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Ff 3 3 oh FWRI Y ALL Ve "~ (RHRAN SR WHA A ISR SST ECTS KUBERT O0UTE RC MRE [} T looking cut, caked with dried blood and dirt "You ain't as purty lookin' as you 2 RNR , 4 might be," grinned Tex, Pl Supe Flavors] Webb grinned back. He was ER thinking just now of Mae He Ah hadn't seen her since the day. the ------ --the--bedded herd. beyond came the, lonesome song of "SALADA" or VACUUM- ~SEALED Riders iw Hoot-Owl Pool by G."H. SHARP CHAPTER (Continued From Last Week) "Supposin® you. go ahead like you're go', son? Sooner or later them skunks that killed Bob Ander- son will give you a dose of lead poison. Mae will be goin' to an- other funeral. 1t 'will just about finish her. Webb, sell out to Abbot or to anybody. Give up that ranch. Sell your cattle: Marry that girl and pull out jor a new range. Webh pulled up. They sat their THREE horses there in the faint light of the half moon, ~ "They tell it, ---cowhoy;-- killed Bob. I'm provin' to 'em all that they lie. After that, if I'm still alive, I'll mebbyso head for a new 'range. But most mebby I'll stay on the ranch Ab Abbot is .tryin' to steal off me. I'm provin' to this country that I didn't kill the best friend I ever had. I'd be a damned coward and a quitter if I didn't." ~ "Flicy 'rode on in -silence; around From out there Hank," said the a cowboy. Sheriffl Hank Roberts had turned up his hole card. He had lost! CHAPTER FOUR Lead For A Lawman. The Hoot-Owl Pool shipped their - cattle. Webb was selling everything but his "cows. They worned in the stockyards from day- light on in the thick dust, sweating, . working on horseback and with prod poles, loading caftle., An un- shaven crew, sleep and the dust and the wind that whipped into their faces. When the last car was loaded, when the yards were empty, Webb Winters and the lanky Tex rode to town "with their tough cowboys. They would paint the town red to-, night, then pull out for home. Tex and Webb would go back to their ranches, The others would ride Joint stuck up. They - law -as = killed. speakmg--slowly, "that "1. .~ cing fun. He dreaded RE Hank Rob- - Ka red-cyed from lack of - away separately to meet later at some place in the badlands. N From there they would ride to- gether again, They would not be riding after cattle, however. Webb and Tex would be held up. A train would: be robbed. A big gambling would ride that outlaw trail from Montana to Mexico. And some day Webb - would find out who murdered Bob Anderson. By that whispered word of mouth known to the cowboy out- "the rustlig of the leaves," he would learn how Bob had been Then he would- payoff his debt. That had been Tex's proposi- tion. \Webb had accepted it. Rimrock. From tonight on he would be travelling that dim trail that twists down "through Wyom- ing, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona. For Webb Winters there would be no more Rimrock as he had known it.© No more dances at the schoolhouse, no more rollick- erts today. Hank, with his search- ifg eyes - that seeried to read. a man's every thought. Old Hank wouldn't want him to do what he had planned on doing. Hank wanted him to sell out and quit the country. Hank wanted him to marry Mae "and settle down on a new. range. But Bob Anderson had been mur- dered, and Bob had been. Webb's pardner. The only way to live long crough to learn who had murdered Bob was to throw in with these renegade cowboys, trail with" them 'until he found out what he wanted to learn. ) They had a man or two planted "with the Triangle outfit to pick up - news concerning the killing of Ed .. Young and Bob Anderson. Sooner or later, that information would drift down the hoot-owl! trail and then Webb Winters would pay oft Bob's debt with a smoking gun. Just the same, Webb dreaded meet- ing old Hank Roberts. : Hank would insist on him com- ing to supper. Mae would be there. Chicken and apple pie. Real dishes and -a clean tablecloth. A- game or two of whist._or seven- up. Hank and his wife would go to bed, leaving Mae and Webb there in the front room. And Mae would make a stab at talking him into selling -out. He'd have to lie to her. He © couldn't tell her how he 'and Tex had talked things out and how he'd "Webb. | Then : jury had acquitted him of Bob's murder, [hat was a few weeks ago "Got vour town elothes?" "At the hotel," Webb said. "How about you" i . "Don't need "en My gigl lives down on the Rio Grande, a long way off from here. | was to go. down and fetch her up here, but Ed gettin' killed kinda changed my plas. She's Ed's kid sister." Tex was doing, just what Webb had promised to do. They would ride "with the outlaw bunch from now on. "TI promised her 1'd settle down," Tex weng on. "I ain't let lier know about Ed yét. She's a fine girl, Too good for a renegade like me. She keeps books at a store. I'm mailin® her a letter to- day, tellin' her about Lid." : * LS R They rode into town, a dusty, dirty cavalcade. They stopped at the first saloon and had a round of drinks, then put up their horses. The Hoot-Owl Pool was in town. Spurs had been let out to the "town hole." The Hoot-Owl Pool was painting: the town red. The slanting rays of the- late afternoon sun saw them walking from one saloon to the next, singly or in small groups. gotten a shave and haircut, but mostly they were as they had been when they left the stockyards. Darkness found them warming to the fun. Sheriff Hank Roberts found Webb in the barber shop. The barber was shaving 'Webb's injured face. "How arc you, Hank?" "Still alive, Webb. What hap- pened to your face?' "Horse fly bit me. Or else mebbe it was a deer fly kicked me." 'Continued Next Week) "This would be his last night ii | Gms 'Sun tig or date time, you'll have a good time in this! That face-framing- collar is fashions newest and prettiest, skirt's a _dirndl Tiny waist has velvet bow! - Pattern 4567 comes in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 takes 4% yards 35-inch fabric. : amin' A few of them had * Alma Mater Mom--~Commencement speeches about going out into the cold, cruel world held no terror for Mrs. Margaret Ann: Between. feeding sessions for her eight-months-old I.andoll. "i Sa Cherylann, Mrs. Landoll received her bachelor's de- gree in electrical enghisariig at I'enn College.. Landoll, also a Fenn grad, while 'midway Now, she'll put asidé her. studies co-ed married leo through her college career. [he 20-year-old: and concentrate on her "Ma" degrec. ~~ ~~ DSS A it "HRONICLES JGcerFaRM by Gwendoline P Clarke "If only it would rain!" That is what we were saying this time last "year To and-today-we-are--saying-- it again. Everything is so dry--the fields, pastures and gardens--yes, and also the dust on the roads . . . but definitely! We made our annual inspection trip to 'Malton Airport vesterday and we swallowed bush- cls of dust all the way over and most of the way back: But we for- -|_got it all at the Airport as we looked * over "the wonderful improvements that have taken place since our last visit. "The old offices and. waiting room have been converted info-a modern, airy restaurant. Over in the new building there are spacious waiting rooms and offices, and over the whole structure there is an ob- servation roof, 'which, I-would" im- agine, would accommodate 1,000 people. From it you can .observe at close quarters planes coming in for a landing, or taking off for distant points cast and west. You can watch the ground crew chasing around like so many ants=cxcept- that these ants travel by jeep and tractor. A plane lands . . . immediately a little tractor manoeuvres a run-' way into position for travellers to alight from the ship. Another tractor, trailing three to five little trolley cars, is loaded with passen- ger baggage which_ it toes around to the Customs- Office. Passengers alight as nonchalantly as they would from a streetcar . . . men with brief cases or golf clubs; fash- ,ionably dressed women, some with rather bored expressions; mothers with babies in"arms, or youngsters toddling at their side--the children excited, - the mepthers too occupied plane, the stewardess and the pilot and 'co-pilot. Then another ground crew takes over . . . the big ship is refuelled for 'its next take-off; foot. You sec; RP rv --four-lane highway, baggage is. right through the centre of our farm, and- also through the two farms immediately cast and west of us, there are little stakes here and there, complete with flags, indicating that the Depart- ment of Highways is at work on a new surveying job. The whole neighborhood is agog with curiosity because rumour has it that a new running from Montreal to Windsor is being plan- ned, and_will hae right | across country leaving®us with 45 acres on 'one side of the road and 55 on the other. Well, having had 'dealings with the highway depart- ment before we know it moves mightly slow its wonder to perform so at present we are just sitting . tight and awaiting farther develop- ments, --Other-changes-have-already-taken--|- place around here which are of more concern to us at the moment. We are saying goodbye to our .tried and trusty horses; also to our big high-powered ~ oil-burning tractor, and in their place we have a small, exceedingly mobile tractor that will, we hope, "take the place of the horses and yet be equal, on a small- er scale, to do the field work for- merly done by its big brother tractor. With all this going on we "have also been entertaining. One of our -- nieces, who is now-a-nufsing sister at Sunnybrook Hospital, spent a few days with us last week. Satur, day night Bob took. her back te | "Toronto and then came bringing with him daughter and a friend. And T am a busy with the paint-pot! ZEPHANIAH CALLS TO . REPENTANCE Lmalt Zephaniah 1:12-18; 3:16-20 Golden Text: Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his. judgment; Jhome, seek: "Dear Anne Hirst: I've been married 30 years, and [ wouldn't = com- plaii=if only I were loved by ried. 'bond i3 assum- ced to" he a. legalized affectionate partencrship, but mine is the un- 'derpaid servant arrangement. I am vegarded as the permanent cheap cook. I do- the milking, 1 feed calves, pigs and chickens--besides, of course, all the housework. I have good lazy. . "I-would enjoy doing all this, if any appreciation" were shown. But 'there is never a word of love from I'im, nor a caress, nor a good-bye. . "He has never voluntarily taken me to a show. (In all these years, we have been to exactly five movies together) . . He sneaks off to town alone, never asks me to go aiong. He devours his. meals in silence, hidden behind a newspaper or a trashy magazine. He seldom speaks to the children unless to give a command. (We have two, in their teens.) "A LONELY LIFE "My husband keeps everything bottled up inside him. Then when lie-- does blow his top, I am the target for his temper. He is always unfriendly. He has. sulked from three to six months at a time! "He never thinks I clothing, but he is dressed like a dude every day, My winter coat is-25 years old, and my mother gave it to me. He spends lavishly for anything for himself. 'I am too proud to beg. "What I'd like. to do is to go away and get a job--I need every- thing. I can't see any future here except a lonely old age, waiting on one who considers "only him- | self. 1 have no social life. I feel. more like a robot than a human being. I am simply starving for love. "What shall. I do? Go away and: work--or stay--and grow older, and wiser? Are there other husbands like mine? (I've been told f did too' much for him). -I am so very-- . UNHAPPY" = | * It may be true that when you * first married, you spoiled your * husband (as most wives do), and * did .not assert yourself under his * growing indifference. Yet if he * had thie milk of human kindness * in him, the man 1 mar- "I'he marriage POETS SI EE NE EE TEE SE EE I health, and I'm not "BEBE EN >»R 2X REEET EEE - need: any - kept you cosnitented by his ap- preciation of all you did and were. It is too late to change. him now. The best you can do is to adjust yourself to him as he is, and cease to expect snything more, 'I urge you to av even 50. "late, to build seme social life among your neighbors and through your church, and to find in your chil- dren the comfort denied you by. your husband, Can you justify leaving' home, with your children still needing you? Or are they able to shift for "themselves? When they are, settled, you might indeed con- sider it. Just now, what sort of home life would they have without you there? Yours has been, and -is, a sad lot. I have heard of other hus- bands like your own, in lesser degree, yes. And their wives have continued to submit throughout the years, There seems little to do about- it--except, as I sug- gest, to find some pleasure and change in associating more with other -people around you. If men would only realize how little it takes to make wives- happy, there would be. fewer dis- contented women in the world. You have my deepest sympathy, * * + >» Ii your lot 'in life is a anhappy ong, and nothing can be done to better it, tell Anne Hirst. She has . Nog . ideas that may help you make life more interesting. Address her at Box 1,-123 Eighteenth: St, New Toronto, Oat. Reporter: "And what would -you sav has been the chief source of yout strength and health?" 100-year-old: "Vittles." he would have. at least | Upside down to prevent peeking >|wiZ]w <|Bj<C|X | | mviall s|dojojalliv]a N|a[1|N[o Ni{d[Alvi3] vi ' fu AMIN $|S|O) 4 Vv 9IN|O}|V 3 0 13 a II vIN VIG ANAS N|\ lf] [daw |v. ) B|LIVIN] 19) 2/0] siviSls(alsS|vie SH told Tex that he'd ride the outlaw ie righteousness, seek meekness: it trail. This pattern, cas to use, simple- r : y may be ye .shall be hid in the day to sew, is tested for fit. Has brought up by the little trucks A Limited Number It was about noon. Webb rode complete illustrated instructions which allo cafry 3 loading eiehla .of the Lord's anger.--Zephaniah 2:3. h with his } ed i f 5 . tor, one end of which is evelated to a A : ith his hat slantec across his Send twenty-five cents (25¢) in tic. branude t tof Ake: The Lord's; prophets" were con- -- IN 2 PL w eyes. He was powdered with dust, coins (stamps cannot be accepted) the -haggage' compartment . or. stantly exhorting the people to 0 ew 2-PLO . oy sweat-marked," and unshaven. His for this pattern. Print plainly size, plane. The, escalator is set in mo: repent. Zephaniah reminds Judah : - . : ! & } bloodshot eyes were squinted. A name, address, style number. tion and up goes the baggage with- that God will search Jerusalem with WITH POWERFUL ; I } steer had hooked at him in the pens, Send order to Box 1, 123 Eigh- out benefit of Red-caps.. Then a candles and will punish. "Neither : | ripping his cheek. It was an ugly- teenth Street, New Toronto, Ont. Jeep gomes along Wit R ho dine<L. their silver nor their gold shall be WILLYS MOTORS ' aN tarrying re Figerated 10 "able t6 deliver them in the day of . f rE 2 Nn supplies. - The. entire comainer 1s the Lord's wrath." But not all the 4 A 11. Garden plot 41. Level ground raised to the level of the ship's conle Ware: swideed Phe. del AVAILABLE Vow s 1 fi CROSSWORD 11 passin tet by a stream receiving door by means of an in- peop Ahi ' - ! pa) Aa 43. Bleat which have wrought his judgment toy 7 1 30; Yo 45. Employed visible hydraulic hoist. In a little are urged to seek righteousness and ' 4 PUZZLE 21. Promontories 46 Spreads while loud speakers announce the seek meakness. 'The good must seek" "A NEW, custom-built tractor for EA $875.00 f.0.b. ir - i : 23 Not sleeping 47. Behave number of the flight and its destin- to be better 51 the Eg to to be hid Toronto! Why this. startlingly low price? Just this-- it ACROSB | 6. Man's "ys. Character 18. Alstican ation and presently passengers fill Tent thé Ton 1's tt 0 : / Shes nts nationally ony trsetors were pismifactuied A 1. Business. n cikhame « Pagsed 1nto A I hip again, helped b trim | 3 qn mpire Tractor Corporation of Philadelphia. af getters 8 For frample 6 gplution ees 1, Femintna : the oD E v piri d tl t Zephaniah closes with a song. He for rugged South American duty. Dollar difficulties killed © X oa 4. Tedtn down 8: Eastern an. {onvenes 59. Celtic Neptuns Thong oh giv 4g plane Ee oi sees a better day. If the prophets the deal. The result--you get a tractor for only $875. \ ' wy " . Vegetable . Lik. E * . 4 Aci . os hn. AS 18 Fapilons bird 9, Projecting 30. Bocord 1 52. Recent _pilot and co-pilot, upon whose skill? | ate termed _pessimists because they It's a lot of tractor--you'd pay upwards of $1775 for --.- i 16 Wax ointment 1g Binea "metal 85. As fat as and integrity the lives of so many pronounce Judgmns Shon ih ik one like it at regular prices. Look at its big features-- 2 48 2D i J {fri : C3 CE CI 0 people depend, once more take over Bers 0 ae ay; a icy care as Al Replaceable Parts -- Engine, transmission and. differential : wh SAG AG 19. Religious at the controls; the ground crew optimists because they never fal all made by nationally known automobile mantfactuters. Spare 48 J 21, frotto "finish their Va Various jobs and the big to see a brighter day, when God's Hon available anywhere in Canada. A i ' orse ] 7 Caine Whedon Hr. rio Cheer Ded sont. ot acon. aust, | Kingdon' hal be supreme, God wil AE AE a Re. Mut a auwna 28, Reverence [| . As it wheels around for a take-off punish the wicked and reward the : 'Copacity=Tws 11inch py : of . wai 28 Qlpuniy men 3 0 : ; down the runway, those on the Ob- righteous. But if the wicked repent ' vd Get tliese ready for the shower 32. Shallow vessel } servation Roof -hang on to their before destruction befalls them, Transmission --Low and high gear. 6 forward speeds. 2 reverse. a ison) fo wi gift--lovely cro- 33. Spanisy hats and 'catch their breath as wind, there is forgiveness. Jonah spoke Povier Take-Off --Bel pulley at rear with 3 speeds forward and AY chet and embroidery for towels, | 1 $4. Language { icli truly when he said in' his prayer, : £9 RRSP Salaldy & ' created. by the four whirling pro- y prayer, Le = : 5 7h kh APE i) f heats " i Fees 3 pellers, swirls around them, 1 don't | "I knew that thou art a. gratious . PY hie type blak: man drive Axle; x "n a ake. 4 c P or-a bride. " . All (. are stand i + ; ; : : 1 Pattern 896; transfer 6 motifs ie 40: slave oo ; : 5 Gl Bh dh at eam pilin 5 Tractors Shipped --Ready.serviced for Immediate use. ~~ - , ' x 6% to 7x14; crohet directi 42. Bitter veteh : 4 Te iis ; ; $7 to Wheeler's 44 I "© 43. Foreman 7 to travel by air is about as.safe and | thee of the evil." There is hope for Air Cléanar == Of Fier -- Lights Front and Rear -- Hydraviic Sout panD, | prove pa 44. Attra ) : pleasant a means of transport as one | all. + They're powerful, versatile 2.plow tractors ~brand new except ; tern makes crochet and knitting so it: Baiimyra pate 58 | 1d hope for in this day and age Our nations need messengers from * fot chipped paint Jobs fn a few Instances. If you're Interested, you + simple with its charts, photos and 80. Yeast. 5 SR Loo] REE = 55 BB od fe or th, a plane take off. God who are not afraid to denounce had better act fast, because that's the way they're going ~ fast! concise directions, 6 Batisfied FEN ' . PERE . Phone, wire or, better yet, come see us today. . ; 66. Before ; A 14 or fly over our farm, without wish- sin and God's judgments upon it. t conf frany Sye cons as) 8 Beysrage Poy "TT I% . ing 1 was one of its passengers, These men require a lively faith in FIRST COME-FIRST SERVED ois {5 FL i op * A 89. Lut tig rps yl es i (1 [= Who knows . . . some happy day the goodness of God. to Jegive the THEY WON'T LAST LONG! - at : : ! : 2xXeNge Pry 21 rel [a be I shall be! repentant and faith in_the great- : Lighteenth Stree vew T ns L oR I 1S EL [OS] 1 FN : 1 Lo maybe Ont Print plainly ls a BE Len mate Seer iE we 5 = * But. right now we at Ginger Farm, ness of Ged to uhtinately tismph, FALC , 3 : : oie : 1 Turkish : \ : : are not so much concerned with | Such pfophets may not be popular ' * your, name and address; 3, elm: Y A 5 BE ® HE - what happens over our heads as | but time and eternity will indicate ON EQUIPMENT €o0. ATD. Answer elsewhere on this page. a their message and work. 3 Leyton pica Toronts 13 we are with what goes on under- Dept. W.L.-1 Phones OXford 1138 a : ====78SUE 21 -- 1950