government nniler the «nn. hnt mnatly
« muu and the uliles', you bet, and going
and those who wl«?i fo become aviators
may enroll themselves for the course
at once.
“I speak to you In a crisis of the
university's life, as well as that of the
day hefore he enltsfv^ and settled it MM • I Dean Tdasiltg auil wife of
l i n i . ™ 1 n A I K K I 'K I S f i
a .V . U J
with them. They're all broken up. of TratloiU, Fa
to run the earth hy revnlntlon and rep-
c -r- • ; hut when they saw he'd made
reeentatives of unskilled labor imm i­
Over 21(10 .logs are iiceu.ed in
up his mind, they quit opposing him.
g rant* nobody that can read or w rite
t b l j < u u ,.. | e
and I think they’re proud o f him about
allowed to vote, except Llnskl. Tom ­ Ration, and the warning I u tter has
It. maybe. In spite of feeling anxious.
The Brownevilje pioneer picnic
mie Hopper saye he knows all about been made necessary by what took
You see. fits fath er »as an a rtille ry ­ is dated for Juue' 14, 15 and 16,
L ln s k l: he never did a day’s work In place yesterday and today. Yesterday
man In the w ar w ith Spain, and hla
his life — too busy trying to get the morning, a student in the jun ior class
H illard Ackerman and wife were
g randfather was a colonel nt the end
workingmen stirred up against the peo­ enlisted ua a private In the Un ted
over from Brownsville^Sunday.
ple that exploit ’em ! Tommie says he States regular army. F a r be it from
>f tlie -C h || war. though he went Into
had a big crowd to hear him. though, me to deplore his course In so doing;
It as a private, like lUiusey. H e d^ed
J. C. Bramwell und wife were
and took up quite a little money for he spoke to me abnffl It, and In such a
when Rumsey was about tw elve; but ,u H a . i .< b u ; a S u u a j a fie r u io u ii.
Ramsey remembers h im ; he was ta lk ­
a ’cause’ or something. Well, let him
way that I felt I had no right to dis­
You Can Solder Aluminum.
C hanging C olors a« Birds.
Dr. and Mrs. W. J. Shelton of
h oller! I guess we can attend to him suade him
ing o f him a little I he night before he
I told him that it would
Aluminum cun be snlder.at -w ith
The color o f birds may he changed
Brownsville visited the Wheeler difficulty. T he difficulty He.
enUsted."
,
f .
when we get hack from over yonder. be preferable for college meh to w ait
u ,. to white hy eep ln g them In n w hite
By George, old Ham, I ’m gettin' kind until they could go as officers, and.
Dora made a gesture of despairing home here Sunday.
fact the metal oxidizes as soon as ex­ room, surrounded hy white o h le c ts „nd
of Hoppy In the g ills !” H e adminl»- aside from the fact of a greater pres­
protest; “ You don’t understated !”
The Skirvins visited Tangent posed to the air; also that the snider­ attended hy persons dressed In whlta.
tered a resounding slap to his com­ tige, I urged that men of education
“M hat Is It - 1- don't understand?”
Sunday.
So did John Porter and ies Iron Is cooled very quickly, because 1 says a naturalist. However, the third
rade's shoulder. “I t certainly looks as could perhaps be more useful in that
“Ram sey! I knqw why he went—
of the tre a t rapidity w ith which the or fourth generation la ne<*s-ary bo-
wife
and
K
arl
Bramwell.
if our big days were w alking toward capacity. H e replied that if he were
and it's just k illin g m e !”
beat ts dissipated.
fore the bird's feathers are all white.
us 1”
Fted looked at her gyavely. “ 1 don't
useful enough as a private a coinmis
M C. Gaines and J, L. Bilyeu
think
you
need
worry
uliout
It,"
he
slon
might
in
tim
e
come
his
way,
and,
*
•
•
•
•
•
•
of Scio have tiled claim* ol $108
-aid. “T here's nothing about Ms go­ and $8 respecitvsly for damage
He was right. The portentous days as I say, I did not feel at liberty to a t­
ing that you are responsible for.”
H e let? to Join a
came on apace, and each one brought tempt dissuasion.
done to sheep hy dogs.
Slie repeated her despairing gesture.
a new and greater portent. The faces regiment to which he had been as­
‘‘You don't understand.
But it's no
What is supposed to have been
of men lost a driven look besetting signed, and many o f you were at the
S 7 y c e r &■ t b /n io r e
use. It doesn’t help b uy to try to talk a lynx killed a calf belonging to
them in the days of badgered w aiting, station to bid him farew-ell.
“But enthusiasm may be too con­ of It, though I thought maybe it would, two McQueeu boys at Holley anil
and Instead of that heavy apprehen­
somehow.” She w'ent a little nearer
U'iH haet
sion one saw the look men’s fuces must tagious; even a great and inspiring
escaped from dogs which followed
the dormitory entrance, - leaving him
have worn in 1776 and 1861. and the motive may work for harm, and the
its tracks.
*
S
p
r in g
where he was, then .turned. “I sup­
history of the old days grew clearer university must not become a desert
pose you won’t see him?"
in the new. The President went to In the tw enty-four hours since that
Mary A. Brock, administratrix
a t tAa
“I don’t know. Most probably not of the estate of Clarence T- Brock,
the congress, and the true Indictment young man went to join the arm y last
night,
one
hundred
and
eleven
of
our
till we meet— if we should— In France.
he made there reached scoffing Pots­
C K o o n tz
S to re
is suing to have any claims of Sam
dam with an unspoken prophecy some­ young men students have le ft our
I don't know where he's stationed; and
lift!
Siegel
and
others
ugaiugt
the
I ’m going with the aviation— If It's
what chilling even to Potsdam, one w a lls ; eighty-four o f them went off te
ever ready i And he's w ith the regu estate either validated or iuvali
guessed—and then through an A p ril gether at three o'clock to catch an
night went almost quietly the steady east-bound train at the Junction and
lars; he'll probably be among the first dated.
to go over."
w o rd : we were at w ar with Germany! enlist for the navy at Newport, We
The fifth successive series of re.
“I see." She turned sharpiy away,
The bugles sounded across the conti­ are, I say, in danger of a stampede.”
vival
meetings began this week ai
He spoke on, but Dora was not lis
calling back over her shoulder In a
nent; drums and flfes played up und
Brownsville. This time the Meth­
choked voice. “Thank you. Good-by,!
down the city streets and In town and ten ing ; she had become obsessed by
odist church is the scene and A. D
But F red’s heart had m e lte d ; gazing
village squares and through the coun­ an Idea which seemed to be carrying
George and wife, singing evangel­
her
to
the
border
of
tragedy.
When
a
fte
r
her,
he
saw
that
her
proud
young
trysides. F ain tly In all ears there was
head had lowered now, and that her ists of note, are taking part.
a multitudinous noise like distant, the crowd poured forth from the build
h o a rse cheering . . .
and a sound’ Ing she went w ith if mechanically,
shoulders were moving convulsively;
The Oakville poultry club i
he ran a fte r her. and caught her aa she
like that was what Dora Yocum heard, and paused in the dark outside. She
liegan slowly to ascend the dormitory- composed of E. P. Cunningham
one night, as she sat lonely In her spoke to a girl whom she did not
leader,
Royal Spauldii g presi­
steps.
room. The bugles and fifes and drums know.
“I beg your pardon— ”
dent, A rthur Gray vice-president,
“See here,” he cried. "Don't
had been heard about the streets of
“Yes?”
Gravhill secretary,
Ken­
She lll?ed a wet face, “/fo , no! He John
the college town, that day, and she
“I wanted to a s k : Do you know
complete w ith
Mattress, Net,
thought she must die o f them, they
went In bitterness because I told him neth Hamilton, Arthur St. John
who
was
the
student
Doctor
Crovis
Wheels, etc.
hurl her so, and now to be haunted by
spoke of? I mean the one that was
Jesse Hinm an, since buying the r
this Imaginary cheering—
ws a* .HUI
unir, only
Special ■
for
short I time,
the first to enlist, and that they were
Brownevtlls times, has picked up
She started. Was it Imaginary?
cheering last night when he went away
enough of the printer’s trade sn
She went downstairs and stood upon
to be a private In the United States
that he and Poittu are doing a ll
the steps of the dormitory in the open
army.
Did you happen to hear his
the work of the office, and tuereV
air. N o; the cheering was real and name?”
" » > o u rl* by'» "»me and birthday (if less than a year old) to-
loud. It came from the direction of
a good deal of it to do, too, hut
“ Yes, he was a Junior,”
the railw ay station, and the night air
F
rnce
th y ° Ur nai,‘* an'1 “ddre“ ' and we wil1 »end l 'ie baby something
Hinman
is
getting
fat
on
it.
“Who was it?"
surged and heat w ith It.
“Ramsey M ilholland.”
Mrs. Mary Conklin of Scranton. £ C Save money by buying your house farniahings of us.
Below her stood the aged Janitor of
the building, listening.
“ What's the
Pa., sunt of Jesse R, Hinman of
C HAPTSR XV.
cheering for?” «tie asked, remember­
the Brownsville Times, arrived
ing grim ly that the ja n ito r was one of
on Saturday’s train and was mei
Fred M itchell, crossing the campus
her acquaintances who hud not yet
b ■ her nephew and whisked over
one morning, ten days later, saw Dorn
stopped "speaking" to her. “ What's stundlng near the entrance of her dor
io Brownsville.
the m atter?”
mltory, where he would pass her un
“ It's a good m atter," the old roan less he altered h is course ; and hs h
A. W. Lynd, who married Ed th,
answered, “I guess there must he a drew nearer her and the details of he
daughter of Lester W a lk e r a„<|
face grew (nt? distinctness, he was ti.
wife of Brownsville, has sated no
dlgnant with himself for feeling lea;
a two-months’ cruise from Astoria
and less Indignation toward her In pro
to China ns wireless operator on
portion to the closeness ol' his ap
y *^ * g
*
e wn Qf m' xww w w w w
J a Scandinavian liner.
proach. The pity that came over hln
was mingled w ith an unruly ndmlrs
For once the railroad has scored
tlon, causing him to wonder what un
against the auto truck. When th-
<1 I f you have been d riftin g along— spending all, saving nothing—stop
patriotic stuff she could be made of
Linn county court barred trucks
and thin k.
She was marked, but not whipped; she
Weighing more than two tons,
still held herself straight under all the
V on must realize tha t it cannot go on forever. O ne’s earning days are
loaded, from the highways Stan’,
hammering and cutting which, to his
numbered. Now. while your earning power is the greatest, see to it that
dard O il put stations at Browns,
knowledge, she had been getting
each payday pays S ow sTH irto toward yonr f uture I m w i n M c « ,
ville, Scio and such small places
She stopped him. “for only a mo
W e w ill welcome yonr account and help you save..
and oil will go thither by rail.
ruetit," she said, adding w ith a wan
She L ifte d a W et Face, “ No, N o l H e
prondness: "That Is, if you're not one
The Christian church got such s
W ent in B lttero esq Because I Teld
of those who feel that I shouldn't be
response to a one-inch advertise­
spoken to’ ?"
H im To, In My Own B itte rn 's *I
' Where Saving, are M fe '•
p m lr prr cent
„ „ W(>rry
ment in the Enterprise two weeks
'No,” said Fred, stiffly. “I may
to, in my own bitterness! I ’ve killed
igo thht it takes three times as ^ 2 * * * * * * * * * * * * * ^ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * » * * * * * * * i » * » * * # » » l » i » # > » # d
share their point o f view, perhaps, hut
him ! Long ago, when he wasn't much
I don't feel called upon to obtrude It
much space this week. Advertise
more than a child, I beard he'd said
on you In that manner.”
ments bring results to a theater, s
that some day he’d 'show' me, and now
“I see,” she said, nodding. “I ’ve he's done I t !"
church or a meiohanl’a store.
1
wanted to speak w ith you about Ram
Fred whistled low and long w hen she
aey.”
Brownsville has some l>oys who
had disappeared.
"Girls I” he m nr
"A ll right.”
h ive started on the road to the
mured to hlm sqif
“Some girls, aey
She bit her lip, then asked, abrupt
Some of them broke
bow— they w ill be girls I You caai't penitentiary.
or rather the g irl who likes candy, is ev­
ly : “W hat made him do It?"
iuto both i onfectionery store- th* e
tell
'em
what's
what,
and
you
can't
'Enlist as a private w ith the regu
erywhere | her opposite would be hard
I'hureday
niglii
and
stole
two
d o l­
change
'em,
e
ith
e
r!"
lars?"
to find. A m 1 if she gets her candy from
lars
from
Starr’s
aud
some
liotiled
Then, as more urgent matters again
“No. What made him enlist nt a l l F
ua she knows she gets the best confec­
soda
water
from
Gustavson’s.
occupied
his
attention,
he
went
on
at
“Only because lie’s that sort," Fred
tionery in town. That is why whan
an
ardent
and
lively
gait
to
attend
his
returned briskly. "H e may be inex­
The
Linn County
Holstein
you tell her yon w ill buy her a box of
plicable to people who believe that his class In map-making.
Breeders’ asssociaiion met at A l­
candy the always says ; " Me sure and
“ It ’s a Good Matter,” the Old Man An­ going out to fight for his country Is
get it at Stewart & Price's.’•
bany Saturday and elected C. R.
' (To t e continued.)
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Friday, March 31
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big crowd o f 'em down there. One of
president and George McCart sec­
She lifted
her hand, v “Couldn't
our students enlisted today, and
you— "
retary-treasurer.
To encourage
tb e j're givlu' him a send-off. Listen
“I beg your pardon," Fred said at
hoys’ and girls’ judging of stock
to 'em. how they do cheer. He's the one#. “I'm sorry, but I don't know just
•25 was voted.
(Continued frontpage I)
first one to go.”
how to explain him to you.”
She went back to her room, shiver­
Joseph Hume, Mayor White
“Why?”
A. Whitbeck was in Eugene
ing. and spent the next day In bed
He laughed, apologetically. "W ell, Friday.
and Henry Blakely, representing
w ith no aching head. She rose In the you see. as I understand It. you don't
the municipal
government of
Mrs. B. M, Bond went to Eu
evening, however—a handbill hud been think It's possible for a person to have
Brownsville,
were
in the city toil ay
slid under her door nt five o'clock, call­ something within him that makes him gene Saturday.
consulting with the county court
ing a “Mass Meeting" of the univer­ care so much about his country that
Miss Ethel Bray, teacher in our regardihg the procuring of gravel
sity at eight, and she felt it her duty he— " ,
t '
school,
weut to Albany for the for use by the city o f Brownsville.
to go; hut when she got to the groat
" W a lt!” she cried. “ Don’t you think
week end,
— Saturday's Albany Herald.
hail she found a seat In the dimmest I'm w illing to suffer a little rather
corner, farthest from the rostrum.
than to see my country in the wrong?
W J. Lane and. wife of Browns­
A petition has been sent to
The president of the university ad­ Don't you think I ’m doing It?"
ville drove fhru Haleey Sunday, President Harding, signed by Giv-
dressed thp tumultuous many hundreds
“Well. I don't want to be rude; but. going north.
(
ernor Olcott and the mayors and
before him, for tumultuous they were of course. It seems to me that you're
other public officers of Oregcn, in­
until he quieted them. H e talked to I suffering because you think you know
Ted Mitzner got ’btrue Friday
cluding Mayor Walton of Halsey,
them solierly o f patriotism , and called more about w hat’s right and wrong from
W ilam ette university
to
inviting him to be present at the
upon them for "deliberation and a (Jt- than anybody else does."
spend the spring vacation.“ ;
opening of the rose festival at
tlp patience." T here was danger of a
"Oh, no, But I — ”
slampede he said, and be and the rest
“We wouldn’t get anywhere, prob­
Mesdamee Jatnye D riukard, P, Portland. June 9, which is classed
o f the faculty were In a measure re­ ably, by arguing It,” Fred said. “You J. I rue and George Hayes, Misses as representative of Oregon in gen­
sponsible to their fathers and mothers asked me.”
The invitation and sign i-
Gertrude McKern and Lila Dudley eral.
fo r them.
“I asked you to tell me why he en­
and Messrs.
Adrian Goodbrod tures make two hound hooks of
listed.”
"You must keep your heads,” he
and H arry Commons were at the about 500 pages each,
“T he trouble Is, 1 don't think I can
said. “God knows. I do not seek to
county
seat Friday.
Judge your duty In this gravest mo­ tell that to anybody who needs an an­
Louis A. Jones, the clerk who
ment of your live», nor assume to tell swer. He Just went, o f course There
A letter had been received from has made so many friends at the
you what you must or must not do. Isn't any question about IL I always Congressman
Hawley before tne Woodworth drugstore in Alhaiiv
But hy hurrying Into service now, w ith ­ thought he'd be the first to go."
postmaster
election
here promising in tlie past eight years, died last
"Oh, no!" she said.
out careful thought or consideration,
to give due weight lo such an ex­ Thursday. In January Mr. Jones
"Yes I always thought so.”
you may im pair the extent of your
" I think you were mistaken.” she pression of the preference of the was operated on for appendicitis
possible usefulness to the very ranee
said,
decidedly. “I t was a special rea­ patrons of the office, so it is pretty and came very near dying, hot he
yon are so anxious to serve. Hundreds
He and M iss Martha
certain that M r. Bramwell will rallied
of you are taking technical course* son— to make him act so cruelly."
" •C r u e lly 'r Fred cried,
be the next postmaster. All of 8*xsuer, who was his fiancee, were
which should be completed— at least
“I t w as!”
candidate, were men of pleasi' g married and be weut to the home
to the end of the term In June. In­
“Cruel to whotnF
structors from the United States army
personality and popular in the of her parents to reside while a
"Oh, to his mother— to his fam ily. community,
are already on the way here, and m ili­
home he bad purchased was being
■
»
tary training w ill h« begun at once T o have him go oW th a t way, w ithout
remodeled, but her careful nursing
¡2JA
.
A.
Tuseing
and
wife
of
a
word—"
for ail who are physically eligible and
was unavailing to save his life.
of acceptable age. A special course , “Oh. no; he'd been home.” Fred cor- Brownsville have become grar.d-
Jots and Tittles
WU1 be ¿veo U| ftrepAfgUop /of
, parents.
The youngster
u
the
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