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3D mm? Arwm?ni?n "r a it. mRTimNnn a inm?Ai?n nuinnnv NOV I 1 !)()!), Chaptei 10 ilS YOUR 'THINKER" IN WORKING ORDER? r Ills IF CopjrrltfM. 1 90S, by Ihi McClur Company. Coprrllht. 1907. 1908. by Stewirl Edward Whll. II Chapter 9 I THINK I'll go eco Jane nu board this evening." Ordo remarked to his mother as he arose from the. tabic. Every Sunday Jane Ilubbard offered to all who came a "Sunday night lunch," and the refreshments were served by tho guests themselves. Orde found about the usual crowd gathered. Jane herself, tall, dcllberato In movement and In speech, kindly and thoughtful, talked in a corner with Ernest Colburn, who was Jnst out of college and who 4worked in a bank. Orde, standing In the doorway, looked upon qulto the usual thing, only he missed the Incubus. Search ing the room with his eyes, ho at length discovered that Incoherent, des iccated, but persistent youth vls-a-vls with a stranger. Orde made out the white of her gown In the shadows, the willowy outline of ber small and slen der figure and the gracious forward bend of her head. "So you're back at last, are you. Jack? drawled Jane In her lazy, good natured wv. "Come and meet Miss Bishop. Carroll, 1 want to present Mr. Orde." Orde bowed ceremoniously. Tho girl inclined gracefully her small bead with the glossy hair. The Incubus, his sallow face twisted In a wry smile, held to the edge of his chair with characteristic pertinacity. "Well, Walter," Orde addressed him genially, "are you having a good timer "Yes, Indeed!" Ills chair was planted squarely to exclude all others. Orde surveyed the situation with good humor. "Going to keep the other fellow from retting a chance, I sec." "Yes. Indeed!" Orde bent over and, wtth great ease, lifted Incubus,' chair nnd all. and set him facing Mlgnonne Smith and the croquet ball. "Here. Mlgnonne." said be, "I've brought you another assistant" He returned to the lamp to find the girl, ber dark eyes alight with amuse ment watching him intently. "Walter is a very bright man In his own line." said Orde. swinging for ward a chair, "but he mustn't bo al lowed any monopolies." "How do you know I want him so summarily removed?" the girl asked him. "W'l." argued Orde. "I got him to say all be ever says to any girl, Tes, indeed!' so you couldn't have any more conversation from him. Besides, I want to talk to you myself." "Do you always get what you want?" Inquired the girl. Orde laughed. "Any one can get anything ho wants if only be wants it bad enough," be asserted, "Some people." Bho amended. "How ever, I forgive you. I will even flat ter you by saying 1 am glad you came. You look to have reached tho age of discretion. I venture to say that these boys' idea of a lively evening Is to throw bread about tho table" Ordo flushed a little. The last time he bad supped at Jane nubbard's that was exactly what they did do. "They are young, of course," be said, "and you and I aro very old and wise." "Now, tell me, what do you do?" "What do I do?" asked Orde, puz tied. "Yes. Everybody does something out west here." "I'm a river driver Just now." "A river driver?" she repeated. "Why, I've Just been bearing a great deal about you from Mrs. Baggs." "Ob!" said Ordo. "Then you know what a drunken, swearing, worthless lot of toughs we are, don't you?" "Thero Is Hell's Half Mile," she re minded him. "Oh, yes," said Ordo bitterly, "there's nell'a naif Mile! Whoso fault is that? My rlvermcn's-tny boys? Look here! I suppose you couldn't understand It If you tried a month. But supposo you wore working out In tho woods nine months of the year. Supposo you slept in rough blankets on the ground or In bunks, ato rough food, never uaw a woman or a book, undertook work to scare your city men up n tree, risked your llfo a dozen times a week In a tanglo of logs, with tho big slver roar ing behind Just waiting to swallow your saw nothing but woods and river, wero cold and hungry nnd wet nnd so tired you couldn't wiggle And then suppose you hit town, where thero wero all tho things you hadn't bad. and tho first thing you struck was Hell's Half Mile. Say, you've seen wa ter behind a Jam, haven't you? Water power's a good thing in n roll! course, whoro it has wheels to turn, but be hind a Jam it Just rips things. Oh. what's tho uso talking? A girl doesn't kuow what It means. She couldn't un derstand." "I think I begin to understand n lit tlo," said she softly. "But they aro n heartless class In splto of all their j R iverman By Stewart Edward White courage, aren't thev?" ' reputatlou." said Orde. "If wo tell l" " , ""w" "l 11 "- "Heartlessr exploded Ordo. "There's these follows thnt we'll got out their I1'" x ' tin? iu-tuiieo, as m tho sie no kinder lot of men on earth. Thero . logs for them and then dou't do It I'll ters. Isn't a man on that river who doesn't ' be dead around here." The sketches arc well on tho road chip In Ave or ten dollars when a tnanj Newmark pursued the subject. "I've to completion and they will be ready is hurt or killed, and that means three' I no objection to telllmr you about my- !fr li,lijl.1,h,mi Tlintxri'nv. Snnm v.iT. or four days' hard work for him. And ho may not know or like tho injured man at all. Why" , "What's all the excitement?" drawl cd Jano Hubbard behind them. "Can't you make It n to be continued in our next? We're most starved." "Yes, indeed!" chimed the Incubus. The company trooped out to the din tng room, where the table, spread with . Idea." Ho produced a bundle of scrib al! the good things, awaited them. ' bled tinners from his coat pocket. "I To Orde's relief no one threw any bread, although tho whole hearted fun grew boisterous enough before the close of the meal. In spite of her half scornful refer ences to "bread throwing" Miss Bishop Joined with evident pleasure In the ' badinage. After the meal was finished Orde. with determination, made his way to Miss Bishop's side. She turned to tho piano, struck a few chords, and then, her long hands wandering Idly and softly up and down the keys, she smiled at tllern over her shoulder. Song followed song, at tlrst quickly, then at longer Intervals. The girl still sat at the piano, her head thrown back Idly, her hands wandering softly in and out of melodies and modula- The mocking had aone from her eye and mouth. tions. Orde Anally saw only the shim- t mcr of her white figure and the white outline of ber bead and throat At I last her bands fell In her lap. She sat I looking straight ahead of ber. , Ordo came to her. ! "That was a wonderfully beautiful ' thing." said he. "What was It?" I Sbo turned to him. and be saw that the mocking had. gone from her eyes j and mouth, leaving them quite simple, I like a child's. He hesitated and stammered awk wardly. "It was so still and soothing it made mo think of tho river some times about dusk. What was it?" "It wasn't anything. I was impro vising." "You made it up yourself?" "It was myself, I suppose. I love to build myself a garden and wander on until I lose myself in it I'm glad thero was a river in tho garden a nice, still, twilight river." At this moment the ontsldo door opened to admit Mr. and Mrs. nub- bard, who had. according to their usual M n Q 0 rjeceraber 2 and Sunday custom, been spending the "l evening with a neighbor. The com- One nnd ono-third'faro on the cor pany began to break up. , tificato nlan will bo mndo from nil Ordo pushed his broad shoulders in to screen Carroll Bishop from the oth- via. "Aro you staying hero?" he asked. "I'm visiting Jane." "Are you going to bo hero long?" was Ordo'a next question. "About a month." "I am coming to sco you," announced Orde. "Good night." Ho took her hand, dropped It and followed tho others Into the hall, lcav- Inn Ima titrtni1lnr It tltn Inrnn Clin watched htm until tho outer door had closcd behind him. Jano Hubbard, ro- , turning after a moment from tbc ball, found ber at tho piano again, her bead slightly ono side, playing with painful and accurate exactness a simplo ono finger melody. Reaching his home, Ordo walked confidently to tho narrow stairs and ascended them. Subconsciously ho tivolded tho creaking step, but outsldo his mother's door ho stopped, arrested by a greeting from within. "That you, Jack?" queried Grandma Orde. For answer Ordo entered. Ho mado out tho great square bed and divined tho tiny figure of his mother. "Mother," sahl ho abruptly, "I'vo met tho girl I want for my wife." Grandma Orde sat up In bed. "Who la shoV sho demanded. "Her namo is Carroll Bishop," said Ordo, "and she's visiting Jano Hub bard." "Yea, but who is sho?" insisted Grandma Ordo. "Where Is sho from?" Ordo stnrcd at her in the dim light "Why, mother, blest If I know thatl" t3S T UK next evcnnig on reaching homo Orde found thnt Now lunrk liml preceded lilm by some few momenta. After supper Utile led the way up two tights of uarrow stairs to his room. "Well." said he. "I've mndo up my mind today to go In with you. It may uot work out. but It's n pood chance. 1 don't know who you tire uor how ( much of u business man you are, but I'll risk It." ' "I'm putting In $20,000." pointed out i Newtnark ' self. New York Iwirn and bred; expe rience with Cooper & Dunne, brokers, .eight years Money from a legacy. Parents dead. No relatives to speak to." Orde nodded gravely. "Nowr" said Newmark. "have you bad time to do any figuring?" "Well." replied Orde. "I have a rough take Daly as a sample, becauso I've been with his outfit. It costs him to run nnd deliver his logs 100 miles nbout $2 a thousand feet. He's tho only big manufacturer up here. I supposo It costs the other nlno tlrms-from two to two and a half a thousand." Newmark Jotted down figures. "Do these meu all conduct separato drives?" he Inquired. "All but Proctor and old Helnzman. They pool lu together." "Now." went on Newmark. "If we were to drive the whole river, how I could we Improve on that?" i "In the tlrst place we wouldn't need so many meu. I could run the river , on 300 easy enough. That saves wages and grub ou 200 right there. And, of course, a few Improvements on tho i river would save time, which In our j case would mean money. Wo would not need so many separate cook outfits and'all that. Then. too. if wo a greed , g d trophies to me for mount to sort nnd deliver we d have to build . . . . . , sorting booms down at Monrovia." , 'P- pnme beads, ftsh, birth ami "Suppose we bad all that. What, mncunnls mounted true to ii.iture by for example, do you reckon you could improved methods. I do tannine mala' bring Daly's logs down for?" J fcir ruga, mnkc, remodel nnd clcnu 1 Orde fell Into deep thought. fur -garments. Express nnd mnil or "I suppose somewhere about a dol- ,ere promptlv nttonded to. Inr," he aunounced at last. He looked i C.M. HARRIS, up a trifle startled. "Why." ho cried. , 4g5 Wnshinp,on Strcctt portond, Or. "that looks like big money! A hun-, T-ini.- if-:., innn , dred per cent!" ? Newmark smiled. "Hold on." said he. "I don't know anything nbout this business, but I can see a few things. In the first place, close figuring will probably add ; a few cents to that dollar. And then ! all our Improvements will bo valueless after we've got through using them. You said yesterday they'd probably stand us in $73,000. Even nt a dollar profit we'd have to drive 75.000.000 be- roro We got a cent back, course, we've got to agree to drive for n little less than they could them selves." That's so," agreed Orde, crestfallen. "However." said Newmark briskly as ho arose, "there's good money In It, ns yon say. Now, how soon can you leave Daly?" "By the middle of the week." "That's good. Then we'll go Into this matter of expense thoroughly and ! establish our schedule of rates to sub i mlt to the different Arms," SPECIAL RATE TO THE OREGON ! THRESHERS' ASSOCIATION, poir,t8 on tho Southern Pacific (lineB, I. 0reon) to Tho Dale3 an( rcturn. , Tickets on sale November 29, 30, De cember 1, 2 and 3. Final return , limit December 0. , Important addresses will be made by representatives of the U. S. de partment of nffricttlturo, department' of Rood roads; Prof. Philip S. Rose, Madison, Wis.; B. B. Clark, editor American Threshermnn; Hon. Lionel Webster, Portland, Or., nnd oth- ers, on subjects or importance m 1 1 1 .1 !!.... I., ...til 1,,. I inu jiuiiiiiuu nullum hi ku" '" given as prizes for tho best wheat I raised in Oregon. ' Silver cup for outfit threshing1 $100 prize bushel of grain. ' For further information call on any Southern Pacific agent, or writo to William MpMurrny, general pas sengor agent, Portlnnd, Or. Methodist Minister Recommends Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and'Dlarrhooea Remedy. "I have used Chamberlain's Colio, Cholora and Diarrhoea Remedy for( Boveral years lor diarrhoea. 1 con sider it tho best remedy T have over tried for that trouble. I bought a bot tlo of it a fow days ago from our druggist, Mr. R. R. Brooks, I shad ever bo glad to sponk a word in it'i praise when I have Uio opportunity." Rov. J, D. Knnpp, pastor M. E. ' "lmh. Milos Grave, Pa. Sold by joi. B. Ilasldns' Pharmacy. (To be continued.) Is your thinking op on stralRlit f Aro you .sufficiently familiar with the liniinc!s firnw of Ihe city to lie able to tell who they nic by the de scriptions that wil Ibe given of thorn In the "Knowloilire Competition" which is to he printed in Ibe Mail Tribune on Thurdny. Considerable curio-ily has been en- i gonodercd by the announcement made a few days since, and as Ihe time' approaches for the publication ofi the unique feature the curiosity is growing. All the curiosity in the world is not wrapped up in the fe male population, cither. There seems Stable prize are to be given away to the parties who are licet enough in their thoucht to identify thc-c jvoplc rcadly, and since time is the essence of this proposition, it would pay those who nro expecting to enter to win to watch tho ads of the paper closely, so that they may be the more able to discern the popular characteristics that belong to tho va rious business firms of tho city. Tho competition wil bo open to all except employes of the Mail Tribune and their families. NOTICE. On account of tho Increased cost I of feed, wo, tho undersigned dalry imen of Medford, find It nccossary to Iralso tho prlco of milk to ten cents a quart, retail, and 25 cents a gallon, ' wholesale, on and after December 1, 1 1909. 1 WARNEK & SNIDER, j J. C. CALHOUN. I J. M. SCHMIDT. H. H. CALHOUN. ' ! J. V. KEEZER. TAXIDERMIST AND FURRIER MEDFORD TIME TABLE. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY I Northbound. . No. 20,Rosoburg Pass... 7:41 . ra NTo. l'J'Sbtistn Limited... 02'a. m No. lGlOregon Express . . 5 :24 p. m No. 14lPortlnnd Express. 8:30 p.m. Southbound. J No. lllShnsta Limited... f):M a. m. No. l.llCalifornia Express 10 :35 n. m. No. 13lS. F. Express 3:32p.m. Medford to Jacksonville. Motor car leaves 8:00 a.m. Train leaves 10:45 a. tn Train leaves 3 :35 p. m. Train leaves 0:00 p.m. Motor car leaves 0:30 o. rv Jacksonville to Hcdforfl. Motor leaves Train leaves . . . . 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Why don't you send that sick friend of yours or your sweothcart a bunch of CnnintioiiH? Deliver' nny part of city. MEDFORD GREENHOUSE. Cut Flowers and Potted Plants East Main St. Phono 000. First-Class Ladies' and Gents' Bootblack Parlors DYEING AND OILING A SPECIALTY. V. W. Howard, Const Champion Bootblack, Prop fl S. CENTRAL AVENUE. For the Best In harness, saddles, whips, olies, tents, blankets, wag on sheets, axlo grease and gall cure, as well as all kinds of custom work, see J. C.Smith 314 E. Main. t-i -vat yv 4 must be well located for operating and logging. Transportation facilities near by. Land with some white pine prefered. Furnish cruising by 40,s and maps. Only princi pals need apply. Clark & Cowles Box 666 Medford, Ore. Reduction Sale I ZUI Hats and Millinery Goods Less Than Gost I. BROWN GOLD RAY -Office: 209 Woat Operating . 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