PGE TWELVE
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, M"ETFO"RD, OREGON. FRIDAY. MAY 13. 1938.
STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX
tor further proof i4dmu tbe other, fncloelnt stamped enrelope tor reply. Bee- V. 8. Pt- OC'
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
FERGUSON
THE WORLD AT ITS WORST
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The Story So Pars Judith Good
toe, of an old Maryland family,
marrlei cl-mad Reuben Olivar
or hit money only to dicou'
h i bankrupt. Tuiltu art bom.
Then Reuben geu work in a (um
ber camp managed by Gary Brent
the man Judith louee. Judith'i
tent fj not ready when the arriuei,
and Gary providee her with a
cabin. When Reuben dlicovert
thii. the lid bloiDi og. Truing to
live by Judith'j cadet hat weak
tned Reuben. Now he mill make
hie own lawt. Hating Gary bit
terly, Reuben iniute on renting
the cabin from him.
Chapter 84
A Wholly Puzzling Stranger
JUDITH made no move to take
the key to the cabin. Reuben
said: "If I offended you last night,
Judith. I'm sorry."
If he offended her if She ald
in grand imitation of Gran: "We
were both dead tired."
And so as easily as that they put
their quarrel behind them or
rather they buried it between them
in a shallow grave. Neither ex
pected it to stay buried.
"I'll strap the baes," Reuben
told her. "You put the children in
the car. Easier to set breakfast at
the new place."
"What about these new cots?"
"Whoever takes over the plot
rill probably be glad to get them."
vital spark of jealousy, which had
smoked sullenly since the dav he
asked Judith to marry him. No.
there could be no friendship now
or ever, and when work threw
them together T
Unerringly Reuben knew that
even the semblance of peace would
vanish then. He was an expert
forester Gary a puppet In au
thority. Reuben knew that Gary
was unfit for his iob. Gary knew
that Reuben knew it but he also
knew that necessity had its iron
heel on Reuben's neck
With a frown Reuben dismissed
all thought of Garv. Time enough
to meet the trouble when he had
to. There was no doubt in his
mind that he would have to.
Before he went back to the
woods on Monday. Reuben had
found and hired a Chinese boy.
Alf. grinning and garrulous.
sterjDed out and Lu Wing, sloe-
eyed and silent, stepped in.
"Now. Reuben thought grimly.
"I've mortgaged mvself for every
dollar I make but mavbe it's worth
it" But he knew it wasn't worth
it. Knew he was still moving with
the landslide. Where?
He would not think where he
would eventually crash. Time
enough for that. too.
New Respect
JUDITH'S delight in her new
J home would once have been
heart-warming to the man who
loved her despite himself. Now he
IMPi J I
A wall of ice reared itself between them.
K few dollars more or less didn't
matter now. He entered the tent to
find his son busily trying to de
vour a piece of rope while his
daughter did her utmost to swal
low an aluminum Irving nan.
Ho tossed his slobbering off
spring as high as the tent's roof
permitted. He found something
very soul warming in their moist
sticky kisses and little gurgles of
delight.
"Is Gary lending us the cabin?"
Reuben's wife asked tactlessly.
He hated her all over again. "Do
, fou think I'd accept such a loan?"
"But it's not for rent."
He scowled: "I'm paying $50 a
(nonth for it"
A wall of let reared itself be
tween them.
"Can you afford It?"
"I can't"
She knew by all the rules of the
fame she should say: "Then we'll
tay here." But she didn't say it.
She couldn't The memory of the
nig inviting room, the easy chairs,
fireplace, white bath was too allur
ing. Whatever courage she once
had was lost somewhere between
freezing winter and a burning
summer in Fordnev's Gulch.
Righteousness was lost too the
conviction that come what might
one's lust debts must be paid
Cissy would have to wait. Judith
longed for luxury now above all
else.
"When winter comes we'll econ
omize," she promised herself. "Go
back to Casper Street."
Puppet In Authority
BUT she knew she would never
go back to Casper Street That
part of her life was definitely be
hind her
Alf was already In possession of
the cabin when they arrived. Ce
real and coffee were in the making.
A great bunch of bluebells Para
dise flowers to Judith were in
the yellow bowl on the living room
table. Judith had come home!
Reuben on the other hand had
tome to a sort of mild inferno. He
resented the grinning black boy's
presence. Was Brent in his high
handed way. still bent on showing
Judith lust what a poor stick he.
Reuben was, or heaping coals of
fire?
Reuben wanted none of cither.
There never could be anvthine of
friendship of tolerance even, be
tween him and Gary. Tliev had not
a thought or reaction in common.
There was Judith between them
too and. on Reuben's part a very
watched her remotely Impersonal
as one watches a moving picture
critical of its flaws and high spots
though affected by neither.
The change in him conveyed it
self to Judith. She had felt it since
the moment he handed her the cab
in's key. His lips had apologized
then for the quarrel of the night
before but the old humility thai
had been his since the day he had
moved her from the Waldorf to
cheaper hotel was missing. The
doglike, unspoken plea for her be
lief and patience was missing too.
Something had gone from Reu
ben mysteriously gone forever.
But something new had come to
take its place. Judith sensed II
without being able to define It
She had no way of knowing that
out of the dark confusion of the
night, a clarifving light had burst
upon her husband, wiping the blur
from his vision. Giving him an al
most uncanny Insight Into affairs
as they were. Giving him back a
belief in his own sense of value?
unclouded by the ethics of hi
wife.
Cur buslv Judith watched hi
as one watches a suspicious, whol
ly puzzling stranger and though '
she did not know it there was a
new respect in hor glance. Iron
was visible In Reuben's face now
Iron and what else?
Though she searched Judith
couldn't find the answer. He wenl
back to his work and Garv came
to take her riding and almost im
mediately Reuben receded from
her thoughts until he was only a
shadow in the background of hci
life. Joyously sho reached out foi
each new day. Just to feel a good
horse between her knees. To hear
the music of clattering hoofs, the
rush of early morning air In her
face to meet Gary s twinkling
blue eyes
"This Is the life. Judy!"
"Old days come again. Gary."
"Old davs." he echoed and knew
he lied. These were not the olt
davs of light banter and meaning
less, little caresses. These wer'
new davs of inarticulate tendc
ness. Veiled glances. Long silencr
loo magically sweet to be broker
.strange! In the old davs Judit
had ached to hear words. Hate
the waiting. Now she fended :
keep words from being uttcrc
Loved the waiting.
It was herself she feared now
not Gnrv.
li'tfuH. Wt. UntU Smut fff,
Tomorrow: Clasy romra to vUli.
FLOOD GONTROL
WASHINGTON. May 19. (AP) The
bouM flood control committee entl
mutrd today the tte and local con
tribution! in the Willamette valley
flood control project would oe be
tueen $5,000,000 and ffl. 000.000.
The committee authorized more
than 911.000.000 yeMerday to ben In
t he project.
The contribution vaa determined
on a regulation providing that the
aute and communities paid (or re
location of highways and railroads
and easements,
Tho army engineers eettmated tbe
total coat at about 182.000.000 and
reeommendfcl .111 1fi,000 0oo contri
bution. Regulations aince 1938. how
arer, reduced the latter amount.
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WASHINGTON. liny 1J.(AP
Prwldrnt rtoctevrlt has carried for
ward hi apparent policy of giving
"pat on the buck"' to arimtm.lration
amatoi-a who are up fur rrrlrvllon by
urging tho wtrnn ffntor William
CI. McAdoo (D.-Calltl to arrk another
term.
McAdoo, rlertrd In Uja 1931 Room.
vrlt landslide, mado public In Lna
Angrlea today a letter from the pres
ident Ntylng that hl retirement from
tho aenoto "would he a dtntlnct loaa
to tho puhllc."
"I do not need to tell jroti that I
have always appreciated the fine
uppcrt you have irrn to my ad
ministration," Mr. Roooaerelt added I
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WRIffeN N1Hti Trt ceKIDRY W
MURArftl, dJapzneee Woman,
comtftv o? W Books
wrfrt ir
The First Novel
Earliest known atory In novel form,
a we know it today, was written
about 030 years ago by a Japanese
authoress Murasakl, or "Lady Vio
let" and has never been duplicated
lor length.
Her work was known as "Oenjl
MonogfUari" (Gossip Concerning Mr.
Gen 11) and dealt with the numerous
and amorous affairs of the Japanese
Don Juan of that time. Lady Violet
devoted a number of years to writing
the novel, it eventually covered 4,-
334 pages and filled M books, or
chapters.
Murasakl her fcure name la not
known finished the novel about
1004 A. D. The exact date Is disputed.
Murasakl, a lady Of the Imperial
court, returned to private life after
the death of her husband, according
to historians. She was said to have
been a member of the famous Fuji
wara family which produced a num
ber of great mlkados, statesmen and
poets.
This amazing work la valued as a
mirror of the time It was written. Its
length has never since been equalled
neither "Anthony Adverse" nor
"Gone With the Wind," longest nov
els of this decade, comparing with It
Cannon vs. Thunder
Loudest of the common noises one
hears la thunder. Yet, strange as It
seems, no thunder chip has ever been
beard unmistakably more than 20
miles away.
Continual cannon fire, on tbe oth
er hand, has neen beard definitely
100 miles distant, and on less reliable
authority from distances as great aa
300 miles.
Nature's greatest noise a volcanic
explosion can outdo any sound man
Is capable of making. Sorae have
been Identified from 3,000 miles
away. Greatest man-made noise on
record was a blast set off on the Arc
tic island of Nova Zembla In De
cember, 1033. It was detected more
than 2,000 miles distant at Berlin.
Strange as It seems, the sounds of
thunder, of cannon-fire and of a pin
dropping travel at exactly the same
speed, as the source of volume of the
sound has no bearing on Its speed.
The letter, asking McAdoo to re
consider a desire to leave public of
fice, was dated March 16. Three
weeks later, the 74-year-old senator
announced he would seek renonil na
tion. '
Re will be oo nosed in the TVmn.
cratlc primary next August by Pier
son M. Hall, former United AIaIm
attorney at Los Angeles.
Two Fined $150 For
Slashing Car Tires
THE DALLES. May 13. f AP) Nor
man Berry, a WPA worker, and Wll
lard pnitles, a cook, pleaded guilty
yesterday to slashing the tires on 20,
automobile a month ago and were
fined $150 by Circuit Judge Fred W.
Wilson.
They were charged with malicious
Injury to personal property.
District Attorney T. Leland Brown
quoted them as saying they were Intoxicated.
At Seunen. on Land's End, England,
there Is a aign on one side of the lo
cal Inn: "The Last Hotel In England,"
and on the opposite side, "The First
Hotel In England."
; VoUR MOTHER. EHimwHlHS AT BRIDGE,
RETUSES to -frKE 5ERI0USLV THE CRISIS THAT
- HAS ARISEN WHEW, WlYH A SAME DUE lb BESlH
IN EN MINUTES, YOl) CAN'T FlhJD VOUR OTHER S1QCK1K6
Sl3 (Coprrlgtrt, 1838, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) i
3 MATTER POI ' ' By C. M. PAYNE
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