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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1916)
(P1*? 11 S fl> flfid flS S S 1 1 1 1 S I s S fia+ ffi ’ “Ufither. Whew Atari C rite gave fee the bandhec It contained a c a k o -u fm it the bandbox. Ofyeonrsa the cover was cake. Mpw | Bad i t > f i hfibyF "Soma one muat have pot It In bare off until we oegrad the terminal. Bo 1 for a Joke,” declared Mrs. Atherton, put on the cover. tied It securely and beading over the boa and touching a left my seat fo rfin Instant. Returning. ID A Y .......... J in m ry 21.1916 tentative Anger to the round cheek, I was Just in time to see a man snatch •a re a perfect darling. Don. I believe up my bandbox and bag and dash away. ¿F k i By ELINOR MARSH I’ll take It e a t * "While I was trying to explain what "Don't drop I t mother.” he cautioned. The asetber o f Ave daughters and a had happened passengers thrust , thia Aa Afesurd Mistake «od I f Abraham Lincoln had Lived till his 1 eon looked scornfully a t Aten bafore-ahe other bandbox Into my hands and In birthday falling due In February, 1916». I slated 1 had mfiflo a mistake hfoellev- How It Was Righted lifted the baby from Its laey pillows he weald have been 107 years old. I end allowed Ito UttJe bead to drop Into Ing I had bean gobbed. M artin mat ma Had he not fallen In hta prime a t the at the station. the hollow of her arm. hand of an assassin or bean taken off I Don. gazing a t ber, saw that his I “As soon as I reached the station I In some other unnatural way ba would J mother’s arms wees mads to coddle opened the bandbox, found the cake. doubtless have lived to a great age, for babies. and ba fait that there might be Mtoa Celia Atherton tiptoed to meet difficulty In persuading his mother to ha was physically a vary strong man. her MU nephew’s farewell ktoa. part w ith i t .We may wall wander bow Abraham “GSpdAy. Dan, and don’t lose the She had been confessedly lonesome U n c o * endured the attain of four bandbox. Tai 1 your m other I put an •lnoe She-teat dfiughtor had m a r rie d yearn o f civil war, mUUons of people extra thick M u g on the ^ k < 8he likes and gone <Way 1 looking , at him to bring about a resto It that way.” Z ’ • v i The baby wap making playful ctatoh- ration of the Union, foreign nations ”1 know It. Auht Orite.” toughed Don as at- Mra. Atherton’s beautiful white threatening to Intervene, thus Insuring , aa ba picked op the great flowered half, but Its bine eyes wandered around the division o f the. ©ountry; vainly try- I bandbox, which was tied about with a the room as I f searching for some be .Ing to find generals who could accom- I heavy cord. *F II 'ha careful of the loved and fam iliar object pllah results, and constantly abused J One day whbn Mttie Was may cake,'and mother Shall receive It with “I t wants Its mother,” remarked Don for what was considered tea mtamaa- out a scratch.” lira , Atherton came back to the, pre« Fletcher was only four years old a agement I t would aaam that no man J He waved hto band aa ho dived out < mat w ith an Indignant e ta rt neighbor of the family brought ovar? w ith o u t herculean strength could Uve I of the gate and sprinted up the street “Its mother!” ebe sniffed. "A alee a boy of about the same agt- The through such an ordeaL toward the railroad station. sort e f creature she m ast bo to deliber two children had been playtog togatb T h e bandbox waa quite heavy, for it ately abandon bar child! 1 have heard . T h a t the physical stru ctu re of Abra ham Lincoln was equal to the require I er h a lf an hour or ao whan the mother contained one o f Oalla Atherton’s fa of such cases, and almpte man are menta la made plain by the following I asofip fru it cakee. Blob and frulty'and usually the victims. of the boy catod out: story told of him many years ago by I ”Don Atherton, tell me truly did not "Susan Fletcher, see there, will you? masked thickly w ith a heavy frosting. a M en d a f tea boyhood -who Wawoaa- Your girl la trying to flirt with my Celia’s cake would be received with some woman aak you to b o y her child. ] ployad'ln the aapm store w ith Unoohou I and when she did not coma back did boyr ••Billy,” said Aha one t day. "what you not take out the fru it cgho and T h a t waa tba beginning of tolas May’s makes you bat w ith Enoch? You ought substitute the baby?” career. By the time she waa tan er “1 did not.” Don denied hotly. Then j to know better than to bat w ith a man twelve y e a n old and going to school be related, incident by incident, bow he on Ma ow n tricks. I f he didn’t knew aba waa breaking t be hearts Of the boy j ha had a aure thing ba wouldn’t hat.” * J had boarded the train at Red Tap. had pupils. She was a handsome girl, and placed Aunt Celia’s bandbox on a seal T h e advice was given because thia she bad cute, coy ways about ber. and gone lpto the smoker and at the Bnoch would coesa Into «ha team In When she was appioaCMag bar twen last moment had retarned for hto be the evening ostensibly for the purpose tieth year her solemn faced father sol longing* of loafing, but really to win small beta e m n ly asked of ber: “You are sure you have your own by a number o f tricks. Ona of titeaa "May, do you know that this whole overcoat and bagT’. asked Mra. Atbcr was doubling np tea hand ao aa to hide town o f Tiptonville la tofteng-shoal ton anxiously. one of his fingers. H e would bet that your - *■ Don looked toward the conch where Billy couldn’t mark that particular fln- -Ko. father," waa tba reply. "W hat he bad tossed-them, and his eyas wld- -ffer. O f course Enoch always won are they saying about m e F aaad In growing horror. Instead bf such beta. ‘ When Aba advised Billy "That you are a confirmed flirt and U r own. travel worn black bag was a to atop betting the latter told him th a t a coquette." dainty affair silver trimmed and die ba had lost nearly a dollar to, Enoch ••Why, father, bow you shock me!” J ttactly feminine, and Instead of hto and ha didn’t wish to stop till the "Don’t protend such Innocence.” ffiR is A a •w n topcaat waa a w h aaan o lo n ff htaek money was wen heck. etaded the father. "Let’s go over year ”WID you premise me," said Aha,.] "Good heavens, mother, look at case a little. When Parson Brown "that you’ll never bat any more I f I , that!” he gasped. "1 must have made “OH. BAST. DAB<r IXTS »UFTBD A SWUr. put you In a way to win back w h at came here, an unmarried man, two uLAD voice. years ago, be seemed to take q u ite -• a frightful mtotaker you have Mat and a giant deal m osoFH “ You h av e." agreed Mrs. Albertan I shine to you." . ‘ | entered a coinpialut and.-searching the “ You bet!” replied Billy. grimly. “ Look at that bandbox. I>on. I “Yes, father.” overcoat, found -Mr Atherton’s card» “How would you like a plug bat to See the row of bates around the caver? and hero 1 am !" " I have an Idea that ha naked you I-w ear with your Bunday clothes? I t Tosglve a ir to thia unfortunate child. Sbe smiled radlsatly at them over I would set yen up with the gèrle*” to bphis wife." But why should a woman want to carry the downy bead of the motharlaaa "H a did. father, but how was tt f “I ’d like a plug hat first rate, but • baby In a bandbox F Wa were coming home from prayer baby. I how am I going to gat one. seeing that “Search me!” muttered Don fa r the Mrs. Athertgh’a motherly heart an- I i t would eoat me 37? I t would taka meeting when he said that ba to v e ftm e and w an ted me to b e ^ n if « ¿ d a r tin g second time. ' pended, and aha insisted that Eleanor | , pretty nigh a week’s salary.” "You must go right down to the ate Bown should give the baby Into her ^rito. Just aa I got my mouth open I " I reckon I can help you to one. A t don and report what you have dona.” empty arms. And aa the story waa re any rate, wa can try tba next tim e to aay yea a big bog. chased by a little I "O f course— I ’ll telephone firs t" He peated and saaery detail dw elt «poo I Bnoch comes around and wants to bat dog, came running up on the sidewalk moved toward tba Instrum ent Don became ronscioua that ha would I yes on his tricks. Tall him that you’ve behind ua The bog struck Parson 1 He dropped the receiver as a hurried always be grateful to the "bandbox I got tired betting picayune amounts. Brown In the legs, and ha want sp ra w l- 1 tap sounded at tba door, and a serv I baby” fa r Introducing htaa to ffiteanoe I but If ha really wants to bet something tag. I tittered. I giggled. 1 snickered. Bown ant’s frightened face appeared. How could I help It? M r. Brown want I worth while you’ll go him; then. If be For a long time Don sat and stared at agrees, yen offer to bet him that Abe Behind ber were other faces and a off In a huff a n d in six months waa Celia ’a fru it cake In the other bandbox.' Lincoln can take a forty gallon barrel confused murmur of voices. , married to tmanfia Jones.’*" "A penny tor yaur thoughts.” tea I of whisky off the floor and drink sot “Please. Mrs. Atherton, the—«he. po / "But there waa Chartaa Renfiaw.” I lice are hare. They want Mr. Don,’’ I mother said mischtevouslg. I a f the hnnghaln** o continued the father, with .n aifiile "1 waa thinking Aunt Calls might she gasped. "Can you do that, A boF around his mouth. A blue uniformed figure pushed past make a wedding cake.” be sold absent "Beckon I can. A fter the -tears "Yea, 1 remember him, but Jt was ly and than blnshed hotly. her and entered the room. closes tdhight I ’ll try It." not my fa u lt that be quit roaring hare. His blush was reflected In Eleanor’s “Pardon me, madam, but I am look Aa soon as the proprietor had gone I was expecting to ba Mra. Renfew ing for Donald Atherton, wanted on startled face, find even Mra. Atherton’s L home fo r the day th e two clerks abut aoma day, hut ha had not proposed y e t face eaught the a fte rg lo w / But for a charge o f kidnaping” — I up the store, and there was a re- * H a came ooa night, and Just- aa ha " I am Donald Atherton,” Intercepted her It was a promise, a forerunner of a I hearaal. at which Aba convinced Billy started la to propooe ha gave an a w fa l romance now la Its earlMbt dawn. the young man, coming forward. that he would risk nothing provided anataii. and the falaa plate In his “Here Is the baby—it waa all a mis ha could get Enoch to taka the b at month, which I never ouapected waa •m a k i nff Competktana. take, officer—an exchange of belong I The next day Enoch came Into the there, flaw out an0 under the tabla, A t a smoking competition bald re I store and had not been there long bn*' ing»—I had a bandbox with a fruit and tba cat acramtoled for IL Father, cently at Brighton. England, the winy cake In It, and” - fora ha called to Billy an offer to bat 1 hfid to snicker or blow right out o f :“Oh, baby, baby!” Interrupted a I nar kept an eighth of an ounce of to I Mm on aoma naw trick that had not the window! Poor Chartaa dove under aweetZglad voice, and the officer Was bacco alight tor Iflfi mlnutea. Thera I yet bean demonstrated. Billy was the table for tea plate, gave ma ooa thrust aside aa a slender, black gown waa a severer teat at Oxford. In 1723 I weighing out some sugar at the time awful tank and- want through the front ed figure rushed in. J on a scaffold over against the theater. and said ha hadn't tim e to do any ftx>|- door.” / As she rooaa, abv dropped a tag'fiew- .Thomas Hearne described tba scene: ! tag. But Enoch hung aroupd till Billy There waa a alienee for two mlnutea, "The conditions w a re «than any ooe I bad finished what ha was doing, whan ared bandbox at Don's feet and than the father asked: "Haro la. year, horrid aid eeha,” rebel f T T or woman) that could smash out ha renewed hto offer. Billy consented "But what about George Fox. who three ounce« of tobacco first without flung at Mm as she paused. to talk with Urn and daring the tatar- has beau coming hara quite often of Reluctantly Mra. Atherton teaaafar- d rin k in g or going off the stage should lateF rad the baby to the eager young firms, figva 12 «hillings. Many triad, and It "Do you know. Enoch, bow strong " I don’t know," was the reply. "I and It clang ta> her w ith -little bUsafal .^raa thought th a t, a Journeyman tey- Aha Lincoln Is F think ha w ill ash ma to marry him.” tpnr would have been victor, ha amoak- gurglao. "No, I don’t, but I reckon he’s pretty "And you’ll titte r and apoil It all.” T h e ethers watched han«aaba>eaaoa- tag faster than and being many pipes strong ” . "Mot I f I can help It. father. George ed ever the b a b y -th e tw o policeman. J bteoro the rest, but at last be waa ao " I shouldn't ba Surprised i f Aha could squints w ith both ayaa every two or the startled maidservant, a atraqpa I i atak that ’twaa thought ba would have Uft up one of thaaa barrels o f whisky three m lnutea f t la a dreadfully fa n feotman who carried. Don’s, hag .and filed, and an old man. that had. bean a over there In the corner and taka a ny oquint” overcoaL M m . Atfaariau and Oon Mm ksoldler and amoahad gently, came off drink out o f the bunghole.” George Fox was a young bachelor a conqueror, amoaldng the throe ounces salt . "Bat you a quarter ha ean*k" a f tw eaty-flva who Hvod w ith Ms w id “Now, took t here. Enoch. 1 don’t ] Don thought be had never seen a quite o u t” owed mother. H a waa a farmer. H a In Derbyshire there was a club where fairer picture The girl was so beau want any » o ra of these «mall beta. had admlted and loved Mlaa May and tiful. Her black garments enhanced the qualification tor membership was I f you want to bat something to make meant to make her his wife, squint or the purity of ber complexion, and the ability to smoke up a pound of it worth white I ’ll go you. but i f you strands of red gold hair curled under shag tobacco at one sitting. A china don’t, why« tota hero no mpra ta lk pot served aa a pipe, and the candidate her hat brim. about It " I smoked through the spout. The pollceaaan coughed slgrrlfleantty. "W hat you want to bet, B Illy F "W ell, madam r H a eddceeeed the "On Ahffa being able to take1 a torty „ Cinched Him . r- T- gallon barrel off the floor and drink Redd—-You say he’s roeklaaa ta a out of the bunghole." She turned with a startled glance. him an Idea. H a waited to see I f ahe "ru hat you ba can’t do I t ” " O h r Bba looked from Dan to tea ear? would appear again next day. She did, Gr e ene Very. I understand the oth mother, and a blush «wept -over her "Enoch, Pm wanting a ping hat, and and a t the fa r and u f tha field ha lot fetrneaa. " I t to all rig h t officer • I am er day be kissed a widow twice.— Yon maybe you’re wanting one. Did you down tha fence and turned in his old aare It can ba explained.” -vitae shifted kers Btateaman. aver w ear oneF bull and ram and gave them fi-whach the baby to ber other arm and opened a "I had one once. It eat aaa Off fine.” as they passed through tha flap. They W aln u t Tree flarUars. rifre r mash bag. 8he slipped a foldad "WaU, hero’s your chance to gat An were gentle creatures, but at tha Walnut tree« In the Netherlands usu Mil In to . the officer’s hand, dismissed other. r u bet yqn a plug hat that Aha whack tha hull emitted a bellow, and ally line dike« or border llnea Instead them with a smite and spoke to the Can taka th at barrel—the Mg one—up tba ram shook tea head In defiance, nfid footman: off th e floor and taka a dram ant o’ the by a freak u f fortune both trotted "M artin, bring In Mr. Atherton’s lug- bung hole.” among tha buahea. There waa a good deal of dickering, Tba slmpUcity and Ignorance of the Tha girt who had broken aa many x o ilrt rsBtprmt Investigations until ha Dgu pushed a chair forward, and aha rural Scotch mafifetrato often quite and Bnoch tried to Uft the barrel tem- hearts saw them approaching find aft waa wlpita^daora. sank Into I t w ith a smile. He noticed equaled that of \h d English, Im mortal aalf, wot succeeding In stirring IL er one scream started for-fi tree. Up The cry waa repeated several tiroes, ahe want until ahe was seated on a and than stilted. Five sotaatao later a that the baby was asleep g ad that Its ised by Bbakespeaeg ta Dogberry, and Finally ha agreed to BtUy’a propoat- limb that aha deemed was a «af« vary much pusaled young man was hsad bad found the oaaaw sort of cud hara are two examples, quite ta tha true tlon. and the bet was duly made In the dllng place that his mother’s arms of- Dogberry vein. presence o f wltneaaea. roo«t. and it was only then that she greeting tea mother ta tha front hall. •are«* Aba being called upon to decide th e “That Is a most tragieel event which new M r. Fox and called out to him to “Let un go to year room at unco, "Shad we try to explain this absurd haa Just happened," said a friend to bat. advanced to the barrel and. stoop eome to her rescue. M r Fox came mother.” he urged “I have something m tatakeF asked the g irt Bofllla Blank. “Your nelghbar. Mr. ta, ing. toted It oh hta right knee. Then along at a lasy pace, aa If there was to show you." Mra. Atherton from bar comer af tha baa committed suicide.” ha bant backward, and Bflly polled out no apaetal reason for burry, and when B O d ail otsa s d doors ho„«et th e flow "Who o a r Inquired tha balllto eag [ the bung- Abe craned tea neck for he approaahcd within thirty fort he ered bandbox on tha aofh and tad Wo aoCa regarded tba girl With friendly ward and took a d rta to u t of the bung took a seat an the fence, wUh h is hack mot ber up to IL erly. Ptrbape It waa ha—I t was certainly hole, spit It oht on the floor and set "Suppose you tat Don tall hta Story, to her and naked: "Mother, Aunt Calls has sent you and then we w ill hoar yausa," aba sug another Glasgow the barrel down again. » "Wall, where waatadF ana of her fru it cakee. I t ’s to t here T h a t waa tb a teat time Enoch oama health being propofi " I want to gat down, of course," re 11 think tt m aat ha lonaaoma.” ha add gested. y c So Don Atherton repeated tea story honor of hta recent Into the store with hta betting offers. plied the girl up tha tree. ed whimsically, “tor I ’m aura 1 heard of tha fru it cake In the flowered band- He paid th e forfeit, and Billy kept his nobly to the toast: - " I am not bteA^Wny you," h « , «f-hte excursion to th a smoking " I canna but aay, aaa friauda, that promise to Aha to bat no mare. "But the bull and tha ram?” I’ "H aw absurd you «re; D o « r laughed ear, hla return at the last moment and I ’m proud of tba honor p f being made Y e a n passed, and the mao who hud "ffih. \h e y Uvan*t killed anybody Mrs. Afherton aa aha untied the wide his hasty onatchtag of bandbox and a balllle o f this great city, and I ’m performed thia feat waa called upon to lately!” tapas and Mftfid the lid. even. I think, entitled to tha honor, for perform another, one of th« greatest x . Far anveskl memento mother and sou bat. The g irl listened, oaddtag her head I’ve gone through all the various stages flaats required u f any man who hue stared down Into tha teg box. of degradation that a ball»« haa tea aver Mved. Who knows hut th at w ith gravely aa ha finished. And trans it» neat o f ptWowa stared "Ypu. hoarded the train at Rad Top.” dae tea reach It.*— Youth’s Compete00- out the ability to do the one ha would hack at them a solemn blue eved baby, aha sate. "1 got on a t the next atatloo. have been unable to do'the other? perhaps three months old. a baby con Falrntont Aa that train Is made up of H is Quaint fluM astlsn - -■ A Frenchman 'who appaan to hara tentedly. tcatebing nourishment from a ordlaary coacheA I took It ta prefer sure to tha later train, a n which a aoat bean of a thrifty turn of mlud con bottle. ceived the Idea la Ififfil that too much A hroutifinf. baby with fluffy white waa reserved for me. “At the last moment the baby’s nnrss valuable time wa« bring waried ta skirts and with blue ribbons tied to I auta llUla haws. danerted me. and no I did what you cleaning sardines when preparing them I Mm. Atherton was tha «sat to raeaw muHt think was an absurd thtiffiS-T pht for tha market. H r found a way fif \ far her wtta. tha baby ta a bandbox and carried bar preparing them wit bote cleaning thorn, "D a n P aha aald In a horrified tone. aver so nicely. You aaa. I am not read and on this ho took out tetters psteot. “What da you mean by this dreadful tohahtea!” / ApparetUly ha had soma alight mlaglv- Mm. A tiw nau looked > strong dtaap- tag aa to whether tha public would ba Joker / ' perfectly suited w ith hta Invention and " I don’t know, mother; hooaatly I proval n t thia confeoaloa. "You sae. It Is not aay h a h y * want ao ta Ms claim ha tntetaa thia paroo- danX” ha expostulated. Wlmro ta on the Kiri “It I* my sister’s child thetlcal entry*. thunder ta Aoat Celia’s eahnF "Never mind tha cake, my son. Tall My sister died tnfit weak, and I am Fish put up by thia process may ba taking baby to my father’s house. Ms slightly anpteaaaat to the <pddfl«sre»ht j tether, afi army officer, h t t bean or- find, but ha auoa Mtg jp m l to I t A b ra h a m L in coln P h y sic a l Strength ALMOST A LOVE STORY FRESH BREAD DAILY. Sc a Loaf. All l Bread wax paper wrapped in air tight sanitary package. 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