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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-10-16, Page 2Tie gringo privateer By PETER B. KYNE SYNOPSIS. *enneth. Burney, adventurer and ono - time gentleman, comes to Bradley Bar- din,'king of the cattle country, for a job. Burney has had a fight with Martin Bruce, a rival cattle Owner who has been .stealing the king's stock, aided by Mig- uel Gallegos, a Mexican bandit. The king, liking young Burney's style, o iers him the job ofgettingthebattle-thieves., Burney accepts, though he knows it. Muriel, a the hking'shbcautif 1 daugit daughter, Muriel, who 1s more interested than she cares: to admit, tries to persuade her father not to let Burney tackle the cattle thieves, The Icing decides to test I?ur nes s courage .by malting hint ride Gero- nimo, the toughest broncho on the ranch, Burney passes the teat with flying colors but his indept•,,.ence arouses the 11: g's ire. CHAPTER IX.—(Cont'd.) Greydon favored him with a grate - int glanee and a deprecatory sniffle. "I'm willing, boss. I'd 'a' been willia' any time since I turned the ,;fty post. Who're yon going to put in ray place —if that's any o' my business?" "You're salary is raised fire thou - send a year, Art forgot to ntentitn that—and Smokey :ekes yotr place. isn't over here in ten minutes to look 1 don't like the name Smokey. It fits for a riding job somewhere else to - his complexion, bait he isn't the sort morrow morning, Deliver that mes- sage now. I'll wait on the line for his answer." Two minutes passed. Then Tuan Bledsoe came on the wire again. "He says he never allows no man to threaten him, boss," Bledsoe reported. "He says he's a Banged sight more im- portant to thee than thy ridin' job is to him, that thee know it, an' to quit botherit' him until he can untangle any job. Tom'll be right disapp'lnted,' "At the present time the job is too big for .bin, Aftei. Ken Burney has ironed out the situation Tont can handle it, but riot until then. You tell Tom to keep his nose clean and he'll get ahead in the world a whole lot faster." wasIIuachita, a straggling adobe �igg Strike Hunting municipality that squatted athwart the boundary between New Mexico'® ��?�es} Thrill. and Mexico. At the barber sliop in the Inteenational Hotel, Ken .Burney I --- secured —secured his much-needed haircut and Noted Traveller Gives Graphic shave, and while he lay in the cbair,,I Account of. Python - b ' shaved Martin Bruce the griz- zled - zled owner of the TiiiaHuntngle B ranch,' entered and slipped into the adjoining Orchard hinting is my job, but chair. Burney, his iota ,coveted with i when, .by way of a change, I started lather, had fallen into;a. doze and not! on a five -months' tour of prospecting until Braces rough voice, ordering a and exploring among Borneo's hills dose 'shave, reached him,was ho ;and valleys, rivers and. jungles, I dis aware of the proximity of his enemy. covered about the most thrilling sport "Didn't recognize me with riding, is the world; the sport of python- .breecaes.on and 'soap up to my eye hunting •as indulged in by a trite brows," the young rain reflected. When called the Dununo. the barber turned his head sideways,To the Dusuns python flesh is a Burney saw that Martin Bruce had delicious dainty;They are gleet py- closed his eyes as the barber comm ton'' eters. It astonished me to see menced lathering,• Lis face; hence the h w eagerly theywill penetrate deep former decided. that the danger of be- g y ing seen, and recognized by Bruce was into "these darkened, dark, snake CHAPTER A half-hour, passed. "The new g n- eral manager is taking his.tinie about reporting to me," said the king pre- sently. "He'll have to lean to report on the jump when I send for. him, so we might ju t as well start his educa- tion here and, now." He called up the bunkhouse again. "Bledsoe, I sent word half an bour ago, through you, for that new man, Smokey, to report to me. Has he started? ... No.. Why not? . Hni n]-m! Says he gave the day to me free gratis but the night belongs to Min , .. The pup! Tell him if he of man to labor along under a familiar nickname. Hereafter his name is Mr. Kenneth Burney." Art Graydon was anaze3. "How long have you known this boy, boss? Sornehow, I got the idea you never met him before last night." "Which you're right, as usual, Art. I'm just playing a hunch that hell • "Well, he's got sand an' he can ride his lights from his livers. Personally, an' rope with the best, If he knows boss, I think he aches all over." cattle—" "Tell him he's fired for impertin- "T don't give a hoot if her doesn't ence and insubordination," the king know a cow from a sheep. We've got roared, and hung up. old Martin 'Bruce to the north of u: -,Well•" said Art Graydon, "you , and Miguel Gallegos to the south e-' hired him over my head, boss, so it's alertness one would never have sus - us and attoleasttBurneofknows too a that. just as well, you fired him, too." . petted in a man as old and bulky as He's got g Don't get peeved, Art," His Majes- he leaped out of the chair end reached hombres in order t hold his job: He ty implored, for he knew that Gray -under the clinging barber's apron for can't manage El Ranchito for me and don was jealous of his prerogatives his artillery. But the hand did not operate in red ink, and he realizes he as general mane:ger. "It's the general come out. for the very excellent rea- can never operate very deeply in blue negligible. Burney" would be shaved infested forests. it of his chair while 3ruce's The Dusan python -hunting was 0 first and at barber still scraped away at the old :case of ;putting the shoe on the other cattleman's three -weeks' -old growth of foot. I have seen- a great many snakes beard, of all varieties in my time, and my "Once over," he whispered to his chief recollection is the agility dis barber. "I'm in a hurry end I don't Played by .man in leaping out of their want a close shave." way. A hissing serpent, celled to When the barber tipped him out of .strike, is one of the ugliest thingse- W p and the cold touch of its live, slither - the chair he went at once to the end of the shop to arrange his' necktie, in ing scales, is'e sensation. to make order to avoid the hazard of Martin Your scalp gree,.. But my Buenos Bruce opening his eyes and seeing, in up a python -tree were as sporty and Scot - the mirror in front of him, the reflec- tion nconcertted as a :' American on a tion of his youthful enemy standing tieh grouse -moor, just behind him. When he was ready Arne, only with his Beloved par - for the street Burney sat down and ang, the Dusan wades into the old Py - lit a cigarette. then so heartily that the tables are "I thought you was in a hurry," completely turned and it's the big the barber commented. snake that urgently wants to'get "Not now,"' Mr. Burney replied. away, hissing like a locomotive, his softly. "A little later—perhaps." ugly, yellow jaws agape. He reached in under the left front I embarked for a trip up the Python of his light wh'2eord coat and eased River with a fleet of six dugouts and his pistol in the holster that hung twelve Dusun bearers, who ware evi- there from his'shoulder, then waited gently looking forward gleefully to a until the otter barber, having washed big bag of toothsome python. Martin Braces ruddy face and pow- We had passed the last of the clear- dered it, tilted him upright in his ings when we camped for the night, el.air and asked hint what, if 'any- and on the following day '.he jungle thing, he would have on his head. And of the real python -country swallowed at that moment Ken Burney spoke. us. It was here that we glided into "Good morning, My. Bruce." the region of perpett:al twilight. Our Martin Bruce jerked his head in the laden dug -outs entered a tortuous, direction of the voice; then, with an silent tunnel whose leaning walls and low -banging roof were theinterlocked boughs and branches and leaves and tendrils of trees that crowded either bank; only the slenderest darts of sunshine shot slantwise through the interstices. The little Dusun boatmen quivered with exci`.ntent, paddling stealthily with hardly a ripple on the surface of the water. They were watching the overhanging branches and still fol- iage, heads flung back, their dilated eyes ringed with white, All day they had talked snake, and 'I believe those • python -eaters dream snake all night. And now the fun was to begin. Naturally my eyes were uneasily ranging among the thick, overhanging foliage, which seemed much too life- less to be true. I could see nothing but scarred, yellowish bark and green leaves. Nature has so cunningly cane ouflaged the pythons skin th it it seems to assimilate its leafy surroundings— to vision 9-:s acute than the roving eyes of the snake -hunters. The dug -out stopped. The Duston in the stern shipped his paddle, but he had never taken his eyes cif the branches overhead. He flung up an arni, pointing. "Ula!" he yelled, "Ula!" Ula! Snakel The boatman grabbed a low branch and swung himself up into the tree, Getting' astride of a gnarled branch, he began to work his way outwards towards the middle of the stream, drawing his parang. There was an instant upheaval In the densely -clustered leaves and twin- ing tendrils. Terrifically, the foliage woke to life, and a ten -foot python's long, flat head reared up, the big yel- low mouth agape, hissing. the mighty coils slithering and writhing. The little Dusun lashed cut n'ith his parang, three blows in less than a second of time. I never maw a eat strike quicker. And every blow went straight to the mark—thud! tho:l! thudl The big snake's head jerked side- ways, oddly like a boxer who had been socked on the jaw, and the full length of his sinuous coils went mad. De- spite his fearsome appearance and great size, it was clear that he didn't like what was coming to him. In the language of the ritg;' the Dusun's whirlwind attack had got him groggy. That flailing parang was all over him —thud! thud! thudl Leaves and bark were ripped from the' boughs and lit- tered the. still su\face of the river. In my dug -outs down below we were yelling with excitement. The python peered, at us wie'-tediy, and just in that fraction of a second he stopped an- other whizzing cleat on the head and risibly 'wilted, so that the follow-up missed hini and whanged against a tough bough with an ugly sound that told us how hard our friend was hit- ting. That seemed to decide the first ink while those two skunks contina to annoy us. By making hint general manager I automatically hand him problem he's got -to solve or quit. The job's worth fighting for, isn't it?" Graydon nodded. 'Tut, boss." he protested, "if he's a professional killer, why don't you just pay hini for both jobs, after you're sure he's done them,. and let hit go? 'What's the sense manager's privitega to hire and fire son that he saw Burney had him cov- his inferiors, but it's the president's ered—and the enveloping barber's privilege to hire and fire the general apron had Bruce at 4t distinct disad- nianagers:' vantage. "A general manager ain't got no (To be continued.) right to sass thr boss," "I'm not so certain of that, Art, It What New York just happens that I never been sassed heretofore by a general manager. Somehow, I find the experience exhil- Makin' a killer your general mast- exhil- arating. Must a man crawl on his Sala , a Orange Peke r d gives jretest satIsfacti 11 'Fresh from the gardens' head over the .thwart' of one of the dug -outs where another Dusan, was waiting for him with his - parang poised. Thud! ' Thud! Thud! Using the dug -out as a kind of butchering -block the Dusun bludgeon- ed the giant snake to death. They hammered its head into pulp. When its huge, limp length was dragged into the boat, there wasn't a tremor from tip to tail. Inert and coiled up, stow- ed away like an old rope's end, the - hunters left him. Their blood was up. Laughing and jabbering excitedly, craning their necks and gazing' up into the trees, they prepared for another attaek. Their shrill yells in the fight that had just ended, the flurry of the water and the whangini- and thudding of the pt.rangs, had raised the alarm among the tree -dwelling python families. Now we could see them plainly enough, the ripple of their coils along the branches, and the quick, menacing movement of their darting heads, When our sport was over, we tools a snapshot of eight beautiful skins. -- all much longer than. the height of a Very tall man—hanging out to dry on the thatch c -i my portable shack., The sound` section of the Bureau of Gazing at them reflectively, it seemed Standards has for "ante time been to ane that I had been privileged to carrying on experiments with sound witness the most exciting and purely reverberation and acoustical mater - sporting hunt in the world. It had ials. These experiments have been been a really stirring experience, even conducted in a specially constructed to a hard-bitten hunter like myself. building housing a large empty roan It appealed teeny sporting ,stincts to having' no sound absorpti✓a and no PP 'strongly because the Buenos attacked acoustical properties. A load speaker their formidable quarry in its own is placed in the minty room and the tronghoIds, and then dislain Is We ring ,, hands and knees just to hold down one BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON ager?" had a niee little rodeo Ja,;• of my jobs? I don't blame him for didn't we?" said the king. being peevish, }'d have felt outraged, Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Per - too, if he'd forced me to wait as ion;; vishrd 11';'1: Every Pattern for the gun as I forced hini this morn- ing. Time certainly does drag when a fellow's giving an exhibition ride on old Geronimo1' Art Graydon ktew latter .hew to argue with the Ling. "Web, then, I reckon you won't be promot.ng me for But Graydon was not to be side- tracked so easily. "Well, I reckon you can pay for your pleasures," he began, but the king, 'With a winning smile, interrupted: "How aboutn little tuetenanee. Art? One drink to the new assistant to the president and another to my new gen- eral ,sanager of El Ranchito!" a while yet," he suggested.. Art Graydon subsided, for he knead I Oh, yes. My program stands, Ken that when the king had exhausted a subject he dropped 10 as if it burned him. "By the way." the king continued. Burney will be the general. Manager tomorrow morning juet the sane. I've just fired 1100 from his ridi-ig job." "Oh, Bradley Bardin, you darling!" "where 1s my new general manager?" a veiee cried ecstatically, and the king "In the bunkhouse, I s'pose,, air." suddenly found himself being emblem - The various department of El Ran- ed and ki. sed by his sole heir, elate were connected by telephone. The "You been spying on you, old man," king, therefore, rang up the bank- he charged house and got Tont Biedoe, the riding "Keep quiet—you! And you're go - boss, on the phone. "Tell that new - ing to take him out of that awf'll • k tbunkhouse darling?" man, . iotey, to rept-rt to me at my house finned a eiy." he ordered "Of course, of course. Art, tomor- "You'd better take hint in hard to- row morning you .hove the sulky pup morrow. Art," the king sugge .ed. as I into decent quarters!`' Graydon promised tend - shortly tI.•reafter took his departure.. At eight o'c'.ock next morning he tele- phoned the king Smolt :'s gone,"' Ire ,nuanced. "Got:t-, Gene wuere?" "Nobody knows, Tom Bledsoe says his bed was empty when the outfit toiled out this -corning; his stock ain't in the corral, so it sort o' looks as if your new general manager just he resumed his seat, "Tell hit how you're running :he inch, explain your egetem to him, hon him the man of El Ranchito toed ride over the range with him and show hint the brundar- ies. Put hini on to all the details of your job for Omit two weeks After y oti re gone he can continue to absorb infer ration from the riding boos. Tort Bled:.oe." "I don't know as Tom's liable to be S ery communicative, boss. He's in lice • naturally saddled up - an drifted 011 for promotion an' he's always had a aeiount o his tal.in' you -rimes about hunch that whe' I ntnved on he'd get bein' fired. You know he wasn't in- formed that he'd been fired from one job to takeover a better one." "The ungrateful young pup," His Majesty shouted. "I'll teach him his place. Art, you put a couple of good men on his trail, follow him as far he goes and tell them to bring hint back if th have to hog-tie him. I wart_ him baea, understand. No sub- stitute v:.-1 di. Hc'- the only man in my empae. who never took ing seri- ously." "III go myself." Art Graydon prom- ised for it 'had been his business for forty years to see to it that the king got what he wanted when he wanted it. On occasion, too, he had been wont to kowtow to the princess. Shortly after noon he reported to the king as the latter sat at luncheon with his slaughter: "I found Burney, sir." "Good. Bring him back with you?" "No, sir. He promised he'd cone beak when he got good an' ready'." "What'd he run away for?" "He said the princess objected to his hair and he was on his way to town to get it cat," "Hart liar! Bart" laughed the king, He had a habit of bleating like a sheep when aroused to sudden mirth. Made of pure mater- ials in modern sunlit factories. No expense spared to have it clean, wholesome and full flavored. is wrapped and sealed to keep it as good as when it leaves the factory. WRIGLEY'S is bound to be the best that men and machines and money can make. The delicious peppermint favor freshens the mouth and aids digestion. ENJOYED BY MILLIONS 10044 gmo W •Is:4ves aid Tigeii: s Terrorize Natives. The Man -Eating Lespard is. the Worst of all Our Four -Footed Enenlas A party of.itali,ves were 'cutting down sugar -cavo <in a plautation nea Durban when .a ]tulle animal camer 751 crashing through the canes. They bolted for dear life. It was a hippo•• potannus, a creature that had not been Seen' near Durban for very many years.. , IInbert, as they called this• hipitb,. was born in Zululand, and, for some - reason best known to; hinmel2, de aided to trek south. Heinvaded the Winter Clothing Affects "Talkies" Actors and Actresses. Have to "Speak -up" Due to Absorb- , ing Qualities of Winter Audiences in a theatre or. motion picture house absorb more sound in winter than in summer, due to.the increase in clothing in the colder sea- son. For this reason actresses and actors have to epeak louder to>winter audiences and the loud -speaking talk- ing picture equipment has to be tuned p to higher volume in winter to make the spoken :sou_tds clearly audible throughout the building. According to V. L. Christler, of the sound section of the'UnitedStates Bureau of Stand= ards, the qualit' of clothing worn by an audience is a large factor in deter- mining the length of time required for sound: in a theatre to decay and fall to zero. The following. information was fur- .nished by Me Christler • d ruin difficult s ed to hack with the parang's cutting edge, using their weapon only as a bludgeon and actually tackling the snakes with their bare hands. The Daunts had attacked nine py- thons during the day's hunting. Only market gardens around Durban, crash- ing through the fences as if they were paper, and eating oart-loads of. let- tuce. One night lte'wallted tight into the. town and scared a party of late re- vellum e- vellers'uearly'out of their senses. Ile takes a malicious pleasure in :frighten— ing natives, but when a white man am; Preaches he SfiaplY •Vaniehe5. Tip.. to,. date 110 has travelled .300 miles and' done severa' pounds' worth of dam age, Wolves' Reign of Terror. A female wolf terrorized the south- ern part of Now Mexico for twelve' Years, from 1916, to 1928. She eluded all traps and trappers, and she and her. band killed 20,000 dollars' worth of cattle. At last, in May, 1928, she, was trapped. She was nearly seven feet long and alinost white in color. The most terrible wolf that ever' lived was the celebrated "Gevandan. Monster," which kept the French peas- ants of the Auvergne in a state of ter- ror for yeare,duelns the latter part of ,the eighteenth century. in a single.. Winter it killed 118 persons, At last a great. hunt was organized in which 3,000 people took part, and. the brute was surrounded and killed., It was the largest wolf ever recorded in Europ-0, being just over six feet 1n, length, and weighing about 140• pounds. In 1920 wolves appeared in the Den.. ural Provinces of India, killed between forty and fifty people, and spread ter- ror over a district as large as Ireland,. The worst of the damage was. done by' a lone wolf, we Milled between twenty aid thirty child- ren. One day a 'Mohammedan wood -cut -- ter spotted the brute asleep at the, edge of a muddy pool, stole tip and slew .it with bis axe. It was an enor- mous beast, lame in one hind leg. Indian wolves are not normally man- eaters, and when a pack of man-eating wolves is hunted hard and some of them killed, the rest abandon their attacks on manitind and go back to• their natural prey. length of time require l forethe sound h was knpa n to have. to decal after the amerce has been shut ote. is measured. These experimerts • are carried on first in an empty zoom and then are repeated with various types of ma. terials having acoustic eroperties one managed to get away, an enol- placed along the walls and ceiling. in nous reptile over twelve feet in length. this way practically every type os The fight in the water was nothing acoustical material new ^are has been short of spectacular—six intrepid Du- tested with the e ra:an of the Se dont is a model suitable for all -day weal' so utterly chic and prat- tical. It is a novelty silk and wool crepe mixture in bottle Freon coloring, The frilly ruffling of plain crepe chooses the lightest tone of the print giving a subtle air of youth. The plain crepe is repeatal in the hip bow, Its easy to make and smart to wear. Style No, 2674 may be had in sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 round, dor the snake evidently thought inches bast. the tree was altogether too hot for Black canton crepe is elnarroing with liim. He uncoiled himself and drop- pale pink frill. ped into the water. Then the real fan Mahogany brown flat crepe with started. Six ,tardy Dusuns went turquoise is exceedingly modish. after him, and grabbed him in six Size 36 requires 4 yards 39 -inch places at once with their bare arms with 1 yard 35 -inch contrasting. and hands. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS The strongth of an engaged python Write your name and address plain- is prodigious. Though held tenacious- ly, giving number and size of such ly by six strong men, his convulsive patterns as you want, Enclose 20c in struggles dragged them in all direc- tions, But the Dusuns hung on grimly. Strong as he was—and his body was as thick as a mens leg, his captors • "So she did, Art. So she did. He erviee 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. were stronger. Warily they prevented must have overheard her, Har! Har!" ' ISSUE No 40—'30 1 The neatest town to -E1 Ranchito 50 suns and one huge snake. The hunt- ers did not let go, either, until they were all actually thrown. It was like an aquatic rodeo witl a buck -jump- ing twelve -foot python hurling his six assailants at one terrific throws They went clown, sputtering, a windmill of legs and arms. But they canoe up, still sputtering, but laughing, thor- oughly enjoying themselves—and the spectacle of the huge python making his way to shore like a torpedo. Every night the Dusuns had a ban- quet of python flesh. The flesh has .a strong, fishy smell. These natives cut it up, rather like one slices a banana, and slowly boil it in a hollow bamboo filled with water.—F.. D. Burdett is "Peaeson's Magazine." stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern "pinks has wired me to send up some fishing tackle." "A nuisance, isu't it?" "No, that isn't it; but I can't remem- ber whether he favors Scotch or rye." ' hi from hitching on to anything him G Athletes recommend M!nard'sLlniment with We tall, and 'they dragged his manufacturers. Amon,: the most common s:ibstances from which acoustical materials are made are plaster and hair felt, sugar cane fibre, pumice and rock wool, the latter being the result of molten rock town through exceedingly fine jets. Some of the materials were found to have higher coefficients of sound ab- sorption than others. In general those of higher coefficients seem to be more costly. A greater amount of acoustical ma- terial is ordinarily used in notion pic- ture ho .see than in theatre due to the fact that the human voice is weak compared to the stentorian tones of which the talking motion fictive is capable. The louder the -tones the more is the effect of reverberation hind therefore the automatic voices being so much strohger require more clamp- ing material in the picture houses. 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Rudiapl'ayag district, in Bengal, lived . in a nightmare of terror caused by one of these animals. ' During those seven years this blood- thirsty beast killed no fewer than 147' villagers—men, women, and children. All kinds of poisons were tried in, vain. Gun -traps were equally useless. Three British officers spent nearly all. their leave for three yeart in vainly hunting the brute. At last, in March, 1926, Captain Cor- bett, after sitting for eleven, nights on a platform built in a tree above a pia grim's shelter, ended the savage• beast's career with a single rifle shot. The Worst tiger was one which created panic iu the Ganjam district of Madras between 1906 ant 1909, and is known to have killed more than 150 people. It grew so bold that it would enter a village by night and drag un- fortunate peasants from their huts. At last it was shot by a young British officer. How They Started A replied of Edison's first phonograph has just been ]cent to the Science Museum, at South Kensington. It weighs a hundredweight and a quar- ter, and was presented to the late Mr. Henry Edmunds, the electrical' pion - her, in memory of his haviug heard the vory fleet words ever spoken by a phonograph, They were: "Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow." It was in 1577 that the first ghetto - ' graph produced those words. In the same year, a young American bank ®Iv s t® clerk took tip photography as a hoii E CCday hobby, , NEW YORK anco Ile had to take a heavy camera and tripod, a large plate -holder, a dark tent tsROTEL and other impedimenta to the seaside CA((••y7, '' T Ni 3ISTSa»° 7rFs IIP•'. oppoiile PE N NA. R.i2. STAT IOW) 1200 Rooms each with' Bath and, $RNEST G. KIL6 Gen. Mgt.." with him ,and found that the transport of his "kit" was a real problem. So he set to work, and soma years later invented the photographic aim and af- terwards a camera which did not re- quire a tripod or any other support. The folding pocket camera and other later inventions are the products of the same brain. The y ouug balk clerk was George Eastman, who has made photography a hobby for the ,millions. 1 The foreman was very short -banded, and, seeing a tramp sleeping on the 1 other side of the road, woke hint an and said, "Look here, clo you want.any wont?" "What sort of work?' came the sleepy reply, "Well, could you do OO AND ATH, oouP' anything with this shovel?" 'Tee,',' d� said the tramp, brightening up. "1 could fry a nice piece of bacon on it"