Sherman County observer., June 13, 1919, Image 4

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I d one bend of the swift-flowing,
snnltelike river Merrimac, could lx
found a little town named after the
river. The town was Insignificant
enough in name, aud would buve been
more so had not nature taken a baud
In the matter. H er swaying, sweeping
willows, radiant fields of wheat rod
corn, gentle, nodding bluebells; crim­
son walls of Virginia marguerites and
brown-e.ved snasns were enough to In­
spire, not alone artists, but anyone
going this way.
In such a place oue
would expect to find rural people, aud
such they were. These quiet, loving,
country folk were not to be left to
their own devices and theory long,
once John Berry caught sight of the
little Ivy-grown cottage In the valley
overlooking the river.
“Peace’s throne was usurped.” In ­
dignant farmers sought refuge In their
little town hall many an evening, dis­
cussing John and hjs, or what they
thought preposterous Ides of potato
growing.
Yet they had to put up
with I t
It was a balmy midsummer twilight
when from across the road could be
seen the dim outline of someone mer­
rily whistling, evidently watching one
of the farmers transplant something.
John’s two eyes grew wistful when he
heard someone say:
"Don’t anyone around here grow po­
tatoes?
I should think they would
grow good.”
“Bah, potatoes!" was the sarcastic
reply. A whispered conversation en­
sued, and then a mop of dark hair
parted the raspberry hush and with­
drew quickly as the blue eyes spied
John.
Many an evening John saw ■. the
same figure peering, rather watching
the growth of hla potatoes. ' So ,often
did he see her that he named her
hla “Potato Girl."
He only saw her
in the evening, It Is true, but he man­
aged to catch her quite accidentally,
yet not without purpose, one evening;
and from then on the acquaintance
grew. She reminded John of someone
he had once known, but he dared not
ask her lest hla dream he upset.
Summer waned, autumn likewise.
His potatoes had yielded a fairly good
crop for a first year.
Nevertheless
the farmers were Just as Indignant as
ever.
W inter followed— a long, hard
winter.
Spring came at lasL John
was undecided as to whether he should
grow potatoes thia year or not. Hla
thoughts wandered back to hla “Po­
tato G irl" until he finally decided he
would raise them, for her sake.
The potatoes flourished again, and
the "Potato G irl" reappeared.
One
evening he boldly exclaimed:
“It la -Just a year ago tonight that
I first saw you. Won’t you tell me
your name?"
W ith a toss of her head and a leap
across the road, she laughingly re-
p lied :
“Oh, ‘Potato G irl’ la enough for
me."
“Not quite," was the sober reply.
“Potatoes grow In the earth but you
don’t.“
“Oh yes, they do grow elsewhere,"
came the prompt reply. One looked at
the other, hardly knowing what to say,
when John relieved the alienee, boldly
'saying:
“I f this was leap year I might think
It over, but as It Is n 't 1» It true po­
tatoes grow down deep In your heart,
too?" She was a good runner, and
consequently John had to chase her
around the well several times before
he captured her for her answer.
The wedding day was set for the
latter part of August yet John was
not so happy as he would have been
If he had known her right name. He
had to comfort himself, however, with
the promise to know It the day of
the wedding. A week before the ap­
pointed day she returned to her win­
ter home to prepare for hie reception.
John was Johnny on the spot the day
of the wedding and at an early hour
was ushered Into the house by a serv­
a n t He was still Just as Ignorant as
ever as to her name. The revelation
came when she descended the stairs
to greet him. W ith another leap and
a bound, this time a race around
the house, and finally the capture, he
exclaimed:
“Edith, how could you?" A long
story followed In which Edith told
how her uncle had praised him for his
pluck, and told her that he was the
kind of a man .to have. These city
boys, said he. are no earthly nse.
“John. It Is all true." she ended. “I
knew I could win you hack. I am
sorry I gave you up before."
A happier couple could not be found
anywhere that day. When they re­
turned to the country a week later a
shower of potatoes greeted thejn.
John’s potatoes were one grand suc­
cess. They furnished their home and
the farmers around.
Many a time
John g<M*s about singing:
“Down deep In my heart potatoes
grow." for there Is such a song, so he
says.
(C o p y rig h t.
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by
M c C lu rs
Huns Get 5,511 Viotlms in English
Town«.
Children.
London.— In raids on the United
Kingdom by the Germans during the
w ar 5,511 persona were killed or In­
jured, of whom 4,750 were civilians.
An official summary of the casualties
caused by German airships, airplanes
and bombardments from the sea shows
these casualties among civilians:
Killed, 554 men, 411 women and 295
children.
Injured, 1,508 men, 1,210 women and
772 children.
Three hundred and ten soldiers and
sailors were killed and 551 were in­
jured.
There were 51 rotds by airships
causing the death of 498 civilians and
the Injury of 1,236 and the killing of
58 soldiers and sailors and the injuring
" B IL L Y ."
of 121.
’ When she had finished reading, tears
In 59 airplane raids 619 civilians
blinded her and little shivers of shame
were killed and 1,650 were Injured. In
chased themselves up and down her
these raids 238 soldiers and sailors
spine at the thought of her own sordid­
were killed and 400 injured.
ness; but through the tumult within
In 12 bombardments from the sea
her, her heart ke^t singing, "Billy la
143 civilians were killed and 604
coming— Billy Is coming!" She had
wounded, while 14 soldiers and sailors
only Just removed her wraps at the
were killed and SO Injured.
For mjmy years the Parnells, who come to Chautauqua fo r two programs studio when Billy came, and there,
The greatest losses Inflicted by Zep­
on the fifth day, have been among the most popular entertainers of the plat­ from the safe shelter of his arms, she
said to him :
pelins were In raids on Norfolk, Suf­
form, filling an average of two hundred and fifty engagements annually. Both
folk and the home counties of London
“Billy, dear, I ’d have Jumped at the
are pianists, readers and Impersonators, In addition to bsdng splendid singers,
on October 18, 1915, when 54 civilians
saxophone and ’cello soloists. W ith thia unusual combination of talents they chance to share your lot any time and
and 17 soldiers and sailors were killed,
ore enabled to present two programs which fo r excellence and variety sur- any place, If you hadn’t had a thing
in all this world but a penny with a
and in West Suffolk and the midland
passes that given by most companies of four or six people. Well Indeed may
hole In It I"
counties on January 81, 1916, when 70
the Purnells be called “the biggest two-people company In the country."
civilians were killed and 112 injured.
Insignia of A rm y Officers.
The raid on Lincolnshire, Essex and
An officer of the rank of general Is al­
er. “No—no—Pm getting foolish, 'o f
Suffolk on March 31 of the same year
course-—I t can’t be— he doesn't know lowed to choose hls own Insignia of
caused the death of 17 civilians aud 31
rank. Some recently appointed chose
my address, and yet I — "
soldiers and sailors.
four stars on the shoulder. We have,
“Why
don’t
you
o
pen
lt?
”
suggested
The most serious airplane raid was
her pupil, and forgetting her late de­ therefore, thia rule to Indicate the dif­
that of Margate, Essex aud London on
termination to pot Billy Dempster out ferent grades of general officers: One
June 13. 1917, when 158 civilians and
Of her life forever, Bess tore open his star, brigadier general ; three stars,
4 sailors and soldiers were killed.
letter with fingers that trembled as lieutenant general ; foür stars, general.
The only bombardment from the sea
though she might have the palsy.
in which there were heavy casualties
“Dear Bess,” she read. “I wrote to
was that on Hartlepool, Scarborough
Molly De Voas two weeks ago for your
and Whitby on December 16, 1914,
address and Just got It today. How
when 127 civilians and 10 soldiers and
aajlors were killed and 567 civilians (Copyright, IMS, by McClurs Nswapspsr are you, anyway? It seems a lifetime
since I saw you. W hat are you doing
and 25 soldiers and sailors were in ­
Syndicats.)
and hew do you tike tlvlng In Chi­
jured.
The little music teacher ran up the cago? Molly didn’t answer a single
steps of the boarding house with a flut­ question I asked, so I shall w ait anx­
Site of Ancient Capital.
tering heart, for she had seen the gray iously to hear direct from you about
The governor general of Korea and
coat of the postman disappearing your work, yodt husband—I f you have
a party recently on tour In northern
around the corner. The fluttering one; lnrfact, tall me all about every­
Korea discovered the site of the capi­
tal of an old Korean kingdom known quickened Into a brisk tattoo like the thing. As ever, yours,
“B IL LY ’’
aa Kukuryo. Thia kingdom flourished beating of tiny hammers, and by the
Miss Courtland’s black eyes snapped
at an early stage In Korean history time she reached the hall table where
the letters were always laid It was like and she crushed the letter In her hand.
from 37 B. C. until A. D. 068.
the pulsation of a mighty engine.
"To w rite me a letter like th a t” she
Yea, there was a letter, but the w rit­ gasped, "after waiting a whole year to
ing was not fam iliar. When she even ask for my address!”
The Mocking Bird.
During the following week she wrote
The mocking bird la a native of reached the sacred precincts of her
America and the West Indies, and Is own room she read It anil bad Just cast •lx replies to Dempster’s tetter asd
remarkable for Its vocal powers and It aside with a most contemptuous tore each ene to bits almost as soon is
fo r Its faculty for Im itating other birds sniff when there came a timid knock It was finished The seventh she
aa well as different sounds which it at the door. When she called “Come thought somewhat tart, but concluding
hears.
Its voice la full and musical, In” the maid brought another letter It was better than he deserved anyway,
and capable of modulation, from the which In her haste she had overlooked. ■he finally sent i t
"Dear Billy (It r a n ): I probably
•le a r tone of the woodthruah to the Again her hope beat high, bat this was
a more bitter disappointment than the need not tell you that your letter wae
•cream of the eagle.
first.
a surprise. When an old friend
“ Sickening— both of them I” she mut­
Miracle In the Mediterranean.
leaves you at a time of a great crisis
tered.
“Why
must
I
be
made
the
tar­
In an article on the submarine w ar­
In your life, without even a good-by,
fare In the Mediterranean contributed get for such piffle?”
and
for a whole year forgets that you
Angrily she thrust them Inside her
to the November Century, Herman
ever existed, a letter from such a one
desk,
closed
it
with
a
bang
and
went
W hitaker tells of a lad on one of the
In apt to come as a surprise; don’t yon
American destroyers who had been down to dinner. That evening, after a think so? Since you are alive and are
brisk
walk
through
a
little
park
near­
washed overboard In a black night
good enough to feel an Interest lu This Is what a Western Elec­
storm and was thought to be hope­ by, the keen October air having knowing that I am too, I don't mind
lessly lost till a voice hailed the watch soothed her ruffled spirits, she donned telling you that I am teaching music
tric Lighting Plant on your
from under the stern. He had caught a comfortable dressing gown and wrote here In Chicago and like my work very
place will mean to you:
the logline, which trails for a couple to her old friend, Mrs. De Voss:
“Dear Mollyklns: It rests me Juat much. I have no husbskd In sight, and
of hundred feet behind, and hauled
if I ever acquire such a possession. It
N o dark nights.
himself along It. Another escape was to write your name. It carries me back will be because his pockets are so well
to
the
days
when
you
were
my
sympa­
still more marvelous. Washed over­
N o ¿as to explode.
llued with gold that it would be folly
board at night from one of the de­ thetic mother confessor, and, Molly- tor me to let him slip through my fin­
No pressure tank to blow up.
stroyers. this particular lad was kina, I ’ve got to talk to you now, for gers. At present I am very well and
heaved by a wave upon the deck of you are the only one who will under­ contented. Sincerely,
N o water to carry.
another vessel half a mile astern. stand. I ’ve worked so hard this past
"BESS
C
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U
R
TLA
N
D
."
N o lam ps to till.
When he was restored to his own ship year to build up my class and you’ve
I f Bees could have seen Dempster
at the end of the voyage, his captain heard how I ’ve succeeded even beyond when he read this letter all Idea that
N o matches to burn. ,*
thus addressed h im : “Young man, my wildest dreams. But success Isn’t he regarded her carelessly or that he
everything.
Even
here
I
seem
destined
N
o
smoky
chim neys to clean.
you have used up all the luck you
was deceived as to her owa feeling for
w ill have In all your life. The navy to be nauseated with Impossible things.
him would have vanished as a June Tarn a Switch anywhere day or sight
la no safe place for you. Take my ad­ I ’ve Just had two of the most sickening
fro s t As It was, she never knew how
proposals
by
letter
that
any
girl
ever
and get a good strong flood of light.
vice; get out of It as soon as Uncle
received. Possibly I might have read she managed to live through the next
Bara will let you.”
week
until
an
answer
to
her
letter
a
r­
one or the other a second time had 1
F o r S a le B y
not been sure that each man Is counting rived. Then, one morning, aa she was
ORIENTAL PAGEANT
leaving
the
hoarding
house
for
the
on my Income to help support him.
the post naan handed her anoth­
AT CHAUTAUQUA Peace to the ashes of their unsolicited studio,
adoration 1 I tell you, dear, I shall er envelope bearing the fam iliar w rit­
marry for money. I ’ve seen the follK ing, and she almost ran to the little
Julius Caesar Nayphe an Opening of not preparing for a rainy day and It park, where she aat down on a bench
has colored everything In the world to open i t
N ig h t
“Dearest girl," she read. “I am the
for me. When I put my head Into the
matrimonial noose It w ill be when the man you are after—the possession you Agent for Wasco and Sherman Counties
Julius Caeaer Nayphe, brilliant aclon future Mr. Bess Courtland Is ready to really ought to acquire. My pockets
of unbroken royal lineage, cornea to hand me a checkbook on a nice, fat are bo well lined with filthy lucre that
Chautauqua with a lecture-entertain­ bonk account. As It Is, epistolary ef­ fm bent with the weight of I t
It
ment that has been the sensation of forts such as reached me today only
the Bast. He la a young Athenian, ed­ serve to fraxxle my disposition. ‘Buck­
ucated In Palestine and In the Univer- ets of slush,’ Billy would call them. It
Is needless for me to tell you where
my heart lies, and he has never w rit­
ten me a line In all thia long year«- I
thought, of course, when our crash
came and father died that Billy would
P o r c e la in
J 0 a th T u b .
be the first to come to me, and when
he left for Colorado without so much
as a good-by I was broken-hearted.
Now I ’ve Joined the ranks of those
Agent for Model Steam Laundry of The Dalles
who believe that money talks. I can
hear you call me flinty of heart, but
Shop in Brick B uilding next Observer O fh ce
so will you be, Molly, if ever you come
to feel the dull, sickening thud of the
J. C . W R IG H T ,
P r o p r ie to r .
fall from the lap of luxury to the cold,
atone floor of poverty. I hope you
never may. W rite me soon— your let­
U kA A A A A U .
ters are such comforts. Lovingly,
China to Mipply a demand hy Chinese
residents In the United States. They
a»* «»Ipposeil to
much medlc-
rinnl virtue when gnmnd to powder
and mixed with certain other curative
•nhstancea.
The iTiiness used dried
tond» for a tonic, so’ ted scorpions for
smallpox, fossil crabs ss an antidote
for poison, hut excrement for bllud-
;
i
174« -THOMAS’
Jefferson Gave
Us Our Currency
It was President Thomas Jefferson who
proposed our present system of dollars,
dimes and cents.
He was a firm sup-’
porter of banks aod banking.
Conserve your coins, place them In bank
and they'll soon mount up.
A bank account Is a distinct anchor to
windward.
If yoa have aa account, add to i t
If you haven’t, start one today.
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Room with privilege of bath, «ingle,
75c up; double $1.00 up
Room with private bath, «ingle $1.50'
up; double $2.00 up.
Auto Meet« Train«. Street can from
Union Depot p«M our door«.
Transfer at 5th and Gliaan street« from »
North Bank Depot.
* S e e here,” says the Good Judge
I want to remind you
about that small chew
of this good tobacco.
It tastes better because
it’s good tobacco. Its
quality saves you part of
you r to b a cco m oney.
It goes further and lasts
longer.
Western Electric
Farm Lighting Plant
Brighten Up
The Farm
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Put up in two styles
i
RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco
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r
M oro B a r b e r S
Ready Cut, O nly $1500.
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That night the little music teacher
cried herself to sleep and the next
morning she said to herself, na she
altloa of England and America. Ha
will tell you of the Holy Land, where
customs of a thousand years ago are
still la vogue; of the Oriental people,
their Uvea and habits. With him he
brings the wonderfully gorgeous cos­
tumes of the Syrian*, the Greeks and
the Armenians, which he wears and
exhibits, making a spectacular pageant
of the Orient. A feature of the enter­
tainment la a wedding of the Holy
I .and, with the magnificent robes worn
on thia occualon.
surveyed the pale face which looked at
her with weary eyes from her m irror:
“Don’t yon 1st me catch you weep­
ing again over Billy Dempster. He
doesn’t care a fig about yog and he
wouldn’t weep over anybody."
By thq time she reached the studio
she had fully made up her mind that
she hated Billy cordially and that If he
should ever see fit to write her a letter
she would return It to him unopened.
It was several days later that a speclaL
delivery letter, 4>earing a Colorado
postmark, reached Mias Courtland,
and, after the messenger had gone, she
stood gaxlng at the envelope, scarcely
able to believe her eyes, while the
waiting- pupil a t the piano wondered
what was about to be disclosed.
“B illy ’s writing I *
— — »TB V A U T O
A N O V IS IT T H E D A L L E S
YOUR
CAR
In the concrete, fully equipped, roomy fara^e of W a i­
th 5 -Williams Company. /CompetenCworkman always ready
to heiß you in any way they can at leaslexpense to you.
For any service rendered the <h ir«e will always be reasonable.
W A L T H E R -W IL L IA M S
TU B DALLES.
GARAGE
OREGON.
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D E A L E R S IN
L im e , P la s te r, C e m e n t, B u ild ers
Supplies,
L u m b e r, W ood , Coal,
C edar Posts, and H ay .
W HEN YOU TRAVEL
STO RE
H . M c K e a n , M a n a g e r, W a a c o , O re g o n
.
“ HES8."
N ew spap er
t id e of merchandise regularly Im port­
ed Into this country. T h o r come from
Two Splendid Entertainers at Chautauqua
on Fifth Day
Greatest Num ber o f K illed o r In ju red
W ere W om en and
•ynAteate.)
Reptllee »« Cure-Alls.
Dried llxarri« are said to he an ar-
P a r n e lls A r e C o m in g
would be worse than folly to let pse
slip through your fingers and nothing
could possibly suit ms so well as to
lodge In those same fingers forever.
Seriously, Bess, don’t you still care a
little? I ’m In • position now to ask
you to aatrry me— will you? Io u ’ll
never know how 1 suffered because I
was not able to ask this when your fa­
ther died and left you so little J but a
peculiar round of circumstances over­
took ma Just then and left me no al­
ternative. My little slater, who was
out hers visiting, met with a terrible
accident which necessitated a very
difficult operation, and my resources
were so taxed to take care of this situ­
ation I did not dare assume another
obligation. I left without seeing you,
and I ’ve remained silent because I did
not wish to stand in the way of your
comfort elsewhere. Perhaps I did
wrong, dear; but my heart was right
and I ask to be forgiven. I have never
ceased to want you, Bess, and now, the
remnant of my savings, happily invest­
ed, has brought roe returns which per­
mit me to ask you with a clear con­
science to share my lo t I'm coming
East for my answer and shall prob­
ably be with you almost as soon as
you read thia. Always your lover,
M A N U F A C T U R E R S OF
M IL L F E E D
AND
FLOUR.
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