THE TURNER TRIBUNE
VOL. V I.
Tl'BNEIt, OHEGON, T IU USDAV, .11 LV
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
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COMPILED
FOR
YOU
STATE N E W S
IN BRIEF.
Seaside. — llungalow pavilion, the
dance hall here, has been purchased by
five local business uieu for f 10,0041.
HI. Helens. — County Agent Hull-
liaugh baa been making a tour o f Co
lumbia county gathering exhibits fur
the Columbia county booth at the state
fair.
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BIG STRIKE FAILS
TO HALT TRAFFIC
Roads Operate Despite Shop
men’s Walkout.
OFFICIALS CONFIDENT
ELEANOR H. PORTER
ILLUSTRATIONS F f
R.H .LIVING STO NE.
tit. Helens.—The borne of Dan Rich
ardsou here was burned Sunday after
noon, with a loss o f about $4000. There
was 91900 Insurance on the building
R f f l l i of Noted People. U g im i O N l l
l-ahor lea d er« Hay Htrike Nearly 100
and contents.
and I'ariBr Northwest, and Other
I’ er ( '« i t . Effective; N o Vio
Kugrne.— An an Indication that the
Thine« Worth t n o « i i| .
lence Is Reported.
county officials aro In earnest In pro.
ecullng the campaign against Canada
thistle, the arrest o f three brothers
GETTING DIVORCED
Will lain Rockefeller. oil magnate who own adjoining farms near Irving
Chicago. — With the countrywide
and broth.r o f John D llnrkofollor, was made Saturday and each paid a strike of shopmen declared by union
M T N O P M 8 .-In a prsfkes M ary
M a rl« « I plains her apparent "doubts
illad In Tarrytuwo. N. V , Saturday fine of »1.
leaders to be practically 100 per cent
personality" sa d Just why ehe Is s
from pneumonia ahortly before 7
cross-current sod a contradiction ;"
lone.— llob Sperry was killed and perfect, tbe nation's great transporta
she also tails bar rsaauns fo r w rit
o'clock.
ing tbs d ia ry —Intsr 's ba ■ novel.
Wayne Sperry and Oorar llergstrom tion machine continued Its work with
T b s diary Is rsratnsn< ed at Arulsr-
Plans for th . erection of a 19,000,000 were Injured In an automobile accident
ennVille. M ary bsgtne w ith Nurss
out Interruption Saturday.
Oarmb’s account o f her i M ary's)
hotel In downtown Waablnitun aa a three miles from lone, on the Oregon
Railway executives were unanimous
birth, which assoline)/ Inlsrastnd
Washington
highway,
at
I
o'clock
Sat
part of tho famoui system of Klt> Carl
hsr fathar. who la n famous astro ri
In expressing their belief that th .
urday otght.
amar.
Isas than a new star which
Ion hotala were announrod Sunday by
was Slncovsrwd tbs s a n s night.
strike would have little effect on tbe
tbo lilt i Carlton Holding corporation
Mar ns ms la a coti.promlss, hsr
Salem —The West Coast Pulp A Pa
operation o f their roads and at tbe
fa th sr Insisting on A bigail Jans
President Harding and member, of per company, with headquarters In same time asserted that any more
T b s child q u ie tly laarnsd that hsr
Sab-m
and
capital
stork
o
f
919.000,
horns w as In some w ay different
b l. cabinet were .aid Saturday at
toward a settlement would have to
from those o f bar small friends,
th . White llouan to be In entire agree filed articles Saturday In the slate cor r o n e from the United Htstes labor
and w as puaslsd thereat.
Nurse
Marsh tails hsr o f her m other's a r
Inrnt with the proposal to allow bead, poratlon department. The lucorpora board or Uie employes.
riva i at A ndersonviiia as a brida
tors
are
II.
S.
Glle,
W.
T.
Jenks
and
id department* to .peak to consrea.
sa d how astonished they all were
II M. Jewell, president of the rail
at tba sigh t o f ths dainty eightssn-
on occasion, when their presence I. William II. Trlndle.
way department of the American Fed
year-old g irl whom ths sedate pro
desired or when they h a v. arium .nts
A sto ria —A contract was closed Sat eration of Labor, who refused to ap
fessor had chosen fo r a w ife Nurse
to make.
Marsh makes It plain w hy ths
urday by the Astoria Amusement Com pear at a federal Inquiry Into the
household eeomod a strung* one to
Tbo Interstate commerce commla pany with K. W. Houghton of Seattle strike call, reiterated that the only
the child and bow her fa th er and
mother drifted apart through m is
slon In a n o lle. Saturday declared that for the erection of a fireproof moving basis for s settlement was for the
understanding. each too proud to
It would probably lake some time In picture theater at tho corner of roads to agree not to put Into effect
In any w ay attem pt to smooth over
tk-tober In Its general railroad consol Twelfth and Commercial streets, tbe wage decreases recently ordered for
tbs situation.
idation hearing the matter o f the cost of which will be 974.090.
(h . shop men by the labor board.
Southern Pacific sod Central i*aclflc
Ren W. Hooper, chairman of the
C H A P T E R III— Continued.
Salem.—Twenty-two foreigners, all
railroad merger.
labor board, declared In a formal state
residing In Marlon county, will appear
ment that tbe power of the govern
'Japan has sealed her pledge to pro
I didn’t even think of asking Fsth-
before Judge lilngham In the circuit
ment, coupled with public sentiment, »r, o f course. I never ask Father
mote world peace, taken at the limita
court hero soon In quest o f naturalisa
will give every protection to every Questions. Nurse says I did ask him
tion of armament conference at Wash
tion papers. O f the total applicants
railway employe who remains on tbe otic* why he didn't love me like other
ington, by declaring her final decision
nine are new. while 19 others were
Job and to all new men who take the papas loved tbelr little girls. But I
to withdraw hsr troops from Siberia
continued for hearing from last March.
places o f tbe strikers In the present eras very little then, and I don't remem
and announcing to the world a policy
ber It at all. But Nurse said Father
of non aggression.
Slayton.—The paving of Slayton's walkout.
didn't like It very well, and maybe
The
walkout
began
In
all
sections
I did remember that part, without real
Sir Arthur Conan D oy le, novelist, business streets was completed Satur
of tbe country promptly at 10 A. M ly knowing It. Anyhow. I never think
lecturer and advocate o f spiritualism, day. and the contractors and men have
Saturday and In many places took on • f asking Father quastlona.
who has been In this country foar h-ft. T h . appearance of the town has
ths aspect o f a holiday, the men sing
I asked the doctor first I thought
months lecturing on spiritualism and been greatly Improved.
ing and cheering as they threw down maybe 'twas some kind o f s disease,
psychic problems, sailed Saturday for
Tillamook.— A company o f th . Na their tools. As reports came In to and If he knew It was coming, he
home on the W hite Star steamer
tional Guard w ill -be formed In this union headquarters during the day could give them some sort of s medi
Adriatic, bound for I.lverpool.
city In a few days, as Adjutant-General loaders asserted that the ranks of the cine to keep It sway— like being vac
Ignoring local prohibition officials, White has notified those Interested strikers would number more than cinated so's not to have smallpox,
you know. And I told him so.
the llu lel association of New York at that be will detail an officer, who will three-quarters of tho 400,000 m em ber
H e gave s funny little laugh, that
be
here
three
or
four
days
In
advance
Its quarterly meeting made a direct
ship before nightfall. loiter Mr. Jew Somehow didn't sound like a laugh at
appeal In President Harding, Secre o f the mustering officer to assist In ell said that reports from 128 of the
all. Then be grew very, very sober,
tary of the Treasury Mellon and Pro getting the enlistments.
201 class 1 roads showed practically and said:
hlbltlon Commissioner lla y n o . to stop
a 100 per cent walkout.
"I'm sorry, little girl, but I’m afrsld
Salem.— Appeals were received at
the braten sale of liquor In restaurants
Tho only display of force reported I haven't got any medicine that will
the state hospital here Sunday for pa
prevent— a divorce. I f I did have,
and other places bore.
tients to enter the berry fields during during the day was at Beardstown, III.,
The house late Tuesday adopted the the next two weeks In an effort to save where several hundred shopmen, after there'd be no eating or drinking or
sleeping for the. I'm thinking— I'd be
conference report on the 1922 naval th . crops. The recent warm weather falling to persuade four companions to
so busy answering my calls.”
bill, accepting senate Increases which has ripened the berries rapidly and Join them In the walkout, picked them
“ Then It Is a disease!"
I cried.
put the total appropriation around unless more pickers are obtained a up bodily sud carried them out. "W e And I can reinember Just how- fright
sent them home,” the leader was quot ened I f e lt "But Isn't there any doc
92.19,000,000. Some minor amendments large part of the yield will be lost.
ed as saying, "to avoid trouble.” In tor anywhere that can stop ttT"
were adopted and tho report went back
Harrisburg.— A dead carrier pigeon, Chicago, the bub of the walkout, where
He shook hts head and gave that
to the senate for final action before
evidently killed by flying Into a tele It Is estimated 100,000 men are affect queer little laugh ugaln.
being sent to the president.
“ I'm afraid not," he sighed. “ As
graph wire, was picked up by a section ed, no disturbances of any kind were
Nine men w er. blown to atoms, two
crew here Wednesday. To all appear reported and all of the roads claimed fo r It's being a disease— there are
suffered serious Injuries and seven
ances the bird had not been dead over that both passengers nnd freight were people that call It a disease, and there
others received minor hurts shortly
a day.
Its feathers were stamped being handled without Interruption of are others who call It a cure; and
after noon Tuesday near Strawberry
there are still others who say It's a
JIJ1" and the leg band bears the fol any kind.
remedy worse than the disease It tries
plains, cast of Knoxville, Tone., when
lowing letters and figures: "A J 20 F
to cure. But, there, you baby I What
24 coses of dynamlto exploded at the
4231."
Baltimore Has Big Fire.
am I saying? Come, come, my dear.
llolston Quarry company's plant. All
Just forget It. It's nothing you should
Brownsville.— Not for ten years has
were employes o f the quarry.
Baltimore, Md. — Lightning Sunday
bother your little head over Dow. Walt
this city seen so much construction as night struck the roof of one of the
till you're older.”
Heath Tuesday claimed tho last sur
la now going on. and prospects for a several great grain elevators at the
T ill I'm older. Indeed I How I hiffe
vivor of that band of Wisconsin men
great season o f prosperity are good. Baltimore A Ohio railroad’s terminals to have folks talk to me like th a t!
who, at Rlpon In 1964, founded the re
I f the Natron cut-off ruad Is completed at Locust Point and In a few minutes And they do— they do It all the time.
publican parly. The Inst survivor was
and the main lino come, through the Immense structure was In flames. As If I was a child now, when I'm
Kdwln IT. Judd, who died In Anacortes.
llrownsville, It w ill work wonders for The fire spread rapidly, soon envelop almost standing there where the brook
Wash , Just a month less than 9« years
this community, according to members ing elevators B and C and pier 9, all and river m eet!
o f age. He was one o f the most In
But that was Just the kind of talk
o f the chamber of commerce.
of which were wrecked. The eleva
teresting careers on the aclflc coast.
I got, everywhere, nearly every time
tors contained over 500,000 bushels of
I asked any one what a divorce was.
Hood ltlver.— 8. C. 1-ancaater has
Madam Hun Y at Sen. wife o f the
grain, which, with 60 carloads of ex
8ome laughed, and some sighed. Some
deposed president of south Chinn, who opened his Columbia Gorge camp at port tobaccos on the pier, was de
looked real worried ’cause I'd asaed
Uonnevllle
to
the
public.
A
crew
of
arrived In Shanghai Motfday from Can
stroyed. The railroad company's loss It, and one got mail. (That was the
ton, described In an Interview with men has been engaged tho past two Is estimated at between 93,200,000 and dressmsker. I found out afterward
the Associated Press her husband's weeks Improving tho forested tract 94.000,000. Several firemen were In that she'd had a divorce already, so
fight and her last stand In the presi along the Columbia river highway. jured.
probably she thought I asked the ques
tion on purpose to plague her.) But
dential palace with a body guard of Electric lights have been Installed and
nobody would answer me— really an
CO soldiers against Chan Chlung Ming's a spring higher up on tho canyonslde
Bun Attack Rumored.
has been tapped to furnish water.
swer me sensibly, so I'd know wliat It
troopers.
Canton.— A rumor that Dr. Sun Yat meant; and 'most everybody said.
Asked by Lord Robert Cocll In the
Salem.—O f tho IS constitutional
Sen, deposed president of the Canton "Run sway, child.” or “ You shouldn't
houso of commons Monday afternoon amendments and measures, which It Is
government of China, Intends to at talk o f such things," or, "W alt, my
whether he could slate the govern proposed to refer to tho voters of Ore
tack this city and drive out the forces dear, till you're old er"; anti all that.
ment's attitude toward the admission gon at tho general election to be held
Oh, how I hate such talk when I
o f General Chen Chlung-Mlng, who
really want to know something! How
o f Qermany to membership In the November 7, only three havo been com
ousted him from It, has caused many do they expect us to get our education
league of nations, Prim e Minister pleted through the filin g of proper pe
shops here to close nnd set afoot a If they won't answer our questions?
titions
with
tho
secretary
o
f
stats.
Lloyd George replied that Great
hurried movement of valuable mer
I don't know which made me angri
Ilrltnln would be willing to support a July 6, under tho law, Is tho last day
chandise from the natlvo section of est— I mean angrier.
(I'm apeaklng
on which completed petitions for tho
proposal for Germany’s admission.
the city to the Shameen, or foreign o f two things, so I must, I suppose.
November election may be filed.
I hate gram m ar!) T o have them talk
Hpeclal Investigators havo been de
settlement.
tailed by Secretary of Agriculture W al
With 2000 troops and six warships, like that— not answer me, you know
Rend.— In order to block tho move
lace to Inquire Into alleged exorbitant of sheepmen o f tbe Mauptn and Ante- Dr. Sun still Is at Whampoa, on the — or have them do as Mr. Jones, the
storekeeper, did, and the men there
prices charged by commission men for
river near here Monday. He refused
with him.
lopo country to obtain a driveway
handling livestock at Portland, Or.,
to discuss tho report that he planned
It was one day when I was In there
nnd a doten other leading stock mar through tho Warm Springs Indian res to attack his former capital.
buying some white thread for Nurse
ervation
to
national
forest
range
In
kets. It Is complained that commis
Sarah, and It was s little while after
I had asked the doctor If a divorce
sion men are maintaining their wnr- tho Cascades, Meredith Ilalley, cattle
Lottery Law Violated.
was a disease. Somebody had said
tlmo charges despite the slump In the man of Sisters, has purchased a ranch
Havana. — Alleged Illegal collection something that mails me think you
prices for livestock.
which Includes tho brldgo which wool of nearly 910 , 000,000 a year from the could buy divorces, and I had suddenly
W alter McCredle, for 20 years a growers had built to enable their
Cuban people through violations of the determined to ask Mr. Jones If he liad
them for sale.
(O f course all this
landmark In organlxed baseball, was bands to cross the Metolius river at
national lottery law was ended Satur sounds very silly to me now, for I
removod as manager o f the Seattle tho south end o f tho proposed drive
baseball club Monday night upon his way. Reservation Indians and cattle day by presidential decree. Pointing know that s divorce Is very simple
and very common. It's Just like a
return from the south. Jack Adams, men alike are aroused over the at to the wide variance between present
marriage certificate, only It un nu r
•'Deacon John," as he Is affectionate tempt of sheep owners to cross what methods of conducting the lottery and rise you Instead of marrying you ;
ly termed by his team mates, has has for many years been cattle range. those set forth In the laws o f July 7. but I didn't know It then. And If I'm
heen promoted from the ranks to suc A t present the only means o f trans 1909, President Zayas ordered reforms going to tell this story I've got to
ceed bis ex-chief, and w ill wear the porting 20,000 head of sheep to sum Intended to remove tho lottery from tell It Just as It happenetl. of course.)
Well, I asked Mr. Jones If you could
mer feeding grounds Is by rail.
the category of political spoils.
managerial toga hereafter.
buy divorces, aud If lie had them for
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sale; and you ought to have lieard
thus« men laugh. There were six of
them sitting around tbs stove behind
me.
“ Oh, yes. my little maid" (above all
things I abhor to be called a little
m aid!) one o f them cried. “ You can
buy them If you’ve got money enough;
but I don't reckon our friend Jones
here bss got them for sale.”
Then they all laughed again, and
winked at each other. (That's another
disgusting thing— winks when you ask
a perfectly civil queetlon ! But what
can you do?
Stand It. that's alL
There's such s lot of things we poor
women have to stand!) Then they
quieted down and looked very sober
— the kind o f sober you know ts faced
with laughs In the back—and began
to tell me what a divorce really was.
I can't remember them all, but I can
some of them. O f course I understand
now that these men were trying to
he smart, and were talking fo r each
other, not for me. And I knew It
then— a little. W e know a lot more
things sometimes than folks think we
do. Well, as near ss I cun remember
It was like this:
“ A divorce Is a knife that cuts a
knot that hadn't ought to ever been
tied,” said one.
“ A divorce Is a Jump In tlie dark,"
said anotber.
"No, It ain't. I t ’s a Jump from the
frying pan Into the fire," piped up Mr.
Jones.
"A divorce Is the comedy of tbe rich
end the tragedy o f the poor," said a
little man who wore glasses.
"Divorce Is s nice »mushy poultice
that may help but won't heal," cut In
a nsgpwolce.
"Divorce Is a guldepoet marked,
'l l — I to Heaven.' but lots o f folks miss
Wall, I Asked Mr. Jones If You Could
Buy Divorcee, and If Hs Had Them
for Salo.
fun In having It yourself. Beside«,
they were very unkind and disagree-
able, and tiragged a lot about their
divorces. They said mine wras tame,
and had no sort o f snap to It. wheo
they found Mother didn't have a lover
waiting In tbe Dext town, or Father
hadn't run off with Ida stenographer,
or nobody had shot anybody, or any
thing.
Ttiat made me mad, and I let them
aee It. good sml plain. I told them our
divorce was perfectly all right and
genteel and respectable; that Nurse
Harsh said It was. Ours was going to
be Incompatibility, for one thing,
which meant that you got on each
other's nerves, and Just naturally
didn't care for each other any more.
But they only laughed, and »aid even
more dloagreeable things, so that I
didn't want to go to school any longer,
and I told Mother oo. and the reason,
too, o f course.
But, dear me. I wished right off that
I hadn't I supposed she was going to
be superb and haughty and disdainful,
and say things thst would put thos«
girls where they belonged. But, my
stars! Ilow could I know that ah#
was going to burst Into such s «torn»
of sobs and clasp me to her bosom, and
get my face all wet and cry out: “ Oh.
my baby, my baby— to think I hare sub
jected you to this, my baby, my b ab y!"
And I couldn't say s thing to com
fort her, or make tier stop, even when
I told her over end over again that I
wasn't a baby. I was almost a young
lady: and I wasn't being subjected to
anything bad. I liked It— only I didn't
like to hare those girls brag no. wheo
our divorce was sway .bead of theirs,
anyway.
But she only cried more anil mors,
and held me tighter and tighter, rock
ing back and forth in her chair. Sho
took me out o f school, though, and had
a lady come to teach me all by myself,
so I didn't h.tvs to hear those girls
brag any more, anyway. That was
better. But sbe wasn't any happier
herself. I could see that.
There were lots of other ladles there
— beautiful ladles — only »he didn't
seem to like them any better than I
did the girls. I wondered I f maybe
they bragged, too, and I asked her;
bat sbe only began to cry again, and
moan. “ W h it have I done, what have
I done?"—and I had to try all over
again to comfort her. But I couldn't.
She got so she Just stayed In her
room lots and lota. I tried to make
her put on her pretty clothes, and do
as the other ladles did. and go out and
walk and sit on the big piazzas, and
dance, and eat at tbe pretty little
tables. She did. some, when we first
came, and took me. and I Just loved
It. They were such beautiful ladles,
with their bright eyes, and their red
cheeks and Jolly ways; and their
dresses were so perfectly lovely, all
silks and satins and sparkly spangles,
and diamonds and rubies and emer
alds, and silk stockings, and little bits
of gold and silver slippers.
And once I saw two of them smok
ing. They had the cutest little ciga
rettes (Mother said they were) In gold
holders, and I knew then that I was
seeing life— real life ; not the stupid
kind yoo get back In a country town
like Andersonville. And I said so to
Mother; and I was going to ask her
If Boston was like that. But I didn't
get the chance. She Jumped up so
quick I thought something had hurl
her. and cried, “ Good Heavens, B ab y!"
(H ow I hate to be called "B a b y "!)
Then she Just threw some money on
to the table to pay the bill and hurried
me away.
It was after that that she began to
stay In her room so much, anil not
take me anywhere except for walks
at the other end of the town wbera
It was nil quiet and stupid, and no
music or lights or anything.
And
though I teased and teased to go back
to the pretty. Jolly places, she wouldn't
ever take me; not once.
Then by and by. one day we met a
little black-haired woman with white
cheeks and very big sad eyes. There
weren’t any spangly dresses and gold
slippers about her, I ran tell you! She
was crying on a bench In the park,
and Mother told me to stay back and
watch the swans while she went tip
and spoke to her. (W hy do old folks
always make us watch swans or read
books or look Into store windows or
run and play all the time? Don't they
suppose we understand perfectly well
whnt It means— that they're going to
say something they don't want us to
hear?) Well, Mother and the lady on
the bench talked and talked ever so
long, and tnen Mother calletl me up,
and the lady cried a little over me.
and said. “ Now. perhaps. If I’d hs-' n
little girl like that— I"
Then ...e
stopped and cried some more.
W e saw this lady real often after
thst. She was nice and pretty and
sweet, and I liked her; but she was
always awfully sad. and I don't believe
It was half so good for Mother to bo
with her as It would have been for her
to be with those Jolly, laughing ladles
that were always having such good
times. But I couldn't make Mother
see It that way at all. There are
times when It seems as If mother Just
couldn't see things the way I do. Hon
estly. It seems sometimes almost as If
she was the cross-current and contra
diction Instead of me. It does.
Well, as I said before. I didn't like
It very well out there, and I don't be
lieve Mother did. either. But It's all
over now. anil we're back home pack
ing up to go to Boston.
the way. Just the same, I notice,"
spoke up somebody with a chuckle.
“ Divorce Is a coward's retreat from
the battle of life." Captain Harris said
this. He spoke slow and decided. Cap
tain Harris Is old and rich, and not
married. He's the hotel's star boarder,
and what he says. goes, 'most always.
But It didn't this time. 1 can remem
ber Just how old Mr. Carltou suapped
out the next.
“ Speak from your own experience.
Tom Harris, an' I'm Blinkin' you ain't
fit ter Judge. I tell you divorce ts
what three fourths o f the husbands an'
wives In the world wish was waitin'
for 'em at home this very night. But
It ain't there." I knew, o f course, he
was thinking o f hit wife. She's some
cross, I guess, and has two warts on
her nose.
There was more, quite a lot more,
said. But I ’ye forgotten the rest. Be
sides. they weren't talking to me then,
anyway. So I picked up my thread
and slipped out o f the store, glad to
escape. But, as I said before, I didn’t
find many like them.
O f course I know now—what divorce
Is, I mean. And It's all settled. They
granted us some kind of a decree or
degree, and we're going to Boston next
Monday.
It's been awful, though— this last
year. First we had to go to that hor
rid place out west, and stay ages and
ages. And I hated It. Mother did. too.
I know she did. I went to school, ami
“ Do aid folks honestly think
there were quite a lot of girls my age.
they are fooling us all ths time,
and some boys; but I didn't rare much
I wonder?”
for them. I couldn't even have the fun
of surprising them with the divorce we
were going to have. I found they were
(T O B E C O N T IN U E D .)
going to have one. too— every last one
o f them. And when everybody has a , The man who Is given to self pralsa
thing, you know there's no particular owes an apology to his acquaintance*
Vara G ordon, ths "movie” actress
who has Immortalized motherhood on
ths screen, has assumed the ears of
42 motherless children. Recently In
Philadelphia, Mias Gordon’ s picture
was unveiled at a special ceremony
held at a Philadelphia orphanage.
Through her charity ths horns Is
mainly maintained.
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MI LU CEN T
c p HE affected young mlsa who chsng-
•A es her name from Mildred to Milli-
cent In the fund belief that the two
are Interchangeable, Is really rev lino-
tenlng herself. The two names are ut
terly dissimilar.
MilUcent. which la translated to
mean work, strength, comes from that
remarkable word “ amal." meaning
work, which appears In some similar
form In all languages. We have our
word “motl" from it. Many feminine
names have been evolved from ttmoL
the first probably being Anuilaswinth,
the unfortunate queen of Lombardy,
whom the Romans could not protect
from the treachery o f her fnvorttea,
Historians
call
her Amalasontha,
but In Burgundy she became Ueil-
sendra. Mellcerte, and Meluslne.
Spanish balladlore reveals a Mell-
sendra as the w ife of Don Oavferos,
who was taken captive by the Moors
and we hear o f ner through Don Quix
ote. Meluslne was tbe nymph, wife
o f Lord de Leeztgnan. who. according
to old legend, retired from public view
every Saturday and turned into a
serpent.
Princess
Melisende
carried
the
crown o f Jerusalem to the House of
Anjoy and through the Provencal con
nection o f the English court. Lady
Mellsent Stafford, who lived during
the reign o f Henry II, established the
name In England. It soon came to be
spelt Mellcent and finally MilUcent,
prevailing as such today.
The simplest o f all gems, the tur
quoise. Is Mllllcent’s tallsmanlc stone.
It Is said to protect Its wearer from
all dangers, whether she walks or
rides— or flies, the present day legend
must add. It is an augury o f good
fortune If she sees the new moon re
flected in the stone. Saturday ts her
lucky day anti 1 her lucky number and
holly Is her flower.
(C opyright.)
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O’ CHEER
By John Kondrick Bang«.
A PLE ASING HOPE
H O P E some day when I have
»on e
Into th© realm s o f »lo r y
T o meet upon those shores anon
Th© grt-at o f so n » and story;
T o greet old H om er with his lyr©.
And chum It with Balboa,
A n d chat aw hile with m y grand sire.
Th© well-known Mr, Noah.
I
I hop© to meet with Socrate©,
And listen to Macaulay.
And smoke perhaps a pipe o f peace
W ith Pow hatan and B alelxh;
T o roam the fields with A vo n ’s son
On terms so fa r from chilly
T h at he’ll r e fe r to me as John,
Th e while I call him Billy.
(C o p y r ig h t)
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