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language to say; stole q glance at the
girls face; looked away. The stark
skeleton of the unfinished farmhouse
Unexpectedly - mayhap unluckily -
came under his eyes; the transferring
emotion slowly died in his face; the
bound boy again dominated the man.
He heard the girls deep breath; felt
her hand thrill upon his arm; accepted
it for what it was-the spontaneous
communion of comradeship, a relation
on which he dared not presume
dimly read in the serious eyes, as they
strayed over his face, the tingling mys-
terry, the far-fung vision that nestled
there.
Very thoughtful she seemed, and for
the most part silent-the all-suff1cient
silence that sometimes falls between
comrades-as he led her down the
bluffs, on the Eagle hollow side,
around by the post office, and to the
yard gate at the red-roofed cottage.
The Rev. Caleb Hopkins, with book
under his arm, was just coming across
the little park from the study at the
parsonage. He dropped down on the
rustic seat at Whispering spring,
opened the book and bumped himself
over it. apparently oblivious to all that
went on about him.
The woodsman studied him a mo-
ment, frowned, and turned his eyes
back to the girl. Swept by a sudden
impulse that he could not control-an
impulse that called for no word he
lifted her hand from the gate latch |;
held it for a delicious instant in both
his own; dropped it and turned away.
Halfway up the road to the big elm
at the homestead he looked back. The
tall figure Of the young preacher had
risen from the rustic seat at Whis-
pering spring, and through the pensive
twilight the girl was crossing the yard
toward him.
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mother saved me and my brother from
being captured once by Mr.. Man.
Tommy Beaver and Johnny sat
down and kept as quiet as little mice
while Grandpa Diver told his story
Zone day." he began, my brother
and were summing ourselves when we
saw soma nice green twigs not far
away, and thinking there was no one
about, we ran to the tree and began to
eat, when ali at once right near MS
appeared Mr. Man with gun.
We were pretty well frightened, for
we knew we could not get to the water
without being shot; we tried to dodge
behind some rocks, but Mr.. Man saw
us and then all at once we heard a
sound that made US look towards the
river and there was our mother splash
ing the water with her tail TO make Mr..
Man look that way, so we could escape.
'But, though he looked, he kept his
eyes on us and tried to cut US off from
the water. Then mother, began to
swim as if she were terribly hurt and
could not swim well, but still Mr.. Man
kept after us, and mother, seeing that
her scheme did not work, tried an
other.
"She came right out Of the water
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By Mildred
MAR SHALL
HERMION e

yrERMIONE, that euphonious and
i j poetic name which has recently
received new vogue as a feminine
title, had it's origin in the Greek. Il
comes from "Hermes," that swift ana
eloquent messenger of Zeus and raw
orite of all the gods throughout
Greece. Hermes, in turn, is popular
ly supposed to have it's derivation ID
the Greek word meaning "earth," ana
hence the significance of Hermione,
which is refuge" can be delicately
traced
Hermione, in ancient legend, was
the wife of Cadmus, founder of
Tbebes. and shared his transforma-
tion into a serpent. Another Hermione
was the daughter of Helen and Meme
laus. and at first the wife of Neopto-
iemus. though afterward married to
Oretes, and heroine of tragedy OF
Eurinides where she was the Jealous
nersecutor of the enslaved Androm-
ache. Shakespeare calls the nero
me Of his "Winter's Tale" Hermione,
and the name appears again as the
mysterious ancestress OF Anne OF
Geurstein, in whom Sir Walter Scott
reproduced the legend Of the demon
mother of the fierce Angevin kings;
Hermione is also immortalized in
.eThe Fortunes Of Nigel"
The Italian name Ermina is be-
lieyed to have been derived from Her
mione and certainly the French Her
mine has the same origin. The Welsh
have a form of Hermione which they
spell E-r-m-i-n. 1t is from this latter
that the English name Emma Is de-
rived.
Those who read with appreciation
one of the leading present-day humor-
lists will strafghtway connect Hermione
with the Tif you get what | mean"
phrase. This humorous gentleman no
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Certain Seeds May Be Subjected tc
Intense Heat and Still Retain
Their Vitality.

Amazing ways of enabling her chill
dren to survive extraordinary hard
ships have been devised by nature.
None of her inventions has more won
derful powers of endurance than the
seed by means of which plant life is
carried on.
You may subject certain seeds for
hours to a temperature of 100 degrees
below freezing point, you may heat
them until they are hot enough to burn
your hand, yet they will not lose their
vitality.
Great fires often rage through the
forests, destroying mile after mile of
giant trees. When the fire has passed
there remains nothing but charred
stumps and fiame-scarred, smoldering
soil. Yet within a few months the
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whats in a Nane?'
FACTS about Jour name; its history; |
meaning; whence it Was derived; signif- |
canoe; your lucky day and lucky jewel
Observation-Disclosures

doubt chose the name Hermione for
his dilettante heroine as satire
upon the high order of mentality
which has always been assigned to the
Hermiones of history. Even the poets
tribute to Hermione exalts her intel
lect rather than her beauty:
have wife and she Is wise,
Deep in philosophy, strong in Greek;
Spectac1es shadow her pretty eyes.
Coteries rustic to hear her speak:
She writes a little-for love, not fame;
Has published a book with dreary
name;
And (God bless herr is mild and
meek.
Iolite is Hermione's jewel, signify
ing strength of character. Worn by
the bearer of the name it insures
clarity of vision and good judgment.
Thursday is her lucky day and 5 her
lucky number.
20 by Wheeler Syndicate. Inc.)
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THE RED LOCK

Father, we're goin' up in the woods
t. see the sun setback and me"
A statement that was half ques-
ton. The old man did not look up.
They were at the door Of the dining
room, the woodsman standing aside to
let the girl pass, when the banker
turned in his chair.
Jack"
The girl stopped; the man turned
back.
''Texie tells me you're leavin' us as
soon as you're twenty-one."
"Pm amin to, SIR"
"And that'll be-Y"
"The twentieth-seven more days."
"Seven days." The old man
frowned; rasped his hand over the dry
stubble on his bony chin. "Well, seven
days is seven days." he muttered.
"Hit amt because I'VE ben hard on
y'u, is it?"
"No, sir, it amt that. You've ben
s good to me that it makes it hard
t. go, but I got t do somethin' FIR
m'self-
The old man bent his brows thought
fully; nodded toward his daughter in
the door Of the dining-room.
"She says you're calc'latin' t. jine
a wagon train FIR California"
Eyes, sir, that's what I'm amin t.
do, If you're still minded t give me
Graylock when my times out.
I'm amin t pick up enough gold
out there t. come back and buy the
homestead, if you'll sell it t. me, and
make my fathers and mothers
dream come true. .
The old man dropped his eyes and
drew his hand across his shaggy
brows.
"The day you're twenty -one''- his
voice was strained, and he seemed to
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OLD DIVERS STORY

GRANDPA DIVER sat noddIng by
the Preside and little Johnny and
Tommy Beaver knew this was the time
to get him to tell them one of his
stories, and then the winter time is
always the best time for storytelling,
they had discovered.
Grandpa Diver had been great
worker in his day and knew many
stories which the little Beaver boys
We're never tired of hearing, so Tommy
climbed up on the back Of Grandpa's
chair to tickle with a straw the tip of
Gralldpa's nose.
What is that?' asked Grandpa,
awaking with a start and knowing per-
fectly well what was going on. "Oh,
you young scalawags. it is you," he
said looking around, "and I suppose
you want story.
well, come and sit down on the
hearth and will tell you how my
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WONDERFUL FEATs OF NATURE

whole district will be green with the
first leaves of the tiny Seeding trees.
Recent tests to discover the heat at
ground level during forest fire dis
closed that it was from 1000 to 1000
degrees Fahrenheit. The fires move so
quickly that this intense heat lasts for
only minute or less at any spot.
Various tree seeds were then tried
to see what heat they could resist. 1t
was found that fir cones could with
stand a temperature of 1,200 degrees
Fahrenheit for eight minutes without
losing their vitality.
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cThe Whp Of Supersfifions

By II. lRDING KING

Importance They also affect the man
by sympathetic magic and what is
done to them reacts upon their former
possessor. Hair combings, woven into.
birds nest, are twisted into many
shapes strange and unnatural COM
pared with their original forms of ar
rangement, and are also subjected to
more or less strain. Therefore it is
natural that they should make the
head from which they came ache or
drive it crazy sympathetic magic
of the homeopathic sort. Also, on the
same principle Of sympathetic magic.
there may be any number of reasons
worked out why the unfortunate per-
son who has had his hair combings
appropriated by the birds for building
purposes should grow bald.
20 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.l
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A Tale of the FIatwoods
Bv DAVID ANDERSON
Author Of The Blue Moon
Copyright by The Bobbs-MerriIl ca.
"a GOOD soYn

sYNOPsIS.-O the banks of
the Wabash stand Texie Colin
and Jack Warhope, young ana
very much in love. Texle is the
only daughter Of old Pap simon,
rich man and money-lender. JACK
is the orphan bound boy OF rap
Simon, who had foreclosed
mortgage on the Warhope esta1e.
At first Texie and Jack talk saoly
of Ken Colin. the girls missing
brother Then Jack says that IN
ten DAYS his servitude Will be
over, that he will ride OUT into
the big world to seek his fortune.
Both know what that Will mean
to them. Texie and Jack Talk OF
the red lock Of RED conn M
herited by Ken. And Jack says
he's coming back as soon as he
finds gold in California. Ihen
arrives the new preacher, HeV.l
Caleb Hopkins. Pap Simon IN
PRODUCES the villagers to the new
preacher, who was cQllege mate
of Ken. At supper at the conn
home the preacher tells how the
boy killed gambler ana dlsap-
peared. His father attributes
Kens fall from grace to his RED
lock of hair. Then Pap simon
has a sort Of stroke, brought on
by reading a letter from. Ken,
Somewhere in New YORK, VINO
curses his father on his death
bed. A postscript by another
hand saws he is dead. At the viii
Iage store and post office Loge
Belden, a newcomer, says he saw
the new parson with his arm
around Texie. Jack licks him,
shoots a pistol from his hand and
makes him say he was mistaken.
The preacher and the villagers
90 fishing. Jack discovers the
preacher carries a six gun. A
Footprint on concealed house
boat fits the preachers boot. A
drunken ruffian disturbs VII
lage festival and stabs Jack in
the shoulder. The preacher
makes him leave. Jack trails the
ma to Belden's cabin.
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dition and I would be glad to give any
one advice about taking it. l think
there is no better medicine and give
you permission to publish this letter. "
Mrs. ANNA SMITH, 54l W. Norwood
Street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
The important thing about Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is that
it does help women suffering from the
ailments common to their sex.
If you are nervous and rundown and
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by druggists everywhere.
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! 0T5 Observation-Disclosures
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and began to tumble about and Mr..
Man, thinking mother would be bet,
ter catch than US youngsters, ! guess,
started after her, and my brother and
waddIed as fast as we could to the
river and dived out of sight"
And did the bad Mr.. Man catch
your motherY inquired Tommy Beaver,
unable to keep quiet any longer.
"Oh, dear, no; mother was too old
and wise to be caught She tumbled
and lodged until she was near enough
to the water to dive, and out of sight
and reach she went, but she knew, OF
course, that we youngsters were safe
before she did so.
II am sure that Mr. Man must have
been some surprised when mother
reached the water, for she made him
think, you see, that she would be easy
to catch, because she was so wounded,
and she told father afterwards that she
scornfully struck the water with her
fiat tail to let him see she had fooled
him and that she was smarter than he"
Il guess you and your brother were
pretty glad to get under the water,
weren't your" asked Johnny Beaver.
YES, indeed, we were answered
Grandpa Diver, "and this story should
teach you youngsters not to wander
away from the pond until you are much
older than you are now"
Little Johnny and Tommy Beaver
looked very wise and shook their heads
in knowing way because they knew
so much more than most little beavers,
for didn't they have a wise grandpa to
tell them about the dangers they must
try to avoid?
20 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
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CHAPTER TX
Bats and Beetles.


In the luminous evening that fol-
lowed Uncle Nick sat smoking quiet
pipe on the porch of his modest cabin
at the upper edge Of the village al
most exactly opposite the point where
the Eagle Hollow road crossed the fiat,
administered bridge and turned up the
east bank of the branch to disappear
between the jaws of the hollow.
Through the open door came the
clink of the supper dishes as Aunt
Liza put them away. A throng Of
bats, nocturnal hunters all, darted in
and out among the fruit trees, white
with bloom; the drone Of a thousand
beetles, the hum of a myriad gauzy
wings, throbbed the silence into sort
of drowsy rhythm-a scene tranquil
and serene.
The old man was just setting off to
keep his tacitly understood appoint
ment with the embryo scientists, sol
diers and statesmen who assembled
nightly around the. barrels and boxes
of Zeke Polick's store, when the front
gate clicked. He stopped and stood
mildly wondering to see the tall and
lanky form of Al Counterman, the one
eyed fisherman, coming up through the
trees.
He threw up his hand the fisherman
threw up his. Two grins met and
passed in the twilight.
Zine day." said the fisherman.
couldn't make one no better, IL ]
had the TOOLS"
The fisherman seldom almost never
came into that part of the village.
With the sound horse sense that eighty
years of hard knocks had pounded into
him, Uncle Nick knew that something
unusual had brought him. Counter
man knew that he knew. He absently
traced the flight of the bats with his
puckered eye and shifted from one
foot to the other.
Little out O. y'ur range, hain't y'uY'
The fisherman sat down on the
porch, spit out into the yard, and
threw away his cud, as If clearing his
mouth for action Al rarely threw
away his cid. When he did II meant
something.
"Whar'S Aunt Liar"
Back in the kitchen. Why?"
The other did not answer, but sat
listening to the clink Of the dishes.
He finally lifted his battered hat ran
his fingers up through his hair and
motioned his aged friend to sit beside
him.
"Seen Big Jack t'day?"
"See'd i'm this evenin' late come
down off'n Black Rookie tossed up
his hand toward the high battlemenl OF
stone that frowned down upon them
from across the mouth Of the hollow
''him an Texie. They crossed the
branch at the bridge thar, passed the
gate an went on down through town
t. the post office, 1 low"
The fisherman put his hat back on.
I'm skeer'd it's dern little good it'll
I do i'm. AS / come along up the crick,
/ happened t. glance down in OF Shines
orchid, an thar she set with the new
parson at Whisperin' spring"
The old man lowered his eyes and
sat patting his boot upon the gravel
Of the small gutter worn by the drip
from the porch caves.
"Beats the devil the Roadway the
parsons a-makin' with 'er," he NUT
tered. "Must know some trick other
men amt on to-"
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weigh each word before letting it fall
''we'll have long talk, you and me,
b'fore y'u jine that wagon train"
He stopped forward, picked u a
began sorting them over.
The others passed out through the
kitchen, where Mrs. Curry was busy
about the cook stove.
The witchery of the coming sunset
was astir among the splintered peaks
and pinnacles of the bold headland.
The woodsman took off his hat, swept
his eyes over the far-spread landscape,
drank deep the wonder of it, slowly
turned to his companion.
He allowed himself to revel for a
delicious moment in the rich complete
ness of her, as she stood lightly poised
on the rock.
His arm unconsciously stole toward
her; but he drew it back and pointed
to the tiny flower bed at the foot of
the outstanding pinnacle. The girl
followed the motion, softly clapped her
hands and stood looking down at the
yellow orchid, its golden slipper still
as plump and unwilted as before it
had been transplanted.
81 found it this morning back in the
woods"
His voice was strained and heavy
out of all proportion to what might
have been expected in uttering state
ment so simple. The girl breathed
fast. The man stopped, plucked the
blossom from the stem and held it
toward her; she took it and with slow
fingers fastened it in her belt.
II reckon we wasn't nothin' but jist
crazy kids" the man went on, sbut y'u
know how the first bluebird and the
first robin and the first lady slipper
was alw'ys big days to us"
He was venturing his words forth
as if each one had to feel its way
across his lips, like a hunter picking
his way over the dangerous bog at the
head of Mud Haul.
"But lady slipper day." he faltered
on, "was alw'ys the biggest. Y'u know,
we alw'ys kinda fg'r'd on dom some
thin extra that day, and when it come
this year I ben plannin' Pd-Pd-"
He paused, breathed hard, struggled
for the next words-the hardest in the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-31
BIRDS AND HAIR COMBINES

ri is a general superstition in the
1 United States and Canada that if
YOU throw away your hair combings
the birds will carry them off to line
their nests and you will have the head
ache. In some sections they go SO far
as to say that youwill Ego crazy and
in others the penalty assigned for care
lessness with regard to hair combings
is badness.
A vital connection exists between
man and his hair, even after it has
been separated from him, and various
superstitions arise from this concep-
ton of the ancients. It is the process
of cutting the hair and the fragments
severed by the knife or shears which
are mostly considered in ancient myth
and magic; but the dead hair, or loose
hairs, which come out in the form of
"combings'' are only of slightly less
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Green's August Flower

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Madam Electric Lamps.

The average amount Of light OBJ
tanned for one cent from fncandescent
electric lamps at first was about five
candle power hours, but it is now pos
sible to obtain with the ordinary 40
watt lamp 40 candle power hours for
me cent.
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Line O Cheer
BY sohn Kendrick Bangs.

A eooDLY JOB
r INSTEAD Of merely killing time
today
In the old fashioned, strange
ly foolish way.
I'm going to take my leisure
hours and go
Out on the highways stalking
things of woe,
And with what strength I have
do my full share
To case my fellow-traveler of his
care,
And strive to beautify drab scenes
of stress
With the rich hues of loving
kindness.
90 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate)
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nursing my
baby, and hearing
some talk of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound, I
began taking it.
From the second
bottle noticed a big
improvement, and |
am still taking it. I
am not a bit nervous
now, and feel like a
different person. 1t
"a 2 GREAT medicine
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Mo such Person.

There amt no such person: the
tailor who will acquiesce in all your
notions of how your suit should be
made. This is world of compromise.
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A Willing Victim.

The wife of a certain fiery army Off
Ger, during her husbands frequent abb
sence from home with his regiment,
was in the habit of spending much Of
her time with friends, being invariably
accompanied on such visits by her only
son, a small boy of five.
One day at tea, during one of these
visits, the little fellow, having already
partaken of a huge meal, asked for
lust one more cake a request which
was peremptorily refused by his moth
er, who at the same time reproved him
for his glutrony.
After a short silence, he .epeated
his plea for something more to eat,
whereupon his mother leaned over
and assured him in whisper that he
would most certainly burst if he dared
consume another morseli
"All right, mother" replied the lit
tie fellow, please pass me another
jam tart and stand clear"
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Men You May Marry
BY E. r. PEYsER

Has a Man Like This Proposed
to You?
Symptoms: He really has mas
tered the art of wearing the soft
Alpine hat; although no acrobat,
his hat is his featl But he is not
"hall-room boyish," not a bitl
He has merry smile, he is not
tall, yet he is not short-in fact
he's never short on cash, or rag
chewing. Baseball is his ideal
and he likes you because you
have shown an interest in his
hobby. He talks of bringing in
the bacon" "home plates" etc.
IN FACT
It's the only plate and bacon
that interest him.
Prescription TO his bride:
n Base your bills of fare and
~ dates on baseball schedules.
Name your first offspring after
the reigning pitcher.
Absorb This:
TO LOVE YOUR HUBBY is TO
LOVE HIS HOBBY.
"a by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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A lazy man will not work himself
as long as he can work others.
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NERVOUS, RUN
DOWN MOTHERS.
Worn Out Caring for Children and
HousewOrk-See how Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Helps

indianapolis, Indiana. -"I was in q
very nervous and rundown condition
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Winsome Helene Chadwick, the
"rnovie" star, was born in New York,
where her father was president of the
silk mills. She is the great-grand-
daughter Of Lord Chadwick of England.
She was educated in New York and
spent all of her life there until 1916,
when she needed the call of the silent
drama.
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DAINTY Chinese dishes.

Dainty Chinese Dishes.
Among the dainty dishes" Of the
Chinese are dogs flesh, ducks giz-
yards, canned earthworms, marmalade
made from roses, birds nests, dried
and preserved oysters, and eggs that
have been kept for years.