I1A L 3C Ï HALBEY CJX 1 K K T K 1 » £ , , 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 A n in d e p e n d e n t— N O T n e u t r a l— n e w « p a p e r , p u b lis h e d e v e r y T h u r s d a y , by W M H . a n d A A . W H £ £ U £ I t . W m . H . W h e e le r , E d it o r . M i * . A . A . W h e e le r , b u s in e s s M a n a a e r a n d L o c a l N e w s E d it o r . ROSCOE AM ES HARDW ARE S u b s c rip tio n s , SI 10 a y e a r In a d v a n c e . . T r a n s ie n t a d v e r t is in r , 25c an In c h ; p e r - 1 ru a n e n t u d v e r tH in ff, 20 N o d is c o u n t f o r tim e o r space I n * P a id - f o r P a r a g r a p h s ,’* Sc a lin e . N o a d v e r t is in g d is g u is e d as new s. Successor to H ulbertB allack H a rd w a re Company 1 Builders’ and General Hardware 322 W est First Street, Albany, Oregon HA L9KY, Linn Co., Ore.. Aug. 17, 1922 »I7 F - W jb & h m h h h m h î 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. ----- t h b --------- T. , J W > ~NiNCH£5Tt* 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. 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Friendship, gives the striker no legal right be diff 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 R A H TV/NCff£5T£R A. Peterson E X *“ I T ’S TRAVEL TIM E SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES SAN DIEGO BACK EAST CITIES SOUTHERN PACIFIC LINES 1 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