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The Detroit times., 1914-10-08
THE COLD Potato
NOT TO BE DESPISED

In It's natural state the cold potato
is q ciammy, sodden thing, neither
good to look at nor good to taste But
Il has possibilities, and In these days
when economy In the kitchen is so
necessary the good points of the des-
pissed cold potato are worth consider
ing. Uncle Sam and his army OF
scientific cooks has given good deal
Of attention to the food value OF pota.
toes. and Of the cold potatoes this Is
what one Of the experts has to say:
The Detroit times., 1914-10-08
Cheering the Prisoner.

"Do you think you will be able to
keep me ont Of jailf" he asked after
he had made q fun confession to his
lawyer. y
Il may not be able to do that, but
I I can make the state spend lot OF
money IN putting you there. - Chi
Icago Record Herald
The Detroit times., 1914-10-08

An exceedingly interesting and at
tractive exhibition 10 now on view in
the Museum OF Art galleries, under
the auspices OF the American Fedora
fion OF Arts. The pictures comprise
~ canvases. of which IL are the work
The Detroit times., 1914-10-08

This. dish may be prepared by MIX
ing pint and a half OF cold potatoes
cut In cubes and seasoned with q
|teaspoonful or salt. one-fourth of q
|teaspeonful OF pepper and q pint Of
cream sauce. Put the mixture In q
shallow baking dish, cover with graf
/ ed bread crumbs and dot with :hutter.
Bake half an hour In moderate oven.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-02-07

grant odor of tea permeated the room. Hare paused at
his desk. Lines suddenly appeared on his bronzed race.
lie sazed fer a space at the calendar. The day was the
10Th of July. Should he go back there, or "hould he give
up the expedition? He might never return. India and
the border countries! What a land, full of beauty and
romance, and terror aud squalor; at once barbaric and
civilized! He loved it and hated it, and sometimes feared
1T, he who had faced on foot many a wounded tiger.
lie shrugged, reached into the desk for a box of Jaipur
brass enamel and took from it a medal attached to Il
ribbon. The golden disc was incrusted with uncut rubies
and enneralds. -.
Girls" he called. Come here a moment. Martha,
that will be all" with a nod toward the door. 81 never
showed you this before ...: ".
Goodness gracious ~ cried Winnie, reaching out her
hand.
Why, it looks like a decoration, father said Kathlyn.
" What lovely stones! It would make a beautiful PEN
dant."
Vanity, vanity, all is vanity said the Colonel. smiI-
ing down into their charming faces. do you love your
old dad?" '..'
love YOU" they exclaimed in unison, Indignantly,
too, since the question was IN i~mputstion of the fact.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-02-07

"My girl, whenever l pack my luggage there is danger.
A cartridge may stick; a man may stumble; a man you
rely on may fail you. AS for that, there's always danger.
It's the penalty Of being alive"
On the way to the dining room Kathlyn thought deeply.
Why had her father asked them IL they loved him? Why
did he speak Of the Big Trek? There was something more
than this glittering medal, something more than this
simple tale of bravery? What? Well, If he declined to
take her into his confidence he must have good reason.
After dinner that night the Colonel went the rounds, as
was his habit nightly. BY and by. he returned to the
bungalow, but did not enter. He filled his Guilty and
walked to and fro in the moonlight, with his head bent
and his hands clasped behind his back. There was a rest
lessness in his stride not unlike that of the captive beasts
in the cages nearby. Occasionally he paused at the clink-
clnk of the elephant irons or at the whuf " as the I'M
easy pachyderm poured dust on his head.
Bah! 1t was madness. A parchment in Hindustani,
given jestngly or ironically by a humorous old chap in
orders and white linen and rhinoceros sandals. . " ~
A throne! Pshaw! It was bally nonsense. AS il a white
man could rule over a brown one by the choice of the
latter! And yet, that man Umballah's face, when he had
shown the king the portraits of his two lovely daughters!
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-02-07

with orders. Standing beside him was a chap we called
Cmballah. He had been a street rat. A bit of %impudence
had caught the kings fancy, and he brought up the boy,
clothed, fed him, and sent him away down to Umballah to
school. When the boy returned he talked Umballah morn
ing, noone, and night, till the soldiers began to call him
that, and from them it passed on to the natives, all of
whom disliked the upstart. Hanged if I can recall his
real name. He was ugly and handsome at the same time:
suaye, patient, courteous; yet somehow or other I sensed
the real man below-the Tartar blood. I took a dislike to
him, first of. It's the animal sense. You've got it, Kit,
Behind the king sat the Council Of Three-three wise old
ducks I wouldn't trust, with an old umbrella"
Winnie laughed. &":: #j-"....s ~...
While we were salaaming and genudecting and using
grandnoquent phrases the bally leopard got loose, some
how. Maybe some one let him loose I don't know. Any
how, he made for the king, who was too thunderstruck to
dodge. The rest of 'em took to their heels, you may lay
odds on that. Now, / had an honest liking for the king.
Seeing the brute make Tor him, / dashed forward. You
see, at ceremonials you're not permitted to carry arms.
1t had to be with my hands" The leopard knocked the
old boy fat and began to maui him. I kicked the brute in
the face, swept the kings turban off his head and flung it
about the head of the leopard. Somehow or other I got
him down. Some of the frightened natives came up, and
with the help of Ahmed we got the brute tied up securely.
When the king came around he silently shook hands with
me and smiled peculiarly at UmbalIah, who now came
running up"
AND thaLS now you got those poor nandSI exclaimed
=. Kathlyn, kissing the scars which stood out white against
the tan.
That's how raising the hands and putting them on
Kathlyn's head in a kind of benediction.
" Is that all?" asked Winnie, breathlessly. y
Isn't that enough" he retorted. Well, what is ii,
Martha Dinner? Well, if / haven't cheated you girls
out of your tea!
Tea! !" shifted Winnie, disdainfully. "Do you know,
dad, you're awfully mean to Kit and me. If you'd take
the trouble, you could be more interesting than any book
I ever read"
" He doesn't believe his stories would interest vain
young ladies'" said KathIyn, gravely.
Her father eyed her sharply. OF what was she think.
ing? In those calm, unwavering eyes OF hers he saw a.
question, and he feared in his soul she might voice it. He
could evade the questions Of the volatile Winnie, but thera
was no getting by Kathlyn with evasions. Frowning, be
replaced the order in the box, which he put away In a
drawer. 1t was all arrant nonsense, anyhow; nothing
could possibly happen il there did, b. would feel certain
that he no longer dwelt in a real workaday world. The
idle whim of a sardonic old man nothing more than that.
" Father, is the king dead?
Dead! What makes Won ask that, Kit?o
" The past tense; you said he was, not is .
Yes, he's dead, and the neWs came this morning.
Hence, the yarn
& VIII there be any danger in returning
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-02-07

where and how 1 would. I had a mighty fine collection.
There are tigers and leopards and bears and fat old
pythons, forty foot long. OF course, it isn't the tiger
country that central India is, but the brutes you find are
bigger. I have about sixty beasts there now, and that's
mainly why I'm going back. Want to clean it up and
ship 'em to Hamburg, where I've a large standing order.
I'm going first to Ceylon, for some elephants"
The Colonel knocked the ash from his pipe.
The old boy used to do some trapping himself, and
whenever he'd catch a fine specimen he'd turn it over t.
me. He had a hunting lodge not far from my quarters.
One day Armed came to me with a message saying that
the king commanded my presence at the lodge, where his
slaves had trapped a fine leopard. Yes, my dears, slaves.
There is even a slave mart at the capital this day. A
barbaric fairy land, with its good genii and its bad djinns."
"The Arabian Nights" murmured Winnie, smuggling
close to Kathlyn.
1.-The oriental loves pomp," went on the Colonel. "He
can't giva you a chupatti-"
What's that?" asked Winnie.
Something like hardack. Well, he can't give you that
without ceremonial. When I arrived at the lodge with
Ahmed the old boyle had the complexion of a prima
donna-the old boy sat on his portable throne, %glittering
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-02-07

Would you be lonesome if I took the Big Trek"
whimsicalIy.
"Father!" .. ..
"Dad!"
They pressed about him, as vines about an oak.
Hang it, I swear that this shall be the last hunt. I'm
rich. Wen get rid of all these hrutes and spend the rest
of the years seeing the show places. I'm a bit tired
myself of jungle fodder. Wen go to Paris, and Berlin,
and Rome, and Vienna. And YOU, Kit, shall go and tell
Rodin. that you've inherited the spirit Of Gerome. And
you, Winnie. shall make a stab at. grand opera"
Winnie gurgled her delight, but her sister searched her
fathers eyes. She did not quite like the way he said those
words. His voice lacked its usual heartiness and sponta-
neity. h..
Where did you get this medal, father?" she asked.
That's what I started out to tell You" ....-
Were you afraid we might wish to wear it or have il
made over? " laughed Winnie, who never went below the
surface OF things. :....r i . III.
" No. The truth is, l had almost forgotten it. But the
preparations for India recalled it to mind. 1t represents a
royal title conferred on me by the King of Alfalfa. You
have, never been to India, Kit. Alfalfa is the name we
hunters give to that border kingdom. Some day England
will gobblei it up; only waiting for a. good excuse"
F." What big thing did you do?" demanded Kathlyn, her
eyes still filled with scrutiny.
What makes you think it was big?' jestingly.
Because she answered seriously, /" you never do
anything but big things. AS the lion is among beasts,
you are among men"
"Good lord - The Colonel reached embarrassedly for
his pipe, lit it, pulled a few minutes, then laid down the
pipe. " India is full Of strange tongues and strange king.
doms and municipalities. Most of them are dominated by
the British Raj, some are only protected, while others do
about as they please. This state touching the order
!" does about as it did since the days Of the first white
rover who touched the shores of Hind. It is small, but
that signifies nothing for You can brew a mighty poison
in g small pot. Well, I happened to save the old kings
life
- knew it would be something like that said Kath-
lyn. " Go on. Tell it all"
The Colonel had recourse to his pipe again He smoked
on till the coal was dead. The girls waited patiently.
They knew that his silence meant that he was only mar
shaling the events in their chronological order.
The king was a kindly old chap, simple, vet shrewd,
and with that ~slumbrous oriental way Of accomplishing his
ends, despite all obstacles. Underneath this apparent sim
plichy discovered a grim sardonic hunor. Trust the
oriental for always having that packed away under his
bswildering diplomacy. He was all alone ia the world:
He was one OF those rare eastern potentates who wasn't
hampered by pa asitical relatives. BY George, the old boy.
could have given his kingdom, lock, stock, and barrel, to-
the British government, and no one could say him may.
There was q good deal of rrnror the last time i was there
that when HE died England would step in actually. The
old boy save me leave to come and 60 as I pleased, to hunt
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-02-07

He would send Ahmed. Ahmed knew the business as we'll
as he did. He would send his abdication to the council,
giving them the right to choose his successor. He himgslf
would remain home with the girls. Then he gazed up at
the moon and smiled grimly.
"Kukum hal! " he murmured in Hindustani. "It is
the orders. I've simply got to go. When 1 recall those
rubies and emeralds and pearls. " " " Well, it's not
c~upidity for myself. It's for the girls. Besides, there's
the call, the adventure. I've simply got to go. 1 can't
escape it. 1 must be always ON the go . 9 o since
she died"
A few days later he stood again before the desk in the
living room. He was dressed Tor travel. He sat down
and penned a note. From the box which contained the
order he extracted a large envelope, heavily sealed. This
he balanced in his hand for a moment, frowned, laughed,
and swore softly. He would abdicate, but at a snug profit.
Why not? . " y He was an old fool Into a still
larger envelope he put the sealed envelope and his own
note, then wrota upon it. He was plotting it as his
daughters entered.
Come here, my pretty cubs" He held out the en-
midnight. Girls like mysteries, and if you opened it any
time but midnight it wouldn't be mysterious. Indeed, I
shall probably have you both on the arms of my chair
when you open it."
els it about the medal" demanded Winnie.
by George, Kit, the child is beginning to reason out
things" he TESTED. 49,.
Winnie laughed, and SO did Kathlyn, but she did 30 be:
SdhSS ucculLy shS AeLG tnaT $neF IHtneE expected uSr 20
laugh. She was positively uncanny sometimes in her
perspicacty. .....
"On Dee. 81, at midnight" she repeated. "AH right,
father. You must write to us at least once every fort
night"
I'm cable from Singapore, from Ceylon, and write a
long letter from Alfalfa. Come on. We must be of.
Ahmed is waiting" ~
Some hours later the two girls saw the Pacific Mail
steamer move with cold and insolent majestyao out toward
the Golden Gate. Kathlyn proved rather u~ncommuni-
cative on the way home. dec. 81 " kept running through
her mind. 1t held a portent OF evil. She knew something
of the orient, though she had never visited India. Had
her father made an implacable enemy? Was he going into
some unknown, unseen danger?t Dec. 81, at midnight
Could she hold her curiosity in check that long?
Many Of the days that followed dragged, many few
the first for Kathlyn, the last for Winnie, who now had O
beau, a young newspaper man from San Francisco. He
came out regularly every Saturday, and returned at night.
Winnie became, II anything, more Eighty than ever. Her
father never had young men about. The men he generally
gathered round his board were old hunters or sailors.
5Kathlyn watched this budding romance ~amusedly. The
young man was very nice. Bnt her thoughts were always
and eternally with her father.
During the, last week in December there arrived at the
Palace hotel in San Francisco an East Indian, tall, well
formed, rather handsome. Except for his brown turban,
HAhI&a
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-02-07
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By HAROLD MAC a

1"e pNotodF0'ncs corresponding to tia Ssstcungeats of
1Ae AooefsS~res Of Retb5y~ az Boto be sees at q
"""""0T V She teG6S"g msoOSng picture skeaters. By this
s1s'q"e arrangement ao;tk the SeIg PoEyscope conppeny
" 1@eFeJore' possible not only to read " The Adventures
% kGthtyn" IN this paper, but also to keen gace apish
eeo" S"stoUnsemt Of 1t at the moving picture theoters.
The Holbrook news., 1914-08-07
Great Bronco Busting
 Exhibition at State Fair

T. M. Willis is the superinten- dent, and $2.0O0 has been set aside by the State Fair Commls- sion for COW boy sports.
 Five hundred dollars and the entry fee added will be given to the bronco busters, and the money divided 50, 30 and 20 per cent. It is estimated that the total purse will be $75O.
 Seven hundred and fifty dol lars is hung up for COW boy relay races. Two hundred and fifty dollars on Monday. $25O on We'd nesday and $25O on Saturday. The boys must saddle from the ground and change every quarter mile. The distance of thesrace is one mile and a half and the money divided on the results of each days performance.
 One hundred and seventy-fve dollars will be given to the win ner ot what is known as the Cowboy Cutting" Contest. Two barrels will be set about twelve feet apart, fifty yards south of the wire and two barrels same distance apart will be set fifty yards north of the wire. The horses will start from the wire at the crack of the gun, pass be- tween the first two barrels, cir cling around one of them, and passing between the barrels again and circling around the other barrel and then away to the second set of barrels, cut ting the figure eight between and around them also, and back again to the starting point. Stop watches will be used, and the horse doing the stunt Tn the quickest time will be declared the winner.
 In addition to the above, there will be Potato races, commencing on the first. day of the fair and occurring daily. and Secretary Wood announces that if the right sort of steers can be se- cured, bare back steer riding contests will also be held.
The Holbrook news., 1914-08-07
Navajo County Mail Con-
 tractors Put One Over

Among the unfrenzied finan- ciers of the wild and wooly West MT. E. R. Dewitt, of Snowflake. Arizona, will rank as Al. copper bottomed and copper-f fastened, says the Los Angeles Times. He has a contract with the Postoffice Department for carrying parcel post mattef from HoIbrook to Snowflake. thirty miles. at $1.60 per 200 pounds. MT. Dewitt needed a lot of rolled barley. He bought five tons of the Mesa Milling Company and shipped it from Mesa to Snowflake in 200 sacks of 50 pounds each. For railroad transportation of this barley from Mesa to Holbrook, a distance of several hundred miles, and team transportation from Holbrook to Snowflake. thirty miles, he paid the United States government $108, and the United States government paid hlm for carrying it the thir- ty miles $1.60. He received $52 more than he paid for transpor- tation. He got his 200 sacks of rolled barley carried for nothing and obtained $52 besides.
 Surely. MT. Dewitt knew how to do it.
The Holbrook news., 1914-08-07
Forty to Sixty Thousand
 For Spending Money

The Arizonans are trooping in. They are here not only in quan- tity. but in quality. A better class of them never flooded the lobby of the Hollenbeck nor over ran the sands of Venlce. It sounds funny to talk about a
 better class of Arizonans," be- cause over there every man who breaks clean is as good as an- other, and the size of his pocket book makes less difference than it would in a city. Besides, most folks in Arizona have the right kind of pocketbook, and when they get here they prove it. In a dozen cities in Arizona the banks cash checks from $40, 900 to $6O, : 900 a day for from two to three months to supply the Arizonans in Southern California with spending money. Los Angeles Times.
The Holbrook news., 1914-08-07
Republicans Select a
 Full State Ticket

A Phoenix dispatch dated Au. gust 9th, says: A full state ticket was setected by representative Republicans from all of the four teen counties, who met here yes. terdav. The following names will appear on the Republican ballot at the primaries Septem- Der 8th: /
 Senator, Lorenzo Hubbell, Apache county.
 Congress, T. L. Eads. Phoe- nix.
 Governor, Ralph Cameron. Phoenix.
 Secretary of State, c. G. Cole. Greenlee county.
 Auditor, R. c. Smith, Navajo county.
 Attorney-General. Joseph E. Morrison, Phoenix.
 Mine Inspector, Dave Morgan, Yavapai county.
 Treasurer. E. M. Dickerman. Tucson.
 Corporation \ Commission. T. E. Campbell, Prescott; R. E. Merritt, Globe; R. N. Davidson. Phoenix.
 Supreme Court, Thomas Arm strong. Phoenix; L. L. Henry, Globe; E. G. Flanigan. Bisbee.
 School Superintendent, Kate Christy, Phoenix.
 Tomorrow an action to man. damus the Secretary of State to call an election for three tax commissioners instead of two will be brought. Under ruling of the Attorney-General one of the present commissioners holds over.
 The meeting showed that the Republican party of Arizona is very much alive. Everything was done according to rule. A committee passed upon the ere dentials of all delegates.
 There was some talk of fusion with the Progressives. but as they were present from only. five counties, the matter was dropped.
The Holbrook news., 1914-08-07

Sheriff Joe F. Woods went to WlnsIow Saturday to act as off, cial starter for the race between Ed. Bargeman's Winslow horse and MT. PepIl's from Flagstaff. The race was three quarters of a mile and was won by the Flag staff horse by about 12 feet. It proved a very interesting and exciting event, and besides the $1.0 bet between the princi- pals, considerable other money changed hands on the result.
 Less Hart was in town Mon day. having returned from the upper country, where he had just closed an important cattle deal. A number of different brands of cattle and ranches were acquired by Messrs. E. H. Dufield, Dan Francis. Chas. P. Cooley and Less Hart. The new partnership will be known as the Cattle Co.
 There will be services at the Methodist church next Monday night as usual. Sermon subject: Opening the Eyes of the Blind" A cordial invitation is extended to all.
The Holbrook news., 1914-08-07

Any bank can serve your pur- pose during times of prosperity, but in times of financial strin- gency your account should be in a bank that can carry you over until the sheep are sheared. lambs are fat, steers gathered or crops harvested. We do this.
 MERCHANTS 6 STOCK
 GROWERS BANK. a7tf Holbrook. Arizona.
The Holbrook news., 1914-08-07
Death Comes to First
 Lady of the Land

Washington, Aug. G. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. wife of the president of the United States, died at the White house at o'clock this afternoon. Death came after brave struggle ot months against Bright's disease, with complications.
 The president was completely unnerved by the shock and his grief was heartrending. He bore up well under the strain, however, and devoted himself to his daughters.
 The end came while Mrs. Will son was unconscious. Her ill., ness took a turn for the worse shorty after 1 o'clock this after noon and from then on she grew gradually weaker.
 Kneeling at the bedside at the end were the president and their three daughters. Dr. Cary T. Grayson, U. s. N., and a nurse were in the room and just out side door were Secretary Me Adoo and Francis B. Sayre, Mrs. Wilson's sons-in-law, and Secretary Humility.
 Both houses of congress ad- journed when Mrs. Wilson's s death was announced and for a brief while the wheels of the government practically stopped. while every one paid respect to the loss of the president.
 The beginning of the end came at 10 o'clock this morning when Dr. E. P. Davis of Philadelphia, who had been called in for con sultation realized that the tune for hope had passed. He took the president lnte the .red room of the White house and there in a broken voice told hlm the truth. MT. Wilson's face blan- ched. but he bore the shock well. He was informed the end was only question of hours.
 MT. Wilson then took his daughters, Mrs. w. G. McAdoo, Mrs. Sayre and Miss Margaret Wilson. aside and told them of their mothers condition. Until then they had thought there was a chance for recovery.