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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1933-09-28, Page 6,n 1-. T^r THE WIN+ M ADVANCE -TIMES Thursday, Sept. 28th 103 " Wellington M ttial. Fire I'nsur'ance Co« Established 140. Risks taken on all class of nsur- nee at reasonable rates. Head Office, Guelph, Out. iBNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. L3USIIFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc, Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. S. HETHERINGTON BARRISTER And SOLICITO. R Office: Morton Block. Telephone No. 66, J. H. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc.. Successor to R. Vanstone Wingham Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store. DIt. 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. (Loud.) 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.ni. A. R. & F. E. DUVAL CHIROPRACTORS CHIROPRACTIC and ELECTRO THERAPY North Street — Wingham Telephone 300. J. ALVIN FOx Licensed `Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC - DRUGLESS THERAPY RADIONIC EQUIPMENT Holies by Appointment. Phone 191. Wingham. THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD. A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingham. It Will Pay You to Have An EXPERT AUCTIONEER to eoncluct yenir sale. • See '''tri ; 1"),1, T. R, BENNETT . At the l rival 6i ie Station, Phone 174W, e, nes, R. C ARMSTRONG LIVE STOCK And GENERAL. AUCTIONEER Ability with special training en- able me to give yet satisfaction. Ar- rangements made with W. J. Brown, Wingiiatn; or direct to Teeswater. Phone 45r2-2. THOMAS E. SMALL LICENSED AUCTIONEER. 20 Year? "Experience in Farm Stock and Implements, Moderate Prices. Phone 331, A. Walkerp FURNITURE and FUNERAL SERVICE Wingham, Ont. Ambulance . Service SYNOPSIS. Ruth Warren, living in the East, cornes 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 business in Mexico. With her ailing husband and small child she goes to Arizona to take possession, thinkiog 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, which, was 5 miles from the ranch house: 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." Their reception is cool and suspicious, Snavely and Indian Ann are the only occupants. Snavely is difficult to understand but regardless, Ruth takes up the task of trying to adjust their three lives to the ranch and its development. Ken- neth, Ruth's husband, caught in chill- ing raincontracts pneumonia and he passes away before s a doctor arrives. Ruth •tries to carry' on. , Snavely offers to buy Ruth's interest in the ranch. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY Ruth felt that the only definite re- sult , of consulting a lawyer would be to put Snavely in a fury. After all, a lawyer couldn't change any- thing; she had her interests in the ranch and Snavely his. She suppos- ed that Snavely thought himself to have once been cheated by the law arid that to him it represented-civili= zation in much the same way that barbed wire did. Snavely had left .for Palo Verde immediately after breakfast, in a arch' of Mexicans. Now. Ruth and Ann were catching their horses while Da- vid watched from the top of the cor- ral gate. Before he left ;Snavely had ordered Ann- to ride the south pasture and Ruth had. quietly'• "deterinined- to go along. The south pasture contained the only water -filled pond and conse- quently all of the cattle, except those which watered at the corral troughs on the home ranch. Ruth wanted to. see if the feed in the south, pasture. was as nearly gone as Snavely had said. The little party had reached the, Ruth heard nothing as she passed the rock, except perhaps a dry rustl- ing as of brushed leaves. inclined road which led dtlwn into the gulch which Ruth spurred Brisket to the side of the big roan. She point- ed to the trail which led along the southern bank of the gulch. "Don't we want to go this way, Ann?" Ann shook her head. "You -all kin go 'round-- 'I got to go through, This here's the naturalest way to go." Ruth hesitated, then followed Ann. She did not know whether or not she was afraid to pass the brown boulder which squatted so nakedly in the bar- ren sand. She supposed she would scream if she heard—anything. . . As they reached the floor df the gulch the roots of her hair began to tingle. Ahead, Ann was sitting very straight in her saddle. The horses plodded slowly through the sand, yet they seemed to approach the boulder with incredible,speed. Ruth's hand gripped her saddle horn, her shoulders were hunched as though expecting a blow. All about was the bright, hot silencee of the morning—a stillness somehow more terrifying then the shadow -fill- ed . evening when she had first conic through the gulch. Ann was passing the bowider; Ruth could see the first slight relaxing of the great body; then it suddenly grew tense, and Ann rein- ed her horse to a dead stop. Ruth and David also. stopped. Ann r- rnained motionless, her head set rig- idly, Ruth held herbreath and lis- tened. She heard nothing. She allow- ed. Brisket to take a few steps near- er the roan, then stopped him. She sould hear something now, a low whispering guttural voice, so faint that she could almost imagine she heard nothing. For perhaps a minute she listened, before Ann nodded as though in reply and urged her horse forward. Ruth heard nothing as she passed the rock, except perhaps a d;y,' rustling as of brushed leaves, only sand, empty sand and the banded walls ofthe gulch far to the right and left. When they were. out of the gulch and had turned southward, '' Ruth spoke to Ann. "Did it speak in Span- ish?" "Apache." That was all Ruth could bring her- self to ask and the only word Ann had ever said about the voiee. During the whole of the ride. Ann made no comment. Even when they' were re- turning, and Ruth remarked that the quick growing billows of clouds ab- ove the western • mountains might mean rain, the Indian woman had on- ly nodded. The mother and son rode around the gulch, but the giantess went through. Ruth and David had been in the old adobe for some time when Ann pass- ed and entered the ranch. house. Al- though it was hardly mid-afternoon the sun had already set behind -the black mountain range of, clouds. A• cold wind blew, slowly gaining in strength, driving swirls of dust which flew like frightened shapes before it. Ann entered the kitchen and made the fire. She put on a kettle of water and a pot. From time to time as she mixed dough for the tartillas, she licked her lips. .She had made six. lumpsand had begun to flatten the first by slapping it in her huge hands whets siie three's ewes.the-48141r"1tr3th-- a frenzied gesture and almost ran in- to Snavely's room, She did not pause but took hold of the nearest' corner of the old carpet and flung it violent- ly back. On , her knees, she peered closely at the cracks in the floor, testing the boards with an occasional thurng of her great fist. At length she found what she sought; with her. a drink, that's all;'. nails in the crack' she piffled up two "Aw now, honey! Sliorei-y, shorely you kin have a drink—big,drin"i,•" Agin rose and went id the flour bin Where she pulled out a bottle, half full,+,,and shoved it toward Ruth. "Go to fit,. kiddo!" ti Ruth took out the cork and put the mouth of the bottle to her nose. "What is this, Ann?"' "Gawd love usl" she said explos- ively, "where was you raised? That there's mescal --dynamite, that's what it is—macre it outa cactus, the greas- ers do, and it shorely has its prickles left. I'veseen a man stand to th' bar an' drink five whiskey glasses of it duri.n' 'bout half an hour, then may- be he'd go on' set withthe boys and g!ir1d ':an' he'd. be cold sober—like what I am now—he'd be cold. sober, just funnin' a Iittle maybe, fer 'bout a hour an' then"—Ann leaned forward dramatically—"an' then he'd get tip to take a little walk, an' he take two steps an' fall flat on his facet That's how it hits you," Ruth eyed the half-filled bottle and wondered when Ann had begun.' "I -I don't think I want any right now -later." Ann's great fist crashed on the ta- ble. "Yuh ast fer a drink, go ahead! Ain't I fittin' company fer yuh'?" she snarled.. Ruth slowly poured ,some of the. liquor in her cup. At that moment, the room went vivid with lightning and the very earth leaped with the detonation of thunder. "Anti!" cried the girl, "how about Sngarfoot?" The giantess got to her feet, deep- ly concerned. "Pore little Stigarfoot —pore little lanib ..." She went out of the room muttering dolefully, Ruth hid the bottle behind the'kit- chen' door attd going into the sitting. room lit the lantp.The rain bcatnig against the window was running un- der the sill and down the wall, Ruth could think of nothing better to do, so she began .stuffing paper. hi the crack. They turned at a low laugh and saw the giantess filling the door- way; her head bent forward so as not to bump the tinter. "You could- n't guess," ouldn't"g.uess," she whispered, coming in- to. the. room, "he's done crawled in marnniy'sbed,an' stint his little eyes. He ain'tgettiti' in no storm!"' But hit rains, dear Lord, Like hit wants to do!" The cup broke '• and Ann settled back in her ,chair, Bolding a bit of the porcelain between her big fin- gers and ]augbing—deep, gurgling laughter. David looked questioningly at his mother. Ruth had an idea. "Ann's 'a great old sport, isn't she?" And she laughed until David joined uncertain- ly. "Sing some more, Ann," she cried patting the huge knee which had _slid to press her own. She knew that Ann must be drunk, but where ; she had obtained the liquor was a mystery. Ann immediately obliged with a song which was evidently a relic of the days when she "run a dance hall down in Texas," Terrified as she "Yuh ast, fer a drink, go ahead! A.in't I fittin company fer yak?" snarled Ann. was the girl found' time to hope that parts of the song wouldnot linger in David's brain. She applauded vig- orously. "That's fine!" And leaning forward confidentially. "When the cat's away, • Ann—you know!" She f fiiiiiedewith a wink. But at''*a?1e illusion to Snavely's ab- sence the gitaztess ceased to grin. and looked steadily•nt Ruth. "Aw, hell!". she said fiercely;, "you're playin' a game! What're lett up .to, huh?" "Oh, nothing," 'g swered Ruth air- ily. "If you want tp he a pig, all right -I just thought you 3 ght give me short boards, tossed 'them aside, and thrust her arm into the opening. She brought up a tin cash box which fell heavily asshe dropped it beside . the hole. Then a wolfish grin twisted her lips and she withdrew a- quart bottle filled with white liquid. "Here you is—jest like th' voice say," she rumbled. . When Ruth, brought her son into the ranch house Ann was in the kit- chen, the last of the tortillas brown- ing on top,, of the stove. The girl re ceived the surprise of her life when Ann looked at her with a broad grin. "Well, howdy, folks—set down; th' eats 'er corrin'." r .' "Why, Ann-" . "What's the matter, white girl — "skeered o' souiepin' ag'in?" Ann laughed,' the full-throated, primitve laugh of the negro...She snatched the burning tortilla from the stove and flung it toward the table. "Miss Ann's funny!" David's, little voice was filled with questioning de- light. , Ruth said nothing but. seated her- self at the kitchen table, . "Now fer a feed," grunted Anis. Her chair speaked dangerously as she slid into it. 'Here; white girl," she invited, holding out .a pot, "slop yer- se'f a plate of beans." There was no spoon it the pot and Ruth poured out the beans. She couldn't understand what had hap- pened to Anti, but somethittg warned her not to ask for a spoon. "Ann," said the girl, "it's beginning to rain and the wind is much strong- er --do you suppose we "'ought to go to the barn and see if everything's shut tight?' Is the windmill shut off?„ For a second. Ann appeared to con- sider the matter, then she grinned and waved her arm aimlessly. "Let 'er rain ---can't do nothin' 'bout it!" She began to sing, beating the table with her cup: "A than kin Sow torn, A man kin sow nate A man kin git cbillen, A man kin raise shoats, A muit kin make tine thing, A pian kin make twos Red smiled and looking about, picked up an Ore specimen. "Where'd they get this, Attu?" "Huh? I Joan know—been here longer'n what I have—" .er eyes fell on the aqui bow hanging above the shelf., "There's a weapon for yule!" she snatched down the bow. "Gawd.1 them flimsy men -•-•I seen two of 'em trying this bow --couldn't hardly bend it, they couldn't --an' as fer shootin'! Hell --ain't . no roan here 'bouts can draw arrow to this bow, Look at rue! She jerked an arrow from the quiver and placing it an the string drew it slowly, easily back. The tough wood creaked and the sinews of her great wrist stood out like rods as the long ironwood head of the arrow carne to the hand of the bow. For a moment she held it so, and her eyes sought Ruth's in satisfaction. ghe swerved slightly, the string twanged like a taut wire and the three-foot arrow, with .a hiss and a click, passed thru the panel of the kitchen door and stopped with a thud somewhere be- yond, For a moment there came into Ann's face a look of soberness; as though half ashamed, she hung the bows back on the. wall. But as she was lowering her arms she paused, took an uncertain step, and turning, slouched .heavily against the wall. Ruth hugged David closer. Ann's head drooped upon her breast; her eyes were closed. Slowly they open- ed and the face turned into the face of an uncontrollable beast. The bright, unintelligent lower lip, hang- ing away from ` the teeth, twitched, then formed words. "What's th' time?" Ruth glanced at the clock. It says six -twenty." "Great Gawd 1" Ann sprang to her full height. "Why didn't you say when it was six o'clock? I'm late!" With a bound, Ann reached the front door and disappeared. into the roar- ing storm. Ruth snatched up David and ran out of the back door toward the . old adobe. ' By the lightning she saw Ann running toward the road which .led into the gulch. The bottle glinted in her hand. (Continued Next Week) THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON OCTOBER 1st, 1933 SAUL IN TARSUS Acts 22: 3, 27, 28; 26: 4-7; Phil. 3 3-6 Golden Text. -Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of- truth.—IL Tim. 2: 15. SAUL'S TRAINING' IN JERUSA- LEM. I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cil- icia, These three verses are connect- ed with the address which Saulde- livered to the mob from the stairs leading to the Castle Antonia.,. ]3ut brought up in this city. Having been ;thus dedicated to the career of a rah- Sail must be sent to betrained to ,, theological school in Jerusalem. At tI'ie .feet of Ganialiel. Literally so, as th teacher sat on are elevated platfor.,` and his pupils sat at his feet. Being zealous for God, even as ye all're this day. The apostle, it must be rs•membered, was addressing a mob of Jewish , hadcus- ed hien of�a most zealotsserious winfroaction. oftheir rules '`or preserving the tem- ple inviolate, f. And the chie captain (the tribune or colonel of tl�e regiment stationed' in the castle) wine and said unto' him, Tell me,priart thou a Roman? One of the vileges of a Roman citizen was this, t. at he might not be scourged exceptlifter due process of law; and the chi)f captain knew that he would be s verely punished;, himself if he disrega ded that law. And he. said, Yea. S sertion was readily be to make this claim fal ed with the most sever and no one would Claresay that he was a Roman citizen if 11e were not. And the chief captai ' answered,; With a great sum obtaine it I this 'cit-' izenship. From tune to tine various 1) favorites of the Roman ern Ieror were allowd to sell Roman ;itizenship and so enrich themselves, 3And Paxil said, But 1 ani a Roman botu. It is conjectured: that some one oil!Paul's; ancestors had been made ar` Roma}; citizen on account of distin uisl5ed service rendered the empire;' rut no-, thing is known about that, My manner of life then from linty rt near the condo youth' up. Patti tear cone t .,� of his two -years imprisonment at the'l� Roman capital of Palestine, Caesarea on the sea -coast, was brought before King . Herod Agrippa II., who was visiting lestus, the Roman governor of odea. Know all the Jews.Al.. � though Paul's missionary labors were in foreign lands and chiefly for the. Gentiles, he had so many Jews among''' his converts; end had been so mach ul's simple as ieved, because' ely was visit punishment,` in Jerusalem, that he was by this. .time one of the best-known figures in the Holy City. Having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify. Paul appeals to the abundant evidence existing, but with a warning that the Jews were, on th.e.wholei prejudiced against him on account of his Christ- ianity, and his fellowship with Gen- tiles, and would not be willing to bear witness to his advantage; That' after. the straitest sect of our relig- ion I Iived a Pharisee. The word "Pharisee" probably means "separat- ecL And now I stand here, The grand- est titan of all the,ages—a convict, itt chains! To be judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers. The 'promise' must be of the Messiah and of his coaling into the world as King. Unto which promise our twelve tribes, earnestly serving God night and day, hope •to attain. The Jews were very careful of their ancestral records, and the continuity - of the twelve tribes was still maintained in a . way, though the members were scattet•ed all over the world. And, concering this hope I am accused by the Jews, 0 king! The apostle jay stress upon the strange fact that the Jews should thus persecute one who identified himself with their deepest and most enduring hopes. p'1 A HEALTH SERVICE OF THE CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND LIFE' INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANADA, "GET IT OVER WITH!" It was hoped that the popular idea which •prevailednot so many years ago to the effect that a child should "get it! over with" in regard to cer- tain of the communicable diseases while still in his cot or during the toddling years, had long since dis- appeared. While this feeling, through bitter experience, is no longer as strong as it was formerly; yet there is still an unfortunate tendency, on the part of some otherwise intelli- gents parents, to feel that such and such a disease is inevitable anyway, and that 'the sooner the child comes down with the disease in question, the better it will be forhimself and for all concerned. "He's bound to catch it sooner or later, so why worry?" is the sub- stance of the excuse one still occas- ionally hears. The question of whe- ther the infant will make the grade or not does not enter into considera- tion or, at least,find expression in words, until' a younger child—usually the youngest of a family -succumbs reVro Huron tic. Erie Debentures,. are a legal investment for executorsand trustees. Safe for estates funds, Safe for the hard earned savings of individuals. is paid upon $100 and over for Imo, 2, 3, 4 or 5 years, Applications are accepted tor Abner Cosens sans INSS'U 2ANCE AND REAL ESTATE Wingham - Ontario Interest Rates Are Failing. Other Companies Are Only Paying 0%. Act - Nowt and the lesson is learned. This attr- tude of mind, which is part and par- cel of a fatalism now centuries old, is not only responsible for much un- necessary suffering in a personal way but is one of the ;oustanding' factors in the spread of disease of an epi- demic nature:. It is quite true that some diseases are very easily spread; that by sneez- ing, coughing and by close contact cne is likely to. pass on an infection. This is especially the case with re--- gard to the acute . infections of child- hood. It is equally true that, by judi- ciously avoiding all sources of con- tact with an individual sick with an acute fever, it is possible to put off and perhaps to avoid altogether an illness which runs a tragically high mortality early in life. Take, for in- stance, two diseases of special sig- a.'""'� nificance in childhood, namely, measibir,- les and whooping cough. Under the • age of two, over twenty and some- times thirty out of every . hundred children with either of these diseases,. succumb to complications arising therefrom. After two years of age, there is a considerable drop in the death -rate, and from the age of five - onwards, practically all cases recover. Just because measles and whooping - cough are prevalent in a community is no reason whychildren of all ages• should not be protected from then,, and this precaution is ' especially in- dicated in the case of the very young child. Questions concerningHealth , ad- dressed to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 184 College St., Toronto,, will be answered personally by letter. • First M.P.—Just think of it. A good ball player gets as much salary as we do! Second M.P.—Yes, hang it, and a. darned sight more applause. �t Ad Pa9 M =kro' ` u A Speaker Who Gets Action! '..'ircasar, His stage is this newspaper. His audience its 2000 readers. His name "Classified Ad Column". What is it you want to sell? Car, home, va .cant property, houselould goods, live stock? Ad- vertise through "him" and you'll find a BUYER! LOW RATES-- 11/2c PER WORD. MINMUM CHARGE OF 25 CENTS. Glad to help you prepare your ad. Drop in, or The — Telephone 34 ---- --- Advance -Timis