The Wingham Advance-Times, 1936-07-23, Page 6FAGM SIX WINGHAM ADVANCE-TIMES Thursday; July 23rd, 1936
SYNOPSIS . . .Silas Spelle, high- j control politics down there. Most o’
handed, low-principled cattle baron, | the office holders are professional
is out to smash the local bank and
force foreclosure on the small ranch
ers of the Kanab desert country so
that he can seize their range lands.
He is opposed by Ed. Starbuck, pres
ident of the Cattleman’s Bank, and by
San Juan Delevan, prominent ranch
er who has been crippled by a fall
from his horse. Johnny Clehoe and
his partner, Tex Whipple, are cow
punchers employed b ySan Juan Del
evan to fight the rustlers and protect
his interests.
politicians who are long on office de
tail but damn shy on everything else."
Tex nodded. “Which leaves it up
to us to handle* our own affairs in
our own way. Le’s see, that steal
happened a little over two months
ago. How far is it to the railroad
south?"
“Close to two hundred miles."
“H-m." Tex considered. “Then
on top o’ the time it took to drive
’em south they’ll have to blot the
brands an’ give ’em time to heal. I’m
bettin’ the Herefords ain’t seen the
inside of a cattle train yet. Jim, Utah
an’ Al an’ me are hittin’ the trail in
the mornin’. I’ll leave Johnny here
with Pink and Pod to keep things
movin’ on the ranch. Besides, Spelle
will probably try some kind of a
ranikaboo an’ yuh need somebody
close what can throw a gun like the
kid."
“Yuh don’t think Spelle will go that
strong,, do yuh, Tex?" argued Del
evan.
“I know he will. Didn’t he turn
some of his outfit loose after Miss
Ronny this mornin’, figgerin’ on col
lectin’ that mortgage again. I tell
yuh. Jim, that jasper is the kind that
won’t stop short o’ sudden death to
try an’ have his own way in every
thing. He’s been havin things his
oWn way for quite a time now an’-it
don’t set well with him' to think o’
gettin’ beat. Yeah—I’m bettin’ yuh
can look for trouble right here on
this ranch" ■ • '<
“A’right,” growled Delevan,
him come, damn him. We’ll bet
“Everything’s settled then,"
Tex. “Hi—Johnny, come here,
somethin’ to tell yuh.”
Johnny listened to Tex without
comment until the latter was finish
ed, then nodded. “I expaict yuh three
ole chuckawallas will glom all the fun
goin’ after that rustled herd, but fer
the good o’ the cause I’ll stick around
an’ boss hell outa Pink an’ Pod. We
.........................„-l - ! sure’ll handle things at this end with-
,Spelle don’t step wide an’ handsome 1 out trouble. If Spelle gits on the
he’s due to be run through a buzz- proj pn end the whole mix-up with
saw. An’ that’s whatever." I a 45, That’ll be the quickest way out
At Jim Delevan’s favorite corner of of a lot o’ argument.”
the porch, the old cattleman sat in “Shore, that’s common sense,”
-serious conference with Tex, Utah drawled Utah, with a wide grin.
Lynch and Al Burrows. ( “Well, seein that we know which way
“Jim," Tex said' slowly. “Those we’re pointed I’m gonna grab off a
qight hundred Herefords yuh lost round of shut-eye. Me an’ Al am t
when yuh was hurt ain’t gonna get been doin’ such a hell of a lot o
away if I kin help it. J ‘ ........ - u- ’-t-paV”
where’d be the place them rustlers
would drive a big herd like’ that?"
Delevan considered. “If I’d been
“Pink," he drawled. “It’s always
teen my opinion that yuh were a
more or less useless young whelp, but
I take it back. What in Sam Hill did
yuh do to them broncs to get all
that action outa ’em? Come on now
--didn’t yuh haye a bottle o’ high
life with yuh?"
^^‘Nope,” grinned Pink. “Nary droj*.
I jest painted their hides with leather
an’ man — they shore responded,”
“I rise to remarks they did,” chim
ed in Johnny. “Every time me an’
Tex took a look both bosses an’ all
four wheels was plumb off the
.ground.’’
"‘’Well doggone it, Tex said, show
some speed—an’ I did.”
“Yuh did yuh know,” nodded Tex.
“Johnny, if you an’ Pod‘11 undress
these skates I’ll take Utah and Al up
to see ole Jim. We gotta hold a
-council of war. Spelle's shore to
Start somethin’ an’ we wants get the.
'jump on him. Utah, you an’ Al come
along with me. These cubs’ll take
care of yore outfits.”
'"When the three old timers were
'out of erashot Pod Fortune turned to
Johnny and Pink.
“If yuh ask me,” he stated ponder
ously, wagging one big forefinger for
'emphasis. “If yuh ask me, there’s
more genuwine high fire an’ sudden
death tied up in them three old ran-
nilians than they keep buttoned down
under the hinges o’ hell. If’n ole Si
“Let
set.”
said
Got
Just about sleepin’ in the last week.”
’ “Which goes fer me, too,” nodded
. Tex. “I’m feelin’ my age tonight.”
___ _____ _______ _________i “A’right,” jibed Johnny. “You
doin’ it I’d a took ’em South. There’s ' three broken down fossils hit the hay.
a string of waterholes reaching clear Pink an’ Pod an me 11 get yoie packs
down to the S. W. & P. railroad. It’d.'made up an’ grain yore broncs. We’ll
mean a hard drive but it could be ; see that yore slippers an pyjamas an
done. ltd take tune o course, but if<
the herd was kept close to the edge j
o’ the desert they could find enough '
pasture along the eastern foothills to ■
keep the cattle movin'. O' course I’m >
convinced Spelle is behind the steal
hut he wouldn’t dare hold that many
cattle with my brand on ’em up north
anywhere. He might take a chance
on hidin’ out a hundred or so in some
out o’ the way corner o’ his range,
but eight hundred would be too big
a cut. An’ then 'course he’d have to
blot the brands. I got the sheriff
workin’ on the case but after hearin’
Doc McMurdo’s report on the man I
ain’t got much hope o’ results. Yuh
sec, Westhaven is the main centre o’
Kanab County an’ they jest about
hot water bottles are all ..included.”
“You git to hell outa here,” threat
ened Tex, while the others rumbled
with laughter. ‘‘Git—or I ll whale the
tar outa yuh with a number ten-boot."
Johnny fled, cackling, and the three
old timers clanked wearily down to
the bunk-house, soon to be buried
deep in their blankets. Johnny and
his two assistants labored nearly to
midnight currying and graining hors
es and making up packs. It was Pod
Fortune who made a trip to
bunkhouse and returned with
quart bottles of whiskey.
“Roll ’em up in a sack an’ put
in,” he boomed. “Be a pleasant sur
prise for the ole boys, come tomor
row night. Make ’em forget the sand*
the
two
’em
fleas."
Tex and Utah Lynch and Al Bur
rows left the Box D early the follow
ing morning. The stars were still
gleaming cold and bright when they
herded their pack animals out of the
corral and started them down into the
purple depths of the Kanab Desert,
Tex was the last to leave and he hesi
tated a moment, looking down at the
silent bunkhouse. His stern, deeply
seamed face was wistful, and his eyes
just a wee bit hurt.
“Better get a wiggle on, yuh ole
brindle-haired,” came a gruff voice at
his elbow- “The others are gettin’ a
lead on yuh."
Tex started slightly and turned.
Johnny was standing there at his stir
rup. Miraculously Tex’s face cleared
and for a moment a beautiful light
glowed in his deep eyes. Johnny held
up his hand and Tex gripped it
mightily. His left hand went out and
settled lightly on Johnny's towseled
head.
“Take keer o’ yoreself, son,” he
drawled gently. “If trouble breaks,
remember all I’ve taught you. Don’t
go bustin’ into things without think
in’ yore moves out first. If yuh ain’t
here when I get back I’ll pave this
damn country with daid men.”
“Hell!” gulped Johnny. “I’ll" be
all right. It’s you I’m worryin’ about.
Yuh’re shore to bump into gun-play
down south an’ I won’t be there to
watch out fer yuh.”
“Nemmine me—I kin get along.
So-long, Johnny.”
■. “So-long? Tex.” " ' ' '
Tex rode away, a dark, creaking
bulk in the half dawn. At the cor
ral gate Johnny stood, watching and
listening until the last sound of de
parture vanished. Then he turned
slowly back to the bunk-house, swal
lowing thickly and blinking his eyes.
He was strangely unashamed of the
tears.
For the next three weeks Johnny
drove Pink and Pod and himself un
mercifully. There were a multitude
of things to be done about the ranch,
and every night the three youngsters
dragge dthemselves to their blankets
tremendously weary. But a month
after Tex and Utah and Al Burrows
had gone fourfd everything about the
ranch in Tip-top shape.
From his daily seat on the porch,
old Jim Delevan watched the pro
gress with an approving eye.
“That boy Johnny is shore a go-
getter,’ ’he remarked one evening to
Ronny, who was perched beside him.
“Pink an’ Pod have done more work
in the last month than they ever did
in six before, an’ darned if they don’t
seem happy in doin’ it. They’re gettin’
that danged proud of this ranch they
ain’t fit to live with."
“They are good boys, all," answer
ed Ronny softly. "So loyal and cheer
ful.” /
“Cheerful—yeah,” nodded Delevan.
“All except Johnny. That kid’s worry
in’ about Tex. I kin tell it.”
“I love him for it,” said Ronny.
"He worships old Tex. He—he’d die
for him. 'I know he would.’
Delevan nodded again. “I like that
kid—sh-h-h, here he comes now.”
Johnny came striding up out of
the dusk and crossed the porch to
Ronny and her father. He loked very
tall and lean and capable, thought
Ronny, her heart skipping a beat. And
his usual devil-may-care face was set
and grim and strangely harsh.
“Evenin’ folks,” he drawled. “I
come up io say so-long for a time.
I’m headin’ south in the mornin’.’’
“I savvy," nodded Delevan. “Go a-
head son, yuh’ve done mighty fine
work in the past month an’ things
are in better shape than they’ve been
for a year. I see Pink an’ Pod haided
fer town after dinner,
“Yeah,” said Johnny,
little. “Them boys shore
ed a holiday, An’ it was
a case o’ have to. Pod was down to
his last pair of socks an’ Pink’s been
on the verge o’ tears for a week over
the way his pants, are failin’ apart.
But they shore have worked,”
“I’m raisin’ their wages," declared
Delevan abruptly. “I kin appreciate
any man’s efforts."
“Be all right', if I take a couple o’
spare hosses?” asked Johnny. “I
to make a fast trip."
“Hell," snorted Delevan. “Do
need to ask? Take a dozen if
want ’em, son. I don’t think yuh need
to do any worryin,’ but I ain’t tryin’
to hold yuh back,"
When Johnny left Ronny followed
him shamelessly to the steps,
“Take—take care of yourself, John
ny,” she murmured, holding out her
hand shyly.
Johnny gripped it in both of his.
“They’s jest two things worth while
in life fer me, Ronny,” he murmured
with a kind of fierce tenderness.
“Yuh an’ Tex make up the herd. Yeah
—-1’11 be back."
Just before midnight Johnny awoke
with a start. Someone, grunting and
Stumbling, had entered the bunk
house. »
“Quiqn es?” called Johnny. “Who
is it?"
“It’s me—Pink,” came the answer.
“Strike a light Johnny, Pod’s hurt."
(Continued Next Week
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
CHRISTIANITY SPREAD BY
PERSECUTION
Sunday, July 26—Acts 7:54-8:4; 11:
19-21; 26:9-11; 1 Peter 4:12-19.
Golden Text:
“Be thou faithful unto death, and
I will give thee a crown of life.” (Rev.
2:10c).
Why should Christianity, which is
the best thing in the world, ever be
persecuted? Christianity has always
been persecuted, and it always will
be, because. Satan hates God and
Christ. Back of all human persecu
tion of Christians is Satan himself.
Those who do the persecuting may be
quite unconscious of this, but the fact
remains. Satan, once sinless and the
highest of angelic beings, fell from
the exalted position because of pride,
and forfeited bis place of leadership
and dominion. When God created
man, giving him dominion over all
the earth, Satan planned to ruin man
by causing him to sin—and Satan suc
ceeded. Then Christ redeemed fallen
mankind by becoming the Saviour of
sinners. The age-long enmity be
tween Satan and redeemed sinners
followed, because of Satan’s hatred
of Christ and those who are made
righteous by faith in Him.
At the time of our lesson, within
the first year after Christ’s death and
resurrection, men were witnessing
something that had never before oc
curred in the history, of the world.
They were seeing the miracle- power
of Christ in human lives. Thousands
of Jews, including some of those who
had thirsted for Christ’s blood and
had shouted “Crucify Him,” and new
seen their tragic mistake and had
turned in repentance and confession
of their sin to this same Christ as
their Saviour. They had been born
again from above, and they were liv
ing a supernaturally new life, a heav
enly life here cn earth. They vere
working miracles in the name of
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would have been
he had done so;
He reminded the
their fathers had
Christ; the apostles had been chang
ed from cowardice into courage and
fearlessness. And persecution did not
stop them at all: it simply stirred
them to greater activity in witnessing
for Christ.
One of the first deacons, Stephen,
had been arrested by the Jewish lead
ers and brought before the Council, or
Sanhedrin. False witnesses accused
him of blasphemy and teachings he
had never given—just as they had
accused Christ.
Stephen’s divinely inspired reply is
given in Acts 7, and is a very re
markable picture, in detail, of the
whole history of God’s chosen people
Israel.
Stephen might have saved his life
by using soft words and flattering the
Jewish leaders. He
a traitor to God if
and he did not fall.
Jewish Council that
persecuted, the prophets, and that the
riien he was addressing had* run true
to form by becoming the “betrayers
and murderers” of Israel’s Messiah,
Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
His fellow Hebrews were enraged,
with the same murderous hatred they
had had toward Christ. They cast
Stephen out of the Council, and out
of the city, and stoned him to death.
But not before he had borne a won
derful witness again to Christ, for he
“looked up steadfastly into heaven
and saw the glory of God and Jesus
standing on the right hand of God,
and said, Behold, I see the heavens
open and the Son of man standing
on the right hand of God.’’
As this first Christian martyr was
dying, he said two things. First,
“Lord Jesus, receive my spirit,” Then
“he kneeled down, and cried with a
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had said
of true
forgave
loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to
their charge. And when he
this he fell asleep.”
There was the miracle
Christian life that Stephen
his murderers as he was being stoned
to death, and interceded in their be
half in a last prayer addressed to the
Lord. It was like Christ’^ own word
on the cross: “Father, forgive them,
for they know not what they do.”
Did the death of Stephen, the first
martyr, mean the death of the
church? It meant just the opposite,
as persecution of Christianity always
means; The church testified rnore
vigorously than ever to Christ as Sav
iour, and increased mightily because
of this persecution. “The blood of
the martyrs is the seed of the church.
But here is another wonder of
God’s miracle-power and grace. The
church’s greatest persecutor became
her greatest apostle. A young man
named Saul, prominent as a Jewish
leader, consented to the death of
Stephen, and later told of his persis-
ten, relentless persecution of the
church. He says: “And being exceed
ingly mad against them, I persecuted
them even unto strange cities.”
But Satan overreached himself
when he drafted Paul into his serv
ice, and we shall see in a later les
son how this chief persecutor was
converted, born again, saved, and be
came Christ’s chief apostle.
So long as Satan and sin continue,
persecution is the normal experience
of the true Christian church. The
Lord Jesus Christ told His disciples
plainly that they, like Himself, would
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not be persecuted. Peter tells the-
church not to think that “the fiery
trial” of persecution is something
strange, for it is simply a sharing in
Christ’s sufferings.
Persecution is breaking out again
in certain foreign mission fields, and.
it is likely to increase, rather than to-
decrease, as the coming of the Lord
draws nigh. Christ is saying again
to His church: “Be thou faithful un
to death, and I will give thee a.
crown of life.”
WOULD-BE ASSASSIN
George Andrew McMahon, 34-year-
old crippled Irishman, who is being
held by police in London, Eng., for
the attempted assassination of the
King.
BOY RECOVERING AFTER RARE OPERATION
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favor the boy’s chance to recover. In
(3) are shown Dr. J. A. Hufteau
(seated) who performed the delicate
operation, and. Dr. J. L, Shappert,
hospital interne, >vho has been with
Struck by the door handle of a
moving moving car, which penetrated
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dium and made a gash 1 3-4 inches
long and an eighth-inch deep. Wil-
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heart wound, sewed up the pericard
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in an attempt to rebuild the thoracic
cavity. Strong vitality and his youth
the boy continuously. It was the
sharp point of ans automobile doof
handle, similar to that shown iff (2)
which genetrated the boy’s chest.
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(1) is reported to be recovering in
Hotel tfieu hospital, Cornwall, Ont,
after one of the most ttnustia! opera
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