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MORNING ENTERPRISE. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1912.
ann-oun-c
THE WIDOW
THAT WON
OF
EKIE-NT
By M QUAD
Copyright, 1911. by Associated Lit
erary Press.
As the wife of tbe village carpeDter
Mrs. George Fane bad few troubles
and many bappy days. Tbey were not
rich, bnt tbey bad enough to eat and
fairly good clothes to wear, and the
taxes on their home were not. too high.
Mr. Fane died one day. That could
. be counted as a trouble, but not too
burdensome to be borne. Time light
ens all griefs, and time lightened this
one for tbe Widow Fane.- When the
year of mourning was up she found
Solomon Williams, the village black
smith, waiting to say to her:-'
"Widow Fane, I knew George for
many years. He was a good man and
a good husband. I know you have
mourned him, but a woman can't go
on mourning forever. 1 want a wife."
"Well, Sol. I'll think it over and let
you know," was the reply.
He called a week later, and she said
he would marry him. No courting
ind no great display of sentiment,
TKa nrAf11iR(r nraa nut tnv a mntlfh
ahead, but only two weeks had elaps
ed when the blacksmith got tangled
up in a thrashing machine he was re
pairing, and his leg was so badly man
gled that It had to come off. The
widow gave him a month to recover
from the shock and then visited him
to say:
"Solomon. I'm a plain spoken wom
an." "Drive ahead. Mary." he replied.
"1 couldn't marry a man with a
wooden leg. and youH have to have
. one when you get up."
Two months later Farmer Griggs,
widower, called. He had five children,
and he wanted a wife. He spoke about
the weather and the crops and then
said:
"Widder, I wish you would consider
me. I've often said to myself that you
was a mighty nice woman."
"Give me three days to think it
over."
At the end of three days Farmer
Griggs called again, to be told that be
was accepted.
Four days later a horse kicked Mr.
Griggs smack In the face and smash
ed his noso so flat that the doctors bad
to make a long hunt to find it. When
tbey found it they told him that be
would be a noseless man from thence
on. There wasn't enough of it to call
a nose any more.
. Of course the news was carried to
the widow. She made three or four
calls of condolence and waited six
weeks and then came to tbe business
in band by saying:
"Mr. Griggs. I'm terribly -sorry for
you. but I never could marry a man
without a nose." -
"Surely you couldn't."
Neat came Mr. Hardy, bachelor, own-
CI VA. U1C OQ U1UI UJ LUG UC&l LW t li,
who drove over to call. He said be
felt embarrassed, but managed to blurt
out that if she would marry him be
would be the happiest man In the
state.
"Well, I kinder want to make folks
happy." was the reply, "and If you
are over this way next week drop in."
Mr. Hardy was surely "over that
Way," and called for his answer, and
exclaimed aloud over bis happiness.
The wedding was set four weeks ahead
this time. When it was known to
the village there were people who pre
dicted another calamity, but tbe wid
ow smiled at the Idea. Ill luck never
followed anybody that far. Just a
quiet wedding and a trip to Boston.
But It was not to be so. In boss
ing around bis sawmill, Mr. Hardy
got in the way of the saw and lost
both legs at a clip. His life was sav
ed, but be would be almost a helpless
cripple the rest of his days. The wid
ow Fane sent him several messages
expressive of pity, but said she
couldn't marry him.
Three engagements, three accidents,
three failures to marry!
"Dear me, but that's enough," said
the nHdnw ta herself, hnt fata had de
creed otherwise. It wasn't a month
later when a man named Slater came
to the village thinking to open a
' store. He bad sold a farm and wanted
to make a change. About tbe time
that the Widow Fane was told that he
was a childless widower he called at
her house. He bad beard tbe full
story, and be was In business besides.
"Widow Fane," he said, "take a week
to bunt up my past and then say
whether you will marry me or not"
"I had thought" she began when
he interrupted her with:
"1 shall call next Saturday."
From all that could be ascertained,
Mr. Slater was a very fine man. and
when the next Saturday arrived and
he. called for his answer the Widow
Fane said:
: "I will accept your offer. I want
Parson Hopes to marry us."
"He shall when tbe time comes."
"But the time is this very minute.
Can't you see I've got my Sunday
clothes on?"
"Very well."
"He lives half a mile from here. III
send a boy after him. You sit right
there and don't stir. Don't hardly
breathe. I'll holler for Mrs. Wise from
tbe winder to come in and be. a wit
ness. This Is the fourth time, and
if anything happens It'll be the last
time."
. It was the last time, not because
anything happened, but on the con
trary. The parson came, tbe couple
stood up and were married, and report
says they hare lived very nappy tt
since.
The Turnpike Era.
Between the years 1780 and 1840 In
numerable plans were made for the
creation of turnpikes in the United
States. There had been one great suc
cess, the Lancaster turnpike in Penn
sylvania, and then came countless oth
er projects. In 1811 New York had
137 chartered roads, with a total length
' of 4.500 miles, and the sum required to
build them amounted to $74500.000. An
era of canal digging and then of rail
road building followed this period, but
the canal promoters and railroad men
had great difficulty in advancing their
schemes. - They were considered in
.sane when they Insisted that the moun
tains and plains nuild be conquered
by these nieanei of trunsiiortntinn.
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Heart to Heart
Talks.
By EDWIN A.NYE.
PENSIONING MOTHERS.
Speaking of laws
One of the most humane statutes of
iny state is the mothers' pension law
Of Illinois.
It is this way:
In most states when a mother is left
a widow with children she is unable to
support the state steps iu and makes
the children motherless as well as fa
therless. That is to say, the state takes the
children from the mother and puts
them in an orphan asylum or some
charitable institution.
Which when you come to think of it
Is monstrous.
The state takes the child from its
mother, who of all persons is most
able and willing to care for it properly
to "mother" it and puts it into a big
brooding pen with a lot of other chil
dren. V .
And it calls that benevolence!
Of course the purpose is a benevolent
one, but it is mistaken kindness. When
you rob a child at its mother you rob it
of its best friend, and when you rob a
mother of her child you. rob her of all
that makes ! s worth while.
Now- ; ; . -
Under the law of Illinoi instead of
separating mother and child the pen
sion act allows every deserving mother
from $5 to $10 per month for each
child. The pension continues until the
child is self supporting
And this pension is ot right and not
of charity.
How much better than to take chil
dren . from their natural mothers and
put them in a crowded pen under
charge of a matron.
Or-
How much better than to put widow
and children tinder the care of a super
visor of the poor, after the manner of
most states, and dole out to the family
as paupers so much of beans and
bacon and coal. " -
The cost is the same.
Illinois gives the mothers the money.
They know betters than any superin
tendent of the poor how to use it, to
say nothing of the suspicion of graft
that often attaches to the purchase of
supplies for the poor.
Let the mother keep her kiddies.
She will do better by them than any
stranger. They are her children. To
bring them into being she has gone
into the jaws of death.
In a hundred years from now it will
be told of this generation as -an un
speakable cruelty that society actually
took children away from their own
mothers.
Just Like a Whale.
Why is a water lily like a whale?
Because - It comes tu the surface to
blow. London Teleeraph.
Silk of Japan and China.
Of tbe 12.500 tons of silk annually
produced by Japan and China two
thirds is retained for home use.
SPRING MILLINERY.
Hats to Be Worn From Now Until
April.
Here are some of the new features
in hats we will wear from now until
April. You needn't take up with all
of them, but you may wish to adopt
some of them.
Turbans of flowers are mixed with
braid, with nacre silk and velvet. The
piece goods are usually employed in
the way of giving height.
In some new medium size hats the
brims are of straw and the crowns are
tarns of nacre taffeta. Some of the
tarns are fuller and turned up at one
side. Nacre taffeta is also used for
facing. Hand sewed braid hats are n
feature well liked for pliability.
The blouse made with a peptum is
very sew and smart. Here is a model
V
THE PXMiUM BLOUSK.
that can be finished in that way or
with a belt and worn at a high or nat
ural waist line. JUDIC CHOLLET.
This May Manton pattern is cut In sizes
from 34 to 42 inches bust measure. Send
10 cents to this office, giving number. 7282,
and It will be promptly forwarded to you
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two cent stamp for letter postage, which
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awanowing uiory.
The little daughter of a well known
Baltimore clergyman recently startled
the family while at breakfast by sud
denly exclaiming: .
"I'm full of glory r
"Whaton.eartb, do you mean, child?"
tbe father hastened to ask.
"Why," exclaimed the youngster, "a
sunbeam just got on my spoon, and
I've swallowed itfr-Exchange.
Suspicious.
Estelle 1 shuddered when he pro
posed. Bertha Was he so awkward?
Estelle-Oh. no: He did It so welL
DEMAND FOR HOPS
SHOWS DECREASE
The hop market appears to be on
the decline. Since the first of the
current month, outside of transactions
between dealers there has been very
little business in the Oregon market,
and that little for the most part has
been at prices under the top quota
tions of the past, two months. The
demand in the East has fallen off in
no uncertain way, indicating that
many of the brewers at least have
hops enough to run them to the end
of the season.
In some quarters now 40 cents is be
lieved to fairly represent the market
on Oregon goods, and sales between
dealers at a fraction under that figure
have been reported this week. A fact
that in this connection is taken to
mean much is that the dealers are
now more or less generally on the
selling side, indicating, in their minds
at least, that the height of the' season
has been passed and that the market
from this time on will gradually gravi
tate to the 1912 basis.
It is not believed, however, that
there is any danger of the market
going in any disastrous way in the
near future. The comparative strength
of the contract as assurance that hop
values during the coming twelve
months will hold at a relatively high
figure. For the coming crop in this
state it is said that contracts at 25
to 2G1-2 cents are" readily obtainable,
arid for three-year contracts 15 to 19
cents have- been rather freely offered
for some weeks. ' To date the growers
"In this state have shown little disposi-
tion-to sell ahead.
In California. good Heal of con
tract business is said to have already
been put through? as .high -as 27 1-2
cents having beeri. paid in -some in
stances for the ootninaXtitop' i
The few growev-Cfregotu who
have 1911s yet. on-"hand are" stfll Hold
ing more or less, firmly for "better
figures than , are now being offered,
but for several- days practically no
trade in the country has been report
ed. ; ,"
Prevailing Oregon City prices are as
follows:
DRIED FRUITS (Buying) Prunes
on basis of 6 1-4 pounds for 45-50's.
Fruits, Vegetables.
HIDES (Buying) Green hides, 7c
to 9c; salters, 5to 6c; dry hides, 12c
o 14c; sheep pelts, 25c to 75c each.
Hay, Grain, Feed.
HAY (Buying) Timothy, $12 to
$15; clover, $8 to-$9; oat hay, best,
$9 to $10; mixed. $9 to $12; alfalfa,
$15 to $16.50. - -
OATS (Buying) Gray, - $28.50 to
$29.50; wheat, $28 to $29; oil meal,
$53; Shady Brook dairy teed, $1.25 per
100 pounds.
FEED ( Selling) Shorts, $26; roll
ed barley, $39; process barley, $40;
whole corn, $38; cracked corn, $39;
bnra $25. -
. FLOUR $4.50 to $6.25. -Butter,
Poultry, Eggs.
: POULTRY (Buying) Heus, 10c to
lie spring, 10 to lie, and roosters.
Sc. - " . -" -:- " '
Butter (Buying) Ordinary coun
try butter, 25c to 30c; fancy dairy.
40c.
EGGS Oregon ranch eggs, 25c to
27c.
SACK VEGETABLES Carrots,
$1.25 to $1.50 per sack; parsnips,
$1.25 to '$1.50,' turnips, $1.25 to $1.50;
beets, $1.50.
POTATOES Best buying 85c to
$1.10 per hundred. '
hundred; Australian, $2 per hundred.
ONIONS Oregon, $1.25 to $1.50 per
Lvestock, Meats.
BEEF (Live weight) Steers, 5c
and 5 1-2; cows, 4 l-2c; bulls. 3 l-2c
VEAL Calves bring from 8c to
13c, according to grade.
MUTTON Sheep, 3c and 3 l-2c;
lambs. 4c and 5c.
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