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William Rockefeller, oil magnate
and brother of John D. Rockefeller,
died in Tarrytown, N. Y., Saturday
from pneumonia shortly before 7
o'clock.
Plans for the erection of a J9.000.000
hotel in downtown Washington as a
part of the famous system of Ritz Carl
ton hotels were announced Sunday by
' the Ritz Carlton Holding corporation.
President Harding and members of
his cabinet were said Saturday at
the White House to be In entire agree
ment with the proposal to allow heads
of departments to speak to congress
on occasions when their presence is
desired or when they have arguments
'to make. . ,
The interstate commerce commis
sion In a notice Saturday declared that
it, would, probably Jake' .soma time in
October"ln its'gene'ral railroad consol
idatlqn.. hearing the matter of the
Southern Pacifio and Central Pacific
rattfoadimerger. .'
Japan has. sealed h.er-pledge to pro
mote world peace, taken at the limita
tion of armament conference at Wash
ington, by declaring her final decision
to withdraw her troops from Siberia
and.BnnouncIng. to the world a policy
of non-aggression.
7Si(5,.AtUiiir Conair'" Doyle, novelist,
lecturer and advocate -of spiritualism,
who has -been in this country four
months lecturing on spiritualism and
psychlo.jBfahlem8, sailed Saturday for
home. .6nV,fttevVhlto Star steamer
Adrh(W. hirugS tor Liverpool.
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Ignoringli)'faf prohibition officials,
the JiotL'l'.'irtiSjiIon of New York at
its -qultfterly .meeting, made a direct
appeal to President Harding, Secre
tary of the Treasury Mellon and Pro
hibition Commissioner Haynes to stop
the brazen sale of liquor in restaurants
and other places here.
The house late Tuesday adopted the
conference report on the 1922 naval
hill, accepting senate Increases which
put the total appropriation around
$289,000,000. Some minor amendments
were adopted and the report went back
to the senate for final action before
being sent to the president.
Nine men were blown to atoms, two
suffered serious injuries and seven
others received minor hurts shortly
after noon Tuosday near Strawberry
plains, eastof Jtyioxvllle, Tonn., when
24 cusiiB of dynamite exploded at the
Holston Quarry company's plant. All
wore employes'ol the quarry.
Death Tuesday claimed the last sur
vivor of that hand of Wisconsin men
who, at Ripon In 1854, founded the re-,
publican party. The last survivor was
Edwin U. Judd, who died in Anacortes,
Wash., just a month less than 96 years
of age. He was one of the most in
teresting careers on the acific const.
Madam Sun Yat Sen, wife of the
deposed president of south China, who
arrived in Shanghai Monday from Can
ton, described in an interview with
the Associated Tress her husband's
fight and her last stand In the presi
dential palace with a body guard of
60 soldiers against Chan Chlung Ming's
troopers.
Asked by Lord Robert Cecil in the
house of ctyiunons Monday afternoon
whether he could state the govern
ment's attitude toward the admission
of Cormany to membership in the
league of ; nations, 'Prime Minister
Lloyd (leorpn replied that OrpRt
Britain would be willing to support a
proposal for Germany's admission.
Special Investigators have been de
tailed by Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace to inquire Into alleged exorbitant
prices chnrged by commission men for
handling livestock at Portland, Or.,
and a dozen other leading stock mar
kets. It is complained that commis
sion men are maintaining their war
time charges despite the slump in the
prices for livestock.
Walter McCredlo, for 20 years a
landmark in orgaulied baseball, was
removed as manager of the Seattle
baseball club .Monday night upon his
return from the south. Jack Adams,
"Deacon John," ss h Is affectionate
ly termed by his team mates,' has
been promoted from tha ranks fa suc
ceed his ex chief, and will wear tha
managerial toga hereafter. " "
CURRENT
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t STATE NEWS
IN BRIEF. I
Seaside. Bungalow pavilion, the
dance hall here, has been purchased by
five local business men for 10,000.
St. Helens. County Agent Holi
baugh has been making a tour of Co
lumbia county gathering exhibits for
the Columbia county booth at the state
fair.
St. Helens. TV home of Dan Rich
ardson here was burned Sunday after
noon, with a loss of about $4000. There
was $1300 insurance on the building
and contents.
Eugene. As an indication that the
county officials are In earnest in pros
ecuting the campaign against Canada
thistle, the arrest of three brothers
who own adjoining farms near Irving
was made Saturday and each paid a
fine of $15.
lone. Bob Sperry was killed and
Wayne Sperry and Oscar Bergstrom
were injured in an automobile accident
three miles from lone, on the Oregon
Washington highway, at 8 o'clock Sat
urday night.
Salem. The West Coast Pulp & Pa
per company, with headquarters In
Salem and capital stock of $10,000,
filed articles Saturday in the state cor
poration department. The incorpora
tors are H. S. Gile, W. T. Jenks and
William H. Trindle.
Astoria. A contract was closed Sat
urday by the Astoria Amusement Com
pany 'with E. W. Houghton of Seattle
for the erection of a fireproof moving
picture theater at the corner of
Twelfth and Commercial streets, the
cost of which will be $75,000.
Salem. Twenty-two foreigners, all
residing lh Marlon county, will appear
before Judge Bingham In the circuit
court here soon In quest of naturaliza
tion papers. Of the total applicants
nine are new, while 19 others were
continued for hearing from last March.
Stayton. The paving of Stayton's
business streets was completed Satur
day, and the contractors and men have
left The appearance of the town has
been greatly improved.
Tillamook. A company of the Na
tional Guard will be formed in this
city In a few days, as Adjutant-General
White has notified those interested
that he will detail an officer, who will
be here three or four days in advance
of the mustering officer to assist in
getting the enlistments.
Salem. Appeals were received at
the state hospital here Sunday for pa
tients to enter the berry fields during
the next two weeks In an effort to save
the cropB. The recent warm weather
has ripened the berries rapidly and
unless more pickers are obtained a
large part of the yield will be lost.
Ilarrlsburg. A dead carrier pigeon,
evidently killed by flying into a tele
graph wire, was picked up by a section
crew hero Wednesday. To all appear
ances tho bird had not been dead over
a day. Its feathers were stamped
"J231" and the leg band bears the fol
lowing letters and figures: "A J 20 P
4231."
Brownsville. Not for ten years has
this city seen bo much construction as
Is now going on, and prospects for a
great season of prosperity are good.
It the Natron cut-off road is completed
and the main line comes through
BrownBvllle, It will work wonders for
this community, according to members
of the chamber of commerce.
Hood River. S. C. Lancaster has
opened his Columbia Gorge camp at
Bonneville to the public. A crew of
men has been engaged the past two
weeks Improving the forested tract
along the Columbia river highway.
Electric lights have been Installed and
a spring higher up on the canyonslde
has been tapped to furnish water.
Salem. Of the 15 constitutional
amendments and measures, which it is
proposed to refer to the voters of Ore
gon at tho general election to be held
November 7, only three have been com
pleted through the filing of proper pe
titions with the secretary of state.
July 6, under the law, is the lost day
on which completed petitions for the
November election may bo filed.
Bend. In order to block the move
of sheepmen of the Maupin and Ante
lope country to obtain a driveway
through tho Warm Springs Indian res
ervation to national forest range In
the Cascades, Meredith Bailey, cattle
man of Sisters, has purchased a ranch
w hich Includes the bridge which wool
growers had built to enable their
bands to cross the Metolius river at
the south end of the proposed drive
way. Reservation Indians and cattle
men alike are aroused over the at
tempt of sheep owners to cross what
hat for many years been cattle range.
At present the only meant of trans
porting 20,000 head of sheep to sum
mer feeding grounds Is by rail.
BIG STRIKE FAILS
TO HALT TRAFFIC
Roads Operate Despite Shop
men's Walkout.
OFFICIALS CONFIDENT
Labor Leaders Say Strike Nearly 100
PerCent. Effective; No Vio
lence Is Reported.
Chicago. With the country-wide
strike of shopmen declared by union
leaders to be practically 100 per cent
perfect, the nation's great transporta
tion machine continued its work with
out interruption Saturday.
Railway executives were unanimous
in expressing their belief that the
strike would have little effect on the
operation of their roads and at the
same time asserted that any move
toward a settlement would have to
come from the United States labor
board or tho employes;
B. M. Jewell, president of the rail
way department of the American Fed
eration of Labor, who refused to ap
pear at a federal inquiry into the
strike. call, reiterated that the only
basis for a settlement was for the
roads to agree not to put into effect
wage decreases recently ordered for
the shop men by the labor board.
Ben W. Hooper, chairman -of the
labor board, declared in a formal state
ment that the power of the govern
ment, coupled with public sentiment,
will give every protection to every
railway employe who remains on the
job and to all new men who take the
places of the strikers in the present
walkout.
The walkout began in all sections
of the country promptly at 10 A. M.
Saturday and in many places took on
the aspect of a holiday, the men sing
ing and cheering as they threw down
their tools. As reports came in to
union headquarters- during the day
leaders asserted that the ranks of the
strikers would number more than
three-quarters of the 400,000 member
ship .before nightfall. Later Mr.. Jew
ell said that reports from 128 of the
201 class 1 roads showed practically
a 100 per cent walkout.
The only display of force reported
during the day was at Beardstown, 111.,
where several hundred shopmen, after
falling to persuade four companions to
Join them In the walkout, picked them
up bodily and carried them out "We
sent them home," the leader was quot
ed as saying, "to avoid trouble." In
Chicago, the hub of the walkout, where
It Is estimated 100,000 men are affect
ed, no disturbances of any kind were
reported and all of the roads claimed
that both passengers and freight were
being handled without Interruption of
any kind. : '" . -
Baltimore Has Big Fire.
Baltimore, Md. -i-Lightning Sunday
night struck the. roof of one of the
several great grain elevators at the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad's terminals
at Locust Point and in a few minutes
the immense structure was in flames.
The fire spread rapidly, soon envelop
ing elevators B and C and pier 5, all
of which were wrecked. The eleva
tors contained over 500,000 bushels of
grain, which, with 60 carloads of ex
port tobaccos on the pier, was de
stroyed. The railroad company's loss
is estimated at between $3,200,000 and
$4,000,000. Several firemen were in
jured. Sun Attack Rumored.
.. . .
Canton. A rumor that Dr. Sun Yat
Sen, deposed president of the Canton
government of China, intends to at
tack this city and drive out the forces
of General Chen Chlung-MIng, who
ousted him from it, has caused many
shops here to close and set afoot a
hurried movement of valuable mer
chandise from the native section of
the city to the Shameen, or foreign
settlement.
With 2000 troops and six warships,
Dr. Sun still is at Whampoa, on the
river near here Monday. He refused
to discuss the report that he planned
to attack his former capital.
Lottery Law Violated.
Havana. Alleged illegal collection
of nearly $10,000,000 a year from the
Cuban people through violations of the
national lottery law was ended Satur
day by presidential decree. Pointing
to the wide variance between present
methods of conducting the lottery and
those set forth In the laws of July 7,
1909, President Zayas ordered reforms
Intended to remove the lottery from
the category of political spoils.
ELEANOR H. PORTER
ILLUSTRATIONS Ff
KH.LIVINGSTONE.
COPYRIGHT BY ELEANOR H.PORTER
GETTING DIVORCED
SYNOPSIS. In a preface Mary
Marie explains her apparent "double
personality" and Just why she Is a
cross-current and a contradiction;"
she also tells her reasons lor writ
ing the diary later to be a novel.
The diary Is commenced at Ander
sonville. Mary begins with Nurse
Sarah's account of her (Mary's)
birth, which seemingly interested
her lather, who Is a famous astron
omer, less than a new star which
was discovered the same night
Her name is a compromise, .her
father insisting on Abigail Jane.
The child quickly learned -that her
home was in some way different
trom those of her small friends,
and was puzzled thereat Nurse
Sarah tells her of her mother's ar
rival at Andersonvllle as a bride
and how astonished they all were
at the sight of the dainty eighteen-year-old
girl whom the sedate pro
fessor had chosen for a wife. Nurse
Sarah makes It plain why the
household seemed a strange one to
the child and how her father and
mother drifted apart through mis
understanding, each too . proud to
In any way attempt to smooth over
the situation.
CHAPTER III Continued.
I didn't even think of asking Fath
er, of course. I never ask Father
questions. Nurse soys I did ask him
once why he didn't love me like other
papas loved their little girls. But I
was very little then, and I don't remem
ber it at all. But Nurse said Father
didn't like It very well, and maybe
t did remember that part, without real
ly knowing it. Anyhow, I never think
of asking Father questions.
I asked the doctor first. I thought
maybe 'twas some kind of a disease,
and if he knew it was coming, he
could give them some sort of a medi
cine to keep it away like being vac
cinated so's not to have smallpox,
you know. ' And I told him so. 1
He gave a funny little laugh, that
somehow didn't sound like a laugh at
all. Then he grew very, very sober,
and said:
"I'm sorry, little girl, but I'm afraid
I haven't got any medicine that will
prevent a divorce. If I did have,
there'd be no eating or drinking or
sleeping for me, I'm thinking I'd be
bo busy answering my calls."
"Then it is a disease!" I cried.
And I can remember just how fright
ened I felt "But isn't there any doc
tor anywhere that can stop it?"
He shook his head and gave that
queer little laugh again.
"I'm afraid not," he sighed. "As
for it's being a disease there are
people that call it a disease, and there
are others who call It a cure; and
there are still others who say It's a
remedy worse than the disease it tries
to cure. But, there, you baby I What
am I saying? Come, come, my dear,
Just forget it. It's nothing you should
bother your little head over now. Walt
till you're older."
Till I'm older, Indeed! How I hate
to have folks talk to me like that!
And they do they do it all the time.
As if I was a child now, when I'm
almost standing there where the brook
and river meet I
But that was Just the kind of talk..
I got, everywhere, nearly every time
I asked any one what a divorce was.
Some luughed, and some sighed. Some
looked real worried 'cause I'd asked
it, and one got mad. CThut was the
dressmuker. I found out afterward
that she'd hnd a divorce already, so
probably she thought I asked the ques
tion on purpose to plague her.) But
nobody would answer me really an
swer me sensibly, so I'd know what it
meant; and 'most everybody said,
"Run away, child," or "You shouldn't
talk of such tilings," or, "Walt, my
dear, till you're older"; and nil that.
Oh, how I hate such talk when I
really want to know something L How
do ttiey expect us to get our education
If they won't answer our questions?
I don't know which made me angri
est I meun angrier. (I'm speaking
of two things, so I must, I suppose.
I hate grammar:) To have them talk
like that not answer me, you know
or have them do as Mr. Jones, the
storekeeper, did, and the men there
with him.
It was one dny when I was In there
buying some white thread for Nurse
Sarah, and it was a little while after
I bad asked the doctor it a divorce
was a disease. ' Somebody bad said
something that mude me think you
could buy divorces, and I had suddenly
determined to ask Mr. Jones If he had
them for sale. (Of course all this
sounds very silly to me now, for I
know that a divorce is very simple
and very common. It's Just like a
marriage certificate, only It unmar
rles you lustead of marrying you;
but I didn't know It then. And If I'm
going to tell this story I've got to
tell It Just as It happened, of course.)
Well, I asked Mr. Jones If you could
buy divorces, and if hi had them tor
sale; and you ought to have heard
thnsA men lnnirh. There were six of
them sitting around the stove behind
me.
"Oh. ves. mv little mold" (above all-
things I abhor to be called a little
maid!) one of them cried. "You can
buy them if you've got money enough ;
but I don't reckon our friend Jones
here has got them for sale."
Then they all laughed again, and
winked at each other. (That's another
disgusting thing winks when you ask
a perfectly civil question I But what
can you do? Stand It, mats an.
There's such a lot of things we poor
women have to stand!) Then they
nnietert down and looked very sober
the kind of sober you know Is faced
with luughs in the back ana Degan
tn tell me what a divorce really was.
I can't remember them all, but I can
some of them. Of course I understand
now that these men were trying to
be smart, and were talking for each
other, not for me. Ana l Knew it
then a little. We know a lot more
things sometimes than folks think we
do. Well, as near as I can remember
It was like this:
"A divorce is a knife that cuts a
knot that hadn't ought to ever been
tied," said one.
"A divorce is a Jump in the dark,"
said another.
"No, It ain't. It's a jump from the
frying pan into the fire," piped up Mr.
Jones.
"A divorce is the comedy of the rich
and the tragedy of the poor," said a
little man who wore glasses.
"Divorce is a nice smushy poultice
that may help but won't heal," cut in
a new voice.
"Divorce Is a guidepost marked,
'U 1 to Heaven,' but lots of folks miss
Well, I Asked Mr. Jones If You Could
Buy Divorces, and If He Had Them
for Sals.
the way, Just the same, I notice,"
spoke up somebody with a chuckle.
"Divorce Is a coward's retreat from
the battle of life." Captain Hnrrls said
this. He spoke slow and decided. Cap
tain Harris is old and rich, and not
married. He's the hotel's star boarder,
and what he says, goes, 'most always.
But It didn't this time. I can remem
ber Just how old Mr. Carlton snapped
out the next.
"Speak from your own experience,
Tom Harris, an' I'm thlnkln' you ain't
fit ter Judge. I tell you divorce is
what three fourths of the husbnnds an'
Ives In the world wish was waltln'
for 'em at home this very night. But
It ain't there." I knew, of course, he
was thinking of his wife. She's some
cross, I guess, and has two worts on
her nose.
There was more, quite a lot more,
said. But I've forgotten the rest Be
sides, they weren't talking to me then,
anyway. So I picked up my thread
and slipped eut of the store, glad to
escape. But, as I said before, I didn't
find many like them.
Of course I know now what divorce
Is, I mean. And it's all settled. They
granted us some kind of a decree or
degree, and we're going to Boston next
Monday.
It's been awful, though this last
year. First we had to go to that hor
rid place out west, and stay ages and
ages. And I hated It Mother dUL too.
1 know she did. 1 went to school, and
mere were quite a lot of girls my sic
and some boys ; but I didn't care much
for theiu. I couldn't even have the fun
of surprising them with the divorce we
were going to have. I found they were
going to have one, too every last one
of them. And when everybody has a
thing, you know there's no particular
l
fun In having It yourself. Besides, t
they were very unkind and disagree
able, and bragged a lot about their
divorces. They said mine was tame,
and had no sort of snap to it when
they found Mother didn't have a lover
waiting In the next town, or Father
hadn't run off with his stenographer,
or nobody had shot anybody, or any
thing. That made me mad, and I let them
see It, good and plain. I told them our
divorce was perfectly all right and
genteel and respectable; that Nurse
Sarah said it was. Ours was going to
be Incompatibility, for one thing,
which meant that you got on each
other's nerves, and Just naturally
didn't care for each other any more.
But they only laughed, and said even
more disagreeable things, so that I
didn't want to go to school any longer,
and I told Mother so, and the reason,
too, of course.
But, dear me, I wished right off that
I hadn't. I supposed she was going to
be superb and haughty and disdainful,
and say things that would put those
girls where they belonged. But, my
stars! How could I know that she
was going to burst Into such a storm
of sobs and clasp me to her bosom, and
get my face all wet and cry out : "Oh,
my baby, my baby to think I have sub
jected you to this, my baby, my baby I"
And I couldn't say a thing to com
fort her, or make her stop, even when
I told her over and over again that I
wasn't a baby. I was almost a young
lady; and I wasn't being subjected to
anything bad. I liked It only I didn't
like to have those girls brug so, when
our divorce was away ahead of theirs,
anyway.
But she only cried more and more,
and held me tighter and tighter, rock
ing back and forth in her chair. She
took me out of school, though, and had
a lady come to teach me all by myself,
so I didn't have to hear those girls
brag any more, anyway. That was
better. But she wasn't any happier
herself. I could see that.
There were lots of other ladles there
beautiful ladies only she didn't
seem to like them any better than I
did the girls. I wondered If maybe
they bragged, too, and I asked her;
but she only began to cry "again, and
moan, "What have I done, what have
I done?" and I had to try all over
again to comfort her. But I couldn't
She got so she just stayed in her
room lots and lots. I tried to make
her put on her pretty clothes, and do
as the other ladles did, and go out and
walk and sit on the big piazzas, and
dance, and eat at the pretty little
tables. She did, some, when we first
came, and took me, and I Just loved
It They were such beautiful ladles,
with their bright eyes, and their red
cheeks and Jolly ways; and their
dresses were so perfectly lovely, oil
silks and satins and sparkly spangles,
and diamonds and rubies and emer
alds, and silk stockings, and little bits
of gold and sliver slippers.
And once I saw two of them smok
ing. They had the cutest little ciga
rettes (Mother said they were) In gold
holders, and I knew then that I was
seeing life real life; not the stupid
kind you get back In a country towa
like Andersonvllle. . And I said so to
Mother; and I was going to ask her
if Boston was like that. But I dldu't
get the chance. She jumped up so
quick I thought something had hurt
her, and cried, "Good HeaveiiB, Buby 1"
(How I hate to be called "Baby"!)
Then she just threw some money on
to the table to pay the bill and hurried
me away. -
It was after that that she began to
stay In her room so much, and not
tuke me anywhere except for walks
at the other end of the town where
It was all quiet and stupid, and no
music or lights or anything. And
though I teased and teased to go back
to the pretty, Jolly places, Bhe wouldn't
ever tuke me; not once.
Then by and by, one day we met a
little black-haired woman with white
cheeks and very big sud eyes. There
weren't any spangly dresses and gold
slippers about her, I can tell you I She
was crying on a bench In the park,
and Mother told me to stay buck and
watch the swans while she went up
and spoke to her. (Why do old folks
always make us watch swans or read
books or look Into store windows or
run and play all the time? Don't they
suppose we understand perfectly well
what It means that they're going to
say something they don't want us to
hear?) Well, Mother and the lady on
the bench talked and talked ever so
long, and then Mother called me up,
and' the lady cried a little over ine,
and said, "Now, perhaps, if I'd h"-' a
little girl like that 1" Then ....e
stopped and cried some more.
We snw tills lady real often after
that. She was nice and pretty and
sweet, and I liked her; but she was
always awfully sad, and I don't believe
It was half so good for Mother to be
with her as it would have been for her
to be with those Jolly, laughing ladles
that were always having such good
times. But I couldu't muke Mother
see it that way at all. There are
times when It seems as If mother Just
couldn't see things the way I do. Hon
estly, It seems sometimes almost as If
she was the cross-current and contra
diction Instead of me. It does.
Well, as I said before. I didn't Itkt
It very well out there, and I don't be
lieve Mother did. either. But It's all
over now, and we're back home, pack
ing up to go to Boston. ,
"Do eld folks honestly think
they are fooling us all the time,
I wonderf
ITO BE CONTINUED.)
The man who la given to self prtls
owes an apology to his fcnualntaace