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iwan’s bill to tax stages and auto
15 per
THE NEW YEAR
cent of
K i r receipts.
“Well," said the New Tear, “here I
am. And here I'm going to stay for
twelve whole months.
"I shan’t cheat I won’t be one to
give short measure. No, Til be here
my full amount of time*
"I Just heard some one say that time
was really running away from her.
“Time won’t do that.
Of course
Time moves very quickly along— much
too quickly, really, but It won't run
away from any one.
“Time won't wait for any one, either.
Time Is very strict
“But I ’m glad to have a look around
before I really begin a year. 1 don’t
feel I have really begun until I have
been here a bit.
No one will notice for a few days
whether I ’m being a successful or
pleasant year or not
" I II Just take a look and see If
things are as the Old Tear told me
I’d find them.
“The Old Year told me I ’d find the
world very beautiful with lovely
places In It and lots of people.
"Some of the people I ’d find quite
big, and some Td find quite small, the
Old Year told roe.
"And I see that the Old Year was
right.
"The Old Year told me that people
would make line resolutions the first
lay they saw me— and even Just be
fore the Old Year left they began
making splendid resolutions.
"But the Old Year told me not to be
disappointed If they were not all kept.
“Then, too, the Old Year said. It
would never do if it were so perfect a
world that there would be nothing to
make a resolution about.
"But the Old Year did tell me that
some children at the time when he
was new made one resolution and that
they kept tt.
“it was a beautiful resolution and
It thrilled the Old Year when he wua
young and new and when he was
old.
“He said that these children had re
solved und promised each other they
would never be cruel.
"They would never bully children
younger than themselves by their ac
tions or by the way they spoke to
them. They wouldn’t call little chtl-
This has been announced as a week
I fireworks at Salem.
LABOR
The child labor amendment is op
posed by two classes.
The exploiters
of the labor of the little ones have
financed the campaign out of money
Senate Squabbles
Over Appointments
wrung from the bodies of their little
victims.
They are one class. Their
dupes are the other class.
The second class have been scared
silly, very silly, by the claim of the
first class that there is a move afoot
to prevent children from being use
lu l
and industrious.
There
never
was such a move in congress am
there is not the slightest danger that
there ever will be.
Who knows a
congressman wh<
would favor a law forbidding child
ren to
wash the dishes or sweep the
floor or bring in the wood or drive
the cows home or help haul a load
of hay?
That is the bugaboo the
child slavers are dangling before th<
people, and it is sad as well as laugh
able to see so many people frigliten-
by *
< li
The child labor amendment is op
posed
by exploiters of such labor
and by well meaning persons who
have been deceived by the well f i
nanced exploiters.
The tax dodgers were grieved by
the tetuy that other states
would
grow at the expense of Oregon— by
the migration of tax dodgers from the
state.
We are not sure that Oregon
would not benefit by the departure
of a few of the big income
hogs.
L et’s try it some day.
Again it is reported that Grover
EVENING
FAIRYTALE
^M a ry Graham Banner
w»»7/r»v.'K>'W«H««v
The railroads will not oppose M r.
jusses practically
Washington, D. C.—In one of the
oat tempestuous secret sessions ol
s history the senate Saturday block-
d confirmation of Attorney-General
iarlan F Stone as an associate Jus-
.ce of the supreme court after It was
barged that he was "persecuting“
snator Burton K. Wheeler, demo-
rat, of Montana.
Ths fight was waged by Senators
'llllsm E
Borah, republican, of
aho; Thomas J. Walsh, democrat, of
ontaDa. and Thomas J Heflin, demo
at of Alabama, after the latter had
rovoked the battle by attempt to de
ounce the attorney-general In public.
The secret session, lasting an hour,
as characterized by a series of at
icks on Stone, all of which were
isod on reports that the attorney
neral Intended Io obtain an indict'
ent against the Montana senator In
te courts of the District of Columbia
As a result of the intervention of
resident Coolidge the nomination of
ttorney-General Stone for the su
reme court will likely be referred
ick to the senate judiciary commit
e.
The committee will be instructed to
elve deeply Into the activities of the
torney general In his efforts to ob
In an Indictment of Senator Burton
i. Wheeler of Montana In the federal
jurts hore, which has held up his
onfirmatlon and led to bitter crlti-
sm Io the senate.
Such a course was agreed upon al
le White House after the president
ent for senate leaders and obtained
•om them first hand Information as to
hy Stone's nomination was being
Id up.
Cleveland Bergdoll has given up and
w ill come home and take his med cine
not because the medicine will taste
any better than it would have done
The mail m atter sent out
aguiuat
the child
lahoi
►
uendm ent is costing millions of
I ‘liars. O ut of what
is t money come?
.1 (its can it come
out a country.”
I’oUte on child labot?
) a were not getting
“ A measure that gives any com c dldren why weuld
e m oney?— Portland
mlttee, commission, or congress the
years ago, but because he has become
aufully tired of being “ the man with
power to prohibit young men and
women of 18 years from earning s
living, is not a child labor law, be
cause persons 18 years old aie not
children.’’—'¡The Spectator.
prdfils do»►
From whsl
except the
If exploit.
profits on
they spend
Journal.
¡'he Right Glasses
save sight,
orreet defects of vision aud ren-
" It Was a Beautiful Resolution."
er a service far beyond the matter
• i price. E yestrain symptoms are dren babies when they knew they
itu re 's call for help. Heed the wouldn't like to be called babies and
when. too. they weren't babies any
«11.
Perhaps we can’t abolish the state
legislature too quickly.
It has such
power.
The m ajority of our legislature is
doing what it was elected to do—
“ hitting the governor" at the tax
payers’ expense. He has had the au
dacity not only to train with the m i
nority political party, but worse, to
l«e-a farmer.
The tax dodgers were grieved by
the fear that other
states
Meade & Albro,
would
“ grow at the expense of Oregon.”
O ptom etrists Jew elers
and m anufacturing opticians
ALBANY
We are not sure that Oregon would
not benefit by the departure, in dud
geon, of a few of the big income hogs,
le t's try it.
Coolidge proposes,
A
Modern
Barber Shop
as one It*
k ttoca ol econom y, to cut down
tb r num ber ol «ap lo y cs sod get
m ore w ork from those retained.
L isten for the howl of the dis
charged loafers I
\<ency lfn b Cleaning Works
A B E 'S P L A C E
Do not ¡m agm a, because M r ,
Coolidge doea not go down in to '
politics in the usual
way, th at
be
coca not know how to tu rn at tric k
once in a w hile.
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"They made up their minds they
ould not be cruel to any of tbelr
>peclee— they wouldn’t say things to
hurt others’ feelings.
"For that, the Old Year said, is be-
ng cruel, too.
"They agreed never to be unkind to
inlmals, to make fun of another’s
clothes, never to make older people
''eel they were a nuisance and much
too old. anyway.
"They promised each other they
vould keep this resolution. And the
•Id Year, as I've told you. told me
hat they did.
"While I look around me I ’m hoping
that there will tie others who will
make that same resolution and that I
will have the Joy, too. of seeing It
kept
"For the Old Year said there was
nothing so dreadful as cruelty. ’Cruelty
by word or deed,’ he said, was ’Just
loo dreadful I'
"Ah, do I hear that resolution be
ing made by some others now? Yes.
I do!
'’Thrilling 1 Dear me. I won't have
to wish myself a Happy New Year
"1 know I'll be a Happy New Year
“And what do I hear now?
“Grown ups Disking a resolution
never to hurt the feelings of chil
dren. never to tell them ’bow they
1 i.' and nil of the many
speeches children get so tired of hear
Ing, and which hurt their feelings.
"The Old Year told me about these
speeches, too. and he w«s hoping some
of the Omwn Vps would make this
New Year’s resolution.
“Ob, now I start off with great glee
being a New Year.
“And It’s fun to start off with great
gleo—particularly when nil about you
people are saying:
" Happy New Tear!
Happy New
Tear I Happy New Tear!’ "
R iddle»
the largest room In tbs
Which
world?
Ths room for Improvement.
When have sparrows four feet?
When there
ol ihqm
Out a backward glance, she drew the
. revolver from her belt and dashed out-
aide. . . .
As she ran, gasping, up the slope,
she paid no heed to her own danger —
was unaware of both black and white
men from the hut following In hot
pursuit. . . . Again the dense med
ley parted before her eyes. At the
game Instant a spear sped through the
olr.
Whizzing angrily past her
straight at two struggling forms
It flew with unerring Judgment and
buried Its hideous point In the white
man's back. He reeled, loosed bis an
tagonlst, threw groping arms wide
With a demoniacal cry of triumph, Ba
booms made a spring. . . .
As twice before, a sharp report re
verberated, and the seething mass was
momentarily obscured hy smoke . . .
A pair of black hands grasped the
girl’s arms as she tottered backward,
dropping her smoking w eapon. For a
brief instant she recognised Roowa’s
face, which seemed to merge into that
of De Borceau ; then her senses slipped
from her, and everything faded Into
oblivion. . . .
Not knowing friend from foe, the
struggle for her unconscious body was
sharp and furious.
But the two
Frenchmen were fresh and uninjured:
and Roowu’s supporters had rushed on.
in wild distress, to that other seeth
ing heap. .
• Just one glimpse
of two prostrate forms being hoisted,
amid a frenzy of lighting, walls nnd
shouts—and the two white men de
voted themselves to their oath. . . .
On trembling knees nt last, bleeding,
helpless, his cries drowned by the noise
around and the roaring flames from
the hut. Itoowa watched the strangers
seixe the Inert form of his white chiefs
wife, and disappear toward the
coast. . . .
The thick fighting mass had dis
solved Into odd struggling groups of
twos und threes; the prostrate forms
had disappeared. Away near the palm
grove could be seen a quickly vanishing
crowd of dark figures. . . . The
flames belched forth from the burning
hut, overcoming the early day
light. . . .
Presently the steady monotonous
drone of retreating engines blended
with the rising wind of the dawn.
PART FOUR
Broken H arm ony
I
x
Miss Davies, Mrs. Stockley’s only
remaining sister, placed a marker in
her hook; then laid It down upon a
small table. Her face assumed the
complacent expression of one shout to
perform a pleasant duty In accordance
with her conscience.
“I think,” she obserVM decisively,
"Hugh should be warned."
Mrs. Stockley glanced up from the
stole abe was embroidering. “About
whntT' she asked.
"Barbara.”
Hei sister made a gesture of annoy
ance. which caused her to prick her
linger; this Increased her Irritation.
"I wish you would for once be ex
plicit. M ary! You have thrown out
dark hints about Barbara ever since
we heard of her rescue. Why should
Hugh be warned?"
"Are you so stupidly dense as you
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stood opt clearly, gathering force with
nny young girl.”
Mrs. Stockley flushed. “A re you In every minute: "Everybody Is talking
sinuating that Bab would be weak and wondering."
Everybqdy eagerly devoured all
nough to allow him to Influence her?
After her careful upbringing, too? Why scraps of news: but the supply ff«»
—looseness of any sort would be ab scanty. After being brought lo Singa
horrent to her!. Her surroundings pore. the heroine remained there. 111.
unable to be moved for a time. . . .
have always been strictly moral."
“I don't insinuate anything; but I A certain reticence surrounded this Ill
wouldn’t trust that man far. In such ness. prostration being given as the
circumstances! Wa have yet to learn natural cause. No trace of a white
man's body was found by the expedi
how he behaved."
"She did not allude to him in her tion sent, post-haste, to search the
Island. Only the charred remains uf a
letter.”
"No. But— she did her utmost to hut, and a few dead natives, were dis
get taken back to search for his body! covered in the north. In the south, a
Surely her chief desire should have small tribe of furious, armed savages
been to hurry home to Hugh?"
offered a wildly hostile reception, mak
Mrs. Stockley smiled impatiently.
ing approach difficult. refusing any In
"Toil are making mountains from
formation other than a poisoned ar
molehills, Mary! She did that purely
from humanitarian motives; tt was row. . . . Babooma had presum-
| ably recovered anil wreaked his ven
'Ulv right nnd natural. Hugh thought
geance upon the body of his late an
so. He liked Captain Croft.”
tagonist.
. .
"Hugh is too trustful: that's why I
When well enough, the girl had Im
am sorry for him. Frankly, Alice, I do
plored frantically, as one distraught,
not believe a man and woman could
for facilities to return, herself, to
Ive In such Isolation without coming to
search, This awakened a new interest,
grief. I have seen too much of human
adding piquancy to the situation. Bnt
nature— "
such quixotic madness could not be
"My dear M ary! what do you mean?
Indulged by level-headed authorities.
You don’t—"
What could a girl accomplish where
Her sister held up a dignified hand
hosts of men had failed? No! The
lo stop all Interruption. "You must
island had been thoroughly explored.
face it, Alice! Everybody la talking
The hostile faction of the natives was
and wondering. Of course, It depends
entirely upon the man.' I don't Imply In possession; her return would be
mere suicide, or worse. She was sent
that «11 men are beasts—as some wom
to England as soon as practicable.
en would who had seen as much of the
But the De Borceau brothers, ever
world as I have. I f he had a strong
spiritual nature— a clergyman, per thirsting for adventure, understanding
perhaps more of her sufferings and the
haps. But that manl” She pursed her
true facts than they chose to publish,
lips.
Mrs. Stockley gazed at her. her own carried out to the end their oath to
face paling, her finger twitching the C roft Only on the boat did they bid
her farewell—then they returned to
forgotten stole.
“ ‘Coming to g rief!’ " she repeated, ; their charts nnd their seaplane Noth
horrified. "Do yon dare suggest my ing save death, so they vowed to her.
laughter would so dlsgruc« her name In their exuberant French fashion,
and family as to allow— My dear should deter them from learning final
Mary! It Is preposterous I I would dis news of the man whose personality
own such a child.
But Barbara! had won their generous admira
tion. . . .
Why. I would trust her alone with any
The key to more Intimate, romantic
innn. for forty years! She wouldn’t
dream of such things. Besides. Cap drama waa not forthcoming. Specula
tain Croft was Mrs, Field's cousin, of tion nourished. What would be likely
to happen In such circumstances?
good family himself—"
Martha, the old servant, hustled In Would propinquity bring love la Its
at this moment with bedroom candles. train? And, If so— This entailed end
She plumped them down upon the less discussion, heated arguments.
table, nnd her old face beamed nt an What would be right, and what wrong?
excuse for garrulity over Barbara's re Which would need moat couragq; to
turn. When, snubbed, she departed. resist or— There were women who
Mrs. Stockley faced her sister, candle thought the reverse.
The fact of the girl being , already
in hand, with an air of outraged dig
engaged shed a further glamor of the
nity.
"Mary" she said, “your conversation dramatic over the adventure, making
tonight has shocked me Inexpressibly I the uncertainty nil the greater. Per-
I Insist on yout, never breathing a | haps no problem had arisen after
.
But If If had? Old the two
word of your S’lSplelbni—either to all.
Hugh or Barbara. I f she has any—
(Continued on page 6)
painful memories—she will confide In
me. Of course,/1 did not know Cap
HALSEY
tain Croft well, nor like him; but—
poor child! Her sufferings may have
been worse than I ever Imagined. Good
night!”
Cash paid for
With unusual decision she opened
the drawing room door, and went to
bed. But she lay long awake thinking
over her sister's remarks One alone
appear, Alice? Or are you wflfully
blinding yourself?”
"I am no more stupid than the rest
of iny family, I hope!" snapped Mrs.
Stockley. with much meaning.
“Wett. then,” continued her sister.
Ignoring this Improbability, “you must
realize that Barbara will most likely
return—very changed. Indeed, from
her one letter there seems no doubt
about It.
That was queer—very
queer I”
Mra. Stockley Impatiently hunted
among bundles of colored silks. "Of
course she will be changed. She is
two years older and has suffered ghast
ly experiences. She was very ill at
Singapore: you couldn't expect long
chatty letters!"
She spoke with unusual asperity.
Two years of her sister's undiluted
companionship had Increased an In
herent Instinct toward contradiction,
while developing a self-defensive alert
ness
Both were necessary In the
radius of two sharp eyes ever quizzing
through their lorgnette, two ears which
seemingly reached all over the house,
and a caustic tongue ready to reduce
other people's foibles or few Ideas to
ahreds. Such gifts used at the expense
of common acquaintances are a dif
ferent matter, of course. . . .
"Ab!" Miss Davies returned to the
promptings of conscience with renewed
relish. "Yeu are as Mind as Hugh,
Alice. I saw him thia afternoon, quite
excited over meeting her tomorrow.
He wants to have the wedding after
Christmas . . .
of course It waa not
my business to say anything!”
Whether this self-discipline could
have been maintained had not other
pev'ple been present, is open to ques
tion. . . .
"You don’t understand Bab aa wall
ss Hugh and I do, you see," returned
her sister complacently
"No." she agreed, "but I understand
Man!" Her lips closed with s snap, to
give effect to the world of meaning In
hji’r words. “Don’t you realise. Alice,
that Barbara was attractive? And she
has been flung unchsperoned. for two
years. Into the society of a man who—
J
well had extremely loose ideas, and
Bohemian way«—« man whose Influ
J
ence would be post questionable for
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