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The Press., 1920-05-13
In The Small Hours By DORA NOLAN
Copyright 1913, by the Mcclure News
 paper Syndicate)

Little Mrs. Partry was alone in her cottage house and the small hours had come. She had never been quite alone, with no other human presence under the same roof, before in her life, though she was past forty. Almost all ways her mother had been about, even in the days before Justine's austere, scholarly husband had very suddenly laid down his studies twelve years ago and gone on an unexpected journey of research into the mysteries of that hereafter with which he had so deeply concerned himself in life. But now the mother, with one of those sudden attacks of wanderlust which sometimes manifest themselves with increasing years, had insisted on going alone to visit a niece at considerable dis of the dependable old servant, Hannah. But Hannah, too, had a niece, and the niece had a family which elected this particular time to undergo a riOtous and comprehensive attack of influenza. Blood is thicker than water, and there was nothing for 1t but that Hannah should go to the niece and the grand nieces and grandnephews. So Justine lay alone and heard the clock strike half past twelve and one and half past one. And then heard a strange, rasp- ing sound at the living-roOm window.
 To appreciate just what followed one must remember that Justine Par try, at forty-two, looked scarcely more than thirty-she had been the prettiest girl in the big public school and the beauty of the high school afterward. And her life had been sheltered-how
The Press., 1920-05-13
Billions of Pins and Needles.

Fourteen billion ordinary toilet pins are produced by American fac tories annually. American mothers also find it necessary to purchase 72O.OOO. .OOO safety pins every year.
 Tie yearly crop of metal hairpins is a billion and a quarter.
 Needles of all kinds aggregate 23o,- eco GOO every 12 months. The value of this pin and needle crop is $13,- O&0 GOO at the factory. Forty-nine factories are engaged in the manu- fracture of the articles, the total capi taAzation being $9,424,OOO
 Tn 1850 there were only four pin factories in the United States, hay ing a combined capital of $164,OOO and combined annual product of 2H1 $50 pins. It will thus be seen that the growth of this industry is some thing tremendous.
The Press., 1920-05-13
PLAN GREAT BOOM l. FOR THE COLLEGES
Gigantic Educational Program of Interchurch World Movement
 Covering Five Years

BOSTON-Plans for . great expan-
 sion of American education that will
 include the construction, by existing
 colleges and universities, of at least
 ], 900 new buildings within period of
 five years, have been made public after
 conferences between representative
 educators and officers of the Inter-
 church World Movement and the coun-
 cil of Church Boards of Education has
 announced the personnel of commit tee appointed to cooperate with the Movement in the advancement of a
 grater educational program. Richard c. Hughes, university secretary of the Presbyterian General Board of Edu- cation is chairman of the committee. In naming this committee, the Coun- ell of Church Boards of Education. which represents about $50 denomina- tional colleges and which conducts the religious work in tax supported 1nsti- tutions throughout the country, fol- lowed the lead of the Association of American Colleges, representing 250 leading colleges. A committee of this
 association, led by William A. Shank lin, president of Wesleyan University (Connecticut) and newly elected pres ident of the Association, met with off cers of the Interchurch Movement ear Her in the week and laid plans for greater cooperation.
 Officers of the Interchurch Move
 ment who represented it in the con- ferences were Dr. Robert l.. Kelly, I S. Earl Taylor, general secretary; John | R. Mott, chairman of the executive committee and William Hiram Foulkes vice-chairman of the executive com mittee.
 Three other educational associa- | tions-the National Association ot State Universities, the Association of ! Theological Seminary Presidents, and the Association of American Univer- sites, are expected soon to name simi- l lar advisory committees to work with | the Interchurch Movement. These | five associations, representing approx imately 1,500 institutions of higher learning, will receive the facts gath cred by the Interchurch Survey to help them in the formulation of their
 programs Thus, with the 500 secon-
 diary schools that will be affected,
 2. 2.OOO educational institutions will be
 directly or indirectly benefited by the
 work of the Interchurch World Move
 ment and the cooperative action
 which Is now being started,
 One of the first steps in the expanded educational program will be the in auguration of the greatest publicity campaign that has ever been conducted by American colleges and universities, to assist in the appeal for funds to
 carry out the plans. By far the greater part of the funds to be sought will be asked for endowments to increase sal
 aries of professors. Greatly increased
 student enrollments are expected, and
 the 1000 new buildings are considered necessary to care for the expanded ac- tivities. The new buildings planned include about 300 dormitories, almost | 100 gymnasiums, many libraries, lec- ture and study halls, chapels, etc.
The Press., 1920-05-13


 Itual decay of many years, some es- sence that never quite dies, when the personality, to begin with, is pro nounced enough. It was Steve. Steve, strangely altered. middle aged, all the charm of his youth long ago gone. great seams in the once brilliantly smiling face, all the light departed out of the deep fine eyes, unkempt shabby, worn-but Steve. Justine hadn't seen him for twenty years-hadnt heard or him for almost that long. But she had loved him all her life.
 And he was looking at her now Hi such an agony of shame as 1t is very, very seldom in this world the lot of man to know. He tried to speak, but no words came. He tried to smile q reckless smile, but there was only a convulsive twitching of the muscles of the lips. Then, without warning, the man slumped to the floor and crouched there, sobbing like child.
 Down on her knees beside this crea- ture-this common felon-went the sheltered, orderly, immaculate souled little Mrs. Partry, with her arm around his neck and his head upon her wom ans heart. '"Tell me, Steve, boy" she mur1nured, as If to hurt child.
 It was not a heroic tale. It was only that somehow, when Justine's parents peremptorily forbade the continuation of their girl and boy courtship, ne never could get his contact with life adjusted again. His future he had builded In those early years upon a foundation of Justine. Without the foundation there could be no super structure. He had drifted-and drift ing things float downward always te the sea. What impulse had brought him back to the home town he coulc not say. It might as well have beer anywhere, for the place was strange enough to him, that he assayed his firs1 crime.
 Justine knew 1t was the truth-wom en can tell about such things, yOl know-it was his first.
 Steve" she said, and her gentle voice quavered as she spoke, "you'v' lived your life, and I've lived mine, ac cording to schedule that heaven never planned. Go away from here now. II six months come back-I know, boy how you'll come back-and out Of th' wreck we'll build belated happiness"
 And in the eyes of the man as h' went away there shone the light tha Justine had remembered.
The Press., 1920-05-13
AVIATOR AS KNIGHT ERRAN I
Air Fighter of Today More Than Con- pares Favorably With the Ole
 Heroes in Armor.

We all remember the thrill with which we first read "Ivanhoe. Those dear old jousting days, when sweaty men in heavy armor hammered each other over the head with battle axes or knocked each other off dray horses, undoubtedly had their appeal They seemed to us days of knight-errantry in behalf of beautiful ladies, TO- mantle period which would come no more, now that minds had gone in for machinery instead of chivalry.
 And yet we cannot meet an aviator without the feeling that he Is some thing far more romantic than that tough old customer, but redOubtable figure, Richard Occur de Lion, and hls like. Consider the aviator. He meets his opponent thousands of feet up in the air, where to be "CnhOrsed" or to lose control of his steed means cer- tain death. He maneuvers in Held which is bounded only by empyrean. and where the tactical demands made on a quick mind are infinite. It is not merely riding hard at his oppo- nent.
 He must ride higher and still higher to gain an advantage and must watch every point of the compass for an in- tervening enemy machine. And even if he Is merely piloting an airplane in time of peace-making a test, say-he must have more courage than the eagle. For the eagle is sure of his pinions, made by the Infallible, but an aviator's planes or his engines may al any time prove the fallibility of man and fail him.
 So when you meet one of these reti cent knights of modern times, you have a suspicion which Is almost a convic tion, that here is one whose errancy in the air Is a far finer and more cour ageous thing than the clang of stee in journeys for the benefit of ladies who sat in what would be regarded today as "bleachers" In any respect able ball field.-Cincinnati Times Star
The Press., 1920-05-13
LAST FRAGMENTS OF EMPIRE
Romance in Disappearance of Red Dots From the Map of West
 ern Canada.

A map of western Canada kept In the offices of the Hudson Bay con- pany in Winnipeg is sprinkled with tiny red dots. Two centuries and half of romance and history focus in these little red dots.
 When the Hudson Bay company ln 1870 surrendered to Canada the vast territory granted to it by Charles Il of England, it retained one-twentieth of all the land in the fertile belt' of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta between the North Saskatchewan river and the international boundary.
 This Unetwentieth was distributed throughout every township and each of these red dots on the map repre- sents an area of from 16O to $40 acres.
 These lands are today just as they were when the company's first forts were erected on Hudson bay. They are just as they were when the buf- falo pastured upon them and Indians and trappers shared or shot fur-bear- ing animals in this domain half a century ago.
 Though now surrounded by farms, they have never been touched by a blow. They are still islands or primeval soil in the midst of rich farming districts.
 The little red dots are disappearing one by one from the map. Each one that disappears means that the land it represents has become a settlers farm. All the dots represent 3,OOO.- GOO acres.
 The company is rapidly disposing of all it's remaining land to settlers. When the last dot disappears from the map, the last fragment of Hudson Bay company's old empire will have disappeared from the North Ameri- caD continent
The Press., 1920-05-13
Price of Labor.

An Indiana suffragist, who Is wide ly-known speaker, went to her door the other morning to buy some biackher- ries of young country woman. r,. ports the Indianapolis News. The ter ries were fine, but the suffra sist wish ed them at lower price than they were offered. "Why. they just grow along the roadside so plentifully that all you have to do Is to pick them" she told the woman. Don't you thinh you are charging a rather e1orbitant price for your labor?"
 The country woman put her boxes back into her basket. eve known of higher-priced labor" she retorted tes- tily Words are more plentiful than blackberries and yet our club had to pay you S25 last winter for putting a bunch of them together"
The Press., 1920-05-13
No JU5c- SIaV Race.

;S a Jugo-Slav. There are Serbs,
 'rOats and Slovenes, all of whom speak the same language, with varia- tions, and are now of the same na- tionality. There is a religious ques- ton among Jugo-Slavs, which has, on occasion, been stressed by the intrigu- ing imperialst politicians on the bor- ders who have been anxious to pre- vent national unity, the Serbs being of the Greek, or Orthodox church, and the Croats and Sovenes of the Roman church. There are no more than 12- 100000 of them altogether, but the
 'an that of Great Britain.
The Press., 1920-05-13
DiliQencc.

Our word, diligence, is from the La tin, "diligencia." It means the quality of being diligent; interested and per severing application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what Is undertaken; assiduous industry wider sense of the two words, imply ing an habitual devotion to labor for some valuable end, as knowledge or property. Diligence denotes earnest application to some specific object or pursuit which more or less directly has strong hold on ones interest or feelings.
The Press., 1920-05-13
THE CHURCH CALLS
 AMERICA
United Simultaneous Campaign
 

United Simultaneous Campaign
 Movement all mankind so through
  appeal nation.
 responsibility the of these thoroughly their
  denomnatonal campaigns will be May following having full freedom of action In ad equaby justly dstribut ed will make to the communities of identity in will
  large
 demonstration community solidarity which campagnsberty Lon United Work In these big drives of listened stirring patriotic were UT a effort win the Financial Campaign will be demonsa will also demonstration the community in this which Never again the 
 had vision needs the
 
 0 meeting defined. unfinished task
The Press., 1920-05-13
SEE 800 .ooo. ooo CHINESE.

The Interchurch World Movements foreign survey has revealed that the population of China is increasing at rate equal in a thirty-year period to the total population of the United States in 1910. Furthermore the sur vey indicates a steady migration of Chinese to Malaysia at the rate of 25e, GOO a year The prediction is made, from these facts that by the end of this century mass of Chinese numbering nine hundred million will inhabit all the eastern hemisphere from Siberia to the tropics.
The Press., 1920-05-13
Stolen Fruit.

From the Keystone, Philadelphia, Pa.: Good advertising looks for the person not yet ready to buy, as well as the one all ready to purchase. And the man who is continuously pointing out the desirability of his wares from the selfish viewpoint of the buyer will get more buyers into his store than the competitor who does not adver. tise."
The Press., 1920-05-13
Ancient Grains Do Not Gernnate.

Ancient Grains Do Not Germinate.
 The United States department of agricultural gives hard knock to the stories about the germination of wheat and other cereals found wrapped with ancient Egyptian num- mics. It says that close investigation proves all such reports to be fictitious.
 French tesrs show that grain more than few years old will not gerIni- nate. Tests indicate that when seeds are kept under ideal conditions, wheat barley and oats may germnate up T." eight or ten years bu. few if any grains are alive after 20 yenrS
The Press., 1920-05-13
His Resolve.

Tt Is better to do your losing early Tn the season."
 "I know that axiom," said the base ball manager, "but If I happen to win a few games I'll endeavor to bear 1t with nation."-Louisville Courier Journal.
The Press., 1920-05-13
No | Ioss of Animation

q suppose Crimson Gulch Is quieter since the bar closed"
 "Not yet" said Cactus Joe. "All you've got to do is to say prohibition and everybody begins to argue at the top of his voice"
The Press., 1920-05-13

s1.5O a year In advance. When not paid in advance at the rate of s1.75 year.
 Resolutions, obituaries cards of thanks ill., serted at one-half advertising rates Births marriages and deaths inserted free.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1920-03-26
OLD THEORY MAY BE RIGHT
That Malaria Is Caused by Emana.
tions From the Soil Is Probably
the Correct Idea.

we have lately been taught that the
mosquito was the only disseminatOr Of
malaria. and that we should be safe II
We got rid Of mosquitoes. But Doctor
Roux, formerly chief physician Of the
81. Louis hospital, Jerusalem, asserts
AS the result Of his own experience OF
10 years and OF that OF many colonial
physicians that malaria often exists
where there are no mosquitoes.
At Reunion and Sene, for instance
the malaria season Is just that when
there are no mosquitoes; at Hatou.
Londn, natives living near mos
quito-lnfested marsh do not contract
malaria, while those living In the hills
where there are no mosquitoes are vic
Tins.
He points out that everywhere In
malarisl countries the disease breaks
out Just at the time when the soil is
broken for planting. He does not
deny that the anopheles mosquito
spreads malaria, but he says this Is
evidently not the only means OF in
fectlon.
The old thcAry that malaria was
caused by the bad air Of swampy dis
tricts or by certain emnnations from
the soil may be correct, after all.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1920-03-26
Lame Sickness.

An investigation of the South Afri.
can disease known as lemziekte, or
lame sickness, suggests that it is due
to special plant poison that Is gen.
Grated under abnormal conditions in
grasses or other plants that are nor
mally harmless. Its development
seems to be associated with unusual
weather and soil experiences of which
summer drought Is important. Through
such conditions, whiting would favor
the formation Of the poison. and this
explains the common belief that the
disease results from eating wilted
plants. .r..a
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1920-03-26
Why Seal Hunters Wear Black.

No mammal thar is known has eye
sight which at all compares with that
Of man. A wolf can see you under
favorable conditions IA little more than
half II mile away; caribou at a little
more than n quarter of mile, and u
seal commonly at about 800 yards, II
you are standing up, or $50 to zoo
yards II you are lying down. You can
walk unconcernedly toward a seal un-
III less than 400 yards away, after
which you begin careful approach.
You crawl ahead on all fours while he
sleeps and you lie fiat and motionless
while he is awake. II might seem
that something could be gained by
wearing white clothing, to match the
SNOW, but this Is the reverse Of wis
dom, for the seals one enemy that he
fears is a polar bear, and the polar
bear Is white. II n seal sees anything
that Is suspicious and white he takes
discretion To be the better part of
vaior and dives promptly into his hole
II the suspicious object Is black he as.
snInes that II Is probably another seal
TINT has come out Of another hole to
baSk In the sun. 1t is therefore the
task Of the hunter to simulate a sea!
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1920-03-26
HAVE BENEFITED BY TABOO
South Sea Islanders Made Better by
Restrictions Imposed by System
II Represented.

From our interesting ncifhbors, the
South scn Islanders, We have the word
"tnboO." 10 expressive IN the cOinpt'te
agreement Of liz sound with its mean
Ing that there ls nothing 10 adequate
In our own language TO give this
thought.
IL lts original sense, II IL II CURIOUS
coordination Of conflicting ideas. II Is
III" rOlyn"sian tHhu, meaning sacred
lst to Its own people II expresses the
snine thought for which ". hive up
proprlntcd II. Originally religious
ceremony that could only be imposed
10y priests, II was later applied To any.
thing which for some sacred reason
must he tnbOocd.
II came TO represent an important
institution In the Iifc OF the people,
reaching In every phase Of their lives
enforced under penalty Of death. Sncri'
hcCH to the gods, festive Seasons, even
marital relations and the cooking and
eHting Of fnUd--alI were attended by
their particular taboo. Mothers and
daughters, f0r instance. were not per
mt'cd to eat what had been prepared
for their men.
Though the efficacy Of prohibitions
such az this Is questionable, the taboo
rulings has hnd II Is said, a very
beneficial effect upon the people
lIcrm!ne Ncustadtl.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1920-03-26

II am more grateful to Tanlac
than words can express for it has
given me health and happiness after
twelve long years OF suffering" was
the statement made the other day by
Mrs. Olivine Peltier, No. &c East
| Allen Street, Winooski, VT.
II had been troubled so long with
nervousness and sleeplessness that
my housework was drudgery and
got little pleasure out of life. My
appetite left me entirely and at times
| could hardly bear the sight of food
and what little l did eat caused me
severe. suffering afterward. Gas
would form on my stomach SO badly
that it affected my heart and /
thought ! had heart trouble.
Il was so nervous ! would jump at
the least unexpected noise and would
drop everything I had in my hands.
got SO weak and faint at times that
l would have to catch hold of some
thing TO keep from falling over. Ny
sleep was broken and restless and
was losing weight rapidly. had
little strength or energy, and as I
had tried all kinds of medicines
without relief. l had become very
much discouraged over my condition.
MY husband had been taking
Tanlac and when saw what wonder
full results he was getting decided
TO try it myself and now / think as
much of Tanlac as he does because
il has helped me the same way.
MY appetite has come back and
everything agrees with me perfectly.
/ am taking on weight rapidly and
have already gained nine pounds; in
fact, ! feel perfectly well in every
way. Tanlac has done wonders for
me and I am only too happy to tell
others about it,"
Tanlac is sold in Klamath Falls by
the Star Drug Co., in Lorella by the
James Mere. Co., and in Merrill by
the Southern Oregon Drug Co.-adv.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1920-03-26

Will sell my very choice lots on
Wood River at Fort klamath to
highest bidder. Have owned this
property 10 years. Size of lots 100
feet wide by 500 feet deep. Three
blocks from center of town Of Fort
klamath. Descriptions of lots, two
to nine (inclusive) block seven; lots
one to four inclusive Blk two; Lots
six to ten inclusive and lots one
and two blk four all in First
Addition to Fort Klamath, Oregon.
Ednah Race Capron, Hampton Apis,
Long Beach California. 22-27'H
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1920-03-26

~ am more grateful TO Tanls.
than words can express, for Il has
given me health and happiness
after twelve long years OF suffer-
ing" was the enthusiastic statc-
nrcnt made the other day by Mrs.
OliviHe Pelticr, OF Vermont.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1920-03-26
Cactus Takes Long Trip.

A small cactus, the jolnted Opuntia,
Is widely distributed in arid regions
from New Mexico northward. In some
mysterious way It has reached many
dry rocky ledges In humid Minnesota
and Wisconsin, writes ID. Lange In the
American Forestry Magazine of Wash
ihgton. A few years ago on canoe
trip on Lake OF the Woods found a
fresh, joint of this cactus amSng the
powders Of the Ontario shore IN a
densely wooded region. How the
plant reached this spot has remained
a secret to me.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1920-03-26
Ridiculously "Decorated."

Perhaps the most extraordinary idea
In tattooing ever carried out is that OF
a French coachman, who has his, body
covered with more than 40 different
designs. Among these designs are
portraits Of some of the most noted
people in the country. The work Of
tattooing these pictures occupied more
than two years.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1920-03-26

Tanlac is sold in Klamath Falls by
the Star Drug Co.. in Lorella by the
James Mere. Co., and in Merrill by
the Southern Oregon Drug Co-adv,