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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-18

was some difficulty. Kiddie Katy
did had torn open the message;
and now he turned it over and
over, wondering what it said-for
to tell the truth, he couldn't read
a single word.
"Ah!' the stranger remarked
presently, Il see what your trou-
bic is. You haven't your specta-
cles on!"
He was a polite person-that
stranger. He knew better thar TO
suggest that body didn't know
his letters,
Let me help you!" he contin-
ued. And taking the message
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-18

under the terms of his father.
will.
Her attorneys made short worl
of the shyster. She herself, man,
times a victim to her hephew's de.
ceit in former years, and once hay.
ing stood between him and prison
concerning the matter of a sigma.
ture for thousands of dollars-the
said signature not being hers but
by her recognized for the miser-
able young mans sake-this for
midable and acidulous old lady
wrote to her nephew in reply to a
letter of his:
You always were liar. 1 do
not believe you are married. I do
not believe you have a baby. I
send you-not cheque, because
you'd probably raise it, but enough
money to start you properly.
Keep away from me. You are
what you are partly through your
fathers failure 10 do his duty by
you. An optimist taken at birth
and patiently traned can be saved.
Nobody saved you: you were mere
ly punished. And you, naturally.
became a swindler.
But I can't help that now. It's
too late; I can only send you
money. And if it's true you have
a child, for Gods sake take her
in time or she'll turn into what YOU
are.
And that is why I send you any
money at all-on the remote
chance that you are not lying. Keep
away from me, Harry.
"Rosalinda Quest"
So he did not trouble her, he
knew her of old; and besides he
was too i'll, too dazed with drugs
to bother with such things.
He lost every penny of the mon
ey in Quint's gambling house with
in a month.
So the Quest family, father, mo-
ther and little daughter sifted
through the wide, coarse meshes
of the very last social stratum tha: |
same winter, and landed on the
ultimate mundane dump-heap.
Quest now lay all day across
broker iron bed, sometimes stupe-
fled, sometimes violent; his wife. |
dismissed from the Hippodrome
for fragrant cause, now picked up
an intermittent living and other
things in an east-side rink. The
child still remained about, some
where, anywhere dirty, ragged,
bruised, furtive little thing, long
accustomed to extremes of maud
in demonstration and drug erazed
1ruelty, frightened witness of
Dreadful alterations and of more
dreadful reconciliations, yet still
more stunned than awakened,
more undeveloped than preco-
'ious, as though the steady accum-
Ilation of domestic horrors had
,hecked mental growth rather than
harpened her wits with cynicism
md undesirable knowledge. 'h
Not yet had her environment
distorted and tainted her speech,
or her father had been an educat-
ID man, and what was left of him
till employed grammatical Eng
ish, often correcting that nasal.
Upstate vocabulary of the mother
the beginning of many a terri
lie quarrel.
So the child skulked about, al
ernately ignored or whined over,
ursed or caressed, petted or beat ,
n, sometimes into insensibility.
Otherwise she followed them g.,
bout instinctively, like a crippled =,
itten,
Then there came one Sitting
light in that earthly hell called a :
Jew York tenement, when little
tephanie Quest, tortured, by
rickly heat grasping for the re-
eff which the western lightning
romised, crept out to the fire es- t
ape and lay there grasping like
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-18

( A lot of the jolts and Jars are to
be taken out of the horses life
and the rubber shoes are guaran-
teed to be nonskid. They will be of
all shapes and sizes. with fash
ionably borad toes and open heels
or barred, padded and welded as
fancy may dictate
And one point about those new
shoes-old Dobbin will have to be
taken to the blacksmith chiropod-
ist only once a month instead of
biweekly as at present.
Charles Goodyear, it may be re-
membered, many years ago, expert
mented with rubber horseshoes,
using a chicken as a tryout model.
But the old hen wasn't a success.
But Rooney had an inspiration.
1t was a horseshoe constructed of
a thin plate of steel and covered
either partially or completely, with
vulcaniZed rubber. Since it is i'm
possible to weld steel and rubber
tC6N NtAiOi lhOOIiCN anu d 1lItllu uSeQ
a system of tieing hand-in- glove
arrangement that worked out per-
fectly.
So rubber horseshoes will be on
the market in sixty days.
The influence of literature will
be far-reaching. No more will the
sparks be dashed from the flying
rocks by the speeding horses hoofs,
The poet will simply say the steed
went so fast his rubber shoes
melted. And as for dramatists-
we'll, when the hero dashes up
madly to rescue or kidnap the he
-oine. as the case may be, the
property man will be a golfer who |
oounces few golf balls against the |
vail to denote the pounding of the |
lorse's hoofs.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-18

being already a prenatal heiress TO
obscure, unknown traits scarcely
as vet even developed in the pair
responsible for her advent on earth
what she might turn into must re-
main a problem to be solved by
time alone.
Harry Quest, the father of this
unborn baby, was an actor. With
out marked talent and totally with
out morals. but well educated and
of agreeable manners, he was
natural born swindler, not only OF
others but of himself. In other
words, an optimist.
His father, the Reverend An
thony Quest, retired, was celebrat-
ed for his wealth, his library, and
his amazing and heartless parsi-
mcny. And his morals. No Won
der he had grimly kicked out his
only son who had none.
The parents of the mother OF
this little child not yet born, lived
in Utica. over a stationery and toy
shop which they kept. Patrick
Conway was the mans name. He
had a pension for being injured on
the railway, and sat in peculiar
" constructed wheeled chair, moy-
ing himself about by pushing the
rubber tired wheels with both |
hands and steering with his re-
naming foot.
He had married woman rather
older than himself, named Jessie !
a school teacher living in
Herkimer.
To Utica drifted young Quest,
equipped only with the remains of
1ne lung, and cut of a job as usual
At the local rink he picked up
Laura Conway, after mindless
Irritation, and ultimately twent to
BOARD with her family over the sta
ionery shop.
So the affair in question was a
case of propinquity as much as
inything, and was consummated
With all the detached irresponsi
,ility of two sparrows.
However, Quest willing now to
,e supported, married the girl
protest. She continued to {
int photographs and skate as long (
$ she was able to be about; he {
oafed in front OF theaters and ho- {
els, with a quarter in change in
is pockets, but always came back {
D meals. On sunny afternoons, {
hen he felt well, he strolled about !
ne residence section or reposed in
is room waiting, probably, for Op- !
to knock and enter. q
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-18
Nile. Denise Is
Winner of Race

Camp Deveus. Mass. oct. IS
Nile Denise. grade thoroupbbre5
MARI owned by the army rcmouat
serv'ee and ridden hy Major Koch
o. the general staff. was deelared
ne winner today of the 500 mile
sfniae endurance test. which -.
- etternline the best ts-pe Of l,o,.s.,
s9r ne cavalry service. R.s,.,,,
Def faii bissoded Arab was awe~,,-
g = egnd place. aud Bunkie. ssss5.
,...''e e Mse. Den Sc and OF the
zaF'e sfeed ras bird. -
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-18

Leaper the Locust was a rude
fellow. lie sctually tried to snatch
me message cut OF Kiddie Katy
ud's hands But the stranger
promptly bawled him over and
told him sternly to be off
Leaper did not dare disobey. So
he hurried away. But after a few
moments he came sailing back
again and hung on the outskirts OF
ne crowd. to see what was going
~
e soon discovered that there
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-18
The Restless Sex
By Chambers Author of Barbarian The Dark STAR Etc

! But nothing came except th'
baby.
About that time, too, both lungs
being in bad condition, young
Quest began those various ana ex'
haustive experiments in narcotics
which sooner or later interest sucl
men, And he finally discovered
heroin. Finding it an agreeable
road to hell, the symptomatlc
characteristics of an addict pres
emily began to develop in him, ana
he induced his young wife to share
the pleasures of his pharmaceuticai
discovery.
They and their baby continued
to cucumber the apartment Tor a
year or two before the old people
died - of WEAKNESS, perhaps, per
haps of old age-or grief-or -seme
similar disease so fatal to tbr aged
Anyway, they died, an6 there re-
mained nothing in the estate not
subject to creditors And, as tint
ed photographs had gone out OF
fashion even in Utica, and as the
advent of moving pictures was be-
ginning to kill vaudeville every
where except in New York, the
ever-provincial, thither the Quest
family drifted. And there, through
the next few years, they sltted
downward through stratum af1ef
stratum of the metropolitan pur-
lieus, always toward some darker
Observation-Disclosures little lower
The childishly attractive mother
in blue relyr; and white cats fur.
still Gtl faacy stating at rink and
The father some
times sat dazed and coughing in
the chilly waiting rooms of theat-
gical agencies. Fortified by drugs
and by a shabby fur overcoat, he
sometimes managed to make the
in pleasant weather; and
TO die rather slowly
his physical condition
But his father, who had so long
ago disowned him-the Reverend !
Anthony Quest-being in perfect
moral condition, caught a slight |
,oId in his large, warm library,
md died of pneumonia in forty
light hours-a frightful example
# earthly injustice, doubtless MADE
III right in Heaven.
Young Quest, forbidden the pres
nee for years, came skulking
round after a while with a Jew
awyer. only to find that his one
wing relative, a predatory aunt
lad assimilated everything and
,as perfectly qualified to keep it
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-18

ed, as he handed the letter back to
Kiddie.
This cousin of mine-is he a
Long horn or a Shorthorn Kid
die Katydid inquired.
At that question the stranger
shifted uneasily from one foot to
another. And since he had six
feet, he looked for moment as if
he were engaged in a queer sort of
dance.
II should say - he said at last
u should say his horns We're
about medium"
Kiddie Katydid stared at the fell
low very hard. IS
Il believe you know more than
you're willing to tell" he suddenly
cried. And then he quickly showed
the letter inside the strangers mail
pouch. That's not for me, after
all" he declared. Unless I'm
greatly mistaken, the person that
sent this letter is a Short-horn the
same as you. And want nothing
to do with him!"
Where's that other fellow that
was clamoring for the message ?"
the stranger asked. And spying
Leaper the Locust on the edge of
the crowd, he sprang upon him,
collared him, and explained that !
there had been a mistake.
The message is for YOU" he an |
nOunced.
But 1 don't want it now!' Leap |
aer the Locust shouted. I've |
heard it twice already; and l don't |
ike it in the least."
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-18
Monday, octobe, /,

a minnow. ~'!
Fate, lurking i
room behind he, u .. y
ged parents lay |, When
unloGsed thnnaasla a sudden l1s,sls S's'
door shut with J w Which
athas AWAKEN the man. l'''a
worn.olt U,ngr things, i did Z, ss
the p,,,,l, verdict, anyway
Piuris es oeulair.
guam auriti deem ems tsa
But as always, Il. !.
remained renal silent, offas,, tss y
ni9qy Thi. to o.t the con,raryy.. y
phanie pf Quest hapeeasai,, ssi,s
days a o., of the Great 'ssI'ss ada'.,l
an administration NOT a,alals
Sc. sense of material natiosa' ti slsat
ny great only in aotsl sDiai.
things of the mind ana A
Even the carpeuts. u SOU
Schmidt. across the I'sl bsls,.
tenement, rose to the sls,s'' 1s1s'
hnekplored hn sps spiritual ,s,,' str,',e
ne had a wife and fivs tu''as J.
and only his wages, and rss !. !.
work every week. "
"Nein,' he said. wb.,
ed for Contributions ps's ~. IN
funeral, Il haff no m,s!N ~su
dead people. l don't ~ '
vat 1t iss dot Sh,t..
Don't neffer No. hls.
neffer lend noddlns
But | tell You what | n,
dot leedle child"
The slim, emadsa
frightened white, had n
herself against the dirtys,
hallway to let the pots.,
ambulance surgeon pas
The trampling, stariD,
'f the tenement crowdedh
4 stencil of cabbage aS !,
possessed the place.
The carpenters wife,
around her shapeless MINI
ooking as though she nl,,
o her progeny at any ninub
o the door of her two.rem
lel.
Poor little stephanie,' Il
you come right in and
'ou self at home along Of n
And, as the child did NJ
eemingly frozen there agajn
trained and battered wall, N
,enter said:
"Dut! Stephanie! Her
'teve.. Come home und q
ONE breakfast right away 1
rs that their kid?" inavi
coming out Of IN
f death and wiping The
rom his face.
Sure. l take her in
"Well, you'll have to d
natter later"
81 fix it now. | take Id
teve for mine"
The policeman yawned Ms
ote book in which he Vu
lg.
1T amt done that way, I'd
l. you! Well, all right! ID
eep her until the thing !
p" He went on wriHz
The carpenter STROBE ovs
hild; his blond hair briSA
card was fearsome and
gre's. But his voice tsd
18th Teuton sentiment.
you got a new mamma
e rum bled, Now, you
nd cry nit her so much
ke." He pulled the little Cd
, toward his rooms; the
.owd murmured on the
le sight of the child Of Sd
Mamma, here iss our lth
.retty!" growled Schmidt
Y Gott, l got to go to ~
hellofa business ISIS II!
-immer-schade AnOtha
feed, py Gottl"
ITO Be Continued)
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-18
Loganberry
Laughs
n Dnkort nufIIan
BY Robert Quillen.

L1AOAellblA Va wa A1AA 49,
cluded among labor's rites.
The first three months of a
hunger strike are the worst.
Profiteer's Days Are Done,
says a headline. So is the
public.
Public interest in the SOL
emn referendum just simply
refuses to jell.
Italy has come upon an evil
day, and communism won't
make the dago.
## ~
When Babe Ruth tires of
the game, he might teach
Homer in one of our colleges.
One half of the world does
MT know where the other half |
gets it's liquor.
## n n
1t might help some if a few
million patriotic jitneys would
go on a hunger strike.
%# -
Now that prices have gone
up in the world they show
their raising.
If bribes are subject to in
come tax, Pullman porters
have fallen on evil days.
= " |
An educated man is one I
who can answer the questions |
of a child in the sixth grade.
As matter of fact, the :
voters usually assume that an ;
Aggressive is a Progressive.
The literacy test keeps out
ignorant immigrants who do
not know how to make bombs.
In these Volstead days
about the only way a man can r
make himself disagreeable is
by eating onions.
*&*
The city mans only obiec-
tion to the farmers mode of
living is the work attached to =
it.
How will a woman accus- 81
toned to bargain hunting re-
slst the temptation to vote for
a cheap politician?
One has more faith in the
Americanism of a politician Al
who caters to voters who
speak English. HI
sF*s
After all, government waste Al
IS but the natural result of
permission to spend the other Al
fellows money.
*<&* Nj
There are few counterfeit
RS operating now. With mo-
ley as cheap as it is they can =
make more at something else. S
How does the Russian pa !
riot distinguish between an &
ch for office and the itch oc- 4.
lsioned by his regular inhab- 3
ants? IE
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-18

from Aluuie hatydId, he held IL
upside down, and began reciung
in sing-song voice:
Dear Mr.. Grasshopper,
in Pleasant Valley
Though YOU do not know me.
l am a distant cousin of yours;
ana l am now on my way to your
neighborhood, with my family. Not
being acquainted in your part of
the country, l am sending you this
message with the hope that YOU will
be ready TO welcome us when we
arrive, Please see that there's
plenty to cat.''
That's oddi" Kiddie Katvd;d
exclaimed, after the stranger had
finished Wont YOU please read
that once more? 1 want 10 be
sure that l understand il"
Thereupon the travel-worn mes
senger repeated the contents of the
letter And this time he held il
with the back toward him. SO that
he couldn't see the writing at all.
Like Kiddie katydid. he didn't
know how to read word. But
luckily he had learned the message
by heart before starting on his
journey.
WHAT'S my cousins name -
<iddie Kaydid asked him abrupt
y. Hasn't he signed the mes
age -
I'm afraid he forgot to do that
he stranger muttered. No doubt
he wants 70 surprise You" he add
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-18

Truly a gentler era mas come.
Just how this is going to benerlt
the New York apartment dWellef
whose flat is next to the elevated
is not stated
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-18
PoStmasterShipS
To Be Made Thru
Promotions NOW

Washington, Oct 1S.-Provision
for filling postmastership's in first
second and third class offices
through promotion is made in an
executive order announced today
by the civil service commission.
The postoffice department will
be permitted to make nomination
for a vacancy from available en-
ployes and if the nominee meets
the minimum requirements prescri-
bed for the office his name will be
submitted to the president.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-18

Redmond, Ore.-Choice potatoes,
to be shipped out as seed are now
being harvested on a tract of 800
acres, which last March was COW
cred with sagebrush. The land has
been reclaimed by the Deschutes
Valley Seed company, now harvest
ing an excellent crop.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-18
Preface.


Created complete, equipped fol
sporadic multiplication and later
for auto-fertilization, the restless
sex, intensely bored by the process
of procreation, presently invented
an auxiliary and labeled him tho
| Greek sign of Mars.
A fool proceeding, for the inher-
tied mania for invention obsessed
him and he began to invent gods.
The only kind of gods that his i'm
agination could conceive were
various varieties of supermen,
stronger, more cruel, craftier than
he. And with these lie continued
to derive satisfaction by soaring
himself
But the restless sex remained d
restless; the invention of the
sign of Mars, far from bringing
content, merely increased the ca
pacity of the sex for fidgeting.
And its insatiate curiosity concern
ing it's own handiwork increased.
This handiwork, however, fulfill
ed rather casually the purpose of
its inventor and devoted the most
of its time to the invention of gods
endowing the most powerful of
them with all its own cowardics
vanity. intolerance and ferocity.
He made us" they explained
with a modesty attributable only
to forgetfulness.
Believe in him or he'll damn
YOU. And if he doesn't, we Wilt"
hey shouted to one another. And !
appointed representatives of vari- /
lus denominations to deal exclu- |
;ively in damnation.
Cede Deo! And so, in conform. (
ty with the dict of this man-cre-
tied creator, about a decade before
he Great Administration began, a
title girl was born.
She should not have been born,
BECAUSE she was not wanted, being
merely the by-product of an timer
mt actor-Harry Quest, Juveniles
to casual procreation
" idleness, whiskey, and phthisis.
The other partner in this shift
ass affair was an uneducated and
cry young girl named Conway,
mo tinted photographs for a Ut
u photographer while daylight
tsted, and doubled her small sal
ry by doing fancy skating at a
zeal ice Palace in the evenings.
So it is very plain that the by
roduct of this partnership hadn't
luch chance in the world which
waited her; for, being neither ex-
ected nor desired, and, moreover, |
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1920-08-26

suffrage for women. He first lodged
it as not an issue in the 1912 demo-
cratic platform. Then in 1916 at his
special instance this plank was adopt
ed:
eve recommend the extension Of
the franchise to the women of the
country by the states upon the same
terms as to men,"
This was not national suffrage, but
suffrage by states and, time after
time, when the women went to him
they were told that he could only sup
port state suffrage and not suffrage
by constitutional amendment. It was
only when he faced the inevitable and
found he must have women's votes
that he finally climbed on the band
wagon" Even at that the amendment
could not get through a democratic
congress. 1t had to wait until the re-
publicans came into power.
When Franklin is talking on the
subject he should not only tell the
truth, but all the truth Duluth News
Tribune.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1920-08-26
The Truth and All the Truth.

The would-be democratic vice presi-
dent has invaded" Minnesota and re-
tired. He devoted much Of his St.
Paul speech to profound and states
manlike dissertation on Senator Hard
ing's record on the woman's suffrage
amendment.
There is nothing more profoundly
important than this. OF course it was
not an appeal to prejudice, nor an at
tempt to prejudice women voters.
Whether or not Mr.. Harding was
originally and always an ardent sup
porter of woman's suffrage is an issue
OF the most vital Importance In the
course of his dissertation on the sub
ject Franklin D. said:
Senator Harding was absent and
did not vote except through a pair,
when the amendment came before the
senate. I want to emphasize that it
was not until the final successful bal
lot was taken in the senate on June
4, 1919, that Senator Harding finally
climbed on the bandwagon and voted
yes"
Of course the speaker did not de-
liberately lie. He was only misin-
formed by whoever collected the data
for him. But he might have stated
that when member of congress is
paired in favor Of a measure, he in
effect votes for it.
That was the case on that first vote
in the sixty fifth congress. So as a
matter of fact Senator Harding
climbed on the bandwagon" then, be-
fore it was known to be a "band-
wagon"
And he stayed, for in that same
congress he was present and voted
when the measure was again before
the senate and he also voted in the
slxty-sixth congress for it on it's final
passage. Franklin D. did not mean
to misstate the fact, but just the same.
IN his eagerness to make point he
did misstate.
He is so dcterminedsto make Sena-
tor Harding but tool of Senators
Lodge and Penrose, that he also for
got to state that while Senator Hard
ing, voted Eyes" three times on wo-
mans suffrage, Senators Lodge end
Penrose voted mo-"
But why did not Franklin also give
President Wilson's record? In his
eyes Mr.. Wilson could do no wrong
But Mr.. Wilson consistently and per-
slstently refused to approve national
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1920-08-26
Underwood on Wilson'S Regime.

Senator Oscar Underwood, demo-
cratic leader of the United States
senate, does not seem to be entirely
satisfied with the condition of the
country under a democratic admin
istration. His speeches to world war
veterans sound like a republican at
tack. The senator says: "The gov
eminent has become the football Of the
partisan and the desire of the plum
derer." And this sweeping declara-
ton is made after seven years of
Woodrow Wilson in the white house
and seven years of the democrats in
the saddle.
Mr.. Underwood knows what he is
talking about. Under the Wilson
democratic regime the southern parti-
san and the southern plunderer, with
others, certainly have fattened upon
the government Of the United States.
Senator Underwood finds that other
bad conditions have arisen in the
country. He says: "The war prof.
teer glories in his new wealth and the
high cost of living threatens the hum
BILE home" This all has occurred un-
der the peerless idealist, Mr.. Wilson,
and his democratic leaders in congress.
In short in his talk to the returned
soldiers Senator Underwood hit his
party in a nonpolitical speech good and
hard. 1t was frank confession of dem
ocratic failure in the administration
of public affairs. And it was also truly
democratic in that he proposed moth
ing remedial or compensatory to be
done by the party so long in power for
the lamentable condition in which the
soldiers returning find the country for
which they fought Omaha Bee.