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With the cessation of Its rumble,
came noise of rushing water. Mis-
chance had led her 10 spot where
the road had been half washed out by
the overflow from mountain stream.
The headlights showed an unrelieyed
stretch of mire which forbade the
thought of trying to 90 on. The only
thing TO do was 10 back out-if she
could--and. since IL would be impos-
sible TO turn on the narrow TRAIL keep
on backing till she regained the last
fork: on the face Of 1t no easy task.
but feasible with care and patience.
Hopefully she restarted the engine
and threw the reverse gears. The
wheels moved with a sucking noise, at
first sluggishly. then worked free and
spun briskly. The car held fast where
It had stopped She shut off the igni-
ton and got down to investigate. step
ping into mud above her ankles. The
sole result of her attempt to back out
had been TO hog down the wheels near
ly to the hubs.
When she bad strained the motor
for a few more minutes without en-
couragemeDt she gave up the hopeless
struggle and cried a little into her
muddied hands.
The unhappy alternative was hers.
to remain in the car till she was found
If she ever was--or to pick her way
back through the pitch-dark forest to
the first fork in the road, either to
wait there TO be recaptured by Mario,
or else TO push on into the valley. or
wherever the road might lead, till she
came to human habitation.
Either course was dismaying In an
ticipation. The forest frightened her
indescribably. To stop where she was
meant perhaps hours Of waiting-day-
light was still long time off-in the
| solitude and silence of the woods, en-
comprised by she dared not guess
what perils from proving beasts of
prey.
And on this reflection, she switched
| the headlights off, lest their shine at
tract attention.
She recalled with painful vividness
the fear of the forest that had haunt
ed Leonora on the morning of the day
| of her death.
OF sudden, in blind, witless panic.
she tumbed out of the car and plowed
back through the mire to the trail
only TO become still more blindly a
prey to imaginary terrors when she
felt firm ground underfo0t, and to
blunder insanely on, clawed at by
savage, withered hands, tripped and
buffeted by malicious limbs, bounded
by horrors of the Imagination un-
Within two minutes she was off the
trail, thrashng wildly through the I'M
dergrowth that choked the woods,
hopelessly lost.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-06-11
v. VALEDlCTION.

1t was less woman than an ami
mated scarecrow that broke from a
dense thicket and stumbled into the
mountain trail in the hot blast of
mid morning.
Her cloak was gone and her slip
pers as well; bare and bleeding feet
and ankles showed through the rem
nants of what had been silk stock
ings. Her frock, dripping water from
every fold, thanks to recent mis-
adventure with brook, was an affair
of shreds and tatters caked with
gpfashes Of mud and stained with
green slime; one sleeve was missing
entirely. The barred white arm had
been cruelty scratched by thorns, The
hair falling round her shoulders was
a net of tangles and knots in which
leaves and twigs had become en-
twined Her face was disfigured with
smears of mud In which tears had
washed pale channels. Her eyes
were red and swollen, her lips pulled,
her look was stupid to the point OF
witlessness.
She painted and at times moaned
feebfy as she walked--lf she could be
said to walk. whose progress was
zlg-zag thing of yaws and veers like
that Of yacht under full sail in a
stiff breeze with no hand at the helm.
In a shallow clearing of one side
Of the trail stood a small shanty Of
the crudest kind, q crazy structure OF
undressed logs and rough planks
weather-beaten to the shade of slatey
gray. 1t had a door, however, and
the door was closed. The girl open
ed It simply by falling against it. II
banged against the wall and swung
back into place after admitting her.
The room insde-there was but
one-showed evidence Of more or less
recent occupation; a half-loaf Of stale
holding samples of food from which
an unpleasant 0dor exhaled, several
empty whisky bottles and one half full,
empty cigarette cartons and vast
litter Of cigarette stumps. A frying
pan on the sheet-iron stove held
rasher of bacon In pool Of coagu-
lated grease. There were tumbled
blankets on a rickety cot In the cor
ner.
The girl saw none of these things
VI If she saw them, they meant moth
ng TO her. AS If her strength had
My sufliced TO sustain her to the
heller OF roof. she dropped TO the
DOR and lay there, painting and sob
ing and quaklng like a child that
* been hrutail- punishe-
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-06-11
From Coal Gas.

An English engineer, Ernest Bury,
claims that he has succeeded In ex-
tracing ethylene alcohol from coal
oven gas on commercial scale, says
the Scientific American. The practi-
cal working of the process at the Skin.
ningrove works, where $500 tons Of
coal are carbonized per week, reveals
an average yield of 1.6 gallons of al.
cohol per ton Of coal. The total weight
of coal reduced to coke in this country
during 1918 was 14,635,000 tons, so
That the application Of Mr.. Bury's
process to this quantity Of coal would
Weld 23,416,640 gallons Of alcohol,
which would be available as LIQUID
fuel Coal treated at gas works would
weld further 27000,000 gallons, or,
taking alcohol and benzol together,
114OO0,OO0 gallons of liquid fuel per an.
mum could be produced from the car.
bonization of coal in this country
toward meeting the total requirement
Of about 1G0,0O0,000 gallons.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-06-11

~ in my mothers room just
"Oh she? Little Dorrit? She's
nothing; she's a within Others"
And thus Mrs. Flintwinch, wife of
the crafty, crablike walking footman
of the household. introduced to Arthur
Clennam the name of the poor little
seamstress of the paralytic Mrs. Glen
nam.
He had noted her pale, transparent
face, quick in expression though not
beautiful in feature, except for its
soft hazel eyes. A delicately bent
head, tiny form, shabby dress-it
mast needs have been very shabby to
. look at all so, being so neat-were Lit
tie DOrrit as she sat at work
A strange presentiment came into
Arthur's mind that, in some way, this
gentle maiden was connected with
his history.
For 20 years young Clennam had
lived in China with his father only to
return now, puzzled over a mysterious
watch which that father, in the very
last moments of his life, had given
TO his son, murmurlng family and in
distinctly at the time: "Your mother"
Naturally Arthur had assumed that
it was intended for Mrs. Clennam,
whom he and the world supposed to
be his mother.
Inside the watch casing was an old
silk paper with the initials d N +
worked into it In beads. 1t was mes.
sage-but the young man could not
fathom it and the old woman would
not enlighten him. Was Little Dorrit,
to whom the stony Mrs. Clennam paid
such strange, unusual kindness, con-
nected with the mystery?
They grew to see more of each 9th
er-the girl and the young man-and
Arthur learned that the generous lit
tie Amy Dorrit was supporting not
only her poor old father, who had
been condemned to a debtors prison,
but also her pretty, frivolous sister,
Fanny, and her wild, lazy brother, Tip.
Under the then existing English laws
they were all allowed to live with
their father in that dreary prison.
Little wonder that Clennam often
spoke kindly to her and that he helped
the family. But love had not yet
come to him-though 1t had to Little
Dorrit. He heard tire thrill in her
voice, he saw the quickening bosom,
and yet the remotest suspicion of the
truth never dawned upon his mind.
1t must be added here that Little
Dorrit had innocently won the love
of another man, the sentimental son
of the prison turnkey, small of stat
ure, with rather weak legs and very
weak eyes, gentle but great Of soul,
pOetical, faithful. If one were to
doubt his devotion he need only read
the inscription for his own tombstone,
which the romantic youth had COM
posed when Little Dorrit said mo" to
him. 1t ran thus:
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-06-11

But, at last, the tables turned for
our little heroine. A queer, kind
hearted rent collector, Pancks-a
painting little steam-tug of a man, with
his putting and his pauses-had
learned to value the friendship of the
motherless girl, and so, having acct.
dentally discovered that her father
was the probable heir to an enormous
estate, had run down the clues until
finally the great wealth was turned
over to old Mr.. Dorrit.
Then away from the dreary prison
hurried the entire family.
Yet riches brought slight pleasure
to Little Dorrit. The much-changed
father became ashamed of Mis- debtor
life, and with the now richly dressed
sister and the gambling brother, put
on many airs. The father even en-
ployed a chaperon named Mrs. Gen.
eral to teach Little Dorrit society
manners.
Don't say father" declared this
lady, papa Is preferable word IL
gives a pretty form to the lips. 'Fa-
Their is rather vulgar, my dear You
will find it servlceable in the forma-
ton of q demeanor if you say to your
self, on entering a room filled with
company, Papa, potatoes, poultry,
prunes and PRISM"
At this juncture the wealthy Mrs
Merdle took an active part in the
Dorrits' lives. The chuckle-headed
son of the Merdles fell in love with
Fanny, and after their marriage Mr.
Dorrit put all his wealth into Mrs
Merdle's schemes-fOr had not thss
wonderful Merdle, through various
mysterious movements, made tremen-
dous fortunes for himself and others'
BY a strange fatality Arthur TOO
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-06-11

Within three minutes a man came
running up the trail He was young,
slender and wiry of stature, and wore
an aged red sweater with pair OF
khaki trousers. His face was Of
glowing scarlet shade and dripped
with sweat which ran down into his
eyes and was at least in part the
cause of the monol0gue of profanity
which clogged his labored breathing.
He numbered on YEARLY, like one
who has run long distance, ever and
anon looking back over shoulder as II
he feared pursuit. His right hand
held an automatic pistol of heavy
callber, ready for instant use.
At the door Of the shanty he paused,
shut his lips tight to still the noise
of his own breathing, and listened
with head bent to one side. Appar-
emily he heard nothing. A look of
fear that had clouded his eyes passed,
and he grinned an evil, snarling grin
as he kicked open the door and went
in.
The girl had fallen on the far side
of the table, where she was not imme-
diately visible. Unsuspiclous Of her
presence, the man closed the door and
lurched to the one unglazed window
where he stopped to spy out anxious
ly, peering down the trail he had just
travelled and listening intently.
But the girl had been reused by his
entrance, and first pushing her shoul.
ders up from the floor with her arms,
presently laid hold of the edge of
the table and pulled herself into a
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-06-11
She Wanted EN- Specific

Tillie Ginger says the reason she
didn't last long as salesglrl at the jew
elry counter was because when man
came in and said he wanted something
nice for his baby she asked him If his
baby was boy, girl or CHICKEN
Dallas News.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-06-11
Ancient iron Column.

There Is In Delhi a wrought iron
column which was placed there near
" 1900 years ago, and at the Lresent
time shows practically no signs OF
deterioration.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-06-11
On TodaX,a Iaak Wan

The best way to make sure OF to-
morrow's strength is to put our whole
strength into the task Of today.--H. h
Haweis.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-06-11
CONDENSED
CLASSICS
~
LITTLE DORRIT
80
By CHARLES DICKENS
Condensation by
By CHARLES DICKENS
Condensation by
Charles &. L. Wingate

~ a FIERY, what girl was that
in my mothers room just
- - now?"
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1921-11-05
Out Of a Perfume Plant.

From benzyl chloride. which was
not made In this country until
after we entered the war, you can
make benzyl cyanide, and from
benzyl cyanide you get tear gas. Tear
gas Is used in dispensing mobs. Again.
from benzyl cyanide a perfume Of
roses is made
There Is a violet perfume known
as iOnOne This was not q cOal-tar
but a synthetic organic chemical. The
product Is patented by the Germans
and sold at $40 per pound for 10
per cent solution or 81. 100 for 100 per
cent. Today American manufacturers
can make with the same raw materials
ionone for $40 per pound.
Benzyl-benzoate, substitute for
morphia and opium. is a perfume
solvent. During the war 1t developed
that that product was the best solvent
or high-boiling compound in the water
proofing and fireprooflng Of aeroplane
wings. A perfume plant. plant
making perfume materials, was the
only plant in the United States able
to supply that material.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1921-11-05
REFUGE IN TEARS
Wet Eyes Asserted to Be Wom-
ans Prerogative.
Generally. However, the Matter Is
Away Beyond the Comprehension
of Any Mere Man.

1t Is not given to man to understand
the Significance of tears to the oppO-
site sex. declares Hester Hewlett In
the continental edition of the London
Mail.
Were women suddenly bereft of this
feminine prerogative, her plight would
resemble that Of the crew of the help
less Flying Dutchman." She would
be as utterly lost on the sea OF her
emotions as ever storm-toSsed mar
liner without port For tears are a
woman's refuge, the impregnable fort
ress whereto she resorts in her hour
of need.
In addition to the mental relief af-
forded, weeping serves yet another
purpose When the food gates have
been opened, and the storm has spent
itself, the need of sympathy invari-
ably makes itself acutely felt. To sat
isfy this longing, woman must seek
the society of others, which is natures
diplomatic way of bringing her back
to work a-day world, and thereby
forcing on her yet another gift-for-
getfulness.
The woman whom great shock
renders incapable Of weeping endures
agoneS up to the hour when she sud
denly lets herself 60" Then she
sobs herself into a state of utter eX-
haustion. falls asleep, and wakes up
feeling Il new woman. Did she not
ultimately find this solace she would
sooner or later be remunerative pa
tient to her medical man. ITO weep
for joy Is thing that passes the
comprehension of mere man. Yet
women do shed tears Of happiness.
There are some joys that cannot be
expressed in words, they fill the heart
to overlooking. 1t is on such occasions
that man is Mortified by seeing
wisp Of lawn and lace surreptitiously
applied to my la1y's eyes.
And when she falteringly explains
that 1t Is because she feels so happy
his CONSERVATION is greater than be-
fore It is almost beyond him to
realize that she is speaking the lit
eral truth.
When everything goes wrong. and
the world seems upside down, man can
always give expression to his feelings
through language. But good breeding
forbids that a woman shall display
the slightest sign Of anger. annoyance
or vexatiOn. Undismayed, she retreats
to her room. and there, in strict seclu-
sion and with the aid Of tears, she
soothes her ruffled self in manner
that affords her every satisfaction.
OF all the weapons in woman's ar
mory, tears, idle tears" are the one
she most prizes. For when she brings
them into play defeat is the sure and
certain portion Of every luckless man
she chooses to assail. Which IS why,
in season and out Of season, every
woman weeps.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1921-11-05
ROAD
BUILDING
TREES PLANTED IN STREETS
in Contested Centers They Have Been
Sacrificed to Alleged Interests
of Business.

Prepared by the United States Department
OF AgricultureD
One of the characters in an early
day American romance of the time
when the STAMP act" was causing ali
kinds of trouble Is recorded rs declar-
Ing that New York never would be
real business city because broadway
and Maiden Lane were lined with
trees. The Van Vrooms, the Stuyve-
SAINTS. the Artavelts. and other early
settlers of the country saved fine trees
about their homes, on the village
greens, along the country roads, ana
In the fields But one Will see no
trees nowadays on Broadway. ana
Maiden Lane has been transformed
from the pleasant, tree-bordered re-
gion Of Dutch homes with flower gar
dens into the busiest wholesale jewel
~ district In America, If not In the
world
Beauty and comfort gave way to the
inroads of commerce, not only in New
York but In most of Americas great
cues, SO tHdt lOudy tiCto III " $780,
ness street are rare sight. There
are elm shaded villages in New Eng
land; maple shaded towns In New
York and the Ohio valley, and there
are oak-tree streets to be seen In the
southeastern states but for the most
part this refers only to small towns
or cities-never to the congested cen
tiers of population where they should
have been preserved. Washington,
the national capital, is one of the ex-
ceptions, and even there the paintings
were not always wisely arranged.
The tree growth in the streets OF
the average American town or city is
ragged and unkempt in appearance,
while that Of the suburb or small vii
lage often Is not much better. unless
the planting has been done under mu
nicipal control, and the paintings on
street have been confined to sin
gle kind Of tree. The telegraph, the
telephone. the electric light, and the
trolley car have added their share to-
ward the mutilation or destruction Of
the good trees that were In existence
at the time Of their coming
Faulty methods Of pruning have
caused Disagreement and ruin. Sue
cess follows the careful planting Of
good trees which are given adequate
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1921-11-05
New Steam-Heatino Boiler.

Emulating the study of the teakettle
by James Watt, which resulted In the
invention of the steam engine. two
Newark IN. j. men accomplished
what is claimed to be remarkable
progress in the construction Of steam
boilers through a study Of the coffee
percOlator The new boiler is de-
scribed In Popular Mechanics. The
water, instead Of being heated in large
quantities, is boiled, gallon at a
time, in a fiat receptacle just over the
firepot. The water being only one
quarter inch deep, quickly becomes
steam. The excess of water drips
down on q lower set Of similar plates.
The saving in fuel Is said to be con-
siderable.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1921-11-05
ROMANCE NOT QUITE GONE
Of All Places. the Assertion Is Made
That X Is TO Be Found IN
New York.

Anyone who thinks that romance
and romantic atmosphere is lost IN
this great cold city is all wrong
While there may not be the general
picturcSqurucSN of The smaller towns
romantic episodes and Spots we still
have Ii sufficient amount of romantic
color to Keep the hearts and pulses of
the most sentimental beating happily.
bit of Spanish suggestion can be
seen on Morningside heights, and
around Columbia university. There
are at least Il dozen places within q
block of the college, where youths
serenade fair maidenS from balconies,
armed with guitars, ukeleles and even
violins.
Vocal efforts are also apparent dur
Ing the earlier hours of the summer
and fall evenings when the boys Of
the summer school sessions and the
returning regulars" of the college
year serenade their fair friends across
the street
On one of the streets leading from
the university grounds to the Drive
are several fraternity houses. On the
same street are two girls clubs. and
at one end of the street the girls
dormitory, connected with the uni
versity There is hardly an evening
which passes when this particular
street doesn't reS0und to Ale strains of
a popular song or to some of the Older
college favoriteS. Sometimes piano
in the girls club will reply in subtle
manner. 1t isn't exaCtlya case of tiirtA-
ton, for most of the boys are i'll classes
with some Of the girls and a sort OF
camaraderie has sprung up between
the members Of FRATERNITY row. and
the maids across the way.
Yet to see three or four youths with
banios and guitars sitting OF a win
dow sill or the balcony of a fraternity
house, and the heads of three or four
girls poked from the windows across
the street. carries with it the feeling
that romantic settings are not q thing
of the past in New York.-NeW York
Sun.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1921-11-05
ROYAL Club Put to Good Use.

The Big Peoples House in Client was
once a royal club. Today 1t Is rec
reation and social center Of the Belgian
cooperative societies. 1t Is, well pat
rOnized in the evening and on Sun
day, when mother, father and children
enjoy dancing, MOVIES music and lee
lures in surroundings designed for the
convenience and comfort Of nobility
and royalty. They may take part in
debates, or read in the big library, or
20 to the theatre In the building On
hot nights they listen to band con-
cert while slipping cool drinks In the
garden.
The club itself is like the parkset
palace of a nobleman. says Genevieve
M. Fox. of Community Service, who
traces in a recent service publication
the development of the peoples houses
the recreation and social centers of
the Belgian cooperative societies
from their small beginnings-a modest
little cooperative bakery business
started in 1880.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1921-11-05
Butterflies.

Why don't we call them "Flutter-
fies?" That would mean something.
At any rate, they are thick right now,
perhaps because they haven't had as
many enemies this year as usual. The
enemies of the butterfly are little
wasplike singing things that lay their
eggs within the body Of the cater
pillar. Then when these eggs hatch
sometimes it is after the caterpillar
has rolled himself up for his devel-
opment into a butterfly-these eggs
hatch and eat everything within reach,
so, of course, there is no butterfly.
1t isn't as hard to study the butter
flies as it is to know the birds or even
the wild flowers. Some species are
common and have very distinct mark
ings. There is the monarch butterfly
with its brick-red color velned and
wings lined with yellow. There Is a
copy of the monarch, too. flying about
with rounded wings, almost like the
monarch, except that it is smaller and
has a halfcircl line across the mid
die Of its hind wings. This is the
disippus.
Look, too. for the mourning cloak,
a rich purple brown above, with a
wide margin of pale buff and row
of small blue spots. This is the con-
monest alternating butterfly and is
known all over the world. 1t is the
last to be seen in the fall.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1921-11-05
Comparatively Few Families Have Lost
Their Only Breadwinners
By J. J. DAVIS. U. s. Secretary Of Labor.

The statement has been constantly made the and the e
oa columns the that the Department of Labor
being Of work The Department Labor
has reported such thing It did report that according the best e
that could made men, chill
the payro than there March, There differ
with distinction different from there $685.
600 unemployed
Nothing to be gained by sticking heads the sand and gno
the gravity the unemployment situation Neither
profit stong the facts and aggng the figures estimated Here
salient fact be kept mindproaby than third
these 5735O0O the principal bradwnners of family
Taking all the families Of the United States there
two breadwnne every family While unemployment today
people work And comparatively families
winners put out of job.