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DOINGS OF OREGON’S LEGISLATURE
The old ladies nodded their heads In
approval of this, every face beaming;
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but as the speech went on the others
"V Itdp
1 perceived that Abe had singled out
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T
I
Blossy for special mention— blind.
blind Abraham— Blossy, who had first
proposed admitting him into this para
dise; Blossy, who had given up her
sunny south chamber to his comfort
and Angy's; Blossy, who had been as
a "guardeen angel” to him; Blossy,
who as a fitting climax to all her sis
terly attentions had given him today
this wonderful, wonderful pink tea,
and "this five hull pound o' Virginny
terbaccer.”
He held the parcel close to his
Aunt Nancy’s advice and “ sew a but
ton on their Ups.”
bosom, and went on. stlU praising
Fortunately, too, the February thaws Blossy— this innocent old gentleman.
had already set In, and the remainder —heedless of Angy’s gentle tug at his
of the winter passed without any se coat-tail; while Blossy buried her ab
vere strain on the "buttonholes." And surdly lovely face in the pink flush
at length the welcome spring began to of a wild-rose spray, and the other old
peep forth, calling to the old folks, ladles stared from him to her, their
“ Come out, and grow young with the faces growing hard and cold.
When Abraham sat down, aglow
young year!”
With the bursting forth of the new with pride over his oratorical tri
springtide the winter’s talk seemed to umphs, his chest expanded, his counte
drop as a withered and dead oak leaf nance wrinkled into a thousand guile
falls from its winter-bound branches; less, grateful smiles, there wap abso
and Abe stood once more alive to the lute silence.
Then Blossy, her head still bowed as
blessings of renewed approval.
Angy went out of doors with Miss if in shy confusion, began to clap her
Abigail, and puttered around among hands daintily together, whereat a few
the flowers as if they were her own, of the others joined her half-heartedly.
thanking God for Abe's Increasing pop A sense of chill crept over Abraham.
ularity in the same breath that she Accustomed as a rule to deferential
gave thanks for the new buds of the attention, did he but say good morn
ing, by no means aware that his throne
spring.
The anniversary of the Roses’ en had toppled during the winter, he was
trance Into the Home drew nearer, and still forced to perceive that something
Blossy suggested that the best way had gone amise.
As always when aught troubled his
to celebrate the event would be by
mind, “ father” turned to Angy; but
means of a “ pink tea.”
Neither Angy nor Abe, nor In fact instead of his composed and resource
half the sisters, had any clear concep ful little wife he found a scared-faced
tion of what a tinted function might and trembling woman. Angy had sud
be; but they one and all seized upon denly become conscious of the shadow
Blosey's Idea as if it were a veritable of the green-eyed monster. Angy’s
inspiration, and for the time jealousies loyal heart was crying out to her
were
forgotten,
misunderstandings mate: "Don’t git the sisters daown on
yer, Abe, ’cuz then, mebbe, yew ’ll lose
erased.
Such preparations as were made for your hum !” But poor Angeline’e lips
that tea!
The deaf-and-dumb gar were so stiff with terror over the pros
dener was sent with a detachment of pect of the county house for her hus
band, that she could not persuade
them to speech.
Abraham, completely at sea, turned
next to her whom he had called his
guardian angel; but Blossy was rising
from her seat, a baffling smile of ex
pectancy on her face, the rose spray
swinging in her delicate hand as if to
the measure of some music too far
back in youth for anyone else to hear.
Blossy had worn that expectant look
all day. She might have been delight
edly hugging to herself a secret which
she had not shared even with the
trusted Abraham. She was gowned
in her yellow lace, the beauty and
grace of which had defied the chang
ing fashions as Blossy s remarkable
elegance of appearance had defied the
passing of the years.
"Brother Abe,”— in her heedlessnees
of the mischief she had wrought,
Blossy seemed almost to sing—“ I
never shall forget your speech as long
as I live. Will you excuse me now ?”
She swept out of the door, her skirts
rustling behind her.
Abe collected himself so far as to
bow in the direction she had taken;
then with lamblike eyes of inquiry met
the exasperated glances cast upon
him.
Not a sister moved or spoke. They
all sat as if glued to their chairs, in a
silence that was fast growing appall
ing.
Was Careful to Conduct These I n -
Abe turned his head and looked be
qulries- in Whispers.
hind his chair for an explanation; but
nothing met his eye, save the familiar
small boys to fetch from the wayside picture on the wall of two white kit
and meadows armfuls of wild roses tens playing in the midst of a huge
for the decorations. Miss Abigail bunch of purple lilacs.
made pink icing for the cake. Ruby
Then there broke upon the stillness
Lee hung bleeding-hearts over the the quavering old voice of Aunt
dining-room door. Aunt Nancy resur Nancy, from her place opposite Abe’s
rected from the bottom of her trunk a at the head of the board. The aged
white lace cap with a rakish-looking dame had her two hands clasped be
pink bow for an adornment, and fas fore her on the edge of the table,
tened it to her scant gray hairs in vainly trying to steady their palsied
honor of the occasion. Blossy turned shaking. Her eyes, bright, piercing,
her pink china pig, his lid left upstairs, age-defying, she fixed upon the bewil
into a sugar bowl.
dered Abraham with a look of deep
Pink, pink, pink, everywhere; even and sorrowful reproach. Her unsteady
In Angy's proud cheeks! Pink, and head bobbed backward and forward
pink, and pink! Abe used to grow with many an accusing nod, and the
dizzy, afterward, trying to recall the cap with its rakish pink bow bobbed
various pink articles which graced backward and forward too. Abe
that tea.
watched her, fascinated, unconsciously
But most delightful surprise of all wondering, even in the midst of his
was his anniversary gift, which was I disquietude, why the cap did not slide
slyly slipped to his place after the dis off her bald scalp entirely. To his
cussion of the rose-colored strawberry j amazement, she addressed not himself,
gelatin. It was a square, five-pound j but Angy.
parcel wrapped in pink tissue paper,
"Sister Rose, yew kin leave the
tied with pink string, and found to con room.” Implacable purpose spoke In
tain so much Virginia tobacco, which Aunt Nancy's tone. Angy started,
Blossy had inveigled an old southern looked up. going first red and then
admirer into sending her for "charit white; but she did not move. She
able purposes.”
opened her lips to speak.
After the presentation of this valu
"I don’t want ter hear a word from
able gift. Abraham felt that the time yew, nor anybody else,” sternly Inter
had come for him to make a speech— posed Aunt Nancy. "I'm old «nougb
practically his maiden speech.
ter be yer mother. Go upstairs1"
He said at the beginning, more
Angy’s glance sought Mies Abigail,
suavely at his ease than he would but the matron's eyes avoided hers,
have believed possible, secure of sym- The little wife sighed, rose reluctantly,
pathy and approbation, with Angy’s dropped her hand doubtfully reassur-
glowing old eyes upon her prodigy. ing on Abe’s shoulder, and then went
that all the while he had been at the obediently to the door.
Home, he had never before felt the
From the threshold she looked wist
power to express his gratitude for the fully back; but an imperious wave
welcome which had been accorded from Aunt Nancy banished her alto
him—the welcome which seemed to gether. and Abe found himself alone
wear and wear, as if it were all wool —not with the sisters whom he loved,
and a yard wide, and could never wear ’ but with 28 hard-visaged strangers.
out.
(T O B E C O N T IN U E D .)
OLD LADY
j W ILLR
Washington, D. C. — Germany has
notified the United States government
A Brief Resume o f Proceedings o f the People’s Representatives
through Ambassador Gerard that a
at the State Capital, Bills Introduced, Passed, Rejected, Etc.
state of “ strained relations” exists be
tween the two nations.
This doeB not mean war.
It does mean, however, that a condi House Passes New Bank
Judiciary Committee Has
tion of tension has developed which is
Bill Except Rise in Salary
Bill tor New Districts
o f serious concern to the President and
State
Capitol,
Salem—
Shall
the
sal
State Capitol, Salem— Four new ju
his cabinet.
To restore the relations o f the two ary of the state bank examiner be in dicial districts are provided for in the
Nebraska legislature passes an anti
nations to their former state o f friend creased from $3000 a year to $4000'.' plan reported to the house by the ju
tipping law.
liness, while at the same time assuring A fter an hour o f Bnappy debate the diciary committee by substitute house
Forty airmen raid four towns in protection to American ships and house decided that it shall not. With bill 308. This plan will give the state
SYNOPSIS.
Belgium held by the Germans.
American citizens traversing the high the exception of this detail the house a total o f 17 judicial districts and will
accepted in every particular the bank supersede entirely the system proposed
C ap tain A b ra h a m R o s e an<1 A ng^line,
Germany notifies United States that seas, is now the problem o f the Presi
his w ife, h a v e lost their little h om e
ing committee's bill revising the state by President Thompson, o f the senate, th
ro u g h A b e 's u n lu ck y p u rch a se o f T e n a -
relations
with
that
country are dent and his cabinet.
Strained relations have prevailed banking laws to conform with the new for 24 districts and an appellate court. fly G o ld m in in g sto ck . T h e ir h ou seh old
"strained.”
go
o d s sold , th e 1100 a u ctio n m o n e y , all
Federal
reserve
act.
It also disposes of the numerous inde
many times between the United States
e y h a ve left, w ill p la ce A b e In the Old
A fter six weeks deadlock the Illinois and other states.
Under the provisions o f the bill pendent district division bills intro th
When Sir Lionel
M a n ’ s hom e, o r A n g y In th e Old L a d le s ’
legislature
has elected an avowed Sackville-West, the British minister, state banks will be placed in position duced by various members of the house hom e. B oth a re s e lf-s a c r ific in g but A be
d e cid e s: " M y d e a r this la the fu st tim e
“ w et” speaker.
become members of the Federal re and the senate.
w b b dismissed by President Cleveland, to
I ’ve ha d a ch a n ce to tak e th e w ust o f it.”
serve
system
if
they
so
elect.
T he old co u p le bid g o o d -b y to the little
The
new
plan,
as
worked
out
by
this
condition
prevailed
between
the
The embargo put on potash by Ger
house. T e rr o r o f
hat fo lk s w ill s a y ”
One
change
in
the
present
law
will
Chairman
Olson,
and
other
members
two
governments.
War,
however,
did
many is seriously effecting American
sends them a lo n g b y -p a th s to th e ga te o f
prohibit
state
banks
from
investing
of
the
judiciary
committee,
moved
up
the
Old
L
a
d
le
s
’
hom
e.
M iss A b ig a il, m a
not
follow.
fertilizer manufacturers.
tron o f the Old I>adles’ hom e, h e a rs o f
The President has no intention to any o f their assets in the capital stock a notch when the house passed Senator the
111 fo rtu n e o f the o ld co u p le . She tells
Pawn shops and loan sharks are to be permit war to come with Germany.
of any corporation with the exception Thompson’s bill creating the Four the o th e r old ladies, a n d B lo s s y , w h o has
regulated if a bill passed by the Ore
a dou b le fe e fo r the o n ly d ou b le b e d
He is face to face with this situa of that of the Federal reserve bank at teenth judicial district by detaching paid
ch am b er, v oices the un an im ou s v e r d ic t
gon legislature, becomes a law.
San Francisco.
Lake county from the present Thir th a t A b e m ust be tak en in w ith his w ife.
tion :
This leaves only A be a w a k en s n ext m orn in g to find that
All state banks acting aB reserve teenth district.
The United States, in a vigorous
It ¡ b reported from Paris that the
he is "O ld Ivftdy N o. 31.” T h e old la dies
French troops have retaken two miles note, requested assurances from Ger agents need carry only 16 per cent of Klamath county in the Thirteenth.
¡five him such a w a rm w e lco m e that he
is
m ad e to feel at h om e a t on ce . " B r o th e r
their
total
demand
deposits
and
5
per
Create
the
Fifteenth
district
to
con
many
that
“
American
ctizens
and
their
of German trenches in Champagne.
A b e ” ex p a n d s un d er the w a rm rece p tio n
vessels will not be molested by the cent of_their savings deposits in re sist of Lane, Lincoln and Benton coun o f the sisters, and a reig n o f p e a ce b egin s
German government increases prices naval forces of Germany otherwise serve.
The present law places this ties, by detaching them from the Sec in the Old I n d i e s ’ hom e. A b e is th e c e n
ter or th e co m m u n ity . T h e sem i-a n n u al
of potatoes in order to conserve the than by visit and search” in the “ war limit at 15 per cent in cities o f less ond district.
visit o f B lo s s y ’ s a ged lo ve r, C apt. S am uel
food supply, which is admittedly grow zone” around the British Isles, soon to than 50,000 population and at 26 per
Create the Sixteenth district, com I>arby, Is due. A b e a d vises her to m a rry
ing short.
him.
o r the first tim e the ca p ta in fa ils
cent in cities o f more than 50,000. No prising Coos county, by detaching it to a p p F
be established.
ear.
British steamer is blown up and
Germany, in an official communica state bank or trust company can be from the present Second district.
Create the Seventeenth district by
sunk off the coast o f Cape Antifer, by tion, declined to grant those assur approved as a reserve bank unless it
C H A P T E R V II— Continued.
Curry county from the
two internal explosions.
Large num ances, and reiterated the danger from shall have an unimpaired capital and detaching
Second district and Josephine county
submarines and floating mineB to neu Burplus of $76,000 or more.
ber o f the crew loBt their lives.
At night, however, she was obliged
Jackson to admit that he could not be coming;
The state bank examiner under the ■:rom the First district.
trals traversing the “ war zone.”
Fearing death at sea from German
new law will need to examine those county alone then will embrace the and then, quivering with honest rnxl-
So an impasse has been reached.
submarines, the officers and crew of an
The President and members o f his banks that are members o f a regularly First district, with Judge Frank M. ety for her old friend, BloBsy dipped
oil tank steamer, leaving San Fran
cabinet discussed the entire subject of organized clearing house association Calkins in charge.
Into her emergency fund, which she
cisco for England, have made their
This plan will leave Douglas county kept In the heart of a little pink china
relations o f the United States with but once a year. Other banks will be
wills.
Germany and Great Britain with a subject to the existing semi-annual ex alone as the Second judicial district pig on a shelf In her room— a pink
It is assumed and the bill provides that Judge J. W. china pig with a lid made of stiff
Oregon senate passes ultra "d ry ” view to devising a solution which amination, however.
that the clearing house banks will be Hamilton shall remain the circuit black hair standing on edge In the
bill in half hour, one member dissent would be generally satisfactory.
ing. This is said to be the most dras
So far as Germany is concerned, under constant inspection by the clear judge o f that district.
middle of hie back— and sent a tele
tic Prohibition measure of any state they determined to do all they could ing house examiners.
gram to Captain Darby, asking If he
With
these
few
changes
in
the
exist
in the Union.
to obtain a declaration by Great Brit
Voters to Register but Once.
were sick.
ing law state banks will be enabled to
The answer came back slowly by
A prize crew of three officers and 16 ain with reference to the freedom o f
State Capitol, Salem — House bill
become members o f the Federal re
men was placed on board the American foodstuffs not consigned to the German
191 providing for permanent registra mall, to find Blossy on the verge of
serve system without any trouble or
steamer Wilhelmina at Falmouth. The government or to the German military
tion was passed by the senate without a nervous collapse, under the care of
inconvenience.
Wilhelmina is loaded with foodstuffs and naval forces.
argument. The law provides that as all the women In the house.
They
determined
further
to
make
That letter Blossy never showed to
bound for Germany.
long as an elector resides in the pre
clear to the British authorities that Bill to A id Oregon
cinct in which he registers and votes Brother Abe, nor to any one else.
A Dunkirk dispatch says a life buoy this government was in earnest in the
Goods Is Approved at one election held throughout the Neither did she treasure it In the sen
inscribed U-12 has been found on the warning sent against the adoption
county within the biennial election timental trunk beneath the attic eaves.
shore at Zuydoote, near Dunkirk. It predicted by Winston Churchill, first
State Capitol, Salem — The senate period ending November 30 following The letter ran:
is thought to have belonged to a Ger lord o f the British admiralty, o f more judiciary committee by unanimous vote
the regular biennial general election,
man submarine, which possibly met stringent measures to prevent food decided to report favorably on a bill
D e a r B e ts y A n n : I n e v e r fe lt b e tte r in
he shall not be required to register
with disaster.
m y life. A in ’t been sick a m in ute. Just
supplies from reaching Germany.
by Senator Bingham which, the mem again.
m ade up m y m in d I w a s a o ld fo o l, and
If Great Britain will comply with bers say, will aid the manufacturers
Judge Gatens, of the Circuit court
If the elector fails to vote^ as stipu wus g o in g to quit. I f y o u ch a n g e y o u r In
o f Multnomah county, Oregon, says he the urgent representations of the Unit of the state and relieve the unem lated he shall re-register or notify the ten tion s at a n y tim e, ju s t d ro p m e a p o s
A s ever,
"cannot assume ecclesiastical powers” ed States, Germany has promised to ployed situation to a large extent.
county clerk in not less than 30 days t a l
Manufacturers and organized labor nor more than 60 days after the regu
S A M ’ L D A R B Y , ESQ .
in opening the Taylor-street church in cancel the orders for the “ war zone.”
Twenty-seven vessels from the Unit leaders, who appeared before the com lar November election that he resides
Portland, which is closed by a dissen-
“ This, Captain Darby, makes your
tion in the Methodist congregation, ed States, four of American nation mittee, were a unit in urging adpotion in the district from which he regis rejection final,” vowed Blossy to her
but i f the property is not used for ality and five carrying passengers, will o f the bill, which provides a differen tered and requests in writing that his self, as she tore the note into frag
church purposes, it will be Bubject to enter the "w a r zone” on or immedi tial o f 6 per cent in favor o f Oregon name remain on the register o f ments and drowned them In the spir
ately after the inauguration o f the concerns in the letting o f contracts for electors.
taxation.
its of lavender with which the sisters
"n ew method o f w arfare.”
public work and the purchase of ma
This is the second permanent regis had been seeking to soothe her dis
A'dispatch from Bagdad says that in
terials and Bupplies for public uae.
tration law that has been passed by
an engagement between the advance
Senator Bingham explained that the Oregon legislature, one passed at tracted nerves.
guard o f the Turkish left wing and Revised Ship Purchase
under the bill county courts, boards of the session in 1913 having been de
British infantry and cavalry, the Brit
C H A P T E R Vili.
Bill Passed by House county commissioners, school boards, clared unconstitutional by the Supreme
ish withdrew, leaving 17 men dead.
Washington, D. C. — The govern city councils and all other public court. The new law provides that the
The dispatch addB that the right wing
The Anniversary.
boards
and commissioners charged
o f the Turkish army succeeded in ad ment ship purchase bill, as an amend with the letting of contracts for public county clerk shall use the card index
About this time Blossy developed a
system
in
keeping
his
register
o
f
elec
ment
to
the
Weeks
naval
auxiliary
vancing as far as the woods near Kono.
tendency to draw Brother Abraham
work may accept bids o f Oregon con
The Turks, it is asserted, captured 600 bill, was passed by the house at 1:20 cerns which do not exceed by more tors. Each elector shall sign a card aside at every opportunity, convenient
giving
his
name,
age,
political
affilia
o
’clock
a.
m.
Wednesday,
by
a
vote
of
camels.
Only
five
Turks were
than 5 per cent the bids quoted by tion, etc., and shall take an oath that or inconvenient. In order to put such
215 to 121.
wounded.
competitors o f other states.
he is a citizen o f the United States. questions as these to him:
When Minority Leader Mann saw
Didn’t you say It Is fully thirty-five
D. M. Dunne, director o f the Manu The cards shall be public records and
The relations between Greece and that the Democratic leaders were de
Turkey apparently are becoming more termined to stop the filibuster, several facturers’ association, said the passage shall be kept in the office of the county years since you and Captain Darby
strained. Although Turkey has offered conferences were held and it was of the bill would aid employers by clerks as other public records are kept. were on the beach together? Do you
think he has grown much older? Had
reparation for the insult to the Greek agreed not to keep up the dilatory keeping their plants in operation and
he lost his hair then? Did he care
military attache [at Constantinople, it fight and a few minutes after 1 o'clock employes by providing them with
Trading
Stamp
Bill
Dies.
for the opposite sex? Was he very
is reported that the Greek minister has a vote began on the final passage of work.
State Capitol, Salem— By agreeing brave— or would you say more brave
left the legation in charge o f a secre the bill.
to the indefinite postponement of Rep than stubborn and contrary? Isn’t It
Prison Fund Enlarged.
tary, being dissatisfied with Turkey’s
The passage of the bill followed a
State Capitol, Salem— An additional resentative Forbes' bill to levy a heavy a blessing that I never married him?"
attitude. The Turkish minister has 14-hour parliamentary struggle, which,
tax on trading stamps, those members
Fearful of the ridicule of the sisters,
also left Athens. This is believed in until long after midnight, threatened appropriation o f $25,000 for support
who are opposed to the use o f trading Illoesy was always careful to conduct
some quarters to be the first step in to extend interminably, because o f a of the state penitentiary was voted by
stamps
in
the
state
are
centering
their
the house and senate ways and means
these Inquiries In whispers, or at least
the rupture o f diplomatic relations be determined
filibuster
by Minority
This action was due to efforts on Representative Tom Brown’s in undertones with a great observance
tween Greece and Turkey, which are Leader Mann, who yielded only after committee.
bill which probably be up for final of secrecy, sometimes stopping Abe on
said also to have been affected by the administration leaders derided to apply the representations made to the com
The mail o f every the stairs, sometimes beckoning him
mittee that the “ population” o f the passage soon.
Albanian invasion of Serbia.
a second special rule to bring the tight
institution would be substantially in member of the legislature has been to her side when she was busy about
Canada increases tax, for war pur- to an end.
creased in the next two years, inas flooded for the last few weeks with her household tasks on the pretense of
The bill now goes to the senate.
poses.
much as Governor Withycombe does letters from constituents who repre requiring his assistance. On one oc
Nineteen Democrats voted against
A San Francisco woman has started
not projiose to practice a policy of sent either side of the question. The casion she even went so far as to in
the bill.
They w ere:
Bathrick,
bill promises to arouse considerable
a jitneyette— for women only.
wholesale pardonings.
veigle him Into holding a skein of
Borchers, Callaway, Dies, Donohoe.
Moreover, a little extra money will debate.
England declares that more stringent
wool about his clumsy hands, while
Fitzgerald, Gerry,
Gordon,
Jones,
action will be taken against German Kindel, Kitchin, Morrison, Moss of be needed owing to the desire of the
she wound the violet worsted Into a
Road-Merger Act Passed.
present governor to place the institu
trade.
ball, and delicately inquired If he be
Indiana, Page o f North Carolina, Saun
State Capitol, Salem— By provisions lieved Samuel spoke the truth when
tion,
as
far
as
possible,
on
a
self-sup
Russians in East Prussia are report ders, Slayden, Whitacre, White and
o f Senator Hawley’s bill passed by the he protested that he had never paid
porting
basis.
The
committee
again
ed
retreating before the German Witherspoon.
discussed several plans through which house the Southern Pacific company court to any other woman.
forces.
All of the Republicans present voted
the prisoners may be employed. A will be enabled to proceed with the
Alas, Blossy'e frequent tete-a-tetes
Two hundred and twenty thousand against the bill.
flax plant and a wagon-making plant consolidation o f its subsidiary com with the amused but sometimes Impa
Serbs are now fit for service in the
are under consideration. If either one panies, plans for whieh already have tient Abraham started an exceedingly
European war theater.
Illinois Deadlock Ends.
completed
by the railroads
or both o f these plans is adpoted, it is been
foolish suspicion. When, asked the
Commissioner Dleck, o f Portland,
Springfield— David E. Shanahan, for probable that further appropriations affected. The bill amends the present sisters of one another, did Abe ever
law so that one road may own and
has inaugurated a demerit system many years a member of the Illinois will be allowed for the penitentiary.
help any one, save Blossy, shell dried
operate a competing line. The South
against city employes who are negli
legislature, was elected speaker in the
beaus or pick over prunes? When Ltd
ern
Pacific
plans
to
consolidate
the
gent about paying their personal bills.
Divorce Ad Bill Is Passed.
lower house, after a deadlock of six
he ever been known to hold wool for
Portland, Eugene & Eastern, the Cor
Five hundred workmen employed in weeks. Shanahan, in accepting the
State Capitol, Salem— A bill by Rep
Angy'e winding?
Not once since
vallis A- Eastern, the Salem, Falls City
the auto-truck body building depart honor, said he did so partly because resentative Littlefield prohibiting law
wooing time, 1 warrant you. What
& Western and several pther minor
ment o f tne Theodor Kundtz plant, of he was told on all sides that the dead
yers from advertising for divorce busi roads it owns for the purpose of re could this continual hobnobbing and
lock would become a scandal if it last
Cleveland, O., went on strike.
ness and fixing penalties for violations ducing expenses and promoting effi going ofT Into corners mean, except—
flirtation?
German financiers have been sum ed any longer. As to the conflict be was passed by the senate Thursday. ciency in operation.
tween “ w et” and “ dry” forces, to
Ruby Lee whispered It first Into
Senator Strayer, o f the committee on
moned to a conference in Berlin with
Aunt Nancy's good ear. Aunt Nancy
the finance minister, who considers which the deadlock was in part attrib revision of laws, in reporting the
District Road Plan Loses.
Indulged in four pinches of snuff in
that a new loan of $1,250,000,000 is uted, he expressed a desire to see the measure favorably, said the practice
State Capitol, Salem — One more rapid succession, sneezed an amazing
required for the continuance of the issue fought out on the floor of the as was common in Portland.
It was
sembly. Shanahan is an avowed “ wet. ”
war, says a dispatch from Amsterdam.
thought an encouragement o f litiga road bill was defeated in the house, number of times, and then acridly In
but another is on its way. By a vote formed Hubv Lee that she was a "Jeal
tion should not t>e allowed.
Man tailors in session in Chicago,
British Vessel Blown Up.
o f 41 to 17 the house defeated Repre ous cat" and alwrays had been one.
Senator
Kellaher
said
there
was
no
declaring that economy in dress is
However, Aunt Nancy could not re
London A dispatch to Lloyds from reason why divorce lawyers should not sentative Sam Browne’s bill to provide
necessary, limit $1006 yearly for |
Fecamp.
France says the British advertisise for business if they desired. a system of state, county and district frain from carrying the gossip to Miss
clothe«, which includes eight walking
co-operation in road-building.
The Kllle. adding that she herself had been
steamer Dulwich, Captain
Dudley,
suits, four overcoats, one full-dress
bound from Hull for Rouen, was blown Senate Delays New ( ounty Bill. measure carried a half-mill tax levy suspicious of Abe's behavior from the
suit and six pairs o f trousers.
By the
and it was this feature to which the | start.
up 25 miles off Cape Antifer by two
State Capitol, Salem — The senate
same decree women should use only
"Oh, no. n o !” cried the shocked and
house seemingly took objection. The
successive explosions.
The dispatch
has
indefinitely
postponed
house
bill
$260 yearly.
"And Angy so
good roads enthusiasts are not discour shrinking spinster.
said that seven men o f the crew o f the
262 by W. O. Smith, amending section
aged, however, and have prepared an cheerful all the time? I don’t believe
They re
Relief workers find that the Bel steamer arrived in Fecamp.
6, chapter 10, laws o f 1913, so that a
It."
gians especially enjoy the American ported that none on the steamer had majority of the voters of a new county other bill to be submitted through the
But whisper, whisper, buzz, buzz,
roads and highways committee.
been injured ami that all o f them could
brand of "pork and beans.”
may have the power of determining
went the gossip, until finally it reached
have made their escape in the life
the pink little ears at the side of
President Wilson in a lecture before boats. The Dulwich was a vessel of the location of a county seat. Under
Labeled Eggs Demanded.
...
,
.
Miss Abigail« generously proportioned
the National Council o f Boy Scouts, 3289 tons and was owned by the Brit the existing law 60 per cent o f the
State Capitol, Salem
voters
is
necessary
to
determine
the
Rr **
n head. The pink ears turned crimson.
advised them to develop character by ish Steamship company.
location.
The amendment was de declared by the legislature on the likewise the adjoining cheeks, and
serving others.
Chinese
egg.
The
house
has
passed
sired in connection with the election to
Miss Abigail panted with righteous in
Xorwegians Must Use Paint.
The British government has capitu
determine the county seat of Jefferson Representative Allen’ s bill requiring dignation.
lated at last to the insistent demand
Christiania The war insurance bu county, which was created by a divis every dealer, restaurant keeper and
"It all comes o f this plagued old
hotel keeper to label the containers of
for more news from the front. Prime reau has given directions that all Nor ion of Crook county.
winter time," she declared, sharply
Minister Asquith promised that ar wegian ships proceeding to or from
eggs imported from foreign countries.
biting her thread, for she was mend
rangements would be made to publish the British Isles shall have painted as
Wherever imported eggs are sold,
No Postal Saving Limit Wins.
ing a tablecloth. "Shet the winders on
signs
announcing
that
the
eggs
are
communications from Sir John French, quickly as possible on both sides of the
State Capitol, Salem The senate,
summer, an’ yew ketch the tall of
the British commander-in-chief, twice hulls the names o f the ships and the by a unanimous vote, adopted the joint foreign must be prominently displayed.
slander In the latch every time. Naow,
weekly.
word "N o rg e .”
Fore and aft o f this memorial o f Senator Dimick asking Manufactured products containing eggs
ef I hear one word about this Tamal
won! the national colors are to be congress to remove the limit on postal also must be labeled. The measure is
foolishness cornin' to Angy's ears, or
The United States government sends painted in vertical stripes a blue
expected to benefit the Oregon hen.
Brother Abe s, or Blossy s either, fer
notes to England and Germany, pro stripe a half meter wide in the middle savings deposits and to use the de said Mr. Allen.
posits
as
a
basis
for
establishing
a
that matter, we ll all have to eat ofTn
testing against interference by those and white stripes on either side o f it a
system
o
f
rural
credits.
It
also
is
pro
countries of American shipping, prop quarter o f a meter wide. On the out
otl-cloth Sundays, the same as week
No-Party Bench Act Is Out.
vided that interest to depositors be in
erty and citiaens.
days. until I see a more Christian
side o f these are to appear two red creased from 2 to 3 per cent, and that
State Capitol. Salem — Representa spertt In the house."
Secretary Lane will represent 1 “resi stripes, each a meter wide.
the provision for depositing the postal tive Tom Handley has consented to the
She gave the Sunday damask across
dent Wilson at the formal opening of
deposits in national banks lie abolished. indefinite postponement o f hi* bill pro her lap a pat which showed she was
the Panama Pacific Exposition at San
Italy Is Shaken Again.
viding
a
non-partisan
judiciary.
The
in earnest; and the rebuked sisters
Francisco February 20.
The Presi
measure had been indorsed by the glanced at one another, as If to s a y
Rome
-Another earthquake in the ! Fair Display Wanted in State.
dent plans to go in March
The attorneys
province of Aquila damaged many \ State Capitol, Salem Senator Day State Bar association.
"Suppose the minister should walk
Judge Gatens, o f Portland, halts houses, rendering a number of them has introduced a bill providing for an in the house generally favored the bill,
in some Sabbath afternoon and find
trial between warring factions o f the dangerous for habitation. The popu appropriation o f $17,600 for returning but they were opposed to passing it at
otl-cloth on the table, and ask the rea
Methodist church, in hopes of adjust lation,
greatly alarmed, has even the Oregon exhibit at the Panama- this session, for the reason that the
son w hy?"
ment out o f court, the question o f dis abandoned the undamaged houses, fear- i Paciflc Exposition to this state and people defeated a similar measure at
They one and all determined to taka
position o f the Taylor Street church.
the recent election.
ing another catastrophe.
making a permanent display o f it.
Resume of World’s Important
Events Told in Brief.
-¡ V
European 1 angle Stirs
Official Washington
ïïH
i i
4s^r
Wanted a Little Praise Himself.
Following a disastrous fire in a west
ern etty. many men and women gath
ered to look at the ruins Some of the
men, seeing that a wall near which
they were standing was toppling, made
haste to get out of the w a y , and nar
rowly escaped being crushed.
Johnny Brablson, a good Irish citi
zen. was so near the wall that he could
not escape with the others. So, whirl
ing about, he made for a door in the
wall, burst through It, and came out
on the other side safe, and evidently
very proud of his exploit.
Women
who had shut their eyes and shrieked
when they saw his danger now gath
ered round him in great joy, and cried
oat:
"Praise heaven, Johnny Brabtsoa,
down on your knees, and thank
heaven!”
“ Yls yls.” said he, "and ! will, but
wasn't It lnjaneyous Inn me. now 1 *—
Youth's Companion.
Futurist Window Display.
An Oxford street store has 'am en
one of Its windows Into a futurist
boudoir, which is s regular "M U sur»
mer Night’s Dream.”
There is an oxydlzed bed wf;h black
sheets and pillows, black snd white
striped wall paper, spruce and oranje
cushions scattered about a: random
on sofas or on the floor, and finally,
one of these very green china par
rots. the reason of which is not * >
parent.—Washington Herald.