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PAGE FOUR Tfc C2EGOII STATESMAN, Ss!Oigsa; S, 193 9: nt-s bfw- ---'"'"-y-Tr,:' i i t : I i E i I 1 ( f i if ! -J-f i 4 M - i 4 IF I i 'TsVFcror Straw Ifr; IVo Fear Shall Awe." Tram First Statesman March 28, 1SS1 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING 00. . CoUlcs A. Stsacub, SbxuOm P. Siaorr, PuifiaJUr Clucus A. Sfbacck Sbelboit F. Sackett 4 L Uesnber of the Imi T.i.iI m Is auMwtr cstltM t Hw a Dor aubU- eatlon all aewa dispatcher credited U'tt, or not etherlee credited U this paper. ...... Fadfie Coast Advertising Representatives: Jrtfcer W. Stypee. lac, Portland. Swnirtty Bid. -Se Vfeaacieco. Sharon Bide ; Loa Aacalea. W. Fac Elds. Eastern Advertising Representatives: VtoaVranoiw-Steehrr, Ine., New Tork, T1 afadt in Chicago. 60 N. Michigan Ave, Jr tared at the Posieffieeat Salem, Orepo, Seamd-Cla MattePubtvthed every neminf except Uondaj. aftttfmts effiee21$S. Commercial Street. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mat) CtobaeriptkNi Rate. in Adrance. WItMa Oregon ; Daily and Bandar. 1 ate. M eeata; 1 Ma. $!.; Ma. 1 year f 4 JOl Elaa- bm IS eeata per Ma. or S4.M for 1 rear in advance. By Oty Carrier i 10 centa a moatb: es.se a year as ad' Copy eeata On traiaa, aad News Stands S centa. Let the People Vote MAYOR Livesley has vetoed the ordinance? which would submit to the taxpayers of Salem a proposition to auth orize the issuance of $7,000 in bonds for an appraisal of the plant of the water company here preliminary to its purchase by the city. The mayor bases his veto on two grounds: First lack of interest on the part of the city. Second, the fact that the water company is expending large sums of money in an effort to meet the demands of Salem for better water. As to the first, it is true that citizens of Salem have shown a lack of interest in acquisition of the water plant; and part of this is due to the fact that at various times in the past when the matter has come up it has been blocked by a veto or by lethargy of some in positions of public re ; sponsibility. The public has come to fear that whatever it undertakes will be thwarted in some fashion, just as the present veto of the mayor blocks the initial move toward municipal ownership of the water -plant Submitting this proposition to the voters would be the real test of public in terest in the matter. We believe the response would show the mayor that the majority here are quite willing to invest $7000 in an appraisal. It may be granted as The Statesman has previously stat ed, that the water company is making large investments here. But any public utility operating under franchise and enjoy ing monopolistic privileges such as the water company does, makes those investments with the full realization that its enterprise may be taken over by the municipality which it serves. The law safeguards their property rights and so does the constitution; and the money which they soundly jnvest will be returned to them by the city as purchaser. When the water company enters the field it accepts these well known 'conditions. Therefore it is not unfair to the company to sub mit the matter covered in the ordinance .vetoed to the tax payers for their decision. The city council ought to pass the measure over the veto of the mayor, and submit the question to the people for then A Bridge at Umatilla THE Pendleton East Oregonian takes t very reasonable at titude respecting the routing of the Portland-Spokane traffic via Umatilla when it suggests Umatilla as the sensi ble site for the next bridge spanning the upper Columbia. Pendleton has been accused of fighting to hold this traffic around through its own city and up through eastern Wash ington. The East Oregonian frankly recognizes that Umatilla b the natural crossing for Portland-Spokane, travel and ad vocates a bridge rather than the construction of the WaUula Umatilla road which the bureau of public roads has ordered put on the highway map. As the East Oregonian says: "On the upper Columbia a brldg at Umatilla would answer more traffic problems than anything that could be derised. Umatilla is the natural . crossing point for Portland-Spokane travel and It is the natural crossing point for travel from Paget sound or the Yakima country and points east of Umatilla on the Oregon trail. The rushing business done by the ferries at Umatilla gives undisputed evidence of the situation. "If the bureau of public roads and the Oregon and Washington highway commissions really wish to serve interstate travel they will tester a bridge at Umatilla, building It themselves if they do not wish te wait for the Umatilla rapids project. "With a bridge at Umatilla the proposed Umatilla-Wallula road vould never be used by Spokane-Portland traffic because the other route would be shorter. The road Walla Walla and it would serve as way wnen mat is completed, me scaeme however looks to the di version of travel away from the Oregon trail and is not a rood thing for eastern Oregon. It is primarily a Washington move and it fa not good sense to use Oregon funds on such a proposal. The state f Washington is capable of paying for its own highway improve ments. Mothers will have to change my ooy to De auiea oy an automobile." For the motor car Is becom ing a greater menace than the machine gun. The present toll Is about 1C5 per week. In the four weeks aeains irom aaiomotme accidents. This seat the previous year's record dt js aeains. auio iaiaimes are now being recorded and re ported like car loadings and hank clearings. We orranlze health . drives against infectious diseases, and agitate for world peace but -alia Ar "Cofo.- TTi-ra ' - .. Y. - .1 . - Now Is the Mm a for nrrh.rrilat. fn m .tartt itii , v tag. The common complaint is that the growers know they ought to spray, but Just neglect to do the Job, It is fellows like that who clamor loudest for "farm relief. The farmer who does his Job, and aoes w ai me rigui ume, usually reaps satisfactory profits. Cherries used to be sprayed must be to Insure safety from the pests which have come to infest onr cherrr orrJiarda Thr t ' " excellent cherry crop this year; , iiivixriij iu ifvia iuse mrougu worms and liieq. Loyalty for home products n r.;, , r"VmBBUT' country, la to hot water. Here Is Portland, frankly discriminating in favor of Oregon made cement, because Oreroa haa anm fina it. . fine product. But the shipping I Vat a a 1 1 ST S a. S. mm.j iiiai. vuiinnia uireaiens retaliation against Oregon lumber Cal ifornia should eheer up: Oregon Isn't eating -its own oranges and f.r.usii, ft vi vuiuug ihvubi iron its own ou wells. Aside from one or two pet hobbles of doubtful value, afl candi dates for governor might .-wall announce a consolidated platform. They say Just about the same ridiculous thing In about the same sing-song way. What each of them reaUy means Is that he win. If elected, be the beat governor he knows hew to be. Perhaps some can ,didate will be snfart enough to run on a simple platform of that variety some day. LaGrande Observer. -'They sUll take editors seriously down in Mississippi. The mayor ff )hiJ?irn f?ot and kIUed tb the Tazoo paper because he had written him up on a charge of cattle stealing. The editor was true to the Instincts of his profession, however, because lie postponed dying long enough to tell his reporter to write "a full and unbiased account of the shooting." . s, :,. i " : - i , -We note that another big society wedding of a few years ago bat landed on the rocks. The wife alleges la her complaint that her husband has acted in a cold and repellent manner toward her and has told; her he has "lost all 'love and affection for her." Too bad too had. Often the bigger the church wedding' the bigger the smash In lirorce court, : , ? . ::. . a ' ' ' i -. . "', - ' . -!- I, . . i. T: ;S :, '. if J' , Yesterday's' SUtesman reported a sign up In the women's rest rooms la the new aUte office building, "No smoking." There seems to be no limit the reporters will go to te get jiews. . . . aBaaaaaaaeaaaaamwaeaaaBaaeB ' V . v. A11 the testimony x prohibition is dry enough by the time it Is read In the Congressional Record.' T Astoria charges Portland with trying to rob it of the Pinnish eoasulate. That would just about bo tbe finlthinks Astoria. - re ii it - - w EdUor-Mamager - Umeji-Xditer AMocUted wo -Id be of local importance to a link-up with the Lolo pass high the anti-war song to "I didn't raise ending Feb. 22; 78 cities reported " - w mmv y.vofrvfc LKJk mMM it's up to the growers to tend their that extends to boycott of outside interests taking lumber to California a . a mm The Safety Valve - - Letters from Statesman Reader - " Portland. Oregon, -rrr - April , If JO. i -. - .. .. To tho Editor:: . few day age a' writer wh slgnedThe nUme Votex sonde lst qulry In regard to those membera of ; the legislature who are naw candidates for office, aad who have not returned the expense) money obtained a the result of a bUl naased bv the 1S1T sesslom of the legislaturt, - This letter was published la the "Oregonian" April 1, The writer named two- of the : candidates tor. the office of governor wno caa enaer rerasea the monev er had returned it. nd asked -.-what about the others. Now this sUtement might lead voters to oellert all other can didates for governor had accepted tne moaey-.Tala is mot true. In nr case, X was not a member of thevi legislature in 1I2T, whom this bill passed. I was a member In 1125 and la list. In the 111 session I not only voted against the bill tor expense money, but led the fight against It. The 8alem Capita! Journal said. "the expense money bill for mem bers of the legislature waa tabled after Senator Bennett had opened a filibustering attack npoa The bill was afterwards passed with my vote against ft. I wish to say however, that my rote should not be considered a rote tor the small sum of .three dollars a day that the people are now paying their senators and representatives. I voted against it on principle alone. Tne legislators had no legal nor moral right to take something that the people had said they, could not have. I believe that the voters of Oregon should approve the constitutional amendment that will be presented to them In November. This pro vides compensation to the amount of 1600.00 for a two year term. Good government dependa up on the. absolute independence of the members of the legislature. This small sum of three dollars a day does not pay the expenses of the members, hence the poor man who goes there Is apt to fall a victim to the wiley lobbyist who takes it upon himself to buy the meals of these men. And human nature being what it is makes Independence of ac tion sometimes embarrassing to the legislator who has been be friended. I will say, however, that the vast majority, who go to the leg islature are above being thus in fluenced, but one vote Is some times a lot vt votes. The people In the Interest of good government should be will ing to at least pay the expeasea of the legislators. I voted against the bill and did not take the money. (Neither did any others as the law was held up by the courts.) But I here and now endorse the bill, increasing tne pay of the members of the legislature and ask the people not to be penny-wise and pond-foolish. J. E. BENNETT. Tt S Rat SnK fiaUm Editor Oregon Statesman Dear Sir: We see a lot in the uasers at this time of year about cleaning up xor appearance and health in the city. We in the rural district also see a lot of evidence of the same in the garbage, tin eans, etc. that are being dumped in our door yard and along the road side I suppose tor the same purpose. ir we snouid take a load of trash accumulated oa the farm and dump It In some one's, yard or even back alley In town we would be arrested before we could leave town. Yet town people will dump on our property within a few rods of our front door or in the drain ditch right against the highway. On Riverside road what could be one of the most beautiful drives In the county, the highway U marred and is still being made worse daily by these same clean up people. The same sight meets the eye of one fitting up the river by boat. What should be a beau-, tiful slope covered with trees, flowers and shrubbery is covered by heaps of rubbish. Some coun try places are posted with- signs "Please Don't Dump Garbage." Why should the farmer or own er of suburban homes need to post signs to keep his city neighbors from damaging his grounds? In the name of Justice and common decency something should be done to stop this practice. And if city people have any pride in their con duct that something should start in the city. Yours for a real clean up, XMRS. IRVTN SELBT. . Yesterdays ... Of Old Oregon Town Talks from The SUtes usem Ow Fathers Bead Aprils, lMa f- Master Fish Warden Tan Du sen says he is making prepare Uons for the state fish exhibit and practical demonstration in hatch- fery operations, which will be a nature at tbe Lewis and Clark fair this year. Residents of Highland addition win petition the city council, at its next meeting, for opening of Win ter street to Highland avenue. Other-street and brldsre matters prill come before the council. In cluding those for the proposed ce ment bridge over South Mill creek on Commercial. - - - - 4 ' H. Wyse Jones, formerly pastor of one of the large churches la Buffalo, N. Y whlcb he gave up to take the position f evangelist for Oregon, is holding services la the Baptist church is this city. . - r . Independence The I. O. O. T. hall at Buena Vlata, seven miles sooth of .this town, borned to tho ground. The lodge rooms, a ren- eral store and sostof flee 1 were housed in the two story structure. J : mi, Kr a I ' ir jf rl CHAPTER XLVUT Soon his moods, his work, lagge! and dropped far down. He refus ed stubbornly to do any more of the sketchy drawings and this in the very midst of a serial he was illustrating for "Artistry. "But you can't let them down this way," Ere told aim. "Half the story has run with that type of picture why, it Isn't ethical. Ken." "Ethical for me to be myself. Never wanted to do goofy stuff. Wouldn't have got caught with It it you hadnt butted in." She was angry. "You're an ap preciative critter after I eared the contract for you. Go your own way after this. If you think it's any fun keeping you down to! aartht" He was instantly contrite, rush ing over to put his arms' around her, begging her to forgive him. "sweet Eve what gets into me I don't know. ' You're wonderful, too good for a selfish beast. Ah. don't be mad with your old man" Her heart would melt! she would love him with a passion which took no thought of her self, her rights. He began to experiment with Idealistic little paintings. They might lead to something sometime but no magazine would use them as they were. This was Lilas Al oday's Health Talk i xy K. a. IWhXANU, ATL II. Senator from New Tork and Former Commissioner of Health, New York City OUR grandmothers were wise In their day and generation. They may not have known the scientific reasons tor doing many things, bnt they used good common sense in the making of a hme and protecting the family health. to give out, and your pillows, too, are the worse for wear, tt is about time to do something about It. Put the money you might spend on some luxury into the very necessary adjuncts of your sleeping Quarters. Mattresses should be made over comparatively often. O " Sometimes a new one will cost less than having one made over, but for sanitary reasons, if no other, your mattresses should be taken In hand at regular Inter This. , Sound sleep Is conducive to good health. You cannot sleep well without the comfort of good beds and warm enough coverings. Our grandmothers knew the value of sunlight and fresh air. They always - used to hang the bedding out-of-doors In the sun "to air." San has tte power ta kill germs of tuberculosis, of pneumonia, and many other dis- esaeaw,.. Cleanliness is the finest disin fectant known. Disease cannot resist cleanliness, fresh air and sunshine. It fa a'iood thinx to day that house-cleaning is a thing of weekly occurrence, rather than a "Spring-cleaning." as It was fa grandmother's day. - One should not orerlook tho . faet that the bed and springs should be washed thoroughly occasionally with good 1 soap and water ao as to remove WHO CAN GUESSITHE WEATHER? rH nn s's? BY WINIFRED VAN lan's Influence bearing fruit. And when he entrusted them to Eve to ' be mailed she watched her chance, hid them away and put In their place seme of the sketches he already had finished. Lilas had convinced him that he was too good for the work he was doing the work ererybody wanted. He babbled about commercialism, talked 'of the great masterg who. starved in poverty and went with out recognition till long aftee death. Nonsense wild, crazy, nonsense for a young fellow with a living to make, one who already had tasted success! Well, she couldn't let him go while he was la this frame of mind. If she were to break with Ken It would have to be at a time when he was on his feet, not heading straight for failure. She would have to stand by through this, no matter how it crushed her. . She would coax him Into the studio, hover about making little suggestions, praising, flattering, bullying. She would bring him steaming caps of coffee; fly to the telephone when it rang. Some times the dulcet drawl of Lilas would come over the wire. "May I speak to Kenneth? I've a suggestion about the matter we were speaking of yesterday. Sorry to interrupt, but .he'll under- How many there are today who overlook the importance of having the bedrooms-of the house exposed to the sunshine. - For those who lire in the city this is not always possible, but for those who are building a home this should be one of the first things to be thought of in its planning. We know now, from a scientific stand point, the real value of sunlight. 'But without knowing Just why. the earliest Greeks wor shiped It aad provided for living In it at all times. ' Perhaps the most Important thing In the life of man, along with proper food. Is good, restful sleep. When you have adequate sleep, you are building up vital energy and resistance to disease. You cannot have the right sort of sleep if you havent a comfortable bed. When your mat tress sags In the middle, your bed springs begin dirt and dust. Give the mattress a good dust ing and shaking out In the sun along with all the other bedding. If it Is a possible thing. Gems are everywhere present They thrive on dust and dirt. Florence Nightingale, that wonderful nurse of the Crimean War. said. to her nurses: "You cannot lock-in or lock-out the In fectious poison;, you .cannot wan out infection. You can air it oat, diffuse it and clean it sjrty. . Cleanliness and fresh air do not so much give life-aa they are lite itself to the patient. Cleanliness dean air,, clean water, clean surroundings and a fresh atmos phere everywhere are the true safeguards against lnfectloa.;. v N trouble M too great, to ex pend On having a sleeping-room that gives perfect comfort. Have sunshine If possible, make evert effort to hate it, (or yon are add ing, years to lite for yourself aad tor the various members of your family. An nfro DUZER stand." "Oh, I'm so sorry, Miss Allan." Ere would try to make her tone cordial and very regretful. 'You see he's busy now. Could I take the message?' "No-o-o " . "Well. I'U have him call yon when he stops for lunch. He's behind schedule, you , know hur rying to make up A cold little silence before Li las said good-bye. When Ere told him about the call he would fly to the phone, waste a precious half hour whis pering in an eager, intimate way. And Eve soon understood that this flirtation was different from any of the others. It was much more serious; not the play affair Flfl had made hers nor the shal low thing Puss South wick's had been. Lilas promised to pose tor a series of covers just as Ere knew she would. She came to the bun galow for this, always late, took a tons- time preparing herself be fore the studio mirror. But Ken showed no impatience, none of the fuming Irritation he exhibit ed when Eve held hhn up. And he gave a great deal of ttm to rest periods. Eve would hear them talking, laughing to gether. Lilas' drawl mingling with Ken's eager tone. Once when she entered unexpectedly she fancied they draw apart. They were sitting on a diran, leafing through a book -of sketches aad Ken's face was red though Lilas was cool enough, her mocking smile In her green eyes. Ken took to riding home wlfti" Lilas In the green roadster when she left in the early fall duskrHe explained somewhat sheepishly that he needed exercise; tt cleared his head, the walk back from Hill top House. And Eve made no an- swer. keeping her gase down. But after this she found ex cuses for staying away when Lflae Invited them to tea. It saved her something of humiliation since she. sat alone and neglected through these tea parties, draw ing a chance remark occasionally, patronising- ea the part t Lilas, half astounded, halt Irritated on tbe part 6t Ken. She would go ov er to tSonjr Wall when Ken left for Hilltop Bouse, light the can dles la the old pewter candle stands she had brought from Lakeriew, spend Jong hours fined .with peace if aot happiness. v- fiha had fceenn a maw nnl which she called ''Other. Women" ana wnite Ewe had no illusions about her WTttlnat ability, tht at. tempt at putting down the story o a negiect ea wue took up her thought, rave her- ha flfn that there was a place in the world for ner alter ail. - V. Christmas came and went with none of -the Old-fahfani1 ata bratton so dear to Eve's heart. And then . Lilas " Allan . invited everybody (a a waekmA - tanu. party .for New Tears which iell upon exrnaay. would begin with a fanev dreaa hall fiitard, lrh and they could sleep late if they wished next morning,- sauntering eown to breakfast and trailing off home whenever tancy dictated, i The tribe was stirred to excite menu Costumes were prepared, high " revelry anticipated From Kea Era 'learned tliat l.Vmm tif laid in a supply of . ; champagne. gin straignt ? . rrom Siontreal, Scotch smuggled up from a high priced rum-running outfit est Long Island. Her . spirit quailed before the eomfnt? dlar aavee had she felt so wearr. sa llttla in clined toward gayety. . "(To be ContlnuedX: BITS or By IL J. Tea china in Cincinnati (Eola:) Is Is Continuing the story of yester day. In Her book. "Path Break ing." published in 1114, Abigail Scott Dunlway said at the be ginning, of a' paragraph: "The following spring U855) found me In stalled as a dis trict .school teacher oa tho banks of the little river, Rlckreafl. nar Its j u n e t Ion with the wider Willamette. In the Tillage of B. J. Hendricks Eola, then known as Cincinnati, and looked upon for a time as a rival of the city of Salem." , w 1. "Path Breaking" was written as a book to give the history of the movement tor equal suffrage, In which Mrs. puntway waa a pi oneerand one of the great lead ers. In the Pacific northwest and in the whole nation, as all older readers know. But Mrs. 'Dunl way, in response to popular de mand, gave a sketch of her early life, interesting excerpts of which follow: "My parents, who were Ken tuckians by birth had first met as young people in the wilds of Il linois territory. They were mar ried October 22, 1830, in Pleas ant Grove, Tazewell county, Il linois, where they lived till March, 1852. when my father, be ing of an adventurous disposition, started, with his invalid wife and the nine surviving children of the family of 12, to travel with ox teams and covered wagons across the plains to Oregon. "e "I was horn October 22, 1834, Just four years after my parents' wedding day, I being the third of their rapidly Increasing family of a dozen, the eldest of whom had died in infancy, before the second child, a daughter, had seen the light. Their disappointment, when this second child was bocn a daughter, was severe; and when, about 17 months after, I was born. I remember that my mother informed me on my tenth birthday that her sorrow over my sex was almost to grievous to be borne. , . . How I learned to spell, read and recite bits of rhyme I do not know, though my busy mother must have taught me, Just as in after years I taught my own children the alphabet as soon as they were able to speak plainly, or could read and count the numer als of the eld Webster's elemen tary spelling book I had smug gled across the plains by stealth In an ox wagon when I was 17 years old. It was a little battered book that would have been de stroyed in the fir that consum ed our cabin and belongings In 1855. if it had not been loaned to a neighbor to whom I had taught the alphabet and to spell some easy words, which, after learning, she desired to teach her little children, as rapidly as she was able. Just what became of that little book, with its thumb worn pages and ragged corners, I do not know, but I would give a handsome price for it If I could get it now. a "The house of my birth, a lit tle story and a halt frame build ing, with a log build kitchen and loom house attached, stood a few hundred feet from the main high way, or lane, betweenPekla and Peoria, through which long lines of covered wagons were driven daily, tn spring and summer. la Sea wltn the evade belongings et emigrants bound for Missouri, at that time the anticipated goal of the restless path breakers who Indiana; and Illinois to plant for themselves new habitations in a newer west. I remember troops of barefoot children coming to our home at sundown, carrying hickory and walnut sticks to bear away the tire coals my mother kept covered with ashes for her own use at cooking time, and that she always had brands, or coals, at band t divide with the way farers in the lane. I must have been t or 10 years old when my father brought home the first looking stove I had ever seen. It was a huge, awkward affair, and my mother said it was more trouble to keep It in order tor baking than it was to do her cooking by the fireplace, as her neighbors did. V "I could not hare been more than 4 years eld. when a great sorrow befell my beloved paternal grandparents, in the unfortunate death of a brilliant and favored son, the younger and only brother of my father, who bad been sent to a high class university, la aa older state, where,: as too. often happens among-the sons of pio neers, he fen into eviL ways, and when under the Influence of in toxicants committed some petty crime tor ' which he was overtak en when escaping .from arrest, and whipped to death by the bor der ruffianism f the times, t have often though in later years that this tragedy mast have, hast ened my grandmother's death. Of one thing I am certain; it threw my grandfather and my father in to financial difficulties that drag ged them Into poverty and drove my father into bankruptcy. To satisfy his ' creditors, my father j gave up bis farm, where six chil dren had been born, and . moved to a village called Wesley, oa the banks of the Illinois river where he leased a aawmUl. spending a winter with his family in a well appointed, though tiny, steamboat j cabin ' of 1 several apartments, where the seventh living baby came te them. Our parlor kitchen coatained a heater, which wis al so -a cooking atove,. more modern than ' Its - predecessor - bnt the moat -1' remember about tt ) was that my younger brother, after wards known to tame as the great Oregon editor, Harvey W, Scott, sat out day - upon ;i the hearth to get warm aad narrowly escaped death, trom .which my older elster ana Z rescued, him with much effort.'. ' - .-"It was -while we were living la Wesley, that I made my maid en speech, never dreaming that I I BREAKFAST LLEIVU SICKS was doing an unwomanly thing. William Henry Harrison was the presidential candidate, . and. my father being an uncompromising! whig, I aatarally partook of his ardor. .-I-remember calling the village children together under the shade of a sycamore tree, where I climbed to a horizontal limb and harangued them about Tippecanoe and Tyler too. To this day I hare vivid recollections of that log cabin and hard cider campaign,' whch long ago passed Into history. - - ,"One raw, blustery morning It was the tth of March we old er children were called home from a neighbor's, where we had spent the night, and were conducted to our mother's bedside where wo were shown a baby elster. An other baby of only IS months lay In a trundle bed aear by, begging for mama,"who occupied, with, the newcomer; was weeping in ner helplessness aad begging, without avail, that the older baby should be brought to her. I am not pre tending to follow the events of my childhood, or , of this hostory, as they recur to me la chronological order, but I remember my return to the farm, the home of my birth, after our mother was able, or felt obliged to call herself able, to re sume her many cares. S U "I also recall a dapper looking business man from Pekln, our county seat, who had closed out my father's ownership of the farm, causing ns to gve it np and seek shelter la a log cabin, on . some land inherited from my grandfather; This visitor haugh tily demanded the return to the farm my father had lost, of many movable articles, and we children not understanding the Intricacies of the law, wondered, after he had departed from his bootless errand,' If the man were cloven footed, like a person of historical notoriety whom we called 'Old Splitfoot I do not remember how long it was, or whether be fore or after this, to us, unneces sary event, that one day when my mother was busy at the loom in an adjoining cabin, our little sis ter Catharine, afterwards known to fame In many useful ways, as wife, mother, widow, home mak er, teacher and editor (she was Mrs. Coburn for long years on the editorial force of the Portland Oregonian), toppled forwards from her chair and fell into tha fire. I remember my sister i and I trying to catch her as she tell, and, failing, joined a chorus of children's screaming voices and brought our agonized mother to the scene. To this day, I cannot recall this incident without a shudder.- My baby sister, too young to remember It, did not suffer after all, as we older ones did, who always felt that we ought to have known enough to have kept her away from the fire." (This will be concluded r row.) Editorial Comment Front Other Papers . HOW JTO BE HAPPY The Household Economic Coun cil Service whatever that may be advises husbands of grouchy wires to provide lots of springy turf on which their mates may romp. The news cornea -from Chicago where, one presumes, a supply of greensward aufflclent for effect ive wifely romping- may be some what lacking. And how may true domestic happiness be expected when one cannot turn the wife out to grass now and then? It might even be. argued that the absence of nice springy turf may have had somethlna' to da with tha unenvi able reputation that has come to oe Chicago's. In smaller . communities, of eonrse. aarh crfltMa Mnia hard. ly apply. Take Bead, for instance. wnere green lawns of admirable resiliency and ample extent pro vide every opportunity for romp ing. When we come to think of it tnat may explain the uniformly sweet temper and equable dispo sition which mar ha remarlrnd every time you meet a Bend wife. Tney may not be that way na turally, although we realise ruUy that to aunest eves this fa hem. sy, but by the time they have romped a bit oa the fresh grass and kept it up for years it Is apparent that .there can.be no lin gering trace of morosenesa. - There la an additional thought here which is worth noting, and a a . m mat is as to us manner lnwhich the romp may be conducted. Some ' wires might find it difficult tn step out from tha kitchen and do a romp without other Inducement than that of the romn itself, ka why not to the accompaniment ot ine la wa-mowers blithesome clat ter? It would be a pleasant sight truly. An inspiring, even a per- oyirutg Slgac. - - - And that' remlnda that wa- have eeea Bend wives pushing a lawn-mower, hither and Tflll ATM the grass, and until bow we have wonaered at the happiness which fairly trickled -front every feature. It waa bard tn pomnrohanil hB now we understand. They were romninr. f Mnru Bend Bulletin.. . - After A digs S-S of a ditch la 1H days, Jha calls la aa assistant and they finish it fa IK days more. In what time could the as sistant, have done It alone? Answer te Yesterday's Problem r . 10c. Explanation Take 6 per cent of 40 and S per cent of 60; add 40, SO, Z ; and ' 4.S; take per cent of 100; add to 100; sub tract lOStroav. los.8: rtbea . equals 40c and l ib. costs SOe. found by dividing .8 into 40c. 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