Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1915-01-01

Deacon, you was fool for maxim
any such promise"
Il know / was"
"My old woman has asked me
more'n forty time to promise the
same thing. but never have done it
and never will"
But | wish l hadn't"
But you did, and now we must |
see how you can get out of 1t. Was |
your wife ever in boat till that |
day"
Never"
WAS there any call for her to go |
on the river?"
mot a call"
(which of the women suggested
that they take the boat?"
my wife,"
Deacon Strothers, II that don't
come under the head Of conspiracy,
then my old white COW is a red one!
II any one conspires to force prom
ise out Of another then that promise
won't hold"
IT believe you are right, Mr.. Roe
buck" replied the deacon with relief
in his voice.
"Of course ! am An agreement
that benefits only one side does not
hold. Did your wife speak up and
say that she would not marry again
IL you died first?"
"She did mott"
well, there you are, as free as a
bird, though you'd better go to the
parson and see what he thinks about
1t. He may hold sentimental views"
The deacon walked over to the par
sonage, and not wishing to be too
brusque about 1t be began:
"Parson, do you hold that an angel
in heaven can see what is going on
here below?"
, IF they could they wouldn't be
angels very long," was the grim
reply.
: "But did you ever preach that they
} could?"
mot that remember Of. Heaven
is long way off, deacon"
my wife kinder believed that after
4 she got to heaven she could see what
a was takin' place down here"
D The parson was silent.
r "She wanted me to promise not TO
9 marry again in case she died. because
/. II she looked down and saw me with
n second wife It would make her
/, feel bad"
r ''If anything could make the angels
t feel bad in heaven. 1t would not be
r heaven, would it,"
t by George, parson, 1t wouldn't!
e Martha was mistaken about 1t. II
e | was to marry half dozen times
t over she couldn't know anything
r about It."
e But did she ask you to promise?
/, queried the parson.
9 Yes, she kinder asked"
4. And you promised?"
"Yes, kinder promised. but 1t was
II because did not want her to fee
n bad as an angel. Now that you say
she couldn't feel bad II she tried hei
N hardest, | guess that promise needn'
,r bother me much"
III nut ioOh Out HtAt Nlihtt utdSOhs
"Yes-ahem-yes!"
Its the widow Stevens, SUP
N, poser"
10 Yes, kinder"
NJ Thrown out any hints YETI"
az "A dozen, ! guess"
70 you may find that she made
promise to her dying husband"
"Jewhittaker! I'll see about tina
or the first thing!"
no II was a new scare for the deacon
ve and he made the two blocks to tn
n widows house on the trot. He foun
or her in the garden coaxing the pc
vines to climb their best, and h
,e didn't wait a minute before asking
q. "Widder Stevens, did your husban
expect TO go TO heaven when h
dled?"
II don't see how he could. He wa
=, a man that. cussed and gambled an
!, drank"
- Did he ask you to promise not
marry agin?" -.
mo. he didn't, and II he had
should have told him that was m
own business. Why are you askin
~ these questions7"
- "widder. hain't I good man at II
~ woodpile?"
Fine"
=. "And a good one In the garden"
Sure"
~ And hain't / lonely and 20
lonely?"
=, We are"
- "Then-then let's get married."
Ia mel Bring on the parson an
a., have II over with and OF our hand
W for them string beans have got to
.. poled afore sundownl"
ha Tree on Tree.
A. A singular tree In Cuba is called n
40 yaguey tree. II begins to grow at u
nd top OF another tree. The seed is ca