i PRODIGAL’S RETURN By JAMES F. DWYER (© T by Short Story Pub. Co.) COMES to every wanderer at thme in his wander- ings,” sald Galt, looking out through the dirty window of Bhatto Ghan's river alley restaurant at Singapore. “It comes to every one of us drifters, and when the voice strong enough we strike the home trail.” “Ay, ay,” ‘murmured Maloney, a lit- tle red-headed Irishman, who acted as agent for a Jew firm at Calcutta. “It's right you are, Sandy. “There such mopoiitan,” growled the big man. “I thought I met one once when we were jerking a trestle bridge over a up at but fraud. He left us one night, and when I went round to his bungalow in morning 1 found a little scrap of pa- per stuck in the thatch, It just read: “woné home to England.' Yes, by the ax of Bruce, that was all—not an other word. And that sun-tanned devil had been telling me month after month that had neither country.” vAy, ay.” sald the same, ¢¢ some is is no person as a cos Neoteh stream Simla he was a he home no chanted Maloney, “I've bad luck to “I cursed him over-right, continued Galt, told him me," the Lascar serang."” “but that old maonkey-faced ‘His said he. n nigger me to stop. mother looked at last night, ‘His mother his brown hide, ' gquenked ‘his mother has been seek last night sj for vears, and into his eves as to bh It the HIS one mE is Some mother's find the earth, and thei day will them if t rim of her ir ! i Ga eyes hey sit on the they when Bee r dreams they go back. i t banged his gia the cen tury-old table, had delivered fell upon turned hatto Ghan silence sun N apor a the hot treet i float thick the voices from the in inter d 1 the into that stifling, and chantant mittent | favorable Masses ed and enfe upwards, came through lasts as | hey h moments clear. man of his bh wa de to react Meehlin the asl ghifted his long wked wes from his fee,” ls said, wit he air of a man who k that his *I know al Wellington, assertion incontrovertible I struck 1506) ¢ is | about the voice. New Zealand, in rode down on a leaking wind-jammer from Vancouver, and the moment 1 of the New company’s boats buck across the voice made me buy the voice me {ne was on the Zealand Just to Sydney quay. Steamship was getting ready t a forty-shilli steerage ticket an’ hike aboard. mile of that trip the velce got to whis perin’ stronger. ‘Jimmy,’ It haven't seen yer old mother for seven years—seven years, just think of Never mind about yer stepfather, Jimmy. don’t think of ver little differ. ences with him. If he kicks yer again, like he did before, don’t take no no- tice of him." That was the tune it sang to me. Oh, yes, Galt is Johany- on-the-spot when he gives lingo about the voice. It gets you all right. The one that called me was a sort of two thousand-mile radius volce While 1 was buzzin' about up round Seattle 1 didn’t hear it, but the moment 1 struck windy Wellington, it fairly poured into me sound accumulators, and before we sighted Head I couldn't get any sleep at nights because it kept reproaching me for stayin’ away too long. The moment I tumbled on the wharf, the voice swirled me up George street to the railway station. I bought a second-class ticket for Bourke, and then went across the road to get some thing to eat before the western mail pulled out for its run to the Darling 1 couldn't eat; felt as if T had a bal- foon In me insides, so I came back and cursed the porters until we swung out, All the way up in the train that voice made me sick with joy, The old bare gumtrees, the ti-tree scrub, the gray plains, the dusty drovers, every bloomin' thing got tuggin’ at me heart strings, an’ when 1 got out at Bourke I felt all sore round the ribs like as if some one had been slammin’' me with sixteen-ounce gloves, Maloney made a sound that resem. bled a suppressed sob, and Meehlin looked at him curiously. “My dad had been a ‘a cockatoo ge lector,’ you know, Wea had a little patch between two big s, and the squatters on the two big ots hated dad lke poison. When he died, moth- er married McCarty, just to have a man round the place to give hack lip to the boundary riders, and it was thaw little mean-wouled son of a gun who snapped my home cable an’ set we dreiftin’ in the frst place. How gaid, ‘yom it Sydney ever, the volee told me to forget all that, an! I tried to, When I announced myself that evening he pumped my hand up an’ down like a feller that's tryin' to restore breathin' In some guy who has ben wet, but I took it agreeable, an’ you could hear the swish of the wings of peace when I was telling about me wanderings, “Next day that little knock-kneed hound of a stepfather asked me give him a hand in poleaxing a steer, and I agreed to whip the pelt off just to him I hadn't forgotten the game, I was three parts through with the job when the of the shed opened and a mounted trooper covered me with his popgun. The volce wasn't doing much calling at that minute. You see, stepdad hadn't a calf of his own to kill in honor of my return, he had grabbed one of the nearest squat. ters an’ that cop caught me red-handed. Cattle duffing had been getting common an’ they were watching round. The cop took me an’ he took stepdad, tied us one to each stirrup iron. pretty luck for Mes 10 show door 80 too too, was good Carty. They seen 1 was in a bit of a temper, 'cause they put us into different cells, but there was a little hole in the slabs, an' all through night that old ecalf-stealer kept asking to shoulder the blame of “They didn’t catch me, Jimmy, he kept saying, over an’ iin, “They only you, ‘What's the good of in? Who'll look after your Jimmy? Who'll the Who'll keep yer little brother It aboard must have the me show, the whole over nu caught Jimmy." of two us going shear sheen? the volce at school, Jimmy? wasn't that pulled the steamer that I that night. He that mad that I poked my in his eve when an’ me Walrapa heard got me looking finger Was Httla [R881 he the hole, I nt jury belleved old se through got 3 “Well, They that McCarty that oundrel cnme to my the for look i wore I'd never mit: prodigal son 1 again, i three kinds of volees the volee that calls you Galt the voice of that old eal Bourke t} was tellin’ you about; stealing cnss in thirdly, volee of Malone § silence fterwards®™ h asked Meehlin, ° “Did the Jes hun ant hg I was - kill another calf pened as ha § At the hig on earth, members of the recent # ' 141 spedition Foverest e chept of of Across inconceivable depth on the ladder. the a portable nnusual bridges in probably ns great many there Is none strength for its weigh remarkable laflder bridge ring explorers made especia for at and r Science Monthly. In view of of transport nat mendons heights, it was essential that it should be extremely light and easily carried. To meet these requirements was constructed of hollow wooden spars, put together with hinges In three sections, each of which could be used ns a separate unit. Extended full length, the hricge measured 18 feet and weighed only 45 pounds. Stretched at full length, the bridge could. support two fully equipped climbers, and when used in an upright position as a ladder, each rung was strong enough to support a concen trated weight of 300 pounds. This great strength was due to the direc. tion of the grain and the system of Inyers of wood of which the hollow sticks were made. The same princi ple is being applied for the construe. tion of hollow spars for racing yachts and for airplanes, Spruce wood is sawed Into planks less than one-quarter-inch thick, then bent around steam-heated mandrels to the form of cylinders. The bent planks then are built in the requisite number of layers around a wooden core and the layers glued together with watertight gine. When the core is withdrawn, there remains a hollow spar that is far superior In strength and weather-resisting qualities to a solld stick. Proportioned correctly, a hollow spar of one-third the weight Is as strong as a solid spar of the same size. Ye altitudes Re feet upward, says Pop ntl difficulties these is is Bret Harte's Headache Bret Harte was once lecturing at Richmond, In Virginia, and on the morning of his arrival had such a ter. rible headache that he would cheer fully have died there and then. He went for a walk accompanied by the person who was to take the chalr at his lecture. The latter told him that Richmond was a very healthful place,’ that the death rate averaged only one per diem. “Good heavens!” sald Bret Harte, who had been telling his companion how he felt. “Has today's man dled yet "London Tatler, — i RHINO HAS THE BLUES 6 O, HUM!" grunted Ranny Rhino, as he rolled over In the muddy water of the Yellow River and turned one tiny shiny eye toward Big Bright Mr. Sun who was just going down be- hind the tall Palm Tree, “1 suppose I might as well get up and look for my supper. It's a long way to the nearest plantation, but that sugar cane well worth it. Maybe I'll find bamboo, too, Nothing is much fun, though, when you ean't gee well, now Is it?" he grumbled, as he caught sight of Polly Parrot in the tree above him. “Well, that depends on what you are trying to see,” cried Polly “rf it's a joke or your duty, then I say it's is some saucily. > fo (= am AS 15 ‘Oh, Please Do Wailed Ranny. Polly, ill 1 Le" “Oh, | very well have good to i sensible ‘olly, please . do be “I'm serious about t! around mine, railed Rannjy. is, really I am. 1 go ploughing with dull little harging at things and j Even trouble are afraid on my these them if nuch because of the two I never 8H folks Orns nose, omfortable because | thout “Big. am danger being near.” Rh Why, 1 were There's Jungle larger, except Gray Elephant. And about I 80 = ihat you oan Then and your ts isin In India a nose fo. be prow “Yes, 1 know that, help it: I “You you I am happy, doesn’t take good eyesight find that out, does it? And I'll take you to the person who if you would like to go. you too. His and he came all lanny ino! in nobody whole the Ears what ire you grumbling (now, when you are trun a horse scent cot } your Keen Your all mt : ue,” seem Jolly this me fuake me 31 Ranngy could Rhiino to Just me a mace Cheerups, Stewart from Ameriéa to broaden his acquaint- ance. 1 should think he would like you, Ranny; goodness knows, you are broad enough.” wide smile and showing so many teeth that Polly gave a little shiver moved away, It didn't to like a good place for look an share of sit- what de you Why, just to be make Mr. Parrot do his ting our nest. And suppose he told me? kind and polite. It sounds simple, but it worked. So that's the reason I can be away this morning. I don't have to worry any my fine eggs getting now, Ranny, on more about cold. Come on Polly Ranny was so pleased and happy that he right out of the water and frisked along by the Yellow River, Winding Way and Vines, with came down the the Twisty through Yolly ft ne ng lear place in the Jungle wh ved, tie. Brown & Co) o spe MAE MURRAY PEGE EAOEGON DOGGY, Cal Mae Murray, the brilliant movie star, was born in Portsmouth, Va. She moved to New York when a very small child. At the age of fifteen she made her first appearance on the stage and became one of the most remarkable dancers. At the height of her success many successes are well known, By H. IRVING KING ACORNS AND LOVE KDow tree-wi gEes In ng o i those entirely rant, “nan Of § Superstition througho 3 Hille those ling Ri each ax the girl plac fire girl retires gets hetween the May love and marriage be 1 T visit To ght's 4 Gent this n be my me in fe Venus The Image of Then my friend lover send FOUDBE man whom 4 ghe is | appear to her in the whence it ; meaning: | Tt jewel UNA Tovar not in general usage, Una is one of the most interesting of feminine nomes. It means “famine” according to etymologists, though the great and only Spenser who brought the name Into fashion rejected this interpretation. It Is typically an Irish name and sihce It resembles “one” Spenser gave the title of Una to his lovely personation of the one truth, the one true undivided church, the guide of the Red Cross Knight. Una is queen of the fairies In the county of Ormond, in which she ap pears In one version of the story of the soldier billeted on a miser, The man wns amazed at his hospitable re. ception and entertainment as he thought .by the avaricious squire, until morning disclosed the fact that Una hed raised the mansion and provided the supper. Una is much In use today among the » EE TTI TTTITTTTITITTTThITTITTIhIThhITIhITITYewv,vvTT, yy A LINE O' CHEER. By John Kendrick Bangs. EaTTY Sn £8 8 8 8 | SHADOWS — 0 SHADOW e'er can bother tne, And on my way I walk straight past it, Unless unhappily 1 see That I unwittingly have cast it, And if It be that mine's the fault That brings that shadow there on my way { step aside, and from the vault Let golden Light stream on the highway. And when 1 face that Light 1 find, Een taough its radiant luster blind me, The shadow that hath vexed my mind Is left forevermore behind me. (®& by MeClure Newspaper Byndicate.) dd de dale laSead eae Ray S$ 8 5 8 8 8 5 5 8 8 4 8 5 5 3 8 8 5 8 8 5 EE A a SS EES 5 5 SB 2 A 8.2 8 & $8 8 8 8 8 8 8 58 5 8 8 8 8 8 8 ES SE 8 3 Es ES EE EE TE RR TTaTaaTaTTTITTTTYYTSTTTTTTTTYTYTTTY It and is often has been Irish peasantry, nounced Oonagh cized as Winny, The pear! is Una's falismanic gem. it Is the emblem of purity, popularity and affability. She who wesrs it will have many friends and admirers. Tuesday is her lucky day and 5 her lucky number. {D by Wheeler Syndicates, Ine.) pro- Angi N BBREVIATED STORY SOME OF EACH PD INWEEVIE DOGGS, president of the Booptown Chamber of Com- merce, was showing the wonders of the town to the distingulshed visitor, Jazzbo, the man from Mars “And last but not least. Mr. Jazz. bo,” beamed Doggs, “I must show you that great American institution, the five and ten-cent store. There's noth ing there over ten cents or under five or in between, and there's nothing that's not on sale there.” "Well, well! wellwelled Jazzho- “even obsolete whisky glasses and things to fix whatchacallnms with?" “Even those,” smiled Doggs. “Well, well,” wellwelled Jazzho. And they went to the five and ten-cent store, and Dinweevie Doggs radiated, “Here we are! Did you ever see such variety In your life. Look nt that stack of hair straighteners! Here's a handful for souvenirs. Look at all the patent monkey wrenches for train. Ing monkeys! Stick a couple in your pocket for souvenirs! I'll pay for them! Observe the counterful of cork dishes that float if water or gravy Is spilled on them! Do have a balf dozen as souvenirs.” An hour later, at the corned of Might and Main streets, Jazsbo was dug out from under a pile of miscelin- ! oneal to the and teas 10 The « T sumed by fi tewspaper Syndicate) 0) cAmong the OTABLES HERBERT C. HOOVER THEN a man ated as & trul we are exploration work terior, That and a wns ahout fter these exciting happen ings, he settled In London, holding important positions with concerns, Then Germany went through Belgium in 1014, and one of the great problems to be met the who was to feed Belgium how? Herbert Hoover ap- pointed head of the Belgian relief, and remarkal that no eral m while * WAR Wis ™ was over and there was time to view events in proper perspective cured food, distributed it, fixed It 1 3 : ! i food. 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