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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1909)
were not always kind to you, were tl»r> ? I shouldn’t wonder If they beat \ou «omethnea* Hut >ou will never be beaten any more You stall I ave a nit's little pony and a cart, and tlow- era. and pretty elotiu*», and even thing that little girls Ilka. I don't know wlmt the» ar* but whatever they are you shall have them. So don't cry any more* What a pretty ham«« Pepeeta Is! It svmds like music when l say it. I have got the toughest name tn ths world myaslf. It s a regular Jaw- By CHARLES FREDERIC QOSS breakvl' IkH'tor Paracelsus Arscula- ■ awreai Tbal Steesow, l.a,ah. plus? What do >ou think of that. >s- A musical lauah la a rare gift; Ceryri«ht. IkXX, bjr Th« R,m«n MvrU C«mr*ay AU Right* R»« m -*«*I peeta! But then you » eed not «'all tne by the whole of I ’ You can Juat call j hearty one la Infectious; hut If you arc tne IkK'tor, for short. Now. look at tne! Incapable of either, suppress a laugh Just once, and give me a pretty stnlia that means nothing The woman who .......................... ......... "O— --------- ----------- Let me see those big black eyes! No? really laughs la a joy to those around You don't want to* Well, »'al’s ail her It may not poaaeM a pitch that mtn* tor be an applnted Quaker meet- CHAPTER II right. 1 won't bother you. Hut I want deltghta a luualcianly ear; It may have In* to-morrow night, and he'll speak. At th« moment »hen Stephen you to know that I love you, and that Infectious lutle notea that do not aloud Bounding the horn to summon th* You kin go an’ listen. If you want to.’* you are never going to have any more for harmony; but It It la real and Joy ’Til be there, boys and d-d-don’t young mystic to his supper, a promis trouble aa long as you live.** Never cuous crowd of loafers with chairs tilt you forget It. I’ll hook him! These were the kindest words the I ous It will make all those who hear It ed against the wail of the village tav saw anything I couldn’t buy If I had a child had ever bad spoken to h«»r. or at am 11«. ern received a shock. They heard the little of the p-p-proper stuff about The laugh that Is annoying la the least the klit«i«*ot she codld remember tinkle of bells In the distance, and me." They fell on her ear» like music and one without meaning It la a nervous looking tn the direction of this unus- : ”1 say. Doc. that daughter of yours awakened i grutllude and love In her ripple that le often used as a period tial sound, saw a team of splendid coal- knows her bls when It comes to telling heart. She r ceased to sigh, and before or an exclamation polut. It 1» placed black horses dash round a comer and fortunes. ' ventured a young dandy, the ride to town w-aa end- • had ba-1 at the eudlug of every seutence. aild whirl a strange vehicle to the door of , whose head had been turned by Po gun to feel a vague sense of happl- takes from the spoken word any mean pe eta ’ s beauty. the Inn. news. Many There were two extraordinary fig ’’D-d-daughter*" snapped the quack, The next cv years were full of Ing or emphasis It might have ures on the front seat of the wagon. turning sharply upon him; ’ «he's not strange adventures for th««*' singular women who do It are not conscious of The driver was a sturdy, thick-set man my daughter, she’s my wife!** It. They are far from silly women companion* In order to comprehend the relation •red certain clues to the past hiMti»rjr i They have ( hy I nc and sins«’, anil aro not whose enormous moustache suggested a crow wtth outstretched wings. As If 1 ship of this strangely mated pair. we of the child whom he had thus «dopt-| as easily ct»nfused a » one would judwe to emphasise the ferocious aspect lent must go back five or elx years to a •d. and waa firmly persuaded that ah^ by the futile laughter they give after him by this hairy canopy which com- • certain day when this same Dootor belonged to u noble family. He had their sentences If this Idea Itnpreaaes down the made nil his plans to tnk«* her to Spain plotely concealed his mouth. Nature . Aesculapius rode slowly had duplicated. It in miniature by [ main street of a small city In Western and establish her Identity in the hope you at all. watch your own style of talking when outside the family circle brows meeting above his nose and | Pennsylvania, and then out along a of securing a gr«'«t row ir<‘ Hut just spreading themselves, plume-like, over ' rugged country highway A couple of as he was about to execute this and Intimate friends You may not tw a pair of eyes which gleamed so mih-s brounght him to the camp of a scheme, he was seized by a disease given to laughter, but agtiln you may brightly that they could be felt al band of gypsies. which prostrated him for many find that you unconsciously punctuate Around a campfire was a picturesque months, and threw him into a nervous your most cummonplac« sentence, with though they were so deep-set that they group of persons, all of whom, wtth a condition in which he co*-traded the a lau :h that la as artificial aa your could scarcely l*e seen. This fierce and buccanrerish person single exception, vanished at the ap habit of stammering. On his recovery back puffs. summoned the dosing hostler in a proach of the stranger. The man who from bls long sickness h« found him If you do thia, stop It. This noise, coarse. Imperative voice, flung him the stood his ground was a truly sinister self stripped of everything he had ac which Io a giggle In girls, an Inane re tn*, sprang from his seat, and assist- , being. He was tall, thin and angular: cumulated; but his shrewdness and In ed his compan’on to alight. She gave his clothing was scant and ragged, domitable will remained, and he soon laugh In women. Is th, result of pure him her hand with an air of utter in his face bronxed with exposure to the began to rebuild his shattered fortune^ thoughtlessness difference. bestowed upon him neither sun. The remarkable sound, given to During ail these ups and d wns. Pe “Good morning. Baltasar, said th« peeta waa h!s Inseparable and devoted alone, called laughter, should be smile nor thank* and dropped to the ground with a light flutter like a bird visitor. companion. The admiration which her only to express mirth. When It Is not The gypsy acknowledged his saluta Turning instantly toward the tavern, childish beauty excited in his heart spontaneous It Is not laughter, and the she smcended the steps of the porch tion with a frown. hud deepened Into affection and finally men who write dictionaries should give “I wish to sell this horse," the trav under a fusillade of glances of aston Into love. When she reached the a<, ishment and admiration. Young and eler added, without appearing to notice of 1<5 or 1? years, he propoa.'d to her it another name. Higgle la the only beautiful, dressed in a picturesque and his cold reception. the idea of marringe. She knew noth, substitute so far. hut It does not deals The gypsy swept his eye over the Ing of her own henrt, ami little about nate that Insipid, mirthless sound that brilliant Spanish costume, she carried herself with the ease and dignity of «.nlmal and shook his head. life, but had t*e«*n accustomed to yield hundreds of women permit themselves a princess, ar.d looked straight past "If you will not buy. perhaps you implicit obedience to h • will. She con- the staring crowd. Her great, dreamy will trade.” the traveler said. sented and the ceremony whs perform C'orwei Dues Vul rinrh. eyes did not seem to note them. “Come.” was the laconic response, ed by a Justice of the Peace In the corset that can be booked with When she and her companion had and so saying ths gypsy turned to city of t'lncinnatl. a year or ao before pinching the body and tearing entered the hall ar.d closed the door wards ths forest which lay Just beyond their appearance In t e Quaker village. underwear to bits la that Invented behind them, every tilted chair came the camp. The "doctor” obeyed. A An experience ao abnormal would have by an Illinois woman. down to the floor wtth a bang, and moment later he found himself in a se perverted, if not destroyed her nature, The advantage of many voices exclaimed in concert questered spot where there was an had It not contalqex! th.- g**nns "Who Is she?” Curiosity was satisfied improvised stable: and a dozen or beauty and virtue implanted at this Is derived from at 8 o’clock in the evening, for at that more horses glancing up from their birth. They were still dormant, the fact that the feed whinnied a welcome. hour Doctor Paracelsus Aesculapius not dead; they only awaited the hooks are located as he fantastically called himself, A little rivulet lay across their path, and rain of love to quicken them to one side of opened the doors of his traveling and up from the margin of It where life. lacing and are apothecary shop and exposed his "uni she had been gathering water cresses The quack had coarsened with prevented from In versal panecea” for sale, while at th** there sprang a young girl, who cast a passing years, but Pepeeta. withdraw juring either flesh or same time. "Pepeeta. the Queen o' startled glance at him. then bounded Ing Into the sanctuary of her soul» II' clothing by a flip ex Fortune Tellers, ’ entered her booth and swiftly toward a tent and vanished Ing a life of vagnue dreams and half spread out upon a table the parapher through the opening. This keen ad conscious aspirations after something, tending under them nalia by which she undertook to dis mirer of horses was equally suscepti she know not what, had grown even In most corsets the steels and hook. ble to the charms of female beauty. more gentle and submissive. cover the secrets of the future. As she extend down the center, and In press When the evening's work was ended. So swift an apparition would have be did not yet comprehend life, she did ing the hooks and eyes together It la the not protest against Its injustice or Its Pepeeta at once retired; but the doctor wildered rather than illumined But the incongruity. The vulgar people among no uncommon thing to pinch a ridge •entered the bar-room, followed by a mind of an ordinary man. •curious and admiring crowd. He was quack was not an ordinary man. He whom ahe lived, the vulgar scenes she of flesh between them or tear a gar With the stays shown In th. in a hap’-y and expansive frame of was endowed with a certain rude pow saw, passed across the mirror of her ment. mind, for he had done a "land office" er of divination which enabled him to soul without ieavln; permanent Im Illustration this annoyance Is eliminat business In this frontier village which see In a single instant, by swift intui They lard down the center and pression. She performed the coarse ed tion. more than the average man dis he was now for the first time visiting perfi -ne tory the hooklnir arranaement I, to one duties of her life In a covers by an hour of reasoning. By He looked over the crowd with an manner. It was her body and not her side Underneath the hooking device Inclusive superiority and waved his this natural clairvoyance he saw at a soul, her will and not her heart which Is a shield which present, a perfectly glance that this face of exquisite deli hand with an inclusive gesture. The were concerned with them. What that Bat surface at all times to ths body motley throng of loafers sidled up to cacy could no more have been coined soul and that heart really were, re and no matter bow hard It le to tet in a gypsy camp than a fine cameo the bar with a deprecatory' and auto mained to be seen. the corset together, there Is never any matic movement. They took their could be cut in an Indian wigwam. He (To be continued.) danger of squeezing or Injuring the glasses, clinked them, nodded to their knew that all gypsies were thieves, flesh or clothing In the operation. entertainer, muttered Incoherent toasts and that these w*ere Spanish gypsies. A Moral I.rwson. and drank his health. The delighted What was more natural than that he Powers, the Athletics ’ catcher, should conclude with inevitable logic Mike landlord, feeling It Incumbent upon llrmlth and llrauty lliata. him to break the silence, offered th6* that this child had been stolen from said at a recent ba.ieball banquet in The woman who exercises can more people of good If not of noble blood! Philadelphia: friendly observation: "S-s-see you safely Indulge In rich foods, fat meats, “Baltasar’” he said. "All the talk there has been In New o-s-tutter S-s-stutter a little m-m- sweets and pastry than she who leads The gypsy turned. my own self." York about crooked foot races and a sedentary life "You are a girl-thief as well as a “Shake!” responded the doctor, who crooked umpires and crooked fights — Forcing food Is one of the surest was In too complacent a mood to take horse-thief. You stole this girl from all this vague, formless talk about offense, and the worthies grasped the family of 1 Spanish nobleman. I a roads to dyspepsia. Exiept when not am the representative of this family crookedness makes me think of hands. South Carolina meeting I once attend 1n normal health the average person and have followed your trail for years “Don't know' any w-w-way to s-s- You thought I had come to get the ed At the end of this meeting It was should skip a meal occaalonally when •top It, do you?” asked the landlord hors«. You were mistaken; it was the decided to take up a collection for not hungry. "No, I d-d-don’t; t-t-tried every girl!” Eyes which have become Inflamed charity. The chairman passed the hat thing. Even my ‘universal p-p-pana- "Perdita!” exclaimed the gypsy, himself. He dropped a dirne In it fur from exposure to the Min can have the cea’ won’t do it, and what that can’t taken completely off his guard. Well, gentlemen, every bloodshot condition quickly reduced by do can’t be d-d-done. Incurable d-d- "Lost indeed,” responded the quack, a nest egg dlsease. Get along ail right when I go scarcely able to conceal his pride in his right hand there entered ’hat hat— bathing them for five minutes In wnter •low like this; but when I open th** own astuteness. And th» 1 he added every right hand and yet, at the end as hot aa la comfortable throttle, get all b-b-balled up. Bad slowly: "She must l e a burden to you. when the chairman turned the hal Biliousness should I m * fought In the thing for my business. Give any man Baltasar You evidently never have over and shook It, not so much as hit first stages. Try regulating diet. Take a thousand d-d-dollars that’ll cure been able or never have dared to take own contribution dropped out. glass of hot water half hour before me.” the quack replied, slapping his her back and claim the ransom which " To’ de Ian's sake!’ be cried ‘Ah’» each m»al and at bedtime. In either trousers pocket as if there were mil you expected. I will pay you for her eben los' de dime Ah stahted wlv!‘ morning or evening glass squeeze Juice lions in it. and take her from your hands. It is "AU the rows of faces looked puz of half a lemon. "Co-co-couldn’t go q-q-qulte as high the child I want and not vengeance. zled. Who was the lucky man? That as that; but wouldn’t mind a hu-hu- What will you take for her?” Do not neglect the value of fruit In hundred,’’ responded the landlord, cor The doctor drew a leather wallet was the question which tormented all Improving the complexion. Nothing dially. Finally the venerable Calhoun White from his pocket and held it up tan tai- equals the Juice of oranges and lemons 'Tell you what It Is, b-b-boys,” said lzlngly. Its influence was decisive. summed up the situation. to clear tip the skin and brighten eyes the quack, "if it wasn’t for this im “Pepeeta! Pepeeta!” called the gyp " 'Breddern,’ he said, solemnly, ris The latter must lie diluted and tajten pediment In my s-s-speech, I wouldn’t sy. ing from his seat, ‘dar 'pears ter be a need to work more’n about another without sugar, a half Itvmon In a glass Out of the door of the tent she came, great moral lesson roun' heab some y-y-year!” her eyes fixed upon the ground, and of water. "How’s that?" asked someone in the her fingers picking nervously at the whar.' ” Perfect cleanliness of the teeth Is crowd. tinsel strings which fastened her bod A < a««* for Sympathy. most essential and can be secured by "C-c-cause if I could talk as well an ice. Two matrons of a certalu western a thorough brushing In the morning I c-c-can think, I could make a for “Gif me ze money and take her.” city whose respective matrimonial and after each meal nnd using an tune ’side of which old John Jacob The doctor counted out the gold, and Astor's would look like a p-p-penny then approached the child. For the ventures did not In the flrit instance antiseptic lotion. Dentnl floss should savings b-b-bank’." first time In his life he experienced an prove altogether satisfactory, met at be drawn between the teeth after each “You could?” emotion of reverence. There was some a woman's club one day, when th. meal and before retiring. "If I can find a man that can do the thing about her beauty, her helpless first matron remarked: You must not stop laughing, or you t-talking (I mean real talk, you know; ness and his responsibility that made a "Hattie. 1 met your ex.’ dear old will be like the woman who at an talk a crowd blind as b-b-bats). I’ve new appeal to his heart. Tom, the day before yesterday, We advanced age had not a line or wrinkle got something better'n a California g- Yielding to the gentle pressure of his talked much of you.” g-gold mine.” in her face, but whose countenance hand, she permitted herself to be led "Is that so?” asked the other ma- "Better get Dave Corso i,” said the I away. Not a good-bye vas said. The was entirely expressionless Dreading "Did he seem sorry when you these same village wag from the rear of the doctor lifted the child upon the .orse’s tron. lines and wrinkles, she crowd, and up went a wild shout of back and climbed Into the saddle. The told him of my second marriage?" had all her life schooled her features laughter. beautiful child trembled; ahe also "Indeed, ho did; and said so most to express neither joy nor sorrow. "Who’s D-D-Dave Corson?” asked w’ept She was parting from *hose frankly!” the doctor. whose lives were base and cruel; but “Honest?" <e<»«»«l Work of Women. “Quaker preacher. Young feller they were the only human beings that "Honest! He said he was extremely The mayor and '-ouncllmen of Dea ^out 20 years old.” she knew. She was leaving a wagon • “Can he t-t-talk?” and a tent, but it was the only home sorry, though, he said, he didn't know Moines have asked the Civic Commit the man personally.”—Lippincott's. "Talk! He kin talk a mule Into a that she could remember. tee of the women's clubs of that city trottln’ hose in lessn three minutes. ’ To have a fellow-being completely to present to them their plan for a Proof Ho Waa ‘•Dosed.” "He’s my man!” exclaimed the doc in our power makes us either utterly He had pleaded the "detained at the city beautiful, and It la possible that tor, at which the crowd laughed again cruel or utterly kind, and all that was the fleet step will be the engaging of "What are you laughing at?” he gentle in that great rough nature went office" and the "balancing the booke” asked, turning Upon them savagely, hie out in a rush of tenderness toward the excuMS so often that they had become a civic expert, who will consult with loud voice and threatening manner little creature who thus suddenly be transparent, ao when he arrived homo the city authorities and the ladles, frightening those who stood nearest came absolutely dependent upon his late on a recent evening he determined and a plan be formed. so that they instinctively stepped back compassion. After they had ridden q to lean on the truth. Intel, nt Heverewee foe Womea. little way, he began in his rough fash a pace or two. ■Theodore, you’ve been drinking!" Mr. Edwin Markham's observation *No offense, >oc,” ee»d one of them; ion to try to comfort her. said hie Indignant wife. “Don’t cry, Pepeeta! You ought to ~but you couldn’t get him. He’s pious." "Belina, m' dear, I cannot tell a lie that the chief social shortcoming of be thankful that you have got out of "Pious’ What do I care?” ths United States may be our Increas —I—” stammered the delinquent. the clutch«» of thoee villains Tou -Well, these here pious Quakers are ing lack of rsverence for women will "Then you're oven more Intoxicated could not have been worse oft, and you gtlff In their notions But you kin jedge got meet with general acceptance. But »waa I thought Go to bed." may be a great deal bet ter I Thar tar yourself bout his talkin. far there s fhe Redemption 2! flàvid Çorson THREE LATE STYLES Hoe, Heaver Hat with a Scarf ot Satin and Marabout, a Scarf and hi tiff of Gray Chiffon and Ermine, and a Hat and Muff of floated R >*« Silk and Fur. It deserves cotislderatlon. It is per- feet I y possible that women may have the largest rights wheie they have the smallest reverence. And If this reverence of men for women be really lacking. It Is certain that the respect of women for men will fall nlso And when the relation between men and women shall be thus degraded, noth Ing can save the whole fabric of life front a proc»*, of swift deterioration Chicago Examiner. Utts high enough so that you can »•■a where to stitch. Put the |>art of the article to Ire mended In nn embroidery hoop place under needle and Milch back and forth, toward and from you. till It la tilled with thread one way. Then turn and sew across the threads till entirely filled. I>o not turn the work at eml of each row of stitching, but draw It lack ami forth, running machine as fast aa you wish, in caae Of a Jagged tear, draw edges together with basting thread before Inserting In hoop. A Th, cuira«, luui suddenly bacon). a fitted garment ot silk elastic, smooth as a glove from neck to wrist and hip line. The newest eleevelea, coat la cut out generously under the arms and the sides are held together by cords Instead of bands and straps. The flehu of Marie Antoinette folds round the shoulder, forms a sleeve, croaee, lu front and tire at the back, concealing much of the figure. The outline of the Watteau plait It la grows almoet a familiar tight, belted In or allowed to fall loosely, ac- cording to the gown and th» occasion Home charming old-world frocks are carried out lu soft taffetas, shot with three or four pale colorings, such, for Instance, aa mauve, pink and peri winkle blue leather hats promise to be particu larly popular with the traveler. They are to be hail In patent leather aa well aa suede, and In a wide range of shape, ami colors. The modified kimono, which la the old wrapper with a Japanese touch In the sleeve and banded edge around the neck and downward, remains a fa vorite for bed room wear Mnli-k Luarh. Lunch at a railroad station mean,, for Mime people, two pieces of half raw dough, called bread, a sample ot butter hidden tieside a small scrap of partially cooked ham that won't May Inside of the Mtndwlch and won't com, out. And th, description la nut com plete without the admission that il 1« ' grnbbetl" and "bolted" while the clock hand Jumps from minute to mln- uto. It doesn't sound nice, sud the description ought to be enough to In sure a well <lcv. loped cium , ot India«» lion. UM for Travellna. If a woman la going away only for a few days, so that her baggage le limited. It Is decreed that she may wear * larae hat the (mln. Hut medium sized small hats are best for the oc casion The largo hats are hard to park, and thia Is the reason so many of them are worn on the train, th« smaller ones being Ing parked away, A chick llttl« French hat. admirably suited for trav eling. It Is burnt straw, trimmed with band and bow of black velvet, put on as Indicated In sketch. Three deep- purple roars nestle close to edge of narrow brim on left side. The center parting of the hair with the wide Racamler chignon and wld« puffs at the sides comports well with Moonlluht Bore Kyes. the big millinery of the clay. Women Moonlight Is ao Intense at times In with small, delicate features And It Cuba that It causes sore eyes, and the especially becoming natives go about with umbrellas and Sashes worn with the cuirass gown pnralunaa. Thia nffectlon la cured, ac of the moyen age are fastened so ttuit cording to Frank Steinhart, former their flat folds lie close ui>on the low consul general to Cuba, by washing the er edge of the cuirass, while the bow, eyes with moonlight fallen dew. The-w, tied to the right of the center hack, dews have been found to have radio- falls among th, lower piatta of the active and electric properties. skirt. Keeping Table Linen, In keeping the table linen that la not In dally use many a housekeeper le annoyed to And that It has yellowed badly and must lie washed again before it can go on the table again. This can be overcome If. after being laundered, the clothe and napkins are carefully wrapper! In deep blue paper or In a sheet that has been heavily blued. < nttlna Soap, Soap Improves with keeping, so It always should he brought In large quantities. Before storing It, howevsr, It la well to cut the bars Into conveni ent pieces, for this Is most easily done when It Is soft. The cutting may be done with a piece of string or wire more easily than with a knife Walting Yet. Man waa before the woman made, And eat anticipating; And ahe has kept him ever elnoe M«n«llng with Maehl*«, Juat welting, walling, waiting. Table linen and tears tn clothing can —Judge. be darned better and In one-tenth the time It takea to do It by hand. It needs a doublethread machine, as It cannot be done on a chain stitch ma chine. U m fine thread, about 100 or 120 for table linen. Remove the foot ot the machine, or leave it — •• ** Gloves with Clrelm, The smart glove that many fashlo» able women era wearing has the bach heavily embroidered with clrelea la colored ellk. Thia la In the color, U oat tone, aa the kid of the glove. is