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8b c (Bteaon Statesman Issned Dally Except Monday by - THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING OOMPAJTY 215 8. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon (Portland Office, C27 Board of Trade Building. Phone Automatic T 627-59 MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tn Associated Press is exclnslTely entitled to the use for repub lication or all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. . , Manager Managing Editor Cashier .Manager Job Dept. R. J. Hendricks...... Stephen A. Stone.. .. Ralph Glorer . ....... Frank Jaskoskl i TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23. Circulation Department, SSZ. Job Department, 683. Society Editor, 106. Entered at the Postoffice in Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. reason to believe that the expectancy of the rising genera tion will be increased to sirty-five years. When one reads of so many accidents and deaths of vio lence the outlook for the future seems discouraging; so it is genuinely refreshing to discover that, with all our faults, we are still living longer and getting more out of life than our forebears. AFTER 3IANY YEARS hoover ixe doxt gorman, dize: AMERICANS LIVE LONG AND WELL ; Americans live longer, on the average, than any other people, according to the mortuary tables of the great life insurance companies And they get more solid enjoyment out of life. The expectancy of American life rose from forty years in 1855 to fifty-one years in 1910. In no other country has such an increase been recorded and no other people has an expec tancy as great as fifty years. As there can be no effect without a contributary and compelling cause, the question naturally arises why the present generation should be living longer and getting more enjoyment out of life than any that has gone before. -.-. ! Some of the statisticians have attributed the higher death rate in European and Asiatic countries to overcrowd ing in the great centers of population. But there is vastly more overcrowding in this country than in 1855, and yet the span of life is increasing. Other statisticians assert that the Americans are of a sturdier stock than any of the Eu ropean peoples; but one is confronted again by the counter argument that nearly all Americans are of European stock and that .our longevity cannot be accounted for by heredity. 1 One scientist has taken 4he increased expectancy in the United States for. a thesis in which he disserts on the su periority of mixed bloods, holding that every people which holds itself aloof , from others impoverishes its blood and passes into decadence.' Many other theories have been ad vanced, none of which are acceptable to the actuaries, and they are still searching. ' In order to solve this somewhat perplexing problem it will be necessary to consider what advantages we possess over the generation of 1855. There Jias been no improvement in ' the stock during the last fifty years, but there have been undeniable improvements in sanitation, medical science and in the average standards of living. Fifty years ago the southern half of the United States was ravaged almost every summer by yellow and typhoid fevers. They claimed a heavy toll of life and thus reduced the average expectancy.. Municipal sanitation, isolation and improved medical treatment have reduced the loss of life from typhoid at least 70 per cent ; while the eradication of the yellow fever mosquito has practically driven that scourge from the country. Wealth is more equally distributed in the United States than elsewhere and the per capita average is higher. There Is perhaps Jess grinding , poverty here than in any other equally populous country. The average wage paid to the workers is higher and their families are able to have more of the comforts and conveniences of home life than the work ers of other countries.' ' Worry shortens life and Americans as a class are less inclined to fret and be cast down than the residents of other countries. The average American is an optimist, and the stitisticians agree that optimism tends to prolong life ; yet we are not more inclined to optimism than the generation of 1855. t . During the last twenty years a great deal has been writ ten about the waste of nervous energy in this country and its effect on the duration of life. If all that has been said about the increase in the number of persons afflicted with nervous diseases were true our expectancy would be falling in place of rising. We live faster than our ancestors; but wo also live longer. According to the actiMCries, there is They built the Marion county courthouse so well that it is to undergo interior changes for the first time in 25 years. In Auld Lang Syne, somebody conceived and planned a structure that matches well a city that has been constantly growing more beautifuL As you pass through the heart of Salem, you hear the comment of strangers on the beauty of I the place, and as the courthouse comes into view through the coach window, it invariably shares in the favorable comment. It is not often that the sightliness of a building stands the flight of time arid the demands of progress. It is not often that a growing city is fortunate enough to have a public building that keeps pace with it in its progress to wards municipal sightliness. But this is true of the Marion county courthouse m spite of the tragedies of severed family ties, broken marriages, murder trials, disastrous litigation and the thousands of heartaches that are staged under the roof of the official building of a shire city. Portland Journal. HANDS ACROSS THE SEA The former Democratic presidential candidate forfeits! consistency when he attacks the Washington conference. No friend of the League of Nations can logically find fault with the work of the Washington meeting. It might easily be an extension of the business of the League. The League would have been proud toTiave it conducted under its auspices. The Washington treaty is an argument for rather than against the big League and history will so consider it Los Angeles Times. 1 Price of wheat going up. No farm bloc will attempt to block this rise. The b'g Armour packing plant lost millions of dollare by the drop in the prices of their commodities. Is nobody In the world making any money but Henry Ford? What is there in a name? Ig natius T. Lincoln, an internation al spy, is again in the toils of the law. Imagins a man named Lin coln in such a dirty business! The Opportunity Edition, the annual edition of The Statesman, will be the Friday Daily. Not too ate yet 4or your announcement, f you have been overlooked. The signatures of nine nations guarantee the open door to China. That distinguished American sec retary of state, John Hay, drove the entering wsdgs 20 years ago. It is worse to buy bootleg whiskey than to sell it. The per son who buys it risks his life and health, while he who sells only gets arrested and pays a lawyer. Los Angeles Times. Former Governor Cox disap proves of the arms conference that has Just adjourned in Wash ington. Hut it will be recalled that he did not like the result of ths last presidential election, either. It is believed that the peace and arms parley agreements will slip through the senate with but little opposition; that the bitter enders, headed by Johnson and Borah. ;will not cut much con gealed moisture. Ths Dyer now before crimes under diction what anti-lynching bill, congress, makes the federal juris would have been cognizable only by state courts. Any person who participates in a lynching may be imprisoned for life and for not less than five years. But nobody can be con victed of a crime, even in a fede ral court, without the verdict of a jury of the vicinage. That is always to be remembered. FUTURE DATES February 13. Wednesday Annual meeting and election of Marion County Federation, Commercial club. February 15. Wednesday Company F smoker at Armory. February IS to 19 inelntlrfr State Christian Endeavor ronyastion. February 1H. Saturday Salem pranje meets at Labor I'nion hall. February 20. 21 and 22 Contrition of State Retail Dealers aasociation at Koseburg. February 21, Tuesday Con Tent ion of Oregon Retail Clothiers' association in Salem. February 21, Tuesday John D. Micfcle to addreaa South Salem Parent-teacher association at Leslie Methodist church. February 21 and 22 Tuesday and Wednesday, Apollo; club in concert with Gideon Hicks and Gertrufo Hunteley Green, pianist. February 22. Wednesday Seventeenth anniversary program by Rotarians at Marion hotel. February 22, Wednesday Washing ton's birthday. February 27, Monday- Professor -fames Matthews, Waller hall lecture, "Love. Corrtsbip and Marriasc'" March 2, Thursday Annual Elks Elec tion. Marrh 1719 Meeting of county Sun day school convention in Salem. March 17, 18 and 19 Marion county Sundav school convention, Salem, April 16 to 23 "Better Music" week in Salem. April 16, Sunday Easter. May 19. Friday Primary election. June 29-30, July 1 Convention of Orrjron Fire Chiefs' association at Marsh field. July 3 and 4 Monday and Tuesday. State convention of Artisans at Wood burn. September 21, 22 and 23 Pendleton ronnd-np. November 7, Tuesday General elec t ion. Says Herman J. Stich in the Los Angeles Times: I picked up a headline ' in a newspaper a day or so back which tells me that a learned college proressor has just discovered that Am?ricans d'e of overeating and not of old age or overwork Well. I discovered th same thing about 10 years ago. but for eTot to mention it. even though I had in mind Emerson's warning. "Speak your thoughts today or tomorrow you may hear them from the lips of another." Nevertheless, the college pro fessor is right. Gluttony writes more obituar ies than starvation. Feasting is far and away more dangerous than fasting. When your belly's your god, your idol's of clay; Liv ing the cormorant doesn't pay. The stomach is the master o; the house and must be respected. Health is symmetry, upbuilding; disease is deformity, destruction. Both are the result mainly of what we ,eat. Food is fuel. Improper or ex cessive fuel checks the flames and chokes the human furnace start ing auto-intoxication, complica tions of the kidneys, nervous in digestion and premature old ace This fact was long ago recog nized by the ancients who crys tallized it in the exhortation, "Eat to live -don't live to eat." Human beings, like armies, sub sist and fight on their stomachs. Your dinner pail is your greatest asset or a hopeless liability. Food makes or mars your career helps make it big or cuts it short. Failure and curtailed life fin.i poor pickings among well balanc ed diets. Cramming to kill a slight crav ing is as intelligent as swinging a trip hammer to drive tacks. (ireasy, acidy, richly spiced pal ate tickler's are sure to take their toll in ill-health, debility and in efficiency. At the summons of necessity you would die for your family or your country. How much more sensible to live for them by eat ing wisely while eating well? You are playing a losing game when you play a good knife and folk, a blow in your income on a blow-out. Would you add at least 13 years to your life? Take this tip - HOOVERIZE, DON'S GORMANDIZE! man who Is paying $100 a month for the rent of a $40 house will hardly give three cheers at the i approach of another rent day. The sponsors of the new calen dar have considerable work be fore them if they expect the world to accept their program in its en tirety. The temptation of an other month of spring is not sufficient. BITS FOR BREAKFAST i i oritt By MARGUERITE GLEESON Last week was smile week If you overlooked it you can cel ebrate this week, and all the rest of the weeks of the year, with pleasure and profit to yourself and your neighbors. S H President Harding is up against the real thing in the matter of de ciding how to provide the money for the proposed bonus and ship subsidy legislation. He will be "damned if he does j and damned if he don t oy , some people: by many. The dl- j lemma has several horns, and if the chief executive gets by with this problem, he will be acclaimed a real genius. L L "Everything points to a revival of trade in the near future," is a statement in the current weekly financial letter of Henry Clews, the Wall Street authority. s s s One of the observers at the Washington conierence tells bow the delegates all called for Pre mier Rriand of France, after Sec retary Hughes had made his epochal address, and how II- liam Jennings Bryan, who was present as a reporter, smilingly arose and was about to make a few epoch marking utterances on his own part when a friend pull ed him by the coat tails and made him sit down The similarity oi the names was a bit confusing. but none of the delegates wanted to waste any time on an outsider. iCHOOTi TODY aVFOKTi HTTMOB PLAT WORK HACK TO DUST Science lias finally answered tneundrum of what becomes of all the pins. It seems that they disintegrate and return to dust again. Stick a pin in your onion patch and in 347 days it will have disappeared entirely. Hairpins are even shorter-lived. A hairpin lying, in the open and exposed to tne elements will become neKii gible in 154 days. It does seem that everything made by man re turns in time to the dust of which he himself is composed. BURNING QUESTIONS Copyright, 1022, Associated Editors The Biggest little Paper in the World Edited by John H. Millar r REAL.WRESTUNG LESSON 3 1 Z ' By FRED MEYER 175 and Heavyweight Champion Amateur Wrestler of the United L States - Much of your success in wrest ling depends upon the strength of your neck. For instance, if you lUaye 'strong neck it is possible ior you to resist to a degree the force of your opponent's arm when he tries the half nelson on you. -.'.' If your neck is not strong, you will want to strengthen it, of course. The "wrestler's bridge" is about the best method of doing this that I know. It is shown on the left side of the picture print ed above. Lie down on your back with a pillow or something else Tery soft under your head. Fold .your "nis across your chest. Draw S'our knees up, keeping your feet ou the tloor. Then raise .your body, off the floor, bracing your self on your feet and your head "which should be turned as far back as possible. Be careful not to turn it so far back that the cords of the neck are strained. ; Practice "Br'dgts- Dally. Hold this position for a minute and then lower your body. Re peat the exercise several times a Jay and within a abort time the trength of your neck will he really Increased. -The- wrestler's bridge may bo used to save yourself from be ing "downed" in a match. As you know, a wrestler is "down" when both his shoulders are square on the mat. By using the bridge when your opponent has thrown you on your back you can gain a moment' in which to plan a course of procedure. It is not a difficult matter to roll out of a dangerous pos'tlon by getting up on the bridge and rolling your body to one side or the other. Another exercise I recommend for you is the one shown on the right side of the picture. It will .strengthen the muscles of your buck and abdomen. Get dowu on your knees. Fold your arms. Bend your body as far back as you can. Then come to an erect position on your knees, Do this four or five times a day. Your wrestling costume should be as light" as possible. Your gym naslum suit is satisfactory. It is quite possible, of course, to wres tie in the clothes you wear to school. Wear Rubber-Soled Shoe - I recommend ; high gymnasium shoes Instead of slippers which are advised, fpo, for the hooks may scratch your opponent badly. And if you wear a belt, do not wear one with a buckle. The buckle may scratch your man. And speaking of scratches: It isn.'t considered good sportsman ship in wresting to scratch pur posely the man you are wrestling with, nor to poke your elbows in to his face and body, nor to rub your knuckles across his face. For your own good and the Kood of the boy you wrestle with, don't try strangle holds, nor holds that result in flying fails. In the first case you may cause your op ponent to 'becotme unconscious, and in the second, the fall may result in broken bones. We want no unconscious. boys nor broken bones in this city as the result of wrestling matches. (Another article by Mr. Meyer will be printed next week.) do not have hooks for the lacos ONE REEL YARNS I JINGLE BELLS "There's nothing grander in all the world than sleigh riding! sans Neva. "And there's nobody any nicer than Mr. Park," chorused the rest. Mr. Talk stood in the doorway, waiting for them, while old Maude was out in front, shaking her head so that the little , bells tinkled merrily. Mr. Park ad stopped to ask the young Wickers to go sleigh-riding. And now," he said, when they, were all inside, "we have one more stop the Jackson house." But when they got to the Jacksan house they found their party was not to be increased. Little Buster Jackson had been very sick. His mother said he rausn't go. Out they ran to the sleigh again. As they went to limb in. Neva looked back and saw Bus ter's face against the window. Tears were running down his ter. You an stop for me when you come back." Back she went Into the house. "I came back to go sleigh . ridins with you. Buster," she said. "Come on." As he helped won deringly. they put two chairs side by side, then two more in back. Another chair was put quite a ways up in front. They borrowed Mrs. Jackson's dinner-bell. Buster rang the "jingle bells," and they were "off" in their "sleigh." The tears dried on the little fel low's cheeks, as he and Neva chat tered gaily about the places they were passing. It' seemed a very short time before the real sleigh was back. "I had a nice time, really," said Neva, as she climbed in again. "And you're going to have a nicer one," smiled Mr. Park. "I've phoned your mother and you're going to drive out in the country with me for dinner." checks. "I don't think VI go rid- filv milled oil Shoes thaLl ing this time." Neva said. "I'm going to stay and play with Bus- TODAY'S PUZZLE Curtail a surface and leave a verb; curtail to wither and leave a body of water: curtail to per ceive by touch and leave a doc tor's payment: curtail a French word for "friend" and leave a form of "to be;" curtail to jump and leave a pasture; then use the letters you have curtailed to spell the name of a month. Solution tomorrow. Jane Addams says that if the United States does not take part in the Genoa conference Uncle Sam should venture into some in ternational gathering long enough to explain to the peoples of cen tral Europe why it is that Ameri can farmers are burning corn while they are starving to death over there. That is something it might be hard and embarrassing for Uncle Sam to explain, and the interpretation would not help Eu rope very much, at that. have some troubles we wish to keep to ourselves. CHANGING THE CAIJONDAK Humors Come to the Surface in the spring as in no other season. They don't run themselves all off that way, however, but mostly re main in th esystem. Hood's Sar- saparilla removes them, wards off danger, makes good health sure. Adv. I HIT ID MY HUSBAND Adele Garrison's New Fhase of REVELATIONS OF A WIFE A SERIES of fi card parties are being planned by the 25 women be'onging to Mrs. Charles K. Spaulding's division of the Salem Women's club which is working for funds toward a Salem Women's Community building. Three of the parties will K given within the next few weeks, ac cording to the plans of the com mittee which met yesterday with Mrs. Spaulding. Tha division has been divided into five groups headed by Mrs. Spaulding. Mrs. Lawrence T. Har ris. Mrs. E. Cooke Patton. Mrs. T. C. Smith and Mrs. T. B. Kay. Two of the groups plan to give at lawn card party and so these will be given later In the season. Other wornm belonging to Mrs. Spaulding's division are Mrs. R. E. Lee Steiner. Mrs. John McNary. Mrs. Lenta Westacot, Mrs. E. L. Tililnghast. Mrs. Ben Olcott. Mrs. Joseph Baumgartner, Mrs. Louis Lachmund. Mrs. David Eyre. Mrs. T. A. Llvesly, Mrs. C. N. Roberts. Mrs. Fred Klein, Mrs. R. K. Page, Mrs. W. F. Spencer. Mrs. Clifford Brown, Mrs. Robert Downing. Mrs. John Evans. Mrs. Arthur Moore. Mrs. Roy MUls. Mtb. Sey mour Jones, and Mrs. Wallace Irwin. Mrs. Spaulding served refresh ments following the committee meeting. 45- Mrs. J). C. Locke entertained with a charming Valentine party vesterday afternoon at her home in th3 Court apartments. Four tables of cards were enjoyed by the guests and delicious refresm ments were served by the hostess. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mills enter tained with a supper party follow ing the Monday Night Dancing club Monday evening. Those in cluded for the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Spaulding, Dr. and Mrs. Charles Bate and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Johnson. . -X- The T.. A. club of the senior high bchool with the alumnae members will hold their formal dance in the Marion hotel Satur day evening. Patrons and patron esses will be Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. West and Dr. and Mrs. L. F. Griffith. w , - Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Read of Portland were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Y. W. Fawk over the weekend. Yamhill, Washington. Polk. Mar ion. Linn. Lane, Benton. Lincoln. Clatsop. Tillamook and Columbia coSnties. Sessions will be held In the morning, afternoon and eve ning. Of PrtnclI inwrest be the visit to the children s farm home, which the Oregon union will establish three miles e ast or Corvallls. between Conrallla and Albany. The farm eon1"? acres. It is hoped that sufficient money will be avaiianie so lu.v the home will be ready to receive children by early summer. Mrs. Mary L. Mallett. state president of the union, will give the keynote address in the morn ing. There will le talks by Mrs. Madge J. Mears. state correspond ing secretary; Mrs. Lottie Ilan non. Rtate superintendent; Mr. Ada Wallace Unruh. campaign di rector of the children's farm hoini project; Mrs. Mina L. Epley. on good literature; Miss Mary C. Wylie and others. President W. J. Kerr of Oregon Agricultural college, will speak in the evening on "What Our College Promises for the Farm Home.." Folk lore tales will be featured at the meeting of the story telling section of the arts league this evening. The group will meet at 8 o'clock In the library. Stories will be told by Mrs. S. R. Nlchol pon. Miss Merle Root and Miss M. Chapter. ' J There are those who would re form the year. An organization has been created which has for its purpose the remodeling of the calendar. They would have 13 months where 12 grew before. This is a good deal like taking a 10 per cent profit out of noth ing. The 'Liberty Calendar asso ciation has prepared a measure for the action or congress which would establish the new idea. The plan is to have the months all alike. There would be a new one every four weeks and notable days would always recur on tho same anniversary. Of course the Fourth of July would always be the Fourth of July, but it would always be on the same day of the week. Easter Sunday would always be on the 99th day of th? year. Of course, there would be an extra day every four years, but this would be called Ieap Year day. and would come after J.iuue 2S. The extra month would' be credited to spring, and it is proposed to call it Vern meaning vernal, or springlike and green. It would be a fine thing to have another, month of spring every year. Likewise a man who is getting $300 a month would be glad to have one more month for his rake-off. but unfortunately the plan works both ways. The CHAPTER 297 THE THOUGHT THAT TROU BLED MADGE AFTER THE BRA1TIIWAITES LEFT. The Braithwaites left the next morning, Harriet's face swept clear of the lines which had shadowed it for so many months. Her big, genial husband was wholly ignorant or the little dra ma which had been played around him as the central tigure. ana would always remain in ignorance of it. There was no possible ob stacle now to their finishing up their days in perfect comradeship and understanding which had al ways characterized their union. Their train was an early one. so I had Katie get them a special breakfast, thus avoiding any fur ther meeting between them and Jack and Katherine. Jack had behaved, wonderfully at last, but I thought there was no use tempt, ing fate when matters could be so easily arranged. "Good-by," the big doctor boomed, as he wrung my hand at parting. "You're just about the finest little hostess going. I nev er had a better time in my life." His wife said nothing, but the grip of her arms as they went around me and the kiss she gave me told me hat my august sister-in-law would not forget the small part I had had in clearing up the problem which had given her so much anguished speculation, and that 1 had made a friend woriu having. Dicky's Comment. I confess that I dreaded meet ing Katherine that morning. The evening before, after Jack's ex plosion and apology, there had been no chance for me to see Katherine alone. Dr. Braith waite and Dicky had seized the conversational ball and had kept it in the air all through dinner and the evening following. It took the keenest attention of ev- erv one to follow them a state ot affairs which I suspected both men meant to bring about. With out dreaming of that which lay beneath the surface, they sensed a strained and dynamic situation, and exerted all tlioir diplomatic powers, no mean possession in either of them, to ease matters. "Didn't your husband cover himself with glory tonight?." Dicky had demanded when, after ushering our guests to their rooms, my husband and 1 strolled across the lawn to the room .Mrs. Durkee had put at our disposal while our own home was so crowded with guests. "Inried you did and I thank you." I had responded demurely. Madge's Resolution. "Say. weren't you absorbed with grief tonight because you hadn't copped dear Jack long ago when he was siuiffly about you?" This was Dicky's next remark, so boyish in its whimsicality that 1 overlooked thp coarseness of the reference. "There's a delicate considerate iad for you. tiriii I he stage a n'ce jealou perform ance there with old Edwin? J never did anything as bad as that, now did I?" I wonderad if his conscience had been prodded by the sight of Mr. and Mrs. It. E. Nadon of Hanlsburg are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Eckerline Sr. CLUBS AND WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES The Oman's Christian Tem perance Union will hold its first regional conference tomorrow in Corvallis. Women will be present from Multnomah. Clackamas CLUB CALKXDAH Today Story Telling Section, arts, league, library, 8 p. m. St. Monica's Altar Hoclety. ' sewing. Mrs. E. T. Thompson 1543 North Capitol etreet. West Central circle, Mrs. J. A. Patterson, 679 North High street. ' Lucy Anna Lee clrcla, Mrs. F. A. Legge. 1499 State street. South East. Mrs. E. J. -Bwafford, 190 South Seven- teenth street. Yew park, Mrs. Reigelman, 940 Mill street. Naomi circle. Mrs. M. C. Findley, 225 North Twenti- eth street. East Central circle, Mrs. E. T. Barnes. 325 North Cap- itol. Thursrtiir P. E. O. with Mrs. William McGllchrlst. Sr. Friday Women's Alliance of Unl- tartan church with Mrs. C. 8. Hamilton. 2:30. Women's Union of Congre- gational church, at church. " D. I. Sewing for soclated Charities, with Mrs. K. T. " Thompson, 1545 North Capl- tol street. . Saturday . ... The Salem Grange, Union hall. D. A. R.. Miss Frances UK " chards. Lausanne hall. " W. R. C. corps meetinj,' McCornack hall. Jack's ridiculous exhibition, and knew that I must answer h's query with care. "Of course not. goose!" 1 said soothingly, equezzing his arm, and hastened to change the sub ject with a comment upon the fraMtv of Katherine's appearance. "She'll look worse than that by the time she gets through humor ing that gink.". Dicky returned. and I saw that the old animosity against Jack was peeping through the layer of liking which he had carefully built up for my brother cousin after the signal service Jack had done for him. "Take It from me, old dear. Katherine's the kind of girl who breaks under heartache. And the queer thing about it is that Jack's simply mad about her. But he'll kill her with that icy-I-am-8upreme-let-no- one-dispute-me-manner. Somebody ought to kick some sense Into him. f would If I knew him well enough." I did not reply, for I surmised that Dicky meant me by the vague "somebody" he had mentioned, and I certainly did not pee my way clear to "kicking sense into Jack." But I resolved to watch matters carefully during the few days they were with us, and if the opportunity, offered to do my best to serve Katherine. My opportunity, however, would of course, be predicated upon Ka therine's attitude toward me. 1 had read forgiveness in her eyes at the end or Harriet Braith .waite's explanation tha evening before, but no one knew better than I how different a thing might s"em in the exaltation of an emo tional moment, as welched against tne cold viewpoint of solitude and introspection. Therefore I wait ed my first sight of Katherine with trepidation. But I need not have feared. She met me at breakfast with th sam sweet, friendly light In her eyes, and at the first opportunity drew me aside. Ter girl," she said, "please don't let yesterday troub'e you any more. I'll admit I felt a lit tle resentful toward you for a Ht tlr while, but there isn't a shred of it left. F realize Just whv von did it, and It is all right. And I do think perhaps Mrs. Braithwaite was right. Jack seems so different Bince so much kinder." She turned away hurriedly, and I hnew that she was angry at herspir for the Implication she had let slip that her husband wa not always kind. And the resolve 1 had made to talk to Jack was strengthened by the sight of her dismay. (To be continued) state his declaration as a candi date for the Republican nomina tion for circuit Judge from the 20th judicial district, comprising Clatsop and Columbia counties. His slogan is "Strict enforce ment of law. Justice to all alike. Saving of public funds." His platform reads as follows: "Devote my entire time and rt fention to the duties or the orfice and will at all times enforce the constituTon and laws of the Unit ed States and of the state of Ore gon impartially." OUCH. LAME BACK RUB LUMBAGO OA UCHE'llY K'dncys cause backache? No! Listen! Your backache is caused by lumbago, sciatica, or a strain, and the quickest relief Is sooth ing, penetrating St. Jacobs Oil. 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