THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREOON. SATURDAY. FEB. 24. 1917
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SURPRISED
BY J AMISS PI RMORT.
, V Judge !. ste, had
been a supers! lus
ii.ii, ha might i. ei
hav become a Judge.
It waa on Friday
tbkl h accepted the
nomination; It waa
on tha llth that lit
came down with bit '
contribution to the
campaign fund; It ;
0 1 rhat tha convention nominated .
bin and It waa on tha 1 1th again ;
tii , tha recount ot tha votea proved ;
tli t he had actually been elected by
aajult, Of II TOtM
Again, hart the Judge been a luper-,
!Moua man be would have hesitated
before buying tbe manor houta
an iwu aa The Maplss."
OmXf 40 rode down the road atood :
wiit had rone to me known m "The
UIkmi houia." It bad bau a fine .
place In It day, but things had gone j
wrong and the lawyers and ohancerr
had ' one U the feast The bouae j
had been abandoned and waa In de '
Kat,.iir without tbe fear of the'
law before their eyee had helped
.heuiselTee to doora and other things. '
aud the email boy bad aean to It that I
not a whole pane of (laaa waa left.
From abandonment to pillage, de-
i.ay and gboet la a natural transition.
The stortea rame to the ears of Judge
I stfsr. but made no Impreaalou. If
there ware gbotta he'd bare them ar
retted and brought before him, and
on conviction, which waa reasonably ,
certain In every caae. tha sentenoe j
wouia oe ror noi , men imn jmh
and four montba, and not more than
alx yean and eight mouth
When the Judge wife came to
hear of tha ghosts stalking about ao
near her every night at midnight
he shuddered. Not ao with the
daughter CaJly, however. She'd al
ways wanted to aee a real ghost, and
to shake hands with It If It was a
well-behaved one, and here waa her
opportunity. Perhaps a wltcb or two
would be thrown In for good measure.
Hts honor went his way without
heeding the fact that the number of
gbotta seemed to be Increasing as
summer drew on, while at the same
time the number V-
waa ateadily decreasing. On two or
three occasiooa hla attention was
called to whoops and yells that
sounded very human from tbe ghoat
bouae, but he waa busy with his law
books and did not tnvestlgte.
It waa Miss Cally who solved tbe
problem. That is, when abe was out
one morning galloping over the wet
graae to get her ahare of the dew
cure, ifae saw five strapping big
ir.trrv leave tbe Qhoat house In sin
gle Die to acattar over the country
and tell the sad story of losing their
all In the great Chicago fire.
Their appearance started a train
of thought, whan her chum, Mol'.y
Parsons came up for a month's atay.
"A haunted home? You don't
mean K!" replied the visitor.
"Honest Injunl"
"And there are ghosts?"
"No. There are tramps keeping
there nlghta, which is better for us.
We are to be the ghosts. Molly Par
sons, you get ready for tbe time of
your life. We are going to scare a
dozen Weary Willies most to death!"
"But your father and mother?"
"They are not up to date, dear, In
v,n nfternnori we raise a ladder to my
window to trim the Ivy. It la left :
ibere. At night we descend and the
ghosts walk. We have pMaw-rsaw
drawn over our heads, and sheets
draped around our bodies, and we
glide to and fro and say 'hist!' and
I 's'death!' "
Three or four night later the af- ;
, fair came oh?, hut not exactly accord-
i lag to program.
Miss Cally had got the Idea that
I at least five tramps found iodgiugt
In the ghost house every night.
whereas there were nights when
none sought the place at all. No
tramp can ever tll just where he!
will be when night falls. Important
business or the police may detalu I
him
The idea of the girl were to Invade
the house In advance of ail callers,
and they were successful In this. By
the help of a candle they found their
way In and to a room upstairs, and
then sat down on the floor to tremble
and shiver and wish they were out
of It. It suddenly began to rain, and
that didn't add to the cheer of the
situation.
No tramps! The only ghostly fig
ures were the two girls, sittlna- with
clasped hands ..,, I their backs to tbe
wall. The sitoatlon waa solemn. It
was wlerd. It waa uncanny. There
wasn't the least hit of fun In It.
Hist! A step! A swear-word! A
man enters the open front doors.
Mr. George Penwlck, artist, coming
up from the city on s late train to
the house of his brother, had found
the rain and mud too much for him.
and had sought shelter.
He batted his wet felt hat against (
tbe wall. He scraped hi muddy feet
on the floor. He swore In a soft and
gentle way not to be wicked, but1
just to make the weather behave
Itself.
"He's no tramp!" whispered Miss
Caliy to her friend.
"No?"
"He's cots.1 nice young man. You
can tell that by his way of swearing.
I wonder If he's heard about tha
ghosts?"
"S-s-sh! He seems to be listen
ing!" "I hops he Is. I'm going to scare
bin baldheaded!"
"Cally lisSiar, If you utter the
least sound V "
But the ...- ittered It
was a long-drawn groan Just such i
a groan as s man who had got stuck
while crawling under a lurn-cribj
would utter. The slleuce down
stairs could have been cut with a
knife.
Another gen.', .-.idlng wlt',i a
wall such a wall a, a stroi.f, man
utters when he gives up his fight
with the mad waves and sink to the
bottom or tbe tossing sea. of
course, tbe wall In uttered before he
reaches the bottom.
There was Ihii movement of feet
downstairs, and :ren a voles called
up:
"Anyop up there? If so, don't
try any of your tricks on ma!"
"O-h-h-li-h-h! M-m-m-m-rs-ra-m!"
was s .Tswered
T'.ile sighing, walling, groaning
aconi.Ing sound was made by Miss
Cally Lester, while Miss Molly Par
son was trying to hold a hand over
her mouth. Somebody downstairs
muttered something about tons cats,
and then fast were heard ot one
ascending. An electric cigar lighter
wag flashed, a man stood In the door
Of the room, and two girls gars ut
terance to shrieks.
"Good evening, ladles! Waiting
for the storm to pass. I suppose!!
Scmittlng new In evening costumes,
I see. I should be happy to paint yosg
both aa you sit there. The walling
and groaning were perfect. Why,
don't you try it for the phonograph V
"Sir!" replied Miss Cally as she)
scrambled up. "We are two girls.
We came here to play ghost and scare
away tramps. It's just a lark. We
are now going home, and and '
"No, I won't follow."
"And as you are a gentleman
"Not a word to any living soul.
You have a candle there. Let me
light It ror you and show you out."
"Cally. you arranged all this and
led me Into It, and now you've got
to pay the penalty."
"You've got to marry the man we
didn't scare!"
Mr. Penwlck has been prettv con
stant in his calls at "The Maples"
lor the last year and It was only the
other evening that the judge woke
from a nap to say:
"Yes. he'll be asking for an In
terview with me In a very short time,
now."
Girdles and Sash Effects AH
the Rage and So Are
. i I
By Margaret Mason.
(Written for the United Press.)
One's breadth of waist or lack of it,
This yeur will safely bide,
Concealed beneath the chemise frock,
So straight of Hue ami side,
Ah, would that all one's surplus chine
Could thus so smartly hide.
New York, Foh. 24. It is iudccil lit
ting in this period of excessively costly
living that there should lie no waste
lmt not quite so fitting that there
should be no wnist. In truth you could
hardly call it lilting at nil the way the
new frocks and suits hang straight and
severe of line with no lint or dent of a
curve or gentale intake
We have had hips, my dear, and
hodps, my dear, but now nothing but
el might long lines will do. It's certain
ly going lo bo lumpy going for pudgy
persons.
With their flinging tt'fti's cop! dresses
mid chemise f rucks tried awfully hard
to get around us all this winter but
while Hie many fell lor their straight
lines straight away a few of us still
held out for and on to our semblance of
a waist line. However, this spring anil
summer we must all capitulate and kis
our waists good bye. That is of course
if we are equal to stack an aerobe ties II j
agile stunt.
Girdles and Mish effects are oninipres
ent on all these straight line garments
but you mustn't care to pull them in a
bit to break the rigid outline of your
silhouette. Indeed it would seem thai
Dame Fashion were striving to emulate
I'uclt, that saury sprite of "Midsummer
Night's Dreoui" in his famous boast
"I'll put a girdle roundabout the earth
in 40 minutes." For she lias certainly
put a girdle around at least the feini
nine portion of the earth iu less than
thai.
Most of the girdle arc fast bunds ot
the same. -material n the suit or gowu
thai limply cling around the spot where
one's 'waist ought to be, without giving
away its location by any undue pres
sure. Some of then, arfl elaborately em
broidered on the ends iiml nluiust. lo a
girdle are finished with a rsstssi oi
two.
There's a mad taste for tassels too
and they dangle from pockets, collars,
iiills, and most every available spot.
Tuckets aren't the favorites they
once were and are found on very few of
the newest gowns. Possibly because
they break the slim contour of the
straight line and in order to accentuate
that same straight line the skirts are all
'forgetting their shortcomings of the
Inst few seasons and decorously slinking
anklewards.
. Henceforth you may be short of
bivatti, shod of cash and short of stnt
ure but never short of skirt that is,
not much above the ankle. And since
Aged Pioneer Visits
Historic Camp Ground
our convention has reached the ankle
level it is not altogether footless to
remark on the new spring foot gear. At
lust alter chic Parisians, smart London
era and Frenchy Argentine beatiUcs! During the session of the legislature
Imve worn the short vamped, snubnosed. ; there wandered out to the state fair
high heeled Taris shoes and slippers fat j grounds man beut with age oi over
two whole seasons they stare not at our i four score years. His object he said, in
lagging feet. Whether we will kick upltellng of his visit, to a press represen-
much fuss about being slmcd in these! tative. was to find the old time camping
long as-they-are-broail el I eels is yet to place ot lumselt, General James W. Ne
be seen Truly after the long, long smith, General Joe l.ane, John Minto
vamps of the long, long winter our j. Sol Durbi.n, Governor . 0. Gibbs, Gov
pedal extremities are to be driven to ex.-1 crnor Woods, Kalph Geer and others
tremes it seems. Tootsies really look : who camped there before there was a
much linier in these new French foot j state fair. General Phil Sheridan had
fashions if you don't mind - looking a i also camped there, tn tellina his etorv
bit as if you had clubfeet. Up-to-date '-tears filled his eyes. Said he, " Why jokes ou some friend. I am sorry 1
Wilkins house was hauled from Kugenc, Shaw, is president, and A. A. Geer, of
and John Minto hauled a lot of lum
OOf for a number of camp houses. The
key to the Wilkins bouse always hung
requesting those who used the camp to
requesting those who used the camfp to
lock the house when leaving. Freighters
would use tho cottages when passing to
and from Portland. The Vancouver col
ony had a part of the old guard house
that General Grant -used while stationed
at Vancouver, hauled over to Salem and
put into a camp house. After this house
was put up Senator Nesniith locked Gov
ernor Grower in it one night and sent
word to Asohel Bush that Grover was
deWn at Vancouver camp and wtiuted t
Pratum, secretary of the Campers' as
sociation.
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HOT TFA BREAKS j
A COLD TBV THIS j
Get M small package ot Hamburg!
Breast Tea, or as the German folks call!
it. "Hamburger Brust Thee," at any)
piiarmacy. Take a tablespoon iul of thei
ten, put a cup of hailing writer upon!
it, pour through a sieve aud drink a,
tcmup full at any time. It. is the, most
effective way to. break a cold and cute
see him. Nesmith was for ever playing 8'P. a it opens the pores, relieving!
could not find any of the old time camps
There is one house that looks like tho
Joe Lane camp, and, one looks like the
General iSheridun camp, but they are
not where their were fust put up. The
time the Indian war veteran held a
I haven't glimpsed any on a real Am- bless me, it was the camp grounds that
ericas foot but there are lots on hand I caused the state fair to be held in this
in the smartest Fifth Avenue shops. i particular place. It was the meeting
Buttoned, laced, strapped and in all; place of those passing to and from tbe
colors of suede kid. silk, satin and pat-j southern part of the state- There were
ent leather thev are like the shoes of: no railroads; no telephone, no teletiraoh
another season save for t lie abrupt dif-j lines,' ' said he. "I notice that the meeting on the camp grounds and 37
ferenee of absolutely round stub toes j camp grounds have been invaded, and of us slept in one house. I say slept,
where heretofore our vamps were as ; thru every building, every improvement, We passed the night there. ' ' It may be
long and pointed as n wifely curtain I e ven the' race track and all have been said that portions of the General Sheri
lecture. ' taken from the old camp grounds. As I dan, Genera! Joe l.ane and Creneral
Since Fashion has put her foot clown ; remember, it: was the understanding Grant guard house are still in exist
in short vamps on long vamps however, that at least 100 acres were to be it- ence, but somewhat tho worse for over
it looks as if there would bo nothing; taiued for camping purposes. The camp- hall a century of usago and being
for us to do but toe the mark in lliese ing was the big feature and at state lair i moved half a dozen times. These camp
round toed boots. Verily the 1 ooiprvits time was tho .visiting time. There were j houses while not looking very nttrnc
on the sand of summer time are bound hundreds of camp houses dotted all over ! tive, have aided in making Oregon his
to look a bit blunt lo say the least. 'the grounds. I remember that General jtory and in maintaining the.OregOH
m ' j.Joe I-ane hud lumber hauled from Rose-
Henry Ford's offer, in case of war, (burg and put into a camp house. Gen
to lend to the United States govern-1 era! Xesmith and Joe Meek had-camp
meat whatever part of his money it j houses -close to Lane's. Someone, it
wants without any interest, percent-1 seems- to me, it was Kalph Geer. - who
age, or profit, is no way, to treat I had lumber hauled from General lltil
bloated bondholders or those who think isheridan's place at Sheridan, and Mtiyean 'be space has been demanded-ond
themselves about to become such. ItntO camp house. The lumber for thcithe houses moved. W. H. Downing, of
ungestioii. Also loosens the bowels.
thus breaking a cold at once.
It is inojLpcjisive and. entirely, vege
table, therefore harmless.
There has always, seemed to be some-!
thing strangely, familiar about that
war-bom name, " P.etrograd." It now
comes to mind. The. missing word is
"centigrade," but it ha? taken three
cold Bussian winters to fetch it.
A Really Safe
Tonic
HOSTFTTER'S
Stomach Bitters
64 Years a
family Medicine
It would savr a woidd f misunder
standing if everybody wouhl fix clear
ly in mind thst rristinctiei- between
being "forced into a" r being
"forced into the. war."
state fair. Tne Campers association',
which, possibly represents more indus
tries than any other organization iu the
state, has. on several occasions had
vines and attractive shrubbery- placed
about tho camp houses, but. in a few
Dennis Eucalyptus
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