TUZ3DAY, JUNE 7, lCZl.
TII2 - OHEGOII DAILY JOURNAL,
PORTLAND. OREGON
vLPH WATGC.j ... ..
IT PAER looked up from the ' large
-a. blue ulieet of paper be was Indus
triously studying-and fixed bis placid
helpmate with a beady eye.
"Are you coin' to mark your ballot or
ain't you V he asked. "I brought a sam
ple home for you to use."
I mess," Ma asked , with : offended
dignity, "I can wait to mark it 'till I
want to,, can't IT' . i - ' . -
"Of course, T. iPaer conceded, "you
can do what you want to when you want
.to, but I thought maybe you wanted to
talk about some of the measures."
"My wind's made up," Ma answered
- calmly. 'nd I ain't going; to get In any
argument about It either."
"Wno's trytn to argue," T. Paer de
manded. "I ain't said anything about ar
ruin. have IV 1
"N'o, Ma answered, "but I ain't going
to voter the way you are 'nd they's no use
talking about the election at all."
"All righjt," T. Paer grinned. "but I
klnda thought maybe I'd want to ask
some advice- of you."
."I'm not going to answer any questions
either," Ma retorted, "I know what
-you're trying to start."
"Very well," T. Paer said reluctantly,
"when're you goln to vote?"
"Some time before eight tonight," Ma
answered evasively, "I ain't in any
. hurry..
a
"You never are unless you want ' me
to do something." T. Paer grunted, - "I
thought I'd wait 'nd walk over to the
polls with you."
They ain't any need of Jf Ma said,
"I may go shopping 'nd stop on my way
home." . ,
"Say V T. Paer asked suddenly, "did
you get your registration changed since
we moved?"
"Why." Ma said In surprise, "I was
worn In over here last election." . v
"Well, for the love of Mike," T. Paer
said disgustedly, j"I bet. I told you a
hundred times you'd have to do It."
."I been busy," Ma said, ,-nd I don't
know's I want to vote anyway.! '
"You're goin to,": T. Paer insisted heat
edly, "Do you want to set around nd let
us be et up with taxes nd never raise
any holler while lt'lldo any good?"
"No I don't," Ma answered,. '"nd if
you're going to get all het up about it
I'll go get sworn in over again."
"That's more like it." T. Paer told
her, "How're you goin' to vote about
giving the legislators more days 'nd
money up at Salem?"
"I don't think they get time enough,"
Ma answered. "nd you're always holler
ing that three dollars ain't a day's wages
any more." ' t.-.' :rr :
! Who said it was a day's wages ?"! T. i
Paer demanded, '"nd besides who says
they do a day's work? If they had a
bill to give 'era less days 'nd less money i
I'd vote for it" ; f
4 "I told you we wouldn't agree," Ma i
said, "Are you goin', to vote for I the
bonus?" ' ,
! "Sure I am," T. Paer answered, "Some
of the young fellahall blow in all the
Cash they get but that's no reason them
they want . to build homes ourhut'ti to
get a ': lltfle help after what they did.
rr you goin- to vote about the mar
riage blUT- v ! t r:r - f
1 dbn, know of any of my friends i
that ever, needed that kind of a law."
Ma answered shortly, "but I'm going to
vote to lets women be jurors." :
! Ai tint thing that'd be," T. Paer) ar
gued heatedly. "I don't want no women
folks of mine sittin' up all night in
stuffy room with a lot of tobacco splttln'
men." , i i - .
"You mean,! Ma smiled, you tobacco j
spitting men don't want any women
around so you'll have to act decent,"
"I ain't goin' to argue about that
either,", T. Paer said, "but what're you
goin to vote on this $200,000 bond Issue
for flro engines nd things r
i "Well," Ma u answered - doubtfully;
Commissioner Bigelow says they ought
to have em. .
"Ought to have what?" T. Paer de
manded. "I .ain't heard anybody say
they need anything but more money.
VI don't know what they want to
spend the money for,"; Ma admitted.
"but I know they want It to spend."
"Sure they i do," T. Paer admitted.
"but by Jingo - If the city councfll cut
some of the frills 'nd flounces 'nd ruffles
off the city government they'd have
money to burn instead of yammer in' for
bond Issues." - "
"I guess that's right too " Ma agreed.
"but if we need fire engines how re we I
going to get 'em."
. "I ain't seen any fires gettin' away
from the firemen, have you?" Tv. Paer
asked. 5 "Besides where 11 they put all I
this new stuff, park it in the streets?"
''Don't ask me," Ma said. "Ask Com
missioner Bigelow." - ;
Weil," T. Paer insisted, why aint
we bought a automobile?"
"We spend our money for something j
else." Ma responded.-. That's easy."
"AU right," T. Paer said, "then I sup
pose you 'nd Bigelow'd issue bonds nd
get one.". .' ? -'
"That'd be foolish," Ma answered pos
itively.;- ! :
"That's the answer," T. Paer declared.
IMBittBES
Mother Bear Become Uneasy
.- By Thornton W. Bargess
An Idle boMter, it t clear,
- U k who My h know do fear.
-Mother Bear.
MORE and more were the twins grow
ing to feel that there, was nothing
in all the Great World for them to fear.
The poison people of the Snake family
they could keep out of the way of, so
there was no one and nothing for them
to fear. At least, that is the way they
-felt about it" and ; what they told each
other, though for some reason or other
" they never allowed Mother Bear to over
hear them say such a thing.
Perhaps :they felt ' this way because
they were . Just at that age where they
thought they knew all there was to know
and so felt very much bigger and more
important than they -were. Perhaps it
was because Mother Bear hever showed
fear of anything, so they had come to be
lieve that there, was nothing for Bears to
be afraid, of. ' I : ;
"Mother. Bear Isn't afraid of a. single
thing in all the Great World," declared
Woof -Woof one morning as. the twins
rested after a wrestling match.
' "And I don't suppose that big- black
Bear she says is Our father Is afraid of
.-anything in all the Great World, not a
single thing." added Boxeft, Of course,
he meant Buster Bear,
v ""Excepting Mother Bear," Woof-Woof
"reminded him.' K ; f
"That's so," admitted Boxer, remem4
tiering how Buster Bear had run from
Mother Bear the time he had chased -the
twins up a tree, not knowing they were
his own children, i
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What is it?" ventured Boxer at last.
as Mother Bear again stood up and i
sniffed.
"It would give me a funny feeling all
over to see Mother Bear afraid of any
thing," continued Woof-Woof. "I can't
imagine her afraid of a simcle thins-, not
pne. - Why, when we are with her I Just I
know that nothing can happen to us, no
matter if we, aren't grown up yet."
" It was that very afternoon that -Woof-
Woof noticed Mother Bear acting aueer-
ly. At least It seemed that way to Woof-
Woof and to Boxer, too. They didn't
know Just what to make of it, for they
hadn't seen her act that way before. The
twins had been hunting wild strawberries
along the edge of the Old Pasture where i
it joins the Green Forest. Mother Bear
had been sitting down watching them.
suddenly she put her head up and i
sniffed long and hard. Then she stood i
up on her hind feet and sniffed. For
what seemed to the twins ever and ever
so long she stood there sniffing the air
ana her race looked as if she smelled i
something she didn't like.
Of course, the twins did exactly as
Mother sear was doing, but though they
wrinkled up their funny little noses and
sniffed and sniffed they couldn't smell
anything unusual. Presently Mother
Bear dropped down and began to shuffle
about uneasily. Every few minutes she
would put her head up and sniff, and her
face wore a worried look. Two or three
times sne stood up as at first. Then I
when she dropped down to all fours she
walked about in that same uneasy man
ner. ':; '-.
; The twins forgot ! all about, straw
berries. It was plain that somethirfs
was making I her very uneasy, and so
they became uneasy. A queer feeling
very like fear crept over them. They
couian t uiBK or anything to be afraid 1
of, but. because Mother Bear, who never
reared anytning, seemed , worried, they
felt strangely anxious way down inside. I
So they kept close to Mother Bear's I
neeis. - - ., , . :
. ."What is itr ventured Boxer at last
as Mother Bear again stood up and
sniffed. ,-;ri- . - vsc ; '
"Nothing,' growled Mother Bear way
aown aeep m ner, throat. I think we'll
go back, in the Green Forest." , I
"There is something." whispered Boxer I
to Woof-Woof, as the twins shuffled
along at Mother Bear's heels. "She is
worried about something. I wonder what
it can be." But he didn't venture to ask
again. - .......
(CopyrteM.: 1921, by T. W. Barns)
The next story : "A Great Fear
opreaas. .i
Engineers Indorse,
Soldiers' Bonus!
Indorsement of the soldiers' ' bonus I
Thill tA Ka vnt. An t th. t . , I
. v. uw tK''' elec
tion.. Tuesday, and. of the measure va
cating certain jforuana streets - to facilitate-
'terminal development; - were 1
voted Monday by the executive board of
the American Association of Engineers. I
Oregon chapter. ..... The board, meeting in
uio association rooms in the Tiiford
building, debated both . measures and
unquaiixieoiy approved them as worthy
of the support of the membership, com
prising, a great - many of the slate's
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