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\ S A T U R D A Y , A P R IL M , Iftlï A CHI LD LOVE It W m More Than That Later By E T H E L HOLM ES I mu mi old mull]. 1 huve iw-vur Imd • love iilTnlr mid never i -\| i « h '| lo have on«' Perhaps IliU Is why I Ink» mi In terrst III Ills loves of other people. Nothing Is so attractive to iuu us to watch a young couple drifting Into that curreut which ul Drat move« ao Imperceptibly that they art? not «w are they am In It indeed, ao uneouacloua are they o f hclng liicl|ilent lovers that It dues not occur to them to conceal tlu> fact from any one else And to mu there Is something es(m dully touching almut the loves o f chil dren Home deny that (hero ta such a thing aa a pair o f children lovers. I deny their uegatlou. and I do so uu a very sound basis. When I was ten yours old I wua In love with a boy of tlfleeu. This la thu nearest i ever came to love 1 remeiulivr one day sitting at my window wwlng when a boy and a girl lataaed on the other aide of the road. The boy'a straw hut was dingy, and there was plenty of ventllatlou In Its crown ills only other rlothlug was a shirt and trousers uo shoes or stock lugs, nothing around bis thrisil, Ida collar betug open and duplnylng the tanued skin The girl's clothing was neither lidtcr nor worse, uud there was about as much of It. The two were evidently ahaorlicd lu each other. What they Were talking about I was too fur from them to hear, hut It was o f vital Importance. It may be that ttu* boy had been "kept lu" after school mid they were Indig nant over time thus lost lu (day. it may be that some urchin had smashed the china ticud o f the girl's doll. Whatever It wus It was being discuss ed with animation. Ami i maintain that Utaaa ahUtftah Interests are of more real Importance for the time being than those which como later. No addition to mi ndult'a atock o f wealth gives the same zest as a new toy to ouo of Iheae little people. Often afterward I saw these two and always together, lu this they were dltTereut from other children who play, boys with hoys uud girls with girls. 1 learned that they were lleury Morse nud Lila Itunker, a t tinner's boy and farmer's girl Indeed, we were nil farmer folk, all knew one auolber, ev- erybody being Interested In some degree at least In every one else, u simple com niunlty uud more than usually tree from the petty Jealousies couiuuu to man kind. lleury Nause a father wus dctuimlucd that his sou should luive a good cducu tion. and the boy was sent a w a y ,lo a< bool. After this 1 Used to see I.llu going by our house, hut uo companion supplied Henry's place She was al ways alone, mid I fancied her thinking of her other self, liuf this was simply fancy on my purt, As 1 have suld hi (he begin slug, not having hud any love affairs o f luy own. I conjure up love nffnlrs for others. lu this case of lleury uud I.llu 1 knew nothing of what was passing between them except from observation, so I tuny lie excused for tilling lu occasionally that the story- may not seem too disconnected. At the last I was present mid shall not have to draw on my lmugliintlou. Wbeu lleury cutue buck front school there was a more modish uppeurunce to Ills clothes and lo Ills maimers. I ’oor Mia, who bad remained on the farm. Imd only an unadorned beauty, freshened by pure air uud sunshine They were now about sixteen years old, though Henry wus hulf p head taller, and I could not see (hat their In tercst in each other hud waned, though thu childish uiu-ouaciousnos* that they wore o f dllTercnt sex had disappeared I used to see them go by the house to. gether us formerly, but the prattle of childhood Imd given plucc to the more sober conversation of youth. I often wished I could hear what they were saying to each other. Henry did so well at school thnt his father decided to send him to college. 1 wondered what effect Ills four years' association with young men and worn en o f the world would have on tuy pet love affair I feared that Henry, hav ing become used to the polished girls he would meet, would return to ace III I.ila a country girl lacking the airs and graces o f her slaters of the city Would this alienate him? It wus to he expected thut it would. And, though country horn and bred myself, I don't know that those o f us who go to the city and uci|ulre city ways ure to be blamed vv hen we return and yield (o dissatisfaction with country vvuys. Henry remained away a year at col lege before he came back to the farm. Then one July morning, vvliun sitting at my window durnlng socks, I looked up, aud, there on the opposite side of the road were the couple I hud Orist noticed eight or nine years ago as children Though Henry was plainly dressed, his clothes were uot country clothes. It seemed to me that be might pass anywhere us a city bred young man. And I.ila—how my heart went out to the pour child In her effort to drosa In a fashion more III keeping with the apparel o f those girls to whom Henry hud been accustomed. It wus all Inference with me but It was plain to see that she tiud prepared herself agnlust his return to modify the differ ence between her and their habiliments. i wondered If ne noticed this and If It pleK-'.al or displeased hint. Unruly her effort wua not very successful lu the country one uiay get city fusblous, hut It Is not every worker who euu make them np Itut In lh « few liniments llu-y WHO passing It wus Impossible for Dio to loll If them had been tiny ehaiige lu lenry a feelings for 1,11a. Ho I pieced out the story lu this wt,«. Henry was bcglimlng to sen tile difference between tier nud the girls he had mot. I menu by "her" her clothes - u ci-i1uln deO el*..... In whut illy i>vciplu rail ebie. I am not referring to I.ila us a soul, not even us a body, for til bodily beauty she would doubtless fur surpass many s elty girl Well, whut do l-refer to? Why, clothes mill manner, tlint's all. After this lleury seldom < nine home during vacations. I heard thut he usuully went camping with Ins fellow ■indents. At any rale. I lost Hack of my levers. I was reluctantly obliged to consider m.v story. If uot tlnlsheU, at Isast passing through a stage o f Inter ruption. lleury hud become Interested In a career which would have noth ing to do with farina or farmer people Wlu-ii he was grudunted l leatin-d that bu wus llitcudlug to study medicine Hut before he eiituu-d a medical col- lege his father, who spaicd no expense uu bis educatlou, sent him ahroud When I heard o f ull these matters, which were Inking him farther and further away from provincialism and his provincial sweetheart. I groaned lu spirit, for I saw thut my lova story was likely to end In Uotlillig, It wus Home llinc beforo Henry wus to leave thu medical college that I heard hud news of Mia They said she hud, some trouble that was drag ging her down, but the doctors could not discover what It was. They could uot dlaguose U—thut Is whst they ■aid of It. Her father sent lo the city uud brought u doctor lo the fairn rape dally to see If he couldn't tell what waa the matter with her. The doctor satd he couldn’t tlud any organic trou ble, whatever that menus, and the only remedy he thought might beueflt her was rbnuge o f aeenu. Hu advised her father to taka her ou a trip, tint t'Urmer liuuUer couldn't uffoid to do that, and I.Un didn't care to go. I considered this merely a part of my love story. It wus plain to me that lleury Morse hud drifted away from tliu little girl I hud seen him going by our house with when they were chil dreii, uud the purthig was killing her. They say atury writers often fall In love with their Imaginary characters Therefore It a nut strange that a atury creator like myself should fall lu love with u real person o f tlesh uud blood. I bad always known the Hunkers, so I went to seo I.ila. That wus lu the spring— May, 1 thluk I found her sit ting In an easy chair at her window, pule, languid and without Interest lu anything. It may be thut she divined by my ticnrtiig toward her thut I knew whut wua thu matter with her. At any rate, when I went up to her. took her hand uud drew tier head down on my shoulder sho left It tiiqre utid teemed to get relief from the tears thut came While she was weeping on uiy sboul der 1 W'us thinking. Nut haring any lover lo bring back for myself. 1 wish ed I could bring buck one for this poor girl. Aud I formed a p!au. Hut It was some lime before I car ried It out, uot till summer came. Then 1 told l.ila's parents that 1 thought It would do her good to come and uiuku me a visit, Since I.ila suld she would like to do so, they couaeut- cd, and within u few days she wus In my room, the room from which I had llrst seen her go by with her child lover. I said nothing about Henry Morse either iis boy or mini any more (hull If he didn't exist. Hut when I put Lila lu an easy chair ut the very window from which 1 used lo wutch her uud him, and thought o f her as she was then uud saw b e ns she was now I made up my mind thut if I wus go ing to tuuka u good, real sfory of her case I couldn't rely on things to hap pen themselves. I'd huve to bring them about myself. I was thinking, too, that my love story hud been going on long eiiough, nud it was time it was brought to a close. Besides, Lila was so weak that I feared In her condition she'd contract some rout disease. So 1 wrote l>r. Henry Morse, vv ho had Just been ad mltted to practice, that 1 had u patient in my family who was dying o f some disease that none of our country doc tors could tell anything nhodt, and I would pay him whatever be naked If he would mitke u Dying trip uud diag nose the ease. Ho wrote hack that he remembered ino very well ami would run down In a few days. Of course I didn't let on to Lila what I had done. SI.-' |>oor child, wasn't dreaming what an Influence my seeing her go by my wiudovv so many years before would have on her life. I hoped Henry would coiue us soon ns ikish II i I c , for she was drooping more uiul more every dny. Well, one morning he cutue. He said ho had answered my call nfter his arrival even before going home. I was glad o f this, for I was fearful he'd bear something that might Interfere with my plan. I Just lad him upstairs, opened the door, and he weut lu uud I closed It behind him. I reckon lie didn't make as long n call as that on n patleut for a good many years. I don't kuow whut hap pened between them—didn't see the surprise of either of them All I know is that when he came out two or three hours after he weut In he looked at me as though he was going to say some thing, hut pressed my hand Instead. Then I went In to Llln. She had the hnppicst smile on her face I ever suw. She put her arms around m.v neck and cried and laughed. And that s the cud of the story. I don’t ace why real story writers don’t do something themselves to fin ish their own stories. P A L L S C IT Y N Ä W « — HELPING THE CHILD. Soma Dor.'ta for laothsrs I . Tue« Over In Thair Minds. A fsw d'-nt's might well tie eoneptcu- ously posted In many a mother’s mind. lion't consider It necessary to sys tematically underrate yoor child. Yoor 1 adult friends will know yon do not ! mean It. hut the child wlil not, and ! probably more characters are weak- ened by the lack o f self confidence en gendered by such a process than by the 1 vanity which followa the silly brag- [ glng o f overfond parents. lion 't think that the moment you are alone with your boy or girl yon must find fault or endeavor to Improve this occasion by a little moralizing, no mat- ' ter In how loving a spirit. This ta the hardest of sll. for no one Is so anxlons ! ro help a child toward perfection as la I ita i«ren t, yet It surely leads to an | avoidance o f the moments alone to gether. which should be times of hap j py confidences. Don't correct the child before others. Never mind i f a well meaning relative does say; “ My dear, I am surprised 1 that you do not show more force of 1 character. Your children are suffering j from a lack of discipline." I'ass the | matter over until you and the small offender can have It out alone. I f the circumstances are such that It cannot be paused over take him out o f the room. Lastly, laugh often with, but never at your child. This takes self denial, but It pays. Make up your mind that whatever others may say he can de pend upon you for a quick, sure un derstanding without quibble or joke at his extiense. This does not mean that be must not take bis share o f harmless fun. It Is wholesome, and too much sheltering would make him oversensi tive. but the mother who lets her child know that she never makes fun o f him w ill be surprised at the confidence with which he relies upon 1L—Moth er's Magazine. NEW COMBINATION OFFER The Manufacturer $1.00 2.00 Total Both papers, one year $3.00 $1.50 Falla City New«, one year Increased Cost of Papers The subscription price of th Evening Telegram has been increased to $5.00 per year. We will, however furnish you with the FALLS CITY NEWS one year and the EVENING TELEGRAM one year for $5.00 Send your subscription to this office* i •W -H -l-H ,,H ,,l,,H " H -H " l- l“l-l-l~H-H~h'H iiIi » 11 I I M 'H - H - G E T YOUR B U TTER W RAPPERS P R IN T E D A T T H I S OFFIC E. -P-i-H-K-i-l-H -l-H -l-l-I-H -i- l- i -i-l-H ";- • A COLONY OF BEES. Its Members, Thair Product and ths Heat of a Sting. A colony of hues in summer consists of from 50, (MSI to KXI.OOO Individuals. Each colony coutaiua a queen, several hundred Urout-s und the bulanco work ers. The latter ure neuter or undc- velopud females, uud they do nil the work In the liive, gather their food from the flowers, which consists of honey and |>olleu. They also gather propolis, a resinous substance used to stop cracks and boles in the hive. It Is uot generally known that honey ta not thick aud sirupy when first gath ered. It Is called nectar by beekeepers aud looks like water. When first gath ered It can be shaken from the combs easily. Sometimes It Is necessary to shako bees from a brood comb, and the bees as they fall ure so deluged by the wa tery nectar that they look like the pro verbial "drowned rats.” This, how ever, does no harm, as they at once proceed to clean each other, and when bees clean up they do a good Job. I have put out a dish from the table that was daubed with bouey. aiyl in a very short time It wus as cleuu us though washed. Many persons are very much afraid of the business end of the bee, and Itiose who are uot u*cd to t>ee sting poison suffer |tuln when stung. The sensation o f a bee sting ean be comper ed to the prick o f a needle point in the flesh, and then try to imagine that while just under thu skin the needle is heated white hot nud hold there for about five minutes. Beekcc|>ers w ill agree that this statement is not over drawn. Rpokoopers working about the hives every day are seldom stung, as they know the habits o f the bees and. avoid their prods. In time one becomes more or less immune to the poison.— tleorge Slither In New York Sun. THE SINISTER DRUG MENACE. iH rn c u l F. M . H E L L W A R T H PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Olti-a one door ea»t ol P. O. Men uinl women follow ing virtually every business, trade and profession were included. Even school children became addicted to ttxe habit o f using these drugs. It is u ail full knowledge o f such oc currence» that ibe police are doing everything possINe to stop Illegal traf fic In drugs. Criminals o f this class present a problem even more difficult than the old time I tank robber and gen eral crook. The pc Uce may arrest 1.000 offenders a n n u a l l y b u t the problem will not be solved until boys and girls are taught the tci ‘.-lble results which follow upon the u »a o f habit forming drugs. It Is at this ,oolnt that teachers o f physiology nncl personal hygiene must lend powerful, oo-operstion.—Cen tury Magazine. Skating Held iHIm. O f all the sight» a Japanese student at Missouri university b xs seen Hi this country the one ta ost wonderful to him Is skating, nud tc> the list o f things be tntends learning while In the United States Is the ark o f glldln.T over real Ice. lu Japan, he told the Missourian, lie never had seon any lee tbh*k enough to skate on. the ugh tn the ixiountain regions there Ice dot's form on the lakes In sufficient sirengUi to nfford a chance for skciters. —Katisas City Time«. Coin Profiles. ■W here a face Is used on a piece o f money it is alw ays In profile, becai’se the cameo Is more rvndily struck with the die in that mum or, aud if a full or three-quarter face w ere repiesented the nose o f the gentler inn or l.xdy would get damaged In vl reulation aud pro- dur«; a ridiculous d feet. Not Tkiorough. “ Bllgglns affect si to be a regular cave ma n.” •'Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne “ But he doesn’t carry - out the idea. His clothes are sufiU ietjtly out of style to be annoying w ithout being prehistoric. — WasHinglou Star. Operations and Operations. How Society Is Facing an Exceedingly •A fter all. success is merely a mat Dangerous Human Element te r o f enviroumeu t.” In rigorous effort to suppress the Ille “ As for example ?” gal sale and use of habit forming draks “ Well, the grea test surgeon might tho New York police are now urresFuig possibly bo a dlsn ml failure operating iimiun 1 ly about 1)00 persons and sr cur i ax the Stock Excliaugg.'*—Boston Tran- ing 700 convictions. O f these fu'.ly 75 •crlpt- ________ l>er cent have had previous pot) ee rec ords, which include every criir e In the H » r S a c re d W o rd . statutes. This Is an official v tntement. “ Not golnig to A Dee's luncheon? But one o f sinister portout It means thut yen.i gave y our sacred word!" law abiding society is fncf.ng a human •'So I di d. and Td go in a minute if element new and ezceedlngiy danger m y dress had come home.” —Harper's ous—so grave. In fact, that one of the B tzar. _________ most Important duties o f the police lies tn stamping out this trr.fflc. A Specialist. The danger Is by no means confined “ Ta. u hat’s a. specialist?” to largo cities like N ew York; It Is ” A ma n who has discovered which of probably g ro w in g 'In towns and vil his talents will bring him the most lages all over the country. T olle« In mi mey, my son.*’ —Boston Transcript. vestigations have revealed an appall ing lncreuse o f drug addicts. More 1 -lever mind where you work. I^ t than uu e-half o f those confined In tho yc sir cat s be for the work Itself.— cltyr prison^ !he Tomka. were victims. Si furgeon. Strategy Used to Keep People From Spoiling the Effect. Street crowds are notoriously diffi cult to handle for the movies. They will never do what you want, and even when you are sneaking them there is always some smart Aleck in the fore ground who Insists upon looking into the camera and cracking his foolish face. On one occasion Donlon wished to get a close up picture o f a crowd look ing skyward. It was to be used as a cut-in for an aeroplane story. T o hire s lot of extras might hare cost a cou ple of thousand dollars, so he took a chance o f getting what he wanted with out paying for it. Knowing the psy chology of crowds, Donlon took three cameras downtown, where he set one on the sidewalk for the purpose o f tak ing a close-up proQle o f the crowd he was to assemble, one in a second story window, shooting straight Into the peo ple’s faces, and one on top o f the build ing, also shooting down. When all was ready Donlon stood in the middle o f the street with a mega phone and began to call directions to one Ben. who stood on top o f the build ing. The crowd assembled immediate ly and. seeing the cameras, began, as usual, to rubber right into them. Then Donlon called out; "Is Beu ready to Jump?” And Ben called back: "Just a min ute, Ed. I ’m a bit nervous. W ait till that yellow car gets by. I think I ’ll try for the top o f that big Pasadena car. It ’s wider.” Back and forth they called excited warnings and directions, and the crowd was right on tiptoes. They didn’t know what was going to happen, but it promised excitement. All this time the camera men clicked that fool crowd into celluloid immortality.—Rob Wagner in Saturday Evening P o st fa lls '' I l f , Phon*. 8«8 Ortfou ATTOHKÏY-AT-LAW K. P IA S E C K I E. A T T O R N E Y -A T -L A W «ZU Mill Street. DALLAS, ORE. Business Caros HOTEL S *m p l* Rooms Bost Accommodations f . Drotg«, Proprietor BAHr.KIt HHOP3 Bohie’s Barber Shops Falls C ity, Orsgen Wlwrc yoa css get s Shive, Bair C m , talk ■>r ‘Milne- Afest for Dallas A t»m Laistfry Bundle* for*aided luemdmj evening MONUMENT* G . L. H A W K I N S MARBLE A N D G RANITE M ONUM ENTS Dallas, Oregon STREET CROWDS IN MOVIES. Falls City, Ore. f H ' I 'H I 1 1 4 -H -H - professional J THE FALLS CITY NEWS. THE FALLS CITY NEWS, toil. SSS! R O N B R AL DIRECTOR R. L. C H A P M A N FUNERAL DIRECTOR f V Jt altsnd <o ail work promptly. Dallas and Falls City, Ore. RF.Ai ESTATE J. O. M IC K A L S O N Dealer in H E A I . IN S T A T E Falls City, Oregon. BHOWN-SIBLEY ABSTRACT CO: SID Mill »irret. Osile*. Or*r>»- JOHN K. SIBLEY. Rentier. nur eb-tract pieni I* pouted delly trow Polk C om ily Records. Notice to News Subscribers A mark here indicates that your subscription is delinquent. Please call and fix it. Homs S « « k « e - FALLS CITY, OREGON ] Buy Orchard Land Decimating an Army. Post Office Time Card T o say that an army is decimated means, strictly speaking, that, it loses a Office hours: D aily, except S u n tenth o f its men. If. then, an army is day, 8 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. decimated ten times, what is le ft of it? An English publication that raised the Mail arrive«, from question, because war correspondents Salem 9.00 a.tu.. 6:15 p.m. so frequently misuse the word "deci mate,” was astonished to find that Dallas, 9:00 A . M-, 6:15 P. M. many o f its readers think there would Portland via Gerlinger, train 102 be nothing left of I t In point of fa c t 11:55 a. m. an army o f 100.000 decimated ten times would still numlier 34.S70 men. Figure Black Rock, 1:30 P. M. it out for yourself.—Youth's Compan Mail closes for: ion. High Cost of Living. The researches o f Professor Mead of the University o f California show that 310 men own 4.000,000 acres o f the best land on the continent and that one railroad owns 5.000,000 acres. The report o f the secretary o f agrt culture shows that less than half of the arable land in the United States is under cultivation. Here is a suggestion for those seek lng the cause at the high cost o f liv- ing —St. Paul News. Borrowed Books. Whenever you lend a book Jot down tn a small blank book kept in a, con venient place for that purpose the date, the name o f the person to whom the book ts lent and the title o f the book This will prove a safeguard against losing books or forgetting where they are to the person who allows many books to be taken from his library. Tyranny. There are few minds to which tyran ny Is not delightful. Power Is noth ing but as It is felt, and the delight of superiority Is proportionate to the re sistance overcome.—Johnson. m Salem ,8.50 A.M ., 1 P.M. and5:30 P. M. Dallas, 8:50 A. M. and5:30P. M. Portland via Gerlinger train 102 1 p. in. Black Rock, 1 A. M. Mail Order and Postal Savings window closes at 6 P. M. S u n d a y O n l y Office hours: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m: Mail arrives from Salem, 9:00 a m. Mail closes for Salem, 8:50 a m. General Delivery Window Open From 9.30 to 10:30 A. M. Effective March 11, 1917. I r a C. M e h r l i n g , Postmaster E x tra copies of The New s are printed each week, and w ill be sent to any addreas desired, postpaid, for 5 cents per copy. Correspondents wanted in «v e ry In the march o f life don't heed the order o f “ Right about!" when you know you are about right.—Holme«. neighborhood in this section ot the country. y