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paotc rcinrrr MT:DFOT?D MAH TRTBITKHB. MTCDFOWn, OREGOy. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 7. 1938, DON'T MARRY THE MAN -fly Jttmi Bowmui- The Characteri Kathleen Gregorys pepperv red-haired member o the Greg 1 or clan, gott West incognito to lecure a rl0hl-o-ujay or The Golden Girl mine. Donald MacDonald: oumer o the rival Stubborn Boy mine, hate the Gregoryt. Bridget: Kathleen't companion. Yesterday: Kathleen asks Old Balmy hou the feud between the Gregoryt and MacDonulda start .d. . Chapter 13 The Stubborn Boy -LD BALMY did not speak im- mediately. He stood up and began to clear away the tea things. He carried the white cloth to a barren spot beyond the terrace and before the crumbs reached the gound, there was the mad chatter of birds. When he turned back to his mests he was smiline. "It is com lorting to know the wild birds recognize their friends without proof," he said. Long, black lashes veiled Bridg et's quick look of astonished un derstanding. She cast a sidelong glance at Kathleen, but impatient now. tlatnieen was urging ine oia man to relate the story of the feud. "I'm sorry. Miss Riley, only a MacGregor has the right to hear tnat wouidn t you UKe to see my garden?" Kathleen now understood how Kit Smyth must feel toward Balmv: baffled, unable to press a charge against him because of the Honest simplicity of the man. Sunset was gilding the Inde Kribable view from the terrace when they returned. For a little while they sat absorbing the peace of that hour, watching the play of light on the painted cliffs, while Old Balmy explained the natural chemistry which produced the jade green, the pearl wnite, copper ana crimson. "I'll want all of that for my book," Bridget cried enthusias tically. And Kathleen told laughingly of her barren desk. "Ah, lass, but you've ploughed the ground and planted the seed of desire. Soon you'll see your work growing before you." "I don't know what It will be," mourned Kathleen. "I never before realized how useless I was." Balmy stuffed tobacco into an old pipe, lighted it and puffed dreamily. "I envy you," he said musingly. "Now if I had the time and the talent, I'd build a New Gregory on paper. I'd design cots that would give the miners' wives comfort and pride; I'd build on paper, of course a community ball where the young fellows could go of an evening tor pool and cards. There'd be a gymnasium, an auditorium, a nursery and a dance floor. But then," he broke off whimsically, "what I would do and what you would do would be dif ferent, eh?" 1 Kathleen decided they must leave immediately. Circe and the forty-niners hadn't been fed. When she thanked Old Balmy for the delightful hour, her eyes were bright with speculation and the moment the girls were out of hear ing she gripped Bridget's arm. "Darling, look, the twiddle has gone out of my thumbs. From now on I work. That Balmy old honey told me exactly what to do. Wouldn't he be amazed?" Bridget looked at her and shook her head. Verily the Gregorys were obtuse when It came to discerning anything beyond their Immediate vision. Morning found Kathleen at the doors of the unopened general store and the moment they had been unlocked she was purchasing blocks of drawing paper, rulers, pens, pencils and colored inks. Immediately after the delayed breakfast she retreated to her room to build the first of the new Gregory cots; a house three times the size of the MacDonald's. 'Our Tartan' BRIDGET, called in to commend, wisely said nothing for the mo ment She had been tempted to ask whnt a miner's wife would want with a drawing room, and to as sure Kathleen that one modern bath would be miracle enough for a family. "You have something there," she admitted. "Remember the miners' children marry young and the old folks won't want too large a house to keep up. Why don't you talk to a few of them and find out what they would like to have." "I'll do that tomorrow," Kath leen agreed. But on the morrow, Donald MacDonald appeared with an in vitation to visit his mine and to dine with him in the evening. Kathleen dressed appropriately for 'he trip, and for the weather which was threatening; brown breeihes, hih-laced boots, a tarn o'shanter, sweater and plaid mack innw. She hadn't realized how appro priately she had dressed until she heard a cheer from MacDonald. "You're wearing our tartan," he The Grange Ijike Crfk Orange Election of officers will be chief matter of Interest at next meeting Of Lake Orecx Clrnne. November 11. A Urge attrndinre la etpecled. The Inst meetlnR wee an enj yablr affair with loMnp, trams In the re cent aUentliinee earnest aminn a fine meal for tlie winners. The Htl lowe'on spirit was farrlcd out In the program with Rumrs and stunts add ing to the entertainment. The pro gram Include,! numtxTR by Muhet Brown. Myrtle Charlt-v, Urtly Hrnd ahaw. tlordon HMnli'v, ciweiidn'-yn and Janet C.-nrlry. Dor. 'thy Stanley. Ketherlne V.'fll.h. A tlel' lotu c ok r-ke3 hy Hele.i fildlry w.i", "M ti .tner t'lMtlry and crntrihu'i : t , r; i i" : n -nit innd crntr.amod to tne rolling tloilai fund. cried. "The plaid of your macki naw," ha explained. Kathleen thrust her hands deep Into her pockets to keep from rip ping the offending garment from her shoulders and throwing it at the man. It was the last personal remark she heard from him that day. He became, she thought sardonically, "the promising young business man." The MacDonald's Stubborn Boy was not as impressive as the Greg ory's Golden Girl, she was pleased to note. The buildings seemed sturdy enough and there was tha same subdued activity on the sur face, but there was a lack of shin ing fresh paint, and pristine neat ness in the offices. These she noted were filled with Scots, young and old. "It Is a MacDonald policy to give the local MacDonald boys the op portunity of filling these favored posts," Young MacDonald ex plained. "When one shows an in clination for business, we send him off to school. The Gregorys," he added, "lrire strangers and bring them in from the outside. They believe in keeping miners below the surface." Kathleen closed her lips firmly. There was little difference that she could see in the mine proper True The Stubborn Boy's shaft went straight down, it seemed, rather than at the slanting angle of Tb Golden Girl. And the drifts went off to the left instead of to the right. "Peculiar thing," MacDonald ob served, "but we're working on nearly the same level as the Greg orys, here. Their ledge is just be yond this, however, they'll never mine that portion." "How could they be working this same part of the earth as you without the ledge being one and the same?" questioned Bridget. "I'll show you when we're above again." Priority Of Claim ITTHEN they reached the surface, ' ' he took them to the engineers' office and pointed to a map which hung on the wall. The colors, run ning parallel to each other, re minded Kathleen of a many-nued hatband, only this band seemed to have been cut in two, then over lapped at an angle. "I'll try to explain this In a lay man's language," MacDonald told the girls. "Pretend this country was once a huge layer cake, the ledges of ore, the filling. Perhaps' the cake was jarred during the process of baking, and one side fell. The baker, disgusted, cut off that section and laid it alongside the other. Thus there were two sepa rate sections of filling, and each section of cake was at a different level. The MaeDonalds are the lower section. This enables us to shoot our shaft down at only a slight angle. The Gregorys are the top section and the thin edge of their cake overlaps ours in such a way that they cannot continue digging out the Ailing without first gaining right-of-way around our shaft. According to law, we are entitled to two hundred and fifty feet on all sides. Further than that we can base our refusal to tha right-of-way on the grounds that it would weaken our structure " "Then the law does grant right-of-ways," interposed Bridget. "Only when the contestant can prove priority of claim. If he can firove he established his claim be ore the other fellow, the law gives him the right to all lodes dis covered on his line, ledge or vein." Bridget nodded wisely and asked the question Kathleen longed to ask. 'Then your claim was estab lished first?" MacDonald ! laugh was short "There is nothing to prove which was established first. It would be a matter of moments. My grand father and Old Angus filed the same day. The clerk did not foresee the need of establishing the hour." Kathleen was running her finger along the thin veins. "Isn't this your vein down here? Doesn t it run into the Gregory property? "It won't for a long time and when it does," promised Mac Donald grimly, "we'll take care of that Shall we go now? Mrs. Arthur has ollered us tea. I d like vou to see one of my model cots." Riding back to Neutrality, Kath leen found herself in the tonneau, Bridget comfortably seated next to MacDonald who was discussing mining wun ner as though she were the only one present with enough intelligence to understand him. Kathleen sat and hated the back of his head. She wished his cars would stick out so she could hate it the more. He was detestable. And she wasn't going to like Mrs Arthur whoever she was. She would show off her house like I woman putting her pet through Hi tricks. She did nothing of the kind. A tail, dark-browed woman with tht quiet dignity of the Scottish peo ple, she met the girls as socia. equals and Young MacDonald u a son who called too seldom. Kathleen was forced to admit the house was comfortable, even tastefully furnished. (Crtvr.li, Itll. ua Ivrnm) Tomorrow: A miner's famllr. Talent Orange Talent Orange met In regular ses sion November a with Master W. W. Robaon In the chair. Six candidates were given 3rd and 4th degree. Elec tion of officers followed with the fol lowing resulta: Master. K. 8. Rob- bins; overseer. Tom Bell; lecturer. Nancy Fire-stone; assistant steward. Edtlard Bnatwlrk; steward. Jim Nol tcrs: gn'ekceper, Prank Reed; L. A. 8 . rxhy Wldmer; chaplain. Nora No;:ers; secretary. Mae Miller; treas urer. Net he Bora; Oeree. Marlon Boiy; Pntnona. Fnye Miller; Horn. Lois Firestone; executive committeeman, w. W. Hobison. lVUcloua refrrshmenta were served by the H. E. c., followed by danc-Inn. 1 Birthdays for the preceding three months will be o!erved at the next j meeting. The turkey dinner and dince ii, well attended and Flor- "uec H;-rl!ry. rhahmsn. wishes to . t :m::. ; 'l w::o h-lped mi.k' it a ue. 'cess. Also our thanks la extended STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address tha author, lnclostnc a stamped envelop tor reply. Reg. TJ. 8. Pat 081 i through ?. to eouw. 00 KIDimkitfrmsf 100 (Answer iomomiu) i tit aar. ' 41 a REP PEER l I VV x8) SeS ore ittfv gif CAM 0E 4010 S9vtr kt pRoHi&ffe women frona mMJ 1 tiot (pRzbtWtRFjReT Foreign cqnqu&l JJJEE5tf THE WREJMJC? KO&OJ 7vK ( JM frfy Japan's Woman Conqueror A "Jingo," colloquially, la a per son favoring an aggressive military policy. Its origin as a political term is rooted in the Russo-Turklsh war Of 1877-78. Centuries earlier, a Japanese em press of the same nameJingo, or Jingo Kogo by the same aggressive tactics oonquered Korea, Japan's first foreign conquest. Wife of Chual Tenno, 14th Mikado (101-300 A. V.), she assumed com mand of the government on the death of her husband, reigning then until 370. Chual Tenno died while on an expedition to suppress an Insurrec tion In Kiushlu, and his wife, con cealing the fact that the emperor had died, proceeded with a great force to conquer Korea. After her victorious return, her son, OJen Tenno, 15th Mikado, was born and Jingo Kogo continued to reign as regent. In her lengthy history Japan has been ruled by six empresses, yet, strange as It seems, with promulga tion of Japan's present constitution In 1889 female succession to the throne was ruled a present or fu ture Impossibility. By terms of this document, only male descendants In the male line are eligible to succession to the throne of Japan, and a woman may never again assume the exalted station. Dated Eggs Strange as It seems, every egg sold In Denmark, or exported from that country la stamped with the date It was layed. the number of the farmer selling It, and the number of the co-operative society to which the farmer belongs. ... Tomorrow: A tale of two cities... the Eagle Point cheese factory, which so generously donated all cheese used for our dinner. Josephine Lady Runs GRANTS PASS, Nov. 7. (AP) The first woman candidate in the Josephine county race was announc ed today. She Is Abble Tolln of Selma, who U backed by a woman's group for write -In as short-term commissioner. Six names will appear on the ballot for the position. Jail Preference Granted CHESTER, Pa. (UP) Arthur I. Pease, 65, told relief offlclala he would rather go to Jail than continue living In a mission. He went to Jail for kicking out glass panels In the Pub lico Assistance department office doors after being refused relief. . Moscow Planetarium Popular MOSCOW (UP) In nine years the Moscow Planetarium has been in spected by 8,500,000 visitors, officials announce. Bee Sting Kills Boy POTTS VILLE, Pa. ( UP) Warren Zimmerman, 14. died of blood poison ing as the result of a bee sting. Physicians said that the bee prob ably had taken the Juice from a su mac plant and Injected the poison Into the boy's body. 4 Blames Women for Fires BATON ROUGE, La. (ypi City Fire Chief Robert A. Bogan rays fires have increased 60 per cent alnoa women started smoking. 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