6 I R U R A L B N T L K P K ISK * • • • • • • • • G L O S E * • 'Y • S a o d a ,— M onday— T uesday $ Mareh 1—2 - 8 FEB. 25. 1925 CUT FLOWERS -S H E E T MUSIC HALL’S 5 CECIL B. DeMILLE’S 1A GOLDEN : BED Plorai and Muuc Shop Alban >. So Big (Continued from page 5) • • Another triumph by the J maker of ‘‘ The Teo Com- J mandmeota.” | galloon«, plastrons, revere, hustles, • all tuuuher of lumpy bedevilment. That j Selina could appear In this disfiguring garment s creature still graceful, slim, and pliant was a steer triumph of spirit over mutter. I She blew out the light now and de- , scended the steep wooden stairway to the unlighted parlor. The door be­ Ray bestow Hi-speed Brake tween parlor and kitchen was closed. Service Station Selina sniffed sensitively. There was pork for supper. She was to learn that 212 there was always pork for supper. She hesitated a moment there In the Phon > darkness. Then she opened the kitch­ en door. There swam out at her a haze of smoke, from which, emerged round blue eyes, guttural talk, the smell of « A L S E Y R A ILR O A D TIM fi frying grease, of stable, of loam, and •North of woolen wash freshly brought In from South the line. With an Inrush of cold air I No 32, 3:20 a. m. No. 17, 12:09 p. „ 33. 7 ;llp . £ that sent the blue haze Into ewtrls the I 10 48 «• m lamp. **' P- m. Jl, 11:34 p. “No!" The two on their knees sat outer kitchen door opened. A boy, I his arm piled high with stov«-wo«>d, I ^°; 14, du8 Haleey at 5:02 p. m.. smiling at each other, wide-eyed, like entered; a dark, handsome sullen boy I g u et Pasa8nger» from south ’lops q { schoolgirls. who stared at Selina over the armload U N o?eii . "Here—wait." Maartje Pool thrust _ of wood. Selina stared back at him Nos. 31. 32, 33 i n d °£ ° n flaKke,J- the lamp into Selina's hand, __ raised th . lid of the chest, dived expertly I f^ieye sprang to life between the boy I land and Engene only. tween Port. Into Its depths amidst a great rustling ° f tweive and the woman of nineteen Passenger« for south of Roteburp shn«.u u kÄ No. 17 to and electric cu current of t feeling. of old newspapers and emerged red- an e'e8f]fto rren t n feeiine I take tr, Euirene — » .c ther8 « S "Roelf,” thought S elin a; and even faced with a Dutch basque and volum­ inous skirt of silk ; an age-yellow cap took a step toward him, Inexplicably 18, 17, 14, 34 and 33 »n order named. , whose wings, stiff with embroidery, drawn. “Hurry then with that wood th ere!” gtood out grandly on either side a n pair of wooden shoes, stained terra­ fretted Maartje ot the stove. The boy i cotta like the sails of the Vollendam Hung tbe armful Into the box. brushed ( ' aid-iO f P a ra g r a p h » fishing boats, and carved from toe to Ids sleeve and coat-front mechanically, (5c a line) heel in a delicate nnd Intricate pat­ still looking at Selina. Klaas Pool, already at table, tern. . A bridal gown, a bridal cap, Lost—-A PinkiDg Iron, about 8 thumped, with his knife. “Sit down, bridal shoes. "Well!” said SeUna, with the feel­ teacher." Selina hesitated, looked at inches lo n g ; aemi-cirole on oat ing o f a little girl In a rich attic on Maartje. Maartje was holding a fry- |end. Robeta Vannice, 1 rain, day. She clasped her hands. ing pan aloft .In one hand while with the dther she thrust and poked a fresh “May 7 dress up In It sometime?" W hole milk delivered, 8c ousrt Maartje Pool, folding the garments I >tick o1 wood Int0 018 open-lidded Mrs. W. F, Carter. hastily, looked shocked and horrified. ’ tove’ The two pl«talls tocm- ’’Never muut anybody dress up In a selve8 at the table. 8et w llh it» red- eld»»'« .i—___ . I PhPrkPfl n in th n n d h(in*.hunt(lnA Lo«t— In HaHey or Albany at bride’s dress, only to get married. It checked cloth and bone-handled cutlery. brings bad -uck." Then, as Selina Roelf flung his cap on a wall-hook and on the train between tb« iwo pi« stroked the stiff silken folds of the sat down. Only Selina and M aartje re- P1“ 08»— A n E a s te rn S ta r skirt with a slim and caressing fore­ malned standing. “Sit down! s it F in d e r p lease leave at E nterprise F finger; “So you get married to a down!” Klass Pool said again. Jovial- office a n d receive rew ard High Prairie Dutchman I let you wear ly. "Well, how is cabbages?” He ' It.” At this absurdity they both chuckled and winked. A duet of tit­ Rhode Island red eggs, 50c a laughed again. Selina thought that ters from the pigtails. Maartje at the P. j Forster. thlg school-teaching venture was start­ stove smiled; but a trifle grimly, one setting. ing out very well. She wuuld have might have thought, watching her. Evi­ such things to tell her father—then dently Klass had not hugged his Joke , ° ,ld papers for sale at 5c a bundl« the Enterprise office, she remembered. She shivered a lit­ In secret. Only the boy Roelf remained I __ — tle as she stood up now. There surged unsmiling. Even Selina, feeling the red | over her a greut wave of longing for mounting to her cheeks, smiled a little , her father—for the theater treats, for nervously, and sat down with some his humorous philosophical drawl, suddenness. for the Chicago streets, nnd the ugly (By an Enterpriae Reporter) (To be continued) Chicago houses; for Julie; for Miss Mrs. J. H. Rickard ia on the sick Plater's school; for anything and any list. one that was accustomed, known. and ft ¡nukes out letter»?* Selina peered closer. “W hy, sure enough! This first one’s an S Maartje was kneeling before the chest now. “Sure an S. For Sophia It Is a Holland bride’s chest. And here Is K. And here Is big D. It wakes Sophia Kroon DeVries. It Is anyways two hundred years. My mother she gave It to me when I was married, and her mother she gave It to her when she was married, and her mother gave It to her when she was married, and her—" “I should think so!" exclaimed Se­ lina, rather meaningiessly; but stem lag the torrent. “What’s In it? Any­ thing? There ought to be bride’s clothes In It, yellow with age, “It Is!” cried Maartje Pool and gave a little bounce that Imperiled the TORRANCE Reconditioning Shop have been offended at anything today For In spite of her recent tragedy, her nineteen years, her loneliness, the ter­ rifying thought of this new home to • Coining soon, I tioinae Mtugh- ’ wblcb she was going, among strangers, she was conscious of a warm thrill ot • a n ’« latest, « elation, of excitement—o f adventure I That was It. “The whole thing’s Just a grand adventure,“ Slier on Peake had said. Selins gave a little bounce of anticipation. She was doing a revolu " ja. t ln n v r y uad daring ihlng : a thing that Halwy Happenings the Vermont and now. fortunately, In­ accessible Peakes wonld bare regarded (Continued from page 4) with horror. For equipment she hod Robert Allen is cutting wood for youth, cariosity, a steel-strong frame; one brown ledy’e-cloth. one wine-red B. M. Bond. eaehmere; four hundred end ninety- Lucas Wheeler and wife and Bryar seven dollars; and a gay, adventure­ Selina Stood Looking About Her in the Dim Light, a Vary 8mall Figure called on the llalaey Wheelers Sun some spirit that was never to die, In a Very Large World. though it led her Into carious places -.2. x : and she often found, at the end, only Miss Dorothy Chilcote of Albans a trackless waste from which she had fork In her hand, th e kitchen was spent the week end with Miss Alt« to retrace her steps, painfully. But clean, but disorderly, with the disor­ der that comes of pressure of work. Miner. always, to her, red and green cabbages *• • There was a not unpleasant smell of were to be Jade and Burgundy, chrye- Harrisburg’s interest in the pock cooking. Selina sniffed it hungrily. oprase and porphyry. Life has no crusher at that city has been bought weapons against a woman like that. The woman turned to face them. Se­ lina stared. by the county. Klaus Pool was a school director. This, she thought, must be some She was to live at his bouse. Perhaps Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Wahl anc other—an old woman—his mother, she should not have said that about tbe daughter Wilma were Corvallis cal perhaps. B ut; “Maartje, here is cabbages. So now the drew herself up school teacher,” said Klaas Pool. . Se­ lers Saturday. primly and tried to appear the school lina put out her hand to meet the other Trula, Miller o f Brownsville and teacher, and succeeded In looking as woman’s hand, rough, hard, calloused. severe as a white pansy. Her own, touching it, was like sutln Warron Benedict of Hoqaian “Ahem I" (or nearly that). "You against a pine board. Maartje smiled, have three children, haven’t you, Mr. were married Feb. 13. and you saw her broken discolored Pool? They’ll ull be my pupils?” teeth. She pushed hack the sparse George Finley was in Halsey Sun- Klaas Pool ruminated on this. He lay, in transit between his big Craw­ concentrated so that a slight frown hair from her high forehead, fumbled a little, shyly, at the collar of her fordsville farm and Portland. marred the serenity of his brow, io clean blue calico dress. • ibis double question of hers, an at­ Mrs. L. V. Chance has returned a f­ “Pleased to meet you,” Maartje tempt to give the conversation a dlgnl- said, primly. “Make you welcome.” ter a few daiys’ visit with her par ded turn, she had apparently created Then, us Pool stamped out to the yard, ents, Mr. and Mrs. Davis o f Albany. tome dlfflculty for her host. He was slamming the door behind him, “Pool Glenn Hill of Harrisburg was in I rytng to shake his head two ways ut he could have come with you by the « sey Friday and was accompanied j the same time. Thts gave It a rotnry front way, too. Luy off your things.” notion. Safina saw, with amazement, Selina began to remove the wrappings home by his mother for a few day. hat he was attempting to mW negation that swathed her—the muffler,, the Visit. ’ md confirmation at once. shawl, the cloak. Now she stood, a J S. Nlcewood offers prizes o f $1 I “You mean you haven’t—or they’re slim. Incongruously elegant, little fig­ 60c and 26c for the three best letters, iot>—or— T' ure In that kitchen. The brown lady’s- “I have got three children. All will Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Isom went to written by members of the high iot be your pupils." There was some- doth was very tight and hasqued therefore dear. She had a horrible above, very flounced and bustled be­ premonition that she wus going to school civics class. Albany Friday. hlng final, unshakable In bis delivery low. “My, bow you are young!" cried cry, begun to blink very fast, turned Maartje. She moved nearer, as If Im­ a little blindly In the dim light and Miss Ida Jackson, granddaughter | >f this. “Dear me! Why not? Which ones pelled, and Angered the stuff of Seli­ caught sight of the room’s third ar­ Reduction Is Attributed to | ed a t E. D. Isom’s Sunday8"” y V,Slt or C. C. Jackson, who attended th e, von t. Do tell me which ones will and na’s gown. Ami as she did this Selina resting object. A blue-black cylinder Halsey high school lust year, went vhlch ones w on ’t ” Mrs. E. A. Starnes visited her sis­ Decreased Plantings in suddenly saw that she, too, was young of tin sheeting, like a stove nnd yet “Ge«rtje goes to school. Jotlna goes The hud teeth, the thin hair, the care­ unlike. to W ash in gton and m arried. It was polished like the ter, Miss H attie Dannen, Friday. All Growing Sections. Mr. and Mrs. H. F. English ana | o school. Hoelf works by thy farm.’’ less dress, the littered kitchen, the length of pipe In the sitting-room be­ Charles Warden o f Rowland was “How old Is Hoelf?" She was being harassed frown—above all these, low. Indeed, it was evidently a giant children wont to Eugene Friday ev < P rep ared by th e U n ite d S t * U i D e p a rt chool teacherly again. an .«fternoon caller at Chester Curtis' standing out clearly, appeared the look flower of this stem. m eat of A *rl« S iltu ro .) i c , cm qg for a visit with the former’» “Hoelf Is twelve." of s girl. "What’s thut?" demanded Selin«, Production of all type, of tobacco | i>unday- m o th er and to a tte n d the ,,pera given "Twelve! And no longer at school! Why, I do believe she's not more pointing. grown In the United States was smaller Miss Catherine Pinneo, a student Hut why n o t!’ hy the Brandon Comic Opera c than twenty-eight!’’ Sellqa said to her­ Maurtje Pool, depositing the lamp last year than In 1823, reports the P»ny. . Koelf he works by the farm." at the self In a kind of panic. "I do believe » on ■ the i little , wash-stand - preparatory - y Unlt»d Status Department of Agricul- Whi, ( U. ■ q of J O., ’’ visPed Mrs. A. E. Doesn’t Koelf like schodir she's not more than twenty-elghu’’ to leaving, smiled prldefuUy. “Drum." I The total crop was 1,248,000.000 whItbeck Sunday But sure." W. J. Lane's car was turned hot-1 She hud been awure of the two pig- D runit pounds as compared with 1,615,000.000 Mr and M r. t “Don't you think be ought to go to tailed heads appearing and vanishing tom side up near Mattoon, 111., Feb ™ M Me« ° rd Ingram of "For beat your room.” Selina pounds In 1923. The cigar types show . . . ort ,how- “ r8,i “«ion of 248,- P brtiised and cut up more than was ack “Doesn't your wife want Roelf ■ rance had not been made by way of powers were mythical. Even when OOOJXM) pounds. E• A- Starnes, A. E. Whitbeck and pleasant, but they were walking I to go to school any more?" parlor instead of kitchen. She fol- the stove In the sitting room was Decrease In Planting. | D' Iiom attended an I. O. O. F. "Maartje? Bat sure." about with their bruises next day. lowed Maartje Pool Into the front blazing away with a cheerful roar qone The reduced production is attributed at Brownsville Saturday She gathered herself.- together: room. Behind the stove, tittering, of the glow communicated itself to Mr . and Mrs. Charles Straley am urled herself behind the next ques were two yellow-haired little girls. the drum, rt remained as coolly in­ to decreased plantings in practically "lg h t Mrs. Straley’s mother,* Mrs. Esthei lion. “Then why doesn’t he go to Geertje and Jozlnu, of course. Selina different to the blasts breathed upon all the Important tobacco growing see- w and Mrs' E- A- Starnes and chool. for pity’s sake?" !, went over to them, smiling. “Which it as a girl hotly besieged by an un­ tlons, and by decreased yields In many M Rlke, drove to Corvallis Saturday Klaas Pool's pale blue eyes were Is Geertje?” she asked. “And which welcome lover. areas. The biggest decrease was In the - rS' ^som attended the funeral evening, Mrs. Rike returning to her fixed on the spot bet weep the horse's Jozlns." But at this the titters be­ or flue-cured tobacco portions o1 A11'8 Elder at Shedd Tuesday of •Maartje! work. Mr. and Mrs. Straley return roared a voice from •art. His face was serene, placid. Da came squeals. They retired behind tielowstMlrs. Tbe voice of the hungry of 1 Irglnla and the Oarollnas, where last week. ed by Albr,ny and called on Mrs. E Kent. v the round black hulwurk of the wood- male. There was wafted up, too, a production of what are known as the E . Gourley and the twins at the burns», overcome. ’ R o elf he works hy the farm." New Belt wa" “ V G ueits at H- Ri<*«rd’s Sunday faint smell of scorching. Then came hospital. Selina subsided, beaten. Selina s quick glance encompassed sounds of a bumping and thumping lc » Z n ^ U .r y e ° a r .162,000 ,100 P° Un<” I n - ’ Tate in d of Duak was coming on. The lake mist the room. In the window were a few along the narrow stairway. Peoria and M. C. and Jesse Jenks Mr. and Mrs. E F. Cross drove toj came drifting across the prairie and hardy plants in pots on a green-paint­ Of IA these two flue-cured IJUUI?, type«, UiV the t)g heden!“ cried Maartje, In a V a... . hung, a pearly haze, over the frost- ed wooden rack. There was a sofa panic, her hands high in alr.^ She New Belt type showed the heaviest de And wives of Tangent. > Hillsboro Friday evening for a week / end visit with the latter’s parents nipped stubble and the leafless trees with a wrinkled calico cover; three was off. 2oonisiJSiUCtlU" be‘ng placod Ht about E. A. Starpes took his daughter Air. and Mrs. A. A. Morill. They It caught the last light In the sky and rocking chairs; some stark crayons of P° Dn? “ comP“'-8'1 with Esther to Corvallis F iday. She was I^ft alone In her room Selina un­ held it, giving to fields, trees, black Incredibly hard-featured Dutch an­ were accompanied to New Era by earth, to the man rented stolidly be cients on the wall. It was all neat, locked her trunk and took from It two 3.'U.001.0.10 pounds last year The de­ a delegate from the .Shedd high Mr Cross’ mother, Mrs. E. A. P. Lr i side the girl, and to the face of the stiff, unlovely. But Selina had known photographs—one of a mild-lo'oklng partment points out, however, that sales data In South Carolina are as yet school to the high «chool convention. Tollette, nnd her hnahaud.'who w e r r J girl herself an opalescent glow very too many years of hoarditig-houae ugli­ man with his hat a little on one side, incomplete and the production figures the other of a woman who might have on their return trip to their home in « underful to see. Selin«, seeing It ness to be offended at this. been a twenty-flve-year-old Selina, m il.« Dr. and Mrs. T. I. Marks drove to r a ‘* ” d « ‘ •«1 opened her lips to exclaim again. and Maartje had lighted a small glass- million pounds. m ajr eastern Oregon. Corvallis Saturday afternoon and then, remembering, closed them. She bowled lamp. a steep, uncarpeted minus the courageous Jaw-line. Look­ Burlsy Production. hud learned her flint leseon In High stairway, Inclosed, led off the sitting ing about for a fitting place on which attended the educational 'exhibition to stand these leather-framed treas­ Production of Burley, which I. the Prairie. room. Up this Maartje Pool, talking, ures she considered the top at the chill I ‘U0M Important single tn»Z o /toi.'.e?^ at ' A. C. which they report was Ooy Beans May Be Grown • • • S e e . led the way to Selina s bedroom Se­ drum, humorously, then actually place«! * n8 •<’H.(XW,O0O pounds , * most wonderful display o f the or 15.778.000 work nf ol8Pla y or tne to Improve Thin Soils The Klaas Poole lived In a typical lina was to learn that the farm worn ’. Production f the different departm ents ^ S n ^ ’^ m ^ t r ^ j X X T * " High Prairie house. They had paaaed Oets are not considered a big mone.t type was un- ,° the c°Re8*- The pharm aev build- crop, but they do furnish a variety a» a score like It |o the duak These talk when ..im nrtn n i.v ................. . . . . . . . ' .. " ?u ‘ P°HtWy Interested ey e s I llpr 31.bOO.OtX) p ounds a s e feed, and they lit In the rotation pro sturdy Holland-Americana had built lalk when opportunity presents Itself, l erbaps they would put up a shelf for with 51 000 000 m a,n<1’ “* compared lnK was especially Interesting in that t r 1? ? * “ • d” A narrow,, dim, close-smelling ball- her. That would serve for her little • - - n T ^ u ^ n d ^ ^ gram where tome spring sown crop I k here In Illinois after the pattern of the celled for. Home farms where from squat houses that dot the lowlands way, unenrpeted. At the end of It a •tock of hooks nn,| for the picture» as rille types war l»artl«ll,,n „fr,M ‘’h ?*. I dlfferent fig u r e s of which w e r e d o- which were do­ abont Amsterdam, Hu nr lent and Rot­ door opening Into the room that was o«e quarter to oue-thlM the acreeg well. She was enjoying that little somewhat b«ter yield, production bemj nations o f the numerous w holesale terdam. A row of pollards stood stiff to be Sellaa'a. As Its chill struck her Wjs formerly given to oats are chsng flush of exhilaration that cornea to a P laced at ll)rt.0U0,000 p ounds a . houses o f the state and to be made ; 1“’ K S “ ,7 S .‘ Ing^over ,u aoT beans, eud the system l.v by the roadside Yard and dwelling Io the marrow three objects caught woman, unpacking. She took out her K The bed, a huge and a permanent part o f the Institution. »•*>• to be meeting with wide favor had a geometrical neatness like that tier eyes. neat pile of warm woolen underwear of Henderson type •f a toy bouse In a set of playthings not unhandsome walnut mausoleum, her stont ahoe«. She shook out thé « Production Spring wheat may be utilised as nurse cut of 25 per c « , . , Bd ^ e P ad ? The domestic science department was Peering down ever the high wheel reared Its somber height almost to tba crushed folds of the wine-colored cash­ alsr very attractive, showing? what for «Severs or clovers and grasses may be sown during February or March on •-t-llna waited for Klaas Pool to assist room's top. Tl(« mattress ot straw mere. Now. If ever, the should have ^ T otol” * 7 dUCtlon * 31 Per cent' can be accomplished along that line. 1 otnl production of trues « falleew n wheat. With this shift of her In alighting. He seemed to have and comhusks was unworthy of this regretted Its purchase. But she didn’t - le » » « » • io»M i.ono ., J " nures crops soy besot may he profit no such thought. Having Jumped down, edifies» but over tt Mr«. Pool hail No one. she reflected, as she spread It A. E. Foote was confined to his mercifully placed a feather bed. ably grows In greater areas, and may fie was __ throwing ......... rosily on the bed, possessing wlne-col- empty crates and rd bv a bad cold and sore throat stitched and quilted, so that Selina ored cashmere could be altogether be utilised In a way that will give I boxee out of tbe beck of t h e ' n i ' o the first of the week. J. H. Rike sub­ maximum feeding valqe end at the I to Selins, gxthertag her shawls and lay soft and warm through the win­ downcast. tame time gtve acme aid to our thinner j leak about her. clambered down the ter. Along one wall stood a low chest stituted for him in the garage. O*',?’ ’ C,me tha h1“ of "f approximately l.OOOXX» so richly brown as to appear black. pound«, and -Ide of the wheel and stood looking The front panel of this was curiously Trying Selina washed In the chill wa- Wleconifln uecrtaa« rrf lL432i»0O0 abont her In the dim light, a very noticr of APPOINTMENT carved Selina stooped before tt and ter of the basin, took down her hair pounds. The right sort of farm manage small figure In a very large world for the second time that day Mid; of Administrator Klaas had opened tke barn door Now ment by the right sort of farmer real­ Io lH2.fi higher yields win “How beautiful!” then looked qnlck- little mirror over the w ssh -„ .nd sh mean low- ly does pey. he rrtumed and slapped one of the ly round tt Maartje Pool as though a d ju sted the stitch ed w h i t , bands of •r unit costa. , br -i" ~'rA,r th8 Ckraatv horses smartly oa the flank The team • • • LL C” a ,r Oregon, het been fearful of finding her laughing as trotted otiedlently off to the barn He KU»i Pool had laughed. But Mrs. «oíTT. «îr2'',lon no‘ h8,p» appointed administrator of the estate of r °b" ' - = I FOR SALK the h * n(-r P.*lraer deceased. All persons picked up her little hide-bound trunk. Pool’s fsce reflected the glow in her S It dieci lurages Insects. She took her satchel The yard was h s'in g .H uns apainst Said »state are own. She came over to Selina and quite dark now As Klaas Ibxk opened stooped with her over the chest, hold- grace an,! m S t Î o ’ t o X » t h . ^ T to present them within sic Kusine«.» must do for firm ~ liith t h e ' hr <’*t* "f the kitchen door the red mouth that Ing the lamp to that Its yellow flame 'ng whs) science Is doing ’ ror farn' Pro- 4— _ j " ? * * ' ? vouchers to the un­ germent beautiful. It . dnctlon. » 8 and »10 a ton ; also Colt« and »as the open draught In the kitchen lighted np (he acrolle an«) tendrils of Lrp.lllng dersigned at his ■ pi «ce t y ’ of ! bunchlnem, , nd equal'!,' grinned a toothy welcome at the nerved surface. - d e u c e » « administrator H .I.V , ’c X Work Horse« ohesp. Phtuic i l l •tore With one dis­ hem »•Hing tightness m dr»„ of colored forefinger oho trn«wd the hold P, Rode, 8 mil»« west ol Halaej. ■")-« wca J 4 ;. ,.ArlTy , e ’«ailiers. A woman stood avgr the store, a Ooqrtgbes 09 the panel. “See? How *■ « • r j o v e r h . What an awf„, old • Vdmiwtstrator Aforesaid. ”er Metha«leh most bave been I a k t A. A. Tessiag, Atty, fqr Admr : Com ng Through : i. A lfo rd A rro w s Production of Tobacco Small i eT*h’ rlTea ,h** 0,8 »»• BALED HAY J.