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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1933-08-17, Page 6THE` 'WIN GH;A� A: VANCE-TIME ellln too Mutual Fire Illauratiee Co. 'stablish4d, 1840. Raslrs taken on ; all plass of izrsur ice;:at reasonablerates, Head Office, 'Guelph, Ont. BNg CQSEN$, Agent, Wingham' 'W.BUSHFIELD 3arrlsten, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan ,fQice-a-Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes . S. HETHERINGTON BARRISTER And SOLICITOR Office: Morton Block.. Telephone No. 66. .J, H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone Wingham - Ontario D.R. G. H. ROSS DENTIST OfficegOver Isard's Store. DR. A. W. IRWIN DENTIST -- X-RAY _ Office, McDonald Block, Wingham. DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over J. M. McKay's Store. H. W. COLBORNE, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Successor to Dr. ,W. R. Hambly Phon 54 Wingham DR. ROBT. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (ENG.) L.R.C.P. (Load) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON F. A. PARKER OSTEOPATH All. Diseases Treated. Office adjoining residence next to Anglican Church on Centre Street. 'Sunday by appointment. Osteopathy Electricity Phone 272. Hours, 9 a.m. 'to 8 p.m. A. R. &• F. E. DUVAL CHIROPRACTORS CHIROPRACTIC and " ELECTRO THERAPY North Street — Wingham Telephone 300. 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 only broth- er, reported to have died while on busiuess in Mexico. With her ailing husband and small child she goes to Arizona to take possession, thinking the climate may prove beneficial to her husband's weakened lungs. Ar- riving at the nearest town, she 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. Lantern" gate, which was 5 miles from the ranch hoarse. As they wear- ily walked past a huge overshadow- ing boulder in a gulch in coming to the ranch house, a voice whispered "Go back! Go back." NOW GO ON WITH. THE STORY Snavely pursed his lips thoughtful ly, then shook his head. "No -no use to see any more lawyers—they'll jest gouge us, stir us •somethin' so's they would have to be hired to straighten, it out ag'in. No use in that. You've seen your Iawyer an' you've got the will. The will's what counts—jest as long as I recognize it as bein' what it says it is, there's no need messin' around with law." A queer 'light came into his eyes and his voice took on a curious hollow lift and fall. "I was only going toask what you have just told us, Mr. Snavely." The girl's heart was in her throat, J. AL'v`IN FO? Licensed, Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC DRUGLESS THERAPY• - RADIONIC EQUIPMENT Hours by Appointment. Phone 191. Wingham. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD ,A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingham. Ft Will Pay You to Rive An. EXPERT A.YQTIONg,PR to conduct your sale, See T. R. BENNETT At The Royal Service Station. Phone 174W, R. C. ARMSTRONG LIVE STOCK And GENERAL AUCTIONEER Ability with special training en- able me to give you satisfaction. , Ar tangements made with W. J. Brown, Wingham; or 'direct to Teeswater. Phone 45r2.2. THOMAS E. SMALL LICENSED AUCTIONEER 0 Years' Experience in Farm Stock and implements. Moderate Prices, Phone 331. A. J. Walker FURNITURE and FUNERAL SERVICE Wingham, Ont. .Ambulance Service Snavely shrugged, "She'll be back in a couple of hours." Snavely sat near the fireplace, half facing the man and woman who were seated near the cot. His attitude was --'that of one who is waiting. to be asked foolishq uestioes—as though he were abbot to be quizzed by a pair of children. Ruth's first question changed this attitude. "Who. is Ann—is she your—" "No, by God!" The man thrust his body forward and his hands' gripped the arms of the chair as if he were about to spring to his feet. His pale eyes glittered. "She's nothin' to me! Do you get that? She's a nigger half-breed I'm Kirin' to take care of the house an' help on the place.' Any- body says" different is a-" he paus- ed. ' "I was only going to ask what you have just told us, -Mr. Snavely." The girl's heart was in her throat. Snavely settled back in his chair and his fingers strayed to his fore- head. After a moment he spoke cas- ually. "Ann's a queer creature -- Strange. Strange. Her blood, I reckon. Her father was a heavyweight nigger prize fighter an' her mammy was an Ap- ache squaw. `Big' Jackson, her dad- dy, was born a slave. He was in the army durin' the Indian trouble . in this country—stationed at 'San Car- los. I reckon Ann's the result of a raid on some Apache village. Mostly she's called 'Indian' Ann—you can see she favors her mammy's folks—the straight hair an' that Indian face. Must have got her size an' color from her daddy, though. Ann don't get along with towns -this here civiliza- tion. Down in Teras she run a dance hall an' saloon, but' she got in trouble an' drifted out this way. I'd seen her before, an' when I runs onto her in town one day, she was broke an' look in' for ga job. That was just after your brother went to Mexico." 'Snav- ely paused, his eyes on the girl's face. "So—I hires her. Knowin' her like I did, I felt sorry for her. There's nothin bad about Ann. She jest can't stand bein' in town—spends most of her time in jail when she is in town. It ain't her fault—but folks give her liquor, you see, an' when she's drunk she's a God -o -mighty terror!'• "How much do you suppose she weighs?" asked Warren. "Close to three hundred, I reckon— solid as a rock. She's powerful. You will look a long ways, before you find a man as strong as what Ann. "I'll subscribe to that," said War- ren. "What kind of trouble did she you folks aim to stay on I reckon I'll have to goto town again before fail." Snavely spoke as though nothing could be more daistatsteful than going to town. "But, kir, Snavely," asked the girl, "isn't there any money?" Snavely stood up and took an old daybook from the mantel. Slowly he turned the pages, wetting his thtunb at every page,• He looked up. "Thee'sa hundred an' fifty one dol- lars an' eight cents of pardnership money in the bank." Closing the book with a snap, 'he returned it to the mantel, reseated himself and waited patiently for more questions. "Mr. Snavely," said Warren, "when we were coming along the road just before we saw the house, we heard a —well,- we had a queer sensation, as if some one who was very close by spoke to us—" "You did?" Snavely leaned forward and watched Warren's face keenly. "Was by a big rock down in the gulch? it "Yes—yes, that's where it was. At least that's where we thought we heard the whisper — it was rather weird." "Tell me about it—what did it say? "It's hard to describe. We stopped at the rock a moment, and when we were leaving, this voice told us to to go back. The unaccountable thing about it was that the words seemed "Your brother was always inter- ested in legends an'• things about this country." inch - "All right," said the girl quick]to have been spoken just a few g " Y' get into down in Texas—did She just es from our ears, We were rather e 11 n -ers - �1 la 1 coo a I She was d t4 Settle $ ,prove too de tractive to the city_ half tired and a bit unstrung, though, per tibia relative to the jays: 1 "Well, 110. slie lobed a man—beat, "I'm mighty sorry I c)idii't khoW Klin to death with a chair. But it was his fault." Snavely paused. "He wasn't no small man, either," he add- ed as an interesting afterthought. Ruth began by asking about the ranch. To all of her questions Snave- ly returned prompt and pessimistic answers. It was soon evident that there would be no need o'f any one working out the exact value of three- quarters of forty thousand dollars. "But couldn't we get some new cat- tle if that's what we need?" asked the girl. "We could if we had the money. But it wouldn't be no use—not en- ough water. for more "stock. We've you was coming," remarked gravely. "Me an' Ann ain't exaelly fixed for company.' But I'll be seein' what I can do. between now an' supper I'll just be fixin' up the place out back in the old house." "That old ruin? But -it's falling to pieces!" For an instant the man's body tensed ,then he laughed—a thin, dry little laugh which had in it something of the sound of crumpled paper. "The old place has seen its best days, lady, but it's all we got. There's two roams that's as good --jest about -as they ever was. Your brother has slept there—it's plenty, vornfortable-jest a little mite dirty now." An,.:. "But it's full of great cracks—one of those walls might—" "No, no. Nothing ever falls in this country without there's a rain or a big wind. When it storms you can come in here in case anything wants to fall. Otherwise, you'll be plenty safe. We don't have-rnore'n a couple of storms a year anyways," Alter supper the adobe itself -was visited. Huge and dismal the great bailk towered above them in the night. ,Yet, once inside, the walls looked quite safe by the light of the oil lamp on the table. The adjoin- ing rooms were certainly more spac- ious than anything in the ranch house. As Snavely had said, the place. was dirty. But the dirt was the dirt of earth—clean', dry dust. Ann, the giantess, had just finished arranging the bedclothes on three canvas cots. Ann picked up a lighted lantern, left the room and took the path that led to the barn, the latatern swing- ing in long arcs from her arm. Bank in the living room • of the raneh liottse Snavely remarked that he had sent Ann to the gate itt the buckboard for the baggage. "Oh, but that wasrdt necessaryy'r said the girl. "We tool- get along Ithtil to -Morrow- it's Snob ail awful trier in the arlty' haps our imaginations—" Snavely frowned and shook his head. "No -you heard- it all right." "But what is—who was it and how in the world was it done? Why was it done?" Snavely thought a moment. "Oh, it's a superstition—I guess .you'd call it." - "I wouldn't!" breathed the girl, with a shiver. "But we heard something," said Warren. Snavely rose and entered his bed- room. In a moment he returned and gave the girl'a sheet of paper in her brother's handwriting. "Your broth- er was always interested in legends got some water, but it ain't close en- an' thins about this country. He us high to Where the feed IS," , .1: ed to try an' find somebody who said "Tjow could We j et iiioft watering they'd heard the voice, but he 'had places?" poor stick, Then some Indians come "Ravin' it rain would help. In this up in this neighborhood to gather ac - country a waterin' place is a re;pr'esa, orns, an' your brother gotone old a dirt tank. You take an' dig a basin bush -head who'd had "education, to, in the ground where a gully runs. come up to the house an' tell about When it rains the water comes down the legend. was right here when the gully and fills the pond. We got your brother took down what the old plenty of them ponds but they're so buck said." silted up an' shallow they don't hold The girl read, aloud from the paper: water long an' it don't rain anyways. "THE LEGEND OF THE VOICE" It rained just enough last winter to "In the long ago days a tribe of fill the biggest pored on the place; good Iridian live in the San, Jorge; that an' the well here, is all the. wat- 'Valley; They grow what they eat and er we got. There's four other ponds kill nothing. They do , never fight but they're powder dry. Are all the other Indian for so long they forget grass is sun -burned an' wispy -like." how it is. "Mr. Snavely," "asked Warren, "One time some bad Indian come "perhaps we should wait until to- quick from' the north. These Indian Morrow tosee the books—but could kill what they eat azul fight nttich. you give' an idea of the earnings?" All the village and all the field of the Snavely Observed the young man good Indian is burn tap. A11 the for a moment. "Yes, Mr. Warren, I young men. become dead. They do can. There ain't any earnhlgs. You not know how itis to fight. can .see the books any time you want "But there is , one very wise old —they ain't cotnplicated ,neither. We' tnatt. He is. medicine tnan. He• take sell twice a year, after the fall an' the women and the little children spring round -ups. An' we buy' twice away. Ile lead thein in these v oun- a year --stock up the contniis'saty, tains when the young risen try to Grey took his share of last fall's sale fight, But Very gtiiek the bad iridian 'with hinig-ariv some of mine too,; if are on the trait When, the wiser old it comes to •that. This spring I sold than come to the lig arroyo with the I 'could an` gt etnangh to a little Mete woolen and the little children he look than stock, tip the ebir aissary. If back, bre' see the bad Indian follow,' Where the trail leave the arroyo he stop, The wise old man say to the women and the little children, 'You must go on. Go in the still places of the mountains and wait. You must stay four days. Then go back into the valley and make again the vill- age'and the field.' "The wise old medicine man go back in the arroyo and wait for the bad Indian by the big rock. He take a little breeze he find playing by the big rock. ,He make this little breeze into a soft whisper. Then he do oth- er things that medicine 'man can do. When all is ready he lay down by the big rock and let his life go away. "The bad Indian come to the arr- oyo. The chief try to step over the dead old man. But he stop, Into his ear there come a little whisper. All the bad Indian hear the whisper. It tell them things and they are much afraid. They go out of the San Jorge Valley and they do never come back. "Always there is the little breeze in the arroyo. Sometime it whisper. More I do .not know!" Beneath the legend Harry Grey had written, "The old man tell.s me that for ''centuries the Indians have used the big boulder in the gulch as a council place. They believe that when the need is great the voice will advise them." "What do you think now?" For the first time Snavely had asked, a ques- tion, Neither the girl nor her hus- band found an answer. "Can you tell us any more?" asked Warren at last:, (Continued Next Week) CULLING THE LAYING FLOCK (Experimental Farms Note) With the general ' low price 'of poultry' products now` prevailing, it behooves the poultryman to keep his cost of production as low as poss- ible. Present economic conditions call for the elimination of the unde- sirable and unprofitable hens from the farm flocks, thereby increasing the quantity and improving the goal= ity of eggs produced and decreasing the cost of production by a saving of feed, housing and management wasted on the non -producing or low - producing hens. _ It is important to be able to dis- tinguish between the laying and the non -laying birds. If .a bir.ci is laying. the comb will be red and full, the vent dilated and moist, the pelvic bones thin, pliable and wide apart aiad the abdomen large, soft and pli- able, while if nut laying the comb will be pale or whitish -coloured, the vont contracted and dry, tli pelvic bones rigid and close together and the abdomen firm or bard, In a yel- low -skinned bird the beak, vent and shank of a heavy layer are pale yel- low or white in clour, whereas the beak, vent and shank of a poor layer or a layer that is taking long rests are usually bright yellow in colour. The health and .type of the layers are also important points to be tak- en into consideration in culling. .On- ly those birds that are healthy and vigorous and that have a wide' back of good length combined with a deep body should be retained in the flock. One other important feature that Should be kept in mind in culling is to note the time of the molt. • As a rule birds that molt before the first of September are poor layers, whil±? those that molt later in the year are good layers. The latter part of Au- gust is, then, an excellent period for culling the laying flock and at that time 'all hens that have quit laying should be culled. The above mentioned factors are kept in mind when culling the laying flock at the Dominion Experimental Station, Lacombe, Albrta. A close watch is'. always kept on the flock for any outstanding boarders and these are marked and disposed of in the late summer or early fall. "Pride requires very costly food -- its its keeper's happiness. 1 1,p'1 A HEALTH SERVICE. OF THE CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND LIES' ••'-•••�•'� INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANADA FLATULENCE. Under normal conditions, a consid- erable amount of gas is present in the intestines. The gas serves a use - fill purpose in that it stimulates ' the contiactions of the bowel which move hur y, August lith, 1933 the contents of the bowel along the lutestinal tract. i+latulence means an excessive pro:, duction- of gas in the intestines, and it is usually due to -one of two caus- es. 'rho first is the fermentatian of foods which occurs when there is an excess in the diet, of sugars, starch- es or cellulose, the indigestible resi- due of coarse vegetables and whole grains. "Ills is most apt to occur in the• person who is constipated, because in: such cases, the contents of the boweli are retained for a comparatively long• tune, and there is thus a greater op- portunity for fermentation with gas production. This gas is not. particu- larly offensive, and the condition: 'is relieved by passing the gas as flatus or with the bowel movements, In such cases, it is advisable to reduce the consumption of peas, beans, coarse vegetables, potatoes and whole --grain cereals. The diet with '. considerable roughage isnot the best diet" for all, even though it is the best, for some people. The other cause : of gas in the in- testines s putrefaction. This gas is foul and offensive as it arises from the putrefaction of proteins in the diet, The chief source of protein in our diets is meat. In such cases, too - much meat may have been used, or, due to lack of exercise, there may not be regular bowel elimination. The importance of diet and elim- ination are important in considering this condition. Another point noticed is that the same diet is not suited to all persons. This is largely the re- sult of ' abnormal conditions which have been allowed to develop. If the bowel has become irritated, it is ob- vious that coarse foods are not suit- able as' their use is apt to aggravate the irritation. Diet it not the only consideration. 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