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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-21
WOMEN J
OF MIDDLE
AGE
Need Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Rrookfield, Mo.-"Two years ago I
was unable to do any kind of work and
only weighed lis pounds. My trouble
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top, / could only stand ana stare.
Then Rosie's story was true. But
where had Rosie carried her basket?
And why had the thief, If be were a
thief picked up the broken china GU,
OF the road and left it. with his
booty?
It was with my nearest approach to
a nervous collapse that | heard the IA
miliar ~throbbing of an automobile en-.
CINE. AS 1t came closer | recognized
the outline OF the Dragon Fly, and
knew that Halsey had come back.
Strange enough it must have
seemed to Halsey. too, to come across
me in the middle of the night, with
the skirt Of my gray silk gown over
my shoulders to keep of the dew,
holding a red and green basket under
one arm and a black cat under the
other. What with relief and JOY, | be-
gan to cry, right there, and very near.
ly wiped my eyes on Beulah in the
excitement.
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CHAPTER TX.
Just Like a Girl.

INV
! Aunt Ray Halsey said from the
gloom behind the lamps. What in
the world are you doing here?'
Taking a walk" l said, trying to
be composed. | don't think the an
swer struck either of US as being RI
diculous at the time. "Oh, Halsey,
where have you been?"
Let me take you up to the house"
He was in the road, and had Beulah
and the basket out OF my arms in a
moment. | could see the car plainly
now, and Warner was at the Wheel
Warner in an ulster and a pair OF
slippers, over heaven knows what.
Jack Bailey was not there. got in,
and we went slowly and painfully up
to the house.
We did not talk. What we had to
say was too important to commence
there. and. besides, it took all kinds
of c~oaXing from both men to get the
Dragon Fly up the last grade. Only
when we had closed the front door
and stood facing each other In tho
+NA AtA AAoAoty ooJ II II AkC
slipped his strong young arm around
NY shoulders and turned me SO I
t9ced the light.
Poor Aunt Ray" he said gently.
And l nearly wept again. II must
see Gertrude. too; we will have a
three-cornered talk"
And then Gertrude herself came down
the stairs. She had not been to bed
evidently; she still wore the white
negligee she had worn earlier in the
evening. and she limped somewhat.
During her slow progress down the
stairs l had time to notice one thing:
Mr.. Jameson had said the woman
who escaped from the cellar had
worn no shoe on her right foot. Ger
trude's right ankle was the one she
had sprained!
The meeting between brother and
sister was tense, but without tears.
Halsey kissed her tenderly, and l no
ticed evidences of strain and anxiety
In both young faces.
rs everything-right?" she asked.
Right as a be-" with forced
chserfulness.
lighted the living room and we
went In there. Only a half-hour be-
fore l had sat with Mr.. Jameson in
that very room. listening while he
overtly accused both Gertrude and
Halsey Of at least a knowledge of the
death Of Arnold Armstrong. Now Hal
sey was here to speak for himself: I
should learn everything that had pux-
zled me.
g" saw 1t in the paper tonight for
the first time" he was saying. "R
knocked me dumb. When / think Of
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81 can't tell you where l went. Aunt
Ray" he said after a moment. LAS to
why, you will learn that soon enough.
But Gertrude knows that Jack and !
left the house before this thipg-this
horrible murder-occurred."
"Mr. Jameson does not believe"
Gertrude said drearily. "Helsey. Il
the worst comes, If they should arrest
you. you must-tell."
II shall tell nothing" he said with
a new %sternness in his voice. Aunt
Ray. 1t was necessary for Jack and
me to leave that night. / cannot tell
you ~why-just yet. AS to where We
went. II I have to depend on that al
an alibi, I shall not tell. The whole
thing is an absurdity, a trumpedup
charge that cannot possibly be seri.
GUS"
Has Mr.. Bailey gone back to the
city" I demanded, "oy to the club?"
Neither" deiantly; at the present
moment do not know where he is"
"Halsey," l asked gravely, leaning
forward. have you the slightest sus.
picion who killed Arnold Armstrong?
The police think he was admitted
from within. and that he was shot
down from above, by some n on tho
circular staircase"
Il know nothing OF it," he main
tanned; but fancied I caught a sud.
den glance at Gertrude, q fash OF
something that died as IL came.
AS quietly. as calmly as I could,
went over the whole story, from the
night Liddy and I had been alone up
to the strange experience of Rosie
and her pursuer. The basket still
stood on the table, q mute witness to
this last mysterious occurrence
There is something else." I said
hesitatingly, at the last. "Halsey, ]
have never told this even to Gertrude,
but the morning after the crime
found. in a tulip bed, a revolver. It.
1t was yours, Halsey."
For an appreciate moment Halsey
stared at me. Then he turned to Ger.
trude.
MY revolver. Trude!" he exclaimed.
'A1' "oSh tooh my TSfOlVST VIVID
him, didn't hep"
"Oh, for heavens sake don't say
that" / implored. The detective
thinks possibly Jack Bailey came back.
and-and the thing happened then"
He didn't come back" Halsey said
sternly. Gertrude, when you brought
down a revolver that night for Jack
to take with him, what one did You
bring? Mins?"
Gertrude vas defiant now
No. Yours was loaded, and I was
afraid of what Jack-might do. I rave
him one l have had for a rear or two
II was empty"
Halsey threw up both hands de-
spairirgly.
III that isn't like a girl" he said,
why didn't you do what I asked You
TO. Gertrude? You send Bailey on
with an empty gun, and throw mine
In a tulip bed, Of all places on earth!
Nine was a SS caiiber. The inquest
will show. of course, that the bullet
that killed Armstrong was q 80. Then
where shall / BET" .
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the law amended to the extent Of re-
curing that all the voters Of a party
register under their party head sixty
days before the primary election,
which it Is believed would force them
at the primary election to call for the
ballot Of their own party. If a voter
who had registered as a democrat, for
instance, called for a republican bal
lot, the registration list would disclose
the fraud, and vice-versa. 1t is thought
this would go a great ways toward
making voters stay in their own po-
litical yard instead of interfering in
the affairs of another party.
Another plan proposed is to amend
the law so that candidates for an Of
flee will be required to secure a ma
iority of the votes cast, instead of
being declared the victors when they
secure a plurality, as is the case at
present.
Various men of intelligence through
out the state are now giving the mat
ter of amending the primary law their
attention. and by the time the legis-
lature meets it Is practically certain
the defects of the present primary law
a plan will be agreed upon by which
in this and other defects can be rem
edied.
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SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER Miss Innes. spinster and
guardian OF Gertrude ana Iialspy, estab-
lshed summer headquarters at sunny
aide. Amidst numerous difficulties the
w for the night, she was startled by a
dark figure on the yeranda.
CHAPTER u-she passed a terrible
night. which was filled with unseemly
noises. In the morning Miss Innes found
a strange link cum button In a clothes
hamper.
CHAPTER uI-Gertruds and Halsey
arrived witt Jack Bailey. The house was
awakened by a revolver shot. A strange
man was found shot to death, in the hall.
CHAPTER IV.-It proved TO be the
body OF Arnold Armstrong. whose bank
er father owned the country house. Miss
Times found Halsey's revolver on the
lawn. He and lack Bailey had disap-
peared. The link cum button mysterious
ly disappeared.
CHAPTER V.-Detective Jameson and
the coroner arrived. Gertrude revealed
with whom she had talked In the billiard
room a few moments before the murder.
CHAPTER V~I-Jamieson told Miss
him. He imprisoned an intruder in an
empty room The prisoner escaped down
a laundry chute.
Intruder was probably a woman. Ger
trude was suspected. for the intruder left
a print OF a bare foot. Gertrude returned
with her right ankle sprained.
CHAPTER villa negro found the
other half Of what proved to be Jack
Bailsy's cuff button. Halsey suddenly re-
annAasA@
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O'S @'0VaTy iaUi0s
this houseful Of women, and q thina
like that occurrir5!"
Gertruds's face was still set and
white. That isn't all, Halsey," she
said. "You and-and Jack left almost
at the time 1t happened. The detective
here thinks that you-that we-knoW
something about It,"
THE devil he does!" Halssy's eyes
were fairly starting from his head. Il
beg your pardon. Aunt Ray, but--the
fellows . lunatic."
Tell me everything. won't you. Hal.
sey!" ! begged. Tell me where you
went that night. " rather morning.
and why you went % you did. This
has been . terrible - hours for al
% w."
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CHAPTER uI-Gertrude and Halsey
arrived with Jack Bailey. The house was
awakened by a revolver shot. A strange
man was found shot to death. in the hall.
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"And there's onions" said Mr.. Bow
ser, as his eye lighted on basket full.
Dear me, yes-prices way up.
When you meet a man with an onion
breath on him you may know that he's
a millionaire. Try horse radish in
place of onions. A good many more
tears in it,
But / want to know why. str-Why
prices are so high 2"
tits the farmer. sir. He's bought
him an auto and is riding around the
country with his hat on his ear in
stead of raising vegetables. Where he
and his wife used to be hard at work
they are now driving 20 miles to at
tend a matinee. Awful, sir-awful,
but don't blame me-"
The next call was on the shoemaker.
Three days before he had charged Mr..
Bowser 20 cents for a cement patch on
his shoe. and he was now addressed
with:
"See here, you old vampire, but I
want to know why you have doubled
up on your prices!'
''Vhas too high 20 was asked.
''You are grinding into the dust
Five years ago cement patch was 10
cents" =
Eyes, dot vhas SO. but some change
has come you see"
Eyes, I see, and want to know
why
''Ten years ago my wife wears her
own hair. Now she wears some one
else's. She must be in der style, you
know. raise halr costs money we
have to boost der prices on cobbling.
Maybe in two years it vhas down
again, but I can't say"
''Mr. Bowser started over to see the
plumber, but met him at the curbstone
and was replied to:
''Why are nv prices so per cent
higher than five years ago? Because
porous plasters are up so per cent and
we have had to follow en-
When Mr. Bowser came softly slid
ing into the house and sat down Mrs.
Bowser asked:
''Why don't you tell me if you struck
the KEYNOTE of the increased cost of
iiving?''
''Well, am busy with my thoughts,
he replied. cit is sufficient to say that
We can communicate with our respec-
tive lawyers the first thing in the
Copyrighted 1910 by AS
ISOLATED Literary Press.)
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Ten years ago I bought potatoes for
80 cents a bushel- Today they are
dollar and a half. Why? Isn't the
land here just the same? Three times
as high as they were, and no one can
tell why. It's the same way with all
9OodStuffS-with shoeS-hatS and cloth
ing. It makes me boil over when L
think of it, and if the trusts are TO
blame then I'll hunt the rascals to their
holes and make them wish they had
never been born"
you'd better hunt up the newspaper
and sit down and read" replied Mrs.
Bowser. Perhaps you have read Of
an individual named Don Quixote?"
land perhaps I've read of Columbus
and a few others, but if I have or
haven't that's nothing to do with this
case. We are being drained of our life
blood, but you sit there as calm as a
per. I believe you'd chuckle with glee
If potatoes were four dollars a bushel.
The walls and lamentations of tens of
thousands of starving people are in
novel and chewing gum!''
You might find out if gum and
novels have gone up anny!"
Mr.. Bowser turned purple and
''Woman!" at her when he changed
his mind and walked down the hall to
the hatrack. 1t had occurred to him
that he would need all his GOODNESS in
making inquiries. He had his program
laid out. AS soon as he was outside
the gate he headed for the nearest
butcher shop. The butcher was at
home and reading an evening paper
AS he looked up Mr.. Bowser began:
''Sir, meats are selling for three
times what they used to. want to
know why? I am gathering statistics
for a congressional committee
tits on account of the tender-heart-
ed farmers was the reply.
what do you mean. STRIP
why. there was time when the
farmer just delighted to take an AK in
hand and go around knocking cattle,
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BOWSER, HE INQUIRIES
But the Answers Are Not Altogether
: Satisfactory.
Satisfactory.

sheep and hogs in the head, but he no
longer does it He has become SO ten
der-hearted that if he even sees a pig s
tail in knot he unties it This makes
a great scarcity of meat, and scarcity
always means higher prices. am glad
you came. I have been called a cheat
and a robber, and / want people to
know the truth. There's the hind
quarter of steer that a farmer
brought in and sold me He wept
while he sold it. He had left a weep
ing family at home. L wept because I
had to buy it. When you can separate
sentiment from beef and pork we shall
have old time prices back, but not I'M
til. Good evening, sir.
HYou are robber and a liar!" said
Mr. Bowser as he Went out and headed
for the grocer on the corner.
close up for the night, but he was a
good and conslderate man and stood
ready to answer any questions.
do you know. SIR began the in
quirer, that it's an outrage to ask the
price you do for potatoes ~
Eyes, sir, L do, and I can't tell you
how bad I feel about it. I hardly slept
at all last night after asking an old
woman IL cents a quart for potatoes -
And butter, sir-butter ?''
1.-THE most outrageous thing in the
history of the country For the last
four weeks I have been advising my
customers to eat wagon-grease instead
of it. 1t isn't bad at all after the first
meal. Flavor with a little peppermint
essence and you will think it's the best
print. Sell you wagon-grease at the
same old price, SIR
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E-HE Bowsers had finished din
IMM m ner and Mrs. BowSer was
about to ask if they could
not go to the theater, when
Mr. Bowser observed:
IT have got to run out for
81 while this evening. / may be gone a
couple of hours"
[ 81 wanted to go to the theater-"
But this is a matter that can't pc
nut off. In fact, it is a matter OF ma
tfonaI Importance. I did not know
about it until late this afternoon"
HAS it anything to do with the
north pole?''
"Humphi The north pole is back
number Mrs. Bowser, you may nave
got IL through your head that the cost
or living in the last seven or eight
years has increased almost 40 per
cent?"
LAS 1 do the marketing, think
know something about it.
well, it has at last attracted the at
tention of congress. A committee has
been appointed to make inquiries and
try and ascertain the reason for this
increase"
'It's the trusts, of course" said Mrs.
Bowser.
..That is denied. Some say it is the
farmers and others the retailers, and
some Law it to the scarcity The COM
1rittee proposes to find out"
And what's that got to do with
you?"
1T was suggested to me this after
noon that l make some inquiries on
INV own hook and send the results to
the committee to aid it in its work.
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Tuesday

at 1T west 9Th ave.
*. 8 L. of Security-Shawnee
Council No. at s31 North Kansas
Triple Tie b. A.-Topeka Council
No. 9. at Lincoln Post Hail
X. s. L. of pital Coun-
ell No. 1 at Security hall
M. w. of A.--Sunnower Camp No, sac.
at 1913 West 9Th ave.
Knights Protected Ark-Capital Ark
No; 80: at l22 Eat M 9Th ave;
East 9Th ave.
FraternaI Aid Ass't.-Topeka Coun-
ell No. 2. at Security hall
Topeka Oratorio Soc--At 1o7 East
8th ave.
Moulders Union-Local No. 4z4. at
61S Kansas ave. Secretary, G. L.
Whitlock 7o1 Clay.
peka Council No. 8, meets every Tues
day night in Lincoln Post Hall.
.. b. Of Carpenters-Local No. 1445
at 618 Kansas ave. Secretary 8 J.
Crume. 1402 b Sth st.
K. T-Topeka commandery No. s,
Ladies of the Grand Army-Lin-
coin Circle No. 1. at lis East 9Th ave.
at $3.50 p m.
o. e. S. Helena Chapel No. 21o.
Masonic Hall, North Kansas ave-,
Myrtle W. Suit, Sec.
w. r. C.-No. "a for Topeka Post
at 216 West 9Th ave.
G. U. o. of o. F.-Patriarchs coun-
ell No. los, at 422 Kansas ave.
CoIored A. f. s. A. M.-Mount Mo-
riah, Lodge No. 5, at 404 Kansas ave.
Wednesday
1. o. O. F-Topeka Lodge No. 40.
at III West 9Th ave.
A. o. U. W.-Capita1 Lodge No. 8,
at 1872 East 9Th ave.
B. p. o. E.-Topeka Lodge at 204.
corner 7th and Jackson.
A. o. U. W.-Star Lodge No. 20,
at S31 North Kansas ave.
Degree of Honor-ExceIsior Lodge
No. 81. at K. P. Hall.
X. o. 7. M.-Capital City Tent No.
"a, at 119 West 9Th ave.
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A Young CounIe.

The other day there was married
couple living init matters not the
place. He is a minor and she is just
as old. It was one of those marriages
where they loved each other SO much
that they could not wait. He has a
job at ten per, and she has got the
promise of job, sometime. in an Of
fee, paying So per week They have
secured a house at $25 per month, and
are buying their furniture on the
happy-go -luck plan. 81 down and the
balance, if you have got it, at the
same rate, every thirty moons. The
Stroller has been married so long that
he has not kept track of the years. He
is sure of one thing, however, if this
couple living in-we11, never mind
where, so long as it is not Portland,
had waited, they would have been bet
ter off. Love is one of the many
things that make a home happy, but
with eggs at 40c per dozen. and the
price of beefstake away up and still
a-goin', it would have been better for
both to have let Cupid attend to some
one else. But what's the use; it is no
affair of the Stroller. but their ex-
perience may do some other pair good
who may be contemplating the same
kind OF trip.-Portland Express.
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The Kiss of Peace.

That was a significant if unprelned-
itated, conjunction of ideas expressed
in the news columns of the Examiner
when an account of the peaceful end
ing of a French duel in a fraternal
kiss was followed by the news of the
projected sale of an historic guillotine.
Surely it was a blithesome token in
this holiday season of good will on
earth.
1t may be that the code of honor,
So-called, in France will pass away as
swiftly and unregrettedly as the grue-
some instrument of death. The gull
lotine, that dates its energies from the
reign of terror, and numbers its vic
TINS by the hundreds of thousands, is
not exactly the sort of a souvenir a
gentleman would appropriate for his
private collection but it is pleasant to
think of tiff not consigned to the
junk heap-as relegated to some his
tOrica1 museum or speculative cham
Der of horrors.
There is a grotesqueness, a seeming
anachronism, in the duel, even more
antagonistic to advanced popular
opinion than the guilIotine. Modern
law and modern thought have not yet
capital punishment, and perhaps swift
decapitation is as merciful as any de-
vice. But the duel, as a code of honor.
has too many ridiculous and strained
features to commend itself to the mind
alert to ridicule, and as surely as Ger
vantes sounded the kne1 of chivalry,
the modern, progressive idea will COM
plete the downfall of the call to NOR
tai combat.
The guilIotine has followed the
the Nuremberg Maiden. The kiss of
peace administered by the impulsive
NJ Tailhade to M. Gohier, eminently
and fervently Gallo as it was, may be
the forerunner of a long series of fra
ternaI smacks that will Danish the die
tum of the code. There is much cheer
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o. r.. C.-Local No. 1877, at 1913 w
9Th ave in afternoon.
b. of L. E.-Loca1 No. 234, at IL;
West 9Th ave. at $3.50 p. m.
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think I can strike the keynote within
an hour. If can"
If there's a committee, let that com
nlittee attend to its own business"
IF can, Mrs. Bowser, my name goes
on record at once, and the people at
large will give me credit and their
blessings. I find out why prices are so
high and suggest the remedy, and there
you are. Carnegie may give free
libraries, but I will cut the cost of
living in two. Which of us will be the
humanitarian?
Mrs. Bowser made no answer. She
saw that it was useless.
Twenty years ago butter was Is
cents a pound. Today it is As. Why?
Are cows three times as valuable as
then? Can't a man milk the same
number of cows he could then? Does
It take any longer to churn?''
No answer.
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II. and L. of Security-Topeka
Council No. 2. at Security hall.
FraternaI Aid-Shawnee Council
No. l. at 1902 North Kansas ave.
Court of Honor-Shawnee District
Court No. 515. at 123 West 9Th ave.
s. & d. of Jllstice-No. 33, meets 41S
Kansas avenue. above Elite theater.
National Protective Legion-To-
peka Lodge No. 2167, at K. of p. hall.
Operative PIastereFs-Local No
at 1911 Office Blk, z. L. Newberry,
Secy., z01 Burr st.
A. f. & A. M.-Topeka Lodge No.
IT, at Masonic hall.
Il. o. r. M.-Topeka Progressive
Hive, No. 26, at 118 East 9Th ave.
S. of Void Abe Camp No. 16, at
216 West 9Th ave.
G. U. o. of o. F-Shawnee Lodge
No. 1928, at Alb Kansas ave.
National Protection Legion-Tope-
ka Lodge No. 21e7. at x. of p. hall.
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x. of P-Valient Lodge No. 156, o.
1872 East 9Th ave.
Il. of P.-Amity Lodge No. 231 at
S37 North Kansas ave.
r. o. E-Topeka Aerie No. So at
sis Van Buren,.
X. and L. of Security-Victor Coun-
i. o. Red Men-Shawnee Tribe No.
II. at 118 East 9Th ave.
s. q ID. of Justice-Topeka Council
No. s. at Security hall.
Fraterna1 brotherhood - Topeka
Lodge No. 81. at 119 West 9Th ave.
Fraternal Union OF A-Topeka
lodge No. 522. at 522 Kansas ave.
Hod Carriers and Building Laborers
Local No. 287, at 618 Kansas ave. Geo.
Hagen. secy., sos East 18th.
Painters LocalENo. SO at 40 KAN
sas ave-, secretay Frank P. woodruff.
GIT Hancock st.
1st Battery at 4o4-4oe Kansas ave.
The Swedish American National
League and NOrden Benefit AssOcia-
tlOn meets second and fourth Monday
Of each month. Fred Isaacson. 1877
Grafton street. recorder.
I. o. o. F.-Naomi Rebekah Lodge
No. 95, at Security hall.
National Union-Shawnee Council
No. BAT, at 1872 East 9Th ave.
Pressfeeders LocaI-No. "a at SIS
kansas ave. Sec Jno. p. Strain, els
East 8th ave.
G. Q. o. of o. E.-Exodus Lodge
No. 2034, at $40 Kansas ave.
G. U. o. OF 0. F.-Househo1d of
Ruth No. 49S, at $40 Kansas ave.
Loyal Americans of the Republic
Oakland Assembly No. 1175-meets
Machinists' Lodge-No. "a, at Lin
coin Post hall. 11s East Sixth street.
e. Leroy Locke, Secy, S34 Jefferson
street.
Naomi Rebekah Lodge No. 95 meets
every End and 4th Monday evening at
Security Bldg, corner of 7th and
Kansas ave.
Swedish American National League
meets at A. o. U. w. hall, cor. eth
and Jackson, I'd and 4th Mondays.
Jno. Lungstrum, Secy.
COIored A. r. s. A. M-Kaw VAL
ley Lodge No. Is. at 404 Kansas ave.
ave.
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for France in these signs and won
ders. There is hope for general
sentiment that will follow the most
able impulse of the Nobel founda-
tion-Chicago Examiner.