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THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
Tuesday, September 16, 19 19
ONE MAN'S PRAYER ,,
Comer McKee once wrote a prayer '
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Better Days
In which he said:
"Blind me to the faults of the other
fellow, but reveal to me mine own.
"Deafen me to the Jingle of tainted
money and the rustle of unholy skirts.
"Teach me that GO minutes make one
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Cuddled up like a mouse, lying up
on a rude board bench at the side of
mi abandoned switch shanty, her hand
ruppurtlng her head and enmeshed In a
mass of loose golden tresses, the girl,
fast asleep, wore a smile upon her
face as though her dreams were pleas
ant ones.
She could not have been over eight
ten and her worn and ragged shoes
and crinkled ribbons were not In ac
cord with the general neatness of her
attire. A man lurched by, young
like herself, paused and stared hard.
"Well, this is a new one!" he mut
tered. "I say, little one, wake up!
This old switch yard Is nc place' for
you."
He had touched one hand lying
loosely over the edge of the bench.
The girl aroused so magically quick
and her big blue eyes opened so wide
and challenging that Myron Trask re
treated a step or two.
"That Is the 6:1") weste rn dispatch,
Isn't It can you tell me?"
"I can," nodded Trask, "but what
have you to do with the 6:15?"
"To get Into an empty car. It goes
to Meriden, my home town, and that Is
the only way, unless I walk."
"I see you have done something In
that line already," suggested Trask,
glancing at her broken shoes, one heel
less and Its side ripped by a rail splin
ter, the other with a flapping sole.
"Yes, clear from Chicago. I can't go
barefooted as I will soon be if I keep
on tramping, so I was going to steal
my way."
Myron Trask took a silent survey of
the forlorn little figure. He steadied
himself erect and breathed hard
through compressed lips. "See here,
Miss," he said finally, "I had a sister
once, and you've set me thinking. Tell
me a little about yourself and maybe
I can help joy on your way."
"Why, yes, I'll tell you all about It,"
said the girl with Ingenuous frank
ness. "My name Is Irma Ditlzlel. I
have been filling a little speaking part
In 'Hearts and Homes.' Good people,
they were, from the manager down. I
run away from home to Join them.
They went to pieces last week and
there wasn't enough left to pay car
fare. I've written father and mother
that I am through with my foolish
dream of becoming a great actress
and am on my way hark to the dear
old place I'll never leave again. Oh
never never never !"
So longing, ho Intense, so rapturous
wi re the accents, so vivid, so rapturous
did they frauie within the mentality of
Myron Trask, that he seemed to covet
such n piwailise of relief and Joy, as
If for himself, for Trask was on the
seat of coutrltion and repentance at
the present time.
"Strange. Miss," he said In an uncer
tain tone, "hut you and I seem to be
In the same boat. I got my dismissal
from service last week for going on u
bout with the ciowd. The road may
or may not take me hack, but no more
of the reckless and silly for me. Ie
got no money, hut the hotel will give
Myron Trask anything he wants, and
you're going to go there with me and
get n good meal. Then you are goliiK
to tin- depot and wnlt for the 8:1.1
passenger. I'll put you In charge nl
old Itoyd Wesley, the conductor. He'll
see yon onto the branch at Aberdeen.
At that terminus you'll have only fifty-
six miles on the Northern. And when
you get back to your dear little home,
stay there, and once In a while think
of the railroad lads, rough and ready,
and sometimes reckless, but with
hearts as big as pumpkins when they
see a wolfian needing help."
"Why yon nlmost make me cry,"
'I'! limu soberly. "You'd make a star
bit on the stage w'th such a human
Interest wpeecli an that. I'll never for
get you."
"Vrb I'd have made a better rec
ord ami kept straight If I had been
bieky etiouk'h tn run ncroaa a girl llk
you." mild Myron, with n slight catch
In bis voice, vn he bade tier gmnlby
nl the depot. "SIi.iw thl riird to what
ecr conductor jmi rim nerns." and
be banded her a bit of i!itchoard
I tiHiii which he had scrawled a few
j word. "I'm not much Jim now, but
I my name will go n fur us that of
'Ii the president of the road with my true
"Keep me yonng enough' to Inugli
with my children and to lose myself in
their play.
"Grant, I beseech thee, that I may
earn my meal ticket on the squnre and
In the doing thereof that I may not
stick the gaff where It does not belong.
"Guide me so that each night when I
look across the dinner table at my
wife, who has been a blessing to me, I
will have nothing to conceal.
"Help me to live so that I can lie
down at night with a clear conscience,
without a gun under my pillow and un
haunted by the faces of those to whom
I have brought pain.
"And then, when comes the smell of
flowers and the tread of soft steps, and
the crushing of a hearse's wheels In
the gravel out in front of my place,
make the ceremony short and the epi
taph simple, 'Here lies a man.' "
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LACONICS
A man may be lazy bnt he Is glad
he worked when he receives pay for
his services.
The way a lady strffers while wear
ing the peg heel shoe attracts more
attention on the street than does the
beauty of the shoe.
Morally there Is no difference In
eating and drinking too much, and the
only difference physically, is where
the pain caused by the overindulgence
Is located.
Although a fellow may appear to be
willing when he hands out a dollar la
charity, yet he feels that this trouble
might have been avoided had he gone
the other way.
The dollnr Is worth 100 cenas only
when spent to mnintnln a human ex.
Istence. To have a premium It must
be used In a way that a second party
Is willing to pay for the use of ft.
If a man makes two dollars n day
and lays up one for the future, he
hardly knows which dollnr he enjovs
the more, the one he lays up or the
one he eats up. Exchange.
With the adoption of the Hylnnd lifeboat saver by the United States navy
and passenger vessels, 95 per cent of the lives now lost through the inability
to lower lifeboats promptly and where a ship Is badly listed will
be overcome. The device prevents the lifeboat from being smashed against th'
side of the vessel and at t
with great ease and speed.
side of the vessel and at the same time enables heavier loads to be lowe.T
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MID PIE FINANCE
Secretary Glass, in a statement for
the public, calculates that the in
come of the government far the fiscal
year ending with next June will be
about six and a half billion dollars,
and outgo about the same.
He adds:
"In the absence of a budget sys
tem it is even more difficult bo fore
tell the expenditures than the re
ceipts of tfne government," because
at any moment between now and next
June and one of twenty-odd commit
tees of congress may spring a bill
that taps the treasury.
The Secretary's statement to the
scheme of handling public money a
lot of the money will be wasted."
Casting back to childhood's- happy
hours you will recall the recipe for a
mud pie. You put in some water,
then you put in some dirt, then if
there seemed to be too much dirt you
put in more water and if there seem
ed to be too much water you put in
more dirt.
In about that innocent fashion are
our national finances now managed
witli the wastage making slops all
over the place. Into that pie tin this
year you must pour six and a half
billion more or less hard-earned dol
lars which is a very appreciable item
public amounts to this: "You will j In national and Individual cost of liv
put six and a half billion dollars into j lng.
the pot." Undoubtedly all of it will This congress is pledged to honest
be spent, and if that is not enough budgetary reform. We are very anx-
you will have to put In some mote.
Nobody has any control over expend
itures. As to how much they will
be, we can trust only to providence.
You may rest assured, however, that
under our planless, happy-go-lucky
ious that it be kept in mind of that
pledge every minute until the pledge
Is redeemed. Take whatever means
are available to keep your friends and
the public thinking about it. Colliers.
WELL SAID
Let go nnd live your own life In
your own way so far as you possibly
can.
No one can enter the kingdom of
yonr own mind ami control your
thoughts.
If you cannot change conditions ynn
can at least stop fretting against thera
and resisting them. Toil can co-operate
with them.
The psychologists have demon
strated that happiness Is largely a
mental attitude. To a great extent It
Is simply a matter of choice on your
part whether you will wate your en
ergy In worrying and fretting over
what you cannot change, or whether
you will get Interested In making the
most possible out of conditions as
they are. Elizabeth Towne In Nautilus.
STORM RUINS PLANES AT MEOLA
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A nnt: -Ho
H nave loved j
M. A sudden rush of tears came to the
of Irma at she chioped th hand
' of her benefactor. She leaned toward
M him and liiipuMvely klrd his
i1! bronred. heard toughened face with thu
low olir dead eUter IIIUt
I ynn!" Then a moment later
be waved adieu to him through an
open coach window and for a long
time after the frnln tin.) g..ne Myron
Trak t"l reflecting. rt'ewlng the
i bik where tbut warm U of gratl
tortl ht hon tteetiW(t
It Mn lol rill,r !) i.,e former
rm-Vb-x comrade of Myron Inter thai
he r. In-wed their co'iipniu im. ,1.
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FOREST-FIRE FORMULA
Rul 1 Be sure your match Is out.
Break It In two before you throw It
way.
Rula 2 Don't throw away burnlnn
tobacco.
Utile S Choose n safe place nnd
make your camp fire small.
Bui 4 Put out jour fire with water
and then cover It with earth.
Bill 5 Don't make large brush
Orra. Choose a Mill day for burning,
ami plow furrows to protect adjuevnt
wood.
WEDDING SUPERSTITIONS
It la bad luck tn marry In the middle
of folding doors or under an archway.
Loud laughter near the time of th
ceremony Is the premonition of tears.
To e streak of lightning Jut be
fore tin w eil.llng ceremony Is a happy
omen.
If It ralna on the bride she g.va
to t married. he will Se pteaturo
come frm all her trial.
T poniN'til a horwh' beneath tba
flower nndr wbbh the girl I iimr
rled lrlti h r s -l fortune.
'or a (hlld I" appear !n the rhcreh
ale'e while the we.t.l 04 par'y 1 I
the church forvtrlis a large finnlly.
tf durli'g the marrlace reremoaf
one of the coupla tmuip tip.,n the
f at of the other It will prot sick-av
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Five airplanes on the Mlneola Held. Including tliree of the largest In the
United States, one of which was the Mnrtiu bomber which was to make a one
stop flight from New York to San Frauclaco, were wrecked by a terrific wind
and thunder storm.
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