The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-08-31
MRS. /. F. M'BRIDE
OF LITTLE POWDER
Being the Story Of the Powers
and Properties of a Plate
OF Salad.

OF Salad.
Ry OLIVE ROBBERS BARTON.
Craig Gillette read the telegram
hastily, gave the Indian boy coin
and said tersely, No wait" The boy
galloped away on his little pony.
He stood looking after the Indian.
the telegram Tipping in the wind. he
received few messages from the east.
Indians. miners and cow puncners
had been his companions Tor tWeive
years, in fact ever since the family
fortune had gone to smash and ne nao
left New York forever.
He had said forever because Lois
Fleming. the girl he loved, broke ner
engagement to him when the money
was gone. Disguised with life he lett
New York, vowing never to return
and refusing to see Lois, although she
had, asked for a last interview.
The Indian boy disappeared IN the
distance and Craig read the message.
It was from Kirkland. Expect croWo
of us on ninth. Berger, Watson, III
tie Grayson and some others. GIFTS
too. Going with Dad on Inspection
! tour over his road. Mother to cnap-
eron. Do not wire. We leave To-
night. TRULY Kirkland.
The names were familiar. All nad
been intimates OF his, but in twelve
4 years were almost forgotten. Craig
4 wondered who the girls would pc
neither the younger, nor the youngest
set when he left home. Twelve years!
They would be decidedly new to MN.
They had been the infant set then. he
ran his fingers through his thick mar,
He knew there was gray in it
He walked slowly back to the mouse
hardly knowing whether to be glad OF
4 sorry at the prospective interruption
. to his rough way Of living. But the
hard life he had led, prospecting and
mining, had been like medicine C
J his sick soul. The sting had changed
to a dull ache and the ache was al
most gone now.
He had become rich. very rich. The
, mine. the camp, the ground were al
!, his and the mine yielded fortune II
) silver every day.
AS he stepped on. to the rough GOV
, cred platform of his house which an
: sYered for a porch he stopped ant
T looked the place over Then he wen
a inside wandering through the fou
: bare unattractive rooms, and into tn
: kitchen where Pete the half-breed
{, held sway as cook Craig looked hin
8 8 over. too-the soiIel blue shirt an AZ!
: trousers. braided 5lack hair, an
8 dirty face and hands His feet shoWe
: bare above low moecasins.
: For the first time in twelve year
d Craig felt d nisfit ID his surrounding
J; why had he not noticed before no.
n wa, furnished? There was one bun
Ii the bedroom, a small deal tabl
,e and a few chairs in the dining room
q, the same in#the living room, and Ia
Il Il kitchen q heterogeneous collection
> junk.
Is Is He sat down to think. 1t was q
n ready the sixth. Three days ye1
IS Jennings tie mine foreman coul
b. take the big wagon to Little PoWds
az and bring home cots, tents, table
in chairs, beds and bedding He eou
b make two or three trips, for frav
u was slow and difficult over the rous
al road covered with thick white alka
nd dust.
on Then too he coIld get half dos
as extra men to scrub and clean bit
= Craig frowned. The trouble VI
c. with the cook. Pete, the sloven
he he Indian. could never cook for q da
probably two or three, for set
~. Ne New Yorks fastidious diners.
"a Pete had never heard Of caviar
truffles, lobster la 8 hundred thin
m nor spring duck1ing in February
ne that it was winter now. Spring b
: advanced almost into summer. 7
his DAYS were hot--the sun scorchir
tes Furthermore, Pete knew nothing
glaces and ices, cool salads Z
rs. frozen punch The height of his G
mary achievement was huge hu
ene Of roasted beef or pork, perhaps ":
potatoes. Setting the table for
meal usually took him one rninu
throwing on red cover, plate, g
saucer, bone-handled knife and fe
- and a few spoons. No; Pete wo
4 not do.
4 Jennings brought a wagon load
things that day. Also the Little p
I der Gazette. In corner of the s
4 ond page OF the paper, Craig's
E 4 fell upon tiny advertisement:
4 Mrs L. +. Mcbride
CATERING
- weddings, Dinners and Banquets
- Drop Card or Phone.
ss saunder ST.. Little Powder.
I The very thing! He would put
I whole thing into the hands of WI
I woman who could serve decent 81
| ! meals and serve them correctly.
| 4 The next day Jennings, on his
I ond trip for things, carried to ii
1 a. pomdar. a letter addressed to Mrs.