PAGE EIGHT
GREHT RICHES
STSOPS13: The Great War hat
at least one oood deed to it credit.
It ended an impossible situation be
tween James and Jane Btimson.
vho slowly vers erowino to hate
each other, and it took James out at
Xeu Concord. Kae.. lust trhen he
wae beginning to doubt hi ca
pacity to succeed. Note hs ha re
turned a motor, vtth a limp of
which he is nroud. and has marched
with his men in a treat forade at
St. Louis.
Chapter 41
HOME TO JANE
fpWO weoki later Jami was
. mustered out anil came home
In earnest. It waa probably the
proudest hour of his life, "hen he
limped up Commercial Street at the
head of the men of hla county and
New Concord cheered itself hoarse.
New Concord was hla own beloved
town once more. He had not failed
her when bis moment called.
When "the General" returned home
Nappy was so Immensely relieved
and bo blissfully happy that he waa
for once almost speechless. All be
could eay waa "Dawg gonel Dawg
gone!" over and over while tears
ran shamelessly down his face. It
waa noticed In New Concord that
Nappy thereafter limped a little
wben he walked. He waa never
able to walk quite straight again
any more than was James.
Jane had not been idle during
James' absence. With a husband at
the front Jane's sharp speecbea of
the past were tolerated and for
given. Jane helped organize and run the
New Concord chapter of the Red
Cross, helped sell Liberty Bonds.
helped raise money for home relief,
for the Y.M.CX
She proved so efficient both as a
speaker and as an organizer that
her fame spread. She waa asked
to go to Saint Joseph and make
peecbea there. She went und re
mained to help with the Y.M.C.A.
hut and canteen at the railway sta
tion. Fully occupied at last, her nat
ural energies and undoubted or
ganizing abilities finding for once
an outlet, Jane forgot to be sar
castic, forgot all about her health,
became what she waa meant to be,
a happy and efficient youngish
woman, even a charming youngish
woman. She seldom had time to
think of James, but when she did
she thought of him kindly, even
proudly; that Is until she met Mrs.
Benson.
TV jRS. BENSON was ona of the
J1 wymans of Saint Joseph, so
was not only born with a golden
spoon In hor mouth, but acquired
a full golden service on her mar
riage. Lett a widow In 1017 Mrs.
Benson decided to forget her grief
in "service."
A couBln In New York suggested
that she "man" a fully equipped
amnuianre with women nurses.
women doctors, women drivers and
place It at the disposal of the French
government The suggestion waa
acted on, the French government
accepted. Mrs. Benson, meeting
Jane and taking a great fancy to
her, asked her to go with the am
bulance as alternate driver to her
self.
Never In her whole lite did Jane
ao passionately want to do anything
as much as she wanted to go to
France. And she could not. She waa
not allowed to go because she had
a husband there. Nina Butterfleld
went In her place.
Jane, who seldom cried, cried
herself eick. Jane had been glad
enough to have James enlist. Now
ahe accused him bitterly of hideous
and unforgivable selfishness.
He was a married man. Married
men had no right to volunteer until
all the unmarried men had been
enrolled or conscripted. The way
he fnlrly ran from her to throw him
self Into the army waa a slap at her.
He had no right, he had no right . . .
Jane tore the gold atar flag she
kept In her bedroom to shreds and
stamped on It For once she admit
ted to herself, openly and un
ashamed, that she hated James.
In a dny or two Jane got hold of
herself. A second and larger flag
with a gold star stlli hung over the
front steps of the house on Fifth
and Oak Streets. When the flag grew
itnlncd and the star tarnlnhed. Jane
boucht a niw one and nailed It Into
place herself.
She did not criticize James out
wardly, not even to her mother.
She dared not, for fear ot the tidi
ness that might escape and betray
her. After a little she grew almost
ashamed, almost contrite, for that
moment of self.frankness when she
had admitted she hated her hus
band. Of course she did not hate Juntos.
She despised his weakness, his In
capacity. But even though ahe did
not love him she did not hate him,
IMPROVEMENT VET
WASHINGTON. May 3. (API
-The
veterans' administration ha an
nounced aiproval of construction and
Improvement projects In Its hospitals
throughout the country. Projects ap
proved Included:
nosrburg. Ore. H6S.O00. Including
127.O00 tor recreation building.
Portland. Ore. $53,000, Including
20.0D0 to convert the neuro-psy-rHntrir
building for general and
ir--leal cr.j.p.
T:ie lv.v.6 will be obtained. In
torr.e Ins'.tinces. the veterans' ad
ministration aald. from the regular
ve:cran' administration appropria
tion. In other (hsp,. the a.:m:nl5tra
ttrn licppd to c'.'.t.u t' - nrrcsary
fundi, In-m u.t new relief fund.
wonld not allow herself to flats
him. A smaller woman, a woman
less fine might easily ... but ot
course she did not and would not
Because It waa expected ot her,
because other women from New
Concord were going, Jane went to
Saint Louis for the big parade and
to welcome James fittingly. They
met after the parade waa over In a
small wired enclosure around the
Saint Louis city hall, with an admir
ing multitude pressing against the
wire and making audible comments
concerning the fervor of each hero's
embarrassed embrace of bis near
est and dearest
Jane was beautifully, even ex
quisitely, dressed In a new dark
blue ault and toque of velvet violets.
James kissed her awkwardly, told
her she looked like a bride, asked
her a few questions, and found ha
had nothing whatever to say to her.
The hour they bad together befors
he left for camp James spent Is
Introducing hla wife to hla com
rades. Their evident admiration ol
Jane was a pleasant fillip to James1
pride.
"rOUXL soon be home," Jam
I said at partlhg.
"I'll soon be home," James an
ewered and tried to amile. He knew,
and Jane feared that he knew, thai
she did not want him back.
Two weeka later James cams
home to stay. After the second wel
come the aecond parade In New
Concord, which took place fairly
early In the morning, Aunt Sarah
had a family luncheon at the Man
sion. There had been during James1
rhsence a seml-reconclllation be
tween Sarah Stlmson and th
North rups.
Mr. and Mrs. Northrup went with
Jane to the luncheon. Mr. Northrup
did most of the talking. The North
rup twins had both enlisted In the
aviation corps, and though they did
not get to France Mr. Northrup
made it plain that In hla opinion
the flyers had taken all the risks
that were worth anybody's men
tioning. A flyer faced death dally,
took hie life in hla handa every
time he went aloft While a mere
Infantryman. . .
The luncheon could hardly be
called a howling success. After It wss
over and the Northrupa were Impa
tient to depart, James said brusque
ly that he meant to stay awhile with
his aunt He had to see to a lot ot
thlnga about the place.
"I'll take Mother and Father home
and come back tor you In an hour
or two," Jane suggested brightly. It
was evident to her husband that
Jane waa achoollng herself to en
dure patiently and with wifely
sweetness the atlngs and exaspera
tlona of their renewed relationship.
With a sudden swift Intuition
James realized that Jane waa one
of those women (and there are more
than anyone gueBses) to whom mar
riage becomes inevitably a galling
bond. She was not sexless, but
under-sexed. Sooner or later any
husband, James particularly, but
any husband, would have annoyed
and exasperated her.
"Jane just naturally doesn't like
men much," waa the way James put
it to himself. To be sure she was
fond of her father; but he waa an
old woman If there ever waa one.
She had never cared for her broth
ers, never liked the Judge, had
never been Interested In what
James called "man talk."
James refused decisively to allow
Jane to come back for him. He need
ed exercise, waa spoiling for exer
cise. He'd follow her after a while.
The Northrups drove off In a hull
In (he shiny brand new car which
was Mr. Northrup's gift to Jane a
a thank offering (or consolation)
for Jamea' safe return. James spent
the afternoon lolling about the Man
sion or the yard, banking In the ad
miration of Aunt Sarah and Aunt
Lou and the adoring Nappy or In
awapping yarna with the latter. It
waa late in the afternoon when he
left.
Jane telephoned at six o'clock
with a second offer to come after
James. She waa Informed that he
had Just gone.
She telephoned at seven to say
that her carefully prepared dinner
was spoiling In the oven.
She telephoned at eight to say
haughtily that she was at her moth
er'a and that her husband would
find her there.
Nappy answered the final call and
told Jane that the last he had seen
ot the General he was streaking It
down the River Road toward Leav
enworth. Looked to hlra like the
General was good for a good ten or
tllfteen miles.
tCap)rBht. 1.1.15. ilaleel IT. farnhaml
Jamci meets an
narrow.
W. W., to.
1ES LOST IN FIRE
VANCOUVER. Wash. Mar 3 ,AP
Powt ervlce employes Mid toda?
that more than 3,000 acre of roiin
timber m devastated hv fire which
burned laat week in widely acattered
neotlona of Clark county.
Although weather condition hv
been favorable a! nee the heavy show
er Monday ntfiht. the fire menace
atill remains, awordlnft to Oeorv
Herper. district state fire warden.
Should wind a uplift to the ewt and
warm weather Bf?a:n prevail, the situ.
at:on would be almost a bad as It
waa Sunday when fifty flrea broke
out, he said.
Pea araliopa, herettifre belleveO
rare In North Carolina wtri, re
cently were found In great numbers
30 miles oIX fthore.
MEDFORD MAIL
OF
BLISS TO
T OF
LOS ANGELES, May 3.(TJP)
Jacqueline, a lady parrot who used
to be "Jack" until she laid an egg
was mother tonight, but her off
spring will never talk.
That's because "Chlckle," the child,
Is not & parrot at all, but a b&ntara
rooster.
' This strange confusion In the
Jaoquellne family limb came about
through a series of unintentional
misunderstandings, certain delin
quencies of nature, and the kindly
tendencies of Mrs. Ida Marsh, Jac
queline's owner.
For 12 years Jacqueline was oalled
"Jack" and she responded to the
name with very dirty looks. Nobody
was able to figure out what was
wrong, since "Jack" was a perfectly
good parrot name.
Then "Jack" laid an egg.
"Ooodneas gracious I" Jacqueline
exclaimed something she never sold
as "Jack."
Bo she promptly a&t on the egg.
For days she sat, her eyes aglow
with the beautiful bliss of mother
hood. But nothing hup pen ed to the
egg. Jacqueline became querulous,
and finally openly suspicious.
Mrs. Marsh, to allay Jacqueline's
motherly doubts, decided to supple
ment the ways of nature. She sub
stituted another egg.
The result wsa a surprise, both to
Jacqueline and Mrs. Marsh. The egg,
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Bleeds To Death
After Falling On
Open Knife Blade
BAKER. May SWAP) Kermlt
Knuteen, 10, was fatally Injured
this morning when he fell on an
open knife he was carrying as hs
ran along the green chains at the
Stoddard Lumber company plant
In South Baker.
The knife severed an artery in
the cheat and the boy apparently
bled Internally. Kermlt, who was
born In Begins, Canada March 12.
1910, is survived by his parents
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Knutsen, two
slater and a brother.
which she thought waa a parrot egg,
turned out to have been pilfered
from a hen's nest. Chlckle, the ban
tam, wss the Issue.'
But Jacqueline, who Is no stickler
for biological distinctions, apparently
figured that eggs Is eggs, and im
mediately began to lavish on her
microscopic- offspring all the affec
tion of long -repressed motherhood.
"Sometimes when she pecks, I have
to grab Chlckle away," Mrs. Marsh
explained. "Jacqueline means well,
but a macaw's bill Isn't exactly the
thing with which to caress a little
chick.
"But Jacqueline gets so mournful
when I take Chlckle away I always
have to put her right back. She al
ways welcomes It back, and mothers
It as If It were a real parrot.
"I really don't know how It Is
all going to turn out."
More than 27.000 Kentucky school
children have been given freeluncheB
dally since last fall by the Ken
tucky emergency relief administra
tion. 'Em, Kid
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OREGON. THURSDAY,
ARMS TRADE BAR
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LONDON, May a-(AP) Viscount
Cecil of Chelwocd today denounced
the armaments trade &b a bar to
peace.
He declared It waa wrong In prin
ciple that In any country there
should exist great Interests which
must depend for their prosperity on
war preparations, saying they were
almost bound to be In opposition to
me general peace poucy or me
country.
"Whenever you get a state of ten
sion In Intern a tlona-1 affairs," he
asserted st the first sitting of the
royal commission Investigating pri
vate manufacture and trade In arms,
"the values of shares of armament
firms go up.
"There have been eases to which
active steps have been taken by
armament Interest to prevent the
conclusion of disarmament negotla-
xions. ne most striKing of these
were the efforts of Mr. William B
Shearer for certain firms In America
to prevent the conclusion of the dis
armament conference at Geneva.
PORTLAND COPS WATCH
FOR BEER WAR FLAREUP
PORTLAND. May 3. (AP) Police
were on the alert here today to pre
vent further outbreaks of difficulties
between two unton organizations.
members of which clashed here last
night in a flareup or the prolonged
"Beer war." The groups are the
Brewery Workers' union and the
Teamsters' union, which for months
have quarreled about Jurisdiction
over certain brewery employes.
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