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The Arizona copper camp., 1917-12-22

rather lead you past those places than
have you go over the edge" she said,
because nobody could get you up or
even go down and bury you decently.
1t wouldn't be a bit nice. It's much
simpler to keep you on top"
He said something, but Billy Louise
could not hear what 1t was. She sus-
pected him of swearing. She rode on
in silence
"Blue's dandy horse on bad trails
and in the dark" she observed COM
panionably at last. 'He simply can't
lose his footing or his way"
"Yes? That's NICE"
Billy Louise felt like putting out her
tongue at him for the cool remoteness
of his tone. 1t would serve him right
to ride on and let him break his neck
over the bluff If he wanted to. She
shut her teeth together and turned her
face away from him.
So, in silence and with no very good
feeling between them, they went pre-
cariously down the steep hill (the hill
up which Marthy and the oxen and
Jase had toiled so laboriously twenty
seven years before) and across the tiny
fat to where the cabin window wink
ed a welcome at them through the
storm.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-12-22

and more Of it before long. This
cayuse of mine has had thirty miles
or so Of rough going"
II think I'd better wait for you," she
said primly. There are bad places
where the trail goes close to the bluff,
and the lava rock will be slippery with
this snow, and it's getting dark so fast
that a stranger might go over"
"If that's the case the sooner you
are past the bad places the better. I'm
all right. You drift along"
Billy Louise speculated briefly upon
the note Of calm authority in his voice.
He did not know evidently that she
was more accustomed to giving com
mands than to obeying them. Her lips
gave little quirk OF amusement at his
mistake.
"You 60 on. don't want a guide" F"
He tilted his head peremptorily toward
the blurred trail ahead.
Billy Louise laughed little. She did
not feel in the least embarrassed now.
DO you never get what you don't
want2" she asked mildly. IT'D a lot
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through the winter or until you get
some white man to take my place"
He took up the two water pals and
waited, glancing from one to the other
with that repressed smile which Billy
Louise was beginning to look for in
his face.
Now that matters had approached
the point Of decision her mother stood
looking at her helplessly, waiting for
her to speak. Billy Louise drew her
self up primly and ended by contra
dieting the action. She gave him a
sidelong glance which he was least
prepared to Withstand, though, in JUS
tice to Billy Louise, she was absolute
ly unconscious Of its general effective
ness and twisted her lips whimsically.
"We'll stake you to a book, ban
mock and a bed If you want to stay,
Mr.. Warren" she said quite soberly;
"also to pitchfork and an ak, II you
like, and regular wages"
His eyes went to her and steadied
there with the intent expression In
them. Thanks. Gut out the wages
and I'll take the offer just as it
stands" he told her and pulled his hat
farther down on his head. "She's go-
ing to be one stormy night, lay-dees,"
he added in quite another tone on his
way to the door. "Five o'clock by the
town clock, and al-lPs wellp' This
last in still another tone as he pushed
out against the swooping wind and
pulled the door shut with a slam.
They heard him whistling a shril1 roll
licking air on his way to the creek
at least it sounded rollicking the way
he whistled ii"
'That's The Old Chisholm Trail he's
whistling," Billy Louise observed un-
der her breath, smiling reminiscently,
"the very song 1 used to pretend he
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-12-22
Won1en's War Work

checked over the Christmas season,
when sweets have been all too abun-
dant in the past.
The situation in the east is critical
in the sugar line. Many cities limit
purchases to one pound, while Arizona
dealers have failed to appreciate they
have a limit Manufacturers in, the
restricted sweet lines also fail tol un-
derstand they must cut down their
use to SO per cent of what formerly
was known. This means candy manu-
facturers, ice cream makers, cold
drink bottlers and the mixing of syr-
ups in drug stores and soda fountains.
Arizona has purchased an unreason-
able amount of sugar or late. Pacific
coast manufacturers have been COM
PEELED to recall their travellers in Ari-
zona, on account of oversales and
there has come intimation to State
Food Administrator Timothy A. Rior-
dan that the manufacturers, jobbers
and retailers of the state seem to pre-
fer a forced, rather than a voluntary
compliance with the rules that have
been established for the whole ma
TONS benefit. Some of the jobbers
are operating under governmental Ii
cense and therefore are doubly re-
sponsible.
A special appeal has been issued
by the sugar distribution committees
of the California food administration,
reciting the great necessity that ex-
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-12-22

always sang when he came down the
canyon to rescue me. But of course
knew all the time he's a cowboy. It
said so"-
The whistling broke, and he began
to sing at the top of q clear, strong
lunged voice an old, old trail song
beloved of punchers the West over.
"What did you say, Billy Louise?
I'm sure it's a comfort to have him
here, and you see he was glad and
willing"
But Billy Louise was holding the
door open half an inch, listening and
slipping back into the child world
wherein Ward Warren came singing
down the canyon to rescue her. The
words came gustily from the creek
down the slope:
''No chaps, no slicker, and a-pourin' down
rain,
And I swear by the Lord I'll never night
herd again,
Coma to vi yonpy, youpy-a, youpy-a,
Coma to vi youpy. youpy-a!
EJECT in the stirrups and seat in the
saddle,
I hung and ratified with them long-norn
cattle,
| Coma to yi"-
"Do shut the door, Billy Louise!
What you want to stand there like
that for? And the wind freezing ev-
erything inside; can feel terrible
draft on my feet and ankles, and you
know what that leads tor
So Billy Louise closed the door and
laid another alder root on the Goals in
the fireplace the while her mind was
given over to dreamy speculations, and
the words Of that old trail song ran on
in her memory, though she could no
longer hear him singing. Her mother
talked on about Peter and the storm
and this man who had ridden straight
from the land Of day dreams to her
door, but the girl was not listening.
"Now, amt you relieved yourself
that he's going to stay"
Billy Louise, kneeling on the hearth
and staring abstractedly into the fire,
came back with jerk to reality. The
little smile that had been in her eyes
and on her lips fed back with the
dreams that had brought it. She gave
her shoulders an impatient twitch and
got up.
"Oh, I guess he'll be more agreeable
to have around than Peter" she ad-
mitted taciturnly, which was as close
to her real opinion of the man as a
mere mother might hope to come.
When spring came at last and Ward
Warren rode regretfully back to his
claim on Mill creek he was not at all
the morose Ward Warren who had
ridden down to the Wolverine that
stormy night in January. The distrust
had left his eyes, and that guarded re-
moteness was gone from his manner.
He thought and he planned as other
men thought and planned and looked
into the future eagerly and dreamed
dreams of his own, dreams that brought
the hidden smile often to his lips and
his eyes.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-12-22
Butter Honey Cake.

One and one-half cups honey, one
half cup butter, three egg yolks, five
cups flour, two teaspoons ground Gin
namon, one-half teaspoon salt, one
and one-half teaspoons soda, two
tablespoons orange-flower water (wa-
ter may be substituted), whites of
three eggs.
Rub together the honey and butter,
add the unbeaten yolks and beat thor
oughly. Add the flour sifted with Gin
namon and the salt and the soda dis
solved in the orange-flower water.
Beat the mixture thoroughly and add
the well-beaten whites of the eggs.
Bake in shallow tins and cover with
frosting.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-12-22

Warning Arizona that it is not saw
ing enough of sugar, that if it does not
comply voluntarily with requirements
for sugar-saving it mill have to COM
ply through strict governmental regu-
Iation, the United States Food Admin
istration, through State Food Admin
strator Timothy A. Riordan, has
issued an official warning to the state.
It is definitely charged that jobbers
have been selling too much sugar to
retailers, that retailers do not comply
with the limit of 20 pounds to the GUS
toner and that manufacturers in the
restricted sweet lines have not cut
down their consumption by half, as
requested. 1t is also stated that Pa
cific coast manufacturers of sugar
have been obliged to recall travelling
statesmen because of oversaIes of sugar
in Arizona.
The official warning from the press
bureau of the State Food Administra-
ton reads:
Arizona must cut down on her con-
sumption of sugar. This is definite in
struction from the United States
Food Administration, following up an
order issued October 25. Jobbers in
the southwest have been selling too
much sugar, retailers have been sell
ing more than 20 pounds to individual
orders and consumers have been con-
suming far too much. 1t is evident
that Arizona's sweet tooth must be
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-12-22
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I-Marthy, low-browed, un-
eombed, harsh of voice and speech and
nature, with her shiftless husband Jase
journey over desert trail, driving four
wagon first fords the Wolverine stream
Jase is ready to stop at the first green
spot, but Marthy insists on plodding along
another full days journey. That night,
through natural instinct, two of the oxen
stray into narrow gorge and feast on
the rich grasses of the Cove, where they
are found by Marthy who recognizes the
little little. hidden I1 4, Eden as the place Of her
session. Later they are Joined by an
other couple who are impressed with the
wolverine and also establish q home. To
them is born a daughter, christened Billy
Louise.
Blue yes climbing steadily out or
the gorge, twitching an ear backward
with fattering attention whenever his
lady spoke. The horse went on, calm
ly stepping over this rock and around
that as If it were the simplest thing in
the world to find sure footing and car
ry his lady smoothly up that trail. He
threw up his head so suddenly that
Billy Louise was startled out Of her
aimless dreamings and pointed nose
and ears toward the little creek bot
tom above, where Marthy had lighted
her campfire long and long ago.
A few steps farther and Blue stop
ped short in the trail to look and lis
ten. Billy Louise could see the nerv-
GUS twitchings of his muscles under
the skin of neck and shoulders, and she
smiled to herself. Nothing could ever
come upon her unaware when she rode
alone so long as she rode Blue. A
hunting dog was not more keenly alive
to his surroundings.
go on, Blue" she commanded after
q minute "If it's bear or anything
like that you can make run for it;
If it's wolf I'll shoot it. You needn't
stand here all night, anyway"
Blue went on, out from behind the
willow growth that hid the open. He
returned to his calm, picking smooth
trail through the scattered rocks and
tiny washouts. It was the girls turn
to stare and speculate. She did not
know this horseman who sat negligent
ly in the saddle and looked up at the
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-12-22

Continued Next Week.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-12-22
Christmas Surprise Macaroons.

One tablespoon butterine, one-half
cup sugar, one egg, one cup rolled
oats, one-ha1f teaspoon baking pow
der, one-half teaspoon vanilla, one
fourth cup shredded cocoanut.
Cream the butterine and sugar, then
add the beaten eggs, rolled oats, bak-
ing powder, vanilla and cocoanut in
the order in which they are given.
Drop the mixture with teaspoon on
creased pans and bake in hot ooven
until brown.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-12-22
Maple Cream.

One cup maple sugar, one table
spoon water, white of one egg, one
half cup chopped nuts.
Boil the sugar until it spins a
thread, then beat until cool. Add
beaten white of egg and beat until
stiff. Put in nuts and drop on oiled
paper.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-12-22
SaIted Peanuts.

Buy several pounds of raw peanuts.
They are cheaper purchased uncooked.
Shell and blanch in boiling water.
Skin and spread out in a tin. Then
add few drops of olive oil and shake
thoroughly, to be sure they are evenly
coated. Roast in oven until brown,
then sprinkle with salt. Shake pan
often to roast evenly.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-12-22

lists for all sugar that can be produced
on the coast, for shipment to Europe.
The necessity is immediate and should
be honored at once. Later when the
new sugar crops have been gathered
and milled, there may be modifica-
tion of the restriction, but no modifica-
ton is possible at the present time.
There must be instant compliance all
along the line.
The Arizona copper camp., 1917-12-22
Nut and Fruit Bon-bons.

One-half pound mixed nuts, one-half
cup seeded raisins, one-fourth cup
shredded cocoanut, two figs, one large
piece of orange peel.
Put all together through meat
chopper, and the mixture will form
a paste which can easily be made into
balls. Dip balls in sugar or melted
chocolate and place on wax paper.
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ONE DOLLAR A YEAR


than her little sister. Grace
Grace was quickly dressed and by
daylight on Christmas eve morn
ing the two girls were flying
through the country on train to.
ward Vardeman.
Who met her at the station I
No one but her mother and father.
Did she take the thousands dollars 7
No. it was sent to the cock and
some of it was left in the woods
for the Brownies.
Mr.. Shaw came down to spend
Christmas day with them. He
stayed until the next day, and
when he came down the next
morning he was entirely changed,
his face was covered with smiles
and he was never cross any more.
Grace went to see him very often,
and, of course, they all lived hap
pily ever after.
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A FAIRY CHRISTMAS STORY.
By sYBLB TUNE, AGE THIRTEEN
YEARS, IUKA, MISS.


Ruth Brown was a sweet little
girl who lived with her rich uncle.
Mr. Shaw. Mr. Shaw had hard
heart and a cross looking face.
He was never known to be the
least bit pleasant about anything
that he ever had to do. II he had
to help the poor people OF the
town he always fused and COM
planned, If he was called upon to
help the church he did not see
any use in such foolishness, if a
poor boy asked him for penny
to buy something to eat he turued
his head or told. him to go to work.
Ii was the same way with Ruth
IL he ever spoke TO her at all he
was very cross about it and many
day he never spoke to her at all.
So it had gone this way for nearly
year and many a night her little
pillow was wet with tears.
The year before Ruth had gone
to live with her uncle, many peo-
pie had been killed in dreadful
storm and it was thought that Mi
and Mrs Brown were killed
| After this the girl had gone to hel
uncle for home because she wa:
only twelve years old and tot
young to do any work. She hac
never had any experience either
for her mother furnished a gooe
home and she had nice littl
maid to dress her and play wit
her until this dark spot had com
svtr her short, happy life.
She had a sad lonely life indee'
: to be SO young for she had no on
; tojK},y with her, no toys, no pet
FOR Anything to make little gin
llsppy and she never ventured I
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EVER SAL|VATED BY =
CALOME[7 HORRIBLE!
Calomel is quicksilver and acts
like dynamite on
your liver.

Calomel loses you day! You
know what calomel is. It's mer-
curry; quicksilver. Calomel Is dam
gerous. 1t crashes into sour bile
ike dynamite, cramping and sick
ening you. Calomel attacks the
bones and should never be put into
your system.
When you feel bilious, sluggish,
constipated and all knocked out and
believe you need dose of dangerous
cal6mel just remember that your
druggist sells for so cents large
bottle Of Dodson's Liver Tone, which
is entirely vegetable and pleasant to
take and is a perfect substitute for
calomel. 1t is guaranteed to start
your liver without stirring you up
inside, and can not salivate.
| Don't take calomel It makes you
sick the next day; it loses you days
| work. Dodson's Liver Tone straight
ems you right up and you feel great
Give it to the children because It IS
perfectly harmless and doesn't grippe.
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ask for any either, for she had a
soft heart and every time her
uncle spoke to her it sent a food

y
uncle spoke to her it sent food
0f tears to her eyes.
Now, it was nearly Christmas
time and she knew that Santa
would not come to see her and
she could not hear her mothers
sweet young voice telling Christ
mas stories, and the good times
that she had when she was little
girl. But the thing she missed
most of all was the great big
green Christmas tree all covered
with Xmas candles and popcorn
hanging from the branches and
the Xmas angel and the great big
silver star with the silver things
that all shned in the bright lights
and her little sister laughing and
playing. OH it was awful to be
an orphan and not have any fun
ct all. 1t made her small heart
ache. The big tears rolled down
her pale. thin cheeks uptil she
could not see, but she tried not to
think about these things at all.
That night when she went to bed
she stayed awake a long time think
ling of all the stories that she haC
read. She said toherself. May be
IifI ! am good and do not cry any
more my story will end good too
for all of the fairy stories do ant
besides it is three days yet unit
Xmas, Anyway / am going to try
/ Next morning it was showing
SO Ruth went into the kitcnen I,
talk TO the cook. but the woman
was not. in the notion of talking
. 1t was evident that she was think
ing about something, and this i
| what it was.
There had been a little chill
! lost not far away and a thousan'
! dollars reward would be given t
, the one that returned it. A thous
The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1917-01-04

AsGfe and painless remedy for
cancer; also best remedy ever dis
covered for catarrh of head. throat
and chest. Eczema and rheumatic
remedies Made and sold by ]. r.
Beard. Co-inth. Miss. Charges
reasonable, Myremedies have neg-
er failed to relieve or cure. Eni ]
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-a--sa-sa-.a--a-.f-2.-ae-4a-
w IL d o A T s

! 'Ah let them alone" tits the age old cry
Boys will ever be boys, you know;
They must plow the world to the rim of youth,
Their fields of wild oats they must sow,
Let them aone-they are immune
To leash of straeht-laced moral code,
BOYS WILL BE BOYS; they measure life
By laws that license has bestowed.
This is the hectic creed of the years,
The damnine lie that parents preach
To ease theirs rconscience of the blame
For higher goals they failed to reach
Immune these sewers of wildcat tarcs
There's single garnered field
Where sickles of sorrow have cut their swarths
But tells its tale of misery yield.
Co. look in the wards where the maniacs rave,
Their brain cells brimn1ed with liquid fire
Through mad misrule of uneurbed wills
Or the blight of foal desire.
And count. if you can, the blau,eess hosts
The waits unfathered and unnamed
Who, under the light of Gods blue sky,
Must live their cheated lives ashamed
And ah the ''drunks' and the derelicts
Lined day by day at the judges bar.
And the man who lmps shriveled limb s
horrible. visible moral scar a.
And the frightened girl with her shame revealed
Lesping down where the moonbeams quiyer
Her epitaph but the scornful line:
"A Aoater dragged from the river
And the men hard Tipped and filled with fear
AS they slip from the doctors door,
Hiding his verdict of loathsorne faint
ooh. the wives who must pay THAT score
Hating the secret noisomeness
That saps with its creeping ills.
Hating the wild oats that they sowed
In the iustfu pace that kills.
These are the boys who would be boys
Not held to straight laced moral code,
The boys who measured their golden youth
BY laws that license had bestowed.
They tread the trail where the serpent crawied
And are slned with its vicious stain,
They pIow their oats with the pillow of sin
And reap with the sickle of pain.
L'Envoi-
And the cleaners who come In the after years
Generations born under that spell
In taint of body and smirch of soul
They garner endless hell
SARA BEAUMONT KENNEDY
Commercial Appeal. ~
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4 yQSlICIs
The editor wrote to the u s
department of Agriculture for the
bulletin on the Soy Bean and
after reading it was impressed
with It as crop for this section.
Quoting from the bulletin:
Z Numerous experiments have
shown that soy-bean meal is equal
or slightly superior as a feed to
cotton seed meal both for cows
and hogs Again, Yields Of
20 bushels per acre of soy beans
on lands of moderate fertility may
confidently be expected in the re-
gion where the best or medium or
late varieties will mature. ......
The above seed yields are COM
parable in value to those of wheat
or corn, and the crop may come
to be grown extensively as a
money crop, especially in regions
where the boil wetvil makes cot
ton culture uncertain" If the
farmers are interested we would
advise them TO write to the u S
Department of Agriculture for
their Bulletin No 372 on Sow
Beans. 1t tells you everything
you will want to know about them
cultivation, harvesting, etc.
We think 1t would be advisable
to plant few acres especially
since you are guaranteed mar
ket for the beans. You will then
have the hay to feed your stock,
The bulletin will cost you nothing
If enough farmers become in
terested in the planting of this
crop we might arrange to have
the Secretary of the Mississippi
Cotton Seed Crushers Association
to meet them and give them more
information. You will note that
he says in his letter he will meet
with us at any time and arrange
with Mills in this section to give
the same guarantee.
Meridian, Miss,
December %, 1916. &
THE VfDETTE, Ilika, Miss,
Gentlemen Copy OF paper re-
ceived.
If we can be of further assist
ince to you please command us,
Or If your readers will write me /
will mail them copy of government
bulletin.
Since my letter to you have
'ound out that millions of dollars
worth of Soy Oil is being import
I'd into this country and that it is
stlible oil as we'll as for paint pur-
poses. 1t will be shame to let
his money continue to go out of
his country when this crop can
DC grown profitably in the South
where another cash crop is needed
50 badly. especially the boll-wee-.
vii sections. One very important
feature should not be overlooked
either, and that is, the Soy Bean
plant is Soil Builder, drawing
nitrogen out of the air.
AS the bulletin shows you, grow
ing the Soy Beans, and the uses
the product can be put to, is be-
yond the experimental stage and
no farmer should hesitate about
putting in fair acreage, though
| do not advise any planter to go
too heavy into any one thing. but
diversity between home supplies
and commercial crops.
Very truly yours,
H. G. FORESTER, Sec'y.