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The Clinton News Record, 1915-11-04, Page 4cas e the famous a fresh, fragrant riousnesss 4914 3 107 lousehold 11 THE GOLDEN KEY. Or "The Adventures of Ledgard." By the Author of "What. He Cost. Her." 11 CIIAPTER XX.—(Cont'd). I sweet, trustful' eyes and a laug "You haven't any friends," she said `mouth. Was there no life at all, then, softly,""nor an•'yeducation; but you're . outside this little vortex into which a • ilionaire! ' That is quite suf- at her bidding he had plunged ? Would ficient. You are a veritable Caesar she never have been content with any - with undiscovered worlds before you.", thing else? Ho looked across the placid, blue sea to where the sun "I wish I knew what you meant, he said with some hesitation. She laughed softly. "Don't you understand," she said, was no life for him without her. "that you are the fashion? Last year it was Indian Potentates, the year The captain came up for his morn- . some of the »assengers, gleamed like silver on a white sail, and sighed again. He must make him- self what she would have him. There before it was actors, this year it istug cleat, millionaires. You have only to an -1 who eyed him with obvious respect, noencoyourself and you may take lingered for a moment about his chair any place' you choose in society. You ! on their promenade. Trent lit a cigar have arrived at .the most auspicious l and'presently began to stroll up and , o moment. I can :.assure you that he - it to furnish richness. Also add fore many months are past you will mall piece of beef suet. Heat an know more people than ever you have oken to in urmen t kettle until it is hot enough to 'wife hose names have l been hofore old r the meat at once, then drop the ' words to you and nothing else will be 1 and the meat into the kettle and i calling you 'old chap' and wanting to n 'over frons side to side until the I sell you horses, and women, who last )1e is seared so that the juices -will week would look at you through lorg- escape. Do not let the roast burn,1 nottes as though you were a denizen n often enough to prevent that but ; of some unknown world, will be lay - it roast to a deep brown. Add no I ishinand whispering n in their r ear their 'nles ter for the meat will cook thor- at home, afternoon. Oh, it's lucky I'm ;hly.in-its own gravy. Do not have (able to prepareyou a little for it, or you would be taken quite by storm." -half hours of slow cooking should, He was unmoved. He looked down hot a fire. Three to three and the meat to a turn. If it is desired at her with a grim tightening of the serve browned potatoes with the lits. st remove the meat when cooked, "I want to ask you this," he said. 1 water to the gravy and drop the "What should I be the better for, it all? What use have I for friends atoes (either Irish or sweet) into h onlygatherround me because I gravy and let them cook as usual. son both meat and potatoes to t the taste. Macaroni in Variety. You were afraid of me once, Aa 1 Souza. I haven't caanged so much as iM�S PAY DEAR you may think,, and the Gold Coast isn't exactly the centre of civilization., There! I've saidmy say. The less I see of you now till we land the better I shall be pleased." Ile walked away and was challeng- ed by the Doctor to a game of shuffle- board', Da Souza remained in his chair his eyes blinking as though with the sun, and his hands gripping nervous- ly the sides of his chair. (To be continued.) WAR AND BUTTERFLIES. -' What Fashionable Women Are Doing in the Great War. -' Centuries ago a chronicler of the crusades recorded quaintly of a cer- tain vain and valorous knight: "Three wounds he received in this battle, whereat he laughed; bntthe Paynim who shore his tall plume- he cursed deeply,. and rested not till he had, with his good sword, shorn off his head." That was in the . day when every FOR N U RALE 1! COUNTRY HEMMED IN BY WAR. RING NATIONS. Can Produce From Its Own Soil Only a- Sixth of the Grain Required. ' A nation .of less than four million inhabitants, Switzerland had an army of over a quarter of a million upon its frontiers before the end of the first week of August of last year, all well armed and /well drilled, completing mobilization before either Germany or France. Within Switzerland's own borders, among the twenty-two cantons of the confederation, influences have been at work to break the Government's nen- down himself. The' salt sea -air was a gentleman who was not a priest must trality which began their activities wonderful tonic to him after the nerv- be a fighter, and con be a dandy before the soldiers had rushed' to an- oils life of the last few months. Ile onlybythe way, It was manyyears swot the first call to arms. Among found his spirits rapidly in This the French Swiss were numerous into voyage had been undertaken in obeli- later that another type arose, dandy ago h once to a sudden but overpowering first and fighter afterward: the grace- friends. of France who cared more for thorn impulse. It hacl come to him one ful idler, the society, fop, suddenly the interests of the sister republic Island night that he must know for himself transformed by patriotism, at his than for those of their own. Among , Ir Milk sland how much truth there was in Da ' country's call, into a hero. History the German Swiss assistance,to Ger- destro Souza's story. He could not live with roved him,fiction adopted him• he many was sought at the expense of eve thought that a thunderbolt was. ' became one of the most popular fig -patriotism. The Italian Swiss worked hr c< ever in the skies; that at any moment uses in drama, story, and romance. toward the same end; to sacrifice his life, might lie wrecked about rein. l But until now neither fact nor fiction: He was going out by one steamer and back by the next, the impending issue has supplied a corresponding type of of his great Company afforded all the heroine. subsidized and orators 'travelled excuse that was necessary. If Da The great war of to -day, although also Souza's story was true -well, there it demands of many of the noble wo through the land, each preaching doe- were many things which might be men who have answered the call trines whose acceptance by the Gov done, short of a complete disclosure. ernment would leave wrought nothing resultan ala Monty might be satisfied, if plenty of greater ability, responsibility, and TH They eY their' country in answeing the call of eta"— rationality. Every,.village was. flood- as we ed with pamphlets, newspapers were lambs, lcitt^ money were forthcoming; to abandon •tne,1•. and release the situ -- thoroughness of training than has ever been demanded of Women before, but evil to Switzerland. • Production Small. who rot am rich? Shouldn't I be better of! ation from its otherwise endless cam- has also offered opportunities of ser - Switzerland can produce from its to have nothing to do with them, to plications. Trent smoked his cigar vice to others, hitherto merely women own soil in a year only food sufficient live my own life, and make my own placidly and, taking off his cap, bared of fashion and the gay world, which to last for two months. Most of its pleasures?" his head to the sweeping sea -wind, many have eagerly accepted. Women grain it has been accustomed to get She shrugged her shoulders. which seemed laden with life and used only to organizing balls toil on from Russia. For over a year it has Sacaroni with White Sauce: - "These people," she said, "of whom buoyancy. Suddenly as he swung committees; women who have shone. I have boon speaking are masters of round by the compamou-way he found beaten off starvation with difficulty. arc the macaroni In one inch the situation. You can't enjoy money hhneelf confronted by a new -comer in foreign capitals interpret for hap- Material interest must speak loudly ces, three-fourths of a cup, wash, alone! You want to race, hunt, en- who came staggering out from the less refugees; women who have play - in Switzerland for England. Great 1 and cook in salted water, then tertain, shoot, join in the revels of gangway. There was a moment's re- ed with petted children in charming Britain buys twice as much as it sells • hot the sauce melt four country housesl You must be .one of coil and a sharp exclamation. Trent nurseries establish orphanages, care to Switzerland, and is, in fact, the still 1 a heavy frown f • destitute others or adopt war little republic's. best customer. The German nationality has the majority among the cantons, there being near- ly three million Germans to one *I- lion divided between the French, Ital- ian and Roumansch; but the German Empire buys of Switzerland only about half as much as it sells to it. • But to close the commercial door to Germany would be to deprive the country of some of its vital necessi- ties. All the pig iron which goes into the Swiss machinery, sold in the lespoons of butter ina saucepan: them; or you can enjoy nothing' en it begins to fry add four table-Monty's words were ringing' back in his ears. After all, pleasures could be ons offlour and stood quite s i and for est mothers, darkened Inc face. I babies. Other women, of the modern "Da Souza!'" he exclaimed. "How on athletic type, untrained in nursing, stir until well bough but earth came you on board?" I devote their' nerve and muscle to slav- .nded.' Then stir in gradually. while "And you,'' he said, "you too think Da Souza's face was yellower than ing in hospitals,—hastily improvised, ting two cups of scalded milk; • that these things you have mentioned ever, and he wore an ulster buttoned it equipped, . overcrowded under - ng to the boiling point, add salt, are the things most to be desired.in up to his chin. Yet there was_ a flash mannd hospitals,—where they fag macaroni and let simmer.for a life?" of malice in his eyes as he answered: 1 nute before serving. slaked Macaroni with Cheese.—Boil macaroni in hot water as directed. A certain restraint crept into her "l came by late tender at South - ;for the tea nurses, manner. ampton," he said. "It cost me a spe- , hands to anything from writing wills "Yes," she answered simply• tial from London, and the agents told and messages for dying men to men - should first be broken in incli "I have been: told," he said, "that me I couldn't do it; but here 1 am, you sal and often horrible tasks of wash- ths. Pnt'a layer of the macs- Your have given up these things to live see!" ,; ing, scrubbing and disinfecting. gths.) Y your life differently. 'That yew choose "Anda poor-loolcing objectyouare, Others give themselves,with their ii in the bottom of baking dish; to be a worker. You have rich rela- Trent said contemptuously. '"If n'a layer of grated cheese, add tions—you could be rich yourself!" you've life enough in you to talk, be automobiles, to the Red Cross, and pper and salt, repeat with another She looked him steadily in the .face. so good as to tell me what you mean drive their own cars, filled with el of crackers and cheese. Put "You are wrong," she said. "1 by following me like this!" wounded, over war-torn roads and s of butter over the top, add enough have no money. I have not chosen a "I came,' Da Souza answered, "in half -wrecked bridges with skill and lk to near'y covertree food and_ profession willingly—only because I both our interests—chiefly in my daring. Often they run them under ke in the oven until a rich brown. am poor !" own!" Ah! I can believe that, Trent answer- " with crackers or toast. The monosyllable was mysterious ed:shortly, "now speak up. Tell me Macaroni Cutlets.—Conic a half to her. But for the wild improbability what you want." , o the American wi " ally endwife position, an p of macaroni broken in small of the thing she' would have wondered' Da Souza groaned and sank clown really lishnd" high social fe fion, ces, chain and make a sauce as whether indeed he 'knew her secret.•upon a' vacant deck -chair. g lows: Melt two and a half table-' She brushed the idea amvay. It was ++ ,"I will sit down," he said, "I am not who has been loyally worlcing with pons' of butter and add one-third impossible. I well! The sea disagrees with me hor- the rest, wrote home recently, "and if "At least;" he said; "you belong to ribly. Well; well, yom want to know I wake up to peace and pretty clothes and turn their fire, and not one of them has flinched. "If ever this terrible time, which seems an codices nightmare, does p of flour. Stir until well mixed. ur this gradually into a cup of hot, ills Add one fourth cup of grated °ese, and season with salt and pep - r. Cool and shape in the form of tlets, roll in bread or cracker umbs, dip in beaten egg then in the umbs again and fry in plenty of hot t to brown nicely. Household Hints. Coarse salt is an excellent cleanser irons. Cheaper cuts of meat always re - ire more :cooking. Good milk, eggs and butter are cessities, not luxuries. Salt in cold water will remove od stains from linen. tiny pinch of salt added to eggs kes them froth more quickly. A. lump of sugar dropped into lk will prevent its turning sour, s said. xlass or china can be safely pack - if damp straw or hay is used for king material. large glass bottle makes a good eptaele for buttons. By shaking bottle you can see whether you e the button desired without talc - all out. .ugar' forms about 70 per cont. of ley; it is derived from natural ars by inversion, and is more sly digested in this form -than cane these people." ' why I came here! I can answer that and gay doings,I wonder who it hill and life as it use. "Yes," she answered, "I am one of question by another. What are you be—sometimes the poor young women of society." i doing here? Why are you going to. be that will wake ? Not I, as I hm "And you would like," he continued,' Africa?" "to be one of the rich ones—to take""Lam going;" Trent said, "to see now, or it wouldn't be waking, and your place amongst them on equal how much truth there was in that not I, the old I of before the war; terms. That is what you are looking story you told me. I am going to see that I, my dear, is as dead as if she forward to in lifer" . ' old Monty i'f he is alive. She laughed gaily. Da Souza groaned. "Of course I am! If there was the "It is cruel madness," he said, "and least chance of it I should be delight-! you are such an obstinate man! Oh ed. You mustn't think I'm dif-'dear! oh dear!" ferent from other girls in that respect: ee prefer," Trent said, "a crisis because I'm more independent. In' now, to ruin in the future. Besides, this country there's only one way of I have the remnants of a conscience." then—I don't quite know which! I enjoying life thoroughly, and that "You will ruin yourself, and you only know that I am, and must be, you will find out for yourself very l win ruin me," Da Souza moaned. different, and that I cannot even wish had been shot. I want to be happy and jolly again, yet when I think of the old life it seems no more possible to take it up and live it than to go back and be a little girl. I have died, or grown np, or been born again since Before washing lace curtains rum a rrow-•ettip of muslin or tape along h outer edge. This will keep them Meetly straight, and will keep them im stretching, at the edge. ar may be removed from any siting dress by spreading butter! on • tar. This should be left for an ar or two to soak well in, and .uld afterwards be washed in the inary way, when all trace of tar I be gone. ane chairs that have become slack I be tightened by rubbing them th salt and water. Turn them up - soon." "How am I to have a quarter share He rose and held out his hand. if Monty is to come in for half, and "Thank you very much," he said, how are you to repay him all that "for letting me .come. May 1 " 1 you would owe on a partnership at - "You may come," she said quietly, 1 count? You couldn't do it, Trent. "as often as you like." I've heard of your four-in-hand and CHAPTER XXII. "Mr. Scarlett Trent, the Gold King, left for Africa on Thursday last on tune would ruin you, and the Bek - the Dunottar Castle, to pay a brief wando Company could never be float - visit to his wonderful possessions ed." there before the great Bekwanclo Min- "I don't anticipate parting with ing and Exploration Company is of-, half,Trent said coolly. "Monty fered to the public. Mr. Trent is al- hasn't long to live—and he ought not ready a. millionaire, and should he sue- to be hart' to make terms with." your yacht, and your racers,..and that beautiful house in Park Lane. I tell you that to part with half your for - teed' iii floating the company on the basis of the prospectus he will be a multi -millionaire, and certainly one of the richest of Englishmen. During his absence workmen are' to be kept Da Souza beat his hands upon the handles of his deck -chair. "But why clo you -go to him at all? He thinks that you are dead. He has no idea that you are in England. Why going night and day at his wonderful should he know? Why do you risk palace in Part Lane, which he hopes ruin like this?" to find ready for occupation on his "There are three reasons,", `Trent return. Mr.- Trent's long list of- fin-• answered. Fiitst, he may find his ancialsuccesses etre too well known way to England and upset the apple - to be given here, but who will grudge cart; secondly; I've only the shreds of wealth to a man who is capable of a conscience, but I can't leave a man spending it in such a lordly fashion? We wish Mr. Trent a safe voyage and a speedy return." The papeii slipped from his fingers and he looked thoughtfully out sea- ward. It was only one paragraph of many, and the tone of all was the same. Ernestine's word's had come true—he was already a man of note. A few months had changed his life in the most amazing way -when he look- ed back upon it now it was with a sense of unreality—surely all these whom I'm robbing of a fortune in a• state of semi -slavery, as I daresay he is, and the third reason is perhape the strongest of all; but I'm not going. to tell you." Da Souza blinked his little eyes and. looked up with -a cunning senile.. "Your first reason," he said, "is a poor sort of one. Do you suppose I don't have him looked after a bit?— no chance of his getting back to Eng- land, I can tell you. As for the sec- ond; he's only half-witted, and if he • .e down and put them in the sun! things which had happened were part was better off he wouldn't know it. i dair. to dry. They will be found to of a chimerical dream. It was bare- "Even if I gave way to you in this, ve tightened up like new articles. ly possible for him to believe that it Trent answered, "the third reason is When the butcher has cut the roast was he, Scarlett Trent, who had de- strong enough.' io heavy, ask him to cut off thin , veloped day by day intowhat he was Da Souza's face . was gloomy. "I . wiry at that moment. For the man was know it's no use trying to move, you," ices for steaks. Have the pan t, put in a piece of suet to make the' changed anelcclothes wase cut bysthe lSa Saville ous, wilclgooseochasen n silly, danger- n greasy and fry steak quickly, Row tailor of the moment, his hands "And what about your'sel'f," Trent e meat has a very good flavor. and hair, his manner of speech and asked. "I imagine you .have some The best and ,simplest way to test carriage were all' altered. He recall- other purpose in taking this voyage lk is to cut off a small piece and ed the men he had met, the clubs he than just to argue with me." n•n it. If it burns out quickly, leav- , had joined, his stud of horses at New -1 "I am going to see," Da Souza said,. a clear, crisp, grey ash, the silk market, the country houses at which i "that you do as little mischief as pose pure`.; but if it smoulders and, leaves he had visited'. His most clear Ma- sible." reddish -brown acre; the ma- pression of the, whole` thing was howl Trent walked the length of the deck heavy, sal has been with chemicals easy everything had been 'made for • and back. him His 'oddness of speech,- his "Da Souza," he said, stopping in to be the same again. Sometimes to lose a self is to find a soul. S, ZINC IN WAR TIME. A Constituent of Cartridge Brass and Shell Fuses. Zinc is so essential in war that it has risen enormously in price in the past year. Costing originally only two-fifths as much as copper, it now costs decidedly more than copper, in spite of the fact that copper itself has sharply increased in value. Zine is a constituent of. cartridge brass and shell fuses, and is used also as a cov- ering for iron barbed-wire fencing. In 1913 the United States, Germany, and Belgium were the leadi'ag pro- ducers of zinc. 0f the three, only the United States smelted domestic ores. Belgium and Germany relied mainly on zinc concentrates that they import- ed from the Broken Hill mikes in New South Wales, where, for one reason and another, it does not pay to do the smelting. France, Spain, and Great Britain aleo producesubstantial 'quan- tities, but not enough to supply their own needs. Austria and Germany have considerable deposits of ore in Silesia, Iiutngary, Carinthia, and the Tirol. As the zinc -smelting furnaces of Great Britain are not well adapted for dealing with the Broken Hill con- centrates, it buys the bulk of its sup- plies from the United States. NEW WAY OF FIGHTING FLIES. A Farmer Gives an Easily Applied' Preventative Farmers, whose barns and outhouses are infested by flies in the summer. season may lie interested in learning how to banish the pests. According to the Bloemfontein (South African) Friend, a farmer who had"many cows housed in different sheds saw, without being able to prevent it, the annoy- ance to which the animals were sub- jected. IIe happened, However, to ob- serve that one shed,. the walla of which were of a somewhat bluish tint, was free from flies, and the cows were unworried by their attacks. Thereupon he added a bit of blue color to the lime with .which he covered the walls of his sheds, and from that mo- ment the ;flies deserted the premises. The following is the formula he used in providing this effective speci- fi against flies: To ^twenty gallons of ,er acicl :ten pounds of slaked lime one pound of ultramarine. The h should be applied twice during. summer. It w male turned ernmei to inv severe adding nestin young lander, potato he cat all war ing th the ra juice c In 1 Mingo lands. Word of cat clueing the no the re Priz agricu markets of the world, must come but el- through lthrough Germany. In times of peace the Swiss em- broidery machinery and the Swiss em- broideries find eager buyers; the. Swiss laces can more than hod their own with those manufactured in Not- tingham and Saxony. Importing raw silk from Italy, the Swiss merchants. can produce finished products to rival those of Florence and Lyons. Markets Lost. The Swiss watches are the best in the world. The Swiss milk industry produces chocolate so excellent in quality that the shrewd British mer- chants long ago obtained the mono- poly. The Swiss hotel system has satisfied the desires of tens of thou- sands of tourists annually. All of these inch wealth 1 sv ruin .b reduce life. must. the w throw will not wear well. o destroy the smell of paint place le of cold water—which should be nged daily—in the rooms that are g painted. It lessens the annoy - smell considerably. If you live in country and can get hay put a ful of hay into the water, as this helps to absorb the smell. itite a number of people find por- e made in the ordinary way most latable, but here is a hint that make the mixture one of the most ht after breakfast dishes. Put voter into your pan. Add a beaten hxin fore sprinkling "len b gaucheries,his. ignorance and, nem,- ousness had all been so lightly treat- ed that they had beep brushed away almost insensibly. He had .been able to do to little that was wrong—his mistakes were ignored or admired 'as originality) and yet in some delicate. way the right thing had been made clear to.him. -Ernestine had stood by his side, always laughing at this swift fulfilment of her prophecy, always en- couraging him, always' enigmatic. Yet at the thought of her a vague sense of trouble crept into his 'heart. He took a worn photograph " from his pocket and looked at it long and searchingly, and_.vh he front of hint, "you're a fool to take this voyage. You know the well enough to be perfectly assured that nothing you could say would ever in- fluenceMe: There's more behind it. You'vo a game of your own • to play °vele there. , Now listen! If I catch yori interfering with. me in any way, we shall meet on more equal terms than when you laughed at .my revol- ver et Walton Lodge! I never wee over -scrupulous in those old clays, Da Souza, you know that, and I have a fancy, that when I find myself. on African soil again I may find some- thing of thekl man B New It that New colon value islani all p shall woun Th ly a7 tung hard cordi yield abon Di ethic Yft } 1�t1 1. l;e BR Numb The ity is in na, land 1 Ashor and t much Gems been one c opera been way