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The Dolores star., 1921-04-15

his life. He was rather tremuIous aud
exuitant as he sank down into mis-
berth.
He saw to it that at least meas
ure of preparation was made for his
coming. That night long wire went
out to the Chamber of Commerce of
one of the larger southern Oregon
cities. In 1t, he told the date of his
arrival and asked certain directions,
He wanted to know the name of some
mountain rancher where possibly he
might find board and room for the re-
mainder Of the summer and the fall
The further back from the paths of
men, he wrote, the greater would he
his pleasure. And he signed the wire
with his full name: Dan Failing, with
a Henry in the middle, and .III" at
the end.
He usually didn't sign his name in
quite this manner The people of
Gitcheapolls did not have particular.
ly vivid memories Of Dams grandfa-
ther. But 1t might be that n legend
Of the gray, straight frontiersman who
was his ancestor had still survived in
these remote Oregon wllds. The use
of the full name would do no harm.
Instead Of hurting, 1t was a poslt,ve
Inspiration. The Chamber of Com
merce Of the busy little Oregon city
was not usually exceptionally inter
ested In stray hunters that wanted a
boarding place for the summer. Its
business was finding country homes
for orchardists In the pleasant river
valleys. But 1t happened that the re.
cipient Of the wire was one of the old.
est residents. frontiersman himself.
and 1t was one Of the traditions of the
Old West that friendships were not
soon forgotten. Dan Failing had
been a legend in the old trapping and
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cific ocean. He began to search for
Linkville.
Time was when Linkville was one
of the principal towns of Oregon. Dan
remembered the place because some
of the time-yellowed letters his grand
father had sent him had been mailed
at town that bore this name. But
he couldn't find Linkville on the map.
Later he was to know the reason
that the town. halfway between the
sage plains and the mountains, had
prospered and changed its name. He
remembered that 1t was located on
one of those great fresh-water lakes
of southern Oregon so. giving up that
search, he began to look for lakes. He
found them in plenty-vast, unmens-
ured lakes that seemed TO be distrib-
uted without reason or sense over the
whole southern end of the state. Near
the klamath lakes, seemingly the
most imposing Of all the fresh-water
lakes that the map revealed, he found
. city named klamath Falls. He put
the name down in his notebook.
The map showed particularly
high, far-spreading range of noun
tains due west of the city. OF course
they were the Cascades; the map said
so very plainly. Then Dan knew he
was getting home. His grandfather
had lived and trapped and died in
these same wooded hills. Finally he
located and recorded the name Of the
largest city on the main railroad line
that was adjacent to the Cascades.
The preparation for his departure
took many days. He read many books
on fora and fauna. He bought sport
ing equipment. Knowing the usual
ratio between the respective pleasures
of anticipation and realization, he did
not hurry himself at all. And one
midnight he boarded west-bound
train.
He sat for a long time in the vesti-
bule of the sleeping car, thinking in
anticipation of this final adventure Of
The Dolores star., 1921-04-15
Scientist Succeeds in Extracting
Vitamine Properties From
Fruits and Vegetables.
MAY Be OF GREAT VALUE
Doctor Cox Believes That His Dis
covery Will Tend to Danish NAL
nutrition If Benefits Are Extend
ed to Entire Population.

New York.-Dr Harry Barringer
Cox. inventor of the dry battery and
many other cOntrivances, announced
that he had succeeded in extracting
the vitamine properties from fruits
and vegetables. AS it is becoming in
creasingly recognized by scientists
that many people, including those pre-
sumably healthy" are unsciehtitical-
ly nourished because they eat food
lacking sufficient vltumine properties,
Doctor Cox feels that his discovery
would tend to Danish malnutrition If
its benefits were extended to the en-
tire population.
In explaining his discovery, Doctor
Cox said that since seed will ger
mlnate when carried over from one
season to another, 1t was evident that
The Dolores star., 1921-04-15
Sea of Calcium
Is Sky Mystery

n theory" said the Seattle astronomer.
"They dare not They only hazard
guess as to the order of certain things
in the life of star. The most likely
story of n stars life has 1t born OF
nebulous vapor and dead as a tiny,
shrunken old sun.
1--WE now believe that somewhere DTS
and scraps of cosmic dust, the remnants
of old stars and all the litter and trash
of the universe collects and, after mil
lions of years, becomes a nebula. A
nebula looks like a knot of cotton to
the eye and like cloud in the tele-
scope 1t Is made up of tiny asteroids
from the size of brickbat to perhaps
the size of miniature planet.
"Why this universal rubbish collects
to form nebula no man can even
guess. But when the nebula has be-
come large, gradually the bits work to-
ward the center. Heat is generated
It's generation might be said to result
from the friction of the particles. Rap
idly the heat increases and the whole
mass becomes hot. In the course of
few million years we have great blaz-
Ing sun. huge beyond mans best and
biggest dreams"
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Reap a Rich Harvest

the number of rooms allotted to mar
ried persons sell the 'permIssion" to
married folks or others who need
rooms and cannot find them.
The officials say some profitable
business has been done, but that the
practice is being stopped by keeping
watch on those to whom marrIagd
licenses are granted and withdraw
permission to occupy rooms unless thd
marriage Is performed.
Marriages, however. eclipsed all
previous records In the last year. Thu
number has increased two-fold ovet
prewar years. and many fold over the
marriages during the war.
Many young folks today are get,
ting married here simply to get 4
room cheaply," said n Berlin official.
The cost Of the dwelling is cut b'
half by the marriage of a man and
woman both Of whom arc working.
"They also feel they can co-operati
to some advantage in the matter d.
food' which ID q serious problem"
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Life
Germ Isolated

all vegetable matter that Is possible
of recreation must of necessity have
living force within itself. AS the
germ of life Is in the seed, some part
of the vegetable Is u living or vitamic
part
Begins Experiments on Yeast
Beginning his experiments with
vitamines about year ago. Doctor
Cox found 1t possible to extract them
from yeast. Once he isolated the
vitamic cell from yeast he went on
to other vegetables and fruits. After
obtaining the vitamic cells from fruits
and vegetables he placed them under
the microscope and found that they
were similar in shape, appearance and
action to the yeast vitamine.
However, after extracting the Vita.
mic properties from fruits and vege.
tables, DIR. Cox knew no more about
the vitamiEes than that they reacted
In certain way.
"All l know is that I extracted the
living vitamic property, the part that
is alive" he said. "It is like setting
aside that part OF the grain which
creates new life.
''lf the drain pipe were a digestive
organ 1t would have the best digestion
in the world because 1t would be best
fed. That is why soup Is such good
thing. The vitamic property Of the
vegetables Is cooked into It.
The Next Problem.
"Malnutrition is caused by lack Of
consumption of vltamines in our food.
We hear people complain of being
exhausted. They say their food does
them no good. They lack vitamines.
Now the problem arises of how to
get people to partake of food that is
rich in vitamines. How, then, to get
the living fruit and vegetable proper
ties to the table. 1t seems to me that
If the fruits and vegetables that are.
wasted in such prodigious quantities,
every year could be utilized so that
their vitamic properties could be ex'l
tracted and made available to the'
people it would solve the problem
THE extract could be used in the
manner OF sediment. To add one,
spoonful of vilamlc, as I call the sub
stance, to a plateful of food would,
give all the vitamne ore would need.
for n meal. Growing children partic
ularly would be benefited by 1t and it,
seems to me it would tend to solve
the problem of malnutrition."
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disappointment turned into
rapture at sight of tho wild
country and through warm
welcome accorded by Sil.s
Lsnnox, Dan Failing's host,
characterize the next install.
ment of this story.
(To BE CONTINUED
Porpolse . Fast Swimmer,

There Is another mammal that In 10
fast no one has ever been able to find
out how fast he is. This Is the por.
poise. The porpoise can do stunts Is
front of the fastest boat that travels
the bounding wave and when he Ia
through after several hours vf clown.
Ing he fiirts his tail and nonchalantly
speeds beyond the horizon. Tho Dor.
poise will do his tricks under the bow
Of a nine-knot cargo tramp or q 22.
knot ocean greyhound. He is like the
antelope In that he ssts his pace &c.
cording to the speed q De pursusr,
The Dolores star., 1921-04-15
CHAPTER u.

The dinner hour found Dan Failing
in the public library Of Gitcheapolis,
asking the girl who sat behind the
desk II he might look at maps of Ore
gon. He remembered that his grand
father had lived In southern Oregon.
He looked along the bottom of his map
and discovered a whole empire, rang
Ing from gigantic sage plains to the
east to dense forests along the Pa
The Dolores star., 1921-04-15
Berlin Marriage Profiteers Prev
on Young Couples.
&c" License to Those Seeking Rooms
Move Started to Stop the
Practice.

Berlln.-Marriage Licenses are be-
Ing utilized for profiteering by Ger.
mans. The marriage "profteer" de.
veioped out Of the situation which has
made necessary the strict "rationInp"
Of housing space.
A married couple or a pair about
to be married may obtain permission
to occupy certain rooms by presenta.
tion OF the marriage license to the
housing offices.
1t has been discovered that many
marriage licenses have been issued to
men and women who have no inten.
ZION to marry, but having secured the
license and the permission to occupy
The Dolores star., 1921-04-15
Cornell University's New Dean of
Astronomy Is Studying
Big Puzzle.
SCIENCES VIEWS CHANGE
Theories of Evolution Of Heavenly
Bodies Reverse Of Few Years Ago
-Spectroscope Astronomers
Greatest Aid.

Seattle. Wash.-S. l.. Boothroyd, pro-
fessor of astronomy at the University
of Washington, who leaves this June
to become the dean OF astronomy AT
Cornell university. has been adding his
bit, and an important bit it may prove,
to mans knowledge of his earth's big
brothers, the stars.
Many stars which TO the naked eye
or through small telescopes appear as
single stars are in fact two stars. cir
cling about each other.
1t is these double stars that Profess
sor Boothroyd has been investigating.
Part of his work has been done at the
University of Washington and part at
the Dominion government observatory
near Victoria, B. c.
Studies Double Stars.
Professor Boothroyd has been study
ing the spectra of two double stars just
barely visible to the naked eye. One
is known as BOSS No. 4G02" and the
other as "H. II. No. SS03." They are
so far away that even big telescopes
cannot separate the two stars that COM
DoSt lIltIll. lt lNo StulS uP'
pear as one and are called the Boss No.
1902 are at least 100000 miles apart,
perhaps much farther, and still they
are so far away that they seem one
star in the telescope.
The spectroscope is perhaps the as
tronomer's greatest aid 1t is simple
little contrivance of lenses and three
cornered bit of glass that makes n beam
Of light into rainbow The rainbow
Is divided by dark lines, and these dark
lines are the pets of the astronomers.
Each combination of lines tells the
story of some one of the eighty-odd
chemical elements present in the body
producing the light. The brilliance OF
the spectrum and its lines Indicate the
heat radiated by the star, Professor
Boothroyd states.
zone of the double stars l have been
observing" explained Doctor Booth
royd. "is floating in sea of calcium.
Calcium is rare metal on earth. I'm
agine an atmosphere of metal so hot II
is vapor and extending more than 81
100000 miles! l am paying close at
tention to this calcium atmosphere. 1t
may give us the clue TO the solution OF
several mysteries in connection with
double stars"
Only Hazard a Guess.
Theories come and go on the birth
and life of stars, according to Profes.
sor BOOthroyd. Today's best hypothesis
of the evolution of the stars is almost
the exact reverse of the one which held
sway few years ago.
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VoiceIess Thirty Years,
Woman Becomes a Sinqer

After 80 years without her
voice, Mrs. Laura Richardson of
Maiden, Mass, has become a re-
markabIe singer, reaching high
notes with ease.
Mrs. Francis Whitcomb,
singing teacher, persuaded Mrs.
Richardson to take lessons In
voice culture. Mrs. Richardson
made such progress that she de-
cided to take singing lessons.
She has developed a voice that
is said to be clear as a bell, and
is being urged to 60 OH the con-
cert stage.
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SYNOPSIS.

Warned by his physician that he
has not more than six months to
live. Failing sits despondently on
park bench, wondering where he
should spend those six months. A
friendly squirrel practically decides
the matter for him, His blood is
pioneer blood, and he decides TO
end his days In the forests of Ore
gon. Memories of his grandfather
and deep love for all things OF
the wild help him in reaching a
decision
The Dolores star., 1921-04-15
Only Hazard a Guess.

Theories come and go on the birth
and life of stars, according to Profes.
sor Boothroyd. Today's best hypothesis
of the evolution of the stars Is almost
the exact reverse of the one which held
sway a few years ago.
'The best astronomers hardly have
The Dolores star., 1921-04-15
Tale Of Buried MIIlIons-Tow

Tale Of Buried MlIlIons-Town DIuoino
Monroe, La.-Fteports Of vast
treasure Of gold buried In a vacant lot
here caused thousands to start dig
ging. Two Of the treasure seekers
were shot by policemen, who thought
hey were bandits.
The Dolores star., 1921-04-15
Mother Applies Hot Poker to Daughter

Qnincy.-Asserting she was trying
to teach her nineyear-old daughter
to tell the truth, Mrs. Ehie Syrkel was
arrested for applying n red-hot stove
poker to the child's tongue. The Hu'
name society preferred charges.
The Dolores star., 1921-04-15

Many of the fruits and vegetables
now eaten were almost unknown to
our forefathers. Not until Henry
Wits time were raspberries. straw
berries. or cherries grown in England.
The New York herald., 1921-09-04

ERNEST RENAN. BY Lewis Freeman
Mott. d. Appleton & Co.
The New York herald., 1921-09-04
The new biography
shows philosopher
a charming sceptic

body was firmly rooted In clay, up to
his heart.
In his essay on Amiel's journal
Intime" Renan has a passage that Mr..
Mott enlarges on, one that comes
apropos In the America of to-day. The
great Frenchman advances the opinion
that drunkenness should not be sup
pressed, but should be rendered kindly.
amiable and moral. This is plea, it
would seem, for wine and beer which /
recommend to the perusal of the Con-
gressional intelligentsia (not a contra
dlction In terms, for Congress is not
quite all that it seems).
Mr. Mott has written his book with
out flourish or ornament. He has en-
deavored to show that the work of
Ernest Renan and the man himself
are 50 closely knitted together that
the man was the work and the work
was the man. 1t Is an evolution more
than an estimate. The author does not
defend Renan or attempt to propagate
his ideas. He explains, but nowhere
urges. The book lacks sympathy.
No one interested in the intellectual
history of the human race can side
step Renan. He was one Of the great
est, If not the greatest, of the modern
Sons OF Light and Tolerance. AS a
mere "life" Mr.. Motifs book Is invalu-
able to English readers.
BENJAMIN DE CASSERES.
The New York herald., 1921-09-04
Will China get justice at new conference?

What the coming conference may do
for China only time will tell. 1--WE sus-
pect," says DIR. Arthur J. Brown in
THE Mastery of the Far East" that
In spite Of the virtuous and well meant
declarations of the various Powers re-
garding the rights of weaker nations,
poor helpless China will get only what
the representatives of stronger gov
ernments deem expedient and that
Japan aonl haze good deal to sny az
to iohat that shall be-"
Few, If any, British or American
writer's have resided so long in China
or have occupied such a UNIQUE posi-
ton as that held by Gilbert Reid as
director Of the International Institute,
the object of which is to promote
friendship and harmony in the rela-
tons between China and other coun-
tries and also between adherents of
different religions. This has enabled
the author to secure comprehensive
educational, religious and political sur
vey Of the promised land" upon
which the eyes of greedy imperialistic
nations have for years been focused
circling closer and closer, like vultures
above their victim.
Besides this volume and Sources or
Anti-Foreign Disturbances in China"
1893, the author also has the distinc-
tion Of having written six books in
Chinese, task which involves an in
timacy with the life and language of
the Mongolian race both thorough and
profound.
Throughout the book the reader NAV
feel the vibrant ring of truth. AL
though during the war through Chau-
whistle legislation the human con-
science was abolished, DR.. Reid brave
ly adhered to his convictions. "Out of
love for China" he writes, II was
made to suffer not only for China but
with China, undergoing some tragic.
amusing and puerile prosecutions from
the great diplomats of four legations
British, French, Japanese and even
American-while the United States
Constitution and the Sermon on the
Mount both slumbered and slept"
THE contact of European civiliza-
tion with the people of Asia, Africa
The New York herald., 1921-09-04
Good letters half the battle

an assistant" says Mr.. Kilduff. "He
received approximately 300 applica-
tions from a trade Journal advertise
ment. Then he sat at his desk with
all these applications in a pile before
him and began to read them. He did
not read every letter through. a
glance at this one showed the appli-
cant was too old; at that one that not
enough details were given, and 80
forth. The preliminary sorting left
twenty-six possibilities. Comparison
eliminated seventeen. There were now
only nine left and, strange to say
each of these ntno rds type,critten
To each of these he sent a request
that they come for interviews at the
expense Of the company After inter-
viewing each one he finally chose the
man he wanted.
From this take note Of the follow
ing facts-facts which hold true in
most cases:
II. The letters Of only nine appli-
cants out OF 900 received serious at
tentlon. ?. These nine were selected
for interviews on their letters alone.
3. The nine letters were typewritten.
4. The letters secured interviews-no
the job. The point wish TO make Is
that IL you meet the requirements
and II you write good letter your
chances are not one to 300, but one 10
about ten"
The New York herald., 1921-09-04

come part and parcel of Him, live,
move and have our being through
Him, rise and fall in his glow and
wane, as in the Hindu legend the finite
worlds and all that they contain full
gurate and evanesce in the opening
and the closing of the eyelids of
Brahm.
At another time, at dinner, the
talk turned to God, and each one pres
ent, as recorded in 1.-THE Journal of
the Goncourt Brothers" attempted to
give voice to his concept. Renan, after
breathless silence all around, an
nounced nafvely that God, to him. re-
sembled an oyster with its vegetative
existence. The whole table roared with
laughter, in which Renan himself
joined. But the laughter of Renan
was of another kind than the laughter
of the others. His definition was a
satire on the guesses Of all finite be-
ings in the presence of the incompre-
hensible.
In early life Renan had a dogma.
It was the superstition called Science.
In 1S4S, the year of the great Euro
pean political upset, he produced his
THE Future of Science" He was then
twenty-five. He confesses the need of
a new faith. He glorified science,
preached the "perfectibility of the spe-
cies" through knowledge and glimpsed
Utopia in organization" He did not
need to live to the Apocalyptic year
of 1914 to see his dogma crumble in
.ronic dust. He outlived 1t in his life
time, although never quite denying the
panaceas Of conscious intelligence and
will Renan never lost sight of the
sordid earth for a moment. If his head
-, ,,,a+ uac1rn hfa
The New York herald., 1921-09-04
At the peace table
nobody offered her
so much as a crumb
CHINA: CAPTIVE OR FREE?
Gilbert Reid. Dodd, Mead & Co.

CHINA: CAPTIVE OR FREE? BY
Gilbert Reid. Dodd, Mead & Co.
THAT china's entrance into the
war resulted in her undoing-
= In the further violation of her
territorial integrity and the virtual
closing Of the so-called "open door,"
and that America, China's traditional
friend, is largely responsible for her
present plight-is the conclusion
reached by Gilbert Reid in his latest
work, China: Captive or Free?"
No amount of diplomatic chicanery
on the part of the other allies could
have drawn China into the maelstrom
that resulted in the revolution and the
disunion Of the Chinese people, lead
Ing eventually to Japan's securing the
preponderating political and CONNER
cial influence in the "Flowery King
DOM" which before had been almost
equally distributed among the other
great Powers. In fact, China had
asked America to remain neutral in
her relations with the Far East.
Not until President Wilson called
upon all nations at peace to protest
against Prussian ruthlessness and. IL
necessary, to sever diplomatic rela-
tions with Germany, did trustfuI
China. with no more grudge against
the Central Powers than she had
against all other countries which have
exploited her, obey the behest of
America, and thereby were unawar-
ingly sowed the dragons teeth" that
must be uprooted at the disarmament
conference In November, or from the
controversy over Far Eastern ques-
tions will spring hosts of armed men
from the worlds most densely popu-
lated area
The New York herald., 1921-09-04

The death of Harriet Prescott Spof-
ford on August Is at Amesbury breaks
one of the most cherished links with
the past. 1t Is perhaps sixty years ago
that she as a radiant young girl sud
denly appeared In the office of the
Atlantic Monthly with the manuscript
of The Amber Gods" Her reputation
was made almost Immediately upon
its publication, and to this reputation
every line that she has written since
has added. Her success as a writer.
her charming personality, won for her
the friendship of the great literary
figures of the day, among whom
should be especially mentioned Haw-
thorne, as he was an ardent admirer
Of her work. and Whittier. who %
home, like hers, was In Amesbury.
Mrs. Spofford continued her writing
with unflagging power and increasing
wisdom up to the very end. Last
year. in her eighty-th third year. she
published volume of short stories,
THE Elders People" (Houghton MI
fin Company. The critics who re-
viewed and praised It were at least a
generation removed from the review
ers of sixty years ago. who had first
acclaimed her as one or the great lit
erary women of New England, but
they felt as keenly the magnetism of
her charm.