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tlcn, and finally wore so on his nerves
that he was obliged to discharge her.
Unless you stop to consider vari-
Gus causes, few people realize how
much personal caprice counts in bus
mess. Many a deserving employe has
lost out because the boss's liver hap
pened to be out of order. or because
he had been pickering with his wife
before coming to the office. Many an
undeserving one has received prefer
ment on grounds just as illogical.
We are all swayed more or less by
our whims and prejudices. We deal
at certain shops and avoid others for
the most fantastic and unreasonable
causes. We refuse to visit a certain
restaurant because we have a ground
less anttpathy for the head waiter
We decline to employ a lawyer or
physician because ones voice doesn't
suit us and we don't like the way the
other brushes his hair.
Il do not like you. DR.. Fell
The reason why. | cannot tell"
And chiefs, foremen, superintend-
ents and employing agents are only
human like the rest of us. They have
their prejudices and their predilec-
tions, their uncertain livers and their
vulnerable heels.
And not all the Muensterburg tests
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and chart systems can alter the fact
There is this to be. said on the
other side of the question. The law
yer is more important to the office
than the stenographer; the president
more important to the bank than
Smithers. 1t is. of course. unreasona-
BILE to discharge faithful and COM
petent subordinate simply because
his face or some popularity of dress
or mannerism happens to get on
somebody's raw nerves. But one is
surprised to learn how many dismiss
sails, cloaked under other excuses, are
really due to this cause.
II could not stand that girls whin-
ming voice. one man rather shame
facedly confesses.
That eternal Mona Lisa smile got
my goat" says another.
HE was a good man. but his shoes
squeaked." complains a third.
There is no way to cope with this
fern of injustice. An employe may
study an employers peculiarities and
try to conform in every way to his
little prejudices. only to find that he
has aroused suspicion and distrust by
this very complaisance.
The answer to the difficulty lies in
the fact that no two people have ex-
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or the cleek on a certain golf stroke.
And Smithers, equally unconscious.
toiled away at his ledger until quit
ting time. then Joined the homeward
rush for dinner. and that night re-
turning from the movies told his girl
that with his Christmas bonus and
the fve-dollar raise he was sure to
get the first of the year he saw no
reason why they might not pull off
the for r-better-for-worse thing the
following June.
1t is only the young men who see
visions. The old ones dream dreams,
and that night the president, as the
result of a rather diversified after
theater supper. dreamed a peach AS
he pitched and tossed upon his pill
low, various of the incidents and peo-I
pie which had fallen within his len
during the past few years trooped
from the subconscious and regrouped
themselves into a strangely tangled
and fantastic but vivid nightmare.
Most unaccountable of ALL the Wis
age of Smithers, known to the presi-
dent only through that one cursory
glance. persisted in claiming the spot
light and assuming the leading role
in a "crook drama" wherein through
a novel and brilliantly audacious
method of falsifying accounts the
bank was robbed of over a million
dollars.
The next morning the president was
down at the bank before the doors
were open and conducting an investi
cation. To his great relief. he found
the books absolutely correct and no
shortage of any kind. But the night
mare had been too realistic to dis
miss from his mind. So he summoned
the head of the department in which
Smithers worked.
His chief gave a good report of the
young man. He's steady and reliable
as a clock, I'm planning to put him
iE charge of the out ef-town accounts
next year"
The president started as If he had
ceen stung. In his dream it was the
out accounts which Smithers
had manipulated to his own profit.
So the guillotine fell. And Smith
ers' blameless record and three years
devoted service to the bank were sac
riticed to the maleyolent shades of a
deceased lobster.
AS another instance friend of
mine who is lawyer had a stenog-
rapher over whom he exulted as a
jewel of her kind. She was rapid,
accurate, keen-witted. everything that
Guild be desired. But she managed
in some way to grow a dis1guring
mole on the tip of her chin. and the
lawyer said he simply could not keep
his mind off it when she was in his
presence. 1t diverted his thoughts
and disturbed the flow of his dicta-
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|Life'sProblems
Are Discussed
BY MRS. WILSON WOODROW.

BY MRS. WILSON WOODROW.
The cry everywhere to-day is for
efficiency. System is god and the
card Index is it's prophet.
Even the taking on and discharge
OF employees is now regulated in many
large establishments by scientific
method and according to a set of
psychological tests. Promotions and
demotions come automatically as the
chart on individual performance kept
by force of experts shows a rise
above or a fall below a fixed standard
of accomplishment.
Yet so long as the functions of
hiring and firing" lie within human
hands and until some machine is in
vented to govern the processes of ad-
vancement and retrogression, there is
bound to be in such matters a strong
element of prejudice. favoritism,
pull and pure whim.
Smithers was a clerk in a large
bank. l call him Smithers because
that is not his real name and this is
true story. l doubt very much #
e'iS bdAih tltlh was ever Calleu
Smithers outside of fiction, and they
are all of the Smithers family.
At any rate. this particular Smith
ers one day fell under the obser-
walton of the president of the bank.
There was nothing done on Smithers'
part to produce this result. 1t was a
pure case of destiny.
Every afternoon in passing out of
his office the eye of the president
swept over that roomful of indus
trlous young man and took no more
note of them individually than if they
were a flock of sheep. He didn't even
know their names; they were merely
a set of cogs in the machine he was
operating.
But on this especial occasion,
through some fell circumstance. his
glance fingered on Smithers and the
image of that unfortunate youth
lodged in some niche in his memory.
The president himself was scarcely
conscious of it at the moment. His
mind was absorbed in far weightier
matters-whether to use the mashie
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BIG
TIMBER
H
BERTRAND w.
SINCLAIR
Cspyzishs. 1916. - Lsttia. ses~H
6 Co,
(Continued.)
CHAPTER XVIII

"Out of the Night That Covers Me-"
The Waterbug limped. Her engine
mistired continuously, and Barlow
backed the mechanical knowledge to
remedy it's ailment He was salts
fed to let it pound away so long as
it would revolve at all. So the boat
moved slowly through that encom-
passing smoke at less than half
speed. Outwardly the once spick and
span cruiser bore every mark of
hard usage. Her topsides were foul.
her decks splintered by the tramp
ing of calked boots, grimy with SCOT
and cinders. 1t seemed to Stella
that everything and every one on
and about Roaring Lake bore some
mark of that holocaust raging in
the timber, as If the fire were some
malignant disease menacing and
marring all that it affected and af-
fecting all that trafficked within its
smoky radius.
But of the fire itself she could see
nothing, even when late in the aft
ernoon they drew in to the bay be-
fore her brothers camp. A heavier
smoke cloud, more pungent of burn
ing pitch, Ianketed the shores, lifted
in blue, rolling masses farther back.
y greater heat made the air Sitting.
causing the eyes to smart and grow
watery. That was the only differ
ence.
Barlow laid the Waterbug along
side the float. He had already told
her that Lefty How, with the greater
part of Fyfe's crew, was extending
and guarding Benton's fire trail and
he half expected that Fyfe might
have turned up there. Away back
in the smoke arose spasmodic cough
ing of donkey engines, dull 'resound-
ing of AK blades. Barlow led the
way. They traversed a few hundred
yards of path through brush, broken
tops and stumps, coming at last into
fairway cut through virgin timber,
sixty foot strip denuded of every
growth, great frs felled and drawn
far aside, brush piled and burned.
a breastwork from which to fight
advancing fire, it ran away into the
heart of a smoky forest. Here and
there blackened. fire scorched
patches abutted upon its northern
Aiank, stumps of great trees smold-
sring, cracking yet. At the first
such place half a dozen men were
busy with shovels blotting out
|streaks of fire that crept along the
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By May Manton

No more satisfactory, no more
sensible, no more attractive
rompers than these ever were
devised. The loose legs near
perfect freedom for the littl,
wearer and, incidentally, they
relieve the mother of good deal
of annoyance for there are no
elastics to wear out and be IL
serted. They are quite as suit
able for little girls as they are
for little boys and they can be
made from any pretty simple
material. In the picture, a
white linene is trimmed with
blue.
For the 4-year size will be
needed, 2I yards of material
~ inches wide, I5s yards SO,
with 81 yard for trimming.
The pattern No. o5I7 is cut
in sizes for 2, 4 and 6 years. It
will be mailed to any address
by the Fashion Department of
this paper, on receipt of ten
cents.
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are causing the Inflammation, are inn
mediately attacked and chased out of
your system without inconvenience or
pain.
Do not delay minute. Go to your
druggist and insist on his supplying
you with a box of GOLD MEDAL
Harlem Oil Capsules. In "a hours
vigor. After you have cured your
self, continue to take one or two Cap
sules each day so as to keep in first
class condition, and ward off the dam
ger of future attacks. Money refund-
ed If they do not help you. Ask. for
the original imported GOLD MEDAL
brand. and thus be sure of getting the
genuine.-Advertisem
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dry leaf mold. No. they had not
seen Fyfe. But they had been
blamed busy. He might be up
above.
Half a mile beyond that, beside
the first donkey shuddering on its
anchored skids as it tore an eight
cen inch cedar out by the roots.
they came on Lefty Howe. He
shook his head when Stella asked for
Fyfe.
HE took twenty men around to
the main camp day before yester-
day." said Lefty. There was a
piece uh timber beyond that he
thought he could save. well, 1
took a shoot around there yesterday
after your brother got hurt. Jack
wasn't there. Most of the boys was
at camp loadin' gear on the scows.
They said Jacks gone around to
Tumblin' creek with one man. He
wasn't back this mornin', so l
thought maybe he'd gone to the
Springs. 1 dunno's there's any occa-
sion to worry. He might "a gone
to the head uh the lake with them
constables that went up last night.
How's Charlie Benton?"
She told him briefly.
That's good" said Lefty. Now,
I'd go aroun dto Cougar bay if 1 was
you, Mrs. Jack. He's liable to come
in there anytime. You could stay at
the house tonight. Everything
around there, shacks and all, was
burned days ago, so the fire can't
touch the house, The crew there
has grub and cook. I kinda expect
JackIl b9 there unless he fell in
with them constables."
She trudged silently back to the
Waterbug. Barlow started the en-
gine, and the boat took up her slow
way. As they skirted the shore
Stella began to see her eand there
the fierce havoc of the fire. Black
trunks of fir reared nakedly to the
smoky sky, lay crisscross on bank
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and beach. Nowhere was there a
green blade, a living bush-nothing
but charred black, a melancholy
waste of smoking litter, with here
and there n pitch soaked stub still
waving it's banner of flame or glow
ing redly. Back of those scared
skeletons a shifting cloud of smoke
obscured everything.
Presently they drew in to Cougar
bay. Men moved about on the
beach: two bulky scows stood nose
on to the shore. Upon them rested
half a dozen donkey engines, thick
bellied. upright machines, blown
dead on their skids. About these
In great coils lay piled the gear of
logging, miles of steel cable, blocks,
the varied tools of the logger's trade.
The Panther lay between the scows,
with lines from each passed over
hr towing bits.
Stella could see the outline of the
white bungalow on it's grassy knoll.
They had saved only that, of all the
camp, by a fight that sent three men
to the hospital on a day when the
wind shifted into the northwest and
sent n sheet of flame rolling through
the timber and down on Cougar bay
like a tidal wave, so Barlow told
her. He cupped his hands now and
called to his fellows on the beach.
No, Fyfe had not come back yet.
Go up to the mouth of Tumbling
creek" Stella ordered.
Barlow swung the Waterbug
about, cleared the point and stood
up along the shore. Stella sat on
cushioned seat at the back of the
pilothouse, hard eyed struggling
against that dead weight that seemed
to grow and grow in her breast.
That elemental fury raging in the
woods made her shrink. Her own
hand had helped to loose it, but
her hands were powerless to stay
1t; she could only sit and watch and
wait, eaten up with misery of her
own making. She was horribly
afraid, with a fear she would not
name to herself
Behind that density of atmos-
phere the sun had gone to rest. The
first shadows of dusk were closing
in, betokened by a thickening of the
smoke fog into which the Water
bug slowly plowed. To port a dim
ming shore line; to starboard, aft
and dead ahead, water and air
merged in two boat lengths. Bar
low leaned through the pilothouse
window, one hand on the wheel.
straining his eyes on their course.
Suddenly he threw out the clutch.
shut down his throttle control with
one hand and yanked with the other
at the cord which loosed the Water
bugs shrill whistle.
Dead ahead, almost upon them.
came an answering toot
Il thought I heard a gas boat"
Barlow exclaimed. "Sufferin' Jeru-
salem! Hi, there!"
He threw his weight on the wheel,
sending it hard over. The cruiser
still had way on. The momentum
of her ten ton weight scarcely had
slackened, and she answered the
helm. Out of the deceptive thick
ness loomed the sharp, flaring bow
of another forty footer, sheering
quickly as her pilot sighted them,
She was upon them and abreast and
gone, with watery purl of her bow
wave, subdued mutter of exhaust
passing so near that an active man
could have leaped the space be-
tween.
ITO be Continuedl
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OIL CAPSULES
IF YOUR BACK ACHES

Do you feel tired and 'worn-out?"
Are you nervous and irritable? Don't
Fleep well at night? Have dragged
but'' unrested feeling when you get
up in the morning? Dizzy spells?
Bilious? Bad taste in the mouth. back
zache, pain or soreness in the loins,
md abdomen? Severe distress when
! #ediment? All these indicate gravel
pr stone in the bladder. or that the
poisonous microbes. which are always
n your system. have attacked your
Kidneys.
You should use GOLD MEDAL
HARLEM OIL Capsules Immediately.
he oil soaks gently into the walls
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Nv

actly the same prejudlces. What one
employer would call whining voice
another would term plaintively sooth-
ing tones. The smile that got one
mans goat would prove a source of
inspiration to another.
And the person who honestly, faith
fully and conscentiously fulfls his
obligations is not going to serve long
as a football for fate"
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1917-09-25
COLORADO FAMILY HAS
SCHOOL ROOMS HANDY

CARR. Colo. Sept. 25.--A school
house In q private home with the
teacher receiving $50 a month to in-
struct her i've brothers and sisters
here recently was given It's third In
structor. each Of the Instructors being
a sister. The latest teacher 10 Mary
Elizabeth Mantey. 30 years old.
The school children are sons and
daughters Of the late Dynosus Man
tey. Weld County pioneer. who left a
large estate. principally land.
Last spring the adult sons and
daughters incorporated under the
name Of the Mantey Land and Cattle
company. In order better TO handle
g property. Each Of the sixteen
children was given an equal share.
and the management Is In charge Of
the adult members OF the family. The
property includes several thousand
acres OF irrigable country and hun.
dreds Of head Of cattle.
Agnes and Anastasia Mantey have
been previous teachers OF the school.
which Ii known 40 District No. 46.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1917-09-25
HIGH BUCKERS
HERE FOR SHOW.
0KEETER BILL ALSO ARRANGES
FOR BIG INDIAN WAR DANCE
BY RESERVATION INDIANS.
OUTSIDE RIDERS COMING

There are going to be some high
steppers brought in to the Roundup
here the last of this week. This fact
was settled by telephone message
from Harry Robbins in Langell VAL
ley, saying that he believed the horses
were pretty good buckers. as he
couldn't ride them himself. Twenty
five Of these outlaws will be brought
in today.
Arrangements have also been CON-
pleted for regular Indian war dance
at which some of the old residents Of
the klamath reservation will appear
in all their war paint. feathers.
drums, etc, and stage regular old
time pow-wow.
The corrals aand race track at the
Modoc Dali pars are now completed.
Peewee Holmes, we'll known in the
Movie world. expects to stop here on
his way south from the Pendleton
Roundup.
Curley Fletcher and wife, noted
riders, arrived last night from Mo-
desto. Frank (Fog Horn) Ellis and
Billie Ray will be here from Albany
and Ty Stokes. the Los Angeles trick
rider and roper, is also expected.
There will be big Roundup dance
at the opera house Friday night.
Prizes given for the best dancers.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1917-09-25

SOMEWHERE ALONG BRITISH
FRONT IN FRANCE. Sept. 25.-On
the historic battlefelds which merge
into the lighting lines are encamped
many American troops, far removed
from the rest Of their compatriots.
For military reasons. 1t is impos-
sible to tell the world just where the
men are. but it may be said on au-
thority that they are credit to the
Stars and Stripes, which for the first
time fly over camp Of American SOL
diers In this part Of the war-wrecked
world.
Some men have been working con-
tinually in zone covered by Ger
man guns. Already two of these
have been wounded, a fact OF which
they are exceedingly proud.
When Associated Press representa-
ttves heard OF the location OF the SOL
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1917-09-25
HI0n SCHOOL GIRL
WOULD WORK rVR KEEP

Who has q place where u girl OF
hish school age can stay for tho COM
inG winter and earn her board and
room outside OF school hours?
This Is q question that is troubling <
Principal C. r. Bowman Of tho klam-
ath County high school. A .oodly
number Of students have applied for
places Of this kind this season. and
all have been accommodated thus far,
II Is hoped that the present applicant
may 6nd suitable quarters also.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1917-09-25
} . 90 . . . . . . >>>> q
} HIGH SCHOOL NOTES 4


There are now about twenty-five
picked voices In the chorus. and prac-
tice is conducted regularly.
The third vice-president Of the
student body will be elected this eve-
ming. This oflicer will be from the
Freshman class. and will be a men,
ber of the student body council.
The entire faculty Of the High
School has been inoculated against
typhoid fever.
The assembly singing has been un-
usually successful this year. This is
very attractive feature of the chapel
period.
About twenty-five boys are work
ing hard at football under Coach
Niles.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1917-09-25
US. Troops in France
Are Credit to Nation
Officers Have Hard Time Keeping Men
Out of First Line Trenches--Two
Men Wounded While Working
Under Fire of German Guns
Are Proud of it

diers they were sought out. and
found to be ready for any thing. and
most anxious to try honors with the
Germans.
The men want to feel the thrill
which one experiences when the
shells whine against No Mans Land
and the ragged steel flies in all d.
rectiOns.
Until the order was issued barring
all men from the trenches. the on
cials had hard time keeping the
men out Of the British front line
trenches.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1917-09-25
NOTICE 10 TIM PUDLlO

I nm arranging to leave klamath
Falls for Marshneid. where I will take
care OF another specialists practice
during his absence ut tho war. To
anyone wishing my services. I will
announce that I will be here until this
doctor 10 called to the army. probably
Gu tho nrst or middle OF October. !
would very much appreciate having
all persons knowing themselves TO be
indebted 10 me 10 call and settle their
accounts.
cs.tf DIR. r. NJ. WHITE.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1917-09-25
FIRST IN AMERICA

During the past .ten years the
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
company Of Milwaukee has gained
1855. .OOO. 900 In amount Of insurance
in force. Compare this record with
that Of any company In the world.
Ask ChilcOte for information about
"The Dividend Paying Company of
America" 10
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1917-09-25

1.-THE First American Life Insur.
ance company" THE MUTUAL LIFE,
has been In tho lead for seventy-five
years. For full particulars see Geo.
C. Clrich, District Manager. '.The
Leading Dividend Paying company Of
America" 21.4ts
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1917-09-25
THREE GOOD BUYS

Forty acres. all under ditch. nearly
level. NO improvements. Price 5000.
Five room bungalow. modern. fur
mace heat. good lot. Some fruit and
garden. Price less than cost to build.
Five room house near business csn-
ter. Splendid lot. 65x12O feet. Price
$3,0O0.-W. 8. Slough. 24-tf
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1917-09-25
NOTICE

The Woodmen OF the World will
introduce another class OF candidates
this evening. September 25th, at the
west hall OF !. o. o. F. Temple. All
members and visiting members are
cordially invited.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1917-09-25
,EIGIANs BElNG
AGAIN DEIONTEl,

AMSTERDAM. Sept. 26.---Thc rc-
sumption Of the deportation Of all
males between ~ and %6 from tho
city OF Mons. Belgium. In reported by
Los Nouvoiics of Maastrlcht. Some
have been transported to Germany.
while others wcrc scnt to work bc-
hind the lines In France,
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1917-09-25

NV "rsl desirable 70 -. I
tracts with son,e ali.li. n
very low and Income ~ n
cote.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1917-09-25

Auto springs made ,sa
tho klamath Auto s.',N
Mono better, A.k ~. h.aal
klamath Auto sprIns, W.T. =.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1917-09-25

When you have spring ,,,,v
u to tho klamath Au,o
Works. There arc no sn,,... \
klamath Auto Springs Worn J
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1917-09-25
klamath (:s;y News
.->><->H> -
SHASTA VIEW .

~
School opened at Shasta View on
the 10th, with good attendance.
The efficiency Of the management, B.
p. Alexander and Lola Schaffer. needs
no comment in this community.
The ladies Of the Helping Hand So
ciety were entertained at the home Of
Mrs. Edna Wilson Wednesday with
an attendance Of twenty-three men,
bers and guests. all spending a most
enjoyable day.
Mrs. W. W. Bailey returned Sum-
day from q visit with her daughter in
klamath Falls.
Some Of our ranchers have already
threshed and disposed Of their grain.
Others are not thru heading the late
crop.
Amous Book Is selling fruit to the
people Of this vicinity. which 10 quite
an accommodation. as We are located
some distance from town.
Mrs. c. M. Kirkpatrick and Mrs.
H. E. Wilson were klamath Falls
visitors Thursday.
Jack Frost has been very lenient
with US this fall until last night he
came with full force.