Eugene daily guard., May 13, 1922, Image 4

Saturday Evening, May 13, 1922
age Four
THE EUGENE B SILY OUXB D
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HATl'ICDAY. MAY 13.
PARAGRAPHS
I By Robert Qulllen
MOWER'S DAY COMES AGAIN
"The bravest battle that ever was fougbtj
Shall I tell you where and when!
On the maps of the world you'll find it not;
Jt was fought bv the mothers of men."
.Jouqum .Miller.
r'rbhibition law is paid by the fines imposed. for breaking
it. Then, we presume, if those who are opposed to the law
would not break it there would bo no means of enforcing it
and they would win their contention, making. the law a
dead letter and everybody would be satisfied.
j Xcw York City may bo extended six miles out to sea, if
tti'.e. proposition submitted by engineers is linally endorsed,
Welcome to another Mother's Day by wliicli is meant indicating that the metropolis is a little slow. In a good
riot every day, (which is mother's day in tuo sense tnui many rucine comhi cuies uurmg our many real estate Dooms
mothers "are the greatest blessing in the world every minute Jots located farther out at sea than that have been sold, fre
of every day there is), but the second Sunday in May, when l'uently several times over.
iiy common consent motlicrliood receives special nonor.
j The good woman who inaugurated tills special pb'servanco;
In the spring n divorcee's fancy lightly
turns to gome other love.
Pshaw!
rnunt tear
secret one.
Now Itnmria nnd Germany
up that treaty nud make u
A rombinntion in restraint of speeding
Is a judge, who has jiervo uuil a. fool
proof jail.
4 Tho ueweHt ndditiou to tlie list of haz
ardous occupation ia that of quoting
.Mr. Wilson.
i
, Tt'a ensy to form nn eternal triangle
.if the wmnan isn't square and tlio man
is a rounder. '
, .
i Tho allies think we have deserted them
Just because we don't get excited every
Mine tney uo.
; 1 Ours should lie m- stable govorn-
ment, Cnngii'ss certainly iminufucv
t tures enough stulls.
An a rule, community pride manifests
Itself as an earnest effort to forget about
the ugly spots.
--
Business should interest Itself In this
nut-nnd-tiike crate.. J'ut up a fight ami
iitke chance.-- - "'-. -
It might help some to take a little less
sei5it)fi( llitci'ft in uiicestorft mid ti lit
tle .mora tin progeny. .
Jji iJjrf v., .J ' : ,
Poverty innv not encourage virtue, but
, perhaptt you Jiavr not iced thut tho man
rake.
, I ' with th hot, in aeldim a r
' I"- 5 I i If ? t '5, V.
' Scientists1 call plueo nor
orsenower under
the hood, but. only (lod ciin pluco liurso
aenso uiuTcr the driver's hut..- .
'" Wbeh n stranger asks n gtrl to ride In
Ms1 car, her ucoeiitnuro is u confession
that. she'll that kind of n'Rlrl,,.', ',
hit
' " Tho1" Vlt rules mother, mother
rules father, and father is doing
V'"','!'woll I' M Is Bbfe to exorcise any ill
, fjuohce over tho hoiiso cat.. '
-!" ""VTh air' may bo conquered In time, but
'. "' ' p tar as wo oro concerned It may retain
'' " Ita sovereignity undisturbed. '
vy ; - ,"
:" TVIckcd movio stnra may bo off the
"f ''acre'eil, bilt ,vou still have tho fun of
j reading, about Win tho public prints.
"',J'"-1 'civil service men will never feeLsofe,
, ; however, until pottles ns.weU ns tti'oai
. denta arc lllnltcd to a single term, ,
' jilili '.' tiio'so' Vim toto pistoln are no
, greater meiiaoo than those who toto their
niduey ankoepjt otitof circulation.
Getting cheerful messages from the
dead won't help. What tho world needs
::'" la-- fewrtecrful imessogca from the
r.' deed-keata. r
''" 4 Thd'feeltnit thot Americana arc super
lvr:0. iiUnUipr raocH-U nlcasBiit. but II
V must be reiiiemhfeir that a similar feel
i; lug atarted this trouble.
RIPPJJKapHYHES
By Wart Maw
WAIT,INQ.
All mr life 1 have been .ivaJtW fhr
the good I hopetl-to renp: in tho; summer
dreams of skating made me mutter, in
my aleep. And In winter's stormy wen
them I've been waiting for July, and the
fdenic lathe heajher, and the tea nnd
rmon ilo; t ha tiever been contented
with tb pnucnt, Jlion;h It's fine: for
the future, 1-c lameuteil with n whim
per and a wtyino. ltl my childhood I
was sighing for the whlvkers of a man.
and tho gulden years went fUlng. anil 1
knoiked the.ui ns they ran., Always wait
ing, always looking, for the good things
just ahead, still nrlflthinr. still gnd
ftookinp. inco time's feit were made of
lead. And 1 missed nil kinds of pleasure,
missed mv chance to dance ami sing,
while I wolfed for the treasure ibnt the
routing days would bring. So around the
dump I hovered, waitintf for the future's
, gold, nnd one morning I discovered that
the years had mnde me old. tin my
forehead there are furrows, nnd my form
is tired and galled, nnd the chigger comes
and burrows underneath a sculp that's
hold. A.II my. hoir hvo lol their rat
ing, all i r,isv Utennm are cnnt"vl, nnd
there's nn more be )n wailing, for the
end Is clofte to hand. If today is sweet
nnd pleasant, of its merits make the
most, for we're living in the present, ami
tomorrow la a ghost.
BR'NTON TO 9STH.
Seattle. Mar IS. Msior Wilmer R
Brlntnn of KUtJl has been alcnl to
(en or twelve years ago knew the human proneness to lol
lovr fashions. She knew, too, buman impressionability, and
case witli wiiiclt tlie vast majority respond to sugges
tions. There are not very litany normal, human beings, alter
all, who deliberately or consciously neglect their mothers.
W hen thev do, they do so unconsciously, under stress ol cir
cumstances. And all they need to get them into tlie habit
or fashion of giving mother her dues of showing the. affec
tion which she craves and which deep in their hearts they
have always felt for her is a strong suggestion from some
(piarter. They suddenly remember that they have been for
getting her, and there is no pains too great lor them to taue
tu convince her that mother is first in all the world to them.
The (iialilies iu men which really mean strength, which
go to form chivalrous manhood ami exalted character, are
(iialilies which true motherhood always instills into those
around it.
There is an incalculable- amount of nobility ami gener
osity in the world, in spite of the enormous numbec of things
that go wrong. And it is in the henrfs of the mothers of tho
world that this nobility und generosity is-propagated.
Vanua Lnvn nn island in the New Hebrides, is literally
a mountain of sulphur, 1,000 feet in height nnd about 100
jH'luaro miles ;n base. The mountain is 99 per cent pure sul
phur, ' according1', to authoritative report. This intelligence
should- dispel any lingering hope the sinner might, have
tn.'it the devil vy,ni sometime run short ot fuel.
A score of co-cds at C'orvallis were compelled to remain
absolutely siii)t:J'or an entire day us part of their initiation
into one of the college societies. Strancre the school nlTici.ils
should allow such inhuman cruelties to be inflicted under
the guise ot educational activities.
GROWTH OF AMERICAN THRIFT
A missionary worker tells us that when taxes get too higl
in China the people bum tlie tax collectors. Thanks for the
tnnelv inlonimtion a measure incorporating that effective
remedy will no doubt be introduced at the November elec
tion as an addition to the Oregon system, too long overlooked.
Owing to the late season, the Portland Rose Festival lias
been postponed until such a time as Eugene and other sur
rounding towns Avill bo able to supply the usual beautiful
exhibit of roses.
Treasury department records indicate that thrift lias
found a firm foothold in America. Figures made public by
the savincrs division show that, despite the economic depres
sion and uiieinplovment, the savings of. small investors
throughout the United States total npproimately $27,000,000,
000, or, taking the population at 108,000,000, a per capita
savings of about $-50 for each man, woman and child in the
aation.
. Of this vast sum. of working dollars $21,000,000,000 js in
vested in Kovernnient securities, while the other $0,000,-
000,000 is represented by deposits in more" than .'30,000 sav- j
ings banks. To the owners of the Third Liberty Loan bonds, ;
included in the investments referred to, the i government is j
today paying semi-annual coupon interest amounting to more;
than ifi.OUO.OOO. At the same time the holders ol these se
curities are being invited by tho savings division to reinvest
their "interest money in thrilt stamps and , war' savings
Portland papers are going to send out the primary re
.ni'ns by' radio. It will reouiro a Verv delicate instrument, to
record the support that some of the candidatesare going
. Some of the sociologists who are endtaovoring to deter
mine the cause of the increasing number of suicides may
have overlooked Peggy Joyce.
Some men never know how little their fellow- citiens think
of them until they run for office.
THE MIDDLE GROUND
By MARION RUBICAM
. MORE SHOCKS.
Clinplcr .'17.
, There was n sudden silence, n silence
stamps, with tho view of keening as much as possible of thisithnt could be felt and heard, it was r.o
lUOliey at work. " ' jinlensc. Mis. Talbot eumo n step into
Government war issues are held niairlv by persons of thp rl01"- I'Uther behind her.
small means, according to treasury officials. . No lesson Lmw(glenmhe,'SViitX
WHICH Came OUl Ol Hie war WIS more Iliorouglliy learncu .nrotte behind her. "We're hnvinc ten
l)p, come iu.
.This niivrU-up greeting was enough to
convince Mrs. Talbot that she had seen
Mrs. Talbot that she bnd seen Amy
smoking, even if she tried to disbelieve
what she first saw upon entering. Ajny's
right hand came intq view ngain empty.
What happened tni that cigarette (lie
mother never knew pcrhnpM one of the
linys took it from her. Somehow, too,
.lano had cvascd to smoke, though the
nsh tray rcmuincd by her side. Hut sho
firm Hint, which inculcated in the waire earner and the child mother.
tho habit of systematic saving. The seeds planted during
the great national emergency uro now, 'during tho post-war
period of readjustment, beinning to bear fruit.
Kcports of the comptroller of the currency show that sav
ings banks deposits total approximately $(5,000,000,000. De
posits during the period of depression have exceeded tho
largo withdrawals. The savings have proved the salvation
of thousands of families where tho bread winners have been
You enri stay hero for dinner uud help
me cook."
And Dick, soothed and mnde happy by
a smile, followed her out into the kit
chen. Mrs. Talbot got up to help too,
glud to bo abio to bend over a stove
again for a few moments, after tlie dizzy
mid upsetting world she had lived in for
tlie last few hours.
Tomorrow A New Ijfc.
thrown out of employment becauso of llio. goneral curtailment ZiZgt1 -Zi
Ol production. . ., : . . connection wilh that tray at all.
' ' "Mr. Harding 'did not vote against the -ratification'
if tho treaty whicl included the league cove
nant. Ho votod for ratification with the reserva
tions which wore said by Ex-Prosidcut Taft, a stal
wart champion of the league, to leave it 90 per cent,
good. It was defeated by a combination of two bands
of irreconcilables those republicans and. democrats
who wero opposed to any league, and those demo
crats who stood pat for tho leaguo as Mr. Wilson
framed it. Not till the league bv tho action of these
two factions had become the subject of hopeless po
litical conflict did Mr. J larding cast it aside, lie
has mnde a most auspicious start to bring the United
States into nn association of nations, nnd ho is still
working on that line." Uregoninn.
l ill) ner whs across the room, tnkmi? n
sandwich from the, tea-tuble.
''l-rfio, deur, do get mo some more hot
water." Anly said, and handed him n
pitcher, nnd onn of the tell tale ash trnys
to be taken out of sight.
I.uther, well-meaning but blundering,
held out tho tray.
"Want's Hum for. to be emptied? Amv,
six iN your limit before dinner, you know.
You've smoked seven already. Oh, all, all
right. 1'11'get some hot water."
Ucolizing his blunder, lie hurried out
of tlie room, .lime took her mother's
wraps off. talk went on awkwardly.
Amy introduced tiie two strange men
to her mother Ted Mnrple, who was
yoiiit?. fair haired and blue eyed, with
a fresh color und n high thin nose, n
splendid Saxon type only Mrs. Talbot
thought him rnlher too hnndsomc for a
ninn nnd Mark Cane, who was dark as
the other was fair, very tall, und with a
curious drawl in bin voice.
".More tea, Hicky" Amy asked.- And
as he nodded. "This is your fifth cup!"
i ii.se iiuving you pour mom tor'iue.
-AVhat Mr. Taft said was that he was in favor of the rati
fiontiou of tho treaty of Versailles and covenant of the1
League of Nations as it was brought buck from Paris, with- i
tut the dotting of an "i" or the crossing of a "t"; still, P'''k sjiui simply, which brought a laugh
lie said, ho had no objection to either the ulso or Hitch- lf,'"l!,.,!h'',"'''''''."-.,r ............
cock reservations, since the' did not destroy the principle 'Ted rcmurkcii. -So you've come to join
ng
he
al
involved, nnd was willing to accept either set if the senate j'!''' circl'' !. W''."H form a,,lmi'i!
. . 1 -iir. . -i ring urouud her. Of course now 1 lint s
insisted upon it. A separate peace with Germany, he said, . i t be an smr. h wt u
vould be a. disgrace to this country and an insult to our al- U from the theaters any more."
lies, something that tho Harding' administration has con- 'LrLX w"es-or' is'fS
summated sinco Mr. Taft was silenced bv-giving him I One loses count he's nfter a fifth they
the highest pidicial position in the nation, thus removing
him from all participation in political mutters.'-' The state
ments attrbuteil to tho former president wero made before
a gathering of 200 business men in Kugene in.' the early
summer of 1920, and were repented bv him in many other
cities of the coast, including Portland, and the Oregonian
well knows what Mr. Taft 'a position was at that time. As
for "tho "association of nations." that has fizzled out into , were smoked,
a really dangerous foreign entaiigleiiient in the shape of a j """'" "1I',,V' "fr"ils ruptured mnr
treaty of al'iance with England. Franco ami Japan, all tlioCiftrV
signatory nations being sorry already that thev are involved i wllil 11 mnuagcr: umi how the smr of
iu tho muddle.
'"V - -
The Anlionnl City Hank of New York, nfter analving the
. fifth they
say :
"lint what happened to the last one?"
Ted put in.
"Oh. I don't know. It's all done so
casnallv nowndnvs "
Mrs. Tnlbot did not liear tlie rest, of
tins, sue put mvn her tea cup unnhlc to
go on with the pretense of drinking.
v. mil a way 10 una nnout people:
A. ore talk followed and more cigarettes
1 he conversation seemed
company "killed Ills leading ladv bv
cutting into her lines ever so slightly, so
she scored no points with the tiudii'ncc,
ami lost her i.lncc.
A ...I I .... MM 1.1
census figures for 19'JO, -declares that for the first' time in i 'he much understood very little of what
tho history ot our country there are more people workimr
id factories than on farms. Fifty years ago there wero more
than twice as many country workers as city workers. This
not only means that the fanner has a bigger market for his
was s;iid. but what she understood shock
ed her beyond words, lly and by lr.
.Moore came iu. nud June went off tit dine
witti him. and lit seven the two men weut
out. nud Pick was left.
, i ,i a . . . ' ' rt .. . . - lie iook .nine our to Dinner, so that
jrotnici, mil inni no is a greater miyer oi nianuiaeuired seems to be the proper thing." Dick said
goods, iiecause nn inereasinclv larire proportion ot the lac- 1 n!." '' .;V""-
trtry hands are making things for the comfort and conve
nience of people in thee country. If we forget the year or two
of hard tunes, now happily passing, we can see" that farm
ing is not a crowded business, and we can be sure that it
will he generally prosperous in the future. The man who
gets discouraged now and leaves the farm because he thinks
Amy threw herself back on the couch
and (touted.
"No tli.-mks. I'm tired. The proper
tli'i'r is t't to st-iv so long for tea."
"The others did."
. '"Will, they shouldn't. But they think
thev know me so well."
"Not ns well ns I do. ncsiilen. 1
non t tike them
funning "doesn't pay" is making u mistake, according to ' where simii we foe dinner? if vou'ii
F'U'lll Life I''"" ",0 l,n,P,,r things to do, I'll be
' ' liibend of those men in no time."
Amv ..iirveycd Pick1 ralmly and Im
personnllv. "I!.-. I.,'... ..A..oir ..I...!...-
srht. The present force is SO , Luther will tell von the names of the best
scinll that it loaves the city almost at the niercv of bnrirlars '"i1""- And don't spend your whole
:.. it i.. i e .1 v . . . ... , . . ., " .. Inftemonn silting on the couch looking
... .i .iu!,, ..... .-! n ..n- m'i iiiu, ii i ii is uii'u in v iu i iu i nt nie.
tune lor plying their trade. Police protection has not kept
There seems to bo a growing need for a larger police l"""",';.
force on duty in Kugene at night. The present force is so i.utherwiii
pact with tho growth of population, nnd it is an oversight
which siiouiu no remedied without lurther delay.
IfilU. VO'llin.iu tlm i.mfl.k ititimi iv.i,-., .. .... . 1 i ? ... ..... AA 4t.n!M
"j".TC"j.i:n.7;; .y..r. .1 ilVt, . " ,n mi cnuut Mint iiic.i
to. r.Ti'e 7a. .rmy'arteVm-s't'e, Alness decreased .I.IHHI.OOO in one year!
reserve corp. Ilrlntnn. who Is a mem- the I CggV Joyce ltllllS HOW.
her of an undertaking firm here and has
n long mllitnrv career, will report to
niaal fi ilmr .
'I can't tnkc my eyes off yon. you're
sn pretty." Pick said, humbly a -king par
don f,r looking at his 1:uly.
"Ami cnll mo Aimee." the girl went on.
"f Inte the name Amy, it's so common.
Ai:nce is Krcnch."
"I don't like it as well." Pick oh-
They have barred,,, ,p,w,,...
j oi! WpII. I lite- it then. T ran cM!
i yon Itrlovrd rvrrr time I prak to roil.
Ulc.W.oJiibitiojL.direetor says the cost of enforcing tho -A'u -t tease any mere.
4.
"JOY RIDE" FOUGHT - .
Washington, May IS. Protest against
tho (imposed use of tlie navy trnnsiort
Henderson to carry 27 Annapolis class
men and Secretary Weeks nnd Secretary
Penby and Admiral ITriu of the Japan
ese navy to a reunion In Japan tins
month was made in tlie senate by Scn
ntor McCormick of Illinois.
"In view of the fact that the nnw
claims u shortage of fuel, I suggest that
the senate committee in cliuvge o the
navy and its appropriation, look into this
mattftr.'. KJiui .JI0miuk. .-"I uiggesti
that these men will rind sldnninv i,n,-,i
A-esscis crossing thft.,;iJncifi. on which
Uiey can find comfortnble berths."
henntor Watson, (.corgui, declnrcil
that tlie nresent is no time to lip imviui'
a compliment to Japan, because, ho said.
lapnn nas nroken its word to ns in re
CHIROPRACTIC
Gains Big Headway.
Today 10,000 Chiropractors are practicing this won
derful health science. Five per cent of the American
population, 5,000,000, have taken these treatments. Just
because they get the desired results.
CHIROPRACTIC
Is the Road to Good Health.
' You owe it to yourself to investigate Chiropractic
and what it will do for you.' ; . :
Examination Free. ' Phone 355-J
DR. GEO. A. SIMON
Over Ludford's Paint Store.
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EUGENE OREGON
In Our School
By PAUL WEST
JiATUJttUY. -Evorv
feller was made tin Rood, and
erly todny, it being .Saturdiiy, so as not
to Ioobo aimy run; nut even u it was
fine wether and evverythinp soamed all
rite, it was 1 of the nwitest Saturdays
you ewer Been, nuthiug much bnppininj?
outside of bitinoba!l on the great), then
going swiimniutf nnd-pltiying- priKumrs
und cops, sum of Hie fellers striping
themselves all ciflver with mud to look
like priKUtierH frum Itlaney's pond onver
to the slooce. for 11 dive, forgot nnd run
out on the rode and thny wnn a wiihday
school pick nick going by and thny thought
Ex watt mi in kind of an nnnimul. a tiger
or mi mthiiig. ami the -excitement wuh
awful, evverybotlj' being scart, butt Ex
espesnulyl.
with switches nnd ast himwhare the
rest of us watt, but ratty dident know.
. c all but lor tuo iougust wniie. way
past time to go honm for dinner and the
moxkoeters was pritty bnd, and then
when thay had all gone wo wont looking
fur our close, but thay was went. too.
Katty Bellowes bnvving went to Ret bin
with Old Balcli and Old Unleh taiking
ours wan him. - -
It beeuti to set kind of n!t and ev
erybody was liungry and we. thouclit
we would all go hoam iu bnrrultt like
thay do in pitchers, but thny vasent nn
iMirrnls. Then by and by along cum Old
Balch and Fatty, thav hawing took pitty
on uh uud. we went hoam, thny bringing
our close back to us.
After supper tlionso fellers which wait
Kx maid for tlm side of the rodo and .let out of the yard or could get out. went
cot in a lot of blackberry buslien ami 'down viHuipe, tlmy was a painless dentist
howled and the picknick thought ho was inure, wiucn puiieu yore teem jor mua
roaring fur bind, probly, becawse tlmy
run buck to the villidere nnd told Old
Blach the constubble -thay was n wild
creechur loose in the woods, and he got
up n ios nnd thay cum out to see. When
thay seen not oanly Ex hut about a doz
en mour of us thay cbaised us and we
had to run like nnnythinir. tntliug in
swamps and evvery plaice. But the oanly
one thay cot wau poor Fatty Bellowes.
ht being so fnt he could cut run good, and
Old Balch. whailed him sumthing awful
ing. Sum of the fellers got qwite a Int
pulled till Old Balch enm along ami druv
tlie man away
llien we fired rocks at the culunl
baptist church wharo thay was hawing
n rcvivul, and was chaised and wem
hoam to get our baths, not being able to
escmt) Miem ewer ou Saturdays.
.Outside of thoase things thay wasent
much happincd nil . day, which you can
see was verry fpiiet and dull. But better
luck next Saturday Ray we
MERCHANT, FRAMED ROBBERY.
.Suvannuh, May HI. The $500,000 rob-
borj of the Chase National of New York
was "framed" by a New York diamond
dealer, -the woman arrested here with
rani to withdrawalv o tj-oopx from SI- J rol.horjr clwl li a confession, l'inkcr-
j ton detectives say.
1 Details of the plot were worked out
(iCO. Melvir. f.uiier. BllSV Realtor. Fil- Mn ii pniifnrnn lioliwon tht tillmrAd
gene and Florence. tf thieves ami the diamond merchant on
I the stairway lending to the latter's of-
Tnsnrw with HenryTrnrip. .13 West Oth fice, according to the operatives.
MAIL CAR ROBBED
Phoenix, Arizona. .May IU. Several
nouches of mail and pai kuges of unde
termined value was the loot obtained
early today by two bandits who held tip
the mail car of a train ou the Arizona
and New Mexico railroad ncer .Cliftou
Springs, Arizona.
: f!oo. Mctvin Miller,' Busy Realtor, Eu
gene, nud Florence. If
Tnsnr with Henry Trnmo.! West fllb
SCBOOt
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llnrinhl. mi, AimeUtxl tdlln
Th. Blunt Llttl. Putr In te World
Edited by John H. Mlllir
ast meetlne wo had a lonir talk.
ana uecmcci mat t'irato Seven was a
luckier name than l'lrato Six. and
anyway Jim Irving would luake a
Kom pirate, and everybody likes him.
so wo mado up our minds we'd ini
tiate him at this meeting,
t iSquee and I nxed up a real pirate's
.'initiation beforehand, and when Jim
Arrived to be Initiated nit was ready
for him. We were holding It in OIlie
Clark's bapement, on account of the
ftuit Uwit there wasn't room enough in
Herb Wood's shack for a real ini
tiation. As soon as Jim enme In we
took him into one of the three rooms
that Ol lie's basement la divided into,
and blindfolded him.
. In the Cellar
It was -dark, and ktnda damp, and
nil together real spooky, so Jim was
pretty scared by the time we had him
blindfolded, and all the time tho fel
lows in the other rooms wero making
a lot of noise, banking tin cans to
frcthcr, and tellinjr each other In loud
voices to get the axe ready, or to
prepare the torture chamber, and to
hent the branding- cutlass In the fire,
and to do lots of other things, and
the more Jim heard the more scared
he got, and all tho time wo fellows
In the room with him were nuking
him take vows, and swear to different
thin,?.
"Would you rather be the prime
minister of the world or a pirate?"
yells out Squee Mather at Jim, and
Jim Jumped, 'cause Squee was stand
ing right next to him.
"I'd ra-ther be-be a p-p-p-plrate,"
he tlnaJiy managed to say, und then
Squee told htm to get himself Into
the next room, where the pirates
would be wnlt'ng to transfer him from
a human being into something like
A real pirate.
i Putting Him Through
Jim ktnda stiffened up. und walked
Into the next room as though he never
expected to be Hble to walk out of It.
lie walked right Into a step Udder
thai had been tald out for him. and
to see him stumbling along nearly
made everybody bust out laughlnir.
hut nobody did. Then Snuee pushes
him a little and tells him to hurry
up. and Jim does his best to though
hot wry successful. He stumbled and
nearly fell, but Ollie and Herb caught
Mm. and he got his balance back
all right.
Then he had to ride the Spanish
Main; and we put him up on a Unlit
table, and while one fellow held him
UP we all lifted the table and made It
rwk r. round, nnd every once In a
white the fellow who was holding Jim
mould set as though he was going
to puil him off, but wouldn't, and
after that had kept up for a whtla we
let the table down.
After that wo mada a lot of fus
about getting Hho branding cutlass
ready to brand the Inltiata with the
sign of tlie Pirate's Cave. We got
Jim alt worked : up, and then took a
sharp piece of Ice and i-ubhed it
across his forehead, and he yelled.
When you do that "to a fe'low, it
really does feel just like a hot Iron,
so you can't blame Jim for being
scared.
The Branding -
After branding him we were about
through with the Initiation, all but the
last, and most Important, part of the
whole thing. We told him we didn't
think he'd amount to shucks as a
pirate, jro wo were going to make
him walk the plank and get rid of
him. Everybody treated him real
rough, and yelled at him, and jostled
him. and with all that going on Jim
Anally got pretty scared, and begnji
to think wo really weren't going to
make him a member, so he was will
ing and anxious to do anything we
told him to.
Walking the Plank
So we had hhn start to walk out
on the plank, tind the farther he
walked the higher tho plank got. until
It was about two feet high at the
end. All the time he was walking out
the plank we kept warning him about
falling off the plenk. and In order to
make him think he was real high we
leaned over so that our voices came
all the way from the floor, and it
sounded as though the plank was
about ten or twelve feet high. Finally,
he got to the end of it, and he looked
mighty funny when he stepped right
off On the floor.
Then everybody gathered around,
and w-e took off his blindfolds, and
told him he was a member, and every
body congratulated him, and the
meeting ended, with Jim Irving hap
pier than I'd ever seen him before.
AL STUHBS.
Scribe of the Pirate Seven.
TO-DAY'S PUZZLE
The name of a film favorite Is
formed by adding together of an
Implement, of to stir together, H
of a trench around a cattle, and 3
of ono of the western states of the
United States.
Answer to yesterday's: T-awl, A
den. m-cre. May.
Answer to to-day's: TOoL Mix,
MOat, OREgon. Tom Moor.
How, Why, and What
Pid the turkey come from Turkey?
No, the farmyard turkevs are mem
bers of a family of bird whose na
tive Und was Mexico.
ONE REEL YARNS
SPRING CLEANtNQ
"I can't see the uso In tearing every;
thing up," Sarah fumed. "And I
won't put on that dirty old dress to
help In. I can iron my other gingham
to-r.lght for school to-morrow."
Sho and her sister Ruth Mary had
oorno home from school to find tha
living rcor.i and dining room complete
ly lorn up, as her mother was starting
in spring housecleanlng. Her mother
did not answer Sarah. She had sim
ply told the girls that they could
wash around the lower woodwork and '
clean tho windows. Ruth Mary had .
gone upstairs, without a word, to pu$
on her old work dress, but Sarait
started to work in her school dress.
Tho girls had been working about
an hour. The muddy water had
splashed on Sarah's dress -until it '
looked as dirty as Ruth Mary's work
dress. The rooms were beginning to
look as though the furniture could bo
moved Lack and lhinns straightened,
when an auto honked out In front.
Then ITncle Harry rushed up tha
steps. "I'm looking for a nice little
frtrl to drive to Uarryvllle with mo.
Who ean be ready tu five seconds?"
ho said.
Now S.rah would have liked noth
ing better in tho world than to whU
through town beside her uncle In hi
new car, but she could think of noth
ing that she could put on In five
seconds. Her mother did not say
anything, waiting for the girls to set
tie tho ride proiosition.
' Kuess." said Sarah slowly, and
her eyes were beginning to flit with,
tears, "you'd better run along, Ruth)
Mary, Your dress Is clean.' V
The Reason
'Awfu! accident last night ca
turned a corner."
"No reason for an accident, was
It?"
"Yes, there wasn't any comer.'