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DODD, MEAD and COMPANY.
CAROLYN LEARNS WHY HER UNCLE AND AMANDA PARLOW
DO NOT SPEAK AS THEY PASS.
Synopsis*—Her father and mother reported lost at sea when the
Dnnraven, on which they had sailed for Europe, was sunk, Carolyn
May Cameron—Hannah's Carolyn—Is sent from New York to her bnch-.
slor unde, Joseph Stagg, at the Corners. The reception given her by
h«r uncle Is not very enthusiastic. Carolyn is also chilled by the stern
demeanor of Aunty Rose, Uncle Joe's housekeeper. Stagg is dismayed
when he learns from a lawyer friend of Ills brother-in-law that Carolyn
has been left practically penniless and consigned to his care as guardian.
CHAPTER IV—Continued.
1 *Mor said the carpenter, pushing
Hk big spectacles up to his forehead.
H sead about it. Too bad—too mighty
bad'* I remember Hannah Stagg," he
pdded, winking his eyes, Carolyn May
thought, a good deal as Prince did.
"You look like her."
"Do I Î" Carolyn May returned,
drawing nearer. "Tm glad I do. And
Pm glad I sleep in what used to be
her bed, too. It doesn't seem so lone
aome."
"Bo? I reckoned you'd be lonesome
V there at The Corners," said the
oarpenter.
Mr. Parlow stripped another shav
ing from the edge of the board he was
plumbing. Carolyn May's eager eyes
followed that curling, ribbon and her
Ups parted.
The carpenter paused before push
ing the plane a second time the length
0 1 the board. "Don't you want a drink
Of water, little girl?" he asked.
"Oh, yes, sir—I would. And I know
Prince would like a drink," she told
him quickly.
"Go right around to the well In the
bade yard," said Mr. Parlow. "You'll
find a glass there—and Mandy keeps a
pea on the well curb for the dogs and
cats."
"Thank you, I'll go," the little girl
said.
She hoped she would see Miss
Amanda Parlow, but she saw nobody.
She went back to the door of the
oarpenter shop and found Mr. Parlow
still busily at work.
t "Seems to me," he said, in his dry
^voice, after a little while, "you aren't
ttuch like other little girls."
"Aren't I?" responded Carolyn May
wonderingly,
"No. Most little girls that .come
► here want shavings to play with," said
the carpenter, quizzically eying her
over his work.
"Oh !" cried Carolyn May, almost
Jumping. "And do you give 'em t<f
'em?"
"'Most always," admitted Mr. Par
low.
"Oh! Can I have some?" she
gasped.
"All you want," said Mr. Parlow.
When Tim's old hack crawled along
the road from town with Aunty Rose
sitting inside, enthroned amidst a mul
titude of bundles, Carolyn May was
bedecked with a veritable wig of long,
crisp curls.
I "Well, child, you certainly have made
a mess of yourself," said the house
keeper. "Has she been annoying you,
Jedldtah Parlow?"
"She's the only Stagg that ain't an
noyed me since her mother went
•way," said the carpenter gruffly.
Aunty Rose looked at him levelly.
"I wonder," she said. "But, you see,
she isn't wholly a Stagg."
This, of course, did not explain mat
ter^? Carolyn May In the least. Nor
Eit Aunty Rose said to her on
fy home in the hot, stuffy hack
help the little girl to understand the
trouble between her uncle and Mr.
r Parlow.
"Better not let Joseph Stagg see you
oo friendly with Jedldlah Parlow. Let
sleeping dogs lie," Mrs. Kennedy ob
served.
CHAPTER V.
A Tragic Situation.
Such was the introduction of Caro
lyn May to The Corners. It was not
a very exciting life she had entered
Into, but the following two or three
weeks were very full.
Aunty Rose insisted upon her being
properly fitted out with clothing for
the summer and fall. Carolyn May
had to go to the dressmaker's house
to be fitted and that is how she be
came acquainted with Chet Gormley's
mother.
Mrs. Gormley was helping the dress
maker and they both made much of
Carolyn May. Aunty Rose allowed her
to go for her fitting alone—of course
with Prince as a companion—so, with
out doubt, Mrs. Gormley, who loved
a "dish of gossip," talked more freely
with the little girl than she would have
done in Mrs. Kennedy's presence.
One afternoon the little girl ap
f peered at the dressmaker's with
Prince's collar decorated with short,
curly shavings.
"I take it you've stopped at Jed Par
low's shop, child," said Mrs. Gormley
with a sigh,
v "Yes, ma'am,"
returned Carolyn
May. "Do you know, he's very llb'ral."
"'Lib'ral?' repeated Mrs. Gormley.
"I never heard of old Jed Parlow bein'
accused of that before. Did you, Mrs.
Maine?" ,
Mrs. Maine was the dressmaker;
and she bit off her words when she
spoke, much as she bit off her threads.
"No. I never—heard Jed Parlow—
called that—no!" declared Mrs. Maine
emphatically.
"Why, yes," little Carolyn May said
quite eagerly, "he gives me all the
shavings I want. I—I guess folks
doh't just understand about Mr. Par
low," she, added, remembering what
her uncle had first said about the car
penter. "He is real lib'ral."
"It's a wonder to me," drawled Mrs.
Gormley, "that he has a thing to do
with a certain party, Mrs. Maine, con
siderin' how his daughter feels toward
that certain party's relation. What
d'you think?"
"I guess—there's sumpin—to be
said—on both sides o' that contro
versy," responded the'dressmaker.
"Meanln' that mebbe a certain par
ty's relative feels just as cross as
Mandy Parlow?" suggested Mrs. Gorm
ley.
"Yep," agreed the other woman.
Carolyn May listened, much puzzled.
She wondered jiist who "a certain
party" could be.
Mrs. Maine was called away upon
some household task and Mrs. Gorm
W.
if
&
Mt
"I Reckoned You'd Be Lonesome Up
There at the Corners," said the Car
penter.
ley seemed to change the subject of
conversation.
"Don't your uncle, Mr. Stagg, ever
speak to you about Mandy Parlow?"
she asked the little girl.
Carolyn May had to think about this
before answering. Then she remem
bered. '
"Oh, yes," she said brightly.
"He does? Do tell !" exclaimed Mrs.
Gormley eagerly. "What does he
say?"
"Why, he says her name is Miss
Amanda Parlow."
Mrs. Gormley flushed rather oddly
and glanced at the child with suspi
cion. But little Carolyn May was per
fectly frank and Ingenuous. '
"Humph !" ejaculated Chet's mother.
"He never says nothing about bein' In
love With Mandy, does he? % They was
goln' with each other steady once."
The little girl looked puzzled.
'"When folks love each other they
look at each other and talk to each
other, don't they?" she asked.
"Well-yes—generally," admitted
Mrs. Gormley.
"Then my Uncle Joe and Miss Aman
da Parlow aren't In love," announced
Carolyn May with confidence, "for they
don't even look at each other."
"They used"to. Why, Joseph Stagg
and Mandy Parlow was sweethearts
years and years ago! Long before
your mother left these parts, child. 1
"That was a long time 'fore I was
homed,'' said the little girl wonder
ingly.
''Oh, yes. Everybody that went to
The Comers' church thought they'd
be married."
"My Uncle Joe and Miss Mandy?"
"Yes."
"Then, what would have become of
Aunty Rose?" queried-Carolyn May.
"Oh, Mrs. Kennedy hadn't gone to
keep house for Mr. Stagg then," re
plied Mrs. Gormley. "He tried aev'ral
triflin' critters there at the Stagg place
before she took hold."
Carolyn May looked at Mrs. Gorm
ley encouragingly. She was very much
interested in Uncle Joe and Miss
Amanda Parlow's love affair.
"Why didn't they get married—like
my papa and mamma?" she asked.
"Oh, goodness knows !" exclaimed
Mrs. Gormley. "Some says 'twas his
fault and some says 'twas hern. And
mebbee 'twas a third party's that I
might mention at that," added Mrs.
Gormley, pursing up her lips In a very
knowing way.
"One day," she said, growing confi
dential, "It was In camp-meeting time
—one day somebody seen Joe Stagg
drivin' out with another girl—Char
lotte Lenny, that was. She was mar
ried to a man over in Springdale long
ago. Mr. Stagg took Charlotte to
Faith camp meeting.
"Then, the very next week, Mandy
went with Evan Peckham to a barn
dance at Crockett's, and nobody ain't
ever seen your uncle and Mandy Par
low speak since, much less ever walk
together."
One particularly muddy day Prince
met the returning hardware merchant
at the gate with vociferous barkings
and a plain desire to implant a wel
coming tongue on the man's cheek.
He succeeded in muddying Mr. Stagg's
suit with his front paws, and almost
cast the angry man full length into a
mud puddle.
"Drat the beast!" ejaculated Mr.
Stagg. "I'd rather have an epileptic
fit loose around here than him. Now,
look at these clo'es! I declare, Car'
lyn, you've jest got to tie that mongrel
upr—and keep him tied!"
"All 'the time, Uncle Joe?" whis
pered the little girl.
"Yes, ma'am, all the time ! If I find
him loose again, I'll tie a bag of rocks
to his neck and drop him in the deep
est hole In the brook."
After this awful threat Prince lived
a. precarious existence, and his mis
tress was much worried for him.
Aunty Rose said nothing, but she
saw that both the little girl and her
canine friend were very unhappy.
Mrs. Kennedy, howevet had watch
ed Mr. Joseph Stagg for years. In
deed, she had known him as a boy,
long before she had closed up her own
little cottage around on the other road
and come to the Stagg place to save
the hardware merchant from the con
tinued reign of those "trifling crea
tures" of whom Mrs. Gormley had
spoken.
As a bachelor Joseph Stagg had
been preyed upon by certain female
harpies so prevalent in a country com
munity. Some had families whom they
partly supported out of Mr. Stagg's
larder; some were widows who looked
upon the well-to-do merchant as a
marrying proposition.
Aunty Rose Kennedy did not need
the position of Mr. Stagg's housekeep
er and could not be accused of assum
ing it from mercenary motives. Over
her back fence she had seen the havoc
going on in the Stagg homestead after
Hannah Stagg went to the city and
Joseph Stagg's final female relative
had died and left him alone in the big
house.
One day the old Quaker-like woman
could stand no more. She put on her
sunbonnet, came around by the road
to thq front door of the Stagg house,
which she found open, and walked
through to the rear porch on which the
woman who then held the situation of
housekeeper was wrapping up the best
feather bed and pillows In a pair of
the best homespun sheets, preparatory
to their removal. ,
The neighbors enjoyed what followed.
Aunty Rose came through the ordeal
as dignified and unruffled as, ever ; the
retiring Incumbent went away wrath
fully, shaking the dust of the premises
from her garments as a testimony
against "any sich actions."
When Mr. Stagg came home at sup
per time he found Aunty Rose at the
helm and already a different air about
the place.
"Goodness me. Aunty Rose," he
said, biting into her biscuit ravenous
ly, "I was a-going down to the mill
hands' hotel to board. I couldn't stand
It no longer. If you'd stay here and
do for me, I'd feel like a new man."
"You ought to be made over, into a
new man, Joseph Stagg," the woman
said sternly. "A married man."
"No, no! Never that!" gasped the
hardware dealer.
"If I came here, Joseph Stagg, It
would cost you more money than
you've been paying these no-account
women."
"I don't care," said Mr. Stagg reck
lessly. "Go ahead. Do what you
please. Say what you want. I'm
game."
Thereby he had put himself into
Aunty Rose's power. She had reno
vated the old kitchen and some of the
other rooms. If Mr. Stagg at first
trembled for his bank balance, he was
made so comfortable that he had not
the heart to murmur.
Of course, Carolyn May let Prince
run at lurge when she was sure Uncle
Joe w*ns well out of sight of the house,
but she was very careful, to chain him
up again long before her uncle was ex
pected to return.
Prince had learned not to chase anj^
thing that wore feathers ; Aunty Rose
herself had to admit that he was a
very intelligent dog and knew what
punishment was for. But how did he
know that In trying to dig out a mole
he would be doing more harm than
good?
Carolyn is heartbroken and
decides upon drastic action when
Uncle Joe passes sentence on
Prince. Read about it in the
next installment.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
WE MAY SIGN PEACE
PACT EARLY IN APRIL
AMERICAN DELEGATION AND
PRES. WILSON RETURN TO
PARIS CONFERENCE.
GERMANY TO BE REPRESENTED
Treaty 'Will Include Military, Naval
and Financial Features—All For
mulated During Past 3 Weeks
Pres. Goes to Brussels.
Paris.—As a result of an exchange
of cable messages between President
Wilson and the American delegation,
plans were completed for the preli
dent's return to Paris and for an ear
ly assembling thereafter of the peace
congress with German delegates pres
ent. '
President Wilson will land at Brest
on March'14 and come direct to Paris.
The British prime minister will reach
Paris about the same time and, with
the others of the council of the great
powers, they will take up the prelim
inary peace treaty, 'which will then
be ready. It is expected that these
sessions will last until March 22,
when Mr. Lloyd George will return
to England and President Wilson will
go to Brussels and the devastated re
gions.
The peace treaty will probably
reach such a definite stage during
the sessions in which President Wil
s'on and Premier Lloyd George will
take part that a decision may be
reached for the assembling of the
peace congress, with Germans pres
ent, between April 1 and 10. The
peace treaty will then be presented
and will include military, naval, finan
cial and economic features, all of
which will in the meantime be for
mulated.
INDUSTRY AND IMPROVEMENT.
A contract was signed recently be
tween the Port of Astoria, Ore., and
the Astoria Flouring Mills Co., which
provided for the erection,of a $250,000
flour mill with a daily capacity of
3,000 barrels, giving, with the old mill,
a combined capacity of 4,000 barrels.
Contract was awarded to Nordyke &
Marmon Co. of Indianapolis.
With the emergency clause attached,
making it eftective as soon as signed
by the governor, the $10,000,000 road
bonding bill passed the senate of the
Oregon legislature February 20. It
had previously passed the house. The
bill porvides that the money to be
raised by the sale of the proposed
bond issue shall be expended in the
early building of roads under direction
of the state highway commission as a
principal feature in the Oregon recon
struction program.
The city commissioners of Yakima
Feb. 24 planned city improvements
to cost $50,000. The work will be
done this spring, providing employ
ment for returned' soldiers. They
will also, by extending the city side
walk system, aid in developing out
lying residence districts. The com
missioners have also arranged for
paving South Third avenue to the
city limits, to cost $40,000. This
will be paid for by a 12-year bond
issue at 6 per cent interest.
GRAIN AND MILLING NEWS.
The house bill appropriating $1,
000,000,000 to maintain the govern
ment guaranteed price of $2.26 for
the 1919 wheat crop was ordered
favorably reported Feb. 24 by the
senate agriculture committee.
The state board of control Feb. 24
apportioned this year's output of
grain sacks from the penitentiary
mill at 14 cents apiece, as com
pared to 19 cents last spring. This
year the prison will manufacture
1,000,000 sacks, an Increase of 150,
000. Whitman county, as usual, gets
the main allotment of the sacks,
256,695.
The largest flour deal on record at
Portland, Ore., was announced Feb
ruary 20, when the federal food ad
ministration purchased 340,000 barrels
of patents for $3,500,000, the equiva
lent of 1,530,000 bushels of wheat.
Five steamers of 8,800 tons each will
be required to transport the purchase,
which is to go to the Atlantic coast
for orders. Flouring mills at Port
land are well stocked and will be able
to fill the order without further grind
ing.
Oregon Hardware Men Elect Officers.
The Oregon Hardware Dealers' as
sociation annual convention ad
journed at Portland, Ore., Feb. 27
after electing the following officers:
President, A. L. Jameson, McMinn
ville, Ore.; vice president, Charles
R. Orchard, Salem; members of the
executive committee, W. E. Wads
worth, Harrisburg, Ore.; U. G. Me
Kinzie, Goldendale, Wash.; F. E.
Chambers, Eugene, Ore.; P. A. Ket
rum. Prairie City, Ore. Election of
a secretary was left to the board of
trustees, who reelected E. E. Lucas
of Spokane.
Restrictions on the use of grain in
the manufacture of "near beer" and
other non-intoxicating beverages were
removed February 20 after receipt of
the proclamation signed at Paris by
President Wilson and Secretary Lan
singe several weeks ago. This an
nouncement was made by the food ad
ministration.
Teacher—What is the highest form
of animal life?
Schoolboy—The giraffe.
J. A. Loveridge has succeeded Pe
ter Jensen, Little Rock grocer.
MARKET RfePORT
Chicago.
Oats—No. 3 white, 57%@58%c;
standard, 69@69%c.
Rye—No. 2, $1.42.
Timothy—$7@10.
Butter—Higher; creamery, 42@
55c.
Eggs—Firm. Firsts, 39 %c; ordi
nary firsts, 38@38%c; at mark, cases
included, 39@39^4c.
Hogs—Market light, hogs neglect
ed. Bulk, $17.40@17.60; butchers,
$17.40® 17.70; light, $16.50@17.50;
packing, $16.50@17.40; throwouts,
$16(0) 17.50; pigs, good to choice, $14
@16.25.
Cattle—Good and choice beef and
butcher cattle, 15c to 25c higher,
others slow; caners and cutters, 25c
to 50c lower; calves, 25c higher;
feeders strong; cows and heifers,
$7.50® 15.50; canners and cutters, $6
@7.50; beef cattle, good, choice and
prime, $16.50@20; common and me
dium, $10.75@16.50; canners and cut
ters, $6.50@7.75; Stockers and feed
ers, good, choice and fancy, $11.25®
15; inferior, common and medium,
$8.25 @11.25; veal calves, good and
choice, $16.75@17.50.
Sheep— Märket mostly 25c higher.
Top wool lambs, $18.85; shorn,*$16.75;
lambs, choice and prime, $18.75®
18.85; medium and good, $17.35®
18.75; culls, $14@15.75; ewes, choice
and prime, $12.65@13; medium and
good, $10.50@16.25; culls, $5.50®
8.55. '
New York.
Sugar unchanged.
Spot coffee quiet; Rio 7s, 1514c;
Santos 4s, 21 *4c. ,
Copper dull but steadier; electro
lytic, 15@15%c. Iron, nominally un
changed. Metal exchange quotes
lead ■ firm ; spot and February, $5.30
@5.40. Spelter, firm; East St. Louis,
delivery, spot and February, $6.35®
6.45.
Portland.
Barley—Standard A, $43.50; April,
$44.50.
Eastern oats and corn in bulk:
Oats—38-lb. clipped, «white, $42;
April, $41.50. Corn—No. 3 yellow,
$52.50; No. 3 mixed, $51.
Cattle—Market steady; steers, best
$13.50@14.50; good to chofte, $11.75
@12.75; medium to good, $10.75®
11.75; fair to good, $9.50@10.75; com
mon to fair, $8.50@9.50; cows and
heifers, choice, $10.50@11.50; good
to choice, $8.75@9.75; medium to
choice, $7.75@8.75; fair to medium.
$6@7; canners, $3.50@5; bulls, $6®
9; calves, $9@13.50; stookers and
feeders, $7 @10.
Hogs—Market steady; prime mixed
$17.25@17.50; medium mixed, $17®
17.25; rough heavies, $10.25@Ï5.50;
pigs, $13@15; bulk, $17.25.
Sheep — Market steady. Prime
lambs, $14 @14.50; fair to medium,
$10@12; yearlings, $10@11; weth
ers, $9@10; ewes, $6.50@8.75.
MARKET AT 8POKANE.
Readjustment of prices from a war
level to a peaefe level has become a
governing factor in all branches of
American industry. New business Is
being considered with the Idea of safe
guarding itself against further price
recession. This caution has led nat
urally to the adoption of a well de
fined policy of hand-to-mouth buying,
so as to avoid the lessee which might
accompany a period of violent trade
readjustment. The reduction in price
of copper and other commodities is
In natural response to these rapidly
changing economic conditions.^ All
wartime restrictions are being 'aban
doned. Nevertheless it is' felt there
can be no radical reductions In prices
of staple commodities as long as
wages hold up and labor seems in
dined to concede nothing on this point
without a struggle. The result is that
the level of both wages and prices Is
likely to depend largely upon condi
tions of employment or unemploy
ment. \
Investigations by various agencies
show that the ranks of idle workers
are enlarging materially. This is nat
ural In view of the shutting down of
munitions plants and the return of a
vast number of men from the govern
ment service. A recent canvass
showed that nearly 40 per cent of the
large cities whose experience was con
tributed have a surplus of labor to
provide for. But the best brains of
the country is giving thoughtful at
tention to this problem and, among
other things, large public works are
being undertaken which may largely
absorb the surplus labor.
, In this section interest centers in
the coming wheat crop. Our winter
acreage is practically double this year
what it was last and there is an un
usually good start of winter wheat.
We have had ample moisture during
the fall and the prospects are better
than any time in the last three yearç.
Grain, Flour and Feed.
Wheat—There is very little change
in the situation and little doing in the
grain trade. Some government or
ders for flour were placed the latter
part of February at Portland and other
Pacific Northwest points, but in view
of the large stocks of both wheat and
flour, they were not sufficient to im
part any particular strength or activ
ity but merely relieved a condition of
stagnation. The interest of the trade
centers largely in the means that may
be adopted to carry into effect the
$2.25 guaranty on the next crop, which
both locally and generally is coming
forward nicely. Large quantities of
Argentine wheat are being contracted
to Europe on a basis of about $1.45 a
bushel.
Flour—The situation is unchanged
and dull. Government orders for ex
port were placed in the latter part of
February, but mills can fill them large
iy from stocks on hand and domestic
buyers decline to take hold. While
it has been officially announced that
the guaranteed wheat price will hold
the remainder of the season, and flour
therewith, flour buyers seem to be
expecting lower prices and sales are
slow, although present prices are rela
tively low as compared with wheat
values.
Feed—Millfeed is more plentiful but
not abundant, and prices steady to firm
at $1.80 a sack. No changes In other
items.
GEOGRAPHIC UNES
OF EUROFECHANGE
TENTATIVE PLANS TAKE FROM
THE HUNS THE IRON, STEEL
AND COAL MINES.
FRANGE IS THE BI6 6AINER
Will Get Alsace-Lorraine and Part of
Briey and Saar Valleys—West
Bank of Rhine Made Impo
tent for Military Use.
Paris.—A new map of Europe is
rapidly taking form and within a week
the frontiers of the old states will
largely be defined as they appear in
the peace treaty and the successive
documents fixing territorial limits.
First in importance is Germany's
western frontier bordering on France
which assumes international signifi
cance as a barrier against renewal of
the present war.
Owing to the issues involved final
determination of this question is left
to the council of the great powers,
but in the meantime the tentative
plans have been well advanced by the
commission, which coordinates re
ports on all frontier questions.
As it now stands the western fron
tier comes under three main heads—
first, Alsace-Lorraine; second, the
great iron and coal regions of Briey
and the Saar valley, and, third, the
extensive strip of German territory
lying on the west bank of the Rhine
from the Palatinate northward.
France to Get Alsace-Lorraine.
With respect to Alsace-Lorraine the
present tendency is to make reccs*
sion of this section to France without
any condition of a plebiscite or other
wise. V
The Briey and Saar volley sections
are chiefly important as furnishing
iron, steel and coal, on which Ger
many's mifttary power was based, and
It is believed the new line will defi
nitely put an end to any further use
of these sources of German power.
Part of the Briey and Saar sections
will become French by the retiùn of
Lorraine.
The main difficulty has been over a
large section of the Saar coal fields
lying beyond Lorraine and within Ger
man territory. The present Idea seems
to be somewhat between annexation
of that section and leaving It to Ger
many.
Buffer State in Stoar Region.
According to this plan the northern
Saar region would be neither French
nor German, but would occupy a po
sition sdmewhat similar to the Dis
trict of Columbia among the American
states. Its productive capacity would
doubtless go to France, but politically
its 300,000 Inhabitants would not be
subject to conscription or military
service either to France or Germany
and would not elect delegates to the
legislative body* of either country.
Concerning the region along the
west bank of the Rhine the present
tendency is toward some form of
"sterilization" which would render
this impotent for German military
uses without giving ti a definite po
litical status toward either side. This
probably would be accomplished by
the same means as In the Saar re
gion.
Tills, on broad lines, is the present
plan, which, however, is only tenta
tive, pending final action by the coun
cil of the great powers.
Yearn for Trouble.
San Francisco.—Creating the possi
bility of a general tleup of all ship
building in the San Francisco bay re
gion, about 6000 machlntsts and ship
yard laborers and allied crafts took
a Saturday half holiday March 1 In
the face of an ultimatum by the em
ployers that they would be dismissed
for so doing. The men can be reem
ployed only by renouncing the stand
of their unions for the half holiday,
the employers said.
The 6000 machinists made idle in
the San Francisco bay region through
differences with their employers over
the Saturday half holiday have been
ordered to return to work and re
nounce the half holiday by W. H.
Johnston, president of their interna
tional.
Our Senate Blocks Nations League.
Washington, D. C.—Names of 37
members of the new senate, a num
ber sufficient to block ratification of
a treaty, were read in the senate on
Monday night by Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts, who said they had ap
proved a resolution setting forth that
"the constitution of the league of na
tions in the form now proposed to the
peace conference should not lie ac
cepted by the United States."
Alaska promises to become a rec
ognized factor in the herring packing
industry. An appropriation of $25
001 ) has been included in the sundry
civil bill, for the purpose of making
a thorough inspection and supervision
and the interest, which developed
during the war, bids fair to add an
other important adjunct to the pro
ductive resources of the Far North.
Anderson Bros., Juliaetta general*
merchants, burned out recently.