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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1915-08-20, Page 6THE LDEN KEY Cr "The A dventures of Ledgcard• „ By the Author of "What He dost Her." 11 CHAPTER VI,—(Cont'd). I aginative force, yet the white face te "The concession," he remarked, "is i, have floc ed up out of the darng man seemed kness, anted to Scarlett Trent, and to ono I to have come to him like a wvtll-d'-the- Snty jointly. Who is this �� Monty, wisp from the swamp, and. the hollow, d what has he to say to it? 1 lifeless eyes seemed ever to be seek - Trent set his teeth 'hard and he 1 ing his, mournful and eloquent with ;ver blenched. I dull reproach. Trent rose to his feet "He wasa mys pchap. t he died ; with anW e had ; from bis forehead. He was tremb- ath and wiped the sweat the swamps, poorback It ' link and- he cursed Himself heartily. asked. "What concern is'. it of yours, young ma}a,'.eh?" The clerk sighed, sand became a lit- tle confused. He had indulged in some wistful hopes that for once his master might have relaxed, that air opportune word of congratulation might awaken some spark of gener- osity in the man who had just added a fortune to his great store. He had a girl -wife front whose cheeks the roses were slowly fading., 'and very soon would come a time when a bank- note, gift t smallest, wastf'o would hherr• be sake he had spoken. He saw now that he had made a mistake. "I am very sorry, sir," he said humbly. "Of course I know that these men have paid an immense sum for their shares in he Bekwando Syndicate. At the same time it is not my business, and I am sorry that I spoke." ' "It is not your business at any time to remember what I receive for pro- perty Scarlett Trent said roughly. 'Haven't I told you that before? What did I say when you came to me?, You were to hear nothing and see nothing outside your duties! Speak up, man! Don't stand there' '95 Srrible weather coming �, ^etty nearly finihed me. " muttered,"Anothe f fool's hour fever{ wvfhis," ave be Trent did not mention the fact that it four days and nights they were , me, Come out of the shadows, you iding in holes and up trees from the i white-faced, skulking reptile, you— atives whom the King of Bekwando } bah! what a blithering fool I ams d sent after them, that their beari There is no one there! How could ",Z.$ir i'1.01.4.4 era IL• �71't5':" . . z 4ele k,�'!,:.- edit a rs had fled away, and that they had there be any one . like a jay! een compelled to leave the track } He listened intently. From afar off The clerk was pale, and there was aid make their way through an X71- i came he faint moaning of the wind an odd sensation in his throat. But i f the bush the forest and the night sounds of ! he thought of his girl -wife and he [now].) parto "But your partner's share," tyke Jew ! in animals. Nearer there was deed. "What of that?" Ino one—nothing stirred. He laughed "It belongs to me," Trent answered out loud and moved away to spend his ortly. "We fixed it so before we last night in his little wooden, home. arted. We neither of us took much On the threshold he paused, and faced .ock in our relations. If I had died, once more that black, mysterious line Ionty would have taken the lot. It of forest. *as a fair deal. You'll find it there!"- "Well, I've done with you now," he The Jew nodded. cried, a note of coarse exultation in „ "And your partner?" he said. You his tone. "I've gambled for my life die! There is no doubt about • aw hila : and I've won. To -morrow I'll begin hat!" to spend the stakes." Trent nodded. "He is as dead,"," he said, "as Ju- • ius Caesar." "If I offered you*" Da Souza be- an. "If you offered me four thousand , Q hundred- -and -. ninety-nine man was sitting at the lea ewn with oaunds," Trent interrupted roughly. best anaterials of blotting-paper every aded er cri and 'I would tell you to go to glory. writing Da Souza sighed. It was a hard ;ion.caresHslyf a doren shed backcha1rsherel were been man to deal with—this. "Very well," he said, "if I give way, empty champagne bottles upon the if. I agree to your terns, you will be sideboard, the air was faintly odorous willing to make over this sixth share' of tobacco smoke—blue wreaths were to me, both on your own account and still curling upwards tiw Yet the gathering CHAPTER VII, In a handsomely appointed room of one of the largest hotels in London a SEALED PACKETS ONLY. LACKS -MOM OR `GREEN. i3 20 Style Notes of the Moment.' Silks are departing from their se.. date undecorated lengths, appear• ing with new designs and color notes to distinguish their appearances. Plum shades and violet tinted silks are the most exclusive selee- tions and are indicative of a new colof' note which shall govern the autumn modes, pulled himself together. Cow Testing Associations. y At a recent dairymen's meeting this "You are quite right, sir," he said. "To any one else I should never haves The cow testing associations is a' point was raised—that a testing asset cation was not necessary, because mentioned it. But we were alone,. plan of co-operation among dairymen each man could test his own cows. The and I thought that the circumstances for the purpose of regularly and might make it excusable." 1 economically testing their cows for I question was then asked: "How many His employer grunted in an ominous'. production of milk and butter fat. A : present have Babcock's testers?" manner. } usual estimate places ;the average Tv*elve girt of a gathering of 50 an - "When I say forget, I mean for production of cows at 175 pounds of E swered in the affirmative. In reply get," he declared. I don't want to P to the question, "How many of you be reminded by you of 'any own bust- butter per cow per year. In these „ nese. D'ye think I don't know it'?" , days people who are familiar with } ? 1 "1 ant very sure that you do, sir,"; dairying think in terms of butter fat, 1 veered humbly "I quite' and if the above average be translat who have testers use them , on y one answered in the affirmative. The object of cow testing associa- Grapes in 'plump, well-filled round-. ness, silk -made and larger than life, are the latest offerings for trimming the summer hat for milaidi of the most modish clan. • Her sports hat, to be above the tiltof the ordinary, must be made of baby width silk ribbons in vivid colors stitched flatly to silk hemp and done so cleverly the hat may be roll- ed and stuffed into the coat pocket as easily as a man's felt may be. The right style tang is added with two dangling ribbon ends of, white, placed anywhere you please on the crown. Of course this sort of hat is small and round, but its shape, style and color are so adaptable and subtle it is as becoming to the woman in her glorious forties as to the piquant - faced debutante of 18. But then this last is a characteris- tic of all the successful modes for this season. If you are inclined to ques- tion the statement just study shoe styles awhile. For that matter a new mode for the summer girl is the all -white boot in Cossack style, which pulls on and is without adornment of any sort save long, silky white tassels which dangle from the top at the front. As the boot top is glimpsed only when the wearer is dancing, the tassels are a tantaliz- ing bit of modishness. These sorts of footwear are worn only with dressy sports clothes, and by this is meant the exquisite skirt of white taffetas or crepe de chine or gabardine tailored to a fashionable nicety, and worn for a beach stroll, a dansant or a country club festival, topped with a taffetas -made frivolity in the way of a coat, short, colorful and Frencihy in style. The boots, by the way, are of white kid suedd or doeskin. the tier t ens see that my allusion was an error." { ed to fat it makes about 150 pounds.' tions is to make the use of scales and Scarlett Trent had turned round At 30 cents a pound, which has been; Babcock machine a community affair in his chair, and was eyeing the pale,' the average price for the last three' j to unite dairymen into a ' partner - nervous figure, with a certain hard years, the 'annual income per cow is ship for the purpose of employing a disapproval. ' d5 trained man to visit each herd at reg- on,"That's beastly coat you'veygot $- Dickenson," he said. "Why don't 1 If the above figures are taken as a ular monthly intervals and weigh and you get a new one?" foundation, it is very apparent that test the milk of each cow. At the end "I am standing in a strong light, there are many cows which are not of the year, this man gives each dairy - sir," the young man answered, with a, paying the cost of their keeping. The man a record of the individuals in his new fear at his heart. It wants! use of the scales and the Babcock test herd with little work or trouble to brushing, too. I will endeavor to get has discovered in almost every herd him and at the cost of about $1 per a neve one—very d tes„ed some cows that do not pay 'the cow. , d again. The tester weighs and samples the milk of each cow at the evening and morning milking and tests the com- bined sample for butter fat. Before leaving, he makes calculations so that he may leave with the dairyman the record of each cow down to date. In European countries and some of the states in this country, one of the duties of a tester is to weigh and keep a record of food consumed by the cows. The cost to the dairyman for complete testing varies from 80 cents to $1.50 a year for each cow. This variation is due to the number of cows in the associations and to the size of individual herds. gin account of your late partner . frescos His employer grunts to "You're right, mate," Trent assent- had altogethernot been ts ofpaper stillly-` "What's yours salary?" shillinghe s a' made as profit able al businesssas bet Th ^, ought to be and as A has a right to"And you mean to say you can't! be under proper management, thesedress respectably on that? What do ro et .cows must be apprehended.ouza said. bTbhere is no means of knowing whatTrent. knocked the ashes from his dressed in sober black, was filling a you do with your money, eh How dopipe and stood up. large tin. box with documents and let- ,end it 9 Drink and. music-halls,a cow is producing without weighiagand testing her milk at regular inter- arne," he said. "Stand out of the It had. been a meeting of giants.1 The young man was able at last to"Here, don't waste any more of my ters.way, I'm off." 'IMcn whose names were great in the find some spark of digaity. A pink: eusnt.mAaydnaoirtybrneactionseell"I do not attend music -halls, dr, ter fat content farther than is neces- :d. "Plank down the brass, and its-- - - i deal." ing about covered with figures, a "I will give you four ousharle," Da furtherd ound end of tiger �.e table. open I nlat the the back - -round pounds for a quarter a young man, slim, pale, ill- I)a Souza kept his sigmas upoi, �'i� elaborately decorated leather chairs. nor have I touched wine or spirits for j sary to keep up to legal standard, but "My deg cynicism, criticism, "My dear friend," he said, "you are There had been syn' i , ears. I—I have a wife to keep, end! • so violent. You are so abrupt. Now } and finally enthusiasm. For the many a stopped abruptly. How could e, o sei•ned in the amount each cow pro Listen I will give you five thousand who remained it had do but triumph. perp s an expecting ,�hicTz for Each d matter one who is selling butter fat is vitally i ap h c n - v housan duces. dairyman may test Inc for a quarter share. It is half my He 1• fortune mcl appears mention that other , i own cows but facing the condition way of persuasion. His manners all its anxieties, still possessed for; been brusque, and his words had sort of quickening joy in the squarely it is known that very few do. „ the hard. "I'm off." been few. Yet he remained the gas- f2 e of that brutal stare. tea did tot ",Fora fifth," Da Souza cried. ter of the situation. not �iHeui d gained 1 • fence the moment- i Trent moved to the door without 4 over mea n whose experience a ,r, speech. Da Souza groaned. ! r seater than "You will ruin me, he said, "I "Give me the concession," Trent I had but moral, conclude his sentence, and knows- j ary light died out of his pale common- �„ the Oce Shore his He j place features. He hung his head and know it. Come then, five thousand for a sixth share. It is throwing money away." ' "If you think so, you'd better not part," Trent said,ustill i no ris y in I the doorway. don't care." For a full minute Da Souza hesitat- ed. He had an immense belief in the richness of the country set out in the concession; he knew probably more about it ve thousandtpoup san ewasnt ia gnat deal But t of money, and there was always the chance that the Government might not back the concession -holders in case of trouble. He hesitated so long that Trent was actually disappearing be- fore he had made up his mnd. "Come back, Mr. Trent,"he called out. `"I have decided. I accept. I join with you." Trent slowly returned. His man- ner showed no exultation. "You have the money here?" he asked. Da Souza laid down a heap of notes and gold upon the table. Trent count- ed thein carefully and thrust them into his pocket. Then he took up a pen and wrote his name at the foot of the assignment which the Jew had prepared. "Have a drink," he asked, Ila Souza shook his head. "The less we drink in this country," he said "the better. I guess out here spirit comes next to poison. I'll smoke with you, if you have a cigar htuidy." "Trent drew a handful of cigars from his pocket. "They're beastly," he said, "but it's a beastly country. I'll be glad to turn my back on it. . "There is a good deal," Da Souza said, "which we must now talk about." "To -morrow," Trent said curtly. "No more nowt I haven't got over my miserable journey yet. Pm go - edge were ear g s s silent. was no City magnate, nor had he ever wawife,,, Scarlett Trent repeated aeceipra any whichailing o in those arts , e mak- with contempt, "and all the rest of it, Foring oph f one. s his gearl eror t11 life had of course. Oh, what poor donkeys been spent in a wilder eeuntry where i you young men are! Here are you, the gambling was for life and not with your way to make in the world, merely for gold. It was Scarlett I with your foot scarcely upon the Trent who sat there in thoughtful and bottomng on rung wfshillingshe c�aztveek,bb and you choose to go and chuck away every chance you ever might have for a moments folly. A. poor, pretty. face I suppose. A moonlight walls absorbed silence. He was little back in a comfortably uphol- stered chair, with his eyes fixed on a in empty spot upon the table. ,Cl lw The few inches of polished mahogany , a tittle maudlin seemed to him --empty of all signific- ` on aanHolindday, you throw all mice in themselves—to be reflecting in me mysterious manner certain your s sot €real, and the leaders the scenes i which were w Neter rarely broughtback to him. The event of to -day he knew to be the cul- mination of a success as rapid as it had been surprising. He was a mil- lionaire. This deal to -day, in which I e had held his own against the few," he added, with a sneer. (To be continued.) - A Female Veteran. He—Isn't that General X. and his idaughter over there? shrewdest and most more astute men ed He --Yes. They say that she has the great city, had snore than doublets his already large fortune. A few been through more engagements than years ago he had landed in England 1 bar old father. friendless end unknown, to -day he had I BITS OF NEWS FROM THE MARITIME .PROVINCES. stepped out from even amongst the _--- - .. chosen few and had planted his feet in the Higher lands whither the faces of all men are turned. With a grim smile upon his lips, he recalled one by one the various enterprises into which he had entered, the courage with which he had forced them through, the solid strength with which he had thrust weaker men to the wall and had risen a little higher towards his goal upon the wreck of their fortunes. Where other men had failed he had sueceeded. To -day the triumph was his alone. He was a millionaire—one of the princes of the world! The young maze, who had filled his box and also a black bag, was ready to atneecinrespectfully beak t ventured herfltofhi employer. "Is there anything more for me to ing to try and get some sleep.- do, sir?" He swung into the heavy darkness. I Trent woke from his day -dream The air was thick with unwholesome into the present. He looked around odors rising from the lake -like swamp 1 the room and saw that no papers had beyond the drooping circle of trees.1 been omitted. Then he glanced keen - He walked a little way towards the 1 ly into his clerk's face. said. "You sea, and sat down upon . a log. Al "Nothing r faint land -breeze was blowing a mel- can go." recholy `soughing came from the edge It was significant of the man that, of the only a ferim ene- heldid hnot depahis hour of rt n the slightest de - tai yards h.tIc sullen, Wads,. p de - treble. i l in.. He turned his face er st tiousnd little' goe one. from a The little speech which his willingly, e.villi a s ri thrill of fear, Wa<, it a coyotto call-, clerk head prepared.. seemed to slit k iz g, or brad he indeed heard the moan in his throat. rf e swing man, somewhere back "I trust, sir, that you will forgive— r new !ee ft that miry f gloomy jungle? presume ortou ils congratulate ardon the liberty, iron ec•� „€,d nt hiz�^!s..li, Was he b a.e girl, weak and tumid? Yet a such a magnificent stroke of bust- l oter he closed his eyes, and /less!" • las hands tightly over his hot Scarlett Trent faced . hili coldly. „ Items of Interest From Places 1 Lapped Ey Waves of the Atlantic. The city engineer estimates the population of Halifax at 55,400. Halifax has upwards of a thousand unlicensed dogs running at large. Altogether, Newfoundland will con- tribute five aeroplanes to the British army. Restigouche, N. B., municipality contributed $1,000 towards the relief of the Belgians. Truro Red Cross Association will send a nurse to the war and support her while on duty. Absence of freighters will likely send a million tons of coal from Cape Breton to Montreal by railway. Six million feet of logs went adrift when the south-west boom broke ow- ing to high water on Burnaby River. Gilbert M. Ganong, of St. Stephen, N. B. is among those giving $1,000 to the Government for a machine gun. The post office at Dorchester, N.B., was entered, but the burglars did not blow the safe, taking only a few odd dollars. The Carleton cornet band of St. John has offered to aid a recruiting campaign and then ,enlist as a body themselves. Frank Gallagher and Medly Mip- reau broke out of the county jail Edmunston, N. B., and got away; both were theives. Extensive additions are being made to the Marconi wireless plant at Louisburg, C.B. Better accomoda- tion is being built. The first patient at the Ross Con- valescent Hospital at Sydney, C.B., was a midshipman from the armored cruiser Leviathan. Alexander Graham Bell stated at Bacldecic, N. S., that aerial warfare would be the feature of future con- flicts of the world. The motor ambulance to be .given by the women of New Brunswick 'to the Canadian forces will cost $1,600 and is now on order. 'Dr. Gordon D. Atkinson, of Derby Junction, N. B., ltas gone to Serbia to aid in hospital work; his father is the ,, station agent on the L C. R. Judge McKeown granted three. ab- solute divorces at the last court at Fredericton, N.B., one case each from St. John, Moncton and Woodstock. Tho Dominion Conservation Qom mission is studying the fungus that destroys pit props in Cape Breton mines with a view to aiding miners. There is a plant at Windsor for evaporating potatoes for export to the War Office, London. Formerly it sent apples, but the war killed that trade. A FRENCH "FTFTY.FIVE" GUN - Scarfs everywhere. Every one is wearing them. They may be six yards in length, made of brilliantly colored tulles or chiffons and edged with regal looking embroideries of silver, gold or crystal, a la Lucille, or be two yards of satin edged with taffetas ruffilegs or become fascinating allurements of lace of the "real" or imitation var- ieties in Brussels or Spanish inspired designs. Velvet -topped hats are peeping into the millinery scheme of things entire for summer hats, but their pre- stige is to be severely tried by he,. growing vogue for hats with crowns of hatter's plush and brims of straw. Even if plush of this sort docs not seem to be so heavy and winterish in appearance as velvet, it is every whit as abstruse; but then, when, if ever, did reason and fashion travel together except by common consent and sur- rounded by concessions made to the government by the whimsical. F PLACES UNAWARE OF WAR. In Distant Islands the People Haven't Heard of It Yet. Incredible though it may sound, there are still places which have not yet heard a syllable about the war. Tristan da Cunha, the lonely South Atlantic island, says the secretary to the Postmaster -General, has not re- ceived a mail sinee the outbreak of war. Tristan da Cunha is entirely dependent on chance communications from the Cape, 1,500 miles away. Sometimes it is a year or more out- side out its people hearing from side world. It is a British possession, and its people, numbering about eighty, all Church of England, are Mainly descendants of shipwrecked sailors. They are of mixed origin--. ,English, Scotch, Irish, American, batch, Italian, Asiatic, and negro. There is not one "enemy alien." An- other place that has probably not yet heard of the war is Yquitos, in East - ere Peru. Yquitos has perhaps the most romantic mail service in the world. Its letters .aro taken by Bri- tisk mail steamers up the Amazon to Mangos, and thence right across South America tip the nighty river in a river steamer. It is only a few hun- dred miles from Lima, the Pacific capital of Peru, but the wall of the Andes is an almost impassable bar. ries, The "quick" route, therefore, from 'Y'quitos to Lillie is all the thou- sands of miles down the Amazon and across the Atlantic and then "via Liverpool"I rine photograph was taken in a wvooci near Arras of the angio at wheels. gator are frequently the to ecule u , On the 4 it nci gives it good idea Ili ;order to drop 'the np How Did lie Dodge That. Designing Widow -- Speaking of conundrums,, can you tell me why the letter "d" is like the marriage service? Slowboy Pru no good at conun- drums. Why? Widow—Because "we" • can't be "Wed" 'Without it.