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Natures that have much heat, and great violent desires and perturba tions, are not ripe for action till they have passed the meridian of their years. Bacon. Powerful Floating Crane. A floating crane, built by a British firm and shipped to Japan, is prob ably the largest in existence. It can lift a load o 350 tons at 100-feet radius, or 300 tons at a radius of 121 feet. Plea for Tolerance. We ought not to be so rash and rigorous in our censures as some are. Charity will judge and hope for the best. Exchange. k5 Hello Daddy do nt forget my Wrtgeys Slip a package in your pocket when you bp home lo- Give the youngsters this wholesome. Ion$ lasting sweet -for pleasure and benefit. Vse it yourself after .smoking or when work drags. Its a great littte freshener WRMEV5 "after eery meal Books Always Friendly. To avert at any time a troublesome fancy, run to thy books; they present ly fix thee to them, and drive the other out of thy thoughts. 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A burglar goes to the trouble of blowing a "burglar-proof" safe and Is then satisfied to go on hla way with a woman's picture In stead of the bank funds. AS HE stepped out of the alley into the street, it began to rain dismally. This pleased him, for It added to the black ness of the night and had a tendency to drive away any late pedestrian. He was not hampered by luggage. Such tools as he needed a bar of soap, an airpump, a can of nitro glycerin, some fuse, a jimmy, a dark lantern, a revolver he carried in his pockets, and, under his coat, a folded grain sack. Without pausing, without hesitating, he glanced searchingly up and down the street. A smoking oil lamp stood upon a post on the corner of the main street of the village, Its feeble rays struggling Ineffectively In the mist. No living creature was stirring; no other glimmer visible. A few strides took him to the side window of a building. The sill was on a level with his head. He tried to raise the sash, but, as he had ex pected. It was fastened. So he took the Jimmy from his pocket, and. slip ping Its thin edge under the frame, threw all his weight suddenly upon the handle. With a report like that of a pistol, the lock snapped. For five minutes, perhaps, the burglar crouched In the shadows under the window, watching, listening. But not n sound, save the patter of the rain In the gutter, did he hear; not n moving object did he see. Then carefully, noiselessly, he pushed up the sash and climbed in. He was In total darkness, but Jcnew exactly where he stood. He could have drawn an accurate, detailed plan of the In terior of the building knew precise ly how many feet it was from the window to the safe; from the safe to the front doors ; from the window to his car, standing hi the alley at the rear. So, although he could afiot see his hand before him. he turned confident ly to his left and walked six paces. Then he circled to his right around the end of the counter, and took four steps more. Pausing, he reached out his hand and touched the safe. The burglar moved his hand glee fully over the door and laughed. The bank was not provided with a vault. A good vault costs us much as a build ing, and this was a small bunk In a country town. So the funds were entrusted to the protection of this "burglar-proof" safe. He wondered what the citizens would say about "burglar-prnof" safes while gathering up the pieces ! Without losing a moment, he filled the cracks around the door of the safe with snap, leaving one small open ing. To this opening he attached his pump and exhausted the air on the Inside. Closing the opening, he cut a piece off the bar of sonp, and, rolling It between bis palms and molding It with his fingers, soon fashioned it Into the shape of a small cup. This he fastened at the bottom of tfce door and filled with nitroglycerin. Then he attached a fuse. Ten feet from the sufe, a door opened into the rear office of the bank, and in this room the safe-breaker had planned to seek refuge while the explosive was doing Its work. Not desiring to tarry unnecessarily In close proximity to a charge of nitroglycerin about to explode, he concluded, be fore lighting the fuse, to satisfy him self that the door of this Inner room was not locked or bolted. He turned the knob, the door opened readily, and he took one step across the threshold. Then he paused. In the intense darkness he could not see nn object; in the perfect silence he could not hear n sound. But 'something premonition, In stinct, some Indefinable sixth sense something sent a chill through him, and he trembled as one who sudden ly becomes conscious of the presence of unseen spirits. Without the power to move, he stood, staring Into the darkness, the perspiration standing in Icy drops upon his forehead. With the desperation that fear in spires, he drew his dark-lantern, slipped back the slide, and threw the searching glare around the room, light ing first the most distant corner. Slow ly he moved the lantern, bringing the round spot of brilliant light toward him across the carpet. Suddenly he uttered a low cry and shrank back as the light fell fiercely upon an ob ject almost at his feet. So near that by stooping the burglar could have touched him, n dead man lay, his waxen face and sightless eyes turned upwards! The carpet where his head and shoulders rested, gleamed sArlet with his blood; the nerveless fingers of his right hand clasped a pistol ; In the center of hit forehead was a ghastly wound. With a strange weakness to his knees the burglar bnt over the dead man, brushed back his matted hair took the pistol gently from his fingers end folded his han ls across his breast. In the corpse the cracksman recog nixed Frazer. the bank cashier. On the desk beside him was the following letter, unsealed : "Being no longer able to con ceal my Shortage, to hide the fact that the safe does not contain the amount of money that it should, and being a coward, I have chosen a coward's method of paying ray debt. I do not ask for pity. I only ask compassion for my wife." For a moment the burglar stood un decided, the letter In his hand. Sud denly, breaking the impressive silence, came the loud ringing of a telephone bell. Instantly, involuntarily, the burglar closed the lantern slide, gripped his pistol and crouched be hind the desk. Again the bell rang, and mechanically he arose and walked to the telephone. Standing with one foot on each side of the dead cashier, he took down the receiver. "Hello," he said, imitating the voice of one whose eyes he could feel, but could not see. He was answered by a womun. "Oh, Henry !" she cried, "I have Just awakened from such a vivid, such an awful dream. I know It Is silly, but It frightened me. I dreamed that you were in trouble, In disgrace. And then I awoke and found you had not re turned home. Oh, Henry, what Is keep ing you so late? Come home at once, will you not, dear?" "Yes," the burglar replied, as one In a daze. "Do," she continued, and there was nnxlety In her voice. "I am so glad, so glad it was only a dream. I would rather see you dead than dishonored, Henry dear." The cracksman crept buck to the desk and seated himself in the dead man's chair, the woman's voice still ringing in his ears. That voice! It haunted him like a memory of long ago, like an echo of the days of childhood. It stirred, It thrilled him: It aroused that old mad love of his boyhood. Whose voice was it? Undoubtedly the wife of that dead coward lying at his feet. But who had she been before before she mar ried him? That voice! Could it be Martha's? Years and years ago, when they were schoolmates, he had loved Murtha, worshiping her from afar, for she was a dweller on the avenue, and he a child of the tenements. A vast social gulf divided them, but he loved her In secret, knowing that he scarcely en tered her thoughts. Once he had thrashed a boy for teasing her, and she had smiled at him. He had never forgotten that smile. That was years and years ago, but, though she had long since passed out of his life, he had never loved another. And now was that voice Indeed the voice of Martha? Again the burglar deliberately opened the side of his lantern and turned the gleam upon the desk. Di rectly in front of him he saw a pic ture in the silver frame. It was a pho tograph of a woman not a particu larly handsome woman but glorified by a dazzling smile and he recog nized flint smile ! From that face he turned reluc tantly nt last to gaze with scorn at the cold features of the man lying there with the scarlet mark of sin upon his brow. He felt no pity now nothing but contempt but Martha's words, "I would rather see you dead than dishonored," rang In his ears. With a smile he placed the letter the contemptible letter In his pocket, picked up Krazer's pistol, replaced the empty shell with n loaded cartridge, and laid the weapon In a drawer. Then he tore the collar of the cashier's coat, ripped one sleeve half Its length, and overturned the chairs and scat tered them about. It was nearly daybreak. In a fe moments the gray would be creeping up the eastern sky. Quickly the burglar blew the safe and scattered the gold and silver and banknotes upon the floor. "Now," he said, to himself, "they will find the bank broken, the safe looted, the cashier murdered!" Leaving his soap and dark lantern by the shattered safe, he fled, and two things only did he take the cashier's letter and the photograph In the silver frame. Through the rain and darkness he drove away, penniless but not unhap py. A woman's smiling face seemed to thank him. He laughed aloud as he fled through the gray of morning, thinking of a schoolgirl smiling at a ragged urchin. ran mm) &OAT) 1LDIKG PORTLAND J?ofrfevrosuar MARKET PRODUCE FRIENDS ARE MADE BY USE OF ROADS Not Empty-Headed Jlmmle Jones failed to pass In his tory Ireeause he did not know who the President of the United States Is, nor could be name his governor, senator and representative In congress. But Jlmmle knows who led both the American and Nationnl leagues In bat ting averages last year. He ca,n recognize the pictures of 45 movie stars. He can pick as good an All-American team as Walter Camp, and give rea sons. He knows the call letters tif every Important broadcasting station In the L'nlted States. He can give you the name of prac tically any car when he sees It coming a block away. And yet Some folks call Jlmmle an igno ramus ! Kansas City Star. There are now In the United States 465,000 miles of surfaced highways. Every ten years the total, including country roads, will be around 800,IMJ miles, which will constitute a niar velous basic system excelling that of any nation in the world. We are making rapid progress not only in road building, but also in mir understanding of highway financing, taxation and use. It is worth while to realize the fundamental significance of all this activity which in the final analysis is simply an Investment in neighborllness. On the political and social side. Delghborlinesi means mutual under standing and the ability to live to gether In harmony. It means that the West knows the South and appreciates Its problems, and vice versa, writes Roy D. Chapln, chairman of the high way committee of the National Auto mohiie Chamber of Cotutneive. On the commercial side, nelgllborll ness means ready facilities for (lis tribution, ease of travel. In hort, that the distant point can be readied as well as the nearby point. We are In a highly fortunate posi tion lu that this country has a grid Iron of rail lines. This gridiron should be maintained, operated, en couraged on a sound basis. Given lids long-haul transportation equipment, the highway system becomes doubly serviceable because It means that every community of 5,000 population is linked not only with a motor-travel system, but is likewise within rapid transit reach of the long-distance rail road service. It is recognized that the motor-car user gets a more lmmedlute and more definite return from improved high ways than any other class of the com munity. The burden of federal expenditure for highways has not, howeer, fallen on the general taxpayer at all as yet. The reason for the federal govern ment entering into highway construc tion, moreover, is given in President Coolldge's message to congress of De cember C, 19J3, in which he said: "No expenditure of public money contributes so much to the national wealth as for building good roads." In view of the enonnoi'l extent of this country, totaling 3,000,000 square miles, there Is no other public work which is more deserving of our atten tion. Pre-lndian Relic A remarkable stone wall built in the form of a fortress on the top of a Georgia mountain south of Lookout mountain, Tennessee. Is believed to be nt pre-Ind!an origin, as the Cherokee Indians told the first white settlers that a strange white race were In this vicinity before them, saya the Dearborn Independent. A walled up spring Is near the opening gate There la not a civil engineer In Amer ica who could Improve on its con struction as a fortress defense. Phil adelphia Bulletin. Portland, Oregon. VAUDEVILLE PHOTO-PLAYS Complete Change Saturday Adults, Week dav Matinee 20c; Evenings, 35c. Continous 1 to 11 p. m. Children 10 cents all times IMallory 5 Select Residential & Transient 16th and Yamhill. Portland, Oregon. Fireproof American Plan RATCS MODEKATli "ALL MAKES" Guaranteed Rebuilt Typewriters Sale Terms; $6.00 monthly if desired. Rented 3 moa., $6.50 & up. Send fur Illustrated price list. WHOLESALE TYPEWRITER CO., US Sixth St., Portland, Ore MAID O'CLOVER BUTTER ICE CREAM MUTUAL CREAMERY CO., Portland. ! Better Franklin ServiceStorage and General Repairing j ANDERSON & RICE, m&?l?Wh Portland, Ore New California Road Is Now Open to All Traffic Easterners motoring to California hy the southern route can now save con slderable time through use of the newly improved highway between Yuma and the Imperial valley, which la now open. The trip of 05 miles over the sand dunes between Yuma and El Centra, Instead of requiring 12 hours in rWu days to negotiate, and nt times Men longer, now can be made reasonably In a couple of hours. The new artery, Including 15 miles of graveled road and 21 miles of asphalt, is a decided) Im provement over the old desert road that stretched across the sand hills. This work has been consistently ureed bv the Automobile Club of Southern California, which lending motor orgtinlzution is highly (ratified at being able to tell tourists that this southern route 'to the state line at Inst has been placed on a par with the trunk lines of the state. It Is felt that this Improvement ll oue that will uphold the Ntnlenien that the saving In cost of operation to motor vehicle users who travel over nn hnoroved highway Is more than enough to maintain the highway, Thir conclusion was announced by the Na tional Automobile Chanjber of COW merce following Investigations mad ll North Carolina and other states lu connection with the argument that the motor vehicle should pay for ail high way maintenance. Tax in Many States Thirty-seven of the forty eight states and the DUtrtCt of Columbia start 10U5 with a gasoline tax In for In aeverul states the tux Is 1 cent, Hi 18 states and the District of CoiOtnl It Is 2 cents In twu it Is i!Vi cents, in nine It la 3 cents and In one sluie It Is 4 cents. Of the remuinlng 11 Hates, W.k. ..nsin Minnesota. Illinois, Iowa and New Jersey, us well as Kansas, huve gusollne tux measures under ft alilenitlon. It Is m-ohnhle that ue sl of these meusures will be enucted lot laws. Massachusetts Is the only slate that has definitely turned down I ga tax measure by popular vote anil It Is generally believed that the reason C this defeat la to be found In tie- K portioniuent of funds proposed rather than In the fact thut it wus u gusoline tux. To Relieve Traffic Jam The first step toward duul highway to lessen trutllc congestion, purtlall due to heavy movement of trucks, niu he taken by Massachusetts, for tb state department of public works h planning a 2,000,000 highway para) lellng the state highway from BoatiM to Worcester. The new highway Is to follow closely the present Won-es ter turnpike. A legislative appaoprta tion will be necessary before work on this much needed improvement CM It inaugurated. Turquoise's Odd Use. Fourteenth-century authority states that turquoise protected horses from the ill effects resulting from drinking cold water when tlioy were overheated. It is said that tho Turks often attached these precious stones to the bridles and frontlets of Uiei horses as amulets. Honor for "Unknown" The decorations awarded the Un known Soldier were: Croix de Guerre, France; Legion of Honor, France; gold medal for bravery, Italy; Vir tutea Militara, Rumania; war crosses, Czechoslovakia; Vlrtuti Milltari, Po land; Congressional Modal of Honor, United States. Honesty. Honesty does not merely mean that you will not lie with your lips or take somebody's money or property. It also means that you will do your very best In everything, do every iasn to a com plete finish, and stamp each job you do with the trademark of your char acter. Kiel Kraftsman. INFORMATION DEPARTMENT DRS. CHAN LAM CHIN KSK MEDICI NB CO., LICENSED PHYSICIAN. Remedies foi Rtomneh disorder., kidney, bladder troubles, gull stones, en nstipat ion, nppendicitis anil nil female complaints. You cud take treatments at tmmo if 'rn ferred. 14.1 J Second Ht, cor ner Aider, Portland, Ore. Moler Barber College Teat-hes trade In 8 weeks. Some pay while learning. VohUIohm secured. Write for catalogue. 2.14 BUTOtidt Street, Port land, Oregon. CUT FLOWERS & FLORAL DESIGNS Clarke Broa., Plorlata, 2ts7 Morrison Ht Lute and Guitar. The lute is a Stringed mUatcal in strument of the guitar family. Tho formal difference between a luto and a guitar is to be found in tho back, which in the lute is pear-shaped and in the guitar is flat. Tho luto Is with out ribs, which are essential to the framing of tho guitar. Likely. A Bronx woman gavo her young son a nickel for the heathen, and he went und gavo it to his father. Ho must have overheard a broakfast-table chat. - New York American. Th World's Largest Picture. largest picture ever painted Is the "Paradlso" of Tintoretto, which hangs in the palace of tho dogns at Venice. It measures 84 feet by Xr feet. One Ounce of Prevention Worth Pounds of Cure 1 Prevent Serious Sickness by taking Bark-Root Tonic A Mild Laxative. A Syitem Builder. that nsstnts Nature In keeping your bow els open find your general H.vHtem In perfect working or der at ull tlrnea. Cold at Your Drug Store Famous Greek Statue. Hermes, one of tho masterpieces of Praxiteles, the ancient (ireek nculptor, was found May 8, 1877, at Olympla. It Is now preserved In tho museum there. The figure of tho youthful god is shown as the pgetector of his baby brother, Uionysius. The statue was mude abojit 250 B. C. Causes for Gratitude. The peoplo to whom wo arc the most grateful are thoso who help raise our standards, who awaken in us good Impulses, who enrich us spir- Lltually and morally, and who make uh reaolve to express ourselves In great er service to others. Grit. Papuan Mourning Customs. In l'apua, widows mourn for a de ceased husband for more than a year, and It Is a custom for them to remove all i heir clothes and cover themselves with white pipe-clay. The costume consists of a grasB skirt. Gems Used as Playthings. The first largo diamond discovered in South Africa is said to have boon Found in I he leather bag of a sorcerer. Several authorities state that in the early days in South Africa highly valu able diamonds were frequently the plaything of the Iloer children. In an Age Benighted. Jam and Jellies were not known until the KiKhl'-enlh century, when virtues unknown today were ascribed lo them, Jelly being recommended for a sore throat and Jam advised for a eough. Safe Anchors. Hope and patience arc two sover eign remedies for all the surest ro DOtals, the loftest cushions to lean on in adversity. Claimed Prophetic Gift. Joanna Southcote, a domestic ser vant, aroused all Knglaml about 1814, with lo r pretended supernatural gifts and lo r claim to bo tho woman men tioned in Apocalypse, chapter 1U. She gained over 100,000 follower!, ULTRA VIOLET LIGHT RAYS For Treatment of Rheumatism and Neuritis ACTINIC SUN RAY PARLORS :il7 Mimdy Tiehm-r Hldir. Portland, On-icon WAS HI-NO 1 "TVri- W. I.. 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