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CYKUS TOWNS I:ND y v BRADY fmc*txramu/i ' ; •> - CHAFTEFfl. k * • J The Prkriitlvfc" Norm. > Whether she had fainted or fallen asleep, she did not know, but this one thing she was sure, it had been dark when consciousness left her and it •was now broad day, although the light seemed to come to her with a greenish •|inge which was quite unfamiliar. The transition between her state of yester­ day and that of to-day was as great as if she had been born into morning from the' womb of midnight and like a young aniinM she drank it in blindly with closed eyes. * She could hear the thunderous roaring of the breakers crashing upon the barrier reef. Alone --her boat had bseo wrecked in the dartcness of the night before -- the sound softened mad mellowed by distance came to her in a deep, low accompaniment to the sharper and nearer sounds oi the birds singing and the breeze rustling gently through the long leaves Of the trees overhead. The dry sand^on which she lay was aoft and yielding and made a comfort­ able bed for her tired body racked with weary days in the constraint and narrowness of a small boat. It was warm, too. She had been drenched when she scrambled on the shore and fell prostrate on the beach, retaining iu euuuKti ana purpose enough to crawl painfully inward to where the tall paims grow before she lapsed in whatsoever way it might have been into oblivion. Incoherent thoughts raCed through her bewildered brain; each one, how­ ever, bringing her a little nearer the awakening point of realization. Then there ran through her young body a primal pang which dispelled the trem­ ulous and vague illusions which her fancy had woven about herself as she lay warm and snug and sunny at the foot of the tall trees, and she realized •K«t she was frightfully thirsty, so thirsty that she did not know how hungry she was. The demand for the material awak- eued the animal in her. Her thoughts centered instantly; they were at once localized on one supreme desire. Coln- cidently her eyes unclosed and she sat up blinking In the strong light. The rising; sun still low on the horizon .tmote her full in the eyes and left her for the moment dazed again. She •at leaning upon her hands extended behind her back staring seaward, say­ ing nothing, thinking nothing, until a strange sound to the right of her at­ tracted her attention. It was a sound made by a human voice and yet it was like nothing human that she had ever hea>rd. It was a wordless, language- less ejaculation, but it roused her in­ terest at once despite her material cravings. She weakly turned her head and there standing erect with folded arms looking down upon.her was a man. He was unclothed entirely save for a fan­ tastic girdle of palm leaves about his waist. She stared at him puzzled, amazed, affrighted. He returned her look with an intent curiosity in which there was no suggestion of evil pur­ pose, rather of great incomprehension, an amazing wonderment. There was nothing about him, save the fact that he was there, which should have caused any alarm in her heart, for with a woman's swift mastery of the possibilities of the oth^r sex, she no­ ticed in her vague terror and wonder­ ment that he was remarkably good to look at. Indeed, she thought that she had never seen so splendid a speci­ men of physical manhood as that be­ fore her. In color he was white. Save that he was bronzed by the tropic sun. he was perhaps whiter than she was. His hair, which hung about his bead in a wild, matted tangle, not unpictures- que, was golden; his eyes bright blue. Beneath his beard, unkempt but short and curly, she could see his firm, clean-cut lips. His proportions were superb. He was limbed and chested like the Apollo Belvedere. In him grace and strength strove for predom­ inance. He was totally unlike all that tihe had read of the aborigines of the South seas. It was the man who broke the si­ lence, afs it had been the man who had broken the spell of her s!umi>er. He made that queer little chuckling noise in his throat which sounded fa­ miliar enough and yet she had heard it frum the lips of no man before. It meant nothing to her except that he who stood before her at least was not dumb, although the noise he made was certainly no articulate speech as she knew speech or could imagine it. At any rate it was a stimulus to her. She opened her own parched lips and strove to make r£plv, but her thirst, with a rising terror and nervousness made her dumb and no sound came forth. The man might be preparing to kill her. He could do so, if he will­ ed, she thought, but she must drink or die. If she ^ould not speak, she could make sftns. She leaned forward raised her arm, hollowed her hand and dipped as if from a well and made as 'If to pour it into her lips. Then she etretchgd out both her hands to him in .the attitude of petition. The man at^fed hard at her. His brow wrinkled. -It was such a simple sign that any savage would Ippre comprehended it, she thought, and yet it appeared to %er, watching in despair, that it took a long time for the idea to beat into his brain. She could wait no longer. She rose to her knees and stretched •Out her hands again. "Water!" she gasped In a hoarse Whisper. "Water, or I die!" The man" had started violently at her speech. Giving him no time to re- -cover, she went through the motion again, this time with greater effect, for the man turned and vanished. She sank down on the sand too exhausted to follow him even with her eyes. If he brought the water she woiUd drink it and live; if he did not, she would lio where she was and die. She did not care 'much, she .thought, would happen. She had so sickened of life before she essayed that opesi boat, that she believed it was simply an animal craving In her which would make her take the water in case it should be bronght her. And yet when he did appear with a cocoanut shell brimming.,with clear,' Sparkling liquid, she felt as though the elixir of life had been proffered her. She seized the shell with both hands which yet so trembled that most of the precious water spilled on her dress as she carried it to her parched lips. This was good in the era, for if that vessel had been the farmed Jotuneheim drinking horn, she wou'/d have drained it dry ere she set it down. As it was, she got but little'; yet that little was enough to set her heart beating once more. Emptying the shell of the last drop--and with that keenness of per­ ception which her long training hail intensified and developed, marking thw while that it had not been cut cleans, by any knife or saw or hiunsn imple­ ment. but was lagged and broken as if from & fall, she dropped ft on the sand an& looked again toward the man. He held in hia hand fruit oi some kind, she did not know what it waB. It might have been poison. What mattered it? Having druqjt she must also eat. It looked edible, it was in» j vlting to the eye and smell, and as she sunk her teeth into it, she found it agreeable to the taste also. He had brought it to her. If he had meant harm, present harm, sorely he would not have given the water. Me ate it confidently. As the man saw her partake of what lie iitui given iter, he ciapped his hands and laughed. She was grateful for that laugh. It was more human thai* the babbling sounds which he made before. There was but little of the fruit, Just what a child would have broaght and this again was good for her, for had there been an abundance, in her need she would have eaten until she had made herself ill. When she had par­ taken, she rose to her feet. Before do­ ing this she had extended her hand to him as If seeking assistance, but he had simply stared at her uncompre­ hending and she had l*»en forced to get to her feet unaided. Once stand­ ing, she trembled and would have fallen, but that she caught his arm and steadied herself by holding tightly to it. The man started back at her touch. Color came and went In his face; little shudders swept over him; his mouth opened; he looked at her with a-singular expression of awe not unmixed with terror in his eyes, for this was the first time in his recollec­ tion or what would have been Ms rec ollection if his retrospective faculties had been developed, that he had ever felt the touch of a woman's hand, of any human hand upon him. Noticing His peculiar demeana* In the, to her, perfectly natural situation, the woman summoning some of the remains of the reserve of force which is in every human body until life is gone, released his arm and stared about her leaning against the trunk of the nearest palm. This time, and for the first time, she took in that expanse of sea, lonely yet beautiful, upon which her eyes were to look so often. Out of the deep and the night she had cpme. Into what deep and Into what day had she arrived? She turned and surveyed the shore. The beach curved sharply to the right and to the left, the long barrier reef following roughly its contour until the land obscured it on either side. Back of her stretched a grove of palms and bacfc of that rose a hill; its crest bare and crag-like towered above a sea of verdure. Through a chance vista she saw the mass of rock as a mountain peak. On one side high precipitous cliffs ran down close to the shore and shut out the view. Over them water fell to the beach. Save in the person of the man be­ side her there was not an evidence of humanity anywhere. No curl of smoke rose above the trees. No distant call of human voices smote the fearful holt low^of her ear. The breeze made music in tne tall palms and in the thick ver­ dure farther up the hill side, birds sang s'OTtly here and there, but there was a tropical stillness to which the great heaving diapason on the distant barriers was a foundation of sound upon which to build a lonely quiet. Human beings there might be, there must be, on that island, if Island it were; but if so, they must be abiding on the farther side. She and the man were alone. Standing on her feet, with a' slight renewal of her strength from what she had eaten ttnd drunk, the woman now felt le ; fsar of the man. He had treated her kindly, His aspect was gentle, even amiable. He looked at her wistfully, bending his brows from time to time and ever and again shak­ ing his head, as a great dog looks at the master with whom he would fain speak, whose language he would fain understand, to whom he would fain impart his own ideas if he could. She stared at him perplexed. She was entirely, at loss what to do, until her eyes rowing past him detected a dark object on the water line just where the still blueness touched the white sand. Hie sunlight was re­ flected from gleams of metal, and thinking that she recognized it, she stepped from the shade of the palms and made her way unsteadily toward it. The man, without a sound, follow­ ed closely at her side. Her vision had been correct, for she drew out of the sand a leather hand­ bag, such as women carry. It had been elaborately fitted with bottles and mirrors and toilet articles. Alas, it was in a sad state of dilapidation now. The bottles were broken, their con­ tents gone. The bag had been lying in the boat when it had been hurled on the b^itier in the night and the same stettm and tide which had borne her ashore had hurled it also on the sand. But it had come open in the battering and its contents were piti­ ably ruined. With eager eyes and fin­ gers she examined everything. She found intact a little mirror, a pair of scissors, a little housewife which was t a, part of the fittings and she won- •HUH HI II 111 !!**""-- IjJIlir I "Water!' 8he Gasped Whisper. In a Hoares It failed of being washed combs and a package of m dered how away, two hairpins. She had fought against starvation and thirst and loneliness and despair as she had fought against men and she had not given way. She had set her teeth and locked her hands and endured hardship like the stoutest hearted, most determined soldier In the history of human struggles. But as the realization of this small mis­ fortune burst upon her, she sank down on the sands and put her head in her hands and sobbed. Tears did her good. She had her cry out, utterly unhin­ dered, for the man stood by, shaking his head and staring at her and mak­ ing those strange little sounds, but of­ fering in no way to molest her. The water was beautifully clear and she could see on the other sld^ of the barrier the remains of her boat. Per­ haps some time, $| there were need, she could get to that boat, but for the present all the flotsam and jetsam of her wild and fearful voyage lay in a water-soaked bag full of broken glass and battered silver from which she had rescued a pair of scissors, a mir­ ror, two combs, a housewife full of rusty needles and some hairpins. O vanitas vanitatum! She was wearing a serviceable dress of blue Berge with a sailor's blouse and a short skirt Putting her precious treasure trove within the. loose blouse and carrying the battered bag which she meant to examine more carefully later, she turned and made for the shade of the trees again. For one thing the sun rising rapidly was gaining power and beating down with great force upon her bare head. She had enjoyed the protection of a wonderful­ ly plaited straw hat on her long voy­ age else she could not have borne the heat, but that, too, was gone. As she walked inland, she noticed again off to her right that stream of water which dropped over the tall cliff In a slender waterfall a sweet in­ viting pool at the base before it ran through the sands toward the sea. She made her way thither and at the brink knelt down and took long draughts of It. Eating and drinking evidently went together in the mind of the man, for when she raised her head, she found him standing before her with both hands filled with some of the fruit she had partaken of before and other fruit. She thought she recognized the bread­ fruit and a species of banana. At any rate, she ate again and having by this time recovered to some extent her mental poise, she ate sparingly gad with caution. Then having satisfied her material needs, Bhe knelt down by the stream and washed her face and hands. How sweet was the freshness of that water to her face burned by the sun and the wind and subjected for a long time to the hard spray of the briny seas. She would have been glad to have taken off her clothing and plunged into the pool, to have washed the salt of days from her tired body, to have had the stimulus and refreshment of its sparkling coolness over her weary limbs. But in the presence of her dog­ like attendant this waa not yet possi­ ble. m Still she could and must arrange her hair. Of all the articles in her dress­ ing bag, she was more fervently thankful at that moment for the combs than anything else, the combs and th e little mirror and the hairpins--small things indeed, but human happiness as a rule turns on things so small that the investigator and promotor thereof generally overlook them. And we know not the significance of the little m Silence Oppressed left with only those. It was still early, abput eight o'clock. How was she to pass the day? She must do something. She felt she could not sit idly staring from sea to shore. She must be moving. No business called her; she must in­ vent some. The compelling necessity of a soul not born for idleness was • /' upep her. She would explore the land. That was logically the first thing to be done any way and this was a highly trained woman who thought to live by rule and law albeit her rules were poor ones. She started inland, the man follow­ ing after. She had gained confidence In herself with every passing moment The man who looked at her as a dog she would treat as one. She must have some privacy. She could not al­ ways have him trailing at her heels. She turned by a great boulder, pointed to it, laid her hand on the man's shoulder and gently forced him to a sitting position by it Then she walked away. He stared wistfully after her departing figure, and as She turned around to look at him, he sprang to his feet "No, no!" she - cried Imperatively, making backward threatening motions with her hands, whereat he resumed his sitting position, staring at her un­ til he lost her among the trees. Presently she turned and came back to him. It was so deathly lonely with­ out, hini. He leaped to his feet as he saw her coming and clapped his hands as a child might have done, his face breaking out the while into a smile that was both trustful and touching. She felt better since she had him un- dor this control, and together they walked on under the trees. tell, she and the man were alone upon it The thought oppressed her. She strove to throw St off. The silence of the man oppressed her as well. She turned to him at last and cried out the words wrung from her by the hoi ror of the situation. "Man, man, whence came you? Hov are you called? What language do you speak? Why are you here?" The sound of her own voice gave her courage. Waiting for no answer, and indeed she realized that none could come, she stepped to the brow of the hill where the trees happened not to be and raising her voice called and called and called. There were answer­ ing echoes from the jagged crag be­ hind her; but when these died away there was silence unbroken save, by the queer babbling, chuckling noises oi the man. V She lookfed at him wlt\i a sudden Binking of the heart. Had this godlike creature roaming the woods, this faun jof the island been denied a brain, articulate speech? Was she tihsomet^ to spend the rest of her life alone iu this paradise of the Pacific with a harmless madman forever by her side? What a situation was that, in which she found herself! She was a highly Specialized product of the greatest of universities. In science and in philosophy she was a master and a doctor. She should have had resources within herself which would enable her to be Independent of the outside world, a world In which her experience, self-brought, had been bitter, in which the last few weeks had been one long disillusionment Aai jot ztz scrr -vcr-- with craving for companionship, for articulate speech, as if she had never looked into a book or given a thought to the deep things of life. If this man beside her would only do some­ thing, say something, be something rather than a silent satellite forever staring In wonder. If she could only solve the mystery of his presence, an­ swer the interrogation that his very existence there alone presented. Her future, her present, indeed, should have engrossed her mind. What she was to do, how she was to live, the terrible problems in which his presence on the island involved her should have been the objects of her attention; they should have afforded food for thought to the keenest of women. She simply forgot them In her puzzled wonder at him. It would have been much simpler from one point of view if she had found the isiand uninhabited, and yet since the man was human and alive, in spite of her Judgment, her heart was glad that he was there. She motioned to him to sit down and then she sat in front of him and studied him. He looked as little like a fool as like a knave. She could. In­ deed, detect no evidence of any intellec­ tual capacity, but she thought, as she studied him keenly, that he possessed unlimited intellectual possibilities. There was a mind back of those bright blue eyes, that broad noble brow, but it seemed to her a mind entirely undeveloped, mind utterly latent. Here was a soul, she thought half in fancy, half in earnest, that was virgin to the world. How wise, how deeply learned she might be she was face to face with this primeval norm. Could she teach this man anything? He seemed tractable, reverential, def­ erential now. Knowledge was power. Would it be power with hiin? Could she open those sealed doors of his mind, what floods would outpou* therefrom, of power, of passion? Would she be 6wept away? It mat­ tered not. She must try. The im­ pulse seized her to begin now. Fixing her dark eyes upon him, she pointed directly at him with her finger. "Man," she said clearly and em­ phatically. He was always looking at her. He had scarcely taken his eyes from her since she had seen him in the tall grass by the shore, but at her gestu»e and word his eyes brightened. There was that little wrinkling of the brow ag&iD which she had noticed, outward an J visible sign of an Inward attempt at comprehension. A she said passionately "Man," She repeated aver and ove» again. And then the unexpected happened After innumerable guttural attempts, her unwitting pupil managed to ar ticulate something that bore a dls tinct resemblance to the clearly cut monosyllable. "Man!" he said at last It was a tremendous step in evolu­ tion, almost too great for any untu­ tored human brain, for at Once the man before her received a name and the idea of name as well. In that instant, on the heaven kissed hill, he was differentiated from all the rest of creation forever. His consciousness hitherto vague, floating, incoherent, In­ definite, was localized, given a habita­ tion and a name. H« knew Himself In some way to be. "Man!" he cried, growing more and more confident with every repetition and more and more accurate in catch­ ing the very intonation with whi«h she spoke. "Man!" he cried, laying his hand upon his breast "Man!" He leaped to his feet and stretched Oat his arms. The doors were open a little way. Ideas were beginning to edae their wav through the cr««v "Man! Man! Man!" h© cried again and again, looking eagerly at her. She rose in turn and patted him on the shoulder encouragingly as she might a dog. And again the touch, the second touch that she had given him, affected him strangely, so strangely that for a moment she felt the soul within her shrink, but realiz­ ing instantly that her domination over hita was spiritual and Immaterial and that the slightest evidence of timidity would be translated into universal lan­ guage which even the lowest creation understands and that her dominion would go os the iusiaut, she SBSSvcrcu herself and mastered him. Although she was but a woman whom he might have broken in his hands, the dom­ inated him as the conscious soul ever dominates the unconscious soul. She essayed no more lessons, but turned and retraced her way to the shore where Bhe had landed, which because she had landed there, she called home. On the way she attempt­ ed an experiment. She plucked from a low bush a bright colored fruit of whose quality and characteristics shfe was ignorant and slowly made as If to convey it to her lips. "Man!" cried the voice behind her, uttering Its only word. She turned to find her companion looking fixedly at her and proffering other fruit which he had quickly gath­ ered. She handed him that she had plucked in exchange. He shook his head, not in negation but rather in bewilderment and threw it from him, and then she understood in some way that the fruit was not good for food. How he had divined it, Bhe could not tell. Some compensating instinct, sharpened by use into a protecting quality, had taught him. She had no such instinct. She had learned to de» pend upon reason and observation, and these failed her in the presence of this unknown. She was humbled a little in this thought. She craved meat and salt, having been trained to these things, the arti­ ficial diet and stimulant to which she had become accustomed, and her crav­ ing was the more insistent because she had been without them all that time in the boat. And yet when she had eaten the fruit that nature had pro­ vided in that tropic island, her crav­ ing was abated and she was satisfied. She felt that she could soon grow ac­ customed to such a diet if it were nec­ essary. So muBing she passed on un­ der the trees and sat down on the sand again. (TO BE CONTINUED.) C h e e r f u l h o m e - . Many Hhinga Combine to make hom« Cheerful, bat no one thing plays so important a part as artistic taste In. waE decoration. Beautiful^ cleanly and' wholesome ig£; We have idea* on color iumiMnicfc clastic Menciis, and moeb that will le terest the' diacriminaties hoqjw owi Theae ldeaa have coat as maqr bat i me to you. Ask jrowr dMlw or < direct. rand Rapids, Mich, WESTER! 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Philadelphia, PATENTS WataoaK.Cia . D.O. Bo tagton est reSexenc«i» mmajl jesrjm CHAPTER II. Conscious of His Manhood. High noon and they were back at the landing place and she at least was very tired. Accompanied by the man, who made not the slightest attempt to guide her, after some difficulty she had succeeded in forcing her way through the trees to the top of the hill. Part of the time she had followed the course of the rivulet from which she had drank at the foot of the cliff. She was determined to get to the top, for she must see what was upon the other side. Humanity's supreme desire when facing the hills has always been to see what was on the other side. The stim­ ulus of the unknown was upon her, but it was coupled with a very lively desire begot of stern necessity to know what there Was to be known of the land upon which she had been cast up by the sea. Her view from the hilltop--she did not essay the unclothed and jagged peak; she could make her way around its base and see all that there was to see--was not reassuring. She could detect on the other side of the island Your Opportunity "1 if yon know huvr to rui»> potatucs aud oil _ _ whichwith them, there is aflnpopening for.; in a location where you ears soon ma&« 110 W acre laud worth fluo to (15U an acre. This has , been done in Tidewater, Virginia. The picaeeri has bfon aivtiuiplished and the region provi §reat value t u r tsomUot'S. Largo vleias mide. istriet is within 34 bourf of 10.000.(J00 people. r are other splendid regions on t he Southern ] way lines tor puMtsca iiud h«-r tnek cropa. ' now for information. M. V, Kirhani*, UkQd < Indoatrial 13!«th M.,\VaihlB(tga,r LIVE AGENTS WANTED 'rys'usK i. We own the** In vour locality, to assist us In seiil ct.rii, wheat and altalfa land. In V tural district Sa the United State#. sands of iu-fs in Pawnee and adjoining _ . Write us for a proposition ora our own farm*. in*- County, with a population of only 8.M. at produces 4.00U.U00 bushels ot wheat. OMautaf rat fa Yields from six lo«|g>>li«l(lM> J«aJ. >roduees . yt from 112 to 118 per ton. FB1ZELJL * ELY, Lamed, 1 In Early Days of Coffee *- WOKUKKimV FKKTIBuK WISCOKSIir. *> For Sale--Ono of the finest farms in Ban Claire County. gut) m-reis. all cultivated. Goo* boiMtOHk fine soil, tine creek fc wiles from railroad town, 15 miles irotu Baa Claire. Thiekiy settled. 3 m Ilea to store, feed will, creamery, etc. Bchool near hr> O® U"nt! I» "«•>.». He* rail mart hniidlng; depot to H 8 miles away. 8ACK1F1C£ SAUE -320 MfM. 5W miles froSB railroad city, creek and river; no haitdlnga; ontr acres weste land. tlSJC per acre. Writ* us aSMk these two f arms, O.X. alien, Kan Claii*. Wia, until upon some desert island we are more evidence of life than were presented by that she had first touched upon. In every direction lay the. un- vexed sea. The day was brilliantly clear; there was not a cloud in the sky. No mist dimmed the translucent purity of the warm air. Nothing broke the far horizon. The island, fair and beautiful, was set alone in a mighty ocean. In so far as she could Beverage $8t with Strong Disap­ proval of Englifh Sellers of Strong Liquor. There is a quaint reference to cof­ fee in Burton's "Anatomy of Melan­ choly." "The Turks," writes Burton, "have a drink called ooffee (for they used no wine), so named of a berry as black as soot and as bitter (like that black drink which was in use among the Lacedoemonians, and perhaps the same), which they sip still of, and sup as warm as they can suffer; they spend much time in those coffee houses, which are somewhat like our own ale houses or taverns, and there they sit chatting and drin&ing to-drive away the time and to be merry to­ gether, because they find by expe­ rience that kind of drink BO used belpeth digestion and pfocureth alacrity." The introduction of coffee Into this country dates from the period of the protectorate, says the London Chron­ icle. According to a restoration pamphleteer, "Coffee and common­ wealth came in together." The first coffee house in London was estab­ lished in 1652 by Pasqua Rosee, the Armenian servant of a city merchant. Others were quick to follow. Natu­ rally the publicans and owners of licensed houses viewed these innova­ tions with alarm. Mr. Hackwood 'ip his recently published book on "The Inns, Ales and Drinking Customs of Old England," recalls the case of on* James Parre. who was accused of "making and selling a drink called cOffee, whereby in makinge the same he annoyed his neighbours by evil smells, and for keepinge of ffire for the most part night and day, whereby his chimney and chamber hath been set on ffire, to the great danger and affrightment of hia neighbours." AMI-TUB SAVING, tVitSuuable amounts Of work and ability to act, will make you indepen­ dent in tive years on an Oregon Apple Orchard. fcM cash buys 5 acres, IS00 cash. 10 acres: the balaeee !• paid monthly for 4U months. The finest land, loca­ tion and all set to trees. K. II,, K. 1).. ehnrch* school, all conveniences there now. No waktinc for these. Our priee is half what oar neighbors are getting- We haw only t'4 ten-aor» tracts at this price, so act quickly, met our Ittecttiu*. a small At- posit will bold until you investisaM. Oregon AWm Orchards Co., Por land. Oretfoa. Increase of Wealth. If the total wealth of the United States in 179Q (on the basis of the present standard of values) be accept­ ed as approximately $1,000,000,000, the increase from 1790 to 1900 approachef ninetyfold. During the period men­ tioned the population of the United States increased fourteenfold; hence, while the population increased at a rate far in advance of that shown by any other civilized nation durinr the same period, the increase of wealth in the United States far outstripped (hat of population. ... , fj®riT LANDH--uneicellsi on tb» eoMtMBL. » Improved or uniatprovod. ea»y terms, beautiful climatf and scenery, abuiidaut Ushlng and shooting. Marvelous yields, protits often 1MB per acre. Oaf fru its s,weep pmos everywht'-re capi al needed- Ouicit success lor the uidusirioui Going fast. K«otenay Sloean Fruit Co, Limits*, British Columbia, Canada. Looking Out for Him. Yeast--Looking for some (me you expected to come back for old-home week? Crimsonbeak^--Tes. "Can I help yon?" "rtuliuj** I was looking for a fet low who borrowed 95 from me ten years ago and who forgot to pay it back. I thought perhaps he'd come to town and try to borrow $5 mora." OCX NY tUIFTIIEM ALBBBTA, Iks ihl» f-'wintor wheat district of Canada. V\ e have Im­ proved. and unimproved f&nui, for ssiilt* Adjacent towns of Stavelv. Claresholtu and l*arfeiand. lMce« r&ngtui; from fifteen dollars to thirty-live doilara ner acre. Ka»> mauSU. Aii «8orm»u«»mlnBqt cheerfully answered. KsbMtM a OlIIMV Starely. Alberta, Can-qla TPASTEil 40O r A ItwntS to hoy » *«• vv tracts at fit) a, month, t'opita I'ralrso gtarrtfe, Te*as So taxes. interest, immttttate tJosaea- Sion. KurntMl to *U) pvrai-rv KxhlViratunf «B; mate. White communis*. Kivarsion* 1st and M Tuesdays. No matter where you live. wrtW Mr Oran Perry, 8£> Law Bldg.. Indianapolis, ind. rru® COLTILIK COrXTKY Ptoflta tW 1 beariW orchards $500 iwr »ere. I ty.jua? Dortuiuiics tor diversldrd fA-cu:t»K. »ll,J *»'ataw Crop tullure auk now ik Kor II1 u >irat»«J booklet writ** to Thv Qt CutTiUv. YV CFKIML BARti AI-N.S in Minne*>ta, O and Montana farm lands. iaJt-.tyvfU atid uaim: moved, for homo and lawiuir. We aflS pare tan,tdilra<t 1T> AROAINS--Klch Soan»-< » per aer»; H fgfe I»" jtji) acres. tS bu^heis wtuiit acre®**, QkMMMi readv forpiow. iW acres alfalfa or i-ort* «al«r Box J3, tlraaU JutcUdlN • i /V V 51" V/*". *1 h • iii.