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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
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ORANGE
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'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..