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self, just for the fun of it. She would serve drinks in goblets of finest vene- tian glass, and a powder of softest gray white found it's way in. She would hand it to the gentleman elected, with these loving words:
 An, Dearest, thee shall love until thou diest."
 Whether he lived in her affections IS minutes, or until he reached home, de- pended upon his station in life If the victim amounted to very much, finesse Was employed. He died mysteriousiy in his own house, and his widow, be- ing the natural one to suspect, got a life sentence in dungeon.
 At last the father was moved to TO- monstrate with Caesar for over-indul- gence in his pet pastime Some of these days, my son. he warned. thou wilt go too far Dost think so many murders are wholesome?"
 Gosh ding. father' cried the impet- ucns lad, 'etis an age of greatness, with poets. painters and statesmen crowding z the annals How thinkest thou the name of Borgia shall be remembered if not by crime?'
 Perchance thy words are words of wisdom" sighed the old man. Continue
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CAN NOW EAT THREE
 SQUARE MEALS A DAY
We'll Known Business Man Says He Has Gained Six teen Pounds on Four Bot ties of Tanlac and Feels Many Years Younger.

q am now able to eat three square meals a day for the first time in two wears" was the emphatic statement made recently by Joseph A. York, weli-known bushes man and highly respected citizen of Portland Maine.
 q am now sixty-nine years of age and in all my life I have never run across medicine that consider in class with
 Tanlac I have just finished my fourth bottle and this medicine has benefited me even beyond my greatest hopes. Besides gaining sixteen pounds in weight, have been built up and strengthened until l feel all of twenty years younger. N
 .'For the past two years l have been in a miserable run down condition, and was compelled short time ago to give up all idea of business as I was too weak to look after anything. I was nervous, worp- out, had no appetite, and suffered most all the time with indigestion. Some days | would eat scarcely anything; in fact was afraid to eat because I knew | would suffer afterward. Sometimes had such severe cramping pains after eating that I would almost die My nerves were all unstrung and the least thing would worry me and never could get a, good nights sound sleep. In fact I just lost interest in everything and was greatly discouraged over my condition.
 The ordinary treatment failed to do me any good. and as I had read so many statements from people I know here in Portland who had been benefited by Tam lac, decided to give it trial And nc W I know for myself what it will do, for I have simply taken a new lease >on life I am now able to look after my work as
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I sheep's eyes at Sforza's pile of chips | Sforza knew he was about to be touched when the old man sent three times to ask after his health. So he picked up
 Lucretia and his other relics and moved l lis abode to Pesaro
 | But Rodrigo was not to be so easily shaken. He invited all his children and
 their annexes and appurtenances to a l family reunion. Sforza was pointedly
 and publicly informed that his useful
 ness as husband was at an end, and ! he returned to Pesaro a grass widow CT, paying heavy alimony.
 l 50 much for having a father- in Jaw l in the divorce business" he growled.
 The more I see of those Borgias, i though, the more thankful am that my windpipe is still useful in inhaling wine and spaghetti, and not slit like a whistle"
 Lucretia reached the ripe old age of v. She had been a widow by proxy several times, and once by grass. She thought 1t would bes interesting to be a widow by sod, just once. So when young Alphonso of Aragon. Duke of Biscelie and Knight of the Royal Sus- bender, hove in view on the social hori- zon, Lucretia asked her father to do- nate him to her string of husbands. She heard that Bisceh liked blondes best so she had gorgeous yellow wig made at an exclusive wiggery, of finest spun Italian silk, and had mural dec orations of rouge, powder and patches arranged here and there on her coun- tenance Then she sallied forth to sub jugate Biscelie. He was easy money.
 He accepted Lucretia at face value, not
 knowing that her face was false.
 Biscelie was so handsome that Lu-
 cretia became fond of him, and decided to keep him for a souvenir. instead of playing-him up in the mortuary col
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would run to her brother, Caesar Bor- Eia, and whisper in his ear:
 Caesar, I'm caught upon not having any fun. Let's have somebody poi- soned. so can see 'em die
 Can't afford it, Pet" Caesar would smile If the price of wood alcohol keeps going up, we'll have to use still ettoes exclusively"
 "An right, old tight-wad." Lucretia would lisp, "but somebody certainly ought to get that nut Giovanni del Sar- saparilla- I can't stand the way he gurgles soup
 Caesar had one of those nervous tenn peraments and lived in holy terror of his pet razor getting rusty. He wielded his blade ruthlessly on the most lemi- nent Italian Adams apples, at the childs slightest whim. He thought it was cute and amusing of Bucretia to be so blood thirsty. Some contempor- ary of his has suggested that perhaps Caesar had stock in an undertaking es- tablishment. At all events, he kept them well supplied with trade
 Rodrigo Borgia was the proud father of this strenuous brood of offspring, and he spent vast sums having his chill dren educated in. the arts of the Renais- sance period--such as murder in vari- GUS degrees, languages, mendacity and NAPiritcS~ys 1aA IfVA liC PAStNSu i pioljllo- ing young man from his old home town, somewhere in Spain, for Lucretia to marry. Spain was in it's glory at this time. Columbus was as busy as bee in a tar bucket trying to discover America; and Rodrigo thought that if he found it, Lucretia would have large and untrammeled field of operation However, Christopher took so long that the Borgias got tired of waiting and passed up the Spanish toreador.
 In 1493 Rodrigo chose an Italian of
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eorR LITTLE LADY"
THE BISHOP AND OTHER
 STORIESn

 By Anton Chekhov (Translated by
 Constanee Garnett) The Macmillan
 Compar.>~ publishers New ork City.
 The seventh volume in Constance Garnet's new series of Shekhov's tales, s'The Bishop and Other Sfories. bas Eeen enthusiastically received by the literary public. The book contains, in addition to the title story. six others, '"The Letter" Easter Eve, "A Night mare "The Murder.n erprooted'' and "The steppe."
 The high opinion in which this Chekhov series is held is shown by the critics comments. of which the review in a recent issue of the New York Sun may be taken as typical In the course Of his remarks. the Suns editor says:
 Constance Garnett is doing not able service to English readers by her translations from the Russian. She has made it possible for, us to enjoy Turgeniev and Dostoevski,, and now she is giving us Chekhov--the only completel edition of Chekhov in Eng lssh. Mrs. Garnetes work as trans- "a tor is admirable, for f.she takes no undue liberties with the original, but reproduces it as accurately as possible 1T. a smooth and polish style.
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, lected for thee" he urged, to pacify
 her. And, knowing women, he added "But he says he will never marry thee Thy name has been heaped with cal
 Lmny because of thy greatness, and such is the foulness of language that scandal must be horrible to be passed about
 He won't, eh?7 scoffed Lucretia Just leave it to me, Pop.
 The new candidate was another AL phonso, son of the Duke of Ferara. Lu cretia met him, and so demure was her demeanor, and SC beautiful her face
 that he yelled calf-rope right at the start. He agreed to marry her if she
 would leave Rome, and the influence of her family. They moved to Ferrara, and as Mrs. Duke of F'errara Lucretia behaved beautifully, with only a few minor deaths to her credit
 Caesar was completely lost without his clever sister to administer the knockout potions. When he tried to do away with a coup of prominent cit- izens by himself, he@nd his father nib bled pair of lemon drops intended for the murderers. The father died of the family medicine, and Caesar got so sick that he retired from public life forever.
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Man Has Miraculous
 Escape

'I was told by our family physician that I could not live without an opera tion, as my liver and gall sack were in such a condition I set the day to go to the hospital. but then I saw the adver- tisement of Mayrs Wonderful Remedy. Since taking it I am feeling like two- year old. am sure I never could have survived an operation" It is simple, harmless preparation that removes the catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes practically all stomach, liver and intes- tinal ailments. including appendicitis. One dose will convince or money refunded. Greene Drug Co. Hagan-Dunlap Drug Co. and druggists everywhere Adv.
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untn. She determined never to flirt except to help out her brother Caesar. Murder was becoming more and more Of a luxury. Caesar had to employ as many as forty horsemen to go with him on stabbing expedition. People were carrying guards against him, so he reverted to wiles. He would get Lucretia to suspend her household rules and yamp fellow whose worldly goods he coveted. There was never any dan
 ger of one of her lovers talking in his
 sleep, for her pet poisoner saw to it
 that he overslept himself indefinitely.
 Sometimes Lucretia officiated herr
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THE ADVENTURES OF A NATURE GUIDE,

Ky Enos A. Mills. Doubleday, Page &
 co, publishers, Garden City. N. Y.
 He who devotes his life to nature must be prepared to meet with strange and fascinating adventures. The experiences from which Enos A. Milis has. made his book would furnish material for several thriliers He has lived alone in the mountains. has wan dered, snow blinded for two days. es- caping death by miracle, has encounl tered desperate men. and nature her self in her most desperate moods. And his book has caught the thrill and urge of the open,. and has disclosed be- sides some interesting and closely kept nature secrets It will prove as ab- sorbing as any of this seasons adven- ture books.
 1.-THE SHEPHERD OF THE SEA- Ky Henry Leverage. Doubleday, Page e X Co., publishers, Garden City. N. T.
 Jack London's country, the north of snow and hunger and strong men, han died in Jack London's way.
 In all men is the seed of strength. 4'raherne, whom Fate sent north with the Shepherd, a fighting missionary. when his boat went down, seemed a hopeless tenderfoot
 But there was Moona, the Shep- herds affianced wife. For her, the seed took root. Tn the darkzdays when icefloes crushed their ship. and men sicken. starved and became mutinous not even the Shepherd was as strong as he. The dramatic climax of this stirring novel of the great. cold north makes this one of Leverase'h strong est love stories. ADVENTURES IN INTERVIEWING
 By Isaac F. Marcosson. Illustrated
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thy playful endeavors so that this Ju- bilee Year in Rome shall be memor- able"
 And so began the year 1900. Distin- guished persons were taxed or axed according to the degree of their tight fistedness. Even poor Biscelie caught it in the neck as he came down the steps from San Pietro. and for once Lucretia got mad with her family She went to her father and complained of this social error that Caesar had com mitted.
 But wait until thou hast seen the rretty new husband that has been se-
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VIVID WAMpS ~4f Of AP History Sff g
Lucretia Borgia, the Original OiIy Peril.

high birth for his daughter to marry -!Giovanni sforza, Lord of Pesaro. When they introduced Lucretia to her prospective better half, the thirteen year-old flapper greeted him tenderly.
 And so, Influenza, thou art my legal sparring mate2 We'll, get thee this: I do as l please, and thou also will do as l please. 'Twere well that there be no mistake as to who shall be the hem pecked and who the hen-pecker.'
 Caesar cost his father so much money in lawyers fees that Rodrigo was for ever out of funds. So he began to cast
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"TH1. MAN WITH THREE NAMEs- !

"TH1 HAN WITH THREE NAMES
 Bys Harold McGrath. Illustrated Doubleday. Page & Co.,, publishers. Gar den City, N Y.
 Under one name he had captured the book world. Under another he was fighting in a human cause against the father of the girl he loved. Under the third
 It was a name that must not be known. Love, honor, all the good fruits of life would be scared by the dis closure. But his enemy knew that the tale of every mans life has an un- written chapter. And secretly, unre- lentingly, he strove to find it out
 How the mystery is solved makes a
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By ANNE JORDAN

If LORETTA B0RGIA was one of a
 family of very interesting and
 highly vicious children. She was a gentle little creature. about as easy to handle as INT. She began to know life with capital letters at an age when most little girls are developing an ap- petite for the Elsie Books. She liked to play dolls with live subjects, who made funny noises when they were strangling. Every time the child had to stay indoors on account of rain, she
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usual, and never felt better in my life, am able to eat three hearty meals day and everything agrees with me per- fectly. I eat anything [ want and never feel a touch of indigestion I never thought there was medicine that could do me so much good. and am only too glad to have the facts about my case given to the public"
 Tanlac is sold in Birmingham exclu- sively by Eugene Jacobs Drug Store, and Patton-Pope Drug Co.,; Ensley, Ezell Drug Co.,: Besserner, Pegram- Patton Drug Go; North Birmingham. Walker Drug Co, and East Lake, E. G. Burch- fiel-Adv
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nsent. Hard charades and others tha1 gre easier for the younger people ara all included fin this book. whose con tents are intended for willing away tke long hours of the invalid: for has tening the tedious railway journey. 2f for the long winter evenings at hone. And that you may nos be left m dopRe as to the correct solution of the 'rid- dies. there is a valuable key that can be conveniently used for reference.
 FOUR LITTLE LADY"
 By Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd- Double
 day. Page & Co. publishers, Garden
 City, N. r.
 Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd whose charming little book. entitled Our Little, Old Lady, has drawn such a zwift gentle picture of the heroine that every reader of the quaint little hook will fall in love with the it- tie old day, as everybody in the book does. She recalls for you her own outh, and her own charming love story, and with it the plainer moro wholesome and happier days of tho time which exists for us now only in the "reminiscences of "our little old ladies'"
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| these powerful personages has pre- found respect for the other
 Winston Spencer Churchill. Lord Beav- erbrook. Sir Eric Geddes and Lord Rhondda are other well-known British civilians of whom MT Marcosson erves US vivid gIimpses in bis book. When it comes to the great soldiers, he offers an interesting picture of British Army i traditions in telling how difficult it is to persuade Sir Douglas Haig and Lord French to talk for publication.
 The chapter on "Pershing and Wood 2 is, of course, full of interest Concern ! ing the former MT Marcosson quotes a French army officers signicicaIst re-
 That e. in O. of yours is the real thing Unlike most of your Americans, he doesn't talk much
 i Marshal Foch and Premier Clemenceau, Kerensky, Milyukoff, and Lenin are among other prominent world figures whom we see through MT, MaBrcosson's s observant eyes. The greater part of the ! book is given over co the public flZires Of the war. These portraits formed, in- deed, the volumes nucleus
 
 COMMERCIAL RESEARCH" (An Outline of Working Principles9 By C. $. Duncan. The Macmillan Company, Publishers, New York City. Commercial Research" by, c. $. Dun can assistant professor of commercial organization, University of Chicago; spe- cial expert. United States shipping board, Washington statistician, American ship ping mission, London; statistican, United States shipping board, Paris peace con- ference, contains a discussion of scien~ tific principles for the solving of com mercial problems and IS a, guide to their application In everyday. untechnicai language there are stated the devices py means of which the manager may most quickly and accurately. visualize his prob lem: how he may recognize the signln- canoe of business facts; how these facts may be collected, how analysed, how presented, how interpreted into policy a course of action. It is a practical book for business men and students or business.
 WOUNDED WORDS
 By Cora Berry Whitin. The Four Seas
 Company. publishers, Boston.
 It has been many years since the publication of a good book of charades, but Mrs. Whitin's Wounded Words will go a long way to fill the need that has been felt by all devotees of this fayorite and ingenious form of amuse-
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climax that leaves the reader on the tide of emotion.
 The. old. inimitable Harold McGrath, back again with novel to stir the hearts of all who love a good tale of mystery and love.
 'sMERMAID~
 By Grant M. Overton. Doubleday. Page & Co.,. publishers, Garden City, New York.
 Out of the sea comes Mermaid, named after the ship she survived And for bereaved Captain Smiley she was re- compense from Providence for his own lost child. She becomes a beautiful strong woman, beloved by her three playmates, one a life guard, one fa- nous lawyer, one a shy, strange, soli- tary man living with his father, who is expiatipg, in loneliness, an old sin. She marries the lonely man, brings him great happiness, but great urge comes to him to see the world from which he has been shut out How the jour ney ends makes this supremely beau- tiful love story, and the biggest book Grant M. Overton has written.
 THE IRON FURROW"
 By George C. Shedd. Doubleday. Page & Co.,, publishers, Garden City, N. Y.
 A story of the sun -bleached stretches of the once barren alkali desert of Arizona, is The Iron Furrow," George Q. Shedd, but which strong men are turning into garden land against the will of nature-and sometimes against the. will of men. Having spent all his mor1ey on worthless sheep land, sold by a rich and unscrupufous Mexican, Lee Bryant, nothing daunted. under takes to- reclaim instead of abandon ing it. He proceeds to build canal in spite of the machinations of the Mexican--which. include measures with in the law, and sorhe without--in spite of the treachery of his own engineer, and the faithlessness of the woman he loved, American grit persevered. And he was rewarded at last with the love of fine woman
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IN INTERVIEWING
 By Isaac F. Marcosson. Illustrated
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-11-23
CONVICTION Of MOONEY
THROUGH FRAUD CHARGED

SAN FRANCISO, Nov. 23.-(A. P.)
District Attorney Matthew Brady
last night asked the county grand jury
70 investigate statements Of Police Or
tcer Draper Hand ana others that
Thomas ]. Mooney and Warren X.
Lillings We're convicted OF participa-
tion in the preparedness bomb mur-
ders of 1916 through fraud
Brad" said Hand and others would
be called before the grand jury to tes-
ufy in order to determine The veracity
of Hands statements. Hand was one
OF tho chief Investigating officers OF
tae roiice department in obtaining and
offering evidence against Mooney and
Billings.
IF the Mooney trio was framed as
Hand alleges" said Brady. 81 want
the facts before the grand Jury. III
there is no foundation to Hands story
also want the facts brought before
the public
According to the district attorney.
he would be powerless to cause re-
trial for the two men, but the findings
of the jury will be placed before the
governor Of California with full his
tory of the case.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-11-23
GUEST IS coMpLIMENTEp.

The presence OF Mrs. j. n. Burgess.
who Is being welcomed for a visit here
from Portland is the Inspiration today
for a charming bit of hospitality be-
ing dispensed by Mrs David H. Nell
son at her charming home on Wash
ington street. Yellow and white
chrysanthemums deck the rooms
where five bridge tables are in play.
A few additional friends were ,2sked
in for the tea hour, Mrs. Nelson's list
including, besides Mrs. Burgess. Mrs.
G. w. Phelps, Mrs. s. P. Sturgis, Mrs
w. j. Clarke, Mrs. H. H, Hattery, Mrs.
l.. L. Rogers, Mrs. Charles Greulich.
Mrs. ]. E. Montgomery. Mrs. James
Hill. Mrs. James Johns, Mrs. W. E.
Brock, Mrs. w. y. Matlock, Mrs. Louis
Scharpf. Mrs. George Haslett, Mrs. S.
r. Thompson, Mrs. w. D. McNary
Mrs. G.. NJ. Rice. Mrs. Herbert Thomp-
son. Mrs. Henry Dixon Jones, Mrs.
F. Robinson, Miss Edna Thompson
Mrs. David B. Hill and Mrs. J. B. Nc.
lCooL.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-11-23
NORTHWEST FARMERS
DISCUSS GRAIN PRICES

SPOKANE, Wash. Nov. 2S.-CU.
P. Washington. oregon and Idaho
of the Farmers union met
here today in response to an emer-
gency call to discuss falling grain
prices.
The farmers are expected to adopt
resolutions demanding the re-applica-
ton of the lever act to establish
wheat price and high tariff to pro-
tect American farmers
The establishment of a moratorium
for 90 days on notes, to allow crops to
move under readjusted market condt-
tions, will also be urged.
Wheat in the Pacific northwest Is
selling considerably below the cost OF
production, according to A. A. Elmorsl
president of the Farmers unions
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-11-23

be Pendleton highs first annual and
with the support Of the business men
OF the city 1t is hoped to make 1t such
a success that it will be continued Ae-
tivities Of the Senior class OF last year
will be given mention and will consist
Of their pictures. motto and will. Re-
porters and editors have been appoint
ed to take care OF every branch OF the
work and the staff expects to have the
annual go to press in May. The es-
timated sale price per copy is s2.5O or
SO. The staff consists OF Ivan Houser.
editor. Miss Mary d. Chisholm. John
Beckwith and David Swanson. asso-
ciate editors.