White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1936-09-10
| steam can do things like that" Ju-

steam can do things like that" Ju-
liza said.
.I'll have to show you one day for
it's not possible to tell you with
just words"
Julia poured the yellow batter in
to the deep skillet and put it into
the oven. Spared went out to the
wash rock, while Cynthia set the
table, thinking of her father and all
the things he did that distinguished
him in her mind from the other
men along the creek and how they
always thought his ideas wouldn't
work. There was the drying kiln
with a fireplace under it so they
could dry fruit in cloudy weather
and not have to hurry sheetfuls OF
drying apples into the house at the
first sign of rain. You'll Spite your
fruit that way, Spared; takes sun
to dry apples" Now most of them
had kilns. When he built the tam
ming vat, the bark shed, the lye
pits and used opossum oil to soft
en- the fine leather, they said,
you'll sure Spite those hides, Spar
rel, if you put 'em in that hole with
that ground up stuff" Now he
tanned most of their hides in hisvat.
| And when he built the brick plant
down by the clay barrow, they said.
"You can't ever make that kind OF
clay hold together, Spared" Now
they got brick from his kiln to put
in place of the old cats-and-clay
chimneys.
She heard the three brothers COM
ing in from the barn to wash for
supper.
Supper is nice time. The dusk
of evening begins to crowd the day.
light out of the valley and force it
up the mountains, bringing every
body and everything from around
the place into the spot where it's
warm and the food is cooking"
Cynthia was up and down during
the meal, waiting on her father and
the boys with buttermilk and fresh
hot corn bread while they talked of
the big day at the mill, of the men
who had come, of the plans for the
springs work in the fields: Abral
still full Of excitement, eating too
fast: Jesse alert and interposing
humorous comment; Jasper re-
served and keeping silence; Spar
rel in good spirits after his great
success; Julia, still slender and
beautiful with her smooth black hair
parted in the middle and drawn
back above her fair skin. crumbling
the fresh corn bread into the
stewed tomatoes and eating slow
~, watching over the table and
listening to her men.
ut made a real good run Of meal,
but / didn't get very good do on
= the corn Bread" she said, after her
= manner; but the bread was beauti-
= fully moist and faky between the
\ crisp brown crusts.
"You never made better pone OF
- corn bread in your whole life,
reckon" Spared said.
Julia was full of her pride be-
l. cause he said it, even though she
y knew he was mplimenting he1
no more than the mill.
= After supper while the boys were
: putting things in order for the night
9 at the barn, and Julia was milking
" her COW and tending to the crooks
y in the milk-house over the spring
Cynthia was gathering the dishe:
= and washing them in the big til
pan on the stove and Spared sat a
II his desk in the corner stretching hi
long legs and writing in his ledger
. "He always puts everything dow
in his books" Cynthia thought
watching him having his pleasure
~ at the end of the day. april 10
~ 1885 - Erected first steam mill
" Warm Plenty of SUM- Poplar Bot