HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1922-01-05, Page 6Every Man For Himself
By 1OPKINS MOOR(-ioUSE
61.54.100.4.4
(Copyright by :Musson Connlrany)
CHAPTER LX.--- .(Cont'd.)
"Now here's where you : come in,
Phil. .• I'od'mose think you intend to
help him out and that is exactly who
I want you to pretend to db. We'I
stage a, little drama and we'll have yo
on the carpet along with him,. You'(
denyfiall knowledge of the envelope
' fire you. You'N get need and
conte back at me with red -shot talk for
doubting your word and so on. We're
• "You ,always ;ware. pretty cock -
of yourself, Nader, even back iz
days when we both worked on th
at Tri.bune,'•' commented Ferguson
al a smirk of amusement. "But this pro-
w 1?osition of yours is the deckle-edged
it and no mistake. If you were
anybody else Pd have a lot of fun—
kie i g you •dswnstairs!»
d stuff, Fergey!" grinned Pod-
more, unperturbed. "You don't need
to pull that for my benefit. Talk b
!tacks. Kendrick will be here in
minutes with all the proof you
that I'm handing it to you stra
{an:
d that that eamliaign-fund wad
Nickleby's is where I can lay h
on rt, Do I pass it to you or mu
hand' it over to Charlie Cady? 'G.
the Opposition'% know what to
with it. I'in asking you this: Wha worth to the Government to win
next election? That's the little
answer I want."
"Would a couple of million .eati
you? H•ow'llyou have it ?—in fi
and tens ?" and ;ler. Ferguson gz av
stroked his fleshy red ,nose.
"Be serious, Fergey," protea
Podmore. "You can see for your
that I came near getting killed, lining
this thing up."
"I could not be more.serious if yon
really had got killed, Paddy," and
again he stroked the emblern of his
entrez to• the social functions of Jo
Barleyeorn, "I'm afraid your mind
warping in the sunshine of your
cleverness, Paddy. This fool notion a
yours—coming to me about this. mon
!fort to'coneeal his contempt, "Anal he
'hasn't forgotten that a fresh news,
paper reporter by the name of Pod-
mthatore°
. played Iain a darty ixicic twelve
yeers� ago. He'ssworn to get you for
"How --how do 'you know this'?"
asked-Pochno •e hoarsely,
"Itchy' McGuire called to see me
day before yesterday. He's met Rives,
ure If I were you Pei Bunt line up a nate
!little island smewbere in the Trois
in
days
s where you can live' with the rest of
e old the monkeys; they might .elect you to.
with Parliament or crown You. king or
something. Rives is one bad actor and
he's sore --good and sore."
Podrnore's attempted. laugh had no
mirth in it. He reached for his hat.
and as he said a hasty good' -bye he did
not look ,• at all well. For several min-
ute's' after he had closed the rear door
'ass Rlatchford' Ferguson leaned back in
ten hire hair, •'welding.
want Now, while this remarkable inter_
iant view was taking place in the inner
of sanctum. Phil Kendrick was shaking
ands , hands with Conway in the outer office:
n e, I A. moment Later he went on through
to the secretary's office, speculating
Gu
hatson.just what he shroulkl say to the
self-contained Miss Williams. But, as
before, he found her office deserted.
th* To his amazement when he' glanced
okl through the •inner doorway he saw her
sfy ( for the second time on one knee- in
(front of
ver the keyhole of Ferguson's
private office.
Y She came towards him swiftly, clos-
in • the
g,doors behind im
dhem
as
she
had
df
ted done on the occasion. of his first viett
self
1 115
e.
going to let Podmore go when we get
to the city, You'll go with him. The
chance to sic you. onto hint is too good
to miss. So we'll turn you loose to-
gether;
it will be up to you then to
mix in where you see fit. Is that all
clear?
"A11 right. What I want you to do
is to keep an eye an him. Find out
what his next move is. He told you he
was the reporter who had located the
evidence that convicted Rives. Did
he tell you how he got hold of it ?—
haw he double-crossed Rives by low-
down trickery? He doesn't know how
to be loyal to anybody. I'Il be sur -
based if
l he doesn't repeat on Nickle-'
by
"Then there are Some tags 1 want
to find out about Nickleby and his eget
sociates. I want you to move cau'e-
fully, 1?'hil. I had one of Cranston'e
best men• on the job until recently; but
his usefulness was ended by unexpect-
ed developments. I'm working to put
Nat Lawson back at the head of the I
loan company; Nickleby. is an inter- I
leper and he's playing ' ducks and,
drakes with the coneer,_. Tell you
ab
out it later. Are you agreeable to
act as my secretary in these matters
and to carry out instructions—.,blind
folded, so to .speak?" h
Kendrick
nd ick had Iistened intently to 1
al, •B'u
ed his pipe before leplvin'g and when to
S
apparent.
"I'id admit, Miss Williams; that it
is often extremely difficult to break
off a bad habit---"
"Mr. Ferguson is busy," .she snap
lin j ped.
is "I would judge as. much," said Ken-
dricko dryly. "He is expecting me. If
f •I you will just hand him niy card' please,
ey Thank you."
he was very angry; that much: was
•
Nickleby's lost—if anybody had
me that once that long green was
your possession you'd come away ba
ere--_."
"What do you take me for, Fer
'son•—a thief ?" glared Podnror
told He
About t
Sweats for Winter Parties,
A '•great; deal of care needs , to be
exorcised in deteineining wI en candy'
is ready to be removed from the, lire,
A thermozn�oter may .be 'used in test-
ing but, with a little practice, the soft
ball, hard fall, thread, end ends or
brittle stage can be easily recognized
when a few drops of the hot candy
mixture are tested in 'cold water.
•If, upon testing in .eol,d water,. a
little of the mixture rolled between
the fingers forms a soft ball, the soft-
ball stage is reached.
The hard ball stage is reached when
a hard ball forms, by the sante test.
The thread stage is when the sugar
forms a thread when dropped from a
spoon. 'the crack or brittle stage is
when a' few drops, when dropped from
the spoon into cold water, at once
harden and crackle.
Glaced fruit and out balls --1 cup
dates, 1 cup figs; 1 cup raisins, 2 cups
nut meats. Wash and dry fruit. Put
fruit t and nuts through the Meat grind-
er. Mix well and roll into shape. If
desired, glace with the following glace
mixture: 2 cups corn syrup, 14 cup
water, 1 tablespoon vinegar. Boil to-
gether till brittle when tested • in cold
water. Place pan in pan of hot water
and begin to clip the balls at once.
Put balls pan •oiled paper to tool.
Fruit sweets -1 cup dates, 1 cup
figs, 1 eup 'raisins, 1 cup nut meats.
11,E teaspoons orange ju'i'ce, : grated
orange peel, 1/9 cup hroney or corn
was surprised at the hook of dis- syrup. Put fruit and nut meats
in dain with which she took his card.:i through food grinder. Add orange
cls Surely this girl whom he had caught juice, grated orange peel and honey
twice in the act of eavesdropping upon or corn syrup. Mold into balls and
-1 her employer ought to be grateful for
e - his silence, his toleration of such an tlip in cocoanut or chopped nuts.
lis
thisNow he deliberately light-'
he did it was to ask a blunt question
said Wade seriously. "Time ill tell.
I'm banking on your uncle to stay ' bn
square to the finish; but there's no-
thing to be gained by shutting one's'
eyes to the fact that many a good tr
man has found the political game as m
it's being played these days too many
for hint. There are those who are in- la
elined
ngrily.
"Opportunist is not so harsh
word, soothed the lawyer, thorough.;
njoying the baiting. He frowned wit
n abrupt change of manner. "Yo
ant brass tacks, do you? Here the
are, then. That money is none of m
sines -s, none, of the Government
usiness. Understand that clearly.
Yogi say it was a campaign fund con
ibution'. How do. I know it was ? I
ever reached us. It's Nickleby'
oney and ,its loss is his funeral.
nd report to him and try to under
and the meaning of the word 'loyal-
.' Our party doesn't care a tinker's
er; if ' dramn who has had, now has, or will
t;have that envelope. And if you want
o the to get thrown out :by the scruff of
the neck just try going to headquar-
was !tees with your erazy proposition "
"You -surely you don't mean that,
ertey, old man?"said Podmore
searching the other's face with mis-
rivate ' giving.
ncial 1 Ethingvery word of it. And. here's some -
ons /1 else, Podmore, that I won't
rge you for. If you're wise you'Il
take a straight tip and get odt of bhis
ffiee as fast as you know how—out
tow
*n--�elean out of the cotin�try1
ou don't seen to keep ais well posted
the latest news as you used to.
ve you read that?"
Ferguson had opened a drawer as
he spoke and tossed out a newspaper,
so folded that an item ,
encircled by
ink was uppermost. Podmore
wly picked up the paper. As his
arses travelled' quickly through the
rked item his face paled—what
of it was not ;black and blue.
On Rives, eh? I ---No, I didn't
oes Uncle iViilt figure in this ?" i
and he noted the shadow that crossed e
the rnagnate's face. !a
"I wish I really knew that,Phil,"
ant
utter misdemeanor! Instead, her whole Vinegar candy --3 cups sugar, 1
a I attitude was one of dislike. She ma
Y! no attempt to conceal it. It might
th her good to get a sharp rebuke fro
u, Ferguson, and he was of two mi.
y whether or not to speak to the le
Y f about her. Then he remembeeed that
's she was only substituting and that di
missal would. not mean much to h
- a There was the chance that it was just
t her woman's curiosity to know wha ' was going on. Women were often lik
G0Ithat, he had heard.
- "Mr. Ferguson will see you now.
, Tell him anything you like." She eyed
. him coolly.
I Phil gave her a cheerful ,smile as he
passed on into the private office.
Podmore had just gone.
1 "I had no trouble in getting a line
on him for you. Phil. He . carne in •
right after you 'phoned and ,has been'
here ever since. New. what the devil's �.
the meaning of all this? What are •
de cups vinegar. Boil sugar .and vinegar
do I together until a drop hardens in cold
m water. Pour on greased plates, cool
min j and pull until white. Cut with shears
levy
ubt aId politicians,
into sanall pieces.
Chocolate dips -1% cups corn syrup,
s- I ih cup mild molasses. Boil together
until it eraoks in cold water. Pour into
hat j1 greased pan. Cool and pull. Just be-
e ; fore candy becomes hardy pull into
your st
uncle included. I don't set myself up ty
as• any high-minded reform
you're sitting in on a game a
you've got to play it according t
rules that are handed you --or qu
Phil smoked in silence. He
'talking of that strange interview,p,
with his uncle the night of the fog,[
but he gave no voice to his thoughts
"Your aunt has some of her p
funds invested -in the Interprovi
Loan and that's one of, the reas
want you with me, Phil." Wade
ed and laid a hand on Kendrick's
while -he looked the young man qu
I ,,
in
the e e
e.
y There are stria
considerations than the'money sale
it, though. AIi I can say is that
happiness of your aunt is as des
me as it is to you, or as it w
be to anyone who had learned to
pest and admire her as we have. Tho
-sappiness has got
even ;at the .: g sacrifice
f—ev guarded
else." sacrifice of-everyth
His gaze wandered away again
where the twin rails `eonverged,'
far a, moment the rhytluoic ;beat
the wheels over the joints held sw
Rather surprised, Phil stole a gl
at the virile face that was turned.
steadfast/7 away and recalled an„i
of gossip be had once overheard. sem
where=that Mrs. Waring was the reel
reason till a
bachelor_ e wondered if amin Wade wets
re could
be any'truth In that idle rumor.
pli 'm sorry that I can't be more ex -
Did you ever try to piece out
a puzzle, Phil? That's what I'm up
against now. 114 tell you all about it--.
es soon as I know myself. There are
men in this world who step at 110-
thing----”
Phil turned abruptly, a startled Iook
in his eyes; but the other did not
finish the sentence.
"Harrington Rives is out of jail—"
he began.
"A ease in point, if you like," nod-
ded Wade. "But don't lot's talk to rao
purpose. We'll be passing Rutland's
ear in a minute. Do we stopfor your
things?"
"You hired me back there at Thor-
Iakson's," Kendrick renli+.ijed.
In this simple fashion were events
conspiring
turn-
knee
urn- chs
kneel
0
iet-
of
n8'er Y
theof lan
r to 1 He
cold
res -
red
ect
t rid
Ingle
to•ma
and 1Pert
ae know he was out of the pen." He tried
since 'know
keep his voice steady, but did not
r now, nodded Ferguson, making no ef-
8:1)1 succeed very well,
Lein "He's been out over two weeks
n1e-
CHAPTER X.
The Stenographer Still Listening.
The visitors, who came and went oc-
casionally up the back stairs at
l3latohford Ferguson's office were a
motley Tot. Silk hats and expensive
overcoats sometimes hung on the
hooks in the corner. Again,. ill-kenipt
figures slunk up that back way and
,signal -tapped •an entrance; for in his
peliceereporter days RM�ateh Ferguson
had been interested in the study of
underworld types and he niv1e no
Ilecret of his intention of one day writ -
lag an authoritative work upon . the
Psychology of mime,
'I'he big leather chair, so placed that
it faced' the light end left the Lawyer
in partial shadow behind his desk,
heed held many a strange and anxious
1aI'Iecr in its day. Creat men, men of.
national importance, had sat in that
deep old leather ohair; but Nadi fine
Passivity' it yielded the same comforts
to men tkho only thought they were
important.
Just now it wee occupied by Ur.
Hugh Posh/tore—within an hour of
that worthy's arrival in the eity. At
three p.ni, his newfound friend, Philip
1 endrick, had agreed to . eali upon
Ferguson to -corroborate the story.
1vbiah Mr. Podenore had just finished
telling and to which his `auditor had
Listened with great intentness, that
being the onty indiotiort of surprise
eX filen the pi &treed Mr. Peer Men per.'
. h .retch to bibit.
iyou up toy
(To be continued.)
Fifty Men and One Elep
an
Interesting tests were once made
deterin
to
determine their
es e
cti
P ve pulling u n
..
g
power-
o'f, horses, men and elei>'hants. Two .v
horses, wet hin 1,600 v
> gpounds each, u
together pulled 3,750 pounds, or 550 s B
pounds more than their combined
weight. One elephant, weighing 12,. in
000 pounds, spulled 8 5
7 0
pounds, ds
p or
3,250 'pounds -less than his weight.
Fifty men, aggregating about 7,600
pounds in weight, pulled 8,760 pounds, ei
P
t
oh
tio
thin ribbon -shaped pieces about ata
inch wide. Cut into one -inch- strips
with scissors and set away to cool.
When -hard, dip'into well -beaten melt-
ed sweet chocolate and place on oiled
papa:, to -cool.
Chocolate caramels -1. . cup choco-
late shaved fine, 1 eup brown . sugar,
1 cup cream, 1 cup white sugar. Stir++' fie
until dissolves; but do not stir after
itbegins to boil. "Boal until !brittle
stage but not too hand. Pour on gress-
ci plates. When nearly cool, marls in
quaxea. -
Cocoanut cream candy --S cups
sugar. 1 Cup mills, 2 teaspoons buttes,
-3 cup shredded: cocoanut,, 1 teaspoon
sniffs Stir sugar, milk and butter
nth.; sugar- is. thoroughly dissolved.
oil 12 `minutes. Add cocoanut and
anildm
slid heat until creamy. , Pau
y r
to buttered pan, and marls in squares
when nearly cool.
Cocoanut sweets -1 pound shredded
cocoanut, 16 -ounce can condensed milk,
teaspoon vanilla. Mix. thoroughly.
orm into small cakes on a:.gmeased
M and bake 20 to 30 minutes in .a
moderate. oven until brown. Melted
ocola'te may be added in the proper
n of two squares to the above
recipe.
e House
Everton erten tail7'--2 cups brown sugar
boiled briskly with '/a pound butter,
few deeps leiter, juice, 1 te-a�speon'
vanilla or lemon, Boil sugar, butter
and leniort juice together briskly for
ten •minutes, or•to crack stage. Add
flavoring -and pour in buttered pan,
M'•ark in squares and loosen it from
the pan by.running a. lcnife under the
candy before it beeomes entirely col:ci.
Roney taffy -2 cups honey, b menI
sugar, Y4 teaspoon soda, 2 tablespoon's
vin'egetr. Boil together to trade stage.
Cool 'in butte
red pan. Pull. Cut and
1 wrap an waxed paper.
Peanut brittle -1 cusp white cern
syrup, 1 tablespoon vinegar, i/4 tea_
spoon salt, 1 scup roasted peanuts
(halved), 1 teaspoon vanilla. Cook
syrup, vinegar and salt until it forms
a soft ball when tested in cold water.
Add peanni'ts and cook until syrup is
a golden 'brown, stirring constantly.
Add vanilla and'pour into a buttered
pan, Cool and break into pieces.
Pop0
corn balls—1 cup corn syrup,
riz imp sugar, 1 teaspoon cream tartar,
2 tablespoons butter, 74 teaspoon sodic,
4 quarts popped corn. Boil syrup,
sugar and cream of tartar to the soft
ball stage. Add the butter and soda,
pour over freshly popped porn and
shape into •balls. •
"You Help Me, Selma."
"The last is the best of all the•game!
Ns,w, for Rosiam�ond Fleet!" cried
Selma Andrews, who after years away'
was revisiting aid her old playmates.
`I can hardly wait to see her. I used.
o be fearfully jealous of her; there
ever was anyone who had more
eedDing 'tricks and m:annems' than
asamend. Yet I adored her too,"
Martha, who was acting as guide,
asitated "You must 'be prepared for
big change in Rosamond," she said.
`People tent stay ehildrren forever;
rid like everyone else Roaaanoncl has
ad trouble. She isn't weld—"
But Selma was not to be•discaurag•
"She can't help being Rosamond,"
e declared.; "not if she is as.gray as
badger."
"Oh, she isn't gray!" Martha re.
led.
A little Halter the two old school-
nuates stood at Rosamond's door. The
man who opened it wore a youthful
n
wh
R
h
a
a
h
ed
sh
a,.
p1
wo
dress that was none too fre�sdr; her
hair was arranged like a ,girl's; her
tful face was rouged: Selma gasp -
Could that be Rosamond?
For a moment Rosarnond'a' face
brightened, but only for a moment.
She led her guests into'' her- pretty
parlor and began to recite, her
troubles. They were amt terrible
troubdea, but clearly they so filled
Rosamond's vision that she could see
nothing 'beryond them. The call was
uncomfortatlale for everyone. When
Martha rose to end it even Rosamond's
.
protests
•over .:
e
half.: '
h
carted ,
Out in the: October sunshine Selina
drew a long breath. "1 'can't believe.
it even nowt" she cried. "I never
saw' :aylyone so changedin :my life. -
What ie the smatter ? Hie her marriage
been unhatppy?"
Martha shook her head. 'Only is
Rosceaaniand has made it herself. Will
adored her .and' ire spite of everything
ador�1 her still, No, the matter is
that > Rosamond. hasn't changed; she's
or just as much as the single elephant,.
But, like the horses, they pulled snore
than their own weight. One hundred
men pulled 12,000 pounds.
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just what aloe always was, although.
we diidu't recognize it. Don't you:
remember that' she -was always coax-
ing us, to do every hard thing for her
in school.? "You help me, Selina,'
whether it wars algebra or French or
physics, 'She never would face a hard.
thing herself."'
Selma, was silent; she remembered -
"And you know," Martha went or,.
"you can shirk iin school—soenetinies•
—and .
get away with
it •after a fashion..
But you can't shirk in life."So Rosa-
mond, wiio went .right on expecting -
other
people to do all lfae hard thing%
for her, has had to pay the price."
"Poor Rosamond!' Selma said:
gravely:
"Yes; and poor Will arid; the poor
children; that's the worst of it;
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Selail,a.
Tuberculosis In Young Children.
Tuberculosis occurs frequently in
infants and young children. It is said
that between thirty and forty per
cent.
of children two years old and:
more than seventy per cent. of chil-
dren fifteen. years old are affected
with it Indeed, -some physicians, who,
are perhaps unduly pessimistic, be-
lieve that alil of use have had some
form of tuberculosis .the seeds of
which were sown in ohildihood, but that
the majority have recovered from it.
Tuberculosis of the lungs is fess
common in infants and children than
hi adults. On the other hand, in chil-
dron the joints suffer more. Hip dis-
ease and Pott's disease of the spine
are common afflictions in early life,
but they are rare in men and .women.
Glandular and intestinal forms of
tuberculosis are corem nt in children.
Another, often fetal form is tuber-
culous meningitis.
In many eases of tuberculosis• in
children the disease --at Ieast in. its
beginnings—does: not show any eon-
spieuous synnptcrais. The chili may
aeezn to be well except for a little
evening fever that:runs along for
several weeks: Then the temperature,
>'hich is never more than• a degree or
two a
above ve n
ornr
al
ad'
, gradually
subsides,
y sides
And that is the last -of the tuberculosis,
hick Probably no one recognized as
uberculosis at all.
Tuberculosis is a contagious dis.
ease, and if ,old the sick could be -sud-
,
end cured, red and '
rf. •
th
e places, where
hey had been ill aanuld be thoroughly
isinfected, it would be stamped out;
ut, 'since that •seems impossible, the
est we can do is to protect the child
fulily as possible. A child *should
t be housed with consumptive adults,
r even the dust of the floors. will
rbor tubercle bacilli. or the germ
ay be 'conveyed• by kissing, or the
sense may be transmitted on a spoon
at a sick mother or nurse has used
test the baby's. food—an unsanitary
active in any t�ireumatanres. Avoid•
g all those means of contagion and
'taming fresh air and sunlight and
od. nourshing food may keep a child.. ..
m having the di;;ease at all; or
t, will give the; child the power'to
weenie it.
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A Remarkable Piece of Jade.
he largest block of Jade in the
rld, according to the New York •
Tim
is in the American Museum of
turas History in New York City.`
first glance it looks almost as large
Plymouth Rock; actually it Is seven
} long and four feet wide. It is
so heavy as .Plymouth Rock, but
ghs approximately three ;toes. It
found -on South, Island, New Zee-
, in 1902, and is tlf the green
ety of jade, with shades that
e from green to rich emerald,
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