart of t lie Malheur district and companies developing
in the vicinity have met most encouraging prospects.
The machinery will be on the ground April 1. This
stuck is non-assessable and is now selling at ten cents
a share, but as development progresses it will surely
go Bp in price, (i. D. Eatinger, formerly of Hood River,
but ii'iw f ,st. Johns, is the general manager of this
company. Consult
T. D. Tweedy, Local Agt.
Phone 147L
Waucoma Abstract & Investment
Company, Inc.
ABSTRACTS, LOANS, CONVEYANCING
SURETY BONDS. FIRE, LIFE, PERSONAL
ACCIDENT, PLATE GLASS LIABILITY,
BURGLARY INSURANCE. H. L Howe,
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Work Guaranteed.
MOOD RIVER, ORE.
Eliot
Wanted To Trade
For Improved Portland Real Estate: Hood River
Orchard Lands. Improved or Unimproved.
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New .Residents
v are always pleased to extend courteous assistance
to new resident n of Hood River and Hood River val
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wit inn our knowledge, and we afford every convenince
for the transaction of their financial matters. New
accounts are respectfully and cordially invited and we
guarantee sat isfact ion. Savings Dep t in connection.
Hood River Banking & Trust Co.
Progressive Fruit
Growers
WANTING
Better Fruit
Ought to investigate the merits and result?
of spraying with
Win. Cooper and Nephews
TREE SPRAY FLUIDS
The only scientificlSprays produced. Desrip
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CHARLES G. ROBERTS, General Agent
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1
Bldg, Next Door News Office
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The Bishop's
Experiment
A Story of a Lost
Pin.
By KATE Y. DUNNE.
Copyright, 1310, by American 1'resa
ABsoclatlon.
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"But, iny tlonr, you nrt nil wronp:"
exclaimed the bishop's wife, looking
reproachfully over the coffee urn,
which had hidden her piquant face
from her husband's adoring glance.
"I wasn't careless. It was the washer
woman. If you must Maine somebody,
James, blame her. Of course I didn't
menu to leave a pearl pin and espe
cially one you had given me In my
laundry bag."
That afternoon as he was walking
briskly down Main street to make a
parish visit in the distance he saw
Allne's blue hat and shining hair. Ills
heart had a habit of beating faster at
tho sight of her slender, dainty figure,
and that afternoon she looked even
more attractive than usual to him
among a crowd of commonplace wou
en. Ho hurried to catch up Witt) ber,
but she, too, was walking fast and had
turned Into Tierce's deparl niciit store
before he was near enough to join
her.
He went In, too. and secured a van
tage point some feet away, Where he
waited until he should have a chance
to slip Into u space next to her.
As he waited he noticed her gold
bag laid on the counter beside her
muff, out of ber direct line of vision.
Sllll the old babitl An idea BUM
Into the bishop's mind. Object lessons
often accomplish what all the lectUfee
lu the world fail to do.
Quietly and quickly he laid an arm
on the counter, swept It along the
glass unnoticed by the mob of women
surging toward the bur-r.;1i Mecca
ahead. He was not teen. Ills hand
touched the bag, closed over It, drew
It to blm, dropped It safely Into his
pocket.
Was he pickpocket or bishop?
He certainly felt like (he former
Never had he felt so abject, so crimi
nally miserable, as when he pushed his
way out of that shop, for to cam QUI
his object lesson DeceMttflted giving
uji that anticipated companionship on
his walk. So he went on out and down
town alone, wondering why ttie police
did not take him by the arm, why DO
one pointed the linger of scorn, while
that wretched gold thing was glitter
ing so brightly In ins pocket.
His parochial lsit was not pleasant;
his walk was not pleasant; nothing
was pleasant. He was obliged to eat:
a solitary lunch, as Aline had rounded
out her hopping expedition by lunch
ing at her mother'. Bven the tele
phone bell did not ring, as lie half ex
pected it might. Nothing happened,
and he and that bag seemed to be the
only OCCIipanta of that quiet house.
Aline reached home just in time to
dress for dinner. Then lie had a visitor,
who detained him until the last mo
ment, so he hail no chance for a sight
of Aline until he found her at the
table.
He had pictured her distrait, wor
ried, had planned It all What she
should say and he should answer and
What the result would be but tht! tiest
laid plans of mice and men gang aft
agle.v, and he was disappointed. Aline
was simply radiant, hesitating, having
put on the blue dress he was so fond
of and looking Just as she had looked
In those days when she bad llrst lured
him from sermons and from services
by tht magic of her charm.
She had seen old friends by chance,
had lunched with a group of favorite
aunts and cousins who had made much
of her and had found just (be desired
bit of lace at (hat sale. The day had
been a success from start to finish.
"You didn't lose your purse, did
you?" The bishop felt Impelled final
ly to Jump Into the ditch of his own
digging. Aline looked her astonish
meat.
"Lose my purse!" she said. "Why,
no, of course, 1 didn't! What a fun
ny question, .lames! .Inst because 1
lost, ihai pin or, rather, it lost itself
you needn't think 1 am going to lose
everything else 1 own."
"Are yotl sure you have your purse'''
The bishop was obviously perplexed
at her answer.
"Jlaniie," she said, "I am going to
Bend for an alienist. You certainly
have softening of the brain. My purse
Is up In my bureau drawer at this very
moment."
The bishop was growing excited.
"Go and look for It." he interrupted.
"i know it is not there."
Aline w as staring at him with mark
ed wonder lu her blue eyes, ",11m
mle, listen!" she said, euiphasl.lng ber
words by tapping the table with the
end of u spoon. "My purse Is In my
drawer, where 1 put It when 1 Ctimo
homo unless you have stolen it."
"Perhaps I haw." The bishop's face
was a study In crimson, and he spoke
lu a loud, dictatorial way. "Go and
got it."
Allne's eyes filled with tears. She
had never heard her husband apeak
In that way before. She was hurt and
a little frightened, though stie would
not show It.
"Certainly " Ibe said in a very digni
fied tone, sweeping out of the room,
leaving the bishop as bewildered as he
was excited, lie was beginning to
feel badly that she was about to be so
shocked, but surely theft was never a
more glaring example of her careless
Beat than this. To think that she had
brought bet bag home with her when
all the time
flying footsteps. Hashing eyes, a gold
bag flung Into his lap! "There, Jim
mle crazy, crazy boy!" exclaimed a
triumphant voice. "Now will you be
good V"
The very bag-the very-vobwohs
tilled the bishop's brain for a moment.
"1 I don't see," lie stammered. "Wait
a minute, will you?" Thou he In his
turn fled upstairs and went to his bu
reau drawer. The very bag! It took
kin some time to uet his bearings. t
summon up courage to go down to
that lighted room and to the reproach
ful glances of those blue eyes. But
the bishop wQ8 a good sport, although
tho brilliancy of his sermons was
sometimes open to criticism. Down to
the dining room he bravely walked
and laid the bag licside its duplicate.
Aline looked and looked and looked
again. Then her hamrht loess was that
of a tragedy queen:
"James, explain! Did you think you
had my bag? And where did vou get
it?"
The bishop was silent. lie was ab
seiitmindedly comparing the dupli
cates. Allne's had her monogram on
the framework; the other had only
initials, "M. M. H." He repeated it
over and over to himself, as If it were
a favorite refrain. Then he knew that
his day of judgment had come.
"I stole It!"
"Where, James?"
"I saw you on Main street this morn
ing"hl8 tone was of the yet un
shrlven monk "I followed you Into
Pierce's to ask you to walk down to
the Grants with me, I saw your bag
lying on the counter beside your muff,
and I took It."
"What for?"
"Why, just to to" the bishop was
growing extremely nervous under the
steady gaze of those questioning blue
eyes -"why, my dear, to hang It all,
Aline! Haven't yon any Imagination?
I 'a n't you imagine why?"
"Certainly not-and I don't propose
to try! The Idea of a bishop stealing
his wife's purse, even trying to give
her a moment's fright for any reason
at all, Is something for which there can
be no possible explanation and which
I don't, even care to think about. But
I do say this I think when a bishop
stoops to those dreadful things it Is
time for his wife to leave him!"
High tragedy was written all over
the little lady's face as she folded her
arms, arched her eyebrows and looked
sternly at her writhing bnaband. Then
a sudden change of expression swept
over her mobile face. "James," she
said, "did you really and truly do It
for the good of your poor black sheep?
Did you steal your wife's purse to
save ber soul?"
Silence.
"James!"
Still silence while the bishop twirled
a lock of hair furiously between his j
thumb and forefinger.
"James, answer me."
The bishop turned appealing eyes to
hers so hard, so cold and as their
eyes met aemething happened. Laugh
ter such as possesses the spirits of
H flu nil overcame the dignified bishop
and his wife. Words were impossible.
Anger was a thing of Hie past. Expla
nation! needed not to be made. Peals
of laughter met and mingled across
Hie table. Aline was the first io re
cover sufficiently to speak.
"Let's see whose it Is," she said.
And the bishop handed it to her, while
wiping his eyes with the other.
"M. M. It. H in!" muttered Aline,
Then, opening tbe bag, she held aloft
a visiting card. "James," she shrieked,
"It is mother's!"
His mollier-ln law's! The bishop was
speechless this time with horror.
Aline wus au only child, her mother
ever on the watch lest he should let
the winds of life blow too strongly on
her child. He never could face her
after a situation like this. She was
always severe on his clerical ideas.
And now this!
"What can I do?" His tone was that
of a suppliant, and Aline thoroughly
enjoyed his misery.
"Do?" sin? said, "There are several
things you can do, and you will have
to do one of then quickly, or mother
will be here asking my advice about
what she can do to recover it. Father
gave It to her on their last anniver
sary, and she will be frantic at having
lost It. By the way, I don't see Why
you didn't see her lu the shop."
"Neither do I. Now tell me what to
do."
Aline beld up her plump hand and
counted off fingers as she ipoke: "Way
No. 1, messenger boy sent to leave it
at her door, with no explanation, note
or card spirit too cowardly for a blab
op to resort to; way No. L send at
once to Pierce's, saying you found It
falseh I unworthy of your ideals;
way No. ;!, take It to her yourself and
own up to your methods of Improving
her child'! character."
Silence The bishop looked down
cast. Aline roguish.
"Well, .lames," she said at last,
"what have you decided to do? Mercy,
t here's
suppose
the telephone! Oh, my dear,
it'! mother!"
It was
Aline wl
meal :
"Dearei
you stop
Mullling the transmitter,
Sercd In n flush of excite-
. If I save your life now will
Frying to save my soul any
more I
Tin' bishop's answer was unintelligi
ble. Inn understood. Still Allue did not
show her hand.
"And, ilem-pst, If I do you must let
me rii die text for your special
eermoil next Sunday. Yes? Now listen
while 1 show you what can he done
with a complicated situation.''
Suvr.l net by grace, hut BJ Aline- a
ven meek bishop took his place In the
pill!'1' the following Sunday and nn
nounced a! his text "The way of the
transgressor Is hard."
All the Print.r'. Fault.
"What became of thnt paper you
were u. i' g to start In the Interest of
Uplifting the poor tramp'" asked the
Interviewer.
"Ah. it tell through." confessed the
great reformer, with much agitation,
"and ill .ui nccount of the blooming
oareleuncs! of the printer."
"Did ho make a grave error?"
"I ihotild say so. You know the pa
per was io be named the Har of Hope.
Well, th t idiot of a printer changed It
to the Bar of Soap, and as soon as toy
constituents heard the MUM they
started running, and they are running
vet."- Chlcage News.
Court Logic.
Lawyer My client, your honor, hns
Confessed that he committed the bur
glary. Vou will admit this nn eloquent
proof of my client's love of truth and
of his upright conscience, and, your
honor, b mag w ith such a delicate cn
Kleni e should not he accused of hav
gtg broken Into a house to steal. Never!
Quito Sotiifactory.
Stern Father -Young man. the lights
in this house are put out at 10 o'clock;
Voting Man That suits me. Don't de
hy on my account. -New York Times.
NOW W TIME
or thfi ffr to bvo
your t. tit out and
plate and bri'ia
work Anne. For out-of-town
pat roan wo
finish plate and
bridge work in one
day if neouejaary.
HoiarCrons 55. DO
22k BridyTeth3.50
6oid Filling 1.00
Enamel Filling 1.00
Silver Filling .50
Good Rubber -
Plate 5.00
But Rubber .
Pl.ee 7.50
Painless Eitr'tion . 50
DtST METHODS
OR. W. J. Wlif, fnum in I'm.
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Pa'tn!tw Kitrftt-lK'ii Inr when
platiM or l.ri'lR worn
You caDnnt get bettor
1. or'lril. Con.uitation Knw Yout.DDnt
painleaa wirkanwlmre. nn matter how much jou pay
All work fully cunriii.tMl for fifteen yean.
Wise Dental Co.
INCORPORATED
Painless Dentists
Failing Building , Third t Washington. PORTLAND, OREGON
Offtc loan: Si U.tlSf.H. aundaj'i. t to 1
The Government pays Railway Mail
Clerks $800 to $1,200, and other em
ployees up to $2,500 annually.
Uncle Sam wil bold spring examina
nous throughout the country for Hail
way Mail uierki, On!totn Bonee derbe,
Stenographers, Bookkeeper!, Depart
mental Clerks and ther Government
Position!. Thousands of appointment
will he made. Any man or wo nan over
is, m City or country, can get mgtruc
lion and tror Information by writing at
once to the Bureau of Instruction, 1557
Ham I It Building, Rochetter, N. Y.
Trio Orchestra
Music Furnished For All Occasions.
Instrumentations from three to any
number desired. Address or phone
C. (i. NI-WMAN, Hood River, Ore.
Phone t4-X or 9H9-L.
C. EVERETT,
Practical Shoeiuak. r.
Th.
At Rigg!' 01.1 Stand.
Fine Work a Specialty
Slab Wood
A. ('. LOFTS will deliver
Slnh Wood to any part, of
the city. Now is t lie time
to get Chefip fuel. Phone uox
Model Bakery
DUFFY & ZIMMERMAN, Props.
Bread, Pies and Cakes
Frsh Every Day.
We have reopened the William! liak
'ry under the above name and invite
voiir patronage.
HocKenberry & Barflett
ARCHITECTS
Blue Prints Donejto Older.
HOOD RIVER, OREGON
Davidson Building Phone 61
Real Estate
LOANS, RENTING & COLLECTING
A Ipeeialty of t'lty Properly, KesMence
Lots, ami Knm'i Tracts close In. For
Harguins Oft! OH or ad.lrrss
T. I). I VVREDY
BO0d RIV!f . Hoiik! l'toue H7.L
Taft Transfer Co.
D RAYING, WOOD
YARD, FEED ST Rj
U McHeyuoldfl old Stand.
9FFIOE PHONK '.'!. hks. PHONE
PHONE 282-M
Hood Kiver, Oregon
C. F. SUMNER
Opposite Postoffiee. Head
quarters for
PLUMBING
Conic in and examine our
line of
Pumps, Bath Tubs La
vatories Sinks, Etc.
Spray & Garden Hose
Agents For
RIFE RAM
SURVEYING
and BLUE PRINTING
P. M. Morse
City Engineer Davidson Bldg
Hood River office for Newell,
(iossctt & Wale)., Consulting
Engineers of Portland.
The Dalles Nurseries
Successors to R. H. Weber
Growers of Choice Fruit and Gruamentnl Trees,
( riHtrui vittfifl Sum 11 Fruit IMants and Shrubbery.
S We do not employ agents, but sell direct to the
y planter, making commercial orchards a specialty.
All Correepondence Should .aDC Nnrccrfoc Grand Ave
be Addressed t The iWIld nlilXlKS Portland, Ore.
Remember Our trees are growntrictly without irrigation.
Land
4i 1 have abont 1.000 acres of No. 1 Apple Land,
most of it under ditch
per acre up. In tracts
J. R.
Hood River
CUPID FLOUR
The best Flour made from the best selected bluestem
wheat, THE CLEANEST ROLLED BARLEY
ON THE MARKET.
i
Hood River Milling Co.
Hunt Paint & Wall Paper Co.
Complete line of PAINTS, OILS, BRUSHES, Etc.
HEATH & MILLlGAN MIXED PAINTS.
PRATT & LAMBERT'S VARNISHES. CALCIMO. Kor room tinting mixed
to order. . CI1I-NAMKL. For old furniture and wood work ; any color. ROOM
MOULDING. Plate and Card Rail. Dry Paste. OIL CLOTH for wall! and a
nice line of Wall Paper. Painting, Paper Hanging, Sign and Carriage Work
'arriage Shop phone 109L Store phone 11015 Oak Stree
LPfSSwTIOajT STABLE
..Livery, Feed and Dray ing..
ADVISE. YOUR FRIENDS
"The Best Way"
To See Hood Riven Canyon and Valley is
via
Mt. Hood Railroad
A RIDE ABSOLUTELY FREE FROM DUST
Train leaves Hood River 8 A. M. every day
and returns 6:10 P. M. Spend your Sunday
in the, mountains.
A. WILSON, Agent
Orchard and Garden
Land Tracts
From one to five acres, overlooking the Colum
bia River, one quarter mile from station on
North Bank Railway, where all trains stop.
These tracts are located at Cooks, Wash., the
outlet of the fertile Little White Salmon Valley.
A. KINGMAN
COOKS, WASH.
l-H-H"!-!"!-;-!-!-;
ODELL NURSERIES
t J. W. Wilson, Prop.
have for Spring setting a
some very nice 8 to 4 feel
as Newtowns, Spitzes hers
Winter Bananus.
4 i MhH'W 'M'Ni-H li'M-M-l-r-
GASOLINE
Always on Hand. Automobile Supplies
First Class Repair Work
HOOD RIVER
Manufacturing Engineering Co.
For Sale
at prices ranging from $60
from ten acres up.
STEELE
- - - Oregon
STRANAHAN S & RATHBTJN
Hood River, Ore.
Horses bought, aold or exchanged.
Pleasure partlea ran secure flret-clasB rigs.
Special attention given to moving furniture aim
pill OS.
We do every thing horses can do.
lHK-H"H4"H-l";l-5"H-
R. F. D. No. 2 I
few firt grade tnrs nnl
standard varietit,
and Arkansas Hlucks and X
N H I M H H"M t M H '1 1 1 1 1 I !