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(CHAPTER II.-Continued.)
He apologized for frightening ms,

(CHAPTER II.--Continued.)
"He apologizad for frightening ms,
l answered.
Still smiling, as if he were cOaxing
a child, Exactly what words did he
use, Miss Fenwick?"
l could have repeated them exactly,
but hesitated, for the last words ne
had let slip had sounded oddly in my
mind-"If had known you were there
/ should have managed it differently.
He seemed to make himself so abso-
Mtely responsible for what had hap
pened And when thought how Mr..
Dingley had twisted my words about
was afraid--afraid that If repeated
the ones that this man had spoken
they would somehow get twisted into
a neutrality-suspicious. not the true one
that would be bad for him. was so
upset, said, and SO startled by the
mans speaking to me at all hardly
thought could repeat them word for
word.
Father put my coat around me and
said, II hope that is ALL very .coldly.
EYES," the chief said, except that
this young lady must understand that
she is not to speak of what she saw
this morning
Remember, Ellie,' father said, "if
your friends talk to you about it, you
have heard and seen nothing
/ murmured, "Of course" and fol-
lowed father out of the prison with a
very strong conviction that nothing
was real.
AS we walked home again all the
70 ~ n
like to me-the Plaza, with its high
iron railing, and the shops facing upon
it, and our own green palm farther up
the street. fluttering on the sky. Father
himself, so silent and walking on with
out ever turning his head to look at
me, seemed quite different person
from the father who had gone with me
the day before, merrily to buy my
bracelet. The thought Of the man with
the dark eyes and the chain between
his wrists filled my mind. Who could
he be? The sense of warmth that had
come with his smile, and that very
curious sensation l had had when he
had come up close to the bar and spo-
ken to me, were with me yet. His voice
had been pleading and deferential,
surely nothing in it to resent The
memory of his face made me forget
the chain between his wrists; as If he
himself had been greater than any OF
the people around him,
We had reached our own door, but,
before father could put his key in the
lock, the door opened from within and
therein the hall stood Halle Ferguson
her new blue bonnet on one side. her
face crimson with haste and excite
ment.
"Oh, Ellie" she gasped, "have you
heard? I've been waiting the longest
time for you. Isn't it awful? Johnny
Montgomery has shot Martin Rood,
and they say it's about the Spanish
woman"
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CHAPTER III.
The Rumors.

Hallie's facts dashed so coldly and
SO suddenly upon the warm fancies
which had been taking possession Of
my mind, that for the moment could
only stupidity gaze at her. Then, with
out any reason that | could account
for, burst into tears.
I cried all the while father carried
me upstairs. l cried convulsively while
Abby was getting me to bed, and,
wound up in the sheets, with my face
hidden in the pillow, l cried inconsol-
ably for long time. That aching SEN
sation in my throat would not wash
away with tears Vaguely heard the
doctor explaining to father how my
present condition was due ito severe
nervous strain, and the subconscious
effort of the constitution to combat
it'll knew it was nothing OF the sort.
but Just the plain fact that Johnny
Montgomery, seen once dancing at
ball and ever after to me the model
of all romantic heroes, was MUIR
derer It was dreadful to think that it
was through me he had been taken,
because / remembered so we'll his
beautiful black eyebrows, and the lit
tie white scar near his mouth; but
nothing that had followed had been
so terrible as that first sight of him,
when he rushed out of the door, with
all the horror of what had just hap
Ipened, in his face; or so cruel as the
thought that he could have done such a
thing. But why did his look, both then
and later. come back to me accusing
and reproachful? How could l help
what had done? had had to tell the
truth, and surely he must know that
nothing but good ever comes Of that,
no matter how hard it seems. agon-
lied through the early evening hours,
and fell asleep not with a sense of be-
ing drifted deliciously away, but OF
sinking down under deep exhaustion.
When awakened the next morning
was astonished to find myself feeling
quite differently little tired and
languid-but the aching misery, the
black hopelessness, that had fallen on
me the night before, had quite evap-
Grated, left perhaps in that bottomless
pit of Sleep into which had sunk.
1t seemed now, in the broad day
light. as if I had made too much OF
everything that had happened; as If
Halle must be mistaken. 1t could not
have been Johnny Montgomery who
had shot a man, or, if he had, 1t must
have been an accident. And, even sup
pose he had meant to kill, him, what
possible difference could it make to
me?
Here Abby knocked at the door, and,
showing a rather forbidding face
around it, said that Halle was down
stairs: but that if l was going to, have
any more conniption fits l would bet
ter stay where was. She left glass
of milk and clean tucker and sleeves
on my chair swallowed the milk and
hurried into my clothes, but descend
ed rather elowly to the hall i. had al
ways oonfided in Halle, and | knew
she would probably expect to hear all
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a RECORD TO BE PROUD OF.

President Taft has outlined some OF
the accomplishments of the present
congress. Here is the list:
The powers of the interstate COM
merce commission were enlarged. The
commission was empowered to sus.
pend any proposed increase OF rates
until the shipper shall have chance
to be heard as to its reasonableness.
Interstate telegraph and telephone
companies we're brought within the
regulation Of the commission.
A new court of commerce was pro.
yided. in order that shippers and rail
ways might secure prompt decisions.
Railway employees were protected
by a new safety appliance law
The employers liability act was
perfected.
An inquiry into workingmen's com
pensation for injuries received was
Instituted.
An inquiry into the issuance OF
railway stocks and bonds was in
augurated.
A new customs court was estab-
lished.
A postal savings bank system was
authorized.
A corporation tax was adopted,
which Is an important source of rev
enue and a new and effective method
OF assisting the government in super
yising corporations.
Two battleships were added to the
navy.
A bureau of mines was established.
Seventy million acres Of the public
domain were legally withdrawn from
entry.
Twenty million dollars in bonds
were authorized to complete reclama-
ton projects, after a board of army
engineers now at work should COM
plete its investigation of existing pro-
jects.
Enlarged appropriations were made
to survey public lands.
A definite commitment was made
against the "piecemeap or pork bar
rel'' system Of river and harbor i'm
provement.
A peace commission was authorized.
An investigation into business
methods of conducting the government
was begun.
The appropriations for the current
year were cut $26.OOo,OOo below the ap-
propriations of the year before.
The tariff was revised without the
usual disturbance Of business. Be-
cause of its reduction OF tariff rates,
it's maximum provisions, the free trade
it secures for the Philippines, its fine
revenue producing qualities, the Payne
law Is coming generally to be recog-
nized as a most creditable bill.
The first session of the present con-
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One of the largest manufacturers OF
printers rollers in the country, the
Samuel Bingham's Son Mfg. Co., has
announced that to better accommodate
the trade west of the Mississippi it
has opened completely equipped up
to-date factory in Des Moines. This
firm now has factories in Chicago, St.
Louis, Atlanta, Pittsburg, indianapolis.
Dallas, Kansas City, Milwaukee and
Minneapolis, but it has opened fac
tory in Iowa to save time and freight
charges in filling orders from points in
Iowa and in the nearby points in
adjoining states. Des Moines is to be
congratulated on securing this new
factory. The Courier wants to see new
factories brought to every city in the
state, believing that anything that
benefits any Of the cities of Iowa
benefits all Iowa. Ottumwa has always
secured her share of new factories and
is confident that it will maintain it's
position as one Of the leading indus
trial centers Of the state, and OF
tumwa wants to see other manufactur-
ing centers continue to grow and add
to Iowa's Industrial wealth.
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FREE TRADE IN ENGLAND.

J. Ellis Barker, an English tariff
expert and writer upon economic SUBJ
jects has been in New York for some
time for the purpose, as he explains,
of studying economics here at short
range His investigations have
shown him that the protective tariff
has raised the American worker far
above the level Of the worker in free
trade Britain.
',The condition of the American
workingman is far above that of his
British brother" says Mr.. Barker in
an interview in which he compares
conditions here and abroad. Owing
largely to unemployment and ex-
teremely low wages, British workers
live from hand to mouth. Few have
tangible property, while a large per-
centage of American workingmen have
land and homes of their own. Be-
sides American workingmen have
almost $4,000, 100000 in savings banks,
while British workers have only
$1,000, 100000.
'"The aspect of commercial and in
dustrial England resembles most close
ly that of the state of New York, but
New York state alone has more money
in the savings banks than the whole
Of the united kingdom, while per head
Of population there is in the savings
banks of Great Britain only $25, as
compared with 5000 in New York.
''The average wage of all wage
earners for full employment in the
cotton trade in England is $3.50
week. In the wooden trade it is $3.50,
in the clothing trade it is less than
So. Agricultural laborers receive from
So to $3.50 week. These are scarcely
living wages.
Free trade England has the proud
distinction of being the largest i'm
porter of the world, and curiously
enough. the bulk Of these come from
the three great protection countries
the United States, Germany and
France. Golden prophesied that Eng
land would always remain the work
shop of the world. Free trade has
made her the rag shop of the world
and the rag pickers of the universe
rake over dust heaps for rags to sell
to free trade Britain to be manufac-
tured into cheap clothes
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!. pRoEIrs mi IOWA SOIL.

The Courier in its news columns yes
terday told of man near Hampton
who sold $4,000 worth Of potatoes TINS
year that were produced on sixty
acres. Two brothers at Fort Dodge
were shown to have made an even pet
ter showing by selling $4,000 worth OF
Fonions that were raised on six acres.
The plum went to gardener of Belle
PLANE, however, who sold $500 worth
o. tomatoes which he produced on q
one-sixth of an acre garden patch.
This yield was possible because ne
had drilled an artesian we'll on his
land and was able to irr1gate the crop
during the dry season. This Is at the
rate Of $1,000 gross for one acre OF
Iowa soil.
- The success achieved by these men
shows the wonderful results that can
be obtained by intensified farming In
Iowa. n the last ten years hundreds
of Iowa farmers have been induced to
purchase irrigated farms In the west
for two or three times as much as the
same land in Iowa would cost They
have been attracted by just such
shovings as were made by these Iowa
farmers, although they never stopped
to consider that they could raise just
as big crops In Iowa on small farms
by using the same methods OF IN
tensified farming by irrigation that are
used in the west.
And they never stopped to think
that in Iowa they had much better
and bigger market than they could
hope to find in the west, and that IN
Iowa. with it's rich soil and heavy
rainfall, irrigation would be but
supplemental and not primary fac
tor in intensified farming.
Iowans must be shown that they
have their "acre of diamonds" right
at their back door. Intensified farm
ing must be encouraged. Publicity
must be given to the profits made by
men who make the most of their OPP
portunities here at home. When
Iowans learn than their own soil and
their own climate are unsurpassed and
capable Of growing better crops and
bigger crops than is possible On the
best farms of the less favored states,
there will be gain and not loss IN
the rural population of the state.
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gress made g. record Of accomplish
ments that never has been eQualled in
q similar period, &

gToSS maze a. record OF aCCOMpllSH-
ments that never has been eQualled in
a similar period.
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
For Senator.
G. w. WHITMORE.
For Representative.
FRANK SHANE.
For Auditor
GEO. A. WILSON.
For Treasurer
e. l.. PETERSON.
For Clerk District Court
F.. T. LYNCH.
For Sheriff
]. H. CREMER.
For Recorder
L. L. SWENSON.
For County Attorney
LLOYD L. DUKE.
For County Superintendent
WINIFRED HUGHES
For Surveyor
w. G. WYMAN. *
For County Coroner
A. w. SLAUGHT.
For County. Supervisor, 1911
A. w. ROBERTS.
For County Supervisor, 1912
J.R. STODGHILL.
For County Supervisor to fill Vacancy
s. D. BAKER.
With the election but little more
than a month away, 1t is time that the
voters of Wapello county give some
attention to the county officers they
will elect at the polls in November.
The republican party in Wapello
county has placed ticket in the field
of which it we'll may be proud. A
glance at the ticket, given at the head
of this article, will show that the
candidates were chosen because OF
special fitness for the office which
they were nominated.
And fitness for the office is the test
by which the worth of the candidates
should be measured. Every citizen In
Wapello county is vitality interested IN
the officers chosen to administer the
affairs of the county. To get the best
results in the conduct of the business
affairs of the county, to see that every
dollar expended by the county officials
brings dollars worth of service
this should be the aim of every county
officer, and this should be demanded
by the voters Of the county. The ticket
chosen by the republicans of the
county measures up to the standard
in every way, and the people of Wa
pello county are assured an able,
conscientious and economical admin
istration by the election of this
ticket.
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Idols do get broken.

No one will envy King Manuel of
Portugal. Placed on the throne, a
mere boy, by the assassination OF his
father, the young king has been
harassed on every hand since that
tragic day and now finds himself at
the mercy of the revolutionfsts.
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Good results always follow the use
of Foley Kidney Pills. They contain
Just the ingredients necessary to tone.
strengthen and regulate the kidneys
and bladder, and to cure backache--
Store.
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Eor Nor. Than Three Decades

Foley's Honey and Tar has been
favorite for coughs, colds,
and ailments Of the throat, chest and
lungs. Contains no opiates.-Clarks
Drug Store: Swenson's DElsS; Store.
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The First Day In Court.

AS father had said, the breaking Of
the colts was well worth seeing. The
first day I arrived at the ranch, cling
ing to the top rail of the corral, !
watched the glossy, hpddled TANKS
and shoulders and tossing heads of the
youngsters crowding together in the
middle of the Enclosure, quivering with
apprehension of the man approaching
with the rope; until, the man being I'M
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-09-30
BANKS SHOW PROSPERITY
State Examiners Report Reveals
Heavy Increase in Deposits.

Another great stride in the COM
mercial growth of the state OF oregon
is marked by the report of State BANK
Examiner Will Wright, showing the
condition of oregon banks September
l, 1910, and their condition a year
ago. The increase for the year In To-
tai resources of the banks of oregon
has been more than $2O,O00,OOO anu
the total deposits are now greater
than 100,00O,000.
The number of banks has increased
during the same period from 2O4 TO
232. There has been an increase of 23
state banks and five national banks
There are now in oregon II national
banks and 155 state banks. The loans
and discounts of Oregon banks a year
ago were $71,944, ,394.63, while on sep
tember 1, 1910, they equaled $55,175,-
5O7.28, an increase for the year OF
$15768,8 ,88735, and an increase since
September 80, 1908 of $22, ,136, 5l3.of.
Deposits have increased correspond
ingly. On September l, 1910, the total
deposits in all Oregon banks equaled
$1OO,852,445.40, an increase since Sep
tember 1909 of $14,760,583.S7. The
total resources of all Oregon banks
now equals $142,670,51457, an in
crease of $2O,69S, 5000. The capital
stock of Oregon banks has increased
during year $S,O74,375.4O. 1t now
equals $15,121,125.40. Surplus funds
in Oregon banks September l., was
$4,798,663.SS, an increase since Sep
tember 1, 1909, of $3.50, ,4S5.O3.-Port-
land Journal
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-09-30
THIRD TRIP BY OK TEAM
Ezra Mcel1er Again Crosses Plains
Along Route of Oregon Trail.

With the same outfit that housed
him when he retraced his course
across the Oregon trail in 1906 Ezra
Meeker, the Seattle pioneer, arrived
in Kansas City last Friday eastward
bound on his third trip over the old
pathway He left Seattle March 1. He
is 70 years old.
1.-THE father of the Oregon trail"
was given a great welcome. AS he
drove up Grand avenue guiding his
two red oxen, which drew a prairie
schooner, with naught but a whip,
and his faithful dog Jim" trotting
along behind the ld-fashloned vehi-
Gle, hundreds of persons along the
sidewalks cheered.
Although Meeker will go to Wash
ington and renew his fight in congress
for a larger appropriation for plac-
ing markers along the old trail he will
not drive through. Within the next
few weeks he will stable his oxen and
travel by train. He does not want to
expose himself i'm winter.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-09-30

while the defeated hosts are nursing
their wounds, and perhaps their wratf
they might take another view of the
situation and endeavor to locate some
particular individual who has evei
made more out of holding office thar
he would have made by directing his
efforts along other lines This great
and growing West is a wonderful
place for the man with large or small
capital and in almost any line OF
business or effort which man cares tC
follow the returns for moderate ex-
penditure of energy are large.
The game of politics is not only
hazardous, but it is also Improbable
A Chicago paper in discussing the re-
suit of the recent elections notes that
when Senator Julius Caesar Burrows
fell outside of the breastworks last
week in Michigan he had been in pub
lie office thirty-three years. He is now
old and poor. If the Senator had made
furniture in GrandRapids, or stoves In
Kalamazoo, or even operated a san
itarium at Battle Creek, he would like
ly have been better off"
What is true of Senator Burrows
is equally true of a great many other
men of talent and ability throughout
the country. The application of the
same effort and the same support that
is necessary to make a success in poll
tics will land man much farther
along the road to independence and a
comfortable old age If he keeps clear
of politics than it will be possible for
him to get while playing the game.
1t is, of course, necessary that we have
officials to look after our local and
National affairs, but it might be better
for the people if so many of our young
men who now start out to seek office
were drafted into more profitable lines
of endeavor. If office-seekers became
so scarce than that we had to go out
and search for men of the Cincinnatus
type it might be more satisfactory all
round.
The man who has to be forced to
take an office will naturally be inde-
pendent enough to spare himself the
pains of working for an election. He
can very easily abandon the game if
it does not suit him. Perhaps if the
defeated candidates will look over the
field of men who have made politics
a business, they will see so few sue
cesses that the blow of defeat which
just now seems staggering to some
will be lightened.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-09-30

c. w. Hodson. OF Portland, has a
bad case OF cold feet and wants the
Republicans of Oregon TO unite in one
grand chorus for Statement No, 1.
Following his lead comes Timothy
Ticklebreeches Geer, with a pair of
refrigerated No. lis, and declares
that he quite agrees with his friend
Hodson. The Ex-Governor says the
only way for the Republican party to
win in oregon is 10 arouse greater In
terest in the primary elections. As TO
Just how this is to be accomplished
without some form of party organi-
cation. the brother is strangely ST.
lent The assembly stirred up more In
terest in politics than had been shown
since oregon adopted the direct pri-
mary law, and even then not one-third
Of the voters took part in Saturdays
battle OF ballots without some form
Of assembly. there can be no organi-
zation. and political parties viii be-
come a thing Of the past Who. then.
will take the lead in arousing inter
est In the primary electlons2 And how
viii the Republican party. as a party,
be able 20 declare Tor Statement No.
1. OF anything else?
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-09-30

ed of Eugene S. Chandler, a minor,
the undersigned, as guardian OF SAID
minor, will, on the 18th day of Octo-
ber. 1910. at 10 o'clock in the fore
noon. at the West door of the Court
House in Dallas in said County, sell
at Public Auction to the highest ana
best bidder, for cash in hand on DAY
of sale, a 1-99 interest and estate
owned by said minor in, of ana TO the
following described premises, to VIII;
Beginning at the Northeast corner
of the Donation Land Claim OF John
Phillips and Elizabeth Phillips, his
wife, Notification No. 279, Claim NO.
so, in Township South, Range 3
West, and Township 6 South, Range
4 West, of the Willamette Meridian
in Polk County, Oregon, and running
thence West along the North bound
ary line of said Donation Land Claim,
forty chains; thence South forty
chains to the North line of land now
owned by Samuel Phillips; thence
East along the North line of said
Phillips land, forty chains to the
East line of said Donation Land
Claim; thence North along the East
line of the said Donation Land Claim
forty chains to the place of beginning,
containing 100 acres in Polk County,
Oregon.
The sale of said minors real es
tate will be made free from incum-
brance and subject to the confirmation
of such sale by the said County Court,
as provided by law.
Dated September 16, 1910.
SAMUEL PHILLIPS,
Guardian of the Estate of Eugene
S. Chandler, a Minor.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1910-09-30
A GOOD LOSER.

Editorial in Salem Journal)
The editor of this paper, who was
candidate for the nomination for
governor announced everywhere on
his campaign that he would support
the candidates of his party after the
direct primary, and he will do so. He
will not be found sulking in his tent,
as has too often been the case with
Oregon politicians. 1t is the first duty
of man who seeks nomination at the
hands Of a political organization to
support the successful candidate of
his party. That is what he would ex-
pect If he were the nominee, and he
should do as he would be done by.
That is the Golden Rule of American
politics, and the candidate who vio-
lates that rule cannot expect to be
successful in the great game of polit-
ical leadership. l shall play the game
according to the rules.