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OiO ®y- TWf CfWTMWV maw m»<» #w tmk *"0 /V \ % 1 L** ̂ • Simply Clung to Him. 8YNOP8I8. Philip Cay ley. accused of a crime of which he la not guilty, resigns from the army In disgrace and his affection for (ill friend, Lieut. Perry Hunter, turns to hatred. Cayley seeks solitude, where he perfects a flying machine. While soaring •ever the Arctic regions, he picks up a •curiously shaped stick he had seen in the assassin's hand. Mounting again, he dis­ covers a yacht anchored in the bay. De­ scending near the steamer, he meets a Sir! on an ice floe. He learns that the xirl's name is Jeanne' Fielding and that the yacht has come north to seek signs of her father. Captain Fielding, an arctlo •explorer. A party from the yacht is ma­ ting; search ashore. After Cayley departs Jeanne finds that he had dropped a cu­ riously-shaped stick. Captain Planck and the surviving crew of his wrecked whaler kre in hldingon the coast. A giant ruf­ fian named Roscoe, had murdered Field lng and his two companions, after the ex­ plorer had revealed the location of an •enormous ledge of pure gold. Roscoe then took command of the party. It develops that the ruffian had committed the mur­ der witnessed by (jayley. Roscoe plan* to capture the yacht and escape with a Mr load of gold. Jeanne tells Fanshaw, owner of the yacht, about the visit of the akj raan and shows him the stick left by •Cayley. Fanshaw declares that It Is an Eskimo throwing-stlck, used to shoot -darts. Tom Fanshaw returns from the searching A>arty with a sprained ankle. Feny Hunter ip found murdered and Saylev Is accused of the crime but Jeanne UMlleves him innocent. A relief party goes to find the searchers. Tom professes his love for Jeanne. She rows anhore and •enters an abandoned hut, and there finds riar father's diary, which discloses the ex suspicion of Roscoe. The ruf- fiaif returns to the hut and sees Jeanne. He is intent on murder, when the sky- •*nan swoops down and the ruffian flees. Jeanne gives Cayley her father's diary to read. The yacht disappears and Ros- coe's plans to capture It are revealed. Jeanne's only hope is In Cayley-. The «*riousness of their situation becomes ap­ parent to Jeanne and the sky-man. Cay- fey kills a polar bear. he finds a due to the hiding place of the stores. CHAPTER XV.--Continued. "Why, I found an unmistakable ref* -erence to It, and though the exact lo­ cation wasn't given. It was plain that three or four hours' exploring by day­ light would enable us to find It But •even If I hadn't minded leaving you -asleep here, unprotected. In the hut, I doubt very much If I could have found It at night But what's the mystery you were about to reveal to me?" "No." she s&ld; "tell me more about your discovery first. What was the reference in the Journal?" He rose and took down from the •ghelf the big leather-bound volume which was proving Itself, with every hoar, their greatest treasure. "It's over here, toward the end," he •aid, "in that last winter when the Walrus came--oh, here we are." He seated himself on the bunk be­ side her, and began to read. "March 10th.--We have just spent a arduous and fearful week upon the task of unloading the -wreck of the whaler. The weather has been severe --bitterly cold (--10 degrees Fahren­ heit being the mildest) and three- quarters of a gale blowing most of the time. The men are Inclined to be re­ bellious over my driving them out to work in such weather, but I dared not wait for it to moderate. "When the lee opens round the whaler, she will go down like a plum­ met; and if that event should have happened before we unloaded her of her stores, our plight would have been utterly desperate. Of stores in the ordinarily accepted sense, she had t>ut a scanty supply, and those of a mis­ erably Inferior description; but she contained half a cargo of whale oil In barrels, which now that they are landed will settle the problem of fuel for us as long as the last survivor of our company can hope to remain alive. And fuel is, after all, the only neces­ sity which this land itself does not supply us with. Of course we shall have to forego the delights of bear steak when our ammunition gives out. but walruses we can kill with har­ poons. And with these and scurry- grass, which we gather In the valley every summer, there is no danger of actual starvation. "We hoisted the barrels of blubber out of the whaler's hold with a hand tackle, sledged them ashore along the floe and the crown of the glacier to Moseley's cave, which seemed to be the most convenient place to store them temporarily." Cayley laid down the book and turned to the glrL "That's the place, I'm perfectly sure," he said. "It sviuculiy faces the glacier, but it must be very near the beach, for they wouldn't have hauled those barrels any further than necessary." "Is that all he says about !tf "It's all he says directly, but there's a reference just a little further along which madia me all the surer I was right . . . Let's see." He opened the book again and ran his eye down the page. " '--A hundred­ weight or so of spermaceti and two barrels of sperm oil we took directly to the hut'--here, this is what I was looking for. " 'The knowledge we get by experi­ ence often comes too late to be of any great service to us. I made some mistakes in stripping the Phoenix, whlrfe I should not repeat now. For instance, carrying her pilot house, with infinite labor, up to the cliff- head for an observatory. It is thor­ oughly Impracticable for this purpose. I doubt if I have visited it three times since Mr. Moseley's death--'" "He was the astronomer and botan­ ist of father's expedition." aald the girl. Cayley read on: "'But now that I have learned my lesson, I have but little to apply the knowledge to. The \yalrus is, I believe, the most utterly wretched hulk that ever sailed the seas--ill-found, detestably dirty anjl literally rotting to pieces. We shall, however, get enough planks and tim­ bers out of her to build a shed or two near the hut, for the more convenient storage of our supplies.' ** Again he closed the book. "That's what I was looking for," he said. "You see they brought that stuff down from the cave to these sheds; so the cave would be almost inevitably the first hiding place they would think of when the sight of the Aurora drove teem to hurtle everything sot of sight" "Whereabout on the cliff 1* the ob: servatory, Philip V "I was wondering about that. I've flqwn across the cliff a number of times, bat have never seen anything of It He may have wrecked It; taken It down and used It for some other purpose." "No," she said; "he'd hardly have had time for that There weren't many more pages to write In the Jour­ nal when he made that entry." She fell then into a little abstracted silence, which the man did not know how to break. But presently she roused herself and came fully back to the pres­ ent, back to him. "Did you succeed in accounting for the thing you sakeft me about last night, the mark on the map right here where they built the hut afterward?" "I didn't find anything aLout it lq the journal, but this morning, before breakfast, when I went outside the hut one glance at the fact of the cliff accounted for it fully The cliff is spilt right here, from top to bottom, by a deep, narrow fissure. The fissure Is full of Ice, which I suppose hasn't melted for a thousand years. No sum­ mer that they could have In a high lat­ itude like this would ever melt it, cer­ tainly." The girl laughed and roee from her place at the rude table. "Well," she asked, "are you ready for my discovery now?" She took down his pocket electric bull's-eye from the shelf behind her. held out a hand to him and. on tip­ toe, led him, with a burlesque exag­ geration of mystery, out into the store­ room. As completely mystified in reality as she playfully pretended to want him to be, Cayley followed. She went straight across the store­ room to the rear wall of the hut, the wall that backed squarely against the sheer surface of the cliff, flashed on the bull's-eye for a second, apparently to make sure that she had chosen the right point In the wall, then, letting go hiB hand, she stooped and picked up a stick of fire-wood which lay at her feet With this she struck pretty hard upon the planking. The sound which the blow gave forth was as hollow as a drum. Cayley started. "A cave!" he ex­ claimed. "A cave here!--Oh, I see. It's a cold cellar they made by cutting a hole In the ice that filled the fissure. And why do you suppose they boarded It up?" The girl laughed delightedly. Evi­ dently she had not, as yet, developed the whole of her discovery. She flashed on the light again. 'Look!'1 she commanded. In the center of a little circle of wall which the bull's-eye now Illum­ inated Cayley saw the barrel of a rusty hinge. "You see," she went on, 'it's a door, and they only nailed it up the other day. There's a nail-head somewhere here that's quite bright I caught the glint of it while I was rummaging be­ fore breakfast, and that was what made me look." Cayley darted back Into the living room, returning almost Instantly with the broken-handled pick. In less than a minute, with a pro­ testing squawk, the rude door swung open, and they saw before them Just what Cayley had predicted. A rather high, but narrow cavity, the sides of which were the naked rock of the cliff, bat the floor and celling solid ice- Despite the fact that the girl's ex­ citement over the discovery of the cave had, for a moment, carried Cay­ ley along with It, he was not greatly surprised, and not at all cast down when, at the end of five minutes of hasty exploration. It was made evi­ dent to them that the ample supply of stores which they sought was not to be found here. Jeanne herself would not, perhaps, have entertained so high a hope had she learned of the reference to the other cave which Cayley found in the journal before she herself had chanced upon the mouth of this one. As it was, his theory that the stores wsrs to be found in a cave vaguely situated along the glacier, made little impres­ sion upon her, she was BO Bure that they had been right here, under their hands. When their investigation made it clear that whether he was right or not, certainly she was wrong, she was bitterly disappointed. Cayley was aware of that, even as they stood here, side by Bide, with no light to see her face by. She said nothing, or very little, but he knew, nevertheless, that for Just this moment all the life and courage had gone out of her; knew that the slight figure there, so close beside him, was drooping,* trem­ bling a little. He laid a steady hand upon her shoulder. Almost Instantly, under his touch, she turned to him, caught with both hands at the unbottoned edges of the rough woolen Jacket he wore, and, sobbing a little now and then, but oth­ erwise in silence, simply clung to him. He did not offer, with his arms, to draw her any closer, to turii what was a mere Instinctive appeal to the protec­ tion of his strength and courage, into an embrace. He kept a hand on each of her shoulders, more by way of sup­ port than anything else, and waited a moment before he spoke. "After all," he said at last "what we've got here Is Just so much clear gain, and it will be Immensely valu­ able to us, though It isn't what we ex­ pected. The fact that It Is their super­ fluity, the things they hadn't any par­ ticular or immediate use for, doesn't make what we've found here any the less valuable to us. That pile of bear skins there will ^ypply what Is, at thla moment, the most vital of our wants. That big sack appears to contain feathers; and those walrus tusks will serve any number of purposes--forks and spoons for one thing. As to that SUPERSTITIONS OF SNEEZING #- n Was a Thing of Ill-Omen Until the Time of Jacob, Say the Jewish Rabble. Many superstitions have gathered around"the practise of sneezing. The Jewish rabbis Bay that in the first ages of the world sneezing was considered a thing of ill omen, and even a presage of death, and that this terrible state of things lasted until the coming of Jacob, when that astute patriarch, anxious lest he should him­ self perish .from such an insignificant cause, besought the Almighty to en­ dow sneezing in future with more beneficent attributes. Among the ancients sneezing was considered lucky or unlucky accord­ ing to the circumstance of time and place. • For Instance, It was considered lucky to sneese between noon and midnight; also when the moon was in the signs of Taurus, Leo, Libra, Cap­ ricorn and Pisces. But if, on the other hand, yoa sneezed during any of the hours be­ tween midnight and the following noon, or while the moon happened to be in the signs of Virgo, Aquarius, Cancer or Scorpi--above all, unhap­ pily, you were just getting out of bed or rising from the table--then you were to consider yourself in a par­ lous state, Indeed. great lamp of spermaceti. It will keep us supplied. with candles all through the winter. I can't Imagine why they didn't use It themselves, except on the theory that the longer they lived here, the more they grew like beasts; the more content with the beast's habit of life, and the more inert about taking the trouble to provide them­ selves with such of the comforts and decencies of life as they might have had. So you see, we may find among the things they had no use for the very ones that will help as most" The catting In the Ice did not go very far back in the fissure, and they were soon at the end of it, and with­ out having made any new discovery of Importance, either. There was a little erf cast-off articles of various sorts, chiefly clothing which future privations might make useful to them. There was a great frozen lump of brov, ukii gieen vegetation, which they afterward Identified as the edible scurvy grass to which Captain Field­ ing had referred In his Journal. That was all, or they thought It was, but just as they were about to re­ trace their steps to the hut, Cayley happened to glance up. The roof of the cave was not very much higher than it had to to permit him to stand erect In It, something under eev- en feet; but here at the further end of It he saw a circular, chimney-like hole, about two feet in diameter, lead­ ing straight upward through the solid ice In the fissure. CHAPTER XVU Footprints. Nature had nothing to do with the formation of it, so much was clear enough. It had been cut out by hand, and evidently with Infinite labor. Hashing his bull's-eye over it did not enable him to see the end of it, but it did reveal a series of notches running straight up the two opposite surfaces. The only purpose they could serve would be to make possible the ascent of the chimney. Jeanne followed his gaze, and then the two looked at each other, com­ pletely puzzled. "Some one must have made it," she said; "and it must have been fright­ fully hard to make--a tunnel right up through the ice like that But what in the world can they have made it for?" "I've no idea." he confessed, "but it goes somewhere, and I mean to find out where." "Don't follow It too far," she cau­ tioned. "It would only need one foot slip off one of those icy notches to bring about a dreadfully ugly fall." "One couldn't fall far uuwu a tube of that diameter, unless he had com­ pletely lost his nerve, for there's al­ ways a chance to catch one's self. And you're to remember that I'm used to falling. No, I'll be as safe up there as I would on a turnpike. Yes, really." With that and a nod of reassurance, he scrambled up into the mouth of the long chimney. He had taken his bull's-eye with him, so the girl was left In the dark. She dropped down on the heap of bear skins to wait for him. She had no means of measuring the time, and it seemed a perfectly In­ terminable while before she heard Cayley returning down the Ice chim­ ney. Had she known how long it real­ ly was, she would have been justified in feeling seriously worried about elm, but not knowing, she attributed the seeming duration of his delay to the tedium of sitting In the dark, with nothing to do. Even at that she was conscious of a feeling of relief when she heard him call out to her once more, Cheerfully, albeit somewhat hollowly, from the chimney's mouth: "Jeanne, where are you?" "Here, Just where you left me." "Here! All tfce while! You must be half frozen. I've been gone the better part of an hour." "I didn't know how long it was, and I kept thinking you'd be back any minute. . . . But where In the world have you been?" By the time she asked that question they had groped their way back into the Btureruom auu uiwuee Luto the liv­ ing room of the hut. and by now she was looking at him in the full light of day. He dropped down, with a rather ex­ plosive sigh, upon one of the bunks, and poked tentatively at his thighs and shoulders as If they were numb with fatigue. "I think by a reasonable estimate," he said, "that chimney Is five miles high. I kept going and going and go­ ing, till I began to believe that there wasn't any end to it; or that, by some magic or other, I slipped down a yard as often as I went up one. But I did get to the end at last; and I'll give you a thousand guesses as to what I found there." "The observatory," she hazarded. "Oh! but not really? I did not mean that for an honest guess at all. It was just the first thing that came into my head. But how coald they pull the pilot house of the Phoenix up through that little hole in the ice?" "Well, to tell the truth, I don't be­ lieve they did," be answered with mocking seriousness, "it's more like­ ly that they took It to pieces, and then rigged a boom and tackle up at the cliff-head and hauled It up outside. But when they got it up there they put it together again right across the fissure, and then tunnelled down, or up. the whole depth of the cliff. It must have taken them weeks to do It, and when it was done they had an in­ side connection between it and the hut so that they were Quite indepen­ dent of the weather. And it must have been a great place to make ob­ servations from." "Have been!" she echoed queetlon- ingly. "Isn't It nowT" "No, because it's all snowed and frozen In. It's burled. I don't know how many feet deep by this time, and dark, of course, as a pocket Buti I \ r a go He 8et Off Alone. everything Inside is quite undisturbed. I doubt if a single member of the Wal­ rus' crew ever saw it, or even sus­ pected that such a place existed." He unbuttoned his Jacket and took from an Inner pocket a scrap of pa­ per. "Being a methodical person," he ex­ plained, "I made an inventory- It'» really quite a respectable list" She seated herself beside him on the bunk as if to read the paper. "I Imagine you will need an Inter­ preter," he said. Tve half forgotten what these tracks mean myself. My hands were so stiff with the cold it wasn't very easy to write. But that first word Is telescope. And then there are the meteorological Instru­ ments, barometers, thermometers, and so on, and the Phoenix's compass, sex­ tant and chronometer, a microscope, a paraffine oven and a big chunk of parafflne, an oil lamp, a five-gallon can about half full of oil, and a small stove. There was a providential treas­ ure for me In the form of a rasor, which they used, I suppose, for cutting microscopic sections with. I'm glad they hadn't a micro tone to do it prop­ erly." "You dldnt find a comb for me, did your' she asked. "Because, unless you did, or until you do, you wont be allowed to use the razor." "I suppose I could make you one, or a sort of one. It would be genuine Ivory, anyway." He had come, apparently, to the end of the list "Well," she said. "I suppose we might find something to do with al­ most any one of those things; some of them will be useful, certainly. And It's pleasant, somehow, to think of our little pilot house, all snowed In. up there on the cliff-head, and of our In­ side passage leading up to it" "That's quite true." he said. "I sup­ pose It's ail romantic nonsense, but it does give one a certain feeling of se- securlty. . . . However," he went on, "we're not reduced as yet to any­ thing as intangible as that as a sub­ ject for giving thanks. You haven't seen the whole of my list yet I've saved the best till the last" He turned the paper over in his hand as he spoke. She did not attempt to read what he had written, but sat there beside him, her handB clasped about one knee, her eyes upon the booted foot which was poised across the other, and waited rather tensely for him to tell her. "It's not BO very much, but it will mean an Immense lot to us. What people die of in the arctlo is not so often disease or accident, or even, di­ rectly, cold or starvation. They die more often of disgust and weariness and exhaustion. Your father knew that, and he set apart from his gen­ eral stores some luxuries and delica­ cies, or things that would seem to be such to men in their plight, to be used against emergency. I'm sure that's why he took them up there and hid them away. Part of them are left I wish hd could have known to whom they were gdtng to be of use. There's a little cask with brandy in it, a good- sized pot nearly full of beef extract, a Jar of dried eggs, three tins of con­ densed milk, a big ten-pound box of Albert biscuit--" His voice broke off there sharply, but without the downward inflection she would have expected had he reached the end. So she looked quick­ ly and curiously up Into his face. As quickly, her eyes sought the bit of pa­ per which still lay open in his hand. "You didn't finish," she said. "There was something else." *1 thought too late. Oh! it's noth­ ing, but it caught me--rather, and I thought I would spare you the twinge that finding It had given me. I might better have read it right out It was a big plum pudding, in a tin, you know--Cross ft Blackwell's. But there it was, waiting, I suppose, to lend some sort of an air of festivity to their next Christmas." The girl rose from her seat beside him and going over to the window, stood for a while gazing up the beach. It was Just about the same time In the afternoon that it had been yester­ day when he set out, a-wing, to find her, and had come flying down out of the sky to drive away the sudden nameless terror which had beset her. That thought led him, now to vlsuap lis® some sticks of wood, rather too large to carry, which had been lying on the beach near where he had found her. Thinking that It would be » good time to get them and drag them In, he got a harpoon line, and It was the girl's question what he meant to do with the rope, which caused him to tell her what part of the beach he In­ tended to visit He asked her then if she cared to come with him, but, after a moment's hesitation, she declined, "It will be high time for supper be fore you can get back," she said, "and I'd better stay here and get it ready, that is, unless I can help yoa." So he set off alone. For awhile the occupation of setting their disordered 11 ring rooin to rights and getting the supper started were sufficient to take the whole of the gftTs attention. But later, when it was a question merely of waiting for the pot to boll, and of not watching it so that it would boil sooner, she moved restlessly to the door and stood there, before the hut, gazing down the beach in the direction Cayley had taken. He was already out of sight around the headland. She wished she had gone with Philip, aw! *he gased with straining eyes toward the CAITOW bit of slant* lng beach around the base of the head* land which was the place where he must appear. He was not to be ex­ pected yet, not for a long time, prob­ ably, for his progress, draggjfag those great sticks he had set out to bring home, must be slow. And then, even as she looked, she saw him, not moving slowly with his burden, but running--running at hla toftfnost speed, ifke a man In fear of something. Instinctively she moved forward to meet him, and this move of hers en« abled him to see her. He slackened his pace instantly, and waved her back toward the hut She obeyed that imperative gesture of his, without hes­ itation, but still remained in the door­ way, watching him as hp rapidly drew nearer. When he had got near enough so that she could see his face and read, more or less, what she saw there, she again moved forward to meet him, and this time he did not wave her back. When he came within ami's reach of her, he caught her and held her tight in his two hands. "What is it Philip?" she asked, searching the depth of his eyes and trying to plumb the horror she saw in them. "What happened out there?" "Nothing--happened. But I saw something there that made me anx­ ious for your safety. . . . It's all right now you're safe. Nothing has happened here, has there, while I have been gone?" "Nothing. What could have hap­ pened. Philip?. It can't be anything that you're afraid to tell me." she went on, for he had not answered her. "There can't be anything you'd be afraid to tell me now--not after yes­ terday." "Oh, no; It's not so bad as that, but I saw that I had been wrong to leave you, even 'or that little while. You see the sight of the place brought back to my mind what you had told me yesterday of the terror you had felt there, and of the thing that yo« saw In the twilight And so I looked (TO BE CONTINUXEO INFLAM MATION AND Cored by. Lydia E. 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Write, Jfrtieli A •)?» lAraedJ&yfe. pALIFORMA SFECIAI. M acres ana fre*- docu on the beautiful Mendvi-citw Countj OutM- The «x>m.n»f fruit belt of the w*>rid. 115 down and monthly buys a 10 acrt» fruit triict whore freedom and indepenilence awast vou. No interest or ' Addrosa California Apple I,an>l iUi Avenue, Uafcland. California. UOHE of the beet farm land la Red RWer VaUejt, Minnesota, to be closed out below market prteea. Bankers, real estate firms and farmers better be- vestiuate. It will stand closu inspection. Write for full InforuiuUou either in Oierman, Norwegiaa or Bngllsh to S. B. Kainbolt, l&h Street. Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Greeks and Romans entertained the superstition that to bear anyone on their right hand sneeze was of good presage to all concerned, and the GreekB used to say of a beautiful woman that Cupid and his loves had sneezed at her birth. Traditions of Mother 8hlpton. Of all British prophets. Mother Shipton Is beyond doubt the most cel­ ebrated. She was. In fact, all that a •prophet and witch should be, la •trance contrast to the serious and scientific nostradamus. The day she was born the sky became dark and gloomy and, according to her biograph­ er, "belcht out nothing for half aa hour but flames, thundering after a most hideous manner." Her per­ sonal appearance, described by her admiring biographer in 1662. is scarce­ ly flattering: "Her physiognomy was so misshapen that it is altogether im­ possible to express fully in words, or for the most Ingenious to line her in colors, though many persons of emin­ ent' qualifications la that line have often attempted it, but without cess."--Metropolitan Mftgnil-- Candor In the Home. Tour sister's a long time making her appearance," sug£<wt«>4 the caller. "Well," said the litti* brother, "she'd be a sight tf she down without making it" CARY ACT lead and water rtehts.Opea to entry on Big Wood jllTer Project :n Southern an acn». It Pointer for Book Lover*. Oil of lavender, sprinkled aboal their shelves, will prevaat books bO dewing. Idaho. annual Installments. Ample i-stsr a lead. IDAHO UUUOAl'lOii CO.. Kie&fiuAd. UKAiTIFl I. WI1.LAMKTTE VALLIT-- -*-* Where is Worth I-iv.ug. Ac orvhandTwtU make you inde^tuietit. Fivencre&fi.sJQ, easy tei no interest. i.iuu County Orchard Colony, Sichan^o Building, Portland, Oregon. Write for Illustrated "BH'E HOOK.*" <ie»i-rtbtiMf Oentral Ohio, i-urn. stoik and dairy farms. Splendta macadam roads, Koodtchool*. K. i>, te!et?tk>nes» elec­ tric K. H i. Bust of market*. W». steauiwru, MOO ACRE DELTA FARM FOR SUE on R.K 4.UQ0acres hill landiB»uiai: near K.K. tuwna Aok dcui; im. > -f. AHKANS1SLANDS sivtsj. 1.,.1-nivi • iaad^ t.-m C A I IT K** act"** *»o«i Sand aear fetuSKaa* fyK OALC N. 1%* .on Handsome Soavonlr of ItttshUurtoa Fnt Tbrro are snort* opportunities in the Wall* Walla Valley, Wash., than In any other section of tho U. &. Walla Walla, the business center,command* & ooia- merolal supremacy for a radius ot miles and offer* an Inviting Held for th« tnreetor aa4 £km£»- •eeker; tho farmer, dairyman, stock raiser or fnalf grower. Ther<> are ample opeistngn tor thousands or new settlera anil all efksuUl ItweMlgate the advaa- taues ottered by this section before settling eiae* where. The IJp-to-tiso-Tlsties Mtigasitm ha» )nat published a beautiful sourenlrot chit section wnldl we will mall to you KKHH. tikmd yonr name at use*. Add. Up-U)-the-Times Mft.ga.sl.nie, Walla Walla, Waalk ounces--same price m4 HyjPBHlOH UMAX. KSTA rm, pAI.IFOKMA ORANGE 1.ANO Means tn- ^ eouie and Independence (mm our Cltrua lielghte land. Orange, lemon, oil re, pomelo and nut land. Twenty minutes from Sacramento, thtt capital of California, anil three hour* from site of Panama Canal Exposition ground!,. Ho.I lias been u»tcU and approved by »he 8tat« University Farm expert*. Returns per acre yield two hundred to sit hundred dollars. Vrice, one ihuridrod seventy-jive to two nuudred fifty dollaw oct acre, Terois down, balance one dollar per acre p«-r mentis; #1* per cent on deferred payments. Perpetaai rights I'puii ipoursl wiii forward beaut!tolly illustrated booklet giving full Information ou orange culture. References, &ny Banking or Commercial Institution In Sacramento. Trainor-Desmond Ox Our Chicago office, Room 421 Fort Dearborn AidS-< 106 West Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois, TAKMKK" IIOWLK8 is too honeet mlw> Dot SstsU? Uta.ii iu tire regular way they say, but, as the American people are constantly changing, they are In need of some one to direct them. Why not get in touch with tho real owner of property at small ex­ pense to you. My plan Is this: send one tSotlar to corer cost of listing with a complete description of your property, location, price, terms, etc., with yonr name and address. Any Information will be treeal office or send 25c stating kind of property, location, etc. and If not already on tile list every effort will be made to put you In touch with owner In locality yoa want by mall; making a total of II 25 between owner and purchase. 'X'hafs all. C. K Bowles, 'sella! Office, 7 Baldwin Block, Indianapolis, lnd. A V 4 ^ X / A A x Afenee A. T. /