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i r SATURDAY,' OCTOBER, 21, 1922. THE OREGON - .DAILY: . JOURNAL, . PORTLAND, OREGON. I FalLWheat Helped r By Generous Rain , ;In-Inland Empire Spokane, Wash,, Oct 21. Inland Em pire fall wheat, endangered during the drought of the last tew- weeks, was the chief beneficiary of the rain' which f eH . Thursday night in Spokane- and Sn many nearby places. It was stated Friday by wheat companleaand grow ers' associations. In . seme districts south of Spokane wheat had begun to die because of lack of moisture, it was stated, but the rain will probably. In sure a good stand. At the offices of the Washington Wheat Growers' association it was re ported that many farmers had reported that- good rains had fallen in their districts. Similar reports were also received at the offices of Stephens Grain company and the Warmouth and Thorn Grain companies. The downpour was general fat Eastern Washington. "That's tba way of, it." T. Paer com plained. "When yeu see you're licked you Just clam up 'nd won't argue sane 'nd. reasonable." j - f. "They ain't namich. thing.. Ma told him positively "as arguing sane nd. reasonable about that nasty habit, - "Them ' fellahs," T. , Paer persisted, "are chief surgeons nd. they know what they're italkuv about they ear it's ell right for a fellah to chaw a, little long iaa he dont de It in the parlor 'nd spit la j the. fireplace." ; , , 7t; " "Ugh!" Ma shuddered.: You gfVe me the creeps -A- "They say." T-! Paer, continued Im placably, "chawln' makes fellahs clubby and mends nd Improves thai disposi tion ;rd preserve -the teeth." "'Nd 'the paper aays,V Ma" ;- shot at him, that they . waa all doing; It when they said If - -f--i- vr r r v.v; - That" "what made 'era chief sur geons." ! T Paerj argued; -j-borrowin" chaws ofra the president cf the road nd gertnV frlendly wlth him." - ri "sipose," Ma ; said sarcastically, "they "-was mader chief surgeons be cause they was expert in amputating the president's plug." r i TI ain't admittin' that much." T. Paer replied, but 'they ' aay chawln' helps a fellah to concentrate ndba a coo thin effect." - J. They ., concentrate, all right" Ma said disgustedly, " 'round a spittoon, like : bluebottles "round boiling' oab bage." . . " 'jw;: i '."fV' "Well. they ; ain't !.pftddHni gosstp 'round any pink teapot, anyway." T. Paer retorted. That's' one soothin ef fect about n. !jv.r -x"- '-i" w "Soothing effect V, Ma exclaimed. rA disgusting, nasty,, yellow tusked to bacco chewing male's got about as much -soothing effect on me as a five foott rattlesnake, nd jyou know, that ain't much." 'W- r: - They ain't no doubt but you're a little prejudiced." T. Paer grinned, ""but President Harding chaws a little once in a-while." : - - - -. '.'"X never voted for that "man." Ma an nounced, " nd ndw I'm gladder'n ever I didn't '( i . .;v,'.. '1NA look kf Torn Edison," T- Paer persisted. "He chaws :'nd lie's lit the world besides' InyenUn, the: phono graph." ! I don't believe it," Ma said positively. " nd anyway.MChe does he's did what he's did in spite of It, 'nd not because tNd," T. Paer argued, Vn I was dawrn gettin'iray teeth fixed Dob sai l my gooros'd be a lot better if I ciwci a j little now nd then, nd." he con clnded triumphantly. . ."you .think he'a all right, don't you?" : ' I fThat man's all right so far's fixing teeth's concerned." Ma observed icily, "but I ain't never' hired him to fix my mprala nd I don't think I ever would." & guess they ain't no ise," T. Iar sadly; "When you're sot against anything yqu're sot, nd that's all' they iate it.". - t H i i. '- j rif you're thinking or indulging- In that habit," Ma remarked ominously, "yoo'd better go get a introduction to (CopyrisbC 1922. by the CKrtety-Walrii . , - Syndicate) -'.-. STOKY C 3. i ECTtOPE continued to smoke and Virginia continued to rats! to- bacco. And soon ihere werenot enough laborers in the colony to look after all the work In the fields. It used to.be said of some of the in habitants of New Tortc's East Side that they were "Socialists until they owned a pushcart- . The former com munists of the "Borough of Raleigh," shipload of African negroes was brought to the new colony. ; Only 20 men had survived the Toyage, but these Were auctioned off to the theeo growers. They did not prove fruci cess and the planters soon returneo the una of "indented servants." Only when this supply gave out during the last 40 years of the 17th. century-did the importation of blade slaves become h first class business. And soon, the dealers in negro were almost as pros- WTVTHILB yoa -. ain't .doin nothln" W else,T. Paer suggested guile lessly as be handed the paper over to his helpmate, ? think you'd ought to read that piece In the middle of the third page."4 "What piece?" Ma asked, turning to the page indicated. "They's raore'a one In the middle." That one about chawln' tobacco, T. Paer indicated. . lt'd do you good to read it rd think about it a little." L "HunrptV Ma sniffed after a cursory glance a tj the heading. "I don't know as I want to-waate my time reading such trash." . ,- "Railroads have high priced lawyers nd doctors, don't they?" T. Paer de manded. "They've got the money to hire the best, ain't thet". -""Maybe tbey have." Ma admitted, "bat that don't make no difference to me" : 3 - ; : "if they're high priced; t.d the best that can be 1 hired," T. f Paer insisted argumentalively. "ttley ought to know what they're talkin aboat," oughtn't they?" "They oughjt to," Ma conceded! "but that's no sign they do5-"' : "I'll take their hjinch against same goat that ain't studied like they have," T, 4aer contended.- " nd look what they say about chawln a little once In a while.'- "I ain't looked," Ma retorted, "'nd what's more I ain't Intending to, eo they ain't no arguments about It. me rauroaa aoctor.ngni away. already know lone," T. Paer tola hir hODefullv. "Whvr . "Because." Ma told him quietly. -"if I ever find . yoa 'spitting 'round this ranch they's going to be a wreck on tlie main line, you take it fromjme." i CAtlFOSiAirS TO ABKIVE - Klamath Falls, Oct. A special train carrying the San Francisco cham ber Of commerce trade . excursion la scheduled to arr've this afternoon. The! return south will start early Sun day, j . " : -'it - ct VLm - - HEKDRIR. VAN LOON jLyqgBP when they discovered the profits to be derived from, their allotted three, acres, resigned their active membership in the well known Order of Knights of Rest and immediately became small scale capitalists. They sent ' glowing accounts of their great riches to the slums of the mother country. Many an honest man and woman was willing to accept a .voluntary slavery of two or three years that they might be able to cross the ocean and get their share of the easy tobacco money. The civic authorities of several cities also came to the rescue. Pickpockets and yegg men and unsuccessful second-story art ists were shipped to Virginia to clear the land of the forests. The inmates of foundling asylums were sent across the ocean that they might be benefited by the fresh air of the New WorJd and Incidentally cut down a few trees and . burn some underbrush for the kind em ployer whoi had sent their passage money to the institution which was in charge of their education. All -these people (both grown-ups and children) were classified as "indented servants." Many of them gained their liberty and then swelled the ranks of the tobacco CHAPTER 48. HE HAD not undressed, and he sat beside the table, smoking his pipe and reading his newspaper. Upon his forehead the lines in that old pattern, the historical map of his-troubles, had grown a Jit tie valuer lately ; relaxed " by the cornplaceneyirf' a man- who "not only finds his health restored, but seta the days before him promising once more a familiar routine that he has always liked to follow. As his wife came in, closing the door behind her, he looked up cheerfully. 'Well, mother," hq said, "what's the news downstairs?" "That's what I came to tell you," she informed him, grimly. Adams lowered j his newspaper to his knee and peered over his spectacles at her. She had remained by the door, standing, and the great greenish sha dow of the small lamp shade upon Ms table revealed her but dubiously. "Isn't everything all right?" lie asked. 'What's, the matter?" "Don't worry: I'm going to tell you," she said, her gTlriiness not relaxed. "There's matter enough, Virgil Adams. Matter enough to make m? sick; of being alive 1" With that, the markings on his brows began to emerge again in all their sharpness ; the old pattern reappeared. "Oh, my, my!" he lamented. "I thought maybe we were all going to settle down to a little peace for a while. What's it about how?" "It's about iAlice. Did you think it -was about me "or anything for myself?" Like some ready old machine, always In -order,, his irritability responded im mediately and automatically to her . emotion. "How in thunder could I (think what. it's about, or who lfs for? Say It and 'get it over!" "Oh, i' I'll 'say it,- she promised, ominously. "What I've come to ask you is. How much -longer do you expect Me to put up with that old man and his doings?" : ' "Whose doings? What old man?" She came at him, fiercely accusing. "You- know well enough what old man, Virgil Adams !. That old man who was here the others night." "Mr. Lamb?' "Yes; ."Mister Lamb.!" She mocked his voice. "What other old man would I be likely to mean, except J. A. Lamb?" j "What's he been doing- now?" her husband Inquired, satirically. "Wliere'd you get something new against him since the last time' you . "'Just this!" h cried.' "The other night, when that man was here." if Td known jhow he was. going to- make my child- suffer, I'd never have let him set his foot In my house." Au&ms iwwa own u (us cnair. as though her absurdity had eased his mind. "OH. I aee", he said. " TotTve fust gone plain craxy,.' That's the only ex-, plana Uon of Buch ' talk and it' suits the case." . : , showers. This constant change in the number and character of the laborers operated against the beet interests of the colony. It wan necessary to find a cheap sup ply of man-power elsewhere. The Span iards had experienced similar diffi culties. They -had tried to make the Indians work for them. But the Indian, being a proud man (after his- own fashion), preferred death,, in the open to death in a gold nftne and -the harder he was - pressed and oppressed the sooner he died. To save ihe reinnants of the Indian tribes a kind priest had then suggested that negroes be brought from" Africa to supply the necessary horsepower. And as the negro (in those ignorant days) was not exactly regarded as a human being, the philan thropists of that day encouraged the substitution of the black labor for red labor. A dozen years after the foun dation of Jamestown a similar experi ment was made in Virginia. Jtr was in the year 1619 that the first perous as the planters of tobacco and the distillers of the famous Colonial rum. (To be continued Monday.) tOPYstlGRT 19 BOTBLOAY abeajgMewt wit h ma. tnmCtxt "Hasn't that man made us ali puf fer every day of our lives?" she de manded. "I'd like to know why it is that my life and my children's lives have to be sacrificed to him? "How are they "sacrificed to him?" "Because you keep on -working "fori him ! Because- you keep on letting him hand out whatever miserable littte pit tance he chooses to give you ; that's why! It's as If he were some horrible old Juggernaut and I had to see my children's own father throwing them under the wheels to keep him satis fled." j "I won't hear any more such stuff!" Lifting his paper, Adams affected to read, "You'd better listen to me," she ad monished him. "You might be sorry you didn't, in cape he ever tried to set loot ,in my house again ! I might tell him to his face what I think of him." At this. Adams slapped the news paper down upon, his knee. "Oh, the devil ! "What's it matter what you think of him?" "It had better matter to you !" she cried. "Do you suppose I'm going to submit fore'ver to him and his family and what they're doing to my hild?" "What are h and his family doing to "your childl?" Mrs. Adams came out wlth.it. "That snippy little Henrietta Lamb has al ways snubbed Alice every time she's ever had the chance. She's followed the lead of the other girls ; they've al ways all of 'era been jealous of Alice because she dared to try and be happy, and because she's showier and better looking than they are, even though you do give her only abouSS cents a year to do it on ! They've 'all done every thing on earth they could to drive the young men away from her and belittle her to 'em: and this mean little-Henrietta Lamb's been the worst of the whole crowd to Alice, evry time she could see a chance." "What for?" Adams asked, incredulously.- "Why should she or anybody else pick on Alice?" " "Why?' "What for?" " his wife re peated with a greater vehemence. "Do you ask me such a thing as that? Do you really want to know?" "Yes ; Td want to know X would if I believed it." Then I'll tell you," she said in a cold fury. "It's- on account of you. Virgil, and nothing else in the world." t He hooted at her. "Oh, yes! These girls don't like me, so they pick on Alice." v . " . . (To be continued Monday.) BRAIN TESTS By "Sam Loyd Two Mlaates to Answer This ' Spell out the names of the little ob jects. Then add and subtract as in dicated by the signs and the resulting letters will spell the name of a foreign city. THEM DAYS IS GONE FOREVERBooIa, Boolar BRINGING r UP FATHER tBtittwi v. otnc I By George McManua I cms't ntso Jtcr;b AxIsvwhcre:- j I oh: whelre. o m oear HutaCAjso-J K I f V 1 TcRE" h1 ' I voOR. 1 1 i I 1 I X 'IHOPEHE HAWTOONEANY I'LU rpRlVE HIM I IF HE'LL QtHt-V C 4 ) l 1 vS.SEST "i I PUrV ! I W tKtt THIN DEtiPIRATE 0UtT aerCAOSC COME W5g r" rftfAN.r-' J SlfSIuXl t J T- J V M:SH ( 11 V - "A IN w Jkv lUssael'-ir -''.-'.'-I O UA 1 KRAZY KAT ' I WAD A0 ,50 MUSICAL, ABIE THE AGENT X H, W,yS- i arose exKJ.Vas V f UAJrnt, TOM n3 I fttDOSAJ KEWSlHl icym s& a I . W l 3 I I - I m TS f -w a - I I - wrwnr. 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