Friday, March 7, 1941
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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Bq B en A mu W illiams
BEN AMI 3 WILLIAMS
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Objecting
The sounds over his head kept | He pushed her aside, and she was
draw in to just the slimness you
Mother Baby's crying because
George's attention fixed on the com thrown three or four steps back
wunt, by inruns of the sash belt in he’s getting his first teeth.
Peter was in danger, and the men panion. No movement in the main ward against the wall and fell. He
the back.
Little Mary—What's the mat
hunting for them would be in dan cabin warned him; but it was from thought: Why. I must be strong,
The high-cut skirt is very slen ter? Doesn't he want them?
ger. As much to protect these oth that quarter that the attack came. really strong, to do that! Too bad!
derizing to the hips and waist. The
ers as to save himself. Richard de
Rannels. Gee, Hurd, and Peter Poor Mary!
gathered bodice gives you a nice
cided to dig his way out
The rain rains mostly upon the
He went through the after ’tween
I were united by the greedy hope
round bosom-line. Make this of Just. The unjust keep borrowing
He had for tools the stout club, of reward. Peter had won them by decks. He moved briskly, the re
percale, calico or ginghtitn and his umbrella.
about four feet long, two inches promises, playing on each accord volver in his right hand, his left
trim with bright ricrac and but
thick, one end shod with iron: and ing to his appetite. For weapons, arm hanging. He remembered to
tons. Untrimined, it'a a gotxi style
he had his pocket knife. He whit they had the edged tools of the cock the revolver before he started
In the Name of Safety
for runabout, If you make it up in
tled the end of the club into a flat, whale fishery; harpoons, lances, to climb to the deck. He could not
"What’s making you ao ungryt”
flat crepe or spun rayon. Send for
chisel-shaped blade, not too sharp, spades. It was only necessary to help himself with his left hand, be
"Nothing much. I cut myself
the pattern today, and be among with a safety razor, burned my
not sharp enough to break easily.
cause
it
would
not
do
what
he
want
find a chance to use them. With
the first to wear it!
Then he began to dig steps up the this in mind, Peter planned to draw ed it to do; and he had to hold the
self with a safety match, and
e e e
side of the pit For the first few George's eye in one direction, to revolver ready in his other hand;
nearly got run over while reading
Pattern No. M7S Is <lcal(n»d tor sites
feet the sides sloped outward. That I attack from another. He set Ran so he went up the companionway
a safety-first notice."
II. 1«. 1«. IS. 30 and 40. Site 14 requires
was easy; but above that, they be- 1 nels by the cabin companion with a very slowly, pushing himself with
3’, yards ot M inch material without nap;
came perpendicular. He began to ' cutting-in spade, the keen chisel his feet, his body leaning forward
l’a yards trimming. Detailed sew chart
Quite Obvious
included. Send order to:
excavate a sort of spiral gallery j blade six inches across, the handle against the treads.
‘I tn I lhal a new froth yenVe on?“
around the sides of the pit; a shelf long enough so that Rannels from
'Yen I got il for a ml wulout figura."
The housing looked aft. When his
'Oh, I can tea that!“
wide enough for him to lie on. on 1 the deck could reach the cabin floor. head rose above the deck level, be
SEWING CIRCLE PATTKHN I1EIT.
his stomach, while he reached up He posted Hurd on top of the af’er faced the mizzenmast. He crawled
Its New Montgomery Av».
Grounds for Suspicions
San Franc iaco
CaUf.
ahead of him and loosened the soft house where from high overhead he out of the companion on his hands
”I’ve searched high and low for
Enclos» IS cent* In coin* tor
stuff with the end of his club, and ■ could see down through the glass of and knees; and the revolver in his
the furniture cream recipe your
then scraped it out with his right ‘ the skylight and dart a harpoon at right hand thumped on the deck.
Pattern No.......... ..
Sue..............
mother gave me—”
hand, flinging it over the side of the any mark that offered. He directed
Name .............. .....................................
Peter heard that sound and turned
‘‘Here!” said her husband, put
shelf to fall to the bottom of the pit. Gee to take an axe down into the and saw him.
Address ........................................................
ting down hia spoon, "where did
The dust of his digging through main cabin and strike the door into
Peter was on the starboard side
you get the recipe for thia aoup?”
the
charred,
half-burned
peat the common room a smashing blow of the cabin companion, by the door
choked him.
He descended and that would make George turn that of the potato room where Tommy
drank water from the pool, and way. When he thus turned, Ran Hanline slept He had a boat spade
wetted his handkerchief and tied it nels, at the companion, or Hurd, poised ready to slice at anyone
across his mouth and nose. While darting the great harpoon, would kill whose head appeared in the compan
may aS act lb* Heart
there was still some light, he had him from above.
Oa, Uaaear » i*> aMaak er fol Ut aaar a>l Mka a
ion. George saw him. George did
The
driving
instructor
was
kal> (■I,««
Ifca b—H Al Uw •<« ala»
.uuxwa
been able to climb ten feet above
aed ■■■■> 1 u— t m M-ll •»• TabMa <•
When the others were in position not see Hurd. Hurd was on the
teaching the awkward fellow to aman
Mt <*• f»««. Nu l«aBti*« Iw« « m 4 b «f «*•
the floor of the pit; but then the the Negro went below. Peter him port side, beyond the door of the
artin«
E mmw t i tee m M ii>4l«wMlim If
drive a car.
FIIUÌT |M*K
Hell AIM Uttar, »wtu««
light failed and he worked in dark self would take no active part In the galley, where old Willie Leeper, as
UttAe ID M tad rwalra DUl’BXJI Maw
JK
"Put
out
your
left
hand
to
sig
ness. Some time later, the shelf on affray. Gee was barefooted, and he though blind to all that went on
nal
that
you
are
about
to
move
which he lay broke off under hi* moved silently. He was accustomed aboard here, persistently banged
off. Then with your left foot step
weight, and he fell, rolling down to use an axe left-handed. The door and clattered at his work. Hurd
In Ignorance
in the clutch. With your right
into the water again. He guessed he had to attack swung into the after had a boat spade too.
Nothing is so firmly believed aa
hand put the gearshift into first.
that he bad reached a point where cabin, the hinges on the port side.
But George did not see him. He
what we least know.—Montaigne.
Gradually ease up on the clutch,
the walls of the pit began to slope Gee stood on that side when he saw Peter, and Peter saw George
the
while
stepping
gently
on
the
inward; so that there was nothing
and leaped toward him. George fell
swung the axe.
accelerator with your right foot
to support the gallery he excavated
He delivered that blow with a on his face and rolled on his side
“When the car has gathered
so laboriously.
and
lifted
the
revolver
and
shot
nervous violence which proved his
speed, again step in the clutch,
He would have to tunnel upward
,
Peter
ducked
and
dodged;
and
own destruction. The axe hit the
shifting with the right hand to sec
through the solid peat and reach
panels just beside the bolt, and the suddenly he screamed like a wom
ond. Then with the left foot slowly
the surface somewhere to one side
an.
Panic
fear
broke
him
down.
He
flimsy screws flew out and the door
let out the clutch, accelerating
of the hole.
turned
to
run
aft
toward
the
com
flew open so easily that Gee by his
’T'HERE'S something guileless with the right foot. Then repeat
He began to do so. Almost at once
Crromulston relieves promptly be
own" weight was pulled forward, the panion, squalling as he ran.
* and appealing about a yoke to shift to high speed. Keep your cause It goes right to the scut of tit®
the texture of the peat became
George thumbed back the ham
axe and his swinging arms drag
dress like this that will make you eyes on the road ahead all of the trouble to help loosen and expel
tougher. Till now he had worked in
ging him off balance, into the door mer of the revolver and shot again.
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
stuff half-burned, the life baked out
Peter seemed to trip and fall, and look as fresh and bright as a little time.”
way.
There was a long pause; the to soothe and heal raw, tender. In
of it by the heat of those old fires;
girl all dressed up in a new
he
no
longer
screamed.
George,
ly
flamed bronchial mucous mem
George, when the Negro struck,
but now it began to have substance
starched frock I It's very becom pupil appeared to be thinking.
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
was standing at the foot of the com ing on his side, his cheek against
and cohesion, held together by grass
"Well,
what
are
you
waiting
ing
and
youthifying
to
misses
and
a bottle of Creomulston with the un
panionway, looking up, the bomb the deck, the revolver flat on the
roots dead centuries ago. His task
women alike. Yet design No. 8876 for?” asked the instructor finally. derstanding you must like the way it
gun in his hands, the door into the deck at his arm’s length, pulled the
became increasingly laborious. Us
’’There's nothing useful I could quickly allays the cough or you are
hammer and shot again and again, offers you the makings of a very
to have your money back.
ing the chisel-shaped end of his club main cabin ten feet away and be slowly, laboriously aiming through comfortable home style, with do with my nose, is there?” in
like a narrow spade, he drove it hind him. At the crash of the axe eyes half closed.
waistline that you can comfortably quired the beginner.
blow, he whirled and saw the Negro
upward, cut around blocks of peat,
After a space, the hammer clicked
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
in the doorway. Gee bawled in dis
and then with his right hand clawed
may, trying to leap clear, as George on an empty cylinder. He could do
these blocks free
nothing more. He rolled on his back
lifted the bomb gun and fired.
He burrowed like a mole. The
As Our Works Are
A Quit With Anawera
I and loeked up; and then his eyee
At
the
sound
of
the
axe.
Rannels
tunnel he dug was no larger than
Everyone is the son of his own
stepped to the top of the companion opened wide in clear recognition ot
Offering Information
necessary. If be could wedge his
works.—Cervantes.
way above George. At the foot of the what was about to happen to him.
body through it, and have room to
on
Varioua Subjecta
companionway be saw George swing Hurd, the little Cockney, stood over
use his club, he was content There
e
to face Gee. and as George lifted him in silhouette against the sky and
was now some moisture in the peat the bomb gun, Rannels stabbed the web of rigging. Hurd was lift
through which be tunneled, and not downward with the long spade. He ing his boat spade to strike. He
like musty hay; and tear gas like
TAe Queationa
much dust; nevertheless thirst har aimed at the nape of George's neck. seemed to stand there motionless;
apple blossoms.
assed him.
fl. Twenty.
If the blow had struck fairly, it and time had stopped, and Instants
1. What is the only state in the
Once when he went down to drink, would have decapitated the man be were eternal.
7. Some diamond cutters have JUST A
Union which is bounded by one
he saw that there was light in the low; but the recoil of the gun
become so expert in cutting very 0AÍH I*
state
alone?
hole at the top of the pit The short knocked George off balance back
CHAPTER XXI
2. Which of the following is a small diamonds for mass settings
southern night was ending. Dawn ward. He was already falling when
natural
magnet—Capstone, thun that they produce regular 58-facet
was near.
Rannels struck, so the harpooner
Behind Hurd—George could see
stones so small that as many as
A long while after that he realized missed his aim. The spade that him under Hurd's upraised arms— derstone or lodestone?
Art of Hoping
3. What are known as cardinal 800 weigh only one carat.
by the tougher fibre of the chunks he would have caught George in the Willie Leeper was holding upraised
8. Ulysses S. Grant (inaugural
Patience is the art of hoping.
tore away that he had reached live neck, instead slid over his shoulder a heavy cleaver.
Before Hurd's winds?
Vauvenargucs.
4. When was the boundary be address March 4, 1869J.
grass roots. The realization, even and down his left arm. It bit into spade stopped going up tor the down
though it proved he was near the his forearm just below the elbow. ward blow at George, the cleaver, tween the United States and Can
surface of the ground and promised It sliced the flesh like a razor, grat already lifted, began to descend. It ada finally determined?
' 5. What are the odors of the
an early end to his labors, did not ed on the bone.
came slowly against Hurd's neck, on
speed them, He worked slow and
George, thrown backward by the the side under the ear, at an angle principal gases that are used in
war?
slower, tired without knowing it, recoil, fell on his left side. The inward. The broad keen blade went
6. How many shillings are there
sluggish with weariness. He thrust smoke of powder from th* gun's far in and in.
M.1V Warn of Disordered Kidney Action. Don i Neg I cc f It 1 j
the pointed club upward with a thunderous discharge had instantly
The spade in Hurd's hands In a British pound?
7. How small can diamonds be
heave of shoulders and back, his filled the cabin; but through this dropped to the deck. The blade of
Symptoms of disturbed kidney reaction
ty be naggins bar bar be, perniatami baad-
feet braced hard.
smoke as he lay on his side he saw it brushed against George's side, cut?
l, getting up nlghla, awrlllng,
8. Who said: “I know of no
Presently one of these thrusts sent Rannels at the head of the compan and stuck in the planking; and the
trAaiMi. kwpo doctor* busy,
ruflineea under the eyee —
hoepi tab crowd«!. Th« after
a leafing ot nervoue analMy
method to secure the repeal of
the club through into open air. There ionway recovering the spade to spade stood erect for a moment,
rffrrta ar« disturbing to
•nd loaa nt Mreagth and
was still the mat of grass roots to strike again. He rolled on his back, and then fell over sidewise as the bad or obnoxious laws so effective
th« kidnejB and oftentimes
energy. (Xhee eigne of kid
paopl« «uner without know
ney or Madder diaiurbaaaa
as their stringent execution”?
rip apart; but five minutes later dodging that blow; and he dragged blade, for lack of any deep hold,
ing that disordered kidney
• ometlmea are burning,
Ricnard dragged himself like a crip the revolver, already cocked, out broke out of the planking. The han
action may eauai the
•eanty or loo frequent urinn-
trouble.
lion.
pled mole through the.opening he of his belt and fired it upward blind dle fell across George's body.
The A newer a
After colds, f«r«r and
In neeh e now II la bettor
had made, and lay prone.
similar
Ills
ther«
la
an
in-
ly. The heavy slug struck Rannels
to
rely on • medicine that
Hurd fell the other way, making
ereaas of body Impurities
baa woe world-wide ap
It was Corkran, following the bro in the breast bone. He slid feet choking sounds. Willie Leeper looked
the
kidneys
must
filter
from
proval
than on oonwthlag
1. Maine.
ths blood. It ths kidneys
ken trail through the tall grass, who first down the companionway and down at him. Willie said in a pip
faaa favorably known. Uao
2.
Lodestone.
aro overtaxed and fall to remove eioaoa I Do
hours later found him there.
lay in a huddle on the cabin floor.
ing, thin voice to Hurd dying on the
acid and other harmful waate, there la I frl<
3. Winds blowing from due
poiaonlng of the whole ayatam.
| to
Aboard the Venturer, George and
The thinning smoke made George deck:
north,
east,
south
or
west.
Mary kept their vigil; George by cough. He heard a faint sound that
'There, drat ye!’’
4. The boundary between the
the desk with the revolver and the seemed to be far away, and realized
George laughed. That was funny.
United States and Canada was not
bomb gun ready, Mary at the cabin it was a voice, and saw Mary on her He had never heard Willie speak be
completely determined until 1925,
window through which she could see knees here beside him.
fore. Willie had a thin, squeaking or 142 years after our country
the boats on shore. After a long
Mary was trying to hold him. He voice that was completely absurd.
signed the treaty with England.
. time, George heard a voice on pushed her away. He had not meant George was much amused.
Two Tragedies
5. As nearly as can be described,
desire, the other Is to get it. And
deck, a sudden cry; so he knew the to do this violently; but under his
Then he forgot Willie, for here
There are two tragedies in life I the latter is the greater tragedy.—
truth before Mary spoke.
thrust she staggered backward till was Mary. George rolled his head mustard gas smells like garlic;
She turned with glowing eyes; she she collided with the corner of the sidewise to look at Peter lying on lewisite like geraniums; phosgene —one is not to gel your heart’s | Oscar Wilde.
whispered; “They've found him! desk. He shook his head regretfully. the deck aft; but Peter had not
¥
He's walking. Two of them are help Too bad to hurt her; but he had moved, so everything was all right.
ing him. George, Richard is alive!" business in hand.
He told her so. He said carefully:
George nodded. "Then they’ll be
He looked for Gee, and saw him “Everything's all right, Mary." He
at us,” he reminded her. He knew with a calrr. surprise. Geosge had tried to nod, to reassure her. "It’s
what to expect Since the men had not heard the bomb explode; but it all right, Mary,” he repeated.
found Richard, Peter must hold the had exploded. There was no doubt
She said fiercely; “Hush! Oh, my
Venturer and escape in her, or be of that. Gee was in the main cabin, brave dear!”
damned. To hold her against the on the floor by the table. Something
"It’s all right,” he insisted, and
men in the boats, he must have had flung him backward; but what smiled. Something was running out
rr's
the guns.
lay there had been Gee. It must of him. His life. It was running
SWELL
TO
GET THAT
George did not stop to consider have been. The skin was black.
out through his arm, fast; but he
what means Peter had in hand. He
Mary was here again, ripping at must be sure Mary understood, so
EXTRA MILDNESS
meant to hold the cabin against any his coat, trying to tear away the that she would be happy, afterward.
IN
A SMOKE AS TASTY
odds. If he could. But he might sleeve, trying to tend the terrible
He tried to tell her that he knew
fail. In the sudden imminence of wound in his arm. Weakness swept she loved Richard, that he knew she
AS A CAMEL. THERE'S
crisis now, like a revelation, he real over George in a slow, sick wave; and Richard were fine, that it was
NOTHING UKE
ized that even if he failed, he could yet his mind was clear enough. Ran all right, that She was not to feel
still leave Peter weaponless.
nels was dead, and Gee too; but in badly about him, or about anything.
A CAMEL FOR
He spoke to Mary, sharply. “Take a minute now he, George McAus-
But so much of him had already
FLAVOR
all those cartridge boxes, the pow land, would collapse from loss of run out that there was not enough
der, everything. Break the window. blood, and lie helpless here, and of him left to say what he wished to
Throw it all overboard.”
then Peter could come down and get say; and while he lay happy in
She began to throw out the boxes the guns.
Mary’s arms, the rest ran out in a
of cartridges.
Someone on deck
That had to be stopped. He must dwindling little stream.
heard them splash in the water and kill Peter while he could.
than the average of the 4 other
On a day almost four months lat
looked over the rail and saw what
George decided to go through the er, under all sail, the Venturer
largest-selling cigarettes tested —less than
she was doing, and shouted a warn main cabin into the steerage and moved serenely upon a white-capped
AMERICA’S No. 1 SKIER.
•ny of them—according to Independent
ing.
thus reach the deck. Mary was try sea. Richard had for the moment
DICK DURRANOB
scientific teste of the smoke itself.
"Stop that down there, you!”
ing to hold him, but he put her gone below. Mat Forbes was aft,
-s.
George shouted back:
aside.
Whatever she was saying Tommy Hanline proudly taking a
twp'
"I'll shoot the first man who shews did not matter. It could not matter. turn at the wheel. Corkran and
himself!” Looking up through the He must reach the deck somehow, Mary stood together by the star
companion he could see nothing ex and manage Peter Corr. Mary hin board rail amidships; and the par
cept the sky, and a segment of the dered him. He said to her in an rot nibbled at Corkran's ear, and
elaborate whisper, loudly, so that whispered wheedlingly. Two or three
rail.
Mary kept at her task, working she would be sure to understand: miles away, a whaler, bark-rigged,
fast and without pause, till it was
“Stay here. Talk. Make them was outward bound.
think I’m here.”
done.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
CHAPTER XX
Beginner Didn't Jf'nnt
Possibility to Be JFasted
INDIGESTION
Relief At Last
For Your Cough
CREOMULSION
ASK
ANOTHER
Black
Q3D
NAGGING BACKACHE
DOAN’S PILLS
THE SMOKE OF SLOWER>BURNING CAMELS GIVES YOU
EXTRA MILDNESS, EXTRA COOLNESS, EXTRA FLAVOR
NICOTINE
THE
SMOKE'S
THE
THING I
CAMEL =