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fEBFORD MAIL TRTBTJXE. HrEDFORD. OREGON". MOXDAY. AUGUST 24, 1936.
SLEEPYHEAD
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS 17
THE WORLD -
STRANGE A S IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
WITH A FENCE
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A New Novtl by Morion Sims
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KYSOPS18: Carol Torrance fini$
teaching school In Aehboro not
futte mo bad ae ehe had expected,
here le Hike Bannlgan, lor exam
ple, who is a handeome youth and
devoted to her. And outelde the
erhool there are casual frlende
plue a young and rather Holly-wood-looking
chap called Denle
Ford. Carol and Dcnlt began their
acquaintance at a dance. They had
a fight, made up, and now are
placidly "kidding6 each other. Be
tween them there le already a bond,
tenuous, but actual
Chapter 10
SURRENDER
THE mask of mockery slipped a
little, and Denla saw a corner of
Carol'a (aca behind It. "I think
there's too much and not enough.
I think we'd better let well enough
alone. Skip It entirely."
"We'd better, but we won't." He
knew It was (utile to pretend with
her. There was no use kidding them
selves about what came afterwards,
"Unless," he experimented, "you're
afraid to take the cash and let the
credit go?"
Her eyes were narrow. "How a
man does love to pass the buck. . . ."
He frowned Impatiently. "This Is
damn foollshnoss all this footwork
and sparring. Come on, Carol."
But aha shook her head. "I'm a
public servant, Denis. Caesar's wife.
We might sit on the terrace and
talk Einstein, but It would add up to
the same thing."
"Tell me about this man
"Uh, all right. Tomorrow night,
then? Make up your mind, sweet;
Den's heading this way with a
predatory gleam In his eye."
She gavo It up. "Yes."
He didn't dance with her again,
and Ihoy both knew why,
SATURDAY afternoon In Ashboro.
The streets and aldewalka were
. clotted, crawling atroams of humani
ty. Farmera In wagona and small
cars, with provisions and children
spilling over the edges of their vehi
cles, blocking the way for cars that
st)uawkod profanely behind thorn.
The farmers' Uvea wore adjusted to
a different tompo, and they hoard
tho Impatient squawktngs with a
superb Indltforence.
Mill girls and women trod the
sidowalka. The oldor women were
stamped unmistakably by their gait
and their fncos; they moved delib
erately, pushing their heads and
their stomachs bofore them, and
their (aces hold neither happiness
nor pain, hope nor despair. Nothing,
Carol thought, but emptiness.
Only the Negroes seemed alive,
tholr dark faces slashod with wide,
whito grins. Thoy alone were alive,
and with so little reason.
Carol said despsirlngly: "If I'd
known it would be this bad I think
I'd have stayed at home."
Ellen laughed. "Evory town In
America must be this way on Satur
day. Don't protend you nover knew
that."
"1 don't But this seems worse
than Merodith, probably because
we've only got three cotton mills."
"Well, It's very Instructive. The
correct remark Just here la: "I love
to watch crowds.' "
She shivered. "I do. Or at least
I think 1 do. Only It's pretty wear
ing, like being poumlod by waves.
You feel all their povoi ty and misery
breaking against you so vividly.
"Probably moro vividly than they
do poor devils, because you've got
something else to compare It with."
Ellon turned Into the drug store.
"Come on, and I'll buy you an
orangeade to choor you up."
When the drinks appeared Ellen
aald cheorfully: "Tell me about this
man you've got a date with tonight."
Carol sipped her drink and forced
her mind to think about Ellen's
BVDNKY, Australia (UP) Ameri
can advertising methods am to be
used thla year to push the world
wide sale of the Australian wool c rep.
A flrat attempt, last year at adver
tising produced such astonishing re
sults that all of the wool grower this
year consented to a voluntary levy
of 25 cents on each bale of wool for
advertising purposes.
The experimental 1035 advertising
campaign resulted In a 3 per cent
Increase In anlea. The campaign was
carried on along the lines of creat
ing new fashions and coiwqi irmly
new aemsnria tn woolen wear.
The 1O36-1036 Australian wool crop
question: to put Denis Ford Into
words.
"Well, he looks like a composite
of Valentino and George Raft and
all the other Big Menaces of Holly
wood. He even weara a mess jacket."
"I don't see anything wrong so
far," Ellen said stoutly.
"There Isn't. It's Just perfect."
"What does he do?"
"When he does anything he's a
reporter. Just now he's at leisure.
And of course I suppose he writes."
"What makes you suppose that?"
"Did you ever see a newspaper
man that didn't?"
"I never saw but one," Ellen ad
mitted, "and I don't know whether
he did or not., Ho didn't say."
"I know. He did."
"You sound awfully vicious,"
Ellen said shrewdly, "as If you were
trying not to fall for him."
She laughed ruefully. "Not quite.
It wouldn't get me anywhere at all."
"Oh, he won't he out of a Job In
definitely." "No, but he will periodically, tha
rest of his life. He's got the charm
ing aroma of Instability about him.
And," she added resentfully, "he's
probably clever aa hell."
"Well," Ellen reasoned, "aa long
aa you're forewarned you might aa
well go ahead and enjoy him. Edu
cators have to have recreation Just
like anybody else."
you've got a date with,"
She laughed. "It depends on ths
recreation. I've got an Idea thai
coping with Denla might be aa ex
haustlng as plowing, and not hall
aa productive." .
But she knew aha waa aaylni
words, and that the worda fell witfc
a hollow sound on her own ears
She took the offensive defensively.
"How re you doing with Macs
Hudglns?" '
Mack Hudglna waa a delightfully
Ingonuoua youth who worked In
Ben's office, and Ellen had seen him
twice In a week. She grinned, and
held up two fingers pressed close
together.
"Just like that. He'a coming again
tonight. He'a one of these uncom
plicated people, like I am."
"Lucky devils! ' She said It hon
estly and without bitterness. To be
uncomplicated onough to accopt
without rosentment and without
question a complicated world. She
pushed her empty glass aalde.
"Let's go out and walk In the
woods, whero It's clean. I want to
get these smells out of my nose. . . ."
rvENIS came with eight o'clock,
U because one didn't call earlier
than that, and because he couldn't
wait longer than that. He burled
hlmsolf from a roadster that
gleamed darkly tinrlor the street
light and ran up Mra. O'Connor's un
adorned walk.
From tha shadows nf the porch
Carol'a voice checked him. "Is there
a fire?"
"Oh." She was a blur of whits
against the dingy cushions of a
swing. He went over and sat down
beside her, and his hurry folded Its
wings. "1 Just wanted to sea It you
were like I remembered you. A lot
of drlnka and a audden enthusiasm
can throw you protty hard."
He could say that now. becausa
her voice In the dark had been
enough to ro-ombody her. Ho leaned
back and took her hand; felt It lie
quint and tentative in his. She didn't
ask whether his enthusiasm had
thrown him; she knew that tha ad
mission Implied a negative, He said
casually: "Now begin at the begin
ning, Carol, and toll me how corns."
(Copyright, ifje, by Harlan stmt)
Tomorrow thirs Is trouble with
Rum C.t...
thus far brought .m2.6ia,980 with
only 6 per cent still unsold.
Growers are convinced that adver
tlalng can be made to pay for tha
reason that an inert? Me ot only 2
cents a pound In the market value
of their wool would bring them an
other 18,750,000.
Ilanritt Horde Kills
TOKYO, Aug. 24 (API A thou
sand bandlta killed .13 Japanese sub
ject and two Manchoukuans In a
raid on the walled town of Fusung,
near the Korean border of Manchou
kuo, Domel news agency dispatches
said today.
Park Program Mnpiteil
PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 34. ( API
Da v id B. Htmpson. acting president
of the planning commlaMon, tn a re
port to the city council today out
lined plsn whereby over a period
of ten years Portland can obaln 18
urRrntly n-rdrrf park-; at n coat of
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Stationed on active duty at Coco
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Novice Record Breaker
Strange aa It scorns, Glenn Morris.
member of the American Olympic
track team,, had never tn his life
competed In a decathlon until the
Kansa university relays at Lawrence.
Km., April 17 and 18, 1036. Yet he
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California's puncture vine has de
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treads, causing frequent punctures.
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