Watch Your Daughter
"BOOMERANG"
SMITH TO THE
RESCUE!
By WILLOUGHBY BRENT
N
"When I was a girl at home I suf
fered with headaches and distress,"
said Hrs. Ray Edgar, of 345 No. 5th
St., Colton, Calif., whose picture ap
pears above. "My mother gave ma
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
and it relieved me of this condition.
And since I married I have taken
the 'Favorite Prescription' as a tonic
to Build me up whenever in a run
down and weakened state, as when
my nerves were bad, and it has al
ways been very beneficial. It has
never failed to give me the desired
help each time I have taken it." t
always advise my friends to take this
medicine if they are in any way run
down in health."
Girls, health means beauty. Lo not
fail to take Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre
scription in liquid or tablets. Send
10c to Dr. Pierce's in Buffalo, N. Y.,
for trial pkg., Write for free advice.
Japanese Retire Early.
Japanese as a rule retire much ear
lier than occidentals, even when a tea
house celebration is going full blast
and the sake cups are circulating freely.
Curriculum for Brides.
New York has a school for prospec
tive brides. If the Idea is to teach
them to keep their husbands, it has,
no doubt, a course in manicuring.
Arkansaw Thomas Cat.
Gentleness Wins.
Gentleness is far more successful in
all its enterprises than violence; in
deed, violence generally frustrat3 Its
own purpose, while gentleness scarce
ly ever fails. Locke.
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WRKLEYS
"after every meal '
Parents - encourage the
children to care for their teeth f
Give them Wrigley's.
It removes food particles
from the teeth. Strengthens
the gums. Combats acid
mouth.
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ATURE may not have been
kind to him when she named
him "Smith," but as usual she
hud compensated for it in
muny ways. The account was prob
ably more than balanced by one ability
which he possessed in a remarkable
degree the ability to return whatever
he received favors, knocks, tips, no-matter-whuts
and return with due
and proper accumulation.
Hand him your half-Used match for
his cigar and he would hand you a
much better cigar than the one you
were smoking. Hand him a hot shot
of surcusm and his instantaneous reply
would Ignite your thought magazine.
He never held a grudge he did not
need to. He always forgave but he
did not always receive forgiveness.
So it was that in the town of Edge
more he was knwn by everyone, yet
I doubt if a dozen could have told you
what his initials "B. B." really stood
for. The nickname "Boomerang" had
so overshadowed any baptismal title,
and seemed to fit the Initials so nicely,
that "Iioomerang Smith" he was to all
and sundry.
People were continually saying what
wonders he surely could accomplish In
a big city, and Boomerang himself had
often thought of experimenting, yet he
was essentially a home-body, and
Edgemore was his home and here he
stayed.
So he reread the letter and frowned
again. Jo Bill in Kansas City and
broke, and needing three hundred
like the very mischief ! Hum ! Well
Boomerang knew he didn't have three
hundred to spare Just at that time, but
Jo Bill well, Joseph William Snow
had done him a favor he had forgot
ten Just what, but that did not make
any difference he had done him a fa
vor, and it was now Boomerang's
move. One more frown (a rrown on
Boomerang's brow indicated deep
thought) and then a smile! He had a
scheme that might be worth trying-
somewhat risky and might cause an
awful lot of trouble for some people,
including Jo Bill, but
And then Boomerang remembered.
That little favor Jo Bill had done him
had been a favor all right in Its ulti
mate result, but it had nearly put him
In Jail meanwhile. He would return
In like measure. "Like for like, plus'.'
was his motto, and he grinned as he
reached for a telegraph blank.
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of St. George and encircled Dy : oia
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on the befogged but trusting mind of
Joseph William, who spent the remain
der of his time taking notes for future
reference and without much fear of
the outcome.
Meanwhile, in the office of the chief
of police, that official was pondering
over a telegram. Before him was the
copy of his message to the Joplln chief:
"Am holding J. W. Snow for
whom there is a reward in your
city of five hundred dollars. Shall
we take him there or will you come
here for him?"
In his hand was the reply :
"Never heard of J. W. Snow. No
reward here for him or anyone of
similar name."
The turnkey was immediately or
dered to release Snow, who smiled
pleasantly as he passed out.
This was Sunday. Early Monday
morning suit was Instituted against the
telegraph company for violating the
secrecy of a message committed to its
care.
In the trial It was proven that a
code message to a Mr. J. W. Snow,
shown to be a respected citizen of an
other city, had evidently been inter
preted literally by some clerk of the
telegraph company (perhaps hoping to
share In the reward mentioned) who
had evidently Imparted to the police
the information he thought was con
tained therein; that, as a result, the
aforesaid respected citizen had been
subjected to the Indignity of spending
a day in a cell in the city bustlle, and
of having his picture heralded through
out the land by the sensational press,
that had made various and sundry
guesses as to the crime for which the
aforesaid was to be called to account.
The attorney did full Justice to the
situation.
The defense sounded somewhat as
though In need of nourishing food, or
something else to strengthen and sus
tain. The result was quite definite.
As Jo Bill's pressing need had been
for only three hundred, he thought
somewhat of dividing with Boomerang
Smith, but he was so Impressed by
the picture the attorney had drawn of
the indignities he had suffered, that,
with a tear of sympathy for himself,
he slipped the money In his pocket and
faded away.
The
Blossoming Child
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
PORTLAND
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XX7 0NDEKS of Nature all around
And yet the very queerest,
The one that folks have always found
The strangest and the dearest,
Is not afar afield somewhere.
But In a cradle over there.
For who has watched an opening rose
Some country hedgerow under,
Has seen its lovely lips unclose,
Nor marveled at the wonder?
But stranger than the woodland wild
Is this, the blossoming of a child.
And you who o'er the cradle bend.
If you neglect your garden,
Shall fall to nourish and defend.
What God could ever pardon?
A wonder He has given you,
And yet a wealth of duty, too.
For you must keep the weeds away.
Each tempter that assails it,
Must watch the blossom night and day
With love that never falls it.
Oh, what a privilege is this,
Life's opening petals thus to kiss!
And It shall poorly bloom or fair,
As you shall see your duty,
afShnll bloom according to your care.
A thing of blight or beauty,
God grant you see the wonder of
Your rose, and watch, and 'tend, and
love I
( by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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By F. A. WALKER
Cookir.a in Aluminum.
Aluminum conducts heat rapidly
and stores it up in great quantities, so
that after a pan Is thoroughly heated
any additional heat applied causes over
heating. It is best, therefore, to turn
down tho gas flame one-half after the
pan is tliorughly heated.
BEING NEIGHBORLY
THOi
tied
HOSE attractive communities nes-
here and there In quaint rustic-
Test of Stage Skill.
In 1707 a celebrated trial of skill
was held between England's two great
est actresses, Anne Old field and Anno
Hracegirdle, both playing the same
part on alternate nlghls. Mrs. Draco
girdle lost, and in disgust left the
stage.
Thus it was that the telegraph oper
ator In the city, sleepily transcribing
uninteresting message after uninter
esting message that is, uninteresting
to him suddenly started wide-awake
and reread the words he had Just
written :
Mr. J. W. Snow,
2235 Walnut Street,
Kansas City.
Hide out! Five hundred dollars
reward for you In Joplin.
Boom.
The messenger boy who called at
Snow's address an hour later did not
carry a copy of this telegram, but
simply a notice stating that there was
a message for him at the main office
and requesting him to call for same.
Jo Bill did not know why this should
be and neither did the boy. As a re
sult, Jo Bill in due season arrived at
the window of the main olllce and
asked for his telegram. Another gentle
man before the window glanced up at
him ns he announced his name. The
window clerk, also, seemed greatly
Impressed and scanned him carefully
before reaching Into the rack for the
message.
"Is your name J. W. Snow?" he in
quired, still studying him closely as
though seeking verification of the
name in his face or garb.
"It is," said Jo Bill, thinking that
such formality must mean that Boom
had telegraphed him some money, and
his face lit up accordingly.
"Do you live at 2235 Walnut street?"
continued the clerk.
"I cm staying there at present."
Thereupon the clerk handed him the
telegram which he began opening
eagerly, but before he had read It the
man who had been standing quietly by
stepped up to him saying:
"Come wjth me, Mr. Snow. You are
under arrest."
"What 1" Jo Bill nearly dropped the
telegram. "What did you say?"
"You are under arrest," and the man
showed his badge to the astonished Jo
Bill.
"What for?" he demanded.
"We'll see later as to that. At pres
ent Just come down to the station with
me."
"Why, man, you are as wrong as
wrong can be. You may want some
Snow, but you don't want this one."
"That may be, but It Ii not fur roe
to decide, you know. I'm to take you
to the station, and there Is no way of
getting around that."
"All right. Let me read my telegram
first. I am looking for some money,"
saying which he opened the message.
The shock of what he read there wa
much greater than that when the offi
cer had stated he was under arrest.
But Just for an Instant. The signature
r..knr...i him. though what It all
meant he could not figure out.
. i. K . . ... 1 1 etuilnn in rpfniwl f-i
The foremont Bunne" -"". l i"J'" c " . ,
talk. He had no money in iiui i."
Woman of Middle Age
No Subject for Pity
I was trying to be tactful as one
does when speaklnj; of age to a middle
aged woman but she looked at me
with amusement.
"My dear," she said, "both you and
I know I shall never see forty again,
and I am not In the least afraid ot
saying. It, so you need not be."
It was a new point of view to me,
so I asked her to explain.
"Oh, there are plenty of us If you
know where to find us," she said. "We
have our own good times, and the Joys
of middle age are some that youth can
never share."
She pointed out that the middle
aged woman has generally passed
those disturbing partings of the ways:
"Shall I marry?" "Shall I make a ca
reer and develop my own Individu
ality?" which are so hampering to
youth. She sees the years ahead In
some sort of ordered sequence, and In
a great measure at her own command,
for she knows what she wants now.
and can make for It.
The woman who does not mind look
ing middle aged has another pleasure
denied to youth ; she and her opinions
are accentetd seriously by her friends
and relations, and men folks are ready
to seek her out In their troubles and
Joys, for she can discuss, with a wom-
n's quick wit and a sincere interest
the subjects that they would never
dream of exposing to Miss Twenty's
hasty Judgment.
The middle-aged woman If the only
really emancipated one, for she can
travel alone, live alone and work alone,
without the complications that beset
youth, however defiant or determined
it may be.
She can afford to go her own way
without fear, and Is like one who lias
battled all day with the forces of na
ture and now returns home to find
warm, quiet leisure to pursue her real
Inclinations.
Middle-aged women have many com
pensations if they know where to look
for them, and few of them would go
back to those early twenties If they
could, with their disturbing emotions
and uncertain future. IOUUVI Joys
ran be as overrated as middle age is
overpltied M. I'. In the Continental
Edition of the London Mall.
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P. N. U. No- 22 1925
hnnd and was promptly locked up
That night an attorney to whom Boom
! erang had wired appeared on the scene
snd allowed a little llgnt to creep uj
Had Place for Him
An Englishman who was out West
In early days fell In with a long train
of prairie schooners, the leader of
which announced that he and his fellow-emigrants
were going to found a
town, having everything that was
needful and nothing that was unnec
essary. "We won't have any waste,"
he said; "there Isn't a person In our
party who won't do some Important
duty In the new town." The English
man pointed to an old snd feeble man
with a bent back and a long, thin,
white beard. "But that very old man
there," he said; "he can't possibly be
of any use to you, can her" "Oh, yes,"
said the leader; "we'll open our new
cemetery with him."
places, where the bees are humming,
the wild grasses are waving in the
passing breezes, and the tinkling of
hellsflls heard in the purple pastures,
tell a beautiful story of peace and con
tent. Often far away from the clamorous
haunts of mortals where gold Is god,
driving, lashing, heaping burdens of
care upon galled shoulders, stealing
from life its sweetest delights, these
little hamlets, when one comes unex
pectedly upon them, seem to reflect the
quietude that we Imagine exists among
the courts of Heaven.
A few scattering cots where every
body Is neighborly, tell a story of
friendliness and sodality of which the
nations throughout the world seem
quite unfamiliar.
Being neighborly Is the simple secret
of universal happiness, the panacea Of
world ills, ruptures and revolts.
Although the happy man feels very
kindly toward others, others nst re
ciprocate the feeling to get happiness
all around, and this all around happi
ness is available to everybody.
Who does not catch something of the
thrill of delight experienced by two
lovers In the lime, loitering hand and
hand?
To them buttercups are as sweet us
roses, the sky is always blue, the sun
Is perpetually slunlng and the birds
are singing for no one else.
And so it is with the folk In the
humble cots, contented with their stu
tion in life, pouring praises each day
from their hearts which seldom find
utterance In words, but stir their souls
to sublime emotions.
We may be highly meritorious, we
may have the power of a king, the
learning of a Mecaeuas. the wealth of
the Indies, but If we ure not neighbor
ly we cannot be happy, at peace with
others, or escape wrangles, wars of
words and murderous arms.
If nelghborllness does not come out l
In our behavior toward one another,
there Is within the soul an unfriendly
sentiment, In spite of our affected
smiles and assumed good manners.
When once the high places of the
world decide to be neighborly and put
their decision into actual practice
there will be no more "rumbling of
caissons and guns," no more killing of
brothers and wanton waste of price
less treasures, impoverishing peoples
for ages.
( by McClure New. pa per Syndicate.)
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Court's Definition of
"Wound" Is Precedent
Storms on Indian Ocean.
Tho Indian ocean is noted for tho
violent hurricanes which sweep over it
with" surprising suddenness and great
force. They do immense damago to
shipping and to seaports all along the
southern coast of Asia.
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Bestowed in Derision.
'Bluestocking" is a humorous and
rather contemptuous epithet applied
to a woman author or a lady ot any
literary attainments. Tho "Bluestock
ings" was the namo applied to ft lit
erary -luh in lilt! eariy wigiueeniu cen
tury in England.
Proportionate Values.
If gold were as plentiful as tin and
tin were as rare as gold we'd be buy
ing sardines in gold boxes and pay
ing for them with tin, says the New
York Telegraph.
Another Victim.
A Lebanon man who early in July
went out to scoff at "tho cow pasture
shinny" being playod at tho Country
club, now talks about "slices" and
"birdies" in his sleep. Exchange.
USE
COMMONSNSE
AND
BARK-ROOT
TONIC
The Verb "To Woo?"
"The business girl finds n husband
by the simple expedient of prosecuting
her search where men conjugat."
From a Canadian Paper.
IkS ill HO HOLA to
A Mild iJixatlve
A KyHtcm Builder
then you will tie
quite sure to nv-i.1i!
( In- I'nrnil lillrnentH,
so previili'iit nt this
time of the yeur
For
BAitrc root
TONIC
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Compensation.
No man's feet can ever bo mado to
look so neat as a fashionably shod
girl's, but they are always happier.
Houston I'ost Dispatch.
Used Tub for Baptism.
A woman ot Ascot, England, recent
ly was granted a separation becauso
her husband, In religious zeal, persist
eil In baptizing people in tho family
bathtub.
Build Bridge in Rush.
A railroad bridge with a span of
J. 17 feet was put in tho plaeo of an
old ono within 24 hours in England recently.
Quaint Theory.
Thomas Burnet, an Englishwoman,
In IgSl wrote a book, "Sacred Theory
of the Earth," to prove that tho earth
was originally like an tgf, and that at
the delugo the shell burst, und tho
v. ; 1 1 i- oscupod.
Especially Gifted.
He only Is happy as well as great
who needs neither to obey nor com
mand In order to be something.
Goethe,
Painted Picture a Day
Jean Bajitlste Creuze. whose "The
Broken IMcture" gained him fame and
fortune, Is one artist who, It Is said,
painted a picture a day during the
heyday of his popularity. Many great
er artists died before their genius was
discovered, but Oreuze wss almost
forced to bis Intense work by the ex
travagance of bis wife. Greuze was
the son of a Burgundlan, and his for
tunes as an artist were also seriously
affected by the French BeTOlutlon.
The Supreme court of Louisiana
held In the case of the state agulnsf
several persons, In which one of them
had been convicted of an assault ID
which he did "wound short of maim
ing," that a "wound" is a breach of
the skin, or of the skin and flesh, and
there need be no effusion of blood, ac
cording to the Journal of the Ameri
can Medical Association.
The word "malm," according to the
court, Implies a permanent Injury or
crippling, and according to the better
use Is not a synonym for mayhem,
which is a particular, aggravated Bort
of malm. A mere breach of the skin
or of the skin and the flesh may be
produced with a stick, and such Injury
would clearly constitute a wound less
than maiming; that Is. less than a per
manent injury or crippling.
"Mayhem" implies a permanent In
Jury or crippling, and at common law
consists of bodily barm to another,
such as to render him less able t
defend himself or le utile to annoy
his adversary, as distlnguUlu-d from
one which merely dlsligures or doei
Dot disable.
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