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1M0H 1 fltCM! Itt'U.CTtff, IIKM. OH ROUS, Tllt'lWHAY, Jtrr.Y fll, 1931, ' GOT JOHM BURROUGHS' 'GOAr OrMt NMurnlUt Admitted Thst Iron Wall of Treasury Vault Had Bad Cffret on Him. It was while silting In frntt of the Iron wnll of t lie tronstiry vnult nt Washington (lint John llitrroughs, guard Inn of the $,V,IXH),M) tho vnnlt contained, wrote Ids llrot hook, "Wnko Jlnhln," In tlmt hook It tins Men thought tlmt ho got closer to nntnro tlinn In nny of tlio others. "Porhnp I did," hp wild of It. "I know I was .closer to It In longing. Tlmt Iron wnll renrted on mo." Mr. Hurroughs realized, of course tlio necessity of money to pmvlile the comforts of existence, nnil Ills hooks brought htm n handsome return. Anil this recalls nn Incident of n fox hunt In which he ntul his brother, Khon Joined nhout n dozen yenrs ago. Kbon Burroughs lived nt Ilotmrt. In the CntskUls, nnil on this particular hunt the honors went to Klien, who shot the fox. At Hint time fox skins wen worth nhout $T, mid the successful brother relished tolling of his success, Once when boasting of It to n warty of friends he was halted by this from Brother John: "Vou hnve bragged nhout that fox hunt long enough. You shot the fot ntul sold the skin for I wrote n little nccount of the hunt nnd sold It to n magazine for 575. So there you nre." MdST TALK NOT CONFESSIVE Assertion Made That Anecdotes Com. pose by Far the Greatest Part of Conversations of Americans. Tor hours n group of men will talk, end nil problems fall like ducks ou a rifle range before their well-aimed epigrams. It may be a brilliant ses sion, but we cannot forbear thinking that not many serious thoughts arc expressed with fervor, that few hon est emotions have adequate utterance. A gathering often Is devoted to anec dotes, quips and the cracking of Jokes, like the biblical thorns, under the conversational poL Of course, much conversation Is nec essarily anecdotal, but two travelers 'who meet In the smoker of a train crossing our American plains do not tell anecdotes merely, says the New York Sun. There the anecdotes take on more meat and grow In length they become tales. Again, however learned we are, we forget our pedan try when we talk In a smoker. Yet over a meal among those we know and will meet again we slough oil our Impulse to modesty and sincere self-expression and launch forth In all our drab erudition or else we sparkle in anecdote and say nothing to the point; forgetting tlmt the best Jests, aside She point, seem point less. In short, there Is not always enough confesslve conversation between Americans. In France and In Latin America the art of conversation has become an art of confession of the confession. Indeed, of one's faiths, foi bles nnd fancies. As for us, we feel that no one Is so sympathetic per haps, ns to merit listening to our personal histories, or, what Is more to the point, the emotional accom paniment of these histories. WRITER'S RIGHT TO BORROW Highest Authority for the Practice In the Works of the World's Greatest. One reads for thought and for quo tation not less; If he find his thought more finely conceived and aptly ex pressed by another, let him quote with out hesitation or apology. He has the highest authority for the practice. How rich Is Plutarch's page, Mon taigne's, ISaeon's! Am! what they bor row Is of a piece with their own text, giving It added strength und grace. I know the fashion of our time affects disdain of borrowing. But who Is rich enough to refuse, or plead honorably for his excluslvenesM? Somehow the printer happens to forget bis quota tion marks, and the credit of origi nality goes to the writer none the less. The plea is that quoting often Im plies sterility and had taste. Then Shakespeare and his contemporaries were wanting In wit and fine rhetoric ITear how Montaigne Justifies his practice: "Let nobody Insist upon the matter I write but my method In writing. Let them observe In what I borrow, If I hdve known how to choose what Is proper to raise or relieve Invention, which is always my own; for I make others say for me what, either for want of luuguage or wunt of sense, I cannot myself well exprpss. I do not number my borrowings, I weigh them. And had I designed to raise their es timate by their number, I had made twice as many." Brouson Alcott It Stands to Reason. The other day a downtown princi pal summoned before her two young sters who hud been gvllty of light ing another boy. After proving their guilt, she turned the husky, looking youngster over her knee and administered a good, old-fashioned spanking. Hut at the other one she hesitated. Hlie voiced her reason to u teacher standing near: "I hate to whip hlin. lie's bo thin and sick ly looking," she said. The chunky culprit overheard her speech. "I guess criminals caa be skinny as well as fat," bo sobbed ac cusingly. BullotJn "WANT ADS" Bring Be eults Try Them. FRENCH PLAYHOUSE ON BOAT Actors In ntmarMbU Theatre Oald ta Find Their Octupa. tlon a Plat.int One, Art rrntiet has a plnjhntnc, built on a hnrge, which travels from Tours to I Strasbourg. It Is A gorgeous affair i painted In white ami silver and railed Iho "bateau !lnnlre," It wnnders along the cnmits nnd wherever It stops the French, who have few entertain ments, crowd Into the fulminant to sop a dramnt'e representation. It Is ' ngrocnhlo life to move leisurely by 1 canal ntul river, to stop where one pleases, to play lo a crowded home In a snlle, which is nlwnys ready, to ' tve plensure to a whole community nnd protlt to oneself. The room where the performances take place Is spac ious enough. It holds tlve hundred persons, and every one of the fnut- eunlls covered In rod velvet In this blue nnd gold decorated hull Is oc cupied whenever the floating theatre ensts nnclior In nn out-of-the-way town. The actors are their own mariners. There Is much work to be done on bonrd nny kind of boat, ns nit who hnvo ever helped to sal', a yacht will agree. They all lend n band. They scrub the decks and they make the preparations which are constantly called for. What do they not do? They go out shopping and Is there nnythlng so delightful as to shop al ways In strange towns? They pre pare their play bills nnd announce their advent. The mere business of acting Is only an Incident in this va ried life. LINKED WITH GLORIOUS PAST Town of Stelnamanoer Within Terri tory Ones Important Part of the Old Roman Empire. Perhaps It was not without deep sen timental reasons that former Kmperor Charles of Austria-Hungry chose the town of Steluamnnger to the Hun pirlans, Szombnthely as a place from which he hoped to receive the ncclnlm of his former subjects ns their returned ruler, says n bulletin from the Wash ington headquarters of the National Geographic society. It has been the cherished policy of the Hnpsburg rulers of Austria-Hun gary to rejuvenate the old "Holy Homnn Kmplre," the Franklsh nnd lat er the German union which clnlmed to be the heir to the power and over lordship of Home. The affiliations of what was Austro-IIungurlan territory before the World war, with the old Roman empire, were perhaps closer through Stelnamanger than through any other town. The present town Is In the site of the Itomnn Snbrla, which was the capital of one of the chief divisions of Pannonta the name given by the Romans to the province which covered the heart of modern Austria Hungary. A "Sand-Bow." The unusual optical phenomenon of a rainbow produced by the sun shin- ' l&g not on rnln-drops, but on particles of sand suspended In the nlr by wind, was witnessed oyer a part of the Great Salt Lake by some surveying parties. ' The colors were very brilliant, and ' there wns a secondary bow visible. The main bow was fully double the width of an ordinary rainbow. Only a segment of It wns seen. The sand was colltlc, consisting of calcareous spherules of fairly uniform size, rang ing between the limits of No. 8 nnd No. 10 shot, which are polished nnd exhibit a pearly luster. It Is pointed out thut the production of the bow must have been due to reflection from the outer surfaces of the spherules, and cannot be explained on the rule of refraction and total reflection, gener ally applied In the explanation of the rulnbow. Selenium a Rare Element. Selenium Is a rare and little-used element described by the" United States Geological suney, Department or the interior, as having Its greatest life In giving a red colar to glass, such ns that used In railroads for signal lights, and In coloring ennmclad ware red. It Is also used to overcome the natural green color of ordinary glass. Selenium Is peculiar In being n very poor conductor, of electricity In tne darn nnd a fairly good conductor In tho light and Is ued In several electric devices whose utility depends on tills peculiarity. It has been .used In telephoning nlong n ray of light nnd In transmitting sounds and photo graphs from one place to another over a wire. China to Have Large Mint One of the largest mints In th world, with n possible dully output of 600,000 silver dollars, Is to be erected at Shanghai, China, at a cost of about $2,000,000, under the direction of an American expert. When completed, In about two years, It will absorb some H tons of silver a dny In Its tnsk of establishing a standardized currency In China, where the present unit of vulue, the Mexican dollar, competes with as many varieties of colu as there are provinces. The Chinese tael, now used for reckoning, Is not n coin ut all, but a measured slug of sliver, the value of which varies In different part of the country Popular Mechanics Magazine. Disappointed Hopes. "Hiram," said Mrs. Corntossel, "our boy Josh bus learned to play u regular tune on his new violin." "That boy won't do nothln' but waste time. Wlmt does he want with regular tune? I was educutln" him cr loaw of a Jazz orchestra." In i V DULL JJVU mat DHUMMOND IrV UfA.U s I 1 - Slowly Lnklngtoil sank Tmck In his chair, n hard, merciless smlUi on his lips; nnd for a moment or two then; whs silence In the room, it was broken by the unkempt mini ou the sofa, who, without warning, exploded unexpected iy. "A truce to all this fooling," ho burst forth In a deep rumble; "I con fess I do not understand It. Are we assembled lion' tonight, comrades, to listen to private ipinrrel.s mid stupid talk?" A murmur of approval came from the others, and the speaker stood tip waving his arms, "I know not what this young mnn has done: I care less. In Russia such trifles matter not, llo has the appear ance of a bourgeois, therefore be must die. Did we not kill thousands aje, tens of thousands of his kidney, before we obtained the great freedom? Are we not going to do tlio same In this accursed country? Kill him now 'Kill Him Now Throw Him In a Cor ner and Let Ue Proceed." throw hlin In a corner and let us pro ceed." He sat down, amidst a murmur of approval. In which Hugh Joined heart ily. "Splendid," he murmured. "A mag nificent peroration. Am I right, sir. In assuming that you are what Is vul garly knouii ns a Bolshevist?" The man turned his sunken eyes, glow ing Willi the burning fires of fanat icism, on Druminnnd. "I am one of tho-o who nre lighting for the freedom of the w orld," ho cried harshly, "for the right to live of the proletariat." He flung out his anus wildly. "It Is freedom ; It Is the dawn of the new ago," Hugh looked at him with genuine curiosity; It was the first time he had actually met one of these wild vision aries In the flesh. And then the curi osity wns succeeded by a very definite amazement: what had Peterson to do with such as he? Kor the moment his own deadly risk was forgotten: a growing excitement filled his mind. Could It be possible that here, at lust, was the real object of the gung; could It he possible that Peterson was organizing a deliberate plot to try "'"1 Bolshevist! Kugliiud? He looked up to find Peterson regard ing him with u fnlnt smile. "it Is a little difficult to understand, Isn't It, Captain Drummond?" he said, carerully flicking the ash off his cigar "I told you you'd find yourself In deep water." Then be resumed tho contem plation of the papers In front of him. Hugh hnlf closed bis eye.-i, while u general buzz of conversation broke out round the table, ' Fragments of convenatlon struck his ears from time to time, The Intimi dated rabbit, with the light of buttle In his watery eye, was declaiming on the glories of workmen's councils; a bullet-headed man was shouting an In spiring battle cry about no starvation wages and work for all. "Can It be possible," thought Hugh, grimly, "thut such as these have the power to control big destinies?" And then, becnuso he hud some experience of what one unbalanced brain, whose owner could talk, was capable of nchlovlug; hccnuo he knew something about mob psychology, his half con temptuous amusement changed to a hitter foreboding. "You fooll" ho cried suddenly to tho Russian; and everyone ceased iiiik lug, "You poor dd boob ! You und your nuw earth 1 In Petrogr.nl today bread Is two pounds four shillings u pound; tea, fifteen pounds a pound. Do you cull thut freedom?" He gave a Ill i The Adventures of A Demobilised Officer Who Found Peace Dull cyril msnhle "SAPPER" IHustraiions btj IRWIN MYERS Copyright by Geo H Do ran Co contemptuous fatigu. Too sill prised to speak, tho Rus sian sat staring at him; and It was Peterson who broke Iho silence with his suave olce. "Your distress, I am glad to say. is not likely lo bo one of long iluni turn." ho remarked. "In fact, tho time has come for jou to letlro for the nlsht, my young friend." llo stood up smiling; then he walked over to the bell behind Hugh and rung It. "Pond or mud I wonder which, lie throw the end of his cigar Into the grate ns Hugh rose. "While He Opened the Door and Stood There ! Smiling. deliberate down here on various mat- ' ti.f-M lt Itnfinrtnti.. ..I. ..II I . .. !" nv " . i-iMiti in- iiiillh- Ing of you upstairs that Is to say, If you get there. I m Hint Laklngtim Is even now beginning to gloat In pleasant anticipation." Not a muscle on the soldier's face twitched; not by the hint of a bsik did he show the keenly watching au dience that he realized his danger. Laklngton's face was merciless, with Its fiendish look of anticipation, anil Hugh stared at him with lee eyes for a while before he turned towuril the door. "Then I will sny 'Good night," he remarked casually, "Is It the same room Mint I had last time?" "No." said Peterson. "A different one SocJnlly prepared for you. If you get to the top of tho stairs n man will show you where It Is." He opened tho door and stood there smiting. Anil nt that moment all the lights went out. TWO. Tho darkness could be felt, as real darkness Inside a house always can bo felt. Not Iho fnlntest glimmer even of greytiess showed anywhere. nnd Hugh remained motionless, won dering whnt the next move wns going to be. Now that tho night's ordeal bad commenced, all his nerve had re turned to him. He felt Ice-cold; nnd ns his powerful hands clenched nnd unclenched by his sides, he grinned fnlntly to himself. Then very can tlously be commenced to feel his way toward the door. At that moment someone brushed past him. Like n flash Hugh's hand shot out nnd gripped him by the nrm. The mnn wriggled and twisted, but ho was powerless as a child, und with nnother short laugh Hugh found his throat with his other hand. And again silence settled on the room , , , SUM holding the unknown man In front of hlm, he reached the foot of the stairs, and there he paused. He had suddenly remembered the mys lerlous thing which had whizzed past his bend that other night, and then clanged suddenly Into the wall beside hlm. He had gone up five stalra when It had happened, and now with his foot on the first, he started to do some rapid thinking. If, as Peterson bad kindly assured him, they proposed to try nnd send hlm mad, It was unlikely that they would kill him on the stairs. At tho same time It was obviously nn Imple ment capable of accurate adjustment! und therefore It was more than likely that they would use It to frighten hlm. And If they dld-lf they did . . . The unknown man wriggled feebly In his hands, nnd a sudden unholy look came on to Hugh's face, "It's the only possible clmncp," he said to himself, "and If It's ynu or me, liiddle, I guess It's got to be yon.'.! i J I ,. it til a UK Willi n quirk liearp lie Jffked Hie mnn off his feel, ntul llfleil IiIih up Mil his hind wns nliore Hie level of his oiwi, Then clutching hlm Unlit In coinmi'tircil lit climb. Hie own lienil was bent down, aoinewhcrn In tho region of the man's back, ntul ho took no liollce of tho feebly kick lint legs, Then nl lust he roMrbed Iho fourth slop, mid gate a llunl iuljiil inrnt to Ills soml-cotisclollN himlcli, lie pros'od tils lieinl oM'ii lower III the man's buck, mid lifted hlm up another throe Inches. "Mow awfully Jolly!" ho murmured. "I hope the leslllt will please oil," "I'd stand quite t'ti if ro ion," pnld Peterson suavely. ".Inst listen." As Hugh bad gambled ou, tho por foruimico was designed to frighten. Instead of that, something hit the lieek of the limn lie was holding with such force tlmt It wrenched hlm clean out of his arms. Thou came the claim hcshlo hlm, and with a series of ominous thuds n body rolled down the stairs lulu the hull below, You fool." lie beard Laklngton's olco, shrill with anger. "You've killed hlm. Switch on the llslil . . ." Hut before the order could he car ried out Hugh had disappeared, like a great cut, Into the darkness of the passage above. As luck wmtld have It tho llrst room he darted into win empty, mid ho flung up the window unit peered out. A faint, watery moon show oil hlm a twenty-foot drop unto tho grass, and without hesitation ho (lung bis legs over the sill. Ami nt that mo ment something prompted hlm to look upward. It was a dormer window, and to an active mini access to the roof was easy. Without nn Instant's hesitation ho abandoned nil thoughts of retreat; and when two excited men rushed In to tho riHim ho wns firmly ensconced, with his legs nstrlde of tho ridge of the window, not a yard from tl.elr heads. hefurrly hidden In the shndoe-. he watched the subsequent proceedings with genial toleration. , raucous bel low from the two men announced that they hud tllscocrcd Ills lino of escape; mid. In half a minute Iho anion was full of hurrying llttures. One. calm mid Impassive, nls Identity betrayed only by the Inevitable cl.'nr, stood by tho garden door, apparently taking no part In the game; l.aklng Ion, blind with fury, was running round In smnll circles, cursing umr) cue Impartially. "Thu car Is still there." A mnn came up to Peterson, mid Ilu;b heard tho words distinctly. "Then he's probably oer at Hen- Ion's house. I will go mnl see." Hugh watched the thick-set, mas sive figure stroll down towuril tho wicket gnte, and ho laughed gently to himself, 'I lion he grew serious again, mid with a slight frown ho pulled out his watch nnd J led nt It. Iliiir-pnst one . . . two more hours ueiore imwn. Aim in tliosc two hours ho wanted to otptorc the house from on top; ivspoclnlly ho wanted to lone a look nt the mysterious central room or which Phyllis bnd spoli-n to into the room where Lnfcliigt,n kept his treasures. Hut until the excited throng below went Indoors, It was unsafe to move. Onoo out of the shadow, any one would bo able to see hlm crawling over the roof In thu moonlight. At times tho thought of tho help less man for whoso death ho had In oim way been responsible recurred to hlm, but be shook his head angrily. It bad been necessnry, ho rcallzoi: yon can carry romeono upstairs In a normal house without hlin having his neck broken but still . . . And -then he wondered who ho was. It had 1 n one of the men who snt I round the table of that he was toler ably certain. Hut which . . . ? Was It the frightened bunny, or the Rus- i slnn, or tho gentleman wIMi the blood shot eyo? The only comfort was that whoever It had been, the world would not be appreciably the poorer for bis sudden decease. The only regret was that It hadn't been de-ir Henry, . . , He had n dlstate for Henry which far exceeded his dislike of Peterson. He's not over there," Peterson's voice enme to him from below. "And we'vo wasted time enough ns It Is." The men had gathered togo-Vr In a group, Just below when? Hiist was silting, evidently nwnltlng further or- dors. "Do you mean to sny we'vo lost the young swlno again?" sniff Laklngton nngrlly. Not lost merely mislaid," mur mured Peterson. "The more I see of hlm the mom do I ndmlro his Initia tive." Laklngton snorfed. It was tlmt (1 il fool Ivolsky's own fault," ho snnrled; "why didn't be keep still as be wns told to do?" "Why, Indeed." returned Peterson. bis cigar glowing red. "And I'm nfrnld wo shall never know. Ho Is very dead." Ho turned townrd the bouse, "Tluit concludes the outer- tnlnment, gentlemen, for tonight. I think you can all go to bed." He disappeared Into the house, and the others followed slowly. Kor the time being Hugh wns safe, nnd with n sigh of relief be stretched his cramped limbs and lay back against the sloping roof. If only he had dared to light u cigarette. THREE. S It wns half nn holtr before Drum. ,11)011(1 decided that It was safe to stnrt exploring, First ho tool: off his shoes, nnd tying the laces together, ho slung Ihem nroiind his neck, Then, ns . lenlly an ho could, ho commenced to scrnmblo ttpwnrd, IL ' Ui!i iUL ojv operntr,n nn slip ntnl fiotbltig roiibl linve slopped hlm slhllh ilnivii mid filially crnsh llig Into Hie Kiirtlffi below, with it broken leg, nl flie very least, for Ills I hi Ins. In mlilUlnii, there mis lh risk of illslodfltig it slide, nn unwise proceeding In u lioio where most of the occupants slept with ol ye open. Hut nl Inst he got his bands owr Die rliUo of the roof, nnd In mmthor mo ment bo wns silting striiddlewlsii ncross It. A sudden rattle close fo hlm llinile hlm start violently ; only to curse him self for a nervous ass the next mo "cut, mid lean forward eagerly. One t tho blinds had been released from de the room, and n pale, diffused light came filtering out Into the night from the side of the glass loof. llo wns stilt craning backward mid for wind to tr mid llild some chink UllotlKll which ho could see, wlli'll, , with a kind of uncanny dellbernlloti, one of the panes of glass slowly I opened. It wns worked ou a ratchet floiu Inside, mid Hugh bowed bis ' llianks to tho unseen operator below, I Then ho leant forward ciiutloiul), ami peered In. . . , Tho whole room wns visible to hlm, mid bis Jaw lUhleiied as be took In the scene, III an nriiiclmlr, smoking ns unconcernedly ns eer, sal Peter, son, llo was loading a letter, alfll occasionally uiideiliuing some point with a pi m il. Hostile hlm on a table was a big ledger, and eery now mnl then ho would turn over n few pages mid iiinke mi entry. Hut II was not Peterson on whom the watcher above mis concentratlna his intention: Il was Laklngton, tn'tlng a red w-hct box out of a drawer In tho desk, llo opened It lovingly, ami Hugh saw the flush of illaiiiiitids. Laklngton let the stones run through bis hands, glitter ing with n thousand lliunes. while Pe terson wnlrhed hlm contemptuously. "Hnubhti." ho snld, scoriilully. "Piolly baubles. What will ymi got for them?-' "Ten, perhaps fifteen thnttunlid," re turned the other. "Hut It's not the money I cure uhnui ; It's tho delight In having them, ami the skill required lo gel t hem," Peterson shrugged Ids shoulders. "Skill which would give )otl bun dnsls of thousands If vou turned It Into proper channels." Laklngion replaced tho stones, nnd I blow the end of Ills cigarette Into the grnto. "Possibly. Carl, quite xisslhly. Hut It bolls down to this, my friend. ,iint Jou like the big canvas with broad effects; I like tho tiiliilnluro irid the well-draw ii etching," "Whlib makes us n very hnppy com. bliiiitlon," snld Peterson. "The iearls, don't forget, mo jour Job, The big) thing" he turned to the other, nnd ! n I race of excitement came Into his I voice "tho hi" thing Is mine." ! (To be Continued) I W.uhlnoton'e Flrat Newinjn.r The llrst nenslmiier lo. Ml. !,,.,! In i rVnshlugtim un enlli-d tho Wn.lilne. n f;,i7otto. It wns Issued on Jun ,11, ITPd. Brand Directory ARlKt Right aldn; right ear crop. wattle right hind leg. i. TO.VU, Hlstrm, ()rt. dT.lOOe I! .'.SIMMS ,M PROI'INSIO.V.W, ARTHUR K. SMITH CUSTOM TANNER .Ml Work (;iinranteed West Itallioad nnil llo) burn Sis. R. S. HAMILTON Attorney At Law Rooms 1 3-1 C rirst National Hank llli K- Tel. fit t)r, Ci-'t Fcrm.r Ofllct) II. If. PcArmon.1 Chi. V, Kr.klnt DeArniond & Erskinc i . w y i: it s Halrd Building, Hnd. Oregon II. C. 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