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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1915)
. ¿r « No ; is tfeo Tims tí Buy a S b L i ? % r e n c y White O a t s $31 a tors f a n c y O a t H ay $16.50 a to o Best Grade White Middlings, Sack $1.80, to n .................... ........... § 43.00 Fahey, High Grade, Hard Wheat Flour, Snow White and Highland Blend bbl $S.Q0 Berry Sugar, Sack ............................................. $ 8.75 Standard Corn and Tomatoes, Case................................ ...................... S2.00 f These prices are examples and not exceptions. Let us figure with you on your winter’s supplies. We can save you $ $ $ $ We are local agents for Sherwin-Williams paints-~the best on earth. G l o v c r d a l c M ergaintiee G o G L O V & Î 2 D A L & , ORSGOPN ^ 1 I’ » ’ » ’ HOW SHE WAS WON C ontinued from first page Mr. G aw try drew her to him and kissed her. She w as passive, and ho kissed her again. “I hope you w on’t get Involved in any more political deals, for then you’re horrid. As you are you’re very nice.” Of course he kissed her for th a t and, leading her to a sofa, drew her down beside him and poured forth a Hood of m ingled adoration and flattery that, coming from a man supposed to be usually w rapped In questions of im port to his constituents, w as delightful. And to think that she w as the recipient of all this; th a t she had won a m an a t once so deep and so full of senti m ent! A fter an evening w hich Miss Buell thought altogether too sho rt this com bination of sense nnd absurdity de parted, leaving her in a seventh heaven. G aw try told Ferguson about the in terview except the kisses, for he w as an adroit politician nnd never m ade blunders In Ids handling of others. Ferguson w as much Interested in the report. A fter listening to the m ethods his double had used he said th it he thought he could m end his w ays and accom plish som ething of the sam e re sults. The next evening ho m ade the experim ent nnd failed signally. W hen Miss Buell entered the room w here he w as aw aiting her she advanced joyful ly, but w as a t once repelled by the stern look on his face. “Oh, my goodness gracious!’’ she ex claim ed. “You have relapsed to your old self." "D o tell me,’’ he said earnestly, “how I am different from w hat I w as when I saw you la s t" "W hy, you haven’t kissed me yet!" i “K issed you!” The plan w as nearly spoiled by this revelation. T h at “rascally political charlatan," as Ferguson called G aw try in thinking of him, had been kiss ing th e lady. B ut Ferguson w as a man of great self control, and instead of be traying him self he bent forw ard and gave his ladylove a reverential kiss. T his helped him out for aw hile, but he soon continued to lose ground again, and in half an hour Miss Buell w as sitting by him pouting. He tried to say som e “soft" things to her. but they w ere spoken from the lips "rather than from the heart and produced a contrary effect from th e one intended. The con sequence was th at file parting w as-not w hat it should have been. Ferguson returned to his room crest- fallen. He w as to have the floor of the house the next m orning on a very im portant Dill and spent several hours before going to bed in preparation for his com ing effort. He had endeavored to excuse him self for his seem ing cold ness to Miss Buell by telling her th at his m ind w as on his speech, and the next m orning she resolved to go to the capitol to hear it. W hen Ferguson took the floor there w as the usual hum of conversation and business, and it continued till the speaker was half through his argu ment. But. gradually certain Influen tial m em bers w ere attracted by w hat he w as saying, nml before he had fin ished th e whole house was listening. Miss Buell w as much struck w ith this pow er in her lover am i very proud to have won such a man. but she sighed at rem em bering th at only once had he throw n off th e statesm an for the lover. N >t long a fte r this she w as In the gallery of the house again when she 3i§ts:‘i 9 íí TSE jj saw , as she thought, tier Ferguson arise to speak. He waS not in his usual apparel, nnd there was som e thing about him not like him self. W hen he began to speak there cam e forth a charm ing flow of words. The m em bers with one accord dropped w hat they w ere doing and listened to him. Miss Buell was surprised th at w hereas at his previous effort he had been obliged to wait for the attention of his audience he now jum ped right inty it. But as th:- speaker continued one by one the thinking m em bers ceased to listen. T here w as the sam e flow of language, but no flow of ideas. W hen the oration was ended- the hum of business there had been l>efore w as recom m enced. “W ho Is th at m an?" asked a lady sitting near Miss Buell of another. “T h at’s G aw try. the great dem a gogue. He has an Im m ense following am ong people who m istake his oratori cal [towers for statesm anship.” A light broke in upon Miss Buell's brain—not <>ne light, but tw o In the tirst place she had m istaken this man f ,r her lover. In the second she saw th e im m easurable superiority of the one over the other. T here was a third light th at did not pierce her brain, it did not occur to her th at one of these men had played the part of ttie other. She sent a m essage to Ferguson ask ing him to call the sam e evening. H e obeyed the sum m ons w ith nlacrity and a new hoj>e. As soon as they met Miss Buell snid: "T here is a m em ber of the house whom, ns soou ns I saw him. I mistook for you. The likeness is m arvelous. I heard you speak the other day, and I heard this man G aw try speak today. 1 noticed th at you gradually gained a hearing by bringing forth ideas, while he, startin g with a hearing on account of a delightful flow of language, lost it because Ideas w ere w anting, i’m afraid we girls are very much like the people and their representatives. We are caught by blandishm ents. F ortu nately. I have been disenthralled by hearing you nnd this man G aw try speak. H ereafter if you are not de m onstrative I’ll try not to notice it. I ! prefer your worth to another’s blar- ! ney." This speech gave Ferguson a confi dence he had never felt before. He took the lady in his arm s and kissed her rapturously. Ferguson in tim e left the political arena. G aw try never did. And now Ferguson’s nam e is being m entioned • am ong thinking men as a candidate for president. The Installm ents. Patience—They say she got all her furniture on the Installm ent plan. P a trice—She did. She has had four hus bands, and she got a little fu rn itu re with each one. T he man who cannot blush and who has no feeling o f-fear has reached the *cme of im pndenee.— M enander. Cutting. H e— Do you know, I h a re of late fallen Into the habit of talking to m y self. She—I wondered why you w ere look ing so fearfully bored.—Boston T ran scrip t