Zurich Herald, 1930-12-04, Page 2The gringo Privateer
By PETER B. KYNE
SYNOPSIS.
Kenneth Burney is given the jobof
general manager of Bradley k3ardin's
ranch upon the provision that he gets
rid of Martin Bruce and Miguel Gallegos,.
cattle thieves. Brice has sworn to kill
Burney. Muriel Bardin, the cattle king's
daughter, becomes interested in Burney.
Burney and his bodyguard have just re-
turned from town and Burney has dist
told the Icing of his encounter ithBruce
and Gallegos,
CHAPTER XIX.
"That meek Christian spirit of
yours will get you killed by Bruce or
Gallegos before you've hadanother
chance to get rid of them, the king
complained.
"Spanking of that, sir, what was
the reason for the sudden access of
tenderness and mercy your highness
exhibited this morning: Yesterday
You would have kissed me .ad I de-
livered to you Miguel Gallegos in a
shroud, but„this morning you forbade
the bans. May I respectfully remind
• your majesty that if I am to be hamp-
ered, even remotely, in this delicate
matter, your prophecy is .extremely
liable to come true.”
"Muriel," " the king replied malici-
ously, "thinks you're too young and
innocent to die a violent death. She
made me play thumbs up."
Burney turnod to the gii:l with a
grave inclination of his 'clack poll.
"It's nice to discover who cares, prin-
cess."
"Mr. Burney," the young lady re-
plied freeiingly, "you are much too
familiar on brief ' acquantance. May
I suggest you remember hereafter that
you are merely one of the hired men
on El Ranehito."
"He's my general. manager," her
father objected, "and I'll not have him
insulted. The inst.le rights in general
managers are vested in me 'alone.
Muriel, you pipe d-•wn. You appear
to have read into Mr. Burney's gra-
cious remark a meaning not clear ,to
me."
"If it had anything to do with cows
you'd understand it. I'll not be treat-
ed as if I were a child, father. I'll
not pipe down."
"Young lady says she'll not pipe
down, you]. majesty," Burney inform-
ed his employer. "What are you go-
ing to do about it? Do I have to re-
sign in the middle of niy contract in
order to escape being insulters?"
The princess replied to his query.
"You might retire to 'your own -quar-
ters, Mr. Burney."
"I think that is eminently sound ad-
vice, your majesty," Burney told her
father. "This ..as been a long, hard,
hot, dangerous day. I'm tired and if
I remain here any longer your spoiled
heir -apparent will get on my nerves.
Ordinarily I could put up with her
megrims and vapors, but after declin-
ing to kill Miguel Gallegos, merely as
a favor to the lady, I think I should
be spared these cruel verbal shafts.
Have I the king's permission to re-
tire?"
"You have! Har! Har! -has! Har!
Good night, son. You're certainly a
comfort to me in .my old age."
"Good night, sir. Thank pion." He
bowed elaborately to the princess and
disappeared into the darkness.
"That man," said the princess pre-
sently, "is a crazy dreamier."
"Maybe so, honey, but I'd hate to
be the man that wakes him up. You
were unnecessarily rude to hini, Mur-
iel."
"He's impudent and arrogant and
deserves to be put in his place."
"You watch your step or he'll put
you in your place, niy dear. If you
worry that boy, the first thing you
know he'll go away and never come
back and then what'll you do?"
• "To hear you talk, Dad, one would
gather that I'm in love with him. The
idea!"
"Honey," bis majesty suggested,
"suppose you step inside and put that
La Golondrina record on the phono-
graph. On nights like this I crave
music and I like it slow and sad and
plaintive, because the ghosts of all the
ions 1 n. ever nal seen: to lilt around
in the gloaming like bats•—"
The princess bent over hien and.
smothered his mouth with kisses. "Oh,
Dad," she whispered, "I had to pick a
fight .with him to keep from crying
IIe's sn .vunt;erful it just breaks my
heart to think of the project he has
under way. 1 can't be'ieee he's so
terribly, esst ally bloodthirsty as he
ani eteniis. 3e must have :.offered some
terrible ;wrong and it has em,•ttered
him. Why ,an't he real'•:e. that life is,
sweet•- —"
The king fought his mouth free.
"There's only one thing wrong with
that young fellow," he declared. "His
old man went broke in the cattle bug -
MSS and this lad hal to fight Ids way
back into it again. That's all. As
soon as that job's finished Ken 11,ur-
hey will be so tame a jackrabbit cav
leap up and spit in his eye and ge
away with it."
"I can't understand hien. Ho's so
r.andsone,brilliant,
witty,
well-man-
nered
and well-born, and yet, he can
descend to this sort of business and,
apparently, enjoy it".
"He's got the intestinal investiture
of n bear," his majesty soured. her
with vulgar earnestness, "and the.
ncr-intelligence of •a coyote. He
•t to ge far, provided his mortal,.
^N'(s up, and l• have a suspicion
What New York Earth.Eating Diet
Is Wearing Still in Favor
BY ANNAI3ELLE WORTHINGTON
it will. He's broad between the ears
and has a full, kind eye."
"You speak of hint as though he
were a herse," Muriel charged petu-
lantly.
"I thought I asked for La Golon-
rina," the king reminded her; where-
upon she realized sonie other topic of
conversation would be agreeable to
him. So she subsided, but with a dis-
tinct feeling that •e•he had Seen out-
generaled by two mere men and that
Ken Burney had treated her with the
tolerance usually reserved for very
little girls who speak out of their turn.
The following morning Ken Burney
was called on the telephone from Hue-
. chita. The man who answered his
cheerful "hello" was none other than
Senor Miguel Gallegos. "I hear," said
Senor Gallegos, "that last night you
and your men were in such a hurry
to leave town you abandoned your
gorses in the local livery :,table and
fled in a rented car.
Burney laughed.
• "I had a suspicion you' or Martin
Bruce might send a couple of good
wing shots around to the liveryestable
last night to surpriss us when we
Came for our horses."
"Not last night. Early thi. morn -
kg," Gallegos assured him ]'razenly.
"Well, you're a smart young fellow,
•Burney I admire brains wherever I
find then, so I simply had to call you
up and compliment you on your stra-
tegy. Want to sell that pinto horse
of yours, now that you've decided to
leave the country?"
"No, not very m .ch. I'm rot leav-
Illustrated Dre ;making Lesson Fur-
cashed W°'h '?''veryPattern
"Hes- pretty prominent horse for
such a prominent citizen as yourself
to be seen'riding. People . an recog-
nize -yon a long way off—say five hun-
dred yards—and in the clear atmos-
phere of El Cajon Bonita that distance
is just a little uncomfortable."
"Es verdad. So you thought you'd
bring that natter to my attention in
the hope that it might influence me to
sell, eh?"
"Well, I'll try anything once."
"There is merit in the suggestion.
Come to .think of i° I might as we]1
get rid of that horse. What will you
give me for him?"
"A hundred and seventy-five dol-
l..rs."
"Not enough. Martin Bruce offer-
ed me a thousand for him, and', if I
sell him to anybody I'll sell him to
Bruce. A prominent citizen like Mar-
tin Bruce on such a prominent horse
could be recognized a long way off—
say
at a thousand to twelve hundred
yards—in the clear, bracing atmos-
phere of the sovereign State of New
Mexico— and, I'm here to tell you
Gallegos, that range is highly danger-
ous with one behind a Springfield rifle.
And I dont have to use a telescopic
sight, either."
"Too much for a cow horse. I pass."
"Is Martin Bruce in the neighbor-
hood of the telephone you're using?"
"Right beside me."
"Put hint on the line..... Hello,
Mr. Bruce. Does your offer for that
pinto horse of mire still hold good?"
"Sure does, young feller."
"Deposit a thousand dolla_s to my
credit in the Huachita bank in: escrow
for thirty days against a.bill of sale
for the horse and an order on the liv-
ery stable keeper to turn hint over
to you., You shall have hini a day or
two before I leave this country."
"Sold!" said Martin Bruce, and
hung up.
"Poor old Rowdy,". Burney solilo-
quized. "I suppose he'll get filled the
day he bears Martin Bruce into action.
But that's one o ' the chances I have
to take. No omelet unless one cracks
eggs."
Art Graydon tie in. then and they
went over the ranch mail together,
Graydon was for making his successor
familiar with the ranch accounting
system next, but Ken Burney smiling-
ly opposed that. "I'd just be wasting
my time, Mr. Graydon," he assured
the latter. "I'm here solely for one
reason; . within the .next sixty days
that reason should no longer exist and
I shall be on my way. You subscribe
to enough reading matter for El Ran-
chito, do you not?" be added, indicat-
ing a pile of newspapers„ still in their
wrappings.
"Oh,n and
yes. Every Bardin La d
Cattle Company ranch subscribes to
the Ioading newspapers published in
the cow centres of the Southwest and
the Pacific . Coast. They tend to keep
us in touch with conditions through-
out the territory over which the Bar-
din' ranches are scattered, For in-
stance, I read last year in the Alturas
Citizen, of Medoc County, California,
that there was a world of feed in that
county and not very many cattle to
eat it Right away I wired the gen-
eral manager of our Nevada ranch to
motor over into Modoc and lease me' a
lot of available pasturage for a year.
Then I shipped ten thousand head of
feeders •s up
there because
we bad a
short feed year clown here. Grew them
.out and made a nice profit."
(To be continued.)
Color, Odour, Flavor, Etc.,
Deciding Factors in
Making Choice
Children who make "mud Hies and
cakes" would be considered fine cooks
and chefs by many persons scattered
over various parts of the world who
still practice the eating of soils, clays
aid Other earthy substances, Such is
the coininont of Dr. Berthold Laufer,
curator of anthropology at the Field
Museum of Natural History, Chicago,
,wlio has jest published his book,
"Geophagy," describing his researches
on this subject,
Dr. Laufer's studios have carried
him through many countries, and they
ileal with many peoples, both au7ient
and modern. His investigations be-
gin with records of earth-eating in
China and continue with an exposi-
tion of this practice in its various
forms in Malaysia, Polynesia, Melan•
esia, Australia, India, Burma, Siam,
Siberia, Persia, Arabia, Africa, Eur-
ope and! parts of Mexico and South
and North America.
"As a rule, not every kind of earcn
is 'eaten," says Dr. Laufer, "but only
those kinds which recommend them-
selves as to color, odor, flavor; soft-
ness and: plasticity."
SALADA 0.
EN tea will
give you most enjoyment
871
Wasplike Insects Wage 1 Quite Safe
War on Fruit Moths, The prison worder noticed that one
. War is now being waged on thel of his charges was not going his fair
share of the work and he decided to
reprimand him.
"Look here," he said, "you've been
sentenced to hard labor, and you're
doing hardly any work at all, What
do you mean by it?"
The prisoner looked him calmly up
and down.
"Well, anyway," he replied, "you
can't give me the sack."
Oriental fruit moth by a wasp -like hi-
sect that -nays its eggs within the
body of its victim, The wasp is be-
ing distributed in several eastern
states by the United, States Depart-
ment of Agriculture and by the state
agricultural colleges.
Not only does this insect help the
farmer get rid of the moths that de-
Xmas Lingerie
Since all girls love nice lingerie
things, 'a most acceptable Christmas
.gift is a pair of new petti-pants.
These are made of very fine Ninon,
georgette, lace or point d'esprit, ac-
eordian pleated onto a yoke of crepe
de chine. They have enough full-
ness to make them a little short petti-
coat, all you .need with. some of the
lame or velvet dresses, but they have
their fullness front and back and not
on the sides, so that you can have the
sveltest figure while wearing them.
To make them, take a regular yoke
pattern and cut it double, or crepe
de chine or fiat .crepe,- finishing it at
i lace
or
ms
the top with hemstitching
or
fine hand -seaming. Then you cut
your lower portion to fit the yoke, any
pattern will do, and allow extra width
enough to make two row of pleating
for the front and two for the back.
You can finish the bottom of the low-
er portions before you' have them
pleated, either with hand Hemstitch-
ing or a fine hand -hem or lace.
If you want to do things up brown,
you can monogram a little running
name of your friends initials in the
left hand lower edge of the front.
Puffs at the elbows arouse new,in-
terest in sleeves of smart ail -day
frock of dark browli canton crepe.
The neckline is youthful. Faille
silk in eggshell shade makes the be-
coming rolled collar and trimming
piece.
The circular fulness of the skirt is
clever arrangement to make the hips
appear slim.
It's unusual! Its easily fashioned!
Style No. 2805 may be had in sizes
16, 18 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches
bust.
Size 36 requires 41/4d, yards, 39 -inch
with % yard 27 -inch contrasting and
1.1i yards edging.
It's perfectly stunning for' more
dressy occasions in black chiffon vel-
vet. Make the collar and tie of self-
fabric edged with a tiny ruffling of
fade green faille silk. Ilse jade green
silk covered buttons.
Crepy patterned woolen, crepe nnar-
ocain and flatcrepe appropriate.
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.
stroy so many peaches in this local -1
ity, but they also reduce the number Use Minard's Liniment for Toothache,
of other injurious insects, the straw- g_
•
berry leaf roller. The scientific A man has told a magistrate that
name of the wasp is liacrocentrus
Ancylivora. When its eggs hatch in-
side theo•bodies of its victims they
develop Inside them and consume
them as '.food.
The parasite worms have proven
very valuable in New Jersey where it
has been experimented with for a
number of years. Its attacks on the
pest insects are, however, limited to
the early season when 'the fruit larvae
are feeding in .the tender sprouts and
shoots of the peach trees.
Macrocentrus is being distributed to
eleven other states east of the Missis-
sippi in order that it may become es-
tablished and assist in the control of
the fruit moth in these districts next
year. From 500 to several thousand
parasites are bing liberated at each
nt
of&c
ie
not s
l
This number is
Clot.
Th
P
in itself to give control but it is hop-
ed that within a short time the para-
sites *i11 become sufficiently abund-
ant to be an imrortant factor in rid-
ding these localities Of these pests.
he has driven a oar all his life, and
never yet knocked anybody down.
There must be something wrong with
his approach.
Abandoned Farm
By Phyllis B. Morden
The House
The people it ' sheltered.
None can remember;
On the hearth they left
One blackened ember;
The chimney has 'fallen;
The doors hang awry:
Half of the attic
Is roofed with sky;
Sweetbriers advance
'Upon its low walls.
Where lichens have written
In leprous white scrawls.
The mountain is taking
Again for his own
Log and and puncheon
And heap of stone;
His creeping moss and running vine
Have buried path and garden spot.
In. summer evenings on the air
Brood lavender and':]ergamot.
The Fields
in these niggard fields
That vanquished plough,
Mole and sparrow
Are tenants now,
Reaping full. harvest,
Summer -sown,
From furrows where thistle
And dock have grown. . .
Marion: "I don't like doing my
Christmas shopping early."
Estelle: "Why not?"
Marion: "It's so hard to keep from
telling the folks what I've bought for
them."
"Last night I dreamed you loved me
What does that mean?" "Thalt you
were dreaming:"
On Second Thoughts
A country policeman caught a Welsh
motorist exceeding the speed limit in
the village high street.
"What's your name?" he asked.
"And where's your driving license?"
"I've left my licence at home," re-
plied the motorist, "but my name is
Thomas Llewellyn Montgomery Af
Brynmor."
The policeman blinked his eyes and
replaced his notebook in his pocket.
"Well, don't let me catch you again,"
he said sternly to the offender.
CANADA'S CLAY RESOURCES
. In addition to many other types of
Clays Canada has immense resources
of clays and shales. suitable for the
manufacture of building brick, and
structural and drain tiles.
Homes for the Homeless
All who love children should do
missionary work in finding homes for
the boys and girls who crowd our
orphanages and shelters, writes J. J,
Kelso, Superintendent of Children's
Aid Societies. Instead of whiting
for applicants good women should go.
direct to the People with a . strong
appeal. Church and social gather-
ings offer a fertile field and our en-
thusiasm will enthuse others to offer
this important service. The public
sympathy,
Heart is one of love and
and if the need of homes were more
fully realized many children would
soon be satisfactorily placed. This
is a great philanthropic and Christian
enterprise in which alt should Have a
part.
' Fame
It is not the lot of every man to
earn fame; but a greater is love wh1Gh
even the pootest can merit,
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Excited Passenger—"Hey, conduct-
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ductor—"It's all `right, sir. He's paid
his fare."
What He Preferred
,;ones senior had just received his
boy's school report from the head
master.
.
"What does this mean, idarolal?"
he said. "I've never kn'itt'it such
bad report."
Jones minor was , silefltr
"I'11 write to the Head about it,"
�
snapped Itis father, I m d
atermin-
ed to find out," •
Accordingly he wrote,. saying: "Mee.
my
boY work hard?"
The reply from the headmaster.
Genie back a few days later., It read: I
"He likes doing nothing better,"
F'or Lary, Pkin---M ngett'a ininient. ISSUE No 48—'30
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Winter Short Courses
1931
Live -stock and Field Crops Jan. 5 to Jan. 31
Poultry Raising Jan,. 6 to Jan. 31
Jan. 6 to Jan. 17
Beekeeping
Drainage and Drainage SurveyingJan. 6 to Jan. 17. to Feb. 13
Feb.Fruit and Vegetable Growing Feb. 1 2 2 to Feb. 27
Floriculture and Landscape Gardening
Factory Cheese and Buttermaking .. • • • • • Jan. 5 to Mar. 27b. 2 to Feb. 7
Milk and Cream Testing
Ice Creaper""(a) For Experienced- Makers Feb. 17 to Feb. 19
(b) For inexperienced Makers • • Mar. 30 to Apr. 4
Creamery and ,Cream Grading together with
Cheese Making, and Mechanical Refrigeration 'Jan. 20r. 1 to to Jan
. 31
. 3
Farm Power Feb. 3 to Feb. 14
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