MORNING ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, MAY 9, 1913
A LOT BARGAIN
A beautiful lot located
-block from 7 th St. on fine im-.
proved street, one block from
Farrs" market, lays level and
all fenced;, with barn and alley
adjoining. Price $700; $50
down, balance monthly. -'
E. P. ELLIOTT & SON
Seventh and Main St.
LOCAL BRIEFS
Dr. vanBrackle, ostepath, Masonic
building. Phone Main 399.
Frsd Schafer, of Molalla, is in tu'e
city for several days.
S. J. Moore, of St. Louis, is in the
county seat for several days.
W. E. Thomas, of Portland, was a
recent business visitor in the city.
A. G. Butt, of Los Angeles, is in
Oregon City for a few days on a
business trip.
N. Bard, of Portland, was in Oregon
City Wednesday and Thursday on a
business trip.
Peter Jorgelson, of Salem, has-been
in the city several days attending to
business affairs.
Dr. Mount will deliver a lecture in
Portland, Friday, before the Portland
Academy of Medicine.
Plowden Stott, a young Portland
attorneys, was in Oregon City Thurs
day on legal business.
N. Blair, county commisioner, was
in the city Wednesday and Thursday
on county court business.
W. H. Mlattoon, county commission
er, was in the city Wednesday attend
ing to county court business.
Miss Ethel and Jake Risley have
gone to Eugene, where they will en
joy the junior weeK-ena lestmues. j pute Tney didn't lay hands on each
Mrs. Kate Turner, of Stafford, who '' otner- but they felt edgeways, and they
was recently operated upon at the never met without bringing up the
Oregon City hospital, is now improv- question. They had it all to them
ing. ! selves at first, but after a bit other
! folks were dragged Into it and a good
G. I. Hubbell, of Springfield, Mass., 8nare of the county was divided Into
IB in ureguu Kny lur weveio-i uaja
while making a business trip to the
West
Miss Ef fie Watts, who is ill at the
Oregon City hospital, is now some
what improved.. She has had an at
tack of appendicitis.
Miss Lorna Gagong, has returned to
her home in Portland after spending
several days in Oregon City as the
guest of her aunt, Mrs. Hugh Mount.
Lawrence Snavely underwent an op
eration for appendicitis Thursday
morning at the Oregon City hospital.
The Drs. Mlount performed the oper
ation. The boy is doing well.
W. J. Dean, a prominent farmer and
rancher from South Dakota, is stop
ping in Oregon City for several days
looking over the country near this
place.
Rev. John Ovall, of Portland, was
in the city Thursday. Mr. Ovall, who
is a minister in the Methodist Episco
pal church, says that he will make his
headquarters in the city in the near
future.
D. O. Anderson, traveling represen
tative of the Western Stock Journal,
has returned from Tillamook, where
he reports business and crops to be
in fine shape. He left Thursday even
ing for Baker and other towns and
cities in Eastren Oregon. He will
GOOD SPORT SEEN
AT
A good crowd saw some rattling
boxing and wrestling at the Armory
Thursday night, when under the aus
pices of the Oregon City Athletic club
a number of classy bouts were pulled
off. Trainer Lewis refereed the
matches, and his decisions gave gen
eral satisfaction. Another smoker
will be held on June 8. "Auk" Smith,
who was at first put on the card, but
who later was withdrawn, acted as
referee in the wrestling matches. The
program was slightly changed at the
last minute, owing to failure of some
of the expected entrants to show.
The results were: Wrestling Hoff
man put down Quinn in fast time,
first fall in 4 minuts, second fall in
2 minutes and 2 seconds.
Boxing "Fat" Beatie got decision
from Betzol in third round; Seeley
got decision from Rotter; Mat Roose
knocked out Dick Rotter in two
rounds; Ad Lewis got decision from
Pete Rotter after three rounds.
Lewis weighed in at 145, Rotter at 160
BOSTON. More than 1,000 school
children "struck" Thursday for short
er school hours Police and special
truant officers are powerless, appar
ently, to get the youngsters back to
their classes.
Summer School
Stenography and
Bookkeeping
Opens June 16, at Oregon City,
Oregon
Four Months $35.00
Let us explain the "hows'"
and "whys" everything you
wiss to know. This class is
now being organized. If you
appreciate your opportunities
you will write for information
today. Commercial Expert Com
pany, 1526 Oatman St., Port
land. NEW MARKET
Cornelius & Mashk, of Denver,
have opened a first-class mar
ket in Oregon City on 7th St
and R. R. Ave., near S. P. de
pot.. THEY WILL BUY OR SELL
FOR CASH
DENVER MARKET
Only First Class Meats
Settled In Heaven
Perhaps
By M. QUAD
Copyright, 1313, by Associated Lit
erary Press.
Nobody could ever exactly fix the
date when the dispute between Joab
Warner and Moses Stansell originated,
but It was generally concluded that it
lasted twenty-nine years before Provi
dence put an end to It . One fall even
ing, when Delhi consisted of only seven
bouses and a huckleberry patch, Joab
and Moses met at the postoffice, and
after a little talk Joab said:
"Moses, I'm told that you've got a
tolerable appetite for cider."
"Yes, tolerable," admitted Moses.
"Tou alius lay in a bar'l for winter?"
"1 surely do."
"And what do you put into it to keep
It from gettin' hard and twangy?"
"I alius use a little peppermint"
"I've heard you did, and I'm goin' to
tell you of a better thing. Put In sas
safras instead of peppermint, and
you'll have a bar'l of cider equal to
champagne. You know how folks cry
for my cider along in the winter, and
it's the sassafras what does it"
"Sassafras couldn't beat peppermint,"
says Moses as be shakes his head.
"But it does beat It all holler," says
Joab. "You use it once and youll be
grateful to me all the rest of your
life."
"I don't doubt you mean well, Joab,
but I shall stick to peppermint"
"I'm givin' you sassafras, Moses."
"And I'm givin' you peppermint
Joab."
"Waal, I wouldn't give peppermint to
a grubby calf!' '
"And 1 wouldn't give sassafras to an
allin' hog!"
That was the beginning of the dis-
"peppermints" and "sassafrasers."
Both disputants were church mem
bers and belonged to the same church,
and the pastor finally called them be
fore him and said:
"See here, brethren, why this dis
pute?" " 'Cause Mose is a mule," replied
Joab.
" 'Cause Joab is an Idiot" replied
Moses.
That is not Christian talk."
"Let him give up, then, and say he's
wrong."
"He's the one that's got to give up."
"Butyou will divide the church if
you keep this up," warned the pastor.
"I'd hate to see it" replied Moses,
"but peppermint's the thing to preserve
cider."
"And 1 will never divide a church If
I bin help it," added Joab, "but no
body but a idiot would use peppermint
Sassafras is the thing, parson sassa
fras!" "Peppermint parson peppermint!"
"But if both are good" '
"But they hain't!"
Almost every night in the year Joab
and Moses met at the postoffice, and
after sort of elbowing each other
around for a spell Joab would say:
"Why, hello, Moses, is that you? I
thought I smelt peppermint around
here!"
"And I smelt sassafras as soon as
you left home!" Moses would reply.
"Still stickin' tp it are you, that pep
permint is the right thing to keep cidei
from gettin' too hard?"
"I am. and alius I shall, and so would
any one else but a born fool!"
There would be more to it and a
dozen men would go over the question
nod full each other fools and liars, and
the trouble kept spreading. It beat
Joa b when be ran for supervisor, and it
downed Moses when he wanted to be
a deacon of his church. If a lightning
rod man or a tin peddler showed up
within ten miles of Jericho be was
asked for his opinion on the cider
question, and the man who favored
peppermint couldn't do business with
the sassafrasers. Many people tried
to smooth over the quarrel, but when
they went to Joab be said:
"I'm willin' enough to be friends
with Moses, but, durn his hide, he's
got to drop that peppermint business
fust!"
Then they would go to Moses and
talk and argue and point out his duty,
but he would shake his head and reply:
"It's no use talkin till Joab lets go
of sassafras. He's stickin' to it jest
because he's pigheaded and wants to
come out on top."
The thing hnd been going on for near
ly forty years, and Joab and Moses had
got to be grandfathers and old men,
when they met at the postoffice for the
last time. Both were tottering and
feeble, and as they caught sight oi
each other Joab called out:
"It's that blamed peppermint workin'
in your system, and I don't care how
soon it takes you off!"
"It's that sassafras in your blood," re
plied Moses, "and your folks needn't
expect me to come to your funeral!"
The next day both of them were in
bed, and after looking them over the
doctor said their time bad come to go.
fThey lasted two weeks and died on
the same day, but before dying Joab
sent word to Moses:
; "1 ain't got no pity for such a critter.
1 If you'd used sassafras you might have
1 lived to be 100 years old."
; When Moses received the message
j he braced up and sent back word:
"Nobody wants any pity from you.
' If thar's cider In heaven they'll use
: peppermint to keep it from growin'
; hard." . .
A Story of Holman Hunt.
Gambart the art dealer, sent Holman
Hunt to the Holy Land to paint a pic-
ture similar to the "Light of the
j World." Hunt returned with "The
; Scapegoat," which so disappointed
j Gambart that he refused to accept it
I Seeing Linnell. the painter, shortly af
: terward he plaintively said: "I wanted
1 a nice religious bicture, and he bainted
me a great goat,"
Hard Indeed.
Woman I gave you 10 c,ents last
, week, and you look as disreputable as
ever. -
Beggar Well, lady, it's deuced hard
breaking Into the smart set with 10
cents. Washington Herald.
Aunt Hannah and
Jack
By M. QUAD
Copyright. 1913. by Associated Lit
erary Hress.
You may have read a dozen stories
about misers and other folks who mis
trusted banks and kept their money In
the house to lose it at the bands of
robbers, but you have never read of
Aunt H a n nil b Day, though she was
just that sort of person. She was a
widow and had passed the middle age
and had a little farm near a village
where she lived and hired a man to
work it
AuntHanmib wasn't a miser, though
she was known to be stingy and to be
suspicious of every one that came
along. Her first thought toward a
stranger was to ask herself if he was
after the money, for she kept money
in the bouse. While her husband was
still alive a bank had failed on them,
and tbey had lost $1,000. From that
date on the woman had looked upon
every banker as a robber.
In one way and another Aunt Han
nah had got together $3,000 in gold.
She had buried it down in the cellar
in a fruit jar. but she didn't believe
she would ever receive a visit from
robbers. When people warned her that
she was running a great risk she re
plied: "Oh, la, la! If robbers ever should
come I'll make 'em a cup of ginger tea
and ask them to please go along and
not bother an old woman. Robbers
have mothers as -well as other folks,
and when they see my gray hair and
wrinkled face they'll think of their
own mothers and not harm me."
One day there came toiling up the
long hill on whose crest stood Aunt
Hannah's rather gloomy house a boy
about fourteen years old. He was rag
ged and hungry. He was a city waif
who had left the city behind and was
tramping. He saw Aunt Hannah in
her cucumber patch and opened the
gate.
"Well, bub?" she queried In her brisk
way. - '
"I want to live with you for awhile,"
was the reply.
"But you have a lazy look about
you."
"Gimme semething to do and see
how I'll make the dirt fly!"
After a few more questions and an
swers he was given a slice of bread
and butter and set to work.
Aunt Hannah had always figured
thai if robbers came it would be at
midnight and that there would be
three of them and each wearing a
black mask. She had written down
and then committed to memory the
very first words she was going to
speak when she found them bending
over her bed and flashing the light
from a dark lantern In her eyes.
Jack had a bed in the garret which
was not a bad sort of place, while
Aunt Hannah had a bedroom on the
first floor. The tired boy was always
in bed at 8 o'clock, but the woman
waited an hour longer before winding
the clock and retiring. One evening
at half past 8, as she sat sewing, the
door opened ancl two men entered.
No masks. No dark lantern. They
didn't look a bit like robbers.
"Madam." said one, and he smiled
when he said it "we have come for
that money!"
Aunt Hannah's robbers had come at
last; but, alas for her, her program
had been all knocked out. She was
so frightened that she was tongue
tied for the next three minutes. She
just sat and stared at them and won
dered if she had grown deaf and mis
1 understood their words.
"Will you hand over the money?"
".No, I'll be snumraed if I will!" she
exclaimed as she suddenly found her
voice and at the same time began to
struggle.
In fifteen seconds she had a gag In
ber mouth and one of the men was
saying:
"Too bad. isn't it? We thought the
old lady would see things in the right
light. Guess we'll have to hurt her
after all!"
Five minutes after Jack had gone to
bed he was asleep. That sleep lasted
about twenty minutes, and then a touch
of colic woke bim up. He had been eat
ing green apples all the afternoon to
make him grow. The hired man had
told him it was a sure thing. He didn't
get out of bed at the first twinge, but
at about the tenth. He would go down
stairs and 'fess up to Aunt Hannah
and get a remedy. He got so far on his
wa as to know that there were stran
gers in the sitting room and that one
of them was saying to the widow:
"We should hate to burn the sole? of
her feet with lighted matches, but we
must have that money!"
Jack scuttled back upstairs and from
a back window dropped to the roof of
the kitchen and thence to the ground.
Half a mile away was a farmer who
was cutting his meadows and had five
or six harvest hands at the house. The
distance was covered in short order,
and the laborers turned out with gtrhs
and pitchforks.
She had just got one blister when the
harvest hands arrived. There was a
hot fight for five minutes, and then one
of the robbers was captured and the
other made his escape. Jack came in
after the affair was over, and Aunt
Hannah tried to embrace bim and tell
him what nice things she was going to
do for him, but his reply was:
"It's me for the road again. I can't
stand colic and robbers on the same
night, and that blister on your foot Is
goin' to keep you yellin' at somebody
for a month to come !"
And he turned his back on the crowd I
and walked away into the darkness.
Whistling as he went
Badly Expressed.
Mistress (getting ready for reception!
How does my new gown look in the
back. Norah?
Maid Beautiful, mum. Sure, they'll
all be delighted when you lave the
room. Boston Transcript'
Called For Blood.
"Sandy looks as if he had been fight
ing." "He has been fighting. A fellow said
something in his presence about 'musi
cians and bagpipers. and Sandy sailed
into him." Chicago Tribune.
Out of It Entirely.
Mrs. Hoyle Are they In our set?
Mrs. Duyle No. They are not even In
our parcel post zone. Town Topics.
YANKEE ARMY OFFICER
WHO MAKE CANAL ZONE
FIT FOR HABITATION
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CUPVRICHT HARRIS A EWINQ VASH.
COL. WILLIAM C. GORGAS
Chief sanitary officer of the Pan
ama Canal Commission, and the man
by whose methods of sanitation the
digging of the "big ditch"' was made
possible, has been given permission
by the senate to enter the service of
the Republic oc Ecuador. The city
of Guayaquil will probably be cleaned
up first, as this port will become an
important point with the opening of
the canal.
FRUIT ARRIVALS
DEPRESS! IPRICES
California cherries are coming into
the market in increasing quantity,
and prices have dropped to $1.50 per
box of ten pounds. Strawberries are
failing to improve in quality, and
prices are ranging lower. Rains of
Thursday added still more to the out
look for local berrie, providing
them with the moisture needed at
their present stage of growth.
Asparagus is coming in consider
ably more generously in the local
market, and prices now range from
75 to 90 cents per dozen bundles. Most
of the stock being offered is of good
quality. Potatoes are still ruling
low for the new crop, and the mar
ket for old spuds is continuing de
moralized. Eggs are still selling in the city
markets at prices that do not make
cartage to town worth while, but
poultry men are managing to get 20
cents in the smaller community
stores, and are even bettering tnis
price and getting from 22 cents up
when selling direct to consumers.
Country killed hogs are holding
firm, though veal is reported to have
fallen off half a cent.
Livestock, Meats.
BEEF (Live weight) steers 7 and
8c; cows 6 and 7 c, bulls 4 to 6c.
MUTTON Sheep 5 to 6 1-2; lambs
6 to 6 l-2c.
VEAL Calves 12c to 13c dressed,
according to grade.
WEINIES 15c lb: sausage, 15c lb.
PORK 9 1-2 and 10c. .
POULTRY (buying) Hens 13
to liy2. Stags slow at 10c; old roos
ters 8c; broilers 24c.
Frulta
APPLES 50c and $1. ' .
DRIED FRUITS (Buying), Pruneg
on basis 6 to 8 cents.
Eggs continue about the same, with
prices but a cent or two better than
last week and early this week.
VEGETABLES
ONIONS $1.00 sack.
POTATOES About 20c to 40c f.
POUR BIG
REELS
ANA CALVERI
The Eminent Dramatic Soprano
will appear in concert before and
after the production, also render
ing the beautiful solos during the
Pilgrim's Progress.
This Picture will be Shown at
BELL THEATRE
Unqualifiedly the Best
LE
The De Luxe Steel Back
New improved C U R VED HINGE
allows the covers to drop back on the desk
without throwing the leaves into a curved
position.
Sizes 8 1-4 to 20 inches
OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE
Headquarters for
Loose Leaf Systems
o. b. shipping points, per hundred,
slight demand in south at this price
f. o. b. shipping point
Butter, Eggs.
BUTTER (I lying). Ordinary coun
try butter 20 to 25c; fancy cream-
EGGS Oregon ranch case count
16c; Oregon ranch- candled 18c.
Prevailing Oregon City prices axe as
follows:
HIDES (Buying; Green salted, 6c
to 10c; sheep pelts 75c to $1.60 each.
Mohair 31 c.
WOOL 17 to 18c
FEED (Selling) Shorts $27; bran
$25; process barley f 27.50 to $29.50
per ton.
FLOUR $4.50 to $5.
OATS $22.00 to $27.00: wheat 93:
TODAY
"PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
is the most popular story book in the world. With the exception of
Bible, it has been translated into more languages than any other
book ever printed
It is said by moving picture authorities that the "Passion Play"
was the -greatest in the history of the business, but It is a safe pre
diction that "Pilgrim's Progress" will attain as much favor, if not far
more.
To Pastors, Sunday School Teachers
and Educators
See this Yourself and See that Others See it
A TREMENDOUS (MORAL UPLIFT
The coming production of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
with 4000 feet of the most elaborate motion picture filmitization ever
offered, must attract every church member irrespective of creed.
John Bunyan's wonderfully inspired dream has been produced by
actors who were deeply imbued with a religious fervor that carries
the story along with enthralling sympathy.
The Ambrosio Co., of Turin o, Italy, has a far-famed reputation
for successful productions of a religious nature. The atmosphere
the magnificent scenery everything around Turino is in harmony
with such productions. Pilgrims Progress is one of the most diffi
cult feats in cinematography ever attempted. This is the only tour
that will be made with these marvellous pictures and your only op
portunity to see them.
Respectfully,
THE MANAGEMENT.
the Heilig in Portland Next Week
Always in the Lead
DGER
oil meal selling $38.00; Shay Brook
dairy feed $1.30 per hundred pounds.
Whole corn $30.00.
HAY ( Buying) Clover at $8 and
$9; oat hay best $11 and $12; mix
ed $9 to $11; valley timothy $12 to
$13; selling alfalfa $13.50 to $17; Ida
ho and Eastern Oregon timothy sell
ing $19.50 to $23.
If Conkey's White Diarrhea Remedy
doesn't cure this disease in your lit
tle chicks, we will refund your money.
Isn't that a fair offer? Oregon Com
mission Co.
Nancy Anderson and James Ander
son to June Ml Charman, south half
of S. E. and lot 1, Sec. 13, T..2 S.,
R. 3 E.; $1.
See them here FIRST
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