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The establishment of a home for
aged and dopendent lawyers of Cali
fornia is proposed in a bill Introduced
by Sonator Scott, of San FranciBCo.
Congress has been asked by Secre
tary Daniels to appropriate $270,400,
000 to meet a deficit in the navy's
expenses for the current fiscal year.
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,
will deliver the eulogy at the Joint
Congressional memorial services for
Theodore Roosevelt to be held in the
house chamber on February 9.
The supreme court holds that the
Reed "bone dry" amendment prohibits
interstate transportation into dry
statos of intoxicating liquor for bev
erage purposes even if Intended for
. personal use.
Luxemburg was proclaimed a repub
lic on Friday, when the Grand Duchess
Marie retired from the capital, taking
up quarters in a chateau near by. The
Chamber held an excitod meeting, the
Clericals quitting the house in a body.
Mrs. M, J. Gowdy, known in the
amusement world as Josle Jolly, died
at her home in Los Angeles Monday
after a brief illness. Mrs. Gowdy
weighed 616 poundB and was a mem
ber of a carnival company wintering
there.
The California senate and assembly
waived constitutional immunity from
provisions of the influenza mask ordi
nance by Adoption of motions instruct
ing their sergeants-at-arms to permit
no one entering the chambers un
masked. Two aviators of Carruthers Field,
Forth Worth, Tex., were killed Mon
day morning when their plane drop
ped into a tail spin and fell 5000 foet.
They are Lieutenant John E. Garbut,
of Sheridan, Wyo., and Mechanic R, L.
Qulnn, of Pittsburg, Pa. .
American Christmas mail for Swe
den, estimated to be the most valuable
of the year, has not yet arrived In
Stockholm. It is believed that the
mail was lost on the missing British
steamor Gltano, which left Hull, Eng
land, on December 20 for Sweden.
Representatives selected at ' the
farmers' national reconstruction con
gress In Washington last week to at
tend the peace conference at Paris
were announced Tuesday. They In
clude C. H. Gustafson, of Nebraska,
and Dr. E. P. Ladd, of North Dakota.
. A bill proposed by the war depart
ment modifying military court-martial
procedure is introduced by Chairman
Chamberlain of the senate military
committee. Sentences by court-martial
of death, dismissal or dishonorable dis
charge would, under the bill, be sus
pended pending revision..
John Hopkins, a farmer residing
near Creston, Va., killed his wife and
two stepchildren with a clulT Saturday,
soverely Injured his own daughter and
tried unsuccessfully to kill hlmsolf.
The crimo was committed while the
family was at breakfast. Domestic
trouble was the cause ascribed by the
neighbors.
Twenty-two states now have ratified
the nation-wide dry amendment.
Thirty-six Btates are required.
A movement to erect a monument
at Oyster Bay, N. Y., to commemorate
the life and work of Theodore Roose
velt has been Inaugurated.
An annual rental of $53,603,437 is
provided in the government contract
with the Pennsylvania lines, east, and
six subsidiaries, it is announced by
the railroad administration.
Major-General J, Franklin Bell, com
mander of the Department ot the
East, died Wednesday night at the
Presbyterian hospital in New York.
His death was due to heart disease.
m
Idaho, through action ot the state
senate Wednesday, ratified the amend
ment (o the federal constitution seek
ing to prohibit forever the manufac
ture and sale of Intoxicating liquors in
the United States.
Ten million marks arrived in Con
tents Thursday by special train, this
sum elng the first payment by the
German government of the 25,000,
000 marks due in January for the ex
penses of the American army ot occu
pation. -
WORLD
WEEK
OREGON
LEGISLATURE 200 SHIPS DIVERTED
State Capitol. Organization plans
in both house and senate Monday went
off with well-lubricated precision, W.
T. Vinton, , of Yamhill, being elected
president of the senate, and Seymour
Jones, of Marion, speaker of the house,
without opposition. Vinton cast a com
plimentary vote for Senator Farrell,
and Jones for Burdick. Otherwise,
with the exception of a few absentees,
the elections were unanimous. Con
tests for minor places in both houses
were few,
Except for one unexpected clerkship
fight, the caucus plans for the senate
organization were carried out this
morning without interruption. Robert
Ruhl, of Medford, who had received
16 pledged votes for calendar clerk,
gave way to Paul Burris, a returned
soldier, after Senator Huston, of Mult
nomah, led a heated fight on the floor
of the senate In behalf of the lad in
the uniform.
Senator Vinton, of Yamhillf was
elected president without opposition.
He received all votes except his own.
House organization was perfected
before noon. Representative Haines
was made temporary chairman; Rep
resentatives Sheldon, Richardson,
Dennis, Mrs. Thompson and Hughes,
temporary committee on organization,
and Representatives Richards, Griggs
and Gordon on credentials. Represen
tatives Bean, Burdick and Kubjl es
corted Chief Justice McBride to give
the oath.
Death to Bolshevism and the I. W.
W. in all their forms in Oregon is the
purpose of two measures which reach
ed the desks in both the house and
the senate a't the opening day of the
Oregon legislature.
They came from Mr. Kubli in the
house and Mr. Dimick in the senate.
Representative Kubli succeeded in
getting his anti-Bolshevik and I. W.
W. bill as No. 1 on the house calendar,
and if it passes the two houses it will
contain ample dynamite to blow those
forms of terrorism and syndicalism
from the state forever.
Application of business methods,
elimination of non-essentials and post
ponement of unnecessary improve
ments until a more auspicious time
will, enable Oregon to be financed
without indebtedness. A survey of
the budget which has been prepared
for the consideration of the legislature
shows a total estimate to be provided
from the public treasury of $9,167,'
795.81. As estimated, visible revenues
amount to $7,870,580.97, it appears that
$1,297,214.84 will be needed.
Every essential in the budget can
be provided with $200,000 remaining,
although drastic economies are neces
sary. Apparently there is a shortage of
$1,297,214.84. By the exercise of the
pruning knife, it is possible to trim
from the budget $1,322,520 without
damage to the running machinery of
the state. The legislature will proba
bly devise reconstruction' schemes
which must be heavily financed, in
which event the tentative budget
items will have to suffer.
It is estimated $500,000 can be lop
ped off in the industrial accident com
mission by abolishing the one-seventh
which the state contributes to the
compensation fund. The estimate in
the budget is for $080,000. The com
mission itself recommends that the
legislature make an appropriation for
administration expenses of $296,876.16,
instead of the estimated $680,000,
which the Btate's one-seventh for two
years will amount to; the state adding
to the money which comes from em
ployers and employes for compensa
tion. A good get-away in legislative prog
ress was made the first day with the
Introduction of four bills in the senate
and 11 in the house.
Compulsory employment of return
ed soldiers and sailors by the state,
county, city and other municipal cor
porations within the state is provided
In a bill introduced in the senate by
Senator Farrell, of Multnomah.
The bill, which is the first of a flood
of reconstruction measures to be
ground through the legislative mill
this year, provides that soldiers, and
sailors who llave been honorably dis
charged must be given preference in
employment by stats, county, city or
other municipal corporations. It ap
plies to veterans of the Civil War,
Spanish War and the war with Ger-
Revocation of some of the powers
delegated to the Oregon Public Serv
ice Commission is sought in a bill in
troduced in the senate by Senator
Huston, of Multnomah, which provides
that the public service commission
shall not "have authority to increase
rates charged by public service corpor
ations, when such rates were invoked
through contracts between the corpor
ations and cities prior ,to September
16, 1913. .
M i H
Rebuilding of Pre-War Business
Begun By U.S.
JAP CRAFT RETURNED
Army to Give Up Tonnage Gradually
aa Forces Abroad Diminish; Hol
land Bottoms to Be Released,
Washington, D. C Approximately
200 cargo ships have been diverted to
poace-tlme trade routes since the sign
ing of the armistice. This represents
the net result of the United States
shipping board's contribution up to
date toward the rebuilding of the na
tion's foreign trade. As rapidly as
the army can spare ships from the
work of carrying supplies to the Amer
ican expeditionary forces, they will
be placed where most needed.
Between December 10 and January
10 the war department released 148
ships, totaling nearly 900,000 dead
weight tons, which had been devoted
exclusively to the army supply serv
ice. Others released prior to Decem
ber 10 and several newly completed
ships, intended originally for army
work, were released.
' About 50 of the 260 ships were un
der 4000 tons, which were released the
first of the year from requisition. Oth
ers are being operated by the shipping
board, while several -are neutral Bhips
the charters of which have expired.
The neutral vessels will be chartered
t, private firms.
Twenty-one Japanese ships are be
ing turned back to their owners.
TheBe ships have been used on the
Atlantic. One of them has been start
ed through the Panama Canal on its
return voyage, while the others will
follow at once. It will cost the United
States government several million dol
lars to send the ships back to Japan
under the rather severe charter terms,
agreed tc by the shipping board.
It was learned Monday that the next
lot of ships released by the shipping
board probably will be the 87 Dutch
ships seized by the United States gov
ernment, after Holland had failed to
agree to terms for their use.
Negotiations are pending by which
some ot the Norwegian Bhips will re
main under charter to the shipping
board under more favorable terms
than during the war. Some of the Nor
wegian ships already have been re
leased, i
Owners of American ships which
were requisitioned by the shipping
board are clamoring for their release.
All Influence is being brought to bear
In behalf of particular owners. Tho
shipping board, however, takes the
position that it cannot show any fa
voritism and will release ships only
by classes. The first class of requisi
tioned ships released were those be
tween 2500 and 4000 deadweight tons,
while the next class, it is expected,
will be those between 4000 and 6000.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
GREGORY RESIGNS
Washington, D. C Thomas Watt
Gregory, attorney-general of the Unit
ed States since 1914, has resigned be
cause of "pecuniary responsibilities,"
and will return to the practice of law.
President Wilson has agreed to his
retirement next March 4. (The sal
ary of the attorney-general is $12,000
a year.)
Mr. Gregory's letter of resignation,
dated January 9, and the president's
reply, cabled from Paris the next day,
were made public Sunday night at the
White House. The attorney-general's
letter disclosed that he had long con
sidered retiring from office and had
discussed the matter with the presi
dent before Mr. Wilson went abroad.
Mr. Gregory's successor has not yet
been appointed, and there has been no
official intimation as to who he will
be. In speculation the names of
Frank L. Polk, counsellor of the state
department, . and acting . secretary
while Mr. Lansing is in Europe, and
Senator James Hamilton Lewis, of
Illinois, were mentioned.
Revolution In Bremen.
Basel. A Socialist republic has
been proclaimed at Bremen, according
to advices from Munich. The com
munists in Bremen have taken the
places of the majority Socialists on
the Soldiers' and Workmen's Council,
and have sent a message to Ebert
demanding that they resign. They are
reported also to have sent a telegram
to the Russian Bolshevik! expressing
the hope that the revolutions in Rus
sia and Germany would be victorious.
Carolyn of the Corners
BY RUTH BELMORE ENDICOTT
CAROLYN CANNOT FACE PROSPECT OF LOSING HER ONLY
FRIEND AND COMPANION.
Synopsis. Her father and mother reported lost at sea when the
Dunrnven, on which they had sailed for Europe, was sunk, Carolyn
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 Is not very enthusiastic. Carolyn is also chilled by the stern
demeanor of Aunty Rose, 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 and consigned to his care as guardian.
Carolyn learns of the estrangement between her uncle and his one-time,
sweetheart, Amanda Parlow, and the cause of the bitterness between
the two families.
CHAPTER V Continued.
The mole In question lived under a
piece of rock wall nenr ihe garden
fence. '
When Uncle Joe came home to din
ner on one particular Saturday he
walked down to the corner of the gar
den fence, and there saw the havoc
Prince had wrought. In following the
line of the-mole's last tunnel he had
worked his way under the picket fence
and had torn up two currant bushes
and done some damage in the straw
berry patch.
"And the worst of it Is," grumbled
the hardware dealer, "he never caught
the mole. That mongrel really isn't
worth a bag of dornicks to sink him In
the brook. But that's what he's going
to get this very evening when I come
home. I won't stand for him a day
longer."
Carolyn May positively turned pale
as she crouched beside the now
chained-up Prince, both arms about
his rough neck. He licked her cheek.
Fortunately, he, could not understand
everything that was said to him, there
fore the pronouncement of this terri
ble sentence did not. agitate him an
atom.
Carolyn May sat for a long time un
der the tree beside the sleeping dog
and thought how different this life at
The Corners was from that she had
lived with her father and mother in
the city home.
If only that big ship, the Dunraven,
had not sailed away with her papa
and her mamma 1 .
Carolyn May had been very brave on
that occasion. She had gone ashore
with Mrs. Price and Edna after her
mother's last clinging embrace and her
father's husky "Good-by, daughter,"
with scarcely a tear.
Of course she had been brave I Mam
ma would return in a few weeks, and
then, after a time, papa would like
wise come back and oh I so rosy and
stout I
And then, in two weeks, came the
fatal news of the sinking of the Dun
raven and the loss of all but a small
part of her crew and passengers.
Vaguely these facts had become
known to Carolyn May. She never
spoke of them. They did not seem real
to the little girl
But now, sitting beside the con
demned Prince her companion and
Tho Little Girl Felt Bitterly Her Lone
liness and Grief.
only real . comforter during these
weeks of her orphanhood the little
girl felt bitterly her loneliness and
grief.
If Uncle Joe did as he had threat
ened, what should she 'do? There
seemed to be no place for her and
Prince to run away to.
"I'm quite sure I don't want to
live," thought Carolyn May dismally.
"If papa and mamma and Prince are
all dead why I there aren't enough
other folks left in the world to make
it worth while living in, I don't be
lieve. If Prince Isn't going to be alive,
then I don't want to be alive, either."
By and by Prince began to get very
uneasy. It was long past his dinner
hour, and every time he heard the
screen door slam he jumped up and
gaied eagerly and with cocked ears
and wagsing tall in that direction,
"Ion poor thing, yon," said Carolyn
r
May at last. "I s'pose you are hungry.
It isn't going to do yon a bit of good
to eat ; but you don't know it. I'll ask
Aunty Rose if she has something for
you." ,
She got up wearily and went across
the yard. Aunty Rose stood Just in
side the screen door.
"Don't you want any dlnntr, Car'lyn
May?" she asked.
"No, ma'am. I guess I'd better not
eat," said the child.
"Why not?"
"'Cause my stomach's so trembly.
I Just know I couldn't keep anything
down, even if I could swallow it. But
Prince'U eat his, please. He he don't
know any better."
"Tut, tut I" murmured the woman.
"He's the most sensible of the two of
you, I declare."
The minutes of that afternoon drag
ged by in most doleful procession.
There was no Idea in the little girl's
mind that Uncle Joe might change his
Intention and Prince be saved from the
watery grave promised him. When
she saw the hardware dealer come in
to the yard almost an hour earlier
than their usual supper time she' was
not surprised. Nor did she think of
pleading with him for the dog's life.
The lltle girl watched him .askance.
Mr. Stagg came directly through the
ynrd, stopping only at the shed for a
moment. There he secured a strong
potato sack, and with it trailing from
his hand went half-way up the knoll
to where there was a heap of stones.
He stooped down and began to select
some of these, putting them in the
bag.
This was too much for Carolyn May.
With a fearful look at Uncle Joe's un
compromising shoulders, she went to
the tree where Prince was chained.
Exchanging the chain for the leather
leash with which she always led him
about, the little girl guided the mon
grel across the yard and around the
corner of the house.
Her last backward glance assured
her that the hardware dealer had not
observed her. Quickly and silently she
led Prince to the front gate, and they
went out together Into the dusty road.
"I I know we oughtn't to," whis
pered Carolyn May to her canine
friend, "but I feel I've Just got to save
you, Prince. I I can't see you
drownd-ed dead like that!"
She turned the nearest corner and
went up the road towards the little
closed, gable-roofed cottage where
Aunty Rose had lived before she had
come to be Uncle Joe's housekeeper.
Carolyn May had already peered
over inte the small yard of the cot
tage and had seen that Mrs. Kennedy
still kept the flower-beds weeded and
the walks neat and the grass plot
trimmed. But the window shutters
were barred and the front door built
up with boards.
Carolyn May went in through the
front gate and sat down on the door
step, while Prince dropped to a com
fortable attitude beside her. The dog
slept. The little girl ruminated.
She would not go back to Uncle
Joe's no, Indeed! She did not know
Jrist what she would do when dark
should come, but Prince should not be
sacrificed to her uncle's wrath.
A voice, low, sweet, yet startling,
aroused her.
"What are you doing there, little
girl?" ,
Both runaways started, but neither
of them was disturbed by the appear
ansce of her who had accosted Caro
lyn May.
"Oh, Miss MandyT breathed the lit
tle girl, and thought that the carpen
ter's daughter had never looked so
pretty.
"What are you doing there?" repeat
ed Miss Parlow.
"We we've run away," said Caro
lyn May at last She could be nothing
but frank; It was her nature.
"Run away!" repeated the pretty
woman. "You don't mean that?"
'Yes, ma'am, I have. And Prince.
From Uncle Joe and Aunty Rose,"
Carolyn May assured her, nodding her
head with each declaration.
"Oh, my dear, what for?" asked
Miss Amanda.
So Carolyn May told her and with
tears.
Meanwhile the woman came Into the
yard and sat beside the child on the
step. With her arm about the little
girl. Miss Amanda snuggled her up
close, wiping the tears away with her
own handkerchief.
x "I Just can't have poor Prince
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drownd-ed," Carolyn May sobbed. "I'd
want to be drownd-ed myself, too."'
"I know, dear. But do you really
beltSve your Uncle Joseph would do
such a thing? Would he drown your
dog?"
"I I saw him putting the stones in
the bag," sobbed Carolyn May. "And
he said he would."
"But he said it when he was angry,
dear. We often sny things when we
are angry more'f, the pity! which
we do not mean, and for which we are
bitterly sorry afterwards. I am sure,
Carolyn May, that your Uncle Joe has
no Intention of drowning your dog."
"Oh, Miss Amanda! Are you pos'
tlve?"
"Positive! I know Joseph Stagg.
He was never yet cruel to any dumb
creature. Go ask him yourself, Caro
lyn May. Whatever else he may be,
he Is not a hater of helpless and dumb
animals."
"Miss Amanda," cried Carolyn May,
with clasped hands, "you you are Just
lifting an awful big lump off my heart I
I'll run and ask him right away.''
She raced with the barking Prince
back to the Stagg premises. Mr. Stagg
With Her Arms About the Little Girl,
Miss Amanda Snuggled Her Up
Close.
had Just finished filling in with tin
stonesthe trench Prince had dug un
der the garden fence.
"There," he grunted. "That dratted
dog won't dig this hole any bigger, I
reckon. What's the matter with you,
Car'lyn?," ,
"Are are you going to drown'd
Prineey, Uncle Joe? If If you do, It
just seems to me, I I shall die 1"
He looked up at her searchingly. .
"Humph I Is that mongrel so all-Important
to your happiness that you
want to die if he does?" demanded the
man.
"Yes, Vncle Joe."
"Humph!" ejaculated the hardware
dealer again. "I believe you think
more of that dog than you do of me."
"Yes, Uncle Joe."
The frank answer hit,, Mr. Stagg
harder than he would have cared to
acknowledge.
"Why?" he queried.
"Because Prince never said a word
to hurt me in his llfel" said Carolyn
May, sobbing.
The man was silenced. He felt in
his inmost heart that he. had been
Judged. .
CHAPTER VI. I
Prince Awakens The Corners. ,
Camp-meeting time was over, and
the church at The Corners was to open
for its regular Sunday services. . ;
"Both Satan and the parson have
had a vacation,", said Mr. Stagg, "and
now they can tackle each other again
and see which'll get the strangle hold
'twlxt now and revival time."
"You should not say such things, es
pecially before the child, Joseph
Stagg," admonished Aunty Rose.
Carolyn May, however, seemed not
to have heard Uncle Joe's pessimistic
remark; she was too greatly excited
by the prospect of Sunday school. And
the very next week-day school would
begin!
By this first week In September the
little girl was quite settled In her new
home at The Corners. Prince was still
a doubtful addition to the family, both
Uncle Joe and Aunty Rose plainly hav
ing misgivings about him. But in re
gard to the little girl herself, the
hardware merchant and the house
keeper were of one opinion, even
though they did not admit It to each
other. ,
Prince proves himself a real
canine hero and makes himself
"solid" with all the people at the
Corners. Hie exploit it described
In the next Installment
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
An order for 240.000 nnlra nf tmM.
length rubber boots for th rwnrh
army has been placed with American.
wanuiacrorers.