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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1933-11-16, Page 6Wellington Mutual Fire Insurance Co. Established 1840. Risks taken on all class of insur lite at reasonable rates, Head Office, Guelph, Ont. ,;N►B�ER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office—Meyer Block; Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes R. S. HETHERINGTON BARRISTER And SOLICITOR Office: Morton Block. Telephone No. 66. • J. H. CRAW FORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone ""'gingham - Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over 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. THE WIN HAM A7VANCE-TIMES. 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 ort, 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'sweakened 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 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 liis livestock on credit. Snavely tries to balk the deal but Ruth :buys to the limit of her three-quarter interest in the Dead Lantern. She is assisted by Old Charley Thane and his son, Will Thane. A Mexican family has been hired to' assist with the work. ` A pe- culiar sickness develops with the livestock. Snavely calls it "liver lev- er" . . and. says he has a powder for the water to cure the disease. Ruth's whole future is at stake on the development of the herd to meet her notes following the first round- up. 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 Chunk. 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. J. ALVIN FOX Licensed Drugless Practitioner CHIROPRACTIC - DRUGLESS THERAPY - RADIONIC EQUIPMMENT Hours by Appointment. Phone 191. Wingham. you been doing here the last month.? break away. Every ten seconds, it Sleeping most of the day, I reckon. seemed to Ruth, some animal on her I never saw you so fat an' glossy." side of the herd would bolt. She had * * * abandoned old Brisket for such ac- Ruth slowly awoke and saw that tive riding in favor of Boots, a it was still dark. She wondered idly springy young horse with analert why Ann was moving about in the and a thorough knowledge of the later nwas luxurionel. cow business. He enjoyed running kitchen so at , and Y slipping back to sleep when she heard after the animals that broke from the the thump of boots, as Snavely came from his room and walkedacross the house to the kitchen, Suddenly Ruth herd—Ruth rather suspected liim of egging them on. Such riding is exhilarating 'sport knew that it was g long- —the lop - for half an hour—rather like the fast - awaited morning when the round -'up est moments of a fast polo game, but was to begin. As she rose and strug- in three hours it can be wearing. gled into her riding clothes, g l hes the great When all the calves had been weight of anxiety which had lifted branded the herd was driven to the during her sleep settled back upon holding pasture, a small enclosure of her. The round-up—would': there be one thousand acres. As the cattle enough cattle? passed through the gate the counting In the two months since she had began; one main counted calves; an accidentally placed poison in the `other, yearlings; another, : grown spring troughs no :newharm had steers, and a fourth, cows. come to the cattle—but,' were they i The count was over •and the riders enough to meether note? Her de- ,were returning to the home ranch sire i to find the answer to this ques- ,when . Ruth rode up beside Snavely. tion increased with each day, but she "Well, how does it look?" could riot estimate the number of sal- '— able anirnals scattered • over the ranch; she could not give an intelli- gent guess about weights and quality and price. She only knew that she had lost more than a tenth of the value of her note. Then, too, if her deal with Parker was to do the ranch any good, only'. the poorest of the cattle, could be sold—only the steers and the `' old cows. The rest of the stock and the +. fine bulls must remain for the im- provement of the ranch. Ruth could not see much advantage in selling all the cattle to keep the man . Wither- spoon from foreclosing on the note. what good was there in three-quart- ers' interest in a cattle ranch with no cattle—or, in a ranchwhich only brought in fifteen hundred dollars a year, She left David sleeping and went into the dining room. She and Snave- ly breakfasted silently by lamplight, ..�_ then went tothe corrals. The round -up has been good. T 'think It was just light enough at the cor- we .will have a celebration. rats to distinguish one horse from an- other. The six Mexican cowboys were waiting by the gate, each with a cig- "How arette in his mouth and a rope or Snavely. bridle over his arm. Snavely indicat- "1 mean—do you think we're going ed to each of the men the horse he to have enough? Weren't there a was to ride for the day. The Mexi- good many calves and young steers can entered the corral, caughthis in that bunch?" mount, and led it to the saddle shed. "Can't tell nothin' yet," said Snave- Ruth, Snavely and the Mexicans ly gruffly. "I don't know if you're' rode into the north pasture. About ' goin' to have enough or not. As a three miles from the ranch house guess I'd say you ain't." Snavely gave each man his orders,! "i have it all figured out just how then rode away to the west. To Ruth many we—" he had said "nothing, nor could she l "You figgered, I reckon, that a understand inttch of what Snavely quarter of the sale don't apply on had told the Mexicans. She stayed that fool note, didn't you?" where she was,' on a hilltop... ,The ! Ruth drew herself straight in the men, she supposed, would ride west saddle. "Certainly, Mr. Snavely!" and distribute themselves along the I She reined in her horse analct - line fence as it wound through the ped back_ bei:a`bett"Alfredo and old mountains. They would then all start ]e,h"Francisco. The Mexicans pulled eastward ' driving the catttla'ea iefare their horses aside to make room and them: „w% "- - with many smiles and chuckles began waited two hours on that hill- talking to her. They loved to hear top before she saw the first cattle her broken Spanish. 13y the time the coming. Two miles to the north an company . reached thesaddle shed,. ant -like string moved over a ridge Ruth had learned that Don Francisco and disappeared into a ravine. A mo- considered the cattle large and fat, meat later, and much nearer, she saw and the calves plentiful. ; He also suc- a small bunch of animals emerge ceeded in conveying to her the results from the underbrush followed by a - of the count. man on horseback—Snavely, she That evening Ruth studied these thought. 13y the time the first two figures in connection with others she bunches were opposite her, three had gathered in her conversation with more were in sight and she turned Old Charley and her studies of the her own horse eastward. Slie soon cattle raisers' magazine: ' ]3ut she went came upon three cows, each with a to sleep, as undecided as ever. The calf, and drove thein before her. Just round -up would , take four days and where she was driving them she had if on each of these days the cnunf no very clear idea, but she could see ,if as high as on the first, and if on that the other riders were converging one of thosedays about one hundred toward .a common point and govern- extra animals should appear, Ruth ed herself accordingly. This point knew that she could meet her note: proved to be a level piece of ground Provided, of course, that Old Char about half a mile from the eastern ley had guessed shrewdly about the end of the pasture. !prices the cattle buyers would be The nine, small streams of cattle paying... . merged, flowed on, and were thrown ( Ruth never knew how she got into an eddying pool by the circling through the fourth and last day of riders. Two of the men left at once, 'the round -up. Twice, after the cattle loping to a ravine where mesquite had been gathered and the branding wasly lentiful.; When they returned begun, she left the herd and rode in - dragging firewood at the end oftheir to the foothills. But neither time did riatas, the cattlewere in a close -pack she see a single overlooked cow or cd bunch, and the remaining riders . calk. She stood biting her lower lip .,at their- horses a s; t intervals around and pulling at her saddle strings as the circle. Snavely, Alfredo, Don the counting began. There 'simply Francisco and one of the extra 'Mex- `must be more than' one: hundred and icans dismounted, kicked off their'twenty head, she kept telling herself chaps, and building a fire, laid on the 1 ---there just had to bet branding irons; :Roth and three Mex- I As the last of her cattle passed icans keeping the herd together,, through the gate, the counters drew. meanwhile. ltogether and Ruth rode up. She his- When the irons were hot Snavely teried as each than gave his count to motioned to thegrizzled old Juan, Snavely and wrote the figures hi her i i' ethe herd. and ,notebook with trembling fingers; 60, It left Ruth's s szd oft who added the "col- shead 'e actvaiicecl into the center~ of the mill- 23, 15, 44! TwXc ing cattle,: elvitiging his riata, uinn before she was sure that the to - Ruth had her hands full. With otily tai was 151. Then with• a slap she three riders to keep the cattle in 'whirled her horse and galloped to - place many of the cattle decided to 'ward the 'ranch hoose. Her cheeks THOMAS FELLS AUCTIONEER REAL ESTATE SOLD A thorough knowledge of Farm Stock Phone 231, Wingham. It Will Pay Your, c Have An EXPE1 "'''-AUCTIONEER co 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- rangements made with W. J. Brown, Wingham; or direct to Teeswater. Phone 45r2-2, THOMAS E. SMALL LICENSED AUCTION'I✓ER 0 Years' Experience in Farris 'Stock and Implements. Moderate Prices. 'Phone 331. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY "Olt, I'm so sorry," whined the voice, "but I jest can't open it." "Well, why can't you open it—yer arm broke?" "I'm taking a bath," said the voice sweetly.- This weetly.This was too much. Old. Charley planted the sole of his boot against the door with all the force in his body. The door flew inward and Will Thane stepped to the threshold. "Come right in, Dad—I knew you'd call some day." Charleysat down slowly on the Old box, utterly heedless of the wash- basin. After a time he murmured mournfully, "If you was only t en t hal . an f again, for about years of a d g hour! ..." Later, after he had eaten Wtll'sss,!!p- A. J. Walker FURNITURE and SERVICE lM t:rl'�TERAL SE Wingharn,Ont. btt1ance ; ervite She waited two hours on that hill top before she saw the first cattle com- ing. per, the old man was somewhat mol- lified. "Will, you ornery pup, clanged if this ain't the happiest day I've seen. And you've already been here a month. You son-of-a-gun---provin' up on your homestead. And you're all through with real estate? Plumb l th rottgh ?" "Plumb through,' Dad. Turned ev- erything I had into cash a month ago. Cashll come in handy w XeXwe buy that section :south of tis here acid pick tip some more stock," Old Charley nodded happily. "T al- ways knew you'd be coating back sone; of these days. But what have were wet and she sang a throaty chant to the pounding hoofs: "I've won! I've won! I've won!" That evening after supper while and Ann were making the chickens secure against skunks and coyotes,. Ruth put on a gown she had not worn for more than a year, and did her hair three times. When David came in he asked "Why are you dressed up to beauti- ful, Mama?" "Oh, just because." Ruth did not quite know, herself; but she was con- vinced that it was the thing to do. "I think we ought to celebrate once in a ;while, don't you, David?" "Like a party?" "Rather, yes." "Mama! Let's go down to the barn —they've got ;a nice fire there and Alfredo's playing music. Shall we? Conte on!" Ruth grasped the boy's arm and led him .guiltily out of the house byway of the back porch. Snavely was in the sitting room. The Mexicans sat around their fire, talking, laughing and singing, as the mood and the ever -active strings of Alfredo's guitar persuaded thein. When they saw Ruth, wonder shone from•their faces,: then admiration and pleasure. They all sprang to their feet, but Don.' Francisco was first. Ruth smiled, went to the fire and spread her hands. "It is cold," she: said in matter-of-fact Spanish. Im- mediately Francisco bowed her wel- come and „hurried to the barn for one of his rawhide' chairs. But when he returned Ruth had. seated .herself on the ground next to -Magda. She was not going to be the only one of the group who sat on a chair, gown or no gown: Gradually, it became •apparent to the Mexicans that the Senora Ruth and her son had merely come to the fire for warmth and company. De- lightedly, they assured each other of this by smiles and nods. Little Mag da sat closer. to Ruth, and made her own importance felt among her com- panions by speaking exclusively in English, thereafter. Suddenly Ruth had an inspiration, and with many pauses and appeals to Magda for the right word she made a speech: "My friends. We have work- ed and gathered many cattle. The round -up has been good. I think we will have a celebration—una fiesta grande. Some of you have friends in Palo Verde—bring them and the mo- thers and children. On Saturday we will cook a 'cow." (Continued Next Week) does what look?" replied Thursday, founded ort human self-sufficiency, in- culcated sterna self -repression, the solidarity of the race, and the unity of Deity." Certain philosophers of these two schools became interested in Paul's teaching.They paid him the excep- tional conhplhnent of inviting him to address them on the Areopagus ,or. Mars' Hill, a famous' open-air forum on the west side of the acropolis of Athens. There were several altars on the southeastern end, and the seats of the judges who met thereto pass sentence can 'still be seen, hewn in the rock. Doubtless some of the greatest philosophers of the Greek and Roman world had spoken here, and now Paul is invited to "present, his "new doc- trine," as the Athenians called it. We read that "all the Athenians and stran- gers which were there spent their time in othing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing." So "Modernism" was popular nineteen centuries ago. But those who, in the name of "some new thing," turn away from God's revealed truth, were de- scribed later. by Paul as "ever learn- ing, and never able to come to the knowledge of, the truth." (2 Tim. 4: 7). Paul did something, in responding to this very complimentary invitation. thaii he had never done before, and, apparently, never did again. He made a.very "intellectual" and philosophical address. He was exceedingly careful to say nothing derogatoryto the false religions of ,those to whom he was speaking. —... THE SUNDAY . SCHOOL LESSON iPAUL IN ATHENS Sunday, Nov. 19.—Acts 17:22-34. Golden Text In Hiin we live, and move, and have our being. (Acts 17:28:) ' -Paul made one or two serious mis- takes in his ministry, and the New Testament records these mistakes for us by divine inspiration, as the Bible always tells the truthabout even its 'greatest heroes, and never "white- washes" them. Athens was the scene of one of: these mistakes. After the memorable experience of persecution, imprisonment, earthquake and revival at Philippi, Paul and his party travelled southwest in Macedon- ia to Thessalonica, where many-be- lieved any-be-lieved the Gospel; then unbelieving and envious Jews stirred up persecu- tion again by false accusations, and. Paul and Silas . were sent away •by night by their Christian brethren, to protect their lives. Moving still further west they came to Berea, and the Berea/As, "received the word with all readiness of mind,. and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things (that were prea- :ped) were so:" What blessings would he poured out on lives today If only people generally followed the exam- ple of the Ilereans. Many turned to Christ; then the Thessalonican Jews, learning of this, came to Berea and started fresh op- position to the missionaries, so that the work had to stop there: And so Paul came to Athens, the famous centre of the culture of the world. We know something of the marvellotts beauties of its art and lit- erature, bttt Paul was not captivated by these; instead,"his spirit was stir- red in him, : when lie saw the city wholly given to idolatry. Art and. literattirc, no matter how perfect, do not bring men into fellowship with God or give life; to the spiritually dead He took every opportunity of ex- pressing his convictions as he "rees- oncd .. in the synagogue with the Jews, and with tile devout persons; and, in - the market daily with them that net with him." And now Athens paid the Christiae. missionary a high compliment. The intellectual_ world of that day was d i- vided between thephilosophyof Epi- curus ,who disciples, the Epicureans, sought "true pleasure through experi- ence"; and that of the Stoles, the dis- • ciples. of Zeno, wlto "philosophy was Nov; 1.4t1, r9"t "Ye !nen of Athens," he began, "I perceive that in all things ye are very religious" (Revised. Version). As he beheld their "devotions" he continued he found an altar with the .inscription "To the Unknown God." And whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto• you." This was strange talk from a man with Patil's clear and divinely reveal- ed .knowledge e of the difference be- tween truth and falsehood, true wor- ship and false worship. Strange in- deed were these words from the lips of one who wrote by inspiration: "the' things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would .nof that ye should .have fellowship with devils" (1 Cor. 10:20). But Paul's complimentary and phil- osophical address continued, . as he struck hands with these false .• worship- pers, who had put God out of their. lives so completely that, as Patil wrote later to the Romans "professing them- selves to be wise, they became fools" (Rom. 1:22). 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But, he,said not a word about Christ's: death ass the Saviour of men, or about salvation by, faith in Christ, but .only that the day was, coming when Christ should judge the world, and that the evidence of this• was the fact that God' lied raised Elm from the dead. The highly philosophical address,. containing no Gospel, made slight im- pression in Athens. Wlien the'resur- rection of the dead was mentioned,. "some mocked," and others said they - would hear Pant again. A very few - "believed." That. Paul came to see his mistake,, and to be genuinely distressed ' be- cause of it, is -plainly seen in his .z t Epistle to the Corinthians. He. from Athens directly to Corinth; _arid; he w>rites to the Church at Corinth. that was then founded: "And I, bre- thren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or' of wis- dom, declaring unto you the testi- mony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and' my : preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom,' but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God" (1 Cor. 2:1-5). "Do you understand the nature of an oath?" "Do I? Ain't I your caddie, your worship?" "Hello, Jackson, old man, how are you?" "My -name isn't Jackson, it's John- son." "Same thing! I was just being at little familiar, that's all." ,�, A Speakei1 ho Gets Action! His stage is this newspaper. His audience its 2000 readers. His name "Classified Ad Column". What i$. it you want to sell? ,Car, home, va- cant ro ert househould goods, live stock? Ad- vertise d-vettise through him and you'll find a BUYER! LOW RATES — 11/%c PER WORD. MINIMUM CHARGE OF 25 CENTS. Glad to help you prepare your ad. Drop itRor Telephone Telephone 34 The Advance -Times: