The Gold Hill News, Gold Hill, Oregon
Thursday, July 21, 193S
Frosting a Cake for C L A S S IF IE D
Judges to Sample
WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE’S
DEPARTMENT
Za Hide- tíme Hw-ee Iditít-
lly C. HOUSTON GOUDISS
XT ATURALLY, I am accustomed
to seeing exhibits of delicious
and interesting foods in the Exper
imental Kitchen Laboratory that I
maintain in New York City. Hut
in all the years of its existence, it
' has never been a busier nor a
more inviting place than during
the last few weeks when the home
economists on my stnff have been
busily testing and judging the
many fine cake recipes sub
mitted by readers of this paper in
our recen t Cake Recipe
Imagine, if you can, a big cheer
ful and colorful kitchen filled
with long tables upon which row
after row of handsome cakes
were arranged—proudly testifying
to the skill of ihe homemakers
COPYRIGHT WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE— WNU SERVICI
CHAPTER XI—Continued
—I»—
ing he waited a moment listening
for sounds to guide him. Two of
the rooms had someone in them
probably, since it was not usual to
leave without blowing out the lamp.
Out of one of the rooms a man
walked. There was no light in the
hall. The man walked toward the
front stairs. Jeff called a question
after him.
"Say, which is Curly’s room?"
The lodger stopped. “The one on
yore right,” he said.
“Obliged,” Gray told him. and
watched the other go downstairs.
Again the officer listened. There
was no murmur of voices inside the
room indicated. He opened the door,
walked in, and pushed the bolt home.
Curly was in bed reading by the
light of a lamp beside him. He
looked up, marking with a finger
the place in the book where he had
been interrupted. His eyes gleamed.
“ Mr. Jeff Gray made a short visit
to Tail Holt Tuesday,” he said in
the singsong voice of an uneducated
man reading from a newspaper.
“The boys were certainly glad to
see him and gave him a warm wel
come. The obsequies will be at Boot
Hill this afternoon.”
“Which one of the boys are you
interring?” Gray asked.
“I wouldn’t know who else be
side you.” Curly answered. “ You're
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I'm a government man, a* you say, these smugglers while riding peace
I didn’t come here to get you."
ably through the canyon. I don't
The marshal put him through an
“There's nothing you can get me know whether Lee Chiswick Incited
Idaho; Jean Guthrie, 4713 Camp
exhaustive quiz. As Gray had al
for,” Curly answered hardily. that or not, but he was right there
bell St., Kansas City, Mo.; Mrs.
ready suspected. Curly and one or
“ What you came to see me for was to cut off the retreat of our friends.
Walter Richter, Bonduel, Wis.;
two others were rustlers but not
to get me to throw down my Looks to me like he was in with the
Mrs. P. C. Blakely, Alden, Mich.
bandits. Reynolds was not really
friends. Nothing doing. I'll tell you greasers to fix up the ambush. This
Honorable Mention.
one of the gang, but he assisted
another thing. Some of the boys fellow Gray too. We don't know a
Emogene Williams, Damon,
them with horses. Young Howard
usually drop in during the evening. thing about him even now. He has
Texas; Mrs. Simon Moen, Norma,
contradicted himself frequently,
Better not let them find you here.” lied about himself and abused our
N. D, ; Mrs. Dick Collins, Mason-
twisted this way and that, made
“That's good medicine,” Gray kindness from the start. But we re
futile explanations of his lies. But
said, and reached for his hat. “Only not looking for trouble. Come on,
before his inquisitor had finished
you’re wrong about why I came. I Mile High. We'll go where we are
with him, the facts were clear.
thought there was a chance you welcome. I'm disappointed in Cur
Gray nodded to Frank. •‘That’s
might tell me where Morgan Nor ly."
all," he said.
ris is hiding, if he hasn’t slipped
His manner of reproachful resig
Young Chiswick took his prisoner
across the border yet. I had anoth nation annoyed the wounded man.
away.
er reason too. Sherm Howard's “Don t pull that line, Sherm. You
The officer stood before the ta
day is over. Don't let him draw knew all along where I stood about
ble absorbed in thought. A light,
you into any of his schemes deeper these holdups. I stayed out of them,
hurried step sounded in the pas
than you are now. He's coming to and I'm still doing that. I’m not
sage. Gray looked up, to see Ruth
the end of the trail.”
throwin’ in with this fellow here,
at his elbow.
Footsteps sounded in the hall. whoever he is, but I’m not going to
“You’re not going to Tail Holt—
Someone tried the door-handle and let Unde Sam jump me for what I
alone!” she broke out.
found the door bolted.
didn't do. You nor nobody else
He frowned at her, slowly drag
Curly drew a long blue-nosed re can pass the buck to me."
ging back his thoughts to meet the
volver from beneath his pillow. He
"There's no buck to pass. Curly,
interruption. “ Yes. Why not?”
looked at Gray. The narrowed eyes and if there was you ought to know
“Father told me so. You can’t
of the detective were like half-scab- me better than that." Howard said,
do that. Don’t you see you can’t?
barded steel. In them shone a cold, shaking his head sadly, a picture of
Sherm Howard knows it was you
fierce wariness. His lithe body was a good man misunderstood. “ Let's
who told Father about the Live Oak
crouched, the tense muscles catlike. go. Mile High.”
expedition. He must know, since
“ Don’t start anything," Curly
He reached for the doorknob.
he's not a fool. You won’t last
warned, a rasp to his low command.
"One moment, Howard,” inter
there an hour.”
“ Better tell yore friends that,” posed the crook-nosed man. "Get
It surprised Gray that he did not
Gray said, almost in a murmur, his this right. I’m here on a little visit,
resent her impulsive entrance into
gaze fixed on the door.
and yore son Lou is at the L C on
his affairs. Indeed, the distress of
A fist thumped on a panel. “ Do one. Think that over carefully."
the girl sent a warm glow through
we get in—or don’t we?” a cheerful
The fat hand of Sherm Howard
him.
voice demanded. “ What’s the idea made a gesture repudiating any
“Sherm Howard may be a bad
A professional rake baker, frosting one of the hundreds of rakes
of bolting us out, unless—?”
lawless intent. " I’m not lookin’ for which
man,” he told her quietly. “But
were made up in the Experimental Kitchen Laboratory, main
Through the door came a jovial trouble,” he said again mildly.
I ’m leaving a hostage here at the
tained
by C. Houston Goudiss in New York City, In the course of
chuckle.
But for an instant, before he
ranch. He can’t hurt me if he
’Who's with you. Mile High?" vanished from sight, the curtain lift selecting the winners in his recent Cake Recipe Contest.
thinks yore father would retaliate
Curly asked.
ed in front of the blank eyes, to who cherish the recipes from ville, Iowa; Mrs. B. F. Herman,
on his son.”
‘Sherm Howard. Let us in. fel show a venomous glare behind which they were made.
Box 1118, Crosby, Miss.; Mrs.
“I don’t know anything about
low, and give us a knockdown to which the lust of murder lay
Paul Lorenz, P. O. Box 225,
that!” she cried wildly. “ Maybe
Every Type of Cake Entered.
her.”
crouched.
Strathmore, Calif.; Mrs. S. S. Ar-
some of his men would shoot you
Might as well let them in,” Gray
Gray laughed mockingly. “Too
A whole tublcful of white cokes, entz, Simpson. Nev.; Mrs. Vida
without waiting to ask him. Can’t
said quietly.
bad to misjudge such a fine up with and without icing. Chocolate Hilger, Box 257, Rockland, Mich.;
you see how dangerous it is?”
“All right, but don’t you go reach standing citizen.”
and cocoa cakes of every possible Mrs. Grace H. Peterson, Box 335.
"Most things aren’t dangerous if
ing for yore gun. I’ll be watching
Curly did not laugh. “Fellow, type. All manner of cakes, fra Amherst, Wis.; Mrs. Cecil Skin
you walk straight up to them,” he
you every minute.”
you’re in a tight," he said acridly. grant and delicious — spice, ice ner, Bedford. Wyo.; Mrs. Joe Fur
explained. “ It’s when you run away
Gray trod softly to the door and "Don't let him fool you."
cream, honey, caramel, mnple nace, 317 West Twentieth St.,
from them they get you.”
drew back the bolt, then stepped
"He’s not foolin’ me a minute,” syrup, nut, date, pineapple, or South Sioux City, Neb.
“Father will let you have some
across to a far corner.
the officer replied. “ Mr. Howard ange, lemon, butterscotch, jam,
of his men as a guard,” she insist
My thanks and my compliments
“Come in,” Curly said.
means to blast me soon as it is banana, raisin, oatmeal, cocoanut
ed.
to every homemaker who submit
Howard waddled in. Mile High at safe.”
and
marble
cakes.
Cakes
baked
“That will be fine. By and by I’ll
his heels. They stared blankly at
Gray said good-by to Curly and in long sheets, square cakes, ted a recipe. 1 only regret that
need them, but not yet.”
Gray. The fingers of Mile High's walked out of the room. He tip round cakes, layer cakes. Old- everyone who submitted u recipe
“ You haven’t any right to throw
right hand closed spasmodically, toed down the same back stairway fashioned cakes from grand could not win a prize.
your life away. Haven’t you a
but his arm did not move toward up which he had come a short mothers' recipe books. Very mod
mother—or sisters?”
the weapon at his side. It was not time earlier. Slipping round the
and up-to-date cakes. And even
“No. I’m a lone wolf.”
Making Friend$
time for that yet. Gray had not house, he crossed the road to the em
one that was said to have been a
“There must be a woman some
drawn a gun.
Blessed are they who have the
cottonwood grove opposite. At the
where who—cares.”
“ Keep yore shirts on, boys,” other side of the clump of trees was favorite with General Robert E. gift of making friends, for it is
He flung away discretion and
Curly snapped. "I don’t aim for a path which angled back to a small Lee. I’ve never seen anything to one of God’s best gifts. It involves
caught her in his arms. “I won
you to have any Fourth of July in adobe house built on the edge of a compare with the collection, even many things, but above all, the
der about that,” he said, and looked
here." One of his hands was under creek. Through a window he saw a at the biggest State Fair!
power of going out of one’s self,
into her deep, lustrous eyes.
the sheet.
Do you wonder that the home and appreciating whatever is
man in his stocking feet sitting at a
The
man
circled
tbe
house.
They told him, plainer far than
The opaque eyes of Howard shift table reading a newspaper. The economists on my staff required noble and loving in another.—
words, that she was sealed to him a cool customer, Jeff. Don’t you ed to the man in the bed. “ What man
wore spectacles. He was past several weeks to pick the win Thomas Hughes.
for all time.
does this mean. Curly? You throw fifty, a heavy-set, tough-looking cus ners? For with such a wealth of
know
this
town
is
mighty
unhealthy
He kissed her lips, pushed her for you?”
ing in with this spy?”
tomer whose arm muscles bulged exceptional cakes from which to
away abruptly, and strode out of
choose, selecting thofe for top
“ No, Sherm. He says he drapped beneath the shirt-sleeves.
“
It
doesn't
seem
to
have
been
the room.
was indeed difficult.
in
to
ask
me
where
is
Morg.
And
healthy for you either. Curly. How’s
The man outside circled the house honors,
The cake bakers were trained
don’t make any more cracks like and knocked on the front door.
yore wound getting along?”
CHAPTER XII
“Fine and dandy. Morg was in that. There’s dynamite in them. It’s
“ Evening, Hank,” he said a mo for their work. They followed the
some hurry when he handed me liable to go off and blow someone ment later, smiling at the black recipes precisely. They measured
“Now why did I do that?” Gray this pill, and didn’t plant it where up. It might be you.” Curly spoke smith. “Can I stay with you for a accurately. They checked oven
temperatures.
asked himself reproachfully as he he wanted.”
softly, but his mouth was a thin while?”
The scoring system was highly
rode to town. “Here I’ve watched
straight
line
not
reassuring.
“He sent one to my address, too,
Ransom stared at him in sur
my step all these years so as not a few days earlier, but I wasn’t
“ Don’t get on the prod, Curly,” prise. “ Lord love ye, man, where scientific. And we can say with
to get tied up with a girl, and then where he mailed it.”
answered Howard crustily. “ When I did you blow from?” the old soldier conviction that no m atter how
I go to acting like a kid because she
“How come you to let the rattle find you locked in a room with this asked. "Come in and rest your close the race, the winners defi
nitely outpointed even their clos
is pretty as a painted wagon and is snake get away when you had him fellow who is here trying to make us weary bones.”
made to be loved. I don’t aim to under yore heel?” Curly asked.
trouble. I’m entitled to ask ques
Gray walked in and closed the est rivals.
Never Return
get married. I’m a lone wolf and
First Prize Winner.
Gray told him the circumstances. tions."
door. "I came from having a talk
There are some things that nev
I figure on traveling alone. So there The wounded man meditated over
"Sure, but ask ’em gentle, with Sherm Howard, Mile High, and
The first prize of $25.00 went to er come back—the arrow that is
won’t be any more nonsense from the strange ways of women.
Sherm.”
Curly,” he said.
Mrs. D. F. Kelly, 1004 Charles St., flown, the word that is spoken,
you, Jeff Gray.”
The lank cowpuncher flung out
“ Funny the way they act,” he
“ And they didn’t shoot you into a Whitewater, Wis.
the life that is gone.—Dalrymple.
It was all very well to decide this, said. “All day she had been scared abrupt inquiries. “ When did this rag doll? Man, don’t you know Tail
Second Prize Winners.
but it was quite another thing to to death of the hell-hound, don’t bird come to town. Curly? What’s Holt is plain poison for you?”
The five second prizes were
banish Ruth from his mind.
you reckon? Yet she butts in and he doing here? I’ll say he can’t get
“So Curly says. Sherm doesn’t awarded to Mrs. H. Harshbargen
’ How Women
As he drew nearer Tail Holt, he prevents you from killing him.”
away with any such shenanigan. He want any trouble, he claims.”
of 2427 Fifth Ave., Altoona, Pa.;
brought his attention back strictly
tipped
off
Lee
Chiswick
about
the
’Where did you leave your R. A. Williams, 12075 Rosemary
“ Yes. She couldn't stand any
to the business of the hour. While he
in Their 4 0 ’s
Live Oak business, and he can’t tell horse?”
bloodshed.”
Ave., Detroit, Mich.; Mrs. C. A.
was in the bailiwick of the enemy more
me
anything
different.”
“
In
Mack
Willard's
pasture.”
“ He didn't harm her any, did
Burns, Box 788, Oakland, Miss.;
there must not be any dreaming. To he?”
"Blame yoreself and Sherm and
Can Attract Men
“I’d better rope it and turn it Miss Sadie Cunningham, Avon
survive he would have to keep his
Morg
for
that,
Mile
High,”
said
loose
outside,
so
they
won’t
know
“No.”
Gray
asked
a
question.
Her«'« good ad view for a woman during her
more,
Pa.;
and
Mrs.
Laura
Mey
senses focused upon the immediate “Know where Norris is, Curly?”
Curly. “ You rode out asking for you haven’t left town.”
rhanga (oaually from 34 to 62), who foiEra
er, 107 Pleasant St., Plymouth, aho’ll
present.
loaa her appeal to man, who warn»fl
trouble.”
Gray
told
him
where
he
had
left
about
hot fUahi-M, loaa of pen, dixxy »pells,
Wis.
The black-haired man shook his
It was growing dark, but there
The blank eyes of Howard rested the saddle, and Ransom left to re
upaet nervna and moody apella.
Third Prize Winners.
Get more freah air, 8 hra. Bleep and If you
was still too much light for his pur head. “If I knew I’d tell you. May on the marshal. “Nothing to that, cover it and free the horse.
need a good general system tonic take Lydia
pose. He drew aside from the road be he’s clear outa the country. Curly. The boys were attacked by
Mrs. T. H. Fjor.e, Flaxville,
(TO HE CONTINUED)
K. Pint ha m a Vegetable Compound, made
for women. It helpa Nature build
and guided his horse through the While he was in town he held up
Mont.; Mrs. Lester Ralston, 127 aaparinUu
up physical reaiatance, thua helpa give more
mesquite and the prickly pears un Sherm Howard and took five hun
South Judd St., Sioux City, Iowa;
vivacity to enjoy life and aaaiat calming
nervea and diaturbing symptom« that
til he came to a more open space dred dollars from him.”
Mrs. Harry A. Kramer, 16 Marin jittery
Tung Oil Used for Centuries in Orient
often accompany change of life. WELL
where Spanish bayonets were scat
“That distresses me,” Jeff said
Road, Manor, Calif.; Mrs. F. D.
WORTH TRV1NGI
tered. Here he rested until stars dryly.
Before Western World Knew of Its Value McDonald, Route 1, Amherst,
began to prick through the sky roof.
Curly grinned. “I thought it
Texas; Vera Tygar, Commodore,
He remounted, but did not return might. The scalawag was just light
Tung oil was used for centuries in a small apple when ripe—can be Pa.; Mrs. George Ahlborn, R. D.
ROMAN EYE BALSAM used
to the road. Winding in and out ing out when we bumped into him.” the Orient to waterproof wood, pa picked from the ground and husked No. 1, Mt. Pleasant, P a.; Mrs. B.
when retiring will relieve sore,
among the brush, he came to a
“Sherm done any talking about per and cloth before the western by hand. The seeds are ground, A. Robinson, Box 578, Emmett,
inflamed and sticky eyes by
barbed-wire fence and followed it m e?” Gray asked casually.
world became aware of its value. heated and pressed, and the oil
morning. 50c a jar at drug
to a gate. Through this he passed
The man in the bed looked at By 1922, however, the United States strained out. With no elaborate ma
Russian supplies reach Chin»
gists or Wright’s Pill Co., 100
into a large pasture. At the far him. “You’re sure a cool cuss. Yes, was importing 79,089,293 pounds of chinery being used, the Chinese in over a new highway 3,000 miles
Gold St., N. Y. City.
side of this he stopped and looked he’s talked considerable, and that’s tung oil; the next year the figure dustry tends to be scattered among long.
down upon the lights of the town. all I aim to tell you—except that rose to nearly 90,000,000 pounds— many small producers.
He unsaddled, then picketed the Tail Holt is a good place for you valued at $14,000,000 and constitut
These factors make standardiza
WNU—13
29—38
horse. The saddle he hid in a clump to be an absentee from.” The face ing 85 per cent of China’s export of tion
of the quality of the oil diffi
of mesquite.
of Curly had taken on a stiff harsh the oil. In 1928, 107,356,971 pounds cult, and militate against improve
His approach to the village ness. “I’m no sidekick of yours, were imported, and by 1938 annual
brought him to the rear of Ma fellow. I’ll throw in with you or consumption was 127,000,000 pounds. ment of the culture of the trees.
Adulteration of tung oil with in
Presnail's boarding - house. The anyone else to stomp out that vil
T o G e t R id o f Acid
In addition to its primary use in
chances were that the man he want lain Morg Norris. Then I’m through. paint manufacturing, notes a corre ferior vegetable oils is common. At
a n d Poinonotiu W aste
tempts
have
been
made
to
induce
ed to speak with first was staying Understand? I’ve got no informa spondent in the New York Herald
Your kidney, help to keep you well
the growers to ship the seeds to
by conatanlly filtering wa.te matter
there, but it was important to make tion for you—or any other govern Tribune, tung oil was adapted to some
from
the blood. If your kldneya get
central spot where they can
sure.
functionally dlanrder-d and full to
ment man. You came here to us other industries—in insulating com be processed by modern methods,
remove
e i —aa Impurlilea, there may bo
For several minutes he watched with a lie, claiming to be Clint pounds, brake linings and gaskets
Kd?-thf. dlotreaa. W‘,°to
*ni
the house. There were lights in Doke. That washes you up with on pumps and engines. But the con but without much success.
J partial or temporary I The
Burning, eranty or too frequent uri-
two of the bedroom windows up me.”
- - - - I m«tori»l of Ila kind I A lio « ,
ditions of the trade in China were
Sermon Repeated for Sleepers
S ibU ddeY dS tia'
kldn”
you to eat at-aka, applet, corn-onthecob, etc.
stairs.
“How do you Know I’m not Clint such as to hinder further expansion,
EKmlnatee rocking, dropping, ohafing. Eat,
In older days clergymen preached
He slipped through the back door Doke?” the officer queried.
...X
m ten I headache,
3u,fi r elterka
"»*«'"« of backache,
talk, laugh, eing without emharraaament. One
and to cause anxiety to American long sermons and demanded more of
pe rale
dlaalneM.
simple application laata 20 timet longer then
into a hall. From the kitchen he
***} n,,i.,,p
»»'Illng, pumneas
“Because Clint Doke—”
consumers.
their flock than do those of today.
dM atjlo powder,. Order DENTORBZB
heard the clatter of dishes. The
X * ~ i’x
*e‘k’ n‘’rv‘"“ ’ *“
Abruptly Connor broke off what
Production of tung oil in China is One such preacher had most of his
now! Money-back guarantee I
Mexican flunky was washing those he had started to say. He remem a comparatively simple process.
«..'dtS? ¿22* ¿‘ ta b' “er *° "•'* <•" •
audience
asleep,
but
they
all
woke
iN
T
fo
o
u
c
ro
tY
r
,
,
,
,
,
'
that had been used for supper. Jeff bered that he was talking to a man With proper climatic conditions—for
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W ritenruM thkK m ivenlent form
Gray Uborrtorfo«. Seattle. Wash.
took the narrow stairway to the said to be a deputy United States they are susceptible to spring frosts up toward the close and got ready
Pleas« «end at once, poataee paid, tha regular 11 M
for
the
closing
service
when
the
second story. He placed his feet marshal.
f i t o f D E N TU R -E ZE for gli .00. anelaaad with ordav
—tungyiu trees require little care preacher announced “ that, as they
on the treads softly, to make as
“ Don't get excited, Curly. You after reaching maturity. The fruit were all awake, he would repeat his
little noise as possible. On the land- wouldn’t want to start a fe”er. If —brown, and the size and shape of
sermon, hoping now to be heard 1”
City
Stala
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