MY FAVORITE STORIES

By Jach Dionne

Age not Euaranteed-Some I'have told for 2O yerrs-Some less

Fatherliness

The crowd gathered on the ocean shore watched with tense interest the fight the mighty lifeguard was making to drag the little boy out of the rip-tide that was beating out his young life.

Inch by inch and foot by foot that magnificent swimmer made his wise fight, dragging the boy slowly toward the edge of the "rip" tornrards safety. And a great shout of joy went up from the hundreds who were then gathered, as they saw the guard with the boy in his arms at least find calm vvater, and touch bottom. Then they rushed to bring them in.

The victim of the tide, alive but very much exhausted,

Carl Hornibrook Returns From East

C. W. Hornibrook, sales manager of the Ewauna Box Co., Klamath Falls, Ore., recently returned from an extended business trip to the Eastern states.

was placed upon the sand to rest, and the crowd was loud in its protest of admiration for the gallant lifeguard.

Just therf the old Scotchman, the boy's fathen, to-whom word had come, elbowed his way through the,crowd, until he reached his son's side. A pat on the back of the Uttle one, and the old Scotchman turned to the lifeguard, placed both hands in comradeship upon the youth's strong shoulders, and with a tear in his voice, asked:

"Are you the,mon that saved me Sandy?"

The lifeguard nodded.

"Then where's his cap?" asked the Scotchman.

S. P. ROSS VISITS SAN FRANCISCO

S. P. Ross, of the Central Lumber Co., Hanford, recently spent a few days in San Francisco. IIe was ac-companied by Mrs. Hanford.