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,y A -f A 1., S. E Y RAINES
CRsJi` of CHARACTERS
.Jest ltaggot .• - - Wallace Beery
47lemnntine (Tiny) Tucker
Marjorie Blain
1&iguel J. Corral Nabob
9'olanny Garman - Darryl Hickman
Red Gairman - - - 'Welilnna Heade
9larn Swede - - - - - Dick Curtis
Go,anel James - - Hohnrt Caavanaugli
1siky Joe Yule
Slim - - - - - - /Loafs Mason
lderteaxder - - -, - Joe Whitehead
CHAPTER ONE
In the very center of Baggot
City was Memorial Park, and in
the very center of the park was
# statuecomposed of two impres-
sive lifesize figures. Even before
one glanced down to read the in-
Iseription at the bottom, one could
see they were frontier folk; the.
Iran's left hand grasped the
"nuzzle of a rifle, his right hand
:shading his searching eyes; the
woman standing a pace behind
was attired in the . rough, home-
spun costume of the middle nine-
teenth century. Their features
were markedly American. It was
obvious that they were of the
band of hardy emigrants who had
helped to settle and develop this
part of sunny California in the
frontier days.
The lettering read: Just Bag -
got, 1810-1874. Clementine Bag -
got, 1816-1882.
From the windows of an ivy-
elad church at the outskirts of the
bark came the floating strains of
hymn. When it was finished,
the pastor rose and, surveying the
congregation began:
"Before discussingour text, let
les pause for 'a moment to pay
tribute to the man after whom
our thriving city is named, and
the founder of our church, whose
birthday it is today. To such fine
men as Just Baggot`and his good
wife, Clementine, our great
state of Californiga owes its ,very
existence.
"Strong, fearless, a pioneer of
great vision, whose dauntless cour-
age brought civilization to the wih
derness, who established law and
order where outlawry prevailed,
whose name must be revered with
the greater heroes of California
history — such a man was Just
Baggot."
The tousle -haired seven year-
old boy in a front pew pulled the
arm of his mother, the grand-
daughter of Just Baggot.
"Is he talkin' about grandpa?"
he whispered loud enough for
persons around about to hear.
"Your great grandfather, dear,"
answered his mother. "S-sh!"
"The one who was a horse
•alitief?" persisted the youngster.
His mother clutched his arm
firmly. "No, no," she whispered
back, "that was some other
branch of the fancily."
* * +a
The Black Eagle Saloon was the
local point of community life in
Ragtown, Nevada in the year
1850. Gold prospectors on their
way to and from California took
their poke in here, often doubling
qden
FINE CUT
it, more often coming out broke.
The unkempt, broad -shouldered.
rider who had just parked his
chestnut stallion outside was ap-
parently a visitor with no poke
either to augment or to forfeit
at the gaming table. He approach -
the squat, gimlet-eyed head bar-
man.
"Shove out a charge of that
there liquid buckshot, will ya,
pardner?" he asked.
The -bartender waited for the
traditional silver on the counter.
"Si, Senor," he assented. "But the
boss he say about the stranger—
first get the money."
The vistor pulled a folded tat-
tered piece of paper from his
shirt. "See this here map?" he
. asked. "This here shows where
there's a lotta gold."
"Where you get thees map, ami-
go?" parried the drink -dispenser,
with a covetous glance.
"Never mind that," answered
the other. "The feller had plenty
of chance to defend hisself."
" A glint of admiration came into
the bartender's eyes. "You plug
thees hombre, eh?" he asked.
"Well, didn't I ast him to take
me in pardners?" was the reply.
"Ornery cuss wanted to keep the
mine all to hisself!"
The barman produced a bottle
and glass. "You have the honest
face, amigo," he said. "I weel
trust you." He held out his hand.
"My name ees Senor Miguel Cer-
vantes Vicente y Alba del Izquier-
de O'Sullivan."
The man with the map, who
had grabbed for the whiskey, sput-
tered at this. Then he fossed off
two glasses in a row.
"Well, I'm glad to meetcha,
Seenor," he said. "Call me Bag -
got, that's all — jest Baggot."
*
All at once a sound of angry
voices came from the door. Sev-
eral ranchmen bustled in, guns
up. One of them faced Baggot.
"That there chestnut stallion's
mine," he announced. "Guess you
know what happens to hoss thieves
in this country, don't you, Mis-
ter?"
Baggot had no choice but to lift
up his hands while his gun was
removed. "String him up!" came
the cry from the back of the room.
"I only borried that hoss cause
I got sore feet," said Baggot
lamely.
"You're gonna have a sore neck
in a minute!" cried. one of the
men.
O'Sullivan, who had dropped
adroitly behind the counter,
edged along and furtively slipped
his revolver into Baggot's dan-
gling hand. Like lightning, Bag -
got leaned back, propelled his
right foot against the man facing
him, and as he tumbled clown,
covered the others with his new-
found means of salvation. Re-
trieving Baggot's own gun, O'Sul-
liven paced back to the door with
him. The lure of that gold map
had been like a shot of strychnine.
Safely away and out on the
trail, Baggot found that his res-
cuer was not quite so trusting a
peson as he had proclaimed. At
the first chance, he caught Baggot
off guard, covered him and said
he'd like to hold the map himself,
for safe keeping. When the map
turned out to be only a wrinkled
laundry bill, a mistake resulting
from Baggot having neglected to
take a grammar school course in
reading, O'Sullivan cooled off and
decided to make the best of his
chance partnership.
Not long afterwards, on the
Sacramento wagon route, O'Sul-
livan caught sight of Hickory
Jake, a bearded frontiersman
whose job was to carry mail
through the territory behind two
teams of mules. At his side was
Clementine Tucker, whom the
neighbors called "Tiny" because
of her sizable girth and ample
shoulders. She was singing a gos-
pel number, in a most unmelodic
voice:
With 400 heifers herded into
Alberta in 1885, Walter Ross
started one of the West's
largest ranching outfits. Later
merged with the Wallace
Ranch, it covered, over half a
million acres of fenced range
land in Southern Alberta and
Saskatchewan with a herd of
more than 12,000 cattle.
OX YOKE.BAR BRAND
of the ROSS RANCH
OWN
* ,k *
"She own thees Jackass Mail,"
said O'Sullivan, pointing. "hic-
kory Jake, he work for her." With
• lowered voice, he added slyly:
Most every trip they have sheep••
ment from gold field. Twenty,
thirty 't'ousand dollar in gold
dust."
Certain ideas •filtered through
Baggot's ordinary lethargic brain
with amazing speed. In two se-
conds he had bis gun against
O'Sullivan's ribs; in -another two
he had disarmed hint. "Jest wait
here and I'll be back with the
gold," he told him, scurrying
off.
The idea of relieving hickory
Jake of his convoy hadn't origin-
ated With O'Sullivan, however,
As Baggot approached the road,
a stalwart figure, with a bandana
'kerchief across his faee, dashed
from cover to face the main driver,
Jake tried to pull out his own gun,
and the outlaw shot him dead. Just
as Clementine Tucker was Prepay-
ing to dismount, Baggot sprang
out from the trees.
"Drop it, Mister!' he called to
the outlaw. The latter pivoted
to shoot, but Baggot, unbeatable
at a quick draw, fired first and
hit the other's right wrist. The
thwarted hold-up man dodged be-
hind the mules and then ducked
into the brush.
Clementine Tucker, deeply af-
fected by the olcl man's 'death,
turned to stare at her deliverer.
"What you standin' there for?"
she cried. "Go and. get that fel-
ler!"
"But we got moreimportant
business, ma'am," said Baggot,
edging closer. "Ef you'll jest
hand me that there rifle —"
Clementine grabbed the rifle
from the seat and faced him.
"Mighty anxious to get your
hands on that rifle, ain't you?"
she asked suspiciously.
Baggot hadn't expected such a
foursquare attitude from a wo-
man. "But, ma'am," be protested.
"I got to pertect you, don't I?"
"Whatever perfecto's to be
done, I'll do!" announced 'Clem-
entine. "Now if you want to ride
along, get up there!"
(Continued Next Week)
Warns Against Tea
Brewed From Weeds
Some people say you can go
out in the country and there are
all kinds of weeds which can be
brewed and stewed, and lo, even
tea isn't better.
But T. B. Wade, tea adminis-
trator of the War Time Prices and
Trade Board says: "Don't do it.
You'll find yourself in. a coffin
before your time."
About weeds and shrubs as sub-
stitutes for tea and coffee, realis-
tic Mr. Wade has the following to
say: "From time immemorial we
have had herbs but they never
have taken the place of tea or cof-
fee. I think people should be
warned against brewing beverages
from these plants."
An expert herbalist might know
the whys and wherefores of
shrubs and weeds, but plain Mr.
and Mrs. Citizen has to be satis-
fied with their rationed supply of
tea or coffee—and if not satisfied
drink hot water in preference to
brewing from Ontario picked
kerbs, declared the tea adminis-
trator.
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PAPER
ISSUE 36—'42
D
Churchill inspects
Egyptian Front
A resolute civilian figure lii
sun helmet, grey suit and black
bow tie trudged westward one day
recently along the desert coast
road to Ei Alamein, within hear-
ing distance of heavy cannon-
ading.
British army trucks passed and
then stopped short,
"f3limey,' exclaimed an amazed
driver, "It's Winston."
Prime Minister Churchill on an
inspection trip breaking a flight
to Moscow, turned, waved, and
gave the "V" salute.
Mr. Churchill spent most of the
day among South African and
Australian detachments which
make up part of the forces aligned
against the German and Italian
divisions of Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel.
Mr. Churchill had arrived in
Egypt by plane at a desert air-
field at dawn one day.
He stepped from the plane in
the uniform of an air commodore.
Mr. Churchill's arrival as an
air commodore eliminated the for-
malities which would have been
entailed if he had come as Prime
Minister.
Later he drove to the Suez
Canal area to inspect fresh troops
and equipment which had arrived
recently from Britain.
asting Leads• hn
Cheese Production
Hastings County again led the
province in cheese production in
July with 1,651,419 pounds ac-
cording to agricultural representa-
tie H. L. Fair, of Stirling. This
is a slight increase over July,
1941, production of 1,511,684
pounds.
In the seven months ending
July, 1942, Hastings County pro-
duced 5,563,322 pounds of cheese,
compared with 4,401,694 pounds
for the same period last year.
Numerous showers throughout
the Summer have kept pastures in
good condition with the 'result
that a number of factories are
making as much cheese now as
they have at any time this year.
Present prospects indicate the
1941 production of 9,426,779
pounds will be exceeded this
year.
Union Jack Waves
Over !Dieppe Cliffs
A Union Jack fluttered above
the Dieppe cliffs during the Uni-.
ted Nations Canadian -led com-
mando assault operations.
It was planted there by two
• British soldiers who landed with
one of the first parties ashore
and it served as a marker for
those who followed.
The soldiers picked it up at the
end of the operation and brought
it home.
The Churchill Touch
Tea is Australia's most popu-
lar beverage. Australians will
drink it at any hour of the day
or night. Therefore tea rationing
has hit the nation in its most ten-
der spot.
Particularly regretful at the.
shortage are the inmates of an
old men's home near Melbourne.
But one day, one of them got
enough to brew a billyful.
He held it aloft and remarked:
"Gentlemen, never in the history
of this institution has so little
gone so far among so many."
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BISFiES
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LE TALKS
SADIE B„ CHAMBERS
A. Salad Chat
Salads always grace any menu:
firstly, as an appetizer and sec-
ondly, as a medium for demon-
strating the decorative skill of
the hostess.
Even the simplest salad can be
thrilling, for greens — nothing
but greens simply and cleverly
dressed—can have a very fine
appeal.
Always have your lettuce, cress,
celery and radishes as crisp as
your best starched pinafore and
as cold as the refrigerator can
make them. With this basic ad-
vice you should be able to give
every salad a character and every
time you make them they can be
different.
The Seasoning
The real art of salad making
is in the seasoning. Always test
carefully, when assembling your
salad, and touch up your flavors
according to your own individual
tastes. Remember a salad dress-
ing and seasonings either ruins
your salad or gives it the flavor,
which places you in the honor roll
of salad makers. Do not make
your salad dressing haphazardly.
Choose a salad dressing•which sat-
isfies you as the best you ever
tasted. Then onion has an in-
comparable place as flavoring. So
has its twin sister the leek. As
for garlic!—when a salad master
rubs the salad bowl with a cut
garlic clove — it adds a touch
nothing else can equal.
Salads are no longer regarded
as "extras" but take the place
of honor in many a luncheon,
supper or refreshment plan. If
they hold the necessary qualifi-
cations for such a role they must
include tissue -building material.
Meat, fish, poultry, cheese, eggs
and nuts are of this variety, but
fruit and vegetables require some-
thing to "build them up."
These Add Flavor
Cheese can be used as balls or
cylinders the softer type of
course should be used. Cheese
makes an ideal stuffing for fruits
such as prunes, dates, figs, apri-
cots or peaches. Cottage or white
cream cheese, wrapped up in rolls
and sprinkled with ehopped ra-
dishes, may be added to your
salads. Green pepper adds a splen-
did decoration and is unexcelled
in flavor,
For "building - material" vege-
tables use corn, lima beans and
peas. Of course you all know the
value of the hard -cooked egg;
devilled eggs with vegetable salad
is an admirable dish when cut in
slices, sections or diced and served
with or in the salad.
Shape meat or fish patties as
balls or cylinders, roll in chop-
ped cress or nutmeats (if desired)
and serve with vegetable salad.
Marinating
Nutmeats niay be used as salad
ingredients or garnishes. Cooked
vegetables and certain of the raw
ones give more tasty salads if
"marinated" — also flaked fish
and diced meat. To "marinate"
means to allow to stand any time
from one-half hour until over
night, sprinkled generously with
salad oil and seasoned vinegar or
French dressing; fold in thick
dressing before serving.
Nothing is easier than the raw
vegetable salads — lettuce, toma-
toes, cucumbers, cabbage, raw
carrot, young leaves of spinach—
lettuce, cabbage and spinach
shredded and the carrot grated.
Either cooked or raw vegetables
can be set in a tart jelly. Try
vegetable jelly in a ring mould,
turned out and centre filled with
meat or fish salad.
bliss Chambers welcomes personal
letters from interested readers. She
is pleased to receive suggestions
on topics for her column, and is
vn ready to listen to your ::pet
peeves." Requests for recipes or
special menus are In order. Address
your letters to ""Miss Sadie B. Cham-
bers, 73 West Adelaide Street, To-
ronto." Send stamped sett -addressed
envelope if you wish a rent'.
Escape Story
Four R.A.F. men who were be-
ing flown ae prisoners from Sicily
to Taranto, Italy, escaped by
commandeering the Italian plane
and flying to Malta when their
guard became air sick, the BBC
reported recently. The broadcast,
heard by CBS, said the R.A.F.
men, two Englishmen, an Austra-
lian and a New Zealander, now
had reached Cairo, after "one of
the most amusing escape stories
of the war."
CANADA'S HO
CANADA'S
S WIVES ARE ,F
Yes, right on the "Home Front" in
your own kitchen, you can help win the
war by practical saving ... and still treat
the family to delicious nourishing foods.
The most delightful desserts you can serve
are smoothly rich custards or blanc manges
that can be made quickly and easily with pure,
high quality Canada Corn Starch.
As a sauce on des-
serts, on pancakes,
or on cereals, famous "Crows
Brand" Syrup is really deli.
Cions • ; • and it's an excellent
kweetener for use in cooking
and baking.
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