PAGE SIX
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1934.
HYNOl'MS: ttob Powers has
rrtitrncd hastily from his work in
Mexico to find hi mother dead,
and hit wife, itarsha, worn out
trilh carina tor her. Hefore ht left
then had been on the edos of di
vorce because of Hob'e stubborn
refusal to understand Marsha's
relations with a friend of hers.
Now neither quite knows what he
wants: ftob is tnlktno over tho
close understanding between him
self and his mother.
Chapter 87
OLD PROBLEM
"AND you know," Bob went on,
"how awkward I am; I never
could get along with girls. I novar
could, or wanted to. You wera the
only one." He paused abruptly to
continue with, "and my not know
ing other women ot any age, well,
added to our closeness, my depend
ence jpon her, hers upon mo. It
does seem ?.s It I might have been
permitted to get here In time, or
have been let out ot that Job!"
Marsha found comforting blm
with words to be suddenly beyond
her reach. Speech was too difficult;
words would betray her! And, com
promising upon the only possibility
of uhowlng him her sympathy, she
leaned yet more toward him as she
tightened her small, nervous, hot
hands.
Very eager no was, sue l
make her understand that soon,
them both, the time together woi.
be a matter (or memory. She h:
drawn too close to blm to suit hln.
she saw, too; his definite withdraw
al bad told her that
And Bbe had been hoping, and i
fervently that she shook with tin
hoping, that somehow Bob would
forget all his stubborn doubt, to re
member only all she would try tr
be.
lie moved toward the doorway t
turn back. "Please," he begged he:
stlltcdly, "don't cry any more!"
"I don't think I shall," she an
swered, and she smiled In a wa?
that troubled him. He found blmsell
remomborlng her smile with anil
ety, but with the feeling and this
made for a certain relief that she
wouldn't cry If she said she would
not. And In this he was right,
BOB knew certainly, with a week
passed, that Marsha bad nc
more wish than he to hurry any
thing; "anything" being the di
vorce. "There's no use of our having done
all that we have and then messing It
up when our noses are almost ovei
the ropes," she pointed out In hei
characteristic way,
"No," he agreed.
mm - ml m
She saw that It helped him. He
spoke loudly, quickly, of momorlos,
hopes; a melange that, to a cool
listener, would have seemed oddly
unrolatod, but that In his mind and
hoart know poignant connection.
As he finished Marsha said; "1
cared so much for your mother and
she cared for me; she really did!
And after hor dea'b I thought she
must know all about me and every
thing of me, you know, that I had
hidden from hor, and It tortured mo.
"1 folt that It she did know me as
I am, or rather as I was, she could
not care for mo. Then, night before
last I began to feel that the dead
know everything to forgive every
thing! or that their sleep Is too
deep to be troubled by the small
compunctions of those who go on.
"And I bellove that thoso dead
know ono or the other; a doop. good
sleep or an undeisnndlng. And both
are kind!"
nOI) felt his tears start to slip
down his loan checks; his ten
sion ifolnxod and he knew ease until
he saw that Marsha too was crying.
Then enme tho chilling cqrtalnty
thnt she wns being hurt and that
he could not comfort hor as ho
' would.
She held his hand against her
heart nnd ho rose suddenly. He
wunted hor In Ills amis with a want
n Intolerable that he had to draw
away sharply, quickly, lest he be
mastered by his need.
Ilnnds limp on hor knees, she
looked up at him. Ho saw, with ro
ller, that her tears hod stopped.
"I want you to know (hot I shall
never forget your kindness," ho said
unsteadily.
"And I wouldn't have anyone
think that your mother mads us
stick together."
'Nor would I," he agreed again
and this time morosely.
They were talking It over at the
finish of a luncheon, after Bartholo
mew had loft them.
Marsha had made tblngs more
easy than he had supposed they
could be, Bob rcfloctcd as she
poured his coffee; b!iu bad changed
the Bhnpo ot the table to bring It
down to cozy, new smallness and
she had had It moved.
The arm chair In which his
mother sat, had disappeared. Mar
sha had been wholly, considerate,
rarely understanding. Bob sat star
lng at her, wishing she weren't so
pale, so thin; that bIio would eat
more; that she could sleep. He
knew she did not; he saw her light
too often, a slit of gold, beneath the
door that divided their rooms.
She had not moved her raiment,
herself, to tho lavender or the blue
guest room. He was gratoful, deeply
grateful, that she bad not; It helped
him, during the sleepless nights, to
know she was near and perhaps, he
thought, heart qtilckonlng, his being
within hail comforted her.
Ho longed to ask her ot that and
of othor matters, hut he kept him
solf, by forcing his strong will, to
tho Impersonal and apart from her
whenever he could, without making
the Borvants suspicious. They sat
together each evening, usually pre
tending to read. They had their
meals togothor. Twice, and on dnys
when tho grudging, chill spring bad
ropontod Us mood, they had mo
tored, "Aro you In a hurry for the di
vorce?" he heard.
"Certainly not," he replied stiffly.
"I'd thought wo'd qulot all talk.
If after you went back I'd stay
on here. A good many women would
not consider going to Mexico pos
sibly anyway, you know. And cer
talnly, If I stayed here, for six or
eight months, no one could suspect
tho truth. And when we do get our
divorce everyone will thli.k only
that It has lasted rather longer than
do most marrlngea. You see?"
Ho presumed she was right, but
ho wished she would not talk of It
so lightly. The Idea of the divorce
shook him ns It novor hd before.
Ho kept thinking of 11, sitting with
her dining the evening.
And now, with a few months
done, so that no one would suspect
they had acted a lie, the dlTorce
would bo real, accomplished.
fiVfl'i4, lilf. I, K. Kn-.lsTstlnl
Tomorrow, Bob and Mtrahi havs
SALEM. Auj. 13. (V) Governor
Julius L. Meter todny Announced sus
pension of the 80-ctny Jail sentence
Imposed on William MrDcrmltt of 8t.
Helens. The suspension was In the
nature of a conditional pnrdon. Mc
Dfrmltt wns sentenced July 3S to 30
rinys In Jail, nnd lined UDO for driv
ing while lnttrntfd.
Ferry sink.
OIUXION CI TY. Aug. 15.
Tho I'anhy Jerry, operated by the
county, inn In tho Willamette rlvr
ycaterdny while carrying a large truck,
load of gram. The accident occurred
In shallow water, nnd the boat wns
risen a few hours later without se
rious dnmnge.
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OF
DIES IN
(By Gertrude Haak)
EAGLE POINT, , Aug. 15. (Spl.)
Mother Howlett received word or the
passing of her daughter, Sarah How
lett Lewis, on Sunday, August 12, at
her ranch home near Spokane, Wash.
Mrs. Lewis was born June 3, 1860.
on the old homestead of her parents,
Alfred C. and Sarah Howlett, which
was located about three miles from
Eagle Point on the Big Desert, south
of the present Charles Clngcade home
and was the eldest daughter of 13
children, only two of whom are still
living.
Raised In this community, she was
married to James M. Lewis on Sep
tember 3. 1890, while living on what
la now the Ala Vista orchard and
where her parents lived for 18 years.
The first 10 years of her married life
was spent with her husband on the
Brltt place and there, their two
children, Edward and Vlrgle, were
born.
They moved to Sterling on the
Applegate river In 1900, where they
lived until 1906, then went to Kansas
for a year, returning In 1907 and,
moving to a ranch near Spokane,
which has been their home ever since. I
Her husband, James H. Lewis, passed j
away In April of this year. Mrs. Lewis
had been in poor health for several
years, but with the passing of her
husband she became more subject to
heart attacks, which resulted In her
death.
Besides her aged mother, Mrs. Sarah
Howlett of Eagle Point, she leaves to
mourn her passing, one son, Edward
Lewis of Colvllle, Wash., a daughter,
Vlrgle Potts, of Bprague, Wash., two
grandchildren, Donald and Delbert
Lewis and two sisters, Octavla Shaw
of Portland, and Hattle Howlett or
Eagle Point.
She was burled near her home at
Spokane.
And to Mother Howlett, beloved
pioneer mother, who has endured all
the privation, the heart aches and
suffering, as well as the Joys of the
pioneer mother, the proprietress of
the Sunnyslde Hotel at Eagle Point,
who, though nearlng the four-score-and-ten
mark. Is still actively engaged
In the performance or her dally duties,
who has burled husband and eleven
children, and to her daughter, Hat
tle, the sympathy of the entire com
munity and of all of southern Ore
gon Is extended In this new sorrow.
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PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 15. (VP)
Work project totaling many thou
sands of dollars the largest running
around $20,000 and giving employ
ment to hundrdeds of men and wo
men on relief rolls of Oregon, were
approvod here today by the state re
lief committee.
The 20,000 project Includes clear
ing, grading and Installing culverts
and bridges on a four-mile section of
the Wilson River road from Smith
creek to Fall creek In Tillamook
county. Materials will cost about
95,000,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. () Oscar
Chapman, aslstant secretary or the
Interior, said today upon his return
rrom a serlea or conferences In the
mountain states, that already appli
cations had been received for the es
tablishment or more grazing districts
than could be organized In the next
six months.
Chapman and his fact finding com
mittee held hearings In . Colorado,
Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana.
He said the committee would leave
here early In September to hold an
other series of preliminary confer
ences to discover the wishes and prob
lems of stockmen and local officials
In Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, CaU
rornla, Oregon and Washington.
"The stockmen with whom we talk
ed on the trip are accepting the Tay
lor grazing bill 100 per cent," Chap
man aaid. "They admit they have
been ruining their own ranges by
over-grazing and are anxious to have
us cooperate in working out their
problems. And that is what we In
tend to do.
"We have found that there can be
no general application of detailed
regulations to various grazing dis
tricts," Chapman said. "Each local
ity In which grazing districts will be
established has individual problems!
and conditions. Perhaps there can
be a aeries of general regulations in '
the character of definitions adopted
for all districts, but even these prob
ably will have to be restricted in
many of the districts."
KEEPING JUNIOR OUT
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
DRWES JUKlOR oOf-Of
DOORS lb PLAY, DCPLAIrJ
IK6 SHE'S HAVIH6 A TEA
PAMV AND WAHfS To BE
FREE RR HER 6UE$fS
SfARft P0URW6TEA. 8'
COMES AWARE TrtM" JUN
IOR has wandered m
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Oltf L0X6 ErOOtti NOW
DRIVES HIM OUf AJD
LOCK TROrrf POOR. PE'
TORNS ToTEA PARlY,
POOR BELL SfARlM& TO
fttW& VlfcOROOSlV
TlKPS IT'S JlMOR WltH
"(HE UEWSThWHE IS
THIRSTY . 6fS HIM A
PRJtfK OF WATER.
SErjDS HIM OUT ADD RE'
T0RN& TO HER GUEST'S,
BECOMING UHEASILV A
WARE. THAT OUHIOR IS
CALWK6 To HER OOfSlPE
S-5
CAUIH6 6UES WAY To
RIN6IH6 OF DOOR BEIL,
JUKlDR REPoRfirlfe THAT
BUDPY, 6E0I&IE AND PICK
WOULD LIKE DRINKS OF
WATER. TOO
WEARILY SUPERINTENDS
DRINKS IN THE KlfCHErl,
6EfsTriEfiAW6 OOT,
AMD PEfURHS To HEP-PARTY
Af END OF FIVE UNINTER
RUPTED MiiOTlS, JUNIOR
reports he's Thirsty"
AfcPM. DECIDES, SlfcHINfcJ
HE MlfcHT AS WELL STAY IN
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