The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 16, 1923, Page 11

1S OF FIRST FIVE CHAPTERS Calvin Gray Dallas, Texa rents the gov the next mor men Possessing that rare qu manager and town's leading ba the interests of large capital ho’ view with the paper, eats lu hotel, 4 sc but with a few & goes forth m magnetic of fortune, arrives in the oll-mad city of pleces of change in his pockets. He s best by sleeps over nig, and taint himself with the town's leading he soon has the hotel er believing that he is in the clty in He arranges an inter yor and then returns to his charm, st He finds that the hotel ts owned by a man whom he befriended tn F and that the owne given him. That night he &cquaintance with a After nvuch joking, Gray offers to the oll fields to show a certain rich *highjackers” who prey on jewelry ts in th jeweler erly Coverly believe thatrhe is doing this favor simply trip, That night he makes the acquainta the ring leader of the crooks that infest the country make the trip together The scene shifts to Old Tom Par the depot to meet his daughter “Bot four years. Barbara arrives and her father tak he has been keeping batchelor quar much to do in cleaning up the place. girl the fact that school, Now go on with the story Such a condition was enough to! @ismay any girl who had never ser tously considered money matters and Who had returned home to take up & life of comparative ease and su perlative enjoyment where she 1 feft it off, but “Bob” said nothing to der father. She knew every one of his shortcomings, and then endeared | him to her, quite as a son's faults and failures deepen a mother's love, but she knew, too, that he was can- tankerous and required careful hand- ling. Tom's toes were tender, and he forever exposed them where they were easily trodden upon, therefore the girl stepped cautiously and never even referred to his sacrifices, which | would have cruelly embarrassed both of them, But something had to be done, and) quickly; a new hand was needed to mend the family fortunes. Barbara determined to lend that hand. A great change had come over the town and the whole country round | about, a change which the girl be-/ Meved afforded her an opportunity | to prove that she was not a mere daughter, not an ornament and a| drag, but a real son-daughter such as| Tom considered her. Wichita Falls was overcrowded with oll men, drawn thither by the townsite strike at Burkburnett, a few miles northwe: and excitement was mounting as new wells continued to come in. Central north Texas was nearing an epoch-/ making petroleum boom, for Ranger, | away to the south, had set the dil world by the ears, and now this new sand at ‘Burk” lent color to the wild assertion that these north coun! were completely underlald with ¢: Precious fluid. At any rate, the price of thirsty ranch lands was somer- saulting and prosperity was apparent im the homes of all Barbara's girl friends. Her admirers of the oppo- site sex could talk of little except leases and bonuses and “production”; they were almost too busy making money to call upon her. Barbara knew something about oil, for she had watched the drilling of every one of those shallow wells that had kept ‘her In college, and what is more, she knew most of the Property owners In this part of the state. In that advantage she be- lieved lay her chance of accomplish- ment. After a fortnight of careful con. sideration she decided to enter the oll business and deal in leases, “Good idea,” Tom declared, when she had made kn; her plan. “The town's so full of stamps ft looks like Rode Day, and most of ‘em aradoing well. If-they- can make good, it _ Seems jike an honest firm could do better.” “We'll be partners, dad. You run the insurance and I'll be the lease hound.’ “Say—" Tom's eyes brightened. “Til put a desk right alongside of mine—a little feller, just your size— and other salesmen and Gray tera since her has left word that everything he ‘asks for st dining room and picks up an by name take a consignment of jewelry Into tells him of the makes for the adventure of the prospect, Coverly neevof the man who Is believed to be The two plan to ker, exeheriff, who ts on his way to >” whe has been away to school for where Bhe finds from the es her home to the little pl eparture so far Tom has conceal has mortgaged his property to the hilt to put her thru and a nice lounge in the back room where you lay down when you're tired. You been away long {t seems like I can't have you close enough.” Another thought presented If, and he manifested sudden ex- citement. “I tell you! I'll get a new sign painted, ‘Tom and Bob Parker. Real Estate and Insurance Oli Prop'ties and Leanes’ Gc @ great idea, son!” His am gered, but a moment later there came into his eyen a half-regretful light Barbara read his thought almost before he was aware of it, and, rising, she laid her hand upon his shoulder. Wistfully she said, “I'm awfully eorry, too, dad—" "Eh?" “<-that I disappointed you so by not being a boy. But—Iit wasn’t my fault, and maybe I'll show you that a daughter can help as much ax a son. no too! CHAPTER IV A year before this story opens the town of Ranger, Texas, consisted of & weatherbeaten, run-down raliroad station, a blacksmith shop, and a hitching rail, town enough, incident. | ally, for the limited number of peo- ple and the scanty amount of mer- chandise that passed thru it, Ranger lay in the dry belt--considered y useless part of ¢ killing droughts on, 4 where for dt Jow, fiinty hills radiate he Uke the rolls of a steel mill. In such times even the steep, tortuous canons dried out and there was neither shade nor moisture in| them. The round about were scattered widely, | and life thereon was a grim struggle! against heartbreak, by reason of the gaunt, gray, ever-present specter of | the drought. Of late this particular region had proven Itself to be one of violent extremes, of extreme dry- ness during which flowers failed to| bloom, the grass shriveled and died, | and even the trees refused to put forth leaves; or, more rarely, of ex-| treme wetness, when the country was drowned beneath torrential rains. | Sometimes, during unusual winters, | the heavens opened and spilled them- | selves, choking the narrow water- course, washing out roads and de- stroying fields, changing the arid ar-| Foyos into raging river beds. At such| times life forthe country people was) scarcely less burdensome than during the droughts, for the heary bottom lands became quagmires, and the) clay of the higher levels turned into putty or a devifsh agglutinous sub- stance that rendered travel for man or beast or vehiclo almost Impossible. There appeared to be no law of average here. In dry times it was a desert, lacking wholly, however, in the beauty, the mystery, and the| spell of a desert; in wet times it was| @ gehenna of mud and siush and stickiness, and entirely minus that were not uncon months on ¢ | saws and riveters. | greasy a that attends the| 4 trople clime, It was 1 peopled by a hard-bitten race of nesters from knows where and for God knows why | starved in mind and body, slaves of a hideous environment from which lacked means of eacape. logiste had claimed time that there must be | north Texas countries, @ contention perhaps based upon a comfortable be- e law of ¢ ainy ne in the G some | there | mpensation, ui > necessity contain ath the sur of {some wort b But for other natural re jources, they ited the belief in such. Other parts of the state yielded oll, for instance, but here the forma tion was al| wrong. Who ever heard of oll in hard lime? | Nevertheless, petroleum was dis d, and among the fraternity It in it Ranger of contradiction and of deep ning. Aladdin rubbed his lamp, lo transformation oc red of those thrilling dramas of a dramatic industry waa played A gypsy camp sprang up beside the blacksmith shop, and as the weeks fled by it changed into a village of wooden houses, then into town, and soon into a city of brick and tron and concrete, The ad became clogwed with freight, a tidal wave of broke over the town, Wagons, motor trucks, caterpillar trac- s towing long strings of trailers, lurched and and ecreaked over t iis, following roads unfit for a he and buggy, Straddling derricks reared themselves where; their feet were set In garden patchs, in fields, in lonely mesquite pastures, and even high up on the crests of stony ridges, One day thelr raw and clean, the next day they were black and greasy, advertial e fact that once again the heavy rock pressure far below had sent another fountain of fort praying over the top. Then plpe lines were laid and un sightly t Ranger point, a v supplies must values a magi one me gia’ groaned Fre every timbers were ne nk farms were t motylization jon camp for and amid Its feverish activ ity there was no rest, on Sundays or holidays; the work went on at top tension night and day amid a clangor of metal, a cease of motors, a bedlam of hamm and Men lived in! clothes, breathing dust and the odors of burnt gas mainly, eating poor food and drinking warm, fetid water when they were Iueky enough to get any at all This was about the state of affairs |” that Calvin Gray found on the morn. ing of his arrival. He and Mallow had managed to secure a Pullman section on the ht train from Dal- las; the fact tl they were forced to carry their own luggage from the station uptown to the restaura where they hoped to get breakf was characteristic of place. FE route thither they had bow their way thru a crowd that fille walks as if on # fair day Mallow wan well acquai the town, it appeared breakfast b maintained « 4 fire of comment, some of which was worth listening to. “Ever heard how the first discov- ery was made? Well, the T. P. com-| durty runn jew farms and ranches! pany had the whole country plastered | — with coal leases and fiially decided to | put down a 1,500-foot wildcat. The guy that run the rig had a hunch there was oll here If he went deep enough, but he knew the company wouldn't stick, 20 he faked the log | of the well as long as he could, then | he kept on drilling, against orders— | refused to open his mall, for fear he'd find he was fired and the job called off. Ho was a thousand feet deeper than he'd been ordered to go when —bloole! Over the top she went with 1,400 barrels. . . . Deademona’s | the name of a camp below here, but | they call {t Hog Town, More elegant! Down there the derricks actually) straddle one another, and they have to board them over to keep from drowning one another out when they | blow in. Fellow in Dallas brought tn | the first well, and it was so big that his stock went from a hundred dol- | jars a share to twelve hundred. All! in a few weeks. Of course, he started | a bank, Funniest people I ever saw, that way, Usually when a rube makes a winning he gambles or gets him a woman, but these hicks take| thetr coin and buy banks... . Ran- | ger's a real town; everything wide| open and the law in on the pla That makes good times. Show me a camp where the gamblers play soll- THE Cynthia Grey: Man Strolls About Unquestioned—Girl Is Watched by Family BY CYNTHIA GREY “If I could just get up and go any time I wanted, 4 bright young woman to a group of girl friends, “I'd be s happy, SEATTLE STAR family drives me ‘nuts.’ “Why can't a grown person of 24 just put on her hat and|\® walk out of the house and say nothing. “A man picks up his hat, lights a cigar, walks out of the house and disappears around the corner. Not a soul in the family questions where he is going. “If anyone should ask, the answer ef someone else in the family would be: ‘Oh, he's gone for a little smoke. He'll be back.’ H ow why can't a woman stroll out unconcernedly like that without having the whole family her heels won- dering where she has gone and why she has gone, and what's wrong with her anyway? NCE Probably the fundamental reason for the watchfulness of the girl members of the family is due to the fact that femin- inity is not supposed to be able to care for itself as well as masculinity, The idea of protection is still in the atmosphere It is easy to understand just how this young woman feels, Perpetual surveillance is a peat. To feel that one is being watched is a nuisance and a test on the nerves, IS But in this day of so much freedom, it seems the aver- age girl and young woman should have hosts of opportunities to do as she pleases, when she pleases, The mother who is go anxious about her daughter that she makes her feel she is being watched is falling down on her job. There is a difference be&veen being considerately careful of the whereabouts of a person, and being foolishly fussy. There is another thing to take into consideration. Some parents forget their daughters and sons have grown up. } They grudge them the right due an individual, Miss Grey in her office Monday, Wedn and Friday, from 1 to 3 p. m, and on Tuesday and Thursday | yu, from i! a. m, to 12 eoch week do not will receive Citizenship Query Dear Miss Grey: I am a foreigner r ed to an American citizen, Do I take out papers to become a In there some Please come at new law re MRS. W. arred prior to Bep 22, you automatically became a citizen thru your marriage to a citizen. Otherwhse you must take out naturalization papers. ‘other tives as it seriously feres with he &. writ! It depends fea ts upon Tow formal the | If you wear long kid gloves, | in at the wrist. If you may remove them you wecar short Etiquette at Tea Dear Miss Grey vitation to a ¢ ply remove the rig dd I received an in and. will form t my gla © lady as planned to have re freshments and a program. uid “we one thank hi hostess upon leaving | a fer words with cach und when should ono leave? | form to tell your hostess upon Ic M188 &. | ing that you have enjoyed coming BOYCOTT SUGAR! sho me red good keep there. y Ty ore of 6 , » ? “This business of being kept tab on all the time by the ‘Pp ugerions other cc you may simply tuck the hand part |flavored syrup, chill ed Yes—Only 10c for this reason The populariy of Palmolive makes possible the popular price. The scientific blending of mild, soothing palm and olive oils, has produced a lo tion-like cosmetic cleanser which millions of women use, Thus the Palmolive factories are kept working day and night producing the world’ soap. Volume and efficiency produce 25-cent quality for s favorite toilet Palm and Olive Oila —nothing else—give nature's green color to Palmolive Soap. mplete without ft. Today Mrs.| y prevents two more pudding | pleces. having seen 1 cupful corn syrup. for making| 2 tablespoonfuls honey. offers 1 beaten egg. ipe | 4 cuptul chopped beef suet pall a reader direct brittle an 1% teaspoonful L pint milk (if preferred pint milk and 1 teaspoonful Mix in the order given, stir well, and turn into buttered molds. |Empty baking powder cans will answer or lard pails. Steam three hours serve hot with butter and syrup or with hard sauce. RICK CHARLOTTE gelatine cold wat use 1 % package sour we pa soda) 4 cupfu ¥% cupful cooked ric % cupful corn syrup or maple % cupful cocoanut PARISIAN SWEETS By Mrs. Mad: E, Pine nd sin be and nuts omitted. Put thru a food chopper. Mix well and roll in a little powdered sugar or |grated cocoanut. This will be found as palatable as any sugur donfec- tion, Holmes, ati nut. C to wet add ‘ou desire and fold in am beaten until stiff. urn Into dampened mold and Uwe the other hal¢ of the eam sweetened with a teaspoonful honey to serve with ft. eee STEAMED DATE PUDDING 1% cupfuls Nour. 1% cupfuls bread crumbs. off in im the any if of the a GIRL PRIZE ANGLER HASTINGS, Eng., May 16,—Miss Bertha Klean has been awarded the national fishing prize for landing a 63-pound conger. Billy Kelly?” “No. | to do with the Kellys. 1 cupful dates, cut into small | LEAVE IT TO LITTLE BROTHER | “Ma, can I go over and play with You know we have nothing | “Then let me go over and knock the stuffin’ out of him.”—Philadel phia Ledger | DR. EDWIN J. BROWN’'S DENTAL OFFICES 106 Columbia St. Seattle's Leading Dentist | fer More Than 31 Years “ask tor Horlick’s \ The ORIGINAL 1 -.Malted Mitk | ome Nai Life Can Be Sweet Without Sugar Just Try These Sugarless Recipes Mrs. Swezy Has Excellent Ones BY WANDA VON KETTLER 5, “Life is sweet,” they tell us, “Um hum,” say we, ” jby this department from house. wives, is increasing continually. ven in boy-| People are turning thelr backs upon cott days.” |Sugar. “And in time,” say author. For it does not take the sugar, ities, he result will be a lower| now being boycotted, to put the| price. Continue to boy It in| sweetness in life—to put tt even in| not difficult.” aweote, "Deed it is not. With Mra. Swezy's Refiners need not refoide that we! sugarieas recipes and the number are unhappy when not using their /sent into thin department by read. | product. There is stil! more than | ern, fodds of today need to be little | sufficient honey and sweet syrup different from those of any otiver. | to supply the demand that, accord: | Sweet desort may casily be served | ing to the number of letters received |those who feel the dinner is not| Perfect Shoulders u«Arms Nothing equals the beautiful, soft, | pearly white a ceGouraud’ jental Cream ren- | | From the first he had latd himself out to be entertaining and helpful, and Gray obligingly permitted him to have his way. When thee had fin- |taire and the women take In wash-| |ing and Till show you a dead village. | '*hed breakfast, he even allowed his | The joints here have big signs on the companion to hire an automobile and wall, ‘Gambling Positively Prohibit-|drive for him. They snook hands ed," and underneath the games are] finaty, the best of friends. Mallow |running high, wide and fancy. Re- | : on |fined humor, I call it Ge er Thee agi Pere De oly he ders to the shoulders and arms. Covers skin blemishes, Will not mb off. Far ind to powders, ‘hite-Flesh-Rachel. ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS 6” Olive Roberts Barton THE BAKER MAN’S CHIMNEY It’s ‘most unusual to have black lemon pies “The next thing,” said Mister | Tatters, the Ragsy Man, to the Twins In Ragsy Land, “is to help) the Chimney Sweep sweep out the! chimneys. Wo Ragsies help him| every year. Do you wish to come along?” t “Oh, yes!" said Nancy, who usu- ally decided everything for her brother as well as herself. “Where dons he live?” “He fives under the hill by the old water-fall, the better to wash his rooms,” answered Mr. Tatters. “ keeps a dozen and three-quarters be- cause each of us han to have one,” So away trey all went to the water-fall, Mister Tatters leading the way and Nancy and Nick and Rag Tag and Bob Tail and Vagabond and Shabby Coat and Harum Scarum and all the other Ragsies following. There stood the Chimney Sweep waiting, the brooms in a row behind him, “I'm glad you have raid. “We'll be off at once. The chimneys are #0 ‘all of soot the atoves won't draw, Only this morn. ing the Baker Man spoiled a baking of bread.” come,” he “Then Nancy and Nick can there and clean out his chimneys at | once,” said Mister Tatters, the Ragsy Man, to the Chimney Sweep, “I'm sure they are will'ng.” Yertainly,” sald Nancy obliging. Where does he tiv fe lives in town," answered tho Sweep. “His house is the second one-on the second strect. Here are | the brooms!” Away went Magic Shoes house. Down the big chimney they slid and began to swep. But the Baker Man had nine lemon ples in tho oven and the soot got in every one, Instead of white meringue on top, they had black, “ll just charge 10 cents apiece extra for them,” said the Baker Man, “for it's most unusual to have black lemon ples," The Ragsies and the Twins and the Sweep swept evory chimney clean that day, Then the Sweep | wont hack to wash hin brooma at the waterfall and the Twins went back with Mister Tattera to Ragake Land, | | ly. | the Twins In their! to the Maker Man's | (To Be Continued) (Copyright, 1923, by Seattle Star) ‘were nine killings one day, but that’s! above the average The last time I was in town a couple of tool dresvera got into a row with a laundryman—| claimed they'd been overcharged 6| cents. It came to a shooting, and we! burt all three of them. Two cents Aplece! ‘That was their closing price The cant of living is high enough, but it in't expensive to die here.” | In this vein ran Mallow’s talk ~ | earsmarke of a thoro scoundrel, What up \ once again-i 5S * Telephone Direct Main 4271 pp ekg ‘a 4 Zaternationsl EXPOSITION fi voiced the hope that he would have > !0¢ for Trial See $ fewor diamonds when he returned. Gray warmly thanked his companton for his many courtesies and declared they would soon meet again, ‘Thus far the trip had worked out much as Gray had expected. Now, as hin service car left the town and Joined the dusty procession of vehi- cles moving countryward, he covert- ly studied its driver and was gratified to note that the fellow bore all the Gouraud’s Oriental.Cream conversation the man indulged strengthened that imprension. (Continued In Our Next Issue) in ford to ignore the economy of serving this nourishing and delicious break- CHOCOLATE ‘OU can have it at home—just as you get it at the soda fountain. 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