The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current, January 30, 1919, Image 2

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    DEFY FATHER TIME HIS QUEER 'CATCH’
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The
Passing Years Need Not Bring And Garbage Master Was Not
Fishing, at T h a t
Uselessness.
Callfam ia W rIU r A r l w In Wrath ta
Dany That S«vanty-Two Should
Bo Conoid «red a "Ripa
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Old Aga."
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Unique
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le the
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The oldeet copy reader on the pa­
A n«*w«papcr Item. a few «lave ago,
stated that a tvrtala mao mimed S<>- per grew reminiscent.
“ In all the thousaud* o f 'storlve' for
anil-So tiled "a t the rip « old ait«* o f
the paper 1 have read, how many
aovontj-two."
Commenting on this the Los Angeles unique ones have I foundT Well, 1
Tlm- s says that seventy-two Is aot a can give you one that stands out In
my menrnry. sharply defined, without a
ripe old age anti adds:
A ripe old age Is an age when the flaw.
“ It is about the strrngeet fish that
person who hua attained It la ready for
old Father Tim e to come along and was ever caught In Sheepshced bay.
pluck him from the tree o f life. If you It was about the time that motor­
trill take a bird's-eye »lew o f the ac- boats were first being built, and risky
Uvltles o f lb « world at the present things they were. too. In those day*.
hour, or even If you will look about W ell, there was a certain young man
you In your own «immunity, you will about Broadway whose boast * a i that
aee that men and women o f seventy- he wih .M try anything once.
"H e had tried automobllsa and had
tw o are among the foromost hustlers
tuid considerable succeee In finding out
Everywhere:
Active heads o f great nations, big what happened to them when they run
business men In the biggest businesses, lato brick wglla. telegraph poles and
leader* and go-gettera o f all descrip­ other thing* Ilka that. So he decided
o try motortmat*. too.
tions In ever)' direction you look have
“ He did. and never trie«l anything
passed the seventy-two mark and are
after that. He gathered a Jolly lit tie
still going strong.
Why, a man should he about at hts party, packed a Jotly little luncheon
-i>est at the age o f seventy-two. And and off from shore they set In u c«x*ky
Tt Is at that age that woman should little motorboat, out Into the middle of
reully begin to enjoy life In high- Shcepsheud bay. There cauie a heuvj
heeled shoes, short skirts and a hut squall, the boat upaet and several o f
the happy throng were drowned, the
^ V lt h roses nil over I t
Cato did not begin the study of gay young map Include«! Now, here's
Greek until he was eighty years of age. the meat o f the y a rn ;
“The prettiest girl In the party was
and It was at the same age that Plu­
Her French heels
tarch began the study of luitln. also the gayest.
Hnhhes. the Kuglish philosopher, pub­ were the highest aud her big. fiappy
lished his best hook when he was eigh­ hat was the biggest and the Happiest.
ty-seven. and Chevreul, forever Iroirior- Well, she went down, down Into
ta! In scientific research, was busy as Sheepshead bay and drank more wa­
a bee at his w-«rk in his one hundred ter In five minutes than she bud in as
and second year.
many yea.'s.
«s .
“ When »lie came up for the third ♦ j* •&.
One o f the most active lawyers of
the Los Angeles county bar Is past hls time she grabbed an empty flouting
ninetieth year, amt we know of anoth­ box and clung t»> it until she grew too
H.ippiness Never a Thing Ona
er Los Angeles man who has Just been weak. Down she went. Night fell.
appointed cashier o f a new hank at the
Li;M !y C a:ts Away.
“ Now a tug came puffing and snort­
age o f seventy-four.
In short, the cold fact Is that seven­ ing on her way hack from the garb­
ty-two is very far indeed from being age dumping grounds— or waters—
Too Beautiful, Even Though Ev.sne*
dragging half a dozen empty scows, all
“ a ripe old age.”
cent, to Ce Passed Ey When Coe
On the other hand, o f course, a man of which were, like all such craft,
May Hold It. If Only
ran let himself be old at most uny equipped with hinged bottoms which
for the Moment.
age. There are lots o f men who are jpen outward. All the Scows were open,
old at thirty, but It is a state o f mind and aboard one. the captain or skije
W e «rer- coming home from n din­
with them and not a physical condi­ per 05 master, or whatever he ranked.
ner |«arty together, my fi • m l and I.
tion. even though they uia) not be In wa< wutchiiig to see that nodiing
It was late at night and rather rainy,
good health.
broke I so m 1 In the squall.
ami a« wa sat together in the damp,
As to women, we very well know
"Suddenly he heard a sqnenk, shrill
almost empty trolley «air. inv friend
that it was the fashion fo r them to he ai:f| uncanny. He Investigated. And
spoke very suddqu'y and seriously,
old and fear ruffled ca[*s at forty. Hut inside Ids opened-up garbage scow,
writ«-* Margaret K. Kangster In the
that isn't the case now. by any means. clinging desperately to the chains! that
Christian Herald.
Think of Lillian R taat
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sw ing open and shut the container af
“ Just now." she said. “ I've a chance
hanlt and Schuuiaiui-Uelnk, merely to garbage was what hud been a glorious
to he vs-ry happy.
Hut I'm almost
mention some o f the more prominent creature In picture hat. French hc*els
afraid to ink«* I t !”
women of our time.
and other furbelows.
The garbage
The rnln heat In a futile manner
W e would go so far as to say that master was a brave man. hut this ap­
agninst the car windows. I llsteued to
age Is a question o f w^nt way we look palled him. Hls nerve won. however,
It for a moment before I spoke.
at It. That “ a man is as old as he and he hauled the miracle to what
“ Why?” C question«*«! at lasr— “ why
feels nml a woman a* old as she looks.” deck there was. and she survived and
nre you afrnb! to take your chance—
is. Indeed, a very good saying. A man revived.
to he happy?"
Is a fool not to feel all right, ami a
“ What had happened w a« that the
“ Because," answered my friend, and
woman may he trusted never to “ look” beautiful lady had b«*«*n drawn down
her eyes looh«vl far away— past the ear
old if she Is the woman she ought to into the water again, but had once
and the rain, even— “ because I'm
be.
more come to the surface just as the
afraid thnt it won't Inst!"
It Is a great Idea for a man when he scow passed over her and she had
When It Is autumn nnd the leaves
Is anywhere between fifty and seventy come up inside. She hail life enough
are crimson and gold-colored nnd very
to mentally start all over ngnlti as and sens«- enough to grasp anything
beautiful, w e know.«« v<»n as we admire
though he had s«-t nut. like a boy. U|sm tangible, that being in this case a sllp-
them, that they will he brown nnd
the great ndv«-nture o f life.
pery chain. Then she knew eitaugli tt
withered some day. But that does not
Instead o f spending hls time then In try to shriek. The squeak she emitted
b arn o t in ; ti.*-ir glorious coh
▼ain regrets, let him resolve to attain
saved her life.”
■ors.
all that he has missed. Ie-t him. aleive
It’s like that. too. with flowers, nnd
all things else, renew his enthusiasm.
With Malice Aforethought.
springtime, and the blue sky of sum­
Let him go to the circus again nml buy
Round tin? campfire— to put it poet-
mer. W e know that the flowers will
peanuts for the elephant; let him go. Icnlly— a lot o f soldiers were discuss­
fade away and that springtime will go
stark, into an old swimming hole;
ing hairbreadth esi-apes und adven­
and thnt tlmrr w ill he winter storm
whenever ho hears a lan d let him fol­ tures they had had. One after an­ rhmds whwre there were orce sparkles
low It till he has lost the way home.
other they related tales, true and oth­ o f sun.
It shall he Just as we think »hour
erwise. till It came to the turn o f a
And so this Is the answer to my
1L W e are to remember that we shall
man who’d traveled all oyer the world.
friend and to other friends o f min«?:
liv e only once on this earth, and that
Every one walt«*d breathlessly for hls
N ever he afraid to grasp at happi­
w e will be a long time dead.
yarn, but he said he’d nothing to tell.
ness because It may not Inst. For Imp-
"H ave you never had uu accident7”
filness Is ns beautiful us the flowers of
chorused his [mis.
His Achievements.
spring nnd the sky o f summer and
"Accident? N o !”
“ I have been in business here at the
the vivid leaves o f autumn. And even
“ Never had an accident In your
old stand for thirty-four year«." ad­
though It might not last, happiness is
life?”
mitted the proprietor o f the Rich»
too beautiful to pass by with never a
“ No. Rattler bit me once."
Place Store in Petunia. ‘Thirlng that
gin nee.
“ Don't you call that an accident?”
time 27.000. In round numbers, fresh
And th<-n. ns the philosopher said,
“ Thunder, n o ! The thing bit me on
young drummer« have trleii to talk me
and as we know, don't he sure, as you
purpose!" said the traveler.
Into buying rare bargains that I didn’t
take your chance nt happiness, that it j
want, and 13^»2o well-meaning lunk-
will not stay. Ie»«*k around your cir­
ti«»nds have left the door open when
Grenfell’« Splendid Work.
cle of frleuds, look at your business
It ought to have been shut. 1 have
W ilfred Thomason Grenfell. M. D.,
associates, look at the comml crowds
listened with a crocodile smile to some­ superintendent o f the I>abradi>r medi­
nnd note the average o f happy faces is
thing like 46.743 old stories and no cal mission o f Royal National Mission
rather high. Tod’ ll see more smiles. 1
more than two dozen new ones. I have o f Deep Sea Fishermen, was born ' think, than frow n s; more merry faces
furnished settln' places for all the
February 28, 1863. He fitted out the
than sad on es!
prominent and Influential loafers of first hospital ship for the North sea
Don't he afraid to take a etianee at
the community, and have had two tons fisheries, and cruised with the fisher­
happln«-ss ¡»««cause you fear that It Is
o f prunes, cheese and gltiger-«nn|a> ett
men front the Bay o f Biscay to Ice­
too heirtitlful to last.
Take your
op by 'em. I am thirty-four years ojd- land. He established homes for them
chance, instead, arguing that happiness
e r than I was when I began, and very
Is too beautiful not to lu st!
on the land and arranged taissloa ves­
little wiser or richer
1 have trusted sels for them la the sea. He went to
almost everybody who has asked me
Labrador In 1882, when he built four
Dead Man Upright a* Machine Cun.
to, and some o f ^hem cheated me and hospitals, a »erie* o f cooperative
Stories o f the scenes o f tlic battle­
other* dhln't. So. speaking biological­ ■tores and an orphanage, and estate
fields are told In n letter received by
ly, I s'pose I don't think any worse of llshed
numerous
small
Industrial
Mm. H. E. Wilson o f MliVIle nronu«».
my feller citizen* than they do of me.” schemes.
Wilmerdlng. Pa., from her son, Prl
— Kansas City Star.
ra te Gordon Wlleon irt the One H«a-
How Could H « Know?
dred sr»d XlntL Ambulance rorps.
Mount Ararat Now a Republic.
It may he u mistake for H«>over to
W alking over the hattlefieW In
The Hno<hincement o f the formation
go to Furnpe after all.
search o f wounded men. he wrote, he
o f “ the Inrteptfwtleot Republic o f Ara­
A flay or two ago Miriam, o f Jeffer­
found himself staring into the muzzle
ra t” will brush away the fallacy which sonville, who Is not yet eight, was not
o f a German machine gun, with a
regards Ararat as Jusr a mountain in­ cleaning lip lier plate a« well 11 « she
German soiiller at the breech. I)ro|e
stead o f a country, albeit the very
ping Into a »bell hole, Privnte Wilson
should, and usually <loes. Moreover,
mountain on which the ark rested she was disposed to be wasteful and
remained there for linlf an hour, not
when the waters o f t h e Deluge began ««‘«aned to thinl) the bars were up.
daring to move. Finally, as darkne*«
to abate. Genesis Is explicit enough
approached, he decided to crawl away.
“ Mr. Hoover will be after you If you
to hare prevented the mistake. It waste food," suld her mother.
He lost his way, he says, an«l did not
might he thought; It says q u i t e rile-
know where he was until he was
"Mr. Hoover won't know anything
tln ctly: “ The ark rested upon the about it ; he has gone to Kurope,” was
again looking nt the German machine
mountains o f Ararat.” In Its day. Ara
the reply.— Indianapolis News.
gun and tlie lone soldier behind^. It.
rat was a great power, holding sway
This time he r.ns in a position to see
fa r to the east and to the west. But
better nml recognized at once that the
Time on the Rhine.
to western Europe Ararat has long
mldler was dead. A bulh’t fired by
Private Jones o f Holwtken— Sny,
been known as the place where the Casey, what time Is It by the watch
in American rlfl- tnan had penetp t««'
dove first plueked the olive branch and «»n the Rhine?
his forehead, probably Just nt tli«* time
returned with her message o f hope to
he was preparing to pour a volley into
Private Casey o f Brooklyn— Retlr'!:'
the Ark.
the advancing columns.
time, me bye, retirin' time I— Judge.
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