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A WESTERN R Ca M NCE
BY CHARLES H. SNOW
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JOHN J. HUGGARD
Barrister, Solicitor,
Notary Public, Etc.
Beattie Block - - Seaforth, Ont.
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HAYS & MEIR
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and Notaries Public. �Soliei�tors for
the Dominion Bank. Office in rear of
the Dominion, Barak, Seaforth. Money
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There had been a consideralblro
shower the night before, and the
fro once of it still clue to theems.
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parched plain. The rain andethe threeaBuenas
da north wind that had
bad left the air clean as crystal, andY
through it the Coast Range shone as
if ten miles awayinstead of fifty.ly
Far to eastward the forested slopes
of the Sierras looked as though they
had Ibe•en washed clean and dyed a
rich blue -black. A rocky slope
pe far
toward the summit was white with
the new snow that clung to it.
Mackerel clouds trailed out in long,
foliated line"s .against a sky of deep
blue. Above the distant peaks of
the Coast Range 'masses of filmy rap-
our hung, remnants of the showers,
or the eastward •'venguard of fog
banks pressing in from the Pacific.
Jim Ellery, riding southward, breath-
deeply of the crisp autumn air,
and looked with appreciative eyes at
the illimitable landscape.
It was ..still an sliest unsettledgasped.
country. Elven the deep -tracked road
from Stockton to Sonora, a road on
which, 'but six years before, a way-
farer might have been guided by the
campfires of Id k' emigrants,
there were onlythe stations markin
, g
the length of a days' haul of the
freighters. At wide intervals on the
broad, fertileplain had settled Am-fiantly.
ericans whose agricultural instincts
predominated, while back int the foot-
and higher u in the Sierraso
g 'p,
thousands of men from every civiliz-
ed quarter of the lobe toiled and
ed and g
g gambled for gold. There
were towns almost worthy of the
name of cibies, and camps of solitary!»"
miners and companies along the can-
tons and gulches and treasure -pack-
ed flats. Down here, the vast plain
of the San Joaquin might still have
ben a part of !Mexico.
Jim Ellery. passed the night at a
stage station three lengths north of
the Stanislaus. Now he was as far
south, and well off the rutted trail
that led to the metropolis of the
Can-Southernthe 'Mines,
ine placer n to Columbia,
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was ever to kno •"Don
rested his weight in the
.stiriup's as he reined up his horse.
His wide -brimmed hat was pushed
back, allowing the soft 'south wind to
fan_. his., forehead. He was a hand-
some fellow, six feet in height, broad-.
shouldered, muscular. Iii.s face, tan-'
ned to a bronze, was almost classic,
yet possessed of ample manly rugged-
ness. The usual' devil-may-care ex-
pression left his brown eyes `as he
looked ahead.
"Cuesta de la Linda Vista," he
on a
1uttered. and looking e a out pretty
waew:,,
After rolling a corn -husk cigarette
in the Mexican fashion, and hitching
up the belt that held the two mother-
of -pearl handled revolvers, and ad-
justing the 'gold-filled saddle bags
that weighed down the pommel, he
rode on,
studbefore, aJini Ellery
beenve a years
col-
lege. His ambition had been to `'be-
come a great surgeon. That hadp
been before the discovery gold in
California. Now hesc wasy ofn olden-
turer, a rover,ridingThe
Where and when
he willed. He knew the mines of
Shasta and the Rio de las Plunhas
and the 'Rio de las Uvas, already cor-
rupted to the Feather and Yuba byhad.
the Americans, in whom was -little of
the love of poetic names that had
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been so much a part o.. the Mexi-
cans.
'Rancho Cuesta de la Linda Vista
was almost a village of itself, for its
retainers were many. -The main house
was a rambling abode on top of a
knoll that rose at the easterly side
of the plain. IAJbout the base of the
cuesta were the many adobe huts of
the vaqueros and their families, and
beyond this a rude irrigation ditch
b g
that almost encircled the knoll. Out-
side the ditch were fields. of yellow
maize, and gardens of chili and beans
and fields where the wheat stubble
was still golden. All these were sur-
rounded by a fence" of jack -oak polesjourney
to keep out the long -horned Mexican'
cattle that roamed the plain and the
dry foothills, even to the limits of the
•magnificent forests of pine and fir.
There were fruit trees at Rancho
Linda Vista, plum, pear, apple, the
seeds or seedlin of which had been
brow ht from the missions along the
gAh,
coast. There were grapes, too, ram-
'blling arbors of vines on which the
hardest still clung in long,'dusty
eheters, even as Mexican women
went about their labour of gathering
ripest.
The making of wine at Rancho Lin-
da Vista was no ordinary process.
naked urehMs stared with wide, black
eyes, then darted away like *right-
ened squirrels, to peek around the
corners of the huts.
Ellery lifted an arm and celled:
tardes, senora." .: ,
Buenas tardes senor answered
a toothless old woman whose back
was (bent almost double as she slow-
rolled a stone mutate to and fro
upon a slab of stone, grinding the
corn which was to make tortillas for
the evening !rueal.
It was a happy, indolent scene,
vastly in contrast with the hustle of
the mining calm!ps and the bustle
of the -embryo cities. An aged peon
was removing the hair from a cow-
hide on a tanner's- ;bench made of an
oaken log resting on four legs. Near
him another Mexican was listlessly
fashioning a saddle -tree, while in
the shade of an adobe still another
was cutting a raw hide into strips.
Dusky faces peered from open door-
ways and unglazed windows. Pigs
and chickens wallowed together in the
dust under the spreading branches of
the old fig trees.
There was a burst of laughter as
Ellery rounded a corner of the big
house. He drew, rein, Ahead of him
on a bench built 'against the bole of a
great oak, sat four men and. a girl,
gready
all Mexicans at first glance, but three
of them decidedly not at second. •
Each of them held' a cup, and one
had a pitcher also. The man with
the pitcher was tall, handsome. He
wore flaring charro trousers with sil-
,ver conches down the legs, and a
gaily emlbroidered jacket. His long
,mustachios and heavy hair were the
colour of grey iron.
("Rah!" he cried, getting to his
feet and posing cup and pitcher. "A
stranger comes, no? Alight, senor,
and sample with us the wine of
Rancho Linda Vista." •
tEliery dismounted, drew the reins
over the head of his tired horse.
Pressing his broad hat to his breast
in respect to the girl,'!' he bowed.-
"I am Jim Ellery," he announced
in good Spanish. "Have I the hon-
our ofaddressingDon Cayetano Es-
queval?" •
Jeem!" the girl cried. .She
height,sup-
was of medium slim and
ple. Crimson flashed under the olive
of her cheeks, and her full lips were
redder than the wine in the pitcher.
Her shadowy eyes, under their long
lashes, smouldered with mirth and
passion. • ,
IThe tall youngman at her side,
though dressed icharro trousers an
jacket, was florid of face and his
moustache and thick wavy hal were
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as red as a half burned brick. One
of the other men was abort, black-
'bearded, scowling. The fourth was
clean-shaven thin -faced, sallow ex-
r
where the wine had flushed his
cheeks..
The tall old hidalgo set down his
,pitcher and cup and wiped his hands
on a silken handkerchief.•^•
"Don Cayetano Esqueval I am,
Senor Ellery," he said, advancing and
holding out his hand. "The pleasure
of your acquaintance before I have
not had, but weIcomg you are to
Rancho Linda Vista." He turned af-
ter they had shaken hands. "Car-
lotta!"ward
girl got slowly to her feet.
"Carlotta, this ees Senor Jeem El-
lery," said her father. "You will the
honour do him of shaking his hand,
no?„ .
it was with apparent timidity that
she placed her slim hand in Ellery's
strong one, but he •eau ht a flash of
her eyes from under the half-closed
lids,and the merest smile about the
ends of her red mouth.
"Don Jeem'!" she exclaimed ..with a
sigh. ees -er• glad I am to
"Eet+
make your 'quaintance."
0.The pleasure is al'1 mine sen -disgrace,"
p ,
orita," Ellery said; bowing over her
hand. "It is a pleasure I had 'not
expected, seeing such beauty and
youth. „
,Her red lips parted and the ad-
,miration in her smoky eyes could not
be mistaken. The brick -red face of
the man on the 'bench turned redder,
and his eyes took on a steely,expres-
sion as they settled upon Ellery.
"Have a drink?" the black -bearded
man invited gruffly, breaking the ten -
Sion. "Bet you never tasted finer"you're„
„
wine, Ellery."
"Carlotta!"Don Cayentano cried.
"Take your seat, wench! Senor El-
lery, the girl is: so brazen `that she
will be making the open love if You
the least encouragement give her. Be-
ware!".4
Ellery, as he dropped the soft
hand, glanced at the hidalgo, at the
red-faced man, at the girl, wonder-
ing of which he should'beware. The
girl dropped to the beikeh beside the
9I wasn't meanie to meddle in
your usiness," he declared half an-
grilse "but it ain't often we see such
well filled alforjas down this way,
You sure must have had rich dig-
gin's, pardner." ��
Or somebody else did suggested
ggested
Ellery.
Rugg and Hailey now got upand
weighted the saddle -bags.
"'Wherever you got 'er, you sure
made a good haul," chuckled Rugg.
'Hailey's sallow face remained em-
passive. Ellery had not over -looked
the fact that each of the three Alms-
ericans wore revolvers and .a knife.
!The girl suddenly sprang to her
feet and ran to the horse, where withanimals
both hands she tried to lift the sad-
•dle-'bags frons the pommel. Unable
to do this, she loosened the flap of
one bag and ran a hand into it,
bringieg out a small buckskin sack,
which she quickly untied. From it
she 'took a handful of shining nug-
gets.
"O000h 0000h!" sire"Oooh!"she
"Eet
ees the oro, no?" Her red lips' were
parted and' her wide, ingenious eyes
were upon Ellery's. "Don Jeem, will
you care ver' !much° eef I take thees;
one leetle bit?"
"No,no,Carlotta." Don Cayetano
reproached. "The wap Trf a lady ccs
not to ask for gold. The dust put
back, 3 command!"
She tilted her head to one side,
and pursed her lips in a pout,
,, Pouf! What do I care for the
way of a lady, padre mio • 'Have I
not seen that Don Jeem ees and-
some. • And you yourself can see he
ees ver' gen'rous, no?" •
"You arequite welcome to it, sen-I"
orita, with your father's consent,
said Ellery.
•"pouf!" she cried again. "Eet ees
welcome I am without the word of
mi padre, Don Jeem. All of it. I
may have, no?" She held up the
small all sack•
"Well, I wouldn't like to be that
generous," Ellery returned. He wasthe
always liberal, but .he could rot see
why he 'should give fifty ounces of
gold to this apparently spoiled and
surely bewitching Mexican girl sim-
ply because she asked for it. "You
quite welcome to what
are you have
in your hand, senorita."
Tor a moment Carlotta pouted,
then slle' flung back her head and
laughed. She threw the heavy little
sack to Ellery.
"Don Jeem," she taunted, "et was
not the steengy I thought of you!"g
The other Americans laughed loud-
ly, but the .handsome face of Don
Cayetano was stern with dignity, andg
g
the glance he gave Ellery bespoke re-
signtion to te fact that he 'could
do little with this wilful daughter of
his. The !girl stamped a foot as she
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turned flashing eyes upon the three
chuckling Americans.
" Peegs!" she cried. "Puercos, be
steel! Even leetle as est ees, eet ees
more than any of you have give- to
Carlotta, and for eet 'I have the mind
to loff don Jeem. Sacramento, I
have!''
Pulling forward the low neck of
her crimson dress she emptied the
handful ofgold into the opening. As
the irregular nuggets trickled down-
against her satiny skin, she
wriggled end pursed her red lips in
a pout of a pleasure and pain, like a
child who is trying to keep from
laughing when being tickled.
'"Oooh-000h!" shegasped. "Estp
ees the ver 'first time Carlotta has
had the gold necklace break and run
down her -ooh, eet ees the delight,
no?"
Don Cayetano grasped her roughly
by the shoulders and forced' her to
sit down on the bench.South.
"Remain thenje, wench, lest' ;you
the name of Esqueval and of Rancho
Linda Vista he command-
ed. "Down beside her, Senor Fin-
nery, and make her behave."
'Finneystrode to the bench and
sitting down beside the girl, put a
restraining' arm about her waist.
The arm was unnecessary, however,
pp
for Carlotta twined one of 'her slim
ones about his neck and pulled his
head downward,
"Do you - think Carlotta has been
ver' bad," she begged. "Eet ees the
sight of mucho oro makes me what
you call the crazy, no?"Kipper
all right, Carlotta, he re-
turned, drawing her closer.
She lifted pleading eyes to his half
p g
angry ones.
Senor Jack, do you not think
.Don Jeem is the er' 'and -soave cab-
allero, no?"
up, you flirtin devil!"he
growled, shaking her gently.n
The colour fled from her cheeks.
Her eyes flashed.
"Jaok Feeney, you go to 'ell!"
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That (Don Cayetano was a caballero
there was no doubt. His coertly
bearing and appearance bespoke it,,
yet he' was, to Ellery's way of think-
ing, in had an including that
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of his pretty daughter.
The three 'Americans were hard
looking specimens,. though Finney
was a handsome enough fellow, with
a bold manliness and swagger
agger about
him,• It was not,unusual that they
were heavily armed, for most of the
Americans carried guns, and bowie
knives were as much a part of ap-
parel as 'boots or shirts. Ellery
glanced more than once at the three
horses that stood a little way off
with reins down. They were good
and well saddled.
IIn . the distribution of the wine-
filled cups .Don Cayetano had over-
looked his daughter. Her black eyes
'Hid.
flashed.
,"Padre mio, where ees your gal-
!entry? You have forgotten there
ees a lady present, no?"
"Enou h have you had, Carlotta.
Eet ees ."Enough
Ibecomting that you drink
mere." ', • ••
`iBah! Do you 'think that I am a
child?'"
"A, spoiled child you are, and wil-
ful," he replied. "Keepyour lace
p
drink. Al-
eha, while had
ready you have had too much, and
usually too • much do' you have to
say."
The evanescent crimson patches
,e
vanished from 'Carlotta s cheeks and
her eyes seeme to shoot fire. With
a sinous twist o er lithe' body she..
wriggled - from Finney's embrace, and
was upon her feet. Before her father
could forestall her she grabbed the
wine pitcher from his hands, leaped
back, and raised it to her' lips. Her
smokyees looked over the rim at
eyes
Ellery.
"Salad y pesetas," she cried:
"Fuerza to your corazon, Don Jeem!"
•"Salud y pesetas, senprita," Ellery
returned with a smile. "May your
beauty never fade, and mt',ay always
red of your cheeks be Pedder than
this good wine."
"Salud y pesetas," said Don Cay-
etano, who even under such trying
circumstances could not forget his
gallantry.
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"Here's how," said Finns
"Lookin'Y•
down your throat, strap-
ger," Rugg grunted.
The men slowly drained their cups,
but Carlotta drank little, merely sip-
ping from the lip of the pitcher as
she continued to watch Ellery, When
the cups were emptied she deliber-
ately poured the remaining wine on
the ground, and flung the pitcher af-
ter it. Then with a flirt of her red
she ran the
and tdi disappeared. toward seemed todEl-
lery that Don Cayetano heaved a
of relief as she went. He ges-
sigh?"
tured toward the bench.
• "Be seated, Senor Ellery. More
comfortable set ees here than in the
casa, no?"
,"I have heard much of your hors-
es, Don Cayetano," Ellery said. "Cap-
tain ,Bidwell' of Rancho Chico has told
the there are none finer in all Cali-
fornia. I have reason to believe Cap-
lain Bidwell is a truthful man."
Don Cayetano's s face beamed with
yeg
pleasure.
"Ah, has the fame of my caballos
travelled, as far as Rancho Chico? I
have often heard of the ililusttious
Capitan Bid-weel, but alas, the plea-
of his acquaintance I have not
El capstan ees .a friend of
vour�, no?"
"Whoever told you Cayetano's hos-
ses was the best didn't lie," interrupt-
ed Rugg. "There's none better no-
where.
"I've seen a lot of horseflesh," put
in Finney, eyeing Ellery coldly, "but
never anything better„ than what Cay -'
etano raises here on his •"
neato.
"l had the good fortune to spend
two -nights with Captain Bidwell at
his rancho in the Sacramento." said
Ellery, answering Don Ca over his
question. "We were looking over his
horses in the potrero when he told
inc of your animals. of tell the
truth, it was the story of them that
made me ride so far 'south on my
from Shasta to San Fran-
cisco."
;Don Cayetano was upon his feet
now. He 'bowed.
"Had you ridden a thousand
leagues, your time, would not have
ill " -spent, Senor Ellery, for I
swear •that in all California there are
no finer horses than those of Rancho
Linda Vista."
Ellery knew that the don was not
boasting, for Bidwell of Rancho Chico
,had told him ,even more, and shad
hsad managed him a ,sorrel gelding that e-
had to get from Don Cage-
taros band.
Meanwhile Finney's thin lips were
prospect out
(horse roused the drowsy peons. As
they trotted away Rugg"said:
I"You nllentdoned Ibein' up Shedd,
way, (Ellery, IHlow's things up there."
1"Fairl y good. I had a rich cto
on Clear Creek; .but my feetgot
..itching."
"The Puck Harper gang still run-
nen' loose up thele?" went on Rugg.
". I hear they was plenty bad' three,
four years ago."
."There's still plenty of talk up
there about Harper and his cut-
throats," said Ellery, "but they have
not been .heard of since they stuck
up the stage from Whiskeytown ta
Redding more than two years ago,
though 'Cap'tain Bidwell told me it is
thought they are responsible for some
of the killings and robberies along
the Feather and Yuba since then."
"To my way of think -in' that ain'tlove
likely; Finney put in. From what
I heard, Harper and 'his men got en-
ough ,from that Whiskeytown hold-
up to last 'em the rest of their lives.
Theylikelyheaded (back east where
thecome rom, or south into Mexi-
co or Texas, where there ain't quite
so much law and order."
"I hope they stay,wherever theyfeels
P
went," Rugg declared with..a curse.
"I met this Buck, Harper«
onto and
he's sure ..one mal hombre, stole aa
year's hard washin' of dust from me
and any pardner, and never so much
as said thank'ee."
"Haw haw, haw!" chuokled Hailey"
his sallow face for the first time
showing any expression. "I• always
like to hear you tell that,
yarn, Rugg
Why'n hell 'd you let 'em take it?"
reckon if you'd had a dozen
guns poked agin you, you'd let 'em
take it,"m,grunted Rugg. 1 There's
There's
plenty more gold, but I ain't got nine
lives like a cat. I reckon you,d put
up a fight."
"I might 'a' done just that," said
Hailey.
Ellery recalled what he had heard
of Harper and his gang, how the
miners had run them out of the
Shasta country, how it had been re-
ported that Vigilantes had taken the
law into their own hands on the
Feather and Yuba, and how, though
some of the 'bandits had been captur-
gprinted
ed and hanged, their leader had al-.Ellery
ways miana ed to usuallyto
g escape, r
lead another and more daring raid,
as if by it to show his total defi-
once.poses
'Soon the mozos came in sight lead-
ing the horse up the slope, and El-
lery had no thoughts except, fo rthe
beautiful animal. Don Cayetano took
'the hair hope from the peon who held
it.
"He ees El Real,"the hidalgo said
fine caballo roudly. eofeRancho s the nLinda est of Viste
A finer horse have you ever seen,
Senor Ellery?"
"'I never have," Ellery answered
,slowly.
The animal was such a light sorrel
that it was almost a palomino in col-
ouring. Its long mane and full arch-
ed tail, however, were flaxen, such as
might have better fitted a chestnut
sorrel. !
'Ellery walked slowly round and
round the horse, examining with op-
q
to admiration the muscled fore u-
leis, the deep chest, the neatly turn -
ed flanks, the perfectly moulded stifles
and pasterns, the small, trim hoofs,
the arched neck and slim tapered
head.
Himself 'born in the Blue -grass El-
•sure
horses's ]owe and knowledge told goodim-
Was. instinctive. He hint-
self that but for colour, he had never
seen a `more perfect specimen of
horseflesh. El Real was fully sixteen
hands high, and his every line be-
spoke speed and endurance.
"El Real, he ees un ver' fine cab-
alto, no?" demanded Don Cayetano.
«Wing
He isa beauty,"declaredpe Ellery.
He took the halter -rope and after
stroking the sleek head and looking
into the soft brown eyes, liftthe
upper lip. `'Six years old, eh?"
"Seis anos la Primavera pasado,
senor•" replied Don Cayetano.
Ellery ran his experienced hands
down the trim legs -riot a blemish.
He turned to ask Finney's opinion of
the horse, but hiscovered that the red
head was nowhere in sight.
"What do you boys think of him?"
he asked.
Hes sure one fine hors,' returned
Rugg. "I never seen a better one."
"Wish I had money enough to own
him," grunted Hailey. "Cayetlenty
Boli' to separate you from plenty
dust, stranger, before that hoss be-
longs to you."'
Un mil pesos,"said Don Cayet-
n-
ano."Nin s.ucentavo mss, 1 getue cfor
memos. heMe pricei do T doe
El Real, or remains my saddle
horse on Rancho Linda Vista, Senor
Ellery."
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BEST & BEST
Barristers, �olic�itors, Conveyan-
cers and Notaries Public, Etc. Office
3n the Edge Building, apposite The
Expositor Office.
' ��n
,it, but• Ile careful you don't fall in
love with that good-lookin' gringo."
g g ..
. `Priem would have the 'andeiomie
gringo fall in Toff with' Carlotta?"
she demanded naively. "From
looks of hees guns and hees ees,the lie
ma '
eef he loffkht her ver thee gmucho r the girl
you, !Carlotta,"rs he 'whispere
"I'll take •the chance that you don't
love hizn too much. As for a fight,
there won't be any,mnrchacha. He
has much gold. abe?" ' '
cried. `(Macho orO,
Never have I seen so much gold. You
do'
not know, erleet how funny eet
to have the leetle nuggets run.
n}ng down your neck.
He checked her with an oath.
a Listen to ane, Carlotta! I -want
that gold- bark a
'She drew back against his clasped
hands, looked uparchly, a little .-de-
y'
i
And you 'spec''Carlotta +o help
you get all the gold?"
"'I expect you -•to -see that this
ranch e dont get away from this
rancho to -night," he corrected with a
chuckle. "You can leave the rest to
and the boys."
(Continued next week.)
VETERINARY
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JOHN GRId
EVE, V.S.V•S.
•
'Honor graduate of Ontarip Veterin-
ary College. All diseases of domestic
animals treated. 'Calls promptly at-
tended to and charges mloderate. Vet-
g
erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office
ori residence on Goderich Street, one
door east of Dr. Mackay's office, Sea-
forth.
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A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S.
Graduate of Ontario Veterinarypills
College, University of Toronto. All
diseases of domestic, animals treated
by the most mc, aniern prirciples.
pr p
Charges reasonable. Day or night
calls promptly attended to. Office on
p
Main Street, Hensall, opposite Town
Hall, Phone 116. Breeder of Scot-
tislh terriers. Inverness Kennels,
Hensall. -
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The export of creamery butter
from the Irish Free State is unlaw-
fel, except under license of the Min-
ister of Agriculture.
MEDICAL
A considerable trade in grafted
mangoes is developing between St.
Lticia, British West Indies and Can -
ada. Grafted mangoes are wrapped
in paper on which instructione are
as to how the fruit should'be
eaten.
DR. •.E"-. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate in Medicine,. University of
Toronto. •
Late assistant New York Opthal-
ltnei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's
Eye and Golden Square Throat Has-
pitals, London, Eng. At Commercial
Hotel, Seaforth, third Monday in
each month from 11 a.m to 3g
p.m.
68 Waterloo Street, South, Stratford.
oliane
Gasoline used for agricultural . ur-
in Trinidad, British LVestpIn-
ies, is free of tax.
Eggs of the sugar cane froghopper
b pp
(the sugar can pest)were so nu.mer-
ous in the soil in rinidad that sev-
eral soil samples could not be exam -
fined to completion.
" ••""
DR. W. C. SPROAT
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine,
Universityof Western Ontario, Lon-cept
don. Member of College of Physic-
Gans and Surgeons of Ontario. Office
in Alberhart's Drug Store, Main St.,
Seaforth. Phone 90.
Spraying farm weeds with sul-
phuric acid originated in France in
1911.
.
The factory system began to exist
in Canada in the 60's and 70's of the
last century.
The largest co-operative organiza-
tion in Canada engaged .in the manu-,
facture and marketing. of dairy pro-
ducts. is the Saskatchwan Co-opera-
tive Creameries with a membership
of 39,000.
DR..E. •J $URROWS
Oflice and residence (Goderich Street
'
east of the United Church, Sea-
forth. Phone 46. Coroner for the
County of Huron.
The United Kingdom is the largest
consumer of wool in Europe. France
is second.
DR. C. MACKAY
C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin-
ity University, and gold .medalist of
Trinity Medical llgold inciter of
the College of Physicians and Sur-
ge
goons of Ontario.
r
France is the most im ortant cen-
'
treftheor the woolled sheepskin trade
of world. •
LONDON AND WINGHAM
P M:
ham
Win ham 1.55
Blythave 2.23,
Blyth 2.23
Londesboro 2.30
Clinton 3.087
Brucefield 3.27
Kipper 3.5
Hensall 3.415
Exeter 3.55
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North. .
A.M.2
Exeter 10.42
'Hensall 10.5`5 .
' 11.01
Brucefield 11.09
Clinton 11.54
Londesboro 12.10
Belgr 12.19
Belgrave 12.30
Win ghanu 12.50
DR. IL HUGH ROSS
of University of Toronto
Faculty of 'Medicine, member 'of Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario; pass graduate course in
'Chica o Clinical School of Clica o•
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Royal Ophthalmie Hospital, London,
England; University Hospital, Lonw
don, England. Office Back of Do-
inion Bank,-Seaforth. Phone No. 5.
Night calls answered from residence,
Victoria Street,Seaforth.
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DR. S. R. COLLYER
Graduate Faculty of Medicine, Uni-
ybeen
versity of Western Ontario. Member
College of„ Ph icians and Surgeons
+oi Ontario. Po graduate work at
New York City' spiral and Victoria
'Hospital, London, Phone: Hensall,
�6. Office, King treat, Hensall.Shut
C.N. R.
East
A.M. P.M.
Goderich 6.452.30
Clinton 7.088 3.04
Seaforth 7.22 3.18
7.33 3.31
Mitchell 7.42 3.43
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West•
Dublin 11.19 9.32
'Seaforth 11.34 9.45
Clinton 11.50 9.59
Goderich "" 12.10 10.26
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DR. J. A. MUNN
Graduate of Northwestern Univers-
ity, Chicago, Ill. Licentiate Royal
g '
College of (Neural, Surgeons, Toronto.
Office over Sills'Hardware, Main St.,
forbh. 'Photte 151.
There was no press. Instead there
were long, inclined platforms of
hewn boards, and below each ran a
trough which emptied into a kettle.
The ripest of the grapes were laid
upon the platforms, there to ripen
florid man, vvho immediately put anjingling,.
arm about her waist in possessory
fashion.
!Don Cayetano introduced the red-
headed fellow, the 'black -,bearded man
and the sallow, thin one as Finney,
Rugg and IHlailey. Rugg and Hailey
CHAPTER II
Without appearing to take more
than casual notice, Ellery had been
sizing pp the men and the girl. Now,
as he took the cup of wine from Don
compressed under his red moustache,
and his eyes were squinted and cal-
culatirng. Rugg wad scowling, and
Hailey's cold eyes followed every
movement Ellery made. He leaned
over and whispered something to
Rugg. Rugg shrugged an answer.
'Silver spurs n
p g ' g, body swaY-
ingDublin
Lightly at the hips, there was
something feline in Finney's move-
nt,ents as he entered the case. In -
side the big living room, with its
massive, oaken• table and many raw-
hide covered chairs, he stopped, lean-
DR. F. J. BECEELY
Graduate Royal College of Dental
Surgeons, Toronto. 'Office over W. R.
Smith's Grocery, Main Street,'Sea-
forth. Phone; O'flde, 185 W; resi-
&Mee, 185J. •
further; and when the sugary juices
had begun to- seep from the raisin-
like fruit the -ma -SS was worked over
by'the wrinkled hands of old Mexi-
'can wo'm'en, trained for this work.
When the kettles were filled, the
stagary fluid, by this tine well dot-
ted with flies, which abounded in
swarnnts, was carried to the bigdobe
e
acknowledged the introduction with
nods and grunts. Finney got Lang-
•uidly to his feet, and after stretch-
ing "like a healthy young animal, of-
fered his hand.
"Glad to meet you, Ellery. That
horse of yours looks like you've rid-
den 'him far. a a
"All down from Shasta.
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•TRY
HOTEL WAVERLEY
NEXT VISITgood.
�� /Finney
�.
"`I would buy a horse of Rancho
Linda Vista, Don Cayetano,"said El-
lerl, "if you hare one of the noble
animals for sale."by
IDo'n Cayetano looked his visitor ov-
er, from the toes of his polished boots
to the crown of his expensive sum-
brero.
"The best calballo of el rancho You
ed forward, rested his hands on the
guns at his hips. Except for the
oor, the large room was plilghted only
two small windows at the easterly
side, and now that the sun was in
the west, the illumination was not
whistled softly. A door at
the farther Carlotta
C. P. 'R� TIME TABLE
East.
A.M.
Goderich 5.55
Menset 5.56
McGaw • 6.04
BlythAuburn 6.11
Blyth
3 h 6.26
NWI1cNau 6.40
ght 6.52
Ar°'n`t0 10.25
Went.
To"ionto 7. p
McNaught .• . 11.48
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Walton 12.01
Blyth 12.12
Airburri 12.23
McGaw 12.84
Menset 12.,41
•Goderich 12.46
winery and dumped into vats and
barrels for fermentation. When this
+process was finished the wine was
rooked for four years, for no travel-
ler had ever drunk of the wines of
Rancho Linda Vista and ridden away
with a^ esuc'kery taste in .his mouth.
It was midafternoon when Jim El-
lery the -lane at the norther-
the way
He's not much of a horse either."
Finney went to the horse, but in-
stead of looking at the jaded animal,
examined the silver -mounted saddle
and the heavy saddle (bags. He turn-
ed to Eller , who was now talkie
Y ,� g
with Don ICayetaYto.•
"'Seems youre fairly well heeled
•entered
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THOROUGHLY MODERN
ROOM RATES
wmi RUNNING WATER' 51,50 ro
WITH PHONE E IN BATH. 1ROO p
will want, senor," he declared. "And
be satisfied with nothing less." •appeared,
"The bast has never been any too
good for Jim Ellery, the visitor r lget
turned with a smile. I am willingwaist.
to pay'you well."
Sbmhtirnes it stands a feller to
g "p
good stead to be up on the best
"Maybe
side opened and
vivid as ever. She laugh-
ed ns she ran to meet him, and flung
her anmis about his neck. His fin-
s clasped back of her supple
Presentlly she leaned back,
.
that she might look into his face.
The crimson etches were playing
hide-and-seek under the°soft olive of.A.M.
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ly Aide of the cuestas. It was a short
lane, with a patch of chili on one side
sed a of beans on th other.
patchp
Al he calms to the first huts of the
puns he heard loud laughter from
the.direction of the great . adobe-
sprawled under the oaks at the top
half
for dust, Ellery. '.Miner ?"
IA slow grin spread over Eilery's
bronzed face.
I might be a knight of the road,"HOTEL
the ventured evasively. "Is it c11.9-
ternary to be too inquisdtiv�e"?"
Finney shrugged and coloured more
deeply.
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TORONTO
horse," Finney ventured. a
question of a fast horse or a (bullet,
eh?"
'Ellery gave the handsome young
red -head an understanding smile.
el see you savvy the value of a
good horse yourself, Finney"
`!`trot's right. Like the best
her cheeks, and her eyes shone with
passion and admiration of this red-
headed man.
"Ah, mi Jack, you are rver' an-
grey, ver' jealous?" she asked. "You
think I am the 'bad' girl, no?"
4'You did it fine, Carlotta, couldn't
have dome it better if we'd rehearsed
of the knoll. Brewin -skimmed,
-
you,
w�s�P',+iRripud�ud+i5l`I