O i HittJSoc^ C itj Hall.
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SHERMAN COUNTY OBSERVER.
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Fv«ry Description to O rd e r
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Supplies, Ribbons, L to .
M oró, S h erm an
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C o u n t y , O j^ tfo n , F r i d a y , B e e .
25,
1908
F iv e C e n ts
W. H. Ragsdale
THE ONE
SU RE W A Y
To have money is to save It. The one sure way to save it
is to deposit it w ith Wasco Warehouse M illin g Co. bank.
You w ill then be exempt from the annoyance of having
it burn holés in your pockets. Aside from the fact that
your money w ill be safe from theft; the habit of saving
tends to the establishment of th rift, economy, discipline
and a general understanding of business principals essen
A tto rn e y a t L a w .
A t F if t y - s ig h t H e la Good F o r a N in e ty
M ile H o rs e b a c k R ide.
v
Major General Frederick Dent Grant,
commander of the department of the
east, ts receiving congratulations on all
sides for the highly successful manner
In which he recently went through the
horseback riding test now made com
pulsory for United States army offl
cers. In spite of hla fifty-eight years
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tial to your success.
To those wishim inch relation we heartily extent onr senices.
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M oro Î
Frank Menefee.
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VIGOROUS GENERAL GRANT.
P h a r m a c is ts
H e d ic in e s C a r e f u lly C o m p o u n d e d .
Fred Wilson
Menefee & Wilson
A ttorn eys - at - L a w
Santa Claus on
“The Limited**
Offioe in the Vogt Block, upstairs
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H E Chicago Limited was pulling
Complete <\»sortment of S ilverw are and Jew elry
out of the Grand Central sta
tion In New York ta Dr. Henry
Van Valkenberg submitted his
ticket to the gatemau.
He daubed
D e n t i s t ^ ' * ' “'*
through, pushing that Indlgnnnt offi
cial to one aide, made a leap for the
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A n y a n d a ll K in d s o f P a te n t M e d ic i n e A lw a y s In S to c k
and a friendly brakemau dragged him
“on board."
Dr. Van Valkenberg
All Work Warranted.
smiled a little ruefully aa he thanked
Office In The Moro Hotel Brick. the man and rubbed the aching sur
face of his hand. Then be pulled him
self together, picked up the books and
newapajiera he had dropped and which
r o j goffin
the bystanders had enthusiastically
hurled after him
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON.
and sought his
haven in the
sleeping car.
r marie m goffin
“G-oh!
Were
yon hurt?” said
a voice behind
him. “I w as ao
Office In The Goffin Building, 1st Si
f r a ld you were
Moro, Oregon.
going to fall.”
Dr. Van Val
kenberg. w h o
A unetarn huepiu.1 for the treatment of a ll madical and surgiea
was a tall man
diseases, except an< h a« me contagious.
of sixty, turned
and looked down
on 3 year lease at 3-ioths
R a te s , fro m # 1 0 .0 0 to # 2 1 .0 0 p er w e e k , a c c o r d in g to room
from hla great
A
h eigh t At his
Am bulance w ill meet a ll train» and boat», if hospital is notified.
feet s t o o d a
920 acre: 800 acres tillable, 75 acre
F o r F u rth e r In fo rm a tio n A d d re s s
baby. At least
summer fallow, at 11.25 per acre.
she seemed a
baby to him, al
Good House, B arn, and Out
though she was
.
M e d ic a l D ire c to rs .
v e r y dignified
B uildings. P len ty of W a te r
and wholly' self
“w o i TOO HURT?” p o s se ss^ a n d
Situated four miles north east of fully four years old. Fhe was looking
up at him with dark brown eyes and
»Klondike. Apply or write to
was so delicious in her almost maternal
C. E. J o h n s o n , M o r o , O ro g n solicitude that he smiled Irrepressibly.
♦•Why, no, thank you,” be aald. “I
am not h u rt Didn't yon see the kind
man help me on to the car?”
N ea-eet H otel to Buniner« Center, Banka and Depot.
“I'm very glad.” she said, with dig
nlty. "I wna ’frald he hurt you.” She
Sunday D inner 35 cents.
turned as she Rpoke and toddled Into
the section opposite his. where a plain
J . T . P e t e r » B r ic k
but kindly faced elderly woman s a t
F ir s t C lass B a r b e r S h o p in th e H o t e l.
M a in 8 tr e e t
“W on’t you come over and visit me?”
he aa»ed
"I am very lonely, and I
have no one to take care of me.”
(the slid off the seat at once, with
great alacrity.
“I’d like to,” she said, “but I must
MANAGERS
ask Nana. I must alw ays ask Nans
mer a yrs
eo
iller now,” she added, with dutiful empha
ala. “ 'fore I do anvflng "
She laid her hand on the gloved fin
Dancing everySaturday even gers
of the nurse as nhe spoke, and the
woman opened her eyes, shot a quick
ing until further notice.
a d in T h e M oro <
at the man and nodded. She
A good door and the best of glance
had not been asleep. Dr. Van Valken
O bserver
w ill re a ch m o re <
music by Hulse orchestra. berg rose and lifted hla visitor to the
neat beside him, where her short legs
p e o p le in S h e rm a n C o u n ty th a n
■tuck out In uncompromising rigidity.
“I can take care of you.” she aald
b y a n y o th e r m e d iu m a v a ila b le .
brightly. ”1 taked care of mamma a
great deal, and 1 gave h e r her med'
d n ’.”
D a lle » Iro n W o r k s , O w n e r
“Very well,’* he said, with the smile
J . B . K irk , P r o p rie to r. women loved; "If you really are going
to take care of me I must know your
Autos Repaired and Stored name. Yon see.” he explained, “I
need you In the night to get me
Expert men always at hand to at a might
y Q p
wAera th» p»opl» »top
glass o f water or something. Just
tend to repair work and the upkeep think how disappointing It would be
of a machine generally. Located If I should call yon by the wrong nun*
and some other little girl came!"
opposite Moody wharehouse, brick
"Yon say funny things,” ahe said
D o s llm « « t >«-•»«<>**.
building and cheap insurance.
contentedly. “But there Isn’t any other
Steam Heat.
Electric L ights
Electric Call Bella.
little girl in the car. I looked toon aa
t came tn 'eoa I .wanted one to play
with
I like little girla. I like little
H O T E L R A T E S T O S U IT Y O U .
boys, too.” she added, with Inntwent
expanpl venosa.
M o r o . O re g o n .
All O R & N T rain i Stop at Front Door
"Then we'll play I’m a little boy.
You'd never believe It, but I used to
Railway T icket Office in the Lobby.
be You haven’t told roe your name."
/ ’Hope,” she said promptly. “Do you
Express and Freight
T . N . C R O F T O N , P r o p r ie to r .
think It Is a nice name?” Rhe made
Delivered to any Part of the City the Inquiry with anxious Interest
“1 think Hope Is the nicest name a
Piano and Furniture Moving.
little girl could have except one." he
Trunks and Grips Delivered aald “The nicest little girl 1 ever
knew was named Katharine. Rhe grew
wua
to be a nice big girl, too, and has little
To and From all Trains.
girls of her own now, no doubt," he
added, half to him self.
“Were you a little boy when she wae
a little girl?" asked hla Visitor.
All kinds of Reservoir and Cistern work in con
“Oh. 410; I was a big man. Jnat as I
nection with water systems installed in first
am now Her father w ee my friend,
Proprietor of
end the lived In a w hite house with
j,
class style and all work done guaranteed.
an old garden where there were all
Dynamite and powder work on all kinds of Rock Excavations
kinds o f flower«. Rhe need to play
there when th e w as a tiny baby, and
I would carry her around and hold her
high up ao th e could pull the apples
Draying of all Kinds.
,
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and penrs off the trees. When ahe
Trunks and Grip« Hauled to and grew larger 1 gave her a horse and
taught her to ride. She Seemed like
my very own little girl, hut by and by
front all traiot
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Moro, Oregon.
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she grew up and l>ecame a young lady,
and- well, she went away from me.
and I never had another little girl."
’’Did she go to heavenT' asked the
little girl softly.
“Oh. dear, not" answered the doctor,
with brisk cheerfulness.
"Then why didn’t she keep on being
your little girl alw ays?”
The doctor hesitated a moment, lie
was making the discovery that after
many years old wounds can reopen
and throb. No one had ever been
brave enough to broach to him the sub
ject of thia single love affair which
be w as now dlscusalng.
•Well, you see," he explained, “other
boys liked her too And when she be
came a young lady other men liked
her. Ro finally—one of them took her
away from me.”
He uttered the last words wearily,
and the sensitive atom at hla aide
seemed to understand why. Her little
hand sllpi*e<l Into hla.
’’Why didn’t you ask her to please
stay with you?” she persisted pity
ingly.
"1 did.” he told her. “But, you see.
she liked the other man better.”
“Oh-h-h!" The word came out long
drawn and breathless. “1 don't see
how she possibly could.”
There were such sorrow for the vic
tim and acorn for the offender in the
tone that, combined With the none too
subtle compliment. It was too much
for Dr. Van Valkenberg’s self control.
He threw back hla gray head and
burst Into an alm ost boyish shout of
laughter, w h ic h
effectually clear
ed the atmoa
phere of aentl
mental memories.
“ Where are you
going to hang up
your stockings to
night?”, he asked
“1 can't hang
them up,” ahe an
swered s o b e r ly .
“ S a n t a C la u a
doesn’t travel on
tr a in s , N an a
aay a .”
“Nana Is al
ways right,” said
the doctor oracu
larly, " a n d of
DRAOOIKO CARTS AMD course yoU - UlUSt
WOO1XT LAMBS.
j exactly ■■
do
aa nhe
ahe
M.vs But I heard that Ranta Claua was
going to get on the train tonight at
Buffalo, and I believe that If he found
a pair o f small black stockings hanging
.from that section he'd fill them."
Her eyes sparkled.
“Then I’ll ask Nana." she aald. "And
If she says I may hang them 1 will.
But one,” ahe added conscientiously,
“has a teeny, weeny hole In the toe.
Do you think he would mind that?”
lie reassured her on thia point and
turned to the nurse. ,
“I t>eg your pardon." he aald “I’ve
taken a great fancy to your little
charge, and I want your help to carry
out a plan of mine. 1 have suggested
to Hope that ahe hang up her stock
ings tonight. I have every reason to
believe that Ranta Claua will get on
this train at Buffalo. In f a c t ” he add
ed, "1 mean to telegraph him.”
The nurse hesitated a m om ent He
drew his cardcnae from his pocket and
handed her one of the bits of paste
board It contained.
“I have no evil designs.” he added
cheerfully “If yon are a New Yorker,
yott may (»osslbly know who I am.
The woman'a face lit up as she read
the name Rbe turned toward him Im
pulslvely. with a very pleasant smile.
“Indeed I do, doctor," ahe Mid
"Who does not? Dr. Abbey sent for
yon last week," ahe added, "for a
consultation over the last case I had
this child’« mother. But you were out
of town. We were all ao disappointed."
’’Patient died?" asked the physician,
with professional brevity.
“Yea. dorter." — ~ JL
He rose from his Mat.
'
“Now
that
you
have
my
erodes
husband's deuth three years ago, and
ahe kept nt It day and ulght. Rhe waa
ao aweet, ao brave, yet so desperately
miserable w e r leaving her little girl
alone in the world."
Dr. Van Valkenberg set silent. It
wns true, then. Tbla was Katharine's
child. He had not known of the death
of Armttage nor of the subsequent
poverty o f hla widow, but he had
known Katharine's baby, he now told
himself, the moment he aaw her.
"Well,” the nurse resumed, “after
she died we raised a small fund to buy
some clothes for Hope and take her
to Chicago to her new home. Mrs.
Armttage has a cousin there who has
agreed to take her In. None of the
relatives came to the funeral. There
are not many of them, and the Chica
go people haven't much money, I
fancy."
I)r. Van Valkenberg was hardly sur
vlale," he aald cordially, “I want you prised. Life was full of extraordinary
and Hope to dine with me. You will,
situations, and hla profession had
won't you?'
brought him face to face with many
Ijiter, in the feverish excitem ent ef of them. Nevertheless a deep solem
hanging up her stockings, going to bod nity filled him, and a strange peace
and p e e p i n g settled over htm.
through the cur-
“1 want her," he said briefly. “Her
’
tains to catch mother and father were old frtenda of
y /
Ranta Claua, e
mine, and thia thing looks like fate.
part of Hope's Will they give her to me—these Chi
»
e x t r a o r d in a r y cago people—do you ttftnk?”
rv[K>se of man
Tears flUe<l the woman’s eyes.
ner d e s e r t e d
"Indeed they w ill,” she said, "and
her, but ahe fell gladly. There w as”—she hesitated—
asleep at last, “there was even some talk of sending
with great reluc her to an Institution before they finally
tance.
decided Jo take her. Dear little Hope!
When the cur How happy ahe will t>e with you!”
tains round her
He left her and went back to the
berth bad ceaeed seat where Hope sat crooning to the
t r e m b l i n g a doll. Hitting down, ho gathered them
m o it u n u e u a l both up In his arms, and a thrill ahot
procession wend through him as he looked at the yellow
ed Ita silent way carls resting against his breast Her
toward Dr. Van child—her little, helpless baby—now
" i ’ i x RR tour own V a lk e n b e r g 'a his child to love and care for! He
i . itti -S uiai_"
section. In some was not a religious man. Nevertheless
occult manner the newe had gone a prayer rose spontaneously In hla
from one end to the other of the heart
‘lim ited ” that a little girl in section 9.
“nope." he said gently, “once long
car Florodora, had hung up her stock ago I asked a little girl to come and
ings for Ranta Claua The hearts of live with me, and she would not come.
fathers, mothers and doting unclee re Now I want to ask you to come and
sponded at once. I>resslng cases w e r e stay with me alw ays and be my own
unlocked, great v a Uses were opened, little girl and let me take care of you
m ysterious bundles were unwrapped, and make you happy. Will you come?”
and from all these sources came gifts
The radiance of June sunshine broke
of surprising fitness.
out upon her face and ahone In the
A succession of long drawn, ecstatic brown eyes upturned to hla. How well
breaths and happy gurgles awoke the he knew that look! Hope did not turn
passengers on the car Florodora at an toward Nana, and that significant omta
unseemly hour Christmas morning, and alon touched him deeply. Rhe soeund
a small white figure, clad Informally to feel that here was a question she
In a single garment, danced up and alone mutt decide. Rhe drew a long
down the stale, dragging carta and breath as she looked up at htm.
woolly lambs behind It 'Occasionally
“Really, tr u ly r she asked. Then,
there waa the aqoeak of a talking doll, aa he nodded without speaking, she
and alw ays there were the patter of saw som ething lu hla face that was
small feet and aoft cooing of a child's new to her. It waa nothing to fright
laughter. Dawn was Just approach en a little girl, for It was very aweet
ing. and the lamps, otlll burning, flared and tender, but for one second ahe
pale In the gray light- But In the thought her new friend was going to
length of that car there waa no aoul cry. Rhe put both arms around hla
ao base as to long for silence and the neck and replied softly, with the ex
pillow. Crabbed old faces looked out quisite maternal cadences her voice had
between the curtains and smiled. Eyes taken on In her first words to him
long unused to tears felt a audden. when she entered the car:
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strange moisture.
“I’ll be your own little girl, and I'll
Throughout the day the enow etlll take care of you too. You know, you
fell, and the outside world eeemed far aald I could.”
away and dreamlike to Dr. Van Val
Dr. Van Valkenberg turned to the
kenberg. The real things were this nurse.
train, cutting Its way through the
YI shall go with you to her cousin's
snow, and thia little child, growing from the train,” he announced. “I'm
deeper Into hla heart with each mo ready to give them all the proofa they
ment that passed. The situation waa need that I’m a suitable guardian for
unlqne. but easy enough to understand, the child, but," he added, with a touch
be told himself. He had merely gone of the boyishness that had never left
back tw e n ty g v e years to that other him, “1 want thia matter settled now."
child whom he had petted In Infancy
The long train pounded Its way Into
and loved and lost In womanhood. He the station at Chicago, and Dr. Van
had been very lonely—how lonely he Valkenberg summoned n porter.
had only recently begun to realise end
“Take care of these things," he said.
he w ee becoming an old man whose
Indicating both
life lay behind him. He crossed the
sets of poaeee-
aisle suddenly end eat down beside
alona iv I t h *
the nurse, leaving Hope singing her
sweep of his
doll to sleep in his section.
“I shall
arm
"Will yon tall me
Y°a kn<>w
have my hands
about the child?*’ he asked. “Rhe ap
full with my
peals to me very strongly, probably be
little daughter.”
cause she's eo much like eotne one 1
J l e gathered
used to know."
her In t'o h i s
The nurse closed her book and look
a rm s as he
ed at him curiously. Rhe had heard
spoke, and ahe
much of him. but nothing would ex
nestled against
plain this Interest In a strange child.
bis broad chest
He him self could not have explained
with a child's
It. He knew only that be felt It pow
unconscious iat-
erfully and com pell tngly.
tsfactlon Io the
“H er name la nop e Armttage," ahe
strength
and
Mid. “Her mother, who has Juet died,
firmneea of his
waa a widow, Mrs Katharine A r a l
clasp.
tag«- They ware poor, and Mrs Ar- a m RBerL.cn aoaimbt
“Merry Christ
mltage seemed to hare ao relative«
mm broad chkst .
mas!” sounded
Rhe had Mved a little, enough to pay
most of bar expensM at the hospital. on every side. Everybody was ab
sorbed end excited, yet there were few
We all loved the woman. Rhe was
very unusual and patient and chang whe did not find time to turn a laat
ing. All the nurses who had a n y look on a singularly attractive little
thing to do with her cried when ahe child held above the crowd In the
died.
We f*lt that ahe might have arms of a tall man. Rite waa laugh
been saved If ahe bad e o p s In thna. ing triumphantly aa he bore her
but abe wna worked out. Rhe hod through the throng, and hla heart waa
M in e d her Uvtdg by eevfaag a fte r ha»
and bodily weigh
General Grant «•<
ered ninety mi
and
experleni
comparatively
fa tig u e , sin
lng that at au.
moment he would
be ready to under
go the rigors of 1,
hard campaign
General J. Fran
Bell, chief <»:
staff of the anu
has lieen one <•
the leading advo
cates of the horse
manship test an
Is quite as sever
upon him self In
the matter of phys
leal discipline ns he Is upon any or
who comes under the president's ordc
The horsemanship tests are not the
oughly understood by the public. The
are not only necessary for officers. who
may have to go on long marches i
war, but they are a means of keeping
them In condition physically and men
tally for whatever dutiea they may be
called upon to perform.
General Grant Is the eldest son o'
the late General V lysses 8. Grant, t!)
hero of the civil war. During t
Rpaulsh war he fought in Porto Iti< ••
and later distinguished him self in the
Philippines. He has been minister 1.»
Austria and more recently held the p<>
eltlon of polh-e eommlaaloner of Nev
York. General Grant waa born at Pl
Louis In 1850, was graduated froiu.
West Point In 1871 and for a time was
lieutenant colonel of the Fourth cav-'
airy, U, 8. A. He was ouly twelve
years old when bis father took him to
the front, nnd he wna close to biui
during the whole of the V Icksburg
campaign. One of his experiences wa>
running’the batteries of Vicksburg at
hla father s side on a gunboat.
VIVACIOUS MISS ETHEL
Th«
P re s id e n t’s C h a rm in g U n m a r r ie d
D a u g h te r and H e r B irth d a y s .
Miss Ethel Roosevelt, the vlvaclons
daughter of the president. Is «till hav
ing seventeenth birthdays, and as the
year has a considerable time to run sbo
m iss rraan RooacvexT.
will probably materially lucreaM the
number before 11«» rolls around. Sev
enteen la by long odds Miss Ethel’s fa
vorite age, and ahe doesn't care bow
often It happens. Now at Manchester.
Maes., visiting friends. Miss Ethel waa
announced by Secretary Loeb on July
Ifl to be giving a birthday party. Later
thia waa denied. Then Mr Loeb deckl
ed that Miss Ethel should be seven
teen 00 July 18. The president Im
patiently and emphatically denied that
thia date waa correct Finally Loeh
and Mias Ethel concluded that Aug.
10 would be aa good a tim e aa any to
become seventeen. Now It Is m W at
Oyster Bay that MI m Ethel wlU ha
seventeen In September.
It ts thought strange that a man of
Mr. Loeb's experience should Indulge
In any dlacuMlon over the ago o f any
woman, young or old, for Uvea, fo r
tunes and kingdoms have been Boat h r
simitar action. I t la contended that
he ought to allow Mtaa Ethel sure
st rtc ted control over the ouaaRev «<
her birthdays, and I f abe now taatata
on having tw o or three a month le t her
do eo, for the time w ill soon come, all
too aoon, whan she w ill Insist on hav
ing I s m than one birthday every three
to hla «yee aa ha amOed hock at
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