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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1933-11-09, Page 2PAGE 2 `Clinton News -Record With, which is Incorporated THE NEW ERA Terms of Subscription`— $1.50 per year in advance, to Canadian ad- dresses $2.00 ddresses'$2.00 to the U.S. or oth- er foreign countries. No paper 1. discontinued until all arrears are paid unless at the option of the ' publisher. The date to which every. subscription is paid is denoted on the ;label.' 4.dvertising Rates --Transient adver- tising 12e per count Iine for first insertion. Sc for each subsequent insertion. Heading counts 2 linea. Small advertisements, not to ex- ceed one inch, such as "Wanted", 1 "Lost," "Strayed," etc., inserted 1 •once for 35c, each subsequent in- sertion.15c. Rates for display ad, 1 vertising made known on applica- tion, Communications intended for pub- lication must, as a guarantee of Good t&tth, be accompanied by the name of the 'writer. E. HALL, M. R. CLARK, Proprietor. Editor. H. T. 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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD THURS., NOV. 9, 1933 'SYNOPSIS Ruth "Warren, living in the East, comes into possession of three-quar- ter interest in an Arizona ranch, left to her in the will of her brother, re- ported to have died while on business in Mexico. With her ailing. husband and small child she goes to Arizona to take possession, thinking the cli- mate may prove beneficial to 'her husband's weakened 'lungs. Arriving at the nearest town, sho learns that the ranch, • "Dead Lantern," is 85 miles across the desert, Charley Thane, old rancher and rural mail carrier, agrees to take them, to "Dead Lantern" gate, which was b miles from the ranch house. As they wearily walked past 'a huge over- shadowing boulder in a gulch in. coming to the ranch house, a voice whispered "Go• back, Go back!" At, the ranch house they are greeted suspiciously by the gaunt rancher partner, Snavely, and Indian Ann, a herculean woman of mixecl negro and Indian blood. Snavely is diffi- cult to understand but regardless. Ruth takes up the task of trying to adjust their three lives to the ranch and its development. Kenneth, Ruth's husband, caught in chilling rain con- tracts pneumonia and passes away before a doctor arrives. Ruth tries to carry on. She is not encouraged by Snavely in plans to try and stock the ranch or improve it. She writes to her father in the East asking for a loan with which to buy cattle. She receives no reply. Will Thane comes hone to visit his father . and Ruth meets him, A rancher nearby decides to retire and offers to sell Ruth and Snavely his live stock on credit. Snavely tries to balk the deal but Ruth buys to the limit of her three-quarter interest in Dead Lantern ranch. NOW GO ON WITII TIIE STORY ae=SIM:stio There is a tradition in southern Arizona and northwestern Mexico that the summer rains begin on the Day of San Juan—the twenty fourth of June. Especially is this tradition strong in the San Jorge Valley, for it' is here that the venerable Am- brosio Vega is said to have 'kept rain records for six and forty years. The discerning still say they can make out his records scratched in the adobe just left of the altar niche— in the ruin which was once his home. 'Old Charley himself had remarked to Ruth that the rains began about the end of June; Snavely had admit- ted that it night rain around the twenty-fourth of June --before the real drouth set in; but Ann, Don Frausicsco, Alfredo, and itlagda bad stated calmly that the rain would come in abundance beginning with the Day of San Juan, It was now the twentieth of July and since the single storm of more than two months before, there bad not been a cloud in the sky the size of a pigeon. The grass which had sprmmg up so brave and green after the storm was now wilted and the color of broomstraw. The lacy leav- es of the mesquite curled en droop- ing branches, dust laden; the broad. flat leaves of the prickly pear were ..As day succeeded day, each hot- ter, more hopeless than the preced- ing day, her anxiety increased. shrunken and yellowish; small bush- es were as brittle as glass, and the twigs and .weed stems underfoot rustled like dry paper. The birds, rabbits, coyotes and lions had left. the country — all was desolation Rattlesnakes albounded. Each morning the run rose naked above the eastern mountains and as it rose a wave of stifling heat swept over the desert asthough a mighty oven door had slowly swung open. Ruth hacl rather expected rain on the Day of San Juan and, when that passed cloudless, felt that in a day or so that she would see the cloud& billowing over the mountains and desert main. As day succeeded day, each hotter, dryer, more ;hopeless than the 'preceding day, her anxiety increased --she seethed trapped iii a frzrner, while disaster' crypt relent- lessly nearer. ' The increasing as wareness of her responsibility drove her to assume more and more con- trol of the Enrich. Before she well realized it she was giving the orders for the day's riding. Snavely left everything to her. •He rode out each morning but he rode alone and he returned alone, Occasionally as . she rode about the ranch, Ruth came across him. Sometimes he was riding casually up some canyon as though lie cared not where he went, as long as he had no company; again, she had seen him sitting in the shade of a scrub- by live oak high upon a ridge top. Whenever she saw him .these days Ruth had an 'odd, uncomfortable feel- ing that Snavely was waiting for something. One day she met Old :Charley and Will as she was riding the southern boundary of the ranch. The two then came up to the fence and talk- ed with her. That evening she told Snavely that he ought to go to town for a wagonload of cottonseed meal which could be given to such cows as needed it badly. She also sug- gested that he get a certain brand of dried milk—much (advertised in the cattle raisers' magazine—which mixed with water could be given to the underfed calves and the orphans. Snavely thought for a long titin, then said he would go. It seemed to Ruth that there was an undercur- rent of eagerness in his voice in spite of his objections to the trip. Ile started the next morning with team and wagon, returning a week later with the load. He appearec' oddly satisfied. Now, whenever the riders found a weak cow with a starving calf or some calf without a. mother, these animals were brought to the home ranch, turned into the small horse pasture, and fed. Scone sixty cows were receiving their daily ration of meal, and about the ranch house and corrals wandered a band of mine or ten orphaned calves whom Ruth was bringing up on the bottle. The gulch had 'been fenced by the Mexican% under Ruth's direction; al- so all the ponds were now deep—and all but the one hi the south pasture was bone dry. Half of the herd wat- ered at this pond, the other half at the corral troughs on the home ranch. The corral troughs could on- ly water this number. Very little wind carte to turn the windmill which feel the tank by the corrals. Even after Alfredo had constructed a primitive hand pump, it usually meant three hours of back -breaking labor to raise the required amount of water. e And no signs of rain. Each day, as site returned from the south pasture, sometimes driv- ing a weak cow, or even carrying a day-old calf across her saddle the swelling fear in her heart increas- ed. A hundred times a day she look- ed for clouds; iI her riding took her near a hill she went to the top, eagerly scanning the new -made hor- izon. She knew that the Mexicans were r.praying for rain — she had given them all the candles in the house for the sacred picture they had hung in the barn, And once she had en- tered the gulch after a calf, which had gone through the fence, and up- on the rock had found a grotesque little thud image holding a tiny pot of cornmeal. Arm did not reply when Ruth asked her about it; but the girl had come to know the foot- prhtts of the giantess. There came a day when the 'water in the south pasture had shrunk to a thin sheet of wet mud. Then Ruth knew that the end had come; with the full herd trying to water at the home ranch where there was barely enough for half, there could be only one result. If ,no rain cane within a week the cattle would begin dying by dozens. For the last few days es she watched the water so relentlessly disappear, Ruth thought less about meeting her note and more about the cattle themselves. The team often started to 'her eyes these days. When the girl. came upon a gaunt cow lying in the stifling shade at the bottom of some gully, with a shriv- Bled calf at her side, she wanted desperately to explain to these poor creatures that she could not help, that she was not to blame. When the last of the water was gone in the south pasture, Ruth felt that she would gladly give every animal on the place to any one who. could take them to green fields and running water. Feeling as she did; the blow which fell on the following mail day was robbed a little of its power. She had written a letter to Parker explaining the situation and thank- ing him for his previous offer to extend payrneitt. And although Old smell the indescribable perfume of Charley would ?be bringing the mall and would not be going into town, again until next week, the girl rode to 'the box. But the mail had already arrived when sho reached the box. There were two letters addressed to her; The one with the earliest postmark was from Parker who explained 'that for business reasons he had beer; obliged to 'take a loan on the note, It was now in the hands of J. H. Witherspoon, Inc., a broker. The second letter -was from the broker: After reading it the girl stared at the cloudless skyline, then rode home. Her lips were set and her face shone yellow under the tan "Consequently, the cattle situ- ation being what it is owing to the present drouth, we feel it necessary to call payment on the note when due; namely, November first, next." "Well," said Will, "there's one thing certain—when the rains hold off as long as this they make up for it when they do begin." Again Ruth shook her head. Old Charley studied for a moment then slowly climbed out of the car. Will followed. "I've seen sone pret, ty bad times mended," remarked the old man. "Things most always seem 1 If no rain came within a week the cattle would begin dying by dozens. worse than what they are. But but pshaw—we're bound to get rain before long and when we do, it'll likely be a good one, same as Will says." "The last pond went dry a week ago," said Ruth dully. Old Charley tried not to show his surprise. "So? Well, they'll get a little thin watetin' at the web, but it won't hurt them." "Ohl" Ruth suddenly turned away. After a moment she said slowly, "/ gave my note to Parker for the cat- tle—my interest in the ranch will be gone by November --there's no tvater —the cattle will be dying in another week." "Another week!" Both men star- ed at the girl. "You must be wrong," said Old Charley. "No, the well's going dry—.it gives out sooner each day." "But, Mrs. Warren"—Will looked from Ruth to his father—"I don't understand. There was surface wa- ter there late last June, worlds of water. Way, there must be two or three thousand acres which drain into that well!" "It's going dry," said Ruth. "New wells sometimes give • out quick," replied Old Charley slowly "but it sure seems funny. You see. Will, here, helped your brother lo- cate that well. You ought to be able to take care of a good half of your herd—let part of 'em water at the corrals." ",At--the---corrals But I don't understand --do you mean --what do you mean?" Old Charley looked at his son and then at Ruth. "Why, just what I said; use the well at the corrals, the one with the windwil!—the old well." "But that's what we have been us- ing," cried Ruth; "that's the one that's going dry!' "What!" ejaculated Will. "Aren't you using the upper • well at all?" "Upper well—What upper well?" asked Ruth in a dazed voice. °'Well, I'll be," Old Charley look- ed at his son. "He never went on with it," said Will softly. OId Charley nodded• and turned to Ruth. "The prospect Harry and Will found last summer was in the upper end of the north paeture--T guess Harry didn't get around to develop- ing it before—he left. But didn't anybody tell you about it?" "No--?' - Ruth's heart, was beating wildly. "I never heard about any other water." "Barry bought the pipe," said Wilt DOINGS IN THE SCOUT WORLD ,Smart Canadian Chinese Scouts A Toronto 'troop of Chinese Boy' Scouts was Brie of. the alert and - smartly uniformed units in the an- nual Scout parage at the Canadian National Exhibition this year. ( p r anoe A four -boy canoe made of several layers of building 'paper varnished was one of the exhibits at a Saska- toon Scout display. The canoe was used at the sunnier camp of the lith Saskatoon Troop. critenee 5,000 Canadian Scouts in Review Five thousand Wolf Cubs and Boy Scouts, with their many flags, pro- "Remember, Dad? We passed a load of it on the way to town last fall," e "There's a big pile of pipe behind the barn," said Ruth. "Tell me quick! Is there water we can use in the north pasture?" "It'll have,to be developed," said Old Charley slowly. .'"Shouldn't take more 'than a day or ,two," responded Will. He thought a moment, then pulled an envelope from his pocket and wrote on it with a pencil "Here, Dad, you run into town and send this telegram—I'll be staying over a few days." Ile turned to Ruth. "'Suppose I ride back with you. and show you that place. 'Seems to me you ought to develop plenty of water with a day's work or so." Snavely slowly arose as the riders came straight up to him. Ruth spoke: "Mr. Thane has told me of a place in the north pasture where there is indication of water—he and my 'brother found it last summer.'! She paused. "Why didn't you tell me about it?" "I had reasons," said Snavely, his eyes on Will. I didn't want to go gettin' your hopes up.: there ain't no use diggin' in that gully bottom jest because of a little rain seepage." "But, Mr. Snavely," said Ruth "now that we have need of the wa- ter don't you think it would be wise to try to get it?" "If you can—you won't find noth- it', though. Maybe a little rock basin full of rain water under the sand." I"There had been ne rains for sem. oral months tvben we located the prospect last summer," said Will; "the sand was wet and we dug far enough to see that water was run- ning into it front the big dike. That dike is a natural underground dam— "All right. all right—go ahead and dig all you're mind to if you've got such an all -fired interest in the Dead Lantern, Mr. Thane." (Continued next week) vided one of the eolorful spectacles of this year's Toronto. Exhibition re viewed by Lt. -Gov. Bruce. a Te Encourage Singing by Bey Scouts A trophy for choral , singing by Boy Scout choirs, to be awarded at future Alberta musical, festivals, has been donated by 'Ion. 'Lt, -Col, J. II. Woods, of the Calgary Herald, an.d Provincial Commissioner of the Boy Scouts Association. Sharing Camp Fun's On their own initiative this sum- mer a number of Vancouver Boy Scouts who had s'aved money for two Weeks in camp shared the period with boys of unemployed families, going themselves for but one week, Some, hundred boys thus had an un- looked for outing. • A Submerged Car -Rescue The rarely given Scout •'Bronze. Cross was recently awarded by Lord Baden-Powell to a British Rover. Scout, J. A. Stewart, of North Bet:- wick. er-wick. The Rover made a diving res- cue of three persons from a car that had gone off a dock and Iay sub- merged, bottom up. World Needs More Scouts "The world needs more Scoots and Rovers; more than ever before it needs to practice the motto of the Scout world, 'Be Prepared —not for war, hut for peace among men as an antidote to hatred andwar, to turn the faces of men toward the golden sunlight of brotherhood." — Mayor James McAra ' of Regina, op- ening the recent Saskatchewan con- ference of Rover (older) Scouts. eery Europe's Friendly Common Folk Reminding of the simple, human friendliness of the ordinary folk of Europe, and providing a pleasing contrast to news stories of political bibkerings and threatenings, comes the copy of a proclamation issued by the people of a Hungarian county to Boy Scouts attending the recent. World Jamboree held in that coun- try. The annouuced parade, of same 50,000 "camp nei;lhbors,"• hvas one of the most impressive happenings of the two weeks' fraternising. The printed announcement reads: Brother Scouts who have come from the five con- tinents to us at Godollo, 'be heartily welcome. We looked forward with pleasure to your coining, and should have liked to show you all our feel- ings at the minute of your arrival Circumstances, however, did not make it possible to welcome you sep- arately at that time. It would not have been appropriate to disturb you after the long journey, in your rest and the many tasks that were be- fore you. Therefore we will conte to see you at the camp on August 5th, and in. the presence of His 'Serene Highness the Regent of Hungary we will pass before you at 5 pan. on the exercise field, in order to show you our joy and heartfelt love. Everybody in Godollo and in the County of Godollo will be present. People of all ranks of life, school children, the Boy Scouts of the cou- nty, delegates of sportipg clubs, of the veterans, :invalids, and widows of the Great War,artisans, farmers, workers and government officials, They will show you the heart of Hungary and will bring you the pro- duce of this much suffered country as a token of the traditional Hun- garian hospitality. —Your hosts, the public of the county of Godollo. ssszsesr An Indian. Totem. Tole for Scout H.Q. ..•A full-sized replica of a' Pacific Coast Indian totem pole, carved by Ottawa Boy Scouts, has been erect, ed on the lawn at Dominion Boy thorities of the Victoria Memorial Scout Headquarters, Ottawa. Au- lt2useum were much interested in the project, STRATFORD STRIKE OVER AFTER SEVEN WEEKS The Stratford furniture workers strike is over, one factory re -opened Saturday, three others on Monday. The agreement between employers and workers was completed over the week -end and this agreement is for one year from October 1st last. This agreement provides that employees Islay belong to any union they wish but that no employee shall be forced to join any union. It provided for the laying off of employees in case of lack of work, but the newer ems ployees must go first. A Shoe Com- mittee may be eiedted to look often the interests of the men and an hone each fortnight may be used for the meeting of this committee. The working week shall consist of forty-four hours, with a maximum of fifty hours, after which overtime shall be paid. No discrimination shall be shown by either employers or Hien in re- spect to race, creed, society, frater- nity or union. TAKE 'EM ALL Street Orator—We must get rid of Capitalism, Radicalism and Anarch- ism. Voice—And while we're about it, guv-nor,• why not throw in rheuma- tism? The advertisements are printed for your convenience. They inform and save your time. energy and money. eir ® dations 0 r a A Canadian citizen touring certain sections of the United States a few years ago, reported on his return that he had pasped through several good-sized towns where absolutely ideal business conditions obtained. It had there been possible to so establish a spirit of co- operation and good will, not only among the business and profession- al men, but also between these and the general public, with the re- sult that the most harmonious relations pervaded these towns, The business men were content to live and let live, to refrain from adopt- ing unfair and unethical business methods, to lend a helping hand to each ether in trouble and adversity, and to extend to one another such business patronage as lay in their power. Thus the carpet- bagger invariably got the "cold shoulder," for it was firmly estab- lished and acknowledged that every order which could be placed in the home town,' but which was sent elsewhere, simply drained that community of legitimate revenue, and served but to enrich some oth- er locality. Business left in the home town helps everybbdy in such town. Therefore, when considering orders for printing of any kind, re- member it can be done expeditiously and well by your home town printer. T E CLINTON NEWS ECO A FINE MEDIUM FOR ADVERTISING --.READ ADS. IN THIS IS SUE PHONE 4