HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1932-10-27, Page 3THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1932. THE SEAFORTH NEWS.
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RHEUMATI SM
New Medicine Drives Out Poisons,
That Cause. 'Torturing Stiffness,
Swelling and Lameness
EASES PA'I'N FIRIST DAY
You cannot get rid oIf rheumatic
aches and pain's, Neat r• d lh i s , lane'
knotted muscles and :stiff swtol17en
jihints till you drive from your system,.
(the irritating poisons ,that cause Then-
nnatisen. External treatinen'ts only give
temporary relief:
(What you need is RU-Ce/DA, the new
internal medicine that acts on the
liver, leid•ney's aiiel blood and ` expels
throughthe natorail,e'ha!nmeis olE eli'm
inetion, these dangerous ' poi'son's.
'No long w'ait'ing or your suffering
to sltop—IRIU-(MIA eases pain first clay
—and so quickly and safely end's stif-
fening, crip'pl'(ng lamene's's and tortur
king pain that Chas. Abet -hart urges
every rehulmatic sufferer to get 'a' bot -1
Tale today. They gua'rand•ee it.
"THE IKIiNIGIYO!M OF 'RIFE,"
as IFkonu 'Cupar 'to Klinross.—iTlh'e 'L'oln -
'onld (HElls—+Tablet Tower -- Lind'
dffer'on IHIi111-The 'Grawlfo'ed' ;Pri-
ory — ISlir David •Lindsey of the
Mounit—iF"allkdla'n'd — Ntilth 11 'Mame
cion-lKinciolss Mouse— Mr. (Geo.
Barnett ,of the "'K'unr'o'ss A!dver-
:tiser"—'Lesch Leven—The 'C'asftle,
—,Queen ,M'a'ry—1Benarty, Hills —
Lord 'Lindsey —'K'ievnesswaod
tMichgei (Bruce—Teach Leven An-
gler"=ISecession 'Church —Fare-
well 'to 'Mn. Bernet.
The country from ''Cu'par to Rill--
roes
R'iii-noes is picturesque and beautiful
There are s!o uaan.y 'olbjeots of inter -
cot .in sight alt 'one ,time, the 'Lomond.s,
the 1Tarbet Tower, Lindiiffenon Hill,
,cro'wn'ed by its. olbdlies'k, .the Crawford
Priory, Sir 'David Lindsey's quendnm
!seat, '•Flaikeanld under the hill, 'Nut'hill
mansion, with ':other !magnificent resi-
dences fit for Kingstoreside sn, along
with the fertile vales of lFife, well cul-
tivated, with numerous' streams alive
v4th trout, wim'piing under deeply
Shaded tanks, a +bright sun shining
above us, 'healthy, invigorating breezes
flelowhig around, 'while bhe !birds with
'sweeter notes than' ever, are making
the air vocal with their praises oe the
far-famed, lovely, historical kingdlo'm
of Fife, It is with. such 'feelings and
amidst such scenery that we sweep
f,ast Loth Leen, get a •p!assing gli'nm-
ipse'of its hoary castle, and ,find our-
selves at 'bhe station in 'the town • •of
Kinross. ]We immediately 'made our
way to the sanctum of 'Mr. iGeorge
'Barnet, editor of the "Kinross Ad-
vertiser," to whom we presented 'Mr.
iHodgson's wrote of 'in{trodu'etion, and
were econdially 'received, lObseuesing,
Sedwever, 'thait IMr.:Bar:n'et was 'busy,
proof rending, it being publication
day, rand having still; a etagere% .fear
of editors before our eyes,: and know•
ng
how dangerous it is to disturb
m, 'I at 'once proposed to take 'a
walk by the (banks of Loch Leven,
promising no return 'when his paper
'would be in :the hands df ibhe "devil."
This was 'satisfactory, and away.'we
went. We soon found the pathway
that leads up the edge of the Loch
to an old church and grave yard, 'from
.which Iwe had an excellen't view of
ihis celebrated Loch and Ste castle
e
in w'hich'Qoeen 'Mary was imprison-
ed. A :fresh breeze was 'blowing, 'whic'h
'made tee water .someWahlat roughs or
we 'mi'ght have hired a ,'boat and 'had
a sail. 'However, tI was 'more 'in'cl'ined
to ponder over the stirring scenes.
which hook .peace in lend 'around .that
Lochl'and castle; thlan 'to indulge. in
the Ipigasures of la sail. ''T'he old 'church
and cemetery where we took our stand
occupies an 'eleva'te'd' (position, from
'which 'we had a 'fine :v'ie'w of the (Lo'c'h;
the 'Deland, and. the 'surro'un'ding •coun-
try..Kina-oss House, 'betw'e'en the town
aid the lake, is the s'ea't off Sir IGr+aham
Montgomery, Bart., and .used to be
open to visitoris, 'hut for some reason
or other it had (been closed for same
time to all picnic and other 'parties,
the proprietor being 'absnn+t. The leo:ch
is'overhung on ;the 's'outh.,and ease by
the ILolmoend and f13e,Narty'Hilds, ris-
ing to tihealtitudes 'of,111167 and 114122
feet a'b'ove the lever of the sea, .the
lake :Itself being 060 ]feet 'ab'ove the
sea level, 'Loch 'Leven 'castle .stands
on an !i's'let of .ablaut two acres, a 'quar-
ter olf .a .mile 'from the (nearest part of
'the 'west Shore. 'It belonged' anciently
to 'the'Kiogs of :Scotland and was the
ros'idenlce 'oif Adeetander (IRS. Ibult pass-
ed into - the hands olf the 'D'ou'glass
family . about ''the year 1115142. 'Queen
Mary 'was imprisoned ' there in 1597
and re'm'ained in 'durance .vile for •el'e-
ven long months. It was here too
that she;w'as .compelled by Lord ILin'd-
'say to abdicate 'her claim to the Scot-
tish 'throne. ILiidsay 'it is said, seiz-
ing her 'roughlly by bhe shoulder, and
'ordering her to sign .the 'document.
The ibeautiful 'Queen lived in stormy
'times, .and Ihhr 'diitui•'bcd •eventful life,
and . mournful death, fully verifies the
words df the 'great dramla!tist, "Un-
easy rests the bead . that wears a
crown." ''Front 'this castle she was
rescued by :George Douglas's, whose
heart !was moved with pity for her,
,on account 01 her misfortunes. Then
'began the final struggle for power,
oh 'ended unlfortunately 'as all her
undertakings did. "Chances and vrar
were against her." After . eighteen
years of 'close .c'onlfinemeut under
Queen ''Elizabeth,'in wh!oin she trust-
ed, she 'fi.n'ally ended her days on the
scaffold, having long previously ';given
up all hopes of sitting on a throne or
we'ani'ng a crown, neither of which in
(her estimation were worth retaining.
'The one had certainly not been to her
a bed of 'eider down, 'while the other
had undoubtedly been •a e`crown of
thorns." 'It" was :of the castle and is-
land upon •which II am now gazing
and of the imprisonment to which I
have referred that the poet composed
the (foll'owin'g fines: -
"The scene was changed. It was
a lake with one :small
lonely isle.
.And 'there within the prison 'wa'lls
of 'i'ts 'b:anon ial ,pile.
Stern mets stood me'nacin'g their
Queen till she should :stoop
to sign,
The traitorous scroll that snatch-
ed the crown from her an-
cestral line,
"My l'ord's I my i'ordsd" the ;captive
said, "were ,I but once free,
'With ten 'good !Knights on yonder
.shore to aid my cause and
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That +pardhimsst Iw'oud!d' d scatter,
wide Ito every breeze •that
then ws,,
And l n• !
A o ee more reign a S'tueant
'Queen o'er my rentor;sel'es'e
aces."
A red spot burned* upon her
cheek, 's'trea'med her rich
breslses down,
IS'hs !wrote the words, slhle stood!
erect, ,a 'Queen without a
crown 1"
It is 'p'lai'd to 'may 'mind that the poet
.who 'penned :the above never saw
(Loch Leven or he would never have
Said, "'Iit was .a .lake, with one small
'lonely (isle," Itlor- there are severe 1' is -
lairds, one of then !rich, or !S!t. Serf's,
containing 3;5!% acres, 'Casete Iesdlan';d,
to ,which the .poet refers, containing
only 2 acres, Roy's F'ol'ly,, ;1-6 of an
care, 'Reed IBrow'etr, !Green I's'le, (Alice
Bower, S'c'ant and others. The castle in
question which Naw consists mlainl3'
olf a (four storey, 'square 'tower, figures
gra'phical'liy in Sir iWadlter 'Scott's nen-
'"The
b+v"" f;he .Abbot." The St. Serif's :i Is-
land lies 'about 'one and' a quarter miles
southea's't of the 'castle Islet, 'an'd con-
tains ruins Of a priory ont the site of
a"Culldee oell,: established by David ii.
for Augustine Canons, and .ruled for
a 'time by (A'nd'rew Wanton, author of
"Crony Kites sof 'S'co'tland." litheness -
wood village,'n'e'ar the east side of the
Loch w'as the ;birthplace of the youth-
ful post 'Midh'ad (Bruce„ author of the
well -kn'ow'n paean ` to the "Cu'ckoo,"
sdmeb1mes 'created to !Logan, one
verse ,of 'which we recited' bo his ene'm-
ory'as we eto'od !gaz'in'g on ehe •spat
that 'gave him !birth:—
:S,weet bird l thy bower : Is ever
green,
alley aiey is ever 'clear,
IT;h!ou 'Nast no sorer* lin :thy song,
No winter in thy year.
'Ohl 'could I'fly, I'd :fly with thee,
We'd make with joyful w'in'g
Our annual visit 'o'er the globe,
Companions of the 'spring."
'Atter sp'endin'g some time in : the
antiquated ceim:etery, reading the ;In-
seriptions alt the 'bombsa'onee o'E 'same
who had died lately, some who died
on 'land 'defending the ;grand old flag,
o'ther's who died on the stormy ocean,
and' whose lb:odie's lay in the deep blue
seg, where the .pearls lie deep, we re-
traced our steps s!lotwly towards Kin -
noes and met Mr. Barhet on 'the' street
searching for us. We had spent over
two (hours and a half musing on the
banks of Loch Leven and meditating
among the tombs, I had not felt the.
time passing, the air was so fresh, the
scenery so "beautiful, the historical re
miniscences so intensely interesting.
''1Ve repaired with 'bre editor to his
hospitable mansion, where we were
introduced to this good 'lady and her
sister, a 'Airs. Guthrie, the Satter hav-
ing a 'son, a medical ;man practicing
in Australia, 'We were treated to an
excellent lunch, were shelve (Bru'ge's
poems, had a view of the largest trout.
ever ,caught in' the Loch Leven, which
has been preserved by Mr, :Barnet,
who is a veteran angler, after which
he presented us with ibhe "Loch Leven
Angler," a work published by 'himself,
a little book of great interest which
we prize highly. 'Hie upbraided us
with staying so long on 'the 'banks of
the''L'o;c'h, as he had influence enough
to get us into the beautiful grounds
of 'K,in'roa's House,' and would also
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have given us a ,sail on the lake. H'o.w-
ever, there was no use repining. We
ican't resale 'what is past. It was now
!'•;
neaerly train . time, 50 we bade the
ladies good' bye, and Mr. B'arnetand
we made our way to the station.
Wlhile at the station' {the editor point-
ed out the church where the first se -
,cession Irani the Kirk of Scotland
took place, and related other interest-
ing remini•vicences of IKint•'oss.hire. But
the 'bell rings—the train is in sight,
now it 'iv at bhe station, a shake of the
'band •and"a panting goodbye, we jump
aboard and are soon bhtnuderin:g on
towards' 'Dunfermline, .the last resting
place of the ;Scottish Kings, leaving
the lovely Lech Leven sleeping in
'pl'a'ced beauty, amongst the everlasting
hells,
BORN.
REI'D.-1111 1S'tratford' General 'Hospi-
tal, on 'Tuesday, October .1'S, 19312,
to. Mr, and Mrs, Reg. S. Reid, '1166
'J'olhn
Street, a . daughter ('Barbara
Ann)..
Prou't,-In Usborne, on Friday, Oct.
1111th, to Mr, ,and Mrs. Charles 'Prou't,
a son.
M'anlagh.aai.—In 'Clinton iPublic Hospi-
tal on +Oct. 111th, to Mr, and Mrs:
(Hartley°'Monaghan, a son QRebert
• IHHenry).,
Leitch.—In Goderi•c'h 'Towarship, on
IOCt. 117th, to Mr. an d Mrs. Albert
(Leitch, twins, a son and daughter.
Ma'son.—iIn East Wawanosh, on 'Mon-
day, October 17th, to Mr. 'and Mrs.
IJohnMason, a son.
Steckle — In 'S'tanl'ey T'own'ship, on
(October '112t6, to Mr. and ears. Al-
len 'Steckle, a son:
Derma -ram. — Iri Hay 'township,, on
(O'c'tober 1'6'th, to Mr. and Mrs. John
Deno'm'me, a .son.
Blonde.—In 'Hay To'wns'hip, an Octo-
ber 115th, to Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
!Blonde, a son.
A STAR SHOWER TO FALL
IN NOVEMBER.
IA wholesale visitation of meteors,
which promises to be the most spee-
tacufar since 5866, when "the sitars
fell like snow" and .many superstitious
folk were 'terrified by the sight which
seemed to betoken the end of the
world is scheduled for this November.
(Why does science expect a meteoric
shower in No'veneber ? The answer
goes hack to 11799,. writes George W.
Gray in 1Popi lar , Mechanic's Maga-
zin'e. The famous explorer, von 'Hutu -
bolt, was travelling in the tropics that
year, and he tells in his journal h'oav
,e walked in the early Morning of
November 12 to see the falling Marc.
'ran more than four hours he watched
thousands of darting meteors, some
as big as the moon in appearance,
some the size of Jupiter, all with blaz-
ing raid's, some showering sparks and
many bursting like great rockets.
'Thirty-four years later, the night of
November 12, 1533, there was anoth-
er meteoric shower, just as clazz'ling.
IIt was seen with especial brilliance in
the United States, and two A'mericau
scientists, D. Olmstead of Yale, and
A, C. Twin'nin'g .of +W'e'st Point, notic-
ed a fact which Humboldt had not
mentioned. They saw that the tracks
of most of the shooting stars came
from the direction!oe the constellation
Leo. This 'hint of orderliness in the
paths of meteors was a stimulus to
soient'lfic 'study. Prof. H. A, Newton
worked out a tabulation, Which show-
ed that the showers from 'Leo o'c-
curred on the average every '33 years.
He predicted that there would be an-
other brilliant visitation on a night in.
November, 1566, And he was right.
'S'hooting stars actually are frag-
ments of rocklike stuff, which are con-
tinually co'l'lid'in'g with the earth. Dr.
Harlow 'Shapley estimates ,that a
thousand •neiillion a day is .the average
fall, the majority burning up instant-
ly
nstant-ly, as they speed from; interp'lan'etary
space into our 'a'tmosphere. The larg-
er partioles last longer and 'burn snore
brightly, and these are the !fireballs,.
Still ' more oi;asive chunks !hit , the
earth or :plunge itato the sea before
they are co•nsunted, and ;th'es'e are the
meteorites, ',On'iy a few hundred .mete-
orites are .known: less than 400 have
been' found in the United State's, and
most of 'them are on display in imtis-
stins. A point he connection ,with • met-
eors, quite apart 'from 'astronomical in-
terest, is the question of their iit'flat-
en'ce en else earth, Even .:those tent
burn up contribute ;gasses to our at-
mosphere and drop .particles of ash
w:itic'h settle to the 'soil, But our
globe is so large that it 'would take
a thousand' million years for the
d'eiposets to make 'a 'Sayer one inch
thick over i'ts, surface.
In spite of this 'continual pelting of
the earth with 'h'igh-'speed missiles, 111
tle dama'ge dais been 'done. ,IF'ortuna'te-
ly, the b'ig meteors ' seem to steer
clear of 'th'i'ckly populated areas and
all the largest 'nde'teorites (found have
been ''in out-of-the-way places. The
apace ,through which the earth travels
is, ,there'fane, net em'p'ty, It is pie!p-
pered with innwneratble-"fragmcn'ts
shalt are coati nually lfalling. Every
clear moonless night !seine meteens
may 'be seen, but in 'Niovemlber they.
are like a hail'storun of 'fire. This quick-
ened' ,activity es-,ex!plained by the pre-
sence of a vast belt of mete'ori'c stuff
which circles around the t '
t e S ut to a path
so situated that the earth's revolution
'bangs ti's near the meteoric beet every
fall. In 'cousequen'ee,• we see some
lLeon'ids every 'November —'bho'se on
the fringe of the belt which respond
to the eaaith's attraction and plunge
into our a'tmos'phere at many miles per
second, But the meteoric belt is net
uniform; it is so made up that every
33 years the e'arth's orbit 'crosses its
densest section, ;and then we .pass
directly through the thick :sof the
swarm. And it is icomet s'teff that pedis
us. Years ago the 'brilliant T'empel's
'comet traveled approximately the
same •p'afh that :is now occupied • be
the swarm of meteors.Since 11866
thde cornet +h'as not been seen, and
many : astronomers bel'ieve it col-
lapsed' shortly after that year. ,Tlhus,
it is really a cloud of debris left by
it that we will enter in November, if
the schedule holds. Not all meteors
are fragments of comets. We know
this because of 'their speeds. 'Comets
are cousins of the earth, 'Merhbers of
the solar system, and their speeds are
strictly controlled by the gravitation-
al iuflu55nce of :the sun. "Twenty-six
miles .e seemed is the best the sun Can
do at our d'isttance; therefore, when-
ever a meteor enters 'our atmosphere
at a higher 'velocity, we know that it
must Ibe :from 'bhe region of the stars.
And meteors travelling 100 m'ul'es a.
second have recently 'been clocked!
OLD.TI11V11E LUMBER ICPNGS.
That was a long time ago, when
lumber wasn't 50 scarce as it is to-
day; but he had the vision and the
love of the woods, and he bought
thousands upon t'housan'ds of acres of
land, because .of the virgin pine or
spruce or ,hemlock that grew upon it.
Most of it he got for ten or fifteen
cents an acre. 'Par some of it he paid
as much as one dollar; .but not very.
much, because there was so • much
land to be had at the lower. price: He
would !buy for a mere song, square
miles of 'timberlands, vast tracts with
lakes and mountains on them, do-
mains that ran clear down to the
coast. He knew the land was 'cheap,
so he'd buy and ,eut the timber;. or
sell at a profit and move on;
Like so many of the; old Maine men,
he un'falteri gly followed the 'timber.
His .quest took him to Pennsylvania
and later to Michigan, 'always follow-
ing the . tirn'ber.:His son, my father,
also fo'l'lowed the timber. It, took him
as far .south as the Golf=L'ouisian'a-
and as far west as the 'Pacific' 'Ocean
-!California. tIt was in the ;blood of
those Maine mens But I ant not trying
to give you the romance of the lum-
ber industry or the"tragedy of our un-
scientific, des'truc'tion of forests, but
merely a part of my family. ' history.
There has always 'been big money in
tinvberlan'ds en the United States. Few
people, here in the East knew old, We-
yerhaeuser, but Western bankers used
to assert that he was a richer mean
than Jtth'n D. Rockefeller, and it was
all in timberlands. And then consider
the Michigan lumber millionaires—do-
zens of them.
My grandfather died in 1868, and
my 'father kepi on. During the panic
of 1873 my 'father was home in Maine.
He wasn't particularly hard hit, 'but
motley was very tight and there was
no telling when or how the panic
would end, nor what might happen to
anybody 'before it ran its course.
One, day a man walked into the of-
fice where my father and Itis brother,
my Uncle Henry, sat. They did not
recognize him, but he 'knew them and
came toward' 'them with outstretched
hands.
"Well, boys," he said, 'I am glad
to .see you looking so well; you have-
n't .changed much since 5 saw you
last."
"You are looking pretty well your-
self," my uncle assured hint, and my
father chimed in with "You certainly
are," for the stranger certainly was a
robust specimen of humanity. They
were sure he was somebody who had
worked tor my grandfather. Nearly
every lumberjack in the state had, at
one time ar'another. They could not
have named this one to save their
lives.
"I thought I'd like to ;see ,the old
place again," the stranger went on. "'I
made up' my mind that Dan. wasn't
going to 'be in Boston and not run 'up
to see his friends here before he went
back,"
"And where are you making your
home, Dan:" my father asked. Dan,
he reme'm'bered, had hauled logs for
the squire years before.
'9I live in 1VI'i'chigan," said 'Dan. He
had followed • the timber. It was all he
knew. "I did pretty well with my.
white 'Mae. 'By the way, you've never
done much with that land the squire
bought out there, have you?"
"Are you .going to?" he asked. And
my uncle, 'Maine -like, answered his
question with another.
"Would you like te?" he asked.
"I wouldn't mind. How well you
trade?" said Dan.
"9We have got to see our sisters,"
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said, my father. "!Suppose you make us,
an offer?"
Well, Dan did. My father and'Unclec
went home and talked to •my aunts.
They knew only the approximate ac-
reage and the price my grandfather
had paid for the land. They had never
cruised it and didn't know how much
it would cut. But they did know these
were panic time's and getting worse
day by day. There probably was a fu-
'cure, 'but they thought a heap about
the present, and Mic'h'igan was a
mighty long way from Maine, and
cash was cash, So the family council
decided' to accept Dan's offer, which
showed a small profit on what my
grandfather had paid.
When my uncle and myfather got
back to the office they found Dam
there waiting for them. He was pass
Mg away the time talking to a couple
of old -tuners he had scared up some-
where.
"Well, boys, . and what did the girls
say?" he asked.
"We'll sell," they answered.
1Dan promptly sat dawn and made
out a check on a Boston bank for the;
amount:
`Me you kndw anything about the
lands, Dan?" asked my father.
"No more than you," he answered.
"Do you mean to say you've never -
been there?"
":11ever."
"Don't you want to look them over
first and seewhat's there?" •
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Definite Export Market
If Quality is Right
According to Garnet Duncan, On-
tario Marketin'g Board, only, two car
loads 'of calves have been exported to.
Buffalo during the past month. Mr.
Duncan states that there is a d'efin'ite •
market for a much target number,
providing the quality is right. Little
mare'than 10% of calves being offered,
however, :meet export requirements..
Mr. ,Duncan said that fully 50% of the
animals offered, while being o f suit-
able type, lacked proper finish.
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Mixing Infected Potatoes
Increases Marketing Cost.
J. T. .Cassia, lOntario. Marketing
Board, says that, if the portion of
the potato crop infected with. late
'blight rot is mixed with tihe remain-
ing
emaining good .potatoes, the entire lot wilt
become affected, This, of course, calls
for a needless picking over of pota-
toes, a practice which does not recon-
cile' itself with the policy of eating,
down marketing costs.
Mitchell Defeats Clinton.1In a
Wt'iO1SIS.A. soccer game; Clinton Col-
legiate defeated Mitchell (High schoolby a 3.2 score, The line-ups were -
Mitchell — goal, Keeler; backs,.
Brown and Pull'm.an; half backs, Han-.
son, Park, Coluhoant; centre, Stone
man; forwards, Erskine, Russell, Bet-
tger, Christie; subs, M'clGill, :itackeni-
sian. !Clinton — goal, Gibbs; backs,
Weston and 'Hyde; 'half backs, Cook,
Arms'tron'g, Murdoch; centre, Camp-
bell; 'forwards, Smith, Snyder, Colqu-
houn, M'oynes. Referee Charles Wil-
son, Clinton.
A MILLION ACRE FARIV,
From Corpus Christi, on the Mexi-
can Gtif, where visitors, basking in
the genial Texan ssnrshine, lazily ad-
mire the ealquisitc sea anemones
floating in the' translucent light blue
waters of the bay, to Brownsville, on
the border, know the great King
ranch in Texas, which all good Tex-
ans will anter is the (biggest farm on.
earth. 'The ranch, one of the largest
privately owned estates in the world
recalls the fact that it is the rich;,
black earth that made the "Magic,
Valley" a land flowing with cotton, ,
citrus fruits, and vegetables for win-
ter mtarkets in colder climes, The am-
ple waters of the Rio Grande were .
partially diverted front their ' course
to the 'Guff of ivtexico to irrigate 'a
subtropical soil only awaiting those
cooling streams to become one of the
earth's most productive granaries.
Two thousand saddle ;horses are re.
quired to m'oun;t its ranchlnTen and'•
cowboys, while thirty "atitomo+biles:
transport superntltend,eutts and fore- •
men and stoclrmen Vallee bhe cow
boys quit their'work and go bo town.
for the '(S'aturd'ay night `'hop" they •
don't 'heave to leave the 11500 -square -
Mile ranch. They ride across the
range to sizable towns 'which this:
modern feudal baron built on his do
Eluant to link the rural with ' the
inhere,