The Monmouth herald., July 29, 1910, Image 4

PLEASANT PRESCRIPTIONS.
One word, you hypochondriac;
Let nature heal your woes.
I f you are blue, despondent,
Just call on Doctor Rose.
With thorns, mayhap he'll lance you.
But then, to heal the smart,
He'll charm you with his beauty
And sweetness rare impart. .
If appetite is flagging,
Just call on Doctor Green,
He'll take you through the meadows
Where beauties rare are seen.
He'll give you green-leaf tonic
And spices from the wood;
One treatment will convince you
His medicine is good.
Mayhap ennui afflicts you;
Go call on Doctor Lark,
(You'll find him in the meadows,)
And to his music hark. . -He'll
tell you of the woodlana,
Breathe secrets of the hills,
And list'ning to his sweetest notes '
Will vanish all your ills.
Therefore I am repeating:
Let nature cure your woes.
There's healing in the meadows;
There's health hid in the rose.
Go revel in the gladness
That's rampant in the hills,
And flowers, birds and beauty
Will rob you of your ills.
Buffalo News.
Local and Personal.
Mrs, W. H. Lucas who has
been suffering from rheumatism
for some time past, has been get
ting worse lately and is unable
to walk at the present time.
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hair. Mrs. J. W. Richardson Sr.,
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Rev. W. W. Davis and wife
were in Monmouth last Friday,
the former on his way to Alsea
from the bed side of his daughter
to whom he had been called
early in the week and the latter
on her way to Portland to help
care for their daughter, who has
just undergone an operation for
a very severe case of apendicitis,
and who was doing as well as
could be expected at latest re
port. Later Mrs. Williamson
died and interment took place at
Albany yesterday. , y
Nature' Oddities
Our attention having been
called to an oddity in the way of
a prune growing from the" body
of a Drune tree at Mr.' T. 0. Wal
ler's place, in the Northern part
of the town, ;n company of G. A.
peterson, we visited the place
and found the facts in the case
as follows: ;
The tree is loaded with prunes
which are now beginning to
ripen, and some of the limbs
have already broken with their
weight of fruit, but the particu-
N TOUCH WITH FPlr.NnSam RELATIVES
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A Grandmother may not be as spry as she used to
be, but she is in close touch with her world for all that.
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The' Telephone enables her to make as many calls
as she pleases, and in all sorts of weather.
Formal gatherings have their place, but it is the
many little intimate visi s over the telephone that keep
people young and interested.
Grandmother's telephone visits do not stop with her
own town. The Long Distance Service of the Bell Tele
phone takes her to other towns, and allows relatives and
friends to chat with her although hundreds of miles away.
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Every Bell Phone is the Center of the System
BEING A HERO,
" By M. CUAD.
ICopyrlght. 1909, by American Vrfsr Am
nation. J
Ebenezer Srhennerliorn. h farmer's
hired "tnau. wan In love wltu I lie Wid
ow Tompkins, whose fnnu adjolued
that of bis Iionr on the west. Uueue
ler was twenty-four jews old. plain of
face and unfunny of form mid without
$100 worth of property. The widow
was less tlntn forty and well off. Ebe
tieser was rilled as Rood hrarled, but
rather dull. One eveutiiK ns lie drop
ped in to nee the widow nliout borrow
tng Home farm implements next day be
found her rending a love story. She
read a few rimpiera to him and after
ward acknowledged that she bad al
ways lfu romantic and that If she
ever married hkuIu It would be to a
hero. The tanners hired man didu't
rush riuht off that ninhi and try to be
a hero, but Nat down to think.
Three or tour days after Klienezer's
thinking bee a tramp cutne nioujt tbe
road and. seeing the young imiu hoe
ing corn Just over the tence. baited
for a word or two. Ordinarily Kbene
r.er would have leaped the fence and
ruu the wayfarer halt a mile, but ou
this occasion lie luvtted htm over Into
the corn and sat down with him for a
confidential conversation. The result
of that conversation was that at fct
o'clock that evening file tramp ap
peared before the Widow Tompkins
and made threats of what be would
do If she didn't set out victuals, huut
up old clothes and come down with a
dollar In cash. Kbenezer was not far
away. Just far enough to come ruu
blng up and knock 'Hie trump head
over heels and rescue the widow. But
as he started to come running he fell
down and got tangled up with the
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lar prune of which we have made bushes, and before he could get away
mpntirm hamrs nn fl stem from i widow bad broomstieked the tramp
the body of the tree and about
four feet from the ground, the
tiee being about four and a half
inches in diameter at that place.
At. the point where the prune is
attached to the tree is . neither
lud nor twig appearing, nor any
thing to ind'esti that a branch
will appear at that oint.. The
prune in point of mention is not
quite so large as the average
fruit of the tree and neither is it
as far advanced tow? r J ripening.
While at Mr. Waller's place
that gentleman showed us a cab
bage stock which is now past two
vears of age growing from the
same root, and it is
up for its third head having pro
duced one two years ago, one last
year, and is bearing for the third
time.
We asked Mr. Waller as to the
size of the heads, and received
the answer that they were aver
age. He also informed us of
one that grew a second head for Ile -t'i around it aud patrolled the
. . . garden aud the orchard, aud be felt
him some three or four years ,haI h wollld B,v.. tM. of hla atm
roblier would appear. He would first
tell biiu and tbeu arouse tbe house
aud wbeu tbe widow came to know
into ttlirht. She didu't say she was
j glad iliat the would be hero was so
near at hand. What she did say was
that sbe wasn't afraid of any old
tramp walking the roads.
Kbeiieer first try was a failure,
but wit hlii a fortnight he was ready
for another. Behind the farms ran a
river. Tbe widow had a skiff on the
water and ofteu rowed herself up and
down.. One night the farmer's hired
man took some tools dowu to tbe
la tiding and was busy for au hour.
Two evenings later. Just at sundowu.
be saw the widow making across tbe
field for tbe river, and be was uot long
In following her. lie expected to bear
cries tor help, lint they did uot come.
He expected to tlnd a woman clluglng
to a swamped boat, but be didn't. Sbe
was wading ashore wbeu be arrived
on the bauk and dashed lu. aud all be
got out of It was a good souslug and a
gaping cold In the bead.
A coiu iu i lie uenu casio a umu uuwu
for a few days, but If tbere be any
hero about him be rallies and becomes
more daring than ever. Kbenezer
rallied. Two or three farmhouses in
tbe township had beeu robbed, aud
this fact becuuie the tiasis for bis third
plan. One night at mldulgbt be left
bis bed. descended to eartb by way of
a window, anil, armed with a club, be
became a guard for tbe widow's bouse.
that be bad beeu guarding ber for love
bet beurt would melt toward blai. But
no robber came. Instead of that his
footsteps awoke tbe widow, aud. peer
ing out. sbe saw some oue walking
about, aud she got out a shotgun and
raised a wludow and blazed away. Tbe
gun was loaded with bird shot to shoot
hawks, that might come swooping
down on cblckeus, but in this case
tbey auswered just as well for a man.
Ebenezer received about twenty of
them and rau two miles to a doctor to
bave tbetu picked out. He also bad a
vacation from work for a week under
the excuse that be bad sprained bis
back turning over lu bed.
Mtiety-uine out of a hundred would
be heroes would have giveu up the Job
right here, but Ebenezer was a man
to bang on. it was while he was
limping around on bis vacation aud do
ing a lot of standing up aud wander
ing over the Belds that he came upon
the widow fishing in the river at a
certaiu point. He did uot show bim-
! self, but fifty feet from where she sat
under a tree be discovered a bumble
bees' nest iu tbe grass. It was a large
aud liberal nest. and. it gave bim a
thought. The bees wouldn't bother
auybody so long as they were let alone.
It stirred up tbey would look for meat
There was a haystack not far away,
and Ebeuezer bad matches in his
Docket. He retired behind the stack J
and collected a hatful of stones from
tbe plowed luud. These he threw one
by one at the spot where tbe bees
were pursuing tbe even tenor of their
ways. The plot thickened. You can
thicken a bumblebee plot in a very
short time. All you've got to do is to
trend on their coattalls. When the In
sects found the rocks dropping on their
heads tbey swarmed out of the grass
to look for the enemy. They should
have seen the widow and descended
upon her. and at her first shriek
Ebenezer would have come charging
down with a wisp of lighted hay In
either hand. But things went wrong.
The bees then went for him alone.
They ran hlra up and down the hay
stack, they ran him over fences and
back, they ran him across lots and In
circles, and when they finally left him
and he fell down the widow came for
ward and asked:
"But why were you such a fool?"
"Re-because I want you to marry
mel" he groaned iu reply.
Good lands: Why. I have been en
gaged to the sewing machine man for
the last six months!"
JOB
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been duly appointed ad
ministrator of the estate of Elizabeth
Fishback, deceased, by the County
Court of the State of Oregon, for Polk
County, and has qualified.
All persons having claims against
the said estate are hereby notified to
present the same duly verified, togeth
er with the proper vouchers therefor,
to the undersigned at his residence near
Monmouth, in said County, within six
months from the date of this notice.
Dated and first published July 15th,
1910.
Vardeman Albert Fishback,
Administrator of the estate of Eliza
beth Fishback, deceased,
Oscar Hayter, Attorney.
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