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this description. The addition of
these accessories make it possible
to wear this dress on the street. The
girdle of handsome brocaded ribbon
gives opportunity for an individual
taste in the selection of colors, and
is touch of light and splendor need
ed in a design SO noticeably simple.
Two-toned or changeable taffetas,
and the fashionable plain colors look
well made in this and similar styles.
The design is SO simple that it hard
ly requires a pattern to follow it.
The home dressmaker can hardly fail
to be satisfied with a pretty dress
which makes so few demands upon
her ingenuity.
The allround usefulness of taffeta
for afternoon and evening wear has
given 1t pre-eminence this season. Be-
sides, it is inexpensive. In the So
inch width a good quality sells at
about dollar and half yard. The
allowance for a dress is not often
more than five yards, so that one may
manage to provide material for it,
and also enough ribbon for the Cir
die, net for the guimpe and sleeves
and the few necessary findings for
making, without exceeding the pur-
chasing power Of a ten-dollar bill. It
is in being able to make things at
home that chances lie for excellent
dressing on a modest allowance Of
money.
Gilpin observer., 1914-07-30

here belong to the latter class. They
are suited to fall as well as to sum.
mer. An all black hat comes in ham,
dy' so often that 1t ought to form a
part of every woman's Quitting in
millinery.
The shapes are moderate in size
and Of light weight buckram. Except
for some plain satin used for facing
underbrims and covering coronets no
other material than moire in either
wide or narrow ribbon) is used.
millinery paste or glue is used in
covering the ears" wings, buckles.
etc. and In applying the ribbon to the
shape. II 1t is to be fat to the buckram.
This is the work OF a professional
milliner and can hardly be done by
the amateur. Where the ribbon is laid
on the shape in plaitings or ruffies
the needle and thread do the work
and such hats are not too difficult for
the home milliner.
The largest of the three hats pic-
tured here is made over frame which
extends over the face and turns up In
the back 1t is covered with plain
messaline satin. The brim edge In
finished with a binding.
JULIA BoTTOMlEY.
Gilpin observer., 1914-07-30

Outside the leaves rustled. the birds
called and the crickets sang their un.
ending eptthalamia Of summer nights,
and on this tone-background the mel.
ody rose tenderly and lingeringly like
haunting perfume of pressed flowers.
She smiled and lifted the locket to her
face, whispering the words OF the re.
frain
Gilpin observer., 1914-07-30

"All right he said hoarsely. 1T
1t doesn't matter Don't worry"
She stretched out her hand to him
In a gesture of wistful pain, and he
held 1t moment between both of
his. then released it and went hur-
riedly out.
AS the door closed, Shirley sat
down, her head dropping into her
hands like storm-broken flower Val
liant had accepted the finality of the
situation. With a wave of deeper
hopelessness than had yet submerged
her, she realized that, against her own
decision, something deep within her
had taken shy and secret comfort in
his stubborn masculine refusal
Against all fact in face of the impos-
sible, her heart had been clinging to
this-as though his love might even
attain the miraculous and somewhere,
somehow, recreate circumstance. But
now he, too, had bowed to the decree
A kind OF utter apathetic wretched-
ness seized upon her, to replace the
sharp misery that had SO long been
her companion-an empty numbness
in which, in measure, she ceased to
feel.
An hour dragged slowly by and at
length she rose and went slowly up
the stairs. Her head felt curiously
heavy, but it did not ache. Outside
her mothers door, as was her custom,
she paused mechanically to listen A
tiny pencil of light struck through the
darkness and painted a spot of bright
ness on her gown. 1t came through
the keyhole; the lamp in her mothers
room was burning. She has fallen
asleep and forgotten It," she thought
and softly turning the knob, pushed
the door noiselessly open and entered
A moment she stood listening to the
low regular breathing of the sleeper
The reading-lamp shed a shaded glow
on the pillow with its spread-out sill
yer hair. and on the delicate hands
clasped loosely on the coverlet. Shir-
ley came close and looked down on
the placid face. 1t was smooth as a
child's and smile touched 1t lightly
as If some pleasant sleep-thought had
just laid rosy fingers on the dreaming
lips. The light caught and sparkled
from something bright that lay be-
tween her mothers hands. 1t was the
enamel brooch that held her own baby
curl, and she saw suddenly that what
she had all her life thought was a
solid pendants was now open locket-
wise and that the two halves clasped
a miniature. 1t came to her at once
that the picture must be Sassoon's,
and quick thrill of pity and yearn-
ing welled up through her own dejec-
tion. STOPPING. she looked at it close
ly. She started as she did SO, for the
face on the little disk OF ivory was
that of John Valiant
An instant she stared unbelievingly
Then recollection of the resemblance
of which Valiant had told her rushed
to her, and she realized that it must
be the picture of his father. The fact
shocked and confounded her. Why
should her mother carry in secret the
miniature of the man who had
killed
(To BE CoNTINUEDJ
Gilpin observer., 1914-07-30
CHAPTER xxxIv.
When the clock struck.>

Sorrow weeps-sorrow sings% As
Shirley played that night. the old Rus
Ian proverb kept running through her
mind. When she had pushed the gold
harp into its corner she threw herself
upon broad sofa in a feathery drift
OF chintz cushions and dropped her
forehead In her laced fingers. A gilt.
framed mirror hung on the opposite
wall. out OF which her sorrowful brood.
ing eyes looked with an expression Of
dumb and weary suffering.
Her confused thoughts raced hither
and thither. What would be the end
Would Valiant forget after true
would he marry-Miss Fargo. per
hapsI The thought caused her stab
Gilpin observer., 1914-07-30

wretched to give you pain, but / must
Il must! Love isn't like that. II
doesn't come afterward. know.
could never give you what you want.
You would end by despising me. as
l-should despise myself"
Il won't give up" he said incoher.
emily. Il can't give up. Not 80 long
as l know there's nobody else. At the
ball thousht-I thought perhaps you
cared for Valiant-but since he told
me-"
He stopped suddenly, for she was
looking ut him from an ashen face.
He told me there was no reason why
] should not try my luck" he said diff.
hcultly. II asked him."
There was a silence. while he gazed
a her, breathing despair. Then he
tried to laugh
Gilpin observer., 1914-07-30
Ono lmprovement

MY dear" said Mrs. Newlywed. her
face flushed with the excitement OF
her afternoon in the kitchen. 81 want
you to be perfectly frank with me
now; what would you suggest to i'm.
prove those doughnuts made todayr
Well" replied Mr.. Newlywed. lift
Ing one with slight effort. II think
1t might be better II you made the
nOIe bigger
Gilpin observer., 1914-07-30

VI dusulSH. let SIG herself COulO uOt
marry. him. The barrier was impas
sable!
She was still lying listlessly among
the cushions when a step sounded on
the porch and she heard Chilly Lusk's
voice in the hall. With heavy hands
Shirley put into place her disheveled
hair and rose to meet him.
I'm awfully selfish to come to.
night" he said awkwardly; mo doubt
you are tired out"
She disclaimed the WEAKNESS that
dragged upon her spirits like leaden
weights, and made him welcome with
her usual cordiality. She was, in fact,
relieved at his coming. At Damory
court. the night of the ball, when she
had come from the garden with her
lips thrilling from Valiant's kiss, she
had suddenly met his look. 1t had
seemed to hold a startled realization
that she had remembered with a re-
morseful compunction. Since that
night he had not been at Rosewood
Ranston had lighted pine-knot in
the fireplace, and the walls were shud-
dering with crimson shadows. Her
hand was shielding her eyes, and as
she strove to fill the gaps in their
somewhat spasmodic conversation
with the trivial impersonal things that
belonged to their old intimacy, the
tiny fiickering flames seemed to be
darting unfriendly fingers plucking at
her secret. Leaning from her nest of
cushions she thrust the poker into
the glowing resinous mass till sparks
whizzed up the chimneye black nav
In torrent
How they fy!" she said. "Rickey
Snyder calls it raising a blizzard in
Hades. l used to think they flew up
to the sky and became the littlest
stars. What a pity we have to grow
up and learn SO much I'd rather
have kept on believing that when the
red leaves in the woods whirled about
In circle the fairies were dancing,
and that it was the gnomes who put
the cockle-burs in the hounds ears"
She had been talking at random,
gradually becoming shrinkingly con-
scious of his constrained and STUN
bling manner. She had, however, but
hdii dChhcu WneU ne came
to 1t all in a burst.
II can't get to it, somehow, Shir-
ley" he said with sudden desperation.
but here 1t is. I've come to ask you
to marry me. Don't stop me-" he
went on hurriedly. lifting his hand
whatever you say, l must tell you.
I've been trying to for months and
months!" Now that he had started,
1t came with boyish vehemence that
both chilled and thrilled her. Even
in her own desolation, and shrinking
almost unbearably from the avowal.
the hope and brightness in his voice
touched her with pity 1t seemed to
her that life was strange tumble of
unacceptable and incomprehensible
pain. And all the while, In the young
voice vibrant with feeling, her cring-
Ing ear was catching imagined echoes
OF that other voice. graver and more
self-contained, but shaken by the same
passion, in that iteration Of I love
you! love you!"
His answer came to him finally in
her silence. and he released her hands
which he had caught in his own. They
dropped. limp and unresponsive, in
her lap. Shirley" he said brokenly,
maybe you cant care for me-yet.
But If you will marry me, I'M be
content with SO little. till-you do"
She shook her head, her hair max
ing dim flashes in the freight. mo,
Chilly" she said. ut makes me
Gilpin observer., 1914-07-30
CHAPTER xxxIll.-contInued.

With unsteady fingers she un-
wrapped the oiled-silk. broke the let
ter's seal, and read:
Dearest:
Before you read this. you will no
doubt have heard the thing that has
happened this sunshny morning. Sas-
soon-poor Sassoon. | can say that
with all my hearts dead. What this
fact will mean to you. God help me!
/ cannot guess. For l have never
been certain. Judith. of your heart
Sometimes l have thought you loved
meme only-as / love you. Last
night when / saw you wearing my
cape jessamines at the ball, | was
almost sure of II. But when you made
me promise, whatever happened. not
to lift my hand against him. then
doubted. Was II because you feared
for him? Would to God at this moment
knew this was not true! For what
ever the fact. / must love you, dar-
ling, you and no other. as long as
live!"
When she had read thus far. she
closed the letter, and pressing hand
against her heart as II to still its
throbbing. locked the written pages
in a drawer OF her bureau. She went
downstairs and made Ranston bring
her chair to its accustomed place un-
der the rose-arbor, and sat there
through the falling twilight.
She and Shirley talked but little at
dinner, and what she said seemed to
come winging from old memories-her
own girlhood. its routes and picnics
and harum-scarum pleasures. And
there were long gaps in which she
sat silent, playing with her napkin,
the light color coming and going in
her delicate cheek, lost In revery. 1t
was not till the hall-clock struck her
usual hour that she rose to go to her
room.
Don't send Emmaline." she said.
81 shan't want her." She kissed Shir-
ley good night. Maybe after while
you will sing for me; you haven't
played your harp for ever so long"
In the subdued candle-light Mrs.
cambridge locked the door of her
room. She opened closet, and from
the very bottom OF small haircloth
trunk. lifted and shook out from it's
many tissue wrappings faded gown
OF rose-colored silk. with pointed bod
ice and old-fashioned puffSleeves. She
spread this on the bed and laid with It
pair OF yellowed satin slippers and
q little straw basket that held a spray
OF what had once been cape jessa-
mine.
In the fiickering light she undressed
N rup vsvu mn I'D h. hat.
silvery curling meshes in a low soft
coil. Looking almost furtively about
her. she put on the rose.colored gown.
and pinned the withered fower-spray
on It's breast. She lighted more
candles--in the wallbrackets and on
the dressing-table-and the reading
lamp on the desk. Standing before
her mirror then. she gazed long at the
refection-the poor faded rose-tint
against the pale ivory OF her slender
neck, and the white hair A little
culver ran over her lips.
Whatever the fact she whispered.
you and no other rs long
as live"
She unlocked the bureau drawer
then. took out the letter, and seating
herself by the table, read the remain
der:
81 write this in the old library and
Bristow holds my horse by the porch
He will give you this letter when
I'm gone.
Last nlSht we were dancing-all
Of us-st Che ball. can scarcely be-
Lave II vsS less than twelve hours
Gilpin observer., 1914-07-30
SYNOPSIS.

John Valiant. rich society favorite.
suddenly discovers that the Valiant cor,
poration. which his father founded and
which was the principal source of his
wealth. had failed. He voluntarily turns
for the corporation. His entire remaining
possessions consist of ar. old motor car.
white bull dog and Damory court neg
Damory court he % rneets Shirley Dand-
ridge. an auburn-haired beauty. and de-
Gldes that he . Is going to like Virginia i'm
ridge. and Major Bristow exchange rem
iniscences during which it Is revealed
mar, named sassoon were rivals for the
hand OF Mrs: Dandridge in her youth.
sassoon and Valiant fought duel on her
account in which the former was killed.
Valiant finds Damory court overgrown
VIII with ,,ee Needs and creepers and M decides to
bites him, Knowing the deadliness of the
bite, Shirley sucks the poison from the
for the first time that his father left yir-
ginia on account OF u duel in which Doc
tor southall and Major Bristow acted as
his fathers seconds; Valiant and Shirley
become good friends. Mrs. cambridge
faints when she meets Valiant for the
hrst time. Valiant discovers that he has
fortune in old walnut trees. The yearly
tournament. a survival of the jousting of
feudal times is held at Damory court: At
OF one OF the knights. who is sick. and
enters the lists. He wins and chooses
Shirley cambridge as queen of beauty to
the dismay of Katherine Fargo. former
sweetheart who is visiting in Virginia,
The tournament ball at Damory court
draws the elite of the countryside Shir-
beauty. Valiant tells Shirley of his love
and they become engaged. Katherine
Fargo determining not to give up Vail
ant without struggle. points out to Shir-
ley how terrible 1t would be for the wom-
an who caused the duel to meet Valiant.
who looks much like his father. ShirI
ley. uncertain. but feeling that her moth
was in love with the victim of Vail
ant's pistol breaks the engagement. Major
Bristow is fatally wounded by Greet
King, n liberated convict who he had sent
to prison. but before dying Bristow con-
fesses to Mrs. cambridge that he had
kept a letter Valiant had written to her
after the duel Valiant decides to leave
Damory court and writes Shirley that he
viii love her always.
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Yes. my darling. you will be
Always young and fair to me,

The smile was still on her lips when
she fell asleep. and the little locket
still lay in her fingers.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-06-13
A HIGH-TONED COMPANY.

TIME Pullman company is having session with the
California railroad commission and yesterday Com
L missioner EShleman asked Richmond Dean general
manager of the Pullman company it appearing that
the company paid its portes 25 per month"; Can man
live on $25 a month";"
Mr. Dean, speaking for the company, replied: Our
pay rate is based the assumption that the travelling
public willing to contribute something toward the sup
port of those who serve its comforts
If Mr. Deans ideas of the public being willing to
tribute something toward the support of those who
its comforts correct and they probably are what has
that to do with the in point? His dScloSeS
that the inordinaey wealthy Pullman company, and not
the humble porerS is the object of this public charity
the real recipient of the tips given the porterS 1t an
open admission that not content with its unhoy charges
that pass the point where profits and larceny begins
it deliberately refuses to pay its porerS turning that
task to generous public whom it has already plum
dered TO the utmost limit the law will permit and takes
this underhanded way of collecting the wages of the por
tiers from the public in addition to its other charges If
the company would say I'VE have charged you certain
price for the service render YOU but in addition YOU
must furnish us the money pay pOrterS the public
would send roar and the piracal company would not
be given cent So shows not only that this great COM
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-06-13
WOMAN IN PoLITICs-AND OUT.

GV TOMEN voting and holding office brings up some
NAI new questions every day. In California one of the
w nominees for the legislature is was at the time
she was nominated unmarried Since that time
she has been led to the altar to be exact she being
politician has led the other fellow to the altar and thus
had her name changed She nominated for Office as
saw Mary Smith, but now she is as it were, Mary Jones'
The question passed to the secretary OF state u.s. IN
der which name shall she run for Officer? If she runs and
is elected as Mary Smith, how she egsate as Mary
Jones? If she runs Mary Jones' by what authority
shall she do it, since no Mary Jones was nominated?
1t is thus since the first female put In an appear
ance upon the globe They are always stirring up some
thing new putting before unthoughtof things in fudge
new shapes in Clothes new ingredients in the family null
gan and all kinds of novel things into the political pot
AS Byron graphically expressed it, What shes SAID or
done is naught what she'll say do the oldest thing
on record and vet new" God bless her, anyway, ind
vdualy and collectively She is the salt in the soup, the
flavorng in the pudding the perfume of the flower the
heaven in the dough- the electricity in the great engine OF
civilization that though furnishes the motive and
the motive power for all human endeavor Gods last and
most varegaed and versatile gift to man. Sharer of his
ioyS and income and comforter OF his sorrows and his
troubles Solomon in all his glory arrayed like
unto one of hem least not like those of recent years.
and his wisdom alongside of theirs the pratte of
adolescence to the dissertations of editor or the les
sons in the primer to WebSterS unabridged AS child
she is the musical brook dancing down the mountain
yon AS Miss river vine wreathed bOSSom bordered
dpng under the careSSeS of the vagrant zephyrs and
mirroring back all the beautiful things that pass before
her. AS wife and mother, the bilowing ocean that
washes the shores of humanity and bears all its burdens
upon her BOSOM AS feature in the political world
WELL come think of it. she always there only
she is out in the open and visible where before she was
not in evidence, but she got.there just the same.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-06-13
i'sss G'sss,;st: s:..s.s.! 5.ss s..,,,. M,kms3s,xt
CLASS TREE PLANTED.

At the closing exercises Of the eighth
grade Of East school, fine black wal
nut tree, planted and raised by one OF
the members Of the class, was planted
on the school campus and dedicated TO
the memory of the late J. 5. Graham.
At the roots Of the tree was placed a
metal box containing a short history
of the class, names Of its members and
the following memorial: "This tree,
at whose roots these data are placed,
is lovingly and most respectfully dedi-
Gated TO the memory Of ]. 5. Graham,
former principal Of our school, BY
Mr.. Graham s death. each pupil and
teacher lost a personal friend and eoun-
sellor. Grow. O, tree, and by your
sturdy growth and fruitfUlneSS exem-
plify the hfe and fruits Of him to
whose memory you are dedicated, -
The tree was fittingly planted near
the walk on the campus which Mr.. Gra-
ham used in entering the grounds Of
East school. snd it is bequeathei by
this years class Of the school 70 each
succeeding class as charge to be tend
ed with loving care.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-06-13

an excellent one; il brings the business
here to a modern level with the sys-
TEN throughout the country and is a
sound business step in the progressive
march Astoria has started
ID. X. Sheldon was arrested at Grisley
Mountain, Crook county, Thursday, and
taken to Prineville for trial on a charge
Of numbering his newborn child. The
baby was born in the morning and was
alive, and the neighbors after giving
what assistance they could to the
mother went home. Returning later
they were told the baby had died and
the father had buried it. Asked to
show the grave he said he could not find
it. The sheriff was called and searched
for the body finding the charred bones
in the heating stove.
Coquille, owing to the action of the
city council in refusing to grant licenses
will 90 into the dry list July first. The
council refused TO grant licenses by a
vote of five to one.
###
The loss by the fire at Bandon,
Thursday, will total at least 100000
and may 90 above that sum.
The l5.months old child of Mr.. and
Mrs Carl Minkler of Sherman County
wandered away from the house Thurs
day and falling in the Desehutes river
was drowned.
The militia companies of Eugene are
to be inoculated with typhoid germs,
prepared to render them immune from
the fever.
George Pierce, a prominent cattle man
of La Grande has been sued by Alice
Moore for breach of promise. The
lady wants $4,000 to salye her wound
ed affections.
A suit to nullify paving contract at
La Grande resulted Thursday in the
contract heing set aside. About a quar-
ter of mile of streets have been
paved under the contract and the War
rem Construction company is holding the
sack.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-06-13
RUSSIAN PERIL" TO CAUSE
AN EUROPEAN FEDERATION

Copenhagen. June IS.-ThSt quiet
undercurrent of sentiment in all three
countries is making steadily for the
federation Of Denmark, Sweden and
Norway was the confidential assertion
here today Of foreign diplomat long
resident in Copenhagen ssl in close
touch with Scandinavian politics.
He attributed the origin Of the move
nsat he profeSSed to discern 10 the
"RusSisn peril' but gave ii as his
opinion that these behind il are begin
ming 70 see economic and Industrial Sd-
vsntSges < would have. at least as i'm,
port&at Ss its defensive advantages.
At the outset, he admitted II prob
ably would not be much more than a
defensive alliance, but in the end. and
perhaps in the not distant future, he
declared he believed the union would
Be- as close as that OF the German or
Italian states
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-06-13
THE ROUND UP.

Brooks Harlan, years old died from
Strangulation at Klamath Falls Mon
day while recovering from the Influence
OF ether administered for q slight oper.
alton. lie became sick at the stomach
ami in vomiting, some Of the elected
matter passed into the wiudpipe eaus,
mg S,rangulation and death.
Forty members Of the Coast ARTILLERY
reserve, Of Ashland, took part in the
parade AZ Portland and then went on
10 Fort Stevens for ten days practice
with the big guns,
The Dallas College, formerly Ia Gre
ole Academy. has closed its doors for.
even Ii was closely associated with
the early history Of the coast and has
hundreds Of alumni throughout the
state, The law requiring Standardiza.
tiou Of such schools put it out Of busi.
ness,
While working on the lefty at the
mouth Of the SiNslaw, MOuiay. Lynn
(cunce was knocked into the river and
drowned. Tie was working as brakeman