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The state herald., 1917-08-31
CHAPTER xi.
The Rodeo,

II wns with feeling OF some reluc.
tnnce that Dave drove up to Lns Pal.
mas shortly after the lunch hour. for
he Ind no desire TO meet "Young Ed"
However. 10 his relief, Austin did not
appear. and innsmuch MS AlnIrc did
not refer TO her husband In any wny,
Dave decided thni he must be absent.
perhaps ON one OF his notorious sprees,
The mistress OF the big ranch wns
IN her harness, having Mt once assumed
her neglected duties. She came 10
welcome her caller In short khnkl
riding suit; her feet were lncnsed I'm
tan boots; she wore mnnnlsh felt
hat mud gnntlct gloves. showing ,hn,
sho hnd spent the morning In the
snddlc, Dave thought she looked OK.
cccdlngly capable and buslnessllkc.
nnd not less beautiful In these clothes /.
he fcnsted his eyes covcrtly upon her,
VI expected you for luncheon" sbc
smiled: md Dnvo could have kicked
himself. I'm Just going out now. n
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PLAN FOR RENEWING
WORKOUT PASTURES
Sweet Clover Is Valuable Soil
Renovator and Makes Excel
lent Forage for Stock.

F'rom the United States Department Of
Agriculture.)
"Grow sweet clover" is the answer
for poor soil or worn-out pastures
which no longer support live stock
profitably. according to Investigators
OF the United States department Of
agriculture, who have found that thou
sands OF acres of sweet clover are fur
nishing annually abundant pasturage
for all kinds Of stock on soil where
other crops made but little growth.
In many portions Of the middle
West sweet clover bids fair to solve
serious pasturnge problems. according
to Farmers Bulletin $50. "Sweet Clo-
yer: Utilization" Just issued. Native
pastures which no longer provided
more than scant living for mature
steer on four or five acres. when prop
erly seeded to sweet clover, will pro-
duce sufficient forage to carry at least
one animal to the acre throughout the
season. Dairy cattle. horses. sheep
md hogs all do well on sweet clover.
Land which Is too rough or too depict
eu ior CULTIVATION or permanent pas
lures which have become thin and
weedy may be improved greatly by
drilling In, after disking few
pounds OF sweet clover seed per acre.
Not only will the sweet clover add
considerably to the quality and guam
tity OF the pasturage, but the growth
OF the grasses will be improved by
the addition OF large quantities OF hu-
mus nnd nitrogen to the soil.
Sweet clover has proved to be nm
excellent pasturagc crop ON many OF
the best farms In the North Central
states. In this part OF the country
II Is often seeded nlonc and pastured
from the middle or the latter part OF
June until frost.
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AVOID BIG LOSS TO
MELONS in TRANSIT
SuIphate. Starch Paste Has Been
Found to Prevent Trouble
Called Stem-End Rot.
Brom the United States Department of
Acriculture.)

Brom the United States Department of
Agriculture)
The application of n copper sulphate-
starch paste or bordeaux paste to the
freshly cut stems of watermelons has
been found to prevent the stem-end rot
that has causd heavy losses to melons
In transit In previous years.
This treatment wns recommended in
Farmers Bulletin No. S21 recently Is
sued, and has been demonstrated at
loadlng stations by agents Of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture.
The treated melons have been prac-
tlcally free from stem-end rot, where
us shipments sent from Infected dis
trlcts without treatment have given
much trouble. In one case, two cars
arrived In Northwestern city on the
same day. One, untreated In ventilat-
ed car, had % per cent of decay, while
the other, which had been treated, al
though In an ordinary. unventIlnted
box car, had only per cent OF decay.
Several large shippers are now in
ss.ing that this treatment be given
all melons they buy. and 1t appears
likely that the departments method of
control will quickly come Into general
use. The results secured In Florida
md south Georgia Justify the adop-
tion OF the treatment In districts now
shipping.
Detailed directions are to be found
In Farmers Bulletin No. s2l, sent free
upon application to the department of
uurlciIlftIre
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SUMMER CULTIVATION
OF ORCHARD NEEDED
Three Methods That May Be
Practiced Are Explained by
Kansas College Expert.

Summer cultivation OF the orchard
is necessary II n profit Is to be made.
In the opinion OF +. s. Merrill. assist
mt professor OF horticulture In the
Kansas State Agricultural college.
Three methods may be practlccd
In the cultivation Of nn orchard" said
Professor Merrill. "The first OF these
is the sod mulch system. This IL prnc-
uccd on bottom land or land high In
fertility. Orchards on fertile land nr.
likely to produce heavy growth OF
wood. which prevents the formation OF
fruit buds. In order to overcome this
n grass crop should be sowed In tho
orchnrd. The grass crop is moved
when necessary and allowed to rcmnin
on the ground.
"'Thc second method. often used,
consists Of sowing n grnss crop In the
orchard and harvesting the hay. This
system is injurious to the trees and re-
duccs the size md value OF the fruit.
"Whcrc the topography and slope OF
the lnnd Will permit. Glenn cultivation
IN advisable. II kills the weeds nnd
conserycs the moisture. Orchards
cultivated In this manner will produce
larger fruit than under other systems
Of cultivation.
Glenn cultivation win keep down In.
sect pests by destroying their hibcrnnt-
Ing places nnd food supply. Tho buf.
fnlo tree hopper 10 less injurious In
Glenn. cultivated orchards, because II
rsr'ovss their food supply"
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II was starved on sentiment wn-n !
was little, but It's In me bigger than a
skinned OK. They say gratitude is an
elemental. primitive emotion"
"Perhaps that's why 1t is so rare
nowadays" said Alaire, not more than
half in Jest.
"You find 1t rare?" Dave looked up
keenly. swell, you have certainly laid
up store of 1t today"
BenitO and his men had rounded up
perhaps three thousand head of cattle
when Alaire and her companion ap-
peared, and they were In process of
"cutting out" 1t was an animated
scene, one fitted to rouse enthusiasm
In any plainsmnn, for the stock was fat
and healthy; there were many calves,
and the incessant, rumbling complaint
Of the herd wns blood-stirring. The
Las Palmns cowboys rode like CEN
taurs; the air was drumming to swift
hoofbeats, and over all was the hoarse,
unceasing undertone from countless
bovine throats. Out near the grub
wagon the remuda was grazing, and
thither at intervals came the perspir
Ing horsemen to change their mounts.
Benito, wet, dusty and tired rode
up to his employer to report progress.
"Dios! This is hot work for an old
man. We will never finish by dark"
said he, whereupon Law promptly vol
unteered his services.
LEND me your rope, Benito." Dave
slid out of his seat and, with an arm
around the mares neck, whispered into
her ear. Rosa answered by nosing the
speaker over with brazen familiarity.
"Diablo! He has way with horses,
hasn't he?" Benito grinned. "Now, that
Montrosa Is wilder than deer"
The giant herd milled and eddled,
revolving like a vast pool of deep,
swift water. The bulls were quarrel
some, the steers were stubborn, and
the wet cows were distracted. In and
out Of this confusion the cowboys rode,
following the animals selected for sep
aration, forcing them out through dust
and brush, until they had Joined the
smaller herd of choice animals which
were to remain on the ranch. II was
swift, sweaty. exhausting work, the
kind these Mexicans loved, for 1t was
not only spectacular but held an
amount Of danger. Dave Law made
himself one of them.
Alaire sat her horse In the heart Of
the crowdlng herd and watched the
Ranger. Good riding she was accus-
toned to. But Law seemed to inspire
his mount. In spite of tha mans un.
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usual size. he rode like feather: he
was grace and life and youth personi.
fed. Now he sat ms erect In his saddle
ms n swaying reed; again he stretched
himself out like whIplash. Once he
had begun the work he would not
stop.
All that afternoon the cowboys
labored. md toward sundown the de-
pleted herd was driven TO the water.
Then through the cool twilight came
the drive to the next pasture. and here
the patience OF the cowboys was taxed
to the utmost. for as the stronger mem.
bers OF the herd forged ahead, the
wcnried, worried. littlcst members fell
behind. But now these swnrthy, dare.
devil riders were MS gentle us women !;
they urged the tiny youngsters onward
with harmless switches or with pnin.
less blows from loose-coiled riatns !;
they picked them up In their arms md
rode with them.
Once through the gate md safe In.
side the restraining pasture fence, the
herd was allowed 10 settle down. Then
began patient search by Outraged
mothers, n series OF mournful quests
that were destined TO continue far Into
the night endless noslngs and snliiings
and carcssings, which would keep up
until each COW had found her own.
until cnch cnlf was butting Its head
ngninst maternal ribs and ginning TINT
consolation which II crnvcd.
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ACCOMMODATING QUALITIES OF CURRANT

Until fully with this small but profitable fru
the
dating qualities 1t
The bush unusually healthy Borers bother occasionally but the can
the beginning
lower branches bush Of age Spray with white heb0e
In paris touching underside the leaves
hurrylng
off
Is and handled
1t is nice work neither mash them from the STEM but
that Is the thing picking
Put them private customers pack In crates
For distant market send in five baskets
Prices bearing
the
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DAVE LAW RECEIVES TOKENS OF GRATITUDE FROM RI.
CARDo GUzMAN AND MRS. AUsTIN-DURING ANOTHER
DAY WITH HIM ALAIRE DISCOVERS THAT THE
RANGER SECRETLY LOVES HER
SYNOPSIS.

Mrs Aaire AUSTIN handsome mistress of Las Palmas ranch
lost the Texas desert wande into the camp of David Law
Mexican murderer
until his kills another and
his
insulting discovers
secretly rebels thieves Mrs
Mexican Federal when
Mexican anch collect damages and he makes
to
becoming
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Cro Dn coNriNuEp)
pisheartened.

AN nstronome- hns been telling mo
nbout the Incredible speed with which
light travels" said the motorist
"why should TINT mike you look
sadT"
"fic's Just nbout convinced mo that
90 miles nm hour In my chr is n mere
snall's pace"
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You could pu, NIL our United States
tcxcludlng Alnsltn) Into i,rnzil. and
havc 100000 saunro miles left
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But Iove 10 = dangerous ele.
ment. especially when II occurs
between . married woman and
. man not her husosnd--Both
AIa're and David discover this
and are unhappy-read about
developments In the next Install.
nent.
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Tor the winter. Outside you feel like q
cheat when you pay the bus company
u sjsigle fare. With truckload Of food
such as you are carrying you figure
YOU ought to pay them an extra dime.
The next day girl you have always
suspected Of having a reasonable
amount OF intelligence calls you on the
telephone. Her best bets name Is
Fred. His friends call him Freddie for
short.
Freddie has college chum visiting
him." she announces rapturously.
He's from Cleveland. Ohio. I'm sure
you'll like him. Freddie says he has
gobs of money and he's awfully good
looking and he was the best dancer in
their fraternity. We thought we'd take
him to one Of those funny little Italian
or French places for dinner--some-
thing different, you know. You must
come along. What's the trouble, dear?
Aren't you weil?"
Then she wonders, after that, why
your friendship cools.
What is the difference between the
French places and the Italian places?"
asked a neophyte.
So far as has been observed the only
difference Is the aforementioned spa
ghetti. This may seem like a triae to
the uninit!ated. but to those who have
tried the two ii Is no trifie. II is all
the difference between whole apple
pie and half Of an apple pie. II you get
what I mean.
Table d'HOt- Hunting.
The Thrifty Thirties and the Sporty
Forties furnish fertile field for the
table d'hote. In the short runways
between Sixth avenue and Broadway
tables d'hote grow lush and wild. They
spring into being with all the speed
and finish OF mushroom. 1t would
be possible for the persistent shopper
after strange food and places to go to
different one every night for weeks
without crossing wires. Courage.
Cuthbert! Forty-ninth is not such
long street. You may be able to eat
your way up one side and down the
other without losing your life, but
never without losing your lines.
Table dhote diners are a con-
glomerate lot. The women wear real
ermine, imitation ermine and no
ermine at all. Some Of the men are
Wall Street brokers. some are in
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out garlic. Here is where you tip off
your nativity. A native son Of the
spaghetti countries will no more think
of ordering spaghetti without garlic
than Broadway bounder would think
Of ordering a hot bird without a cold
bottle. He does everything but rub
the pervasive perfume OF the exotic
garlic blossom in his hair. We are
constrained to admit that some of our
own people have acquired the taste
for this foreign flower. resorting to its
use openly and unashamed.
Spaghetti" opined a convert to the
Italian delicacy. "is a habit. 1t is like
popcorn. The more you eat Of it the
moro you want. Maybe it works like
the California cracked crabs. You
have to labor so hard getting the crab
meat from the shell and conveying 1t
that you keep hungry on the job. 1t
takes practice and concentration to
become an expert spaghetti juggler."
You tuck away the final forkful and
fold up your napkin preparatory to
departure. 1t has been a nice little
dinner. but filhng.. You decide to
forego the daily dcniitasse.
So On to Dessert.
At this moment the waiter hurrieV
UP and places in front Of you slice Of
FISH hiding beneath a blanket Of to-
mato sauce. 1t ia slowly but surely
forced upon you that you have or.y
begun the bout. Up to the present you
have had merely the preliminaries.
Now you enter upon the real business
Of eating.
The roast. A strange MT at with a
strange favor. Savory, very. Do you
suppose the chef could be induced to
part with the secret OF its successful
Disguise? Well. thanks be, the worst
Is over. The most they can do to you
now Is a dessert.
Wrong again. The strange dish was
not the roast at all 1t was the entree.
Here comes the roast-chicken and po-
tatoes and salad. Really. you know. it
can't be done. Simply cannot. There
are limits to human endur-
What. Ice cream and cakes and
cheese and fruit and coffee? Get n
basket, waiter. Wen take the rest
home and let 1t last out ~ week.
What the French ought to 20 is to
send over here. buy dozen or 20 Of our
table d'hote meals and feed their army
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New York Loves to Trail Bohemia
to It's Lair-Two Hours of
Eating for 40 Cents

"'Oatmeal q wheat fakes or corn
puns? she says. What she should ask
you is. Which will you have, sweet
soup or baled hay? Maybe you think
we get cream with our breakfast food
In the country. And maybe you're
wrong. We get milk. It's the kind Of
milk that hasn't even had a filtration
with a COW.
"Iffyou live through the first in
stallment. Vera, vampire Of the village
greer. warns you 1t Is time to choose
between fried steak, ham and eggs
and liver and bacon. Knowing full
well. by bitter experience, that all
the young eggs have been sent to the
city. you retreat to liver and bacon.
Steak. you figure. Is not exactly an
early mornirg 9 delicacy, especially
country fried steak, which deserves
to be converted into solss for soldiers
shoes.
so you see, things in the small
town hotels are very much table
d'hote. You take liver and bacon or
you take a sneak. Beside your choice
in the main matter Of eats, Vera
mobilizes a fair fiotilla Of small boat
shaped dishes that have been in active
service since the civil war. II we may
Judge by appearance. They contain
everything In the way Of vegetables
left over from yesterday. You COM
promise on cup of coffee. only boiled
seventeen times on the same grounds.
and wonder why fate cut you out to be
travelling salesman when the life of
a ditch digger is 30 much more de-
sirable."
Lair of the Spaghetti.
After experiences like this our red
Ink retreats with their quaint foreign
atmosphere and their highly seasoned
food must be heaven. just plain heaven.
Small wonder the visiting stranger
from the elderberry outposts finds L.
way into them and imagines he Is in
the waldorf-Astoria-
Have you ever heard a conversation
like this?
"Where shall We diner
II don't care. Where would YOU
suggest?'
Like to go to the RITZ or the
Plaza"
"Um-m-m."
wish I could think Of some place
different
"Can't you
George told me about a place TIE
other day. Down town. One Of those
bohemian places where you dip your
bread in the wine and put cheese on
| the bananas
Lets go. I just feel like eating my
self into n connatose state"
"All right. Get your bonnet. We
have - find this place before We get
too much smoked up. George says It's
hidden away SO you have to be better
than a secret service agent to find It,"
You prowl through the bypaths and
substreets Of tho downtown district
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will do. but when II Is their steady
dollar dinner Is a banquet. A party
Of frolicsomc matrons from the Ori-
entail rug regions of the West Side
hustle in. They are wearing their
winter weight jewelry and the smile
that comes when the lord Of the manor
telephones he cannot he home for
dinner and they are free to go out on
q lark.
There will be famous pugilist with
one or two Of his trainers. There will
be a trio Of gay old dogs truant from
their families. There will be families
themselves, father. mother and the
children. There will be the boy from
Fifth avenue dragged hither by the
girl who has never been east OF
Broadway. There will be the folks
from out Of town. wild eyed and Won
t,ering being shown the sights of the
town by their city relatives. There
will be folk Of foreign stamp chatter
ing in unknown tongues. Here is real
bona hde cosmopolitanism. Shake
them all UP in the hat and you are
liable to pull out anything from a cash
girl to a countess. from a banker to
a burglar.
Table d'hoters are divided into sew
eral classes.
The most important of these class
divisions. is Of course. the regulars.
A regular in the service is invariably
person who likes to feed well and
plentifully. or perhaps 1t Is better to
say plentifully and we'll. His pocket
book will not finance q full fiedged
meal a la carte, unless 1t is in one
Of the hoi polloi places. At the table
dhote he gets both food and at
mosphere.
( He cannot invite a girl to dine with
! him at the dairy lunch. Neither can
he stake the weeks wage on a feed
at a pink candle cafe. Bohemia IL a
life saver. He decides to become Bo-
hemian. The girl concludes he has a
temperament. when what really ails
him il an appetite.
In the regular class also 10 the
woman with the three chins. who
boldly tucks her napkin in her collar
and goes to It with gusto. She comes
back for the third helping Of soup and
three bottles Of red ink.
The gourmet is in a class by him.
self. He makes a business Of the
table dhote. He extracts from It
every ounce OF SAVIOR. every drop Of
flavor. You will know him when he
calls for q slice Of lemon with the
sardines.
For the soup he needs special
brand Of brown sauce out Of a bulging
bottle the proprietor himself brings
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the proud position Of Sheriff. having
been elected thereto by his admiring
fellow citizens because Of his strong
prediction in favor Of strife and his
preemintnt ability as a fighting man.
Mr.. Bassett just naturally yearned for
personal encounters, and II no occasion
for one arose In the back room for a
considerable time he would go out
and get one. Usually, however, the
little back room was all sufficient, even
in this partiC ular, to him as 1t was to
the others.
The two gentlemen who came ashore
from the Belle Of the Bayous and who
straightway bent their steps in the
direction of. old man Greenlaw's we'll
remembered saloon we're notably
husky. One was known in his own
home town as Long Mike the other
as Stumpy. Both We're Irish and
Stumpy was red headed all the time.
Starch friendship existed between
them, for they had worked and played
and fought together for years in
Brownsville. till each man knew and
respected and loved the other. Fight
they would at the drop Of the hat, as
a good Irishman will. with each other
as like as not, but holding no grudge
after the battle.
No citizen of Arkansas had ever
licked Joe Bassett. No man In Iowa
had ever licked Long Mike. 1t was
doubtful whether either one Of the two
could lick the Otner, and although an
effort had been made to decide that
question at the time already mentioned
when Long Mike and Stumpy previ-
ously visited Arkansas City, the doubt
still remained.
It ranked in Long Mikes mind after
he returned home and the memory of
the effort he had made TO remove II
was very sweet to him, so that after
many days had run into years he con-
hded to Stumpy his purpose Of going
to Arkansas City again that he might
try again. And Stumpy. rejoicing
greatly, could by no possible means be
stayed from going along with him..
Sure ia thravei tillthe end o. the
worruld to see yez tackle that murther-
in spalpeen wanst more" he said with
great anticipatory glee at the prospect
when Long Mike suggested to him that
the expense of the trip would be con-
siderable and that Stumpy would have
to pay his own way. 1--WE money
enough to get me there. an av the
poker game IL shtill played In the sa-
loon, helikc I'll win me faare back, but
thot's no consequence a tall, a tall
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By DAVID A. CURTIS.

"WO husky gentlemen Of unequal
size stepped across the gang
plank OF the Belle of the Bay
Gus at Arkansas City one evening just
rs the setting sun threw fits last rays
through the dingy window in "a small
room in the rear of od Man Green
laws little saloon. They We're stran-
gers In that they belonged elsewhere,
but not entirely strange to the locality
in that they had been there once be-
fore, when there had been notable do
ings.
But that vas a long tine before and
the place looked unfamiliar to them
Two new houses had been erected on
the levee since then. Thus did Arkan-
sas City grow,
Old man Greenlaw had not himself
built those houses, though he was IN
away to be credited with the growth
which they represented, since the new
capital that came into the community
from time to time all filtered througt,
his cash drawer being brought In by
strangers who patronized him for the
all sufficient reason that there was
nothing else that they could possibly
do in Arkansas City. 1t was true
that in obtaining this supply Of money
from strangers the old man had valu-
able assistance from four able copar-
ceners, but his was the master mind
Of the combination, and no one ven
tured to dispute the claim he fire.
auently made OF being the whole
works.
Perhaps It would be better to say
that no oNe cared to dispute 1t, for any
one Uf the four huskies who aided and
abetted him in the systematic opera
tion of his financial plan might have
asserted his own Importance had 1t
seemed to him to be worth while. and
NO one of them would have hesitated q
moment TO do 80 II It had occurred to
him. One and all. however, they were
profoundly Indifferent to all earthly
happenings outside Of the nttle back
room already referred to. wherefore
they let II 60 at that. caring nothing
for the credit, only 10 that they Sc
cured their share Of the cash.
This statement again should perhaps
he amended In one particular. One Of
the four. Joe Bassett BY name. held