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DOINGS OF OREGON'S LEGISLATURE
A Brief Resume of Proceedings of the People's Representatives
at the State Capital, Bills Introduced, Passed, Rejected, Etc.
SUFFRAGISTS TAKE A HAM)
Lawmakers Deluged With Letters
From Women Voters.
Salem That the women of Oregon,
with their new-found possession of the
ballot, are taking an intimate interest
in public affairs, was indicated by the
testimony of many members of the
house that they had received from a
dozen to 20 letters from ladies' aid so
cieties, new thought circles and men
tal improvement clubs protesting
against the passage of the bill intro
ducted by Hrepesentative Sohubel, of
Clackamas, which would make every
road supervisor in the state an ex
oflicio fire warden.
It was freely charged by those fa
voring the bill that the letters ad
dressed to members of the legislature
on the ouestion by various women's
clubs throughout the state had been
sent to these clubs by an organized
lobby in the interests of big holders of
timber, and then rernailed to the leg
islators. Many of the letters were
identical though coming from dill'erent
parts of the state.
PAPER-MAKERS VISIT SALEM
Officers and Employes of Oregon
City Mills Are Heard.
Salem A small army from the
mills at Oregon City invaded the cap
ital on a special train, 100 coming
from that town to appear before the
senate committee on industries at the
hearing on Dimick's eight-hour bill.
Testimony was heard not only from
residents of Oregon City and from oil)
cers and stockholders in the mills, but
from employes in the mills.
In general the testimony was to the
effect that there is no dissatisfaction
among the men over the present hours;
that the employes enjoy good health ;
that their wages are high as compared
to other pulp and paper mill employes
in British Columbia and Washington;
that they like the work and that there
is no demand from the employes to
have the hours reduced.
One particular feature of the em
ployment in the mills came in for a
grilling from Chairman Smith, of the
committee, when he attacked the
Ilawley mill for ullowing an 18-hour
shift once a week for the men.
FOR PREFERENTIAL BALLOT
Bill Covers Election of Governor,
Senators and Representatives.
Salem Just what Senator-elect
Lam) meant in his speech accepting
the election to the United States sen
utorship, when he referred to electing
senators on a preferential ballot, but
one election to be held, is elucidated
by a bill introduced in the house by
Representative Lawrence, of Multno
mah. The election of governor, senators
and representatives is covered by this
bill, which is aimed to secure, if possi
ble, the majority of opinion of all the
voters, as to whom they desire for
these offices.
It is provided in the bill that the
voter express his first choice for a
candidate by any of these offices in the
first column opposite the names on the
ballot, his second choice in the second
column, mid his choice for all other
candidates that he would be willing to
see ill the office, in case neither his
first, or his second choice should win,
in the bird column.
Deforming the one elected results as
follows: If any candidate shall be
tho first choice of 51 per cent of the
voters, he shall be elected. Hut if no
candidate shall receive fil per cent of
the first choice votes, then the fust,
second and third choice votes of all
the candidates shall lie added together,
ami the candidate who shall receive a
plurality of these added votes is de
clared elected.
Senate Votes for Probes.
Salem - On reconsideration the sen
ate decided to make the wholesale in
vestigation of the state institutions
in and around Salem as provided for
in the house resolution of l.ewelling.
Hefore the expected message from the
governor demanding an investigation
at the penitentiary could be opened.
Senator Wood moved to reconsider the
investigation resolut ion.
"There have been charges and counter-charges
and insinuations directed
at some institutions," said Senator
Wood, "and as a question of fairness
and justice to all concerned an investi
gation should result."
It was decided, on suggestion of
Senator Miller, that the governor's
message be read, and this was done.
Smith, of Coos and Curry, declared
that if the investigations are carried
on they should be done thoroughly and
not in the perfunctory manner of in
vestigations of the past.
Dimick Starts Big Debate.
Salem - The main portion of the
time of the state senate Wednesday
morning was devoted to a heated de
bate on the bill of Senator Dimick
providing for the election of road su
pervisors by the people rather than
their appointment by County courts.
Dimick tHk a number of the senators
to task for opposing the bill, which
provided for the election of these
minor officers by the pvople when the
day before they were glorying in the
fact that I'nitcd States senators wore
thus elected.
$9,000,000 IN APPROPRIATIONS
Legislature Flooded With Requests
for Cash.
Salem Legislative appropriation
requests already in sight are over $8,
000,000, with a possibility of the ap
propriations asked for going over the
$9,000,000 mark unless the demands
that have been made are discounted
largely in future requests.
Up to the adjournment Saturday the
legislative assembly had received ap
propriation bills amounting to $3,422,-
081, to say nothing of numerous minor
demands for per diem and expenses
which probably will figure an easy
$100,000 more.
The previous week the demands to
taled approximately $1,087,000, so the
second week saw no cessation, but
a decided increase in the appropriation
bills.
On top of this there are bills in
sight, not yet introduced, of over $4,
000,000, covering estimates of expense
for running the state government,
with fully $300,000 more for smaller
similar bills to bring up the total.
A few of the bills which have been
introduced are duplications, but in the
totals these have been mainly elimin
ated. I he appearance ot so many
large appropriation bills bofore the
great bills for institutions and main
tenance of state government appear
is already having a salutary effect on
some of the members and there are
declarations made freely on every
hand that the pruning knife will be
applied vigorously.
liut one highway bill carrying an
appropriation has so far been intro
duced, this being the bill by Von der
llellen at the request of the State
Uotelkeepers' association, and carries
an appropriation of $800,000, $300,000
for the first year and $500,000 for the
second year.
Another huge appropriation that
was asked for during the past week
was that carried on the Forbes bill,
asking for $500,000 for the state to
take over the Columbia Southern Irri
gation project.
WEEKLY PAY DAY IS DESIRED
Measure Would Prohibit Issuance
of Store and Money Orders.
Salem Prohibiting the issuance of
store and money orders and providing
that all employes of certain firms and
corporations shall be paid weekly, a
bill was introduced by Thompson, by
request.
The measure applies to mining coal
ore or mineral, (marrying stone, lum
bering, logging, canning, manufactur
ing iron, steel, lumber, staves, shin
gles, heading barrels, brick, tile, ma
chinery, agricultural implements or
manufacturing implements, any article
of merchandise or to those engaged in
buying or selling of merchandise or in
the operation of any mercantile busi
ness, or to those engaged in the rail
road business, street railway, or in
any building trades or in the construc
tion of street railways, roads, bridges,
sewers or viaducts.
MORE VETOED BILLS PASSED
Legislature Administers Severe Re
buke to Governor.
Salem Lined up with an invincible
front, both houses of the legislative
assembly Friday administered a severe
rebuke to the governor for the at
titude he has taken toward house
members in connection with the pas
sage of the Thompson bill. Five ve-
dbills were passed over his head.
The vote was overwhelming in both
bodies.
In the house the first vote was 55 to
4 against the governor; the second,
where some switched on a matter of
principle, 4u' to if, and the third swung
to 55 votes against the governor. On
this vote there were but two with
him, others being absent. On the
fourth measure the vote stood 45 to
13.
In the senate the Thompson bill,
which caused the governor to become
infuriated because of the actions in
the house, when that body passed the
bill over his head, was passed by nn
enormous showing against the gover
nor.
crowd that packed the lobby surg
into the senate chamber to hear the
debate on the bill, and when the
smoke cleared away 27 senators went
down the line against the governor,
while a bare showing of three Me
Colloch, Miller, and Von der llellen
staved with him.
Rule Amendment Attacked,
Salem The expected attack on the
proposed constitutional amendment to
go before the people repealing the
home rule amendment of liHO, came
when the resolution was reported into
the senate with a majority that it not
be adopted. Calkins, introducer of
the resolution, and Miller sent in a
minority report favoring adoption of
the resolution. An attempt on the
part of Calkins to have the subject
made a special order of business later
in the session met opposition, but
finally carried.
Free Express Deliveries Aim.
Salem -F.xpress companies will de
liver free of charge, to all parts of
incorporated cities and towns of Ore
gon, express parcels addressed to
persons in any town in which such
companies have an otliee or depot, if a
bill introduced by Representative Par-!
sons, of l.ane, becomes a law. !
HELP FARMERS WITH LOANS
Grangers Propose Postal Savings
Deposits Be Used. .
Washington, D. C. Farmers' op
position to the national monetary com
mission's plan was voiced by W. T.
Creasy, master of the Pennsylvania
State grange, before the house cur
rency reform committee. Creasy told
the committee that he believed farm
ers generally were "bitterly opposed
to the Aldrich scheme."
"We believe," he said, "that the
big financiers are much more interest
ed in maintaining control of the cur
rency than they are in any effort to
obtain its elasticity."
C. S. Barret, of Union City, Ga.,
president of the National Farmers'
union, an organization with branches
in 21 states and 3,000,000 members
appeared heading a delegation includ
ing J. D. Brown, Arlington, Or. ; O
F. Darnblaser, Brunswick, Neb. ;
Peter Radford, Fort Worth, Tex., and
A. F. Swift, Baker, Or. The spokes
man for the delegation said farmers
objected to the present monetary sys
tem because it led to undue specula
tion. A system of incorporated clear
ing-houses was suggested.
farmers need long-term loans, it
was argued, in order that they may
become owners instead of tenants. To
meet this need, the delegation pro
posed that postal savings bank depos
its be made available for loans on
farm lands and outlined a system of
land banks to be operated separately
from commercial banks.
MORO STRONGHOLD IS TAKEN
Americans and Native Allies Wipe
Out Troublesome Band.
Washington, D. C. Forty or 50
Moras died in the struggle which took
place in the 1'hilippines six miles west
of Jolo last Thursday, a report of
which has just reached the War de
partment from Major-General Bell
commanding the Philippine division.
following up his proclamation of
two years ago, ordering all natives of
the Jolo group to disarm, General
Pershing despatched Colonel Eben
Swift of the Eighth cavalry to clear
up the country near Jolo. An expedi
tion was organized under Patrick Me
Nally, captain of the Philippine
scouts, who lost his life in the fight.
The expedition consisted of the
Fourteenth, Thirty-First and Fortieth
companies of the Philippine scouts, a
detachment of American troops, with
field gun and some of the Moro
Philippine constabulary.
This force was sent against a cotta,
six miles west of Jolo, where a large
band of Moros had been a standing
menace to tne city ana garrison ai
Taglibi. The Moros had not hesitated
to attack American troops in camp,
and it was decided to break the power
of their chief, Sahipa. The Moro
position was strongly defended by
walls, bamboo entanglements and deep
ditches.
INCOME TAX MAY BE NEEDED
Reduction of Tariff Would Greatly
Decrease Revenues.
Washington, D. C. A feature of
the tariff revision programme of the
extra session of congress may be the
raising of $100,000,000 from an in
come tax, including the corporation
tax. Representative Hull, of Tennes
see, a Democratic member of the com
mittee on ways and means, who has
been active in income-tax problems,
plans to introduce a bill which would
provide such a source of revenue.
This would be considered by the
committee in connection with contem
plated early ratification of the consti
tutional amendment to sanction in
cline tax legislation. Of the neces
sary number of states required for rat-
lication, only two are lacking. Mr.
Hull expects these to be drawn from
New Jersey, Wyoming, New Mexico
or West Virginia, or possibly Florida,
whose legislature, however, will not
meet until April.
The Democratic majority of the
committee favors an income tax, but
in the event of failure of ratification
will renew the excise tax plan as an
extension of the present corporation
tax law.
Land Move Is "Forward."
Chicago A national "forward to
the land" congress will be held next
summer, either here or in Boston.
This announcement was made here by
Professor H. Heath Bawden, of San
Isadora, Cal., who addressed students
of the University of Chicago. Repre
sentatives of the following organiza
tions are expected to attend: Soil
Fertility League, Rural Credits Com
mission, Garden City associations, Va
cant Lot Cultivation associations. Vo
cational School Farms and many other
organizations.
Cooper Favors Memorial.
Washington. D. C. The Washing
ton monument was characterized as
an Egyptian obelisk. the postotlice
epartment building as a "cross be
tween a cathedral ami a cotton fac
tory," and the pension building as a
'lovely red shed that disfigured Judi
iary Square," in a speech by Repre
sentative Cooper, of Wisconsin. Mr.
"ooner snoke in defense of the S2.-
000.000 Lincoln memorial, on which
the house is endeavoring to vote.
Taft Host of Congress.
Washington, D. C President Taft
bade social farewell Thursday to mem
bers of the senate and house of repre
sentatives. The occasion was the
final reception of the Taft administra
tion in honor of congress. The White -
House was thronged w ith senators and
representatives, with their ladies and
other invited guests.
ERIAL
STORY
Chronicles
if
Addington
Peace
By B. Fletcher Robinson
Co-Author with A. Conan Doyle of
"The Hound of tin BaskerviHaa," ate
tjp . r. a: , i j J, by
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THE STORY OF
AMAROFF THE POLE
"You may think yourself an artist,"
wrote my uncle, "but I calf you a Billy
young- fool."
I remembered the sentence and the
reading of it well enough, though time
has not stood Idle since that Septem
ber evening of the year 1892. From
the point of view of Bradford, my
nncle might be right; but what did
he know, I argued, of the higher ideal
which I had chosen preferring the de
velopment of my artistic sense to the
mere accumulation of money that I
could not spend? Where was his Jcy
of life he who spent his days In the
whirr of wheels and the fog of many
chimneys? How could it compare with
mine in the ancient peace of the
eighteenth century house that lay un
der the towers that crowned the an
cient abbey at Westminster? I look
ed around me at the delicate tapes
tries that. I had brought from Florence
to my London rooms; at the glowing
Fragonards souvenirs of my year of
artistic study in Paris; at the Dres
den groups redolent of old Saxony.
Was I the fool or my uncle George?
There seemed to me no doubt about it.
It was plainly Uncle George.
Yet the letter had unsettled me. 1
opened the swing doors that led to my
studio, switched on the light, and
stepped from easel to easel, examin
ing my half-finished work with a grow
ing dissatisfaction. Were they indeed
merely the daubs of a wealthy ama
teur? I loitered back to my sitting
room in a sulky depression, and had
picked up an art paper, when there
came a tapping at the door, and the
grizzled head of old Jacob Hendry
came peering in. A perfect servant
was old Hendry, once sergeant of in
fantry, and now a combination of cook,
valet, and housemaid, who kept my
rooms in spotless order, grilled a
steak to a turn, was a fair hand with
a needle, and spent his spare time in
producing the most inartistic wood
carving 1 have ever seen.
Well, and what is it?" I asked him;
for he seemed In some hesitation.
"I beg your pardon, Mr. Phillips,
ir," he said, "but there's a young
man would like to see you. A most
respectable young man, sir, as lodges
above us on the third floor, but "
"Go on, Jacob, go on."
"The fact is, sir, he's from the
Yard."
The Yard! What Yard?"
Scotland Yard, sir, where the de
tectives come from."
And where I wish to Heaven they
would remain, thought I.
This intrusion was simply insuffer
able. I had a mind to refuse the man
admittance.
Is boots Is quite clean," said Ja
cob, entirely mistaking my hesitation.
" 'E 'as wiped 'em on the mat. I saw
Im."
"Oh, show him In."
"The person, sir, of the name of In
spector Peace," said Hendry, swing
ing open the door.
He was a tiny slip of a fellow, of
about five and thirty years ef age.
A stubble of brown hair, a hard, clean
shaven mouth, and a confident chin
such was my impression. He took one
quick look at me, and then waited,
with his eyes on the carpet and his
head a trifle tilted over the right
shoulder.
"I fear that I have taken a great
liberty, Mr. Phillips," he said, in a
very smooth and civil manner. "But
I had an idea that you would help
me, and time was of importance."
"Well, and what Is it?"
"You have many friends amongst
the foreign artists here in London.
You attend their concerts and some
times even their little dances. We
are near neighbors, you see," he con
cluded, with a slight bow.
"I am flattered by the interest you
have taken in my movements."
"Two hours ago," he continued
cheerfully, "a body was found in a
passage off Leman street. Stepney a
body which we cannot identify. The
man was of good position, a sculptor,
and, I believe, a Pole. A cab Is wait
ing at the door. It Is late, I know,
Mr. Phillips; It cannot fail to be a
great personal inconvenience; but will
you drive down with me and take a
look at him?"
"Certainly not"
He saw that I considered his pro
posal an Impertinence, for he hesi
tated a moment, regarding me with an
air of depression.
"It has stopped raining." be said,
"and the cab has most comfortable
I noticed a fur coat la the
hall which can be slipped on In a mo
ment. May I fetch it for you?"
"You merely waste time, Mr.
Peace," I told him, "I will have noth
ing to do with an affair in which I am
nowise concerned."
"This sculptor may be an acquain
tance of your own," he said gravely;
"and while we are arguing his mur
derers may escape."
"Murderers?"
"Yes. sir; murderers! The man has
been strangled and robbed."
The position was most embarrass
ing. He asked me to go into a part
of London that I had always carefully
avoided. It was sufficient to know
that filth. Immorality, and crime exist
without personally inspecting the
muckheap. Yet there he stood, his
head on one side, staring at my toes
like an inquisitive terrier, and my ar
guments faded before his stolidity.
Why had Hendry ever let him in? I
should certainly speak to the old ras
cal about his
"Well, Mr. Phillips."
"If I agree to go, will you see to it
that I am not again troubled in this
matter?" I answered sulkily enough.
"For I will not be a witness or a Jury
man or anything like that, you under
stand?" "Certainly. I will see that you are
not further molested."
"Then, In the name of common
sense, let us get it over as quickly aa
possible." I said, kicking off my slip
pers and ringing the bell for my boots.
Big Ben was striking eleven as our
hansom trotted down the long Em
bankment with its lights winking on
the rushing tide below. Past the great
restaurants of pleasure, glowing with
shaded lamps from the windows of all
their balconies; into the silent city
where the tall offices of the day lay
like deserted palaces under the moon;
over macadam, over clattering as
phalt, over greasy wood pavement; so
we journeyed till of a sudden we
dropped from wealth to destitution,
from solitude to babble, from the West
to the East. Costers bawling their
wares under spouting flares, fringed
the sidewalks along which Jostled the
chattering masses of the poor. The
section was largely foreign. The
patches of color in some Italian shawl,
the long coats and peaked headgear
of some moujik, the clatter of the
dialects seemed all the Btranger from
the sullen London background of
mean shops, dingy lodgings, and low
beer-houses. For, in the shadows of
that underworld of the great metro
polis, sodden faces, guttural oaths,
dingy rags, the blow that precedes
the word, are the manifestations of
the native born.
In a side street the cab drew to a
standstill. It was the mortuary, the
inspector told me. A young police
man at the door touched his hat, and
led the way down a passage to a bare
stone chamber. On a slab In the cen
ter the body lay with an elderly man
in ill-fitting clothes bending over it.
He looked up as we entered, and
nodded to the inspector.
"You were quite right, Peace," he
said cheerfully; "chloroform first,
strangling afterwards."
"They took no risks, Dr. Chappie."
"They made a clean Job of It," said
the elderly man, looking down at the
slab with his thumbs in his waistcoat
pockets. "Never saw neater work
since well, since I was Invalided
home from India."
"Thugs?"
"Yes; they did It nigh as well as a
Thug In regular practice."
The callous brutality of the conver
sation filled me with disgust. I turn
ed away, leaning against the wall with
a feeling of nausea.
"And now, if I may trouble you, Mr.
Phillips, will you look at this Door
fellow, and see if you can recognize
him?" said Peace.
I knew him well enough. The black
beard, the thin, hawk nose, the high
and noble forehead were not easily
forgotten. Talman had introduced
me to him at the Art Club's Recep
tion in juiy, wnispenng that he was
a Pole and a neighbor of his a
deuced queer fish, though a clever
one. He bad exhibited a bust of Nero
at the Academy, which attracted much
attention.
"And his name?" asked the Inspec
tor. "Amaroff. I believe him to be from
Poland; that is about all I know of
him."
"How did you come to meet him?"
I told him of my introduction. Would
I, he asked, give him T&lman'f. ad
dress? Most certainly No. 4 Harden
place, off the King's road, Chelsea. I
had no objection whatever to Talman
being roused at one in the morning.
By all means let the old rascal be
turned out of bed and cross-examined.
His language would be a revelation to
the police it would, really.
The Inspector left me on the door
step for a few minutes, while he whis
pered to, two shabbily dressed men
who lounged out of the darkness, and
BUSINESS
Sam Thought Hs Had Combination,
but Relief for Mandy Was
Not In Sight
A lazy darky who let his wife take
in washing without demur had a
dream cne night and a policy dream
at that He borrowed money from her
to play the combination, and before
he left home be stated his conviction.
"Mandy," he said, "Ah's goin' up town
to play dla combine, what am sho' to
come out When you see me comin'
home In a hack yo' break up yo'
washtuba." The "combine" dldnt
come out and Sam. In great dejection,
acquired a lot of gin. Then he was
messed up a bit by a dray, and tome
other darkles hired a hack to take
him hoina. Sam was nearly eat, and
HAD TO GO ON
disappeared wltn the earae lack ot
ostentation. Then we entered oui
cab, which had waited, and trottec
westward, the very air growing clear
er, as it seemed to me, when the un
derworld of poverty fell away behind
as. It was some time before I spoke,
and then it was to ask for a solution
to certain puzzles that had been form
ing in my brain.
"You said he had been robbed?" 1
began.
"Yes, Mr. Phillips. They had gone
through his pockets with every atten
tion to detail."
"Then how did you know he was I
sculptor?"
"He had been called away in a hur
ry. There was modelling clay In his
finger-nails, and a splash of plaster on
his right trouser leg. It was quite sim-
I pie, as you see.
His reply was ingenious, and I liked
the inspector the better for it The
man had something more in him than
a civil tongue and a pleasing manner.
"Tell me what else did you learn?"
"That he was murdered in a place
with a sanded floor, probably at no
great distance from Leman street,
seeing that they carried him there on
a coster's barrow."
"I am not a reporter," I said. "I do
not want guess-work."
"I shall probably be able to prove
my words in twenty-four hours."
"And why not now?"
"There are good reasons."
"Oh, very well," I said sulkily; and
we drove on through the night in si
lence. He left me at my door amid polite
assurances that I should not again be
troubled in the matter. I told him
quite frankly that I was very glad to
hear It
I did not sleep more than eight
hours that night, and was quite un
fitted for work in the morning. I
roamed about my studio with nerves
on edge. I cursed Peace and all his
doings. Even the papers gave me no
further information of this exasperat
ing business, being loaded with the
preparations for the Czar's reception
in Paris, which was due in two days.
In the end I sank so far as to send
old Jacob up to the inspector's rooms
for the latest news; but he bad been
out since daybreak.
About twelve I wandered off to the
club. The sight of Talman was a very
present Joy to me. Ho was engaged
in denouncing the police to a select
circle, choosing as his text that the
Englishman's house In his castle. I
offered my sincere sympathy when he
told me that he had been invaded at
one in the morning by inquiring detec
tives. I suggested that he should
write to the Times about It He said
he had already done so. Incidentally
he mentioned that Amaroff's addresa
had been No. 21 Harden place.
I lunched at the little table by the
window; but it was in the smoking
room afterwards that the Idea oc
curred to me. I fought against it for
some time, but the tendbtation In
creased upon consideration. Finally I
yielded, and told the waiter to call a
cab. I would myself have a look at
the dead man's studio.
I dismissed the hansom at the turn
ing off King's road, and walked down
Harden place on foot. It was an eddy
in the rush of London improvement
a pool of silence in its roaring traffic.
There were trees in the little gardens.
The golds and browns of the wither
ing leaves peeped and rustled over the
old brick walls. Several studios I no
ticed it was evidently an artists'
quarter before I stopped in front of
No. 21.
The studio a fair-sized barn of
modern brick fronted on the street
The double doors through which a
sculptor's larger work may pass were
flanked by a little side door painted a
staring and most objectionable green.
On the right the roof of a red-tiled
shed crept up to long windows under
the eaves. The side door stood ajar
a most urgent invitation to my curios
ity. After all, I argued, a studio re
mains a place where the strict rules
of etiquette may be avoided, even
though its owner be dead. And so,
without troubling further In the mat
ter, I pushed the door gently open,
and walked into a short passage, the
further end of which was barred with
heavy curtains of faded plush. Be
yond them I could hear a whisper of
voices. I drew back the edge of a
curtain and peeped within.
In the center of the big room was a
tall pedestal upon which was set the
bust of Nero, which had won no small
measure of fame for poor Amaroff la
that year's Academy. Under the
proud and merciless features of the
Roman Emperor stood Inspector Peace
smoking a cigarette and talking to
a big fellow with a thick black beard.
A couple of men kneeling at their
feet were replacing a mass ot loose
papers In the drawers of a roller-top
desk that had been pulled some dis
tance from the wall."
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was breathing heavily when the hack
turned a familiar corner, and his wife
was standing In the door. With his
last ounce of energy he stuck his
head out of the window and yelled:
"Mandy, spare dem tubs!"
She Expressed It.
"I never saw such outrageous serv
ice In all my life." said the woman
at the express office window. "I've
been waiting here fuly half an hour
and not a sign of an employee hav
I seen. The heads of this company
ought to be notified of this extreme
negligence. It's simply outrageous."
"What would you like to express,
madam?" said a clerk who arrived at
last
Td like to express my sympathy,"
replied the woman tartly, aad depart
ed.