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and the other asked for garlic
crush and they had to tell him how
to make them and then another lady
come in and wanted book which
she had forgot the name of it but
it was either by Mary Roberts Rine-
THEN they was another lady that
wanted S1.00 check cashed and a
man that asked for some good clear
The next one was a big sale-lady
bought 81 cts. worth of stamps for
a partial post package and she said
it was home made candy which she
was sending it to her brother in
Spokane and did he happen to know
anybody in Spokane. She said it
was a great country out there and
her brother liked 1t but sometimes
he got home sick.
Then a gal wanted bathing cap
that would keep her hair dry but
the last one she bought there was
too tight and tore and here it was
and would they take it back.
BY this time it was raining and a
silk umbrella. Then they was an
other lady that wanted to know
what time was the next train to
Port Washington and IL they wasn't
some other way to get there except
the r. r. The dentist from upstairs
come down to borrow ink to fill
his fountain pen. A car stopped out
side and the tourist come in to ask
If they sold gas and my friend told
him no and he went out mad. Then
come lady that was just going to
catch the train for n. Y. and she
hadn't lived in the east only little
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tSa, to lind per- ,~6pose sssses to 'a9ne eoms
mence Il nurse. y the next autumn
and to plant acorns. hickory-nuts and
chestnuts. But what is the season for
planting. and how is the nursery to
be managed? 1 should have COM
menced this process at least thirty
years since. but l never had a per-
manent residence, and now I shall
plant. if at all. more for the public
than for myself"
John Quincy Adams did start a
nursery. Scattered through his diary
in the midst of lengthy accounts of
affairs of state are notes like the fol-
lowing: april 26. 1928. After the
morning walk, visiting the garden, /
found in the seeding bed that tree
which had shown itself last week, but
oak. fix therefore, on the last week
in April for the appearance in this
climate of oaks from the acorn planted
the preceding autumn.
May II. 1928. 1 found in the south
ern seeding bed twenty-one chestnuts
up of row of fifty planted the 2oth of
October last, and twenty-five black
walnuts of several rows planted the
31st of October. In seedling-pot two
shoots of the turpentine plant are
coming out, and in the nursery, I dis
covered eight cork-oaks first appear
ing. ! planted twenty rows
of shellbarks. pignuts, black walnuts
and cork-oak acorns. in the nursery.
westward of the transplanted cher
ries."
When we consider that all these
nuts and acorns were planted in the
White House grounds. it is easy to
believe that we, the present public"
for which he planted. have John Quin-
cy Adams to thank for many beautiful
trees in the White House grounds.
aside from the single elm which bears
his name.
ISABEL SEWALL HUNTER.
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The John Quincy Adams
Elm.

|NN rounded knoll southeast
of the White House stands
\ graceful elm. towering
over all the other trees in
It's vicinity. 1t was planted by John
quincy Adams some time between the
|ears 1925 and 1929. the years in
|Ehich he was President. Although
ohm Quincy Adams was the son of
President-George Washington's
|uccessor. John Adams-he never
ven visited the White House during
i is fathers administration. For
ears he lived in Europe as student
nd diplomat. returning. however. to
| AXE his degree at Harvard like a
rue son of Massachusetts,. While the
}lder Adams was in the White House.
he younger was United States minis
er to Prussia
Through the years of his life John
quincy Adams kept complete diary.
n it one can trace his growing inter-
st in trees. On July 5, 1926. he
rites Il have betaken myself to
ursuit which already absorbs too
promote the plantation of live and
hite oak and perhaps other forest
Eees, has driven me to consult at
nee the books and the forests and to
how me again how much l have to
arm. The leaves that / took from
bree lofty and beautiful oaks. stand
g side by side of each other, were
! three different varieties of the
ee-two of them not described or
kpresented by Michaux and several
those described by him are so
uch alike that ! cannot determine
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By Ring W. Lardner

vile and could he tell her good
cheap furniture store In the city.
Another tourist stopped and asked
If they was any way to get to Brook
lyn withou. going through Jamaica.
guy that was repairing the tele-
box of matches. The grocer from
2 doors away come after change for
a $4,000 bill. Then 2 more ladies
come in and one Of them bought a
package of court plaster and the
other one bought special delivery
stamp Then it stopped raining and
the lady come back with the um-
brella.
'T am much obliged for this" she
says. Now I wonder II you could
was in Pittsburgh yesterday and he
was going to come back last night
but he was to a banquet and missed
the train SO he had to take a day
train this A. NJ. so I wondered if
you could tell me If that would get
7:19 for out here"
X + = *
GO my friend told her he didn't know
- but she could find out by call
ing up the r. R. information and she
got insulted and walked out and took
the umbrella with her.
Well. to make a short story out of
IL, the young man was on the job
hrs. and his total receipts was $1.10
and the estimated profits was STA.
But the umbrella had cost him $500
and then they was the nickel that he
had give the lady that had got the
wrong number and not only that but
the $500 check turned out to be just
a check. The only drugs he sold was
the courtplaster and 10 cts. worth rat
poison. -
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The Coffee Tree.

A ROUND E e of the old homes in
Maryland End Virginia one finds
growing fig bushes, pecan trees and that
other very useful tree of the early CO.
lonial and revolutionary periods which
our ancestors called the Kentucky cof-
fee tree. because its seeds were used in
brewing a drink which was used as a
substitute for coffee.
The coffee tree is usually found in
rich bottom lands in company with the
black walnut, blue ash, blackberry. cot
tonwood, honey locust, red elm and the
hickories. 1t Is a native American tree
and the name which the botanists have
given it is ''gymnocladus dioicus." The
first word is compounded Of two Greek
words meaning naked branch" and
the second part Of the name is also COM
pounded of two Greek words meaning
that the plant has both male and female
flowers on different branches. The cof-
fee tree at maturity is from Is to no
feet tall and from two to three feet in
the diameter Of its trunk. The leaves
are ''pinnate," that. is "feather-like." !"
from pima" or feather" The leaves
are pink at first Later they turn
bronze green and then dark green above
and light green beneath. In autumn It's
foliage turns bright yellow. Legumes
hang on it all winter unopened. In the
pods are, dark reddish brown seeds
three-quarters Of an inch long and ovate
in form. These are the seeds or ''ber-
ries" from which many early Americans
made coffee.
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THE MIRRORS OF DOWNING STREET
BY HmaW

not be even divorced from morality.
much less to comprehend that moral
ity is the very sinew of politics, being
in truth nothing more than the con-
Science of a nation striving to eX-
press itself in state action. But a
man like lord Robert Cecil does
surely apprehend that the essence of
politics is morality and. therefore. his
'..,wiiiinSness TO use moral weapons
in the political arena is hard TO. sIn
derstand. He debates where ne
should appeal: he criricises where he
compromise where he should -le&d a
revolt. He is altogether too civil for
the rogues with whom he has to do.
/ remember being in the house Of
commons on an afternoon when Mr..
iioyI George wes expected to TnsLa
an important speech. Lord Robert
Cecil sat in a corner seat on the bac6
benches; his brother. Lord Hugh. oc-
cupied the corner seat on the f--nt
bench below the gangway.. During
the prime minister's speech, which
was a succession of small scoring
points against the labor party, deliv
cred with that spirit of cock ksureness
which has grown with him in the
last few years, ] noticed Lord Robert
make a penciled note on slip OF
paper and pass it across the gangway
with a nod of his head toward Lord
Hugh.
* X X X
T WATCHED the journey Of this
little paper and watched to see its
effect Lord Hugh unfolded the slip
Of paper, read it, smiled very boy
ishly all over his face and, folding it
up again. slowly turned his hes5 and
looked back toward his brother The
smile they exchanged was a Ckcitian
biography. One saw in the light of
that instant and whole-hearted srlile
the danger of a keen sense of iron'cal
humor. Both these men havs the
making of creative fanatics: in both
of them there is an intense moral
earnestness and in both great intel
lectual power: but nature has mixed
up with these gifts, which were in
tended for mankind. drollery of
spirit only amusing in the conf
dences of private life. which they
have allowed to weaken their sim
ceritise. Humanity may be thankful
that st. Paul was without sense OF
humor.
During the war. as minister of
blockade. Lord Robert Cecil render
ed services of the greatest magnitude
to his countrymen; he kept Sweden
out of the war when the Russian for
eign office could hardly breathe for
anxiety on this point. and at a time
when many British newspapers w,re
doing thsir best to facilitate She
great desire of Germany to msreh an
army through Sweden and Finland to
he thus easily reached Russian capi-
tai.
His work. too, at the peace confer
ence in. Paris entities him to the
gratitude of the nation; he kept the
idea of the league of nations alive in
an atm mosphere that was charged with
war He prevented these conferences
from making "a peace to end peace"
But on the whole / feel that he is
rather the shadow of great states
manship leaning diffidently over the
shoulder of political brute force than
tire living spirit of great statesman
/ ship leading the moral conscience Of
the world away from barbarism to-
ward nobler reason and less partial
| truth.
| Copyright by C. p. Putnam's Sons. All rights
1 reserved. Reproduction prohibfted.D
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convincing as these addresses have
been. their spirit has always had the
wistful and piano tones of philosophy,
never the consuming fervor of fanat-
icism. He knows. as few other men
know, that without league of ma
tions the future of civilization is in
peril. even the future of the white
races: but he has never made the
world feel genuine alarm for this
danger or genuine enthusiasm for the
sole means that can avert il. He has
not preached the league of nations as
a way of salvation: he has only rec
commended it as a legal tribunal.
1t is apparently difficult for poll
tician, however StateSmanlike his
qualities to realize that politics can
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w YHO is this Urbain j.. Le-
NN/ doux. whose auctioning OF
the unemployed, feeding OF
the hungry and champion
ing of the down -and-outer have at
tracted nationwide attention and won
for himself. through personal distaste
for vainglory, the sobriquet of MIR.
Zero?"
This question has been heard on all
sides recently and has been ampli-
fled as the newspapers carried de-
tailed accounts of fresh exploits on
the part of this man of mystery. 1t
aas been rumored that Ledoux is not
his real name; that he is man OF
wealth and eccentricity who has dedi-
Gated his life to ameliorating the con-
dition Of his less fortunate fellows:
that he is any one of score OF things
but what he actually is.
With a view to settling few OF
these questions in the minds of those
who have followed from day to day
the stories of Mr.. Zero'S activity in
Washington, New York city and Bos-
ton, a Star representative interviewed
this human question mark at his room
cooperation of the man himself in
clearing Up some of the mystery
which has been attached to his name
in the press.
Urbain ]. tfor Joseph. maybe put
ne would rather not emphasize this
probability Ledoux. pronounced Le-
doc, is by birth a French-Canadian
and by naturalization a citizen of the
United States. He was born August
13. 1874. at Saint Helene. Quebec,
~ - nd
Joseph Ledoux. His father, who is
still living, is descended from Nor
mandy family. His mother, who died
not long ago. was from Brittany.
The elder Ledoux was a laborer in
the warp room of cotton mill and
his wife a domestic servant in one of
the best families Of Quebec.
THE home of the Ledoux is in Bid
L deford. near Old Orchard. Maine.
1t was while his parents were on
visit to Saint Helene. Canada. that
Crbain was born, and he returned
with his father and mother to the
United States when but three months
of age.
Urbain's father. no doubt handed
down to his son the traits of leader
ship and of sympathy for his fellow
man which have distinguished the
heir in labor circles. Jossphs Job in
the cotton mill necessitated him
stripping to the waist and standing
all day in an atmosphere of steam and
unsavory odors, characterizing the
warping process. One day a dispute
between the foreman of the room and
the workmen took on serious propor-
lions. and the foreman threatened to
dismiss the entire force for insub-
Iordinat ton. The erstwhile spokes-
man for the laborers was beginning
to weaken in his stand when Ledoux,
hitherto unnoticed. pushed forward.
argued the cause of his work mates
with an emphasis that foretold physi-
5cal violence-and the dispute was set
.tled satisfactorily forthwith.
AS youngster Urban was the
idol of his parents and of his sister.
land he was sent to school at an early
Iage in Maine. After receiving a good
Elementary and college preparatory
|educa ton he attended Saint RIarie'sl
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to comprehend the spiritual condi-
tons of the German people; he real
lied. that is to say, that We were
not fighting an enemy who could be
shouted down or made ashamed by
abusive epithets. but that we were
opposing a spirit whose anger and
temper were entirely different from
our own, and therefore a spirit which
must be understood if we were to
conquer it.
Every now and then he has half let
the nation see what was in his mind.
For example. he has taken those il
those surely inspired.
words of Edith Carell as the text for
more than one ddreSs-'Patriotism
is not enough" But. beautiful and
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Lord Robert Cecil.

Lord Robert Cecil Edgar Algernon
Cecil born, 1854. Education: At Eton
and Oxford. Private secretary to his
father. the late Marquis Of Salisbury.
1884. "a; called 10 the bar, 1887: N. r.
for East Marylebone. 1SO6-1O: for
Hitchin division Of Herts. 1912: under
secretary for foreign affairs. l915-l8;
nss.xtant secretary for foreign AFFAIRS,
1918: manager Of blockade. 1918-1S.
Author Of principles of Commercial
Law" and '-Uur National Church"
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n REPRESENTATIVE ito The Sunday Star
IN Interviews Man Who Brought Human
Documents" to Washington and Who Con-
Quoted slave Sales" in Boston-Ledoux
Tells of His Early Life. How He Entered His
Present Work and Who Is Financing 1t.
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College, Van Buren,. Maine. and later
was sent to Paris to complete his
education, taking an intensive course
in international law.
: Having acquired an education quail
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flying him for service in the diplo-
matte service of the United States.
Ledoux obtained position in the
consular service of the State Depart
ment and was assigned as United
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TO the editor: Every little vile
I get in bunch where the
boys is talking about foot ball
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7 F a novelist take for his hero an
educated gentleman who e1-
presses contempt for the license
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-01-26
Boys Arrested
For Shoplifting

Monmouth, Ore, Jan. &C. Two
Fox boys, about 12 and IA years OF
age, who live in independence,
were arrested by City Marshal
Stewart Saturday. The boys had
been shoplifting in Mulkey's store
and depositing the plunder in a
brush pile back of the~store. The
boys had been acting suspiciously
during their visit in Monmouth and
the mayshal thought it advisable
to keep watch of them. From a
distance he noticed them deposit
ing something in the brush pile.
Upon investigation it developed
that the boys had made several
trips from the store to their de-
pository, each time carrying some
article. They were taken before
the city recorder and after se- |
we're reprimand were released and
started homeward by the marshal.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-01-26
Road Congress
Will Discuss
Coast Highways

Chicago. ILL.,. Jan. ga vast
program of highway development
in Western states, particularly
those in the Pacific Coast, will be
one of the subjects to be thorough
ly discussed at the big American
Good Roads Congress and National
Good Roads Show to be held at the
Coliseum in this city, February 9
to IL next under the auspices of
the American Road Builders As
ISOLATION, the organization of gov
ernment, state, county and city
highway officials, engineers, con-
tractors and manufacturers of
road-building machinery and ma
terials.
Western states, particularly Ne
vada, Wyoming. Idaho, Utah, Mon
tana, California, Washington and
Oregon, by rapid strides, are fast
coming to the front in road de-
velopment. In California, Oregon.
Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana.
Washington, and Wyoming, en-
abling acts, state and county bond
issues and direct leyies providing
for total expenditure for good
roads amounting to $114,SOO.OOO
have lately been authorized. This
Is nearly three times the amount
set aside by the states of the East
and the Atlantic seaboard for high
way Improvement in 1921 and 1922,
and 1t paves the way for a vast |
amount of road work during the
coming spring and summer that |
will afford some relief in the
West for he condition of unem- |
oloyment in which unskilled labor,
especially in Pacific Coast centers,
now finds itself.
Census figures show that West
'rn states, with the exception OF
California, until recently, have
)een tagging behind somewhat in
highway development. The back
ward states in particular have been
hose of Nevada, with only five
enths of one per cent Of her roads
urfaced and improved, and
with only four-tenths of
me per cent.
The governors of California, Ne
ada, Montana, Idaho, Utah,
Wyoming, Oregon and Washington, ,
$ well as those OF other states and ,
ne mayors of all Western cities,
$ well as the country at large, are +
eing asked by the governor of :
Ilinois and the mayor of Chicago, /
espectiveiy, to send official dele
ates to the Congress. 7
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-01-26
Young Answers
Wife's Petition
In Divorce Case

Dallas, Or, Jan. &C. Lillian
Young filed complaint in the
circuit court on January II, asking
for dissolution of the bonds of
matrimony between her and Ar
mine Young, alleging refusal 10
support her and that he made dis
pairing and slanderous statements
against her. She asks the court for
a judgment and decree for a sum
in gross or installments 70 pay for
permanent support and alimony.
The answer to the complaint
was filed YESTERDAY By Arnline
Young, the defendant, stating that
at the time of his marriage to Lii
liam Young she had a .lusbarI by
the name of Trueman C. Campbell,
which fact he did not know; and
that the said Trueman G. Camp
bell was lawfully married 10 Lillian
Young, nee Lillian Kightlingar, IN
1917; and that the marriage still
exists, He alleges that she induced
to said marriage falsely and fraud
Ilently, representing that she was
4 good woman but that she is not
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-01-26
Pli1npton Says
State Printing
Costs Reasonable

Statements purported to have
been made by Representative K. x
Kubli to the effect that printed
supplies cost the state more at the
states own plant than they could
| be purchased for in the open mar
ket are untrue, w. NJ P1mpton,
state printer, told the ways ana
means committee Tuesday night.
Plimpton offered to cite in
stances in proof OF his position but
this offer was not accepted and a
emotion to name committee head
ed by Kubli to investigate into
prices at which the states printing
was being produced in comparison
with prices charged by private con-
Germs for the same class of work
fell by the wayside when Kubli de-
clared that such a move was i'm
practicable in the short time inter-
vening before the close of the ses-
sion
When Plimpton appeared before
the ways and means committee to
present his financial needs for the
forthcoming biennium he was
promptly put on the grill by Eubli
who, however, came out second
best in the prolonged argument
which followed in spite of efforts
of other members of the committee
to head off the discussion.
Kubli opened on Plimptoa with
the information that he was about
to present a bill making it possible
for state commission and depar'-
ments outside of Marion county 10 |
place their printing in the open |
market when such a course would |
mean a saving over the price at |
which the work could be produced |
by the state printer. Representa- |
i've Kay, according to Kubli. want
I'd to go still farther and abolish
he printing department entirely.
state departments have always
enjoyed the privilege of placing
heir printing where it could be
bought at the lowest price, Plimp-
on declared, insisting however
hat it was hardly reasonable to
uppose.
When Kubli tried to show that
ne state plant was not equipped to
andle much of the state work ara
Ias compelled to farm out" its
uling and binding jobs, Plimpton
ulled the representative from
lultnomah county up short with
he statement that Kublrs own
liant was in the same position in
MS respect.
O. NJ. Plummer, manager Of the
acific International Livestock cx-
osition, appeared before the board
behalf of the stock shows bud
It which calls for an appropria-
On of $4,000 for premiums and
10000 for new building, an
'gregate og $4,000 as against an
preparation Of $4,000 two years =.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-01-26

oss. Win good virtues he
Tor i decree from the court
d that the complaint Of Li'''ah
ung be dismissed.
In January of this year Lillian
oung received a verdict against
her husbands parents, j. NJ, ana
3ffle Young, in the sum OF SISoo
.or alienation of affections.
Mr.. and Mrs. John B. Eakln ana
lohn 3. Eakin Jr., were guests at
he home of Mr.. and Mas. Floyd
D. Moore Saturday and sunday
Miss Magdalene Kuntz plid a
visit to her parents, M. and MIS-
p. J. Kuntz, over the weekend
Lester Gardner, an cX-serVlce
man and well known farmer in the
bridgeport district, was attending
TO business in Dallas yesterday.
Frank ]. BisseI and son, Harry
farmers in the Ballston country,
were in town yesterday transaeting
business at the court house.
The fourth entertainments Of the
lyceum course which is being con-
Quoted by the Knights OF Pythlas
# Dallas, will be held Tuesday
evening in the Majestic theatre, at