Heppner gazette., July 29, 1909, Image 6

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Meredith Nicholson
Copyhic.ht 1903
Thk Bobbs-Mkkrill Compaht
CHAPTER VII. (Continued.)
"Well. Jim." he said, putting out his
Annd. "I hope you're feelin' out of
tight." Wheaton took his hand and salt,
good evening, lie threw opeu his coat
nd put down his hat.
"A little fresh air wouldn't hurt you
Rny," he said, tipping himself hack iD
his chair.
"Well, I guess your own freshness will
make up for it," stud Snyder.
Wheaton did not smile; he was verj
rool and master of the situation.
"I came to see what you want, and it
had better not be much."
"Oh, yon cheer up, Jim," said Snyder,
with his ugly grin. "I don't know that
you've ever done so much for me. 1
don't want you to forget that I did tinu
for you once.''
"You'd better not rely on that too
much. I was a poor little kid and all
the mischief I ever knew I learned from
you. What is it you want now?"
"Well. Jim. you've seen fit to pet me
fired from that nice lonesome job you
got me, back in the country."
"I had nothing to do with It. The
ranch owners sent a man here to repre
sent them and I had nothing more to do
AND LET HER DRIVE
with it. The fact is I stretched a point
to put you in there. Mr. Saxton hah
taken the whole matter of the ranch out
of my hands."
"Well, I don't know anything about
that," said Snyder, contemptuously. "But
that don't many any mfference. I'm out,
and I don't know but I'm glad to be out.
That was a fool job-; about the lonesom
est thing I ever struck. Your frienri
Saxton didn't seem to take a shine to
me; wanted me to go chasing cattle al!
over the Northwest "
"He flattered you," said. Wheaton. a
faint smile drawing at the corners of hi
mouth.
"None of that kind of talk," returned
Snyder, sharply. "Now what you got tc
buf ffr vrnrplf V
"It isn't necessary for me to say any
thing a:iout myself,' said Wheaton, cool
ly. "What I'm going to say is that
you've got to get out of here in a hurry
and stay out."
"Don't get funny, Jim. Large bodies
move slowly. It took me a long time to
find you and I don't intend to let you go
in a hurry."
"I have no more jobs for you; if yoi:
stay about here you'll get into trouble
I was a fool to send you to that ranch. I
heard about your little round with the
sheriff, and the gambling you carried on
In the ranch house."
"Well, when you admit you're a fool
you're getting on," said Snyder, with a
chuckle.
"Now I'm going to make you a fair
offer; I'll K've you one hundred dollar
to clear out go to Mexico or Canada
n
"Raise your price, Jim," said Snyder.
"A hundred wouldn't take me very far.'
"Oh ves, it will. What I'll do," Whea
ton went on undisturbed, "is to buy yoi
a ticket to Spokane to-morrow. I'll meet
you here and give you your transporta
tion and a hundred dollars in cash. Now
that's all I'll do for you, and it's a lot
more than you deserve."
"Oh, no, it ain't," said Snyder.
"And it's the last I'll ever do."
"Don't be too sure of that. I want
five hundred and a regular allowance, say
twenty-five dollars a month."
"I don't intend to fool with lyou," said
Wheaton, shffrply. He rose and picked
up his hat. "What I offer you is opt oi
pure kindness; we may as well under
stand iich other. You and I are walking
along different lines. I'd be glad to see
you succeed in some honorable business ;
you're not too old to begin. I ean't hare
A L
rou around here. It a out ox tne i
tlon my giving you a pension. I can't
do anything or the kind."
His tone gradually softened; he took
on an air of patient magnanimity. Sny
der broke In with a sneer.
"Ix)ok here, Jim, don't try the goody
goody business on me. You think you're
mighty smooth and you're mighty good
and you're gettin on pretty fast. Your
picture lu the papers Is mighty handsome,
and you looked real swell In them fino
clothes up at the banker's talkin' to that
girl." .
"That's another thing,' said Wheaton,
still standing. "I oiiffht to refuse to da
anything for you after that. Getting
drunk and attacking me couldn t possi
bly do you or me any good. It was sheer
luck that you weren't turned over to thi
police."
"That' old preacher gave me a pretty
hard Jar"
"You ought to be jarred. You're no
good. You haven't even been successful
in your own particular line of business.
"There ain't nothing against me any
where." said Snyder, doggedly.
"I have different information." said
Wheaton. blandly. "There was the mat
ter of that postoffice robbery in Michi
gan: attempted bank robbery in Wiscon
sin, and a few little things, of that sort
scattered through the country, that makt
a pretty ugly list. But they say you'rt
not verv stronst in the profession." lit
smiled an unnleasant smile.
Snvder drew his feet from the table
and jumped up with an oath.
"Look nere, Jim, if you ain't playin
square with me "
"I intend playing more than square
with vou. but I want you to know that
I'm not afraid of you; I've taken the
trouble to look you up. The Pinkertons,
have long memories, he said, significant
ly.
Snyder was visibly impressed, and
Wheaton made haste to follow up his ad
vantage. "You've got to get away from here
Billy, and be in a hurry about it. At I
to-morrow night."
"Make it two hundred, Jim," whined
Snyder.
Wheaton paused In the door; Snyder
had followed him. They were the same
ME ALL OVER TOWN.
height as they stood up together.
"That's too much money to trust you
with."
"The more money the farther I can
get,1' pleaded Snyder.
"I'll be here at 8 to-morrow night,"
said Wheaton, "and you stay here until
I come."
Two or three men who were sitting in
the office below eyed Wheaton curiously
as he went out. The thought that they
might recognize him from his portraits
in the papers pleased him.
He retraced his steps from the hotl
and boarded a car filled with people of
the laboring class who were returning
from an outing in the suburbs. They
were making merry in a strange tongue,
and their boisterous mirth was an offense
to bim. He was a gentleman of position
returning from an errand of philan
thropy, and he remained on the plat
form, where the atmosphere was purei
than that within, which was contaminat
ed by the rough young Swedes and theii
yellow-haired sweethearts. When he
reached The Bachelors' the dozing China
roan told him that all the others wert
out. He went to his room and spent the
rest of the evening reading a novel which
he had heard Evelyn Porter mention the
night that he had dined at her house.
The next day he bought a ticket to Spo
kane, and drew one hundred dollars from
his account in the bank. He went at
8 o'clock to the Occidental to keep his
appointment, and found Snyder patiently
waiting for him in the hotel office, hold
ing a shabby valise between his knees.
At the railway station Wheaton step
ped inside the door and pulled two sealed
envelopes from his pocket. "Here's your
ticket, and here's your money. The tick
et's good through to Spokane; and that's
your train, the first one in the shed. Now
I want you to understand that this is the
last time, Billy ; you've got to work and
make your own living. I can't do any
thing more for you ; and what's more, I
won't."
"All right. Jim," said Snyder. "You
won't ever lose anything by helping me
along. You're in big luck and it ain't
going to hurt you to give me a little
boost now and then."
"This is the last time," said Wheaton,
firmly, angry at Snyder'a hint for fur
ther assistance.
Wheaton stood inside the station and
watched the man cross the electric-lighted
platform, show his ticket at the rate,
and walk to the train. He etill waited,
watching the car which the man boarded,
a(U the train rolled out Into the nlfkt
CHAPTER VIII.
Saxton dined alone at the Clarkson
Club, ns he usually did, and went after
ward to his office, which he still main
tained in the Clarkson National Build
ing. He had been studying the report of
an engineering expert on a Colorado Ir
rigation scheme and ho was trying to
master and correct its weaknesses. As
he hung over the blue-prints and the
pages of figures that lay before him, the
flashing red wheels of Mabel Margrave's
trap kept interfering. He thought he
understood why his friend Warry had
been so occupied In his office of late;
but whether Warry and Evelyn Torter
were engaged or not, Warry ought to
find better use for his talents than In
amusing Mabel Margrave. The elevator
outside discharged a passenger; he heard
the click of the wire door as the cage
receded, followed by Raridan's quick step
in the hall, and Warry broke in on him.
"Well, you're, the limit! I'd like to
know what you mean by roosting up here
and not staying in your room where a
white man can find you." He stood with
his hands thrust into the pockets of his
top-coat, and glared at Saxton, who lay
back .in his chair. "I wish I could rattle
you ; once and shake you out of your
Harvard aplomb!"
"That's a very pretty coat you have
on, Mr. Raridan. It must be nice to be
a plutocrat and wear clothes like that."
"The beastly thing doesn't fit," growled
Raridan, throwing himself into a chair.
"I don't fit, and my clothes don't fit, and
ft
"And you're having a fit. You'd better
see a nerve specialist."
"I say, Saxton," he said, calmly.
"Well! Has Vesuvius subsided?" Sax
ton sat up in his chair.
"What a merry-go-round of a fool I
make of myself! As I'm a living man,
I had no more intention of driving with
that girl than I had of going up in a bal
loon and walking back. You know I
never knew her well ; I don't want to
know her, for that matter; not on your
life !"
"Is this a guessing contest? I suppose
I'm the goat. Well, you didn't care for
Miss Margrave's society ; is that what
you're driving at? She shan't hear this
from me ; I'm as safe as a tomb. More
over, I don't enjoy her acquaintance. Go
ahead now, full speed."
"And it was just my luck that I got
caught this afternoon," continued Warry,
ignoring him.- "Sometimes it seems to
me that I'm predestined and foreordained
to do fool things. I've been working on
a washerwoman's suit against the Trans
continental running their switch through
her back yard and I had put away all
kinds of temptation and was feeling par
ticularly virtuous ; but here came the
Margrave nigger with that girl's note,
and I went up the street in long jumps
to meet her, and let her drive' me all
over town and all over the country. I
wish you'd do something to me; hit me
with a club, or throw me down the ele
vator, or do something equally brutal and
coarse that would jar a little of the folly
of me. Why," he continued, with utter
self-contempt, through which his humor
glimmered, "I ought to have turned down
Mabel's invitation as soon as I saw the
monogram on her note paper. Three
colors, and letters as big as your hand !
My instinctive good taste falters, old
man ; it needs restoring and chastening."
"I quite agree with you, sir. But it's
more gallant to abuse yourself than Miss
Margrave's stationery that is, if I am
correctly gathering up the crumbs of
your thought."
"See here, John, she means a whole lot
to me. You know whom I mean." Sax
ton knew he did not mean Mabel Mar
grave. "You know," Raridan went on,
"we were kids together up there on those
hills. We both had our dancing lessons
at her house, and did such stunts as that
together."
"Yes," said Saxton.
"I want to work and show that I'm
some good.. I want to make myself wor
thy of her." He got up and walked the
floor, while Saxton sat and watched him.
"I can't talk about it ; you understand
what I want to do. It has seemed to me
lately that I have more to overcome than
I can ever manage." He stood at the
window playing with the cord of the
shade and looking out over the town.
Saxton walked to the window and stood
by him, saying nothing; and after a mo
ment he put his hand on Raridan's shoul
der and turned him round, and grasped
Warry's slender fingers in his broad,
strong hand.
"I understand "how it is,- old.'man. It
isn't "so bad as you think it is, I'm sure.
It will all come out right."
(To be continued.)
SpriiiK in the Park.
They strolled through the park.
Every few seconds he would blissfully
squeeze her hand. And all the loung
ers and nurse maids on the benches
grinned their broadest.
"Clarence," she whispered, red with
blushes, "stop this instant."
"Oh, don't worry, darling," he
laughed. "I am only showing my sen
timent." "Yes, but I don't like that kind of
sentiment."
"Why not, dear?"
"Because it Is 'public sentiment."'
Quite Safe.
She Have you any strawberries?
Dealer Yes'm. Here they are
?l.oO per box.
She Goodness! They're miserable
looking, and so green.
Dealer I know, ma'am; but thero
ain't enough in a box to do you any
harm.
He Had the Er Part.
Wifey It certainly does one good
to have Dr. Jolly when one Is sick.
Hubby Oh! I don't think he is any
better than the other do-tors.
"But he Is so pleasant."
"Well, how can he be otherwise
when he Is getting $3 for a ten-minute
call?"
New Complexities.
"What do the letters R. S. V. P. at
the bottom of this Invitation mean?"
asked Mr. Cumrox.
"Why, everybody knows that they
signify 'Please answer.'"
"Great Scott! This spelling reform
la playing smash. Isn't it?" Washing
ton Star.
Cultivation of Corn. .
When corn is planted after the first
tveek in June the land needs more at
tention than when prepared earlier.
If plowed early the weeds will have
made an appearance, which Is an ad
vantage, as they can be destroyed be
fore the corn is planted; but the late
corn will be more easily injured by
drought than that which has made an
earlier start. The crop should be cul
tivated after every rain, bo as to-prevent
loss of moisture. Another point
is to thin out the plants if they are
too thick. It would be difficult to in
duce many farmers to "thin out" their
corn, as they would claim that the
land, having been manured, was capa
ble of providing for as manyv Btalks
in the hills as made their .appear
ance; it is not a matter of plant food
with late corn, however, but moisture.
When too many stalks are close, to
gether there is a struggle for exist
ence; some become weeds to the oth
ers, and In the end only the most vig
orous make growth, and yield gratn
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up to the average. It is, therefore,
better to remove every stalk that
shows lack of growth, and if the hero
ic remedy of reducing the stalks to
two in a hill could be tried on a plot
by way of experiment, the result
would be satisfactory, as well as con
vince farmers that there is nothing
gained by endeavoring to grow three
or four Dlants in a space which only
two should occupy. If rainfall con
tinues to be abundant, as has been the
case for June, there will be no neces
sity for reducing the number of
Dlants.
Croaalng- a Barbed Wire Fence.
Two stout boards are nailed to
gether, as shown In Fig. 1, and may
be used for crossing a barbed wire
fence. They should be 10 or 12 Inches
INVERTED V STILE.
wide and 2 feet longer than the fence
is high to give the desired ' spread.
Firmly nail four cleats on each board
and fasten a short board between the
two to assist in getting over the fence.
STEPS TO CO OVEB THE FENCE.
Another device somewhat more elab
orate is a double set of steps, shown
in Fig. 2. Women and children will
have no difficulty in using this, but
might find it Inconvenient to get over
he narrow board. Farm and Home.
Cauae of Bitter Milk.
Recent experiments on the Ontario
p-rnoriment Farm Bhow that the yeast-
lAV.
like micro-organism of bitter torula la
th cause of much bitter milk and
cheese. Factories in that section have
complained of the bitterness of the
milk, and as a consequence the experi
ment station has conducted extensive
Investigations as to the cause. Cul-
lira of the torula were added to milk
and cheese that had been sterilized,
and In each case a bitter taste was
the result It was not found in milk
drawn Into sterilized dishes, but was
found reeuariy In mixed milk, in the
solutions used for can washes, and
also on the leaves of trees under
which the cans were habitually kept.
The remedies are to cool the milk
promptly and to guard It from infec
tion of nay kind. All cans and other
utensils should be carefully washed
and sterilized by heat The Connecti
cut experiment station discovered sev
eral years ago that a apeclea of bac
teria was the cause of bitter mult ana
cream. This can be rendered harm
less by sterilization.
M i mi i II
' Many Course In Agriculture.
A ' total of eighty-seven different
courses of study In the long and mid
dle courses in agriculture at the Col
lege of Agriculture of the University
of Wisconsin Is shown In the .new
catalogue of the university just is
sued. These do not Include the work
In the nine other special departments,
such as home economics, the short
course, three dairy courses, the farm
era' course, farmers' institutes, home
making course, and experimental sta
tion work. These eighty-seven courses
Include thirteen each In soils and agri
cultural chemistry, twelve each In ani
mal husbandry and horticulture,
eleven In dairy husbandry, eight in
agricultural engineering, seven In bac
teriology, five each in agricultural eco
nomics and agronomy, and one In
agricultural Journalism.
Mottled Bntter.
Streaky or mottled butter may be
caused by the salt, or it may be due to
the working of the butter. The salt 1s
so evenly diffused in the finest kind of
butter that, as is shown by a micro
scope, every grain is surrounded by
a film of clear and transparent brine,
which points out the necessity of
avoiding the overworking of the but
ter before the salt is added. In tho
first working every particle of milk
should be gotten rid of, but enough
clear water should be left to dissolve
every grain of salt in twelve hours
before the next working. If this be
done there will be but little danger of
streakiness in the butter, but to get
the best results the salt should be very
finely ground.
Have Scalea at Home.
The weights and measures law
has gone into effect. After this, If
you buy anything, expecting to get so
much, you are entitled to get it or the
manufacturer or producer can be fined
for the short weights. If the weight
is below what the package says, the
only way it can be legally sold is for
the dealer to tell you the weight
This will hit all short-weight packages
and "commercial weights" of every
nature.
Everyone should have scales at
home. The man who handles much
grain or stock should have five-ton
scales. He is quite apt to secure bet
ter weights from some stock buyers if
they know he has scales at home. To
know what the stock that Is being full
fed is doing is'also one of the great ad
vantages of having scales on the farm.
Small scales in the house will also
help to enforce the law of weights and
measures. Flour, meal, sugar, in fact,
everything, must "weigh out" or the
one responsible for the short weight
is liable to a fine. See that the law
Is enforced, now we have It Farm
ers' Breeze.
Buttermilk for Sheep Tlcka.
It Is claimed that by pouring butter
milk freely along the backs of sheep it
will prove a remedy for tickB. If a
gill of kerosene is added to a gallon
of buttermilk the remedy will be Im
proved, as the kerosene forms aa
emulsion with buttermilk and, does no
harm to the animal. The remedy will
cost but little and should be given a
trial by way of experiment It is also
claimed that if buttermilk is given a
horse it will serve better than any
other remedy for bots. Thes reme
dies were suggested by parties who
have tested them.
Sore Shouldera on Horaea.
The hide and flesh of a young horse
are more tender than those of an old
work horse. If the shoulders of the
young horse are allowed to become
sore during the first season's work it
Is likely that they will be sore or ten
der all the rest of the animal's life.
If the young horse passes through the
first season without injury the shoul
ders become toughened and with good
treatment are likely never to become
sore. Field and Farm.
illaeaaea of Mexican Sheep.
For several years past the sheepmen
of the Southwest have suffered serious
losses from a disease known among
the Mexican herders as "plngue."
"Plngue" is popularly supposed to be
caused by eating either the leaves or
roots of a plant which baa in the
last few years been quite prominent
in the public eye as the rubber plant
of rubber weed. Hot water and salt
is an efficacious remedy.
PACTS IS TABLOID FOWL
South America had newspapers as
long ago' as .1594. ' , -
The city death rate is generally
greater in winter than in summer.
Australia has more unemployed area
In Drooortion to population than any
other country.
Rhode Island received its name irom
what was supposed to be a reBem-
plance In contour to the Island of
Rhodes in the Mediterranean.
Mrs. Isabella McCosh, wife of the
late president of Princeton Univer
sity, has Just celebrated her - ninety
second birthday. J. W. Alexander haa
Just finished a portrait of Mrs. Mo
Cosh, which he has given to the uni
versity. Among the 6,000,000 working wom
en in this country there are nearly a
million widows are nearly 800,000
married women whose husbands have
failed to provide for them. Nearly
100,000 divorced women are among
the wage earners.
Mrs. Sarah Piatt Decker and the
newly formed Public Service League
of Women, have made a successful
fight against the ordinance which had
been "sneaked through" the Denver
board of aldermen to permit the feed
ing of brewery swill to milch cows.
Mrs. Chapman Catt prdlcted in St
James' Hall on Monday that Woman's
suffrage would come "as surely as the
sun would rise on the morrow." It
Is only fair to explain that Mrs. Chap
man Catt Is from the United States,
and has had no experience of our Eng
lish sunrises. London Globe.
The Prussian government is to issue
a loan, the proceeds of which are to
be used for the construction and equip
ment of new branch line railroads.
One line of the road is to have elec
tric traction, for which $476,000 is set
aside. The total amount to be expend
ed under this loan bill is $55,753,000.
Beans, bean cake and bean oil are
the principal products of Manchuria.
The prices of these during the last
season have been higher than ever be
fore, but how much of this is due to
the ability of Japan, a gold standard
country, to pay more In silver, because
silver has been cheap, can not be posi
tively stated.
The Korean grass used in the manu
facture of grass cloth is grown very
thickly and is usually cut the second
or third year after planting the roots.
The grass reaches a height of four to
five feet, and with a proper start and
under favorable conditions yields, it is
roughly estimated, about 3,000 pounds
to an acre.
Hitherto skulls of prehistoric men
have been said to resemble those of
great apes, but now comes a distin
guished French anthropologist and de
clares that one. which- has recently
been discovered is almost an exact re
plica of that of Bismarck. Does this
mean that prehistoric men had superb
cranial development, or it 1b a Gaelio
fling at "M. le Bismarck?" New York
Tribune.
Mother Francis Xavler Cabrlnl, bu-perlor-general
of the Missionary Sisters
of the Sacred Heart, has Just returned
to this country from Brazil, where she
recently opened a college for the high
er education of women. This is the
fifty-eighth institution established by
the order In twenty-seven years. The
Institutions Include colleges, schools,
hospitals and orphan asylums.
An electrically wired tablecloth,
upon which ornamental electric light
fixtures diffuse illumination the mo
ment they are set down, is one of the
latest and most, interesting illuminat
ing devices designed In England, says
Popular Mechanics. To the uninitiat
ed the ability to get a light by sim
ply placing a flix.ture on the table Is
nothing less than extraordinary, but
the explanation is simple.
Recent exploration of the Athabasca-Mackenzie
region shows that it con
tains many valuable fur-bearing ani
mals, and it appears also to be the
home of the last wild remnant of the
American bison family. The herds of
bison are not numerous, and they are
being rapidly exterminated by wolves.
The Canadian musk ox also inhabits
this region, and in the spring, when
the rivers and springs escape from the
frost, great flocks of birds, including
most of the migratory game birds of
America, resort thither to breed.
What might be called a tabloid
watch has just been made by a watch
maker of Locle, Switzerland, says the
London Globe. The thickness is said
to be only three millimeters, so, a
meter being only thirty-nine inches,
one can estimate the thickness of the
watch. Taking the case and a glass It
Is found the works occupy a space
1.9 millimeters. The spring is half a
millimeter. What makes this achieve
ment of the Locle watchmaker more
extraordinary is that It is asserted
that the watch keeps time, varying
only five seconds In twenty-four hours.
The Philadelphia Press has won the
first round In Its fight to abolish toll
roads and toll gates In Pennsylvania,
A legislative commission has been ap
pointed to investigate the whole sub
ject and report to the next legislature
on the best means of getting rid of
what the press calls a nuisance and a
check on commercial progress of the
State. "There Is much Information to
be gathered In regard to these roads,
for though they have existed since the
early days of oar history they have
not been the aubejet of official reports
and great Ignorance prevail in regard
to them." says the Press.