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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance Times, 1934-08-02, Page 6PAGE SIX W AM: . D'SP, Thursday, August 2nd,. SYNOPSIS Thr \. Three weeks after a cretin colored roadster had been found, wrecked in the sea at the foot of a Cliff, a girl calling herself Anne Cushing appears nt the desert town ;l£arstoe. Shit has bought ,sight unseen, a ranch located. thirty miles away. Barry Duane, {ter nearest neighbor, and his ma!!, Boone Petry, procure a reliable woman for her and in Barry's can loaded dean with supplies, they start acre's; the desert. In ?t£arstou her retie ece aes .aroused suspicion. Barry and Anne become more than neighbe rs, and -when Anne is lose in the hills andrescued by Barry, eaeh-realine that something morethan triendebip exists between them. A quiet mc'od seemed t; have des- eended on Barry. When the coffe.: was finished he s zu led i;?•r ie -a moments in silence. his etees tote :iug back every few s ee� nds die tier to hi little profile turned toward ..sass. Anne felt that restless stem -tiny. mtiny. `"Weren't eau." she asked suddenly, "goingto era neabc,ur the :,awn .cf Duane?" `'Set I was.' He shitted his peti- te o i- tants. "'It's just the s ery of a man who wanted to nrrn a desert into a garden. He worked like a.. gzant ter ` 1 and died bxc,.eand ritla^inI d and is .. e discred,#ed:" I. His face was back as he stared i sewn at the lake. "He loved this cannery. He tante I=ere Prean the East years ago, and he came across this lake and took over a big tract of land.. He sax, d alert tl=i's lake was the aaaggest body ; t of *.water in miles, bare useless to those <" shy tads dont there, and he be dreaming of the things that et�nl'd b i> !you. I'd never be satisfied with .'\'1•htn °lei at;*aarq s acted, work iI'deses inges-I want all of you," e the ,, n also` darnx, people l^c'�:x.i to tette ser- :1,11 of her; Site. felt desealatc ;sous no:dee. 'They. rexxiembered 'what da little frightened. It •recurred ;wee baize dene in the .imperial Val- her that no matter what ccauxe to ley. Ea; ie I.al:e nee—tented with work... inteesealove, friendship, trouble -7 tide.. ]Tit\zttta \t=ins a word that t::tpttiiu rmtlerstoods He took the eteep plunge eliantlY awl \\itheset a Salsa, "Dello, Any objet tion if 1 rld along?" `'i,etskless eowboy,'ttren't yutt? Dix don newt 1 I y $1idv hrwn half a Ima m, it tasnsitie to meet your friends?"' "No, uta, this a, something .retial; Movie stttff," he ad\ktl, citlsreeatingly, half ashamed '+f his drtnxa•tie planate "It '. s a real thrill, anyway, but just stns' tdie firtit few seconds yam h;td snit well, scared. Stal�post' Captain had. and st'auubled, or anything?" "Lepton deseent tunable or any• leer thing,„ ite "Ce; met doesn't sttenble, eitIse r,.. Barry glanced up with a quid: erg, and the dant grew. And then the i\tz,ulri always have something to 1 bite alar L:\sue• aA restless t►eek crawler] by, An "It was a zr.at eta •. No saeatter other, flat and taninteresting, trudge \\, .,# c. laze et it, ;¢ cavo lnever be ma*" 'stolidly at list • heels. The days \vere thing r ,, 7i, that. t ,.,a Cast :cis than ,.s"at. i.ae sz n3i was ' • jazst days, clic tof thein plaoddaxig• slur. W iv�:zx ;tied the water =shed drown the'idly after another, Barry ;still caul slide-eaa:says to make has 'wilderness Trail'sEnd,but he seer i d tii'\vn to ;teemed e bits»assn,, Et;ryloaoaly a: rer:•red, :and :always to be ran his way somewhere Uncle ?a.*h gripped :a :shoulder and else, said, 'zi, < ry, k c:i ard. I believed iii Playing are3und with ;I;arry watt :lite whe>"". other t'' peter e larethed. When ''eansgereate but letting him ,go left a e, this,' ie. to be Y. ., blank emptiness. Anne worked vio- tnri ted aeniey, indoor and out, hot the z 'had gene from it. Warmth and co le r, and any- had' gone. sound tall y s'u ; The day had:' not been of the k ,s r:t ,bet:r'r. than jet k For after ,.. tcS P3at:alarra._..e a stiffn2t�rale. firs: big rat n:�"nt, :he' t"a 'etly ' wind- as . blowing 1._d been blc \\•ins in from .":rr:e, The irrseati,,:a watt hers:. but desert for satfor didn't irrigate"�> --,2? hours. Anne The v"._.ew was zu91 :x;hile beside her tinkling- little ere :: gravel .inks that m. one had stns- ,?' .ectefl and' the_ „`£sss Anne, are you our alters, p. water drained off as e_ o g r. i t.rrna Martha. Anything I c fast .as it was ran in. It was a come 'doge plete, _.rnashin°g failure." tO frown. "'Pinto, \\°e can't let these two 'brat tis can we?" d "Don't tlii - , i i1. t f trying ,.ut h tt thin*!" His voice vas raft "'li with ;anxiety, ""You did it." "I've dune it before," he seid dog- " �tdiv. "lits a f, trick , l toad t tl. tilyta'nly, C, tie miss to ; -i\ x , ain't you could be killed tar. 4crippled fon 2 'e ,,, p} for the rest i your nee, And •alweys have o r' e a t to t lxtis,r that it had c<ri22e abtatit tliralu 'h an ' ti .#l'i "lit Peery les: ed at her wit' atria. -*Se :: 'a3Y _nberi beat' d. «'_i in Ma,, tem est �nii2te," ' for ` s ." � Barry ..\\ ung close, his nnieere ching' for her band. iszd ; "1'our'e, precious to me; Anne, whe- • I titer you want be ornote to I ]Case the prornis e that yciu went try it,. _dot inlessit's life or death." ek. I might promise that. I wasn't really going to anyway." She did not an take her hand away, and he gathered t zip the other and held them together. e "Is that all you can .promise?" eft She looked slowly up Fit hire s. ""I wish you'd do up that packa "'rah, how dreadful a" It was all that : on Bt a e s going to call for. I ve 1 she found herself able to say: Barry threw away a half -consumed Martb l a had et: a sheet of nes cigarette and arse. aper spread d ciut for :1` _ P o her. Anne Io ""The Pines isn't the only stretch "ed down at it, idly. of arid land around here. There's the A heading caught her eye. It w nnipero, bigger and better, and_with a Los Angeles paper, g'and at was a soil -it isn't really sand—that will months old. She leaned over gate its very heart TO you for a steady spread -out sheet. Then she was ve ~apply of water. I want to use this still. am to irrigate the Junipero." To Martha, out in the kitchen, there He ran a brown hand through his cause the sharp sound of tearing pa - air and laughed abruptly. per, uI suppose you think I'm chasing "Oh, Martha, I've torn this! Have an elusive rainbow?" you any mare?" ""Why shouldn't you, if you've found The voice was careless, but her eyes ne that's worth chasing?" were brilliant with excitement e as she ~Yon darlingr" His eyes kindled. came to the kitchen door. She tied '"For these kind words. - , ." the package up swiftly, and then van - She jumped op and gave hiza a prim ished into her own room, The - news ittsie maric+nette's bow. "Come on, paper went also. may, I wantto go Clown by the lake Once behind a closed door she an spread it out again,:more carefully He arose obligingly and followed this time, scanning each word fo `some paper on the table," tory, x';lisha, He was the divinely ap- laciia2tet'1 etsseessor of Elijah, whose fife and work we have been studytnea he is feithtul to God, and God is faith - fed to him, Another prophet, had shed, and his • \villOw was 1eft owing money. In dis- tress sltc. eame to 1llsb with the • heart -breaking' word that "the creditor Is e .rite to take Unto hint my tete Sone to be boedrnen.", But "thou. knowert that thy servant, did fear the Lord?" she send. .c , Does � ' l � c., it make tit difference 1 . \ if IlnCe 1vlretlt^ ea• we fear the Lard. Or not? • It ce.r teinly does. God Promises to care for those orb i trust ]shin] ---and God never break His word. Elisha aired the poor wonnin what Sit t: bass} ra the lioneeeP, ltd Iearlied ilial• her rt:somees \\'ere scanty -Only "a pot of (il," ' Go, -. lrt ., td t the prophet, borro\ !thee vessels abroad of all thy neigh lairs, even empty bor •o `n . p yi vv o vessels; v '14n he toldherwhat to do. She wtis to go into her house with her ;sant::, shut the door against all prying neighbors, and. pour oil into those bor- 'r,atved vessels from her one small pot ox aril. She obeyed, and began pouring oil into the other vessels. After they acre filled she asked her son to bring her still ,another vessel, and he• said there was not one more to be had: ,wast then "the oil stayed." She reported to the prophet. "Go," said he, "sell the oil, and pay'thy. debt, and live thou and thy children sof the rest" Amster Golden Text for this les - eon night have been:"But my God hall supply. all your need, according o His riches in glory by Christ. esus" (Phil. 4:19). The "But" at the n•" eaanniang of that verse is what ' God nterposes between His children and destitution. Many a Christian widow, as well as Christian husbands and wires and families,' can tell a true `story of God's wonderful providing during these recent depression. years. Whether by natural or supernatural means, God is always ready and able to prove that "The Lord is my, shep- herd; I shall not want." ""You won't just be friends, Barry?" It nets "No. There nothing to it. I've ;J loo tried, but it wont work." b The bands seemeds to snuggle down \\n • �'a 1 as contentedly. t\eo "I've tried too, Barry, and it. doesn't the . work at all." , ry "Anne! Do you mean it?" , ze A lt2a o- "1x WaS • s beg. It was parteu- d lariy big for one man to swing. He i buiat this place:, and after that I came wad tired . fth sdnet every sn-* mer " He stc:p_Tsede re ni eg Carnal:: eine r AtfiTHINAIL lOW FARE. investigate this yeaz's Cenadfaxt. National travel bargains before completing your vacation plans. New Id•day and 45 day fates to National Parks .. 45 -day facet to Pacific Coast .. , week -end and Sunday fares . , . are t 2rm pies of what has been atza:nnged to enable rota to find /ley t,e tient joys thus yea. Asia. your nearest Catiai3ias2 the tional Agent for f6lders ead botel iisfotnmtion" He will gladly helf, your plan a weekend or a:it extended holiday. Tat% it ower; with the Canadian National r fwd save rrnotie'y. 'IAN/A inks NADIOWAt fAlr�r Aker, oyez' king her in two strides. _ seine hidden meaning. Relief iThey went down side by side, andicreeping all through her, warm a there the pitch was seep he caught lovelys tier arm in his. Within a few yards t,3 the water's edge he spread out his ccat for her to sit on and dropped 'dawn beside her. iMustn't get hysterical. "Anne, will you marry me= 1 When she came out a few moments '`i:.rza re a sudden person, Barry,' hater there was a lilt in her voice that She hedged for time. ''Do you real- Martha had not'heard for days. ire that we'd never met until a few "I'm going for a little run before weeks ago? Just four --"supper," she called, and went out to "Poen days was enough for ane. ward the corral. A few moments lat- Anne, darling, I don't want to :rush iter and pinto and girl flew past the :you, but you know how I feel,don't kitchen window with a clear call and ryou? I love you. I keep seeing you is scurry of hoofs Anne looked at him. ``You darling!" he said hueluly, and gathered her into his arms. Time lost its meaning. She lookeii up and caught his eyes on her. "There isn't the least reason why. we shouldn't be married right away, is there? How about tomorrow?" '"Tomorrow]" Anne sat up straight at that. "Indeed I won't! Do give: me a minute to feel engaged." "I nearly lost' you once, and I'm not taking any more chances. Wed- , r nesday, then." was "just quietly, Barry? Without any nd fuss at all?" "As quietly as you like. That suits me. We'll have a honeymoon at the. Perch and take a trip later." "I don't want a trip. I'd rather stay right . here." "No trip? Maybe you'll change your mind. There's Iots of time'. . About that wedding day ..." "Likes his own way, doesn't he? I'm taking an awful chance . , . Mon- day?". "Monday. You know ... it's go- ing to be pretty nice, isn't it?" She nodded quickly. They sat there Thank God," she whispered, "I don't have to be afraid of that!" The last words were shaky . .. • :ere ail the time, every day, every 1 "Somethin's cheered her up mighty together like two children, suddenly ;hour. You and :I together .. Anne!" !quick," she commented. shy. ' Warmth 'flooded over her; there j At' one side of the room hung two (Continued Next Week) was 'a stinging tingle in her veins. of Anne's dresses, freshly ironed., Why not? Who in that distant, out- ;Martha went into Anne's room to put side world would ever know? Just ;them where they belonged. Then, the two of them, here in this seclud- 'arms akimbo, she looked around. On. ed place. !a chair, half concealed by an orange Temptation tugged at her. "Take ;cushion lay a folded newspaper. your chance!' it whispered. "Take 'Martha picked it up. it ' ' `"I do wonder what started her off And then recollection flooded back, Mike that. Well, if it's in 'print it crawling over her like an oily wave. can't be any secret." "Anne, look at me!" I Martha sat do\vnto read. There THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON ELISHA HELPS THE NEEDY Sunday, Agu. 5-2 Kings 4:1-44. Golden Text: Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least'of .these my brethren der throat felt stiff and dree "Oh, were only two sheets of it and the ye have done it unto me. (Matt. Barry, please: We've been such good 'news would be stale, but she plodded 25:40.) friends, Dn't let's spoil it." ;through it carefully. There was pol- "rrh--spsail it!" The warmth died ;itical news, which she skipped. Some- We have a miracle -working God. It out of his face. He looked stung and 'body had been brutally shot down in would be impossible to conceive of a hurt, and suddenly tight lipped, a hold-up. A bold headline featured read God who could not work coir- "Sorry!" he said curtly. "I must ".the latest divorce scandal, and a "my- acles. And our God is not only a God twee e zat the wrong idea. I' thought °sterywoman" who had vanished into of omnipotence, but also a God of. well, it's been rather nice, going 'the blue; a much smaller one noted love. `"He knows,He loves He car- a Bund car- ' this, I had a feeling . , , the death of a once prominent Finan- a '=_ape . . ..it was,. getting to mean cies.- Some young girl: had been " -ncth ng to you, •te o . : m drowned and the ' bodyhad not y cin- yet :tit, prababiy." ?been recovered, and a very rich man The p jerkily, He look- had offered a reward for it. A brief Christ told us not, to be anxious or "d up suddenly. "See here, is it be- two inches of type said that the man worried about such questions as cause ''f s.mebody else, or just be- found badly wounded in the outskirts "What shall we eat? or, What shall I'm myself?" of Ventura had been identified, but we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we • henk her head, "There isn't refused to name his assailant. A be clothed?" But seek ye first the ytte4y elte, And I hate to hear screen luminary bad just received his kingdom of God, and His righteous- , eti talk like that. Barry, isn't it final decree of divorce. g ,r Stable tai like--tt, be a;vfully fond ' carnebody without----" 'Net f' r y,..,22 and me." Barry for k - i d at .her mri<,dily, soften ng because he really did lock unhappy about it, and botause she was s'o lovely --se damnably lovely. ":fid right," he said, and forced a. smile. "We won't let is spoil thirnus, 'iit's not your fault if. I didn't make a hit with you. But don't thinks' --•lie eached r,ut and laid a firm 'graep on her .wrist-..."rlrn't think Ili give tits without ars everlastingly good try,"' She would not look at hien. Couldn't let st lout? es." Mdreaver, God's love and•onnitiot- ence are concerned for tan' bodies as well as our souls. The Lord Jesus re Martha read patiently. "Murders and suicides and divorce eeI" she sniffed, "I don't see much in themto cheer anybody up. Hmpl" There was a spot on Barry's llotne- ward way --or rather, out of his way --where Trail's End was in 'full view. He detoured until he reached it and tidied up, half tempted to turn and rids: dr�wt . Out from the modest group of low buildings a dancing speck came — a girl and a pinto horse. How Anne did lave to ride, The pinto was sweeping on akin - that be It was tearing her heart ottsly. They would pass almost be- ws., ,e . s rno lyart•y, T like you rteatt, him. Hi turned Captei» about. "Old man,' if we go around by the Tess," He said, "and all these things shall be added unto you.." Five miracles of God's care for people in need are recorded 'le this lesson chapter, ' 1. A poor widow, whose husband had been a minister of God. is saved from her debts and her creditor. 2. A prominent and wealthy woman also a devout believer, is delivered from the sorrow of childlessness. 8, The only son of ,this woman, years later, is raised from the dead, 4s In a time of famine a company tnf God's .ministers, of prophets, are saved from death by poisoned food. 6, A large number of men are fed, and amply, from n p y, f in a few ]Claves and ears of corn, id trail it will half an' hour at yztur prat- The huMan instrument for 'the st tient, but if we tare the old slide working of all these rniraeles rs one ttt,vre ean join tfte lady pronto," of the leading prophets of Bible' hiss There was a woman of poxmipence who lived at Shunem. She and her husband were evidently people . of means and importance, and were true believers. They noticed that the pro- phet Elisha came that way from time to time, and they wanted to do some- thing for him. So they lifted up a COMPLETES RING AROUND HUNGARY Gcmn ns u? '���" C•Slovalda. ]Magyars (do) Rud n is Cap) Cy 12, ,vat } i ` { *erne'. A ti SOA tuna e Crscaw y yt •r Clams C12 & 1111111 lndustrca2 Thstruts $Z.OVA, KIA \,• E.sLotr :,.@i oHratxstava �,+�r A�q i •.,�ititgli 4,t,tl .00 200 Irmediatel. north 'ofAustria,and tact y with I?•otimatxza and complete the - oast of Germany, is situated C echo -ring around Hungary. Tn. the exact_ slovalcia by far the rnost industrially centre of the European countries up-• ' on which the eyes of developed of the three countries of the world days•. the Little Entente, L.i t e. E to te. With the �ex.cep- 2e C choslovalcia—a French ally -has tion of a small district of Upper Sil-an 1 p army of some 1,627,000 men, as esia, ceded by Germany it: is entircl coni pare y I d. with Germanys 2,ri00,000, composed of territory which duringAustria's 88,000, and Italy's6,494,141 , Y the Great War, was called Austria- men. The above neap is reproduced;.: Hungary, The province of Ruthenia,froin the Atlas of Current Affairs, .and.. - at the extreme east of Ceechoslovaltiapublished through the courtesy of the. was added to provide territorial ` con -Ryerson Press, little: room and fold him he was to eansider it `his, home whenever' he wished. "Let us make a little cham- ber," said the Shunarannite woman to her. husband, "on the wall; and iet us set for him there a bed, and a table,' and a stool, and a'candlestick; and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall' tur1n in'thither. " It' was a gracious act of hospitality, and was the original of• the expres- sion often heard' today, "the phophet's chamber. Elisha's heart was touched. He found, that the woman was childless, a deep sorrow to any Oriental woman in 'that' day. He sent for her, and promised that a son should come to rejoice her heart and,her husband's. This word, authorized by. God, came true. But years later, when.the. child was grown, there came- a great' sorrow to the father and mother, for nut in the fields with' his father and the 'reapers the boy suffered a sun stroke, was carried home to his mother, and died in her arms. Hearbroken, the mother made, a journey to Mount Carmel to find Elisha—and not in vain. He journe:y- ed back with her to her home,' was shown into the house and the room where the boy lay dead, and •th"ere- Elisha. poured out his heart in prayer to God. God answered his prayer, and the dead was raised to life.'. Elisha sent. for the mother, and greeted her with the joyous words: "Take up thy son. Yes,. God can raise'tlie dead to life. The bodily miracle is a type of the, spiritatai. Every saved soul is but an- other caseof the miracle of the dead' brought of life. To all of us who are saved by faith in Christ as Saviour come the glad words: "And you hath He made alive, who were dead in tres- passes and sins," (Eph. 2:1.) Sentenced for Theft of, ` Beer front Warehouse Pleading guilty before Magistrate. McCartney to the charge of the theft of beer from the Brewers Warehouse. at Port Elgin, Jack Gray and Edgar McCauley of that'town were sentenc- ed to one month in Walkerton gaol.. They were arrested by Provincial Of-. ficer Kennedy of Wiarton. Some 70 quarts pf beer were taken. Professional J. W. BUSHFIELD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, Etc. Money to: Loan. Office -- Meyer Block, Wingham' Successor to Dudley Holmes. 1 H. W. COLBORNE. M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Medical Representative D. S. C. R. Phone 54. Wingham DR. G W. HOWSON DENTIST Office Over $andi's Fruit Store own A.R.&F.E.DUVAL CHIROPRACTORS CHIROPRACTIC and ELECTRO THERAPY' North Street Wingham Telephone 300. Directory R. S. HETHERINGT'ON BARRISTER and SOLICITOR Office Morton. Block. Telephone No. 66 Dr. Robt. C. REDMOND M.R.C.S. (England) L.R.C.P. (London) PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON DR. G. H. ROSS DENTIST Office — Over Isard's Store. F. A. 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