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The Settling of the Sage
WHAT HAS CONE BEFORE
At thu Warren ranch, the
"Three Bar," a ntranve>" an-
Pi to 1 tor wort; as n r ilor. Wll-
llamette Ann VVnirmi—Vnown to
n.5 ih -Jillio," the oivnt-i rf
ItiB ranch. Tho Blrl'H father,
C%J Wnrren, had been the ori|r>
mil owner. The neivnomer : \jut
to work. Cattle "riiHtiers" have
befn troubling the ran"i) O'vniirH.
The new hand pivft. .>.« ..ame *
Cnl Harris. By hln announce-
ment In favor of "squatters" he
Incurs the enmity of a rlrter
kr.own oh M'.rrow, The will made
t>y Cal VVavren stipulated that
half the property should go to
the son of his old friend, William
Harris, under certain conditions
The new Arrival is the man, and
lie discloses the fact to Bill!®
Slade. t ranchman with an on-
sitfory reputation, visits Billie.
Slade, endeavoring to embrace
Hillie la interrupted by Harris.
While the riders are at their
evening meal, far out on the
range, six outsiders Join them
Billie knows them to be "rust-
lers" To test Harris' courage the
girl appoints him temporary fore-
man, suggesting that he order
the visitors to leave. Somewhat
to her surprise he does so. The
men depart, making threats. Kli-
ne makes Harris permanent fore-
man. Catching Morrow leaving
cattle were they can be stolen
Harris discharges him. Riding
with Billie, a man presumably
Morrow, shoots at Harris. Three
Bar riders start in pursuit of
Morrow. One of them. Bangs, is
ambushed and killed. Harris out-
lines his plans for bringing set-
tlers Into the country.
CHAPTER V—Continued
i —.1—
"They say folks get disappoin'ed
In love and go right on living," he oh
*erved. "1 wonder now. I've hoard
that men run mostly to form and at
one time or another let It out to some
little lady that there's no other In the
world. That's my own state right
Bhout now. Are you always going to
keep on disliking me?"
"I don't dislike you," she said. She
was still convinced of Ills fatherV
trlpkery toward her own; but l'at
Harris' quiet efficiency and his deyo
tion to Three Bar interests had con
vinced her, against her will, that he
had taken no part in It. "But If vou
brought me out here to go Into that
I'm going back."'
"I didn't." he denied. "But 1 drift-
ed Into It sort of by accident N<
matter what topic I happen to be con
versing on I'm always thinking how
much I'd rather be telling you ubou'
that. Whenever I make some simple
little assertion about things In sen
eraL what I'm really thinking Is some
thing like this, 'Billie. right this min
Bte I'm loving you more thnn I did
two minutes back.' You might keep
that In mind.
"Listen." tapping his knee with a
forefinger to emphasize his point "Cal
Warren alwoys wanted1 to put the
Three Bar flats under cultivation
He's probably told you that a hnn
dred times. This will always be range
country. II will only support n cer
tain number of cows. If the Three
Bar had a section In hay to winter-
feed your stufT you could run double
what you do now on the same range.
It's the same with every other small
concern. There's only a few spots
suitable for home-ranch sites and
every one of those has a brand run
ning out of It now—excepting those
sites down in Slade's range. If nil
those outfits put in hay it wouldn't
cut up the range any more than It Is
now—except down Slade's way. Every
outfit In the country could run twice
as many hoad as they do now—except
Slade. He couldn't. The minute farm
log starts there'll be squatters filing
on every quarter where they can get
water to put It In crop. There's twen
ty places Slade would have to covet
by filing to hold his range where th«
others would only have to file on one
to control the amount of range they're
using now."
She nodded as she caught this point
"Folks have fallen Into a set habit
of mind," he explained. "You think
because every squatter is burned out
that every outfit but the Three Bar Is
against slicking a plow In the ground
The rest probably feel the same way
know they haven't a hand In It but
figure that you have. As a matter of
fact, It's Slade alone. There's n per
sistent rntnor to the effect that ant
man who burns out a squntter can
drop In at Slade's and get five hnn
dred doilars In cash."
"The sheriff has never been able to
pick op a single one of the men whc
have burned those squatters out." she
said.
"And he never will without some
help," Harris agreed. "Alden's hands
are tied. But he Is playing his own
game single-handed the best he can
One day he'll get his hooks Into some
of these torch-hearers so deep they'll
never shake them out The home-
stead laws can't be defied Indefinitely
The g< vernment will take a hand and
•onrsh&<« In here thicker thaD
* By HAL G. EVARTS
Copyright by Hal G. ISvarta
WNU Service
Ilies. Then the outfits that h.ive
hedged ihemsplves in advance are on
top. The rest are through."
"Bui whfti can the Three Bar do
Hgiilnst Slade tmiil those marshals
come?" she asked.
"There's a difference'between sack-
ing an established outfit with a big
force of hands and burning out some
Isolated squatter roosting in a wag-
on." Harris said. "I've filed on water
out of the Crazy l.oop to cover fhe
section I bought in the fiats. We can
lilck men and give rliein a lob with
the Three Bar between spells of dolus
prove-up work. We < «n put in a com
pnny ditch to covet all the filings,
pa.v them for working on It and
charge that pro-rata share of lm
provements up against each man's
final settlement. When they've made
final proof we can buy cut those Who
went to sell, Let's put Hie fiats In
ha.v. girl, and start grading the Three
Bar up. It doesn't take much more
feed to turn out a real beef steer Mian
"t those-knife-backed brothers down
in Hie Hat. In five years we'll have a
straight red brand ami the Three Bar
will be rated at thirty dollars a head,
come as they run on the range. In-
stead of round ten or twelve as they'd
figure us now. We'll have good ha\
land that will be worth more by Itself
thnn the whole brand Is today. Say
the word. girl, and we'll build up the
old outfit that both of our folks helper!
to found."
The girl had closed her eyes as he
painted this picture of possibilities
and except for the difference of voice
U might well have been old Cal War-
ren speaking; the views and senti-
ments were the same she bail so often
heard her father express. Next to the
longed-for partnership with old Bill
Harris the dream of his life had beer
to see the Three Bar flats a stnmitn
meadow of alfalfa. .
"I'll put a hunch of terriers In thert
that will be bard for Slade to uproot,*'
Harris said. "What do you say Billie'/
-et's give It a fry."
"I'd like to see It done," she said
"But so much depends on the ont
come. I'll have to write Judge Col
ton first. He has all my uffuirs in
charge."
They mounted and rode back to the
wagon and the glri went straight to
Waddles with the proposition Hatri®
hud urged.
"Tell him to go his best," Waddles
advised, when she had outlined liar
ris' scheme. "He'll put a bnnct: ot
terriers on the Three Bar that wfl!
tut Slade's claws. If they burn on:
the boys Cal Harris ptits on the ptf.ee
then there'll be one real war staged
at the old Three Bar."
"He's been telling you," she accused
"He did sort of mention It." Wad
dies confessed.
"Then his idea Is to import a bunch
of gun-lighters." she said. "I w«;n't
have a bunch <«f hired killers living at
the Three Bar."
"These boys will Just be the sort
that's handy at knowing how to avoid
getting killed themselves," Waddles
evaded. "You can't rightly blame any
man for that And besides. Slade has
to be met on his own ground."
"Do you think Slade Is at the hot
torn of the Three Bar losses every
year?" she osked.
"Every hoof," Waddles stated.
"Every last head 1 Maybe the albi-
no's layout rustles an odd bunch on
and off. But Slade is the man that's
out to wreck your brand." The big
cook heaved a sigh as he readied a
decision on a matter which had been
troubling him for days. "That's what
Cal Warren was afraid of— Slade's
branching out our way like he had
already toward the south. And that's
one reason he left things tied up the
way he did."
Lie tapped a much-thumbed docu-
ment on his knee and handed It to the
girl.
"You and Young Cal have been sort
ot half-hostile," he said. "Cast an
eye over that and maybe It'll help
you two youngsters to get along.'
Three times the girl read every
word ot the paper while Waddles
smoked his pipe in silence. Then she
sat on the gate of the wagon and
gazed off across the sage; and she
was picturing again the long trail of
the Three Bat cows; but this time
she was reconstructing the scene at
the end of It. Instead of one man
scheming to trick un old friend at
the last crossing ot their trails she
now visloned two old men regretting
that the life-long hope of a partner-
ship had never been fulfilled and
planning to cement that arrangement
In the next generation. For old BUI
Harris had left her a full half-Inter-
est In everything he owned on earth
with the single stipulation that she re-
tain her half of the Three Bur for
five years after her father's death.
"But why?" she asked presently.
"Why did he do I lmt for me? He'd
never seen me since I was three years
old "
"lie did It for the girl of old Cal
Warren, i he best friend he had top-
side of ground," Waddles said. "Your
dad and Bill Harris hud been pals
since they was hatched. They knew
there was hard times and changes
ahead and both hated to think of the
old brand going under or changing
hands. They was afraid that if both
you and the boj knew your path was
going to be carpeted soft In nny event
that you might sell out if things got
to breaking wrong. Tills wuy tt
looked like you'd lie sure to stick.
They was planning the best they
knew. Your dad told me to keep an
eye on the general lay. And Judge
Colton sent me that copy to have on
hand to sort of iron things out when
I thought best. I'm telling you be-
cause I know you wouldn't quit the
Three Bur as long as there's two cows
left."
"Does Cal know?" she asked.
"Not a word," Waddles asserted.
•'He's likely considerable puzzled him-
self. But he surmises things will
break right some day, knowing his
own dad and bavin' visited round
day or two with yours. You drop the
judge a line, girl, and turn Harris
loose to rip up the Three Bar fiat and
seed It down to hay."
She nodded and slipped from the
end-gate of the wagon, tak!bg tlie pa-
per with her. Harris was soaking tt
flannel shirt In the little stream, flat-
tening It in a riffle and weighting It
down with rocks. She went straight
to him and sat on the bank, motioninp
him to a seat by bet side. He dried
his hands and took the paper she held
out to him.
"What's in the wind?" lie asked.
She nodded to indicate the d> cu
ment and he sat down to look over it.
His quizzical expression was erased
us he saw his father's name and the
girl watched his face for some evl
dence of resentment as he read on
Their status was now reversed, for
Bill Harris' holdings hod been easily
double those of iter own parent. She
saw the sun wrinkles deepen at th*
corners of his eyes as he grasped rha
text of It and he looked up at her and
langhed.
"Now we're resting easy," he said
"An even trade."
"Uneven." she dissented. "Of course
you know that I'll not take advantage
of that."
"Accounts are all squared off be
tween us now," lie said. "And ot
course you'll do lust what it says."
He held up his hand as she started to
dissent; "Don't you!" he reproved.
"Let's let Hint end of it slide—reBt
for a while. Maybe some <lay we'll
lump both Into one and the two of ua
boss the whole Job."
She rested a had on his arm.
"Of course you know I'm sorry for
a number of things I've said to you."
she said. "But I want to thank yon
for being too decent to return them
In kind. You're real folks. Cal."
"Good girl, Billie." he thanked hoi.
■As to what you said. It's remarkable
that you didn't say more. I knew yon
weren't crabbing over what you might
lose for yourself but over the though'
that your father had been tricked I
tried to put myself In your plqce and
If I'd been you I know I'd have khked
me off the place, or told Waddles te
turn loose his wolf."
He switched abruptly away from
the topic in hand and reverted to the
subject they had discussed an bout
past
"We've a clear field now with notlt
lng on our minds hut the job of put
ting the Three Bar on Its feet" h«
said. "The Three Bur Is a prett
small outfit the way things nre today
but In a few more years the brand
that runs three thousand head will be
almost in the class of cattle kings
The range will be settled with an out
fit roosting on every available site.
The big fellows will find their range
cnt up and then they're through. If
the Three Bar files on all the water
out of Crazy Loop and covers the flat
with hay we'll control all the range
for a number of miles each way
There's not another site short of
Brandon's place west of us—twelve
miles or so; about the same to the
r east; still farther off south of us
We'll he riding the crest. Yon try
and get a letter off to the Judge to
day."
The girl nodded.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Expensive Advice
"Give the children hammers and
saws," reads a column of advice t«
parents. Yes, let the tittle darlings
practice on the piano legs or the bed-
stead. Some lovely and unique pat<
terns can be traced on dresser front!
with the claws of a hammer, for In
stance.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
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There's no fun in ■ one-man no*.-
American Magailnt,
BL117E
STOCKS
ALFALFA HAY IS
FINE FOR SWINE
Becoming Generally Used as
Protein Supplement.
During the last few years alfalfa
hay Is becoming quite generally used
as a protein supplement for feeding
hogs. Iu some instances alfalfa meal
has been used for this purpose and to
determine the relative value of alfalfa
in the form of alfalfa meal or alfalfa
hay as compared with ollmeal when
fed with a ration of shelled corn, tank-
age and minerals to hogs, the Mich-
igan experiment station conducted a
test in 1927 with five lots of pigs
weighing 57 pounds each at the begin-
ning of the test. >
This experiment indicated that al-
falfa hay produced greater gains with
less feed than did either alfalfa meal
or oilmeal when fed with the ration
of tankage, shelled corn and minerals.
That alfalfa meal required a great-
er amount of feed with a ration of
tankage, shelled corn and minerals.
That the addition of oilmeal to a
mixture of tankage and alfalfa meal
reduced the gains.
The addition of alfalfa hay to tank-
age and oilmeal produced larger gains
and required less feed for the gains
produced than did the addition of al-
falfa meal with tankage and oilmeal
when fed with a ration of tankage,
shelled corn and minerals.
The conclusions that must be
reached from this experiment are that
alfalfa hay is more profitable for feed-
ing hogs than alfalfa meal; that It
produces greater gains with less feed
than does alfalfa meal; also that
alfalfa hay when fed to swine to-
gether with oilmeal produces great-
er gains with less feed thnn does al-
falfa meal with tankage and oilmeal.
Many swine producers in those sec-
tions where alfalfa hay is produced
have adopted this as a general prac-
tice In their swine herd with very sat-
isfactory results. It is a practice that
will no doubt continue to grow from
year to year.—Dr. George W. Conn,
Stephenson county, 111.
Johne's Disease of
Cattle Increasing
Most stockmen have become aware
that chronic bacterial dysentery of cat-
tle, more commonly called Johne's dis-
ease or parntuberculosis, has gradually
been Increasing in prevalence. Possibly
it always has been as prevalent, but
was not regarded as a specific dis-
ease, or It was thought to be tuber-
culosis in an advanced stage, or a
form of scouring Induced by damaged
feed.
Anyhow, It has been taking Its toll
of life and as no remedy has been
found for the malady and destruction
of affected animals has come to be
the adopted course of procedure by
the state authorities, stockmen have
been concerned over the outlook.
However, there will be some satisfac-
tion in knowing that the federal gov-
ernment now grants indemnities for
animals found affected.
It is probable that various states,
especially those where dairy cattle
are numerous, will also offer indem-
nities for animals slaughtered on ac-
count of Johne's disease. Wisconsin
has already taken that step and own-
ers will now feel more inclined to
have the test applied to cows that
suffer from a chronic form of dysen-
tery.
In some of the European countries
Johne's disease has become seriously
prevalent. The disease is contagious,
the germs being voided in the feces.
The disease may, for a time, lie dor-
mant, but when It shows up It always
proves fatal.
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Hogging down crops Is a way to
grow pork with less labor.
• * •
Sell your feedstuffs to your own lira
stock and cut out the middleman'*
profits.
• • •
It is a pretty well settled fact that
It doesn't pay to grind corn for fatten-
ing steers.
• •
Ames has demonstrated several
times that grinding corn for steers
does not pay.
• • •
Hulled oats make an excellent feed
j for hogs, more valuable pound for
pound than corn;
• • •
Home butchering gives the family a
meat supply that Is much cheaper than
that piycliased each day from the
meat market.
Quart of Water
Cleans Kidney
Take a tittle Salts if Your Back
Hurto, or Bladder iu
Troubling Ycu
No man or woman can make a mis-
take by Hushing the kidneys occasion-
ally, says a well-known authority.
Mating too much rich food creates
acids, which excite the kidneys. They
become overworked from the strain,
get sluggish and fall to filter the waste
and poisons from the blood. Then we
get sick. Itheumatlsm, headaches,
liver trouble, nervousness, dizziness,
sleeplessness and urinary disorders
often come from sluggish kidneys.
The moment you feel a dull ache In
the kidneys, or your back hurts, or If
the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of
sediment, Irregular of passage or at-
tended by a sensation of scalding, be-
gin drinking a quart of water each
day, also get about four ounces of Jad
Salts from any pharmacy; take a
tablespoonful in a glass of water be-
fore breakfast and In a few days yonr
kidneys may act fine.
This famous salts is made from the
acid of grapes and lemon Juice, com-
bined with Iithla, and has been used
for years to flush and stimulate the
kidneys; also to help neutralize the
acids In the system, so they no longer
cause irritation, thus often relieving
bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; makes a
delightful effervescent lithia-water
drink which everyone should take
now and then to htflp keep the kid-
neys clean and active and the blood
pure, thereby often avoiding serious
kidney complications.
Itching Piles
Instantly Relieved and Boon cured by ap-
plying PAZO OINTMENT. It Stops
Irritation. Soothes, Heals and is guaranteed
to Cure any case of Itching, Blind. Bleeding
or Protruding Piles. All Druggists have
PAZO OINTMENT fa tubes with pile pipe
attachment at 76c; and in tin box at 60c.
Railroad Trains Stop
at Grade Crossings
Grade crossings at towns on some
of the less active branch lines of rail-
roads in Massachusetts and New
Hampshire are now unguarded with-
out violation of rather strict laws gov-
erning the protection of intersections
of roadways and railways. Until re-
cently pensioned employees served as
gatemen and flagmen at such cross-
ings. Pedestrians and vehicles no
longer need "beware of the loeomo-
tlve." The locomotive now "bewares"
and comes to a full stop before rolling
over the crossing. This practice may
cause a few seconds delay to passen-
gers, but It saves the railroads a con-
siderable amount by relieving them of
the necessity of stationing crossing
men at points where there are but four
or six trains a day.
Keeping Fit
"What are you doing reducing ex-
ercises tor! You're not fat."
"No. but my boy friend has bought
a baby model auto." — Everybody's
Weekly.
A Sour
Stomach
In the same time it takes a dose of
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This pleasant preparation is Just as
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signals need of a sweetener. Physi-
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