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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1927)
Alabaster Lamps By MARGARET TURNBULL STORY FROM THE START Claud Melnott Pabba, re turning from New York o hla grocery etor In Pac Valley, Pa., brlns with him a trnaer, Ned Carter, whom h Introduces lo tali housekeeper, Aunt Llddy, as a chance acquaintance. Ned tnll that h hat broken with hi folka becauae of their pacifist lo leanlnge. Vleltlng In Clovr Hal low, th two men almost run over a doc belonging to a girl whom Ned recognizee. Later Ned dellvere a grocery order, and In hit abeence the girl, Dorothy Selden, telle Pabbe that Ned'a nam la Rangeley and that he I th eon ot th famnut banker. Next morning Ned, atartlng to work aa a delivery boy, tskee an order marked "Johneton" to th "Whit Houa," where he meets Mary Johnaton. She tella him th eervanta have left, leav- ' Ing her alone with her mother. Ned promise to gat new eerv anta. Meeting Dorothy, who la hla former fiancee, Ned evade explaining hla presence In Peac Valley. He arrange with Ettl Pulalfer to begin work with th Johnstone, but ah I unable to tart at once. Ned return to tell Mary about hiring Rule, and In explaining thl matter to th mothar la aatonlahed at her emo tion when Pabbe' asm Is men tioned. Th cook arrives, and Mary and Ned start to town fur groceries. They are seen by Dor othy Betden. Worried over finan cial difficulties, Mr. Johnaton la bothered by Dorothy, who warna her there Is something susplcloue about Ned. After teeing Mrs. Johnston at the Inn, Pabbe tells Ned that he ha something that h wants to get off his mind. CHAPTER V-Continued Claude Pabbe leaned forward and looked. II waa long about It and said nothing. Neither Mary nor her mother saw them. They were en grossed lq the print Mary waa dis cussing It with the proprietor, while Hn. Johnston examined It ClaDde quietly put out hit hand and closed the door. "Handsome woman. Isn't she" tnld Ned. "Absolutely different In every way from ber daughter. I 'Id you ever a each a lovely contrast ai they maker Still Claude did not apeak. He toed starter before him. Then, no ticing that Ned waa looking at Mm, he pulled himself together, muttering something about a headache, Ned waa concerned. He offered to attend to Claude'a business and drive him home. He waa sure Mrs. Johnston wouldn't mind In the least Or, be could arrange with some one to bring the truck back, and Claude could oc cupy the front seat with him. Claude shook hla head. "It Isn't anything, nry boy. Just a headache. Get them often. Guess 1 drove the car up too fast and bnd the sun In my eyes. You stick to your Job." ' He was off down the street, leaving Ned protesting. A moment later, Mrs, Johnston and Mary cume out Into the sunshine. r . In the library that evening Claude was far from being In his usual form. He was fidgety and restless, unable to settle down. Ned comfortably ar ranged himself, (It hla cigarette and asked : "Have you always lived In I'eace Valley. C. 11.7" CI u tide started and gave Ned a searching look. "Just about. I was the only son of my futher, and he was a grocer, too. He wasn't a very good one. (lood man but not a good grocer. No Judg ment Credit to everybody and never pressed l bill. He and Mom hnd Mens beyond grocerlng for me. They sent me to Rutgers to get an education, but I only stayed three months. I got Into klnda wild set." "At Kutgersr "Veh. I got ganiblln' and lost fifty dollars and I got behind another fifty In uiy expense. Gee I It was tough. It's more'n twenty years ago, but 1 re member I thought of killing myself one night What Just about finished me was getting a letter from Mom telling me l'op was so sick they didn't expect him to live, and asking me to come at once. "What did you dor Claude gazed at Ned, hesitated, nd then said slowly: "(jot home, In time, of course. Never went back though. My father died and I had to take on the grocery and run It and that's all." Take you up on that" Claude laughed. "It's true, and that's what's eating me tonight Here I've lived my forty-seven years, cau tions and careful-like, and never once let go and did anything real brash. And when you get to forty-seven with out any one really belonging to you, why It makes man think hard. At forty-seven a man's In a position to take a survey ot life, end oh well, what does It amount to after alir He sighed. "I bet you've done more In ten days than I hnvs Iff all my forty-seven years." Ned shook his head. "You can't pull that off with me, C, M. You forget I've been wnlchlng you conduct your life und business for awhile." lie Ceprrltht, er Varweret TurnbulL WNU Service leaned back to survey this new phase of the versatile C, M. Somehow he had never contemplated Claude Dubbs as restless and discontented. To his astonishment, Claude did not wait to analyze or be analyzed fur ther. He rose, crossed to the door, and Jerking Ills head toward the oflleo announced that tut had to wrestle with an old account Ned, wholly unprepared for this move, had no time to think of any thing to stop htm but he had no de sire to sit there reading and smoking alone. Aunt I.yddy met htm In the hall on her way upstairs. Klght o'clock, or half-past eight was her hour for re tirement She looked at Ned with some surprise. "Going out for a walk. Aunt I.yd dy. T'ncle Claude's busy." "Suffering Saints! It's bedtime. Well, don't get Into any more mischief than Is natural and can't be helped." She yawned a good night as the door closed, nnd took her way to bed. Ned went past the lighted window of the office, little guessing that "It's More Thsn Twenty Yssrs A.o." Claude Dabbs was struggling through one of the crucial moments of his life. The woman whom Claude had seen at the Iron Hand Inn, might have evolved herself out of the Polly John ston he had known. He wished he had been able to study her unobserved and for longer time. If It was Polly. hat a wonderful thing life was. To make out of that discontented, am bitious drudge, the woman he had seen today I He commenced several Imaginary Interviews and stopped them, laughing at himself. He kept saying "if," yet he felt sure that It was Polly. He Imagined speaking to her, meeting her. What would her fare look like as It tamed toward him? He remembered how It had looked tills afternoon when he saw her In the Iron Hand Inn as she spoke to the girl. The girl! Absorbed In the thought of Polly, be had forgotten the girl. Who was she? Had Polly adopted her. or IniM'S smote his desk with Ms fist and rose from his chair. He hegnn walking up and down, trying to piece Polly's life together, thinking, think ing, stopping, beginning again, with a new thread each time, hut nil pulled him back to the same question. He bent over his desk, writing numerous letters all to one woman. Finally he leaned back In his chair, tore up the last note and thrust It deep Into the pile already In the waste banket. The thing would not solve Itself. He was still at sea as to his first move. Ned, thrusting his head Into the doorway to sny good-night, found a weary-looking, grim-mouthed man. This was so unlike Claude's usual face and greeting that he was puzzled. Claude stopped him. "Ion't mind the way I look and act tonight I've got something on my mind. Something personul, and If I find It'll help any telling It you're the one I'll come to." "I'm your man, any hour of the day or night. Uncle, If I can really help you out" When he had gone, Claude closed XXXXXIXXXXIIIXIXIX1X-XIIIXI Campaign That Gave Ilut for the success of Col. fleorge Wright and his soldiers In the bat tle of Spokane Plains, 1 few years before the Civil war, development of the entire Northwest might have been Indefinitely deferred. It was this battle (hat-climaxed the campaign that re sulted In crushing Indian resistance throughout 1 region as large as the present state of Oregon and trade pos sible the settlement of the Inlnnd empire by white Americans, giving a new Impulse to economic develop ment, Earlier forces that had at tempted to rout the Indians had been armed with defective, short range weapons, but Colonel Wright's men were equipped with the first high- the door heavily and went back to the desk, He gave up letter writing for the night and sat there, absorbed In his thoughts. , CHAPTER VI Though It was late, Ned could not sleep. lHrldlng to read awhile, he lit the student lump, propped himself up on his pillow and picked up a book. He looked up as Claude Iabbs en tered bis room. "Heady to drop off, Ned!" he In quired tentatively. "Not a bit of It All snlls set for reading half the night," Ned assured him. "Come In and smoke, C. M." Claude entered. Ned wondered what this midnight visit meant He looked at Claude with a smile, and Claude, knocking the ashes from his cigar Into a little blue vase, euld: "Ned, I told you about my being at Rutgers for three mouths and never getting buck, ltut I dldu't tell you ail." "No, I don't think you did." 'There wns a a girl there." "Ah. no man ever does tell all about himself and a woman, does hoi" "Well, It Isn't so easy to tell." "Nothing about one's life and a woman ever Is," Ned answered, as one deeply exwrlenced In the world und women. "Why, If I tried to explain to myself, let alone you, what earthly attraction I ever found In iHirothy Sel den, I'd Just atannede." "Put tills Is dlffereut It'll probably do me food to talk It out and be done with It lly the way It Isn't known lu Peace Valley." Ned nodded, understanding. "There was a young servant girl In the house where I was boarding. Now, this girl well, an uncle of hers turned up one day with a pile of money, bnt he said every girl should have a hus band. The girl was regular terror for haling the men. I didn't blame her, being waitress and chambermaid at our boarding house was enough to sour any woman on young men. . "To make a long story short, the ancle was dying and he'd had an awful time finding the girt She waa the last of his family. Yet he said he wouldn't leave her cent of bis money unless she got married. She hadn't fellow. Ills doctor told her the old man was getting low and there wasn't much time. He'd made a will and everything. It was quite a pile, and she got it all, providing she married before he died. She was In an awful stew about It She hadn't told any one In the house yet I doubt If she'd told me If It hadn't Just happened so. You see, she klnda trusted me and she wanted that money bad. Wanted to make herself Into lady. She bad great Ideas. "Well, there we were. She was In fuuk, and I was In funk that night I'd come home ready to kill myself because there was the tele gram from Mom. I 'hadu't got the money to get home to Pop, and Mom said he was dying. "Well, there she was fixing up my room. She always left my room to the last because she'd got to know I'd never make the row the others did or tell on her. I guess she klnda liked me. She was the only person I had to talk to, so I blurted out my troubles. She thought moment and then she came out with hers. She hated men and didn't want to get married, or so she said and I well, I didn't care what I did. Just so that I could get home, In time, to Pop." He paused, glanced at Ned, then took up bis confession. "Well, the up shot of It was, I couldn't borrow the money from any of the hoys, I went with Iter to a country Justice of the peace, who didn't know either of us, and we got married. I had promised that for Hve hundred dollars I'd do It, and never trouble her agnln. She could get a divorce for desertion whenever she liked." He looked at Ned, as though ex pecting an Interruption, but Ned sim ply stared at him. In the next installment Claude tells more of his amazing mar. rlage to Mrs. Johnston. (TO BES CONTINUED.) Vast Area to Whites powered rifles and howitzers employ ing explosive shells that ever had been used against the natives. The trip north from Walla Walla, Wash, was triumphal march, terminating in the total defeat of the Indians near Spo kane. Portland Oregonlan. Dad'$ Wrong Imprtti'.on "Listen to the Infernal racket that confounded motorcycle It making!" grumbled Audrey's father the other evening. "How can we, papa," an swered little Audrey, laughing merrily the wbllo, "when It Is not a motor cycle, but shooting gallery going by r Kansas City Slur. (id. 4t, Weetera Newspaper Unieu.) "Upon a crutch her girlish fnc Allsht with lav ami tender grace Laughing ah llmpa from pise to place Upon a crutch. And you and I who journey through A rose leaf world of dnwn and dew, W cry to heaven overmuch I We rail and frown at fnt. while th And many more In agony Are brave and patient, strong and true Upon a crutch." Vv- TASTY FOODS If convenient for one to keep a bowl of fruit gelatin always at hand In the Ice chest there may be a quick dessert or salad prepared III a short time. The pineapple Juice poured from the run when It Is used for various dishes Is thickened with gelatin by using half the amount of hot water and the rest the fruit Juice. Lemon or orange, either flavor, Is esie dally good with pineapple flavor. If dessert Is required, prepare a rich custard, chill and serve with the fruit gelatin. If a salmi, take a table spoon fill or two of the gelatin cut Into cubes, aild a diced apple, a few dates and a half cupful of celery with a good salad dressing, and the salad Is made. Appl Custard. Tuke live will beat en eggs, add one quart of milk and one pint of strained apple sauce. Sweeten and add such flavor na the taste demsnds and bake carefully In moderate oven until firm. Set the pan of custnrd In a dish of hot wa ter to bake. Curried Salmon. Chop a small onion fine and fry until brown In a ta blespoonful of butter. Mix together one tahlesooiiful each of curry pow der and flour, add to the butter and onion, add alowly one cupful of hot water, stirring briskly. Cook until the sauce Is well done, then sdd one cup ful of fluked salmon. Serve with cooked rice. Curried Lamb. Pry one small onion In three tnblesoo!ifula of butter; when the onion Is light brown sdd two table Ioonfuls each of curry powder and flour; cook with two cupful of stock for five minutes. Season with salt and pepper and strain over thinly sliced cold roast of lamb. Serve In a deep platter with a border of hot rice well Reasoned. Dlctabls Chicken. Chicken I one of the meats that Is a favorite with people the world over and when well cooked Is slwsys p 0 p a I a r. 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