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PAGE TWELVE MEDFORD MAIL TRTRUXE, MEDFOItD. OREfiOX. FRIDAY. MAT?CH 27. 1936. l'HE MINUTE THAT SEEMS A YEAR By GLUYAS WILLIAMS Golden Rgin STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor fsrtber proof address the author. Inclosing a tumped envelope for reply Reg U S Pat Off. a I A ul'HtH: Morgan Black, ac tuated with lift and with one girl in particular, ha gotten off a train at random, and flnda hlmeelt on hit may to tea vhether Mitt Blla Lan ning Kit! takt him lor a boarder, Morgai. meett a moat unuaunl and very young looking girl with her nrme full ot laburnum bought. The bought are . hind ol otering to the memory ol her dead lather, the oonfldet. And her almott medieval eoatumt It the tame. Chapter Two SMALL QUARREL THE tragic gesture with which Iris had displayed hr graceful strangely -dressed self. Indicated suddenly to Morgan what It would be to bring a girl dressed like this to a party, made him see that there might be something, after all. to her funny small troubles, silly as they seemed to him alongside bis own. He spoke Impetuously In the half light. "Poor kldl See here I'm not hard up. Here, take this and go into Philadelphia and get yourself some thing, won't you, on me? . . . Say It's dropped dowr the chimney" But the moment the words were out be knew be bad said the wrong thing. "1 don't suppose you mean to be Insulting." Iris said In a voice like Ice. "There's your road." He caught her arm. "Oh, say, I didn't mean any barm. Just thought you'd never see me again. Conven tlons sre Idiotic things anyhow. And you're Just a kid." "Nlneteen's not a kid." "Oh, gosh, I thought you were fifteen at most. Awfully sorry ''. lit . SsAr a ill "Dsddy waa "Ob, never mind." Her roles was toft again. "It wasn't your fault. If a girl wears a dress to her knees and complains of poverty to a stran ger, she has only herself to blame If she's offered elms!" They both laughed. After all. they were young, and this wss an excit ing moment's encounter. Out Mop gan had a good deal of persistence. He had to know that she wouldn't spend ber life after be left ber en tirely without anything she wanted. "Isn't there anything you can do since you won't take alms? Good word alms; haven't heard It tor' ages. You know, you are Victorian I" SHE accepted this sadly. "I can do lots of things, all as Victorian as possible. Place-cards, fine embroidery, teaching a little girl the rudiments of French and singing." "Well, what do you do with all that money t" "Till Daddy was killed In the mo tor accident. It took all Uncle Will made, and what little 1 did, to give him the little thlnga be wanted. He was a genius, and be had to have the Inspirational flow treed," she recited like a lesson. "And since, there are a lot of expenses. Uncle Will Isn't strong yet; snd he wss laid up so long he lost soma of bis work." "Why, yon poor kldl 1 say, you have had a rough time." "You must bare too," she ssld with a swift generous courtesy that was new to him. . . . She waa prob ably just Ilka the rest, only with a line be didn't know. "Good-by. Gran dln Lsne Is that way. And thank you tor offering. I know now yon meant to be kind." "Well, I did. Here are your boughs." He gave ber the great arm ful of flowering branches. She laughed suddenly sbove them. "If they were only gold fairy gold, rainbow goldl I'd take thorn home and get everything I wanted with them." He spoke, turning back. His voice came to her dimly In the dusk. "Do you know what fairy gold Is? It turns Into withered leaves next day: and there's no pot of gold 1536 AUTOMOBILES OPERATED BY STATE! SALEM. Marrh 87. ,4', The RUte of Oregon, on Murch 90 tht ye.ir. owned tot I of 1.638 pawnkT Kutomobllefl, trucks and otlier piece of motor equipment, Dan rry. ttc pnrchnMnn riU, reported to Oov ernor Muriln today. Arpmxlmately 843 of thrc vthiclti. re opr rated by thf nttp highway eowimlMlon. Thla depart mrni hts 17 pdwnjer ram, 440 trirka and 104 trartors. Tht State Agricultural rollfge op trates 114 tat-onrd rrhlrlra and the UnlvrrMty of Oregon 15 motor Tfhlclea, . .. BuckuwJuiii s t crAm, u A Pt-ij dtKro.iL TU C;tV, 220 A. QM. under the rainbow. There Isn't any Santa Claus." "1 wouldn't care," she answered blm, going away from him. Her voice echoed behind her. "Maybe I could spend soma of It before It went back to leaves. Maybe tbere Is rainbow gold fur some people." She did not bear his answer. Sud denly she did not want to go home. She waa passing the public square, and, conscious again of ber load, she sat down on a bench, the better to daydream. "1 was bad tempered, too," she reflected. "After all, I wouldn't trade dear old overworked Uncle William, or even Aunt Gila and ber homilies, for the best car and biggest radio and most mag nificent night-club that were ever built." Nevertheless, the Ideas were de lightful. A radio how Unci Wil liam would like It, with Its chances at good music. Its contact with world opinions I How Aunt Ella would adore a long gray satin dress "to entertain in!" THE town clock struck, snd she realized aha had hn ftlltln there a full balf hour. They would wonder where she was. ' As she went on slowly In the dark to the big shabby house tbat bad been a sbowplace seventy-five years a genius." ago, she was planning what ahi would do If these boughs were buna with actual limitless gold: A new bouse, as beautiful as this had been when the Colonial Lannlnga kepi open house for Washington's staff, but with today's luxuries. A house with a tiny elevator, s bathroom for every room. The Lao-. nlng bouse today possessed an 1m mense bathroom In carved walnut compartments, with a copper tub. II had been of fantastic elegance when It waa put In; only Its fantasy re mained today. Besides bathrooms In serried ranks there would be delightful, sophisticated smart friends: people out of the Infre quent movies shs managed as a great excitement once In a long while. Her selfish, talented father and ber brother-worshiping aunt bad al ways ruled her life with a complete ness which even girls In old-fashioned Persia thought "a perfect shame." and modern girls would have supposed Impossible. It Is hard er to free oneself from tyranny which Is loving than from the other kind. Aunt Ella might draw the line at nearly all the Infrequent Invitations Iris had because the Inrlters were "not Just the ones 1 want you to associate with, dearest." but she waa honestly distressed about It The givers of parties whose fore bears had been on an equality with Lanning forebears forgot. The Lan nlnga bad been financially ruined a generation before. Katherlne Oliver, well-to-do, kind, obtuse, whose grsndmother bed gone to Unletting school with Miss Ella before the Lanning money went, honestly admired Iris tor ber vividness, her dark sparkling good looks, her slim alive charm: and old Mrs. Oliver encouraged ber granddaughter. Aunt Ella took It as a matter of course, but Iris appre ciated IL "They're awfully nice to me," Iris thought contentedly. "All 1 can do Is to make the party go with parlor tricks." (C-f,.t. lelilt. Merftru WtS,t) Iris gats a sonslmrsbll hock, Monday. NAME COMMITTEE TO STUDY WASHINGTON, March 37. (A prfMdent Rivwvfli today appolntfKl a nw commlttM on Induntrlal analv li to study renultii and accomplish mfttta of th outlawed national re covery adminUtratlon. A White Hoiim announcement (utd the committee mould he headed hy I Secretary Roper and thai other mem , brt ttciiid lii.'iude Secretaries Perkln? and Wallace. It a Mid to he the presidents Intention to add later a number of out Aider. Tht committee mas created by an executive order dated Mure It 91, - 4 LAWNMOWKRB aharpened We call MIL fot and del.ver 33 N. rir St. 81M (BUue Paou m. L''T !!-p . i 0 J J ojeJ 'Wanpmb-s."- OWNED BV . , MosrwipeivciRcuwfcpw in 5 months (..si plgCB Of MOPEf?N WRiTiNfi, r'wi in one Hour and first published O ' myK t MoHimxiiwm 'A Menage to Garcia," a little etway i telling the heroism of Lieutenant Andrew 8. Rowan In delivering U. 8. Army orders to General Garcia, leader j ot the Cuban rebels during the war I with Spain, was written by Elbert j Hubard In a Blngle hour one night after dinner, and was published by ! him without a heading In March, 1899, hutue of his monthly magazine, ! "The Philistine." The simple tale of a young army officer who took the message, asked i no questions, and delivered It after j a thrilling trip Into the Cuban In- 1 terlor. caught the Imagination of readers evty where. Orders poured in for reprints of It, several thou sand were ordered printed by a rail road president so that every one of his employes could read It, In the RuMo-Jn panose war It was translated Into both Russian and! Japanese and given to all soldiers ou both sides. During the World War soldiers of the Allies as well as the Central Powers carried copies of "A Message to Garcia." The publishers I estimate that more than 40.000.000 i copies of It have 'been circulated In 60 different languages. Before the celebrated tea tax that led to the Bnaton Tea Party, all tea TAILSPIN TOMMY llrl A WILD MOUNTAIN AREA TOMMY AMD SKfETCR WERE FORCEO TO runt a'peadstick' iamoim wnrmiitia MOTOR AMD RADIO mauRiousLY rAHED....MfAnWHILt Ufa peer irrro IHt DtEP CRATER Of- A VOICAMO, long rxTirtcr. WhtRB- W SEf- z5b BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER THE NEBBS Let's. 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THtY MAVlryk I Wiff V ' I (i 6MAReD f RC6t5TAnce RAT....I...OO T J r ,i) I 1 rLAMDf0....5AH:LY;...CUT OT-f- Trllr P - Olga'i Message WW ft PlKecT RESULT of Trie wflisri Tax on tea -YeTTEA vtP&CHAPR IN Trie COLONIES Afm THE 1k . WAS LEVIEP THAN BEFORE consumed in the colonies was shipped via England and taxed en route. With the establishment of the hated colonial tea tax the other tax was removed, and shipping was allowed to bo made direct to the colonies from the India company. These sav ings enabled colonists to buy tea at a lower price after the tax was levied than before. But the colonists were more Interested in the principle than the price, and the tea tax became one cf the chief reasons for the Revolu tionary War. Tomorrow: Brothers of the Sea, Phone 542. We'll haul away your reiune. City Sanitary Service. TH PERFECT GUM' 3-n S MATTER POP- r. 7 ( Come. v ' lou v y ! mOLf T,ME- Uo Busv! 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