Vernonia eagle., September 04, 1931, Page 3, Image 3

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1931.
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
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Zy IRVING BACH ELLER
‘‘Well, my great need Is knowl­
edge.” She smiled, her fingers
playing with the lace on her
breast.
“I think that I will not toll you.”
She sighed and looked Into his
eyes, saying: “You get me burn­
ing with curiosity and then throw
cold water on me.”
The young man looked at her.
His passion broke its fetters of re­
straint. “My dear, what have you
done to me?" he asked. “I too am
burning in the same fire. If I am
to have a bath of cold water I
might as well get It now as late-.
You have lent your beauty to ail
nature. I see it everywhere. I love
you. Tell me, nm I to be crowned
with gold or with thorns?”
He took her hand. She withdrew
It and turned away from him, cov­
ering her face, and said: “Aston­
ishment does not become me. I
must hide a moment.”
“I will not try to hide the truth
because I cannot. It is too big
to be hidden. Then—It longs to be
discovered.”
She uncovered her face that as­
sumed a look of pained surprise.
It vanished in a smile. She took
his hand In hers and whispered: “I
am sorry.”
He answered: “Tour eyes and
your words are in dlsairreeinent.”
“How can I love you? I do not
even know you.”
“It is easy to know me. T show
you my heart. There is nothing in
It save my love for you. Tell me
how to win you. for I must have
you for my own.”
She held his hand in hers as she
said: “This is madness. Try to
put it out of your heart. Tf It is
impossible tell my father of it. T
am sure that lie could help you put
It away. If not come back to me
and I will soon convince you that
I am not worth the bother, Let us
now talk of sheep and cows.”
“No. If we change the theme let
us speak of snails and turtles,
Think of the wooing of a snail—
even a young and winsome snail.”
She answered with a laugh: “I
think it would be a dull affair.”
“Then why should I imitate It?
Have I not what our Will has
called ‘the bounding pulse of
youth?’ ”
She felt her wrist, saying: "I
think that mine needs more stimu­
lation.”
There was an invitation In her
eyes. and he tried to kiss her, but
she resisted him.
As William rose to go she add­
ed: “Consider the humble snail. He
never hurries.”
“The lucky snail has no clock.
It Is late In Boston. Even now I
must argue witli the constable.”
At the door she whispered!
“Come hack to me after you have
seen my father whatsoever he may
Bav.”
She stood close to him looking
Into Ilia eyes. He embraced her
and their lips met.
Then she said in a whisper:
“You thief! Now go home and for­
get all about this, if you can.”
“If you can,” he said to himself
as he went away. “What a pretty
bit of Impudence’”
CHAPTER III
Robert’« Love-Affair and the Social
Earthquake tn New Boston.
ILLIAM had his talk with Mr.
Brade. The man was kind and
favorably disposed but firm as a
rock. Personal and family pride
were strong In him.
“I set you a bard task, but It Is
one to test your worthiness." said
he. “You shall be welcome to our
home as often us you wish to en
ter. This I say because we like
you and, further, your people. But
you must promise <>n your word of
honor as a gentleman that you will
seek no further progress In this af
fair until I am better Informed.”
William gate Ids word and kept
it. Still it was impossible that no
progress should bo made In that
affair. William came to the house
and returned to his home, and no
word of love was spoken, but
youth has Its way of speaking
without words.
The young men bought a pair of
Flemish mares and, on the ap­
proval of the court, some two thou­
sand acres of land an hour or so
from the neck a nnrt of which had
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been burned over.
It was wa­
tered by streams and a small lake.
Settled In a good and hopeful man­
ner with such help as they could
get, they cut a pqth over hard
ground to a point on their land
where they began clearing and
burning. Amos Todklll lived in a
shanty on the tract and was their
overseer. Their help lived In tents.
It was when William had taken
water for Plymouth to hire men
and buy horses that Robert went
to call on the Blades. Mr. Brade
was not at home. Robert sat down
to talk with the Lady Bess and her
mother.
"I came in the hope of finding
Mr. Brade here,” he began. “VVil-
liam and I grew up together. J am
quite a rogue, He Is the most in-
nocent creature I have ever known,
and the most generous. It is un­
necessary to keep these young peo­
ple waiting for the slow ships. I
could not wait. Madam, one look
in a pair of eyes like those of your
daughter and my promise would be
forgotten. William is different. You
could search the world and find no
higher type of gentleman. I came
to say this, and having said it, and
more even than I Intended to say, I
shall go."
When he was gone Bess turned
to her mother saying: “A gallant,
fascinating, beautiful man!”
“I fear that he Is a subtle rogue
of a manI” her mother answered.
“You have not learned wisdom. Yim
have a glowing eye for every hand­
some young buck that comes
along."
Wldle Robert was, like most
young gentlemen of the time, a bit
of a rogue and deeply impressed
by the girl’s beauty, this verdict
was too severe. It would seem that
many women of the colony enter­
tained suspicions of young men
who were handsome and unat­
tached, especially if they were of
the gentry and lately arrived. Wild
rumors often followed them on the
wing of the wind. There was little
rending, but that which the Bible
afforded. News went by word of
mouth. Therefore, the tongues of
the Indies were well developed.
However, It must he said that Rob­
ert had been moved by the best of
motives In his errand.
Their house was finished and fur-
nlshed—a neat, simple wooden
structure of five rooms with a
"leanto" for a kitchen, William
and Robert were living In it. A
well-born, elderly lady of the par­
ish. one Margaret Hooper, recom­
mended by Doctor Cotton, was
their housekeeper. A comely young
Englishwoman of about thirty,
whose husband worked in New­
town, came every day to do their
cooking and milking, going home at
night. Her name was Mabel Hart­
ley.
They had fish In plenty coming
every week from the northern
coast and Todklll kept them sup-
piled with venison and dried ber-
rles. They had a cow that was
pastured In the common fields and
a small stable.
Moreover, the
ships were bringing oatmeal and
pitchsuet and tallow and conserves
of red roses Hml mithridate. They
could also buy cornmeal for hasty
pudding.
Through the autumn and early
winter William and Robert were at
work with Todklll and his men.
When the snow came deep enough
to clog their affairs, they broke camp
In the forest and waited for bet­
ter weather.
Every Sabbath they went to the
crowded meeting house and sat on
the stairs with a parcel of young
boys. Constables, each with a black
staff tipped with brass, were at Its
three doors to prevent people from
coming out and dogs from going In.
The dogs of Boston, abandoned by
their masters and playmates, were
depressed In spirit and wont to
howl with loneliness. The long
prayer, the chapter and Its expo­
sition by Doctor Cotton, the ser-
mon by the pastor. tffe psalm sing­
ing, the soleimiity on many faces
wearied the young and put them
In dread of the Sabbath day, espe­
cially in severe weather with no
heat in the meeting house. Our
young men found the prisoners,
who cante under compulsion with
armed guards, a diverting part of
the congregation. Robert speaks
in a letter of the stir when some
"blubbering person” made a pub­
lic confession.
Todklll and Blaxton came often
to while away a winter afternoon
with them. Bess came with her
maid to bring them a wild goose—
one of the two which her father
had shot when the snow-laden drag
was flying low. As she went away,
Blnxton exclaimed: “What heav­
enly pulchritude is this!"
“I hope that she will be my
wife." said William.
“A lamp of virginity! "And wlial
a pretty redness of cheek and lip!”
the old gentleman exclaimed.
"Looking at her I regret my age.
Counsel to the young Is like giving
mutton to a horse. You will both
do well to marry, with the red
blood of youth in you and a lusty
young wife In the kitchen.”
He told how a baronet had come
over with a comely paramour and
been compelled to run for bis life
and find refuge among the sav­
ages.
"Neither heraldry nor wealth can
prevail with the court If one Is up
for cHcketing. Will Shakespeare
once said: ‘There are those whe
think that because they are virtu­
ous there should be no more cakes
and tile.' ”
It reminded Todklll of the killing
and boiling of a Puritan by “man
eaters” of the wilderness.
Blaxton interrupted him, saying:
“I muke one remark. A Spaniard
Is that tough they hang him three
days before he is boiled. If you
have a Spaniard to be cooked I
will listen, but If he be an English­
man I beg yon to desist. It pro­
vokes me like a wringing of the
nose. Turn somersaults or sing a
bawdy song if you will, hut no more
torturing of the king’s men.”
It was after this talk that the
young men decided to displace that
"lusty young wife" In the kitchen,
Mabel Hartley.
“Her face and form are too win
ning," sold William. “We do not
need a Venus in the kitchen. To
he sure, she Is a wench, but we
are human and we want to live a
few years .vet."
In this they were of the same
mind. They drew lots to decide
which should dismiss her anil the
heavy task fell to William.
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PAGE THREE
there and expected to join his
family in Columbia shortly and
JUDGE PLANS asked
for work when he
1 got here,
Another party who came from
Multnomah county a few months
TO AID NEEDY ago
applied for work, He stated
Rotary Club Hears
Of Vernonia Route
it would open a wonderful trade
and recreational territory to Port-
land in opening the great Nehal-
em valley.”
This highway, pointed out Mr.
Kerr, could be reached by Port­
land’s east-side residents via the
St. Johns bridge, which materially
would relieve downtown traffic
congestion. It also would be most
advantageous for people travel­
ing the Evergreen highway in
Washington, bound for the ocean.
And, too, it would utilize 22
miles of the existing lower Co­
lumbia highway between Port­
land and Scappoose, saving a sum
of money that could be put into
the construction of a commercial­
use highway for the Wilson river
route. “They need that highway,
do the people along Wilson-river
route,” said Mr. Kerr, “and they
are entitled to such a road. But
their route is not the ideal ‘short
route to the sea’ and the main
beach-bound artery should not
travel that section.”
—Oregonian.
Shortest in time, more favored
he had come to the county on
Judge John H. Wellington is the recommendation of some by weather conditions and more
making plans for relief of the charitable organization in Port­ accessible to 85 per cent of
needy and to furnish as much em­ land No doubt the man and his Portland’s population—that is the
ployment as possible during the family need aid, but we have to argument in favor of the propos­
winter months. In this work he look after our own first. We ed Scappoose-Vernonia-H a m 1 e t
will be assisted by L. A. Aus­ don’t propose to send our poor short route to the sea as outlined
tin of St. Helens and H. E. Mc­ to Multnomah and neither do we by Jack E. Kerr of Vernonia at
Graw, they constituting the Gov­ propose to accept the poor from yesterday’s weekly luncheon meet­
ernor Meier relief committee for Multnomah or any other county ing of Portland Rotary club.
Columbia county.
“There have been three routes
in the state of Oregon or Wash­
Though the committee has not ington.”
suggested as feasible,” said Mr.
had a meeting, the judge says it
He also paid his respects to Kerr, “and all have their selling
is planned to take one of the those who are getting people points. However, the ridge route
vacant store rooms on Strand without any amount of funds to that has been suggested is not as
street which the McCormick settle on small tracts of logged speedy as others because its
Lumber company will furnish off lands.
“If they haven’t 3200-foot elevation would bring
gratis, and use it as a supply enough money to keep them go­ in grades that would severely
depot. When plans are worked ing through the winter, it ¡gi
is handicap traffic. And the Wil-
out, this depot will be open to better for the county that they I son river route, although it has
receive and disburse supplies stay away because many who many fine qualities, does not
which are expected to be con­ come and settle expecting to serve enough beach area in that
tributed, such as vegetables and find employment, do not get it its outlet would be in Tillamook
other farm products, clothing, and the first thing we know, the county alone.
shoes and household goods. He county court has urgent pleas
“We believe that the Vernonia-
thinks it probable that this plan for help. We want settlers but Hamlet route, which would pro­
will be followed in other com­ i w“ do not want those who come vide equally easy access to the
munities of the county and when here almost penniless.”
north beaches of Clatscp county
the committee meets, the matter
It is probable that the judge and the other counties, would ef­
T ell tbe people
will be worked out. Civic and will call the committee together
fect a more equal distribution of
charitable organizations will be in the near future and when ten­ beach-bound traffic. We know
about timely merchandise with
called on to aid in the work,
tative plans are worked out, re­ that it would enable faster time
judge stated.
presentatives of fraternal and ci­ in traveling because of ease of good printing and watch your sales
As to employment nothing de- vic organizations will be called grade; we know that it would cost volume grow. Other merchants
finite can yet be determined up- from each community to make much less to maintain; we know have proved this plan by repeated
on, but the governor has appeal­ i definite plans for the winter’s that the weather conditions along tests. Well help with your copy.
ed to the committee to stir up as relief work.
its route are most advantageous
much public and private work as
—St. Helens Mist. to traffic, and we know also that
possible. An endeavor will be
made to do this so as to furnish
needy bona-fide residents of the
county with part time work dur­
ing the winter months and when
the judge says “bona-fide” he
means just that.
“We will be lucky if we can
care for our own poor,” he said,
“and that means we do not ex-
pect to care for those who are
drifting into the county. Almost
every day I get letters from some
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who have recently moved to the
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(Continued Next Week)
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whether it be for a holiday trip or a picnic right at home. Come in now—to­
or work. In one instance a party
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day, and make selections from the abundance of Labor Day foods—and at prices
now
in
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county
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Judge and Mrs. P. Hill, Mrs. Monday morning in the MacMarr
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day.
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