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t MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOR13, OREGOX, FRIDAY, 1UGUST 10, 1934. PSGE F0TJRTEE1T sunns mamhm3i 8YNOP8I8: Bob Power mothm fa ill of an incurable disease, and Marsha, Bob' wife, i in Sew York carina for her. Mr. Power' ill net ha postponed the divoroe that Bob had demanded Uareha secure; Marsha has never eeaeed loving Rob, and find comfort for hi mie understanding her relatione with Geoffrey Tarleton in the faith and dependence of hie mother. Bob i in Mexico at work. Chapter SS SELF-SACRIFICE OU will never know," laid 1 Marsha "what your faith In me, and your e irlog (or me, meani to me; will always mean to me!" Her Tolce broke; (he (aw Mra. Powers' eyi (111 and aha tpoke quickly, lightly, ot other mattera. Maraha's first thought now was (or Mn. Powers and (or that which was good (or her; she was learning that lesson of lore which makes the needs of others one's own, She had new eyes, and they told her that Mrs. Powers was helped by seeing her on those sleepless nights when pain kept vigil and that Mrs. Powers' knowing the nurse to be awnke and alert was not the same. The (act warmed Marsha, who felt (rom It a rise of tenderness that made her eyos stlng; an almost ma ternal tenderness. She reflocted often and gratefully on the (act that she was, "so absurd! strong" and, fleotlngly, she reused upon the mercy of crowded hours and the weariness that sent her soon Into sound and dreamless sleep. The loss that she would know with Mrs. Powers' going, a loss that must come to Marsha who had be fore known nothing ot gentle and real affection, would hare crippled Iter had she bad more time to brood upon It. As 't was by day there were trips up and down atalrs, domestic matters to attend to In the bouse, ordering to do, the doctor to see, be side the odd, lncreeplng extras that took time. Such, (or Instance, was the call ot Mrs. Powers' old (rlend, Mrs. Vln lug, who always stayed a round two tours. There were checks to write or the family attorney might come or the Curate or the Rector. And Bowers must be arranged and Mrs. Powers must be diverted, enter tained and Bob's letters must be written every two days. Many were tbe worlds (or Marsha, who had known but her own selfish and sometimes cruel world; and there was so much to do In each of them. Ppy done, Marsha would oreep Into the high, black walnut bed to sleep soundly for an hour, perhaps two; to wake with compunction and to fumble thickly tor ber elusive slippers. Then, a negligee around her, she would make shivering, stumbling way down the passage. It the light by Mrs. Powers' bed showed a ye. low slit beneath the door, Marsha would blink herself to aharp wake fulness and push open the door. "Pain, dearest'" she would ask anxiously. "We can do no more than so much!" the wecry doctor had ad mitted to Marsha; "the effect of opiates wears away with this!" She would see Mrs. Powers smile on her, ler eyes brighten; she wonld hear, "Just a little, dear, QH0 would settle by the bed; l5 sometimes Mrs. Powers admitted that she would have to have "a little pellet" and when this happened Marsha would lrop It In a glass ot water. Thei she would slip her arms beneath Mrs. Powers' ri:oul ders to lift her while she drank. After that she would sit down by the bed to wait, watch and hopo; to lope so (ully, so fervently, that she was often drained hy the energy she gave to hope. "Please, please!" she petitioned allently of that vague something that was drawing closer and grow ing warm for Marsha; "Please keep pain from her!" You 11 get cold, dear," Mra. Pow ers would murmur. Marsha would answer with a con vincing, "I'm quite warm," fre quently when her hands were stif fened hv the cold and alia had in sot her teeth to keep them from 'chattering. "Will yon, Just to gratify me, wrap that comforter around your ; "If you like, but I'm not cold. Is It any better, dear!" j "I think so." I And then igaln. she'd sit back to iwnlt. It was at such times that she folt oddly close to Bob; quite as If his strength sustained her, as If his love encompassed jer. as If every thing were well between them, and as If he cared. Sneezers Sought To Test Theory CHICAGO (UP) Tils Unlwrilty ot Illinois colliye of mtdlclnt has start ed an elimination contest to find the 10 Illinois women with th moat In triguing anoowa. Tho women are And ona sight aa she sat In the chill, dimly lit room she fell asleep to wake wltb a atart and a sob be cause she had heard Bob aay, "My dearest dear! My poor, tired child!" It had made ber tremble violently. "Yon spoke, mother?" sha fal tered. "Water, dear, please." Sha stumbled as she moved toward the table upon which was a pitcher, but the ache and the depres sion that had rooted In an unusually long and trying day, were gone. Bob must not know how bad It was, she decided again and again; he must never knowl When he re turned, she must keep hla from the room at the bad hours. She consid ered, and at length, ways ot do'sg this. She decided that ahe could with the help of the eerveata and the nurse, who would certainly un derstand the (utility at his baring more hurt than must be his. "You'll break down," said the nurse one morning that followed a sleepless night; "lt'd just a whim ot hers, wanting to see you; It 11 wear you osi!" For a brte( moment a little ot Marsha' chill arrogance returned; "Never suggest to her, please, my being tired. Do you understand, Miss Thrope?" "Yes, Mrs. Powers. I didn't mean to annoy you, but you're too self less." "Nor did I mean to be sharp. But I want to be with her, to do every thing I can (or berl And It she thought I was being worn down. It would mnke It too difficult, yon see?" THE nurse did see, but she did not cease to be troubled. She re leased pressure through angry mut ters to Hannah, to Ellen; mutters In wblch ahe aald, "Slio's wearing herself outl That's all! The human body won't stand more than so mucb. When's he coming back any- wayT She a a saint and " But Marsha was finding new food as well as new fatigue through do ing what she could (or "mother." The diversion she best liked wss looking, with Mrs. Powers at Mrs. Powers' many portraits and anap- shots ot Bob. Bob In the photog rapher's high chair, Bob In bis first short dresses, B"b wearing his Hist sallor-sutt with the real whistle of which be had been so proud, banging (rom a cord that was around hie neck. Bob In military-school unKorm, later. In college and on the crew; Bob at some picnic. (The girl seated by him was really beautiful, Marsha realized with a chilling of heart.) Bob with his father, that happy year they spent together abroad. Under this beading too, cams Bob's dogs; horses; the Adirondack! place. "Of course you will go there often with Bob," said Mrs. Powers; "Bob loves It" And Mrs. Powers' life ending,. Marsha waa certain, was the very reason why she would never go with Bob to the Adlrondacka place. His loving It would, ot course, wall It away from her. All that the faded, wasted, small women had been to Bob began to be too apparent to Marsha and It led her to write him, In extra letters which Marsha did not show to Mrs. Powers, every small detail concern ing his mother which she felt could Interest him; his mothor's enjoy ments; how she spent her time; what they were reading; of her ap petite, (If good, that day) who had called upon her. The chronicle was faithful In narrating all Hint could cheer. Marsha felt that such word would help him; but once and again doubt crept in through her weariness. which reduced her Judgment and left ber certain only ot the fact that she loved two souls wltb alljier heart and mnst live. In the chill fu ture, without both of them. She wrote, one doubtful day, when her bead ac' ed (rom lack of sleep and she could not see quite clearly. "I have written as I have, think ing It might help you. If my extra letters annoy you, put parentheses about "Your letters are so long and good, dearest" and I'll understand that you wish a terse report and no more. "I don't want to make things harder for you than they must be: nd I thought you might, and most naturally, feel I Intrude where I can't belong through telling yon of your mother. "The only thing I could not for give la your letting me continue to annoy yon, It I have." Ctfrrt,ki, ttu, h AT. Bmiltmi-Urlt) Marsha haa, tomorrow, a tola Oram from Mfxlco. wanted for um In determining wheth er electrical changes In the air may be ons cauae of chronlo aathma. ReT. Evelynn Marshall, missionary of the National Federation ot spirit ual Science churchea. Free lecture Sunday, o p. m at 813 So. Rtreraldc Subject. The New Revelation. TO EMPHASIZE PERIL KBW YORK, Auj. 10. (UPj "Na tional regimentation" and bureauc racy are endangering the entire struc ture of America, liberty, former President Herbert Hoover will aay In the book he h!i Just completed under the title oi "The Challenge of Lib erty" it waa announced today. The book will represent Hoover' flrjt aignJflcant utterance since he it ft the White House two years ago to make way for the Rooeevelt "new deal." It will be published Ute next month by Charles ficrlbner'a eons. Hoover, who has worked on the manuscript during the lat year, will set forth his defense of "the Ameri can system" of government. He will give critical consideration to the growth of fascism, communism and socialism. He will discuss his general pur poses In a foreward, In which he de clares; "It Is the purpose of this examina tion to survey briefly the movement of revolution through the world since the great war the method of over throw of liberalism: to recall our American heritage, the growth of our liberty, the forces in human nature and human behavior which govern1 economic life, the restraints and Ideals of the system. Of ordered liberty, the , achievements of the American sys tem; to analyze from an American! point of view the alternate systems! S 'MATTER POP Wfi Top, w i4 e. ki mV Toot 6oes To sute.'P Toot iots To iute-T J S. ) C ' ) J-m M 1 I -JoTIC6'I, estr-S "14 ' TAILSPIN TOMMY The Impulsive Inspector ! By Hal Forrest litllIPIIllF WVtfW I I'LL SHOW THAT JT tOHAT ARE pW HEVi FOR. 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Ho Is list ed as the author of "American In dividualism," published in 1922, but he la better known for his Joint trans lation, with Mrs. Hoover, of "Agrl cola de re Me tallica' fiALKM", Aug, 10. Kenneth Beach of Roseburg and Mrs, Sarah V. Caae of St. Helena were appointed on the ataff of the state department of education for the federal emergency relief program In education, It wa announced today by Charlea A. How ard, superintendent of public instruc tion, through hla offices here. Beach was named general adult educational supervisor, while Mrs. Case will be supervisor of nursing! and parent education. Both have been j connected with school work for some i time. ENGINEERS TOLD ABOUT HIGHWAYS FOR HEMISPHERE VANCOUVER, B. C. (UP) High ways that eventually win link the entire western hemisphere, were de scribed In papers read before the highway and construction division of the American Society of Engineers convention here. Details of the Alaska-United Statea highway, which will stretch 2204 miles north of Vancouver and the Inter American highway, linking the United States with Central America, and which eventually will be extended to South America, were given by American engineers. The proposed Inter-American high way, which will cross seven countries and pass through seven capitals In linking up the United States and Central America, Is the longest ever surveyed and planned, It was revealed. It will skirt volcanoes, penetrate Jun gles and open areas now practically Inaccessible. Roads already In existence will be utilized and, like the Alaska-Unlted States highway. It will, when ".om pleted, be of historic, economic and social significance. The Alaska-United Statea highway project will be about 2204 miles long. BROOKLYN, N. Y., Aug. B. (fp) With her clothing In flames, Mra. Bertha Deutsch, 43, was hurled, bound and gagged, from a motor car early today, after two men had kidnaped her some time before. Hospital at tendant said her condition was not serious. SUBURBAN HEIGHTS 2-IO ON A BLISTERING HOT NI6HT WMEM THE WHOLE MEI6HB0RHOOD WAS FORCED TO SEEK SLUMBER ON VERANDAS AND 5LEEPIN6 PORCHES. MILT 6RI6SBV SHORED . SO LOUD THAT NOBODY ON THE S1REET COULD 6ETT& SLEEP ' ' (Copyright, 19M, by The Bell gjradleits, lis.) ' . By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Bv 0. M. Paynd
