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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1950-07-06, Page 6IS 'RAGRANC1 IS SEALED Riders for the Hoot -Owl Pool ii`oo by G. 1-1. SHARP CHAPTER. FOUR (Continued fi.om last week) ,I said I twa; killin' you, Not here. Not now, I'm killin' you tvhen the sign is right and t'm col - lectin' the price on Your hide." "Hide hunter, I figgered so. How much did you get for Ed Young?„ "Enough to buy- them LF steers I'm winterinI. An' feed for 'em, and nlavbe a little graze." "For Bob Anderson.-" "I didn't git much. I had to split with a few more. Winters, your word ain't worth a damn in court. That's why I'm tellin' you this. The jury turned you loose, but it was old Judge Anders' speech-makin' that cleared You. Every man, woman and kid in this country thinks you killed Bob Anderson. You and that Texican started your I Hoot -Owl Pool. Then what did you do? You acted like a coyote. You turned on 'em. They're in the Last Chance now, talkin' it over. I killed Ed Young. I helped kill Bob Anderson. But you can't prove it in any court -because they'd laugh at you. Even Bob Ander- son's sweetheart ,has turned you down." Say that once more, Wake, _l`,.ake it plainer, or I'll kill you where you stand(" "Ask her, Winters. Ask her where she went this evenin'. Try and find her tonight, if you can. Is that plain enough?" Webb Winters' first caught Joe Blake square in the mouth. He followed it with a left and right that dropped Blake on the sidewalk. Webb left him lying there and walked back down the street. He had gotten an open confession from Joe Blake. A confession that now confirmed a long -held suspicion that Ilad been augmented by certain subtle remarks dropped by Judge Anders, Webb had baited Joe Blake into telling the truth. Blake had killed Ed Young. Blake and Ab Abbot had murdered Bob And- erson. Judge Anders had hinted at those facts tonight. But Judge Anders had kept Webb at his house for some reason, Was that reason i Mae? I Webb Winters was not a man who angered quickly. But now, as he walked down the dark road to I the edge of town, lie was gripped by a fury that tensed his every nerve, tightened his every, muscle- h He was breathing hard through his nose as he opened the door of Judge Anders' cabin. The big arm chair was vacant. ' Judge Anders' pipe lay on the table. The whisky bottle stood there be- i side the chair, half emptied. The It judge's hat was gone from its peg j on the hall tree. The house was empty. puzzled, be - Webb stood there, p wilderment in his eyes. Then he slid i Ills six-shooter a little forward in the waistband of his trousers. He , went outside, closing the door be- hind him. With a long, swinging stride, he headed for the cabin i owned by Ab Abbot, A cabin 1 known as "INTO Man's%Land." Ab Abbot's town cabin was as i notorious as any honkytonk or gambling joint in Rimrock. It was I a four -room log cabin, There was a big living room, and a spacious kitchen presided over by a one - eyed Chinese who had been a hatchet man for a big tong. Ab Abbot had brought him to Montana from San Francisco and put him in charge of the house. Ab Abbot called him Chino. Chino was small, quick, wiry. He wore Chinese clothes and under his blouse, he always carried a .45 and a ~whetted butcher knife. Beyond the big living room with its hardwood floor, its leather sofa and chairs, its Indian rug and huge fireplace, were two bedrooms and a bath. Inside those log walls, thou- sands of dollars had been won and lost over card tables. Ab Abbot loved cards and whisky and fast women. His parties would last a week. Abbot's favorite pastime was sitting back in his big red -leather chair and shooting at different ob- jects in the room. Bottles, glasses, anything that made a good target. The log walls were pocked with bullet holes. That was Ab Abbot's "No Man's Land" there in the Pitres beyond the edge of town. That was where Webb Winters now headed. y�!,� Gs•a'UA,� Sunshine Set for your Toddler, live items, ONE train pattern part tacit] Bloomers and shirry bra make tier fat little figure so cutel Skirt, •sun -hat, jacket, too. Pattern 4578, Toddler sizes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Size 2, bra, bloomers 1� yds. 35 -in,; cnsamble 3 yards. This pattern, easy to use, simple to sew, is tested for fit. Has coln- plelo illustrated instructions. cild TWENTY-FIVE CENTS (25c) ill coins (stallips cannot be accepted) for this pattern, Print Plainly SIZE, NAME, ADDRESS, ST'Y'LE NUMBER - Send order to 'BOX 1, 123 Caight- eenth St„ New Toronto, Ont. ISSUE 27 -W :1950 Kiss Of Death—A seemingly harmless little Incl: between two starlings (inset) proved fatal to themselves and 200 others. The starlings N ere settled on. two electric wires which sagged dose together, "G hen two birds made contact in the kiss, 1t caused a short circuit on the -vires, electrocuting the entire noel:. CHAPTER FIVE e : c Bait For A Bounty -Hunter Through the low -pulled window blinds showed a yellow light. Webb C approached bile place. Every nerve on edge, every muscle tight, he made his way through the Pines, his gull handy. He crouched there in the darkness, listening. No sound came from within the 1' log house. A shadowy form passed across the big living room, silhou- etted against the drawn window blind. Webb was about to start for the front door when he heard someone coming. Conning clumsily, fum- bling his way through the night. Now the man was there at . the front door, pounding on the door with the barrel of his six-shooter. There was the scraping of a heavy bolt, The door opened, revealing l the wiry little Chino who had a gun in his withered-looking The than who had pounded on door was Joe Blake. "Where's Ab?" he growled. "Boss nothome." "Don't lie to me, you little rat. I Where's Ab?" "Boss no home, You dlunk, Betta go home." "I tell you, you slant -eyed son, I got to see him." "Boss not home." "Where's the girl?" "No savvy.,, ,,You lie like bell. Ab Abbot's inside and so is she. I got to see him. I got news," "Let him in Chino," called a voice from inside the house. "What the hell do you want, Blake?" Now Ab Abbot could be seen. He was in his shirt sleeves and lie bulked there in the yellow light like some pot-bellied beast. He had a bottle of whisky in his right hand, a glass in the left hand. "Webb Winters is gunnin' for you, Ab," snarled Joe Blake. "He's killin' me and you on sight." "Come in, you drunken fool. Don't stand there ruunitt' off at the head like a maalnie. Come in." I (Continued next week) Isn't television wonderful? If you close your eyes it's like listening to the radio. MRIDNICLES ,�f y Gv.�2t-.d.oli.l�.e P. Clotlt.2 "DF,AR ANNE HIRS What adM vice do you offer a young mother It who has one child, another one contii,g, and whose toll r is about ult I by another WO- s<'�r _ lllall? (If you can call these r animals women). °`Everything was serene un- .�::> til she reared " 3 ugly head, .� her She is married, and has children. Divorce for the man is out—unless there is to other way. "I've always stayed home, and tried to be a perfect wife and mother. I think I have been, ill spite of the usual tine that me" hand out about their wives when they're out on the chase. 'WHAT ABOUT MEI' "Most people tell me to sit tight. That's right, I believe too, But must I bear the brunt of all the gossip without putting up a big fight for my man and my home? "This woman has had other men in her life, and she is said to be an easy mark—which does look true, "Doesn't she -N -Ye. any shame, or conscience? Doesn't she know that she's really -'dirt' under anyone's feet. "bS. L." * This other woman does not see * herself as others see her. She is * out for what she calls a good time, * and she is probably preening her- * self that she has added one more * man to her collecction. She has no * shame, no. Shame implies a * standard of ethics -which is for- * eign to her thinking. * Of course you will fight fo so many houses are now built with them. Some folk still have conserva tive ideas and stick to the old type windows. But in one thing am pretty sure all new houses ar alike—they all have modern bath rooms and water on tap. 01 the outskirts of any tows Last week my -menfolk were i wile busy rebuilding a bridge in the back 1 whe lane spanning a creek that runs diff, etv through our property. Such an in- nocent looking little creek—it isn't she even running no -v. All it amounts h to at present is a few water holes by here and there and some wet, at marshy patches. Yet in early spring, is swollen by the melting snow, that s same creek has a strong enough lnu current to cause a washout; to carry ' the away the wooden bridge and dis- ge lodge the..stringers beneath it. Now fr it is taking a lot of time and work fn to rebuild the bridge and to fill in m the washout—to say nothing of the ro expense involved, But as I looked fie at it this afternoon the thought til came to me= -there before me is the in damage done by one small creek o when it was in flood ... how can i o one possibly imagine the havoc caused by the Red River flood? And how can we even guess at the Ij t f heartache of those poor folk return- � f ing to homes -which in many cases had been loved and cared for years u on end. Yes, the danger period of b the flood is o' 'but the tragedy and heartbreak will last for months to come—and that is . something we 1 who are more fortunate need to s remember. Down here in Ontario farms and homes are still changing hands in i many districts—not through floods but for the simple reason that own- ers _ are selling their property. It is very interesting to watch the ; changes that take place under new ownership. Sometimes property is improved by new owners; other times there are changes made which I are not always to the good. Thus 1 we find farms that were previously well kept becoming untidy and poorly managed. On the other hand, farms that were showing signs of degeneration have been given a new lease of life and improved consider- ably. In any case new owners make changes that are characteristic of themselves — and sometimes the changes are amusing. For instance, in one house the farmer's wife had a great fondness for ivory Paint, so in almost every room the woodwork was painted ivory. Then the prop- erty changed hands again. ,This tittle 'the lady of the house'did not like ivory so wherever she found wood- --rode with an ivory finish she promptly painted it white! Then } again the previous owner like the house and garden to be well fenced; the new owners had the opposite idea and tore down every fence that was trot absolutely necessary. Iri allother case new owners were determined to have their newly ac- quired stone house spray -painted white. Fortunately they did not stay long enough to 'perpetrate that crimel Then there were the folk who loved old houses, complete with shutters. So they repaired and painted all the shutters. When .they sold out the new owners wanted to give the house a "modern loots," so the first thing they did was' to remove all the shutters. Tine same tiling happens in build ing. One fancily decides oil a large spreading bungalow type of house Colnplete with breezeway. In all - other, , big picture windows give the • place a distinctive touch ---al- though picture windows are not as distinctive as they once were since t never you pass a number c homes that are completel Brent in architecture I imagin s a pretty safe guess to assuny y are privately owned. Wartin using projects are conspicuoi their lack of individuality. Bi least they Have a frontage th P to some of the other Sur when new houses are beii It it would be to the interest e owners themselves to get i get and decide on a unifoi ontage. We have noticed sectic the country -where one hot ay be possibly 100 feet from 1 ad another 200 and maybe I xt one no more than 50 feet. E ere no regulations in this reg eluded in local building permit r is that something than i verlooked? With farm homes it doesn't n er much what distance they rour the road since it is rarely arm houses are built side by ; —and an the old, days location scally governed by the site of est water supply. And speaking of water — n•, It built just outside the t itnits must often tap the s piing. I wonder if the water P can be relied oil to last ind tely? Doing His Bit A� A 14` w your plan. your bc:j�*:weapolnp * however, are dignity afi.d silence, Any active attack upon this low character -would not diminish her * reputation, that is already ac- *complished. It would tveaken Your * position, and defeat Your ailns, * Your husband is not guiltless, you * know. * Stand your ground. Refuse to, * consider a divorce, and stick to it. * That will show her how futile are * their designs, and it -wall have a * chastening effect upon your hus- * band too. 4° His good name is being tarn- * islied, and if he doesn't know it, * he is more stupid than I think, * To desert a wife who is exPect- * ing a baby: is about as low am * insult as a man can offer' It is * he who will "bear the brunt" of * this miserable affair, not you. * You can, however, lessen your * burden a great deal by refusing * to listen to any gossip your ac- * quaintauces bring up. To lend an * ear, to discuss the matter With * anyone else, is unbefitting a WO' 4. man of your stature. No matter * what public notoriety your hus- * bated invites, he is still your hus- band and you expect him to con * tinue to be. There is no retort . * like silence. * Other men before him hate * betrayed their pregnant wives. * But how much worse it would be * if your husband had chosen one * of your own friends 1 He cannot * hope to marry this woman if you * refuse a divorce and I doubt if, * even free, he would want to. * Patience, and hope, are Your * watchwords. You • are getting a * shocking deal. But you will vriaa r * out, if you stand your ground. * * * t When life looks black, tell Anne Hirst about it. She will comfort you, and help you find I the courage to better it or take e it. Write her at Box 1, 123 1- Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Bad Luck A picture was being shown on a cinema screen of a girl taking off, her clothes at the edge of a river, before plunging into the water, In front of her ran a rail- way line, and just as the girl was removing iter . last garment a train came along, obscuring the view. When the train had passed, the girl was swimming vigorously. At this point a man muttered, "Damn." "I beg your pardon," said his neighbour, "did you say some- thing?" ?„ "Yes," said the other, "I've been to see this picture five times this week, and that darned, train's on time every night." LIVERWAKE UP YOUR I - I Without Calomel—And You'll Jump Out ®I Bele rho Morning Rarin' to Go The liver,ehould pour out about 2 pints of bile juice into your digestive tract every day. It this bile is not flooring freely, your food may not digest. It may just decay in the digastivo gotconstipa4ti bYou feel Y our, sank c you and the world looks ppunk. It takes thoss mild, gentle Carter'9 Little Liver Pills to get these.2 pints of bile ftow- ing freely to make you feel "up and up. Gat a package today. Effective in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Livor i Pill,& su nt anv dntr=+.^ 1 The funds of the local nursing as- I sociation were getting low, and it was decided to raise money by I Ubside down to prevent peeking. an entertainment in the village hall. Tickets were issued at a quarter, 1 ty O 1 which included a free tea before N 00 9 1 I the show. One young man filled the work- N A S) ( � ers with dismay as he devoured `q 1. ad N B 1 a3 b°S�W �At/ �WI eight big sandwiches, five pork pies, � � � � � El 43 � � six fruit tarts, and three slices of cake, washing down the cpllection 3 d 1 V G with seven cups of tea, W B W a L 1 3 09 Smilingly regarding the havoc lie W A J g N A 3 had wrought, the young man sat �, ® 1 il -1 I WS back and turned to his neighbour.S n S 'S 3 3 N b 0 "That's good," he said, "You know, 3 a w B W a I always think one should Patronize O S 8 h V A S 6 S n® 9 anything of this kind. It's all for a good cause." --..i ► "I s c Brilliant ? Of Course . - . 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"I've always stayed home, and tried to be a perfect wife and mother. I think I have been, ill spite of the usual tine that me" hand out about their wives when they're out on the chase. 'WHAT ABOUT MEI' "Most people tell me to sit tight. That's right, I believe too, But must I bear the brunt of all the gossip without putting up a big fight for my man and my home? "This woman has had other men in her life, and she is said to be an easy mark—which does look true, "Doesn't she -N -Ye. any shame, or conscience? Doesn't she know that she's really -'dirt' under anyone's feet. "bS. L." * This other woman does not see * herself as others see her. She is * out for what she calls a good time, * and she is probably preening her- * self that she has added one more * man to her collecction. She has no * shame, no. Shame implies a * standard of ethics -which is for- * eign to her thinking. * Of course you will fight fo so many houses are now built with them. Some folk still have conserva tive ideas and stick to the old type windows. But in one thing am pretty sure all new houses ar alike—they all have modern bath rooms and water on tap. 01 the outskirts of any tows Last week my -menfolk were i wile busy rebuilding a bridge in the back 1 whe lane spanning a creek that runs diff, etv through our property. Such an in- nocent looking little creek—it isn't she even running no -v. All it amounts h to at present is a few water holes by here and there and some wet, at marshy patches. Yet in early spring, is swollen by the melting snow, that s same creek has a strong enough lnu current to cause a washout; to carry ' the away the wooden bridge and dis- ge lodge the..stringers beneath it. Now fr it is taking a lot of time and work fn to rebuild the bridge and to fill in m the washout—to say nothing of the ro expense involved, But as I looked fie at it this afternoon the thought til came to me= -there before me is the in damage done by one small creek o when it was in flood ... how can i o one possibly imagine the havoc caused by the Red River flood? And how can we even guess at the Ij t f heartache of those poor folk return- � f ing to homes -which in many cases had been loved and cared for years u on end. Yes, the danger period of b the flood is o' 'but the tragedy and heartbreak will last for months to come—and that is . something we 1 who are more fortunate need to s remember. Down here in Ontario farms and homes are still changing hands in i many districts—not through floods but for the simple reason that own- ers _ are selling their property. It is very interesting to watch the ; changes that take place under new ownership. Sometimes property is improved by new owners; other times there are changes made which I are not always to the good. Thus 1 we find farms that were previously well kept becoming untidy and poorly managed. On the other hand, farms that were showing signs of degeneration have been given a new lease of life and improved consider- ably. In any case new owners make changes that are characteristic of themselves — and sometimes the changes are amusing. For instance, in one house the farmer's wife had a great fondness for ivory Paint, so in almost every room the woodwork was painted ivory. Then the prop- erty changed hands again. ,This tittle 'the lady of the house'did not like ivory so wherever she found wood- --rode with an ivory finish she promptly painted it white! Then } again the previous owner like the house and garden to be well fenced; the new owners had the opposite idea and tore down every fence that was trot absolutely necessary. Iri allother case new owners were determined to have their newly ac- quired stone house spray -painted white. Fortunately they did not stay long enough to 'perpetrate that crimel Then there were the folk who loved old houses, complete with shutters. So they repaired and painted all the shutters. When .they sold out the new owners wanted to give the house a "modern loots," so the first thing they did was' to remove all the shutters. Tine same tiling happens in build ing. One fancily decides oil a large spreading bungalow type of house Colnplete with breezeway. In all - other, , big picture windows give the • place a distinctive touch ---al- though picture windows are not as distinctive as they once were since t never you pass a number c homes that are completel Brent in architecture I imagin s a pretty safe guess to assuny y are privately owned. Wartin using projects are conspicuoi their lack of individuality. Bi least they Have a frontage th P to some of the other Sur when new houses are beii It it would be to the interest e owners themselves to get i get and decide on a unifoi ontage. We have noticed sectic the country -where one hot ay be possibly 100 feet from 1 ad another 200 and maybe I xt one no more than 50 feet. E ere no regulations in this reg eluded in local building permit r is that something than i verlooked? With farm homes it doesn't n er much what distance they rour the road since it is rarely arm houses are built side by ; —and an the old, days location scally governed by the site of est water supply. And speaking of water — n•, It built just outside the t itnits must often tap the s piing. I wonder if the water P can be relied oil to last ind tely? Doing His Bit A� A 14` w your plan. your bc:j�*:weapolnp * however, are dignity afi.d silence, Any active attack upon this low character -would not diminish her * reputation, that is already ac- *complished. It would tveaken Your * position, and defeat Your ailns, * Your husband is not guiltless, you * know. * Stand your ground. Refuse to, * consider a divorce, and stick to it. * That will show her how futile are * their designs, and it -wall have a * chastening effect upon your hus- * band too. 4° His good name is being tarn- * islied, and if he doesn't know it, * he is more stupid than I think, * To desert a wife who is exPect- * ing a baby: is about as low am * insult as a man can offer' It is * he who will "bear the brunt" of * this miserable affair, not you. * You can, however, lessen your * burden a great deal by refusing * to listen to any gossip your ac- * quaintauces bring up. To lend an * ear, to discuss the matter With * anyone else, is unbefitting a WO' 4. man of your stature. No matter * what public notoriety your hus- * bated invites, he is still your hus- band and you expect him to con * tinue to be. There is no retort . * like silence. * Other men before him hate * betrayed their pregnant wives. * But how much worse it would be * if your husband had chosen one * of your own friends 1 He cannot * hope to marry this woman if you * refuse a divorce and I doubt if, * even free, he would want to. * Patience, and hope, are Your * watchwords. You • are getting a * shocking deal. But you will vriaa r * out, if you stand your ground. * * * t When life looks black, tell Anne Hirst about it. She will comfort you, and help you find I the courage to better it or take e it. Write her at Box 1, 123 1- Eighteenth St., New Toronto, Ont. Bad Luck A picture was being shown on a cinema screen of a girl taking off, her clothes at the edge of a river, before plunging into the water, In front of her ran a rail- way line, and just as the girl was removing iter . last garment a train came along, obscuring the view. When the train had passed, the girl was swimming vigorously. At this point a man muttered, "Damn." "I beg your pardon," said his neighbour, "did you say some- thing?" ?„ "Yes," said the other, "I've been to see this picture five times this week, and that darned, train's on time every night." LIVERWAKE UP YOUR I - I Without Calomel—And You'll Jump Out ®I Bele rho Morning Rarin' to Go The liver,ehould pour out about 2 pints of bile juice into your digestive tract every day. It this bile is not flooring freely, your food may not digest. It may just decay in the digastivo gotconstipa4ti bYou feel Y our, sank c you and the world looks ppunk. It takes thoss mild, gentle Carter'9 Little Liver Pills to get these.2 pints of bile ftow- ing freely to make you feel "up and up. Gat a package today. Effective in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carter's Little Livor i Pill,& su nt anv dntr=+.^ 1 The funds of the local nursing as- I sociation were getting low, and it was decided to raise money by I Ubside down to prevent peeking. an entertainment in the village hall. Tickets were issued at a quarter, 1 ty O 1 which included a free tea before N 00 9 1 I the show. One young man filled the work- N A S) ( � ers with dismay as he devoured `q 1. ad N B 1 a3 b°S�W �At/ �WI eight big sandwiches, five pork pies, � � � � � El 43 � � six fruit tarts, and three slices of cake, washing down the cpllection 3 d 1 V G with seven cups of tea, W B W a L 1 3 09 Smilingly regarding the havoc lie W A J g N A 3 had wrought, the young man sat �, ® 1 il -1 I WS back and turned to his neighbour.S n S 'S 3 3 N b 0 "That's good," he said, "You know, 3 a w B W a I always think one should Patronize O S 8 h V A S 6 S n® 9 anything of this kind. It's all for a good cause." --..i ► "I s c Brilliant ? Of Course . - . He owes it all to You too can be a shining light if you use Nugget every day, Nugget Shoe Polish shines easily preserves leather makes shoes last longer. OXBLOOD, BIAAc K, WHITEAND ALL SHADES OF' )SROwN 5-53