PAGE FOURTEEN
arEDFOKD'rATL TRTBUXE. rEDFORD, OREGON. FftTD'AY. 'AUGUST 21, 1936.
THE WORLD-J:
WITH A FENCE
WET FEET
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
For farther proof address the author, Inclosing a stamped envelope for reply. Reg. TT. S. Fat Off.
A New iVW bp Marian Stmt
." XOFSiat Carol Torrance has
decided to teach in tht Ashboro
high school in order to get away,
from her hoina town of Meredith,
Ga., end to make a start to tome
tort of a career. And although shs
is teamed by the spiteful interest
of a gossipy old neighbor in the
golf name she played Sunday, shs
is determined to try to treat her
scholars as intelligent boys and
girls. 8hs has von one class and
observed therein the handsomest
boy she ever has lean. Now shs has
m French class.
Chapter Eight .
; MAGNIFICENT YOUTH
CAROL'S next class was second-
year French, also made up of
'seniors. Fourteen girls and aeren
boys, the beautiful youth among
, them. She spent the twenty minutes
talklni about France and the things
.that had happened during the
months aha had spent there live
years ago, the summer after ahe
had graduated.
; She made them French (a a
llring language, not something that
had been elected the previous year
because the course was a "crip.1
Avignon, and the Palace of the
Popes; Cannes and Nice, and the
ancient towns of the marlllmo Alps.
arls and the architectural legacies
of Napoleon; Fere LeChalse, the
irestlog-place of the great and the
inear great; the vicinity of St. Bui-
pice, of which they would read In
"Les Trois Mousquelalres." .
'Then she dismissed them, conscious
jot one more victory, at least for the
Uuiv uaiug.
j. Hr third period was vacant, and
she began to post names alphabet!
cally In her roll book. Son.oone en
tered the room, and she glanced up
to And the magnificent youth tower
ing above her.
She smiled at him. "How do you
:do?"
"Morning." He hesitated. "Can 1
Italic to you a while?"
"Of course. Sit down." She mo
tioned to the first desk and he
crowded Into It, filling It completely.
, He was mora than six feet tall,
and he must weigh a hundred and
eighty, aha thought most of It
above the waist. His eyes were a
brilliant blue and bis features
might have been by Praxiteles. He
moved and spoke with a drawl, and
she guessed that his brain drawled
too. Bhe waa consumed with curios,
lty about him.
"My name'a Mike Hannlgan," be
aald. "I want tell you about mo and
get you to help nie."i"
Who wouldn't help - hlml ahe
thought, and kept her face serious
ss she said: "That's quite a compli
ment. Of course I'll help you."
"I been out of school tour sears,"
be went on In the same deliberate
voice, aa It be tested every word
before be said It. "1 got expolled
when I waa sixteen a week before
acbool closed. I studied this summer
and took examinations to get back
In."
Sha wondered why he was ex
pelled, and didn't ask. Instead she
said: "What did you do In those
four years J"
"Travelled around on ships." His
voice was entirely casual. After four
years of It there waa nothing ro
(nantlo about travelling around on
ships. "I rsn away and got a Job
en a coastwise freight boat. Since
then I been about everywhere In
the world." He said It simply, with
no hint of boasting.
Carol felt auddenly email and un
important In tbe face of his com
plete simplicity.
"What made you come baokT"
"I wasn't getting anywhere." No
where, she thought, except ail over
the world! "My father works In a
cotton mill, and he'a had a terrible
lime till right now. I didn't want to
be like him, and I didn't want to
bo a tramp seaman all my life. And
you have to have education If you
want to be somebody, so 1 came
back to finish high school and go
to college. I can got tt. college on
football," he explained. "I've al
ready got an oKcr."
CHE laughed In relief. "That's the
u Brat time I ever thought much
of the system. Now where do 1 come
InT"
"When you boon knocking around
for four years It's Itluda bard to
sottle down In any high school. I
may start off fine, and then get to
slipping, and I want you to sort of
check up on me. I'll study for you
I'd do anything for you." her own
quick pleasure startled her "hut I
may get rough with some of the
other teachers before I think. If I do
get rough, you call me In and re
mind me about all this. Cuss me
out."
Without doubt, she thousht wild
ly, this was the most astonishing
conversation she had ever had She
aald Judicially:
"Til be glad to ao It If It's neces
sary. But I don't see why It abould
be. Now that you've decided on It,
haven't you got" he would have
said "guts," and so would she, If he
hadn't been looking at ber like tbat
and If he hadn't been a pupil "will
power enough to stay with It?"
"I would It they were all like you,
but you're the only teacher 1 ever
saw that 1 respected. Tbey ii.no
me sick as hell'' He caught him
self and flushed crimson. "Kicuse
me, Mies Torrance; that's frota be
ing a bum."
She laughed. "Oh, I've heard of It
before." And used it, shs thought,
with monotonous regularity. Mike
Hannlgan might take a lot of living
up to. .
Ha got up, and she realised In
astonishment that he waa holding
out bis band. She gave blm her own,
and his grip waa paralyzing. '
You're aces. Miss Torrance. I
sure do thank you."
He strode out of the room. Carol
stared at his splendid back and
rubbed her flngera and tried to think
wbat ahe would say to the class In
European History. Thank heaven
Mike Hannlgan wouldn't be In that!
THH week wore on.. Classes
stopped being entitles and be
came groups of Individuals; some
Intelligent, some average, a few
hopelessly dull dwellers In Mo
ron la.
For the most part her work ran
smoothly. Lator, she knew, the nov
elty of ber presence and her method
would wear off and rebellion would
probably lift Its bead. Out there was
no use in anticipating tbe struggle.
Even her qualms about the toot-
ball squad bad not thus far mate
rialized. To her astonishment the
gorilla proved to have exquisite
manners, that sat upon blm as oddly
as a curled and scented wig. She
wondered at the detorence of these
Incongruous beings who were nei
ther men nor children, and stumbled
quite by accident on one explana
tion. Mike, she heard by grapevine
route, had announced In vivid and
salty language what he would do
to the first so-and-so who started
nytblng In her classes or out.
Mike himself dropped In almost
dally, and greeted her with a warm
Irish grin that disconcerted her
more than she cared to admit.
How'm I doln'J"
"Beautifully, and you know It."
Tbe astonishing part was that It
was true. He stalked loarniug slow
ly.and Inexorably; sank bis teetb
Into It and held on grimly. Probably
bla Interest would wane, but now he
waa travelling a route he had never
travelled before, and Ondlng the
voyage good.
Only one thing worried her: that
the girla bad discovered him. They
nutterca over him, aud borrowed
.his pencils, and wanted to be shown
where tbe lesson ended; anything
would do as an excuse. Mike an
swered thorn patls r, without
oven looking at them, entirely un
aware tbat the Intorruptlona wore
pretexts. .
There were lotters during the
week from Mllly and Jill and Pat:
and one stilted, yearning note from
uon, who was Incapable of outline
himself on paper. Reading a letter
from Don made hlra more unreal
and dlstsnt than ever.
Mllly s letter was a sort of dally
paper. So-and-so was In Atlanta;
ahe had ployed brldgo with so-and-so,
and held terrible hands. Carol's
room was rented to a Miss Andrews,
who taught fifth grade. . . .
Jill waa entirely matter-of-fact.
The Andrews gal wasn't bad, and
nine times twenty was a hundred
and eighty, which would go iuto the
summer hell-rslslu' fund. Don Rich
ards had drifted In Sunday night,
and the four of thorn had sat on
the terrace and counted fourteen
shooting stars. . . .
Pat's letter was eauallv charac
teristic. Don Klchards bad returned
on Sunday like a ghost to the scone
of Its demise. Business was looking
up. He was trying to keen his word
about the writing. "I'm doing a
series of sketches about local char
acter and folklore: not good yet,
of course, but good practice. If 1
get auy Bmount of stuff done 1 may
send It down for you ti pass on."
She wrote Jill and Mllly a Joint
loiter, but Pat doserved a separate
one, she felt, for the effort he was
making. "Send the sketches to me
anyhow," she ordered, "and If any
of them have posslbllltle. I'll act aa
agent until 1 can talk a real one Into
taking you on." She knew from
other days that Pat asn't equal to
tne soul-scaring experience of see.
Ing his manuscripts come hack.
And suddenly It was Frldav. and
one of the thirty-six weeks bad slid,
unwept. Into oblivion.
fCcpvrtjal, tut, by lfartan Sims)
A "tall, riarkr
Carol's Itft. Monday.
an" comot into
Swimmer Drmm I
In Eugene Pool
EUOENK, Aug. 31 r.'yrtis
Cole, about SO years of ng. lost his
life while swimming In the Willam
ette river Wednesday evening Tn
body was found at 6 a. m. Thura
ay lying In a very deep pool of
water at a gravel pit Just east ol
Eugene. Cole was swimming with his
brothers, Oeorge and William Cole,
end waa Aomr tlistnnce from them
when he went down.
To xhlp Hay rant '
SAI.KM, Aug 31. v Ths state
(ifpnrlment of agriculture estimated
tt.al no less than AO.000 'tona uf
v.ttrn Oregon hay would be shipped
to drought a:aa, aa a result of the I
emergency rail freight ratea. Under
the new rat hay . can he shipped
from western Oregon to the drought
stricken dUtrlcta for approximately
8M aa against S13.60 under the eld
rata
Flood Control To
Be Discussed Here
U It ANTS PAPS. Aug. 31 (J'l Hep.
resenlatlve James W. Mott has ad
vised parties here that a federal hear
Ing on ltoguc river flood control has
been tentatively scheduled for Sep
tember 10 at Medford.
Mott recently Introduced n act
authnrl.lng a survey of the Itogue to
determine the need of flood control.
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COINCIDENCE
MAGELLAN
EXPEDITION'S TO
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V eAnAG OnnT t?-r Sill iMI aS ,lU ti.n,!n 1
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M4o Eftcri EeruTeo TAP cAiep consPiRMor oM
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Mutiny purt
wading tne expdition that wa
destined to make tlva flrftt complete
trip around the world, Ferolnandi
Magellan, on March 31, 1320, ordered I
his five-Bhlp fleet to put In at Port I
St. Julian, In the region he named I
Patagonln, In South America, Here he
settled down for the winter.
Aa la often the case when men find
too much lclfltire time on their hnnda,
hla fillips crew grew discontented I
and finally, under t.-o Kuleinhlp of
CapUln Que tin of the "Concepclon,"
band or men flared up In open
mutiny.
With the men that remained loyal,
Magellan manned to crush thm in
surrection, sentencing Qucsada and
rorty of his follower to death. Lur
he cotmtermanisFd the order for the
death of the forty muUneors, dislik
ing the Idea of leaving any of his
ships shorthanded, but Qucsnda, their
leader, waa beheaded.
Strange aa It seems, more than M
year later, Francis Drake, lender of
the second expedition to circumnav
igate- the globe, put In at the same
place, Port St. Julian, June, 1578, mid
encountered tho same difficulties.
discontent and mutiny. Thoma. '
l
f ( CHEW wrjiGi.e.Y'sl
WW SA''?v"V
mi in wiMr
II I ill I I I I slsirT'r
Doughty, the ringleader, waa sulzed
and beheaded In the same spot as the
rebellions Que&ada, wnose bones and
gibbet, a spruce mast, served to mark
the execution grounds.
Hull Change v
Causing but slight Interruption to
traflc on the road, a crew of 8,763
men on the Loulsvillo and Nashville
line, succeeded In tearing up 1800
miles of broad gnuc track, Including
main lines and sidings, and replacing
It with standard gauge in a single
day June 1, 1886.
A standard gauge flat car contain
ing food and supplies f nli-wed the
workmen while a broad gauge car waa
punned on ahead.
WRIG LEY'S.
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ARRIVES IN C0UN1W RE-fiJRHS AlMOSf AfOKff IS 6tVEH CHAK6E OF ' DASHES OOf.WOMIS-
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MEDlATElV PASHES OU-f EXPtfliHiH6 THAT HE WrtVl WARKIKS fMOSE ARE FROM -THE LAKE
OF FRoHt DOOR FOR Yt)E REACHEP OUf00 FAR fHE OMW DRS OWES HE HAS
IME FOR A UW PAD UNlL HE iRVNK COMES
SIDLES IN f RESEtfUY
WET TO THE KNEES AND
VERY UNCERTAIN OF '
HIS RECEPTION
explains volubly he
was just crossing The
brook and a stone
SLlPPEp UNDER HM
TAKE5 OFF WETTrilNfcS,
USTCNIN6 ANKI0U5X.Y TOR
VERDICf WHETHER HE HAS
TO STAY IN OR CAN 0
OUT BAREFOOT ,
is Tom To fiO RARE
FOOT AND AEf AS WETl
AS HE PLEASES. MEP5l!
MIRACULOUSLY DRY
FOR REST OF PAY
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AIDED 6Y3U,PA5TY HAD REMOVED THE
BRICKS FROM THE TUWKIEL IU THC MOKE-H0UC,E-6U
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SMALLEST BABY DIES
WEEK AFTER BIRTH
RAPID CITY. d. D. Aii St. T"
Carol Mnn f-'hnfpp. U.tptri City's
"smallest" baby. U tlentl.
Tim Intaiit, wrlBhlns 30 otiimi at
birth, 1IM at a hospital lat ycntcr
(iay al th ag of on wres and four
hoiira, RUr hfld Itvwl In nn Incubator
Mnre her birth, prrtntttiirrly Avlfttmt
12. Tlir prrnta crt Mr. and Mra.
Ouuald Bchiiepp.
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A.PTER TMRE.E DAVS
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