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Frlday, Nov. 22, 1940 SOUTHERN OREGON MINER PICK BREEDING HENS WITH CARI« BIN AMt S WIU.IW, e* ■ <u. V i c « Bq B ln A mes W illiams SYNOPSIS George McAusland was 38 years old when he sailed from America to under take his post as a missionary in the Fiji Islands A crime he had committed in a tit of excitement had shattered all his confidence tn himself. He felt forced to avoid pretty Marv Doncaster, who board ed the ship at Honolulu. She was en route to visit her parents, who were missionaries on Gilead Island. Mary was attracted by George's attempts to avoid her. One day George accidentally fell overboard Mary unhesitatingly dove into the sea to rescue George. George is falling tr love with her. When the boat approached her home on Gilead Island, they learned that Mary's parents had both died George volunteered to take charge of the mission. Faced with the necessity of losing Mary if he left her now. George forced himself to ask her to be his wtfe. Mary accepted his clumsy proposal, and they left the ship to live in her former home on the island. The scanty dress of the natives shocked George at first, but he soon became reconciled to their customs Mary dis covered that Corkran. a sailor friend of George s. had deserted ship to live on the island. He had come there to help George and Mary if they needed him. CHAPTER IV—Continued Mary understood as the days passed that George both looked for ward to the whaler's coming and dreaded it When one day Jarambo came in some excitement to call them to see a distant sail, Mary asked quickly whether it was the Venturer. Jarambo said it was not At dark that night, the schooner was still distant but at dawn she made in toward the roads. Mary saw that George was uneasy at the sight of this invader. They watched together, standing on the rocks above the landing place; and when the schooner approached the an chorage, Jar ambo and the others prepared to launch canoes. But George called them back, “Tell them only Jarambo is to go. Mary,” he directed. "Have Jaram bo tell the people aboard the schoon er not to land here.” Mary urged: "Canoes always go off to any ship that comes in, George, and people come ashore.” We don’t want sailors here on Gilead," he insisted. She knew the message would be a useless one; but she told Jarambo to deliver it. He went off alone and they saw a white man speak to him from the deck of the schooner; and George commented scornfully: "That man's half naked, like a na tive!” Then the white man yonder dropped down into the canoe, and George said in deep resentment: "He's coming. Go to the house, Mary. I'll meet him here, get rid of him.” "Why, don't be silly! I'U stay and welcome him with you.” He said: "No, go to the bouse. If he sees you, he'll want to stay." Mary was. absurdly pleased. She smiled. After a while she beard them com ing near, and a strong young voice, laughing, said: "You're damned mysterious! What have you got here, a gold mine? Man, these are hospitable seas. We make all comers welcome. You ought to learn the custom of the country.” She soon saw a young man in soiled white trousers, barefoot, nak ed to the waist, his skin bronzed by sun, fine golden hair curled tight on his chest, eyes blue as the sky in the brown of his countenance. He wore the radiance of bounding health; and when he saw her he stopped and cried delightedly: "Oh, ho! No wonder you wanted no callers, Parson!" Then he came forward by her hus band's side; and George said grudg ingly: "Mrs. McAusland, this is Mr. Aulgur.” The young man grasped her band. "Fritz Aulgur," he corrected. “Your husband tried to warn me off; but now that I’ve seen you, you're going to have a lot of company here.” CHAPTER V She said uneasily, and watching George: "Won't you come in?" She asked curiously: "Why will there be others coming?" “Pearls!" he told her. His eyes were bold. “Not but what there'd be a rush anyway if they knew you were here, Mrs. McAusland.” She felt George tight with rage beside her. "Pearls!" Fritz repeated, “Black Laurence found shell in the lagoon across the Island, months ago. The typhoon caught him, ripped his masts out; and I picked him off what was left of his schoon er. He had a broken head and died of it; but I pieced together things he said with the prickings on his chart, and figured where he’d been and what he'd found His halfbreed supercargo caught me studying the chart and tried to knife me as we were making into harbor. He missed his try and dove overboard and got away. I tried to pot him in the dark, but no go. He'll be back, with his friends, as soon as he can raise the wind; but I came along for a look-see.” I He stayed an hour, did most of the talking. He had known Mary’s father, had touched here once four or five years ago. "I get around,” he said. “I'm •pt to drop in almost everywhere, give me time.” Mary asked him whether in his travels he had seen the Venturer. He had, three months before. "In Honolulu," he said. “She's been all over the lot, was just about full up.” She had next day a message from Corkran, a question; and when George was asleep in the afternoon she walked toward the beach, sure the sailor would be there to meet her. He was. and he asked: "Now, who was the fine young man who visited you, yesterday?" Mary told him. and he listened with a gravity that disturbed her. "Honey fetches the wasps," he cor.- merited soberly when she finished. "There’ll be more like him along, or maybe worse. How did himself take it? He was red behind the cars. I'm thinking?" “I'm afraid so." "Aye, like a boy looking on at a game he don't know how to play. Himself takes life the hard, tough way." He looked at her with a curi ous gentleness. "I thought he'd know better by now.” She wondered why she found his understanding so full of comfort He was like her own thoughts. "Well, ma'am,” he said, "anytime you need me. I'm here, standing by." She went back to the house sur prisingly strengthened. Mary and George almost forgot Aulgur during the days that fol lowed. Something more imminent and dreadful rose like a cloud to shadow their lives. George seemed now completely healed of the cold which he had caught when he fell overboard; but within a few weeks after they landed on the island. He held it toward her his palm. there were coughs and colds sneezings all around them. Ieni died, and others too. Mary was deeply distressed; but George professed not to be surprised. “It’s always been the same.” he insisted. "In the Sandwich Islands the natives have been dying off ever since the first ships touched there. There aren't many births, you know, and a lot of babies are strangled as soon as they're bom. Or thrown over the cliffs.” "But they love the children,” she urged jealously. "Almost too much. Not only their own children, but all of them. Don't you notice that chil dren are never punished or disci plined here, George?” "Yes. They should be, too. Some of them need it.” She warned him quickly: "Don’t try it I remember Father saying that they would never forgive that I'm almost sure there've been some massacres and bad trouble where white people struck a child or some thing. They’d never forgive us if we were unkind to the children." He smiled faintly. "I’ve no In tention of doing anything of the sort.” He returned to the point. "But the thing is, these Islanders have been dying off for generations. Plagues have killed them off.” "Nobody was ever sick here when I was little. I remember Father was always proud of it." "They need to learn how to take care of themselves, that's all. We'll have to teach them to build proper houses, to live properly." But the remedy was not so simple as he tnought. After Fritz Aulgur’s first visit, the epidemic suddenly ex tended its attack. George labored over the sick with an ardor that seemed visibly to drag the flesh off his bones. He became thin and gaunt with his own efforts. He was a methodical man. He kept a diary, recording every day’s events. One day he said to her: “Mary, thirty-two people have died since we came, in less than four months’ time.” She saw that he was shaken in his certainties, and his nerves were raw; and she sought to strengthen him in many ways. He began to long for the coming of the Venturer, thought Captain Corr would surely have medicines aboard. They forgot the pearls in the la goon across the Island, forgot Fritz about three weeks after he sailed out of the roads, Fritz returned, and —he stayed two days. Despite George’s protests, he came often ashore. He showed them the pearls he had already found, warm with life as though they had a pulse of their own, so that Mary caught her breath at sight of them; and Fritz saw how she was stirred, and he told her that a pearl needed to be worn to acquire beauty. She liked Fritz. By contrast with her husband's somber garments, the golden brown on this young man's bare chest and shoulders was warm and beautiful. Against her husband’s austere denial of the flesh, this Fritz Aulgur by his frank acceptance of it seemed to shine. She asked curi ously: "How long have you been living so. sailing around alone’ Aren't you lonesome, sometimes?" He chuckled. "Lonesome? Now, it would need a woman to think that, always so sure a man must have some woman forever by him." His eyes clouded, seeming to look past her; and he shook his head. "No. the sea's company, The sea and the wind, Yes, they’re company enough for a man. Too much for some men, maybe, like a heady wine, If you've seen many men in their liquor—and how could you ever. to be sure?—you’ll know what I mean.” George made a resentful sound; but Mary urged, deeply interested: "No. I haven't, of course. So—what do you mean?” Fritz smiled. "Why, only that some men are better drunk than so ber. and some are better sober than drunk. It's the same with the sea. One man will be made by it. and another spoiled. Liquor, and the wrong woman, and a long voyage will each strip the trimmings off a man. I've seen more than one that was fine to look at start off on a long cruise with his head high, and come home . . .” He hesitated, quoted then: " ‘Lean, rent, and beg gar’d by the strumpet wind!' ” And he chuckled and said: “Only the man that wrote that did not mean the wind by itself. It was the sea he meant. A woman— l •ven ___ a bad one—is mild and easy enough till something stirs her up; and when she's roused, it's the woman who's dangerous, not the thing that roused her. It’s the strumpet sea that tears a man and strips him and peels him down till you can see what's in him. The wind no more than rouses up the strumpet sea.” Mary nodded thoughtfully; but George spoke, in angry interruption. "You like the taste of an ugly word. Aulgur, to keep repeating it.” Fritz said amiably: "It's a good word all the same. Parson. It means what it says." Nevertheless he tem pered his remarks thereafter; and I as though be began to be sorry for | George, he treated him from that | hour with gentleness. Only when on the third day, the storm having passed, he was about to depart, George ’woke a moment's flare of anger in him. Aulgur wished to give Mary one of his pearls. “For your hospitality,” he said. "With my thanks! Wear it A pearl needs wearing, to make it completely beautiful.” He held it toward her in his palm; but before she could move. George by her side struck down that open hand with a violent gesture. The pearl did not fall, because Fritz closed his Angers on it; and he looked at George with narrowed eyes. He said through teeth that were white and even and firm: “Don't do that again, my friend. Parson or no parson!” George retorted: "Then don't you insult Mrs. McAusland.” Aulgur laughed briefly and not mirthfully. "Now, you know,” he decided, “it strikes me you’re the one who insulted her.” He met Mary’s eyes and laughed again. “You’ll have to ret used to visitors, Parson,” he predicted in a grim "There’ll be others amusement coming; and some of them—if you can believe it—even blacker villains than I.” When he was gone, when they turned back up the path, Mary asked gravely: “George, need you have done that?” , » He demanded: "Did you want the pearl?” “I could have declined It with some courtesy." "I won’t have such men here!” he cried. "Staring at you, giving you things!” Mary urged wearily: “What use is that, George? The world’s full of men. We can’t always live alonel No one can.” He went ahead of her in silence, not replying. She thought following him up the path: He’s half sick himself, with worry over all the poor sick people here. I must be pa I tient, try to help him. must be kind. Jarambo posted men as George commanded, high on the peaks that walled the island across with a bar rier almost impassable, to watch Aulgur’s schooner in the lagoon and report her movements; and they sent regular news of her, but the news was reassuring. She lay peace fully at anchor in the lagoon, and her boats went off every day, and men were diving. Mary and George paid as the days passed, less and less attention to these monotonous bulletins; for they had a nearer trouble. The Island had become a place of death; death that struck at random, without dis crimination. They forgot Aulgur in fighting a hopeless, weary battle here, going to and fro among the maddeningly submissive Islanders. They were afoot all day, and their nights were broken. George was ex hausted in body, and his spirit too wore thin. (TO BE CONTINUED) CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT Physical Form Important Factor in Selection. HOTEL ASSEMBLY (Arrocioto Poultry Hurhtndnma. Ruff*'* Uanrtiuty.) In selecting breeding hens this fall, consider physical development and breed type as well as egg pro duction during the last 12 months. Otic of the best means of measur ing the physical development is the body weight of the birds, and in the white leghorn breed no individual that weighs less than four pounds should be considered for breeding purposes, while five pounds should be the minimum weight for hens of the heavier breeds, such as Rhode Island Red and Barred Plymouth Rock It is likewise just as important that the eggs the birds have laid have been large enough to sell for the best prices; namely, that they have averaged better than 24 ounces to the dozen, and in addition, have been of good shell color and strong shell texture. These factors of egg quality must receive due considera tion in any selection of birds for breeding purposes. If sufficient breeding records are available, the pedigree of the bird should receive due consideration, care being taken to use hens that have had a good ancestry and whose sisters have shown a tendency to satisfactory egg production. S ha background is an indication of strength in the breeding value of the stock. While it may not be possi ble to obtain many birds that come up to the standards suggested, still u small pen of such individuals would give much more promise of better stock in future years than a larger pen of birds, showing wt*ak- □esses of an inherited nature. Noxious-Weed Seed Destroyed in Silage Put weedy hay crops in the silo in stead of the stack or mow. to stop the spread of weeds. This is the substance of advice to farmers which T. E. Woodward, of the bureau of dairy industry, of fers on the basis of experiments with seeds of noxious weeds buried in ensilage when silos were filled at the Beltsville research center. 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