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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31

her since she was kindergarten pupil
and had passed him every day on his
way to high school, But now that he
had come back from his years of col
lege and few in Australia--eleven in
sll-she wanted him to realize that she
had grown up. But he wouldn't, or
rather the family wouldn't let him.
Betty looked at him appealingly now.
His next words would decide whether or
not he still Considered her child. She
held her breath
Il think, he said slowly, that it isn't
safe for little girls to travel alone"
Betty gave a cry of rage and rushed
out of the room The beastl" she cried.
Edith put hip up to that ] hate him |!
hate him !"
She flew TO her room and went to
bed to cry herself to sleep, saying over
and over, Il am grown up. If I'm not
why did mother have coming out par
ty for me? I'm eighteen. Just because
I'm little and have curly hair, they think
I'm a baby. And Halls beasti And
I'm going to the Watsons if diei'
And so she did, not die, but go to the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31
Stove Pipe Cleaner.

II does not require such keen witted
housewife to observe that when the vari-
Gus passages about the stove are free and
open the FIRE burns much better and the
oven is hotter.
Then why not have them clear all the
time? The greatest source Of trouble is
the horizontal section of pipe which
passes from the range or stove to the
chimney, which is not only the most diff
feult to get at, but it offers the best
resting place for the SCOT
To have this part of the pipe clear at
ali times, would practically insure a good
drsught and hot FIRE. 50 that woman
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31
END OF A WRETCHED DAY

She entered He sat on the side of the
bed dressed, but helpless. He always
rose early, for he had the restlessneS OF
old age.
I'm terribly equity this morning" he
said. I've been trying for twenty min
utes to get my cane over there"
A1sa handed him the cane and helped
him downstairs. Then she got break
fast. Why not? They were both up and
as hungry as they ever could be.
Il suppose this is the day you have
your dinner party" Uncle Samuel said
to her across his coffee He felt better
and his keen old eyes had begun TO twin
he again Il hope you have good luck
with it. Those Blaif women are mighty
particular. Kate Blair is just like her
mother, and She would have scrubbed
both sides Of the kitchen floor, so I've
heard, had the boards laid loose 50 she
could I'm glad for your sake that Alex
ander takes after the Blairs They were
altogether different"
Ailsa blushed. She felt she was un-
dertsIdng a great deal when she asked
Alexander Blairs mother and elderly
sister to dine. But they were in the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31

was afraid she was going to cry. "Bu
i do think it's presuming of other peo-
pie to try to take care of me without
my consent"
I'm sorry" he said, rising 'I'H be
in the smoker. If you need me send the
porter and I'll come"
But Betty had opened book and gave
no answer
The train sped on and the hours wore
away. Betty had dinner and later Har-
old passed through on his way to and
from the diner. But he did not stop
nor so much as look at her either time.
Betty was piqued. Some people find
it lot of trouble to be pleasant" she
shifted. "Well, it serves him right. No
body asked him to come alongr'
And then something dreadful came in
to her head as the afternoon was wan
ing. The journey would be at an end
in two hours, and there was one stop she
knew of before Charleston Why not
get off the train there and take the next
one to her destination? 1t would only
take little longer, and when Harold
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31

great, dark old house, with its massive
black walnut furniture, sombre drsperies,
and ugly, old-fashioned carpets, would
have seemed 50 much more CHEEKY with
sunshine streaming into It
Though she had not gone to sleep un-
HI midnight. she could not shut her
eyes again. She lay, planning and wor-
ging. Suppose Mrs Cobine did not
come to help heri Suppose the chin
ney should take a fancy to burn out !!
She went over the whole days proceed
ings in Imagination; then when she was
too fevered TO lie still longer she arose
and dressed
Though she closed the door ever so
softly, Uncle Samuel heard her and
called from his room, -Aisai Come in
here
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31

discovered her absence he would. Is Bet
ty reasoned il out. 'have 6t" 1t was
= neat little way to get even. .,
So she assembled her bags and boxes,
put on her wraps, and when the express
roared into the station she slipped of
unnoticed, as she thought.
She sat down in the waiting room of
the station. after inquiring the time of
the next local train. She had thirty-fve
minutes to wait.
And the first thing she knew police
man and another man came in and right
over to her Without a word they took
her bag over to a window and
opened it. Betty was speechless with in
dignation. And then when she saw the
eontents she gave a gasp of dismay. 1t
was full of money.
You're a smart kid. you are!" said
the policeman grinning.
81 must have got it by mistake" cried
Betty 81 picked it up when got off
the train and thought it was mine"
you tell that to the judge" said the
other man. why did you get off the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31

neighborhood, and she dare not over
look them She could only trust to Prov
idence that things could go OF smoothly.
Ailsa Turner had been half way
through college when her father died of
an illness which later it was learned had
been brought about by worry over bust
ness troubles. She had been called home
to stay. The very few thousands which
her fathers lawyer gathered for her
from the wreck brought in an income
scarcely sufficient to buy her clothing
She was wondering what she should do
in the way of supporting herself when
her mothers uncle, Samuel Hotchlciss,
offered her a home with him. His
housekeeper, trusted for years, had left
him and he was alone in his house. Ali
sa had gone, to him gratefully She
never had known him well; but in the
year she had been with him she had
grown very fond of him. Bravely she
tried to carry on the business of his
home as Mrs. Pine had done, and she
succeeded well enough to deserve little
complaint from Uncle Samuel
In the meantime she almost had lost
track of Alexander Blair, who had be
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31
By Walt Gregg

train if you're going on to Charleston p
Here was a poser. Betty bit her lip.
Things would have ended dear knows
haw, but Harold, it happened, had looked
out of the window as the train pulled
out and saw a familiar little figure on
the platform. He grabbed his things
and leaped from the train, moving now
pretty fast. He hurt his foot and could
not walk for a few minutes, but finally
did arrive just as the men were walking
to Jail with poor Betty.
-
Never mind how they fixed it up,
but an hour later Betty and Harold were
on their way to Charleston.
Twill you forgive me9" begged Bet
ty humbly "I guess I am just baby
after all. I do need someone to take
care of me"
Harold reached for her hand and
pressed it warmly 81 wish you'd let me
take care of you all the rest of your
life" he whispered. 81 love you, Betty:
And Betty was so surprised and hap
py that she lost her voice completely and
could only press his hand in return.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31
Chinese Candy Makers.

q IL is acknowledged that the Chinese
are very skilfdl in making confectionery.
and possess the reputation of having
many secrets. They are able to empty
an orange of its pulp entirely, then I'LL it
up with fruit jelly without one being able
to find the smallest cut in the rind or
even tiny hole. Indeed, they even
empty an egg in this manner and fill it
with sort of almond nougat without
one being able to find the slightest break
or inoision in the she'll.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31

ing, wringing and twisting as one does
with a spoon shovel
Operator simply bears down on the han
die, and by means of levers the excava-
tor fills Itself and locks; it is then lifted
out, and by raising up on the little lever
it dumps and is ready to be filled again.
1t is powerful and positive in action,
and its load of earth will not tumble of
into the hole. thus making it possible to
do more work
With the. Sargent excavator, under
favorable conditions, one man can do
more work than many men in the old
way, if done with spoon shovels. It
is the invention Of c. d. Sargent of Bos-
ton.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31

mey were gong to a church supper.
Nearer and nearer came the merry
sound of bells, through the clear. frosty
air and at last ceased at the Ack1am
home.
"All ready, Belief" called Chester as
she appeared at the door muffled in
furs.
''Yes, even to the cake" laughed
Belle. PUT it under the seat out of
the way" she suggested, giving it to
ham.
With a final tuclcing in of robes of
they started. as happy and light-hearted
as two children.
For mile they few on, chatting gsyly
under the spell of the moon, then a
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31

Houlbert and Gslaine. is that myrizds Of
urmellids those little sea worms which
enease themselves in stony shells and
arc 50 often found upon the shells Of
oysters, are building a dixie across the
entrance to the bay. and behind this dixie
the sand is piling up with every tide. It
is estimated that this dixie is now nearly
two miles wide and from IS TO ls feet
deep.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31

A process for producing a quick and
clean break upon steel bars has been re-
Gently invented in France BY N. Bellan-
ger. A steel bar is submitted. at one or
several points around the line where, 4
is 10 be broken. TO the action Of an oEy-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31

last four years, 655 we're chestnut.
Pitch pine comes next with 327 trees
struck, and then follow in order rock
oak, white pine, hemloek, red oak, white
oak. black oak. locust and sugar maple.
Black birch is at the foot of the list
with only one tree struck in four years.
Poplar and walnut come next. only two
Of each being struck
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31
odd Things In Scientific Circles,

dining Aame from blowpipe, or in 9TH
er cases a reducing or neutral fame, the
bar being placed upon two supports at
the proper distance apart In this posi-
ton the bar receives a stroke from a
knife-edge tool applied in any suitable
way, or pressure can also be employed,
and this causes the bar to break of sharp
at the determined point.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31
Lightning Loves Chestnuts.

Lightning shows a marked prefer
enee for chestnut trees, according to
data based on reports submitted to the
Department Of Forestry by its forest
ers.
OF a total Of about 1000 trees struck
BY lightning in the state forests in the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31

steel helmets now in use and the add
tional feature of its disability as a trench
tool makes its use advisable, since as
saulting infantry must "dig-in" when
ever they happen 70 find themselves and
for that reason. are compelled to carry
trench tools
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31
Fuit.WasbInR Pan.

Among the novelties recently added
10 the number Of culinary oouvenienoes
Is a fruit-washing implement shat has
breh rcoentiy patented Il Is designed
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31
By A. Scientist

has invented piece of apparatus which
is designed to be a part of the stove
equipment remaining at all times in the
pipe, but when out of use it is out Of
the way.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31
AILsA TURNER re

AILSA TURNER re-
ceived her FIRST buffet
from fate that day
when she woke at
AIS and heard the
rain slashing against
the windows. She
had hoped for a
pleasant day. The
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31
worms Build Dixie.

Michel, of the north
coast of France. Is
rapidly ceasing to be
an island.
I he Tca son, a.
told to the Aca-
demie des Science in
Paris by Messrs
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31

The Dundee manufacturers are about
to give up the use Of earthenware, glass
jars and tins, for a stout cardboard con-
tainer is now being made and expert
neHts with It have proved highly sue
cessfuL
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31

had an idea that the conference was
about her and that it was not to her ad-
vantage, The family was always get
ing together and deciding either what
she had done was wrong. what she was
doing was wrong, or what she was about
TO do was wrong. This time it was the
latter, she felt sure. for there was some
thing she wanted to do very much now
that so far no one had felt called upon
10 second
we were just saying. Betty" ex-
planned her mother, that it would be
such a risk to allow you to go to the
Watsons' alone"
Il knew itr' stormed Betty. "You
all think I'm baby. and I'm not. I'm
perfectly able to look after myself"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31
Ellie ACKIAM wa.

Ellie ACKL-AM was
in a nervouSly hap
py frame of mind.
She was expecting
Chester Mason any
moment. For some
months he had heen
paying her marked
attention. Tonight
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1918-08-31

iE family was having
a council of war,
with Betty as the
subject, when Betty
walked in.
She looked ask
ancc, from ono to
the other, rather bel
ligerently, for she
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-05

Mrs. W. R. Bishop of Portland re-
turned home last night after week
end visit at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Clough.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-05

his eloquence lying not so much in fine
flights of rhetoric as in an obvious
earnestness; not so much in sparkle
and '.jazz", as in deep sincerity. He
uses no form of service, confining him
self to his preaching, and to the sing
ing of the old and familiar hymns. EX-
cept for cassock, he conducts his
service without vestments.
DR.. Stansfield has had wide exper-
ience in mission work on both sides
of the Atlantic, in this country and in
Canada, where for five years he preach
ed as lay evangelist. Since coming
west ON this trip he has been offered
opportunity to conduct several missions
in coast cities, which it was necessary
to decline, in order to return east to
fill engagements there, in Baltimore and
New York city.
Preaching services will be held at
st. Paul S every evening this week.. ex-
cept Saturday, the mission concluding
on Sunday. There is also a celebration
of the holy communion at each morn
ing, a devotional service at 10 a. N.
and a service for children at 4 each
afternoon.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-05

many is not as bad as last year, but
that the hardships of constant food
economy are in the long run beginning
to weigh heavily ON the public.
As to the injection of peace demands
into the strike situation, the impression
is prevailing in Germany that the an
neXationists are influencing the conduct
of negotiations at Brest Litovsk. So
eialists in the empire are convinced that
the German delegates would have been
more successful if they had given the
impression that Germany was serious
when she said she was willing to per-
NIT self-determination of the Poles,
Lithuanians, Let's and peoples of other
Baltic provinces. Foreign Minister
Kuehlmann explanations before the
main committee may have satisfied the
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-05

socialist members of the reiehstag-
but they did not convince the workers
of Germany, whose mistrust was siren
gthened by General Hoffman s speeches.
Though the German people have an inn
preston that Bolsheviki Minister Trot-
sky is dishonest, they believe his in
fluence at BrestLitovsk would have
been much less if the central powers
had clearly shown they really wanted
peace.
The fact also that the German gov
'ernment will not declare open war
against the fatherland party-the jun
kerites sUpreme-has increased general
dissatisfaction.
Professor Delbruikek explains the
government s action ON the ground that
$50 long as the party's doings do not
conflict with the law the government
must remain faithful to the imperial
word of August, 1914, voicing the be-
lief there were no parties in Germany"
General discomfort has likewise been
fomented by the delay in constitutional
reform on the part of the Prussian diet
and the main committee of the reich
stag. Reform has been promised but
w A"' "'t"Aie'ei' AiiV iN"o"h - wv NfSA-
man conservatives understand they can
not fight reform openly-therefore they
are trying to delay it by first discuss
ing the whole matter in the upper
house. On account of all these factors
the strike would have been greater if
it had found the ground fortified by
the Russian revolution. Bnt even the
most radical of the socialists express
the belief that chances of revolution
airy movement seem small--partly due
to conviction that the allied demands
on Germany are in the interest Of world
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-05
STRIKE WANING
Continued from page one)

and Scheidemann himself undertook
leadership.
From all the mass of rumors and re-
ports received here, it appears there
were very few excesses by the strikers.
Lighting and heating in the cities ap.
parently was unaffected. The gas work
ers and electricians did not join the
strike.
Prominent Germans here doubt that
any collaboration will continue between
the soeialists-adherent of Haase as
we'll as Schiedemann-and the govern
ment liberals and center party members
henceforth. One thing the strike empha-
sizes is that the food situation in Ger
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-05

and students of economies here to re-
gard the waning of the general strike
as only a temporary surcease of the
central empires industrial and political
problems.
The work of the extraordinary court
marital at Berlin, in imposing severe
penalties on strike leaders, is expected
to provide fuel for further trouble.
Wilhelm Dittmann, socialist member
of the reichstag, was sentenced to five
years imprisonment for "ineiting to
"high treason and was given an addi-
tional two months for resisting public
authority" Imperial Chancellor Hert-
ling previously had refused to intervene
in Dittmann IS case, declaring he could
invoke no civil procedure so long as
the military was supreme in the capital.
Heinrich Schultz, another popular lead
er, is under six months sentence for
distributing strike literature.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-05
M1L1TAR1sN VICTORIOUS
By Bd L. Keen

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
London, Feb. 5.-German militarism
is still supreme in the central empires.
It's iron heel today had crushed out
practically the last vestige Of resist
anee by the starving, enslaved common
people.
Cowed by the threat of the firing
squad and fearful for the fate of their
women and children, through reduction
of their already meager rations. the
protesting workers had practically all
returned TO the factories.
Only one isolated case Of continued
resistance was reported. That was at
jena, where the Tageblatt said a third
of the men employed there had walk
cd out Saturday.
There is a disposition among officials
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-05
Returning to Work.

Amsterdam, Feb. 5.-Semi-official
dispatches received here from Germany
today confirmed reports from other
sources that junkerdom has achieved an:
other victory in the central empires by
putting down the general strike.
The number of strikers declined -
yesterday-the time limit set by mill
tary officials for Inauguration of the
extreme penalty-and many works were
in full operation on that day, it was re-
ported.
Seventy five to eighty per cent of
the employees of the Borsig factory at
Teger ana other big armament plants
were working yesterday, the dispatches
said.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-05

Mrs. E. W. Geiger of Kansas City,
Missouri, arrived in Salem last night
for an extended visit at the home OF
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Seymour
Jones.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-05
Unknown Steamship
Reported In Distress

An Atlantic Port, Feb. 5,-An I'M
known steamship is iD distress some
where off the New England coast, ac-
eording to IS. o. S" calls picked up
by the steamer Admiral Sepree this
morning.
The stranger 5 messages said she was
in peril and needed assistance at once.
The captain Of the Admiral Sepree
declared a terrific gale was blowing
That he was having hard time to
hold his own and could not give assist
anee.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-05

Miss Vera Wright was a week ead
guest at coax Knoll" the country
home of Mr.. and Mrs. M. 1. Capps OF
Polk county
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-05
Weeks Mission Opened
at St. PauIs Last Night

The Rev. J. Atwood Stansfield open
ed week IS mission at st. Paul IS Epis-
cOpal church last evening with an i'm
pressive address, emphasizing the per-
sonal relation OF the individual soul to
God, telling as the speaker put it'' the
old message in as simple way as pos
sible.'
The missioner is a unique type of
vocational evangelist in that he fails
to employ the usual eccentricities, his
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-05
The aQuinine That Does Not Affect
Head

Because of it's tonic and laxative eff
feet, Laxative Bromo Quinine can be
taken by anyone without causing
nervousness or ringing in the head.
There is only one "Bromo Quinine. y
E. w. GROVES signature is on box
30c