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P1AITSM0UIIMWS HERALD I A. BARROWS, Editor and Manager PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA By Tfie Wizard L. Frank Baum (Copvrlaht, ty the HnMn-M'rrlll 'o.) (Copyright by K Frank Haum St W. W. Denalow.) SYNOPSIS. Dorothy lived In Kansas with Aunt T.m and Uncle Henry. A cyclone lifted their borne Into the air, Dorothy fulling aaieeo amldat the excitement. A rranh awakened her. The hom had landed In a country f marvelous beauty. Groups of quear little people greeted her to the Land of Munchkliia. The houae had killed their enemy, the wicked witch of Bast. Dor ethy took the wltch'a allver ahoea. Blie Itarted for the Kmcrald City to find the VVhtard of Ox, who. she wna promise, mlKht find a way to send her hark to Kansas. Dorothy released a scarecrow, ilvlnr him life. He waa desirous of ac quiring brains and started with her to the wliard to set them. The ncarecrow told tils history. They met a tin wood man, who lonired for a heurt. He also joined them. They came upon a terrible lion. The lion confessed hn had no cour ses. He decided to accompany them to the Wizard of Os to get some. CHAPTER VII. Continued. Dorothy thought she would go next; 10 she took Toto in her arms and climbed on the Lion's back, holding tightly to his mane with one hand. The next moment It seemed as If she was flying through the air; and then, before she had time to think about It, she was safe on the other side. The Lion went back a third time and got the Tin Woodman, and then they all sat down for a few moments to give the beast a chance to rest, for his great leaps had made his breath short, and he panted like a big dog that has has been running too long. They found the forest very thick on this side, and It looked dark and gloomy. After the Lion had rested they started along the road of yellow brick, silently wondering, each in his own mind, if ever they would come to too end of the woods and reach the bright sunshlno again. To add to their discomfort, they soon heard strange noises in the depths of the forest, and the Lion whispered to them that it was in this part of the country that the Kalldahs lived. "What are the Kalldahs?" asked the girl. "They are monstrous beasts with todies like bears and heads like titers," replied the Lion; "and with claws so long and sharp that they could tear me In two as easily as I could kill Toto. I'm terribly afraid of the Kalldahs." "I'm not surprised that you are," re turned Dorothy. "They must be dread ful beasts." The Lion was about to reply when suddenly they came to another gulf across the road; but this one was so broad and deep that the Lion knew at once he could not leap across It 80 they sat down to consider what they should do, and after serious thought the Scarecrow said: "Here is a great tree, standing close to the ditch. If the Tin Woodman can chop it down, so that It will fall to the other side, we can walk across It easily." "That is a first rate idea," said the Lion. "One would almost suspect you had brains in your head, instead of straw." The Woodman set to work at once, and so sharp was his ax that tho tree was soon chopped nearly through. Cowardly Lion, beginning to tremble. "Quick!" cried the Scan-crow, "lot us cross over." So Dorothy went first, holding Toto In her arms; the Tin Woodman fol lowed, and the Scarecrow enme next. Tho Lion, although he was certainly afraid, turned to face the Kalldahs, and then ho gave so loud and terrible a roar that Dorothy screamed and the Scarecrow fell over backwards, while even the fierce beasts stopped short and looked at him in surprise. Dut, seeing they were bigger than tho Lion, and remembering that there were two of them and only one of him, the Kalldahs again rushed for ward, and the Lion crossed over the tree and turned to see what they would do next. Without stopping an Instant tho fierce beasts also began to cross the tree, and the Lion said to Dorothy: "We are lost, for they will surely tear us to pieces with their sharp claws. Hut stand close behind me, and I will fight them as long as I am alive." "Walt a minute!" called the Scare crow. He had been thinking what was bent to bo done, and now ho asked tho Woodman to chop away the end of the tree that rested on their side of the ditch. The Tin Woodman began to use his ax at once, and, just as the two Kalldahs were nearly across, tho tree full with a crash into tho gulf, earn ing the ugly, snarling brutes with it, and both were dashed to pieces on the sharp rocks at tho bottom. "Well," said the Cowardly Lion, drawing a long breath of relief, "I see we are going to live a little while longer, and I am glad of It, for It must be a very uncomfortable thing not to bo alive. Those creatures frightened me so badly that my heart Is beating yet." "Ah," said tho Tin Woodman, sad Iy, "I wish I had a heart to beat." This adventure mado the travelers more anxious than ever to get out of the forest, and they walked so fast that Dorothy became tired, and had to rldo on the Lion's back. To their great joy the trees became thinner the further they advanced, and In the afternoon they suddenly came upon a broad river, flowing swiftly Just be fore them. On the other side of the water they could see the road of yel low brick running through a beautiful country, with green meadows dotted with bright flowers and all the road bordered with trees hanging full of delicious fruits. pleased to see this delightful country before them. "How shall we cross the river?" asked Dorothy. "That is easily done," replied the Scarecrow. "The Tin Woodman must build us a raft, so we can iloat to the ether side." So the Woodman took his ax and began to chop down small trees to make a raft, and while ho was busy at this the Scarecrow found on the river bnk a treo full of fine fruit This pleased Dorothy, who bad eaten nothing but nuta all day. and she made a hearty meal of tho ripe fruit. But it takes time to make a raft, even when one is as industrious and untiring as the Tin Woodman, and when night came the work was not done. So they found a cozy place under the trees where they slept well until the morning; and Dorothy dreamed of the Emerald City, and of the good Wizard Ox, who would soon send her back to her own home again, they had long poles In their hands to push tho raft through tho water. They got ulong quite well at first, but when they reached tho middle of the river the swift current swept the raft down stream, farther and farther away from the road of yellow brick; and the water grew so deep that the lone uoles would not (ouch the bot tom. "This is bad." said the Tin Wood man, "for If we cannot get to the land we shall be carried Into the coun try of the wicked Witch of the West, and she will enchant us and make us her slaves." "And then I should get no brains," said the Scarecrow. "And I should get no courage," said the Cowardly Lion. "And I should get no heart," said the Tin Woodman. "And I should never get back to Kansas," said Dorothy. "We must certainly get to the Em erald City if we can," the Scarecrow continued, and he pushed so hard on his long polo that it stuck fast in the mud nt tho bottom of tho river, and before ho could pull it out again, or let go, the raft was swept away and tho poor Scarecrow left clinging to the pole in the mlddlo of the river. "Good-by!" ho called after them, and they were very sorry to leave him; Indeed, the Tin Woodman began Easy Going Keep Clear Tracks Behind You By JOHN A. IIOWLAND T cmata Q if &&Mfw Seemed as If She Was Flying Through the Air. CHARVIII The to cry, but fortunately remembered The; ;7reB Ijtat he might rust, and e dried his Of course this was a bad thing for tho Scarecrow. "I am now worse off than when I first met Dorothy," he thought "Then I was Btuck on a pole In a cornfield, where I could make believe scare the crows, at any rate; but surely there is no uso for a Scarecrow stuck on a polo In the middle of a river. I am afraid I shall never havo any brains, after all!" Down the stream the raft floated, and the poor Scarecrow was left far behind. Then the Lion said: "Something must he done to save us. I think I can swim to tho shore and pull the raft after me. if you will only hold fast to the tip of my tail." So he sprang into the water and the Tin Woodman caught fast hold of his tail, when the Lion began to swim with all his might toward the shore. It was hard work, although he was so big; but by and by they were drawn out of the current, and then Dorothy took the Tin Woodman's long pole aid helped push the raft to the land. They were all tired out when they reached the shore at last and stepped off upon the pretty green grass, and they also knew that the stream had carried them a long way past the road of yellow brick that led to . the Em erald City . "What shall we do now?" asked the Tin Woodman, as the Lion lay down on tho gTass to let the sun dry him. "We must get back to the road, in some way," said Dorothy. "The best plan will he to walk along tho river bank until we come to the road again," remarked the Lion. So, when they were rested, Doro thy picked up her basket and they started along the grassy bank, back to tho rond from which the river had carried them. It was a lovely coun try, with plenty of flowers and fruit HERE is a tyjo of mnn, old and young, who temperamentally is of the "easy-going" disposition. He may show the chnrac-; teristie through luziness, mentally and physically, or because of an inherent good nature. He may yawn to himself and ask, "0, whnt'8 the use?" or he may, out of his sunny dispo sition and dislike of trouble, shoulder responsibilities and blame Unit are not his and try to preserve his innate good nature in the face of his unjust loads of censure. Rut hew much of this "easy-going disposition" in either type of man is a virtue? How much 'of it, in reality, repre sents a form of cowardice? How much of it in the aggregate of life and living is a bald, flagrant vice? In my observations the only true course for the man of honest work and purpose is to keep clear tracks behind him. Walking in the open, ho can have no cause for devious, tangled footprints marking his progress. There is no selfish reason within him prompting him to threaten against "snitching." Why should he enter into the offensive and defensive alli ance out of which these false ethics, -discounting truth, have sprung? To do so is to compromise with all that wars upon the right. As a man may be better for concession to the weakling, calling for his sympathy, so he is the worse for compounding with the dishonest one who would shoulder shortcomings anywhere that they might be unloaded safely to himself That individual, or that opinion to which the shirking one would put up the false front of virtue at the expense of another, must Ihj an individual or an. opinion vested with a certain right of inquiry. "Why did you do this?" This is the question which the dishonest one would shift to another for answer. To the one who assumes the obligation of f 11 . 1- jl it.. t .1 I an answer, uirecuy or muireeuy, me cnarge 01 iaise posturing must apply. And of greater significance is the fact that with this false assump tion of false obligations dn the part of another, the disposition of the dis honest one is to presume more upon lus victim s weakness. 1 he consci entious, easy-going one becomes the tool of the design ing man. "That was not Jones' fault," volunteered the honest Smith in the face of inquiry; "the blame of it rests on me." Shall one wonder that both Smith and Jones are the better for the situation which calls for such a speech ? Or that Jones and Smith mutually would be tho worse if out of such a situation Smith had retained a coward silence? "Anything really serious with eye, Doc?' "No, no simply a plst-sty." About Pulse in Human Being By WELLS ANDREWS, M. D. THE DIAGNOSIS 1-:e -iw jaSkjy my Feeding Farm Hands. Every farmer's wife knows what tre mendous appetites farm hands usually have; but while they eat well they work well, too. Here's a good suggestion about feed ing farm hands. Give them plenty of Quaker Oats. A bte dish of Quaker Oats porridge with sugar and cream or milk is the greatest break fast in the world for a man who needs vigor and strength for a long day's work. Tho man that eats Quaker Oats plentifully and often is the man who does good work without excessive fa tigue. There is a sustaining quality in Quaker Oats not found in other foods, nnd for economy it is at the head of the list. Besides the reeular size packages Quaker Oats is packed in large size family packages, with nnd without china. 5 And He Suffered. Little Willie, suffering from an at tack of toothache, had paid his first visit to the dentist, accompanied by his mother. Father, on his return from the otllce that evening, was nat urally much Interested. "Didn't It hurt?" asked father. "Sure, it hurt," replied Willie. "Weren't you scared when the dent ist put you In that big chair and started all those zizz-zlzz-zizz things?'' "Oh, not so much." "That was a brave boy. Dut, surely, you suffered?" "Of course I suffered. But 1 Just kept repenting over and over the golden text we had in Sunday school last Sunday." "The golden text? What was It?" "Why, 'Suffer little children to come unto me,'" replied Willie, glibly. "I kept saying that over and over to my self, and the first thing I knew it didn't hurt any more." Our little party of travelers awak ened the next morning refreshed and full of hope, and Dorothy breakfasted off peaches and plums from the trees besldo the river. Behind them was the dark forest they had passed safely through, although they had suffered many discouragements; but before them was a lovely, sunny country that Beemed to beckon them on to the Em erald City. To be sure, the broad river now cut them off from this beautiful land; but tho raft was nearly done, and aft er tho Tin Woodman had cut a few more logs and fastened them together with wooden pins, they were ready to start. Dorothy sat down in the middle of the raft and held Toto in her arms. When the Cowardly Lion, stepped upon the raft It tipped badly, for he was big and heavy; but the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman stood upon the other end to steady it, and Each contraction of the heart, by throw ing the contents of the left portion of the heart into the large artery called the aorta causes a sudden change in the fullness 0 the systemic arteries, which is manifested by dilation of these vessels. When th finger is placed upon an artery, such as th radial at the wrist, slight compression by the finger enables us to detect an increased hardness in the vessel at each heart con traction. It is this increase 0 hardness which constitutes the pulse. The amount of pressure required to flatten the artery completely indicates in a rough-and-ready way its fulness and is best estimated by compressing the vessel wiUi Uie index finger, while the middle and ring fingers, placed farther from the heart, check off the pressure required to stop the blood flow. The frequency of the pulse depends on the rate of the heart's contrac tions. This rate varies with age, position, sex and a number of physical influences. In the newly born infant the heart and pulse beat from 130 to 110 times a minute. The rate gradually falls, and after the sixth year it is usually below 100, nnd a further decrease of 30 beats a minute gradu ally occurs before the rate of manhood, TO to 10, is reached. When one ps standing on his feet the pulse lcat9 about 10 a minute in the male and seven in the female oftener than when one is sitting, and gome five more over the rate of the recumbent position. movement and exertion of all kinds quicken the pulse and mental emotion or excitement in nervous persons runs up the rate very high. A hearty meal increases the fullness nnd frequency of the pulse, and so does Poker Finance. MOse Coonley (a winner) Guess I'll cash In, boys. Abe Mokeby (also to the good) Guess I'll do dc same. Jefferson Yallerby Me too! Hill Dingy (the banker, a big loser) Well, I guess yo each done got an uddeh guess a-comln. gen'lemen! Ownin' to dls heah attempted an' uncalled-fa" run on de bank, do Instertoo tion am now suspended an' won't re sume oppyrations till de panicky feel In' hnb fully subsided an' de foolish depositahs continues doin' business as folimahly. And It's youah deal, Mose Coonley!" Illustrated Sunday Magazine. On a Time Limitation. In spite of the reputation for latltu- dinarianlsm he gained from his early trial for heresy, the late Prof. Jowett of Oxford was Intolerant of preten tiousness and shallow conceit. One self-satisfied undergraduate met the master one day. "Master," he said, "I have searched everywhere In all phil osophies, ancient and modern, and no where do I find the evidence of a God." "Mr. ," replied the master. after a shorter pause than usual, "if ou don't find a God by five o clock this afternoon you must leave tins college." A Work of Supererogation. Henry dislikes being bathed and argues witn nis momer over every square iuch of bis four-year-old anatomy. One night, when bis patience was especially tried by what he consid ered wholly unnecessary work, he exclaimed: 'Oh, mamma, couldn't you skip my stomach? Nobody ever sees my stom ach!" Judge's Library. the use of stimulants in health, though in acute diseases the reduction Irees and sunshine to cheer them, and 0f fhc pulse rate is often the test of their beneficial action. The pulse ia less frequent during the night audi during rises in frequency during the early hours of the day. had they not felt so sorry for the poor Scarecrow they could have been very happy. , They walked along as fast ns they could, Dorothy only stopping once to pick a beautiful flower; and after a llnio the Tin Woodman cried out: "Look!" Then they all looked at the river and saw the Scarecrow perched upon his pole in the middle of the water, looking very lonely nnd sad. (TO BK CONTINUKD.) sleep. It Employing Hands and Brain The Kalldahs. Then the Lion put his strong front Edgar Allan Poe's Humorous Idea for Saving of Time in Liter ary Labor. Many traditions and stories of Ed gar Allan Poe are still current at the University of Virginia, at Charlottes ville, where he was a student, says James Bernard Lyon In the Home Magatlne. Poe was very proud of his penman- legs against the tree and pushed with ship. One day, so the Btory goes, a all his might, and slowly the big tree friend entered the room to find Poe tipped and fell with a crash across the writing ousuy wnn oum dmui. ditch, with Its top branches on the "What are you doing?" asked the other side. friend. They had Just started to croiis this "Writing with both hands," said queer bridge when a sharp growl made Poe. them look up, and to their horror they "Both hands!" exclaimed the friend, saw running toward them two great "But how on earth can you make any beasts with bodies like bears nnd progress In that way?" nwn timers. enough. It Is a theory of "They are the Kalldahs!" said the mine that it is a waste of time not to he able to use both hands at the same time. Both hands and brain can be trained, with care and attention, so that each hnnd may do Its full share of work each hand being employed on a separate task. It Is not really an affair of the hands at alt, In the last analysis, but an affair of the Intellect I am training my bands and brain now so that I can do twice as much work A young girl, writing to me for advice, nxks how Into she may with propriety stay out in the evening when accompanied by a male escort. I am afraid she will think me over-strict wlien I say that I think a young girl who has simply gone for a walk or a trolley ride with a young man should lc in her homo before half past ten. .Of course I realize that if she is attend ing a little party or has gone to the thea ter, to return at Uie hour 1 mention would be impossible. Rut in all cases a gir should be able to reach her own home by After-tbr-theater suppers are bud for the health and Ilie night res taurants were never made for modest, sweet young girls. If the girl's Late Hours for Youn Girls By ELIZABETH HcCULLEM a thn nrdlnarv nnmnn In a. stven period of time. At the present mo- mother or father plans to wait up for the return from the thenter, why ment I am writing a poem with my . mn.c a ju(e ()f BaI1(iwiehes and have a pitcher of milk or lemonnd 1 iv win at art ia ih wnrht Ami wiiii rendv for a little midnight fea,t at home ? With the chupcronagc of a my left hand I am blocking out a won ready for a pirl's mother or father it Mould be quite proper for her escort to join - i.lW P ... . oeriui Biury; u morjr ui;u auuuiu i-ajr , . -, for jf or , Invc-quai'UTS Ol all llOlir. tniwi thmiaanila of ronrlnra UUn vmmir men are cn U1L' unoil a vomitf 21" in lier Home ill Ilie evening they should leave before half past, ten. The rule should he d tinetly understood nud a girl should not hesitate to remind delicately ui; young man who is transgressing it "It will only be a short time before I will be able to take my examinations in this manner and dispose of two subjects simultaneously. It will save time and will give bands aud brain their full duty." CHILDREN SHOWED IT Effect of Their Warm Drink In . the Morning. A year ago I was a wreck from coffee drinking and was on the point, of giving up my position in the school room because of nervousness. 'I was telling a friend about it and she said, 'We drink nothing at meal time but Postum, and it is such a comfort to have something we can enjoy drinking with the children.' "I was astonished that she would allow 1 he children to drink any kind of coffee, but she said Postum was the most healthful drink in the world for children as well as for older ones, and that the condition of both the children and adults showed that to be a fact "My first trial was a failure. The cook boiled it four or five minutes and it tasted so flat that I was in despair but determined to give it one mor trial. This time we followed the direc tions and boiled It fifteen minutes aft er the boiling began. It was a decided success and 1 was completely won by its rich delicious flavour. In a short time I noticed a decided Improvement. Jn my condition and kept growing bet ter month after month, until now I am porfectly healthy, and do my work in the school room with ease and pleas ure. I would not return to the nerve destroying regular coffee for any money." Head the famous little "Health Clas sic," "The Rood to Wellvllle." in pkgs. "There's a KeSson." Kvrr wml ihr uhnr Irltcrf A nrw onr nniirnrM from time to time, 'liny nrr m-niiinr, irur, and full of human Inure!.