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The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1919-05-24

had been spying. To meet them to-
gether. here at midnight, why should
not they feel ashamed7 She had done
nothing wrong. And Tom down yon-
der fighting-and they make his alb
sence a cover for their rendezvous.
I'm looking for Sam - The effort
behind the words turned them into an
0ratorical challenge.
$50 are we. l want to send him
home with Mrs. Hardin. She's worn
out"
''She can go home with me. | am go
ing directly. As soon az l give a mes
sage to Sam" She instantly regretted
her words. abruptly hnltlng. II came
to her that Richard would insist upon
delivering her message. OF course, he
would oppose her going. Some petty
reason or other. She knew from the
men that he was oppositionai. that he
liked TO show his power. Not safe. he
would say. or the horse was needed,
or Sam too busy to wait on her!
"You cannot go home alone. you
two. The town Is full OF strange In
dlans. Give me your lantern, Miss
Hardin; I'll rout out that darky."
Rebelliously she gave him the Ian
tern. The light turned full on her
averted angry eyes.
A naughty Thusnelda followed him.
Sam was discovered asleep In the
only room whore the windows had not
yet been attacked. His head rested on
"A bundle Of sacked trees which the
ladies of the Improvement club had
planned to plant the next day. Deep
snores betrayed his refuge.
"Here, sam! / want you to take
these ladies home. Chase yourself.
They've been working while you've
windows out by now"
Gerty had to supply the courtesy for
two. She told Mr.. Ricknrd In her ap-
pealing way that he had been very
kind; that she "wOuld have been
frightened to death to go home alone"
Innes had TO say something! "Good-
night !" The words had an insulting
ring
The wind covered a passionate ST.
lence, as the two women, followed by
Sam, yawning and stretching. made
their way down the shrieking street.
at was true" Innes was thinking. She
had at last stumbled or the rOut, but
1t was not n matter OF personal, hut
moral untldiness; not carclcssncss
of pins or plates, Of tapes or dishes. 1t
was far worse; slackness of ethics.
II meant more unhappiness for Tom.
Her aching muscles told her that
she could not have slept four hours
when the dnrky was back, knocking at
her door.
Innes' horse loped through the
silent streets.
"I'll run past the levee; perhaps |
Tom has come back" IL occurred 10
her that there might be a message at !
the hotel. She pulled on her left rein,
and swept past the deserted adobe.
As she reIncd In her horse. Rickard |
stepped out on the sidewalk. He, too,
vas beavy-eyed from a snatched nap.
Were you looking for me?'
The scOrn In the girls face told him
that his question was stupid. For
him!
"IIas my brother come back?"
lie said he did not know. "You can
see | have been dreamingw - She would
not smile back at him, but rode off
.Oward the levce.
Was this the rlver7 West of the
eyee. sea OF muddy water spread
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1919-05-24
CHAPTER XVI.
Rickard In Town.


The town woke to n matter-of-fact
day. The sensational aspect of the
runaway river had passed with the
night. The word spread that the flood
waters were under CONTROL that the
men Ind gone home to sleep, so the
women got breakfast as usual, and
tidled their homes. The Colorado was
always breaking out, like naughty
child from school. Never would the
cry of "The riveri" fail to drag the
blood from their cheeks. But relief
always came; the threatened danger
was always averted, and these pioneer
women had acquired the habit OF swift
reaction.
That afternoon Mrs. Youngberg was
TO entertain at the A B G ranch the
ladies of the Improvement club. II
was lf-glorificatlon meeting, TO
celebrate the planting of trees in the
streets of Calexico. and to plan the
campaign Of their planting. Mrs.
Bliph drove into town TO get Gerty
Hardin. Neither woman had seen her
husband since the interrupted drive
the eight before.
II don't know whether should CO."
Mrs. Hardin hesitated, her face turned
toward the A B Q ranch. perhaps
there is something we could do"
II have just come from The levee."
Mrs. Blinn's jolly face had lost Its
apprehension. "The water has not
risen an inch since breakfast. Most OF
the men have been sent home. When
Howard didn't come home to lunch,
grew anxious. But Mr.. Rickard says
he sent him tog Fassett's with more
dynamite"
''There he is" thrilled Gerty.
Mrs. Blinn's eye swept the street.
"Where? Your husbands"
mo, Mr.. Rickard. Passing the bank.
There, he's stopped. I wonder II he is
going in? You call him, Mrs. Blinn."
Obediently her friend hailed Rick
ard. He turned back to the windy
street. He felt boyish; the crisis was
giving him mercmial feet. He loved
ones brains against, wits against
force!
Gerty HardIn's face was flushing
and pallng. "The river" she faltered.
SHOULD we be alarmed, Mr.. Rickard?"
Smiling, he assured her she should
not be alarmed; the levees would pro-
tect the towns.
"Mr. Hardin is up at Fassett's
ranch, he will be coming back today.
told your husband Mrs. Blinn. to
catch nap and then relieve Mr.. Har-
din"
Gerty found significance in his
words. He had said "Mr. Hardin" and
''yOur husband, Mrs. Blinn." II was
enough to weave dreams around.
1--WE can't do anything, Mr.. Rickard.
to help" urged Gerty Hardin, her
voice tremulous
81 hope we won't have to call on you
at ALL
There was no excuse to linger.
Gerty threw wistful little smile at
parting.
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1919-05-24
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Passing Of the Waters.

Babc0ck came rushing down from
Los Angeles that morning to see what
In thunder 1t was all about. He asked
every one he met why some one didn't
get busy and stop the cutting back of
that river2 There was no one at the
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1919-05-24

what you think of mel"
What indeed did she think OF III
Why should she feel like the culprt
before these two, her words desert.
ing her? 1t was Gerty's look thnt
made her feel guilty, as though she
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1919-05-24
Fever" and Common Sense

Instead OF giving up and saying
you have Spring fever" II il more
sensible TO take good wholesome
physic. Biliousness, sick headache,
The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1919-05-24

sour stomach. bloating. coated ton
gue,-all are banished by Foley
Cathartic Tablets. b. Il. Haward'
Unadilla, Ga, writes; Foley Cathar.
tic Tablets give quick relief" Sold
everywhere.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
)HeVEIVET g.
HAMMER M6AEv>~'aul1|
By Arthur Brooks Baker mGA WNM
Blu 4rthur brooks Baker mn
E. E. CALVIN.

To be a railroad president was once golden
cinch You did not chum with poverty nor
feel its hateful pinch. You tied behind the
Limited your fussy private car and Travelled
with the radiance and splendor of car. To
critics of your morals or your manner, or your
face you handed verbal passes to warm and
well known place.
Alas for olden glories and alas for olden JOY.
A railroad president is now the merry Office
boy. No longer doth he paw the air with
large and earnest fist; he asks the labor unions
for permission to exist. Committees placed
above, below, front, rear and right and left have
taken from his high class job its ancient rank
and heft.
But E. E. Calvin labors on with scanty love
and thanks, and very modest monthly checks to
tender to the banks. Az, regional director of
the useful old U. P, whose ponderous official
front he's still assumed to be. he takes the
sings and arrows by unkindly fate bestowed
and nourishes persistent hopes of getting back
his road
But how the sprightly times have changed
upon their tickle tides. The workman wants the
private car and all the private rides. When Cal
vim was youngster in his fresh and early
prime he started from trainman's job his long
and dizzy climb; but now, in the inversion
which vivacious gods have sent, he starts from
bottom up again, as railroad president.
Next Subject-William F. Baxter.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
PRESIDENT TO THE RESCUE.

Like the good fairy in the children's tale, or
the ubiquitous and omniscient detective in the
more sophisticated modern version, the presi-
den tcomes to the fore in the coal strike. He
has made proposal that is acceptable to the
miners and which their president will urge the
rank and file to adopt Thus the great crisis will
be terminated.
Perhaps Nothing is givene to the public
concerning the content of the proposal from
the White House, nor has any intimation been
had as to the disposition of the operators in the
matter. 1t might turn out, as has been the case
all along, that what is satisfactory to the men
does not have approval of he owners of the
mines. This does not settle the controversy.
The next thing is to compel the operators to
submit to the presidents proposal.
Coercion in this respect can take the form
only of government operation of the mines,
either through direct seizure Of by some one of
many obvious subterfuges, any Of which amount
to the same thing. This is what the miners have
aimed at from the beginning, the "nationaiza-
ton of the mines. Some reason exists for
thinking such an outcome will not be entirely
unacceptable to the owners. Any plan to Sc
cure supply Of fuel for the present will meet
Temporary .dpPioHd. ZIG "ioie County - III
the position Of the victim of footpad, and
has little choice.
There is hereafter, though, and some por-
ton of the coming days may we'll be devoted
to a sincere effort to so arrange the business
of the country that such condition never can
be again precipitated. This does not look to
public ownership of the mines, or to the estab-
lishment of a permanent wage basis. A method
for insuring continuous production of fuel can
be found, however. While waiting for this, let
US hope the operators will follow the example
Of the miners and try to get the coal out of the
ground as speedily as possible.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
In the Matter of Paroles.

The case of Bery Kirk is coming in for
great discussion just now, because of the pc
culiar circumstances that surround it, Investi-
CATION is demanded and shud be thorough
in order that all the facts may be made known.
But the Kirk case is neither the first nor the
most aggravating instance of the misapplica-
ton Of cemency to convicts in Nebraska. The
inquirer need 60 no further back than the last
twenty years. and follow the prison records
down to the present, and he will find where the
doors of the penitentiary have opened a great
many times to allow some prisoner to emerge
long before he had satisfied the demands of
outraged society.
In setting up board Of pardons to admin
lister the parole law, and to relieve the execu-
tive of whatever Of embarrassment might at
tach to his exclusive powers in the matter, as
we'll as to afford something of a curb on one
who might too readily succumb to the prompt
ings of generous heart, it was thought
remedy had been found. Developments have
not entirely justified expectations in this re-
gard. This is not an argument against the
plan, but merely emphasizes the fallibility of
human judgment.
Society no longer pursues the errng brother
or sister as Nemesis, bent on wreaking
vengeance. Yet, after all due and proper allow
ance is made for those merciful considerations
that must enter into assessment of any SEN
tence involving the expiation of guilt estab-
lished, something is owing to society. 1t may
we'll be questioned if sequcstration for few
weeks or few months permits the mental
and moral transmagrihcation needed for the
reformation sought The law i. not harsh in
exacting reasonable penalty from criminal,
but sometimes its merciful operation shows
reverse effect.
We do not need sterner laws, but we do
need some Improvement in their enforcement.
Young men should be made to understand that
a twenty-year sentence includes more than that
many months of actual Incarceration. If So
ciety is to have protection from criminals,
regulations made for that purpose must be
more exactly applied.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
The Eagle Screams

The Carpenter Beckett fight finds and leaves
us frigid.. Why should Americans be interested
in the antics of two second rate buns in the
ring when they have in their own possession a
gentleman named Dempsey, who could have
both feet chained to the floor and one hand tied
behind him and lick both of then, in one round
individually or collectively, without having a
glove laid on him?
We ask why For Carpenter we have a
shame-faced sort of interest He is as the
woman preacher and the educated pig famed in
legend The wonder is not that he does it well
but that he does it at ALL
As for the British, despite the presence in
our midst of the marvellous flyweight, Jimmie
Wilde, they are second rate. Any nation which
could have innocent numbering old Bombadier
Wells for a champion for spell of years is
after the cellar championship. Bombadier got
SO that he Topped if waiter made an awkward
movement with a soup dish. He had become
an addict.
We assert for the U. S. A. that it produces
the greatest fighters the world ever saw. The
only time an American cannot fight well is when
he has to have the assistance Of the War de-
partment and a political administration That
certainly palses its native genius.
IL this be chauvinistic, we glory in it. All
we want of the league of nations is that it make
boxing compulsory and decree that tutuHe wars
shalt be fought with six-ounce gloves.
Then hail the American empre-Chieago
Tribune,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
For Not Knowing English.

Two women in New York police court
have been fined for not being able to speak
English. One had lived in this country four
teen and the other fifteen years. To the
casual observer this would appear ample time
in which they might become somewhat &C.
quainted with the common tongue Of the land
in which they live. Amy who is inclined to 60
a little deeper into the matter will realize that
the women are not solely to blame. They live
on the EAST Side" in region as foreign to
American thought, ideals, and language as
Kamschatka. Hundreds of thousands are
huddled there, never hearing word of Eng
lisf, unless from the policeman, who to them
represents all there is of America. They have
no need of any but their native tongue for their
daily walk in life; they brought the ways of
Europe with them, and they have not been given
much chance to acquire any other. Now that
efforts are being made to reach these neglected
aliens, a better way to interest them in ac-
quring English speech ought to be found. To
fine them for not knowing what they never
have had a chance to learn is to confirm them
in the sense of injustice they already too keenly
feel
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
UNFOLDING American Ideals
From the St. Louis Globe. Democrat.

Former President Taft has given some ex-
ceent advice to the new American Legion
The tendency some members of that organza-
ton and some of the local chapters have shown
to resort to violence in. defense of American
principles and especially in opposition to radi-
calls seeking to overthrow the government he
deplores and warns the organization against it.
These manifestations of the mob spirit are
prompted by an excess of patriotic zeal, and
therefore have not at their core anything harm
full to the country. But in their desire to safe
guard American principles they should not over
look the fact that fundamental among these
principles is respect for law and order and the
determination of all disputed matters by regular
judicial process In dealing with advocates of
illegal use of force there should not be an ex-
qualification of that very un-Amercan principle.
Most of the legioners are young and impulsve,
yet they have all received education and train
ing in the American spirit No democracy can
stand which does not have supreme regard for
the sanctity of the law and the authority of the
officers regularly chosen to enforce it. The best
contribution the legion can make to the support
of true Americanism is to uphold the law and
its officers in every time of stress and excite
ment If more force is needed than the officers
OF the law possess at any time of trouble, it is
the duty OF every citizen to lend the officers aid
IN enforcing the law and preserving the peace.
There is no finer example of the true American
spirit of democracy than that of man helping
the officers OF the law to preserve the peace at
a time when his sympathies and natural i'm
pulses are with those who are breaking the law
or disturbing the peace. That is triumph of
principle over impulse and sentiment 1t is the
acid test of democracy. Every member of an
order which makes patriotism its chief reason
for existence should be able to stand this acid
test.
There is much to be hoped for in the pres
ervation Of our democratic institutions from the
splendid American young men who fought to
preserve democracy for the whole world. The
American Legion has before it full half cen
fury of powerful influence upon the conduct of
public affairs in this country and the education
of the youth of the land and the immigrants
who come to US from abroad in true American
ISM This influence will be the stronger and the
more benehcent as the members of that order
themselves exemplify the ideals of Americanism
in all the emergencies that arise, high among
which ideals is preservation of the peace and
support of the law, as interpreted and applied
by the courts and executed by officials charged
with that duty,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
Emergency Hospital Service.

The blunder Of policeman increased the
agony of an injured child Misinterpreting in
structons, the officer declined to permit the
mother Of the lad to have him removed few
steps to the Office Of the family physician, but
insisted on his being taken to the central police
station. In this the policeman was honestly
cndeavorng to carry out rules interpreted too
literally. Without questioning his motives or
his intelligence, the action of the officer brings
seriously to the front one of Omaha's most
pressing problems, that of properly equipped
and easily reached emergency hospital. Present
arrangements are Anticipated and inadequate:
The practice of calling the patrol wagon and
sending the victim of street accident to the
central police station has in it something that
almost smacks of inhumanity but under exist
ing circumstances there is nothing else to do.
Omaha should make better provisions for those
who are unfortunate enough to be accidentally
hurt the city streets.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
"Sh0p IN the Public Press"

IF the public would only shop in the public
press first and then come to the stores provided
with knowledge which they derive from peru
sal of the newspaper advertisements, much
good would be accomplished" So writes
Michael Fredsam of B. Altman & Co., who is
head of the fair-prce subcommittee on cloth
ing, shoes and hats to Federal Administrator
Arthur Williams. Mr.. Friedsam doubts the
advisability of "fair price list" in his line of
goods. These must from their nature be some
what elastic in price. But extorton is impos-
sible in conditions of hot competition, when
each big merchant is telling the public each day
what his prices will be and customers will not
be overcharged anywhere if they read the
newspapers. Mr.. Friedsam appends list of
advertised prices of a given week, showing
$24.5O to $47; women's suits, SIS to SIS, and
other articles in proportion
Administrator Williams had already ex-
pressed almost the same idea. Women COM
pare advertised prices pretty generally Men
have not learned to do so. Men are reckless
hurry, without comparison, and often they re-
pent at leisure.
i, More and more as the years go on the ad
vertsements of big stores become daily price
lists. As to quality, the credit of the store is
involved in what is offered. Each advertise
all the purchasing public as the party of the
second part. All merchants recognize this prin-
cpe. Misrepresentation is very rare and very
improbable.
The public, especially that segment of the
public which spends the hitherto unknown
wages of workingmen, is responsible for much
of the prohteering of small stores If the buyer
seldom asks the price of anything, and never
haggles about it, why shouldn't the retailer put
on an extra 20 per cent? Isn't looking out for
No. l the first law of nature? The temptation
is so strong that few resist it. The remedy lies
with the purchaser If they were governed by
reasonable principles of economy in buying,
the prohteer would soon amend his ways. Mean
while, the large advertiser throws his cards on
the board and asks rivals to match his bargains
He has to limit his profits neutrality-suspicious.
lyn Eagle.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-08
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Another View Of the Miners.

Geneva. Neb., Dec. 3.-To the
Editor of The Bee: Frank Agnew
has communication in your issue of
this morning and as usual there are
some things which Mr.. Agnew says
with which l can agree. But there is
one thing which he says which shows
on the face of it that he does not
understand what he is talking about.
He says that the operators of the coal
mines should be compelled to furnish
the miners work all the time. Now
as to the condition in the southern
Illinois fields happen to know some
thing, having lived there and worked
In mining towns for five years. The
operators are perfectly willing to let
the men work when they can dis
pose OF the coal mined and when
they can get cars. Usually they can
get cars In the summer when they
have no orders for coal and then
when winter comes and they have
orders for coal they are handicapped
by not being able to get cars. 1t is
impossible to store soft coal at the
mine. Last summer the daily papers
were continually calling on the peo-
pie of the country to put In their
winters supply of coal as the mines
were idle for lack of orders. but the
great majority paid no attention, and
so we are caught by the strike with
out coal The miners realized this
and undoubtedly counted on it as be-
ing one of the means whereby they
expected to hold UP the American
people. But as most Of them are not
Americans they failed to understand
the spirit of the average American
citizen who docs MT foGo kipd1y "a
being coerced into anything. AS a
result the miners have not the SYM
pathy Of the public. In the great
hard coal strike OF a few years ago
the hard coal miners had the SYM
pathy of the public and there was
but little grumbling done. But now
it is different and the great mass of
the people are willing to undergo
some hardships rather than to sub
NIT to the unjustifiable hold-up pro-
posed by the miners. If the mines
are to be operated in the summer
time then the people of the United
States will have to arrange their af-
fairs so that they can buy their coal
in the early summer and store 1t
themselves, as it is absolutely i'm
practicable to store it at the mine. I
have seen it stated by good author
ity that at the present wages, work.
ing only 1873 days in the year. the
average machine miner makes
$1,000. He has the other days in the
year to do other work, of which there
is plenty to be done. especially on
the farms, but as rule the miners
refuse to do anything during the
weeks In which there is no coal to be
mined. w. M. PURGE.