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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1934-07-05, Page 6PAGE SI Irtrtlf$1 AGNESBi. R�iit v.:•BA. PROMS? SYNOPSIS The passengers of No. 12 wondered about the pretty, uncommunicative yfilf"stranger. And the girl's thoughts were filled with memories of the night,. three weeks ago, when she had driv- en her roadster into the sea. She had been amazed to find no newspaper references to the thing she ' feared most. But even so, the girl of that night was no longer. Near the sun -baked station the town of Marston straggled inform- ally, a single dusty street with a few dwindling offshoots on each side. In the door of the post -office a young man appeared, looking up the road to- ward 'the station. He was tall and , skin weathered to a leathery brown sun -browned, but without the weath-land Tight blue eyes which gave him a er-beaten, desert dried look, He had deceptive innocent air. The girl smil- an arrogant nose with pride in every j ed at him. Some of the dismay re- line of it, rather nice gray eyes, clear i treated, an4 steady, and a pleasant, finely cur-1 "You are Mr, Simpson, aren't you? ved mouth, curiously at war with the I am Anne Cushing." prideful nose. He caught sight of a 1 "Why, no ma'am." Petry gulped shabby automobile over by the sta- ;visibly. "My name is Petry, Boone tion, and a faint grin twitched at the :Petry. If you're lookin' for Lan corners of his mouth. He was won- 'Simpson, he—he's moved away from tiering what some people of his ac- ! here. He sold his place just recent." zluaintance would say if they ever ( "Yes, I know. I bought it. But tame to Marston and had to be met II thought he might be hereto—well, by that car. 1 to show me the place, I suppose. I'ni "It looks like an old hobo," he afraid that was a rather silly idea." reflected, "but Petry loves it like a "No ma'am," said Petry helplessly. baby ... Guess I'll go over and wait there." He strolled on down the dusty street. It was by no means a crowd- ed street but the few people he met all seemed' to know him. Their greet- ings were friendly, although perhaps Snot so jocular as they might have been, say to Boone Petry, who work- ed for him, or to . Jim Bagley -who kept the general store, or any of the few scattered ranch owners who oc- casionally came in for supplies. He seemed, in a way, just little apart from their everyday familiar interests. Only when hepassed the deserted real estate office his face darkened slightly. The forlorn little building, slackly revealing its uselessness to any scornful eye, was undoubtedly a long standing offense •to him. Out of, the shimmering distance a dark blob had appeared, At the sta- ;road beyond. They hesitated for an tion a few loungers came to life for instant as they caught the unobtrus- one of the major events of Marstons. ive scrutiny of the brown young man, day. Boone Petry, propped content- land then passed on composedly. They edly against the weathered boarding came back to Boone Petry, a few feet away, awoke to a mild in -"It's awfully kind of you to take 'terest, The operator grinned sociab- so much trouble, If you could just 3va tell me where I can get a stage or `e''xpectini company?" I z*,• rent a car, I think I can manage all "Sone stuff for the boss," ...q'a fright, t "He gets a lot of stuff, don't he? t "It ain't a bit of trouble, but there ]dust have some real money to spend." lain't any stage, because. there ain't Petry blinked at the glinting tracks any place in particular for a stage to and, apparently forgot to answer. The I go. And there ain't any garage, eith- operator took another tack, ler, not for Kirin' cars. But that does "Jim Bagley says he hears Duane's n't matter a bit, because our place is out 'most every day, pokin' the old just a spell beyond yours, and we can Junipero full of holes, Barry's a nice. give you a lift easy. Any time you fella, but if he keeps on like that he'll like." end up the same way his uncle did." Petryrubbed his chin nervously "Maybe, andin- with maybe not. I ain't a mahogany paw, Here was a cluired his destination, but wherever situation calling for diplomacy, and Barry aims to go, he most generally diplomacy, he felt, had never been one arrives at." of his stronger points. He sent a The conversation seemed unprofit- hunted look around, caught the eye able, but the operator was a hard man I of the watching young man and sig- to down. I naled• him with a furtive thumb. The "Speakin' of destinations, I saw the !girl was thanking him. whole Simpson tribe headin out of i "That would be splendid, but I hate town this mornin', bag and baggage. I to be such a nuisance." If they'd of piled anything more on i "Not a -tall, ma'am." The young that flivver it would of laid down and I man was at his elbow now, looking died. They're niovin' over to the interested. Looking more than inter -I county seat." ested. "Miss Cushing, meet my boss, Petry grinned. The Simpson's' I Mr. BarryDuane. BarrY this lady's's nearest neighbor—a triflingmatter of (jubt bought the Simpson place, and five or six miles was Barry Duane, 1Sam's lit. I've told her it's right on and it could not be denied that therelourwayand we can take her out any Y lead been no great, amount of neigh- time she wants to go." borly visiting between Eagle's Perch "Of course we can. Very glad to." and the little ranch where the Simp - Not a single blink betrayed that the s g Y son family dribbled out its happy -go- Simpson place was out of their home- lucky existence. ward way by some miles of singular- "What's happened?" • he .inquired ly bad road. mildly. "Somebody leave Sim ten dol- "It's awfully good of both of you, lays or did he Just .get too exhausted I didn't expect to be a charge on the P g to work?" community as soon as I'arrived." "Don't talk about a triflin' ten dol- "The community," said Barry Y lams to 'tonzo, He's sold his place, Duane, "considers itself in luck. Now and from thegeneral excitement in about this newplace of yours. When theSimpson family I'd it must've doyouget possession?" mp 5 say been a pretty good cash payment," "I've got it now." two -thirty-eight closs "Yes—of course." He hesitated, . The jar of theand ed the conversation abruptly, Num- caught Petry's nervous eye. Petry ber Twelve clanked to a stop with a cleared his throat long sigh. Petry looked along the "I was thinking'," he ventured, "see - hes nodded faniii- ing there's yottt there now, line of dusty coat g nobody , Tarty to the, brakeman, gallantly lad- maybe the lady might like to put tip suiteases and at the hotel here, with Somebody's, until her forks started toward the forward end. Then come?" be 'Tutyou see: there isn't be stc'rppeCT,as abruptly as though', anyone the end of a hal- else to come." Anne Cushing h-. lau bad been jerked at � ter. ed, for the first time in three long Silken ariklcs and beautifully shod weeks and Barry Duane thought i t gritty s the loveliest laugh ever lie had: feet were enuring down the g y wa g v stePs of. 'old Number Twelve. 1'etr y heard. up dizzily looked izzil to a slim young wo- You really mustn't be worried itnati clad trimly iii blue. She was ap- about hie," she said in that lovely pealingly young and she had the love- liest skin that Boone had ever seen and an engaging' little mouth which looked rather sober just now but would surely show lovely teeth when she smiled, and lustrous big eyes with a growing dismay in .them' as they. looked beyond the ugly little station toward the forlorn straggle of houses which constituted the town of Mars- ton. That was Marston's first glimpse of Anne Cushing as she stepped from the two -thirty-eight directly into the path of Boone Petry, ex -cowman, ex- ranchnian, and general factotum to Barry Duane. Involuntarily he swept off his bat- tered hat, showing a grizzled head, a The dismayed look was hovering in. her eyes again. He shifted his weight from one foot to another, and thought earnestly of things' he would like to do to the departed Simpson. "I guess Sim's kind of careless that way," he added apologetically. "But don't let that bother you, ma'am. If there's anything I can do, or the boss either, we'd sure be pleased to." The local groaned in all its length and gathered its complaining joints into motion again, leaving them stand- ing there. At a little distance, just beyond the platform, the young man who had come over from the post - office stood and watched them with puzzled curiosity. The few dawdling loungers had frankly turned their heads in the same direction. The girls eyes were sweeping the sun -warmed platform and the hot fif ' WINGHAM ADVANCE -TIMES voice, "I'ti not a bit afraid of staying alone:. 1'thoiaght I'd try to get a mat and his wife, I meant to leavean advertisement for them before I started for the ranch. Can I do this?" Barry laughed.' "No, I'm afraid you can't, There's no paper to advertise in, this side of the county seat. At least there's no printed one. The un- official way is to mention whatever you want over at Jim Bagley's gen- eral store, and then wait for the re- turns to conte in. Any other sugges- tions, Petry. How about Martha Lar- rabee?" "First ratel" Petry cheered visibly. "Martha ain't exactly a man and wife, but she's pretty near as good." He bent over and picked up a fat suitcase. Barry did the same. "And now," he said, "for Martha Larrabee and the general store." "This," said Anne Cushing to her- self, "is a funny dream. Pretty soon I shall wake up and find that it isn't so at all," Her spirits had soared unaccount- ably. She wanted to laugh as she was politely herded toward the shabby car. It was less than five minutes since she had stepped from the train and here she was, trotting confident- ly along with two perfect strangers who had taken herself, her luggage and apparently all her problems into their capable hands. At the far end of the straggling street a wooden cottage, better kept thanmost, sat a little back in a yard where neat borders of flowers had been encouraged to grow. They stopped. Petry went in. He was gone five minutes, Anne began to wonder what was happening. Supposing the efficient Mrs. Larrabee should decline to come? The front door opened and a wo- man came out. She was tall and com- fortably plump, with greyed brown hair and an air of practical compe- tence. Her face was strong and shrewd, and not without humor. Pet- ry came out behind her, with an un- certain grin on his homely face. Evi- dently the redoubtable Martha had declined to commit herself. "This is the lady, Martha. Miss Cushing, this is Mis' Larrabee." "I hope you can come, Mrs. Lar- rabee. I really don't know what there is to be done yet . . ," Martha looked at the girl in the car, a small and slightly anxious face. "I'll come," she said briefly, and permitted herself a grim quirk of a smile as she nodded to the car's own- er. She went on briskly, calmly tak- ing the situation in hand. "You wait here for me, and. I'll go with you to the store. It won't take me two minutes," She went back into the house. Such trifling matters as wages, duties and hours had evidently not entered into her decision at all. "Passed with honors!" said Barry Duane. "Martha came out to look you over, and if she hadn't liked your looks you couldn't have argued her into coming at any price, She laughed and sobered, looking out at the endless waste that went on and on into the hazy distance. "I knew I was under inspection. I was so afraid I wouldn't pass mus- ter I •scarcely dared breathe. She looks so—dependable." Martha's pure gold — and here she conies. Now, for the store and your supplies. Another half hour and we'll be on our way." They were off in much less time than that, thanks to Martha Barra - bee's brisk supervision. Marston's brief sensation was over, at least for the time being, but the repercussions still echoed. All Marston knew it now. A pretty young thing with a soft voice and delicate hands had bought the Simpson ranch, thirty miles out across the Junipero, and ex- pected to run it. Male Marston ad- mired, but shook its head, Female Marston sniffed. "Looks like she had money," said Jim Bagley hopefully, "She sure is pretty," "She's tpretty," 0o said his wife tartly. "Girls who look like c that and wear clothes like that don't go streak - in' off to out-of-the-way places unless there's something queer back of it." The loungers around the store pre- served a polite silence. "And what's t s more," said the lady heatedly, "that suit she wears is hand- some, just handsome but when she took the coat off, while she was wait - in' for Barry Duette to come back and dance around'. her, I looked inside of it to see where it Colne from, o at, and the tag had been ripped off! That don't look like arty adcident to. me." Fortunately for; her peace of mind, theit who called herself g l w erse f Aisne Cushing had no suspicion of the too eager eye which had found that evi- dence of a discarded identity in her coat. She did have a faintly disagree- able memory of a sharp -faced woman who had been rather' offensively in- quisitive but that could have meant no more than the ill -restrained cur- iosity of a, small-town gossip. She put it behind her, and settled. •back contentedly. Marston, low against its sands, had vanished in 'a sprawling blur. The old car made . excellent time. Petry was driving. Martha Larrabee sat beside him. Barry. Duane sat with Anne in the rear seat, Blazing sunlight beat down, and a long plume of dust waved and wav- ered in their wake. The road ran on ahead of them, utile after mile, with nothing to impede their view. There was not a house in sight, nothing moving. In the opulent flare of sun- shine distance took on strange colors turning to purple in the folds of those sudden hills. "You are in the Junipero Valley now," Duane told her. "You must remember that, because it is your next-door neighbor. A few thousand years ago there was a river here, but it has been dry a long time. I sup- pose it looks pretty ugly to you, but it has its points, and after the rains it will be streaked with purple and gold." "Purple and gold." She narrowed thoughtful eyes and stared at it, half dreaming. "No, I don't think it is ugly. It's fascinating. It's empty and brooding and rather terrible, but it beckons you. It keeps romising you something and you want to go and on until you find it." The grey eyes warmed. They al- most blazed, She had a quick feeling that somewhere behind this pleasant, brown young man there was an. eager little boy, rather pathetically anxious to have someone admire a thing he loved, but with all a little boy's sen- sitiveness to rebuff. That 'was curi- ous, when in other ways he seemed so completely poised and assured, quite as much so as any man she knew. She wondered what had hap- pened, to make him feel like that, (Continued Next Week) A HEALTH. SERVICE OF THE CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN CANADA FILTRATION Underneath the lower ribs, on eith- er side of the back -bone, are two bean shaped organs about the size of the fist, the kidneys. The function of the kidneys is to rid the body of waste products and to regulate the cheztiical balance of the blood. A disturbance of kidney function means that the kid- neys, for one reason or another, are unable to do their part in the excre- tion of waste, allowing materials to pass which should be retained, thus upsetting the chemical balance of the body. Blood is brought to the kidneys by one o fthe large arteries. In the kid- ney, this artery divides into many small branches, and then further sub- divides, until the smallest size artery, or capillary is reached. The blood is then passed through one of the four or five million microscopic filters which are to be found in the kidney, a living filtration plant which removes from the blood the impurities present in the blood -stream as it reaches the kidney. Because of the large number of fil- ters, the kidneys have a tremendous reserve, and so are able to carry a heavy load when required. Each day, many gallons are filtered, but of this quantity, only a small percentage ap- pears as urine, because the kidney has the capacity to reabsorb, from the file tered fluid; water and any of the dis- solved minerals and sugar which the body needs. It is only waste products and undesired excess of minerals and sugar which arc got rid of, in the ur- ine, by the normal. kidney. The proper functioning of the kid- hey is upset and, possibly, destroyed to some extent by a number of con- ditions which affect the kidney, not- ably nephritis, or Bright's Disease, which occurs in an acute and chronic form. Acute nephritis is usually associat- ed with some infection, such as scar- let fever or tonsilitis, where the germs that are responsible for the infection cause an inflammation of the kidneys, There is pallor and puffiness of the face, with swelling of the ankles, An examination of the urine shows that the kidneys are not functioning g prop. erly, Pest hi bed, usually for several months,, until all inflammation has ceased, no matter how welly the pat- ient may feel, together with a suitable diet, is the basis of treatment, Chronic nephritis in irgliViduels un- der thirty-five ears of'a e is usually Y Y g rttl Thursday, •.July 5'th, 193 Professional firectory J. W, EUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc, Money to Loan, Office —: Meyer Block, Wingham Successor to Dudley Holmes, H. W. COLBORNE. M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Phone 54. Wingham DR. G. W,. HOWSON DENTIST Office -- Over Bondi's Fruit Store. A. R. & F. E. 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"THE LIFE OF OUR LORD" by y Charles Dickens CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH PART THREE After that time, Jesus Christ was seen by five hundred of his followers at once, and He remained with others of them forty days; teaching them, and instructing them to go forth into the world, and preach His Gospel and religion: not minding what wicked men might do to them.: And conduct- ing his disciples at last, out of Jeru- salem asfar as Bethany, he blessed them, and ascended in a cloud to Hea- ven, and took His place at the right hand of God. And while they gazed. into the bright blue sky where He had vanished, two white -robed angels ap- peared among them, and told 'then that as they had seen Christ ascend to Heaven, so He would one day come descending from it, to judge the the result of an acute nephritis, After thirty-five, it is , most likely an evi- dence of thickening and hardening of the arteries throughout the body, and so it is associated with an increased blood -pressure and changes in the heart. The kidney condition may be of comparatively small importance, as compared with the changes in other organs. The first step in treatment is to assess the condition as it affects the different parts of the body, A tenet life, physically and mentally, light, but nourishing diet, and the avoidan- ce of strain or indulgences, are es- sential. The weakened state of the kidneys is met by demanding less from them through a regulation of the diet and lessened production of body wastes from physical activities. Questions concerning ,Health, ad- dressed, to the Canadian Medical As- sociation, 1s4 College St, Toronto, will be answered personally by letter. World. When Christ was seen no more, the Apostles began to teach the People as He had commanded them. And hav- ing chosen a new apostle, named Mat- thias, to replace the wicked Judas, they wandered into all countries, tell- ing - the People of Christ's Life and Death — and of His Crucifixion and Resurrection — and of the lessons He had taught'— and baptizing them in Christ's name. And through the pow- er he had given them they healed the sick, and gave sight to the ,Blind, and speech to the Dumb, and Hearing to the Deaf, as he had done, And Peter being thrown into Prison, was deliv- ered from it, in the dead of night by an angel: and once, his words before God caused a man named Ananias,. and his wife Sapphire, who had told a lie, to be struck down dead, upon the Earth. Wherever they went, they were per- secuted and .cruelly treated; and one man named Saul who had held the clothes of sane barbarous persons who pelted one of the Christians nam- ed Stephen, to death with stones, was always active in doing them Alarm, But God turned S.aul's • heart after- wards; for as, he was travelling to Damascus to find out some Christ- ians who were there, and drag them to prison, there shone about him a light from. Heaved, a voice cried, "Saul, Saul, why perseeutest thou me!" .arid he was struck down from his 'horse, by an invisible hand, in sight of all the guards and soldiers who were riding with him. . When they raised him, they found that lie was blind; and so he remained for three days, neither eating nor drink- ing, until one of the Christians (sent to him by an angel for that purpose) restored his sight in the name of Je- sus Christ, After which, he became a Christian, and preached, and taught, and believed, with the apostles, and did great service. They took the name of Christians. from Our Saviour Christ, and car- ried Crosses as their sign, because. upon a cross He had suffered Death_. The Religions that were then in the. world were false and brutal, and en- couraged. men to violence. Beasts, and. even men,, were killed in the Church- es, in the belief that the smell of their blood was pleasant to the Gods there were supposed to be a great. many Gods - and many most cruel and disgusting ceremonies prevailed. Yet, for all this, and though the Christian Religion was such a true,, and kind, and good one, the Priests. of the Religions long persuaded the: people to do all possible hurt to the. Christians; and Christians were hang- ed, beheaded, burnt, buried alive, and'. devoured in Theatres by Wild Beasts for the public amusement, during- many uringmany years. Nothing would silence them, or terrify them though; for they. knew that if they did their duty,they would go to Heaven. So thousands: of Christians sprung up and taught the people and were cruelly killed, and were succeeded by other Christians, until the Religion gradually became the great Religion of the World, Remember! - It is Christianity to. do Good, always— even to those who. do evil tows, It is. Christianity to love - our neighbour as ourself, and to do to all men as we have them Do to us. It is Christianity to be gentle, nierci-• ful,N and forgiving, and to keep those qualities quiet ih our own Hearts, and never make a boast of them, or of our prayers, or of our love of God, but always to shew that we rove Him by humbly trying to do right in ev- erything. If we do this and' reinem- ber the life and lessons of Our Lord Jesus Christ andtry to act up to them, we may confidently hope .that. God will forgive us our sins and mis- takes, and enable us to live and die in Peace. THE END Four workmen were playing cards. "I knew you were going to play a spade,. Bill," said one, '! 'Ow?" asked Bill: "Because," said the first man, "I" saw you spit on yet 'and'" "Eliza," said a friend, of the fam- ily to the old colored' washwoman, "have you seen Miss Edith fiance?" "No, ma'am, It ain't been in. the waste yet."