TH U R SD A Y , JANUARY 18,
THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
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Springfield. I-ane County, Oragoa, by
THE WILLAMETTE PRESS
By JO H N LEBA R
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T H U R SD A Y. JA NUA RY IS. 1924
THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS
The situation in W ashington, in which the Congress
of the United S tates lias altandoned its Constitutional func­
tions and seems to be content to leave direction of the Na­
tion's affairs, legislative as well as executive, in the hands
of the president, it not without jiarallcl in our |aditical
history.
Three tim es before has Congress abdicated, in effect.
Andrew Jackson was the first to take its powers away from
it. which be did with threat and violence rath er th an by
Persuasion or consent, in the w ar between the states Con­
gress was, as now substantially all of one political party,
and President Lincoln had his own way, as far as w ar m ea­
sures were concerned. And in the Great W ar Congress, like
the rest of the United S tates, was content to leave leader­
ship to President Wilson,
President Roosevelt, however, is the first to propose, in
so m any words, that Congress leave everything to him. In
his message, delivered at the opening of the session, he said
to Congress, in effect, that while the letter of the C onstitu­
tion provides for a division of powers, as between the legis­
lative, the executive and the judicial branches of govern­
m ent. “the impulse of a common purpose declares a union.”
And not a single voice, able to m ake itself heard, protested.
The president m ay be right. It may he that the people
of the United States, represented in Congress, are unani­
mously with him. It is o u r understanding however, that a
m em ber of Congress represents everybody in his district,
not those of his own party alone. How m any of them , we
wonder, have gone to the pains to find out w hether their
constituents agree that they should shoulder their rights?
Not m any, we fear.
We wonder w hether Congress is getting ready to
abdicate.
Presidents without pay have been created for the Uni­
versity and S tate college. T h a t’s an idea for the railroads,
power companies, etc. The board of higher education must
have taken its cue from Commissioner Thom as.
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Sam Brown, state senator from Marion county, has
announced his intentions of running for governor. History
records another Brown who started som ething that ended
disastrously.
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Eugene is now a fter a federal insane asylum says a
• news report. We have always wondered just which way
our county seat town was headed.
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Well if we get three miles of our short road to the
coast that is more than Portland has gotten on two short
roads to the coast.
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Nobody on the relief rolls will be issued a liquor perm it
says the Know law. T h at's going to cut down the business
of the sta te ’s stores m aterially.
the first line of ahidi rtadj, The Holy Bible,“
__ and which con tains Four Great T r c u u m
«« th« counting began Thar* aim
ply must ba mors than one huod
red and Iwitlty head, »ha kept tall
Illg herself (hire Jusl had to he
As the last of her cattle passed
through the gala, the counters drew
together and Ruth laid* up Sh*
listened as ouch man gsve his count
to Suavely rnd wrote the figures
lu h er note book with trembling
finger : «4. 21, 1». «41 Twice she
added tlie I'd o m n before she wit»
sura that the total was 161 I hen
»llh a slap »'he whirled her hone
slid gai t pad toward lha ranch
house Her cheeks were wet a, id
»he »ang n throaty chant to tlm
pounding H e ’s "I've won! I've
won' I've von !”
That eviicng after supper nW’.«»
David and Ann were making th*
chickens secure against skunks
and coyotes. Ruth put on s gown
she had not worn for more than s
year, and did her hair three time»
When David came In he asked.
' Why are you dressed up so beau
tlfttl, Mama?”
“Oh, Just because. Ruth did not
quite know, herself; but she wss
convinced It was the thing to do.
"I think we ought to celebrate once
In awhile, don't you. David?"
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¿y-fcSKUCt ^U A -K IU N
FORTY YEARS IN WILDERNESS
The distance from Egypt to the Promised Land is no
longer than the trip from New York to Buffalo. Moses
might easily have led his people over the route in a few
weeks, instead of which the wanderings occupied forty
years. Guided by divine wisdom, lie saw the necessity for a
long period of isolated discipline. They were slaves when
he started with them ; they were an organized self-govern­
ing nation when, a t length, he climbed to the pinnacle of
Mount Pisgah and looked across into the Promised Land,
which he was perm itted to see but not to enter.
HOLD FUNERAL
FOR BEOHBE KUO
How well he had done his work was immediately ap­
parent. Joshua, whom he had chosen to succeed him, took
hold w ithout a hitch and completed the journey into Ca­
naan. He, too, was a man of vision. As a young man, he
had been sent by Moses with eleven others to spy out the
Promised Land. Ten of the twelve cam e hack with a faint­
hearted report.
It is a land that eateth up the Inhabitants thereof; and
all the people we saw in it are men of a great stature.
And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which
come of the giants; and we were In our own sight as grasshop­
pers, and so we were in their sight.
Thus you can always get a m ajority vote to do nothing to
take no chances. But there was a m inority report. Joshua
and Caleb, without minimizing the difficulties, protested
stoutly th a t the land was fertile and worth fighting for. !
They brought back samples of fruit to prove their conten- ,
tion, but it was a long time before the people had the cour­
age to move on.
Joshua was a soldier and was much needed for the ,
work which Moses had left to be done. He led his people ■
across the Jordan, engineered the successful attack upon
Jericho, the wailed city of the unfortunate people who hap­
pened to be in possession of the Promised Land, and con­
ducted a trium phal campaign which was about as savage
as any w ar could lie. Finally, his work completed, he called
his people together for a farewell address of great dignity
and power “ Behold, flu’s day I am going the wav of all the
e a rth ,” he told them ; and with that he laid aside his arm s
and died.
S Y N O P S IS
As she m u and struggled into h r
riding clothes, the great weight of
anxiety which had lifted during her
sleep settled hack upon her. The
round up would there he enough
cattle?
In the two mouths since she had
accidentally placed poison Iu (he
spring troughs no new harm had
come to the cattle t,ul. were they
enough to meet her note? Her de­
sire lo find the answer to this ques
lion increased with each day. but
she could not estimate the number
of salable animals scattered over
the ranch she could not give an In­
telligent guess a limit weights und
quality and price. She only knew
that she had lo t more than a tenth
of the value of her note.
Then, too. If her deal with Par­
ker was lo do the ranch any good,
only the poorest of the cattle could
he sold only the steers and the old
vows. The rest of the sltu'k and
the fine hulls must remain for the
improvement of the ranch. Ruth
could not see much advantage iu
selling all the cattle to keep the
man Witherspoon from foreclosing
on the note—what good was there
in three-quarters' Interest In a rat­
tle ranch with ro rattle—or. In a
ranch which only brought in fifteen
hundred dollars a year?
She left David sleeping and went
into the dining room. She and
Snavely breakfasted silently by
lamp-light, then went to the cor­
rals.
It was Just light enough at the
corrals to distinguish one horse
from another. The six Mexlcau cow­
boys were waiting by the gate, each
with a cigarette in his mouth and
a rope or bridle over his arm.
Snavely indicated to each of the
men the horse he was to ride for
the day The Mexican entered the
corral, caught his mount, and led It
to the saddle shed.
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Resident of Pleasant Hill for
22 Ytara Pasaat Saturday
oly, Alfredo, Don Francisco and one
At Hom# of Daughter
of
the
extra
Mexicans
dismounted,
Itulli Warren, who lived iu the
kicked of their chaps, sud building
Kast. Is willed three fourth Intereet
George Dalsoti KISg. 71. died Sai
In the "Dead ljinlerti" ranch In
a fire, laid on the branding Iron • ;
urday al the home of his daughter
Ariaotia by her only brother who Is
Ruth and three Mexicaus keeping
reported to have met Ills death
Mrs Joe K. James of Jasper Me
the herd together, meanwhile.
while on business In Mexico. Ar­
had been a resident Of the Pteasaul
When the Irons were hot Suavely
riving» in Arixona with her hus­
Hill community for Ihe past II
band who has ailing lungs, and
motioned to the grlsxled old Juan,
their small child, they learn that
years coming there from Urande
who 'eft Ruth's side of the herd
the ranch Is located S5 miles from
Rood«'. Grefon lb 1911.
and advanced Into the vent"» ef
Hi nearest railroad. Old Charley
Mr Klug was born la Hancock
the milling cattle, swinging his
Thane, rancher and rural mail car­
county. Tennessee on August I,
rier agrees in lake them to the
rial*.
"Dead Lantern" gate, f> mile« from
1866 lie came to Oregon In ISSI
Ruth hud her hands full. With
the ranch house. As they trudge
seltllng nt Grande Rond* where he
only
three
riders
to
keep
the
herd
wearily through a gulch approach­
lived for 41 years before coming
• ii place many of the cattle ducldsd
ing the ranch house, a voice whis­
to Pleasant Kill. He had been a
per "(So back! . . . Oo back!“ At
to break away. Every ten seconds.
the ranch house they are greeted
farmer all bla life.
Il seemed to Ruth, some animal on
suspiciously by the gaunt rancher
He waa a member of the Cbnrch
iter
side
of
the
herd
would
holt.
partner. Snavely, and Indian Ann.
of God for the past 14 years
She had abandoned old Brisket for
a herculean woman of mixed negro
Survivors Include five daughters,
and Indian blood Suavely Is diffi­
such active riding in favor of Boots,
cult lo understand but regardless.
Mrs W II Burns. Heno. Nevada;
a springy young horse with an alert
Ruth takes up the task of trying to
Mrs. A. K Ollhiaoa of North Pow
mind and a thorough knowledge of
adjust their three lives to the
der;
Mrs C K Hayes of Uosken;
the
cow
business.
He
enjoyed
run­
ruuch and its development. Ken­
Mrs Flora Knydor of Kagans; and
ning after the animals that broke
neth. Ruth's husband, caught In
chilling rain contracts pneumonia
Mrs James of Jasper, and one son.
from the herd— Ruth rather sus­
and [lasses away before a doctor
"Like a party?"
It D King also al Jasper His
pected him of egging them on.
arrives. Ruth tries to carry on. She
"Rather, yes."
wife died several years ago. He Is
Such riding is exhilarating sport
is not encouraged liy Snavely in
"Mums! Let's go down to th* also survived by IS grandchildren
plans to try and stock the ranch or
for half an hour—rather like the
barn they've got a nice fire there slid five great grandchildren.
Improve it. She writes to her
fastest moments of a fast poll
father In the East asking a loan
Funeral servires were held Man-
game, but In three hours It can he and Alfredo’s playing music. Khali
with which to buy cattle. She re­
we? Come on!"
day morning si 10 20 from the
wearing.
ceives no reply. Will Thane comes
Ruth grasped the boy's arm and Pleasant lllll church. Rev. Harry
home to visit his father . . . and
When all the calves had been
led
him guiltily out of the house Neat officiated, and Interment was
Ruth meets him. A rancher near­
branded the herd was driven to the
by decides to retire and offers to
by way of the back porch. Hnavely made In the Pleasant lllll ceme
holding
pasture,
a
small
enclosure
1 Ruth and Snavely his livestock
tery. Th* Poole-Gray Bartholomew
of oue thousand acres. As the cat­ waa lu the silling room.
on credit
Snavely tries to balk
The Mexicans sat around (heir chapel had charge of arrangements.
the deal hut Ruth buys to the limit
tle passed through the gate the
of her three-quarter Interest In
couutiiig began; one man counted fire, talking, laughing and singing,
Dead Lantern ranch. She 1« assist-
calves; another, yearlings; another as the mood sud (he ever-artlvs MASTER TOMMY PUTMAN
ed by Old Charley Thane and his
strings of Alfredo's guitar persua
grown steers, and a fourth, cows
son . Will Tlutne. A Mexican family
HAS BIRTHDAY PARTY
ded
them When they saw Ruth,
has been hired to assist with the
The count was over and the
wonder
shone
from
I
heir
faces,
work. A peculiar sickness develops
riders were returning to the home
Mrs l-*e Putman entertained hi
(hen admiration and pleasure They
with the livestock. Suavely calls it
ranch
when
Ruth
rode
up
beside
her
home Saturday with a birthday
“liver fever” . . . . and says he has
Snavely. "Well, how does It look?" all sprang (o their feet, but thin party fur her small sun. Tommy,
a powder for the water to cure the
Francisco
was
first.
disease. Ruth's whole future is at
“How does what look?" replied
who waa six years old Gamas were
Ruth smiled, went lo the fire and
stake on the development of the
Snavely.
enjoyed and a large birthday cahe
herd to meet her notes following
spread
her
hands.
“It
la
cold."
she
“1 mean—do you think we're go­
waa rut slid served to the following
the first round.up.
ing to have enough? Weren't thore said In matter-of-fact Spanish Im guests: Yvonne and Donald Sneed,
mediately
Francisco
bowed
her
wel­
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a good many calves and young
Ann and Nads Uoasler. Joanne and
come and hurried lo the barn for
steers in that bunch?**
Jackie Barber. Joan McFarland.
one
of
his
rawhide
chairs.
But
“Oh. I'm so sorry,” whined the
"Can't tell nothin' yet." said
Norman Maxey. Uraydon Lewis.
voice, “but I jest can't open it.”
Snavely gruffly "I don't know If when he returned Ruth had sealed Annabelle Pyle, and tbe honor
herself on the ground next to
Ruth. Snavely und the Mexicans you're goln’ to have enough or not Magda She was not going to lie the guest.
"Well, why can't you open It—
As
a
guess
I'd
say.
you
ain't."
rode into the north posture. About
’ yer arm broke?”
“I huve It all figured out Just only one of the group who sat on BRATTAIN SCHOOL TO
Hire miles from the ranch house
a chair, gown or no gown.
"I’m taking a bath.” said the
how
many we— ”
Suavely gave each mail his orders,
HAVE HARMONICA BAND
Gradually, It became apparent lo
voice sweetly.
“You figgered, I reckon, that a
then rode away to the west. To
the Mexicans that the Kenora Ruth
This was too much. Old Charley
quarter
of
the
sale
don't
apply
to
l Ruth he had said nothing, nor could
Plans for Ibe organisation of a
and her son had merely come to
: planted the sole of his boot against
she understand much of what that fool note, didn't you?"
harmonica
band al thè Brattala
the
fire
for
warmth
and
company.
the door with ail the force in his
Ruth drew herself straight In the
Snavely had told the Mexicans. She
Delightedly, they assured each school have been completed. Tbe
body. The door flew inward and
stayed where she was, on a hilltop. saddle "Certainly. Mr. Snavely!"
other of this by smiles and nods. novel band group will be directed
Will Thane steped to the threshold.
The men. she supposed, would ride
She reined In her horse and drop­ Little Magda ant closer to Ruth, by Mrs Alene T Baaford. a mem­
; "Come right in. Dad—I knew you'd
west and distribute themselves ped back between Alfredo and old ami made her own Importance felt ber of tbe leaching staff
1 call some day.”
along the line fence as It wound Don Francisco. The Mexicans pull among her companions by speaking
Old Charley sat down slowly on
through the mountains. They would ed their horses aside to make room exclusively In English, thereafter. EASY PLEASANT WAY
the box, utterly heedless of the
then all start eastward driving the and with many amilea and chuckles
TO LO SE F A T
Suddenly Ruth had an Insplrn
wash-basin. After a time he mur­
cuttle before them.
began talking to her. They loved lion, and with many pauses and
mured mournfully. “If you was only
She waited two hours on that to hear her broken Spanish. By the appeals to Magda for the right word
How would you like to loan It
ten years old again for about half
| hilltop before she saw the first of time the company reached the sad­ she made a speech: "My friends pounds of fat In a month and nt tbs
an hour! . , ."
same lime Increase your energy
Later, after he had eaten Will's I the cattle coming. Two miles to dle shed. Ruth had learned that We have worked and gathered and Improve yonr health?
Don
Francisco
considered
the
cat­
the
north
an
ant
like
string
moved
many rattle. The roundup baa been
How would you like to lose yonr
supper, the old man was somewhat
mollified. “Will, you ornery pup. over a ridge and disappeared into tle large and fat and the calves good. 1 think we will have a cele­ double rbln and your too prom)
■lent nbdoinen and al Ihe same
danged if this ain't the happiest a ravine. A moment later, and ' plentiful. He also succeeded In con­ bration—una fiesta grande Some time
make your skin so clean and
day I've seen! And yon've already much dearer, she saw a small veying to her the results of the of you have friends in'Palo Verde— clear that It will compel admira­
count.
hunch
of
animals
emerge
from
the
bring
them
and
the
mothers
and
tio n ’
been here a month. You son-of a-
That evening Ruth studied these children. Un Saturday we will rook
Get on (ha scales today and see
gun—provin' up on your homestear. underbrush followed by a man on
| how much you weigh- then get an
And you're all through with real horseback— Suavely, she thought. figures In connection with others a cow.”
sf> cent bottle nf Kruscben Balts
Bv the time the first two bunches she had gathered in her conversa­
T O BE C O N T IN U E D
estate? Plumb through?"
which will last you four weeks
"Plumb through. Dad Turned were opposite her. three more were tion with Old Charley and her
Take one half teaspoonful la a
'll
sight
anil
she
turned
her
own
studies
of
the
cattle
raisers'
mags
glass of hot water #very morning
everything I had Into cash a month
MRS. PRIVAT HOSTESS
and when you have finished Ihs
ago. Cash'll come in handy when horse eastward. She soon came up­ tine. But she went to sleep as un­
FOR PRISCILLA MEETING contents of thia first bottle welgb
we buy that section south of us on three cows, each with a calf, t decided as ever. The round-up
yourself again.
here and pick up some .more stock." and drove them before her. Just would take four days und If on
After that you'll want lo walk
Members
of
the
Priscilla
club
Old Charley nodded happily. "I where she was driving them she eoch of these days the count ran
around and say to your friends,-—
will meet this afternoon al (he "One 86 rent bottle of Krusckeo
alway- knew you'd be cornin' back had no very clear idea, but she ns high as on the first, and If on
some of these days. But what have canid see that the other riders were one of those days about one hund­ homo of Mrs E O. Prlvat. Mrs. Salts 1» worth one hundred dollars
of any fat person's money."
you been doing here the last converging toward a common point' red extra animats should appear, Ernest Black will be the assisting
leading druggists America over
hostess
for
the
semi-monthly
meet­
and
governed
herself
accordingly,
’
Ruth knew that she could meet her
month? Sleeping most of the day.
sell Kruarhen Salts— You can al-
ways get It.
I reckon. I never saw you so fat This point proved to he a level i note. Provided, of course, that Old ing.
piece of ground about half a mile * 1 Charley had guessed shrewdly
an' glossy.”
from the eastern end of the about the prices the rattle buyers
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pasture.
would be paying.
IN S T A L L M E N T S EVEN TEEN
The nine small streams of cattle
Ruth slowly awoke and saw that
Ruth never knew how she got
it was still dark. She wondered idly merged, flowed on, and were through the fourth and last day of
why Ano was moving about in the thrown Into an eddying pool by the
the round-up. Twice, after the cat­
kitchen o late, and was luxurious­ circling riders. Two of the men left tle had been gathered and the
ly slipping hack to sleep when she at once, loping to a ravine where branding begun, she left the herd
Every girl appreciates a Valentine, of course, but
h ard the thump of boots, as Snave­ mesqulte was plentiful. When they
and rode Into the foothills. But
when
It cornea in the tangible form of candy, you
ly came from his room and walked returned dragging firewood at the neither time did she see a single
know they love it...........
across the house to the kitchen. end of their riatas, the cattle were
overlooked cow or calf.
We have a special assortm ent of fancy Valentine
Suddenly Ruth knew that It was in a close-packed bunch, and the re­
boxes and candies for the occasion.
morning—the long-awaited morning maining riders sat their horses at
She stood biting her lower Up
when the round-up was to begin. intervals around the circle. Snav- ci-d pulling on her saddle strings
So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land
of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.
And he (the Lord) buried him in a valley in the land of
Moab, over against Beth-peor; but no man knoweth of his sep­
ulchre unto this day.
Comes now a picturesque succession of leaders, called
Judges, witli whom we can tarry only a m om ent in this
rapid survey. There was a woman, Deborah, am ong them ,
whose stirring battle-hym n is one of the first recorded
peotns. T here was a keen fighter named Gideon, a shrewd
strategist, who equipped his slender force of 300 men with
chariot lights and trum pets and attacked a t night.
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