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The Exeter Advocate, 1923-5-31, Page 6>r ion - .007 Th Consumer's n dence in Is the Keynote of Our Success 0894 On the Fringe of the Pampa —BY EDWARD WOODWARD. PART I. I girl behind the bar; she was pale and Borit's saloon at San Latois, on the' dark; but at the gambler's lecherous fringe of the Patagonian pampa, was look she flushed hotly, andan expres- one of those rank oases which attract sion of disgust came on to her face. an undue proportion of wolves. Borit! "Megan ain't sorryin' 'bout thet,'I sold most things , from bad whiskey to, tenchuckled hetzBrit Britisher who a mans life, and was prepared to close , eyesj a deal on his own soul if the rice' don't care a damn for her, or any was good enough. p other woman!" Pay nights were the occasions when Borit's lurched into frenzied life, of a sort. At such times the gauchos, as the Argentine cowboy is named, come in from the isolation of the ranches, and in a few hours burn up their Money in the vivid blue flame of bad liquor and ebullient animal nature, Being astute, Borit catered to the full for these burst of hysteria; and on a certain payday evening in the. spring of the year, his resthouse was a blaze of naphtha and alcoholic laughter and the wolves were aprowl i for their prey; Borit himself, his impassive, satur- nine face showing exaggeratedly pale among the windblown complexions of his guests, hung around the bar, vanti and poker in his eyes; Gideon Cortz, the sharp, named the Cacique on ac- count of his once having sojourned long enough in the toldos of a tribe of Hehueliche Indians to teach them how to throw dice, and after clearing out the tribe's exchequer, had won the chieftainship; but finding it too in- convenient and cumbersome a posses- sion, had cut his losses and decamped just in time to save his throat from being slit, lounged by the boss, invi- tation in his eyes. Evan Hughes, of Trelew, down from the Welsh settle- ment on a horse deal leaned against the bar, while Llewellen Thomas, re- turning to Rawson from the south, after shipping wool from Santa Cruz, swung his legs on the end of a table close by, and drank redhot rye. Presently Borit glanced round the bar, "Cortz," he said, after the survey, "things are very quiet. The boys seem to be losing their nerve; they don't drink a saloon dry as they used; but! just sit around playin' faro for love, and don't even cock their eye at' Megan here," The Cacique's eyes slid round to the s s anal gave your otomaerlaa Hat. Provides "`tile bit of sweet" H8e beneficial form. Helps to cleanse the teeth and keep !them healthy. 1111111111 11101 (11 00 Unit MATCHES The fealliyg hvic, e .rlu s tesiarr/ts, os rra'steamshlftvie MY isfaithes, ieca m?oftheir eic'enand economy ALWAYS ASK FOFY TAMA BY f1AT& i1.11 11 81 11111111 1111811101111111111181 81 81111111110' isutig "Who d'ye mean?" asked Borit. His niece, Megan Meredith, who on here parent's death two years before had, come down to his tender care, was a j valuable asset to his saloon, and he had no wish to lose her to a Britisher or any one else. Corti laughed and his cruel eyes feasted on Megan's confusion. A Pretty SummerStyle, "Don't you worry, Borit," he chuckl- A blue foulard with a white coin ed. Johnny.. Thorp won't have any-. , of thin to do with her. He hates women,s; p makes this pretty sleeveless like I do snakes; but I guess Megan ,' frock. Note the simplicity of the ain't tumbled to thet fact yet, an'; lines, and the drooping side panels, would give her eyes for him to kiss' The model's hair is di essed in the last her. Ain't thet right, Megan?" word in the Egyptian mode. Megan had gone very pale; but the 1 fire aboutn her eyeve s showed othaashe was quittin' Lloyds ,an' has a fat roll of of unpleasant information asod dealto her back pay on him. He loves cards as opinion of him, when the door swung much as he hates women, so leave it to me. open and admitted the man of whom "Say, Thorp," he remarked with a they were speaking. { conciliatory grin, "Cortz was feelin' John Thorp was dressed in the cus-; foolish just now; but he's got sensible tomary garb of the gaucho; tut even again and wants to make friends, How the cumbersome, untidy poncho could • about a flutter at poker just to clear net entirely rob his figure of its slim, the air, and show there's no ill - muscular grace. His tall, well -knit feelin'?" frame was erect, his face brick -red, t A thin, rare smile glimmered round his nostrils high and sensitive; his Thorp's lips; then in his quiet, clipped blue eyes looked slumbrous, and his voice, he replied: chin, strong and deep, gave him, in; "It's a threat, Borit. I thought you • conjunction with a thin-lipped mouth might be playin'. That's why I came drawn down at theends, the savage' along in." "Playin?" laughed Borit jovially,. appearance of a puma. But the most striking peculiarity of "I'll play any man for anything, at the man was the stillness of his face; ; any time! You'll have a tot of spe- lt was as though a sudden, paralyzing cial along with me, and then we'll blow had robbed it of sensation and make a start!" feeling, rendering it immobile, impas- Johnny nodded abruptly; and Bo'rit,. sive and inscrutable. His age was going behind the bar, gave his niece thirty; and at one time he had been an affectionate chuck under the chin. J the hub of the gayest, most inconse- "Hand me that special bottle down, quent set in. London. Megan," he said. "I want to fix Thorp It was Ascot, Epsom and the eager a `peacemaker'!" 1 res of horseflesh, coupled with the Megan had witnessed the incidents apostacy of a girl -wife, which had in the bar with fear -filled eyes; and s brought him out to South America now, hearing her uncle's request, four years previously.— anxiety came into her face She didn't see her; he was standing with. his back te. her. "Here you are, Thorp," said Borit, carrying the drink to his intended vic- tire, "This is a drop of genuine fire- water." Thorp glanced round the room, ` and. unconsciously his eyes rested on Megan. .For a second she met his gaze, - and then lowering her eyes to the glass in Thorp's hand, she almost imperceptibly shook her head. Quickly Johnny looked away, and with one movement tipped the Contents of the glass' into an earthenware mug standing on a nearby shelf, and,s'ood with the emptied vessel athis lips, as though he had just. drained it. An hour and a. half later both Corti and Borit realized that something was wrong. Borit had given Thorp enough doped whiskey to lay a couple of ordi- nary men on the broad of their backs for a week. By rights the Britisher ought to have been lying sodden under the table, with his bank roll safe in the keeping of Cortz and the saloonke:per. But instead of this, he was wide awake and bluffing the others to a standstill. With a sigh, Thorp raked in his winnings for the eighth time in suc- cession, and stretched his arms above his head. "Well, friends," he said, "I'll just have to be going, ' I hate to skin you and quit; but I'm going to Rawson, and reckon on making Trieste before to -morrow. night." Borit looked up testily. "Thet be damned for a tale," he said. "You ain't a bad enough sport to quit like thet!" "If the doping act of Borit's had come off, I guess you'd be quitting fast enough," said Thorp. Borit, sprang to his feet, "Dope, you double-crosser !! What d'you mean?" "That!" replied Thorp, noddingto- ward his empty glass, With a snarl, Borit dived for his gun, but even as he raised it, a heavy water bottle, hurled from the counter, struck his wrist, and sent the weapon flying into the air. Thorp had darted to the door, and while Borit doubled"up with pain, he vanished into the night, Outside, he darted' round the back of the saloon. A deep throaty whinny greeted him. "Come along, old son!" muttered Johnny. "You've got to live up to your name to -night!" "Queer things, women!" he mutter- ed. "If the girl hadn't flung the bottle at Borit I'd be a dead 'un now!" He wondered whether Borit had seen his niece's action. Johnny guess- ed it would go roughly with her if he had seen; but it was nothing more tender than the instinct of the male to protect the female of his race that prompted him to draw rein and check his stallion, as the thought slipped into his mind. For a second he sat motionless, de- bating whether to turn back; then the pampero wind from the southwest brought the lit, lit, lit of a galloping horse to his ear. A second longer he listened. That was Cortz for a fiver, he decided, and pulling Ormonde into a shallow vega ust by, he dismounted, threw his cape over the stallion's head to keep him quiet, and then unslinging his rifle, ay down on the lip of the hollow, The earth soon would be well rid of uch scum as the gambler. (To be continued.) Minard's Liniment: for Coughs & Colds' "'Low Thorp!" called Cortz, as the glanced at Thorp; but the Britisher Britisher entered. "Come in to say goodbye? Your pulling out of Lloyd's show, aren't you?" Johnny Thorp ignored the gambler, and strolling up to the bar, lifted his black felt hat to Megan. "Good evenin'," he said gravely; and then noting the quick, nervous ex- pression in the girl's eyes, he added "You're looking tired!" For a second or so there was silence, and then Cortz's sneering voice cut in. "Say Thorp " he said "Where's s your EXTRA SPECIAL WASHING. manners? You'll make Daisy Dew- The smell and the feel and the look drop cry if you look at her like -a- of clean clothes fresh from the line thet !" Borit and the other men chuckled, and Thorp's cold blue eyes turned on the gambler. "You're a sunny companion for After the spring cleaning is, done those who like you, Cortz," he said slowly, "but I guess Miss Megan isn't and vacation time is on for the young folk, there is a variety of clothing to one of them. You want to shut up before you get hurt." be looked over, discarded or put in "Hurt?" questioned Cortz, his eyes order. A thrifty woman discards very narrowing malignantly. "Guess it little. On a bright Monday morning, won't be me getting hurt! If you kid when sun and air are right and energy yourself thet your ugly face tickles high, the temptation is to gather up Megan's fancy you're dead wrong!" everything that is not perfectly fresh He strutted up to where Thorp and; and clean and get it into the purify- Megan stood on either side of the nar- row ing suds and disinfecting light. Right ny counter. If you want otnly man here we must beware! Not every Britisher, Pin the. only. man! soil - she'll let kiss her !" ed garment can stand up under the "That's a lie!" she exclaimed. routine of the laundry. Just now, "May be," laughed Cortz, "but we'll - especially, when thin fabrics of rear or the bluegrass, afford one of the real satisfactions of the housekeeper. Many a tired woman is rested by them on every pleasant washday afternoon. again; and the ribbons and silk waist are ruined. No, don't gather them up and put them into the machine! Save them for a special day, and then have all the materials ready for a thorough job. Wait for a fair morning, when it is warm and dry enough for quick evaporation, and when you can work out in the yard leisurely, then have a really good time luring newness back to aging garments and restoring to the several members of the family their special finery. Father's neckties, and the boys', will .need attention; the little girls' hair - ribbons; the blue voile that is to be altered and the yellow crepe party dress that had ice cream spilled down the front; that old summer silk of Mother's that looked so worthless; the delicate cuffs and collars, and all the make it the truth," and before the � delicacy are in vogue, wastefulness gloves. They do accumulate amazing - girl could spring back out of his reach, from careless cleaning is too common. ly, but a day devoted to intelligent he had stretched out his hand ands. Crepes and other sheer silks are high renovating will surprise the most:san dragged her toward him. i priced and difficult to fit and finish In Replacing the garments, or In another second his greedy lips! even shopping in for' new would have crushed Megan's mouth; Long days of patient sewing and pp g materials, but Thorp's fist took him under the many dollars, slowly earned and joy . would take many times as long, to say jaw instead, and sent him reeling fully spent, may be thrown away with nothing of the cost, and the expense across the room whereh fetched d' ' t h t for cleaning fluids is as nothing tom against one of the bulk -timber. tables.•'• crispness, form, even durability, of .pared to that of pro..essional cleaning. He • steadied himself on the paims of the choicest possession may vanish Four or five groups of articles may his hands, and glared at Thorp with thus quickly. be sorted out and handled the same murderous eyes and livid face. The: day quite economically if care is used Patagonian is a pian of action; he Imperfect dyes,. also, make Hetes about cleaning the lightest and least doesn't waste trine in cursing a foe, he sary the cleaning of many fabrics just draws a weapon; a knife usually,' separately. The sudsing.of a number' soiled first, then the next dirtiest, and since bullets are dear, and goes in to of colors at once, or leaving them in so on. There will be several different kill. C'brtz drew his knife and attack- the tub or basket, may destroy the Processes. The first requisite is to ed low, after the manner of the pain- beauty of all. ''Little Mary's handsome have all the necessary liquids at hand, pa; but Johnny was prepared for him; plaid becomes a smear because the red with plenty of bowls or pans of suit - and taking the blow on h' caught Corti's wrist in a grip of steel, Mother's handmade lace that .came all`.'free from rust. Some soft white rags • and twisted the weapon out of his or cheesecloth will be needed and hand, the way from her missionary sister in'' ' e up onedip in o o soapy water, Color b is cloak, he runs all through the other colors.: able sizes and absolutely clean and "Painless extraction of teeth!" he Chile to • trim her best blue tissue probably a small, brush. Large ' tubs, rubbing board and boiler have no murmured, as giving Cortz a push, he turns a hojseless gray; the white pique` in th' a picked up the knife and put it in his cuffs and collar on Jean's favorite buff place is d y s program.. A high pocket. • school frock can never be snowy. white bench or table at which one may stand Borit hurried' up to hint.comfortably, and a'high stool or chair "Now then, Cortz," he said, making are desirable. euro the sharp had •no more knives The best white soap already flaked about him. You asked for that! Now f or 1 be friendly, and we'll have a' hand S R' L 6 S i shaved thin_ with a knife, should be with the cards. ` cooked until dissolved iii,•, the softest, clearest water obtainable. If the I know this Biitisher's askin' fur ,1 f trouble," he whispered, "but you won't � Supply <j very slightest stiffening is wanted, as give it to him with a knife. He's a d Can. get et him with the cards. He's 1.�,..� R SETS AND Price List mailed on request. Gibson Radio Su 1 Toronto'.s Largest Radio Store. 104 -King St. W. Toronto, Ont. am sight too slick for you. but you for organdy, a solution of borax is 'used for rinsing. Gasoline of the best c hind, just as sugar is left when water Justto wash your face apa hands. sn Lifehuoy is to be refreshed. The big creamy the of Lfehuoy thoroughly elaans your skm. - The daily use of Lifebuoy is the simple sure way to skin health. abundance. A still more volatile fluid may be needed for lace collars and vests which cannot be conveniently re- moved from a dark garment and must be cleaned by patting with a little fluid at a time which is absorbed by a soft pad of cheesecloth or old linen held under the spot. A mixture recom- mended for this purpose follows: 1 gallon gasoline, 1 ounce alcohol, l%aounce chloroform, Y2 ounce ether. The two -ounce mixture of alcohol, cloroform and ether may be purchased at the drug store in one bottle, and one-fourth of it added to a quart of gasoline when needed. For summer cottons such as lawns, dimities and fine ginghams, which can no longer be dry-cleaned and yet should not be exposed to the ravages of soap, a good supply of thin cooked laundry starch is the best'thing. ecru or natural linen color is to be preserved then cooked bran water may take the place of the white starch. Of the sorted garments there will be two piles of white or very light; first, lace and net collars and guimpes, silk and cotton gloves, and light cotton or `silk dresses which are but slightly soiled and need only gasoline for the oily parts that have been next the skin or for accidental spots; and, sec- ond, similar articles which have been previously dry-cleaned and reworn until they are soiled all through and must be washed in either soap or starch water. The third group may contain white or light kid gloves, silk ribbons, ties and mufflers, blouses and dresses, all to be immersed two or more times in gasoline. The fourth bunch will be similar to the third but of darker articles, and more soiled. Woolens not thoroughly shrunken and of fast color should be dry-cleaned in gaso- line, as' --ail neat• fifth group, along smell boys' trousers and cal :.d such other heavy articles as may need only a careful sponging and pressing. If spots are to be treat- ed, they should be encircled by a white thread or chalk mark so they will not be lost as soon as moistened. In the fifth pile will be those excel- lent woolen and eilk things previously dry-cleaned to the limit, that can pro- fit finally by warm suds and equally warm rinsing'to remove all stickiness and grayness. These may follow through the water the -daintier articles mentioned as a part . of ' the second pile, for all the soap washing should. be put off until after things cleaned in gasoline and starch have been hung up. The gasoline will need all day to, evaporate, and the starched clothes should dryearly and be sprinkled ready for the irons when they are heated for 'the woollsns. When everything that needed a full bath has been hung up, we may sit down to the spots. As has been sug- gested, if there is only a little oily mixture of dust at fleck and wrists, or a grease spot on the vest, we take a little soft dauber of cheesecloth and a larger pad for an absorber underthe spot, and pat with the cleaning fluid over and over,.turning tbe absorber each time as the dirty fluid is carried into it, until there is no trace of dirt left., Only airing and pressing then•. remain. _ As to other grease spots we. must remember that we cannot successfully clean a 'spot if the garment is dirty. We .may remove the. grease spot, but it will be only moved along and will form a ring or streak around the clean spot. Why is this?„ j Gasoline (or benzine and other dry` cleaners, such as chloroform and ether) dissolve oils but when the dry leaner evaporates, the oil is'left be - and whitest quality should be ready in (^,$, MAtitiR`KM�' b'F Y 6'+� M�«'•T..H..k`i�?t has evaporated from syrup. If a sticky, spot of syrup i"s to be removed from cloth it must be not only dissolved in water but must be washed away with more water. The sugar does not van- ish into the air, and neither does the oil which the gasoline dissolves; it must be rinsed away with repeated fresh supplies until no oil remains to resettle after the solvent is evaporat- ed. If the oily spot held dust it will be carried along with the dissolved oil in the gasoline and the cleanness of the garment will depend upon the thoroughness of the rinsing. A drop of gasoline on a grease spot acts as a drop of rain does on a dusty board -•—it spreads in every direction' and carries the dirt out from the centre in a ring. If there is not more gasoline to follow, again and again,. until the ring is pushed quite off the. cloth, then dirty streaks will remain,. Rinsing is just as important in dry cleaning as in. sudsing. If a whole garment is soiled, as a. silk blouse may be, or !cid gloves, or a child's coat, it is most easily cleaned in a quantity of gasoline to cover, as though it were water, with squeezing and turning, in one bath after another until the last one remains. clear. The gasoline is kinder to the hands and more effective if warmed, by setting the can or bowl in hot water. Of course gasoline must not be warmed or used near a fire. Also, do not rub garments in gasoline, hard enough to produce friction. Minard'sL(niment far Corns and Warts Like Some Other Art. "She's as pretty as a picture." "Can't agree with you in that --butt she has a fine frame." - Up in the Air.' Mrs, Newlywed••- ""Oh, Jack, you loll the kitchen door open, and the draughl has shut my cookery book so that poky T fiaver.'t the faintestidea what it iii I'm cooking." The best way to be contented with your lot is- to build a house on it. 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