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By PETER B, .KYNE
SY NOPSis say that Dan ever had anything better
Iden Burney receives the general man- than a fair to puddling range. Some
agership of Bradley Derdin's ranch on
condition that he puts Martin Bruce and of it was real good, but the majority
Miguel Gallegos, cattle thieves, out of j I of it would not ~un more than a cow
the way Bruce has sworn 'o kill But,-
ney, but ou the few occasions they have to every twenty-five acres. The qual-
inet Burney has always outwitted the ity didn't matter, however. It was
old desperado. Meanwhile Muriel Bardin
becomes interested in BurneY. nhe trees the quantity that always interested
to persuade her father not to let Burney Dan Wilkins, who aa.1 never run less
tackle the cattle thieves, but Burney
goes ahead laying his plans. than fifteen thousand head. Evidently
.ort Graydon, former general ,ansa r, both quality and quantity interested
is wising Burney up concerning the man- the Chicago risen, for they bought Dan
agement of the ranch. out—for cash—and have given him a
CHAPTER XX. year's time and the free use . of the
"One can never tell when he won't ranch during that period to get rid
stumble over an interesting piece of of his cattle.
information in these cow -county week- Dan has announced that as soon as
lies. They often give me a tip on he can sell his cattle at a satisfactory
where I can sell a nice mess of feeders price he will retire on the tidy sum
and whenever I can sell direct I like he will have left after paying his
to do it, and save the dollar a head cattle loans and the ranch mortgage.
.tommission to the cattle broker, which The ranch sold for seven dollars an
we -feeders acre and to our certaitr knowledge five
have to pay if we send the
on consignment to Kansas City or thousand acres of it lies in the crater
Chicago. Such little unexpected pro- ,1f an'extinct volcano where a blade
fits tend to take up the slack of the of grass has never grown. The Sen -
loss we suffer in El Cajon Bonita. 11
tinct congratulates the suckers who
you conclude to remain here as general di aw the acre home -sites in that old
crater or in the lava beds four miles
manager, Burney, take my advice and
read all these little country papers." south of it.
"No, I'll not *remain. Tom Bledsoe Dan's friends, which term includes
wants the job; he expects it and he every man, woman, child and stray
has earned it. It would be just too dog inthis county, are rejoicing.in his
bad to have a young Johnny -come- good fortune. For six years it certain -
lately appear out of nowhere and beat ly looked to Dan as if he was going to
the old Quaker out of his rights, As get out with nothing more valuable
soon as I've cleaned up El Cajon Bon- than •a second-hand flivver that wasn't
its I'm going into the cattle business all paid 'for.
Take it easy in
for myself." Good boy,
Graydon looked .at the young man your old age. You've earned the rest.
with the reproving glance of the° 'h 'k *
woridy-wise and middle-aged. "You Five minutes after reading this
pull that job off, young man, and typically bucolic news item, Ken
h
you'll never be able to get into the Burney, in the ranch automobile, , was
cattle business for yourself," he warn- headed for Huachita. Arrived there,
ed. "The king won't let you. He'll lie pulled up in front of the telegraph
consider you too valuable an asset to station and sent the following straight
lose; so he'll just offer you more money message to Dan Wilkins:
than you ever saw before except in a "Do not consider any offers for your
bank, and keep you on his pay -roll. cattle until I have had an opportunity
The king is never stingy with the to get up there and look then over. If
right risen." they aro good smooth stock cattle I
"'Twere better to be a lord in some will buy your entire outfit and pay
poor paltry village than be an em- you more than anybody else. Will be
peror and rule in Rome," Ken Burney about two weeks however before I can
quoted. "I like my independe.ice." get up there. Wire answer to Kenneth
"The king gives his executives a C. Burney; General Manager, Bardin
free hand." Land and Cattle Co., El Ranchito Di -
"Until they make a mistake, Mr. vision."
Graydon. And I'd have .o tell him Having filed his telegram he leaped
things and think up excuses, perhaps, into the car and fled back to the ranch
when I showed him niy annual report." again, for it was no part of his plan
"You certainly would -if you show- to linger, without reinforcements, in
ed a loss or a decreased profit." Huachita.
"Well, when I do that in my own Two hours after his return the tele -
business I'll only have to talk it over graph office telephoned out an answer
with myself." Burney gathered up to his message. It read:
the bundle of country newspapers and "Have sold Brad Bardin probably
retired to his desk and swivel chaise two hundred thousand head cattle last
"If you don't mind, Mr. Graydon, I twenty years and trades always very
wish you'd continue to exercise the satisfactory. Prefer deal with you
functions of general manager while but hurry as other buyers are bother -
you remain on El Ranehitc, even ing me. Wire me day you start for
though the title of general manager is Oregon. Dan Wilkins."
now mine. I have a highly specialized "Well, that little detail is settled
job to do and I don't want to be both- for two weeks," he reflected. "Wish
ered about anything else. I'd hada personal charge account with
"I expect shortly to be in ample the telegraph company. It would have
funds to get into business for myself, spared isle a rough motor trip of
so in the interim I'll see if these cow- eighty miles. Good old Dan Wilkins!
county palladiums of liberty contain He thinks he's going to do business
any news that might indicate to me with the king, whereas he's going to
where I can pick up some good stock do business with 'a man who was the
cattle cheap. A great many cattlemen king's El Ranchito manager the day
who survived the five terrible years the deal was started. If old Dan'l
following the post-war deflation per- will only refuse to wake up until I
iod are taking the count now. The have him hog-tied all will be merry as
tanks have grown weary carrying a marriage bell."
them and are closing in on them just
as the business beginis to look like CHAPTER XXL
coming back into its own. Mr. Gray- Ken Burney decided that his course,
don, I have a hunch that good cattle, regardless of how he fared in El Cajon
bought at the present prices, will Bonita, was now set. If he should
double in value within two years." succeed in disposing of the king's ene-
"I think so, too," Art Graydon re- mies, the king would be obligated to
plied. "Government statistics.indicate stock his father's ranch for him, loan
that this country is shy about 17,- him fifty thousand dollars and give
000,000 head of cattle, based on its him ten years in which to repay.. If,
pre-war requirements. During the on the other hand, he failed to dispose
hard times folks sold off their she -stun of the king's enemies, he would reinain
and now when they go to buy it back on the payroll long enough to buy Dan
it's higher -priced and there ain't any. Wilkins' outfit for the Bardin Land
Sure looks like we're due to start a and Cattle Company; in which latter
boom in beef prices before long." event he hoped that by consummating
"Opportune time for a man to start a fine profitable deal much of the
his own brand again," Burney replied, king's bitternss at his (Burney's)
and busied himself with the papers. failure in El Cajon Bonita would be
He had scanned probably a dozen of eradicated to such an extent that His
theism before he ran across an item that Majesty might graciously consent to
challenged his attention. It appeared give hirer a good job in some other 'de -
in the Harney County (Oregon) Sen- partment of his immense blisir-ess.
tinel, and read as follows: Win or lose, however, he must aban-
PIONEER CATTLEMAN RETIRES don his position as general manager of
Ever since 1921 Dan Wilkins, the El Ranchito. That job belonged to
genial owner of the Flying W ranch, Tom Bledsoe by all the rules of the
'has been cherishing the secret hope game and Burney had, in..a moment of
that next year he could quit wearing impulsive generosity, promised the
overalls and buy himself a suit of Quaker he would remove himself from
store clothes. In common with the the latter's path within sixty days.
other cattlemen of the country, Dan The following three days Burney
took a hard licking between 1921 and spent in the building of an orthodox
1926, but a. week ago Fate smiled upon army rifle range in a secluded canyon
trim. It appears that in Chicago some on El Ranchito. By that time the
bright boys evolved a scheme for giv- thirty rifles and the ammunition he
ing away an acre of land in Oregon had ordered from Los Angeles were,.
with each and every purchase of some in the express office at Huachita.
sort of household contraption they're They were sporting rifles, sighted up
peddling and advertising nationally, to a thousand yards and chambered to
Naturally, nobody would be fool use United States Army Springfield
,enough to give an acre of land that was ammunition, Burney would have pre-
Worth anything, but it certainly is ferred Springfield rifles also, but ow
surprising the number" of city folks ing to the inability of civilians to pur-
that yearn to own an acre of land— 'chase these he had to be content with
any kind of land anywhere, In search the next best which he believed to he
for a large tract of cheap land to give superior to the average rifle in any
t regular or gucrrillr force in Affcxico,
away, these Chicago katal have bought For the next week his thirty picked
evvenen th
the ti W ranch.e best d Ban Wilkin's well- Wren and Torn Bledsoe practiced all
. ,day long at the rifle range.
't igterS "%old never ga so far ee to,
Noted Author
Erich Maria Remarque, author of
'All. Quiet on the 'Western Front,"
gho is now at work on a second book,
photographed on the Champs Elysees,
in a recent visit to Paris.
Meanwhile the pictures which Bur-
ney had taken in El Cajon Bonita had
been developed, printed and returned
tc the ranch, together with several en-
larged views of. the valley prover and
the entrances and • exits to it. With
his force now trained to the point
where he considered it able cope
with any force Miguel Gallegos and
Martin Bruce might 'see fit to send
against it, there' existed no further
reason for delaying the branding in
El Cajon Bonita and accordingly Bur-
ney had overhauled and serviced six
big motor trucks and a motorized
chuck wagon. Into the trucks he load-
ed his horses, saddled and bridled
and they were the horses he had in-
structed Toni Bledsoe to .select from
the remuda because Q.f their variegat-
ed colors. He put the horses in five
trucks and loaded his personnel, with
them arms, ammunition sire;' -madding
rolls, into the sixth truck; at daylight
u. .the appointed day he moved out
with his convoy to Huachita, at which
point he planned to cross the interna-
tional boundary.
(To be continued.)
MmkoMmtMtom
The Nameless
Saints
By Edward Everett IIale
What was his name? I do not know
his name.
I. only know he heard God's voice and
cane,
Brought all he had across the sea .
To live and work for God and pie;
Felled the ungracious oak;
Dragged from the soil
With horrid toil .
The thrice -gnarled roots and stub-
born rock;
With plenty piled the haggard moun-
tain -side;
And at the end, without memorial,
died.
No blaring trumpets sounded out his
fame,
He lived—he clied—I do not know his
name.
No form of bronze and no memorial
stones
Show me the place where lie his
mouldering bones,
Only a cheerful city stands
Builded by his hardened hands.
Only ten thousand homes
Where every day
The cheerful play
Of love and hope and courage comes.
These are his monuments, and these
alone,
There is no form of bronze and no
memorial stone.
And I?
Is there some desert or some pathless
sea
Where Thou, good God of angels, wilt
send me?
Some oak for me to rend; some sod,
Some rock for me to break,
Some handful of His corn to take
And scatter far afield
Till it, in turn, shall yield
Its hundredfold
Of grains of gold
•To feed the waiting
God?
Show me the desert,
• sea.
Is it Thine enterprise? Great God,
send me,
And though this body lie where ocean
rolls,
Count me among all Faithful Souls.
His Only Choice
Puffing and panting, Brown stagger-
ed into the doctor's consulting -room
and collapsed heavily into'an easy -
chair..
"Good heavens, man,' said the doc-
tor, "what ever have you been doing?"
"I've been having a heavy meal,
doctor," explained Brown breathless-
ly.
"Heavy meal," echoed the other.
"haven't T often told you not to hurry
after partaking of a heavy meal?"
"Certainly you have," Brown agreed.
"But on this occasion I had to."
"Had to! Why?" asked the doctor.
His patient looked nervously at the
door.
"Because I couldn't pay for it," he
replied.
children of my
Father, or the
What New York
Is Wearing
BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON
Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur-
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Past and Present .
The married man met his bachelor
friend three years after the wedding.
"Well, well, Jack," said the bach-
elor heartily, "and how are you now
that you're married?"
"Ah," said the other-. "Things are
different now."
"How's that?" inquired the other.
"No trouble, I hope?" ,r..
"No," replied the married man;
"just life." Before I married she lis-
tened while I talked, during the honey-
moon she talked and .I listened, and
now we've been married three years,
we both talk and the neighbors listen."
"On the road to film tome
producer who pays the fair."
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729
Man -Made
Quakes May Result
In Tremor -Proof Dwellings
Palo Alto, Calif.—Man-made earth-
quakes rumble and crash in the vibra-
tion laboratory of Stanford Univer-
sity. There they are nicknamed
"civilized quakes," but they tear loose
the nails and split boards of wooden
panels nearly as big as the wall of a
room.
They crack, rock and topple fair-
sized brick chimneys. They set
great planks vibrating with the free-
dom of reeds and show the "hammer"
effect of water on a dam in an earth-
quake.
They are part of a new kind of
earthquake studyin a Iaboratory
originated by Dr. Bailey Willis, fam-
ous geologist of Stanford, and con-
ducted by Dr. Lydik Jacobsen.
The earthquakes are produced by a
"shaking table," a three -ton platform
half the siz of a flat car. It is mount-
ed on iron wheels on a cartrack and
buffered at each end with huge steel
springs.
i the
flywheel ves
An unbalancedg
effects of rhythmic waves in the
earth's surface. A one -ton pendulum
striking a bumper spring on the end
of the platform gives the crashing,
rending power of a different type of
1
earthqua ce wave.
These laboratory quakes give engi-
neers information on two phases of
designing buildings at practicable
costs for safer resistance. One is
the action of two types of construc-
tion, rigid and flexible. The other is
the action of soils of different moist-
ure content.
Dr. Jacobsen finds plaster does not
crack as readily on a wall having di-
agonal
iagonal sheathing as on horizontal
sheathing. But the latter is a better
shock absorber for some types of
btiiicling.
4A big plank, stout enough to bridge
a small creek for a man's weight, is
set vertically on the quake table with
its upper end free. Alongside is set
up a short slender board, which a
man could almost break in his hands.
When the table shakes at the right
tempo the tops of both boards swing
to and fro in unison like a tall and a
short man keeping step. Both carry
at the top proportionately equal
weights, and show that the destruc-
tive effect cis a low structure may be
greater than that on a tall one.
The "hammer" effect of water on a
clam face has been unknown, and the
Stanford experiments are developing
a gauge. They show, for example,
that this force in a trough containing
1,100 pounds of water eighteen inches
deep and eighteen inches wide is equal
to the weight of 125 pounds of solid
matter swaying against the clam.
The "civilized" quakes are upset-
ting a general belief that buildings'
in alluvial soil are bound too sustain
much greater damage than those in
firm soil. It is found this damage
depends greatly on depth of the soft
soil, and its frictional properties.
Minard's Liniment for Frost Bite,
Matrimony's most dangerous period
is about the twenty-fifth year, accord-
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that many of these belated marriage
tragedies occur because husband or
wife is too devoted to the children and
neglects the other partner.
Fortify yourself with contentment,
for this is an impregnable fortress.—
Epictetus.
Indivichiality not price etsential to
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A circular fan Impressed inset ,at
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Size 36 requires 4i/s yards 39 -inch
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