Tillamook headlight., November 16, 1905, Image 5

His LORDSHIP’S
CHAUFFEUR
Cyril K. Tvvyford
iu«,h^r aJ^nut,e ?r
the pace ha<3N acre 89 sjHtP, and the latter could be
<
9l<”rer' and the made still more profitable by replacing
mop
F 8eenie<t able to steer with it* manufacture by the usual crude
lllo. „„ .
I methods with the improved mill, after
ho «.nu
* yaS 801118 to ask him if the style of the creamery and custom
ne could not turn back and find the flour ing mill in the North.
others the car gave a sudden swerve
The farm mill with insufficient ap­
and pulled up—inside the gates of paratus gets hardly more than half the
Ranelagh.
juice, and still the farmer realizes from
The chauffeur calmly got down and $75 to $150 an acre, double the amount
handed her out Taking off his .cap cotton brings.
ana mask he cooly remarked:
To set the pace for the Southern
“I gave you due warning that Daven- syrup maker, the Department of Agri­
try should not drive you down here to­ culture has established an experimental
day.”
mill at Waycross, Ga„ where a syrup
“Bob!” she exclaimed. Then, sud­ of high market quality and uniform
denly remembering how indignant she color and grade is being manufactured.
ought to be, she turned to him. “How Dr. Wiley favors the dark colored
dare you! This is nothing more nor syrup for the reason that it contains
less than a gross piece of impertinence. more caramel and flavor than the light
Never speak to me again. Mama will— varieties. Artificial makes of syrup
Oh, it’s disgraceful! Drive me back at are usually light and while perhaps
once, sir.”
not injurious, they lack the flavor and
“Where to?” he asked.
tone of the real article.
“Where you left mama, of course.”
Diversity is making gains in the
“My dear girl, you don’t imagine agricultural methods of the South as It
that your respected parent Is still sit­ is In the North and West, and when
ting in the middle of the road at this improved system becomes an es­
Shepherd’s Bush waiting for a runaway tablished fact In our Southern States
motor to come back and pick her qp.”
a prosperity unknown since early days
“I don’t believe the motor ever did will take hold bf the country.
run away,” she remarked.
Experiments are being made in va­
“Of course it didn’t,” he observed. rious parts of the South to utilize the
“And I think we had better have some
tea.”
"I shall do no such thing. Besides,
It would not be proper with you alone,”
she added.
"Oh, yes you will,” he answered,
“and It will be quite proper, as we are
engaged.”
“What do you mean, Bob? After
your disgraceful behavior do you think
that I”-----
For answer he took her in his arms
and kissed her.
A quarter of an hour after when they
were sipping their tea on the lawn she
asked: “How did you manage to
change places with the chauffeur?”
“Ob, a ten-pound note and a promise
to take him cn if he got discharged did
the trick,” he answered.
They were sitting in chairs hidden 1 much and a title as well. Yes she
away among the palms and flowers on 1 must snub Langley well.
the roof of the houseboat Sunshine. A
The other two talked commonplaces
silver moon topped the pine-clad hills ' in a desultory sort of way, neither re­
above Wargrave.
ferring to their conversation of the pre-
The hush of the bright July night ■ vlous evening.
was broken only by a rich baritone '
As Langley handed them Into their
voice singing a Southern love song to ' carriage at Paddington he made a seem-
a banjo accompaniment on one of the 1 ingly pointless remark. “By the way,
nearby houseboats.
I don’t know if I told you that Reggie
From the room below there came 1 Daventry can not drive his own motor.
every now and then the jarring sound I think he is afraid of it” Then bow­
of "No trumps.” “May I play?” “Hav­ ing he hastened away.
ing none?”
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The girl turned to her companion.
Lord Daventry sat up in bed and
"I really believe that when mama dies began his breakfast. He was feeling
she will turn into a bridge marker.”
pleased with life. Things were going
The man gave a short laugh. “Yes, right. Ills supper party the night be­
it’s almost sacrilege to play bridge on fore at the Savoy had been successful,
a night like this. Tn such a night bis epigrams more brilliant than usual;
Medea
gathered
the
enchanted moreover, his new pink silk dress
herbs’ ”-----
waistcoast had created quite a sensa­
“Oh, Bob, don’t get poetical; besides, tion even among chosen companions
I hate Kipling.”
who were more or less accustomed to
“I can't help being poetical, and I bask in the sunshine of his genius.
was quoting Shakespeare, not Kipling,” Even the coming of his man Jackson
he remarked.
with a blank sheet of paper in his hand
“Oh, well, it does not matter, they failed to upset his good humor.
are so much alike. But seriously, Bob,
“What! no epigrams again this morn­
I don’t think mama has an Idea In life ing?” he exclaimed. “Why, you only
beyond bridge and getting me married.” had three for me yesterday.”
“H'm, I suppose not,” he answered,
"Very sorry, milord,” said Jackson.
obviously thinking of something else. "I have been turning out on an aver­
Silence followed and the man began age six epigrams a day for your lord­
to fidget.
ship for the last two years, and I am
The girl turned to him. “Bob, dear, beginning to ‘dry up,’ if you will pardon
please spare me the trouble of saying the expression.”
I will be a sister to you.”
“Jackson, it is absolutely necessary
“Why, what do you mean?” he asked. that I should make epigrams.”
“Well, you see I know the symptoms.
“I know, milord. The only thing I
When you are going to propose you can think of this morning Is that your
CRUDE SUGAR CANE PRESS,
take your handkerchief out of your lordship might bring In a travesty of a
pocket, put it back with the utmost proverb such as ‘Where there's a will
bagasse, or waste, from cane mills,
care, then find your cigarette case and there's a—legacy.’ ”
PAY $130,000,000 A YEAR using it as an absorbent to make the
suddenly remember that you can not
“That’s not up to your usual form. WE
molasses available as dry stock feed.
FOR
SUGAR MADE ABROAD.
decently ask permission to smoke while Jackson, and besides it Is more or less
Commenting on these experiments the
a pun, and you know I hate puns.”
proposing.”
Agricultui.il Department recently pre­
Millions
of
Acres
Adapted
to
Cane
"Oh, come, Madge, you’re a bit hard
“I am afraid it's the best I can do
dicted that the time will come when
and
Beets
in
the
South
and
West.
this morning, milord.”
the manufacture of stock feeds contain­
on a fellow.”
“Well, never mind. Telephone to the The Maple Sugar Industry.
“Do you know,” she continued, “that
ing molasses will be a great Industry.
If I had not stopped you this would stables that I shall want the car at the
Sugar Is the only Important farm The belief is expressed that the sugar
have been the seventeenth time that club about 3:30. I am going down to product which the United States Im­ cane world will find in molasses feed for
Ranelagh.
”
you have proposed to me?”
ports, notwithstanding the fact that live stock a by-product of sugar manu­
“Will your lordship drive yourself?” it can be profitably produced here from facturo as essential to Its success as
“Why won’t you marry me?”
“
You
know
very
well
that
I
never
"Really, I don’t see why I should.”
both cane and beets. We use more than is the feeding of cattle and horses to
2,000,000 ;ons of sugar annually, or the manufacturing distilleries In the
“But surely I’m as good as most do.”
"I thought, perhaps, after the one-fifth of the entire product of the Northwest. One of the large sugar re­
other fellows?”
"That’s just it. You are exactly like month's lessons your lordship has world, and of this we produce only fineries in Brooklyn, N. Y.,has been mix­
ing molasses with the feed for its truck
other fellows.’ There is nothing to dis­ taken”----
about one-third.
“That will do, Jackson. Telephone."
It is estimated by the Department of horses, and finds it not only successful
tinguish any of you except your waist­
It was a sore point with Daventry Agriculture that not less than 140,000 but also about 25 per cent cheaper
coats.”
that although he possessed one of the square miles of country in the Gulf than oats and hay. When properly pre­
“That’s rather cruel,” he observed.
largest cars in town and a motor coat and South Atlantic States will grow pared, the molaseuit, as the bagasse
"Because it’s true?” she said.
“But what on earth do you want me which would have aroused the envy of good sugar canes, a region sufficient to compound has been termed, carries
with it an acceptable flavor to stock
to do?” he asked. “You say I ought a rhinoceros he had never yet bad the make all the sugar we need.
Cotton, a product of the States in and it has the additional value of im­
to be different Well, If it will please courage to drive himself.
proving
the flavor of any other food
He rose leisurely, dressed with the question, is our largest agricultural ex­
you I will put on a frock coat and silk
hat to-morrow and punt you down to utmost care and lunched at his club. port, and excepting It no two other with which it Is mixed.
The maple tree now furnishes but a
At 3:30 his car was announced. He staples exported by us equal the value
Henley in a canoe.”
“Don’t be flippant,” the girl re­ got into his enormous motor coat, put of the sugar imported. All the live small per cent of the commercial maple
on his goggles, and told the chauffeur
marked, half laughing, half annoyed.
“Look here,” he said, “what do you to go to 267 Brook street.
The car shot forward, darted in and
really want me to do? I have dabbled
out of the traffic, and after whizzing
In most things and”-----
"Dabbled! That’s it,” she cried. round the corner into Brook street at
“You read for the bar; you stand for a pace that made bis lordship clutch at
Parliament; the war breaks out, and the side of his seat, pulled up at 267
you electrify every one by enlisting with a jerk.
“What the devil are you up to?
and going to the front—for siz months.
You write half a play—you—you—oh, Haven’t I told you over and over again
you just dabble, Bob. There’s nothing that I will not be driven at that beast­
determined or permanent about you.” ly pace?”
The chauffeur remained silent.
Then, laughingly she continued, “No, I
“Why don’t you speak, man?”
really don't see why I should marry
“Because, milord, I have a very bad
you, and, as mama says. Lord Daven-
cold
and have lost my voice,” replied
try Is a much better match.”
“What!” he exclaimed. “You don’t the chauffeur in a hoarse whisper.
“Oh, all right then. Get out and
seriously mean to tell me that you are
”
,,
going to marry that young ass, Daven- ring.
1
Mrs. and Miss Heathmere promptly
try?”
appeared,
and
a*
the
latter
came
out
“I fail to see why I shouldn’t,” she
answered, concealing her amusement in her dainty motor suit he thought
“You are much alike” (here she nearly be had never seen such a charming pic­
ture. She hesitated, looking up and
laughed outright “and he has the ad­ down
the street, though she hardly
vantage of being a viscount and a 1
what she expected to see. Bob
future earl, while you are merely Mr. knew
Langley’s words were ringing in her
Robert Langley.”
“You shall drive down to Rane­
“Yes; but you can not be in earnest head.
with me and not with Daventry.
about marrying him. You shall not lagh
take tea with me and not
marry him. I say you shan’t” he ex­ You shall
Daventry,” and though she had
claimed, and getting up, began to pace with
OLD FASHIONED SYRUP BOILING.
not confessed It to herself she had half
the deck.
hoped that he would succeed In making
"Be careful. Bob,” she answered. good his words. Greeting their host stock exported does not represent one- syrup and sugar. While the demand
half the value of the sugar brought in for both these commodities has con­
“You are going just the right way to i
entered the car.
stantly increased, the output from
year from foreign lands.
work to make me want to marry him.” they
“Ranelagh,” his lordship said, and every
Our Southern States alone could pro­ maple trees bas decreased during the
“Look here,” he said, coming back with a jerk the huge machine started
last twenty years. The trade has been
and standing in front of her, “at the again. They tore uown Brook street, duce all our sugar, to say nothing of supplied
by radically adulterating
risk of becoming tedious I have to re­ shot across Park lane and flashed round the sugar possible from beets In the the pure only
goods, or by manufacturing a
North and West. The sugar from the
peat, Miss Heathmere, that you shall 1 into the park.
beet crop of 1904 amounted to 209.722 product entirely from foreign material*.
never marry Daventry.”
“Drive slower!” screamed his lord- tons or 121,000 tons less than the cane It is conservatively estimated that
Looking up at him the girl suddenly
sugar produced in Louisiana alone. Ex­ seven-eighths of what Is sold as maple
realized that she loved him. It had 1 “Can't—the—engine’s—got—out—of
syrup and sugar Is a spurious article.
needed just this touch of masterfulness control” panted the chauffeur, as the tend the sugar product as a diversified The fault does not lie with the pro­
crop to other Southern States and we
on his part to bring the long-suspected car
'
dashed along.
have achieved one more agricultural ducers, those who tap the trees and re­
fact clearly before her.
“Put the brakes on! yelled his lord­
duce the sap to syrup and sugar, but
triumph.
"Lord Daventry has Invited mama
,. . „
Dr. II. W. Wiley, Chemist of the De­ with the dealers, and so-called refiner*,
and me to tea at Ranelagh on Tuesday ship.
“I’m trying. They won t act.
who buy the real article and mix and
next. He is going to drive us down in | Just as they were nearing Shepherd * partment of Agriculture, who has ex­ adulterate it in ways most profitably
haustively investigated the sugar and
his new car."
Bush the brakes seemed suddenly to syrup possibilities of tBe Southern for themselves. The most common sub­
“Well, of course you will not go
stitutes used in the adulteration are
^’T think I can hold her while you get States, says that the people of this other sugars and glucose with flavor­
now,” he remarked.
country
are
singularly
ill
Informed
con
­
“Why not, pray?” she asked.
out.” shouted the chauffeur.
cerning the household value of a pure ings of vanilla or extracts from corn
“Because I don't want you to.
Shaking with fright, Daventry article of cane syrup; he always keeps MN and stalks. Formerly there was
Madge; really I don’t”
Jumped from the car, handed Mrs.
a good deal of maple sugar produced In
“Just now when mama nobly an- Heathmere out, and was just turning to
the South, but now Vermont, New
notrnced her intention of sacrificing a help her daughter when with a crash
York and Ohio are the largest pro­
whole afternoon's bridge to my inter­ the car broke away and vanished in
ducer*. Attempts have been made in
ests I said I would not go, but now a cloud of dust
the West to produce sugar from sor­
slnee you forbid it Master Bob, I most
Mrs. Heathmere screamed and drop­
ghum cane, but the syrup can not be
decidedly shall.”
successfully granulated, and so far the
ped In the middle of the road
“Please, Madge—as the first favor
"What has happened?’ she walled.
manufacture has been limited to the
that I have ever asked—I beg of you “Oh. why did you make me risk the
' making of molauses for local use.
not to go. Let me drive you and your life of my only child in your terrible
mother down.”
, . ,, machine? What will happen to her?
“Don’t be absurd. Of course I shall Oh. do you think that she will hare a
go with Lord Daventry.” she answered. painless death?’
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A Gl AST BRIDGE.
“I’m afraid It has got out of control
“Very well, then I shall stop It
“How, pray?”
. nvnln” began his lordship feebly.
“That will be as I may think fit But “Why could not the d^l Idiot hold the
Clear Span of Third of Mlle.
be certain of one thing, Mlss_ ”oat^ infernal thing another minute?’
“Why don’t you do something, she
mere, that you shall drive down to
The St Lawrence 1« soon to be
Ranelagh with me and not with Da- cried. "Instead of standing there and
bridged at Quebec with a bridge hav­
ventry, and you shall take tea with
ing a span of 1,800 feet, being the
^ b V this time a crowd had eol'^ed
me and not with Daventry.”
largest span In the world, exceeding
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anxious to know what had happened.
the Firth bridge In Scotland, with its
v- the following day
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“I think we had better take the Tube
On
the week-end
1,710 feet and that of the Brooklyn
house party broke up, and Bob Lang­ back and inform the police." remarkM STANDING AND CUT SUGAR CANE.
bridge, with 1,880 feet. The weight of
ley traveled back to town with mother his lordship dolefully.
I *J
. «nnnlv In bl. own home, but doubts the new bridge will be about 35,000
and daughter, much to the former s an­ what else we can do. And so saying *ery much whether any considerable ton. and Its total length 3.300 feet. It
he seized the unfortunate Mrs. Heath­ number of consumer, in the Northeim U 150 feet above the highest tide and
noyance.
Mrs. Heathmere oat In one corner mere ^d bundled her into the stuffy State, bare ever tasted the pure artlcba carries a double track railroad, a
of the carriage and wondered why
station.
.
,
.
•
All Southern cane syrup 1» mixed double track trolley, a highway and
had lost that last rubber and inci­
with other lngredlento by the dis- two sidewalk*. Of course, an Ameri­
In
the
meantime
the
car
hid
coo
dentally why people who
f-ihntnru or Is made outright from can bridge-building concern 1« to
wanted could never take a hint wh
build the structure, which Is to be com­
tinned its mad career.
mere,
after
she
bad
recovered
from
the
pleted la about two years.
they were given one. It was *
yetto
some
section,
pay
a.
much
per
known fact that Langley hadten thou ££ .bock, rroigned heroelf to her fate.
sand a year, but then Daventry had
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