Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 21, 1938, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextIJGE SIX rED70,RT) MATTV TRTBTTyK.' W"EDFOTCD, OTfEClOX. ArrtXDAY. 'KOVErTRF.T? 21. 1033. DON'T MARRY THE MAN By JuMt Bewmtn The Character Kathleen Gregory coee West Incognito to secure a richt-of-wau for The Golden Girl mine from MacDonald. Donald MacDonald hater the Gregorys, turptcU Kathleen'! . Identity. Brlitret: Kathleen'! companion. Yeeterdayt Kathleen realize! ehe 1 In love with Donald, and that he louee Bridget. Chapter 28 'Love To You Both' "TpHE dayf on th calendar marched along, each one bring ing the closing of The Golden Girl nearer, and Kathleen could get nowhere with MacDonald when It came to discussing the mine. In desperation she went to Balmy. "It's like watching some thing die and not being able to do anything," she told him, and ought to convey her feeling that the mine was an entity, a great being with drifts for arteries, the life of the miners pulsing through to the golden heart of It. "Don't worry, lass," he advised, "there will be an hour when that last stone barrier between the two mines will melt away.. It won't be hacked away by bate, it will be melted by love, not the love of a man for a maid, but a greater, im- Eersona) love, the love of man ind for mankind." Spring came overnight, an early spring that closed the short win ter with the swift breath of a Chi nook wind. As though a blanket had been lifted, the painted mountains sprang up in radiant crimson, purple, green and white. Along the canyons, willows and cottonwoods waved branches blood red with new life, promise of fill ing buds and fluted leaves. . On Balmy's terrace, tiny crocus and freesias scented the air; a pear tree in the garden burst into pale Slossom. And the old shepherd ragged himself out from behind the stove to the sun. then frisked about like a puppy. Then came an evening in April when the scented spring and the new moon seemed a desecration to Kathleen. She had taken Grand mother MacBride into Carsted for the final fitting of new teeth, a birthday gift from Beatrice Gregory. Hands aching from their first long stretch of grasping a wheel, he put the car away and walked lowly towards the house. Bridget was a white shadow on the veranda. She met Kathleen on the steps and it seemed to Kath leen that her friend was like a vestal taper, aglow with some shininR spirit substance. "Darling . . . would you . , . could you And someone else to come and live with vou?" Kathleen stiffened for what she felt was coming. "No one like you. Bridget, but . . . of course why?'' Well, Bridget laughed and her voice was like the chime of tiny bells. "I'm about to become Mrs. MacDonald. We thought we'd wait . . . that is. I did ... I wanted to, well you know until you'd finished four quest. But now I think mavbe can help. Oh darling. I'm so happy I could burst, and to think I didn't want to come out here with you. Kathleen, do you think a hanty Irish gnl can live up to the title of Mrs. MacDonald?" Blinding Tears F'ATHLEEN listened to Bridget's incoherent talk, only half hearing. She was thinking. 1 must get away. I must go at once. I can't stand It any longer." "The novs have gone to Carsted for proper celebration knicknacks. and to wire Los Angeles: they'll be back In an hour, didn't vou pass them on the way? I'm going over to set the table, come over as soon as vou rest, won't vou?" Bridget hurried away Kathleen went to her room, stopped to pet Circe who was curled on the studio couch and then went to the wide table. She could lust grasp the pen. her writing was barely legi ble. She couldn t say much. Mu work is done here, dear i wish you every Joy. Congratulate Donald for me. Vou are the two dearest friends i have, you should be wonder fully happy together. I've done all I could do about the mine. Maybe, when he is your hue band you can make htm understand It Isn't the Qreoorut wanting oold, but the hundreds of people working for the Gregory, wantln? their l!ve!! hood. I don't want to spoil tour celebra Hon. I haven't been feellny welt, maybe I'm homesick. I'll charter a plane in Cargted my love to you both. Kathleen Swiftly then she packea s bag and hurried from the house. She had to put that ugly structure be hind her: to get out of this divided town. She would hire car In Neu trallty. Bridget might need the otner. . Tears blinding her eyes, she stumbled down the trail. There was a light in Balmy's cottage. She should stop and tell him goodby. No, she'd return, later, return as ' Kathleen Gregory. A hand reached for her bag. "There, la&, come in." BaJmv bad been standing on the trail, his white head held in a lis tening attitude, meres some thing fey in the wind," he told her. Lome DacK to the terrace and tell me." He seemed talking of two differ ent things Obediently Kathleen followed and once there she burst out. Tm eoina home. Balmv. You see, they don't need me anymore. Bridget is going to marry Donald, she just told me. She was father's secretary, she understands all about the mine, she'll manage the right-of-way somehow." Aye," agreed Balmy In a half comprehending, half-puzzled tone. The light from his window re vealed the heartbreak visible on the young face before him. Quick ly he diverted her thoughts. "And now, lass, that you've seen fit to tell me you're The Golden Gir you'd like to hear about the Kathleen looked up. She hadn't actually admitted it. She didn't care about the feud. She only wanted to get away: to get away from Donald. But Balmy was talk ing. Do you know my dear, that one of your forebears was one of the first white men to come to this con tinent? Before the time of the English and the French, soon after Columbus returned to Spain, party of Spanish grandees with adventure in their blood, and, in spired by the tales of gold to be found in the new word, sailed for the Americas. The Courting Shirt "I WON'T go into their history. Prompted by the Gulf coast Indians, they came inland. Only one man was seen again and he told of the wealth they had cached in the painted hills. "Generations afterwards, one of his line, finding his wealth in Spain dissipated, decided to search for that wealth. He came across the plains with a daughter. Wher he reached the frontier settlement we call Carsted, he was old and ill and penniless. His daughter, this Castilian gentlewoman, worked ai anything she could And to do. to care for him. "Soon after their arrival, two young prospectors come to the set tlement from Scotland. MacDonald and MacGregor. Women were scarce and not of the kind to in-. spire men like these Scots to thoughts ol matrimony. They both wanted this girl. "MacDonald thought he had the inner road for he was unmarried MacGregor's young wife had died before he left Scotland and he had left children there. He thought he had the inner road, for what woman could refuse to mother the motherless? "The girl listened to both and considered neither. They were penniless prospectors. She wanted someone to care for her father. At last she laughingly bargained. Shr said she would marry the first man who would prove he had struck gold." Balmy paused to light his pipe and Kathleen relaxed She had been living in another world foi the moment. "You know the history of the strike." Balmy continued. "How MacDonald and MacGregor lived in the cabin they had built tht previous fall: how they started out on the same day and struck gold on opposite sides of the ridge at about the same hour. "MacGregor had the best of II by moments He came up over the hill on a run. Thev had one dres? shirt between them. He was go ing Into the settlement to file claim and to claim his Emilia mia He must wear the shirt. "He'd washed trimmed hi" beard and hnd one arm in ttv shirt when MacDonald appeared "Brforc that time they had take turns at wearing the courtin shirt Now they fought for it. bitter fight that rent the shirt, ar each wearing his half of the bloor garment, they started for the se tlement." Kathleen's eyes were Immem pools of Interest. "And my grand father won. and MacDonald nevei forgave him. But Balmy, wh didn't Old Angus forgive MacDon ald. why did he feel such bitter hatred towards the man he'd bested?" Balmy stirred restlessly. He walked to the edge of the terrace and stood listening. Kathleen waited. She could hear nothing but night murmurs, wind in the trees and the thrum of chicaders "There's n.w happiness in a wat won by bloodshed, nor by a hard bargain. Donna Emilia was ar obedient wife. She kept her word to the letter, but she had no love for Angus. And Angus, frustrated believed she loved MacDonald." Kathleen believed she knew ho' her grandfather must have suf fered. She wondered, vaguely, it she was suffering for her grand father's hard-turned bargain. I Old Donald MacDonald In tha' fourth dimensional world was di recting the fancy of his grandson his enemy's granddaughter was paying. fCimti. lJf. Inwtl Tomorrow: Disaster threatens. OF IN 5 YEARS SET AI THIRD MORE WAffHINti i ON l VP) K 1 C I r O -proccM optrntlnni In th chemical mid liv'tnl IndtntrlM will rcqulrr (Mir -third morr power within thr iirxt five your, the frclrml power !.ini!vion lift eVlmted, It l.mrkrd thr wentem utMes loi n larr pnrt of thli Inrirnse brmufie of thr proximity of ores nnd the potciit.nl nvftlliibtllty of cheap hydro electric power, In ft rport on "iwwer requirement in the irrlr-x hrtnlcM. elect romrt nlluigicu! nnd Allied Industrie," the coimnlMlon ntntfd that Mich opera tion! consume 13 :14,000.000 ktlowntt houra annually, or more than ?ne tenth a! much m Ii generated for puhlte iwe. It pwtt mated consumption will inrranw to 17.781.000.000 kilo watt hours In five year. The study was undertaken to In dicate new requirements sufficiently In advance "to permit the orderly development of power resources to meet the Increiwed needs." Fu t ure development of electro process equlpmrnt an a tool In other Industries mny or I n,: Incrraars In enerftv requirements as grewt as the corresponding Increases in the e!ec-tro-process Industries themseive, the commission said. Deerealng power rates may have an Important henrlnt; on the quan tities of thee and other materials produced electrically, particularly In regions where raw material and low cost et.ctrlr power are nvmlahle, c cord. in to thf c -iTiM in "In the North pacific cuht ttllh STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX For farther proof address the author. Inclosing stamped envelope for reply. Beg. U. 8. Pat Of. Ml& rleR&ERT GIBSON, Pittsburgh, P? HA ZM&Ot&0.000 COOKIE . W1HC PftSr9YffcRS FOR CHARM A- t5 ') J REM? MMlRN. RICHrSRPteyRt? explorer. m h PEpur CUCOItV IVI . it I Moo) nttVyVftlGHT HoR6 mil 3PERCHER0M$--ToTftUN6 t37oN$, RfcEP Zoo YARPS ftTfbMoHM, Calif., I?3S Vlontycleap Creek Rap tn 1 9 seconds, MtNaufM , Cookie Queen "I juat love doing things for peo ple," says Mrs. Herbert Gibson, of Pittsburgh, Pa., In explanation of why she has baked nearly a half million cookies In the past nine years for charity. In her small kitchen Mrs. Qlbson has turned out about 60.000 cookies ft year, which she sella at charity benefits or Just Rives away to friends. The Salvation Army, the Volun teers of America, the New Future Home and other organizations are aided by the Pittsburgh cookie phil anthropist, who refuses to take a single cent, for her tasty creations. Mrs. Qlbson iwes BOO different cookie cutters In her work, and has some 2000 different recipes, n two alike. Her favorite cookies, she juiya. are chocolate ones she calls "Dork Secrets" and fruit cookies she calls "Snow In the Summer." Heavyweight Horse Rnee Originally a product aolely of Perche, a section of Normandy, France, the Percheron draft horses are considered among the best In the world. Eight of these splendid animals were recently matched In a race at Pomona, Cal. Together, they weighed 13 tons. First across the finish line was Clear Creek Ra,p, who covered the 300 yards In 25 seconds flat. One Percheron collapsed at the finish: another seemed to think the event was a steeplechase and Jumped a fence. Tomorrow: The African Telegraph System. Its large and Immediate possibilities of low -cost hydro-electric energy, for example, there la a definite possi bility of aluminum reduction from foreign ores delivered by cargo ship ment on the Columbia river or on Puget sound," the commission said. Goon .sentence Ordered HILLSBORO, Nov. 21. (AP) Cir cuit Judge R. Frank Peters denied Jack Eatabrook, officer of the Portland AFL Warehouse union, an arrest of Judgment and a new trial and order ed him to appear Wednesday for sen tencing. .lint in y On Const SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21. (AP) James Roosevelt, son of the president, nrrlved here Snturday by plane from Chicago and Immediately departed Mills field by auto, presumably for the Walter Murphy ranch near Hbl lister where he has been convalesc ing after an operation. CLEVELAND, (UP) "Keep active and your married life will be happier and more complete" Is the successful marriage formula of Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Skinner, who celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. 21 Dnin Worker Killed GRAND COULEE. Wnsh Nov (API Stanley OraDD. 22. of Austin Minn., a signal man for Consolidated Builders, Inc.. was killed here today while working on the Grand Coulee dam project. Turtle Attacks Hen EL RENO, Okla. (UP) Mrs. Aub rey Nile ran out of her house here, alarmed by some squawking, and saw one of her chickens disappearing in a mudhole. Grabbing the bird, ahe found It was being pulled under by a large turtle. HEAD GUARD By GLUYAS WILLIAMS IVIUIAM5 eotfkv Which he has WHERrfED FROM HIS' HEAD GUARD KEEPS SUPPIH6 POWM 6vCT HISriOSC FWPS TrtM WHtt 16W W5IWU1V, OPPoNEUiS OM -CrtROUfcH HIM trf WILL fWES H0LDW6 HEAD GUMIP UP FROM HI5 EVE eni- fHISDOESNHElP MUCH BECAUSE HIS 1b MWF COM' AffHW MOMENT OP - REMOVES if T61HE SIMM PLEfC UPATHUS-fMFltr VuMENI PUSH A PL LINES FOR Sff tKctrlN& HMDS ARE too BUSY OF SffRAP& OP HEAD 1HROO6H HIM, KNOCK- AMD 6ETS DOWN TO HOUD1H6 HEAD GU&RD HEAD 6UAM OFF SERIOUS BUSINESS 1b STOP CfPfWENfS EWIfcEW (Copyright. 1M, by The Bell Syndicate, Ine.) 11-19 3 M-ATTEB POT Bi 0 H PAYNE I ll-llf 2$ (rJE.Oi.-Tie) (-sot 1 yChJf TAILSPIN TOMMY Tommy Makes a Quick Decision! 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