Zurich Herald, 1930-10-09, Page 2The gringo Privateer
By PETER B. KYNE
SYNOPSIS.
Kenneth Burney, adventurer and ono-
tinie gentleman, comes to Bradley Bar -
din, king of the cattle country, for a job.
Burneyhas had a fight wi1.h Martin
Bruce,a rival cattle owner who has been
stealing the king's stock, aided by Mig-
uel Gallegos, a Mexican bandit. The
king, liking Young Burney's style, offers
him the job of getting the battle -thieves.
Burney accepts, though he knows it
means a fight to the death. lie meets
141uriea,, the king's beautiful daughter.
Muriel, who is more interested than she
cares to admit, tries to persuade her
father not to let Burney tackle the cattle
thieves. The king decides to test Gur-
ney's courage by making him ride Gero-
nimn, the toughest broncho on the ranch.
Burney passes the test with flying colors
but his independence arouses the W. g's
ire.
CHAPTER IX.—(Cont'd.)
Graydon favored hint with a grate-
ful glance .and a deprecatory smile.
"I'm willing, boss. I'd 'a' been willin'
any time since I turned the fifty post.
Who're you going to put in my pace
—if that's any o' my business?"
"You're salary is raised five thou-
sand a year, Art -forgot to mention
that—and Smokey takes your place.
I don't like the name Smokey. It fits
his complexion, but he isn't the sort
of man to labor along under a familiar
nickname. Hereafter his name is Mr.
Kenneth Burney."
Art Graydon was amazed. "How
long have you known this,boy, boss?
Somehow, I got the idea you never met
him before last•night." "He says he's a clanged sight more im- there from his shoulder, then waited
"Which you're I'm just layingra hunchight, as sual, Art.
thathe'll portant to thee than thy ridin' job is uiitil'the otter barber, having washed
J p to him, that thee know it, an'to quit Martin Bruces ruddy face and pow -
do•" botherih' hint until' he can untangle dered it, tilted him. upright in his
"Well, he's got sand an' he can ride his lights from his livers. Personally, chair and asked hint what, if. any -
an' rope -with the best. If he knows
77boss, I think he aches all over." ( thing, he would have on his head. And
at that moment Ken Burney spoke.
"Good morning, Mr. Bruce."
Martin Bruce jerked his head'in the
direction of the voice; then,. with an
alertness one would never have sus-
pected in a lean as old and bulky as
h.: leaped out of the chair end reached
under the clinging barber's apron for
his artillery. But the hand did not
come out, for the very excellent rea-
son that he saw Burney had him cov-
ered --and the enveloping barber's
apron had Bruce at a distinct disad-
vantage..
(To be continued.)
1
my job. Toln'll be right disapp'inted.'
"At the present time the job is too
big for him. After Ken Burney has
ironed out the situation Tom can
handle it, but not until then. You tell
Tom to keep his nose clean and he'll
get ahead in the world ,a whole lot
faster."
•
was HttaChita, a 'straggling .adobe g S> it a Hunting •
municipality that squatted ' ethwar t
the boundary between New Mexiy o WOAC19$ Best Thrill
and Mexico. At the barber shop .in
the International Hotel leen Berady
secured his much-needed haircut and Noted Traveller. Gives Graphic
shave, and while he lay in the chair,
tiled owner bf the Triangle B ranch, Hunt
Account of Python -
being shaved, Martin Bruce, the •griz-
CHAPTER :i.
A Half-hour passed. "The new gen-
eral manager is taking his time about
reporting to me," said the,king pre-
sently. "He'll have to learn to report
on the jump when I send for him, so
we might jut as well start his educa-
tion here and now."
He called up the bunkhouse again.
"Bledsoe, I sent word half an hour
ago, through you, for that new man,
Smokey, to report to me. Has he
started? . , . No. Why not? . • Hm-
m-m!• Says he gave the day to me
free gratis but the night belongs to
him , . . The pup! Tell him if he
isn't over here in ten minutes to look
for a riding job somewhere else to-
morrow morning. Deliver that mes-
sage now. I'll wait on the line for
his answer."
Two minutes passed. Then Tom
Bledsoe carie on the wire again. "He
says he never allows no roan to
threaten him, boss," Bledsoe reported.
entered and slipped into the adjoining Orchard hunting is my job, but
chair, Burney, his face covered with,
ith when, by way of a change, I stared
lather, had fallen into a doze and not oil a five -months' tour of prospeeting
until.. Brutes rough voice, 'ordering a and ,exploring among Borneo's hills
close shave,. reached him,. Was, 'me
and valleys, rivers and jungles, I tris
aware of the proximity of his enemy covered about the most thrilling sport
"Didn't recognize lee with riding in the world: the sport of python-
breecbrows," the young
hes on and soap up to my, eye- hunting as indulged in by a tribe
roan reflected. When called the Dusuns,
the barber :turned his head sideways, To the Dusuns python flesh is a
Burney saw that Martin Bruce' had delicious dainty. They are g':eat py-
closed his eyes as the barber coin -thou eaters. Tt astonished me tq see
fenced ecided.face; genre the hew eagerly they will penetrate deep
former decided that the danger of !re- into these darkened, dank, snake-
ing seen and recognized by`Bruce was infested.forests.
negligible. "Burney would be •shaved
first arid but of 'his allele while'Bruce's The Dusun python -hunting was a
barber still scraped away at' the old ease of putting the shoe on the other
cattleman's three -week's' -old growth of foot. I have seen a great many snakes
beard. of all varieties in my time, and my
"Once over," he •whispered to his chief recollection is the agility dis-
barber. "I'M in .a hurry and I•don't played by man in leaping out of their
want a close shave." way.. A hissing serpent, coiled to
When the barber tipped.hiin'out of strike, is one of the ugliest things—
the chair he went at' once'to••the end and the cold touch of its live, slither-
of the shop to arrange his - necktie, in ing scales, is a sensation , to . fake
order to avoid the hazard of Martin Your scalp creep.... But my Dusuns
Bruce opening his eyes and seeing, in up a python -tree were as sporty and
the mirror in front of hien; the reflec- .nconcerned as re American on a Scot -
tion of his youthful enemy standing tisk grouse -moor.
just behind him. When he was 'ready Armee only. with his beloved par -
for the street Burney sat down and ang, the Dusan wades into the old Py -
lit a cigarette thon so heartily that the tables are
"I thought yen was in a hurry, completely turned .and it's the big
the barber commented. snake that urgently wants to get
"Not, now," Mi. Burney replied away, hissing like a locomotive,' his
Softly. "A little later—perhaps." ugly, yellow jaws agape.
' He reached in under the left front I embarked for a trip up the Python
of his light wh:-rcord coat. and ,eased River with a fleet of six dugouts and
his pistol in the holster that hung twelve Dusun bearers,., who were evi-
uently looking forward gleefully to a
big bag of toothsome python.
We had passed the last of the clear-
ings when we camped for the night,
and on the following day ;he jungle
of the real python -country swallowed
us. It was here that we glided into
the region of perpetual twilight. Our
laden dug -outs entered a tortuous,
silent tunnel whose leaning walls and
low -hanging roof were the interlocked
boughs and branches and leaves and
tendrils of trees that crowded either
bank; only the slenderest darts of
sunshine shot slantwise through the
interstices.
The little Dusun boatmen quivered
with excitment, paddling stealthily
with hardly a ripple on thesurface of
the water. They were watching the
overhanging branches and still fol-
iage, heads flung back, their dilated
eyes ringed with white. All day they
had .talked snake, and I believe those
python -eaters dream snake aP night.
And now the fun was to begin.
Naturally myeyes were uneasily.
ranging among the thick, overhanging
foliage, which seemed much too life-
less to be true, I could see nothing
but scarred, yellowish bark and green
leaves. Nature has so cunningly cant-
ouflaged the pythons cldn that it seems
to assimilate its leafy surroundings—
to vision less acute than the roving
eyes of the snake -hunters.
The dug -out stopped. The Dusun
in the stern shipped his paddle, but he
had never taken his eyes off the
branches overhet:d,• He flung up an
arm, pointing.
"Ula!" he yelled. "Ula!"
Ula! Snake!
The boatman grabbed a law branch
and swung himself up into the tree.
Getting astride of a gnarled branch,
he began to work his way outwards
towards the. middle of the stream,
drawing his parang.
There was an instant upheaval in
the densely -clustered leaves and
twin -
in tendrils. Terrifically,the foliage
woke to life, and a ten -foot python's
long, flat head reared up, the big yel-
low mouth agape, hissing, the nighty
coils slithering and writhing.
The little Dusun lashed out with his
parang, three blows in less than a
second 'of time, I never saw a cat
strike quicker. And (very blow went
straight to the nark—thud! thud!
thud!
The big snake's head jerked sides
ways, oddly like a boxer who had been
.,socked en the jaw, and the full length
of his ,,sinuous coils went: mad. De-
spite liis feel -smile appearance and
.great size it was clear that he didn't
"I don't give a hoot if he doesn't
know a cow from a sheep. We've got
old Martin Bruce to the north of us
and Miguel Gallegos to the south of
us and at least Burney knows that.
Ice's got to get rid of those two
hombres in order t hold his job. He
can't manage El Ranchito for me and
operate in red ink, and he realizes he
can never operate very deeply in blue
ink while those two skunks continue
to annoy us. By making him general
manager I automatically hand him a
problem he's got to solve •or quit.. The
job's worth fighting for, isn't it?"
Graydon nodded. "But, boss," he
protested, "if he's a professional lciller,
why don't you just pay him for both
jobs, after you're sure he's done them,
and let him go? What's the sense
=akin' a killer your general man-
• ager?"
"We had a nice little rodeo today,
didn't we?" said the king.
But Graydon was not to be side-
, tracked so easily. "Well, I reckon you
can pay for your pleasures," he began,
but the king, with a winning smile,
interrupted
"How about a little sustenance, Art?
One drink to the new assistant to the
president and another to my new gen-
eral manager of El Ranchito I"
Art Graydon subsided, for he knew
that when the king had exhausted a
subject he dropped it as if it burned
him."
"By the way," the king continued,
"where is my new general manager?"
"In the bunkhouse, I s'pose, sir."
The various department of El Ran-
chito were connected by telephone. The
king, therefore, rang up :the bunk-
house and got Toni Bledsoe, the riding
bass, on •the- phone. "Tell that new
man, Smokey, to report to ire at my
house iin'niediately," he ordered.
"You'd better take him in hand, to-
morrow, Art," the king suggested, as
he resumed bis seat: "Tell him how
you're running the ranch, explain
your system to him, show him the map
of El Ranchito and ride over the range
with him and show him the boundar-
ies. Put him on to ale the details of
your job for about two weeks. After
you're gone he can continu'e to absorb
information from the riding boss, Tom
Bledsoe."
"I don't know as Tom's liable to be
very communicative, boss, He's in line
for promotion an' he's always had a
hunch that whe:i I ,:anoiied on -Heid get
"Tell him he's fired for • impertin-
ence and insubordination," the king
roared, and hung up.
"Welt," said Art Graydon, "you
hired him over niy head, boss, so it's
just as well you fired hint, too."
"Don't,get peeved, Art," His Majes-
ty implored, for he knew that Gray-,
don was jealous of his prerogatives
as general manager. "It's the general
manager's privilege to hire and fire
his inferiors, but it's the presidentee
privilege to hire and flee the general
managers."
"A general manager ain't got no
right to sass the boss."
"I'm not so certain of that, Art. It
just happens that I' never been sassed
heretofore by a general manager.
Somehow, I find the experience .exhil-
arating. Must a plan crawl on his
hands and knees just tie hold down one
of my jobs? I don't blame him for
being peevish. )'d have felt outraged,
too, if he'd forced pie to wait .as long
for the gun as I forced him this morn-
ing. 'Time certainly does drag when
a fellow's giving an exhibition ride on
old Geronimo !"
Art Graydon knew better than to
argue with the king. "Well, then, I
reckon you won't be promoting me for
a while yet," he suggested.
"Oh, yes. My program stands. Ken
Burney will be the general nanager
tomorrow morning just the same. I've
just fired Lim from his riding job."
"Oh, Bradley Bardin, you darling!"
a voice cried ecstatically, and the king
suddenly found himself being embrac-
ed and kissed by his sole heir.
"You been spying on you old pian,"
he charged.
"Keep quiet—you! And you're go-
ing to take him!' out of that awful
bunkhouse, darling?"
"Of course, of courge. Art, tomor-
row morning you move the sulky pup
into decent quarters!"
Graydon promised and shortly
thereafter took his departure. At
eight o'clock next morning he tele-
phoned the king`" "Smokenes gone,"
he announced.
"Gone. Gone where?"
"Nobody knows. Tom Bledsoe says
his bed was empty when the outfit
rolled out this morning] his stock
ain't in the corral, so it sort o' looks
as if your new general manager just
naturally saddled up an' drifted on
aciount o' his takin' you serious .about
bein' fired. You know he wasn't in-
foimedethat he'd been fired from one
job to take over a better one"
"The ungrateful young pup," His
Majesty shouted. "I'll ;teach him his
place. Art, you put a couple of +good
men on his trail, follow libh as far
.,s he goes and tell thein to bring him
back if they have to hog-tie hime • I'
want him back, understand. • No sub-
stitute will fife:t,He's the mile, mean in
my employ who never took mei seri-
gl .
ou. y
"I'll go myself," Art Graydon prom-
ised for it 'had been his business for
forty year, to see to it that, the king
got what lie wanted when he wanted
it On occasion too, lee had been wont
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to kowtow to the prince ssl
after noon h ' orted'"Eo
t'hel:ifig as the latter sat at luncheon
with his' daughter: "I found Burney,
sir."
"Goody Bring him back w:ith'•yM '
"No, sir. He promised he'd coma
back when he got ;geed an' f ead gee.
"'What'd he run away for?" .•
"He said the princess objected to
his hair and he was on his way to
town to; get it cut," •
"Har! Harl 1' -lar!" larmghed the
king. Ile had a habit of bleating like
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Troll frons the gardens'
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dug -outs where another Dusun
waiting for him with his parang
poised.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Using the dug -out as a kind of
butchering -block the Dusun bludgeon-
ed the giant snake to death. They
jiammered its head into pulp. When
its huge, limp length was dragged into
the boat, there wasn't a tremor from
tip to tail. Inert and coiled up, stow-
ed away like an old rope's end, the
hunters left him. Their blood was up.
Laughing and jabbering excitedly,
craning their necks and gazing up into
the trees, they prepared for another
attack.
Their shrill yells in the fight that
had just ended, the flurry of the water
and the whangine and thudding of the
p�.rangs, had raised, the alarm anion g
the tree -dwelling python families•
Now we could see them plainly
enough,,the ripple of their coils along
the branches, and the quick, menacing
movement of their darting heads.
When our sport was over, we took
a snapshot of eight beautiful skins --
all much longer than the height of a
very tall man—hanging out to dry
d over the :thwart of one of the
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Winter Clothing
Affects "Talkies"
Actors and Actresses Have to
"Speak -up" Due to Absorb-
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Garb
Audiences in a theatre or motion
picture house absorb more sound in
winter than in summer, due to the
increase in clothing in' the colder sea-:
son. For this reason actresses and.
actors have to epeak louder to winter
audiences and the loud -speaking talk-
ing picture equipment has to be tuned ..
e:p to higher volume in winter to make
the spoken souads clearly audible
throughout the building. According
to V. L. Christler, of the sound section
of the United States Bureau of Stand-
ards, the quality of clothing worn by
an audience is a large factor in deter-
mining the length of time required
for sound: in a theatre to decay and
fall to zero.
The following information was fur-
nished by Mr Christler:
The sound section of the Bureau of
on the tl;atch cf my portable shack. Standards has for come time been
carrying on experiments with sound
reverberation and acousticwi mater-
ials. These experiments have been •
conducted in a epecialiy constructed
building housing a large empty roomi
having no sound absorptive and no
acoustical properties. A loud speaker
is placed in the ematy room and the'
length of time require l for the sound.
to decay after the o,'urce has been shut
ot: is measured. •
These experimer is are carried on
first in an empty room and then are '
repeated with various types 'of ma•-
teriais having acoustic properties
placed along the walls and ceiling. in
this way practically every type or
t.coustical material now made has been
Gazing at them reflectively, it seemed
to me that I had been privileged to
witness the most exciting' and purely
sporting hunt in the -world. It bad
been a really stirring experience, even
to a hard-bitten hunter like myself.
It, appealed to niy sporting instincts so
strongly because the Dusuns attacked
their formidable quarry in its own
difficult strongholds, and then disdain-
ed to hack with the parang's cutting
edge, using their weapon only as a
bludgeon and actually tackling the
snakes with their bare hands.
The Dusuns had attacked nine py-
thons during the day's hunting. Only
one managed to get away, an enor-
mous reptile over twelve feet in length.
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The frilly ruffling of plain crepe
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Its' easy to make an"d smart to wear.
Style No. 1;267.4 may be had in sizes
16, 18 years, 36, 88, 40, 42 and 44
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.Black canton• crepe is charming with
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Mahogany brown flat crepe with
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The fight in the water was nothing
short of spectacular—six intrepid Du- tested with the co-operation of the
manufacturers.
Amon,; the most commen substances
from.. which acoustical materials are -
made are plaster and hair felt, sugar
cane fibre, pumice and rock wool, the,
latter being the result of molten rock
blown through exceedingly fine jets.
Spine of the materials 'were found to
have higher coefficients of sound ab-
sorption than others. In general those -
of higher coefficients seem to be more
costly.
A greater amount of acoustical ma-
terial is ordinarily used in motion pie-�
ture ho .see than in theatre due to the
fact that the human voice is weak'
compared to the stentorian tones of)
which the .talking motion •picture is.
capable. The louder the tones the more,
is the effect of reverberation and
therefore the automatic voices being
se much stronger require more damp -i
ing material in the picture houses.
In theatres and plc -tare houses the'
materials are usually placed on the!
walls and ceilings with drapes -or cur-
tains used over the pars and en-�
trances. In many theatres -only a littleii
acoustic material -is necessary, due toy
the banks of soft velvet covered spiting
seats that absorb sound to a high de
gree.
suns and one huge. snake. The hunt-
ers did:not let go, either, until they
were all actually thrown. It was like
an aquatic rodeo wi�•l_ a buck -jump-
ing twelve -foot python hurling his six
assailants at one terrific throw. They
went down, sputtering, a windmill of
legs and arms. But they came up,
still -sputtering, but laughing, thor-
oughly enjoying themselves --and the
spectacle of the huge python making
his way to..shore like a torpedo.
Every night the Dusuns had a ban-
quet of python flesh. The flesh has a
strong, fishy smell. These natives cut
i% up, rather like one slices a banana,
and slowly boil it in a hollow bamboo
filled with water.—F.. D. Burdett in
"Pearson's Magazine."
"Dinka has wired me to send up
some fishing tackle."
"A. nuisance, isn't it?"
"No, that isn't it, but I can't reiuieni+
ber whether he favors Scotch or rye."
fyliiard's Liniment' aids tired feet.
A POTATO SUGGESTION
Some persons think of,potatoes only
like what was conning to him. In the in combination with meat, therefore
language of the ri.ig, the Dusun's will not eat potatoes Zvi'thoilt meat or
whirlwind attack hag got bun groggy. , fish, so when eating a vegetably ileal
That flailing parang was all over him 'they discard the potatoes.
—thud! thud! thud! Leaves and baric l • Now potatoes are supposed to be in -
were ripped from the boughs and lit- eluded in the' vegetable dinner, but:
tered the still surface of the.river. they might appear as a soup. Cream
In mny dug-outs'down below we were of potato soup' is delicious and iY useji
yelling with excitement. The python as the first course the potatoes earl• bee
peered at us wic.kedlee and just in thiit ,Q itted_ eron7. ti}e vegetable plate with-,
fraction. of a secoi d' he stoiip''ed an- out causing an"unbalancecl •meal.•
other whizzing'•el:;ut on the head aiid •.'
visibly wilted, -so that the follow-up '" Real
missed hilix' and• whanged against a dyes, ��
tough bough- with an ugly sound that ' • ' •
told ne how `_hard our friend was hit richest colors!
ting. ,' .
Viet seemed 'to decide the first ,,,..
round, :. � t 4 an buy.
Inc tree was 'altogether too hot or ye a
Earl. Re nncoiled.hiinself and dr db. They contain the highest quality
anilines the ,,� • ��lf ,• jped•"� '
'fed d `into the water.` Then the real ent itis the teeateles' in I)ialnotid
started. Six ,tardy. Dusuns went Dyes that 3' a such soft, Diamond after him, and grabbed hint in six ne , ,,cel1oise to dresses, drapes,
places . de...ee. w tl�,tl +tel bare arfns limiife'rie: ',Diamond Dyes are.easy
ant► hauls. to use. They go on sinogthly_,and
tr ength of an en :aged python evenly; do not spot or a streak;
Thos never lye things that re dyed
is prodieiousS,; Thcogl, held tenacious- 104 feet true, even, new colors;;
thatkeep their depth and brilliances
in spite of wear and washing
packages. All drug st'ores..
Frost—"Where do the jellyfish get
their. jelly?" Prost—"Fran the ocean
'currents, I•guess."
sound for the snake evidently thou�•1>f'b every home use, Diamond
L � D re the finest you c
Write your name and address plain- I
ly, giving number and size of such •lv by six strong men, his convulsive;
patterns as you want. Enclose 20e in struggles dragged thein in all direc-
stamps or coin (coin preferred; wrap t'ono. But the Dtietmnshang on grimly.
it, carefully) for'each nunyber, and Strong as he was --and his body was
a�pr .., otri :order;;,; `- ..t ani E.atteni e$ thick a w a viols leg; IiiS: alnto;�;s',
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