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days of the new field in Jim Wall; in the early tle indus a Hays at Green e meets 3 'Who admits to being a | feel % an 1rshman others are plotting r employer's cattle. Wall arrives at Hezrick ranch where he meets Wall as the best man to ge . rival outlaw and rustler: leave Wall behind at the ranch. calls in a friendly mood and "Snforms Jim that Hays is a double- erosser and untrustworthy. » CHAPTER VII--(Cont'd.) U tionably H. 's motive had been to undermine Hays in Jim's regard. And a few questions and an assertion or two had had their effect. Jim made the reservation that he had .mot accepted Hays on anything but face vilue. Still the robber had gradually built up a character of in- tense force, cunning, and strength. These had crashed, though there was no good reason for that. Jim had not *, accepted Hay's word for anything. : Hays was not a square partner! This stuck in Jim's craw. Why this seemed true puzzled Jim. Heeseman had simply verified a form- ing but still disputed suspicion in Jm's mind--that Hank Hays had evil designs upon Herrick's sister. Heese- man and Hays had probably known for weeks that this English girl was expected to arrive. © Suppose he had! What business was that of Jim's? None, except that he now formed one of Hays' band and as such had a right to question activities. Rustling cattle, at least in a moderate way, was almost a legitimate business. Ranchers, since the early days of the cattle drives from Texas, had accepted their com- mon losses. It had been only big steals that roused them to ire and action, to make outlaws out of rust- lers. Nevertheless, it was extremely doubtful, out here in the wilds of Utah, that even a wholesale steal would be agitating. To abduct a girl, however, might throw Western inter- ests upon the perpetrators. Hays' ob- ject assuredly was to collect ransom. Still that had not been Heeseman's intimation, nor had it been Jim's or- iginal suspicion. He gave it up in disgust. Time would tell. But he did not feel forther inclined to call upon Heeseman. He would stick to Hays, awaiting developments. yy The ensuing day passed unevent- fully. No one of up, nor did Hays return. Jim wait- od for Herrick to give him orders, which were not forthcoming... The rancher was chasing jack rabbits and coyotes itt the Bonnds. Next morning Jim made it a point to ride over to the barns. The ranch- er came down in a queer costume: he red coat took Jim's eye. A mot- y pack of hounds and sheep dogs was new to Jim, as he had not seen or heard any dogs about the ranch. Jim was invited to ride along with Herrick and the several cowboys. They went to Heeseman's camp, which was vacant. Jim was to learn that the rancher had put the Heeseman outfit to work on the cutting and peel- ing of logs up on the slope, prepara- tory to the erection of a new barn. Jack rabbits were as thick as bees. The cowboys led the dogs, which soon became 'unmanageable and bolted. Then the race was on. Where the ground was level and unobstructed by brush or cut up by washes Herrick did fairly well as to horsemanship, but in rough going he could not keep to the English saddle. He would put his horse at anything and he had a jarring fall. Notwithstanding this, Herrick fin- ished out the hunt. He was funny, and queer, but he was game, and Jim liked him. On the way back Jim am- * msed the Englishman by shooting run- ning jack rabbits with his revolver. He managed to kill three out of five, to Herrick's infinite astonishment and admiration, "By jove! I never saw such marks- : hip," he ejaculated * "That was really poor shooting." * © 'Indeed. What would you call good shooting, may 1 ask?" "Well, riding by a post and putting five bullets into it. Or splitting the edge of a card at twenty feet." "Let me see your gun?" Jim Wall broke his rule when he handed it over, butt first. Herrick looked at it with mingled ee "Why, there's no trigger!" he exclaimed, in utter astonishment. "I do not use a trigger." "Thunderation, man! How do you make the pistol go off?" "Look here. Let me show you," said Jim, taking the gun. "I thumb the hammer . . . like that." "By jove!--But please explain." "Mr. Herrick, the cocking of a gun and pulling the trigger require twice as much time as thumbing. For ex- ample, supposing the eyesight and the draw of two men are equal, the one who thumbs his hammer will kill the other." "Ah!--Er--Yes, 1 see. Most ex- traordinary. Your American West is quite bewildering. Is this thumbing a common practice among you desper- adoes?" "Very So that I'll be obliged if you will keep it to yourself." "Ohl--Yes, by jove! 1 see. Ha! ha! ha! 1 grasp the point. . . Wall, you're a comforting fellow to have round the place." Herrick was evidently a free, care- less, impressive man who had been used to fulfilling his desires. His ec- centricity was not apparent except in the fact of his presence there in wild Utah. He liked horses, dogs, guns, the outdoors, physical effort. But he had no conception whatever of his remark- able sitvation in this unsettled coun- try. When they arrived at the barn he asked Jim to ride up to the house where they would look over some Eng- lish guns. The big living-rom had three windowed sides and was bizarre and strange to Jim, though attractive. Herrick had brought with him a quan- tity of rugs, skins, pictures, and weapons. i The heavy English guns earned Jim's solemn shake of head. "No good at all here, Mr. Herrick. Not even for grizzly. Get a forty-four." "Thank you. I shall do so. fond of the chase." Herrick had his desk near a win- dow, and upon it, standing out in re- lief from books, papers, ornaments, was a framed picture of a beautiful, fuir-haired young woman. The cast of her features resembled Herrick's. That was a portrait of his sister. Tm CHAPTER VIIL Jim carried a vision of Helen Her- rick's picture in his mind as he rode back down the bench. And he cursed the predicament into which he had allowed himself to become inveigled. "I'll have to stick it out," he mut- tered, that fair face and shining haid before his inward eye. 'I might have chucked this outfit." "I'll have to hoof it up to see the boss tonight," Hays said, after finish- ing the late supper. "Put me wise to what's come off in my absence." "We've had no sign of Smoky's out- fit. So we don't know where his camp is "I do. Good place an' out of sight. 1 gave Smoky orders to pack supplies back from Grand Junction every trip." "Hank, reckon you're figger'n up a long hole-up somewheres," said Happy Jack with a grin. "Have you run into Heeseman?" went on 'Hays, ignoring Jack's hint. "Yes. He called on us," replied Jim, casually. "Humph! I don't savvy that dodge. It's no good. Heeseman is the slickest customer in Utah. Just tryin' to scrape acquaintance, eh?" "I think so. It struck me that he might be wanting to throw his outfit with yours." "Ahuh. 1 had thet hunch. It might wal be," replied Hays, meditatively. "Herrick put Heeseman's outfit to cutting and peeling logs. He wants more horses and barn for them." "Thet's good. It'll keep thet out- fit from ridin' down Limestone way. An' the cowboys--where have they been?" "Plenty of work around, but little riding, except after the hounds. I had a chase after jack rabbits with the boss." "Hounds an' jacks!--What next? However, it's not so bad. Anythin" for us but regular ranchin'. Haw! Haw!" "Herrick took me up to see his guns," went on Jim, easily, with for- He eyes on Hays. "Have you seen an :. Panny lot of Inickipagls "Yes. Funny lof Thete's one thing I'm goin' though." bp PE 538 fim Taughed. He did not need to ask any miore, Suddenly then a tiger- ish sensation shot through his vitals. It was like an unexpected attdek. hi} 0 og wn all th the lowe day, Hetrick approached "Wall, 1 want you to go to Grand i It did Herrick. "You. m | {il F Lh [Hi 1}: if Li ds i i ; il i § f : f 5 / i 8 ¥ 1 2 it Ji it It may be hot or cold, as you Ike You may sip it, or quaff it at a swal- low if you wish. It is Dr. Ghislain-Honzel whe writes the prescription for ws in L'Ami du peuple (Paris). He says: "Glasses of water quite cool, fak- en abundantly between meals, in the morning early, in the evening as you step into bed, will promote the proper action of your kidneys, en abling them to function more emerge- tically and more effectively at the same time. "It might pe noted in passing that warm water is an emetic always at hand, one which maybe useful on oc- casion in the event of the infrodwe- tion into the h of el ¥ | | i } | HA ; P ' | iE il tf iki 1 i : if i i I i 1 ¥ B fhe I 1; 4] H ef alien to it. "If tepid water gives powers of r to our st h, water that is hot will not incommeode if "On the contrary, hot walter may make the el ing of the h simpler, and may indeed render Hs processes easier. "Take every morning, before eal ing, a coffee cup full of water as bot as you can stand it. "You might, if you feel impelled drop in a suspicion of lemon juice. "You will soon feel the bemeficial effects of this hot drink. "Your stomach will rid ftself of all the unpleasant residues that em- barrass it, and your day will pass in a more agreeable manmer. "Now and then a doctor has his patient taken in quite a quantity of water before a repast, and then le down for twenty minutes. The water may be warm, cold, or even hot, ac cording to circumsiances. "The practise of waterdrinking tends to abate the tendency fo arterios- clerosis, "In truth, wafer-drinking, culfivat- ed as a habit and as a satisfaction, practised assiduously, will ward off many of the infections which might otherwise jeopardize our existemce™ ---------- Headlights for Sheep Butte, Mont.--J. N. Gosset*, Madison County shieepman, purposes puiting headlights on sheep. A few animals wearing collars fitted with a Sashlight battery and a red reflector om the lamp, he said, will protect a band of several thousand sheep from clinking coyotes and raiding cougars. He finds the light doesn't bother the sheep. PRR WSR All love is sweet. Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice worries not ever. -- Shelley. a » i | ¥ ' i : fill Trek An Epic of 8 ad nearly Four Yeas, Cold and Hungry Wolves njract was signed with the Lomen e . Company of Seattle, which agreed to deliver 3,000 reindeer at the reserve at a price of $60 a head. - "Planning the Trek it These animals--2,300 in number-- to solve the pressing food penfled upon the caribo: for food and clothing, even for shelter. But im- provident hunting depleted the caribou herds to such an extent that the Do- minion Government decided to domes- jn | ticate the reindeer and thus provide Model of Famous the Eskimo wards with a permanent food supply. The Eskimos will not be permitted to hunt the reindeer indis- criminately; instead, they will be taught to herd and care for them. It is expected that the herd will increase rapidly once it is settled in the Ma>- kenzie reserve. | Written into the reindeer epic is tt + exploration of two brothes, A. E. Porsild and R. T. Porsild, both botan- ists and biologists, who investigated the ibilites of reind hi north of the Arctic Cirele; of airplaney pilots who charted the course of the trek; of wolves that harassed the ani- mals; of bitter storms that made life hazardous for the herders and their families; of the death ° a. Eskimo child. - In 1926 the Porsill brothe s were directed by the Canadian Government to seek out ble reind r hin regions. They finally decided that the land just east of the Mackenzie River delta was the best. In May, 1929, a Airpl d along the North Alaskan coast to find the easi- est route, and by the followi:g Novem- ber the trek began from Buckland Bay on the west shore of the Alaska Penin- sula" Andrew Bahr, a Lapp, was put in charge. Assisting him was a small crew of Lapp and Bskimo herd- ers, some of whom brought their fami- lies. ; ie The "reindeer punchers" worked on skiis, circling the herd again and again to force back those that had wander. ed or dropped behind, The danger of wolves was always imminent, especially at night or dur- ing storms, when they would scatter the easily frightened animals and slaughter eight or nine at a time, if not driven off. In all this work shep- herd dogs helped greatly. Though there were 3,000 animals in the herd when the trek began, this number was cut one-fourth by wolves and storms, and by their being necessarily slaugh- tered by the herders for food. Often the men were separated from the herd in the Arctic storms, and sometimes they went for days without food, but none of them was lost. The only tragedy-was the death of one of the Eskimo babies, who was burfed in the Arctic wastes under the enow: drifts. . But despite all hardships the strange caravan plodded slowly on, each day struggling a few miles nearer its goal. When Winter returns, the last 100 miles wil be covered; it. is expected that the reindeer will be settled in their reserve by the end of November or early in December. Then the Por. sild brothers and three of the Lapp herders will remain with the herd to teach the Canadian Eskimos how to care for the reindeer in order"to profit most from them. in poverty at Dartford. Not until he had passed away was his troe fn British-Made Films Rival U. S. Product Montreal. -- After years of effort British motion picture producers have at last caught up with those of Holly- El wood, In the opinion of R. C. Buch anan, former baillie of Edinburgh and one of the earliest motion pic- ture theatre proprietors in the Brit- ish Isles. Mr, Buchanan is return- ing to Scotland after a cruise around the world. . "I would not have said two years ago that Britisy pictures were the equal of the American," he declared, "because they were mot. Holly. | wood hag had too long a start on the British studios. There was not the money in England for the costly equipment. But this has been re- medied, and we also have been get- ting producers with American experi- ence. "The result is" he said, "that in Anustralia, for instance. a British pic- ture €an mow secure booking, 'sight unseen'. . Mr. Bachafian left Edinburgh in Caging Wild Life When I was a boy in Carolina, writes Archibald 'Rutledge, in Good Housekeeping, I was cured forever of caging wild things. Not content with bearing moekingbirds sing from the cedars I determined, to cage a young one and thus have a young musician all my own. On the second day in the cage I saw his mother fly to him with food Lin her bill. This attention pleased me, for surely the mother knew how to feed her child better than I did. The following morning my pathetic little captive was dead. 'When I recounted this experience to Arthur Wayne, the renowned orithologist, he said: "A mother mockingbird, finding her young in a cage, will sometimes take it poisoned bexries, She thinks it is better for one she loves to die rather than to live in captivity." FERRY Naa Dog and Cat Organize 'Chicago--Willilam Dixon says his cat and dog have a system all of their own, under which each gets a day off. . Daisy, the cat, gave birth to two kittens 10 days ago. Two days la ter, Trixie, a Russitn Pomeranian, had three puppies. ¥ Then the cat and the dog got their 'offspring all mixed up, Dixon said, and now each nurses the other's bables, alternating by days, ee fp emt The new car was run in after 500 miles; the new driver was run in be style of gipey chiefs. Aon Fam p One of her song, who is a f figure on Blackheath with hi 'keys, and is known as the Doi King, said that his mi ried herself to death over {lines of her favorite danghter A "Gipsy Lee's real name Was | Levi Boswell, * and she the daughter of the equally famous Gipsy Lee of Brighton. i : She was a noted palmist, and claimed many famous people among her patrons, among them King Ed- ward and Mr, Vanderbilt, the Amer jcan millionaire, Who, she said, ignored her warning not to sail im the ill-fated Titanic, and went down with the ship. Shortly before King George's illnesg she is said to have written warning him that he would be ill, but that he would recover and be abla to go shooting again, : House and Motor-Car : She had a house at Margate, and owned a large saloon motor-car, in which she was driven about the country, ve Mrs, Boswell was a wellknown visitor to London hotels, and frequ- ently attended soclety functions, She leaves three sons and a daugh- ter. APR Her husband, the king of his clan, died in 1924, and his funeral at Farn- borough was in the traditionally grand The hearse was preceded by postillions, and fol lowed by a great crowd of gipsies who « had gathered from all parts of Britain. . 5 Startling If True AEsop and Homer, the most famous of the early Greek writers, were re- spectively, if the stories told of them are true, a hunchback slave and a blind beggar. . Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the cotton-spinning frame, was a bar ber. ' John Bunyan, author of "The Pil- grim's Progress," was a travelling tin: 'ker. } Robert Burns, Scotland's lyric poet, was the son of a poor nurseryman, and was himself a small farmer and a re venue officer. * Miguel de Cervantes, author of "Don Quixate," was a page and a common soldier. ~ _ Christopher Columbus, discoverer of the New World, was a sailor, the son of a woolcomber, J Confucius, the Chinee sage, was & poor boy who began life as a store: keeper. " ' Qaptain James Cook, the famous English navigator, was the son of a farm laborer. Daniel Defoe, author of "Robinson Crusoe," was the son of a butcher: Charles Dickens. was a label-sticker in a shoe-blacking factory, : Michael Faraday, the famous chem: ist and physcist, was a journeyman bookhinder, the son of a blacksmith. Benjamin Franklin was a journey- man printer, the son of a tallow. chandler. Giuseppe Garibaldi, whom Italians revere as their liberator, was the son of a sailor, and was at various times a candle-maker and a small farmer. 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