THE TURNER TRIBUNE
VOL.
T l 'K N K I i ,
V.
WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
BILLION TO BOOST
Senate llill,
House
Amrnded,
O ltEO O X , 'I'llUUNI)AV,
TRADE
F
Is Passed by
Stimulus Promised.
Washington, D. C - With a number
TO GET FOOD SOON
of auiandmi'iita, the senate bill, which
would
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
make
f1 .000,000,000 available
through the war finance corporation
for
stimulating
exportation o f
agrl
cultural produrls, was passed Monday
by the house.
COMPILED
FOR YOU
Only
21
representatives
voted
«gainst the bill, while 3M Voted for It
Thn house ollmlnated
senate sec
Famine Relief Agreement Is
Formally Signed.
AUCiL'ST
W
PANAMA IS READY
TO REPEL INVADER
Puts ranging from about 3 cents to
1 cents a 1000 cubic feet In the price
o f gas to t'allfornla consumers were
Panama.— Panama Is prepared and
made effective on meter readings of
ready to repel the Costa Ricans should
September 3 by an order Tuesday of
they Invade the disputed C olo terri
the state railroad commission.
tory. No definite action will be taken,
A resolution Introduced by Senator
however,
until It has been learned
t'alder, republican. New York, felici
tating the people o f Italy, who will what attitude the United States gov
celebrate the 600th anniversary uf the ernment will adopt toward Panama In
birth of Dante. the poet, on September thn event the Panamana oppose the
It. Is adupled by the senate.
taklug over o f Coto by tho Costa
Pirn persons are dead as result of Ricans.
disorders which began when a negro
Cable messages sent by th { Pans-
ran amuck Tueaday through the cen man government to Washington, with
t e r of the business section of Augusta.
the view of ascertaining the Amerl-
Oa. Seven were known to ha” S *-een
cuu government's attitude toward
wounded, two of them probably fatally.
I'ansmsn resistance to Costa Rican
The denationalisation of real estate
occupation of Coto, have not been an
In soviet Ku.sla, through a decree
authorising c i owners or other persons swered.
Armed men to the number of ISO
to boy houses and land from the gov
ernment. Is announced In a Moscow have been ordered to proceed to Coto
dispatch to the Kosta Agency, the of- fruin David. They will take with them
fleal soviet news disseminator.
ten machine guns, which were pur
chased In the United States last April
The senate claim to a share of
Secretary o f Justice A lfaro has
responsibility for the foreign affairs of
given orders to Chief of Police Arango
the nation war recognised by Presi
to hold the entire police force of Pan
dent Harding Tueaday by the designa
ama and Colon In readiness to march
tion o f Senator l-odgn of Massachu
to Coto. Identical orders have been
setts. chairman of the foreign relations
sent the heads of the police forces In
committee, as a member of the Amer
ican delegation to the disarmament Interior towns.
Mayors have been ordered to rev Ise
conference.
their volunteer forces and to ndvlrn
Curtailment of naval building, due tho men to be ready for an emer
to decreased appropriations, will ma gency.
terially alow up work on new battle
ships and battle cruisers. It la said at
Legion Has R elief Fund.
tho nary department. There Is |53,-
Washington,
D. C. — One hundred
000.000 available for the work, against
$ 119,000,000 requested. A partial sus thousand dollars, collected by the
pension of work at plants fabricating American Red Cross during tho war
material for the ships already has for soldier relief work, was turned over
taken place, It Is said.
by the society Monday to the Am eri
Russian relief negotiations, as they
Involve the question of American con
trol o f food distribution, were discuss
ed In some detail Tuesday by Presi
dent Harding and his cabinet. Con
siderable difficulty has arlseu from
the disposition of the itusslan soviet
government to Impose restrictions con
flicting with the American relief ad
ministration's determination that re
lie f supplies must be under American
control throughout.
Any householder could have home
brew under Interpretations placed up
on an amendment to the Wlllls-Camp-
bell beer bill, npproved Tuesday by
the house. The amendment, adopted
ns a substitute for a senate provision,
would require federal agents to have
warrants before entering homes In
search o f liquor. K provides, however,
that no warrants shall be Issued for
search of a home “ unless there Is rea
son to believe such dwelling Is used
ns n place In which liquor la manu
factured for sale, or sold.”
(lovernor Harding of tho federal re
serve board telegraphed the San Fran
cisco federal reserve bank Tuesday to
Investigate a complaint of Dr. C. J.
Smith of Portland, Or., that the North
western Wheat Growers' association
Is In danger of losing heavily on 25.-
UOO.OOO bushels of wheat because of re
fusal o f local bnnks to advance need
ed money. Me snld local banka took
the view that wheat should be actually
sold before money could be advanced.
Dr. Smith's telegrum, received by Sen
ator McNary, requested government
aid to the extent of ffi,000,000 to bn
used as a revolving fund, the security
to be given to consist of whoat re
ceipts covered by mortgage and In
surance.
can le g io n to bo used by the U tter
organization In searching out cases
of former service men entitled to but
falling to receive aid.
The fund Is to be used, together with
sums donated by tho Y. M. C. A., Na
tional Community service, Knights of
Columbus and Jewish welfare hoard.
In the formation of "fly in g squads"
charged wtth aiding needy service
men.
Living Cost Drops Bit.
New York.— The cost o f living de
creased .7 of 1 per cent In July, ac
cording to figures made public Mon
day by the national Industrial confer
ence.
Prices nro still 62 per cent
higher than In July, 1914, and only
2 R per cent lower than the peak reach-
e<’ In July, 1920. Dedlnea In July
were In clothing, which dropped 3.6
per cent, and In sumlrlea, which drop
ped 1.1 per cent. Food prices, the re
port snld, went up 3 per cent
Red Croa* Agent Short.
Wuahtngton, D. C. — C. K. Wilson,
second assistant treasurer of the
American Hed Cross, was arrested
Monday rhurged with larceny follow
ing an audit of hla books, which show
ed a shortage of about )14,000, A c
cording to the police, W ilson admit
ted shortages of more than 313,000
and attributed his misfortune to gam
bling on horse races.
Burnt In New Position.
Washington, I). C. — W illiam J.
Hums of New York was sworn In Mon
day ns director o f the bureau of In
vestigation of the department o f Jus
tice. Mr. Duma succeeds W illiam J.
Flynn, who resigned last week.
1921.
T
STATE N E W S *
IN BRIEF
Salem. — Tbe Oregon Growers' Co
operative association baa announced
the sale o f three carloads of the new
prune crop, liuyera were reported as
active and prunes are In demand at
prl-.ci, quoted by tbe association Frl
The Voice
of the Pack
day.
Hulem — Tbe state highway commis
sion Saturday won the first beat In
litigation brought by resident» of In
dependence, Folk county, to enjoin tbe
statu from procwxPug with the Im
provement o f certs*a sections of the
lauding West Slue Pacific highway.
SOVIET WILL ASSIST
tions authorising the purchase by the
C in ila o f Noted I’roplr, Governments war finance corporation of 1200 , 000 ,-
Orders Already Placed fur
and I'ariUr Northwest, and Other
non worth of farm loan bonds, and the
Ships With I imk I and Medicine
creation of a new bureau In the de
Th in g« Worth Knowing.
fur Suffering Thousands.
partment of rotnmerce to obtain In
formation as to trade conditions
King 1‘ eter of Herbln died In tlel- abroad. The house also eliminated a
grade Tuesday.
section which would permit govern
Prohibition ha* been abolished In ment loans to accredited foreigners
soviet Husala and the country now Is
engaged In exporlatkin uf American
on a light wine basis.
farm products, hut added an amend
lit Igsdlertleneral It. M lllatrhfurd,
ment providing for rigid restriction
now with the fourth division, has hern
of such loan*
ordered to the command at Vancouver
IIy a vote of 196 to 136 the house
barracks, Washington.
rejected a motion to recommit the
The senate has passed a bill mak bill, offered by Representative Wlngu,
ing It possible for the president to ap democrat, Arkansas. Co reinsert the
point Major tleneral l.eonard Wood eliminated senate provisions and to
governor general of the Philippines.
add an amendment authorising tho
war finance corporation to make di
Although the Inland Kmplre and
rect loans to agriculturists.
Mpokane were struck Haturday night
with one o f the worst dust, wind and
electric storms since 1913, little dam
age was reported.
25,
rrln evllle.— During the past week 11
carloads of cattle were shipped over
the City o f Prln evllle railroad to Port
land by the following: W. I. Dishman,
two cars; S. Rogers, two cars; James
Riga.—The agreement between the
Crsm. three cars; Baldwin Cattle A
United States and Russia providing Sheep company, four cars.
for American relief for the famine-
Klamath Kail*. — Residents o f the
stricken district was signed at I I :3V
o'clock Haturday morning by W alter alfalfa growing section around Midland
l.yman liruwn, Kuropean representa are considering the organisation c f an
tive of the American relief adminis alfglfa meal factory. l>ow prices and
tration, and Maxim Lllvln off, repre high freight rates have placed tbe al
sentative of the Ruaslan famine com falfa grower In a position where It Is
Impossible profitably to dispose of bis
mittee.
Philip Carroll of Portland. Or., will surplus
at least temporarily head the work of
feeding the starving people of Rus
sia. a task the American relief admin
istration considéra (he greatest It has
yet faced. W alter L. Drown, Kuro
pean director of the administration,
announced that Mr. Carroll would lead
the first party of relief workers, which
probably will leave here for Moscow
Thursday
Mr. Carroll, wtaa has been
with the administration two years,
made an excellent record by his work
In Germany Houth Russia and Serbia.
Hope that the stgulng of the agree
ment would lead to further relations
between Russia and America was ex
pressed In speeches made by M. Litvin-
off and M. Mulrovltx, the 1-ctvlan pre
mier.
Russia la. by the terms of the con
tract, made the beneficiary of a far-
reaching program, which Includes not
only providing food for the people
of the famine stricken Volga region*
but the combatting of rpldemlca.
It la understood that orders already
have gone to Hamburg, Dnnxlg and
New York directing that relief ships
bu loaded with food and medicines
fur Russia. Actual work In Russia
possibly may commence In a little
more than a week.
Political and commercial activities
will he outilde the realm of the work
ers' duties and any violation o f this
clause of the agreement may be cause
fur expulsion from Russia, upon proofs
being submitted to tbe directors of the
relief work. All Americans engaged
In feeding and earing for the fumlne
sufferers will enjoy diplomatic rights.
Alt relief shipments will be trans
ported free o f charge to points se
lected by the Americans, who will
have absolute control of distribution.
It Is the plan to restrict relief meas
ures to those people who are in ac
tual distress and to prevent govern
ment employes und men In the army
and navy from coming into possession
of supplies.
Salem.— There w ill be more men
teachers In tbe schools of Oregon when
tbe fall term opens In September tbsn
at say time since the outbreak of the
war with Germany, according to re
ports received recently at tbe offlcea
of J. A. Churchill, state superintendent
of public Instruction.
Albany.— J. W. Miller, county school
superintendent o f Linn county, has re-
signed the office, his resignation to
take effect September 1. Last June
Mr. M iller resigned but upon request
wltbdrew tbe resignation, lie has now
filed a formal resignation and expects
to retire as soon as a successor Is
chosen.
Hood River.— A. W. Stone, general
mauagor of the apple growers’ associa
tion. says that cellmates of the season's
apple crop for the valley, baaed in
observations o f inspectors of the as
sociation who are fam iliar with condi
tions In all parts o f the district, now
place tbe tonnage sx an approximate
1.600.000 boxes.
Hood R iver.— The inspection depart
ment o f tbo Apple Growers' association
has announced that the district's an
nual apple packing school w ill be held
on the week beginning September 12.
The school will bu characterized by
afternoon lectures by members of the
association's Inspection department
and by experiment station experts.
Nvssa.— W. L. Gibson, the potato
king of Malheur county, and one of
the directors of the Potato Growers’
association o f Idaho and Oregon, was
a Nyssa visitor recently. Mr. Gibson
stated that 30 carloads o f potatoes have
been shipped from here up to date.
The price received was 32 and better.
The entire lot brought more than 37000.
Salem.— Between 1300 and 2000 pick
ers w ill start work In the hopyards of
the W illam ette valley this week. When
picking of the Inter * lusters starts Sep
tember 1 twice that number of pickers
will be In the fields. The cost of pro
Test of Liquor Asked.
ducing a pound of hops In 1919 was
New York.—Cautious citizens bear estimated at 24 cents, which growers
ing samples of their private stoek said probably would be the average for
flocked to the government's liquor this year.
testing laboratory Suturday and im
Salem. — It will cost approximately
plored chemists to test the stuff ut 31.650.000 to harvest the 1921 hop crop
once. They hud heard reports that In Oregon, according to Durbin A
the government was to place its facil Cornnver, whq handle a large auiounc
ities at the disposal o f citizens to save of the hops produced in the Wlllanietto
the public from the consequences of valley. It was estimated by this firm
drinking wood ulcohol and the like. that the Oregon hop crop w ill aggre
None wus bold enough to bring more gate 66,000 bales, nearly half of which
than an ounce or two In a bottle.
will be harvested in the Willam ette
valley.
Hospital it Whiskyless.
Klamath Falls.— Sale of the 3200.000
New York.—James MoArdle. a keep Klamath Drainage district bond Issue
er In the Bronx zoo, was reported re w ill be assured and funds w ill l >0
covering Suturday from the effects of available for diking and reclaiming
a bite by a copperhead snake. Mc- the lands of the district If the govern
Ardle asked for a drink of whiskey, ment contract for water rights, a copy
which he declared wns the best rem * f which has been received by tho
edy for snake bite, but the doctors at directors of the district, proves satis
the hospital where he was taken told factory after scrutiny. The board now
him tbero was no whiskey In the in has the contract under consideration.
stitution. They gave him a serum in
Salem.— In the prune district south
stead.
of Salem many prune trees are Infested
with leap spot, caused by a fungus
Much Wheat la Shipped.
growth, according to a report made
Hpokane, W a sh — More than 600,000
here by S. H. Van Trump, county fruit
bushels of the 1921 wheat crop have
Inspector. Many trees are shedding
been received and shipped already this their leaves as a result of the disease,
season by the Northwest Wheat Grow
and unless there Is a proper spreading
ers' association, according to Georgo A. during the month of May. the trees
Jewelt, general manager.
eventually will be seriously damaged,
"M ost of tho grain," he snld, "has he said.
been shipped to Portland and Seattle
Salem.— J. S. Landers, who Is now
for export and for delivery to privato
grain dealers.”
serving at the head o f the training
Alleged Whisky Ship Tied Up.
Steveneon, R. C.— l ’rovlnclal author
ities Saturday tied up at New W est
minster, II. ('., the five-ton American
cruising steamer Yankee as the re
sult of an alleged attempt to smuggle
aboard whisky valued at 32000. The
vessel Is said to have started for the
International boundary under rover of
darkness. Customs officers seized It.
department of the I-aa Vegas (N . M. *
State Normal school, has •'een selected
president of the Oregon Normal achool
at Monmouth to succeed the late J. II.
Ackerman. It was said Saturday that
Mr. len d ers had accepted the presi
dency o f the Institution and would ar
rive here within the next two weeks
to confer with the board o f regents
preparatory to taking up the duties
connected with his new appointment.
B y E dison M arsh all
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(Cep/rlgkt, IMU, Unie. Brow. « Goapss/)
Love story, adventure
story, nature story— all
three qualities combine
in the “ Voice o f the
Pack,” a tale o f modern
man and woman arrayed
against the forces of age*
aid savagery.
Prologue.
I f o n « rsn Just Us closs enough to the
•reset o f the wllOemeee, he can’t help
tut be Imbued w ith some o f the life that
zutsss therein.—From a Frontiersm an's
Diary.
Long ego. when the great city of
Gttcheapolls was a rather small, un
tidy hamlet In the middle of a plain.
It used to be that a pool of water,
possibly two hundred feet square,
gathered every spring Immediately
hack o f tbe courthouse. The snow
falls thick and heavy I d Gltrheapolls
lo winter; and tbe pond was nothing
more than snow water that the Ineffi
cient drainage system of the city did
not quite absorb. Besides being the
Jespslr of the plumliers and tbe city
engineer. It was 'a severe strain on
the beauty-lovtng Instincts o f every
Inhabitant In tbe town who had any
vuch Instincts. It was muddy and
murky and generally distasteful.
A little boy played at the edge o f
the water, this spring day of long ago.
Except for his Interest In the pond. It
would have been scarcely worth while
to go to the trouble o f explaining that
It contained no fish. He, however,
bitterly regretted the fact. In truth,
he sometimes Hked to believe that tt
did contain fish, very sleepy Ash that
never made a ripple, and as be bad an
uncommon Imagination he was some
times able to convince himself that
this was so. But he never took book
and line and played at Ashing. He
was too much afraid of the laughter
of his boy friends. His mother prob
ably wouldn't object If he Ashed here,
he thought, particularly I f be were
careful not to get Ills shoes covered
with mud. But she wouldn't let him
go down to Git d ies [mils creek to Ash
with the other boys for mud c a t He
was not very strong, she thought, and
It was a rough aport anyway, and be
sides— she didn't think he wanted to
go very badly. As mothers are usual
ly particularly understanding, this
was a curious thing.
The truth was that little Dan Fall
ing wanted to Ash almost as much as
he wanted to live. He would dream
about It o f nights. His blood would
glow with the thought o f It In the
springtime. Women the world over
will hnve a hard time believing what
an Intense, heart-devouring passion
the love o f the chase ca., be. whether
It Is for Ashing or hunting or merely
knocking golf balls Into a little hole
upon a green. Sometimes they don't
remember that this Instinct Is Just as
much a part of most men, and thus
most boys, as their hands or their
lips. It was acquired by Just as la
borious a process— the lives of un
counted thousands o f ancestors who
Ashed and hunted for a living.
It was true that little Dan didn't
look the part. Kven then he slurred
signs o f physical frailty.
His eyes
looked rather large, and his cheeks
were not the color of fresh sirloin, as
they should have been. In fact, one
would have had to look very hard to
see any color In them at all. These
facts are Interesting from the light
they throw upon the next glimpse of
Dan, fully twenty years later.
Except for the fact that It was the
background for the earliest picture of
little Dun. tbe pool back of the court
house has very little Importance In
his story. It did. however, afford an
Illustration to him o f one o f the real
ly astonishing truths of life. He saw
a shadow In the water that he pre
tended he thought might be a Ash. He
threw a stone at It.
The only thing that happened was
a splash, and then n slowly widening
ripple. The circumference of the rip
ple grew ever larger, extended and
widened, and Annlly died at the edge
o f the shore. It set little Dan to
thinking. He wondered If, had the
pool been larger, the ripple still would
have spread; and If the pool had been
eternity, whether the ripple would
have gone on forever. At the time he
did net know the laws of cause and
effect. Later, when Gttcheapolls was
great and prosperous and no longer
untidy, he was going to Anil out that
a cause Is nothing but a rock thrown
Into n pond o f InAnlty. and the rlpp^
that Is its effect keeps growing and
growing forever.
The little Incident that Is the real
beginning o f this story wns o f no
more Importance than a pehhle thrown
Into the snow-water pond; hut Its e f
fect was to remove the life o f Dan
Falling, since grown up, far out of
the realms of the ordinary.
And that brings all matters down
to 1019, In the last days o f a particu
larly sleepy summer. You would hard
NO.
IH.
ly know Gltrhrupoll* now. Tire busi
ness district bus Increased tenfold.
And tbe place where used to lie the
[tool and the playground o f Dan Fall
ing Is now laid off In as green and
pretty a city park as one could wish
was drlb-ate and must be sheltered.
Never In all »tie history of his family,
so far as I*an knew, bad there been a
death from the malady that afflicted
him. Yet bis sentence was signed sod
sealed.
tO MW.
But he harbored no resentment
Koine day, when the etty becomes against bis mother. It was all In thv
more nrosperous, a pair o f swans snd game. She bud done what she thought
a herd o f deer are going to be Intro was best. And he begun to wonder
duced. to restore some of the natural to what way he could get the greatest
Wild life o f the park. But In the sum pleasure from bis last six months uf
mer of 1919. a few small bird* and life.
poaslbly half a dozen pairs of squir
"Good Lord I" be suddenly breathed.
rels were the extent and limit of the " I may not be here to see the auows
wild creatures. And at the moment cornel” I>an hud always been partial
this story opens, one o f these squtr
to the winter season. When the snow
rets was perched on a wide-spreading lay oil over the farm land* and howeil
limb overarching a gravel path that down the limbs o f tbe trees. It had
slanted through the sunlit park. Tbe always wakened a curious Hood of
squirrel was hungry. He wished that feelings In tbe wasted man. It seemed
some one would come along wttb a to him that he could re:nemt>er other
nut.
winters, wherein the snow lay for end
There was a bench beneath the tree. less miles over an endless wilderness,
I f there hail not been, the life o f Dun and here and there were strange,
Falling would have been entirely d if many-toed tracks that eould be fol
ferent. I f tbe squirrel hud been on lowed In the Icy dawns. But of course
any other tree, tf he hadn't been It was just a fancy. He wasn't In the
hungry, If any one o f a dozen other least misled about It. He knew that
thing* hadn’t been a* they were. Dan he had never. In his lifetime, seen
Falling would have never gone back the wilderness. O f course bis grand
to the land o f hla people. The little father had been a frontiersman o f the
busby-tailed fellow on the tree limb first order, and all his ancestors be
was the squirrel o f Destiny 1
fore him— a rangy, hardy breed whose
wings would crumple In civilization—
bnt he himself bad always lived In
BOOK ONE
cities. Yet the falling snows, soft and
gentle bnt with a kind o f remorseless
Repatriation.
ness he coaid sense hut could uot un
derstand, had always stirred him.
C H APTE R L
He'd often Imagined that he would
like to see tbe forests tn winter.
Dan Falling stepped out o f the ele
In him you could see a refiectlon o f
vator and was at once absorbed In tbe boy that played beside the pond
the crowd that ever surged up and o f snow water, twenty year* before.
down Broad street. He was Just one His dark gray eyes were still rather
o f the ordinary drops o f water, not large and perhaps the wasted flesh
an Interesting, elaborate, physical and around them made them seem larger
chemical combination to be studied than they were. But It was a little
on tbe slide o f a microscope.
He hard to see them, as be wore large
wore fairly passable clothes, neither glasses. His mother had been sure,
rich nor shabby. He was a tall man. years before, that he needed glasses;
bat gave no Impression o f strength and she bad easily found an oculist
because of the exceeding spareness o f that agreed with her.
bis frame. As long as he remained
Now that he was alone on the path,
In the crowd, he wasn't Important
the utter absence of color In his
enough to be studied. But soon be
cheeks was startling. That meant the
turned off. through the park, and absence o f red— that warm glow o f
straightway found himself alone.
the blood eager and alive. In his
The noise snd bustle o f the crowd— veins.
Perhaps nn observer would
never loud or startling, but so contin have noticed lean hands, with big-
uous that tbe senses are scarcely knuckled fingers, a rather firm mouth,
more aware of them than of the beat and closely cropped dark hair. He
ing of one’s own heart—suddenly and wns twenty-nine years of age. but he
utterly died almost at the very bonier looked somewhat older. He know now
of the park.
The noise from tbe that be was never going to be any
older. A doctor as sure o f himself as
tbe one be had just consulted couldn't
possibly be mistaken.
He sat down on a park bench. Just
beneath the spreading limb of a great
tree. He would sit here, he thought,
until he finally decided a hat he would
do with his remaining six months.
He hadn't been able to go to war.
The recruiting officer had been very
kind but most determined. The boys
had brought him great tales of France.
It might be nice to go to France and
live in some country Inn until he died.
But he didn't have very long to think
upon this vein. For at that Instant
the squirrel came down to see If he hud
a nut
It was the squirrel of Destiny. But
Dan didn't know it then.
Bushy-tall was not particularly
afraid of the human beings that
passed up and down the park, because
he had learned by experience that they
usually attempted no harm to him.
But, nevertheless, he had his Instincts.
He didn't entirely trust them. A fter
several
generations, probably the
squirrels o f this park would climb all
over Its visitors and sniff In their ears
nnd Investigate the hack o f their
necks. But this wasn't the way of
Bushy-tall. He hnd come t»»o recent
ly from the wild places. And he won
i
dered. most Intensely, whether this
tall, forked creature had a pocket full
“ Why, You Little D evil!” Dan Said
o f nuts.
He swung down on the
in a Whisper.
grass to see.
“ Why, you little d e v il!” Dan snld
street seemed wholly unable to pene
His eyes suddenly
trate the thick branches o f the trees. In a whisper.
He could even lieur tbe leaves whisk sparkled with delight. And he forgot
ing and Alcklng together, and when a all about the doctor's words and his
man can discern this, he can hear the own prospects In his bitter regrets
cushions of a mountain lion on a trail that he had not brought a pocketful
at night. O f course Dan Falling had o f nuts.
And then Dan did a curious thing.
never heard a mountain lion. Except
on the railroad tracks between, he Even later, he didn't know why he did
hnd never really been away from It, or what gave him the idea that he
could decoy the squirrel up to him by
cities In his life.
At once his thought went back to doing It. That was his only purpose—
the doctor's words. They were still Just to see how close the squirrel
repeating themselves over and over would come to him. He thought he
In his ears, and the doctor's fuce was would like to look Into the bright eyes
still before his eyes. It had been a at close range. All he did was sud
kind fuce; the lips had even curled In denly to freeze Into one position— In
n little smile o { encouragement. But an Instant rendered as motionless as
the doctor bad been perfectly frank, the rather questionable-looking stone
entirely straightforward. There had stork that was perched on the foun
tain.
been no evasion In his verdict.
“ I've made every test." he said.
“ They're pretty wet! shot. O f course,
W h e r e D a n F a ilin g d e cid es
you can go to some sanitarium. If
t o sp en d his la st s is m onths
you’ve got the money. I f you haven't
s n d w h o ho r e a lly is, s r o in
— enjoy yourself all you can for about
t e r e s t in g fe a t u r e s o f th e n s s t
six months."
in s ta llm e n t o f " T h o V o ic o o f
Dan's voice had been perfectly cool
th o P a c k .”
and sure when he replied. He hnd
smiled a little, too. He was still rath
[T O B B C U N T IN U E U .)
er proud o f that smile. "Six months?
Isn't that rather short?"
Spread of Bathing In Europs.
“ Muybe a whole lot shorter. I think
Bathing came to Europe as one of
that's the limit.”
There wns the situation; Dan Fall the good results of the Crusades. The
ing had but six months to live. He Knights of the Cross found baths In
began to wonder whether his mother ! general use among the Surucens, and
hnd been entirely wise In her effort to ! seeing what good things they were,
keep him from the "rough games" of on returning from those wars took the
In
the boys of his own age. He re.."zed Initiative for their Introduction.
now that he hnd been an underweight this they were highly successful Arst
all his life— that the frailty that hnd lu England nnd from that to other
thrust him to tbe edge of the grave countries. So popular did the hath be
hnd begun In his earliest boyhood. But come that it becume customary to have
it wasn't that be was born with phy one before ceremonies such as mar
sical handicap*. He hail weighed a riage or knighthood, and the [ample
full ten pounds; and the doctor had hnve been ever slni-e learning the valua
told hi» father that a sturdier little of keeping their skins clean.
w
chap was not to bo found In any ma-
terr.lty bed In the whole city. But his
mother was convinced that tbe child
People who live In the same square
don't always move In the sume circi*