May 21, 1934 (8 pages)

i) > ir » ee ee Monday, May 21, 1934 et PAGE THREE rwurwr) OU ik 4 4 D 4 4 4 4 4 4 4. 4 4 4 4 4 4 LAWS of EDE By PETER B. KYNE WNU Service. Copyright, by Peter B. Kyne. SYNOPSIS At the close of the Mexican war, Robin Kershaw, with his bride, rode into northeastern California. Here he found an ideal valley for cattle raising. They christened it Eden Valley Welow Eden Valley is a less valuable tract which Kershaw’s wife names Forlorn Valley. Joel Hensley settles in the lower half of the valley. There is bad blood over fences and water Kershaw kli'is Hensley and the bloodfeud is on. sy. 1917, Rance Kershaw, his son Owen, and daughter Lorry are all that remains of one clan. Nate Tichenor is the sole survivor on the Hensley side. He goes to help Lorry in her car and finds her father has died of heart disease. Silas Babson, banker, schemes to control the irrigation and hydro-electric possibilities of Eden Valley Nate tells Lorry he and Owen, Lorry’s brother, met in France just before Owen was killed, and Nate promised that if he survived Owen he would look after Lorry as a brother might do. Babson makes legal application for the allocation of flood waters to the Forlorn Valley trrigation district. With money advanced by Nate, Lorry clears up her indebtedness to Babson. Nate finds he is falling in love with Lorry. Babson discovers Nate is behind a rival power project. Nate tells Lorry he loves her. She admits she loves Nate,-and they become engaged. CHAPTER VIII—Continued 2.70.= “He was ready for me, but he didn't pull. And when Rookby picked himself up Owen said. ‘That's right, Henry. This is the closed season in Eden Valley’—and he gave Henry Rookby the great-grandfather of all the kieks under the coat-tail, and walked away from me,” “Poor wen.” “So Vil make a wholesale job of cleaning out that rat’a nest in the Bank rf Valley Center, if I ean. And after ['*e smashed the bank [ll buy the wreck, saving the depositors, and have myself elected president.” “You've got to promise something else before lll marry yeu, Nate. Help me with the branding—You’re a top hand and * ean use you-—but as soon an the brane@ing’s finished go away and complete your business and come back f5 me ws soon as you can.” “IT promise. But let me give you a small warning. Don't crowd me with tt. many demands for promises.” “The only promise I'll ever exact from you again, Nate Tiehenor, will be to love. honor, and cherish: me until death do us part.” “And endow you with all my worldly goods—including the Eden Valley water, I suppose. Funny sweetheart! Ill race you back to the house for a dollar.” “You'd. win. ing can step.” “Make it a kiss then.” “Well, you'd still win, so I might as well pay the bet here and now.” And she did. That horse you're ridCHAPTER IX Joe Brainerd, editor of the Valley Center Register, had been summoned to the Bank of Valley Center. Babson led him into. his private office. And then, for the last time, he disclosed his plan for the organization of the. Forlorn Valley Irrigation district. “Here’s the copy for a full-page ad,” he finished. meeting of the citizens, to be held next Saturday afternoon in the plaza, for the purpose of discussing the’ water situation and the appointment of a “committee to. investigate the possibillties of leading surface. irrigation into the valley. [ll plant the idea good and strong in their minds at that. mass meeting, but in the meantime you get out a good rousing editorial that will give them something to think about. Warn ‘em that this Mountain Valley Power company is about to grab the water for power purposes. Tell ‘em Nate Tichenor’s the Mountain Valley Power company. Give Tichenor h—1 in a quiet way, but be firm. If we tackle Tichenor now the chances are we can euchre his company out of a contract to sell water to Forlorn Valley. Get the idea? He told me his company wouldn't eonsider selling us water and why. If we threaten his source of water supply, chances are he’ll change his mind and do business with us. And that’s what we're after.” Brainerd, remembering his recent experience with Tichenor, needed no urging to enlist in Babson’s ceduse. Within two hours he was back in Babson's office with a copy of his edltorial. “That's certainly a rousing editorial,” Babson complimented him, “but there’d be a lot more puneh to it if you tied into-Nate Tichenor more vigorously.” . “Why, Tichenor hasn't done anything out of the way, has he?” “He's swiped our water, hasn't he— or he’s trying to swipe it?” “He’s perfectly within his rights, Mr. Babson. How did he know we wanted the water?” “The rights of the people are paramount to those of the“individual, but , whether they are or not, it suits me to have you tie into this fellow. Attack him, Impute things to him. Run-a history of his family and the Kershaws—continned from week to week. } want to incite the community against him. This fs a war we're about to “ “It’s a call for a mass. engage in, Joe and in war you've got to make people hate or they won’t fight well. We'll have to fight for the Eden Valley water, but we can win, although to do so we may have to buy both the Circle K and the Bar H in order to acquire their water rights. But if we tackle the owners now—hold them up to obloquy and ridicule and public hate, they just can't. live in this country, understand, and they'll be glad to sell and get out.” Brainerd replied: “Mr. Babson, it’s a job I don't like—for two: reasons, One—business; the other-—ethical.” “Pear in mind, Joe, that the continued prosperity of Forlorn Valley is a matter of profound interest to you and me.” “I'm on the horns of .a dilemma, Mr. Babson, If I attack Tichenor fn the manner you sugyest he will start an opposition newspaper in this town and ruin me.” : “How can he? He can’t get any local advertising. 1{'d see to that, even if the local people were fools enough to support their natural enemy by giving him advertising.” “But he promised me he'd do it, Mr. ‘. Babson.” “A mere bluff.” “] think you've got that man wrong. 1 sized him up as one who will go through. I understand none of his people have ever made a promise they didn’t keep, Bad as they were and bad as the Kershaws were, both clans had the courage of wounded grizzly bears. I'm afraid of him.” Babson smiled patiently, “The Hensleys and the Kershaws never had their courage tested outside Eden Valley, Joe. Let Tichenor come projecting around Forlorn Valley and he’ll find a man to call his bluft.” “I tell you, Mr. Babson, it’s a job 1 do not want. Tichenor will fight back —and the only way a man can fight the only newspaper that’s attacking him is to start an opposition newspa“You’ve Got to Promise Something Else Before I'll Marry You Nate.” per and mail his copies gratis to his enemies. And I tell you further I dislike the fight because it’s dirty. [ll fight Tichenor all over the lot for the sake of Forlorn Valley and its erying needs; but I'll fight him on the issue involved and not his family history.” “T see,” Babson murmured sadly, “you're an idealist, too,” “J hope I haven’t lost all my idealism.” “I see. Well, Joe, 1 hate to remind you of it, but you owe this bank three thousand dollars and the bank holds a chattel mortgage on your plant. And you haven't got the building you're housed in paid for yet. I hold a deed of trust on that.” “Is that a threat, Mr. Babson?” “Suppose we call it a gentle hint, Joe.” “Then let’s quit arguing. I'l) not wage a mean, dirty, personal war against Nathan Tichenor and that Kershaw girl. That's final—and I suggest that 1f and when you get surface irrigation. into Forlorn Valley, you go out to the main canal, jump in and -.drown yourself.” “Well, that fixes your clock Brainerd.” Babson commenced to rearrange his pens and pencils on their rack and to shuffle ‘the unanswered correspondence on his desk. “I'll just take over the Valley Center Register and put in a man who's loyal.” Joe, Brainerd stood up. He was a small man, but like most small men he lacked neither courage nor conceit. He struck, silently and savagely—furlous blows, left and right, to Babson’s sneering face; as the banker sprawled back of his desk the quondam pro-. prietor of Valley Center's lone palladium of liberty walked out of the bank and back to his oflice, where he seized a pad of copy paper and wrote: “With this issue the present editor of the Valley Center Register sings his swan song. Because he wouldn't take orders from Silas Babson and do the Jatter’s dirty work, the Bank of Valley Center, which holds a chattel mortgage on.the Register’s plant, but not on the editor's soul, will kick ye sole editor and proprietor out into the geometrical center of Valley Center poulevard and put in an editor who will lick the hand that feeds him, even if he doesn’t relish the dirty diet. “The editor desires to express his gratitude to the citizens of Forlorn Valley who have so loyally supported him and his policies. Of course we have found it expedient at times to tread on somebody’s toes, but we haven’t held: mean little grudges, and when the fight wus over we were always willing to shake hands, And we have not always won. Hence, we hope to be forgiven our trespasses as we forgive those who have trespassed Bgeinet us, “The editor, eventually, may be forced to buy himself a tin bill and compete with the birds for a livellhood, but never let it be said of him that he existed at the price of another’s shame and humiliation, in orderthat ruthless and powerful interests might feed a persona] grouch. “Joseph P, Brainerd, “Sole Editor and Proprietor, “Pro Tem, “Valley Center Register.” When Tichenor. and Lorry Kershaw came in for luncheon the next noon, following a hard morning’s work in the branding corral, Editor Brainerd’s swan song and “rousing editorial promptly came to their attention. Indeed; there was no escaping either, for the editorial in black brevier type filled the first two columns on the front page and in the center of, the same page, boxed.and also in brevier, the swan song appeared. Lorry, read the articles first and, without comment, handed the paper to Nate. When he had finished reading it he looked up. at her whimsically. “How stupid that fellow Babson is,” he: commented. ‘He’s hog-wild with power. _One could cash every bet that when there’s something constructive to be done Babson will choose the wrong way of doing it. Hurrah for Joe Brainerd !” “It takes a man to accept ruin rather than orders that conflict with his sense of justtce. -I wonder what sort of dirty work Babson wanted him to do.” “I don’t know. I can’t even suspect, but I’m willing to agree with Brainerd, on suspicion, that the work was dirty.” He commenced to chuckle with a certain joyous malevolence. “Well, sweetheart, in line with my policy of becoming the big man of this district and also in line with my promise to tease the animal, I believe it’s up to me to save the sole editor and proprietor pro tem of the Valley Center Register.” About two o'clock that afternoon Nate walked in on Joe Brainerd and solemnly proffered that suffering individual his hand. ‘Where can we talk privately?” he asked. Brainerd indicated his den. Tichenor sat in at the desk, where he filled in a check to Joseph P. Brainerd and signed it. “You fill in the-figures,” he said, “and my bank will pay the check.” Brainerd stared atjhim. “What do I have to do for this?” “Just continue to fight for the best interests of Forlorn Valley.” “Wait a minute, Tichenor. Who told you that you were the a“ I was ordered to attack?” “Why, nobody told me. I didn’t even suspect it. I decided to get behind you merely after my own heart.” “Sit down,” Brainerd commanded. And he related to Tichenor every detail of his conversation with Babson, “I could.stand up under shat insect’s teasings, Brainerd,” Tichenor told him when the tale was done, “but I shouldn’t like to see Miss Kershaw put to that extremity. Well, you can give me your note if you care to, or you may consider this advance as a donation to the cause of good men and: true. But-I have a request to make of you. The Valley Center Register is the mouthpiece and the champion of Forlorn Valley and I desire that it continue to be just that. The war for the water {s on and-it’s going to. be some war. I ask you, therefore, to print the news from the front honestly .and impartially. It may be that pe aa Ain Ah Ain Mn ia Ain fia tin Min tn tis ha fir tim Mn fn Mia tia La fia hi ta Mn ta ta Hin fa ie tia le Hr fn fi Sn a a a a a a LL EE AE I I A I LE I NL I I EB ED I SI LN eee eV V VV Y from time to time Miss Kershaw and I—and the Mountain Valley Power company, which is me—will have something to say to your subscribers. I'll expect you to print tt—and I don't eare two hoots in a hollow how you ridicule or condemn it in your editorial column. That's your privilege.” “There must be something wrong with your. head,” Brainerd protested, “but whatever the trouble is, I like it. However before I fil) in this check—and you'll take my gratitude for granted— itis my duty to inform you that from this. day forward the Valley Center Register fs going to operate in red ink. I mean that [ ean never hope to repay this loan from the profits of a losing enterprise.” “Just make certain you can draw a living out of it, and if you can’t, opee me.” “T owe the bank three thousand, and there’s a deed of trust on this building for fifteen hundred, I'd like to pay that all up and have a balance for operating capital. But. there's. one more point you've overlooked. When I bank this check’ in Babson’s bank everybody will know you’re back of me and it will be said that you control me editorially.” “Well, that will be fine, It will automatically prevent you from showing me any editorial preferment.” “You be mighty careful somebody doesn’t kill you off in the shank of your callow youth, my friend. You're a temptation, With. you out of the way there wouldn’t be any water war, because the Kershaw. girl couldn’t put up a winning fight. Do you realize that?” “Who'd have that much enterpise?” “Babson might instigate it.” Joe Brainerd was very earnest now. “That man’s private fortune and the future of his bank hinges on the future of Forlorn Valley, and I don’t think he would give an icicle in Iceland for a human life ff it stood between him and his desires. The battle for water in this state is as old as the.state and it is unending. ‘There is more drama and more tragedy in it than most people realize; have died with their boots on beside a stream to fill my obituary column for the next ten years. Needs must when the devil drives, Nate Tichenor, and the devil is up on the front seat driving through Forlorn Valley and Silas Babson was the first man to recognize him. Now he'll point him out to the others and the job of exorcizing him will commence at the mass meeting in the plaza next Saturday afternoon.” “J shall attena that mass meeting, and I shall address it.” “Provided you’re permitted. Babson will call it to order and address it first, and when he finishes you'll have a hostile audience on your hands,” “They'll listen to me. I’m going to make them a proposition they’ve got to listen to. I’ve about made up my mind not to install the power station, but build my dam good and high and. store water for sale to Forlorn Valley. I’m not going to stand selfishly by and see those old settlers leaving their abandoned farms. But I’m going to smash that, blood-sucker Babson, by smashing his bank.” “How?” s “By starting a new bank here. In return for the lifegiving water I shall have to sell them, the people will have to do business at my bank. Tl rent money at six per cent. I'll take up every loan they have with the Bank of Valley Center, and when they switch “their deposits to my bank Babson will be left with insufficient capital to meet the withdrawals.” “How about the minority stockholders? They’re rather decent, substantial citizens.” “When the smoke clears away I'll settle with them privately so they'll not lose a dollar.” “You may not be able to secure a state eharter for your bank.” “Then I'll operate a national bank,” TO BE CONTINUED. hen Jd oa “hah Tests Made at Biological Station Prove Fish Will Respond to Sounds At the Plymouth biological station, writes E. G. Bonleuger, director. Zoological society's aquarium, in the London Sunday Observer, efforts were made some years ago to ascertain ‘}: whether fish could be trained to associate the notes of an electric buzzer with the depositing of food in one particular place, The “dining room” in this instance was a large box, and after a few trials with the buzzer, one particular cod s9 closely and accurately connected the box with food-— whether the buzzer was, working or not—that it took up permanent res} ' dence there. 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i) > ir » ee ee Monday, May 21, 1934 et PAGE THREE rwurwr) OU ik 4 4 D 4 4 4 4 4 4 4. 4 4 4 4 4 4 LAWS of EDE By PETER B. KYNE WNU Service. Copyright, by Peter B. Kyne. SYNOPSIS At the close of the Mexican war, Robin Kershaw, with his bride, rode into northeastern California. Here he found an ideal valley for cattle raising. They christened it Eden Valley Welow Eden Valley is a less valuable tract which Kershaw’s wife names Forlorn Valley. Joel Hensley settles in the lower half of the valley. There is bad blood over fences and water Kershaw kli'is Hensley and the bloodfeud is on. sy. 1917, Rance Kershaw, his son Owen, and daughter Lorry are all that remains of one clan. Nate Tichenor is the sole survivor on the Hensley side. He goes to help Lorry in her car and finds her father has died of heart disease. Silas Babson, banker, schemes to control the irrigation and hydro-electric possibilities of Eden Valley Nate tells Lorry he and Owen, Lorry’s brother, met in France just before Owen was killed, and Nate promised that if he survived Owen he would look after Lorry as a brother might do. Babson makes legal application for the allocation of flood waters to the Forlorn Valley trrigation district. With money advanced by Nate, Lorry clears up her indebtedness to Babson. Nate finds he is falling in love with Lorry. Babson discovers Nate is behind a rival power project. Nate tells Lorry he loves her. She admits she loves Nate,-and they become engaged. CHAPTER VIII—Continued 2.70.= “He was ready for me, but he didn't pull. And when Rookby picked himself up Owen said. ‘That's right, Henry. This is the closed season in Eden Valley’—and he gave Henry Rookby the great-grandfather of all the kieks under the coat-tail, and walked away from me,” “Poor wen.” “So Vil make a wholesale job of cleaning out that rat’a nest in the Bank rf Valley Center, if I ean. And after ['*e smashed the bank [ll buy the wreck, saving the depositors, and have myself elected president.” “You've got to promise something else before lll marry yeu, Nate. Help me with the branding—You’re a top hand and * ean use you-—but as soon an the brane@ing’s finished go away and complete your business and come back f5 me ws soon as you can.” “IT promise. But let me give you a small warning. Don't crowd me with tt. many demands for promises.” “The only promise I'll ever exact from you again, Nate Tiehenor, will be to love. honor, and cherish: me until death do us part.” “And endow you with all my worldly goods—including the Eden Valley water, I suppose. Funny sweetheart! Ill race you back to the house for a dollar.” “You'd. win. ing can step.” “Make it a kiss then.” “Well, you'd still win, so I might as well pay the bet here and now.” And she did. That horse you're ridCHAPTER IX Joe Brainerd, editor of the Valley Center Register, had been summoned to the Bank of Valley Center. Babson led him into. his private office. And then, for the last time, he disclosed his plan for the organization of the. Forlorn Valley Irrigation district. “Here’s the copy for a full-page ad,” he finished. meeting of the citizens, to be held next Saturday afternoon in the plaza, for the purpose of discussing the’ water situation and the appointment of a “committee to. investigate the possibillties of leading surface. irrigation into the valley. [ll plant the idea good and strong in their minds at that. mass meeting, but in the meantime you get out a good rousing editorial that will give them something to think about. Warn ‘em that this Mountain Valley Power company is about to grab the water for power purposes. Tell ‘em Nate Tichenor’s the Mountain Valley Power company. Give Tichenor h—1 in a quiet way, but be firm. If we tackle Tichenor now the chances are we can euchre his company out of a contract to sell water to Forlorn Valley. Get the idea? He told me his company wouldn't eonsider selling us water and why. If we threaten his source of water supply, chances are he’ll change his mind and do business with us. And that’s what we're after.” Brainerd, remembering his recent experience with Tichenor, needed no urging to enlist in Babson’s ceduse. Within two hours he was back in Babson's office with a copy of his edltorial. “That's certainly a rousing editorial,” Babson complimented him, “but there’d be a lot more puneh to it if you tied into-Nate Tichenor more vigorously.” . “Why, Tichenor hasn't done anything out of the way, has he?” “He's swiped our water, hasn't he— or he’s trying to swipe it?” “He’s perfectly within his rights, Mr. Babson. How did he know we wanted the water?” “The rights of the people are paramount to those of the“individual, but , whether they are or not, it suits me to have you tie into this fellow. Attack him, Impute things to him. Run-a history of his family and the Kershaws—continned from week to week. } want to incite the community against him. This fs a war we're about to “ “It’s a call for a mass. engage in, Joe and in war you've got to make people hate or they won’t fight well. We'll have to fight for the Eden Valley water, but we can win, although to do so we may have to buy both the Circle K and the Bar H in order to acquire their water rights. But if we tackle the owners now—hold them up to obloquy and ridicule and public hate, they just can't. live in this country, understand, and they'll be glad to sell and get out.” Brainerd replied: “Mr. Babson, it’s a job I don't like—for two: reasons, One—business; the other-—ethical.” “Pear in mind, Joe, that the continued prosperity of Forlorn Valley is a matter of profound interest to you and me.” “I'm on the horns of .a dilemma, Mr. Babson, If I attack Tichenor fn the manner you sugyest he will start an opposition newspaper in this town and ruin me.” : “How can he? He can’t get any local advertising. 1{'d see to that, even if the local people were fools enough to support their natural enemy by giving him advertising.” “But he promised me he'd do it, Mr. ‘. Babson.” “A mere bluff.” “] think you've got that man wrong. 1 sized him up as one who will go through. I understand none of his people have ever made a promise they didn’t keep, Bad as they were and bad as the Kershaws were, both clans had the courage of wounded grizzly bears. I'm afraid of him.” Babson smiled patiently, “The Hensleys and the Kershaws never had their courage tested outside Eden Valley, Joe. Let Tichenor come projecting around Forlorn Valley and he’ll find a man to call his bluft.” “I tell you, Mr. Babson, it’s a job 1 do not want. Tichenor will fight back —and the only way a man can fight the only newspaper that’s attacking him is to start an opposition newspa“You’ve Got to Promise Something Else Before I'll Marry You Nate.” per and mail his copies gratis to his enemies. And I tell you further I dislike the fight because it’s dirty. [ll fight Tichenor all over the lot for the sake of Forlorn Valley and its erying needs; but I'll fight him on the issue involved and not his family history.” “T see,” Babson murmured sadly, “you're an idealist, too,” “J hope I haven’t lost all my idealism.” “I see. Well, Joe, 1 hate to remind you of it, but you owe this bank three thousand dollars and the bank holds a chattel mortgage on your plant. And you haven't got the building you're housed in paid for yet. I hold a deed of trust on that.” “Is that a threat, Mr. Babson?” “Suppose we call it a gentle hint, Joe.” “Then let’s quit arguing. I'l) not wage a mean, dirty, personal war against Nathan Tichenor and that Kershaw girl. That's final—and I suggest that 1f and when you get surface irrigation. into Forlorn Valley, you go out to the main canal, jump in and -.drown yourself.” “Well, that fixes your clock Brainerd.” Babson commenced to rearrange his pens and pencils on their rack and to shuffle ‘the unanswered correspondence on his desk. “I'll just take over the Valley Center Register and put in a man who's loyal.” Joe, Brainerd stood up. He was a small man, but like most small men he lacked neither courage nor conceit. He struck, silently and savagely—furlous blows, left and right, to Babson’s sneering face; as the banker sprawled back of his desk the quondam pro-. prietor of Valley Center's lone palladium of liberty walked out of the bank and back to his oflice, where he seized a pad of copy paper and wrote: “With this issue the present editor of the Valley Center Register sings his swan song. Because he wouldn't take orders from Silas Babson and do the Jatter’s dirty work, the Bank of Valley Center, which holds a chattel mortgage on.the Register’s plant, but not on the editor's soul, will kick ye sole editor and proprietor out into the geometrical center of Valley Center poulevard and put in an editor who will lick the hand that feeds him, even if he doesn’t relish the dirty diet. “The editor desires to express his gratitude to the citizens of Forlorn Valley who have so loyally supported him and his policies. Of course we have found it expedient at times to tread on somebody’s toes, but we haven’t held: mean little grudges, and when the fight wus over we were always willing to shake hands, And we have not always won. Hence, we hope to be forgiven our trespasses as we forgive those who have trespassed Bgeinet us, “The editor, eventually, may be forced to buy himself a tin bill and compete with the birds for a livellhood, but never let it be said of him that he existed at the price of another’s shame and humiliation, in orderthat ruthless and powerful interests might feed a persona] grouch. “Joseph P, Brainerd, “Sole Editor and Proprietor, “Pro Tem, “Valley Center Register.” When Tichenor. and Lorry Kershaw came in for luncheon the next noon, following a hard morning’s work in the branding corral, Editor Brainerd’s swan song and “rousing editorial promptly came to their attention. Indeed; there was no escaping either, for the editorial in black brevier type filled the first two columns on the front page and in the center of, the same page, boxed.and also in brevier, the swan song appeared. Lorry, read the articles first and, without comment, handed the paper to Nate. When he had finished reading it he looked up. at her whimsically. “How stupid that fellow Babson is,” he: commented. ‘He’s hog-wild with power. _One could cash every bet that when there’s something constructive to be done Babson will choose the wrong way of doing it. Hurrah for Joe Brainerd !” “It takes a man to accept ruin rather than orders that conflict with his sense of justtce. -I wonder what sort of dirty work Babson wanted him to do.” “I don’t know. I can’t even suspect, but I’m willing to agree with Brainerd, on suspicion, that the work was dirty.” He commenced to chuckle with a certain joyous malevolence. “Well, sweetheart, in line with my policy of becoming the big man of this district and also in line with my promise to tease the animal, I believe it’s up to me to save the sole editor and proprietor pro tem of the Valley Center Register.” About two o'clock that afternoon Nate walked in on Joe Brainerd and solemnly proffered that suffering individual his hand. ‘Where can we talk privately?” he asked. Brainerd indicated his den. Tichenor sat in at the desk, where he filled in a check to Joseph P. Brainerd and signed it. “You fill in the-figures,” he said, “and my bank will pay the check.” Brainerd stared atjhim. “What do I have to do for this?” “Just continue to fight for the best interests of Forlorn Valley.” “Wait a minute, Tichenor. Who told you that you were the a“ I was ordered to attack?” “Why, nobody told me. I didn’t even suspect it. I decided to get behind you merely after my own heart.” “Sit down,” Brainerd commanded. And he related to Tichenor every detail of his conversation with Babson, “I could.stand up under shat insect’s teasings, Brainerd,” Tichenor

told him when the tale was done, “but I shouldn’t like to see Miss Kershaw put to that extremity. Well, you can give me your note if you care to, or you may consider this advance as a donation to the cause of good men and: true. But-I have a request to make of you. The Valley Center Register is the mouthpiece and the champion of Forlorn Valley and I desire that it continue to be just that. The war for the water {s on and-it’s going to. be some war. I ask you, therefore, to print the news from the front honestly .and impartially. It may be that pe aa Ain Ah Ain Mn ia Ain fia tin Min tn tis ha fir tim Mn fn Mia tia La fia hi ta Mn ta ta Hin fa ie tia le Hr fn fi Sn a a a a a a LL EE AE I I A I LE I NL I I EB ED I SI LN eee eV V VV Y from time to time Miss Kershaw and I—and the Mountain Valley Power company, which is me—will have something to say to your subscribers. I'll expect you to print tt—and I don't eare two hoots in a hollow how you ridicule or condemn it in your editorial column. That's your privilege.” “There must be something wrong with your. head,” Brainerd protested, “but whatever the trouble is, I like it. However before I fil) in this check—and you'll take my gratitude for granted— itis my duty to inform you that from this. day forward the Valley Center Register fs going to operate in red ink. I mean that [ ean never hope to repay this loan from the profits of a losing enterprise.” “Just make certain you can draw a living out of it, and if you can’t, opee me.” “T owe the bank three thousand, and there’s a deed of trust on this building for fifteen hundred, I'd like to pay that all up and have a balance for operating capital. But. there's. one more point you've overlooked. When I bank this check’ in Babson’s bank everybody will know you’re back of me and it will be said that you control me editorially.” “Well, that will be fine, It will automatically prevent you from showing me any editorial preferment.” “You be mighty careful somebody doesn’t kill you off in the shank of your callow youth, my friend. You're a temptation, With. you out of the way there wouldn’t be any water war, because the Kershaw. girl couldn’t put up a winning fight. Do you realize that?” “Who'd have that much enterpise?” “Babson might instigate it.” Joe Brainerd was very earnest now. “That man’s private fortune and the future of his bank hinges on the future of Forlorn Valley, and I don’t think he would give an icicle in Iceland for a human life ff it stood between him and his desires. The battle for water in this state is as old as the.state and it is unending. ‘There is more drama and more tragedy in it than most people realize; have died with their boots on beside a stream to fill my obituary column for the next ten years. Needs must when the devil drives, Nate Tichenor, and the devil is up on the front seat driving through Forlorn Valley and Silas Babson was the first man to recognize him. Now he'll point him out to the others and the job of exorcizing him will commence at the mass meeting in the plaza next Saturday afternoon.” “J shall attena that mass meeting, and I shall address it.” “Provided you’re permitted. Babson will call it to order and address it first, and when he finishes you'll have a hostile audience on your hands,” “They'll listen to me. I’m going to make them a proposition they’ve got to listen to. I’ve about made up my mind not to install the power station, but build my dam good and high and. store water for sale to Forlorn Valley. I’m not going to stand selfishly by and see those old settlers leaving their abandoned farms. But I’m going to smash that, blood-sucker Babson, by smashing his bank.” “How?” s “By starting a new bank here. In return for the lifegiving water I shall have to sell them, the people will have to do business at my bank. Tl rent money at six per cent. I'll take up every loan they have with the Bank of Valley Center, and when they switch “their deposits to my bank Babson will be left with insufficient capital to meet the withdrawals.” “How about the minority stockholders? They’re rather decent, substantial citizens.” “When the smoke clears away I'll settle with them privately so they'll not lose a dollar.” “You may not be able to secure a state eharter for your bank.” “Then I'll operate a national bank,” TO BE CONTINUED. hen Jd oa “hah Tests Made at Biological Station Prove Fish Will Respond to Sounds At the Plymouth biological station, writes E. G. Bonleuger, director. Zoological society's aquarium, in the London Sunday Observer, efforts were made some years ago to ascertain ‘}: whether fish could be trained to associate the notes of an electric buzzer with the depositing of food in one particular place, The “dining room” in this instance was a large box, and after a few trials with the buzzer, one particular cod s9 closely and accurately connected the box with food-— whether the buzzer was, working or not—that it took up permanent res} ' dence there. In public. aquaria the visitor is sometimes impressed by the sudden activity shown by. the exhibitors when an attendant stationed in the public © corridor. blows a whistle or sounds a gong just before the tank inmates are fed. The visitor, however, forgets that the fish have a yery ikeen eyesight ‘and that the appearance of an altendant in the service ‘gattery, invisible, of course, to the onlooker, acts as a very potent appetizer and causes the lively demonstration. The association of food with a whistle or gong is a very effective illusion—but an illusion all the same, The late Professor Bateman es ed from certain experiments conducted at a research station that most fishes were deaf and took no notice of even a loud report or the shock of an explosion, G. H, Parker in America and Bigelow and Zennick in Germany, came, however, to different conclusions. These experimenters became satisfied that certain fish showed evidence of the perception of sound, They found that some responded to the -notes produced by a tuning fork. Power of Telescopes It _is estimated the 100-inch telescope on' Mt. Wilson has increased the power ‘of. the human eye 90,000 times, while the 20WU0-inch telescope has added to man’s vision about 360,000 eyes, ry PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY ATTORNEYS “MINING ENGINEERS HARRY M. McKEE Attorney at Law 205 Pine St., opposite courthouse Nevada City, Calif. EDWARD C. UREN Mining and Civil Engineer Mining Reports Furnished Mining District. 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