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IAFFEE
[OARING HORSE
BY ERNEST HAYCOX
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South and west he traveled,
«* fast as the paint horse
would take him; and along
down the dark vault of the
desert the chill wind cleared
his head to give him a clearer
night of what he was about to ;
do. Pei haps he had 10 business
Betting out alone. Perhaps he
Bhould have waited for the
Stirrup S men to return from
their wild goose chase. But
that would not be until morn
ing-—they’d range the flat
land until dawn came--and
morning was too late. Theoj
dorik Perrine would be watch- j
ing then. Or else the gang j
would be scattered. If Perrine 1
was to be hit the hitting must
be done immedUtely; the
renegade had to be taught
that there was an instant re
bound to an affair like this.
Once let Perrine see the range
sleeping and debating over
such wanton aggression and
the range was lost to all
eecurity.
Such was Jim Chaffee’s
reasoning as he galloped
arrow-straight for the south
west lava flo\ country where
Perrine hid. Yet that was not
all. There was something
beyond reason that urged
Chaffee headlong into certain
trouble. The same unseen
power that had killed Dad Sut
ler lee also had driven tire
herd into the deep chasm of
the Roaring Horse. V/hatever
different instrument might
have been used for et ch deed,
the power behind was the
same. He was sure of it. Here
was a chance to show resist
ance to that power, to break
the machinelike sureness of it.
And here was a chance to ac
cept Theodorik Perrtne’s chal
lenge of Ion* standing. There
would never come a better
time.
“Theodorik dead will mean
a whole lot to this country
right now,” muttered Jim
Chaffee. “Me bein’ dead won’t
make much difference.’
Jim Chaffee in ins normal
warkaday senses would never
have crossed that first lava
Bcarp and pressed along the
tortuous path leading still
lower into the labyrinth of
pockets and pinnacles. He
would have used entirely
different methods. On this
night C'haffe was another
man. Anger tightened his
nerves and muscles. His
natural kindliness, his bouy
ant and easy-going spirit, his
law-respecting judgement—all
these were wiped out for the
time. To-night he was a stalk
ing savage. So at last he
turned a bend of the narrow
path, passed between sentinel
mounds and commanded a
view of Theodorik Perrine’s
hut one hundred yards farther
on. Dismounting, he led the
pony a little off’the trail and
behind one of these mounds,
let the reins fall, and stepped
forward with both guns drawn.
Once upon a time that had
been the home of an early
Bottler; Inevitably the settler
starved and moved away and
Theodorik had assumed ten
ancy. Nothing could grow
within a mile of the hut, but
It occupied an admirably
etrateglc location. There was
only the one trail leading in
through the lava, easily com
manded by day, easily guarded
at night. So jagged and crater
bke v/as the land on either
Bide of the trail that no horse
cculd travel there, and for a
man to attempt approach or
departure across the needle
like surface of the lava was to
Invite torn flesh and clothing.
The trail was the only safe
way of entering. There was a
rumor abroad that PerrV'e
knew of another route behind
the hut leading deeper into the
volcanic v/astes westward. If
such a route existed he alone
knew of it. Very few people
V Grandmother’s Statue.
Editorial in The Baptist.
! Among: the war adventures of
Oen. John Pershing which he Is
detail ng is a visit to King George
at Buckingham Palace. While
there, the general relates, the king,
.alter dinucr, took him to the win
dow and referring to a recent bomb
ing of Loudon pointed to the statue
Queen Victoria which stands op
the palace and exclaimed,
Kaisei9; God damn him, has
even tried to destroy the statue ot
bis own grandmother!'’
The General seems at first to
bave been deeply shocked at this
■trong language. Perhaps he re
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cared to explore the useless
and forbidding section.
A light glimmered through
the hut windows, and the
sparks, of a fire shot up from
the chimney. Chaffee crept
forward foot by foot, sweeping
the shadows for a possible
sentry along the path. After
to-night's affair Pcrrine would
not leave himself unguarded, j
Yet Chaffee found nobody op
posing his approach. Arriving
near the house he paused,
dissatisfied. He couldn’t start
a play unless he v/as certain
nobody flanked him in the
rimming darkness; so, turning, i
he began a tedious exploration
of the bowl. lie skirted a cor
ral,, seeing the vague bulk of
the horses inside; and he
dropped to his haunches,
listening. In a few minutes he
pressed on to the ramshackel
barn and there waited until
the very silenc of the place
oppressed him. Still not sure,
lie completed a second circle
and at last closed on the hut.
Uneasiness rode his shoulders.
Why wasn't a sentry some- j
where around?
He slid to a side window of
the hut and lifted his head
until he commanded a partial
view of the interior. Theodorik
Perrine and Sleepy Slade were
bent over a table playing
cards. Three of the gang sat
around the stove. That made
five. One man oiled his revol
ver in a corner. Six. Leaving
three to be accounted for, and
he couldn’t see those corners
of the place in which the
bunks were built. Ducking, he
passed to the othei side of the
window and looked again.
Two men were rolled in their
blankets and he thought he
saw the ninth and last of that
party lying in a dim corner.
But, though he tried to pene- j
trate the dark angle of the i
place, he slid away, still un- ,
certain, It might be the ninth 1
man rolled in for the night, or
it might only be a pile of j
blankets heaped up on the
bunk.
He came quietly to the door
and set the muzzle of one gun I
under the latch; before lifting
the latch and throwing the
barrier wide he debated with
his better judgement and
again set aside the small voice
of caution. If ever he was to
put the fear of the Lord into
the heart of Theodirik Per
rine it must be now, when the
man, fresh from wanton de
struction, sat relaxed and con
fident over the card game. ;
The gun muzzle rose with the
latch, the door flew open, and
he threw both guns down upon
the assembled renegades. They
couldn’t see him as he stood
outside the place and to one
side of the opening, but they
heard plain enough the brittle
snap of his command.
“Hit for the ceilin’—you!
Up! Throw ’em high in a
hustle! Sleepy—don’t move
out of that chair or I’ll spill
you all over the place! That’s
right—now you buzzards roll
off them bunks and move
back. What’re you stallin’ for,
Red? I’m not goin’ to do any
countin. Get back there, you
hairless Mexican pup! Keep
your elbows away from that
lamp, Sleepy! It won’t hurt me
none to send some of you
lousy, putty-livered coyotes to
hell and gone down the
chute!”
Nobody could miss the rest
less, j..mmed-up temper of
Jim Chaffee at that moment.
It crackled and smashed
around their heads like the
beat upon them stronger and
harsher with each word un
til it seemed he was on the
very point of ripping the hut
wide with bullets. All hands
rose; those in the bunks
I dropped to the floor and
marched back of the stove.
1 Sleepy Slade and Theodorik
Perrlne never moved from the
I caUed that the king is the titular .
I head of the Anglican church. But
he apparently recovered for. as he
writes, he "quickly realized that it
was a solemn expression of pro
found indignation, and not profan
ity." Perhaps so. It sounds to us
uncommonly like profanity, but we
1 are not expert in such matters. Let
it pass as indignation of a profound
character.
What interests us is the subject
of the indignation. The statue, as
we recall it. is an imposing and im
pressive one. It would be rather a
pity if it should be destroyed. But
at the moment hundreds of young
men were being shot down in
table. Sleepy's gaunt ana
saturnine face was an evil ,
thing to see in the lamplight; ;
Perrine’s back was turned to !
the door and the lifted fists
were doubled tight.
Eight men in the hut, no j
more. Chaffee kicked the door I
wider and saw only a huddle
of blankets on that shadow
cloaked bunk. Either the ninth
man was out in the bowl or
he had split off from the gang
earlier. It was a gamble, and
he had to move fast. “One at
a time—drop your belts. One
at a time—startin’ from the
corner!”
Belts fell. Theodorik Per
rine, staring at the opposite !
wall, threw a question over
his giant shoulders. “What
kind of a play do yuh think 1
to make, Chaffee? Yore on i
trembly ground. I’m sayin’ it. |
You ain’t got no backin’ in j
this counti /. Not any more, j
Yuh can’t make the bluff
good.”
“Stand up, Theodor' , and
slip your belt. Now sit down, i
Sleepy, do the same. Don't try 1
to stall on me. I’ts just as easy ;
to leave a few of you cattle
butchers on the floor. Sit
down, Sleepy! Theodorik, take
off your boo‘£ and throw ’em
back here."
"What’s the need o’—”
The first shock of surprise
having passed, they sparred
for time. Chaffee knew by the
way Perrine bent and hauled
at his boots that the renegade
expected a turn of the tide.
That ninth man must be in
the neighborhood. Chaffee
pulled himself a little more to
one side of the door’s opening.
“Theodorik, if that boot seems
tight I’ll help it with a little
lead. Throw it back. Other
one, too.” They came sailing
through the door. Chaffee
took one of them and slid it
beneath his belt. “Rest of you
imitation bad men do same.
Throw ’em this way.”
Perrine turned in the chair,
big face grinning malevolent
ly. “I’m plumb interested. Yuh
can’t make the bluff good. The
jail won’t held none of us.
Politics have changed, Chaf
fee. What else do you aim to
try? Stirrup S is on the slide, i
It don’t count no more.”
Boots came flying out. Chaf
fee kicked them on into the
yard. Eight men stoQd in their
socks, 'gliWering* ^‘What I aim
to do, Theodorik, is to string
all you jack rabbits on one
rope and walk you barefooted
across the lava and back to
the ranch. By the time you get '
that far you’ll be halter broke.
Then—” He stopped, thinking
he heard a remote sound be
yond the yard.
“You can’t do it!” roared
Theodorik Perrine. “You can’t
make the bluff good!”
“Barefoot,” replied Chaffee
grimly. “And if a jail won’t
hold you, then Stirrup S will. ;
We’ll break your back, Theo
dorik. That’s the beginning.
Stand up. Sleepy, get that
rope and put a hitcV around
your neck. You boys won’t be
doin’ any more dirty chores
for a while. Neither will your
boss when we find out whe he
is.”
"You’ll last about as long
as a snowball in—” began Per
rine. The rest of it was out
off by a grumbling, half
wake question from the barn.
"What’s all that racket over
there, huh?”
Theodorik Perrine’s face
turned thunder black. "He
went asleep again! It’s the last
time for him!”
‘W’hat’s the racket?” re
peated the voice, coming
nearer. Chaffee crouched as
far in the shadows as he dared.
Perrine began to shift weight
and grumble. The whole crowd
inside the hut started move
ing. Chaffee warned them
with a sibilant whisper. Per
rine laughed. Of a sudden the
ninth man out in the yard
yelled. His gun smashed the
silence, bullets ripped the
ground by the door and Per
rine shouted a warning. Chaf
fee fired at the ninth man
point-bla nk. The hut
trembled, the light went out
and confusion turned the
place upside down. Another
shot plunged past Chaffee;
France and elsewhere and the prod - ,
ucts ot the idealism of the centuries
were being wrecked and destroyed
beyond recovery. It is, at best,
curious, the things that challenge
our attention and rouse our indig
nation. The incident is illuminat
ing as a sidelight upon the psychol
ogy of war.
CANES AID BLIND
Paris—The police department has
issued to every blind person in the
city a white c:me which is a great
aid in helping them safely across
the street in automobile traffic.
The department has decreed that
when a blind person raises the cane
and ne, marking tnc source
by the mushrooming purple
point of light, matched it. He
heard the man fall.
There was no time left now.
Window glass broke. Perrine
bellowed his wrath through
the openings. Chaffee ran five
yards from the house, com
manding a dim view of the
door and the near window.
They began to find their guns
and rake the doorway from the
inside. Chaffee lifted his voice.
“Better light the lamp and
cave in. I’ve got this dump
covered.”
“Yuh ain’t broad enough to
cover it!” roared Perrine. They
placed him from his voice,
and in a moment he heard
them crawling through the
window on the far side. One
man raced headlong around
the corner, flinging lead at
each step. Chaffee dropped
him. But the tide was setting
out; they had gotten beyond
his control and in another
moment they would have him
trapped in this bowl. So, with
Theodorik Perrine’s boot still
tucked under his belt—a
valuable trophy in itself—and
knowing that he had in a
measure shaken the gang, he
raced along the path, got his
horse, and threaded the lava
to open country. He pointed
the pony toward Roaring
Horse town, dropping the
spurs. He heard Theodorik
Perrine following, and he
knew that before the night
had run its course he would
collide with the giant again.
"Bad odds from now on,” he
murmured to himself. “If I
ducked back to Stirrup S I
might find the gang home.
And we’d take Theodorik into
camp. But if the outfit ain’t
back then I'm only invitin’ a
wholesale bonfire. That’s what
Theodorik would do. If I hit
into the open country and try
to outrun those boys I ain’t
doing a thing but admit I’m
licked. And then I ain’t of any
use. I’m out. Same as havin
a price on my head. No sir, I’ll
track into town and see what
this boot tells me. They’ll fol
low. But I don’t believe they’ve
got nerve enough to try a
wholesale battle with every
body lookin’ on. TUeodorife
will brace me alone. If he ain’t
able to do it he’ll shunt an
other of the bunch on me. I
^yn’t mind that kind of a
scrap. And I can do a lot oi
duckin’ around the buildings
in case it gets too hot.”
He lost sound of the pur
suing party. Halfway to Roar
ing Horse he stopped to listen
Presently he heard the drum
of pursuit swelling through
the soft shadows; so he raced
on, into the main street of the
town, and left his horse down
a convenient back alley. It was
late, yet the saloons were still
open, a few nighthawks
loitered along the building
porches, and Doc Fancher’s
light beckoned through s
window above Tilton’s. Jim
Chaffee climbed the stairs.
Hardly had he disappeared
from sight when Theodorik
Perrine and the rest of the
renegades slipped quietly
around the rodeo field and
dismounted. There in the
darkness they debated.
“Don’t see his horse,” said
Sleepy Slade.
“He’s here, grunted Fer
rine “Runnin’ for a hole
Hidin’ out somewhere. Red,
skin down to the other end of
the street and block it. Duck,
you stay here with me. Sleepy
wait near the Gusher. Rest
scatter along the alleys. He
don’t get away, see? He’s
makin’ a payment on the
damage he did back at the
hut.” The man’s tremendous
body seemed to swell. “Jupiter,
but I hate to let him alone!
But I got orders to keep away
personal. I ain’t in no shape to
disobey, either. So, whichever
you boys see him—he’s yore
game. Get that?”
“Some town dudes roamin’
up the street,” murmured
Slade.
(TO RE CONTINUED)
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Q. Who founded the University
of Heidelberg? M. McC.
A. It was founded by the elector
Rupert 1, the bull of foundation be
ing issued by Pooe Urban VI in 1385.
above his head, it is a signal of
intention to cross, and that all
traffic should stop for him. Each
cane is stamped with a number to
insure against misuse by persons
having their sight.
Q. Do many Canadians who
come to the United States to live,
change their minds ana return to
Canada? G. P.
A Canadian* who came to the
United States to reside and who re.
turned to Canada in 1930 declar
ing their intention of remaining per
manently in that country numbered
31 60R cnmmrad with 30.479 in 1929
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4 000,000 eggs laid in Iowa last 4
4 year couid qualify as “fresh” 4
4 on the day of production. ♦
4 Those which failed, says R. ♦
4 G. Clark, state dairy and :ood 4
4 commissioner, didn’t measure
4 up to the Iowa standard in ♦
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Radio With World Rangr
To Be Set Up at Geneva
Geneva- —A special radio
station with a world-wide range for
emergency use will be established
here by the League of Nations.
Under ordinary conditions it is
to be operated by a Swiss radio
company. The Swiss government
will be entitled to have an ob
server present when the station is
run by the league.
TO HARRIET.
A portrait hangs upon my wall,
A vivid, girlish face,
With well marked brows, deter
mined chin.
Nose, tilted just a trace.
The v’ide set eyes look fearless forth,
Neath lashes long, up curled;
The flashing smile a challenge is
Or like a flag unfurled.
The brow is high; from hanging tam
Escape the tendrils bright;
The suit is dark, the V shaped neck
Is edged with modest white.
The picture says unto the world,
“I'm not afraid of you!
I mean to make the most of life,
And great things I shall do.”
Here’s to you, dauntless, happy girl!
And when you run your race,
May you display the strength, the
poise,
Now pictured in your face.
—Sam Page.
Canada's Own Governor Genera).
From Christian Science Monitor
Canada has now joined its sister
dominion, the commonwealth of
Australia, in making history by ap
pointing its own governor general
without the intervention of the
British prime minister in Downing
Street. But whereas Australia broke
new gmnnd by selecting a native
citizen as representative of King
George, Canada has followed tradi
tion in choosing a citizen of the
mother country.
Lord Bessborough, on whom the
choice of R. B. Bennett's govern
ment has fallen, is the ninth earl
of a preeminently conservative fam
ily which has been connected with
the British crown for centuries.
Lord Bessborough sat in the house
cf commons for seven years as Lord
Duncannon before succeeding to the
family title. Of late h? has devoted
more particularly to bijci;
L?$s. aild today Is chairman 6f uie
great Unilever Margarine corpora
tion and of the Sao Paulo Railway
company as well as being deputy
chairman of De Beers Ccnso'iuated
mines, all of which posts he will of
course jio$' b£ called upon to re-:
unquish. Originally Tie was trained
for the legal profession, while duj>
ing the World war he held a num
ber of staff pasts both in Gallipoli
and France. His wife, a daughter
of Baron Jean de Neuflize, come3
of French Protestant stock and is
no stranger to Canadian seffoty.
Mr. Bennett's choice solves in the
happiest manner the chief out
standing difficulty of the new sys
tem of appointing governors gen
eral. namely, the task of finding an
individual who is acceptable to the
people of Canada and personally
known to the king at the time of
his appointment. Lord Bessborough
may confidently be expected to jus
tify the high hopes being placed in
him.
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Steel Studies the Consumer.
From Forbes Magazine.
“Steel,” writes T. M. Girdler, pres*
ldent of the Republic Steel corpor
ation, in Forbes Magazine, “has
learned that when human needs can
be located, identified, prescribed for
and met, production can take care
of itself. It has learned also—and
this is far more important—that the
best trained scientific minds in the
world cannot locate these needs
within the confines of the labora
tory; that the executive thinking
today only in terms of production
is likely to find himself manufac
turing something for which the
world can find no use.
”By purchase, consolidations, and
other realignments, the steel indus
try has been moving gradually near
er to the actual users of its mer
chandise. In everything, from kit
chen utensils to cantilever bridges,
it has been studying the current and
potential uses of its products, and
though this market-mindedness is
only in its beginning, it has already
yielded enough information to indi
cate that we are now entering the
most far reaching cycle of industrial
change in our history.
“The swing of the steel industry
to merchandising has as one of its
permanent aims the prevention of
prescription errors, so to speak, by
its customers. It recognizes that now
as in the past its products must
pay their way, and that to sell a
manufacturer something which he
may be compelled to scrap before it
has paid for itself is only to limit
his future purchasing power. Even
the smaller corporations, therefore,
lot content with setting up labora
tories, are also adjusting themselves
or closer contact with the consumer,
md for the use of their research
kcilities to solve consumer prob
Ans.
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Passing Observation.
From the Cincinnati Enquirei.
Every man makes a fool of him
self at times, but the biggest fool
is the one who tries to beat the rec
ord of being the biggest fool.
Advertising His Business.
From Forbes Magazine.
The speaker was a brilliant orator
and the audience gave him propel
attention, except for one man in ths
crowd who made things bad both
for the speaker and the listeners,
by shouting out “Lair! Liar!" Aftei
about a dozen repetitions of this
the orator paused and pointing to
the tormentor, said: “If the gentle
man who persists in his remarks
will be good enough to tell us his
name, instead of merely shouting
out his profession, I am sure we will
be glad tp make bis acquaintance."
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Train Control Extended
Operation of the automatic train
control system between London and
Oxford lias proved so satisfactory
that the Great Western railway of
England lias deckled to install the
equipment on all its main lines to
Plymouth, Bristol and other impor
tant centers at a cost of more than
$1,000,000, according to cabled ad
vices received from London.
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Easy
“People keep asking the price of
meats,’’ complained the butcher.
“Put in a ticker."
Many a man thinks how good he
would be to a friend if he only had
one.
Lucky Day
Three candles 1 And each one rep
resents a year of joyous living.
This is Carolyn P.abush, of 800
Downer Ave., Milwaukee, Wiscon
sin. Her mother says:
“My mother used California Fig
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constipated we got some. It re
lieved her constipation, sweetened
her breath, made her well and
happy. I have since used it for all
her upsets and colds. It has kept
her strong and energetic.”
For fifty years, mothers have used
California Fig Syrup to overcome a
child’s bilious, headachy, feverish or
fretful spells. Doctors recommend
its soothing aid to keep bowels clear
in colds or children’s ailments; or
whenever bad breath, coated tonguo
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tion. It assists in building up weak
children.
The genuine always bears the
name California. All drugstores.
LAVATIVC-TONIC ftr CHILDREN