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The Seaforth News, 1931-03-05, Page 6hc gringo Privatccr By PETER B. KYNE By PETER B. KYNE _! laminating message from Dan Wil - CHAPTER XXXIV. you'd have found 'em gone. I got a kips: "The old fox," Burney decided. "As' wire yesterday fronn Jim Cheesebrough I After selling my entire herd of fie - soon as I cleaned up El Cajon Bonita over to Umatilla, Washington, makir,' I teen thousand cattle to Kenneth. Sur- fer him he decided to come back -tot me an offer I sure found hard to re- ney, manager of your El Ranchito di - San .Francisco. I'll bet a small five gist.. I'd hese closed if I hadn't prom • I vision, I find that the contract I sign - cent bag of cigae'ette tobacco be is ised you I'd hold off. Of course I've! ed has been signed by him personally HeSanta Inez had plenty 0' buyers to see me sines and not by the Bardin Land & Cattle now the rowner of the work the news.leaI'med : out, that I'gofer Compar..y by him as your legal repre• Rancho. - badlye wanhe toas descendego tod d for him so he has t. out o' business, butmost of 'em are, sentative. Is this 0.10'I suppose it the double-cross. I'll give him a few usin' clam shells an' woodpecker heads' was merely an oversight, because he for money, whilst them that has the! gave me a cashier's cheque for fifty very ineo his uncomfortable minutes for this." tonewant - sortrthetops' , thousand dollar'. ,and the contract, Froin hotel he wrote Bradley l y to out an Bardin as follows: leaveInc the culls to work off or' which is very lair, gives me a lien en somebody else. the cattle until they are paid for. Bardin: "Then,too,they 'Please advise if deal is C.K. and that Dear lire et dm: only l wantedefivehuh- authority to repee- , returning to California I died or a thousand, all feeders, an' if Burney has legal a y P. learn that your chief • counsel, lfi'. sent you. George. F. Borthwick, has purehated "Har!" roared the king. "Harr the Santa Inez Rancho from my Har! Har! So the young fox has father. Fortunately he paid all the hung one on old Dan Wilkins! He's ranch is worth.buyer, but I only know of_two Coast got the .serve of a iron -tanner!' In viiw of the fact that it is now buyers big enough to handle such a (To be continued,) impossible for ane to accept the finan- deal. Jim Cheesebrough is one an' What New York laid the other on flan Wilkin's desk -t He had timed this action, delaying it' until the cook had rung the bell for luncheon. "Leta eat," he suggested heartily. "I've worked up an appetite arguing 1 with you." As soon as luncheon was (over Dan Wilkins motored Burne;; into town, where the latter caught a train and went south. When the king came down to his office the day after hie arrival home, he found on his desk tis strangely ih• I sell nay feeders I won't have nothin' left to sweeten a deal for workin' off the aged stock. If I can work it I'd prefer to sell the whole outfit to one dial aid you agreed to furrash me in Brad Berdin's the other." return for services rendered, you will Ken Purney nodded sagely. "Have please accept this letter as a 'lefinite you heard from our main office as yet, and irrevocable declination of your Mr. Wilkins?" offer an 3 of all- rights. even the most "Had a wire this morning asking intangible, sought by you to be con- me to telegraph complete description BY ANNABELLE WORTHINGTON eyed under that offer. Indeed, upon of the herd an' the price at which I'ni thinking over she events of the past holdin' it." Illustrated Dressmaking Lesson Fur - thirty days I am moved to the conclu- sion that the services I rendered you were so trifling as to be out of all proportion to the generous offer you made me. Moreover, the sale of my father's ranch now makes available to me more than sufficient capital to in- eure the successful and profitable Is Wearing "Have you replied to that tele- nished bvlth Every Pattern• grain?" "Yep. Wired 'em I wou,dn't sell lentil their representative showed up here." Immediately Burney adroitly switch- ed the eoneersation. Thereafter he talked of Dan Wilkins and the latter's consummation of my most cherishes' interests rather than his own or those plans. of the Bardin Land & Cattle Company, Please, therefore, accept a hundre1 Two. days sufficed Burney to dis- tend fifty thousand acres of the beet eovsr that Wilkins' cattle were good range land in the country, ten thou- and sound—mostly Hereford grades sand head of cattle and a private and coneioerabdy above the average ceteterl• with the compliments of, :n point ct excellence and condition. Yours very sincerely, • _vi he returned to the ranch and come KENNETI•I BURNEY. *nerved his- trade an the following_• That letter, with other mail n uIe+attcns, delivered to King Bailin by an h_ .•a:.lc sere not to be delivered lion, shortly after the king and entil one 'pear from date, Barney ex- princess had returned to their eine Plaining that. since tI-e buyers of Wil - Francisco home. Having real 'file kins' ranch had given the latter one king, Minded it to his daughter "Reed -emir in which to remove has cattle, it;' he said, "and seep:' Wilkins could have no- possible objec- "He's even more astute then I ere- tains to pel pitting the purehaser of diced him with being," the 2 r 1 ` cattle the benefit of the use of the remarked casually. "And e'en mere anrh. gratis. To this Wilkins readily prideful and magnifcent." agreed. "I'm glad, after all, that yeti .;ere. Upon round -up and delivery of the rot born a boy" cattle they were to be classed by Wit - "Why?" • s king and Burney; the tally at thee of "Because I am :caved the gin' to i' elivery should of course govern, and of having to take you over r ,,r..s!ait calves. now running at their and warm you with the flat o; my mothers sides were to go free with land for selling arae that perfectly the trade. This being the universal loony idea." custom among old -tinge eattiemen, "But, darling, he can't prove -You Wilkins agreed. are the real owner of that ranch." Wilkins was to continue at the "He doesn't have to," the old man =ranch in charge of the herd, at a sal - roared. "He knows it! That's Why ary of :ire hundred dollars a month; with the super -courtesy 0f his infernal he was to retain his riders but Bur- Hidalgo blood, he has made me feei r•ey was to furnish the payroll. Wil - like a dirty deuce i.1 a clean peek. -3h, Lord, I'm suffering! And I can as: square myself with him now. I know that young man. He's imp's -- kips was to furnish saddle stock with- out charge save for forage and other necessary expenses, and the herd was to receive, under Dan Wilkins' ad - able. He wouldn't work for me flea ininietratirn, the same scare as if he for anything. And did you noeiee that still owned it. Burney explained that this latter provision was necessary to insure the tell you, and it's all your fault, and I trade; there had been considerable wish I could find a hole to crawl int, drought throughout the Southwest and and. tben drag the hole in after me. the rainfall in California had been be - The longest day I live I'll owe Lae lew normal, hence if be moved the Burney a debt I can never repay i,c- Wilkins' Y.erd immediately, the prob- eaese he will not permit the pay '-ern- of finding range for such a urge nlent; the idea of your falling in ?avr.- mambo,. of Battle or short notice would with such a pian when he, neve, ,ver, Prove embarrassing. gave you a tumble!" --- "Yes, he did, Pop," the pint ^:_ CHAPTER XXXV. replied cheeeful`,y, "but you diir no- The ereiincinaries having been die• tire it. Oh, boy, what that sweet thin* posed of, they now locked horns on the can say with his eyes!?She dv^ncr'7 uljert cf price far each class of cat-. upcn her -father, sitting iomple Pay tic Burney had already wormed cut crushed, in his favorite ermeha c, gip- cf lii3kiri< the best price the latter he didn't even send .lis compliments to you? He's off the whole fancily. 1 Pea his ample nose in thumb and fore- had been •+fl'ered to date and promptly finger and tilted his face up to hers. "Now I'll tell you why I sold you the offered one dollar a head more] idea;that it would be a brilliant tree., etraigh tr through, Wilkins demanded in exxtra donee; whereupon the two cf strategy for you to buy his f Mer .hook canthi, and the deal was closed. ranch. I did it because the sale wore Having settled the matter of price, put him in funds. I concluded he had n Burr,c•y now approaehed a task of deal on su new..ere or he would i _421 great finesse, to wit, the terms of pay- aave left us in uch a hurry. mcnt. He suggested fifty thousand "well, 1 preferred to see him Pad- dollare down payment upon the sign - dale his awn canoe. I wanted to urs- ing of the contract, and two hundred caeca. weethei pard. ued he coulee se- thousands dollars in six menthe, two sure the capital el e ':.'re, he wsald hundred and fifty thousand dollars in not tea it your aid. I knew he'd feel nine months and the remainder upon bettor if he could reject it and so delivery of the cattle Deferred pay, would I. I do not worry about him. menta were to bear site per cent. in - Any man as emart as Ken Buine.r' teeeae could run a leather shoostri,lg into a He so(lte of the tightness of the tannery before one could say Jack money market, of other plans which Robinson. He's not a fortune hunter required huge outlays of cash, of the and he has tee much pride 10 ask any desirability of a sound six per cent, woman to marry him until he can offer investment for the money derived her a home, three square meals per from the sale, in the event Wilkins diem for an indefinite number of diems had no other investment plans, and and sufficient creature comforts to pointed out that with the deferred please any woman not a gold-digger. payments secured by the cattle the "So, Xing Bardin, if you want ncy deal could not possibly be bettered. opinion, he's off to a running start, Dan Wilkins would have preferred and this letter proves it!" better terms and said so, but Burney Having planted his barb in the out -talked him, out -reasoned him and king's heart, Ken Burney departed via out -gamed him, with the result that the air mail plane to Oregon, took a old Dan only haggled twenty -foam local train down to Harney and hired hours and then signed the contract a ear to take him out to Dan Wilkins' which Burney instantly produced for ranch, "Well, Mr. Wilkins," he said, his inspection. When he had signed, after introducing himself, "I'm here Burney handed ' im a cashier's cheque within the two-week period I stated, ea I assume you still have your cattle on handl" "Yes, but if you'd been a day later ISSUE No. 8—'31 for fifty thousand dollars, made pay- able to Kenneth Burney and endorsed by the latex; and while Dan Wilkins was studying the cheque, Burney signed both copies of the contract, folded them, put one in his pocket and 2930 Little slaughter will love this model with such a grown-up air. It buttons down the back—quite the tewest idea of Paris in. the elder mode. The pointed outline through the hips is modish. And you'll be startled to learn how easily it is made. Merely a two-piece circular skirt to be seamed and joined to the bodice. Style No. 2930 may be had in sizes 8,10,12 and 14 years. Size 8 requires 2 yards .of 39 -inch material with ei yard of 39 -inch contrasting, It adapts itself beautifully to wool jersey, supple tweed, wool challis prints, wool crepe, rayon novelties and the heavier weight cottons and linen. HOW TO ORDER PATTERNS Write your name and address plain- ly, giving number and size of such patterns as you want, Enclose 20c in stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap it carefully) for each number, and address your order to Wilson Pattern Service, 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Finding the Right Road (Translated for the Christian Science Monitor.) Father and son walked jointly through field and bush one day; Having strayed far by nightfall, they lost their homeward way. The son looked hard at ;,very rock, at every tree, Hoping in each a guiding sign to see. The father meanwhile upward raisd to the stare his eyes, As if the earth's direction be would find in the skies. Silent remained the rocks; the trees helped not a mite; The stars, however, pointed with a ray Of light. Homeward' they led the wanderers who had discerned, That only in heaven can wisdom for earthly need be learned. Preidrich Ruckert, in "Lyric Poetry" HONKI HONK! Driver—"I wasn't going forty miles an hour, nor thirty, nor even twenty.' Judge—"Here, steady now, or you'll be backing into something]' —Rani I mer -Jammer. The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than oth ere.—La Reehefoucaul•d. When Shakespeare .acted It is an autumn afternoon in 1508, and groups of Lonio.Iors matte their way down fo the river. "Southward be!" they cry, and little row -boats dash up and take them across the Thames to Paris Garden Stairs. The yellow Rag over the Globe waves in vltingly and everyone makes his way to the theatre. , . Two galleries run around the in side of the building and look crown upon the stage, whieh projects Tato the pit. There is no roof over the pit, and the yellow flag flaps noisily above the tradesmen and picltpoeltets Only, the stege and the galleries are sheltered from the weather by a nar- row roof of thatch. Wooden pillars, painted tc imitate narea), and car• vealwith masks and satyrs' ?reads, support the galleries A green cur- tain hangs across the stage. 'rhe pit' is almost' full. Everyone is talking in a loud voice: Shakespeare himself is t0 act this afternoon in a new comedy, the scene of which :s laid in Rome, "Not Rome," says some one, authoritatively, "but Lon- don," and some one else has heard that Venice Is the place. Docs any - 008 know whose play it is? Some. new person has written it, some shops peeper or something, ,whom Shake- speare -has picked up... . Hawkers oe gingerbread and pears offer their wares in loud raucous odes, tossing pieces of cake and fruit up into the galleries and catching the pennies. A.bugle blows, but no. 0113 pays any attention to it. A second blast is heard. The conversation continues loudly. A third blast is blown, and loon. The noise lessens somewhat, but a buzz continues. A handsome actor, drowned with a wreath of bay leaves, steps in front of the curtain. He holds up a placard. bearing the title of the play—"Every Man in His Humour," it says. He speaks the prologue, and everyone begins to listen. This will be a comedy of modern London, he says. No silly romance, no supernatural events, no battles. He hopes the audience will be kind. He bows and withdraws. The audience seems disappointed. They talk loudly again. No ship- wrecks, no battles, no love -making? They shan't be backward about de- manding their money. Suddenly the earthen Is pulled back end the play begins. The behaviour of the audience that afternoon was •lightly out of the ordinary. Since the play is a comedy, they laugh. But the laughter does not conte as usual, in boisterous roar- ing gusts. 1t is less raucous, but continuous. Almost every line that the actors speak contains some Lon- don expression that everyone has used since childhood. The expres- sions are satirized. They sewn rid)• culous. Everyone in the audience laughs at himself and thinks he laughs at his friends.. As the curtain is drawn after each act, the applause is tremendous, and atter Shakespeare has spoken the epilougue, the pit bursts into loud cheers.—Byron Steel, in "0 Rare Be • Jonson." Scientist Reveals Metal As Element Rich in body and delicate as blossoms in its flavour TEA 'Fresh front the gardens' been promised. a C.B. (a decoration) .—and I shall deserve it: Following one of the last big drives of the Boer War which necessltated Kltcheuer',r absence fr'ot) his 'need• euneters, a telegram was brought to. him at the 11058 where he was din. ing. He read it in silence andpassed it round the table. Everybody ex- aecied to read i.Iomentous news. This was the massage: "Your Bloody Bird~ ill. Staff in tears. Return at once. "MAXWELL. ENTHUSIASM ' The great thing in life is to keep up full enthusiasm always, for every- thing we undertake .to do, and do it right heartily, and never in a half - 0 coni life by Kipling and Kitchener In an old bundle of papers unearth- ed by General C. R. Ballard --author of an extremely well done "Life" of Kitchener, the soldier — he carte had written home when a schoolboy across a letter which he (Ballad) at Westward I -lo, describing a school rag." One sentence ran: "•Gigger' Kipling is • a fellow who thinks a good deal of himself be -1 cause he is in the Fifth Form and sub -editor of the School Chronicle." It is amusing to remember (chuck- les the general) that we called him (Rudyard 'Kipling) "Gigger" because he was the only boy out of 200 who wore spectacles. * ,M t, An,ither of General Ballard's schoolmates at Westward Howas Washington.—Another mystery of science has been cleared up by a scientific "detective," who has identi- fied and "fingerprinted" a new metal. The metal is rhenium, first isolated two years ago by two German scien- tists. The "detective" is Dr. W.. F. Meggers, of the Bureau of Standards. He has obtained the first complete "spectrum" of the new metal. It gives, he says, the Heat definite confirmation that rhenium is an els- ment, one of the ninety-two sub- stances like oxygen or gold that can- not be subdivided into other sub- stances. Rhenium in pure form is a black powder like lampblack. Dr. Aleggers. has a pinch of it weighing about one - twenty -eighth of an ounce in a tiny glass tube, which is practically the whole supply in the United States. Rhenium has no known uses, but may find application in the electrical and metallurgical industries because it will not melt until Heated to about 4,500 degrees Fahrenheit, At present rhenium is rarer than radium, and it constitutes about one part in a million in the earth's crust. Dr. Meggers did his detective work by analyzing the light given off by rhenium. He sprinkled :some of the metal on a special aro light. The rays from this arc were reflected front a mirror and a metal plate, so that they broke up and focused on photographic films. - There they registered the spectrum "lines" of the metal. fie These lines differ from fingerprints elem- ent, just as the of everYa human. They can be used to detect h the presence of rhenium in other sub- stances. e About 2,000 new lines were pro- duced on the plate when the light a from rhenium 'was photographed, dif- fering from the line's produced bec any other elen ent. These form rhenium's "fingerprint" record, 1' "I think this scenery is heavenly, "Um, I dont know. Take away the mountable and the lake and it is iaet like anywhere else."—Lustige IZoe iter Weitnug. isa I hearted way, nor to ]u g Frank Maxwell; who also became a noted soldier—winning; the Victoria,' in the Boer War and the Ina - Cron mate friendship of Kitchener (a rare honor, indeed) whose A, D. C. he was ; The conceptionFREEDof OMm.an's freedom fora time. And thereby hangs this as ethical and spiritual, as resting tale: upon the infinite wreath of human Per - Kitchener, who was very fond of sonality, and its direct relation with birds. had a pet • starling known as the "Bloody Bird" -because of its terrible condition, "a wisbwelled mass of blood and•feathers," when rescued by the great soldier on the field of battle, during the Boer War. After it had recovered from its ins juries, the starling became a promi- nent member of the headquarters mess, with Maxwell in charge of its welfare on order from Kitchener. .veil would get up from present 'moods or depressions, .for they will pass away. table during dinner and say: "Excuse me while I see whether the Bloody Bird has had its dinner; if the beast can be kept alive I have the Divine Personality, has been the direct source of all that is noblest in modern civilization. "Dearest Annabelle,' wrote Oswald, who was hopelessly in love. "I could swim the mighty ocean for one glance I from your dear eyes. I would walk .through a wall of flame for one touch of your little hands. I would leap the widest stream for word from your lovely lips. As always, your Oswald. 1 P.S: I'll be over Saturday night,if it doesn't rain."—Royal Arcanum Bul- letin. II!t athicker anasw etc syrup buy B MU S GM EN E'D A W BULVe:}J The CANADA STARCH CO., Limited 'MONTREAL A8 u -'S 7eeiire Xleen011.. Yeeeliieeee k'Clle a n, For Ft H E Ti SM Prompt relief from—HEADACHES LUMBAGO, COLDS . . SORE THROAT . RHEUMATISM NEURITIS . NEURALGIA. . . . . ACHES and PAINS ' TaI Iet-s ASPIC", MADEIt;CANADA Does not harm the heart SPIRI TRADE -MARK REGa Aga ,t only "Aspirin" package which contains proven direction. nand*•.Aspirin , boxes of 12 tablets. Also bottles of 24 and 100 -All druggist%: Made In aanada Fore! "Fore!" The cry rings do,, 1 the . fairway. . Golfers gay in plaid Plus - urs and screaming sports eiveatei's pause in their play' to watch the• drieer and to beware of the .course of the wee white ba'. The ball may go whizzing past them or it may merely dribble a few yards from the tee, after a flubbed shot, but an old Scottish custom has been observed, The origin of "Fore!" le veiled in antiquity. leo satisfactory explana- tion can be found as to the time and method of its entrance as an accept- er] expression In " "the Royal and Ancient Game oe Goff," which receiv- ed Ito first notice as a troublemaker in the Scotland of 1457. "Fore!" is defined in Jamison's Scottish Diction- ary, published in. 1820, as "a cry of golflers to poisons standing or moving in' -the way of tllo ball.' Prob- ably, according to present-day author ities, the ' word began as "Before!" and, with proper Scottish regard' for, economy, was shortened to its present form. "Fore!" is a common golf term which has, it seems, no legitimate standing, .but there are otherex- pressions in, the golfer's vocabulary, which are legal but seldom :heard. Among these are "eclaff" (to _ strike' the ground back of the ball before hitting • it), "scruff (to cut through the roots of the grass' In playing the ball) and "bate' (to strike the ground with the oinb when playing, and so to loft the ball unduly). "Old` Col- onel Bogey," a "cop" " (the top of a bunker) and "gobble' (the nose or toe • of the club) are odd names intellgi- bie only to golfers. "Fore!" is, as compared with the ogles used in other sports, a noble, dignified expression. The person who uses it is poised, majestic, com- manding in his aspect toward others and himself. He Is lord of all he surveys, especially of the terrain be- fore hint, as he prepares to punish the ball on the tee. He is serving notice that persons 200 or 310 yards in front may soon see a flash of white speed pass them, and—be it on his own head if some one ge:s in the way! Of course, in many cases the 017 is entirely unnecessary. Less dignified and more hurried are the warning cries in other sports. A foul fly in a baseball game calls for "Heads up!" or "Over your bead!" as signals for players to get ready to make the catch, and for non - players to beware the wandering ball. The shout "Pass!" in football warns the defensive. eleven to be on guard against a forward. "Cover up!" is heard on the basketball floor as the side which has just lost possession of the ball warns'its players to guard each his particular opponent. In a tennis game of doubles partner cells to partneh, when certain positions ai'e to be taken, with "Back!" oe "Up!" or even "Watch your alley!" Oddly enough—and yet in keeping with the reputation humorists give to the game—golf is said to be re- sponsible for the expression "get- ting into a scrape." ''There is a game called golf," says a writer of a century or more ago, "almost peculiar to Scotland ... played on downs (or links) near the sea, where there is an abundance of rabbits. One of the troubles of the golf -player is the little hole which the rabbit makes in the sward in its first efforts at a burrow; this is commonly canal a 'rabbit's scrape,' or simply a 'serape' When the ball gets into -a scrape it Can scarcely be played.... Here, and here. alone, has the phrase a direct and intelligible meaning. It seems, therefore, allowable to surmise that this phrase has originated amoug the golfing societies in the north and ill time spread to the rest of the public." Pick the Good Ones This is the time of the year when the value of trapnest records for liens has its greatest value. In select- ing birds for breeding pens George Robertson, Poultry Husbandman at the Central Experimental Farm, Ot- tawa, advises that vigour is the out- standing qualification to watch for In hens. The birds which Pay nowa- days are only those having sufficient stamina to stand up to heavy egg production, Size, body -team, volume and size of eggs are important. Tho trapnest record is a useful guide in the )election. of birds of the right type. Equal care should be talcen in the selection of the male bird, which should be strong and vigorous and preferably the progeny of a darn of proven production ability. He- ehould be selected carefully for quality, and if he is the right typo he will loop it. SILENCE WITH A KICK. "Every time my wife hears a noise, at night she thinks it's burglars and wakes me up." "But burglars don't make any noise'.' "So I told her, So 1.10W she walces me up when she doesn't hear any- thing!"—Bystander (London). Prize Stepfather. ilIiummy, do you love me?" "01 coarse," "Then why notdivorce daddy and marry the man at the sweatshop?" — Der Lustige Sachse (Leipzig). • Customer: "I have spoilt my suit with your fresh paint." Grocer: "But didn't yon see the notice, 'Fresh paint'?" Customer: "Yes, but I didn't take muck notice. Yob have a notice, 'Fresh eggs.' "