Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY, S. C. 'Cite' FICTION Corner The Rustler Was a Gentleman By COLE RICHARDS TPHE riders, three men and a girl, burst from Lgdrina Canyon like bullets fired into the dawn. Spurs flashing, whirlwinds rising from the hoofs of the straining horses, they pelted down on Kansas Terry. The girl was Toni Lee; the men, her foreman. Chuck Mayne, and her cowboys. Slats and Jimmy Gwinn. “Outa all New Mexico,” the burly Mayne thought, exultantly, “we picked that there canyon to ride through. And here’s our rustler, with a dead calf.” His exultation was tinged with discomfort. Embarrassing, having a lady with them; he could only hope the men, on both sides, would gloss things over, sort of. Kansas Terry, the rustler, could have grabbed his pack pony’s lead- rope and vaulted into his saddle. He could have got away through the high greasewood, but he did not. He bent over the dead roan calf. The nickel conchos on his leather roping guard flashed with the swift turns of his wrist. He wiped and sheathed his bowie knife. Tall, lanky, easy in manner, he stood with his back to the party riding toward him. The riders circled him at the gal lop, pulling the ponies to their haunches in sudden stop. Kansas Terry’s brown Stetson was shoved back, disclosing his pale eyes, with their sly, mocking expression. He smiled sweetly. “Mornin’, Miss Toni. M o r n i n’. Chuck. Mornin’, Slats. Mornin’, Jimmy.” Addressing the girl, he bowed from the hips. Kansas Ter ry’s good manners never failed him. . Chuck Mayne’s bushy brows met over his rugged face like storm clouds over the Bad Lands. “We got yuh this time, Kansas.” “Now Ah wouldn’t say so,” Kan sas Terry drawled, gently. Chuck Mayne felt uneasy. There was something about the mockery in Kansas Terry’s pale eyes, some thing about the extra silk on his po liteness, that said he wasn’t caught by a long way. Toni Lee drew her fingers across her eyes as if a mist gathered there. A alim girl, with wide-set eyes, gen tility showed on her as plainly as the silver bracelets on her brown wrists. "That there,” Mayne asserted, “Is a calf out’n Miss Toni’s herd ” “That there,” Terry returned, courteously, “is a maverick. There ain’t a brand on it.” TV/IAYNE swung out of the saddle. The right side of the calf was up, the curly roan hair unmarred by branding iron. He heaved the carcass over. His heart turned over, too, and stopped. On the calf’s flank a square as large as a man’s hand glared bright red. The calf, strictly speaking, had no brand. The brand had been cut away. Chuck Mayne straightened up, with his fists on his hips. Outwardly cool, inside he seethed. He rode up close and whipped the rustler’s gun from the holster. “Stretch the mred hands, high, mister.” "Regular cactus of a guy, ain’t ybh?” he drawled, amiably. “Sharp and hard to grab.” His own bowie flashed. He cut a similar square of hide from the roan flank. “This what you done?” Mayne hurled the soggy rawhide as far as he could. “Git it. Slats.” Slats transferred the lead horses to Toni Lee. Touching spur to his pinto, he scooted to the piece of rawhide. Arriving there, he made a slow circle, and other circles in side that. Slats could pick up a trail with any Indian. If the brand had been thrown he would have found it. “Nope,” he said, at last. “ ’Twas- n’t throwed.” Jimmy, dangling his loop, looked from the cottonwood in the canyon to the lanky, confident rustler. He shook his head. “Once a rustler cut a bran’ thetaway. He stuff it down a prairie dog hole.” “I heard,” Slats put in, languidly, “of one jammin’ a piece of hide down a calf’s Jhroat.” “Look for it!” Mayne ordered. “Doggone it we caught this rascal redhanded.” Kansas Terry looked at his hands, coolly and impersonally. He ap peared to find nothing wrong with them. His finger touched his throat, above the knotted red bandanna, as if a hemp noose rasped the flesh. The gesture made Mayne’s hopes rise, but they thudded down when Terry folded his arms and stood at ease. Muttering, “We’ 11 find thet brand,” Mayne hurled himself into the search. He drove on Slats and Jimmy with a fury of energy. A sweating trio of men worked over the desert around the calf. They looked into mesquite and snarled cactus and prickly pear. They investigated four prairie dog CROSSWORD PUZZLE Horizontal 1 Undivided 4 You and I 6 Rhythm in verse 11 Whirlpool 13 Eaten away 15 By 16 Pertaining to a town 18 Colloquial: mother 18 Term in tag 21 To minister to 22 To give forth 24 Land measure 26 Lively song 28 To employ 29 Courage 31 Eagle’s nest 33 Pural ending 34 Indigent 36 Female ruffs 38 Symbol for tantalum 40 Heavenly •body 42 To exalt 45 Timber tree 47 Protection 49 Stiffly i decorous 50 Blemish 52 Slang: person bearing the blame for others 54 Preposition 55 Faroe Islands windstorm 56 Vague 59 Jackdaw (Scot.) 61 Made requital for 63 Enthusias tically 65 Faction 66 Symbol for selenium 67 Organ of sight Vertical 1 Eggs 2 Announce ment 3 Comparative ending 4 Lamented 6 To oust 6 Uninvited participant Solution In Next Issue. 1 2 3 4 S 6 7 8 9 10 u 12 13 14 15 16 17 n 18 19 20 21 \V\XN M 22 23 24 25’ 26 27 28 29 30 n 31 32 33 34 • 35 ssSSS 36 37 38 39 40 41 P 42 43 ’ 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51’ 52 53 SSS 54 55 H 56 57 58 n 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 7 Period of time 8 Accent 9 Man’s nickname 10 Law; to deed 12 Toward 14 Fruit of the palm (pi.) 17 Dolphinlike fish 20 Snare 23 Greek letter 24 Exclamation of approval 25 Cupid 27 Woody plant 30 Colloquial: to carry 32 Sharp cry 35 Tattered 37 Hindu wom an’s garment 38 Small drum 39 Slumbering 41 Outbreak No. 13 43 Thinly clinking 44 Printer’s measure 46 Stop! 48 Bags 51 Former Rus sian ruler 53 Archaic: yop 57 Outfit 58 Archaic: the 60 Yes 62 Colloquial: father 64 Compass _ point Answer to Faille Number 12 M A I D 0 U i T P u T T E R A U R 0 R A A R T H i A M - ■ N, 0 N R i W I L L A R D B J E K E P I E L T 0 T A L A L 0 N E E M V A N E s C R| i V E N 5 R s A s H S I 0 c T E T K N E E L A y 0 s S A I N 1 I s T A N T C X T P 1 s T E R E s H E S L E La z Y N E A T E n S P A T D R A w holes, a badger hole and the throat of the calf. “So th’ calf ain’t branded,” Mayne said reluctantly. “Th’ brand wasn’t throwed, wasn’t stuffed no where, and it sure aint on yore per son, or the blood ’ud give yuh away. But some day I’ll git yuh agin.” Kansas Terry smiled sweetly. “Ah’ll be at yore service,” he said, courteously, without a trace of gloating. "Goodbye, Miss Toni. Goodbye, Chuck. Goodbye, Slats. Goodbye, Jimmy.” Addressing the girl, he bowed. “Yuh got doggone good man ners,” Mayne scowled, “but yore a rustler, jest th’ same.” f I 'HE four riders made a cloud of -*• dust along the escarpment. Kan sas Terry stood motionless, watch ing them. The riders vanished up a draw, but Terry stood immovable. He stared at the emptiness they left on the plain, for a long, long time. Once he readjusted the bandanna, and his fingers slid gingerly along his neck. His hand found the bowie knife, but left it in the sheath. The sun rose until the heat washed all the pale green and or ange from the sky, leaving it a brazen blue. Terry’s sorrel and the black pack-pony grazed farther and farther away. Still the rustler did not move, beyond shifting his feet to ease them, and rolling a ciga rette. At last he drew the bowie and took one step toward the calf. He tensed, sprang back, reached for his gun. Mayne, riding alone from the can yon, shouted, "Jimmy’s got a rifle on yuh, Karfsas! Don’t move!” He rode up close and whipped the rust ler’s gun from the holster. “Stretch them red hands, high, mister.” "Matters stand jest as they did. Chuck.” “Sho’ don’t I know it? Me an’ Jimmy’s been a-watchin’ yuh, while Slats got Toni away. Didn’t want her to see yuh caught an’ hung.” “Thank yuh, suh,” Terry said, sincerely. “But the brand still ain’t in evidence.” “No, but I got to thinkin’ after I left yuh.” Mayne shoved the gun muzzle under the brim of Terry’s brown Stetson, and lifted the hat. Terry’s curly hair had a strange tonsure—a square of roan calf hide. "Figured it thetaway,” Mayne said softly. “Yuh got too good man ners, Kansas, to stand in front of a lady with yore hat on.” Series H-47 YOU MIGHT BE A NAGGER The husband was up for striking his wife. He had no defense except that she nagged him continuously. But in the eyes of the judge that was sufficient, for he said, in ac quitting the husband, “There’s noth ing worse in this world than a nag ging person.” Note that he said “person,” not “woman,” for it is a fact that just as many men as women nag—and both men and women, when they nag, put big boulders in the path of their life. Maybe you know naggers and wonder why they nag. It’s a curi ous and interesting reason. Naggers nag because they are dissatisfied with their own existence, and dvant to make others dissatisfied. That is one reason. Another is that they are jealous. A third is that the nag ger is simply a selfish, spoiled per son. The worse thing about nagging, however, is that many persons are naggers without knowing it. Keep a record for two or three days, and if you find a querulous note in your actions or words, a ten dency to like to tell others what to do, you’re a nagger. And then you have to take the treatment. The treatment consists of one word—STOP. If you want others to like you, if you want to make the most out of every day of your life; don’t develop the habits of a nagger. Keep in Season By Adapting Menus To Cool Foods Eggs and tomatoes make a pretty salad platter for evening sappers that must meet the hot weather problem. Both may be prepared in the cool hours of the morning. No homemaker has to wait for the family’s appetite to lag before she starts changing the menus to suit their needs. In fact, the process is less painful if she realizes that with the first of the warm weath er, the family is apt to feel lan guid and lazy, and not much inclined to eat. Change immediately and you won’t have a lot of leftovers. One of the smartest things any woman can do is to be generous with salads in the menu. No, I don’t mean the usual variety, but some thing entirely different from what you’ve been having the past few months. Use new, fresh greens, try exciting and refreshing fruit and vegetables combinations and see how quickly the family takes to them. If necessary, make salads the main dish of the meals whenever possible, but when doing so, have them hearty enough to furnish the required number of calories to car ry on daily activities. This is easy to do with cold meats, cheese and eggs. A nice salad to serve because it’s so refreshing is this one which has a generous amount of cottage cheese to furnish valuable proteins for tis sue and body building. The citrus fruit makes it doubly refreshing on sweltering days: Fruit Salad Bowl. (Serves 6) 44 can cranberry sauce, jellied 1 pint cottage cheese 1 small green pepper 1 grated carrot 1 teaspoon salt 44 teaspoon celery seed 2 grapefruit, sectioned 3 oranges, sectioned 1 bead of lettuce Mayonnaise Cut slices of cranberry sauces into cubes. Combine cottage cheese, green pepper slices, grated carrot, salt and celery seed. Fold" in cubes of jellied cranberry sauce, saving a few cubes for garnish. Arrange lettuce leaves in salad bowL Pile cottage cheese mixture into center of bowl and surround with alternate pieces of grapefruit and orange. Serve with mayonnaise. A salad that is a riot of red, white and yellow colors nestling in the green of lettuce leaves combines to matoes with eggs. It can be served as the main dish at luncheon or Sun day night supper. 'Stuffed Tomato-Egg Salad. (Serves 4) 4 firm, well-shaped tomatoes Salad greens 4 hard-cooked eggs 44 cup diced celery 2 tablespoons salad dressing 44 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce • 1 tablespoon or more lemon juice Salt and pepper Frizzled dried beef or crisp, sliced bacon Remove skins and core from well- chilled tomatoes. Cut in 5 or six sections and press open gently to make a flower. Sprinkle inside with salt and pepper. Place on sal ad greens. Meanwhile chop eggs, not too fine. Add celery, salad dressing, Worcestershire sauce and lemon juice. Season well to taste. Spoon into center of tomato. Top with additional dressing, then with dried beef. Variation: Instead of egg filling, stuff egg, cut in half crosswise and place in tomato flower. Garnish with dried beef and salad dressing. LYNN SAYS: Vary Your Salads With Dressings Either fruit or vegetable salad tastes better if cottage cheese is beaten until light and fluffy and then folded into mayonnaise or French dressing. Sour cream makes mayonnaise and cooked dressing fluffy as well as giving it pep. Add lemon juice or vinegar if more spiciness is de sired. Cooked salad dressings which LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU Salami Cornucopias Swiss Cheese •Tomato-Egg Salad Potato Chips Assorted Pickle Bread and Butter Sandwiches Beverage Caramel Layer Cake •Recipe given. If you are short of refrigerator space and still like molded salads, use a cornstarch for thickening, and you will have just exactly the sal ad you want. Tomato Salad. (Serves 6) 4 tablespoons cream corn starch % teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons vinegar 2 cups tomato juice Combine cream cornstarch, salt and vinegar Gradually add tomato juice. Heat to boiling point and boil 1 minute, stirring constant ly. Pour into in dividual molds which have been rinsed in cold wa ter. Serve on let tuce and top with dressing made by folding in cold, freshly cooked peas into cold may onnaise or salad dressing. Variations: Add sliced stuffed ol ives, grated onion, diced turkey or chicken, drained peas or shrimp, as desired. Cocktail juice may re place tomato juice. There’s nothing fancy about this next salad recipe, as the name im plies, but it’s truly delicious. Serve it with cold, thinly sliced ham. cake and beverage and you have a good, nourishing hot weather menu: Farmer’s Chop Suey. S (Serves 6) 1 onion, chopped 1 cup diced cucumbers 1 cup sliced radishes 4 fresh tomatoes, cut in wedges 1 cup chopped green pepper 1 cup shredded cabbage 1 teaspoon salt 44 teaspoon pepper ' Prepare vegetables as directed above and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Prepare dressing as fob lows: Sour Cream Dressing. 2 tablespoons vinegar 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons sugar 1 teaspoon dry mustard 1 cup thick sour cream 1 cup cottage cheese Add vinegar and seasonings to sour cream which has been mixed with the cottage cheese. Pour over greens and vegetables and stir or toss with fork. Sprinkle top with pap rika. Variation: If you want to serve a dairy supper, use the Farmer’s Chop Suey as the main dish and serve with deviled eggs. The eggs may be prepared with deviled ham, it desired. A tomato salad that will hold its shape even if not refrigerated at the last minute is this, one made with cream corn starch. Tomato or cocktail juice may be used in the base. Calavo-Grapefruit Salad. (Serves 4) 2 large calavos 1 grapefruit Small head lettuce A favorite springtime salad for any occasion is a calavo half shell filled with tart citrus fruit. Cut the calavo into halves lengthwise and remove seed. Scoop out some of the flesh but leave enough to hold the shell intact. Cut the portion removed into dice and combine with diced grape fruit. Arrange the calavo shells on crisp lettuce and fill with the calavo- grapefruit mixture. Sprinkle with finely chopped fresh mint. Serve with a lemon-honey dressing. Released by Western Newspaper Union. For a different type of dressing that is crisp as well as delicious, mix 44 cup of finely diced cucumber, tablespoon chopped green pepper, 1 teaspoon vinegar and 44 teaspoon salt with 44 cup mayonnaise. Crisp pieces of bacon added to French or oil dressings add appetite appeal to simple potato or vegetable salads. Mayonnaise may be blended with sour cream or cream cheese and flavored v/ith fruit juice for fruits and berries. For light vegetable or green salad. Hydro-Electric on Farms Fills Needs Serves as Substitute Central Power Service Despite the progress made by power suppliers in “electrifying ru ral America,” the task is so vast that thousands of farms will not be reached by electric lines for several years. A number of these farms are located far from existing or contemplated distribution lines. Farmers need not have to delay or do without electricity and the con venience, time and labor-saving ap pliances and production equipment it operates—if they have available a stream which will provide a head of water in sufficient volume to operate a hydro-electric unit In most cases, a small dam is required and a pond, thus formed for power purposes, also may be used for watering stock, fire protection or recreation. Such units are capable of producing di rect or alternating electric current at low cost and make use of wa ter which might otherwise be wast ed. 1 K.W. unit on a ranch in Montana. The electrical capacity of units, such as that illustrated, varies from 44 to 10 kilowatts. For example: A typical unit will generate one kilo watt, with an eight-foot head of wa ter, having a flow of 190 cubic feet of water per minute. As the head of water increases, the volume re quired decreases for the operation of a generator of given capacity. Thus, with a head of 25 feet, a hydro electric unit will generate one kilo watt with a volume flow of only 68 cubic feet of water per minute. An eight-foot head is all that is needed for those generating from one-half to five kilowatts. Fungicides Tested By Vegetable Mice Scales of Easter lily bulbs are very subject to attack by a fungus causing scale rot, which accounts for their adoption by Drs. W. D. Mc Clellan and N. W. Stuart, U.S.D.A. agricultural research division, in de termining the effectiveness of vari ous fungicides at the Beltsville sta tion. One fact that makes these “vege table mice” particularly useful in testing work is that all the scales from one bulb are genetically the The Easter lily with from 40 to 60 scales of almost china-like smooth ness is well adapted to its “mouse” role in testing of fungicides. same, and for that reason the vul nerability to attack of the rot is uni form. Some other advantages of tips new method are that the scales can be used at any time of the year if prop erly handled, the effect of the dis ease attack on the scales can be read with ease because they are smooth and almost white, the chem ical to be tested can be applied as dust and in a suspension or solution, the. equipment is simple and take^ little space. Chick Glands Bigger When Fed Thiouracil Studies at Purdue experiment sta tion have shown that a new drug, thiouracil, when fed to chickens at a level of 0.2 per cent, resulted in marked changes in the thyroid gland and increased the rate of fat tening. When the drug was fed to breeding hens, the thyroids of new ly-hatched chicks were greatly en larged. The hatchability of the egg; showed no change and the chick; appeared to be of normal vigor. SEWING CIRCLE PAHERNS C^ool d^ow-^Jied ay time ^drocb 'Uerdatile, altering j^or Summer 8152 (2-42 Easily Laundered Dress CCALLOPS edge the diagonal ^ closing and handy pocket on this delightfully cool daytime dress. The comfortable wrap around style makes it easy to wear, a joy to launder. Tie the bow jauntily on the left side. • * * Pattern No. 8152 comes in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20; 40 and 42. Size 14, 344 yards of 35 or 39-inch. You may give an inexpensive paint brush the beveled edge of a more costly/me. Dip the brush into glue and let it harden. Then lay it on a flat surface and shape with a sheet of sandpaper. When the beveling has been completed, wash out the glue. —•— Steam chopped onions in butter or margarin until tender. Use as seasoning for mashed potatoes. —•— To make picture nails hold in plaster: Bore a hole with a gim let, then fill with plastic wood. In sert nail and let dry before hang ing the frame. —•— To keep a gilt picture or mirror frame from drying or cracking pat a little lemon oil on gently once or twice a year. Do not rub. —•— Keep old pieces of fine, soft wool. They make excellent dust ing cloths. —•— If the paint job is to be inter rupted for several days, or if a new shade of paint is required, the brush should be thoroughly cleaned in a solution made for that purpose or in turpentine. It is less difficult to thread a needle if the thread is cut diago nally. Jivn of*, cl DdncL Albert Einstein, commuting from Princeton, N. J., to New York City recently, decided to lunch on the train. A waiter handed him the menu. The great mathematician fumbled for his glasses but he’d forgotten them. Though extreme ly nearsighted, Einstein shrugged his shoulders and attempted to read the bill of fare anyway. First he held it at arms length, and then close to his face. But it was no use; he couldn’t make it out with out his glasses. Finally, he turned to the waiter and said: “You read it for me, please.” 'The waiter shook his head sym pathetically and *eplied: “I’se ig norant too, boss.” 12-20 Round-Yoked Frock A PRETTY round-yoked frock -'*■ for all your summer activi ties. Four buttons fasten “each shoulder, a narrow belt circles your waistline neatly. Use a bright all-over flower print and see how many compliments you gath er! Pattern No. 8158 is for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Size 14, 3% yards of 39- inch. Send today for your copy of the Sommer FASHION. Inclnded are special fashions by topflight designers, tips on beantifyinc your home, free pattern printed inside tho book. 25 cents. Send your order to: SEWING CIRCLE PATTERN DEPT. 530 South Wells St. ‘ Chicago 7, III. 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