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Chapter 2 of the New Serial for Young Readers, "Eyes For The Dark" ; This is the story of a Seeing- Eye dog, one of the noblest uiii- i mala o all the world, whose iii ' J telligence and kindliness wins for I them the responsible position of uemg ine eyes of the blind. In the first chapter, the little Shepherd tells about her puppy days. She learn from her mother that there is a chance she will someday play a great role in the life of a hu man being. What dog would want more? Chapter 2 SINCE I was lucky enough to be chosen for a Seeing -Eye dog, my education started when I was about 15 months old. I tried my best to make the right im pression on my trainer. You see, there were traditions in our fam ily that I wanted to live up to. Mother told me we had an uncle who made a great name for him self as a state police patrol dog on the Swiss national border. He was in the service of the Customs. THERE was an uncle to be proud of! The young man who was my trainer had studied long and hard to be able to undertake this work, so I wanted to work hard, too. I went to "school" every day and though my teacher was not My teacher covered his eyes and I led him about. At first I made many mistakes, like walking under a low porch. We studied all day. a blind man himself, he pre tended to be so I would learn the things I would need most to know about taking care of a person who was really blind. My teacher Frank was his FROM down the San Joaquin comes a letter. "I have just road 'Wheels'," it says, "and I am seeing . . . the terraced walls of Old Taos with long ladder poles against the blue sky like lances behind battlcmented an cient forts, and wisps of smoke trailing lazily against coral clouds ... I hear the throb of drums at the evening hour as the sun glints for a last brief moment against the rampart of mountains and syps into the bosom of night. CENTURIES OLD rock stairways lead to the bare cap of Walpi, where stands the ancient Hopi village apart from our world of noise and strife, within a world of silence and age and peace, a place where miles are meaningless and time un known, where an eternal 'now' becomes embraced in one change less enfoldment with the past and present and ages yet to come . . . and all this within a few hours of trans-Pacific ships, within echo range of the roaring of railway wheels, beneath the shadow of trans-continental planes. I, TOO, HEAR the hum of wheels . . . and then silence . . . and vastness . . . and timelcssness. I hear the soft tread of moccasined feet along timeless trails into a timeless life . . . and I wonder about the meaning of our cluttered life!" DAVID C. PETERS wrote those words. He's a silvery haired gentleman with 30 -odd years of experience in the pulpit behind him. I like to tell him he's "reformed," for now he's in the lumber business. He's rambled to most places that are worth the rambling in this world of ours; he's done more things than most of us have done. He knew well Kidneys Must CleanOutAcids ("be oniy way your body fan eknn out Ar.da nd IMNfonoiu mi Irom your blood u (hrouih million my, Wtc-4te KIrwy tut or (iltm. hit! beware of "limp. Jrutio, irriutir ilruo. If functional Kidney or Bladder Huwriiwa make you nuflw Irom Hellion L'p Smhta. Nwvoumww. Lme I'airw. Hackache. Circle Tinier Eym, Diuimrn Kbeuinatw ("aim. Acidny, Hurniiuc Smarlirui or llehina. don't take riiaiKm (let the Doctor Kuarantftwl prrnnt- ion mi!. Cx!r. Si-Tt- Korku fail. -fe ami nire In 49 noun it mimt ton new vitality, and ta cuaranUrd to do the work in one twk or money back on re! urn of empty wkui Vyntet wU only -V a dose at dnwjrwU and the ruaranlee protect you Ad. ECZEMA Al.o called Tetter, Salt Rheum, Pruritui, Milk Cruat. Water Poieon. Weeping Skin, etc. CDCCTDIA! l)ont neflerl it' IWt airenp. r IxCX I IMAliTr) a area . In le.lot mill, nyittunr. euarantml treeimrnt. et.irh fnr .10 yeara he. t-n ririiw Irtena ,r,tti tl.r.r "Fin! Real NtehteReet 'nr'r-l:i- ertalmlMn ttfcJre DR r.ANNAOAV. Eclema Sperialltt 2J Park Square. SEOALIA. MO. the last queen of Hawaii before those isles became part of Amer ica; he has letters from notables from the far ends of the earth. He's really a very swell guy despite the fact I happen to be his son which is one of the reasons I transcribe his letter. Another is it was worth tran scribing. He pictures one of those spots of the West that lure the Rolling Wheels. MANY YEARS BACK it was he who took me into Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains, and along the calm waters of the Puget Sound. We've wandered through the pines of Oregon, where stillness reigns, and watched the sunrises over the Sierras and Colorado's Rockies sometimes felt the friendly winter warmth of Western deserts on winter days. It was from him I caught the wanderlust, and from his wife my mother that I learned how to look for the beauty in nature. IT'S WORTH LOOKING for. incidentally. In this age of business we scurry along without even seeing the sunsets and sun rises. That mildly insane man who stops to take a picture draws curious glances. And an artist . . .! Did you ever see the sur prised crowd that looks over his or her shoulder and wonders "how one gets that way?" THERE'S ONE WAY to be certain of catching this brand of insanity. It's to forget business for a time, put the hum ming wheels beneath one, and hie off to the far places where tele phones and alarm clocks are unfamiliar. I envy Claudia Cranston, wan dering authoress. She dropped in the other day to get some tips on tropical photography. "I'm going," she said, "to the Orient, and maybe Sumatra, Ball, Java and wherever else the mood strikes me. I'll ... he seeing you!" 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Fishermen find live bait the best, and occasionally use a dark- colored fly with good results. An angler's rod should be of steel, ' for the task is not to hook one of the great Silver King tarpons, but to land them. Thoy leap about In abundance, and bite readily many of them weighing up to 100 pounds. ALASKA'S SITKA SITKA la one of the cities of the far northland attracting visitors this season. Located on an island, surrounded by myriads of other islands, this old city goes back to the rule of Russia In Alaska before the United States bought the vast territory for 17, 000.000. Old Russian block houses till stand, as does Its cathedral, which was built In 1817. name covered his eyes, and I led him about. At first, I made all kinds of mistakes, like walk ing under a low porch that was plenty high enough for me, but not for Frank, who, poor fellow, bumped his head a good wallop. He didn't punish me, of course, so I wasn't afraid of him. I under stood about the differences in our heights pretty soon, and we didn't get Frank bruised very often af ter that. Next I learned the words "For ward," "Right," "Left," and what they meant. These commands came in very handy when we were out on the street, and Frank wanted to go to some certain part of the city. I'd lead him to the edge of the curb and then wait. Frank would feel for the step down, and then he'd say "For ward," and away we would go. We studied hard all day, and then, when "school" was out, I'd join the other dogs In the big yard and we'd have a romp. If I'd done pretty well, I always got some special little treat ror a re ward. Naturally, I worked for that, too. But most of all, as the other kids in my class used to say, it was interesting and not exactly work after all. We wanted a mas ter or a mistress who would re ward us for our care of them with the greatest reward any dog can have . . . affection and trust. Sometimes Frank would give me very hard problems to solve. I'd be leading him along the walk, and we'd come to a drive way where a car was left across the sidewalk. When we got to the car, I'd atop, naturally, and wait for orders. Frank would say "For ward." Well, I knew well enough I couldn't hop over the car and take Frank with me. At first, I didn't know what to do. Then I thought of the sensible thing to do (all we Shepherds try to be sensible). I'd go right, then left, then left, THEN forward. Thus I learned another lesson . . . how to use my natural "dog sense." After three months of school, I passed the final test and was ready to meet my new charge. Was I excited? It's a pretty Im portant thing in a dog's life when he is given over to the person with whom he is to spend the rest of his life. I thought about that a good deal. 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