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Walker FURNITURE and FUNERAL SERVICE THE WIN TRAM ADVANCE -TIM S. 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 business in Mexico. With her ailing husband and stnalt' 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, 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'shusband, 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 "You see," explained Will, "the rain that falls between the top of the mountain range and the dike sinks into the ground and goes down, to bedrock. But it can't get past the. dike and is .impounded under the sur- face. Where the wall crosses this ar- royo is the lowest point, and it's there' we found wet sand last year." They came up to the dike. Fifty feet above the arroyo it rose, form- ing a waterfall during rains, and be- low was a great sandy hole. The bot- tom of this hole was damp, Ruth could hardly conceal her dis- appointment—she is-appointment she had pictured- a plea- sant little pool, and the bottom of the sandy hole looked as though some one had spilled half a pail of water there, twenty minutes before. But Will was boyishly enthusiastic. "There she is! Believe me, when you find a damp place in this weather, there's some- thing doing." When Alfredo and Don Francisco came with the shovels, Will directed them in excellent Spanish to dig from the damp spot toward the wall. In less than a half hour there was real Alfredo always picked up his gui- tar and stood near the door, his eye on the resno outside. water at the bottom of the trench. She and Will returned to the barn for a rock drill and a sledge—the plan was to drill through the dike into the water beyond. Will and Alfredo took turns at swinging the sledge, while Don Fran, - cisco held the drill, giving it a quar- ter turn at each stroke, The drill sank in steadily; at every blow a lit- tle more water trickled abound the inch -thick bar of steel. Snavely, Ann and the Mexican woman carne to Took. Pohl' touts after they had begun, the sound of sledge on, drill began to change` subtly"It's coming We're almost, tin -ought" Will's voice was tense withexcitement as he swung the sledge, A few more strokes, : and the drill shot in six inches at one blow. No one made a sound. Will drop- ped the sledge. Every eye was on Don Francisco. With both hands he worked the drill up and down to loos- en it. Slowly he . pulled it out and as it came, water spurted around it in ever increasing volume. The drill was out and a muddy spout of water hit the sand three feet away from the wall. Every one, from David to old Don Francisco, made some kind of noise. Ruth hugged the first person at hand, until she discovered it wa's Snavely. And even Snavely shook hands all around—real. running water was too much for the old cattleman, No one slept that night. They kept the fire going for its light and sat around watching the spout of water. Every now and then, some one took a drink, and although the water was still quite mudy, declared that it was probably the purest water in Arizona. With the` proper troughs it would water every head of stock the Dead Lantern could ever carry and, inci- dentally, although Ruth did not sus- pect it, the value of the ranch had in- creased by some thousands of dollars since that last blow from Will's sledge. By daylight a temporary dam had been thrown across the arroyo for the use of the cattle until the water could be piped to a permanent pond. Jep Snavely bad actually helped to build this dam. But when the cattle had been driven up the arroyo and every one was going back to the ranch house for breakfast, Ruth sensed that Snavely was rapidly returning to nor- mal. After the midday meal Ruth and David accompanied Will to the mail box to meet Old Charley. Before they left, however, Will had to take a last look at the water. Not a single cow was at the pond; they had all bad their water and now were scattered over the pasture. On the way to the mail box the three friends talked incessantly. Dav- id rode with Will. Tt was when Old Charley's car ap- peared far down the highway that he said, "I'm planning a little joke on Dad. He is always kidding me about leaving the ranch for the city — I know that he hopes some day I'll re- turn. home for good and hep him to raise cattle. There's a piece of home- stead property which joins our place on the east and yours on the south— he's always hinting that I ought to take it up before any one else does. He watches that section like a hawk. Well, here's the point. I'm not say - ink anything to Dad, but this trip I'm going to pull stakes at Los Angeles and come hone for good. - I expect to get back about a month before the round -up and I'm not going to say a word to dad but just sneak out to that homestead and put up a shack and live there. It'll be a kick when he discovers somebody squatting on that choice section of his." The girl laughed. "Be careful he doesn't take a shot at you before he discovers who it is.". Old Charley honked the horn as he sighted the three by the mail box. Ruth turned to Will. "It seems aw- fully inadequate to say `thank you"— I—" "Good Lord! `I've had the time of my life!" Ruth looked at his feet. • "I shall remember that the Dead Lantern owes yott a pair of shoes, not to men- tion trousers why didn't I think to lend you some overalls." He laughed, as Old Charley turned +from the road. "All right, Ruth, but I'll be needing boots instead of shoes the next time you see the. Within a week after the develop- ment of the water the summer rains had begun, Almost' every afternoon brought a brief shower; great, cold, pelting drops making, the desert spar- kle, redolent with the .perfume of greasewood. Usually, after these showers, the sun shone for a time before it slipped behind the moult- tains—as though to remind the desert that it still was master. There had been two severe storms which turn- ed the arroyos and gullies into an- gry little rivers. All the deepened ponds were full to overflowing and water lay le small natural pools in many of the deeper canons. The cattle were everywhere --there was so much water that they could go where' the feed was choicest and they made good • use of the opportunity. The remains of the cottonseed meal was stored iii the barn and the band of bottle-fed calves was scattered. Ale ready, every Wirral oar the place seemed two-thirds "fats The Mexicans worked on their house -Ruth knew that they were happy: and would stay indefinitely. Every evening for an hour after sup- per she and the girl Magda had les- sons in Spanish and English, When the hour was up Ruth went back to the ranch .house, for, as the end of the lesson approached, Alfredo always picked up his guitar and .'stood near the door, his eye onthe fresno out- side. Snavely seemed to have "changed. subtly since the discovery of the -wa ter. Ruth sensed that he had begun to regard her in 'a different way; it was as if she had proved that she was not to be frightened, she could no longer be treated as a child. She had shown him that she knew something about ranching; and, since the drouth was safetly past, that she stood a chance of meeting her note. But the girl knew that Snavely was far from becoming reconciled to her presence on the ranch; he hated her and he hated the Mexicans. Another thing about this strange man had come to her notice; he seen to be looking at the old well -when- ever he was near the ranch house. As she approached, half a dozen great buzzards flapped into the air on reluctant wings. Ruth had never seen him go there since he had built the board fence. around it; but manytimes she had watched him corning up the path from the barn with his narrowed eyes on the clump of bushes by the woodpile. Ther,e was much riding to do, as there always is after the summer rains. Ruth was so busy that she still had five books to read of the half dozen Will had sent her. Each morn- ina she rode out 'with Don Francisco and Alfredo, often accompanied by David. Every fifth day she carried the slip of paper with numbers from 'one to twenty-two and rode until. she bad checked all of the bulls. The white numbers on their sides were still glaringly conspicuous—sometimes she could check six or seven animals all within a mile as she looked carefully from a hilltop. She still considered her system of sparking very fine. The summer rains, having been un- usually generous, had gradually ceas- ed except for an occasional thunder- storm which hurred over the San Jorge Valley. On the Dead Lantern the natural surface water in ravine and canon was fast disappearing and the cattle were drifting to the neigh- borhood of the ponds,` Late one 'afternoon Ruth and Al- fredo were returning from the south pasture driving a poor -grade heifer. The heiferwas to be butchered and. it is axiomatic among cattle owners that only the off-color, the dish -faced; the knock-kneed, and the sway -back- ed shall be served at the ' family board. When they were crossing the last deep ravine before reaching the ranch house, Ruth rode toward the moun- tains, leaving Alfredo to bring in the heifer alone. There had been water in a pool farther tip the ravine the week before and Itatth wished to look at the cattle 'which would remain in the vicinity as long as the water last - d. She met few cattle in the ravine and upon arriving at the pool found ere" insisted that only by keeping the it empty. As sh'e rode out of the ra- law of Moses cotiltl then be saved. vine along the side of an entering 'gully and nearer the •upper level, her eye caught a white object hidden am- ong the undergrowth in the gully. bottom farther ahead. Presently she saw that the object was a numeral six painted upon the red -brown side Of _ a bull. The animal appeared to be lying stretchedout, and ,even though she could see little distinctly through Thursday, November Z, ,1933 the clumps of catclaw and ocatillo, Ruth felt with a giuck tightening at her throat that the bull's position was unnatural. Dismounting,: she "half walked, half slid, to the bottom of the gully and picked her way toward the bull. As she approached, half a dozen great buzzards flapped into the air on reluctant' wings. The next morning she and the two Mexicans returned to discover if pos- sible why Number Six had died. Don Francisco and Alfredo held a long consultation together but could comae to no definite conclusion—some sick- ness such'. as comes to the strongest of things. ' As the three ,companions: rode on, the black buzzards slowly circled into the gully. Suddenly Alfredo pointed south- ward. A group of buzzards were wheeling low above an oak tree which rose from the entrance of a gully in the opposite bank of the ravine. By noon, five more dead anirnals had been found within :a radius of a mile. Ruth, half sick with anxiety, rode back to the ranch' house for Snavely who had remained at the corrals shoeing horses. The old cattleman listened to what she had to say, then shrugged. "You're liable to find a dead cow or two most any time—too bad about the bull, but they'll die just the same as anything else." "Bart we've found six altogether— all recently dead! Snavely grew more` attentive. "Six -five besides the bull?" "Yes." "Well, now, that don't look so' good. Here, I'll just saddle` up an' have a look." He shook his head after he had studied the carcass of Number Six. The • buzzards had eaten very little, but they did not. 'go f ar , away. "I don't k'nbw just what to make of it— maybe if we could find a fresher one. Still, it ain't black leg, anybody could tell that. Don't look like he'd been hurt "in no fight, neither." "Mr. Snavely," said Ruth as . they rode toward the oak tree where sev- eral buzzards stood or walked about, "you will have to be going into 'tov'tr for supplies soon anyway—why not go tomorrow and send out a doctor — a veterinary?" (Continued Next Weelz.) THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, LESSON PAUL IN JERUSALEM. Sunday, Nov. 5. Acts 15:1-2, 22-31. Golden Text: Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. -2 Cor. 3:17. Man will not give up the idea that, he can save himself. People who have no religion at all, and people who pride themselves on being very relig- ious, hold the same idea—that their good works will save:them. But this is not the Gospel. Paul, I3arnabas, - Peter and other early Christian leaders had come to a crisis in, the life of the church and the history, of Christianity. They had been preaching the Gospel, that "God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth, in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." And they had been preaching this, not only to their brethren the Jews, but also to Gentiles. For God loved not only the Jews, but all of them: "God so loved the world." Peter had hada remarkable exper- ience in a vision from God which had taught him that he was to declare freely to the Gentiles, as well as to the Jews, salvation by faith alone in Jesus Christ. As he obeyed this hea- venly vision," a prominent Roman centurion, Cornelius, with his •whole household,was saved, and "the, holy, Ghost fell on all them which heard •. the word" (Acts 10:44). Paul and Barnabas had been having thesame experience, seeing many: Gentiles as well as Jews saved, by simple faith in. Christ as the One 'who had died for their sins and been raised again from the dead. And now come thosewho would in- terfere with the great work of evan- gelism in thename of Christ alone. As Paul and Barnabas returned to Antioch and called the church toge- ther, and "rehearsecl all that God had done with them, and how He had op- ened the door of faith unto the .:Ge'n- tiles," a serious interruption cal e. "Certain men which came down from Judea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circtunsized after" the manner of Moses, ye cannot be sav- ed." In other words, these "Judaiz- It started a serious discussion in the church at Antioch, Then the lead- er's wisely decided that Patti and 13ar.- riabas and a few others had better go to headquarters at Jerusalem and confer with the apostles there. They did so, and thus was held the mo- mentous and bigoted Council of ler- tisalern, The, reeord of this, in our lesson, has been called, "dispensation - ally... the most important passage in tlw New Testament," That is, it throws divine light on God's plan and purpose for this. present dispensation. or age of grace in which we live. Peter, Paul and Barnabas gave their testimony before the Council of brethren at Jerusalem, and told thrill- ing stories of how God had been sav- ing both Gentiles and Jews, not be- cause they' kept the Old Testament law of Moses, but because they .be- lieved that Jesus Christ had died for their sins and been raised again. Peter, as a Jew, said boldly that it was wrong "to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear." "Bit we believe," he contin ued, "that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they." Finally, the Council of Christians saw clearly, through the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit, that neither Gentiles noe Jews were any longer "under the law" as in the old dispensation, but under grace. Janes, the human brother of the Lord Jesus and the recognized head of the church at Jerusalem in the apostolic age, made the pronouncement. He called the attention to God's purpose to "visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for His Name." This had been declared by Peter. He then quoted a prophecy in Amos 9: 11-12, in which God had de- clared His purpose for the time of the return or second coming .of Christ: "After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of Da- vid, which is fallen down." This res- toration of the temple and the Holy City, Jerusalem, would be "that the residue of men (Jews) might seek af- ter the Lord, and all the Gentiles." That is, there would be at that time such a world-wide turning of both Jews and Gentiles to. Christ as the. world has never yet. known. That this utterance was not an op- inion of men, not even of the Christ- ians of the Council at Jerusalem, but God's divine and revealed will, is seen by the'inspired statement which con- cludes the utterance: ". . saith the Lord, who doeth all these things. Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world." The • divinely given verdict or de-, cision of the Council was that Gen- tiles should not be "troubled" by the mistaken teaching that they must keep the law in order to be saved. As, a well-known commentator has said, the decision might be otherwise stat: ed in the terms of Romans 6:14: "Ye are not under the law, but under grace." But "Gentile believers were to show grace by abstaining from practices offensive to godly Jews," such as eating meat that had been offered to idols. The low state of morals in the civilized world of the first century, even in religious .circles, is intimated from the fact that this declaration included an exhortation Huron & Erie Debentures are' a legal i n v es •t nz:e n t for executors and trustees. Safe for estates funds. Safe for the hard earned savings, of individuals. 5z is paid upon $1001 and over for 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5' years. Applications are: accepted. blr, Cosens C ns INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE Wingham •- Ontario Interest Rates Are Falling. Other Companies Are Only Paying:, 4%Q. Act .Nowl against personal immorality;. A. letter was drawn up by the. Coun- cil to be carried by Paul and Barna- bas to the church at. Antioch,. cover- ing these points, and the text of the letter is given in the lesson, It is important to recognizeas we• study this epochal event: and. revela- tion. inchurch history that. being un- der grace, and not underthe:law, does - not mean freedom of sin. It means' that men cannot be saved by any- thing they do for God, but only by, what God does for them. The, per- fect law of God condemns all men for no man in his own strength care keep. it. Because this is so, God gave. His Son to die for mans sins in, breaking the ' law, and simply asks men to accept this great sacrifice in, theirbehalf and be. saved. 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