East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-16
She Stuck to Him-and He Won.


Picture of % and of 20 trudging along dusty
uOz the pushing wheebaow bearing small children and
carrying bundle of clothing half large herself
1t the summer of 1S93 during that panicky time in which
EDrunes swept away like straws.
The place central Missouri although the people were
and had nge the mountains in their faces and eyes
The boiling hot the heated road parched and white
T load heavy and they stopped often to rest leans passed
Sad drivers looked wonderngy the strange
Work could not be secured for love money Thousands of coal
had struck in Missouri that and the farms titled
places by working for their board Money there was
At they built fire and cooked scanty meal in the dusty
e At night they spread scan bed under the stars and slept
% country mpad and watched them out of sight around
aAe turn of the long lanes -
poor and the whole story Her father had
and loved and objected to man being taken into the
f.miy.
But love and youth and ignorance and Cupid
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So here they indeed the fruit they tasting
that hot September day the winding lanes of Missouri walking
westward, pennless, among strangers, without work
But she far from whmpering She walked walked until her
% bster and all the time she knew the old man had money
kyng idle in the bank at home.
diversity and whatever betde she there encourage and not
b complain.
u no more work on account Of the strike proud
courage when he thought about what they doing and the
of only intensified her devotion
1t had All that the friends and family had prophe
d about him being demonstrated He good He
would never amount 10 ans'"sR \ r. x Wv
But she stuck to him.
She had made choice and was willing to faithful
Others might do otherwise bu she would stick him the last
She had forsaken splendid home him. She had wandered
shout with him. seeking what seemed impossible goal mpo
opportunity The inevitable extreme of poverty stared them in
r They had where he hoped rise position of
afuene calling, but all the crowded. overflow
ing with with like aspirations.
They had spent the last dollar while seeking that nu fatuu
which today seemed farther than ever But being weSernerS
aey lost hope although everything else was gone
So when the last possibility for securing work had been exhaust
3D. they started walk westward. It the only left
She would have died before asking help from home Gtha
not the name heros this kind She stuck him and they
walked together, resolved make the best of bad fix
dph And times shining in their it
.Ne God recorded such tear weakness against
human being
Never mind how they got out of it.
But a shifting of fortunes wheel, sudden urcf of the machn
ery affairs and they lifted up rehbiaed all
through that ndomahe which had given her
wax beside him with bistered heel.
They pspered gained and increased their wealth by good
and economy until today impossible to believe that it
The old mans money lay idle rune the bank and finally
h never wmpered And when the tide turned and hono began
in and life began take brighter and eugnt hue ther
II was her time to crow ~ -
She knew all the time it in him to win.
She knew all the time he all right Just like devoted unset
fish Men starting into life at the same time with money
friends articles STRENGTHENED by subtle Influence in society
and business fourshed faded away stale dead level
Those who had ped her for her Ignorance in going with hin
exile of poverty wondered if it really him who ha
pushed them in the and dozens of nes ahead
And in all of they lost their heads Experience ha
cr but she gives rugged variety of which
Trnsates for all her chasisemens
It shows what with LITTLE prospect in life do, if
sticks him. And base would he that who
less than of royal blood after having been borne by
rnStinted faithfuness and courage.
Tie because she stuck to him. 1t is maxim worthy of
place above the front door of every home She stuck him and