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you know. and blowing his beak with
whole lot of quite unnecessary elabora-
ton, 'Aw, you're mistaken. MISTAKEN
utterly. Little dust in my eye, that al.
Say, now quit that. / didn't think you
were such a mush, honest l didn't Be
have that, won't you?'
Oh let me alone says the woman
trying womanfully to iron out her tell
worry about me. I'm all right Why
should l feel badly? Just because L m
going away from you? Tut. tut, how non
sensical. And then her voice begins to
quaver and he tries to say something and
his voice is shaky and give-awayish, too,
and then they both reach out furtively
and grab a-hold of each others hands.
imagining that they're getting away with
it without anybody seeing them, and
presently in spite of their genuinely
hard fight, why, they're both boohooing
to beat the band and still trying to be
laughy and nonchalant between gasps.
It's a study, too. sometimes to over
hear a man cussing between his teeth
over the fact that he just can't keep the
tears back when he's about to be sepa-
rated by the sea from the woman who is
everything in the world to him. only
few days ago l saw and heard a case
like that
HE was big bruiser of finely
groomed athletic man. who looked like
a stock broker who kept himself in CON
slant trim, and he was sending his pref
~ little nudge CT nVe-1oOt vile away oii
a tour of Europe with some folks.
The couple allowed the party to go
aboard and they stayed on the pier over
by some bales to have the parting thing
out They beth were in pretty bad way
over the separating business. 1t took
only about one-ninth Of an eye to see
that
After a while / saw the little woman
hands covering her eyes, and then her
shoulders began to shake in silent sort
of way.
The big chap, her husband, patted
the little woman on her near arm and
said things to her in a low tone, but 1t
was no use. Her misery had become too
strong for her. and she was entirely
past helping She just had to cry.
well, her husband saw that, and then
he looked up at the rafters OF the pier
shed in despairing sort Of way and
began to tug at his mustache.
Then Of a sudden three or four huge
drops splashed from his eyes on to his
coat, whereupon he brushed angr1ly at
his eyes and growled in his hoarse throat
like a bear. He took up a trudge-big
strides-up and down I'm front of his little
sad wife, who sat on a box, her face
still covered and her shoulders still shak-
ing And l heard him growing to him
self as he knuckled at his eyes.
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and says l to myself, studying that TEL
low, You're an ornery sort OF curmud-
geon to talk that way to your wife
when you're about to part from her. and
the way she seems to feel about the part
ing, too for by this time her eyes were
simply streaming, and / wondered what
she could see in the fellow to cause her
to feel so badly about leaving him be-
hind on the dock.
.'She asked him again to go aboard
the steamer with her, If only for min
ute, and he clicked his teeth and hard
ened his jaw and barked at her:
az won't do any such fool thing.
that settles it, and 1 don't want you to
all this humbug. Hows that? Don't l
feel badly at all about your going? On
course I feel sorry and all like that,
but
.'Well. right there / caught sort OF
break in the fellows voice. and l heaved
see that he'd been only pretending. HIS
features positively were drawn with PAIN
and misery, and his eyes were all ready
to give him dead away.
oh, we'll. he resumed after ne q SOFT
Of conquered that break in his voice, 1
s'pose I'll have to go aboard with you
for a minute if only to keep you from
making a show of me here on the COCK
Come on and he took her by the arm
and led her UP. the gangway: 49,. oil
hands of the Godspeeders came down ex-
cept that man who'd been pretending TO
be peevish with his wife. When the
steamer was pushing out. however ne
appeared at the rail with his wife. Her
face was beaming with happiness, though
she still was crying. and he looked klnd
O. red around the eyes himself
".Ho, no, Jim. you didn't get ashore IN
time, eh? one of his friends on the pier
called out to him.
ASHORE. nothing Jim called back,
waving his hand at his friend. I'm going
along!'
THAT man had merely been afraid to
trust himself on board the steamer Tor
fear that he wouldn't be able to let MS
wife go alone: and that's exactly the way
the thing did come out when he found
himself on board the steamer with her
When 1t came to the test he couldn
stand the gaff of parting with her, and SO
he did the best thing-went along with
her.
..Then. on the other hand, 1t is no I'M
common thing for a booked voyager to
suffer so acuteIy when parting time comes
that he or she at the final moment re-
fuses to make the trip. There was
diverting case of that sort on this pier
last Nav A good-looking couple came
down In a taxi, the man to see his wire
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brains on hand on the 18th OF April,
1852
- HERE is modest and blushing vio-
let concealed in the moss of the
House of Representatives This, of
course, sounds like a ridiculous state
ment But 1t can be proved. 1t is poor
policy to jump off the dock with leaden
statement tied to the feet unless there is
a life-preserver handy in the way Of a
large. fat tact.
Edward Thomas Taylor is the name of
this violet He halls from Colorado. and
in his autobiography in the Congressional
Directory he has this to say ABOUT MINI
self:
He was president pro tempore of the
senate one term and has the reputation
of having been the author of more I'M
portant laws and constitutional amend
ments than any person that ever sat IN
any legislature of any state in the Union
during the entire history of the govern
ment-over forty general statutes ana
five separate constitutional amendments
that were adopted by general vote Oh
the people, 49,
Salute the violet citizens How that
Charles Edward Taylor of Colorado does
hate himself!
u
rAMES c. COURTS, clerk of the House
committee on appropriations, secre-
tary of the United States bonding COM
mission, chairman of the board OF public
works of Arundel-on-the-Bay. vice presi-
dent of the Arundel and Annapolis
Transportation Company and treasurer
of the Arundel Cistern Supply Company.
has begun to invite friends down TO MS
Arundel home. His friends say that la
Dor is scarce at Arundel-on-the-Bay and
that Mr. Courts house needs painting.
THERE are other modest violets in
the House other than Taylor of
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HE w a s h | n gton
Anti Treating So
ciety is no more. 1t
topped out more or
less quietly last
week. II was found
that there were
sinful evaders In
the outht. This
discovery so u red
and embittered the
lives of the anti
treaters who really
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- ~ - = - - -
down to the pier
to see S o m c
friends off on the
Lusitania. The
friends are going
to re m a | n in
Europe for five
years and more.
so that / felt a
bit glum. not to
say distinctly
gulpy, when 1
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HIS May moving
thing isn't half
as much fun, since
we've grown up,
as II used to be.
1t has become
too formal. too
cut-and-dried. too
neat, too screened.
too hasty, and
things. The big
covered moving
ans sort o I
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But nobody ever believed 'em until they
pulled their carts up in front Of the door;
and generally the boss of the moving FAM
lily had to sit on the seat with one Of 'em
to be sure that he was coming to do the
moving.
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your face and your hands and plasterng
down your wet hair, understand, and
then drawing UP a chair to sure
enough table with smoking, everyday
viands.
Nothing whatever like that. But just
kerfioping down on an upturned pail or
barrel top or crate or any old thing
cept a chair. and eating off anything but
a table. There wasn't airy table to be
found, anyhow. for the first couple OF
days after moving. Nobody knew where
there was such thing as a table. Neither
was there knife. fork. spoon or any such
purely adventitious aids to intoxicating;
just squatting around there In the kitchen.
digiting In hunks Of whatever came 10
hand: crackers and cheese. most bel:h
and bologna sawed OF in sections with
the penknife OF the head of the family.
and nobody to glare at a Teller for not
,.eeping up his table manners-oh, you in
effableness!
But, listen:
None of these things-none OF them
compared with the ecstasy. the biindfns.
dazzling. ethereal joy. the cIowning
charm OF sleeping In q bed tossed upon
the floor OF the house into which We
moved.
That was the delirious dessert Of the
whole mad-glad moving thing In our
earlier moving day: the bunking OF in
the bed made upon the floor!
CLARENCE I. CULLEN.
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DEAR friend OF
mine has just de-
parted for the Cana
dian Rockies. the
Selkirks, with the
intention of doing a
little climbing. l
think this is the
most idiotic pas
time known to the
human race. Why
anybody in sound
mental and physi-
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off. When they got out of the taxi he
started to conduct her on board She
shook him off and began to dab at her
eyes.
well. it's sailing time, little girl I
heard him expostulate. Come on board
and let me see how you're going to be
fixed out for the ride and again he took
hold of her arm to lead her to the gang
way.
But once more she shook him off. and
she stood stock still in her tracks her
eyes fairly cascading by this time
Now, look here, Ethel. don't YOU
start and be foolish her husband said to
her. looking bit queer around the eyes
himself by this time. You're going to
have a gorgeous trip. and I'll join you in
a couple of months, and everythingll be
lively Everybody's going on board
THEY'LL be casting off presently
We'll, she raced down to the end OF
the pier. still holding her handkerchief
to her eyes. and he after her I had
business down where they were a few
minutes later, and I found him still
arguing with her. but to little purpose.
this sort of thing he was saying to
her. 'Rankly absurd. ] don't know
what in the dickens can have got into
you. You never behaved like this be-
fore Here you are at the very mo-
ment of starting your first voyage
to Europe. and
gasped
What" he exclaimed. i'm astonish-
ment. You're not going? Why, wha-
what
Not going to Europe 'thout my doll
babyr she gurgled. miserably.
oh, shucks. Ethel. can that, won't
you? Somebodyll be hearing YOU he
said to her. right gurgly himself. I
can't go along with you now. and you
know it. But in July I'll be joining
you, and"
Then I'll wait and go with you in
July she quavered.
Yes, but how about all your trunks
and things that are on board? he ex-
postulated. weakly.
Don't care-Tm not going. she
spluttered. beginning to weep afresh-
LOOK a-here, Ethel. he said to her
sepulchrally, dye mean to tell me
right to my face that you are not
going on this here boat?'
Yes, she replied, perfectly prompt
about ii.
well I'm glad of it, kid-we'll go
together In July" he blurted out, and
then she grabbed a-hold of him and
made his Goa. front all wet. and they
were going away together i'm a taxi when
the steamer was casting of
CLARENCE l.. CULLEN
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Special Correspondence of The Star.
NEW YORK, April 20, 1910.
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drinks. tossed them in, and smacked
their lips.
''Ve'y choice. suh.'' said the man from
the south, after a pause, during which he
had his head cooked to one side like a
listening bird. Tastes like mo- and he
picked up the bottle to pour himself an
other.
Like it? said Jim, the boss. just then.
saving the situation. We'll, our best
wishes for a happy summer solstice go
with that quart and couple other quarts
of the same that we've put aside for you,
sir" addressing the ex-luminous anti
treater. Like a little carbonic on the
side this timer?
Whereupon. in plain sight of all hands.
but wrapped securely by at least the
semblance of anti-treating law, the man
who was doing the evading adjourned to
one of the tables with his southern visitor,
a quart of the corn liquor and bottle
of carbonic alongside, and they had
reminiscent hour.
The passing Anti-Treaters viewed these
proceedings with some gravity OF mlen'
but it clearly was case in which the
manager of the grogorium did the treat
ing, and, as such. called for no action
But they straightway got together anu
rectified an omission in their one RUE.
They caused 1t to read not only that no
Anti-Treater should treat anybody else.
but that no Anti-Treater should permit
himself to be treated by anybody else out
side the Anti-Treating membership Inc
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-09-07
STATE HIGHWAYS BUILT
WITH CONVICT LABOR

Convict labor should be employed
on the public highways as is being
done in other states.
On the parole system even prison
ers for life can be worked in the
open air and made to serve the state
whose laws they have violated
That is the only way to get good
state highways.
Let the city, county and state
prisoners be employed in building
streets and highways and preparing
material for such highways.
l believe in putting TO work the
army of tramps who travel back and
forth through oregon. Able bodied
men who make a business Of tramp
ing from town TO town, OF begging
meals and frightening and intiml-
dating women and children and rob
bing and stealing should be made
TO go TO work under state control.
The moment they enter Oregon or
go to tramping they should be en-
rolled for labor on the highways aul
for their labor are en- itl . % -
cent living without being compelled
TO commit crimes.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-09-07
NEW DEAL, CLEAN DEAL
AND CLEAN SWEEP OF ABUSES

/ stand for a new deal-a clean
deal-a clean sweep from cellar 10
garret of the abuses in every depart
ment of our state government. Lei
the people order a cleanup and the
house cleaning will take place in
1911.
In 1895 / made a record in the
legislature against clerkship gratis,
salary gratis, self-expanding com
missions, boards, sinecures, preda
tory officialism-governm by the
peoples hired servants who assume
to become their masters.
am opposed to the proposed Con-
stitutional convention forced upon
the people by the Leg stature.
1t was never called by the people
and Is a scheme to overthrow the
Peoples Measure and restore power
to the dictatorial interests.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-09-07

Three years as president of the
Willamette Valley Open River Asso-
citation, during which time hard
work was done to get a state appro-
priation for the Free Locks and Ca
nal at Oregon City, and the appro-
priation was put through congress.
under which the river win be freed
of corporation control and that wa
terway of western Oregon will be
opened TO commerce and forever be
a regulator OF freight rates.
Two years service as president of
the Oregon-Idaho Development con-
gTess, which held 10 conventions
across the state and called attention
of the Hill and Hartman interests
to the undeveloped condition Of the
great central region of Oregon, and
as a result two trunk lines are build
ing across the state.
This work has been carried on
without a dollar OF salary having
ever been paid to the man who did
II, and Il was carried on by putting
his newspaper back OF his work and
giving hundreds of pages to the
cause of upbuilding a greater Ore
gon.
1t is not pretended that the peo-
pie OF Oregon owe Col. Hofer tan Of
fice for what he has done. but he
has right to be considered live
man among men, and a man who by
his works has shown that he loves
the state which he has made his
home, and that In his hands the
honor and reputation Of the state
and the pride OF its people in their
magnificent commonwealth would
not be allowed TO suffer at the hands
OF any interest or influence.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-09-07
FOR FREE LABOR
AND THE GRANGE BILLS

stand for the rights of common
labor to have wages that will ensure
a competence above the cost of liv-
ing.
The Republican party has always
stood for the rights OF labor against
unfair conditions or competition
from abroad or at home.
Farmers IN Oregon need more Ia
hOreTs from the better class OF Eu-
rOpean immigration to clear lands
and save crops. The state should
encourage honest labor coming ~
Oregon.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-09-07
FOR FREE LOCKS AND
PORT COMMISSION BILL.

fought for three years to secure
Free Locks and Canal at Oregon
City and as Governor would keep up
that fight until results could carry
the commerce OF Western Oregon
from the head of navigation to the
ocean untaxed and unobstructed
Waterways and fishing rights of the
people must be preserved.
1 helped enact the General Port
Commission Bill by which all the
harbors and waterways of Western
Oregon can be improved, and 1 will
sustain that law.
have never been guilty OF strik-
ing down state Institutions in any
part OF the state or bringing injunc-
tion suits against any section OF tho
state to restrain It's proper develop
ment
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-09-07

the following article:
within the brief space of one
year the Oregon-Idaho Development
Congress has become a recognized
and potent factor in the progressive
Industrial life of two states. For
its achievements, credit must be Civ
en- largely to Colonel Il. Hofer, It's
president. Regardless of any oriti-
cism that may be directed at him, II
must be admitted Colonel Hofer Is
a live wire. He is the kind that
can't let things drag. He does
things. He's a developer. Tom
Richardson has done a great work
for Oregon. John HartOg has
brought Eugene prominently before
the public. They have been criti-
clsed, but their work stands. The
state owes them much. In his Wig
ourous campaign, Colonel Hofer may
have stepped on some toes; but he
has done an enduring work for two
states, and he has done II at the
sacrifice of time and expense 20 him
self. Oregon and Idaho cannot do
a better thing than TO employ Colo
mel Hofer. II his services are to be
had, though the cost be $4,000 q
year, and keep him In the field TO
steer the oregon-Idaho Congress"
A Record for Development.
Here is the record OF a private
citizen who has done his work for
the past 20 years for the advance
ment OF the state and the city he
calls his home:
Three years as president OF the Sa-
lem Commercial club, during which
time a constant fight was made for
the interests OF the city and the
state.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-09-07

A fight must be made to extend
the indirect taxes that were at least
partially repealed by the last legis-
lature.
The bills in n'tiated by the Grange
and enacted by the people, VINO
showed more wisdom than the whole
assembled legislature, were placed
in question by the creation of a
State Tax Commission that has now
sought to restore the taxation Of
mortgage notes, clearly a tax on the
debtor class.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-09-07

I am opposed to the Assembly
plan of giving candidates of the Ma
chine a preference, as a restoration
of the delegate convention system
which should be destroyed.
l am in favor of the Direct Pri-
mary law, which the Assembly sys-
tenn is secretly pledged to over
throw. Assembly politicians who
say they are for the Direct Primary
either lie or stItify themselves.
l favor all public officials being
nominated and elected by the peo-
Pile, making their pledges to the peo-
pie and then keeping those pledges
without Intervention of boss or Ma
chine.
The people can be trusted to select
their Servants.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-09-07
GIVE THE ASSEMBLY MA
CHINE A KNOCKOUT BLOW

The people should give the Ma
chine a knockout blow and prevent
building up the Assembly plan, for
1t is only a cunning device for re-
storing the Convention system. Do
t on September 24-on Direct Pri-
mary day-by nominating a Cover
nor who is anti-Assembly.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-09-07

believe in Progressive Republi-
canism that takes its inspiration
from the higher consciousness of an
aroused public sentiment, instead Of
accepting dictation from superau-
nuated senility or degenerating in
to imbecility of premature kid poll
tics.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-09-07
N0NPOLITICAL PLATFORM
OF PROGRESSIVE IDEAS

OPPOSED TO ASSEMBLY PLAN
AND MACHINE AND RING RULE
AND FOR A NEW DEAL AND A
CLEAN DEAL IN OUR STATE
AFFAIRS.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-09-07

RECORD FOR BOOSTING
ALL OF OREGON
Under the heading Of Colonel
Hofer Does Things" a paper called
the Coos Bay Truth, once printed
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-09-07

" he % f Nominal an al
f i p combine la MepOf fort Idn
M o Republic TO bH ne ag of A vel mp an
poWR
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-04-25
CHANGES in HILO.

By an agreement filed at the re-
gistry Office today, G. H. Wears will
remain in Hilo as the manager of the
Economic Shoe Store for the purpose
Of closing out the business of that
concern. In the same connection an
agreement of sale of the Economic
shoe store to the Hilo Emporium Co.
has been signed. Wears agrees to
stay with the job five years if neces-
sary at a salary OF $500 a month.
PAPERS FILED TODAY.
G. H. Wears to Hilo Emporium Co.,
Ltd, agreement
West. and Hawn. Invest. Co. to Q.
w Booth, par release.
|. Rubenstein to c. w. Booth Par.
release.
Y Akana and wife to John F. Wis
her and wife, deed of adoption.
j. w. Achuck to Chikaza Maxine,
lease.
Wilder & Co., Ltd, TO Est. S. G.
Wilder, It'd, deed.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-04-25


very sharp earthquake shock took
place Tuesday morning at about $50
causing those who were awake to
jump around and those who were
asleep to get up suddenly. The shock,
while severe, was of such short dura-
ton that very little damage was done,
other than the breaking of a little
crockery where it had been left close
to the edge Of shelf An interesting
feature of the shock was the fact that
Immediately after it took place the
Kilauea crater famed up suddenly,
lighting the sky in that direction with
great brilliancy. Though the weather
was very cloudy it could be seen
plainly. The glare only lasted for
about five minutes, then dying down.
Hawai- Herald.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-04-25

On account of the Makura having
hardly any room for passengers from
here, n number Of her passengers have
booked for the Sierra. The Sierra
will carry the mail on Wednesday as
she will probably arrive in San Fran
cisco some hours ahead of the Mat
son liner Wilhelmina.
for the navy. She left a day before
the collier Glenshiel which is unload
ing her cargo at the naval wharves.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-04-25
15-MILE RACE
At ATHLETIC PARK

AT meeting held this noon at the
Office of Charles F. Chillingworth it
was definitely decided to hold the
coming fifteen race, with the aid
OF the oxygen machine, at Athletic
park instead of at the league grounds,
on Decoration day, May 30. A number
OF the best runners in the territory
have signifed their intentions of en-
tering this race, for which suitable
prizes will be given. Nigel Jackson is
working hard to make this race a
success. Entries will be kept open at
Il o. Halls until May 25.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-04-25

Returning, via the Orient, from a
trip around the world, per S. S. China
today Senator c. H. Dickey and his
son, Judge Lyle Dickey, both of Homo
lulu, have hair-raising tales Of adven-
ture to relate.
They were in a terrible railway ac-
cident in India and they were in a
hotel in Japan when many tons of
dynamite on barge in the harbor
blew up a portion of the waterfront.
The Senator received a splinter in his
leg when the explosion caved in the
wall of the room in which he and his
son were ensconced.