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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1919)
MMORE ENDIOOTT COFxTUQHT -1 S 1 0 - BY DODD, MB.AD and COMPANY. CAROLYN LEARNS WHY HER UNCLE AND AMANDA PARLOW DO NOT SPEAK AS. THEY PASS. 8ynoplfc Her father and mother reported lost at sea when the Dunraven, on which they had sailed for Europe, was sunk, Carolya May Cameron Hannah's Carolyn Is sent from New York to her bach elor uncle, Joseph Stagg, at the Corners. The reception given her by her uncle to not very enthusiastic. Carolyn Is also chilled by the stern demeanor of Aunty Eose, Uncle Joe's housekeeper. Stagg Is dismayed when he learns from a lawyer friend of his brother-in-law that Carolyn has been left practically penniless nnd consigned to his care as guardian. CHAPTER IV Continued. "So?" said the carpenter, pushing bis big spectacles up to his forehead. "I read about It Too bad too mighty bad i I remember Hannah Stagg," he uddod, winking his eyes, Carolyn May thought, a good deal as Prince did. "Sou look like her." "Do I?" Carolyn May returned, drawing nearer. "I'm glad I do. And I'm glad I sleep In what used to be her bed, too. It doesn't seem so lonesome." "So? I reckoned you'd be lonesome up there at The Corners," said the carpenter. Mr. Parlow stripped another shav ing from the edge of the board he was nlumblne. Carolyn May's eager eyes followed that curling ribbon and her Hps parted. The carpenter paused before push' lng the plane a second time the length of the board. "Don't you want a drlnK of water, little girl?" he asked. "Oh, yes, sir I would. And I know Trlnce would like a drink," she told him quickly. "Go right around to the well In the back yard," said Mr. Purlow. "You'll fmd a glass there and Mundy keeps a pan on the well curb for the dogs and cats." "Thank you, I'll go," the little girl said. She honed she would see Miss Amanda Parlow, but she saw nobody. She went back to the door of the carpenter shop and found Mr. Parlow still busily at work. "Seems to me," ho said, in his dry voice, after a little while, "you aren't much like other little girls." "Aren't I?" rcspouded Carolyn May wonderlugly, "No. Most little girls that come here want shavings to play with," said the carpenter, quizzically eying her ' over his work. "Ohl" cried Carolyn May, almost jumping. "And do you give 'em to em?" '"Most always," admitted Mr. Par low. "Ohl Can I have some?" she gasped. "All you want," said Mr. Parlow. When Tim's old hack crawled nlong the road from town with Aunty Rose sitting inside, enthroned ninldst a mul titude of bundles, Carolyn May was bedecked with a veritable wig of long, crisp curls. "Well, child, you certainly have made a mess of yourself," snld the house keeper. "Has Bhe been annoying you, Jedldlah Parlow?" "She's the only Stagg that ain't an noyed me since her mother went away," said the carpenter gruffly. Aunty Rose looked at lilm levelly. "I wonder," she said. "But, you see, she Isn't wholly a Stagg." This, of course, did not explain mnt ters to Carolyn May in tho least. Nor did what Aunty Hose said to her on the way homo In tho hot, stuffy hack help the little girl to understand the trouble between her uncle and Mr. Tarlow. "Better not let'Joseph Stagg see you so friendly with Jedldlah Parlow. Let sleeping dogs He," Mrs. Kennedy ob served. CHAPTER V. May. "Do you know, he's very llb'ral." "'Llb'ral?' repeated Mrs. uormiey. I never heard of old Jed Parlow beln' accused of that before. Did you, Mrs. Maine?" Mrs. Maine was the dressmaker; and she bit off her words when she spoke, much as she bit off her threads. No. I never heard Jed 1'ariow called that no I" declared Mrs. Maine emphatically. "Why, yes," little Carolyn May saw quite eagerly, "he gives me all the shavings I want. I I guess ioiks don't Just understand about Mr. Par low," she added, remembering what her uncle had first said about the car penter, "lie Is real llb'ral." 'It's a wonder to me," drawled Mrs. Gormley, "that ho has a thing to do with a certain party, Mrs. Maine, con- slderin' how his daughter feels toward Mint certain Darty's relation. What d'you think?" "I guess there's sumpin to De said on both sides o' that contro versy," responded the uressmauer. "Mennln' that mebhe a certain par ty's relutlve feels Just as cross as Mandy Parlow?" suggested Mrs. (jorin ley. "Yep." agreed the other woman. Carolyn May listened, much puzzled, She wondered Just who "a certain party" could be. Mrs. Maine was called nway upon some household task and Mrs. Gorm- W, Syr fix A Tragic Situation. Such was the Introduction of Caro lyn May to The Corners. It was not a very exciting life she lfiid entered Into, but tho following two or three weeks wore very full. Aunty ltose Insisted upou her being properly Utted out with clothing for the summer and fall. Carolyn May had to go to tho dressmaker's house to ho fitted and that Is how she be came acquainted with Chet Goruiley's mother. Mrs. Gormlcy was helping the dress maker and they both made much of Carolyn May. Aunty Hose allowed her to go for her fitting alone of course with Prince as a companlou so, with out doubt, Mrs. Gormley, who loved a "dish of gossip," talked more freely with the little girl than she would liuve done In Mrs. Kennedy's presence One afternoon tho little girl ap peared at tho dressmaker's with Prince's collar decorated with Bhort, curly shavings. "I take It you've stopped at Jed Par low's shop, child," said Mrs. Gormley with a sigh. ' "Ye, ma'am," returned Carolya "I Reckoned You'd Be Lonesome Up There at the Corners," said the Car penter. ley seemed to change the subject of conversation. "Don't your uncle, Mr. Stagg, ever speak to you about Mandy Parlow?" she asked the little girl. Carolyn May had to think about this before answering. Then she remem bered. "Oh, yes," she said brightly. "He does? Do tell I" exclaimed Mrs. Gormley eagerly. "What does ne say?" Why, he says her name is Miss Amanda rnrlow." Mrs. Gormley flushed rather oddly and glanced at the child with suspl- clon. But little Carolyn May was per fectly frank and Ingenuous. "Humph !" ejaculated Chefs mother, "He never says nothing about beln' in love with Mainly, does he? They was goln' with each other steady once. The little girl looked puzzled. '"When folks lovo each other they look at each other and talk to each other, dou't they?" she asked. "Well yes generally," admitted Mrs. Gormley. "Then my Uncle Joe and Miss Aninn- da Parlow aren't In love," announced Carolyn May with confidence, "for they don't even look at each other." rrhey used to. Why, Joseph Stagg and Mandy Parlow was sweethearts years and years ago I Long before your mother left these parts, child. "That was a lung time 'fore I was horned," said the little girl wonder lugly. "Oh, yes. Everybody that went to The Corners' church thought they'd be married." "My Uncle Joe and Miss Mandy?" "Yes." "Then, what would have become of Aunty Hose?" queried Carolyn May. "Oh, Mrs. Kennedy hadn't gone to keep house for Mr. Stagg then," re plied Mrs, Gormley. "He tried aev'ral trlflln' critters there at the Stagg place before she took hold." Carolyn May looked at Mrs. Gorm ley encouragingly. She was very much Interested in Uncle Joe and Miss Amanda Parlow's love affair. "Why didn't they get married like my papa and mamma?" she asked. "Oh, goodness knows!" exclaimed Mrs. Gormley. "Some says 'twas his fault and some says 'twas hern. And mebbee 'twas a third party's that I might mention at that," added Mrs. Gormley, pursing up her Hps In a very knowing way. "One day," she snld, growing confi dential, "It was In camp-meeting time one day somebody seen Joe Stagg drivln' out with another girl Char lotte Lenny, that was. She was mar ried to a man over In Sprlngdalo ffmg ago. Mr. Stagg' took Charlotte to Faith camp meeting. "Then, the very next week, Mandy went with Evan Peckham to a barn dance at Crockett's, and nobody ain't ever seen your uncle and Mandy Par low speak since, much less ever walk together." One particularly muddy day Prince met the returning hardware merchant at the gate with vociferous barkings and a plain desire to implant a wel coming tongue on the man's cheek. He succeeded In muddying Mr. Stagg's suit with his front paws, and almost cast the angry man full length Into a mud puddle. "Drat the beast!" ejaculated Mr, Stagg. "I'd rather have an epileptic fit loose around here than him. Now, look at these clo'es! I declare, Car'' lyn, you've jest got to tie that mongrel up and keep him tied 1" "All the time, Uncle Joe?" whis pered the little girl. "Yes, ma'am, all the time! If I nnd him loose again, I'll tie a bag of rocks to his neck and drop him In the deep est hole in the brook." After this awful threat Prince Uved a prccnrlous existence, and his mis tress was much worried for him. Aunty Eose said nothing, but she saw that both the little girl and her canine friend were very unhappy. Mrs. Kennedy, however, had watch ed Mr. Joseph Stagg for years. In deed, she had known him as a boy, long before she had closed up her own little cottage around on the other road and come to the Stagg place to save the hardware merchant from the con tinued reign of those "trifling crea tures" of whom Mrs. Gormley had snoken. As a bachelor Joseph Stagg had been preyed upon by certain female harpies so prevalent In a country com munity. Some had families whom they partly supported out of Mr. Stagg's larder ; some were widows who looked upon the well-to-do merchant as a marrying proposition. Auuty Rose Kennedy did not need the position of Mr. Stagg's housekeep er and could not be accused of assum ing it from mercenary motives. Over her back fence she had seen the havoc going on In the Stngg homestead after Hannah Stagg went to the city and Joseph Stugg's final female relative had died and left him alone in the big house. One day the old Quaker-like woman could stand no more. She put on her suubonnet, came around by the road to the front door of the Stagg house, which she found open, and walked through to the rear porch on which the woman who then held the situation of housekeeper was wrupping up the best feather bed and pillows in a pair of the best homespun sheets, preparatory to their removal. The neighbors enjoyed what followed. Aunty Rose came through the ordeal as dignified and unruffled as ever ; the retiring incumbent went away wrath fully, shaking the dust of the premises from her garments as a testimony against "any slch actions." When Mr. Stagg came home at sup per time he found Aunty Rose at the helm nnd already a different air about the nlace. "Goodness me, Aunty Rose," he said, biting Into her biscuit ravenous ly, "I was a-golng down to the mill- hands' hotel to board. I couldn't stand It no longer. If you'd stay here and do for me, I'd feel like a new man, "You ought to be made over Into a new man, Joseph Stagg," the woman said sternly. "A married man, No, nol Never that I" gasped the hardware dealer. "If I came here, Joseph Stagg, It would cost you more money than you've been paying these no-account women. I don't care," 6nld Mr. Stagg reck lessly. "Go ahead. Do what you please. Say what you want. Im game." Thereby he had put himself Into Aunty Rose's power. She had reno vated the old kitchen and some of the other rooms.. If Mr. Stagg at first trembled for his bauk balance, he was made so comfortable that he had not the heart to murmur. Of course, Carolyn May let Prince run at large when she was sure Uncle Joe was well out of sight of the house, but she was very careful to chain him up again long before her uncle was ex pected to return. Trlnce had learned hot to chase any thing that wore feathers; Aunty Rose herself had to admit that he was a very Intelligent dog and knew what punishment was for. But how did he know that In trying to dig out a mole he would be doing more harm than good? WORLD P i N 91ST DIVISION COMES HOME OF CURRENT WEEK Plans for Reception of Western Men Is v Being Made. Washington, D. C The 91st Divi sion, composed of selected men from Oregon, Washington and other north- Brief ReSlime MOSt important western states, which has been hon- Dailv News Items ored by belng 8elected as one Udliy IVYi I Willi, combatant divisions to return from France, probably will disembark at New York City, and from there will COMPILED FOR YOU be sent to Camp Merritt, N. J., near New York, where commodious and well-heated barracks will be ready for Events of Noted People, Governments the troopers, according to information and Pacific Northwest and Other Things Worth Knowing. North Carolina Bteamed into New York harbor Tuesday, bringing a total of nearly 9000 officers and men of the army and navy from France. COL RLiriSEVELT DIES SUDDEtlLY AT HIS II obtained at the war department. At Camp Merritt the soldiers will be put through the delouslng treat ment to rid them of any cooties they - , . T. v..,,i may have acquired in Belgium and Five transports and the battleship 3 The division may remain In Camp Merritt a week or twp, depending on transportation arrangements, but it is not expected to stay there long. The The Red Cross canteen service, trip from Camp Merritt to Camp Lew- both at home and abroad, will be iSj Tacoma, will be in tourist sleepers, maintained "until every soldier is which will be a welcome change from home," according to George F. Scott, the box cars which had to be used on general manager of the American Red the European continent Cross. The division will be demobilized at n.oot mimrv mi.ainn tn Ttl- Camp Lewis. As the first step home- I i it i 1 I r nKAnnarl garia, according to a report from So- warQ " uaa " - fia, has demanded the immediate re- trom elgIum' WI1BrB " wttB , ci,ia whn wo armistice was signed, to Lemans, taken from eastern Macedonia by the W' a concentration point for divi- slons awaiting iransuoits iu tumo home, Higher shoes for women in 1919, In a ietter to senator Jones, Adju higher prices rather than reductions, Want-General Harris expresses regret and short skirts are the views of the that n0 definite date can be fixed for National Shoe Travelers' association tne demobilization of the organiza- as expressed in resolutions at the Uon8 of tne Eighth Division, now at close of its seventh annual convention camp Lee, Virginia. He adds in Chicago. "This division, which is made up to President Wilson will return to the a great extent of Pacific Coast men, United States to attend the closing and tlfe other divisions In the United sessions of the Dresent coneress. ac- States to include the 20th Division are nnrrtini? tn nresent nlans. and will last on the order of demobilization. come back to France for the later sit tings of the peace congress, says a Paris dispatch. Lieutenant David L. Fultz, United States army, was unanimously elected president of the new International Baseball League at a meeting of club owners in New York Tuesday night. Ex-President Passes Following Lodg ing of Clot on Lungs. New York, Jan. 6. Colonel Roose velt died at his home in Oyster Bay at 4 o'clock this morning. News of the death of the former president was received here by Miss Josephine Strieker, the. colonel's sec- . retary, in a telephone message from Mrs. Roosevelt. Miss Strieker said that the colonel had suffered an attack of. inflamma tory rheumatism on New Year's day REDS DRIVEN BACK UNDER YANK FIRE With the Allied Army of the Dvlna. American troops fighting desperate- At his own request the term was lim- ly near Kadish have driven back Bol- ited to one year. - ahevlst trooDS which made an advance - August A. Busch, president of An- there. The Bolshevists also launched heuser Busch, announced this week atjacks 0n the Onega sector and bom- that he would complete the organiza- m&i ffont . Tne Amerl. lnttla alnnff tho Pfl- which within two weeks will enter r """"" the pork packing business in St. Louis trograd road and in the frozen swamps on a large scale. that border it. The battle was fought urt.ii.. T,ii t,, w t.i,.. ni in snow from two to four feet In depth. ,111119 11W VUlt ..CO 1.1 im 11 V. I , , members-elect of the legislature which American forces captured Kattisn will pah v ati p Jn Rnlsft Trlnhn. Mnnrtav. I nir An,r a .Honiav nf cnl- fined to hlS TOOIII. ... 1 " Ittat IVlUlluaY, aiivi a u'op"J vt- a . n tho m tifipn tinn nf the national nrn- i. , orfmiratinn nf The attack of rheumatism settled - ' . " . ,l Dnml(' richt hibitlon amendment, it can be said tne amea commanders. Special care VU"U,D' - safely that one of the first acts of that na8 been taken of the American "ana ana ivirs. nousu - - jg , ,, . for a nurse in the village of Oyster His condition did not at first body will be to ratify the amendment, wounded, and the body of an Ameri- . . I tfinrm maa talran harlr miles Bay. JT"r l,lr v se nd then shipped to Arch- seem to be aiarming and the turn for "f1""1) """" "l nuc.vau - , ... fho wnrsn is he eved not to have come . nnAi n hupioi 'i norn wurn hii h make, the price Is not likely to drop - ..... .... m. , Mnnilov hut t iev were until last nigiu, for a long while, Mn oannar, ,n antlowlciug colonel Roosevelt's president ot the national Shoe Retail- M,gg gtrlcker gald. ers' association, said recently in ad- t I Mp9 Roogeveit caued me on the ... .1 TnnnH a ir riia KAienoviHi h mitMifii u. i - dressing the national convention of - an,,M telephone shortly before 7 o'clock that organization. .,.. ,. Uvin.r that the colonel had died early guns ana launcnea a couaier-aiiacn Theodore Roosevelt's death came as , hniim held hv Amerl- today. She did not give me any par- a Bhock to Paris, which was unaware Lan8 in Radish. So hot was the ar- ticulars and I am leaving at once for of his illness. The public had been tmorv fir that the Americans were Oyster nay. exnecting the fulfilment of his pro-L,,.hj .omnnrarilv from the vil- "Tie attack must have been very posed visit to France. The news of lag9 The line, however, was not tak- sudden, un new xears nay unm...- Colonel Roosevelt's deatn was com- en hack very far and the new posi-jmaiory meuumuam u" municated by the Associated Press to oro rmiv helH. lonel Roosevelt's right hand which be- the peace commission and other offi- Tne enemy ala not occupy Kadish came very much swollen. Mrs. Roose- cials in diplomatic circles, eliciting because the barrage fire from the veil sent ior a nurse in me viims Keneral expressions of shock and re- a ,! Pn made the nlace unten- and the colonel was mane as comiori- eret. .hi Rheiu falline on the frozen able as possible. It did not occur to President Poincare may visit the ground spread their zones of destruc- me at that time that he was seriously United States in August, writes on twice as far as tney wouia unaer chorio Dmoaoa in T.'Tnfnrmation. normal conditions. Miss Strieker went to Oyster Bay last Saturday to pay the colonel a visit. She said: At that time the colonel was sleep- Carolyn It heartbroken and decides upon drastic action when Uncle Joe passe tentenca en Prince. Read about It In the next Installment After heine rinsed to the DUbllc for nonrlv twn vears because of the war. Uetron.-An ODservauon u xiav,- th White Hnuse was reonened to land airplane reached Detroit Sunday ,ne in his room and I did not see him visitors Friday. trom ElllnSton Field, Houston, Tex., I d jh()re wag notWng in clrcum- making tne lb&u-mue trip m mm- . . hi iUnegs at tnat ttme to Edwin T. Earl, owner and publisher , of lym time, and tne last Iap ta"ce h" ta ? of the Los Angela . Indlanapoll8 at the rate of 122 lt"e d me and u, V"-" miles an hour, under aaverse weamer toM me of tne colonel.g death t COuld ciur oi wuiuium, uicu uio nnnrtltinns. The machine was one ot . .. i... r-..,!0 r 77. . .. . r,. naraiy Deueve u. mem three wtilcn lett HiUinEton meia ue- t, i. . .- I i ivirs. nuuaovtriL guvo uic uu vix.- It Is repirted in Washington that cember 21, on a "Uuu to ueiroit ana . . h, d ,h, Secretary Lane has been offered the return" trip to test me operation 01 u Jg understood that on,y Mr8. director-generalship of railroads, and the Liberty, engine and map an air Roosevelt and. tne nurse were wlm that to make the proposal attractive a route. Wm at the tlme o niB fleatr,. The nther members of the family are in von rtertung ueaa. otner partg Qf fte country or abroad. Copenhagen. Count Geroge F. von The immediate cause of Colonel Hertling. the former Imperial German Roosevelt's death was pulmonary em- chancellor, died Saturday night at bolisra or lodgment in the lung of a Ruhpolding, Bavaria. He had been ill clot from a broken vein, it was said salary of $50,000. a year is offered. The British and Dutch governments have arrived at an agreement regard ing the status of the former German emperor. This Information was con tained in a dispatch to the Telegraaf from The Hague. There are 15,000 more British prison ers in Germany than the British records show, so that a number of men previously given up as dead or missing will return to their homes, it was stated in London Saturday. The Pershing Theatre, said to be the only playhouse in the United States maintained exclusively for soldiers, and to which admittance Is I free, was opened in New York Satur- day night by the New York Community i Camp Service. (TO BB CONTINUED.) for six days. London. Count George F. von Hert ling, former German Imperial chancel lor, is dead. It was announced in ad vices received here Sunday. by one of his physicians. Seventy Killed in Explosion Mets. Seventy persons were killed as a result of an explosion of firedamp in a mlae near here Friday night Thirty bodies have thus far been brought to the surface. Five men were killed and 21 entombed by a cave-in at another mine. Washington, D. C The 1919 war savings campaign will be opened ac tively by a nation-wide celebration on January 17, the anniversary o! the birth of Benjamin Franklin. Dis trict ar savings directors in confer ence here were so informed by Har old Braddock, the new national di rector of the war savings movement That day will be devoted particular ly, Mr. Braddock said, to the organ ization of thousands of war savings societies.