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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
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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."
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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.
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PASSES IN K. F.
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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. !
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