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r f T he N ews »Und« for • greater end better Dells City ell the time FALLS eiTY NEWS FALLS CITY. OREGON. SATURDAY. JANUARY 31. 1914 VOL. X Leas than five minutes afterward lowed her, and Iiardiman contin tho professor came in aud sat down ued his way in a tumult of chaotic in the pew opposite, lie had been reflections. Ha reached hia hotel waiting outside half the morning, in a stata of miud that waa quite unobserved, but alert. After service impossible. The vary first look into Belinda gave him s fleeting smile the girl’s face had thrilled him ' of recognition and for some reason startlingly. The accidental contact that was new to her turned and of her delicate form againat his bad hurried home as fast ss her pretty finished the job. He told hiinaelf patent leather covered feet could that it was a case of love at flret carry her. i By NGLlje CKAVEY (ULLMHE ¡ sight. Bo much for tho explosion j When achool opened the follow of his lifelong theories! Then a per ing day the first person she en fect regiment of doubts sm! fears countered on entering the faculty Belinda's introduction to the uew assailed him. I’erliapa, after all, ahe hall was the new professor. She professor wss s distinctly uncere waa not a girl, but a married wo blushed to her ears and tried v.il monious one. Tripping lightly man. ia fitly to retain her scholarly demean across tbs mud sogged puvimont, The profeasor Mte hia dinner in si or, hut the dogged crimson showed she suddenly caught oue foot in a lence. Afterward lie went to his persistently through the tanned tangled heap of wire—flung down room and for some inexplicable rea cheeks, und her eyes were puzzles. from the telephone sod telegraph son exchanged hia dark suit for one Iiardiman made no effort to con lines by the ravaging band of a re of lighter uud more becoming tex ceal hia gratification, or if he did cent hurricane—and stumliled pre ture. lie brushed his hair paiuatak- be was not at sll successful. The cipitately into the arm# of a blond ingly, placed a soft gray alpine hat rest of the teachers looked on in giant, who aupported her valoroualy on hia head and sauntered forth in very quiet and good natured amuse till the had bluakingly recovered uunet of—fresh air. It was almost ment. her poise. dark before be returned, disappoint In a month the acquaintance "Thanks, awfully," ahe said. “ Yon ed and oddly depressed. grew to intimacy. In two it became have doubtlsSa'saved my life." Meanwhile Belinda had reached a serious proposition. After thre« “Your frock, more likely,” he re home, pul on a pair of dry boots the only things lacking were the plied, lifting his hst. "1 sm no end and settled herself for a quiet after words and the ring. glsd 1 happened along at the pro noon. School would open on Mon The professor had at last made pitious moment." day, and aha would not have many up his mind to propose. He had Belinda returned him e little more afternoons to lounge, as they meant to restrain his ardor till the combination smile end nod as she would be given over to outdoor rec close of the term, but when it be lifted liar dainty, crisp skirts and reation after the trying hours of the came manifest that the adorable pursued her way cautiously across morning. The town clock, striking little instructor of grade No. 4 re the slippery street. 8, aroused her. She tore up the ciprocated hit affection prudence Iiardiman restrained hie eager last letter—old love letters they was thrown to the winds. lie sat in ness until a reasonably aefe length of were—and toaeed the bits into the his study pondering. Suddenly ha tun# had elapaed before turning to grata. Than aha made a careful got to work disposing of hia reparta look around. He had gained the toilet and went downstairs to din 1« abort but thorough order. Ho opposite sidewalk by this time, and ner. mads a point of never slighting hia his glance beck at the girl betrayed Sunday morning ahe »elected her duties for anything. Then he drew inatently to the casual pedestrians most becoming gown and hat. It that the profesaor had been abrupt was a perfect day, and her satisfac forth a square envelope and sheet ly shaken from hM phlegmatic at tion waa almost complete. She cre of white paper to match. This seemed to him the moat direct and titude of mind. ated the usual stir ta sha walked final way of settling matters be Belinda turned into Oak street all up the aisle of the village church tween them. Belinda was a coquette unconscious of the scrutiny that fol and took her seat near the front. —there waa no getting around that fact, even in one’s most gen erous momenta—and iiardiman was determined to corner her complete ly. He composed his lines careful ly. They were inspirational. And now that he had broken the ice at last he meant to carry things to a rapid finish. The profesaor was nothing if not businesslike. He and fished in a drawer and pulled out a teacher's resignation blank. This Are conducting a vigorous circulation campaign tn Falls he put in a separate envelope and directed both to the dearest girl in City. These tw o papers will supply you with all the the world. news of this locality and also with all the news of the The following morning the post country at large, at a minimum cost. For a short time man’* shrill whistle brought Belin da hereelf to the door. She took § ^ we will take your subscription to the two papers for one the mail aud glanced through it year at $3.75— by mail—a saving to youdf $2.26. Pay to hastily, rivers of scarlet flowing over her cheeks as she recognized Hardi- The Telegram, Portland, or to the Falls City News. man’s familiar backhand. She tore open the envelope eagerly and scan seeeseeeeeeeeessM >♦»>>•> Professor and Dead Letter The Evening Telegram T h e Falls City News i f » » ® T ry a Sack of HIGH FLIGHT FLOUR and watch results ned the contents with whitening face The paper fell from her fin gers, and she leaned limply against the bunister rail. So she wo* asked, in the briefest possible way, to re sign, and she had dared to dream— she bud been so sure—she had been ■uch a fool! She smothered the sob in her throat and in quick scorn of herself dashed the hot tears from her eyes. Then she pulled herself together sharply and went upstair*. With trembling fingers she filled out the blank und directed it to the board. Drab weeks followed. Every ef fort the professor made to gain an audience with Belinda failed. He had mortified and insulted her fla grantly, and ahe would see that he got no more chances to repeat the indignity. As to Iiardiman, he waa on the rack. Fool-like, he reflected, he had ruahed in and frightened her away with his maudlin, im portunate lovemaking and thus lost her for good. But perhaps, after all, it was not for him that she cared. What a dolt he had been to presume upon the affection of a matchless creature like that! Life grew to be a bitter struggle to him, and he began all at once to look hia thirty-fiva years. It was in May, almost the close of achool. The day was warm and oppressive, and a laxy breeze waa blowing. The professor made his way in absent weariness toward the school house, stopping on the way to get his mail from the postoffice. There were several circulars in his box and—his breath stopped — a communication from the dead letter office. He broke the seal anxiously, an intuitive knowledge of what it contained making his heart thump thickly. Sure enough, “Miss Be linda Maxwell, Greenville, Colo." And this was Alabama f Unadul terated stupidity! If living in a place five years could make one re sponsible for an idiotic blunder of this sort, what else had be not done? He walked out of the post- office in a daxe. All was clear enough now. She had never receiv ed his letter st all, only that wretch ed, confounded blank! No wonder | she had frozen the very air about him—no wonder! Out in the open air, he quic kened hia footsteps. It was already 8:20, only ten minntes before the opening of school, but he turned directly into Oak street and forgot that he had ever been such a thing as principal of the Greenville high school. In the distance he caught sight of a familiar blue tailor made gown. He doubled hia pace and was quite up with Belinda before she realized his nearness. To her haughty glance, her cool drawing away from him, Iiardiman paid no attention whatever, but thrust the letter into her hands in a determined, master ful way which she could not resist. Hypnotized, she opened it and read the lines through, the crimson moving in her cheeks: My D a rlin g — 1 w an t y ou to giro up te a c h in g am i Jet m e d o It fo r b o th . 1 am n o t m ista k e n In th in k in g t h a t you will com e to m e? J u s t s Une. g iv in g m e th e rig h t to sp eak . an d I sh a ll a tte m p t to tell you tn a d iffe re n t w ay . In a th o u s a n d d if fe re n t w ay s, how m u ch I w o rsh ip you. M oat e a rn e s tly . R. W. H. Belinda caught her breath in something between a sob and a laugh as she lifted her eyes shyly to his keen, appealing, apologizing and at last commanding glance. The professor was tardy, very tardy, that morning, but he gave his excuse of a headache glibly and mendaciously and dismissed pupils and teachers for a holiday. >7- This he spent with Belinda. Spurred by Necessity. All Goods and Prices Are Right “Whv do so many young men leave the farm?" “Well,” replied Farmer Corntos- sel, “in most of the cases 1 hare observed it was because they couldn’t earn their salt as farm hands an’ wasn’t fixed to pay board.”—Washington Star. T b s Tee Faithful De«. AT Falls City Lumber Co. STORE A party of young Australians wanting a fish dinner filled a bottle with dynamite, attached a water proof fuse and flung it into a pool in a creek. One of them had a re triever who had been taught to re trieve anything flung into the wa ter, and the bottle had hardlv touched the surface before Watch was after it. They veiled at him to leave it alone, but he paid no at tention and soon was swimming shoreward with tho filling bomb in his mouth. The young men ran for their lives, and the poor beast, thinking it all a great joke, came galloping after. Ha waa within twenty yards of the hindmost when there was a stunning crash. Two of the men were thrown down, though, fortundtely, not badly hurt. But of the unfortunate dog hardly a trace was left. Buy ell goods of home merchants and help to make Falls City greater No. 22 DEATH VALLEY DELIRIUM. - qqn T ABUSE YOUR ETCÌ Madncsc T h a t Leads to tha C ircu itou s Routs to Doath. Th e y W ill Stand O nly a Certain Ms— Mrs s f l a d T re a tm e n t. Death valley, that treacherous The woman who— eyea suddenly road to madness that ends the lif* commenced to hurt went to consult of its victim, was denominated by an oculist concerning them. She the early tribal Indians in Cali expected him to give them a per fornia as the “Valley of Fire.” functory examination and titan The Piute*, Washoes and other make some change in her gJa—oa, tribes in early days condemned but instead of that be put her care their criminals to the country sur fully through a number of testa rounding Death valley. When an and then began to question her. outlaw Indian violated the most “ What have you been doing to sacred laws of his tribe he was ■train your eyes?” asked tbs oculist. condemned to the “Valley of Fire,” “ 1?” replied the woman. “1? where ho was expected soon to per Why, nothing." ish. “No fancy work of any sort?" Of the hundred« of bodies found “Oh, yes; I ’ve crocheted fo rt/ in Death valley, where men perish table mats recently, but that wasn't ed from heat and thirst, they are a strain on my eyes.” almost universally naked to the “ And you embroider, I sup waist. The trail made by the men pose ?” before death also shows a circuit “ A little. I embroidered a blouse ous course. not long ago, but the work wasn’t At a certain date, after being at 7ery fine and didn’t hurt me a par tacked by the heat, the person be- ticle.” ins to run and claw at his breast. “I hate to have to put you in a irst his hat is abandoned. T hen’ dark room,” said tha oculist, “but he begins to claw at hia shirt and j I shall hava to do so for at least a finally tears it from him. month. You will not be able to do Then he turns in a circuitous any fine needlework for several route and narrows the circuit until years, if ever. You must not go to finally he falls exhausted in a heap the theater nor to motion picture and never rises again. Delirium shows. You may not play cards. comes on instantly. You must rest your eyes absolutely - It is when the heat delirium sets for months or I will not be re in that the victim begins to tear at sponsible for the result. his upper garments and run. It is “You have been straining your presumed that the terrible suffer eyes pitifully for years. There t n ing from the heat aDd thirst feels diseased spots on the beck of theas like s load on his lungs and makes which will heal with care and time breathing difficult and that the vic and perfect rest, but sight will nev tim imagines by running he is get er be restored to them entirely. ting away from the thing and that “I t is the moot curious thing to in clawing off hia garments he is re me,” said the oculist, “th a t people leasing the weight. take care of every part of them Scientists who have visited Death selves except their eyea. Careful valley in warm weather and had a people go to a dentist a t least twice touch of the heat state that the ex e year. They pay the moat rigid traordinary effect of the heat there attention to their teeth, yat kiss of is caused by the peculiar situation teeth, however inconvenient, is not of Death valley. It is from 100 to irreparable. Artificial teeth, pivot 400 feet below sea level and is shut ed teeth and bridge« can, in large in on all sides by high mountains. measure, replace natural ones. The atmosphere of that region is “But there is no substitute for the dryest of all places on earth. eyes. Once sight is gone it is only 1 It absorbs from every living thing, restored by a miracle of surgery or both human and vegetable, every by the grace of God. Why. thea^ particle of moisture. are eyes so much neglected? Why When the system is drained of do people go to chiropodists and to all moisture the brain yields, the all sorts of healer persons and nev victim’s eyes stare like a madman’s, er consult an oculist until fright and he runs his circuitous course drives them to him? to death.—Indianapolis News. ‘T h e eyes are abused more than any other organ. People read \n Cold and a Candle. Dr. Moss of the English polar ex half light and lying dawn, and with pedition of 1875 and 1876, among the light in front of thorn and in every other wrong way known and other odd things, tells of the effect expect to retain their vision. TOiey of cold on a wax candle which he burned. The temperature was 35 arc mighty careful about their degrees below zero, and the doctor hair. They feel that their eyes are with them to stay and that nothing must have been considerably dis can rob them of these. You are couraged when, upon looking at his one of those who is about to dis candle, he discovered that the flame cover that eyes stand only a certain had all it could do to keep warm. It was so cold that the flame could amount of bad treatment. You will not melt all the wax of the candle, probably consider this m atter a t for the month that you are but was forced to eat its way down length in that dark room the candle, leaving a sort of skele ton of the candle standing. There The Q L’Mr l i r a » Plant. was heat enough, however, to melt There is nothing under tha sob oddly shaped holes in the thin walls quite so quaint, so weird and witch of wax, and the result was a beau like aa the pandanus prairies of tiful lacelike cylinder of white, Fiji. The pandanus, or screw plant with a tongue of yellow flame burn as it is called, is a moat grotesque ing inside of it and sending out specimen of the vegetable kingdom into the darkness many streaks of even at the best and in the early light. stages of its growth. In its very young days it is of an extraordi Insom nia. narily screwlike shape and looks as There are various simple cures though some unkina hand had tak for insomnia. The secret of the en hold of its long, awordlike leaves hot inilk cure, often recommended and twisted them round and round. for sufferers from insomnia, lies in Later on it straightens out a bit, sipping the beverage just before re and from it grow a number of tall tiring. The act of slowly swallow wooden stilts. Its foliage ia sim ing the liquid is soothing in its ple, a number of drooping, ragged effect and generally produces the tufts, for all the world Uka mops much desired drowsy feeling which and very mournful looking. Among leads to the coveted sleep. Bath these mop* hangs the fruit, in ing the feet in warm water just be shape like a pineapple, made up uI fore going to bed is sometimes ef hard red and yellow kernels, woody fective in inducing slumber. The and fibrous and quite uneatable use of drugs should be avoided, aa from a European’s point of viaw. once the habit is established it is not easy to secure sleep without It ia related that when the young them, and serious results are sure man who afterward became Gen to ensue. eral Fremont ran away with and •hooting Stars. married Jessie Benton, her father, When a shooting star breaks into Tom Benton, the great senator, flame in our atmosphere the re made terrible threats of what ho siduum of tlie combustion remains would do to the young man. Ho in the air and can be found in what would give him roasts and bullets, is known as atmospheric dust. The and so on. To all of which Mrs, virgin snow of the polar regions Benton quietly remarked, "Tom ia often seen to be spotted with had better give him Jessie, m f traces of dust which contains par dear.” ■ ■ ( Atlantia. ticles of iron. Lika particles are A. Henry Savage Land or dis found on church towers and else where. Among the minute bodies credit* the existence of Atlantis, that dance in the sun’s rays there the island continent, which ia sup are certainly particles of shooting posed to have occupied much of the sea that now separates Europe from stars. America and to have been sub merged in a great earthqusAk. Tho It doesn’t always pay to take first account of the existence of At the word for the deed. Many a lantis cornea from Plato, who giyoo fellow couldn’t keep a promise in the story as a tradition exiatfaqg hi a safe deposit v a u lt—Goodwin’s his day. but there are stilt many persons who cherish the belief. Weekly. f