WHEN
BALDY FADDEN
DISAPPEARED
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By CLARENCE L. HAY
( by Short Story Pub. Co.)
THE most Important person on
Uester street was "Baldy Fad
den," but "Baldy" was not
aware of the high esteem In
which he was held. His inability to
estimate his own Importance resulted
from a luck of years. He was but
four, and ut that interesting period of
life one Is not able to recognize his
stutus In the community.
It was on one day In early spring
that "Baldy Fadden" surprised Hester
street, and made its mixed population
use up all the expressions of astonish
ment they knew. "Baldy" disap
peared I It was not a common disap
pearance resorted to by the ordinary
child who wishes to make its parents
familiar with the agony produced by a
temporary parting ; it wus a startling,
mysterious disappearance, tlit stirred
the East side from the "l'anliandle" to
"Hell's Kitchen."
The Caparellis occupied a front
apartment on the fourth floor of a ten
ement house and on the morning of
the mysterious disappearance Mrs. Ca
parelli placed her son on the little Iron
lire balcony overhanging the street.
The taleony was but four feet long
and two wide, with a railing that was
twice the height of Cnparelll, Junior,
and It hud neither trap nor ladder.
The first and only thought which
leaped with stunning force into the
mind of the woman compelled iter to
spring to the railing and stare with
wild eyes into the street beneath. But
there was no commotion such us her
Imagination had pictured. Everything
was peaceful. Half a dozen loafers
stood around unconcernedly In front
of Mulligun's saloon; Pletro and Bup
tlsto, the fruiterers next door, were
standing chatting on the sidewalk,
while the vendor of popcorn, standing
nearly underneuth the Caparelli apart
ment, yawned lazily as he stared nt
the passers-by. Furthermore, there
was no trace of "Baldy Fadden," alive
or dead, on the street or sidewalk.
The woman, frantic with apprehen
sion, screamed out a torrent of ques
tions to the men on the street, but
they signified in a dozen different
ways that they were Ignorant of the
whereabouts of her son. The fright
ened mother gazed hopelessly up and
around, and then, recognizing how
utterly Impossible It would be for
"Baldy" to leave the balcony In any
other way, she shrieked again and
again, and Hester street arose to
wrestle with the mystery.
Unless "Baldy" had suddenly grown
wings and flown Into space, there were
but four ways to account for his dis
appearance: The first and, of course,
the most probable, was the theory that
he had fullen Into the street, but the
evidence of twenty-five people, who
were in different positions In front of
the apartment house, swept the sur
mise to the scrap heap of knocked-out
suppositions. The peanut vendor of
fered to stake his immortal soul
against ten cents' worth of nuts to
prove that nothing had fallen from the
Caparelli apartment, and the huge vol
ume of supporting evidence, added to
the fact that there were no parts of
"Baldy" visible, or no signs to prove
that he had struck the street In a for
cible manner, proved that the peanut
vendor wus not reckless In wagering
his soul against a quart of nuts.
The suggestion that someone, stand
ing at a near-by window, might have
hooked "Baldy" by means of a long
pole wns also scouted, when the resi
dents of the fiats to the left nnd right
had been examined. A cousin of the
Caparellis who, while admitting that
she had seen "Baldy" on the balcony,
was above suspicion, lived to the right,
and a brother workman of "Baldy's"
father resided on the left. His repu
tation was unimpeachable. The roof
was now the only place to look for
traces of kidnaping, hut the roof of
fered no solution to the growing mys
tery. The Janitor had not unlocked
the trap door up to the time that
"Baldy" had disappeared, and, on
either side, the roof of the house was
Inaccessible except by means of lad
ders and ropes, and regarding these
there was, not the slightest trace to
prove that they had been used. The
mystery was stupendous.
At ten o'clock five detectives of the
Italian squad, who thought they de
tected the work of the "Black Hand,"
were busy on the spot. Eleven police
men wrestled with the crowd and
clews In turn, and Mrs. Caparelli, In
between numerous hysterical tits, gave
Interviews to thirteen different news
paper men, who photographed the
wonderful balcony and then rushed
away with the news. For the unex
plalnahle and unaccountable Is always
news. If "Baldy" had been smashed
up on the street like hundreds of
other East-side children, the Incident
would buve been of only paragraph
value, but the fact that he had left the
balcony by ways and means that sug
gested the supernatural made the dis
appearance of great news value in a
dull season. "Baldy Fadden" ap
peared In letters five Inches long, and
a special spook writer, who had Just
contributed a series of articles to a
leading magazine, was employed by
one sheet to investigate and to search
light the mystery.
Two hours after the disappearance
Hester street was blocked to traffic.
Ten thousand theories had been ad
vanced up to that time. It was sug
gested that "Baldy" had been hooked
by tb trailing anchor of an airship,
that lie bad been grabbed by an eagle,
or had been consumed by spontaneous
combustion. Suppositions didn't end
there. A man suggested that "Baldy"
had suddenly developed the alleged
gift of the wise men of the Yaquis am)
walked away on the atmosphere.
Others hinted darkly at the mysteri
ous powers possessed by a withered
lady from Lombardy who resided
icross the street, while many more
muttered prayers and called upon pa
tron saints to protect them from the
devil, whose finger, they clearly per
celved, was in the pie.
Tlie thing was Incomprehensible.
From a small balcony, 45 feet above
the ground. In one of the most thickly
populated districts In the world, a
child had been spirited away right
from under his mother's eyes, and five
detectives, eleven policemen, three
spook authorities and three thousand
people were unable to tell bow the
thing had been done. The disappear
ance of "Baldy Fadden" threatened
to become one of the mysteries of the
century, and In the cars It took prece
dence of politics and stock Jobbing,
while the doings of the "Giants" and
the "Sox" were forgotten in the babble
of conjecture.
As It often happens In cases of the
kind, Caparelli, senior, wns saved
much of the anguish that the disap
pearance of the boy brought to his
wife. A messenger had been dis
patched to acquaint the father, after
Investigation had proved that "Baldy"
was not on or around the home reser
vation, but it happened to be one of
those days when fool things happen
one after the other. Caparelli, senior,
had been transferred from his regular
gang that morning, and had been sent
out to the Bronx to assist on a dump.
The messenger was an Italian new to
the city, and not having any money
In his possession at the moment he
ran to acquaint his countryman of the
misfortune, and, furthermore, laboring
under the Idea that the Bronx was but
a few hundred yards away, he started
to walk. While he was plugging gal
lantly northward the mystery In Hes
ter street wus deepening, and Capa
relli, senior, was busily engaged shov
eling refuse of various kinds that was
being dumped Into the pit.
At five o'clock In the evening Hester
street was a seething mass of eager
eyed, excited people waiting In an at
mosphere charged with mystery. The
day, that hnd opened brightly, had
turned dull and heavy, and on the
minds of people born in southern Eu
rope the unaccountable disappearance
of "Baldy Fadden" worked like mental
yeast In raising all the terrors of the
past from the dark corners of their
brains.
It was half-past five when the first
illuminating ray pierced the gloom
surrounding the happening. Baptlsto,
who owned the fruit shop to the right
of the Caparelli apartment house,
dashed through the crowd that strug
gled on the stairway, and shouted a
message over the heads of the women
sympathizing with the mother of the
lost boy.
"Caparelli !" he screamed. "Capa
relli 1 Ah, Mother of Cod ! Caparelli
has the child! He has him! Ah, It Is
good, good ! Caparelli just telephoned
that he had 'Baldy'! Ah, It Is good!
He has him at de dump away out
out, ah, yes out at de Bronx I"
After screaming out the message he
fainted In the hallway, hut upon being
brought round, he repeuted the aston
ishing Information. Caparelli, senior,
had spoken to him over the 'phone
from a rubbish pit far out In the
Bronx, and asked him to Inform Mrs.
Caparelli that the child was safe, and
that he, Caparelli, was then on his
way home with the lost one.
Hester street gasped. The mystery
was not yet explained It had deep
ened. What devilish agenvy had spir
ited the child away from ids mother
to the place his father was working?
I'ious Italians muttered their prayers
as they waited for the explanation
that would be forthcoming.
CaparelH's arrival was something
that will be long remembered on the
East side. With "Baldy Fadden" on
his shoulders he walked through a
crowd of cheering, shouting people till
he placed the boy In his mother's
arms. Hester street wept. Excited
women waved tablecloths from the
windows, and men howled with Joy.
Then urlosIty grasped the crowd
with a clutch of Iron. The mob swept
around Caparelli, shrieking for expla
nations. They screamed their ques
tions in a score of tongues, and pushed
madly behind the laborer in their wild
pursuit of knowledge.
Caparelli turned and put up bis
hand.
"Dere Is leetle to tell," he said qui
etly. "I see It all an' I tank de good
Lord. 'Baldy' has told me dat he was
on de balcony, yes, eet Is so. 'Bald.v'
was dere. an' underneaf, ah, I tank
de good God, was de truck loading Dp
de rotten bananas dat BIptlsto sends
to de dump. Ah, you see it now'
'Baldy' fell Into de rotten bananas an
sink down In dem. You undeistm J
No one see him. an' when he full de
driver wldp up his horse an' not seeln
'Baldy.' drive my boy all de way out
to de dump where I was work. Ah.
when I see my boy tipped out at my
feet I tlnk him dead I I cry an' I cr.v
again, but be was only stunned
an' "
Hester street drowned his sobs with
a cheer that went ruj-hlng away up
toward Chinatown. When It hud died
away, a shrill voire broke the allem
with a yell of: "Churnal ! ONrul!
Orl about the flndm' of 'Baldy Fad
den." "
But the article by the spook author
It y that had appeared In the earlier
edition had been cut out. The banana
truck hud ousted the spooks In the
last round.
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Your
Health
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By ANDREW
F. CURRIER,
M. D.
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RICKETS
RICKETS, or rhuchitis, Is the result
of laid nutrition, affects all the
tissues of the body, and chiefly leaves
its mark on the bones which it soft
ens and then deforms.
It usually occurs before the third
year, but the bone deformities appear
later.
It Is caused by food which Is not
assimilated, but also by neglect of the
skin, bad air, lnsuiliclent sleep, etc.
The children of the poor have It, but
so do those of the rich. In this coun
try It Is common among negroes nnd
Italians, but not among Irish or Ger
mans. In the great European cities one
sees it everywhere. The urine of
rhuehltle children contains phosphates
In abundunce and the bones, being de;
flclent in lime, bend and break easily.
Bhachltlc children have soft spots
In the bones of the skull ; and the
membranous portions of the skull,
where you notice throbbing and pulsa
tion In an Infant, ami which ought to
harden during the first few mouths of
life, remain soft.
All the bones of the skull. Instead of
being firmly united, are loose and eas
ily moved.
The face of a rhaehltle baby Is
small, and the head seems dispropor
tionately large.
The liver, spleen nnd lymphatic
glands are enlarged, the muscles soft,
and (he ligaments weak.
The child's appetite may be good, he
may even seem voraciously hungry,
but his food doesn't appear to nourish
him, he becomes fretful, gets diarrhea
and tills alternates with constipation.
He Is sensitive, cries when touched,
his dlarrheu Is offensive, the appear
ance of his teeth is delayed, and when
they break out, they ure Irregular and
of poor quality.
When he begins to walk, the weak
ness of the bones of (lie legs becomes
apparent and they bend or break
easily; the Joints ure weak and he
fulls frequently.
When he tries to move himself
with his arms, the arm bones bend
or break and there may be an out
ward hump on the spine.
On the ends of the ribs there are
knobs or bead-like structures, the
breast bone projects and the child
heroines pigeon breasted.
The pelvis may become deformed
and, in females, this has u very Im
portant bearln upon the inccessful
delivery of offspring, If Impregnation
should ever occur.
Ithuchitlc children are frequently
bow-legged, knock-kneed or Hut-footed;
they are also sensitive to bron
chitis and croup, and die from these
diseases more frequently than children
who have better pbyslcul develop
ment. If they reach maturity, they are
short and poorly formed and their
limbs often revejil the marks of early
disease.
Bhachltlc children should be taken
to the mountains or seashore, if possi
ble, and should have abundance of
good plain food which they can as
similate which will be Indicated by
the change In their stools and In their
general nutrition.
Fats In the form of rod-liver oil,
or olive oil, should be given them;
also as much of eggs, milk and cereals
as they can dispose of. Treatment
with mechanical apparatus is Impor
tant to prevent deformities, and they
should have all possible benefit from
public parks. IX halha. sleep, fresh
air, and life In the country when this
can be provided.
( by on Matthew Adtmi )
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I'neumuttc lining for automobile
cushions have been Invented that can
be Inflated to take the place of springs
and padded upholstery.
Portland, Oregon.
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Adults, Week day Matinee 20c;
Evenings, 35c. Continous 1 to 11
p. m. Children 10 cents all times
Soy beans ns a supplement for corn
fed to pigs on pasture compared fa
vorably with tankage, especially when
minerals were fed, in experiments con
ducted recently at the Indiana station.
With pigs on alfalfa or clover pasture,
and with corn at 8-1 cents a bushel and
tankage at $oT per ton, the soy beans
have been worth $1.-18 per bushel with
out mineral and $1.81 per bushel when
minerals were fed, according to C, M.
Vestal, who had charge of the tests.
In t lie tests which have been curried
on during the past three summers pigs
weighing about 70 pounds were self
fed corn and supplement on clover or
alfalfa pasture to market weights of
slightly above i!00 pounds. On a
ration of corn and soy beans the pigs
gained l.S pounds per head daily and
consumed 818 pounds of corn and 4,'l
pounds of soy beans for every 1(H)
pounds of gain. When a mineral mix
ture of ton p.".r!s acid phosphate and
one part salt was added to the corn
and soy beans the gains were in
creased to 1.62 and the feed consumed
per 100 pounds gain was !-." pounds of
corn, L'(3 pounds of beans and 8 pounds
of minerals. On corn nnd tankage on
pasture the pigs gained at the rnte of
1.65 pounds and took 882 pounds of
corn and "0 pounds of tankage for 100
pounds of gain. The 26 pounds of
beans and 0 pounds of minerals thus
replaced 26 pounds of tankage and 7
pounds of corn without reducing the
gains to any appreciable extent.
When the same rations were fed to
similar pigs in the dry lot the beans
were loss valuable than on pasture but
were still a rather good substitute for
tankage when mineral wns fed. On
corn and soy beans alone the pigs
gained 1.8 pounds dully and required
804 pounds of corn and 88 pounds of
beans. The nddltlon of minerals in
creased the gains to 1.52 pounds dally
with n consumption per 100 pounds of
gain of 811 pounds of corn, 68 pounds
of beans and 7 pounds of minerals. Oj
corn and tankage the pigs gained at
the rate of 1.G1 pounds and took 842
pounds of corn nnd X pounds of tank
age. In the dry lot. It will be noted,
the soy-bean consumption was consid
erably higher proportionately than the
tankage consumption when both are
compared with the Corresponding con
sumptions in the pasture tests. In tin;
dry lot soy beans and minerals and
tankage made pork at about the same
costs, while on pasture the costs of
the soy beans-mineral gains were
abosjt 110 cents less per hundred pounds
than when tankage was fed. Appar
ently beans, assisted by a good min
eral mixture, can be profitably used
for pigs running on good pasture.
Other recent f ling tests ut the In
diana station show clearly that fatten
ing hogs will eat whole soy beans ns
readily as ground soy beans. In one
test gains made by pigs fed the two
kinds of beans were Identical, while In
another whole beans produced slightly
larger gulns. In both tests less corn
but more beans were required by the
pigs fed whole benns. In costs of gains
the pigs fed the unground beans hnd
a slight advantage.
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Finest Animal Swimmers.
The finest animal swimmers among
animals are deer and bears. A deer
will frequently swim across broad
lakes, or visit islands for the sake of
good grazing. Red deer, when hunted
Into the sea, havo been known to
swim for miles.
Crude Petroleum Useful
as Cure for Hog Mange
Crude petroleum as a dip Is the rem
edy for the muige In hogs. Since
crude petroleum varies in COmpOSI
tion and some kinds are Injurious to
the skin care must be taken In using
it. If a particular kind has been used
before and known to be all right, It
may he used on all the herd, but if It
bus not been tried It Is a good plan
to test it out on a few of the hogs
before treating all of them. Brands
of heavy composition are recommend
ed because of their high content of
sulphur. If one dipping Is not effec
tive It should be repeuted In one or
two weeks.
Chinese Walled City.
Peking is surrounded by a wall EO
feet hSfih and 40 feet thick. The
walled portion of the city is 10 miles
in clrcumferenc . The city is one of
the few walled places of size remain
ing as they were In ancient times.
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Branch at I'ocatello. Idaho
Pin Production Large-
The output of the pin factories
throughout the world totals something
liko 81,000,000 a day. If these pins
were placed end to end the line would
tretch half-way across tho Atlantic.
A few weeks' total would encircle the
earth.
Picturesque Cities.
Damascus leads tho world in pic
turesque cities. Us bazaars are the
most. Interesting In the Near Blast. One
can buy there products of the looms
of Persia, the silks of China and won
derful brass and inlay work.
Credit Mobilier Scandal.
Tho Credit Mobilier, a construction
company, organized under a charter
from tho Pennsylvania legislature, was
charged In 1S72 with corrupting public
office holders. it made enormous
profits from the Union Pacific railroad.
Maine Boundary Dispute.
Tho "Aroostook War" is tho popu
lar name given to tho move the suuto
Of Maine made In 1839 to enforce Its
rights on tli& territory claimed by
itself and Canada. It cost tho Blato
a million dollars.
Abolish "Woman Killers."
Tho house of few rooms with wall
beds and built-in features, long popu
lar In California, Is coming Into great
er favor throughout the country. They
accommodate tho family Just as well,
save money In construction and are
not "woman killers."
Pocket Money.
If I felt called upon to ndvlso par
ents, i should enunciate solemnly this
golden rule: If you wish your son to
be honest, see to it that ho has pocket
money. The sum need not bo large,
but it must bo his own. Henry
.lames Korman. In Hearst's Interna
tional Cosmopolitan.
Tower of London Schools.
Two little schools are conducted In
the Tower of London. One is for
pupils from five to eight year old,
and the ut her is or older children,
Tho pupils are the children of soldiers
garrisoned at tho Tower, and of I ho
wa rders.
Java a Volcano Center.
Tho Island of Java In the Indian
m ean Is the center of the most acttv
and most destructive volcanic region
In the world, the Hast Indies. Java
has the doubtful distinction of having
LM active volcanoes.
Scoffing Laugh.
A scoffing laugh Is generally re
ferrod to as Abderlan laughter from
Abdera, a seaport town In Thrace,
noted as the birthplace of the cynic,
Democrltus, who is known as tho
laughing or scoffing philosopher,
Invaluable Bible.
The "Silver Bible" containing a
translation of tho four ;ospols by
Ulfllas is tho only extant writing In
the Gothic langungo. It Is about 1,
400 year old and Is preserved in tho
Upsala university, Sweeden.
Only the Shell.
The pastor who was fond of flgiu;.
of speech was making a funeral ora
tion. He began his address, "Friends,
we have here only the shell of tho
man, the nut Is gone." -Tho Church-man.
Nourishment for Lambs
Itt.ore leaving a lamb to get Its
own nourishment) see that all locks
and tags of wool are trimmed away
from around the udder of the ewe.
The young lamb will often suck at such
tags Instead of the teat. It not only
fulls to get milk but It may pull off
and swallow some of the wool. This
may cause much trouble and even the
death of the lamb. '
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Live Stock Items
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"Better sires- better stock."
Of all farm animals, horses are the
most likely to lie harmed by moldy
or spoiled corn, according to Dr. ('. 11.
Stunge, dean of veterlnury medicine
at Iowa stute college
Cracked barley can be included in
the feed ration for chicks after they
reach the age of five or six weeks.
It never pays to overcrowd hens
they need a comfortable house, iir.v
and roomy, with plenty of fresh air
and sunshine.
Oraln feed SUCH as sprouted oats,
cabbage, turnips, beets and rape are
necessary for the health of the pullets.
A disease similar In symptoms to roup
Is sometimes caused by luck of green
pad
Called Down.
"Don't Ihrow banana peelings on
the edge of tho (irand canyon," said
a ranger to a careless tourist. "You
want somebody to slip and fall three
miles?"- Louisville Courier Journal.
Rocky Mountain Peak.
Mount Massive, which Is ,14,421 feet
high, Is Hie loftiest peak of the Rocky
mountains in the limits of tho Doited
States, Mount llrown, thought at one
time to be higher, has proved to bo
lower.
Uncle Ez Ser.
"Even udmlttln' dat folks am de
scended from monkeys," remarked Un
cle Kzra, "All knows some people dat
ain't no special credit to delr ancestors."--Huston
Transcript.
We'd All Like to Try.
A mull I millionaire Hays that money
cannot measure happiness, but in li
not willing to lend his yardstick to
those win) would like to prove It,
A Difference.
Klintlna "They Buy at twenty she
was Hid observed of all observers."
Carnovskl "Yes, and now, at sixty,
she's preserved of all preserver's." -Town
Topics.
Canary Ventriloquist.
A canary that sings, then replies
ventriloqaially as ir tna notes earn
from far away, is owned by a New
Zealand man.
Eggsact Fact Laid Down.
Farm llfo has lis drawbacks, but It
isn't necessary to put down a quar
ter when you eat an egg. - I till ut li
Herald.
Sable Philosopher
You needn't pray for de good Lord
ter put you on do right road ; you
knows befo'han' when do road's right
an' when It's wrong, for you's got a
conscience what makes no mistake.
Atlanta Constitution.
Ancients Knew Corn.
Corn Is found among tho relics of
the most ancient tribes of Indians. It
was cultivated by all the agricultural
natives of which there Is any record.
Danger of Bad Teeth.
"Had teeth are hotbeds of germs
that may cause meningitis and blood
poisoning," says Doctor Hronte, spe
cialist of the government.
Repair Cracks In Plaster.
Kiuul parts of plaster of parts and
whiting mixed with water is good to
repair cracks In walls before they are
pu luted or papered.
Worth It.
In Australia a man walked f0 miles
In his sleep. We understand that when
he got back tho senium had finished.
Passing Show (Loudon).
Women and Her Clothes.
When men stain at her, she knows
everything irf fixed right; when wom
en sturo ut her, she wonders what la
wrong.
On the Make.
In the country llfo Is what you tnako
it, wiillo In tho illy life is what you
make. Columbia Kecord.
You Want a Good Position
Very well Take the Arrountanry and
Kuslneae Management, Private Becretaif
t, Calculator, Comptometer, Htanocra
ihlc, PrnriiaiiHlilp, ur Commercial Teaa--ra'
CourM at
Behnke-Walker
I'he forernoat Rualntaa I'olleara of the
Northwent which hug won mora Accuracy
Awardi and i Medala than any ether
School In Arnerlia. Hand for our Hurreaa
Catalon Fourth Rtreat near Mnrrlaon,
Portland. Or laeac M Walker. Praa
P. N. U.
No. 30, 1925