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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-04-06

He handed to Doctor Hom a thin
clipping, marked Daily Saw. March
29":
LOST-SPANISH LETTER AND MAP.
OF no value except to owner Return to
No. 10. this office, and receive heartfelt
thanks.
Well" said Doctor Hoff. after read
ing it over twice. that don't tell me
nothing"
NO? Yet it's pretty plain. The two
crooks slipped letter and map into a
pocket of his coat while he was drunk.
Then they inserted their little ad. and
casually called the advertisement to
his attention. The rest would be
easy"
"Whatche goin' to do next?"
Pack for Yuma or Calexico. I'll
need five hundred dollars expense
money"
say, you don't want much. do ye?"
snarled the doctor his avaricious soul
in revolt at the prospect of immediate
outlay
quite So agreed the other bland.
ly 1t isn't too late to call il off. you
know"
mo, do wanta do that" said the
other with contorted face.
And about the FIVE thousand dollars
reward? / think I'd better have a word
OF writing on that
'Ill have my lawyer draw up q form
OF contract and mail It after you to-
morrow promised the doctor with a
crafty look.
mo. you wo--" began Average
Jones; but ne broke of with a smile.
Very we'll" he amended. IF things
work out as ] figure them. that will do.
And. he added. dropping into his sig
niicant drawl and looking the doctor
fatty in the eye don't -er-bank
ON my-er-not understanding your
ofTer-and- er-you"
Average Jones bought a ticket for
Yuma
DISCRIMINATING at the Yuma station
three days later. Average Jones
blinRed in the harsh sunlight at a
small. compactly built, keen-eyed man,
roughly dressed for the trail
I'm Captain Funcke." said the
stranger His speech was gentle slow.
even hesitant. but there was some
thing competent and reliable in his
bearing which satisfied the shrewd
young reader of mems characters from
the outset your wire got mo two
days since and came right up
ANY tracer"
Left here two days ago"
Three of them?'
yes. Flatbottomed. narrow beamed
boat. slooprigged pretty light"
Know anything Of the men?"
"Only the big one Calls himself
Colonel Riohford Had a fake copper
outfit Ia the mountains east OF Ala.
mo-"
Where do you think they're headed
fort"
Probably the Widest country they
can find, n they want 90 get rid OF
young Hod." said the other, who had
been appraised OF the main points of
the situation That would be the Pin.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-04-06
USING COLD POTATOES
MAY BE EMPLOYED IN a VARIETY
OF WAYS.
Some Of the Recipes Which Call for
Remnants Are Really Improved
by Using Potatoes That
Have Been Cooked.

Left over Whole Cold.-Cut cold,
boiled potatoes into thin slices length
wise, dip each slice in little melted
butter, dust with salt and pepper,
broi over a clear ire until a golden
brown.
Iyonnaise Potatoes.-Cut cold boiled
potatoes into small dice; to each pint
allow a tablespoonful OF butter, put
the butter in an ordinary pan, melt
it, add a tablespoonful of chopped
onion, shake until the onion is golden
brown: throw in the potatoes, shake
or toss over a hot FIRE until each
piece is slightly Drowned; sprinkle
lightly with half teaspoonful OF salt,
a tablespoonful OF parsley and dash
OF pepper; dish and serve.
Potato Cakes.-Broken bits OF
mashed, seasoned with a little milk,
salt to taste, chopped parsley or not,
formed IN round fiat cakes, half-inch
thick; brown in butter drlppings or
salt pork fat on each side. serving
hot.
Potatoes and Cabbage cakes.-Take
some cold potatoes and cabbage,
equal quantities OF both; mash
smooSsST together, adding beaten egg,
white sauce or melted butter to
moisten. Flavor rather highly with
pepper. add little salt. Form into
round cakes; -four, bake or fry.
Potato and Rice Cakes.-Take any
remains OF mashed potato, add half
the quantity of boiled rice, mix all
together with a little butter, season
we'll with pepper, salt and cayenne.
Roll on a Toured board to about
an inch and q half thickness, cut
into rounds or squares with cutter.
Brush over with beaten egg and bake
in fast oven. Serve hot.
Potatoes and Egg au Gratin.-
Take six or seven baked or boiled po-
tatoes, cut them in slices, and slice
two hard-boned eggs. Place them in
layers in a baking dish, sprlnkling
each layer with grated cheese. Pour
over four ounces of melted butter,
good dripping or white sauce and put
into a slow oven until hot Brown
on top.
Potato Bale WIKI Cheese Flavor
lng.-Take some cooked potatoes, fla
Vor with grated cheese, salt and pep
per, add sufficient milk to make the
mixture moist and smooth, form into
balls, fry and serve hot, powdered
with grated cheese. Garnish with fried
parsley.
Potato SsVory.-Rub a fireproof
/ china dish with onion, then butter it,
and sift bresdcrumbs lightly over.
| Slice some cold boiled potatoes into
| this, place a few bits of butter over,
a seasoning Of white pepper and salt.
few white bread crumbs. Repeat
! this until the dish is full, then cover
with fine bread crumbs to which has
| been added one-fourth of the quantity
| OF grated cheese. Bake for 20 min
utes in a quick oven; serve with
finely chopped capers scattered over.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-04-06
Vegetable Croauettes.

Beans, Peas or lentils shaped snto
croquettes make a nice supper or lunch.
con dish. Il beans or peas are used
add to one pint cooked, drained and
mashed through q sieve a tablespoon
full each of vinegar, molasses and but
ter, and salt and pepper to taste;
when cold form into balls, dip in egg
and bread crumbs and cook In deep
fat. To make lentil croquettes Soak
a cupful and half of lentils; add them
to the water in which has been cooked
stalk OF celery, a few sprigs OF
parsley, a small carrot and half an
onion; drain, mash all through sieve
and add "a cupful of grated bread
crumbs. one beaten egg and pepper
and salt to taste. Make a sauce by
Dreaming two tablespoonsfuls OF but
ter with two-thirds of a cupful OF milk
bring 20 boil, add lentil mixture and
form into croQuettes. Fry in deep
fat.--Woman's World.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-04-06
Pretty Warm sun.

Il we could build up solid column
Of ice from the earth to the sun, two
miles and a half I'm diameter, span
ming the intervening distance OF o.
100000 miles. and II the sun should
concentrate his entire power upon It,,
it would dissolve in a single second
according to the calculations made by
Professor Young
The great German physicist Helm
holtz. was the first to explain satisfac-
torily what keeps the sun hot. The
sn is not burning: 81 is heated to the
glowing point like piece Of white
hot iron. Helmholtz found that If
we suppose the sun TO be contracting
by only $50 feet a year we would re-
ceiye our present amount OF heat. In
other words. heat is being literally
squeezed out OF the sun Professor
Newcomb estimated that when the
squeezing process has continued for
about 100000 years. the sun VIII be
one-half its present. slze.-- Popular
Science Monthly.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-04-06

credit there. Must be some part OF
the United States. or just across the
border"
The evenings thinking formulated
Itself into a telegram TO Average
Jones club. the Cosmic.
The reply was disappointing:
Cyrus c. Allen absent from town. VIII
forward your wire. COSMIC CLUB.
Well poised as Average Jones nor
mally was, he chafed over the ensuing
delay of four days. The only relief
was a call from the Spanish instructor
who answered Jones advertisement.
He was thee same who had served
young Hon. His former employment
had been merely the translation OF
letter in base Spanish, he said. There
was something about lost gold mine,
and reference 70 a map. No; no geo
graphical names were mentioned, but
in several places the capital letters b.
c. seemed TO indicate a locality.
Doctor Hon. who had been ramping
with impatience over the mans lack
of definite memory, now rushed 10 the
atlas and began to study the maps.
You needn't trouble" said Average
Jones coolly. "B. c. is Baja Califor-
MIA. the Mexican peninsula of Califor-
MIA"
Jones sent q supplementary wire to
this effect to Cyrus c. Allen of the Cos
mic club, and within a few hours re-
ceived a reply from that eminent car
tographer, who had been located in a
remote part of Connecticut:
Probably Laguna Salada. not on map.
Seventy miles long: four to eight feet
wide. Can be reached by water from
Yuma, or pack train from Calexico. White
says Captain Funcke. CaleXico, best
guide. ALLEN.
Average Jones tossed this over to
the father.
LAS figure It," he said, your sons
two friends had this ali mapped out be-
forehand for him"
What l don't see is how they caught
Roddy on such an old game. He's easy,
but l didn't s'pose he vas that easy"
ITO do him justice, he isn't-quite.
They put it up to him rather cleverly.
In the room over Silent Charleys bar,
l found a newspaper with this in it."
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-04-06

Oli Uncle Tom swoke one morning
greatly excited. and prone 90 tears.
He had dreamed a dream. wherein he
saw and talked with his beloved mis-
tress who had long since died. a
vivid and accurate account OF the
meeting Tom gave to bis family. even
describing the present shade of his
mistress hair and the pattern of her
celestial robes she sint changed a.
ul Bit he announced joygully. She's
jes as peart as ever she was, An SAYS
ter her. Miss Lucy All says is hero
many er your friends up youdcr via
yor3 Ios she say, right smart lot
or friends Tom. am mo a-comlu' an
.8 time Heaps err de o. niggers.
COO. eb. Miss Lucy| An axes We'll.
rom, she say, sort er GRIMM. Ab
on know bout dat; An amt Been
.u, Co dc kitchen yeti"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-04-06
Using Butter.

Butter is the most easily digested
OF all the animal fats, partly because
Of the peculiar acids which it con-
tains. In many cases of anemia and
nerve-starvatiOn an increased amount
OF butter in the diet Will have very
beneficial results, and yet butter is
the stumbling block in the way Of
economy in many households. II is
far better to buy less expensive meats
than TO limit the amount of butter on
the childrens bread. However, the
necessary amount of butter is TO be
used in cooking is too often oyeresti-
mated. AS a frying medium, it is in
adequate, for when subjected to a high
temperature it decomposes and i'm
parts q disagreeable flavor For the
same reason il should never be used
for oiling tins. Either cooking oils,
lard or beef fat should be used
instead. Because OF it's cost, butter
has no place In plain cooking. Equal
~ good cake, cookies, and sauces may
be made with other cooking fats.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-04-06

blotted UP with more sand. They then
rolled in powders. Average Jones
looked down into the hollow with sat
isfaction and moved his full canteens
into grotto.
This company" he said. lis now
open for business"
At eight o'clock there was q clatter
Of boots upon the rocks and two men
came staggering up the defile. Colonel
Richford and his partner did not look
to be in good repair. The coloneps
face was drawn and sun-blotched. His
companion, the Fred" of Silent Char
ley's bar, was bloated and shaken
with liquor. Both painted with the
hard, dry, Open-lipped breath of the
first stage of thirst-exhaustion The
colonel, who was in the lead, checked
and started upon discovering astride
OF rock a pleasant-visaged young
man Of familiar American type,
whose appearance was IN nowise re-
markable except as to locality. With
a grunt that might have been greet
ing, but was more probably surprise.
the newcomer passed the seated man.
Captain Funcke he did not see at all.
That astute hunter lad dropped be-
hind a bowlder.
At the brink Of the tenaja the colo
mel stopped dead. Then with an out
burst of flaming language he leaped
In, burrowing among the rocks.
Dry" he yelled. lifting a furious
and appalled, face to his companion.
Fred stood staring from Average
Jones TO his three canteens There
was a murderous look on his sinister
face
Here, colonel" he said. Here's
drink for US"
For sale" added Average Jones.
calmly.
People don't buy water in this coun-
try"
You're not people" returned Aver
age Jones cheerfuily. You're a cor
poration; soulless corporation. The
North Pinto Gold Mining company"
What's that" cried the colonel
thicHy
IFS hand few back TO his belt Then
10 dropped. limp at his side for he was
gazing into the two barrels OF a shot
gun. which Undertaking. over q rock
were pointing accurately and discon-
certinEly at the pit OF his stomach.
From behind the gun Captain Funcke's
quiet voice remarked
1 wouldn't. colonel As for You"
he added turning to the other way
farer. who carried a rife. you want
TO remember that q shotgun has two
barrels, usually both loaded"
Stepping forward Average Jones
Gifted the hnancicrs weapon Then
he deprived Fred of his rife amid a
surprisingly brilliant outburst OF verbal
pyro'ecrrIcs
'Now wo can ta,k business comfort
ah.y' ae observed
"1 can't talk at all pretty Quick NJ I
don't g.t o. moIateuor' said Fred pIt.
e1uslv
Pouring out scaut cupfui of water
into his hat Average Jones handed ~
over Drink slowly" he advised
You've got about q hundred dollara'
worth there sc present quotations."
Colonel Richfords head went up
with q jerk
Hundred dollars WORTH" no
croaked. bis eyes fiery with suspicion.
care yoa going TO hold up two men
dying OF thirst7"
NJ J don't propose TO hold up two
men for anything 4 propose to deal
with the president and treasurer Of
The North Pinto Cold Mining company.
Tho nearest available supply OF water
is some ten hours distant 4 am able
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-04-06

'If there's hundred gallons it's do
ing well. this dry season."
Average Jones got painfully 20 his
feet. Looking carefully over the scat
tered camp outfit. he selected from 1t a
collapsible pail and hung upon his
shoulder not only their canteens. but
also the empty one which they had
found I'm the camp. Their own third
lin. almost full, they left beside Hoff.
with a note
I've q notion" said Jones. that III
need ali these receptacles Tor water in
my own peculiar business"
"All right" said the other patiently.
He took one OF them and the pail from
Jones and skillfully disposed them on
his own back. Ready? Hike. then"
Two hours of the toughest kind of
climbing brought them to the Tenaja
| Poquita before dawn. Scouting ahead,
the captain reported no fresh trail ex-
cept coyotes and mule deer, and not
more than seyenty-five gallons OF wa
ter in the basin. OF this they both
drank deeply. Then after they had
filled all the canteens. Average Jones
uDfoided his scheme TO the captain.
III anyone caught us at it," com
mented that experienced hunter. wed
be shot without warning. However,
the water would be evaporated IN a
few days anyhow, and I'll post notices
at the next water camps. I'm with
you
Taking turn and turn about with the
pail they bailed out the rock-basin,
scattering the water upon the greedy
sand. What little moisture remained
in the sticky mud at the bottom they
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-04-06

One-half cupful sugar. one teaspoon.
full melted butter, half cupful milk, one
square chocolate melted, one cupful
-four. half teaspoonful cream tartar,
one egg. one-quarter teaspoonful soda
mix all ingredients and steam for
three hours
Foaming Sauce.-Six tablespoonfdls
of cream heated In double boiler; stir
in yolk of egg and tali cupful sugar:
cock about five minutes. remove from
stove and add beaten white Of egg,
two tahlespoonluls sugar and flavor.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-04-06

Chop bits OF cold cooked fresh beef.
veal etc. and season with salt and
pepper Make q grddlecake batter
and lay a spoonful Of e Cbatter) on q
heated and wellbuttered iron spider.
ON the placed batter a spoonful of the
chopped meat then a spoonful OF bat
ter over tho meat When cooked sur,
dciently on one side. turn. and when
sufficiently done (wei enough cooked
carry 90 table 70 Doe served while stir
hot
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-04-06

Drain "a woIboued cabbage and
chop BE- up very anc Put into a frying
pan two tabiespooululs of butter and
one OF -four for every quart of chopped
cabbage when bot add the ,qbbase
season with faiI pepper and one o.
two tahlaspoonfl's OF vinegar Stir
constantly for s'E or eight minutes
then put in % disa smooth the outside
end garuish with quarters OF hard
boiled esq
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-04-06

to ofTer you a small supply at the low
rate of ten thousand dollars. may
add that-er-certified checks will
er-be accepted"
For two hours the colonel, with tho
occasional objurgatory assistance OF
his partner. talked. begged argued.
threatened, and even wept. BY the end
of that time his tongue was making
sounds Ike a mufiied czstanet. and his
resolution was scorched out OF him.
You've got US" he croake6. Heres
your checks. Give me the water"
IN proper and legal form. please
said Average Jones.
He produced a contract and a foun-
| tain-pen. The contract was DIZZY
signed and witnessed. II provided Sor
the transfer of the water. in consider.
alton OF one revolver and ten thou
sand dollars in checks. These checks
were Endorsed 10 ~ V. K. +. Jones.
whereupon he turned over the pail Of
water and the largest canteen 10 the
parched miners. Then, sorting out the
checks, no pocketed two aggregating
five thousand dollars. tore up three.
and holding the other in his hand.
turned TO Captain Funcke.
'Will five hundred dollars pay you
for keeping young Hon down here e
couple Of months and making the be-
ginning Of man of him?" he asked.
Yes, and more" replied the cap
tain
It's a 60" said Average Jones. I'D
like to make the job complete"
Then, courteOusly bidding the North
Pinto Gold Mining company farewell.
the two water-dealers clambered up
the rocks and disappeared beyond the
abrupt skyline.
Once again DR.. Conrad Hon sat
in the private Office OF Average Jones.
Advisor. The young man was thin
ner browner and harder of fiber than
the Jones Of two weeks previous. Doc
tor Hon looked him over with shrewd
eyes.
rs that SOP" The doctors voice
had taken on a sneering intonation.
You come back here with your job
half done, with the guilty fellers
loose an runnin', an you expect me TO
pay over the FIVE thousand dollars to
you. Huh"
mo, I-er-don't expect-er-any-
thing Of the sort" said Average Jones
slowly.
Doctor Hof's little, restless eyes
puckered at the corners. He was puz-
zled. What did the young fellow
mean?
Don't. eh?" he said, cropping in his
mind for a solution.
no. You forgot 10 send me that
promised form of agreement. didn' t
/ you? Thought you'd fooled me, per
haps. took precautions"
You got it?"
/ In the bank"
Where die get it7'
From you, through your sons
check, duly certified" replied Average
Jones, with an amiable smile, as he
opened the door significantly.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-04-06

a good recipe for nut bread is med
up of two cupfuls of white flour. sld
od. two cupfui8 of graham or entire
wheat four. onoholf cupfui of Now
Orleans m0iaeses. @ little salt wo
cupiuis OF milk OF water one cupfm
of walnut meats cut fine. a teasp5o
iul OF soda dissolved iu mnk and
about two tabiesp6onfuls 0l melted
butter Let rise 20 minutes and bake
about enc hour in q moderate oven
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-04-06

40 you think that all men are free
and equalW
I know Of ono place where they
are"
where is thatT
ON barber shop. There EVERYONE
has 90 wait his turn"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-04-06

some men uses biz wor7B.H seid
Uncle bbcn, "de same as ey
spreads his tail feathers. Osy matae
ga elegant impression. but dog don't
repperseut no real meat
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-04-06

Mr.. A. V. r. E. Jones-Average
Jones. his friends called him-was
tired of spending his dead uncles mil
Hons in New York and doing nothing
moro and craved to take part In the
dynamic activities of life. At the sug-
gestion OF Waldemar, owner of an i'm
portant and decent newspaper, he
opened Offices in Astor court and went
In for following up queer advertise
ments and tracing down fraudulent adj
vertisers. Business doomed.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-04-06

Not good enough" said Average
Jones.
The ad. says different, sir" Simp-
son raised the paper and read:
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I0NN
In the bank"
Where die get til"
From you. through your sons
check, duly certified" replied Average
Jones, with an amiable smile, as he
opened the door significantly.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-12-02
3nriid mad Diem. glorf.

G6arics 99ilIon alias Charles So.
ncs, wnroc aeitern @orecn BON oen
Scbeimpoli5iiten Srab rao 9abler
pcr6aitet ais CT 0oS GriminoIgeriht
nerlicB 99ilion mar Dor elmer "a.
MISUNDERSTANDING ircieeiproden
mor0cn. @r miro aber in glelu.Dorf
ipcqen @erlebune icincr 9orole &c.
mHniht. wesbolb er bon ser Roli5ei
in'S SAlepptou genommen miroe.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-12-02

Sic Storimg, melde an Ger allan.
tiiden aiiite norolid sos, lit nod
Gope Breton nit beoeiitenOer Stdrfc
acgougen uno i'm O5eon ucrihwun.
ocn. Oic anocre St6run5 aus Oem
&orOlpciten 6ot iih e6euiaas reiul-
tatloS OerIauien ,Sni gon5en SSnnc.
ren 0cS 9anOcS 6crridtc gcitern ido.
itaS @etter. Die 9cmperatr in 0en
atlautiibci Stooteu ipor beOeutero
iiber oenl norniaIen 5tdn6e. Geiilih
pom yliiiiiiippi miro eS ihOn blci6cn
oo1 lit eS niht aiIseeidlcnen OaB
cS ON Sonntaa 9lbeno ihncicn miro.
2IH Der californiitben fiiiic berridlt
elm ihpsrer Stlrm.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-12-02
.lir Nie Weianaenen in CnaIan0.

Die Sammhmgcn iiir cine @eib.
nodtsgahc iiir Die deionGencn oellt.
idcn Gioilperioncn in @nalanO miro
morgcn obseidloiien inO wer nod
cine 6lcinigteit oa5n beitragen mill,
ioltc belte oocr morgen mad Dem
@urcop Ocs sIcitiben Gorreipon.
oent4 aebcu. @citcrn gingcu ouielblt
nod iolacnoe Scitrdae ein: s.. Yiiin.
itermmn 81, @eidmiitcr 9loa 81 mo
sSohn CppeIt 30 0cnt9.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-12-02
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gene gemdht 2G5 @eihiibc, 1876
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