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xmnvrxn ENTERPRISE. AVEDXF.v SEPTEMBER 6, 1911. The MORNING ENTERPRISE is now Read in 1000 Homes Daily That- 800 of these subscriptions are paid in advance is due largely to the response of the public during the GRAND VOTING CONTEST. We are proud of our circulation and believe it is "WORTH'BOTSTING : "ABOUT Established 45 years ago and always the popular news medium of the Clackamas County Citizen. The OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, weekly edition is still Read in over 1500 Homes Hundreds of these subscriptions being paid five to ten years in advance. A 4 4 0 will find the daily and weekly Enterprise UVCtftlSCrS the best medium for reaching the Clacka mas County buyers. Why She Resigned. MIm Blngwell bad been member of the choral society ever since It waa formed, and It was undoubtedly true that ber Brut youth bad waDed. But the choirmaater waa astounded re cently by the newt that she bad re signed ber memberahlp. "Reslgnedr be gasped. "But what for?" "Well, I don't know exactly." aald the secretary, "but It strikes me that it may bare something to do with the solo we picked for ber at the next per formance." , "Why, what Is Itr "Don't you remember. It begins 1 once was young, bat now am old,' " Those Glrla. "Whit a charming dress, my dear such a lovely shade of pink! Ton al ways show su.cn perfect taste." (Mer ' clful heavens! That drees mast bare been made for a wagon corer. And why In the name of sense she wears pink when It makes ber look like a chunk of mod I cannot imagine.) Lou JerlUe Times. reeking Inte My. H had fala wealthy wife arrested for non support." Art they prominent socially?" -They haren't been. . ThU affair may kelp them omav"-LoularlUo Courier. JoornaX - ' ure ef the Time.' - niinau earrr two . watches. their reason being suppose one maker atop, the other waikee. Ml I CJocfca bty to be substituted tor IB KM U&nea A Curious Herb. In New Caledonia there Is a herb which baa the rare property of reveal ing one's secrets. It la known as the Datura stramonium and baa white flowers and rough berries full of dark grains. They are treated of In the "Annals of Hygiene and Colonial Med icine." A person who has swallowed the tea made of tbla herb will after falling asleep tell where bis money la bidden and will also arise and go di rect to where bis treasure Is concealed. Bobbers often use tbls tea as knockout drops with wblch to rob their victims. He Found His Equal. The merchant waa busy and was having a troublesome time at the tele phone. Central, who tried to get the number for him, appeared to be Inex perienced or aaleep. Ordinarily the moat patient of men, be Anally lost his patience. "Look here," he shouted, "either get me 1234 or giro me some place where I may at leaat talk to my intellectual equal r Silence for a moment, and then over the wire came a load "Hello!" In man's rolce. Mr. Browulow was much relieved. "What place is tbatr bo asked. The hospital for the Insane," came the answer. New York Mali. ' The Rtrt "Courteous. "The trouble with yon la that yon keep constantly forgetting that yod erer were a boy." It wss bis wife who said it, and he, of course, came right bftck with the witty reply t "Well. Ton never forget that yoa were once a girl, although everybody law forgot it years and years ago," Chicago Record-Herald. . What He Advised. A young man unbsppily married and practically penniless took bis tale of woe to a prominent divorce attorney In Chicago and concluded with tbls: "I'm too poor to pay much for a dl vorce, but my wife Aiakes my life mis erable. After I get hou. at rt o'ritck in the evening I (ret no Ha-e until I go to sleep What would you adviupy "After considering all the fuct in your case.'' said Ihe lawyer.'"! wowd seggest thiit yon get a Job whli-b re quires you to work all iiluht"-lx change. The Orchid. The orchid la a pecwlar plant, for. strange as It may seem, there Is no distinctively orchid odor. One smells like the violet, others like the rose, the hyacinth, the daffodil. Orchids are the monkeys, the mimics of the vegetable world. In odor as well aa form and tint No other flower resembles an or chid, bat orchids are forever nplng butterflies, pansles, boots, spiders, pitch plants, birds and what not And tbey are not absolutely certain to look Just the same twice la succession. iion went a rtnomet, ' In most countries the Introduction of postal facilities Is regarded as an un mixed blessing, bat It was' not so In Korea. The postonVe erected there In 1885 had bat a brief existence. The mob, in their blind hatred of all la novations, rioted and burued it to the ground. The natural result was to make Korean stamps of the flmt issue In a used state of great value. The matter was allowed to drop for a time, and It was not until ten years later that the present system was so-tabllsbMt. W riral CHA Kiosrts. The earliest expona of cotton from America wero made la I7S la "a0 i rear one bag waa sent irum ton to Liverpool while twelve were ot from Philadelphia and one from Mw Iork. v Patronise our advertisers. Rutty !. Steel which la tasty should be soaked for several hours with lluaeed oil aud then polished with unslaked lime or emery powder, which la very easVj worked if It la oed on a cork which has been dipped In Unseed oil. IllllllllllllllllllltO LOOKING AND SEEING. Multitude of men walked the same streets as Dickens without seeing a hundredth part of what he taw. It is the power to see and not the object to be teen that we lack, and (hit power may be to a certain extent cultivated by practice. Patronize our advertisers. An Elsphsnt Story. An elephant train was on. Its way from Lucknow to Beet a pore, and one elephant, becoming lame, knelt down and refuaed to go on. The elephant next In the column stopped of Its own accord and when driven on turned back and began without Instructions to remove some part of the load from the back of Ita crippled companion. Instances of aid rendered by birds to others In distress may also be found, showing that the Instinct of sympathy exlata and takes form In action when the causes of the sufferings are such that the f el Tow bird can understand and see Its wsy to remedy. London Spectator. A Famous Jewel. The Kohlnoor, the famous diamond bow In the British crown, waa an or nament on the tomb of Abkar, near Agra, for more than a century In the open air without guard until Nadir, shah of Persia, who Invaded India In 1780, sacked the palaces and tombs of the Moguls and carried back to Teher an 00,000,000 worth of loot London Maa . TWO FORTUNES t Doth Came Suddenly lo lh Sami Person and O.ie W at Many Millions t By DAVID WALTER CHURCH I Copyright by American Prsa Asst cllkw. Ull. I I I I I L - TVS llllllllllllll''''1' Why should we read fairy storlei with marvelous hapieulng when then are such occurring In reul lifer The lniagluatlou la not capabl of creating l the possibilities that occasionally occur among persona who are wuJo of lien!) and blood and have souls. Wtiut imag lnatlon a century ago In a long strut ting IlllnolHrau could detect the lead 1 er of the greatest political rrlxU the world baa ever known? And In the acquisition of wealth, what more won derful development In fancy thuu the ttory of a real Mexican aeon who cbwc Into an income of f lO.Msl.uaJ a year? V Ina towncfhortherflMext'isr in an adole house lived an old uiati. ! Ptnlro Alvarado by name, a peon. who. i with hla tudian wife, worked and ' saved till be had accumulated $1K. I With the money the couple beuk'bt a ! piece of land on the top of a rocky hill near by the town In whlrej the) lived. Why they put their bard earned guv ' lngs In this barren and not very : cesalble summit and continued to save 1 and to pay $K) a year taxes on It when they needed the very necessaries of life Is not known. It Is possible that the wife, having been an Indian, had neardnTr ft mt ir.nTmTrapaa"o wTTTf oiu" her forefathers that there was a trees I are burled there. Be tbla aa It may, there must have i been some reason for the old couple putting all their money In a barren i rock, and thla view Is borne nut by the ; fact that old Alvarado, hating willed j hla purchase to hla aon and three .neph ews, called upon tho former to auenr that he would never part with hla lu terest In It When we remember thai thla leeacr beoueatbed to voiiuir IV dro waa aupposed to be worth but 12.1 we cannot but assume that hla father must have had an Inkling that lta value was much greater. After the old couple died the summit of the barren rock was not divided among the heirs, but kept aa one prop erty. Then came men who Iwlleved that there might be silver under the rock. They had plenty of money and were ready to link It in an investlgn tlon. They offered the helra a large sum for the property, and Pedro's cous ins were willing and anxious to sell. But redro, true to bis oath, refused to Dart with his share. In vain the oth ers begged him not to stand In their way of taking advantage of the offer. Pedro stood Arm. But after awhile a friend loaned blm the money to buy out bla cousins' Interest and make the Investigation aa to what the property contained. One day men began to work on the top of the hill with pick and ehovej. A month passed and nothing but ordi nary earth and rock was displaced. The cousins came to aee and Jeered at Pedro for a fool. But Tedro bad been loaned sufficient money io pursue his Investigations to the end and worked on. Another month passed and yet an other with the same result Then one day in a twinkling all waa changed. A ven waa struck Indicating that the Palmllla mine, aa It waa called, was the richest ailver mine that bad ever been opened. And now thla atorr takes on a wnn. derful change. Pedro Alvarado, aon of a Mexican peon father and an In dian mother, heir to a beggarly estate supposed to be worth but 125, sudden ly springs Into an Income of $30,000 a day. The fairy waves her wand and the adobe hut In wblch Pedro waa born Is changed Into a sumptuous pal ace furnished from the manufactories of the old world. Money without lim it Is given away, thrown away. What ever the allvor king fancies he buya. Those in bla employ are loaded with luxuries. It seem to be the desire of nil men to live In a palace, for all mon who ac quire Immense fortunes build auch structures to live In. Nevertheless their abodes are typical of their ori gin. Pedro built his palnce, and when be got It finished and furnished It was wonderful to behold, especially In the latter respect The furniture all came from abroad. - The most costly bed steade, chairs and cabinets were ship ped from Paris; rugs came from the orient, and Fedro, Instead of walking on the wooden floor or, more likely, the dirt floor to which he had been accustomed, sank In ihe eoft auh stances manufactured by Persian workmen. But the most carious freak of this suddenly errlched man was a mania for planoa. nis palace waa filled with them. They, too, came from those fac tories where the most skilled work men were employed In their building, and their mechanism waa encased In the most costly woods, often beautl fully inlaM. They were In Tils par lore, In his living rooms, bedrooms anywhere, everywhere h.r. ,.. waa room for them, and room In Pe- aros palace was abundant dlngnlarly enough but ona sl A. motive guides tbls suddenly enriched man. j ne rest are an altruistic. He Is besieged by persons eager to buy hla mine, or If tbey cannot do that at least a part of it By selling and permitting edncsted business men to work It tho Income could he Increased. But ao argument, no mount of cajoling, could move the man who bad sworn u- wv. . . ., ... Then It was represented to hliu thai k. r.rtalB simple business reforms I might hlu.self uittke his mine B,re largely. All the ore taken from It waa carried dowu lbs bill on mules Why not build a Hill railroad for the puri-ose. which could be oreled al mu- b le.a expense! ""ul what would tho- do who now make their living by drlvlug the imtU'sr' ask.nl rVdro. The simple business s. heme Is re-fum-d, Wastefulness coiilluuea. The wner-s emiloyees draw Immeuse sal sj-toe, and bow much they ateal be sides does not appear, except in the opuleut manner lu which they live. Will ihe mUie always stand thla waste, tbla drain? WIU there not come a day when the vein will run out? And theUT Well, men m .r kluir and Ib.-e w ho are si his wealth will collapse. Anu.ug them all there is one foreeoe such a result. Pedro's wife hsd drudged aa a peon umu was o-ihh1. Khe remembered thnt part of her life and had no desire to return to It. Why not from thla river of wealth ou which they were fiontiag turn aside something to supiniri u.riu In esse the fountain should dry upT Ami so alio did. lustead of putting . r,.w coulter coins st a tluie aa her father-In law had done with which to buy his r.sk. she took $1.M bills and hid them. For years she stored away these bllla. oue anew uwi they were being hidden, no one snew their hiding place. The waste, the el trsriirnm-e. the money sucking by em ployeea, relullous. depeudeuts rontlu- ued, but every now anil sgnin me iur mer eo!i woman hid away a thousand dollar bill. True euough. what Benora Alvarado foresaw at last -came alsnit. The ..rth taken out of the mine iHH-ame leas rich. Instead of producing H'l.taKi . . a a day it produced but a rew uuuureti dollars to tho ton. All tt wat worth must be phM to those who carried If rn.m i he mine Into the valley and for getting the silver out of It. Pedro had seen hla fortune loom up nlimwt In a night; now he saw It sinking rapidly away. Then lo rrown Ul loaraier appeared In hla mine Water Is the great dunger. the great trouble when It comes, lu tulnlug. Tun Dels must U built. exenslve uiuMt must le put In. either one or IxHh Pedro had but one buslneea Idea lu bla betd. Thnt was lo hold on to his property. But now even that Idea bad ceased to I practicable. His mine was no longer valuable unless worked 55 business principles, anil'Tedro was not a business man Blnce there hud beeu nothing put away, ao there was nothing when the end came. The ninn who bad given away and wnsted millions now fouud himself unable to give or waste any longer. It waa the old story of the fatry who bad raised palaces and oth er luxuries for the pauper, by mutt Ing another Incantation caused them to vanish. Then Kenora Alvarndo, who had been tucking away thousand dollar bills very conveniently, died. In dis tributing ber effects a maid who had been a long while In her service waa asked if there was anything thnt had ix'loligrd to her mistress she would like to have. Khe said there was an old quilt tho aenora had nlwaya used which It would gratify her to jiossess. The beloved woman bad slept under It for many years and would never let It go out of her own keeping. Purely thla would 1 a treasured souvenir. But Tedro remonstrated against the faithful servitor having nothing but an old Ullt much worn and not over clean. He urged the mnld to name something of greater value. Hhe, how ever, clung to the quilt and would not be comforted without this article so Intimately associated with her mis tress. Now, Pedro was aware that hla wife bad not sympathized with him In bis extravsgance; Indeed, alie had reeat edly warned him that be would come to grief by it Knowing this he won dered If the good woman bad not put something away for a rainy day. The eagerness of the maid to oasesa the quilt caused htm to suspect that some thing might he hidden In It Instead of giving It he began to rip it Ont came a thousand dollar bill. Hipping on he found another, and an, aa Pedro had grown fabulously rich overnight In finding ailver under a rock, he no gained a fortune In an old qnllt He took out 800 thousand dollar bllls- qulte enough 'to soothe him for the running out of Ids mine and to enable him to live handsomely for the rest of hla days. Pedro Alvarado yielding to the Inev itable turned over hla mine to others. Rome Americana are the new owners and are working It on modern princi ples. Meanwhile the owner Uvea on the income of the 800 one thousand dollnr bills thnt were successively sav- eu up Dy nis more rarscelng wife In the old quilt through a long term of yeara. There Is an unexplained feature in this story that apiealliig as It does to the curiosity. Is the most Important part of it Why did the senior Alva mdo put all the 'little money he had In tho rock that covered the mine, and why did he pledge his aon under oath not to sell It? Ttie only p,Mbl. solution seems to be that some Span lards years ago prosicted In the re gion and from the trend of veins of ailver found suspected that the top of the hill In question contained the lame metal. This may have been known to the Indians and been hand ed down from one generation to an other. Thnt the hill contained the Im mense treasure that Pedro junior dis covered no one could hsve known. Tbla must of necessity be ona of the re markahle freaks of fats, v CLUB MANAGER LOST STAB Often Turn Down Plj Later Make 6c:l I2IUER NQWHELO F0RS1I: Chae.se. Clarke and Qrlffith fy 1 tee Plerse VVhem M..t i ' Pans Prise ry . . ' ----- - vfm tsry en Jee CsnMUn, ''taty V Borne of these men who hut Ull player certainly j Bttf " bad balf hours. What would you luluk If ...V . purchased a ball plater furtvjuyY sold blm for llioo ami tbs ,.Z) blm back and waa akd IT.Ouo j several ' players? Wouldn't tos k, ! Ukeswearlugl, A couple of years ago t fak. named Ward Miller becaius th erty of tbe Chicago National I,, team, waa arartea rrou tm,u loague and cost ijno. MM(r fri Chance looked blm over sad Srr wasu t quite right Asked for 1 1 er, tbe Pittsburg club rvfiuej t allow hint to go. That u It tk daya when you bad to sell i aui w wnom you asked wslvers-ee pta back. Well. Miller went to tbe ri Manager Clarke looked him o?tr. Aft er awhile be decided Miller wotiin do, end the latter went to Ctorlus on a trade that mad Ulalns Dine, tbe former Cub Ditcher, s I'tnn Qrlffith PatMS Judgment Clark CrtiTHh looked dr Vlllwvuti backed tbe judgment of CUart is Clarke. He figured Miller oal4 m do In tbe majors, and be went Ik) Caulern leagdu. Well, this year ha struck bit ar4 ne la bitting over .300 for tht Mot treal club and runulng burs IUji wild man. Oeorge Huff. theCvbma. er-T- 1 J is v - i. r Tfcotoe hr AmwVesn Vr AocU G. A. R. ATTENDANC E AT DINNER SHALL The Woman'! Relief Corps ,srTj the quarterly Pension Dinner Tussl The d n.r J'.,d P0,t wer PrMt Sgra": Th'a n . , tor waa not glr- thj gpeekar being unabl. to b. -t The attendance of onW a con.ld.red remarkably tmM A thar. art oaually iM to vnSSml oToou and aat.tr. mttsbcboI oowtli aarrasT went to look blm over. Huff ttrs) President Murphy tbst Miller raw be secured for 17.000 and two ski ers. "Stick around until tomorrow-ear be tbey will come down." wit Xw phy'a answer by wire to bis scoat The next day tbe Cub president " reived aa answer. It read liks thla: Trice bss gone op now tbejr ew 110.000." and tbe telegram w Uuff. "Catch tbe flret train or they'll tbe price to IJO.OOO." were tbe hu dons of President Murphy Don't yoa suppose the Cub mf feels like bottling himself when t thinks of the Ume when be bad 0 fellow at a coat of S300? One en Csntillen. And these same baseball me a fire you a warm time If yoo to convince them that O'Tools r.. i -mi nsrner Drtirasi I22JJ0O In real money. nr " T.. .... r, i.b.. of tbs H mi i rssiueui ,. y. tells on Joe Cantlllon. Joe. wU' ' triut waa formerly tbs ager of tbe Washington team " "J American league and then w Mlnnes polls to boos that team. - ...... Mihrt1 f pis "Joe naa neara mat """""",1 .. offered Lennon IU.000 for 0Te aald President Comiakey. "V. time that Joe aaw Innon r aJ" on blm: k -I undersund that yoa "".'T offered $12,000 for O'Too'P.' J0 'Tel., was Innon's iPlT- ' "WelU-I fnaa I'm toe b!fjT, of all.' said Joe. Ma ihe a didn't know there was n"f baseball ao craay aa to offur that money for aof 1all playar- "4 the next pfcee.' aald Jo. ' " bare awom there wss WfiJZn ball cruiy enough to have turnea auch an offer once he had It Wblch abowa Jn that the fan not tbe only onee to faap at to p Even practical baseball men "a ' cult time believing tbst any n( would aeparate himself fro amount of money for a bnll plJ fact, there are a lot of th" mw do not bellere It . DO YOUR BEST The main thing is to kP doing our very best At J Even although, al timet wa cny tliscouraged and hopelew. ws m never give in. And if la"- "j fortune psat ut by wel w alwart have the contolalion tW we hare done oof be -d one can do mora. you do V best your cooscianca h d' i