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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.
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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."
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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.
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Farley,
Krprkeiiila flhrn.
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FIRST CHAMPIONSHIP TRfflSHotf'
tie Ww even IN
(Sratid American Handicap,
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d.GMeftlr'flH,
Glendale.cal.,
CCHTiNUOUSW FOR
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NewMetwo.
1 Lk WUA XML DS &flk
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3 Hindu Tnii&,
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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.
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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.
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