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What a Man Did
By WILL T. AMES
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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.
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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
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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.
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VIEWING NATION'S PRECIOUS DOCUMENTS
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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.