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SATURDAY,' OCTOBER, 21, 1922.
THE OREGON - .DAILY: . JOURNAL, . PORTLAND, OREGON.
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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.)
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