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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1932)
JAh fa m ' i 7 Pi uying Chapter 1 A FIRM ON THE ROCKS The road to Kings Mallard held steadily west. When the most re mote of cathedral cities had been left behind and the last big-spread larm had ditched down into waste land, there was still a sign-post to point due west "To Kings Mallard." Then, hard on the post, came an uprising of hills heather-covered hills, lying in a plumy curve like the lips of a feather fan; open to the sea. And In the center of the tan, the bay. And in the most shelter ed lip of the bay, the town, Kings Mallard; west of the world, had been a klnR's port, once and the still older Yarn Market, were hemmed In by what had once been merchants' homes and were now the offices of Kings Mallard's profes sional men. The bank was there, for Instance it straggled over the lower floors of two of the oldest buildings. Next to the bank was an Inn and next to the Inn a leaning, lath-and-plaster house of which the top part was still a private residence; while the ground-floor displayed wire blinds and gilt lettering: "Quentln, Lodely ic Cane, Solicitors, Commissioners for Oaths, etc." Two of the partners In this firm were, on a golden October after noon, quarrelling In an upper room of the lalh-and-plaster house. They had not chosen to meet In the of fices below, because It was a Sat urday and the rooms had been dusted and darkened for the week end. They sat, Instead, upstairs, in what was really Mrs. Cane's drawing-room; and their anger car ried much of their speech to her as she sat trembllnR In her bed room on the other side of the shaky wall. "I won't be spoke to like that, SUNDOWN STORIES' TOP NOTCH'S LETTKR By Mary Graham Bonner This was the letter Top Notch, the Rooster, had Willy Nilly write lor him: "Dear Santa Claus: "Merry Christmas, cock-a -doodle -do. When you're leaving tills part of the world early Christmas morn ing to go back to your home up north I'll be crowing as hard as ever I can. "It will be a special crowing for you, Santa, to wish you the merri est of Christmases from all the creatures of Puddle Muddle. "Dear Santa, I keep a store in Puddle Muddle, but I haven't been paying much attention to It lately. "Could you bring me a few things that I need for it? I'm out of string and red paint and I need a paint brush and I wonder if I could also have a little brush to brush my comb the comb on top of my head I mean. "It may mix you up to have me osk for a brush for my comb. Don't think I mean a brush and comb. "You know I've been made Mayor of Puddle Muddle this year, and I think a Mayor should look nice and neat, don't you, Santa Claus? "I've heard that there are little boxes with holes punched through them where things can be kept nice nnd fresh. Now, Santa, the things I have in mind that would be fine to have kept nice and fresh are come delicious worms. "Mrs. Quacko Duck is making me o stocking out of some of the feath ers I have lost. So you will know that my stocking is made out of Booster feathers and that the Ducks' Christmas stockings are the ones made with Duck feathers. That Is how you wil be able to tell the difference. "I have been a good Rooster, Santa, and I hope you'll remember tne well. "Your loving Top Notch." ACROSS 81 First even 1 1 timber Subsequently Cllmatio con ditions Mni;o speeches I'll L on Tropical American lizards Metal Old onth Likely Repair: colloq, Journey Epochs At liomo Unite NIkM befora an event Paasnfjo out Coupled Votcltllko pin nt Small piece of pasteboard Parent: colloq. Ilnve n care: poet Slender Catch sight of Unrefined metal Incline Exclamation Unions aafei mi Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 9.LL M ADA MpjCjA Y N I Lff I R O N E ijoE A R aIn etl EN PS Mm e Is aHm q an M IfLE AlfeE N ST V E ON gffiR E A 0 S'0B L A k andIv js t aBa s E N P U R E D 1 I NIuTr E Hop en e rtpjs" jp c u E dIaJ t Wj via AiilARiSEA IL 44, Magnificent AG. illcli brown cotor 47. Wander lm- lesNly 49. T-:t tie real salt T.O. Utter 61. English city DOWN 1, Fcinnle sheep t. Leasing i tip' '7 f; Hi 35 3i III Tt W.-3' 1 1 - utu. Hi sk i W 171" I 1 I I 1 itm im Barbara cam mm Mr. Lodely, not by anyone and by you least of all." Her husband's voice was growing regrettably rag ged and high, site thought, and he wasn't expressing himself quite so gentlemanly- as usual; but he was sticking to hU point, he was standing up for hJmsslf and, al though he trembled, she craned her neck to hear him. But Mr. Lodely was exploding again. "Dammit, Cane, if ever there was a time when we've all got to face plain facts!" "I'm facing 'em all right. I can spell words like ruin and bank ruptcy as well as you and better than Mr. Quentln." "Quentln has lost his grasp of affairs; he's 111; dying. By God, I never though to envy a dying man but I envy him! Whatever Is in store for us won't hurt him he'll be out of It! Gone!" "He'll leave his wife and the little girl behind, though, won't he? What 'II they have to live on? Mrs. Quentln hasn't a penny to her own! Why isn't he worrying out his last days, trying to provide for them? No, Mr. Lodely, It's not because he's lost his grasp of things it's because he never had none. Books was his interest. Fishing. Garden ing. Not his profession anything but that. And the same with you. Hunting. Sailing. Dog-breeding. Anything except" "Isn't that Just a little imperti nent, Cane?" "Plain facts, you said, Mr. Lode ly. And the plain facts are that there's only one of us knows any law In this firm and that's me. And there's only one of us has done a full day's work in the last ten years and that's me, too. "Year after year office-boy. clerk, partner have I worked at building up this firm. What do they call It In the town? Cane's. What do the farmers call It when they come in about their mort gages? Cane's. Mr. Quentln and Mr. Lodely, all, they're gentlefolk, they have private means, they live out on Upper Mallard hill. The only one that needs to earn his fees is Cane, he lives above the premises, he's worked himself up from lord knows what! "Well? Well? What of all this? If Quentln and I didn't need to sit poring over deeds and conveyances, why should we? We've thrown every farthing of our private in comes Into the pot and if it isn't enough to save us from ruin, what more can we do?" "You can refrain from twisting the blame so that It lays at my door. You can remember that from the first I was reluctant for us to take the course we did and from the first you've over-rode me you and Mr. Quentln. And you cau get out of my house." Mrs. Cane gulped and held on to the arms of her chair. She waited for the crash of Mr. Lodely fling ing himself upon her poor James . . . But the crash did not come. There was a moment's terrible silence and then the drawing-room door opened. Peeping through her own, she saw the visitor cross the upper hall and go heavily down the stairs; a big, red-faced man in riding-clothes. He looked dazed, she thought; for a moment she won dered whether he were drunk or ill. She went to the window of the hall when his slow footsteps had finally faded from the house; she could see, by peering .out and down, into the yard of the inn nest door. Within five minutes Mr. Lodely came Into it and she watched him dig into one pocket after the other for the sixpence to the boy who was getting his horse. Sixpence? She sniffed a shilling, more likely. They'd never had any sense of money, either him or his wife. They'd spent every penny of their income for the Inst ten years, although they insisted that they lived a simple country life. Mrs. Cane, mouse-brown at her upper window, checked over the Lodely simplicities; open house to flip county, horses. 1rs. servants, 11. P.eposcs 11. Wine ens' 17. Opening 19. G oil doss of lllSLOHl 21. Old exprci sl'Ml oC dli 2:, Throw lishlly M. Knger t'. Pull shnntly 0. Aciinlro be labor !S. Coohlr.fr formula iX Sutferliiff ID. Knroli upon a Mat for Jury fluty SI. Period of llcht 33. YawHinc abysses Sj. Wnfcu fii-m sleep SC. S.-a eagles 17. Small mound of earth IS. Compnrntlr obscurity 4". risivnrlcntor 41. Altfnr tree; h'cotch 43. nitirl . 44. Merry 4'. Arid 48. Uabylcnlan . Root . Article . Von and I . urea . Noisy , Hoiitlmrn con' stollmMn . Dinl of bP4l Unnt pin inn go . Day's march sables and tailor-mades lor shop- lng days in Toxeter, Hand-spun tweeds lor every day. Of couse. there was poor little Mark, he was a groat expens and one had never grudged him the best of everything And what hone was there lor his future now? r. Lodely, down in the Inn- yard, mounted and rode slowly out of her hlght; but the eyes of her mind remained upon huu, much as her thin shoulder remained against the window-pane, because she her self was tired and unhappy. In her imagination she followed the rider's home-faring; she saw hhn come out from under the old archway of the Inn and turn Into the Yarn Market, and then up High street; he would take his way out of the town by one of the many lanes that climber into the lolds of Upper Mallard hill. She raised her head and gazed at Upper Mallard hill, that great, golden buttress curving between Kings Mallard and the world. "The gentry" lived up there: al most she could see the roofs of the house she called In her west -country way "Lodely's." And she could see that all the way up to that house, people touched their hats to the man on the horse. Bankrupt he might be, but they would always touch their hats to him. Whereas. they would only stare at her and James. "Em! Here a minute!" She jumped and turned; James was motioning her into the draw ing-room. But her thoughts were still vaguely with the man who had recently left it and, as she mechanically straightened cushions and emptied an ash-tray, she asked "You don't think he'll do any LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE I WONDER WHAT MR. FUTILE CAM BE UP TO- HE ACTED ALL EXCITED AND SAID HE HAD SOME BUSINESS TO TEND TO- HE'S NEVER LEFT TH' STORE LIKE THIS BEFORE HE'S BEEN GONE OVER V AN HOUR- REG'LAR FELLERS THE GI MPS 'RL - fcuMPS- PR6SA.Re VOUR-iSLP FOR RSL. TREA.T VOU HAVE EN ExPECTiWfc, Bi TO VIIT YOU POR CHRISTWAS- 'OUD WvONfcY BAdV AS MILLIE'S MA CALLS MIAA -VgU-MgRg MJ he.'s on his way to your h0us.6 im his palacs on vmhiselS -naiT till YOU SEE MUTT AND JEFF IfHCLLOlTHI I AUGOSTuS MuTT. j.AottiueRiMG Your uiwn-ftD in look what I got ( THE. BABY POR -S4 agicie! pn' it ,,S2T ONE.Y COST fit y ine MORMING PAP6R. I' HONEST, soaen ami ambitious: do i ' TttC JOB .' - OKAY I KtVOKI I rr- -pj v at oNce. j- CM TAl H6UX4V TAILSIMN TOMMY By Glenn Chains and Hal Forrest EASIER SAID THAN DONE! r - - - . ' ! I m.- 1 I J 1 i-Mii THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, thing to himself, do you?" The reassurance she expected did not come. "He might. It's all he can do. And if he did I'd be the last to stop him." She glanced at her husband and her pride in his defiance gave place to her usual faint fear. Yes, lor all he was so slim and sandy-colored and harmless-looking, and such a good lather to little Leila, she was nearly always Irightened of him. He had a fixed smile that well, she couldn't put a name to it. But when he told her to stop fidgeting and come to the window, she obey ed him anxiously. "Look out there!" he commanded. "Out along the line of the bay to the old coastguard's cottage. See that bit ol level green field Just below it?" And when she nodded "Well, that's where I was going to build my house. No Upper Mallard for mo, with gentlemen's residences all round me, eyeing me right andt left. I planned to build for myself, out there with the sea under the windows and a private road between the back door and this god-forsaken hole of a town. But all that's gone." "Poor James!" she said timidly. "Do do you think of going back; to London for a new 6tart? Speak- j ing for myself I'd be glad enough, i Feopie'il be staring and pointing here lor a long while yet, whatever sort oi a home we manage to keep together." "Let 'cm stare! I'll be king of this dung-heap yet!" "James!" "But in London I'm nobody." He passed his hand over his face and seemed to wipe away some of his bitterness. His Hps were folded tn their habitual half -smile when he LET'S SEE- I BELIEVE 1 HAVE OUST THE EXACT CHANGE VES MAM- HERE IT IS- I' J JMhAT WILL TH &UMPS SAY? f," J (SHOW "WILL THEY TREAT. B1M. " . I J WHEN HE MAKES THEM, , j BELIEVE THAT HE HAi 9 I 'gjl LOVT ALL WIS NEALTM? f ft llj Hv.e.LL,t'M goimg I crtccitio, I 3oT" JsH THe UA of mvtt really hcJ2s .1 V I avf . I IKsAK. I JTMIWtl OV&.R MIM. HO TOU DUNS l5 m m a w . I m. m . , i m ',. i i i i i i m z,:m wt - o c. 3Pft?iiKS'K5n TWO OF "Ett ItIOlTMuT StiOWbruESIAT payfeyl- HOU) YOU 60IN' TO SET! tL i, -.-.-xT you KNOlO THAT Y r-r IN THAT WHJSEl NO fei 'CM OUT? itX COULD fL REDAkK" SHOWS WW VHV. S. CLOSE ENOUGrt 10 THAT I trvS-TC flyer may be fiSi?:fc oise feller could tH? tot a& they wthat wou're ea, not? house to put it on fire ligSrSWLONC'.UHOEVE'R ,!;t'3B.0OALlTHAT I tC lOERt COMIN OUT -SM UlTH US.ALL , Wm WITHOUT BElN POTTED J iHl lU Mill" T IT T II I i kfes?-, TH' DOOSS AR.E iaioeA NNT V- Sa I MIS IM OFF HERE WOtSL W7 rll feO SKuT. J VSk N0 'l KP9MSffl!l SALEM. OREGON A NSWERS TO jfQUESTIONS By Frederic J. Haskin Ask any questions ol fact und it will be answered, free, by mall direct to you. Enclose three cents hi coin or stamps lor reply postage. Do not use postcard. Address the Capital Journal Information -Bur eau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington, D. C. Q. What are the cobwebs mode of which are used In old houses Ln the movies? W.D. A. They arc made of finely shred ded asbestos. Q. Is more electric power for pub lic use generated by fuel or water power? E.N.H. A. Power lor public use hi the United Slates is generated in ap proximately 3741 central stations. About 60 per cent of the total out put is generated from fuel and the remainder from water. Q. What power has the president ln changing the tariff? J.W.L. A. As the tariff law was finally asked "Where's Leila?" i Mrs. Cane went to the door and called. Down the upper staircase came sidling a child of eight or nine, whose eyes illtted from one parent to the other with a sly, at tentive brightness. Two women are introduced, to morrow, who have much to do with future events. QUICK.' GUMP& -TO THe I NINDOW . CAN'T YOU HEAR THAT WORM ? BlM, IS THERE -AU. THE WAY PROM AUSTRALIA- YlLDA faET OUT THAT WELCOME MAY- , HURRaM.1 THREE CW6ERS- 1 I'M SURE M MOTHER ALWAYS ffiW I've ALWAYS WANTED . i V YOU'RE f I H WANTED A REAL SILK J TO GIVE NICE THINGS AT g tm rl I GOING TO i ORESS LIKE THIS- AND II CHRISTMAS- BUT I'VE L (SS J I MAKE I I m I HOPE LITTLE ANNIE I ffi NEVER SEEMED TO HAVE g, W, f SOMEBODY I IS LIKES WHAT 1 GOT FOR I B4 ANY. MONEY. TILL THIS fe' IMA ) I VERY 1 BJ HER- HEH! HEH! THE EXACT ! K M YEAR- BUT. WITH THE E. KS? r! MR. FUTILE-J d THAT YOUNG LADY IT WAS J f M AT LAST WE'RE JGETTlN''yg W v-1, . iA ALL THE MONEY I HAD. TO J f II AHEAD A MITE-Jg"; Hg THEY RE RErUMr CiENAWINB YR? NORTH POLE 11 passed it provides that the tariff commission's reports shall be made only to the president and shall siieclfy the increases or decreases necessary to equallzo costs of pro duction. No duty may be increased or decreased more than 50 per cent. No transfers may be made to or from the free list. The pressident may proclaim the recommended changes or not, as he chooses. No limit is placed on the time within which he may make such procla mation. The chief change from the flexible provision of the 1922 act is that responsibility lor revision of rates is placed definitely on the tariff commission; that is, the pres ident no longer has the right to determine, following recommenda tion of the commission, the amount by which the duty shall be changed, within the 60 per cent range; he must either accept or reject the specific rate recommended. Q. Is there an easy way to re move the outside husks of black walnuts? AH. A. The department of agriculture says that the ordinary corn shelter is effective, Q. Exactly what is a penthouse? H.W. A. It is a shed-like structure, usually clinging to the side of a building, having a sloping roof and corbelled floor. It sometimes is f THATS VERY WEET 1 OP YOU TO, SE.E. I THE. BftHYS E.AES. ARE. V NICE AHD WARM! (OorrHfit mt br Om Brra TrfJ Xtrk Bf UEUO.Ml'rJ.'j 3TTi fl ATtL WW & ' v Mey M ' J Yo- mS used immediately over a doorway. Also a small shed built as a tem porary shelter In an opsn Held Is classed as a penthouse. The term Is now applied to living quarters built on the roof of a tall building. Q. which has a larger popula tionMoscow or Leningrad? CM. A. According to the latest census, Moscow, Russia, has a population of 2,025,947 and Leningrad has a pop ulation of 1,014,008. Q. When were reindeer imported into Alaska? H.A. A. Through the efforts of Dr. Sheldon Jackson, a missionary, 16 Siberian reindeer were brought into the Bering sea region in 1891 and 171 reindeer ln 1892. By 1902, 1280 had been imported, when the Rus sian government lorbade further export ations. The number increas ed to over 400,000, of which about 100,000 have been used for food and clothing. Q. Why are refreshments some times called a collation? F.W. A. The term was originally con fined to the light evening refection of monks, and is supposed to have been named from the Collationes of Cassianus read in Benedictine monasteries before the repast. Q. Whose statue stands in Union town, Pennsylvania? It Is a short man holding a beaver hat. H.W.J. A. The statue Is of the Marquis de Lafayette for whom that county was named. He made several visits to that county during and after the war of the Revolution. The statue was made by a wood carver and placed on a dome of a court house erected about 1840. When the pres ent court house was built, the sta COME EASY GO EASY THT V. I. Ptt- OfflM MUTT LOOKiTKIS TUB. YEAR. tue was resurrected from the buse- .,, nf tit., fklrt rnill-L house and placed on a pedestal on the present cotut house lawn. O. Will nutting a cotton dross away for the winter without taking the "starch out of it cause the ma terial to deteriorate? H.K.M. a There aimears no reason to ex pect starched cotton goods to de teriorate more rapidly than un starched on storage. Q Where Is the Cloud peak prim itive area? N.P. A It is an expanse of 94,000 acres on ths high core of the Bighorn mountains in Wyoming. Tills area lies ln the Bighorn national forest inldwav between the continental divide and the Black Hills, at 9500 to 13,103 feet elevation. Thore are about 200 attractive lakes, many of glacial origin. There are no auto mobile roads. Wild life is abun dant, and the southern half of the area is ln game preserves. Pioneer conditions of travel will be main tained by the forest service. Q. What is lire? L.S. A. Fire may be described as the visible light and heat that are evolved by the action of high tem perature on certain bodies, turn ing or combuslon results from the chemical reaction between the ele ments composing the fuel and the oxygen ln the air. 9 O'rrv "Sow all we need," Puff exclaims, "is some snow To fill out our picture of Ifulctidc." And so The weather man comes to his res cue posthaste And piles up the drifts till they reach Puffy's waist. A MUSICAL BENEFIT HURRAY! WORKS ONE DAY A YEAR IS THS. SHORTEST DAY IM IT'S MAY-L16HT JoB He that! t GOT 'EM SOS i CAM PRACTICE THE I a ASS DRUM j WHILE. HE'S AL.tcp yz' SoT- AMD THAT MEANS THEY (SUIT AT FOUR O'CLOCK. OM JUNG. 2.1 il- THeY WORK I TLL MIME O'CLOCK:. BUT MuTT LOAFS IN 4UVC. 1 t
