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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-05-12, Page 2JIM THE CONQUEROR By PETER B. KYNE Illustrated by Allen Dean SYNOPSIS. Don Jaime Miguel Iiiguenes, Texas ranoher and Tom Antrim, sheep owner, have been bitter enemies. Capt. Ken Hobart, Don Jaime's manager, finds him wounded after shooting it out with Antrim, who is killed. Don Jaime takes possession of Antrim's sheep. Roberta Antrim is advised of her uncle's death and leaves for Texas. "Crooked Bill" Latham, another uncle, wants her to marry his friend. Glenn Hackett, 13i11 Dingle, Antrim's foreinan, attempts to steal the sheep that are left to Roberta and Don Jaime plans to stoP "However, we have one consolation. He'll have a lot of company on the way up! I imagine he'll get killed— somehow." "In heaven's name, why? "Well," said Mr. Hobart with ex- asperating deliberation, "he's madly in love with you, Miss Antrim, but he realizes that you'd never dream of marrying the man who killed your uncle." "My uncle was a scoundrel. He employed scoundrels." "Still, he was your unele. You know, of course, that with Don Jaime's breed of cat an uncle Is a kinsman, no matter what he does. I've felt like telling the boss he was all wrong about you, but then a hired man who speaks out of his turn to Don Jaime gets fired pretty Sudden." "If you'd only told him!" Roberta wailed. "Oh, if you only had!!" "'Why didn't you tell him your- self?"he retorted. "There are things no girl can say —when a man acts as queerly as Don Jaime does, Mr Hobart. He's so sensitive, so retiring—" Mr. Hobart choked and to cover his strangled machinnation coughed violently into his cupped hands. "Would you marry this Higuenes hombre, if he asked you?" Roberta flushed furiously and hung her head. "Come," Mr. Hobart urged, "this is a serious business. There's a question before the house and it mer- its an answer. Speak up'. Would you marry the idiot and chuck all your sheep money into the pot with him and help extend his irrigation sys- tem and buy about a thousand pure- bred Hereford breeding cows?" "I would, gladly. If I married him, I'd be his partner as well as his wife. I could be a good partner." "None better," agreed Mr. Hobart. "Well, if you want him, go get him. He's yours for the asking." "Mr. Hobart! How dare you? No girl asks a man to marry her!" "That's why we have so many old maids, Miss Antrim. I advice you to take a leaf out of Don Jaime's book, and whenever you want any- thing go get it. Now, listen to me. It you hop aboard that horse of yours and ride after Julio, he'll lead you to the old branding corral where he and Don Jaime are going to dig in and do some fancy shooting. You can easily follow Julio, He's riding a pinto hoss and even two miles away that hose looms ups You'll have time to get to the scene of the festivities before they get going, have your little pow -wow with Don Jimmy, and then beat it back here before dark." "Oh, Mr. Hobart, I couldn't!! I'd feel so brazen. I'd die of shame." "Very well, then, die. Don Jimmy is sure to die, because he doesn't want to live. Of course, he'd never let you know that, but right here in this note he left me he says: 'Adios, amigo. See that Miss Antrim gets to the station all right, and whatever you do, don't plant me in the same cemetery with her uncle!" "But, if he's bent on getting kill- ed—" "He wouldn't be so bent if he knew his luck, the fool! You tell him things and he'll keep his head down. He may even pull out of the fight and let me and my men do his dirty work for him." "Mr. Hobart, you are not loyal to Don Jaime. Whatever his faults— and I believe he has a few—he kills his own rats." "He's got Spanish blood in him," the sage urged, "and there's a quit- ting point in all of his breed. They die well after they've lost hope, but while they have a shred of hope left they're the champion long-distance CHAPTER XXVIII,—(Cont'd.) "Where are you going, Jimmy?' "I'm going to circle ahead of those sheep and get to the only water -hole they can reach to -night. There's an old branding corral in the valley by that water -hole --one I built myself. I'm going to dig in there and hold that gang off. There is a tiny shanty by the corral where we keep tools for cleaning out the water -holes, so I'm fixed t" "Surely you're not going alone?" "Julio will follow at four o'clock. He's dependable. Good -by, Bobby, in case I do not see you again. It's been wonderful to have known you. When you get home, think kindly of Jim Higgins, if he's in the cemetery, and send him an occasional picture postcard if he's not." He took her hand. It trembled in his. "Jimmy," she said in a very small voice, "the other night you told me you loved me. Was that a statement of fact or just—ah— hooey?" "It was a statement of fact. I'll love you as long as I live. Some day, if I live, I suppose I'll marry some- body else, but in the cool of the evening, darling, when the -day's work is done and the Higuenes boy and his thoughts are alone together —well, I'll do some thinking. And if Mrd. Higuenes should say, 'James, what are you thinking of?' I shall tell her a harmless lie," "I shall go home tomorrow,, Jimmy —provided you come back to Valle Verde. If not—" "They'll plant me in a hurry and you can go the day after, Bobby." He took her fresh, lovely face in his palms. "Bobby," he said very seni- ously, "remember me as the man who never made love for fun." And he kissed her on the lips and let her go. Dully, she watched him swing into his saddle and ride away. Abort three -thirty Ken Hobart and Julio returned and found Roberta sobbing as if her heart must break. "Where is the Big Boss?" Hobart demanded. Roberta held out a couple of leaves of paper --Don Jaime's battle plan. Hobart read it. "The boy has some sense after all," he decided. "He and Julio will guard the water -hole and stand them off in front. witb. Fraser, Lambert, and O'Grady, two good pisanos to be selected by Caraveo, will flank them or take them in the rear. Well, I've got three of my own kind with me! Car- aveo, with the other fourteen men, will continue on to the river, for, of course, Dingle and his bunch will break for the border the moment they realize they are actively gppos- ed. Not to do so would be ruinous. And at the river dog will eat dog." He whistled. "Who says this is a dull country?" He spoke to Julio. "Si, senor," murmured Julio, and rode away on Don Jaime's trail! Ken Hobart, left alone with Ro- berta, lit a cigarette, and waited. 'I'hen: "Crying over the old. man?" Roberta nodded, and adde'i defen- sively: "I'm sure anybody would. Don Jaime's so young and fine, and if he should get killed—" "Quite so," murmured Mr. Hobart. IMMUNIERMIIIIIMMAIMMMISMINSMIN Housecleaning? USE DARKER ;S This is the time of year that we can help you. Send curtains, drapes, cush- ions, covers, etc., for a won- derful Parker cleaning. ;eyeing, too, of course. Questions on price and color gladly answered, and postage charges on orders paid both ways. �ARKER'S LEAN ERS s DYERS DYE WORKS LIMITED DYERS S �IEA� ERS � �11ER 791 Yonge St., Toronto --- ISSUE, No. 19—'32 Beach Note. 1 Latest Offerings Of Science Delores Del Rip, whose latest picture takes her to Hawaii, sports a pyjama ensemble of horizontal strips and eight bracelets on one arm. Earth's Primitive Force§ Still At Work—Diamonds Evolved From Carbon earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are evidences that line forces whi.h began shaping the earth 8,000,000,00 years ago are still at work. For all the rigidity of what we call terra firma, mountains are still heaving, continents are still tilting, bedrock is still trembling, while beneath all the Vilna]. nal magma is -still welling. In the volcanic activity that recent- ly terrified the inhabitants along 400 miles of the Andes we see these pro- cesses at work. The view that an active volcano is a purely local pren- omenon is certainly wrong. On the borders and in the middle of the Pa- cific Ocean are long chains of vol- canoes—the Fujiyama, Hawaiian, Aleutian and Andes chains. Usually a single volcano is active, -while its im- mediate neighbors are dormant. But the Andes eruptions prove that sub- terranean forces are at work which affect whole regions, so that the theory of isolated activity is actually misleading. In the Andes chain three volcanoes were especially active. Their History is obscure. Of the three, Tinguiriri.:a has a definite past record, although not very clearly traced. It seems to belong to the variety that emits steam., gases and some ash. Explosively vio- lent volcanoes from which lava exudes are rare. Some who have flown over the Andes recently report outpourings of lava. he gave Enrico Caraveo his urders, then without waiting for nis five men to follow he galloped swiftly af- ter fter the girl. "Dame it," he muttered. "I got so interested fixing, things for Don Jinuny I clean forgot that girl wears pants, and a two -gallon hat. Some one ofthose roughnecks may ms - take her for a man!" (To be continued_) (Copyright 1930 by The Bell Syndi- cate, Inc. • (To be' continued.) runners of the world. You can save a human life, if you care to. If you do not care to—well, that's your own business." "I wish I could feel that your judg- ment in this matter is not in error, Mr. Hobart." "It isn't. I get my information die "I wonder why it is that Jones has so little respect for old age." "Probably because of his long acquaintance with boarding house poultry." Three Gates Ii you are tempted to reveal A tale to you some one has told About another, make it pass, steam turbine, went still further, lvit'h Before you speak, three gates of goi.i, pressures of 15,000 atmospheres, but These narrow gates: First, "Is it decided that diamonds could nee ee produced in the rnan..ier that Molesan and Crookes supposed. Two German chemists, Drs. von Hasslinger and Wolf, announced that they had obtained diamonds by the crystallization of magnesium silicee. A French engineer, Guyot de Bois- menu, claimed that he hacl made clia- nionds one-eighth of an inch in dia.- r -ter by electrically decomposing fused calcium carbide. After Sir Charles Parsons died the distinguished British chemist, Pro taught women about fessor Henry E. Armstrong, reviewed the claims of all the diamond, maker's household old lubricationfrom Moissan down, and handed down. this devastating opinion: "The whole Of the literature relating to the pro - her his confidence and both of them t Elperient:e with motor cars has duction of the diamond, I venture to forgot little Robbie was listening in. I taught women that moving parts 1 6:4,y, might now be safely burnt. . . What he heard disturbed the boy.: must be protected against wear by Moissan's interpretation of his•resulfs He got the notion, from what Don; a film of oil. Many of them haven't ( is not now accepted by his French col Jaime said, that you didn't care forlearned, however, that moving parts lo..gues. The von Hasslinger and his hero, so be came' over to my j of sewing Inar.Ia tle5, vacuum clean- ' Wolf work is genuine enough, bi'; quarters to talk it over with me„ ens; lawn movers, washers, and , I there is rio proof in it that diamond man fashion. That's how comp II other meehi nical devices must also u as obtained or that their method •vas found out. Then, too, I never did see be protected against dirt and rust. ; la likely one. You can. trust a Don Jimmy so depressed as he's 3-hi•One Oil not only lubricates; ci,emist no more than any one else been here of late." it also cleans anti protects. It is i ;Whether than you an :gee him. Only "I hadn't noticed it, :'Jr, 1-Iobart, different from all others, because when he produces the gonals in 'ayes • "He wouldn't let you nrotlre it it is a scicutifit blend of.t.brea high ':ins \vi`.inh. you cap . -:ti nay vole ese. 13ut he let down a mite to me•" : made oils --- animal, mineral and ''colli, kiln." her to e :'V walked d Roberta got trp, Beneath the Andes volcanoes mag- mas is now moving and magma is the sea of molten matter on which solid land floats as if it were an iceberg or. the ocean. Magna is just as active under New York City as it is under the Andes. If it happened to mani- fest its existence along the western coast of South America recently it was because the volcanoes there lie over especially thin portions of the earth's crust. Lava is simply magma that has been forced out of a volcano by pres- sure from below, but magma physic- ally and chemically changed. No one has ever seen magma in its original sate. As it wells up and the over- lying pressure is relieved gases bub- ble up. These react with one another and with air to produce combustion of hydrogen, carbon monoxide and sul- phur vapors. The melt itself changes into lava, a glassy foam. "Fresh from the Gardens,/ Thirty-three different kinds of food' 100,000,000 to 900,000,000 years ra- were cooked in both glass and alumin- stilted, uni utensils accordingto standard Opik finds supporting evidence of recipes. The largest aount of alum- Paneth's conclusions in the double inum was taken ul, by apple butter--- stars. A study of the distances end 112 parts per 1,000,000. This was Magnitude .of these convinces Opik found to be less then one-tenth the that double stars have not shrunk amount necessary to produce syrexe I Much in the lapse of time, again prov- toms ofhosphorus starvation .in a ing that the universe is young, rola. p I tively speaking. W. K. Something Cool I like the sound of something cool, low phosphorus diet. Creamed chicken became impregnated with 11-3 parts per 1,000,000, lemon pie filling with 2 parts per 1,000,000, and sauerkraut with 121/4 per 1,000,000. The Mellon I Of ice and sparkling snow, Institute researchers calculated the Or pools that lie in shadows deep, amount of aluminum that would be And beds where pansies grow. consumed by a person on a balanced diet, if all the foods were cooked in aluminum, and determined that the aluminum content of the original foodstuffs is greater by 40 per cent. than the amount that would be added bee cooking in aluminum utensils. THIS YOUNG UNIVERSE. Acco •ding to recent estimates by a committee of the National Researeh Council, the probable length of leo- logic time is about 1,600,000,000 years. Dr. Ernst J. Opik of Tartu University Observatory, Estonia, now lecturing in astrophysics at Harvard, concludes that the universe is not much more than 3,000,000,000 years old. If any reliance is to be placed upon these two estimates, it follows that the uni- verse of stars and nebulae cannot have evolved as slowly as we have been taught oy cosmologists. Dr. Opik bases his conclusions oil analyses of the helium and radium content of meteorites made by Pro- fessor Fritz Paneth of the University of Konigsberg. Values ranging from SYNTHETIC DIAMONDS. Like L. 11. Barnett, who recently received the endorsement of Dr. Ralph McKee, Professor of Chemistry in Columbia University, half a dozen ex- perimenters within the last generation believed that they had produced min- ute but genuine diamonds in the h- boratory. Professor Henri Moissan started them off. On the assumption that carbon can be made to crystallize under high pressure and thus produce a diamond. Moissan melted pure iron with sugar charcoal in an arc f rnace and drop- ped the crucible containing the molten n.ass into cold water. He obtained rnicroscopic crystals which resisted the action of powerful acids. "Die.- monds," he concluded—diamonds pro- duced by the pressure that resulted from the rapid. chilling of the crucible. Barnett's process is much like Mois- San's. Among others who thought they had made diamonds was Sir William Crookes, who exploded cordite in dos- ed steel cylinders and, at a pressure about 8,000 times that of the atunoc- phere and a tempeeature of about '7,000 degrees Fahrenheit, obtained what he thought were diamonds. Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the true?" Then, "Is it needful?" In your mind Give truthful answers. And the next Is last and narrowest, "Is it kind?" And if to reach your lips at last It passes through these gateways three, Then you may tell the tale, nor feat What the result of speech may be. —From Quotable Poems ; (WilIet rect. It seems Don Jaime and Mrs. Clarke and Colby;'. Chicago). Ganby got to discussing you and him `- • the other day. Mrs. Ganby's about; What the automobil6 has twenty years older'n Don Jaime, ro she talked to him like a son. Being a woman she sees things no more man would recognize if he walked over 'em. Well, Don Jimmy gave 44.4 The ocean on a .summer's day, The dunes across the bar, The silver moon when riding high With one small lonely star. I like the sound'of something cool, Of rivers broad and deep, And night that leads each restless day To quiet aisles of sleep. --Lydia Lion Roberts. "If the people of one nation go on a speculative spree, the world wakes up with a headache."—Ogden L. Mills. Agents Wanted Experience unnecessary, to sell direct -to -consumer a guaranteed line of workmen's clothing. 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