THE TURNER TRIBUNE
VOL.
VI.
TU UNKB, OBEUON, TJIUUSDAY, J U L Y
WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
R AILR OA D TANK D Y N A M IT E D
Strike Guard
Shot
on Duly In California
Machine Guna I’ lncrd.
Sacramento, Cal.—The Southern I’a-
TO KEEP ORDER
clftc water lank at Newcastle, I’lacer
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
county,
20 miles from
Sacramento,
was dynamited Monday night shortly
Half Dozen States Assemble
after V o'clock, according to word sent
National Guards.
to Sheriff Gum at Roseville.
According to the story, five men
COMPILED
FOR
YOU
drove up to the tank In an automo­
bile, planted tbe lighted charge be­
neath
K « n U , f Noted People, Govrrnmenta
and Pacific N o r t h » » ! , aad Other
Thing» Worth knowing.
A reduction of 11,014,000,000 In the
public debt during the fin al year end­
ed June 10, and a reduction of $178,-
000,000 In the debt during the month
of June, waa announced Monday by
tbe treasury.
W. A. White, editor o f Ibe Emporia
(Kan )
Ornette,
and
nationally
fa-
tnoua defender of all klnda uf doga,
nffered a prlaa to the boy wltb the
moat doga In tbe Fourth of July par­
ade.
the
tank
and
drove
STATE N E W S ! j
IN BRIEF.
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Salem.— During the months of April,
May and June, 94 permits for the ap­
propriation of water from the varloua
streams of Oregon were Issued by
Percy Cupper, state engineer.
Pendleton.— G. If. Foster o f Port­
land will establish ken’ els at tbe Pen­
dleton Rod and Gun club for the train­
ing of bunting dogs, according to an­
nouncement by the club president.
Salem.— M. Senders of Albany, head
away In the direction of Lincoln.
Chicago, llurllagton A Quincy Obtains of M. Senders A Co , was elected pres­
ident of tbe W lllam etle Valley Grain
Order Restraining Strikers
Roseville, Cal.—An employe of the
Dealers' association at Its annual con­
l'ickctlng Shops.
vention here Saturday. Mr. Senders
I’aclflo Fruit Kxpress company was
succeeds C. B. Buchanan o f Hillsboro.
shot here at 10 o'clock as he was
working on the Icing platform of the
fruit company.
He was rushed to tbe
Southern i ’aclflo emergency hospital.
Reports were conflicting as to who
did the shooting
Strikers were re­
ported to be stationed at points of
vantage overlooking the loading plat
form. They were said to be armed
A t the hospital tho man was recog­
nised as W illiam Westlake, 21. of San
Francisco, who had been employed aa
a guard by the express company.
Westlake, according to Information
given out by the Southern I’aclflc o f­
ficials, was the target for a fusillade
of 17 shots fired 'In rapid succession
from some distance.
I.ena Walton, a famoua character of
the daya of the gold rueh to Nome and
t'ounrll Pity, who figured In litigation
with Pharlea 1). U a e , the mining op­
erator of California and Alaeka. over
llloomlngton. III.— Three shots were
the Ophlr creek mlnee, died In Nome
fired at state troops guarding the
Hunday,
Chicago A Alton shops shortly after
Howard and llom er PI »her are midnight Monday. No trace of the
twine. I loth are drug clerka. iiolh person shooting was found.
are In Jail In !.oa Angelea. lloth are
Twenty five men congrgated at a
charged with the Illegal aale o f li­ strikers' picket post In front of a gro­
quor. "T hey are aa much alike aa two cery store at the north end of the
pints," aald the prohibition enforce­ shops were ordered to disperse and a
ment offli-era who a r re te d them.
machine gun was set up to rover the
strike pickets.
Oorernor Hlnlne o f Wlaconatn an­
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Neuman
nounced ts as address In Superior
ordered the sentry details doubled and
Tuaeday that ha would extend execu­
posted additional machine gun units
tive rlomenry to every man In Wla-
at vantage points.
ooaaln prlaone "who ran trace hla
A sentry reported to the lieutenant-
plight, directly or Indirectly, to cauaea
colonel that the strike pickets had
analog out of the service to bis coun­
warned two women who passed the
try "
store "to get out of tbe way. for the
James Alexander Hlchardaon, (5 fireworks are about to start.”
years old on his last birthday, and
More than 2000 lined tbe "dead
Mlaa Phrlatlna Stafford, who refused line" on tho west and north sides of
to give her age, obtained a llrenee to the shops and another 500 gathered
marry In Vancouver, Wash.. Monday. at the depot. Rain which began fall­
Hlchardaon gave bla occupation aa ing shortly before 10 o'clock drove
boatman. Hla first w ife died several many to shelter.
years ago.
Sentries pacing tl^elr posts were
Probability of a reconciliation and Jostled and Jeered by the crowd. At
peaceful settlement o f their differ­ tho main west side entrance to the
ent, a by Hun Yat Sen, ex president of shop 100 men. women and children
the South China republic, and Chen formed along the sentry line and aa
ChJung Ming, the m ilitary leador who fast aa the guardsmen passed they
deposed him. waa reported to be crowded across the line. Guns with
brlghtor than at any tim e during tbe fixed bayonets were brought Into play
time and again, held hortaontally, to
past two weeks.
force the Jeering throng back.
Three mutilated mall pouches con­
taining hundreds of opened letters,
Powder Blast Kills One,
comprising part of the loot obtained
Tacoma,
Wash.—Samuel W. Hanna,
by Hoy Gardner, notorious bandit. In
the Maricopa, Arts., mall car robbery 32. was killed Instantly Monday after­
last November, have been found, It noon In an explosion at the Dupont
waa announced by the postoffice In­ de Nemours powder factory at Du­
pont. Wash., near here, which rocked
spector's office at 1‘boenlx, Aril.
South Tacoma and other nearby dis­
A freight saving of from $15 lo $25
tricts.
No cause for tho explosion
a car for aheep producers baa been
could bo given by factory officials.
effected by the decision of the Inter­
The accident occurred In gelatin
state commerce commission reducing
house No. 1, where It Is estimated
the weight for minimum cars 36 feet
about 604 pounds of nitroglycerin waa
and 7 Inches In length from 22,000
stored awaiting mixing. George Me
pounds to 1R.000 pounds, the national
Cuno, oil trucker, had Just delivered
livestock exchange announced Tues­
a load of oil and waa returning to the
day.
oil storehouse with his rubber-tired
Mlaa Alice Robertson, Oklahoma rep­ truck when the explosion took place.
resentative In congreaa. standing on
the site where the first missionary
Four Girl Bathers Jailed.
school In tbe old Indian country was
Chicago.— Four young women, romp­
established and her mother, a teacher
ing on Chicago's Oak street bathing
In that school, met her father, opened
beach Sunday In one-piece bathing
her campaign at Coweta, Okla., July 4
suits, were ordered from the beach by
for the republican nomination to rep­
a police woman. They declined to In­
resent her district.
terrupt their revels In the sand and a
The French chamber of deputies big patrol wagon came and took them
Tuesday pnaaed a law authorising the away. Monday the quartet filed suit
government to decree the utilisation for an Injunction against the city, con­
of a greater percentage of wheat In tending that the upper half of their
flour and the addition of substitutes suits was no more decollete than that
In preparation for the expected short­ of the usual evening gowns and that
age In this year's wheat crop. The the lower half conformed with all the
crop Is variously estimated at 60,000,- established requirements of 1922 ath­
000 to 100,000,000 bushels short of re­ letic suits.
quirements.
The "H enry Ford for president"
movement spread to Chicago Monday
and opened hoadquarters In Michigan
avenue. W. F. K elley of the Am er­
ican Mica company, who Is In charge
of the organisation here, said S000
circulars were being sent out In Chi­
cago "to feel out the sentiment.**
"There seems to be a strong under­
current," he added.
ILLINOIS BOY IS SHOT
quickly
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Chicago's Drouth Ended.
Chicago. — Chicago’s 43-day drouth
waa ended early Monday, when a
heavy rain struck all parts of the city.
Some damage was caused by a high
wind which accompanied the down­
pour. The rain followed the hottest
day of the summer, the mercury regis­
tering 92 degrees. June was the driest
sixth month In (2 years, according to
weather bureau records, the total pre­
The six railway shop crafts unions
cipitation amounting to only .14 of an
which went on strike Saturday were
Inch.
outlawed by the United States labor
t
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board Monday. In a formal resolu­
Unfilled Stssl Orders Increase.
tion the board declared that the
unions, by their action, forfeited all
New York.— The monthly tonnage
rights before the board aa railway report of the United States Steel cor­
employes and that new organisations poration, made public Monday, showed
of shopmen taking the striking men's 5,635.531 tons of unfilled orders on
jobs should be formed to represent hand June 30. This Is an Increase
the shop employes In disputes before from May's unfilled orders, which to­
the board.
taled 6,254,228.
Salem.— Announcement waul made
Chicago.—The calling out of troops here Saturday of tho employment of
In Illinois, the assembling of soldiers Arthur DeMItt of Port Huron, Mich.,
lo half a dosen states and tbe Inter- as plant manager fo r the Willamette
Valley Flax A Hemp Growers’ asso­
vantlon of the federal courts In the
ciation He will succeed Robert Craw­
nation-wide strike of railway shop­
ford.
men marked the cloee of tbe eighth
Salem.— II. J. Kberly, assistant state
day of the walkout Haturday night.
forester, returned here Saturday from
The Chicago, Uurllngton A Quincy Jackson county where he went to In­
railroad obtained a federal Injunction vestigate a number o f fires. Although
here restraining picketing at the there are s number of brash first In
Aurora shops, while earlier In tbe Jackson county, Mr. Eberly said no
dey an Injunction waa leaued at New timber had been destroyed.
Orleans restraining striker! from In­
Corvallis.— That $50jf00 was earned
terfering with trains on the Southern
by students of tbe college last year
I’aclflc and at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
Is announced by Mias Lulu Howard,
the Burlington obtained a temporary
secretary of the Y. M. C. A. and head
restraining order directed against
of the employment bureau.
Miss
striking shopmen In southern Iowa.
Howard Is furnishing all summer ses­
A half dosen other railroads were ex­
sion students, who wish to work, with
pected to follow the lead of the Burl­
employment.
ington here. Department o f luetico
Salem. — Arthur Clrod, aged 16
officials at Washington were Investi­
gating reports that strike disorders years, who disappeared from bis
home here recently, 1» being sought
were Interfering wltb the mails.
Lieutenant-Governor Sterling of Il­ by tbs officers. The boy has not been
linois ordered troops to Clinton, where seen by his parents since he left his
an outbreak waa threatened following home July 5. The father told the
a clash between Illinois Central police that he mey have accepted em­
guards and strike sympathisers In ployment on a farm.
which a boy was killed and two men.
one a striker, were Injured.
One bright ray appeared through
tbe threatening strike clouds when D.
W. Hell, president of tbe Brotherhood
of „Railroad Signalmen, announced
that he would withhold strike orders
lo 14.000 signal men pending the prep­
aration and submission of a pro­
gramme to the United Slates railroad
labor board.
Mr llelt'e announcement was made
following an all-day conference with
W. L. MrMenlmen. labor member of
the board. This was tbe second time
within a week that members of the
board bave Intervened to stop an ad­
dition to tho strikers' ranks, walkout
of 400,000 maintenance of way men
haring been positioned In this manner
a few days ago.
With B M. Jewell, head of the shop
crafts, and the labor board each stand­
ing firm In the attitude that peace
overtures must come from the other,
the railroads were girding for the
second week of the struggle, deter­
mined to maintain uninterrupted tran­
sportation and thus break the strike.
lllllaboro.— The extreme hot weath­
er has ripened the loganberries In
tblx community with lightning rapid­
ity. The matter o f the loss by reason
of overrip e berries, shrinkage from
the heat and the dry oil cannot be
met.
However, a crisis has been
shown to the community to exist.
8llverton.— It is reported by the
Sllverton farmers that not for years
has the hay crop been as short as this
season. Tbe extreme dryness during
maturing time Is said to be the cause.
The farmers are making every effort
to fill their silos with green stuffs
to ward o ff the promised shortage of
feed.
Salem.— The annual report o f the
Oregon public service commission for
the year 1920 has been printed and Is
now ready for distribution. Copies
of the report w ill be sent to all cor­
porations, utilities and individuals
having business with or under the i
Jurisdiction o f the public service com­
mission.
Bend.— The first carload o f lambs
for the Portland market to leave Cen­
tral Oregon this year was shipped
British Gold Recslved.
Saturday night by W. K. McCormack.
New York.—Gold bars, valued at $2.-
They average between 65 and 70
500,000, arrived here on the steam­
pounds In weight. In the same train
ship Berengarta Saturday eonelgnod
went three rarloads of grass-fattened
to J. P. Morgan A Co., for the ac­
rattle, also the first o f the season
count of tho British treasury, of which
to leave Central Oregon.
the Morgan firm Is tho fiscal agent in
this country. A similar shipment ts
Marshfield.— John Sturdivant, who
on the way on another steamer. While died at his Myrtle Point home, had
the Morgan firm said It was not ad­ lived In Coos county for 49 years and
vised as to tho purpose of the ship­ was 88 years old. l i e was born in
ment, It Is believed In financial cir­ North Carolina and fought during the
cles that the British government Is civil war with confederate troops. He
accumulating a supply of gold here came to Coos county In 1873 and be­
for the purpose o f using It In part came a rancher, homesteading In tho
payment of the $126,000,000 Interest neighborhood of Myrtle Point.
on the war debt due In October.
Salem.— The stale highway com­
mission, ot a meeting to be held In
Limited Train Derailed.
Portland July 25. will consider bids
Topeka, Kan. — Tho Golden State for the disposal of state road bonds
limited, westbound, a Rock Island pas- In the amount of $1.000,000, Clacka­
senger train, left the track here at mas county road bonds in the aggre­
noon Sunday, just as It was leaving gate of $91.000, Douglas county road
the Union Pacific tracks to cross the bonds totaling $44,000 and city of
Rock Island brldgo over the Kansas Rainier street Improvement bonds In
river.
the amount of $6697.37.
The engine, mail car, baggage car
Pendleton.— More than 12 cars of
and tho front trucks of a third car
left the tracks, but did not overturn. "R arliest o f A ll" potatoes from the
The track was torn up for some dis­ Hermlston Irrigated district will have
been shipped over the northwest when
tance.
the season on this potato Is over In
two weeks. Nearly a car a day is be­
Tornado Sweeps Farms.
ing graded and parked In lugs for
Bloomfield, Neb. — Several persons
shipment. The potatoes are nearly all
were Injured, two seriously, Sunday,
grade first-class, according to Fred
when a tornado torn a path through
Bennton, county agent, and bring a
the farming community six miles west
of here. The storm center was at better price In the markets than if
they were shipped In bulk.
tho Rohrer farm, where all the build­
ings were wrecked.
The property
Hood River.— Reports o f residents
damage on this farm 1s estimated at of northern Klickitat county, Wash­
$12,000.
Trees were torn up and ington, are to the effect (hat good
crops badly damaged.
progress Is being made on the last
Outlaws Take $4000.
I.os Angeles, Cal. — Between $4000
and $5000 was obtained by two young
outlaws who late Sunday In sn eleva­
tor In a downtown office building, held
up and robbed R. Hamlin and R. C.
Harrison. The victims were collect­
ors for the Puente Oil company.
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really, but In the play, I menu), and I
guess It was mane more of that In­
compatibility «tuff. Anyhow, aa they
began to talk more and more, Mother
legan to fidget, and pretty eoou I aaw
she waa gathering up our things; and
the minute tbe curtain went down
after the first act. ahe oaya:
“ Come, dear, we re going horn«. It—
It Isn't very warm here."
Aa If I didn't know what she was
really leaving fo r ! Do old folks hon­
estly think they are fooling ua all the
time, I wonder) But even If 1 hadn’t
known then. I'd have known It later,
for that evening 1 heard Mother and
Aunt Hattie talking In the library.
No, I didn't listen. I heard. And
that's a very different mutter. You
listen when you mean to. and that'«
sneaking. You hear when you can't
help yourself, and that you can’t be
blamed for. Sometimes It's your good
*
luck. and sometime» It's your bad
luck—Just according lo what you hear!
Well, 1 was In the window-seat In
going on since we came. But I'll try
tbe library reading when Mother and
now to begin at the beginning and tell
Aunt Uattle came In ; ami Mother waa
what hapftened.
saying:
Well, first we got Into Boston at
“ O f course I came out I Do you sup­
fonr o’clock Monday afternoon, and
pose I’d have had that child see that
there was Grandpa Desmond to meet
play, after I realized what It w as) As
us.
lie 's lovely— tall and dignified,
I f she hasn’t had enough o f such
with grayish hair and merry eyes like
wretched »tuff already. In her short
Mother’s, only hla are behind glasses.
life ! Oh. Uattle, Hattie, I want that
At the station he Just kissed Mother
child to iaugh. to sing, to fairly tingle
and me and said he was glad to see us.
with the Joy o f living every mlnnte
and led us to the place where Peter
that she la with me. I know so a r
was waiting with the car.
(Peter
what she baa had. nnd what she will
drives Grandpa's automobile, and he’s
have— In th at—tomb. You know In
lovely, too.)
six months she goes hack— “
Mother and Grandpa talked very
Mother aaw roe then. I know; for
fast and very lively all the way home,
she stopped rlghr off short, and after
and Mother laughed quite a lot. But
In tbe halt she cried a little, and a moment began to talk o f something
else, very fast. And pretty quick th
Grandpa patted her shoulder, and said.
“There, th ere!" and told her how glad went out Into the hall again.
Dear little Mother! Bless her old
he was to get bis little girl back, and
that they were going to be very happy heart! Isn't ahe the ducky dear to
want me to have all the good times
now and forget the past. And Mother
said, yes, yea. Indeed, she knew she (tosslble now so as to make up for the
was; and she was so glad to be there six months I've got to he with Father?
and that everything was going to be Ton see, she knows what It Is to live
Just the same, wasn't I t ! Only— then with Father even better than I do.
But I know now why I’ve been hav­
all o f a sudden she looked over at me
and began to cry again— only, of ing such a perfectly beautiful time
course, things couldn’t t * “ Just the all this week, and why Mother has
same." she choked, hurrying over to been filling every minute so full o,
me and putting both arms around me. fun and good times. Why, even when
we're at home here, she's always hunt­
and crying harder than ever.
ing up little Lester and getting him to
Then Grandpa came and hugged us
both, and patted ns. and said. "There have a romp with ns.
But o f course next week I've got to
there!” and pulled off his glasses and
go to school, and It can't be quite so
wiped them very fast and very hard.
But It wasn't only a minute or two Jolly then. Well, I guess that's all for
before Mother was laughing again, and this time.
saying. “ Nonsense!" and "T h e Idea !" ABOUT A MONTH LATE R
and this was a pretty way to Introduce
I didn't make a chapter o f that last.
her little Marie to her new hom e:
It wasn’t long enough. And. really, I
don’t know as I've got much to add
to It now. There's nothing much hap­
pened.
I go to school now, and don’t hare
so.much time for fun. School's pretty
good, and there are two or three girls
'most as nice as the ones at Anderson-
vlUe. But not quite. Out o f school
Mother keeps things Just as lively ns
ever, and we have beautiful time«.
Mother Is having a lovely time .with
her own friends, too. Seems as If there
Is always some one here when I get
home, and lots o f times there are teas
and parties, and people to dinner.
There are gentlemen, too. I suppose
one o f them will be Mother’s lo je r by
nnd b y ; but o f course I don't know
which one yet. I ’m aw 'i l l y Interested
In them, though. And of course it's
perfectly natural that I should be.
Wouldn't y. u be Interested in the man
that was going to be your new father?
Well, I Just guess you would! Any­
body would.
There are quite a lot o f them, and
they’re all different. They'd make very
different kinds o f fathers. I'm sure,
and I'm afntld I wouldn't like some
o f them. But, after all. It’s Mother
that ought to settle which to have—
not me. She's the one to be pleased.
Tw ou ld he such a pity to have to
change again. Though she could, o f
Well, First We Got Into Boston at course, same as she did Father, I sup­
Four O’clock Monday Afternoon, and pose.
As I said, they're nil different. There
There Was Grandpa Desmond to
Meet Us.
are only two that are anywhere near
alike, and they aren't quite the same,
Then she hurried me to the dearest for one's a lawyer and the other's
little room I ever saw, right out o in a bank. But they both carry canes
hers, and took off my things. Then and wear tall silk hats, nnd part their
we went all over the house. And It'
hair In the middle, and look at you
Just as lovely as can be— not at all through the kind o f big round eye­
like Father's In Andersonvllle.
glasses with dark rims that would
Oh. Father's Is fine and big and make you look awfully homely If they
handsome, and all that, o f course; but didn’t make you look so stylish. Itnt
not like this. Ills Is Just a nice place I don't think Mother csres very much
to eat and sleep In, and go to when It for either the lawyer or the bank man,
ruins. But this— this you Just want and I'm glad. I wouldn't like to live
to live In all the time. Here there are with those glasses every day, even If
curtains 'way up and sunshine, and they are stylish. I'd much rather have
flowers In pots, and magazines. and Futher’s kind.
coxy nooka with cushions everywhere;
Then there's the man that paints
and books that you've Just l>een read­
pictures. He’s tall and slim, ami wears
ing laid down.
(A ll Father's books queer ties and long hair. He’s always
are In bookcases, always, except while
stnndtng hack and looking at things
one's In your hands being read.)
with his head on one side, nnd ex­
Grandpa's other daughter. Mother's claiming "O h !" and "A h !” with u long
sister, Hattie, lives here and keeps breath. He says Mother's coloring la
house for Grandpa. She has a little wonderful. I heard him. And I didn't
boy named Lester, six years o ld ; and like It very well, either.
Why, It
her husband Is dead. They were away sounded ns If she put It on herself out
for what they called a week-end when of a box on her bureau, same as some
we came, but they got here a little other ladles do I
after we did Monday afternoon; and
they're lovely, too.
We have dinner at night here, and !
“ Dr. Anderson Is not a wretch
I've been to the theater twice already !
at all. He’s an honorable, schol­
In the afternoon. I ’ve got to go to
arly gentleman.”
school next week. Mother says, hut
so far I've Jnst been having a good
time. And so'« Mother. Honestly, It
(TO BE C O N TINU ED .)
lias Just seemed as If Mother couldn't
Good Books.
crowd the days full enough. She hasn't
Rven should a man make It a rule
been still a minute.
Lota o f her old friends have been to to read nothing until he has a definite
see her; and when there hasn't been estimate o f Its merit, he will find In
anybody else around she's taken Peter the end that he has lost little. For
and had him drive us all over Boston any purpose of the cultivation o f the
to see things— all kinds of things; mind or the Imagination the book
Bunker hill and museums, and moving which la good to read today Is good
to read tomorrow.— Arlo Bates.
1 Ictures, and one play.
But we didn't stuy at the piny. It
The first separate school for col
started out all tight, but pretty soon a
man and a woman on the stage began ored children In Massachusetts was
to quarrel. They were married (not established ln 17D8.
ELEANOR H. PORTER
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
K H .U V IN G ST O N E .
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COPYRIGHT BY ELEANOR H.PORTEP.
IN BOSTON
S Y N O P S IS .-!» a preface M srr
Marla explains h*-r apparent "dou­
bts personality" and Just why ts a
"cross-current and a contradic­
tion"; «he also tells her rsasons
for writing the diary-later to he
a novel. Ths diary la commence,!
at Andsraonvtlla. Mary begins with
Nurse harsh ■ account of her
(M ary’s) birth, which aeemlngly In­
terested her father, who Is a fa­
mous astronomer, less than s new
star which waa discovered the same
night Her name Is s compromise;
her mother wanted to call her
Viola and her father Instated on
Abigail Jane. The child quickly
learned that her home was In some
way different from thoee o f her
small friends, end was pussled
thereat
Nurse Harsh telle her of
her mother's arrival st Anderson-
vlll# os a bride and bow astonished
they all wars at ths sight o f ths
dainty eighteen.year-old gtri whom
ths sedate profeasor had chosen for
a wife. Nurse 8arah makaa It plain
why the household seemed s strange
one to the child and how her fa ­
ther and mother drifted apart
through misunderstanding, each too
proud to In any way attempt to
amaoth over the situation
Mary
tells of the time spent "out west"
where ths "perfectly all right and
genteel and respectable" divorce
woe being arranged for. and her
mother's (to her) unaccountable be­
havior. By tbs court's decree ths
child Is to spend six months of the
year with her mother and six
months with her father, boston Is
Mother's horns.
C H APTE R III— Continued.
Everything seems awfully queer.
Muybe because Father Isn't here, for
one thing. He wrote very polite and
asked us to come to get our things,
and be said be was going to New York
on busiuess for several days, so Mother
need not fear he should annoy her
with his presence.
Then, another
thing. Mother's queer. This morning
she was singing away at the top o f her
voice and running all over the house
picking up things she wanted; and
seemed so happy. But this afternoon
I found her down on the floor In the
library crying as i f her heart would
break, with her head In Father's big
chair before tbe fireplace. But she
Jumped up the minute I came In and
said, no, no. she didn't want anything.
She was Just tire d ; that’s nil. And
when I asked her If she was sorry,
after all, that she was going to Boston
to live, she said, no. no. no. Indeed,
she guessed she wasn't. She was Just
as glad as glad could be that she was
going only ahe wished Monday would
hurry up and come so we could be
gone.
And that's all. It's a Saturday now,
and we go Just day after tomorrow.
Our trunks are 'most packed, and
Mother says she wishes she'd planned
to go today. I've said good-bye to all
the girls, and promised to write loads
of letters about Boston and every­
thing. They are almost as excited as
I aiu; and I'v e promised, "cross my
heart and hope to die," thut 1 won’t
love those Boston girls heller than 1
do them— specially Carrie Heywootk
of course, my dearest friend.
Nurse Sarah Is hovering around
everywhere, asking to help, and pre­
tending «lie's sorry we're goiug. But
she isu't sorry. She's glad. 1 know
she Is.
She never did appreciate
Mother, and she thinks she’ll have ev­
erything her own way now. But she
won't. 1 could tell her a thing or two
If 1 wanted to. But I shan't.
Father's sister. Aunt Jane Anderson,
from St. l ’aut. Is coming to keep house
for him. partly on account of Father,
and partly on account of me. " I f that
child Is going to tie with her father
six months o f the time, she's got to
have some woman there beside a med­
dling old nurse and a nosey servant
girl I" They didn't know I heard that.
But I did. And now Aunt June Is com­
ing. M y! how mad Nurse Sarah would
be If she knew. But she doesn't.
I guess I'll end this chapter here
and begin a fresh one down In Boston.
Oh, I do so wonder what It'll be like—
Boston, Mother's home, Grandpa Des­
mond. and all the rest. I'm so excited
l can hardly wait. You see. Mother
uever took me home with her but once,
and then I was a very small child. 1
don’t know why. hut I guess Father
didn't want me to go. It's safe to say
he didn't, anyway. He never wants
ma to do anything, hardly. That's why
I suspect him of not wanting me to go
down to Grandpa Desmond's.
And
Mother didn't go only once. In ages.
Now this will he the end. Anti when
f begin again It will be In Boston.
Only think of It— really, truly Boston!
few miles o f a new Glenwood-Yaklma
road, and that the entire route will
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be open soon. Local folk, who con­
tributed $1000 toward the new Wash­
When I Am Maris.
ington highway, declare the new
Boston.
route, which will cross the Klickitat
Yes, I'm here.
I’ve been here a
river and the gorges of tributaries, week. But this Is the first minute I’ve
w ill open up one ot tho most scenic had a chance to write a word. I've
been so busy Just being here. And so
sections ot the northwest.
has Mother. There's been such a lot