CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief!
Generar Resume of Important Events
Praaantad in Condanaad Form
for Our Busy Readers,
Premier Aaquith says woman suf
frag ia a big political mistake.
The French objection to the Moroc
can pact waa beaten in the chamber
of deputies.
The aenate inclinea to expedite in
very way the abrogation of the treaty
with Russia.
King George, now emperor of India,
reviewed 60,000 Britiah and native
troopa at Delhi.
A Portland boy of aix yeara held
lantern while hia father captured
burglar in the house.
The United States attorney general
adviaea supervision of mergers by the
bureau of corporations.
The practice of giving eomplimen
tary railroad pasaes ia to cease entire
ly at the close of the year.
Portland Elks will offer $10,000 in
prises at their national convention and
celebration in Portland in 1912.
The president of the National Wool
growers' association denounces Bryan
aa a foe of the livestock men.
A St Louis jury is "on strike'
against the instructions of the judge
and refuses to return a verdict.
Ex-governor Gooding attacked the
Pinchot policies in a speech before the
National Wool growers convention.
Archduke Henry Ferdinand, of
Austria, would abandon his titles and
heirship to the throne in order to
carry the girl of his choice.
Dr. J. Whitcomb Brougher, a prom
lnent Portland minister, who accepted
a call to a Los Angeles church gets
increase of f 1,000 per year in salary.
The government hsb hatcheriea on
the Columbia and tributary stream!
re about ready to begin the planting
of 21,000,000 salmon in Pacific Coast
streams.
Taft approved the commission's re
port opposing Federal regulation of
railway securities.
British railroad directors have
granted full recognition of the Rail
road Workmen's union.
Fire destroyed a portion of the
buildings of Luna Park, at Coney Is
land, New York, causing a loss of
$160,000.
Work will begin immediately on
13,000,000 irrigation project for the
Silver Lake country, Oregon, to water
100,000 acrea
PORTLAND MARKETS.
CANTEEN IS ASKED.
Wheat Track pricea : Bluestem,
82c, club, 79c; red Russian, 78c; val
ley, 80c; forty-fold, 80c.
Corn Whole, $37; cracked, $38
ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $23 per ton; mid
dlings, $30; shorts, $24; rolled bar
ley, $3738.
Oats No. 1 white, $31 per ton.
Hay No. 1 Eastern Oregon tim
othy, $1818.60; No. 1 valley, $154
16; alfalfa, $13tf14; clover, $1112;
grain hay, 1202,13.
Barley Feed, 36C37 ton.
Fresh Fruits Peara. 60c(?t$1.60 per
box; grapes, Jl.Zwal.60 per box;
cranberries, $11.60(0,12 per barrel;
casabaa, $1.60 per crate.
Apples Jonathans, $1.602.25 per
box; Spitzenbergs, $1.(2.60; Bald
win, 75co,$1.60; Red Cheek Pippin,
$1.26ii&L75; Northern Spy, $1.264
1.76; Winter Banana, $23; Bell
flower, $1.10rt;;1.60.
Potatoes Buying price: Burbanks,
90cz,I1.20 per hundred.
Onions jobbing price: $1.60 sack,
Vegetablea Artichokes, 90c per
dozen; cabbage, lw,Hc per pound;
celery, 75c;l per dozen; cucumbers,
$1.25,1.75; garlic, 8rttl0c per pound;
lettuce, $2.60 per crate; peppers, Sdt,
10c per pound; pumpkina, lfr,lc;
squash, llUlc carrots, $1 per sack;
beets, $1; turnips, $1; parsnips, $1.
Hops 1911 crop, 4345c; olds,
nominal.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 916c per
pound; valley, laVWc; mohair,
choice, 350?, 37c.
Butter Oregon creamery, solid
pack, 36c; prints, extra; butter fat,
lc leaa than solid pack.
Poultry Hena, 1414Jc; springs,
18(?14c; ducka, young, 160417c;
geeae, 1301,14c; turkeys, live, 20c;
dressed, choice, 23c.
Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, candled,
42c.
Pork Fancy, 80 9e per pound.
Veal Fancy, 130(13ic per pound.
Cattle Choice steers, $5.405.76;
good. $5. 250i 5. 40; choice cows, $4.60
t4.75; good, $4.25to,4.60; choice
apayed heifers, $4.750i5; good to
choice heifers, $4.60Ot,4.60; choice
bulls, $4.260,4.60; good, $40(4.25;
choice calves, $70(7.60; good, $6o
6.60.
Hbga Choice light hogs, $6.800j
7.10; good to choice hogs, 6.5007,6.70
fair, $636.25; smooth heavy hogs,
$5.26(6.60.
Sheep Choice yearling wethers,
$40f4.25; choice twos and threes,
$3.8501,4; choice killing ewes, $3.2604
S.60; choice lambs, $4.250i 4.60; good
to choice, I40J4-2; calls, $3043.76.
General Wood .Says Army Demand
Restoration of Resorto.
Washington D. C. Major General
Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the
army, favors the restoration of the
canteen to army posts. He declares
in his annual report that the concen
sus of opinion in the army ia that the
canteen should be re-established.
Oeneral Wood also makes some rec
ommendations for the garrisoning
Panama canal forts. He says it i
necessary to provide garrisons to pro
tect the canal and to insure its neu
trality, and for that he recommends
12 companies of coast artillery, four
regiments of infantry at full strength,
one battallion of field artillery, one
squadron of cavalry and some auxil
iary troops.
In recommending short-term enlist
ments, the chief of staff says that the
argument that men would not return
to the colors in time of war ia "an
unwarrantable reflection on the patri
otism of men who have aerved the
colors and returned to private life."
General Wood opposed the bill pend
ing in congress which would consul I
date the adjutant a and inspector gen
eral'a departments with the general
staff corps.
EPIGRAMS WIN REWARD.
Girl Stenographer Unconsciously
"Muses" Way to Promotion.
Chicago Musings of a sten
ographer employed by the 111 i noi
Central railroad, jotted down in her
notebook, came to the attention o
the officers of the system, and a neat
card bearing the epigrams so discov
ered has been sent to each stenograph
er in the service. The girl is Miss
Helen Lee Brooks, who since the dis
covery has found herself the secretary
of the division superintendent at Mat
toon, 111.
Here are some of the epigrams on
her notebook cover, which have been
sent out:
"The girl who prides herself on be
ing a 'good fellow' ought not to com
plain when men in the office take her
at her word."
"It's just as easy to boost as to
knock, and it goes further."
"It is the ambition of some sten
ographers to go on the stage; of oth
ers to be married; none wants to
keep on just being a stenographer."
As employers, some men are dim
cult; all men are impossible."
ELKS MAKE GREAT PLANS.
Expect 60.000 Visitors and Delegates
to Grsnd Lodge in 1912.
Portland, Or. The Elks' Grand
Lodge commission in charge of ar
rangementa for the next annual re
union to be held here in July, 1912, is
preparing to entertain 60,000 Elks
and visitors during the convention
week, July 8 to 13. A canvass has
been made of the preliminary reports
received from the 1,300 lodges in the
order and that vast multitude is re
garded as conservative. Grand Ex
sited Ruler John P. Sullivan, who was
here last week arranging for head
quarters, etc., saya Portland will have
the greatest attendance ever gathered
at one of these sessions.
Indications now are that more than
100 special trains will bring the visit
ing Elks here, and the railroads and
terminal company have been asked to
provide parking space for fully 1,000
Pullman sleepers for that week.
LANDIS SCORES USURERS,
Bank Clerks Who Stole to Meet Da
mands Escape Lightly.
Chicago Loan brokers were excori
a ted by Judge Land is when he gsve
light sentences to two young bank
clerks who hsd falsified bank records
to cover up a shortage of $500, taken
to satisfy a debt to a "loan agent."
A youth who earned $110 a month
was sent to the house of correction
for 60 days, and the other, a $60 a
month clerk, waa fined 1 cent, which
his counsel promptly paid.
The money lender, Carl Carroll,
who is also a lawyer, has been cited
to appear before Judge Landis and
show cause why he should not be
barred from practice in the United
States District court.
Holly Forests Looted.
Lot Angeles Armed with axes,
hatchets and butcher-knives, thous
ands of holiday parties from all over
Southern Califroina invaded the hills
about Los Angeles in search of holly
to use for Christmas decorations. In
stead of cutting off tops of the bushes,
however, most of them cut close to
the ground, with the result that thou
sands of acres of holly-bearing terri
tory were literally stripped and will
never grow the desirable Yuletide de
corations again. The matter will be
brought to the Forestry department.
Lloyd-George is Injured.
London David Lloyd-George, chan
cellor of the excheqaer, was aeriously
injured when leaving a women a liber
al meeting, at which he had just made
a speech.
A male suffragist hurled a brass-
bound box at the chancellor, which
truck him full in the face, cutting
hia lip and badly injuring his eyea.
A doctor who was in attendance on
the chancellor said he had a narrow
escape from losing the eye.
Armed Arabs Menacing,
Paris The Temps' correspondent
ith the Turks telegraphed from
Azizia under date of December 15 that
thousands of well-armed Arabs have
been concentrating there in the past
two days. A body of noted Arab
fighters arrived at Azizia on that
date, after a 48 days' march.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
INDIAN LAND OPEN.
Klamath Reservation Offers Rich
Opportunity.
Klamath Falls Agitation to have
the Klamath Indian reservation form
ally opened has led Superintendent
Watson to say that the reservation u
virtually open now and that no form
al action needs to be taken. The con
ditiona are somewhat different from
those on other reservations whi
have been opened in that nearly nil
agricultural lands have been allotted
to the Indians, snd the only acreage
remaining unallotted is in timber.
This does not mean that there is no
opportunity for white men to acquire
homes und property on the enerva
tion, says WaUon, who asserts that it
offers the greatest opportunities
to the homesoeker of any reiiervation
ever opened in the United State.
There is no such thing as free land
now. he says, and for thut matter
never was, as in land openings only
about 20 per cent of the applicants
ever received anything and it usually
cost them as much as it was worth
before their aettlement was completed.
According to an estimate made last
year, there were 5,500,000,000 feet of
standing timber on tho reservation
and fully one-half of this is subject to
application for purchase. Naturally
most of this will be bought by lum
bering concerns and manufactured
It is asserted that this development
will mean a big thing for the reserva
tion and the northern part of Klamath
county.
At this time there are thousands of
acres of the best sgricultural lands on
the reservation for sale, says Watson.
The best lands can be bought at very
low figures. He says that a third of
the farm lands around Modoc Point,
and from a third to one-half of the
sagebrush and meadow lands along
Sprague River, belong to the estates
of dead Indians. These lands were
among the first to be selected and al
lotted and naturally were the choice
pieces. Application can be made at
any time for their sale, and after ap
praisal bids are advertised for, and
the lands usually sold to the highest
bidder.
SLEEK GOATS TO PRANCE.
Northwest Angora Association to
Hold Show at Dallas.
Dallas The Northwest Angora Goat
association, in conjunction with the
Polk County Poultry association, will
hold their annual shows here from Jan
uary 3 to 5, inclusive.
Cash prizes and premiums have been
offered by the promoters of the goat
show, and many exhibitors have en
tered or have signified their intention
of displaying their choice animals.
The committee supervising the goat
show is made up of O. S. Grant, A. L.
McDonald, H. L. Fenton, J. C. Guth
ne, li. W. McKee ana W. A. Ayres
In a letter issued by the committee
exhibitors are asked to communicate
with W. A. Ayres, Dallas, Or. Spe
cial prizes have been offered to com
pet i tors owning bucks ranging in age
from 9 months up, and does with the
same age range.
rirms offering special prizes include
William Brown & Co., Salem; North-
west Angora Goat association; Ami-r
can Angora Goat Breeders associa
tion; Multnomah Mohair Mills, Port
land; Angora Goat Ureedera' Journal,
Portand; William Riddle & Sons,
Monmouth; Angora Rug company,
Salem, and the Oregon Agricultural
ist, Portland.
The Angora Goat Breeders' Journal
also will give a year's subscription of
the Journal to every exhibitor at the
show and to every purchaser of an An
gora buck.
Space will be given at the show for
the exhibition of sheep.
Hillsboro Man Raises Peanuts.
HillRboro F. A. Haines, of. Hilln-
boro, has demonstrate! that peanuts
may be grown for commercial pur-
poses in the Willamette valley in the
rich loam soil of the bottom lands.
Mr. Haines, out of curiosity, planted
some peanuts a year ago. The other
day while digging in the garden he
found the peanuts in the ground, fully
matured and of good quality.
It is generally believed that a sandy
soil is required to raise peanuts, but it
has been proved by several experi
ments conducted by horticultural ex
perts that the black loam soil of the
Willamette valley river and bottom
land will grow the peanut with sur
prising success.
Nehalem Harbor Improved.
Nehalem With less than $50,000
ipent on the improvement of the Ne
halem river bar, positive results have
Iready been obtained, with the full
assurance that a continuance of the
work will accomplish what was de-
red. 1 hose commercially interested
In the vicinity of Nehalem subscribed
the $50,000 to have the tortuous and
ncertain channel straightened and
deepened by the building of a jetty.
This undertaking waa not looi.ed upon
vnrahlv bv shinnlnir men. who con-
lidered it waste of money.
For Better Rural Schools.
Corvallia The State Bankers' as
sociation has named a committee of
ix men who will have charge of the
movement for improving rural condi
tions, especially in the matter of edu
cational facilities, so as to stem the
tide of country boys an1 girls going
into the cities, and keep them on the
home farm, for their own future
profit as well as for the best interests
f the state and nation.
EXPERIMENT FARM BUSY.
Tka Buildinra Put Ud and 200
Acres Cleared of Sagebrush.
Hurna The Harney County agricul
tural experiment station, six mile
east of Hums, has been a busy place
since Superintendent Itreithaupt took
rharire of it late in the summer. The
entire 200 acres in the farm is now
cleared of sagebrush and 100 acres of
it has been plowed.
Three good buildings are also prac
tically completed a large barn,
mosshouse and a residence. The barn
is built in modern style, with hip
roof, k'ivinir a good deal of loft room
for hay; the messhouse is of good
size and plastered on the inside; the
residence is a larire bungalow and is
to bo plastered.
The water Supply for the building
will be pumed by gasoline engine
from a splendid well which was drill
a few months ago to a tank built in
the ground, and from this it will be
forced by pneumatic pressure to all
parts of the buildings. There will be
interior washrooms and lavatories.
which will be connected by tiling with
a septic tank constructed on scientific
principles. The clearing of the
ground of sagelirugh was accomplished
with a piece of 12x12 timber 24 feet
long, shod its entire length with
steel bar, to which ware hitched from
eight to 12 horses, according to the
size of the sage. The brush was
mowed down and pulled out in most
effective style.
The land plowed this fall will be
sown and planted to various crops and
another lot of plowing will be done
in the spring, to be sown and planted
with the same kind of crops, so as to
test the respective results.
STATE COMMISSION BUSY.
Railroad Body Meat and Secures
Evidence at Union,
Union -The State Railroad eommi
sion hus been in Union taking testi
mony in the case of the Central Kail
road of Oregon. Clyde H. Aitchison
and Frank Miller, of the commission
W. C. Kurle, civil engineer; James
W. Crawford, second assistant attor
ney general and Aimer Jones, stcno
grapher, made up the party. The
Central Railroad of Oregon was repre
sented by Attorney C. E. Cochran, of
I.a Grande; the Commercial club of
Union by 11. F. Wilson, of Union.
Evidence was taken and it is un
derstood that the commission will de
cide the points at issue at the next
regular meeting.
I he repair and continued operation
of the road from Union to Union Junc
tion is one of the principal points at
issue, the company having conceded
that it was their intention finally to
abandon that portion of this road and
make Hot Lake the connecting int
with the O.-W. It. & N. road. The
members of the Commission then pro
ceeded to Baker to take testimony rcl
ative to the Sumpter Valley road.
NATRON EXTENSION PUSHED.
Work on Present Contract Hurried
Depot at La Grande Half Dona,
Fugene That work on the present
contract of the Natron extension ia
rapidly nearing completion is the
statement made by F. R. Hamhlet,
general office manager at Natron.
Where three large labor ramps have
been ma:ntained all summer. Mr.
Hamblet says, there is now but one
ballasting camp with about 50 labor
ers. Une work train is employed in
clearing slides, which have been fre
quent, and in maintaining the track.
I he depot building.at Ixwell i about
half completed, and when it ia com
pleted the contractors will move on to
Jasper, and then toOakridge.
Changes in the lines of the original
survey east of Oakridge, which is the
eastern terminus of the contract just
being completed by tho Utah Con
struction company, are being rushed,
nd further contracts will be let
within a short time. The next con
tracts to be let probably will cover a
stretch about 12 miles in length, and
will be up the Salt Creek canyon.
Oregon City Grows Fast.
Oregon City That Oregon City had
the most remarkable growth the past
year in ita history in shown by a re
port made by Miss Anita McCarver,
who has completed taking the citv
school census. Miss McCarver rcnort
that 67 residences have been erected
in the city since the census waa taken
one year ago, and 100 homes have been
remodeled since then. Not more than
25 homes have heretofore been the
average. The increase in the attend
ance at the Oregon City high school
this season was 100 per cent.
Oregon "U" Grsds Tesch.
University of Oregon. Fuirene A.
cording to the high school files of the
state, over 100 graduates of the Uni-
versitv nf Orecrrin an nna l
Oregon high schools. They are repre
sented in 45 separate high schools and
in 22 counties, Eugene high school
leading with 11 and the Portland
schools next wth nine. The class of
1911, the last to leave tho University,
has the largest number teaching, 32
in all.
Pacific After 8100,000.
Newberg -Pacific College is launch
ing campaign for an addition of
$100,000 to the endowment. I'resi
dent Pennington is to withdraw from
all classroom work to take the lead in
this campaign, but will not retiie
from his executive duties aa head of
the school.
tHjc Crtflc
By HARRY KVINQ CftEENC
t IIKItK was a time when
rl WiilltiiL'tiiii hint mmnraU
ly been conceded to be
a brand new genius In
tho tlnum-litl world -
marvelous being who
roiiM chunge- stones Into
breud and serpents Into
SKXf 1 fowl; then all at once
iVli. iLvLA ho found himself In th
throe of bankruptcy,
lie bud exhausted bl
resource and was for
tho time N'lng hopelessly Insolvent
Pay by liy hia Unix hundful of re
muliilng change vimlHhe.l In steadllj
dlmltilnhlni: rutin a Ida men I be-
citnm i lieuper and further apart, un
til llmtlly he had hut a dime left. Thli
coin ho resolved to ssve for suine lasl
and most desperuN' extremity, and hi
even determined to fust for days l
fore parting with It. And fast fo
dtiy he ill. I. while oft times the day
rnme mm li too fast.
When Christum evo ranio he hai
not lusted food for tbrva duya. lb
felt that ho could endure It no
longer, thut tli lust and most desper
ate, extremity hud arrived and that
now ho must apt-nd his dime), lie
was pluiiKed deep In meditation when
ho felt soinotio touch his arm and
turned about.
Heslile him there stood a gaunt man
with cavernous cheek. foverUh, wild
lh eyes, and a atomnch that curved
the wrong way. Th apparition ad
dressed him In a crouklng voire.
"for (iod's suko, trangor, buy me
something to eut. I am penniless and
Uon the verge of committing crime.
I have worn out my shoe looking for
work, and while I have a Job promised
me It will bn a week before It Is open.
And meanwhile 1 am starving, friend,
atarvlng. In tlio name of ChrUtlatilty
spare inn enough for a meal out of
your plenty."
Walllngton stnred Into tho evening
duak a he fluttered hia taat and
smoothly worn dime. He knew well
enough what this other man was suf
fering, for had he not been In the
same aluge twenty four hours before!
Ana to give a man a dime In such
case was o grossly Inadequate. Yet
what could ho do? He turned about
Close before him was a restaurant
where he had spent hundred of dol
lar In his palmy d.iys and who pro
prietor ho knew well. Yet ho owed a
bill thero for his lust big after theater
dinner party of many month ago, and
he had never hud the courage even In
hi semi starvation to go In and ak
for more credit. Yet now It must be
done, for hero waa a human being
tarvlng upon the streets. Wel
lington shuddered. It waa plainly hia
duty to nil this man's stoma, h. and
for the lust time he would exert those
powers of persuasion which once up-
fell Prl
on a tlmo few men had been able to
resist He took tho stranger by the
arm. "Come with mo." ha rnmimnl.
ed.
They entered tho restaurant and
WallliiKton walked straight up to the
proprietor. "Hob." said he. ! n
you a pretty stiff bill, but I am going
to go to work In a week and then I
will begin paying vou oft. Now I w.nt
you to do me a lust favor. I owe you
aimut forty ilollar. and a rnnnl nt
dollars more won't moke much differ
ence to you. It I Christmas eve and
my friend over there la alnrvtnv N
I want you to fill him up to the- chin
on good, solid food and charge It to
me. I will not ask you for any favor
again If you will do this last tt,in
The proprietor looked at hia old pa
tron thoughtfully.
All right." Iin lnnnntiK,4
length. "Helng's Ita rhrUltr...
I'll take a chance on you even If you
are nown and out. Tell vmi, tr i.
order what he wants." Ho Wellington
sna inn strnnger nt down together
and Walllngton
Ion fill himself with good things until
i nisi wun nis Ntnmarh again curved
the right way, tho droop gone from hia
shoulders and the fevnruh n.i, ....
Ishcd from bis eyes, the s-nreed on.
arose.
"My friend." aald the atraanavaaffJ t
could not havo endure.) it another da)
but of course you have never known
w'iat K IS to an Ion ,lv. ,i,l,...
food. And when tonight you go home
an aown to your table to your
feast, remember that tlu.r i. ..
cast fellow being upon the streets who
messing every mouthful th.t
eat. Oood-bv. r'hritin
Walllngton hi-1,1 ,,i hi. k.- -r,
, i uftuu, UUUU-
"j. .iranger, and good luck to you. It !
a mere trlflo. Hnppy to navel
oeen ablo to give you a lift." Then.'
.VH.l?iUp ,0 Kr,'n',ny'i hash houM1
and had his dime s worth f Coffoe ud '
sausage
AMefiife
Home-Cfirtir
i : WAii
- f B Clltk iDoktl J
I vry thU ru,
1"le ioJ
I'leDtally bj
Bin mtl
longi0 for .
scene, in j
(raveled two dsy tti jj
Sleeper. Vaguely conhttf J
ney's end with all m
hlp bla starved nature u J
Ing
When he arrived at kla oU J
cblll. grey Chrlitmu aJ
is only to find that
11
a
wa
Silent absence ha.) beri to,
iet ior lrlenlhlp. Tb J
nii ui km uui ervMU, J
wore strange, unwelcome U
ing out on tli oiolu
at reel which ha had lin J
bered aa being throni, mj
ewepi over Blot.
This waa Dot wnat be vip
his pocket he drew out tit J
paper which had really knJ
o many miir, and I0014 K j
terly. It was only a dettw
Uient eut from a paper of 1 J
and ran In the uul
Townley, at bis reildeace,' 1
In fancy he saw nj
maiden, who I
ought her hap
pineal only la vL'','
the eye of the
youth by bersl.le.
There were Joy.
belle there, too,
aa they left the
church with the
fragrance of mu
tual lore about
them.
The bells peal
ed on outside.
and willing fancy MktasX
la to the realm of "mlg til Un
In aa Instant be made if fe
to visit once mors lb sM
cottage not msoy nte ax.
which he bsd hoped SfiMtn
fore to take a bride. Hi W
and aee It, even If Its if'!
dltlon only added to til
and pain.
Two hours later he
through the crisp country 11
winding oath whtck led
bllng. Ivy-covered cotuta
As the last turn Droufx
sight of the bouse k tM
prise. lie had expected !
ruin, and decay, but bitrli
upon a trim, well kept otu
soft, rrunntnr sons. It t roai
reawakened the tender aiewj
lung, n 1 w - -.
unlatched door. '
Half believing that It an
leading him still, heeoterei
softly, end. following lb 1
Into the Inner room, aod a!
glow of the warm flrellfat
The sweet, tired fsced,
singer turned as bis
across the light, and tb sssl
and trembling.
rlrM'" she whlSDr4
have you come to reproadsf.
todayl Not today!"
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held out his arms.
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blng. to bla breast
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Is very good. I thought 1
dead."
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as young aa she bad In Wfi
the morning, as she wpiw-j
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smile faded, and be sn -
Into cbalr. NuA'
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said sadly. "iou k.
In the old days, you wuid
now. and I could not IM
other man's thousand. j
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face as she flitted o"
busily preparing
Then she slipped bh'"411J
lesnlng over whispered I
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cheeks:
"Purhsoa Toil do oi
that that Mr. Towniej
back to bla famUr
rein."
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took bor Into hi stronl i v j
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.re still young. WIfo
to make you nappy!" W
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burst of Christmas belli ,
from the village churcl' ,
ke did not need br w-
lf-tf
to '
see bar eyes