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About Estacada progress. (Estacada, Or.) 1908-1916 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1915)
You will need for this week. W orld’s Greatest Short Stories Make our Store your stopping place. N o. V I. See Us About That G ro ce ry O rd er Bring in Your Eggs We pay C A S H for them TH E NO TO RIO US J U M P IN G FROG OF CALAVER AS COUNTY fresh Veget.ibl s By Mark Tw ain •t full Line of ‘‘Bass of the Itoad” Overalls and Jumpers, Canvas Gloves, Work Shirts. Ladies »lose, Crochet Cottons, Socks,, Thread, etc. Waterbury & Chapman “The Quality Grocers" Fsta ad.i, • MANf c I WAI N Oregon What Do You Need Now? Furniture Dishes Linoleum Carpets Glassware Kitchen Utensils Silverware T u bs Cutlery Wringers Mattresses Rugs W all Paper Graniteware Fishing Tackle Boilers Springs Shades Curtains Special . Matting Rugs 9x13 - $3.60 PHONO GRAPH S Estacada Furniture C o. Green Tra ing Stamps $2. a day. Undertaker« $10. a week The Hotel Estacada Modern Conveniences One of the most delightful Resorts on the Coast Local and Tourist Trade Solicited Reduce the High Cost Of Living Preserve Your EGOS IN WATER-GLASS Estacada Pharmacy * T w enty-four famous authors were asked recently to name the best short story in the English language The choice of Owen Johnson was The Notorious Jumping Frog ot Calaveras County," by A'.ark Twain, whose complete works are publish ed by Messrs. Harper & Brothers. ---------------------------------- -- OWfcN JOHNSON f y compliance with the request he couldn't he'd change sides. Any I I I of ii friend o f mine who wrote way that sidled the other side would I I I from tiie east. 1 eulled on ¿rood suit him. Just sos he got a bet lie » — - J Matured, garrulous old Simon was satisfied. W lieeter and inquired after my friend's 'But still he was lucky, uncommon friend. Leonidas W. Smiley, as re lucky. H e most always come out win quested to do. and 1 hereunto append net*. H e was alw ays ready and laying the result. 1 have a lurking suspicion for a chance. There couldn't Is* no that Leonidas \V. Smiley Is a myth; sollt’ ry thing mentioned but that tel Unit my friend never knew sueli a per ler'd uflor to bet on it and take ary sonam?, and that he only eonjeetured side you pieuse. ns I was Just telling (hat if I asked old W heeler about him you. If there was a horse race you'd it would remind him o f Ids infamous tiud him flush «»r you d tine! him busted Jim Smiley, and lie would go to work at the end of It; if there was a dog and bore me to death with some e x tight he'd bet <»n It; if there was a cat asperating reiuiulaeeuee o f him us long tight he'd bet on it; it there was a and us tedious as it shot.id I k * useless chicken tight he'd bet on it Why. if to me. I f that was tin* design it suc there was tw o birds setting oil a fence ceeded. he would bet you wbi«*h one would lly I found Simon W heeler do/.lng com tirst. or if there was a «am p meeting fortaId.i by the barroom stove o f the lie would be there reg'lar t«> tier oil dilapidated tavern in the decayed min Parson Walker, which he judged to be ing « amp o f Angel's, and I noticed that the best exhorfer a I Hint here, and so he was fat and hnldhcaded aud hadan he was. too. iiim I a good man. expression o f winning gentleness and “ i f he even see ii straddle bug start sim plicity u| mui his tranquil counte to go anywheres la* would i»et you nance. lie roused up and gave me how long it would take him to get to— good day. I told him a friend o f mine to wherever lie was going to. and if hud commissioned me t«i make some you took him up he would fuller that inquiries a limit a cherished companion straddle bug to Mexico but what he o f his boyhood, named Leonidas W. would find out where he was bound for Smiley, Lev. Leonidas W. Smiley, a and how long lie was on the road young minister o f the gospel, who lie | Lots o f the boys here has seen that had heard was at one time a resident Smiley and run fell you about him. of Angel s Lump. I added that If Mr. ! Why. It never made ii «» difference to W heeler could tell me auytuiug about b iin -h e d hot mi tiling the dangest this Lev. Leonidas W. Smiley, i would feller. Parson W alker’s w ife laid very feel under many obligations to him. , sick once for a good while, and it seem Simon Wheeler backed me Into a ! ed ns If they warn’t going t«» save her. «orner and bloeknded me there with : But one morning lie m ine in. and Smi- Ids chair iiud then sat down and reeled I ley up and asked him how she was. «»If the monotonous narrative \j;hi«h I and lie said she was eonsid'able better, follow s this paragraph. li e never j thank the Lord f«»r Ills inf'nit mercy. smiled, lie never frowned, he never I and coming on so smart that, with the changed his voice from the gentle Mow j blessing «if Prnv'denm. she'd get well ing key t«i which he tuned Ills initial yet. And Smiley before lie thought sentence, lie never betrayed the slight ■ays. 'W ell. I'll r«»sk ft!.no she don't est suspicion o f enthusiasm, hut all a n y w a v ' through the interminable narrative “ Thlsh yer Smiley had a mnre— the there rail a vein o f impressive earnest ness and sincerity which showed me boys called her the fifteen minute nag. plainly that, so fa r from his imagining but that was only in fun. you know, tlint there was anything ridiculous or because, o f course, she was faster runny about his story, he regarded it | than that—and he used to win money ou that horse, for ail she was so slow as a really Im ism aut uiatter aud ad mired Its tw o heroes as men o f trails- and alw ays had the asthma nr the dis- « emlent genius in finesse. 1 let him go temper or the consumption or some- tiling o f tlwit kind They used to give on In his own way aud ucver inter her tw o or three hundred yards’ start rupted him once. and then pass her under way. but til “ L ev. Leonidas W .- h 'u i- L e v . L e - Well. there was a feller here once by ways at the fag end o f the race she'd the name o f Jim Smiley In the winter get excited and desperate-like aud j o f '4P. or maybe it was the spring o f come cavorting and straddling up and j ’50. 1 don't recollect exactly somehow. »u tte r in g her legs around limber, though what makes me think it w hs sometimes in the air and sometimes | one or the other Is been use I remember out to one side amongst the fences and the big flume warn’t tin Is bed when he kicking lip m-o-r-e dust and raising tirst come to the camp. But anyway m-o-r-e rucket with her coughing and tie was the curiousest man about, a I sneezing and blowing her none, and al ways betting on anything that turned ways fetch up at the stand Just about a neck ahead, as near us you could ui» you ever see If he could get any body to bet ou the other side, and if "Ipher It down. "And he iia.l a little small bull pup that to look at him you'd think he warn't worth a cent but to set around, look ornery and iuy for a chance to steal something. But as soon us mon ey was up ou him he was a different dog. His underjaw'd begin to stick out like the fo'custle o f a steamboat, and his teeth would uncover and shine like the furnaces. And a dog might tuekle him and bullyrag him and bite him and throw him over his shoulder tw o or three times, and Andrew Jack- son—which was the name o f the pup Andrew Jackson would never let on but what he was satisfied and hadn't expected nothing else and the bets be ing doubled and doubled on the other side all the time till the money was all up. and theu all o f a sudden lie would grab the other dog Jest o.v the j'.nt •if his hiud leg and freeze t«» it. u«»t chaw, you understand, but only Just grip and hang ou till they thr«»wed up the 8|M>nge. If It was a year. "Sm iley always come «nit winner on (hat pup till he harnessed a «log once that didn’ t have no bind legs, because they'd been sawed «»IT in a circular saw. and when the thing Innl •one far enough, and the money was all up. an I be couie to make a snatch for his pet holt, he seen in a minute Imw he'd been impost d *»n and how the tithe»* ! dog had him in the door, so to speak, and he |»eared surprised, mid I In n he J looked sorter discouraged-like and I didn't try no more t«> win the tight. I and so he got all ticked out b d. IL* ! give Smiley a look as much as to j say his heart was broke, and it was his fault, for putting up a dog that hadn't no hind legs for him t«» take holt of. which was his main depeml d ic e in a tight, and theu lie limped ■ off a piece aud laid down and died It ' was a good pup. was that Andrew ' Jackson, aud would have made a name for himself if he’d lived, for the stuff was in him aud tie had genius, i know it. because lie bad no opportunities t<» speak of. aud it don't stand to reason that a dog could make su« b a tight as he could under them circumstances if he hadn't no talent. it alw ays makes me feel sorry when I think o f that last tight **f his'n and the way It j turned out. ••Well, this yer Smiley had rat tar- • riers and chicken rocks ami touieats i aud all them kind o f things till you « ouldn’t rest, and you cou.diTt fetch j nothing for him to bet <>u but he’d ; mutch you. lie kebhed a fr< g one day and tool* him home and said Ii - ea 1’lated to educate him. and s«i he never done nothing for three months but set in Ids b.nk ya.d and learn that frog t«» jump. And you bet lie d»d j learn him too. He'd give him a little | punch lieliiud. aud tin* next minute you'd see ttiai frog whirling in the air like a d«tiighiiut—see him turn one sum mersef or may lie a « «nip e. f lie got a good stari. and come d«»wn finifooted and all right, like a «•at. lie got him lip so iii the matter of ket« lung tiles and kep* him in pru t«« e s«i « «instant that he'd nail a lly every rime as fur iis he could see him. "Smiley said all a frog want«si was education and lie eou.d do iiu m i any thing. and i believe him. W in I’ ve seen him sci Oan'l Webster down Imre on tills fl«M»r I >nii*l Webster was tin* name o f the frog nmf slug otu. 'Fifes. Dnn'I. tiles!' And «piicker'ii you could wink he'd spring straight up and snake a fly off'ii the counter there and thip down on the floor ng'ln ns solid as a go!» o f mud aud fall to scratching the side o f Ills head with his hind f«»«*t. as Indifferent as If lie hadn’t ii «» i«len h«*d been doing any iimre'n anv fr«>g might do Yon never see a frog s«» nnxlest and straightf«»r*ard as he was. for all he was s«» gifted. \n»1 when I? «sane to fair end square lumping <m a den! level be could get over more ground at one straddle than Hiiy animal o f his breed you e ver see. Jumping «»u a dead leve* was Ida strong suit, you under stand. and when it come to that Smiley would ante up money on him aa long as he had a red. Smiley was mon strous proud o f his frog, and well he might be. for fellers that h*d traveled Concluded on page 4