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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1912)
» M OUR SEVENTH W e d n e s d a y -S u r p r is e S a le tn S 3 r* , B 3 £ ! JU]HE 26 >, WILL DAY BEDDING 1 « 10 PIE CENT OFF ON 1 Blankets, Comforts, Pillows, Cotton bats, Ready-Sewed bats. I • CLOVERDALE MERCANTILE (JO. ! cide upon any course, so sue kept put ting her lovers off with one excuse aft er another till they were worn out with delay, while site was worn out with their importunities. Finally they both agreed that If she would tell which of them In her heart she preferred the one whom she did By F. A . M1TCHEL not prefer would abandon the held to the other without laying uuv blame upon her But It was not a matter of Patience Goodman was a young blame from them, but a disinclination She de Quaker widow of Philadelphia some to give either of them pain iMHi year« ago and but twenty-three clined to consent to this proposition, years of age. Patience’s conscience hut said she would pray to be shown She prayed, but no sign and heart were so tender that when her duty came to guide her she found herself obliged to disappoint One day when she was making can or pain any one she stood stock still dles her two lovers came to her to When she married Enoch Goodman It gether. and Benediction said: was as a dutiful maid in obedience to •'Mistress Goodman, by thy Indeel her fathers mandate She had ore slot) thee are giving both of us pain, ferred Pardon I ’alrweather. but pnren whereas If thee would etnwise one of We fa I authority was all powerful in those us that one would Is* happy d a y s , and she did not even eiicournne pray thee therefore to choose lietwi •') ns. naming that one tins» would wed." him The wa¡iiw heaved a deep sigh, but When her husband died, as soon as It was proper for a man to ask her did not repi) for some time, evidently to U* his wife Benedict Ion Turner did trying to «nv something and failing so Then came I’alrweather. Just one Final!) tn uig up a candle In each week later, and cave her the same In hand she made tin* following proposl tlon: vitation “ Take each of yon one of these can There was no parental authority now. dies, h hi them at the same moment for her father was dead and she had become her own mistress Stic found and ......... • that burns the longest herself obliged to give pain to one of ! him will l w ed ' Thankful at the prospect of ending her suitors Each urged his suit and gave ti -r lo understand that if she re the suspense under which they lived. fused him he would seek dcutb Par each took a candle. They had been don vowed he would seek It In battle cast In the same mold and were eon with the Indians, who were lurking seijuentlv of equal length Each would The near the settlements with hostile In burn from two to three hours widow brought her st»>el and flint and tent, ami Benediction declared that he lighting h touched It to each would turn pirate. candle at the same moment Then Patience was horror stricken at these threats ami almost felt It her duty to she told tier suitors that when they marry Benediction I s s ’a n s e by turning had burned to the socket of their can pirate he would certainly lose his soul, dlesflcks she would sen.! for them that which was far more precious than a they might see with their own eies man's ti e. hut she was unable to de which would -jo out fli-st ami that on** Her Choice she would wed. “ W e need not fear. Patience.'' said Benediction, "that thee will tamper with the candles. !>ecnuse thee have only to choose between us without their deciding for you. Therefore we may safely leave them in your care.” "But." said Pardon, "w e will come In at the end. that he who Is favored and he who is not shall see with his own eyes " Benediction went to the wood and walked back and forth with his hands clasped behind his back, sorely disturb ed by anxiety During the long pe riod of his uncertainty there was no suspense like this. Pardon went into hi» library there were but two books lu It, the Bible aud a copy of Shake speare's plays—and. taking up the 1st ter. read a few scenes from "Othello.- In this way each passed the time till He should be summoned to learn bis fate At last a messenger came from the widow that the candles were burning low. and eu> h suitor re pair ml tu the ueut kitchen <>f Dame Go.slmau. who: - they were burning Benediction ttir i ed wl lte at seeing that his candle was but half an Inch long, while that o! hi» rival was an Inch PatdoiTs ent;:t- tenance did not change, but tie cast a | glance aside it the widow j "It is not meet.* groaned Benedic tlon. “ that I should remain longer here, since it is ertain that I have ; lost." He went out. the widow still ! keeping tier eyes fixed < n the fl >or and 1 her bands <-I us |* h I •• or l son» Then Pardon went the table, look td first at one candle, then at the oth er. and. seeing a few tinv wL te grains I that had been spilled on the dark |>ol Isbed w i s h !, bent low to see what the) wen» Watting a finger, he put It on the grains and touche«] it to his tongue lie startisl. Ins face lighting up with d look of great happiness Then he went to the widow, who stood still bent, and put Ills arms about her. while her head sank upon his breast. The grains on the table were salt. Placed on a wick sa t causes a candle to burn slower T h e r e W e r e O th ers. "John. I want the bain named Paul." "My dear. Paul was a wotnat. 'viter. * "Mercy: Did you think l m*»iu; that Paul? Pm naming him for Faul Jones." — Chicago* Tribune. Superstitious Miners. Coal strikes nave sometimes bepn threatened in England on curious grounds lu 1S74 a woman was em ployed as a messenger at one of the collieries near Oswestry. As she com menced her day's work very early, sue often met the miners on their way to the pit. and as the men considered it a bad omen to meet a woman tirst thing in b'le morning, trouble arose. By threats and persuasion they tried to get the offending female to give up ner Job. but, failing In this, they went In a body to the manager and flatly refused to go down until the woman tiud been dismissed Anrone «enrttn* a sketch and (IrawiaMcn may ju loely B e a r ta in oar opinion tren wfcwher an infwitjon probably b W s munirà- tlona at rusty coaBdentiat. HAND _ Patmta sent free. OMest ««o aaenoy n er Tor for »ecu *ecui ■ unaeaa: ente. nn t tJk receive i Patema taken throcich Munn jjv. ug a«tier, without charge. I Scientific American. A handaotnely Illustrated weekly. I arrest «Ir. nilaUen o f anr anemia-- Journal. 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