E
OF
Brief Resurre Most Important
Daily News Items. .
COMPILED FOR YOU
Events of Noted People, Governments
and Pacific Northwest, and Other
Thinfg Worth Knowing.
More wheat was exported from the
Columbia river during December, 1923,
than from all of the other ports in the
United States combined.
Sergeant C. E. Conrad, Kelly field,
at San Antonio, Tex., broke the world's
record altitude parachute jump Wed
nesday. He leaped from 21,500 feet.
Twenty-seven Mexican convicts,
some of them serving terms for mur
der, escaped from the Blue Ridge pris
, on farm, 18 miles from Houston, Tex.
The escape was staged between 10
and 11 o'clock Wednesday night.
Ex-Field Marshal Ludendorf, Adolph
Hitler, leader of the Bavarian fascistl,
and seven other defendants were
placed on trial for their connection
with the "putsch" of last November.
AH of the defendants except one are
charged with high treason.
Believed to be of the Neolithic pe
riod, or later stone age, a boat 11 feet
long and three feet wide, hollowed
out of the trunk of an oak tree, has
been found in the mud ' at Elmley
Ferry marshes, near Sittlngbourne,
Kent, England. It is estimated by ex
perts to be 6000 years old.
' i Congress laid aside legislative busi
ness Wednesday to pay tribute to the
memory of Warren G. Harding. The
house and senate Joined in a memor
ial service, held in the house chamber,
with Secretary Hughes as the only
speaker and President Coolidge, his
cabinet, supreme court Justices and
foreign diplomats in attendance.
; Mayor Brown and Alfred H. Lundln
were nominated as mayoralty candi
dates In the primary election held in
Seattle, Wash., Tuesday, according to
complete returns from all of the city's
294 precincts. Mayor Brown polled
a plurality of 4551 votes over Lundin.
The unofficial returns tabulated from
tha 294 precincts gave: Brown, 27,692;
Lundln, 23,041; Erickson, 17,344.
A chemical discovery said to be one
of the most Important of the 20th
century has just been made at the
Fixed Nitrogen Research laboratory
at Washington, Professor Arthur B.
Lamb, of Harvard announced Tuesday
night. f,The discovery is a net catalyst
which, will bring about the permanent
union of hydrogen and nitrogen atoms
and will yield 14 per cent of amm6nia,
Professor Lamb said.
Further slashes in operating ex
penses have been determined upon by
President Palmer of the emergency
fleet corporation. On top of the re
duction of $18,000 In the salaries of
the corporation's four vice-presidents,
a Blmllar sum will be Baved through
elimination of the position of manag
ing director of United States lines,
made vacant Wednesday by the resig
nation of William J. Love.
; Serious Interference with telegra
phlo and radio communication is pre
dicted by Dr. David Todd, professor
emeritus of Amherst college, in a
statement in which he announced the
discovery of a new outbreak of "sun
spots." The area affected, according
to Dr, Todd, is about 9000 miles in
diameter. He believes the outbreak
to be the beginning of a "sun spot
period," with auroral displays and con
sequent difficulty In electric and radio
transmission.
President Donnelly of the Northern
Pacific railway Tuesday denounced
the pending attack on the road's laud
grants as "an attempt through some
form of congressional action to cir
cumvent the decisions of the courts."
President Coolidge has asked Chair
man Lenroot of the senate public
lands committee to look into the situa
tion under which the interior depart
ment, unless action is taken, will soon
be called upon to turn over to the
railroad 3,900,000 acres of public lands,
some of it including forest reserves.
The students' mtllonlum the day
when there will be no exams Is com
ing on apace, in the view of educators.
Speakors before the annual conven
tion of the department of superintend
ence, National Education association,
in Chicago, Tuesday ruled out the
periodic examination "and all its
moral hazards" as unsound, unscienti
fic and "generally meaningless." For
the examination mark, it seems, has
been proved by yean of testing by
educational psychologists to have ab
solutely no fixed relation to mental
capacity or intellectual ability.
WORLD HAPP
MUGS
CURRENT
MORE GRAFT CHARGES MADE
Senate to Investigate in Forbes Case-
Conference Is Held.
Washington, D. C Evidence that
"two members of congress" improp
erly accepted money, laid before the
Chicago grand Jury that Indicted
Charles R. Forbes, will be" inquired
into by the senate veterans' commit
tee. A telegram was sent Monday night
to the district attorney at Chicago re
questing that he advise the committee
as to this evidence, and asking wheth
er it Indicated sufficient connection
with the veterans' bureau to come
within the committee's Jurisdiction.
The action followed a conference
between President Coolidge and Sen
ator Reed, republican, Pennsylvania,
chairman of the committee, at which
the grand Jury's report was discussed.
Whether Immediate action also is to
be taken by the executive branch of
the government upon matters discuss
ed in the report other than the indict
ments handed down was not disclosed
after the conference.
The special report of the grand jury
announced that other sensational de
velopments involving alleged graft
had been developed before it in the
course of the Inquiry which led to the
indictment of Forbes. These develop
ments were not pursued, the grand
Jury reported, because they were not
within its jurisdiction.
The Jury stated that the develop
ments included speculation by one or
more officials of the government, in
volving the use of official information,
the payment of certain sums of money
to two members of congress and that
money was collected by certain per
sons, not attorneys, for obtaining per
mits for intoxicating liquor.
The jury also said it had informa
tion indicating that the files of one
department were turned over to per
sons having no official connection
with the department and that money
was accepted by persons who were
not attorneys, to obtain clemency for
prisoners, these persons basing their,
efforts upon their intimacy with of
ficials. REVENUE IS REDUCED
ABOUT $446,000,000
Washington, D. C The tax bill as
passed by the house will produce $446,
000,000 less revenue than the existing
law, in the opinion of the treasury ac
tuaries. It would produce $113,000,000 more,
the treasury figures indicate, than the
Garner democratic plan.
The treasury Burplus under the pres
ent rates, according to present esti
mates, will be only $323,000,000, so
that the house bill if finally enacted,
would result in a deficit of $123,000,
000. Losses in revenue under the bill as
passed by the house are estimated to
be $130,000,000 in normal income
taxes, $160,000,000 in surtaxes, $90,
000,000 in earned income and $126,
000,000 in miscellaneous taxes. These
same taxes as carried In the Garner
plan would have resulted, according to
the treasury, In losses from existing
amounts of $227,000,000 in normal in
come taxes, $171,000,000 in surtaxes,
$85,000,000 in earned income and $126,
000,000 in miscellaneous taxes.
Provisions of both the Garner plan
and the bill as passed by the house
would bring $50,000,000 more into the
treasury than under existing law un
der the capital loss and limited deduc
tion section.
Parcel Post Is Probed. '
Washington, D. C The postoffice
department is conducting an inquiry
into its parcel post business, Assist
ant Postmaster-General Stewart an-.
nounced, to determine whether that
service cannot be so reorganized as
to bear the cost of increased salaries
for postal employes.
Mr. Stewart appeared before a joint
senate and house committee which is
considering a salary bill, but said the
department would be unable to formu
late recommendations until a report
on the parcel post Inquiry was in hand,
probably in May.
Tax Refunds Are Huge.
Washington, D. C Refunds on tax
payments totaling $123,992,8211.94 were
made by the treasury in the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1923, according to
a report by the department. The re
funds, made to 263,320 persons, cov
ered payments for Beveral years and
were made on account of "Illegal or
erroneously collected taxes." The re
port showed 10,152 persons had re
ceived more than $1000 each in re
imbursements.
Washington, D. C The public debt
has been cut more than $4,800,000,000
in the four and a half years since the
great war Indebtedness was at its
peak, August 31, 1919. Figures made
public Monday by the treasury show
that at the opening ot business Satur
day the national debt was $21,781,966,
852. It has been reduced $933,000,000
In the last year.
STATE NEWS
IN BRIEF.
Governor Neff ot Texas has issued
a proclamation placing an embargo
on Importation of livestock from Cali
fornia and prohibiting importation
from Oregon, Arizona and Nevada ex
cept after proper inspection ,
Klamath Falls. Construction will
start soon at Klamath Falls on a new
sawmill with a capacity of 70,000 feet
per day, 'to be located in the outskirts
ot the city near the juncture of the
Strahorn and Southern Pacific rail
roads. Astoria. The body of a boy baby
about one day old was found near
Bugby station Monday by Joseph J.
Saul of this city. He notified C. O.
Botts and H. N. Boyd of the Crossett
Western Timber company, who re
ported the case to Coroner Hughes.
Salem. Governor Pierce, who a
week ago underwent an operation for
the removal of his gall bladder at a
local hospital, probably will be re
covered sufficiently to return to his
home late this week. This was an
nounced by the attending physicians.
Pendleton. Purchase of 75,000 as
paragus plants with which to plant 15
acres of land in the Hermlston dis
trict has been closed with a Walla
Walla dealer, according to Fred Ben
nion, county agent. Otto Heinl of
Hermlston conducted the purchase for
a committee of west end growers.
Pendleton. Fire of unknown origin
practically destroyed a house and con
tents on Beauregard street occupied
by L. C. Graham Sunday morning at
3 o'clock. The fire was not discovered
until it had made considerable head
way. Mr. and Mrs. Graham and their
children were absent on a visit with
relatives in Walla Walla.
Hillsboro. The Oregon state dairy
men elected the following officers at
their annual convention here Friday:
C. L. Mulkey, McMinnville, president;
C. W. Ltughlin of Astoria, first vice
president; H. W. Cooley of Jefferson,
second vice-president; P. M. Brandt of
Corvallis, secretary-treasurer; Horace
Addis of Portland, assistant jecretary.
Bend. Earl Denny, 30, stepped off
a cliff near Terre Bonne late Satur
day night, falling 35 feet and suffering
fatal injuries. His skull was frac
tured and he lived only 25 minutes
after the accident. Denny Is thought
to be from Idaho Falls, Idaho, and
Coroner Nlswonger began efforts to
find his friends or relatives in that
city.
Salem. The Willamette valley lo
ganberry crop for the year 1924 will
be approximately 70 per cent of nor
mal, according to officials of the Dra-
ger Fruit company. In some parts of
the valley the entire loganberry acre
age was destroyed by the frost, while
in other sections the crop will be 100
per cent. The average loss will be
30 per cent, officials said.
Salem. Approximately 10,000 state
income tax returns, representing pay
ments of $40,000, have been received
at the offices of the Income tax col
lecting department here, according to
announcement made Saturday by Earl
Fisher, state tax commissioner. Mr.
Fisher estimated that not less than
75,000 returns will be filed with the
department by March 31. Of the 10,
000 returns received up until Friday
night 4400 were classified as taxable,
while 5600 were non-taxable.
Pendleton. Plans are being made
to test every milk cow in Umatilla
county this year to Insure that the
present low rate of tuberculosis is not
permitted to show an Increase, accord
ing to Fred Bennlon, county agent.
The tests conducted in 1923 of 440
herds, consisting of, 2837 head, showed
13 reactors and eight suspects. Dr.
G. W. Overhause ot the bureau of
animal husbandry, stationed at La
Grande, will conduct the tests in Uma
tilla county, which are to begin about
March 10. ;
St. Helens. With the departure of
the steamer Multnomah Friday night
lumber shipments from St. Helens for
the week amounted to about 3,000,000
feet, all shipments being for California
ports. The steamer E. H. Meyer,
which departed Wednesday afternoon
for San Pedro, was laden with 1,016,-
000 feet of lumber, and the steamer
Celllo which left Thursday night car
ried a 975,000-foot cargo -of lurhber
and piling for San Pedro and San
Diego. The steamer also had a fair
passenger list.
Klamath Falls. Before a full gal
lery ot Indians the marital difficulties
of Sarah Jim and Brick Jim, full-
blooded Klamath Indians, were aired
in the circuit court here Friday In a
contested divorce case, in which Sarah
Jim attempted to show she could be
freed from marriage ties with Brick
Jim, who had chased her on a horse
and beat her over the head, Mrs
Jim's testimony was taken through
an interpreter, since she speaks only
the Klamath language. Judge Leavltt
denied the divorce.
X
Ww V -wwwwwww ww
CAPTAIN SAZARAC
CHAPTER VIII Continued.
11
"The wind is capital although mak
ing English turn we shall have to
pull-haul, doubtless. But who can
pursue save one of the steamboats
und by the time the uproar goes that
far Blen ! what of It?"
"A shot from an elghteen-pounder
and the teakettle will hesitate,"
growled Gorglo. "All Is ready wait
ing Monsieur de Almonaster's word
for the river signal."
The swarthy-skinned tnarketmen
laughed; their roving glances went
from the idle croons at the stalls to
the load of cabbages under- which
there protruded one rusty cutlass hilt
which Gorgio now frownlngly pushed
back. Then he was on with his dron
Ing cry about the dark streets of the
Vieux Carre.
Meantime, at the Ball d'Orleans, the
fun was rising fast. The door, the
deep-set windows, the low galleries
about the hall, were filled with on
lookers ; while to the strains of a
waltz from Les Amours du Dlable
sensuous women and fiery-tempered
men whirled In giddy mazes. Frowned
on by the aristocracy, and taboo with
the haughty ladles of the Vieux Carre,
jet few there were of the young fash
ionables who would not steal, now and
then, to the revel. There arose the
quarrels that led to the duellos out
under the Oaks; there, on an Instant,
the scene might change from laughing,
and men rush together in affray; or
two of the hot-tempered dons of the
old Spanish or French regime, or some
lestless Kentueklans, down-river,
would exhange the cards that meant
raiders or pistols at sunrise.
The young Count de Almonaster was
In a chatting coterie at the vestibule.
The town hod been agog with this
story about him today.
"Ho, Rnoul !" cried De Marlgny,
"where Is your new house guest?"
"Yes Rnoul, the proud, entertain
ing this gallant Saz-a-racl Better you
had counted the family silver ere you
put him to bed! They say Lafltte put
out from your hospitality to the Bara
tarla swamps and nt once a lady dis
iippenrs from her hotel 1"
"I am just back from a search my
self. It was a shabby trick, but "
The laughing gallants crowded
nearer. "Lafltte turns up, and at once
Louisiana Is In an uproar 1 The Brit
ish consul fumes, and Colonel Carr
denounces. His lady may well be In
the tropics within a week!"
"Bah!" shouted the Cheveller de
Montrleul, "here Is Alderman Domi
nique, who was once buccaneer him
self! I say, we are unworthy gal
lants! Under the Spanish governors
we would all be out seeking to res
cue the lady ourselves, rather than
leave such romance to the authori
ties." De Marlgny twigged Raoul's laced
cuff: "Come, we have a new beauty.
I shall Introduce you for one of the
new contre-danses Anglais."
"I," retorted Raoul reservedly, "do
not dance here, as you know."
"Why so haughty? A round, and
we are all oft to the Seraphine."
Raoul started. This would never
do; the conspirators must seize the
clipper before the party assembled on
her decks. He was relieved to see
Captain Bossiere already chosen to
command come on smiling, waving a
hand to the merrymakers.
"Messieurs! Is it not enough here?
We shall make a long night on the
Seraphine and discuss affairs. Ah,
Monsieur Dominique, I am glad yon
are with us ! And Monsieur de Almon
aster, who hns been won over at last
to support the Napoleon expedition!"
Many curious and admiring eyes,
Indeed, were leveled on the tall,
bronzed young man who followed to
the bar. Old Dominique winked again
at him. A buzz of talk ran around
concerning these two who surely must
know something about Lafltte which
they chose not to disclose to the au
thorities. De Marlgny shouted good-humoredly
to Raoul :
"We are discussing the flag, Mon
sieur I A flag for the Seraphine! La
Barre insists it will not be good taste
to fly the American colors now, with
England and the United States at
peace. Under what flag, Captain Bos
siere, do we put to sea?"
Good Captain Bossiere pulled his
whiskers and beamed on the laughing
gallants. "That Is to be settled. Also,
tonight, who is to be second in com
mand." . -
"And third!" .
"And fourth !"
"And," bawled another youth, "I
trust to be at least a midshipman !"
The flushed and merry Creole blades
gathered closer. The costliest cham
pagnes were spilling over bar and
tables. Under the glitter of the crys
tal lamps, where the press was deep
est. Captain Bossiere perspired nud
tried, In vain, to' address them. From
this laughing melee Dominique, the
alderman, velvet-clad and rotund,
found way and came to De Almonas
ter's side.
"And tonight," he muttered, "I want
der ubout, a respectable official of the
city and the sea Is calling. As to
Jean," he said with pointed abrupt
ness, "wha do you know. Monsieur?"
The young aristocrat could not be
sure of how much the city conspira
tors had Imparted to the complacent
Dominique. He therefore shrugged
Indifferently: "The old fox is on fa
miliar trails. Monsieur Dominique do
you know of any reason for absenting
yourself tonight?"
"Eh?" queried the alderman darkly.
Then, a hand on his shoulder. J arris,
the portrait painter of the Vieux Carre,
By Charles Tenney Jackson
Copyright by The Bobbt-MenlU Company
for once cleanly arrayed In velvet, be
ruffled stock and a high hat! Jarvis,
Incredibly sober. Nodding to Alder
man Dominique, ha drew Raoul aside.
"The fools found I was right, eh?
A lady stolen from our streets and
this Sazarac of the packets is my old
captain." He smiled with some twitch
ing pathos about his nervous lips.
"Jean and my lady. Ah, one might
have guessed!" He stopped abruptly.
"What is It, Jarvis?" Rnoul stared
at him. Plainly, he knew nothing of
Mademoiselle Lestron's disappearance
upon the English bark, tonight slowly
beating a way out of the Belize pass
to the open Gvlf.
"Sober," muttered the Jester. "That
Is It. I have vowed to keep sober for
her sake from half-past eleven to quite
one o'clock ... It was about the
hour of the camellia. Ah to a stair
case fellow In the moonlight !"
His friend laughed curiously, but
without understanding. "Every night"
continued Jarvis "half-past eleven
to one. It is a disastrous intermission,
however. I have to arrange all my
hours, both at the studio and the
grog shops. Romance should keep
better hours." He sighed: "Love has
come like a flame to my darkness,
Monsieur! I who would have laid
my dull head as a stone among the
other cobbles for her footstep and
asked nothing! She has gone . . .
they whisper, willingly, perhaps, with
him. Ah, to play the part of Saza
rac one hour!"
"What are you driving at?" queried
Raoul. .'
"This Sazarac " muttered Jarvis.
"I regret he was not himself. I would
have had an affair at the Oaks. Can
you imagine me, sober, well-arrayed
Many Curious and Admiring Eyes, In
deed, Were Leveled on the Tall,
Bronzed Young Man Who Followed
to the Bar.
and speared through the stomach be
cause of a woman? I cannot. On sec
ond thought, of course not. The time,
Monsieur "
"The time" De Almonaster start
ed, shot a suspicious glance at the
town's Jester. But Jarvis was not,
apparently, In the conspiracy.
"To put aside my romance and re
sure my bottle. D n! not yet mid
night" He turned impatiently and
gnawed his cuff. "Jean has taken my
lady Eh, well! One's friend is
one's friend 1"
Raoul watched the mountebank's
drawn, hungry face at the end of the
crowded bar. Then he wandered to
the street vestibule. The time for the
attack must be approaching. Some
where along the west bank of the Mis
sissippi, but a few miles above, the
Baratarians must be gathered for the
embarkation and the silent drift down
stream. Now that he had time to
think soberly of It, Raoul's mind stum
bled over the uncertainties of the mad
venture.' He knew that, about the city,
two score of adventurers had armed
and awaited secretly to aid the men
of Johannes and Nez Coupe from the
deep swamp. ' Seizing the unguarded
ship at her- moorings, even with the
revel about her, would not be difficult.
It was the next step when an unfavor
ing wind might leave the Seraphine
helpless and adrift In the lower
reaches of the river.
De Almonaster watched the faces
of his familiars about the ballroom.
He had been chaffed enough for his
entertainment of the mysterious Saza
rac out of the West.' But even now
the heedless youth were forgetting 1L
The affair Lafltte was being left lo
the authorities. The British Colonel
Carr had already been courteously re
jected from the gentlemen's company;
the gentry, while most of them had
but the merest hearsay about what
the missing gamester, Sazarac, might
have Intended concerning Mademoi
selle Lestron, could not endure Can's
Infamous jest at Maspero's gaming
room. They believed, Indeed, that the
lady had fled of her own accord with
the adventurer of the river packet,
whom rumor said was Jean Lafltte.
Eh, blent It was not the first affair
of women for Lafltte . . . there
was the old story of the governor's
lady when the Grand Terre chieftain
was at his power. ., , J
Raoul saw, in the barroom, a score
of tossing glasses upraised to some
speech that Bossiere had concluded.
"The Seraphine," a dozen voices
shouted, "and to the unknown flag she
flies !"
The goblets clinked and broke; the
air was a spray of crystal and cham
pagne bubbles; then the laughing
groups scattered. But about Captain
Bossiere flushed youths clamored on.
"Devil take the dances! Monsieur
Glrod's banquet awaits us on the Sera
phine. Let's finish the night there."
And a score of young men took tip
the cry. , De Marlgny came crowding
to Raoul's side. "Come, there! You
Felix, La Barre all of you ! You can
dance on the decks but no women,
mind ! This is a secret session of the
Napoleon plot !"
"Yes, and you with us, De Almonas
ter! You are a third backer of the
enterprise since you took over the
baroness' interests."
De Almonaster started as the jest
ing groups closed about him. It was
but eleven o'clock! The conspirators
across the river would never dream
that the gentlemen-adventurers would
quit the ball so early! He began to
protest as the youth streamed to the
street. But one glance at the gold
laced hat of the Seraphlne's com
mander now leading the way, and
Raoul whirled back and to the court
yard where the servants awaited.
At his low hall his groom came
watchfully. "Teton, the ball Is break
ing up! With all speed the word to
the market!"
The octoroon vanished silently.
Raoul turned back through the ball
room, his heart beating wildly. He
wondered If any saw his perturbation.
It was too late to warn the Barata
rians that the plans had changed. Al
ready, far across the rue Royale past
the cathedral to the Place d'Armes,
the aristocrats were trooping, un
armed, save for their swords of fash
Ion, to encounter unsuspectingly the
desperate renegades of Lafltte sum
moned again from their deep swamp
refuges.
"Madness!" the young man mut
tered. "They are ascending the gang
way 1 The plot is lost ! Sazarac will
not dare lead his swamp bandits to
face the gentlemen of the city already
at their banquet seats!"
He lingered irresolutely and then
went to the Plaza. If he could find
one of the spies who had been all eve
ning watching the course of events at
the revel and passing the word, mouth
to mouth, out to the upper levee so
that the Baratarians across the river
might be apprised, he could, even yet,
ward oft a disastrous failure.
But nowhere did he find one whom
he could trust as being In the con
spiracy. The groups of idling mar
ket men had scattered from the stalls.
The crowd on the rue de la Levee,
gathered to watch this outdoor revel
of the gentlemen-adventurers of the
Napoleon ship, was thickening. Along
the roped path between these onlook
ers the gold hat of Captain Bossiere
moved with the gallants cheering In
his wake. The gay rosettes and lan
terns festooning the ship's rigging re
flected upon the yellow flood murmur
ing along her side.
"I must be seen with them," mur
mured De Almonaster. "It is a sorry
joke. Sazarac dare not face this revel
to seize a ship no, not for all his
loves !"
He found his place to the right of
Commander Bossiere. De Marlgny
had started a song of the day among
the flushed youths near him:
"Mo l'almtn vou
Comma cochon almln la boue!"
"Ah!" shouted one, catching sight
of De Almonaster; and he translated
the doggerel for a young American en
sign : " T love you as a little pig loves
the mud!' It must be Raoul, seelug
that he loves the Baratarla swamps."
Raoul smiled; but his glance was
out from the quarter-deck awnings to
the yellow, silent flood of the mighty
river. Big honest Commander Bos
siere, a real seaman oddly out of place
among the laughing youths, wag un
steady from the toasts he had drunk.
"And there," cried La Barro, "comos
another guest who must love the mud,
seeing that he frequently rolls in it !"
The guests shouted as another be
lated one came unsteadily down the
carpeted gangway to the deck, Jarvis,
It was, the town's profligate, whose
hour's tribute to his lady had rurno-l
to Bacchus promptly with the clock.
The first bohemlnn of the French
quarter raised his hand. In it was a
staff with folded colors. And behind
him marched six grim fellows In tar
paulin hats, red shirts and the new
tight pants of the period, cutlassed
and pistoled, who, without word, took
position along the rail, and came to a
salute as Jarvis bawled a mocking
order.
The flushed aristocrats stared, then
cheered, when the mummer pirates
broke to hoarse song, a Creole air of
the day:
"Dl terns M'sleu Lafltte,
Ye t menln monde a la baguette "
The guests seized it in glee. An
other gibe at the smiling Count de
Almonaster.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Boots.
Father bought a pair of hip boots,
in anticipation of the coming fishing
season. The boots greatly Interested
Ann, his three-year-old daughter, so
one day when mother and father were
preparing for a Journey downtown,
and mother was putting on her Rus
sian .boots, Ann turned to father and
said:
"Daddy, why don't you wear your
boots, too?"