GOOD ROADS,
GOOD HOMES,
BEST CHEESE
The Nestucca Valley First,
Last and all the
Time.
CLOVERDALE
NO. 7
CLOVERDALE, TILLAMOOK COJNTY, OREGON. SEPTEMBER 13,1917
VOL. j 3.
M iss M arjorie M ackenzie em erged
from u m am m oth d e p a rtm e n t store
a n d looked ab o u t for a ta x ic a b .
T h ere w ere several autom obiles
d ra w n u p to th e sidew alk. Miss M ac
kenzie in q u ired of sev eral chauffeurs
w h e th e r they w ere disengaged« receiv
in g a n sw e rs from 6ome th a t th e con
veyances they drove w ere priv ate, from
o th e rs th a t th ey w ere w a itin g fo r p er
sons in th e store. At th e end of th e
line a young m an sa t in his c a r read ing
a new spaper.
Miss M ackenzie ap
proached him . and th e first th in g he
k n ew of h e r presence w as h earin g a
very w ell m odulated voice a sk :
“ Is th is cab engaged?"
T h e young m an looked up Into Miss
M ackenzie’s liquid eyes. l i e did not
rep ly a t once, but w hen he did he
ask ed w here th e young lady w ished
to go. She said th a t she d esired to go
home, giving him her s tre e t and n u m
ber. H e h e sita te d u m om ent, th en said
h e th o u g h t he could ta k e h er th ere
au d get back to th e store b efore a lady
he w as w a itin g for should finish her
shopping.
M iss M ackenzie w as a b o u t to step
Into th e re a r p a rt of th e vehicle w hen
she p aused an d said th a t she alw ay s
p re fe rred to rid e in front. T h e c h a u f
fe u r th ereupon opened th e door beside
him , and th e lady e n te re d by th a t
opening.
“I t's a b eau tifu l m orning, m iss," th e
ch au ffeu r rem arked.
“Indeed, it is. I f you w ere n o t e n
gaged I w ould have you ta k e m e to th e
B a rk.”
“ I th in k I can do th a t a n d g et hack
to th e store before th e lady I ain d riv
in g finishes her shopping. I t alw ay s
ta k e s h e r a long w hile."
“ W ell, If you th in k you w on’t get
in to trouble you can ta k e m e for a
rid e.”
T h e ch auffeur drove to th e en d of
th e park , tu rn e d and drove back, tu r n
ed ag ain a n d again d riv in g hack and
forth. A d h o u r hod been consum ed,
d u rlu g w hich Miss M ackenzie w as so
pleased w ith th e p ark scenery, th e ve
ldt les g litte rin g in th e sunshine, atid
th e conv ersatio n al pow ers o f h er com
panion, rem ark ab le fo r a chauffeur,
th a t she supposed b u t te n m in u tes had
elapsed. She asked th e d riv e r if his
fa re w ould n e t likely he th ro u g h h er
shopping and need 1dm. h u t he said
sh e had told him he w ould have to
w a it n long w hile fo r her, a n d ho e n
tered upon an o th er h o u r's drive, a t the
en d o f w hich he deposited th e lady a t
h e r home. On handing him his fa re
sh e ask ed 1dm if she could n o t use Ids
cab occasionally, to win h he recllcd
th a t she could umi gave her his tele
phone num ber, telling h er to call for
( harlle.
A fte r th a t Miss M ackenzie called
frequently fo r C harlie, tak in g long
rides w ith him, pay in g liberally th e re
for, w ith an occasional tip for him self.
One afternoon when he called fo r her
an elderly lady w as in the cab.
“ I m ust apologize for m y presence,"
she said.
“C harlie is my fav o rite
chauffeur a s well as yours. W hen I
asked him to tak e me to m y s is te r’s
th is afternoon lie said th a t he w as en
gaged to ta k e you out. I told him th a t
he m ight ta k e me in for a h alf hour,
dropping me a t my destin atio n . You
m ust not blam e him .”
Miss M ackenzie get into the b ark
se a t w ith th e lady, who m ade herself
so agreeable th a t the girl fo rgave her
fo r w h at she had done. T h e lad y
seem ed to ta k e a d esp erate fancy to
h er aud w hen they p a rte d asked for
h er address. Miss M ackenzie gave it
cheerfully, and as soon as th e cab bad
turned a corner C harlie puiied up, and
she took th e se a t beside him.
“ Is th a t th e lady you w ere w aitin g
for,” she asked, “w hen I hired you the
first tim e?”
“ Yes, mi3s.”
A week la te r Miss M ackenzie receiv
ed a note from Mrs. C henow orth, th e
lady who had divided th e cab w ith
her, ex pressing her appreciation of th e
girl's kindly a sse n t to th a t in tru sio n
and inviting h er to dinner. Miss M ac
kenzie w as a bit u n certain about ac
cepting an invitatio n on so sh o rt an
acquaintance, hut th e lady had seem ed
to be a refined person an d Miss M ac
kenzie had been m uch pleased w ith
her. So she accepted.
On th e evening o f th e d in n er C harlie
w as telephoned for. grid w hen he
pulled up in fro n t of th e house, a l
though th e evening w as w arm , he
w ore an overcoat b u ttoned from th e
th ro a t to his ankles. On reach in g M rs.
C henow orth's Miss M ackenzie, a fte r
handing C harlie th e cu stom ary fee,
w ith a tip for him self, w ent Into the
house, w as received by th e h o strss
and, h aving rem oved her w-raps. th e
tw o sa t conversing in th e d raw in g
room w aiting for d in n er to be a n
nounced.
B ut a fow m inutes had elapsed w hen
r. young m an in evening d ress waDced
into th e room.
W as Miss Mac kenzie d ream in g ? S u re
ly th at im m acu lately a ttire 1 young
m an could not he C harlie. Mevertlie-
less ho w as C harlie and s o ih ir r ly a d
vanced v ith o u tstretch ed han d t> M ts-
Mnckenzie.
“C harlie is m y son," said Mrs. C heno
w orth, "as well ns my chauffeur. H e
forced mo to hire n cab to get hom e
the m orning he yens d riv in g you in the
park. I concluded th at i" I w ished his
s e n iocs I would need to m ake y o u r
acq u ain tan ce in order th a t we could
the hotter a rra n g e for a divided oerv-
I< e.”
C harlie C henow orth tells the sto ry
as to how he got his w ife w ith g reat
gusto.
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1 w as driving my au to along a
country road, enjoying the constantly
changing scenery. The spring had de
veloped into sum m er; the leaves ou tho
trees w ere full blown, birds were sing
ing in th e trees, a range of d ista n t hills
stood soft an d mellow n g ain st the
horizon, light, fleecy clouds sailed
lazily over an azure sky.
I am one of those who love to lido
slowly, th a t I m ay see each vista, each
landscape, n e a r objects, enjoying them
while I look. 1 have uo patience w ith
those w ho m u st be alw ays tearin g
along so rapidly th at no sooner does
one get an eye on a green velvet slope
w ith c a ttle feeding upon it than, p res
to! It h as vanished and its place is
taken by a ragged height covered w ith
scrub trees, past w hich the road may
be so uneven as to require a th ree
mile nn ho u r gait. Such drivers will
get over tw e n ty miles of beautiful
scenery in a jiffy, to d rag and J 1*
along beside a q u arry or a street lined
w ith hovels.
On th is su m m er m orning of which 1
speak my h e a rt had been w arm ed by
the b eau tifu l flecked sunlight beside
the read , an d I felt especially char
liable to w a rd nil the world. I w as m o
toring along a narrow d irt road, hut.
extrem ely sm ooth, lined w ith a broad
space of tu r f on eith er side to the
fences, w hen I snw before me a fe m i
nine figure wb< sc linos and dress in d i
cated th a t she w as a young girl. She
w as carry in g a satchel of am ple dimen
siens on Imr inn. and used a stuff.
W hen I enme up w ith her I brought
my m achine alm ost to a s'a n d still, sbe
turned her face tow ard mo. <md 1 no
tired th a t II w as com -ly.
“Shall 1 give you a lift?" 1 asked.
“Thniik y< u, sir. I have far to go and
am aw e a ry ,” she replied W'itb t i n t
Scotch accent which in a woman is
especially m usical, though from a m ac
th e w ords usually come like bullets
from the muzzle of a pistol.
She w as about to d im ') Into the rear
seat when I opened the forw ard d< or,
and she took the seat beside n v
“W here do you go?" 1 asked.
“ I d lu n a know at present," she a n
sw ered. "I aw to m eet m f b ro th er at
M edbury. W here we shall go from
there I can n a tell.''
I got out m y road m ap. asked the girl
to unfold It and w hile I held the w b e d
w ith one hand held tile m ap w ith the
other. I saw th a t M edbury w as a
m a tte r of ten miles as th d crow flies,
hut it w as fifteen by read and nearly
th irty by such roads as would be suit-
able to an auto.
“A t w h a t hour do you expect to m eet
your bro th er?" I asked.
“T his afternoon."
I t w as 9 o’clock in th e m orning. I
w as n o t required to be a t any p a rtic u
lar place a t any p artic u la r tim e. T here
w as plenty of tim e to get the girl to
her d estination before she w as due
there. She w as pretty, h er voice w as
very sw eet, and I saw no reasou why
I should n o t enjoy her com pnnionshlp
for th e g re a te r part o f the day Instead
of riding alone.
I jogged along till we cam e to a fork
In th e road, an d us I w as about to tu rn
into th e rig h t load the gill m ade a
move to alight, saying th a t her ro ute
lay over th e le ft read, w hich w as only
a lane. I toid her th a t I would tak e
her to her d estination over m otorable
roads, and sh e consented Again I e x
am ined my road m ap and laid out a
course Involving a fifty mile ride, and
since I p referred a slow gait we would
m ake M edbury at noontim e. As we
roiled along I led my com panion to
talk about herseif, for I felt some cu
riosity concerning her. She w as not
dressed a s a farm er's dau g h ter, and,
although her accent w as Sect li, It was
not a p e a sa n t accent. I could not un
d erstand w hy
reflued a person
sbeuld be trudging along on font, and
f did n o t consider the lonely roads v
proper place for a jo u n g girl to be un
attended.
Io n ln g our conversation she gave
me h er nam e as E dith M acltow nell.
H er fa th e r and m othe- bad come to
America from Scotland when she w as
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about ten years old, which accounted stone of Incidents shaping lu e Tlves ot
for her retain in g only a portion of the ( tw o hum an beings? N evertheless It
dialect of her nativ e country. -Her fa was.
ther had been a landed proprietor to a
N ever before had I driven w ithout
very lim ited ex ten t in Scotland and, | an e x tra tire. 1 w ould n o t have been
having been seized w ith the d esire to w ithout otic th is tim e had th ere not
extend his possessions, had sold his been a delay in tilling an order. I had
property and come to America, w here I expected one to be delivered to me
the proceeds of th e sale would p u r I th at m orning. I t hud not arrived, and
chase a more extended dom ain. But it l w as obliged to s e t out w ith o u t it.
did not a p p e a r from what the girl told T hank heaven th a t it wus not fo rth
me th a t he had utilized his A m erican coming!
acres except In devoting som e of them
I had barely sta rte d from th e W ild
In the cultivation of fruit.
wood inn w hen one of my fo rw ard
As w e do not realize th a t we are wheels w as let dow n ou th e road. F o r
m aking history, so we do n< t recognize tunately w e w'ero so nenr th e lnu th a t
in sm all events ti nt we are shaping my com panion could go bnck there to
our lives. • I. often revert to th a t pleas
w ait w hile I tried to ex tricate m yself
a n t su m m er day when 1 took into my from the dilem m a. A short distance
auto for a lift a girl 1 had never seen down tho road w as a house, w here I
before, in ten d in g a t th e s ta rt lo sit
found a telephone, b u t I spent a long
her down whore our p a th s diverged, while before 1 could get u m an to como
bow I resolved to m nke her my com from a garag e w ith Im plem ents to re
panion fo r a ride; how she com m uni
pair th e breuk. A nd It would not he
cuted to m e a b rief statem en t as to her safe to use the tiro fo r an hour or tw o
social position. It w hs under the a fte r he had done mi. It was 3 o’clock
w arm sunshine, te m p e re d .b y a d e l
before tho patch w on p u t on and half
clous cool breeze, w hile we rolled along past t before 1 d a re d s ta rt again. Then
through a beautiful country th a t I w as
I drove back to tho inn and inform ed
m aking history for m yself as well as Miss Mac Downed th a t we w ere tw en ty
the girl beside me.
m iles from M edbury’ an d since l dnre
In rem em bering the several sruhll In not stra in the n ew ly patched tire wo
cidents th a t were tending to d iv e rt my should have to proceed slowly over
life's p ath from w h a t it had th u s far sin b portions of tho pnsd th a t w ere In
been I bave often thought th a t the ferior. It m ight b e d o'clock before wo'
m a tte r of good roads played an Im por reached th e place.
“ How long will It. ta k e to go hom e?"
ta n t part. H ad th e read s been stony
or filled w ith hollows’ my atten tio n she asked.
“ I can get you back to w here I over
would have been necessarily fixed ou
them and my tem per would have been took you In an hour," I said.
“T ake nie home. 1 dlntia care to go
sorely tried. Instead the roads wore
perfect. F or miles the d irt roads w eie to M edbury uoo.”
"W ill you be too late to find your
dry and hard packed. V. lien we en
tered upon th e turn p ik es they were brother?"
“ 1 dlnna care to go there noo," w as
either covered w ith I lie finest st"iie or
w ere o f asphalt. My m achine work«-1 all I could get out o f her.
We w ere fo rtu n a te In reneblug her
to perfection. On these accounts I w as
not only able to give my whole a tte n home without fu rth e r m ishap. W hen
tion to iny fa ir com panion, but my wo cam e n ear th e house my com panion
left me and w ent on alone. Before
h eart w as free to w arm to her.
Tho history th a t I w as m aking for p artin g I arranged for a call and a n
m yself an d my com panion w as In a other ride. T he call I m ade at an early
.w ay m ore im p o rtan t to her th an to dale, and a fte r th a t we hod m any rides
myself. B ut why th is w as so I did not together.
learn for a long while afte rw a rd . D u r
One m u tter turned up a m ystery. It
ing th a t eventful day I set her dow n as soon cam e out that E d ith had no b ro th
a m ost dem ure Scotch lassie in whom er. Upon my accusing her of having
there w as no disposition to act for deceived me she confessed thst. on tho
herself. Indeed, she im pressed me ns l m orning I took h er into my au to she
Imrely having escaped from the n u rs
w as going to m eet a lover for an elope-
ery.
j mont.
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It, w as then th a t I understood her
At noontim e we name upon a grove
In which stood a cottuge, w ith a sign, | words, “ I dlnna ca re to go th ere noo."
W ildwood inn. T h ere w ere rude ta And th is Is w hy I have said th a t I w as
bles in th e grove, and I Inferred th a t a I m aking history m ore fo r her th an for
luncheon would be obtainable, s» I tu rn m yself. She changed her Intended hu s
ed my m achine Into the place. A w o band du rin g our ride.
I t tu rn e d out well fo r h er th a t I in
man w ith a w hite epp' aud apron cable
out, and I a ¡ked her t<> produce the vited h er to ride and th a t th e bursting
of th e tire delayed our reaching Med
best she had In her larder.
T h a t luncheon ta ste s delicious w hen bury as It did. H ad she arrived there
ever I tld n k of It to th e present day. a t th e tim e appointed she would not
T here w as an om elet fit for thé gods, have found the m an sbe bad expected
biscuits such as w ere never m ade be to m eet, fo r he had no Intention of
f ire n o rth of Mason and D ixon's line, keeping th e appointm ent. Some years
so light th a t 1 alm ost fo u n d they a fte r our m arriage I learned through
would fly up am ong th e branches of frien d s of my w ife th a t th e m an w ith
the trees above us befoio ! could gut w hom she had expected to elope had
them to my mouth. As fur the b u tter, at th a t tim e already m ore w ives th an
I doubt If it hud been churned an lemr. the law allowed. H e had been born
A h eartier course w as spring chicken a gentlem an, but w as the black sheep
served w ith cucum bers, so th aï th e heat of the family. T h e reason w hy she
cf one w as nullified by the coolness of w ouldn't have found him a t tbt» a p
the other, while both heat and r ioln*>*<« pointed place w as th a t w ife No. 2 had
w et* enjoyable. A cup o f tea sm oothed z >t wind of his lutcntlon and had had
by th e richest cream wns w h at we him Jailed. I nev er allow ed iny w ife
d ran k ; fo r dessert a great dish of to know how serious s fa te sbe es
stra w b e rrie s as large as w alnuts. And caped.
How Ha Lost Out.
all th« w hile I was ] V;ing h e n a pad1
‘T ’ve decided not to m arry him *
of brow n eyea opposite m e and Ikstc u-
Ing to a m u sl'a l voice.
"W hy not?”
One th in g more of a different kind
“ H e took me out to d in n er last n ig h t
was needed for our history m aking. It and gave so m any Instructions to the
w as not Im portant except in a sm all
w aiter as to how he w anted tbe m eat
way; th ere w as nothl::g heroic, §rcnl<\
lurid, rom antic about It Indeed, If w as cooked and the courses served th a t I
very com m onplace. A punctured tire. m ade up my mind th ere'd lie no living
N othing more, nothing le-s. W ho w ith a m an a" fussy as th a t." —D etroit
would suppose th a t so unrom antlc a 1 Free Press.
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