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The Wingham Advance Times, 1933-12-28, Page 611.711f437"7.1'117,,, ° GI SIX , " , -.17177:11.71:71,:77,,!:711.T777,77,7177.171,1,77.171117. E WINGRAM ADVANCE -TIMES ThursdaY, Dec. 28th 193$ iington MutualFiie Insurance Co. Established 1840. Rieke taken on all class of insur- „Oleo at reasonable rates. • Head Office, Guelph, Ont, ABNER COSENS, Agent, Wingham J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to Loan Office --Meyer Block, Witigharn Successor to Dudley Holmes R. S. HETHERINGTON .BARRISTER And SOLICITOR Office; Morton Block. Telephone No. 66. J. I -I. CRAWFORD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Successor to R. Vanstone Wingham Ontario DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office Over Isard's Store. DR. A. W. IRWIN DENTIST — X-RAY 'Office, McDonald Bioa, Wingham. DR. G. W. HOWSON DENTIST Office over J. M. McKay's Store. 14. 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 ILR.C.S. (ENG.) 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Brown, Wingham; or direct to Teeswater, Phone 45r2-2, SYNOPSIS Ruth Warren, born and raised in an Eastern city, is willed three -fourth interest! in the Dead Lantern ranch in Arizona. With her youthful hus- band, who is in poor health, and their small son, David, they come to Ar- izona to take up where Ruth's broth- er, reported killed in Mexico, had left off. They reach Dead Lantern, 85 miles from the nearest railroad, with the help of old Charley Thane, neigh- boring rancher who also carries the rural mail. At the ranch they find the partner, Snavely, and a huge woman, Indian Ann, who greet them suspic- iously. As they trudge the 5 miles from the ranch gate to the house they pass a huge rock in a gulch where a voice whispers. "Go back. Go back.” Ruth's husband caught in a rain shortly after their arrival contracts pneumonia and passed away before medical aid can be brought. Meth, penniless and without friends attemp- ts to carry on but is balked at almost every turn by the crafty and plotting Snavely. Despite obstacles of all kind Ruth gives notes on her ranch inter- est to purchase cattle. She is assisted by Old Charley Thane and his son, Will Thane. A Mexican family has been hired to assist with the work. A peculiar sickness developes with the live stock. Snavely calls it "liver fev- er" . . and says he has a powder for the water to cure the disease. Ruth discover's trickery in Snavely's tactics of poisoning her cattle, but says nothing, waiting for additional evidence. Drought is overcome by sinking a well in a ravine, getting water for the pershing stock. At the round -up Ruth has enough stock to sell to meet her notes, THOMAS E. SMALL LICENSED AUCTIONEER 20 Years' Experience in Farm Stoat• and Implements. Moderate Prices. Phone 881. the giantess' arms. "Let me go! Oh, God, don't let David be in thege--" "Now wait, Miss Ruth—wait—you d,oan'itnove he fell in, does you?" "No—no—but where else is he— where else—" Ruth was dizzy; she fought to keep her senses. "Ann—" Ann left her and ran into the house. Ruth climbed upon the bpx again, but she could not look down. The giantess lifted her from the box. "You stand down, 1,11 look with this—you couldn't see nothin' with no lantern on a rope." Ann held a mirror in her hands. She caught the light of the'sun and turned it into the well. Ruth saw her smile broadly. "There. I done tol' you he weren't down there!" Snatching the mirror from the ground where the giantess had drop- ped it, she climbed upon the box just as the lower limb of the sun, touched the western mountain range. The light from the mirror struck down- ward, wavered, and came to rest on the cloth hanging from a nail part way down the well. Ruth stared at the cloth as the light slowly faded away. Before it was entirely gone she knew what that cloth was, Once she had sent Harry, her brother, a pres- ent — a red silk handkerchief with an odd design of large white horseshoes, David Just then came trudging up from the gulch. He couldn't under- stand all the concern about his ab- sence. Ruth stepped from the box, took David by the hand and led him into her room. After locking the door, she took Wills' revolver from the trunk and sat down on the bed beside her son. The handkerchief . . . Harry always NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY wore it, Old Charley had said. If her brnther was alive ;how did it get half - 'Arm groaned and the joints of her way down the well on the Dead Lan - entwined finger; cracked but she tern ranch? If he were not, then, ac - shook her head. "I jest cain't go fer cording to the Mexican who had re- doin' nothin' gains' Mr. Snavely, You ported his death, the handkerchief Doan understa.n' how 'tis with me an' was buried two hundred miles below him." the Mexican line. The Mexican had Slowly the giantess walked actually mentioned the handkerchief. to Ruth's room. The girl followed. As Ruth sat on the bed, holding the "There here ready?" asked AA, small hand 'of her silent, wondering son, her mind raced: that first night pointing to two suitcases. Ruth nod- ded, and the big -woman left the room when'Snavely had thrown a'bundle in - with them. to the old well. He had not been ex - Dully, Ruth continued the papkinpecting any one to come on the ranch g. and had left things about which trust She would try 'again after Arm was . off the ranch and on the main road. be got rid of the bundle opened as it fell and the light silk handker- But Ruth felt certain that Ann would chief floated alone, and came to rest do exactly as Snavely had ordered. . on a nail in the timber, where it stay- . . . The voice then, was not his only ed. . . . Snavely's feverish desire that hold on Ann; there was a bigger thing. she should not ask questions about the well, that she should not go ;leer In a short time the packing was it • . . The well haunted him; wasn't finished and the buckboard loaded. he always looking toward it? Ruth looked about for David; he was not in sight, nor did he answer her call. She suddenly realized that she had not seen him since returning from the mail box, Ordinarily, She Would whcA plot, Sh knew as plainly as Grey, his partner. You must help me tie him so that we •can take him to the authorities, . : . Well? Are you on my side er his?" • Ann's face was a study. For a mo- ment she regarded Snavely, then Ruth. No one spoke. "Well, Ann!" "Fore Gawd, Miss Ruth—I doan know—I dean know-" Ann wrung her hands and rose to her feet. "Please, Miss Ruth—I cain't he'p you 'gains' him?' Ann walked to the door, hesitated, returned a few steps, then went back and stood near the window, in an agony of indecision. "Ali right, •Ann, think it over." Ruth stepped close to the oman in the chair. Her voice was clear and sharp. "You murderer!" Snavely shrunk back in his chair. "Say it!" cdmmanded Ruth. "'—tell Ann what you are!" hurried into the kitchen ad began feverishly filling a gunny sack with provisions. Five minutes later his outfit was piledby the kitchen door; three sacks, his bed roll, a: frying pan, and, leaning against the house, a 30-30 rifle in a sadle sheath with four car- tons of cartridges beside the butt. Ann was coming from the barn, leading the buckskin horse with a pack saddle on his back. (Concluded Next Week.) "Give rite that gun!" Snavely darted toward Ann as the giantess released the girl. Ann backed away shaking her head. Snavely stopped. Ann spoke swiftly to Ruth. "Git yo're little bay and ride away quick —hurry, Miss Ruth, 'fore he makes me give him the gun." "Ann, help me—you have the gun, help me take him over to Thanes' place," begged. Ruth. The gaintess roared at her. "gy Gawd, git away like I to' you!" Neither Snavely nor Ann moved until the sounds of Ruth's horse arid David's questioning vice had died away, , • Snavely, white with rage, spoke seathingly. "Now give me that gun, you black—!" The gun in Ann's hand wavered un- certainly, "Jes' a, minute,", she falter- ed. "Give it here!" Ann cringed, turned the , revolver butt.forward and held it tut:, Snavely snatched the weapon, and raised the muzzle, to Ann's face. Then he paused, and lowered the gun. "Git my horse, damn you! They'll come back—the Thanes'lI come an' git me! They'll coop me up! Httiry along— git Buck an' throw a pack saddle on him. Run, damn your black hide!" Ann ran out of the house. Snavely Her voice was "you murderer!" clear and sharp, Snavely's lips moved silently. "Louder!" she cried,, thrusting the muzzle of the gun almost against his face. "I—done—it— My God! let me be —quit lookin' at me! I had to do it, I tell you!" "Don't move! Now tell us why you did it." Ruth stood, right foot for- ward, her smooth young face set rig- idly. "Begin!" "I—I shot him." "Because I hated him!" "I don't know—he come here. He bought his interest from the mati who owned it an' he come here.' He Without any cut and dried reason- twanted to be pardners—I signed. I ing, without weighing, rejecting and } couldn't help it—damn him!" sorting evidence, Ruth found herself "What did he, do to you?" with a clear, convincing picture of the "I don't know—let-"me be, can't you? He come here an' I wasn't by, inysef no more—I couldn't git him to go." "You didn't have to murder him!" "I hated him, 1 tell you! He done what all people do—I hated him like I hate all the rest. I got to be by myse'f. I been alone since I was born, Every man'I ever knowed tried to git somethin' off me. Every storet• keeper tried to cheat me. Every rancher tried to fence off part of my land—every time I got a good thing somebody tried to get it away for his own self, That's all humans dol their whole live is just spent trying to get something somebody else has got!" "Well?" demanded Ruth "When I come hen there was twenty thousand acres of this ranch an' the house was in the Middle of\it. I couldn't see no fence whichever a- way I looked. I bought this ranch. I could, stay here. I had rriy horses an» I had enough cattle to keep me busy an' to feed ms. I bought this ranch fair an' square. Then a man* collies with a paper an' says he owns three-quarters of it. But he didn't want to stay here—he didn't want nothin' but money. So he went away an' I scraped enough together each time an' sent it to hire. That was all right. Then your brother bought that man out an' come here. He. •coille to stay. He aimed to in - prove the ranch. Good God &mighty! 4) "I ate going to take you over the mountains," said Ruth evenly, f'Stand tip I" Snavely slowly rose and Rtith backed away ,At that eminent his eyes looked past lier shoulder and his head nodded ever so slightly, Before Ruth could Move great strong arms were holding her in :a vie, a big heed took lioSsesSion of the yoke muttered elose t' Rttt .sttugsted tti free herself from 'howl' This teen murdered lilarry sorry." have been only mildly disturbedeathe snakes were gone this time of year. Then Ruth's heart stopped; a few feet from the board fence around the A. J. Walker URNITUItE and UNERAL SERVICE 1/gingham, Ont. AlohuleAce SerAce He stopped and his hands went up. old well lay a box. It lay as though it had been placed on end against the fence: in imagination, Ruth saw her son standing on tiptoe, leaning over the fence, hitching himself farther ov- er to sec better-, losing his balance, the box falling away as his feet left its top, With a cry of anguish She ran to the box, stood it up, and mounting, leaned over the fence— 'David!' The name rarig hollowly aid died away., "David—" With a Inoat, Ruth slipped from the box, , The tiegt itistant, it teemed to her, Arm was helping her to her feet, "Atm! Ropesf bring topet qttick!' though a hundred investigators had compiled proofs for a hundred days that the letter was a lie; that it was Snavely's final effort to get rid of her. And Harry—Harry was dead. His body lay under a pile of rubbish at the bottom of the well . . that was why Snavely's pale eyes strayed there so often. She heard Snavely's voice speuting angrily for Ann, then the thump of his boots as he entered the house. "David," whispered Ruth, ".Mama's going totrust you to do as she says; stay on the bed and don't be afraid— Mama'll be back pretty soon." With the revolver in her hand she stepped. to the door, silently unlocked it, and stood with her left hand on the knob. In the kitchen Snavely abruptly ceased to upbraid Aim, and the boots thumped across the porch. "By God, li,11 show her who's—" As quickly as she could move Ruth flung open the door and stepped out, the revolver, fully cocked, pointing at Snavely's breat. Ruth quietly closed the door behind her. Ruth's voice was sharp, me- te:Mc. "Go into the living room." She waited until she heard Ann's footsteps "Now you march it!" Suavely turned without a word and walked before her. "Sit down—you too, Ann." The girl nodded toward the chairs by the table. The huge woman and the pale -eyed man sated themselves. Snavely grad., wally lowered his arms. "I've got nothing against you, Anti —far from it, 'Rut if you won't help no have to go with this Inter - deter." "Wha—what's that—" Snavely gasped and his eyes stared 'wildly. Ruth spoke to Atm, Without. turn. log her head: "Ann, will you help me THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON >4•.04M14111011.0011k. THE LIFE OF PAUL. Sunday„ Dec. 31. --Philippians 3;1- 14. Golden Text. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, 1 have kept the faith. (2 Tim. 4:7). Paul had more in the way of human advantages, natural gifts, social stand- ing, culture and intellectual attain- ments, and perhaps even financial in- deperiAnce, than most men. He was by, no means a "nobody" before his conversion and prominence in the }Christian world, Indeed, in the eyes of the world he lost much by becom- ing a Christian. But the autobiogra- phical glimpse we have in this lesson throws a shining light on what Paul thought of his human advantages and high standing after he ,had come to see all things in their true. light. His letter to the Philippians was written probably but two years before the apostle's death by the headsmen's axe under Nero, His final letter was the second.une to Timothy, when lie wrote: "I am now ready to be offer" ed, and the time of my depertuee is at hand" (2 Tim. 4:6). His next sent- ence to young Timothy has been elle- sen as th'e Golden Text this week, Our fiest lesson in October, begin- ning these three months' studies, in troduced us to Saul in Tarsus, A pro- minent classical scholar, Dr. Ernest G. Sihler, has recently published an article showing that Tarsus, Paul's birthplace, was one of the centres of erudition in the highly civilized world of the first century, He quotes Strabo "So great has been the devotion of the • men there to philosophy and all tether regular courses of a liberal edu- cation that they have excelled both Athens' and Alexandria," Sihler adds: "It is not necessary to 'urge that young Satil was gifted far beyond the average youth, and coeld, in his ma- turity, ,assume a position of real in- sight in the clornein of Philosophy and letters." We shoulde keep this in mind as we study the life and teachings of the man, to whom, as to no other who ever lived, was revealed by the Lord Jesus Christ Himself the mystery and the marvels of the Gospel of God's grace. Paul's intellect was keen, bril- liant, descerning, inexorably logical, He knew the best philosophies that man's mind had ever produced. And he saw nothing irrational, illogical or unreasonalble,in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Rather he gloried in the priv- ilege of thinking it, through after it had been revealed to him, and then of passing it on to the Church and posterity in all its matchless premis- es, reasoning, and corklusions. His Epistle to the Romans ha e no equal as a study in, sheer logic, in all the literature of the world. Now look at the autobibgraphical lesson passage, in which, for a reason, Paul sets forth the facts about his high standing and good record. The passage begins with the sim- ple, humble word: "Finally, my bre- thren, rejoice in the Lord?' If one has intellect, education, "blue blood," high social standing, money, one is to re- joice in none of those things, but in the Lord. We cannot all have those things—but we can all have the Lord if we wil.I. We are, says Paul, to "rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh?' That last word means the natural man, including spirit, soul and body. Then Paul explains that, if any one were justified in having such con- fidence, he was. For he had been born and brought up as a strict, very re- ligious Israelite, "a Hebrew of the Hebrews," a Pharisee in his religious orthodoxy and zeal; "touching the righteousness which is ii the law, blameless—"that is, doing externally everything the Old Testament law re- quires. As for zeal,, he had hounded to death those whom he thought were against the law, or Christians. Then his eyes were opened. The risen Christ appeared to him, and Saul saw his abysmal, tragic mistake, He received Christ as Saviour, was born Reduced ,Fare )3etweezra pointin Canada and to. 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And so this ,'greatest man in the his- tory of the Christ Church could say - humbly, in all sincerity: "Brethren, count not myself to have apprehended but this one thing I do, forgetting those things Which' are behind, ae reaching forth unto those things tlia are before, I .press toward for the prize of the high calling of God he Christ Jesus," Paul was forgetting the worst things that were behind him, and also the best things. He knew he was cleansed from his sins by, the shed blood and death of the Saviour anct Lord. He knew that the best that he had been able to do in the Lord's ser- vice was not enough, and he longed to do still more and better. That same Saviourand Lord, who - is "the same yesterday, and today, and forever," is calling men of the highest standing and of the lowest to receive - Him as Saviour, to count all that they have in worldly and human treasures,. and even all that they are in their -• own nature and strength, as but re- fuse, that they may win Christ's may know Him and the power of His re- surrection. When we do that we know indeed what it means to "re- joice in the Lord." Tourist, pointing to overhead elec- tric fan: "Now, steward, if I have this propeller stopped will it make - any great difference to the speed oof the ship" 01=21 =r==2 1;..q 0 •11) 1.1 C)11====l1C)11:=IC)1. Theo DI' Bride' fly "Wary Imlay Taylor "THE DOLLAR BRIDE" is made altogether absorbing as Mary Imlay Taylor tells it, pouring into its chapters such an abundance of LOVE and ROMANCE. 111.101•1111••••••••• • A Charming Love Story Chuck Full of Exporience, Adventure and Interest "Nancy Gordon trades herself in marriage for fifteen thousand dol- lars — the price of her family honor -- and the freedom of ber bro- ther. Roddy, who stole from the bank in which he worked. Nancy, desperately in love with young Page Roemer, nevertheless agrees to elope with Dr. Richard -Morgan on the condition that he keep the marriage a secret. Dr. Morgan is loved by Helena Haddon., a sophisticated young married woman, but he adores Nancy and hopes to win her after marriage. Nancy refuses to see Page the 'night before her elopement, and steals, broken-hearted, out of her house early the next morning to keep her rendezvous with her fut- ure husband. At the station while they wait for the train, they are seen by Helena Haddon's husband: . . . . "TI -IE 1)OLLAR. Illt11`.)E" WILL BEGIN FOLLOWING. TM: COMPLETION.OF ‘‘`,WHISPERING ROCK'. 0 0 0 0