H ow Billy W as Sent
to His Mother
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A. A. P E N N IN G T O N
Tillam ook,
Oregon
CHRISTM AS C A N D IE S
Candies are higher than
they were, but we are
going to
Sell at Same Price
as last year.
We have a fre-h sup
ply of all kinds o f.
NUTS
Popcorn 7c per pound.
Flash Lights make best
Christmas Presents. We
ca rry them .
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“ Toni,” said James Gowan to the
man In charge o f an express ear that
was about to i*e pulled out, “ here's a
package I want you to carry to M il
ford Center.”
Gowan produced a box about three
feet long by eighteen iiu^ies broad and
deep. 'i ue lid was^ hinged and held
closed by a hook and staple. The box
was perforated and marked: “ Perish
able. This side up with care."
“ I can’t take it,” said the express
man. “ You must put it through the
otlico iii the regular way.”
Gowan took a ten dollar bill from
his pocket book and put it in Tom
Murphy’s hand.
“ Tom ," said Gowan, “ it’s my boy
r.illy. Ills mother went to Milford
yesterday, and I’ve got to leave home
tonight. Billy must go to his mother.
H e’s too young to travel alone, and
the company wouldn't take such per
ishable property. You’ll be alone in
the car, won't you?”
“ Yes; I'll be alone In the car, and I
can let the boy out between stations.
Leastaways I can let him sit up in his
box. IIo w old is he?"
“ Five.”
“ W ell, I ’ ll try it on for you. Jim, but
I don't want your money."
Gowan took the box Into the open
ear. lifted the lid. and Billy clinched
his arms around his father's neck.
“ Billy, you must keep very quiet un
less Mr. Murphy opens the box. If
any one hears you in the box yon
won’t get a ride.”
“ Yes, daddy. I'll be quiet."
“ Well, goodby. Give mother a kiss
for me."
“All right, daddy.”
“ I ’ ll close the lid till the train is off
and the ear door closed, then Mr. Mur
phy w ill let you out.”
T lie father unwound his son’s arms
with a kiss, closed the lid, slipped the
hook through the staple and left the
ear. In a few moments there was a
putting and a grinding o f wheels, and
the train pulled out. The ltd was again
ilfted, and Tom Murphy stood looking
down at Billy with an amused smile.
’ is it time to get up?" asked the boy.
” 1 reckon I ’ll let you get «'lit for
twenty minutes. Then when we stop
at tlie station you’ll have to get back
again."
Billy snt up, and Murphy lifted him
out onto the floor o f the car. Billy
looked about him wondcrlngly at the
boxes and packages piled here and
there. Seeing a tricycle, lie w-is much
Interested and wished to mount it and
have a ride. But Murphy objected.
When tlie whistle sounded for the next
station Murphy said:
“ Now. Billy, you must get back into
your crib and keep very quiet until you
hear the door shut and the train move
on.”
When the train stopped a special
agent o f the express company got in
the car. He told Murphy he was going
to the next station nni would ride In
the car. Murphy suggested that he
Would be more comfortable In a pas
senger corn'll, blit ho was not to be dis
suaded. Settling Ivmsi'if en a box near
Rilly's crib, be lighted a cigar.
When the train moved on Murphy
was much dlsturbe I Tlie n< \ st* •»
would not in» made for half an Fi . ir.
and he feared Billy would not be able
to keep quiet so long. But Billy un
doubtedly depreciated the situation, fo r
he lav porfo tly stftl. The special
agent, who was a supervisor as well,
took occasion to say to Mur’ 'iy that
there bagl l*^go nippy » as,*s
goads
Gasolene
carried by the < cmip.-iii.v’ ; agents the
charges for which had gone into the
agents’ pockets. He had been on the
watch for such and laid caught several
agents In tlie net. They had at once
AND
been discharged. While communicat
ing this fact lie looked about him. Mur-
’ ’hy thought, with a view to discover
ing another case.
Finally the supervisor got tired of
talking and smoked in silence. Sud
denly lie cocked his head on one side
and listened. Was that some one
breathing? He got up from his seat
and walked about trying to locate tlie
sound till he finally stopped bending
over B illy’s crib. He distinctly heard
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sleep. Murphy was at a rude desk at
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way bills. His back was to the super
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visor, who unhooked tlie lid o f B illy’s
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box, and, lifting it, there was Billy
sound asleep. Glancing at Murphy,
the supervisor saw he was not ob
served. He stood for a moment with
his eyes bent on the boy’s innocent
face irresolute, then softly lowered the
lid.
A few minutes later the train stopped
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at the next station.
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to the company."
“ I haven’t,’’ was Tom ’s reply.
“ So long." And lie left the ear.
M’LEAN STAR TACKLE.
As soon as a new start was made
Tom went to Billy to let him out o f his Veteran Football Man Says Princeto-
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box. The hook was not in the staple.
He was sure lie had put it there at tlie
“Talk about your tackles! Show me
Inst stop. Only tlie supervisor could one who lias anything on McLean of
have removed it.
the Tigers." said n veteran footballer
“ Time to get up. Billy," said Tom. who had watched the work of the big
raising the lid.
Princetonian In the game with Lafay-
"A re we there?" asked Billy, wide
awake.
“ No, but nt the next station I’ll turn
you over to your mother.”
Wtien the train pulled up at Milford
Center Billy was standing nt the door
of tlie car. His mother, who was w ait
ing for him. saw him and ran toward
him. When sin- came near enough h*-
sprang into her arms.
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thousand yeurs later he would have
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the remark attributed to John I>. Rock
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land in which St. Paul was held up as
a model o f power and forcefulness
Mr. Rockefeller said that Paul’s virtue
was that he was persistent and that
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fers them big opportunities. These are
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mouth o f the most successful captain
of industry the world lias known. Per
sistence, patience and assiduity have
as great reward* today for tlie young
man who possesses these virtues as
they had fifty years ago, when Mr.
Rockefeller was working sixteen hours
a day in a country store for a salary o f
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Be Yourself.
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Your own g ift you can present every
moment with the cumulative force o f
a whole life’s cultivath n. but o f the
adopted talent o f another you have
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sion. That which each can do best
none but his Maker "cau teach him.
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Franklin or Washington or Bacon or
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U ’liXAN, TIGERS’ STAB TACKLE.
ette recently. "W h y, that boy is a
demon.
He is here and there and
everywhere.
“ McLean is easily the best tackle in
the east tills season, bar none," contin
ued the veteran. "In the game with
Lnfnyette he made more down field
tackles than did the ends. He should
I be placed on every All American elev-
en this fall. McLean will be the big
Tiger man for Yale to wnt -h," eonolud-
I ed the old tinier.
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seven?
Sunday, because the others
are week days.
They Cry For More.
What U that which mnkes every
body sick but those who swallow ItT
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