Thursday, July 30, 1942
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
HOUSE
PATRICIA DOW
Brides who are making homes in
one or two rooms will find that
mirrors wisely placed will create
amazing illusions of space A long
narrow living room gains a feel
ing of width from a mirror panel
hung to reflect light and the full
depth of the rest of the room. With
mirrors and gay slip covers the
dreariest and most uninteresting
room and collection of furniture
can be transformed into a charm
ing and homey place in which to
Uve.
Speaking of mirrors, do you re
member the trouble poor "Alice in
the Looking Glass" had with her
cakes" One made her shrink al
most out of sight and the other
made her uncomfortably large so
that she had to work out a happy
blending of the two to keep herself
her own pleasant natural size.
Summer diet offers just such a
problem in balance as Alice's. Too
many heavy foods are distasteful,
if not absolutely harmful while
light foods constantly served be
come insipid and tiresome. So in
order to find a happy medium we
turn to salads.
Summer salads more often than
not, fill dual roles. The fish and
meat salad answers for main dish
as well as salad course and the
fruit salad does duty for salad and
dessert. Choose your salad and
build your menu around it and
HCME
your meals will be well balanced
and inteiexting.
When the salad takes the place
of the usual hot main course It's
a good idea to begui the meal with
a hot soup and finish up with one
of those favorite old-fashioned
desserts like dumplings and cob
I blers and roly-polys A hot vege
table, like sweet com or lima
beans should be served with the
main course.
The menu planned to include the
salad and dessert combination may
start with a chilled first course,
go on to the usual hot main
course and finish up with chees«
and crackers and coffee.
No matter how hot the day on«
hot food should be included in
each meal. A hot beverage when
the rest of the food are chilled,
a hot vegetable when you serve
an iced drink.
Mary I. Barber, director of the
national nutrition program in
Washington emphasizes the impor
tant part women must play in
their homes every day She writes:
"Nutrition is the science that wo
men are using in carrying out
their part in the war program
Back of every man in business
and industry is a woman in the
home whose job it is to see that
he gets nourishing food. For every
child growing up a woman has the
responsibility to see that he de
velops a strong, sturdy body."
hu Victor Roùssèc
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CHAPTER IV
BYNOPBIB
Dave Bruce, out ut a job, arrives al
Wilbur Ferria' Cross-Bar ranch Cun«n.
the foreman, promises him a job If ho
can break a horae called Black Dawn
Dave aucceeda. only to dlacover that
Curran expected the horae to kill him. A
girl named Lola rules up juat aa Dave
haa hit Curran She la angry with Dave
for breaking "her" horae She rldee uff
on Black Dawn, and Dave tolluwa. but
ahe refuses to apeak to him Later. In a
bar. Dave paya uff a mortgage for an
old man named Huoker. who offera him
a partnership
They go to Hooker's
ranch where Dave linda that Lola la
Hooker'a daughter.
Lota, alili angry,
leaves and haa not returned when Hook
er awakea several hours later
"I dreamed my wife came to me
and said my troubles would soon
be over," Hooker muttered. "I tell
you, Dave, there comes a time in
every man's life when he doesn't
want to go on living any more A
•'ll’» just the—the lonrllnr««, Dav
pest, that's what Ixmergan called
me. I reckon he was right. Yes. I
He drained the bottle ami bund dead. Killed less than half an hour
remember taking you aa a partner
and I'm sorry for it. But if any ed it to Dave "Well,’ that's the last ago by a murderin' skunk who
thing happens to me, I want you of it," he leered, "so you won't filed through the window, while
to take care of Lois. She never had need to worry, partner. Throw we whs tulkln' together. I went
that bottle awny somewhere where utter him, but he got away from
a chance, poor kid.”
"You can trust me to do that,” Lola won't find it, or she'll give me,"
Lois' expression hardly changed,
answered Dave, looking steadily me the devil You've promised me
you'll look out for her if anything only that set. bitter look came into
into Hooker's eyes.
"I know I can. I know it, boy. happens to me And now I’m going her eyes again, and her mouth
I'm an old, drunken pest, but I to tell you something I've sus hardened.
"So you killed him. did you?"
can see when a man's to be trust pected something that’s going to
■he said "For what? Did you
ed and when he's not. Get her solve the mystery- "
away from here. But there's •ome
The sentence was cut off abrupt think he had money. You've found
thing I've got to tell you, lia ve ly by the roar of a six-gun. Smoke out your mistake by now, I guess,
I've got the feeling that my time'« and the acrid stench of powder well, why don't you «hoot me,
short—"
filled the room Hooker slipped too?’,’
"You're tulkln' nonsen»«*, Mlaa
"Steady, old-timer,” Dave inter- back upon his pillow, the sentence
rupted. "You’re just remembering uncompleted, and lay still Dave Lola, which ain’t to be wondered
that dream of yours. Dreams don't saw a little blue spot on his left at under the circumstances.” an
mean nothing. Of course you can temple, from which a stream of swered Dave. "I'm ridin' for the
sheriff, You'd best go buck and
trust me, but don't tel) me nothing bkxMi was trickling
now that you might be sorry for
Dave whirled, his hand upon his wait in the cabin. There wasn't
1 could (io for him He
later.
gun butt. For just an instant he nothing
One day as I shared a park
One wise mother I know has a
wua killed Instantly.
"It's
not
that,
Dave.
No.
I've
•aw
a
face
at
the
window,
the
bench with a mother and her little little girl who began to tell tall
The girl's expression didn't
boy, I was admiring the baby sis tales After one of them ahe would been slowly putting two and two face of a masked man The pane change. She sat Black Dawn
together
since
Lonergan
offered
was
open,
and
the
shot
had
been
ter who sat in her carriage. To say to her in a loud whisper:
watching Dave intently Suddenly
show me that he, too. thought his "Make believe?” and the child me and my wife this mesa ranch, fired at a distance of about ten ahe swung round on the horse's
he
called
it
—
on
condition
we'd
feet.
sister the finest ever the boy said, would nod and then they would
back and gave a shrill whistle In
Dave drew and fired back al stantly the broncs disappeared
“She goes to school." This was laugh together. So, slowly, the bring up Lois as our daughter and
■he
never
let
her
know.
I
thought
most upon the Instant, but still through the scrub And In another
such a whopper that I played his mother helped her to know the
game with him and said, "My, how difference between what was true was a natural child of his. But too late The face had already dis Instant Lois had kicked the outlaw
she’s not.
appeared and the slug merely horse In the flanks and was gallop
smart ahe must be to go to school and what was not
"She found out I wasn't her
whined across the mena. over ing wildly in the direction of Mes
before ahe can walk.” His eyes
As he grows a" little older the
danced with pleasure at having an child may lie because he is afraid. almost at once, and that my wife which the faintest light of dawn cal.
wasn't
her
mother.
You
see,
she's
was just beginning to appear Si
adult understand his make-believe Tommy, for instance, was forbid
Dave tried to follow her, but the
and in a moment I knew why. For den to cross a certain street where got a locket with her mother's multaneously Dave heard the black hud the speed of the wind.
photograph
in
it,
which
we
didn't
sound
of
a
body
■crambling
thm
his mother grabbed bis arm and there is heavy traffic but one day
He galloped at full speed downhill,
shook him "Shame on you,” she he did cross it Ln order to go and know about. Lois was just old the dense brush at the rear of over declivities down which the
enough
to
remember
her
when
we
the cabin
scolded, “for telling such lies.”
play with a little boy whom he
bay could only pick his way cau
W hy does a child say things liked very much. When he came took her from the orphanage.
Dave thrust his gun back into tiously. to avoid plunging head
"Well,
I
’
ve
been
trying
to
piece
which he knows aren’t true? Often home his mother asked him where
his holster and leaped toward the long Hy th«* time Dave reached
because of this very human need he had been- and he Med. Of things together, why l»nergan door. Stopped for an instant, turn the lower slopes, Lois was a mere
wanted
me
and
my
wife
to
bring
to feel important. Having little course eventually a child must
ed back and J»oked at Hooker speck in the distance.
that is real to boast of he glories learn that one doesn't lie out of Lois here, and why Wilbur Ferris The lamp upon the shelf cast only
Before he reached the neck of
is
afraid
of
him.
It
all
goes
back
in fibs about his own or his fam things. But don't be shocked if he
a faint reflection, but it was light the valley, Dave saw Ixrla riding
ilies' exploits. "My father can fly tries to at first. Make an effort to -the time when Ferris and Blane enough for Dave who had seen back, accompanied by two men,
a plane faster than anybody in the not to let your children get into a Rowland went Into partnership In death often enough, to realize that one of whom he recognized as
the valley, some fifteen or sixteen the old man’s day» were ended
world/’ You’ve heard these fabri position where lying seems to
Sheriff Coggswell The other, from
years ago.
Hooker's dream had come true
cations from almost every imagi them the way out. Tommy's de
the badge he wore, was evidently a
"Those were prosperous times,
native child of your acquaintance. sire to play with the little boy
In another instant Dave was deputy As Dave rode up. the two
and the Cross-Bar was doing well.
Then, the very young child lies who lived across the dangerous
Rowland and Ferris were both through the entrance of the cabin drew swiftly and covered him.
because the world of reality is so street was a perfectly natural one steady, quiet fellows, and Ferris and running across the mesa in
Dave, without raising his hands,
strange and unpredictable and con That he bad to disobey in order
had brought Rowland west to in the direction that the assassin hail reined in grimly beside the sheriff,
fusing that he doesn’t know exact to do so, was unfortunate. His He
vest his capital In the Cross-Bar taken. He could still hear him who nodded to the deputy. The
ly what is true and what isn't. “I later could have been avoided b Then Rowland forged Ferris' name crashing through the undergrowth latter leaned forward and ex
saw a great big man walking recognizing the facts and provid
Co a joint check for about >20,000, but in the faint light of dawn Dave tracted Dave's gun from his hol
along the street the other day and ing some other way out. His mo
on the bank in Hampton, which wasted half a • minute before he ster, at the same time running his
he said: 'I’m going to give you the ther might have said: "You must was to be used for buying •lock could find the trail. By the time he hands over his sides in search of
biggest ice cream cone in the not cross that street alone but if
in Mexico, and skipped the court- had done so. the murderer had a concealed weapon.
world,' and he did.” The under you want to play with your friend try.
"So yuh think I killed Mr Hook
mounted his horse and was gallop
standing parent will see in this let me know and I'll take you
er?" Dave inquired. "I was on my
ing away down the mesa
"I
dunno
how
Lonergan
came
only the young child’s desire for across.”
By the time Dave could get back way to tell you."
into the picture. Maybe there was
wishes to come true, and his con
Next week we'll track down some crooked work all around, and mount his bay there would be
"You can tell me now. Bruce,”
fused sense of what can happen other causes for children's un but he’s got Wilbur Ferris where not the slightest chance ot captur answered Coggswell. "If Hooker s
truths.
and what can't.
he wants him now. He’s got a ing the man, who was now disap dead, as you told Miss Lois, there's
mortgage on the Cross-Bar. and pearing In the tangled growth of no partlc’lar hurry, 1 reckon."
MOVE TO KLAMATH FALLS
Dave briefly recounted his story
as long as three to six weeks,
Mrs. J. E. Gowland is making he put Curran in to run things jackpine that separated the upper of the killing, while Coggswell and
mesa from the one beneath It
corps authorities indicated, and arrangements tomove to Klamath the way he wants them.”
"How d’you come to meet up
even after acceptance you may
Nevertheless. Dave ran back the deputy listened in stony si
Falls where she will join Mr.
lence Lois, seated on Black Dawn,
with
Lonergan,
if
it
ain't
an
im
not be called to duty for several
and, mounting his horse bareback,
Gowland who has been there for
watched him with hate in her eyes
months. Therefore, you are ur
some time working in a box fac pertinent question?” asked Dave. forced it along the trail through but not a sound came from her
ged not to give up your position
"Why, I—well. I’d done some the scrub and galloped to the me lips either.
tory. The Gowlands formerly re
until actually ordered to Des
sided in Klamath Falls, coming to thing I shouldn't have done, and sa's edge It was beginning to
"So yuh claim Hooker woke up
Moines. It Is expected that a
Ashland in 1936. They will reside I’d come west. Lonergan was act grow fairly light, but nothing was
two-weeks’ warning notice will
at 1017 High street. Their Ash ing-sheriff at Mescal at the time, to be seen The only living thing before dawn and started talkin',"
be given.
land residence at 381 Mountain and he recognized me from the de was the buzzard, harbinger of grunted the sheriff. "And while
TO ALASKA, HAWAII: Passed avenue has been rented to Captain scription and photograph when I death, still floating in the upper you two was talkin', this masked
feller shot him through the win
by the senate, the bill authorizing H. A. Austin of Camp White
hit Mescal, supposing that it had currents of the air.
der? How about that gun, Sims?
by the senate ,the bill authorizing
all been forgotten. It was some
Wherever the murderer had
"One ca'tridge fired,” said the
a woman's naval auxiliary pro
thing I did when I'd beer, drinking gone, he had certainly not ridden I
vides that its members may not
and got desperate. But I couldn't down into the valley. He must deputy ,who had been examining
J
have been all Lonergan says lam, have struck some trail In the al it "A forty-five.”
serve outside the continental boun
"How about that, Bruce?” asked
daries of the United States. But1
because my wife stuck to me till most Impenetrable scrub that rose
Delegate King of Hawaii and Rep-I
■he died.
like a low wall along the mesa's Coggswell.
resentative Magnuson of Washing
"Well, Dave, I had to do what edge.
"I told you I fired a shot at the
ton have urged that the corps be
Lonergan said, or face a term in
Reluctantly Dave turned the bay murderer. I couldn't get further
allowed to have branches in Alas-j
the penitentiary. You're the first and rode back. It was half light sight of him in that scrub and It
ka and Hawaii.
man I've told that to So there in the cabin now, and Dave blow being almost dark.”
SUNNY SIDE UP: One of the
was I, with my wanderings cut I , out the lamp. He looked once
"Well, now, I'll tell yuh, Bruce,”
nation’s largest life insurance com
short, and anchored to this place, more at Hooker. The blood had said
Coggswell.
"Yore
story
panies appears to consider the
with my wife and the girl.”
ceased to flow and the old man sounds kinder queer to me. And
modern American marriage a
“Just what was Lonergan’s Idea, was lying white and stark upon yore payin’ that two hundred yes
good “risk”
. . The average |
the bed. Death must have been terday and takln* advantage of
d’you s’pose?” asked Dave.
couple today, says a
i company's
instantaneous.
Hooker to go pardners when he
"That
’
s
what
I'm
slowly-figuring
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report, has twice as good a chance ’
out, Dave, ’ Hooker answered.
Dave saddled his bay and rode was drunk which don't hold good
as the couple of 50 years ago of |
"And I don't know either why he off down the trail in the direction in law was queerer. And yistid-
celebrating their 50th wedding an- :
tried to put me off this mera, of Mescal. There was little that day yuh rode up to the Cross-Bar
niversary. (That’s interesting, be- |
when
I’d a .ver pai<’ a cent to him he coul<£ do now, except inform and picked a quarrel with Curran
cause the report also says that
all these 10 years, unless it was Sheriff Coggswell and Join a pos and beat him up All of which puts
the American marriage rate is
because I threatened him when I’d se to take up the trail of Hooker's yuh under the suspicion for the
among the highest in the world!)
been drinking. Maybe I'm just an murderer. A b he rode, he revolved murder of Hooker, Bruce.
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old pest, like Lonergan says, but in his mind all possible reasons for
"So I’m arrestin' yuh, and if
I'm on the trail of something and the dastardly deed. Had the assas yo’re innocent, as yuh claim, yuh'd
RED— ITCHY- SCALY
I’ve got my own suspicions.”
sin supposed old Hooker to be in best put out yore hands and come
That cunning look was in old possession of a hoard of gold and along quiet. And if yuh don’t I'll
Hooker’s eye3 again. He reached fired before he had seen Dave in drill yuh!”
(To Be Continued)
out for the bottle. Dave Intervened. the room?
Or was Lonergan involved and
”1 guess you've had enough to
Set upon and stabbed throvgh the
Effective Home Treatment heart by three Negrees In Harlem, sober up on, pardner,” he suggest had old Hooker talked too much in
Kolbun Is pictured doing ed. “Why don’t you go to sleep the Wayside Rest?
Promptly Relieves Torture! Stanley
well after a surgeon had taken sev now and take one more drink when
The shrill neighing of broncs
First applications of wonderful sooth en stitches in his heart. Another
you wake up. That will Bet you recalled Dave to his surroundings
ing medicated Zemo—a doctor's formula
Emerging upon the lower mesa, he
—promptly relieve the Intense itch unique feature of the amusing sur plumb to rights.”
ing soreness and start at onct to help gical feat was that Kolbun was giv
saw Lois seated on Black Dawn,
pleaded
“
Must
have
one
more,
”
heal the red, scaly skin. Amazingly suc en transfusions of hie otvb blood
Hooker. "Then I’ll have a good with the rest of the herd massed |
cessful for over 80 years! First trial of as the operation progressed.
sleep and wake up feeling fine. I near the scrub and looking at him.
marvelous clean, stainless liquid Zemo
won! want another drink after Dave rode up to the girl.
convinces! All drug ___— — — _
Diplomacy is the golden art of that. I’m through with liquor for
storm. Only 854.
"I got «ome bad news for you,”
making people think they know life. It’s just the—ths loneliness, he Mid. “May as well tell you
more than you de.
Dave.”
right away. Your dad's been shot
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OLD WIVES’ TALES: Probably
no aspect of the war is more sub
ject to prediction, superstition and
fearful expectation than rationing.
The latest “old wives' tale” about
rationing are concerned with the
possiblity of an immediate short
age of cosmetics, and they’re just
plain silly. In most cases the WPB
will allow manufacturers at least
80 per cent of the quantity they
produced in 1941. And some items,
like tooth paste, eye wash, talcum
powder and shaving cream, are al
most entirely unrestricted .How
ever, cosmetics will be put up in
fewer containers, thereby saving
both materials and transportation.
WAAC RECRUITING
Recruiting for auxiliaries ( pri
vates) in the Women’s Army
Auxiliary corps is now being
conducted at all army recruit
ing stations.
Specialists in a wide variety of
occupations eventually will be
enlisted, but for the present the
following are sought: clerks,
cooks, bakers, bookkeepers, ste
nographer«, switchboard opera
tors and supervisors, chauffeurs,
cafeteria dieticians and cashiers,
hostess aides, receptionists, li
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