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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1916)
A FATHER'S RIGHT By HAROLD CARTER (Copyright, 1918. by W. O. Chapman.) The Interview was naturally an em barrassing one, but Roger Lewis had never had a moment's doubt o the result He was a young lawyer, with a good practice; his antecedents were irreproachable. And old Andrew Ban nister was a gentleman. Roger was therefore hardly able to believe his ears when old Andrew curt ly refused bis permission for the en gagement. "I've seen this coming for a long time, sir!" he thundered. "And I knew from the beginning that you had wormed your way into my house in or der to steal my only child away from me." ''But, Mr. Bannister," protested Rog er, "surely It is not stealing to fall in love with" "Bab! Don't talk of love to me!" Interpolated the old gentleman bitter ly. "You shall never marry my daugh ter, or I cast her adrift. Leave my door, and never darken it again!" Certainly old Bannister had always been a little queer, but Roger could imagine no reason for this brutal self ishness. Amy listened to bis account of the interview in amazement. She went direct to her father. ."What have you been saying to Roger?" she asked. "Roger? You mean Lewis, that Im pudent jackanapes that dared to pro pose for your hand!" "But, father, I love him. What have you against him?" "I will not be bulldozed by yoii, Amy!" stormed the old man. "I will not permit you to think of the scoun drel. He makes love to you without asking my leave. He " "If he had gone to you first, father, I should have had nothing to do with him," said Amy firmly. "You will have nothing more to do with him. You can choose between X)!d Bannister Himself, Armed With a Gun. ua. You can marry that young scoun drel, or you can remain at homo, in stead ot bringing your father's gray hairs in sorrow to his grave.' Amy began to weep. She loft tho room aud thought hor problem out. And it seemed to her that her first duty was to hor father. Rogor and she were both young; she was an only child, and hor fathor loved hor in his way. Ho had had a hard Ufa until late years. Thoro had always been unfulfilled hopes which had tormented him He had lived a narrow, straight cut life. Ho had made bitter sacrillces to duty. In the end Amy wrote to Rogor, tolling him that their engage ment must be postponed until she was able to bring her fathor to reason and discover whore the trouble lay. But she pined all that summer, and, once or twlco, meeting Rogor in the streot, she was hardly ablo to resist his entreaties that Bho consont to an elopement. Hor fathor, too, was grow ing stranger than over. At last Roger called at the house again. Ho wont straight Into Mr. Ban nlHter's study. "I am going to marry your daughter, vt hot hor you like It or no," he said. "If you have anything against me, let's have it out now." To his astonishment, ho fancied that he saw a look ot approval In the old man's eyes. But it passed Instantly, and old Daunlstor raved and stormed at him. In the end he found himself outside, with nothing accomplished, and a deeper enmity between himself and his future father In law. The next day a despairing little let ter came from Amy. "Rogor, help me!" it began. "I am ending this by the cook, who brought me my dinner. Father has gone out of his mind. He induced me to enter the attic this morning, and then he turned the key on me. He has had bolts put on the door, and I am a prisoner here and this is the twentieth century! Save me, and I will marry you at neat" Kof er read the letter tn horror, and then be understood. Of course, the old man's mind had been slowly fail ing. He must be crazy. It would do no good to start habeas corpus pro ceedings. He must rescue the girl and take her away. A reconnoitering visit that after noon disclosed, first, an eager face and fluttering handkerchief at a top window; next, old Bannister himself, armed with a gun, and pacing up and down the lawn. Roger waited till dark before put ting his plans into effect. His obser vations had disclosed to him a garden er's ladder, left by chance in such a way that it reached up toward the 'maiden In the tower." Ascending that unobserved, he believed that he could stretch up his arms and pull Amy down to safety. At dark he started out in his auto. The house was a little way outside the town limits. It was a lonely neigh borhood, and this left him more free dom to deal tactfully with the situa tion. He left the auto at the back of old Bannister's little garage, and made his way toward the back of the house. The ladder was still there. Unob served, as he believed, Roger set foot upon the lowest rung, and soon he was tapping at the window pane above. Amy opened the window with a lit tle cry of Joy. She was fully dressed, and carried a bag in her hand. I knew you would come, dearest," she whispered, and her arms clung to his neck. Very carefully he lifted her down to the top rung of the creaking, swaying ladder, and thence, rung by rung, down to the ground. A moment later they were creeping through the darkness toward the hid den auto. Now the girl was inside, and Roger was desperately cranking when a sud den shout rang out behind him. It was old Bannister, and he was rushing toward them. In his hand was the glint of a revolver. Roger' leaped into the auto and started away as the frenzied old man drew near. He sped down the road toward the boundary of the state, ten miles away, where a marriage could be performed without the formality of a license. But he had hardly left the house behind him when old Bannister's auto was heard chugging along behind him. Now ensued a weird race through the shadows. Roger let her out to the limit. As he ran his mind revolved about a friend of his, a young minis ter, who would certainly perform the ceremony, even in his pajamas. But It was hard to throw the old man off the scent. The rattletrap behind nev er failed to indicate Its presence in their neighborhood. Faintly the old man's cries came to their ears. But now the state line was crossed, and at length Roger, with Amy clinging to him in terror and Joy, had thrown the pursuers off the track among the hoiiaoa ami winding strata of th mi. burban town. Roger dashed toward his friend's house. He pulled up, left the auto at the doorstep, and hammered vigor ously upon the door. It opened, and the Rev. Hugh Hughes in his pa jamas stood confronting them, while in the distance a rattle, rattle indi cated the approach ot the enemy. "How soon can you marry us?" de manded Rogor. "Instantly," said the Rev. Hugh Hughes. "Come in." "And as the blows of Mr. Bannis ter's fists upon the door reverberated through the house, Amy was saying "1 will." Tho Rev. Hugh Hughes opened the door. "You'ro too late," he said to Mr. BanlBtor. The old man strode forward and surveyed tho couple with an intensely self-sntlsfled smile. "Bless you, then bless you," he chuckled, gripping Rogor by the hand. "It's hard to losa an only daughter, but, by hock, I've got what every fa thor wants when he lets her go." "What's that?" demanded Roger In amazement. "Fatherly privileges storn refusal desperate elopomont forgiveness," answered Bannister In a breath. , Lo's Business System. Old settlers will toll you that th Indians broke the first ground for wheat growing purposes In tho spring of 1S81. Tho Indians got their first lilivis of settling on land and estab llBlnng permanent homes from asso ciation with the cowboys. Members of the tribe, Including Pocatcllo Torn, China Eyo and Big Lipped Pote, broke some ground and seeded a few acres of wheat. When the wheat was hnrvested and "threshed" In primitive Indian fash Ion, the growers bogan to market tho grain. Tho native wheat king would dollver wheat to American Falls, or elsowhore In tho vicinity, for 50 cents a bushel. If the customer went after the grain tho price was one dollar a bualiel. When questioned as to the meaning of their singular business methods tho Indians would invariably reply: "You come to my wickiup, you heap want 'ura. Me come to your wickiup, maybe so you don't want 'uq at all!" Farming Business. Where She Drew tht Line. "I didn't object when the servant wanted the right to our piano once a week." "Nor "No, I was glad to do that because she was musically Inclined. And I didn't mind lending her my hat and opera cape tor special occasions. " "Indeed!" "But when she decided that she and her sweetheart were also entitled to the use ot our automobile on night a week I had to draw the line." De troit Free Press. DEADLY ENEMIES OF BIRDS Snakes Climb Trees and Capture Fledglings In Nest, While the Parents Are Helpless. Some enemies of the birds are sat isfied to take chances on outrunning their prey on the ground or catching them In an air pursuit. In the birds' war for existence these enemies are the land forces and the air squadrons Other foes make stealthy attacks on the nests in the trees, destroying the eggs and devouring the young fledg lings. They are the submarines, and the stealthiest and meanest of the lo' Is the snake. . The snake's ability to climb trees makes him a deadly foe to birds. Thr reptile will crawl out on a limb and capture his prey while the parent birds flutter about powerless to pre vent the slaughter. Of all the reptiles the common black- snake Is the most destructive, and they will swallow a full-grown bird. The skull of a snake's head is put together loosely and will stretch to an extraor dtnary size. This makes it possible for the snake to swallow a bird much larger than his own head. Before he devours his prey the Bnake covers it with a slimy Baliva and squeezes the bird out long and narrow with his jaws to make It easier to swallow. Bullfrogs have been known to swallow birds, too, but they are not so destructive as the subma rine snake. They cannot trap the birds in their nests in the trees. Making the Child Beautiful. Every mother desires that her child shall be beautiful; but beauty on the outside is born of health on the inside. The same is true of beauty of disposi tion, or of what we are wont to term "goodness" in the child. It is exceed ingly difficult for people of mature years, possessed of some degree of self-control, to be bright, cheerful and amiable with a body suffering with ill health. How much more so for the child. Every child may not be endowed with perfect symmetry of face and fig ure, but the sunny disposition, the clear complexion, the rosy cheeks, the gleaming eye, the ruby lips, the pearly teeth, the plump form, together with perfect poise of body, which all may cultivate, will lend even a greater charm. Early beginnings count for much in matters pertaining to health, as with all other things connected with child culture. Upon the right treatment of the little babe during the first year depends much of Its subsequent well being. Mrs. E. E. Kellogg, in Good Health. Celtic Revival. The so-called Celtic revival is prac tically the attempt to "revive" and 6 al!ve Irish language. Irish Is the classlc Celtl language, and we are better supplied with linguistic ma terial for its study than is the case with any other Celtic dialect. The his tory of the language goes back 1,200 years. The Gaelic league, for the study and revival of Irish, was found ed in 1893. It publishes a weekly journal, the Flaming Sword, and a monthly, the Gaelic Journal. In 1898 a festival was held, on the same lines as the Welsh Eisteddfod, called the Olreachtas, and was very successful, so that it has been held every year since. Most of the counties in Ire land also have their local Gaelic fes tivals each year. The literary output of the movement has boen tremen dous, but the language Itsolf is very difficult in spelling and phonetics Married In Haste. The old-time editor of Georgia was usually the mayor as well. He was also Justice of the peace, conveyancer and real estate agent, deacon of the church, leading lawyer and head of the building and loan. As one of these editors was writ ing a two-column editorial on the tariff a Georgia couple came in to be married. The editor, without once looking up, without once slackening the steady movement ot his pen, said "Time's money. Want her?" "Yes," said the youth. "Want him?" the editor continued, nodding toward the girl. "Yes," Bhe replied. "Man and wife," pronounced the edl tor, his pen traveling smoothly and rapidly. "One dollar. Bring a load of wood for It one-third pine, balance oak." Pittsburgh Dispatch. Use Trailers as Hospital Cars. Instead ot continuing to convert pas senger automobiles Into ambulances, as in the beginning ot the war, the British military authorities now use almost exclusively trailers, which are attached to tho touring cars by moans ot ordinary drawbars. An anchorage for such trailers is attached to every touring car in military service, at very Small expense, so that any one of tho cars can Instantly plrk up an ambu lance and convey it to the hospital at the rear. The trnllor has been of great service to the hospital corps, and Is now manufactured in quantity by the inventor. The first car ot this type was made in November last, and thoroughly tested before being sub mitted to the war office. Breaks Leg on Tomato Vine. Tripping over a tomato vine in bis garden, where he was working, Wil liam L. Hedrlck, a California pioneer and a prominent real estate man ot Pasadena. Cal., tell and broke bis right Irg near the hip. Because ot his advanced age and his weight his family and physician had great difficulty In removing Mr Hedrlck from the garden to a truck, a (once having to be torn down first METHODS OF MANAGING MIND Psychology and Its Effects Will Be Found Welt Worth Anyone's Patient Study. Despite the difficult look of the word, psychology is a most interest ing and intensely fascinating subject Briefly, it is the science which deals with the extraordinary effect of the mind on the body, says London An swers. To make matters clearer, here is a simple instance of ordinary psycholog ical effect You are cycling, and come to a long, steep hill. If you let your eyes dwell on the hill and its length a feeling of depression and discourage ment at once affects you. That is communicated to the body, which in stantly tires and loses energy. The hill, sight, mind, muscles there's the psychological sequence. But If you keep your eyes fixed on the road just ahead and pedal on that strange "tired out" feeling doesn't come. It's quite weird. Soldiers, tired to the point of ex haustion, will revive and march with energy if the band plays. Why do we prefer a twisting road for a long walk in preference to one which, if shorter, stretches out like an endless ribbon straight In front of us? To avoid the psychological de pression of spirits which the long. straight road gives. Now you can see that a study of psychological effects is practical and useful. An Interesting example of being psy chologically "unsensed" is to be found in the attitude of civilians living In the fighting zone of northern France. The effect on them has been such that they have lost the "danger sense." They go about their ordinary occu pations apparently careless of shot or shell. It is not bravery, nor is it -res ignation; their attitude is a psy chological one. A commercial traveler has . stated that he always knew when the psy chological moment had come for him to snap the order he had been ang ling for. That is, he noted the swing ot the wavering mind, and booked his order before his customer was "bal anced" again. The best safeguard against being psychologically affected is to maintain your hold over your mind and to keep your feeling in equilibrium. Manage your mind and don't let It manage you! The best antidote to ordinary, ev eryday life psychological effects is to have many interests in life one main one, and the rest side lines, as it were. A busy mind keeps its equilibrium, and where stern common sense reigns psychological effects have no place. The subject is worth studying, is it not? Follow it up. This article touches but the fringe. Indian Folk Song. In Philadelphia, a short time ago. I heard the first performance in Amer ica ot a new composition by one of great Italian, Busonl. It was played by the composer and by the Philadel phia Symphony orchestra under the baton of Leopold Stokowskl, who de clared that this new work was possi bly the most Important step in musi cal development since Debussy first began to break fresh paths in tcnal 1 harmonic relations. This com position, already played with great success in Europe, is built entirely upon American Indian melodies not imaginative Inventions of the com poser, but genuine Indian songs, for whose authenticity I can vouch, as I myself wrote them down from the lips ot the Indians in the far West and later gave them to Busonl at his re questNatalie Curtis in the Southern Workman. Monument for Hlndenburg In the Alps. The Llskelle mountain in the Carln- thlan Alps, near the present Austro- Italtan theater ot war, has been re named "Hlndenburg Height." On the summit of the mountain, one ot the highest of the Cnrinthian chain, an obelisk will be erected ir honor of the victor of Tanneberg and the Ma surian lakes. The work has already been started under the direction ot Architect Arnold of Hanover. The dedication ot the monument is to take place next summer and Field Mar shal von Hlndenburg has promised to be present at the ceremony with his wife. Waste Mica Now Used. Mica mining tn the United States began In 1803 with the opening of tho Ruggles mine, in Grafton county, New Hampshire. Until mica m'nlng began in North Carolina, about 1867, New Hampshire furnished the entiro output of mica In the Cnlted States. In 1914 North Carolina ranked first tn the value ot Its mica output, and New Hampshire second. MIra Is still obtainable in consider able quantities from the dumps ot the old mines in New Hampshire, at which material for small sheets was thrown away thirty or forty years ago. Umbrella With Fan Attachment. To circulate air below the canopy ot an umbrella a patent has bein is sued on the Invention ot Sylvester Onyskow ot Jenkins. Ky., In which a tan with folding blades, so that It can collapse with the umbrella, is ar ranged directly below the canopy and a suitable motor battery and switch mechanism for driving the tan is also carried by the umbrella. Tanned. "Hat your summer tan worn off, Jack?" asked one boy ot another. "It sure has, but dad gave me a fall tan last night that'll stick for torn FIGHT ON MOUNTAIN HEIGHTS Italians and Austrians Battle Among Peaks That Are Considered Almost Inaccessible. Italy's Alpine troops, mountain ar tillery and several regiments of ber saglieri (sharpshooters) are appar ently bearing the brunt of the war with Austria. These troops have since the begin ning of the war been occupying stra tegic positions, generally the peaks of almost inaccessible mountains dom inating the enemy's forts and in trenched camps, hauling up guns and holding these positions against the re peated attacks of the Austrians who are striving to open a way toward a possible future invasion of Italy. Scarcely any details are available about their hard fighting up in the mountains where the snow is still sev eral feet deep and no eyewitnesses are present. A company of Alplni was on the march at night along a mountain path skirting a valley 200 feet below. The path was narrow and a false step meant death. The men marched care fully and Blowly In Indian file and kept well in from the edge. The of ficer who marched In front when the path widened ordered the men to halt and lie down for an hour's reBt. The Alplni accordingly rolled themselves up in their blankets and settled to sleep, when a dull, muffled noise was heard coming up from the valley. Three or four Alplni understood at once what it meant. The Austrians down in the valley were mining the path from bolow in the hope of blow up the force. They looked down the precipice, but could not see anything. It was pitch dark. Still the noise con tinued. The Alplni hit on a plan at once and the officer approved it One of them, a knife in his mouth and a rifle in his hands, was let down the ledge tied to a rope. When he saw the shadows of the Austrians working on the rock he fired at a dis tance of less than ten yards. The Aus trians fled for cover and then opened fire against the man dangling from the rope, but his comrades hauled him to safety. When the Alplni explored the valley next morning they found three Austrians killed and near them the dynamite charge they were pre paring. British Dominions. The imperial dominions of Great Britain, as listed in Whltaker's Alma nac, are as follows: In Europe The United Kingdom, Isle of Man, Channel islands, Malta and Gozo, Gibraltar. In Asia The Indian Empire, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Federated and others; Hongkong, Weihaiwei, North Borneo, Brunei, Sarawak, Cyprus. In Africa Cape Province, Natal, Transvaal, Orange Free State, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Rhodesia, Gambia, Gold CoaBt, Sierra Leone, Northern Nigeria, Southern Ni geria, Somaliland, British East Africa, Uganda, Zanzibar, Nyassaland, Egypt, Sudan, Mauritius, Seychelles, Ascen sion, St. Helena. In America On tario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward island, Bri tish Columbia, Manitoba. Alberta, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories, Newfoundland, Jamaica, Bahamas, Leeward Islands, Windward Islands, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Bri tish Guiana, British Honduras, Ber muda, Falkland Islands, South Geor gia. In Australasia New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Aus tralia, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua, and Islands in the Pacific. Paid Big Price for Ram. The price of mutton has gone up In Australia. When the Red Cross fund was being raised one wealthy sheepowner presented a ram to be sold by auction and the proceeds de voted to the fund. The ram was sold in Sydney. The auctioneer who wield ed the hammer mnde an eloquent ap peal to the pastoralists and others present to see to It that the ram brought a sum worthy of the object, and one that would live for ever In the history of these sales. The ram, which was appropriately named "Aus tralia Day," was sold and resold 22 times, mostly in stratghtout bids, and when 2,000 guineas had been realized he was put up for final sale and knocked down at 200 guineas ($1,020) Called Prettiest Judge. Miss Reah M. Whitehead of Seattle Is said to be the prettiest Judge In the United States. She is one of the five Judges of the city court of Seattle, and though when she was elected It was expected that, she would handle cases involving women and children. so far her work has been about the same as that of her four colleagues. The first batch of criminals consigned to her court comprised five men, three of them accused ot burglary. . Judge Whitehead began her career as a stenographer In a lawyer's office. Within a few months she began to study law at night. After being ad mitted lo the bar she was chosen a deputy prosecuting attorney Old Tree Still Fruitful. Apples plucked from the oldest ap- plo tree on the Pacific coast, in Van couver, Wash., have been sent to the department of agriculture by a former horticulture Inspector of the district, This famous tree Is almost ninety years old and produced a fair crop of apples this year. The department will make reproductions ot the apples ll size, shape and color, and they will be returned and later handed over to the Washington and Oregon Historical societies, with photographs of tht old tree and its history. GAP STORY OF TWO ENGLISHMEN Formal Introduction Prevented Any Infraction of Conventionalities During Sea Voyage. Martin Littleton tells a story of two Englishmen whom he met while cross ing from Europe. The Englishmen were both of a serious and conserva tive turn of mind. Although they shared the same stateroom, had seats at the same table, and sat side by side in their deck chairs, they did not speak to each other, considering it im proper to do so, as they had not been Introduced. On the last day, when New York was near at hand, one of them decided It was time to waive conventionality, and make the acquaintance of his fellow countryman. They were standing side by Bide on the rail. The man with the Initiative was lost in thought. Finally, when he bad decided upon a timely introduc tory remark, he said: 'Goin' over?" 'Yas," replied the other Englishman, "I rather thought I would, Are you?" A Difference. Mrs. Holdtlte My husband was very angry when I asked him for a new fur coat. Mrs. Nokoyne My husband was diff erent. When I asked him for a new coat he never said a word. Mrs. Holdtlte Fine; and did you get the coat? Mrs. Nokoyne No. On the Veranda. Dickson There eoes Mrs. Chase. What does she come to Florida for? Wickson She wants to cet rid of her rheumatism. Dickson But whv does she hrlnir her three daughters along? Wickson Oh! she wants to Eet rid of them, too. Carried Away. First Actor Yes, our western trio was pretty rough. Frost everywhere except one place. When we left there. tne whole town was up In the air about us. Second Actor One of those sudden waves of rheumatism, eh? First Actor No; a cyclone. No Lack of Eye Openers. "So you've cut out the drink sfnce you married, eh, Newpop. Don't you miss your eye openers?" "Miss 'em? I get too many eya openers. "Who from?" "The baby at 2 a. m." THE DIRECT ROUTE. "They say she spurned his offer of marriage." "She did. She found that he was dependent upon a rich uncle, so she married the uncle." Engagement Ring. Victor Yes; I had a terrible battle with Marion's heart before she finally accepted me. Harold You don't say! How is she now? Victor Oh! she is still In the ring. Just That. Max Jones is the most wide-awake man I know. Dax You surprise me; I never heard of hlj being especially enter prising. Max Ohl It Isn't enterprise that makes him so; it's insomnia. 8o Kind of Her. Phoebe Fred asked me your age last night dear. Phyllis The idea! And did you tell him? Phoebe Of course not I merely aid you didn't look It -t