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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (March 3, 1899)
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Tames Uvud. t'se I'lllhK ai, ..... i . . . . . T . . .A sW in lime. Hulil ! rtniulm. V ki.:tlHU-t..:' c S3 THE WIDOW: : : , 4 i I a 9 tF that's you, Elvira," said the I widow McClane, "don't stand -- there with the screen door wide open. Come on In. Do you s'pose I want to be shooln' flies out of the house all the rest of the summer?" Elvira hurriedly shut the screen door, but she was too late. A fly had flown In. The widow laid down her sewing and, advancing cautiously, flapped her blue-checked apron. The fly, retreat ing, lighted on the screen, where he buzzed defiantly. With her left hand the widow opened the door an Inch or so, nnd with her right she made covert passes at the fly. Her outstretched fin gers traveled stealthily across the screen and up and down, while her large mouth sympathetically worked Itself open and shut. From the street Ehe appeared to be affected with a sort of mild Insanity; but when a fly was In question the widow McClane cared little enough for the opinion of the peo ple on the street After further effort she succeeded In corralling the fly, flung wide the screen door, spread out her Angers and let him go. Dazed by his sudden release from imprisonment, he remained suspended In midair for a drunken moment, then winged his way straight into the sun light. The widow fastened the hook with a vicious clamp. "There!" she exclaimed, returning to her chair by the window and taking up her sewing, "If there Is one thing In the world I hate above another, It's flies." "I'm sorry I made so much trouble,"" said Elvira, wistfully, twisting the cor ner of her apron. " 'Twasn't no trouble," responded the widow. "Leastwise not much. Set down. You make mo nervous enough to fly to the moon, stuudin' there fidget- in'." Thus admonished, Elvira timidly en sconced herself In the nearest rocker, from which vantage ground she fur tively watched the widow, whose grim, weather-beaten face now bent over her work. Her needle moved unevenly back and forth until the thread short ened Itself to a finger's length. Taking two or three decisive stitches one above the other, she drew out the needle and bit off the remaining thread. Then she spoke. "Well, what Is It, Elvira?" she in quired. A faint flush rose to Elvira's eyes, creeping thence to the roots of her hair, "It's about Joe," she answered. "So he's asked you to marry him. has he?" "Yes," assented Elvira, the flush growing more vivid under the sharp scrutiny of the old woman's eyes. "If you've come to ask my advice," said the widow McClane, "I say, marry him." "He ain't much acount, accordin' to what people tell me," veutured Elvira apologetically. "He's as much account as the ones that's tnlklu about him, I reckon," re torted the widow. "They ain't any of 'em worth shucks as far as I can see; but that ain't here nor there. lie's a man, nu' any sort or man Is a protec tion to a woman, If he ain't any better than just a scarecrow, hung up to keep away the hawk. The world's full of hawks on the lookout for wldder wom en, waltln' to peck 'em to death the .,Hil Mi? "WHAT IS IT, EI.VIUA?" HB INQUIBKD. first chance they get. I've been a wld dor nigh on to twenty years, an' know." "My old man was tike Joe." she said. returnlug to the subject in hand. "He wa'u't much accouat, kinder projec'in' around at first one thing an then an other an not dolu' much of anything hiut an, uut no Kept on the hawks. Tore feller, he had asthma. You could near mm most a mile off a-wheezlu an ...1 -I.., C A, ... n- lu'i-nu . oomeumes i thought It would et mo plumb crazy the noise he inane, out mauy'8 the day since I'd bin giau eiiotign to near him whet'iln' agin That there asthma kept him from dolu' ireuy mucn everything he oughter M'CLANE. done. He couldn't chop wood for it or bring In the klndlln' or make the fires. had to do all that. lie got so after a while ho couldn't do notnin' out set In the chimney corner an' nod; but s'long as you've got to work anyway It's kinder good to know you've got somebody settln' In the chimney corner a-noddln, to sort of keep you company while you're at It." She did not allow her reminiscences to Interfere with her work. The move ment of her needle kept time with the movement of her lips. 'I've bin watchin' you, Elvira," she went on, looking over her glasses at the younger woman, "ever since you've bin a wldder, an It seemed to me you were goin' over the same old road I went over. It's a mighty hard road. There ain't no soft places in it. I've seen you tryln' to get along, Uvin' with your sister. I know what that is. I've bin all through it. An' theres one thing I can tell you from experience." She paused for an impressive moment and stabbed the air with her needle by way of emphasis. The needle pointed straight at Elvira. "What is It?" she asked, dodging In voluntarily. "If you want to find hard hearts in the time of trouble," answered the widow McClane, "you don't never need to go outside of your own family; spe cially if you're pore." Her mouth, snapping shut with the last word, settled Itself Into hard, firm SHE WAS ALL IX f-'LU'i lines. Elvira, catching a glimpse of her own red mouth In the narrow mirror over the mantel, fell to wondering If It would look like that twenty years later. "If you've got a little money," the widow continued, "If you're Independ ent of 'em, you're all right; but the good Lord help a wldder woman that's pore. There ain't a forlorner creature on top of the earth. Yes, I've lived with my relations. I've worked like a nigger day In and day out, scourin', cleanln' an' scrubbln', an' then had theiost of my keep thrown In my teeth from mornln' till night. If I had It to do over agln I'd go an' hire out to strangers be fore I'd work for my klnfolks A ser vant Is welcome to what she can eat an' drink an wages besides every where In the world except with her own kin. "I've watched you slavln' over there at Sarah Ann's, Elvira, cookln' an' washlu' nn' lrouln', an' when you was through, Instead ot testln', like any other servant would er done, tendlu' to the baby. I'd ruther break rock on a turnpike any day in the year than tend toa baby while Sarah Ann run around to the neighbors a-telllu' 'em how she was belu' Imposed on liavln' to take care of her pore relations." Elvira gave a little sigh. She opened her mouth to speak, but the widow was before her. "I was mighty glad when I see Joe a-shyln round after you," she said. "Mighty glad. Take him. That's my advice. It don't make any difference how trlfllu he is; take him. A woman has a hard time alone In the world. It takes a good strong woman to fight her way through. As I said before, the minute her husband dies she's common pk'kln for everybody. Did you ever hear of a bank that failed but what it had some wldder woman's savlu's in It? Did a storm ever blow over this f town that it didn't tear down the wld ! .'Amiiii't fornH nn' leave all the UV71 r v w rest a-standln' high au' dry7 An' law yers! They're alius layln' for the wld der woman's niouey, alius! "This thing of not belongin' to no body," she went on, "that's the worst of It. To think you haven't got even a good-for-uothlng man to set down by you of an cveulu' an' talk to you. When things go wrong, and they mostly go wrong, if you've got somebody to com plain to it takes away half the trouble of it. Suppose you fall down an' hurt yourself. Where's your shoulder to cry on suppos n you cut juu " ger. Who's to wrap it up for you an' tie the ends of the two threads, sayln' he's sorry for you, even If he ain't? Suppos'n the world gets blacker'n usual, so black you can't see a sign of day breakin nowhere, an' you fall to sobbin' about It. SVho's to put his arm around you, an' say, 'There, there?' No body. Nobody In the world! I tell you, it's a mighty lonesome life; a mighty lonesome life!" As Elvira sat silently listening a sud den fear sprang into her eyes. WThnt If, since she had started out over the same road the widow McClane had traveled, she should be forced to travel It to the end? What if there awaited her, too, twenty years of that lonesome life. A sickening thrill of apprehen sion shook her. She looked away from the woman before her, who, old and wrinkled and careworn, sitting there blllCtllUg, bUlClliufj lui tut! ot.t, iu..--- of keeping body and soul together, seemed the incarnation of desolate wid owhood, to the window. The fear in her eyes gave place to a smile. "There's Joe!" she cried. "I do be lieve he Is comln here. He must er seen me an' followed me. Yes, there he Is, waitin' for me. Good-by, I must be goin' right away." And she was all in a flutter of happi ness as she rose and went out to him. The widow McClane followed her, She carefully closed the screen door, again fastened the hook and looked out at the two as they nodded gayly over their shoulders at her and walked arm In arm around the corner, "He ain't half good enough for her," she said aloud. "He's knock-kneed an' pigeon-toed, an cross-eyed in one eye, As SHE WENT OUT TO HIM. but he's better'n nothln'. He'll kinder do for a prop. He'll stand up for her agin the world that's sue ha hard place for a pore wldder woman." Swiss Courtship Tactics. Swiss maidens have wide and deep courtship license; but In many of the cantons they are allowed but a nar row choice of bridegrooms, It being a rigorously enforced, If unwritten, law that they must marry a youth of their own neighborhood. In many villages every marriageable youth belongs to a society whose sole object Is to prevent any and every youth from outside from coming a-courtlng the maidens of the society's village. The society has a password, fre quently changed almost never di vulged. A lover of the village, if chal lenged, gives the password, and It ia an "open sesame" through the on-guard ranks of the protective society. He may climb and woo uninterrupt ed, undisturbed. But the lover from afar must fight his way past the chal lenging sentinels or use the shrewdest and most successful stealth. Japanese Dentists. The Japanese dentists perform all their operations In tooth drawing with the thumb and forefinger of one hand. The skill necessary to do this is ac quired only after long practice, but when once It is obtained the operator Is able to extract half a dozen teeth In about thirty seconds without once removing his fingers from the patient's mouth. An Inevitable Smash. V'Well, Kitty, where is all your par lor bric-a-brac ?" "Oh, Bobby got a football Christmas and It was too cold for him to plaj outdoors." A Kleht of Burial. Despite the giowing difficulty of finding space for the interment of pub lic men witihn the walls of Westmin ster, at least one noble iamily still en joys a prescriptive right of burial there. These aie the Dukes of Northumber land, who have the exclusive use of a spacious vault in the Chapel of St. Nicholas. 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