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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1921-06-02, Page 6► M So many ()oily uses 112 2, 5, and .10 -lb. tins. ,.��. itis served in some form at every meal, :and s keeps indefinitely, many thrifty housewives order several cans of Crown Brand, at a time. Thus they always have a supply on hand. HoW are to find 'that no emergency pleased they calling for cooking, baking or candy -making' finds them unprepared. It is economical. Tan CANADA STARCH Co., LIMITED, MONTREAL , «,i raayru ", • Sweetener' Che �Y'C°Q'� li [By The Law of Tooth and Talon -Ey MERLIN MOORE TAYLOR _ 1 t fur a• With clave other tugged''at f°0h, fo'rge't it," said the slier, vi;s- it hardens. Star to tw i clip sl wry, badge nd " b d ` I did. that on tihe of lemon extract; 'thea � � uto'S O+a't, u �e was ..'aa 'e. Lebrune, peering where th'e light commas to .wrists back to this hole in and' the thumb, one-half teaspoonfu thor� the woavpon in its holster beneath ods illy em arrasse ', , c B t h t l'at ! spur of the moment, It tools more crushing it fine between the forefinge 1 xllfaaa�Y •srar.ra ', P e11 a sold h•• er 'You t � t detective," he see if you were still alive. I •felt the ought,, pour it into a buttered to alv to I had13. directed his gaze, had seen• the dark. and feel for .your heart t of cooking soda. Mix the whole i ct JLP care 40 types; all o.rs miles, d SO- urchased. or partici latter e p Tun of Gere stance you wink, in • ref goc4 drier as p. mice refunded, RING mechanic of yon own Chime to logit thein over, -.or ask Us take any car to city representative is inspection. Very large stock always oft hand. F3reakey's Used Gar Market . -_1 402 "St onto Street, ,'L' screamecl. and fired' pointbleaale at the cold chiwls ru oing u'p my spine. ve axil when it is partly cool mark it off s+pot where he had seen C'harkton last• always been sliig,htly squeamish where an wh it i ert lines so deep that But the Goverum'ei��t man lead an- a dead person is eonceemed aiavd• you , iir8 tieipatcd him by the fraetion of a certainly lay like a log. I found out the bee's may be readily broken apart.. second and had softly changed his po- you were very mudh alive, puilled you sition, but not far e�iotigh. Be feltt a up or the cot, went baele'to any curl T'he "Travelling>, ]Faun Wolnan. searing pain across the side of his an'd got enough water out,o'f the rade- A farm womaia--we'have this story heed and, with the thou ht that Le- ator to mop .off your wound, tied it _ ' v ' bullet had.:fou'rnd. � s mark and up and• then there wasn't anything to direct; and it s the -who was sig o - orates. . s the bast fliolser of life, ; d!o l,ut to s�t4'cic around and is cit for gig weary wit S he i.s tits wa• he slid to the' floor. But not before he daylight crud you. to Colne to ag!ain." forced:to do because of the inconven-. hout from above: a "W'hat time is it?" asked Charlton: ient arrangement of her living -room, "C lieaici a s g. kitchen, cellar 'and. other rooms which "Ch.ailton, I'ni oogn�ing, . It's Alfred `'About 4,30 in. the motilin' Day- r .her r setice most of the Gr'aham," and the sound of two shiots light comes early this time of the called fc p e almost s'imul'taneously, Then he ceas-' year. It s a trifle early even' for a ed to know a'nyt. 6 CHAPTER XI, On the Trail Again. Clnailton came back to eoxrs•ciou�s- es• with a realization that his head t out of the Army, but I'm fairly ravenous. So if you are'' quite ready, well make it outo the and hunt up a place to eat. :Doubt if there is any place nearer than town and I want a big .meal, too." n .s "But you haven't told me how you pained him slightly, that a wet cloth happened to be in on the party just was about it, but that he did••not feel in the nick • of time,," said Charlton in the least as if he were badly hurt.' when they were seated in Graham's For a moment he lay with his eyes , machine, and its powerful engine was closed, then opened 'slowly. He was drawing swiftly toward the city. They ,e tracks the swill in the basement of the shack, he had stopped to �cainine h judged, and lying upon the cot. Over- left -by two motor cars in front of the head he heard the creaking of a loose building, and Charlton had guessed board, then, within range of his vision that they were those driven by Vogel a pair of sturdy legs began descend- and Lebrune. In the hard road their ing the stairway into the basement tracks, hail been lost. and, a moment later, he discovered "Just accident, pure and simple, that his. visitor was Lieutenant Gra- dear boy,"Graham answered ham. - question. "I took your advice, went "Hello, old top," hailed the aviator's' home, had a good sleep and felt bet voice, "You've collie to, I see. How ter. Then I got the car,, thinking to are you feerieg?" run downtown and see if I,eouad_not "Fine." 'Charlton struggled to a be of service to you.. On• the way I saw 1 time of every day, made an odd ex- hdn,, man bus , periment. It was certainly a thor- oughly up-to-date and scientific one. She wore for a length of time a pedo- meter which would give her an abso- lute record of the distance walked each day. The results were amazing. We should .doubt them had we no proof. This woman, doing ordinary house- work on a farm, walked twelve miles a day when she was doing only her average daily stunt of housework; on days when there were extras on hand, such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, or threshing, the pace climbed up to be- tween fifteen and eighteen miles. Toe, taled up, she covered an average •of 400 miles in a month and in five years —hold your breath -circumscribed the globe, right in her own home! We trove the installment of a lot of pedo- meters. Or, better, a general improve- ment of household equipment. _ ire, (Copyrighted) sitting position and felt gingerly of I yon and a strange man in a roadster Charlton did have the bandage about hie head. which answered the description of Synopsis ofe Preceding Chapters, ander hisoclothing "Oh, that isn't serious, said young "The Gray Wolf's" car as you describ- Ines- . "I e Vogel, a ebto Iddnap, but he did a vicious little automatic, Graham, cheerfully. "Just a deep ed it to Inspector Griffin'in my P Lebrun kidnap " he did not admit it. „ scratch where the 'bullet deprived you once 4o I turned around and followed. is offered $5,000 by s, but instal said Le- Ih'avebu pistol," Judge Graham, terror of'evil-doors. As Lebrun leaves "Silver Danny's" saloon, he is observed by Ralph Charlton of the Department, of Just- tice who has dubbEd him, "The Gray Wolf." Vogel takes the $1,000 given him to bind the compact to Stella Lathrop, a country girl he had found starving in the city and befriended. Stella is now earning honest -wages m a factory and refuses to marry Vogel unless he gives up his evil ways. She has, however, fallen a convert to Bolshevism. Vogel carries out his pact. Judge Graham lies bound in a shack some miles out of the city. "The Gray Wolf" demands that the Judge should let certain prisoners off with merely a fine. Threats of death for himself and torture for his son have no weight with the just Judge. Charlton becomes suspicious of "The' Gray, Wolf" and « replied Charlton shortly. Vogel. Stella Lathrop joins the Inner No, p Charltonvisited Stella 'to "Come on."He took the lead and ape Council. cautiously. Not find out if she knew of Vogel s where-praa�ched the shack Y abouts, and when leaving the hotel saw Lebrune break into her room and Vogel rush to her rescue Lebrune got Vogeand Stella in a motor run t° place any too. much faith in the fact is im- the had not been challenged. It hut where .Jud Judge Graham that y. the g house itself e re -in th intothat m be might mi prisoned, but.was frightened g• 'turn ng to the city. Stella insisted I Vogel, revolver in hand, . merely wait - upon taking the unconscious nap ed for a fair sight at them to shoot them down. bo'cks of hair. You w'on't I couldn't imagine how you two,, the bruise disappointedly. He produced it. of a few notice it after a day or two." hunter and' the hunted, happened to "I with I had known sooner that you "Lebrune didn't nvake_a bad guess be er such apparently intimate tennis, did not have a weapon with you, for as to where I was," replied the Gov- but I put two and two together and I have others hi my rooms." ernmen-t man. "I thought I had made took a chance that you were playing this game with him. Was I right?" "Go to the head of the class, re- plied Charlton with a grin. "I was playing a game all right, but niy. badge fell out of my pocket when I leaned over .the eat, and the beans were spilled. Go ahead with your yarn." . f`Wel1, I had -an idea from the speed -"It is not likely any will be needed," slim miss for a' minute and f replied the Gover anent man. "Lead had killed me the next.. By the way, on. _ It's getting late." where is he?" "The later the better," said Le- Graham shrugged Ms 's'houlders. brume, and Charlton thught of the "Probably a thousand miles away oBible quotation about men whose from here by now, at the rate him," as deedsid q traveling. when 1 last Saw deadre evil preferring the night. said. •"When I heard him yell out ha.a e In silence they went forward, . Charlton at I,ebrune's heels, until discovery of the fact that you. were even in the gloom of the heavy trees officerand followed it with a shot, the Government man could detect the shadowy outlines of a building. "The Gray Wolf" seized him by the arm. "There it is," he whispered. "It doesn't look as if any one were about." the worst of the fight and pursued a sound greeted them. They advanced to the rotting front porch, ascended the broken steps and stood just out- side the doorway. . Charlton did not with them in their flight to safe Charltoninvades ,the Inner_ Council under".guise of a messenger from he quaa-ters, and afterwards Lelirnire`re- vealed the secret of the Graham plot. Suddenly the thought crossed the Governnient man's. mind that he 'might be the fool and the dupe after all. Suppose that Lebrune knew who hie was, after all, and had merely con - CHAPTER X.—(Cont'd.) Icocted a pretty story for the purpose In less than ten minutes they wire l of luring him he -re to this lonely place in Lebrune's roadster fairly eating up and killing him at his leisure? Who the road to the shack. "The Gray would ever know it? Hadn't Judge Wolf,," his attention centred -upon Graham been held here for almost e road at their terrific week without the fact becoming holding the speed, and to keep up a broken con- versation with Charlton, had no eyes or ears for anything else but Charl- ton, looking back through the glass in the back curtain, saw two bright beams of Iight that seemed to main- tain the same speed as their own car. "The police," thought Charlton, known, that is, if Lebrune had tai the truth in even that particular? But cold reason reas'ser'ted itself oyes his fears. The story told by "The Gray Wolf" coincided in many particulars with things which Oharltoai lead rea- son to know were true. No, the pian was unsuspicious. Still, he might test an you were ranking that you wer I wt's lying with my head poked over hurry call and I thought it might be something to do with my father and. I hung along. "You haven't asked after your father," chided Charlton. "I heard what you and Lebrune said about it before he took the pot shot at you, so I naturally supposed he hadn't been found. Lebrune seemed worried about it, too, so hdeduced hat if he wasn't happy t have gotten the best of him some- where. " He paused for confirmation. "Still at the head of bhe class," said "You Y•ou know almost as much as I do as to your father's present whereabouts. But I believe he is un- harmed, but still a prisoner, probably in the hands; of Louis Vogel. Iwould- n't'bee ,swprised if we found a demand on the rewards awaitingyou when we get back. But Ill tell you my story in detail later. . It is a long one, and I'll snake one telling do. for you, too, when I make my report -to the chief. That is, if you can stand it." the edge of the trapdoor up there. The next thing I knew I had tumbled down the steps on top of him as he tried to come up, and we had a nice little tussle down here .in the dark. I lost my revolver in the jamboree and. he must have known it,. for he shook himself loose, threatened to kill me if I followed him and backed up the steps. I heard him run out of the house. I felt around, got my bands on the flashlight, found any revolver and chased out t after him. chased was turning his car around by the time I got to the road and I. was too late to stop him. But I let h4an have a couple of shots for good measure and they only made him travel the faster" "Thanks, Graham, you s'av'ed my fife, I believe," said Charltontgratee fully. He held out his hand 'andathey shook. "I won't say anything more about it, old man, but I pledge my- self to ,clear up this thing and find your father if it takes the rest of my days. That was -a b lave thing to do, to drop down into this place and face finding comfort in the fact that he him. would have help near at hand in case "Have you a flashlight?" whisper Lebrune should grow suspicious and ed the Government man. turn ugly. Confident that the detec- "Yes." Lebrune fumbled in his i tives assigned to shadowing Lebrune packet. had again picked up the trail, he put "Give it to me," ordered -Charlton, himself out to keep his companion so and waited anxiously. If Lebrune intent upon other things that he would surrenidered'the light to hem it would not notice the car at their heels. ' be because he trusted him. Even if Charlton took one quick backward he were unarmed, as "The Gray Wolf" glance when Lebrune turned off the believed, and had the Bight he would well traveled road into an unpaved, have the advantage of Lebrune and rough one. Ile saw the beans of light his pistol. Lebrune, dazzled by the from the other car for a moment just rays of the light, would be blinded for at the crossroads, then they disks- several minutes after it was switched peered, i off and be unab'Ie to tell in which di- "They must have been just joy- rection to shoot. riders or if they were the police they To Oharlton's relief he felt the did not see us turn," thought Charl- flashlight shoved into hes hand. Be - ton; •tlhen he resigned himself to play assured, he turned toward the door, out. thegamealone. He- had gone too pressed the button of the flash lamp far to turn back now. r and turned a flood of light into the Lebrune drew to a stop at the edge interior of the shack. Lebrune at his of a growth of heavy timber. The side, weapon held forward in rea,dd- an ,armed man." The Spacious Firmament ,on High. , The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens a shining frame Their great original proclaim. • The unwearied sun, from day to day,\ Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades pre7ail The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from Pole to' pole. Engaging a Cook. "Tell me, did you engage her ? "' asked one lady recently of another, to whom a cook she had formerly em- ployed had applied for a position. "Almost," was the reply, "but not quite. She insisted on being sent to church every Sunday in an automobile, because we are a mile from the vil- (To be continued.) l[lnard's Liniment Relieves Colds. For Your- Strawberry Time. Have you ever eaten frosted straws berries? To make them, beat white of an egg until fairly stiff. Dip the strawberries one by one into he white, roll in powdered sugar, an let dry. Strawberry marshmallow cream — 4 slices white cake, 12 marshmallows, 1 cup whipped cream, 2 cups straw- berries. Place, a piece of angel or any white cake in a sherbet glass, mix the marshmallows, which are cut very fine, with the whipped Dream and pile on the cake. Decorate with straw- berries, • Strawberry fluff -1 cup instant • house is battik there, he said. It ness to fire at any enemy, sighed tapioca, 4 cups water, 1114 cups sugar, would be best if we left the ear here aloud with relief. and walked no as to give no warning "They are gone," he said in his of our approach if that damned thug natural voice. "Tuan the light over and his men should happen to still in that corner toward the steps. The be here." I Judge was in the cellar to which they He turned off the ignition and the lead�' 2 cups s mashed strawberries, w egg -whites. Put the tapioca and hot water into a double boiler, and cook until clear; add sugar, strawberries, and the stiffly beaten whites of two eggs, lights and the engine died away.' Chariton, holding the light so that and set asile to chill. Charlton could have sworn that he their steps would be within its range Strawberry sponge -2 tablespoons heard the soft swish of a high-power- and taking Gare that the other should gelatin, 11/4 cups water, 4 cups berries, ed car coming up the read they had walk beside and not behind him, 1 cup sugar, 3 tablespoons lemon juice, just traversed under low speed, then started for the stairway to the base- 4 egg whites. Soak the gelatin in one - convinced himself that he had been' meat. „ half cup of cold water; gnash the tier- mistaken and turned into the woods "You've got the gun. Go first, he after Lebrune. i suggested, casting the rays down into ries and add one-half the sugar to "You ;are armed?" whispered "The the basement. Lebrune did so. Ger- thein. Boil the remainder of the sugar Gray Wolf." Tueke'd in a holster lain that they might not expect to and the cup of water; gently' twenty 1 C 41“.°9" erG J,4517.. L.....t P'ptoottat"�'n`0 y /4mottftrAt 0110Nato "I Ogc1I91"la, t AINAtai{ f1 uNr� 22 't1, find any one in the shack now, Chart minutes. Rub the berries through a ton followed. Up and down, all around fine sieve; add gelatin to boiling the floor and the ceiling and the wades syrup; take from the fire, and add the he played the light. berry and lemon juices, Piece the ! "They have taken Judge Graham. bowl in a )tali of leo water, and beat What shall I do?" asked Lebrune with an egg-lie'ater five gninutes. Addanxiously. It was the second time the whites of eggs beaten still, and that ri-itt he had turned to Marital toadrvfce leas; until the mixture begins to' What though in solemn silence all Move round the dark terrestrial ball; What though no real voice nor sound Amidst their radiant orbs be found; In reason's ear- they all rejoice And utter forth a glorious voice; Forever singing, as they shine, "The hand that made us is Divin-•," Joseph .Addison. Shelter -Belts for, Prairie Farms. Several million seedling trees and cuttings are being sent out from the Dominion Forest Nursery Stations at lage. I told her that the trolley cars Indian Head and Sutherland, Sas- ran right by, and that we had no katchewan, this spring, for planting automobile; but it was no use. You by prairie farmers as shelter -belts had sent her in your automobile last about their premises. The trees are summer, and she wasn't going to ar- sent out free on condition that the rive in any less elegant manner this! farmer prepares the ground for the She said that if we hadn't an auto- reception of the little trees and keeps mobile we could buy one; she should the land cultivated till the trees' have think we'd be ashamed not to have grown sufficiently to shade the ground one, anyhow, and us calling ourselves and thus keep down grass and weeds. gentlefolk." The species'of trees sent out are Mani - "We were three miles out, and the Lobe maple, ash, poplar; and willow, trolley didn't run by," explained her and the tree -like shrub caragana. This friend. "I'm sorry if I spoiled her. It work has been going on now for about seemed the only decent thing to do." twenty years with- the result that "Ola; it was; you behaved as a lady thousand's of prairie homes are sun and a Christian ought," conceded the rounded and sheltered by belts' of other sadly. "I hope I'm a Christian, trees. Except for the war years the too—even your 'cook hasn't told me work has shown steady increase from that I'm not! But without an auto- year to- year, and the pian has proved mobile it seems I'm . so successful sful tha t it has been adoptedted Cooks are certainly independent by several of the provinces and by nowadays, but occasionally they show- the United States Department of Agri - ed a tendency to argue with prospec- culture. 'dye employers even in the tranquil Victorian and in conservative Mlnard'a Lini ment.for *Urns.. etc. England. In'the diary of Mrs. Glad- stone, kept during her early married life in the 1840's, occurs this entry; "Engaged 'a cook after a long con- versation on religious matters chiefly between her and William." Query: Were William ,and the cook miles of the earth. Above that height sympathetic souls? Or did the cook they do not exist. overcome the mighty Gladstone in .dis- cussion, ordid he overcome her? If he did, he must have been discreetly non -exultant over his triumph, or his wife could never have engaged her. A champion lawn -tennis player, is at all a hard hitter, will wear ,,out a racquet in a week or so. All 'clouds ere within six and a half glasses Fill the g �otliirdsfull o of ber- ries, ries, and one-half tablespoon of orange juice and one tablespoon of powdered sugar to every glass. Serve very cold. ' • Sleep Requirements of Children. No child nutrition worker, says the Public Health Service, can hope to. get satisfactory results without in- sisting on enough sleep for her, charges. Besides 'damaging the nerv- ous system, late hours cause "sleep hunger" and make children nervous and fidgety. The Service commends the following precepts just issued by the 1 i County Council: School cbildre, sed four years need twelve Hopis Bicep a clay; aged five to seven, 11 to 12 hours; eight to eleven, 10 to 11 hours; and twelve to fourteen, 9 to 10 hours. Children grow mainly while sleeping or resting. Do you want yours to grow up stunted? Tired chil- dren learn badly and often drift to the bottom of the class. Do you want yotirs to grow up stupid? When chil- dren go to bed late their sleep is often disturbed by dreams and they do not get complete rest. Do you want yours to sleep badly and become nerv- ous? Sufficient sleep. draws .a child onward and upward in school and in home life. Insufficient sleep drags it backward and downward. Whieh way do you want your child to go? Tire - slime children are often only tired children; test the truth of this, That a neighbor's child is sent to bed late is not a good reason for sending your child to bedlate;- two wrongs do not make a right. Going to bed late is a bad habit, which may be diffietilt to cure; persevere till you .succeed in Charlton bending'ver the call thicken.. which the o other had . pointed out, Glorified strawberry pie -2 cull ,sought traces of blood which he be- lieved would ,he there if Judge Gra- ' haln had met with foul play. He found none. Certainly the old jurist had place, uninjt?red ��rhven lie left lois 1 ace , either freed by Vogel ae.reven'ge'ultoii I Lebrune or a prisoner of the gunmen, who might seek to collect the rewards for his return. ore Charlton's n s ! In thatmoment, b of a 5 horrified eyes, his Government badge ge 1 :from his vest poelcet, and lay ehirsirg brightly iii the beams of the flashlight in plain view on the cot: Instantly he snapped off the ,right, ' rzalred out one hand to snatch the s Cradle Song. This is a charming little poem by one of our gifted Canadian poets, Miss Norah Holland: Husheen lo! 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