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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1922-08-24, Page 2e11•4.P.T•rM"*...ti, LC Pioneer. By, 1KATHARINE SUSANNAH PRICHARD Copyriget by Hod der and Stoughton house, crops of wheat, barley and rye hacl been sown. An orchard climbed (be slope on the left Behind; the old barn end the stables were a roar of haystack.s. The cowsheds and milking yards were a little further away. Round the liaystacks and about the barn a score of the buff and butter- milk -colored progeny of IVIother J3tmeh, a few speckled' chicaens, black and white pullets, and miseellaneous breeds Gf red -feathered, and long - Synopsis of rreceding Chapters. Donald and Mary Carnexon are carv- ing home gut of the Australian wilds, When little David was four months old his father set off to Port Southern for fresh supplies. On the fourth day two gaunt and ragged men, one of them wounded, entered the hut, Mary offered them unstinted hospitality and heard the story of their escape from the Island prison and the treachery of McloTab -who had promised to befriend.: them—at a price. Clothed legged', Yell"' f°w1s, Kra c 'a and provided with food, they departed, I pecked industriously. ' the tall one hoping to repay the debt. Donald Cameron farmed. hie lend in IVIary refused to aid her husband in the careful fashion of the Lowland Scots. There was perhaps here and there a crooked line in his e s an a rick awry behind the barns. But all was neatness and order, from the bee -hives which stood with their point - -2) . _ rope, ering birds frani the plowatl laud whenseed wa ip, ana cutting ferns fer the cawasheds end sieaules. Hie fathee was little more than a dour taskmeater to the bey, Davey had les memory of bearing him sing the gath-, ering song of the Clan at Dermal .tho Black, His mother had taught hini to Fee& and count ao she sat with her seineing wheel in the little garden in front ()-C the house, or stitching by the fireein- doers on winter evenings. Deeee had to sit near her and spell out the woad slowly from the Bible or t4: only other book she had, a shabby 14tle red history. Sometimes when he was tired of reading, or the dick andeejiar of her wheel vet her mind wandeeing, she told him storiee of the eeinitey over the see where she was - bore. Davey knew that the song she sang sometimes when she was spirmingWas a song a fairy had tateght a Welsh- WOMan long ago se that her 'spinning would go well arid: quickly. She•told. him stories of the tylwyth .tegiOthe little brown Welsh fairies. There was one he was never tired of hearing. "Tell me about the farmer's.,;boy who married the fairy, mother,"- he would say eagerly. . And she would tell him the story she had. heard, when she was a child. "Once upon a time," she wouldeiaY, "ever so long ago, there was a farm- er's boy who minded' his fathers iheep on a wild, lonely mountain side.' Not a mountain sidle like any we see in this country, Davey clear, but bare and dark, with great rocks on it. And ono day, when he was all alone up there, he saw a girl looking at him #0111 round a rock. Her hair was eo, dark that it seemed part of the rock, and her face was like one of the little flowers that grow on the nenintaan side. But he knew that it was not a flower's face, because there we 'eees in it, bright, dark eyes—and a mouth on it . . . a little, red month, with tiny, white teeth behind it. They played on the mountain to:get f r a long time and sometimelaSI him to drive bis sheele Afiber they ,got so fondof eecaaoaaer boy asked her to goOlioiale w to his father's house, and he father that he'wanted • mar "That night a lot el litt riding on grey horses, ea from the mountein on a path o light and clattered into the fai of the farmer of Yetrad. The and fattest of the then, in . . . they all wore red c rode grey horses. Did I say all rode grey horses', Dewar' "Yes-, mother," Davey bleat She had this irritating 11 of going back a word or two story if a thread eaught on he "Well—" she began again as, likely as not, her mind ta, putting the police on their track. CHAPTER VII. In ten years, Cameron's had become the biggest clearing in the hills, as it ed straw bonnets beneath the apple was the oldest. Many others had been itrees, to the cowshede, where newly - made and were Ka -tiered theoughout the lower ranges overlooking the Wile ree plains, though at great dietances cut bracken was laid every day or two for the cows to stand-in when they were milked. There was no filth or , apart; ten, twelve and vometimes squelching morass iri his oow-yar s. ing homesteads. # leg under the tender grass. Scarcely twenty miles lying between neighbor- The pigs wandered! over the hills ro,ot- The hut that had been Donald and a straw was allowed to stray between Maury Oatnreon'e first home had been! the beck of the house and barns. In i - broadened by the addition of several 1 the feed -room the harness-roem, in extra. rooms. Floors had been put' every shed arid yard, the meticulous clown and a wide verandah spread out precisaon and, passion for order which 1 from them. Every room had a win- characterized all that Donald Cameron dow with four small ghee panes. The did, was maintained. window -sills, verandah posts and I There were changes indoors as well doors had been painted green, and the as Gut. A long straight kitchen, with whole of the house whiteweshed. Its ' a bricked floor and small -window look - bark -roof had given place to a cover -ling out on to the yard, had been added ing of plum -colored slates; there was; to the original horae._ On the east ' even a coin or two of grey and golden; side, two rooms had been built, and a lichen on them, and the autumn and small limewgshed shed behind the kit- spring- rains drummed. merrily on the; cher). served for a dairy. In it, on iron roof of the verandah. Creepers I broad, low shelves against the wall, climbed around the stone chimney and the row's of milk pans, with milk set - the verandah; clematis showered; thug in them, were ranged.; a small starry white blossom ever the roof windew in the back wall framed a and about the verandah pests. square of blue sky. When Mrs. Cam - A little garden, marked -off from eron was making butter, the sound of the long green fields of spring wheat the milk in the churn, the rumble and by a fence of sharp -toothed palings, leplash of the carded erearn, could be was filled with bright flowers—Eng- , heard in the yard. The sweet smell lish marigolds, scarlet geraniums,' of the new butter and buttermilk pink, yellow and blue larkspurs—anal hung about the kitchen door. all manner of sweet-smelling herbs -1 Ten years of indefatigable energy, sage, mint, marjoram and lemon! of clearing land, breaking earl, rais- thyme. The narrow, beaten paths that .ing crops and rearing cattle, doing ran from the verandah in the gate!battle with the wilderness, overcorre dd that a WHERE YOU FIND ONE, YOU ALWAYS FIND THE OTHER —Johnson, British and Colonial Prese About the House 1 Keeping the Weeds Down. It seemed as if the parting of the ways had come—the ways of mother and daughter. Molly was fifteen. Ifio to this sum- mer, she had never wanted to go any- where or do anything without mother. .aew, she had fled to her -room,--- after a cold, perfatictory kiss in place of the hug that was her usual good night, —fled in angry tears, because her mother had refused to allow her to spend the night with her chum. The mother, alone downstairs, was moat unhappy. She realized that her ehild must have girl friends, but Molly's choice of a Particular friend distressed her. She knew little of the girl, or of her relatives, but from her fsee-and-easy deportment, her use of slang and her general conversation. the mother argued that the intimacy co-uld not be beneficial,. So, long into the night, she sat elownstaars, alone, thinking, hoping, plarming. The next day was Saturday. Molly belon.ged to a tennis elub that met very Saturday afternoon. "Bring the girls home to tea, dear," and round the house were bordered mg all the hardshipswith the tangled thread, w 'with rosemary. And in the summer , pioneer has to stre le a ainst had gg g 'Where was I, Davey?" And Davey, all impatie to go on with the star wield have almoit bol would say: "And tis test of the men, in ‘,`Oh, yes!" Mar 'I'maarede " the, fartlierr$, ear, an Peneloli's father . „ was genelop . . . aun let her marry the fat give her a dowry of and happiness, on condatio body ever touched her with iron. If anybody put a pieo on her, Penelop's father "'sal would fly back to thearnountain and her own people, and never More sit by her husband's hearth and chi, or a long line .of hollyhocks, pink, white left their mark on Donald. and red, and red anawhite, waved, tall Every line in his face was plowed and straight, at one side of the house. deep. The edge of the forest had been dis-1 His expression, gloomy and taciturn fenced so far on every side of the as of old, maelted an internal coticen- clearing, except one, that the trunks' trailer -I, the bending of all faculties to of the trees showed. in ,dim outlines;the .o.ne_erid that ctociimleA,,bi.ix,,,, Al - against • 1;forclai Its the farm ^ tWaying over and across them. Only grew and its operations increased, he on the side on whieh the track climbed became more and more silent, talking uphill from the road, the trees, still only when it was necessary and sel- pressed a,gain,st the paddock railines.I dom for the sake of companionship A long white gate in the fence where Or mere social intercourse. His mind the road stopped bore the name Don•-! was always busy with the movements ald Cameron had given his place— of cattle, branding, mustering, breed- "Ayrmuir." It was the name of the' ing, buying and selling prizes, possi- estate he had workea on ha Scotland, bilities of the market. He worked when he was a la& It gave -a -him no , insatiably. end of satisfaction to realizeethat he: He was reminded of the flight of was the master of "Ayrrnuir," and , time only by the growth of his son -- that his acres were broader than those a gawky, long -limbed bay. of the "Ayrmuir" In the old country; I As soon as he could walk Davey not oily broader, but his to do what had taken his share in the work of he liked with—his property, unencum-Ithe homestead, rounding ep cows in bered by mortgage or entail. 1 the early morning, feeding fowls,, On the Cleared hillsides abeut the hunting for eggs in the ripening Let the Sun's Rays Do Your Cooking • The tim,e may yet arrive when on boiling. You can cook eggs or meat dear days, even in winter, the house- wife win 'forsake her range and, step- ping out into an attached "sunshine kitchen," roofed with glass, do her cooking by the heat of the sun. It is no mere dream. Indeed, the idea pro- mises literal fulfillment in the near future, a number of inventions having already gone far toward proving it practicable. Cooking by sun's rays bas several obvious advantages. It means no dirt, no ashes and no cost for fuel. Thus 1st Egypt and the African Karroo solar cookers of a simple pattern are even, now in comma use, the device employ- ed. for the purpose being an insulated box of teakwood blackened inside and fitted -t,vith a glass top. It makes tt eilleient oven for baking, and may be utilized in the preparation of soups and stews, the temperature M- elee the box rumning up to 215 degrees Fahrenheit in the middle of the day. With the help of a mirror it can be raised much higher bban that, We all know what egkies cover will de to hold the eun'e heat—as illus- trated by so familiar a thing as the "cold frattie" wad for raising early in it. If you will make the box double —putting one box, that is to say, in- side of a box slightly larger—and iill the space between with sawdust or other insulating material, you can get a tremendous heat. How,„it may be a.sked, shall you place in your sun oven the things you want to cook? That can be managed in various ways; but a very, practical suggestion on this point is offered by another inventor, who proposes to rest the box on one of its edges—the upper two of its four sides covered with double glass,. and the lower two sides lined with black felt for insulation. Shelves inside ate arranged so as al- ways to adjust themselves horizontal. ly, no matter bow the box is tilted, to receive the solar rays', and upon them pans of bread or other food recep- tacles, are put, A British army officer 11111161a some years age devised what he called a "cooking box," a most ingenious affair, of 'wood lined with mirror glass!, coul- ee.' in shape end eighasided. At the bottom was a small copper boiler, with a eover of plain glass to retain the heat concentrated. by the mirrons upon the boiler. By this means steam was vegetablee, The solar rays pass generated when the boe was expoeed pressing them into place. Three- fourths a a pound, or three-fourths of a quart of most berries measured as purchased, will pack into one No. 2 can or pint jar. Fill can with hot medium syrup, seal and process in steam cooker. No. 2 cans or pint jars, ten to fifteen minutes; No. 3 cans or quart jars, fifteen to twenty minutes. Remove cans, cool quickly in cold water, wipe, dry, label and store away. Glass jars are removed and sealed at once. If, in making the syrup for berries, the berry juice is used instead of water, the resulting product will be much better, both in color and in flavor. It is Not Easy, But It Pays --- To acknowledge it when you areTowerQcinmgit that' you have made quttsttaatee. your me,dicine; to stand up under rebuffs, or un- just criticism, This, is the kind ' of stuff that beetle big men, big wit).TrgoeIki.eeli your temper when. others all about you lose theirs itnrdogkoeteoppyieoleterep. 65 5 e, your men tai balance under trying condi- dons.. Others will respect you morre; you will respect yourself MOre, and. you will have infinite- ly. more 'influence. Nothing else quite takes the plaee of a superb poise In tti.a situations In life. -- Success. e ao and the mixture will be gritty. If you use too little, the fudge will set to a dry hard mass in the pan before you can scoop It out. Most fudge makers put in too 'much liquid at the start and have to boil it out—and unscien- tific procedure that wastes tine. It ie' posaible to measure the ingredients so exactly that the fudge is ready to cool and stir by the time they have, been melted by heat and before they, have been boiled at all. When that is done there are usually a few crystals let undissolved. They, will not seriously affect the fudge,' but it is better to add at the start about half an ounce more of liquid' than the exact amount required, and; to boil that off in about thirty seconded One pound of sugar, three fluid. , ounces of -milk, three ounces of fine-' grated cooking chocolate and one ounce of butter are the right propor- tions for a standard fudge mixture. A few grains of salt will improve -the flavor. When you have cooked the mixture add a teaspoonful of vanilla! extract. Do not poursthe fudge out without first stirring it, and do not stir it. sa long that it sets solid ire the sauceparai Place the saucepan in cool water and, stir the mixture. At the filet sign of, stiffening, scoop it quielcly into a but_ terWedhetnin'a sample of the fudge drop-) ped into eeld water is just too soft be rolled between the fingers to a soft' ball the fudge is cooked long enough. It should. not taste gritty; if it does,' add an ounce of water and boil the\ paprika. mass until it is of the right consist- ency. IT it is too hard, but is smooth' .ested the mother, as Molly, very and free from grit, add one table- d pretty in white duck skirt Mix dry ingredients and add egg spoonful of water and stir and test i'clY blouse, tennis " mast and yolks. The dry ingredients are mixed the mass again, but do not cook it na easeeer 93.11.4F, uSul 3 3 - e' again. • 0 start, . • Then beat unth the- egg Yolks 'thieheao - 8ave,g +.,1,•&iy0k4t - arik you, mother," said. MollY, slightly. Add olive oil drop lby drop in a glass graduated marked in ouiieee, er coldly. She was still on her and beat until thick. When four table- and to measure the sugar in the same ity. Other girls, slept about veal-. *spoons of olive oil have been added, cup- every time. - •usly with their friends. Why couldn't it may be added faster. W:hen the Few of the substances used. to flavor she? ' mixture gets too thick thin with the fudge will affect seriously the erystal-` llowey,er, the temptation to extend lemon juiee and vinegar. hospitality was not to be resisted. To make Thousand Island! dressieg, Therefore, the mother, watching the add one cup of nchili sauce to half the garden gate late that afternoon, saw quantity of dressing you have made. with pleasure a group of girls, verY Boiled Salad Dressing.--Ond table - Salad Dressing. Any mayonnaise dressing is as good as you buy in betties, if it is made with the best of materials, pure olive oil, a good grade vinegar, and- fresh eggs. Here is a recipe for mayonnaise. Two egg yolks, one teaspoon salt, one-fourth teaspoon eayenne, one teaspoon • mustard, one tablespoon vinegar, one tablespoon lemon juice, one cup olive oil, one-fourth teaspoon spin for him. So the faeme married, Penelop and very happ', lived together. Everything farm ,prospered because Of wife, though she wore a red. and was like any other womah boy hey at ok at, only more beautiful, and a Ways busy and merry. She made fine soup ancreheese, and her spinning w s al - 4 vvays good, lead everybody wa very fond of her. Then one day wile her husband wanted to go to a fair, she ran into the fields to help him to Catch his pony. And while he was throwing the bridle, the iron struck her arm— and that minute she vanished inionthe air before his eyes." ell She paused for Da_vey'e exclamation of wondeement and then continued: "Though he wandered all over the mountain calling her, Penel,op never eame back to her leasband or the two little ehildren she had left with him. But one veey bold night in the winter, he wakened out of his sleep to hear her saying outside in the wind arid rain: through the glees, eontributing te the to the sate If the steam was retained air beneath a warmth which does not tb.e result was s stew or boil; if ease:a .eseane, .evertin the winter time. lowed to escape, the food Placed -ba the tpon. Vigo principle roost4f 'Nan civets" are based. One af them is the inveattiou <of a Obicago man, Ribetezer Sperry, and may be deseribed as a large box ooverod vit1114 glaSoS, ing the diameter of,the box the heat lined with metal painted black to ab. could be augmetted sorb beat, When it, is exposed to the In. lilgypt the Sudan and Algeria, son enough heat is generated to boil water and mele eteata, the latter.pass- ing into a cooking chember aloe°. An apparatus of this kind is, a real flrelees cooker, requiring no fuel to ftitnish beat to start 'with, You can. make one, for yourself, of more simple pattern, very easily. Take a wood:en box, paint 'it bleek Inside, and cover it with two sheets of glass separated by an itch of air spa,ce, The ilieh of (1.(Ad napital insulator, Put th ly.x in the sun and scan the term'. 1,.....Lture of 115 illteriOr Will rise above lization, and if either is added in suf- ficient quantity it will form -the whole mass into a caramel mixture. For a fair subetitute for maple sugar omit the chocolate and the but - pretty in their gay colored sweaters, spoon sugar, one teaspoon eaeh of ter in the recipe given Above, flavor. preceding her daughter along the salt, mustard' and flour one egg, one- the niass with 'half a teaspoonful a garden path. Molly, on her part, was frankly de- lighted and proud when she saw her mother prettily and effectively dress' - ed, ed, and the _drawingeroom at its best, gay with flowers, shining with care. The tea table, set near the open win- dow by the verandah, was a picture. It held not merely delicate sand- wiches and tempting cookies, iced tea and lemonade but the very best china and the embroidered tablecloth— everything that was used for the most Maldng Fudge. Fudge is really nothing bat flavored imeortant company. And a friend of her mother's, also dressed as for an fondant. That is, it is flavored sugar important occasion, was pouring tea. —melted by adding liquid and heating The little festival was a greet sue_ it ---that crystallizes when it becomes "Lest my son should find it cold, - Place on him his father's coat. Lest the fair one find it cold, Plate on her my petticoat" ' Mary sang the words to a quaint little air of her own rnaking,, while Davey listened, big -eyed and avve- stricloen. "When the children grew up they had dark hair and bright, sparkling eyes like their mother," ahe would con - half cup milk, one-fourth cup vinegar, maple extract and 'a teaspoonful of; t 'Vanilla and add a pinch of salt. The recipe is economioal, and it is easYlo, double the quantities if you wish. 0 The Young Christ. - By Nicodemue side in days of old, 'Mid a strange company there sat a, Child; A robe of light enveloped Him; He smiled, And Mary, pausin,g on the low thresh -11 old Of that strange room, was euddenlY, consoled; "Where hast tbou been?" she asked In accents mild; In truth she could not see what had beguiled This lad -of scarce twelve summers; 1 the guests departed. "We , shall at it occurs slowly the crystals have time then He told. ways be glad to see you." • to grow large, and that makes the When they were alone, Molly rushed fudge Hers not the und,erstanding -when He, gritty. In making pure fondant from unflavored sugar—such as is to her mother and hugged her, to the cried; detriment of her gewn. i used for filling chocolate creams—no eme y Father's voice has called; His\ elle' undissolved crystals should be left in "You're an angel, mother," work I do!" cried. "Giving my friends the best, To -day the world, eerburdened with the hot fondant, for if there were any of everything!" tablespoon butter. Thoronghly mix dry ingredients, beat in -the egg, add milk, stir well, and put in double boil- er. Add the vinegar slowly as the mixture cooks, stirring con.stantly. When thickened, remove from fire and - add butter. A• second egg yolk may be substituted for the flour. The recipe may be doubled Or trebled. eess. "Molly will have tea every Satur- day " announced Molly's mother, as cold. For good fudge the erestalhza- ton should take Place rapidly, so that the crystals will be very ,small. If 1 they would start a growth of coarse distre•se ' 1 crystals while the mass was cooling. ' So' their ways were one again. The Has overlooked the lesson Christ sup-, Stirring the fondant vigorously when peed ‘ danger was over; for the "chum" did it is tool forms the crystals all at once not come back on any subsequent' in the desired degree of fineness; but And taught mankind, le shnple, weeds, and true . , 1 'Saturday. The slight effort required d et it is possible to make delicious fudge "Be thou about thy Father's( bustle nese!" —Elizabeth Scollard.1 4, A shark can keep up a speed from seventeen to twenty miles hour. • elude, .amiling at hen. And when they ment -up to the standardofee melees' without being so careful about the un- to keep ei own had children they were like them I dissolved crystals, because if you im- to,o, ad" that people who came fron home was a little too much, mediately cool arid stir the mixture in the valley where the farmet's boy had Thus Molly's friendships were feria - panful of water the crystals will niarried the fairy were always known ed, little' as she knew it, by the prin.! a not have time to form. by their looks, and they were called ciple of the survival of the fittest. She Have the proportions of liquid and Pellings, or the children of PeneleP, I found those girls most congenial who 1 -1" eaiTY seemed to fit, into her home. Yeare sugar just right. If You use too much because it was vaid they a A 't liquid the crysta orm s ow y 141tiard,o LInIment for eurns. eta. 'Wood in their Veina." I later sh b d thins to ask. Ile liked to broo 1 c over I mother s wisedeensers the story; but he leatnt more than feiry tales from his mother's inemor- e understood and lesse her Dewey had always a thousand ques- b - iedeptacle wee baked. In azi apperat- les of the old land. Her mmd waS be - Canning Huckleberries. us, of this kind rations for seven men, ginning to be occupied with thoug•hts I including meats, were prepared in two of his future. She and her Imebana, ly the same methods of canning may hours, It wag obvious that by increas. were simple folk. Cameron mild, be Used as with other bearies. barely read and write, and what little; Giese jars or enamel -lined cans are knowledge Mary poaseesed she had neaded, The condition of the fruit kneav what Donald Cameron's already passed on to arnbi- DaveY, Sbe will heve much to do with the quality, , of the product. Berries should be For canning huckleberries prattical- where water lit for drinking 15 apt to tions were, and after ten -ca: ears of life be scarce, there is ,to -day in commori With hint hod little doubt as to their' g'atile'rec l in shalleov teaye or baskets,i use a portable solar distilling outfit achievenumt. The position that le and not in deep vessels which allow, which is the inventiOn of a Frenchman would put Davey in had begun to be them to be bruised or crushed,. They named Mouchon, it is a simple an a matter (drfacobneeecronnttinottehz. shOuld be ireifOrnilY ripe and sound,1 lol Cl the ant rgement of boiler and tr, coneave in. ror. the latter serving to focus the. earl's rays upon the former, while e coil of tubing in a water-jaeket does duty as n. condenser, Thm e achine, which 6 man can carry On bis baoh, will boil a quart. O. water and keep It bcning, U' ordinary output being two gallons of pure drink per day, Hard times are good times towork' hard. • Mother loVe is very strongly de- veloped ening apes, (narth Lphrient, far tatneetta: and as larg,e p berriea tare fully, removing sterna •mid leaves. Plata a hallow layet of ber- fies in o, leage colander or el:miner and wash catefully by pouring Water 017014 themPitk itt cano as dosely is potaible without cruahing. Thie may be done by putting a few berries e time into the can and gently Tropical Valley in the North Discovery of an almost tropical val- ley with rivers of .boiling W.ater, many initeral springs, abnormal plant growth, and abounding with game it far northern British Columbia, is re- ported P eer. of Vancouver, back after seven- teen years' spent prospecting the Weird valley close to the 'Yukon border. 'For mineral reasons, afir. Perry, at the preemit time, Is not divulgleg the exact location of the "hot water" val- ley, whieh be came upon in the depth Of winter, The, unlisted sight of, a , hooey fag in e winter attracted him to the valley, end later exploration ehow. ' ed it be be approximately 200 inne_s tong awl about 40 miles wide, Itiveie of hot water elan through it fed. y drecle of het springs., which babbled. out of the ground in all darectioue Mr, Perry reported he saw nianai. wlid animalso 'These 'congregated drao to the, luxurientovegetation made p sible by the heat generated by springs, and inthe valley were huna dred•s .of mountain al:lee"), erel g.oate, Caribou and inbost, .alsa witebettes aud‘ othc fur -bearing animals: The ritoosee almost square from tat, woreio that he has been able to walk a,inOngst‘ them .antl could almol.t touch theni. The Indians, although knowing the vat; ley to be a Minter's pond:lee, itevet visit it through the eiteetstitiee tha prehistori animals f3t1I1 reale the die,