FALLS e iTY FALLS CITY, OKEGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4. 1017 1 1 VOL. XIII H e Married His Grandma A n d by T hat A ct H e Saved a I' ortune. By BRADFORD C. ALMY I in Switzerland and about to etBrt to climb the Jungfrau when I Buta iHjcr stating that my grand- ■f>*.*Nl«erinan Wellesley, aged t>f .had married and died <W*imenay. In a twinkling I wa* deposed from a position of heir expectant to a great fortune to—I did not know what My grandfather had bitterly iv ! opposed mv y prni)i utility to travel and especially to climb mountains. I was his only descendant, and he had kng endeavored to Induce me to set tle down to the care of the million* which he had willed me. He lived in constant terror lest 1 should make a slip on one of mv climbs, go aev- ersl thousand feet down over s precipice and the fortune that had neon accumulating during his life time w ould go a-l>cgging. His intention in marrying was plain to me. He had doubtless lost all patience with me and at the last moment married some woman who would supply mv place as an heir. I left for home at once, and as toon as I landed I wrote my new grand mother asking for information as to her husband's disposition of the property. Rv return mill 1 receiv ed this reply: T o u r i?rftji<1fftth<»r. b e i n g t a k e n *u<14tnly 111. c o n e l u d e r i l o <U atroy t h e mill l e a v i n g y o u h ts »ole h e ir, n o t h a v i n g m n f l d e n r e t h n t y o u w o u l d n e t t l e d o w n a n d a t t e n d lo tit« p r o p e r t y H a v i n g h u t a n h o u r o r t w o t o live, t h e r e u a a n o t i m e t o m a k e a d e t a i l e d w ill f l a v i n * g r e e t c o n f i d e n c e In m e. h e m a r r i e d m e on hie d e a t h b e d a n d a l i n e d a w il l c o m p r l a e d In a f e w w o r d « l e a v i n g m e a ll h la p r o p e r t y . H e. h o w e v e r , e x a c t e d a p r o m l e e f r o m to e t h a t If y o u d e - • t r e d t o m a r r \ m e I w tniM t a k e y o u f o r a husband Phew! Marry mv grandmother! Well, all depended upon what sprang up in my breast that s' M might lie of a suitable age for me and passably good looking. I wrote her that I would run up for a con ference ami politely nsnured her that if jho was not favorably impressed with me I would release her from tho verbal condition bv declining to marry her. This, I flittered myself, was a very foxy way of putting it, mv real object being to decline to take a wife with a fortune if I didn’t like her. I was doomed to a terrible disa pointment. I found mv grandmot er a veritable grandmother. She was sixtv-five yearly old, fat. bald and not a tooth in her head that was her own. 1 cursed myself for a fool to,have declined to comply with mi grandfather's wishes during his life, for now that the blow had fallen I realized my folly. Haiing taken sufficient time tc make up my mind what course to pursue, I sounded her as to whether I could marry her, take an allow ance and spend my time anywhere but with her. She said she would think it over, and I had hope. Rut the next day I was informed that such a course would not he carrying out her late husband’s wishes. He had desired that I should take care of the property. The meaium through whom I re ceived this answer was Agnes Dor chester, rav grandmother’s secreta ry, a young woman not quite my age. Indeed, I was obliged to trans act everything through this girl, snd it was not long before I saw plainly that Mrs. Wellesley was completely under her thumb. I spent some time at my grand mother’s endeavoring to bring her to some terms. She declined all my proposals, adhering to her late hus band’s intentions. She would fulfill her promise and would not consent to any subterfuge to pet around it. A month passed, and I was about to give it all up and go away when Sirs. Wellesley herself came to me with a proposition. I "I sympathize with ' " you heartily,' tUT, she said, “in being to give dng obliged obli ggjgpfcjj ward you. If she will have \i»u and I jewels'lhat <41 the goldsmiths • onld United States Will von will have her I will make a will procure to decorate my crown. An Queen Caroline, ton, the wife leaving mv property to you both Not M il In Politics jointly, giving her meanwhile con of George I I . u n i to allude to I,ord Hcrvey’s rather pern nal remark Washington, July 31.—The trol of the income.” I had no hope that Miss Dorches that her crowning dress “was si flne United States is not obliged to ter would rnarry me simply to gain a* the accumulated riche« of the follow France in her ambition to s fortune, and in snv event f ahould city and suburbs could make it. for, tegain Alsace-Loraine, it was of have to live with her and carry out beaidei her own jewels, she had on mv grandfather’s wishes But any- her head and shoulder* all the ficially stated here to day. - Nor thing rather than brggnrv. I went pearls she could borrow of the ladies ifl American relation toward the to the young lady, told her of Mrs of quality at one end of th r town, allies such that this government Wellesley’s proposition and asked and on her petticoat all the dia would necessarily demand free monda she could hire of the jewel- her to lie njv wife dom for certain part# of Austria. ers at the other.” What did she do but toss her mse Balfour, in asserting yesterday in the air and decline to have any M a nne r* In 1628. that England would tight until thing to do with aucli a proposition In a manual of good manners France regained the territory she I left her furious. She would published in Paris in the read rather give up a fortune than bo my er is warned. “ In yawning in public held before Rismark, spoke only w ife, f spent the next twenty-four do not groan.” A familiar admoni for England, it was Btated. hours in inventing imaginary ways tion is, “ When listening to some one Officials would not say how of torturing her. The upstart! 1 •peaking do not wiggle about, but America stands on the question resolved that I would make Mis* keep thyself in thv »kin the while.” I>oreheater love me, then toss her It must have been hard to obey thi» of Alsace-Lorraine, but they aside as a wax doll. latter injunction, judging from whst made it plain the United States In a few weeks I had softened her is said a little further along, “Kill is not necessarily going to mix in so far as to receive a proposition not flees or the like in the presence the allies’ politics. from her. af others, but cxeu*'’ thvself and re The United States will, how "I cannot hear,” she said, "to move whatever torments thee.” ever, insist on restoration of Bel •tand between you and a fortune. gium.—Salem Capital Journal. I feel that it will he impossible for B a gdad. Mrs. Wellesley to carry out your Bagdad is one of the most fa- Since the United States has randfather's intentions toward you. ' mows meeting places of Islam, over been drawn into this war the will agree to her proposition to 100,000 pilgTim* passing through allies are beginning to show their msrrv you provided you will prom the city yearly. ise to go swsv and not trouble me.” Although the citv is embowered fangs. It has been declared that "Are von aware,” I said, the color in trees and a refreshing contrast to the United States is in the u ar rising to ray cheek and a spark glit i the desert without, the streets are with the allies to the end: the tering in mv aye, “that you are by- narrow, crooked, unpaved and dirty, no means flattering ?” full of ruts and strewed with gar complete subjugation of Germany "But I supposed what you wish is bage, which is for the most part being the goal. Such being the to go abroad and break yonr neck removed hv dogs, the only scaven case and knowing of the allies’ climbing mountains ” gers in the east. plans of conquest how can we "Oh. I exclaimed ironically. "In Many scenes vividly described in avoid being a party, or a tool? that ease vou would not he troubled “The Arabian Nights” were laid in The complete overthrow of Ger with me further.” Bagdad. many under these conditions “ And daath would release vou C o m fo rtin g . from living with a wife von had would license the Allies to make Aunt Anna was recovering from their own terms. The overthrow married for convenience.” In this retort I fancied I could an illness and wa* much annoyed detect something womanly—some bv the well meaning but tactless of Germany would be proper, but thing of nain. I was surprised. I friends who persisted in telling her insist that the Allies conform to went to her and laid mv hand on how badly she looked. Sympathetic a worlds’ democracy and not for little Edward was trying to comfort ’’Worlds’ Supremecv. The peo her arm. I wss not repulsed. | "I think,” I said, "that vou could her. ple of this nation should know “Don’t you let them make you carry out my grandfather’s wishes. At any rate, try. I will do all I can fell sorrv, auntie.” lie begged. “I the intentions of the Allies that don’t think you look one single bit they may not be blindly led in to help you ” "To retain your fortune,” she worse than you always do.” — Ex to the same error they are seek change. said, pouting. ing to correct in others. “ And become a loving husband.” Music In J a p a n . * * * • • • « • Music as an art ha- little stand- The evening before the wedding, CAN SHORTAGE when I was a hundred miles from ; mg h i Japan. It is left almost en The car shortage is again being my intended bride, I was thrown tirely to women, who cultivate it to into a wild state by the receipt of ; the extent of playing on a guitar- felt. It appears to be a chronic i like instrument called the samisen. summer complaint of the railroad the following telegram: T o u m u s t m a r r y y o u r g r a n d m o t h e r a f t i “In the not very remote pist,” says e r all. o r lo«« y o u r f o r t u n e AONE9 the writer, “no gentleman could companies, setting up about har What n-w complication could reconcile the practice of music with vest time and continuing about have arisen? Why could not those masculine dignity, and this state of nine months in the year. This lawyers be certain of anything? I affairs is changing but slowly.” year it is expected that the de had become violently in love with mand for cars will be unusual. Miss Dorchester snd would not in While crops are a little short, A H e , / y Meal. any event give her up. I replied: Two pavement artists were boaat- the shipment of army supplies to G r a n d m o t h e r be h a n g e d ! I w il l m a r r y you t o m o r r o w I ing about their skill. the Atlantic sea board and the “Do you know,” s.ii<l one. *1 various cantonments will require I could not get a train till early the next day, but after a sleepless painted a dime od the ground one a great number of cars and it is night at 5 a m. was steaming to day, and a boy nearly broke his fin likely that industries not engaged ward my bride that was to he. On gers trying to pick it up.” in producing supplies for the “That’s nothing to shat I d'd," ; mv arrival I dashed up to the house in a carriage, alighted and hurried said the other. "I painted a leg of government will suffer. up the steps. Agnes was standing mutton on a stone, ami it was so It might be within keeping of in a front window in bridal array, ' real like that n hungry dog ate half govermental polity for Congress her face radiant with happiness. ! the stone before lie found out hi* to appropriate a few hundred Rushing into the room where she mistake.”—American Boy. thousand and appoint a committe was, I caught her in ray arms. “ What’s the m atter?” I asksd, NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS to investigate the matter. It, at breathless. least, would give employment to “You’re going to marry vour Some of the sidewalks of Falls a few deserving comrades. grandmother.” City are in a deplorable condition “ No, I’m not. I’m going to mar and unless they are repaired by ry you.” HYSTERIA HOT PATRIOTISM ''I ’m your grandmother.” Her the owners of the property the city will be obliged to repair them, eves were dancing a hornpipe. There are those who would Then I saw it all. My grandfa which requires considerable extra have you believe that because the ther had married her instead of the expense to proceed according to people of this country are not old woman. She had been playing law. If anyone is injured on ac ablaze with enthusiasm and shout a game with me. Mv grandfather count of defective sidewalks, the from the housetops they are nec in the presence of death had hit upon the expedient of marrying the city is liable for such damages essarily not patriotic. But no gill who had been supplying my and the taxpayers of Falls City greater’ mistake in judgement lace by devoting herself to him. must pay them. Please repair was ever made. his would make her inheritance The American people as a mass stronger in law, though he left a ; your sidewalks. Street Committee. except the few who are profiting will in her faror telling her that it was his wish that she should mar prodigiously, have regretted the ry me and make a man of me. Drastic measures, within the necessity of going to war, hoping But she had no mind to make a business transaction of the matter. law, should be employed to rid it might be avoided Even now She had therefore put an old wo the country of men who seek to there is an undercurrent of hope man forward to personate her as destroy crops or other property, that in some way* consistent with the widow while she stood in the honor, the dire consequences of background. The old woman had and suppress newspapers publish the war that has engulfed the nothing else to do with the matter ing exager&ted reports of any except to receive a handsome salary. depredations. Both are enemies nations of Europe may yet be avoided. ' ; I had been completely duped, but to good government. had become so impressed with the ability and good sense of my real B AS E B A L L A ND DANCE Don’t bank too much on the grandmother that the moment I was piqned I was hopelessly in love. There will be a base ball game smiles and kisses you are going No. 50 Bargain Days THIS IS TH E T IM E O F Y E A R WHEN C LEA R A N C E SALES A R E PREVAI1IN6 REDUCED PRICES A R E ROW IN EFFC T ON Summer Wash Goods, Ladies’ Hats i i up a fortune or take with it an old woman like myself. I will tell you what I will do. I am as attached to Miss Dorchester as if she were my daughter. She is of suitable age for W o r k e d B oth Ends. ou and a woman of rare good sense, Queens st their best arc hut wo can safelv trust her to carry out vonr .grandfather's „intentions to- men. Said Marv of Modena once in her diuj of txija, “It_too]j all the i N EW S at Dallas Saturday and a dance at night in honor of the boys of Co. L who will stop to say good- , bye on their way south. to get from the French lassies, son. The fighting is done in the trenches, and not on the boule vards of Paris. Ladies New Up-to-Minute Style High Top Two Tone Shoes; Canvas Shoes Men’s Dress Straw Hats, were $2.00 to $3.00, Now $1.00. \ arious other items reduced for quick Clearance. NOW IS THE TIME TO PICK IAH0AINS. SELIG’S, Cash Price Store, ‘ Meeting and Beating Competition” . The w ay to have a Bank Account is to start one. lhere must be a Beginning sometime. De lays are only a waste of time. One Dollar will start. Every' additional dollar w,ll help. This bank invites you. We par inferesf on time deposits. BANK O F - FALLS C ITY. Family Seashore Resort People seeking refit and quiet recreation will find them at New port B eaches Good hotels, cottages and tents provide pleasant abiding places for summer guests. Surf bathing, boating, fishing, and hunting. W eek End Fares Are on sale Saturdays and Sundays, limited for return on the following Monday. Season Tickets on sale daily. Ask your local agent for tickets and descriptive boolet John M. Scott. 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