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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1930-10-30, Page 6You .can be confident that its quality never varies 'SALABI TEA Troth from the g ': rdene SYNOPSIS. iienneth Buxaey, adventurer and one-time gentleman comes 'o- Bradley. Bardin, king of the cattle country, for a job. Burney has hada fight with Martin Bruce, a rival cattle owner who has' been stealing the king's stock aided by Miguel Gallegos, a Me. ican bandit. The king, liking young Bur- z.eys style, offers him the sob of get- ting the cattle thieves. Burney accepts. IIe meets Muriel, the king's beautiful d:.ughter. Muriel, who is more inter- ested than she caresto admit, tries to persuade her father not to let Burney tackle the cattle thieves. The king de- cide., to test Burney's courage by mak- ing him ride Geronimo, the toughest broncho on the ranch. Burney passes the test with Hying colors. At Hua- chita, a nearby town, Burney runs into Brace and outwits him. He then returns to the ranch to report. CHAPTER XI.—(CcnV'i'.) His supper eaten. Burney telephon- e•t to the king. "Ken. Bu-rey speak- ing, sir. Mr. Graydon instructed me to report to you the moment I return- ed to the ranch. I have returned: "You've taken your sweet time :Mont it Come over immediate',. I'm on the western verandah. Don't bother to announce yourself." Three minutes later Iii+ Majee.y was interested to hear a man running at top speed along his verandah. fle looked up just as Ken Burney turn.S•i the corner, running, and with a broad jump landed squarely in front of hini. Ile greeted the somewhat aston:-h'.l king with a breezy. military salute. "The late Mr. Burney report, to His Majesty," he announce.;. "What's your nwa,l hurry, yea petite., idiot?" "Mr. Graydon informed me tl,at . se' was Your Majesty's middle name and that whenever you instructed :t man to report to you that man hail better take it on the run or get fire,;." "You're too dogg•'red literal;" the king Iaughed in spite of himee'f. "So you went to town fee a haircut. • n' Where have you been since?" "Weil, after the barber tin hod with me I had to collect two menthe' pay due me from Martin Bruce—" "You lunatic! What 1 appe•ted?" "He paid rte. Trie 1 to kill me sir:'. but as the anelent ph:losopt-or on•:e remarked, 'to be forewarned :s to be forearmed: In other words, I got the drop on Martin and be came throu.h like a sport." "Tell me about it," the king taro:. ,. "Nobody ever ..its me arything in- cept hard luck stork'. Make laugh, sun." So Ken Burney told him .n in .. 7ous detail of his encounter with Mr?. tin Bruce, and the king did net laugh. "He tried to draw • n you and ;;et tangled in the barber's apron. Wae his gun in the ;'ulster or in his han.h when he saw you had the dr,.p on him?" "It was in h;s "For the love of ife why didn't yr, boat him? A 'tear ease of self-de- fence. r f de -fence. You had three barbers as wit. nesees i`- nesecs that you spoke pleasantly to tree man and he attempted to shoot you. Why, the coroner's jury would have exonerated you. Boy, boy. you'll Stever get another chance at him as LA11V7 Full of long lasting delicious flavor and made of pure chicle and other ingredients of the highest quality RIGLEY comes to yon in perfect condition. °Ali of its goodness is sealed tight in the clean wax wrapped packages. The days work goes much easier with; W?tIOUr'$ to suitain aa41 ' rjefreeht " PACORY for $ s� 1lNs leingteteg �1�>S\RIGLEYS P.N. )nt,sjsn A LOT FOR A N1CKIIL Oto nme! trace ISSUE. No. 42—'30 lovely ar that one. You haat a good hand and you played it like- a foot. I'm ashamed of you." "You needn't lie—yet. I told you I .wasn't hiring out as a killer. 0% course I'll kill if I have to—in self-defense, but it's always been my policy to ;'alk around a fight" • CHAPTER XII. "That's been Art Graydon's-policy," the king retorted bitterly, -"and where has it gotten us? I had an idea when I made you general manager that I was hiring a fighter, not a pacifist." "Oh!" Ken Bartley was faintly amazed. "Am I your general man- ager?" "You are. I'm going to take a chance on you—for a while, enyhow, "In that event," the other replied, "the dignity of my new job indicates that I should sit down, even though I haven't been asked." And •forthwit he dragged up a chair and sat down. "You remarked thi•t you have con- cluded to take a chance on me," Kea Burney went on "That derision does infinite credit to ;our well-known re- putation for sagacity Of course I know you are not taking n chance on me at all. but that remains to be seen, as the monkey remarked when 11e droppea the kitten down the well." "Three days—or the butt enol of three days—have passed since you col- lected your wages from Martin Bruce. How have yo i spent those three gays"' the king persisted, "5int•,= I am not, as yet officially, on your payroll, you will pardon rte, I'm sure, if I ask yen net to press that qu,.,t;on." "Yon were on ny payroll.* His Ma--, jeety aesuteid hint. warily, "front the moue -Le I watehe:l you jump your horse ever my gates and fences and 'ut +•orti,is to have an interview w?tit I've been lreeving salary • sine that night, you are, of course, entitled to my coniidsaee, You have a right to know what I do on yonr time. Wetl, I've been down in 1':1 Caj n Bonita making bad nmtdicine fee the bete mitre that has a habit of 9 l h1 rntt.i.g; your calves down there.' There seems, ::o b.. some doubt, as nett ae 1 can gather froom the local gossip,! whether Martin Bruce and Miguel Gal:egea are partners in crime or i operating in,' pe. niently, and as thimi is a point tile/ must be cleared up be-, fere I pre.—e<! farthee. I went clown• ere awl ret my trap. In a eheet1 time we. see t it •liseovem• t wi ieli ,v-.. ;Ball inevitably tiiseove . fell n:e Eluent you rap sora." Se tion Berney. ney to'd hint. "Ilari "i rowel the king. i "But in air probabil- ity yen 1 revel' get back that five dol- lar worth r f now quarters you plant- ..., in ..h -,se calves, so put :t on your I:tenthly expar'e acro•.1n'," "Than;t ,•ei. sir. I'll credit you with whatr,,;rr salvage I recover. When n:s t; n : are developed they should chew the Double B brand on the cows and no brand on he calves. And I have been careful to photo- graph ail my teat calces in the get of nursing their -mothers, the idea being to establish maternity to the exclusion of any reasonable doubt in the minds of twelve good men and true" "You forget the trial of the thieves, if any, will occur in Mexico." "It will," Ken Burney replied enig- matically, "it certainly will. How- ever, I'm also. going tm put a number of your El Rarchi,o calves north of the line en a free -silver Himis, and if icartin Brave's brand should appear on thein a little later, -thy we'll just have Mr. Bruce arre ,.d the first time ',hereafter he steps across the state line, We'll have a secret indictment all ready for th:, old gentletnan, and he'll be tried in New Mexico where the crime has been committed, In his 91yd Country of Coehise, Arizona, where he is sheriff, he. would have an advantage over us, in that he could have his chief deputy select the right kind of jury—and thereafter when- ever his men deckled to run the Tri- angle B iron -on a Double B calf, they'd examine the hide first for hidden trea= 'sures; if they found any they'd leave your calf atone." "No, they wouldn't," the king con- indicted. "Those petit larceny skunks would just help themselves to the evi- denee and brand the calf anyhow, By the way, Burney, your salary as gen- eral manager ,is five hundred dollars I a month." "That isn't enough money for a bright young fellow like me," Burney replied, "but it will do very nicely for the present and I :hank Your Majesty from the bottom of a heart that, of late, has been someehat heavy. How- ever, I warn you that once I have cor- rected the situation which nnloys you; do not be surprised if I quit your em- ploy on short notice. I'm the Knight of the Wandering Hoof. I'm one of those fellows who just naturally has, to g.go and find out," r'Seems 10 Mb 'ou've made com- mendable progress in my employ," His Majesty retorted dryly. "If your abil- ity is at all commensurate with your. ego you'll be running me off my job b fore the month' is out." "Yes—and you'll let out a few shrill yips of satisfaction if I succeed in do- ing it. You're tied to you: job, and unless you can got ao.nebtdt/ to handle. it as well as you handle it yoursalf you'll live out the remain; er of your life justseared to death at what's going to happen to your kingdom when you leave this vale of tears. You haven't a son to take your place, have jou?" The king sighed. He ryas touched on a tender spot. "It is the tragedy of my life that I have not, Burney." "I can understand your tragedy and sympathize with it. But diets' only tragedy flambe). one. If that lovely daughter of yours should marry some fellow without strfficien. cow sense to tail a calf; your kingdom might event - Lally find itself threate•,ed from within. I have observed frequently how supermen have built up great enterprises; then when age or death snatched the reins from their capable hands .that enterprise showy -withered and decayed under the management of mediocre men ... Yes, you've got your troubles." "You bet I have," the king admit- ted, strangely confidential snider the stimulus of this young man's under- standing and sympa.hy. "They do not call me the rattle king without reason. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. You fortunate fellow, Ken Burney. Not a liabili'y in the world except your impulsiveness and a faint strain of Spanish blood, and not an asset in the world except a pack horse, a top cow horse and the clothes you stand in. Only one life to worry about, your own, while I have thou- sands of lives—at le:.st the happiness and prosperity of thousands of lives —dependent upon my continuous en- ergy and abilit ' to beat the bandits who are busy tryin • to take a dollar away from 1110 as fast as I can make it. What a hell of a world." "Did you ever, sir," Ken Burney I ursned, "test your ability to assimil- ate electrieity? You remember those contraptions they used to have at country ::airs? You took a steel handle in each hand and pulled them toward you—and the farther you pulled them the more voltage you gave yourself, until finally you reached n point where your brain sent a hurry -up message through your nerves to the muscles of your arms, saying: 'Let go!' Then sou discovered you couldn't let go and Lod to yell for somebody to tear you loose, rind, of course the instant that somebody took hold of you he had to split the charge cf electricity with yon, and between the two of you the job was done." The king elmdtied, "A very apt t'eseription of my predicament, son. Yes, I'm looking for a good roan to tear me loose -to split the voltage of niy high -Towered existence with me." "Well, take a free look at me, sir," Burney suggested. "I have. That's the reason you're general manager. "Oh, no, it isn't, Your Majesty. I'm just a pinch -hitter. You've hired me and made me general manager for one rcaeon only, and that is to rid you of Martin Bruce and Miguel Gallegos." 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The use of baseballs, he con - tines, has been most prodigal during . the past, five years, "reaching ,the. point where players were sccustoined to toss out a ball" whenever it suited their fanciest" Because of this, the American; League, according to Mr. Powers;has this season been trying to reduce, waste, and to, this end has kept a -record of the balls used",in each game.. The figures for the first part of the season are most int, resting, the writer• assures as he proceeds to a discus- sion of methods' .used. to keep the• cast of balls within reason, American League umpires are hand- ed the four . dozen balls, obligatory for the home team Co supply, before. the start of each game. The umpire - in -chief then takes .a portion of the. supply and puts it in the box ;near - the plate, while the others are locked in a leather bag, and removed only' 'as •needed and by the umpire. No balls can be -thrown out of. an. American League until after they have - been inspected by one of the umpires. A player may be dissatisfied with the. ball in play, suspect it of being' scuff- ed or wingy, but his opinion must' be• approved by the umpire before a new sphere is put into play. At the start. of the season,' E. S. Barnard, Presi- dent of the American League, issued a bulletin to players ordering them to keep -halls in •play as long as -Dos-• Bible, and it has been well obeyed. Records .for the early part' of the. American League season "show that the tremendous waste in baseballs. does nbt come from home runs, bit. out of parks, nor from balls scoffed or scarred in play." Not at all, eve - are assured, for: The waste comes from balls hit Into. stands, and since the American League clubs no longer make a.ser- tous effort to retrieve those captured by fans, any ball , into the seats is. counted as lost. In the first 240 games played by American League clubs—thirty in each. city—a total of 6,306 balls were used. 01 these 3,574 or more than 50 per cent, ware lost in the grand stands. The greatest number of balls used during the thirty games mentioned was in the Chicago White Sox park. A total of 945 were necessary in the Sox games, and of those 502 were lost in the huge stands that are double - decked around almost the entire play- ing field. In a single game at Com- isky Park, twenty-four were hit into the stands and lost. The smallest number used during the thirty -game period in any one pads was 662, and of those 414 disappeared into the seats. Since the minimum number of base. balls used by any American League club in 1929 was 550 dozen, the item of supplying these important sinews• for the game Is rather a costly one, anti the magnates can not he blamed for wanting to practice a bit of econ omy, Comments from a Country Garden By Elizabeth Coatsworth Most snakes are harmless, well I know. I lice the sliding way they go With lithe scaled bodies slipping' through The grass, not spilling the light dew, Anil yet this admiration makes Me not the less afraid of snakes. IL You've hearth a blossoming garden plot Is reckoned as a lovesome spot; There is no pleasure,like a seed Tended and guarded through its need. Until it blooms—yet I by far Prefer mine wild, or in a jar. III In England your thoughts turn to teas: In lovely gardens under trees. Thin bread and butter, slice by slice, Strawberries and clotted cream are nice, ' And a great teapot hr a hood To keep the tea content and good. iV When it is hot, 11st it he: I think of apes in a palm tree, I act as lazy as I can, I don't despise a moon-shaped fan, I do things suitable to shade, And leisure and iced lemonade. V No two words burn alike. The trees Have all their personalities So do their ghosts, which make our Ares: Some burn in sparks and some in spires, Some fast, somne slow. Old apple wood Is most companionable and good. First boy: "Bah! your mother takes in washing." Seconal Boy: "Well, you don't think she Is going to leave It banging on the line all night -when your mother is 'out of prison?" "Genius happens; it does not result from odrtcation."—Count Ifeyserling,