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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
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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
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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
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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
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Until this time, no efficient meth
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principle of the pendulum served as
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pule. He had. In fact, Invented the
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