Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 05, 1936, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBXJXE, MEDFORP, OBEGpy; SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1936. uvn mino im usv mvu mmo rm UOT mvu MJNO TH UUY NGVU M1M0 THI IADV NEVER MIND THE LADY aa a: s: ss by David Garth NrVII MIND ml IADT NIVII mino ml uov NCVII MINO ml IADT BYMtolS: lllalre '. hoe dropped in on her dtsij.-.. father at hie enormous eetale i. Virginia. But ehe decide alet talking uith him that ehe eannoi etick it out and etarte back u Washington to visit her giddii mother . Kay W tit disconoetted in turn, order private oar to bi attached to tht. New York train Ueantohile. Terrv WlUett iuet hat returned hie tathet to Oarteret Va. tor hie taet tono rett and white . talking to the rector ie wondering whether to go back to the tropic and hi engineering contract. Chapter 19. INTRUSION THE venerable rector, who bail botli christened and burled Lawrence Wlllett, was disturbed this powerful bronzed son was get ting ready to ride again. He tried to arouse in him some softening sense of Family by pointing out tbe various inscriptions In the little churchyard. He showed WlUett where lay the ancestor who bad been killed In the fighting around fort Duguesne In the Year or Our Lord seventeen bun dred and forty-five. Tbe marker was of red stone, weathered, cracked, and nearl; undecipherable. There was the Wlllet who had some home to die from tbe rigors of tbe Lewis and Clark empire building expedition, and the three sons of Judge Nathaniel Wlllett who had galloped hell-for-leather with "Beauty" Htuart's cavalry Into lines of belching guns. Quite an Illustrious cavalcade to ride behind alone, but Terry Wll lett bad been knocking around the world too long to have assimilated any sense of Famll) He listened courteously and then looked at his wrist watch. "Good-bye, sir," he said. "I'll be pushing along." "Terence," said the minister, "haven't you thought you might have a duty to all of them here?" Wlllett gave him a long straight glance. "Duty" be said. "Don't talk to me ' of duty, sir. I'm a bust as an en gineer and a worse bust as a son. Let It go at that." The minister didn't want to let It go at that by any means, but there was nctbing he could do about It. "At (east you might be Interested In seeing your old borne," he urged, putting bis stiff aged fingers Into Willett's Arm and youthful clasp. "A graceful courtesy ' to your father, Terence." "Where is the governor's place?" The minister furnished explicit directions. Wlllett nodded. "Might take a look at 1L Thanks tor everything; you were damn decent." HE strode oft. "You were damn decent." The minister shook bis bead slowly, put bis plnce-nes back astride bis nose, snd reflected sad ly that divinity schools bars their limits. The historic town njuare waa protected by an Iron fence there was some sort of a status Wlllett walked through the town of his fore fathers with the attitude of a man waiting for bis train to get through a tunnel. . But be stopped to look at the house where his father bad been born a big white bouse with six columns rising to Uia roof cornice. There was a drive through an ave nue ot locust trees and at one side of the bouse war- the overgrown remains of a terraced garden. Nobody had lived here for some time the bouse waa boarded up. the grass needed mowing, and a weatherbeaten sign stuck In the lawn announced thi property was for sale or rent and referred to some bank. His face waa a study as he looked searching!? at the place, as If to drink In a picture that would last, because this was a day or last farewells botore the world moved on. Some day he might want to re member It. some day, somewhere A train whtstie sounded down the valley. Wlllett suapped to. Good bye. Dad. here's howl The taat-fiylni "Old Dominion" disdained to stop in Carteret for the sake of passengers, but the little matter of a water tank was accepted as a necessary evil. Clouds of stoam Issued from the hot boxes, a condurto- waited watch In hand on the platform tor the Sash, and two little barefooted negro boys stood near tbe observa tion platform of a long silver-gray private car named "Debutanle II," their eyes popping out of their beads. TKKFtY WILLETT arrived at the station on the lump. "That was the New York train T be asked the station agent. "Yeah, but It aln'i the local," said the agent "This train don't stop tor passengers." "Whatever It's doing now," said Vlllett, "!s all right with me." He walked over to "Debutante 1 1" and swung up on the observa ion platrorm. "Hey!" yelled a brakeman. "That's i private car." "Do tell me," said Wlllett. What's private about It?" "I'm tellln' you you can't ride there." "If you don't like It," said Wll lett, "there are any number of things you can do with It." A negro In white servitor's coat came out on tbe platform. "Tbla Is a private car. sub," he warned. "You can't ride heah. Ah'm telling you." "Listen, you," said Wlllett "You can't tell me anything." STATE COLLEGE ROLL HOLDS UP CORVALUS, Ore., Jan. 4 AP) Winter term enrollment at Oregon St t college vu nenrly Urge u for the full term, end continued the 30 percent Increase over year ko. lint day renutiatlon total of 2874 showed today. It the iiB-jal lte registration oc cur, the total for the term will be above SWO. compared with the final total of 2VS'I for the aecnnd term tatt year, and 8 ,35 for the 1935 fall term. Unttl the Unt two yetra the winter term umaJiy ahowed a marked falling off compaiM with the fall. Tht tint day enrollment included 60 new tiudentt, neaxly 60 perct&t L mm V K I r t t if .t-Z "Don't talk to ma of duty, sir," said Terry, "Tough guy, hub?" commepted the brakeman from the station plat form, "Coma on up here, flunky," In vited Wlllett, "and And out for yourself." The brakeman decided It dtdu't really make any difference anyway, but tbe negro began an olBcloui protest. WlUett Inquired it he'd like to be tossed right the hell off the train entirely. The Inquiry waa attended with an unmistakable eagerness and put an end to further argument. Tht train began to move, and Wlllett brushed him aside and -went Into the car. It was a private car all right big club chairs, a small mahogany bar, thick grey carpet and soft- toned curtains a blend of luxuri ous' comfort and' modernistic betVity. A pretty girl anu two men were shooting dice on the floor. Tall glasses reposed perilously close to their heels, and a nearby buffet table was ladon wtth a parade ol bottles snd bowls of cracked Ice. "Listen." the girl was saying spiritedly, "1 loft a six bore and you can't put me behind the eight ball with Snake Eyes. A woman hat some rights, you pirates." Her Indignant pronouncement met with an exception trom one ol the men. a young army officer. She leaned weakly back on net heels and noticed Wlllett. "Well, well." she observed, "look what wandering boy saw the light In the window." (Copyright liij by David Oarth) Tomorrow Purl tskti a swlps it Tsrry Willttt. more than a year ago. More than 300 graduate students and the usual lste comers remained to be registered. ATLANTIC CITY HOTEL DESTROYED BY FI ATLANTIC CITY, N. J , Jan 4 (API Ten men were injured when fire de. t roved the lM-room Bill more hvM early today, drlvla, more than 40 gueata into the utrwt In their night clothes. The hotel waa valued t $Aim nrm. the oer ss!d. The fir aUrted In the rear of the flve-tory frame building and hour later firemen were atlll pouring font o' water Into the amoulderinx ruin. All furntalMiiH were destroyed .w damaged by wafer and moat of the Hiieat lout their Jewelry, clothing and otUr valuable. PROMISE OLD MEN PROSTATE RELIEF ST. LOUIS. Jan. 4. (AP) A new treatment for prostate trouble a common affliction of old men which glvea complete relief waa re ported today to the American Asso ciation for the Advancement of Science. It oonalata merely of feeding to prostata sufferer an extract of bo vine Tissues which in aome unde-termtn-id way, possibly through a hormone action, caues tbe abnor mal enlargement of the gland to subside, according to Dr. D. Roy McCulahg, of the Cleveland clinic. Cleveland. O.. who reported the method. u. -niminsrf tY.-t ..Tin abnormal enlargement of the gland, which la situated at. the neck of the blad der, interferes with normal body fiinrtlnni. and ha a aecondarv ef fect In causing kidney disorders which are sometime fatal. , . 4 Dse Mall Tribune want ads. Two Lives Toll In - Oregon Industry SALEM. Jan. 4 (AP) The state In dustrial accident commission during the week ending yesterday, received report of the deaths of two workers, injured In industrial accident in Ore gon. Accident reported numbered 460. The fatally Injured were M. Tano. Portland fruit picker, Injured at Dee, Oct. 17- and 8. E. DUley, Grande Rorfde laborer, injured December IS at Valley Junction. 4 Use Mall Tribune want ads. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS-By JOHN HIX. Tot farther proof address the author. Inclosing a stamped enrelooe for reply. Reg. C. S. Pat. Off. I 1 sSx .. -X ,'aWL GReereo ih f fwee fly verses PUT IN CANDY CHARM IN CHINft r6 ovl7 yeftK IS WePTt5uT"t? 8-. an iNTBicftte ifta of .JMnWpj 4ZSffltfe?m While European mlnda were still blundering from one system of calen dar to another, wondering why the seasons aeemed to ahlft from one year to the next In aplte of their best calculations, the ancient Mayan had already perfected a calendar so un cannily aocurat that It la today one of the marvels of mathematics and aAtronomy. Based on observation of the aun, moon and planets. It provided for a 865-day year divided Into 18 montha of 30 days e.ch. Each month con-, slated of four 0-day weeks, and at the end of the yo&r was an extra per iod of five unnamed days to com plete the year. The extra occasional day provided for our leap years was taken care of so accurately that the Mayan calendar of 25 centuries ago varied but one day In 300 years and even this variance was allowed for so well that after more than 3100 years the Mayan calendar waa still accurate. The Mayan year began In mid-July when the aun crossed Its zenith. Through the centuries that the Mayan calendar was marking off the pa&sing time, Europe's best calendar was running ahead of itself one day every 100 years. This, the Julian cal endar, was discarded In 1852 by most countries in favor of the more ac curate Georgian calendar of today. When the new calendar was put Into effect 10 diva had to be lopped of f j the old calendar to bring the sea- j sons back to their normal place. Tomorrow: "Man's Span of Life." RESENTS ByGLUYAS WILLIAMS CALLS UP BUDDY" BEMIS fO COME Oti OVER MD SH HIS CHRI&YMA) PRESENT'S LEADS BUPDV URSIAIRS ENDMESfrfiKG fla THE Things he 60t SH0W5 HIM The elxc-Tric -Train, sfrVs-trlERE'5 BEErJ SO MUCH 60IN60N, HE HAS rK HAD Tl ME 10 PM WrfH f MUCH DISPLhVS H3 SH0E- skaTes and if -there were ice thev' couip (50 5KA11K6 SHOWS HIM HIS NEW StAMP ALBL'M, BUI" HE -HASN'f HAD Time To PUT AtVV STAMPS' irJVE-f 5AY& HE 6oT S0M SWEU. BOOKS ABOUT PIRATES AND AIRPiANES AND TH1N6S ,601" HE'S BEEN TOO 805V 10 READ THEM Vtf WANT5 To KNOW NOT BEING ABLE To WHAT BUDDY1 WAN5 COME To MUCH OF ANY TOPLflVWlTH PECISI0N, SPEND THE AFltRNOON WRESTL1N6 (Copyright, 1938, by The Ben gyndic-n. Inc.) WlLUArlS S'MATTEH P0P- By 0. M. PAVNB fp-RtLTC-HA YAI VouriE. MisTArreulPesx, JtSlH IM POVJ-TMA HECK SHouuTT'lpVUZ.WT VAr.'VN ' 1 Kwow vyHAT SittVirr K"Mlsv f frA C 12 1 6r MAS tDAV??i 4 , ? a -7 S f. . j tdwrrtrtt. IMS, fcr ft. B.U tndltm. 1st) TAILSPIN TOMMY Their Last Hop Gonel GY me'? 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