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Zurich Herald, 1916-02-11, Page 6vnt THE GOLDEN KEY* Or "The Adventures of Ledford." , By the Author of "What He Cost Her." ai CHAPTER XtI.—(Cont'd). was almost like a lullaby. As he lay 1 there a man's voice from the path "My story," Francis said coolly, (z,eaehed him. He sprang up, listening has been told behind your back. It is . intently. It must have been fancy— Only fair to repeat it to your face. I I and yet! He leaned over the wooden have told Miss Wendermott this— balcony. The figure of a man loomed that I first met you in the village of , out through the darkness, came near- Bekwando, with a concession in your : er, became distinct. Fred recognized hand made out to you and her father him with a glad shout. jointly, with the curious proviso that "Trent!" he cried. "Scarlett Trent, in the event of the death of one the by all that's amazing!" other was his heir. I pointed out to . Trent held out his hand quickly. Miss Wendermott that you were in Somehow the glad young voice, quiv- the prime of life and in magnificent ; tiring with excitement, touched his condition, while her father was al- ;heart in an unexpected `and unusual ready on the threshold of the grave; manner. It was pleasant to be wet= have shot lived in peace, for on the and drinking himself into a fever in coined like this—to feel that one per- morrow he was restless and ill, and a squalid hut in a village of swamps. ; •of within a week the deadly fever of the I told her that I suspected foul play,' son in the world at least was glad that I followed you both and found j his coming. For Trent was a sorely place had him in its clutches. The stricken man and the flavor of life had boy nursed him, and the doctor came her father left to the tender mercies ; gone from him. Many a time he had I upfrom Attra, and, when he learnt of the savages, deserted by you in looked over the steamer's side during ho his patient was, took up his the bush. I told her that many months :that long, lonely voyage and gazed! quarters in the place. But for all his afterwards lie disappeared, simul- almost wistfully into the sea, in whose i care and the boy's nursing things. taneously with your arrival in the• embrace was rest. It seemed to him country, that a day or two ago you • that he had been a gambler playing swore to me you had no idea where for great stakes, and the turn of 'the he was. That has been my story, wheel had gone against him. Trent, let Miss Wendermott choose . "Fred!"• between them." ' They stood with hands locked to- fire before his burning eyes, some- "`I am content," Trent cried fierce-gether the boy, breathless with sur - times it was Monty crying to him from the bush, sometimes the yelling of those savages at Bekwando seem- ed to fill the air, sometimes Ernestine was there, listening to his passion- ate pleading with cold, set face. In the dead of night he saw her and the still silence was broken by his hoarse, passionate cries, which they strove in vain to check. And when "Women . are Such idiots," the boy t declared, with all the vigor and eer•. tainty of long experience. "If only Aunt Ernestine had known you half as well as X clo, she would have been quite content to have trusted you and to have believed that what you dad was for the • best. But 1 say, Trent, she hadnset enller, fe ather anrds talked with him she must have understood you better, I shall write to her," But Trent shook his head, "No," he said sternly, "it is too late now. That moment taught me all I wanted to know, It was her love 1 wanted, Fred, and—that—no use hoping for that, or she would have trusted me. After all I was half a madman ever to have ex- pected it—a rough, coarse chap like me, with only a smattering of polite ways! It was madness! Some day 1 shall get over it! We'll chuck work for a bit, Fred, and go for some lions. That'll give us something to think about at any rate." * * . * But the lions which Trent might went badly with Scarlett Trent. To him ended for a while all meas- ure of days—time became one long night, full of strange, tormenting flashes of thought, passing like red ly, Your story is true enough, but it prise, Then he saw that something is cunningly linked together. You have done your worst. Choose!" was wrong. he For ever afterwards he was glad; quickly' is weigone ��smash after of that single look of reproach which' an, or have you been ill?" seemed to escape her unwittingly as Trent shook his head and smiled her eyes met his. But she turned gravely. away and his heart was like stone. ! "Neither," he said. "The company "You have deceived me, Mr. Trent. ' booming, I believe. Civilized ways I• am very sorry, and very disappointdidn't agree with me, I'm afraid. at last he lay white and still with ex - . I That's all! I've come back to have a haustion,the doctor looked at the "And you," he cried passiodiately,! month or two's hard work—the best boy .and his head. He' had very "are you yourself so blameless . Were physic in the world." little ho e you altogether deceived by your tela- "I am delighted to see you," Fred. Trent grew worse. In those rare tions, or had you never a suspicion said heartily. "Everything s going'Al flashes of semi -consciousness which that your father might still be alive? here and they've built me this little sometimes come to the fever -stricken, You had my message through Mr. {bungalow, only got it last week— I he reckoned himself a dying man, and. Cuthbert; I met you day by day after t stunning isn't it? But—just fancy contemplated the end of all thrngs without enthusiasm and without re- gret. The one and only failure of bis life had eaten like canker into his heart. It was death he craved for in. the hot burning nights, and death came and sat, a grisly shadow, at,,his pillow. The doctor and the boy did ,'ou knew that a hadnbeen your oncdad- your being here again "so soon! Are tyou give yourself away! Were you your traps coming up? ; "I haven't many," Trent answered. tarred with the same brush as those , "They're on the way. Have you got snobs who doomed' a poor old' room for me?" man to a living death? Doesn't it "Room for you!" the boy repeated look like it? What am I to think oft Scornfully. "Why, I'm all alone here. you?',' 'Its the only thing against the place, their best but it was not they who ";Tour judgment, Mr. Trent," she being a bit lonely. Room for you? } ,saved him answered quietly, "is of no import- should think there is! Here Dick! • ance to me! It does not interest me s There came a night when he raved, in any way. But I will tell you this. `Dinner at once, and some<wine " ; and the sound of a woman's name If I did not disclose myself, it was be-� Trent was taken to see his room,! rang out from the open windows of cause I distrusted you. I wanted to' the boy was talldng all the time, and'the little bungalow, rang out through know the truth, and I set myself to later on dinner was served and the,: the drawn mosquito netting amongst 3' boy did the honors, chaffing and talk -!the palm -trees, across the' surf -top - find it out." ing lightly. But later on when they iped sea to the great steamer which "Your friendship was a lie, then,"; sat outside, smoking furiously to keep c lay in the bay. Perhaps she heard it hg .cried, with flashing eyes. "To you off the moquitoes and watching the _perhaps after all it was a fancy. 1 -ryas nothing but a suspected anon, fireflies dart in and out amongst. the Only, in the midst of his fever, a hand to be spied upon and betrayed."trees, the boy was silent. Then he t She faltered and did not answer leaned over and laid his hand on as soft a velvet and as cool as the the nurse was knock-• night sea -wind touched his forehead. 15 pigs of all ages, and 20 ewes; yet acre farm is not producing either in ;slits. OutsideTrent's arm. and a voice sounded in his ears sofield crops' • or in manufactured pro- ing at the door. Trent waved them "Tell me, all about it—do," he beg- in the accounts one notices items for p' away with an imperious gesture. ed. sweetly that the is blood stvee �y that he the pui•cltase of hay r or . tons• ducts, namely, beef, pork, and dairy "Be off," he cried, "both of you! ged. 1 t h 1 1 longer in The Virtue of the Natural Leaf is perfectly preserved in the sealed 11/I 13104 packet. ° Young tender leavesonly, grown with utmost care and with Ravioli as 01 prime object, are used to produce the ]• .mous Salado blen.ds7 :a ripped by a shell has been in a tub continuously for six weeks. Before he 'was placed in the tub he said that he feared that he was going insane i battle. from 'the pain, but during his sojourn fying a politica in the water he had not felt anything "There is every reason to believe the worse than the usual discomfort from Reichstag will have to sit much long long confinement in bed. than was expected in order to deal with pressing discontent among the TEUTON DISCONTENT. masses," says the Rotterdam corres- pondent of the Daily News. "In ord- er to appease these clamorings it will need to deal with no fewer than 130 resolutions, all relating to the distri- bution of food." There are many men of many minds, some of whom even mind their own business. German Reichstag, has issued a pro- clamation which the newspapers are prohibited from printing. It is much discussed in political circles as signi- Socialist Proclamation Suppressed by Germany. The Copenhagen correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company says: "Hugo Hasse, leader .of the 41 So- cialists forming the peace party in the What a 100 Acre Farm • Produce. Should at ]east 1,000 pounds each, which means that they were sold at only 5 Previous to receiving your letter I cents per pound live weight. Prob- had read the article in your December ably they were worth no more, but 31st issue, and I would oiler the fol- lowing criticisms' of the conditions of affairs on this one hundred acre farm. had they been properly finished they might easily have sold for two to three cents more per pound live Perhaps you will not agree with me weight. The ridiculous part of the in every point, but I certainly think meat question is that the four 2 -year- old steers did not produce as muchin- come as was expended in the house- hold for the butcher bills. Again, the seven cows produced ap- Animal Husbandman in Canadian proximately 9 gallons of cream and Farmer. 4G pounds of butter per cow, or a A hundred acre farm of good char- total of approximately 75 pounds of atter soil should be producing a great butter per cow. The cow which does that, with • the limited knowledge which I have regarding this proposi- tion, the criticisms are justified, writes Mr. E. S. Archibald, Dominion CANADIANS TAUNT ENEMY WITH DRUM THEM IDLE BANDS ;Tf1 •NUFAC•, deal more than this hundred, acres mentioned. In looking over the state- ment one finds that the live stock kept amounts to only 4 horses, 7 ntilch cows, 12 head of young cows, not produce 300 pounds of butter per annum on a hundred acre farm valued at `s100 per acre is a losing proposi- tion. Generally speaking, this hundred TUBED TROUilla^It�o Cowpunchers Gathered a Band algid Played, the Russian National Hymn. Wearying of a life of comparative idleness for back of the actual fighting line, away from the trenches and around divisional headquarters, a bat- talion of Canadian soldiers, mostly men from, the western prairies, men of outdoors and accustomed to a life of freedom and activity, sought amusement. Cowpunchers, many of them were, with the cowman's mis- chievousness and simplicity. Life pal- led. They were within the sound of the guns, but they were not firing themselves nor were they having.the thrill of being fired on. So idle hands though it had musicians, and so a band manufactured trouble. This particu- lar battalion was without a band, al - was considerd essential, Mouth -or- gans there were, but these were not enough, a band was the only one thing . that would: do. But • in that shell - swept area, where shops of any sort were few, no instruments were to be had. And as the soldier forages for food so started a campaign for music= al instruments. Once upon a time the community of Nieppe had a town band, but that was in the old days and the members of the band long since have gone to the front with the French forces. But their instrufnents remained behind, in the Town Hall. This alluring fact was discovered by men of Saskatchewan and Alberta and one morning the bat- talion had the nucleus for a splendid band, eight instruments all told. The night before there was not S trace of "the makings" of a band; the next morning there was. That's all there is to it, and even the official investiga- tion that followed had root served to prove anywthing more. Needed a Drum. - The eight instruments, however, were not enough. There was, for in- stance, no big bass drum, and for many a martial air a big base drum is esential. Especially necessary is it to the playing of the Russian national anthem, which has an importance which afterward developed. The Cana- dians in the rear sent word to their comrades on the firing fine. They wanted a bass' drum. They needed a. bass drum. The firing line is about the last place to -seek one of these in- struments of melody, but it was known that the Germans across the way possessed not only a bass drum, but all sorts of other instruments. So the Canadians determined to make the matter one of national honor ami sup- ply their needs from the enemy trenches. In September came the big British effort to break the German lines. Trench after trench was taken from the Kaiser's soldiers, and on one trench in particular, where it was known there existed a band, the as- sault was especially vigorous and the capture speedy. Thus the bass drum and the other instruments essential to a complete band were found and quickly sent to the rear to the men from the west. It was not long before the battalion had a splendid musical organization. Finally the battalion moved up to take its turn in the trenches. At that moment there came news of a Ruoeian victory in the east. The Canadians, well entrenched in trenches that once were German, found a German scholar, who, in German, painted a great sign, telling of the victory of the l.Zta:;sians, and hoisted it over the trench. The Germans, only a few yards a`,`7ay, saw it through their periscopes and a cry of Teutonic rage went up, emphasized by a chewer of band _trrc'naded. and bombs. Trent was start ed. one et , ane strain, 1 to 2 tons, and chop for cat-'1Products, one-quarter of the amount lay basic upon his pillows like a matt tie end pig feed amounting to over' which it should. However, in this You can do your worst! I thank suddenly filled with a desire for syn;- under the influence of a strong na, Heaven that I am not of your class, pathy such as he had never before it l uadcotiand slept. Then the doctor • whose ;nen have flints for hearts, his 111e experienced. He hesitated, ! . and whose women can lie like angels." but it was only for a moment. smiled and the boy sobbed. They left him alone, and Prem, : "I never thought to tell anyone,�� "I came," she said softly, "because with a groan, plucked from his hearthe said slowly, "I think I'd like to!" s makes Ttie oughttoil aver trtYstedent I eoulu the one strong, sweet hope which had And he did. Ile told his whole Do you know, even my father told changed his life so wonderfully.', story. He did not spare himself. He' Do that." Upstairs, Monty was sobbing, with; spoke of the days of his earlier part- "1 have made mistakes.,, he said, his little girls arms about him. , nerehip with Monty, and he admit ted the apparent brutality of his ' 'and of course behaved badly t( • CHAPTER :ILII. him. treatment of him on more than one "Now that everything has been ex - With the darkness had come a' occasion. Ile spoke of Ernestine too planned," she said, "I scarcely see wind from the sea, and the boy crept , --of his strange fancy for the photo -.what else ,you could have done. At outside iip, his flannels and planter's'. graph of Monty's little girl, a fancy least you saved him from Da Sotiza hat and threw himself down in a cane which later on when he met her be -1 his death would have •made you chair with a little murmur of relief.came almost immediately the Thhe a freer man. He is looking forward Below him burned the white lights of , ant passion of his life. Tl en to seeing you, you must make haste the town, a Iittle noisier than usual spoke of the coming of Francis, of strong." to -night, for out in the bay a steamer . the awakening of Ernestine's suspi- an'Fd arthissae," he murmured. - was; lying to, and there had been a cions, and of that desperate moment She leaned over and caressed hint few •passengers and cargo to land. when he risked everything on !ter lightly. "For mine, dear." • The boy had had a hard day's work, faith in him—and lost. There was lit- THE END. or he would have been -in -the town : tle else to tell and afterwards there • himself -to watch for arrivals and wait: was a silence. But presently the for the mail. He •closed his eyes,' boy's arni fell upon his arm most car - hall asleep, for the sun had been hot 1 essingly, and he leaned over through ant the murmurs of the sea below; the darkness. 'When digestion fails, whether from loss of tone, climatic changes, overwork, or errors of diet, nothing so soon restores. tone and healthy activity to the digestive system as the root and herb extract -- Mother Seigel's Syrup. It tones and regulates the liver and bowels, and clears the system of the decayed products of indigestion—the fruitful cause of headaches, TAKE THE DIGESTIVE TONIC languor, acidity, heartburn, flatulence, brain fag, and biliousness. It makes food nourish you, and thus builds health on good digestion. yitc uecvi.bostze ca,isin.s Tir,•c limes as much as ilia trial size sold at Sec per bottle. 4P+4/0.4•40444.40.44+I4444444.®....... •.A.4*.04 444.414)bOil SYR r ;,R Por. PINK EYE DISTEMPER C,ATA.r RBUI, PE:aVET Aitt4 Aral. 11813E AND THROAT' DISEASES Cures the stoic and acts se aL preventattro for others. Liquid given on the tongue. Sae for brood mares and art ethertl. Best kidney remedy. Sold by all druggists amid turf goods houses, or sent, express paid. by the tuanutnm- tnrers. rookief, "Distemper, Cause and euro,•' fret. S>t+Ot82Q aidEDICOla, CO., Chemrtists pad DatotorlalagirtCL Gamboa, End..,' NEW HOSPITAL TREATMEN Badly Wounded Are Soothed by T. Beds in Water. A ward in which the patients sleep on inflated rubber mattre set., }calf submerged in tubs filled with warm water, is the latest feature of the famous open-air military hospital lo- cated at Cambridge, England. It was found that many of the patients arriving at the hospitals had such terrible wounds that they were acre farm which is not capable of pro faulty, these should be improved =- unable to bear the pain, and as the vicliiin hay, grain, lend other feeds for mediately so that the cows may have $70, with a total for feed purchased statement one notices that imprave- of $177.26. A hundred acre farm ; tnents in the fields, etc., if such were should produce average crops approx.. made, are not credited; also that im- iniately as follows;— movements in the stock, if such were made, are not credited. One also no- tices that the twenty ewes have pro- duced no income either in lamb, mut- ton or wood. Undoubtedly his state- ment that the ewes are receiving lit- tle or no cure is evident, and these must be kept at a loss rather than be- ing the best money makers on the farm, as they should and might be. 20 Generally speaking, the following suggestions for the immediate im- 1.6 provement of conditions might be 20 made:--••• 4 1. To increase the production of 10 does of corn ensilage..,.150 tons 5 acres of potatoes and turnips and mangels,. say 900 bushels of po- tntocs and 1,200 bushaels of tur- nips and man ;els. 5 acres of peas 100 bushels 5 acres of wheat ... , 200 bushels 15 acres of oats or mixed .oats and barley 900 bushels. acres of hay 40 tons acre: .of rough land and bush. acres of pasture. acres of building sites, roadways, lawn, orchard, etc. •` the farm two, three or four times, as This is a rough calculation which, soon as possible, lay a good system of of course, would be varied depending rotation, better tillage method, and aeon the layout of the farm, the char- probably better selection of crops, to- acter al the soil, and the character gether with manuring, etc. Details of farming carried on. Many hull- of this phase of the work may be ha dred acre farms in Nastern Ontario free upon application to the Field onocluce a great deal more than abo*•e husbandry Division), Central Experi- estimated. This foodstuff would be mental Farm, Ottawa. ,sufficient to feed at least twice the 2. To increase -the peod'_L't.ion of Member of live stock maintained the live stock on the faun. If these tltercon• cows cannot produce, by the beet Either the hundred afire farm men- comntc:rcial feeding metIvels, more tioned is very poorly farmed or the than. they did during the past year, soil, must he in a very poor state of they had better 1,e sdld immediately fertility, and •need; very radical and replaced by cows which can show steps in improvement. A hundred a profit, If the feeding methods are constant administration of opiates retarded their progress it was decid- ed by Colonel Griffiths to provide a bath ward where the bad cases could spend their entire time in the water. The water, which is kept flowing through the tub, is maintained at a Relent• labor to lce4p two men busy, portion to the ueeefisary a pettclitures temperature of 100 degrees. By a •sys- especially curring the winter months, end also to the large amount of•labor with the small number• of live Stocb ' which is being maintained, There is which is being kept. Aside from this, sufricientelabor on this farm to pro- one noticee the special charges. for duce a cath income from the stack cleaning well, sawing wood, acid •rho. end also from the fields of at least the sinall 'number of live steak car- an opportunity to prove their worth. r•ied thereon could not be profitable. This also applies to the handling of One notices in looking over the the pigs and the sheep. statement that two men- are maintain- :3. The cash incomes from this farm cd on this farm, and considering the must be iricreased two or three times. ,. feeds" t aieecl there is far from suf- The present income is out zf all pro - tem of slings the patient lies on a rubber mattress with his entire body under the level of the bath. A cas- ual observer passing through the ward would never know the patients were in a tub. The head is in sight, oven- like, which might be easily creno by five times the present, income. Gen-. pying an ordinary pillow, and the fig- these men: such item:; as orally speaking, the expenditures ure seems to be covered by the cora- Again, one notices - seem to be very fairfora farm of a1 ventiatlal hospital blanket. How- $30' for the grazing of cattle. If this . this size, especially where improve- ti ever, when the flap is opened the body is seen to be submerged in water,:but lying on ai rubber mattress, which is pronounced absolutely comfortable by the patients ul tic fo ce ('a 11' 111 di 1i G tl tl cy hundred tel farm cannot Produce 'io 1 incl!":, aro being 'Made with the c'. tons of hay and provide sufficient pa - caption of the items for the purchase ture fc.r the 7 milers cows and 1 : of feeds and .for the grazing of stock, . head of ,young stock, it must be•naoet which cel'tainiya appear unnecessary, �-" ta:npr•ofital,Ie. Again one netices that considering the limited stock main- g d One, patient whose thigh had been four 2 -year-olds t;haulcl have weighed tairted.