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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1931-01-22, Page 6riseiiimmeislievacemotammr- the gringo Privatccr By PETER B. KYNE se:verses, 'quized. "Ken, n1y boy, you're a good Bradley Bardin, icing or thecattle man and you know you're good. Mur «country, makes- Kenneth Burney, general lel calls our admission of the fact manager of his ranch, ,providing Burney y. rids hien of .Martin Bruce and Miguel self-con'eit, but you and I know it's Gallegos, whohave been ,stealing the self-esteem and no man without that k,ng'K' cattle. Muriel Bardin falls m. love a with Burney and endeavors to have' her quality is worth two hoots in a hollow father keep him from so.:dangerous an where there's a .bi undertaking; but Burney goes ahead and g job to . be done with. 30 picked•:. Hien meets and defeats Gallegos in a pitched battle at.P1 Cajon Bonita, Mexico. Burney has told the kioy tie ;haves a girl whom he met about a year ago. if he could only be induced to forget that other girl ...: if Muriel will play her hand well and land him . hell, I'm olid and need a rest . GRAFTER XXVI: Confd. damnation! Why must my baby be ( ) unlucky •-enough to fall in love,with a "I'm going back into El. Cajon Bon-, man who can never reciprocate , . , Ito prepared '-to remain there long poor Muriel. And it's all my fault," enough to round up every head of Well, that was a pleasant dinner stock that wears the Bruce brand, party—at least insofar as Ken Burney vent that brand and runyour iron on and the princess were concerned. De them." said Ken. "What do you mean—vent the brand?" the princess queried with alert interest. 1 m going to rebrand thein wit'r Br ., e's iron, or rather one exactly like it. That's called venting and the sec• and brand outlaws the first, Then Pll run the Bardin iron on them and that brand will indicate legal ownership." `Fut" the king protested, "how do you know that all of the Bruce catt e in El Cajon Bonita originally belonged to mo°" '"llecause Martin Bruce neither owns nor leases lands in Mexico and there is no record in the archives of the Mexican customs of his having driven any cattle into Mexico.: Nor do our own customs people have any rec- ord. And if that isn't sufficient ex- cuse, the Bruce cattle are pasturing on your land, which is fenced, and how .did they get in there, anyhow? Your Majesty, I'm going to grab 'em all." The king was mollified. "Well, that won't be hard t take. There must be a couple of thousand head at least. But it means we'll have -a lawsuit" "No, we'll not, sir, because next Thursday morning, Martin 3ruce_and all histhieving, murderting allies are going to perish violently. There'll he nobody left to dispute your ownership of those cattle below the Line, and I imagine you can make a deal with Bruce's executors to buy his outfit above the Line and live happy ever fterward." "I think we ought to have a little drink," said the king. "We should," Burney agreed. "I'm famished." "May I call you Ken?" the princess pleaded. "Why, of course, Miss Muriel:" "Suppose you stay for dinner. You can go into the guestroom yonder and wash your face sad hands and comb your hair and eat dinner in your shirt sleeves, Ken." "Thank you. I'll be mighty happy to, Miss, Muriel." He took her hand, bent and kissed it gallantly, and in his dark eyes there was a look that caused the king's heart to give a great leap, "You double-crossing son of a horse - thief," His Majesty' murmured softly to himself, For two cents you'd give the air to the girl you met a year, ago, and I don't know whether I like you for that or not." Then he noted a lambent glow in the eyes of theprin- cess and a faint rosiness in her deli- cate cheeks and decided instantly, that upon the whole, things were—going badly. CHAPTER. XXViI, The king was a man constitutionally unable to accept a -dare. Without force, high courage and; a certain am- ount of ruthlessness he never would have attained his present position in the world of cattle and finance. Never having known a moment of weakness in an emergency, his heart beat high now with pride and admiration for Ken Burney. True, the boy still had another fight, before him, but judging by the masterly manner in which he had inflicted such a crushing defeat, upon Gallegos, the king was singular- ly free from worryas to the outcome of the second and final battle, But what did not greatly p'l'ease him, how- ever, was the manner in which his daughter had received this hired killer of his. Evidently, while Burney* continued to kill in self-defence, the princess would continue to regard hire as a gentleman. While he stood with his back toward the young people (he was at the side. board mixing the cocktails) he kept his old ears wide open for what they had to say. Ken Burney was drawing the princess a map of the battlefield and lecturing her on the value of pre- , paredness."If I hadn't provided good rifles, sighted up to a thousand yards; if I hadn't trained my men to shoot expertly at that range, and if I hadn't made a careful plan of campaign and stood by that plan to the last," the king heard hien a., y, "there would have beena different tale to tell,: Gallegos is neither a strategist nor a. tactician, but he's a fighter, He's not afraid to conte on and -:re must have grand qualities of leadership, etherwise his. rabble would; not have followed him. He would have overwhelmed any ordi- nary force of oduble the number i possessed n. "By crickey, you're right. --.f you do admit it yourself," the king solilo- ISSUE No. 2—'31 spite the _eat and the burdens of the day Mr. Burnet was quite fre di and bubbling over with the joy of living. After dinner he went to he ranch office whave he slept and brought bac his jews-harp and harmonica; he whistled and played and sang; he told stories inimitably and to the music of his whistling he taught the priricee,s. two dances the world had forgotten before she was born, to wit, the ma- zurka and the schottische. The king was far from enjoying this intimacy in the:: young people. "Thank goodness you won't do tricks with cards," he grow.ed irritably. "I don't think ,I could stand that." To his signal relief Burney did not stay dater than half past nine. He could nut forget than he had to coni• plete his contract and be on his way, for up .n Harney county, Oregon, old Dan Wilkins was holding fifteen thou- sand he'd of cattle for his inspection and time was the essence of the con- tract. Moreover, he realized that any slip in his plans for the ,foray into El. Cajon Bonita might be -atal—and he desired to writ to his father! As he was about to take his leave the butler entered with the announcement that Mr. Burney was wanted on the telephone by Mr. Bruce. "There's an extension telephone in my room," the king cried excitedly. "Wait a minute, son, till l get on it, I want to listen in." "There's another extension line in the butler's pantry," the princess air- pounced. "I think I'll do some listen- ing in myself." "A minute passed, then Burney entered the telephone booth inthe hall. "Goon evening, Mr. Bruce," he an- nounced gravely. "That you, Burney?" "Yes." "Martin Bruce speaking. I got your wire. An' I been hearin' a let o' your loose conversation about nue. You still sure you're goin' to be down in El Cajon Bonita Thursday, or was teat just talk?" "I'll be there. I give you my word of honoi I will." "Good news. How about that horse you promised to sell me? You'll be dead or leavin' the country by Friday —an' you promised to turn over the bill o' :tee an' the delivery order to the bank the day before, you left New Mexico," "Where are you now?" "In Ruachita." "Very well. I suppose you desire to be well mounted when you ride down to meet me with your gang. Well, I don't blame you. My horse has a running walk that will not jar a man of your age and weight. I'll send a man in Wednesday morning with the horse and the documents." "Thanks." "I'll b.. disappointed if I do not meet you in El Cajon Bonita, Mr. Bruce.' Martin Bruce laughed harshly and briefly. "You'll meet me, young feller mead. I just called up to make stupe you wouldn't disappoint pie. Have you made your will?" "No, but S shall in about half an hour. I'll' have that thousand dollars you're paying me for Rowdy to alis• pose of. Be good to Rowdy, won't you, Mr. Bruce? He's a grand horse." "Don't I know it!" "Have you made your will, Mr. Bruce?" "Don't have to. I'm satin' pretty, provided you don't disappoint me." "I'll disappoint you. You're going to die and be buried Thursday in El Cajon Bonita. And I'llplant you with your pal, Migue' Gallegos, you dog." Ile -hung up, strolled out into the living room, picked up his hat off the piano, bade the king and the princess farewell and disappeared into the night. Nor did he or the king fail to note that the princess was very pale,. that her lips trembled and that in het eyes the tears were struggling for egress. When his footsteps died away the princess went to bed and had what ie known .among her sex as a good cry. Burney gave Martin Bruce a week in which to mature a plan of cam- paign, and that was a hard week en the princess. The general manager avoided the castle as he would a pesti- lence. On Tuesday afternoon she saw Burney saying good -.ye to his horse and wept a little for both; she knew Rowdy would be delivered to Martin Bruce on Wednesday morning ,and. that the horse, like 1ts late master, might not survive beyond Thursday. And when, after luncheon. on Wednes- Gigantic Solar Tower Salada Orange Pekoe has by far the finest flavour IF ORANGE PEKOE BLEND AEI TA 'Fresh from the gardens' Romance of. ollows In Anci,- nt 'Trees, Writer Laments. Man's Tam- pering With Nature's Touch on Trees A concrete -filled cavity in an old apple or sycamore tree is just a hole filled with concrete. It may appear neat to the sylvicultural eye, but it puts an end to the mystery which is the rightful" heritage of every hollow tree. It may prolong the life of the tree, but it spells death to the life that would normally go en in the tree. For the natural history oe a hollow tree is a rich and varied story. First, perhaps, a little borer cut a tiny bole into the sapwood, Then came a wood- pecker, hammering away at the wood, enlarging the hole and rembving ,the ihicy worm. And then the rain, soft- ened the wood about the hole; and,; r mhaps,:another woodpecker, enlarg- ingthe cavity, cutting it out to pro- vide a home for his springing family. A bluebird or a screech owl may dnd Sun tower of Yount Wilson observatory of Carnegie Institute oP it next, hiding comfortably away from wind and :snow in its recesses; and a Washington, near Pasadena, largest 'solar tower; in world. - squirrel may follow, storing it full of hickory nuts or, if it be big enough, bringing up ' his own family in its warm depths. Or perhaps mice estab- lished themselves there; for wood mice are great tree climbers, And, finally, some moonlight night, a coon or a possum nosed his way .into it, scuffed out the squirrel and mice trash and set up housekeeping. It is+ a big hole now, but not too big; should the coon or possum have bad luck day, Ken Burney rolled out with his little army in motor trucks once more and •alled very briefly to say good- bye to her and the king in a very chilly and informal manner,' she could scarcely restrain her tears until his departure. An hour passed and the king could stand her woe no longer. "Now, now, honey," he soothed, "nothingis going to happen to the boy.. He'll out -fox both factions and ba back Here tomor- row night as pert as a butcher's dog. He isn't a bit worried." "I know he isn't. hIe's an old sol - cher. He's gone to the assault' in a hundred fights. But I'ni worried." "So ani I," His Majesty admitted. "Then why will you persist in per- mitting him to do this thing, Dad?" "The Lord knows I have tried to stop him, honey. But he'll not be stop- ped. He is obdurate and holds meto my contract—and a verbal contract with me is as sacred as' a written one. He assured me there was no danger to be apprehended for him or his men. He outgamed me. He has me foul, He realizes I Can't repudiate nay agree- ment and he will notrelease me." (To be continued.) A Grandma Friend When Grandma came to our house To stay for good last spring, Willie Jones, across the way, Cried like anything. They have no Grandma at their house, No one to mend his toys. They're all so busy they're no time To play with little boys. But Grandma says if there's one thing She likes as well as girls, It is a little brown•eyed boy With a shock of yellow curls. Now Willie comes to our house, And brings his toys to mend. Hes' happy now that he has found A loving Grandman friend. Apply Antitoxin to Skin Vienna.—Mareed improvement in the use of external treatment for im- munization against diphtheria was an- nounced here recently by Dr. I3. Baar and Dr. H, Benedict of the Vienna St, Anne's Children's Hospital. Under the process introduced by the Austrian Professor Lowenstein, the diphtheria antitoxin was rubbed into the ski4C in the form of a salve, but required a long period to become ab- sorbed. Benedict r ed Dr.Saar and Dr. first apply mustard plasters until the skin is reddened and then rub in the salve with greatly improved effect. A test of the treatment's effect on 100 imnmunized children by determin- ation of the quantity of counter -pois- e in the blood and skin showed the mustard method improved the anti- toxin's efficacy from 13 to 27 per cent, also greatly accelerating the arrival of immunity. "Why does young IVlr Gay always knock at the door when be calls on You?„ :... "Tie's afraid if he comes with, a ring I may consider it as 0 pro- poral„ Airplanes Replace Dog -Sleds in Alaska Nome Epidemic Spurred Com- mercial Interest; om-mercial:Interest; Lines Organized in 1928 719 •h:.l t New . York Is Wearing BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON reusta'atod Deessrnakipg Lesson Fur 7zished With, JOo" a Pattern i Sdent Aircraft M9de Possible by S ward Alaska.—Alaska is becom, A French sailor dress .nat will e a Q„ Ing • more of a comps et torritory. with the farmer's doge, to accommo- amuse any. wee maid anal make her through h the medium of aviation. It date comfortably .a pair of the :great the envy of her little friends. og horned owls which we so often hear ' It is pale blue wool jersey now se in which a vast, communication settled land in which eommnnicaticn betweenis- and so seldom see, wider lay their: fashionable in: sorsa B,rl's wardrobe. olated points, required days or weeks of dogsled travel. Modern airplanes and skilled pilots have taken the place of .malemutes, huskies and sled. drivers. Days - and weeks have been reduced to hours. The danger of isolated communities being nearly wiped out by plagues has been lessened. Only six years ago Nome, far away on Bering Sea, had to depend upon dog teams to de- liver quantities of serum to combat a diphtheria epidemic. That history - making dash' of valiant dogs and their determined drivers, who covered 900 miles in .five days when ordinarly such a trip necessitated ten to twen- ty days, has gone into theekraditional tales of hardship and heroism that constitute so much of the territory's past -life story. In the summer following the Nome tragedy steps were taken to establish the air routes that now cover the in- terior of the territory, although .pre- liminary commercial aviation had been started in 1923. In the summer of 1925, Noel Wien,. former circus flier, amazed the na- tives by flying to Fairbanks. Then Joe Crosson came in with a plane and the two pilots began making mercy flights to isolated communi- ties. The next big movement will be the establishment of regular airmail ser- vice between Alaska and Seattle. Soprano Tests -ler Voice On Sensitive Canaries Columbus, Ohio. -A young lyric so- prano, blind since birth, trainsfor her concert tours with the aid of 107 pet, canaries,. In a white, airy room of her home, Miss Catherine Schneider, when she is not on the road, sings with the songbirds as she goes about her work of caring for them. The singer has found the birds have temperaments comparable to divas. They prefer classical re music ` Mies Schneider says, and are quick to fol- low her when she trills a bit of "La Boheme," or "11 Troyatore." Sometimes when her .singing has not satisfied them they'refuse to eat, she says. Often, when their mistress 18 away on a concert tour, they lapse into periods of silence, or sing half- heartedly. A chance meeting with a blind couple in Cleveland fourteen months: ago induced Miss Schneider to raise canaries. She began with six birds. Sanctuary For Birds Toronto. — The Codrington bird sanctuary, near Brighton, ,Ont,, is rapidly reaching completion, The site is adjacent to the breeding station and is 98 acres in extent. Breeding pens are being ereetetl' and a six-foot wire fence will guard against depredations. At an examination of a class in first- aid, a member was asked: "What would you do ii you found a man in a fainting •condition?" "I'd give him! some brandy," was the answer. And 111 there were no brandy?" "z'd prom -1 1 ise him somo," eggs in hollow trees when the snow is on the ground and are done with family cares before most smaller birds have built their nestse llvery hollow tree has a story of its own; every cavity in the woods is worth investigating. And this is the searches; for even if the tree turn out. to be a bee tree there wile be no worse result than sticky fingers, The boyish cut of tee white pique collar is emphaai n •d by the navy brae crepe de chine tie. The •brief skirt has easily pressed plaits. The bloomers have elastic; inserted at the knees: safest time of year .for such re- Wool challis print in navy blue and white is adorable with white "pique trim and rose -pink tie. Tan wool crepe with brown collar cuffs, tie and cutton's is cute. Carried out in cotton fabrics, of course, it is equally attractive and easily laundered. Style No. 2880 is designed for tiny maids of 1, 2, 4 and 6 years. Size o: years requires 2% yards 33 - inch with % yard 32 -inch contrasting. Candle Wax If, you spill candle wax on your things, put the spot over a bath towel, smooth out the material where the spot is, place a clean blotter over it and press the blotter with a hot iron. Usually the spot is removed instanta• neously by this method. When young people get married they become one, but it is difficult to tell which one. "I take aspirin to clear my bead." "Oh, I see—sort of vacuum cleaner." ROW TO ORDER PATTERNS. Write your name and address plain- ly, givingnumber and size of such patterns as you want. Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 13 West Adelaide St., Toronto, For NEURALGIA Prompt relief frofn HEADACHES, LUMBAGO, COLDS, SORE THROAT, RHEUMATISM,' • NEURITIS, NEURALGIA, ACHES and PAINS DOES NOT HARM THE HEART TRADEMARK REG, Accept out "Aspirin" package which contains proven directions. Handy '" pirin boxes o1' 12 tablets. Also bottles of 24 and 10(9- -A11 druggists. British Studies New Advantage for War Craft: Lies in Exhaust Changes and New Type Propeller London.—The r production of silent: ahrcraft has at last been brought with- in the realm of possibility as -the re --e salt of many years of work by the Aeronautical Researcl• Committee, . which is, summarized in a' newly ,is- sued reort. Theoretically, the silent. bomber could bo built 1f centain' pre, cautions were taken in constructing and installing the engines and the ex- haust system and if a certain new type of propeller here used,y Most of file noise made' baircraft. conies from the exllaust and the ,ero- palter. Five hundred; 1,000, or more, horsepower can be produced. in ;the internal engine only by the aeeoin pafilnent of a groat deal of noise. Tisa propeller, whirled at high speed be^ this immense power, scarcely is quieter. Pet, noises eau. he arrangedi to cut each other out and the prin. ciple of ihterfe•enco as a cure -is' foundto be fundamental in this new scheme. Exhaust Noises Located To determine how much of :the ex- haust noise conies from the exhaust. pipe and bow much through the walls• of the exhaust manifold and exhaust. piping, an aero -engine was run with. its exllaust led_ into a virtually perfect. silencer. The noise was then reduced. to a negligible quantity. The kind of silencer used in auto- mobiles is too bulky and heavy for aircraft if it is to be efficient..•It also creates back pressure, with .loss or power, which cannot be allowed in. aircraft. The only' other way of silencing 011 engine exhaust—the . way to which this report refers—is' by suppressing it by interference with another sound of equal intensity and frequen- cy and intensity will suppress each other at any point at which they are• exactly out of phase, and it is this. principle which has been applied to. silencing airplane motors. The . exhaust noise from all cylind- ers is first led into a common• pipe, then the pipe is divided into' pipes of: unequal; lengths, the lengths being calculatedin accordance with the. type of engine and number 01 'revolu- tions a minute. A mutual cancellation• of sounds results. While it is true that this method of silencing holds good for only one engine speed, in practice aero -ell- gines, particularly in large machines. such as bombers and commercial liners, are run at constant speed. The• maximumvariationin steady (light is not more than 2 per cent. Such varia- tion from aria-tion-from the speed for which the sil- encing .system was designed only - would produce a slight sound. Propeller noises can be eliminated by running the airscrew so' slowly that the frequency of the .vibrations• it produces is too low to be audible. A four -blade' propeller run at 300• revolutions a minute would not niaice. any noise,` but the size' would be pro- hibitive. The principle of the inter- ference. acoustic, (not aerorynamic) is. invoked again, and the blades are so• arranged that the noises they make• cancel out. The blades are arranged in the form of an "X" at intervals of 45 and 135 degree. The conclusion indicated is that it would be possible to produce an al- most silent airplane, but that at pre- sent it would scarcely be practicable. Horses, Like Children, . Cannot Find Way Horne. Although horses have become scarce, on city streets, it is not unusual to. find among the alarms sent out daily from Police Headquarters an occasion- al ccasional request to hunt for a lost horse. Horses sometimes wander ,off front their usual hands of their own accord. and a,, thorough search by various police stations will at last bring back to the owner his travel -loving animal. Small boys -are often responsible for the .mysterious disappearance of horses, as children with nothing else to occupy their minds seem to delight in leading horses astray. The ability of lost dogs to find their way back home is common knowledge, but horses become bewildered when lost ie the city, Without the aid of a policeman or other rescuing agency, the animal is more or less in tho same predicament as a lost child. Before 'drautomobile, borse- ste leingay inof thethe city avats a common oc- cutherrenee. In those days there were numerous shanty -like stables in lonely localities oh the outskirts of rhe town. Gangs of horse thieves used to steal horses and take them to questionable stables where they would "doctor" the animals and sell them. Canada's Reserve of Gold Normal Ottawa.—Oanada's gold reserve Lias been completely rehabilitated and is' now considerably above the legal re- tiuh'elnonts: On Dec. 16th there: was a Federal gold, reserve of $108,321,000 i:ainst a Dominion: note issue of.e103,- c ;0;000 while .on the. same day last year tate gold reserve: was 302,330,000 andnoteissue 3105,000,000, Fond Mother (holding baby): "How big his ears are." Pond Father (hope. fully)), "Maybe ,he'll grow into them..