ORflQON CITV.jCOURlBR, MUDa. DEC. 27, 1912 WE GIVE S.H. GREEN TRADING STAMPS WEGIVE S &H GREEN TRADING STAMPS r i i i I; V--v t, -. MMHHJMaMJ rf L,.im Ji'iiia "" Immiih A jcA Sir? Established ITheyWould Fight! "Awful" A Daughter Objects Her Mother's Second Marriage By ELLEN 0GILV1E I was twelve years old when paw died old enough to know tlmt his dentil was a double calamity to me. I had lost lilm, and I stood In dancer of a stepfather. I could not recall hliu, but I vowed that If any man came Into the house to take his place lie would hnve to walk in over my dead body. I drew mental pictures of puttln a fork Into his vitals, scaldln' lilm or servln' hlin as Jack served the giant by dlggln' a pit for hlin. When the danger really came I was leventecu years old. Joslah Shadwell, owner of the adjoiuin' farm, luHt bis wife, lie and maw had always been very friendly, and I no sooner heard that Mrs. Shadwell was dead than I began to tremble. Maw, sho Just took chargo of the Shodwell home till after the funeral. The Bhadwells had only ono child, a son, Jim, twenty years old, and he wasn't home when his mother died. When ho came his father per Biindcd him to stay and relieve him of some of the responsibility of workln' tho farm. Jim consented, partly because I per suaded liiui to stay, for we had pla.wd together as children, and I liked Jim first rate. Hut as to assumlu' the re sponsibility of the farm, my experience Is that when an elderly man talks about throwln' off his responsibilities It means he's bent on takln' a tighter grip on 'em; just as a woman in house- I to t keepln' the older sho grows the less willf n' she is to let any one else do any thing. It wasn't three months after Mrs. Rhad well's death that I began to ob serve Indications that the widower had Intentions on maw. Nobody but me noticed any change In his bearln' to- want her, and there didn't seem to be. But there was-that Is, I knew it by that womanly Intuition that knows things that ain't so which nevertheless are so. Not very long after tills Jim and his paw got to coiniu' over even ln's to sit by the open fireplace with , me and maw. Then I knew somcp'n else that Jim didn't see ut all. JIow could lie, belli' a man with a mini's stupidity about Biich things? Mr. Shadwell saw through me as I Haw through him. Hut it wasn't any credit for him to see through uie, for I untile it as plain as a barn with the doors wide open. Ho knew that In Ms designs on maw he had to down uie and I wouldn't be easy to down. Well, do you know the old. feller went Great Entire Stock will be the Dollar.- To Late to put in particulars, but ing' is believing. . . - . - ' " ' , ' " The Carpenters must have room to work. 1 895 aoout to circumvent me."Tb thfnfc' of a man's try in' to circumvent a woman! I guess not I And be didn't suspect that I'd see through his designs. What he was after was to come over to our house with Jim, intendln' Jim to dis tract my attention from him and maw. When we was settln' around the Are, eatln' doughnuts and drlnkin' cider, after we was through with the eatln' and drlnkin' Mr. Shadwell would make some excuse to git maw Into the set- tin' room, lookln' at Jim and me as much as to sny: "Young folks haven't any use for old folks. Let's give 'em a chance." If I hadn't been so riled I'd 'a' laugh ed, and If I hadn't been as bent on clrcumventln'. him as he was on cir cumventln' me I'd said: "You, old fool! You're speakln' one word for' me to two for yourself." One Sunday eveniu' Jim he come over alone. Maw got out some nuts and things for him and me and left us, sayin' she'd got a headache and was goln' to bed early. Jim wasn't long dolu' somcp'n he had never done before. He sidled up to me" and put his arm around my waist "Whut you dolii that for, Jim?" I asked. "Because I like you." "That's not the only reason, Jim." "What's the other one?" he asked. "Your paw la angllu' for my maw. lie sent you over here to make up to "M WHY 'r b 1TKM MOV IT HACK AOAIM." nie, hoplu' to put me where I wouldn't have any objection." Jim Just drew oiT u bit and looked at uie kind o' sin prised. "How did you u.ow that?" he asked. " 'Cause It's as lam us u yellur pump kin," I answered. "I didn't know it myself till you told me." "What do you mean by that?" 'Why. dad. t'other day he said to nic Remm FOR. MEN AND YOUNG MEN j iui, juunay flnfnesTs a nice girl, Isn't she?' 'You bet,' I says. 'Why don't you try to git her?' says he. 'I been thlnkln' that for some time,' says I. That was a week ago Monday. This eveuln' dad said he thort he'd stay home and read his farmer's Journals. I wonder If he didn't do It to give me a chance to do some sparkin'?" "That's plain esfcugh," said I. "And I wonder whether maw and he un derstand each other? I can see through a man, but when one woman sets her self to hoodwink another It's a differ ent matter." . I give Jim just enough encourage ment to keep him where I wanted him, and no more. If I couldn't have htm for a husband without his paw for a stepfather I wouldn't have either of 'em. Before I listened to Jim I had a-mlnd to settle matters betweon Mr. Shadwell and maw. We kept a few pigs Just to eat up the leavln's from our tablo and to Bell when they got big enough. First thing I did was to com plain to mother that the sty was too near our house. It smelt bad. And I kept dlnglu' at her to let me move it till she give In. Then one day when she went to the county fair I stayed home and had the sty moved close up to Mr. Shadwell's fence. - Nobody made any objection till one night I got out of bed, went to the sty, let out the pigs, scraped a hole under the fence between our yard and the Bhadwells' potato patch big enough for the pigs to git through and put 'em all In the patch. The next niorntn' I looked out of my window and saw Mr. Bhadwell stand In' over his potatoes those that the pigs hadn't eaten swearln' like a pi rate. Maw, she happened to take the swill to the sty at that time, which was mighty lucky for me and unlucky for them. "What's the matter, Mr. Bhadwell?" she asked, kind o' soothln. "Matter, ma'am! Why, the movln' o' your sty up here has cost me most o' my potatoes!" "I'm sorry." "What did you move It for?" "Mtindy did It" "All I've got to say la Mandy better move It back again. Mandy seems to be boss In your house anyway!" This mndo maw mad, and without auswerlu' bIio dumped the swill into tho trough and come back Into the house. Jim come over that night and told me his father was mighty sorry he'd lost bis temper. I said to Jim that his father better come the next Sunday night and not say anything about any unpleasantness and all would go smooth again. He said he'd give his father iny recommend aud went away early to make the old man feel more comfortable. I'd been lookln' for a weak spot In the fence between the two farms and bad oue In mind. That night I pulled away enough of It tclet our cows Into the Shadwell cornfield. You ought to seen that cornfield the next mornln'. I almost felt ashamed of myself. When maw saw the damage that had been done she went over to pacify Mr. Shad well, and It ended In tbelr glttln' Into a regular fight Ue .said soma on; Sacrificed at 45 CENT Proper must 'a' done It a-purpose. This riled maw a little, but she kept steady. She said she'd been wonderln' for some time why be didn't mend the weak spots In bis fence, and be said there wasn't any weak spots, except what had been made a-purpose. Maw ask ed if he was referrln' to her, but she wouldn't give blm time to answer. She just let out on blm. Mr. Shadwell be didn't come over the next Sunday night; no more did Jim, I thought mebbe Jim bad begun to see through a milestone, and be had. The next day, after the cow destroyed the corn, he and his father was bammerln1 at the fence all day. I didn't go near 'em. I Just waited. Next day when I was goln' to the store I met Jim In the road. He hardly spoke to me. I asked blm what was the matter, and he Bald I'd spoiled everything between us. His father bad taken a great dis like to me and had forbid his couilu over to our bouse evenln's any more. "What's he got against me?" I asked In a voice smooth, like peaches and cream. . "He'd have more against -you than he has," said Jim, "if he'd seen you the other night, as I did, turnln' the cow into our cornfield." I knew his paw and my maw had done too much fightln'. to be likely to make It up, so I said to Jim: "There's notli'ln' mean about me. If the old folks love each other as we do I wouldn't stand In their way to beln' happy." Jim said that was just like me always givln' way for other peo ple's benefit When the trouble had blown ovet Jim and I was married, his paw mak- ln' no objections after Jim told him my "noble words," as Jim called 'era, about not staudln' In the old folks' way. But the spell between 'em wasn't so thick as If they'd been younger, and It was broke clean through. Mr. Shadwell treats me fairly well, but he hasn't the confidence In me Jim has or had when we was married. I expect the father's nearer right than the son. I do think a man in love can make the biggest fool of himself. He always seems to me to have taken leave of his, senses. Maw and Mr. Shadwell are pretty good friends; but laws, they don't want to get hitched! They'd fight awful! Joinder tnat she had some sucfTexpe rleuce as the one referred to on hei mind. But It was also plain that sh had not considered the man In the case unworthy oVher. She entered upon a byMjthetlcal defense of him. "I can understand a man's momen tarily yielding to temptation, and yet love his wife truly," she said. Then, pausing, she seemed moved by a sud den resolution and continued in a tone that Indicated deep feeling: "Margaret I am going to make a confession to you. And yet it Is not a confession, foi that Indicates an Injury, a wrong, and there was no wrong on my part nor on the part of the one who was Im plicated with me In what I am about to relate. "You remember that John and I were both of artistic temperament We were fond of the fine arts, music, sculpture, painting, Uttrature. Be was the only ml poet X ever kflsw wrKjnsJir ills deling' MxmmmmmamBaaBtmammmBBaaBssamaai appreciation tor music was of Tiie'keen'- est. Do you remember that period when your mother was taken 111, you were called awuy to attend her, and she liuully died? You left John In my charge, and I recall your exact words when1 you did so. 'John and I have not been long married,' you said, 'but long enough to have come upon that period when a newly married pair be gins to Buffer from their Incongruities. Leaving blm at such a time Is danger ous, for be Is liable to seek solace with another woman. Help him to stand by his better instincts, so that when I return nothing shall have occurred to make a breach between him and me.' . "This Is all you said, but It was enough. I knew you meant that In case I should see your husband about to fall under a bad Influence to have a care of him and draw him away from temptation. I was sure that so great was your confidence In me that you would not ask anything of me on a matter between blm and me. "I kept John with me during near ly all bis idle time In the period that you were absent. We visited what gal leries there were, went where we could listen to music and read together from the works of our favorite poets. One evening he took me to the opera. 'Faust' was given and given beautiful ly. John sat entranced by the music and seemed also under the spell of that legend which contains In condensed form the story of humanity. After the opera we rode to my home and during the ride John did not speak a word to me. I invited him to come In and led him to the drawing room. Suddenly he began to talk strangely. "'I feel,' he said, 'that I am Faust and that a mephistopbeles Is dragging me to hell.' "'And by the same passion he secured Faust's soul ?" I asked. 'Yes.' 'And who,' I asked, 'Is Marguerite?" I was trembling and spoke the words so low as only to be heard by one in tent on bearing. "Ills hand was near mine, and he took It In his. I arose aud stood apart from him. 'John,' I said, 'stand firm. This Is a passing madness occasioned by that weird drama acting upon an Impressi ble nature. Your wife will return soon, and by her presence banish what is but un evauesceut emotion.' 'He stood looking at me as one bo a dream for a time, then said: 'Helen, from the bottom of my heart I thank you for having saved my self respect' And, turning, he left me. Your mother died that same even ing and within another week you were at home. You know the rest so far as John Is concerned-that he was snved from a momentary teuiptntlou. and that yours nd bis happiness were not marred by the iucldent. What I have to confess Is this: From that moment I was "a changed woman. The word of love that bad been spoken entered Into my belug and I could not eradicate it. But no more than this, Margaret, did I wrong you. John never sought me. nd that I uiij;ht not meet him I left blm aud ypn for .sori'ier. dace of "i- on see- 6th and oeuce. I never saw mm arum. ' The woman who listened to tills con fession gave no other evidence of its eflfect upon her than to reach for the confessor's baud and press It. Helen continued: "From that moment I took on a life long suffering. But not from your displeasure, for I am sure -even now since you know my secret that you are too strong, too Just, too generous to bliimeuio for what I could not help." Margaret, who had retained the hand she held, bent forward and kissed her friend. Then she said: "I do not blame you now, nor have I ever blamed yon, for I have known of this from the moment of my return, when I heard It from John, though a different version. He told me that he loved you and would always love you." Helen's head dropped on her friend's breast. There was a long silence, which was broken by Murgaret. 'You would hear?" she said. "Why, knowing what I did, I remained John's wife, keeping you two apart Perhaps my conduct to you seems that I grudged you what I could not myself possess." "I have no such thought. I am sure you had a reason, and that reason was a noble one." "Had I believed that you would hav been happy with John," she said, "I would have given him to you. But you would not have been happy with lilm. He was too volatile, too intense In his feelings, too unsteady in every way. You would have been the blind lending the blind. You would have suffered under perpetual misunder standings. He needed a different hand from yours to manage him. A time came when he recognized this himself." "Hut you?" exclaimed Helen, look ing up with a wonder akin to pain. "I did my duty by him and you." Mortgage Loans. Money to loan on first class, iin proved farms in Clackamas coun ty. Current interest rates attract. ive repayment privilege. A. H. Birrell Co. 202 McKay uiag., ara..ana stark sts. Portland, Oregon SUMMONS. In tho Circuit Court of the State or uregon, for the County of Clackamas. D. C. Yoder, Levi Yoder, Delilah Troyer, Sarah A. Yoder, Mary E. Hartzler, Ella M. Miller, Fena Vo der, Silas A. Yoder, Oliver Yoder and Fannie M. Yoder, Plaintiffs, vs. John L. Zook, Viola M. Zook, Elsie P. Zook, Zephniah Yoder and Fannie Yoder, Defendants. To John L. Zook, Viola M. Zook, Elsie P. Zook and Zephniah Yo cer, tho above namod defendants: In the name of the State of Ow. son, ou and each of you a:fc hereby required to uppear and i.a swer tho complaim filed agaiust you in the above entitled suit on ft ki timers Main Streets on or before the 7th day of Feb ruary, 1913, said date being after the expiration of six weeks from the date of the first publication of this summons, and if you fail to so appear ami answer said complaint for want thereof, plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief prayed for in said complaint, to-wit, a decree of partition of real property accord ing to the respective rights of the owners therein, in and to the following described property, to wit: The South half of the North west quarter of Section One (1) Township Five (5) South, Range One (1) West, except three (3) acres in the Northwest corner ly ing in Marion county. Also be ginning at the Southeast corner of the above described parcel of land and running Ihenco south eighty (80) rods; thence East six ty (isuj rous; tnence iNortn ono hundred and sixty (100) rods; thence West sixty (00) rods; thence South to the place of be ginning. Also beginning at the half mile corner slake on the west side of said Section and running thence west to PuddingRiver four (4) chains, more or less, ami thence down said river to the sec tion line; thence South to the place of beginning, containing in all one hundred and forty (HO) acres, more or less. Situate in Clackamas County, Oregon. Also the following: Beginning at a point 2.74 chains North of the Northwest corner of Section 18 in T. 5 S. R. 1 E. of the Wil lamette Meridian, running thence East one hundred and fifty-two (152) rods; thence South one hundred and sevenly-one (171) rods; thence West seventy-two (72) rods; thence North eighty (80) rods; thence West eighty (80) rods; thence North to the place of beginning and contain ing 120 acras, more or less. Also the Southwest quarter of tho Northwest quartep of Section Eighteen (18) in T. 5 S. R. 1 E. of the Willamette Meridian, con taining 45.72 acres, more or less. Situate in Clackamas county, Ore gon. This summons is published by order of the Hon. J. A. Eakin. Judge of the above entitled Court, and which order was made and entered on the 20th day of Dec ember, A. D., 1912, and which order required that the first pub lication of this summons be made on December 27th, 1912, and the date of the last publication there of on February 7th, 1913. Dimick & Dimick, Attorneys for Plaintiff. y ... (' J