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VTGFj twelve fEDFORD MAIL TRTBUTTE, TMEDFOTtD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1938. STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address the author, Inclosing (tamped envelope for reply. Bee. TJ. 8. Fat Off. THE NEIGHBORHOOD LEAGUE By GLUYAS WILLIAMS By BLANCHE, FERGUSON JkA ,J2 J (Copyright, 1833, by Tha Bell flrndiwU, Ine ) Jbt Starr Far: Loving somf on tl$e, gently bred Judith Coodlof marrlM Reuben OUuer " telf-mad man and outrider for hit money, only to discover that hit ortune It loit. With dl firmt backorounde, different ' codee, a clash i$ inevitable. Judith retuee to help Reuben make a fresh tart with money he pave lier amity, but he trill etick to i her marriage. Forced to take a ' mining Job in Nevada, Reuben bringt her to diemal Fordney'i Gulch. Chapter 21 Repressed Hatred LIKE flash upon i screen Ju dith saw her life as she had planned it with Gary from this distance achinjtly beautiful! She forgot Gary'a waverings, his ir responsibility and remembered only his perfection as one remem bers or; the good qualities of the dead. She tried to shut him from her vision, but he invaded the lit tle room like an actual physical presence. Somewhere in the world was Garyl Morning did not hrlghten the outlook of life in Fordney's Gulch. Not a maid to be hired in town. The women of the place unless bedridden, did their own work and were proud of it. There was good' natured rivalry among them. Judith saw them on all sides, Ihow," Mrs. Kraus scrutinized tCissv's eorceoua sift critically. : "Throw it out an.1 get yourself a irouple of those Wilton scatters sown at tne ismponum. j And life went oi . An endless 'procession of dirty dishes. Dirty j I'lothes. Wood. Splinters. Chapped hands. Burnt Angers. Ham. Mud ! Loneliness. Thanksgiving came to Ford ney's Gulch. Judith knew it be cause every woman in ine now spent the greater part of the day cooking a turkey. Judith didn't cook a turkey. Reuben was called to the mine early. "I'll bring our dinner from the restaurant, Judy." Not having to cook dinner gave her time to manicure her nails, wash her hair and while it dried, to sit by the front window and I look out Into the sleety, muddy, I mean little street, with its gas I station, its third rate moving pic ' lure house, its five and ten i Thanksgivingl Judith had noth , ::ig to be thankful for. At home : this morning there had been thj i Hunt Breakfast. A blazing hickory tire in the dining room. Amos and Ben passing coffee, hot rolls, browned pieces of fried chicken. Afterwards the pe.ace of old St. John's followed by a run across frosty fields dogs baying horns calling Horrible Interlude SUDDEN tears welled to Judith's eyes making the lights of the gas station wink and sputter. If Her polite enthusiasm no longer fooled Reuben. battering and happy. Women with racuum cleaners anC mops. Wom en with stewing pots and dish oans. Women going tc market ludith among them trying to neet their kindly advances half way. Trying to appear interested in bacon, lard and beans. Winning meir ill concealed contempt be cause she did not know how to bargain for marrow bone. "Wasting your man's hard earned moneyl" Judith trying to Jaugh. Trying not to swear. Trying to be a good sport A good mixer. She slaved all day and every day In a futile effort to make the little house clean and attractive. Her en deavors to have something fit for Reuben to ent in the evening were Bathetic. The house reeked of burnt food, scorched nluminum ware and smoke. Judith always had a cut or burnt finger. When Reuben came home he kissed the injured member, and set about preparing more food. When the meal was eaten he helped her wash the dishes. Then they set abit trying to bring a semblance of beauty and order to the impossiblo little house. It was a hopeless task. Cissy's rug covered the floor completely end left a foot to turn under around the sides. Dick Blout's table It had belonged to an an cestor patina of polish overlay ing the wood like mellow gold, made the wall behind it look more muddy by contrast The lamp with the white jade base and green shade mde an incongruous blob f color and the Sevres vase stood out like a lily in a Held of dan delions, or rather Reuben thought, n Judith herself stood out among the women of the town with their cotton house frocks. Dreams Of Home "IT's no use," Judith sighed dls- I consolately, "Our things are all wrong somehow." Reuben agreed, nuzzled because they couldn't make things look right The neighbors, coming .0 view the effect were frank in their comments. "Your carpet's too big Mis' Oliver." "I know it Mrs. Kraus. I didn't realize it was so mammoth." Not for worlds would she have hhUed that the room was small. Casper Street bragged about the size of its living rooms as compared to those of Newman Street. "It's old and kinda faded any- she could only go home stay there lorgot this horrible interludt that was her marriage! Tea was over at Goodloe'i Choice now. And tonight, at the kennels, all the old crowd would Vance in pink coats and festive rrocks. it seemed like a dream that she had ever been one ol them. Had ever been clean, rested. good tempered, well groomed. In such moments of introspec tion, Judith hated Reuben with s bitter, repressed hatred. He was nothing and nobody and all the kings horses and all the king! men couldn't make him into some body. He was a failure as a busi ness man too. He couldn't stay in the place he had mado for him self. Couldn't climb any higher at the mine If she had given him back his money as he asked her she wished with all her heart and soul she ; d the bargain between them would have ended. Now because she be lieved in such things as honor ant. decency as long as that hedge stood Life in Fordney's Gulch Life in hell were synonymous 1 Judith. Always after her rage had spent itself she was ashamed. All the generation:; that had gone Into the making of Judith Goodloe arose to mock her. The old habit of gentle courtesy would resume its sway. She would try harder to be p. t ion t. entertaining; to see only the best in Reuben; to stop comparing him to Gary There was the fly in the ointment Gary. Reuben came home. Wet Tired. Silent. He handed her the basket of food. Atop the coarse towel that covered it lay a short-stemmed, scarlet geranium. "A Dame Durden! How lovely!" She raised the flower in gentle, brown Angers. While she had been hating him he had been tramping about the dull, huddled little town hunting a blossom! "Only this morning I was thinking how a blooming geranium would brighten this room want ing one" she lied galh-.ntly. "And how!" His wife's polite en thusiasm no longer fooled Reuben He was by turn humbly grateful and sullenly resentful of her un failing courtesy. Did she think he didn't know she desnised him? Did she think he wanted to be tolerat ed? Did she think he was a com plete fool? Tomorrow: A new Interest. E E WASHINGTON, April 39. (L'P) Rpreaentatlve Clare E. Hull man, (It . Mich.) demanded toddy that thr senate lobby InvcMlKAtlng committee Inquire Into Income tx return M Secretary of Labor Frances IV r Klin and Jamea Roosevelt, son and aec retary of Ui ptwldrnt. to aaceruin the source of thetr outMde Income, if ny. Hoffman said reRordlng Mlas Per kin that Textta newspaper! rharped that during a recent aouthwestern tour ahe "boycotted" Amarlllo, Trx because an organization which she tu to bava uKlreeavd reJuAoU to pay her several hundred dollars. The newspapers alleged tthat ahe refused to itop off In Amarlllo and that when reporters sought to Interview her she sent word from her Pullman that she "could not be disturbed." Mlsa Perkins wsa not available for comment but a labor department spokesman mild she had delivered a I limited number of lectures for feea, 'possibly seven or elht." (NATIVES GIVE CLUE TO FATE OF RUSSIAN PLANE WASHINGTON. April 3P. n The possibility that Alaskan Ice packs may cover the plsne In which the Russian aviator. Sintsinund levanevsky, and hla companions vanished lat August appeared today In beited report from Olltuk. MO miles southeast ol Point Barrow. Levanevsky left Moscow Iwt Au gust 12 for the United states, rhe war department was Informed Vf-tt-r-da)' by ttt'ifcaul fcStnulcj Morf&u tfeai -famed Japanese i vMrs mnrm Suicide crater, Wjff VW JT pin Ertglattd'f great naval hero, rteaaiWNdrseeft &m To mwdrmwu wrrw conmmti, hpriiijsoi. . HemtRezp victorious Hllnd Man's Bluff Second in command of the Brit ish fleet at the Battle of Copen hagen. April 1, 1801, was England's great naval hero, Vice-Admiral Hora tio Nelson, blind In one eye and. with only one arm. Nelson's superior officer. Sir Hyde Parker, fearlrig Nelson's ship, the Elephant, was unable to withstand the withering fire It was undergoing during the battle, ordered a signal' to retire hoisted on a halyard. Aboard Nelson's ship observers called his attention to the signal. Nelson, feeling he was capable of turning In a winning battle, had no Intentions of retreating. However, to dispose officially of the Incident, he raised his telescope to his blind eye and scanned the horizon In the direction of his com mander's ship, then lowered It, an nouncing that he could see no sigr nail The battle continued and Nelson brilliantly completed the campaign. All but three .of the Danish ships were sunk or taken. Hlfih Price of Sugar. Strange as it seems, sugar sold for 9500.00 pound only 40 years ago! Only It was' not ordinary cane sugar, but sorbose, a rare sugar chemically classed as ketose sugar, which can be used In making syn thetic vitamin C. Today It can be manufactured for 7ft cents a pound by a new process developed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Because of a lack of any practical way to make It, sorbose remained a laboratory curiosity for years. Its structure makea It especially suit able for starting material' for the chemical synthesis of vitamin C, according to scientists. New York In Africa. Only Negro republic in the world is Liberia, founded In western Africa to provide a free land for freed American slaves. Only blacks are permitted to hold office in the entirely Negroid government, pat terned after that of the U. 8. The capita), Monrovia, was named after U. S. President James Monroe and many of Liberia's Jungle towns bear American names. week later natives at Olltuk saw a big object "hit the water two or three times" and then submerge. To Squeeze Liner SAN FRANCISCO (UP) When the Canadian Pacific's giant liner, the Bmpresa of Britain, parses through tho Panama canal, It will oxpcrlenco a "squeeze" not only from tho stand point of Its size, but also from the standpoint of Its wallet, as It will have to pay 40, 000 for the passage, officials here disclosed. School Too Bright HERKIMER, N. T. (UP) Horklmer high school's lighting system staged an "on again, off again" act and power company investigators searched for a short-circuit. Instead of the. short-circuit, they found, that the school's power line was overloaded. 4-1 . Inventor Dies. PORTLAND, April 29. (p Funeral services were to be held today for Herbert D. Eubank, 64, secretive In- -ventor who designed a forerunner of modern streamlined railroad trains. He died here Monday. TriE OVEM6 6AM OF THE YEAR WAS HELP UP FOR HALF AW HOUR BECAUSE EACH -TCAM CLAIMED THAT YHE OfHER 0U6HT T6 60 AFTER A FOUL BALL "THAT HAD BEEM HlT ItfTo The swamp, at the fnd of which -time the game" had to be callep off because The ball couldn't be tcuhv anvvav' WILLIAMS 3 MATTER POf By 0. M. PAYNE Mi 1, (CopTriKht, 1838. by Tht Btll 8yjdic.lt. Ine ) lUj ) TAILSPIN TOMMY Skeeter Takes a Desperate Chance! By HAL FORREST ' f &POD&OSHI AND I 7 I POOSM VO1 A -ff '. t vhrX. W I PROMISED HIS MOTHER ) I UGLV FACE ) ? l.rft h YW3 IV i I I'D BRING HIM C V V 'N BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER Accident I By EDWIN ALGEB f'SPECT I'D BETTER 60 OUT. . AN' CHECK UP ON THE POET OKAY, WHILE YOU'RE WORKIN' ON I JASON-J 1 Tr-iTHEM ACCOUNTS, y r IF I FIND HIM STALLIN ON THE JOB, I AIN'T 60IN TO WASTE NO TIME ON HIM-rU TELL HIM - TO GIT ( OH, JASON ! 1 ARE YOU r-J HURT?J MV LEG, BEN ! M LEG! i'M AFRAID I VP Rl ICT I 'i THE NEBBS The Aftermath By SOL HESS we bis pm?tv 15 OVER.. 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