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Home My WebLink AboutZurich Herald, 1921-10-27, Page 6....:. TH.E C 5 p 1+/ PE AA 1V MARKETING OF WOOL 1 1 Voices were tat to be relied .upon.! Every Man For Himself By HOPKINS MOORHOUSE - (Colayright by Musson Company) CHAPTER III. (,Cent'd.) "Don't let's get into any political discussion Philip," interrupted his uncle, holding up his hand in protest. "Please. I'm too tired for that. I'm. sick of it, d'you hear? Politics! Poli- ties! The same miserable tactics of misrepresentation. The same petty motives that have bedeviled public life for the past— Damn them!" He heaved himself abruptly from. his chair and began to pace the room restlessly while Kendrick watched hinny surprised by the unexpected ve- hemence of the outburst. After a turn or two he stopped directly in front of his nephew, and in his eyes was a strange look. • • "There are many things, my boy, which you cannot be expected to understand without -a lot of explana- tion,' he said more quietly. "I can net go into any of these things now. If you ever accept a puublec office in later life try to look upon it as a sacred trust to be :Fulfilled according to the dictates of conscience. Then you will begin to understand what is meant by 'burden of effort' and the heat of the day.' I want you to be- lieve that even one man: against a pack of wolves• can put up at least some kind of a fight, even though he knows that sooner or dater, he is doom- ed to go down. I have tried con- scientiously to do what I thought was my duty. Do you believe that?" "Certainly," nodded Kendrick with- out hesitation. "Thank you, Philip. No matter what happens I want you to eontlunue to believe that." "Look here, Uncle Milt, if anybody is trying to put anything over on you, why net let ane in on the scrap?" urged Phil eagerly. "I meant what I said a moment ago. What is it? What's the matter? Finances? Let me help. I'll write you a cheque for what I have in the tunk and we .can raise something on any Parkview pro- perty—,, The Honorable rable Milton; tossed his head in a chuckle of anuisement. "How much harm you got?" he smiled. "About two thousand in the bank, another coupe of thousand in nego- tdable securities—eh, about ten thou- sand, roughly, including the real estate. We could sell that. I'll leek after it first thing after breakfast." "Ten thousand dollars is neither here nor there, Philip," said his uncle, shaking has head slowly. "I could raise such a sum by the mere re- quest. Perhaps if it were five times the amount—. Junt.the sanie I am grateful for your offer, my, boy." "Fifty thousand dollarsl" murmur ed Phil. "It's• a lot of money when Feu haven't got it." Hilton at Honorable M' The Hon glanced tllie clock on the mantel and gave an aexclamation. "It's time you and I were in bed. 1 hear. Stinson just coming in. Every- bhiirng's aI•l right. I'm going to turn in now:" At the foot of the stairs he paused to lay a Band on his nephew's shoul- der and there was unwonted gentle- ness in hfiS manner. "Good-nigglrt, Philip. And thank you for the 'flower of folly,' " he said awkwardly. For a moment Kendrick stood watrlhing the Honorable Milton War- ing as he mounted the stairs, slowly, a heavy hand uponthe banister rail. The gray head was bowed. There was an air of dejeeiion in the whole figure as of one who tastes the bitter- ness of defeat. CHAPTER IV. When Phil opened hips eyes an the morning .sunshine--bo&h eyes he was gratified to note a slight improvement in the blackened orb. Before retiring he had sent the newly returned Stin- son around to the from: of the house to bring in the suitcase left by the verandah and had instructed the valet to bring a piece of raw beefsteak to his room. Nevertheless, as he studied hies appearance ' in the mirror with score anxietyhe was gladthat he Was 'going ,to Sparrow Lake and thence to North Bay as fast as he could get there.,. Thorpe would soon ! tire of making witty remarks, and the fish would not care whether he bald a blaclk eye or not. As he dressed lethsurely Kendrick's mind reverted soberly to the events of the past twenty-four hours. Review- ing in detail the interview with his uncle, there grew out of his confusion of thought an odd sense of disquiet. Close questioning of Stinson lead yielded the information which his uncle had not ,seen fit to volunteer in regard to last night's clandestine visitors at the Island 'residence--= Niekleby, President of the Interpro- vincial Loan & Savings Company; Alderson, of the Alderson Construe - tion Company; Blatchford. Ferguson, the lawyer. If, as the Honorable Mil- ton had intianated, it had been a busi- ness meeting merely, they must be planning a raid on the stock maria. t to account for all the secrecy with which the meeting had been shrouded. Hes uncle, Phil knew, had invested heavily in mining stocks, and J. Cuth- bert Nickleby was the man who had been most closely associated with hint in these private investments, lihnle for some time now Ferguson had been favored with Warings legal patron- age in such deals as had 'come to Kendrick's notice. As -for Alderson, he was a comparative stranger to Phil —a ,eontriactor who had risen rapidly during the real estate boom, and who very reasonably 'might be taking a flyer on the market. ar It must he something of this sort, and in the face of his uncle's evident desire for him, to mind his own busi- ness, Phil was inclined to let it go at that. It was scarcely to be expected. that his uncle would break the custom of years in a sudden burst of confi- dence just because his nephew hap- pened to surprise bine in one of his difficult situations. His life was full of such difficult situations, no doubt, —had been for years—and the Hon- orable Milton was ,accustomed to re- lying upan himself to surmount them as he saw fit. Far from feeling any resentment of his uncbe'S• refusal ofhis boyish offer of 'assistance, therefore, Phil now regarded the offer itself es somewhat .ridiculous from his uncle's standpoint. To one of such large connections ten thousand dollars was the sane as a hundred -dollar bill to the average man. Yet his uncle hadthanked him for lois good intentions and tactfully had made him feel that the, apprecia- tion was sincere. At no time had the two been in closer sympathy than during this unexpected interview. His uncle was not given to sentiinent. Perhaps the liquor— Phil paused in the act of lacing his boot to frown out the window. The Honorable Milton Waring un- doubtede"y was greatly worried about coneth.r.r fins n1 a1 affairs maybe. Or was that only one gide of it, Mei- ' dental to something not so simple of adjustment? The searching look, the eoI•emni•by of the words which had fol- , lowed that sudden outburst against polibieal conditions of the day, that reference to cane inn fighting a pack of wolves—what _about that? No mat- ter what happened he wanted, his nephew to centime believing that he had triedto do his duty. No matter what happened! It was this remark, ni ; -e than any other, which fostered Kendrick's disquietude. Something was liable to happen, then? -some icing calling for a blind exercise of faith in his uncle; some- thing which on the ,surface might seem to question his—his what? In- tegrity? Political honor? Social standing? Or was it merely an em- phasis of s,peec'h with no special sig- nificance? Philshifted uneasily on the chair as be thought of his aunt's position if some ,catastrophe befell his uncle. If ,apty trouble of that kind were likely to develop, surely his uncle would have told him. Well, there was no use in getting himself all worked up over nothing, He began to whistle softly as he rummaged among his ties. Then his thoughts switched td the girl with whom be had talked in the fog. If he had only known then what he knew now! She had been spying upon the Waring residence, upon this secret meeting with the Honorable Milton. .That nluuh seemed certain. But why was she interested: in what had trans- pired? Who was she? And what had transpired? It was lack of this in- formation which made it' difficult to analyze the situation intelligently. Had he done right in withholding from his uncle the fact of his un.- ueual encounter with this gig•' ? He imagined the laugh with wli' h the Honorable, Milton would be Moly to greet relation of the incident. If it were true that there was no use in sending a boy on a man's errand, what p0ipg v about a woman on a spying expedition in 9, thick fog at two o'clock in the morning? Perhaps her story of the ' party at a friend's house was true after all. Perhaps the and this `''Joe" were a pair of sneak thieves— —1 Bee he. knew she wasn't, just as he knew That she was a girl of education and refinement. A taiibalieing thing to meet a disembodied :voice like that a low' laugh, ti niyst•ery! The lady might have a face like a dried mune !Stalk 'tee, 43 '2n1. M't' tt.",TOR, OPENING—FULL DIR[CTIOP51tl+10[Ort" Take that "hello -girl," far instance, She had, had. the softest, lilting voice over the wire, then when he got a look at her she hadn't been a day ull,1er forty-five sad her •face -..,----,1 Certainly it hadn't been the , fairest , that e'er the sun shone on! . (Only in this case he knew it must be differ- eatl) He area .a liopelees fool if ever there was one! The best thing he could do was to forget the whole af- fair and with this sensible decision he reached into hie pocket for the sou• vents, and spent some limo in re- examining the little band -pained shirt -wallet pin with which she had fastened his paiy tie the canoe eushioxi! Phil breakfasted alone. Although the sun. had eliznllied• high -enough to dispel the fog his uncle still slept the heavy sleep of utter exhaustion. Without disturbing, him, therefore, Kendrick had Stinson run the launch over to the city half an hour later. As a concession to the poss bilty of there being a serious side to the espionage of the girl and her accom- plice, he iia± decided to advise his uncle's lawyer of the adventure; Fer- guson then could assume responsibil- ity for the consequences, using his own jtrdgment as to fits signficance. Also Phil intended to have a that with President Wade, of the Canadian Lake Shores Railway, if he happened to be in the ,ei:ty; Ben Wade was an old boy- hood friend of the Warings and Phil' knew that he could tails to hirerfreely without fear •of his confidences being abused.. At the docks almost the ,first per- son Kendrick encountered was Chic White. Chic was -the, more, or dens renowned sporting editor of the "Morning Recorder" and he had a most aboaninable habit 'of going through the motions of spitting every' little while as he talked, more a mat- ter of nervous habit than saliva. He spat dryly three times as he stared at the approaching Kendrick and greeted the erstwhile captain of the 'Varsity rugby champions with a grin that bared two rows of teeth. "Ye gods! What a fall was there, my countrymen! Wow! Who slipped you the haymaker, Kendrick?" "Stick to the quotation, Chic.." laughed Phil good-naturedly, barely pausing in his stride. "Got it in the fog last night—Oanoe Cub stairs in the dark. I had a pretty bad fall." "So did Hunrpty-Dumptyl" Mr. White's grin widened, and with a de- liberate wink and a final spit he wav- ed Ms hand and walked off, laughing loudly. The owner of the lack eye went his way, face set in abn'orneally for bidding lines. People smiled as they passed him on the street. He would have given a ten -dollar bill to have met the redoubtable Mr McCorquodale around the next corner. He thought of buying one of those Pink shields; it would not hide it all, but it might help. He tried tying his handker chief over his eye as a bandage, but felt so foolisli that he tore it. off and laughed at himself. (To be continued.) 1'Ol'iOtef0, GAHAfid ENv PRODUCT ENJOYS OVER- , SEAS REPUTATION. Present-day Conditions Make the Pursuit of the Sieepmaan a Profitable Calling. Q. virtual revolution has been wrought in the wool industry of Cana- da in the past few years. Whereas but a short while ago the wool pro- duced in Canada was offered for sale in such an unsatisfactory state that the Canadian manufacturer looked with indifference upon the home-grown product, to -day he realizes tbat Cana- dian wool compares favorably with "that of any other country and more than heIf of the domestic production Ands its way to Canadian. mills. Not otly is the high quality of the Cana- dian_product appreciated locally now bat in the United States and the over- seas markets it is now generally re- cognized that Canadian sheepmen are producing wool the equal, of similar classes and grades grown elsewhere in the world, Gradually but surely a reputation has been built up for Cana- dian fleece wools on the domestic and foreign markets. -By July " 15th this year, the Cana - din Co-operative Wool Growers, Ltd., had disposed:of about one million pounds of the 1921 graded clip. By the end of the season they expect to have handled about five million pounds. This, it is stated, represents about one- third of the wool production of Canada which is significant of the status of the productive. industry. In the fiscal year ending March 31st, 1921, more than 7,000,000 pounds of.wool were ex- ported to the United States, 130,000 to the British Isles and 30,000 to New- foundland, This elevation of the status of the Wool industry in Canada by selection and grading has been brought about through the combined efforts of the Canadian Co-operative Wool Growers, au organization of sheepmen and the Livestock Branch of the Dominion De- partment of Agriculture:To counter- act the indifferent manner in which fieeces were treated and marketed, ex- pert wool graders were engaged by the Government for the purpcse of grading the wool at certain ' centres throughout the country. This policy Deadliest Foe of Orchards. The codling moth is the. parent .of:. the"appleworms, a very unpopular in- sect. To get a line on the habits, and life history of the insect, experts have constructed "cocooning racks" of wood strips so put together as to form rows of compartments or cells, each ac- commodating one caterpillar. The rows of cells are covered with strips of transparent celluloid, through which the transformations of the cat- erpillars into pupas and finally moths can be watched. A record of observa- tions for each caterpillar is kept by the help of a reference number at the top, of its compartment. The moth is browish gray, with a wing -spread of three-quarters of an inch. At rest on the bark of an apple tree, it is hardly i 'tin uishable to the eye. The fe- male lays her eggs on apples, ane here and another there, and the caterptliars batched from them bore into the fruit, eating it as theygrow anddefiling it g g in a manner unhappily too familiar. In late summer or early fall the full- grown worms leave the apples and seek concealment in holes or cracks in the trees, or under the bark, spinning tough silken cocoons• in which to pass the winter. Many of them, still resi- dent in the apples, are carried with the latter to storage houses, where they spin their cocoons In. boxes, bar- rels or bins. In spring they transform into moths, which fly to the orchards, thus completing the cycle. Elderly people can to=day remember a time when nearly every apple offer- ed for sale had one or more worm holes. Usually it was the caterpillar of the codling moth that was respons- ible for the mischief. Nowadays de- cent apples rarely exhibit such unpleas- ant imperfections for the reason that a spray of arsenate of lead applied to the trees is death to the insect. Dyed Her Wrap Blue and. a Skirt Brown Bach package of "Diamond Dyes" contains directions. so simple any wo- man can dye or tint her worn, shabby dresses, . skirts, waists, coats, stock- ! Ings,' sweaters, coverings, draperies, hangings, everything, even if she has 1 never dyed before. Buy "Diamond Dyes!'. --no other kind—then perfect home dyeing is sure because Diamond I Dyes are guaranteed not to spot, fade, I streak, or run. Tell your druggist whether the material you wish to dye is wool or silk, or whether it is linen, cotton or mixed goods. Matter of Monsey. Fred ---"If 1 were to propose, what: would be the outcome?" Freda --hat would depend very much on the income." i A uutsing bottle hes :been patented that -is made of a collapsible. material ' whish can be folded from the bottom. li (Oii;ly he l nsw that she hadn't!) . .i Minard's Lihitnent used by 'Physicians, ,.•-, „of! Young Men! Husbands When in cities where we have • branches do not fail to place yaur order for your Fall and 'Winter clothes at one of the stores of the ENGLISH R. SCOTCH WOOLLEN COMPANY the largest .tailoring service in Canada for men's gar- ments, open to the Canadian Pub'l'ic at wholesale prices. Store addresses as follows: Mont- real Branches -261 St. Catherine Street West; 4111 St. Catherine Street East; 851 St. Catherine Street East; 904 Mount Royal Avenue East; 1764 Notre Dame Street West. Ontario l3ranches—Toronto,. 282 Yonge Street; Ottawa, 20 Spa.rks Street; Hamilton, 121 Sing Street; Sault Ste. Marie, 484 Queen Street, East; Brantford,, 71 . Colborn Street; Stratford, 46' Downie Street; London, 180 Dundas, Street; 'Windsor, 101-103 London! Street; ]'ingston, 79 Princess Street; Wort William, 113 North Nay Street;, Sarnia. Delmore HotT Oshawa, 26 Ring Street West; Guelph, uel h 104 Up- per - ver vyiaham Street; St. Catherines 86 St. Paul Street. Maritime Branches—Sydney, 234 Charlotte Street; Halifax, 417 Barrington Street;• New Glasgow, 171 Provost Street; Amherst, 111 Victoria Street; Charlottetown, 158 Richmond Street; St. John, 28 Charlotte Street; Moncton, 889 )Bain Street; Frederic- ton, 350 Queen Street. • was followed far The first few years until last year when it' was found ad visable ' to have all the grading done under- one roof and a warehouse was erected at Weston,. Ontario, for tbe. purpose. Canadian grades are now established standard in ever particu- lar, and have proved satisfactory in every way, Shipments to English Markets. The United States market has al- ways furnished an excellent outlet for the Canadian wooel crop and a large portion of each season's clip has found its way across the border. This year, however, this egress is closed by the passing of the Emergency Tariff Bili. No apprehension exists, however, bver the sale of this season's clip, the Canadian product having rapidly achieved an ecellent reputation over- seas. Last year the sheepmen of Canada, through their own organiza- tion, made their first shipments of graded wool, some 130,000 pounds, to the English markets, where it was re- ceived most favorably. Consequently, it is hoped and anticipated that Bri- tish manufacturers may take a sub- stantial portion of that quota of the crpp which went annually to the United States. The organization is, also arranging at the present time for a suitable firm, of wool brokers to act as a selling agent for Canadian wools on the Canadian market. The co-opertive marketing of wool and general organization for better- ment of sheep raising in Canada which has made the pursuit of the sheepman in Canada so much more profitable, has aroused a new interest in the in- dnstry, exhibiting new possibilities and opportunities not hitherto appar- ent. The number og sheep is increas- ing steadily in every province as more and more farmers are convinced of the advisibility of adding a small flock to their stock. From 1915 to 1920 the sheep population of the Dominion in- creased from 2,035,6623 to 3,720,783. Greater interest yet will doubtless be evinced in the -future with the oppor- tunities of grading and marketing, and Your Opportunity Large Canadian institution estab- lished 1887 with assets in excess of $35,000,000, which are rapidly in- creasing, desires a local representa- tive in this district. Only men of charadter and ability, however, will be considered: If you feel you are competent -to place our proposition before the best people in your com- munity, we can offer you a contract which will be very remunerative, Previous selling experience desir- able but not essential If you are the right kind, energetic, ambitious and progressive, we will develop you along proper lines of salesmanship. 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