EASTERN CLACKAMAS NEWS. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3. 1927
Six
This Mortal Life Merely Qualifying Ground
for the Life Hereafter
If Back Hurts
Flush Kidneys
By REV. DR. BENNETT, Dean Chester Cathedral, England.
By GERALDINE BONNER
(Copyright by The Bobbs-Merrlll Co.)
WNU Service
STORY FROM THE START
W h i l e d e s p o n d e n t o v e r t he e n ­
f o r c e d h i d i n g o f h e r f ia n ce , Jim
D a l l a s , s l a y e r In s e l f - d e f e n s e o f
H o m e r I ' a r k l n s o n , m e m b e r o f an
Influential fa m ily , S yb il S aunders,
p o p u l a r a c t r e s s , is e n g a g e d to
p l a y V i o l a In a c h a r i t y p e r f o r m ­
a n ce o f “ T w e l f t h N i g h t " on Dull
i sl a n d , o n t h e M a i n e coaHt. A f t e r
t he p l a y
Hugh
Bassett, Anne
T r a c y ' s f ia n ce , T e l l s J o e he h a s
h e a r d h e is s p y i n g o n S y b i l to
learn the w h e r e a b o u t s o f Jim
D a l l a s a n d e a r n t he r e w a r d o f ­
f e r e d by t h e P a r k i n s o n f a m i l y .
T h e b o y d e n i e s it.
CHAPTER II— Continued
He «topped.
Bussett’s eye was
steady on tdm In u cold command lie
knew. There was the same cold qtiul-
Ity In the director’s voice:
“ If the position Sybil's in has made
her suspicious, that's uli right. I'd
like to believe it was the case. But if
any of us—supposedly her friends—
had Inserted themselves in here to carry
ou police surveillance, using me to get
them In—well, I’d not think that all
right.”
Joe leaned over the banister. His
control was shaken, his voice hoarsely
urgent:
“ You got to he fair, Bassett, and be­
cause you're sorry for her is no rea­
son to set her word over mine. It's
not true. Don't you believe me?"
Bassett did not answer for a mo­
ment. lie wauled to believe anil he
doubted; he thought of Joe's desire
to come, of the reward:
"I guess you know, Joe, you cau
trust me to be fair, hut I’m not going
to eonitpit myself I ill I know. It
won t he hard to do that. I can find
out when I get bark to New York.
Anil take this Thom me If what Sybil
says ts True I'm done with you. No
more help from me, no more work in
any company I manage. And I fancy
the whole theatrical profession will
feel the same way." He drew hack
from the stair-foot. The disagreeable
Interview was over. “There’s no good
talking any more about It. Accusa­
tions and denials don't get us any­
where. We'll let it rest till I've made
my Inquiries. I’ll say good-by now
aud hope you'll have a good lime in
the woods.”
lie turned and walked up the hall
to Ills room on the garden front next
the Stokes’. Joe gathered Ids luggage
and went tlit* opposite way, down the
hall and Into the big central apart­
ment. At the entrance door he set
down his luggage and as he bent over
It a wtdspered stream of curses Mowed
from his lips. He cursed Bassett and
his luck, hut Sybil with a savage va­
riety of epithet mid choice or misfor­
tune, for she had undone him.
Straightening up. he looked blankly
about Ills Inner turmoil was such he
hardly knew where he was—and he
retraced tils steps, seeking the seolu
«Ion of Ills room, went up the stairs
In noiseless vaulting strides like .1
frightened spider climbing to Its web.
CHAPTER III
Important mail should come for you
I could send It therp to meet you on
your way hack. Algonquin Inn—I’ll
remember that. Then ofT tomorrow
morning—It'll he lovely in the woods
now.”
“ Any placp would be lovely after
this beastly hole.”
"Beastly hole! I thought you liked
NLESS man qualifies himself during his sojourn on earth he
cannot hope for any sort of life in the world to come. The
outstanding lesson of the whole organic process of life is that
any organ which would enrich itself must first qualify itself,
and, therefore, if we who are here are to have any life at all hereafter we
must qualify ourselves. And that is the sole purpose of the life we spend
here— to qualify ourselves, to save our soul, that bundle of our doings
and our thinkings which we create for ourselves.
Since man must qualify himself for life hereafter, he can merit only
complete destruction if he does not tend his soul, as is the purpose of life.
I do not believe that there is any such thing as “ eternal punishment,”
because if there is to be punishment there must be life, and that life is to
be attained only by man’s efforts to qualify his soul here, and such quali­
fication merits not punishment or destruction but the reward of an eter­
nal life.
U
cat's. She nad never aeon him look
like that; he seemed a stranger, a
horrible stranger, and she drew away,
aghast at the revelation of a being j
so slnlsterly unfamiliar. Her look ;
brought him hack to self-control. He
jerked his head up, run u hand over
his hair, and turned away to the win- 1
dow. Standing there he said:
"Well. I take that back. I didn't !
It r
mean to say It. But she’s made me
"Did you? Take unother guess.”
“ You expected to like It.
Y’ou mad; I thluk she'd make anybody."
The tone, surly still, had a placat- j
wanted to come."
He made no answer, but slanting Ing quality; it was as near an apol- j
his body sidewise with an air o f os­ ogy as Joe could ever come. She felt
tentatious endurance, took out his immeasurably relieved, for he had [
She accepted his
wutch and looked at It. She Ignored frightened her.
By PROF. CAMPBELL, Iowa State Teachers’ College.
the hint—you couldn't be sensitive amends without comment, but she
with Joe—and leaning toward him could not resist a sisterly admonition:
asked;
“ If you'd only stop getting mud over
We need not be concerned about the departure of many young peo­
small things you'd find life so much
"YVhat’t the matter, Joe?"
easier."
ple from farm communities. That is a wholesome economic readjust­
“Matter— with what?"
He laughed:
“ You! Has anything happened?”
ment. There is not room on the farm for every boy and girl born there.
"Oh, no, nothing’s happened.” Ills
“Good udvice from little sister! II
What
is of vital concern is the fact that it is the big potatoes that are go­
words were mlnclngly soft. “ What doesn't cost anything und it’s the cor­
ing- leaving the little potatoes to be the parents of the next generation in
could happen with such a charming rect Ingenue pose.”
lot of people and Miss Saunders play­
He turned from the window smil­ the farming industry.
ing the star role in the performance ing. Joe at his most amluble. If he
If the most capable young people are constantly drained out of the
and out?”
had met her this way she would have
It was Sybil then—he’d been work­ poured out her secret. But her high farming communities, leaving the inferiors to be the parents of the next
ing himself into n had temper over mood had fallen and besides he want­ generation, the race of farmers will deteriorate.
ed her to go—he said he had a letter
Rural life at present is pale and weak. It staggers. It is being bled
to write yet. Lounging toward her
he put Ids hands on her shoulders, white by hookworms— the hookworm of mortgage indebtedness, the hook­
gave her a light kiss on the cheek and worm of the depreciated farm dollar, the hookworm of absentee landlords.
pushed her toward the door.
An investigation I recently completed, revealed that 80 to 95 per
On her way hack along the gallery
she recalled his face In that moment ! cent of the young farm people of intelligence and enterprise, the cream
of rage with troubled question. She j of the young people of the community, quit farming because they can
wondered If there was more disturb- |
find better opportunity in other lines.
ing him than she knew—It was an ex- I
Education is a prerequisite of co-operative marketing. The prob-
| traordlnar.v exhibition of anger for !
such a cause.
She heaved a sigh of lems of co-operative marketing are too big to be solved by ignorance.
relief at the thought that he was go­
There is but one weapon against ignorance, and that is education.
ing. In his present mood there was
no knowing what clashes there might
he, and It was the last evening, and
there would be a full moon, and she
and Bassett would walk like lovers
under Its magic light.
When her door had closed, the gal­
lery nnd living room became as quiet
By DR. W. P. DEARING, President Oakland (Ind.) City College.
as though the house were unoccupied.
Sybil, upproaching If, heard no sound
The greatest need of youth today is just simply their parents. There
of voices, a fact that reassured her,
for the long day had tired her and are certain forces “ strange and new” of modern times that the youth
she had no mind for talk. She was must oppose and that parents must watch and train their children to
coining In by the balcony when she
saw Flora Stokes sitting there read- stand against. The child may ask when a problem arises, “ Which way’s
Ing and deflected her course toward the gang going?” or “ Which has the most kick?” or “ Which has the
the path that skirted the building's most money in it?” but it is the parents’ task to make the question
front. If Flora noticed her she mnile
no sign, her eyes glued to her book, “ Which is right?” a habit with the son or daughter.
“ But I Got Teeth— I Can Bite.”
and Sybil, stepping softly, for she
The undertow has many cross-currents. Waste, for instance. Amer­
dreaded
the
woman’s
resentful ica is a nation of prodigals. Think of how our boys and girls live and
her treatment o f him.
Anne hod
glances, passed along to the entrance
thought It odd he hud not mentioned
of the living room. The place was de­ spend now. If the boys and girls start where we left off as they do, where
It before:
serted and she stopped on the thresh­ are they going to stop? Ease is a dangerous current. Taking it easy,
"You’re angry with Sybil, and I
old for a last look at the sky’s fad­ the line of least resistance taken by the children, while the parents try
don’t think she has been very nice ing splendors.
to you. I’ve noticed It. especially the
Across the depths of the room the to make things as easy as possible, smoothing the rough spots. Strong
last three days and this afternoon
door into the hall opened, but so gent­ men and women are not built in a hothouse.
when we were slitiiig out there on the
ly that she did not hear It. Stokes
Then there is the present dark shadow of lawlessness over America.
rock I tried to make her tell me why.”
made this noiseless entrance in the
He raised his head; the profile
hope that she might be there, and Let us see to it that we don’t breed it in our homes and schools. All
sharply defined against the window-
now, seeing ills hope fulfilled, closed anarchists are not shipped in ; some are being bred unconsciously in
showed a working muscle iu the
the door as carefully, standing against homes.
cheek: "And did she tell you?"
It watching her.
"No, she didn't seem to want to talk
Seeing that she did not turn he
about It. She changed the subject.
pronounced her name. At that she
There's no use getting annoyed about
wheeled, Ilghtntng-qulck, and came ,
It, beciiuae I don't think she has any
forward from beneath the deep jut
reason. You have to make excuses
o f the gallery assuming ns uncon­
for her. Stie's gone through this aw­
cerned a manner as she could.
ful experience and her nerves are all
“ Lovely evening," she said ns she
By REV. JOHN HENMAN RENDALL, New York City.
wracked to pieces. You have to he
advanced. “ It’s been hard to come !
patient and take her us u sort of
In."
nlMIrted person—"
I f the Savior were to enter a modern fundamentalism church and
"Evidently from the length of time !
He dashed the cane down nnd you stayed out there. I’ve been wait- hear the theological bosh preached in it he would wonder what the preacher
Jumped to Ills feet In a volcanic ex­ Ing for you."
was talking about. Sixty per cent of the population of this country never
plosion of rage:
It was not a propitious beginning,
"I don't take her that way.
I especially as he still stood against the 1 enter a church, and one reason for that sad state of affairs is that the liv­
take her for what she Is. a d—d lying door as If intending to bar her exit. I ing dogmas of the dead past have become dead dogmas to the living.
hypoirlte.”
“ I’m going upstair* to dress now.”
The present generation is not necessarily less religious than former
"Joe!" She was amazed, not so
"There's plenty of time. Y’ou can
much at the words as at the sudden­ give me a few- minutes. I've some- ! ones, but it regards the old doctrines as “ simply Greek.”
ness of the outburst and the con­ thing I want to sav to you."
Each religion started with the prophetic type of mind, and had »
torted passion of Ills face.
“ Oh, Aleck !” She stopped with an moral and spiritual message dealing with the kind of life to be lived, not
"She thinks she can treat me any­ air o f weary expostulation. "Don't
way she wants and get away with It. any anything more. Don’t begin that with a creed to be believed. If the founders of all the great religion»
Well, she'll Unit her mistake, she's dreadful subject. I'm aick of It. I were alive today they would fraternize and say, “ We all worked for th*
taken the wrong turning this time. loathe It and can't you see It Isn't uny
same thing” ; but their followers have been intolerant toward each other
She takes me for u yellow dog she use?"
can kick whenever she feels like It.
He went on as If he hadn't heard and humanity has been kept apart
But l got teeth 1 can bite, l’atlent— her:
Religion can exert real influence only when it rises again to the level
tie patient— G—d. I'd like to wrlug
"I've been trying for days, ever
of
its
founders and brings about some sort of unity and co-operation
her neck, the d—d—”
since I came here. And you keep
He used an epithet that brought avoiding me. always having some one within itself.
Anne to her feet, breathing battle: with you. Now we ll he going tmnor- !
"Don't dare to say that of my friend, row, we tuny not have another chance. I
Joe Tracy."
I nnd I must see you and tell you"— !
He stood In front of her, hutnp- he stopped and looked at the gallery.
shouldered, with outthrust Jaw, brows | "Did I hear a step up there?"
drawn low over eyes gleaming like j
» T O HK C O N T I N U E D .)
Anne had taken off her costume
and slipped Into a negligee to do her
packing comfortably, and then de­
cided she had better hid good by to
Joe first. She wanted to tell tilin her
grent secret, see mi answering Joy
leap Into Ills face, for he thought more
of Itassett Ilian anybody, and he'd he
so surprised to hear that Anne, her
charms held at a low valuation, hud
won such n prize
She passed the long line ef closed
doors, voices coming from behind Mrs.
Cornell's, and reaching Joe's knocked
A "couie In.” unlnvltlugly loud and
harsh, answered her and she entered
Joe was sitting In s low armchair,
bent forward, Ills hands holding a
cane with which he was tapping the
flivor. lie looked up to see who It
was; then, without greeting or com­
ment. drooped his head anil went on
lightly striking the cane on the carpet
as If he were hammering In a nail
and It required all his attention, then
raised his head and looked at her—
what have you come here for? the
look said.
It was not a reception to eneourage
confidences and she stood uncomfort­
ably regarding him, trying to Mnd
«■•■nothing to say that would dls|>el •: m « i ‘» z « z « m 4 x « i « x « x « x m x m i 4 x m x « z « x > > i 4 z « x m x *
hi* somber ill humor.
Lure of City Holds Even Poorest People
“ You're all ready? Where's your
luggage?”
"flown by the door Is there any
The hopelessness of effort* to In
author. And there yon are. It re­
thing else you want to know?”
dure people to naive from the erowded minded the hearer of the old people
” 1 don’t warn to know, I was think
log of you. You're always late, and cities to the serenity and beauty of In a Shoreditch almshouse who didn't
It's different here with only one wh > the country, according to the Lincoln want to be sent to the country They
Journal, was brought home to a t.on
liked London and didn't want *o he
to get ashore and Gabriel never will
doner who was asked for u copper by kept awake by the nightingales. One
Ing to wait.”
He mode no answer, continuing his a hobbling old man. When he asked of them liked best of all sounds the
play with the cane. She knew that why he did not I've In the country, clip, clop, clip, clop nnd the Jingle
aometh'iiig was wrong and sat down where hi* old age pension of ten Nils on the hansom cabs. What Is the
shillings a week would go much fur­ humanitarian to do with people who
on the arm of a chair, uneasy, won
ther than In the city, the old fellow are a* human as that?
dering what It was :
"I'm glad you've managed this holi­ wag ready with his reason. "1 should
day
And It's Jolly having Tommy he miserable there," he said, "without
M e a n t M u tu al E x ch a n g e
Travers, he's such a sport.
You'll tne refinements of London life " When
Conversation Is a traffic; and if you
meet him top'ght at Bangor. At the pressed for particulars he said that
Algonquin Inn -wasn't that the name these were the music In the parks and enter into It without some «took of
the benefit of the publle libraries. He knowitvlge to balance the account per­
•f u r
was very fond of the British museum petually betwixt you, the trade drops
"Um."
•| emit to ho sure, because If any | George Bernard Shaw was his favorite at once. ¡Berne.
□ rink Plenty of Water and Take
Glate of Salto Before Break-
faat Occasionally
—
When your kidneys hurt and yonr
back feels sore, don’t get scared and
proceed to load your stomach with a
lot o f drugs that excite the kidneys
and Irritate the entire urinary tract.
Keep your kidneys clean like you
keep your bowels clean, by flushing
them with a mild, harmless salts
which helps to remove the body's
nrlnous waste and stimulate them to
their normal activity.
The function of the kidneys Is to
filter the blood. In 24 hours they
strain from It 500 grains of acid and
waste, so we can readily understand
the vital Importance of keeping the
kidneys active.
Drink lots of good water—you can’t
drink too much; also get from any
pharmacist about four ounces of Jad
Salts.
Take a tablespoonful In a
glass of water before breakfast each
morning for a few days and your kid­
neys may then act fine. This famous
salts Is made from the acid of grapes
and lemon juice, combined with llthta,
and has been used for years to help
olean nnd stimulate clogged kidneys;
also to neutralize the acids In the
system so they are no longer a source
of Irritation, thus often relieving
bladder weakness.
Jad Salts Is Inexpensive; cannot In­
jure; makes a delightful effervescent
llthla-wnter drink which everyone
should take now and then to help
keep their kidneys clean and active.
Try this; also keep up the water
drinking, and no doubt you will won­
I der what became of your kidney trou­
ble nnd backache.
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\ Fundamentalism
Cause of Lack of Religious
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