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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (June 2, 1916)
Criminals 6 Bfl HAROLD CASTER 8 (Copyright, 1916, by W. O. Chapman.) "Red's" last stretch had been for nine years. Ha had gone into the penitentiary at thirty-five, and he came out at forty-four, an embittered man. What had been gall and wormwood to him, during the latter portion of his imprisonment had been the cessation of news from the outside world. He had thought of all his pals, he, "Red" Crofts, known as the cleverest counterfeiter that had ever come un der the eye of Uncle Sam. He had thought of the men who botrayed him and Were at ease; but he had thought most of his son, a boy of ten when he was caught on the last lap of the en graving that was to put five thousand In his pocket, and give him leisure from crime. His wife was dead, thank God! Even a counterfeiter may have family feelings, and "Red" had loved with all his heart the little woman who died with a loving look in her eyes and on her lips the words: "Bring up Jimmy to be a good man like his father!" The irony of it had bitten deep! Then he turned to his trade again. He was caught, and the lad was placed in an institution. There was no chance of finding him. "Red" had not a soul in the world to call his friend. The week before ha was released "Red" was surprised to receive a visit from a big employor of labor, who, without ceremony, offered him posi tion s thirty-five dollars a week in his engralng department. "I've heard of you," he said, "and you may understand that besides my "Red" Confronted the Pair. IniBtnoss Interests I have a human one philanthropy. I want to help mon who are willing to holp thomselves. The warden has talked pbout you. He says you'll be back in six months. I snld you wouldn't. I need a skilled man like you. Will you come and forget your past?" "You philanthropists make mo sick!" growled "Red,' who had been thinking of the boy. The manufacturer, wlso In his knowl edge of men, only smiled. "Ask for Mr. Harris at the engraving worka," ho said. "You can think It over. The Job will be open for a month." "Red" did not dolgn to answer him.' Ik Bat down on his stool and burled his face in his hands. All the past momorles camo thronging bnek. Once ho had been a docont lad. He had not been "Red" then, and he had moved among people who could not have im agined the subsequent life. Then had come temptation, In tho shape of a crook who had spotted his talent. "Red" had soon easy money before him and had succumbed. He thanked God that his wlfo had never known. "Red" had been "Mr. Crofts, churchgoer and respected in their suburban homo. "Red" was as secretive with his pals as ho was with the United States detectives. Only once a year he emerged into the un derworld to holp out with another Job and take home another year's supply of capital. Tho shrewdest man In the game, he had long baffled Uncle Sam. "Red" cursed bitterly as the cell door clanged bohind Harris. Why, he knew Just where to make ample re turns for his imprisonment. "Red" could walk Into any counterfeiters' headquarters and there would be a cry of Joy. "Red" was the most wanted man among the criminal fraternity of America. Nona so shrewd as he, no band so steady. And he would avenge himself ten fold. Ho would find "Father" Tom Costlgan, tho man whom the dotoctlves had nover got yet, the graybeard of seventy-five who had lured him to his own downfall. "Father" kept a warm spot In his heart for "Red." "Red" could hardly endure the de. lays of the last few days. He smacked his lips as in imagination he saw him self at work upon the steel plates. "Rod" felt the glamor of the old world anew. He squared his shoulders as he left the penitentiary gates in his new suit, and laughed defiantly at the admonitions of the warden. He made his way to New York. H knew that "Father" was still alive. The death of so great a man would have rung through the walls of every penitentiary in the country inside of a few days. And he found "Father" exactly where he had expected in Regan's restaurant. "Father" kept to his old habits at seventy-three. Trailed day and night, "Father" laughed in the de tectives' faces. He had a genius for organization; he knew how to select others to do the dirty work for him. "Re4" slunk In to Regan's, for now he felt the prison shame upon him, and the place had changed somewhat; it was gaudier and more glaring. But nobody knew him, and In a moment he had spotted "Father" in the old corner. "Red" was deciding whether he should cross the restaurant to him when he realized that "Father" was talking to the young fellow who sat opposite him, the two fenced in be tween the pewlike structures that Re gan's affects. The memory of his own downfall came strongly over him. He had been Just such a chap as this bright-eyed boy who was bending forward and listening to old "Father's" arguments. "Red" slipped out of his seat, and, unseen by "Father," took a place in the seat behind the old man. The pew like construction concealed him com pletely, but round the edge of the pew adjacent to the window "Red's" sharp ears could catch the low-spoken words. "It's a cinch," "Father" was saying. "You're a fool, boy, to worry over losing that Job. Every man's a grafter; the ones who succeed are simply those who don't get found out." Age had not dulled the edge of "Fa ther's" tongue. Just the same words "Father" had UBed to him, "Red," in those years so long gone by. "Father" had made a crook of many a decent man with his damnable sophistries. "I don't know," muttered the boy. "I've got to live, and I I'm tempted, Mr. Costlgan. If I'd ever known my mother it might have been different." "Oh, women don't understand," said "Father." "God bless all good women, I say. But it's a man's world, boy, and a man has to fight with all means In. his power. Now that engraving abil ity of yours is simply genius Crofts " "Red" started as if an electric shock had gone through him. "Crofts!" It was not a common name. And his boy would be about that age. And the hereditary engraving power, which he himself had inherited from his own father! And the look in the boy's eyes that had attracted him as a mag net. Blood found its own! "Red" leaped from his seat and con fronted the pair. He saw the amazed recognition flame into "Father's" face. "Red" raised one wrist, the muscles hard as steel. "Father" winced. He dodged the blow. But the blow did not fall. "Father" was an old man, and "Red" was too happy to find the boy, to see him standing before him, alarm on his face, wonder, stupefaction, In his eyes. "Red" linked his arm through the lad's and led him from the restaurant unresisting. At the door, however, the boy stopped and freed himself. "You are you are" he stammered. "Your father," said "Red" softly. "And God sent me to you at Just the Instant, Jimmy. You're coming home with me now, and and I guess we'll run straight together." BIRD WIGWAGS LOVE SIGNALS Racket-Tailed Hammer Also May Be Said to Use Flags to Challenge Its Foes. Signal officer of the birds' army corps is the racket-tailed humming bird. For his duties nature has equipped him with a pair of purple flags fashioned out of two long and peculiar tail feathers. He wigwags his signals from one tree to another, is sues his challenges to battle and courts his mate. When he's not signaling he's sipping honey from the flowers and trying to keep his tall from entangling itself in the briers, Ho's a midget of the South American mountains. He has short wings, which he operates nt lightning speed, hum ming a song with them as ho dives Into a flower and comes out again with a blllful of honey. Ills tall Is a combination of two wire like handles, with a purple tuft of feathers at the end of each. He crosses them near the middle and sometimes he brings the pair of "rackets" at the ends to his head, as though trying to fan himself. The male birds have a sort of love dance which they engage In during the mating season. Then they play all sorts of tricks with the rackets. Odd Watch Crystals. A celluloid watch crystal which will be as good as a glass one, and far more durable, will till a long-folt want. Anyone wearing a watch is liable to break the glass crystal in an accident at any time. One reason for the popu larity of open-face watches is that thoy are provldod with lioavler crystals than the timepieces with hunting cases, and, unless the cases are extra stiff, they will give sufficient under moderate pressure to cause the glass beneath to break. The celluloid crys tal is said to have been successfully made and used. Oh, That's Different) "Who was that chap who Just said 'Hello' to you?" "That's the man who does most of my bill collecting." "He wasn't very respectful, consid ering that you are his boss." "Who said I was his boss? That fellow It employed by my credlton." cj cM$tm L THERE are two great public mar kets in Kingston, Jamaica, where the natives sell fruit and vegetables and all sorts of local commodities for little more than a song. These are Victoria Market, by the harbor at the foot of King street, where war vessels and colliers sail In to port across the blue waters of the Caribbean almost daily, and Jubilee Market, further uptown, and fronting the public square where are the great banyan trees and all manner of tropi cal plants. The daily supplies are brought to market by the natives in large flat baskets borne on their heads or in panniers on tho backs of the small burros that are the burden bearers of the island, says a writer in the New York Sun. These little beasts, hardly larger than big dogs, are led or driven, their owers generally walking beside them. In the open spaces of the market woman venders take up their positions for the day on t' bare ground or per haps sealed on low boxes, with their slender stock In trade spread out in little heapa about them. These consist of a few yams, or bread fruit, or nase berrieB, or whatever they may chance to have, and upon which they make during the long sunny days only a few pennies profit. They pay about a shilling and sixpence per week as license for the space that they and their wares occupy syd clear scarcely enough to supply even their simplest necessities. Yet for the moat part they are cheerful and happy, and the soft, continuous patter of their voices as they gossip and trade all day suggests the name of the tree, "Women's Tongues," whose dry pods rustle to gether so musically in the country lanes. It does one good at any time to make the tour of the market, walking among the women with their strange fruits and vegetables, and buying a penny's worth here and a ha'penny's worth there for the sheer delight of it all. "Buy a ripe banana!" they will call out mellifluously, or "Buy a sweet orange!" or "Ha'penny! Ha'penny! Buy a cake!" And looking down into their engaging brown faces one de sires forthwith to buy everything. A quartee, or "penny-'a'-penny," as they aay quickly with soft elision, Is a favorite coin among the small denom inations; it is a quarter of sixpence, and for this price one can buy three or four oranges, or perhaps twice as many bananas. A stranger rarely ever cares to pay more than this for star apples or naseberrles, which require an educated taste for enjoyment; but pawpaws, resembling our cantaloupes, and cho-chos, similar to our white squash, are delicious. As for tanger ines and guava, they are Joys forever. Market Women In Scrap. Picking my way gingerly one day among the scores of seated and stoop ing venders, and being very careful not to step Into the little piles of pep pers and what not that were out spread everywhere, I plunged into the midst of a lively scrap between two colored women. One of them, who had been Beated on a box in the sun shine, irascible with her long vigil, had picked up her seat and moved it back plump into the midst of her neighbor and her neighbor's wares, all outspread together on the ground. The result was a scrimmage, with much pushing and chattering, all of which was so funny that my amusement set them laughing also, and the trouble v-ound up in a good natured romp among them. And, oh, but the sun was hot, and the blinding white light quivered out upon the waters of th1 harbor. A row of stalls runs along one side of the market, where sticky tweets are Bold, most unappetizing to foreign sensibilities. The stuff is ladled out of great dingy cans and sold in penny worths and farthing amounts or more. Near this row' of stick ghee are racks and stacks of flimsy cotton goods and ribbon, laces and embroideries, all 'Im maculately fresh and clean, though sa flw!y fe$-)3L TIC W A 1 e lit K ' tK Trie Jubilee market, Kingston CO' ' v scarcely three feet removed from the sweets. There are piles also of linen and cotton prints, whose cheapness the venders loudly proclaim as they stand measuring the goods off by the yard and selling it at ridiculously low prices. It was near this place that a woman buying embroidery that trailed down into the dust, held in her arms a plump little brown baby. It chuckled and held out its hands to me, playing like a kitten. I found that the only name by which it was known was "Da-da." Later, on the edge of the crowd that overflowed into the street, I discovered little "Murenne Cole," black as a coal, hiding behind her mother's skirts and laughing up into my face. The brown babies in Jamaica are irresistible. i There are many coolie women in the markets, who sell fruits and vegetables as well as their odd East Indian trin kets. These women are bedecked with heavy silver ornaments, in which they invest most of their limited means, and the necklaces, braceletB, rings, anklets and bangles with which they are loaded down, display exquisite workmanship and design. The manner in which many of these ornaments are worn indicates caste, and a lot of fili gree work disfiguring the nostril pro claims a married woman. These East ern women are always picturesque and often beautiful. Wistful and fawn like, with soft, dusky skins, they are as shy and proud as wild animals. Tobacco by the Yard. Over in one corner of the market place colored men sell ropes of strong native tobacco by the yard and suggest that strangers take home a few yards as souvenirs. Into the meat and fish markets, presided over chiefly by men, I could not persuade myself to go, aa everything was too ill-smelling and unsightly; but I poked about unhesi tatingly everywhere else. The most delightful of all the stands are where they sell native basket work and beads; the latter being seeds of vari ous colors and sizes, strung in long necklaces, and selling at sixpence each. The venders of these bead strings, with long bunches of them hanging over arm or shoulder, hawk their wares everywhere, haunting the piers and railway station and victim izing travelers. It seemed to me as if they were always on the lookout for myself, for I found it impossible to re fuse and bought dozens of them, red and black, brown and yellow, and dove colored Job's Tears that seem to have been wept all over the island. The baskets are equally tempting and are of every conceivable shape and size, from tiny ornaments and shapes for ordinary usage to great hampers and suit cases. In suitcase form they cost but a shilling or two, and are extremely light and highly serviceable. Then there are knicknacks and fancy articles made of bamboo Joints and palm leaf, candle shades and mats made of cotton fiber or lace bark; and cocoanuts carved and deco rated in endless designs. It Is a morn ing's treat to examine them all, and buy here a bit and there a bit, until an astonishing number of shillings and pence have been transmuted Into bask ets and beads. And then there is the sweet smelling cos-cos grass, that costs but a penny a bunch and leaves the things in one's trunk perfumed ever after. Coming away after a morning's stroll through Jubilee Market I helred a big, slatternly darky girl to pin up her skirt, which was Bllpplng loose, and received a grinning "Tanky, Mis sy, tanky!" in reward. Then passing over to a stall where another darky woman sold oranges I stopped and bought four for a quarter. It was very warm and they were cool and luscious. And then the orange woman wanted to return with me to New York, as the darkies everywhere wanted to do, being willing to work for next tt) noth ing for the opportunity of coming to the States. They are so pitifully poor in their own country I DAINTIES FOR TEA TABLE Sandwiches of Many Kinds Are at the Command of the Hostess Vari ous Forms of Cakes. Sandwiches of various kinds and di mensions are always a good beginning. Better have the loaf a day old, and sandwich bread, close crumb, is the beat to make them with. Spread the butter on smoothly and add a thin layer of nut paste. The top slice will not need butter. Trim the crusts off and cut diagonally across. Even smaller sandwiches, making four out of the square, are large enough for the bite. Finger rolls, very fresh, with a soft crust and a paste made ot chicken mashed with the yolks of eggs, boiled six or seven minutes, and Just a little milk to make it smooth, are very ap petizing. Graham bread, buttered and sliced the same as the sandwich loaf, spread with a mixture of Jam and cream cheese, is very nice, too Meat minced very fine, with some milk to moisten it for smooth spread ing, or thin slices of tongue with graham bread, makes good sand wiches. Fresh Boston brown bread, mashed with cream cheese and sugar and made into balls, like butter, only smooth and larger, looks like great chocolate creams and makes a deli cious titbit. Meats that are potted and already minced Into a paste for spreading of chicken, tongue and turkey make ex cellent sandwiches of white or brown bread. If the sandwiches are made in the morning and Intended for later use it is well to wrap each separately in paraffin paper. This will keep them soft and perfectly fresh until served. Ginger nuts and cinnamon cakes have some snap to them, and maca roons and kisses are always ready at the baker's if the busy housewife is too rushed to make them. It is not necessary to have so many kinds of sandwiches or cakes, but a choice of two or three of those men tioned here will be sufficient. The finger rolls are especially attractive, as they can be daintily disposed of without removing the gloves. For Luncheon. Omelette with tomato sauce Is a deli cious dish for luncheon. Beat the yolks of four eggs until foamy, then add two thirds of a cupful of milk, with which has been mixed a teaspoonful of flour, one-third of a teaspoonful of baking powder and a pinch of salt. Beat well together, then fold in the stiffly beat en whites and bake in a buttered pan In a hot oven. For the sauce melt a tablespoonful of butter in a saucepan and fry In it until brown a small, finely chopped onion. Add a little of any small vegetables and a half a can of tomatoes rubbed through a sieve. Thicken with a table spoon of flour moistened to a smooth paBte with a little cold water. Season with salt and pepper and cook for five minutes, stirring constantly. Pour over the omelette as soon as It cornea from the oven and serve hot. Rice a la Conde. One-fourth pound Carolina rice, two ounces butter, three ounces sifted sugar, one pint milk, one tin apricots or peaches, one teaspoonful vanilla es sence, cherries and angelica. Wash the rice thoroughly In cold water, put Into a pan of cold water and bring to a boil, then pour away the water. Add the milk and stir until boiling, then cook slowly for three-quarters of an hour, stirring occasionally. Add the butter, sugar and vanilla, and turn Into a bordered mold one with a hole In the center and set aside to cool. When cold turn out, fill the center with apriaots or peaches and decorate with cherries and angelica. The peaches should be cut in half and the juice poured around. Good Round Steak. A very palatable and economical dish can be made from a round steak as follows: Found flour into both sides of the steak, as much as the meat wilt take up. Fry in drippings or other fat in an ordinary pan or kettle, then add water to cover it. Cover the vessel tightly, so that no steam can escape, and allow the meat to simmer very gently for two hours. It is then ready to serve, the gravy being already thick ened by the flour beaten into the steak. The gravy is delicious and far superior to the kind made in the ordinary way after the meat Is cooked. Vegetarian Turkey. One-half pint mashed potato, half pint shelled English walnuts or pe cans, one-half pint lentil pulp, one-half pint graham flour (coarse grains sift ed out), two beaten eggs, two tea spoonfuls salt, one small onion minced, one teaspoonful sage, one heaping tea spoonful minced parsley and two tablespoonfuls butter. Mix ingredients, press in pan and steam one hour. Let cool, mold in shape of turkey and bake until brown. Baste with butter or meat Block. Serve with cranberry sauce. Egg Sandwiches. Try these for the lunch boxes: Boll as many eggs as desired until yolks are mealy. Chop the whites fine, add yolks rubbed to a paste. Moisten with salad dressing. Spread between slices of white or graham bread. Fine Dish Cloths. One would think there could be no possible use for an old lace curtain, but you will find in washing dishes three times a day that an old lace curtain, cut in squares, makes tho fin est of dish cloths. RECIPES WORTH WHILE FIVE DELICIOUS DISHE9 THAT ARE EASY TO PREPARE. Egg Noodles With Anchovies May Be Recommended Vermicelli Sweet Custard Excellent Proper Prep aration of Macaroni Soup. Egg Noodles With Anchovies- Fry a small onion, sliced, in butter with a teaspoonful of chopped parsley; add six boned anchovies, cut in four pieces each; stir in three-quarters of a cupful of white wine and a cupful of cooked egg noodles and simmer gently for 20 minutes. Serve with grated cheese. Egg Noodle Sweet Souffle. Add ha'f a package of cooked egg noodles to two cupfuls of hot milk, and let stand on back of stove until milk is mostly absorbed, then let it cool and add a teaspoonful of salt, half a cupful of sugar, the beaten yolks of two eggs, and whites beaten to a stiff froth. Turn into a buttered souffle mold, set it in a pan of hot water and bake in moderate oven 25 minutes. Serve im mediately alone or with sweetened cream. Vermicelli Sweet Custard. To half a package of cooked vermicelli add two cupfuls hot milk, a teaspoonful of salt, half a cupful of sugar, two eggs well beaten and half a teaspoonful of vanilla. Turn into a buttered baking dish, set dish in a pan of hot water in oven and bake until the custard is set. Macaroni Soup. To one quart of boiling water, salted, add a large hand ful of macaroni, boll 20 minutes, drain and blanch. Add two cupfuls of strained stewed tomatoes, season highly and Just before serving add a cupful of cream. Soup Spanish With Rings. Simmer In three quarts of water two pounds of lean meat for two hours. Skim well as it boils, then add one cupful of cooked white beans, four onions chopped fine, two cloves of garlic, four red peppers chopped, and two slices of lemon, salt to taste; allow this to cook thoroughly until soft, strain through a colander, rub through the pulp, place on the fire again and boll; add lastly one-fourth package of soup rings, one tablespoonful of butter and one of milk rubbed in two ounces of flour. When rings are tender the soup is ready. New Apple Salad. Beat half a cupful of double cream, a tablespoonful of lemon Juice and a quarter teaspoonful ot salt until firm throughout. Cook two apples, cored and pared, in a sirup of equal meas ures of sugar and water (two or three cloves or an inch of cinnamon bark may be added) and set them aside to become thoroughly chilled. Chop fine four maraschino or candied cherries and eight or ten pecan nuts or blanched almonds. Carefully wash three small heads of tender lettuce, first removing the ragged outer leaves and cutting the stalks that the heads may stand. Dispose the heads on In dividual plates with an apple in the center of each. Mix the cherries and put through the prepared cream and turn it over the apples. Rhubarb Jelly. Allow one pound of sugar to a pound of rhubarb. Peel and cut up rhubarb into small pieces, put into a dish a layer of rhubarb and a layer of sugar until all Is used. Do this in the evening, then in the morning pour off all the liquid you can into a saucepan and boll hard for 30 min utes. Then add the rhubarb, let come'to the boiling point and simmer for ten minutes. Do not stir at alL Stand your Jars in boiling water to prevent breaking, and then pour Jelly into them while hot. After Jars are secured turn them upside down to cool, and when cool keep in a dark place. Strawberries may be put away in the same way, using less sugar. To Launder Fringed Cloths. Fringed cloths are often quite ruined in appearance at the laundry. They may be made to look like new for an indefinite period if when they are starched a little care is taken not to starch the fringe. Fold each cloth in four, like a handkerchief, and then gather the fringe of each part into the hand and hold it firmly while you dip the middle into the Btarch. When the cloth is dry shake the fringe well and comb it with a comb and it will tall as softly and prettily as when new. Cauliflower and Cabbage. To keep cauliflower white and free from Bcum when cooking; before plac ing the cauliflower In the saucepan tie It up in a piece of clean muslin. When ready, It can be easily lifted from the pot Hito the colander to drain. Untie the muslin and you will find the vege table beautifully whole. When boiling cabbage, to prevent the unpleasant smell that it always makes, it will be found very good to place a small piece of bread tied up In muslin In the saucepan. Delicious Pie. Take one cupful seeded raisins, one cupful cranberries (raw), chopped to gether; one-third cupful water, two thirds of a cupful of sugar with one heaping teaspoonful of flour mixed with the sugar; mix all together and bake between two crusts. , Mashed TurnlD With Onion. Cut up turnip and put in salted wa ter with an onion. When tender drain off water, mash turnip and onion to gethw, add butter and a little pepper. Serve hot