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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 15, 1927)
Alabaster Lamps STORY FROM THE START Claude Melnotte Dabba r turna from New Tork to hla general grocery in Peai-a Vallay, la. With him cornea Ned Car ter, a atranger, whom lobha In. trotlucea to "Aunt Lyddjr." hit old housekeeper, aa a nephew. Later l'ehba admits to Aunt Lyddy that Carter la a chance acquaintance, veteran of tha World war, whom ha had met In New Tork and taken a lik ing to. Carter telli that ha haa broken with hit family and hla dance because of their ultra paelflo leanings. CHAPTER II Continued "I will. If you think you'll stt.y while, Claude replied eagerly. "Of course I'll stay, and what's more, I'm going to help. Motoring means nothing to me. Let uie tag after you and look things ever; be of use, If I can." Dabbs looked Immensely pleased. "By Jlmlnyl That'll be great! Suppose you drive with me to Clover Hollow with the orders. Tou can always pretend you are a stran ger getting a lift, or you can jump o.T and admire the scenery when we get there. Tou don't look Uke the grocer's boy, you know." "Well, I am," atllmied Ned. "My looks may be against me, but It Isn't kind of you to rub It In. I'm your man for delivery or anything else." Ned watched Claude Dabbs handle the reins. Like everything else he did, he drove skillfully, but apparent ly without giving It all his attention. On the way, he told Ned that the car was out and Sim needed the truck for the express stuff au explanation of why they were using Jenny and the wagon. But Ned was secretly con vinced that the wagon was being used as a test of his own endurance, and mlled to himself at C M.'s guile. Ned was the target for many curi ous, unwinking stares before they left the short main street. At last the vil lage lay behind them and the road ran winding past quaint homesteads and Inviting side roads. Winding Willow road was Its name, Claude Informed Ned as they neared the top of the hllL Ned looked about him, absorbed In the panorama of comfortable farmland and wooded hills. He realized that the lovely road lived up to the first part of Its name. It wound on and on and not too smoothly. There were steep hills and sharp turns before them, but Claude had arrived at a place where he might relax and talk. "By Jlmlny 1 It's good to be out of doors I I make a break once In so often and take out a lot of orders, so's not to get too fat and lazy." Ned smiled. He bad suspected that C 1L, was trying him out, and now be was sure. Dubbs turned and looked at the young man's face with great content. "ton do like Peace Valley. Just as I felt you would. Grand country, Isn't itr "Beautiful! I dont e how one could be restless or disappointed down Here." "It's a queer thing," Mr. Dabb an swered Introspectlvely, "how this pface take all the spunk out of some people and makes them so mild and ladylike there's no stirring them up to any aort of decent ambition. YouH soon ee that the folks brought up around tiers are terrible hard to 'rouse. I've felt that way often myself. Then sometimes there are days when sud denly the very peace of It gets on your nerves, sorta slups you In the face. I've felt that, too. But when I go away from here, I want to come back, and It's the d dent, hardest place to leave that I ever knew." He slapped Jenny lightly with the whip, "if It was anyone else I was talking to, they'd think I talked like a fool about my own place. But you get me, don't your "It doesnt sound foolish to me. I think I feel Its charm already." "And yet, when I was your age, Ned, how I kicked at being kept here, tied to a country store." He pointed tils whip to a group of buildings at the foot of the gentle Incline before them. "That's Clover Hollow. What do you think of Itr Ned saw several detached houses, most of them built of stone, more or less elaborate in design, except where they were merely the original furni house, or laborer's cottage, remodeled and enlarged but retaining some of the original simplicity of form. They were set In the midst of gardens and lawns, some of them quite extensive. "Attractive looking spot But what Is itr "It's a joke on the man that built It," Cluude said thoughtfully, "and I ought to know because I'm his agent. Tou see, he thought out this scheme for bringing a good cluss of people Into the neighborhood, and by so doing boost his native village, financially and otherwise. And this Is what be got I "It's a kind of collection of good natured cranks," Dubbs resumed, after waiting for comment, which did not come. "They cull It a community, and they call themselves workers, think ers, writers, artists, leaders of the new revolt, and a lot of other names. Everything except a plain American citizen lives there. But there's no linrm In any of 'em. They are Just people with money enough not to work, and yet a burning desire to do something for a living that won't ham per 'em none." He laughed. "It's funny, Ned, how nowaduys people feet they have to By Margaret Turnbull Copyright, 1 b Msrfaret Turnbull WNU Servlcs have some excuse besides their money for living. Money was enough when I was young. It Isn't any more." He chuckled at the thought "The way I reason It Is that people who are just a little off on some one thing become so much of a darned nuisance that ordinary people either laugh at them or try to run away. This makes them band together so as to get an audience somehow. At Clover Hol low they enn have meetings and argue as often as they like. If one man does all the talking one day, he knows he's got to listen the next "Take this bouse we're coming to now. It's culled a cottage, but It takes five servants to run It. Profes sor O'Toole, who lives there, drink something a good deal stronger than tea. He told me that the purity of his Gaelic depended on a diet of new potatoes, cream and whisky. Don't know where he gets his stuff, nor how he gets it past the revenue officers, but his cellar's full. He's against everything on God's green earth ex cept the Irish republic. I can't help hoping Ireland never Is a republic, for If It Is, Professor O'Toole will be a terribly disappointed man. He'll have nothing left to live for, or talk about "Course he don't work for his liv ing. Ills English uncle left him so much "unearned Increment that he Just has to use some of It up on De Valera and that bunch." He looked at Ned, and added: "Aw ful pleasant fellow, though. Tou'd like to talk to him." "This Is amazing!" Ned said. "Next house V ' "That's the show place. M. Adol phus Mannheim, the East side mil lionaire who married a settlement worker, lives there. He's a good pro vider and a nice fellow, If there ever was one. He's also got some excuse for tulklng kinds wild. Seems before be nisde his millions In a chain of stores over here, his family were Rus sian Jews and had what he calls pogroms' happen to them. A pogrom seems to be some sort of excuse for raging round at things In general. "But Mrs. Mannheim, why, she sorta forgets. Some of us knew her as Liz zie Harrlgnn, a school-teacher at Fel low's Corners twenty miles away. Lizzie always was a restless spirit and she made a strike for freedom and the city. She's got Munnbelm flattered to death and fooled, but she can't fool Peace Valley. Leaves her big automobile around the corner, and In a plain shirtwaist and skirt and a ssd smile tries to stir up the girls at the factory to fight for their rights. They chew their gum and laugh at her. fellow's Corners ain't so far but some of us have heard of Lizzie Harrigan's rich marriage. She got a hint of that last time she tried to make a strike leader of herself and found she was the whole strike. She's all for plain living and high thinking, and look where she lives I Five maids, a cook and a chauffeur. And clothes! Lizzie struck luck when she married Mannheim." "I know Mrs. Mannheim." Ned said. to Dabbs complete astonishment and Ned's voice was hard. "I'd rather go to her kitchen door with groceries any day, than to her front door. Who started this blot on the landscaper Dubbs visibly started. He shot a quick glance at Ned, but the younger man did not notice the look. "Isn't 'Mt on the landscape a lit tle strong r he Inquired anxiously. You see I'm the agent for the man who bought the land cheap, and thought it'd make a good Investment as an exclusive residence place. He had a good architect come down here, who was crazy about remodeling old bouses, and soon Mr. Munnhelm and a mun called Green got Interested, and they brought the rest here." 'I suppose," Ned began reflectively, as though be had scarcely been lis tening, "that Mrs. Munnhelm thought she could get together a set of her own down here, and drag Mannheim away from his friends." "Don't know," Dabbs answered, a trifle bewildered at Ned's Intimate knowledge of these people. "That's Green's house over there, among the trees, where we're going next Green's a character. He can talk white into looking black, and the other way round. He was a professor, of something or other, In some college. He's in Itus sla now." "Who has the bouse nowr "Don't Just know. It was rented by the New Tork agency when I was XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'X'XX'XXX'X Good and Evil Omens Many wom.n are Interesting them selves In the art and business of bee keeping, and with skillful manage ment It can be made a profitable In dustry. Much ancient lore Is asso ciated with the keeping of honey bees. They must be told when there Is a death or wedding in the household, and their habits of swarming are omens of good or evil. If they swarm on the ground or on a dead tree some one Is going to die, or there will he a famine, or something dreadful will happen. It Is astonishing that coun try people ever kept bees If they be lieved In superstitions so liable as these to make them uncomfortable. They do not worry the modern kee keepor, for, like everything else, the away. I didn't see the name SI mi put on the order, so I can't tell you whether it's money or Just views, but should think It would be money and views. Sometimes, you know, regu lar family, Just looking for peace and quiet, land here. But it's generally one of the same." He paused. "Jimmy! I've never talked so much to any one before. Ol course being agent for the property I have to keep my mouth shut. But what would you do? Turn them out? Aren't they safer here than In some other place! Peace Valley's slow moving." He looked appeallngly at Ned, for evidently that "blot ou the landscape" rankled. Ned said nothing. He was frown ing, staring straight ahead of him, seeing nothing. Dnhbs, glancing at him, puzzled, explained further: "Of course, I') only given you my Idea of them. I'd not set you against them, for , anything. In fact, they might amuse you." "They wouldn't" Ned Interrupted vehemently. "I don't want to know them." The wagon gave a final lurch as they turned the corner near the Mann helm's back gateway. A . slender blonde girl came through the wrought Iron gates at a breukneck speed, pulled along by an Infuriated young collie on a leash. Neither the girl nor the dog seemed able to stop, and Jenny would not Horse, dog and girl seemed as one In the cloud of dust that enveloped them. As Dabbs pulled at the reins, Ned Jumped over the side of the wagon and landed at the girl's feet "Peter!" she shrieked. "My pre cious dog) My Peter! You've killed him" "D m Teter P Ned muttered sul lenly. "What are you doing here, Dorothyr The girl looked at Mm smnzed, then at the wuggn and Mr. Dabbs, who had kept his seat and regained control over the horse. Peter, who had not been killed, doubled bark and was now cowering against the girl, growl ing. Dabbs quietly descended and took the box containing the Munnhelm or der from the back of the wagon. Ned turned abruptly, went toward the wagon and climbed to the seat "I'll deliver the order at the next house, t'nele Claude, and come back for you," he announced, and was gone before Claude could protest The girl, her attractive face painted like a bisque doll, stood staring at the rapidly disappearing wagon. Claude, wisely concluding that he had nothing to keep him, shouldered the box and went toward the bouse. When he retained, a few minutes later, the girl was still standing there, holding the dog and blocking bis exit. Dabbs could see at once that be was not to escape easily. "Nice boy, Ned," Dabbs remarked warily. "Uncle Claude!" the girl exclaimed accusingly. "Are you the late Mrs. Raugeley's brotherT "Mrs. Hangeley!" Dabbs echoed. "Mean Mrs. Carter, dont you Miss Seldenr "No, I mean Ned Carter Ilangeley's mother." "Ned Carter Rangeley!" Dabbs re peated. "You mean my boy Nedr "Then you aren't his real under "He has always called me 'uncle,' though the relationship Isn't quite so close." Dorothy Seldeo looked at him shrewdly. "I'm willing to bet every penny In my purse," and she jangled tbe little costly beaded article and dropped it back into the deep trouser pocket of her expensive farmerette costume, "that you don't know who Loren Irlmer Ilungeiey Is." Dabbs could not help his Jaw drop ping a little. "I do, though," he an swered quietly enough. "He Is a big New York bsnker, one of the meanest men God ever let live." "Knowing that" snapped the girl, "and knowing that Ned Is his only son, why this silly pretense that his name la Carter onlyr "Ned has his reasons." he told her coldly, "and Rangetey deserves to be kept In the dark." All right, then, Dorothy, Just whs Is Loren Lorlmer RangeleyT Doss the plot gat thicker or does It get thinner? (TO BE CONTINUED.) Surround Honey Bees business has been modernized and the old village straw beehive-maker has gone, together with many of the curi ous observances associated with bee keeping. Rtader'i Cyclt Every Inveterate reader goes through an endless cycle In the kind of books he reads, according to one of the Detroit librarians. The cycle goes something like this: Fiction, poetry, biography, history, science then It begins all over again with fic tion. But It does not mean evolution for the render, because on each hip, he tends to Improve the quality of the class of books he happens to be reading. CThe Kitchen Amat 8 r " a OOOOOOOvXXX)OO0OOOOOOOOOO0 KIT. yira Newaiwiier Union.) Who shalheWve vlalon to pierce ths mlat Enshrouding; tbe common thins, Or aea In the dark hour sorrow klaavd, The gleam ot an ana-el's wins' The world la wide, and the world la old; Ita mystnrlea paaa our ken; And only to Uod ara tha eeorets told Which live In tha hearts of man. -Thrlatln Uavle. GOOD THINGS WB LIKI Here Is a dainty which Is considered very choice by others tlmn the Scotch! Scotoh Short Bread. Beat one cupful of butter to a cream, add one-half cupful ot light -brown sugar, then work In four cupfuls of pastry flour. If the flour bus been warmed slightly it will work more easily. Form the mix ture Into two Hat cakes, seven Inches lu diameter. Decorate the edge by crliuplug and prick all over with a fork. Sprinkle the top with caraway caudles, candled cherries and pre served citron, Buke In a slow oven. Marshmallow Cream. Soften one tciispoonful of gelutln In two table ppoonfuls of cold milk, then dissolve over boiling water, Add one-half cup ful of sugur and one cupful of double crcniu and beat until firm. Beut the white ot a small egg, then fold In the cream with one-half tcaspooiiful of va nilla, half of a quarter pound box of inundimallowa cut Into quarters, one half cupful of skinned grapes seeded and one bunana cut Into cubes and mixed with a tublespoonful of lemon Juice. Dispose In glass cups, adding a cherry here and there. Garnish the top with finely chopped nuts and chill before serving. Curried Shrimps. Put into a sauce pan two tablespoon fu! s of butter, add one tuhlesMHnful of minced onion, cook until yellow. Mix one tuble spoonful of flour and one-half tea spoonful of curry powder and stir Into the hot butter; when well cooked sdd one cupful of milk and two cupfuls of freshly cooked shrimps. Serve hot with toast or wafers, or wjth hot rice. Lemon Honey. -Boll six cupfuls of sugar snd one and one-half cupfuls of water six minutes, then add the juice from six lemons, stir snd cool. A tahlospoonful of this honey Is added to the glasa of tea as It Is served, or it may be passed In a small pitcher and as much used ss the taste dic tates. Tills honey will keep for sev eral days In the Ice chest or for weeks If poured Into bottles and sealed. Hssd Lettuce With Roquefort Dressing. Mash eight tableionfuls of roquefort cheese with one tea spoonful of mustard; add to a good French dressing to which one-fourth of a cupful of chill sauce has been added. Why Not Serve Shrimper One reason for not having shrimps often Is the cost When canned they are not Inexpensive. If one Is fortunato enough to be able to procure them fresh. It Is wise to serve them often. Many who might use fresh shrimps, pass them by because they do not know how to use them. Thoy should be washed well, then re move the shells with a sharp knife and take out the small vein which runs down to the end of the tall. Boll them for twenty minutes, when they are ready to serve In various ways. Shrimp Chowdsrv Noting could be more appetizing on a chilly night to sen's for supper than this dish of hot chowder: Put a third of a cupful of chopiwd fat suit pork Into a kettle, add a chopt.ed onion or two. When this has browned slightly add one cupful of celery snd a quart of boil ing water. Cook until the celery la well done, adding a pint of diced po tatoes, two teasoonfuls of salt and a few dashes of peper. Now sdd two cupfuls of uncooked shrimps and fm Ish cooking. Just before serving add milk, milk crackers and butter to sea son If needed. Bsksd Shrimps. Cook a cupful of canned tomatoes until thick, adding snlt and pepiwr to season, with a little onion Juice. Put through a sieve. Take two cupfuls of cooked shrimps, pin re In a buttered buklng dish, cover with buttered crumbs and the tomato, adding a few cooked mushrooms. Top with buttered crumbs and buke until thoroughly hot Shrimp Canapes. Hollow out squares of bread to make small boxes two Inches square. Dtp In melted but ter and brown, or toast under the gas flame. Fill with cooked shrimps cut Into pieces and dressed with mayon naise dressing. Garnlxh with olives. Frlsd Shrimps. Shell and clean raw shrimps, sprinkle with salt and pepper and a little lemon Juice. After stand ing ten minutes dip them Into beaten egg and crumbs and fry In deep fut for three minutes. They may be var ied by dipping In butter and frying them. Bananas will be found to be more fiavorous If peeled and split, covered with orange or lemon Juice for an hour before adding them to the dish of fruit salad or the cocktail. 13 IS A HEALTHIER STRONGER GIRL Because She Took Lydia E. Pink bun's Vegetable Compound Th fertile valleys ot Oregon help to upi'ly the tables of America. This Is poaalulethroughlh mania of th hum. liU tin can. In one ot the can ning s tab 1 1 sh in e n t s, Julia Schmidt was em ployed. It wss com. plicated work be cause she did seal ing and othor parts of the work. It was strenuous work and ahs was not a strong girl. Olten she furred herself to work when she was hardly able to alt at ber machine. At times she would have to stay at bom for sh was so weak she could hardly walk. For five year sua was In this weakened condition. tilie triad various medicines. At last, a friend ot hers took ot Lydla K. l'lnkham's Vegetable Compound anil he gar It a trial. "Everyone says I am a healthier snd stronger girl," she wrltas. "I am roo ommendlng the Vegetable Compound to all my friends who tell me bow they suffer and I am willing to answer let ters from women asking about If Julia Schmidt's address is 111 Willow 8t, Sllverton, Oregon, Girls who work In factories know Just bow Miss Schmidt felt I'erunps they, too, will find better health, bJS taking th Vegetabl Coopound. Young Minionary Mother Stop! Didn't I tell that It I very wrong to fight f you Johnny I know It I'm Just trying to teach Willie Hint For Dancing, Teste tie. Coif, eta, Ut this be your first thought for foot emfert. Tha Antleeptle, Heal. Ing powder to shake Into four shoe a. SoU everyieAars, PlagiarUm Ethel But, pupa, be says he cannot live without me. Father Tell him to think up a new one; I told that to your mother. Boston Transcript CHILDREN CRY FOR "CASTORIA" Eipeciallj- Prepared for Infantt and Children of All Age Mother I Fletcher's Castorla has been In use for over no years to re lieve babies and children of Obstipa tion, t'lutulency, Wind Colic and Dlur rbes; allaying Keverlshness srlslng therefrom, and, by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimi lation of Kood; giving nutural sleep without opiates, Tbe genuine bears signature of All the rising young men should be trained under a successful mun. We all say the obvious thing, of eoiirse. It's expected. No hope! He's gone! "Flyomn ALWAYS Dont kill flies and moaquluar on of a lima, Flyoean the fi rsl and only enVe live fly and mosquito spray (non poisonous) kills all the flies and moequitfir In your house la only a few minus-. But use Flyoean Itself. Don't uke rhanrre with Inferior imltathma. Hid your horn qnlckly, thorough ly, not only of flying peats but also of the filthy, deadly germ which each one earrlea, "Swatting only aratter tbes PWeraiaa'i km Ike Hhl lawMrMe .w aark Is. eee. lilt ml tM eViaja ara trial ' Jzfovn Profeaor Forgot All About Dinner Party The nliNeiit-inludeil professor who, a! iirtlug to dress for a formal dinner, thought ha was gelling ready for bed and was found there by his wlfo, has n rival for wool gathering honor In a certain Kngllsh dean. This dean had Invited soma friends to din at hi house, null on their arrival a 11 1 1 In ahead of time ho suggested that In the Interval of walling they might Ilk to walk through tliu grounds, After spending n quarter ot an hour admiring the (lowers, shrub and greenhouses, they rnino suddenly upon a door In the wall. "Ah," said th dean lo his astonished guests, "till will bo a much nearer way home than going back to tha front," and all un conscious of his Invitation lie opened the door and bowed them out Bostou Transcript Both John$ Honortd When Mr. and Mrs. James Cain mussl of Bristol, Conn., welcomed their first baby, the father decided that the child should be named John, after Hie father's older brother, who hud been very kind lo the family. In two years another boy arrived and Mrs, ' Inmussl said It was ht ' turn. She, too, had a brother John, who hnd been a boon to her family. So th second boy also was named John, For bloated foaling and d' Ireaeed breath Ins due to inllgtiin yu n. a mullein ae wll ae a imtgntrve, Wrlsbre iuUlaa Veseiatile I'm ate Inita. Ad. Still Falling At school at Lunkorshlm th ether day, the teacher asked Buddy Cohen If he knew what a fulling out meant ".Surer exclaimed Buddy, "we huv on In our family right now!" "Why, Buddy, you don't mean your father and mother are not getting along f "Surg they dot But dnddy't getting buld 1" Roman Moialc The British museum I soon tn re ceive a fine example ot Human nmialo pavement In ;ul some laborer discovered It st Orkstow ball, on th Itlver number, where It remained tin. til the owner recently agreed to it removal. Composed of small colored rubes, It depict various Human scenes. Mammoth Pail A Keene (N. II.) concern has com pleted a pall for a preserve manufac turer. Th pnll holds more than a ton of Jelly and will be displayed at an exhibit In Madison Square garden. New York. The pall, with cover, weigh S'JS pounds. Nobody Simons I had a reul time it th dance last night. Kdwards But yoa can't dance. Simons Well, did n body 7 Path finder. Good Rtaion Isn Yeah, Fratdc left hi bom for her. Jlm-Whyt Lcn Oh. her was a better on. A Ftmtnint Tttt "race Why did you refuse htm? Certle Well, lie suld he'd dl for me and I'm curious. Sometimes, It may be. a picnic I got up for the pleasure ut not In viting somebody. Happiest people are those who do what they like snd somebody decide to pay tliein for It After "Be It Ilcsolved" always conies "(Jet out and work" If any thing Is to be accomplished. kills" toy$ Doc Fly millions of diaeaae-bearlng germs, Uwt It th right tnctleUU far arh intmctl n.YOSAK, UfM r,-U. sue a-4 eMslae. rrrrjtMAN't-ANT rOOD a prrraMAT ni:ovESY,iirtf aaJaatoeteJaaae, mKSMAN'l NOACIt rtMD ash eies wet mtraut ana. rrrKaMAN' atom roon leeia aslaa.dH. Yon mux have a speclfie Inaeo. fields for tarh Inarct No single Inarrtlrlde will otermlnnie them all. We have had nearly SO yeare' eipcrlenoe. We A now rjutt Is true, loorinkAaN.T.C. " r.T ' ;r -n i