Thursday, April 29, 1937
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
BRIGHT STAR
By Mary Schumann
about that two settlers, Wyant and
Nash, had erected a blast furnace
on the shore of the river a few
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miles above the settlement. They
turned out stoves, kettles and cast­
ings, crude in appearance, but
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serviceable.
Hugh’s trips to Pittsburgh had \
Kezia Marsh, pretty, selfish and twenty, ar­
rives home in Corinth from school end is met
awakened
his interest in the need
by her older brother, Hugh. He drives her to
for iron in a new community, and |
the Marsh home where her widowed mother,
Fluvanna, a warmhearted, self-sacrificing and
a nebulous idea took form as he
understanding soul, welcomes her. Kezia’s sis:
weighed out coffee and tea and
ter, Margery, plump and matronly with the
flour. He talked of it to his sons,
eare of three children, is at lunch with them.
Hugh and Caleb and Silas, and fired
Hugh’s wife, Dorrie, has pleaded a previous
engagement. On the way back to his job at
their youthful imaginations.
the steel plant founded by one oí his tore;
Wyant died and Nash moved on
bears, Hugh passes Doc Hiller, a boyhood
to Indiana, abandoning the simple
friend whom he no longer sees frequently be­
cause of Dorrie’s antipathy. Fluvanna Marsh
furnace, while Hugh figured and
wakens the next morning from a dream about
planned and explained to his sons. |
her late husband. Jim, whose unstable char­
acter she fears Kezia has inherited.
Soon
The Pendleton boys went into
Ellen Pendleton comes over. She is an artis­
partnership when they grew up, |
tically inclined girl who is a distant mece of
started another furnace. By the
Fluvanna’s and a favorite of Hugh’s. She hap­
pily tells Fluvanna she has become engaged
middle forties, Hugh Junior, Caleb
to Jerry Purdue. Ellen fears that her father
and Silas Pendleton were the own­
and mother, Gavin and Lizzie, will not ap-
ers of a successful iron works
prove the match. Hugh and Dorrie go out to
which employed eighteen hundred
the Freeland Farms to dance with their
friends. Cun and Joan Whitney. Whitney, who
men.
has been out of work, announces that he has
The Pendletons intermarried with
landed a new position. They see Ellen. Pendle­
ton and Jerry Purdue. Cun and Dorrie dance
the Woods, the Renshaws, the Mof­
together and then disappear for a while. Danc­
fats, the Debarrys, newcomers
ing with Joan, Hugh is amazed to find her in
from Virginia, the east and Eng­
tears. Apparently she has some secret worry
land, until in the nineteen thirties
over her husband. Cun. Hugh sees Kezia ac­
companied by a young man. When Ellen and
the relationships would have taken
Jerry speak about their engagement to Ellens
a genealogical expert to unravel.
parents, Lizzie is disagreeable until Jerry sym­
The society of the town was a spi­
pathizes with her imagined ailments. Gavin, a
banker, is cold to Jerry’s proposal. While Lix-
der-web of distant cousinships turn­
zie unbends slightly, the matter is left pending.
ing up at unexpected places. Much
of the leadership of old Hugh Pen­
dleton had descended to the men of
CHAPTER III—Continued
the family; the women had grace
—7—
and fastidiousness.
Alien blood
“It’s a shame when a woman is mingled with theirs, warm blood,
at the age when she can enjoy life cold blood, but something racial
most,” continued Jerry, “and she persisted.
is taken with something ghastly
Fluvanna was the great-great­
like that! My aunt was a wonder­
ful looking woman too.” He hitched granddaughter of the first Hugh,
his chair an inch or so nearer Liz­ descending through Hugh, his son.
zie, looked into her face with sym­ Her father had been Ely Pendleton,
and she his only child—a swaying,
pathy and interest.
Pale fires lit in her eyes, a re­ anemone creature, fine-boned as
vival of vanity. “Wonderful? . . . most of the Pendleton women were.
Perhaps not now, but you should Light brown hair grew back from
see my pictures taken when I was a curving hairline; the tracery of
Ellen’s age! I remember when I the brows above full eyelids might
was young and lived in Ridley, have been done by a pencil stroke;
Mr. Parkinson—later he became the nose was sensitive; the mouth
the lumber capitalist out west curved and wistful.
Although James Marsh had been
somewhere, Oregon, I think—used
to call me the Rose of Ridley! welcomed among them as a cousin
. . . You remember that, don’t of the Clements, there was not a
you, Gavin?”
“Uh-mm.”
“Ellen has something of mJ look
—at times.”
“A girl is usually indebted to her
mother for her charm.”
Lizzie laughed and tapped him
with her eyeglasses. “I see why
my girl was so taken with you!”
4
The ice in her voice which had
broken up with mention of her ill­
ness, now became a fluid running
quantity, light, even playful. “But,
seriously speaking, we feel our
child is too young to think of get­
ting married.”
“Working?” asked Gavin in the
first pause.
“I have a job as storekeeper at
the Arrow Steel Works,” Jerry an­
swered.
“H’much?”
“Thirty-five a week.”
His fist at his lip, Gavin shook
his head. “N’much.”
“No, but I have hopes of get­
ting something better. A fellow
has to start at the bottom in the
steel business. I intend to go to
the school for salesmen if I can get
in.”
Gavin looked at him through his
thick-lensed glasses.
“Keep a
car?”
She Was Proud, Hopeful, Unut
“A sort of one.” Jerry grinned.
terably Happy.
Gavin glanced at Jerry’s suit
meaningly. He had computed its great deal of approval of the mar­
cost and suspected Jerry of ex­ riage of James and Fluvanna.
travagant taste in clothes. Lizzie There were local grievances—fami­
shook her head at him. “Settle it lies whose sons had yearned for
again—no hurry," he muttered. He Fluvanna and been passed over.
left the room precipitously and did Although pride in clothes was a
Pendleton
credo,
James
was
not return.
Lizzie changed to a more com­ thought to lean toward too great
fortable chair, and drawn by Jer­ an elegance in dress. His hand­
ry's deferential attention, recount­ some bearing was no novelty;
ed in a tangential flow stories of many of the men had that; they
her activities before she had been suspected his grace, his flattery, as
stricken, of her two sons, Caleb qualities which did not go with the
and Gavin Junior, the trouble she solid virtues of monogamy. As the
had keeping competent help, the years went by, the older ones shook
oriental rugs she had bought, and their heads oracularly as reports
the hotels she had found most of his irregularities came in—gam­
agreeable in Atlantic City.
bling, drinking, neglecting his busi­
It was almost twelve when she ness, Ely Pendleton looking grim
rose to go upstairs. She even shook and Fluvanna, gay in company,
hands with Jerry cordially
“Be but when off guard, seeming fright­
patient," she admonished them. ened and distrait.
“I’ll see what I can do with her fa-
Ely Pendleton died suddenly, and
ther."
Fluvanna and her family moved in­
Ellen went to the front steps with to the old house with her mother
Jerry. “You ruinous man,” she who was an invalid. A year or two
whispered,
“captivating
Mother of comparative ease and prosperity
like that!”
followed. James was thoughtful to­
"I took your cue. You said ‘Be ward the suffering mother; debts
nice to her’ and I followed instruc­ were paid; the feverish prosperity
tions.”
of the War was on. James made
She kissed him. “We might sit money in the stock market and it
here on the steps while you smoke erased the galling sense of obliga­
a cigarette.”
tion he had left when old Ely, stern-
"A cigarette? How about two?" browed, thin-lipped, had met his |
“Make it two,” she answered pressing deficits. Mrs. Pendleton
laughing. She was proud, hopeful, died just after Armistice day, and
unutterably happy.
James was very kind that winter.
Then business took a holiday,
The first Hugh Pendleton had
come out from Connecticut in the stocks slumped, and Fluvanna be­
year 1802, made his way with gan a gradual parting with the in­
horses and an ox team over the come her father had left in trust
hazardous mountain roads, and tak­ for her. Her mother's money had
en up land along the Penachang been left to her unconditionally, and
Valley in Ohio. He built a cabin that went in appalling amounts to
near the stream and traded with cover the very good securities, sure
the few settlers and the wandering to hit a hundred and ten, which
bands of Indians. He sent for his James had bought on margin.
The more James lost, the more
family, his wife, with three small
children, and his two brothers. he drank, the oftener he was seen
Hugh started a store which flour­ morose and truculent, leaning
ished as the settlement grew into a over his cards late at night, playing
village. He made trips to Pitta­ with men who were luckier than he.
burgh by boat for supplies and bar­ Late one afternoon, the town rang
tered or sold, according to the need with the news that he had killed
of the individual.
himself.
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Presently the word traveled
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By Elmo
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“Liberator of Bulgaria”
IS name was Janarius Aloysius
MacGahan and that fact alone
should be enough to make him an
"uncommon American.” But he
had other and better claims to dis­
tinction.
Born in 1844 in the little town of
New Lexington, Ohio, young Mac-
Gahan grew up into a mild-man­
nered, timid youth, which was
strangely in contrast to his char­
acter later. At the age of seven­
teen he tried to become a country
school teacher but his application
was rejected on the grounds that he
was too young and inexperienced.
Deeply wounded by this rebuff,
MacGahan left his native state and
never returned to it. He went to
Huntington, Ind., where he was
given a school and taught it suc­
cessfully for two years, then to St.
Louis, where he studied for four
years and wrote for the newspapers,
all the time preparing himself for a
career as a lawyer.
Next he decided to finish his stud­
ies in languages in Europe before
starting his law career. But just
as he was preparing to return to
America, the Franco-Prussian war
broke out and the New York Her­
ald engaged him to accompany the
French army as a war corre­
spondent.
If he had been shy as a boy, he
seems to have gotten over that.
His new job took him into the thick­
est of the fight and there he wrote
his dispatches while the bullets
whistled around him. His graphic
reports from the French front won
him a position with the London
News as well as the Herald.
In 1876 he went into the Balkans
and his exposures of the Turkish
atrocities in Bulgaria not only
stirred England to the depths but
led to action by the European pow­
ers which won for MacGahan the
title of “Liberator of Bulgaria.” His
untimely death, caused by a fever
which he took from a friend whom
he refused to leave in Constanti­
nople, brought to a close a brilliant
newspaper career. He was buried
first in the Turkish capital. Six
years later his body was brought
back to his native town of New
Lexington, where thousands united
in honoring the "home town boy”
who had made good in other fields.
Today his is one of the names hon­
ored in the Hall of Fame in the
school of journalism at Ohio State
university.
Swindler of Millions
ROUND the turn of the cen­
A tury, when American: were be­
coming accustomed to the idea of
“Big Business” in finance and in­
dustry, Cassie L. Chadwick taught
them that “big” might be applied
to swindling also. Born in Canada
of poor parents, Elizabeth Bigley
soon decided that she didn’t want
to remain poor.
After getting her out of a forgery
scrape, her father sent her to live
with a sister in Cleveland. There
she represented herself as an Eng­
lish heiress and married a young
doctor named Chadwick but he soon
divorced her. For the next four
years she supported herself as a
spiritualist, clairvoyant and hypno­
tist under a variety of names in
the Middle West. In Toledo she
was arrested for forging a draft
for $10,000 and sentenced to the
penitentiary.
Paroled in 1893, she started out
to get money in a big way. She
let it be known that she was re­
lated to Andrew Carnegie and that
the facts of that relationship could
only be whispered. After a trip to
New York to visit her “father," she
came back to Cleveland and turned
over to the president of a bank a
trust fund agreement and notes
amounting to more than $15,000,000.
Since these were apparently signed
by Carnegie himself, the banker
readily gave her a receip. for them.
With her credit thus established,
Mrs. Chadwick started on an orgy
of wild borrowing and spending.
Once she bought $1,200 worth of
handkerch als from a Cleveland
store. She sent grand pianos to
eight friends as “little surprises.”
She chartered a special train to
take her friends to New York
Then suddenly her bubble of
prosperity was punctured. An en­
terprising
Cleveland
newspaper
printed a full-page story revealing
the details of her past life She
managed to put off the anxious
bankers who were demanding re­
payment of their loans and fled to
New York. Arrested and brought
back to Cleveland for trial, it was
revealed that her liabilities were
more than a million dollars Sev­
eral banks failed as the result of
loans to her.
Moreover, Andrew Carnegie, who
had examined the documents which
she had deposited in the Cleveland
bank, pronounced them forgeries
and Mrs. Chadwick an imposter.
She was sentenced to the Ohio peni­
tentiary again, this time for four
year* and there she died in 1907,
leaving an estate of only $14,000.
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SUNDAY I
CHOOL
Lesson
By REV HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST,
Dean of the Moody Bible Instituto
of Chicago.
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Lesson for May 2
ABRAHAM A MAN OF FAITH
LESSON TEXT—Genesi» 12:1-»: 13:14-18.
GOLDEN TEXT—By faith, Abraham,
when he was called to go out Into a place
which he should after receive for an in­
heritance. obeyed. Hebrew« 11:8.
PRIMARY TOPIC—A Friend of God.
JUNIOR TOPIC—A Hebrew Pioneer.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
Adventurous Faith.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Creative Faith.
One of the greatest characters in
all human history comes before us
today in the person of Abraham.
He is venerated by Christian, Jew,
and Mohammedan alike. His per­
sonal history is replete with inter­
est and instruction. But his claim
to an outstanding place in history
is broader than any of these things,
for he was the one by whom God
called out a nation for himself and
began his dealings in sovereign
grace which continue to our day.
In choosing Abraham God began
the history of the Jewish people,
his chosen nation. They were called
by him to be not only a national
witness to the one true God, but
also to be the repository for his
truth (the Holy Scriptures) in the
earth, and, above all, to be the
channel for the coming of the Re­
deemer to the earth.
Our lesson, however, centers on
the faith of Abraham. As the Gold­
en Text (Heb. 11:8) indicates, it was
by faith that Abraham responded
to the call of God That call came
to him in his father’s house in Meso­
potamia (Acts 7:2, 3). His partial
obedience brought delay at Haran
(Gen. 11:31), and wasted years, but
in Genesis 12 we find his complete
obedience and resultant blessing.
The study of faith is always fas­
cinating. Faith is the thing in man
that pleases God. He is quick to
honor our trust in Him. Unbelief
shuts the door not only to blessing,
but also to usefulness.
I. Faith Calls for Separation, Obe­
dience, and Worship.
1. Separation (Gen. 12:1). “Get
thee out” was God’s command to
Abraham. It is his command to his
followers today. “Come out from
among them and be ye separate,
saith the Lord” (II Cor. 6:17). This
is the crying need of the church in
our day. Instead of the church’s
being in the world seeking to win
it for Christ, the world has come
»into the church and destroyed much
of its vital testimony.
2. Obedience (Gen. 12:4,5). “So
Abram departed, as the Lord had
spoken.” Faith obeys God, without
question, without hesitation, and
without reservation. We need a re­
vival of obedience in the home, in
society, and in our relation to God.
3. Worship (Gen. 12:7, 13-18).
“There builded he an altar unto
the Lord.” Faith in God is far
more
than
the
psychologist’s
preachment of self-confidence.
It
results in fellowship with God, re­
liance upon him, not on one’s own
strength of personality. Faith wor­
ships God.
II. Faith Results in Blessing, Pro­
tection, and Liberty.
1. Blessing (12:2,3). “I will bless,”
said God. “The Lord’s commands
are rarely accompanied with rea­
sons, but they are always accom­
panied with promises, either ex­
pressed or understood.”
In the case of Abraham the prom­
ise was not only to him, and to the
nation of which he was the father,
but to “all families of the earth.”
That promise was fulfilled in the
coming of Christ to earth to be our
Redeemer (Matt. 1:1).
2. Protection (12:3). “I will . . .
curse him that curseth thee.” That
promise to the seed of Abraham
is still true. The nations have
forgotten it in their hatred of the
Jew, but God has not forgotten. The
promise is equally true in the case
of those who follow Christ, “the
son of Abraham.” His protecting
hand is over us even in the dark
hour when it looks as though the
hosts of Satan had conquered.
3. Liberty (13:14-17). “All the
land. . . will I give.” After many
and varied experiences in which Ab­
raham proves God’s grace and pow­
er, he comes out into a place of
unlimited liberty.
The man who boasts of his “per­
sonal liberty,” who feels that he is
free from the “bondage of religion,”
is in fact a slave to the enemy of
his soul. And the man who becomes
“the bondslave of Jesus Christ," he
alone is free. None is more fet­
tered than he who shouts “I am
the captain of my fate. I am the
master of my soul.” And none is
so free as he who can say, “Christ
is the Captain of my fate, the
Master of my soul."
Deciding What Not to Do
Men must decide on what they
will not do, and then they are able
to act with vigor in what they ought
to do.—Mencius.
God's Way
God can act where we cannot
even think, out of resources that we
know nothing about.
Strength of Character
He who is firm and resolute in
will moulds the world to himself
—Goethe.
Washing Table Silver—Much of
the work of polishing table silver
can be saved if the silver is
placed in hot soapsuds immedi­
ately after being used and dried
with a soft clean cloth.
• • •
Melting Chocolate-Chocolate is
easy to burn, and for that reason
should never be melted directly
over a fire. Melt it in the oven
or over a pan of hot water.
• • *
To Remove Threads — When
basting sewing material, try plac­
ing the knots of the thread on
the right side. They will be easier
to pull out when the garment is
finished.
* • •
Hanging Pictures—Is your pic­
ture hanging on a nail which
keeps breaking the plaster and so
falling out? Before you put the
nail in next time, fill the hole with
glue, the plaster will not crumble.
• • •
Stuffed Orange Salad — Allow
one orange for each person to be
served.
Cut through the skin
three-quarters of the way down in
inch strips, being careful not to
Profitless Meanness
There is a meanness that profits
not the man who possesses it.
That of stubbornly withholding
praise where it is deserved. One
could understand withholding
money.
When in doubt, etiquette is an
excellent guide.
Don’t ask your friend to do
something for you he doesn’t want
to. Your friendship will cool.
Sometimes a pessimist is a man
who backed an optimist.
break the strips apart. Remove
orange pulp and cut in neat dice.
Combine with pineapple and
grapefruit dice and fill orange
shell with mixture. Drop a spoon­
ful of heavy mayonnaise on top
of each salad and garnish with a
maraschino cherry. Another good
mixture for stuffing the orange
shells is a combination of orange
sections, dates stuffed with cream
cheese and nut meats. Mask with
mayonnaise.
• • •
Left-Over Liver—Liver that is
le - over can be converted into an
excellent sandwich filling if it is
rubbed through a sieve, well sea­
soned, and moistened with a lit­
tle lemon juice and melted butter.
» • 4
Boiling Old Potatoes—Old pota­
toes sometimes turn black during
boiling. To prevent this add a
squeeze of lemon juice to the wa­
ter in which they are boiled.
9 • •
Jelly Sauce—One glass jelly
(crab-apple, red currant, grape,
etc), quarter cup hot water, one
tablespoon butter, one tablespoon
flour. Add hot water to jelly and
let melt on stove. Heat butter
in saucepan, add flour and grad­
ually hot jelly liquid. Cook until
smooth and serve hot over almost
any pudding.
« * *
Cleaning Wood-Work—To clean
badly soiled wood, use a mixture
consisting of one quart of hot wa­
ter, three tablespoons of boiled
linseed oil and one tablespoon of
turpentine. Warm this and use
while warm.
• • •
Butterscotch—Two cups brown
sugar, four tablespoons molasses,
four tablespoons water, two table­
spoons butter, three tablespoons
vinegar. Mix ingredients in sauce
pan. Stir until it boils and cook
until brittle when tested in cold
water. Pour in greased pan. Cut
into squares before cool.
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A Success Secret
If you know intimately a suc­
cessful man, you know one that
will not tell you everything.
There will yet be a Society for
the Encouragement of Courtesy
Among Automobilists.
Being bored accounts for a lot
of improvement in this world.
Man hasn’t done much with fish,
for all his inventiveness. He has
eliminated no bones; yet he got
the seeds out of oranges.
A Menace to All
Worshipful men will worship a
woman, but unworshipful men
won’t worship anybody.
Be chary about accepting an in­
vitation to make a visit unless
your host sets the date.
We’re satisfied with any bathtub
that has a handle to get out by.
Love is blind and sometimes it’s
Worse. Love gets by with too little
criticism.
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