MORNING ENTERPRISE, "WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1913
The Old Way
Won't Do Now
The old idea of selling things
at retail is now practically ex
tinct the hit-or-miss way, with
indifferent selections of mer-
. chandise and indifferent sales
people and poor service.
To-day the patron's comfort
; convenience, and enlightenment
are foremost. Comprehensive
showings of wares are selected
by trained experts who are in
constant touch with the leading
centres of fashion. Rare treas
ures from the four corners of
the world are displayed, to-
. gether with all the necessaries
of life everything for one's ev
ery need.
The little shop, the modern
department store, the enterpris
ing manufacturer all tell you
the story of their offerings in
the columns of THE ENTER
PRISE. A careful study of our
daily advertisements quickens
your intellect informs your
mind, - and teaches you where
to shop and what to buy. It al
so shows you how to save time,
money, and patience, because '
to advertise in THE ENTER
PRISE is a sign of quality, de
pendability, and up-to-dateness.
A
Matrimonial Ad.
By ESTHER VANDEVEER
NOBEL PRIZES.
A LOT BARGAIN
A beautiful lot located
block from 7th St. on fine im
proved street, one block from
Farrs' market, lays level and
all fenced; with barn and alley
adjoining. Price $700; ?50
d.owu, balance monthly.
E. P. ELLIOTT & SON
Seventh and Main St.
LOCAL BRIEFS
Don't forget Bithiah Concert, Meth
odist church, Wednesday evening.
Sarah Trepanier, of St. Johns, Ore.,
was a visitor in Oregon City on Mon
day. J. M. Dugan, of Portland, was in the
county seat recently on a business
trip.
C. E. Rickett, of Portland, was in
the city Tuesday attending to busi
ness affairs.
- E. L. Barons, of Portland, is in the
city for several days attending to
business affairs.
Miss Clara Young, of Portland, has
left for her home after visiting
friends in this city.
A. V. Davis, of Molalla, has been in
Oregon City for several days attend
ing to business affairs.
E. J. Swafford, of Salem, was an
over-Sunday visitor at the home of
his borther J. b. Swafford, of this
city.
We buy and sell for cash. A quick
dime beats a lazy quarter. Denver
Market Co., Cornelius & Mashk,
butchers.
P. E. Gay, of Molalla, was in the
city recently attending to business
affairs.
E. H. Cooper has gone to Pilot
Rock, Eastern Oregon, where he will
visit his father. He will return in
about a week.
J. L. Ash ton, of Eugene, has been
a recent visitor in the city. While
here he visited friends and attended
to business affairs.
Dr. van Brakle has gone to Hub
bard, where he will deliver an ad
dress on "Eugenics" before the East
Willamette Association of Congrega
tional churches.
J. P. Lovett, left this city Sunday
for New York, where he will go in
the interest of the Willamette Pulp
& Paper company. He made the
trip east with T. W. Sullivan.
Lieutenant Frank Mallon, U.' S.
A., was visiting Mr. and Mrs. T. W.
Sullivan and family in this city Sun
day. Mr. Mallon's parents, reside in
Brooklyn, New York, and are rela
tives of Mrs. Sullivan.
Hear Mrs. Delphine Marx, soloist,
at Methodist church Wednesday
evening.
Mrs. William Hammond and young
sons "Billie," Philllip and "Jack", of
Gladstone, left this city Wednesday
morning for Eugene, where they will
visit the parents of Mr. Hammond,
Rev. and Mrs. Hammond. They ex
pect to be gone about two weeks. .
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Albright, of
Hood River valley, are in this city for
several days visiting old friends. The
Albrights were for many years resi
dents of Oregon City, and Mr. Al
bright during his residence here was
a leading citizen. They moved to
Hood River five years ago, and M)r.
Albright now has one of the finest
ranches in the valley.
ESTACADA- SEEKS CASH
FOR IMPROVEMENT WORK
The first entertainment for the pur
pose of raising funds to improve the
streets of Estacada was given Satur
day evening at the Family Theater,
under the asuspices of the Ladies'
Civic Improvement club. The enter
tainment consisted of a concert in
which talent from Vancouver, Port
land and Springwater took part. Al
though the weather was unfavorable,
a large and appreciative audience
greeted the participants. The stage
was prettily decorated with dogwood
blossoms and plants. Mesdames Mor
ton, Somers, Bartlett and Sparks act
ed as ushers and Mrs. Yonce sold
tickets. The proceeds of the enter
tainment amounted to nearly $45.
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
wish 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
Anna Trowbridge was apparently
destined to a life of toil. Her father
had never got on in the world, and it
was evident as she grew to woman
hood that she would have to work for
her living. When she was seventeen
she had a love affair with a young fel
low who was still In college and with
three or four more years of study be
fore attaining his profession. Both
were too young for a serious affair, and
the young man never spoke to his par
ents of the girl he fancied.
Anna studied stenography and type
writing and at twenty went to work.
But that kind of work did not please
her. She pined for a home and all that
a home brings. She was attractive and
doubtless might have married, but ev
ery year she grew more particular as to
the man she should choose.
There are persons who believe in go
ing forward, even if one goes wrong in
stead of right, while their opposites
are always fearful of striking Into new
paths. Anna belonged to the former
class. The firm for which she worked
was a large advertiser, and she had
ample opportunity to observe the re
markable results that accrue from ad
vertising. One day the subject of mat
rimonal advertisements occurred to
her. She was aware that the results
of such were not In keeping with those
pertaining to business. Why should
thy not be available? She had read i
that in certain cities abroad marriage
brokers are in constant requisition and j
the marriages they effect are as liable
to turn out well as those made in other ;
ways.
Some months after this Idea occurred
to her she came home one evening
tired and sick at heart In a fit of des
peration she took an advertisement she
had written long before from a writ
ing desk, read it over, affixed In lieu
of signature the three letters T. O. T.,
put it in an envelope addressed to a
newspaper and, taking it to a letter box
at the corner, dropped It in.
"There," she said on returning to her
room, "if s done, and I can't undo it"
She fortunately escaped answers
from persons who look upon such ad
vertisements as inserted from improper
motives, but this was doubtless from
the wording of her message to bachelors.-
She received a number of re
plies from men who took her ad. in the
spirit in which it was meant, but Anna
could easily tell from their tone that
they were written by men she would
be willing to marry.
There was one that was very far
above the rest. The writer was evi
dently a gentleman and educated. It
seemed to Anna that he had read her
heart.. He said that he pitied her for
being oblised to resort to a means evi
dently repulsive to her to obtain what
was every woman's natural right mar
riage, motherhood, home. He regretted
the drift of the times which tended to
separate the sexes and obliterate the
home. He proposed a correspondence
as a first step toward an acquaintance
to be followed' by whatever fate might
have tn"store for them. The letter was
full of feeling, of sympathy. Indeed, it
seemed to" Anna that it had been writ
ten by a lover instead of a stranger.
Anna was delighted. She wrote a
reply which she kept for a few days,
then read it again and, finding that she
had written too much from the heart,
wrote another better adapted to the
occasion. This elicited a note that,
while it was perfectly deferential, the
writer seeming to try to write with the
consciousness of addressing a stranger,
evidently could not repress something
akin to love. Anna interpreted this to
moan that he was, as she expressed-it
heart hungry.
In the correspondence that ensued
Anna discovered in the writer's letters
all that could be expressed in them.
But she had not seen him. Her heart
sank within her at remembering that
he might write lovely letters and still
be unattractive in appearance and he
might be the latter and a villain. She
proposed an exchange of photographs.
Her correspondent wrote that such
likenesses often gave a very different
impression from the real being and he
would prefer to see and be seen in the
fiesh.
Up to this point Anna bad proceeded
without any qualms or regrets, but a
number of emotions now came to her.
She had never had but one love, and
that" had euded long ago. She bad
not heard of the young student for
five or six years. Nevertheless she
could not but contrast a love like that
with an affair like the present She
shrank from the ordeal of meeting a
man she had found by a matrimonial
advertisement Several times she de
termined to give the matter up. But
one day she decided to receive a call
from her correspondent and posted her
letter as she had done in the first place
that she might not have an opportunity
to change her mind.
Not being willing to bring her corre
spondent to her boarding place, she ap
pointed a meeting in a park at a cer
tain place at seven and a half o'clock
on a June evening. She went there a
few minutes before the appointed time
and sat on a bench.
A pair of arms was thrown around
her neck from behind. She was at
once released so that she could turn
and saw her young lover, grown to
manhood.
In their clandestine correspondence
she had signed herself T.O.T.,and when
she wrote her ad., hunting for a name,
it had occurred to her. The initials
bad happened to catch the eye of her
girlhood lover. ,
Strength of the Oyster,
If the average person were asked
what was the strongest living thing it
is probable that he would name the
lion or some such huge denizen of the
forest and would not even think of the
unassertive bivalve. But so great is
the power possessed by the oyster that
to open it a force equal to 1.319.5 times
the weight of Its shell-less body is re
quired. Her Ideal.
Nell Miss Antique says the only
reason she has never married is be
cause she has an Ideal. What do you
suppose her ideal Is? Belle Simply a
man who will propose. Philadelphia
Record.
Works That Win Them and the Way
the Awards Are Made.
The Swedish scientist Alfred B.
Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, died
In 1896. bequeathing his fortune, esti
mated at $9,000,000, to the founding
of a fund the interest of which should
yearly be distributed to those who had
mostly contributed to "the good of hu
manity." -The interest is divided In
five equal shares, given away:
"One to the person who in the" do
main of physics has made the most
important discovery or Invention,' one
to the person who has made the
most important chemical discovery, or,
invention, one to the person who has
made the most important discovery in
the domain of medicine or physiology,
one to the person who in literature has
provided the most excellent work of
an idealistic tendency and one to the
person who has worked most or best
for the fraternization of nations and
the abolition or reduction of standing
armies and the calling In and propa
gating of peace congresses."
The prizes for physics and chem
istry are awarded by the Swedish
Academy of Science, that for physio
logical or medical work by the Caro
line institute (the faculty of medicine
in Stockholm), that for literature by
the Swedish Academy in Stockholm,
and the peace prize is awarded by a
ooraruittee of five persons elected by
the Norwegian storthing.
In accordance with these statutes
the awarders of the prizes (the four
above named institutions) elect fifteen
deputies for two consecutive years, the
Academy of Science electing six and
the other prize .awarders three each.
These deputies elect for two consecu
tive years four members of the board
of directors of the Nobel institute,
which board, exclusively consisting of
Swedes, must reside in Stockholm. A
fifth member, the president of the
board, is nominated by the government.
The board of directors has In its care
the funds of the institution and hands
yearly over to the awarders of the
prizes the amount to be given away.
The value of each prize Is on an aver
age $40,000. The distribution of the
prizes takes place every year on Dec.
10, the anniversary of Mr. Nobel's
death. Philadelphia Press.
AULD FOOLS' GAMBOL
The Custom - From Which All Fools'
Day Takes Its Name.
Most people call April 1 all fools'
day, whereas it should be auld 1. e..
old fools' day. The appellation prob
ably takes Its origin from the follow
ing superstition: -
In druidical times, between 10 and
12 o'clock on the night of April 1, it
was customary for all those young
women who dared to venture into a
sacred grove and to take their stand
one behind the other.
At the hooting of an owl they com
menced slowly running round and
round, to the accompaniment of such
words as these:
Ban-man, ban-man,
From berg, bach and ley,
Leap high, leap low.
Come and run with me.
Thereupon, side by side with those
of the girls destined to be married
within the coming year, 'the phantom
of a ban, or white man, appeared, and
If any of the girls were going to die
within the year a black man was seen.
Once while this ceremony was in
progress the spirit of a very old, totter
ing white man put in an appearance and
exhibited such emphatic attention to
the girl he ran with that the other per
formers were much amused.
The object of their amusement was
subsequently chaffed to such an extent
by every one in the village that she
fled from the neighborhood, marrying
before the year was out a strange
chieftain old enough to be her grand
father. After this event the ceremony was
ironically styled the "auld fools' gam
bol." London Answers.
Dead Sea Stillness.
The Dead sea is a vast lake about
nine hours' ride from Jerusalem. The
waters of the lake, save for an almost
imperceptible ripple, are quite still and
tpjerably transparent, but salt and "bit
ter beyond bitterness" and so buoyant
that one can float upon them like a
cork, and to swim it is only necessary
to move the hands. The surrounding
scenery is dreary in the extreme and in
parts singularly grand. But the still
ness is oppressive and depressing, for
there is no sound of animal life or
song of bird ever heard on the lonely
shores of the famous lake. .
Shelley and the Kiss.
The supreme laureate of the kiss is
Shelley. The word is seldom absent
from his shorter lyrics. Here is one
stanza laden with kisses:
See the mountains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another.
No sister flower would be forgiven
If It disdained its brother.
Ad j,e sunlight clasps the earth.
And the moonbeams kiss the sea. "
What are all those hissings worth
If thou kiss not me?
As She Saw It.
The handsome hospital nurse who
married an old wealthy man the other
day was very happy in her reply to a
friend who asked why she wedded
such a fossil.
"I thought I might as well be engag
ed in nursing one old man as a dozen."
London .Tit-Bits.
An Opportunist.
"Pa, what is an opportunist?"
"An opportunist, toy boy, is a, man
who has done something worth while
that everybody else imagines he could
have done just as well if he hadn't
been otherwise engaged when chance
came along." Detroit Free Press. .
It Often Comes.
In a Scotch Sunday school the lady
teacher, after speaking on the subject
of death, asked. "And what comes
after death?" Instantly a bright little
girl called out eagerly. "A fight about
the money."
Jagielle University.
The University of Jagielle of Cracow,
Poland, where Copernicus received his
education, was founded In-1364 by the
Polish king Kazimer the Great and
endowed by a later Polish king, Jagi
elle. in 1400.
A small classified aa will rent that
vacant room.
EGGS ARE BOUGHT
AGAIN; PRICE LOW
- Eggs for some time past not men
tioned politely as a market staple by
poultrymen or buyers found a place
in Tuesday's transactions along Front
street, Portland, when cold storage
interests, dispairing of driving prices
any lower, bough at from 16 to 18
cents. Buying at these prices will
probably continue in a limited amount
throughout the week, and so a con
siderable surplus not disposed of to
community or outside trade will be
cleaned up. "
Heavy arivals of outside berries,
coupled with increasing shipments of
Eastern Oregon small fruit, has forc
ed crate prices' on "straws" down to
75 cents and $1.50. Dealers are re
ported to be losing money on berries,
but it is too early in the season yet
for the market to be properly on its
feet
Asparagus, lettuce, . cabbage and
peas are holding their own reasonably
well. Asparagus is good in quality,
and is in heavy demand.
Florida pineapples have arrived at
the commission houses, and are sell
ing at ?6.50 a crffte. Buying was
eager.
Livestock, MmU.
BEEF (Live weight) steers 7 and
8c; cows 6 and 7 c, bulls 4 to 6c.
MUTTON Sheep 5 to 6 1-2; iambs
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 12
to 13 Vfe. Stags solw at 10c; old roos
ters, 8c; broilers, 22c.
- - Prulta
Eggs continue about the same, with
prices but a cent or two better than
last week and early this week.
APPLES 50c and $1.
- DRIED FRUITS (Bnylsg), Prunes
on basis 6 to 8 cents.
VEGETABLES
ONIONS $1.00 sack.
POTATOES About 20c to 40c f.
o. b. shipping points, per hundred,
slight demand in south at this price
f. o. b. shipping point
Butter, Eggs.
BUTTER (iiylag), Ordinary eoan
try butter 20 to 25c; fancy cream-
EGGS Oregon ranch case count
16c; Oregon ranch candled 18c.
Prevailing Oregon City prices are as
follows:
HIDES (Buying) Green Baited, 9c
to 10c; sheep pelts 75c to $1.50 each.
Mohair 31c.
WOOL 17 to 18c.
FEED (Selling) Shorts $29; bran
$27; process barley, $30.50 to $31.59.
per ton.
FLOUR $4.50 to $5.
OATS $22 to $27; wheat 91 to 92;
oil meal selling $38.00; Shay Brook
dairy feed $1.30 per hundred pounds.
Whole corn $31.00. .
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 $20.50 to $23.50.
WILLAMETTE MAYOR RESIGNS
T.' J. Gary, former mayor of Willam
ette, handed in his resignation to the
city council of that place Monday
evening. Mr. Gary stated that since
he had moved from the corporate
limits of the town, he was no longer
eligible to hold the position. -
JUDGE DIMICK TO SPEAK
Judge Grant B. Dimick, wfll ad
dress the members of Meade Post, G.
A. R. Saturday afternoon in the
post's headquarters. An entertaining
program has been arranged.
Advertisements in The Enterprise
brings results.
Pabst's Okay Specific
Does the work. You all r A A
know
Price
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JONES DRUG COMPANY
The Superiority of ElectricToast
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tedious old-fashioned way, is relatively the same as the
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radiant heat forces the necessary chemical change
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fairly melts in your mouth.
You can operate the General Electric Radiant Toaster on the
finest damask table cloth. Its neat porcelain base and cheerful
glowing coils add grace and charm to any table.
This Little toaster is on display at oui store in the Bea
ver Building on Main Street.
Portland Railway, Light & Power Company
- . Beaver Building, Main Street
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.
Unqualifiedly the Best
LEDGER
The De Luxe Steel Back
New improved CURVED HIHGE
allows the covers to drop back on the desk
without throwing the leaves into a curved
position.
Sizes 8 1-4 to 20 inches
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Headquarters for - "
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