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MORNING ENTERPRISE, THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1912.
A Fool's
Errand
Or an Unexpected
Turn of Affairs
f By CLARISSA MACKIE I
Hal Marcy watched his cousin from
under lowering brows. Dick was
6 tan ding in the sunny window, bis
mouth set in grim, obstinate lines.
"Well?" repeated Hal coolly.
"What is it?" growled Dick over his
broad shoulder.
"Are you going down to Scarsdale
after what I've told you? Why, Alice
would only laugh In your face!"
Dick turned sharply. "Oh, no. she
i wouldn't she's not that sort! She
might feel like laughing, but she would
hide it well," he ended bitterly,
"Why strain her courtesy, then?"
persisted Hal.
"May I ask whether this is my af
fair or yours?" Dick Corning was
white under his tanned skin.
"It is mine in a measure," was Hal's
insolent reply. He leisurely drew out
a cigarette case and scratched a match
on a gold bos. He spoke between puffs
of blue smoke that wreathed his dark,
thin face: "Ton know when von
mentioned you were going down to
Scarsdale today I asked yon (puff) if
you were going down to see Alice Wil
sonand you snapped out yes and I
knew why by the look of you there,
there. Dicky, don't get hot. We all
oaten it sooner or later like measles
und whooping cough. I bail a good rea
son for advisiug you not to go down
there. It's a fool's errand for you,
Dicky, my boy."
"You mean that somebody else"
Dick's voice choked into silence.
"It comes pretty near being that,"
returned Hal somewhat vaguely. Then
rather condescendingly- he added. "I
may as well 3rop you a hint, Dicky.
"iUCl!" HE GASPED.
Doy even though she may not be for
you, you may be able to claim relation
ship with her some day see?"
Dick Coming's eyes blazed menac
ingly, and bis big hands clinched tight
ly. His lips writhed into a strange
emile that was half a sneer.
"You mean that I may marry Alice's
rousin May and thus become her cousin-in-law?"
he asked.
Hal Marcy winced. "No, I didn't
toean that, and you know It too. I
meant that the relationship would be
on the other side of the house."
"Oh, you mean that you expect to
tfiarry May and we will be related to
Alice Wilson in that manner. Shall 1
congratulate fou, old man?" Dick's
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By
ALTON B.
PARKER
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CHE lawyers of the country should organize in opposition to
the proposed recall of judges.
If put into practice and carried to its inevitable conclu
sion recall of judges is the substitution of popular opinion
for legal procedure. It is justic or injustice meted out not ac
cording to the law of the land, but according to supposed public senti
ment. RECALL OF JUDGES SPELL8 IN THE ULTIMATE RESULT A RE
CALL OF THE JUDICIAL 8Y8TEM AND THE SUBSTITUTION OF A
VIGILANCE COMMITTEE.
Never before, I think, in the history of civilization has any blind
leader of the blind advocated aa progressive a return to the chaotic
conditions inherent in administration of justice by CAPRICE rather
than by the RULES OF LAW. . -
The recall of judges, however, is but the first step toward the cher
ished goal of the leaders of the movement against the judiciary. Their
ultimate aim is the RECALL OF THE POWER OF THE
COURTS to declare void such legislative acts as are forbidden by the
constitutions, state and federal.
gray eyes pierced the veneer of good
nature that had covered his cousin's
attitude.
"Qult your fooling. Dick." snarled
Hal. flinging -away bis cigarette and
preparing another. "1 can tell you one
thing."
"You have told me so many this
morning I am tempted to forego any
further infringement on your"
"If you go down to see Alice Wilson
today you'll be making the mistake of
your life. You'll be making a fool of
yourself. Believe me that I have a
good reason for saying this."
Dick picked.up bis hat. smoothed the
creases in the soft brim and settled it
on his fair head. "You've butted into
my affairs today In an unpardonable
manner. I have simply to say that I
am quite willing to bear any mortifica
tion that my harmless actions may
bring upon me." .
As he closed the door he heard Hal's
Inpatient voice sending after him:
"Pool's errand."
"I'll do it just the same," gritted Dick
through his set teeth, and his keen
eyes had a vision then of beautiful
Alice Wilson telling him with tearful,
pitying eyes that she loved his cousin
Hal Marcy and that she would be a
cousin to him forever.
"I'll be blanked if she will!" cried
Dick as he drove through the crisp,
cool air. "If she won't (and 1 know
she won't have a duffer like me) I
shall go around the world", and when I
find a good place in which to forget her
I'll stay there, only I know I'll never
find such a place," he ended forlornly.
He was fiercely jealous of Hal
Marcy. Hal was several years his
senior and of a domineering character.
Dick bad fallen desperately in love
with Alice Wilson the year before
while Hal was in Europe, but Hal had
suddenly returned three months ago
and, with his customary overbearing
manner, had hustled his cousin off the
field and immediately laid open siege
to Alice's heart Dick, astonished and
quite diffident in the presence of an
overpowering love, had allowed him
self to be pushed aside until now he
found it almost impossible to regain
the ground he had lost.
Alice treated him with sweet friend
liness that was maddening as well as
disheartening. All the sweet, gay in
timacy of their friendship was gone.
He seemed to be numbered among a
host of unimportant admirers who
worshiped Alice from afar, while the
intrepid Hal Marcy stepped boldly
forward and openly admitted that
there was an "understanding" between
Alice Wilson and himself. To all hints
and innuendoes the lovely Alice turned
the point of her wit to excellent ef
fect. .
Five weeks bad elapsed since Dick
had ventured near Scarsdale, where
Alice lived. At his elaborately care
less remark that he thought he would
drive down that way his cousin had
been quick to sting him with the re
mark that if he was going down to see
Miss Wilson his errand would be in
vain.
But Dick Coming's lips were set in
that obstinate curve that -few had
ever seen and none had understood
because there had been so few things
in this world that he bad had to fight
for. Most everything had come to
him easily, but now this greatest boon,
the love of a good, fair woman, was to
be denied him. She was to be Hal's,
and Hal was a bounder.
Dick was going to put the question
to her just the same. His attentions
to her had been so marked in the past
that he felt that he owed it to her to
ask the all important question. That
she would refuse him he had not the
slightest doubt. It would be done
gently, but convincingly, with perhaps
a hint at some cousinly relationship
In the future, after she should be mar
ried to Hal. He routed out a time
table, and. with one hand on the steer
ing wheel of the car. he studied the
trains from town and mentally com
pared the running time with the de
parture of certain Pacific liners due to
sail from San Francisco in six days. .
"I'll get down there at 3. drink tea
at 4 and. if she is alone, ask her! It
will take her about ten minutes to turn
me down, including the cousinly advice
and all that. Then 1 can run back to
town by 5:30. catch the 7:10 for the
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Indian trinkets should see me. Will
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FOR SALE Pure bred S. C. White
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FARM LOANS.
FARM LOANS Dimick & Dimick,
Lawyers, Oregon City, Or.
ATTORNEYS.
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PIANO TUNING.
PIANO TUNING If you want your
piano thoroughly and accurately
tuned, at moderate cost, notify
Piano-Tuner at Electric Hotel.
Strongly endorsed by the director
of the Philharmonic-who will per
sonally vouch for his work.
DYEING AND STEAM CLEANING.
OREGON CITY DYE WORKS 319
Main street, French dry and steam
cleaning. Repairing, alterations
and relining. Ladies' and gent s
clothing of all kind cleaned, pressed
and dyed. Curtains carpets, blan
kets, furs and auto covers. All work
called for and delivered. Phone
Main 389. Mrs. J. Tamblyn and
Mrs. Frank Silvey.
west and "connect wiili the tvanikat
scha at San Krancisco on Saturday.
No wedding bells for you. Dicky, my
boy!"
His mind attuned to these gloomy re
flections and with a drab future care
fully outlined. Dick Corning was some
what taken aback at Alice Wilson's
greeting. She was a Dresden china
sort of beauty, all pink and white, with
soft blue eyes and hair the color of
ripe corn silk. She wore some little
soft, clinging gown of pale blue with a
pink rose tucked in her breast, and all
the pretty color faded from her cheeks
as her hand was lost in Dick's big.
warm grasp. "
"Where is Hal?" she asked, as she
sat down behind the tea table.
Dick's face clouded slightly. "I sup
pose he will be down later. I enme by
myself, on my own errand." he ended
gruffly. He accepted a cup of tea aud
dropped lump after lump of- sugar into
Its pale depths before he realized what
he was doing.
"On your own errand?" repeated
Alice, fussing among the teacups.
"Yes. a fool's errand." returned Dick
unhappily.
"If it is a fool's errand, why do you"
come?" Alice's voice shook slightly and
her long lashes were laid against the
shell pink of her cheek.
"I had to a fool and his errand are
soon parted," Dick grinned miserably
and replaced his untasted tea on the
table. ' He leaned across the slender
legged table, menacing the fragile
china.
"Alice!" he gasped.
"Well?" Her eyes were downcast and
her fingers had ceased to flutter. She
wag very still and now very much
like a sweet sad little Dresden china
shepherdess.
"I've got to say it and then I'm
going on a trip around the world. I
love you. dear. I want to marry you.
I know you won't have me, but I want
to give you the chance to say no."
stammered and stumbled unfortunate
Dick, saying more than he meant and
meaning more than he said.
."Yes?" murmured Alice softly.
"That's all." assured Dick.
"Yes; I'll marry you. Dick, the dear
est and best boy in the world, only
you did let Hal elbow you out of the
way, and it served you right for
awhile!" Alice's little hands found
Dick's clumsy ones and crept into
their warm grasp One, or two fragile
Mrs. Samuel Walters, Veteran
Mail Carrier, at Her Post
WOMAN'S sphere Has been enlarged by a sturdy member of the "weaker
sex," who has for more than forty years been carrying the mail
between the Florin (Pa.) postoffice and the railway station. She is
Mrs. Samuel Walters, wife of an employee of the Pennsylvania rail
road. In all weathers she has attended to her duty and has a record of never
having missed a mail. She has had but one vacation, which she spent in a
trip of a few days to New York city. She is held in high esteem by the em
ployees of the railway postal service, and the government now pays her four
times as much as when she first took up her duties. The photograph shows
Mrs. Walters at her post waiting for the passing train to get the mail bag
cups were crushed under the weight
of Dick's arms.
"What?" shouted Dick, unbelieving.
"You asked me to marry you. I will
only if you start on a trip around
the world I shall go, too!" whispered
Alice in bis startled ears.
.
At 6 o'clock Dick brought his car be
fore the curbstone, and he ran up the
steps of the bachelor apartments,
where both he and his cousin had
rooms. In the main corridor he ran
Into Hal, immaculate In evening dress,
on his way to keep a dinner engage
ment. Hal smiled condescendingly up at his
big cousin.' "Been well trimmed,
Dicky, boy?" he insinuated craftily.
"I suppose you've got yours now."
"You bet!" crowed Dick happily.
"I've been on a fool's errand and re
ceived a fool's reward!"
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Costumes.
Some of the new lace waists have
long sleeves, but many in three-quarter
length are shown, especially in those
made of the more expensive materials.
Jabots or plisses are extremely wide
and long. In the majority of cases
they extend to the waist line and over
NEW KFFECT W BLOUSES.
as far as the shoulder. The shape is
generally broader at the top than at
the bottom.
Lace and the most gorgeous of bro
cades threaded with gold and silver
and worked in flowers of wool or silk,
or both, make up the most handsome
of evening gowns. But beaded net Is
also used, with a softening note of old
lace on thr shoniders. -
The Mouse that is closed at the front
and finished with big revers mid frill
is essentially smart. , The sleeves iind
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Dora (as the clock struck 12) The
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Daffodills 25c bunch
Oregon ' Violets '.. 25c bunch
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Orders taken for funeral work and decorations for all occasions.
SUGDEN'S FINGERS WERE 4
ALL OUT OF JOINT.
Sam Crawford tells a story on
Joe Sugden that, while not new,
is worth repeating.
"Joe was catching and Clark
Griflith was pitching in a game
in Chicago one day," said Sam.
"A foul tip knocked one of Joe's
fingers out of joint, and he walk
ed out to the box to have Grlfif
pull It back in place.
"Joe extended his hand, which
has the worst looking lot of
gnarled fingers on It you ever
saw, and said to Griff:
" 'One of my fingers Is out of
joint. Give it a yank, will you?
"Clark looked at the hand a
moment and then ejaculated:
" 'Sure, if you tell me which
one it is. They all look out of
joint to me." "
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Fortune Spent on Buttons.
Forty thousand pound.s was paid by
Louis XIV. for one set f buttons for a
waistcoat This monarch had a posi
tive passion for buttons, aud in the
year 1685 he spent a very large amount
on this hobby. Among the Items of bis
expenditure two are worthy of note
August. 1685. two diamond buttons.
67,866 francs; seventy-five diamond
buttons, r86,703 francs. It is estimat
ed that during his lifetime he spent
1.000.000 on buttons alone, and that
at a time when the empire of France
was in a state of bankruptcy.
Critically ill.
Frost Critically in. is he? Snow
Yes, critical of everything and every
body. Harper's Bazar. '
That's what Father says, as he
smacks his lips over a slice of
Royal Bread.
And the way the children go after
it, relish it, ask for more of it is
delightful.
Bread
Is a boon to the home; it is pure
and clean; it is freshly baked every
day; it is nourishing and. whole
some. It costs you 5c the loaf.
Try it and you will learn how good
Skill, Experience and Honesty can
make bread. You can get it of
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in Oregon City for Royal
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SCHOOL FOR BASEBALL NOW.
East Liverpool Institution Plans to
. Teach Game to Youngsters.
Something new in baseball has been
sprung in East Liverpool, O., by the
formation of the Sweeney baseball
school, which has applied for an Ohio
fharter. The dean of the school will
be a.lex Sweeney, former Eastern and
Tristate league player.
It is planned to give a series of lec
tures and actual playing experience to
scholars. It will be the only school of
the kind in the country.
Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race,
The Oxford versus Cambridge eight
oared shell varsity boat race will take
place on March 30 in London.
NURSERY STOCK FOR
SALECHEAP
NOW IS HE TIME 10 SET 001
ROSES TOR YOU PART OF CITY
Two-year-old budded roses,
fifty varieties to choose from,
will set them out and' guar
antee them for 20c each; also
all kinds of fancy shrubbery
and fruit trees at low prices.
Apply H. J. BIGGER, Seventh
and Center streets, at the old
stand.
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