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MEDPORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDPOKL), OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1935
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HIGH COURAGE
by Jeann, Bowman,,
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BYN0PS18: Although Anns
Parnsworth ha tost name, fortune
and the man the loves through the
circumstance that her wealthy par
ents neglected to take out adoption
papers, the ie not downhearted. She
hat taken refuge with Tecla Sorkt
and her family in Union Town, and
expects to learn something about
her past from Tecla, who was tor
merbj her nurse. She wonders what
she may do tor the family with
which she lives.
Chapter 21
LIISA'8 PLANS
A SLOW em tie touched Anne's
pale Hps. At least h could
make M'lna harpy, and ease lite a
little for Tecla. Mlina had Bald the
boys might buy a gllnetter of their
own. She could loan them the
money for It, and Instead of Mllna't
taking Tecla's place In the cannery,
she could go to business college as
she'd dreamed of doing.
When Anne awakened the next
morning the house was still. A fresh
wind billowed the curtains, sun
light flooded the room. Donning robe
and slippers, dbe opened the door
and listened, no sound of voices, or
footsteps. She called once, and re
ceiving no answer went down the
steep narrow stairway.
The big kitchen was empty. The
round table was set tor one, and be
fore the plate, tipped against a cup,
was a note:
Nikkt: I'm off to work. The kMi
ars taking their lunch. Open the
draughts and the fire will pick up.
Coffee on back of stove, bread In
green box with red roses. In the
cooler's noma stew to heat up for
your lunch. Aunt Lllsa says to
taks the magazines In her room.
She's coming home early today.
Don't bother about tha work.
Love, Mlina.
Anne looked about the room. The
dishes were unwashed but neatly
atacked In the sink. Mllna't couch
was open; It looked tumbled, as If
ahe hadn't slept well.
Anne went back to her room,
found an old housedress of Mllna's
and set about ber first housework.
This was different from the kitchen
of her old home where she had
played at housekeeping under the
amujed eyes of the servants.
An hour later, unable to find any
thing else she could do, she slipped
into an old sweater and went out
on the roar porch, which backed np
against the hill. A steep wooden
stairway led to a ramshackle old
house above. Anne looked at It a
moment. It was deserted. There
would be a good view from there.
There was. Finding a sheltered,
unny corner In the yard, she settled
down and for a while was content to
It basking In the sun, looking down
on Union Town, tbe wharves wltb
their drying fish nets, tbe red can
neries Jutting out Into the water.
From here she could see how tbe
two bays Joined the Columbia to
pour their waters Into the Pacific
ocean, marked by the lip of foam at
the bar, and -a line of black rock
Jetties. Riding gently on the broad
expanse were numerous small boats
-drifting with ' the tide, net buoys
gleaming re a.
Anne remembered tbe last trip on
tbe Abtl and how she bad told Luke
that she felt ss though she were
only then coming home, and he had
seemed startled. Well, perhaps it
was to be home, for a while at least.
She looked down on tbe town. It
seemed sheltered from the rest of
the world. The hill behind her
thrust two arms towards the water,
holding it between them. The
thought of ever having to leave It:
to pasa 'those protecting barriers,
brought a rush of fear.
"XTIKKII Oh Nlkkll" A strident
' voice which could belong to no
one but Lllsa sounded from below.
Anne stood up and looked over the
rough board fence which bound the
deserted garden to Its hillside.
"I'm up here," she answered.
"So will I be, In a minute,'' came
tho tart rejolncr, and a moment later
Lllsa hove In sight, arms burdoncd
with waxed paper packages, cotfoe
pot, tin cups dangling from a
crooked little finger.
"Nice here," she observed, aa she
topped the stops. "Picnic, sit down."
Anne sat. Lllsa gathered a few
rocks, a few twigs snd took a cover
from one bag, then after starting a
little fire ovor which she balanced
the coffee pot, she turned to the girl.
"You know of course that you
can't stay on at Tecla's; there Isn't
room."
Anne Just hsd been telling herself
the same thing, but hearing It from
another came as a shock. She looked
at Lllsa. She bad bant over to tend
to the Ore and the queer conical
shaped pile of hair she wore on top
of her head slanted side-wise like a
hooligan hat. Anne wanted to laugb
and cry at the same time.
"But . . . but you see Aunt Lllsa,
I Intend to pay board, It Isn't"
"Of course you do," barked the
woman, straightening up and send
ing the cone of hair to tbe opposite
side with a quick slap. "Drat the
thing," she snapped, and gouged
It to temporary balance with a hair
pin, "Of course you do, but there
Isn't room for you. Isn't room for
me either."
"Where would I go?" The com
plete hopelessness of the girl's voice
caused the woman to crane her neck
in a near-sighted survey of the
speaker.
"Bless my soul and body, you
didn't think I was driving you out
did you? Oh, Nlkkl, and here I was
thinking I was about to make such a
hit with you you'd never want to
leava me. Child, listen, how about
taking a little place together, here
In Union Town. Now don't speak,"
she held up a warning hand, "hear
me through first"
She let Anne wait, however, until
ahe had cut two willow saplings and
stripped them of leaves. Then she
stabbed a frankfurter on each, band
ed one to tbe waiting girl and mo
tioned for her to hold It over the
coals.
"I know I'm an old crank," she
began. "Oh yes I am, but I'm not
half as cranky as I could be It I had
a chance. Nlkkl, I love every
blessed child In that family, but you
can't expect growing boys to be
quiet and you can't expect them not
to have company and you can't ex
pect them not to tear the roof off
the house. And after I've bad a day
In the cannery, with machinery roar
ing over my head, I'd like a little
quiet. Have some salad."
Anne put some potato salad on
the paper plate Lllsa had banded
her, accepted a brown topped bun,
and a stuffed egg.
"Have you looked at tbls house?"
she asked abruptly.
"No," confessed Anne.
"Isn't much, but It's livable and
we could rent It for twenty a month.
We'd have to do a lot of repairing
Inside, but It would be worth It In
the long run."
"Don't owners do things like
that?" Anna Inquired meekly, look
ing up at a ssgglng shutter.
'"TpECLA'S the owner," came the
surprising answer, "but she's
never bad money enough to make It
habitable and therefore she couldn't
rent It. That brother of mine never
left her anything that didn't need
upkeep before It could be made
profitable: seven children and two
broken down houses, babl"
Into the white cheeks of Anne
came a flush of pink, and the dark
eyes sparkled with the first interest
they had shown. "Oh that would be
fine. She'd be getting something out
of tha house, and we could be fixing
It up for her all of the time."
"If we didn't let her know It," In
terposed Lllsa. "My dear, there's
nothing aa Independent as a Finn.
We pay our way and we pay our
debts, hut we never accept favors
we can't return. If you only knew
the trouble I've hsd making her take
board from me."
"Then how," waited Anne, "will 1
be able to buy a gllnetter tor tha
boys?"
"A what?" The cone of hair popped
forward at Lllsa's surprise. "What
a gift from heaven that would be for
the whole family. Nlkkl. But they'd
never take It, unless "
"Unless, what?"
"Unless you could get John to talk
them Into It"
John. Did even Lllsa. Independent
business woman that ahe was, depend
upon hlra? And where was he? Had
he been successful in her mission?
Lllsa gave her no time for conjec
ture; a quick glimpse it the shad
owed face and she was on her feet
with a brisk "coma on."
They rounded the western faco of
tho house, went np the slanting,
shelf-like yard to the front entrance,
which opened onto a dirt road, the
highest on the hillside. The door
was locked, but a broken window was
readily unlatched and they climbed
through to the Interior.
Anne looked about her In dismay.
Five, small box-like rooms wltb
plaster sagging, wall paper peeling
from the wslls, wainscoting scarret
with rough usage.
"Nlkkl, see, we could knock tbt
partition out between these twc
rooms. That would give us one, long
living room with two, three, five win
dows."
Copyright. IMS, by Jeanns Bowman
Anns has word, tomorrow, from
Judgs Kellogg.
Dae Mall Tribune want ads.
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INJURIES FATAL FOR
HIGH SCHOOL GRIDDER
LINCOLN. Kaa. Nor. IS. (J
Kenneth Bc-Mlnaer. 19-yead old Lu
ray high school football plaver. died
of cerebral hemorrhage Monday nletht.
live houra after he was Injured In
s game with the Lincoln high school
team.
Ilepdleea Chums
ROOKAWAY. Ore. Nor. 13
The chum deepwatr fish appar
ently haren t heard a better price le
on their heeds. The chum run ha
started and due to the demand an
unusually large number of fishermen
are out.
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VRIGLEVS
OGDEN ILLS FEARS
IN PRESENT POLICY
OHICAGO. Nov. 13. (JF Ogden
U Ml lit, former secretary of the
treasury, said today that the United
States Is faced with a fiscal problem
that "threatens our national solv
ency and Invites a major "disaster."
"Until unemployment la solved
there can be no sound recovery." he
said In an address prepared for de
livery before the Chicago Rotary
clubs.
"Forty million employed cannot
carry Indefinitely the dead weight of
ten million unemployed," he said.
"Our national ecenomy cannot bear
the load. The federal credit must
break under the continuously In
creasing strain."
Mills said the problem of unem
ployment is still a major one because
"the policies of the administration
have been better calculated to per
petuate the evil than to terminate
It."
"There was and is only one way to
cure employment that la to Increase
production," he declared.
Stream Pollution
A Major Problem
PORTLANT5, Ore.,' Nor. 13 (jpf
The state planning board In Its re
port to the national resources com
mittee, said that stream pollution
constitutes one of the major water
problems faclag Oregon and other
northwest states. Spread of disease,
destruction of recreational possibili
ties end 111 effects on wild life were
cited a resulting from pollution.
THE ROOTER
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
For further proof address the author. Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TJ. S. Pat. Off.
of m&o UMINS IK
IflffOUlSrlOUT INPIft- feUWi
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THE
Dry TortugtiA Island, site of the old
abandoned Fort Jefferson off the
coast of Florida, le dotted with for
gotten graves moat of them the last
resting places of yellow fever 7lctlms.
They are marked, generally, with a
simple wooden cross bearing the name
of the dead and words "died of yel
low fever." One grave, however, pre
sent a mystery unsolved through the
years. It la unmarked except by a
wooden envy which beara no nnmo,
dates, or cause of death.
Strange as It seems, from time to
time fresh flowers are placed upon
tills grave and no one haa ever seen
them put there, and no one has ever
seen anybody come to the la land be
fore, or leave afterwards. Many leg
ends have sprung up around this
mystery but none, so far, has ex
plained It.
Fostofflces In India sell more than
staunpa. money orders and other ar
ticles connected with the bualneas of
communications. There a supply of
quinine la constantly kept tn etock.
available to all for the prevention and
treatment of fever.
UiNiuifct Sndlrat. tar II' 13
Eccentric Alphonse VI. mad king of
Portugal In the late seventeenth
century was an impossible
king and an irrepressible trouble
maker. A favorite pastime was shoot
ing pasaersby from his palace win
dows. Cartel Melhor. minister to the
king and virtual ruler, attempted to
aoare the king Into sanity. He told
him that a comet In the sky was a
bad omen portending tr?g2dy Al
phonse, instead of mending his ways,
whipped out his pistol and took a pot
shot at the comet.
Tomorrow: Poetry From the Grate.
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