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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-09-15
scAvENeER

Salem scavanger-Garbage and refuse
of all kinds removed on monthly con-
tracts at reasonable rates. Cess pools
cleaned Dead animals removed. Offics
phone Main 167.
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FOR SALE

FOR SALE--No. 6 Birdsell clover hull
er, also fresh COW. Phone 45F5. GIG
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FOR SALE first class cows; am
leaving. Rt. Z, box IL. 9-l5
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JOHN. H. SCOTT REALTY CO.
404 Oregon building

FOR SALE--5 acres good berry land,
just off Silverton road close to fair
grounds, good 5 for someone to
improve while working in town. Easy
terms. Call 267 N. sEiberty ST., Sa-
lem. GIG
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lost bunch keys on Commercial.
between Peoples cash store and 1865
n. Commercial. Phone 629. 9-l7
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If its "a swell home you want, one in
the ultra class I have it, 9 rooms,
with every convenience, look at this
before you buy. The location superb.
A beautiful room bungalow, small
lot, almost new, $500, good location
terms.
Modern 4 room house, good locker,
$ll50, terms.
Yes, I write insurance, automobiles
too, lots of 'em, the new rates are
so reasonable you can't afford to be
without the insurance, crooks are
stealing them every day, let me pro
tect you before they get yours. H.
E. Bolinger, 1923 Oregon bldg. TT
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SECOND HAND GOODS
STOVE REPAIRING

Stoves rebuilt and repaired. so years
experience; Depot National and Amcri-
can fence, sizes 26 to So inches high;
Paints, oil and varnish etc; logan
berry and hop hooks.
SALEM FENCE AND STOVE WORKS
$50 Court Street, Phone 124
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-09-15

fOuND-Iady's coat, or duster. Call
at Journal office, prove property and
pay for ad 9.16
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LosT-Check book, bank book and
7 some notes, between Garden road
and 5. p. depot. Return to Journal.
9-15
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lost - In down town district sSat.
evening child stocking cap. Leave
at Journal office. Ola
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3 HOUSES for sale. S03 N. Liberty St.
Inquire Warner Fennell. 9-20
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WANTED ~ To meet good, honest,
working woman or widow, for friend
ship and pastime; no flirt or spend
thrift need apply. Address A care
Journal. 9-15
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-09-15

FOR SALES room cottage on car line
one block from pavement. Price
$l100. See L. B. Grabenhorst, 275
State st. 9-15
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HELP WANTED

w ANTED-Prune piekers, a family
preferred. Phone 1868. tt
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IN REAL ESTATE
We have large list of good Will
lamette valley farms, stock ranches,
prune orchards, loganberry tracts,
close in acreage tracts, nice city
homes, cheap house and lots.
BAL U-+buy-C -R-lists.
All we ask is a fair trial. Perrine 4
Marsters, BOG Hubbard bldg, If
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PRUNE pickers wanted. Phone S6Fl3
early or late. e 9-lI
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BOARD AND ROOM

GOOD room and board may be had
close in at reasonable price; gentle
m preferred Phone 783. 9-15
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FOR SALE--A, limited number of high
grade White Leghorn hens, first
come. first served. Farmers Produce
Z Co. Phone 10.
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LOST AND FOUND

AOsT-Gold locket, finder leave at
Journal office, reward. GIG
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WANTED-Prune pickers. Good pick
ing. Call 53Fl5 in evening or come
to Rosedale orchard. GIG
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FOR SALE-Modern 6 room bungalow
well located, close to carline, store,
school; furnace, Basement, paved
street, etc. Also furniture for sale.
Owner, no agents. Address Home
A care journal. 9-l9
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1919-10-30
BOOTH HARRINGTON

either ner brother George or her son
George. "You must promise me-" she
said feebly. never to use those bad
words again."
Il promise not to-" he said prompt
ly-and he whispered an Immediate
codicil under his breath "Unless I get
mad at somebody" This satisfied a
code according to which, in his own
sincere belief, he never told lies.
That's good boy" she said, and
he ran out to the yard, his punishment
over.
AS an ANDERSON he was already q
public character, and the story of his
adventure in the Rev. MallOch Smiths
front yard became a town topic. Many
people glanced at him with great dis
taste thereafter, when they CHANGED
TO encounter him, which meant moth
ing to George, because he innocently
believed most grown people to be nee
essarlly cross looking as a normal phe-
nomenon resulting from the adult
state; and he failed to comprehend
that the distasteful glances had any
personal bearing upon himself. If he
had perceived such bearing he would
have been affected only so far, prob
ably, as to mutter "Riffraff!" Pos
sibly he would have shouted it; and
certainly most people believed story
that went round the town just after
Mrs. Amberson's funeral, when Geor-
gle was eleven. George was reported
to have differed with the undertaken
about the seating of the family; his
indignant voice had become audible:
well, who is the most important per-
son at my own grandmother's fu-
neral?" And later he had projected
his head from the window of the fore
most mourners' carriage, as the under
taker happened to pass.
"Riffraff!"
There were people-grown people
they were-who expressed themselves
longingly: they did hope to live to see
the day, they said, when that boy
would get his come-upance! (They
used that honest word, so much bet
ter than deserts" and not until many
years later to be more clumsily rem
dered as "what is coming to him.o)
Something was bound to take him
down some day, and they only wanted
to be there! But George heard moth
ing of this, and the yearners for his
taking down went unsatisfied, while
their yearning grew the greater as the
happy day of fulfillment was longer
and longer postponed.
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didn't catch his name when nv
mother presented him to me- said
George. "You mean the queer-looking
duck"
Il mean the aristocratic duck"
That's my Uncle George. Honor.
able George Anderson. I thought ev-
erybody knew him."
He looks as though everybody
ought to know him." she said. ut
seems to run in your family"
If she had any sly intention it
skipped over George harmlessly.
swell, of course, / suppose most ev.
erybOdy does" he admitted-'out in
this part of the country especially.
Besides Uncle George is in congress !;
the family like to have someone
there
sWhy?"
"Well, it's sort of a good thing in
one way. For instance, Uncle Sydney
Anderson and his wife, Aunt Amelia,
they haven't much of anything to do
with themselves-get bored to death
around here, of course. Well, prob
ably Uncle Georgell have Uncle Sgd
ney appointed minister or ambassador
or something like that, to Russia or
Italy or somewhere, and that'll make
it pleasant when any of the rest of
the family go travelling. or things like
that. / expect to do a good deal of
travelling myself when get out Of col
lege."
Sydney was an Anderson exag-
gerated-more pompous than gracious
too portly, flushed, starched to shine,
his stately jowl furnished with an Ed
ward the Seventh beard Amelia, like
wise full-bodied, showed glittering
blond hair exuberantly dressed;
pink, fat face cold under white-hot
tiara; a solid, cold bosom under
white-hOt necklace; great, cold, gloved
arms, and the rest of her beautifully
upholstered. AS George assembled the
broad stairway they were precisely
the aunt and uncle he was most
pleased to point out to girl from out
of town, as his appurtenances in the
way of relatives. At sight Of them
the grandeur of the ANDERSON family
was instantly conspicuous as perma-
nent thing: it was impossible to doubt
that the Ambersons were intrenched,
in their nobility and riches, behind
polished and glittering barriers which
were as solid as they were brilliant,
and would last
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You might take her up to the dancing:
| think you've pretty well done your
duty here"
BE d'lighted," George responded
formally, and offered his arm, not
with flourish, certainly, but with an
impressiveness inspired partly by the
appearance of the person to whom he
offered it. partly by his being the hero
Of this fete, and partly by his youth
fulness-fOr when manners are new
they are apt to be elaborate. The
little beauty intrusted her gloved fin
gers to his coatsleeve, and they moved
away together.
AS he conducted Miss Morgan
through the hall toward the stairway
they passed the open double doors Of
q cardroom, where some squadrons of
older people were preparing for ac-
ton, and, leaning gracefully upon the
mantelpiece of this room, tall man,
handsome, high-mannered and spar
klingly point-device, held laughing
converse with that queer-looking duck
the Sharon girls uncle The tall gen.
tleman waved gracious salutation to
George, and Miss Morgan's curiosity
was stirred. "Who is that?'
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CHAPTER w.

Line nero or the 1eCe, with the dark
eyed little beauty upon his ARM
reached the top of the second flight of
stairs; and here, beyond spacious
landing, where two proud-like darkies
wide archways in rose-vine lattice
framed gliding silhouettes of waltzers
already smoothly at it to the castanets
Of 'La Paloma." Old John Minafer,
evidently surfeited, was in the act of
leaving these delights escorted by a
middle-aged man of commonplace ap-
pearance. The escort had dry, lined
face upon which, not ornamentally
but as matter of course, there grew
4 business mans short mustache; and
us thin neck showed an Adams apple,
1T not conspicuously, for there was
nothing conspicuous about him. Bald
ish, dim, quiet, he was an unnotice-
able part of this festival, and although
there were dozen or more middle
aged men present, not casually to be
distinguished from him in general as
pect, he was probably the last person
In the big house at whom a stranger
would have glanced twice. 1t did not
enter Georges mind to mention to
Miss Morgan that this was his father,
or to say anything whatever about
him.
Mr.. Minafer shook his sons hand
unobtrusively in passing.
I'll take Uncle John home" he
said in a low voice. ''Then 1 guess
I'll go on home myself-pm not
great hand at parties, you know.
Good night, George"
George murmured friendly enough
good night without pausing Ordi-
narily he was not ashamed of the Min
Alters he seldom thought about them
at all, for he belonged, as most Amer
lean children do, to the mothers fam
ily-but he was anxious not to linger
with Miss Morgan in the vicinity Of
old John, whom he felt to be dis
grace.
He pushed brusquely through the
fringe of calculating youths who were
gathered in the arches, watching for
chances to dance only with girls who
would soon be taken off their hands,
and led his stranger lady out upon the
floor. They caught the time instantly,
and were away in the waltz.
George danced well, and Miss Nor
gan seemed to float as part of the mu-
sic, the very dove itself of ia Palo-
ma" George became conscious Of
strange feelings within him: an exaI-
tation Of soul, tender but indefinite,
and seemingly located in the upper
part of his diaphragm.
The stopping Of the music came
upon him like the waking to an alarm
clock; for instantly six or seven of
the calculating persons about the en-
tryways bore down upon Miss Morgan
to secure dances. George had to do
with one already established as q
belle, 1t seemed.
"Give me the next and the one after
that" he said hurriedly, recovering
some presence of mind, just as the
nearest applicant reached them. sand
give me every third one the rest Of
the evening"
She laughed. Are you askingw
"What do you mean, 'asking?'"
ut sounded as though you were just
telling me to give you all those
Dances"
well, want 'emw George insisted.
"Are you going to give me"
"Good gracious y she laughed.
Eyes !"
The applicants f1ocked round her.
urging. contracts for what. remained.
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but they did not dislodge George from
her side, though he made it evident
that they succeeded in annoying him;
and presently he extricated her from
an accommodating siege-she must have
cOnnived in the extricatiOn-and bore
her off to sit beside him upon the
stairway that led to the musicians
gallery, where they were sufficiently
retired yet had view Of the room.
How'd all those ducks get to know
you SO quick?' George inquired, with
little enthusiasm.
"Oh, I've been here week"
Looks as if you'd been pretty
busy!' he said. Most of those ducks,
l don't know what my mother wanted
to invite 'em here for"
perhaps it was on account of their
parents" Miss Morgan suggested
mildly. "Maybe she didn't want to
offend their fathers and mothers"
"Oh, hardly! l don't think my
mother need worry much about offend
Ing anybody in this old town."
1T must be wonderful" said Miss
Morgan. "It must be wonderful, Mr..
Amberson-Mr. Minafer, / mean"
''What must be wonderful"
ITO be SO important as that"
"That isn't Important" George as
sured her. Anybody that really is
anybody ought to be able to do about
as they like in their own town, I
should think -
She looked at him critically from
under her shading lashes-but her
eyes grew gentler almost at once. In
truth, they became more appreciative
than critical. Georges imperious good
looks were altogether manly, yet ap-
preached actual beauty as closely as
a boys good looks should dare; and
dance music and flowers have some
effect upon nineteen-year-old girls as
well as upon eighteen-year-old boys.
The stairway was drafty: the steps
were narrow and uncomfortable; no
older person would have remained i'm
such place. Moreover, these two
young people were strangers to each
other; neither had said anything i'm
which the other had discovered the
slightest intrinsic interest; there had
not arisen between them the begin
nings of congeniality, or even of
friendliness-bu stairways near ball
rooms have more to answer for than
have moonlit lakes and mountain sun
sets.
Age, confused by it's own long ac-
emulation of follies, is everlastingly
inquiring, "what does she see in him?"
as If young love came about through
thinking-or through conduct. At
eighteen one goes to a dance, sits with
a stranger on stairway, feels pc
culiar, thinks nothing, and becomes
incapable of any plan whatever. Miss
Morgan and George stayed where they
were.
They had agreed to this in silence
and without knowing it; certainly
without exchanging glances of intelli-
gence-they had exchanged no glances
at all. Both sat staring vaguely out
into the ballroom, and, for time,
they did not speak. Here and there
were to be seen couples SO carried
away that, ceasing to move at the
decorous, even glide, considered most
knowing, they pranced and whirled
through the throng, from wall to wall,
galioping bounteously in abandon.
George suffered a shock of vague sur
prise when he perceived that his aunt,
Fanny Minafer, was the lady-half Of
one of those wild couples. She flew
over the floor in the capable arms of
the queer-looking duck; for this per-
son was her partner.
Continued Next Week.
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CHAPTER iii.

Until he reached the age Of twelve
Georges education was a domestic
process; tutors came to the house,
and those citizens who yearned for his
taking down often said "Just wait till
he has to go to public school; then
he'll get it!'' But at twelve George
was sent to private school in the
town, and there came from this small
and Independent institution no report,
or even rumor, of Georges getting
anything that he was thought to de-
serve: therefore the yeagRing still Der-
sisted, though growing gaunt with
feeding upon itself.
The yearners were still yearning
when George at sixteen was sent
away to a great prep school,"
Now" they said brightly, hell get
it! He'll find himself among boys just
as important in their home town as he
is, and they'll knock the stuffing out
of him when he puts on his airs with
them! Oh, but that would be worth
something to seer They were' mis-
taken, it appeared, for when George
returned few months later he still
seemed to have the same stuffing. He
had been depOrted by the authorities,
the offense being stated as "insolence
and profanity in fact, he had given
the principal of the school instruc-
tons almost identical with those for
merly objected to by the Rev. Malloch
Smith.
But he had not got his concordance.
and those who counted upon it were
embittered by his appearance upon
the downtown streets driving a dog
cart at criminal speed, making pc
destrians retreat from the crossings.
and behaving himself as if he "ownef
the earth"
When Mr.. George Anderson Nina
fer came home for the holidays at
Christmastide in his sophomore year,
probably no great change had taken
place inside him, but his exterior was
visibly altered. Nothing about him
encouraged any hope that he mad re-
celved his come-upance; on the con-
trary, the yearners for that stroke of
justice must yearn even more itch
lngly: the gilded youths manner had
become polite, but his politeness was
OF kind which democratic people
found hard to bear.
Cards were out for a ball In his
honor, and this pageant of the ten
ant-y was held in the ballroom of the
Anderson mansion the night after his
arrival. 1t was, as Mrs. Henry Frank
lin Foster said of Isabel's wedding. "a
Dig Amberson-style thing" All "old
citizens" recognized as gentry received
cards, and Of course so did their dane
ing descendants.
The orchestra ard the caterer were
brought from away, in the ANDERSON
manner, though this was really q 9aa-
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- -AAA0sAAS 7AGC0 S1Su uO
OF this year, or Of last year either.
observing only his questionable hair.
MS preOccupied tie and his old coat.
the Olympic George set him down as
q queer-loOking duck, and having thus
completed his portrait took no inter-
est in him.
Ihe Sharon girls passed on, taking
the Queer-looking duck with them, and
George became pink with mortifica-
ton as his mother called his attention
TO white-bearded guest waiting to
snake his hand. This was Georges
great-uncle, old John Minafer: it was
Old Johns boast that in spite of his
connection by marriage with the Am
persons he never had worn and never
would wear a swaIler-tail coat. Mem
Ders of his family had exerted their
lnnuence uselessly - at eighty-nine
conservative people seldom form rad
lcal new habits, and old John wore his
Sunday suit" of black broadcloth to
the Anderson ball. The coat was
square, with skirts to the knees: old
John called it prince Albert and
was well enough pleased with it, but
his great-nephew considered it the
next thing to an insult. i
The large room had filled. and so
had the broad hall and the rooms on
the other side of the hall, where there
were tables for whist. The imported
orchestra waited in the ballroom on
the third floor, but local harp, cello.
violin and flute were playing airs from
The Fencing Master in the hall, and
people were shouting over the music.
Old John Minafer's voice was louder
and more penetrating than any other,
because he had been troubled with
deafness for twenty-five years, heard
his own voice but family, and liked to
hear it. Smell O. flowers like this al
ways puts me in mind o. funerals" he
kept telling his niece, Fanny Minafer,
who was with him; and he seemed to
get a great deal of satisfaction out of
this reminder. His tremulous yet stri-
dent voice cut through the voluminous
sound that filed the room. and he was
heard everywhere.
Presently Georges modification was
increased to hear this sawmill droning
harshly from the midst of the thick
ening crowd: "Ain't the dancin' broke
out yet, Fanny? Hoopla! Les push
through and go see the young women
folks crack their heels! Start the cir
Gus! Hoopsey-daisy! Miss Fanny
Minafer, in charge of the lively vet
eran, was almost as distressed as her
nephew George, but she did her duty
and managed to get old John through
the press and out to the broad STAIR
way, which numbers of young people
were now ascending to the ballroom
George began to recover from the deg
radiation into which this relic of early
settler days had dragged him. What
restored him completely was dark
eyed little beauty Of nineteen, very
knowing in lustrous blue and Jet; at
sight of this dashing advent in the line
of guests before him George was fully
an ANDERSON again.
Remember you very well indeed |"
he said, his graciousness more earnest
than any he had heretofore displayed.
Isabel heard him and laughed.
But you don't, George!" she said.
"You don't remember her vet, though
OF course you will Miss Morgan is
from out of town, and I'm afraid this
is the first time you've ever seen her.
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No disaster too big for the Red
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-08-29
c. COMPLAINING
SPEAKING Drive
ON PACT POINTS
johnson 10 Trail President to
the Coast,

WASHINGTON, Aug 9-Whlle
President Wilson is on his speaking
tour. republican senators opposed to
ratification Of the German treaty and
entry ot the United States into The
proposed league OF nations plan 20
deliver a ,rric, OF addresses then
selves in various parts Of the country.
Senator Johnson OF California will
be the chief speaker on the stump
for the presidents senatorial oppon-
ent'. He said today that he planned
"spcaking drive straight TO the
Pacific coast" His voice probably
will he raised against the treaty in
California a, about the same time the
presidcn, is engaged there IN urging
it, acceptance by the senate
Senators Rorah Of Idaho, PolndeH-
ter Of Washington, and Sherman,
Illinois republicans and Reed, OF
Missouri, democrat. who all are
avowcd advocates OF rejection of the
treaty. plan to speak as often and IN
as many places as they can when
ever their senatorial duties will per
NIT them 10 absent themselves from
Washington
Other uncompromising opponent,
Of the treaty, like senator's Lodge OF
Mass: Knox of Penn and Moses OF
New Hampshire may also deliver ad.
dresses in criticism Of the treaty and
OF the president, course in different
cities or states.