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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL. TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD, OREGOX, MONDAY, " DECEMBER 30, 1935. PAGE StX "Ml HM TM LUT Nrvst MM IW us m msm rm it " tA0T NEVERMIND THE LADY STOCKING TIME By GLUYASWILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof addreaa the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Beg. TJ. S. Pat Off. Ntvii mind mi last Ay David Garth NfVM MIND IMS IAOT wivii mind mi lAor NIVH (UNO TM 1ADV MVU MIND rW IADT NiYII SUMO THI IAOT .1 .VO'SM.- Terry IT Well ami .'..mire ll'cut ftavs met lor a eio lour ej-olli.'ia adventure. The out come ot the adventure is that a man is sho:, and Terry taket the tap. Uut Allaire doee not know; the talis lor the mates thinkinn Terry ha pone lack upriver to hi lot, and Terry takes a lashing Irom the notice oolite under the Impres sion Allaire has sailed away with out carma- .Voir Terry is hurry inp hark in his conetrur"m camp, trherrvs lather is trjl.rT? to stave oil I'ulh lever and rapacious na tives. Chapter 15 DEFEAT QTICK around and rest up a couple of day." That was useless and Ducky Corrigan knew It. He went on casually "There'i been hooting In tha streets In Proplon olre." Willett said nothing. "If the port la mined" , "Then I'll get off at Doa Rioa and tut around Proplonolre." Willett poke with a snap and bite to hie words. "Get a gang from one of those villages on the lower Palva and get portered up the river." Corrigan hesitated. "I'm not trying to maka It hard, on, but those Tillages are tied up with the fever." "1 don't give a damn how hard It la." aald Willett grimly. "I'll get through. Don't worry about that." And Corrigan abruptly knew that Terry Willett would get through. Ho'd have bet bis last dollar on the tall redhead. They roiled up near the small, drab banana steamer. The dock waa lit tered with signs ot the recent load ing, straw, broad green leaves, bur lap, blackened stems, and squashed nnrlpe fruit. Willett stuck out hla band. "So long, Ducky." "So long, fella. Maybe we'll be to gether on a Job some place be swell, wouldn't It?" "Sure," said Willett. "So long." Corrigan watched him walk quick ly through the fine grey mesh of rain. Then he leaned back In hla Beat, atuck bla feet against the partition and eyed his enquiring driver with an antl-Spig glare. "Itedmonte Bar, you punk." FUTILITY! It was expressed Is every detail of the camp on the banks of that tropic river futility, despair, and a malevolent frustra tion. There waa no llfo no sound except the humming of Insects In that fover-rldden apot. All was beaten and groveling . hedged In by a fringe of tangled Tegctullon and matted creepy treea that looked hollow and unreal with a curacd muddy river licking the slimy bases ot the pontoons that sup ported a would-be conqueror. The clearing waa acarcely larger Hum a child a playground It waa bin a spot plucked from the Jungle mid slowly returning to Its own decaying, torpid, and heated in Its pathetic civilization like the head of a vulture close to the sun. The main hut that apoka Authority was square and flat-celllnged with two-by-foura lining the walls; the window waa Jaggcdly screened In sects mocked It as the river mocked tho dredger. A work table was littered with .crumpled blueprluta and sheavea ;ot foolscap filled with sprawling cal culatlona two unmade cota with the jmoBqulto netting In Jumbled con tusion over tho disordered sheets ianl sickness and madncsa every iwhore. There was one thing that deflce) the aqunlor and defeat ot the place I that waa the tall bearded man who slouches! wearily over a table. His eyes were vory bright, too bright, and the line straight nosa broathed Jerkily, thin nostrils dilating like a racing thoroughbred's. Hut, withal, a hint of Mayfatr clung to blm; aquare appearance of the ahouldcra, tho breeding In his face, the shape of the hand that tr'.moleil with a pen--perhaps. lie was writing, not -larlng to lose the chance of what might be a last lucid moment. This le left ror you should ? not bo utile to last. 1 know you'll net h-re and whatever you find head up. 'I'll tiMiiit last reguest non sense liiku me buck to the States; Carteret. Virginia, la where 1 lie-' R.in I'd like to return there. This linilreained-of sentiment will prob ably surprise you. but I know you'll i,.j.rrt this last wish " For a moment a brief attempt at a smile appenred on hla face. As If he cared where he was burled. Dut It was good enough as an excuse to get Terry out of the country should te by any chance have had other Ideas. Ills eyes returned to his message, tho last ve.itlge of humor gone, and be had to rest bis head on his free hand as tho pen resumed Its shaky progress. "and take It easy for awhile. non I no rushMiK off to some ill,. nlnyariiuriit rilit away or I II Jtnt ev. rytlilnK you try to build there are other thlncs In life .in iheni a rlwir.es and they'll find you Cheerio. Dsn" An..' ANTI:aiE. Dec. 30 (Spl.l Mr and Mrs. Bill BiKham and aii(tliteni and .t-. and Mrs. Albert aVtiham snd chllSsfa asnt Christmas At ttK home Mat. Via i;hm of Saai, Vsil- C "!: . X.nsai .t, fclvrn St fj,)ta ,-a.iol. IHivsiber 10 yta A ass o! fe'lnta Clans ifss ! fxisr an t!- pisent iSse a.asa. aaa nuai. to the ohildren kf. IKS.' w anjoyed by all. Lincoln Chiley and Donna Monica of Brownboro w-re Married ecemler 27. Kveryone Ma aho.'ked and saddened to learn of the sudden death of Mra Mary Kent. The sympathy of the district goes to the bereaved family. Thoa who attended the funeral A Mrs. Mary Kent from Ar.trlr.pc were Mr. and Mra. Tom llstlett. Mr. snd Mrs. Elbert Blwhsm an.1 children. Mr and Mrs B. K. Mr. and Mia. Hla pen dropped from hla fingers and rolled acrosa the table. He reeled hla head In both hla bands acd tried to focus on the framed picture of a beautiful woman with a wcolth of auburn hair and a smiling mouth. He'd snatched the rattle from her baby's band and given him a whip. ' "He's going back, Vic," be mur mured. "Back to whatever you'd have wanted, I hope. Almighty God, how I hope ao " Then Lawrence Willett permitted bis bead to sink upon one arm, and sighed like a tired child who la quite willing to be put to bed. Two weeka later a young man boarded the "Atlanllca," New-York bound, at Doa Rlos, the last open cof fee port elnce the guns of the revolu tion bad begun to roar. He paused by the rail and leaned on an elbow. For a while he watched the scurrying coffee porters down on the dock, then hla gaze shifted to the long low range of hill In the background. Behind them Proplonolre, the Palva, Pluto'a playground. Hla eyea were misty for a moment, but only for a moment. Something about him, the line of hla mouth, the set of his shoulders, the Jut of bis chin, perhaps could be named by one word. Iron! THE bar of the Arundel Club was ot glass, Inlaid with silver. It was filled wltb fish, some of tbem very queer. There was one called a Trig ger Fish because of the alignment of a fin. and this fish could go seventy miles an hour when It wanted to. It never wanted to. The place had a thick carpet of Pompclan red, a sunken black dance floor, and walls panelled with full length min ora. Upstalra men and women In eve ning clothes played roulette and baccarat from midnight until dawn. The midnight crowd at the Arundel waa famous. There was quite a cluster about Allaire West. She Invested all the Qualities of a duel In her play, chas ing the bank up a tree or loslng'hcr shirt and doing either in a graceful. composed way that Inspired three eheera. Everybody waB surprised when she suddenly got up and asked to be cashed In. "You're stopping early tonight. Miss West," said Louis. "Tired of It." "Is everything all right?" he asked anxiously. "Of course, Iiouls. It Isn't your fault. It'a mine. I don't seem to enjoy it any more. Seems a wasle of time." She smiled. "Something I ate, no doubt." She went downstairs and Joined a small group at the bar. A nice-looking blond man who might have passed as a Viking made room for her. "Are you going to drown your aorrows, or celebrate your luck?" he Inquired. "Neither, Charley. What'a the mat ter with that' fish? Doesn't It ever move?" "All It does Is eat," complained Charloy. Allnlre tapped on the glass with a slim forefinger In a futile effort to stir the lethargic Trigger -Fish. Charloy tapped too. So did all the others. They lapped, and the Trig ger Fish didn't even budge. "Heavens!" exclaimed Allaire sud denly, "What foola we are. Getting all excited over a flsh." "1 know It," said Charley. "But Just think, Allaire, that fish can go seventy miles an hour. They've even reinforced the glass at the ends of the bar In case It should smack Into them at full speed. If It ever got go ing places 1 Imagine It would be hard to atop." "I Imagine It would," agreed Al laire thoughtfully. "And," continued Charley plain tively, "with all that preparation, what does It do? It lolls around, eat ing, and preening Itself. Wouldn't It be a thrill if It should suddenly go phht ? Justify Its existence?" "There." said Allaire, "you have raised a very pertinent point, Charley. Just ideation of existence is confined not alone to denizens ot the briny deep. Or. as In this In stance, a denizen of an aquarium bar In a plus-ultra gambling Jernu" "True," admitted Charluy. He shook hla head sadly and looked dejectedly at the fragile, long stemmed cocktail glass In his Angers. "What Is a Trigger Fish without ambition? A very woeful thing in deed. Nobody's any good without ambition." "What'a yours, Charley?" the glr! Inquired. "Orange Blossom," said Charley "Try one." (Copyright. Its), by OaviA Qarth) Tomorrow. Allslrj floss 70 miles n hour, fer a while. Luther Day Mr. and Mrs. Henry Owens. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Yorton. Fred Button, mil Wallenberg, Mrs Sarah Riley and Mr. and Mrs Carl Von der llellen. Mr. and Mrs Tom llstlett. Mr. and Mrs. B K. Riftta and children and Mr and Mrs. B. E Bale and chil dren wire dinner uest of Mr. and Vrs S W. Bali-e of Medford recently Mr. anu Mra. Earl Yorton silent ChrlstmiiA in MeiVord with Mr. Yor ton's moltier. Mr. and Mrs. Csrl Von der Hellen and children spent Christmas day with their daughter and aon-ln-Iaw. Mr. and Mra. Harold Zumi. lt of Lake Crerlt. Bill WattenOerK spent Christmas with his parents Mrs. Wilbur Erlrkaon Is spendlnj the L'hrlstmaa vacation In Portland with her husband. Mra. Henry Owens haa been quite 111. but la much Imp-mrd at tnn time. Use Mall Tribune want ads. tOCOMOTlVe PUFFS lb TIME'S tvcKy TIME mainly The ordinary thermometer opcrntos on the principle of expansion 'vicl contraction under changes of tem perature. Heat expands, cold con tracts henc an Increasing temper ature causes the mercury or alcohol in the bulb at the bottom of the thermometer to expand.. As this liquid expands It forces its way up the thin tube. The more It expands the higher it goes -and the tcmper y at ure oan be accurately rood by the graduated scale. Yet. strange as It seems, an ordinary thermometer will register colder when placed suddenly In hot water, and warmer when placed suddenly In cold water. This is due to the fact that when the chonge In temperature Is sudden, then the Rlass bulb reflects first with the sudden application of heat the glass expands, this Increases the capacity of the bulb, and conse quently the mercury runs down. As soon as the heot Is conveyed through the glass to the mercury, of course, the mercury expands and shoots up--ard until It register, the proper tem perature. Likewise with the sudden application of cold the glass contracts first, making the reservoir smaller and forcing the mercury up. It Is Just a matter of seconds, however, before the mercury contracts and fall, TAILSPIN TOMMY A Chance OF rscer (OAMO&Sj (OHO Tommy aaj-d PSOWEf3S ON a t-he: SSCY-' X ilfiiflMira ci jJ4ii i tFS ir M II Si fir wirr wm I 1 hamm o'sfocKme o . soesup-tobep won- comes p&wn half on- eoE6 op A6mh won- ; i&SSPta r ! J IJT Pit EbU 1 t,8lih I ItSh maslpike ih livik& mm what -time . dressed To make sore DEKiri& wuv parents tSJSr??- i'i l'Vn-1 Lllf IrJ.-U 1 , fcMf ' ROOM SRrtfA CLAU5 WlU. Trlfrf SiOCWHb 16 IN SEEMED A UfflE --rjfSS'y2r il- JM0Q(V5 t :, lli n VSk fcj! CDMEToFiU. 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