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About Aurora observer. (Aurora, Marion County, Or.) 19??-1940 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1926)
A U R O R A O B SE R V E R THROUGH ADVICE OF NEIGHBOR Woman Tried Lydia E. Pinkham’ s Vegetable Compound r “ A neighbor advised me to try Lydia The Valley of Voices EJ. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, By GEORGE MARSH which she said had helped her so much. So I bought a few bottles and tried it I out. It sure helped | me wonderfully. I felt much better. My work was no Author o f longer a dread to me. If I hear of any uToilers of the Trail” one who is troubled “ The Whelps pf the Wolf” the way I was, I will gladly recom mend the Vegetable (Copyright by the Penn Publishing Co.) Compound to them and I will answer <W . N . U. Service.) any letters in regard to the same.”— M bs . B e r t h a M e a c h a n , 910 Center St., CH APTER X X Lansing, Mich. —27— “ I had been sickly ever since. I was fifteen years old. After taking Lydia One bitter day in the middle of Jan E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound I uary six lean dogs, heads down, limped got so I could do all my housework and painfully across the clearing at Wail I am in good health.”— M r s . M a r i e K. ing River. At the tail of the sled fol (W i l l i a m s , Ketchikan, Alaska. From Michigan to Alaska, from Maine lowed two men, whose haggard eyes to Oregon and from Connecticut to and frost-cracked faces bore the scars California letters are continually being of the barrage of the January bliz written by grateful women recom zards. mending Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable “ We have worried much, Michel and Compound. The Compound is made from roots I,” said the factor, as Steele and David and herbs and for more than fifty years thawed out before the trade-house lias been helping to restore run-down, stove. “ You struck terrible weather. over-worked women to health. Did your rations hold out?” Are you on the Sunlit Road to Bet “ Yes, by cutting them in two,” re ter Health? plied Steele with a grimace. “ We’ll give you your fill as soon as It can be cooked. And your mission— It was successful?” hazarded the curi ous St. Onge, ignorant o f the purpose of the six-hundred-mile midwinter Journey. “ It was,” and Steele handed the fac tor the oil-skin envelope. “ Read that!” St. Onge read the release in open- M arjorie— “ W h a t do you think John said, mouthed amazement. daddy, when I told him th a t when we were married I w anted a city residence, a country “ Man, man! How did you get it?” place, three autos and a lot of serva n ts?7* he gasped. D addy— "W e ll, w h at did the paragon s a y ? ’’ Steele described his meeting at Al M arjorie— "H e said th a t i f I would sleep bany with Lascelles. m ore on m y righ t side, I w ouldn't have such d re a m s." Unchecked tears slowly gathered in B a d dream s are a good sign o f poor diges the eyes o f the overjoyed old man. tio n ; w hen hard-w orked stom ach begins to com plain, the w hole system suffers and w e “My boy,” he said brokenly. , “ It would h ave constipation, dyspepsia, offensive breath be the proudest day of my life. You and sim ilar disorders. G R E E N 'S A U G U S T F L O W E R still care for her, don’t you?” he de h a s been relied on b y m an y such sufferers manded anxiously. fo r th e p ast sixty years, an d has contributed to th e health and w ell-b ein g o f thousands “ You know I care for her,” Steele o f users. 30c and 90c bottles. A t aU drug g ists. I f yon cannot get it, w rite to G . G . gently answered, “ but I went to Al Green, In c ., W oodb ury, N . J. bany for her—not for myself. You must promise me that she hears noth ing of this until I have left. She would think she had to pay—feel hon or bound. I know her, monsieur. You must not tell her.” “ But if she cares? I. feel, in her heart, that she does,” protested St. / haarlem oil fyafi been l a w^rld - * Onge. / r, liver liv er ^nd anc 1 wide remedy for kidiley, “ She must be a free agent,” insist bladder disorders, rheumatism, ed Steele. “ I go south as soon as the lumbago and uric acid conditions. dogs are rested. I shall talk to her first.” “ I’m sorry, but as you wish it, I ÏS «hall not tell her.” H A A R L E M OIL That night, after what, to the hun il gry Steele, was a sumptuous meal, 8 consisting largely o f caribou, St. Onge correct internal troubles, stimulate vital left his gue^t and daughter alone. organs. Three sizes. All druggists. Insist During the meal the girl had fur on the original genuine G o l d M e d a l . tively noted the frostbitten fingers of the American, the drawn cheeks, black Motor on Roller Skates ened and cracked by the wind o f the A motor small enough to run roller Albany trail, the strained look in the skates has been perfected by a Ger gray eyes. Steele had warmed to tlie man engineer. It uses acetylene gas sincerity of her welcome, the evident for fuel, and is oiled automatically, pleasure in her greeting. Exhausted is water cooled and has a unique as he was, the days before his depar ventilating system. Power for six ture were too few to waste one eve hours, with a speed of from 18 to 22 ning by seeking rest, so he watched miles an hour, costs only about two her with hungry eyes as they talked, cents. wondering whether her heart had changed. But she gave no sign, and Reading maketh a full man, confer he was too proud to ask. ence a ready man, and writing an ex On the evening before he left with act man.—Bacon. David for Nepigon, he again sat alone with the woman for whose welfare he If you would have a good wife marry one who has been a good daugh had given the best that was in him— for whom he had toiled and planned, ter.—Fuller. faced the sting of the norther and the pinch of the searing cold; the woman he loved too deeply to make himself the recipient of her gratitude. “ You have never told me, monsieur, why you took that terrible journey to 1 to* ^ . . 1 INDIGESTION/, Albany,” she said, after a silence in 23 CENTS_ /J which her black brows were drawn to gether in evident abstraction. 6 B ell - a n s The man’s eyes softened as they Hot w ater lingered on the clean lines of her pro- ' Sure s u re Relief file, the masses of her dusky hair, for she had asked the question with avert ed face as if fearing his answer. “ I went to Albany,” he said, “ to test my judgment of human nature.” 25$ and 75$ Pkás.SoId Everywhere “ And you found— ?” “ I found—that I was a mind reader,” he answered with a smile. “ Is it a very great secret?” she asked with a wistful look in the dark eyes that searched his. “ No, you will hear—tomorrow.” “ But, tomorrow—you go?” Enter th e great L iquid Veneer Con test. A ll you have to do Is w rite us “ Yes.” In less than 150 w ords w h at you con “ And I am not to know until you sider the outstanding characteristic of Liquid Veneer, or tell us o f an unusual have gone? So that is it?” use for Liquid Veneor. “ You will understand—tomorrow,” Tou m a y win the first prize o f $500 or one of the 1,064 other prizes. Three he put her off with. prominent business m en w ill act as For a long interval she sat gazing judges. Contest closes D ecem ber 31st, 1926; B u t don't delay. Get necessary at the rug at her feet, then leaned to Entry B la n k and fu ll particulars from ward him, her face tense with feeling. your dealer. I f he can 't supply you w rite us. D on 't m iss th is big oppor “What must you think o f me?” she tunity. demanded. “ You have planned and L iqhld Veneer is sold by hardware, furniture, drug, paint, grocery and worked for us, my father and me— general stores. given—given—given! And we — we B U F F A L O S P E C IA L T Y C O M P A N Y have sat with folded hands while you 17 Liquid Veneer B ld g . B u ffalo . N . Y . tolled—and won. Oh, I want you to know how fine you have been through It all—want you to sense my gratitude —before you go.” She had risen and was pacing the floor—restraint gone. H ave G o o d Hair “ I have been selfish—inhospitable,” And Clean Scalp she stumbled on, her eyes avoiding his, “but I want you to know that there Is nothing—nothing which I will not Soap and Ointment do— to prove my gratitude for what W ork W onders you have done.” She turned from him Try Our NewShaygngStlck^ End he knew by the convulsive move FOR O VER 200 TEARS Sure Relief B e l l - a n s FO R INDIGESTION $ 4,000 FREES 1,055 PRIZES IN A LL m x m C u tic u ra ment of Her snocdaers tnat she was weeping. “ There are some things without price,” he said gently. “What I have done, I have not done—for reward. I know— that I have your gratitude—It is enough.” She turned swiftly upon him with: “ But if you knew—” ; seemingly con fused, checked by a surge of emotion she could not control, she stood for an instant; inarticulate; then left him alone. made the long evenings again brlghv with music. But of Denise he said little, except that she was well and played incessantly. So much had hap pened that the winter seemed unusual ly long—was, in fact, a bit on their nerves, and the spring would be most welcome. Some day, S t Onge suggest ed, it might be possible for Steele to revisit the valley of the Wailing. He knew the way and his friends there would live for that day. The other letter was shorter. It ran : * * * * * * • “Dear Monsieur Steele : Late in February, long after the last “A violin—and a Nicolo Am ati! of the fur cached at the Stooping had Your generosity and your thought of been traded with St. Onge, & dog-team me make these words but feel le driven by a strange Indian arrived at things. You, to whom gratitude Is dis Walling River. To the surprised ques tasteful, must yet endure my heartfelt tions of the factor the driver answered thanks, not only for the rare gift, but that he had come from Nepigon sta for the journey you made for my peace tion with a package and a letter ad of mind through that terrible wind dressed to Mademoiselle Denise St and cold. The violin will ever be a Onge. The factor took the long, wood living memory o f one who came, a en box and the letter to his quarters, stranger, to two lonely and hopeless where he found his daughter with creatures, and left them, facing the Charlotte in the kitchen. future with courage. “ A packet has arrived from Nep “ Denise St. Onge.” igon,” announced the excited St. Onge. If only the letter had given him a “ with a box and a letter for you, my sign that she wanted him—needed child.” him. Instead of dwelling on her gratis “ A letter for me?” she said, a wave tude. She was so proud and so brave. of color sweeping her face, while St. If only he had taken her in his arms Onge watched her curiously. that last night, and learned from her In the living room Denise St. Onge eyes, the blood In her face, the beat of opened the letter, postmarked Kenora. her heart, whether she was paying a and read: debt of honor or—loved him. “ Mademoiselle St. Onge: Then, late in May, came a letter— “Wailing River. addressed by a hand unused to the “ What I wrote you at Ogoke last pen, and postmarked at Nepigon sta autumn was a lie. I am sorry. tion on the Canadian Pacific. David “ Rose Bernard, formerly Laflamme.” doubtless had news and some one had The paper slowly slipped from the written for him. Steele opened the fingers of the numbed girl and flut envelope and read with Increasing tered to the floor. wonder and delight: “ What Is it? Who is It from?” de “ Miseu Steele— manded her father. “ Iv you weesh mamsel you bum up The face of Denise St. Onge was the color o f chalk as she raised her hope de trail to Wailing Reever queek. All less eyes. “ He went to Albany for de long snow she have play an play de sad museec an cry on her bed. Wen we go on hill first tarn she lift her arm to de sout an say, Cum bak to me. Dat mean you. You cum lak de win. Michel tak dis to de railroad, he an me get marry wen meesnary cum in June. Charlotte.” It was from the faithful Ojibway woman who had for so long faithfully served Denise. That night the Montreal sleeper out of New York carried a man whose gray eyes were strangely happy. A week later two friends were poling the nose of a canoe into the spring freshet of the Jackflsh as if pursued by a Windigo. Farther on they reck lessly ran in succession each white- water of the swollen Rouge. Down Ogoke, the measured churn-swish, chum-swish of lunging blades marked off the miles to the outlet. Then rid ing the flood water of the racing Wail in g , one afternoon the canoe slid Into bfcach of the post. r In the trade-house Steele and David found St. Onge and his head-man. There were surprised greetings, then: “ I have come for her,” announced the American. “ Where is she?” “ She has gone to the ridge,” an swered St. Onge vith shining eyes. He Had Come From Nepigon Station “ You will find her with her violin— With a Package and a Letter Ad alone.” At the edge of :he scrub, below the dressed to Mademoiselle Denise St. bare brow of the hill, Steele stopped, Onge. with a heart which jarred him with Its me,” she said, as if to herself, “ and beat. He wanted to watch her—listen would not tell me I was free, fearing to her playing—before making his my gratitude. And now—I receive coming known. With a shaking hand this.” he parted the spruce and looked. “ But what is it?” Silhouetted against the soft May “ Read for yourself, father,” and the sky, she stood with her violin, facing stunned girl walked to a window, and from him. Presently she tilted her gazed with dry-eyed emorse out on head and drew the bow across the the white valley. strings. Faintly drifted down to. him “ All, I deserve— all,” she said, turn the haunting minors of the “ Elegie” ing from the window. “ But you are he first heard at the rapids—the sym wrong when you think I did not know bol of her fears and despair. why he went to Albany—I knew. And Then, o f a sudden, the far call of I knew I was free the night before he errant Canadas broke in on the strains left, when—when I tried to tell him of the violin. The girl stopped short that—I loved him. But he thought it off and searched the sky for the wedge was gratitude—thought I was trying of geese. Out of the south she saw to pay. He is proud—oh, so proud !” them coming and opened her arms. “ He is a gallant gentleman, and did Then, as the violin changed its mood not know you cared,” murmured the —broke into her own, “ When Spring old man. “ But what is in this box?” Comes North,” he noiselessly ap While the girl at the window gazed proached her. She finished, and as the last of the on the desolate hills as on the white ruin of her happiness, the factor flock passed overhead, waved her bow. opened the cover of the box. Remov “ Goodby! goodby!” she called, as ing the heavy wrappings of paper pro the wanderers faded into the north. “ I have followed them back to you,” tecting the contents, he gasped in sur spoke a low voice behind her. prise. The girl turned startled eyes on the “ Mon Dieu, mon Dieu!” Over her The girl turned from her bitter re man who stood smiling. throat and face up to the dusky hair trospection. “ What is it?” mounted the blood. “ Come here!” “ Y ou !” she faltered. “ It’s not a She joined him and bent over the box. In its wrappings lay the ebony dream ?” “ I have come back,” he said, “ for case of a violin. On the lid of the case letters of gold spelled: “ Nicolo your gratitude.” “ My gratitude?” She smiled through Amqti, Cremona.” “An Amati!” she cried in her joy. mist-veiled eyes, as he stood beside “ A' priceless Am ati!” Then, brokenly, her. “ You ask no more?” And she “ Father, father! I am paying—I am was in his arms, his face buried in the raven hair. A paying!” “ Denise! Denise!” With feverish haste the key was She raised her flaming face to his, found and the case opened. She ten and there on the hilltop they stood, derly lifted the rare handiwork of the world-famous maker from its bed of oblivious of the world. “ Do you think this gratitude?” she velvet and impulsively caressed it murmured at length. with her cheek. “ No—paradise!” "And he sends no word—no letter?” “ At last — my spring — has come cried the perplexed St. Onge. She smiled at his naivete. “ There north,” she sighed, “ after the long is no word to send, father. He Iz snows.” [THE END] sorry there, in his gay New York, for the lonely woman he once knew In the No Mail for Him wilderness. This,” and she held aloft The postal service is laughing at the violin, “ is his anodyne for the the story of a post-office Inspector who desolate— tlie symbol of his pity.” * * * * * * * went into the hills of Arkansas to It was May, and Brent Steele had check up a village post office. The been hard at work at the museum for neighbors said the P. M. had gone three months. In March he had re fishing. 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