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THE GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON. NYSSA BARBER SHOP and * Cigar Store I Gibsou & Hamaker, props. You q y gr-'W Tor your neighbor pap s or ¿lap» shot; he also will grow graphs or fcvupeshot for you. and each will leap what he hun sown.— Kuskin. SU M M ER FO O D S. I CHAPTER II—Continued. 20 — N y s s a F lo u r M ill Shaving, Hair Cutting For , FLO U R & FEED Hot and Cold Baths Chopping and Grinding Pilone 30 It O rego n Nyssa A good emergency dessert or salad may he made with any good gelatine Copyright. 1930. by Little. Brown & Co. Jolly us a basis. counts because I didn’t win. It’s Just Lemon Jelly is fat *. Snowbird. It’s no one’s fault, but especially good. maybe, in this world, nothing Is ever Try it with tills anyone's fault.” I'or in the twilight of one: A r r u n g e those winter woods, in the shadow' of some lemon Jelly, deatli itself, perhaps he was catching a tea.spoonful or glimmerings of eternal truths that a it two of peaches hidden from all but the most far-see cut In quarters, a ing eyes. ! spoonful of orange marmalade and a “ And this Is the end?" she asked tahlespoouful of pineapple preserve him. She spoke very bravely. j with a little of its Juice to top tiie “ N o !” His hand tightened on hers. ! sherbet cup. Whipped cream may he “ No, so long as an ounce of strength added if one lias it, hut it is good remains. To fight— never to give up— i without. Some of the same lenmn miry God give me spirit for It till I | Jelly may he used as a salad with fish die." | at some other meal. Serve it on head And this was no Idle prayer. HI* | lettuce with a rich mayonnaise. Pea eyes raised to the starry sky as he nuts are nice sprinkled over the top spoke. 1 of such a salad. “ Rut, son," Lennox asked him rath Cream ed Onions W ith P a rsle y .— er quietly, “ what can you do? The Cook even-sized onions In boiling wolves aren’t going to wait a great . water, adding suit as they are nearly deal longer, and we can’t go on." cooked. Melt three tablespoonfuls of “ There’s one thing more— one inora ! butter, add the same amount of flout trial to make," Dan answered. “ I : for half a dozen onions, a half tea- thought about It at first, hut It was too I spoonful of suit and a little less of long a chance to try If there was any ' paprika, stir uniII well blended, then other way. And I suppose you thought add a cupful of rich milk and half a of It too." j cupful of the liquor In which the “ Overtaking Cranston?" onions were cooked; serve poured “ O f course. And It sounds like a I over the onions and sprinkle with flne- crazy dream. Rut listen, both of you. ; iy minced parsley. If we have got to die, up here in the Lamb Stew With Peas.— Take a snow— and It looks like we had— what ! shoulder cut, cover with boiling water is the thing you want done worst be and cook until tender, thicken with fore we go?” flour stirred with some of the meat Lennox’s hands clasped, and he liiiiiiirjiiiiiTii 1 m i... iiiin i'.iin im s - i«■ ■ ■ ■ ■ n liquor, add a pint of green peas and leaned forw’ard on the sled. “ Puy cook until the peas are tender. ¡Sea Cranston!” he said. son well and serve the meat on a plat- “ Y es !” Dan’s voice rang. “ Crans ton’s never going to he puid unless we tor surrounded with the peas. Now is the time to put up the small do it. There will be no signs of in fruits, crushing until well mashed cendiarism at the house, and no and mixing with an equal amount of proofs. They’ll find our bodies In the sugar. Stir until the sugar is all dis TRY OUR snow, nnd we’ll Just be a mystery, with no one made to pay. The evi- ( solved, then can in sterile jars. Set on the cellar bottom or in the Ice deuce in my pocket will he taken by chest where they will keep cool. Cranston, some time this winter. I f I Grape Nectar.— Put a cupful of do^’t make him pay, lie never will pay. And that’s one reason why I ’m going sugar with a quart of water over to boil. Cook ten minutes, cool, then to try to carry out this plan I ’ve got. “The second reason 4s that It’s the add the juice of three lemons, two one hope we hnve left. I take It that oranges, one-half can of pineapple and none of us are deceived on that point, j n pint of grape juice. Let stand about And no man can die tamely— If he Is three hours then serve iced with thin a man— while there’s a chance. I mean ly sliced orange on top of euch glass. Barbecued Ham.— Wipe two slices Handled by all grocery stores. Guaranteed pure Honey and a young man, like me— not one who is old nnd tired. It sounds perfectly silly of ham and trim off most of the fat. Corn. .Made by the to talk about finding Cranston’s win- , Parboil the ham, turning once; drain fer quarters, and then, with my bare nnd put hack Into the hot frying pan hands, conquering him, taking his food in which the trimmings, having been and his blankets ami his snovvshoes j minced, are tried ou t; add three table- and his rifle, to fight away these spoonfuls of vinegar, one teaspoonful of sugar, one teaspoonful of mustard wolves, and bringing ’em hack here." “ You wouldn’t he barehanded," the and a few dashes of paprika. When fl CARTY & COWARD girl reminded him. “ You could have hot pour over the 1mm. the pistol." Though you have everything you like, He didn’t even seem to hear her. N.Y&SA OREGON M and riches come to you. “ I’ve been thinking about It. It’s a You still may be unhappy, son; you'll find that this Is true. long, long chance— much worse than ir IT! rr S K S aH M H O i But you can fill your days with Joy: Ihe chance we had o f getting out by get this; it Isn’t salve. straight walking. I think we could The way to be real happy is to like have made it, if the wolves had kept the things you have. off and the snowshoe hadn’t broken. It would have nearly killed us, hilt I T A S T Y TID B IT8. believe we could have got out. That’s why I didn’t try this other way first. When yon have several pieces of A man with his bare hands hasn’t cheese, too dry to serve in ordinary much of a chance against another with ways, g r a t e it and to a cupful a rifle, and I don’t want you to he too of grated cheese hopeful. And of course, the hardest problem Is finding his camp. add one-half cup "Rut I do feel sure of one thing: ful of boiling that he Is hack to his old trapping line cream; stir until on the North Fork— somewhere south the cheese Is dis of here— nnd hi» camp is somewhere solved, add cay on the river. I think he would hnve enne and paprika, gone there so that he could cut off any salt, If needed, and' pour into a cream attempt I might make to get through cheese jar. The cheese will he creamy with those letters. My plnn Is to start and delicious and the hits dir be hack at an angle that will carry me saved for something W'orth while. between the North Fork and our old j Cheese Salad.—Take a cream cheese house. Somewhere in there I ’ll find <>r two, add thick sweet cream to soft his tracks, the tracks he made when en, season with chopped chives, green lie first came ‘over to burn np the pepper and nuts. Make into hrJIs aird house. I suppose he was careful to serve on lettuce with a good boiled mix ’em up after once he arrived j dressing. here, but the first part of the way he Cottage cheese served plain, after likely walked stiiiight tow'ard the it has been enriched with cream and house from his camp. Somewhere, if I such seasonings as are needed, served go that way, I ’ll cross his trail— with with a good boiled dressing, makes a in 10 miles at least. Then I ’ll back most tasty salad. Phone 43 C. C. COTTON, Prop. track him to his camp." Cheese. Savory. — To one crean "And never come hack!" the girl cheese add a tahlespoonfnl of **»fteneA cried. butter, one teaspoonfnl of chives, one- “ Maybe not. Rut at least every half teaspoon ful «rf parsley, both thing that can he done will be done. chopped: one-third of a teaspoonful of Nothing will be left. No regrets. We Worcestershire sauce and nn.hovj w ill have made the last trial. I ’m not essence, with salt and paprika t« going to waste any time. Snowbird. taste. Press Into n glass and scrv« The sooner we get your fire built the from tim e to time with m o kers. better." Cheese Croquettes»—T o three table (TO Blfi CONTINUED.) spoonfuls of melted butter add one third of a cupful o f flour and stir until Make Love and uive Long. well blended, then pour on gradually The act of love-making lias a direct > >ne cupful of nil!!:. Rrtng to the boll t Influence on the heart and blood, says ing i>oint ami add the yolks of two i a medical correspondent. It stimu • ggs slightly beaten anil diluted with ; lates the working capacity of the for two tablesiMHUifuls of cream ami two mer organ, and keeps It up to concert cupfuls of mild cheese cut In small ; f pitch. As n result, the blood circu cu I m » s . Sensor with three-fourths id lates, with greater strength, hnd ever/ n teaspoonful of salt, a few dashes ot part c f »lie body Is accordingly pepper (red) and sprend on a plate strengthened. Love-making, moreover, to cool as soon as the mixture Is ♦ f ha« a very decided Influence In stlrou- smooth. When cool, shape, dip ’n latlisg t’ne working of the liver. Pat ’ ninihs. egg and fry in deep fnt. ent medicines would have to go out of Cheese Supper Diah.— Spread hread business to a considerable extent If the wojdd were more generally given to with butter and «prlnkle with crated \ heese. Arrange in layers until th< I the art of making love with genuine feeling. Perhaps the most striking required amount fills ihe baking dl«b proof of the immunity of lovers from Pour over n pint of ndlh mixed will two beaten eggs, a lf?»l s.-ilr ant one form of II), viz., colds nnd chills Is hfforded by the fact that n pair of over ||ie top a genenms «prb Cupid’ s devotees will sit on a damp Kling of paprika. Pake * Mi! s n l is «et. N e r v f-om bench for hours and take no harm. without food. Keep on and try to for get ’em. Maybe we cun keep ’em -W e ll rrat now." Dan told them at bluffed." • a o’clock. “The sun Is worm enough Rut as the hours passed, It became •o that we won’t need much of a fire. increasingly difficult to forget the wolf A m ) well try to get five hours’ sleep." pack. It was only a matter of turning the head and peering for an instant "Too Fong, If we’re going to make It Into the shadows to catch a glimpse •at." Lennox objected. of one of the creatures. Their usual "That leaves a workday of nineteen fear of men, alwuys their first emo bosirs," Dim persisted. “ Not any too tion, had given way wholly to a hunt ■ttte. Five hours It will be.’* He found where the snow had drift ing cunning; an effort to procure their ed against a great, dead log, leaving game without too great risk of their the white covering only a foot In own lives. In the desperation of their depth on the lee side. He began to hunger they could not remember such things as the fear of men. They •crape the snow away, then hacked at the log with his ax until he bad pro spread out farther, and at last Dan looked up to find one of the gray cured a piece of comparatively dry wood from Its cente; They all stood beasts waiting, like a shadow hirnself, In t># shadow of a tree not one hun breathless while he lighted the little dred feel from the sled. Snowbird pile of kiml- ng and heaped It with green wood—the only wood procur whipped out her pistol. "Don’t dare!” Dan’s voice cracked able. But It didn't burn freely. It out to her. He didn’t speak loudly; yet smoked fitfully, threatening to die out, the words came so sharp and com and emitting very little heat. manding, so like pistol fire itself, that Rut they didn’t particularly care. they penetrated into her consciousness The sun was wann above, as always fn the mountain winters o f southern and choked back the nervous reflexes that in an instant might have lost Oregon. Snowbird and Dan cleared them one of their three precious shells. spaces beside the fire and slept. Len- She caught herself with a sob. Dan aox, who had rested on the Journey, shouted nt the wolf, and It melted into fay fin hi» nl<x1 »nil with tils uninjured the shadows. • nil fried to hnck enough wood from “ You won’t do It again, Snowbird?" Ihe Kipllnirs flint Pan hud cut to keep he asked her very humbly. But his tlx* Are burning. At three they got up, still tired nnd meaning was clear. He was not as skilled with a pistol as she; but If her •rhlng In their hones from exposure. Twenty-four hours hud pnssed since nerves were breaking, the gun must they had tasted food, and their unre- he taken from her hands. The three shells must he saved to the moment of plenl.-lied systems complained. There utmost need. Is no heifer engine In the wide* world “ No," she told him, looking straight than the human body. It will stand In*o his eyes. “ I won’t do it again.’’ ■Hire neglect nnd abuse than the linest He believed her. He knew that she s’ eel motors ever made by the hands spoke the truth. He met her eyes with • f craftsmen. A mnn may fast many a half smile. Then, wholly without «lavs If he lies quietly In one place warning, Fate played its last trump. and keeps wnrm. liut fasting Is a Again the wilderness reminded them deadly proposition while pulling of Its might, and their brave spirits sledges over the snow. were almost broken by the utter re Pan was less hopeful now. Ill« face morselessness of the blow’. The girl t»fd what his words did not. The went on her face with a crack of wood. lines d e ft deeper about Ills tips and eves; and Snowbird's heart ached when he tried to encourage her with • smile. It was n wan, strange smile that couldn’t quite hide the first slck- ne*» of despair. The shadows quickly lengthened— Simply leaping over the snow from the fast-falling son. The twilight deep ened. the snow turned gray, nnd then, •n » vague way, the Journey began to pa .-fake of a qua HIT of unreality. It nes u«t that the ffi Id and the snow «nit their hunger wore not entirely roe', or that Ihe wilderness was no lercer naked to their eyes. It was Inst that their whole effort seemed like son-c dreadful, unburdened Journey In a dream—a stumbling advance under difficulties too many nnd real to be IrtV file first sign was the far-off cry of ihe wolf pack. It was very faint limply a stir In the eardrums, yet It was entirely clear. That clenr, cold mountain air was a perfect telephone system, conveying a message distinct- <f. no matter how faintly. There were no tall buildings or rifles to dls- korh the ether waves. And nil three • f them knew nt the same Instant It was not exnetly the cry they had Heard before. They couldn't have told Just why. wven If they had wished to talk about It. In some dim way, It had lost the »Tmnge quality of despair It hnd held •efore It was as If the pack were “Maybe We Can Keep Them Bluffed.” sunning with renewed life. Hint each wolf wns railing to another with a Her snow shoe hail been cracked by dveadfsl sort of exultation. It wan an her fall of the day before, when run •(rile d cry. too— not the long, sad ning to the fire, and whether she •nng they hnd learned to listen for. It struck some other obstruction In the snow*, or whether the cracked wyod ■Oumlrd Immediately behind them. They couldn't help but listen. No had simply given way under her Inman ears could hnve shut out the weight, mattered not even enough for A unit llut none of them pretended them to Investigate. As in all great reault remained. that they hnd heard. And this was the disasters, only WOrst sign of all. Knelt one of the The result In \>\ b cnee was that her ♦ f e e was hoping against hope In his snowshoe, with nit v*ltch she could not *rry heart; and at the same time, hop w alk a* all 1» the e i<*v, was Irrepara bly broken. ing that the others did not understand. “ Fate has stackred the cards against For n lin g time, as the darkness leepeued about them, the forests were us," Lennox toU them, after the first •till Perhaps. Dan thought, he had moment’s horror from the broken been mistaken after all. Ills shoulders snowshoe. Straight cued. Then the chorus blared Rut po one answered him. The girl, white-faced, kept her wide eyes on Dan. He seemed to he peering Into the TT.*e man looked hack at the girl, twiTTi.g into her eyes. Lennox lay ns shadows beside the trail, as If lie were T asleep the lines of bis dark face watching for the gray forma that now garioasli pronounced. And the girl, and then glided from tree to tree. In reality, he was not looking for wolves. bemuse she wns of the mountains, body and soul, answered Dan’s smile. He was gazing down Into his own soul, Then they knew that all of them knew measuring his own spirit for the trial that lay before hint. the truth Not even an Inexperienced The girl, unable to step with the tar could hnve any delusions about broken snowshoe. rested her weight on the pack song now. It was that old one foot and hobbled like a bird with «rt of wilderness songs, the bunting broken wings across to hint. No sight try—that fret 1 «led song of blood-lust that the wolf pack utters when It Is of nil this terrible Journey had been «waning on the trail of game. It bad more dreadful In her fat bet’s eyes than tills. It seemed to «oUt open W « d the track of living flesh at last. "T W re’s no use stopping, or trying the strong heart of the raa*. C !» la rflmb n tree,’’ Dan told them sim touched her hand to his arm. “ I’m sorry. Dan,” she told him. “ You ply. "la the first plsee. Lennox can’t da H In the second, we’ve got to take tried so hard— " Just one little sound broke from his a chan« e for cold and hunger can get throat— a strange, deep gasp that ap a tree where the wolf pack can't.” could not he suppressed. Then he vie »poke wholly without emotion CN»r* n>j*<s he tightened the traces of caught her hand In his and kissed It— again and agnln. “ Do you think I care the aUNi T w heard that sometimes the pack about that?" he asked her. “ I only with 1 could have done more— and w«1 chase a man for d a ji without at It Is Just as wise to watch pH. what 1 have done doesn’t count. Juat « r * * « . ’' Lennox told them. ” Tt all A bj hi - «a bow lung they’ve gona ** In my fight with Cranston, uoiMug w r i n g s as it la to wL*l j.jur w aif' — Go to the Swat and Screen out the Buy your Screen Doors and let us make your Window Screens AT THE CO. GEM STATE Nyssa, Oregon Call Phone 8 . 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