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PAGE FQTJB V- rEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUTE, MEPFORD, OREGON. MONDXY. JULY 5. 1937. dUDDGD On TOG DD.UI7I7 :.V Chapter 52 How Jade Died 'T'HERB ni la twful wilt before the Sklpptr'i level, expressionless .Voice went on. "I wit ibout 1 1 ind Jick mint hive hive been 23. He'd been iwiy it school, end he'd come home to hii Itthir's lew office, which he hi ted, end mirried sir) hli family liked, only to find out that he hited her, too. Be wu wretched, end I (elt sorry (or Mm. I wouldn't listen to Mirtht'e wirnings. Neither would Father. He told her to mind her own business. ' "The upihot of the whole thlnf wu thit J luddenly found myself violent ly In love. He m handsome kid. "In those diys you couldn't divorce person Just because you hated the eight ot her. Jack hid no grounds ind his wife refused to divorce him; Bounds silly now, but It didn't then. People had habit of being pretty . consistently horrible to anyone who . even mentioned such a word. And he was the sort of person who cared a great deil ibout whit people hive to siy. 1 didn't blime her much, but , I wisn't that type. "So Jack and 1 were gloriously happy for short time, and then our kid wis born. Mike no mtstike bout It, Mike. You were born be cause 1 wanted you. 1 knew whit I wis doing. You were i cute little devil, It I do say so myself. I wsnted , to mme you ifter your ftther, but no one would heir of It "It wis In Februiry." There wis a mile In the quiet voice, "You have no idea what in uproir you caused. In her wiy I don't think Mirthi bltmed me, but (he hid been teering her hilr for months. She hid thinned 'the servents down to the few old fiithluli imong them Hlgglns. The entire household knew, end the stage wis set for a nice, privite, Victorlin tctndil the one thing ibove all then that I wanted to avoid. - "We had some lovely scenes. I In tended to flaunt my child in the fece of ill society, ind Mirths 'i rivlngs on the side of convention meint nothing to me. But my fsther did. He blsmed himself for ruining my life ind went en in awful ftshion. Jack's wife near ly died of shime. the entered the final count thit licked me. She point' d out thit I would be pliylng filthy trick on the child. Thit got me. So they ell took up the refrain and rubbed It In. "As a result, old boy, you'll never And enother person who will admit that you were bom here on Farring ton Blurt one February day. Six months later an infant named Mi' chael Farrlnaton II suooosedly sr rived from the far south where young Norman rarrtngton and bis hypo . thetleal wife had met with a fatal and hypothetical potting accident. ' "That ended (he chapter or should nave ended it. It ended a lot of things for me. at anv rata. Thev did snort lob on me when they set about show Ing me what I hid done to you. Your ftther ind I hive never been tlone together since you wer two weeks old. The risk wis too greet, I made t little nightmare of any sins to brood ever when the nights were long end lonely. Perhtps If I hidn't, this hor rible thing would never have hap- penea. out its too lit now. Then Norman Escaped SHE smiled wtnly, "On the whole it's been worth It or I thought it hid until recently. You're not a bad brat, Mike. 1 used to flatter myself thit you hidn't suffered because of my plghetdedness. You hsd every thing a kid could need. You end your father were good friends. I was t pretty hippy old fooL And then poor Normin esctped. "I've told you ebout thit, but I didn't tell you all of it, He turned up here tt night In the middle of snow storm. He wis pitiful. Half-froren, half-starved tnd entirely lucid. He wanted protection from the entire world and above ell from 'that place. "Mirthi wit frantic. If you've been my fetish, Mike, Norman was hers. 1 knew from recent alienists' reports that for ill his teeming ssnlty, his condition wit in reality worse thin ever. But Mirthi wouldn't believe It Norman pleaded end wept; Martha begged and stormed. You see, Ftther hsd left the money and everything else In my hands and it wit up to me. I finally agreed to let him stay for while, but 1 Intended to tend him back ind Martha knew It. "It was then thet I realized my mis take. Mirths was not merely upset ane wat insane as insane at ever her poor mother and brother were, but In a craftier, deadlier way. Sud denly she began urglnf me to send for you kids, and when I flatly re fused, she threatened to write and tell you the whole story. I wu in ass. 1 see that now, but 1 didn't then. 1 would have walked off the bluff to keep you from knowing the truth. 1 wu dumb trough for thit I sent for you. "On the night you arrived, the sprang her whole amazing trap on me. She told me that she had also Invited Jude, whose mme I hid men. tloned In my invitation, more to make it sound nttunl thin for any other reason. She slid that Jude wis arriv ing within the hour. Her proposition in a nutshell was that either 1 prom ise not to send Norman back or she would arrange a marriage between Blinshop't daughter and Bllnshop'i son. "1 didn't know about you, Gay Mike is a close-mouthed lnfsnt when he wants to be. I did know thet Jude wis a stunning kid and that Miki used to be fond of her. "I was on the verge of doing almost anything when Jude't arrival di verted me. 1 left her with Martha tnd went out for i tramp in the riln tc try ind collect my wits. That wai another fittl mistake. It seems thtl Jack hid Just told hit diughter whil I didn't hive the courage to tell my son. And Jude, poor kid, proceeded to confide her knowledge to my sis ter, blowing the whole plan sky-high unless Martha could prevent both Ml. chael end me from talking to Jude If Michael had heird that atory, Mar tha'! list hold over me would hive been gone. To make mitten worse Higgins, In the dining room, heard it ell. If only he could hive told mi so before he did! Knew Her Game Wit Up "TT7ELL, anyway, you three walked Into a pretty mess when you came here Frldey night Martha knew thet her game wit up. but I didn't tnd her one tim wis to keep me from knowing It She mtde one bid slip. She didn't know thit you talked alone with your titter In the geme room. She didn't know thit Jude hid told you the whole thing. And I knew nothing. I lived centurlet Friday night when I realized thet you were together. I threw out one desperite line to you, Jlmmle, ind you must hive thought I wu crtzy. "Upstilri we hid an awful session, but the storm cut it short You see, I consented to let you come on one condition that Norman was not to be allowed In the house until after you had left Late Friday afternoon we fixed him up In the boithoute where there wis heat, ind he seemed quite comfortable. But In the middle of our row we realized that the storm wis whipping up s flood tide ind thit the boathousa wetn't sife. He hid in old skeleton key of Fither's, but hi might hive fallen isleep ind would be tripped there. "I thought of Wllllim'i summer quarters over the enrage, I got Into my oilskins and went down the back stairs and out ilong the porch. You were still In the game room, Mike, nd I suppose you saw me through the window. I siw you." Michael nodded. "Yes. Well, Normsn hsd left ths boithouse ind I couldn't find him. 1 thought thit sooner or liter he would hud for either the house or the a a rage. I got to the gnrige Just is you were coming out of it Norman had already tried to escape In one ot the cars. I doubted that he would go to we nouie. as a matter of (act, 1 most ly told the truth ebout where I wis thit night The poor collie wis In I bid way when I got to the stable. 1 stayed there a long time, and when Normin filled to errlve I started DacK. "As luck would have it I didn't lei a chance for a private word with Hls gins. He told me his story Just before lunch yesterdiy. It seems thet he hed Kept his eye on Marthas door. At 1 went down the bick stain. Jude cimi up the front ones, looking for me. jnartni met her in the hall, crying tnd wringing her hinds. She told Jude that 1 hid Just rushed out the iront aoor snouting thit I wis going to throw myself off the bluff. Jude rushed out ifter me. Mirthi stood behind her on the porch end shot her with Higgins' revolver before the old man could stop her." (Copvriaht. ISST. Idler TvUr) The Skipper finishes her treglc atory, tomorrow. IS TO HELP BEAVER RESUME IIS TOIL NSW HAVEN, Conn. (OT) Oeo. A. Cromle. New Haven naturalist, uggeeu the beaver be put back to work again. Their dame would be useful not only In flood control, but would aid other forme of animal life which heretofore have thrived In the water mat net Decxea up oenina tnoee dame. "The beever'e whole manner of life depended on the dams which they built on email streams." tatd Cromle. "There have been hundreds of thousands of these skillfully con structed engineering works scattered throughout the United States and Canada. The dams held beck the flood waters, high up In the sources of the rivers, during timet of heavy ratnfell or sprint; thaw, ind dealt them out gradually afterward. "The beaver's engineering feats Id other animals. Trout thrived In the cool depths of the stored witert. Muskntt fed on grasaet end Illy roots growing along the edge of dame end bunt their hornet in the thillowt. Valuable fur-bearing ani mals like the mink end otter lived on the fish and smell animal life In the dams end their nearby wat ers." According to Cromle. besver once were numerous In Vnnectlcut. Many of the sttte't upland meadowa are met of old beever dame , which gradually filled up with swsmp growth, fellen leavea ind silt. The accumulations resulted in fertile soils which otherwise would have wished down to clog river chsnnels. "Here Is a natural method of check ing soil erosion." Betver can be brought beck, Cro mle trgited. "Canada." he as Id, "Is attempting It In certain regions. The Hudson Bay company has established e sanctuary and breeding ares of 7,01X1 square miles in the James ind Hudson Bay districts. The dominion government hss placed the care ot Its beaver In several national parks under talented Indian. Orey Owl. who has long been Identified In writing end practice with efforts tor beaver protection." Ordinary ground will support J5 beaver per acre. And wherever the beaver Is found, thsre will be the muskrat. The pelt of i beaver will bring is much u the pelt of i cow at the present market. Cromle makes the suggestion that beaver be Introduced in atate for ests tnd that meant be taken to protect them from natural enemies end greedy hunters. "Besldee being of Interest to ttu dente of nature." he said, "their work toward flood control In such btckwood sections would be of e lest expensive tnd probtbiy more durable chsrscter tsan similar con struction by the CCC." STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tar farther proof address the author, Inclosing a itemped envelope (or. reply. Ef U. S. Pal Off. ir-T ."V.?. "arm 300,000 rWHUhlW mm minchtt caunm v rVtUt nflMk .... V(4- IS i Ft V A 1) SUBURBAN HEIGHTS By GLUYAS WILLIAMS SlOlA CSl, trivet? r UttiA ft?nrATHE Kt IS, I t , .' !.- i cc?i; in 3l3LB IHSTtTaTe JatJj Ml mmca iaii eeitJ VMJCf P liflUr? DrVG. -rue i.iueel ... 'London. f??ie ac of 1h6 VIOL'S IW&ISf . W . .TT.i M IvJ Mid. imu kifu. ruuNuunni vnrn.sst Most expensive Stamp In History. Until 1705. resistance of the Amerl- otn colonlet tgalnst British domina tion wu weak and unorganized. Men such it Wsshlngton, destined to be leaders in the War for Independence, were loyal in their devotion to the crown. There waa little agitation or thought of a break from British rule. The stamp act changed all that. When news of the act that Imposed taxation on the colonies, through a stamp duty, come to America It raised a rumbling growl of protest from the throats of the colonlste a rumble that culminated In the roar of cannon. Leaders of all the colonlea except New Hampshire, Virginia, rrorth Caro lina ind Oeorgla hastily banded to gether In a "Stamp Act Congress," Thla body drew up an addreea ot protest to the King, petitions to parliament and a declaration of the rlghta and grievances of the colo nlea. It demanded the right of tax ation by the colonlea' own repre sentatives, claimed right of trial by Jury and protested the Stamp Act a tending to subvert the rights and libertlea of the colonlea. Taken aback by the unexpected re sistance to the measure, the British government hastily repealed the act, but It waa too late to stem America s growing opposition to crown rule. Matters came to a head when, In 1770, all duties In the colonies were revoked, with the exception of the tax on tea. In leaving a tea tax In effect, Oreat Britain atuck by Ita guns against the colonists' chief com-plalnt---"Taxatlon without representa. tlon." The famous "Boston Tea Party" resulted, acta of violence He came the order of the day, and the Inevitable war came. The fighting of the Revolutionary war cost Oreat Britain approximately five hundred million dollars. The Stamp Act which precipitated the war wu intended to bring in about three hundred thousand dollars annually. Father of the" Atlantic Priest for the Breton fishing fleet which each year spends eight months off the cossta of Newfoundland and Greenland, Father Yvon has the largeat parish In the world. It stretches from the fleet's home port, St. Malo, Brittany, to the Grand Banks. The priest's rectory Is his ketch, the "St. Yves." Tomorrow: Skipper at lfl! Betiy Stages ".'lege" CANTON, O. (UP) Firemen had tc climb through i window to cap ture i two-yeir old boy who locked himself In the bsthroom st the epsrtment of Samuel Koteen, turned on the water In the tub ind defied ill comers. The wtter erei flooding the room when they entered. ! Judges wrong S to 13 PHOENIX, Arts. (UP) Arizona Judges split thirteen to three on a question of law 13 were wrong and three right. The 13, all superior court Juatlrea, sought Increased pay under terms of a low enacted by the 13th legislature; three supreme court Justices ruled they could not receive psy Increases during their terms. Convention CHy PHILADELPHIA (UP) Philadel phia la fast corning the sobriquet of "the convention city." Frank L. Devine, director of the convention and tourist bureau of the chamber of commerce, said that there are 118 conventions booked for the rest of the yesr, msklng a total of 31S for the 13 months. May Be Renamed SAN JOSE, Col. (UP) At a prune breakfast-given by the California Chi ropractors' association the suggestion was msde that the prune should be renamed "Petite Pomme Nolr d'Am our," or "Little Black Apple of Love." Local growers think that If change In name Is necessary "Pom" would be sufficient. r- I . v c t THE NEIGHBORHOOD WAS SIDLED OUf OF ITS WITS 1r)E OTHER EEr,)H6 BV A PIERCING SHRIEK OFA60HV FROM FRED PERLEV WHEN.Pi.AV.NG BRID6E Otf friE PLUMBS' PORCH, A &iSi OF WIND KEPT HIM FROM MAK1H6 A SLAM IN SPADES DOUBLED AND REDOUBLED (Copyright, 1987. by The Bell gynfllotte, he) 6-? Ij 8 'MATTER POP By 0. M. 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