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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1932)
Nothing Venture by Pairicia Went worth Brnopvta; Nin. trying to live JarrU from an unseen dinner which she en.sen. Jumps ahead of her buiband to prevent hi crossing the bridge over tlie deep tidal gully. Just as she does, the bridge timber give way with a terrifying crash. Nan miraculously Is aved from death on the rocks below by Jervls and the dog Bran. 8be in sists this Is another attempt by Rob ert Leonard on Jervls' life but her husband ridicules the charges. Nan Is certain the treacherous Rosamund Carew, Jervls' former fiancee, Is allied with Leuuard in the plot. Chapter 21 DANGEROUS TEA PARTY At lunch Jervls made the sort of pjlite conversation he would have to a guest, and immediately after lunch he went out. Hie day had turned to heat; the last of the haze was gone, and fierce sun beat down Upon the damp ground; far away on the horizon heavy piled up clouds suggested thunder. Nan took a book to a seat on the ehady side of the lawn, but she did not read. The book lay on her lap, while her thoughts moved restlessly about the broken bridge. She had a shock and It had left her shaken. Jervls had been as near death as he could ever be until death took him. She thought of Jervls taking that Ion? step forward on to the bridge, of the bridge cracking, of the vto- ; lence of Its fall, and of the roar of ! the falling river. j She opened her book at random and began to read. The words passed over her mind like water passing over stone; they left no mark. She shut the book, and saw Jervls cross ing the lawn toward her with Bran at his heels. "Welt" he said, "I've had the men down at the bridge." Nan turned to ' face him. Bran came over to her and put his head in her lap. "The wood was rotten. The spray from the fall had rotted It. As a matter of fact Benham that's the carpenter reminded me that I had spoken to him about having it over hauled, but of course I didn't think CUNDOWN SLEEPING By Mary Graham Bonner Willy Ntlly read more stories, he looked up several words in the dic tionary, and he discovered any num ber of splendid games for Puddle Muddle parties, and Rip, his dog friend, slept on. "I think I'll wait and have Old Toad fix my ears," Willy Nllly said to himself. "I'm feeling very tried, and I real ly need a good night's rest. I need to feci fresh and rested in ttie morning as I must paint my sign and mend my roof where It leaks and fix my car Two-Ways, and I've had so many Interruptions lately. "There have been so many broken toys and Mrs. Quacko's car has Seeded so much attention." Rip stirred In his sleep and open J his eyes. "Are you still reading?" he asked. "Those books were supposed to be used to help make your ears stay back and here you are reading them all night." A prominent rooster of Puddle Muddle started crowing. "It will be daylight if I don't stop reading now," Willy Nllly said. "Shall we put off doing the ears until tomorrow night?" Rip whs asleep once more and gave no answer to this. So Willy Willy turned out the light and set tled himself for sleep. In a very fhort time he was fast asleep and the books were lying on the floor beside the bed. When Willy Nllly got up to get dressed he looked at his ears in the mirror. "It was certainly foolish of me not to have started the treatment last night," he said. "They do stick out drenrifiilly!" ACROSS VYlndllower Uai kbene Misled Jury list llrvercntlal fear A km ; f Mlilinn Orcnn: Ucr tunn Precious stone Vigorous con test: colloq. 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"Yes I. did." "Then I think you ought to with draw that suggestion. If the timbers had been partly sawn through the marks of the saw would show. There aren't any marks." Nan did not speak. She gave him a steady look, and then went back to stroking Bran. A little dark color showed In Jervls' face. "You made what amounted to an accusation." "Yes." said Nan. He struck the back of the seat with his hand. "Are you going to withdraw It? ' "No." "After Benham's report?" Nan flung up her head. "He tried to kill youl" "That's nonsense. The bridge fell because It was rotten and I'd put oft having it seen to. As a matter of fact It was Leonard who directed my attention to it not a week ago Ben ham reminded me. 1 don't like Leo nardhe's not a man I've ever cared about, but he's a family connection, and I think you ought to take back what you said." Nan got up. She took a step to wards him and stood still. -This Is the third time he's tried to kill you," she said. She saw his face darken and then change. He was looking past her, and she turned involuntarily. Janet Tctterlpy and Rosamund Carew were coming across the lawn. Nan braced herself. She felt taken unawares and defenseless, but she called on her ournge, and it rose. j Alfred brought chairs, and pres ently Monk entered upon the impos-1 ing ritual of tea. Janet Tetterley, a ginger-haired j woman with pale eyes and magenta lips painted on crooked, shook hands 1 without looking at Nan, and began 1 at once to talk to Jervls about peo- I pie Nan did not even know by name. I Pogo was broken and was going to have a try for the Winkledon giri, but it wasn't likely she'd look at him because Snorter was in the running too, and naturally he'd have a pull over Pogo. Jervls preferring Pogo's chances, they became involved in argument, until Janet produced a red herring in the shape of an extraordinary ru mor about somebody named Bonzo and his latest conquest. Nan poured out tea. If It had not been for Jervis, she woultUnot have minded. It would have amused her to watch Janet Tetterley, who was so thin that eacli of her restless move ments threatened to break some thing. Having achieved a miraculous slenderncss by the complete sacri fice of health, color and bloom, she was inordinately pleased with the result. At intervals of ten minutes or so she opened a vanity case, and applied powder to her bony features, and another touch of magenta to her thin lips. She talked without ceasing, and had something faintly unpleasant to say about everyone she mentioned. ' She appeared to amuse Jen-is. Rosamund sat, for the most pact, lighting one cigarette from another and talking little. Once when Nan looked up she found herself meeting Rosamund's eyes. Behind their won derful dark blue a definitely hostile something met and then instantly evaded her. Nan felt a little shaken; she did not expect Rosamund to like her. An armed neutrality was the best that could be ho.oed for between them. The two did not make a long visit. As they got up to go, Tetterley made a restless movement toward Nan. "Oh. by the way. Basher told me fi. At no time 7. Prepared for publication a. All that a simon villi hold S. Ffiunlitv lu. "Tiio doomy dean" 11. Sewing Imple ments 14. Geomoi ileal Uuura SO. Row 2t. Tice trunks 25. Wise i!in 21. Inhabitants JO. los!rous of another's possessions 11. fclri.lr.-in dijhei 12. Rcneirbll fif ths rainbow SJ. Silver coin SC. Luminous en vclope sur rounding the sun 40, Momornnda 4t. Corrupt 41. Auctloni 45. Philippine Nerlto 47. Soaks up ' SO. Corded cloth W. Plant of the lily family MAS SjT N G s n e Sir e e 56. Breaks sud denly 67. Helps DOWN 1. Proverb 1. Not so old t. Constituents 4. The Oreek U I. Poems (o be sure to ask you about your people." Nun gazed at her. She did not re peat the ivord Basher, but she con trived to produce the Impression of having done so. Tetterley Jerked her emaciated shoulders, "Basher's my husband. He's got it into his head that you may be relat ed to some Forsy tries he used to know. I told him It was most im probable, but he said to ask. I be lieve lie was in love with one of them. They used to live at a place in Connecticut, and one of the sons went off digging up Old Testament places In Chaldea. Basher says he was quite well known in his own line." 'Nlgel Forsyth," raid Jervls. Tetterley noded. "That's it. He wrote books about it. I dont read them myself, but Basher gloats over them, and he particularly said I was to find out If you were related to the Con necticut Forsythes." Nan's color rose. "Yes, I am." 'Not really!" Her tone made this an impertinence. "Nigel Forsyth was my father." Tetterley knocked the ash off her cigarette and said, "Basher will be thrilled." After which she turned with one of her abrupt movement and de clared that they ought to have gone ten minutes ago. Neither she nor Rosamund took any leave of Nan, who was left un certain of whether to cross the lawn with them or to remain where she was. She made a tentative movement to follow them, but they were al ready some distance away; she would have had to run to catch up. No one of the three looked around. She hesitated, stood looking after them for a moment, and then re turned to the tea-table with growing THE OUMI'S flK THE PEOPLE II ST DEMAND IT UN AND F ANDY G0W CAN BE CONVINCED ABSOLUTELY that HK "is their c hoice - AND p WE FEElS THAT IT IS FOR THE 0.00O OF HIS COUNTRY THAT HE RUMi AS THEIR CHAMPION COR PRESIDENT HE WILL, RUN- LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE A HEEL WITHOUT A SOUL THE INSOLENCE OP THAT " f PUBLIC SENTIMENT IS jfjlfi THEN THEY CAN u7 GO liSJ OLD POOL. PETE PINCHER, TALKING DANGEROUS THING TO FOOL SRS S I TO THE COUNTY FAHM- I'LL I M?a'gg-, . 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Olve your full name and address so that you may receive a personal letter in reply. Enclose three cents (carefully wrapped for return postage. Di rect your letter to the Capital Journal Information Bureau, Fred- certainty that she had done the wrong thing. A few minutes later, she got up and walked to the house, her cheeks burning and her courage very low. She met Jervls in the hall, and he loked at her with a cold anger. "Why didn't you come to see them off?" "You went without me." "You should have come too," She said, with a simplicity that checked him, "I am sorry. You went off so quickly at the end, and I thot it would look foolish if I ran after you." He pasesd on without another word and she did not see him 'til dinner. (To be continued) me eric J. Ha skin oriclc J. Haskin, director, Washing ton, D. C. Q. What was the first show In which Mariam Hopkins played in New York? S. W. A. Her first Broadway appear ance was as a water lily in the Mu sic Box Revue. Q. Who invented the cash regist er? M. R. A. It is probably the most an tique, and yet in its Improved form the most modern device known to commerce. More than 6000 years ago the ancients used a registering device known as the Abacus for the purpose of showing visible to the buyer and seller the amount pur chased. The modern cash regist er was invented by Jacob Rltty of Dayton, Ohio, patented 1879, it be ing suggested to him by the dial on a steamship which recorded the number of revolutions of the pro peller. Q. Please give a list of the Speak ers of the House of Representatives and their terms from 1889 to the present. S. R. S. A. The Speakers of the House from 1889 have been: Thomas B. Reed, 1889-1891 (Maine); Charles F, Crisp, 1891-1895 (Georgia ; W flfl L Wm MORE REAL VALUE FOR. m f P M I5L 1 j ! f , j, A ' WM "H Wsm TAK DOLLAR $f7 M I II Thomas B. Reed, 1895-1899 (Maine); D. B. Henderson, 1899-1903 (Iiwa); Joseph O. Cannon, 1903-1911 (Illin ois); Champ Clark, 1911-1919 (Mis souri); Frederick H. Gillett, 1919 1936 (Massachusetts); Nicholas Longwortb, 1925-1931 (Ohio); John N. Garner. 1932 (Texas), Q. Has Abbe Dlmnet visited Amer ica? D. C. A. A. He lectured at the Williams town Institute of Politics in 1923 and has since made several trips to America as the author of the non fiction best-seller, The Art of Thinking. Q. Is membership in the Dude Ranchers Association confined to ranch owners? H. K. A. The Dude Ranchers Associa tion Includes in its membership both owners and patrons. It numbers among its members well known men and women writers, artists, busi ness men, railroad officials, poli ticians in fact men and women from all walks of life. Nearly every state in the union is represented, and several foreign countries. Q. Which university has a fund for research on venereal disease? W. L. A. The University of Chicago has the A. B. Kuppenheimer Fund of one million dollars for that purpose. Q. Please explain the Brown Sy stem of Discipline that Is used my many railroads. P. F. G. A. The Brown System of Discip line was originated by G. R. Brown. It is known as the system of "Dis cipline Without Suspension," under which employees are given demerit entries in the record book for of fenses which in themselves do not merit dismissal. Merit entries are given for loyal and faithful serv ice and for meritorious acts. The employees are afforded full oppor tunity to know Just how their rec ords stand. This plan takes the place of the old system of punish ment by suspension of service with out an attendant loss of earnings and enforced idleness. When an employee gets too many demerits he is considered incompetent and dis missal is considered justifiable and advisable. Q. What is cassation? W. A. A. In music, it signifies the type of orchestral work consisting of sev eral short movements of a light character, popular In the 18th cen tury, serenade and divertimento be ing othec names for much the same kind of composition. Mozart wrote three works so named. Q. Is there a government booklet on eclipse? C. N, A. A booklet entitled "Total Eclipse of the Sun, August 31, 1932'' is obtainable from the Superin tendent of Documents, Washington, D. C, for 23 cents (stamps not ac ceptable). It contains detailed me teorological and astronomical data on the eclipse, with a large map. Q. How Is the American motor ist's dollar spent? W. M. A. According to a study made by the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce in 1931, twenty-one cents went for food; twenty cenU for lodging; twenty cents for trans portation costs; eight cents for amusement; six cents for confec tionery; and twenty-five cents for miscellaneous costs. cSvTn b5 r'gln ' "ie wrd MittCiMiCiiciM "a. It is' Jrom' the Old English, mrfSSIlMX cluwe, a bait of thread, the thread of life, which according to the fable, the Fates spin for every man. Tlie figurative meaning, a piece of evi dence leading to discovery, is de rived from the story of Theseus, who was guided through the laby rinth by the ball of thread held by Ariadne. Q. How may paint be removed from glass? W.J.P. A. To remove paint from glass use three parts of American potash to one part of unslaked lime. Lay this on with a stick and let it re- .. n. mntnm tfm Paint JtnOtB may also be removed by rubbing them witn very not, snurp vuicgui. a Where was Bela Lugosl born? How old is he? H.L. A. He was born in Lugos, Hun gary, in 1884. Q; Who invented the machine to knead bread? W.H. A. The kneading machine has long been the most familiar me chanical unit in the bakery and dates at least to 1760 when a Frenchman, Salignac, devised a model in which harrow-shaped arms, mechanically operated, mixed th dough lne a trough. The Boland machine, which dates from about the middle of the 18th century, was also of French origin. 9 0rrv THE GIFT BAG PLATFORM
