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PSGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRTBTJSTE, MEPFOKP QftEflOy. TUESDAY, XPBIL 19, 1938 THE WORLD AT ITS WORST By GLUYAS-WILLIAMS STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX Tor further proof address the author, indoslnc stamped enrelope for reply. Ref . V. 8. PftL OS. By BLANCHE PERGU&ON The glory So Fri The sat world of the Maryland Goodioei has crashed. Their lecurittei art worthiest, and Judith Goodloe is heartbroken became Gary Brent, the man sh loves, hoi gone out west Reuben Oliver, Injured when thrown from hie hone, is an unwanted 0Uet. A sell-made millionaire, Reuben offers Ju dith's grandmother a loan, and ie cruelly mubbed. With hatred ' in hit heart Reuben ttumblei into the garden. Chapter 13 A Bargain REUBEN did not see Judith un til it was too late to retreat. In scarlet swim suit, she was seated upon the edge of the pool, slim brown feet in the wat.r. She saw him first. Noticed his stormy face, and asked on a breathless note: "What has happened, Mr. Oliver?" When he did not answer she rushed on to a fear that had ragged at her heart since his com ing: "Has my brother been Irving to borrow money from you? "On the contrary, your grand mother has refused a loan. In sheer relief Judith laughed: "One can always bet on Granl A refusal to accept money shouldn't make you look so murderous." "I I've never been insulted he me?" angrily, "Suppose Gran is only human suppose she had let you?" "I wish she had. You see, I," with a blending of pride and hu mility, "love you." He wondered how he vVer dared to say it. "Oh!" The heat of a thousand furnaces burned in her face. He said proudly: "I suppose that is the crowning Insult? "Gran would think so, but" She was seized with a strange trembling. She sank down on the grass "But I I" She covered her face with her hands. Never had he felt so utturl: in adequate. He had conquered life, risen to undreamed of heights by the sheer force of his will but he stood by helpless a bit scared He wondered what a man of her own world would have done un der the circumstances. And suddenly he knew that a man of her world would not have forced a situation of this sort. He would have acted more circum spectly and with finesse through a lawyer maybe avoided any thing that savored of bestowing a favor or paying a debt. He said with a humility that sat strangely upon him: "I'm sor ry, Miss Goodloe. Everything I say and do seems to be wrong. I don't belong here. I'm going." "Wait please." Gary hadn't loved her. This man did. It was a sop to her pride. He was trying to hate this girl as he hated the haughty old woman. forn for offering to help over a loiiKh spot." ' "What," sharply, "did you do?" "Committed tho unnarrlnnnhl sin. "How?" "Suggested to your grand- momer tnat sne sell the box. "You," coldly, "should have known better. "Why should I?" darkly angry. "We love the box. It's part of our lives." "It's part of your pride." "Well?" defiantly. "I left your grandmother try ing to figure out how to hold on to both, without breaking the out dated, silly rules you all live by." , Judith's blue gaze swept him contemptuously. "You don't even begin to understand." "I wish I didn't." Ho was trying to hate this girl as he was hating the haughty old woman in the library. "Your grandmother asked my advice. Before I gave it I of fered to take up her notes." She got slowly to her feet. "Don't you know that was onlv a crudo way of offering money?1' "I didn't know any method of averting bankruptcy could be crude. Most people aren't so par ticular." "It wouldn't be honest on our side" "It would on mine." Judith dismissed his side with a wave of her hand. "Don't you know we're mortgaged to the eye brows? The security Gran could give you wouldn't be worth the paper it was written on. Don't you know that?" "Yes," doggedly, "I know." I.ove Acknowledged CUM, straight, supple as a dryad, l3 she came quite close to him. "Why," impatiently, "did you make surh t fool offer?" He did not know how to dissem blf. "1 wanted to keep you safe." "Mo?" D,vip:te his efforts to nurse his n;K,- hit month softened to ten derneM. 'You." Jusi to it was like breaking dow n dm and letting the water rush in. hut instead ui a turbulent sir sin, L-ovf acknowledged, proved Hi-kciiv, !t, ciean washing over him. healing all can. rr.aKing him forget every thing except her. "You did this wild thing for Fool's Dream CLEAR-EYED, she searched his face without seeing it. Instead she was seeing Gary, debonair. merry, as he snared away leav ing her again to waiting to end less years of waiting The smooth purr of a high pow ered engine recalled her. A shin ing automobile with faultlessly liveried chauffeur rolled up the drive. In another minute this man would go away in it believing hei indifferent, insulted She was hardly conscious of hei words: "You you love me enough to f I ve dreamed a fool's dream I never expected to tell you." She placed a brown hand upor. his coat sleeve. "I'm glad you did.' His heart beat so fiercely il sounded in his ears like the roai or a cannon. "It can't mean a thin; to you." It can. a mere whisDer. "i: does." It meant that she could cm her losses. Go on with this man o; spend her life waiting The ecstnsv within him hea- down everything else. Beat dowi common sense, the nhiliiv in thin! clearly to speak. one said: "it means keepin that," indicating the box, "1. means keeping the only world 1 know." You may keen It a free uif without sacrifice." Reuben said "It wouldn't be sacrifice please believe that." Ho could onlv stand mute ant) staring. For so long a time he had thought of her as a star, unattain able. As a lily growing in a shel tered pool "Judith." Just to say her name gave life a new meaning. Just to touch her hand was a cure for all the hard, starved years of his life. He knelt in the soft grass be side her and smiled into her eyes It was a tender smile. Young with all the youth that had eluded him. "Judith!" Suddenly she felt a great surgi of pity for this man who was tc save her from years of waiting Almost without her own voli tion she bent over and touched the wisp of hair that dipped down upon his forehead. "Judith! Oh, God" It was hif first real prayer. (C-tiH. I'M. Sm.it rt.,., Tomorrow: Amanda surrenders. 'OF MICE AND MEN' NAMED BEST DRAMA LINDBERGH PURCHASES LONELY ILLIEC ISLAND 8T. BIUEUC. Prnnce. April 10. t (AP) Amprtpft Col. Chnrles A. Und ixrsh may pursue hU scientific r warch on a lonely Isle n quarter ftf a ml'e oft the northwest tip of Prance. It reported here yesterrtnv the NFW YORK. April IP (APt The New York drama ciltlra elrelr elected John Ste:nback'B play, "Of Mice and colonel had purchawl IlMre Inland Men." the bent drum of the current ' nd ould nmkr 11 n,s residence ft t , l part of each vear. New ork teuton at tt. annual wa,d T o - u that flf meetn.K 'oday. . ! otlda. where Uvea Or. Alexia CMrrrl. with whom CMonel Lindbergh in 1935 developed the Artificial heart and limps which opened a new cycle of ntudy upon removed human organ. UNION PACrHC HAS PROFIT IN FEBRUARY API Union reported net The criika rhnan Steinbeck work, di ituK'Jrt'd L-y hlmaclf from hie beat seller hn nf the same title, by a vol' of 13 to 4 on the fourth ballot Thv iimnt r-up In the critic' opinion was !"h:. ntn Wilder'! "Our Town." The .tad in "Of Mice and Mn" are pi: ceo iy Wallace Pord, Claire Tti'-, v.nl Prvter!rk Crnwtord. vn of f'-1 rnm .Skime. Ilolen RrodcrlCK. Steinbeck live in California.' Pacific railroad today ........ . M. -X V-... . js-.r,, A r wtervtostNb- vm VIRGINIA IN I6W warn vwaiwa Joincp frit coNffcftRAcy flaw.,. Mmm MMI 1 t- '-i wm Jv I -an .i i iii m.-'s i rW PIONEER (MTHORifyON CORRECT ENGLISH, WAS AN Of PHONETlCtmUMf .... t . I1 1 A MK4. mm Mmwup tolmit CreeK;Cal fyRWE-AfcHtevioM -fat AMB $WLEDF!S$, nrf f5r4f ZAMe patyrh (qm U$hm CHECKERED MfilERM ,";.,., i!t::::" y Bame Pattern for M Yrars The checkered dresa Mra. Anna Mellerup of Walnut Creek, Calif , wears today at 83 la patterned ex actly after the one she made back In 1884, when she was still In her twenties. In spite of the general admission that it la a woman's privilege to change her mind. Mrs. Mellerup has stuck faithfully to the same check ered dress pattern. Styles have changed many times since 1884. but the becoming full aklrt. tight waist and full sleeves of that first checkered dress have never been changed through thr yenrs, even to the slightest altera tion. , Whenever she goes to church on Sundays, a special dress Is worn by -38 Mrs. Mellerup but It looks exactly like all the other of her wardrobe. In the Illustration above, she la shown as she posed In one of her checkered dresses In her youth. All sewn on the same machine, her dresses each have been made of from five to seven yards of material, the skirts four yards around. Succession of Secessions From the earliest times, Virginia's eastern and western sections were politically, economically and socially at odds. Western Virginia was dem crflttc. eastern Virginia aristocratic. Older than the Union Itself was the Idea of sepnrntlon of the two sections, but -not tintll the Civil war did opportunity arise for West Vir ginia to become a separate state. MtNiBffct Sjm&uu, Joe. Up until 1861, a section of the U, 8. constitution precluded such a split by prohibiting any new states from being formed "within the Jurisdic tion of any other state" without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the congress. However, with the secession move ment of 1861, Virginia gave the 48 counties west of the Alleghenles a chance to secede from West Vir ginia Itself and form a separate state called KanawhA. On June 20, 1863, President Lin coln had cleared the way for the region to be admitted Jto the Union aa a new state West Virginia as all parties concerned were then fa vorable toward the action. Tomorrow: Burled Treasure! profit for February while moat other roada were operating "in the red." February net Income for the ays tern waa $142,517 after Taxea and charges, compared with net loss of $146,580 In the like 1037 month. Phone 365. Odelle Osborne West or Rosalie Leal I e for a spring permanent Hadley's Salon of Beauty. Flectrlcnl Worker Killed LEWISTON, Idaho, April 10. (AP) Fred L. Hamlin. 48. Coeur D'Alene electrical worker, was killed when pinned beneath an overturned road ster on a country road five miles east of here Sunday. Don Tracy, 30, who arrived here recently from Eugene, Ore., escaped with bruises and shock. pioneer Hurled LA GRANDE. April 19. (AP) Funeral services were held Sunday at Elgin for Mrs. Permelia Ann Beem, 76. pioneer Union county resident who died Friday. A native of Mis souri, she came to Oregon with her parents In 1877. Use Mall Tribune Want Ads. -ftE VO0N6EST MEMBER 0?.YtfE fftM)i-V REFUSE 1b miHdUI5H 1&E BEAP5 AUNT MABEL GAVE H)Mlb PLAV WITH DURlHG "friE VlSlf, AhJD SHOWS SlfitfS OF MAKIN6 A SCEHE IF F6RCE 15 USED (Copyright, 1938, ty The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) MILUMS 3 MATTER POI Bv 0 M PAYNE TAILSPIN TOMMY A Vital Question! SO YOU SEE HOW IMPORTANT II IS, JERRY, THAT WE MUST HAVE SUPERIOR PLANES FOR PtFEHoE Or OUR COUNTRY? G-GOLLYl Y-YESSIR r-ir Vfv MILUGAN, ANO I DESIGNED PLANS FOR SUCH A PLANE VOUR MODEL HERE IS AN EXACT DUPLICATE OF OUR PROPOSED SHIP f ( ATCMA -X MAD -ATOf-A- J Aw I've. T3eew M-4T ) V aliy4e l2e6T ot-J r( -Aa! Va :do nt 1 xtr 1 J'ust s 8 I LOOK' MAT? ) (ESTIM' Mu-HJ 1" PB (Copyrlgllt, 1938, by The Ball Byndlcm, Inc.) ( By HAL FORRES SSS-? vi n, , i -v '1 II yj WE MADE THOSE PLANS ESPECIALLY FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT, BUT THEY WERE STOLEN BY .FOREIGN SPIES. THATS WHY WE'RE CURIOUSyS AMU ANXIOUS TO LEARN IF ANYONE OTHER THAN YOURSELF OBSE.RVED THIS be, MODEL CLOSELY. BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER What To Do? By EDWIN ALO" S NHEW THERE GOES A ' KW' AW 1EU US WHAT HE JEST . DID. n eEU,VOU'VB BEEK1 R.16HT ALL ALOMQ. VOU HELD OUT FOU. FOLKS BEIM' ASICALLV 3OO0 AMD K.IUD- HEARTED. B'605H, TKEV THE NEBBS Indispensable Muggins I I f Yl60T MORE 5EWSe - J If THE BIQ POIKlT IS THE t,3AV.TUATg1 A I M.1C l I UC1 H -M l CrO I I I It 1 OM in I ITTI b eill.Cn , 1 -r. w im.Ii.. - -.m... . . 1 . -1 . . m. 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