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July 19, 1912.
~ Bellefonte, Pa
WATERWAY’'S WAR.
By PlHmmer Erskine
Co.reville set him down for a diam= |
mer the very first evening. He was
pot the advance agent of some theater
rompany or he would have hung =a
w bill in the bar room of the
le hotel the first thing. Since
there were no show bills in evidence,
e must be a salesman even though
carried no sample trunks. Outside
of Col. Carr and his guests at the old
Carr homestead, the only well dressed
men to drop off at Carrsville were
drummers and advance agents.
But though Frederick Waterbury:
(they got the name from the register)
arrived on the noon train, he made no
effort to see his customers, a proceed-
ing which surprised the hetel habitues
greatly.
He smiled tolerantly at the very ob-
vious efforts made to pump him, and
seemed to delight in returning an-
swers concealing in their very frank- {7
ness. In the end, even Jed Hawkins, |
the lawyer, abandoned his cross ques- |
tioning.
For two or three days Waterbury
idled about the town, driving occasion-
ally, but for the most part hanging
about the hotel, the center of the
town's gossip. Then he furnished a
real sensation. He had taken title ta
the west side of Bailey's pond.
“He got it, sure enough,” declared
Hawkins. 1 saw the papers. He's
got the old Bailey place and a strip off
the Mehan farm and ten acres from
the old Coon farm. ‘That gives him
about two-thirds of the pond. Won't
the old colonel be mad, though, when
he finds out? I know he wanted to
get the Bailey place for himself.”
Carrsville had been the home of the
Carr family for a century and a quar-
‘ter, but Col. Cephas Carr was the only
one who had fared well in worldly
‘goods. The whole township had bes
longed to the Carrs once but now the
{entire estate consisted of some hun-
/dred and forty acres. Carr had sought
to repurchase the land about the little
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“What are you doing here!”
lake that had been seld to pay the
debts of his ancestors, but his domi.
neering ways had not gained friends
for him.
Carrsville, fully appreciative of the
situation, chuckled to itself and pray-
ed that it might be there to see when
the colonel heard the news. As most
of them were in dally attendance on
the arrival of trains, the wish was
gratified some three weks later, for
the Carr carriage drew up at the sta-
tion shortly before the arrival of the
noon train.
Waterbury, whose frank good nature
had made the whole town his friends,
was sitting on the baggage truck when
the train pulled in. From the Pullman,
at the forward end of the train,
emerged the colonel, tall, severe and
stately. His townsmen regarded him
curiously but they gasped when with
a start the colonel paused in front of
Waterbury,
“What are you doing here?” he de-
manded imperiously.
“Following your advice,” explained
Waterbury. “You suggested that I
‘was more ornamental than useful, so
I've gone to work.”
“And have selected Carrsville as the
marrow fleld for your somewhat limit.
ied abilities?”
“Precisely. Small beginnings make
big endings,” reminded the younger
jnan. “I've taken the old Bailey farm
and am going to raise fur.”
“To raise fur.”
“Precisely. Muskrats, sauirrels, pe
haps foxes and bullfrogs. Of course
the frogs are not fur bearing, but
there's a good market for their legs.”
“On my pond?” The colonel was in.
ieredulous,
“On my two-thirds,” corrected Wat.
jerbury. “If any of the muskrats or
'trogs get over on your side, just wade
out and chase them home.”
The hands holding the heavy cane
ftwitched nervously, but by a violent
effort the colonel retained command |
of his temper, and passed on.
' Fresh sensation was found that
levening in a telegram that was sent |:
to
New York. It may have been a
wiolation of regulations, but the
jentire town knew that the colonel had
wired:
“Keep Cilio in city. Young Whater-
fury here.”
It was brief enough, but sufficient to
give the hint that a romance lay be-
fiind the matter, and interest grew at
grew thease pavipaned wnban
The colonel, with growing uneasi-
' Less, observed the change of senti
ment. He had been accustomed io
dominate the small community and
row he found that Waterbury's more
practical ideas were being accorded
the greater respect. It was intolerable
that this enemy should invade his own
town and destroy his prestige, but it
colonel stormed.
in all innocence, had raided the colo-
| nel's pet stock and bad cost him half
{ a million in less than six hours. Wat-
erbury had been regaried as a thing |
of evil. The tacit acceptance of his
attentions to Clio Carr became active
opposition. He was attacked in his
| stock operations until he
dropped from the street and then, be-
cause he had done so, the colonel had
| consent to Fred's marriage to Clio.
To justify himself in his daughter's
eyes, he had pleaded that Waterbury. |
'had no means of gaining a livelihood,
ignoring his millions. Until he ar-
lated himself upon the success of his |
isirategy, yet here was Waterbury |
‘calmly establishing what he could see |
was going to be a very profitable busi- |
mess,
Not only that, but he had utterly de-
stroyed the picturesqueness of the lit-
tle lake that had added so much to the
wiew from Castle Carr. The huts of
sightly, though they were too crowded
‘to be picturesque, too suggestive of
man’s industry, but the fence poles
stuck gauntly from the water, and, of
course, boating was impossible.
An offer of purchase was treated
with disdain, and Carrsville grinned
delightedly. They had suffered from
‘the colonel. In Waterbury he had
appreciated Waterbury accordingly.
Then came the final straw in the in-
timation that a scion of royalty had
decided to visit “the States” and would
accept the colonel's repeated invita.
tions.
“I am anticipating with great pleas.
ure,” wrote the Personage, “a visit to
Castle Carr. I recall the photographs
‘an American country place.”
the window, looking out across the
rank marsh grass to the ugly wall and
the colony of muskrats on the further
‘side. At last he went over to
‘the table and drew out a telegraph
blank.
Clio appeared three days later in
answer to the summons, It was too
durk to see the lake when she arrived,
but early the next morning she looked
out of her window and giggled with
bury's attack.
She preserved a grave face at the
interview with her father, and pres-
powers,
Apparently
waiting for her on the piazza.
“What do you think of the fur
farm?” he asked.
your side of the water?”
“You ought to be ashamed of your-
self, Fred,”
ly horrid.”
“It's your father's fauit,” he defend-
ed.
fered with,”
“I know,” she agreed.
in an awful fix.”
“Look here, Clio,” he said earnestly.
“I've either got to lick or be licked.
I've licked him good and I'm going to
rub it in. It's the price of peace, dear.
Your father will respect the man who
has defeated him. He never will if I
appear to give in. I've worked like a
day laborer ever since spring and I'm
entitled to my victory. You come to
‘make terms, don't you?”
“To plead with you,” she corrected.
“To ask you, for the sake of old
friendship, to give up this idea. You
‘will be paid all you have expended
and a handsome profit.”
“And if 1 refuse?”
fessed, “I think father might be will
ing to merge the two properties. We
could build on this side of the iake.
it would help the view.”
“I think I'll drop over,” laughed
Waterbury, “and talk over building
plans, Come and see the place.”
With little exclamations of wonder
and delight she accompanied him over
the farm. Waterbury could afford the
best and his place was most com-
plete.
“It seems a shame that this will all
have to go,” she said, regretfully. “I
suppose you will give it up.”
“For you, ves,” he assented. “And
count it well lost in the bargain. I
think I'll keep a couple of muskrat
families, though, as a sort of re-
minder to the colonel.”
The colonel stared when he saw
the two leave the carriage together,
and Clio, tripping up the steps, ex-
plained:
“He says that I am the price of the
property, father. You told me to
‘make the best bargain I could. He;
‘would not listen to any other
terms.”
The colonel sank back in his chair
‘and helplessly regarded his prospec-
‘tive son-in-law. Only surrender was:
possible.
“You have stood my test,” he said
with dignity. “I wanted to prove you
‘before I gave my consent.”
‘Waterbury, his arm ‘round Clic’s
waist, smiled pleasantly.
that, do you?” he asked. The colo-
nel’'s head sank. Even
last ditch he bad been driven in
defeat.
i | was none the less a fact though the
Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary | {
Ever since the day Fred Waterbury, |
Waterbury had some |
knowledge of her coming, for he was
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“] didn't want to make trouble, | |S
and I wasn't going to see my musk-'
ruts go homeless this winter, nor was |
1 going to have my frog industry inter-
“Well, a8 a last vasart™ she con-,
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HE great difficulty is always te
open people's eyes: to touch |
their feelings and break their hearts is
the difficult thing is to break their
—Ruskin.
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heads.
USES FOR SOUR CREAM.
Sour cream is such a valuable aid |
quietly | in coo%ery that not a tablespoonful of
it should ever be wasted.
To each cup of thick sour cream,
of soda, |
! then use with a scant amount of ba- |
| king rowder. With cream very little |
i shorte)ing need be used, one to three
rived in Carrsville he had congratu- |
| tablesjoonfuls, according to the rich-
nes of the cream.
Drop Cookies.—Use half a cup of
butter, one cup of sugar, one egg beat-
en ligh’, half a cup of sour cream, one-
| fourth of a teaspoon of soda, two and
a half cups of flour and three and a
! half teaspoonfuls of baking powder.
Mix in the usual manner and drop
from a spoon upon buttered tins, shap-
ing each portion into a smooth round.
Dredge with graulated sugar and bake
‘the muskrat tenants were not so um-
in a mrd~rate oven. Half a cup of co-
coanut may be added before the flour
and tha quantity of flour reduced a
little.
Sour cream used in a white sauce
. served with codfish is a new dish te
more than met his match and they |
you showed me and am anxious to see |
For an hour the colonel sat before
a most unfilial appreciation of Water- |
Il“eéntly she departed’ behind the Carr
chestnuts, clothed with plenipotentiary |
she scolded. “It's perfect: | pe
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many, o1t once tried it will often be
repeated
It of'¢n happens in warm weather,
with even a Vmited supply. that some
of the milk will get sour before it can
be used If a quart or more is on
hand rome of the
cheese aay be prepared. Set the
thickerel milk on the back part of
the tev, and when a curd is formed,
drain off the whey and season with
calf, Luter and a little thick sour!
cream.
Scur Cream Filling for Cake.—
Sweeten and chill a cup of sour crear.
Whip 't. keeping it cold while doing
go, and when stiff fold in a cup of
nuts: hickory are best. This is ex-
cellent for layer cakes.
Raisins added to the above filling
makes a variety. Lemon juice and
nowdered sugar may be added with the
raisins,
Graham Bread. —Sift together one
cup of zraham and one cup of wheat
flour: n~dd a teaspoonful of soda, a |
half twwepoonful of baking powder, a
cup of sour milk, a half cup of me-
lasses, n fourth of a teaspoonful of
¢alt: combine the ingredients and bake
in a bread pan one and one-half hours.
ett Fare.
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TEGHEN
ABINET
2 HE most solid comfort one can
fall back upon, ix the thought
that the business of one's life—the work
+ at home after the holiday is done—is to
“But father's
“You don't expect me to believe |
from the |
help in some small nibbling way to re-
duce the sum of ignorance, degradation
and misery on the face of this beautiful
earth, George Eliot,
HOUSEKEEPING NECESSITIES.
To many some of these may come
under the head of luxuries; but most
of us are able to do without the neces-
! saries if we can have the luxuries.
Seasonings, spices and herbs of zl
kinds, including cayenne pepper and
paprika.
Catsups and piquant sauces.
Small cans of vegetables, meats,
soups and fish.
Extract of beef and bouillon cubes.
Canned sweet peppers.
Salad dressings,
Jar of grated cheesa.
Crackers and cans of condensed
milk.
For utensils, a double boiler or two,
several wooden spoons.
Wire whisk and Dover egg beater.
Frying basket and individual baking
dishes.
Coffee percolator.
Zinc covered table.
Meat chopper.
Bread mixer.
These are a few of the {ndispensa-
bles in a well-ordered household.
Hot Chicken Salad.~Mix a pint of
cooked chicken cut in cubes with a
cup of cooked peas, half a teaspoonful
of salt, a little red pepper, a teaspoon-
ful of onion juice, a sweet red pepper
cut fine, a teaspoonful of lemon juice
and set aside to season. Make a sauce
of a fourth of a cup of butter, the
same amount of flour, seasonings, a
cup of cream, a cup of chicken broth;
add the other ingredients and let
stand over water to become hot.
This is goed served from a chafing
dish.
A pretty luncheon biscuit is made
by putting three small biscuits tn each
of a set of patty pans. They will look
like a clover leaf when baked and are
called clover biscuit.
Willing to Help,
“Look here, waiter, this oyster is
still alive’
“Yes, sir. Do you want to kill it
with your fork of shall I get a ham-
mer?"
|| PREPARING THE STEAK
delicious cottage |
| SOME TIME-HONORED WAYS OF
COOKING AND SERVING.
Has Been Devised—Delicious In
the Form of a Pie—For Those
Fond of Hamburg.
Blanketed Steak.—Wipe a sirloin |
| steak, cut one and one-half Inches
thick, and broil five minutes. Remove
to platter, spread with butter, and
sprinkle with salt and pepper. Clean
| one quart of clams and discard tough
| muscles. Cover steak with soft por-
tions, sprinkle with salt and pepper,
and dot over with one and one-half
| tablespoonfuls - of butter. Place on
| grate in hot oven, and bake until
clams are done. Garnish at ende with
sprigs of parsley.
Beefsteak Pie.—~—Wipe one and one-
half pounds of round steak with a
piece of cheesecloth wrung out of cold
water, and cut beefsteak in one inch;
cubes. Put in a stewpan, add half an
onion, peeled and thinly sliced, and
pour over four cupfuls of cold water.
Cover, and bring quickly to the boiling
point, and then let simmer until meat
is tender, the time required being
about two hours, Add one teaspoonful
of salt after the first hour of the cpok-
ing. Melt four tablespoonfuls of but-
ter: add four tablespoonfuls of flour,
and stir until well blended: then add
{| gradually to hot stock. Wash and
pare potatoes, and cut in one-fourth
inch slices: there should be one and
! one-half cupfuls. Parbeil in boiling
salted water eight minutes, drain, add
to meat, and cook three minutes, Turn
into a buttered baking dish, cover with
pie paste or baking powder biscuit
mixture, and bake in a hot oven. If
covered with, ple paste, make several
| incisions in crust, to admit of the es-
cape of gases. This is a good way
| to cook tough steak.
Hamburg steaks should be chopped
to order, the meat coming from the |
' round. Season one pound of Hamburg |
| steak with salt and pepper and a few
| drops of onion juice, and form into six
| cakes, handling as little as possible
If cakes are pressed too compactly
| they will be solid. Put in a slightly
greased hot iron frying pan, sear an
one side, turn, sear on other side, and
cook six minutes if liked rare; eight
minutes if liked well done. Let stand
around edge of frying pan to brown
edges. Remove to hot platter, put
{ around mound of julienne potatoes and
spread with maitre-d’hotel butter.
Pour buttered caulifiower in four core
ners of platter and garnish with sprigs
of parsley.
Planked sirloin steak is prepared on
ong of the up-to-date planks that fit
into a nickel frame with nickel and
ebony handles. Remove flank end
| from a sirloin steak. Wipe steak and
broil or pan-broil until nearly done.
Pipe a border of highly seasoned
mashed potatoes around edge of slight-
ly buttered plank and make nests of
mashed potatoes. Place steak on plank
and put in hot oven to brown pota-
toes and finish cooking steak. Fill
mashed potato nests with canned peas
reheated and arrange around, at equal
distances, piles of buttered carrot
cuges and stuffed tomatoes.—~Woman's
Home Companion.
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Laundering Soiled Towels.
Oftentimes the towels become gray
and dingy looking. Treat them in
this manner and they will become
white again:
Place them in a kettle and cover
with cold water. Add shavings of
pure white soap and the juice of a
lemon.
Place on the back of the stove and
Alloy the water to gradually come toa
il.
If very much soiled, the process may
have to be repeated.
Rinse in tepid water, then in slight-
ly blue water amd hang in the
air to dry.
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