The Herald
D. E. STITT, Editor.
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FRIDAY. AUG. 14. 1914.
The. First Benefit
The tirst real results of the
I'm ua mil Canal are being felt
along the Paeitie Coast. The
priee of wheat here for the lirst
time has reached the Chicago
price Heretofore the price paid
in this market has been hve to
ten cents lower than at the river
markets, which includes Chicago
and St. Louis.
The ships are offering to curry
grain from Pacific coast points
via the Panama canal to Liver
pool ami other foreign markets
for -t'2 50 per ton less than here
tofore. This is ti reduction of
around eight cents a bushel in
the freight rate ami this belongs
to the producer. This means
that the grain from not only the
territory west of the Rockies will
go out through the Pacific ports,
but that trainloads of grain
which formerly went to Galves
ton and to Chicago will now
come from the prairies of the
Dakotas, Kansas and Montana
down to the Pacific ports. This
is of particular interest to Port
land in view of the opening of
the Snake river to navigation
up as far as Lewiston, Idaho.
and the projected railway from
Montana down to Lewiston.
Rural Spirit
Secretary Bryan on Drink and
War
Speaking of the recent order
of the Russian government for
bidding vodka in the Russian
Army, Secretary of State William
J. Bryan has this to say in the
July number of his paper, "Thj
Commoner:"
"If the soldier must give up
alcohohbecause it interferes with
his efficiency, why should not
the civilian promote his efficien
cy by giving it up? And if it
is demonstrated that alcohol is
an evil, and only an evil; if it is
proven that it lessens the pro
ductive value of the citizen, who
will say that the nation should
look upon this great evil with
indifference merely because a
few people want to grow rich out
of a drink that is destructive?
Why should we condemn opium,
morphine and cocaine, if we are
to worship at the shrine of
whisky and beer?"
In the Armed Camp
No matter where the Ameri
can traveler goes in continental
Europe, he is forever seeing
soldiers whether in Germany,
which seems all military, or in
Holland or Switzerland, which
seem to maintain military for
no apparent reason. There are
marching men in the streets of
the cities, detachments in the
villages, fortresses on every
border hill, wire entanglements
and masked batteries among the
sand dunes of the seashore.
Europe is literally the armed
camp she has been described.
If you lived where every
waking hour you can behold
soldiery, where the rumble of
lield artillery, humping over the
pavement, causes you to stir ill
your sleep and where the call of
the trumpets comes to you at
dawn, there would be nothing
amazing to you in the idea of
sudden war. In this country,
war has come only at wide inter
vals of time. It is never expect
ed, very seldom counted upon
as a possibility and prepared for
scarcely at all. Hut in Europe
folk' live always under the
shadow of war clouds. It is the
expected thing there. Compara
tively few dream of unending
peace and a great many pray
for the contlict.
"How can these nations," we
say, "think of going to war?"
They can think of going to war
easily enough, because every
hour they are thinking that war
will come Toledo Wade.
Nothing but aDream
"I dreamed the other night,"
said a subscriber this week, as
he handed in three dollars on
subscription, "that I was a news
paper. I saw myself taken tut
of the postoffice and into the
home of my owner, where each
of the children had to look me
over and turn me wrong side out.
After I had been looked over and
commented on by each member
of the family, I was loaned to a
neighbor woman, and her family
used me the same way the other
family had, only the neighbor
man swore a little because I was
not larger, and didn't have more
in me. Finally a sort of mean
looking customer slouched along,
and wanted to know what in
blankety blank any people could
find to interest them in that
blankety newspaper. ' I had been
feeling pretty proud of the atten
tion I was attracting, but when
this fellow began to call me
names, I felt a little ashamed.
He finally got hold of me, and I
was afraid he would tear me to
pieces, but he read me more
carefully than anyone had yet
done, swearing and growling
some as he went along, but I
didn't care for that when I found
how interested he was, and I
was beginning to feel proud
again, when I noticed the address
of my owner on a little yellow
slip up in one corner. I looked
at the slip and saw that the sub
scription on me had expired
several months ago, and I felt
so ashamed I wanted to hide.
"Then I woke up. I told my
wife that the first time I went to
town, I would pay the editor all
I owed him, and a year in ad
vance, and here she is." Ex.
The Prodigal's
Return
By EUNICE BLAKE
John Perkins lived alone with bis
daughter Mildred. He wag an old
wan. aiid she took care of him. He
was blind and partly deaf. His son
Jack bad gone away to sea ten years
before aud had never returned.
Whether he did not care to return or
whether he bad been lost at sea or
killed in a fight or died in some foreign
hospital was not known. His father
believed he was living and would re
turn to him.
Before Mildred was a desolate pros
pect. She was twenty-five years old.
Her father would live probably just
long enough to leave her alone In the
world and too old to marry. As to her
marrying while he lived, he would not
hear of it. On this account he would
not permit her. to have any man come
to see her. But he would occasionally
allow her to go out, and one night at
a dance she met her fate. A young
miller danced with her several times
and nuked her If ho would he welcome
hh h visitor nt her house. She wan
obliged to tell It I tit that her father
would not permit her to have younit
men cull upon her.
Plek ICIwooil, the miller, after the
dance made tniiilrlcN about Mildred
Perkins and learned the story of her
life. Including her nlwont brother. II
hnd fallen In love with her at first
sight and resolved to win her.
One day when Mildred hud gone to
the village to do some marketing the
old man heard a knock at the door.
He answered the munitionx. and.
though he did not see, young man
stood before dim.
'Tat her. don't you know me?"
The old man tottered with out
stretched arms.
"Oh. Jack!" he moaned.
"I've been an ungrateful son, father,
but have repented aud have come back
to atone for my sin. Cau you forgive
me?"
"Forgive you! Indeed 1 do, dear
boy, and you're going to stay with us.
You're not going sway any more."
"I'll reuuilu about here, father. 1
must make a living aad may not lie
able to stay right here. Hut I'll be
near you. How Is Millie? She must
have grown up by this time."
"Oh, Millie is a tine womau now.
I'm glud on her account as well as my
own that you've come home. I've been
dreadfully afraid she would marry and
leave me alone. I've known all along
that It Is not right to deny her a home
and husband and children. It's scIUhIi,
downright scltlsh. Aial It tins been
selllsh of you, to her as well as to me.
to stay away and let her beurr the
burden of your old fiither. Now that
you have come home you ran Introduce
some tine young man who'll marry her
and be a good husband to her."
"Father." siild the young man with
a tremolo In his voice and twinkle
In his eye, "I'll do It."
When Mildred returned she was
astonished to see her father aud Dick
Ehvood. the young miller sho bad re
cently met. sitting side by side on
sofa folded In each other's arms. The
old man henrd Mildred come In.
"Millie," he cried. "Jack has come
back to us!"
Mildred's look was one of great
variety. There were reproach very
mild -amusement, pleasure, and on
her cheeks blushes chasing one an
other like an aurora, t: I wood sprang
up and advanced to meet her.
"And you nre Millie! How you have
changed! When 1 went away you.
were. If 1 remember aright, not quite
fifteen. I knew then you would make
a fine looking wouiuu. and you have
not disappointed me."
That the old man might Infer he was
treating Millie us a sister the stranger
smacked his lips. At this Mildred, who
was between a shock at the decep
tion practiced on her father, a dread of
the outcome and uuiusement at It all,
smiled. It was all very funny. There
wus a good deal of -conversation be
tween the three sbout bygone days,
but It wns finally discontinued by El
wood, who showed a deplorable Igno
rance of family history. Telling Mr.
Perkins that he must go for the pres
ent to his lodgings, he took his depar
ture, followed by Mildred
"For heaven's sake." she exclaimed
when they were alone, "father must
find out that he has been deceived,
and then the effect on him will be
awful."
"It Is not necessary that be should
be deceived." replied the miller.
"He will expect you to eome and
live at home."
"Oh, I'll fix that: only give me a
little, time."
Perkins did insist on his boy going
back Into his own room. Dick con
trived to put him off till he could In
troduce a friend who was to marry
Mildred. The gentleman's name was
El wood, and his business was milling.
"Why. Dick." said the old man. "his
voice Is so near like yours that I
couldn't tell 'em apart"
Dick told his father that Elwood
wns one of the finest fellows In the
world. If he hadn't been he would
not have Introduced him.
The courtship was not a long one.
though It need not have been hurried
Dick told his father that he must g
to sea again since he oiildn't live
ashore, but that Elwood and Mildred
would remain at home, and with this
Perkins was ohllged to he satisfied
After his departure Mildred wrote let
ters from him from foreign ports to
her father ns long as tho aid man lived
Japan's Troublesome Volcano.
Sakurajlma is one of the voiioei
created, according to the old Jnpanesi
ce lends r. In a single night. A specifli
date 718 A. D.-has even been assign
ed for the event, but It Is quite evl
dent from its appearance that the com
Is really a very ancient one. Sakura
Jlmu's form is rugged and weathe'
beaten. Time has furrowed its sides
and the forces of denudation have per
eeptlbly increased the steepness of thi
upper part of the cone by the remove
of all the lighter ejected materials
This circumstance has given rise totn
legend that the northern peak of th
Island separated from the rest of th
summit ridge by a slight depression
Is Inaccessible. As a matter of fact, 1
presents no serious difficulty. Londo'
Graphic.
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