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PACE FOUR
The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon. Friday Morninjr. October 1931
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Chemical
Action !
of Soil
L, ..... vl J
i t Hoover Leadership i
CRITICISED for "not doing; anything" President Hoover
now is speared by such papers a3 the Capital Journal for
I what he does attempt to do in setting a cusoruereu lu
rights. This papers says "The Hoover remedy, is a pamaxne,
not a cureall". The president made no statement that his
plans lor economic renei weie. m ny j 1
were designed to assist in solving some of the acute problems
of the situation, to stop hysteria.to promote confidence and
to encourage orderly progress in the world's economic life.
His action of last summer was a stroke which did much to
save central Europe; his action of thi3 weeK may wen ena
the erosion of values which has been in progress for some
months. . i ,
Conditions have been likened to the strain and stress of
war. In wartime the executive is entitled to the hearty sup
port of the public whom he has been chosen to serve. In the
present instance Mr. Hoover is the leader. He has not shirk
ed hi resnonsibilitv. has sought the best counsel, has labored
long hours daily to fight the battle through to' victory. That
many times the battle nas gone against mm is not aaequaie
proof either of his incapacity or of his lack of judgment. He
would no doubt be among the first to admit that he had erred
as to the permanence of our 1923 prosperity. The present, is
no time for rocking the boat nor making partisan capital out
of human distress. ;
. As the Spokesman-Review says in commenting upon the
Hoover program: .
"Hers is an opportunity for critics of President Hoover to
Shine; to confound him. if they know how to confound him. Let
them devise a better plan; or. If failing tn that, drop petty par
tisanship and Join with others who will help the president form
ulate a program and are giving now their earnest thought and
their resources to its fulfillment." , -
"The times are out of jointf' and any one in pow r gets
the blame for the condition. But the fair-minded critic must
admit that the president is now laboring heroically to bring
back normal business, and should join in supporting his plan
even though it is not advertised as a "cure-all" for all our
troubles. i j
The Governors Illness
THE Bend Bulletin calls for an authoritative statement re
garding the condition of Gov. Julius L.. Meier. It com
ments on the fact that while first he was said to be "needing
rest' there have been rumors afloat that he was much more
seriously ill, and concludes: I .
"Whatever the governor's condition is, there will be
only sympathy for him and for the members of his family,
but. the time has come for taking the public into the confi
dence of the sick room." !
Like the Bulletin we have heard that the governor was a
"very sick man"; and then the next man who came along
would sav he had called on the governor, found him looking
well, in good spirits, and able to transact business, i
Gov.' Meier has been ill. just how ill the public has not
been informed; but the Bulletin's concern hardly seems nec
essary. It is recalled that a snooping committee was once
appointed by the senate of the United States to enter the bed
room of Pres. Wilson to find out just how ili he was. The peo
ple of Oregon regardless of party are naturally concerned
witlt tne heaitn or tne cniei executive, ma wisn ior uuu
early restoration of full vigor and his return to his office.
iUl we see nine to ue gauieu uj uuv-iut o uuucuu
tlie public mind or for official business of the state.
The governor's illness proves to have been more ser
ious than was anticipated at first, and latterly was compli
cated through his contracting a bad cold ; but lie has been able
' to"diseharge the important responsibilities of his office from
his sickroom, and his recent Tigor has confounded the rumor
congers who wishfully djigajjrayfor him.
Another Big Name
ANOTHER "big business man" of Portland is named to
the highway commission, J. C. Ainsworth, 1 who is the
big town's leading banker. He thus is a successor to previous
Portland tycoons who served on the highways commission:
John B. Yeon, Simon Benson, Henry B. Van Duzer. Ains
worth has long been interested in highway work and has
been a supporter of Oregon's program of r ad building.
Whether Mr. Ainsworth has the time to devote to the
job may be doubted. He is head of the'largest bank in the
state, and is constantly called on for public and semi-public
tasks in that connection. The appointment is one of doubtful
wisdom so far as actual work, on the highway board is con-
. cerned. The most of the papers of the state and leading cit
izens will I fall over themselves in acclaiming the new com
missioner, being chiefly worshippers of big names.
We do not see that Gov. Meier has! solved his own prob
lem. The problem is Commissioner Spauldingr who was ap
pointed to the commission to "carry out! the mandate". Shift
ing from Van Duzer to Ainsworth is no indication of how the
governor wants the commission to function. In fact it would
seem to continue the stalemate. Spaulding should either be
made highOman on the commission or given a new set of in
structions. The whole controversy as we see it was largely be
cause of the governor's own dilemma ; and until he shows hjs
hand definitely the highway work will suffer from blind
staggers. "'i , ; .
- Br C. C. DAtJER, M.D.
Marion County Dept. of Healcto
The upper layers of the soil;
max i be looked upon aa a huge
chemical laboratory, which tor
thousands o i
rears, day la
aad day out,!
has carried on
the same type
of chemical re
actions. . utilix
Inz the ' cam):
basic materials:
and, producing
the same ulti
mate end prod-
nets, chemical
in nature but
visible to us in
the foliage .of
all plant life,
This 'process
nr. a. a. Dane consists primar
ily in breaking up dead plant and
animal tissues and making the
final prod acts available to plants
and is known as the nitrogen
cycle. It is absolutely dependent
upon certain soil; bacterial as its
destructive chemists and upon the
higher plants as its construction
chemists
Man and all life, whether ani
mal or plant, is dependent en
tirely upon this scavenger . func
tion of the soil, i Without I it me
world would shortly become clut
tered with dead an$l diseased car
casses to the great detriment of
the living. Without available plant
foods, the vegetable kingdom
would, of necessity, die add man
and the lower animals could not
Ions survive. The nitrogen cycle
takes place in the upper few! inches
of the soil' where bacteria are
most abundant. Below the level of
six or seven feet bacteria are com
paratively rare and soil action Jt
therefore slight. I
Soil Bacteria! numerous
The number of I bacteria I in the
soil is almost beyond comprehen
sion and it is safe! to say that the
majority of all bacteria are to be
found in the soil
I HERE'S HOW
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-me wap toaL
Neveft end
fOQ THEM
By EDSON
mm iv w - sm ,m -i i . w r-" jm
f K,.& C3 WALKED H
In,4!!!
I ft ' Nelt.laie J&Vr i'
Wt S I
"The Czarina's Rubies"
500 WORLD WAR VETERANS IN A SpeQal wncjHTAi
WASHINGTON. D. C. ARE NORMAL BY DAV BUT FIGHT THE
WAR ALL OVER AGAIN IN THEIR DREAMS EVERY NIGHT
Tomorrow; "A Runway of Gold"
I RfeAD THIS FIRST -II
Frank Severn, hat been kid
naped from his country home,
Beggar's Court, apparently by!
persons trying to steal the' fabu-i
loos and sinister Ctarina rubles.
Severn's friend, Jim Wynter, en4
lists j the help of Bill Orlyaon, a
lawyer, and they search the
grounds, discovering a secret stair
way and a locked door In thi
ruins of an ancient chapeL While
they plan to force the door a wall
collapses, burying it uadef tons
of masonry. They suspect Martin;
a servant of Severn's, of dynamic
Ing the wall. They begin to doubt!
else the sincerity of Sant, Severn
attorney. -
- In a village nearby they meet
aa ex-convict, Ilaham. who walk!
with j crutches. Also they encoun-f
ter a mysterious Dr. Martelij
whose presence Martin, the seri
vant, tries for some reason to con
ceal7 . .- , -
Grayson's wife and Katharine
Faring, to whom the rubies rlghti
fully belong by inheritance from
her Russian grandfather; return;
to London while the two men plan
to search Beggar's Court again at j
nlghtj Wynter discovers Ilshaml
ms i . ii
uis crutcues iaia asige, examining
a motorboat In a bbathouse. Mar
tin and a thug named Trome try
to shoot Wynter, who outwits and
captures - them- In;, the library;
Wynter finds an unsigned Letter
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uupra iu uinjseu, wmcn some
one has opened and hidden away.
BITS for BREAKFAST
-By R. J. HENDRICKS-
The Thomas Cox marker:
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When the Thomas Cox tablet
was unveiled on Tuesday. Sep
tember 29th, showing- the loca-j
tlon of salem's first store and
postof f ice, at the northeast - cor-
Thls is not sur-1 ner of Commercial and Terry
prising, when one! considers that J streets, there was present at the
the force of gravity tends to bring
most obpects ultimately into con
tact with the soil and that the
surface of the earth is a huge
dumping.-ground for all manner of
wastes. I
It Is well that!
ceremonies Thurston Thomas,
grandson of Frederick- Thomas,
who constructed the first store
building in Portland. The Thom
as family lives In Portland. The
father of Mrs. Thomas was Jo
seph Cox of Mehama, who was a
nephew of Thomas Cor, whe
the soil is so
nlentifullv suDnlied with I these
saprophytic (non-pathogenic,) bac-J started the first store in Salem.
teria, since it Is a huge task to i im T
bring about decomposition j of all I One of the most remarkable
dead animal and vegetable mat-lfacta concerning the start in r of
ter ana to prepare in ior luo yiama j saiem'a first store was touched
to synthesize into more complex UDO, 4t the services of dedication
chemical materials, f Fortunately I Ia tna address of Burt Brown
for man. almost all of the bac
teria in the soil under ordinary
conditions are saprophytic, j -
No nathogenic bacterium choos
es to live in tne son. Decause
Barker, but It was not stressed.
The bringing of the stock of goods
for the store across the plains ia
13 wagons drawn by ox teams in
1P47 was a remarkable feat. But
growth conditions there are de- whea the summlt 0f the ' Cas-
cidedly unfavorable for pathogen
ic bacteria. Those that do get into
the soil, such as some tuberculosis
germs, some typhoid germs, and
some tetanus iiockj&wj germs
among others, are out of; their
natural habitat and in the sou
cades on the old Barlow route was
reached by the wagon train, the
snow was too deep to allow furth
er progress with the heavily-
loaded wagons. Then came the
most remarkable part of the
afX rtJTnw hrzan- h001 .expedition, showing the re
are simply conumlnating prgan-r . Thrtmn rn w
J . M .It Sak t a aa M sh m tk 9 A
isms, ui ait lucac, uw icwumj u lm,la. .iu u. .u .. tisu
anthrax germ, seem best equipped ""K
br nature with their spore forma
tion to withstand the unfavorable
wagons carrying the families and
the household goods, and when
conditions found in their new re- Eh houL of Ph"i?-T.08!!1!'
pository. The tuberculosis gern
and others perish rather quickly
when exposed to the germicidal
forces of nature In the soli;
settler, was reached. In the foot
hills east of Oregon City, Thomas
pox left the light wagons there
and hurried ahead on horseback
in search of his two brothers, who
had come to the Oregon country
the year before. He found them in
the settlement not far from the
New Views
i t
Yesterday Statesman, reporters
asked this question: "What do you
think of Van Duter resignation
aa Ainsworth' appointment to
the state highway commission?"
B. O. Van Slyke, printer! "X
den't know much about Ains
worth! Van Duser was a good
, man- a mighty good man."
'Jasnee Preble, Jotirnalistt "I
thlaJc Ainsworth Is a good man.
Obviously he had agreed before
taking the appointment to favor
the shortcut road to the sea, and
the widening and straightening of
the pacific highway."
"I think Mr. Van Duzer la a very
fine man. ' I don't know Mr. Ainsworth"
J. iTscfaamtz, farmer: "Don't
know either, man, but I'm inter
ested la seeing the best roads pos
sible for the least tax money. The
man whe can do that is the man
for me."
R. W. ariles, service station pro
prietor! "it presents a queer, sit
uation, Ainsworth is a very close
friend of Van Dussr. I think he
will carry out the Van Duzer
Plans. There will be two mem
bers of the commission working
together.
XL & fttlh, grovr?ri getUag pretty hot for Van Duzer.
Whtt health problems na rout If
the sbovs srticis rslses say qnettlon ia
Tonr mind, writs thst aasstioa out sna
J!S " -Xl site of the city of Sllverton. They
soswer win sopear is tni comma, nanc i neipea ineir orotner la maaing up
nonii d iti. oi a Dack train of 80 Indian nonlea.
with their Indian packers with
experience In the task in which
they were, to take part. Within a
few days . this cavalcade was at
the summit, where the roods were
an loaded onto the ponies and
brought put over the rough and
difficult pioneer road, across
Yesterdays
... Of ; Old Salem
Town Talks from The States
man ef Earlier Days
streams that had to be forded,
and on to the then village of 11
MwraTMnav hAiiaAM Vavma. Get.
October 9, 190 . " "vT. ..." . 177....
TniatiTunmnvr T V i 1 i .-oui. . .u armxm .uww-
firiiw Mti W th. P.na. ihlT short tlme' considering that
finally decided that the Panama I th A.tM nt th. AA4,-
canal shall be completed by con-1 .
rV ZTlnLROOSVJlt nnA b three days from the Urn
to visit the Isthmus this fall. ti,. ...v i. if
wu v awsavw aesjsa. . a au a. a m w
nmmfl ff T f vl sv amvawaw Ytn
. m - I eUUItUtta AM SUSS. a A W M W 1 S
The largest shark ever seen in I ,, -t.,. z .
Yaqulna hay jras captured by two taring the conditions and dlffl
glllnetters there recently. The Lnlt, -.fcinv
t v V iVt rtts rrS f ks rf tVtM Trt Q I j ' .
k""""' i ;"t 7"" ben a mistake la dates. Perhaps
eauuK variety, was ww iwng i htk f ttntr ifr n T,
ana weignea aooui, iuv pounus. hoot-: norther 17 1S4T. wa- for
li rf ass. w i at rm man. frAtn tfiA mtAlt
TILLAMOOK The map of the,, .v- mmit ta. -ft-
I-"" bu mhW arrival at the site of Salem.
is believed to be for an electric
line from Forest prove to. Tilla
mook has been placed on file in
the county clerk's office, j v
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October 0. 1921
The "High Haft bandit staged
his third holdup within six days
here last night when he held, tip
four young men and women near
the Grant school and secured 4
from one of his victims.
Any way, the packing1 -of the stock
O- -O
ATTACKS CUT I
O : : O
By superior skill In handling i
the ball. Salem high school grid'
Iron warriors yesterday held the
Chemawa Indian school eleven to
a 14 to 0 score on the Chemawa
field. - j
PORTLAND A! xealous Colum
bia county traffic officer yester
day prevented thai governor's par
ty from the celebration opening
the Young's Bay bridge on the
Seaside highway.! He preferred
speeding charges against . Gover
nor oicott. Secretary of State Sam
A. Xocer and R. -A. Booth,! chair
man of the state highway com
mission. ; ! .
Daily Thought
i yW :- ?.y.; s y..-:-i-.:-.-V: A
-. . v-v--i - ;-.:::;i. :i:
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i regira jceii ooi w my
struggles; to the persons of my
opponents I am indifferent, bitter
ly as they nave attacked and I Severely criticisms; Prestdeat
sianuerea nr person." - j Ernst I Hoover for authorizing a cut la
Haeckel. . ! 1 America'a destro-rer nuota Sena
tor Frederick Hale (above), of
CNKMPLOTKD EAT t Maine, chairman of the Senate
MADRID. OctJ 8. (API A I Naval Affairs Committee, declares
hundred unemployed forced their t that "While Great Britain and
way Into the Palace hotel In Ma-1 Japan build, we destroy' The
drid today and required the wait-1 Senator says he is going; to fight
for. Salem's first store from the
summit of the Cascades, where
the snow was too deep for the pas
sage of loaded wagons, was a feat
worthy of the prowess of a a-en
eral of aa army. The wagons re
mained at the summit until the
spring of 1848, when they were
brought hither, and they, no doubt
performed useful service ii the
hustling times after the Whitman
massacre and the sold rush te
the California mines, and the be
ginning of the settlement Idays
or the 1B7 Immigration Uhat
doubled the population of the
Oregon, country, with its appror-
iiuaieiy new people. L
W
The fact was brought out ia the
un veiling address of Burt Brown
Barker, great-grandson of Thom
as Cox, that the prices of goods
ia the store here were the same
as those charged In Illinois.! Ev
idently the price tags were' not
cnanged. One might conclude,
without considering all the facts.
inai mis could not have been: pos
sible, la Tlesy of the great costs
of transportation over the plains,
across the mountains, and down
oft the backs of ponies from the
summit of the Cascades without
great sacrifice on the part of
Thomas Cox.! But (and this has
been ! heretofore mentioned In; this
column) one ; should know that
the IS new wagons bought at Fort
Dearborn (that became the 1 city
of Chicago) 'were purchased at
low prices, and so were the oxen
and horses secured in Illinois -compared
with what they were
then worth In pioneer : Oregon.
Supplies for the Journey across
the plains were largely manufac
tured or raised there by "Mr. 7ox,
and they were eked out bvttna
abundance of game on the plains
secured by his hunters who were
working their way across to Ore
gon. And the Indian packers were
no deubt paid In shirts and trink
ets that cost Mr. Cox trifling
sums. So it Is possible that the
whole of the freight bill was real
ly "In the black" rather than -in
the red" on the books of Salem's
first store; or la the mind of the
remarkably resourceful owner.
V
II took the dedication ceremon
ies Of the Thomas Cox marker to
bring out the fact that "the par
sonage" building, the second
dwelling In what became Salem,
is sun standing. ' u
m m 11
Mrs. Cart Jepson attended the
ceremonies.- She was especially in
terested, because from the time
he was twe years old she was
brought up la the home- of w. C.
Barker; father of Burt Brown
Barker, whose mother was a
granddaughter of - Thomas : Cox.
So Mrs. Jepson; though not a
blood relative. Is a member of
the Cox family, and Mrs. Jepson
and her husband own the historic
old house, standing at 1325 Ferry
street. t ; . ;j
He
Chapter XXXIX
had found a folded aheet
throat towards the back of the
drarwer. plainly the letter he was
searching for. It was. headed:
"To I J. Wynter, &3q.'f a long
typewritten letter, without ad
dress or signature. ; Jim glanced
at is rapidly; then crossed over
to where his friend was keeping
guard at the door, his race more
startled still.
Together they read the letter
through, listening all the time for
the sound of returning footsteps
outside. But still no sign of Sant's
return. No doubt he had been
glad of a pretext that gave him
the opportunity of hurrying up
stairs for a word with his accom
plice,! Martin.
"I write this," the anonymous
letter! began, :: because I know
something and, since I believe
you to be a genuine friend of the
missing Frank Severn, to warn
you. You are having wool pulled
over jrour eyes. Don't take too
much; on trust.
"la the press accounts of the
case it is stated that ei that night
of his disappearance you had hur
ried down to Beggar's Court la j
answer, to an Urgent letter from'
Severn. '. Or supposedly from
Severh? I say .supposedly, be
cause! I more than suspect that
long pefore that letter could have
been written the missing man was
helplessly in the hands of his ene
mies. And If so well, draw your
own deductions about that letter!
Severn was supposed to have
come to England via, Dieppe and
Newhaven only about a week ago
and to have been met at Victoria
by Sant. My answer to this is
that lbng before then Severn had
fallen into his enemies' hands
here Is Essex at Beggar'a Court
itself, a man s foes hare the of
a is own nousenoia.
I am only Just besinninx to
find out things, only groping in
tne aark or the fringe of the
mystery yet. But because you are
on Severn's side, on 'the side of
iustice, I give you these facta as
a line to follow. There are good
reasons why I wish; to remain
anonymous and good reasons.
jd i hy
v 4 ill ' 1
I, ' . .;. ...
Together they read the letter through, listening all the time for the sound
ot returning tootsteps outside
fact of
reaching him
how fair It was'trueV-that.!; and the
this attempt
to prevent Us
a i iu, iu
this envelope wasn't torn open -
but very carefully steamed op
en?" went on Bill. t'Ahd It's. pret
ty i obvious whyf Whoever It : was
tampered with this t letter, v? he
wanted to be able! after, reading
it to seal it. up again; so that he
could forward It oa to you un
suspected. - Only, -of -course, after
reading It. he knew It was too
dangerous to.be sent-on. That
he'd pitched . the envelope away
shows that." l ' ' ;
; VThe letter's "anonymous but
we needn't veil the; man who op
ened It la anonymity," said Jim
Wynter impatiently!, j "Of course,
Sant." . , 5 - i-;p --;3r
much doubt about that, I
agreed Bill . "Well. Sant
reads that letter- decides that it's
far to comprlmising to be allowed
it was
"No
fancy,"
to, meet your eyes.
it's j anonymous, Sant argues
how la the writer
you! didn't get it?
The Jepsons have. Ion known
that this, one of the four houses
on their . property, was reputed
to be "the parsonage" lof the j Ja
son Le mission. But they had not
communicated their Information
to any one Interested In preserv
ing Its identity. "Billy" Wright,
who owned the property through
out the eighties and into the nine
ties, and who has all this time
known ho moved "the parson
age" to Its present location, Jdid
not give the Information to any
one who. would be likely to make
It public property. .
The Bits man would like: to
hear from any one, who can fur
nish further Information concern
ing, the historic old house. ' No
doubt facts could yet be uncovered-,
that would .be blr news.
leads to which, could be given; by
persons still living. ,
. -a'
There Is now no doubt as to
the identity of the house. Indeed,
it shews for itself. But any reli
able fact concerning It will make
an -incident of worth while t his
tory. :. ' n
too, which I think -this letter
should suggest to you, why not a
nun oi its contents should be giv
en to Mr., Felix Sant .. ,
j BUI Grayson's face was no less
startled than Jim's as they read
this strange unsigned letter. A
bewildering letter: It its vague
Implications were true, it brought
new undreamed of complications
into the affair. i
i And! who could have written
it l , 8
J BiU glanced from the typewrit
ten sheet to the handwriting on
the envelope. . ;
I "Disguised, of course," he said.
"Rather like a woman's writing.
though one can't be sure.'
I Jim nodded. It was puzzling
enough who could have written
this letter. Yet that! was almost
the most unimportant part of it
an. The chief .significance or this
startling commaniojitJpa lay. ia
that yonr judgment
dead right. Jim."
! ,1 For Jim Wynter had ! 1 come
away from Monksllrer full of a
new definite suspicion. ; :1 ; :
hi; A suspicion that Ihad iiflasUed
across him suddenly for the first
time,; merely from two or three
seemingly unimportant ifj trivial
facts that when linked together
took ion a sinister I significance;
fchjaf the real secret ; arch! enemy
behind -was none other than the
.man Severn had trusted, had be-
f level bis friend. Felix Sant. ;fi -
Martia was an accomplice ':1a
the plot, of course but iMartia
era to serve them tcd.
ber were arrested.
: A num.-'
rutting the. strength of America's
naval forces. ; Jv .
CATHOLICS - ELECT
WASHINaTOKj Oct. 8. (AP)
Miss Msry-c Hawks of New
ark,' N. J.. nas been re-elected
president of the board of direc
tores of the, national council of
Catholic women. ' j :i
OKMHOMA 13 HOT 1 ii
. SHAWNEE, Okla., OeU tt i
tAP) The niereurv reached 102
u egi-es Ur -wedaesday.
Six Months Old
Infant Heroine
In Costly Fire
LOS -ANGELES, Oct 8. (AP)
-A nix months old i heroine in
her own right gurgled modestly
at the profusion ot thanks ten
dered Wednesday by, 36 families
saved, from an apartment-hotel
fire that caused $10,000 damage.
! Patricia Leland. the tiny hero
ine, wals bothered , bjjf an acrid
odo wjheii she was I awakened
early this morning. She stood up
in her irib, leaned over the side
and slapped her sleeping mother,
Mrs. TJ M. Leland, ia the . face.
Mrs. Leland spread ant alarm.
While members of the 26 fami
lies made hasty exits, Miss Pa
tricia nonchalantly rode her fath
er's shoulders down a fire de
partment ladder. j
Entire Fortune
OflLipton Goes
To Sick, Needy
GLASGOW, Scotland; OcL 8.
(AP) -The money of every land
which came to Six Thomas Lipton
In exchange for his, tea; and other
commodities was passed on to the
sick and needy through his will.;
which was read by the executors
a few minutes after his body was
lowered Unto the grave.
- The1 bulk ot the estate, which Is
estimated to exceed 1.900.000
goes to hospitals, infirmaries and
old men's and old women's homes
in Glasgow, although ; there are
some bequests to London and
Middlesex charities. - By today's
London Exchange rate 1,000,000
Is. about! ? 3.910,000. -
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He paused a moment thought
fully.
"Jimj
the most
And. after ail
to ever khow
1S;
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significant
If there was-
ithlng of all Is this:
n't any truth in the letter. If a
mere tissue ofylies, wouldn't Sant
have intended1 to reseal . it And
send It on to you? j Or. rather. If
his conscience had been clear and
he a decent,, straight 'chap, ;he
would of course never have open
ed It at all," said BilP with a
shrug, i "Only I wotader what
niade him' want in the first place
to open it? Was it Just an Un
easy i conscience orl had she some
suspicion,, from thai writing who
had tBSnt that letter and if eared
wjhat It might contain?; Well, we
den't need much - clearer i proof
ot Sant was
was an underling, a minor figure.
It was. Sant I who was one of the
moving spirits Sant above alt
who had cause to dread the door
of the vault under the ruins be
ing opened,! wh'o had engineered
that -crash of stonework to keep
Intruders out. ,vi
l "WelI, we've got to decide what
we're going! to do about it and
decide quick," Jim said. "Saht
may be back at any moment.", i
"There's only one thing to do.
Not a-hint of this to Sant. Put the
letter back where you found it
And we mustn't lej him suspect
by any change-in your manner
that anything' happened. That's
essential. Jim.. It's a card to keep
up our sleeves.-' s ;i . :
Already In his own mind Jim
had decided ion that. .
With a final 'hurried glance at
the. letter, he slipped it back
where he had found it, closed the
drawer again, i Dropped the en
velope back Into the waste paper
basket. j :; . V
I He and BUI. were in their seats
by. the fire before the first sound
came of footsteps hurrjing across
the hall to the door.' f; i -
i"A bit of iluck for us. j Martin's
involuntary header1," Jim remark -
ed. dryly. hy I ,":
Bill grinned, if- Martin had not
been upstairs divesting himself of
his dripping garments Saht would
merely have had to ring the bell,
not gone out himself In search of
whisky, and soda. Then as the',
footsteps n eared the door he whis
pered urgently.!. , 'M
"Jim, for I heaven s Sake don't
let; him suspect from your Tac4
that anythlng's wrong. I Just now
you i look as grim as a - hanging
Judge! We're got to fight him
with the gloves oft presently but
we want to pick, our own ground;
not put him Ion' guard to get Lis
blow in first. ; ; . . iyi '
Jim was finding it difficult to
look his usual. unruffled, cheer
ful self. This confirmation, of his
suspicions of Sant, the discovery
that the man bad descended to
tampering with his letters follow--Ing
on tonight's treacherous at
tempt on his life; all this, made It
something of an effort to greet
the man they had found out as
though nothing had happened. .
"Don't worry BUI, I'll keep my
end up." Jim said with a short
laugh. ! -' ; ' .
. j (To ' be Continued Tomorrow) '
FT I ,MittiUtw PT,rririii
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Shows value of
1 diverif icationf 9
ii1
Results obtained from th prao-
tiee' of diversification" on ih
farm in both crop production and
livestock t breeding; will be sfiowtt
in generous measure at 21st An
nual Pacific International Live
stock Exposition. Portland. Octo
ber 24-3t
The United States National here
at Salem has consistently urffodi
the adoption of diversified farm
ing and for that reason urges ev
erjr farrner hereabout to attend
thla year's Pacific International, i
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United Statoo
National Banb
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