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Thursday, Dccctnlær 13, 1934 TIMES, WILLAMINA, OREGON Page 4 I ------------IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL EBONY WATERS By A N N A McCLURE SHOLL — =========s— O op yrlfh t by W. O. C-hapmaa CHAPTER IX—Continued "Too talk aa If the establishment down there wouldn't set anybody spy ing." The psychologist In him was up permost now, obliterating even his sense of danger In the effort to track down the curious states of mind of Gordon Haskell and his confederate “And when 1 find an old Christmas tree In Its stand carefully preserved be hind a locked door, I know that fear Is back of Its being there. You were afraid to burn It I Somebody might be looking on, and you were afraid they would see In your face that this tree is *a horrible tree—a tree of death.’ Oh, a murderer Is always see lug trifles as huge signposts. The uni verse Is one great eye. and the eye is on him. Ton bring It down with its flag on—because you don't dare not to notice It when Jerry Is with you. If you're careless toward that tree— If you leave It up here. Its very look will tell some passer-by there's something wrong with It." Balder grunted. “Ton know a lot— you do!" “Tea— 1 know that undiscovered murderers can poison the very air about them. The Infection of small pox would be light In comparison. Peo ple weren't afraid of those figures. They were afraid of what they stood for— horror and a strange, hidden kill ing, and a wrecking of all the joy and Innocence of life." “Ta-ah I Tou’ve talked too much! Ton’ll never talk again!" He rose slowly; then, with a spring like a Jun gle beast, be leaped for his prey. W il ton bad already calculated that be had but one chance for life— to face bis foe. never taking his eyes from him. and, when he sprang, to dodge him with the hundredth chance of him self burling Balder into the whirlpool. As the huge creature lumped. Wilton dodged. Balder had over-calculated the width of the ledge and landed on Its extreme Ice-covered edges He slipped, and for a fraction of time per formed a strange, wild plroutte. his long arms like the huge wings of a sawmill In motion. Then, with a shriek that echoed and re-echoed between the black walls of the gorge, be plunged into the w h irl His great body was swung around and around like a cork for a moment, then disappeared Shouts at the same moment reverber ated above the roar of the fa IL “W ilto n ! W ilto n !" Wilton had suddenly sunk down on the rock, feeling faint, not really sure that Balder had been gulped down the black. Icy throat of the whirL He turned his head and saw Arthur and Jerry hurrying up. “Thank God, we’re not too late.” “Too late!" he pointed to the whirl. “He's gone— there’s no getting him out of there now!” “Ton don’t want him out, do you?" “He sprang at me— he meant—to throw me In.” “That’s plain enough. We saw It a lii We came up like mad—nearly fell In ourselves once." “How on earth did you track me up here?" “Tou dropped this," he held out the note. “1 missed you by five minutes. This bit of paper was lying oear the gate. Looked to me like Berenice's handwriting—and I couldn’t help but read IL I went In and asked Jerry If you had gone to the whirl, because it seemed strange to me I Berenice Is sick in bed with a cold." “ T h e whirl !’ I says," broke In Jerry. “ ‘No man in his senses would go up that ravine In dead of winter— It's known to be dangerous.’ ” " ’A man In love might,’ I told Jerry, but as It happens Miss Bracebridge couldn't keep this appointment. If It's a gennine one." “I knowed it wasn't when I read the bit of paper. It had a queer, fishy look to me. I says to your friend. Miss Berenice never wrote this note.’ " “Who did, then?” Wilton broke In. T asked that same question," said Arthur. “Jerry wanted to know If | had seen Balder anywhere, and then we both agreed th a t whoever wrote the note, only Balder could keep an ap pointment at the w h irl Haskell has never been up the ravine since the Bracebridge children were drowned there, Jerry tells me. We decided at once to come to the mouth of the gorge and look for footprints. We both felt that If Balder had decoyed you up there with a fake note. It was for nothing short of murder. We found the prints at once— Balder’s huge foot steps, and the smaller ones we knew were yours. Then we hurried like mad." W N U Servio» Plunged S I P A T T E R N BIOS CHOOL Lesson (B y REV P. H FtTRW ATttK . U U.. Mombor at F a eu liy . Muady Hlbla Inatltuta o f C hicaeo ) • . Waal era Naarapapar V n la n Lesson for December 16 THE CHRISTIAN ANO THE LORO’S SUPPER Wilton grasped their hands. “God bless you 1 I made him know I knew —that he bad killed the Bracebridge children!" Hia two companions gasped. “There's his weapon! He never denied the charge. There's his weapon!" He pointed to the tree. Jerry and Arthur gazed In horror at 1L “I always knew somethin' was wrong.” Jerry muttered. “He struck me first with the base— against the shoulder; but I slipped on the Ice and the blow glanced off. Vou csd picture him when all the ‘ foliage was on these trees, darting out against those Innocents with all his great strength to shove them over! W ell—he has paid. The man— back of Balder— hasn't paid." Jerry took a step toward Arthur. He UNDAY Into the W h irl. Hla kindly face was stern and solemn “Is his name— Gordon Haskell?" “Who else— unless Balder lied? He told me." “Come straight back to the farm," Jerry commanded, cutting him short 'W e’ve got to talk. And we can’t talk against this falL No use lookin' there,” ne added as Wilton glanced fearfully down at the w h irl “They never come up under twelve or eight een hours— he can swing around and around until moreln*. I'm the sheriff of this lonesome county, and the cor oner of this neglected township, and I’ll take down yonr deposition by a hot fire. . . . Balder," he added sol emnly, “Tou Jumped too far and too fast" If was twilight when they reached the farm. Jerry made some steaming coffee, and over a red-hot stove, W il ton told the whole story from his first suspicions of Haskell to the conversa tlon with Balder above the w h irl “Now," he concluded, “la there the alightest chaoce of bringing thia man to justice?" Jerry, rocking In hla chair, the big gray cat on his lap, pondered the quea tlon. “No, there ain’t!" he answered at last. “Not the ghost of a shadow First place, be'a probably—Just what Balder says— an evader. He waa an gry with those children; he wanted power, money.” “Great Caesar I" Wilton ejaculated suddenly. "Arthur, do you remember what 1 told you about the diary; and the sums of money stolen—and Doctor Bracebridge suspecting Balder?" “Why, yea— “ "Suppose it waa not Balder after all —Haskell waa the doctor’s secretory, had constant access to the desk In the library, where money had to be kept for the servants' pay and other ex penses." “What’s thia— what's (hla about a diary?" Jerry asked. Wilton related what Berenice hud requested him to do, and of hla rend ing of her father's JournaL "And the thief was never found." he added. Jerry was looking from one to the other In astonishment “Things come rlsln' up In my memory—things I'd clean forgot; I heard about them rob berles at the time. I remember now— an Incident Just before the accident— murder, we’ll call I t ” “And what was this Incident?" Ar thur asked. “I was down with a load of apples to the academy. Little Norman was In the kitchen, and I remember sayin' to him, ‘Caught the thief yet?* He an swered up right bright and smart. ’1 caught him red-handed thia mornln’ We’ll have fun with him now. We're goln' to keep him on the rack a bit. before we te ll!' Then he laughed and ran off. I aaya to the servant, ’Is It true Norman’s caught the thief?* She laughed and said she guessed Norman was strlngln' one. Haskell waa passln' the kitchen entrance, and I says to him Norman says he caught the thief red-handed.’ I remember be gave me an awful stare. 'He'e a little liar.’ he aaya, his face queer and white. The girl she looked after him and laughed ’He hates 'em. He'd like to kill 'em ail four of 'em !’ ” A profound silence followed this reminiscence— then Wilton spoke. "Do you think he— did this awful crime be cause he was afraid, saw bis finish when Norman found him—if he did find him— with his hand on the money till? Even so. the child might have been very much mistaken as to the meaning of the Incident Doctor Brace bridge probably sent Haskel) as his secretary many times to unlock the money drawer In the desk. We can’t say certainly that Haskell was the thief and had four children killed to protect himself." “No more than we can prove," Ar thur Interposed, “that Balder com mitted the murder at the Instigation of Haskell—and not for hla own ter rible satisfaction." TO B E CONTINUED. Postmaster General in South Africa Tells Why He Hates Stamp Collectors Stamp collectors were set forth as a queer lot by H. J. Lenton, postmas ter general for the Union of South A f rica, In a recent speech before a South African philatelic society,” writes a correspondent In the Detroit News. “They’appear,” he said, to be always examining under a microscope every little bit of colored and gummed |>aper that we turn out “It Is as If they were turning It ovet and over, tasting the gum on it trying whether the colors will wash out counting the little Indentations around the edge, and doing a lot of other things In order to find out whether they had got their money’s worth. “Sometimes they find, 1 am given to understand, owing to the strange con ventlons among them, that they have got more than their money’8 worth. “From our point of view they can never have less because so tong as the stamp Is purchased from the post office It will always do the Job It undertakes to do. But, of course, It must be tak en care of and not Incapacitated by injury. “To us In the post office, a stamp 1» a stamp, nothing more, nothing less. The fact that In a sheet of 2-M) little green pictures of springboks, one of the springboks has got a hair on his ear which the others have not, means nothing to us. It Is because people sometimes come to me and suggest that I have put that hair there on pur- pose, or at any rate refrained from having It cut off. Just so as to excite the collectors of these things, that I dislike stamp collectors so." Gallfly Helps ia Ink Making The gallfly, an Insect which Infests oak trees, has a distinct advantage for mankind, for it brings about the for matlon of so-called oak apples or nut galls, as they are sometimes called, which are used In making ink and tannin. The insect pierces the leaves and stems of oak. leaves an egg and n poisonous fluid Around the wound In the plant, the oak-apple grows rapidly until It atialns a size comparable to an apple. The egg does not hatch tin til It Is full size. Having hatched, the Insects remains within the apple until maturity, gradually eating Its way to the open air, where It emerges as a full-fledged gall-fly Itself.— Washing ton Star. Has Seven Lives Left Motspur Park, England, boasts a cat which has only seven lives. It lost one by touching the live rnl) while trying to cross an electric railway track. The shock hurled her, half-paralyzed and one life gone, to an embankment sev era) feet away. Two Alsatian dogs seized her and began a tug of war. leaving only seven lives. A man res cued her, and she was taken, appar ently dying, to a cat hospItaL LE88O N TEXT—I PRETTY SLUMBER- WOOING PAJAMAS C o rin th ia n s It: II-J4. G O L D E N T E X T — F u r as o fte n as re sat th is bread, and d rin k th is cup. ya do shaw tha Ix ird 'a d ea th t i l l ha ooms. — I C o rin th ia n s t l . I C . P R IM A R Y T O P IC — T h a S u pper Jaaua Gave H la F rie n d s . J U N IO R T O P IC — H o w th a L o rd ’a S upper Hegan I N T E R M E D I A T E A N D S E N IO R T O P 1C— W h y O bserve the L ord's S u p p o rt YOUNO P E O P L E A N D A D U L T T O P IC — R e a lis in g C h ris t's Preaence in the Supper, By the Lord’s Sapper here la meant the bread and the wine used aa em blems of the broken body and shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ Rome Christians think of the Lord's Supper as a meal of fellowship eaten before the Institution of the bread and the cup. To them It means the agape or love-feast which was practiced In the early church. Such would prefer to call this the Communion Instead of the Ixtrd's Supper. With thia understand ing, we can enter Into the real under standing ami blessing of the ordinance. 1. The Institution of tv. 23). t. The time. It was on the night of the betrayal of the lewd Jesus, after the betrayer had been announced. 2. Circumstances of (M u tt 20:211). It was In connection with the eating of the Passover. At the command of Jesus the disciples made ready the Passover, and while they were eating Jesus took bread, blessed It. and gave It to them. 3. The elemculs used. Bread — doubtless common bread of the Pass- over feast The Cup— the fruit of the vine. II. The Significance of (vv. 24 28 Cf. M a tt 28:28-28). Jesus took natural and literal ele ment! and made them to be symbols of bis own body and blood. L It Is a memorial of the lx»rd (Lk. 22:19). When Jeans Christ left the world, he left the bread and the cup for the disciples, by which to remember him. 2. To show the Ixird’a sacrificial death (v. 20). He did not die as a hero, or as so example of unselfish de votion, but as a substitutionary ran som on the cross he made satisfaction for our sins. 3. It Is a guaranty that our sins are forgiven (Hom. 4:25). “It was the sig net of the Son of God attached to re demption.” 4. It symbollxea the believer's recep tion of Christ (1 Cor. 10:10). He there by participates In the body and bloml of Christ becoming a member of his body. ft. It has a forward look to a com pleted redemption (v. 20). When faith in Christ Is exercised, redemption be gins, and Its completion will take place at the coming of Christ (I These. 4:10. 17). The bread and the cup constitute the keepsake of the Lord until he re turns. III. Qualifications for Participation In tha Lord’a Suppar (vv. 27-29). L A proper apprehension of Its meaning (v. 27). Eating and drinking unworthily primarily refers not to the demerit of the communicant but to his failure to grasp the meaning and Im portance of the ordinance. Only re generated persons can discern tbe Ixtrd’a body. Faltb In tbe Integrity of Christ’s person and work Is essentlaL Anyone who does not believe In the absolute deity of Christ and his vlcart ous atonement Is an unworthy commu nicant 2. Church membership (1 Cor. 11:13. 22). The Ixird'a body Is the church, which la composed of regenerated men and women united to Jesus Christ as head, and to each other as members of that body, by the Holy S p irit 3. An orderly wnlk. Conduct which disqualifies for participation In the Lord's supper: a. Immorality (1 Cor. 5:1-13). It la most perilous for one who Is guilty of Immorality to approach the Ixird’s ta ble (v. 30). Sickness and death are often visited upon such. b. Heresy (Titus 3:10; I John 4:2. 3). This means that one who holds false doctrine Is disqualified for par tlclpatlon in the communion. c. A Schismatic (Rom. 10:17). The one who stirs up party strife, who causes divisions In the church, should he excluded from the Lord’s table. IV. Penalty for Failure to Olacern the Lord’s Body (vv. 30-34). Approaching the Ixird's table un worthily Issues In the visitation of sick ness and death upon the Individual This seems to be plainly the meaning of “weak and sickly among you, and many sleep." This explains the Illness of many Christiana. The way to es cape the Judgment la to Judge our selves. Jean simply loathes to cover up her gorgeous new pajamas with »beets and blankets, and to ahe lingers up with Teddy until tbe last moment But It won't ba long now—look at those ayeal Beautiful as they are, her night things are even more coxy and comfortable, and no child living could possibly keep her eyes open very long when wearing them. They are neat but roomy, with sleeves Just wide enough, there’s a pocket for a hanky and a smart loose cut of trous er—and please don’t overlook tha convenient way In which they button up In the back. Pattern 9108 may be ordered only In sixes 4. 8. R. 10 and 12. Size 4 in quires 2)fc yard« SB-Inch fabric Send F IF T E E N CENTS In coins ot stamps (coins preferred) for thia pat < 4 > 9I0Ö tern. Be eure to write plainly your NAME. ADDRESS, the STY LE N U M BER and SIZE. Complete, diagrammed sew chart Included. Send your order to Sewing Circle Pattern Department, 232 V est Eight eenth street. New York, N. Y. C R ITIC ISM “What do you think of the critic« of your plan?” " I resent them,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Haven’t they any good Ideas?" "Oh, yea. I may utilise some ot them. Nevertheless, I don’t propose to encourage the nerve they show ta expressing them.” Can’t Cat Away With It “But, my dear,” bleated the poor little hen-pecked husband, “you’ve been talking for half an hour, and I haven’t said a word." “No," snapped hla wife, “you haven't said anything, but you’re been listening In a most aggravating manner, and I'm not going ta stand for It."— Border Cities 8tar. ♦ 50—34 W NU— IS CUM Ihe Flavor ÌL a s ts JS. z \ „»A. ~ Í »
