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CANDLE * IN THE ‘ WILDERNESS \ M/.N.U- c I"*“!»«*“« PAGE FIVE VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON FRIDAY. AUGUST 7, 1931. SftTale vfth(ifòeginning of $ ly BAC+iELLER 7 IRVING --- Is mv <ltuy I., make you know of these uew English rigidities. I am acquainted with lusty youth and Its perils. Not long will you be happy or contented In this land un less duly married. We have girls with every grace of mind and per son. Come and dine with us to morrow and you shall know that my eyes do not deceive me. More over, you shall meet men who can advise in the business you have In mind and perhups give needed furtherance.” They were glad to accept this offer of hospitality from the kindly doctor. As they were leaving he directed them to an agent of the colony from whom they bought, subject to the court’s approval, a few ucres near the home of their friend. Forthwith they agreed upon plans for the Immediate building and furnishing of a house. The agent Introduced them to an in teresting, friendly man—heavily- bearded and a little beyond mid dle age—of the name of Amos Tod kill. “This Is a man of great and di verse adventures,” said the agent. “He fought with Cupt. John Smith In Pannonia and helped him to make a map of this promontory when the wilderness touched the water. He Is the famous story teller of Massachusetts bay. He knows the savages as no living white man knows them.” Todkill was a sinewy, broad- shouldered. ruddy man of medium height and keen blue eyes. His blond hair and beard were streaked with gray. His quick movements and rapid talk. Ills prodigious hands and arms betrayed the lion-like vi tality and energy wrapped in his red skin. He pointed out the houses on the hills behind and characterized the men and women who lived In them as follows: “America is partly rocks: I reckon they helped to hold the world down a pretty time while It were young nnd in the green years. They have winds here that would blow the top off o’ hell. We need weight in the houses to hold 'em down. “There's John Endicott 1 A big Iron cannon loaded with hard opin ions! He Is sure that God agrees with him. “There’s Wlnthixtn. He’s a lever among Iron men. He can move ’em —a gallant, good man 1 Rich, learnt! Lives In that long house yonder. “Thomas Dudley, the governor, lives next to Winthrop. Blue- blooded I Agent and kin o’ the duke o' Northumberland and Sir Philip Sidney! Iron man! Guts o’ brass! Hates light stuff. Beware o’ light carriage and light words when he’s lookin’. I reckon he thinks that God Is a Dudley and as easy in sulted. Rut hold up yer hearts. It’s a buxom land. I want to take ye to a wit and a scholar. Knew Will Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. He's 'the hermit o’ the promon tory.’ ’’ Ho hired a birch bark canoe and paddled the young men across a cove to the little but of Henry Blaxton —a tall, lank, swarthy, hos pitable Englishman who loved to’ smoke and recall his memories to men of understanding. He was nearly sixty years of age. In deer skin half-boots and rough sad cloth he was still a gentleman— one of those restless sons of the old sod who have seen much of the world nnd can be content with his own company. His head and beard were well trimmed. The cheerful friend of John Smith was smiling. There was a twinkle In the gray eyes of the hermit when, after welcoming bls guests, he shook the ashes out of his pipe and said: “Todkill, you have the judgment of a malt horse or you would not be bringing your friends to meet a half-decayed, worm-eaten gentle man. I have a great fear of wood peckers.” “Well, If we light on you we shall do no peckin',” Todkill an swered. “Sit down nnd loose your tongues. I’ll be a whetstone for your wit." Todkill turned to the young men and said: “Here’s a whale who needs deeper water to play in than my gab affords. Once one o’ King James’ men playin' at the Globe." Then the hermit spoke: “And now playing with many ghosts In a comedy called Solitude. This Is mj- kingdom. I am the king, the court, the church and the parlia ment. The dog and the cat are my people. We have no disagreements. “’Ye can't make way without ’em,’ said the captain. ‘Ye might and sumptuous environment Cot as well say there shouldn’t have ton had come to the crude, rough been an Eve In the Garden o' Eden. wood meeting house on the edge of Adam would have wore himself a vast wilderness as the teacher of out seurchln' for happiness. Men the people of New Boston—mostly will never behave orderly without unschooled but serious-minded. He received the young men with women and children. “ ‘Now, there was Weston's col a warm heart and the clerical fash ony near the one at Plymouth—nil ion of speech. "Welcome, my boys! You are as able nnd lusty men. They were not again' to have women and chil those come to another planet. Youth and strength and courage dren to put up with. They bragged o' what they would do nnd bring hacked with the good English to pass. What happened! They blood are needed here. I have stole the Indians' fodder and got heard of your frightful voyage and their sides stung wit. -—ows and of a fine brave thing Heydon did.” The young man was quick to an their heads smashed by toma hawks. They pov. red themselves swer: "I am sorry. I do not want out, blew up. C dn't stand It. a reputation to live up to that Is Where there’s — . there’s got to on so poor a footing. Let me be be women or afore long hell is known only as one who bates op pression and who has come here to ahead and the wind behind ye.’ ’’ There were the usual Incidents be rid of it, and to help build up a of a long sea trip. The passen better England.” The great man put his hand on gers were roughly tumbled about. Sudden lurches of the ship threw the boy's-shoulder, saying: "Your talk Is like a breath from the be them against oue another and turned the dining table Into a place loved fenlands. One knows wlmt of peril for the person nnd gar to expect from a well-bred English ments of those able to take food. man. You will hear much talk of All moved with great caution, another kind. Roundabout us are clinging to tixed objects for fear many Jewd and common folk. We of having their bones broken. A have a hard time to keep those high wave in a fret of wind burst outside the church within bounds a window at night nnd created a and certain of those in the fold toward and orderly. Satan Is as panic. They had been more than sixty crafty here as ever he was in the days at sea when they came Into a garden of old. Often you will be breathless culm. The captain was shocked but you will be happy worried as night fell. He said that and, In the good days coming, pros he saw in the darkness a strange perous. I should like to see you light resting for a moment on the bound In wedlock to this new mast. He was watching for it to world and stayed among the found reappear. It was a bad sign, he ers of a great commonwealth.” With a smile Robert answered: said, if it came not again. The passengers could hear distant thunder and a strange roaring be yond the horizon In the southwest. Then they were driven under hatches—all save Will Heydon, a favorite of (lie captain. The young man had begged for the privilege of staying In the weather to lend a hand in case of need. By mid night the ship Jay at hull in a ndglity wind. A must was cut down. Before daylight the waves had beat off the roundhouse. He who cund the ship had to be lashed to bls place for fear of washing away. When the storm passed, tile Handmaid was so foundered In the sea that none thought she could rise again. The frantic bellowing of the cuttie which had been a part of the tumult had ceased. They were dead. The sea was going down. All able-bodied men were summoned to the pumps. Three days and nlgHts they were lifting water while the carpenters were making repairs. Soon the ship began to rise. Then all heard how William Heydon, lashed to the stern stays when a great wave swept the deck, had seized the captain's waist and kept him from going overboard. A fair wind favored them. They spread what sails they could carry. The wind quickened to a gale and sped “Our Mothers Advise 1» Us Not to Marry Here. them landward. In two more weeks on a flood-tide they swung Into “Our mothers advise US not to Portsmouth harbor. It was n here.” warm bright day. The land odors marry The doctor rejoined: •T have all and the look of the shore filled the deep respect for the good English adventurers with a great joy. but they speak with little They were all on deck. Many, hav mothers, ot America. A great, ing lost their clothes In the storm, knowledge free, God fenring people are grow were ragged and half clad. “Cap’n ing up here one can do no bet John," as he was familiarly called, ter thing for and England than give Ids addressed them briefly as follows: strength to them. It should be done “The savages say o’ the whites with no reservations. You have that they are the people who talk small comfort standing with a foot with God. I reckon that you know In England and the other in Amer why we do it. If you didn’t have ica. I would rather see you mar it before you’re likely to get the ry and become flesh of our flesh. habit comln’ over. When it’s the Here man may not practice or toss of a* penny between port anil submit to beguilements far too a sea grave nobody Is careless In common In the world behind us. A choosln’ between God and the dev man and a woman are now under 11. In fact they’re apt to be care sentence of death for adultery. It ful a long time after that has Imp pened. Now let us all bow our heads and do a little private talk in’.” It seemed as if all tlie good peo pie of Portsmouth were crowded about the landing, with furs, sea shells, fish, Indian arrows and oth er merchandise, crying their wares. Next day the young men and some others took water for Boston in a shallop with all their goods. Boston was a lusty young village of more than a hundred houses In a scatter of green trees. There were two hills next to the sea. Some of the smaller houses were built of tree trunks with the bark on them. Some of frames covered with clapboards with breakneck roofs In the rear. A few were built of brick and stone and roofed with alate or planks. On well- ordered. comely streets, were a milt a smithy, a fish market, an Inn and a number of stores, trad ing mainly In furs, clothing, linen, hardware, wampum and fishing gear. Robert and William went to the Inn and. after a day of looking about, to the house of Rev. John Cotton, whose hands had touched their beads In blessing when he Whether it is little or much that you wish to in was the vicar of St. Rotolph's— a vest, take us into your confidence and we will be magnificent church of that parish, more than glad to aid you in choosing safe, sound by common report, the greatest tn England. They were familiar with investments that will yield a maximum income the thrilling story of his escape In with absolute safety. disguise from the high commission of the king and his violent, pester ing Bishop Laud. He was a grad uato of Trinity college, a fellow and dean of Emmanuel’s college, whore these boys hsd spent s year and bad hoped to spend oth er years. From this rich, leerpod Jumfàueff.. B ank of V ernonia force at Clark and Wilson’s camp at Wilark. He and family left here in May for Marshfield but were unable to find employ ment in that section of the coun try. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Anderson All of the men in camp with went to Portland Tuesday where fire wardens were engaged in Mrs. Anderson is visiting her son fighting the forest fire which was Oke. The latter expects to fin discovered early Friday morning ish his course in a barber col above the old upper I-P camp lege soon. site. It was subdued after a Mrs. Jonas Larson tqpd daugh few days and nights fighting. ter are making preparations to F. F. Scott has been employed move to Cathlamet next week. here by the O.-A. to keep the Bruno Reif of Powell Butte, grass mowed for the rest of the Oregon, arrived in camp Tues summer. day to take his sister, Mrs. John Mrs. Theodosia Lambert was a Warnstoff, and family to Prine visitor in camp over the week ville where the latter expects end after just having completed to remain for a while. John will her summer course at Monmouth work with a threshing crew dur Normal school. She will teach ing the harvest season. The wild blackberry season is here again the coming year. She left Tuesday for Seattle where practically ended. Most of the she will spend the rest of the families succeeded in picking gen erous amounts and canning a summer with her sister. I Word was received here from good supply for winter use. Mrs. P. L. Thompson and son ! Mrs. Florence Fraser last week ' that she departed for Minnesota, Billy were Vernonia shoppers ¡where she will teach this year. Tuesday. Mrs. F. Scott and daughter I This is of sincere regret to the Merle returned Tuesday from a 1 patrons and children as it was 1 hoped that she would again be shopping trip in Vernonia. J. W. Warnstaff has been in I the primary teacher at this place as she had proved herself a sup Portland the past week looking erior teacher. Mrs. Fraser com after his brother-in-law, who is pleted an advanced summer course ill in a hospital. L. A. Young of I. P. headquar at the University of Washington, ters was in the city a few days in Seattle, before her departure for the east where she has pre ago and removed his wife from viously taught and where she had a Portland hospital to their home near Gaston. Mrs. Young is trained for teaching. recovering nicely from a recent Frank O’Donnell went to work qperation. The safety of autoists driving cotton in the cord structure of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Doyle left at present day speeds, says J. Firestone tires reduces friction' Tuesday as a brakeman for the E. Kerr, of the Kerr Motor com and heat to the minimum. Gum Koster Logging company near Tuesday to make an extended Vernonia, trip by auto and visiting friends pany, the local Firestone dealer, The Al Johnson and Sather fa in The Dalles, Spokane, Cath is largely dependent upon his dipping, he declares, not only tires. Mr. Kerr states that the provides a greater safety factor milies came to camp Tuesday and lamet and Klamath Falls. T. Westlin of Tacoma moved saturation and insulation by li but adds up to 40 per cent long left Wednesday, the Sathers mov ing their household goods here to his brother’s household goods by quid rubber of every strand of er tire life. Rainier, where Mr. Sather has truck from this place Friday to Vernonia were Sunday evening worked since last spring. Mr. Cathlamet. Mrs. C. E. Westlin guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. Sun- Johnson finished his bridge work and daughters drove to Cathlam at Jewell Monday and has bids et Saturday, where the family ell. in for further bridge work. They will reside indefinitely. Koster camp fallers and buck- expect to live in Rainier for H. E. Dunlap and wife have ers were laid off on Saturday. a time. gone to Portland. Mrs. Clyde McDonald and Jacky and Ralph McDonald of W. W. Wolff of Vernonia as Fred Hagerman and family daughter spent Thursday with Beaver creek spent Tuesday with bookkeeper for the O. A. Lum left Monday for Longview, where Mrs. Geo. Baslington. Edgar Crawford returned home Robert and Charles Sunell. The ber company and an auditor from Fred will work with his brother children enjoyed a picnic dinner Kansas City, spent a day in the for the Weyerhauser Logging Sunday after spending two weeks at the river. O.-A. office here last week, which company. visiting his cousin, Stewart Par R. Engstrom was a passenger Mr. and Mrs. Chas. White, Miss marked the close of the office son at Forest Grove. It for Portland Wednesday. Lea Pugh of Cornelius spent Sun at this place indefinitely. Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Nelson of day with Mr. and Mrs. H. Smith. was the final step in the close Stanley Warnstaff was in Ver nonia to have the doctor dress an down here. Mrs. E. Snyder and Mrs. II. The other players enter. Real folk, R. B. Fletcher and P. H. Peter injury he sustained Friday when as now, or ghosts out of my mem John were Vernonia shoppers on son’s work in the office and store he fell on a burnt snag. ory. My friend Will Shakespeare Saturday. comes in with a merry Jest and Elmer Bergerson has purchas here ended last Wednesday with sits down with me as he was wont reluctance. Both had served the to do of old. Big Ben Jonson ed a new threshing machine and blusters on with one of Ills old is at E. Treharne’s place thresh O. A. Lumber company well for several years. tales of the town, full of Intrigue ing. and youthful deviltry, adding at A little son was born to Mr. J. Gordon was at Pleasant Hill and Mrs. P. H. Peterson in the end ‘If it be not so I’ll eat my spur leathers.'" school a few days last week at Portland August 3. The baby “Those hoys were eager to meet tending to some repairs on the has been named Philip Harvey. you.” said Todkill. teacher’s house. Paul Hegli and family were in Blaxton remarked with a bow Ladies of the Relief Corps camp one day last week and mov and a smile: “I will now hear their lines. I hope that they are of held a picnic on the Nehalem riv ed part of their household effects 'sober nnd peaceable conversa er. A good time was enjoyed by here to Warrenton, where Paul tion.’ ” will work in a new saw mill They recognized this phrase from all. one of the laws of the general Mrs. W. Bennett and daughter on which he had worked as a court, which Doctor Cotton had Helen returned home on Tuesday. carpenter in building recently. read to them It is reported that Frank E. Bergerson got the Pleasant Faught has joined the working Hill school bus job. (Continued Next Week) Safe Tires Vital to Motorists Camp . • • McGregor Treharne 4LL OUTDOORS is calling you Why Let Your Meals Keep You Home ? -r» "NOTHING . . . reveals the character of a firm better than the stationery it usesf . . . remarked a customer of ours as he placed a printing order with us on some high quality stock. ’ That was a compliment, for he implied that our workmanship is in keeping with the fine grade stationery of his choice. We can please him, we know—and you. What sort of business are you conducting—as indicated by your stationery? 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