THE OMINECA HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1925

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Welcome

“NOBODY asked you, sir,” said the
And in matters of buying,
as well as in affairs of the heart, most
people like to be ‘‘asked”.
deed they insist on a proper invitation.

Often, in-

He is a wise merchant who keeps the
welcome sign constantly before the
community in the form of ADVER-
TISEMENTS 1m the hame paper. There
everybody sees it—for ADVERTISING
is “the light of directed attention”.

Speak up. Light up. ‘Hundreds of
good customers are listening for your
message and watching for your wel-
come sign in ‘‘The Omineca Herald”

and ‘The Terrace News”.

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Job Printing, Counter Check; Take th nar an
me nail, fer that’s me land: an’
Books at the Omineca Herald here’s. me money,’ sez Larry.

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BY I. H.

(Copyrighted, 1925, by I.

Pat O’Hooley on the Taming of bat |

HOLDEN

H, Holden, Cereal, Alta.).

“Did ye iver know Larry Kel-
lev, Mr. Donovan?’ queried Pat
O’ Hooley, settling himself in his
host’s easy chair and elevating
his brogans on the table. ‘‘In

th’ early days he was me neigh-
bor, an’ his farm jined moine jist
wist of th’ coulee. Larry was a
broth of a bye; he stood six-fut-
one in his socks, an’ he had a
skelp wid his fist that would fell
a bull. He was always peaceful:
but he was that aecommodatin’
he’d foight ye fer th’ flicker of
an eyelid if ye was lookin’ fer ut,
At that Larry had more frinds
than anvwan—especially whin he
had money, fer he was autoeratic
an’ given t? standin’ before th’
mahogany wid wan fut on th’
brass rail an? demandin’ that
iverywan in th’ house have a
drink on him,

“Before comin’ north Larry
lived in Missouri, an’ he had a
foine job in th’ city; but cards,
whiskey, an’ drivin’ a fire-injine
don’t mix well; an’ wan noight
he goes' out of town talkin’ t’
himself, wid his discharge in wan
pocket an’ a rol! of bills he’d won
in th’ ither. Bein’ tired of his
old tricks—or thinkin’. he was—

ada, an’ drifts int’? Alsask jist as
th’ big rush is on fer homestead
land in Alberta,

“ *T be or not t? be?’ sez Lar-
ry th’ nixt mornin’, holdin’ a

This is Pak

two-bit piece in his fingers, ‘Is
ut better t’ endure th’ avils I
have or fly t’ others that I’m
suspicious of? Heads, I git mar-
ried—sometoime, an’ settle down;
tails, I go homesteadin’, quit me
damfoolishness, an’ settle up.
Here she goes!’ An’ tails won,
So Larry swaggers int’ th’ Do-
minion Land Office an’ Bez: ‘Tis
land I want! Show me,’

“ ‘Fere’s a foine district,’. sez
th’ agent, spreadin’ out a checker-
board map. ‘Three railroads are
surveyed across ut; an’ wan will
soon be built. Have ye any
choice?’ sez he, dippin’ his pen.
of mt have,’ sez Larry, shuttin’
both eyes an’ dabbin’ his finger
down. ‘Take th’ number under

he hits th’ high places fer Can-

_|¢erawlin’ up th’ lookin’ glass that’s

“Th? agent shakes his head.

Have You Paid Your Subscription? Can You do it now?! * 'Tis a bum choice,’ sez he. ‘Ut’s

purty rocky sile along that ridge;
ye better guess agin.’

“But Larry was contrary. ‘I
will not,’ sez he, Pickin’ stones
will kape me out of mischief an’
I won’t have so much time t’ be
gazin off t’ th’ south an’ dramin’
of old Missouri. Let ut stand,’
sez he. ,An’ they did.

“‘So Larry buys a yoke of bulls
—Might an’ Dynamite, he calls
"em —some lumber, household
poods an’ sich loike, an’ hits
West. Purty soon he’s all fixed
up on th’ perairie—an’ forty
moiles from nowhere. Ut was
all roight for a whoile; buat in th’
next eighteen months he gets so
lonesome at toimes he’d wish he
was in purgatory, jist fer th’
company. Whin the rock poiles
was as big as houses an’ th’ strip
of breakin’ made th’ place look
like a rale farm; whin Larry was
sick of th’ chatterin’ gophers, th’
diggin’ badgers an’ th’ sneakin’,
yelpin’ coyotes, he’d often go t’
old Dynamite, trow his arms
about his neck, an’ talk loike he
would t’ a sister. Whin he could
stand ut no longer, he’d set out
fer town—a matter of three days
frampin’—an’ spend a wake wid
his fut on th’ brass rail, ‘

.“*Wan mornin’ Larry wakes up
in his bunk at home, an’ he can’t
remimber how he got there; his
head is bustin’; his nerves are
shot entoirely, an’ he’s wishin’
he was dead.

‘*"T may as well take me gun
7 ind ut now,’ sez he desper-
ately, ‘I niver was any good!’

“Jist thin he, sees somethin’

restin’ on the shelf an’ lanein’
agin the wall, He git’s up an’
takes a look, an’, by gorrie, if ut
wasn’t a bedbug—drunk as a
sailor from suckin’ Larry’s heat-
ed blood—an’ he’s out t’ have a
divil of a toime in his own way.
First, he’d craw] t’ th’ top of th’
mirror, balanee himself on th’
idge of th’ frame, wink wan eye
cunnin’ly at Larry, let loose all at
wance, an’ start slidin’. Down
he’d come, hellitysplit, toboggan
over the lower mouldin’, an’ turn
two or three summersets before
he’d hit th’ shelf, all spraddled
out. Thin he’d ait up, stagger
about fer a bit, an’ give his head
a crazy wiggle, as much as t? say:
‘Wazzer. mazzer wiz me, eh?
Thin he’d giye his tail a flirt an’
do ut all over agin.

“So Larry watched th’ little
fellie fer hours; an’ he purty near
dies a-laughin’. Ut was better
than any circus—an’ all his own!
‘Go tout, bye!’ sez Larry, clap-
pin’ his hands. ‘Ye’re a man
after me own heart, and ffom
now on ye’re a mimber of me
family! If we siperate, ut won't
be my fault.’ An’ ut wasn’t. So
Larty an’
Battlin’ Nelson, on account of his
propensity t’ ‘bore in’— lived in
perfect harmony, an’ whin-Larry
would go away fer a few days

he'd slip Bat int’ th” back of his.

t

fer a long toime.
spots on me body this minute.
notion t’ put me fut on ye—so I have!’
sez Larry, gittin’ ,
Bat—he calle 4 him ¥, gittin® madder an’ madder,

» SYNOPSIS OF
ND ACT AMENDMENTS

PRE-EMPTIONS

Vacant, unreserved, surveyed
crown lands may be pre-empted by
British subjects over 18 years of age,
and by aliens on declaring intention
to become Eritish subjecta, condi-
tional upon residence, ~ occupation,
and improvement for agricultural
purposes,

Full information concerning regu-
lations regarding pre-emptiongs is
given, in Bulletin No. 1, Land Series,
“How to .Pre-empt Land,” copies of
which can be obtained free of charge
by addressing the Department of
Lands, Victoria, B.C., or to any Gov-
arnment Agent,

Records will be granted covering
only Jand, suitable for agricultural
purposes, and which {s not timber-
land, Le, carrying over 6,000 board
feet per acre west of the Coast Range
and 3,000 feet per acre east of that
Range. .

Applications for pre-emptions are
to be addressed to the Land Com-
missioner of the Land Recording Di-
viaion, in which the land applied for
ls altuated, and are made on printed
forms, coples of which can be ob-
tained from the Land Commissioner.

Pre-emptions must be occupled for
five years and improvements made
to value of $10 per acre, including
clearing and cultivating at least five
acres, before a Crown Grant can be
received,

For more detailed information see
the Bulletin “How to Pre-empt

Land.”
PURCHASE

Applications are received for pur-
chase of vacant and unreserved
Crown lands, not being timberland,
for agricultural purposes; m‘nimum
price of first-class (arable) land is $5
per acre, and second-class (grazing)
land $2.60 per acre. Further infor-
metion regarding purchase or Jeasa
of Crown lands is given in Bulletin
No. 10, Land Series, “Purchase and
Lease of Crown Lands.”

Mill, factery, or industrial sites on
timber land, not exceeding 40 acres, -
may be nurchased or leased, the con-
ditions Including payment of
stumpage.

HOMESITE LEASES

Unsurveyed areas, not exceeding 30
acres, may be leased as homealtes,
conditional upon a dwelling being
erected In the first year, title belne
obtainable after residence and im-
Ppravement conditions are fulfilled
and lend has been surveyed.

LEASES

For grazing and industrial pur-
poses areag not exceeding 640 acres
may be leased by ons person or 4
company.

GRAZING

~ Under the Grazing Act the Prov-
ince Is divided into grazing districts
and the range administered under 1
Grazing Commissioner, Annual
grazing permits are issued based on
numbers ranged, priority being given
to established owners, Stock-owners
may form associations for range
management. Free, or partially free,
permits are available for settlers,
pompera and travellers, up to ten
en

watchease an’ take him along.
He broke him of blood-suckin’—
purty near--by feedin’ him on
eggs an’ sich like; an’ he trusted
him t’ slape in a little box—al]
lined wid cotton—jist over th’
bunk. Ivery’ mornin as soon as
Larry begins stirrin’, down eomes
Bat, an’ th’ two would have a
regular romp.

“Well, everything goes foine
until spring. Larry was wurrek-
in’ hard, sweatin a lot, an’ th’
timptation got too strong fer Bat.
Almost ivery noight he’d steal
down an’ take a nip of Larry’s

blood, thinkin’ he could git away
widut. But he didn’t; an’ wan morn-

“ ‘That's what I thought, Mr. Bat!?
sez Larry. ‘I’ve been suspicionin’ ye
I’ve a dozen sore
I’ve a

"Ye would ate me? Well, I’m thinkin’

a little sinse—if ut don’t kill ye!’ aez,
Larry,

“Thin Larry puts Bat i ina deep bow!
(continued on page 6)...

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in’ Larry found him so full he was .
ready t" bust.

some of yer own medicine will tache ye