The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 37, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 10 January 1929 — Page 7

of the Sage By Hal G.Evarts COPYRIGHT by I W.N.U.SERV ICE HAL O-EVAR.TS

WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE At the Warren ranch, the “Three Bar,” on the fringe of the "cow country." a stranger applied for work as a rider. Williamette Ann' Warren —known to all as "Billie," is the owner of the ranch. The girl’s father,Cal Warren, had been the original owner. The question whether the territory is to remain “cow ‘country" or be opened to settlement is a troublesome one The' newcomer is put to work. Cattle ‘rustlers’’ have troubling the ranch owners. The new hand gives his name as Cal Harris. By his announcement \b favor of “squatters" he incurs the enmity of a rider known as Morrow. The will made by Cal Warren stipulated that half - the pioperty should go to the son of his old frierpl, William Harris, under certain conditions. The new arrival is the man, and he discloses the fact The girl is Slade, a ranchman with an unsavory reputation as a “bad man," visits Billie. He has long wanted to marry her, dislikes and fears him. CHAPTER lll—Continued He stood so close as almost to touch her but she failed to lift a hand or move back an inch, and Slade knew that he faced one whose spirit matched his own. perhaps the one person within a hundred miles who did not fear him. Lie had tamed men and horses—and women; he raised his arms slowly, deliberately, to see if she would flinch away or stand fast and outgame him. She knew that he was harmless to her —and he knew it. He might perpetrate almost any crime on the calendar and come clear; but in this land Vrhere women were few they were honored. One whisper from the Three Bait girl that Slade had raised his hand against her and, powerful as he was, the hunt for him would be on. witii every man’s hand against him. His arms had half circled her tfhen he whirled, catlike, every faculty cool and alert, as a voice sounded from the door. Both had been too engrossed to notice its noiseless opening. “I’ve finished cleaning, up round the shop and corrals.” Harris said. “Is there any rubbish round the house you’d like to have throwed out piled in a dry gulch somewheres out of -sight?” He stood In the door, half facing them, his left side quartering toward Slade. To the girl it appeared that ihe strange pose was for the purpose of enabling him to take a quick step to the right and spring outside if Slade should make a move and she felt a tinge of scorn at his precaution even though she knew that It would avail him nothing if Slade’s deadly temper were roused by the Insult. Slade, who had killed many, would add Harris to his list before he could move. Slade’s understanding of the quartering position and the odd sling of Harris’ gun was entirely different and as he shifted his feet until he farced the man in the door, his movements were slow and deliberate, nothing that could be misconstrued. “Who summoned you in here?” he demanded. Harris did not reply but stood waiting for some word from the girl. She had a sudden sick dread that Slade would kill him and was surprised at the sentiment, for no longer than an hour before she had wished him dead. She made belated answer to his original question. “No.” she said. “Go on out, please.” He turned his back on Slade and went out » “And you,” she said to Slade, “you’d best be going too. We’ve been too good neighbors to quarrel—unless you come over again with the same idea you did today.” At sunset the girl called to Harris and he repaired to the bouse and found her putting a hot meal for two on the end of the long pine table, the Hist time she had deigned to eat with him. “There's no use of our going op like this.’’ she said. two years of It to face; so it’s best to get on some kind of a neutral footing.” For her own peace of mind she had tried to smother tier dislike of him and he was very careful to avoid any topic that woulo rekindle it The> washed the dishes together, and from that hour their relations, to all outward appearance, were friendly or at least devoid of open hostility. But he knew that she was merely struggling to make the best of a matter that was distasteful, that her opinion of Him was unaltered. Her bitterness could not be entirely concealed, and she frequently touched on some fresh point that added to her distrust of his present motives and confirmed ner belief in his double-dealing in the past. There were so many of these points; his refusal to accept her offer to give him his half-interest if he would stay off the place; his weak Insinua tions that there was some reason why he must spend two years on the Three Bar: Iris prowling the country for a year spying on the methods she followed in running the outfit, half of which would soon be his; his buying the school section and filing on a quarter of land, the location blocking the lower end of the Three Bar valley. * Whenever she mentioned one of these he refused to take Issue with her. And one night she touched od still Mi'd’iei point. [ hai was the reason for your first I A •

idea —of coming here under another name?" she demanded. ; “1 thought may he others knew I’d been left a part interest.” he said, "and it might he embarrassing. The way it is, with only the two of us knowing the inside, I can stay on as a Tegular hand until the time is up.” “You’re so plausible,” she said. “You put it as a favor to me. Did it ever strike you that if the truth were known it might also be uncomfortable for you?” f He smiled across at her and once more she frowned as she discovered that he was likable for all his underhandedness. “Worse than that —suicidal,” he admitted. “If you mentioned what you think of me, that I’ve framed to rob you by law. you wouldn’t be bothered with me for long.” He laughed soft ly and stretched nis feet toward the lire. “Look at it any way you like and I’m in bad shape to deal you any misery,” he pointed out “If you’d drop a hint that I’m an unwelcome addition it would only be a matter o* days until I’d fail to show up tor meals. If you view it from that angle you can see I’m setting op the powder can.” She did see it, but had not so clearly realized it till he pointed it out, and for the first time she wavered in her conviction that lie had come sim She Knew That He Was Harmless to Her. ply to deprive her of her rights But the thought that her father would not easily naxft willed away the home place to another without being unduiy influenced served to reinstate her distrust along with a vague resentment for his having shaken it by throwing himself so openly on her mercy. “You probably thought to overcome that by reaching the point the whole thing so patently aims for,” she said. “And you calculated well—arriving at a time when we’d be alone for a week. The whole scheme based on that idea and I’ve been patiently wondering why you don’t rush matters and invite me to marry you." He rose and flicked the ash from his cigarette into the fireplace. “1 do invite you—right now,” he said, and in her surprise she left ner

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The tea and coffee tasters of the big importing and jobbing houses are paid large salaries. The sole duty ot many of these experts is to taste the brews of many varieties of tea and coffee. And their palates are their fortunes —if it’s palates that register flavor. Whatever it is. it must never fail in its tine discrimination; a taste that it requires years <>f practice and experience to attain. The president ol a well-known coffee importing concern, is an expert in the selection of different varieties and combinations of coffee and almost any day may be found as the sole attendant at a little afternoon party peculiarly his own: From a casual cupful of the urew that is put before him he has no difficulty in telling the name and age of the berry from which it is made, the country in which it was grown, and in fact, all the family history of that par ticular blend. ' Tea and coffee tasters in the large importing houses are said to daily con What Brand? In the club a "man was holding the attention ilf a small knot of men by announcing the fact that he could tell any brand of spirit by just tasting it. Several glasses of different spirits were put before him. and each time he gave the correct answer. Then suddenly a youthful member offered him a glass containing a white liquid and asked him to taste it. “Good heavens, you idiot 1” shrieked the other, after the first sip. “That’s gasoline!” “I know,” came the imperturbable answer; “hut what brand Is it?”— Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph. The initials e. g. stand for the Latin , words exempli gratia, meaning “for i example. ’

chair ami stood facing bln.. "I’d Uk* real well to have you. Billie ” “That’s the final proof,” she said Ttu surprised that you didn’t tell iuf the first day.” “So am I,” he said. She found no answer for this hnl stood silent, knowing that she bac suddenly become afraid of him. “And that’s the living truth,” he affirmed. “Other meD have loved you the first day. You know weu well enough to be certain that 1 wouldn’t be tied to one woman for the sake 01 owning a few head of cows—not 11 I didn’t want her for herself.” Hr waved an arm toward the dooi “There's millions of miles of sage just outside.” he said. “And millioui of cows—and girls.” He moved across to her and stood almost touching her, looking down into her face. When Slade had stood so h few days past she had been coldly indifferent except for a shiver ol distaste at the thought of his touching her. Before Harris she felt a weakening, a need of support, and she leaned back from him and placed . one hand behind her on tiie table. "You judge for yourself whether a man wouldn’t be right foolish —with all those tilings 1 mentioned being right outside to call him—to marry a woman he didn’t want for herself, because she had a few hundred head of cows.” He smiled down at her. “Don’t 3 pull back from me, Billie; 1 won’t in.v a finger on you. But now do you thing It’s you 1 want —or the little old Three Bar?” “You can prove it.” she said at last. “Prove it by going away for six months —or three." He shook his head. “Not that," he said. “I’ve told you l was sewed up in a right peculiar way myself—which wouldn’t matter a d—u if it wasn’t for this. I’d have tossed it off in a second if the gir-l on the Three Bar had turned out to be any other than you. Now I’m going to see it through. The Ttiree Bar is going under —the brand both our folks helped to found—unless some one pulls it out of the hole. Believe me if you can and if you can t —why, you know that one remark about my being unwelcome here will clear the road for you. like 1 mentioned a few minutes back.” He turned away without touching her and she had not moved when the door closed behind him. An hour past noon on the following day a drove of horses appeared at the lower extremity of the valley and swept on toward the ranch. As Har ris threw open the gates of the big corral he saw her standing in the door of the cookhouse watening the oncoming drove. Riders flanked the b'unch well out to each side to steady it. There was a roar of hoofs and a stifling cloud of dust as three hunrireo (half-wiki horses clattered past and crowded through the gates, scattering swiftly across the pasture lot back ot the corral. A dozen sweat-streaked riders swung from their sad* des There was no chance to distinguish color or kind among them through the dust caked in the week-old growth of heard that covered every face. One man remained on his mount and followed the horses into the pasture lot. cutting out fifty or more and heading them back into the corral; for Waddles had decreed that they could have the rest of the afternoon off for a jaunt to Brill's store and they waited only to change mounts before the start Calico stood drooping sleepily in one of tie smaller corrals and Harris moved toward him. intending to ride over with the rest of the men. “The boss said for you to ride Blue.” Morrow stated as Harris passed the group at the gates of the corral. “He’s clear gentle-broke. Blue is.” The men looked up in surprise. Morrow had not been near the house to receive instructions from the girl. The lie had been so apparent as to con stitute a direct challenge to the other man. Harris stood looking at him, then shrugged his shoulders. “Whatever the boss says goes with me,” he returned evenly. A rangy blue roan swept past with the fifty or so others. At least once every round of the corral he laid backj his ears and squealed as he score'', some other horse with his teeth, then, lashed obt with wicked heels. <TO BE CONTINUED >

sume several quarts of clear strong coffee with apparently no deleterious effects. In a measure this may be due to the fact that, for fear of impairing their coffee “taste” they must take no other stimulant of any kind nor use tobacco in any form. Sat Right Down Patrons of a local theater, seated behind a young woman who mislaid her purse one evening, missed a part of the photography, because the worn an stood up to conduct her search for the lost article, but then enjoyed a lit tie unintentional comedy which othet patrons missed. it was during a court scene put on by the Vitaphone. and the court was hearing parties in a separate support l action. Those seated behind the young* woman searching for her property were I getting fidgety when the judge rapped s his gavel, and ordered. “Order in tht ( court, sit down!” The woman was so surprised that she sank back into her seat, and there she discovered the missing purse' where it had fallen. — Springfield l Union. ( — t Not Mentioning Names 5 Live volcanoes are a terrible men * ace. And now and then are hideously destructive. But at that, every nation has a “shoot mouth statesman" who causes more destruction than any volcano. —Atchison Globe. ( Eagles Prey on Lambs J There is a high mortality among the young of the big.iom or mountain sheep. This is due to the toll of young taken by eagles. The lambs fall easy, victim to the big birds of prey. , Life can be made quite rosy by sub ' stituting'a pair of shoes that fit.

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Novel Gift for Senator Charles Curtis A delegation of Camp Fire Girls presenting Senator Charles Curtis, Vice President-El&et, with a beautiful lace t tapestry congratulating him in Indian symbols on his election. K Congress Considers Thirteen-Month Calendar ’ George Eastman (right), millionaire camera manufacturer, of • Rochester, who appeared before the foreign reflations committee of the house of representatives at Washington to urge the passage of the bill to introduce ; the proposed thirteen-month calendar, explaining the calendar to Representative Stephen Porter, chairman of the r committee.

NEW SENATOR i ’ " I- .*» ‘ O. A. Larrozolo, elected to the United States senate from New Mexico to complete the term of the late Senator A. A. Jones. WEISSMULLER QUITS i • • * • . * ; \ | Johnny Weissmuller, proclaimed by many as the greatest swimmer of all time, is to retire from amateur competition following his performance in scholastic swimming championships in Chicago on January 3. ' The Inveterate Fan "These cooking experts are always writing aboui thick batter,” said the mire male reader of Woman’s Home Companion. “Anybody knows that the bept batter in professional baseball is a thick batter.”—Woman’s Home Companion. Would Not Have Learned “We wish that we could live our lives over again,” said Hi Ho. the sage of Chinatown. “We should only be carried on in the social momentum to make the same old mistakes.”—Washington Star. Stone-Age Razor The grandaddy of all razors seems to have been discovered. One found by archeologists near Amiens. France, is estimated to'be 10.000 years old. Apiuirently It was used by Stone-age dandies. * • • * ■

Celtic Going to Pieces on Rocks j >: i fI ’! | ' i 4 ‘ - . , - * — El Sjgsssm.:.- . - i J The famous liner Celtic on the rocks near Roche’s point. Queenstown, Ireland, where she is being battered to pieces by the sea. Site was abandoned by her owners. Having a Ride on the Biggest Pig Fred Laptad, one of the most successful of Kansas farmers, owns this j huge Duroc boar on which his ten-year-old daughter Alice is taking a ride. The animal, which is believed to be the largest hog in tiie world, is seven feet four indies long. FROM HERE AND THERE

Mink farming is a rapidly developing industry in Alaska. New Zealand has a suicide rate considerably higher than that in Great Britain. Ecuador’s entire farming region has almost Uniform temperature through the yeaA Twenty-five years ago, the first flight in a henvier-than-air machine %isted 59 seconds.

Os the old Roman town of London, there remain only thirteen fragments of wall and brick work now visible. The first iron bridge in the world spans the River Severn in England. It was built in 1778, and called Iron bridge. Experiments indicate that X-rays may be used to detect dangerous weakness in trees that appear sound on the surface.

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