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Published E t e r i Thursday at
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F IF T E E N T H IN S T A L M E N T
"Yes, madam- she seems thoro­ aelf to be bandied about, the victim C O M F O R T . . . . dsapita the hast
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Diana, in love with a married ughly worn out."
I calieri on Präsident Hoover the
first of one and then of another. In
•i. IV: nis Waterman. Is Rent to
She bent a little lower over the vain, unsatisfying search for ®lber day. Outdoors the thermume
T ill KBDAY, Al Gt S i IS,
the country to recover her health.
something real and lasting, but ter stood at 8S In the shade In the
She (alia In love with Dr Dennis Diana.
suppose she's —all right?" the there waa only pity in her heart PrealdenCs office It was a comfort
Kathbone. whose wife. Rosalie, is a
THE WORKING MAN AND HIS CAR
hopeless lunatic. Torn between two asked uncertainly,
now as ahe tried by every means ab*‘‘ ••sb-wlghl. That la one of the
loves, Diana cannot decide until
,
The boast of many states of the union that they have Linda
Waterman offers to divorce h
JT* » • ’» •» -J '« « •'*•►««« in her power Io rouse Diana from reason why Mr. Hoover Is able to
an automobile for each three, four or five citizens is doom­ Tier husband so he can marry Diana ” a' 1 ' ,,na
stand up under hla heavy task and
Quickly, wlih a
unconsciousness,
ed for a setback if the tederal government is going to in­ Dennis refuses to accept his free- faint feeling of discomfort as she her line dreadful
of the maid* came presently, •dill keep In first rate physical con
vade the gasoline tax field heretofore occupied by the dom. and Diana sends him away, remembered that once <n the past with scared eye . to know If ahe dltlon.
states. With continued taxation the automobile will soon Kathbone and Diana Fee only a 8he had bc„n 8even.lv adnioni
I went with the president to the
could do anything to help, but Anna
hopeless future so long as Rosalie ,
. . . . . .
.
be operated only by the well-to-do as in Europe.
lives. Then Rosalie, who had gone iOr administering
a
sleeping shook her head. She would not ad- opening of the exhibition of the
In Oregon if a workingman has a car and runs it on the for a stroll in the woods, does not draught to Diana without doctor's mil it. hut »he believed the lime Pantheon de la Guerre, tin- world's
average of 1000 miles a month he will soon find that his lic­ return. What has happened to her? orders.
was already past when anyone largest painting, commemorating
ense tee, four cent gas tax. oil tax, rubber tax. accessories NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Mrs. Gladwyn sighed
the war. This Is shown In a drculai
could help Diana.
tax and other indirect taxes on parts, will surely mount to
Unless the fog lifted It might "She looks very like her mother.
'H asn't
M arkham
come hack sheet metal building which might
$100 a year. His gasoline bill less taxes paid will amount mean being out all night In the cold she said "And her mother died yet?" she asked.
be expected to have the character­
to more than another $100 and if he must have any repairs and wretchedness.
when she was quae a girl." She
'Not yet . . . I think that's a (axl istic of an oven Hut the same alr-
then it is evident on a lowered wage scale he can not run
He turned to retrace his steps to pulled herself together and took up now."
condltlonlng . vatem used In the
an automobile, and teed and clothe his family.
where he had left the trap when her gloves and handling. "I should
More breathless momenta. Anu« president's office made It confort
suddenly a muffled cry broke the let her sleep it out." she said vague­ watched the door with strained able even under a (dating sun.
It is perhaps necessary to balance the federal budget silence. It sounded weird and un ly.
"It will probably do her a lot of eyes. If Murkham had come hack
I went up to the Capitol to call on
and pay off the state s huge bonded road indebtedness but earthly, coming, as it did. through good."
a congressional friend, and found
it is also quite necessary that we begin to think what con­ the stifling fog blanket, and Jonas When ahe had gone Anna quietly alone. . .
tinued increase in taxation must mean the slaying of the felt his skin rise in little pin points replenished the fire and went back The door opened, and she gave a #,,,,a,or« ■"«I representatives debat
little sob of relief au Kathbone
1,1
atmosphere of fresh, cool-
goose that has laid so many golden eggs to build so mauv as he waited for It to be repeated. to
take another look at Diana
strode Into the room.
<'<1 alr ,n which It waa difficult for
miles of improved roads.
Then it came again—a woman's
She was very pale—even her lips
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He came straight to the bed and , v,‘n ,he lno*< fervent orator to
wailing voice.
and hair teemed colourless; and in bent over the girl lying there.
* ork
* perspiration And I come
THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS CLEARLY
For a moment he stood petrified; I sudden alarm Anna laid a hand on
Anna, watching hla face—always ba‘‘k ,rom Washington on an air
President Hoover spoke clear enough in his acceptance then he went blindly forward as Diana'a arm.
watching him. as If she felt he was conditioned train of the Baltimore
speech that all might clearly understand his position on all quickly as the hampering condi­ It was Icy cold.
the only hope left to her—asked a and Ohio, the moat comfortable
railroad Journey I ever made.
problems confronting the American people. No one can tions would permit, in the direction For a moment she stood petrified broken question:
Mr Hoover believes, with many
now say they do not know where the president stands or from which he thought that cry with fear; then she turned and ran
'Uh. sir . . . she's not dead, la
from the room.
( oh er
what he has done or is trying to do if they have taken the came.
others, that (hla air-conditioning
It was not exactly a call for help
"Miss Diana is ill—you must
process, still In Its Infancy, la going
trouble to read his speech. Prohibition as could be expect­
Kathbone shook his head.
ed proved the most sensational plank. His is the common —it was more like a frightened fetch a doctor at once. Run down
"No . . what ta It? What have you lo develop •» big as the automobile
Industry.
sense view of modification rather than straight out repeal. wail, but it urged the boy on till and see if Mrs. Gladwyn has gone. given her?"
• • •
The saloon, he says, should always be outlawed by the con­ suddenly he pulled up sharply, only If not. bring her back quickly."
Anna explained as well as she
B O N U S ............... at the front line
stitution. His are the views of temperance based on his ex­ saving himself with difficulty os he The girl ran. returning breath could.
I half expected In Washington to
perience of four years of the most earnest law enforcement found he was on the river bank. lessly.
I only gave her four drops; she
A sloping, muday bank, broken
“The cor has Just driven away
any chief executive has ever given the noble experiment.
seemed so worn out. and yet she find squads and detachments of the
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away by much rain and weather;
But Anna was not the sort to I couldn't sleep; but I left the bottl.- "Bonus Expeditionary Force" pan
but now the cry was nearer—al­ lose her head in a moment of em -|0II (be dressing table, and the poor handling all over town. I traveled
OPENING A NEW COUNTRY
most at his feet, it seemed—and ergency.
lamb must have taken some more pretty well over the District of Col
unibla and except In the vicinity of
Pushing on construction of the Willamette highway he answered it with a shout, cup- “Tell Markham to call a taxi and It's nearly empty now,"
above Oakridge by the bureau of public roads is received in i ping his hands round his mouth to to go at once for Dr. Rathbon
Anna turned her face awav and the B. E. F. camp on the Anacostla
I'll give him the address."
Lane county with satisfaction by many people interested in ; make it carry further.
wept, and she would not have be­ Flats 1 saw nobody who could be
"Hullo . . .there!"
She had made a mental note of lieved It had she been told that Identified as a member of the bonus i
a direct connection with the Klamath basin. The route to
His own sense o , helplessness it yesterday morning when she dis her (ears were not to much for her­ seeking army. I talked with one 8
be used is not the way the emigrants came via the military
highway but up Salt Creek and over Pengra pass which is was appalling; one might as well patched Diana's letter to him. and self or for Diana as for the broken­ man who had been active In get
have been imprisoned by walls as knowing that Rathbone had attend hearted look she had suddenly sur ting congress to appropriate flOO.-
much shorter.
The new road w’ill put Odell lake within an easy two hy this blanket of Increasing dark­ ed Diana during her illness, she prised in Donald Kathborne's eyeB ■ t»UO to seud these men back to their |
home slates.
hour drive from Springfield and open up the lake country ness. He shouted again with all his thought he was the most suitable
CHAPTER XXIV
"Most of these chaps are decent
on tfhe top of the Cascades now served with poor dirt roads. strength of his young voice, ana one to summon.
Dlara was so used to dreams.
Salt Creek falls, the highest in Oregon, may some day rival I then, suddenly, as if by a miracle. To expedíate matters, she went Nearly every night lately, halt fellows out of Jobs, with no re­
the fog bank seemed to break for down to interview Markham her- wake and half asleep, she hod sources, who Just came for the lark"
Multnomah falls in tourist interest.
i the smallest fraction of a moment, s if.
imagined with one part of her sen­ he said. "A few of them are rather
• like a curtain being slowly raised
Bui Anna's evident anxiety whip­ ses, even though the other port simple-minded people who really
GIFTS TO SCHOOL WILL BE LOST
by a mocking nand in order to show ped him to swifter action.
knt w It could not possibly be true. th,nk the
»
“If Dr. Rathbone Is there, bring that she was back at the Creature's
Hundreds of thousands of dollars have come to the Uni­ \ him the thing he sought.
Uul l" ,he “ ’n,,’r *'
“
She was in th? river . . its width him back with you.
versity of Oregon through gifts in past years most of which
you. If
If he
he Is not | cottage. In the little room with Its strong corps of Communist agita­
will be lost if the school is moved to Corvallis. No more away from him . . .a half-drowned there, bring the first doctor you chintz wall paper and niualln-pettl- tors, who have been hopeful that
gifts can be expected if the institutions of higher learning I piteous thing, clinging with frail can find, but don't come back wlth- coated dressing table, with Rath­ there would be some sort of a mlll-
j tary or police demonstration that
are to be portable affairs to be moved around at each politi­ hands to the overhanging bough ot out someone, or It will be the worst bone sitting beside her.
a rotting willow, her white face up- for you
cal election.
It wasn't such a bad dream until i would give an excuse to start shoot
Ing The Communists are looking
The kind of economy the Zorn-McPherson bill preaches turned, her flaming dark hair dank She ran back to Diana and pulled one quite woke up!
is that for a man who has spent his savings for a home to and horrible, her mouth wide open (the curtains, opening both win
She wished she could make him for martyrs, but the Washington au
burn it down and live in a tent, thus lowering operating ex­ as if to give utterance once more dows wide.
smile. Down at the cottage no mat­ thorlties have not permitted them­
to that wailing cry.
The fog was not quite so bad. one ter how cross he had been with her. selves to be trapped Into anything
penses.
Jonas caught bis breath; Instinct- could see the lights In the street or how grimly he had looked at her I out of which inflammatory propa­
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ively he began to tear off his coat, below now. like bleary yellow eyes. while she hurled her silly little ganda could be mode.
WHAT AN ENGINEER THINKS OF THE BUS BILL
when the fog came silently down staring upwards,
troubles at him. In the end she al­ P O M E R E N E . . his appointment
Some pertinent remarks on the West “Freight Truck again hutting her out. leaving him As Anna turned away her glance ways managed to make him smile I used to know Atlee Pomerene
years ago out In Ohio, when he was
and Bus Bill," is made in the Oregon Voter by W. B. Dennis, there, shivering end helpless, on fell on the bottle she had left on before he went away.
the dres-lng table.
distinguished engineer and author of the state motor the muddy, slippery bank.
Diana said, “Thank you,” in a lieutenant-governor, and active In
It seemed a lifetime before he
She caught It up, holding It to the little whisper, and closed her eyes. Democratic politics. Even then he
vehicle license laws. He says “to those who have the neces­
sary engineering knowledge of such matters, and who are could nerve himself to fresh action. bghl; then her face whitened, for The tears couldn't get through If had the reputation of being one of
was nearly empty.
familiar with existing laws of the state, the claim of the Everything was unreal, uncanny;
she kept them tightly closed, and the ablest minds In the state. A lot
of people didn’t like hint, but even
West bill that its purpose is to ‘protect’ our highways against the silently flowing river like a Anna permitted herself the lux Donald hated to see her cry.
‘dangers attending the uses of the highways by commer­ ha!f-deaa polconous snake creeping llr? of one moment's emotion,
‘Things always turn out badly If his Republican opponents respect­
by at his feet, and the strange im-
“Oh. poor Iamb!" she said pity-1 people tak
cial operations' must be regarded as an utter absurdity.”
what you and I might ed him. People said that Comer
ene was one of the few men In
penetrable menace of the fog-en- ,ngly.
take,
She knew a great deal more | Donald had
said that after she politics whose word could be ahso-
What the country needs once is a president and cong­ wrapped world.
Jonas seemed suddenly to see about Diana than the girl had ever bad agitd if be would let her live lute,Y relied upon.
ress of the same political faith^
The comment has been made
Diana's face; ner blue eyes, her dreamed— knew all about the af- with him. She supposed he must
sensitive mobile face. . . "Little fatr *bh Waterman, and under- have been horribly shocked really, that In appointing ex-Senator Pom
head running over with gold. . .”
stood that It had ended with though he had only looked at her erene as chairman of the Recon­
Finance
Corporation,
Diana would be happy again If he Diana » illness, on his side, at all with eyes that seemed to under­ struction
President Hoover has placed at the
' left Miss Rosalie to die.
events, but she had never been able stand.
He was shivering from head to fo make up her mind with regard
Funny that people, especially head ot the greatest banking in
foot, as with his whole body strain- to Plana—until now, when she be- those whom the world called good Htltutlon in the world a man who Is
ed forward he started and stared Oeved that the girl had done this people, should think anything phy­ : not a banker. But remember that
Into the fog to where she had been, deliberately in a moment of over sical such a deadly sin, much worse long before he had risen to poli­
tical heights, Atlee Pomerene, al­
Of what use was her life? What whelming wretchedness,
than anything else.
did her happiness matter that an ! She lifted her gently, laying her
She moved restlessly, and Rath though a lawyer by profession, had
< organized what turned out to be
other's, so much more precious,1 flat on her back, and began to bone spoke her name gently:
SOMETHING SIMPLE
one of the soundest small banks In
should be sacrificed to it?
chafe her cold hands.
'Diana!”
I wish to ask that no more Plans for solving the eco­
In the few seconds of his heslta
Ann had only seen Rathbone
Her eyes turned to his face and the state, In hls home city of
nomic situation be sent to me. My quota is completed; my tlon It seemed to Jonas that h e ' once, when Mrs. Gladwyn had aent rested there for a moment.
Canton. And the fundamentals of
files are full. My mental decision to retire from Plan Read­ argued the whole question out with for him after the girl's breakdown;
I'm so thirsty,” she whispered. banking are no different, whether
ing was reached some time ago.
one Is running the reconstruction
cold calculation before, with an ef- but she had been Impressed by his Her mouth felt ail dry and hot.
An earnest gentleman with a gleam in his eye got in fort that seemed purely physical. - personality and quiet strength, and
finance corporation or a small
(TO BE CONTINUED)
anyhow the other day: He asked me to read a book in which he pulled himself together and1 she found herself almost praying
town savings bank.
a new prophet sets forth a new religion. The gentleman turned deliberately away.
(though Anna considered prayer SIMPLE GERMAN REMEDY
assured me that if only all men and women could be led to
Let her die . . . nobody would "old-fashioned rubbisb"j that he
FOR STOMACH TROUBLE
think the thoughts of this prophet every difficulty would ever know.
would come.
fold up.
"I would do anything in the world
She had always been rather con-
The simple German remedy, Ad-
While we talked I turned the pages of the book, and for you.”
She had always been rather con- lerlka, reaches the UPPER bowel,
after about a minute I assured him that I should not need
He had told Diana that more than temptuous ot Diana's weakness, washing out poisons which cause
to read it in order to know that it would have no influence. once, and he had meant It with realizing how easily, during her stomach trouble. One dose stops
gas bloating. Flattery's Drug Store.
He was aggrieved. “You have a closed mind," he every fibre of his being. He was ■----------------- _
charged.
conscious of a queer sense of tri­
“Not at all,” I said. “I happen to know what kind of umph to think that even though
words move the world. I’ll give you an example:
Diana would never know, he was
“ ‘The Lord is my shepherd,’ etc.
fulfilling his promises.
“ ‘Four score and seven years ago our fathers founded
Then the cry came again; strang­
on this continent,’ etc.
led, weaker, more despairing, the
“contrast these simple words with a couple of phrases cry that might have come from a
$6
from your book," I said:
child or from one of the lost lambs
“ ‘The definitely “anticipatory” value of the self-pro­ i which he and Shurey had sought
tecting mechanism of covenant obligations . . .’
I for together one bitter March
“ ‘Expanding consciousness obtainable through the di­ month after a heavy fall of snow.
rect application of the method of cyclic evolution. .
For one second still Jonas hesi­
"Nobody is going to overturn the world,” I concluded, tated, standing rigid, his head
“unless he is able to make his ideas understandable even i craned forward In strained atten­
to a little child Second-raters are always obscure. But the tion; then he turned back with
SPORT-LITE LANTERN
head man in any department of life, I care not whether quiet deliberation, scrambled down
Is be medicine, theology, science or what, he can make a the muddy bank, and plunged Into
Lights Instantly
talk that will fascinate a kindergarten”.
' the Icy river.
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John Bunyan explained to his readers that he might
have adopted a “stile” much more fancy but he wanted
his book to be read by common people everywhere. He has
has wish; “Pilgrim’s Progress” will live as long as anything
in our language.
Lincoln’s style grew steadily clearer and simpler as he
grew In years and wisdom.
"What harm can a book do that costs a hundred
crowns?” Voltaire exclaimed. “Twenty volumes folio will
never make a revolution; it is the little pocket pamphlets
that are to be feared.”
I do not know what Plan will lead us to new heights
of prosperity or whether, indeed, there will be any one Plan.
But if there be, it will consist of things that everybody can
understand, such as “the less you hamper trade the more
trade can expand.”
C H A P TE R X X III
Anna was perturbed.
Half a dozen times she had been
, in to Diana, and found her sleep­
ing always In the same position, ly­
ing on her side, her face turned
against the pillows, an arm flung
above her head.
Half a dozen times since the
early morning when Diana had
come home, and now It was past
five o’clock.
Mrs. Gladwyn had been Into the
room once before leaving for an­
other bridge evening.
“Has she been asleep all day?"
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