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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 26, 1915)
“ W ell, yes; a race between a widow thin and faded at thirty that she Is a and a g ir for a man is about like one tragedy Lee goes to see her twice a between n young duck and a spring week, and on Sunday afternoon takes (Continued from first page( chicken across a ndll pond—girl and her out in his new and rakish run- out on. and I lay in wait to capture chicken lose—hey? But let Sallie have I about that is as modern as his behavior him and the chips. This morning I him since you don’t need him. I ’ve . is obsolete. Caroline knows uo better waited behind the old purple lilac at got to go home and listen to Augusta nnd stands it witb sublime patience the gate, which immediately got into talk about my business that she knows I and lack of character. That is a situa the game by sweeping its purple plum nothing to the world about or I won’t tion 1 won’t be able to keep tny hands ed arms all arouud me, so that not a be ready fc-r town meeting this after off o f much longer tag o f my dimity alarmed him as he noon. Women are all fools, hey?” Ned Hull’s w ife has seven children came slowly down the street. “ W ill you come again. Uncle Peter?” with the oldest one uot twelve, and “ Uncle I'eter,” I said ns I stepped I asked eagerly. I had set out to offer she looks fifty. Ned goes to all the out in front o f him suddenly; “ please. Uncle Peter a cup o f niecely affection, dunces at the Glendale hotel dining Uncle Peter, won’t you come in and and I had got a good, stiff bracer to room and looks thirty. He dresses beau talk to me?" arouse me In return. tifully. and Nell and all the girls like to "U ey? Evelina?” “ I will whenever I can escape Au dam e with him. Just ordinary tor “ Yes, Uncle Peter; It’s Evelina," and gusta,” he answered, and there was ture wouldn’ t do for him. i hesltnted with terror at the snap in such a kindly crackle iD his voice that Polk Hayes wouldn’t he allowed to his dear old eyes back under their I felt that he had wanted and needed run loose in London society. white brows. Then I let my eyes un what I had offered him. “ I’ ll drop In Bailie Carruthers is a great big husky cover my heart full o f the elixir 1 had often and analyze the annals o f the woman, with three children that she prepared for him and offered him as town with you Glad to have you is responsible for having had. She much as he could drink. home, child, good young blood to stir and her family must consume tons of “ I ’ m lonely,” I said, with a little green groceries every month and a per me up—hey?" catch in my voice. And ns I sat and watched the mayor fectly .innocent man pays for them. “ Lonely, hey?” he grumbled, but his Mrs. Dodd, the carpenter rind con go saunteringly down the street, with feet hesitated opposite my gate. tractor’s wife, is a Boston woman who bis crustiness carried like a child on in about two nnd a half minutes 1 Ills shoulder, whirb It delighted him came down hero. Before 1 could write had him seated in a cushioned rocker to have knocked off, so that he could all about that Boston girl so that Jane on the south side o f the porch. Jasper philosophize lu the restoring o f it to could understand perfectly the situa had given us both a mint Julep, and its position, suddenly a realization of tion Polk came around from the side Uncle Peter was much less thirsty the relation o f Glendale to the world street and seated himself on the rail than he find been for a long time. In general was forced upon me, and I ing o f the porch so near the arm o f my chair that I couldn’t rock without in Aunt Augusta Is as temperate in all quailed. conveniencing him. things as a steel ramrod. Glendale Is like a dozen other small I am glad he found me in the mood 1 “ You see. Uncle Peter, 1 needed you towns In the Harpeth valley. They was in and I am glad to record the so that I Just had to kidnap you.” 1 are all drowsy princesses who. have strong minded—it came near being the said to him us he wiped Ills lips with Just waked up enough to be wonder strong armed— contest in which we In a pocket handkerchief ns stiffly starch ing what did it. The tentative kiss dulged. ed as was his w ife herself. has not yet disclosed the presence of “ Me for a woman tbnt has a lot o f “ W hy didn’t you go over und live In the prince o f revolution, and they are spirit! She la so much sweeter when “ Does—does Cousin .tames have to James’ hennery—live with James— likely to doze for another century or hey?" he snapped, with the precision support Sallie and the children. Uucle two. I think I had better go back into tamed. Evelina!" was one o f the gen tle remarks with which be precipitat | Peter?” I asked, coming with reluc- o f a pistol cap. the wide world and let them sleep on. ed the riot. “ I think It has been j tnuee down to the rock bed o f the dis To be Just. I suppose Aunt Augus One live member is likely to irritate spunkily fn.sc1nr.tlng o f you to come cussion. ta’s adamant disposition accounts to and live by yourself in this old barn. “ Thinks he does, and it serves him the repose o f the whole body. some extent for Uncle Peter’s explo Their faint stirrings o f progress are It keeps me awake nights just to think right—serves him right for starting out sive way o f thinking nnd speaking. A pathetic. o f you over here—alone. How long husband would have to knock Aunt to run a widow ranch in the first place. They have an electric plant; but. as Is the torture to go on ?’’ It’s like making a collection o f old Augusta’s nature down to make auy | I have noted before, the lights there Jane, I tried, but If I had frankly Impression whatever on It. Uncle Pe- | shoes. He let Henry Carruthers per from show a strong trace of their pine nnd courageously shown Polk Hayes suade him to mortgage everything and ter always has the air o f tiring an idea i knot heredity and go out on all impor what was in my heart for him at that nnd then ducking his head to avoid , buy land on the river for the ear shops tant occasions, whether of festivity or moment I couldn’t have answered for of the new railroad, which Just fooled the return shot. the town out o f $100,000 and Is going tragedy. Kerosene lamps have to be the results. “ His houso is so full, nnd I need a From the time I was eighteen until by on the other side o f the river with kept filled and cleaned if a baby or n lot o f spnce to carry on my work,” I I was twenty the same sort o f nss n:it revival or a lawn festival is expected. the shops up at Bolivar. If James answered him, with the words I have They have a lovely, wide concrete and battery had been handed out to didn’t get all the luwing in Alton coun used so often in the last two weeks ty they would all starve to death, pavement in front of six of the stores me from him. He had beaten me with that they start to come when the Petu lie didn’t want me He around the public squares, but no two his love. nia asks me If I want waffles or batter which would be hard on the constitu stretches of tin» Improvement Join each doesn’t want any woman except so tlon o f old lady Hargrove and her two cakes for supper. other, and it makes a shopping pro long a« he Is nncfrtaln that he can get “ Well, Snllle Carruthers will get him hundredweight." “ Oh, has Cousin James really lost gression around tin* town somewhat her. Just beerm e I had been firm tnd then there’ll be a dozen more to dangerous on account of the sudden witb him when even a child and de run the measure over—children—hey? all o f his fortune?" I asked, and I was change of grade o f the sidewalk about nied him, he has been merciless. And All girls! A woman like Sallie would surprised at the amount of sympathet every sixty feet. Aunt Augusta want now that I am n woman and armed for not be content with producing less than ic dismay that rose in me at the infor ed Uncle I’eter to Introduce a Dili in ! the combat. It will be to the death. mation. a dozen o f her kind, hey?” Shall 1 double and take refuge in a "Everything hut what he curries the city council forcing all of the prop Ills chuckle was so contagious that 1 labyrinth o f subterfuge or turn and ert.v owners on the square to put down couldn’t help but Join him. though I around under that old gray hat of his. the pavement in front of their houses fight? So I temporized today. didn’t like It so very much. But why Not so bad a fortune at that, hey?” " I t is lonely—but not quite ‘torture’ at small payments per auutim. the shouldn’t I? Sallie is such a gorgeous ! I feel I am going to love Uncle I’eter to me with the fam ily so close across town assuming the contract at fl per woman that a dozen o f her In the next for the way he disdainfully admires cent. Uucle I’eter refused, because he ; the street," I answered him, and I generation will be o f value to the state. Cousin James. went on whipping the lace on a piece "A n d —and all o f his—his guests are said that he felt a smooth walk around o f fluff I am making to discipline my Still. I didn’t like it. I didn’t enjoy the square would call out what lie call thinking o f Cousin James as so serving really dependent on him?" I asked self because I loathe a needle so. again as the stupendous fact filtered ed “ a dimity parade" every afternoon his country. They have a water system that is "Please don’t you worry over me. “ Carruthera left her to James. He’ll into my mlml. dear.” I raised my eyes to his, and “ All the flock, all the flock.” answer supplied by so much mud from the I tried the common citizenship look. • have to take care o f her. Henry turned river that it often happens that the toes in good time. Piled rotten old ed Uncle Peter, with what seemed un It must have carried a little way. for business and big family on to James’ fler the circumstances u heartless town has to go unwashed for a week, he flushed—the first time I ever saw shoulders, and then died—good time— i chuckle. "T h ey each one have little while the pipes are cleaned out. There him do it—und his hand with the ciga Is a wonderful spring that could In* hey? Get a woman on your hands, dabs o f property about as big as a used with a pump to supply the town. rette in it shook. handful o f chicken feed, and as they “ Evelina, are you real or a—farce?” only thing to do Is to marry or kill her Aunt Augusta says he asked after a few minutes o f peace. Poor James—hey?” He peered at me have each one given It all to James to The city council tied up the town manage they expect au income In re “ I ’ m trying to be real. Polk." I an with a twinkle In his eyes that de for a $100,000 subscription to the new turn and get It—all they ask for. A swered. and this time 1 raised my eyes luuudcd assent from me. railroad and failed to tie the shops with perfect frankness. “ I f yon could “ Why. Uncle Peter, 1 dou’ t know that lot o f useless oid live stock—all but down In the coutmct. They are to be define a real woman. Polk, In what Sallie has any such idea. She grieves Sallie, and she’s worse—worse, hey?” built In Bolivar. A great many of the terms would you express her?*’ I asked 1 agreed with his question, but I dreadfully over Mr. Carruthers. and I rich men have lost a lot of money him straight out from the shoulder. don’t believe she would think of mar didn’t say so thereby. Cousin James tlie most o f all. "H e ll tire nnd a hallelujah chorus If "Glad your money is safe In public lying again,” I answered, trying to pur nnd everyliody is sitting up In lied she’s beautiful." he answered me enough warmth lu my defense to con town bonds nnd city securities. Eve blinking promptly. vince myself. lina. I f James could he might lose It. There are still worse things happen I laughed. I thought It was best un "M ost women are nothing but gourd nnd you’d have to m oreover It would vines, grow all over a cornstalk, kill then be nip nnd tuck between yon and i Ing In the emotional realm o f Glendale der the circumstances. I.ee Greenfield has lieeu In the state It, produce gourds until it frosts und Faille which got James -nip nnd tuck ! of going to ask Caroline I.ellyett to l>egln all over again In the next gen (T o be continue ! ) hey?" eratlon. James has to do the hoeing ” Oh. Uucle Peter!" I exclaimed with ! marry him for fifteen years and has P ", Wendt fits glasses. Tilla- i.round Sadie’s roots and feed her positive horror that was flavored with never done It. Caroline has lieeu benn- tiful all her life, but she Is getting so Might us well marry her, hey?" niook. Ore.. I. 0. U. F. Bid. n large dash o f Indignation. “ THE TINDER BOX”