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eX ° Do: ginderwest me nderwoor Albert Johnson, congressman from Washington, is chairman of the house immigration committee and the bill to restrict immigration bears his name. CYCLONIC STORM KILLS 1, INJURES 4 " Hoquiam, Wash.—One man was kill- ed and four were injured, two serious- | : ly, during the period of a storm of \ : i ; . cyclonic nature which swept the Grays Harbor country from the southwest Saturday afternoon. 4 , Thousands of dollars worth of dam- H age to buildings, plate glass windows and telephone and telegraph wires re- sulted. The cities of Hoquiam and Aberdeen were completely isolated for three hours. -. , Wind, coming out of a fairly clear esky, at the close of a day which had been partly sunshiny, with occasional \ gusts of rain, hit the harbor country A at 90 miles an hour without warning. i 3 Four steel smokestacks—one a recent- ly constructed chimney reaching 175 feet into the air, at the Anderson & Middleton mill—were the first to fall ; before the terrific onslaught of the gale. BRIEF GENERAL NEWS { The department of labor survey 1 shows approximately 3,500,000 persons out of work in the United States. ‘ Daniel J. O'Callaghan, lord mayor of Cork, has been ordered by Secretary Wilson of the labor department to leave the United States by February 11. Five hundred aliens classed as an- archists were deported from the Unit- ed States from February, 1919, to Jan- uary 1, 1921, the department of labor announced. Alameda, on San Francisco bay, is | understood to have been selected by the joint congressional committee as the site for the main naval fleet base 4 on the Pacific coast. Drastic economy at army posts and camps was ordered by Secretary Baker due to an impending deficiency of $94,- 000,000 under appropriations for the quartermaster’s corps. : Both houses of the Swedish parlta- : ment have ratified by large majorities amendments to the Swedish constitu- tion extending the parliamentary vote both to men and women. Wheat stocks on hand in the United States January 1, 1921, totaled 320,- 000,000 bushels, according to an estl- mate made public by the department of agriculture. This figure compared with 417,000,000 bushels on hand a year ago. = : Utah Aske Asiatics Ban. ' Salt Lake City.-The house of repre- t sentatives of the Utah legislature pass- ed house joint memorial No. 1, memo- rializing congress to enact legislation that would restrict immigragion of Asiatics and prevent the ownership | or leasing of land by aliens ineligible to citizenship in this country. Schwab Cleared of Charges. Washington.—Charges that Charles M. Schwab had received payment from the government for expenses while serving as director general of the emergency fleet corporation were not proved and not true, the Walsh in vestigating committee declared in an authorized statement. Japanese in Hawali Increase. Washington.—The Japanese popula tion of Hawali in 1920 was 109,274 out of the total population of 265,912, and represented an increase for that race of about 33 per cent since 1910, the census bureau announced. Italy Recognizes Mexican Government Mexico City. — Italy has extended formal recognition to the Mexican gov erament. a a, FIFTY-FIFTY By DOROTHY 0. GRAVES. (@®, 1920, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) The wealthiest man sighed. He felt | very much alone. Old Scout, his thor- | oughbred airedale, had died oat morn- | img, and the world -in consequence seemed very thin and much apa:t from | ap old and wealthy man, He was aroused by the respectful | knocking of his office boy, “Good morning, Tom,” the wealthiest man greeted the buy. “Top o' the mornin’ to ye, yer hon- or.” The wealthiest man smiled. “Why do you call me that, Tom?’ The boy blushed and twisted his fingers in his coat but his eyes never wavered. “Because, sir,” he stressed the sir, “I forgot, sir.” “Forgot what, Tom?’ “Yer honor.” The old man pondered and shook | his head. “I don’t understand yet, my boy. Tell me again.” The boy grew redder under his freckles, but he stood stanch. “It's a game, sir.” “Oh, yes, I see.” The man twisted | the crystal vase between his thumb and forefinger. He watched the heavy blossom tilt back and forth while he questioned further. “And If I told you I liked games, Tom, would you let me | play, too?” The wealthiest man grasped the vase in his entire palm. The slender crystal stem cracked and broke. A stream of water trickled over the papers on the desk and min- gled with a drop of red blood from the wealthiest man's hand. The white orchid seemingly shuddered and writhed. Its delicate petals turned gray and crumpled. It faded into an ash and was gone. The boy's face was white and awed. He looked apprehensively at the man, “Oh, sir . . .” he said, his voice weak, “It's gone, Tom.” The man spoke lightly, “Yep, like death, sir.” “Yes, like death, Tom, or dreams.” “Oh, no, yer honor, oh no, sir, I mean; dreams they ain't like that. If ye believe in ‘em and put faith in 'em they're bound, sir, bound to come true.” d “And why do you think so, Tom?" “Me mother, she says so, yer—sir, I | mean.” “Could you get tnto college, Tom?’ asked the wealthiest man. “It’s awful- ly hard. There's exams and school- ing—" Tom's whole body was tense with eagerness, “Oh, sir, we're doin’ that. Mary and me. I’m goin’ to night schoel and Mary helps me, too. Mary’s my sister.” “And ma?” asked the man, “Oh, ma, well, there’s her eyes, you know, sir.” “Ah, yes, her eyes,” the old man re peated, “What do you want most, Tom?” “Don't you know, Tom?" “No, yer hon—sir, I mean. It ain't time fer ‘nother raise yet, ’n’ Mary can’t go to college cause she's got ap- other year at high school.” “And your mother, Tom?” “And ma's gonna git her eyes fixed as soon’s I save enough money.” Tom smiled confidently at the man. “Nope, I don’ know. Unless . . .” “Unless what, Tom?” “A goose, sir.” “A goose.” " “Yep, like at the old place that ma tells about.” “A Christmas goose, stuffed, sir,” The wealthiest man smiled kindly. “There shall be a stuffed goose, if—" “Yes, yer honor.” Tom in his anx- lety forgot the “sir.” “If I can help eat it. I’m goose hun. gry, too.” “You hungry, sir?’ Tom expressed unconditioned doubt. “Oh, yes, and Tem, my family died this morning—all the family I had, Old Scout, 1 called him, and he was the finest dog a man ever had.” The boy nodded seriously, “I haven’t any Mary, nor any mother with big soft eyes, Tom.” “Ain't youse got nobody?” “Nobody at all, Tom.” “Gee!” the boy looked at the man with feeling. “Gee!” “Gee!” repeated the wealthiest man. Tom laughed readily. “Say, I guess you do need somethin’.”. He moved closer to the man. “Say, if youse come home with me after work and see ma she'll help you, honest she will.” “How will she help me, Tom?” “Well,” he edged nearer and whis- | pered confidentially: “Mary, you know, | hadn't anybody, and so we jest took her in—we adopted her.” The boy paused, thinking. “Maybe, yer—sir, I mean, if youse wanted to, and tf you tell ma, we could Just adopt you, too.” The old man turned his face away from the boy. “Could you afford to keep another, Tom?” His voice was husky. Tom answered readily. “Yep, I think so. You see, I could work nights again like I used to, and—” “And give up night school?” “Yep, jest fer now, you know, and youse could help with the goose money, we'd let that go fer now—fifty-fifty, you know.” “All right, sir.” The wealthiest man held a trembling hand to his freckled office boy—“‘fifty-tifty.” “What'll you cal! me, Tom, after? I don’t like ‘sir’ and ‘your honor,’ either one of them—they're too mighty sound- ing.” Tom's brows knit again in deep per- plexity. “Let’s go home and tell ma, Old Scout,” be said. | our colleges. | will be in order for it to have a DUCK’S FLIGHT HITS THEORY May Lead to New Discoveries Gem cerning the Migratory Habite of Certain Wild Fowls. Carl Jensen of Camrose, Alberta, recently shot a pintail duck whose leg was encircled by a metal band, on which was engraved, “Released by the American museum at New York. Will the finder please notify us.” The distance between New | York and Camrose is 2,500 miles. | Jensen owns a farm in the newly | settled area along the Canadian Na- | tional railways, which is a meeting ground for wild geese and many varieties of ducks. These fow! had already begun their migration southward when the pintail was killed. How far this particular duck | | had been North is not known. The summer habitat of the pintail ex: | tends as far as the Arctic ocean. | But the direction of this duck’s | flight from New York, it is pointed out, is scientifically interesting. In their spring migrations, aquatic fowl, it has been thought, fly straight north. If the pintail had | | lived up to this tradition, it would have gone from New York into the | highlands of Ontario or Labrador. | | The fact that it winged its way | westward half across the continent | | has upset existing theories and may | | lead to new discoveries regarding | | the migratory habits of wild fowl. BIG ENOUGH FOR TWO | “No,” said boarding house lady to | | fat man, “I’m sorry, but we only | take in single gentlemen.” | | “Great Scott, madam! Do you| | think I’m twins?” | The Lord Mayor’s show in Lon- | don, though shorn of much of its | | usual pageantry, still retains the | | feature of the old London guilds, | | this year. Most of the great city | | companies were established in the | | Fourteenth and Fifteenth centuries, | | and admission to the freedom of the | city was dependent upon member- | | ship in a trade. At present the | | Horners, the Loriners and the | | Fletchers are represente’, but not | every one knows the Horners were | | workers in horn, and were the mak- | ers of the old horn books, many of | which they still preserve; the Lori- | ners were those who made bridles, | bits and spurs and the Fletchers, the | makers of bows and arrows.—Chris- | tian Science Monitor. ee | | HORNERS AND FLETCHERS. WHEAT AND POTATOES MIXED. A 50-50 mixture of wheat flour from the United States and potato | j flour of domestic make is being or- | 4 | dered by the Netherlands govern- ment for its people with the hope of | keeping down the price of bread. Un- | 5 | less something is done to keep down the price of the imported wheat it will soon be out of reach of the pop- |§ | ulace. Potato starch was used a great | deal during the war for the purpose of piecing out the wheat flour sup- | ply, and it was not generally accept- | able by the people, but potato flour | will not be open to the same criti- | cism, and it is anticipated will prove | more palatable. CHILE COPIES UNITED STATES, At present, according to a con- | U sular report, Chile is passing through | | a transition period as regards both | advertising and merchandising. | Methods borrowed from the United | States are being adopted. SEEMS APPROPRIATE. Redd—I see they are talking of | having a chair of football in one of Greene—Oh, well, I suppose it broken back or: ctured leg. THE REASON. “There are no more liquor jokes now.” “Of course not. It would violate the prohibition law if jokes had any apirit in then.” j Eee Just Received We guarantee your fit in the newest models. Conservative styles for older men J. V. 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