Claude News (Claude, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, May 11, 1934 Page: 4 of 4
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Manj Iwlay Taylor
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Put Koemtr,
la atrruM to Dr. Richard
„ Kit*u tbauu* doUir.. the
k*r brother Koddjr Mole to > «
Htl«KA H«Moa, M>|>hiiii«ttd
.m, m lor. with Richard,
___> h«r but to auk* trouble (or Ncncy,
tMkWfh ah* know* nothing of th< lecrtt
MlrilH. Mr. Gordon idli hit home to
rapa* Richard. Nancy permit. Page to
COMWV* making love to h«r, but when
•ht fiadl that h« want! her to run away
with him h« recoils from him in horror.
Takbqr shelter in the hovel of a poor
woman whose baby is dying, Nancy real-
be* that Richard is the best man after all,
sad Mads for bim. Although tie sans the
"yt. Iif«t he repudiates the help of hit
wife. Helena, finding that they hare spent
the night together in the miserable hovel,
tpreads the scandal about town. Angie
Fuller, Roddy's childhood sweetheart, and
niece of Major Lomax, tries to stop the
scandal. Just then Roddy returns home—
drunk. His mother believes him craiv and
sends for Dr. Morgan, who takes Roddy
home with him. Nancy goes to Richard's to
see her brother. "Rod," she says, "have
you been doing it again—stealing?"
Sow go on tmtk Ike story.
Her lips were dry. "Stealing?"
"No!" he snapped, then his hands
clenched on the edge of the bed and he
I choked back a sob. "She took that
| money—the money I stole to save her
old father from jail—and bought a
trousieau — and — got married — and
went to Europe!" He staggered to
his feet, shaking his fist at space.
"Went to Europe!" he shouted, "her
old father was all a blooming lie—she
went to Europe with the man she'd
been engaged to for two years!"
Nancy, sitting alone on the edge of
the bed now, gasped with relief. "I'm
o glad," she cried, " o glad!"
Roddy stopped in his furious out-
burst to glare at her.
"Money! She wanted money I" lie
raved, "a woman who uses a man's
love for her—to get money " he
■topped, choking, "there's nothing bad
enough for a woman like that!" he
cried, "nothing!"
"I've got nothing to live for," Rod-
dy went on, "the world's rotten—I'm
twenty-three and I've drained life to
to the drags! I've thrown up my job.
sis, i couldn't face it any longer—I'd
lied enough for her. I resigned."
"Rod, you didn't—you didn't owe
anything, did you?"
"Not Not a dam' cent—what do 1
Wint with money? The whole world's
like a rotten apple, the inside s ready
to come outl I went on a spree,
Nance, the biggest spree I ever had
in my life. 1 drank up all I had.
I ' he sank down in a chair op-
pocite and retted hit head on his
clenched fists—"I'm a darned loafer.
I ought to be shot. I've disgraced
you •II. I've stolen. I'm out of work,
why don't you shoot me, Nance?"
Hit lister did not answer him; she
was choked with her own misery. It
had been no use, no use in the world;
she had not saved Roddy, she had only
made him worse 1
"Oh, Roddy I" she gasped, "oh, Rod-
dy, I wish I were dead!"
Roddy stared at her, his jaw drop-
ping; suddenly the selfishness of his
own anguish was penetrated. Nancy's
forlorn cry went to his heart.
"Nancy, I'm a rotter!" he groaned,
"I'm no good on earth!"
"Neither am I!" Nancy's voice was
smothered, "I'm—I'm just as bad! It's
my fault—I—I've made everything
wurse!—I—it's all gon* for nothing!'
the cried.
"It hasn't—listen!" he came over
and seiaed her by the shoulder, almost
shaking her, "it hasn't gone for noth-
ing—if you mean that confounded
monty? I paid it all in—they never
said a word about it; I've thought,
sometimes, that old Beaver knew—
but he's only watched me, that's all.
And now—well, they don't need to
worry about me any more—I quit."
"Roddy, we thought you'd try to
make good!"
He crimsoned with shame. It seemed
to take the high tragedy out of it.
Nancy, watching him, saw how he
felt. She got up slowly from her seat
on his lied and went to him. "Come
home socn, Roddy," she whispered,
"please come home—we all love you
—all of us! Don't hurt uj any more!"
Nancy shut the door softly and went
downstairs.
Richard was standing with his hack
to his own door when she came down.
"Thank you for Roddy," she said
with stiff lips, "please send him
home."
"Nancy," said Richard hoarsely,
"you're unhappy, I see it. I won't
hold you against your will. You can
get a divorce. I—you want it, don't
you ?"
She turned her face away, refusing
to look at him.
"The sooner the better!" she cried,
and ran past him out of the house.
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The task of telling Mr. Gordon
•bout Roddy fell to Nancy; her moth-
er would not face it.
Mr. Gordon's face worked.
"Give him another chance, Papa'
Poor Rod."
Mr. Gordon passed his other hand
over hit face, then he let it fall heavily
on hit daughter's shoulder.
"My poor (irl I You ruined your
life for that—that youug scalawag!'
She jnu staitted.
"Roddy, we thought you would try
to make good."
She did not trust herself to look
up.
"Nancy Virginia," her father said at
last, slowly, "I won't have this secret
kept any longer—you've got to get a
divorce. I'll—make that fellow give it
to you!" ,
Nancy rose slowly to her feet. "He
says I can have it,' she told him.
moving away from him. "He doesn't
want me, that's all," she added with a
little gasp.
She ran upstairs and shut herself
ill her own room. Dropping on the
edge of the bed, she stared out of the
window with unseeing eyes. In her
pocket was a Idler from Page Roe-
nier; in it he sued lor forgiveness—
pleading his love.
"Forgive me, trust me, I only want
to terve you."
Nancy tore it in little pieces, just
at Page Roemer had torn her love
for him in little pieces and trampled it
in the mire—when he asked Iter to run
away with him.
• • •
'Roddy, tramping in the wet meadow
grats, had gotten to the bottom of his
mitery. "Pretty white to treat a poor
devil like me so well!" he mused bit-
terly, with that rush of friendship for
Richard that comes to a man at the
end of his tether. No one had told
him that he owed hit freedom to
Richard.
Roddy, in the rush of hit friendship
and gratitude to Richard, did not
know how much he owed. He was i
tramping up and down the river
meadow in the dutk when he came
suddenly upon old Major Lomax.
"Eh, there!" he shouted. 1
Roddy stumbled. He knew the
voice and it brought a rush of mem-.
ory.
"It't only Rod Gordon, Major," he
said in a choked voice.
The old man set down his lantern
and held out his hand.
"Come and shake hands then, sir,'
he said sharply, "drat it, I thought
I'd caught my chicken thief!"
Red in the fate. Roddy came up
and shook hands. The old man swung
the lantern in his face.
"Been drinking?" he asked grimly.
"You look fishy, but come in—Angle
hears your voice."
Roddy wanted to escape. Then he
looked up and taw the girl in the
lighted doorway. Before he knew it,
he was holding her soft cool hands in 1
his.
"Come in, come in," said the major
testily, "I'm playing chess tonight
with Haddon, but you and Angie can
talk if you've a mind to."
The major, hanging his lantern on
a hook by the door, surveyed him.
"Beaver says you've given up," he re-
marked sharply, "going to turn into a
foot-pad, young man, or a toe-dancer
—which
"Uncle Robert!" gasped Angie.
Roddv swallowed hard. "I'm going
to work here," he answered thickly.
"I'm looking for a job near home
this time—I'm done with New York."
"New York's done with you." cor-
rected the major grimly. "I'll give
you a job," he said flatly, "got one
in the insurance office now—twenty
dollars a week to start—and no fool-
ing Take it, Rod?"
Roddy ga.ped. "I'd—I'd like to
think about it, sir."
The major laughed shortly. Then
he heard their maid-of-all-work ad-
mitting a visitor.
"There's Haddon I Did you set out
the chess table, Angle? All right,
then, you take this young firebrand
in hand and talk sense to him." He
started down the hall to meet Had-
don, but threw a word back over his
to toe*
I'm |6 sorry
she ■ Isltsrea,
"pleatedon't mind it, Koddy. He—
he meftrts to be kind."
N4 one-could be dreadful enough
to m," said Roddy Singing himtelf
oas ww (tool at her feet
She was thocked, but her heart be-
gan to beat in her throat. He was
always impetuous. He had come back
to tell her—he was sorry then I
"I've done awful things," he went
on, in a passion of self abnegation,
do you remember—when I washerc
last? I didn't come to see you.'1
Yes, I know. I saw you go by—1
thought you'd forgotten.
"I had," said Roddy, "1 was
ashamed to remember. I'm a rotter,
Angie. I'd been stealing to help a
bad woman out of trouble."
The girl shrank back into her cor-
ner. It was a long while before she
could speak. "I—can't believe it, Roil-
Jy, you're—why, you're a Gordon!"
He turned crimson. She had touched
lie tenderest spot about him.
"I stole fifteen thousand dollars
from the trust company, Angie. I
night to be in jail," he went on, pour-
ng it all out in a molten stream of
passionate regret and remittance. "My
sister helped me. Nancy borrowed the
money and kept nie out of jail! A
girl, Angie! I'm a lout—I let her do
it."
Angle's quick gasp escaped him. He
was too much wrapped up in hiinielt
to perceive that he had given a key
to a mystery. Richard had money-
could Nancy have gone to hint?
"I—I'm so glad you didn't go—to
jail I" she gasped, and then: "Rod
you ought to have gone. We ought
to pay lor what we do—ourselves."
He caught her Irand and helil ii
feverishly; he had forgotten his hatrtil
of the sex.
"You don't despise me—for it?" he
asked {luskily.
She shook her head. Then, sudden-
ly, without warning, she hurst into
tears. Her tears melted Roddy; ht
felt a rush of self pity as great as
her pity for him.
"Oh, Roddy!" sighed the girl melt-
irtgly, and before she knew it her soft
fingers touched his brown hair with
shy fondness. "Oh, Rod, there was a
woman, you said "
"I hate her!" he vowed, "I was
a fool, Angie. She fooled me. She
begged for help for her old father
oh, a touching story—and she said
she'd return it, I—1 thought I could
myself. Then 1 found out she was
married," he blazed.
Angie dried her tears angrily. "Sh*
ought to have gone to jail!"
freni aH
from the
tat tba tutor* la my good.
■n* J. 0- PBNVXY STORE at
Ajharillo U Muling all other atom
In Tana, which la an Indication
that the Depression has left tha
Panhandle for GOOD. This la
quite a eompllment to Mr. O. W.
Luke, manager of this store, and
his assistants, who are the moat*
accommodating talesmen that can
be found anywhere In the south.
Last week this progressive Arm car-
ried a whole page ad In The
Claude News. This week you will
find their 45-lnch ad on last page.
They carry an ad each and every
week In The Claude News. That
is one of the reasons why The
J. C. PENNEY store at Amarlllo
has forgotton about the Depres-
sion some months back. If the J.
C. PENNEY store can carry a
BIO AD every week, It naturally
follows that smaller stores can
carry an eighth to a quarter
of a page ad to a big advantage.
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GOODNIGHT NEWS
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"New York's don* with you" cor.
rected the Major grimly.
'That's what Nance thinks," he ad-
mitted a little sheepishly, then, abrupt-
ly, he kissed Augie't hand
"Roddy, you're going to work here?
You'll " she hesitated—"you'll take
Uncle Robert's offer?"
He rose slowly aud began to walk
up aud down, with the tame pictur-
esque melancholy. "I think I—I'll ask
Richard, you tee Richard took me in
—drunk—and took care of me," Rod-
dy's voice, choked, "pretty white, was-
n't it? I'm grateful to Richard."
"Grateful ?" Angie sprang up, her
face crimson, "you've no reason to be
grateful to Richard Morgan!" she
cried impetuously, "no reason in the
world!"
Roddy caught the change in her
tone, and he taw the anger in her
face. He stood still, with a shock of
surprise.
"What do you mean, Angie?"
"Don't be grateful to that man!"
she answered furiously, "that's all—I
can't tell you why, but—let him alone,
Rod I"
"Richard Morgan? Why? I don't
understand—tell me, Angie."
She drew back at that, she saw the
look on his face and suddenly remem-
bered. If she told Nancy's brother
the story that was going the rounds,
the story that linked Naucv's name
with Morgan's, Roddy . would go to
Richard and demand satisfaction. .. Me
would have to and it would mean
death! The girl began to tremble;
she had been a fool, what could she
say?
Continued Next Week
(Continued from First Page)
specialists as did
Considering the re-
h«r teacher, Miss Sul-
with this deaf,
student, the pos-
ef —Ivans I Independent
beeomes apparent.
Therefore, as I visualise the fu-
ture I see the number of teachers
ktmH as the number of agri-
culturists, (killed laborers and in-
lecraaie. Future
WM realise it will be
hatter for thorn to do a full
iaite work ho—aires and employ
to dsrolopo their |
is an industry that can never be
overdone, as it is turning out a
product of which there can never
be a surplus. Even today the safest
i and most profitable investment is
| in education.
Whatever sociHl or political sys-
j tems may be tried In the future,
; children will always be the great-
est assets. Stocks, bonds, bank ac-
counts. Insurance policies and real
estate holdings may easily pass out
of existence. Our children, how-
ever, will always be our«. What-
ever happens to bankers, manu-
facturer and merchants, the ef-
ficient teacher will always be in
demand. Moreover, ae leisure time
the demand for thoee
•y y,>
| intelligently and spiritually will
! rapidly increase. Even today many
. families are looking for such per-
| sons to come into their homes
and guide their boys and girls.
—In School and Community.
Ninety per cent of the feeder
calves produced in Mendnrd county
are dchorjied in. the same manner
on the 4-H .club.calves that were
exhibited , in livestock, shows this
spring. Club boys made an average
net return of $71.40 per calf on 37
animals exhibited and sold at 8an
Angelo and Fort Worth. The calves
averaged 844 pounds.
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WANT AM, PBONI 17
"ADTOTIU Mil"
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Swift of
Clarendon were the guests of Mrs.
Ida B. Dye Friday evening.
Bill Clifton and Raymond Reck
were autoing in Goodnight one
day last week.
Sam Reck is a resident of Good-
night at present.
Mrs. Lawrence Dye of Goodnight
is finishing her degree work at
Canyon.
Mrs. Ida B. Dye was entertain-
ing friends from Wellington over
the week-end.
Mrs. Albert Craln Is home from
a visit to Reodosla, N. M.
Farmers are busy setting their
crops and ore rejoicing over the
present good season they have.
Goontght. according to reports
had another quiet wedding Sat-
urday. May their years all be
"Spring Time".
Neely Cox Ls busy getting start-
ed on the New Highway. Move
on over folks; Neely will get lone-
some.
Mrs. Longbine Is visiting her
sister in Carter, Oklahoma.
Amarlllo friends were dinner
guests of Mrs. Ida B. Dye Mon-
day.
Mrs. Ida B. Dye visited in
Clarendon last week.
Mrs. Clara McCoullad from Llor-
ence, Arizona, cousin of Ida B.
Dye, will be In Goodnight for a
visit soon.
All is smiles at Goodnight HI.
at present, but a sad sweet mem-
ory will soon overtake and linger
—perhaps tears may dim some
eyes—but they will make remem-
berances all the sweeter by and
by.
Bob Collins was at Goodnight
Monday on business.
Mrs. Ida B. Dye had an in-
vitation to a Gardens Fete at
Amarlllo Thursday.
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LAKEY1EW SCHOOL CLOSES
MAY 18T1I
The 1933-34 session at Lakeview
School closes May 18th, with a
community picnic. The place of
the picnic will be decided at a
later date.
Final examinations will begin
Monday the 14th and continue
through Wednesday morning.
The school program will be
given Tuesday night beginning at
8 o'clock.
On Thursday night, the Seven-
th grade graduation will be held,
the principal speaker being Rev.
Crow of Claude.
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MILLER PHARMACY TO PLAY
HERE SUNDAY
Glen Miller, Manager for the
Miiler Pharmacy ball club, of Am-
arillo, says he will bring a club
to Claude. Sunday, that can beat
the best Claude has ever had.
Says anyone of his four hurlers
can turn the trick.
The local boys say they are glad
Glen has four pitchers, as they
would hate to have him bring a
short handed club down. Mem-
phis used three in the attempt
to check the bats of the Claude
nine, and only one proved to be
effective In the least, and accord-
ing to Larry, John and Channey.
"You ain't seen nothing yet."
And I have a feeling that the
boys really mean they are going
to hit the old apple Sunday.
Joe McKnlght and "Lefty"
Hooker, are two of the Pharmacy
hurlers. and the fans will remem-
ber Joe as the pitcher who beat
Claude, .in the first game of the
News-Globe tournament last year.
All the more reason why the boys
are going to do their best to route
him from the mound In the first,
should he be the starting choice
for Miller.
Another good game ls In store
for the fans when these two
get together, and that will be
Sunday. May 13th., at 3. P. M.,
on the local diamond, same ad-
mission aud ladies Free. Come on
Fans, Claude Ls, and lets keep it
he be*.I base ball town In the
Panhandle.—Reporter.
O:
To meet the need of fruit twlcc
i day to give an adequate diet,
home demonstration club women
hi Lamar county put out 1380
fruit trees and 1808 grape vines
early this print.
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GROOMING
By
| Verna DeBorde
Don't neglect tired feet if you
would look best. Dissolve a table-
i spoonful of salt in warm water
and bathe them gently, messag-
ing tender Joints with the fin-
gers. Baking soda dissolved In the
water Is restful. 11 one prefers it
to salt. Dry the feet thoroughly,
apply vaseline or hand lotion to
tender spots, and dust them with
body powder.
Choose carefully when buying
j shoes; the cut-outs on summer
shoes should not be where weight
is thrown on them. Some of the
daintiest appearing: sandals have
reinforced shanks to befriend a
weak arch. Be sure of adequate
fool support If you don't want tir-
ed feet that pull the entire body
out of line.
Thorough clensing of teeth and
mouth helps to prevent unpleasant
breath as well as to preserve
health of teeth. Keep two tooth-
brushes, that you may always have
one crisp and fresh. Many good
dental pastes are now on the
market, and many dental au-
thorities recommend the use of
, table salt, baking soda, or a pure,
unscented soap. The use of soap
as a dentifrice must be learned
with patience, but leaves the teeth
shining and the mouth pleas-
antly refreshed. *
Remember to scrub the tongue
an well as the teeth, at least
twice dally.
It Is hard to say Just where
beauty spots and good grooming
btglns, and many a girl ls so
well groomed that she creates an
Illusion of beauty which she does-
n't possess. When one's day Is
ended, the few minutes required
to remove make-up, brush hair,
etc.. seem drudgery, but we are
well repaid in better looks the
next day. Now that white shoes
are wom so much, take a few
minutes at night to clean them.
What a satisfaction It Is to have
one's shoes all ready to waar the
first thing la the morning.
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