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M lsm-fEs OTtEGOK-STATTS: 7; JA 1! ' r; iriiriit,. :. i, 4,- - -; : s I :l Wo Fator Sways Uif.NoVear. Shall Awg"-. .. .1 ;. , From First JgUtbraia, March 28, i831 ' ; ' ; THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. - - : -Chaxlss A. Snuctns, Sheldom F. SACxrrr, Pvblitfurt Chaeles A. SpoagdE ... Editor-Manager ' 8htldow F. Sackett -; - - - Managing Editor Member of the Associated Press Tli Asactctaied Press U exclealvelr entitled to the as tor public, tloe et all urn dlspstcbee credited to tt or not etberwlee credited la this psper. . .. . . - . .... , r ... . , ' Pacific Coast Advertising Representatives: ' Arthur W. Stypea, tn& Portia to. Security Bide", tea Fraactse Ebarea Bldg.j Um Anseles, W. Pac Bids. Eastern Advertising Representatives: yr rord-Paraoaa-Stecber, Ine, New Tor, ST! afadlaoa Are.: -- - Chicago. M N. Mlchlgma Are. , - ' EuUrtd At the Pottoffiee at Selem, Oregon, as Second-Clatt Matter. Published ' every morning except Monday. Bueinest office, US S. Cemmereuii Street. - . , SUBSCRIPTION BATES: -. atan Bubeertptloa Rates, In Advance. Within Oregon t Dally and Bundsy, 1 Ma. cents: I Mo. IUS; I Mo. 1 year 14.09. Elsewhere 10 cants par Mo., or $1.00 for 1 rear la advance. ' Br CUjr Carrier t 41 ceets a month ; 15.00 a rear la advance. Per Copr Aetata. OatreJne and New 8tade i cents. 'Too -Many Paroles JUDGE L. H. McMAHAN'S continued paroles of guilty offenders from the 1 bench is making Marion . county a paradise fpr crime. The jurist's well-known sympathy for persons in trouble is known and is in Itself commendable. But when offenders of all types, robbers, burglars and boot leggers, persistently and consistently are sentenced, then paroled, the public's protection from crime is perilously weak. "Friday, Them Miller and Marion Alsman received two year sentences to the state penitentiary and were at once paroled. Miller had a criminal record. That very day friends of Miller and Alsman waylaid Melvin Davis who had testi fied against them and beat young Davis severely. Frightened, he took refuge with the police for protection. 'TTou squawked on the boys," Davis attacker-is said to have stated. Such vandalism and .racketeering in Salem cannot be countenanced. One reason it. occurs is that an offender against the law has the odds all in his favor that he will escape punishment. First he be apprehended. Then if apprehended and prosecuted, the records of Judge McMahan's court, show he has by all the odds the likelihood of being reprimanded, sentenced and paroled. ,.. . , Friday Newt Smith, Lee Smith and William McCaffrey, all of whom had been paroled formerly on admitted crimes and had later been returned to the county jail here on con fession of additional offenses against the law, were released from jail upon their own recognizance. "The local jurist 'of ttimes condones his sentences and par oles by pointing to the poverty of the guilty man or frequent ly to the accused's willingness to restore goods stolen. This means that a willful thief may calculate that in any event he wins: If not detected he has the stolen goods; if found; out, all he has to do is to replace the stolen goods and still be even. " ... What is the real purpose of parole? To allow a judge to evade the plain sentences of the state-made law? Not in the least The purpose of the parole is to allow, in exceptional cases and on overwhelming proof, the granting of relief from prison or jail duress. The parole is contingent on good behavior after its application to an of feiO1 s imme diately revocable when, good behavior is not continued. In the local court, however, a parole is tantamount to pardoji and outright release ; it is very seldom revoked. , What is the purpose of courts, of sentences, and of im prisonment? Is it not primarily to protect society from of fenders against the law through keeping them incarcerated for a reasonable time? Does not our legal system aid through making an example of offenders to discourage other possible criminals? This paper does not wish to nag the bench. But it cannot be silent when time after time, case after case, prosecution after prosecution, finds enforcement of the law nullified by needless paroles. If these continue there will come a time when law enforcement officers, sheriffs and attorneys, will lose all heart, so thoroughly are their efforts defeated. County Levy Can be Reduced in 1933 THIS newspaper has frequently stated that expenditures for highways in the state and in the county might be measurably retrenched without public harm. It believes that . ... - - . . i i i the 1933 Marion county ouagei can oe parea several muu by reducing the amount apportioned for roads as well as by making provision for debt charges, the latter being un necessary because the county court has anticipated its final 1933 bond retirements and paid them a year in advance. . The incumbent county court and its predecessors are worthy of praise for the determined way in which they have kept the county in-cash. The semi-annual report of County Treasurer Drager shows cash on hand this year of $792,247. The warrants outstanding are only the nominal total of $6239 which will be paid as soon as presented. We doubt if any county in Oregon is so sound financially, with no bonded or warrant debt and a. large cash reserve. Most of the cash-on-hand belongs to tfie road fund, the county court for years having leviej somewhat more than was needed in order to have plenty or road moneys on hand. So the 1933 millage can be considerably reduced without the abandonment of road building orrimpairment of county funds. The county court prepared for lean days by sturdy levies when the financial sun was high in the sky. As One Democrat to Another LIFE is worth more, too, for knowing Hoover. But for him Belgium would now be starved, however gener oudy people may have given food. He's gathering together and transporting and getting distributed $5,000,000 worth a month, with a perfect organization of volunteers, chiefly 'tSFSSft' V?0!. En the Belgian cabinets send for him about Belgian matters. He's a simplemodest, .energetic man who began his career in California and will end it in Heaven; and he. doesn't want anybody's thanks." te refreshing in these days when Hoover is being called ; everything from a skunk to 4 skinflint to note Sat at one time the nresiaent Arthur ,hfrA j m , . jnoc i.i um aemocrauc leaders. The quotation above was found recently in a ram- - Minor maHmi if YX714.- TT? t . . I 4t y. "f . f iijt iiuie xr&ge letters. Mr. Page, a dishnguished democraticmbassador to England, wrote thus I? President Woodrow Wilson, another democrat of-distinc-0 course MrHoover was not in poljtcs then and politics alters everything! ; ;. :'i..'7v . SeaatorJoe. Dunn shows consnmmAU gall la his treatment of k25?!0 Duftn wired t! eastenl edacator to hare nothing to do with Oregon when the chanceUorship was Urst talked. Dunno de clared that ho would see to it that i the hoard ot higher education was abolished. Now Dunne follows tw his telegram with a letter written Zook in Portland telling him la short, to get oat-An4 sUt "Out: this is an Oregon battla and. the, mtt rt. .. L 'take hand. Not only Is Dunne ij yinuuiiiittuu s9 prgpaw or a bob oi a prop net can tell what s going to happen to higher education in Oregon and the roly-poly .Portland insurance man-senator has never been accused ot belnr a PrODOSal Is milt In Smn f A ;The reason, the Oregon Voter explains,, lies in the tremendous in- ; iu uuuun waere uquor ana motoring nave been mixed. y Motor vehicle death rate In Beno in 1150 was SI; in ltSl Ithad arisen to Ct.S. For the entire United States the ratio is 24.9; tor ; Oregon 29.2 in 1931. The Oregon state police are hard-boiled la en- forcing the drnaken driving law; . mayhap ' Reno should borrow - "TChariee-Pray-fer -tlnie-"- ? .w,,,-- .. has a good chance he will not exceedingly discourteous; he is t- afK1la1 .uM(i jt 1-1 e " r , : ::: 111 uvs Mr " pt 1 I H0Nl h I tl. ,,, dL - - --..-,. 1- fe BITS fox BREAKFAST -By IL J. HENDRICKS- Another hunt for the Dorlon Woman's grave: m m Readers of this column are fam-, fliar with the fact that the famous j Dorion Woman ot the Wilson Price Hunt party of the As tor ex-. pedition lived and died in Marion county, and presumably was bur ied here. But where? The quest for her grave, long pursued by the Bts man and oth ers, has been taken up anew. Ev ery lead that might possibly give the answer is being followed. V . Extended reference was made to the history ot this famous wo man in this column, in the last three issues of August and the first few of September, 1930, as will be recalled by some readers. At that time, reference was made to the Marion county records. In this . renewed Quest, another ex amination has Just been made. S One historical writer has made the claim that the Dorlon Woman and her hnsband were the first settlers of the Willamette vaUey. The Bits man doubts this. Another writer has said they began living on their claim near Salem In 1841. eSS - The Marion county records -show the date as 1846. The Dorlon Woman, who was a member of the Iowa branch of the Sioux na tion, had for her first man (hns band), to whom she was not mar ried, Baptiste Dorlon, Interpreter tor the Wilson Price Hunt over land party ot the Astors. After he was killed, a Hudson's Bay com pany employe at Fort Walla Walla, named Yenler, took her for his woman, and a girl was born. Her next man was John Tourpin, also an employe of the Hudson's Bay company, In the capacity of interpreter, And they came to the Willamette valley. Just when, no one has found out for certain. . She was married to Tourpin by Father (afterward Bishop) F N. Blanche, at St. Paul, July 19, 1841, and. her and 'their children legitimatized, among them Mar guerite Yenler, then 81.. This daughter's name dees not occur again In historical records. V V . This third man, -who, by the Catholic church : wedding, wis made her legal husband, was call ed by various names, such as To ps r, Topas, Topin, Towpln, Topaa, Topah, and variations and was probably Tourpin, Her name was given In the marriage as Marie I'AguIvoIse, or Aguivois, by Fath er BlAncheto Itvmeant that her name was Marie of the Iowas. or Iowa .tribe of Indians j :'.... ,Tourpin and his then legal wife filed - four claims for donation claim land In the Middlegrovv dis trict, about five mUes northeast of downtown Salem,. numbers -6 f, 77, 72 and 79. She died before the surreys were made. One writer, J. Neilson Barry, gives the date of her death aa Sept. 3, I860, prob ably correct,' for Barry lg an able and a careful historian. Her hns band was granted only one ot the claims, number 79. Two ot the others went to Samuel Parker and Peter D. Cline. ".V " V '; Vs -' - -The patent to the one to Tour pin was issued to his estate, un der the name of John Topas,-July 21, 1873, and the patent was re corded August 1, 1874, for 216.92 acres of land. Under the name ot rJ ohn Topin ' (his mark ) , giving acreage at 323.84, this claim was deeded to W. R. Munkers,' for 14000, Feb. 28, 1858. Lewis John son Jbought the claim from Mun kers. - - .". y - v s v. t : The legal title, after the patent was issue -fey the United States, Half Hast I rested in the estate of John Topas. A suit was required to quiet title In Lewis Johnson, and It was brought. . Under a decree recorded Oct. 9, 1874. resultlnr frem thla en(r it was shown: Lewis Johnson sued John B. Toupin, Mary (Jay, George uay, Ann Toupin, Mary Staats and John Staats. wdeaeeadanta At Jaha Toupin." stating that .Jonn Ton- pin- naa aiea m 1812, and that "in 1871 the Unit fits. tea tan4 patent to John Toping and that ais neirg rerused te -convey the land Involved to the real owner, Lewis Johnson" hence the suit. The decree mentioned "John To pin or John Topas." It was ren dered after an "agreement of counsel." It gave the title to Lew is Johnson. S V . This leaves no doubt concern ing the fact that the third wife of George Gay was a daughter of the Dorian Woman, as has been as serted in this column; a daughter by Tourpin. She was then Mary Gay, as shown by the decree, a "descendant," and George Gay, her hnsband, had been Joined with her In the suit to quiet title, on account of his courtesy right as her living husband. George Gay lived eight years after that. He aiea Oct. T, 1882. . The decree shows.. ahL tht there were in 1874 two other liv ing children of John Tourpin and his wife, Marie. They were John B. Tourpin and Mary Staats, wife of John StaatsPerhaps one of the daughters named Mary had been christened Marie, after her moth er, for 'even, people who signed with marks on account of their inability to write their names, would have more imagination than is Indicated by what is shown In the record that Is. they would scarcely give two daughters the same name. -W The name of the mother, the Dorlon Woman, was unknown .te history until her marriage cere mony, performed by Father Blan ches Perhaps the good priest be stowed upon her the name. John Staats, .the Bits man assumes, was a member of the Staats fam ily of Polk county of which Ste phen Staats , was one. Stephen Staats was a man of education, who wrote some history, and psr tlclpated la a high event of his tory. He was one of the discover ers of gold in the Sutter mill race, along with James Msrshali and Capt Chas. Bennett, and others. The three men named were1 from Salem and vicinity; Bennett res ident of Salem, and Marshall and Staats had lived across the! river In Polk bounty. Bennett came back and became active here, building And operating the historic4 Ben nett - house, where .the Masoate temple now stands, and in other ways taking a large part in pio neer life. Stephen Staats was a conspicuous figure in early Ore gon for, many years.- a, ... w. v :.;.! , There are numerous descend-, ants of the GAy And Staats. fAm llles la Polk county now, end per haps -John B. Tourpin" left chil dren. From the Above informa tion, it seems bow possible that a clew may be found to the leby rinthia .puttie over the place where the famous Dorlon WomAn is burled. When (and if) that ean be accomplished, it will without doubt be appropriately marked. : . ,Cy:;r v y- From a descendant of one ot these families,, the Bits man has learned that one of them, ; a son or grandson df George Gay, ac quired A good education, and was interested - in the history of his family. Will some reader please tell the writer how to secure the present address of this man? .: (Continued Tuesday.): . .:. The Safety Valve - - Letters from Statesman Readers WHENCB OOIOB THB CRUSADERS T To the Editor: It Is most Interesting indeed te note the present attitude ot some or inese so-eanea ardent temper ance folks who claim to have worked se devotedly for prohibi tion in the former days but be cause of its Alleged mtter tenure Are now fighting vehemently Against it. In most of this agita tion on the part of some ot our professed followers ot temperance we cannot overlook a pronounced streak of Insincerity and It Is very doubtful If the public in general la going to see in these messen gers of a new light Anything other then the proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing. As a matter of fact this new temperance thought is by ne means new we heard the same old line of chatter from the hoose baron himself fat the good old days. We have before us Harry B. Crltchlow's Article in the Oregon Ian of August 9 wherein he chal lenges J. R. DeSpain to find one Oregon citizen who has been re deemed from alcoholic ways by prohibition. What a silly gesture on the part ot Mr. Crltchlow! Any one with a thimbleful of brains freely admits that no law however good will change the heart ot a man. He will commit any offense even to the crime of murder if it is in his heart to do so regardless of law. We do not believe Mr. De Spain will h able to meet the challenge as set forth. However, if challenges are in order we would like to challenge Cru sader Crltchlow to marshal! his victims of prohibition, and we will match 100 beneficiaries to every one injured in any way by the 18 th amendment. We cannot be in sympathy with this new temperance propaganda until It la proven beyond the sha dow of a doubt that It's sponsors are sincerely working to the end that every man, woman and child's best interests shall be served. Are we not entitled to at. least a pro posal as to Just how the Crusad ers expect to handle the liquor problem . after the eighteenth amendment has been repealed? Is it not fair to expect a definite plan before yielding to the propo sition of repeal of a law our peo ple voted to sustain after years ot education and agitation to bring its adoption about. This law was not framed by a single mind over night but the events leading up to its final adoption were started many years Ago. It took millions of votes to plAce this law In our constitution and .it will take millions to do away with It. We shall always stand r&dy tor a change but we will hare to be shown a better wey. HERBERT B. HANSEN. New Views Had yon Governor Roosevelt's power would Hyou or wouldn't yon remove Mayor' Walker? Why or why not? This was the ques tion asked Saturday by Statesman reporters, y - WOllara L Boyle, retired pio aeer farmer- "That puts me in the position of Judge and Jary all at once. . Bat if a man is guilty, he should be fired. Walker accumulated a lot of money in a E. V. Chatfleld, clerk: "No, I dont think X would. Haven't time to talk to you now; here's my bus.'.!-. - rr-n : -rrrrrr-. HEART SYNOPSIS .' ' ; Life te lovely P AtrkU Braithwalt .was a series ef parties, tripe abread ' and new Paha Beach. Her castles crumble when her A ant Pamela La tows smc, that Mr. Braltkwaifs fortaae is depleted and nggests that Pat saarry the weAlthy, sJ4dle . aged Harvey Elaine te insure her ewa aad her father's future, warn ing her thai bve fades. Annt Pam's aoarrtage with JUasale Warrea h adeem o, yeerag lawyer waa be ginning to pall in spite ef the ar dent love they had had for each ether. They aUH eared but the ree tiae ef married life had made them less lovers and. mere friends". Stunned by her east's revelations, Pat Is) serieasly eensideriag Blaine - to save the father she adores, when she meets faadnatiag ye nag camper, who enly reveale hie drat name. Jack. Despite their1 Instant attractiea fee ese another, pat din courages future meetings. That : night. Pam cautions Blaine to be matter-ef -f act and nt aentimenta la trying te win Tat. - . CHAPTER SETEN Tm only forty,' and X dont look thatr . y y She lAOghed sarcastically. Tea think you dont" she said. Hen and women your age-tell you that, hoping youTl re tarn the compli ment. Girls and boys of twenty think you are aa eld man. It never occurs to there that you are young for your age. They dont know what "yooug 'or one's age means. But yoa have the purchase pries of jovnt sdssea if yon care to go into Upmarket "I dont," haaghtHy. She Ignored the Interruption. Too want a very special article. That very special article needs to be bought by you. But because it Is a very special article, unless yon use common sense, I fear all your wealth wont buy it since there are younger, handsomer men In the field. Your one advantage Is that she Is desperately hard up, and adores her father. But I'm not sure you can press that advantage too far." Ton dont thi nk I am feel enough to marry a woman to look At her, do you?" The long narrow face was dark with anger. "No. But yoa might keep that fact to yourself, and win her by great kindness later. Wait for her to offer to kiss yon. She win If yoa win her grstitode. Gratitude may grow Into affection. That's an." She rose and trailed off to hex villa to "rest." e e e Bora to affluence, Mr. BraithwaH had from earliest boyhood been a student, aa Idealist. Following in the footsteps of his ancestors he had been educated for the bar; but, increasingly convinced. In the course ef his practice, jhat no living man could posaihly.kaow aQ the laws ef the country, ne court enforce the staggering mass of them, ne man respect their neb eonfusioa, he had, after sv few brilliant years, retired to his plantation up Bed Elver, re fusing to align himself, se he de clared, with a system which was neither In aceerd with his idea ef the creative plan ef Beauty among men nor ef democracy. A system which was nullifying its own de mands; defeating its ewa purpose, and creating a nation ef law break era. , He married a sweet young girl whe lived ea a neighboring planta tion, and, with the fire el the ideal. 1st, whe la ether dreum stances might have been a poet, aa artist, or a martyr, dedicated himself and his family to his ideal of a life to be purged ef an onlovelinees, through true freedom. After twenty years of marriage, EmUy. Braithwalt ' gave her life in Man Who Limits Wife's Budget On Stockings is Always Wrong By D. H. Talmadge. Sage of Salem A man may reason. to his own satisfaction that he is doing his full duty to his wife when, on the grounds that he wears cheap socks and that-what la good: enough tor him. Is good enough tor her. he fails to provide a sufficient f and to enable her to buy the sort of stockings she craves,: but he Is wrong, Absolutely. I do not quite know why he Is wrong, tr&t he is wrong and that - Is all there Is to it. ' , Short skirts - have altered, the entire" 'civilized world so far cs stockings Are' concerned. I once lived la a town before the short skirt era where there was but one pair of silk' stockings, and they were nothing more then a rumor. There-was no positive evidence that anybody had ever seen them. One day when I was about. 10 years old I rushed Into' our . par parlor to get A book: to read la the hammock. I: was in- hurry be cause I was AfrAld that somebody else would get into the hammock! first. It was the only hammock in town at that . time and was much frequented. (Our parlor was also our library And our music room snd our. a number of other things. It had a center table end a- bookCAae And a Mason as Ham lin organ. It had laee curtains at the windows, and father, I recall, was-fiot permitted to smoke there because It caused the laee cur tains to smell ot tobacco.) When I rushed Into the parlor that day X was greeted by a shrill scream on account of a lady Jriend of mother's was showing mother her aew stockings, .which were red And white striped and ot no In terest to me whatsoever. It was enly a glimpse, anyway.- The visi tor pulled down her skirts fran tically and became very red In the face and mother said I ahould Al ways knock before - entering .a room when company was there. It was terrible. Times hare .cer tainly changed. -. - - y Yes, times h A ve , changed, not Alone as regards the etiquette of ttotkiagsrrbut-as regards every- STRINGS Cttinr HX c to little Patricia. From that moment John Braithwalt lived but for his daughter. And the very isolation ef his intellectual. liXe tended to shelter his devotion to his Ideals. "'' " - ZHa contacts with thA world had been limited to occasional ristto to New Orleans, New Tork, and other points where he had attended thea tres, the opera, been entertained by wealthy and apparently circumspect tnends, -v - :- : Through reading, and the inevi table drift of conversation, he was fully Informed concerning all this so-called "modernism" with its re bellion and destructiveness; Its flamboyant flouting of manners and morals. But H had touehed him somewhat aa a ferelga war, in which one has ao part n regret table fact; but out ef one's province. He thought of "moderns" In the strict sense, as a sort of bohemian class drawn from the theatre and other arte. That young people were more sophisticated than la his youth, he also knew; but of this he approved. Did not the very tenets of his doctrine of Beauty include knowledge and freedom? But free dom which Included debased con duct was a phase that had never even remotely attached Itself In his mind to respectable folk. Certainly not to his friends nor their children. His present circumstances had come about through one ef nature's curious vagaries. The Braithwalt plantation fronting two miles on Bed1 River had slowly been eaten up by the ravenous stream. The mansion house situated several hun dred, yards from the bluff at the time 'of young Braith wait's mar riage, had been moved back once at great cost before Patricia's birth, and was again moved shortly after ward. The river had not changed its course. It simply rose each Spring, ate into the bluff, and sank back witii the coming of summer to its original bed. In his boyhood he had sat many hours on the bluff in front of the house, dangling- his feet over the swiftly flowing water. Patricia, standing on the bluff as a little girl, had looked across a waste of sandy marsh to. the river a half mils away. And to sen caring land, once the fact becomes known, Is impossible. Every planter for miles oa each side of him, making futile efforts to sen, had finally. In desperation and without success, tried to real ize something by putting ridiculous ly low mortgages on- their lands. They had one and all been forced to sit by and watch, the river eat their substance from under them. Pamela's father, who had an office in Wall Street, alone 'of aQ the sufferers, had sold. And he bad found a buyer for Mr. Braithwalt a wealthy banker who wanted a plantation for a plaything. The man, coming down to see the place, had expressed his entire satisfae tioo. . . . And Mx. Braithwalt had told him that the land waa caving. "Wen, why ha vent yoa brikhead ed It?" demanded the banker. The only bulkheads that would be ef any use would be a cement wan," Mr. Braithwalt replied. ' "WeU?" "And that to be ef use weald have to extend the fuU length of all the earing land In this section, since a waU across the face of one er two plantations would let the water la at each' end." "I see. And that would cost sev eral million dollars with perhaps not more than a dozen men inter ested In the project. How fast la it caving?" Mr. Braithwalt told him. "At that rate your land wHl aB be gone in, say, twenty-fire years?" ."Unless it stops. Caving some times stops as suddenly as it starts. A change la the course ef the river. " D. H. TALMADGE - , thing. la the course ot an ordin ary lifetime the world has under gone a metamorphosis, except in the essentials of life, which never ehange. For Instance, consider the theatres and affaire theatrical in Salem. Contrast the Els In ore with the little old Gem I thing It was called, the Gem. At Any rate, It was a gem, and we crowded be tween Its wooden walls and ooh'd and ah'd at the fllckery, flary pic tures, which were About nothing in particular, but were Just pic tures, snd ssld to one Another that wonders would never cease. FinaHy, after a ; gradual court A ef evolution, came the Elsinore. There are la cities places where one weary of the dta of the streeta may find temporary santuary and the solace of silence. I do not know precisely why it Is, but there are folks to whom the clatter ot footfalls and the chatter ot voices becomes a burden. X have known ot sueh places and ot such people. Foottalle are-eoundles ther and . I J t - . 1 .; i i i AfWMAl k a deepening, ef the bed,' a split a hundred fanes abeve, relUving qst of the faQ, volume of water. Again, I've known caving land to atop without any apparent cause. But If a a chance.";. .-y The benker grew thoughtful. "Why did yoa tell met Yoa knew X was green." - x, That s why I told yea, Had yoa been a river man X ahouldnt have felt it necessary. Ifs there . " He waved his hand toward the un certain ridge ef the bluff, below which stretched that wide expanse of marsh.'.- - Mr. Braithwalt, I'm afraid I ahouldnt have told yoa if I'd seen my fortune slipping out from under me and you had been my one chance of rescue. But I can admire a man who does what rou have done. And - I thank you." ; That had been the end of the matter. Meanwhile, the honed-far rescue by ehanes had not arrived. Toe years went on. The river held to its ruthless wajr. And the land went Into its maw. . The hi tiff a. erirfnallv uni tMrtw feet high, had gradually been drawn to ten and twelve feet, forming a long slope to the river. . In the course ox another forty er fifty years, when the bluffs' would be entire! v washed down, it anU be possible to reclaim the waste land by means of levees. Patricia's grand-children might come into the spreading acres of her ancestors; but for her there remained a strip two miles in length and leas than an eighth of a mile wide oa which the negroes ne longer dared live. The mansion house sitting oa the back of the plantation during her childhood, had grown so unsafe soon after she went away to board ing school, that Mr. Braithwalt had sold it for old lumber. He hrl built, of lumber reserved, a shack on the remaining strip. In this he had Uved in greatest economy during the school term, tilling his parsimony with the aid of two negroes whe lived In the hiHa. He liad eold nit his cattle and farm Implements gradually. By making a trip to New Orleans. taJtinr alone- shatamnhe he had persuaded an antique dealer ra come up and look at Ms furni ture. Oa the furniture, silver, pic tures and the lumber from the house, he had realized a little over twelve taousand aouara. And after considering the smallnees of the sum as the possible nucleus ef a hnsineas, his age and Inexperience ra ne Dusineas wodd, he had put it In the bank for Patricia. It fc&J taken care of her remaining years as senooi, and ot their summers together. Meanwhile, never doubting the Ultimate Beauty toward which this seeminair mi fast fate rtuhed him and his neighbors, he had chosen for his daughter a very exclusive scnoet near Mew Tork, content ta the belief that aha was aaf fa the Beauty which he had taught her to expect ox me. That each a aehaol wee mAm n of the young revolutionists of which one neara ana read so much, had been slowly lmpinginx up e a his eonadousness ef late. These young folk, with their de fiant egoism, if1Tig from amuse ment to Amusement, absorbed la objective life, scornful ef either beauty or danger, patronizing their fathers and mothers, moody and contemptuous, he realised to his dismay, had been Patricia's com panions during the greater part of the past six years. If X have but broken doctrinal bars for my child, he refected, X have done ne more than these pa thetic young revolutionists Are try ing to do for themselves. And they are la the midst ef carnage and mob madness. . (TeBeCaotmN) O ltU. W tJmm Tmemn, SrmEcmim. Ik tongues are subdued. In them the glory of sunlight merges dimly with the glory of stained glass. Churches for the most part, theee places great edifices reared la worship of that Power which we feel but cannot see otherwise than in the beauty of Inspired form a The Elsinore Is not a church, but It Is beautiful And It is restful. Mrs. Nemo, whose nerves ere ef the Jumpy sort And whose family lives with other families In apart ments which open Into a common hall with a helpful sUIrwsy which runs down to the street And car ries ap noises and which haa a bare wooden floor which responds with all the fervency ot a bass drum to the slightest symptoms ef human activity and where every sound echoes, giving aa ordinary conversation marked reeemblanee to a Joint debate she says. Mrs. Nemo does, that the Elsinore Is one of the comforts of her life, and ah, flees to It now and then as a bird files te the treetop, end sometimes, ssys she, when she doesn't even know the name ef the picture she Is going to see. - - . aa'd the greatest of theseN Is chsrity," , y ' . ; ' . SlgttAls : correctly Interpreted Are aa Important factor In the ' winning of A game. But signals incorrectly Interpreted not se good. A Commercial street mer chant was engaged In an effort to sell a prospective customer a musical Instrument, a violin, I be lieve. The 'prospective customer was. hesiUnt Entered a son ot the merchant. The merchant winked covertly at the young man. "Here Is a young man," he said, "who knows About such things. He will tell you what kind of a fiddle this is." The young man looked at the instrument.' "It is a bum fiddle, he said. I thought so, said the prospective customer, and depart ed ."Excuse me, papa,'' said the young man; "I thought the maa was trying to sell the fiddle te you, instead of you trying to sell ft to him..!. Nothing goes light - ..! 1 1 y r x WEDDCtO ANNOUNCED WACONDA, Aug. 12 Mr. And Mrs. Xvsn Brundldge received the Announcement ef the recent mar riage ef hie brother, Donald Bru didge At Catsoa City, Iowa, to Darlene HsmGtoa ot VTaUrloo,' NebrAkAy- i a T