The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-01-21


Other members 81 the committee
are Judge ] n Phillips. Aberdeen
George Adams. Shelton Ira \.
Martin. spokane. Homer Morrison
state superintendent Of Indian
education. and Mr. Atwood
Miss sieAde also - director Of
Indian education publicity.
was no longer possible 10 apply
himself OF even 10 have any inter.
est any longer IN What he had
undertaken. Always he was aware
Of the world outside himself, of
the sickness which was not his
alone but the sickness ~ whole
nation and whole civilization
and then hr would plunge himself
into dissipation and dehsuchery as
n hv dong so he could emerge
once more. clean and fresh.
For a little time II WAS effective,
but he came presently TO have the
name ~ being vicious and undo
pendah bic. rake and wsster, and
then one dav he sailed for Amer.
lea, from which his mother had
come. and since that time he had
not seen England again.
4 Pioneer Grandmother
What he sought in America was
a vague thing which became clear
10 him only after he had married
and spent years there. II was, he
thought. something which came
down TO him In his blood herr
tage from his grandparents. he
had run away from England
partly because Europe had become
insufferahle and partly because he
had hoped TO find in America a
country and people that were
less tired
Dimlv he was aware Of an i'm
pulse TO return 10 the source OF
something he had once known very
well. which went back TO his
youth: and always In his mind.
what he sought was associated
with the small energetic figure Of
his grandmother. not the Countess
of Nolham but Mrs. Ten Per
Cent" Macpherson. and so he came
at last TO Grand River which Was
the only town that he really knew
In America.
She had left Grand River as =
girl OF II 10 accompany her father
10 California TO find gold and she
had come back 10 Grand River
after she had m-rried MACPHERSON
and was fsbulously rich. To build
herself a huge turreted house over
looking the Ohio river There Ran
somes mother had been born and
her brother. and there his grand
mother had always returned. no
matter what giamorous adventures
or what brilliant people she had
encountered in New York and Lon
don and Paris. There she returned
after her husband had served A.
ambassador 10 the court OF st
James for Grand River and the
huge turreted house she loved bet
ter than any place In the world.
or all her grandchildren he had
been her fayOrite. and because he
was the youngest son his parents
made no objection 10 his spending
summer after summer with her In
the turroted house IN Grand River.
She was 81 when she died and
during the last summer ne spent
with her, the very year the war
began. she told him things she had
not told him before, things which
perhaps she had never told any
one II was as II she vas aware
that she was dying and felt the
necessity of confiding to him many
things which otherwise might have
been lost forever. Among them
was the story OF her marriage.
When she was 10 she had found
herself alone in a small Nevada
mining camp her father dead In
an accident, with no money at all
and no. because she vas good
cook. she had opened boarding
house for the miners and made ~
pay And among the miners there
was = young fellow Of Scottish
descent from Pennsylvania. = biz
brawny. good-iooking young man
who fell In love with her. and
presently she fell IN love with him.
too. 80 much in love that there
was never any other man IN her
life.
Al Poin, Of Pistol
And then she discovered that she
was going 10 have a baby and
suggested thai. after all. they had
better leave the mine for = month
and 20 10 Sacramento 10 be mar
ried
He didn't want 10 go very
much she said. He had
strange feeling that II he kept on
digging ne was going 10 strike u
rich. guess he felt IN mis- bones
all the time that the gold Nas
there. He kept putting me off and
saying he'd 20 next week or the
week after. but I Was determined
] was going TO be married before
the baby Was born
ei, one morning ] packed ~
everything and took my pistol and
went 70 the mine He vas working
there. findlng traces 81 gold and
excited because he knew there YaA
more where u had come from ~
] pointed the pistol Al MIN and
said jamie MACPHERSON. we're 20
ing 10 70 n Sacramento ~ b.
married" A. first he Just booked
A. me A. II ~ couldn't DelleVf
Nhsi hs saw Vas true. and then
hs sat doHn ana began - laugh
I never saw man isggh harder.
"AftsrNard 10 told me that he'd
never loved me ~ much ~ " hen
stood there pointing the pistol ~
him He'd never mad any Intention
% not marrying me, and ! knew
that. too. out knew how be put
things OF.