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PAGE TWO THB ONTABIO ARGUS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1915. i a THE ONTARIO ARGUS PI U3LMHBD KVKHY THCKSOAY Entered in the poHtofflce at Ontario, Oregon, for transmission through the iubIIr eh second-class niall-matttr. W. '. MA11NII WHY ADVERTISE AT ALL Tt ll well first of all to know what advertising really is. Advertising has been defined as the act of public ly announcing B fact, and has further been defined as salesmanship on paper. While both of these arc more or less true, advertising is nothing but the giv ing of business news with the purpose of creating a HOW want or supplying an existing want. It is read ily seen that there is no limit to the accomplishment of good advertising, as there is no limit to the wants 1 ready created or that might be created. The mer chant is h dead one who docs not realize that there are starving millions waiting for him to satisfy their wants or create for them new wants. This advertis ing idea to create new wants and satisfy existing wants is no new thing, as the Egyptians used hand bills and posters made of papyrus !MKH) ytftfl ago. Printing wiis invented less than f(H) years ago, and the newspapers were then started. Soon afterwards advertising became associated with printing. The advertising idea originated over :W) centuries ago. Some present day merchants haven't got the idea yet. With present day opportunities to advertise there is no limit to what one may accomplish in business lines. The local merchant may easily double his local busi ness. He has through the local paper a wonderfully cheap way to gain publicity. There is no newspaper read like the local paper, cspiecially by the women, and the women do over JM per cent of the trading GREATER ONTARIO AND THESCHOOLS Ps.144: 12 16. It would give a tremendous impetus in the direction of the millennium if Christian people more generally would carry their ( 'hristianity right down into every-day, commonplace affairs of life, not using it so much for Sun day display as for its practical benefit in life's battles. h fuller realisation of the power of Jod to transform the daily routine and daily tasks until they are fairly aglow with joyousiiess, and the soul radiates hojx' and peace and love, Would make this world immensely better. 1. David in the text portrays a happy people. -There is material plenty and joined with this, the pride of their homes, the sons and daughters, were noble young mtf) and women. Our sons arc like "plants grown up out of their youth," and "our daughters as cornerstones hewn fitter the fashion of a palace." Their glory was the glory vas the glory of manly strength and womanly beauty redded in the lives of the young men and women. 2. It is to be penumed that the schools of this connnun ty has for their purpose, primarily, the shaping of young jiicn tad women into strong and beautiful manhood and womanhood. - The fact that the Church and the State are politically Mpeiwtfl does not mean that the State is anti-Christian nor that the Church has deligated to the State all the intellect ual and moral training of the youth. The purpose and work are complimentary, and God is behind it all. 1 there fore assume that the school system should strive to make real this ideal set forth by David. Consider: 1. What is Desired by Young Men and Young YVomen. That sons may be as plants, and daughters as corner stones." 1. That you may be respected and valued. -Plants an not blown hither and thither. ( 'oinerstones do not coma by chance. Plants are grown and cornerstones are made and plac ed. Plants arc improved and cornerstones arc polished. 2. That you may have settled principles and virtue s. This requires the home and the teacher. The student cannot do all this alone. Hod ives us our natural faeul ties and the opportunity to Improve them. The wild rose God made, and the tame rose God made. Stones are pol ished by other hands. The schools have adopted all kinds of ways and means for this development The well rounded and all rounded boy and girl is the desired product of the Schools. 'X That you may be vigorous in moral power. - Tbe training that you get in the Schools will stay with you th, whole of your life. You arc under preparation lor a futiifc home life that will be a reflex of your conduct and character as fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, wives and husbanW 11. AgainAVVllAT IS REQUISITION YOl'R PART TO THB A fcOU I'USHM BNT OF THIS DESIRE. This can vnly be obtained in: 1. A good lwtugc in Christ.- w You say, "I cannot teach religion in the schools," The State does not pay teachers to teach religion in the schools, neither does the State pay the teachers to talk against and undermine the principles of Christianity Yet they do it, 2. Constant nonrshment from the Word of God. The Book is the Book of all Books. That character that man so much desires is not a man made thing, neither is it man matured. It is of God. God must create, sus tain and perfect it. Evolution is a snare, and develop ment without God is a failure. One has said," The first duty of a young man is to learn what he is in the world for, and lay out a plan to work by. The great trouble with the world today is not skepticism and infidelity, but drifting. A young man at the beginning of his career Should make a blue print of his ambitions, then should build his life with turrets and spires. The idea is not to make a living, but a life." 8 A resolute tendency within to answer to the God-appointed purpose of your existence- Growth, splendor and efficiency is the great purpose of God in every life. "Study to show thy self approved unto Qod. "was the injunction of the wise man." If any man lack wisdom let him ask of God, who will give to ail men liberally and with holdeth not from any", said James the Apostle. God said,"Son give me thine heart." Cul tured plants and polished stonesunder the leadership of the Holy Spirit, "will be a blessing to the world. Right jsisition and beauty may be obtained by yielding yourself to God. "Kemember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth." Ecc. 12: 1. "How shall a young man cleanse his ways? By taking heed there unto according to thy Word. "I's. Uf9, "Children obev vour parents in the Lord. "Eph. (i: 1. 111. The Obligation of Citizenship to Environment. 1. The citizens of Ontario are under obligation to make this city a healthy place.- Fathers and mothers will not send their children here if the blight of disease hang over us. We must also make it a morally heath ly and safe place for the development of the young. We do not want educated devils. An educated man in the hands of God is a blessing where ever he may go, but an educated fool in the hands of the devil is a menace to any community. 2. The citizens of Ontario owe a debt off co-operation to our schools. - These schools arc ours. We should be more liberal toward the splendid body of teachers. We should pay them well in wages, but we owe them more than this. They who would mould souls deserve more than a binding wages. 3. A last obligatin that 1 would mention is this: Christ ian men and women pray God to help and bless our schools. Into the teacher's life come the greatest problems. They are working upon principles of immortality and the .waster icacncr aione is suiricieni ior Ttieir lives. U vou know how to pray remember the schools of Ontario . Pray the Christ daily and earnestly that they who minister in these sacred things may be worthy to teach their spiritual temples and day by day build them into nobler and grander structures. Pray that "Our sons be as plants grown up in their youth and our daughters as cornerstones hewn after the fashion of a palace." The sons arc to go fofrth in life dialing with the plant life, sowing and reaping. The daughters are to build into our homes the polished characters of the future genera tions. They are not to be merely clusters of ornaments, but builders of character. This psalm is the language of a prince who wished his people's prosperity: That their garners might be full of all manner of stores; that their sheep might bring forth thousands and ten thousands in their fit Ids. that their oxen might be fat for slaughter, Of strong for work; that then' might be neither robery nor beggary in their streets: and as if all these blessings were to be derived from the character of the people from the education they had re eeived, our text is a prayer for the youth of Judeu. May it be our prayer for the youth of Ontario and community. NEAlNAVY Qy William Hamilton Osborne, AUTHOR Of "RCD MOUSC'RUMING FIGhT" "CATSPAwraiue ouaae.-CTC novelized f rom the photo play of thc mme nahe: produced by pathc cxchangc, inc. FIRST INSTALLMENT PROLOGUE-THE SURVIVORS CHAPTER I. The Red Death. Capt. John Hardin of the Princess retarded the fast-receding roast line with unuaual alarm. He shouted to his mate. "Welcher," he cried, pointing aft. "look at that. I've never seen old Pc lee act that way before." Welcher. the mate, a surly, sallow faced, ill-conditioned fellow In un kempt uniform, followed with his eyes the captain's glance, "Gee whli," he said, "me neither." "Hi n." exclaimed the captain, "she's spitting fire liy Godfrey, that means death death. I tell you, death." This was back in 1002. The Prln coss, Captain Hardin's boat, was a tramp steamer bound to New York from the city of St. Pierre, In the Island of Martinique, with a cargo of cocoa, coffee, sugar cane and cotton, and had been under way probably an hour. "You're right, captain," he returned. "Price means business this trip. Death Is right" A feminine figure emerged from the shadow of the afterhouse and rushed forward toward the bridge. llehlnd her, following In her wake, raced two sturdy youngster. One of these youngsters darted past her, swarmed upon the bridge and confronted the captain and his mate. He was Captain Hardin's boy, Neal the only child. The other hoy was the mate's son, young Joey Welcher, sallow-faced and disagreeable like his father. With the roar of a thousand thun ders Pelee bellowed forth "What are we going to do, Jack?" cried the captain's young wife; "what are we going to doT" "Do?" returned the mate, before the captain could reply. "Put on more steam, that's what we'll do. We're well out of that hellhole yonder. An hour atid we'd have been In the thick of tt. We're well out of It, I tell you." Captain Hardin applied hla eye to his telescope once more. The boy upon his shoulder followed suit. "Welcher," said the captain bravely, we've got to go back." CHAPTER II. The Lost Isle. On the same day the day of the red death at Martinique and but two short hours before the pilot put the helm of the tramp steamer Princess hard aport, three men sat on the ver anda of a low-roofed, white-walled bungalow In St. Pierre. One of these men was Illngton, a young American. He passed around a box of fragrant Martinique cheroots. He folded up some half-doxen slips of paper he had been examining and re turned them to another Individual who faced him from across the table. "8enor Hernandes," exclaimed the young American, "for a week at least half a hundred times I have told you your credentials were satisfactory to me." Hernandes nodded gravely. He thrust the papers back Into a pocket and tapped them significantly. "None could be better," he ex claimed grandiloquently, "I am Her nandes that Is all sufficient." Suddenly the American turned and faced the third member of the coterie. "And what," be exclaimed, "what of Ponto hore?" This third Individual was the strangest creature of them all He was a Mexican; dark, very dark; low browed ; Inw-statured and fat. Hernandes nodded significantly. "Ponto, senor," he returned, "Is as good as gold. He, too. It brave." "Will he do aa I tell him?" queried the American. Hernandes bowed. "You toll me, senor, and I tell him. He will obey." The American turned his back for a moment and Hernandes and Ponto exchanged algslncsnt glances. Illngton turned back to them. "It la agreed," he aaid, "I will take you on. To have brave men one must take a chance." Illngton crossed the veranda and entered the living room, from there disappearing through another door. In a moment he was back, apparently empty handed. Once more he seated hlmaelf and then drew from the hip pocket of hla trousors a thin ollskiu packot sealed with sealing wax. He laid It on the table before him. "Gentlemen." he said, "I am the -nfy of tfc -i?.t telft of CtDtiJM' sideration in making expenditures for road improvements. Many types of construction.serve admirably for awhile or under certain conditions and modern traffic, maintenance becomes so costly as to make these roads a positive burden to the community instead of a source of revenue and pride. Too often iy giving consideration to the advisability of permanent highways the argument that they cannot be afforded is allowed to prevail. Increased Mist cost nat urally results rom roads that are permanent, but the add ed advantages resulting from the elimination of mainten ance charges will soon pay not only for the increased cost but for the road as well, so permanent construction should not be regarded as something which cannot be afforded -a luxury, for nowhere else are the people ftO well able to pay for what they want and need in this country. "Some years ago macadam roads were considered good enough, and under the then prevailing traffic conditions were regarded as permanent improvements; But since the advent of the automobile and motor truck these roads have been racked and worn to pieces under the swift new vehicles and changing traffic, and the best of highways of a few years ago must now be repaired or rebuilt at a cost equal to, Of greater than, the original outlay. Since no thought can be given to restricting roads or rates of speed of the new traffic vehicles, we must build not only tor the present bllt for the future. Automobiles and motor trucks are too effective a means of transportation and are associated with too many advantages, in ecenomy of time and labor, to think of placing restrictions upon their geld of usefullness. Loads that will be carried over future highways will be heavier than those carried today, because transportation facilities will progress and roadways must be built to accomodate the changing conditions. You ma not have an aotuniobile today; the time is coining when VOU will, and when that time comes you will want the high est type of roadway over which to drive it." The article discusses the merits of macadam, brick and concrete roads, concluding that the latter are the most economical to maintain. It is stated that during the last year the amount of concrete highways constructed in this country equaled total amount that ever had been construct ed prior to that time. During 1914, California laid over :U miles of concrete mads, and New York over 2(K) miles. Wttvne Count v. Michigan, has h.i.l niik -- . . "Any kind of an improved road, regardless of its type, crete that the board of suiu-rvisors' who" . iV, -k. . .'e w w m. v -... ..i v Mill : . ?iug BUILDING ROADS. The subject of road construction is not only important, but is constantly growing in importance. It is the dutv of every good citizen to give heed to this vital question, and be prepared to accept his share of responsibility for the roads in the community in which he resales. Malheur (Vanity people have just as much need of study ing this problem as any other community. It is a vital question of the day, growing more important daily. In this connection we quote from an exhaustive article under the title "Nation-wide movement for better high ways," appearing in a recent issue of "Hoard's Dairy men. My forgathers held "the grr.nt dlfaVt from Spain. The lost Isle of Cinna bar Is a valuable Isle. Tradition bas It that upon It Is located a quicksilver mine an ancient mine but little worked. My mission is to neek that laland, to find it and to claim it fo i my own." "Whore is this lost Island?" querle( I the Portuguese. Illngton nodded. "To secret," he returned, "lies within tliis packet." In a flash Ponton hand darted like black snake across tho table to clutch the packet in its grasp. The American, for all his hugeness, wa quite as agile as the rat Ponto. lie snatched the packet nway Junt at Pon to's Angers touched it. Ponto's eyes roddoned; his face flushed suddenly, lie fingered the hilt of his knife and glanced toward Her nandes. "I will bo careful to take small chance with you, friend Ponto." said Illngton. He waeed the packot to ward Hernandes. "All In Rood timo, senor," be said. "The important question," went on Illngton, "Is this: Who Is in posses sion of the lost Isle cf Cinna bar? It belongs to mo. 1 have the paper title at any rato I can obtain It, but whom must wo ejoct when we arrive?" , "Leave that to me," said Hornan rtei. "We shall wipe them off the face of the earth " A screen door swung open and a native woman gaudily arrayed In green and yellow stripes, her head bound around with a strip of orajige colored linen, slipped through the door leading with hor a tiny girl a child three or four years old The child saw Illngton and ran tumultously toward him, clasping his hugo leg with her arms. "My dim i; lit it, gentleman," said Il lngton. "She Is all I have. Iter moth er died when sho wax horn and whim I die she will bo the heiress to the lost Isle of Clnnabur perhaps the prlncoss of a prlnclir. .ty, who knows. ' Manuella, her native nurse, carried her out Into the narrow white and winding street, and together tlmy half ran, half toddled down the hill. Illngton resumed his own chair and once more inhibited tho oilskin pack et "The contents of this packet pos sibly will Indicate the wlxiroahoute of the lost Isle of Cinnabar," be said. "Suppose wo take a chance." "tiroak tho seal, senor,' aaid Her nandes. Illngton started to obey but some thing happened. With the auddenneaa of a Jaguar fleeing from the hunters, a man half vSS Bl W fl Vl 18 better than the old, rutted strip dignihed by the name of highway construction, have adopted concrete as produc highway. Yet there are vital joints to be taken into con- 'the lrghest and best type of roads. Neal Hardin and the Heiress of the Lost Island. ' naked bounded upon the veranda. "For the love of Ood." he said, In broken French, "dee for your lives. Pelee bas broken loose." Illugton, with the oilskin packet ftlll In hand, sprang to the odgo of the veranda and from there Into the street. He gave one look and then fell back. "By Oeorge, he's right," he shouud. "Iook look." Anxiously he turned bis gaze down the hill. Then with a bound he was off. In three minutes he was buck clutching his llttlu daughter, Annette, to bis breast and drugging the freiuied Manuella utter him. Shrieks from a thousand throats rent the air without. Ilingtou glanced into the street. His face went white. Ashes, red-hot pieces of molten lava were dropping in a shower. Illngton, who had been holding Annette, surrendered her in an insluut to Manuella. He darted into an iuuor room aud opened the safe. From this safe he took a canvas bag that Jingled with the gold pieces it contained. He thrust this bag into one hip pocket of his trousors, having already secretoc' the oilskin packet In the other. "Come on," he shouted to the groui behind him. "It's death to stay here. Come on down the hill." CHAPTER III. Terror-Driven. All down that long steep hill that swarming street filled with Its rushing, frantic mob Illngton fought his way with bis back and brawny should.! Once, twice, he felt a stealthy band at hla hip pockets. Each time he turned swtfUy to find Ponto and Her nandes cloae at his heels. Without warning be slipped aside Into a blind alley, and let the crowd slide by like a huge many-colored avalanche. Whet, he Joined the crowd again, Hernandes and hie Aitec ally ware ahead of him and not behind. (Continued on page 6.)