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The Superintendent of Streets of
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1916-02-24
The LIZ on Mt. lassan.

The government geological survey
sends out the somewhat reassurinR
report that old Vulcan has clapped
the lid down on Lassen peak. The
great eruption in May seems to have
spent the energy OF the volcano. and
the general indications are that IL
will cause no more disturbance this
season. Though tie mountain may
continue to be an active volcano. the
report says that II is believed that IL
will not develop Int a devastating
fury, after the manner OF Vesuyius
or some of the laskan volcanoes or
other we'll known foreign volcanoes Z"
While Lassen In a rage makes quite
a spectacle of itself, and while a vol.
cano in eruption adds variety to the
attractions that see America first"
offers, yet we could get along quite
well II Vulcan keeps the lid screwed
down. and 1it tighter. too. than IL
is in great many municipalities.
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SYRUP OF FIGS FOR
A CH|LD'S BOWELS
1t is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh physic into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the dose mother insisted
on-castor oil, calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them. how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form OF
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt Is well.found.
ed. Their tender little "insides" are
injured by them.
II your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing. give only deli.
cious California Syrup OF Figs" Its
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
OF mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy; they know children
love to take II; that 1t never falls to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet.
en- the stomach. and that teaspoonful
given today saves a sick child tomor.
row.
Ask at the store for 50.cent bottle
OF California Syrup OF Figs" which
has full directions for babies. children
OF all ages and for grown.ups plainly
on each bottle. Adv.
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after her. CoOsnah, following with I.
1.-THE rolling OF all his huge muscles,
cast a lowering glance backward at
the man.
The incident had taken all the help
fulness out OF the day and the wilder
ness, and Sandry wended his way SLOW
| ly back to camp. arriving Just in time
for supper Siletz tended the table in
her usual silence. but when she
reached him she was constraiuedly
aloof. as Il fearing to break a spell by
word or touch. Once he looked up
at her, striving for recognition, but
she avoided his eyes and to save his
life he could not repress the wild
thrill that had betrayed him In the
nils, though he was conscious of an.
ger flushing hot upon IT, He suffered
very real humiliation in that he had
so far forgotten his training. his sense
OF the illness OF things, as to kiss this
wild mountain creature. His ances.
tral blood rose mp in condemnation.
The next few days were crowded
full to overlooking with work and he
laid aside all personal perplexities
The first raft OF logs. a great cigar.
shaped monster, laced together In all
its length and breadth with giant
chains, lay In the backwater at Toledo
ready for its voyage into the world be.
yond.
crew OF river drivers was picked
from among the men and all was In
readiness save for draft of dlrec
tions which was to be given. along
with the raft. into the custody OF Cap
tain Graftz of the long dun.colored
steamer that would stand In across
the bar at Newport on the twenty.
sixth.
Sandry thrilled with contemplation
OF the great. reddishbrown floor,
slightly raised in the center, sloping
gently to the sides. Its building had
been thing of wonder to him. II
would In all probability scatter to the
ends of the earth. aud its worth ran
well into five figures. lie watched its
departure, an impressive matter OF
sluggish rising with the tide. OF al.
most i'm ,rceptible motion and then OF
majestic speed that carried II west.
ward toward the ocean. Then he
turned back to his logging camp with
"A heightened JOY In the new life.
That night he wrote to the white.
haired gentleman who was then going
to bed under silken covers with the aid
of the faithful Higgins and his letter
was long and brilliant. touched with
that cheer and hope. that light OF
awakening strength and ability which
was beginning to stir his heart to its
foundation.
"Ah!" said Mr.. Wilton Sandry when
he got that letter, looking down on the
pageant of Riverside drive in its win.
ter livery, what boy he Isl What a
son! The metal is beginning to ring"
gro BE CONTINUEDJ
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CARING FOR THE UNKNOWN
Patriotic Work Undertaken by Ger.
man Women That is Of Real serv.
ice to the Fatheriand.

correspondent OF the Companion
in Germany writes OF touching thing
that the lonely women OF the nation
have done-women who have no sons,
no husband, no brother, no father in
the war; who are perhaps too old OF
100 Feeble to nurse or to be otherwise
active. No one knows where the idea
started, but some women OF that sort
made inquiries OF the regiments re-
garding soldiers who had no father
or mother; they begged TO be put In
communication with those soldiers.
The names of Eoldiers were sent 10
these women. this strange name and
that, the names OF men whom they
did not know and had never seen!
Each woman chose one or two sol.
diers to be her especial care. The
childless mothers sent gifts, and
sewed and knit for the motherless sol.
diers. Now and then came, In return,
grateful post card from the field
from the adopted son. Once read
one OF the cards.
Many thanks. dear friend" II reao.
Tor the package OF warm things.
Imagine my surprisei The mail ar.
rived! ! expected nothing. but | was
the only one to receive a package
alone. the orphan From you | re.
ceived the only package ever got In
my life!"
Eight days later the orphan soldier
boy fell: a comrade brought the news.
and gentle, lonely soul wept for him,
whom she had never known. He had
been the means of forming a strong
lie that bound In imagination a won.
ans silent life with the mighty fate
of her country. She who had never
been a mother had become a volun.
.eer mother.-Youth's Companion.
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dies and surrounded with ferns. when
he caught the sound OF voices They
came from the dense wall of the woods
at his right and unconsciously he lis.
tened. tipping his head and straining
his ears Presently a look OF blank.
ness spread upon his face.
One of the voices wa5 familiar. soft
and sliding with minors. the voice OF
the girl Siletz. and she was speaking
iargon.
Even as this amazing knowledge
was borne In upon him the t,ngIe
parted and she stepped out before aim
A StleH squaw followed her. shor.
brown creature of comely features.
clad In brilliant fannel. towering
pyramid OF baskets slung to- one shoul.
der Nosing eagerly at the girls el.
bow stepped Black Bolt. while Coos.
nah brought up the rear. They per.
ceived him instantly and the Indian
woman turned away with a few gut.
turals which Siletz answered gently.
But In the moment that she had con.
fronted him. Sandry had seen her face
and received a shock
Beginning just under the lower Iip
and running downward to tho base of
the chin there stood out three blue
bars, each composed OF minutely tat.
tooed designs. Unconsciously his star.
tied eyes tiew to the dark face of the
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SHOVEL the men went at the work OF
digging out the damaged timbers. The
work was heavier, more dangerous and
disagreeable by reason OF the water,
tour feet deep at low tide. eight at
high' which Tapped their bases.
Daily put them at the digging from
the slope side at low tide; but on the
second day he stood long running his
blunt fingers through his hair, as was
his custom when perplexed
Sandry had come down from the
oiilce and now stood on the track
above the rollway looking over the
wet country below. At the rollway's
foot the sluggish ribbon of tidewater.
suilen and discolored, wound up from
the south. To the north the valley
lifted gently toward the camp and the
wilderness beyond.
Suddenly, Daily" he said. what
are you going to do about it?"
Il don't Just know. The men cant
work In the water. and them piles have
got to come out. But there's a way of
doin' II. OF course"
"Of course" said the eastern,r. -and
why not 90 at It from aboys,"
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. s Il

and found state o. things sufficient
TO raise the ire OF any riverman or
timberjack.
"here the track approached the roll.
way II had been torn up bodily, the
ties and rails thrown into the narrow
slough, as evidenced by few pro
Iecting ends, and the rollway itself. a
slanting floor of logs some two feet
thick supported on a group of gradu
ated piles, sagged in the center where
TWO piles had been cut and pried side
wise, The lower edge also dropped
TOT the same reason. Il had been the
work OF pure malice. that he saw at
glance.
Collins" he said as the men came
up In a sullen group, get to work and
see II you can raise those sawed sup
ports and pry them back on their
bases"
The gang went slowly down the
sharp bank of the tidewater slough.
Johnny Eastern" said one softly.
"all right. all right! Prize up a roll
wayl My Aunt Maria!"
Sandry stood near, realizing his linn.
itations and raging helplessly, watch.
ing them lazily testing and pushing
here and there.
Hadn't we better just spike 'em
on to the sides?" asked Collins, with a
droll upward glance.
Sandry was about to reply when
John Daily slipped down from the track
beside him under the lee of the dam.
aged rollway.
Collins" he said sternly. you get
back to camp and bring tools-peavies.
hooks. a couple of chains and some
picks. Bring a couple of axes, too
What do you mean by such busincss?'
Orders" said Collins with a grin.
You see, Mr.. Sandry," said Daily
apologetically. there's no hxin' such
timbers as them, not when they've got
to carry such weight. They'll have to |
be taken out entirely an new ones
set"
Il didn't know" returned Sandry
frankly; won't they hold back the |
work."
"A day or so, mebbe. We can take
the fallers out an put them on with
Collins an the rest. There's enough
down to keep the buckers busy day
or two, anyway We won't lose much"
DO you think this is the work of
the Yellow Pines people. Daily?"
Sure" said Daily with certainty,
they've done worse than this before
now. Cut our best cable two years
ago and twice they've run the dinkey
of the track into the slough. They're
bad actors"
But what's the use? What do they
gain?"
They want to run us out of the
hills. Been at 1t for ten years. They're
lust givin you a hint as the new
,wner."
The repairing OF the damaged roll.
way was another revelation to the
'asterner. New timbers were brought
lown and the slanting floor was thick.
underpinncd. Then with pick and
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CHAPTER VI.
Trouble With the yellow Pine.

Trouble With the yellow Pines.
walter Sandry sat In the office at
the slough's edge. busy with file and
ledger. Two months had passed ana
something had lifted from him in
these two months: a weight had light
ened. Where had been a huge dis.
gust, almost intolerable In it's IN.
tensity, for this rain-soaked land, there
mad crept in an insidious admiration.
OFTEN now he looked down the green
little valley sharply defined between
It's binding hills and felt the subtle
charm OF the intimate shadows, the
near white dusk and the great trees
under whose dropping feathery boughs
there lay silence and a sense of ref.
uge.
Suddenly there came to him a clara.
or of voices, oaths and the throaty
tones OF strong men In anger Up from
the lower rollway a group of loggers
came stalking in their spiked boots.
Behind them Murphy rocked excitedIy
along in the tiny locomotive
Sandry shut his ledger and stepped
outdoors.
What's the matter, ColIins?" he
asked OF huge man in the lead
perfect type of the logger of the great
Northwest. sun-browned. hard-mus.
cled. wiry OF figure and with the en-.
durance and power OF bull elephant.
Matter enough. Them damned
Yella Pines's sawed five piles In tn
rollway an tore up two lengths OF
track"
\ Sandry went ahead down The track
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CHAPTER WI.
Night Wind.

From that time forth Sandry began
to take a keener interest 'n SIletz For
one thing, he noticed that everyone
called her Sletz, with a soft slurring
OF the first syllable, and he found him.
self using the name which he thought
particularly beautiful II was the
name OF the reservation to the north
and OF a small part OF the odds and
ends OF tribes thrown in there by a
beneficent government. What was her
other name? He had always Thought
OF her as Ma Daily's daughter. and
yet, now that he came to think of II
she had never seemed akin to the easy.
going, open-minded foreman who was
so like the old woman. She was alien
to both with her silences. her whimsi.
cal speech and her look of hidden fire
One day in the late fall, when the
white mist and the evergreen of the
forest had got on his nerves unbear.
ably. Sandry left the Office and wen, IN
the shed for Black Bolt, only IN find
him gone. He had meant 70 ride on
the III OF blues. Failing thai he decid.
eh 10 Walk II on, and struck up the wet
green valley to the north.
Almost Immediately the tumbline
hills closed In upon him and be found
In a wilderness Of towering
hrs. OF dripptns y'ae naples and mys.
Lerioos paths lost In the crowdipg
ferns He was standing at rest in .
small glade carpeted with pine nee
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oodd's Kidney Pills and they relieved
me again used three boxes. That
Is now three years ago and my Back.
acne has not returned in it's severity.
and by using another two boxes a lit.
tie later on the pain left altogether
ana have had no trouble since. You
may use my statement. recommend
oodd's Kidney Pills when and wher.
ever can'' podd's Kidney Pills, SOC.
per box at your dealer or podd's Medi.
cine Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.-Ady.
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CHAPTER V-contInued.

sandry was enjoying her succinct
precision OF knowledge and expires.
sion
Ana you've spent all these years in
the midst OF this wet-blanket eli.
mater" he smiled, How in the world
aiu you do it-and keep your cheer.
fulness?"
Son." said Ma Daily kindly, you
can knock the country to me, but
dont you go doin' II where the men1l
near you. Us web-feet are used to
the rain, but we don't like to hear the
Fasteners talk about 1t. It's a chip
On every Oregonian's shoulder. You
aont want to queer yourself"
There was note of genuine good
advice In the words and tome and
sandry got sudden insight into sew.
.erai little happenings that had puzzled
him-for instance, the emphasized
wearing OF blue shirts in a rain that
mad soaked his overcoat. and a few
remarks about the fact that Oregon
rain didn't wet through.
Thank you, Mrs. Daily" he said
earnestly with sudden feeling OF
friendship between him and this
shrewd, kindly old general of men.
lie turned presently to the girl
BUSY in the lampiight. her black head
shining, a shadow over her eyes.
BY the way" he said. IF you care
to YOU may ride Black Bolt whenever
you wish"
She nodded quietly, without flicker
OF the pleased excitement he had ex.
pected in the light of her seeming mas.
sionate love of the animal. but slow.
dull flush spread upward in her dark
race and her fingers trembled a bit. he
fancied. on the reeds.
They trembled in all surety the next
morning. when, with bride OF colored
and woven horsehair over her arm. she !
entered the lean.to.
Black Bolt was a gentleman born
Though he was wild as the girl for |
the free air, the green slopes and the |
yielding sod under his feet, he stood |
stiil while she came up lightly, as a
cat springs, with little soft alighting
and they were gone, down over the
smooth slope OF the valley toward the
lower rollway
There were two interested specta.
tors TO that splendid fiight-Ma Daily
from the cook-shack porch, who wiped
her eyes bit and said aloud Bless
the child! Wild-wild! But it's nat.
ural,' and Walter Sandry standing at
the south window of the Office.
Did you like it?" Sandry asked her
hmusedly that evening as he passed
through the eating room.
Yes" said Silctz with her belying
quietness.
i believe I've found a study" he
said to himself as he went on, "a
worthy study in human nature"
And Siletz had found new heaven
and new earth. Something wild with.
In her that had ever moved restlessly
broke forth, glorious flower of &c.
stasy. Day by day thereafter she
!oosed Black Bolt and sped into fields
Df Elysium. lost to earth. intoxicated
mad with the rush of wind and rain.
Always when she came back there
was the dusky flush in her face, the
sleepy look of intoxication in her eyes.
Thus winter closed in on the lonely
amp in the mountains, blue-black and
gray with mist and rain and vivid
'reen with the new grass of the coast
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Watched Her Turn and Ride Down
Ore Of the Mysterious Paths.

girl. There, on her lighter skin. tell.
tale in its truth of outline, was the be.
ginning of the same mark, broken In
its inception by some mysterious
hand.
For moment Sandry's head whirled
and sort of nausea came over him.
Then he became conscious of her dark
eyes, level and calm. upon his face and
a thrill that sent the blood pounding
in his veins shot through him The
mighty trees around them, the eternal
majesty OF the hills under the Intimate
gray sky. the girl In her trim. sensible
attire OF blue shirt. short skirt and
boots, with that sudden revelation of
the wild about her. combined To sug
gest the unreal the mysterious. the
lawless; in flash he understood her
silences, her calm, her occasional
stilted modes OF speech, and her
whimsicalities.
Why-why- Sletz!" he stammered.
following out the train of his illumined
thought, what are your Who are
you? A star In the dusk! The night
wind In the pines!"
In the flush OF the pregnant moment
he laid his hand on her bare arm I'm.
der the rolled-up sleeve-her soft arm,
wet with the mist-closing his fingers
strongly upon H. For the enchanted
present she was romance and mys.
terry, and Sandry was beneath it's spell.
But Siletz looked from his face
down to the hand upon her arm. The
blood rose slowly In her dusky cheeks.
and when she raised her eyes again
they were dim with the same look OF
intoxication as had come with the mad.
ness OF the rushing wind on Black
Bolts back.
Yes" she said dreamily. Il anu the
Night Wind That's what they call me
my friends the Indians. But how
did you know"
Il didn't | just heard the words in
my heart. They are right"
lie did not remove his hand. and |
sileace fell between them while they
stood gazing into each others ewes.
Sandry saw the heavy look in hers. the
duh fire that bespoke a very drunken.
ness OF emotion, and In another mo-
ment he had lost his head. Without
thought, as simply as the first runner
Of those forests took what he wanted,
he leaned forward and kissed her.
softly. lightly, on her smooth cheek
Her eyes darkened perceptibly and
she covered her face with her hands.
In sudden great embarrassment
Saudry stood silent beside her. his
leart pounding and his manhood al
'eady upbraiding him. He searched
lis clearing brain for some word OF
apology, some contrite expression. but
ound none, and the next moment
'ould not in any case have spoken Il;
or Siletz lifted her face and il was
'lorilied. The intoxication had drifted
way from her features. leaving them
'are in the utter simplicity of the pri.
neval woman. and there was in them
white fire of self-surrender.
Without word-and Sandry knew
nstinctively that she could not speak
she turned to Black Bolt threw the
eins over his head, crouched beside
i'm on little lift OF moss and leaped
pwart Ho watched her land on the 9
orse's blanketed back with that in.
mitahls grace OF the wild. turn and I
ide swiftly down one OF the mysteri.
us paths whoss nadding feras closed .
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RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR.

To halt pint OF water ada o. Bay Rum, =
small box OF Barbo Compound, and 4 OF Of
glycerine. Apply 10 the hair .wice . week
until II becomes the desired shade. Any drug
gist can put this up or you can mix Il At
home at very little cost. il will gradually
darken streaked, faded gray hair, and rs-
moves dandrufi. IL Is excellent for falling
hair and will make harsh hair soft aud glossy.
IL will not color the scalp, Is not sticky or
greasy, and does not rub on. ADV.
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its last stages. I
tried Dodd's Kid.
ney Pills. After
using two boxes l
was somewhat re-
lieved and l stop
ped the treatment.
In the spring OF
the next year I
had another ~
tack I Want 90.
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SYNOPSIS.

s.etz OF Dally's lumber camp directs
= stranger TO the camp Walter sandry
,nIouuCes INV. himself to John Daily. fore.
oI most OF It," He makes nrnuaintanCe
SmItn the camp and the work he has come
rom rom me East TO superintend and mako
bs i,t,.L tie writes to his father that
4" "e uncut timber OF the region.
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Parental Cruelty.
ats Worrying yonY"

What's worrying your"
Father says he's going to cut my
allowance down TO point where peo.
pie won't say that have more money
than brains"
Gee. youn starve to death II he
does that"
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To Drive Out Malaria
And Build LIN The system

lake the Old Standard GROVES
TASTELESS chill TONIC You know
what you are taking. as the formula IA
printed on every label showing il Il
Qulnine and Iron in tasteless form. The
Qnlnine drives out malaria, tho Iron
builds up the system. 50 cents.