The Hermiston herald., September 22, 1921, Image 2

Salvaging Grain From Elevator That Blew Up
M N N N N N M N M N N N M fi
said she was going to retire. So it
happened the next time—and again.
Now the cooler Anne grew toward
Philip the more desirable the became
to him, but try aa he would be could
make no progress toward finding the
cause of her uew Indifference. De­
nied even the satisfaction of hla in­
stinctive social qualities, Utard turned
By DORA MOLLAN
more often to Susan Belden for com
panlonshlp and the ofteuer he did the
»«£JSS«SSSSS5i»»$S$«SSSiSS»ii3<0 more persistently his thoughts were
( © by M cClure N e w sp a p e r S y n d ic a te .)
occupied with Anne.
That "A woman with fair opportun
It was a cold, sullen February Sun
lty and without an absolute hump day afternoon wbeu It came to Philip
may marry whom she likes.” And that he could stand thia state of af­
"Vanity-Fair” being the book chosen fairs no longer, and he set out for the
as the week's English lesson for the Tyson home, determined to corner
senior class at the Pitman high, It Anne and get the truth from her If
came naturally about thut tills frag­ possible.
ment of the philosophy of a wise man
From her window Anne caught sight
should be the subject of discussion by of Philip as he toiled up the hill
a group of girl students gathered in against the bitter north wind. In an
a corner of the big assembly room.
Instant she was Into her fur coat and
“Why, It’s no more to be doubted tarn and running down the back stairs,
that Professor Bank’s toupe!” This In the kitchen she successfully dodged
calm statement by Susan Belden ought the vast bulk of Lucinda, who couldn’t
to have settled the question forever-
see “no sense nohow” In going out on
for hadn't Susan littered the steps such* a day—and was on her way
of Pitman's school system with heart­ down the back road, which led straight
breaks? Nor was slie the prettiest out Into the open country, at the mo­
girl In the class, by several.
ment when Philip rang the hell.
Some budding iconoclast In the
Lucinda, with a wave of her pudgy
The work of salvaging the grain thnt wag blown up In the world’s largest grain elevator, In Chicago, owned by group murmured, sotto voce, “Her
the Armour company, has Just been finished. The work of cleaning out the elevator, which It had been estimated mother feeds ’em 1” This drew smoth black hand, pointed out the direction
would tuke at least a year, was finished In four months. Blowers were run out from two sides of the elevator, one ered giggles. But it was Anne Tyson of Anne’s flight, disclaiming with
shake of her wooly head any respon­
to the railroad tracks and one to the canal where the barges were loaded.
the acknowledged brains of the senior sibility for “sech foolishness.” There
Mi«* Wilson, a well-known screen
class, who had the temerity to open was a grim, do-or-die look about Phil­
ly qualify the dictum of the class ip as lie snugged his coat collar about «tar, entered the moving picture field
after winning a beauty contest con-
belle.
his neck and set out In pursuit
ducted by an Alabama newspaper. She
Big Feet No Help in
"You can win a man, girls, by trick
Anne looked back from the first rise ha* steadily climbed until today she
ery. But you can't keep him by the in the road and saw Philip striding
Killing Rattlesnake
same method—not if he’s worth IL across the hack yard. As she recon- is playing leading role* In some of tha
Came a day when this shaft, sped at noitered again from the summit of the most popular pictures. She it the
James Kleninu, Tusten, N. V.,
a fair mark, was to turn, boomerang- second rise he was Just topping the typical sweet, home-loving type. Be­
nearly lost a battle with a four-
fore going into pictures she was a
like, and fly back at the archer.
foot rattlesnake because his feet
first. The wind whipped her short
Fate seems to have her own in- walking skirt tight agulnst her legs. school teacher.
were too big. Kiernan got both
scrutible reasons for requiring certain It was hard going. It began to snow,
feet on the rattler, but was un­
Internationalization of Famous Americans to the newly freed land of
pairs of individuals to “fall in” side fine light flakes, forerunner of a real
able to club It to death as he
their fathers.
by side and march In step, even when storm. But to Anne the pursuit had
could not hit the snake without
River Completed by Action of
"Bratislava, now Czecho-Slovakln’s
“What’s in a Name?”
there Is no particular sympathy, or become a symbol. She had not the
bruising his own toes. He was
By MILDRED MARSHALL
river port, was once the city In whose
even liking. It was that way ut school slightest thought of turning back. If
Interested Allied Powers.
nearly tired out before he man­
dignified cathedral the Hungarian
—and afterward—with Sue Belden, Philip really wanted to see her—to be
aged to get In a blow which
Facts about your name; Its history; mean­
kings were crowned. The boat sta­
daughter of the proprietor qf the with her—badly enough not to give up
ing; whence it was derived; signiEcancej
stunned the snake so that he
tion there reveals the changes which
your lucky day and lucky Jewel.
town’s
one
little
department
store,
could get off and finish the Job.
In spite of anything—well, she would
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history has wrought. Over the cen­
and Anne Tyson, whose father was test him to the utmost of her strength.
ter of the landing the present name Is
the town's leading physician.
And Philip—It seemed to lilm that
N A T A L IE .
given, but to tho left one can see most
They lived on the same street, his very life depended on overtaking
Danube Has Long Been Chain Upon of the letters of the German nnme
played
in
the
same
group
as
children,
that light figure flying before him Into
Whlth Romance and History Have ‘Pressburg’ and to the right there Is which here enters the Danube from
rATALIE Is another holy name,
were members of the same class In the teeth of the storm, even as his
the south.
Vied With Each Other to Hang
originally coming from the Latin
the Hungarian name ‘Poszony.’
“high,” both graduated from the com­ happiness must depend on what was
“About
four
hours
sail
below
Bel­
Interesting Traditions.
title of “Dies Natalis,” the birth­
Budapest Not War-Torn.
mercial
course—and
then
obtained
po­
to
transpire
at
the
end
of
the
chase.
grade the wide plains give way to
"VIennn, brooding In Its lovely, hilly country where the Transylvanian sitions In the same office— that of a He was gaining fa st The snow day of our Lord. The word Natalie
Washington.—The completion of the parks, which lack the care that was
has furnished the title of the feast
big chair factory, which was Pitman’s
tnternatlouaJization of the Danube by once lavished on them, nnd contem­ Alps curve down toward the Jum­ leading Industry. And to top It off blinded Anne's eyes, and the bite of to all the Romance portion of Eu­
the
wind
sent
tears
coursing
down
ble
of
mountains
which
extend
to
tho recent lbrmnl action of the Inter­ plating wllh cynicism the motto ‘SI
rope.
fate carried her fantasy so far as to
ested allied powers, announced In Vis Pacem, Para Bellum,’ whose gold­ Montenegro nnd Greece. It Is In this plunge them both in love with the her cheeks; but still she managed,
France made the word Noel from It,
somehow, to keep putting one foot
Paris dispatches, Is the occasion for en letters decorate the walls of the region that the main obstructions of same man at the same time.
meaning
Christmas, and soon Noel
ahead of the other. He was almost
tho tssuunce from the Washington ministry of war, Is a sad sight. But the river occur. But the most fa­
Philip Utard, son of the senior up to her. Her strength was gone. became a Christian name there. In
mous
obstructions
and
the
finest
heudquarters of the National Geo­ Budapest, still militant, still haughty
Italy It appeared as Natale. Spalu
member of the firm, had been trans­
graphic society of the following bulle­ In the consciousness of Its beauty, scenery come nt the Knzan Duflla and ferred from the Boston headquarters But surely she could take one more and Portugal used the name Natal.
step.
And
then—she
vanished
from
the 'Iron Gates,’ where the river has
tin, descriptive of the famous river.
There Is a feast celebrated on the
to the Pitman plant to learn the de­ the sight of the man behind her as
seems to have been less troubled by collected a gruesome toll.
“From the Black forest to the Black the passage of war.
tails of production. And gossip spec­ though the earth had swallowed her. 8th of September by the Greek church
“At
Rustchuk,
the
railway
traveler
sea, over a course 1,800 miles In length,
ulated as to whether he would not fol­
"Food Is the main reason. Hungary,
There was an excavation—some road ns the festival day of St. Natalia, the
the Danube lins long been a chain reduced ns It Is, still contains some from Roumanln ferries across n broad low the example of his father and of
work
going on and the light timber devoted wife who attended her hus-
upon which romance and history have of the best land In Europe. VIennn, nnd sluggish stream to continue his an elder brother—and acquire also a
barrier
had been blown away by the and, St. Adrian, in his martyrdom.
vied with each other to hang Interest­ Its Industry stopped, can do little to Journey to Sofia and Constantinople; life partner from among the estab­
wind.
Unhurt.
hut
exhausted, He Is the same Adrian whose relics
and
here
the
hanks
o
f
the
Danube
are
ing traditions nnd recurrences. Geog­ earn the food It needs. During the
lishment’s female personnel.
That Anne lay where she fell. But a strong filled the Netherlands and whose name
lined
with
huge
barges,
many
of
raphy, too, has done Its share, and summer of 1920 all traffic between the
was getting to be quite the Utard arm lifted her and held her tight, nnd became celebrated in the West where
although tho Volga exceeds Its rival two capitals was stopped by mutual which are still Idle. Below Sllfstrla, way.
Phil’* voice said: "I was prepared to his wife Natalia wns long neglected.
In length, nnd although the Rhine In boycotts and although steamers plied the river curves to the north and
If
Philip
did
meditate
any
such
follow you to the ends of the earth, The East, however, reversed the ar­
Thackeray nnd Hood has had better the Danube from I.lnz to Budapest, passes through Roumanian territory step It was soon apparent enough—to
but not to the center of It. But rangement and Natalia Is popular
throughout
the
rest
o
f
Its
length.
At
press ngents, the Danube Is large no through passengers or freight were
the watchful gossips—that his choice we’re here. And before we get out there, while her husband Is forgotten.
Cernn
Voda,
It
Is
crossed
by
one
of
enough nnd beautiful enough to rank received.
Natalia was one of the favored
the longest railway bridges In the lay between Anne Tyson and Susan you’ve got to tell me why you have
In Interest with the great rivers of
“To the cnsunl observer, Budapest world, the last of the many bridges Belden, for Philip divided his leisure frozen me; why you have avoided Greek Christian names. Russia adopt­
tho world.
Is the same proud city as of old. The which cross the stream, some of very evenly between the Tyson and me; why you ran away from me Just ed her nnd, adding the usual con­
sonants of Its language, calls her
Belden homes, or escorting the girls now.”
Lets a Highway and More a Barrier. fine parliament building and the Im­
„ .’
which are now destroyed as a result
“There was a time when the Dan­ posing palace on the heights across
alternately to such entertainments as
Anne was too tired to lift her head NatalIJa, Nataschenka, and Natascha.
of the war and post-armistice fight­
the town afforded. Perhaps he en­ from that broad shoulder. “It was be­ The first of the three names Is ex­
ube was symbolized l>7 nn old-fash­ the river, where Admiral Horthy now ing.
ioned waltz. But since the World rules, seem ns attractive ns before
joyed
the company of Anne’s father, cause,” she said—"because I didn’t tremely popular there today, or until
“Bralla, 125 miles from the three
for Doctor Tyson was a man of broad have an absolute hump.”
war began, nothing but a hesitation the war. The upper river Is still
the Iiolshevlkl came Into power nnd
main mouths of the Danube, Is a port
typifies the place the river lins held crowded with bathers nnd with canoes for the grain nnd produce of n rich and genial culture. And It was still
Phil let It go at that, then. But a withdrew the attention of etymologists
In the economic life of the countries nnd rowboats In which chnrinlng
agricultural region. In prewar days said of Sue’s mother that she “fed hundred times since, over coffee or from the study of feminine names.
through which It runs. It lins been women nnd stalwart men do their host Its wharves teemed with life and Its ’em.”
France Is said to have secured
crib, he has tried to find out what
Anyway, on a certain day In Janu­ she meant. But Anne only laughs.
less a highway nnd more the harrier to nttnln a spacious cont of tan. Along huge grain elevators bulged with the
Natalie from Russia, though there Is
ary It would have been necessary for
than In prewar days. Not yet does It Franz Josef qual, the promenade adds
record of a Natalie at Cambral In
rich products of Wallaehla and Do-
Phil Utard himself to toss up a penny
serve to bind the various nations a lively touch of color to the drab
1212. England preferred Natalie to
Irish Had “Mayflower" Adventure.
brudjn, which has Reen great develop­
through which It passes Into a friend­ scenes to which the beautiful blue ment Rlnce the RtiRRlans gave It to had he been pinned down to a deci­
Students of Anglo-American his­ any of the other forms, rejecting
sion there and then.
ly and co-operating group. It lins Danube hns become accustomed.
tory have Just directed attention to Natalia as too Latin In Its Influence.
Roumanln Instead of the more valu­
It was on this day thnt Susan took the fact that Ireland also had her Whether American Natalies are rep­
been officially open to ships of all na­
Celtic Fortress Still Stands.
able nnd fertile tracts of Bessarabia.
close note of Anne’s heightened color Mayflower.” Tills was the Eagle­ resentative of the English, or taken
tions since the forming of the Danube
“From Zemun, once tho Inst Hun­ From Galatz to the sea the Danube as Utard pnssed close to their desks.
commission In 1850 and the various
wing, which, no later than 1C36, set direct from France, Is a matter of
hns
already
been
under
the
control
of
stales Interested long cooperated to garian port on the Danube, a short nn International commission whose She leaned slightly toward Anne, and sail with a full passenger list of personal preference.
Improve (lie navigation facilities, es­ trip between low hanks brings one to
The pearl of purity is Natalie's
duty hns been to tame the river and with a laugh that was Just a little Ulstermen for the American colonies.
pecially In the lower reaches of the Belgrade, the capital of the new king­ the many nationalities to whom the machine made. Inquired whether she There were 40 passengers, among tallsmanlc gem. It promises good
dom
of
Serbs,
Croats
nnd
Slovenes,
river; hut political conditions have
river Is highway or bnrrler, according remembered the schoolroom discus­ whom were four ministers. Ill-luck fortune for Its wearer and makes her
“What began at once, for unconquerable gentle, kind, and lovable. Thursday
done much to weaken the economic where the steamer rounds the base to the tides of human passion nnd na­ sion on the Thnckeraylsm.
cocksure little Idiots we were!” she winds drove the vessel to the Scottish is her lucky day and 4 her lucky
link which once bound I.lnz nnd Vi­ of the ancient fortress which dates tional life."
enna to the great grain shipping cen­ lmek to the time of the Celts, the Ro­
exclaimed. “Wise men change their coast. A leak then held the ship in number.
(C o p y r ig h t.)
ter of Brnlla, to which ocean-going mans nnd the Franks, and comes to
minds, don’t they, Anne—and wise the “Kyles of Bute.” Starting again,
Its
dock
n
little
way
up
the
Save,
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TO SAVE $1.000,000 ON AUTOS women ?”
vessels ran steam, nnd to the Black
she achieved mid-Atlantic, but tnere
sen ports themselves.
There was a challenge In the girl's a hurricane did such damage and
Mexican Government to Refute to voice. But from the well-poised Anne caused such general discouragement
"Charming villages, henntlful mead­
A LINE 0 ’ CHEER
RANKS WITH DEMPSEY
Furnish Oil and Tires to
It got no response beyond a non-com­ that finally the Irish pilgrims made up
ows, picturesque hills crowned with
Employees.
ruined ensiles, princely palaces, ec­
mittal “sometimes.”
their minds that Providence was
By John Kendrick Bang*.
clesiastical piles and two of the
Yet the thoughts of Anne were “long, frowning on their emigration, and
Mexico City.—The Mexican govern­ long thoughts” in the hour intervening turned their vessel back to Ireland.
world's most fascinating capitals are
ment, by refusing free gasoline, tires, between her arrival home ’ and the
strong nlong the lengthy nnd winding
A T H IR D CHOICE.
repairs nnd garage service to Its em­ serving of dinner by the rotund Lu­
river. Thriving Industries raise their
A Close Race.
ployees
who
use
government
automo­
smokestacks beside the stream whose
cinda, boss of the Tyson menage. This
r H E N by two ev ils I am
In Texas they tel! how, years ago,
faced
biles, hopes to effect a saving of hour Anne habitually spent before the an Englishman there imported a fa­
legendary color Is blue but whose true
I sh all not choose th e less,
more thnn $1,000,000 annually. Sev­ fire In the living room awaiting the mous wolfhound from Europe, tn or­
tint varies from a dirty green to n
But stt m e down and w ith ­
out haste.
eral more hundreds of thousands will doctor's return from Ids afternoon der that he might attain wealth catch­
muddy yellow. More tragic than the
Or a n y undue press.
he saved to the government when round of calls.
encroachment of factory smoke has
Just s it there tight until the light
ing wolves, by reason of the scalp
Shall lead me to the Road to Right,
army officers are forced to purchase
been In late years the sad sight of
It was here that Anne confessed to money offered by one of the state au­
Assured that though tha w ait be
their own gain uniforms, and there herself what she had never confessed thorities—$10 each.
countless chimneys from which the
long
That
lig h t will coma to rout the
will be a still greater saving when before—that for weeks she had been
life-breath of Industry seemed to have
Some dyed-in-the-wool Texans were
wrong.
all federal employees drawing more trying with all her might and main— Invited to witness the first chase.
expired forever.
(C opyright)
than five pesos ($2.50) dally suffer like the nursery rhyme man of the They followed many miles through the
Hohenzollern Csstls on Bank*.
a wage reduction of 10 per cent.
bramble bush—to win the love of Phil­ prairie grass, but without getting
“Near Its source nt Donnueschlngen,
These economies which. It Is under- ip Utard. And had she, like the sight of either wolf or hound. Finally
Will Seize Vacant Rooms
the river passes between the castle
stood, wilt be wade effective shortly, bramble bush man, scratched out both they came to a wooded spot, where a
The many thousands of seekers for
which gave Its name to the late ruling
are
tn
line
with
a
program
of
rigid
her eyes In the proceeding?
native was chopping.
family In Germany and a war monu­
homes In Vienna have organized to get
thrift Inaugurated by presidential de­
Just because she considered herself
“Did you see a wolf and a hound them. Complaining that the govern­
ment to the Hohenzollern men who
cree.
a more fit wife than Sue Belden for a pass Just now F cried the Britisher. ment bureau formulated for thia pur­
fell tn the Franco-Prussian war.
man of Philip's mentality, did It fol­
“Yes, sir; they Just passed.”
Farther down It passes through the
pose Is Impotent, members of the so­
Too Many Women In Europe.
low that she would be able to make
"How was the race?”
ence-proud capital of Austria Hun­
ciety have appointed agents to find all
Berlin.—Unless recently advocated him happier? Suppose that with de­
gary, where the fine government build­
"Pretty hot—nip an’ tuck. But the vacant premises and all residential
plans of a Bulgarian solon and a Col­ liberate effort, she won him—wouldn’t dog was a little ahead.”
ings stand to the despairing Inhabi­
property not containing the maximum
orado farmer result In laws permit­ he be very likely to discover later
tants ns a mocking reminder of better
number of occupants and to threaten
ting
farmers
and
others
to
have
more
that
he
had
been
the
man
A Suspicious Nature.
days, and beside the Prater, once a !
to use force to secure lodgings. They
than one wife are accepted tn Ger­ of her choice. Instead of her being
“I don't like Mr. Dubwalte's new have published a list of such places
deer park and later a pleasure garden I
many, from 30 to 40 per cent of the the woman of his? And would that stenographer,” said Mrs. Duhwalte.
noted for Its Viennese gayety.
and demand they be handed over.
| German women are doomed never to make for happiness for either? There
“Why not, my dear?” asked Mrs. Among them Is the home of a baroa-
Tha Danube.
have husbands, according to statla- was nothing for her to do but jump Gadspur.
aoa having ten rooms In which she
“Still farther along Its course Just I
! tics gathered by Albin Michel, a Oer-
“She has a dreamy look In her lives alone. Many similar Instances
after entering Czechoslovakia, at Its I Here 1* “Bowie," who ranks about i man expert, who declares that En­ right back Into that bush!
Thnt evening Philip came to call— eyes.”
are cited.—New York Son.
Junction with the .March, there Is a as high lu the cock-fighting world aa rope's surplus women hare Increased and departed vainly trying to recall
“Oh. well, she may not be medlta^
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towering cliff spired with a monu­ Dempsey doe* In the priae-ring or | until they exceed men by 15,000.0001
what he conld posalbly have done to Ing mischief.” ‘
Trouble Enough.
ment erected to celebrate 1.000 year* ' Jock Hutchinson In golf. "Bowie,"
so change Anne toward him. Not
“Perhaps not; but when a girl la
“Some of your friends think you
of Hungarian nationality. Thia Is I now the property of Dan Baldwin of
Ntw Modal Needed.
snee had the responded to word or young and pretty and Indulges In day­ ought to write your reminiscences.”
Czccho-Slovaklnn territory now. and ! Walnut Springs, Tex., hns won $3,400
The real objection to a butter-knife look of hla In her usual bright, sym­ dreams, with a susceptible old fool like “No,” replied Senator Sorghum, T
there Inst summer the Stnra and in purae* alone In nine battle* In the 1* that It lan’t «harp enough In winter
pathetically Interested way.
And Mr. Duhwalte around, some of those
g rilles were draped on the occasion ) fastest cockpit* of tbs United States j and lao‘t enough like a spoon la when her fhther appeared after hla dreams may start to coming true.”— have trouble enough with the political
reporters without taking on the book
of the visit of a large grouo of Caecho-i and Mexico.
summer.—Utica Morning Telegram.
office hours »he excused herself and Birmingham Age-Herald.
reviewer».”
Lois Wilson.
To Win the Love of
Philip Utard
Danube Is Open
to All Nations
BARRIER ANO
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