CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL pa 11 FIGHTING THE HABIT OF USING BAD ENGLISH ....... T FT rtrov LESSON DC AN !THiTWk.C COOO rtfcLiBH r - J I G ( n v Jl- rrvnr.r. .... ,l I ' J - l. - ' I : Pv, TV -J I J fti .isKi '-'J itk lte1 'irr. mm trail :UAKG IS . fTOUR LTCMYj DONT USE 1TJ What a Man Did By WILL T. AMES (ft till, tr MoClar Nwappr i74lct- Thli U tory out of life out of the life thut la lived; that ha Its tragedy is well ai It mnshlne; that come to the happy ending or to the orrowful one a the can may be. and not a the narrator will. If It Is not lust the kind of tory you would wish It to be anarch through anceitrlcn, analyze prenatal Influences and place the blame where It belong: Do not blame me. June Phillips was the daughter of her mother, and she of her mother : and the mother's mother the daughter" of still another like mother. And down that line of motherhood bad run atreuk of tlghtxonnens, and no strain of eager willingness. Easy, smiling, gay was June, beau tiful with the beauty of great tawny Tim li iic hi r iiikI pupiu of one of the big schools of l'nrlliinil. Ore., huve adopted this novel method of warring eyet, dark lashes and hair with the ou bod Kiigllxh with banners mid demonstration. It Is especially effective with the children. PORTLAND READY FOR TRAFFIC TO AND FROM ORIENT .Jr. - ' -wl Itr- ' six-t fjts 1 "'W'' III IIIIMW ! II III! IWIII llll Ill .-TWIIW h1 Al ti cont of $ll,nH),flitl I'nrtliind, Ore., Is building great docks for the handling of traffic to and from the rlctit, and In carrying out other extensive port Improvements. This Is one of the units of the dock system. STATE TAKES BUNKER HILL MONUMENT " -1 ii i nej i iiiiii ijfiAf1""" HERBERT HOOVER DECORATED After nit Inspection of the Hunker Mill monument by the stute engineers, .the commnnwotilth of MiiKsnchuNetts hits formally taken over the care of the monument from the Hunker Mill association. It was found that the monu ment was bmlly In need of repairs. The photograph show the Massachusetts jstate flag being hoisted over the entrance to the monument. I vS Mi VIEWING NATION'S PRECIOUS DOCUMENTS .Mil 1ur; " ; Scene in the stute department library, WnsliliiKton, showing some of the thousands that have viewed the nation's most precious documents since they were opened to public Inspection. The orlghinlw were shown of the Consti tution of the United States, the treaty between the colonieB and England, (1783) by which the United States gained Its independence; the Declaration ot Independence, Lincoln's emancipation proclamation, the Spanish-American war trcuty, minutes of the continental congress, and the treaty between wasa lugton and the Northwest Indian tribes. , Charles Evans Hughes, presenting to Herbert C. Hoover, nt a meeting In Carnegie hall, New York, the Civic Forum medal of honor for distinguish ed public service. MISS BETTY BAKER DANCES Arm Miss Betty Baker, daughter of Sec retary of War and Mrs. Newton D. Baker, In the "dance of flowers," part of the carnival and ball given by Washington society for the benefit lot a local charity, - glint of mellow sunlight In It She was soft and warm and pouting. En dowed at once with the lavish lure of womanhood and with the pink and creamy freshness of her scant seven teen years, she drove John Halllday half mad. John was twenty-three and might have been ten years more than that, by the settled, strong way of him. In stead of school he had chosen to take his education from an architect, af ter sixteen. Already he was a fin ished draughtsman and on his way to a place In his profession, under Holly, his watchful employer, To June fluttering breathlessly on the margin of a never ending millen nium of grown-up "good times," the attentions of the responsible, well groomed young architect combined the virtues of a continual social tri umph with limitless opportunity ; for John delighted to take the girl about A year of this and then, because John was Insistent and the girl was the daughter of that particular race of mothers and possessed keen Instinct for the easy road to easy circum stances, they were married. Two years later John Halllday, knew, In the lottery that Is marriage, what sort of prize be had drawn. What depth of stormy petulence hid beneath the winsome pouting, he could have told; but did not What greed for admiration, what Impish thirst to dabble In the shal lows along the shores of the sea of passion, what eternal restlessness and hunger for excitement lay behind the tawny eyes had been revealed to him In long month of disillusionment But he was strong, and a patient as be was strong, and be bore with many things. Then, coming home after a two weeks' business trip, he found her gone. She had left the maid said, the day after his departure, only In structing the girl to remain and keep the house going till Mr. Halllday's return. John maintained the homexuntll his lease expired, then sold the effects to a new tenant and went to live at a hotel. There were no babies. "God, I thank you," said John, "for that." When John Halllday was thirty- three his professional opportunity came. It took him to a great city and to a profitable partnership. Still young, enjoying reputation and es tablished position, his earnings well In excess of his needs, life held much of promise for him. Then It was that walking home for exercise through a sparkling avenue In the orange sunshine of a late Oc tober afternoon, he met her squarely face to face. A single glance was sufficient to verify the conclusion John Halllday long ago had arrived at concerning his wife. Everything about her In the character of her clothes. In the manner of her coiffure, In the degree In which she had insulted with pig ment the God-given splendor of her eyes and skin, In her carriage. In the way she held her head -was the mark of the woman who has traded herself for the thing she calls "life;" and who is satisfied with the transaction and has no regrets. She was quite unabashed. "Hello, John," she remarked, easily and with her ever ready smile. "Have you come to life enough to visit the city? You're looking so prosperous "So, if I may say so," replied John, "are you." "Oh, I'm having a perfectly lovely time. There's no place like the big town, you know. You'll like It If you ever come here to live." "I live here now." "Really I Well, you - might come and see me some time If you'll tele phone ahead. The name Is Spencei Miss Spencer; Selkirk apartments Fifty-first street. Now I must run along Good-by I" With that she was gone; and John Halllday, unshaken, master of his own nerves, proceeded on his way. Un convincing? Improbable? I think so myself. But remember, I told you this was a story from real life. It was a full week after this that John was walking home again, had almost reached his own street, when there was a commotion of fire appara tus and a crowd running toward where the whole front of an apart ment house on the cross street was belching smoke and curious black-red flame. John followed the crowd. A swirl of wind blew the smoke away from the main entrance aad John saw the name "Selkirk." Something leaped op Into hi throat Then at win dow only a few floor up, John caught glimpse of a face of the girl to whom, ten year ago, he had glvea all that a strong man can give the whole of bis heart There were ladder, of course. many of them, but there were many, many window; the firemen were do ing yeomen service, battling frantic ally and skillfully to save lire but there were o very many live to save. There were ropes ana a cordon of police. Through these John Halllday tore and beat hi way; Into the horning building he struggled, leaving hi coat In the hand of a detaining fire man. I'ast the useless, motlonles ele vators, through the blinding, stilling black smoke to the slippery stone stairs; up and op and up and up. gasping, tearing abort Intakes of air out of the solid moke -with whistling lungs; guessing with an architect's shrewd guess at the tight door and hurling himself against It until It ripped from the binges, John Halll day staggered across the room to where a film of belated daylight shin ing wanly through the smudge, showed the window to be. Sbe was there; choking, gasping. ber tawny eyes filled with such hor ror as only the eye of such as she can know, the pigments making ghast ly caricature of her white face. It was a bad building, built In the bad days of jerry construction, It vaunted flreprooflng a grisly joke. It was going under them. The floor of the room was burning through. In a matter of second the end would come. "June I June, dear I It Is I, John. I have come to be with you June, at the end. You won't have to face It girl, alone I" And as be took her In his arm there was a great awful rending sound clouds of burning brands rushed roaring out of the white boles where the windows had been, and out In the street the heartsick multitude sobbed In the presence of a holocaust How could any one know what Im pulse took John Halllday to his wife' side there In the valley of the shadow? Again I must answer. This Is a story of life. And I knew the man. BOY- (Conducted by National Council of the Boy Scouts of America.) SCOUTS EMBODY BEST IDEALS "Dnrlng my four years In Germany," lay James W. Gerard, former Ameri can ambassador, "I saw much of the child life of that country. The chil dren were puraded through the streets singing their songs of hate. In the schools they were taught a deliberate perversion of history. For Instance: The Fatherland did not wish to Injure the Belgians, but the wicked Belgians promised to allow our troops to pass through their country and then at tacked them." Mow different are the methods that are used to bring out the best In the childhood of this, our own country! While the Germans had organization which were Intended to develop hatred and like passions In the hearts of the young, we have the Bo; Scouts of America. This splendid organization well Illustrates the difference In Ideal between the two countries. In the Boy Scouts the boy subscribes to an oath to be true to himself and hi country and to keep himself morally and physically fit at all times. He also pledges himself to "do a good turn dally." The boy Is taught woodcraft ana many other useful things. He partici pate In big public functions and civic ceremonials. From the very first he I led Into the higher citizenship. PRISONERS AID SCOUT PLAN. Through the gray of the granite walls that shut away the inmates of the Minnesota state prison from the rest of the world came this little story - which shows that "stone walls do not a prison make nor Iron bars a cage." In the office of George D. rout tronnnrpr of the National Council, CLIPPED LOCKS CALLED FOR Boy Scouts of America. New York, a letter arrived from Stillwater a let- Present Day Emphatically No Tim ter containing $28.50, "In payment of for Anything Approaching Ef. tne Knowing applications ior sw.t fwninancy In the Male. ate memoersnip in me nn cii or me uoy ocouis ui aiuci.u. a RHtt.h hriirodier general and for- Daniel Blue, Frank Meyers, josepn mer Etonian was recently Invited to Kelly, Charles Kramer, J. W. Schwartz, visit , his old school and Inspect the George Olson. Jacob Bed Bird, N. A. officers' training camp that Institution Burke, August Ruther-all V?De- maintains. The officer was delighted r ''u ""","" with the bearing of the 600 and more nd running streams and long, winding young officers of the future and praised l""1 w XZ.1Z2a them till their neck, grew pink with trod in their boyhood, . the, looked suppressed pride, but-In concluding '''''"'f the 'Z?Vtu his remarks the general spoiled It all might-have-been, a the different live by the direst of critlcisms-Their they might have led had they been hair was too long!" It was wrong, he said, for a Briton that other boys might have a fighting chance. to allow his hair to grow so long that Corkern that was his name then I - .. . went Into detail and said he had seen a number of the college boxers In set tos the previous evening and many of them appeared In the ring with long locks neatly plastered back from noble brows. After the first round, however. the spectacle was boys looked out as well as possible through a smoke barrage of dank, stringy locks that cut off their own view but did not In the least hinder the enemy's attack. "Cut em short. boys!" was his Injunction. Regardless of peace assurances from The executive board of the Boy Scouts of America has decided to strengthen Its program for citizenship training In order that even a greater emphasis than before would be placed drenl since the Patriotism and Amerl- It was also agreed that special ef-; fort would be made to develop a pro-' gram for older boys, affording them' an opportunity to "learn by doing," In preparing for citizenship respon sibilities. Thfl OT-utiHvo hnnrd mpetl.ie was at- the League or jsations, Britain is ub- twjded by Messrs, Walter W. Head, of terminea noi io siuk oac iuiu luu.iu.j 0mana. jonn m. Phillips, of Pltts unpreparedness, and If the general's burgn . George D. Porter, of Phlla- criticism may oe uiseu m " ,u" delphla ; Alfred W. Dater, of Stam sense the entire Island must keep Its fnrA . H TmPg t storrow. of Bos- locks close trimmed and not again be ton . (partes P. Nelll and Colin H.; Dimaeo oy vanuy auu eu-sausim.iu. Lvingstone, of Washington, D. C. ; to what 1 going on In neighboring Mr Danlel Carter Beard, of Flushing; countries. Thn shermnn Hovt. Georee D. Pratt Long hair may be esthetic and may , . Col Theodore Roosevelt, Jero- prove attractive to tne opposite sex mian w Jenks and james E. West, through contrast, since tne lames nf K Tork Cltv, themselves are going In for short hair Mortimer L. Schlff was selected as and self-determination, but the time tne representatlve of the Boy Scouts ror luxury ana long maie iocks nas of America on the International Scout not yet come, even if there nas oeen coujmittee. a momentary let-down or masculine morale following the cessation of ac tual hostilities. We have seen as yet no symptom SPOKANE SCOUTS AS FIREMEN. At a meetine of the fire prevention! of longhairedness among our own . fl lnsurance con,mlttee of the. American youth, and trust we may .., , ..mnwn, ln srokane. not do so, especially since, although Wagh- lt was declded to perfect a per-; It Is definitely over over there, It is mnnent organizatlon to be known as; Dy no means uoub uu mo am u.. iuo he Spokane Scout Firemen. Atlantic. The readjustment, untess an T. nl.nnlznHon wli, consist f Boyi sigus ian, is goiug io requue uu.lb u. gcouts wn0 nave pnsse(j certain ex- clear and close-croppeu pons as aia amlnatlong on flre prevention. Fire; the conquest of the Hun. rh, f . r Weeks will be ex-offlclo! un tne otner nana, u musi ue re- ... nf th nranizntion. membered tnat longnaireoness is em- no,.. stntn vw Marshal Groce. Dieinuuc vl oimiv-u uuu "' stated at the meeting that he cited the, ann tT TnABA VIKIflllH TIPM Willi l.lir I1T t .- DOy BCout nre organization as nu es.-j tueir uuiBcu ov.clJ . ampIe ana incentive on his visit to through a glass, darkly. Therefore It Qtner gMea and towng m tne stntet Is doubly necessary for our young He hftfl sli(les mnlle of tne spoknne manhood to give Its eyesight free play, gcout flre exerciSe9 to Induce other safe upon tne one siue irom me sieen dtes tQ folow Spokane'g iea(1. tresses OI xne enuie auu upon um other from the matted mane of the murder lovers. New Orleans Times- Picayune. BEST PAYING STOCK ON FARM Weil-Bred Flock of Hens Given Good Care Will Make Most Profitable Returns. It Is quite impossible for farmers to know exactly what It costs per year Oyster Shell Roads. Two great oyster reefs in the Gulf of Mexico, one at Sabine, Tex., the other at the mouth of the Atchafalaya .laii nn Pntnt All FPI. RTA tt I used for surfacing good roads. The to keep their flocks hut, considering reefs are valued at $05,000,000. A uow v- Galveston man has been awarded otherwise be washed and the value of contract to remove 1,000,000 cubic feet r e ranSe there cn ,be no doub' that - .Ulc fm th Pn nt an Cw naf no sioia ncyi uu un yajo uciici for use on the roads in that sectloa of Louisiana. flock ot hens.