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THE HAROLD (Copyright, 1916. by W. G. Chapman.) Budd’s Crossing was growing into • sizable place. The population had Increased twelve thousand, there was an apartment house, and Miller’s build ings, containing the new telephone central, with the Bank of North Kan sas opposite, was the picture that familiarized the outside world with Budd’s Crossing when seen on post cards. There was a picture of Newton park, with a couple seated upon a bench, the young man’s arm around the girl’s waist. The young man was unmis takably Harry Fisher, for the angle of photographic impact showed his pointed, aggressive chin distinctly. The girl, whose back alone was visible, certainly looked like Netta Clare of the telephone exchange. The picture, which was snapped by flashlight, caused a good deal of scandal; and from the fact that the principal fig ures in it both laughed it might have been inferred that they were engaged to be married. They were. Harry was in the bank, ■nd he could look up and see Netta opposite the switchboard across the street. Netta never looked at him, how ever, being attentive to calls. How the quarrel started nobody knew. But the first thing known was that Netta and Harry were not on speaking terms, and presently Harry was running after half the girls in town, and holding himself defiantly Men arid Women Rushed for the Hill side. toward the world, except when he slunk down a side street to avoid meet ing Netta. Budd’s Crossing Is on the main rail road line, and lies five miles beneath Lake Lomond, which irrigates the thirsty section by means of a huge dam, back in the mountains. If ever the dam burst engineers, and people with plain ordinary sense as well, de- ____ _ that Budd’s Crossing would R just about have time to know it—no more. All agreed that only those on the outskirts would be able to make the rim of the horseshoe round the town in time. Budd's Crossing was not worrying about the concrete dam, guaranteed to last three centuries. It was worrying about the bank robberies in neighbor ing towns. The Colton gang had held up the banks of Newboro and Gasthaus in broad daylight, taken out the con tents of the disrupted safes, and rid den off unscathed. Budd's Crossing had prepared for them—at least, the bank had—in the shape of two armed guards who patroled the front of the building and were prepared to shoot upon provocation. Some nervous peo ple described bank robbers In every stranger. Somehow it leaked out that the Col tons had sent a bombastic letter to the president. They promised to have the public's deposits by a certain day. As Colton aped the so-called romantic deeds of the outlaws, the bank's nerves were on the jump when that day dawned. Nothing happened that morning. It was not till two in the afternoon that Budd's Crossing got the thrill of Its career. It was Netta Clare who sent the news forth broadcast: "The dam is breaking. Run for your lives. It will not hold out twenty min- utes.” Out of the business offices, out of five hundred homes, warned by the uni versal panic, men and women rushed for the hillside. Some carried babies, some bundles which they discarded. There was but one thought—flight— in Budd s Crossing that afternoon. In four minutes from the moment of the first alarm the town was deserted and the hillsides were black with people, trying desperately to reach an eleva tion safe above the menace of the flood before it burst upon them. It would sweep Budd’s Crossing •way like matchwood, and rush on. a hundred feet high, a sullen, furious torrent, confined by the mountain walls, to wreak havoc, upon the vil lages lower down. The telephone exchange was desert ed by the terrifled girls. Only one remained. White-faced, but calm. Net ta sat at her post, watching the men ace on the hills above her. She tele phoned incessantly. "Red Mills! The dam has burst. Run for your lives. Donchester! The dam has burst. The flood will be on you in fifteen minutes. Paintsbury! Durham! Exeter! Labury! The dam has burst." She called the last settlement in the valley, and then ran from the ex change, casting apprehensive glances upward. The dam had still held. The town was empty. Only in front of the bank two horses tethered. As she ran past Netta cast an apprehensive glance In through the open door. What she saw nerved her to a realization of what had hap pened. Through the open door, and through the plate glass of the cashier’s cage, she saw Harry, bound and trussed, seated helplessly, while an armed man stood over bim and another worked busily amid the debris of what had been the bank's safe. Upon the coun ter of the cashier's cage lay Harry’s revolver, which he bad drawn too late. Immediately Netta sized up the situa tion. The report was a fake, launched by the robbers in the bold design of emptying the town. It had succeeded admirably, and, with nobody on hand but Harry, they were safe to work their will. The backs of the three were toward her and they did not see Netta creep like a mouse inside the bank. Cau tiously she stole onward, no sound of her footsteps echoing on the boards. "Say, Bill, we chose the day all right," said the man at the safe to his companion, without looking around. “There’s tons of the stuff in here.” “Hurry up, Nod,” answered the oth er. “We’ve got to get home before it gets dark.” Netta stole onward. Now, crouching under the wall of the cage, she was In visible if any of the bandits should look round. She saw Harry, bound, watching the men out of his half-closed eyes. The Icok in them told her that he had been surprised; there was no trace of fear there, and Netta was glad. Softly her hand crept up and touched the revolver. Her fingers closed upon it. "Hands up!” With an oath the man at the safe sprang to his feet, to look into Netta's eyes and thiow up his hands obedient ly. At the same time the man guard ing Harry swung round, with his re volver raised. “Drop it!” He dropped it, and saved eternity by a single second. “Unfasten him!” “Say, now—” protested one of the men. “I count two. One—” Hurriedly Harry was unbound. Stooping, he seized the revolver of his former guard. "March them to jail, Harry. I’ll— I’ll stay here. I think—I think—” said Netta, and fell weakly across the counter. That Is the story of the holdup of Budd’s Crossing. When the townspeo ple crept back, by twos and threes and driblets, two hours later, they found Harry Fisher guarding two prisoners in the sergeant’s office, and Netta at his side. And from the look on their faces it was clear that the old mis understanding had been forgotten. In witness thereof, the massive chest of silver donated by the bank, and the five hundred dollars from the tele phone company. Between Man and Man. Confucianism, the prevailing doc trine of China, Is neither a religion nor a system of transcendental or cos mic philosophy. It is an agnostic system of ethics and a system of practical and purely tem poral common-sense philosophy which sees no farther than this earth. It takes practically no notice what ever of the question of an after life, of eternity, of future rewards and pun ishments, of God. It teaches merely that one ought to do good because It Is man's duty to do good. Confucianism is entirely con cerned with the relation between man and man. Study of Facts. The study of facts Is an important element in education. Not of unre lated facts, or even of related facts which make up a trivial whole. It is essential that some serious sub ject of fairly wide range should be pre sented more or less constantly for a period of at least several years to a man's mind, so that it becomes In a sense his own, before he can rightly be said to have received an "educa tion.” The greater and the more humane the subject pro tanto the education, but any really serious subject will serve. Why Salt Causea Thirst. Salt has been described as a natural element of the blood in about the same proportion as in the water of the ocean. Under general conditions we do not feel the existence of salt in our bodies because its effect Is counteract ed by a due proportion of water. When we eat an excessive amount of salt thirst is created by the demand of nature that we also take a propor tionate amount of water and dilute the salt to ita proper relative amount Any food that tends to absorb the moisture of the body will cause thirst for the same reason—that our physical welfare requires ■ balanced quantity of water. HERMISTON HERALD, REAL UFE ROMANCE PRANK OF FATE THAT RESULTED IN HAPPY MARRIAGE. She Was the "Other Girl” and He the Only "Good Looker” in ths Regi ment Which Was Embarking for War. The scene of the first chapter of this romance Is laid in a city on the west ern coast, a seaport from whose har bor there sailed during the year of the Spanish-American war many trans ports carrying to the Philippines troops of gay and gallant soldiers, most politely generous with their brass buttons. On one of these occasions two young girls, thirsting for adventure, fared forth, armed with a kodak. Snap shots were taken of the soldiers march ing down one of the principal streets from the train to the wharf, but a sad melancholy settled down upon the pair when they were forced to admit that these men were, Oh ! so ordinary look ing, not nearly so handsome as some of the regiments had been. However, to vary the dull monotony which the whole episode was gradual ly assuming, they amused themselves while the men were boarding the ship in endeavoring to pick out the really good-looking one. And they did—one, and one only. But he, being by that time on the upper deck, was quite un attainable, so all the joy that could be extracted from an afternoon which had given such promise was the pleas ure of waving good-by to him as the ship sailed away. But what was their surprise when the snapshots of the marching soldiers were printed to discover that their “good-looking man” appeared in one of them. The pictures were soon pasted into a book and the Incident apparent ly closed. The scene of the second and closing chapter Is now shifted to a town about ten years later. One of the two girls was living In this town. She was a schoolteacher. At a social gathering she met a young man who afterward called on her. In the course of conversation she gave the name of her former home, and the young man remarked that he had been In that city just twice, once when he embarked with his regiment bound for the Philippines and once when he was on his way back after the war. Of course, the old book of kodak views was promptly unearthed, and the girl was not a little surprised when he greeted the picture of “the good-look- Ing man,” with the rapturous an nouncement that It was his old com rade, Jack ----- , who resided in that very town, but was at that time away on his vacation. When he returned he would bring him around, if he might, to see the pictures, in which he was able to dis tinguish many of his former friends. Jack came, he saw, he conquered, with the usual happy ending. I am and was the other girl.—Chicago Tribune. Eye Protection at Movies. Physicians are constantly advising patrons of the movies to protect their eyes. A writer in the Journal of the American Medical Association tells how It may be done. “The progress made In the charac ter of subjects presented in the movies today makes It desirable for all Inquir ing people to at least attend occasion ally,” he says. “Annoying after-ef fects on the eyes of many prevent them from enjoying the social diver sion, and often the educational advan tages, thus derived. The great major ity of those who suffer from eye strain after watching moving pictures can find much, If not complete, relief In perfectly fitted glasses. The picture may not be quite so sharp, but this Is more than compensated for by the in creased comfort. "For those with very sensitive eyes a colored glass, either amber, yellow ish green or amethyst, may be neces sary to give complete relief. There have been put on the market recently several varieties of colored glass, each of which has some advantages, so that some suitable color can usually be se cured. A subdued light In the thea ter is much less Irritating than when the only light visible comes from the screen. It Is also, advisable to avoid sitting In a place where It Is necessary to look upward, as the additional strain becomes very tiresome, and fre quently leaves a headache.” Freeze Feet In Midsummer. How 150 Italian infantrymen were Invalided by freezing their feet In mid summer was told by a passenger arriv ing at New York on the French liner La Touraine. The men were members of a batta lion of Alpine infantry, and had gone to a point far above the snow line tn an attempt to surprise an Austrian force that in no other manner could be ousted from Its position. They had been carefully drilled in walking on all fours and acting the parts of goats and sheep. Two days after leaving camp rem nants of the command began to return. They failed In their undertaking be cause of a terrific storm and because sharp pieces of Ice tore tbetr flannel leggings and exposed their feet. HERMISTON, OREGON. Modesty in Woman Is Golden Key That Opens Door of Man’s Heart APARTFROMWORLD DWELLERS IN ARCTIC CIRCLE LEAD SECLUDED LIVES. By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY Treasure love though ready Still to live without. In your fondest trust keep Just one thread of doubt. It is a sweet trait of feminine mod- esty for a woman to strive to keep from a man the knowledge that he has awakened in terest in her heart if he has not in vited it. Let a man once become aware that a par ticular woman's eyes brighten at his approach or that she is speak ing enthusiastical ly of him' to their mutual friends and she will never have the pleasure of a bow or chat with him on the street if he catch es sight of her first. He would dodge around the first corner, walk a dozen blocks out of his way to escape meeting her. No drag net could be secured to draw him to the home of an acquaintance for din ner If the casual word was dropped that she bad also been invited. He cannot help it. It is the per verseness of man's nature to make a wry face at the peach ready to fall Into his mouth, and long for the one Indisputably beyond his reach. Un consciously, the woman Who shows openly her admiration for him awak ens his antagonism. He Is bound to fight shy of her on general principles, unless she be a widow, very young and very pretty. In that case, her careless admiration Is incense to him, for he feels very confident that she would not remain a widow long if some score or more admirers could have their Verdun Watchman Would Have Busy Time at His Post Today Before the present great war the city of Verdun was an old-fashioned place with some well-preserved ancient customs among which was the official night watchman. Red Cross nurse has recounted, In Le Crl de Paris, her im pressions of the first bombardment of Verdun a year ago. She arrived at night and was very tired after a fatiguing journey. Some time later she was awakened by the bursting of a shell and the ringing of a big bell In a clock tower. This was followed by a lugubrious silence which was broken by the slow and monotonous voice of the night watchman, who called out from the high tower: • The fire is In the fauborg Pave. In habitants of Verdun, get up !” Then came another shell explosion and the clang of the bell. The voice of the guardian of the night was again heard : “The fire is at the station. Inhabitants of Verdun, get up !” ' Then came more bombs, more bell- clanging and In the intervals of silence came the voice of the bell ringer In the same drawling. Impassive voice: “The fire is at the square of Armes—the fire is at the fauborg—get up !” The watchman of today would have a busy time notifying the Verdunites— if any remain—of the thousands of shells showered upon that city devoted to destruction. Things That Are New. So that a horseman's feet can be warmed in cold weather there has been invented a stirrup with u receptacle for charcoal or other heut producing substance. Since the founding of the Pasteur In stitute in Paris there has been a steady decline In the number of cases of hy drophobia, none at all occurring some years. An English scientist who has raised wheat in record breaking time explains that he so treats the seed with elec tricity that he trebles the life force within it. A Salt Lake City man Is the Inventor of an undershot water wheel that will run when wholly submerged In a stream, the blades folding on the up ward stroke. A Detroit woman has invented a syringe for applying scalp lotions that is so shaped as to fit closely to the hend and deliver Its contents In a nar row stream. The vacuum principle has been ap plied to an Ice cream freezer that freezes Its contents automatically In half an hour and keeps It frozen eight hours. As a life-saving precaution a French inventor would have all seagoing ves- sels furnished with beds equipped with a nonsinkable mattress he has pat ented. Know Nothing of What Transpires Be yond the Narrow Limits of Their way about It. But, then, attractive Own Territory—Warfare ■ widows are in a class by themselves Thing Undreamed Of. . and In the main are beyond the pale of this little talk, the clever ones be ing too canny to let a man know he is Battle history halts at the arctic admired or that his society is unduly circle. Beyond that human life is so appreciated. If they set their cap for difficult to sustain that its willful a second heart mate he, above all oth waste Is unthinkable. The Lapps and ers, never discovers that fact. Samoyeds of arctic Russia, like the Es Many women have the mistaken no kimos of North America and Green tion that they might with propriety land, are so often compelled in times give a bashful man a little encourage of dearth and famine to sacrifice their ment to assure him that his calls were aged weaklings that this form of death not unwelcome. It is not pleasant to has become a vague religion and so shatter such a beautiful thought by cial principle with them. The armies of the great white czar, Jostling it with a hard fact. The truth is that no man living is too bashful to like those of the klng-emperor, are not woo, and right earnestly and eagerly recruited in such distant places ; in at that when he meets the woman who deed, the men are of such meager stature and intellect that a military appeals to him. It Is somewhat of a surprise to a training Is next to impossible—cer man who thinks he is wanted by a tainly not a thing to be thought of host of women to find one who Is ap in the days of a great campaign, Pear parently Indifferent to him. He pur son's Weekly observes. The population of arctic Russia, both sues her as a stimulus to his self power to attract. Despite all the new- In Asia and in Europe, outside the of fangled notions about women meeting ficial and mercantile classes, contains men half way on their own ground, tew elements which are truly Slavonic, modest young women will never usurp Out in the minds of Insular Britons the the man's prerogative to go forth and reputation of arctic dwellers pertains to all the people living in Siberia, which find a mate, woo and win. is always portrayed as a land of Ice If a man shows that he is interested and snow and unhealthy marsh. by desiring to be where she is, send The Siberian battalions, which have ing her a flower, a book or some trifle won so great a fame in the Russian to let her know she has been constant campaigns, are drawn mainly from ly in his thoughts, her pleasant greet territory as near the equator as Great ing when they meet, the language of Britain, It Is undeniable that their the eyes, so subtle, so sweet, which winters are terribly severe, but in the never pusses the lips, can Inform him hot summer crops of the utmost value past all doubting that, being a woman, can be sown, ripened and harvested, she Is therefore to be loved and there (t is not impossible to lead a robust fore to be won. life in the Siberia of military Russia. Modesty In a woman Is the golden The real natives of the Arctic can key which opens the door of a man's sndure hunger and fatigue—can march heart. Boldness pushes it to with a in their own fashion through hurri bang, locking it securely. There is a cane and blizzard—but their value Is happy medium in expressing admira rather to the explorer of the inhospi tion. It requires tact. table North than to the soldier. As hunters they are wonderfully clever, yet they are curiously formal in ad- ministering the coup de grace. They will apologize to the fierce white bear which they have cornered before advancing to a close attack When hens are allowed free range with bone-tipped arrows and spears, a they are apt to feed too heavily on duel in which the odds seem decisively grass, especially if not fed any grain, on the bear’s destroying the man. They and the eggs become watery and weak, are therefore not cowards in any sense, with impaired keeping qualities. Such and few British sportsmen would risk eggs are known on the market as their lives against bear and wolf and “grass eggs.” walrus protected only by futile weap In wet weather when the hens’ feet ons and their own personal dexterity. are muddy, collect the eggs twice a How goes the news of war to these day. This will insure cleaner eggs. arctic dwellers? Clean fresh water lessens disease. Most casually and slowly, without a Filthy drinking water Is the source of ioubt. There are colonies in the fro much trouble. Clean the drinking ten North which have not yet heard pans frequently. of the Russo-Japanese war, and cer-. Add to the grain feeds with a mix tainly have no knowledge of the pres ture such as bran, shorts and corn ent war. meal. They nre free from national duties Cut the spurs off your roosters. and taxation, and their Intercourse, There’s enough war In Europe you even with fur traders of blood alien to can do without fighting in your chick their own, Is meager indeed. There en yurd. are dialects spoken by these tribes Do not keep unnecessary mule birds. which have never been interpreted and An extra hen eats no more and may never reduced to writing, and their lay eggs. Ideas of the grout world outside the Soft fresh dirt is an insurance tundras and steppes are very crude. aguinst leg weakness in chicks. A generation may pass before the Summer shade insures thrifty chicks. story of the grand duke’s great cam Never wash eggs, It destroys their paign filters north, and even then It keeping qualities. will he Incomprehensible to persons to whom a crowd of even a hundred human beings would be a marvel. Now A Hand on the Shoulder. and again a stray whaler or explor ing ship comes within sight of the When a man ain’t got a cent, And he's feeling kind of blue, shore camps, and a little barter by And the clouds hang dark and heavy. means of signs is carried on, but the And won’t let the sunshine through, inland dwellers have not even this It's a great thing, O my brethren, Fer a feller just to lay communication with the outside world. POULTRY POINTERS His hand upon your shoulder In a friendly sort o’ way. It makes a man leel curious; It makes the tear drops start, And you sort o’ feel a Hutter In the region of your heart; You can look up and meet his eyes; You don’t know what to say When his hand is on your shoulder In a friendly sort o’ way. Oh, the world’s a curious compound, With its honey and its gall; With its cares and bitter crosses— But a good world, after all. And a good God must have made it— Leastways, that is what I say When a hand is on my shoulder In a friendly sort o’ way. —Author Unknown. How to Keep Young. The best way to keep young Is to associate, as far as possible, with everything and everybody that is new and young. Both men and women get old by sticking to old ways, thinking old thoughts and always looking back on the past. Look ahead If you want to keep young. Youth always thinks of what It is going to do in the future, and for gets the failures of the past. It Is not the go-ahead men who age rapidly ; It Is the men who stick in old ruts and follow-out long-established rules and methods. Constant change and vari ety may be said to form one of the great secrets of youthfulness.— Pear- son’s. Turns Auto Into Dressing Room. A movie actress has turned her auto into • complete dressing room. Every corner Is utilized, and a large ward robe of clothing is properly accommo dated while full length mirrors and a thoroughly equipped dressing table are ell at hand when desired. Even a The Reason. bath can be taken with hot or cold "Odd, isn’t it, that age Is a recom water as preferred. A pipe connected mendation In wine and a drawback with the exhaust pipe of the engine In women?” runa through the car. When milady "Not at all. Ton can put It down desires hot water she has only to turn In the one, but you have to put up a valve. with It in the other.” New York Now Luxury Markot. London, the world's central market for the sale of luxuries of every de- scription, has been practically closed and New York has taken Ita place. Cus tom house records show- that the Im porta of the “luxury class” have In creased enormously, particularly in the items of precious stones and works of art. As a single example, the Ameri can automobile industry’s Imports of crude rubber in the last year amounted to more than 1111,000,000. Make Hand Grenades Now. The number of accidents in British factories during the year 1915 was 206 above the average for the last ten years, according to the annual report of the inspectors of explosives. The number of deaths In manufac ture was 21 and the number of per sons Injured In factories during the year was 170, 88 of these cases being of a trifling nature. In view of the vast increase in the number of per- sons employed In the manufacture of explosives, this result may be regard ed as fairly satisfactory. Very little work has been done in ordinary fireworks, nearly all the fac tories having been engaged in filling hand grenades or in making signals for war purposes. This work they were specially fitted to carry out, and they have thus heen enabled to keep going at a time when the public pro hibition of firework displays would have compelled them to close down. For Pleasure and War. As an Indirect result of the valu able service rendered by power boats during the conflict abroad, some little attention has been aroused In this country to the advisability of organiz ing a “mosquito fleet” for mine patrol and scouting duties. A plan contem plating the registration of all pleasure craft of this kind, so that they might be available for service in an event of war, has even been proposed. Of late, however, another step has been taken in this direction which Is particularly significant and Interesting. According to Popular Mechanics Magazine, sev, eral Easterners are having "scout boats" built for their private use. These have been designed by naval architect*, and are not merely suit able, but In pert equipped, for naval purposes, and would be practically ready for Immediate use if necessity should ever require that they be turned over to the navy department.
