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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-03-17, Page 8b nrq. 011 TME L. AN API EXCITING PRESENT-DAY ROMA CE BY WEAT -iERBY C '°1t.SNEY rrv:.riyyn • CHAPTER V. "Steady, Pliil!" said Scarborough, irieredulously, "Don't flints accuse tions about in that reckless way. It's rot, you know." "I can prove it," said Varney. That Miss Page is the daughter of the man who ruined your father ? Oh come! you don't know her, or your would see that it's nonsense. Here,' hurry up, and get into ordinary clothes, ' and we „ 11 have - �e ' clmn .i somewhere.- T' 1 want to hear what you've been doing for the last two years." Miss Page the daughter of Rich- mond Carrington, the notorious fin- ancial manipulator, whose name was accursed in • thousands of the poorer !a good sorts. I'm quite satisfied witit my life and with my colleagues." 1J The other man's explanation of his position was equally simple Scar- borough was what he was because. he had .failed in an examination, Vara nee, had never sat for the examina- tion because the misfortune or crime of others had thrown him suddenly ae, on his own resources, and had chane- .rv`n" ed his destiny. from ,that of spending 1,,.5t,yc4 an allowance to that of earning a live day to you sir. Honored by, meeting you." And this time he went out finally. Varney turned with a comically twisted face to lois friend, and Scar- borough, as soon as he judged that. Vol 13. Montague was out of earshot, burnt into a roar of laughter. "You asked me just now how I have spent the last two years;" said Varney. 'Now that you've met the man, you lave a faint idea of what it means when I say—in the company and Ser - ice of Val E. Montagne! But he's a good sort, mind you." "Is he always like this?" "More or less, yes. The degree of bsurdity varies, but he's never crdi- mry. During the first six months we hcnlies of England—the idea was ab -,1 surd! Scarborough was not even an-, quarrelled. I daresay I was bit an- gry at the suggestion; it was to ridi- l;k't, and T didn"t like his hectoring; t lois dressing He went with Varney. then I got to understand hien; and for he last year and a half I've been his ight hand man. We had a row royal his morning, and you see how little e bears mali nig room, and waited for ! t him to change. r The English Cowboy divested him-' t self of the leathern jacket and fringed h trousers, in which custom decreed that the character which he represented shoulddressed, • and bei � i.c e., c et. �•- 1aa donning in h its place the mufti of plain blue serge, when there was a sharp bang on the door, and the manager entered. a tl "Mr. Varney, sir!" said Val B. Mon- • a tague, as he held out his hand to ti Scarborough, without waiting for the la formality of an introduction --•"this I th show is going to the devil!" g "Oh? More so than usual? asked ! W Phil Varney carelessly. "Horace, this b is our proprietor, Mr. Van B. Mon- le tague—Montague, Mr. Horace Scar- M borough; old friend of mine." ! e cl to meet you, sir. More so than usual, d'.ye ask, Mr. Varney? Well, may be no; but things are ap- proaching a crisis." "Anything fresh? Or the same row continued?" "The same row coming to a head, sir! The canker in the rosebud is working its way to the outer leaves,. end is beginning to be visible to the public; the malignant boil is becoming acute, and developing a head, which Will 'have to burst; the hidden rotten- ness is refusing to remain hidden any longer, and the fair flower of our cor- porate amity is withering, sir, wither- ing! Before we leave this place I ex-, pect to witness the premature decay ant! And if you're in funds, let it be • "He said you were a serpent he had eon hu • in in his • n g basals g gsand ,sc r- �, a orough, laughing. 1 "Yes, that's his way. When he buses you in metaphor, you know rat you are forgiven, and you ;'tart fresh on the old footing. It's his no- on of making an apology. Mona de Mar was the cause of our dust-up b is morning. She said she wasn't :' 1 oing to perform tc-night, that f -he 1 anted a holiday, and had private isiness to attend to. 1' didn't in the ,s ast know what her reason was, but � ontague began to biroetar, o 1 back- h d her up, and said 1 wouldn't perform j p either. I make a point of standing' i up to him whenever he starts in to I play the bully. I fancy that's partly why we're such good friends." I0 "A bit inconsiderate of the lady, k isn't it?" said Scarborough. la !"Oh, very," agreed 'Varnnty, but the I t point was that Montagne couldn't be s !allowed to bluster to a lady. We have h to treat him on a system, you see. We j w allows him to wag a free tongue as a _ rule, but this was outsidt the limits. !r See?" "I see," said Scarborough, "that you are an interesting crew, and I want to 1w hear more." "Then lead the wa t t ing. These two causes between them account for many a curious choice of profession. "You remember the ::mash?" he asked, "Yes," said Scarborough. "Carring- ton and Varney, stockbrokers•, -every- body knew about it ;• but I never under- stood it." "Few did, and I think the poor old governor least of all. He had trusted Carrington in everything, and rington used him as a tool. The Man was a thorough paced blaclguard. t50 I understand. Why wasn't *ie brought to book?" "Too clever. Slipped through the l.y be dei:.`elf' Some day by an imitation o • WO possibly you will not detect this imitation until. . tllt9 tea-pot L''eveals it Demand always the. genuine X4 sa ada,." in the .sealed aluminum packet, et, a- i': d see tat you gel t.1 if you want that unique 'luveux oa: , h, chin le w€'g properly prepared and stacked. D awyers' fingers an a technicality, and - `r left his partner as a scapegoat. Th poor old governor's only crime wa over -trust in a scoundrel -even the' Reasons `ivny Every :Farmer anoul prosecuting counsel accused him of nothing more heinous than an easy y, ,Xaa rya: • s going incompetency—but the disgrace killed Izim. tinhon things had got as straight as they ever would get, went out to ranch in Brazil; found that the family luck stuck to enc in that it yoked me to another scoundrel P th,, nn • �• aniv^,.. was ranching with; . stn cut fhim after a month; fell in With Val B. Montague at Rio; joined him, and be- cause I found that he was honest, stuck to him. I had been with hirci a year when the news of the governor's death reached me; but I didn't •go ack. There was nothing to go back 'or, and—well, that's about aII." • "What became of Carrington?" For a moment Varney did not an- wer. Then he said slowly; "Till to -day I heard nothing abgtit im. To -day two things have liap- ened that make me suspect that he s in this island of San Miguel. Shall tell you what they are?" Scarborough was crumbling a piece f bread With nervous e fingers. He new what his friend was going to say, nd he could not feel the same certain - y as he had felt an hour ago that the uggestion was absurd. Elsa had told im that she felt a rush of shame' hen she heard the name of Page on his lips. Might this, after all, be the eason ? "Yes," he said quietly. - "One is that Elsa Carrington \v ith you to -day," said Varney. "Can you prove that to me ?" (To be Continued.) >r, Have a Silo._ Na danger of Iate summer drought as 1,y using the silo with clover T othee green summer crops, early the eer•on, a valuable 'succulent fe will be ��t hand, when pasture in m regions is apt to give out. Crops unfit for hay -making may b preserved in the silo and changed in to a palatable food, such as thistle weeds, etc. Tine harvest can be removed earlier making it possible to finish fall plow ing sooner and to seed the land dowi grnss or winter grain. At a conservative estimate two Owe, can be kept by feeding silage at:`the cost of one cow from the same e,sage, fed on hay or other rough- t}g. Convenience in feeding and economy Of storage room, es ten tons of si__ tan be stored in the same space. on one ton of hay. When fed with the proper rations, silage is a greater milk producer and fattener than any known feed. Ensilage -fed stock, as a rule, are in a healthier state than when other feeds are used. When properly taken care of there is absolutely no waste of any part of the corn crop. The acreage needed for pasture is g=r' fly reduced, and consequently more land can be brought under cul- tivation. By 'providing a succulent forage, winter dairying is made profitable, and no reduction of stock is caused y a dry season. It is the cheapest food that can be rodueed as well as the best. It is a certain supply, notwithstand- ng the drought, the flood or the news. The silo is the cheapest method of mulling the crop, or storing it, and he best method of saving and realiz- ng the fullest value of the crop as eed. More stock can be kept on a certain rea of land when silage is fed than otherwise the case. Silage feeding does away with all ggravating corn stalk in the manure nd prevents their waste as well. It excels dry feed for the cheap roduction of fat beef. It keeps your stock thrifty and rowing all winter, and enables the w to produce milk and butter more onomically. Its use lessons the labor required care for a herd, if it is convenient - attached to the barn. It allows the spring pasture to get start. It enables preservation of food ich matures at a rainy time of the ar when drying would be almost im- ssible. It does away with the system of ictly grain farming, where few of e elements are returned to the soil. It increases the digestive capacity the animal. The silo supplements pastures d carries the burden of the winter eding. The silo will greatly reduce the pas - e acreage required, and will have t t" y o your res aur - and death of an organizm which I have , fizz!" nursed Iike a father—yes, sir, like a� "Fizz it shall be. Come along." father—for two long years Val B. Over dinner Varney told his ta American Circus Come picking up a thread where lie bination is breaking up, sir! Excuse ' Scarborough had been pupils togeth my metaphors," he added, without a at an army crammer's near Henl pause, turning to Scarborough. "When ; Both had been working—with no gre I am excited the sanguineness of my earnestness, they admitted mutual temperament invariably clothes my 1 now—for the entrance exam. at San utterances in poetic imagery, as Mr. ; horst; and now one was a telegra Varney wilI be good enough to tell you. man and the other was a circus pe And, by heaven, sir, I am excited , former. There were things in th now!" l which called for explanation, for ne He sat down on the edge of the Cher knew wholly the reasons why t packing -case and chewed a straw re-; other had given up his earlier limb flectively. He did not look excited, 'tion. and there was a humorous twinkle in; In Scarborough's case the explana- his eyes which suggested that he was tion was easy and ordinary. He had not so angry as he pretended. Varney failed in the examination, and the un - laughed and continued the process of cle who was paying for his education settling the angles of his tie before , refused to allow him to try again. a fragment of mirror. 1 "I don't think he was really sorry, "And the worst of it is, sir," contin-; said Scarborough. "He had the no ued the self-styled master of meta- tion that I had brains, if I cared to us phor to Scarborough, "that I have been them; and he didn't think the army hugging a serpent to my bosom. Your was a 'useful field for their exercise friend there—Pampas Joe, the Eng- He is a self-made man, you see, and lish Revolver King—is no longer loyal has a prejudice against what he call to his salt." i a butterfly life. That was before the "What have you been doing, Phi]?"I war. He's a bit more ready to admit asked Scarborough, smiling. !that a soldier may be a man now. He "What has he been doing?" then- wanted me to go into the city." dared Val B. Montague, in the sante I "You struck at that?" voice of excitement, and with the 1 "Yes." Sante placid manner and twinkling "And then ?" eye, belying the vehemence of his "Well, then, as I didn't take what words, "He has been fomenting re- . he offered, he told me to do the best bellion! He has bitten the hand that I could without him. The only thing fed him! , He has—well in short, you he stipulated was that it should be had better get him to tell you what he - something in which I could earn a deft has been doing. I ani busy, and must !nite salary, and he promised to add go." ! three sovereigns to every one that 1 Ile got down from the packing -case saved at the end of the year." and opened the door, As he was going "Not a bad arrangement either!" out, he turned, and said in quite a dif- I exclaimed Varney. ferent tone—a tone in which there "No, a very good one for me. The was a note of real worry. dear old man is by way of being reli- "By the way, Varney, I've settled to ; gious, but he contrives to preach the fire out the ringmaster. It was that 1' gospel of Mammon too and in a way canine to tell you." that makes converts. • He'd be hon. Varney nodded. "I think you're estly surprised, though, if anyone right," he said gravely, "It's one or pointed that out to him. Now how the other." about you, ;Phil?" "It is so, sir, unless we want murder . `"Wait a bit," said Varney, "What to be done. The clown is really the made you choose the cable service?" wror se, but I can't replace him, so the "For one thing the exam. was easy; ringmaster must go. Unless," he add- for another, I'm rather keen on elec- ed, turning sudenly to Scarborough, tricity and electrical machines; for a ''by some lucky chance I could find third, it seemed a good way of seeing another clown. Can you Clown, sir ?" a little bit of the world. Curiously "Not sufficiently well to be of use enough the service is rather crowded t;, you," said Scarborough, laughing. with, men who 'originally intended to °\r. it's harder than itloolcs. That's be something else. Somebody. has ‘. i ,, ;;...td clowns are scarce—and dubbed us the 'legion of the ploughed'; ...,,, c'' y i.1 MP, let one tell yo -t. Good: but oft the whole I think we're rather ale, andl er ey. at ly d - ph c- is 11e 1, ej .j Lord Robert Cecil, "Minister of BIockad.e." Lord Robert Cecil, who until re- cently held the post of Under-Secre- tary for Foreign Affairs, has been ap- pointed 'Blockade Minister" in the British Cabinet. He will be charged with the administration regulating the blockade as well as with the gen- eral responsibility for the policy and practice of the Government with re- spect to trade passing into and from neutral countries. Lord Cecil is a Unionist and thus increases the forces of that party already in the Cabinet by one. 'He is a lawyer of wide ex- perience and has held many high and responsible offices in the Govern- ment's service. How lie Would Treat Hint. A class of raw recruits was being put through an examination in fzrst- aid work At last it came to Pat's turn to answer. "Now, Pat," said the in- structor, "supposing a man were to fall down in a drunken fit, how would you treat him ?" "Faith, Sorr," re- plied Pat, "01 wouldn't trate Hint. at all. I'd consider he had had enough." Wanted• 'to Ream. ttla " "Yes, my son." "Are an army's right ;ted left wings What it flies with?" is b p s h t a 1s a a �r ro cc to ly a. wh ye po str th of an fe tur • d a marked effect on beef lweduction on high priced lands. Night pasturing has been found to S, lie a very valuable practice in coi,ne ?n tion with summer silo. ed A silo permits of saving crops i c- 0 years of great plenty for other sea- ost sons of less plenitude. Experiments have proved that si- e lage-fed steers have repeatedly made 1- the heaviest and cheapest gains, s' Silage saves a large g proportion of grain needed in fattening animals. It saves the need of any grain while v- cattle are growing. Silage -fed cattle. n gain faster, finish more quickly, and the meat is better. The silage system helps maintain soil fertility. The palatability of silage for cattle and sheep is universally recognized by all farmers who have given this food a fair trial. ge Cattle show great eagerness for si- lage: Its succulent character makes it very comparable with grass or other green stuff. The choicest of milk is produced by herds fed silage. A silo adds to the appearance of a farm. - By the use of silo the fodder is can- ned very much as a housewife cans fruit, preserves and vegetables. In no other way is it possible to pro- duce so large an amount of good feed from an acre of land as by raising corn and making the same into silage. The succulent silage is the best pos- sible substitute for .Tune pastures. pos- sible is relished by for at all seasons of the year. In winter cows can be fed a palat- able balanced ration that will keep them up to summer flow. Every winter we see a shortage in the dairy line. This can be over- come by introducing silos. With a silo you can keep more stock. Or keep the same stock on less acres and will leave more land for other crops. Ensilage has a higher feeding value than roots. Ensilage increases the milk flow. Your creamery cheque grows larger by its use.—Canadian Farnn. Hadn't As Yet. Belle—You say Bob kisses you against your will ? But you surely can stop that! June—Possibly! One never knows what one can do -until one tries, I suppose! As She No Doubt 'Would. "Some day we'll be telephoning through the air without wires," "Maybe; but won't it be queer to have an operator call back to you and say, "The air is busy now'?" Take Flight. "Riches have wings, they say." 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Largest eolling/live *took retne4, Cures La Grippe among httrndti being's, stud para fine ICpdne"' remedy. Out this out. Keep it, Show it to your drtargla- who will get it ,for you, free Booklet, NDiNatrl ae•, eit►ttM sad atm.,' Special agents wanted. Nli'ti>Rflf 111A11 IOA>rs OSie Chettfattr Acrd lisoterioloaiitte, Gosh**, O A* %IA. ENGLISH WOMEA WILL WIN T WAR FREE MEN III FACTOf'f,IIIS FOR M1LIT:tRY SEUVIck. • Plan of One Skilled Man in Charge of Many Women Who are Novice's Works Well. • Dilution has been carried on in various localities by the introduction of both male and female unskilled la- bor in Great Britain. But the chief aim of the Ministry of Munitions is to dilute ultimately with women; un - ,killed male labor he ving become al- most as scarce as skilled. In ,several cases the enterprise has already been conducted on a large scale. One factory in Yorkshire has been largely staffed by fisher -girls import- ed from an east coast town badly bit by the war. Those who have seen such shops at work, particularly those who supervise the women, speak with 1 enthusiasm of the success of every experiment. With women lies the solution of the labor difficulty, and with that solution victory becomes as- sured. Their services have already been utilized upon a scale undreamed of less than 12 months ago. There have been notified to the Board of Trade f 4 I Statistical a zstical Dep<zz•ttneizt no fewer. than 109,000 cases of women having re- placed men in various parts of the country, and ib' is known that this number falls very far short of the actual total. Dilution takes many forms. The most general praetice has been to bring in the untrained woman for elementary operations and put herr in , charge of a male operator, who in- structs her, and is. eventually sup- pianted by his pupil. Then the par- tially skilled man may be taken cif and put on a higher class of work; he may, alternatively, if he be of the more highly skilled variety, be put in charge of a number of women oper- ators, supervising, on half a dozen machines, the work he originally did on only one machine. If neither of these courses is advisable, the firm is able to keep the man at his own job and institute a night shift, keep- ing the machine in continuous opera- tion with the aid of the man and the woman for the best part of 24 hours. Output Multiplied by Ten. • The second effect of perfect diln- ion is the putting into operation of row machines. The skilled inen carry ut on a number of machines only hat work which really requires their ttention, while the women introduced Ito the shop do the remaining pro- ortion of unskilled work. A Birriz- igham firm, for instance, have tak- n men off capstan lathes, and trained hem for the delicate work of tool- etting. Each of the men has been ut in charge of six heachines operat- d by women, and in some cases a an has had eight or nine women un er his supervision. Given the neces- ary machines, each skilled man's out- ut has been multiplied by nearly ten mes. In a corner of a Blackburn works automatic machines are operated women with one skilled man in arge. One semi -skilled man mean- hile is being trained for similar ork, and in time he will take over e supervision of the 14 machines om the skilled man and release him ✓ another battery of lathes. In a turbine segment building we- en are cutting off blades, boring e distance pieces and blades, build - g up the turbine segments, and axing the whole—work which be- ne the war was considered to be so lily skilled that a skilled fitter old receive 3s. above his ordinary e for doing it. Fifteen girls are ng the work now, with two skilled ers to supervise them. The enterprising manager who has 11 foremost in diluting his works th women is he who is most ap- ciative of their capabilities. That men solely for the purposes of the ✓ and not for subsequent use can trained to do the most skilled and tate operations now performed by n is the opinion that is slowly ing to be held by the best class engineer.. Each successive experi- tal stage has found the woman al to all demands. Still Unforgiven. t 0 t a i p i e 1t S p e m s ti 14 by ch w w th fr fo m th in br fo hig wo rat doi fitt bee wt. pre wo wa be deli me com of men equ A month ago she said she's never forgive him. And now I hear she has married him. Yes, carried her revenge to the bit- ter end, Observant Child. Teacher—What' is water? . Willie—A. colorless fluid'that turn's black when you Wash your hands. A woman of experience, says it is much easier to acquire husbands than it is to get -rid of them.