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The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-05-03
What happens after Gale Nor
ean's discovery of De Spaln's
presence in Morgan gap is told
wildly in the next instal!ment.
CTo BE Continued
DANCE HALLS OF BIRD LAND
Australian Bower Bird Builds Both
Playhouse and Garden, and
Enjoys Them.

There are several species of bower
birds. chief among them the shtin and
the Newton. The satin bower bird is
the best known. When the bowers were
first discovered it was supposed that
they were playhouses built by the ma
tive children; but, as a matter of fact,
they are the dance halls of bird land,
says the National Geographic Maya
zine. The nests are built in the trees
and have no connection with the play
houses. The male birds build these
latter and gather every bright and
shining object they can find TO adOrn
the entrance to the bower. When it is
completed, according to one who has
watched them, little "at homes" are
given daily, at which the males meet
and pay their court to their lady
loves, now bcwing and scraping, now
playing hide and seek through the bow
er, and now doing an absurdly digni-
fed dance for their edlfication. New
toms bower bird decorates its bower
visiting male bird wants fight all he
has to do is TO disturb one of these
flowers. The master of the bower pro-
ceeds with the painful duty of teaching
him how TO behave in company, while
the remainder of the party raise
great racket, but never interfere. A
naturalist studying them disarranged
one of their flowers, but each time he
did it the bower master rearranged IL
with great care.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-05-03
When He Opened His Eyes Later, II
Found Food and Drink Near.

-handfuls of gravel and little chips of
rock-that should she cross the ledge
in the dark she could hardly escape
rOusing him.
The device betrayed her. I'm
awake" announced De Spain at once
from his retreat When she stopped
at the words he could not see her; she
had flattened herself. standing, against
a wall of the ledge. He waited pa
tientIy. you give me no chance to
thank you" he went on after pause.
Il don't need any thanks she replied
with calculated GOODNESS. Il am hop
ing when you are well enough you
will go away quietly in the night. That
will be the only way you can thank
me-"
81 shall be as glad to go as you can
be to have me-" rejOined De Spain.
But that won't be thanking you as
am going to. If you think you can
save my life and refuse my thanks as
mean to express them--yOu are mis-
taken. will be perfectly honest. Ly-
ing out here isn't just what I'd choose
for comfort. But if by doing it l
could see you once in two or three
lays"
you won't see me again.
mo news could be worse. And If
i can't. l don't know how I'm going
to get out at all. I've no horse-you
know that. can't stand on my foot
yet; if you had light you might see
for yourself. think l showed you my
gun. If you could tell me where l
am"
He halted on the implied question.
Nan took ample time to reply.
"Do you mean 10 tell me you don't
know where you are2" she asked, and
there was a touch of vexed incredulity
In her tone.
De Spain seemed uDmoved by her
skepticism. 81 can't tell you anything
else" he said simply. "You couldn't
have any idea l crawled up here for
the fun of IT,"
1--WE been trying to think" she re-
turned, and he perceived in the hard
ness of her voice how at bay she felt
in giving him the least bit of iufor-
nation. whether l ought to tell you
anything at all"
81 couldn't very decent'y take any
unfair advantage after what you've
done, could I?'
"Then-you are in Morgan's gap"
she said, swiftly, as If she wanted II
off her mind.
There was no movement of surprise,
neither was there any answer
supposed, when found you here, you
knew that" she added less resolutely;
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-05-03
washlnnton and the corporaI.

Mary's teacher had asked the class
to rewrite in their own words a story
she had told them the day before about
Washington and one Of his corporals.
Mary had been absent and had not
heard the story, but It did not occur
to her to tell her teacher and ask TO
be excused. Cant" was not in her
vocabulary. Her ideas Of corporals
were somewhat hazy, but she made up
in originality what she lacked N &C
curncy. She wrote industriously, and
soon produced the following master
piece:
George Washington was riding
through the woods one day with some
of his men. AS they were riding along
he saw, way up in the top Of an old
tree, a big corporal sitting on a nest
of little corporals. One Of the men
shot at the big corporal but missed
him and he flew down and pecked
George Washington on the nose
Youths Companion.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-05-03

and a woman. You shan't shoot.
Gale! protect yourselfw Whirling to
face her cousin, she took the chance to
back directly against De Spain. Both
hands were spread open and partly
behind her, the palms up, as If TO
check him. In the instant that she
and De Spain were in contact he real
lied. rather than SAVIOR his eyes
never released Morgan's eyes-what
she was frantically slipping to him
the loaded cartridge. It was done in a
fash, and she was running from him
again. Her warm fingers had swept
across his own. She had returned to
him voluntarily his slender chance for
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-05-03
Clean the Premises.

Have the house thoroughly screened;
avoid filth or collection of garbage or
slops anywhere about the premises.
The clubhouse should be screened, and
a frequent application of chloride Of
lime should be made. Manure should
not be scattered about. If the manure
cannot be put in tight covered bins, it
should be sprinkled with a solution
composed of one part kerosene and
four parts water. Use fly trap. See
that it is cleaned and emptied fire.
quentIy.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-05-03

one who makes her home under Music
mountain shall know differently Of me.
What's that?" He heard a sound.
"Listenw
The two, looking at each other,
trained their ears to hear more
through the rush of the falling water
someone is coming" said De Spain.
Nan ran lightly to where she could
peep over the ledge. Hardly pausinR
as she glanced down, she stepped
quickly back. "rll go right on up the
mountain to the azalea fields" she said
hastily.
He nodded. an hide. Stop. II
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-05-03
Indictment of Cat.

The cat character is additionally
synonym for all that is treacherous
and despfcable. Not one moral trait
does 1t possess that is worthy Of llk
ing. Hence 1t seems odd that human
beings should domestIcate it and place
It, as a house companion, practically
on a par with the noble and unselfish
dog.-Exchange.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-05-03
CHAPTER XIII.
Crossing a Deep River.

A grizzly bear hidden among The
back of the corral wo1ld
have given Nan much less anxiety
than De Spain secreted in the heart
of the Morgan stronghold. Her
troubled speculaions were reduced
now almost to wondering when De
Snain would leave, and, dlsinclined
though she felt to further parley, she
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-05-03

life. But in doing it she had chal-
lenged him to new and overwhelm-
ing interest In life itself. And again,
in front of her cousin, she was crying
out anew against the shedding Of
blood.
81 came up here to fight man. 1
don't fight women" muttered De
Spain, maintaining the deceit and re-
garding both with an unpromising Wis
age. Then to Morgan: IN talk to you
later. But you've got to fight or get
away from here, both of you, in ten
seconds"
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-05-03
Get Rid of the Fly.

The fly has rightly been called the
undertaker's travelling salesman. and
in addition to his regular line of ''ty-
phoid bugs" he carries a side line of
tuberculosis, Asiatic cholera and other
disease germs. Now is the time to
swat the fly"
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-05-03

Big fly traps are very efficient in
the stables. Place one on the back
porch and several in the barns and
stables. Five or six are none too many
for most farms. Make them Is inches
square and 80 inches high, if you can
not buy them.
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-05-03
THE FIRST FLY

Why, there's a fly! Seems
kind O. good, doesn't it, to hear
it buzzing around contentedly in
that sunny window? It means
that spring has come. You are
glad TO see it. just as you well
come the crocuses and bluebirds.
But wait a minute. Where did
that fly come from? Not up from
Florida with Gentle Sister South
Wind, as did Welcome Robin and
Winsome Bluebird. No, il
Matched out of a muck heap, and
it came right into the house
without wiping its feet. And its
mate will go back to the muck
heap TO lay more eggs, and by
the time the hot days come the
two will have some millions of
descendants. And all of them
will come into the house without
wiping their feet, and they will
leave filth and disease germs in
your food. Spells the romance,
doesn't it? The fly is your enc
my. Stay it,
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1917-05-03
AGAINST HER OWN WILL AND JUDGMENT, NAN MORGAN
DOES De SPAIN A GOOD TURN AND He PRO-
TECTS HER FROM VILLAIN

The around Sleepy Cat railroad division in the
Rocky mining with robbers
cattle rusers known the Morgan Morgan
fertile valley 20 miles Sleepy Caabaas
point where horses changed the line the Thief
mines the railroad Jefes mountain
division LeFevre
Caabasas break encounters
aferward De becomes Nan
Morgan of the leader but snubbd fight De Spain
kills himself He
disappears him
delirous wounds
secretly.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-30
A WORD FROM THE PULPIT.

| Keokuk has no lack Of eloquent pastors
whose comment on matters of general import
ance is always timely, weighty and illuminat-
ing From one or more of the local pulplts, a
powerful and impressive word picture OF the
wharf.-the magnitude, the horror, the unique
and cataclysmal nature of it-might be fol-
lowed by the statement that it is not in itself
the disease from which the world is suffering,
but only symptom or manifestation OF It,
Superficial thinkers slow to realize this,
but little reflection shows that causes must
work out to effects in the body polite and in
human society as whole, and as they do in the
physical body of man. An antecedent condi-
ton often unpcrceived manifests visibly as
disease or as a revolutionary upheaval IN
Russia, or as this unexampled war. Such
things do not happen without cause and reason,
and the war, the fever. the delerium is only
an effect
We may believe, as many of us do, that one
nation dug a mine with which to destroy It's
neighbors, that an oligarchy laid the fuse and
an emperor lighted it; but would this have been
possible in world Of kindness and contented
people where justice, love, unselfishness, good
faith, good will PREVAILED Manifestly it was
the lack of these things, the lack of spiritual
ity, the worship and materialism of
the nations which was the disease of which the
war is the frightful visible result. The hope
and reasonable expectation Of many persons is
that in this war cure will be found for the
conditions which brought it on. One of the
disease foci was in Petrograd and has been
excised. Others exist wherever injustice and
callous selfshness are found. The world has
grown so used to various inequalities that it no
longer thinks of them as causes of its maladies.
Not until these foci of disease have been cut
out, many of them seem sure to be, will
the nations of Christendom fully realize what
has allied them all these years and that the cure
is to be found in the gospel of Christ.
VIII any pastor in Keokuk accept this sug
gestion and follow its lead7
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-30
The Blue Laws Stay.

Davenport Democrat: The legisla.
tu,e has refused to repeal the blue
laws" preferring to leave lot OF
unreasonable and unenforceable laws
on the statute books rather than at
tempt the task Of intelligent reVi'
sion.
Opinions will differ, Of course.
about many of the provisions OF the
Sunday laws, but a lot of laws that
would shut down the street cars and
in other ways interfere with the
habits of people who are not so for
tunate as to own automobiles, are
not being enforced in any state and
doubtless never will be in Iowa, how
ever firmly Attorney General Hayner
may declare his intention Of enforc-
ing them.
Therefore the youth who is grow
ing UP and the new conner to the
state is to continue to learn, from
time 20 time, that we have laws
which officials do not enforce. and
his respect for all laws is likely to
be weakened and undermined.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-30
When thou doest aims, let not thy left hand
know what thy right hand doeth.-Matt, vi, 3.
MILITARISTIC ETHICS.

A Munich paper may not be speaking for
its government when it notifies the United
States that our gunners on merchant ships are
likely to be treated as pirates when captured,
that is to say shot or hanged OF made to walk
the plank.
What shows more clearly than this how
unique and different from that of other nations
the Prussian code of morality isl 1t gives
them as they claim the right to sink our ships
at sight and to treat as outlaws our citizens
who resist such sinkings. 1t is happily improb-
able that the imperial government could be ILL
advised enough to take step so monstrous as
that. But if an American captain should be
murdered as British Captain F'ryatt was
would not real Americans red and sham
Americans take to cover and conceal their paci-
fist sentiments until a peace with victory had
been acheved7
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-30
REVERE, MO.
. . a . ! . - =

Rev. Trotter filled his regular ap-
pointment here Sunday morning.
A. L. Martin and family OF Bel
fast, Iowa, spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. John Huston.
Willis Little left Monday morning
for Argyle where he has contract
tc do some carpenter work.
The spelling match and ice cream
supper was well attended here Satur-
day night.
Clara Martin spent Saturday night
and Sunday with her friend Ethel
Blakely.
Luke King and family spent Sun
day at the home of his father, Sam
King.
Several from here attended church
at Oak Grove Sunday night.
Ethel Blakely began a spring term
of school at Peaksville Monday morn
ing
Mrs. Isaac Galland passed away at
her home west of town. Monday at
II a. m. Funeral at p. M, March
q. Burial at the home cemetery.
Mrs. Galland was IS years OF age.
Another aged mother has passed to
the great world beyond.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Ballard were
Sunday afternoon callers at the home
of L. c. Webster.
We believe w. NJ. Ehrhart must
be the champion sheep raiser as he
has ninety lambs and sixty ewes, at
the last report.
Listen for the wedding bells.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-30
RAIL WAYS. ARE DEAD
With
the Auto Auxiliary.

Editorial in the Black Diamond:
For more than ten years the editor
of this paper has written and talked
against the revival OF the inland
waterways. He has held 1t was
waste of money, because 1t created
an inefficient system of trans9orta-
ton which could, even under the most
favorable conditions, work IN restrict
ed zones. 1t is in no sense depend
able avenue of commerce.
Today the editor recants every
thing that he has said. He is sorry
that he ever said it. From today
forward, he is an outright advocate OF
waterways. the building of canals,
the rehabilitation of the towboat ana
the return of the mule to the tow
path. He would like to become finan-
cially interested in dock and wharf
property along any stream In America
that can allow duck to navigate
Tightening.
The reason for that change of
front is that the railroad. as an eff
fective force in American business. Is
dead Its expansiveness Is gone.
It's virility gradually Slapped by laws
and regulations has finally been
swallowed uo by the supreme courts
decision in the. Adamson case. There
have been no new railroad projects
for fifteen years. Under the kind OF
government control now in force, we
need expect no more
In Australia, the railroads passed
under government control first and
then became labor ridden. Australia
could not resort to waterways but had
TO nave something to take the place
of dead carriers. So it hauls freight
by mule teams travelling over country
roads.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-30
THEY LOVE US NOT.

1t now appears conclusively, as there had
long been reason to believe, that the central
powers forbade the Turk to permit the United
States cruiser Des Moines and collier Caesar to
discharge their cargoes of food and medicines
in any Syrian port. These vessels laden with
supplies for starving Americans in Palestine
have therefore been kept tied up to their
wharves in Alexandria, Egypt, for the last four
months. The Turkish government is willing
enough that should feed missionaries,
men and women, at our own expense and has so
informed our state department, but her ally,
the Prussian imperial government, refuses its
consent.
Is it possible to suggest explanation
creditable to the central powers why these ship
ments of drugs and food for the relief Of fam
ishing non combatants, mostly missionaries and
their families should be held up as they have
been and are? Can any reason except their
venomous hatred of us be advanced2
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-30

of England had now worked out
their salvation The war could not
be carried on without them, he de-
clared-a fact now universally recog-
nized. The women of England have
So we'd the British empire. They are
entitled to their reward-the ballot.
And they will get it. 1t was newt
able, anyhow, but it might have been
delayed for years had it not been for
the conspicuous object lesson brought
about by the war.
If so stolid and stubborn race as
the English has seen the light and
been transformed, the sprightl1er
Americans ought not to be in the
rear guard. The Iowa legislature will
be equal to the occasion and give the
people the opportunity for that
sober, second thought" that so often
has turned the tide of national des.
tiny.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-30
DIFFICULTIES OF THE NEW RUSSIA.

If anyone knew what to expect of Russia at
this crisis, he could, by the simple process of
predicting an opposite course strike the prob
able. Russia always does the unexpected. But
at this stage Of Russia s transformation into
republic there is only the broadest guessing, at
this distance from the scene, and there ls moth
ing like agreement as to Russa's next step.
Observers of Russian affairs generally
agree however, on. this point: that the chief
danger confronting the new liberal government
is the danger of internal dissenson forced by
the Russian radicals. The liberals may set up
a government. in form of national council or
assembly, but while the liberals PROPOSE the
radicals may dispose. Not for nothing have
the radicals, the ''nihilists," plotted and suf-
fered through nearly a century of fury.
But in anticipating trouble from the socialist
group, many observers forget one important
circumstance: the Russian radical socialist,
commonly termed nihilist, is only the natural
product Of an intensely oppressive government,
and when the oppression ceases his temper is
likely to cool and his policy to undergo a
change.
In countries where some measure of democ-
racy has long obtained, there are no super radi-
Gals. for the simple reason that their services
no longer appeal 1t is only in an absolute
monarchy like Russia that socialism reaches its
most radical extreme Radical socialism was
Russia's only picture Of democracy, Russia s
only hope of overthrowing the existing order.
Now with that old order overthrown in a prac-
ticaly bloodless revolution, the radicals may
feel appeased.
Socialism in states where democracy is we'll
established is not a socialism of killing and
burning; it is only formal expression of ex-
IRENE ideals and faith IF the nihilists of Russia
are given a share in the new government, are
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-30

Germany took over the railroads
and they died under the operation.
Germany, in consequence, built up
internal waterways.
In fact, whenever governmental
control of railroads has become
fact, an auxiliary system of carrier
had to be introduced. The expan-
sion. of the nation stopped because
the carriers could not promote 1t.
Now comes America, to take the
last step Of bringing the railroads
completely under national domination.
The supreme court has put the legs Of
the labor union around the railroads
neck; has ciamped it on with bands
OF steel fastened around the throat.
under the chin, over the eyes and
under the armpits. The railroad
cannot hope to escape from the
monster now shackled to it. AS re-
suit, the railroad from now on Is deaf,
dumb and blind, to all pleas that 1t
expand. 1t cannot see the places in
to which to expand, and has no power
to do 1t, if 1t so desired.
America, however, must have more
carriers or stop growing. So the
only thing remaining is the waterway.
The only auxiliary or assistant
which the waterway can have is the
auto truck, For this reason we be-
come, from henceforth, an advocate
Of waterways and motor truck trans
portation in conjunction. We take
this stand not because we think they
are modern and efficient, but because
we know that the nation must have
some kind OF transportation. And
the laws will not let the railways
supply 1t.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-30
The War on Its Last Ueos.

Henry Clews: The war appears to
be on its last legs: its tottering steps
are evidence thereof. No sane ma.
ton on the American continent will
dare to stand for ''frightful warfare"
on the seas. as set forth in the re.
cent orders issued. It is evidently a
forlorn hope and represents a final
desperate effort through the threat
of sinking ships carrying human
beings without any provision made
to save them. 1t is suggestive that
the end of the war is near No re-
publican government on our South
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-30
For Those Who Suffer
Pain in Stomach, Back
or Joints
(By Samuel Hamilton, NJ. d.

(By Samuel 6dIllltOn, M. ~.
In recent years investigation by
means of X-rays, the observations of
scientists such as Cannon, Grutzner,
Pavlov, Fowler, Hawk, prove that an
abundance of water is necessary in
good bodily housekeeping. To drink
a pint of hot water before meals is
good practice, and those suffering
from a catarrhal condition of the
stomach will find benefit in adding
about 10 grains (one-sixth of a level
teaspoonfuD of baking soda. drinking
ii an hour before each meal.
II your kidneys are sick. or you
suffer with lumbago or rheumatism
at times, pain in the back or back
of the neck, take a little Anuric be-
fore meals. Anuric double strength)
can be found at any good drug store,
and was first discovered by DR..
Pierce, of the Surgical Institute in
Buffalo, N. Y.
When rundown, when life indoors
has brought about a stagnant condi-
ton in the circulation-most every
one is filled with uric acid-especial-
ly is this so Of people past middle
age. This uric acid in the blood
often causes rheumatism, lumbago.
swelling of hands or feet, or a bag.
like condition under the eyes. Back
ache, frequent urfnation or the pains
and stiffness of the joints and high
blood pressure are also often noticed.
Everyone should drink plenty of pure
water and exercise in the open air as
much as possible. I have found that
Anuric is an antidote for this uric
acid poison and that II will dissolve
the accumulation of uric acid in the
body much as hot water dissolves
SUGAR.