Zurich Herald, 1930-09-11, Page 2The Gringo Privateer
By PETER B. KYNE
SYNOPSIS
Kenneth Burney, adventurer and one-
time gentlerna 1, collies to Bradley 13ar-
slin, king of the cattle country, for a job,
Burney has had a fight with Martin
Bruce, a rival cattle owner who hasbeen
stealing the king's stock,
aided ed by The
vel Gallegos, a
e
king, liking young Burney's style, offers
flim the job of getting the cattle thieves.
Burney accepts though he knows it
Muriel, thes a ght to king's the
beaU beautiful daughtemeets
.
"I can play the piano by note, and
I can recite The Face on the Barroom
Floor and The Shooting of Dan Mc-
Grew—all with appropriate gestures.
And when T sing Where is My Wan-
dering Boy Tonight? you feel like
weeping out loud."
"Just an old-fashioned boy," the
princess murmured irrelevantly and
the king winked at his guest.
When, at length., the princess rose
from the table and the king and Bur-
ney followed her into the living room,
it was evident that the princess' curi-
osity was far from satisfied. She
pointed to the pii.no. "Do your stuff,
hombre," she commanded.
Burney sat at the instramnent; ran
facile fingers over the keys and play-
ed, with the touch of a near -master,
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.
"Boy passes his ex as a pianist one
hundred per cent," the princess de-
clared. "Now sing something."
He played and sang Handel's ex-
quisitely lovely Where E'er You
Walk. He hada sweet lyric baritone
voice and it was apparent that at
some period in his career somebody
who knew music had given him more
than a little instruction
"Boy's crazy," the princess declared.
"He whistled in vaudeville when he
might've sung mammy songs and got•
ten a real hand,"
"Oh, but I did sing in vaudeville,"
iVlr. Burney protested. "After my
whistling act, in which I opened the
show as The Whistling Cowboy, I
appeared two numbers later in even-
ing dress, with a false mustache, as
Diego Romero, the idol of Spain, di-
rect from Mad,id, in a repertoire of
Spanish songs. I used to knock 'em
dead with La Golondrina like this!"
"And what did they pay you for
that?" the delighted king demanded
at the conclusion of the song.
"Two hundred a week, sir."
"You're right, Muriel. The boy's
a raving lunatic. He quit three hun-
dred a week as a fancy -rope twister
and whistler and two hundred a week
as the idol of Spain to harass cows
from the hurricane deck of a disre-
spectful horse at seventy dollars a
month and found. Why, :re ought to
have a keeper!"
"Here, here, there was a reason,"
Mr. Burney protested. "I loathed niy
Ken Burney and the king exchanged
brief glances and 3/Shipley 'nodded al-
most imperceptibly.
"Good night., buoy," said the Icing
kindly.
(To be continued.)
What New York
Is Wearing
BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON
CHAPTER V.—(Cont'd.)
The princess had been "out" three
years, yet in all that time she had
never met any man who remotely re-
sembled this strange guest that her
remarkable father had so mysterious-
ly accumulated. Vaguely she resented
him. He was a nobody, yet, undubtedly, he was a omebody; could
be no denying but that he was per-
fectly sura of himself at all times
and never more sure of himself than
he was :n her presence—which was a
condition the princess had come `o
regard as, most emphatically, not a
prescriptive right of young men.
He paid no particular attention to
her; he appeared unimpressed with
her importance and his own insignifi-
cance;
n i gni f
caed nce; her father alone appea
claim his alert interest; nor had the
princess ever known the king to ex-
hibit such a profound Iiking for any
young man. That Ken Burney's per-
sonality had quite bowled her father
over, Muriel had no doubt, tor there
he was, beating slow time with his
forefinger, in mock sympathy, as Ken
Burney whistled Chopin's Funeral
March.
"You're a real whistler, Mr. Bur-
ney," she interrupted him presently.
"He'; a whistling fool," His Majes-
ty agreed heartily. "He lifts whistling
from the level of an infernal nuisance
to a high art. Alas! If he could only
shoot a swell as he whistle s l"
Said Ken Burney:
"The heights by great risen reached
rid kept,
Were not attained by sudde.r flight;
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upware. in the night."
"Fine," the princess agreed with a
faint touch of scorn. "Now be bro-
midic and tellus that practice makes
perfect."
"Don't be snooty, darling," the king
pleaded. "Ken; my boy, can you
-ehistle Listen to the Mocking Bird?"
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"If he attempts it," the princess
warned, "I shall leave the table."
"Happily, no such sacrifice impends,
Princess. I never whistle it except in
the process of making a living. I
whistled for forty weeks in vaudeville
once—four shows daily—and if you
think enough hasn't been sufficient for
me you're a poor judge of human na-
ture."
"Har!" the king bellowed, vastly
amused. "Har! Har -bar! Forty weeks
in vaudeville, eh? What did they pay
you for whistling, son?"
"Three hundred dollars a week,
sir."
"Beats punching cowa at seventy
a month and found."
"If I'd only had cows to associate
with in vaude,aille instead. of the
vaudevillians I'd be whistling still,
sir."
"Har! Har -her! What else did you
uo?"
"A little fan ty rope-twisting—jump-
ing in and out of my loop while I
whistled. It was a terrible life."
"Why did you do it, you silly?" the
princess demanded. And this was a
perfectly sensible query for her to
make, because, fortunately, she had
never had to do anything that annoy-
ed her.
"My father had endorsed a note of
mine, Princess, and got stuck with it.
So I went to work to pay him out, and
when I had done that I reverted to
. type."
The princess permitted herself a lit -
tie throaty chuckle.
"What else can you do that's funny,
Burney?"
-w aY9bL4z.g• •1:av4.. ut--.1.,..,
but the false mustache which flew off
one night as I took„a high not , They
gave me the razzberry for that and
my accnnpanist and I had a quarrel
about it. He blamed me for queering
our aet; so we scuffleda little and he
hit me a hard soak in the throat and
made a basso out of me for three
months. It was all so discouraging
I just couldn't stand it any longer and
quit for good."
The princess gave herself over to
the heartiest laughter she had ever
known.
"Isn't he precious, Pop?" she cried.
"Imagine • his mustache getting all
tangled up with high C!"
The king was ch'rekling too, mean-
while thanking Providence that Ken
Burney had arrived tonight, of all
nights, to save him from the bleakest
of despair over the situation in El
Cajon Bonita. It occurred to hint now
that here was the first young man he
had ever had in his house who was
remotely worth entertaining.
"Ever figure on being a radio enter -
Economy Corner
Baked Hash
One oup cold, ham or beef, 1 cup
Booked rice, 4 tablespoons butter, 2
eggs, lh green pepper, chopped, 1 cup
milk, salt, 2 slices onion. Put butter,
onion and pepper into frying, pan and
cook until light brown. Remove onion
and put in meat and saute; add rice,
milk and salt; stir in eggs, well
beaten; turn into baking dish and
bake 20 minutes,
Caracas Eggs
Shred 2 ounces of dried beef quite
fine. Heat 2 tablespoons of butter in
skillet, then crisp and brown the drie
beef in the hot butter. Adc1 to this
1/.1 pound (grated) cheese, 1 cup to-
matoes and 1 teaspoon chile powder.
Let simmer, then stir in 3 beaten
eggs. Cook only until eggs set,
something like scrambled eggs. Serve
very hot. This makes an excellent
luncheon dish.
Brisket with Vegetables
Four pounds of brisket of beef, %
cup turnip, cut in cubes, 1 large on-
ion, cut fine, 2 thin slices fat salt
pork, 1/o- cup carrots cut in cubes.
Wipe the beef with a damp cloth,
dredge with flour, brown in the fat
from frying salt pork. Place In a
large kettle, surrounded with vege-
tables and add three cups boiling wa-
ter. Cover and cook in a slow oven
three hours (a pressure cooker re-
quires about one-third as long), bast-
ing every 30 minutes. Turn meat
twice during the cooking period. Do
not pierce with fork :l en handling,
as this allows the juice to escape.
Appreciation
He was whistling at his work
With. a grin upon his face,
Not a solitary shirk
Seemed to loiter in the place.
But this youth who caught my eye
Seemed to glory in his task,
So I stopped to find out why
And this question paused to ask:'
"Tell me this, my cheerful lad,
As you whistle at your bench,
Why is it you seem so glad
To employ that heavy wrench?
Why so earnestly to -day
Do you labor at your task?"
The morning frock takes on new Antl he looked as though to say:
smartness. "That's a .foolish thing to ask."
It affects a capelet collar' through
Mr.
UMJT'
Made of pure mater-
ials in modern sunlit factories.
No expense spared to have it
clean, wholesome and fullflavored.
WRIGL
is wrapped and sealed to keep ifas
good as when it leaves the factory.
WRIGLEY'S is bound to be the best
that hien and machines and money
can snake.
The delicious peppermint
flavor freshens the mouth
and aids digestion.
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epaulet shoulders that extend into
flaring sleeves.
It nips its waistline with a wide
belt that is passed through a bound
opening at the right side front,,leav-
iug the front free in panel effect to
give height to the figure. The wrap-
ped arrangement of the fronts that
are reversible is decidedly slimming
feature. The pockets gathered into
bands are decorative. T.hs•flaring skirt
nem t:iag•be sualraped tisigh1:
preferred.
This captivating model is lovely for
Then he answered with a grin
As he laid his wrench aside:
"Just to -day the boss came in
And he stood beside my bench,
And he spoke to me like you,
Then took up this work of mine,
Looked it over, looked it through
And then said, 'It's simply fine'!"
"You talk about your pay
And the pleasure of a raise,
I'111telling you. to -day
That a little word o' praise
From the mai). you're working for
porch wear made of orange linen with Does a fellow lots o' good,
white collar, revers pocket bands and And it makes him more and more
piping. Want to keep on sawing wood."
Style No. 2617 can be had in sizes —Author Unknown.
16, 18, 20 years, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44
inches bust. Found Out
Printed dimity, handkerchief lawn, and other plants. Wheat extracts
cotton shantung, polka-dotted sheer Briggs came upon his friend Wiggs from the air and from the soil the sub-
stances required to build and maintain
bodies. Grass does the same, and is
converted by the animals which eat it
into a stronger form of food, which we
consume as meat.
''No other Orange Pekoe
ca ecitt' " t °; is in flava qtr
ORANGE
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TAdAt A.
"Fresh frons the gardens'
Our Descendants
Will Live on Air?
Present Generation Lives
Mainly on Grass
and Plants
Nature is a wonderful chemist. By
means of the plants she extracts car-
bonic acid from the atmosphere, and
in the course of countless centuries its
products are fossilized into coal. Hu-
man science discovered some time ago
the wonderful things that can be ob-
tained from coal—medicines, dyes,
solid and liquid fuels, anaesthetics,
and hundreds of' other things that man
needs. But the world's coal supplies
are not unlimited. We are using them
up every day, and it is calculated that
in ten or fifteen generations from now
they must come to an end.
Nature Outplaced by Science
750
may yield up more and mise of her
secrets, and we shall make greater
use of her unlimited resources..
London Speaking!
"Allo, Paris, donnez-moi Louvre'
quarante-cept dix-neuf, s'il vouss
plait."
"Was haben sie gesagt, Berlin?"
"Attention, Madrid, Londres este
listo."
"Hello, Bombay central, put this,
call through to Burma, ple;ase."
"Tokio? Banzi!"
This is not a 'page from a self-
taught language lesson. It is just a
leaf from the call -log of a London
telephone operator. London talks to
almost everybody 'these days, only
three and a half years'after the first
call from that city to New York had
become possible. With the extension
of telephone service to Japan, South
Africa, India, Australia and New Zea-
land, London will become the hub of a
telephone system encircling the earth.
Work already has been started on
extension of service from Australia
to New Zealand which will bring an
additional 180,000 phones on to the in-
ternational circuit.
Negotiations are in progress for a
service to India which can start op-
erations in a few months after the
preliminary work is finished.
When South Africa is brought into -
the world-wide hook-up there will be
approximately only 128,000 telephones
in Asia, and a few thousands in
Africa and Oceania outside the inter-
national telephonic alliance. The ser-
vice from London around the world
will be virtually complete in a few
months.
Inhale Minard's Linime
An Irishman was holding forth on
the virtues of his native Tipperary_
"There is no place in the world like
it," he said. "You can buy a sheep
for eighteen -pence." "Then why did
you leave it?" asked his companion.
"Because I hadn't eighteen-pence."—
Tit-Bits.
The only thing is for Science to dis-
cover, some means of short-circuiting.
Nature's processes, and some of the.
world's best brains are engaged upon
this -wonderful task. Presiding recent-
ly at the meeting of the Society of
Chemical industry, Dr. Levinstein, the
president, revealed how Science may
accomplish in a matter of hours the
processes for which Nature requires
thousands upon thousands of years.
The air contains inexhaustible sup-
plies of carbonic acid. We already
extract from the air nitrogen, which
is the raw material of many great in-
dustries. Some day we shall obtain
carbonic acid in the same way.
Already a wonderful means of speed-
ing up . Nature's inethods has been
found. Carbonic acid has been•con-
verted into methane, or coal gas, with-
out the intervention of plant life. Coal
gas can be completely converted into
acetylene, which in is turn can be
made to yield a tar containing about
fifty per cent. of benzine. Thus our
descendants may seek upwards into
the air for their fuel, and for a large
part of their raw materials, instead of
burrowing for them into the ground
as we do.
To vary au old saying, man cannot
live on air alone, but it is likely that
the future may prove this false. The
food of our descendants may ,actually
be drawn from the air to a very great
extent. To -day we live, though you
may not believe it, mainly upon grass
muslin, striped eottcn shirting and
pique make up very smartly and the
small cost is surprising. `
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in the park and was surprised at the
worried look he saw on the latter's
face.
"Good Heavens, old boy," he said,
"what ever's the matter?"
Wiggs lifted his head. mournfully.
"I'm rather worried," he said. "You
remember that man I hired to trace
my pedigree?"
"Why, yes," put in Briggs. "Wasn't
he successful?"
"Successful," laughed Wiggs hollow -
Babies born last year in the United ly. "I should say he was. What I'm
States were 13,063 fewer than in 1923.worried about now is where I'm to
' get the cash to pay him hush -money."
Minard's Liniment a household friend. —Answers.
tainer—or announcer, Ken'?" he quer-
ied presently.
"No, sir. The hours are irregular
and the life too confining. What I'ln
out to do is to earn a sizable wad,
stock uI, my father's ranch again and
g' back to my first and only love. I
don't take kindly to another man's
collar."
"Well, if Art Graydon decides to
put you on the payroll tomorrow you
can probably,' by the practice of strict
economy, save enough out of your
wages to buy a calf a month. After a
thousand months of this---"
"One month, if you please, sir. Per-
haps two, although I doubt it. Then
Santa Claus is going to be nice to me."
"Do I look like Santa Claus?" the
king demanded with some indignation.
"Enough like hint to pass for his
twin brother, sir. I know how much
a certain service, well performed, will
be worth to you. I've looked you up
and have discovered that you're a
great hand to give good pay to a good
man, so the day after tomorrow we'll
discuss the disgusting details" He
got up from the piano. "If you please,
Miss Muriel, may I retire now? I'm
tired and I'd like to have a good
night's rest before tackling my en-
trance examinations tomorrow,"
"Oh, if that's all that's bothering
you," the princess replied generously,
"it's soon settled. We'll just waive the
entrance examinations, Mn Burney.
Please sing the Prisoner's Song. It's
so awful Dad loves it."
"We will not waive the entrance
examinations," her father corrected
her. "Don't you interfere with n'y
program for Mr. Burney's future."
"I am taking orders from the king,"
Burney remn.nded her with mock cool'
rens.
"When go to bed," the princess re by '1"11'1°1'lfiii^
plied cheerfully. Thank you for a bion, ling has ,been
wonderful entertainment. Breakfast
at nine. Goad night" as sho)y,n above.
"W onder" Tomatoes
Eighth
non.der
of
"tomato -
vegetable world are these enormous Loin: goes grown
king" of Lawrence, Kansas, i'lumh^r by protea -
cultivating tomatoes for five years with such results
for Asthma.
Dining On Synthetic Beef
The world to -day has a population
of over two thousand millions, and at
the present rate of increase this may
be doubled in about seventy years. The
time must come when all the land
available for forestry and agriculture
is insufficient to produce the food
needed. But before that we niay have
seen the fulfilment of Lord Melchett's
prophecy, that some day Britons would
dine on succulent joints of synthetic
roast beef.
Earth, air, fire, and water, the four
elements of the ancients, contain all
the raw materials for our industries
and for our livelihood. Science has al-
ready pried ajar the door of Nature's
laboratory. As the years go by she
In a prenuptial contract a Virginia
couple agreed never to make any claim
to each other's property. Obviously
there are t*o automobiles in that
family.
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