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The Brussels Post, 1942-2-11, Page 3jyq/ttt1 Lost appetites are found, and slow eaters speed-up, when tempting Chfistio's Premium Soda Crackers are served! That's because Christie's give most people more of the things ihey like in a cracker—tempting flavor, tender flakiness, dependable freshness, Serve Christie's Premium Soda Crackers with soups, salads, spreads— they're always sure to please, Chrilie's PREMIUM SODA CRJILCKERS `Flt your Grocer's.– in this economical 2 -pound Trackage T ��s .END 11��tt by WILLIAM MAeLEODRAINE • CHAPTER 41 Bribe Offer "Since you are a friend of Mr. Silcott I expect Mr. Stratton would be glad to let you see the letter," Henrietta Windom said helpfully. "I'm sure he would," Russell Mosely agreed, with a tight-lipped smile. "Thank you for the in- formation you have given tne, Mrs. Windom." "I'm glad to help' you," she said, smiling at him. "If you live. near .Blanco you probably know my friend Anne Eliot. Mrs. Lam- prey she is now." "Yes, I know her,.too," Mosely replied, a little curtly. He was greatly annoyed at the whole business. The finding of the letter was a blow, but to know that Anne was responsible for it and that she was co-operating with, his' most bitter enemy was gall to his soul. Henrietta showed surprise. "You don't sound very friendly, Mr. Mosely. :.I'ln very fond of Anne. She's a scrumptious girl, the very nicest I know." • "She won't let me be friendly," he answered bluntly. "For some reason she has joined in with my enemies—with this fellow Silcott, for. instance." "I thought. Mr. Silcott such a• nice man,"the young -woman murmured. "You thought wrong. He is a menace to the country, opposes to those who are trying to build it up. In fact, he is a miscreant and a ruffian of the worst kind." "Pm so sorry to hear that. Anne thinks--!' "Miss Eliot doesn't think," he 'interrupted. "She is guided by, her emotions - entirely. Because she has -.taken a fancy to this young man site is letting herself get into serious trouble. ..The fellow is an outlaw." Mrs. Windom was distressed. What he said plight be true. Not that Jim Silcott looked like a' bad man. In feet, the had not met one so charming and attractive in a long time. Of course it was possible that Mr. Mosely inight be prejudiced. A flash of light came to her. "Are you h party to this land- grant suit, Mr, Mosely?" she asked, "As it happens, I am," he told heir stiffly. "I see. Naturally you are in- terested in old Spanish records." Her cool voice held an edge of sarcasm. "I have you placed now, sir. You are the owner of the big ranch, No doubt you are a very,busy man. I must not de- tain you any longer." She rose, erectly dignified, to dismiss him. Anne had given her a vivid account of the outrages his men had committed. The Bribe Refused He lifted a hand. "Just a min- ute, Mrs. Windom. I suppose a young army officer isn't paid any too well. A little something on the -side inight be a welcome ad- dition. If you will get that letter back from. Stratton I'll. give you one thousand dollars cash for it." Lieutenant Windom's wife look- ed at him, eyes quick with anger, blond head thrown back. Before she could speak, horses clattering down the road stopped in front of the house. She waited, listen- ing. They heard footsteps on the porch, and a moment later voices' gay with laughter in the hall. The door of the living -room opened, to let in Anne and Jim Silcott. "I think you know Mr. Mosely," Henrietta said in a cool stinging voice. "He is an antiquarian, in- terested especially in old Span- ish documents. I've just had an offer from him of a thousand dol- lars for one of Don Jose's let - Mrs." "Why don't you sell him one, Mrs. Windom?" . Silcott said, mockery of his enemy in the smile he flashed, "I don't suppose he cares which letter. Any one will do." Mosely ignored Silcott. "I warned you, young lady," he said to Anne, "to keep out of this. You'll remember that too late." He snatched up his hat and strode out of the room. The Hat T Brand Jim Silcott and Anne came out of the dark old governor's palace ENJOY MAKING THIS COLORFUL LAURA WHEELER PEACOCK WALL HANGING COIR. ,q0 tit,RD4ECRA•Fr SERVICE, TN WALL HANGING PATTERN ., 2988 Use glowing colors oC wool, silk or cotton to hake. this faseln- ,sting wall hanging. Pattern 2086 Contains a transfer pattern of a picture 15 x 1934 inches; color chart and key; materials required; illustrations of stitches. Send twenty cents in coins (stamps camiot be accepted) :for this pattern to Wilson Needlecraft Dept., Room 421, 13 Adelaide St. West, Toronto. Write plainly pattern number, your name and address. BRITAIN'S NEW ENVOY TO RUSSIA Sir Archibald Clailt . Kerr, above, former British ambassador to China, has been named to suc- ceed Sir Stafford Cripps, retiring ambassador to Russia. and stood: blinking for a moment in the untempered New Mexico sunlight. They walked along the front of the long one -storey adobe building: which occupied' an en,. tire side of the town plaza, then turned to the left and strolled past the stores on the adjacent:` side of the quadrangle. In front of a saloon Silcott pulled up sharply, His gaze was fixed on four horses at a rack close to the sidewalk. ' Anne said, "What's the mat- ter?" He stepped into .the dusty road to examine the brand on one of the horses. Swinging the cow pony around, Jim pointed .to the design burned on its flank. "The *Hat T brand," he said. "On a horse Jud Prentiss rides, I'm wondering what it is doing here." Silcott looked over the other three horses. ,"This roan is a Hat T brone, The others•may be too, though they haven't Mosely's brand." "The riders must be inside this saloon," Anne,said. "We'd better go. • They might come out and find us here.". - "I don't reckon they would bother me while I'm with 'You," Jinl said easily. But be fell into step with her. • Silcott dropped around to re- port the latest development to Stratton. They discussed the sit- uation. The First Move "When" Mosely offered • Mrs.. Windom a thousand dollars for the letter he was making his first move,". Jim judged. "He won't stop there. What will his next step be to get the letters?" - "I don't know." Stratpp thought it over. "Do you think - he will try to bribe me?" "No. He knows you are not for sale. My guess is that he will stand back and let his foreman, this Jud Prentiss, deal with you." "Make his offer through him, you mean?" "Yes." The face of the Pow- der Horn man was grim. "But there won't be any cash involved. This Prentiss is a bad man, a kil- ler. I think I'll take the letters with me." ' The lawyer pointed to 'an iron safe. "They are locked up there. Mr. Mosely's handy man would be good if he could get then out of that steel container." "You don't know Prentiss," answered Silcott. "There's Indian blood in that scalawag. He might try Apache tricks on you," Stratton was startled. "You mean torture me to get the lock combination." "Jud would enjoy that. He's a . born bully." "If ybu had the letter would it be any safer?" "I can put it whore he wouldn't know. where to find it" "Can you put yourself where ire wouldn't know where to find you?" Stratton asked dryly. "You mentioned his Apache tricks." Jim :gestured' that off, lightly. "I'11 have to take my chance with Mr. Prentiss. He and I are old acquaintances." - (Continued Next Week) Last Straw The little English girl was tell- ing her neighbor about the guest , who had overstayed his welcome. "And, what's more," she said, "rhe ab our egg". 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Place curd in a bowl; break' with a wooden spoon. Season with salt and mix into a paste with a little cream. Mold and set in a cool plane. ` Cheese Souffle 3 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour 41, teaspoon salt Cayenne 3 cup, milk 3 eggs Cook first five ingredients as white sauce fortwo minutes. Re- move from heat and add well - beaten yolks •of eggs and cheese. Set away to cool. When cool, fold in whites of eggs beaten stiff. Turn into buttered baking dish and bake in slow oven 30 minutes. Cheese Fondue 1 cup scalded milk 1 cup soft stale bread crumbs s/s Ib. mild cheese (cut in "small pieces) 1 tablespoon butter 3¢ teaspoon salt Yolks 3 eggs 'Whites 3 eggs Mix milk, breadcrumbs, cheese, butter and salt. Add yolks of eggs which have been beaten until- creamy, Fold in whites of eggs beaten until stiff. Pour into but- tered baking dish and bake 20 minutes in- moderate oven. The composition of cheese is one-third 'protein, one-third' 'Yat and one-third water. In melting cheese use a gentle heat as in- tense heat makes cheese tough and difficultto digest. A little. soda added to milk and water 'used in cooking cheese, will ren- der the cheese more soluble. Miss Chambers welcomes personal letters Tram interested readers. She is : pleased to receive suggestions on topics for - her. column,- and lR even reudy to listen to your "eel. .peeves." 'Requests for recipes or Special- lnenllN are In order. AddreNs- your letters to f9UlsN Sadie n. Cham- bers, TS West Adelaide Street, To. Tonto." Send stamped self-addressed envelope it you wish a reply. English Housewife Drives Huge Crane A housewife, of 45 has recent- ly become an electric crane driver in a Birmingham factory. This work up to now has been done al- most entirely by men. Shecame into the factory as a shop -sweep- er. Presently the driver of a crane of 20 tons capacity fell ill, and the idleness of the crane was holding up' the work of the department. The sweeper asked if she might try to do the work, and was so enthusiastic that she was given three weeks of tuition. Then she took the sick mans place, sitting in her box and controlling the "crane "as you might a tramcar". After five months the man returned, and as the woman was doing his day's task, he was put on to night work The ex -sweeper, now, willing to take her share of the job,has volunteered to do her turn on nights, too. Secure World Peace On Christian Lines It will be quite easy to. give rein to our passions fora while and impose a .vindictive peace. ' It. will be fairly easy to be indolent- ly generous, sinking into a mood of selfish relaxation while we talk piously about forgiving • those who injure' us. The course to which we are called is far harder. It is to tarry the burden of se- - curing the restored ;peace of Europe by disarming Germany, remaining armed ourselves, and effecting a military, occupation of at least key points in Germany•, but to do this without exploiting that situation to our own advant- age, aiid steadily handing over to an international authority the control which wo shall have 'won and \exercised. That, as I think, is the Christian line of action, On the question whether we are sufficiently 'Christian to follow it, the welfare of the world in the next century may ]tang. — Archbishop of York. ON BAKING COSTS - GET PET TER RESULTS Every time you use'Calumer Double -Acting Baking Powder you save. Yon pay less—you trse less, And you get better results because of Calumet's double- s:mien. First in the mixing bowl, thousands of tiny bub- bles, released bymoisture, start. to make your batter or dough light andlluffy, Then in the oven, released by heat; thousands more of these fine bubbles lift your cake or biscuits high and evenly. Remember—with Calumet:. 1 -Yeo pay dear—Calumet is priced surprise ingly low, probably lower than the baking powder you are now using- p—Yox rue less—Calumet's double•action means double -leavening 90 most Calumet recipes call for less baking powder, 3—Yo%'get better results—because cootie.' uous :leavening .meats fuser, better texture in allyour baking.,. CALUM ET BAKING POWDER O UBLE-ACT///G One Goes To War 16 Help At Home In 1917-18 it took five weeks in field and factory to keep - one man in the armed forces. Today, with warfare mechanized far be- yond anything dreamed of in the first World War, it takes 16. In other words, war today is three times as great a challenge to those who remain at home as was the war of 1917-18. We who are the "rear guard" must devote. ourselves three times as whole- heartedly as we did before. • Practically that means just one thing—everybody at work for "the duration." It. means maximum . production from our farms and factories, with workers ,eager to. produce and with friction between employer and employes held down. It means complete co-op- eration everywhere in a real ef- fort to hack the men who' must face the .enemy directly. r Japan cannot win this war, but Americans can lose it. The one man who goes to the front cannot win without the devoted help of all 16 who remain behind. Mohammed Calls Sailors To Prayer Faithful Followers of The Prophet Praeticel Seared Rights Anywhere At Sunset A gloomy passageway buried deep in the bowels of a ship, or— a deserted hallway, in a sailors' home — these are places of wor- ship for Mohammedans in port. Probably the most devout of all the varied nationalities that. man the Allied merchant fleet, the swarthy followers of Moham- med never seem to let lack of facilities stop .them from practic- ing their sacred rites. Calling in ports such as Hali- fax, where Mohdinmede in mos- ques are 'unknown, these deck bands and stewards serving aboard ships' gather in out-of-the-way. places every evening at sunset to bow in the direction they believe Mecca, their holy city, should be. Aboard ship they use passage- ways usually not frequented by pasengers or the rest of the crew, Calmly they carry their square little prayer ruga to the:, favored spot, kneel' and touch their hands to the deck in unison. At such a time they refuse to be disturbed.' Usually noted for their docility, they ignore all calls' to duty whileengaged with their prayers. Reporters stumb- ling over their forms in the dark- ened alley are ignored, their ques- tions unanswered. Queer, But Sincere Later questioning revealedlit- tle more about the subject. Ap- paently these soft -footed, liths men are a trifle self-conscious about their 'stubborn manner is which they retain their customs. in a country alien to them. One, an elderly lean with 'a handle bar moustache, tried to explain how he felt. But as ,hit English was limited mainly to the words, "Yes, boss," and to vast grins and much waving of arms, he wasn't much help. Christian sailors look upon their practices with tolerant but incredulous eyes. They come in • contact -with them chiefly in the sailors' rest homes,falling over their kneeling forms in halls and rooms in the dimness of twilight. •` .An officer •_ described them ' as "queer but sincere,' and said their' religionnever was the cause of 'trouble of any ship he sailed with. In fact, he thought their faith gave them a real ua- denstanding of the necessity of obedience, adding they were easy to handle. Anglo-Saxon Race Second In Canada A shift in Canada's population was disclosed recently by Prof. Watson Kirkconnell of McMaster University, who gave figures -.• showing that Anglo-Saxon Can- adians anadians have, been outnumbered for the past three years by the combined population of the French-Canadian and the neer Canadians who have immigrated here from Europe. The birthrate for French Canada is steadily in- creasing, while the ,birth rate of Canadians of English, Irish and Scotch descent is Sharply "'de - dining, he said. The French-Canadian popula- tion is now 3,600,000, while there are 2,600,000 new Canadians who came here from various countries of Europe, and only 5,500,000 Canadians of Anglo-Saxon de- scent.