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f. I THURSDAY, NOVEMBER'S, 1933 THE CLINTON CHRONTCLErCt TNTOW. f! r PAGE SEVEl^ For the next five hours, Ruth, Ann, inf? which he could live on this prop- and the two Mexicans labored vainly I erty, make the required improvements, with the dyins: steer. It is neither easy ] and so become owner of it. nor pleasant to treat animals for ppis-1 And now it appla'^red that some con-ja tremendous blow of his fist. “Open this!’ get th’ hell off my property—huh?*' Old Charley’s face was the color of a Well-done ham. He hit the door with Continued next week. FINAL SETTLEMENT Take notice that on the 21st day of Novemrer, ! will render final ac- about fifty feet from the i count of my acts and doings as Ad- oning; for according to the actions of . founded foreigner was iritent ion tak- ithe steer and the Cattle Breeder’s >ing this property ..away from Will! I Guide it had been poisoned. W’hen the I Old Charley dropped his horse’s reids ■ steer was dead, Ruth went to the over a post and Crawled through the medicine shelf. Standing on a sack I fence. He was going to pay his of rolled barley which lifted her eyes ^ would-be neighbor a call. ! to the level of the shelf, she discov ered that there were two'Quaker Oats shack. The setting &un threw deep! oi me , boxes, each containing a whitish pow-! j;hadovs under the oak tree. The sin- Fertruson deceased m r™- der. On the outside of one box was|jj-le wmdow was open, but the old man the Judire of Probate of scrawled In pencil, “for liver fever;’’ . V Probate of the other box had a poison label t colyimn of smoke, charge from my trust as Administra- hand, looking from one to the other Near the door stood a box holding a.tdx ^ T» • .* the life of her, she could not tell | washbasin. 'There was a splash of; Im ju.>t a mite ^-hich she had taken from the shelf > water on the iministrator of the estate of W. M. in the office of Laurena a. m., and on the in doctorin’the water. i. i. ^ i i .pasture they feed along the foothillsj old Charley sat upon his At the barn Snavely rummaged t a heap an’ you know it was* foothill, leanimr slrehtlv forward his bellitrer- lamonK the litter ofJhemedKine shelf I feeders that ^rot took had. We ain’t Lnt eyes on a thin thread oMmoke SIXTEENTH INSTALLMENT ! wouldn’t tell, an’ it don’t make no dif-j much left; but I don’t think we’ll haye SjTiopsis: Ruth Warren, who lived 1 what it ia. You come back to i any more trouble. in the East, is willed ■ worried about the stock in the north j the evening before, interest in the “Dead Lantern” ranch in .Arizona by her only brother, who is reported to have met his death while j and produced a Quaker Oats box [found no sdcl^L'down **on thrmeaV-! which on business in Mexico. Arriving in |nearly full of a dirty white powder.|ows. I’ll take a little of that powder niesauite half a mile bevond the east u u i Arizona with her husband rbo has broadly, j :nto town but maybe you’d better put ern boundarv of h s ranch He ^ ' n ir if ailing lungs and their small child, - the spring troughs-I ain’t me injohj ly^an rode to the top of a small, j^^ring on.” !pr.< w'atpHno- at thorn tinno-hcwhich the fence passed, dis- Old Charley frowned and went to ners watenng at them tioughs. ^mounted and, kicking off his chaps, ^ard the shack. Any person indebted to said estate _ side of the oox. j jj, notified and required to make pay- I “Hello, neighbor!” called Old Char- ment on or befpre that date; and i|ll horse, icy^ I parsons having claims against said i .K frying pan dropped to the floor estate will present them on or before with a clatter, but no othe"? resp'on.se j ^^aid date, duly proven or be forever came fiom a clump of oak and came from the house. Then, as he ba»'red. FA’A T). FERGU«?ON, Administratrix. learn that the ranch Is located 85 niiles from the nearest railroad. Old Charley Thane, rancher and rural mail carrier agrees to take them to the j plainly skeptical. Ifj . Jliat evening P-*'' reached up tofstudied a mesquite tree which served Hp' h«ncr,.H nn the <lnor ini “Dead Untefn” gate, 5 miles from the" ‘H help. Mr Snavely, j the medicine shelf, found the partly as a post in the fence. Then. withi*u^,.^ TTlt a messX' for vou ^ ranch house. As they trudge wearily ^ certainly put it in the water., fiPed cardboard box and poured a | much grunting and many scandalous, ” through a gulch approaching the ranch 1 ^he same time we 11 get " • . nrom a menu. house, a voice whispf*rs “Go back! . . .''’^torinary. ’ medicine would not be diluted during | From his new position he could st’« '(}oor rasped roughly the night, poured in the powder ami | the origin of the smoke. One look want stranger Side Quit Hurting, Got Stronger, Well; CARDUI Helped Her Go back!” At the ranch house they are! “There ain’t a bit rf use in getting a greeted suspiciously by the gaunt i vet., Mrs. Warren. This stuff is cer- ^ small am'ount in a cup. .At the troughs j remarks regarding thorns he hauled she turned the water off so that the,his hea\y body part way up the tree. “I ain’t got no friend sendin’ me no messages: t” The voice behind the, “What d'yuh ' rancher partner, Snavely, and Indian tain. All knowledge ain’t stuck in the returned to the barn for her Spanish told him much and his remarks in- Aim, ^ herculean wanian of mixed- Nu- -icro and Indian blood. Snavely is dif ficult to understand but regardless, i Ruth takes up the task of trying to adjust their^ three lives to the ranch and its development. Kenneth, Ruth’s husband, caught in a chilling rain, con-1 tracts pneumonia and passes away be fore a doctor arrives. Ruth tries to t carry on. She is not encouraged by, Snavely in plans to tiy 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 intere.st in j Dead" Lantern raitch . <Now (io On'With the~'Htnr>*T “Might be a good idea,” said Snavely slowly, as they rode up to the remains of th*e cow which lav at the mouth of the gully. Snavelv dismounted lesson. She hoped Old (’harle>\_ almost abandoned the ! 14 w ■ ^ 4. 4ft volume antT te«npsi‘atui'e“as' hypothesis—moonshiners j Snavdy.coud obtain more ot the: ho ile.scended.' more Tm,uii.itive-'about messaKoa I medic.ne and, if not dec, ed that ahel The land from which the thread of from friemis. However, he tried would send a sample to W dl—surely i ^^ose was free land-itovern-1 again. ■ < I !^!rs. K. L. West, of Huntsville. A’a., writes: “1 was weak and ruii-ilown. I had a pain in my side, and I kept losing weight. I grew h .Anils i).iM'<niy «_'< itii lit Ion—this was enu.'u.il for tn.>, for I urn very'ch**er- f 1 i\iif-n I un; w* U untl don't ea.nly 1 ,'r\ mi.s 1 k-lieW 1 ouglit lQ ,taJi.o sn"., ttiin; M.v uoH t<'M me 1 o'lXht ti« try i’iirilm, wlucU 1 dlti. 1 b*-gai» . lo ti hi’tutr. I kept It up UHtU I liml t.iUen thif*- or four bottles. My si I.' <|ii1t hurtltiK uml I was soon ft. limt stronx un i wt>ll.*’ r- .rilni Is FoM at drug stores ^er«. sT 666 ^ some aioiatoiy in Ixis .Angtdes would homestead land. It joined the i The old man frowned. “.My name’s; ^anayze^i Than® ranch on the west and theiThane-vI own the ranch, here, and It As she and David and .Alfredo were I)(>ad Lantern property on the north, j thought IM see who’s living in this leaving the next morning for the day’s: extending eastwani as far as the high-1 shack.” I i • -a t Ki t « i v n riding, they chanced to go into the way. Since Will had been a boy. Old | Like hell y%i own this land! I'm mV’ ""c**^*^ , pasture by way of the spring troughs, ('barley had planned for him to use,ownin’ it myself, come another five 1' Malaria in .3 days, olds first jit was early, and the advance guard his homestead rights to acquire thisimonlhs! 1 done paid my vi.sit to the:^^'* Headaches or Neuralgia in 3® , of the herd was just coming over a excellent piece of property. It would land office, Mister, and I don’t feel | distant hill for their first drink of the! make a wamderful pasture deep in like openin’ no door. Don’t like to talk'FINE LAXATIVE AND* TONIC day, when the riders reached the-sriass and .shaxle, and having several; noway,-, fat people don’t agree with troughs. natural sites for watering places. Hut'me.” Only three cows, two calves, and a | when Will had come of age he was 11 he six animals lay Within a hundred jin college. And when he fini.shed col- fget of the troughs. All but the steer j lege he went into iiusiness—never dul "What! Why, you low—’’ ~“Yoah,” interrupted the voice, “an<l.i besides, I’m gettin’ my supiier so why! i were deail. Will have six continuous pionths ihir-|don’t you be a nice little fat man an Most ^Speedy Remedies Known. WHAT DO P. S. Jeanes DO? and examined (|e wis going to pay his would-be the c(-w. Ruth sat on her horse, watch-1 neighbor a call. ing. “Say!” he said in a surjiri.sedl ^ ^ - l ^— voice, “it might be—no. .Never heard- of that in this country.” He came to- ‘ward'llu* Tioi>es, shaking hi.s head in jierplexity. “What do yt)u think it might he?” “I ain’t saying yet—have to /ee an other one or two. But if it’s what it looks like—Hmni.” Snavely lapsed into silence as he and Ruth rode on. Finally the girl said, “Don’t Ik* so vest pocket of scientific f(dks. Why,' tWt t)ld nigger, claimeil this was dis- - covejed in .Africa-—the only place they* have Ijver fever common—an’ for no-! body knows how many years the .sav- \ age.s hav(K,used this same medicine. A Oh thing thatlv been used by people for j a thousand years an’ found to vviork,*^ don’t need no doctors to helj) it none.” [ “Well, we’ll ti'x it to-night, if you' T mysterious please, if you think but 1 wish you’d leave 4,or..down know what s wrong, tell me! morning—you know we have to “Well. I ain’t saying yet, but if itAlt,__ „i.oulies anvwav.X have supplies anyway. what it look.s to be it s a lucky thing ^ Snavely rode away with his l>ox of I m here. I reckon I m the only nr*®]] medicine and returned abotit nine that in this country that s had to do evening. After he had eatert he came that sickness.'‘Liver fever,’ I’ve heard knocked. “I’ve it called in Texas nobody^-- knows some in every represa, Mrs. War- .what it is. Very uncommon. ^ j corral troughs and in Mr. Snavely’s worst suspicions troughs by the spring—” t y/ert confirmed after the exami- Ruth opened her door and steppC'^ nation. He looked “P- j outside, for David had just gone to fever, sure enough! sleep. “Have you seen Francisco and j “What shall we do will the whole They found seven more Ot? F. H. R! herd get it?” ^ dead this afte:*noon—there are buz-, “I’ve got the cure for it. ^^''^Izards circling all along the foothill! mighty lucky to find out about it *®ijyuliirs. Please start to town early—-j soon. It 8 easy, dead easy, to cure, but machines pass, you ask them to if we let it go it 11 clean out ^ veterinary as soon as they FAMILY HOLD BACK! animal on this ranch an’ out of : j eg'^b tovvn.” section of the country. It s very raie, Warren!” Snavely fixed her an’ uncommon .sickness, liver fever nanowed’eyc.s. “I know the medi- l ut I can cure it. “I glinted eagerly. Snavely’s eyes had- occa.Mon cine will .stop the sickness!” The momentary .steadine.ss of his eyes gave ’i'uxa.s with a herd that near di,c‘d of their customary jerking, and —nobody, no vet-inary, nor .'‘mai, man walked toward his room, tould do k thinj'. dust when things Ruth did not quite know what to do. was worit an old nigger man cajne .^1 “ “.Mrs. Warren ’—Shavely stopped at * his own door and his manner .softened [ —“I know how you’re worried an’ if 1 I didn’t know the-dangei was over, ’d j .start for town now. Now listen here ^ —if we find one fresh dead cow after ' I T’S a crisis in any self-re.specting home when the cl(K*k strikes seven are lower than they are Sikely ever to be aKain! *s hothinR (extra on hand to feed the unexpected jfuest. to-night, I’ll get your vet’inary. I’m iseyin'j this ’cause 1 know the sickness; will stop, an’ I ain’t goin’ a-foggin’j into town for no vet’inary who couldn’t do nothin' after he got here. Ruth stood thinking. She was not 'at that moment so ve.y afraid of Snavely. Stitl . . .Anyway, she hadl But the past four years have made Mrs. Hubbards of a great many of us.^ Our cupboards have a lean and Vuntfry look, and often have we looked over the larder to find the flour tin empty, the suRar baK emaciated, the potato sack T In the past four years food products have gradually lost the greater part of their true value as commodities. Prices have Rone to low that the farmer, the manufacturer, the wholesaler, the re- taiieC have not been able to Ret a fair return for their services, or to pay their employees even a living waRe. Wheat has advanced 834 since last February, (’orn 110%. Pork 29l/2‘^<. Fruits and veRetables 364. This process of brinRinR back food values is steadily RoinR on, but it is not yet complete. There are still stocks of non|H*rishable foods on the market at ama/.inRiy low prices. But those stocks are strictly limited! (’heck your cup board today. Now is the time to buy. “'There are buzzarda circling along the foothill g ulliee.’* all i hi.s word; one more dead animal. And I in three day.s Old Charley would be | i going into town. If need be, she could , ask him to send out a veterinary. j The following day five more dead j .snim4ls were found, but none recently dead. Ruth tallied the bulls and found only one, Nunnber Six, missing. She [Crossed his number from her list. So ' i&r she had lost eighteen head, about j j one thousand dollars. For" all she • knew, that thousand dollars might | ' mean the failure to meet her note, i I Certainly, If many more cattle died j ; she could not meet it. j ; But nomsore cattle died. For a wegk i limp, the jams all Rone, and the canned Roods vanished. Obviously, this is the time of times to stock up your pantry, to make it aRain the fount cf your hospitality. There are many groceries you can buy and put on the shelf . . . flour . .. co^ee .. . canned goods .. . sugar .. . jams .. . hams ... cereals ... soaps ... beverages . . . and scores more. And prices today But under the NBA code, certain standards, certain Values are definitely fixed. A worker has to be paid a decent living wage.‘And since we must air eat, and human labor enters into the pro duction of all foods, the result is going to be that food products wilLcome hack up in price until they are worth some thing again. _ Already raw materials are going up.- Upturn Item No. 9 \ nation-wide food distribution company reports August sales'on I a unit basis 204 ahead of August la.st vear. ipto camp an’ said he could cure all them as was left. He done it—not a ievery one anxiously watched for buz-; zards but the great birds had grown n more scarce and not a single new death was reported. Ruth’s relief was single animal died after old Jake doc tored them.” “How?” “He just put a little medicine in the unbounded and Snavely’s eyes glinted triumphantly. ^ ^ r ^ The day\came when Snavely was; getting out for town. Ruth spoke *tO') water they drunk, that’s all. I got^him just as he was leaving, “I wish; five pounds of that medicine for a dol-' you’d take some of that medicine with' lar a pound an* I still got it. I can put'you and see if you can’t get it ana- that medicine in the water /an’ there Iyzed-~-go to a druggist and if he can won't be no more deaths.** ‘ j tell what it is, get some more/’ ACT WISELY AND QUICKLY. THE ADVERTISEMEN'TS IN THIS NEWSPAPER BRING YOU NEWS OF MANY GOOD FOOD BARGAINS STILL 'TO BE HAD. READ THEM CAREFULLY EACH WEEK,: THEY CONTAIN INTERESTING SUGGESTIONS .... THEN, AT PRESENT FAVORABLE PRICES, SUPPLY YOUR PRESENT AND FUTURE NEEDS! r ■ . —^ ■ i 4- “What is the medicine?** oiuiw/ nww4*._. <> » > ' rightly—fa^im^"^d^~^kc^dehr^Pff!sd'fc^^'"tt:**Weaii^ \ Snavely nodded., • \ \ \ \ I 4' I /■ S