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WORLD OF CUT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. ' COMPILED FOR YOU Event! of Noted People, Governments and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. Population statistics for 1920 an nounced Monday by the census bureau Included Everett, Wash., 27,614, an Increase of 2800, or 11.3 per cent. Several rich strikes of gold quartz have been made lately In Grant county, Oregon, the last being that made by Ralph Curl on Canyon mountain, about three miles east of Canyon City. The first chamber of the Dutch par liament Saturday voted, 31 to 2, for the adherence of Holland to the league of nations. The second chamber cast an affirmative vote on February 19. The third congressional district con vention of the Non-partisan league, meeting at Norfolk, Neb., Monday night, decided not to Indorse a candi date for the April 20 primary election. The secretary of the interior was , requested In a resolution adopted by the senate to report what steps had been taken to develop traffic and pop ulation along the government railway in Alaska. The British ambassador at Wash ington will hereafter receive 20,000 yearly. His salary will be 2500 and entertainment allowance 17,600, Premier Lloyd George announced in the house of lords, Sir Auckland Ged des was recently appointed. Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall declared at Phoenix, Ariz., that he was not to be considered a candidate for the democratio nomination for president. "In fact," he said, "I In tend to retire from public office when my present term expires." By refusal of the supreme court to review the case, federal court decis ions holding that the transportation of women from one state to another In 'private automobiles for immoral pur poses comes within the provisions of the white slave act will stand. The prohibition amendment to the federal constitution was assailed In supreme court Monday by Rhode Is land as revolutionary and defended by the government as legitimate addition to the nation's basic law over which the court held no Jurisdiction. Throngs attended the session. Wall street was thrown into a state of demoralization Monday and many hundreds of thousands of dollars were lost and won within a few minutes when news agencies which serve the district misstated the decision of the United States supreme court in the stock tax case and declared stock div idends were taxable. Gold valued at 1,250,000 is being shipped from Kngland to this country, according to announcement made in New York by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. This is the first large shipment in several months. Gold coin worth $3,000,000 also has been received from Canada at the sub-treasury. A large amount was received from the same source last week. ' Announcement that they will seek a writ of mandate lu the state supreme court directing the state railroad com mission to pass on high apartment and hotel rates here was made by officials of the San Francisco Tenants' Pro tective association. This action was to be In addition to actions to be filed in the superior courts against alleged extortionate acts of certain landlords. Reflecting the seriousness of the fuel-oil situation, the geological sur vey announced Tuesday that the de mand for crude oil in January was about 4,750,000 barrels greater than in December. This demand, the an nouncement said, will require a con tinued increase In domestic production aud in Mexican imports, together with heavy drafts on Btocks on hand which now are none too large. Immediate and extensive enlarge ment of naval docking and basing fa cilities on the Pacific and legislation to provide a naval reserve force of at least 200,000 were advocated Monday before the house naval committee by Secretary Daniels. The secretary asked authority to start construction of a new 'naval base on San Francisco bay below Mare island and urged that $10,000,000 be made available at once. He first estimated the cost at $76,000, 000, but later said it might be done for $40,000,000. f ff?fff?ffff?ffffff' eTAIt? TVTT7TT TC5 it re I IN BRIEF. ! Tillamook. The influenza situation continues bad In all parts of the coun ty several deaths having occurred. The city hall, which has been turned into an emergency hospital, has averaged 20 patients for the past two weeks. Salem. At a meeting of the Trl- County Medical society here Friday night the physicians went on record as favoring the construction of the proposed new Salem hospital and pledged their financial support in the sum of $25,000. Medford. The Medford school board announces a new schedule for teach ers' salaries, Teachers in the first six grades will receive a minimum of $1200, teachers in grades seven and eight a minimum of $1250, and teach ers in the high school a minimum of $1400. Medford. The Radovan fruit dryer has resumed operation after being closed down for several weeks by a fire which destroyed machinery and equip ment valued at $50,000. New ma chinery was Installed a week ago and drying of apples is in full swing again. .. . ' The Dalles. The city council Thurs day appointed a board of three local citizens to determine the cost of a civic auditorium and American Legion memorial, the proposition to be placed upon the ballot and voted upon at the next primary election which will be held In May. Fossil. The ground was covered jvlth two inches of snow Tuesday morn ing. It stayed on nearly all day. Farm ers and stockmen felt greatly relieved to have even that much moisture at this time. For several weeks the springlike weather has caused general concern among Wheeler county resi dents. Eugene. The Eugene Mill and Ele vator company is working three eight hour shifts on a $70,000 milling con tract for the United States Grain cor poration in order to complete it before April 1, according to E. D. Paine, man ager of the company. This flour, which is all from Willamette valley wheat, Is intended for the export trade. Albany. Albany school teachers will receive a material Increase in salaries for. the next school-year. Because of lack of funds the school board has been unable to meet requests for a big raise this year, but a budget $11,500 greater is available for next year's work and the board has decided to use all of this increase for the payment of larger salaries. . Hood River. The W. a Hicks Lum ber company, which operates a plant about seven miles from Underwood, Wash., on the Little White Salmon river, will begin the season's run about March 15, M. D. Hicks, superintend ent of the mill, who resides here, states that about 25 men will be employed. With lumber in keen demand, he ex pects a prosperous year. Baker J. M. Swaggardt, a Wash ington Gulch farmer, living six miles west of Baker, announced his stock is multiplying In fours. Swaggardt is the owner of a ewe that Is the mother of four lambs, all In excellent health. Two of the youngsters are bucks and two are ewes. With lambs selling at $10 each at weaning time, the lucky owner has to Bmile while he figures his resources for his income tax state ment. Salem. More than 300 annual re ports of insurance companies operat ing in Oregon have been received at the offices of the state insurance com missioner. There are about 60 more of these reports to be received before the commissioner can make up his f lnql statement showing the number of Insurance companies operating in the state, together with the amount of their resources and their annual busi ness. Eugene. The new office of district freight and passenger agent, with head quarters at Eugene, has just been created by the Southern Pacific com pany and has been announced by Presi dent Sproule in connection with the naming of the new officers who will hiwe jurisdiction on the Pacific system of the Southern Pacific. The office will be filled by H. D. Morse, who dur ing the period of government owner ship has held the position of traveling freight and passenger agent with head quarters at Salem. Albany. The safety deposit boxes in the vault of the Scio State bank were looted Thursday night by bur glars, who dug their way through a brick wall at the rear of the building. The wall also formed one side of the vault. A large quantity of liberty bonds and other securities were taken. The bank has no list of the contents of the boxes, so no accurate estimate of the amount lost can be made until each holder of the safety deposit boxes reports his individual loss. It is be llveed however, that the loss may reach $30,000. . Uurtstioiuhy bwinMytr ENTER EDITH DUNCAN. Synopsis. David Elden, son of a drunken, ahif Cleaa ranchman, al most a maverick of the foothills, la breaking bottles with his pistol from his running cayuse when the first automobile he has ever seen arrives and tips over, breaking the leg of Doctor Hardy but not Injur ing his beautiful daughter Irene. Dave rescues the Injured man and brings a doctor from 40 miles away. Irene takes charge of the housekeeping. Dave and Irene get well acquainted during her enforced stay. They part with a kiss and an implied promise. Dave's father dies and Dave goes to town to seek his fortune. : A man named Conwanl teaches him his first lesson In city ways. Dave has a narrow escape, Is disgusted and turns over a new loaf. ' CHAPTER IV Continued. Fortunate fn'.e, or whatever good ingcl It is that sometimes drops un sxpected fnvors, designed tliut young Slden should the following dny deliver :oal nt the home of Mr. Melviu Dun inn. Mr. Duncan, tull, quiet and forty Ive, was at work in his garden us Dave turned the team In t he lune and jacked them up the long, narrow drive :onnecting with the family coal chute. Vs the heavy wagon moved straight :o Its objective Mr. Duncan looked on vitli approval that heightened Into idniinitlon. Dave shoveled his loud ivlthout remark, but as lie stood for i moment nt the finish, wiping the iwent from his coal-grimed face, Mr. Duncan engaged him in conversation. "You handle a team like you were )oru to it," he said. "Where did you jet the knack?" "Well, I came up on a ranch," suld Onve. "I've lived with horses ever lince 1 could remember." "You're a rancher, eh?" queried the jlder num. "Well, there's nothing like :he ruuge und the open country. If 1 :ould handle horses like you there su't anything would hold me In town." "Oh, I don't know," Duve answered. 'You might get sick of it." "Did you got sick of it?" "Elden shot a keen glance at him. The conversation was becoming per sonal. Yet there was In Mr. Duncan's Banner a certain kindliness, a certnin rppeul of sincere personality, that dis jrmed suspicion, "Yes, I got sick of it," he said. "I lived on that ranch eighteen years md never was Inside school or church. Wouldn't that make you sick? . . . So I boat it for town." "And I suppose you ure uttending .'hnrcli regularly now, and night tchool, too?" Dave's quick temper fired up In re sentment, but again the kindliness of the man's manner disarmed him. He was silent for a moment, and then he said: - "No, I ain't. That's what makes me sick now. I came in here Intendin to get an education, an' I've never got even n start at it, excep' for some things perhaps wasn't worih the money. There always seems to be sonielhin' else In nheud." "There always will be," said Mr. Duncan, "until you start." "ISut how's it to be done?" Dave questioned with returning Interest. "Schools an' books cost money, an' 1 never save a dollar." "And never will," said Mr. Duncan, "until you start. But I think I see a plan that might help, and if it appeals to you it will also be a great conven ience to me. My wife likes to go driv ing Sundays, and sometimes on a weekday evening, but I have so many things on hand I find it hard to get out with her. 'My daughter used to drive, hut these new-fangled automo biles are turning the world upside down and many a buggy with it. Well as I saw you driving In here I suid to myself, 'There's the man for that job of mine, if I can get him ;' but I'm not rich and I couldn't pay you regular wages. But If I coulo square the account by helping with your studies a couple of nights a week 1 used to teach school and haven't altogether forgotten why, that would be Just what I want. What do you say?" "I never saw anything on four feet I couldn't drive," suid Dave, "an" If you're willing to tnke a chance I am. When do we start?" "First lesson tonight. Second les son Thursday night. First drive Sun day." Mr. Duncan did not, explain that he wanted to know the boy better before, the drives commenced, and he felt that two ulghts together would salisfy him whether he hud found the right num. . Dave hurried back to the coalynrd and completed the day's work In high spirits. It seemed he was at last started on a rond that might lead somewhere. After supper he sur prised his fellow laborers by changing to his Sunday clothes and starting down a sireet lending Into the residen tial part of the town. There were speculations that he had "seen a skirt." Mr. Duncan met him at the door and showed him Into the living room. Mrs. Duncan, plump, motherly, lov able In the mature womanliness of forty, greeted him cordially. She was sorry Edith w as out ; Edith hud n ten uis eugugeuienL She was uppureutly .The COW PUNCHER By Robert J.C.Siead ' duthW kitchener, and other poems W1WM 4, MM ft MOW deeply interested In the young man who was to be her coachman. Dave had never been in a home like this, and his eyes, unaccustomed to com fortable furnishings, appraised them as luxury. He soon found himself talk ing with Mrs. Duncun about horses, and then about his old life on the. ranch, and then about coming to town. Almost before he knew It he had told her about Reenle Hardy, but he had checked himself In time. And Mrs. Duncan had noticed It, without com ment, and realized that her guest wus not a boy but a man. Then Mr, Duncan tulked about gar dening, and from ihat to Dave's sljll In backing his team to the coal chute, and from that to coal Itself. Dave had shoveled coal all winter, but he hud not thought about coal except us something to be shoveled and shov eled. Aud as Mr. Duncan explained to him the wonderful provisions of na ture how she had stored away In the undiscovered lands billions of tons of coal, holding them in reserve until the world's supply of timber for fuel should be nearing exhaustion, and as he told of the Immeasurable wealth of this great new land In conl resources, and of how the wheels of the world, traffic and Industry und science, even, were dependent upon coal and the man who bundled the coal, Dave felt his breast rising With a sense of the dignity of his calling. He had had to do with this wonderful sulfstunce all winter, und not until tonight had It fired the divine spark of his imagina tion. The time ticked on, and although he was eager to be at work he almost dreaded Ihe moment when Mr. Duncan should mention his lesson. But be fore that moment came there was a ripple of laughter at the door, and a girl In tennis costume and a young man a little older than Dave entered. "Edith," said Mrs. Duncan. Dave arose and shook hands. Then Mr, Allan Foi'syth was introduced. Mr. Forsyth shook hands heartily, but Dnve was conscious of being caught In one qu'ck jilnnce which embraced him from heud lu heel. Aud the glance was satisfied self-satisfied. It was such a glance as Dave might give a horse when he would say, "A good horse, but I can handle him." It was evident from that glance that Forsyth lind no fear of rivalry from that quar ter. And having no fear he could af ford to be friendly. Dave had no distinct remembrance of what happened just after that, but he was conscious of an overwhelming desire to hear Miss Duncan sing. How How Like Reenie She Wasl like Reenle she was! And just as he was beginning to think Mr. Duncan must surely have forgotten his lesson he heard her asking him If she should sing. And then he saw Forsyth at the piano why couldn't he leave her to do It herself, the butt-In? and then he heard her fine, silvery voice rising In the notes of that song about the land where the sun should never go down. . . . And suddenly he knew how lonely, how terribly, terribly lonely he was. And he sat with head bowed, that they might not know. . . . And then there were other songs, and at lust Mrs. Duncan, who had slipped away unnoticed, returned with a silver teapot and cups of delicate china, and sandwiches and cafte, and they sat about and ate and drank and talked and laughed. And when he looked at his watch It was eleven o'clock! "I guess we didn't get any lesson tonight,"' he said as he shook hands with Mr. Duncun at the sidewalk. "I am not so sure," replied his tutor. "The first thing for you to learn is lhat all learning does not come from books. A good listener can learn as much as a good reader If he listers to the right kind of people." And as Dave walked home the thought deep ened in him that It really had been a lesson, and that Mr. Duncan had In tended It that way. And he wondered what remarkable fortune had been his. The air was full of the perfume of balm o' Gileud. and his feet were light with the Joy of youth. And he thought much of Edith and of Heenie Hardy. lu subsequent lessons Dave was rap Idly initiated into many matters be sides parlor manners and conversa tion. Mr. Duncan placed the first and greatest emphasis upon learning to write and to .write well. They had many philosophic dlscusslons,ln which the elder man sought to load the jTiil . & younger to the acceptance of truths that would not fail him In the strain of after life, and when a conclusion had been agreed upon It was Mr. Dun can's habit to embody It in a ropy foi Dave's writing lesson. . As soon as Dave had learned to w a little Mr. Duncan took him one da? to the public .library, and Ihe ynun: man groped In amazement, up aim dowu the great rows of books. Pies ently a strange sense of Inadequate ness came over him. "1 can neve rend all of those books, nor half o Ihem," he said. "1 suppose one inns reuil them In order to he well In formed." Mr, Duncan appeared to change tin subject. "You. like fruit?" he uskoil. "Yes, of course. Why" "When you go Into a fruit slurp do you stand and say, '1 can neer ear nil of that fruit, crnies and crati-s ol It, and carloads more' In the ware house?' Of course you don't. You eat enough for the good of your sys tem and let It go ut that. Now jusi apply the same sense to your rootling. Item! as much as you can think uhoiii. and no more. Tile trouble with many of our people Is that they do not read to think but to suve themselves the trouble of thinking. The mind, left to Itself, Insists upon activity. So they chloroform It." Dave's talks h Mr. Duncan be came almost nightly occurrences, ei ther at the Duncan home or when In drove the family for the master ol the house often accompanied them or when they met downtown, ns fie quently happened. And the boy was not slow to realize the hrotul nature of the task to which Mr. Duncan had set himself. His education was to he built of every knowledge and experi ence that could go Into the roundiu.' of a well-developed life. The climax seemed to he readied when Mr. Duncan Invited Duve to tic company him to n dinner at 'which a noted thinker, jusi crossing the cm tlncnt, hud consented to speak. "It will be evening dress," said Mr. Duncan. "I suppose you are hard! fitted out that way?" . "I guess not!" said Dave, sn'iilliif; broadly. He recalled the hnlf-htimor-ous sarcasm with which the Metforri gang referred to any who might b seen abroad In their "Hereford fronts." He hnd a sudden vision of himself running the gantlet of their ridicule. But Mr. Duncan was continuing. "I think I can fix you up," lie said "We must be pretty nearly of n size, and I have a spare suit." And nlmosl before he knew If It was arranged that Dave should attend the dinner. It was au eventful night for him His shyness soon wore off, for during these months be hud been learning to accept any new experience g ml'y. And us he sat among this cwp,.i of the best minds of the town be full that a new world wus opening before him. His good clothes seemed to work up in some way through his subcon sciousness and give him a sense of ca pability. He was In the mental ut mosphere of men who did things, and by. conforming to their customs he had brought his mind into hurmony with theirs, so that it could receive suggestions, and who knows? return suggestionA And he was made to thiri, think, think. CHAPTER V. The summer was not far gone when Duve, through n Introduction fur nished by Mr. Duncan, got a new job. It was in the warehouse of a whole sale grocery, trundling cases uud sacks of merchandise. It was cleaner than handling coal, and the surround ings were more congenial und the wages were better fifty dollars a month to begin. "The first thing Is to get out of the deadline," said Mr. Duncau. "I am not hoping that you will have fouud destiny in a wholesale warehouse, but you must get out of the deadline. As long as you shovel coal you will shdVel coal. And you are not capable of anything better un 11 you think you are." "But I've liked It pretty well," said Dave. "As long as I was just work ing for my wages It was dull going, but it was different after I got to see that even shoveling coal was worth while, I suppose it is the same with groceries, or whatever one does. As soon as you begin to study what you handle, the work loses Its drudgery. It isn't a man's Job that makes him sick of his job; It's what he thinks of his job." , A light of satisfaction was In his teacher's eyes as Dave made this an swer. Mr. Duncnn had realized that he was starting late with this pupil, and if there were any short cuts to education he must find them. So he had set out deliberately to Instil the idea that education Is not a matter of schools and colleges, or courses of reading, or formulae of any kind, but a matter of the five senses applied to every experience of life. And he knew that nothing was coarse or common that passed through Dave's hands. Edith becomes interested in Dave. (fO BS CONT1NUS.D.) Soldiers' Hat Cords. The colors of the cords on the hats of soldiers stand for distinctive branches of the army. 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