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Deer season opens Sunday,
ana winking at bootlegging. He
has been recalled and a prohibition
ist elected. The female vote was
heavy. It is thesanie female vole I / f c
that will prevent the weakening A
of the Volstead act by permitting (
the sale of wine and beer.
The
women of America won't have it.
That's all.
E N T E S P B IB E
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Successor to H ulbertB allack H a rd w a re Company
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Builders’ and General Hardware
322 W est First Street, Albany, Oregon
HA L9KY, Linn Co., Ore.. Aug. 17, 1922
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RAILROAD B)L8HEVISTS
The railroad shopmen’a atrike
seems aa futile today aa it did a
couple of weeks ago when we ao
designated it. The railroad ab >pe
aie not full-handed yet, but are
filling up.
The ctrikere have agreed to sur-
render practically all of their
cjntent;ooa except tboae regard
ing seniority if they can get their
johe back. Tlje companies refure
to yield on thia point, even at the
solicitation of President Harding,
because to do so would be to break
faith with the old hands who
stayed with them and the new
men who have been put at work.
These men were promised senior
ity in preference to strikers, who
had forfeited it. In the past such
promises bate sometime« been
violated and new employes bad no
re Ires» from the injustice. These
ights are:
Men who have been in the em
ploy of the railroad the longest
time are given first choice of the
better positions.
When reductions in the working
force are mide, junior men are
luid off first, and the senior men
last.
After men have bean laid off,
they are taken back in the order
of seniority, and no new labor is
employed until former employes,
who so wish, have been returned
to their positions.
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Deer season opens Aug. 20
I
The senate has agreed to pass the
J tariff bill uext Saturday. Not one
senator ia satisfied with it, but
there is no probability that they
could agree if they should discus»
it another three years and they
want to try something else. Wbai
it really means is an euigma that
they will leave to the courts until
the law is tinkered up again.
A pirate has been making suih
iuroads io the booze-smuggling
fleet that briugs liquid lightning
Io the Atlantic coast that the
smugglers ask federat protection
Why shouldn’t Uncle Sam, who is
engaged in bootlegging at sea him
self, fly to the assistance of his
fellow-booze-sellers ?
“ My Faithful Winchester ” I TRUCKING
The big moose—the giant of the northland for
ests—furnishes thrilling sport for the h unter of
big game. Then, if ever, a man feels the value
ol a repeating rifle, powerful and dependable
under all conditions.
Whenever veteran hunters get together you'll
hear the words, “ My faithful Winchester.”
Winchester high-power rifles are made in cali
bers for all kinds oí American game. Barrels
are bored and rifled accurate to the thousandth
of an inch. They pass exacting strength tests.
The famous lever action never fails to work
rapidly and surely.
Hay, Grain, stock hauling, etc.
hauling a specialty.
Phone
Heavy
W . H. B E E N E
Halsey. Oregrn
Halsey
Meat Market
C lo s in g O u t
OIL STOVES
our heaters
AT A C T U A L C O S T
2-burner Florence Automatic..
$14.50
2- burher Alcazar..’.........
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4-burneT Alcazar ....
23.00
3- burrier Florence Automatic ...
21.00
SPECIAL—2-in. Post Iron Bed,
high-grade fabric spring guaranteed for
20 years, 40-lb. mattress. Our
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BARTCHER & ROHRBAUGH
ALBANY
F U R N IT U R E E X C H A N G E
415-421 West First street
Albany, Oregon
The Strength
Of The bH Pines
Edison M arshall
Dealer in
Fresh and
Cured Meats
Author of^TheVoice of the Pack*1
Illustration« by
Irwin Mgers
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"0 (lays’ credit
F A L K B R O S., Props.
Every man iu America baa a
right to quit a job when he chooses.
Winchester Model 95 Repeating Rifle— Handles
We make a
A strike is a conspiracy to quit
the famous .30 Govt. ’00 high-power cartridge
Specialty
of
whose smashing blow will stop any charging
jobs in mass. Out that conspiracy
animal.
Friendship,
gives the striker no legal right be
di<l not have without it. The
O ther Winchester Lever Rifles o f smaller calibers
Engagement and
astonishing theory, Mt up by the
Wedding
unions, that strikers are still em
oscoe
mes
ardw are
Rings
ployes an I entitle 1 to employes'
F . M . f r e n c h & S o n s
rights, is denied by the federal
the
store
ALBANY
OREO.
railroad labor board.
Shops and tra ns and yards have
bjen shot into and bombed, dur So with the railroad union«. prevent the farmers from getting
ing thia strike, and people killed Their demands may be met, to the promised market roads it will
or maimed, and armed guards have «void inconvenience, but there ia be prevented.
a limit. When that limit ia
been employed.
Fine
Now sympathetic railroad Unions reached they will learn that if all
Somebody wants tariff questions
are striking in :ome sections. their members thould drop dead to be bandied by experts. But Dress Shoes a Specialty
1 hey object to working where the oountry would atill gel along no living man is a tariff expert
501 Lyon s t, Albany, Oregon.
there are armed guards. In some tome way.
and uo two agrea ou a tariff sched
cases the aimed guards have been
ule or ever will.
At the beginning of the world
C. C. B R Y A N T
takto off and strikes averted. Il
ATTORNEY A T LAW
is presumod that in these cases the war the German clown prince was
Sheriff Nelson of Clatsop county
union* have promised that violence reported to have aaid: “ I like
Cusick Bank Building,
shall tease, though they had war; it'a good fun ” Other people was charged with bring a whiskyite
Albany, Oregon.
elaime I that the offenders vere hal dona all the suffering for it
outside sympathizers whom they then. Now the tablea are turned
could neither identify uor control. and he ia not half ao fond of war.
1 hey also claim that equipement is County Kleagle Nathan A. Baker
daugerously defective, owing to of I.n Angelas has had a similar
As leader of the
incouipeteut ehop wurk. Their experience.
Round Trip Fares afford greater savings
fellow strikers must be free to Inglewood raid in April he was
doubtless
very
brave
and
eelf-
in travel costs this year
shoot aud throw bombs without
danger from guards. They have oonfident but, like the clown, he is
to
a right, if they see defects, to point out now, and when in hit trial a
them out, and in the oase of a girl member of the raided family
1 H.IAMOOK C ounty B bacrbs
N ewport bv - thm -S ba
C rater L ake N ational P ark
O regon C avm S N at ' i . M onument
locomotive the engineer it required testified to the outrageous conduct
O regon ' s F orest , L ake , R iver and M ountain R esorts
to examine his engiue and see that of the masked raiders, he fainted
S hasta M ountain R esorts
Y osemite N ational P ark
it is in order before ueing it. The and court had to take a recess
«aa
ruuipanios say that the objection
to equipment is simple lying
An automubiie in which a bottle
propaganda.
of alcholio liquor is carried
Some of the railroad unioi.s is forfeited to the government.
L IN E S
have come largely under the con In Oregon hereafter prohibition
trot of communistic foreigners and officers who seize such cars an
•ume of the unions frankly avow nounce that anybody claiming an
their prefareuce for government interest in them will have to go to
ownership. These extremists think oourt with the claim and if it is
and to
• hey can again coerca the govern not found good will be prosecuted
ment, as (hay did whan the coun. for fraud. The law ia gradually
try was at grips with Germany. being cinched up tighter and tight
I he railroad executives believe that er.
Through California
if left to themselves, with proper
“ The Way to See More of tho U. S. A.
protection against violence, they
Th* slat« highway commission
can overcome the present obeticles
Oregou Outaloors," "Californta for the T o u n s l” end oilier leanli-
is very reluctant to keep its hands
fut folder* w ill be mailed FR EE O N REQUEST.
and conhaue to give the public
>ff ths market road funds. Order
the service it needs.
For fa-.es. reien ationi sod other particular*. ask lgents
ed to do so by Judge Kelly aud
The employe who thinks be has Skipwortb, whose decision wet
become so necessary to (be bnsi sustained by the state supreme
neea that it cannot get along with court, It has filed a petition for s
JO HN M. SCO TT.
out him ia apt to discover, if a rehearing by the latter tribunal
OensrEt Passenger Agent.
to t comet, that he it mistaken If it ia possible by any means to
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I T ’S TRAVEL TIM E
SAN FRANCISCO
LOS ANGELES
SAN DIEGO
BACK EAST CITIES
SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES
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Cop^rjqht by U H I. B r o w n , o n d C
her that first day, nor for the
years. But all later memories of tl
Bpfore the gray dawn came over the Square house always included he
land Bruce Duncan had started west She must hove been nearly four yen
ward. He had no self aninzement at younger than himself; thus when 1
the lightning decision. He was only was taken to the bouse she was onl
strangely and deeply exultant.
aq infant. But thereafter, the nursi
The reasons why went too deep put them tog?ther often; and whe
within him to be easily seen. In the Linda was able to talk, she called hli
first place. It was adventure— nnd something that sounded like Bwovi
Bruce's life had. not beeu very adven boo. She called him that so often ths
turous heretofore. Then there was a for a long time he couldn't be eut
sense t>f immeasurable relief at his that wasn't his real name. Now, I
sudden and unexpected freedom from manhood, he Interpreted.
the financial problems his father had
"Brother Bruce, of course. Lind
left. He would have no more consul was of course a sister.”
tations with Impatient creditors, no
Linda had been homely; even
more would he strive to gather to small boy could notice that. Besldei
gethcr the ruins' of the business........
nnit
Linda was nearly six when Bruce hn
attempt to salvage the small remnln
left for good; ond he w as‘then at a
Ing fragments of his father’s fortune.
age In which Impressions begin t
Ho had ño plana, lie didn't know which
be lasting. Her hair was quite blon
nay to turn. All at once, through the
then, and her features rather irregulai
message that Barney had brought him,
But there had been a light in her eyes
he had seen a clear trail ahead, I t
By his word, there had been!
was something to do, something at
8he had been angry at him Jimes li
last that mattered.
plenty— over ;ome childish game— am
Finally there remained the eminent
he remembered how that light hai
fact that this was an answer to his grown and brightened. She had flun,
dream
He was going toward Linda
ot him too.
He laughed at thi
at last. The girl had been the one
memory of her gudden, explosive feroc
living creature in his memory that he
tty—the wey her hands had smneket
had Carol for and who cared for him
against his cheeks, and lier sharp llttli
— the one person whose Interest in him
nails had scratched him "I.lttle Spit
was real. Linda, the little “spitfire"
A re,’ he sometimes called her; bu
of Ills boyhood, had suddenly become
no one else conld call her anythin;
the one reality In bis world, and as he
but Linda. For Brnce had been ai
thought of her. hl.s memory reviewed
ahlo little fighter, even In those days
the few Impressions he had retained
He was fond of drawing pictures
of his childhood.
Thia was nothing In Itself; many lit
First was the Square house— the
tie boys are fond of drawing pictures
orphanage—^where the Woman bad
Nor were his unusually good. Theti
turned h im , over to the nurse In
strangeness lay- In his subjects. H i
charge.
Sometimes, when tobacco
liked to draw anlmnls In particular—
smoke was heavy upon him. Bruce
the ant ma It he read about In school
could catch a very dim -and fleeting
ond in such books as were bruughl
glimpse of the Woman's face. It was
to him
And sometimes he drew In
only a glimpte. only the faintest blur
dians and cowboys. And one day—
In half-tone, and then quite gone. Yet
when he wasq't half watching what
he never gave up trying.
he was doing—he drew something
The few times that her memory- quite different.
picture did come to him, It brought
Perhaps he wouldn't have looked at
a number of things with It. One of
It twice, i f the teacher hadn't stepped
them was a great and overwhelming
up behind him and taken It out of his
realisation of some terrible tragedy
bands. I t was "geography” then, not
and terror the nature of which he
drawing,' and lie should have been
could not even guess.
paying attention.’’ And he had every
“She's been through Are." the nurse
reason to think that the teacher would
told the doctor when he came In and
crumple up Ills picture and send him
the door had closed behind the Woman.
to the cloak-room for punishment.
Bruce did remember these words, be
But she did no eucb thing. When
cause many years elapsed before he her eyes glanced down, her fingers
completely puxzlcd them out.
The
slowly straightened. Then ahe looked
nurse hadn't meant such fires as swept again—carefully.
through the far spread ever green
, , _ ' Vhat
lh ’*' B njc « F she asked,
forests of the Northwest It was some
“What have you been drawing?"
other, dread lire that seared the spirit
" I—I don't know," the child an
and burned the bloom out of the face
swered. He looked and for an Instant
and all the gentle lights out of the
let hit thoughts go wandering here
eyes. It did, however, leave certain
and there.
“Those are frees," he
lights, but they were such that their
said. A word caught at his throat and
remembrance brought no. pleasure to
he blurted It out. “Pines 1 Pine trees,
Bruce. They were Just á wild glare,
growing on a mountain.”
a fixed, strange brightness as of great
"Not had for a six-year-old boy,"
fear or Insanity.
the teacher commented. “But where,
The Woman had kissed Bftn and
Bruce, have you ever seeo or heard
gone quickly: and he had been loo
of such pineal"
But Bruce did not
yonng to remember If the had carried know.
any sort of bundle close to her breast.
Another puzzling adventure that
Yet, the man considered, there ranat
have been such a bundle—otherwise stuck In Bruce s memory had happened
hs couldn't possibly account for Linds only a few months after his arrival
at the Square house, when a man had
And there were no doubts about har
taken him home on trial with the Idea
at all.
of adoption.
Of course jif_ had no memories of
All the MMAa*e*nt« and details of the
CH APTER II