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JOHN ,J. HU RD
Barrister., Solicitor,
Notary Public, Etc.
Beattie Block Seaforth, Ont.
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HAYS & MEIR
Succeeding R. S. Hays
t!arristers, Solicitors, Conveyancers
and Notaries Public. Solicitors for
the Dominion Bank. Office in rear of
the Dominion Bank, Seaforth. Money
to loan.
JOHN H. BEST
'Barrister, Solicitor, Etc.
Seaforth Ontario
VETERINARY
• JOHN GRIEVE, V.S.
,Honor graduate of Ontario Veterin-
ary College. All diseases of domestic
animals treated. Calls promptly at-
tended to and charges moderate. Vet-
' erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office
and residence on Goderich Street, one
door east of 'Dr. Jarrott's office, Sea -
forth.
A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S.
Graduate of Ontario Veterinary
College, University of Toronto. All
diseases of domestic animals treated
by the most modern principles.
Charges reasonable. Day or night
calls promptly attended to. Office on
Main Street, Hensall, opposite Town
Hall. Phone'116, Breeder of Scottish
Terriers. Inverness Kennels, Hensall.
MEDICAL
DR. D. E. STURGIS
Graduate of the Faculty of Medi -
eine, University of Western Ontario,
and St. Joseph's Hospital, London.
Member of College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Ontario. Phone 67. Of-
fice at Dublin, Ont. 3493
BY PETER B. K 'Y N E
(Continued from last week)
"I dunno, " the man Jalce replied
suspiciously. '°I don't rightly know
how to take You, Purdy. IHtow do I
know you won't poison us?"
"Don't feel badly about that, Jake.
Nobody in this country ever undier-
stends me, and if you suspect poison,
wrhy, rm. trade breakfasts with any
man present and eat them to the lim-
it of my Capacity."
The Chinaman appeared in the door
of the mese hall. "Come and gettee,"
he piped shrilly. "You no come and
get.tee I thlow him out."
It was too much. The mob laugh-
ed. '"Come on, joke," one of them
urged. "We can't be outdone in po-
liteness; we got to be as good sports
as Purdy an' that Chinaman. At that
the heathen is scared to death."
"You're a man of remarkable pene-
tration, Joe," Purdy replied to this
last speaker. "'My little friend Chan
is indeed badly frightened, Conse-
quently, if his hand should shake
while he's serving the coffee and if
the -'overflow should scald some of
you, I know you will understand and
forgive him. Come in, boys. Wel-
come to La Ouesta Enoantad!a. Chuck
your rifles in the corner, but hang on
to your lesser hardware if you still
suspect me of guile."
Through the tiny knot -hole in the
co'menissrary door. Gail Ormslby watch-
ed the men from Arguello shuffle in-
to the mess hall, hang their hats on
the wall. pegs and bake their seats.
While they were nota particularly
presentable lot of men, neither were
they of a type particularly villanous-
l'oeking. There were a couple of half=
breed Mexicans among them. The
others were ranchers 'tor cowv-hands;
some might have been town loafers.
The trembling Chan passed around
the table, setting huge platters laden
with halm and eggs, which in turn
were passed from guest to guest, who
scooped the contents off onto plates.
The coffeepot travelled briskly up
and down the table and there was no
general conversation. Nobody offer-
ed anything to anybody; all Gail heard
was an 'occasional "I'Il trouble you
for the coffee-pot" or "I'11 trouble you
for the bread," "Grades, amigo" or
"Much olbli�ge'd." In their primitive
ay the members of t`hds quiet mob
were meticulously polite to each.oth-
e�r. 'Gail concluded that these men
were not ferocious thugs 'bent on a
lynching for the fun of it, but rather
serious-minded men with a yearning
for justice, albeit not .too particular
as to the methods to be employed in
securing it. Racial resentment was
quite as much at the bottom: of their
mental attitude as was their primi-
tive instinct to aaenge a murderous
assault on a prominent citizen whose
friends were as numerous and sincere
as his enemies.
Breakfast is quickly over when one
gives hirn'self up to rapid and effici-
ent eating. Ten minutes sufficed for
he maj•o'rity .of the guests, and these
at once rolled cigarettes and sat back
to enjoy the fru'i•te of their digital
dexterity. Tile man Jake, a huge
fellow with an appetite to match, was
the last man to finish; plainly the
others had remained seated at the
table out •of respect foe Jake. Purdy
had gone into the kitchen, apparent-
ly to assist Chan in bearing feeds to
his guests, and upon 'the occasion of
his last trip in he had remained
there. He leaned out of the kitchen
new into the mess hall, his elbows
resting on a twelve -inch wooden shelf
that crowned the half -wall between
kitchen and mess hall. As Jake
drained the last cup of coffee and
looked u!p he caught Purdy's calm
blue eyes upon him. • •
"Have you had enough to eat,
Jake?" he queried hospitably.
"Full up," Jake answered heartily.
Then, as Chan lean -td over him to fill
his cup again, he .caught the little
Oriental's wrist in his huge h'an'd.
"Well, I reckon we might as well pro-
ceed, gen'tlemen," he said to his fel-
lows.
"May I crave your indulgence for
about fifteen minutes, Jake?" Lee
Purdy called mildly. "Chan hasn't
had any breakfast yet. Is it quite
fair to hang him on an empty stom-
ach? Personally, I have never read
of a hanging where the condemned
man did nob arise early and partake
of a hearty breakfast."
"Well, I won't argue the question,
Purdy. He can ealt breakfast if he
wants to, but I'm here to tell you
that if he tries ba get out of that kit-
chen before I send for him, Joaquin
can use him for a sieve."
Jake released his hold on the little
Chinaman and s'truc'k him a heavy
blow across the face wibh his hard
open hand. Chan fled to the kitchen
and then Lee Purdy spoke again.
"Are you boys dead set on hanlgin'g
Chan? Has To,dld died from the ef-
fects of that crack on the head?"
"No, but it looks mighty like he
might, Purdy."
"Well, in any event it dloes'n t sprit
me to have you and your friends bake
the law into yopr own hands, Jake.
Now listen. You've partaken of my
hospitality, so out of sheer politeness
you'll have to lichen to my argument
for the defendant. I'll make it snap-
py and if :when I have finished you
boys still think that the right and
read'ona'bl•e thing to do is to hang
Chan, why, go tto it. That's fair, isn't
it?" •
"Fair enough," half a dozen, voices
answered.
"And you all agree not to inter-
rupt me while T'nri pleading for fair
play for this Chinaman?"
"Absolutely." Apparently. the res-
olution was unani'm!oue,
DR. GILBERT C. JARROTT
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine,
University of Western Ontario. Mem-
ber of College of Physicians sad
Surgeons of Ontario. Office, 43 Gode-
rich Street, West. Phone 87.
Successor to Dr. Charles Mackay.
DR. W. C. SPROAT
Graduate of Faculty of Medicine,
University of Western Ontario, Lon-
don. Member of College of Physi-
cians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office
in Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St.,
Seaforth. Phone 90.
DR. F. J. BURROWS
Office and residence Goderich Street,
east of the United Church, Seaforth.
Phone 46. Coroner for the County of
Huron.
DR. HUGH H. ROSS
Graduate .of• University of Toronto
Faculty of Medicine, member of Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons • of
Ontario; pass graduate course in
Chicago Clinical School of Chicago ;
Royal Opthalmie Hospital, London,
England; University Hospital, Lon-
don, England. Office -Back of Do-
minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5.
Night calls answered from residence,
Victoria Street, Seaforth.
DR. E. A. McMASTER
Graduate of the University of To-
ronto, Faculty of Medicine
Member of College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Ontario; graduate of
New York Post Graduate School and
Lying-in Hospital, New York. Of-
fice on High Street, Seaforth. Phone
27.
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Sun Lamp treatments, and Infra Red
electric treatments. Nurse in attend-
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DR. G. R. COLLYER
Graduate Faculty of Medicine, Uni-
versity of Western Ontario. Member
College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Ontario. Post graduate work at
New York City Hospital and Victoria
Hospital, London. Phone: Hensall 56,
Office: King Street, Hensall.
DR. F. J. R. FORSTER
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Graduate •in Medicine, University of
Toronto. '
Late assistant New York Opthal-
mei and Aural Institute, Moorefield's
Eye and Golden Square Throat Hos-
pitals, London, Eng. At Commercial
Hotel, Seaforth, third Wednesday in
each month, from 1.30 p.m. to 4.30 pan.
58 Waterloo Street, South, Stratford.
p., `� • DENTAL
DR. J. A. McTAGGART
Graduate Royal College of Dental
Surgeons, Toronto? Office at Hensall,
Ont. Phone 106.
AUCTIONEERS
HAROLD DALE
Licensed Auctioneer
' Specialist in farm and household
sales. Prices reasonable. For dates
and information, write or phone Har-
old Dale, phone 149, Seaforth, or ap-
ply at The Expositor Office.
ARTHUR WEBER
Auctioneer's License
Sixteen years' experience.
Satisfaction guaranteed.
Telephone: 18-57, Hensall.
Write ARTHUR WEBER,
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$EAPORTH t ONTARIO
!been asked to • guess What his s!ame-
thing might be they would have re-
plied "dirby dishes"-.-Ihad been piled
and a spilled: table cloth spread over
it. Purdy stepped around: in back of
this table, whisked the soiled table -
Cloth off 'with his left 'hand and ,with
his right swung the muzzle of a ma-
chine gun into position tb rake the
long table with his fire..• Simultan-
eously his voice rang out, harsh, die -
savant, with a metallic ring in it -
the voice of a soldier giving orders.
And when a trained soldier gives an
order there Is that in his voice, in ,his
bearing, which enforces instantaneous
obedience as readily as does the
knowledge of the punishment disob-
edien'ee will entail.
"Hands up --everybody!"
He did not wait for them to !obey.
Indeed,, he knew more than to expect
unanimous acquiescence to his com-
mand, since in all probability none
of his guests had hitherto seen a
machine gun. In their ignorance
they •wo!uld not realize that he was
threatening thein. Therefore it be-
hooved him to impress them. He
pulled the trigger and fired a burst
down the Center of the table between
the two lines of men; and the hiss
of the •bullets, their crash through
the rear of the mess hall and the fur-
iously fast staccato explosions con-
vinced the half dozen doubting
Thomases of the urgent necessity for
prompt obedience. Twenty-four pairs
of arms shot skyward, but the leader,
Jake, sat calmly staring at Purdy.
"What kind of a contraption is
that thing?"
"It's a machine gun, Jake: If I
spray it drown this table I can riddle
twelve men in, a row -like that!"
"You'd have to move the table ov-
er,a few feet in order to riddle thir-
teen on this side of the table - like
that! Thirteen's an unlucky number.
Jake'•s hand was under the table.
Purdy, realizing that when that hand
came up it would be holding a bark-
ing forty-five, swung the barrel of his
machine gun and covered Jake. The
two men stared at each 'other for an
instant, unafraid -then from his post
in front of the cook stove Joaquin
Jose Ramon 'Ozena y Sanchez spoke.
"I bet you my life t'irbeen she ees
muy unlucky -for humero t'irteen."
He reached into a bread pan on the
sink beside him where reposed, ready
to his hand, a weapon that Jake
knew and understo'o•d'-to wit, an old
;'angle -action forty -five -caliber pistol,
with a srix-!inch barrel. Fr :'m his hip
the descendent of a hundred peons
fired at Jake, and the bullet ripped
away a fair-sized section from Jake's
large, radiant , right ear. Joaquin
occke•d his pistol and smiled.
"Hobbes), •Senor Jake, you theenk
these gun don' go off, no?" he sug-
gested sweetly. '°Please! I theenk
ees rpoeo mas major eef the senor find
out pretty queeck who she is the 'boss
of thees rancho."
'°.•rme peevish_ Greaser," Jake com-
plair.ed, but his hands went up.
Purdy laughed long and h,eartaly.
"Well, Jake, you're no longer a
maverick," he declared. "Joaquin has
run his earmark on you; the first
thing you know .he'll beef you. He
tried hard enough to do it a moment
ago."
"I'll get him for that," said' Jake
simply.
"You'll have to get me first in or-
der to enjoy that privilege, Jake."
Purdy half turned to his eo'ok. "Gra-
cies,Joaquin'. n. 'If I
a Could
q afford it I'd
raise your wages for that." Then to
his guests:
"Gentlemen!" He paused, after
the manner of the trained speaker,
and his grave face lighted with a lit-
tle, whi'rrns•ical smile. .
a;Yd tk ,ars Pil.titlr
Beside Purdy stood a small kitchen
table, the top of which was level with
the twelve -inch shelf upon which the
master of the Enchanted Hill h'ad
beet leaning. Upon the table smne-
ehingt-+had any of Purdy's guests
Ormsby has been looking at yeas
naughty lads .through a knothole and
has enjoyed immensely the s!peetacle
gf twenty-five good men and true,
metamorphosed into monkeys. Gen-
tlemen, Miss Ormsby!"
(Miss .Ormsby was received in abso-
lute .silence. "The next time you
men came .to a gentleman's house,"
she comnreneed, "wait until you are
nvited. And ne�v!er again make the
mistake of thinking that because a
man wears rather full riding trous-
rs, riding boots and a necktie, he
sn't a gentleman --that he is devoid
of brains and courage. Please reburn
a Arguello and stay there. I thank
you."
"Jake, on behalf of the vthsiting
brethren may we not have a few ex-
temporanerou's remarks from you?"
Purdy pleaded.
To his credit be it said that Jake
Dort found his feet, doffed his hat
net bowed low to the 'two on the
mess -halt steps'. "Thus endeth the
first lesson, my brethren," he declar-
ed comically. "And the moral is,-
ever
s
ever 'bunch up for a fleck shooter,
nd when you accept his invitation to
breakfast, frisk ,him first and then
make him, sit !between two of your
rusted friends. While realizing that
we return to Arguello Yadkin' mare
r less ridiculous, still we'll get there
with 'what di'gnity' we can muster.
Miss Ormsby, adios! Mr. Purdy, sir
-until we meet again."
And he set down and applied a red
bandanna. handkerchief Po his. ear.
Gail Ormsby broke the s•ilerIce.
"I believe most of you men would
lmost rather be robbed of your
hewing tobacco than be made ridicu-
lous. Personally, I think it would be
lather nice to have you return to
Arguello looking as brave and full
f conceit as when you left it; there -
'ore, if any 'gentleman present wishes
his weapon he can have it by pledg-
ng me his word of honor not to use
t on this ranch a'nd' to refrain from
e.sisting in the lynching of Chan to-
day, to -morrow 'or any other day.
When you return,to Arguello you 'can
ell Ira Todd and your friends what -
ver tale occurs' to you."
'"That's a fair proposition, miss,"
a member of the mob declared. "I
paid twenty-four dollars for that gun
of mine and I don't want to lose it.
You've got my word of homer, Miss."
"And mine -and mine!" There
was a chorus of assent from a badly
disorganized and chopfallen crew;
one by one they came- forward and
'elected their weapons from the pile
which, at Purdy's command, Chan
brought forth from the mese hall.
Jake Dort, however, declined to sur-
render.
"1 don't think so much of than old
gun o'• mine anyway," he defended
his action. "It ain't balanced pro-
per and I always did tend to shoot
high with it."
Five minute's later all that was
eft to remind the dwellers on La
Cuesta Encantada of the yisit of the
m'o'b from Arguello was Jake Dort's
gun, the dust of their going and an
unusually heavy job of dish -washing
confronting Joaquin Jloee Ramon
Orena y Sanchez and his volunteer
assistant, the temperamental Chan.
"There isn't going to be any hang-
ing to -day. You all agree with me
that there isn't going to be any
hanging to -day, do you not?" He
glanced interestedly up and down the
two lines of faces turned toward him.
"All those in• favor of a hanging to-
day will signify by saying 'Aye.' All
those net in favor of a hanging to-
day will signify by saying 'No.' The
`Noes' have 'it and it is so ordered."
"You'd ought to run for a political
office, Purdy," Jake jeered. "You got
a nice, pleasant line o' conversation."
"Thank eros, Jake. I'm not through
making my speech yet, so until I
give you permission to interrupt me,
please de not do so again. Joaquin,
if that fat idiot opens his mouth be-
fore I ask him to, do me a favor and
notch his other ear. That may in-
duce him to harken to good sound
advice in the furture. Now then,
Jake, I'm talking to you. I£ there
is to be a hanging later, when I'm
not present, I trust you will not be
so foolish as to superintend the ob-
sequies. I grope a trifle weary of
you, Jake Dort. You will persist in
calling yourself to my attention;
some day you're going to speak but
of your turn and I'll be bh'e only per-
son present to take down your last
words. Now, then, 'beginning with
you, Jake, the gentlemen• on the left
side of the table will rise without in-
decent haste and deposit 'their artil-
lery on the table in front of them.
Having 'done so, each man in turn
will pass out the door, pausing at
the door, however, long enough for
this trembling exile from far Cathay
to pat him on the hips and under the
armsi for extra and concealed lighter
artillery. Each gentleman will then
step •outside and sit down under yon-
der oak tree. All set? Jake, it's
your deal and the play is to the left.'
When the mess hall was empty
Purdy opened the door of the corn -
CHAPTER VI
"Who is Jake Dort?" Gail queried
when, an hour later, .she and' Purdy
sat down to ,breakfast, "Jake is the
range boss of the Box K ranch. Good
clow -hand, too. Ira Todd thinks a
lot of him, and I imagine he thinks
a lot of Ira Todd. Jake felt, I dare
say, that it was up to him to prove
his fealty to his boss'."
"Do you mean, seriously, that Jake
Dort is an employee of mine?"
"'He's the range boss of the Box K
Ranch. I wasn't aware that you own
the Box K Ranch, but if you do, Jake
Dort is most certainly on your pay-
roll."
"I do own the Box K Ranch, and
Ira Todd is my manager. And I
shall exercise my prerogative as
owner to sever Mr. Dort from the
ranch •pay -roll very promptly."
"Are you quite certain you have
sufficient money to pay him off?"
The girl looked at him, startled.
"That is a very -very -leading ques-
tion, isn't it?" she queried a little
coldly. "I wonder why you ask it."
"I do not mean to be inquisitive or
rude, but I have heard a persistent
rumor to the effect that Jake is sev-
eral months overdue on his wages,
and I know of my own knowledge
that the account of the Box K Ranch
at the bank in Arguello is over-
drawn."
et -el didn't know that. How di•d
you learn it?"
"I've a friend who is a director of
that bank. Please forgive me for
discussing your :private affairs. I
didn't think you did know it, hence
I thought it only decent to spare you
the embarrassment of firing Jake
only to have him 'back -fire en you.
I've had to discharge a few men in
my day and I .have always' found it
most convenient to pay them off in
full when I say good-bye."
Gail looked at her host humorous-
ly. "I fear Jake is, going to remain
'on the pay -roll indefinitely, Mr. Pur-
dy. And of course that means I
shall have to be ,very civil to him
when next we meet."
"It's •ternib'le to be poor."
"How do you know? You aren't
poor," Gail protested.
mass'ary.
"Come out, 'please, Miss • Ormeby,'
he requested, and the girl, pale but
composed, obeyedh Purdy took her by
the arm and led her to the door.
"Gentlemen," he said, "I have plea-
sure in presenting to you the ortabor
of the day, IMiss Gail Ormsby. Miss'
Mortgages are not ao . to tar,lose
ever when. the mortange ie tpast;'dti °a
"I,s the entire cattle banal* zzi
the same'' Brush of despond ?' •
!'Flt is, 1Viiso' Orma'by-..at' least ixz
the ecnithtwest. There has beep
diowght in Texas and Ar}zona and
with short feed it has been fieceseary
to market the aged stuff at whatever
'mice it ,will bring;'there leas been''a
wild scramble to unload feeders at
�starvratiin .•panees on cattlemen in
New 'Mexico, Colorado, California and
Nevada vv'h!o have range to take care
of these. But the banks will not lend
money on Cattle 'this year and the
cattle loan Compamies'are holding all.
the cattle paper they want; they can -
nut discount it and they have to car-
ry it. Nobody seems to have any
confidence •in the business and the
market price for beef is below the
cost of production."
"Then the situation is truly des-
perate?"
("Truly. For instance, Bill Canfield
w'ho rangesnaver on the Santa Mar-
garita, is so broke he creaks when
he gets oil` hie house.. And yet a year
ago Bill could borrow fifty thousand
dollars without an indorser and with-
out colilateral. About a month ago
Bill received word from the station
agent, at Arguello that the latter was
holding for him, thirty-five dollars
C. 0. D., an express package contain-
ing a pair of fancy boots he had or-
dered before the panic from the best
tbootmaker in Kansas City.
"Now Bill needed those boots very
badly, .but he didn't liav'e a cent of
cash money to pay for them. No'bo'dy
else had any, so he couldn't borrow
on the st'ren'gth of his heart -,break-
ing story;. his notes were past due at
the 'bank, so he was out of luck there,
and when he tried selling Some sad-
dle -horses nobody would buy them.
He was about to commit suicide or
hold up a train when he happened to
recall that he had 'on hand quite -a
collection of` dry hides. Hides had
been eccuri;nulatin'g on his ranch for
years, to ,he piled them all on a
wagon and drove down to Arguello.
Dry, warped and contrary cowhides
are hard to load on a wagon and
thirty of them make a load bigger
than a jag of hay. Bill had fifty
and on his way to town he had to
trim the cargo fifty times. But still
he was happy, for in, the good olid
war days he 'ted been accustomed to
receive three dollars each for prime
h!'•des; and he brought nothing but
prime hides to town with him. ,.Sure-
ly he would be able to get a dollar
and a halrf each for them now!
"Alas- The local dealer wouldn't
even make him a bid, and rather than
take them ;back to the rand -ale saw-
ed them off on a Jew peddler who had
never dealt in hides before but was
willing to try anything once. He
paid Bill twenty-five cents per hide,
which left Bill ten dollars short of
the amount necessary to get ,his boots
out .of the express office. So Bill sat
in at a twenty-five cent limit game
•of poker and played the best •poker
he knew.
By sundown he was twelve dollars
to the good, so he cashed in and, it
being a neigthborly little game, ac-
cepted a friend's cheque far twenty-
five dollars on an Albuquerque bank,
returning thirteen dollars change.
The station agent would accept the
cheque for collection only, however,
so Bi11 sat around town until the
bank at Albuquerque wired non-pay-
ment 'because of insufficient funds.
Meanwhile the drawer of the cheque
had spent the thirteen dollars change
and the fatal telegram was the first
intimation he had that his bank
would no longer honor. a small over-
draft. Of curse he offered to secure
Bill with his horse and outfit, but
Bill had all the assets of that sort
he needed. What he wanted was
cash.
"So there he was, marooned in
Arguello, with hisold boots 'practic-
ally
p
ally gone and his remaining funds
fast disappearing. Finally it occur-
red to him to borrow the money from
our friend Chan. Of course the
thrifty little Celestial had 'it to loan
and Bill got his boots out of chan-
cery and went home, but his experi-
•erice will indicate to you the finan-
dal straits to which cowmen in these
parts have been reduced." ,
"But why didn't Bill Canfield sell
sorm•e of his cattle?" Gail queried. "It
seems such an unbelievable tale!"
"He c'ouldn"t sell a single head.
They're all 'mortgaged to the South-
west Cattle Loan Corp'orati.on, and if
Bill had sold mortgaged property
without their consent and used the
money to •huy a pair of Robots, he
would have been a felon under the
law."
"The cattle of the Box K Ranch are
mortgaged to that same loan com-
'pony, Mr. Purdy," Gail confessed.
"Don't preew' '-ourself over that,
:vfiss Ormsby. Four thousand head
of my cattle dwell under the same
plaster. I was able to held out a
thnu'sand head of aged stuff they
didn't know anything about, else they
would have insisted upon my includ-
ing that lot in their security, after
the value of cattle had so depreciat-
ed they could claim their security
had fallen below a reasonable mar -
gm of safety."
"How fortunate you • were to es-
cape that! The Box K Ranch bor-
rowed in order to ;buy more cattle,
and when the note fell due the loan
company threatened to foreclose un--
less
n-
less we gave theme additional secur-
ity. We couldn't meet the note so
we gave the additional security,"
"Oh, yes, I am! I've been broke
for a year."
"But you own a huge cattle
ranch."
"I own an equity in it," he correct-
ed, "and equities in real estate are
not comforting assets in time of na-
tional fitnameial disaster. I have to
earn money to meet my payments on
account of the 'principal of the mort-
gage, and yesterday I sent to mar-
ket three hu clred.stteers that weren't
taib4
a{,'1'.Q0 t
)900 AA
Teta te49 ° 1
g9(
gat d ebtok, n;
40eeptzn the:,lag ueI' ...
Oat the -pate waned lie yen!,
VW1 year,* T:hb pc'o09e; ilt.
was net made to the pzeeerue
mesas, eo now Abe eoariporati
if it desires, repudiate,, its' agept4'a hl
leged *Nebo Wed rnakesdean!and npOn'
you flor payment of the rte in, es4Y,
thirty .day's times otherwise • forge,
ciosuare
nre-
clas!uire 'proceedings will the institute
ed." C
Gail Ormsby gated with new in-
terest uplort the stage of La Cueeta
Encantada. "How did you as!eertai'n 1
that?" she delpnan4ed. "Ira Taodd
only wired me theft news three bays
ago, and I came here at once to see
what could be done about it." ,
t"I didn't know it, Miss Ormsby. I
,didn't even know you r tattle had
been mortgaged ,until you vo'lun(tar-
" disclosed the fact. But when you
added that Todd had acquieaeed in
their demand' for additional security,
I guessed at once the trap inito which
you had fallen. The Southwestern
Cattle Loan Corporatilon is owned by
a coterie of bankers Who in their
ordinary •banking ,affairs dislike oat-
tle ]roan for two reasons: There is
tan element hof risk to them and the
rate of interest which they dare
change is not as high as a non -bank-
ing institution can exact. Also, as
the Southwestern Cattle Loan Cor-
poration, they can do things which as
lha.nkers they wood be afraid to duo
and which, if done, would put them
put of 'business as (bankers.
"Understand me, Miss Ormsby.
Ordinarlily this loan corporaition.
would ,put i p this dirty job on you,
but nothing makes greedy or money -
loving men so Cowardly and contemp-
tible as a threatened, loss. Realiz-
ing that this very human characiter-
istic lies sleeping ,but never dead in
the Bowls of all money -lenders, I
made up my mind the moment the
post-war deflation. developed 'into an
international panic to make these
people ,shoulder their burden of risk
in so far as I was concerned;. tb
fctree them; to carry me and not sac-
•i':'fice me to their greed and timid-
ity. I think I have succeeded in do-
ing just that."
"tiI wish Ira Todd had been as
shrewd."
Purdy smiled. "Well, Ira Todd
isn" t a Yankee and I am. Todd is a
product of these wide, unsullied spac-
es, where, theoretically, men are• men
whereas rI come from Worcester,
Masrsadhuset'ta, a city giverf oven• in
the main to textile manufacturing,
close figuring, keen •bargaining, child
labor and a horizon largely Ilimdted
by factory chimneys. Life is harder,
closer, colder there. Do ame
Ira Todd for not havin been s
shrewd as ytou think I ve been. He
has been accustomed all of his life
to sealing a bargain with a hand-
shake. Where I tome from we lake
to seal it :before a notary public;' we
make a virture of being orderly and
pract6cal." •
"I greatly fear," Gail answered
sadly., "I did not meet you soon en-
ough. New, with Mr. Todd unable -
as I dare say he will be -to attend
to business for a few weeks, I -i --I
-well, it's going to be terribly em-
banras.sing.
Her voice quivered ever so slightly;
Lee Purdy glanced at her with quick
sympathy; from his ever ready hum-.
or and resourcefulness the quiet, pres-
cient little smile was born and
'liro'ught to. the girl a sense of com-
fort and safety.,
"It is ,an ill wind," he assured her,
"that doesn't blow somebody good. I
think that Chisaman will in the long
run prove to have been a divinely ap-
pointed agent, in that; by his action
in placing Ira Todd on sick report
for a month,you are given a free
hand in the management of your pro-
perty. Would you care to have me
advise you -in the absence of Ira
Todd?"
x;r
b,
'4'
'4I'm sorry arboult that, Miss Orms-
by. I had a sneaking impression
that they might learn of the thous-
and head I kept in my winter pas-
ture when 'I turned the ether stock
loose on the summer range. So I
xuwhed them to market before I
could receive a visit from the loan
company's agent. He'll :be here in a
day or two with his polite ultimatum
only to discover that the additional
security he hotpes to scare out of me
has 'be'en sold. •I shipped the last of
the lot yesterday."
"Will they then foreclose on tyre
other four thousand head? Or are
you fortunate in that your note is not
due for Some time?"
"My note is overdue but the South-
western Cattle Loan 'Corporation will
(Continued Next Week)
"Go 'easy. This hill's not safe."
"Can't slow down -the brakes are
not working."
"You don't mean to say-"
"Oh, don't get panicky, the horn
is all right."
the surviving birds in the
in the above experinsent vw s*$r,per'-!
eent., whiles that in the, pe'ne we
per cent., lit ms not f
similar �dhfferentee will neoesaef r)ly '^
ways hold but no doubt is lent auto'
the.•possi!bilityr f good product/MA lire
ung obtained.
Another factor, the innpohtenceof
which is difficult to measure; is -that
of the development of certamn dis-
eases. The fact' that' the bird's *tut '
upon wire and 'have n'a access to their
droppings undoubtedly assists iru coax: -
bating such coadilbions as worms and
cocciditeds whileh became more severe
when reinfestation through droppings .
can occur. The mortality from all'
causes was 6 per cent. less in the 'bat-
teries, in the aforementioned experi-
memt, than for the birds on the floor.
The economies of batteries versus
laying houses will not be considered
in detail since each porxltry nae,
knowing his own conditions, can as-
certain their economy or otherwise
for himself. A few facts should be
pointed out, 'howre'ver. Saving in la-
bour can be accomplished 'through
the use of batteries since one man
can attend to more 'birds than when
they are in pens. This is ,particular-
ly the case where trapneetan'g is done,
as the eggs -need only be gathered
once daily, or twice daily at the out-
side, since each bird's egg rolls 'to
the front of her sage beyond her
reach itlees automatically registering
her production. The droppings are
cleaned by the simple turning of a
Crank, which, of course, is a time-
saver in comrparison to the older
method of scraping dropping boards
and ehanrgin.g litter. Feeding will re-
quire somewhat more labour as the
troughs often do not have the ca-
pacity of large floor hoppers. In this
connection it has been found that any
good laying mash to which has been
added ground scratch grain in the
proportion of grain to. mash most
suitable (usually equal parts) makes
a satisfactory ration for egg produc-
tion in batteries. A definite •sav!ing
in space and housing is made since
at least daufble the number of birth
can be accomm e,dated on the same
floor area. These 'savings are, how-
ever, offset to a considerable extent
by the fact that insulation and heat-
ing are necessary where laying bait-
teries are used as well as by the orig-
inal cost of the battery equipment.
It should be borne in mind that the
foregoing considerations apply prin-
cipally to. the commercial egg pro-
duction enterprise. The effect of
laying batteries on fertility and
hatchability and on the general breed-
ing worth of the bards is not known
and great caution should, therefore,
be used in the 'adaptation of this
equipment to :breeding purposes un-
til this information is, available.
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Relief comes soon
with use of
Dr. CHASE'SAlMIME FOOD �
r•r
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Laying Batteries
In recent years batteries have been
introduced as a means of house laying
poultry birds. In 'order that those
tnfamiliar with their qualities may
gain an idea of the possibilities of
this type of equipment the experience
obtained alt the Central Experimental
Farm is reviewed briefly.
One of the most important contri-
butions of the laying battery is that
of separation into individual c•om-
pai tm,ent.s.. Under these conditions
'the stronger and more aggressive
birds are unable to keep more docile
individuals from the troughs since
each bird has its' own supply o'f feed.
Thus, birds which under ordinary pen
conditions would be able to get only
a minimum of feed, are enabled to
eat their fill and will usually be found
to lay accordingly. Under pen con-
ditions the fame of many of these birde
is lowered' condition and vitality,
through lack of food, and the har-
raverin,g from 'their pen -mates result-
ing in long 'period's without produc-
tion. Death by cannibalism or from
disease con'd'itions, rto which their low-
ered vitality has made them subject,
is very often the final result. It is
worthy of particular note that deaths
from cannibalism art. impossible in
Paying batteries.. The effect of the
above conditions is well evidenced by
the fact that a variability in egg pro-
duction of 14.8 per cent. was experi-
enced in batteries in one test, where-
as that of a comparable lot of birds
in pens was 26.8 per cent. Without
doubt a great deal of this. improve-
ment was due to the removal of the
n'e'cessity for competition in feed con-
sumption with resulting greater pro-
duction from the more timid birds
That excellent produ!etion can be eb-
taine,d in batteries is shown by the
fact that the average production of
London and Wingham.
South
Wingham
Belgrave
Blyth
Lnndesboro
Clinton
Brucefield
Kippen
Hensall
Exeter
Exeter
Hensall
Kippen
Brucefield
Clinton
Lnndesboro
Blyth
Belgrave
W ingham
North
P.M.
1.55
2.11
2.23
2.30
3.08
3.27
3.35
3.41
3.55
A.M.
10.42
10.55
r•, 11.01
11.09
11.54
12.10
12.19
12.30
12.50
C.N.R. Time Table
East
Goderich
Clinton
Seaforth
Dublin
Mitchell
Dublin
Seaforth
Clinton
Goderich
West
A.M.
6.45
7.08
7.22
'7.33
7.42
11.19
11.34
11.50
12.10
C.P.R. Time Table
East
Goderich
lvrenset
McGaw
Auburn
Blyth
Walton
YeNeught
Toronto
' West
Toronto
McNaught
Walton
Blyth
Auburn
McGaw
Memset
Goderich
P.M.
2.30
3.00
3.18
8.31
3.43
9.44
9.57
10.11
10.37
A.M.
5.50
5.55
6.04
6.11
6.25
6.40
6.52
10.26
1A0.
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