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sleeve button and he sent II (lying
him with horror and dismay
"tilt Papa vou'va broken Nancy's
"Good Lord''' he said below hl«
heart I ”
breath.
lie swung around on her, hla
Then lie rallied himself. "I'll wire
Ruddy. I’ll make him confess and flushed (ace and standing hair ter
bring that money back It Isn't his rifying her.
“Heart? Broken her heart— I'd
lo pay In. “ Il I'll
he sputtered
I'd like lo Ihrnslt her!” he bellowed.
breathlessly.
"You'll have a stroke. William;
"You can't," said Nancy, "he’s
put It back; lie's not going io con you'll have a stroke— If you don't
stop!"
fess and go lo prison now !”
"Stroke he hangedt” he said, and
"He shall I any he shall'"
Mr. Gordon - lammed an old Shalt- rushed to the telephone. He hail
back with such violence that he J uki thought of II.
He called up Richard. “ Yes, I
broke a leg off; Il toppled o v e r
helplessly and fell Into the corner wuttt to «we vou now right away!
All right. I'll wall!" He hung up
with a crash
“I’d a darned sight ralhsr that the receiver and begun lo stride up
Roddy staved In Jail for life than mid down again
10 have him take that rnoivey!
Mrs. Gordon I,.tew the «Irl must
I sn't you see that your daughter's
he wretched unit Iter heart went out
I
sold heraelf?" he appealed lo Ills
to her. But there was a thrill of
wife There wan a terrible vehe
secret relief Roddy was saved III»
nience lu Ills tone.
father couldn't make hint return
"Where's that man?" lie swung
ilte money now Should she go up-
around to Nancy, "where's Mor ' «lairs and try to make It up tn
gan t”
Nancy? She half rose and Mr Gor
“He came home with me lie's In don smashed u little glass paper
his office now We— we haven't told weight that Jtad fallen In his way
any one— he wanted to come here
“He's going craty,” «he thought
with m*. and I - — '* x
"I should think he'd better come feebly; then she remembered Rich-
here like a man. I want to ask him ard Morgan. He was routing soon
If hr thinks he's living In Ills grand and there would be an etploalon
father's time I reckon old Morgan worse than the one that had greet
bought his slaves about the same ed Nancy. What would happen?
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WHO IS PASSING T H E BUCK?
Nobody know s w h eth er it is the county, s ta te highw ay
d ep a rtm en t o r th e SERA officials th a t a re holding up the
gravel sidew alk project in W est Springfield. Anyway this
sidew alk betw een Eugene and Springfield city limits, which
th e highw ay com m ission ch airm an agreed should be built,
and th e county offered to furnish the necessary crushed
rock and o th e r m aterials, is not g ettin g started .
It has been recom m ended as a w orthy SERA project
th a t will em ploy com m on labor of w hich th ere is plenty
unem ployed. Five lives have been lost along this s tre tc h ot
road th e last few years and it behooves those in ch a rg e to
do so m ething ab o u t it. If we a re to have several g o v ern
m en tal bodies doing th e sam e o r sim ilar public work then
th ey should not tie “b u ck -p assers.”
W ith the oil road aud green du stless foliage th e Mc
Kenzie valley is now one of th e leading vacation and picnic
spots in th e west. Fifty m iles of Iasi ru n n in g cold w ater
from th e snow fields, springs and lakes in the h ead w aters
m ake it unlike m ost rivers in this co u n try . H undreds of
to u rists visit th e McKenzie valley each y ea r and th e fam e
of th e river is spreading w ider and wider. Im provem ents
in th e re so rts and cam p g ro u n d s along th e strea m have
kept pace w ith to u rists and excellent accom m odations can
be had. We can all boost and none need apologize for the
McKenzie riv er country.
A strik e in a factory or m ine usually affects only those
people involved hut a strik e in tra n sp o rta tio n ties up the
goods of o th e r people, w ho are in th e end th e m ost
dam aged. O th er m eans th a n strik in g should be em ployed to
settle differences in th e tran sp o rta tio n industry.
T hings are done d ifferently in this country. G eneral
Jo h n so n recru ited five m en to tak e his place while lie went
on a vacation. Adolph H itler killed 60 m en in G erm any to
keep th em from tak in g his place aud th en went on a v ac a
tion.
Half of th e g o v ern m e n t's 13 billion dollar relief w ar
chest is reported spent. Old m an recovery mus* com e back
w ithin th e next y ear before the bottom of t ’ncle S am 's sack
is reached.
A third of th e federal forest«road m oney allotted to
O regon will be spent in I.ane county. T h e W illainet'e and
Siuslaw highw ays should be considerably im proved this
next v ear
T he D em ocrat newspai»ers seem to be w orrying m ost
ab out th e fu tu re of the Republican party.
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S trik es som e people say are evidence of prosperity.
Suppose then we all strike.
T h e vine m aples are beginning to tu rn red.
th a t this m eans an early w inter.
Som e say
Would there he an awful scene?
She did not know what to make of
(hie, but she had se«o Nancy's face
She suntinoued all her courage
"I don't think If right to treat
tlte child so!" Mrs Gordon wiped
Ihe tenre from her eyes. "Mhe'->
done It all lo save Roddy."
"You think of nothing hut Itoddt'
his voice broke siiddenlt
"I'm thinking or my g ir l! ”
"I'm thinking of Nancy, loo.
What use la II to make u scandal
of her marriage? She murrled Mut
tan I can't think she'd do It If
he didn't care for him Il's Its
sgnliist nature!”
I'm "
Nancy Gordon trades heraelf In hand on the door. “Ok, yew, I hare
marriage tor fifteen thousand dol —hut I didn't think of you I was
"Fiddlesticks! Wltul's nature got
tars—the price of her family taon- • sure that Nancy Gordon was en
to do with It? Hite married that
or—and the freedom of her brother.
Roddy, who stole, for a woman, gaged to Page Roemer. She Is, Isn't
that fellow to get the moray
that amount from the bank In which t k » r
quick for Roddy." He brought his
he work». Nancy, desperately tn
Richard held the door open for
(1st down again on Ihe table "I'd
love with young Page Roemer, her gravely. "I suggest that you
like to (brash (he minister who
nevertheless agree» to a secret
a
k
her."
was
all
he
said.
elopement with Dr. Richard Mor
married them! What business haa
Helena, laughed hut she said no
gan. and with the money ho loans
any man got to marry people lu
her preveuts Roddy'» arrest. Dr. more She atood a moment, look
that way? He ought tu have had
Morgan is loved by Helena Had
them both locked up In the police
don. a sophisticated young married ing back at him An unhappy wo
woman, bnt he adore» Nancy and man. unhappily In love with him.
station I"
hopes to win her after marriage. and he knew- It.
• • •
I In Washington they are married.
"William Gordon, I've heard you
Nancy is Richard's bride—and
say yourself (hat you wished
Mrs. Gordon was sitting In the
afraid of hint
Nancy'd stop flirting with »•age
N o w Qo On W ith tbs S to ry--------------- old wicker rocking chair, by the
Roemer and marry a decent matt
library window, her hands lying
IN S T A L L M E N T E IG H T
like Richard Morgan!"
Idle in her lap. She could not read,
Then he »aw. lying on the she could not even knit; she had
TO BE C O N T IN U E D
table, one of Nancy's gloves. It lay cried over Roddy until her eyelids
il » a . « s v ! t . . _ j w v h — — awaww
there, holding the perfect form of were puffed and her eyea ached. way—only cheaper!"
"Papa*" his wife almost shrieked
Nancy's hand like a thing alive. He was safe, she knew It, hut—now
He blushed up Io his hair, his eyes that she knew he was safe—she now, ”l>apa. you ought to be
fixed on it.
began to feel the disgrace that his ashamed of yourself!"
“I am. I'm ashamed to have such
"Sit down," he said formally, mere rescue from Jail could not
drawing forward a chair that was wipe mil. Her boy had stolen children! I've got a pair of th em --
Sarvag
not Nancy's. “You spoke of King- money ! The escape from punish the boy steals and Ihe girl sella
heraelf
to
the
first
rich
man
who'll
don. What's wrong with him?"
ment did not sponge out the sin.
Helena laughed bitterly, refusing
Sl.e had hom e him and she had —who'll pay for h er!”
"Hush!" Mrs.
Gordon cried,
the chair, her green eyes on him reared him and he was a thief His
"King's reading Voltaire t s i w - l father called him that and she "hush. Papa!"
Nancy, who had never stirred
wish he had some real work to do i ringed from It as If she had been
b-slde sitting In the back room at «truck a blow. She wanted to cry. from her table, did not lift her eyea
the bank on great occasions. It's to throw herself Into some one's now. hut her while lips moved.
For The Oregon Trail
“Let hint alone Mama: It's true!
awful to be rich and idle and hang arms and cry like a girl, but Mr.
around all dav reading French. My Gordon was not receptive. He was Only a minister married us In
father anil my brothers all worked: there He had come In from the church It—It wasn't an auction.
I'm not used to idle men Richard. bank mid was sitting grimly up Papa ”
Her father snorted with fury.
I'll quarrel with him dreadfully If right In his chair, reading the
"True! 1 reckon It Is! There's one
he doesn't «<> off for golf I want rarer.
.
"Where ihe Servies la Dtffarenl” ^ ^
von to send him.”
They had been sitting thus half thing I'd like to say to you,
Richard moved over to the man an hour when she heard the famil though." he added with sudden and
tel and rested his elbow on it. shad iar sound of the gate and started terrible courtesy. "If you’ll permit
ing his face. ”1 can't urge any more «P.
. me. Nancy?"
«♦he choked back a sob
of It. Helena. King's not strong
"Papa. It's Nancy!"
enough this pring Besides, he Just
He )a<d his paper on his knee i "If« this—” he took a step near
gone for the tournament in Wash The broad afternoon llgh' f II full er. strlkiug his fist on the table—
sold
yourself
darned
ngton. hasn't he? H? told me so. • n Ills worn face and hl wife was "you've
cheap!"
You both ought to go to Europe."
shocked.
She stared at him. startled. Then
Tbev heard the door open, a light I She gazed a' him. speechless.
a slow hot blush went up over the step, and Nancy came Into t h e ' “You're voting, you're strong
lung oval of her face.
room. She was Very pale but her | you're good looking you ought to
"I didn't know he was III. she blue eyes shone. She came slowly have made a helt-r bargain, Nancy
I've heard my father sav that a
said slowly, watching Richard.
toward them ard stood sill.
"He's not i||—he' got a weak I "I don’t want you to worry any pretty slave girl always brought a
heart, that's all— I'm taking care! more." she said abruptly. "I bor big bid. You're too cheap!"
"Punii." Mrs. Gordon ro e from
of him."
rowed that money from Richard
" K en in g him alive?" she looked M o rg a n Roddy and I will pay him her chair, falrlv tol'erlng on her
away. This was not what she had hack I—I married him vesterdav." fe -t. but snatching nt h -r husband's
come to say; her heart was stormy j Her mother rirnpred hack Into c< nttall« "Dor't you see that-—that
i pew She pot her hard suddenly on her rocker, sneechle a, hut her v u're killing Ihe child?"
He swung free of her wl'h an
the (love. "That's Nancy Gordon's.", father rose His face turned gray
she aid (jefiantlv. "You're In love
"What did you sav?" he de an rv .«wish of Ills garments, a
mild-mannered man beside himself.
with tha* girl. Richard!"
manded
"Sh can land II She's get un
H e turned toward her. meeting
"I said I married Richard Mor
h r glani-A coldly.
gan yesterday, in Washington, be all-fired lot of brass to go and tell
“Do von want me to prescribe cause—because he gave me the a m a t t she'd marry him for fifteen
thonaand dollars ca-h!"
for you or King today Helena?” money to save Roddy."
"Oh. Nancy dear, he doesn't
he asked shortly.
"Where's Roddy?” Mr. Gordon’s
She stood quite still, her eyes voice shook, “where I he now? He mean It!" Mrs. Gordon cried timid
fixed on his. For a moment, the had no business to take that money ly.
Nancy did not hear her. Whan
very forces of life seemed suspend from you!”
her father's furious flat struck the
ed. her green eyes were a- glass,
No one afawered him and he
she barely breathed. He had never brok- loose in terrible denuncia laid ■ she let go her hold upon It
seen her like this before! Then tion All the pent-up misery found and drew back, staring at him. fas
suddenly she began to laugh wildly, vent. He made no hones about it. cinated Then she turned slowly
V h ilo you’re away,
hysterically, choking back her He spoke the truth as he saw It. and started toward the door.
having good times,
"Nancy!" her mother's voice
t tears
spoke It hrtitallv without seeing It
don’t forget to share them with
quavered
“Oh. how funny! Your blushing. effect
those at home. "Long DiMonee“
The
girl
did
not
answer
Iter;
she
Richard." she gasped. “I didn't
The storm of his wrath sw pi •urn d and looked hack at her
is rapid, clear, easy «a non. Bad
mean anything. Prescribe for ua.
over Nancy's bowed head tike a father. "We— we may keep It sec
both, do* |'m an awfully good pati
hurricane. She dung to a little ret—the marriage—Richard leaves
ent. you know It!”
table in the center of the room.
11 to me."
He smiled grimly. “No. you're
CoMFAVY
T hb P acific 1
"Secret?" Mr. Oordon roared,
"What kind of a girl are you?"
not. but here's a prescription— It's
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| for nerves. Helena,” he added cool roared Mr. Gordon, “what did you “secret? What's thia? Is he ash
i?o? Go down there and tell him amed o? It already?"
ly. holding it nut.
She caught her breath, his anger you'd inarry him for fifteen thou
Nancy g a p ed . ''No." she said
seemed to burn Its way through to i sand dollars?''
-.vlth white lips, "he Isn't—I am!"
her consciousness, hut In a moment ‘ "Yea.”
As she spoke she went slowly out
“ Yes.”
i she controlled herself.
Into the hall and they heard her
"I'm sorry I offended you. Rich
Nancy fixed her blue ayes on her going slo’wly upstairs. Mrs. Gordon
ard." she said, with amazing gentle father. He was so amazed that his sank down again Into her rocker.
ness.
mouth hung open. His shot had Her husband marched tumultuou-'ly
been a random one; that he had about the room. A fancy, lace bor
He nodded. "You haven’t."
She gave him an odd look, her hit the bull's eye nearly prostrated dered sofa-cushion caught on hla
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Inevitably Jeru salem cam e under th e conquering power
of Rome, but the vigor of the M acabees prom ised to p er
p etu ate itself in a new line of kings. Herod, a m ilitary leader
from acro ss Jo rd a n , allied him self with R om e and was m ade
a kind of feudal king. He m arried a M accabaean princess,
M ariam m e, w hose b ea u ty and tragic fate gripped th e im agi
n atio n s of the people and m ade the nam e Mary so com m on
in New T estam e n t tim es and later. H erod m urdered her,
and she w as only one am ong his m any victims.
Rom e passed from a nom inal republic into an em pire.
C aesar A ugustus was E m peror and Herod (beneficiary of
th e brave M acabees) reigned in P alestine when Jesu s w as
bom .
T he policy of Rome was to le ra n t; local cu sto m s and
even local prejudices were not greatly interfered w ith, and
the Jew s were perm itted to ca rry on th eir worship and, to
u large extent, th e in tern al affairs of th e ir governm ent as
they chose under th eir own rulers. But Rome w as the
pow er tiiat ruled, and n atu ra lly the Jew s were not happy.
They had becom e a nation whose ideals w ere bound up in
k book. If they no longer bad th eir independence th ey still
did have th e Law, the P rophets and th e W ritings. T hey
studied t h e s e and though they found prom ises th a t J e ru s
alem was given to have political power. T hey looked back
to tic days of David and Solom on, idealizing the reigns of
these great kings. T hey w ere sure tiia t som e day a n o th e r
king of David's lineage would sit on the throne in th eir
sacred city and they even found in Micah a verse which
som e im agined to m ean th at their king would be b o ra in
B e th leh em :
But thou, Ueth-lehem Ephratah. though thou be little
¡inioiiK the thousand of Judah yet out of thee shall he come
forth unto me that Is tn he ruler in Israel; whose goings forth
have been from of old. from everlasting.
It is n ecessary to have this little historic background in
o rd er to u n d erstan d why th e re were tw o ru lers sim u ltan e
ously in th e days of Jesu s; Herod the King, whom Jesu s
ch a rac te rized as “th at F ox”, and Pilate, th e Rom an gover
n o r; and why th e Jew ish crow ds, fired by patriotic e n th u
siasm , sought to ta k e Jesus, “ Son of David,” by force and
m ak e Him th e ir king; and why, when He refused, they
m elted aw ay from . Him and allowed th e sh o u ts of “ H os
a n n a ” of Palm S unday to be drow ned ou' on F riday by the
shout of “C rucify.”
As nearly a s sch o lars can figure it out, Jesu s w as born
ab o u t 4 B. C. T he C hristian chronology wane not fixed
until th e sixth ce n tu ry , and o u r subsequent study of Rom an
reco rd s in d icates th a t a m istake of ab o u t four years was
m ade. A ssum ing the d a te 4 B. C., th erefo re, we now a p
proach th e n in eteen h u n d re d th an n iv ersary of Jesu s' th irti
e th b irthday.
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