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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX ftfEDFORD MATT, TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON. TUESDAY. 'APRIL 13. 1937. ESZDECHSKD By MARGARET SYNOPSIS. tive rtlu... goes vcck to htr ZOO-year-t, house and orchard in Conncctictn after five years in New York. Shs )lan to rent, marry gay, city ovina Denny and return to Man hattan apartment Hie. Ellen WaU ton. Bvc'h close actress friend who is out for the weekend, Joins her In a walk into the orchard They meet George Cleveland, Coe't calm, practical neighbor who wants her love. He hoe re stored the old Seymour hoie and takes them over to see it. They find his mother wrestUno with an intruder over an oil painting. Chapter 24 The Crumbling Seymonri NOW that tier attacker waa salelj la George grip be did not seem a strong man Mrs. Cleveland went oo talking with leu terror. "It's a valuable buj. it's signed, J told you. George, we ought to bave police protection" "It's mine," said the limp prisoner faintly. "Eve you tell 'era It's mine." Eve looked at him more closely, and in spite ot tbe live years tnst had changed Mm from a dirty ragged boy to a dirty ragged man, she recog nized bim. "It's Lancelot Seymour, Mrs. Cleve land " That'i what 1 was telling you. It's an authentic portrait ot old Lancelot Seymourl" George's lace changed to an ex pression of pity, and ho released the shaking youth. "You don't understand mother. This boy ts the descendant and namesske ot the man In the picture. 1 suppose, seeing It, he followed up here to find out about It" "It's mine," the living Lancelot Sey mour said stubbornly, glaring at them. "Let me loose, J won't grab It." Mrs. Cleveland sat holding the por trait, (ace out, against her knees. "Oh, poor Lance," Eve said under her breath, looking from the pictured (ace to the boy In the dirty brown sweater and torn, shapeless trousers. The gentleman In the portrait bad a doctor's gown dung back trot., bis erect, satin-clad shoulders; undet tne turbaned flowing wig gleamed keen, deep-set eyes that had the same shape and setting as bis descendant's. A scroll was on his lace ruffled knees, behind him waa a parterre of Hif? shrubs. The thin, long, arrogant (ace was wise and capable. "Granddad gambled It away one night when be was drunk," Lance said, reaching a dirty band to It "We never knew where It got to. It's mine. You bain't no right to It " "Oh. Lance," Eve said pitifully, go ing up to the boy and putting ber hand on bis arm, "it Isn't yours now. It's been sold a half-dozen times since then. And If you had It you haven't - fty where to put It" She remembered the tumble-down shack the Seymours lived In now; Uncle Henry had told her where it was. She knew, too, that the drunken, half-witted father of the ragged crew would only sell It and throw away tbe money as he must have thrown away the money be had received from the Clevelands. Lance's vacant lantern-Jawed (ace darkened. "I'm his nsmesske. I'm the eldest son. Nobody hasn't oo right to It except me." George put an end to ths scene by speaking with a sharp authority the poor boy seemed to recognize. "Come, Seymour, your ancestor wouldn't have frightened a lady this way. You mustn't either. Go on now. The picture won't run away, It's going to be bung where It always belonged. ' I'll come down and talk things over with you about It" He shepherded the boy out Eve. standing at the window, saw the stooped, shambling figure going mis erably away, and turned to George Impulsively with, "Can't you do any thing?" He was as moved as she, "I'll try, I promise you. Eve," he laid. "These dreadful natives." Mrs. Cleveland said. Eve was on the verge of answering sharply, "We are dreadul, 1 admit," when she saw George's distressed face, and said Instead, "I'm afraid it's time we went back. Ellen." Tbey Married Fools' MRS. CLEVELAND and Mi til had collected themselves by now, be tan to be cordial and hospitable and asked the girls to say for luncheon. But Eve, without even a took at the restored spacious loveliness of the house, gathered her guest to depart Mrs. Cleveland managed to get In a word about the lacquer cabinet as they went but Eve was In no mood to sell anybody lacquer cabinets. George went with them. He fol lowed them again through the or chard path. "How on earth did the Seymours manage to run to teed so completely" he asked of Eve's shoulders She was Interested enough to turn and say, "Uncle Henry knows. If anybody does." Uncle Henry was plowing up the vegetable bed. Interrogated, he stopped and leaned on the plow George had lent him. He said, "Well some might say 'twas the hand of God. My grsna.'ather said it was being too high-headed. The Seymour men lived too hard, (or one thing, drink and cards as well as L' IU Vllllll WVMIIIUky EXPERT DECLARES SHANGHAI oT Birth control la China's only nope of urlng hr hard hit aolt from an ever-growing popu lation, sfiya Dr. Herbert Chatley of Shanghai's Whangpoo river conserv ancy board. One Inch of China's aurface. he eftya la washed away to eea every 60 yews. The limit of the present agricul tural system, which in 5.000 years ha enabled the population of the country to Increase from a few tens of thousands to nearly a halt billion, has been reched. Chatley maintains, and If more land ts opened to feed snore people the problem of erosion WIDDEMER - learning And they bad a queer streak that couldn't bear to marrj anything but (wis they could look down on. or cousins, as being the only kind good enough for Seymours And when you marry fools (or eight gen eration, end naU ot them your own kin, my grandfather said, yu breed fooJa. Guess be was right" "But oh, can't anything be done for poor Lance? Eve said- "The price l paid (or the place, tumble-down as it was. ought to nave bought them a decent watertight farm." George said with a worrle-1 frown. "1 wonder If it would help to pay the boy something (or the pic ture?" "Not with a drunken numskull liki Looshe Seymour (or a father. 1 re member when ne got your money. It was scattered In six weeks and no body the better but the barkeepers. Son, you can't improve the world, no more than Eve can. Uettin the Sey mours into institutions Is about ail anybody can do, and they wouldn't be happy there." And from there the talk branched to the village history Uncle Henri said be bad up in the "barn cham ber," which he promised to show George that evening. Ellen finally drove into town that afternoon with Mitzi and, Eve learned later, Mrs- Cleveland For George came over that night alter supper, accompanied by bis (ather. The Important father, the chairman ot Northern Steel, on whose say-so hung the new publicity department that Denny might get if Mitzi coaxed: that like the House that Jack Built meant that Eve and Denny could get married. A Gan,e Of Cbess THE two men slipped into the old parlor as quietly as If they were country neighbors, after the intro ductions. "Mother's nerves slipped under her after the fracas," George explained. so she boned with Mrs. power lor New York, Dad and 1 sort ot rattled around alone over there. I said 1 thought you wouldn't mind if he came along. He wants to scratch up a game of chess If possible." (jeorge says you piay cness, ream- erstone," Mr. Cleveland said, sitting down across from the Fealherstones. who were together on the love seat before the fire. There wasn't any thing to be afraid of about him, be cause he was simply, as Eve had no ticed the first time sha met mm. George grown 30 years older; the same keen blue eyes, the same slow effortless ways, the same genuine simplicity. But the last man on earth you would expect to be lured by Mitzll Eve watched bim as Peter, who played a good game of chess, hailed joyously this chance and the two settled down to it. A fatherly type; what George would be if he married the wrong girl; curiously patient about his wife In the manner of kind ly American men, having shitted his emotions to his business. She continued to watch 'him, witb increasing llk.ng. through the eve ning while George dug up village histories and stories ot township transplanting from Uncle Henry in the back parlor and Judge read avidly at his history ol the Civil war It was a friendly, homely sort of evening there in the long lampllghted parlors, with the hearth tire and the center table, the absorbed chess players, and child sprawled over his book. There was already a delightful feel to the lung old rooms of friend liness and home. Peter had hung the curtains tor Eve. while she was out that morning, as a delightful surprise, and, spurred by the hope ot posses sing the north end of the attic when It was empty, workeu like a beaver at getting it cleaned up. Eve recog nized with pleasure the two graceful backlesa Sheraton window saats in their faded silky rep. Inlaid, curve ended; he must she saw, have got Uncle Henry s help with the eight legged old carved sofa. Though th furnace was on, a Ore snapped pleas antly,, and Peter's artistic soul had seen to It again that tall candles stood, not only on the mantel, but in both candelabra ot the gilt girandoles Marylin was warm enough to have draped her long thinness In a shaded chiffon hostess frock, and bound her straight Dutch-cut hair with a gilt band. Peter was white-shlrted and whlte-t rouse red. early as It was. They looked like a country-house party on the stage. Eve decided, a little amused over her own and George's unchanged rough woolens. George was in his tweeds, knickers and coat and woolen pullover; and she hadn t changed her blue sweater and skirt or done anything. Indeed. except brush down her bright rings ol hair and set them hastily with her Angers, use powder and lipstick quickly after a hasty wash. 11 was a comfortable sort ot eve ning; homely and easy and laughing. At Its end Eve (elt as if she had known the other three torever She felt at peace. All it needed was Den ny's laughing presence to make tt perfect She wanted him suddenly and acutely; and it came to he- that all this Mitzi business was silly Why shouldn't she. herself, speak of Dennj to this kindly slow-volcei man. sit ting over by the tire, so boyishly in tent on his chessmen? Not tonight perhaps, but next time he came. Copyright (117. HatQartt WMdtmtri Denny phones Ere exrltfdly, to morrowhe's to get a better job. 'will only become more Intensified. In the northern province where the farmers have cleared the hills a even-montha drought has tirlcd up the farmlanda and a famine now threatens two million persons. CalK for money and rice have gone out at. frenried natives reportedly eat leave i from trees, kidnap children to sell, and riot. ReforeKt.it Ion and other oll con nervation measure will help. Chat ley admit, but he uniea birth con trol as the only permanent cure j In thoee areas where reforestation has been tried, eold-drlven peasants j seeking fuel have raided the forest so thoroughly that the government has invoked a "firewood tax" In an effort to keep the land from becom ing completely denuded again. Foreign mission are attempting to ease the farmer's plight by helping the churches teach him modern ag ricultural methods. Undrr a plan :or mulated by nr. Ralph A. Pelton. lire university professor on furlough in China, the rhutrho plan to lend Hie farmer ami 1 1 sums of monev at i-asy lnteret rate to purrha.w livrn'or and land In return, the church STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof ddren tha author, inclodnc stamped enrelop far reply. Re. U. 8. Pit OS. ffiW0 PKWBW- v m pevisiMfiiHe ihsTrumemT VMCrt WoWQ rt PRINCIPLE op trtf FBHPULUrA(eftLlleo W Iftt GAME TiMS FIRST ff ICIENT iNSfRUMEHT foR COUNTING T"E HUMftN pulse km,, Kt WrYS-ONB 18 AT UrNaafbt 8rntfct, Inc.' Double Discovery With restless eyes wandering around the interior of Plsa'a cathe dral, an 18-year old boy sat In at tendance at divine service one day In 1681. The boy was Galileo Qalllel aent to Plia by his father to study medicine. He leaned his head back, atudled the beams of the great structurea celling then fastened his gaze on a lamp swinging back and forth. Idly he watched It for a while became fascinated. It seemed to him that though the length of each swing of the lamp was gradually lessening, the time It took for each swing was not. But how could this be? Certainly It would take longer will get not only cash but farm pro ducts and lF.oor services. Transient shot , BAKIfiR. April 13. (AP) William Brown, transient. 39. who gave To ledo. Ohio as his home address, was p:obnbly fatally wounded Sunday af ternoon near Hot lake In Union coun ty by a rifle bullet fired by one of two men from ft nearby hillside into TAILSPIN TOMMY A Signal ?N THMR PBISOM ROOM Of" Hf CABIh HIDfOUT Of" THt WtASC-L, SKCtTtR SLtCPS, AMD TOMMY WAS JUST Dozimg Of-r WHt-ri Hf HtABD A r-AIMT TAPPING On THE" WAL L . BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER isgSSfi OU.BEM.VOUU. MOR.6 AAOWEV ?1M(E I PA1 THE NEBBS What Money Will there she. is SHE AiMT NJO WORSE LOOttlNj' TWNJ 15 AMO SWETS A eooo coot . s for a long awln to be completed than a short one. Was It a trick of his eyes that caused short awings to appear to take as much time as the longc-r ones? He tried timing them rlth his pulse. The results strengthened his growing convictions. Alter asrvicea he went to his liv ing quarter and rigged up a pendu lum to a dial which would register the time it took to complete each awing. He set tne pendulum swing ing. The result waa the discovery of the principle of the pendulum the fact that regardless of the length of the arc which the pendulum made. It was Tnvarlably executed In equal time. Only a change In the length of the pendulum Itself would pro duce variation. This was a pretty good afternoon's work for a hoy not a flatcar In which Brown and several other transients were riding. Jews Elect PORTLAND, April 13. (API The western states conference of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds elected Federal Judge Harry A. Hollzcr, Los Angeles, presi dent and selected Los Angeles as the 1P38 conference cltv In a business Through the Wall ! What's Really Important AIE'5 BROU6UT TMAM I'VE ,ttU W1(5 NUMERAL Do amo " . r-" n .s;'. mmr v j A I HELLO, MISS 6f?UMTLEV, , r-r II :... IT "7 S'L.LV om $00,000 mm catooh rUMKTTUNUS HNU WOKE KKT. cVEkt YEftK K. ,of &u mm 3iMsi -----tti. I niMuuifYe. wiiuuiu4 -. IrVJnr KlMMlNr4 . rteWH WIU5 MOODY AMP ttOWMWKIMSeRAU-iePn HeMte &AU, VliTrtoliTft MI95 fOK OHBHOUR, IdMlNUTeS,,, lAe eAvi-CR&ssepTrte MET yet out of his teens. He had made one of the most Important discov eries In the history of physics. Yet, atrange as It seems, bis day's dis covering didn't end then. He was also destined to make an Important con tribution to the world of medicine. Until this time, no efficient meth od for counting the rate of a pulse beat had been devised. Galileo found that his Instrument for proving the principle of the pendulum served as an excellent method for clocking the pule. He had. 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