SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
Page 6
Friday, Nov. 15, 1940
CLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT
Statistics
(Table below shows state by state re­
sults in the election of the President
(electoral vote). Congressional Repre­
sentatives. U S. Senators and the gover­
nors of each state In which these posts
were at stake.)
said "But never any women. Why,
Mary?”
George McAusland was 38 years old
She remembered the explanation
when he sailed from America to under­
from her childhood here. "Women
take his post as a missionary In the Fiji
never go in the canoes,” she said.
Islands A crime he had committed in a
tit of excitement had shattered all his
"Canoes are tabu for them. The
confidence tn himself. He felt forced to
men go over to the grove. I know
avoid pretty Mary Doncaster, who board­
ed the ship at Honolulu. She was en
Father never went over."
State
route to visit her parents, who were
“Would they let me?”
missionaries on Gilead Island
Mary
She agreed to ask Jarambo. He
Ala.
was attracted by George's attempts to
avoid her One day George accidentally
Aria.
was firm in saying no, but reti­
fell overboard. Mary unhesitatingly dove
Ark.
cent in giving reasons. Mary told
into the sea to rescue George George
Calif.
is falling in love with her. When the
George: "I think they're entitled to
Colo.
boat approached her home on Gilead
some privacy, don't you? Just as
Island, they learned that Mary’s parents
Conn.
we value ours?" He agreed not to
had both died George voluntecied to
Del.
take charge of the mission.
force the issue.
Fla.
Georgia
But Mary was more curious than
Idaho
he. Jarambo’s manner had puzzled
CHAPTER III— Continued
Illinois
her. She did not believe the Island­
Indiana
ers had any secret temple conse­
Mary nodded, a secret amusement
Iowa
crated to pagan rites, as George
in her eyes. “So, for our reputa­
Kansas
suspected; and she questioned Ieni.
tions' sake you think we ought to
Ky
What she heard was startling. Ieni
ask John Gale to marry us. and
said a white man with black hair
stay and work together? Is that
Maine
Md
lived across the bay, who had in­
what you want?”
Mass.
sisted that his presence there be
“Yes.”
Mich.
concealed from George and Mary.
“George,” she urged smilingly.
The white man talked very loud and •Minn.
“Why did you decide you wanted to
Miss.
he had a talking bird. The white
stay here? Honestly?"
Mo.
man had come down out of the
Something for a moment rose in
Mont
mountains the day after the Sunset
him. choking him. He came strong­
Neb
sailed, with the bird on his shoul­
ly to his feet; he cried in a sort of
Nevads
der; and he now lived happily in a
fury:
house above the cliff beyond
“Because I won’t leave you here
beach.
with Joseph Neargood!"
Mary recognized Corkran.
She nodded, seemed almost con-
must have swum ashore from
tent, said gently: “Well, that will
Sunset the night before the ship
do for now. I think, George Mc-
sailed, and Captain Keen had known
Ausland.” Her eyes were laughing.
Okla.
the uselessness of trying to capture
Oregon
“It isn’t very much, perhaps! Most
Pa.
the deserter. She was disturbed,
men would say more. But I think
R I.
and angry too. Corkran’s presence,
it's a lot for you to say. I’d lots
S. C.
and the manner of his life as Ieni
rather be married to you than not.
S. D.
described it. would make George un­
Shall I tell you why? It hasn't any­
ITenn.
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happy
thing to do with duty at all.
Texas
But as a result of Ieni's story.
She had come close to him.
Utah
Mary herself sometimes walked
‘ “Or maybe you'd like to tell
Vt
toward the beach alone, thinking she
Va.
why you don’t want to leave
Wash.
might encounter the sailor. So Mary
here with Joseph?” Her eyes were
W. Va.
had persuaded George to sleep for
dancing, teasing him. “Tell me.
a while every afternoon; and some­ IWIs.
George!"
Wyo.
times she left him asleep and went
He took a backward step, like one
abroad among these people who totals 440 82 267 162 22 12 18 IS
escaping; he stammered: "I—don't
were her friends It was on such an
know!”
Additional Concresslonal Rssults.
occasion that she saw the sailor • Minnesota baa one Farmer-Laborita.
Mary Doncaster smiled again, as
again. Mary, emerging from the for­ 1 New York has ona Amerlcan-Laborita.
if at a secret of her own. “Well,
est, saw Corkran on the sands, bare­ 2 Tennessee has one Independent
maybe you’ll find out by and by,”
footed. in white pants and a ragged I Wisconsin has three Progressives.
she decided. She touched his hand.
NOTE: It should be remembered that
shirt, lying with his head in a girl's
"George, if you do find out, promise
only 33 states elected governors and 33
lap. watching the swimmers. Mary
to tell me, will you? It’s a thing a
states elected senators tn this 1940 elec­
was near before he saw her. Then tion.
girl likes to hear."
he came scrambling to his feet in
George and Mary, all their pos-
some dismay and touched his fore­
sessions in trunks and bags and
(Tabulation below gives the
head respectfully.
boxes on the ground about them,
popular vote for the presidential
“Sorry, ma'am,” said Corkran
stood on the ledges above the land­
election as reported by the vari­
and looked past her toward the trail.
ing place to watch the Sunset put
ous
states.)
“Is himself coming?”
to sea.
Roosevelt
Willkie
“No. he's asleep."
But they did not wait to watch her
179.589
27.651
Alabama
. • a
"Don’t be letting him know I’m
out of sight. Willing hands had
41.833
Arizona
. • •
77.212
here,” he urged quickly. “It would Arkansas . * •
borne their gear away up the trail
26.405
102.805
bother
him.
”
past the bathing pool toward Eph­
1.240.231
California
1,730.878
•
•
She nodded. "Yes, it would. Why Colorado . • •
raim Doncaster's bouse; and when
190 873
212.435
417,858
36 1 860
did you desert the ship. Corkran?" Connecticut • •
the ship yonder passed out of the
74.387
63 059
He flushed with embarrassment. Delaware , • •
roadstead George McAusland
"I have my busband, ’ she
338 847
121.033
Florida . . • •
“
Ma
’
am,
when
I
knew
himself
and
sneezed—that cold be had contract­
minded him.
41.482
Georgia . . • •
240.734
you would stay here, says I to my­ Idaho
ed when he fell overboard had lin­
. . •
117.201
90 4M
without
petticoats
or
other
founda
­
gered—and said awkwardly:
self: 'It’s no place tor the likes of Illinois . . • • 2.130. IM
2.036.431
“Well, Mary, we’ll want to settle tion. George said in a low tone: them. They just might be needing Indiana . . • •
884,557
860.472
372.655
622.737
a good fighting man some day.* So Iowa . . . • •
ourselves before dark. Shall we go “Your dress, Mary.”
“My dress?” She did not under­ that night when the mate that was Kansas . ,
348.974
465 599
•
to the house?”
481.550
350.222
watching to see we were good little Kentucky . •
John Gale had married them that stand him.
186.171
20 542
"Button it,” be said.
"And—I boys and stayed where we belonged Louisiana , • •
morning, on the after deck of the
163.928
Maine
. . • •
154.774
think
you
have
forgotten
your
petti
­
Sunset, with canoes in a circle
looked the other way for a minute, I
364.168
Maryland . • •
230.362
under her stem for audience, and coats.”
slid overside like an eel, ma’am; Massachusetts • 1.052.678
916.411
She protested: “I’ve left them off, and into the jungle I went till the
the tailors watching from forward.
1.032.063
1.025.963
Michigan
•
•
Mary noticed that Corkran was not yes. You surely don’t expect . . . ship was gone. I know himself would Minnesota . • •
583.536
622 032
among the men there; and she was George, you must realize how ridic­ not like my being about. You’ll nev­ Mississippi
100.825
4.737
•
•
856.531
946.125
a little hurt by his absence, but ulous you look, and how uncomforta­ er be telling him?”
Missouri ■ . • •
109 130
. 73.379
. • •
she asked no question, lest George ble you will be in that heavy suit.”
‘Td rather he didn't know,” she Montana
256,761
341.863
He said, almost pleadingly: "I’m agreed.
too be distressed.
"But you'd better keep Nebraska . • •
20,946
31,567
a fool of course; but to keep my away from the beach. He comes Nevada . . • •
125,625
109,002
New Hampshire •
head here, I’m going to have to here sometimes.”
CHAPTER IV
047.638
•
1.014.978
New Jersey
hold on to something, Mary. It’s so
“Aye, that I will. It was a care­ New Mexico
•
82.754
105,031
When they came into the house, easy to begin to live as these sav­ less chance I took today." A friendly New York .
3.020.180
3,202.273
ages
do.
to
lie
around
half-dressed,
since Mary had not been ashore be­
impudence was in his tone. I knew North Carolina
182.706
575.072
144,635
fore, she looked around with brim­ idle, useless, unless we hang on to you had been told I was here, I North Dakota
113.909
1.584.855
1.726.020
ming eyes, recognizing familiar ob­ our own ways of doing things.” And sent that word, so you’d know there Ohio . . .
342.672
468.397
jects everywhere. She crossed, soft­ he confessed: “If I were strong was one to call on if you ever need- Oklahoma . •
202.715
229.819
Oregon . . • 9
ly as though she might disturb some­ enough, I could let down my stand­ ed anyone.”
1.864,847
a 2.168.603
one sleeping, to look into her fa­ ards in some ways and still keep
"I have my husband,” she re- Pennsylvania e • «
138.432
181,881
Rhode Island
ther's room; and she called George them in others; but I can’t, Mary.” minded him.
4,193
85,077
South Carolina
He
added,
half
laughing
at
himself:
to her.
“Aye, ma’am, and big and strong South Dakota •
159.370
114.623
“This was Father’s,” she said. ”1 know wearing this suit is foolish, he is inside of him, in his heart and Tennessee . • •
150,531
323,710
"And this is Mother’s room, next to but—I guess it’s a symbol or some­ his bead, ma'am. But sometimes a
162.755
682.173
Texas
. . • •
thing.”
03,006
153,434
his.”
fist saves trouble and argument, and Utah . . . • •
78,335
64.244
She would find always in him this I'm stronger in the fist than him­ Vermont . • •
He saw the two beds close to­
109,682
236.512
Virginia . . • •
gether, the flimsy wall between. humble consciousness of his own self will ever be." He said acutely:
244.05?
340,869
"Where did you sleep?” he asked. weakness behind any outward arro­ "You know, that little man has a Washington • •
360,760
483,566
West Virginia • •
“Over here.” She led him across gance of certainty he might put on. bard time with himself, but there’s
672.343
603.017
Wisconsin . • a
to the other bedroom in the opposite She surrendered, and went to dress stuff in him. He'll surprise us all Wyoming . • •
51.098
58,262
end of the house; and they stood in as he wished her to. From her own one day, and never a bit surprised
room she heard his voice raised will I be!”
the doorway together.
2* 606.691
Total . a a 25.060.408
“I think you’d. better take your angrily, and called a question, and
She smiled, deeply pleased. ”1
(Above figurei art unofficial. Com­
father's room,” he decided. “I’ll he said:
think so too,” she agreed. “I like
piti« and official return» are announced
take this one. Then you can have
“We can’t have the house full of him too.”
I
two rooms to yourself, won't be these people staring at us all the
“We’ll take care of him between following cantali by the varioui Hate
crowded."
time, Mary. I’m trying to send them us, ma’am,” Corkran assured her. boards.)
She said in a soft surprise: “Won't away. And when you come out, “You with him, and me here if Election Sidelights:
you take Father’s, and I’ll be in bring something for Jennie to I'm needed. But don’t tell him I'm
Both presidential candidates car­
Mother’s, close beside you?”
wear.”
here."
ried their own home voting districts.
He shook his head. "No. This
She called to him:
“We’U not see each other again,” Roosevelt received a majority of 74
arrangement will give us each some
"Don't scold so, George.
You she said.
votes to win, 370 to 302; Willkle's
privacy, Mary.”
just frighten them. They’re ready
“Only if you send for me.”
native town gave him a margin of
She smiled faintly, amused and to love you if you give them a
George for some reason found It 438 votes. The count was Willkie,
thinking she understood. "We won't chance. After that, they’ll do any­ hard to learn the Island tongue, so 4,151; Roosevelt, 3,713.
have much privacy, George, at best. thing for you; but you’ll have to he could not yet preach to the Is­
• • •
With no doors, no curtains, no shut­ go easily at first.”
landers. Mary sometimes thought
kept
Post-election
celebration
ters on the windows.” -
Those first weeks after her return he was homesick, because he often
ifter
"We'U arrange something.”
to the Island were for Mary pleas­ talked about his boyhood in Maine; Manhattan firemen busy
Now a girl came in carrying a ant enough. George maintained a and he liked to ask her about her Roosevelt’s victory became appar-
gourd cut into the shape of a bowl, reserve toward her which she wait­ years at school in New Bedford, ent. More than 50 fire alarms were
filled with a yellowish viscous stuff ed for time to break down, but she about her uncle who was mate turned in as a result of street bon­
which she presented smilingly, plac­ had the delight of seeing him happy aboard the whaler, and her cousin, fires set by celebrants.
see
ing it on the table set for meals. The in these scenes she loved. He was young Tommy Hanline.
girl was beautiful. There were two full of questions, intensely Interest­
In order to record the electoral
There were other occasions when
or three faint lines tattooed near ed in every aspect of the Island George asked her questions about vote the 531 presidential electors
her mouth and on her shoulder, and life, going to and fro along the many the Venturer, and about the men will gather on December 16 in their
she wore blossoms in her hair. Mary trails that led to the thatch-roofed aboard her, and especially about various state capitals and send their
told her husband:
houses of poles built on rock plat­ Richard Corr. As though the secret votes to Washington by registered
"This is Ieni, George. Jarambo forms like their own. There were thought in George's mind took shape mail. These letters will actually be
brought her to take care of us.”
houses near theirs, and along the in hers, she sometimes wondered tabulated by Congress on January 6
He looked dubious. "She’s just a shore, and by the beach at the end whether she would have fallen in and President Roosevelt will be
child, isn’t she? Must we have any­ of the bay. The beach ended on love with Richard if she had been sworn in for his third term on Janu­
one? Where’s the kitchen, Mary? the farther side at a low cliff not older, if he had ever wooed her, if ary 20. Members of the electoral
And what do we eat tins with?”
easily to be climbed, which limited they had met again before she mar­ college used to get a trip to Wash­
Mary laughed. "Dip your finger their explorations; but one night ried George. Now of course it would ington but in 1934, congress decided
in it, twist it around, and stick it in George spoke of the fact that there never happen; but she smiled some­ that its duties were too routine and
your mouth,” she directed. "That’s was a considerable traffic of canoes times, remembering the dreams she turned it into a “correspondence
much the easiest wav. It’s too across the bay.
had used to dream when she was a school.”
stringy and sticky for a fork or a
”1 notice men going over to the child and Richard already a man.
spoon.”
other side and landing there,” he
(TO HE CONTINUED)
SYNOPSIS
George nodded, and tried. “I don’t
care for the flavor,” he decided.
“I’d as soon eat gluel” Jarambo and
Ieni stood beaming by. He looked
toward the girl and said, lowering
his voice as though by doing so he
could avoid being understood: “Can
we persuade her into a more civi­
lized costume, Mary? What’s that
she has on?”
"They make the cloth by soaking
some sort of bark—like flax—and
beating it over a log. Tappy, they
call it." She smiled. “But Ieni has
on her prettiest frock, George, in
our honor. Usually she won't be so
dressed up!"
"Haven’t you an old dress you can
give her?”
"She wouldn't wear it”
"Try her and see.”
“I will in the morning," Mary as­
sented.
He took her old room, she her
father’s, with the length of the house
between them.
Mary lay long
awake, drenched in the night sounds
half forgotten that had once been
so familiar. Once she heard George
sneeze, and she called softly:
"AU right, my dear?
Warm
enough?”
"Perfectly!”
In the morning he appeared in the
heavy black suit he had worn on
shipboard. The first shower of the
day pelted on the thatch, thrummed
among the palms, passed to leave a
stifling humid heat behind. Mary
was cool in white; in a dress she
had worn in school which she now
left unbuttoned at the throat, and
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OPPORTUNITY
THE DICTATOR AT HOME
(Continued)
Dictator (getting out of bed I —
Draw me my tub!
Wife—Don't bo funny, You're big
enough to turn faucets.
Dictator—I'm not accustomed to
having my orders disobeyed in that
way.
Wife—Well, that's just too bad
Quiet, please. I want to sleep a
little longer.
Dictator (from the bulhroom) —
Ella, where's my shaving cream?
Wife—How should 1 know where
your shaving creain Is? And don't
yell sol
Dictator—1 put it on Uie second
shelf and it ain't here, I've looked
everywhere.
Wife (getting up and finding It
right on the second shelf)—Right un­
der your nose, yet you couldn't find
it. And you’re the fellow who is
always finding new outlets to the
sea!
a
e
Dictator (dressing)—I think I’ll
wear my blue uniform of an avia­
tion general today.
Wife—That funny getupl
Dictator (hurt)—I don’t think it's
funny.
Wife—Of course not If you did
you wouldn't wear it in all those
news reel pictures. Put on your tan
uniform of a cavalry colonel, That
ain't so hot. either, but it fits.
Dictator—I'm wearing my blue
uniform!
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Wife—Okay. If you want to look
like a monkey, it’s your own busi­
ness.
Dictator—The trouble with you Is
you don't know a good uniform
when you see one. I know style. I
do. I know class, I know distinc-
tion. (But he puts on the tan uni­
form.)
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Wife (at breakfast)—You’ve got
egg on your chin, honeykins.
Dictator—Don’t call me honey­
kins. These eggs arc too soft, any­
how.
Wife—They're four-minute eggs.
Dictator—They couldn’t have been
boiled over three minutes.
Wife—Four minutes!
Dictator—Three minutes!
Wife—Four!
Dictator—Three! And what are
you laughing at?
Wife—I’m laughing at your in­
adequacy in debate. If you can’t
even win an argument over eggs.
how do you get away with all those
arguments over the destiny of na­
tions?
Dictator—Enough of this! I’m go­
ing down to the office where I can
find some respect.
Wife—On your way home tonight,
stop at the butcher's and bring me
some liver for the caL
Dictator—I don't know that 1 will
be coming that way.
Wife—You heard me. Liver for
the cat
Dictator—Oh. ail right. But, lis-
sen. have dinner early. I’ve got a
big conference on about affairs In
the Mediterranean.
Wife— Not tonight. We’ve a dinner
and bridge engagement at the Spur­
geons.
Dictator—You’ll have to call it off.
Wife—That's what you think. We
made this date a month ago and
we can't break it. Now run along
like a nice boy.
Dictator (hopelessly)—Gee, Ella,
can’t I ever have my own way in
anything?
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CAN YOU BEAT IT?
The ultimate in dog love is report­
ed by a woman who was trying to
get another woman on the telephone
the other day. The wire seemed
constantly busy. A protest to the
complaint operator brought the In­
formation that the phone was evi­
dently out of order. The woman
making the call finally motored over
to her friend’s house and told about
the trouble.
"Oh, yes.” replied her friend,
“I’ve had the receiver off the hook
for the last hour so Fido can get her
nap. She's awfully nervous lately.”
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OLD TIMERS
“Charley’s Aunt,”
a comedy
Which made grandpaw and grand­
maw laugh their heads off, has been
revived on Broadway. We look for
"Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” "Ben Hur,”
"Thru the Breakers,” “The Great
Train Robbery,” "Bertha the Beau­
tiful Sewing Machine Girl” and the
Byrnes Brothers in "Eight Bells”
any day now.
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