Image provided by: Joanne Skelton; Cottage Grove, OR
About Rural enterprise. (Halsey, Or.) 1924-1927 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1925)
Z . (C on tin ued ) e v w v s - t s w ..- . SYNOPSIS • — -------- » "So Bl« mother, 8«lin» H e J o n t^ d /u g h t“ r of ofnf2?t'ur « ‘ 1CH » i, o 7 bl?r * nd B«ntleman iiood In C h ic a g o ln V'l» » |,y hX", b 7 « n °u n - 18 * hy ° f s tn i- he could not wltb- ‘,und her 1,J“ g. Together they dug in<l Planted flower beds In Perm «' JlnKy fn ,n t yard n WHS too lu t* f« r n,,w Pervus had brought her “ »“ e «fed« from town. They ranged I* ' ^ *e wny fro,n P°PI>1es to asters; i« m j, but ' frf>nl purple iris to morning glories, la J u lie J H e m p e t'd a u g h 'ter hof ' fh e la8t nanled were to form the back- « « n Ir » itilv n ^ lA< • ° m , w h * t chum iu u V in «d b u tc h s r srnr : { . ; hn8 t ; ” f»ach«rB,ly X “ la S lm s o n r ^ 7 ^ porch vine, of course, because they < "”* 1 « * « , . Selina, dty-hred, was becomes a school* ' 'fDornnt of vurieties, but insisted she I reacted an old-fashioned garden— J * — S e lin a sec u re s a post* t i * atCi : r oS,, .i:ihre, . Hi f hc f 1^ “figolds, ¡»Inks, mignonette, phlox. 811 1 Roe!f du‘ ^ d* d- P '^ te d fa r m e r , “ er trous eao Was of the scantiest. K l ^ s . n ' n ^ V . r V s . v W ^ - P#r? 8' . buuss,“ '‘d ««• already her own little bedroom at the Pools', no longer hers, must be deliciously cool and still w ith the breese fanning fresh from the west. Pervus was putting the horse into i he bam . The bedroom was off the sitting room. The window was shut. This last year had taught Selina to prepare the night before for next morning's rising, so as to lose the least possible time. She did this now unconsciously. She brushed her hair laid out tomorrow'* garments, put on her high-necked, long-sleeved night gown and got into thia strange bed She .heard Pervus DeJong shut the kitchen door; the latch «Hiked, the lock turned. Heavy quick footsteps cross the bare kitchen floor. Thia man was coming into her room. . . . ' Vou can't run f u r enough," M aa rtje owl had. said. "Except you stop liv ing you can't run away from Mie.” Next morning It was dark «then he awakened her nt four. She at&rted up w ith a little cry and sat up, straining her ears, her eyes. "la that« you, father?'' She. was little Selina Peake aguin, and Simeon Peake had come in, £uy. debonair, from a night's gaming. 1 ervua DeJong was alreudy padding about tlie room in stocking feet. "W hat — what time is it? ' W hat's the matter, fatlier? Why are you up? H aven’t you gone to bed. . . .*• Then site re- membered. 1 ervua D ejo n g laughed and came to ..a rd her “Get up, little lo ry bones. It a a fte r four. A ll yesterday's "work I ve got to do. and all today’s. Break- last, little Lina, breakfust. You are a furm er’s w ife now.” i r Y i . f At5 l V * h,6 m t o f a t r u c k h irfJiT 1 D irk DeJong was born In the bed- “ lover of basuty, like | ®quIPPed with such linens as they I would need. The question of a wed- • r C ? A ^ Z 5 S „ I , I T T h ,? m o n o to n o u i I l f . d in g gown troubled tlm « la S e lln a 'a V b r U fh te n 'a ifa o J n e w h It 1 suk'KeStetl thut she ¿'J"7 l J * JoL“ " “ o r |K n ie n « il s o m e w h a t , , a rtlitlo boy^Ro0??hlp ot th* ,a n ,IU v ". M A R C H 18, 182ff This uun PAGE Î of romance EA ST Go by train and «hip, through the Southland to New Y o rk — it cote, but little more. The superb 5ha»r,i route to California — (four fine train« daily - thence the •cenic Sunset route through the South land to New Orleans. Yo u ’ ll relish y o u r meals in the S o u th ern Pacific d in in g car— fresh fruits and vegetables alwa> i a delicious mature. Connection at New Orleans w ith pa latial steamers fot N ew Y o rk — meals and berth included in the one fare. Ask about Carrijo fjc ’ . i route from San Diego—Apatite T ra il detour of Aritona. Stopovers en route. Fot tun her inform ation, ask “ Farm W o rk G ran d ! F a rm S lave W o rk ." W o rk la was because Pervus brought them the food that made them so. Something of this she tried to convey to Pervua He only stared. Ills blue eyes wide and unresponsive. “Farm work g ra n d ! Farm work la slave work. Yesterday, from the load of carrots in town I didn’t make ♦« bring you the goods for the her until M aurtle be m arried In the 0 d Dutch wedding dress tiiHt lay in 1 the bride's chest in Selina’s bedroom. “A real Dutch bride," M aa rtje said. a. — S « lln a h e a rs go ssip i P a a a a r r l le lS h & g r * ," ”* r » ic S h e c tio e “ W id o w a n n d o « f ¿ lh o . d • B k rle n n b b e e r rg . r ic h «nrt h -lo o k T n a I T out man w ill think that is floe." D « J o p a . p o o r tr u c k f a r m e r l 'ervu« was delighted. Selina busked la a ja a ik le tu tb s w id o w ■ a t - ™ — Fo T * c o m m u n ity s o c ia b le • In his love like a kitten in the sun. b u t rii>.P « V a r e * . * lo o c h b a s k e t, d a in ty , She was, a fte r all, a very lonely little - a ic t lo 'n ir t * m p ’ S f ’ P o rtlo n a . w h ic h Is a u c tio n e d , a c c o rd in g to c u s to m . T h e bride w ith only two photographs on iin n iOf t h * lu ,lc h bo* e x c lts s d e r i- the shelf In her bedroom to give tier fu n *he b id d in g courage and counsel. Tlig old Dutch u r » " r T i r«'“ d wedding gown was miiny Inches too a n d nV*! ‘J f- “ ? oh b“ " k a t - w h ic h B elin « lar„e tor her. T he skirt-baud over- ? « h a re t o g e th e r , th e s c h o o l te a c h e r a a . r r a -------- n g e s to In s . tr u c t th e g o o d - ! *a PI*<l her slim w aist; her slender llt- 14 in bJan neglected/' ' * ° ,e ■ad u c ,t'° " ' H« bosom did not fill out the generous R U R A L E N T E R P R IS E Southern Pacific c . P . MOODY.-Aifent We want you to investigate our Phone 226 ® FURNITURE • DEPARTMENT« She kept, perforca, to the house that ; Mellila started bravely out to make her Hrst year, and the second. Pervus de hMSband over. H e waa hnndaome, clared that his woman should never strong, gentle; slow, conservative, njo- work In the fields as did muny of the rose. She would make him keen, dar High l ’ra lrle wives and daughters ing. succesaful, b ic y e s t. Now. hump Selina learned mnch that first year. ing down the Halated road, she sketched s k k ------- ----- | ,lnd «econd. but ahe said little. She daLdnC . Z T . . P' Hn* " r“ e l:ppt tl,e 1,oose ln o rdeN -rough work. I nnd endless— and she managed mlrnc- OctobTr“ befoíreratUl*, T*“,’ ‘h’ h,°U8* ‘D ' Ul°U8b'' keep hvr,elf loukln* freBl' . f t e r Ih b f h* fru ,t Setl' A nd und n e ,f - She underatood now a fte r the summer work Is over Then M aa rtje Pool's drab garments, harassed C H A P TP D V I » — . . Width of the bodice; hut the effect of that west sixteen W e’ll drain It.” p o s itio n s o f " ts 'a c h e r P anndU " p u p il "‘ a n d t t " ' WUH q u a in t as , face, heavily aw lfr feet, never at reat. “Yeh, drain," Pervua muttered. “H's i T lie idea of flowers In bowls waa aban ? .!° n « lln V e a " s - In h her uncongenial ar u n c o n g e n ia l " e ll as pathetic. P . r rv°uU. n ' 2 U-‘-“ * 1 * « « t l o n clay lund. D rain and you have got yet They were married at the Pools’. doned by July H ad It not been for S a lin a 's c o n s e n t b« hla w ife . clay. H ard clay »oil.” Klaaa and M aa rtje had Insisted on R oelfs faith fu l tending, the flower Selina had tlie answer to that. " I furnishing the wedding supper— ham, C hapter V I (Continued on oatfe 6) know It. You’ve got to use tlie d rain chickens, sausages, cukes, pickles, beer. age. And— wait a minute— humus. I The Reverend Dekker married them, They w ere m arried the following know what humus Is. It's decayed M ay. Just tw o months later. Selina and all through the ceremony Selina vegetables. There's always a pile by / ASH PAID for false teeth, den chided herself because she could not room olf the sitting room oil the nr- was at once bewildered and calm ; re ial g old, platinum s.nd discarded child so when It comes you s h o u ld have teenlh day of March, of a bewildered, the side of the barn; and you've been hellious and content. O verlaying these keep her mind on his words in the clothes fo r it. It's better I feed them using It on the quick la id . All tlie jv w c iry H o k e S m eltin g and Refining somewhat resentful, but deeply in te r I n . . Otsego, M ich, emotipns was sometliing like grim fascination of watching his short, ested mother; und a proud, foolish, to the live stock.” west sixteen Isn’t clay P art of it’s amusement. Beneath them, something stubby heard as It waggled with every and vainglorious fath er whose a ir of AU It needs Is draining Pervus looked Pervus drove Into the Chicago m ar muckland. lik e fright. She móved w ith a strange motion of his ja w . achievement, considering the really and manure. W ith potash, too. and a ir o f fntaitty. I t was as I f she were stiff, solemn and uncomfortable in Ids slight part he had played ln the long, ket every other day. During July und phosphoric acid.” being drawn Inexorably, against her wedding blacks— not at all the hand tedious, and rucking business, was dis August he sometimes did not have his Pervus laughed a great hearty laugl clothes off fo r a week. Together he w ill, her Judgrifent, her plans, into some giant of the everyday corduroys proportionate. T lie name D irk had that Selina found Surprisingly in fu ria t something sweet and terrible. When and blue s h ill. In the midst of the sounded to Selina like something tall, und Jon Steen woukl loud the wugun local and internal, and has been success ing. “ W ell, well, well I School teacher w ith Pervus she bras elated, gay, vol ceremony Selina had her moment of straight, ami slim. Pervus had chosen w ith the day’s garnering. At four he is n farm er now, huh? I het even ful (n the treatment o f Catarrh f c t ovet panic when she actually saw herself would start on the tedious trip Into uble. H e talked little ; looked a t her it. It bad been bis grandfather's W idow Panrlenherg don’t know ns forty years. Sold by all deugglata. running shrieking from this coni|*any, town T lie historic old H aym arket on dumbly, worshlpingly. name. much as m.v little farm er shout”— he F. J. C H E N E Y & C O ., T o le d o , O h io this m an ,-th ia house, down the road, West Randolph street had become tlie T here were days when the feeling of Sometimes, during those months, exploded again— “about thia, now, pot on. on tow ard— toward what? The stand for m arket gardeners for miles u n rea lity possessed her ‘ She, a truck Selina would look hack on her first win ash snd— whal kind ot arid? T ell ait, feeling was so strong th a t' she was uround Chicago. Here they stationed 1» Your child uickiog good prog- farm er's wife, liv in g in High P ra irie ter In High P rairie— thHt w inter of little Lina, from where did you learn surprised to find herself still standing th e ir wagons in preparation fo r the the reat o f her days! W hy, no I No I roan at «ohool? the icy bedroom, the chill black all thia about truck farming?* Wag this the great adventure th a t Iter there In the Dutch wedding gown an drum, the schoolhouse fire, the chil next day’s selling. T lie early coiner “Out of a hook." Selina said, alifihst If your Child is not making a swering "1 do" in tlie proper place. fa th e r had alw ays spoken of? She, blains, the Pool pork— and it seemed got the advantageous stand. There snappishly. " I sent to Chicago for it.” A fte r the wedding they went satisfactory average at school you was no regular allotm ent of sjiace. who was going to be a happy way a lovely dream ; a time o f ease, of free “A book! A honk!" H e slappedJil» Pervus tried to reach the H aym arket fa re r down the path o f life— any one straight to D e jo n g ’s house. In May Should And out why. Defective knee. dom, of .careless happiness. ee. *" A vegetable farm er out tff a the vegetable farm er cunnot neglect by nine at night. O ften bad roads of a dozen tilings. T h is H igh P ra irie book.” Pervus DeJong loved his pretty eyesight is often iLponeiblc for his garden even for a day. The house made a detour necessary and he waa w in te r wag to. have been only an epi W hy n o t! T he man who wrote It young wife, and she him. But young late T h a t usually meant had business bad been made ready fo r them. poor progress in studies.Don’» sode. N ot her life ! She looked at knows more shout vegetable farming love thrives on color, warm th, beauty. Throughout the supper Selina had next day. T he men. for the most M a a rtje . Oh, ahe’d never be like that. nwad longer. Find out for su r e » than unyhody in all High Prairie. 'H e It becomes prosaic and Inarticulate had thoughts which were so foolish part, slept on th eir wagons, curled up T h a t was stupid, unnecessary. Pink knows about new ways. You're ru n now, when forced to begin its <lqy at four and detached as almost to alarm her. on the wagon seat or stretched out on and blue dresses in the house, fo r her. ning the farm Juat the way your father l a m married. I am Mrs. Per in the morning by reaching blindly, the sacks. T h e ir horses were stabled I rills <)n the window curtains. F lo w vus “ Now run It.” dazedly, for limp and obscure garments DeJong. That's a pretty name. It and fed In near-by sheds, with more ers in bowls. “W hat was good enough fo r my fa would look quite distinguished on a dangling from bedpost or chair, and to actual comfort than the men them Hotne of the pangs and terrors w ith ther Is good enough for me." end that day at nine, numb and sodden selves One could get a room for which moat prospective brides are as- calling curd, very spidery and line: " It isn'tL" cried Selina. “I t isn’t ! with weariness, a fte r seventeen hours twenty-five cents in one of tlie ra m ■alled she conflded to M rs. Pool w hile The book says clay loam is all right “M RS. P E R V U S D K JO NG of physical labor. . shackle rooming houses that faced the th a t active lady waa slamming about for cabbages, peas, and beans It tells I t was a wet summer. Pervua* street. But the rooms were small, ths kitchen. AJ Home Frldaya.” you how. It tells yon how !" She wa» choice tomato plants, so carefully set stuffy, none too clean; the beds little "Did you ever feel scared and— and like a fra n tic little fly darting and out in the hope of a dry aeagon. be She recalled this later, grimiy, when more comfortable than the wagons. Be pricking him on to accelerate the stolid sort of— scared when you thought came draggled gray specters in a sides. Iwenty-flve cents I You got tw en she was Mrs. Pervus DeJong, at home ■bout m arry. M rs, Pool?” not only Fridays, hut Saturdays, Sun waste of mire. O f fru it the field here ty-five cents for h alf a barrel of toma sluggishness o f his alow plodding gait. M a a rtje Pool's hands were In a great Pervua stared straight ahead down days, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednes one tomato the size of a marble. toes. You got twenty-five cents for a hatch o f bread dough which site putn- the road between Ills horse’s ears much For the rest, the crops were moder days and Thursdays. of potatoes. Onions brought meled and slapped and kneaded vlg as Klas« Pool had done so maddeningly ately successful on the DeJong place. seventy-five cents a sack. Cabbages They drove down the road to De orously. She shook out a handful of on Selina's first ride on the Halsted But the work necessary to m ik p th ls so Jong's place. Selina thought, “ Now 1 went a hundred heads for two dollars, flour on the baking board w hile she r^ad. "Fine t>lk Fine talk.” was heartbreaking. Selina hrfijtn ow n. and they were five-pound heads. I f you am driving home w ith my husband. held the dough mass in the other hand, " It isn't talk. It's plans. Yon've got during her w lite r at the I ’ixfi«’, that 1 feel his shoulder against mine. 1 Optonictrists. Jewelers drove home w ith ten dollars ln your then plumped it down and a gain ' be Klaas, lluelf, and old Jakoli- worked pocket it represented a profit of ex to plan.” wish he would talk. I wish he would and inauufacliiriBg optioiaoe gan to knead, both hands doubled Into “Fine talk. Fine tgHi.” early and late, but her months there actly zero. The sum must go above say something. S till, 1 am not flats. “Oh 1” Melina beat her knea with an ALBANY had encompassed whut is really the frightened.’’ that. N o ; one did not puy out twenty- 8he laughed a short little laugh. “I impotent fist. truck farm er s leisure period, «he hhd five cents for the mere privilege of Pervus’ m arket itagun was standing ran aw ay.” It was the nearest they had ever a rrltc d In November. She had m ar sleeping in a hed. in the yard, shafts down. He should "You d id ! Tou mean you really ran come to quarreling It would seem ried in May F rotn May tirui] October | have gone to market today ; would cer One June dayi a month o r more nft^r — but why? D id n ’t you lo— like that pervos hed Ihe best uf the argu it was necessary to tend the fields with tainly have to go tomorrow, starting th eir marriage, Selina drove Into r iil- Klaaar* LAWYER AND NOTARY ment. fiw when two years bad passed a concentration amounting to fury. cago w ith Pervus. an Incongruous little early in the afternoon so ns to get a M a a rtje Pool kneaded briskly, the the west sixteen was still a boggy day Selina had never dreamed that human figure ln her bride's finery perched on good stand In ti,e Haym arket. By the H a l . s h y . O h m i h color high in h er cheeks, w hat w ith mass, and unprolifle; and the old beings tolled like that fo r sustenance. the seat o f the vegetable wagon piled ligh t of Ids lantern tlie wagon seemed the vigorous pummeling and rolling, house stared out shabby and pal nt I ess. Toil was a thing she had never en- high w ith early garden stuff. It was, to Selina to he a symbol. She had and something else th a t made her look at the dense willows by the roadside. < ountered until coming to High Prairie. | In a way, th e ir wedding tr(p, fo r Melina often seen it before, but now that it strangely young for the moment— g irl They slept fhst n lrh t In one of the Now she saw her husband wrenching a had not been away from the farm since was to lie a p art o f her life— this the ish, almost. "Sure 1 liked him. I liked twenty flve-cent rooming houses. Rath living out of the earth by sheer mus j her marriage. DeJong m arket wagon and she Mrs him ” er, Pervua slept. The woman lay cle. sweat, and pain. During June, DeJong— she saw clearly what a crazy Ag they Jogged along now she re- “ But you ran away?” «wake, wept a little, perhaps. But In •July, August, and .«epfember ihe good I vealed magnificent plans that had been disreputable and poverty-proclaiming "Not far. I came back. Nobody the morning Pervus might have noted I fficicnt Serviee»! Motor Hrarse. black p rairie soil for miles around was forming In her imagination during the old vehicle It was, in contrast with the ever knew I ran. even. But I ran. I Lady Atteadant. teeming, h hotbed of plenty. T here I past four weeks« It had not taken tier G f be Und been a men given to noting) neat strong wagon in Klaas Pool's knew.” was born In Selina a b th ls tim e a feel four weeks— or days— to discover that that the fine Jaw-ilne w u sat as de Brownsville___________ ______ tfis ^ -.r yard, smart w ith green paint and red "W hy did you come back?” ing for the land tiiHt she was newer to this great broad-shouldered man she terminedly as ever w lpi un angle that ---------------- 1 '■ lettering that announced, “ Kians Pool. ■' 11 M m rtje elucidated her philosophy lose. Perhaps the child w ith in her ! had m arried was a kindly rrenbtre, spelled Inevitably (silnt, drainage, hu Garden Produce.” W ith the two sleek TV without hejng in ihe Jeaat aw are th a t - farm horses the turnout looked as had something to do w ith this. She tender and good, but lacking any mus, potash, phosphoric acid, and a It could be called by any such high- prosperous and comfortable as Kiana was aw are of a feeling o f kinship w ith | vestige of Initiative, of spirit She horse learn. W L. W R IG H T sounding name “You can’t run away the e arth ; an Illusion of splamkor, o f marveled, sometimes, at the m e m o rv Hbe rose before fou r w ith Pervua himself. Mortician A Funeral Director fa r enough. Except you atop living of his boldness in bidding for her lunch glud to he out o f the stuffy little room Pervus swung t e r down from the fulfillm ent. Halsey sod H arrisbu rg '. you can't run aw ay from life ." with Its spotted sad scaly green wall As cabbages had been cabt>a(Ca, and box that evening of the raffle. It seat of the buggy, bis hand a^out her C a ll D T m c n . Halsey, nr The girlish look had fled. She waa p i | * r . Its rickety bad und chair. They no more, to Klaas Pool, so, to Pervus. seemed incredible now though he fre waist, and held her so fo r a moment, W . I.. W a iG w r, Harrisburg worid-old. H e r strong arms ceased these carrots, beets, onions, turnips, bad a cup of coffee and a slice of bread close. Selina said: “You must have quently referred to it, wagging his • heir pounding and thumping fo r a mo th a t wagon painted. Pervus. And the i nd radishes were Jnst so m v h prod head doggishly and grinning the broad in the eating house on the first floor. ment. On the steps outside Klnas and Selina v u ite d w h llt he tended the seat-springs fixed and the sideboard uce, to be planted, teoded. gathered, ly complacent grin of the conquering Jakob were scanning the weekly re marketed. But to Selina, during that male. But he was. a fte r all, a dull horse. It waa scarcely dawn when the mended." porta preparatory to going into the city Selina, watching It He stared. “W a g o n !" • summer, they became a vital p art In fellow , and there waa in Selina a dash trading began. •ate that afternoon. the vaat mechanism of a living world of fire, o f wholesome wickedness, of from the wagon sent, thought that thia 'Yes I t looks a sight." Selina had the difficult task of w in The house was tidy enough, but none Pervua. earth, sun. rain, all elem ental adventure, that he never quite under was a ridiculously haphazard and peril king Roelf to her all over again. H - force* that labored to produce too rood stood. F o r *h e r flashes of fln m e he ous method of distributing the food for too clean. Pervua lighted the lamps •a s 111--- a trusting little anim al, who, for millions of human«. She thooxht had a mingled feeling of uneasiness whose fru itio n Pervua bad tolled w l’ h There was a fire ln the kitchen stove. ssundtd by the band ba has trusted. It made the bouae seem stuffy on this o f Chicago a children. I f they bad red I and pride ai tilng buck and tired arms, But she ebeekn, clear eyes, nimbi« b rain» i t 1 In the mild M ay night- Selina thought that mapner of all young brides, «old nothing. when your wants are in this line. Our stock is • attractive in both design and price. # We call your special attention to the J DE LUXE BEDSPRING built for com fort and durability H IL L &c° . • • ? H a ll’s C a ta rrh Medicine Meade Aibro, Amor A. Tussing D ELBER T STA R R Funeral Director and Li* censed EmbaJmar BARBER SHOP First-class Work J. W STEPME ON.