SIDNEY AND ISLANDS REVIEW, SIDNEY, B.C.,, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1913

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R. G. R. Mackenzie

Barrister at Law and Solicitor

Notary Public, Etc.
Cable Address, “Mack.”
Sidney

B. C.

G. A.GIBSON

BOOT AND SHOE
REPAIRING

Beacon Avenue Sidney B. C. Near the
New Bank Building

Lowest prices compatible with good
work and best material. We employ
skilled help and warrant satisfaction.

Look For the Red Boot Sign

David Craig

Horseshoeing and
General Blacksmithing

Estimates given for every
description of blacksmith-
ing and wagon work.

Cord wood beach wood, etc.,
cut into stove lengths at
moderate prices.

SIDNEY B.C.

SIDNEY
BOARDING
HOUSE

For Furnished Rooms and
Board.

Good Meals for 25c. ||

TENDERS

Tenders wanted for the purchase of all)
standing hay on Pier Island.

J.S. HARVEY,
Knapp Island.

Camp Tea Gardens
Union Bay

Main Road Corner of Indian Reserve

| joined Mr. Pepper in the barroom, well

Afternoon Tea 25c

MISS R. A. SIMISTER

Teacher of Music
Phone 43

Terms on Application

LAND ACT

FORM OF NOTICE

VICTORIA LAND DISTRICT
DISTRICT OF SAANICH

TAKB NOTICE that ROBERT GREIG
KENNEDY, of Saanich, in the Province
of British Columbia, a Civil Engineer,
intends to apply for permission to lease
the following described land:

Commencing at a post planted on the
northwest corner of Lot Eight (8), of|
Block Seventy-three (73), as shown upon
a plan of Sections Seventeen (17) and
Bighteen (18), Range Three (3) West,
North Saanich, deposited in the Land
Reeistry ofce at the City of Victoria, in
the Province of British Columbia, and
numbered 1151; thence southwesterly at
right angles to the shore line ten chains;
thence southeasterly-two hundred feet
parallel to the said shore line; thence
northeasterly to the south vest corner
post of Lot Five (5) shown on the said
plan; thence northwesterly following the
said shore line to the point of commence-
ment and containing three acres more or

less.

Dated the ninth day of May, A.D.,1913.

R. G KENNEDY.
W.F. U. CopeMAN, Name of Applicant
2)2 Jones Bldg., Victoria.

| cating the utter carelessness as to hav-

A STORY OF THE GOOD OLD
TIMES IN AN ARKANSAS SALOON

(Continued from last week)

“Have another,’ said old man Green-
law, producing a fresh bottle. ‘Jim, I
reckon f'm what Pepper tells how
there ‘Il be diddin’'s round here to-
night what's liable fo’ to p’duce c’n-
sid'able activity f’m yo’ all, or Bas-
sett, either one. If Barker is reason-
able sober when he sets in yo’ all is
got yo’ work cut out. He's emnsid’able |
lightnin’s ’s long ‘s|
enough fo’ tell|
one cyard f’m another. An’ if he's
drunk Bassett ‘ll have his hands full!
p’servin’ the peace.”

Mr. Blaisdell agreed that it
worth while to postpone his departure,
in view of the immediate prospects,
and when Mr. Barker appeared a short
time afterward he joined the others
in an earnest effort to decide whether
the newcomer was in reality drunk or
sober. The most obvious decision was
that he was neither one nor the other
and a festive evening was assured.

quicker’n grease

he ‘e’n see well to

was

Brings Capable Thirst.

Whatever the truth may have been
as to that it was unmistakably evi-
dent that Mr. Barker had brought a
capable thirst with him, and for a
period old man Greenlaw devoted him-
self to ministering to it. Im this he
was ably supported by Joe Bassett,
whose relish for physical encounters
Was even keener than his predilection)

for draw poker. But Mr. Barker, it|
presently appeared, preferred his
poker first, and Mr. Blaisdell, now

thoroughly cured for the time at least
of his inclination toward travel, led
the way blithsomely toward the big
round table in the little back room.
It was a five-handed game that was
started, for Winterbottom and Sam
Pearsall insisted on joining: and
when old man Greenlaw had seen that
all things were going satisfactorily he

in,

content with the situation.

They played table stakes and each
man took $500 in chips for a starter, |
not wishing to be annoyed by waiting|
for a fresh stack from time to time.|
And for a while longer they continued
to try to make up their minds as to
Mr. Barker's condition without being
able to decide positively.

At first it seemed as if he might be
Grunk, for having the age and getting
three stayers he raised it before the
draw and, getting a re-raise, boosted
Then, having still two an-
he drew three cards, indi-

if again.
tagonists,

ing been detected in a bluff. But the
further fact that he drew a third ten
and a small pair and his consequent
Capture of the pot seemed to justify
the suspicion that he had read the)
back at least the first card that was |
coming to him, And Pearsall called
for a fresh deck.

Boast He Played Hunch.

But for a time thereafter Mr. Bar-
ker’s play was marked by extreme
caution, and all thought of his being
intoxicated was laid aside, while the
suspicion they had harbored was
strengthened. But again he blurted
outrageously and after he had won|
the pot on a straizht that he had filled |
on a three-card draw he boastfully|
declared he had played a hunch.

“Them king an’ ace looked kind a’
good ta me,” he said, ‘hein’ they was}
both spades. I was kind disap- |
pinted, though, not getting a straight |
flush. like the huneh
strong to Hones that
much. That's how come I done played
it that strong.”

“Must been cnsid’able of a dis-
app'intment,”’ Winterbottom,
drily. “Does yo’ play yo’
hunches that way?”

“Sho? thing,” said Barker, and the,
confidence of the home talent waxed |
It seemed so easy to defeat a

0’
‘Pears was

enough £0’ call

‘at
said
alays

apace.
man who played poker thus that Blais- |

dell seemed loath to put forth his un-|

deniable skill in the deal. They could
capture his wad without that.
But as the game went on the out-

sider continued to win most unac-

| right

His luck in the draw was
enough justify the

countably.

phenomenal to

rashness with which he backed his in-
complete hands, and it became neces-
sary in time to do something to off-
set it. And when he essayed that
something Mr. Blaisdell’s doubts as
to the other's sobriety were suddenly
dispelled.

or Mr. Barker leaned back in his
chair with the appearance of one who
suddenly tires of one form of amuse-
His
hip

ment and wishes to try another.
hand dropped toward his

pocket and he said drawlingly:
I reckon |
ain’t any other man in Arkansas
but me e’d ‘a’ seen yo’ deal
seconds. But I kyind o’ p’fers my}
eyards to come offen the top o’ the
deck.” |

Room in Uproar. |

And he would have drawn his gun}
as he spoke but for the fact that Win- |
terbottom sat on his right and was)
quicker than he. On the instant the
room was in an uproar.

Blaisdell had drawn promptly, but)
Bassett was not to be forestalled.
Ismocking his frisnd’s pistol from his
hand he sprang forward with a hoarse
battle ery and when old man Green-
law entered the room brandishing his
bungstarter he was unable to use it
diseriminatingly.

The two redoubtedly bullies were
writhing and twisting in each other’s
grasp so confusingly and with such
amazingly rapid econtortions that it
Was impossible for any of the others
to interfere without danger to the
wreng man. Wherefore all waited till
Bassett had for once satisfied his hun-
ger for strife.

By that time it was plainly super-
erogatory to attempt to inflict any in-
jury on the unfortunate Barker, and

“Yo" all sho’ is some slick.
th’

them

}

old man Greenlaw put away his bung-
starter.

“T reckon if yo’ all is
ecitement, Jim, yo’ can’t
stay around home fo’ a
he said.

And Blaisdell agreed.

“Arkansas City "pears

lookin’ fo’
do better’n to

ex-

while longer,”

to be all right

vit,’ said he—New York Sun.
SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE.
Many famous soldiers and adven-

turers served under flags their
Henry Hudson, an Englishman,
who sailed under the Dutch standard;

Christopher Columbus, a Genoese, who

not
own.

discovered a continent in the name of
Spain; Kosciusko and Pulaski, Polish
patriots, who fought for American in-
and Gordon, who gained
in the service

dependence,
distinetion
are conspicuous examples.
Disregarding the obscure periods of
the middle ages, adventurers
scurried to and fro all
one has only to study the bureaucracy

of China—

when
over Hurope,
of Russia to find a potent example of
the highest type of Soldier of fortune.
Russia, at her regeneration, needed
leaders ef every kind—soldiers, states-
men, bankers, organizers, and all were

brought in from the outside. At the
helm of state their descendants re-
main to-day.

In somewhat similar manner, when
America was fighting for her inde-
pendence, there were needed many

foreigners to aid in military organiza-
tion. Baron Steuben, the Prussian;
Pulaski and Kosciusko, the Poles, and
the Frenchman, were the
most notable figures. Of all these it
can be said that they were fighting for

Lafayette,

the cause of freedom, which was also
but they were soldiers of
Elarper’s

their own;

fortune, nevertheless. —

Weekly.

Little Mary went into the country on
a@ visit to her grandmother. Walking

in the garden, she chanced to spy a

peacock, a bird she had never before
She ran quickly Into the

“Oh, grandma, come out

} seen. house
and eried out:
}and see! There’s an old chicken in full

bloom!’'—Columbia State.

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SIDNEY, B. C.

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