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
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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.