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Ont. �;l191tri Ambulance Service SYNOPSIS Ruth Warren, living in the East, comes into possessionof three -guar - 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, thinking the climate may prove beneficial to her husband's wakened 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 corning 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 rain contracts pneumonia and he passes away before a doctor arrives. Ruth tries to carry on. Snavely offers to buy Ruth's interest in the ranch. 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 a loan with which to buy cattle. She receives no reply. Will Thane comes home to visit his father . .. . and Ruth meets him. A rancher nearby decides to retire, and offers to sell Ruth and Snavely his livestock 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 WITH THE STORY Old. Charley himself had remarked to Ruth that the rains began about the end of June; Snavely had admit- ted that it might rain around the 24th of June—before the real -drought set in; but Ann, Don Francisco, Alfredo, and Magda had stated calmly that the rain would come in abundance begin- ning 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 had not been a cloud in the sky the size of a pigeon. The, grass which had sprung up so brave and green after the storm was now wilted and the color of broomstraw. The lacy leav- es of the mesquite curled on drooping branches, dust laden; the broad, flat leaves of the prickly pear were As ,day succeeded day, each hotter, more helpless than the preceding day, her anxiety increased. shrunken and yellowish; small bushes 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 coun- try all was desolation. Rattlesnakes aboun ded. Each morning the sun rose naked above the eastern mountains and as it rose a wave of stifling heat swept over the desert as though a mighty oven door had slowly swung open. Ruth had rather expected lain on the Day of San Juan, and,when that passed cloudless, felt that in aciay or so she would see the clouds billow- ing over the mountains, and smell the indescribable ind perfume of desert rain As day succeeded day, each hotter, dryer, more hopeless than the preced- ing day, her anxiety increased—she seemed trapped in a corner while dis- aster crept relentlessly -nearer. The incrca:sityg 'awareness of her respon- sibility: drove her to assume more and mare the control of the ranch. 13e - fore she well realized it she was ,giv-1 13ut the mail had already arrived a ing the orders for the days riding, when she reached the box. There 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, Some- tunes Ile was riding casually up some canon as though he eared not where he went, as long ashe had no corn- pany; again, she had seen him sitting in the .shade of a scrubby live oak high upon a ridge top. Whenever she saw •him these days Ruth had an odd, uncomfortable feeling that Snavely was waiting for something. One day she meet Old Charley and Will as she was riding the southern boundary of the ranch. The two men came up to the fence and talked 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 need- ed it badly. She also suggested that he get a certain brand of drieci mill: —much advertised in the cattle rais- ers' magazine—which, mixed with water, could be given to the underfed calves' and the orphans. Snavely 'thought for a long time, then said he would go. It seemed' to Ruth that there was an undercurrent of eagerness in his voice in spite of his objections to the trip. He started the next morning with team and wa- gon, returning,a week later with the load. He appeared 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. Some sixty cows were re- ceiving their daily ration of meal, and about the ranch house and corrals wandered a band of nine or ten or- phaned calves whom Ruth was bring- ing up on the bottle. The gulch had been fenced by the Mexicans under Ruth's direction; also all the ponds were now deep -and all but the one in the south pasture was bone dry. .Half of the herd watered at this pond, the other half at the corral troughs on the home ranch. The corral troughs could only water this number. Very little wind came to. turn the windmill which fed 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. And no signs of rain. Each day,*as she returned from the south pasture, sometimes driving a ago" said Ruth dully. weak cow, or even carrying a day- Old Charley tried not to show his old calf across her saddle, the swell- surprise. "So? Well, they'll get a ing fear in her heart increased. A little thin waterin' at the well, but it hundred times a day she looked for won't hurt them." clouds; if her riding took her near a "Oh!" Ruth suddenly turned away. hill she went to the top, eagerly after a moment she said. slowly, "1 scanning the new -made horizon. gave my note to Parker for the cattle She knew that the Mexicans were —my interest in the ranch will be praying for rain—she had given them gone by November—there's no water all the candles in the house for the —the cattle will be dying in another sacred picture they had hung in the week." barn. And once she had entered the "Another week'!" Both men 'stared gluch after a calf, which had gone at the girl. "You must be wrong," through the fence, and upon the rock' said Old Charley. had found a grotesque little mud im- "No, the well's going dry—it gives age holding a tiny pot of cornmeal, out sooner each day." Ann did not reply when Ruth asked "But, Mrs. Warren" -Will looked her about it; but the girl had come from Ruth to his father -"I don't un- to know the footprints of the giant- derstand. There was surface water ess. there late last June, worlds of water. There came a day when the water Why, there must be two or three in the south pasture had shrunk to a thousand acres which drain into that thin sheet of mud. Then Ruth knew well!" that the end had comee,with the full "It's going dry," said Ruth. herd trying to water at the home "New wells sometimes give ' out ranch where there was barely enough quick," replied Old: Charley slowly, for half, there could be only one re- "but- it sure seem . funny. You see suit. If no rain came within a week Will here, helped your hrother locate the cattle would begin dying by doz- that well." You ought to be able to ens. take care of a good half your herd For the last few days as she watch- —let part of 'em water at the cor- ed the water so relentlessly disappear rals," Ruth thought less about meeting her "At--the--corrals? But 1 'don't un- note and more about the cattle them- derstand—do you mean—what do you selves, The tears often started in her mean?" eyes these days. When the girl came Old Charley looked at his son and upon a gaunt cow lying in the stifling then at Ruth "Why, just what I said;. shade at the bottom of some gully, use the well at the corrals, the ,one with a .shriveled, panting calf at her with the windmill—the old well"" side, she wanted desperately to ex "But that's what we have been us- plain to these poor creatures that she ing," cried Rttth "that's the one that could not help, that she was not to is going dry!" blame. "What!" ejaculated Will. "Aren't. When the last of the water was you using the upper, well at allr. gone in thesouth pasture, Ruth felt "upper well—what tipper well?"' that she would gladly give every an- asked Ruth in a dazed voice, imal on the place to any ane who "Well, I'll be—" Old Charley look- could take them to, green fields and ed at his son, �it," runningwater, Feeling as she did, He never went on:With said the blow which fell on the following Will, softly. : mail day was robbed a little of its , Old .Charley nodded and turned to power to hurt. Ruth. "The. prospect Harry and Will She had written a letterto'Parkeg found last summer was in tippet r explaining the situation and thanking end of the north pasture - I guess hint for his previous offer to extend Harry didn't get around" to develop- t. And although Old, Charley ing it before --he left. But didn't any. would be bringing the Mail and would body tell you about It? slot be .going tato town "� " again until No Ruth's heart was beating g next week, the girl rola to the bolt. wildly. "1 never heard about any oth- were two letters addressed to her. The one with the earliest postmark was from Parker who explained that for business reasons he had been ob- liged to take a loan on the note. It was now in the hands of J. H. With- er'spoon, Inc., a broker. The second letter was from the broker. After reading it the girl stared at the cloud- less skyline, then rode home. Her lips were set and her face shone yel- low under the tan, , . "Consequently the cattle situation 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." k * * "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, j l‘''i If no rain came within a week the cattle would begin dying by the doz- ens. then slowly climbed out of the car, Will followed. "I've seen some pret- ty bad times mended," remarked tae old man. "Things most always seem worse than they are. But phsaw— 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 er water," "Harrybought the pipe," said Will, "Remember, Dad? We passed a load of it on the way to town last fall." "There's a big pile of pipe behind the barn,,, said Rath. "Tell me quick! Isthere 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 nun on into town and send this telegram -=I'll be staying over a few days." He 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 sp.olce "Mr. Thane has told me of a place in the north pasture where there is in- dication of water—he and my broth- er found it last summer." She paused. "Why didn't you tell sue 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 waterdon't you think it would be wise to try to get it?" "If you can -you won't find nothin' though. Maybe a little rock.. basin full of rain water under the sand." "There had been no rains for sev- eral months when we located the pro- spect last summer," said Will; "the sand was wet and we dug far enough to see that water was running into it from that big dike. That dike is ' a natural underground dam—" "All right, all right—go ahead and dig -all you're, a mind to if you've got such an all -fired interest in the Dead Lantern, Mr. Thane." Will make no reply and Ruth thanked him with her eyes. To Snav- ely she said, as she started her horse, "Please have two mien follow us with picks and shovels." It was not long before Will guided her into a small arroyo, one of the hundreds which led down from the mountains. (Continued Next Week) 't THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON .mmempoomorwa e s opommoik.. October. 29th, 1933 WORLD'S -TEMPERANCE SUN- DAY —s Rom. 18: 12-14; 14: 7-9, 15-21 Golden Text.—Love worketh no ill to his neighbor; love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.—Rom. 13: 10. THE' LESSON IN ITS SETTING. Time.—Paul's letter to the Romans was written A.D. 57. Place.—It was written in Corinth. The night is far spent, and the day is at hand. Paul means - by night, ig- norance of God; and all who are kept in it wander, and sleep as in the night. Let us therefore' cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Intemperance means blundering and stumbling al- ong, as a man walks in the night ov- er a difficult country. Lot us walk becomingly, ee in the day. Nothing is uglier, more uneontlz' than drunkenness. Not in chambering and wantonness,,`Stronk drink is;clos- ely allied to licentiousness. Not ;in strife and jealousy, Drunkenness leads also to quarrels. But put ye on the Lord' Jesus Christ. Since union with Christ en- ables us to do God's work even in face of .enemies, to ,put on Christ is (verse 12) to put on the weapons of light; compare I. Pet. 4:1. And make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof, Total abstinence is the only cure for the drink evil. 'Make. no provision. For none of us,liveth to himself, and none dieth to hizxiself. He talces no thought for his weaker brother, to who strong drink is ruin, but only for himself. Whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. But we are his his in •life, as we hope to be his in death. This principle alone would settle the drink question. For to this end Christ died and liv- ed again, that he might be ,the Lord of both the dead and Ithe living. Our religion requires us to be pure, to cast out of our lives every 'contamin- ation, and certainly it does not allow us to give ourselves over to the con- trol of intoxication. For if because of meat thy broth- er is grieved, thou walkest no longer ini love. We must translate this and what -follows from the problem of Paul's day to the problem of our time. For the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteous- ness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. This is not the essence of the gospel, this freedom to eat and to drink: the kingdom of God is some- thing higher than this. For he that here in (that is, in righteousness, peace, joy in the Holy Spirit) serveth Christ is well -pleasing to God, and approved of men. Men can approve of the conduct of Chris- tians, even while they hate it for the reproof it conveys. It is good not to eat flesh, rior to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth. For Christ also -pleased not himself. Self - pleasing is the aim of those who prate about their "personal .liberty." If our Saviour had had the same aim, he would have remained in the glory and delights of heaven. 1933 POTATO HARVEST The preliminary estimate of the total yield of potatoes in Canada in 1933 is 40,260,000 cwt. from 520,800 acres, or 77.0 cwt. per acre, as com- pared with 39,416,00� cwt. from 521,- 500 acres, or 76 ,cwt. per acre, in 1932, and 47,425,800 cwt. from 574,078 ac- res, or 83 cwt. per acre, the average for the five years 1927-31. By prov- inces the yields in cwt. per acre are, in order, as follows, with last year's figures within brackets: New Bungs - wick 120 (80); Quebec 101 (87); Bri- tish 'Columbia 100 (119); Prince Ed- ward Island 95 (85); Nova Scotia 85 (103); Manitoba 58 (59); Alberta 55 (68); Saskatchewan 53 (67); Ontario 52 (61). The yield per acre and total pro- duction of potatoes in 1933 are -slight- ly. above the lowfigures of the 1932 season. Although the summer months adobe!' 26 1033 Huron c Erie Debentures are a legal in v e s t ra e a t for executors and. trustees.. Safe for estates funds. Safe for the hard earned savings„ of individuals, 5z is paid upon $10.0 and over for 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 years. Applications are accepted ted by l?PaP •, AbnerCn o e s s INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE Wingham Ontario Interest Rates Are Falling. Other—Companies Are Only Paying 4i%. Act: Nowt were generally characterized by the drought, timely rains fell in August and September, and the late -sown crops, such as potatoes, did not stiffer the great reduction in yield shown by the, grain crops. High yields were secured in Prince Edward Island,, N. Brunswick and Quebec, while the crops were light in Nova Scotia, On- tario and the Prairie Provinces, The Ontario yield per acre is the lowest since 1916 and the yieldsin the Prairie Provinces are all below those of last year. In British Columbia, the season was not as favourable as in 1932. 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To, be sure you get ASPIRIN'S quick relief, be, sure the name Bayer in the form of cross is on every tablet of Aspirin, ASPIRIN TRADE MARK RM DOES NOT HARM THE HEART Co-operation Eases Situation Llfow`the Canadian Pacific Rail- way Company as a large property' oWner allowed' its tenants to catch up on their, arrears of rent and also 'earn Seine snitch needed caslz.is told by' X. T'. Hendry, Toronto, real estate agent there for the Company. "The Canadian Pacific", said Mr, Hendry, 9s owiner of efghty. six dwelling hooses ort Marlbo,. rough Avenue parallelling the tracks near North' 'Toronto sta- tion. Many of tenants were in arrears on their 'tents despite' II awl. 4a I t4::,:41b every ,., t on their part to mr. 1:Yoet. The majority, too, ^ rants of long stand;. tits. I a mutual "get-toget- her aided that theulrtom- t5it •a - would paint all the ei;-.. _ } ,ises under the su- pc one of their own ti; foreman. The Conn - r ._ed all the material, in - e igen under the Work- .cuapensation Act and the. :.as started" The results ...bt gratltying for all eon- corned. The Unemployed tenants have soon their arrears of rent gradually erased from the ledger, and the property has been made:. spick and: span ata reasonable cost because there was no idling on the ob and everyone worked their hardest. In fact the sehente went alongsmoothly so that it was decided thatall t a� the labour. would not be credited en the rent . ledger but •that. 'eaeh nzan Wotild draw a percentage in cash tohelp,* steep his family and himse3it going,