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THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
Tuesday. November 23. IQ20.
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VEXATION OF SPIRIT
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TedOk yea .zsifizta
r::i In IxiJ-iiw-s, tirl
diilll UK I'l'llll.'lt, "I
to ri'.'t'l much, ;u:(l I
funviml In the cjml 'Iny
ia lit crut urc. I felt
liiipl.iy. I usimI to
Jot il o v n the
titles (if Imolis I
inteiHli'd to read,
and when I re
tired from liusi-
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Russian battle
line.
"And now that
I run rend all I
wnnt to, I don't
Ki't any enjoy
ment out of
books. They bore
m e t h e w orst
way. I K't sleepy
as soon as I begin to read, and my
wife eomos and tells me my snoring is
disturbing the neighbors."
"It's that way with everything we
look forward to," observed the hotel
l;eeier, sadly. "Man always will be,
bill is never blest, as some half-baited
Jioel remarked. Ynilili; (bioseworthy
was in here Inst evening, huhhlliiK over
Willi happiness. There wasn't any
body around, so lie took me into his
eoiiliilenee. lie's piintf to marry
(iweiulnlin .Tliuiiltmjr, next month, and
lie's perfeelly snlislleil that his mar
ried life will be one long stretch of
sunshine, lie seems to have Ihe idea
that lie's Rnllin to do something orljr
tmil when he cols married, liut tlx;
idea isn't new. Men have been Helling
married ever slnee ( 'lirislopher dis
covered ('oliimbiis, Ohio, and every
doggone man jack of them had the
Idea that everlnsl lag bliss was going
to be Inaugurated on the wedding day.
"I listened lo (looseworthy for three
hours, and lintln't the heart to say
anything that would dampen Ills en
thusiasm. Ills twittering recalled the
long vanished days when I was get
tlmr rondv lo be married. T felt about
It then Just hh lie does now. I thought
the parson opened the gates of para
dise when he Joined two loving hearts.
My wife lived up to all the plans and
speellli'iitlons, and Vas and is one of
the best women In the I'tilti'd Slates,
but I hadn't been married three
months before I had n sneaking rnn
''etlon that the man who gets married
Is a hump.
"A good many optimists sny that a
married mini doesn't need liny more
money than n single one, If lie marries
the right sort of woman, but I hoy
might as well go to the blackboard
nnil demonstrate that two nml two
make two. Instead or four. I fell for
Hint cheerful theory when I was mar
ried. I was earning enough lo keep
myself comfortably, and never had
liny flniiticliil worries. I could have
been burled for less money than It
look lo be eerrl"d ed the executes
from that time forward were double
what they used to be, although my
wife wa-J so econornic;il she used to
make waKts and such tilings for her
self out of my superannuated shirts.
"(Ih. doggone it, there isn't any mi
adulter;!1' h lid.'!)'" in tmiiHmniiy. I
V.-ollder .VI)'!!:' V!I..W i'i'o 1 !"n-"-
w..rthy ie.n'1 li..k 1 round thcvi. and
(Miii!.!iiila'r the iii defied a! araiT"
(,( the riiai'M'ilv of hu-lin!i''s. lint even
if til.".- c I i , it woiildii't do them city
eoi'd. I snid'e,-.-.., fer tin are full of
I d 1 . 1 1 ro:ii.i, and they thin!: the drN
thi.y are going to iniirry are ilifforent
from all oMier girl-, and that they will
prov exceptions to the general rale.
"I bad a wise old uncle in those, hal
cyon days, niid about, a week before
the wedding day, lie backed mi' into a
coiner and handed me a dust-proof
package of wisdom. He tried to lead
me into taking a sensible view of the
future. lie talked about the cares and
responsibilities that would be mino
after the wedding, and wanted to
know if I felt eipial to them. Tie tried
to show me that, I wasn't gjiing to
marry SnlehgeTT hut a Human" TTeing
like myself, with a human being's
faults and frailties.
"I let him got that far, and then 1
told him that his gray hairs alia .e
raved him from having his head ri
aiodeled. ami said 1 never wanted, ld'n
U darken n!y door, and he never I'M.
T hud to darken it myself, with v:t
trrat stain. I'ut many a time r"'vr
ward, I recalled his wise words !:."(!
wept over his grave."
In Tne with a movement for a larg
er capaeify power a.nd electric plant
at I'.andon, with a dam on Widow
creek, in Curry county, and a tra re
mission line of 20-odd miles to Ilau
don, the Bandon Power company sub
mitted to the city council a price of
$35,000 for its plant, Including build
ings, distribution system and all ma
chinery. Engineers had estimated the
probable cost of the new system at
$105,000, including the Bandon Power
company's holdings at a price of $25,-000.
THE INQUISITIVE KOSI3
ONE summer day a Hose Bush
heard the trees and siruhs talk
ing about Jack Frost.
"How different It will be In this gar
den In a few months!" said Ihe Big
Tree, leaning over the Wf.ll.
"Yes," answered the Shrub growing
by the wall. ".Not even the beauty of
the beautiful Hose ran save her when
It Is time for .lack to have his sway
here."
"But Jack Frost Is a wonderful art
ist," said the Big Tree. "I sometimes
think when the sun is shining after
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he lias been here In the night that the
garden is more beautiful than In the
summer time."
"Yes, .lock Frost Is a wonderful fel
low," answered the Shrub, "ami not
all are lucky enough to see bis W"rk.
I think you and I are very fortunate."
"When does this wonderful fellow
come to the garden?" asked the Rose
Bush.
"After nil you lluwers are asleep,"
htiswered the Shrub.- "You will never
see him, Hose, nnd even your beauty
could not mi vp ynu. He would he sure
to nip your petals and lonvp you with
ered and cend."
Hose Bush lushed her hend. "I sm
)neen of tfiP garde!!," she n1, "nr.it
I will sjiow yon that even ibis Jack
Frost fellow shall full under the spell
of my beauty."
The Big Tree nnd the Shrub in vain
warned her to go w hen hie summer
days were over, but Inquisitive Hose
Bush would not heed them. "I want
to see this wonderful nrtist," she told
them, "and show you also that he will
become my slave."
So one night after all the other'
(lowers in the garden had gone to bed,
Hose Bush kifh one beautiful big bios- i
sum awake and waited to see Jack
Frost. Over the mountains and tree
tops he came softly and without hls
Mother North Winds so that no one i
knew of ids presence until he leaped i
the garden wall. j
He espk'd the beautiful blossom on
Hose Bush the tirst thing, and quickly
he touched her soft petals with his
long, icy lingers. j
"I knew he could not resist me,"
thought Hose Bush, though she shiv
ered under his touch, but she st.w, too,
thnt she looked very beautiful In the
moonlight, nil frosty from his caresses.
The next morning, as the sun
peeped over the wall. Hose Bush
looked so beautiful that the Rig Tree
and the Shrub gazed on her with
admiration.
"You see, my friends, he did not
leave me to die," said Hose Bush ; "he
made me more beautiful than before."
But the Big Tree nnd the hrub
did not tvply. They knew what would
happen when' the sun shone on her In
a little while.
By and by the warmth incited the
frost and poor Hose Bush began to
droop, then her petals curled, and
before night she bad withered.
"Boor Hose," sighed the Big Tree,
"she was so Inquisitive she hail to see
for herself."
"I am not sure whether It was her
vanity or because she was Inquisitive,"
Wild the Shrub, "but It Is Just as w
subl-not even her beauty could save
her from Jack Frost's frosty touch."
H'opvrlffht I
SUPPLYING TELEPHONE SERVICE
Occasionally subseiibcrs move and ask us for a continuance' of telephone service
at iheir new locaiinii. Tiny m.iy he told that ciiiiiflianie with their desires Is Inune
di.ili lv I; iposMibl" owing to lack of "li b phone facilities" In that purlti-ulur locality.
"Win." one v III say, "Ihe pops and wiles nre on the it reel and the house Is already
w li i d "
We t li Ihal the problem were as i liuplo a It sounds There may he poles nnd
u "s. Inn cieiy v.lie ni.iy he in use in cuing service lo others. There may he cable,
but Oct) cm ml m II nmy he assigned to t deplumes already Installed. There may Ip
n li b phone 111 I ln t iicn lit house or npnilmcii to which you move hut no spare wire
mid i ii dim fruei your local mil to the cciili.il uflicc There may nrti be mi-llon of
swilchliiM'd in the ccntial office but not mailable f.r operation on account of Ihe lack
o! in. '!. it y ill blmard uppiimtus sin h as linking keys, relays, etc.
The re.i inn fur the sbortnge of ti p plume equipment Is simple Intrlng the war
pin.'il i i tc lim bic lo maintain ot.r n cie or stork pi ml as the snme nmleilaU
e ii ' m ill tiquited and tkrn fur (ioirttiiurtit purposes end for In.lmitlcs proper
H t ami il lv the t;.. ei linn in Since the war, with the unexpectedly prolonged proh-
I'-un of r iii-tmrtl.in. tuoiluiitun and dcllvity of materials needed to meet even
iino hi iIi'iii.uuIh bae been delayed 1 " r ' luiiiniss concern Is haying similar cj
pi i nil.. The i i.i n n (act in ct of telephone equipment liae been hendlnK every
idtott In fill em etileis. hut they. In tutn. ate UiertinK the nan e difficulties In securing
inl bri, paper lik. gla. porcelain, tin. Ilitrad. ubi llac. metal pLrls and other articles
ret u tietally a .oi Uted in the public mind with telephone srrylee.
At the me Urn with this abnoiuial situation with rcfcirnrp In materials there
vts an utipn eilented demand for teh phone n rire. and even under these nrrum
ietiic our record is one of fulfillment of demand
In the (ml nine months ef I Hln we made a total net gain of over 7300 telephones
In the sU'c of Otrgnn A fact woithr of conii. ration In our opitstlons Is the large
iiiiiiii.er of trlipliunes handled la pioportion to net im-ira.e In thop nine tuonihs
e d; .. ii ei ti I, iitiiiiii.d ami innd 41 lio lnttumittts trt sisure the nit gslri
i.i.,1 . ti 1 1, i urn ,
W . , , , ' ,, , . erf t !' as lo in h a pn'K n il. lte to I i l l l e It W d "- 1 r 1,1
c ' ' i 1 " I ' i "i tie ."i.e.! i. mi. ef i lib! f hi' ho" !t ie who h. e taken a ; r.pet
''' ! in it,e iiti'inn ft are Ucing sbtionial cnndiiiotis hut we ste iri'if to
l . ne e out il t ,i ,i!t
The Pacilic Telephone and Telegraph Company
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Wc have made some drastic
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is to convert into money sever
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