Wallowa County chieftain. (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, June 23, 1910, Image 6

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Newspaper Page Texti V Cliapt 12 ' T was Father O'Mara who lifted the crumpled little form from the forest mold. He reached herskk even before I. Aeadienne, and that w.i 1 kly Indeed. He bore her back to v 'e. and be and the one old servant left of the many of other days did what-they could for her. She came t herself at length. Hound, wondprin-j: eyes opened. Hut she said no word: only a little moan passed her lips. Father O'Mara brought the candle loser. I! nml eyes turned up to his. He st-. " ba'-U. for in those eyes acre expr (on save a great eniptiue-- . ie shivered a little. Old Jjouise i r il herself. "The y : - guie!" she cried. "God he mei ii'ul t" us!" ' It tv;i i " more than a day and n 1irh' was able to rise from ie bv s seemed to know people -their :'i (' 'u seemed to know her uriv ' i:i r . S'ic Oid not suffer, for then- v 's 'f't'ic pnin nor joy nor of that which lies between. All was a proa' rmpM-ess and nothing more, ''at'ic-r 0'.,.ir:i. his heart pain wrung, spent rri ii li i' with her much hope less. heli'Ie.-'. cruelly rewardless time d I .on lie ; irivl on her ceaselessly. Ir f -it'll.-- knew that she was there, yet he came not to see her, and he forb-n'e t!io-f T his household to go V Vn lotto. did th" ' priest, who cani" vtcd man mon-ieur." ; ji' ' "lie must take care. s 1 t- those little ones.'" "f"'- rfnd." repeated Le- - ' i.i ' his old hpjid. ''In the hear him walkimr- . Then yiu hear the fl r np-n ST!'' loee. flrd ho ffifO " t . the l again t- s-I : -c h Lli ll: altar. Sevt it-oi. iit ivs. Rtrair.e lieut- t'. I . ll . tli. 111:., .ill fl i! then tuivid I fi aghisr. '"Tis .'l "If she E: ii , I'-U'ier ' d-i'T. Marguerite!" he cried nt that I've been here'' ,i Ti Indl- ated nt' t'-ei :,V. t'll'!.." I' c-une wl.li i - :i ,.-r O'Sarii uiv.-i. .i ml ri-lr: Wo suspect Lemaitre of having been here." "That is." observed Father O'Mara, ' ii su-p-. t niie member of your h iHPhold of having a good heart." "It is a ue..fion of obedience. Our lim e'inl l in. uiy brother." "I. veil v!i"' i, is wrong:" There vas a tr ice f ' iiu-mess in the priest's t 'lie She said --!.lv: "In vh.it t, .tu bes the honr of his family i n brother cannot be wrong." "Is it your heart that speaks," que ried O'Mara slowly, "or your head?" The color roe to her cheeks. "I cannot listen," she declared .quick ly. Anil ti c i "I came here to dis-rover"- "Yoti i a. f Pud out," he inter rupted, "if f it ' M servant of yours had a heart. n that your brother could punish him for 11. Well, you shall not go until you have seen what your brother's kind of honor has done to the most honorable of all the Le Va lettes." "I'll not stay!" she cried. "iou will!" Professional Directory of Wallowa County - ---- . . i'.. TilOS M. DILL ATTORNEY-ARAW Office first door south of Fraternal Bldg.. Enterprise, New Ore. J BURLEIGH & BOYD t f ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW '! Practice In all' State Courts and V Interior Department. Careful at 'emioii to all business. lMv4'!--K-'f "5hS4Jx3!S''4"5' D. W. LAWYER SHEAHAN ENTERPRISE Practice in State and Federal Courts and Interior Department. J How about that new suit for the 4th? Funk & Co. are ready tobelp you out at their sale, June 4th Don't pass this up. "You're wrong to compel me to do this!" she expostulated agitatedly. "And if what they say of her in the village is true" "What is that?" "That her mind." she began hesitat ingly; theu. "I'm afraid!" "Afraid!" he said slowly. "It Is only a little white butterfly that has broken its wings." I He might have said more. But then she came the little figure that they bad tortured the soul from. She came slowly into the room, and calmly, and the great emptiness might have been , a great peace had one not known. ! Under her breath her aunt cried, "My niece!" And then, as she came nearer, this slender figure with the empty eyes, she said: "Yon know me?" Empty eyes turned to her. Empty voice answered: "Yes; you're Aunt Marguerite." "You looked at nie asthough I were a stranger. Ab. to think you brought this suffering on yourself!" Empty voice said slowly, evenly: "Suffering?" "She does not suffer," declared O'Mara. "Her very incapacity for pain is her disease. If only she could feel, even to suffer! The day that again you see tears In her eyes she will be saved." : Mile, de Valette spoke quickly, se verely: "She ought to feel! She ought to think!" I "I do think." said the empty voice. "I think all the time. 1 keep wonder ing wondering I wonder why Gil bert died. That was curious." "You ought not to think of him! ou ought to shudder nt the thought!" "I Ihluk and 1 remember." the emp ty voice continued. "I remember that Itaoul said it came to you all at once: It absorbed you. so that not fear nor shame nor death could stop you. And I remember that it did come t3 me Just ns he saW You Bee how well I remember that. That was Just the way It was then." "You ought to think of. your punish ment!" "Ought I?" Empty eyes were raised. "Was that a punishment when I lost my soul? I don't see bow it can be. Punishing Is hurting, isn't it? How can I be punished when nothing hurts j me?' "But it ought to You must feel it!" "Hut I can't. Don't you see? 1 am ! dead. The candles are lighted for me. ! I don't know where my soul is. 1 lost it when I died. If you do that you j can never find it again. There was the i forest, and I followed him and found him there. And I loved him very j much. That is why 1 died. I think ; nil the time, you sec, and 1 have ; found out that if you love any one very much you must lose your soul i for it and die." j Mile, de Valette shook her head slow ly. Tears came to her eyes. "Broken wings!" murmured the priest. I "Why do you cry?" the empty voice ; asked. "That's only one of God's ways, j isn't it?" j "God's ways!" cried Mile, de Valette. j "God's punishment of sin!" I The priest turned ntmn her "God's way!" he cried vehemently. ! "Io you think u worm in the dust can i understand why a man rides by? Do you think that because we can see the beginning of one of God's thoughts our little minds can follow to the end of what ho is thinking? Down herein the dust we cull them God's ways, but they me only man's mistakes. Down the river there were men God's crea tures, brothers they should have been killing each other! And they killed this boy! There-'s one old man over yonder so Clled with phantoms and cobwebs and the ghosts of things that M. ROGERS SUFFERS1 PAINFUL INJURY. R. M. Rogers, brother of Mrs. Perry Biauchard of this city, met .villi a painful accident this- (week In the saw mill at La Grande. While working at one of the saws, a piece of timber was caught and hurled back striking him upon the right forearm, above the wrist, break ing and splintering bo'uh bones. He was taken to the hospital in La Grande whore the wound was dressed after which he came to this- city. He relumed to La Grande Wednesday morning to have the injured! member placed in a piaster cast. CHARLES THOMAS j LAWYER ENTERPRISE, ORE. f Practice in State and Federal 4 X Couris and Bit. Dept. Abstract Bldg., opposite court house. J Something new Klrsh curtain rods and portier pole3 for the first time j in Enterprise. "Come In and see . then fct r. S. Ashley's. shouldn't Tiave'beon tliaf fie lef's his j pride. murder the father in him. And tne two crimes together are destroy ing this child. You call that God's way?" he demanded almost fiercely. "I'll tell you one thing I know .about God's way, by faith! That he never punished the good love, and I say to you this was a good love! It came to her Just ns a rose conies to Its bush in spring; she had a right to It as much as the tree to Its blossoms, and. like them, it was pood. I tell you there was no fault in her that will offend God, and in the end he will give her peace." Now it came to pass that Crawley, the recruit of the shock hair and the nerveless spine, had lied. The massa cre that he said he had seen had been no massacre. The defeat had been a victory. While the others had fought shoulder to shoulder, he had lain Jowl by Jowl with Fear deep in the forest. And that Fear had breathed into his ear the things that he had come back to tell breathed so Insistently that he who listened had come to believe them almost as so. Gilbert Steele came back from the battle, for the blow that struck him was not deadly came back with Joy In his heart and gladness in his eyes came back to Madeleine Madeleine de Valette. In the village tfiey told him where she was. They would have told him more, but he would not wait, and wonder was burled under anticipation. Going, he met the gypsy woman who had wrought the harm L'Acadienne. She had come with the news. It was in her to do what little she might in atonement. Stopping him, she said: "M'sieur Gilbert, you must go to the chapel of Valette and pray for her." "She is not dead!" he cried hoarsely. She shook her head. "No," she said. W. C. KETCHUM DENTIST ENTERPRISE i.e lierland Bu'lding. Independent Phone. Home C. T. HOCKETT. M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON J Office upstairs in Bank Build Z big. hid. Home; phoue hi office Sana residence. i A DR.. C. A. AULT PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON I ; , Office in Bank Building. ' Home phone both office and: ; J residence. Our entire stock. of men's and boy's clothing goes on sale at great- iy reduced prices. Sale now on. W. J. Funk & Co. -IT CAME TO UEK JUST AS A BOSK GOMES TO ITS BUSH." aKMMMIMMP-i.v w Novelized by PORTER EMERSON BROWNE From the Play of the Same Name by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson COPYRIGHT, 1010, BY AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Then, tensely: "Llstetl! I know this. The old people taught me when 1 was a child that wVmi a soul is lost the one who loved it most shall go to the place where it was lost and pray for it to come back. Go to the chapel at Valette. There you will see the can dles that her father keeps burning for her. There she lost her soul. ou loved her most. Pray for hor there!" lie cried, in the petulance of fear: "What foolishness are you talking?" "It is true." she replied. "If you are the one wlu loved her niopt pray for her there, and the miracle wlil be granted. Oh. I beg you to do it!" pas sloimtely. "My own soul will not rest until you haie! Go to Valette to her and pray!" So Gilbert went. lie found her there In the great room of Valette. O'Mara was there, and her father, but f them he tc.ok little heed, for when he saw her he started forward, arms Mitstretched. "Madeleine!" he cried chokingly. She looked nt him. "Yes?" she said. He said hoarsely: "You're angry with me!" She shoo!; her had. "But." he persisted eagerly, yet puz rled, "you aren't glad to see me." "No." He drew back a little, white, stun ned. "You you don't love hie" he whis pered. Theu. "Ycu changed so quick ly." Empty voice said slowly: "Yes; I thhik that is it. I've changed I changed when Gilbert dieJ." Ills face went yet more white. She went ou: "1 lost my soul then. It went nway from me at the altar. I think It must have gone with Gil bert's." Empty eyes watched him go. The little figure turned and slowly went to the great seat before the fireplace. O'Mara and her father watched her I closely. It was the latter who spoke, j Uls tones were clearand low. I "Go," be said to the priest. "Bring him back." The priest waited to ask no ques- "I KKEt" WONDFBINO WONDFRrNO I WON DKH WHY.UJIiBKKT Dlliil." tions. Who better than be knew of the wonders that God works? When the priest had gone Uie father rose. He went toward her a step ami stopped, for she was speakings I I I fV Socialist Party of America Column This space is occupied by paid advertising and is edited by the En terprise Socialist Local which meets Thursday niht of each week at 7:0 o'clock in the McCoy residence on North River street. All meetings open. Visitors always welcome. Frank Hamblen, organizer; E. A. Fosner, corresponding secretary; N. H. Marks, financial secretary; Fred Otto, treasurer. A CRUMBLING CIVILIZATION. Is there anya.ie who doubts that a great change i.i the social order is impending? Do you Teally 'think) that thlng will continue a they are now for another decade? If you do you are fn a dwindling minority. 1ook calmly, deliberately and firm ly at the most, striking facts In the world In whlch1 we live. Look first at the basis of all so ciety the way in which we are pro ducing and distributing the things by vhlch we I've. Look at tha Industrial organization of society. Here are the hig, the undisputed 'ac's about, that industrial society. Vh marvelous new and improved methods' of production serve only io pile higher the already overload id coffers of a few trust magnates. Today a half-dozen men bestride Lhe industrial world Colossii of our present society yet unahle to con trol the glint forces that bring them :aelr wealth So fast does the surplus product filched from labor pour in upon them -hat the most stupendous undertak .ngs thay can conceive are Incapable .'f abdonbing the heaped up values. We have passed through one panic. It was little more than a financial flurry compared with , the collapse that must come when the reconsiruc Uon of industry now under way shall Uave time to pour forth the result f the multiplied produtt that this eUuildlng will make possible. The constant rise of prices and steady -rushing of all organized effort to .ncrease wageq grinds labor between ippor and nether millstones past the ;;oi::t of endurance. If we are industrially insolvent, ur political bankruptcy is even Jiore complete. Th favorite text 3l the magazine .writers today Is lie collapse of the political parties .if capitalism. These parties have jecome but whited sepulchres con cealing all manaer of rottenness, i'hey have so decayed that they are incapable of defending even capital ist Interests . The corruption of industry is re- fl cted hi the foulness of politics. The veil is never lifted from a cor ner of modern lad us try that a brood of thieves is not uncovered. Witness "I walTied so far." she said". Tou know he was very, Interesting when he spoke of She turned a little. "Aunt Marguerite," she went on, "when am I to try on the wedding dress?" The head of De Vulette sunk to his breast. Ills Hps trembled a little, for God had brought n great light to him and. in torturing the pride, had opened to his day the soul. And so Valette's head sunk upon bis breast, and bis lips trembled. Then came the priest, and Gilbert was with him. De Valette slowly turned. To Gilbert he motloned-mo-rioned that he must go down to the great seat before the fireplace. Gil bert, wondering, went. He came to it and leaned over. At length she looked np. as one awakening, , and slowly there came into her eyes a light the light of reason the gleam of soul of a soul lost that is returning I to us own. I Into his eyes, enger, now beginning to dare to hoe. she looked looked for a long, long time. By and by she thrust forth a slender white hand thrust it forth slowly, and at length it touched nis coat, and theu It shivered a little. "Gilbert!" she cried. There was soul in the voice, too, now-the soul that had come again to the eyes. He said brokenly, "Madeleine!" For a long, long moment they stayed "ISN'T IT WOSDKBFtTI-WONDBItFUL?" thus. At lerth she whispered softly and with nil the Joy of the world: "Isn't Ii wonderful wonderful?" And forever the emptiness had gone. the insurance scandals, the s iga. .hieviiig, and the robbory oi fiu .ernal orders in Illinois. Municipal .ties, states and nation contest mad y for. pre-emlneace In corruption. Witness Busse In Chicago, the Jack-pot" legislature at Springfield md Lorlmer at Washington, as a lample of a single locality. Add to all this the clasa j 3-lce jf the courts, the deliberate cus.t ing of the unions by trji, the flaunting of all demands for laooi legislation, the arrogance, the ignor ance, and the incoinpet-e.ice oi .uoea who rule, and daie you say that If is an exaggeration, a figure of ipesch, a sensaUoual phrase to speak of present society a a "ci jnib llug civilization." The one clear note in all this is the Socialist movemeat. Voa scoif and sneer at thU? IT IS Ttt JiS. Kay Stannard haksr, not a uoo 0.11st, says in the June i44.id Ji th American Aiaraziue, in uu. .jI -o. 'What About Uie Democratic Par-' ty?" "Only o.ie i.art, no,v j.. c Jitv 'n American pjllJcs has a..; . ei w compielieiisie iiO.icy o.fe '. . vhatever may he oar hjd.iuii, to its tenets, the fact remaius that the Socialist party is' the ou.j o'ie that makes any pretense to hav ing reasoned out our present con ditions to an ultimate concius.Oii.' No other paTty dares to u..u o (he only foundaiion for a auv soci Jty TUK INTERKS'l'S 01 'i.i-jS.-WHO WORK. No other party dares to tacu th'. .acts .because only a imi -j u.isc . ipon working class iuiti j. . J. lothlng to conserve b .- i.'. . the facts. THlfl FUTURE 0' Ai.Ci. SOCIETY RESTS WiTii . -i. Is . CIALIST PARTY. The duty, Uie opportuaicv, t; ipoiisibility thaL faLs uj U- Moulders of those who k..o tremendous. It is for us to say whether the civ .lization in which we live sha.. emu jle and fall Into chaos anu co... sio . r whether It shall pas into a .nt" 3r stage peaceably, consciously tiuti intelligently. These are strong .words. Tile.', sound boastful. YOU CAKIMOi DENY THEIR TRUTH, v.aa.j is there hope? If the Socialists who reau th grasped the stupendous mi3:o.i h.i they and the paity to wliun owe allegiance has to perforin, any ihe wonderful possibilities' that ope.. uefore It, there would be sach ijfliu iccomplished, such sacrifices made, such a work of education, agitation, jrganlzation and determined activity ui every line as this world has never known before. Here lis a cause worth, working for, worth dying for, WORTH LIVING .-'OR. AND IT IS THE ONLY CAUSE TODAY OF WHICH THIS IS TRUE. IDAHO DEPUTY LEAVES WITH HOWARD HUNTER Deputy Sheriff Hart from Blaina county, Idaho, arrived In Enterprise Wednesday evening and left Thurs day morning taking with him Howard Hunter, aliasi Lee West, charged with forgeries. Accompanying the deputy sheriff was Deiectlve Kulper at the American Bankers' association' who aad arrested Hunter, in Joseph.' In stead either of handcuffing or shackl ing the prisoner the officer la charge placed him in what is known as the Oregon boot," a heavy piece of metal. fitting closely about the above the ankle. 1 - Hunter, as will be remembered, was arrested and brought to Enter prise las't Wednesday. He will be token to La Grande and from there :o Blaine county. Idaho wher he .will be made to answer the charges against him. Th prisoner feebly protested that there is a mistake and that he ie not the man wanted, but the officers, in chare fied that they have the right per son. His forgeries aggregated only 1135. For Father and Sons. Clothe t prices you can afford' to buy. wheth er you need or not. W. J. Funk & Co.