The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, June 20, 1920, Image 20

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Newspaper Page Text8 THH cmEK)N HTATKSMA. niAIii. .11 Ml . l!ri. O. HENRY and AL. JENNINGS r . . ; i The Bandit's Astonishing Tale of the Story King An Amazing Eevelation With a Thrill in Every Chapter Chnrxed with Human Inter ami K mot Ion, TliU Virile, Uynamic Io-ii-rm-nt Flahe with All I lie (mmhI un Ktil in Human Nature. It Start ling Chapter HImmm lluming Mant -Cpon Hit-- of ihe Awful Crime of Civilization, the HaibaroUH Cruelly of the IViiitentiary in Which ltoth Were Confined. (Copyriahted; right to publish secuicd by Tho S;awmiin and the Pacific i ' ""t Homestead) I wen slipping in the mud. The raw kiodii- of ftnp'.e that wind t-iit to the iKine. It i-i - J rer-. and . t'f (ttej. .She hap a terrible and ss bitter a jour-; mother to me. ney as a woman ever too j 1 Over lite lhin Poverty in lfl . - I ! StIhmmmt Wago. r Cabin t'luirtu. -j ; On the old schooner JCn I was born in a fno heap and started aero the together reared in a barn. They puked my, Near the iittle town 01 I- j i u t a. , mother up and carried her in a rivktr Colo., came the catastrophe that ( eld cart to the mountains. Jack and wrecked my existence. ) Zeb, the two oldest, had eit tiinr Al rwi; pot lold of some whi nsnlokr .-linmr Ihrnnfh tho matt ' " rey. We stopped for the nlcht in A ooilnun answered. J . itiie iuiut oi I n- prairie, i ne iM-an were hoilini: on the open fire 11 into ' he lutre hun-'lhf elite .t Ihr l-ral ie. We ala? nbU laik. Th- woman !. Lark .id when the started to scisy How. I ran. u.- , . . ... She cam - out. h.od up the tejm 1 wa "lrl ol the lrk. alri-i -...t I . .lamninf In h-r lltlMKtOI toe . I rnjm ...... aud the kiU'a. "Johnny, ret otir dd; .ntr to lave. ' hh. sj.U. .1.,,,- on the prlri- Ub I re ro- i hhe pH-ln-l ' msf. rl.lnwM up on .e irn -ad dfoe off. Jls m sl.nif on the prtn ltb th inaiti t I. - i. ..I . .l ! lif I . . . I nrrr im w ... h. iho'irht had t U r5er-0 "ON WITH THE DANCE TIU It ! Th kid didn't want l leave me. I tartetl lo co. It was r-ninr t'r- I Continued Bell Suada 'Read the Classified Ads. CH. ITKIl OXK (Copywrlght. 1919. by Al Jennings) A wilderness of snow wind tear ing like a ruffian throught the whit silence the bleak pines setting up a sudden roar a woman and four children hurrying through the waste. And abruptly the woman stumb ling exhausted against a little fence corner and the four children screaming in terror at the strangt haw calamity Chat 'had them. The woman was my four Ihijdren. the oleest S. youngest 2, were my was born there in that fencf corner flight from Hon. the Tennessee planta in the snow in Tazwell county. Vir glnla. November 20. 1862. My brothers ran wild through the Hig Tlasin of Durke's Gardens, crying for help. My mother lay there in a fainting collapse from her five days' l-eave Ktrrytliin$! Warning t' Courier. The I'ni in soldiers were swooping down on our plantation. My father. John Jennings, was a colonel in th Confederate army. He sent a cour ier warning my mother to leave everything, to take the children and to cross, ihe border into Virginia. The old home would-be fired by the ) rebel soldiers to prevent occupation overtaken j by Union troops. I A few of the old negroes left with mother the' her. They were but an hour on the the road. They lookea uacK. i ne pian- brothers. I Station was in tames, ai me mjui the trtgntenea aaricies uea. .ny mother and the four youngsters went on. Sixty miles they tramped, half walking. i.nd always beset with alarms. Frank wns so little he had to be carried. Sometimes they were knee deep in slush, sometimes they BUY FROM A Reliable Dealer if 4 i- The loft of an old log cabin church in the Hlue Kidge mountain was our home in lhoe hungry years of the Civil war. We had nothing but toverty. There was never enough to at. We heard no word from our father. Suddenly in t $6T he returned and we moved to Mar- iontown. III. 1 remember our home there. I temember our habitual starvation. We lived in an empty tobacco bam. There wa hardly a stick of furni ture in the place. Frank and I used to run wild about the bare rooms. I know that I was always longing and dreaming of good things to eat. Before the war my father was a physician. A little sign on our barn tempted a few patients to try his skill and gradually he built up a meagre practice. All at once, it seemed his reputation grew and he became quite a figure in the town He had never studied law. but h was elected district attorney. It was as thonga a fairy charm had been cast over ns. And then my mother died. It broke the spell. Mm Va Too valked up to the fire, looked t K t a ft r rt " 11 -i n .an - 1 I . l i. . . . . : ' arleu, anu aicaeu in- uiunr the grouud. Without a word his wife took up the frving pan and Wat him over the head. I!e went out rold. I The kid and I had to run out lo A FEW SPECIALS THIS WEEK FOR Fruit Growers, Attention IVd truck 'liflrgahiH in llht.nwaels with ImhUps ari.l ttO) license frc. All cars guaranteed as represented. It u better to ltty a ptm relmilt truek than a elicap new one Our earn are thoroughly overhauled and relmilt. BARGAIN LIST . 1920 Maxwell Pane! Uody delivery, with goml tires $700 Maxwell 1-ton with good. stake' body and tour brand new tires, overhauled and guaranteed, f Low price of ...'. .- ....?1UW Republic 1-ton with gool IkmIv and tires, overhauled and guaranteed. Low price of $1250 Republic 1-ton with goml body and top, good tires. This one is like new. Overhauled and guaranteed $1650 Republic 2V-:-ton with brand new tires, overhauled and guaranteed.- Low price of . . ... . .$2250 nethleheirt 2Mj-ton, used sixty days, just like new. Low . price of......................... .$2600 Long, TSasy Terms to Responsible Parties W. H. fflLDEBRADT & CO. ' j Republic Truck Distributor MARION COUNTY POLK COUNTY 279 North Commercial Street "BUY FROM A RELIABLE DEAJLER" Wc are Selling out bur line of ' AUTOMOBILE TRAILERS ; :, ::''p": ' :-:. -.' '. .... . f ... . . At pricei that every farmer and fruit grower cannot afford to overlook Strong to (Yitnplain. There was something grim and fighting and stubborn about her. In all the misery of our pinched day I never heard her complain. She was perhaps, too strong. When she died it was like the tearing up of a prop. The home went to pieces. Frank and 1 were Ihe youncrst. A pair of stray dogs we were, grub bing about in the alleys, bunking in the top floor of an old storehouse earning our living by Catherine coal off, the sandbars of Ihe Ohio river. We sold it for 10 cents a bushel. Sometimes we made as much as l." cents in two days. Then we would stuff ourselves with pies and dough nuts, l anally our dinner was an uncertain and moveable feast. No body troubled about ns. Notxnly lold us what to do or what-to avoiL W were our ijn law. , We were little savages fighting to survive. Nothing in our lives made us aware of any obligations to oth ers. It waj hardly an ideal environ ment wherein to raise law respect ing citizens. That's Paw! He's Asleep Out There! My father tried to keep some sort of a home tor us. hut he was oftfu away for weeks at a time. One night Frank met me at the river. His eyes stuck out like a cat's in the dark. He grabbed me by the coat and made me run along with him. IU stopped, suddenly and pointed to a great black lump huddled against the door of Sbrlebers store. "That's paw." he said. 'He's asleep out there." Shame like a hot wave swept over me. I wanted to get hira away. I was fond of him and I didnt want the people in the town to know. I ran op and caught him by the shoul der. "Paw, get, get up,' 1 whispered He sat up. his face stupid with sleep. Then he saw me and struck' out a furious blok that ent.me reeling; to the curb. White hot with anger and hurt affection. I got up and ran like a little maniac to the river. I threw myself on the sandbar and beat the grcund in a fury of resent ment. I was crashed and enraged. I wanted to get away, to strike out alone. I knew the boats like a river rat. They were loading freight. I crawled in among the boxes of the old Fleet wood and I got to Cincinnati as for lorn and wretched as any runaway kid. Reduce Weight Easily Now Do too wish to become slender. graceful, healthier, happier f El U you need, but cnew your food thoroughly, and be happy while toUowintf easy Korein tvstem oo tainabie in bos at drug store. Purposed to aid in reducing tat in any oart ot the body. Reduce whatever you need UU to 60 lbs.) under SIOOOQ money -refund guarantee or no cost to you. - Reduce pursy abdo men, double chin, large limbs, obese hips and other overstout parts of the body. Even a tew days ol Korein system nounced ) has been reported to show noticeable reduction in weight. No thyroid, no exhausting exerewe, no starvation dieting, no mbus emtt t ertort kmi wwtltnd ovtvrr6 b thr -bm. f-atroa tiew !. (to ifcia m-r and im.W- Bsfw sM At :pro- - ' " i i t j - ' 'MBVfeBsssMHBSaB7 ; 1 2 Vhe l Solid Tire Trailer, l'i tires, capacity 750 pounds: . . .$ 60.00 2 Wheel Solid Tire Trailer, 1:H tires, capacity 12.r0 jwunds. .$ 80.00 2 Wheel Solid Tire Trailer, 2 tires, capacity 200p pounds $105.00 4 WThccl Pneumatic, Tire Trailer, 30x3 tires capacity 1500. .$175-00 " " - : - - , n - , , -J -.. . - - Get busy at once while our stock is complete i DISTRIBUTORS J SALEM. OREGON CCD Worked Like Slave And Itefued Pay. Out I was a little cranky. I made r.p my mind to be a musician. I could play the trombone. The Volks theater, a cheap beer garden, took me on. I worked llxe a slave for tour days. Saturday night I went around to the manager and asked for ray pay. I was starved?-' I had only eaten what I could pick up. For four days I had haunted the saloon lunch counters. 1 used to sneak In. grab a sandwich, duck. grab, anotbei and get kicked out. "You mangy little ragamuffin." the manager swore, with more oaths than I had ever heard before. "Get out of here!" He knocked me against the wall. I had an old bulldog pistol. I fired at him and ran. The shot went wild. I saw that. but I saw. too. that I had lo run. I didn't sotp until I had climbed onto a blind baggage car bound for St. Ixms. Then I crept into a hog car. mi lid f Via hav no jl .1 I until I was dumped off at the stock yards In Kansas City. Fight Win Home la the Stockyard. It was tht first time I was on the dodge. It is an ugly thing for a boy of 11 to attempt -murder, but self protection was the only law I knew. Society might shelter other young sters. I had to fight for almost every crust I bad ever eaten. I was forced to take the law In my own hands or le beaten down by the Vaunt poverty tbat warped my early life. It was a fight that won me a brief home at the stockyards. I had a wrap with the kid terror of the shambles. We foaght to a finish. Grown men stood about and shouted with laughter: Blood streamed from my nose and mouth. The fight was a draw. The terror's father came over and shook my hand. I went home with them and stayed for a month. The kid and I would have died for each other in a week. We cleaned ou every othr youngster in the yard. 'The kid's mother, slovenly and In twv eiaMawa r Ihe t- ti M HMterflowi f fcralthv f d0iiw t" irdvnri Kx. Crt K.. huv a mail boa kxrm St bwT dru Wor. Vmw (tors lbs aMitcrftOTM-it. $1 Broom c 3 cans Carotene Milk 3c 4 pounds Fine Walnuts 9c 2 packages Jiffy Jell 29c Tillamook Cheese, per pound 34c Bird Seed, per package Nut Butter, per pound 33c4 Fancy Rice, 3 pounds 33c COOKIES, per pound 24c English Breakfast Tea, per pound 37c High Grade Coffee, per pound 29c Krinkle Corn Flakes, per package 10c Best Grade Peanut Butter, per.pound 19c WE SAVE YOU MONEY FARMERS CASH STORE . ' C Burton Durdall ) 247 North Commercial Street 247 Two Big Stores SALEM and S1LVERT0N 1 mmow Starts off with Big Rush. New Bargains and extra help put on for fcsBliliMiBSSWWBSl Get in line and get your pair as we are having the biggest rush of the season. Prices that have caused the bis rush , THE SEASON'S LATEST Ladies black or brown Oxford, all this season's styles, hij;h or military heels. Long pointed toes. All widths. Bought to sell at $11.00; now $7.95 LATEST STYLE PUMPS $10.00 and $12.00 black kid Pumps. Some with $.1.50 buck les, others plain high or military heels, and priced $6.95 WHITE CANVAS OXFORDS Ladies' white canvas Oxfords, high or low heels, covered hels. Our regular $G.OO values. $3.95 CHILDREN'S SHOES Children's brown calf shoes, blucher lace, sizes 8 tn 121 and 13 to 2. Our regular $3 shoe $2.95 THEPRICEy SefcrSW htturft Pitta OJ .tJlaN4r M&943ss kdtvr'.s 326 State StrWUfl5cA3Ji AN ECONOMICAL BUY Choose from an assorted lot of black kid and paUmt leather Shoes, button. All sizes in the loL Cuban and Military hrel. These were regular $. and $C Shoes. $2.95 ONE LOT LADIES' BLACK KID SHOES One lot T-lie' lllaek Ki.l S1hh-. Ijce ut t.titton. Tu- ltn. Military r 1juis heel.. All i.r. in lot. Our reg ular $G.OO and $7.00 value. 53.95 HANAN SHOES $4.95 A rare bargain for women with small feet. Harun blick kid Shoes, lice or button, small sixes only. High or lovr heels. These are worth $12.00 and $15 00. Special 54.95 MEN'S ELK BALS 500 pairs Men's Brown Elk Bals. The mot comfort able dry weather hoc made. Cot at the factory at present, $3.50. u ill go during this sale at 52.65 SHOES AT HALF PRICE Odd lot, broken lines. Men's black and brown Calf Shoes. All sizes in the lot. $10 and $12 values 55.95 MEN'S BLACK CALF BLUCHER LACE SHOES Wide toe. All sizes. Our regular $10 Shoes in stock 56.95 LADIES' BROWN SHOES New Brown t'alf Vamp, Cloth Top Sho. Cuban or Louts heels, lace, pointed toes, late U$U. Our regular $10 sellers. 55.95 WOMEN'S JULIET HOUSE SHOES Ladies' rtfBlar $4 CO first rndt black kid. belting soles, f oUy guar- ax teed Houm Etoes at $3.95 MISSES' DRESS SHOES Fine soft mahogany calf dm show, sixes IP.; to 2. Sold reg ularly at $6.00. are now $3.95 YOUTH'S DRESS SHOES Youth's black calf blucher lace shes for school or dress wear. Sixes 11 to 2. Ilegular $4JW $3.65 BOYS' DRESS SHOES Boys' Kick calf brtcter bvtt shoes, for school cr dxtsa wear. Sixes 2'x to 5 Vs. rtpdsr $iC-3 $3.95 VtVllUSt twMaas a,i tut 1 IC Z2t ttCeHXtljcil temperate as she was, had the sunny