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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday BXoralnjr. December 3L 1933 .it, "KNAVE'SsGIRk MM By J -. CLAYTON UAN OMmm im ' . J. " . i . .... ' 1 I ")l . If ! I , f - 11 1 1 1 mi mi 1 ii--i n t'IMMI" 1 ' )pj l l 1 -.ii-i I,, a hk, M , r . "No Favor Sway a Us; No Fear Shall Awe" - '" From Firnt Statesman, March 28, 1851 THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Charles A. S PRAGUE - - - - - Editor-Manager SHELDON. F. Sackxtt '- - - - Managing Editor Member of the Associated Press : Ths Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the dm for publics. tttosj of ail news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited la this paper. x ADVERTISING Portland Representative Gordon B. Bell, Security Building, Portland, Ore, . Eastern Advertising Representatives - Bryant. Griffith, A Brunson, lac, Chicago,. New lork, Detroit. . .-, i Boston. Atlanta Entered at the Postoffice at Salem, Oregon, a Second-Class Matter Published every morning except Monday. Basinet $ ffice, tl3 S. Commercial Street. ' i ' 1 1 ... . i w SUBSCRIPTION RATES: "Mail Subscription Rates. In Advance. Within 'Oregon : Dally and Sunday, 1 Mo. SO cents; I Mo. 11.25; 6 tie. $2.2. ; 1 year $4.00. Elsewhere to cents per Mo., or $5.00 for 1 year In advance. By City Carrier : 45 cents a month; $5.00 a year in advance. Per Copy 2 cents. On trains and News Stands 5 cents. Science and God LEADING scientists are not so skeptical of the existence of deity as they, were a half century ago. They are no longer so prompt to abolish God and enthrone blind chance as sovereign of the universe. For one thing their own dis coveries have made them less positive of the certitudes of science. They have reduced matter to the ebb and flow of electric charges. Chemical elements have been resolved to merely varying arrangements of energy particles. So even the scientist wonders if the world of creation is not an r emanation from the mind of a Creator. Dr. Arthur H. Compton, noted scientist of the university : cf Chicago, Nobel prize winner in physics in 1927, in a recent ; interview expressed the opinion that "faith in God may be a ! thoroughly scientific attitude." He said: """Science can have no quarrel with a religion which postu lates a God to whom men are as hia children. Not that science in any way shows such a relationship if a religion which makes r. such an assumption does not have its own evidence it should not look to science but the evidence of an intelligent power work ' inr in the world which m-lonre offers does make such a tiostulate plausible. '-It is thus possible to &ee the whole great drama of evolu tion as moving toward the goal of personality, the making of per sons, with free, intelligent wills, capable of learning nature's purpose. "It is an inspiring setting in which we thus find ourselves. As wa recognize the greatness of the program of nature which is unfolding before as we feel that we are part of a great enter prise In which some mighty intelligence is working out a hidden plat. .. "Indeed, God has placed us in a position to help in further ing Hia program. For de we not hold in our hands and control the conditions of vegetable and animal life on this planet and to some extent, human lite?" There is a great void between mere admission that the conception of God is not unscientific and nositive faith in His .reality; and a far greater void i of theology which metaphysical velop the God concept. Somehow after all the structures of reasoning whether of scientists and philosophers, perhaps the truest conception is that of the simple soul who merely has sustaining faith in the beneficience of God who watches the sparrow's falj, and in the ultimate working out of justice and goodness in the tangled lives of men. . !jr j '' Curbing the Utilities COMMISSIONER Charles M. Thomas is now making use of the increased power given him in the 1933 utility act. This power extends to scrutiny of budgets of operating utili ties. The commissioner has come down hard on holding company fees and on executive salaries. The theory is that if such fees are allowed and excessive salaries are permitted operating costs are inflated. With respect to holding company fees the commission er's stand seems wholly justified. The companies must prove the need of such services and that the outlay is not a mere effort to siphon off the earnings and get around regulation for limited profits. Many large companies have renounced use of such devices to milk their subsidiaries. The Niagara TTm4avft' Xrxrxra awmnoTtv in 1 QQ7 oMovav) it rastiill onnAvfinn . aawuovu a vv v-a. vvuiyauj iu ugviaivu a.i vv vuiu caaavrx, uvsi to its operating companies only the actual cost of the services rendered them. Commonwealth and Southern, another large holding company has put ownership of its affiliated manage ment company in the hands of-; the operating companies served, so that any profit earned by the service company goes back to the operating companies. The Federal Water Service Company, owners of the local water company, adopted a similar plan early in 1933. It remains to be seen how gener ally this policy win be adopted voluntarily, and whether the companies will honestly carry out such declarations of intent. There is a place for the holding company which is com petently managed and honestly controlled. It makes avail able trainirig and experience to various units, bringing to the small town better service at lower cost. It has been converted from a useful agency to a financial racket; and this phase of its operations needs to' be scotched The question of salaries is one hard to determine; cer tainly very difficult for the commissioner. Graduation of " a1tu tm tlx. - -t U:i: TT-1-. Muuica ia w;e uuuuspriug ui amumuii uxueso we are going plumb socialistic, earning a higher salary will continue to be , the reward for incentive and effort profitable alike to the company and to the public which is served. In fact some of the men may not be getting enough now. Obvious distortions 1 of salaries may call for attention; but the commissioner may find himself in hot water attempting to chisel a hundred here and there from an army of utility employes. It is, time that regulation extended to concern for the legitimate investor who has supplied real money to create the facilities used in serving the public. Holding company fees and excessive salaries, result in skinning the stockholder, especially the preferred stockholder who relied on a steady though limited return. Exposures have shown that some utility managers had no conscience, trimming both the rate payer and the investor. Full publicity may prove- a potent tool In curbing such greed; but the law may prove a more permanent bridle; and that is what Thomas is start ino to employ, v ' "Mrs. Waddelt alt two hay hands over the head with a hoe handle, and knocked them out. She Jabbed mo In the leg with a pitchfork, while her mother kept yelling 'Kill him, Evelyn! Kill him, Evelyn! I thought she was a great mother, to coach her child la murder, " . ' L. .8. teutied Walter Woods, a stockman of the Eagle Point dis trict. In Justice court this morning. Medford Mall-Tribune Mother love In the Jackson county hills. tfotllwT eW8p?Per worker who got his training on The States man la makln rnnd Jim nint .1 . ! ?Tyh0. PorSand t" v ., ... . " " vmiucu ins advancement. . . aaBaBBkaaBssBaBaBBBBaaBBaBBaBasBsBBsaBBsaasBBs ' state vltaanE LC,0,nUn?r.ce ,ecretary nM n o be a e-n to be- ; Ashland to become Tield TwkZ7 t mTf" ?p from Charlie Wilson better rSt goldSaStaw.0h. gainst an with a half dozen twenty donaj-Vnii? .New l6r,er wom the presidentiai TdecJeeT or not! f 14 PleCea ha" been J" between it and the systems minds have contrived to de ' as' W bt walatant fn the M Promoted to the niter is a comDetffit ens.11 and hn The Safety Valve Letters from Statesman Readers Editor, The Statesman: Contestitis, have you got it or did you ever have It? Not a very serious disease if the germs are scattered by a reputable concern, with not too many catches mixed up in their advertising. I have noticed that many of our newspapers and magazines, those of the cheaper sort in particular, are full of contests all of which are about of the same type. You name something, a movie actress, a sack of flour, a horse, most any thing at all Just so it needs a name. Or you may be asked to tell what you would do with a lot of money, if you had it. Perhaps you will be asked to complete a limerick, etc., etc. The advertisement say that sending the name, or an answer to tne question as the case may be, is all that is needed in the contest. Nothing to ull. th ing to buy or no puzzles to work. &o rar so good. You send in your name, or answer, and wait for results. In a few dav receive a form letter they print em Dy tne Dale and tney all read alike. You are told your answer Is so rood that If von tairn ad vantage of their wonderful offer. in mis louow up letter, your ent ry will be placed in a group. A, which will entitle von to larger prize if yon are the win ner, otherwise It will be In group B, which consists of those contest ants who do not take advantage of this wonderful offer. Now this wonderful offar will most likely consist of getting mag azine subscriptions, buying or selling face cream, corn a&lva m something else. If yon seU more than anyone else you get the most DOInU ana. nrestl! von win tha big prize offered in the followup letter. Now there is no thin vrnnr with the competitive part of this contest. No one expects a concern to hand out a lot of money for nothing, bnt her romp tha Ink Nlne.limes oat of tea the winning name, or answer, to the original advertisement you aswered jrin be taken from rronn A. ennsfsfin nf the contestants that took advant age or their follow up offer. Group B, consisting of those who only answered the ortrlnal adver tisement, will most likely wind up in tne waste basket. What are you coins- to do abont Itf ThA best, thing to do Is s&T jour stamps or else accept the offer in the follow up letter and take your chance along with the rest of the easy marks. And the ad vertisement you answered said "nothing to sell, or buy. Nothing more to do to be a winner in this offer. 1 - A good square shooting contest Is all right It Is more or less Instructive- to the contestants, and profitable to the winner. A con test that is full of tricks and catehea had "better be 4eft alone. But what was it Barns m said?. r- J. C. S. j TROTS OP A XeW YFRg There's a glad new year before us. Where old- things shall have pass&d away. There joys shall flow like a river. Thru all the glad new day. 8ometimei that light from heaven Shines down to ligth this way Thst God's way-faring children Might glimpse the wonderful day. In that realm where comes no shadows, Tor the Lamb Is the light thereof. And there is life's pure river. And there we shall know God's ' v.w . I --wV". jI'-tV r 1 Bits for Breakfast By R. J. HENDRICKS Journal of Rogue River war, of 1855: S (Continuing from yesterday:) Dragging her husband's body in side and barring the door, Mrs. Harris instructed her daughter how to make bullets, while she stood guard and prevented the Indians from approaching too near the house by firing through cracks in the walls at every one detected in the attempt to reach it. In this brave manner she kept off the enemv until dark, when they withdrew. Alone with her husband's dead body, and her weary and frightened child, she spent tne long night. Toward dawn she; stole forth, locking the house behind her, and con cealed herself and daughter un der a pile of brush at no great distance away, where she was found, blackened with powder and stained with blood, many hours later by a detachment of troops under Major Fitzgerald. Mrs. Harris afterward was mar ried to Aaron Chambers, of the 18iS covered wagon immigration, and died In Jackson county in September, 18G9. Quoted from The Statesman of March 3, 1866: "It was stated that Mrs. Harris, when relieved, was so marked with powder and blood as to be hardly recognisable." The Indians attempted to burn her house over her head the dav before, h tit her marksmanship was good enough to save it, ana tne lives of her child and herself. Other victims of the outbreak of October 9 were: Mr. and Mrs. Haines and two children. Frank A. Reed. Wm. Given. Jas. W Cartwright, Powell, Bunch, Ham Uton, Fox, White, and others, on the road between Evans ferry and Grave creek; two young wom en, Miss Hudson and Miss Wil son. On the road between Indian creek and Crescent City; three men on Grave creek below the road and perhaps others, mak ing the bloodiest day the Rogue river section had ever seen. W V News flew fast At Jacksonvilln a company of 20 quickly armed ana took the trail of the Indians. They were overtaken by Major Fitzgerald with 65 troopers from Fort Lane. Arriving at Wagoner's place, they found the Indians plundering the premises, who, when the volunteers, first on the ground, appeared, greeted them with derisive yells, dancing and insulting gestures but, when they beheld the dragoons, fled at once for the mountains. The 18SS Rogue River war was begun; T. McF. Patton, father of Hon. Hal Patton of Salem, was already well on the way to Salem with dispatches to Governor Cur ry, to General Joel Palmer, super intendent of Indian affairs, at Dayton, and the military author ities at Fort Vancouver as fast as relays of horses could carry him. As to help from Fort Van couveran express was at that very time on " the' road to Fort Lane with a requisition for troops to be used in the suddenly flash ed and perilous situation caused by the .rising of the Yakima In dians and their allies beyond the Cascade mountains. Lieut. Kauts had set out from Fort Orford on Oct 10, with a party of citizens and soldiers to make an - examination of a pro posed wagon road route from Port Orford - to Jacksonville. At the great, bend of Rogue river, SO miles from the coast he found the settlers in frenzied alarm over a threatened attack of the Indians on Applegate creek -and he re turned to the fort tor a larger supply of arms and ammanirJon. Resuming his march, he was n ft few days attacked, and fought, and lost three" citizens and two soldiers of his company, and saved a considerable amount of ammunition only by his caution in unloading his pack animals at the beginning of the engagement after which he was able to con duct an orderly retreat. S S The 1856 war with the Rogues was now fairly on. The Indians had perhaps 400 well armed men. Between Oct 9 and 11 the whites could muster only 150 vol unteers with proper arms, as the Indians had been slyly buying up rifles and revolvers. There was One full COmDanV Of dr?nnn at Fort Lane and 6 4 infantrymen at wmcbester, escort to Lieut. Wil liamson on his survey of a rail road route from Sacramento to the Willamette valley. These 64 retraced their steps to Fort Lane. But by Oct 20th, 16 volunteer companies were organized by the settlers, and officers chosen, be ing, however, short of both arms and ammunition. On the 17th came the first fight between the volunteers and Indians, at Skull bar on Rogue river. Five whites were killed or mortally wounded, and seven severely wounded, and the mining town of Galice Creek burned, excepting one building. The Indians made forays in ev ery direction, killing-, white set tlers and burnlnr their hnn and robbing pack and waron trains after killina- the men In charge of them. Oct 28, the position of the main band of Indians was discov ered in the Grave creek tiiiia south of Cow creek. There was heavy righting the next day, and the next in which 28 men were killed, wounded or missing; four being regulars, killed, and seven wounded. The Indians had the ad. vantage in this second battle. with superior position and better knowledge of the land. A correspondent of The states man wrote, after this fight: "God oniy Knows when or where th war may end. These mountains are worse than the swamps of uionaa." Unexpectedly, the lame of Mm. was so short two companies of tne oattaiion or five companies of volunteers ordered by Governor jurry to ha enlisted and hnrrfA to the relief of southern Oregon arrived In time to be In the fight lug of Oct 29-80, and some of these men were among the killed ana wounded. 1. W The five companies were tn he. one each from Linn, Douglas and umpqos counties, and two from Lane. About the last of Novem ber, Governor Carry, with his ad jutant general, E. V. Barnum. paid a Visit to southern Orernn. and the fire volunteer companies were reduced to four, known aa the Second Regiment of Oregon Volunteers. The main band of Rogues, hid ing themselves in the mountains, made forays suddenly and as sud denly disappeared. They visited the reservation, . near Fort Lane, destroyed the property of all the whites there, and killed the agen cy cattle. They burned a number of houses on Jump-Off-Joe creek, and the soldiers met the band at the mouth of that creek and kill ed eight Indians. During the ab sence of protecting volunteers, roving bands in early December aevastated settlements on the west side of the South Umpqua, destrovlna 15 houses vhnna in mates had been compelled to take reruge in torts. Dec. 24. a force under Miles T. Alcorn attacked a camp on the north branch of' Little Butte creek, killing eight warriors and capturing some horse. About the same time. Capt E, , Rise j CHAPTE2 FORTY It was evening now. She and Julian would be leaving soon. The group that had gathered for cock- ' tads on the verandah was urging that they change their plans and stay. "I had counted on bridge this evening," Mrs. Tracy was saying fretfully. "Are you determined to leave, Julian? "Ask Patricia," ht said briefly. Mrs. Tracy turned to Patricia. She shook her head. Nothing could -make her stay an unnecessary mo ment nothing, not even Clark. "Must you go?" be asked plead ingly, at her elbow. "Won't morn lag do just as well?" "No," she said. "Please don't urge me." "Aren't you having a good time fatrtcia 7 you nave seemed so strange today." f "I'm tired, that's alL I didnt sleep, very well last night "What a shame," broke In Mar the, letting them know that she was present "1 slept like a baby myself." She looked reflectively at Julian. He looked at her. Deep within, Pa tricia felt herself begin to tremble No one suspected. Martha would see to that Marthe could cheat and win. She could have Clark and Julian too. Patricia eeuld not stop bet. - She could say nothing to Clark. Her hands were tied by her own sense of fair play, her own sensi bilities, her own feeling for human decencies. But she could speak to Julian. On their way back to town she did. "I went for a walk last night" she began deliberately.- "I couldn't sleep so I went for a walk on the lawn." "Oh," was Julian's only comment When Patricia failed to amplify her bare statement he ventured to say, "Well, what about your walk on the lawn? I'm all agog." "You know what about it," she advised him Ievelly. "I'm afraid that I don't" "Very well then," said Patricia in a rush, "I didn't mean to but saw yon you and Marthe." She had got it out Her heart was pounaing. uer face was crimson. Julian was completely undisturbed. He smiled in quiet amusement "It was a nice night for a walk,' he admitted casually. "Marthe. and I decided that we would take one too. Why didn't you come out of the shrubbery and join us? Still, he added after thought, "still guess it s just as well that you didn't" His armor was perfect and bright They had touched on the subject before, so he thought But it wasn't the same. This wasn't the aame. Patricia felt now that she was fighting for her life. She was not curious. She was not prying, She was not interfering in his af fairs. It was just that she must know. The touch of her cold des perate fingers on his wrist startled Julian. Something that he saw in her face erased the smile from his tips. Poor youngster, he thought and again, poor youngster ... "Go ahead," he said gently. "Surely you have not finished." She gave him ah earnest pene trating look. Tears stung at her eyelids. "I haven't any right to question rou," ahe said, "I know that I aaven't" fought a camp on the north bank of Rogue river four hours, kill ing the adult males and captur ing the women and children, who were sent to Fort Lane. Wrote a correspondent of The Statesman: "These two fights have blotted out Jake's band." It was a good riddance, tor nqrfsettler was safe while Chief Jake's bunch lived. The last days of 1866, Jo's camp was discovered on Applegate creek. He had ingeniously forti fied It, and was routed only when the howitzer waa brought un to shell It. Some of his tribe were killed, but Joe was aly enough to slip away, with most of his band. The winter of 1865-8 waa an unusually cold one in the Rogue river country, and . there was much suffering by the volunteers and their horses, hay for the lat ter being scanty and the pastur age poor. Thus' we com to a review of the diary of Harvey Robblns, vol unteer in the Rogue River war of 1866, leaving the fighting of the following years, attendant upon herding the Indians onto reser vations, for another time, follow ing that review, or perhaps later. One might with much time and patience weave' from Interviews with some of the aged Indians still at Grand Bond or Siletx memory stories of those days, never yet printed, that would be Interesting, and perhaps piece out some of the historical records of their vanished and vanishing race. (Continued on Tuesday.) Yiar 1933 Ending In Atmosphere of Real Spring Time STAYTON, Dec 20. If one takes a walk about town they form the opinion that spring is just around the corner. Instead of another new year. In some yarda flowering quince, which usually "blooms about March, fa already showing Its bright red flowers and several of the other spring shrubs are also In bloom. There are many lovely rdaes and . chrysanthemums yet - la bloom The filbert trees are show ing their long tassels. . s Women at Aumsyflle Can Meat for School AUMSYTXtLX, Dec 10. The canning committee? and helpers of the P. T. A., Mrs. Elmer Asche, Mrs. Charles Martin, Mrs. L. C. Mountain, Mrs. Fred Stelner, Mrs, David Lowe, Mrs. Bradley, met at the school house Thursday and canned 78 quarts of meat for the lunches beginning January. 2, X give you the rightthis once. "Are yen In love with Uarthet" "Good heavens, no." . . " He saw tn chagrin that, this wasn't the answer; she had hoped for. His very real sympathy les sened slightly. Still, be had prom ised. He prepared gracefully to yield to cross examination. "Is she In love with you?" "That's an awkward question, my dear." He grinned. "Even t have fleecing moments of modesty. "I know," faltered Patricia with a kind of wretched bravery, "that Marthe was in the house that time when I started my burglar hunt I remembered when I beard her laugh last night" "My word, you are a detective,' he said sharply, growing irritated despite his best intentions. "I think we'd better hire you out to Holmes. Heaven knows that Marthe isnt any saint Still I cant think of any par tieular reason why I should deliver her piecemeal to you." "She was asking about rac last night" put in Patricia, suddenly de fiant "I heard her ask if I were really your niece." "What of it? I thought you had certain standards of your own, Pat ricia. I protected you from her last night and stow I find today that j must protect her from you. Women,' announced Julian Haverholt dis tinctly, "women make me sick." The girl dropped her head In shame. Always she thought of her self as superior to Marthe March only to be brought back again and again to the fact that she was not Marthe was cheating, was deceiv ing uiaric wen, sue nerseiz was cheating too. It had taken Julian Haverholt to make her see it How many women, Patricia wondered, liked in after years to remember the meannesses, the subterfuges of courtship days? They drove on In silence. Julian was annoyed. He made no attempt to conceal his disappointment in the girt Half his irritation was based on hia own wounded pride but he did not realize it and hence could be cold to Patricia's suffering. I know I seemed horrible." fal tered the girt after a long time. Julian did not deny it "You you didn t understand," ahe muttered. "I understood all too wen." he informed her curtly. "You're trans parent as a pane of glass. You're wondering just where Clark fits In." "And if I am?" "I would suggest that he fits tn aa Marine's fiance. It's a role that suits him to a T." "Do you really believe that Mar the is playing fair?" "What's the difference, if she can get away with It? I rather think.1 said Haverholt deliberately, "that Marthe can. Marthe is very clever and Clark, for all his virtues, is a wee bit stupid. "Clark isn't stupid." assure rou. mv darlin. that ne is. - . T . Julian sruffawed nnexDcettdl Patricia clenched her fists, bit back a flood of ana-ry words. She looked away from Julian at the spinning country-side through a haze of helpless tears. That was the worst of it, she was helpless. Everything was all wrong. It was not. right that Julian should be able to laugh at Clark in just this way. Marthe was to blame. But Marthe' wtnM never be brought to book. As Julian had so aptly said Marthe was clever. Patricia gave her that Sympathetic Audiences, Players Noted as "Little Women" Shown By D. H. Talmadge, Sage of Salem The audiences whirl nT rh. ered during the week to see the "Little Women" picture have been more than ordinarily interesting. I was prepared for a show of something like scorn from the young women and girls who con stituted a considerable portion of the patronage accorded the film, but nothing of the sort was mani fested. Giggles were few and far between. The laughter was genu ine and the silences were elo quent Few motion pictures shown I n Salem have had more sympath etic attention from people of all ages. The costumes and settings of the '60s, which by those who have not seen the picture hare been inferred taba stiff, and per haps a bit ludicrous to the eyes of 70 years atterwarda, have dis tinctly added to rather than de tracted from the charm of the production. And it has seemed to me Im agination, perhaps, hut I do not think It Imagination entirely that the tour girls, all of whom wo have seen In the gin-and-neck-lug pictures which Hollywood has so favored, entered more fully into their roles and with more pleasure la doing; so and with a more; complete and affectionate understanding- of the characters assumed than any one of them has shown elawTar iii one of these girls is star, threat ened with, first magnitude, and all are high la the graces of movie However, opinions will differ. Opinion always differ, more or leas. ' BIkk Watts said he sold their red. cow for beef because him and -moinin oyuuom fce to ho a cow should act when she m u ,wt!uj( muaeo. " Sometimes even a casual con Tersation gets all anarled up and falls to' arrive anywhere. I gays to a t&ller, "Ain't life grand?" and he growls at me, "What's grand about it?" and before lean think otan answer hew went Dts gosttnr, Tha-feller doesn't de serve to have any correct language wasted on hunT - - I reckon more, fingers have been cut by dull jackknives than by sharp ones. Meaning wall, figure it out tor yourself. ' I note the name of Glen Mor ris as one of the ends of the western football team which will ' "fTduVe been quiet a remarkable time," said Julian presently. ."Are you angry with me?" "Net in the least." replied Patrida In freezing tones. "Yon needn't be nervous. 1 have no inten tion of atartinr reform wave." "Why be so bitter?" "I feel bitter." . H "But not about me?" "Hardly. IVe learned that lesson at least Fm just as pleased aa you kre to have our paths quite sep arate." . . "They need not be. separate," suggested Haverholt and reached out for her hand. She jerked away. He looked a shade discomfited, but covered it neatly. "Shall I buy a horse and fall off ft. Patrida? Is that the way to your heart?" "You're not interested," she said .distantly, "and I'm' not interested, so why pretend? I dont quite hate you and I dont quite like you and I'm sure you feel the same way. So let's have no more of that" "Speak for yourself, Patrida, dont speak for me." She looked up quickly at hia tone, "Do you think I couldnt have you if I wanted you?" he asked quietly. "Do you think, I eonldn't have yon if I decided to make you fail in love with me?" "If you were- the last man In the world," she said monotonously, "you'd be a bachelor for all of me." "You seem very sure." I. "I am sure." She had never been more sure Julian prudently dropped the sub-, ject He said no -more about Clarkj nor did the girL They spoke instead of the possibilities of the toorna-J ment with Blair. As Julian declared in the morning they might have saved their breath. j For Reuben Blair, making no eomment on the sensational chal-i lenge, took a boat for Europe. j Julian waa annoyed and dis-j gusted. At least a thousand times' he imputed sinister motives to Reu-j ben Blair's European trip. A thou, sand times he declared that Blaii had fled to Paris to avoid the em barrassment of either accepting oi declining to enter a battle which ht was bound to lose. A theory that; was doubtless true, Patrida re-i fleeted. Personally she blessed Reu-i ben Blair. That Haverholt had been1 robbed of his triumph, that his well laid campaign for free oublidtv aaa eouapsed in a single day meant nothing- to her. She was delighted to discover that the newspaper m a were willing to cry Quits. "I had It all Gned on too." aal Julian xunously, and added, a. grieved, "But you cant stare a fight when your opponent Dulls a vanishing act" i "You might set up a windmill on Broadway," Patrieia suggested mildly. "IU promise to carry a lance." Haverholt stamped out of the room. Patricia smiled rathei grimly. This check was good for his vanity. It might make him a'shari less conceited. It waa good for hex too, ahe admitted" soberly. Her day of reckoning had been postponed. She could breathe easilv inin There was no immediate chance that her secret would be dragged to the light She waa still Patrida Haverholt to the world. Witfc Inv ahe might remain so indefinitely. (T Be CoetinttuT) &u rial tores Sjradieat. inc. D. H. TALMADGE batUej the eastern boys at San Franeiaco on New Year's day. Not the genial Glen, of the Ceart brother?1 A o0tUn American photoplay. "My Lipa Be- !TTW? Chrts attrac Jloa at the Grand. Miss Harvey la one of the you-ean't-help-buu SSi1100 ot tiatsfYou don't know why you like V a lot and yoa don't care. , I see In the news that Marlene pietrlch persists In wearing mas culine raiment. I wonder If ahe tau working up out of her trous- S?iS nd Som6 wto masculine garments- find this very annoying-. M Bank Diaburxement rlleleaed;T -INDEPENDENCE, Dec 80. The fifth payment front the sav gf tpiaiimeat Farmera' HT.W" lTefl Friday cent .No disbursement waa ,mide In the commercial department TWa payment put theTtotal fof "TlllM department paid out at 90 Per cent a "V. . r - ... r- mv cent, OI tne rommorMol t ini. . Ai wtCwA, SBSnWawg' dosed In mi. Dan