Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1931-03-12, Page 2Salida Orange ; Pekoe lk a most fascinating Eta 1 ORANGE PEKOE mune Wresh from t g.::rr_':'tts' lee nilfir `,. Pr i v;1tCCr. By PETER B. KYNE or CHAPTER XXXV.—(Cont'd.) The kingthumbed a push-button and summoned his vice-president and assistant general manager, "You let those Wilkins cattle get away from you," he charged. "Why?" "Because' Wilkins wired me fie would not offer the cattle for sale until our representative had time to get there and inspect the herd. I was busy, and couldn't go, and our•cattle buyer was sick with flu. I felt Wil- kins would keep his word." "Oh. We11, it's too had. We should have had that herd." He turt,ed to some papers on his desk, indicating by that action that the interview was terminated, insofar as his inferior was concerned But it was far from a finished matter in the mind of King Bardin. His Majesty wired Dan Wilkins that Kenneth Burney was not even in the employ of the.Bardin Land and Cattle Company, having resigned a week pre- vious; that prier to his resignation, however, Burney had been the general manager of the El Ranehito division. He requested Dan Wilkins to forward Mm, if quite consistent with the lat. ter's pleasure, copies of all communi- cations received from Burney, a copy of the contract and any further in- formation that might tend to convict the said Burney of operating under false pretenses. Further, Le advised Dan „Wilkins not to deposit the cheque Burney had given hien until assured by competent legal authority ..hat if the sale of his cattle had been induced by fraud and false representation it could be set aside; in which event the Bardin Land and Cattle Company would be glad to purchase the eattie at the same or possible a gntly higher figure and pay eash. Patiently His Majesty waited for Dan Wilkins' reply. When it carne it was from the latter's attorney end ran: Dear Mr. Bardin: My ,;lient, Mr. Daniel Wilkins; 'eas referred to me your telegram in r: ply to his of the 8th Inst. and has place.' in my hands his original contrast with Kenneth Burney and one telegram f'ern the Iatter, a copy of ',iii :h I enclose. After reading this telegiom yea will agree with are that if Barney bas seemed to represent himself ae the agent of your company, :;ueh ecpreeen. t:.tion is implied rather than . nrees- ed. Iie does not, even remotely, relax to the purchase of the cattle by any one other than himself, but in .ging his telegram he added the 'Me "Man- ager El Ranchito Division." 'Th:s '.eight be understood. as merely identi- fying himself and giving Mr. Wilkins a clue to his standing in the cattle business, although I feel quite certain he added this identifying line for the sole purpose of adroitly inculcating in the mind of Mr. Wilkins the erroneous impression that when he should arrive to trade for the cattle it would be as the representative of your company, with whom Mr. Wilkins has done much pleasant trading in the past. Mr. Wilkins informs he that at no time, while at he latter's ranch, did Mr. Burney, directly or indirectly, rep- resent himself as the agent of your company. Having assumed that he was your agent, it never occurred to Mr. Wilkins to doubt his own assump tion or question Burney regarding his authority. Burney gave my client a cashier'. eheque for $50,000, made in favor of himself and endorsed by hint t., Mr. Wilkins; the latter deposited the cheque the day he drove Mr. Bur- ney into town to eateh the southbound train and it was not until his return to the ranch that he discovered he had traded with Mr. Burney as an indi- vidual rather than es the agent of your company. 'For your information copy of the contract of pnmhase and sale is en- closed herewith. After reading that contract the king sat long in silence contemplating the carpet. "His :;:thea has backed him to his last dollar, but—it isn't hundred and some •odd thousand dollars. What Burney plans to do is to operateon margin. After making the second payment he will sell his What New York 1 7 tg.t`DVG—NTURE-S of Is Wearing 'M , BY ANNABELLE 4vORTHINGTf1ld qS14, llustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur., nal hf4Dog SCOTTIE-- nished T'''idy Every Pattern enough," he ruminated. "Not by three 1 contract to some big operator. Indeed, be may even try to sell it to nue. "Six,r-onths hence those cattle will be worth not leis than five dollars: a head snore'. than'he paid for them-- • ve rad as a sweetener Burney will have this year's calves free—probably about thirty-five hundred head. He'll sell) those later as long yearlings andat a good price. Yes,, sir, the boy is going to make some money- -and-.entirely at my expense. Within the yoa7: wedding bells will ring for him and Muriel and I will be left holding the sacks' On his desk calendar he made care- ful note of the dates Ken Burney's payments to Dan Wilkins were due, and then proceeded to forget the mat - tee. . Ken Burney niet his second payment' of $200,000 on tho Wilkins cattle, as the king was very careful to aster- tarn; also he had paid Dan Wilkins and his cowboys their wages regularly and had provided funds for all inci- dental expense connected with the herd. The price of beef' having ad- vanced two cents in the interim, the king decided it was now time to look Ken. Burney up and trade him out of his contract. Surely he would be forc- ed to let go now; wit a nice profit in hand lee would, the king reasoned, be glad to do so. Also, His Majesty knew that within six months, he, the king, would be able to turn the entire herd at a profit of ten dollars a head. So he got on the trail of his victim by writing him in care of his father. Promptly Burney wired hint that the subject broached in his letter of ---- date date was r of of interest to him. "That- fellow certainly beats my time," His Majesty decided. "Well, he'll have to do some tall financing in the next six months, and if he fails to make connections elsewhere he'll prob- ably offer to sell me a half interest in the deal. Well, if he does, he'll be in a position where i can do the dictat- ing. By Judas, I'll succeed yet in elbowing that fellow into going to work for me." If Mr. Burney employed a certain measure of guile in consummating this deal with Mr. Wilkine, he certainly was imbued with an ardent desire to protect Mr. Wilkins in the event he should find himself unable te go through with the deal as per contract. The contract specifies that should payments of the deferred payments not be remade on the dates and in the manner specified, then at his optical, , Mr, Wilkins may declare the contract null arta void, in which event Barney agrees to abandon any and all rights under the contract, the cattle revert to Mr. Wilkins and any suns hitherto paid on account are to be retained by Wilkins as and for agreed liquidated damages. While my client is none too wen pleased at having inadvertently, done business with a total stranger with whose credit and financial rating he is in ignorance, but for whose eloquence salesmanship and personal magnetism he hes the utmost reverence, neverthe- less it is any opinion that were he to sue to have the contract set aside he could not sustain his suit. Inasmuch as he sold at his own price, he will be satisfied if the. deal goes through without a hitch—particularly in view of your statement that 11 there eheuid be a hito,h you will be glad to take the deal yourself. WORK won't wait for a VV V headache to wear off. Don't look for sympathy at such times, but get some Aspirin. It never fails. Don't be a chronic sufferer from headaches, or any other pain. See a doctor and get at the cause. Meantime, don't play martyr. There's alurays quick comfort in Aspirin. It never does any harm. Isn't it foolish to suffer any needless pain? It may be only a simple headache, or it may be neu- ralgia or neuritis. Rheumatism. Lumbago. Aspirin is still the sensible thing to "take. There is hardly any ache or pain these tablets can't relieve; they are a great comfort to women who suffer periodically; they are always to be relied ' on _for breaking up colds. Buy the box that says Aspirin and has Genuine printed in red, Genuine Aspirin tablets do not depress the heart. All druggists. in TRAD:1 .SA^': ^...C. MOO 5 i] C0 1101' a CHAPTER XXXVI. Nevertheless, as the time for mak- ing the remaining payments fell due, Ken Burney resolutely failed to ma- terialize. The next thing the king knew, Burney had relieved Dan Wil- kins of his job and taken over the management of the herd himself. And, although the king had him watched very carefully, it appeared that Bur- ney had not, as yet, disposed of e single eow. "Hee. financed himself and is doing the sensible thing—holding his herd," His Majesty decided. "The calves he got free with the trade he will sell as two -year-olds; he has a new calf crop and a big one and he'll grow that out and as soon as this year's calves are weaned he'll clean up." The king sighed dismally. All of his well -laid plans had, indeed, gone by the board, and he was in hourly fear that some young fellow who couldn't tail a calf might induce the pri'•eess to miry him. He reflected bitterly en his purchase of the Bur- ney ranch, He had paid a stiff price for that ranch and he wished he hadn't. He was relieved, therefore, when his general counsel called him up one day and told him he had re- ceived an offer for the Burney ranch of fifteen thousand dollars less than the king had paid for it. "Nothing doing," His Majesty de- cided. "Sell it for what I paid for it, but not a cent mare" (To be concluded.) Old Man and Wife The youthful years, like revelers long gone, Grow faint upon the senses. Now they know The recompenee that comes when yolinglsearts go: The gift of • Jones on a sun -flecked lawn. They spend an hour with evening when the tall Gaunt cedars yield their shadows, lean and gray, And rise to meet the sun who comes to call Each morning, like a friend across the way. They who have grown too wise for any speech, Who feel a peace too deep or, joy or pain, Know there is nothing more the world eau teach Thanwhat is learned in shadow, wind and rain. And so, where lilacs brood and roses ci_mh Over a'm•,es-green roof, they sit and wait A dark remembered hand upon the gate As for an old friend gone: a long, long time. --Anderson. M. Scruggs. Young Mother: "The landlord called to -day, and I gave him the month'] rent and showed him baby" Young Father (of crying baby): "I should have preferred it if you had shown him the rent and given him baby.' � . a,,I" i' Well, boys and girls, se, nta>ly queer things have happened to us while flee- ing about the world during the last. few months, that we jadt have to tell you the story . of our adventures. Some day„ perhaps you'll fly over strange countries, too countries filled with savage tribes and wild animals, ' t c and a thousand in teresting things fie a f'•. ohu ver e dream: of while. sitting a ome,, Perhaps you'll fiy above the clouds at times and look down on them bil- lowing and rolling beneath the wings of your plane, just like a big sea of gold and silver in the sunrise; aisd away down below you'll see great fleets of warships in their harbors, so far down that they look 'like' toy boats floating en the ring of a bathtub At other times you'll fly over black tropical forests and follow the white track of unknown rivers under the light of a huge bright moon—wonder- ful, dangerous forests where croco- diles lurk in the swamps and tigers and bears hunt through the livelong night, while blue faced monkeys swing and jabber in"the trees. You'll see these things, and a thous- and more, and of course you'll want to tell the boys and girls youknow all about your adventures, just like I am going to tell you mine. Most of the boys and girls I know call me Captain Jimmy, While m real name is Captain, James Harworth Newberry, only the grown-ups call me that. We fly a Vickers plane. By we, I mean Scottie and myself. Scottie is one of those plater whiskery dogs known as Scotch Terriers. He looks like an animated bath brush, and ho has never won a blue ribbon or a prize; yet, for sheer personality, he's a dog show ail by himself. Scottie is the first nate and the crew—and what a crew he makes Anyway, I found Scottie when he wa only just about six weeks old, and he and I just took to each other. You know how it is. Sometimes a dog just adopts you. You don't buy him he picks you. Scottie just got use to riding around with me so I couldn' keep him out of the plane. From tis day of my first ride he has gone every where with me—all over Canada,, Eur ope and even Afriea. Paris advocates color contrast And there isn't anything smarter than the black and white theme carried out in this chic model of flat crepe. It's adorably simple. You'll like the slimness created by the cross-over peplum bodice, accented with black buttons and shoulder flowers. Style No. 2996 is designed for sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust. It's perfectly stunning too in black and yellow tweed mixture with plain yellow contrast. It may be worn now and is an advanced idea for Spring. Another splevdid combination is printed crepe silk used for the entire dress with plain blending shade crepe cuffs and buttons. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your nano and address plain- ly, 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 our order to Wilson Pattern s y Service, r3 West Adelaide St., Toronto. '0 headed het' out into the 'wind.. -Per- haps if we had known all the adven- tures We were going to meet we would never have made the trip at all. For you .knew, while itis lots of fun to read of adventures, actually having them sometimes is not all its' cracked up to be—and you often—Yes, very often -- wish that you were in some nice safe instead. place i s Once in the air, a plane is not hard to drive. In front of the pilot's seat is the chief control lever known as the "stick." It is not'a very hard name to remember, but it is a sure enough' important piece of the plane.l When I pull the stick .toward nue, it lifts the horizontal fins on the tali of the plane, and causes the nose to push' up into the air, When I push the stihk from me, it pulls the fins down, and of course pulls the plane down too. The foot levers work the rudders , • at the extreme tail of the plane. When' 1 push the one to the right, tree plane: turns to the, right --when I push 'to the left, the plane goes to the left. It's esatly like steering, a car, only you do it with your feet instead. A round clock on the instrument board tells me how fast I am going—another tells me how high up 1 am in the air, So you see it's all easy enough when you get used to it—like lots of things that look, hard at first, As we few over the foot- hills, the'scen- ery became more beautiful Wooded siOpes, cool ravines, and here and there an open valley where y' rig the lonely cabin of some homesteader or pros- pector showed half in tete cover of the woods. Then shadows began to malte patches on the sunlit country below— 1 the- shadows of gathering clouds. Scottie seemed to sense something • I wrong and. pawed at my flying suit— s 1 as clogs do when trying to draw your attention. Then suddenly "puff" a gust of wind struck us—then another and another. Then a rain squall hit • l us—and in a moment we were in the d ' center of the meanest storm you ever LI saw, the old ship reeking and tossing e I like a boat in an angry 'sea—the sky ' growing darker every minut'a—and the rain coming down in :heats amid the blinding stab of bine 1;:,'ttuissg. Then the right wing di.pred crazily and the plane began to elle ~:i,eways. (To he continued neat Thursday) Sonnet Ah, now that you, who held my thoughts for years, Have laughed and tightly turned away from me, And I, bewitched no more and free from tears, Can think in calmness of your ways, and see You pass uncaring by, your eyes grown Bold, And feel, instead of love, a faint sur- prise That hearts can be so easily consoled, That I can watch, unhurt, your row ing eyes Seek other loves, can see your gay. fair head Turn carelessly from me, and know that I Care seen cess than you, that all we said Of constancy was lighter than a sigh: Again I see, so long obscured by love, The constant Bills and boundless sky above! —Irene M. McCrae in The Austral- asian. Water Marks From Flood Found in Old Perisian City Oxford, Eng. — A city so ancient that its ruins show watermarks Left by the Biblical flood has been dis- covered a few miles east of Babylon by the Oxford' 'University Field Mus- eum Expedition in Mesopotamia. On top of it is the first well- preserved palace of the Sassauian dynasty of 'Persian kings ever fouid, and the (Recovery of the palace was largely accidental. Prof. Stephen Langdon, the united States director oe the expedition ex- plained how the discovery was made. The Field Director, waiting to begin excavation of the Mali Hill over the site of the ,ancient city,set his Arab workmen to ;levelling the mounds of earth nearby. They had not been at work for a:week before ono wall and two gateways of the Royal Persian Palace had* been laid bare. Prof.' Langdon estimates its date :at about 350 A.D.. The argslmpnt started over a bor- rowed fry ng -pan, passing by easy stages through defects in character, facial and other bodilyperculiarities, to what one personwould do to an- other if that other dill not look out. Then came a slight lull in the storm. "After all, Mrs. Briggs," said Mrs. dget u Mean, "you needn't so uppish. I n often pays back more than I borrows." "Yes, I can see :that," retorted. Mrs. 1'Briggs; "this 'ere pan 'meal no 'ole in it when you borrowed it." * * '3 It was a fine bright morning when we pulled the old Vickers out of her hangar, at the Calgary flying field, and Fires Burl Beneat Soil Eighteen Years. Riker's Island, Smoldering Nearly Two Decades, boes - Not Compare With Blaz- Coal Field New York.—Excavations for the new penitentiary on Riker's Island, New York's penal colony in the Hell Gate neighborhood, brought to light again the` other, day the seemingly everlasting fire that • burns at his heart. Whether actually everlasting long not, the fire already has aon g run to its credit. It started eighteen years ago and has been smoldering away ever since; some twenty-five. feet beneath the surface where build- ings are `reared and prisoners tend gardens and pigs,. For the past two years the Street. Cleaning Department, entrusted with the malting of the island, has been pumping water into the rubbish heap there through a'series of pipe lines at the rate .of 1,600 gallons a minute, but as yet the fire shows, no signs of dying out, And some people go so far as to wonder if such .a consume - tion is to be desired. For when the atmosphere of Manhattan is frigid and forbidding, Biker's Island basks in the semi -tropical warmth that :ry comes up through the soil; and twice a year vegetable crops of unusual Iluxuriance are brought•forth from the tepid earth. , City Fires Usually Short Besides, a fire with such'a record is somethingto boast of in itself, Not many cities are s0 distingnisbed; Rome burned in a night; the Great Fire of 1666 -consumed London in ,three days ,and no longer did It take the conflagration started by Mrs. O'Leary's cow to wipe out Chicago. City fires are mostly like that. Con• trol methods brought .immediately in- to play soon have them in check, or at worst they quickly burn themselves out for want of something else to con surae. Away from congested centres, however, neglected fires of seemingly little importance often get a holdthat enables them to last indefinitely. Forest and prairie fires sometimes go on for weeks •and weeks, and certain types of industrial fires also have a name for longevity. An ignited oil Weil, for example, has limitless pos-. sibilities, Not long ago Oklahoma City was treated to such a Are, which con- sumed 35,000 cubic feet of gas a min- ute and flared so brilliantly that news- ' paper's could bo read by its light ' three miles away, The fire lasted for four days; it aright have, gone for much longer had not experts blasted it with dynamite and so dilated the flame area with carbon dioxide to• shut off oxidation. A few years ago Los Angeles ex- tinguished e, fire in its neighborhood that had been going off: for two year's. It was a peat bog fire like the one that burned for a week two Summers ago. between Flushing and Jamaica. In the latter instance firemen began immedi- ately to pump water into the waste, but in the Los Angeles case months were lost while the municipality in- structed the owners to quench the "burning earth," and the owners denied thein' responsibility in the face of an "act of God." Finally, by the time the lire, burning from fifteen to thirty feet beneath the surface, had spread to six times its original di- mensions, the city appropriated $14,- 000 to fight it. A huge ditch was cut from a storm drain and pumps were installed, and the first big rain was. diverted into the smoldering area. The bog proceeded to hiss, steam and Barmy mild geysers, but all in vain. Fire hose was attached to the pipe lines and streams of water forced in- to every.fiesure until Ibe last earber died out. The coal fields present perhaps the longest fire records of all. Compared with some of them hikers' Island seems no more enduringly ignited than a flue. Recently thee' was another outbreak of a ITocking Valley fire that has lasted almost half a century. A group of 'disgruntled strikers set fire to the old rlumnter mine near Straits ville, Ohio, in 1884, then went on to• seven others, and the end of their in centliarism is not yet seen. Mine fires aro usually pat out by closing the mouth of the mite and al- lowing the flames to smother, but in this district there are too many open - begs; and so the ilamee continue to, eat their way through the underground passages, fed by an accumulation of natural gases. A Kentucky coal mine fire went on for more than 100 years and was quenched only when a near -lay river was turned into the shaft. CilDniate allori t The health -giving, delicious drink for children and grown- ups. - . - Pound and Half Pound tins at your grocers. This famous Recipe nook contains nearly 200 prize recipes chosen from 75,000 received from all parts of Canada, They are endorsed by one of Canada's foremost food experts, fie sure to enclose 10 cents in stamps or coin to cover mailing costs. 1 ''-- l 1. 'ores .,.- 1 Address l The CANADA STARCH CO., Limited MONTREAL tamasmommtztuzszammasemitirmamiSar 6 Aye i ea ith i o o d . . K R A, F T Cheese is rich in cal- cium, phosphorus .. and body-building vit- amins. It is the most highly concentrated- source of highest qual- ity protein known. For A balanced diet, include Kraft cheese with every meal. Made in Canada Made by the makers of Kraft Salad ,Dressing and Vetveeta Toronto. -An edncaticnal institute ill w be sponsored here this spring by po a n the Victorian Order of Nurses with a view to promoting a better under- standing of Maternal Care. A course of demonstrations will be given, OLD. THOUGHTS o There is nothinggood in man,but g n feelings i hie young ee tugs anti hie old tbonghts.—Joubert. ISSUE No. 9--'31 No Trace of Gypsies At the conclusion of the season's • scouting operations in Quebec ento- mologists of the Dominion Dsprotment of Agriculture report "throughout the season's work no trace of the gypsy moth Was found." In this im- portant field work special attention• was paid to highways leading from the international boundary to tour- ist centres in Quebec province. Close examination was made of trees along the highway, orchards, tourist camps,. and in and about centres of popula- tion. Adversity is not the worst thing in life. Adversity is, the turn in the road. It is not the end of the trail unless unless you: give up.—Van Amiurgh.,