Hubbard enterprise., May 27, 1921, Image 14

fTTERI
“Jt has!
fccks, mind you. Get thing’s simple as A B C, and not half
it in bills. Ncfmonif
h the cash on him, as dangerous as running a traction en-,
him out here | Qf J
Í loosening up, if it gine or breaking a broncho. It all
and I’ll do || |re wmf; *;
rests on getting him out here with the
comes to that.*'
|id ajyhat alarmed at the money, and that’s where you come in.
Riles was sc/
fan EÉjé? cohversátion. • He I don’t mind .telling you if it wasn’t
sinister turn o l
dh about getting- the for-the help, yoq-Cai^ give there I’d
had no •compui
handle,, the
myself, and\save divid­
BA CK -YA R D F O W L S W IL L PAY
who|had entij£flub|^; f t p .w,.th ¡¡1 1 1 ing the proc^dcls^Y
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amt mission, but he . ..“ Yes, that’3 the point, all right,” said
charge of thei:we c.esDect for ¡¡ 1 force Riles, somewhat dubiously. “ How’re:
bad consideraban(i
spect ror tne torce,
St. Louis Woman Writes Pepartment
we goin’ to’ get him out here with all
of Agriculture of Her Success
if. not the print J ^ 7 he M
that
money?”
«‘You don’t n / ^ nf that ^
With Hen Flock.
“ Think, Riles,” said Gardiner, puff­
thin’—anythin’ i?fi 5f|l wasn t right?’’ he
ing complacently at a :• fresh cigar. (Prepared by the United States Depart­
said. “ I would y
g H mlxed P
“Think hard.”
\
ment of Agriculture.)
in no scrape, y ^ e jffiB
t
you
think
more
of
Riles
wrinkled
his
forehead
and spat
During the war and since the United
“You mean Ml w:
your skin thaniiely_<u do- of Harris’ coin. copiously at the front hub, but the in­ States Department of Agriculture has
Well, there’s nkftM ¿counting for tastes. sp ira tion . would not come. “ I give it encouraged the keeping of a poultry*
anything wrong— up,” he said at last.: “ You’ll have t’
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as
for
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flock in the city back-yard as one of
low me better than plan it, an’ I’ll carry it out.”
you ought to
the best means of cutting the high
[on be clean and above
“ That's what comes of hard work, cost of living.
that. It will
iolence. if It can be Hiram; you lose all your Imagination.
board, and no
When proper care has been given
helped, but if |st*tarri$ Is unfortunate Right now you haven’t any more im­ the flock the results ,in most instances
for
that.
O
f
course,
agination : than a cabbage. Now, I
nobody’s to bla 1
o take a sportsman’s could suggest a dozen schemes to suit have been v<ery gratifying. A woman
if you’re afrah
df of $40,000, call the the purpose if I had to, but one will living in St. Louis recently wrote the
chajice for one
department concerning the success that
lots of other fish to do. Suppose this:
deal off. I’ve
attended the efforts.
“These
mountains
up
here
are
full
fry.”
“I hear people say hen’s don’t pay,
5%erstand,”
said
Riles.
o f coal—more coal than can be burnt
“ You don’t
but
surely they cannot have kept ac­
but I don’t want t* in a million years. It’s a bad road In
“ I ain’t a’scari
counts and records. I have had a small
get
us
into
trouble,
but
once
you
get
there
you’ll
see
it
ly­
do nothin’ tha
d neighbor o* mine, ing in seams, 10, 15, 20 feet thick, flock of 24 hens in my city back-yard
Harris is an
A»
and stretching right through the rocks since the government urged us to get
an’------|
jj(d
perfectly.
You
as far as you will like to follow it into the game three years ago. The
“I
understi
following are the results for the year
wouldn’t mind ■piece o f Harris’ money That coal’s going to make a bunch of ending October 31, 1920: My entire
||ter
and
wrapped
in
millionaires
Some
day,
but
not
until
served on a
you can get at it with something big­ feed bill, the grain being bought at
tissue paper,
ger than a cayuse. But railroads come retail, amounted to $66.74.
“My entire egg production was 3,603
fast in this country, and there’s no
saying how soon a man might cash in eggs, o* 30014 dozens, the retail mar­
ket valué of which, taken from month
If he invested just now.”
“ You ain’t goin* t’ wait till a rail to month, was $189.30. Deducting
road comes, are you? We’ll like $66.74 from the above $189.30 leaves
me a net profit of $122.56 for my
enough be dead by that time.”
work and investment.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
We used all the newly laid eggs
Seeing Through Other's Eyes.
we wished for our own table and the
We all have our natural tendency to­ balance went to our neighbors, who
ward a bias of one sort or another. are more than anxious to get them
When we see through other’s eyes we even at top store prices. The last 12
also add their bias to our -own. There months, when feed was unusually
is a possibility that one bias will coun high, the c^st of egg production aver­
teract the other. If so it is well. It aged 22 % cents per dozen, and the
is also possible that one bias will add lowest market price for eggs was in
very greatly to another. Then what an May and June, when they sold for 50
unfair verdict you must render. Poor cents per dozen.
judgment is sure to follow and shame
I will add that all our hens are
Will lay at your door before you dream leg-banded and trap-nested. The hen
it possible. Yet most of us are to more house is eight feet square and the
or less extent guilty of the habit. It’s hens are confined all the year round
so easy to take our start from where to a run eight feet wide and 50 feet
others leave off. We are compromised long. Starting in August I- begin
to the extent that we lean on their culling and killing the older ones and
judgments. It isn’t fair and' often the poorest layers which have a rec-
leads to sorrow.
Don’t make too much fun o f the
other fellow’s glasses. He may be bad­
ly biased, but then you have no means
of knowing how you look in his eyes.
We are all more or less influenced by
our heredity and environment. So the
■Wte» 4hlDg4s 40 get all the.-factg-pos-
sible before we pass judgment.
“I Won't HoIaYou to Anything You
Said l|{t Night, Riles.”
Cow Had Novel Ride.
Motorists of Williamsport, Pa.,
else to take tl chances. Now, there
won’t be anyliances to speak of, but waiting at a railroad crossing for a
what there &) you take your share. train to pass, found out the reason
If that’s a b^rain it’s a bargain, and why the pilot of a locomotive is
if it isn’t weflltalk about the weather. called a cowcatcher. On that part of
the engine a middle-aged cow sat,
What d’you fsr?”
“ It’s a bargjn,” said Riles, "provid­ taking In the view, if not enjoying
the ride. When the motorists signaled
ed your plan’lwork out.”
“ It’s got to/ork out. It’s like going the engineer the train stopped and
up in a ballob—if it doesn’t work out the cow was assisted from her perch,
it’s all off wit the engineer. You got none the worse for her experience.
to take the Jcmce, Hiram, and then Where and how she was picked up,
the train men did not know.
make good on he chance.”
Riles chewe vigorously at his to­
On Peruvian Railways.
bacco. ^Exjfl.n how« you’re goin’ to
The railways of central Peru spread
pull it off,” Jnsaid, “ an* then I’ll tell
out in a Y, at: the right-hand end of
you yes or fio
“ Not on yo* life,” said Gardiner, Which is Huancayo, something more
don’t shdwny hand until I know than 200 miles from Lima. At every
railroad station, old women crowd
who’s sittingBross.”
There Wa*ilence for one-half a through the cars selling the favorite Gratifying Results Can Be Obtained
From Small Flock If Given
iriile, while lb s turned the matter nectar of the Incas, all purchasers
Proper Care and Feed.
over in his nwl. He was naturally a drinking from the same cup, and gen­
coward, but gjwas equally a money- erally several from the same filling. ord of 15 eggs or less per month, and
grabber, ana't was one instinct Nearly every traveler has his own sup­
in October I renew the flock by add­
against the oth. Avarice won it, and ply o f a more potent native beverage.
ing one dozen new spring pullets.
at length he es nded his hand to Gar­
These pullets now, in November, are
diner. “ Fm iion anythin* you’re in
What men want Is not talent; It is
all laying and will continue laying
on,” he said.B
purpose.; in other words, not the pow­
through
the winter, while my older
“ That souib I s ike it,” said Gardiner, er to achieve, but the will to labor.—
hens get through molting.
with enthuslia,:! : “Now the whole Bulwer.
“ Keeping the hens and surroundings
scrupulously clean and feeding a bal­
JE W E LS ( f t o
in
w a t c h e s j ciflc purpose which they serve they are anced ration at regular intervals is
invaluable. The jewels usually used the secret of success with a back-yard
flock.”
Hard Substai» Is Needed to ; With- In watchmaking are the hardest of
the precious stones, diamonds, sap
stand thè db tant Friction Which
phires and rubies, and of these the C A P O N IZ E D T U R K E Y IS Q U IE T
Wears Avy Moving Parts.
most generally used is the sapphire,
which combines hardness with com­ Of Considerable Advantage in Getting
The prlnclmeason for the deterl- paratively reasonable price.
Them in Excellent Condition
oratibn of arfciece o f machinery Is
for Marketing.
because the ■stant friction wears
Vegetation Carpets Sudan River.
away the-moil parts and Interferes
The search for convenient ways of
Very little has ever been done In the
with the j regMty o f the mechanism. transportation by which the products
A watch, bema machine in which of the Sudan may reach the outer way o f caponizlng turkeys, but when
absolute unifir ty of speed is essen­ world attracts attention to a remark­ it has been tried the capons were found
tial, it 'is n « a r y to reduce this able phenomenon of vegetable life on to be much quieter in disposition and
friction to a w num —either tftspugh some of the head waters and tribu­ less likely to range over a wide area
Constant oiliiShe use of ball bear­ taries of the Nile. This consists of than the toms, and this character
ings or.some 7 « Jiard material whiCh enormous growths of papyrus and should be of considerable advantage
will wttflstanjijie wear and tear of other plants, ¿completely covering the in getting them in condition for the
constant frici'. The first two of streams and forming carpets o f vege­ market.
these methodi e not feasible iii so tation two or three feet thick, be­
small a p ie ft f machinery as a neath Which flows the water. Naviga­ A VO ID R O U P -IN F E C T E D EGGS
watch, so cferfivery hard jewels are tion by small boats is, of course, pre­
placed at var® points to counteract vented by this obstruction, which is Select Eggs From Flock Which Has
Not Been Infected Wherever It
the rubbing fted by the moving in . places supplemented by vines and
Is Possible.
parts.
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overhanging plants that arch the
Watches a| generally equipped streams from bank to bank. Heavy
It is not advisable to set eggs from a
with 7, 15, 1 1 8 , 21 or 23 jew­ floods occasionally sweep away the ac­
flock that has been infected with roup.
els, the 15 aibl7-jewel types being cumulation of plants, but they are If at all possible, by all means select
the most popir. Intrinsic lly, the quickly reformed.
hatching eggs from another flqck which
jewels used Irthe manufacture of
Spend less time doing penance and has not been so infected or from hens
watches, are plttle value, but from
which have never had the disease.
the standnoin* service and the sne- more in improving your conduct.
pi; o
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CHAPTER IX —Continued.
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“ You don’t learn anything, Riles,
do you? You don’t know anything
more about making money than you
did 20 years ago.”
“ Well, maybe I don’t, and maybe I
do, but I can pay my way, au' I can go
back t’ Plainville when I like«, too.”
“Don’t get ,hot,” said Gardiner, with
unshaken composure. “ I’m just trying
to put you wise to yourself. Don’t
make any difference to me if you
spend your whole life so.d-busting ; It’s
your life— spend it any way you like.
But it’s only men who don’t know any
better that go on to the land now­
adays. It’s a lot easier to make a liv­
ing out of farmers than out of farm­
ing.” '
“Well, p’r’aps so, but that’s more in
your line. I never------”
“ That’s just what I say—you never
learn. Now look at me. I ain’t wear­
ing my last suit, nor spending my last
dollar, either, and I haven’t done what
you’d call a day’s work since I came
west. There’s other things so much
easier to do.”
“Meanin’ ?------ ”
“ Oh, lots of things. Remittance
men, for instance. These woods are
full , of them. Chaps that never could
track straight in the old ruts, and
were sent out here where there aren’t
any ruts at all. They’re not a bad
bunch ; brought up like gentlemen,
most of ’em ; play the piano and talk
in three or four languages, and all that
kind of stuffy but they’re simply dan­
gerous with money. So when it comes
to hand, in the public interest they
have to be separated from it.”
“ Sounds interestin’,” said Riles.
“ ’Tis, too, especially when one of
’em - don’t take to the treatment and
lays for you with a gun. But my
hair’s all there. That’s what comes of
wearing a tall hat.”
“Tell me,” said Riles, his fa ce’lit up
with interest, “ how d’ye do it?”
“ ’Twouldn’t do you any good,” said
Gardiner. “ You’ve steered too many
plow handles to be very nimble ,with
ypux nugers.
l3Ut>aiere’s often ôtn er
game to'be picked up, if a man knows
where to look for it.”
“ Well, I wish I knew,” Riles con­
fessed.
“ Not anythin* crooked, y*
know, but something like—well, some­
thing like you’re doin’. I’ve worked
hard for ev’ry nickel I ever made, an*
I reckon , if there’s easy money goin’
I’ve a right t* get some of it.”
“ Now you’re beginning to wake up.
Though, mind you, some of it isn’t as
easy as it looks. You’ve got to know
your business, just like farming or
anything else. But you can general­
ly land something to live on, even if it
ain’t a big stake. Take me now, for
instance. I ain’t doing anything that
a preacher mightn’t do. Happened to
fall in with a fellow who owns a ranch
up the river here. Cleaned him empty
one night at cards—stood him up for
his last cent, and he kind o* took a
notion to me. Well, he’s the son o f a
duke or an earl, or some such thing,
and not Ibng ago the governor goes
and dies on him, leaving him a few
castles and bric-a-brac like that and
some wagon loads of money. So he
had to go home for the time being, and
as he wanted someone to run his
ranch, who should he think of but me.
Suppose he thought if I happened to
bet it at poker some night I wouldn’t
lose it, and that’s some consideration.
He’s got 1,000 acres or so of land up
there, with a dozen cayuses on it, and
he gives me 25 pounds a month, with
board and lodging and open credit at
the trading company, to see that it
doesn’t walk away in his absence. Be­
sides that, I hire a man to do the
work, and charge his wages up in the
expenses. Got a gobd man, too— one
of those fellows who don’t know any
better than work for a living. By the
way, perhaps you know him—cornés
from Plainville part—Travers his
name is?”
“ Sure,” said Riles. “ He worked for
Harris, until they had a row and he
lit out. It kind o’ balled Harris up,
too, although he’d never admit it. If
he’d Travers there it’d be easier for
him t* get away now.”
“ Where’s Harris going?”
“He ain’t goin’ ; he’s cornin’. Cornin’
out here In a few days after ine. I’m
his kind o* advance guard, spyin* out
the land.”
“You don’t say? Well, see and make
him come^ through with the expenses.
I f I was traveling for Jack Harris I
wouldn’t be sleeping in a hen coop liké
this. He’s worth yards of money, ain’t
be?”
“ Oh, some, 1 guess, but perhaps not
so much more’n his neighbors.”
“ Nothing personal, Riles. You’ve
got to get over that narrowness if
you’re going to get into the bigger
game I’ve been telling you about. I
don’t care how much you’re worth—
how much is Harris bringing with
him?”
“ Couple of hundred dollars, likely.”
“ I wouldn’t show, my hand for that.
How much çan he raise?” ‘
“ Well, supposin’ he sold the old
farm— —”
“ Now don’t do any reckless suppos-,
ing. Will he sell the farm?”
“ Sure, he’ll sell it if he sees some­
thing better.”
“ How much can he get for it?” /
“Thirty or $40,000.”
“ That’s more like a stake. Hiram,
it’s up to you and me to èhow him
something better—and to show it to
him when he’s alone. * * * You’re
tired tonight. Sleep it out, and we’ll
drive over to the ranch tomorrow to­
gether. We ought to pick something
better than a homestead out of this.”
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Notwithstanding the exhaustion oc­
casioned by his journey Riles was ear^
ly about. The unexpected meeting
with Gardiner, the latter’s evident
prosperity, and his frank contempt for
men who made their living by labor,
had left a deep impression upon Riles.
He had no idea by what means Gardi­
ner proposed that they should possess
themselves'of Harris’ money, and he
felt some doubt about any such at­
tempt being regarded with success.
Nevertheless, Gardiner seemed to
think the matter a simple one enough,
and Gardiner’s good clothes and good
cigars were evidence of his ability to
carry his plans into effect.,
Riles breakfasted as soon as the
dining room was opened, eating his
meal hurriedly, as he always did, al­
beit the French-fried potatoes, to
which he was unaccustomed, could be
poisqd on his knife only with consid­
erable effort. Then he sat down in an
arm chair on the shady side of the ho-
I tel to wait for Gardiner. He had sud­
denly lost his interest in thè free
lands which had been the purpose of
his journey.
It was almost nooix^when G#,rdiJJi?r
appeared on the scene. “ You don’t
hurt you’self in the mornin’s,” was
Riles’ greeting.
“ Don’t need to,” he answered cheeri­
ly. “ Besides, I’d a long session after I
left you last night. No, no particulars
at present. I told you you had spoiled
your hands for that kind - of work.
How d’ye like this air? Isn’t that
something worth breathing?”
“ Good enough,” said Riles, “but I
didn’t còme out here for air.”
“ No, you came for land. I’m sur­
prised you’re not out bouncing over
the prairie in a buckboard long before
this.”
Riles shot a quick glance at Gardi­
ner. But he was puffing a cigar and
drinking in the warm sunshine with
obvious satisfaction.
“ So I might o* been, but I thought
we kind o’ made a date last night,
didn’t wé?”
“ Did we? Oh, yes; now I remember.
But I thought perhaps you’d feel dif­
ferent about it in the morning. A
man generally does. I won’t hold you
to anything you said last night, Riles.”
Riles could not recall that he had
said anything thati committed him in
any way, but Gardiner’s tone implied
that plainly enough.
“ I ain’t changed my mind,” he said,
“ but I don’t know ’s I said anything
bindin*, did I? I thought we was go­
in* t* drive out t’ your place t’day an’
talk things over.”
“ Well, I just didn’t want you to lose
any time over me if you thought things
wouldn’t, work out,” said Gardiner. “ It
takes more nerve, you know, than hoe­
ing potatoes. But you’re welcome to
the hospitality of the ranch, in any
case. I came in on horseback, so we’ll
get a team at one c f the stables and
drive out.”
In a short, time they were on their
way. The foad skirted the river,
threading its way through the narrow
belt of cotton woods and evergreens
that found footing in the moist soil of
the valley.
“ It’s all right, Riles,” Gardiner was
saying. “ If you’re prepared to stay
with the deal we can pull it through
—no doubt about that. That is, if
Harris will sell his farm and come out
hère with the cash in his jeans. If he
won’t do that, you better get busy on
your homestead proposition right
away.”
“ He’ll do » it all right, if he sees
somethin’ worth while. But Harris *s
no spring chicken, an* you’ll have t’
show him somethin* t* his likin’ before
he loosens up.”
“ I don’t care whether he loosens up
or not,” said Gardiner. “ All I care is
that he brings the money, and brings
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