LOCAL
BREVITIES
Legal blanks for sale at the Tri
bune office.
Wild blackberries are now plenti
ful.
The speakers stand, July 3-4, is
near the residence of J. H. Goings.
Sweet Home now has a restau
rant wherein the hungry can get .a
squuare meal.
The first merry-go-ronnd ever in
Sweet Home was brought in the
first of the week.
Dr. J. C. Booth, of Lebanon, was
up today, called to visit Mrs. A. E.
Edwards, who is quite ill.
A stray railroad rumor is in the
air occasionally; not sufficient, how
ever, to cause the people to go wild.
Owing to sickness, if our newss
columns are short this week, our
readers will forgive us. Sickness
seems to be the lot of humanity
occasionally, despite the best we
can do and printers are not an ex
ception.
When in
Lebanon
Don’t forget to eat at the
Tip Top Bakery
and Restaurant
The Neatest, Cleanest and
best equipped eating house
in Lebanon.
Will sell
Pies, Cakes, Rolls, Buns
and Cookies. Soft drinks.
We
Candies, and Cigars,
are the only people that
handle Tip Top Bread. Be
sure to look for the label
TIP TOP.
Located on Sherman Street
F. B. SMITH, Prop.
LEBANON
Quick Sales
Small Profits
The Brownsville
Harness Shop
F. H. W eber , prop.
CARRIES A FUDL STOCK O
Harness, Saddles, Whips,
Robes, Brushes, Combs,
Soaps, Oils, Etc. Etc.
All goods and workmanship guaranteed
Repairing of all kinds neatly done
Brownsville, Oregon
Appointment of Executor
Notice is hereby given, that by order of the
County Court of Linn County, Oregon, made on
the 25th day of May, 1914, the undersigned was
duly appointed and is now the duly qualified and
acting Executor of the estate of Armina Rucker,
deceased, late of Linn County, Oregon.
All persons having claims against said estate
are hereby required to present the same, properly
verified, unto the undersigned executor at his
residence in Lacomb, Linn County, Oregon, or at
the office of Samuel M. Garland, in Lebanon, Linn
County, Oregon, within six months from the date
of .the first publication of this notice.
Dated and published the first time this 28th day
of May, 1914. Last publication, June 25, 1914.
B. F. RAINES
Executor of the Estate of
Armina Rucker, deceased
Sam’l. M. Garland, Atty, for Executor.
St. Charles Hotel
Old and Reliable
Has been Thoroughly Renovat
ed and Refurnished, and is now
onen for the deception of guests.
—WE STRINE TO PLEASE’
Board and Lodging $1.25 Per Day
J. M. STALEY, Prop.
Albàny
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spent in the new country. It Is difficult
to look upon him as the same person.
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It is fifteen years since he left them.
His affection for them has either"died
or lain dormant.
That it had lain dormant Is evident
from the. fact of the strong desire* to
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rejoin them that had suddenly flamed
within him. it seemed that he could
scarcely wait for the steamer on which
he was to sail to leave. Then when
ertissing thè ocean he counted every
day till be should reach the land and
start by train for his old home. Ofice
A Story For Christmas
fits mind, divested of its absorption
tn business, became fixed on his wife
By ELMA R. TWINING
and boy, he began to dread that he
would find one? or both dead or that
they had drifted away and he would
“A-nd. now,” said August Kaufman, not be able to learn where they had
after receiving payment for his busi go lie .
When he reached Anhalt and went to
ness Which he had just sold for what
was to him a fortune, “the next thing his old honiv he found strangers there.
1 will do is to buy my ticket for home. His wife bad owned it. but had sold
It will require two weeks for me to get It. doubtless to obtain means to live.
His wife’s parents were dead. He
there and another two weeks to find found a cousin of hers who told him
my wife and child. If 1 have good that Gretchen and her son Carl had
luck we shall spend Christmas to grown.very poor and bad gone to Ber
gether.”
lin. but their address in Berlin the in
He spoke the words “if I have good formant did not know. But Kaufman .
luck” doubtfully and with a tremor in found others who had known his wife .
his voice. Not for years had he heard and at last got the address, but since
of his wife and child.. He did not she had gone away three years before
know that he should find them at all. he had little hope of finding her. Be
Would he find either of them alive? fore leaving for Berlin he bought back
And in what condition would he find his wife's former home, paying an ex
tra price for immediate possession.
them, if at all?
His reason for this was that he had
Kaufman was an example of what
both adversity and prosperity will do a faint hope that he would find his ■
for one. Years before in the city of family and that they might spend
Anhalt, Germany, he had met and Christmas in their old home. Consfid-.
married Gretchen Reinicke. The bride ering that he did not know that they
was given a substantial dowry by were alive, this contingency was vèry
her father, and the couple started remote, but somehow the husband find
in life with every prospect of happi father had a feeling that Providence
ness. When a little boy was born to would be kind to him.
At the address in Berlin Kaufman
them their affairs were in excellent
condition, and there was not a cloud did not find his family. They had left
the place two years ago. The only ■
in their domestic horizon.
But Kaufman insisted on using his comfort to be derived from this in
young wife’s dowry in business, and formation was that they had both been
when his little son Carl was a year alive two years before. After inquiry
old the father had lost every pfenning of a number of persons who had
of his capital. Too sensitive to re known the mother and son in Berlip
main where he was to bear the re Kaufman traced them to Leipzig. He
proaches of his wife’s relatives, he told tried to learn how they had made a
her that he was going to America, living, but failed. The only informa
where, so he understood, making a tion he received other than where they
living, if not a fortune, was easy, and had gone was that his son played the
when settled there he would send for violin.
Kaufman went to Leipzig, where ho
her and their child.
But Kaufman did not find America found a house in which his wife and
a country so easy to get on in as he boy had lodged. They had lèft Leip
had expected. His nature was rathei zig. but no one could tell him where,
they had gone. However, he gained
here a bit of valuable information. He'
learned that his' boy. now sixteen
years old. had earned a living while
in Leipzig for himself and his mothers
by playing the violin in an orchestra. 1
The father now had little hope off?
succeeding in his search before Christ
mas. since but four days remained to
him Surely, not knowing where on the
i globe his loved ones were, how could 4
he expect, to find them in so short a
time? Nevertheless the feeling that a
kind Providence would help him did
not desert him.
He at once took hold of.the only
clew he had that his son was a musi
cian From Berlin Mrs. Kaufman and
Carl, having gone southward, were on
the line to Munich, which was a great
place for music. Would not a musi
cian be more, likely on leaving Leip
zig to go to Munich than anywhere
else? Kaufman immediately started
for the capital of Bavaria.
On the night òf his arrival he re
paired to the celebrated Hofbrau where
a great deal of beer is consumed and
a great deal of music is discoursed.
He took a seat close to the orchestra
and studied the faces of the younger
players. There was but one young
enough to be his Carl, and after study
ing the boy’s face for awhile he
thought he could trace a resemblance
to himself. As soon as the piece being
“1- AM VOUB FATHER.”
played was finished he went to the boy
to make short cuts than to plod. He and asked him his name.
had not learned a trade; therefore he
“Kaufman.” was the response.
could not work by the day, and, hav^
“Carl?”
ing no capital, he was unable to go
“Yes. Carl.”
into business for himself. During the
One more question the father asked
first year of his absence from home before declaring himself, “Is your moth
he wrote to his wife regularly, but, er living?” and, on receiving an affirma
having no prospect of being able to tive answer, said :
send for her and little Carl, his letters
“I am your father.”
Carl could not leave the orchestra
after that became less frequent.
Gradually from year to year August until the evening’s program was finish
Kaufman’s connection with his family ed, but he gave his father his mother’s-
dwindled. Indeed, what was there to address, and the latter hurried away.
Of the meeting between the long sep
hold them together, they being 3,000
or 4,000 miles apart and in countries arated couple there is no record, but
where the people were entirely differ when Carl Kaufman Returned to his
ent? It would be impossible to look lodgings he found his father and moth
into Kaufman’s heart during this sep er together and was informed that they
aration from his family and see just were all -three to return to Anhalt in
what yearnings were there. We know the morning to spend Christmas in
that after a time he stopped writing their old home. So Carl resigned his
and receiving letters, but may not his position in the orchestra,, and the fam
wife as well as he at last have tired ily left Munich.
Mrs. Kaufman had sold her house
of a communication which was con
with the furniture, and when her hus
fined to pen and paper?
About ten years after Kaufman’s band repurchased it he bought back all
coming to America, having made many that had been sold. When the family
experiments and drifted to many coun reached it they had only to walk in
tries, he succeeded in borrowing a lit and find everything as they had left
tle money to go into business, a part it. They returned to it the day be
of the profits.to go to the lender. He fore Christmas in time to make prep
soon repaid the loan and in a few years arations for the Christmas dinner the
more sold out his business for enough nèxt day.
It seemed to these people that they
to enable him to live the rest of his
were in a dream. Now and again sòme
life in ease.
And now the original Kaufman re one of them would stop and wonder:
turns to us, and we find him as eager “Can thig be true? Are we after so
to join his family as he had been dur
ing those first lonelv dava that he had
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The
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I Family
long a separation reunited? Are our
days of poverty railed? Is this earth
or heaven descended to earth?”
On Christmas morning Mrs Kauf
man found on her plate 'not only a
deed to her house, but a ('heck for the
rest of her dowry that her husband
had sunk in business with Interest. As
for Carl, wlia was devoted to music, he
found on bis plate a check for a sum
that would enable him to buy the best
violin that could be found in Germany.
The day was passed by Kaufman re
counting his adventures in America
and bv the mother and son. telling Wm
the expedients to which they bad re
sorted to keep from starving. It had
only been during the past year or two
that Carl by his music had been ena
bled to- keep them in any comfort.
The Kaufman family lived together
for many years in the home to which
they had gone the day after the wed
ding and had returned on Christmas.
The father seemed perfectly content to
smoke his pipe there, having no desire
to return to the land where he had
endured so much, but had at last made
his fortune. As for Carl, he became a
noted violinist and has made several
concert tours in America.
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FOR SALE BY
J. M. COWDREY
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DEALER IN
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see what is needed and then come to us and get it.
Of course we can supply you with Binding Twine.
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a full line ot General Hardware,
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