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The Clinton News Record, 1920-9-30, Page 6Pure Clea :,a.. Pr e e.vved t o1c only°;ars .......,..�...�...... m ., ., I fa; ,,. 1 SWF Used in 'billions of'ea' c th x , ougv=arx^ aiasmacasegogamwnwta gar....,,.. -Y TeMaking of 'Val' Pierce ACV By CONRAD RICHTER, I. Valentine Pierce, Jr., braked his white roadster to a jerking stop at the oil -spattered curb.Lighting, a 'cigarette, he wept unhurriedly up the chiseled steps into the brick and inor- „tar offices of .the .Valentine Pierce Table Co. He smiled to the blond arbiter of the switehboard,;nodded to thin Kirlee, his father's secretary, and continued casually into the private room beyond. "Morning, Chancellor," he greeted with easy deference. "Beggs said you left a subpoena 'while I was. still in donkey heaven." The heavy figure at the bare desk turned in his silent swivel chair and regarded the youth from a pair of sober eyes. "Val, I gave you the courtesy of a month out of college to ask your dad for a job. Your time limit's expired. Angus tells me he wants to break a new man in in the yard. Knowing me, he's willing to take a chance on my son without putting him through the humiliation of finding out what he can't• do and doesn't know, You're hived" He extended a chunky hand; "Good luck, and go to it." Valentine Pierce, Junior, assumed an expression of regret. "Well, weill Awfully decent of you, Chancellor, to think of me. 3f I hadn't made other plans—" His father's jaw crunched massive- -1y -down on his narrow speeadaway collar. The son recoguized the ominous -symptom• and grew slightly sobered, "Listen, Chancellor. Wo don't want to have any .common argument about this. Let's talk it over decently. You've got a'million and a half laid by—" "Not laid by—working," informed his father testily. "My mistake," admitted the son. "The main thing is you've got the mil- lion and a half, You could retire to- morrow, not that I cherish any illu- sions of your doing .it. I comprehend .perfectly that you were 'brought up horny -handed, and the calouses on Your hands would get lonesome with- ,out anything to do." "What--" "Just a minute! I don't criticize you one particle, Chancellor. Every man to his own pleasure, I say. Horny -handed work is yours. Go to it. But nine isn't. Eight hours a day in your respected office yaid don't in- spire me with a splinter of excite - You will immensely improve the tastiness of dishes and add tre- mendously to their nourishing value if you use plenty of Gloves Overalls & Shirts Bob Long Says:-- - ,M overalls and Sefrts srotoo,uy and comfortable, and mode taper, e ally f femora. b designed them with m them Rte Idea miatyen might want to screen your arms and RIO occasionally." B GB LONG GLOVES will outwear any other make of :}love on the market, because they ere made by skilled work. men from the strongest glove loather obkeinalile. Insist on eettinf Deb Long Brands from your dealer— they will save you money gt. t3, LONG a Coe Limited Whinnies , TORONTO Meakroat 1308 LONG BRANDS 1.nawn from Coast to Coast ncww,«a t r. m mens: ' If I needed the money I flatter myself I could work up enthusias n by keeping 'my mind concentrated, on the salary envelope. ,Butj don't need the money. Mother doesn't need 't. Why plunge into an cad of•wore, and sacrifice my tender hopes and am- bitions end desires, my fond pleatiures and—„ •, "What- the devil are they?" burst out his father. "I don't know yet," retorted' the youth modestly. "But they -don't pos- sibly include a yearning for time- clock labor. I treighte'say they are inclined toward the honest, unassum- ing life of • a rich man's son without the pretension that he had to work for a living. You don't see Stan• Weimer skinning hides in his father's tannery, or Mart Larue wearing an eye -shade In his governor's office. I don't mind coming down here and talking over mutual business matters for a couple of hours a day. .But I'll be hanged, Chancellor, if I can swallow the old fogy humbug of working as though my mother was a washer -woman!' His father said nothing. He did not need to. His collar was creaking eloquently under its added weight of jaw and swelling neck. "Fortunately," continued the Co,n threatening • subtly, "Aunt Carolina blessed me with a hundred and sev- enty=one shares of this respected cor- poration. Your distinguished friend, Judge White, tells ins they're mine two weeks from Friday." "Your veneered, wormy -chested cronies and lady friends with knotty reputations are doubtless awaiting the day with keen anticipation," re- marked 'Valentine Pierce, Senior, heavily: "I wouldn't possibly be so unchlval- rous, Chancellor—" "1 have no compunction in the mat- ter," assured his father grimly. "I had your daily society looked up as a strictly business measure. I had the pleasure of finding that you've been letting a couple hundred feet of ma- hogany maple hang around you, sup- posedly to drink your health, but as a matter of fact to spend your good money." He -rose and started smold- ering across the* floor. "Thank God, your dad came up out of black' swamp muck that grows phi -oak knotty and courgum cross-grained and white oak tougher than— "Please, Chancellor," implored the son. "I remember the details perfect- ly; how you loaded your first ear of bark for a mere dollar; when and how you cut your foot with the cruel ax and crawled a mile" "Shut up!" abruptly bellowed his father, whirling on him with the pon- derous onderous rapidity of a grizzly. "This show's over, I order you to ,report to Angus at once. 'Get me, son?" "Perfectly," 'nodded ' the - youth. "Have a cigarette?" For a moment he fancied' 'a suppressed' parental beam in his father's :eyes. Afterwards lie decidedhe had been mistaken, for when he looked again the eyes were contracted like bullets. "Sorry, Chan- cellor," he said regretfully. "Give my love to Angus," and took his de-' parture. Friday afternoon Lou Baron called up from downtown, Lou was a breezy classmate, perpetually borrowing gas for his father's ancient car, a ready diner at more fortunate friends' ex- pense. An erstwhile member of the college dance and ev'g club, he trailed an accumulation of dramatic mimic- ries and aspired to he a movie star, To -day he announced that fortune had befallen him, and for the moment he had money itching to be dispensed. Would Val bring Rose of the Bon Ton, and join hiin and a fairy of his o%vn at the. Black Horse on the Lancaster. pike Tuesday night? Val accepted,at once. , A dinner by Lou 'promised rosily. His assumption wasnot predestined to disillusionment. The evening's dinner and dancing succeeded hilari- ously, despite the current laws of prohibition, Lou had brought some mysterious elixirin a bottle, which he poured_ into each served drink to give it a pre -prohibition flavor. He was especially generous with Val's glasses and by 10.30 the latter had become too flushed and unsteady to continue on the floor. About 11 a lone arrival sat down at an adjoining table and began gaz- ing offensively at Rose. Val saw red at once, but managed to keep within restraint by having the girl exchange chairs with him, which turned her back to the noxious table. The stranger smiled in derisive am usetnetit, _and had his waiter change him to a table that permitted renewed views of the girl's face. Here he Con- tinued to stare impudently, his big, handsome bulk lounging easily in his ' . chair. Twice he laughed insolently at Val's palpable fury; and the latter's passion was at white heat when Rose returned a glance and the stranger came saulitering over to alt brazenly for a dttnee. "Lord, what a bounder.!" eputtered Lou. s edVbreale his fresh al halfpushing back hineck!" cicalae- ed your lists, Vali" warned Leu, "He's tea husky. Hero's something better," Under the coder of the tab! Val felt the touch of an object bar end colli. His lingers convulsed about; it hotly, "Won't your jealous friends let yell deuce?" leered the Avenger to Rose. Vito girl turned her head, half haughte fly, Deaf coyly, The ham lauded Again,it chert, ipcendiary laugh, Thenhe glsneodd ecmteihjyttlettely at the youth and gently squeezing' the girl's shoulder, ,'bent Itis head to whisper in her eat, "Hanged if I'd stand that?" melted Lou, "Give him blazes, Vail T'll stand by--" The final word or words were broiled. opt by the sharp report" of e thirty-two calibre revolver, Val, standing passienetely ebovt hie 'cane chair, .saw the stranger straighten, stagger, heel and drop Ile continued to state stupidly as the room grew into a0. uproar. Rosa screamed And rushed away AO rpad an, Lou, after a seared gasp, bent down and tried to raise the stricken stranger to a sittingposture. Each time the silent form insisted upon crumpling bask to the floor with A limpness that sicken- ed Val's senses. (Continued in next issue,) Walk West aid Weigh More. Wifen one 1s wanking due east one weighs less than when standing still; ivlien walking tine west. one weighs more than when standistg still. The difference fa only a few hun- dredths of an oenee, so that pee would need very delicate scales to measure it.' A loaded car weighing a hundred tons; when standing still, loses about forty pounds when moving towards the east at twenty-five utiles au hour, and gains about forty i:ounds when moving towards the west at a similar speed. When yourbodyis standlpg still on the earth it is the object of two forces, the first of which, your own weight, is directed vertically, and tends to keep you pressed to the ground; the second is the centrifugal tierce Caused by the rotation of the earth cn its axis. This Is directed at a tangent to the circum- ference of the earth, The earth turns from west to east, so if your weight suddenly became nothing, thus leaving no force holding you to the ground, you would fly off the earth in an eastward direction, You would go on at a speed of about a thousand miles an hour until you were lost in space or cameinto colli- sion with the -moon or another planet or same star, or until you recovered your weight and were drawn by gravi- tation back to the earth, on which you would land, of course, is you had been going only a few minutes, at the stance spot from which you started, but if you had been going several hours, at a, spot farther west. 'Gravitation and centrifugal are the two forces which are blended in act. fug on yaur body, whether you stand still or move,' and the resultant is the weight you feel. • If you move in the direction of the earth's rotation, from west to east, the centrifugal force increases, and the -weight of your body diminishes; 10 you move contrariwise to the earth's rotation, from east to west, the centra fugal;fo'ce decreases and the weight Of •your:body. increases, A man weighing two hundred and twenty pounds walking at two and a half miles an tour towards the . east loses 0.0643014 ounce, and gains a like amount when walking westward at the same speed. An apparatus hasbeen invented by a mathematician, which demonstrates theme variatlone visibly. Islands That Are Born. There Was recently another bad. earthquake in the Aleutian Islands, which lie west of Alaska, and a new Island was born. It was the third island to rise In these waters within little more than a century, Ou May let, 1736, the Rus- sian admiral, Bogoslof, was off this coast when a terrible darkness fell, and fire rushed out of the ocean with a mighty, roaring sound. Next day was seen a black island, three miles around and five hundred feet high, with the sea boiling all around it. Soon it began to decrease, and to- day there is only a little of it left. .Iu 1883 there n'os another _convulsion, and a new island rose close to the re. males of the old one. A year later the first landing was made upon it by Bri- tish officers.. It was still very hot, and about eight hundred feet high. It soon began,to shrink, and to -day is loss than half its former size. .. ' Expedition Island, off the north-west corner of Australia, was thirteen miles long, and. famous for its beauty. • It was visited as lately as 1892. Today it hes disappeared, and is now fifty feet below, water. In 1693, To'ea, a large and beautiful island in tate Indian Ocean, began to smoke. The centre sank in, leaving a lake Of raging fire, and the people took to their boats in terror. Present- ly the whole of Toren had vanished, and to -key its remains lie hundreds of feet below the surface of the sea, The most famous of disappearing is lands is the fairy.island of St. Bren- dan, which was said to lie to the south• west eL Ireland, to be frequently seen, Yet to vanish evhen any mariner sailed towards et. That there was once such an island is clearly proved by its. mention in an old treaty in which the King of Portu. gal ceded certain islands to Castile. Among these islands is mentioned St, Brendan. --err--�•---- Chintz Utilizes Water Power, „, China's great 'commercial water highway, the Yang -tee -Kiang, is to be put to weak, To keep the rivet: al. ways at need level, and, incidentally, to get rid of rapids which interfere with navigation, seven dams will eo constructed. The project oontem• plates the development of 31,000,000 electric Horsepower, anti will cost $40,- 000,000. 40;000,000. This, is the first important water. power development undertaken in China, whose industrial future ]rags' a wonderful outlook in. that direction, Foe, thanks to its lofty mountain ranges, the Plewery Land has far greater water powers- available than any other country in the world. An Awful Example, "Whet° aro you going with that miserable—looking dog, Johnny?" "'rattle hint to the dog show,,, of you'-cata'l i h a prize with him," "Well, maybe they'll give ma a apootal prize far showin' the kind of dog that no dog ought to ibo." The Jewish y'ear beghts an 'October 3rd, Their next year will be the year 5082. Pickles and Preserves, f1inCreelyt!i tSauce-e34, yoctxl p e tom gtons , pepoppkeedf,n2elcucuhfouplspevdin1eonio3n tablespoonfuls sugar, 1 tablespoon salt, 2 teespeoufule cloves,' 4 tea, spoonfuls armament, 4 ' teaspoonfuls allspice, Peel the tmatoes and slice thin, Put in it granite kettle with the other ingredients -and bring grad- ually to the boiling point. Cook slow- ly two hours. Seal in sterilized jars. Tomato Catsup—iia bushel ripe to- matoes, 8 -hay leaves, 1 lemon, 1 tea- spoonful black pepper, a .teaspoonfuls mustard, 1 • teaspoonful" white pepper, 3 onions; 1 teaspoonful red pepper, 1 scant cupful salt, . % pint vinegar. Wash the .tomatoes thoroughly and cut in pieces, cools with the bay leaves, lemon; white pepper and onions .about two hours. Srtain through a coland- er to remove the skins. Mix the re- mainder of the spices and 'stir into the strained portion, add the salt and the vinegar, stir until well mixed, re- turn to the 'large kettle and cook slowly till the mixture thickens and is cooked clownabout one-half. Put in small sterilized bottles, seal and keep in a cool, dark place. Pickled Pears—% peck small pears, 2 pounds brown sugar, 1 pint vinegar, 1 ounce stick cinnamon, % tablespoon- ful whole cloves. • Boil sugar, vinegar and spices together for fifteen or twenty minutes. Peel the pears but do not remove the stems. Put into the syrup and cook slowly until soft, Seal in glass jars. Spanish Pickles -1 peck green to- matoes, 4 medium sized anions, 1 cup- ful salt, % ounce cloves, le ounce all- spice berries, 1 ounce peppercorns, 3 ounce -brown mustard seed, 2 cup- fuls brown sugar, 4 green peppers, cider vinegar. Wash the tomatoes and remove all stem ends. " Slice those crosswise. Peel onions and slice thin crosswise. Sprinkle alternate layers of tomatoes and onions with salt and let stand from ten to twelve hours. Drain, put in a granite kettle, add other ingredients and enougheyinegar to cover. Heat gradually and boil slowly about half an hour, Bordeaux Sauce -1 quart chopped green tomatoes, 3 oninns cut fine, 2 quarts sliced cabbage, 1 red pepper, 1 quart vinegar, t/-, teaspoonful all- spice, tie tablespoonful mustard seed, 1 cupful brown sugar, 2 tablespoon- fuls salt. Chop tomatoes, onions and cabbage to uniform fineness. Mix to- gether and add all the other ingredi- ents. Boil one-half hour then seal in small jars. This is a good relish for cold pleats. Orange Marmalade -1 dozen oranges, 4 tablespoonfuls lemon juice, 4 cupfuls water, 8 cupfuls sugar, 1 teaspoonful salt. Drop the oranges into boiling water for a few minutes, then remove the rind from the pulp and peel off all the white bitter por- tion. The boiling water aids greatly in loosening the pulp. Put the skins in cold weer enough to cover, add the salt and boil until the skins are tender, then drain. Remove all the white portion and cut the yellow into shreds, using scissors. Add the pulp cut ,into small pieces, all the juice, sugar and 'water. Boil slowly for two hours until thick. Turn into sterilized jaas and seal. 'Grape Conserve -3 pints grapes, 3 pints granulated sugar, 1 pint water, 2 oranges, i/s pound raisins', yo. pound walnuts. Wash the grapes, then press the pulp front the skin of the grape, Put the pulp into a porcelain kettle, heat through, press through a coland- ed to remove the seeds. Cook the pulp, skins, sugar, orange juice, water and. raisins together one-half hour, add the chopped huts, cook a minute or two longer. Seal in 'jars. Improving Old Floors. The floors in our tenant house were not good, We could not afford to lay new ones, and yet .1 sympathized with the desire of our tenants to make their house as attractive -as possible. In the sitting 'roost I helped the tenant's wife to apply a coat of lin- seed oil to the floor, which was of pine, very old, and disfigured by wide cracks. We then filled the cracks with a ready -to -use crack and crevice filler and stained the floor oak, coln- pletirig the job with u coat oR floor s, ANexceedingly0 -lo sin It was at f;o d Ol l g 'hpor in contrast with the original, in the bedroom we stretched strips Of old sheeting tightly over the floor, gave it two coats of brown paint, and Covered the centre of the room with ,a rug made out of an old ingrain vex• pet. .. I have found that it is hest in fixing UP old floors not to use bright stains or paints which call attention to the defects, and I like light colors which do not show every speck of dust. A fitter which harmonizes with the woodwork and rug, and which carries out the decorative principle that the floor should have the deepest tones in the room, and yet which does not show the dust easily, is an ideal.one, The rugs I choose are not expert, sive. They are quiet in color and dee sign, . and harmonize well with the walls and draperies, For Black Silk. • If you have it black sills dress which has lost some of its lustre, do not think of throwing it away, but sponge it on the wrong side with tepid water to which has been added a little vine- gar. ' Iron with a moderately warm iron on the wrong side until dry. This restores the black color but does not leave a shiny surface on the right side. I made over a dress this sunt - mer, and it looks almost as good as new. Dusters From Old Stockings. Very few housewives realize what splendid dusters they can make frorn. their cid stockings. And the method is so easy that it would seem ridicu- lous not to make them, once you know how. All that es necessary is to: cut of the feet and cut open the stockings. Then sew two er three together, the long way, until they make a duster and large as is required. Of course it will look better if stockings of the sante color are used, but different pairs may be combined, and the result is a soft, easily used duster with a hundred charms and no initial cost. A Simple Jelly Test. - To determine how much' sugar should be used with each kind of juice, put a spoonful of juice. in a glass and add to it one spoonful of 96, per cent. grain alcohol, mixed -by shaking the glass, noting' how the pectin—the the glas, noting how the pectin—the substance in fruits which makes them jell—!s precipitated. If .the pectin is precipitated as one lump, et cup of sugar may' be used ter each cup of juiee; if in several lumps, the proportion of sugar must 'be 4000d.40. ztp'Pv'Oxiina101 t t'hree•top:'ths the ananunt of the juice. If the Pectin is not in luntys blit is merely precipitated, the Aum should be one-half er less of the amount of the juice, If the Pelee shows no pre, el !talkie under this test,it is n, pp suitable for jelly making, and meet be eombined With apples or ether julees rich in pectin- • Tiles housewife will do well before malciltg'the test to taste the juice, as fruits not go acid as good tart apples probably will not plaice good jelly unless mixed with other fruits which are acid. A Painful Plunder, An ,early morning customer in an optician's shop was 0 young woman with a determined alt'. Slue addressed the Ilrst salesman site saw. - "I want to look at a pais' of eye- glasses of extra magnifying power." "Yes, medain," replied the sales- man: "something very strong? "Yes, sir, Nerhile in the country I made a very painful blunder which I never want to repeat:" "Indeed! Mistook a stranger for an acquaintance?" "No,. not .exactly that; I mistook a bumble -bee for a blackberry." r t t 1 r] 1 1 1 I i ONTARIO. ((, rr1 tf G�Ajj 1+K1�61 1. 7egrf1s4 14h0p1 Btttb4gf, .int, tinsel' floa4ro, '.Cotait04+• g9ssiop 1020 2ieeeentl 9etober Rtii1�.4080. »t'awinft,'�'aiatiu.>r, Who aid• e itna'i.:Cstiilt Snort Courson in 4axnmorctal andAp- plied .Art. 1>rospocLHo art aPPlloat/uh 0. 4• aisZP, 404., pxigpisw1, S C1QCsesNaa et P' ' T'bel'e are people who thins,them- sclves big because abiosis point thele out las "seine -bodies," The/ nMAasure their importance by the amount of attention tltcY attract and the flattery they receive. Let the man' who 19as to make his fortune in lite remember this maxim; Atteeking le the only secret, Dare, and the world always yields; or, 1f it beat you sametlines, dare it again and it will succumb•---Thacicc;ay. * 8 W e "Sneak it while I am alive to hear." Right living is true thinking in ac- tien, IOlizabeth- Towne. Anxiety" never yet euocessfnlly bridged any obasm. Being ignorantie not so much a shaine- as being unwilling to learn,— Benjamin Franklin. .y_•- _ --- Nothing is more satisfactory than some persons' opinion of iheni elves, IT is the combi- nation of the 'colors of the rainbow, and it is what remains when toter has been eliminated% • But there is a maximum degree of whiteness. In the washing of clothes, this was achieved a century ago by KEEN'S OXFORD BLUE In the years that have followed, everything has been done to maintain the quality. K.EEN'S OXFORD EWE produced the maximum white= ness then—it does the same today. Wherever clothes are washed k is stilt I? the standard of excellence. •iLl NUCOR, SON es CO., Limited Montreal Toronto Candia, Aetna. •31 -_a HERE is yet time to preserve the autumn fruit for winter enjoyment. LANTIC "Pine" retains all the bouquet of sun -ripened Pears and Peaches. How your folks will enjoy the clear, white delicately -flavoured pears, the rich peaches whole and luscious! 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