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PAGE STX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBTTXE, MEDFORD, OREGON. MONDAY, APRIL I. 1935. HYNOPRIRt James Ktimson, Iff, fust has patted his bar sramina tion, and begun a ioio career in the ofhce at hit dead grandfather's partner. Judge Haleomb. 7 ha Judge predicts great things tor James, ond tho numerous family friends, especially the women, meanwhile start out to find James an appro priate uife. They find the rich Jans fiorthrup but James drops Jans for Leslie Harris, daughter of printer who lonfllmei drinks too much I Chapter 14 ABOUT LE8LII TN New Concord there was a rumor current, but nerer confirmed, that John Harris, the father of Leslie, was the black sheep ot a good fam ily cast off on account of his Intem perate habits. It was certain that he had an edu cation ot sorts, for when he was very drunk he wss fond ot quoting the classics and on the rare occa sions when he was persuaded to put on his shabby Prince Albert and ac company his wife to church he had, as ereryone conceded, quite the air of a gentleman. He was nerer known, however, to speak of his family or antecedents and It was believed that hie wife knew as little about them as any one else. Mrs. Harris always re ferred to her husband as "Mr. Har ris" even In the bosom ot her fam ily and she regarded him with enor mon a respect, In spite ot the fact that he drank up so much of his In come that she was forced to take In aewlng In order to make ends meet. She was a patient tired little wo man, the daughter of a small grocer, and no one ever heard her complain, either of her husband or ot her hard, dreary lite. John Harris had boarded at her mother's when he first came to New Concord and Mrs. Harris was never quite certain how they came to be married. John had suggested It In an expansive moment and some way It never occurred to her to say no. At that time Mr. Harris was not a printer but a reporter. He had drift ed Into New Concord one winter's morning and asked for work at the" offlce ot the Dally Globe. As there was apparently nothing about' a newspaper office which he could not do they gave him a Job In the com posing room. Later he told the editor very casually that he had once been reporter on the New York Bun, but afterward denied making any such statement. However, In an emer gency he was "tried out" as a re porter and held this position for two years, at times with brilliant suc cess. Naturally Mr. and Mrs. Harris had never been received In New Con cord's Inner social circle, but Leslie, their only child, had been admitted from her school days. There wasn't much to Leslie, as everyone agreed; she was just a sweet little thing, though young and old liked her. In fact, no one could help liking Leslie; she was that sort. Perhaps It was because she seldom offended anyone, hadn't enough "gumption." as Miss Julia said. And then she was naturally such a happy little person, happy as a child Is happy without thinking about IU THE Harris family lived In a hum ble frame cottage very close to Mlsa Julia Pratt's. Mlsa Julia front ed on North Fifth street and the Harrises on Elm, but their back and aide yards met and mingled In neigh borly fashion. From her back win dows Miss Julia could see Leslie at work In the kitchen or shaking rugs on an upstairs porch or digging in her garden. Leslie waa a "master hand" with flowers and In the spring and sum mer and late into the autumn the Harris place was ablate with color and fragrance. Partly, perhaps, he cause of her bright yellow hair Les lie reminded Miss Julia somewhat ot her own daffodils swaying so hap pily In the spring breeies. She seemed as careless and care free as they Just a pretty delight ful everyday garden (lower that any one might raise. In contrast Jane Northrup was a stately American beauty rose that had required the best of nurture and generations of breeding to bring to Its full perfec tion. "Leslie Is a pleasant little body," said Miss Julia out loud to Hookey (short for Booker T. Washington) her large black torn cat and con stant companion, "and there's no denying she's pretty In a baby way, but she's not the wlfo for James." Miss Julia sighed and reflected hltt .-rly on the incomprehensible ways of men and of their doplnrahle penchant for doll baby types In stead ot practical sensible women of "chararter." Miss Julia did not think much of men. At least It could be said In Jamea' favor that he was no worse than the rest of his sei. James meantime was sitting In a PLAN SPEEDS UP BERLIN. April 1 . ( API 0r manya military regeneration gatned momentum today the en hi net em powered the army to obtain land for maneuver, garrlaona and other mili tary purpose. The rahlnet'f derree would enable the retrhwehr to condemn land for fortification on the frontier. A government spokesman Mid: "The purpose of the decree la not for fortifications but for garrinona. drill and tnrKft practice ground!." Drill and maneuver grounds uwd by the army before the war were tak en away from the n-lchawehr after 1010. Thus Temprl '.off. formerly Ber lin' big exercise field, la now the nation's principal airport. GREHT RICHES dark corner of Leslie's little stda veranda with black murder in his heart Near him sat Tom Ellsworth and Bud Howard. On the rail sprawled Jackson Crowell all good fellows and tried and true compan ions but unwelcome at the present unhappy moment. It was one ot those rare nights In June that poets have sung about from time Immemorial. The mis chievous old moon had for the ten hundred thousandth millionth time turned the world Into a place of sil very mystery and enchantment. It was so fair a night that sleepy little nesting birds woke up, took their beads out from under their wings and sang a bar or two before they discovered it was not morning and went back to sleep again. Les lie's side porch was a pleasant place even In the daylight. There was a hammock and cush ions and chairs that were designed especially for comfort. A honey, suckle in full bloom trailed over Its four posts and met overhead and made the porch for the moment seem the center of a great fragrant bouquet. On such a night, therefore, with his chosen fair one near, surely James should have been happy; but he most emphatically was not. For, in the favored place, beside Leslie on the porch step, sat the alert, the successful, the Immacu lately clad Samuel Fletcher whose hair always stayed brushed and who always knew exactly what to do with his hands and feet. SAM, ot course, had his guitar with him. and as usual he was strum ming It and making the night hide ous by yowling to the moon about love always about love and kiss ing. "Though it were De-a-th" he sang feelingly, "I'd gladly die, Oh my love, I'd gladly die, for this, for this." James conld have strangled blm. Sam always made James feel shy and tongue-tied and hideously awk ward. Sam was only a year or two the senior, but he had assumed all the airs ot an octogenarian since the wholesale grocery home for which he worked had sent him out on the road selling beans and canned goods and similar "trash." He boasted that he stayed at all the best hotels In every town he "covered" and to hear him talk ha had the unlimited expense account ot a Jay Gould. To Jamea he was altogether "fresh'' and pushing and vulgar. What Leslie, the sweet, the shy. the Incomparable . . . Leslie, with her dear appealing little ways, her soft little hands, her marvelous un derstanding, her big dark blue eyes that mado a man sort of gulp every time he was bold enough to look down Into them . . . what a rare soul like hers could see in that that muttl He sighed audibly at this shattering ot his ideal; and Tom and Bud and old Jack sighed with blm. But their misery was not to en dure forever. The hateful song waa barely finished before Leslie had coaxed her four sulking swains down on the steps beside her or on the cushions In the grass at her feet and In a little while had them sing ing In chorus and laughing as hap pily as it they had not each known a man's bitter disillusionment a few momenta earlier. She persuaded Bud to favor them with "Frankle," his new coon song and made Sam play the accompani ment through all the seventeen verses. Afterwards she smiled up at James In her shy little way and adroitly started him talking about Boley Henderson, his latest client, who had recently beon arrested by Old Lady Blue for conduct and lan guage unbecoming a colored gen tleman. When he repeated the repartee In court between the two contest ants, in spite of the Judge and the other restraining minions of the law. Leslie Inughcd her silvery. throaty little laugh until the murder died in James' heart and his shat tered Idol was built up again miracu lously, at a bound. When he went home and hour or two later ho was treading on air. Leslie always made blm feel like thai. No one on earth, excepting pos sibly his grandmother, had ever un derstood htm as Leslie did and he never left her without feeling shiny with happiness inside and out. He dreamed the most marvelous dreams wnlklng home that night dreams of winning such honor and renown and glory that Snin Fletch er's ugly nose would be twisted com pletely out of Joint. (Copyright, I9JJ .Vitrei K, Famham) Thin srm complications la ths Harris family, tomorrow. JAPAN 10 KEEP IN L. OP N OFNF'A. April I. ( API 4pn will matntiiin her imrt in Euro prun il f n ir. obvrvfm hr bllv4. dnjipltf her rrrlicnatinn from th ' loaenn of Nation-. ! Diplomatic quarter tort ay aald they Married ooniitraM? Import aiue to th conffrpnre of Japan Eu Ian tttplomntlc corps to be held in ParU In June for Knernl exhaniie of viewa concprnlng Ruropran pmb lemi. Lawnmower time to et trien- iiarpened mid rr paired, ".i. ej : i and clolUTretf Medford Cyclrj, 49 E FOR U. P. PATRONS Porter servlc will b prorlded In coaches and chair cars on principal Union Pacific trains. Including Port land Rose and the recently announced Pacific Limited, beginning today, atatea an announcement by A. 8. Edmonds, assistant traffic manager. "The purpose of incurring expense of the porter service" said Mr. Ed monds, "to provide the beat possi ble convenience aner comfort for our coach and chair car passengers, and la but a further expression of a pol icy to furnish all such service as may tend to' popularize travel by train. It will be the duty of these por ters to not only maintain the In terior of cars In a clean attractive condition, but to extend a cordial and willing personal service to pass engers, who are at all times consid ered our guests while they are on Union Pacific trains. For that rea son, these porters sre carefully se lected for their sppearance and man ner and then carefully trained to the niceties of courtesy and attentive personal service." fu ATTRACTIVE- MIS3 AEO' AMD MVSTHRiOOS OOMkJA DEEM IS rNCJ'UCW THE CAUSING KK EV0 KJOkTHVI OP SPECUIATIOM kS TO WEH IDEMTITV MRS. MAE CARTER WhktA D 11 mm m nm rnui l mil Hi mr I .t J. I J. ' lit M I , auMiousiJ friEjo 6oes oiK fo kifcHEM ib REfORHs o roof or fwaliV weaijs mother lNA N AM PAN V H E f tm ' I ' " f. T r I KtR60,5WEllt CHECK ON TiME WllM .SttlRS.HOPPlKGUPAHD tWU AND ThEi' SfeRf, UIL0 111 OMIl lllnlli I 111 ' III 1 I 1 6IR& PASSED WnW 1HEIR friE MWD IH CASE DOWN AND ChUltte SHE ARRW1N6 MUCH YCO EARL1! I lHui ill Ttf6 rfcJ: '.i , . v-. MOTHERS, AND frtE-i'MAV M&friER'S WftfCH N)AV KHOWb -fHEV'U BE WE AND HMIN6 1& WAIK OP Mrs. Mae Cartar. wife of David I IjjJJtilisa 1 I I " W" V I BP m " f f S k BE 601H6 TO WE" PARfV gE SlfiW AND DOWN UHflU tY'5 Webb Carter or the Club clxar store 1 laallllLllJll aWl I I I -fiMF Th AO IN of this city, passed away Saturday I H I I I "f I M l I I 1 "1 ! I j eiixkft 1 evening at 8:45 at the home of her I nessnms.snmsntnmsmmTte3E!BBiJSJ "fl vMMU1(, f-S (Copyright, l'tSi, by The Bell ByndicauT Inc.) g.MATTFn ' ' Bv C. M. Payne Y f O A IP" X"" ' Z-- r- -v l&T2E AM J.TRYIN& X 71 V f ) S " ( CH f (WoTSem&mt3E.'K A A,v-0 - --T ! ( UPS AMIS ) V 1 . ! . . sM llsT l.p.yngnr. ito, By Tnt Brll Syndicate. lnc ' v Pl TAILSPIN TOMMY A Clmn"-e of Pla;-! By Hal Forrest I MOWt-OOKT RUW-JUST '"HM frtAOE ITi-W'WfMVCATR.' f.-wVC CWT-M(T mrTsCSI H 0AUW4T-Oee,v tWyZZmSrS HE HASN'T fei SKSET& . -THr CUANrF oi " --, .Vr-I I. "V ?aJ 1 ir imt., IOQ CLOat TO - f- glt Flp p ' BEN WEBSTER'S CATEEW Tlin Wr'limr Horn " Bv Kiiwin A'-r COMe ON, "WBETTER TAKE IT EAS.V ACROsT HEREe THE r THE 'N 5s A FLAW OF LIGHTNING AND THE ROAR 7twERe'S THE Vl'LL 6ET OUT AM ""SP LUKE .' ITS m THE RICKETY BRIDGE ON THE TURN-WONDER RAIN'S -fi?awfe OP THUNOER WAS NOTICE OF THE STORMS I BRIDGE -l'D TEST IT-SAY' AINT iL? LETUP M CANVON ROAO ALL THIS WHO THE FELLOW .WASHED KfeSg'Sg RETURN I BETTER SLOW THAT AN AUTOMOBILE BlT!LlL HAVC WEAKENED WAS THAT TOOK AWAY HIS Sgt .Tamo rrfc 'Vl ""T-'.W'lg CX3WN- 1 HORN I'M HEAR1N'?M'Y fVTgV IT SOME- IT AHEAD I TRACKS Mt BE DAD, AN 1" UlfX, iWiAM Vi Tr lSS lummmmte uumk hhwrni mBSkwtmmms - THTi". fivon'- rh Vft-ii-i? . . '.r- By Sol Hess 1 IX iDEroTiTv . rkJjMu rro-n i Wty ) mmv Lefefc; , )) BRINGING Ur Ir'Al HER 0 n sV- n ni p-Tfrn ii ii n n n n n !se McManus r -T LU-m rAppyT inc-f M-rruf.t. NOW-WEVILL I'VE BROUGHT THE PIANO IS Z I CUV- I ZJ - sl( v if rr VOO- . ) ECSTASY- L I . sister, Mrs. J. M. Redmond In San Francisco, after having been In fall ing health for the past two years. She was born In Coma, Colorado, October 37, 1885. and has been a Medford resident for the last twelre years. Besides her husband, she leaves to mourn her loss her father and moth er, John and Mary Dal ton of San Francisco, and four sUters, Mrs. V. H. Harland and Mrs. J. M. Redmond of San Francisco. Mrs. M. F. Schmlch of Miami, Arizona, and Mrs. H. S. Boise of Medford. Also surviving are four brothers, Paul Dal ton of Pueblo, Colorado, Arthur P. and Walter Dal ton of San Francisco, and Clemeth Dalton of Berkeley, Calif. Funeral services will be Tuesday afternoon In San Francisco, Interment also In San Francisco, REESE CREEK RESIDENT INJURED BY UNRULY COW REESE CREEK, April 1. (Spl.) Elroy Jackson was severely shaken up and bruised Friday evening when a young cow which he was milking turnel on him, knocking him down and kicking him In the ribs. DEEM. I'M SYLVIA TMAT5 MICE FOTTS JD I'M AOC l l (-.u. l-VrlCM-J tUD I POTT5, OR. I OEbT OOlIcit OF SBELIElVEl IT'S LL.C. MEMBESJ MRS. mi is. rv -arrr i- - . . . . , . 1 . . ... s -- . i c (WW' -V;- VWIIW -lUUKrKLtr-tKtWLE.S. IV-L TOoovj'fVVI ai5-V rvr o..-. ctAcall. aspec.l, I A W ,SSiSC. WfV T J Vff v., .- '12JCW A kCm PASSES IN K. F. I Mra. Z. T. Halferty of Klamath . Falls, the former Miss Annie Apple gate, daughter of Capt. O. C. Apple iate of that city, paaaed away at Klam&th Falls Saturday night after an Illness of only two days. She was born In Llukville, the town that later became Klamath Falls, In 1861. She Is survived by her husband, Z. T. Halferty, aon Daniel, and one daughter. Hazel, all of Klamath Falls. Also surviving are her father, Capt. Applegate, three brothers, Frank L., of this city, Roy of Portland, and O. C. Applegate, Jr., of San Francisco, besides two sisters, Mrs. Rachel Good of Klamath Falls and Mlsa Jeanne Applegate of Santa Barbara, Calif. The deceased was well known 1c this city, where she leaves a host oi friends. : Services and Interment will be belt ' In Klamath Falls Tuesday afternooi. i 1 o clock. ! BUT YOU VOU Ml CULE THAT J es-I: I II l U I II X S I I "SE-PEL-SESJCes TO ESTAT3USM ELi&iBlUTY) so IP YOU'LL OUST POTTS ADDRESS STARTING FOR A PARTY 6Jfe DRESSED FoR PARC AND ASKS MofrlER IS If "TIME fo sfwtf YCf BR M HOUR BOf FIJI'S HER OUfER -CrtlKfeS OH, WaUDlN6 6L0VES KIOOOU IT'S A STCICT UJE MUST H4VE 50ME VOW - APPLICATIONJ TO Mi fMfT . PERCHES ON EPiE OF CHNR, (TALLIK6 A IrtfER' vais is if -Time tfow? MRS. POTTS, L REALLV MA,v KJO wct IK) .NiuT peep fr'Jr'; c By GLUYAS WILLIAMS CAN1 SfAWD iNAOfON HO L0H6ER. MOVES BACK AND FORM BEtWEEM FRONf DOOR AMD WINDOW t SFE If 0fHER CHILDREN ARE SteRflN6 VOUC CLUB, AMD
