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j Tho Sczzorfs Sandwich Linn ' f! " " ' Wo Faror Su?ayj 17; No Ftar Shall Aire" " From First Statesman, March 28, 1851 Chaeles A. Sprague - - Editor and Publisher THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. Member of the Associated Preaa TttA Associated' Press Is sxcluslreljr entitled to th dh tor public tion cf all mwi diapstches credited to It or sot otherwise credited la till PSP - - r ' Mellon's ANDREW MELLON, who since being described as the greatest secretary of the treasury since Alexander "Ham ilton has been about the worst maligned ex-secretary since Alex, has offered his great art collection which is val ued at nearly $20,000,000 to the national government, and has offered to erect a building in Washington costing eight or nine million dollars to house the collection. Our corns com mence to 4che when we think of, those miles of gallery cor ridors to be tramped to view the collection; yet the offer should be accepted by the federal government. It is hard for a person educated on Foster & Keiser art to see why a picture sells for a half million dollars or so, with its paint all checked : but so long as the work brings that in the open market it must have value. Some of the stuff we wouldn t be wiinng to give warehouse space to, but other works are of such sincere beauty that even the rude layman must pause in admiration .before it. "i: -;r ' -'r V ;-v r '.'O " v-'- U ; : " . Speakiner of art the Oregon state capitol will be very beautifully embellished. For one of the rare times in capitol hmldimr the commission has been able to save enough money from the concrete work to ornament the structure and give it the finish which a monumental public building requires. The' great rotunda will have magnificent; murals depicting the history of Oregon and characteristic scenes of the state. In front will be massive sculptured plaques also historical in character. The names of the have not been announced, but nave been engaged. 1 There has been quite a craze for murals in recent years. The government project for which enabled artists to eat during the hard times. Some of their work has merited placing work was probably just above got good advertising when the Mexican communist Diego Ri vera had his paintings destroyed in the Rockefeller hall in - Radiol city, because he worked propagandizing with his art, . dieted, will contain no propaganda, and will not be done after the manner of the extremist schools who now infect the artist - trade. Mr. Kelly is too conservative in his temper for that, and the state commission will not Wood barnyard scene over the Mr. Mellon is making a which will put a collection of the finest i paintings in the world in public ownership open for public inspection. Mr. Morgan has been selling off some of his pieces to pick up some ready cash. Uncle Andy didn't get pinched so bad with poor Inanat enrtsw sua in enViiA sfs melra Affoi TTa. wars 11 nrnKoKlv Kla criticised by politicians though ance tax on the amount invested in the pictures. ; Orphan Jobs ; A recent furore over lack of M in Salem brought to public ter of jobs like justice of the peace and constable. They are pretty much holdovers from primitive rural conditions . which prevailed in early day remain just that. In others they have blossomed into impor tant offices handling annually for the most part they have, Honest justices and constables handle the funds honestly; dishonest persons do not; and careless persons are careless with funds. The offices are not state or county offices but dis- tnct offices responsible to the Checks made in 'recent showed cases where justices in one case even entering the - in fact a fine was collected (and pocketed) and no jail term was served. In the majority of cases the public has no knowl edge of what the annual income lem the office in on a salary efficient manner. In most of ble are paid by fees; and there - arrests were pretty much of a There should be some state agency preferably the bu- . reau of audit, charged with the regular audit of books of jus tices and constables,-if the system of maintaining these of fices is to be retained. The jobs - important to go unchecked. So , tslature. ; I Out Again; iTkUT of the penitentiary only , y his second sentence there, a young man stole an automo l bile, wrecked it, quickly stole another and, pursued by an J officer, streaked through Salem's busiest downtown intersect Ltion at 60 miles an hour, endangering lives as he went, fih- ally colliding with another machine, with damage to both. , The judge gave him a year in prison, f A judge in Coos , county had given him two years for the second offense, which : also was car theft and committed, it is safe to say, under no - less aggravated circumstances. The two year term, and the one that nreceded it. evidentlv had not resulted In This case is, if nothing else, an emphatic reminder of the Inequality of penalties meted out by various circuit judges, a condition which narole board members nroDOse to correct - through enactment of an indeterminate sentence law in Ore 1 gpn. The board, in actual touch with the prison problems, knows that a brief period, in prison will reform some men urKoiOQa 4-riAlra Yzrill elwavi Va imtmitittla vil seVisvnls) Va ewwee. cerated as long and as frequently as the laws will permit, j; . T?nrrln nn Wpalr rnmnaniM r . S THE new tax on undistributed surplus of corporations is proving a handicap, for financially, weak railroads. This was disclosed in a hearing some weeks ago of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad reorganization plan where it was shown how if money were saved from dividends and put back into the property for paying off funded debt or purchasing new equipment the company would be severely penalized by confiscatory taxes. Now the interstate commerce commission in its report observes that the tax will work a hardship on the weak railroad companies, while the strong, by paying out their earnings in dividends will escape thepenalty. i ; While there have been statements that no change would be made in the tax at the present session of congress, there will be strong pressure for its modification, particularly for the relief of corporations heavily involved, which need to ap- , it i il ' 1 1 a; i - piy most ox meir earnings vo meeting uieir oougations. oure ly the general prosperity of the company will not be furthered by clubbing the companies already in financial distress. Corpus I T is. a weird story that came young married woman, who says that gangsters touched off a magazine filled with explosives in order to kill her and a man whom they had turned against. ' She managed to escape. The certain thing is that there was a powerful explo sion, which shattered $20,000 worth of window glass in near by Sioux Falls. The woman was picked up, having crawled away from tha powder keep. A piece of flesh was picked up, the only trace cf the alleged victim of the plot - : Police are tn the trail of the perpetrators of the mon strous deed. If they capture them the attorneys may find it hard to convict them. Will the single piece of flesh be enough Art Off er ; artists who will do the work we aresure competent men . i- artists provided a lot of money on permanent buildings ; other sign painting grade. Murals in Lenin s picture. He was Oregon's murals, it may be pre- be inclined to favor a Grant main staircase. ; grand offer, to this : country. for trying to escape inherit audit of the constable's office attention the-orphan charac America. In some localities they a large volume of business. Yet gone unaudited and unchecked. people but unsupervised. - years in various justice offices failed to turn over fine money. line "remanded to jail" where of the justice is. Here in Sa basis, and conducted in a very the cases the justice and consta have been cases where traffic fee racket for the officers. in the smaller cities are too here is a task for the new leg- , In Again i a few. hours after serving out Delicti but of 'South Dakota, told by a Bib1 for . . i . i V; Brcc'cfast ; By R. J. HENDR1CK3 . Greeting to . i . 1-6-3 t A. P. Brown, Oregon : pioneer. In hu 101ft ' rear, neaitny and nsppy: ; i- ' U 1 C. If. Lee. who has long been with the Willamette Grocery company, the capital eitya leading wholesale house In Its line, left hia home at 164 North Cottage street, Salem, on the last day of the old year, for; a trip to south ern California on a toor deroted to business and pleasure, , lie took with him greetings and a small Christmas present from the Bits man to his old time friend, A. F. Brown. and eongrat nlatlon to Mr. Brown apon enter ing his 101st rear since felicita tions were last exchanged through the same mutual friend. ; : :r-i-U:Hll: ; Old time readers of this column will recall." tn a series from Feb. 1 to 7, 19SS, incluslTe, excerpts from a life sketch of Mr. Brown, then Molnr onf 100,, bat rwltb quite a stretch of time yet to go, being In his 7th year. He reached the century mark on the last day of last An gust. s . , Mr. .Lee Teports htm aa quite spry attending to his own bus iness affairs, baring excellent eye sight, and being a great reader. He sent 1936 holiday greetings to Mr. Lee, written In, his own hand, firm and legible, , Thatts quite remarkable. lor ft man who will come to mile post 101 In his earthly pilgrimage , on the last day of August this year; and especially for one who has done a great deal of pioneering-, stood many bardl knocks, bad nps and down In plenty, and eadnred exposure, hunger and cold. He was born at Stratford, N. H.. August 11, 1830, on the farm tak en up and reclaimed from the wilderness by bis - grandfatherr the land still occupied by a neph ew of bis. making only fire gen erations from the unbroken prair ie and forest. p ,v;: V V A. F. (AlonsoU Brown's father died when he was six months old. and he Irred at home and worked on the farm until be was 14, when he went to Boston, j bis worldly goods tied in a handkerchief. There he got work In a club house of which the great Daniel Webster, then In the last years of his life, was an honorary member, and his son Col. Fletcher Webster was an acttre member. CoL Web ster was klUed at Antletam. m pay oi me ooy was izo a month, and he waited on table at a hotel for his board Next he got worK in a shoe store at S 1.50 a week, still waiting on table for his keep.. j - f He was" also dellrery boy on loot, woratng from T a. a. to I p. m., and on Saturdays to 12 mid- nignt. Alter a year he got a raise to S3 a week, but had to pay S2.7S a week for his board and lodging. Then he got work with ibis bro ther in his gents' furnishing store at 5 a week. The brother cut out gents' shirts In the back of his store and ; sent them out to be made np by women In their bdmes. That was customary. It was hand work, tbo sewing machine not tnen lnrented. The brother became sick - and unable 4o carry on. and the boy, men is. round a man. with tSOO for a partner and with $100 he himself had eared bought oat the brother, the balance of the nurch ase price to be paid la monthly In stallments. At the! end of the year Alonzo sold out to his partner, re tiring with 11300 in cash and a gold watch,. at 174 ii Next he bought a half Interest In a similar business at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., then a leading sum mer resort city, where came Ex- President Millard Fillmore, Wil liam H. Seward, statesman; CoL May, hero of the " Mexican war. uommoaora vanderbiit. many ncn to Dans, etc. etc Brown installed in a corner of bis store the first telegraph office In Saratoga Springs; the dispatch es tnen. of course, taken in the Morse alphabet on a tape. Being 18: and settled . In bus iness, Alonso went to Boston and. Not. 9. 1854, married Miss Ada M. La main. . The next year they erected a heme in which they liv ed until they came! to Oregon. The year of his nirrltr . Brown joined the New York mili tia, was c h o s e n quartermaster with the rank of lieutenant, and made the suits and selected the equipment. The colonel boasted they had the finest. in the state.: Their brigadier general. Edward Frisby, raised a regiment and was killed in the CItII war. L. P. Brown, a brother, went to California by Teasel in 1841; re turned and planned to cross the plains westward la 1851. Alonso sold his business ! to his : cutter. disposed of his house and furni ture except what he shinned around "the horn," thence to San Francisco and Scottsburg on the Umpqua, and. in March, 1850, the Brown families were on their long Journey to the ultimate west. (Concluded tomorrow.) Holy Name Men to Come ' In Body For Communion ST. LOUIS,' Jan.! 1 Next Sun day the Holy Name men of this parish . win , receire holy com munion In a body. After the 8 o'clock mass- the men will meet to j elect new members for, the finance committee.;, 1 . ' . to establish the f'ecrpus delicti", xiecessary in all murder trials as well as in good detective stories? Will the testimony of the woman stand up under examination? Here indeed is a happening as grotesque as it is gruesome and macabre. The inventive mind of Edgar Allen Poe hardly devised a more fantastic means of wiping out a person. The demands of hu man interest as well as justice call for the full unravelling of the story. 1 By D. IL . Retrospect , ; -l Along in January the memories . do swarm : - ., t - Of past nights when we went to i - bed in order to get warm Back yonder in the good old days ' when we burned subscription wood, V V.--:-:- : ? -Which did not generate the heat as freely as wood should. Bed gare relief to aU our chills. dispelled our erery woe. v Brought sweet forgetfulness to as of bitter winds and' snow, ' And folks smiled understand- , tag. with noddlngs of their heads. . -vv ! When Paster Perkins said. "O . Jjora wo thank thee tor our - beds!- . : . - ... -v . Whate'er the burdens of the day. if restful be the night. We're pretty sore to bear the ' load and carry through all - right, . .. And this truth holds fa regions mild as welt as regions cold jbsk oi aomm oio-umo - wuiar months what stories may be told.""4 Mankind is not of course, na turally pigheaded. Just tho same. yon : know how yon -- feel about things and X know how X feel a- bout things. We get oar way aV boat as often as not by Insisting on certain methods which secretly wo consider plumb foolish. . A lady aat in a booth la a cer tain popular Salem cafe reading a book and eating a salad, presently she finished the salads but still sat reading the book. 'She will . be through soon,' whispered a wait ress to a gentleman who wag wait. tag. The gentleman edged towards the booth and glanced at the book tho lady was reading. It was "An- thony AdTerse." page 1Z. But he knew what the waitress meant. . "Shucks" in print is a harmless little expletive, but spoken it may bo equivalent to a right smart burst of profanity. Quite some discussion is going on to tho best individual screen performance of the past year, as seen at Salem -sho who usee. There were- a dozen or 15, perhaps more. really - excellent individual per formances seen hero during tho year.; So far as X am concerned, five stand out above tho Others at this moment Louise Ralner la "The Great ZlegfJeld. Sir Ced- rick Hardwicke in "Nine Days Queen. Ronald Colman In "A Tale of Two Cities," Leslie How ard in "Petrified Forest," and Adolpho Menjou In "Sing Baby, Sing." Bat we bare not yet seen all tho 1128 pictures. K: The first preliminary to picking one's favorite screen actor Is to forget "Donald Duck" and "Mick ey Mouse". That duo cramps one's Judgement as to the higner tnings in einima dramatic art. GnrrJes , From one of Salem's most dis criminating and faithful patrons of theatrical amusement. Sex, fem inine. Age and general descrip tion, fff (fair, fat and fifty) . "I can hardly wait to hear Jeaa ette Mac Donald and Nelson Eddy sing 'Carry Mo Back to Old Vlr glnny in the Maytime picture.' " . "Franchot Tone, I see, has de signed a morning jacket. He looks to me like the sort of a guy who would Invent a morning Jacket or some thing." "Sonja Henle on skates in the One in. a Million' picture at the Grand theater man, man! it's poetry, that's what it is ! Good Show otherwise, too." ; "I get a kick out of the vaude ville bills at tho SUte - theater. Folks don't always agree as to the merit of an act, and that's part of the kick. JBut yon never know, because the performers themselves don't always know, when something unexpected will turn up that'll' put everybody, in snickers. Movie yaudeTille . Isn't that way." -. "Gosh! I hadn't heard a blue note from an orchestra for so Ion: I was becoming positively raven ons to hear one. Funny, isn't It?" An Item In the dally news says Norma Shearer has been recuper ating in Phoenix. She's a darling. isn't she? Still. I don't know as she is ranch darllnger than Clau- dette Colbert. Of course X mean from a theatrical , standpoint of Tiew. "Fred Astaire and Ginger Rog ers- They are simply swell, that's alL" -r-.' - .. "X always have to be rubbed with liniment after I've seen the RIts brothers : " "Don't yon think Dick -Powell should get blm a new set of ges tures?" - . "I guess it's a tossap between Mr. Schmidt and Mr. Bier as to who is the most cordial and grace ful greeter and good-nighter con nected with Salem show houses. But Mr. Lewis does pretty . well, too." , "A writer, one of the smart ones, calls Jane Withers an "ug ly duckling.' It would be true if sho were ugly and a duckling, but she is neither. I suppose tho writ-: er means to be complimentary, the sap! Jane Is like a cool breeze on a hot day. If yon know-what X mean." - ;"---. A small pinkish envelope, hear ing a Woodburn postmark and containing a query from "Movie Fan" . which may really be her name J suppose, like "Calamity Jane" of 'Brighton Belle." has ar- - - Speed TALMADGE riTed here, "and I am answering It in .spite of tho doubt about the name, there being a rule that aU communications must , Dear the name ofthe writer. "Some of ns," says the contents-of the enrelope. along with best wishes for' a mer ry Christmas, which I reckon 111 consider to be the : first greeting for ChrUtmas 1IS7, " saw 'Love -On The Ron ar Salem during tho week-end, and 'wo cant seem to agree whether tho- picture-: la an imitation of "It Happened One Night of whether ft-isnt. Wish you'd tell as what you think. X have : heard similar criticism of "Love On The Run" in Salem and from ..rather hard-headed theater patrons too, who think they know .what's what about motioa pic tures. Personally I can see little or nothing to warrant the "Imita tion" charge, beyond the fact that the story haa a runaway heiress and a newspaper reporter in it. It Js not so enjoyable a story as "It Happened One Night" partly be cause of its London-Paris setting, but it is nerertheless a good e nough story and sufficiently well done by a cast of players headed by Joan Crawford to hold Its own on its own merits, i -.'-,, In the matter of young lore be tween the sexes some ot tho pio tare directors at Hollywood ap pear to lean strongly toward tho "contiguity" , theory, as opposed to the : more sweetly sentimental "affinity idea. I reckon if some daring person were to suggest to certain Hollywood directors. or to certain ( Hollywood scenario writ ers, the possibility that a soul on on side of the world could re spond to the call of Its mite on the other side of the world tho directors would say nerts" or some other elegant movie express ion and would go at once into a seizure of apoplexy. Love in many of the modern stories written for tho movies develops with ; great rapidity. It Is not far remote from the truth to state that cases have been known of lovers meeting as complete strangers on one street corner, i who developed a kissing and embracing acquaintance be fore coming to the next corner, and a courtship lasting a week is a long and tortuous experience. It seems somewhat ridiculous to me. bat perhaps it accords with the spirit of the times. , , There's a heap ' of : desirable things In the world that are easy of attainment. It is a grand thing and rich in peace for the human heart to be able to seriously - de sire only the things that are eas ily attainable. It is fine to Jook forward each - day to something which, not only may come with the morrow, but is almost certain to do do.. - Still, there was Lafe Todwelter back at Turkey River. Lafe attrib uted bis - great age (he was up wards ot 00) to the fact that he wanted a certain somethinr that cost a lot of money and that be did not really need, and he was determined ho would not die till he got it. An ornery, disagreeable frame of mind In which to spend lifetime, ho died finally, of course. Even his own folks were glad when be had snarled bis last snarl and had become unsnarled. They dldnt say so. but when f,hey uttered the customary lamenta tions they had much the same ex pression on their faces the cat had arter It swallowed tho canary. Ten Years Ago ' January CL 102T J . W. J. H. Clark until ft vmp ago superintendent of state em. ployment institution for 1 blind asks to bo reinstated as recover ed now from recent illness. Governor Pierce favors serrtU gstion of boys and girls in state blind school, new dormitory is needed. - : - - !'.--; Officer . Lee - Wlntersteeh - was host at a star party to all mem bers ot night police force on oc casion of his birthday. 1 Twenty Yeer$: Ago January O. 1017 t Mary Miles Mlnter wears 820 shoes but pays only 51.75 to 82 pair for them as she wears a two and a half slxe and 80 per cent off for cash. ; J, gets Willamette" bis: - basketball schedule will open tonight when tho varsity squad will play the alumni team, r Eugene Hancock of Seattle ar- rired in the capiUl yesterday to Uke the chair of ICngllsh at Wil lamette . university which was made vacant by Professor t Wal lace MaeMurrar. 1CCD Gather For Holiday Dinner RICKREAL, Jan.; S Approxi mately, 100 persons enjoyed New Year's dinner at the local hall Friday. The remainder of the- day was spent In a social war, with dancing In the evening. ; Special, guests were MrJ and Mrs. P, Q. Voth, Mr. and Mrs. D. W, Shelton "of Dallas; Mr. and Mrs. 8. J. 'Lakness and Doris of Portland, Miss Lncille Wllken of Corvallijs. Mr. and i Mrs: James Robbe of Independence : and M. A. Burch. A large crowd was pres ent in the erenlng. M. J. Teter is in the Dallas hos pital recovering from a major op eration. f Miss Margaret Gillis. county health nurse . spent Monday i here I examining the pupils of the grade school. ' Hazel LiTilnston I CHAPTER XIX . "But Adele lores you, Donald!" :' "I hope not." - - j "But she did she does!" : l . i "She says not, and X choose to bellere her, Christie." - - ; "But Donald, any girl would !. They argued about that s for hours. Flooded with the warmth of knowing he cared for her, she could be generous to Adele. Rren to tho point of giving him up to her. That old trick of wanting to sacrifice herself. . . , Maybe be was correct to say that wasn't right and it wasnt oven kind. That: the mistake be had made was not in finally breaking with Adele, but in letting things slide on. for so long, "It was because it was so ln-i definite that it was so ridiculously hard to break." be said. "It we had been engaged I could bare nerved myself to go to her. and ask her to break it. But we weren't engag ed. I'd never really- said a word about love or marriage. It was Just that we had drifted along. . . a ' "And so X didn't know what to say. or , what to do. Bnt when X saw that I was going to lose you if I didn't do somethinr. X Just had to. So I went to her and put all the cards on the table this afternoon, and she was very sweet about It IH always Uke her for that." 8he bad to ask blm bow long he'd loved her and when he first knew, and what made him do it. . : "Always, X think. But X knew it that night that you were ill, and you talked to me about that fel low." . r; v,:,. ..j....,: j That fellow!. . .. Gene. . . I She'd almost forgotten about hint. Funny how she could forget it aU so completely : for a little while, and then bow it would all come back with sickening clarity. His Ions dark: eyes. His new bins suit be was so proud of. Even! the necktie he wore on that last day light blue, with a dark blue figure, and little specks ot red. ... 1 She couldn't let anyone like Don ald marry a girl who had been so cheap. And because she couldn't come right. out and say that, she said a lot of silly things she didn't mean, and tor a Utile while it look ed as though she'd succeed in; do ing what she had come to do send him awayget rid of him f oretfer But she must have put It on a bit too thick, for after a while he stopped : looking hurt and bewil dered, and he said: "Look here, are you turning me down for my good? Am X really too old and decrepit at 21, and do you reaUy want to have a career land be a famons woman, or it is some darn fool Idea that you aren't good enough for me? Because if it Ib " It's not because it's you. Any body! I've Just made np - my mind never to marry, that's aU, and I" v., .-S--- -' f; . ;: So he'd taken her tn bis arms. laughing at her and scolding ber, and loving her, and she'd cried a little, and laughed a little, and Oene and all that went with blm seemed far away and unreal. Uke something she'd read about In a VWM. . . ... i "Of course you are going to; be a lot or trouble to me. he had gone on. half laughing, half ser ious. "My mother, who is very sweet, self sacrificing person, with a calculating streak in her, has; set her heart on ber only son's mar riage to aome likely gal with, a mint of money. . ' She needs It to pay the takes on, the old homestead, and she needs a new fur coat, and diamond bracelets and ; lord only knows what else. She's going to be good and nasty, as only a loving mother with an only son to marry off, can be. She'll make you miserable!'? ; "No, she won't. I couldn't ; be miserable. If I had you. Oh. Don ald, you're so comforting. Just; to put my bead on your shoulder and snuggle down and Just forget ev- erythiag ;" L'., That's It. I'm going to be a great disappointment to yon. tbo. m go out on -call In the middle j of the night, and I'll forget to come (home to dinner ". ! .- r''$" k""llTK vv'; ! "Look here, are you turning me down (or my good?" -Swell! IU forget to cook din nert' "And we won't have any money to go out and buy it we'll Just nave to go hungry ". , Tin hungry tfow. I'm starred. i lorgoc 10 eai luncn i . was - so thrilled getting myself into the hospital. Oh. Donald, what will they say, when I don't come? Oh. shall I train for a while first, and then - vi "No, what would be the use? We love each other that's all that maters, isn't it?" , r . Where had she beard that be fore . . . Back home an a summer's day, and a-boy asking her to go away with him . . . Must she be re minded her whole life long of all that she wanted to forget? "Why wait, darting?" She smiled through the tears. that would faU in spite ot every- tning. smiled because this time someone wis asking her to. marry him now-4-rlght away, : without waiting "Donald.1 this Terr minute if you want! Now that I've found out that I do love you and oh, I do. I love you so much kiss mo again I And hold your head still a minute. I want to get a good look at you. I never did reaUy look at you till to day, you know, and X really ought to enow what you look like. Why. you're ' really quite handsome! Tour mouth is a shade large, and your nose isn't quite classic, but still" They were shoutlnr with I laughter when Aunt Nettie opened toe uoor, waiaea in, aignined and disapproving. - - "I'm sorry. I thought you had gone. Christine only expected to keep you a moment." f - And while Christie struggled for the right answer, the laughter dy ing on her lips, be spoke. - "Christine and I have been plan ning our wedding. It takes time. he said eaaily, not in the least em barrassed by Aunt Nettie's best Empress ot India manner.- - For the fraction of a moment Aunt Nettle was speechless. Her plump white hands .went to her throat. But you had to hand it to her. She rose to tho occasion. That's very nice," she said, and her Toice was only a little higher pitched than usual. "Perhaps lean help. But tomorrow. It's very late. Christine, you must say - good nixht " . ;And half drunk with excitement and ' happiness. Christie cried: "But he has to take me out and buy me a sandwich. I'm so hungry. A steak sandwich, darling. With fried onions on the side!' "Certainly not. Ill have what yon wish sent upstairs to you!" "We won't be gone long. I'll bring her right back." He had his way. Not even Aunt Nettle could deny ft to him. And -so they went out together that night of their engagement, she with her eyelashes still stuck to gether in little points from her recent tears and her mouth scarlet and laughing, and ate thick, smok ing hot sandwiches at a lunch counter, forgetful of all the sorrow that had been, ot all that might stUI come, i '.,.-1., e e'' . ,V .' " . .:,' When she was with Donald ev erything -seemed inevitable and right, and natural. f "We'll be married right away," he had said. And she, who had thought that such a thing could never be. had agreed Ught-heartedlyv happily, Uke a child. . But .when he' was rone. and Aunt Nettie spoke to her with pa tient kindliness, the hard, resent- rui gutter still In her eye. of things that must be done, she wondered how she had erer thought it could be simple. , Clothes. Announcements. Min ister. Wedding. Even such things i getting the marriage license. and choosing a wedding ring. it was no use sarin r that they dldnt want a wedding with a lot ot people, and -they didn't care about announcements and she had enough clothes already. j siowiy. patiently, as If she were explaining something to a half wit. Nettle made It clear that she must have a wedding whether she wanted It or not. ' ! "It you yourself don't care, then think of Adele, and her-position!'! ITo Be Continued) . ;, Kansas Relatives Visit At IConzclman Residence AMITY, Jan. 6 Recent guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. it. Konzelman were Miss Ida L. Vinton of Lyndon. Kansas, a cou sin of Mrs. Konzelman, Mr. and Mrs. Will Loop sad family and Mrs. Vivian Brooks and three sons all of McMInnvllIe. r Miss Ehtrley Umphlette is at tending business college In Port land this winter.