Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, May 22, 1914, Image 3

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Newspaper Page Text17 8YN0PSIS. Cowboys of the Flylnr Heart ranch art Baartbroken over the lorn of their much prised phonograph by the defeat of their J1 amnion In a foot-race with the cook of ne Centipede ranch. A house party la jn at the Klylnr Heart. J. Wafllncford Bped, cheer leader at Yale, and Culver Cevlngton. lnter-collea;late champion run er, are expected. Holen Blake, Hpeed's sweetheart, suKg-est to Jean Chapln, sla te at the owner of the ranch, that the Inauce Covington, her lover, to win back the phonograph. Hnlen declares that If Cevlnjton won't run, Bpeed will. The cowboys are hilarious over the prospect Hpeed and his valet. Larry Gloss. tralrr at Tale, arrive. Helen Blake asks Bpeed, who has posed to her as an athlete, to raoe against the Centipede man. The eawboys loin In the appeal to Wally, and fearing that Helen will find him out, hs wisents. He Insist, however, that he rhall be entered as an unknown, figuring that Covington will arrive In time to take hu place. Fresno, glee club singer from Stanford university and In love with Helen, tries to discredit Rpeed with the ladles and the cowboys. Bpeed and Glass put In the time thev are supposed to be draining playing cards In a secluded spot The cowboys tell Olaes It la up to him to e that Bn'ed wins the race. Willie, the unman, declares the trainer will go back aat parked In Ice, If Bped foils. A tele gram comes from Covington saying he la la Jail at Omaha for ten days. Glass In a panle forces Bpeed to begin training In arnest. The cowboys force Bpeed to eat In the training quartera and prepare him diet of very rare meat CHAPTER XIV. Continued. "They won't let me. I I'm sup posed to keep to myself." "They? Who?" "QlaSS." Miss Blake turned Indignantly upon Larry. "Do you mean to say Mr. Bpeed can't to walking with me?" "I Barer aald nothing of the sort," declared the trainer. "He can go If he wants to." "Juat the lame, I oughtn't to do It. There la a atrlct routine" A lift of the brows and a courteous mile proclaimed Miss Blake'a perfect Indifference to the subject, Juat aa Wil lie sauntered past the open window and spoke to Glaaa beneath hie breath: "Git her out!" "I'm ao sorry. May 1 show yon a aurprlae I brought for youT" She un wrapped her parcel, and proudly die played a pallid, anaemic cake garland ed with wild flow ers. Speed waa honestly overcome. "For me!" Tor you. It Isn't even cold yet, eel I made it before breakfast, and It looks even better than the one I baked at achool!" "That's what I call fine," declared the youth. "By JoveT and I'm ao toad of cake!" "Hare a care!" breathed Larry, rts lag nervously, but Speed paid no at tention. "Break It with your own hands, please. Besides, It'a too hot to cut" Miss Blake broke It with her own hands, during which operation the brown face of the man outside reap peared In the window. At algbt of the eake be spoke sharply, and Lawrence lumbered swiftly across the floor and laid a heavy band upon the cake. "Mr. Speed!" he cried warnlngly. "Here, take your foot off my angel lead!" fiercely ordered the youth. But Ue other waa like adamant "Bo, you are about to contest for the honor of this ranch! That cake will make a bum of you!" "Oh a!" gasped. the author of the delicacy. "Stop before It la too late!" Glasi held hla hungry employer at a dis tance, striving to make known by a wink the necessity of hla act "There la absolutely nothing In my rake to Injure any one," Helen ob jected loyally, with lifted chin; where upon the corpulent trainer turned to her and aald: "Cake would crab any athlete. Cake and gala la the limit" "Really! I had no Idea I waa the teaat bit dangerous." Mlsa Blake, turn ing to ber host, smiled frigidly. "I'm ao sorry I Intruded." "Now don't aay thatt" Speed strove to detain her. "Please don't be of fendedI Juat have to train!" "Of course. And will you pardon me tor Interrupting your routine? Tou tee, I had no Idea I wasn't wanted." "But you are, and do want yon! I" "Good by!" She nodded pleasantly at the door, and loft her1 lover staring after her. When the had gene, he cried, la a trembling voice: "You're a fine yap, yeu are! She got np early to do some thing nice for me, and you Insulted her! Tou wouldn't even let ma alt and bold ber hand I" '"No palm-readln'." Speed turned to behold bla trainer ravenously devour log the cake, and dashed to lis rescue "It'a heavier than a frog full of buokskot Tou won't like It Cul." "It'a perfectly dollcloual" came the choking anawer. "Then get back of them curtains Willie 'd shoot on eight" ! And that morning the prisoner Idled about the premlsea, followed at a dis tance by hla guard. He could not bear to read the future; anything seemed possible. Time and again be cursed that spirit tt braggadocio, that theughtleaa lack of moral scruple, -which had led him Into thla predica ment Ho vowed that he waa done with false pretenses; henceforth the strictest probity should be his. No more false poses. Praise won by dis simulation and deceit waa empty, any how, and did he escape thla once, heneceforth the world ahould know J. Walllngford Speed for what he was an average individual, with no uncom mon gifts of mind or body, courage or ability. At noon Wally went through the mockery of a second blood-rare meal, with no cake to follow, and that after noon Glass dragged him out under the hot sun, and made him sprint until he waa ready to drop from exhaustion. His aupper was wretched, and his fa tigue so great that he fell asleep at Miss Blake's side during the evening. With the first hint of dawn be was up again, and Friday noon found him ut terly hopeless, when, true to his pre diction, the unexpected happened. In one moment he was raised from the blackest deptha to the wildest trans ports of delight It came in the ahape of a telegram which Jean summoned him to the bouse to receive. He won dered listlessly aa he opened the mes sage, then started as If disbelieving his eyes; the marks of a wild emotion spread over his features, he burst Into shrill, hysterical laughter. "Do tell ua!" begged Roberta. "Covington Covington la coming!" Wally felt his head whirl, and failed to note the chaperon's cry of aurprlae and aee the paling of her cheeks. "Cov ington Is coming! Don't you under stand?" he shouted. After all, the gods were not deaf I Good old Culver, who bad never failed him, waa coming aa a deliverer. Even in the face of his extraordinary outburat the attention of the behold er was drawn to Lawrence Glass, who caused the porch to shako be neath bis feet; who galloped to bis employer, and seizing him by the bands, capered about like a hippopota mus. "I told you 'Allah' waa some guy," he wheezed. "When doea Covington arrive?" Wally reread the message. "It says 'noon Friday.' Why, that's today! He's her now I" "'Rah! 'Bah! 'Rah! Covington!" bellowed the trainer, and Mr. Keap sank to a seat with a stifled moan. "Why all the 'Oh Joy! Oh rapture! stuff?" questioned Berkeley Fresno. 'As Socrates, the Hemlock Kid, would put It 'Snatched from the shadow f the grave,'" quoth Glasa, then paused abruptly. "Say, you don't think nothin' could happen to him on the way over from the depot?" Tm ao sorry w didn't know In time to meet him, lamented Miss Chapln. "And I could have run over to the railroad to bid him welcome," laughed Bpeed. "Twenty miles would do me good." Still Bill and Willi approached the "Would Y'all Like to Lay a Little Mo' en This Racef gallery curiously, and In subdued tones Inquired: "What's the matter, Mr. Bpeed?" "You ain't been summoned away?" Willie stared questlonlngly upward. . "No, nol My running partner la en bla way here, that's all." "Running pardner?" "Culver Covington." "Ob, we waa afraid something had happened. You are, Gabby Gallagher baa Just blowed In from tb Centipede to raise our bets." "We think It'a a bluff, and we'd like to call him." "Do ao, by all means!" cried the excited athlete. "Com on, let' all talk to Dim!" The entire party, with the exception of Mr. Keap, trooped down frdra the porch and followed the foreman out toward the sheds, where, In the midst of a crowd of ranchhands, a burly, loud-mouthed Texan was discoursing. "I do wish Jack were her," aald Jean nervously, on the way. Gabby Gallagher seemed a fitting leader for such a desperate crew as I that of the Centipede, for he waa the hardest-looking citizen the easterners had beheld thus far. He waa thickset and burned to the color of a ripe olive; his long, drooping mustaches, tobacco stained at the center, were bleached at the extremities to a hempen hue. His bristly hair. waa cut ahort, and stood aggressively erect upon a bullet head, his clothes were soiled and greasy beneath a gray coating of dust A pair of alert lead-blue eyes and a certain facility of movement belied the drawl that marked hla nativity. He removed his hat and bowed at sight of Miss Chapln. "Good evenln'. Miss Jean!" said be. "I hope I find y'all well." "Quite well, Gallagher. And you?" "Tol'able, thank you." "These are my friends from the east." The Centipede foreman ran his eyes coldly over Jean's companions until they rested upon Speed, where they remained. He shifted a lump In his cheek, spat dexterously, and directed his remark at the Yale man. "I rode over to see if y'all would liko to lay a little mo' in this y'ere foot race. I allow you are the unknown?" Speed nodded, and Stover took oc casion to ramark: "Them's our inclinations, but "e'v about gone our limit." "I don't blame you none," aald Gal lagher, allowing his gaze to rove slow ly from top to toe of the eastern lad. No, I caln't blame you none whatever. But I'm terrible grieved at them tid in's. Though we Centipede punchers has ever considered y'all a cheap an' poverty-ridden outfit, we givea you credit for beln' game, till now." He spat for a second time, and regarded Stover scornfully. A murmur ran through the cowboys. "We are game," retorted Stover, "and for your own good don't allow no belief to the contrary to become a superstition." "Don't let a Centipede bluff you!" exclaimed Speed. "Cover anything tbey offer give 'em odds. Anything you don't want, I'll take, pay or play, money at the tape. We can't lose." "I got no more money," said Carara, removing bla handsome bespangled bat "but I bet my sombrero. 'E's wort' two hondred pesos." Murphy, the Swede, followed quickly. "Ay ban' aend may vagea bom to may ole' moder, but aye akall bat you. some." j "Haven't you boys risked enough al ready?" ventured Mlaa Chapln. "Re member, It will go pretty bard with the losers." "Harder the better," came a voice. "Y'all don't have to bet Jest because I'm h'yar," gibed Gallagher. "God! I wish I waa rich!" exclaimed Willie. But Miss Chapln protested. "Ton are two montha overdrawn, all of you. My brother won't advance yon any more." "Then my man, Lawrence, will take what they can't cover," offered Speed. "That's right! Clean 'em good, brother," croaked tb trainer. "If you'll step over to the bunk bouse. Gabby, wall dig up some per sonal perquisites and family heir looms." Stover nodded toward bla men's quarters, and Gallagher grinned Joyously. "That shore listens Ilk a band from where I set We aim to annex tb wages, hopes, and personal ambitions of y'all, along with your talkin'-ma-chtne." "Excuse me." Willi pushed his way forward. "How'a ah gettin' along?" "Fine!" "You mule-skinners ain't broke berr "No; w play her every evenln'." The little man shifted his feet: then allowed himself to Inquire, aa if re garding the habit of soma dear de parted friend: "Hav you chose any favorite res- cords?" "W all haa our pick. Speakin' per sonal, I'm atuck on that baggag coach song of Mrs. Mora's." "Mo-ray!" Willie corrected. "M-o-r-a! Heleney Mo-ray la the lady's name." "Mebbe so. Our foot-runner likes that Injun war-dance best of all." Ca rara smiled at Cloudy, who nodded, aa If pleased by the compliment Then It waa that the Flying Heart spokesman made an Inquiry In bushed, hesitating tonea. "How do you Ilk "Tb Holy City?" he removed hla hat aa did those back of blm. "Aa aung by Madam-o-aelluOIelby?" "Rotten!" Gallagher aald promptly. "That's a bum, for fair." (TO BB CONTINUED.) Undiscovered Interior. A magazine editor recently return ed a story to an aspiring contribu tor. Immediately tb latter wrote an In dignant letter to blm, aaylng that be fore sending ber manuscript sb had slightly pasted together several of tb Inner pages. When the story waa returned to ber It waa In Its original condition. Bh had always suspected editors of neglecting their duties; now sb waa cur of their careless ness, for ber own story bad not been read. To all this, the much berated man made reply: "Dear Madam: At breakfast, when I find that an egg Is bad, I do not hav to eat tb whole of It to make sure." Th Sunday Msg zln. Tea Reveal 01! Plaid. Tb discoverer of oil In Papua, British New Guinea, was tb result ol a native boy being whipped for pi so Ing kerosen In a miner's tea. Th youth declared bis Innocence and led tb miner to th well from which th water bad been taken. It waa found that th surface of th water was completely covered with kerosen, tb source of which 1 be ing developed Into a bug commer cial enterprise. GAY FRILLS IN THE BOUDOIR Dainty and Feminine Are the Ruf fles Just Now Being 8o Generously Made Use Of. As ruffles become more and mora fashionable on feminine garb they be gin to make a reappearance in fem inine boudoirs. Ruffled window cur tains, bed-spreads and pillow covers ar replacing the straight bordered ef fects of the last few yeara and mi lady's room promises to become as gayly frilled a sanctum as it was a half century ago. Ruffled pillow cases are especially dainty and feminine and they give the final touch of luxury to the bed. If one does not desire to sleep on th beruffled pillows they may bs ex changed at night for smaller pillows In plain linen slips, or the ruffled slips may be removed and put on again next morning. This takes but a moment if the slip covers are roomy enough to go over the pillow without tugging. Two or three snap buttons sewed along the opening under the rufflea will hold the dainty covers smoothly in place and may be unfastened in a twinkling at night Rather narrow ruffles give the best effect two and a half inches should be the limit of width and the hems should be very narrow also. .Make the ruffle full enough to be fluted by the laundress and the effect will be very crisp and smart. Such pillow' covers should be square, rather than oblong, and tho pillow may be stufTcd Into the square, the snap buttons holding it In place. Of course the ruf fles must go around all four sides of each cover, and the bed thus dressed will need no pillow shams, bolster roll or other device to bide the sleeping pillows from view. TO CLEAN COLORED FABRICS Liquid Resulting From Grated Raw Potatoea Mixed With Water Will Produce Gratifying Results. Grate raw potatoes to a fine pulp In clear water, and pass the liquid through a coarse sieve Into another vessel of water. Let the mixture stand until the fine white particles of the potatoea are precipitated, then pour the water off and preserve for use. This liquid will clean all sorts of silk, cotton or woolen goods without hurt ing them or spoiling th color. Two good-sized potatoes are sufficient for a pint of water. The article to be cleaned ahould be laid upon a linen cloth on a table, and, having provided a clean sponge, dip it into the potato water and apply It to the article to be cleaned until the dirt is entirely separated; then wash In clean water several times. The coarse pulp, which does not pass through the sieve, if of great use in cleaning wool draperies, carpet and other coarse goods. Easy 6unday Dinner. Fresh beef tongue makes an eco nomical and toothsome dinner for Sun-' day. It costs about half as much aa the smoked variety and goea farther. Buy on Friday and soak over night In strong salt water. Cook th next morning In plenty of water, well salt ed. Add one-halt capful of cooked rice to the water and you will have an excellent broth for luncheon or dinner on Saturday. . On Sunday slice the tongue cold and serve with It a Jelly or aauce. On can also cut out enough meat from around the root of tongue for a few sandwiches or to use In cro quette) or bash for Monday' luncheon. Planked Whltafish. Seal a five-pound whlteflsh or two mailer one. Cut open th entire length down th middle with a small knife and loosen the backbone at the neck until you can take bold of It. Gently draw It out; It will com en tire with all th bones. Rinse fish and place back downward on a piece of hardwood plank. A dripping pan will answer, but haa not quit the same flavor. Dot with amall pieces of butter, pepper and salt Sprinkle over It the Juice of a large lemon, flake In rather a quick oven 25 minutes. It must be a rich brown. If a dripping pan 1 used add a bait cupful of wa ter. Chocolate Tartlet. Four eggs, one-half cake grated chocolate, on tablespoonful of corn starch dissolved In milk, three table spoonfuls of milk, four of sugnr, a half teaspoonful of vanilla, a bait teaspoon tul of cinnamon, a smnll pinch of salt and a heaping teaspoonful of butter. Rub the chocolate smooth In the milk, beat over th Ore and add the corn starch wet In milk. Stir until thick ened and then pour out When cold beat In th yolk of eggs, sugar and flavoring. Pake In tart shells; cover with meringue. To be served cold. Indian Matting. Having dlacovered an excellent way to clean matting, I pass It on to other. Beat tb matting first to re move all dust then take It out of door and scrub It well with bran wa ter or with water to which a small quantity of salt has been added, Soap haa a tendoncy to turn matting yel low, and ahould not be used. After tb matting has boon put through thla process, It should be rinsed with cold water, rubbed aa dry aa possible with a clean cloth and bung on a tin to complete th drying. To Curl Feather. An ostrich Mother that has becom uncurled from th dampness may be curled again by sprinkling It thickly With common salt and shaking It b (or a blight Or until It Is dry. New Indian Animal Stories How the Rabbit Destroyed Flint By JOHN M. OSKISON n TOTOOTOTOOTOTOfC - fO - KTO'fO Children, Color the Above Sketch to una mane a (Copyright 1914. by the McClure News- I paper syndicate.) Long timo ago, when the Indians of the wooded mountains used to tip their arrows With rtlnroa nf nhnrn flint 1 1i a little children who watched the old men at work chipping the flint and binding the .pointed bits of stone Into the ends of the arrowa with deer sinew, would hear this story: Once the animals all came together in council to talk about how they could dostroy Flint, the awful fellow who lived up on the mountain and killed so many of them. One after the other. the animals stood up in the council and told about how Flint had come down from tho rocky ledges of the mountain and carried off some of their relatives. The Great Bear said It; the long pronged deer said It; the oldest gob bler saldlit; and finally the Great Otter said that somebody must go and kill Flint In order to save the lives of the rest of the animals. But who would dare to go up to tho mountain and undertake to destroy Flint? No one wanted to go, though the Great Otter, who was at tho head of the council, said that greut honor would come to the one who succeeded. At last when It came time for the rabbit to answer, he said that he would go and destroy Flint If ho only know the way to his bouse. "Oh!" said all tho animals at once, "w will show you the way." And'so they all came out of the council and took the rabbit to a high knoll. When they were all gathered on the knoll, the Great Otter stood beside tho rab bit and pointed to a house 'way up on the side of the mountain. They could Just barely see It "There," said the Great Otter, "lives Flint" and he told the rubblt Just how to get up there. It was a long road, and the rabbit sat down to rest before ho got to Flint' bouse, and he planned what he would do. Then be got up and went on. Flint was standing In the door nf bla bouse aa tho rabbit came up and said to blm: "Slyu (hello) are you the fellow they call Flint?" And the rabbit anld It Just aa If bo meant to bite bla head off right there! "Yes, I'm Flint," answered the wicked one who lived on the moun tain, but he didn't Invite the rabbit to come Inside So the rabbit snld: "Is this where you live?" And Flint answered: DARK ROOM EMERGENCY LAMP Easy Matter to Arrange Ruby Light for Developing Films and Plates Tungsten Glob Used. In developing films and pinto It la ensentlnl that a ruby lamp be used. Nut having one I took my Hrownla No. S camera. In the back of which' la a j ' ijwi n i.s i iaj m.t "id Emergency Ruby Lamp. amall ruby Ions, and removed the film bolder, aays a writer In tho l'opular Electricity. In this space waa placed a small tungsten battery lamp. A few foot of flexible wire was attached to th lamp socket terminals and a dry battery furnished tho current A small but practical electric rail way baa been Installed In a lurls ewer. I : J mm - fO000OfOOfOTO - fOTOTO0 1 Suit Yourself. Save All the Sketches book or Them. "Yes, this Ib where I live." Andl then the rabbit said: "Well, my name Is Rabbit. I'vel heard about you, and so I've come toi Invite you to visit me." "Where do you live?" asked Flint "My home ts In tho broom grass by) the rivet," said the rabbit. t "Well, I will be pleased to come and visit you In a few days," said Flint, and he looked as if he wished the rabbit would go away. "Why not come with me today and have Bupper at my house?" asked tb rabbit who had made his plans. "All right. I will." said Flint "Just wait till I cover my lire with ashes so It will keep till morning." So the two came down from the mountnln together, and they came to the rabbit's house by tho river. The rabbit suid ho'd make a Ore down by the water, where it was cooler, and then they ate their aupper on the grass. It was a good supper the rabbit cooked, and afterward Fllut auld he was sleepy and would tnke a nap. And when Flint lay down the rabbit huuted round for two big sticks. Then he got out his knife and began to whittle on the sticks. One he whittled In the Rhnpo of a hammer and tho other be shaped like a wedge. "What are you doing that for?" asked Flint sleepily. "Oh. I always have to be doing some thing." said the rabbit. "Besides, these may come in handy." Soon Flint was fast asleep. Tho rabbit spoke to htm, but be did not answer. The rabbit went over and kicked Flint, but even that did not wake blm. Then the rabbit put tho sharp wedKO against the body of Flint and drew back as far as he could with the hammer and sent the wedge deep Into Flint's body. Aa he struck, the rabbit turned and ran aa fast aa he could to the door of his house. Just as he got Inside ho heard a great explosion and struck bis head out to see what It was. The wedge had broken the body of Flint to bits and the plecca wcra flying all about It was one of the pieces that came flying straight at the rubblt and cut his tipper lip before he could pull his head inside his door. And to this day you can see In tb upper lip of the rabbit the llttlo split made by tho piece of Flint FIRST BOOKS FOR CHILDREN Pioneer of Juvenile Literature Was John Newbury Immortalized In "The Vicar of Wakefield." John Newbury waa really thi pioneer of tho children' book which ho advertised so Ingeniously,' and the two hundredth anniversary of his birth Is worthy of remembrance. Ill "Juvenllo Library," commenced about 1750, wns the first attempt to provide the children with readable books, and It was in Oils series that "Goody Two Shoes," "(illes Gingerbread" andl "Tommy Trip" first made their appear anco In print Goldsmith, who wrote) a good tunny of these children' class-. Ic-s for Newbury, termed him the "bon4 estest man In creation," and ImmortaU Izrd him by a pleasing portrait Ira "The Vicar of Wokeflold." His Parental Zxcus. Teacher You wor sbsout from school ycslurduy? Tonimlo Yes, ma'am. 1 waa sick. ' "Have you any excus for belnj sick yesterdny?" "Yea, ma'am. It waa th pie, ma'am." "I mean hav you any exena from! your parent for being sick yesterJ day?" J "Yea, ma'am. It waa p! whig, mother mad what mad m sick." .