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PAGE TEN MT:T)FOT?D UfATL TTBTJyP:, fEDFOTtD, (VRECiQy, RTND'AY. MAY T. 1933 THE FAMILY PAPER STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For further proof address the author, lncloiln stamped envelope for reply. Res;. TJ. S. Pat OS. i By GLUYAS WILLIAMS FERGUSON 7 t1 it tO Liu 4.ycwoitl ffSjr The Story So Far: Loving some one el, cenlly bred Judith Goodloe marriet Reuben Oliver -jell-made man orid outsider for hi money, only to discover that hit fortune it lost. But Judith's cod insist that ih stick to her marrlaot and follow Reuben to a dismal mining town, : Fordney's Gu!eh, JVeuada. ln fltted for poverty, there are timet the hates Reuben bitterly, and he knows it. it is Thanksgiving, mild nothing to be thankul or. Chapter 23 Only Half Alive A G O O D quarrel mroula r.sve cleared the atmosphere but they were so careful, so very care ful to avoid even a remote hint of one. Perhaps neither could have told why they feared an eruption even while tiiey longed for one that would rock tne eartn. "Hurrv and ehanee. Reuben, Judith filled a bud vase with wa ter, put the geranium In it and placed it in the center of ;'. e sir.all table richlv laid with damask, sil ver, crystal, "I'll keep the things warm until you re ready. Desprte their combined efforts It was not L restive meal. Tne ais. heartened turkey was quite taste less from too lon hours spent in a steamer. The cranberry jelly was leathery. The potatoes soggy While they were pretending to enjoy themselves Mrs. Kraus came Dustnng in witn a platter or piping hot home cooked turkey. The skin was solden brown, the meat ten der, juicy. The dressing and gravy savory dreams. "If I could cook like thatl" Ju dith envied. "You could, if you tried hard enough," the woman told her. "The Row feels sorry for Mr. unver. "Sorry?" The woman nodded. "It ain't right for a man to have to do out side work and inside too, so when I saw him coming with a basket " The neighbors felt sorry not for her for Keuben ' They felt sorry for Reuben, "I'm afraid I wasn't cut out for a miner s wife, fricidlv. Mrs. Kraus agreed. "But the one lure way to keep your man always in tne mine is to let your end down." "Don't mind her," Reuben said whtn they returned to their inter rupted meal, "This tut key is worth few insults. Judith tried valiantly to capture tne Holiday spirit, so did Keuben. They tried too hard. Perhaps that was why it eluded them. They had so pitifully little in common. Judith tried tc take an Interest in Reuben's work, but she hated the mine, so did Reuben. He would have talked of their days in Maryland, but the subject al ways led to regrets and hurt foel ings, so they spoke brightly of im personal things. "I had a letter from Jim," Reu ben remembered suddenly and felt his pockets. "Left it in my other coat." "What did he say?" "Hugo is fine. Jim has been hunt ing with him a lot this autumn." Me wanted to add that he hoped to sena tor nugo soon, out plan ning for the future was taboo be cause Keuben visioned largely I panorama of vast proportions. Some day he would buy back Five Chimneys buy her sables a yacht When a man has no future tne less he says about it the better. 10 Reuben banked the fires of his ambition deeij within himself. Sometimes sittina in the clut tered little room with Judith so near he could touch her. he knew a loneliness greater than any he uuu ic-u in ine neari oi me wilder ness. If, for an hour, she would un derstand. If he could hear her laugh in the old spontaneous wav. He looked at her across the table with its lavish display of elegance so saaiy out or place In the mean room. Perhaps he could find the right word and dream of the cool, high cell inged rooms at Goodloe's Choice, When the sun went down (he sat on the doorstep and waited for Reuben. Sometimes the neighbor women came to chat with her. They were kind, friendly, gener ous. They thought Judith queer, stiff, unsociable. "Will you go down the Gulch to the picnic with us next week, Mrs. Oliver?" another foreman's wife invited her cordially. "Why" Judith started to re fuse. 'I ll pack enough lunch for you. Mrs. Kraus offered, "You won't have to bother about that." "HI go, of course." The wooded hollow where the picnic was held was shady. It would have been pleasant had not the smoke and smell of the mine hung over it. The lunch was de licious homecooked har.i. pickles. jellies, cakes and what not The women talked naonily of their homes, their husbands, their chil dren, their future, their past as happy women .will. They asked Judith questions. t rom tne south, aren t you7 "From Maryland." "My that's a long way." Most of them had been born within a radius of 100 miles of the mine. "Was It a pretty place?" rretiyr ir only she could nave told them of home as it was! But they would have though she was Dragging or lying. At rare intervals when she stopped pitying herself, Judith tnougnt o: Keuben and pitted him too. Poor Reuben working long hours In this fiendish heat. She re membered the cars he had driven, the yacht he had sailed, the monev he had handled, the power, of a sort, he had wielded. Yes, it was hard for Reuben tot,. "Judith.1 She met his eves and smiled ab sently. She was reminding herself mat tne easiest way was Just to live ior one nay at a time; to feel nothing; want nothing; remember nothing that was wisdom. Self Pity lyiNTER set in in earnest. Snow. ' Wind. Buzzards. Sleet. Thaws. Reuben's wet muddy boots dry ing by the kitchen stove. Thi air filled with wood smoke, drying leather, stewing food but at' last Spring! Bringing a hint of beauty even to Fordney's Gulch with its mining shafts, is smoke. The muddy pocket handkerchief of lawn sent out feeble shoots of grass. Judith planted petunias and nasturtiums close to the water pipe fence and bought a green window box. The plants made a brave effort to live. Flowers bloomed sparsely, feebly, but be fore the pitiless summer sun and dry, searing heat withered, grew altogether discouraged-died. Judith wilted too. Each day. when she had made the little house tidy, she would lie on the uncom fortable Sheraton sofa in the crowded ugly living .com the slope roofed bedroom was too hot Mysterious Process SOON he would be coming home tired, dirty. There wouldn't bt enough hot water -She had left one kettle filled on the back ol the stovt There nevet was enough hot water. Never enough room, noi air. Never enough of anything ex cept discomfort, dirt, work end less work. It was the dishes with streaks of egg gummed to them that made Judith wish she wire dead. Per haps she would die she hoped she would when the baby was born. She looked forward to going to the hosnital with somethins akin to delight. There would be plenty of hot watei there. Smooth flat beds. No dirty dishes She and Reujt.n never SDoke of the coming child. He longed to speak of it. but the shee miracle of it tied his tongue. His sonl An other Keuben (Jltver! It was up to him to make good now a little lad had to be proud of his daddy rte mane nappy solitary plans. Resentful, confused, fearful Judith would sometimes think of the child that would soon be hers with a (treat, rending nitv not Goodloe, an Oliver born to squal or, struggle, to everything that was unlovely and alien! Poor lit tle tad! Horrible to think of im possible to speak of. When she learned there were to be two chil. dren Weil! Into a breathless, humid July night Judith's twins a boy and I girl were born. White, shiny, slippery walls. Bright lights making circles upon them. White hurrying figures Low babble of voices. Confused, broken. Judith won dered if all women felt as she did. was it all a lie this rant about ma ternal love being the greatest thing in the world? She looked at the pink, scowling faces of her chil dren: at their wavering, ticht- fisted little hands with distaste. "This young lady is exactly like her daddy," the nurse said. Judith closed hot eyes. She knew she should say something in Reu ben's defense. Keuben didn't have a puttyish lump for a nose, a wrin kled chin or squint eyes. Most peo ple thought Reuben handsome. Slit was too tired to argue about it. II this woman in white wanted in say the girl baby looked like Reu ben, let her go ahead. She felt dis appointed, cheated because she could not love even ner own ba bies, but the first time ihe heard one of the pink mites sneeze Ju dith, who had never known fear, almost died of it "Nurse she's choking, dying!" "Talcum powder up her nose," the nurse said easily, but it was a half hour before Juditl knew a blessed, tearful peace while deep within her, bv a mysterious proc ess, was born such a love for these perfectly amazing, absurdly ugly, gorgeously Deautinil bits or hu manity that were flesh of her flesh! They must have the finest and best of everything. If she had loved Goodloe's Choice before, she want ed it now boxwood, land, house, all that it stood for with a greed that frightened her. Wanted it for them! How snfplv littl oiri could play iniide the hedge! What gorgeous dream ships a little bov could launch on the meadow brook at home! Home! The word had taken on its full meaning. ictvuto. it's. s-,n r.,i Monday: Cissy walks In. MM REITERATES GONHH FOR SECRETARY PERIS ASTORIA, April 30 (AP)--Oov ernor Charles H. Mnrtln, who cently to nurd Srcrrtnry oi Labor Frances Perkins ' that miserable see. retnry" ot President Roosevelt, stood cn i he same spot last night and da elnrod In a rAmpntgn speech "I'd ctJ it ftttiun." "Stories not bock to WrmhlriRton -the liery retired army mnjor general seeKlng renomlnntion on the. Demo cratic tlrfce!. M!t. ?. critic ! d if 'or -preMdnt In v. ;t. i 8o I vrot Jim htm the "awful thing' I did . . . 1 In a letter signed "Jim," Poet- master General Farley replied, prais ing Martin for having done a "splen did Job, governor, and I am sure that the citlwni of your atat real ise it." "I knew better than to criticise the president." Mnrtln added, "be cause I'd be court-martialed If 1 did." The governor, referring to tits state-wide campaign against alleged labor terrorist, declared, "if vou w j would compromise with Uwnc&s. don t re-elect mo governor." 4 GIRL SUICIDES WHEN REFUSED BEACH TRIP CORVALU8. April JO (All Die appolntm broaiu ihe was not allow e1 to accor.ipany a group of young v polit'.tMl te p-op!r to t(i- beach at Newport t, 'hr M;i!r. Jnnieltn- Cmaaav. t.V Wren. i:i'in. 1 Ore., took poison which killed tier, telling coroner A. L. Keeney s&ld yesterday. c !ir KTal Farley, Krprkeiiila flhrn. fl VWItSVilllff vi 11 e- FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP TRfflSHotf' tie Ww even IN (Sratid American Handicap, ifcndaita. a, im) d.GMeftlr'flH, Glendale.cal., CCHTiNUOUSW FOR It HSTlUe IN 600V NewMetwo. 1 Lk WUA XML DS &flk U ft Dc 6fHFRhnei;co.., 3 Hindu Tnii&, tfRmLEPW ito-im period 1 4f r spfwsai Buhrnm, the Rtrnngfer Most amazing criminal career on record la that of Buhram, a mem ber of the vast religious fraternity of Thugs that existed In Indl until about a century ago. Strange as It seems, this one man, tn a nefarious oareer lasting 40 years had alone strangled to death 931 persons! Brought to trial for his Crimea by Captain Bleeman of the East India Company, famous Thug hunter, Buhram was one of the lead ers of a strange sect that had been operating since the days of the. wild winijiuiiuwerD na piunaerers wno followed the Moslem armies of con quest. The practitioners of Thuggee claimed to be a religious Beet devoted to the. goddess Kail and were 'com posed m-ilnly of Msh-ammedans and Hindus. They combined robbery with assassinations, strangling and inter ring their victims. Rules of the Thugs forbade the killing of women, fakirs, musicians, dancers, h weepers, oil-venders, car penters, blacksmith, maimed and leprous persons, and Ganges water carriers. Regardless, women often were strangled, but white men were seldom If ever touched, because of the resulting Investigations and punishment. Strange as It seems, for three cen turies the sect hid itself in a myste rious cloak of terror, until about 1812. At this time there were at leant 10,000 Thugs plying their trade; UcNiaf bt Sntdiut, lac seme 30.000 natives vanished annual ly, leaving no trace behind. The reign of Thuggee was broken finally by Captain Slceman. who be gan his Thug-hunting In 1930. With in five years he had thousands in prison. Twenty Thugs confessed to him that they had participated in 5,120 murders; Burhram confessed to his 031; Ramzon had committed 604. and Putty Khan 508. ' As a sect tho Thugs no longer exist, although Isolated cases nave been reported from time to time Today, their name has been given to the hardened criminals and, in the vernacular, may mean any "tough" lawbreaker. Thugs wero originally "Thags" In Hindustani, the present spelling being an English corruption. PATTERSON NOMINATED AS AIDE IN COMMERCE WASHINGTON. April 30. (if) President Rooaevclt nominated Rich ard C. Patterson. Jr., of New York today to be an assistant secretary of commerce. Patterson la a former vice-president of (he National Broadcasting company. He was named to the post vacated by Ernest a. Draper, recently appointed a member of the federal re serve board. 4 To Hear llnp Program GRANTS PASS. April 30. (API Southern Oregon hop growers will hear explanation of tho new AAA marketing agreement at the court house Tuesday evening t 7:30. C. W. Paulus of Salem, secretary.of the hop growers' committee for the three coast states, will be the speaker. EUGENE. April 29. (AP) Etght students elected to membership in Theta Sigma Phi. national Journal Ism society for women at the Uni versity of Oregon. Included Elizabeth Ann Jones and Jessie Helder, both of Klamath Falls. SEfflES COMFORIteLV lb REAP A80W lrKERESflN6 MURDER MASTERY IH NEWSPAPER 1URN5-f0 PA6E & "TO FlHlSW MURDER AaDUW BW FINDS PA6E 17 WHERE 8 0U6HtfO BE REM.12ES FAM11V HAS BEEN RM IK6 PAPER. FlNAUV LDCrTES PAGE 8, UPSIDE POWS , NOW DISCOVERS AH ADVERTISE MEWT HAS BEES CUfOUfON PA6E 7, WRECKING MURDER ftCCOim-f ON PA6E 8 10OKS FOR EDITORIAL PA6E FINALLY DISCOVERS Htsf EDI IHSTEAD, WHICH ISHT EASY "IbRlAL PASE HAS BEEK REMOVED BECAUSE PAPER DUE 10 f AM- ElWlRELY, AMP $E1TlES BACK ILY HANDMN6, COMES APART i FOR A NEEDED REST frf a -Touch (dopyrlght, 1938, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) f-30 S MATTER POl Bv C M PAYNE V-a.mVI '(it ourr ffeH") tCe '-1 ghtrThU yn) FORREST TAILSPIN TOMMY No Guns hut T.nt. nf rw n-.i " ' 6"' By HAL Sfl f3 rCPpi GTTW V 07 j " SIIvS' 3 fS'SAIN'T " I '.v. f GONNA ORCe'C v?iw w I i v crooks havei j 1 mmmzfj i-- BEN WEBSTER'S CAREER First Aid! fg-tiaLfirrtfTV I'LL GET OMEGA AND WE'LL RUSH vnn m tug HOSPITAL U I r HURRY ben! Il IrT? ALONE AND UNAIDED, BEN, BY GREAT EFFORT, PLACED JASON IN THE LITTLE CAR AND RACED HIM TO DR. JED KILEY'5 SANITARIUM MEANTIME... SORRY NOT TO HAVE ANSWERED ) YOUR CALL,. MR. BEN WEBSTER BUT - Ill r NEVER THOUGHT FORTUNE WOULD SMILE SO SOON BUT WHILE SHE SMILES ON ME AND FROWNS ON JASON JONES. I LL FINISH By EDWIN AT.GEB I' THE NEBBS-Wclls, Thnt's Different . . n .... L .Yr, V V IT i itima"!7 By SOL HESS r J.d2. fie? Y. .NOU-XWERE A ?JVOU TOOK VWITJ vcci wire hi oCk&XMVOJ PUT TME A LIPSTICK AMD vxipri I ik rV -feii W HUMBLE APOLOGY. 1 CAM Daorv owro v , Axc-rnorui vol o D,r-n icer 1 PANJNJV TELLS M HARDLV HOPE. TOR A CaU5 TO SCo E f MRS. I beCEELS rlAgRf , 1 FORGIVENJESS FOR THE PeTTVGRiEF AMD ME HASVjV BACK . WELL, 1 fR MV HEAol WW I ACTED ATOUaVsTRETCMEO MIS PACE CAMT TELL VOU A AVKaT MCE 7 V RARTV I (TwlMTr) A LAUGH AkLUHAT A LAUSH b . 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