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The Seaforth News, 1930-09-18, Page 2The. Gr!ngo Privateer By PETER B. KYNE 4161.45, SYNOPSIS Kenneth Burney, adventurer and one- time gentleman, .comes to Bradley Har- din, king of the cattle country, for a job. Burney has had a fight with Martin Bruce, a rival cattle owner who has been stealing the king's stock, aided by Mig- uel Gallegos, a Mexican bandit. The king, liking young Burney's style, offers him the job of getting the cattle thieves. Burney accepts though he knows it means -su light t.e thedeath. He meets Muriel, the .kings.. beautiful daughter.. CHAPTER- V.—(Cont'd.) The princess had been "out" three years, yet in all that time she had never met any pian who remotely re- sembled this strange guest that her remarkable father had so mysterious- lyaccuntulated. Vaguely she resented him. He was a nobody, yet, undoubt- edly, he was a omebody; there could be no denying but that he was per- fectly euro of himself at all times and never more sure of himself than Le was In her presence—which was a condition the princess had come to regard as, most emphatically, not a prescriptive right of young men. He paid no particular attention to her; he appeared unimpressed with her importance and his own insignifi- cance; her father alone appeared to claim his alert interest; nor had the princess ever known the king to ex- hibit such a profound liking for any young man. That Ken Burney's per- sonality had quite bowled her father over, Muriel had no doubt, for there be was, beating slow time with his forefinger, in Block sympathy, as Ken Burney whistled Chopin's Funeral March. "You're a real whistler, Mr. Bur- ney," she interrupted him presently. "He': a whistling fool," His Majes- ty agreed heartily. "He lifts whistling from the level of an infernal nuisance to a high art. Alas! If he could only shoot a swell as he whistle,!" Said Ken Burney: "The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight; But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night." "Fine," the princess agreed with a faint touch of scorn. "Now be bro- midic and tell us that practice makes perfect." "Don't be snooty, darling," the king pleaded. "Ken, my boy, can you Y,histle Listen to the Mocking Bird?" "Certainly, sir." "If he attempts it," the princess warned, "I shall leave the table." "Happily, no such sacrifice impends, Princess. I never whistle it except in the process of making a living. I whistled for forty weeks in vaudeville once—four shows daily—and if you think enough hasn't been sufficient for me you're a poor judge of human na- ture," "Har!" the king bellowed, vastly amused. "Har! Har -hart Forty weeks. in vaudeville, eh? What did they pay you for whistling, son?" "Three hundred dollars a week, 515," "Beats punching sows at seventy a month and found." "If I'd only had cows to associate with in vaudt,ille instead of the vaudevillians I'd be whistling still, sir." "Har! Har -her! What alae did you do?" "A little fairy rope-twisting—jump- ing in and out of my loop while I whistled. It was a terrible life." "Why did you do it, you silly?" the princess demanded. And this was a perfectly sensible query for her to make, because, fortunately, she had never had to do anything that annoy- ed her. "My father had endorsed a note of mine, Princess, and got stuck with it, So I went to work to pay him out, and when I had done that I reverted to type." The princess permitted herself a lit- tle throaty chuckle. 'What else can you do that's funny, Mr. Burney?" "I can play the piano by note, and I can recite The Face on the Barroom Floor and The ,hooting of Dan Me- Grew—all with appropriategestures. And when. I sing Where is My Wan- dering Boy Tonight? you feel like weeping out loud." "Just an old-fashioned boy," the princess murmured irrelevantly and the king -winked at his guest. When, at length, the princess rose from the table and the king and Bur- ney followed ur-neyfollowed her into the living room, it was evident that the princess' curi- osity was far from satisfied. She pointed to the pi..no. "Do your stuff, hombre," she commanded. Made of pure mater. ials in modern sunlit factories. No expense spared to have it ,clean, wholesome and falliiavored. GL to wrapped and sealed to keep it -as good as when it leaves the factory. WRIGLEY'S is bound to be the best ghat men and machines and money .,:can make. • The delicious peppermint flavor freshens the mouth and aids digestion. ENJOYED BY MILLIONS e844 Burney sat at the instrument, ran facile fingers over the keys and play- ed, with the touch of a near -piaster, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. "Boy passes his ex as a pianist one hundred per cent," the princess de- clared. "Now sing something." He played and sang Handers ex- quisitely lovely Where E'er You Walk. He had a sweet lyric baritone voice and it was apparent that at some period in his career somebody who knew music had given him more than a little instruction. "Boy's crazy," the princess declared. "He whistled in vaudeville when he might've sung mammy songs and got- ten a real hand." "Oh, but I did sing in vaudeville," Mr. Burney protested. "After my whistling act, in which I opened the show as The Whistling Cowboy, 1 appeared two numbers later in even- ing dress, with a false mustache, as Diego Romero, the idol of Spain, di- rect from 14Iad_id, in a repertoire of Spanish songs. I used to knock 'em dead with La Golondrina like this!" "And what did they pay you for that?" the delighted king demanded at the conclusion of the song. "Two hundred a week, sir." "You're right, Muriel. The boy's a raving lunatic. He quit three hun- dred a week as a fancy -rope twister and whistler and two hundred a week as the idol of Spain to harass torus from the hurricane deck of a disre- spectful horse at seventy dollars a month and found. Why, :re ought to have a 1:eeperl" "Here, here, there was a reason," Mr. Burney protested. "I loathed my whistling but liked my singing—all but the false mustache which flew off one night as I took a high not.. They gave me the razzberry for that and my accnnpanist and I had a quarrel about it. He blamed me for queering our act; so we scuffled a little and he hit me a hard soak in the throat and made a basso out of me for three months. It was all so discouraging I just couldn't stand it any longer and quit for good." The princess gave herself over to the heartiest laughter she had ever known. "Isn't he precious, Pop?" she cried. "Imagine his mustadie getting all tangled up with high Cl" The king was ch'aclding too, mean- while thanking Providence that Ken Burney had arrived tonight, of all nights, to save him from the bleakest of despair over the situation in El Cajon Bonita. It occurred to him now that hero was the first young man he had ever had in his house who was remotely worth entertaining. "Ever figure on being a radio enter- tainer—or announcer, Ken?" he quer- ied presently. "No, sir. The hours are irregular and the life too confining. What I';n out to do is to earn a sizable wad,. stock ut my father's ranch again and it( back to my first and only love. I don't take kindly to another man's collar." "Well, if Art Graydon decides to put you on the payroll tomorrow you can probably, by the practice of strict economy, save enough out of your wages to buy a calf a month. After a thousand months of this—" "One month, if you please, sir. Per- haps two, although I doubt it. Then Santa Claus is going to be nice to me." "Do I look like Santa Claus?" the king demanded with some indignation. "Enough like him to pass for his twin brother, sir. S know how much a certain service, well performed, will be worth to you, I've looked you up and have discovered that you're a great hand to give good pay to a good man, so the day after tomorrow we'll discuss the disgusting details," He got up from the piano, "If you please, Miss Muriel, may I retire now? I'm tired and I'd like to have a good night's rest before tackling my en- trance examinations tomorrow." "Oh, if that's all that's bothering you," the princess replied generously, "it's soon settled, We'll just waive the entrance examinations, Mr. Burney. Please sing the Prisoner's Song. It's so awful Dad loves it" "We will not waive the entrance examinations," her father corrected her. "Don't you interfere with my. program for Mr. Burney's future," "I am taking orders from the king," Burney reminded her with mock cool - ISSUE Ken Burnioyand .the king exchanged brief glances and Burney nodded al- most imperceptibly. "Good night, boy," ,said the king kindly. (To be continued.) What New York Is Wearing BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON Illustrated bressnsakiny Lesson Fur- nished With Ever?? Pattern The morning frock takes on new smartness. It affects a capelet collar through epaulet shoulders. that extend into flaring sleeves. It nips its waistline with a wide belt that is passed through a bound opening at the right side front, leav- ing the front free in panel effect to give height to the figure. The wrap- ped arrangement of the fronts that are reversible is decidedly slimming feature. The pockets gathered into bands are decorative, The flaring skirt hem may be scalloped or straight as is preferred. This captivating model is lovely for. porch wear made of orange linen. with white collar, revers pocket bands and piping, Style No. 2617 can be had in sizes 16, 18, 20 years, 30, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust. Printed dimity, handkerchief lawn, cotton shantung, polka-dotted sheer muslin, striped cotton shirting and pique make up very smartly and the small cost is surprising. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plain- Iy, giving number and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin 'coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto, Babies born last year in the United States were 7S,063 fewer than in 1923. Minard's Liniment a household friend. Ecol a:nay Corner Baked Hash One cup cold ham or beef, 1 cup cooked rice, ,4 tablespoons butter, 2 eggs, 3z green pepper, chopped, 1 cup milk, salt, 2 slices onion. Put butter, onion and pepper into frying pan and cook until light brown. Remove onion and put in meat and sante; add rice, milk and . salt; stir in eggs, well beaten: turn into baking ;dish and bake 20 minutes, Caracas Eggs Shred 2 ounces 01 dried' beef quite flue. Heat 2 tablespoons of batter in skillet, then crisp and brown the dried beef in the hot butter. Add to this 14 pound (grated) cheese, 1 cup to- matoes, and 1 teaspoon chile Powder. Let simmer, then stir in 3 beaten eggs. Cook only until eggs set, something like scrambled eggs. Serve very hot. This makes an, excellent luncheon dish. Brisket' with Vegetables Four pounds of brisket of beef, 14. cup turnip, cutin cubes, 1 large On- ion, out fine, 2 thin slices fat salt Pork, Ie cup carrots cut in cubes. Wipethe beef with a damp cloth, dredge with flour, brown in the fat from frying salt pork. Place in a large kettle, surrounded with vege- tablea and add three cups boiling -wa- ter. Cover and cook in a slow oven three hours (a pressure cooker re- quires about one-third as long), bast- ing every 30 minutes. Turn meat twice during the cooking period. Do not pierce with fork glen handling, as this allows the juice to escape. Appreciation He was whistling at his work With a grin upon his face, Not a solitary shirk Seemed to loiter in the place. But this youth who caught my eye Seemed to glory in his task, So I stopped to find out why And this question paused to ask: "Tell me this, my cheerful lad, As you whistle at your bench, Why is it you seem so glad To employ that heavy wrench? Why so earnestly to -day Do you labor at your task?" And he looked as though to say: "That's a foolish thing to ask." Then he answered with a grin As he laid his wrench aside: "Just to -day the boss came in And he stood beside my bench, And he spoke to me like you, Then took tip this work of mine, Looked it over, looked it through And then said, 'It's simply fine'!" "You talk about your pay And the pleasure of a raise, But I'm telling you to -day That a little word o' praise From the man you're working for Does a fellow lots o' good, And It makes him more and more Waut to keep on sawing wood." —Author Unknown, Found Out Briggs came upon his friend Wiggs in the park and was surprised at the worried look he saw on the latter's face. "Good heavens, old boy," he said, "what ever's the matter?" Wiggs lifted his head mournfully. "I'm rather worried," he said. "You remember that man I hired to trace my pedigree'?" "Why, yes," put in Briggs. "Wasn't he successful?" 'Successful," laughed Wiggs hollow- ly. "I should say he was. What I'm worried about now is where I'm to get the cash to pay him hush -money," —Answers. "Wonder" Tomatoes peas. Eighth wonder of vegetable world are these enormous Lomat.es grown "Then go to bed," the princess re by Walter King, "tomato king" of Lawrence, Kansas. Plumber by profes- plied cheerfully. Thank you for a sten, King has been cultivating tomatoes for five years with such results wonderful entertainment. Breakfast, Se Ge „ a* ,a ., s@ shown_ above. No other Orange Pekoe can equal this in flavour !F _.. ORANGE. PEKOE B«N D •fir' m the gardens' Our Descendants Will Live on Air? Present Generation: Lives Mainly on Grass ' and Plants Nature is a wonderful chemist. By meansofthe plants she extracts car- bonic acid from the atmosphere, and in the course of countless' centuries its* products are fossilized into • coal. Hu- man science discovered sometime ago the wonderful things that can be "ob- tained from coal—medicines, dyes, solid. and liquid fuels, anaesthetics, and hundreds of other things that man needs. But the world's coal supplies are not unlimited. We are using them up everyday, and it is calculated that in ten or fifteen generations from now they must come to an end. Nature Outplaced by Science The only thing is for Science to dis- cover some means of short-circuiting. Nature's processes, and some of the world's best brains are engaged upon this wonderful task. Presiding recent - 1y at the meeting of the Society of Chemical industry, Dr. Levinstein, the president, revealed how Science may accomplish in a matter of hours the processes for which Nature requires thousands upon thousandsofyears. The air contains Inexhaustible sup- plies of carbonic acid. We already extract from the air nitrogen, which: is the raw material of many great in- dustries, Some day we shall obtain carbonic acid in the same way. Already a wonderful means of speed- ing up Nature's methods has been found. Carbonic acid has been con- verted into methane, or coal gas, with- out the intervention of plant life. Coal gas can be completely converted into acetylene, which in is turn can be made to yield a tar containing about fifty per cent. of benzine. Thus our descendants may seek upwards into the air for their fuel, and for a large part of their raw materials, instead of burrowing for them into the ground as we do. To vary an old saying, man cannot live on air alone, but it is likely that the future may prove this false. The food of our descendants may actually be drawn from the air to a very great extent. To•day we 'live, though you may not believe it, mainly upon grass and other plants. Wheat extracts from the air and from the soil the sub- stances required to build and maintain bodies. Grass does the same, and is converted by the animals which sat it into a stronger form of food. which we consume as meat. Dining On Synthetic Beef The world to -day has a population of over two thousand millions, and at the present rate of increase this may be doubled in about seventy years. The time must come when all the land available for forestry and agriculture is insufficient to produce the food needed.. But before that we may have seen the fulfilment of Lord McIchett's prophecy, that some day Britons would dine on succulent joints of ,synthetic roast beef. ' Earth, air, fire, and water, the four elements of the ancients, contain all the raw materials for our industries and for our livelihood. Science has al- ready pried ajar the door of Nature's laboratory. As the years go by she may yield up more and mere of her secrets, and we shall make greater use of her unlimited resources. London Speaking! "Allo, Paris, donnez-moi Louvre quarante-sept dix-neuf, s'il eons plait." "Was haben sie gesagt, Berlin?" "Attention, Madrid, Londres esta listo." "Hello, Bombay central, put this call through to Burma, please." "Tokio? Banal!"' This, is not a page from a self- taught language lesson. It is just a leaf. from the call -log of a London telephone operator. London talks to almost everybody these days, only three and a half years after, the first -call from that city to New York had become possible. With the extension of telephone service to Japan, South Africa, India, Australia and New Zea- land, London will become the hub of a ;telephone system encircling the earth. Work already 'has been started on extension of service from Australia to New Zealand which will bring an additional 180,000 phones on to the in- ternational circuit. Negotiations are in progress for a service to India which can start op- erations in a few months after the preliminary work is finished. When South Africa is brought into the world-wide hook-up there will be approximately only 128,000 telephones. in Asia, and a few thousands in Africa and Oceania outside the inter- national telephonic alliance. The ser- vice from London around the world will be virtually complete in a few months. Inhale Minard's Llnime for Asthma. An Irishman was holding forth on the virtues of his native Tipperary. "There is no place in the world like It," he said. "Yon can buy a sheep for eighteen -pence." "Then why did you leave it?" asked his companion. "Because I hadn't eighteen-pence."— Tit-Bite. In a prenuptial contract a Virginia couple agreed never to make any claim to each other's property. Obviously there are two automobiles in that family, • There s scarcely an ache or pain that Aspirin will not relieve promptly. It can't remove the cause, but it will relieve the pain! Head- aches. Backaches, Neuritis and neuralgia. Yes, and even rheumatism. Read proven directions for many im,ortant uses. Genuine Aspirin can't depress the heart. Look for the Bayer cross: Scraggly, unshaven beards are like dull, unpolished shoes ... both are entirely out of keeping with your pride of personal appearance ... so keep your shoes at all times smart with "Nugget" which waterproofs the shoes as it polishes. SHOE POLISH( NUGGET TIN often. with a tout G e Dd E': esults i n New Treatmc:•nt Surprising . Improvement in Cases Observed at Lan- cashire Centres Manchr, Pn—ltemaraie sults in theestetreatmg.ent of nolcn-pulunronre•- ary tuberculosis by artificial sunlight are claimed by the. Tubereulevis Con- mittee of the Laneaphire'County Coun- cil. Lupus—that is, tuberculosis of the skin—and ` tubercular adentis, which are very slow in yielding to any other treatment, have responded sur- prisingly to artificial light, and in al- most every case either complete quiescence of the disease or marked improvement has been observed.. The first steps in the new treat- ment .were taken in 1925, ,when the County Council authorized the estab- lishment of two experimental light in- stallations—at Ashton-under-Lyne and at Lancaster.. During 1927 a centre at Chorley was added, and now there are no -fewer than twelve dispensaries at which light treatment can be obtain- ed—Lancaster, btained—Lancaster, Chorley, Preston, :Nel- son, Stacksteads, Ashton, Radcliffe, Eccles, St, Llelens, Wigan, Ulverston, and Fleetwood. The total number of patients treated in the course of last year was 842 of whom more than half were new cases. - The lamps used for the treatment include long -flame carbon arc lamps for general irradiation, Kromayer, water-cooled mercury vapour lamps for local treatment, and mercury va- pour lamps of the Jesonlek or Han ovia types for both purposes. The usual initial exposure of the patient to "Grade A carbons" is live minutes to the front of the body and five to the back at a distance of three feet. Grad- ually the exposure is increased to fif- teen minutes and the distance to two feet. The mercury vapour lamps for local treatment are applied at a die- tance of from ;a quarter -inch to two inches. During the first two years of work- ing the following results were obtain- ed btained at the Ashton Dispensary, which is the largest 80 far established: 1. Lupus: Of 97 cases taking the treatment 44 were reported "quiescent and apparently cured." The rest were still undergoing treatment and were improving. • 2. Atlantis: 0f 101 cases treated 77 were apparently cured, Twenty-three were still under treatment, and one case only was stationary. These. are the most striking in- stances, In other forms of tubercular disease few cases were treated and less satisfactory results obtained. it appears that artificial light treatment is unsuitable to cases in which the lungs are affected. In 1929 the number of cases under- going treatment in all centres was 842, of whom 439 began treatment during the year. This high proportion of new cases is not surprising, as the average duration of light treatment for cases recovering is nine months. Of this number 303 completed the treatment during ilia year. Of these in 252 cases the disease was "qulescen: and ap- parently cured;" in 34 the condition of the patient was improved; only in 17 cases was no improvement noticed. Three-quarters of the patients at- tending ttending centres were able to continue their normal occupation during treat Brent. The average cost of the treat- ment was 01.12 a head per week. It is estimated that 012,500 was saved by, treating patients at the dispensary in- stead of in a hospital. Bears Do Return • to Winter Dens Proof, contrary to the accepted view of naturalists, that bears, sometimes return to the same dens they used during hibernation, is claimed by Frank Oberhansley, ranger -naturalist at Yellowstone National Park, in a statement published in a recent bulle- tin of the National Park Service. While taking a company of visitors over the Mammoth Hot Springs trail, Mr. Oberhansley states, he noted a bear den. There had been a heavy ram the night before. Examining the ground around the entrance to the den, it was discovered there were fresh bear tracks going away from the den and tracks par- tially obliterated leading into the den. The tracks, apparently, were those of. a mother and her two cubs. "This could india,te," Mr. Ober- hansley says, "this hear family had taken shelter in the den in which it hibernated in the winter." It has also been proved, Mr. Ober- hansley says, that a mother bear with • two cubs will go into hibernation with them a second year. Upon the arrival of more offspring, however, she will have nothing to do with her previous Young. Doctor's Orders She was shown into the doctor's of- fice, and he soon noticed that she was looking worried about something, "What is it, Mrs, Potts?" asked the man, "It's Fred, my hubby," returned the woman. "I want you to allow him to have his beer after supper," "Why?" questioned the medico, rather puzzled. "Since you said that he was not to drink beer after supper he won't have anysupperat all," came the reply. Answers, If you feel the urge to write poetry, better have an examination to deter- mine etermine whether you're crazy or in lov-p.