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About Malheur enterprise. (Vale, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1920)
SATURDAY. JANUARY 31, 1820. PAGE SIX MALHEUR ENTERPRISE, VALE, OREGON i t T DON'T TAKE CHANCES WITH ICY ROADS Have Your Tires Re treaded with Non-Skids You have no doubt been driving for the past two months with chains, which is always hard on your tires, and coupled with the hard icy roadbeds your travels have probably made several ugly wounds in the tire treads which the chains cause you to overlook. Inspect your tires carefully and if in need of any vulcaniz ing or retread work bring them to us. We guarantee our work and will save you miles and money if you will let us fix up those tires now. Rogers Tire & Rubber Co. Vale, Oregon. i ne MadnificijiS ASribeTSons fc)TH TARKINOJ&N rovvr? rcmr t i? Say, what are you fellows looking; so downhearted about this evening? You ought to be over in KELLY'S with tht rest of the sang, playing; Pool, Billiards and Cards. That is the only place to be these cold, iloppy evenings. He has a nice, cozy, warm place to rest your feet these dreary nights. Hia stock of Cigars, Tobacco, Confectionery or Drinks is unexcelled either in quality or price. Ooze around one of these evenings and look it over. The Pastime Pool Hall T. G. Kelly, Prop. Vale, Oregon f Fine Income Property IN FAMOUS BROGAN FRUIT SECTION. 40 acre Orchard, Apples, Pears, Peaches and Grapes. Good Water Right. Gross Sales of Fruit in 1919 $13,000.00 d House, Concrete Basement, Barn and ; number of Out Buildings. ; $ti.C0.O0... Terms on Part. i5o'a Engineering & Investment Co. Vale, Oregon. HiHi'fH"HWfH'i"iHHHWWt HH X l r (Continued). He added something to this praise of his nephew on the day he left for Washington. He was not to return, but to get forth from the capltnl on the long Journey to his post. George went with him to the station, and their farewell was lengthened by the train's being several minutes late. "I mny not see you ngoln, Georgle," Amberson said, and his voice was a little husky as he set a kind hand on the young man's shoulder. "It's quite probable that from this time on we'll only know each other by letter until you're notified as my next of kin that there's an old valise to be forwarded to you, and perhaps some dusty curios from the consulate mantelpiece. Well, It's an odd way for us to he saying good bye; one wouldn't have thought It, even a few years ago, but here wo are, two gentlemen of elegant appear ance In a state of bustltude. We can't ever tell what will happen at all, con we? Life and money both behave like loose quicksilver in a Dent of cracks. And when they're gone we can't tell where or what the devil we did with em! But I believe I'll say now while there Isn't much time left for either of as to get embarrassed about It I believe I'll say that I've always been fond of you. We nil spoiled you ter ribly when you were a Ilttlo boy and let you grow up en prince and I must say you took to Hi But you've received u pretty heavy Jolt, and 1 had enough of your disposition, myself, at your age, to understand a little of what cocksure youth has to go through Inside when It finds that It enn iiinlte terrible mlstukes. Well, with my train coming Into the shed, you'll forgive mo for saying that there have been times when I thought you ought to be CIIUV RO LET "FOUIt N IN ETY" Hie Car For irou. : : in operate. More miles to the gallon ' f" tire. Our Best Advertisement iicroiL'i. are the ones we have sold. Ask your neighbor about his. Kessler Garage KESSLER & WOODWARD, Props. Vale, SlllSSfS7 Oregon. A Good Magazine A Good Cigar and an easy chair before the fire with the fa mily gathered round. That's an evening of solid contentment in the "Groat American Home." WE ARE HEADQUARTERS for every magazine or periodical under the sun and can always supply you with your favorite rending. CIGARS, TOBACCOS, CONFECTIONERY. When you drop in here to .select those mellow high grade cigars or to get tillin's for the pipe, remember the wife and kiddies would appreciate a box of line candy for their evening at home.. Peanuts, Popcorn and Fruits. Tli3 PostOffice News Stand A. S. Hunt, Prop. The Handy Place to Shop t, Oregon. "There Have Been Times When I Thought You Ought to Be Hanged." hanged but I've always been fond of you, aud now I like you! Ai'd Jus' for a lust word ; there muy be some body else Id this town who's always felt about you like that fond of you, I mean, no matter how much it seem ed you ought to be hanged. You might try Hello, I must run. I'll send back the money as fast as they pa me so, good bye and God bless you, Oeorgle I" He passed through the gntes, waved his hat cheerily from the other side of the Iron screen, and was lust from sight in the hurrying crowd. And ns be disappeared, an unexpected puign ant loneliness fell upon his nephew so heavily aud so suddenly Unit he had no energy to recoil from the shuck. 1; keeined to li I lit that t lit) last fragment of his familiar world had disappeared, leaving him all alone forever.- lie walked homeward slowly through whut appeared to bo the strange city, and, as a matter of fuct, the city was strango to him. He hud seen lit tle, of It during his years In college, and then had followed the long ul sence and his tragic return. Since thut he hud been "scarcely outdoors at all" as Fanny complained, warning hlin that his health would sulTer. ami he huil been dotvntotvu only In a cloyed carriage. He hud not realized the great change. The street were thunderous, n vast energy beuved under the universal coating of dlnglness. tieorge walked through the begrimed crowds ol hur rying strungers and saw no face that he remembered. Ureut numbers t faces were oven of a kind he did not remember ever to have seen; they were partly like the old type that his boyhood knew, and partly like types ho knew abroud. He saw tier man eyes with American wrinkles at their corners; he saw Irish eyes and Neapolitan eyes. Roman eyes, Tuscan eyes, eyes of Lotnbardy. of Savoy, Hungarian eyes, Hal k an eyes, Scandi navian ryes all with a queer A hum I cau look In them. He saw Jews vshu were uo .ouger lieiinuii or Itusslun or I'ullsli Jews. All the people were soil ed by the smoke wist through which they hurried, under (ho heavy sky that hung cloko upou the new Hkyscrapi rs, Dd nearly all seemed hurried by something Impending, though here uml there womuu with bundles would bo Uufhlux to a couipuulou about sumo adventure of the dcpfirfmfnr. store, or perhaps an escape from the charging traffic of the streets and not Infre quently a girl, or a free-and-easy young matron, found time to throw an encouraging look to George. He took no note of these, and, leav ing the crowded sidewalks, turned north Into National avenue, and pres ently reached the quieter but no less begrimed region smaller shops and old-fashioned houses. Those latter had been the homes of his boyhood play mates, old friends of his grandfather had lived here In this alley he had fought with two boys at the some time, and whipped them; in that front yard he had been successfully teased into tempornry Insanity by a Sunday school class of pinky little girls. On that sagging porch a laughing woman had fed him and other boys with doughnuts nnd gingerbread; yonder he saw the staggered relics of the iron picket fence he had made his white pony Jump, on a dare, nnd In the shabby, stone-faced house behind the fence he hud gone to children's par ties, and, when he was a little older he hod danced there often, and fallen In love with Mary .Sharon, and kissed her, apparently by force, under the stairs in the hall. The double front doors, of moanlnglossly carved walnut, once so giossily varnished, had been painted smoke gray, but the smoke grime showed repulsively, even on the smoke gray; and over the doors n smoked sign proclaimed the place to bo a "Stag hotel." This was the last "vrallc linmo" he was ever to take by the route he was now following: up National avenue to Amberson addition nnd the two big old houses at the foot of Amberson houlevurd; for tonight would be the Inst night that lie and Fanny were to spend In the house which the Major hud forgotten to deed to Isabel. To- morrow they were to "move out," nnd George was to begin his work in Iiron son's otlioe. He had not come to this collapse without a fierce struggle but the struggle wns Inward, nnd the roll ing world wus not agitated by it, and rolled calmly on. For of all the "Ideals of life" which the world, In Its rolling, Inconsiderately flattens out to nothingness, tho least likely to retain n profile Is that Ideal which depends upon Inheriting money. George Am berson, In spite of his record of fail ures In business, had spoken shrewdly when he realized at lust that money, like life, wns "like quicksilver in a nest of cracks." And his nephew had the awakening experience of seeing the grent Amberson estate vanishing Into such a nest in a twinkling; It seemed, now that It was Indeed so ut tcrly vanished. On this last homeward walk of his, when George reached the entrance to Amberson addition that Is, when he came to where the entrance had for merly been he gave a little start, and halted for a moment to stare. This was the first time he had no ticed that the stone pillars, marking the entrance, hud been removed. Then he realized that for a long time he had been conscious of n quoerness about this corner without being aware of What made the difference. National avenue met Amberson boulevard here at tin obtuse angle, and the removal of the pillars made the boulevard seem u cross street of no overpowering Im portance certainly it did not seem to be a boulevard ! George walked by the Mansion hur riedly, ami came home to his mother's house for the lust time. Emptiness wns there, too, and the closing of the door resounded through bare rooms ; for downstairs there was no furniture In the house except a kitchen table In the dining room, which Fanny had kept "for dinner," she snld, though us she was to cook and serve that meal herself George had his doubts about her name for It. Upstairs, she had retained her own furniture, nnd George had been living In his mother's room, having sent everything from his own to the auction. Isabel' room was still ns It had been, but the furniture would be moved with Fanny's to new quarters in the morn ing. Funny hud made plans for her nephew as well ns herself; she had found n "three room kitchenette apart ment" in an apartment house where several old friends of hers hud estnh llshed themselvas elderly widows of citizens once "prominent" and other n tired gentry. I'euple used their own "kitchenettes" for breakfast nnd lunch, but there was u tuhlo-d'hntc nrrnnge mint for dinner on tho ground floor; and after dinner bridge was played nil evening, an attraction powerful Willi Fanny. She hud "miide all the arrangements," she reported, and ner vously appealed for approval, asking If she hadn't shown herself "pretty prac tical" In such matters. George acqui esced absent nilndedly, not thinking of what she said nnd not realizing to what it committed him. He began to renllzo It now, ns he wi'tidercd about the dismantled house; he was far from sure thut he wns willing to live In a "three-room apart ment" with Funny and eat breakfast nnd lunch wlih her (prepared by her self In tl kitchenr tte") aud dinner at the table d hole .n "Mich a pretty Colonial dining room" (so Fanny de scribed it) nt a little round table they would have all tu themselves In the iiiM-i of a i!- en little round tables ul.ch oilier i, Hem of disrupted fam ilies umihl luie nil to themselves. For the tlr-t tunc, now that the change Ans Imminent. Henrico began to devil ip before bis mind' eye pictures of vi al be ns in for; and they uppalled i Mm. lie decided that luch a life veryei upon that khevrlv uubvnrahl toar after all there were some ' left that he just couldn't stand, made up bis mind to speak to t about It at "dinner," and tell her that he preferred to ask Bronson to let him put a sofa-bed, a trunk and a folding rubber bathtub behind a screen in the dnrk rear room of the of fice. But at "dinner" Fanny was nerv ou?, and so distressed about the fail ure of her efforts with sweetbreads ind macaroni; and she was so eager In her talk of how comfortable they would be "by this time tomorrow night.' After "dinner" he went upstairs, moving his hand slowly along the smooth walnut railing of the balus trade, naif way to the landing he stopped, turned, and stood looking down at the heavy doors masking the black emptiness that had been the library. Here he had stood on whnt he now knew was the worst day of his life; here he had stood when his moth er passed through that doorway, haud-In-hand with her brother, to learn what ber son bad done. He went on more heavily, more slow ly; and, more heavily and slowly still, entered Isabel's room and shut the door. He did not come forth again, and bade Fanuy good-night through the closed door when she stopped out side it later. "I've put all the lights out, George,' she said. "Everything's all right." "Very well," he called. "Good night, Aunt Fanny." nis voice had a strangled sound In spite of him ; but she seemed not to notice It, and he heard her go to her own room and lock herself In with bolt and key against burglars. She had said the one thing she should not have said Just then: "I'm sure your mother's watching over you, Georgle." She had meant to be kind, but It de stroyed his last chance for sleep that night. He would have slept little If she had not said It, but since she had said It he did not sleep at all. For he knew that it was true If it could be true that his mother, if she still lived In spirit, would be weeping on the other side of the wall of silence, weep ing and seeking for some gate to let her through so that she could come and "watch over him." He felt that if there were such gates they were surely barred : they were like those awful library doors down stulrs, which had shut her In to begin the suffering to which he had con signed her. The room was still Isabel's. Noth ing had been changed: even the pho tographs of George, of the Major and of "brother George" still stood on her dressing table, and In a drawer of her desk was an old picture of Eugene and Lucy, taken together, which George had found but had slowly closed away ngaln from sight, not touching it. To morrow everything would be gone; and he had heard there was not long to wait before the house Itself would be demolished. The very space which tonight was still Isabel's room would be cut into new shapes by new walls and floors and ceilings; yet the room would always live, for it could not die out of George's memory. It would live as long as he did, and it would always be murmurous with a tragic, wistful whispering. And if space Itself can be haunted, as memory Is haunted, then some time, when the space that was Isabel's room came to be made Into the small bed rooms and "kitchenettes" already de signed as Its destiny, that space might well be haunted and the new occupants come to feel that some seemingly causeless depression hung about it a wraith of the passion that filled it throughout the last night that George Mlnafer spent there. Whatever remnants of the old high handed arrogance were etill within 1 Miracles in Money A city skyscraper seems a miracle in steel and stone. But it is only a vast number of girders painstakingly placed together a vast quantity of bricks placed end to end and one above another. Miracles in money are seeming miracles only. You can work miracles in your rwn life. Saving Wins Success You can have a big prosperous farm, own a car, or travel wherever you wish. Men who have really suc ceeded spell it S-A-V E. You can win tne same sucresa You do not need a lot ol money to do it. You need no great education. You need only the determi nation to start now and con tinue. Let us help you. To &vs Yqw Mounts ltd Mak 95 us WIT Capital and Surplus $105,000.00 UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK VALE, OREGON Men's, Women's, Children's C Lines all complete in fancy f V dress, work or school t shoes. MEN will find excellent values here in work or dress boots. CORNATION SHOES for Ladies and Misses and the famous all weather VILLAGE SHOES for Children. Warmsprings Dry Goods Store BALGEMAN & BURBIDGE. Vale, Oregon. He Did Penance for Hia Deepest Sin That Night him, he did penance for his deepest sin thut night and it may be that to this day some Impressionable, over worked woman In a "kitchenette." after turning out the llglU. will seem to see a young man kneeling in the darkness, blinking convulsively, and, with arms outstretched through the wall, clutching at the covers of a shadowy bed. It may seem to her that she hears the faint cry, over and over: "Mother, forgive me I God, forgive me!" (To be Continued Next Week) CANCER XO KNIFE AND LOSS OF BLOOD NO PLA8TKRS AND PAINS FOB HOL'RS OH DAYS TUMORS Vll.ES FISTULA con RE DISEASES OF WOMEN SKIN STOMACH BOWELS Pot'H YKAKR aTl'Or IN KI'KIIPR 0:H TIIIHIY YfcAK tXrtKltME FOUI I.AM) PHYSICAL THUKAI-Y LABIATOSIES II, II, l.arxal H.IMInr ',! . I V HUDSON Super-Six and BUICK Valve in Head MOTOR CARS REPUBLIC MOTOR TRUCKS GOODYEAR CORD AND FABRIC TIRES. Willard Lighting and Starting Batteries. Authorized Dealer. Eastern Oregon Auto Co. II. E. YOUNG, Prop. Vale, Oregon. aa. Kaga Wanted. Wa pay 6 cent per pound for clean cotton Rag. Bring all you have. Malheur Enter pri. . JJanlt. Your Baking Powder "CALUMET" Moderate in Price and High in Quality. Sold With Money Back Guarantee. 1 lb. can 30c 2V1 lb. can 75c. 5 lb. can $1.35 Free On Saturday To, every school child entering our store on Saturday we will give a ruled pencil tablet. Come on boys and girls, we want to meet you all. SEE OUR WINDOWS. THE HOME PACKING CO. VAI, OREGON HARRY BEELAR, Mgr. PHONE 63