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/ THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1931 PAGE Women's Interests in the ome aad the Community Mr. Frank Donald, of Grand Prairie, is a guest at the home of his aunt and uncle, Mr, and Mrs. D, A, Donald, Brock Street. . . \ -two tables of bridge were played last evening at St. Gregory's Parish Hall when the members of the Catholic Women's League entertained, The affair was most successful. The ladies of the Executive were in charge of all the arrangements. Irises were won by Mrs. J, Hefferman. Miss Kathrine McCawley, 'Brock- ville; Mr, Stuart Lee and Mr. Frank Donald, of Grand Prairie. Mr. Lloyd Workman won the lucky number prize. The parish hall took on a very festive ap- pearance for this occasion with the flowers from the different class rooms of the school form- ing the decorations. * LJ * The prize winners for bridge last evening when the Alumnae of the Oshawa General Hospital entertained were: for coutract bridge, Mrs. Elmer Dixon, Miss Evelyn Lick and Mrs. Rapson and for auction bridge, Miss E. Smith, Mrs, F, J. Rundle and Miss C. Stinson. Miss M. Power received the lucky number prize. A number of - Oshawa people attended the Dur] Regiment Officers' Ball last evening held in the Community Hall at New- castle. Among them were: Major and Mrs. R. B, Smith, Lieut, and Mrs, Russell Humphreys, Mr, and Mrs. Clayton Downey, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gartshore, Capt. and Mrs. W, J. Locke, Mr, and Mrs, L. J. Patterson, Mr, and Mrs. C. A. Pym, Dr. and Mrs, Grant Berry, Mrs. B. Borgford, Col, H. Smith, Miss Christine McLaren, Miss Lois Mundy, Miss Edith Lucas, Lieut. Lyle Gerry, Lieut. C. R. Butt, Capt. Angus Mitchell, Miss Kathrine Thorburn, Miss Sadie Thorburn and Mr. Hugh Beaton, : Ld " Mrs. Leo Gray, of Oshawa, at- tended the bridge given yester- day afternoon in Toronto by the Trafalgar Chapter of the Ontario Ladies' College Alumnae at Sher- bourne House. Mrs, C. R, Cars- callen, Miss A. A. Maxwell, of the College were also present at the affair besides, Mrs. George Ross, Mrs. W. A. Holliday, and Mrs. A. R. Sanderson, of Whitby. * * LJ Rev, Dr, Jesse Arnup, of To- ronto, who will preach at to-mor- row morning's service in Simcoe Street' United Church will be a Buest of Rev, and Mrs. E, Hars- ton for the week-end. L I I Mr, and Mrs. ¥, G, Armstrong, of Paris, Ontario, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs, W. J, McLarty, Simcoe Street North. v LJ . Miss K. McCawley, of Breck- ville, who has been the guest of Miss Nora Coughlin for the past week returned to her home this morning. FRETFUL, RESTLESS? Look to this cause When your baby fusses, tosses and seems unable to sleep restfully, look for one common cause, doctors Constipation, To get rid f the accumulated wastes se restlessness and dis jve a cleansing dose of astoria, you. know, is y for children's delic- is a pure vegetable ontains no harsh tics, It is so mild , can give it to a o relieve colic. Yet it is asiffective for older children, Castoria's regulative help will bring relaxed comfort and restful sleep to your babv. Keep a bottle on hand. Genuine Castoria always has the name: Castoria. = made spe ate needs. preparatio drugs, ng WOMEN'S MEETINGS PYTHIAN SISTERS The largest number that have attended a meeting of the Ontario Temple No. 1 Pythian Sisters for some time turned out on Thurs- day evening, for roll call meeting. Sister Sarah Logeman, M.E.C. presided. Ti» meeting was a most successful one and much business was accomplished. At its conclusion, Sister Gillard and a committee of ladies served light refreshments, It was an- nounced that Sister Ethel Northey of French Btreet, is entertaining the members of the lodge on Wednesday evening of néxt week, TO SPEAK HERE NEXT MONTH ! It is expected that Mrs. Irving Robertson, of Toronto, a promin- ent worker in women's clubs in that city, who centers her inter- ests particularly in Home and Schoo! Club work and the Local Council of Women and who at present is the president of the Mothercraft for Toronto will be in Oshawa between December the sixth and the twelfth to give an address to the Home and School Associations of the city on "Mothercraft" a subject which has been discussed in the local clubs recently with a view to establishing Mothercraft classes in connection with the Home and School Societies. MRS. A. PERRY DIRECTS PLAY The Elite Dramatic Club staged their third play of the season on Thursday evening in the lecture hall of Albert Street United Church, "Always in Trouble" was the name of this three act farce, in which the following took part: F, Stirtevant, D. Rice, B, Sar- gant, ¥. Ayres, A, Eagle, Mrs, C. Lee, M. Mills, E. Baldwin, and Mrs, PF. Ayres. The success of the performance is in great part, due to the director, Mrs. A. | Perry. Bill Sugdon took on the duties of stage manager. Nor- man Williams was pianist for the comforting relief ith D a" ng." Just wbon entire performance, and an or- chestra played selections before the curtain rose and in the inter- 'missions. a ---- "Silver wedding rings" are ad- vertised. Even brides seem to be going off the gold standard, it is commented, "More have autos than have bathtubs," a writer de- clares, I, where can you go in a bathtub? Girl's Father--Young man, I don't know whether you can sup- port my daughter, but you can certa keep her up. Discharged Mad -- "You des- §iihed me as dishonest to that dy, I cannot find words to ex- press my indignation, Ex-Mistress -- And we can't find four pairs of silk stockings and three tablecloths, dress, gown, suit or long coat or gents Whitby Phone 468. Oshawa Phone 760, We make a small extra 'charge for : leating RUNTY HAS A SURPRISE LESSON That day is lost wherein no gain Of knowledge somehow you attain, --0ld Mother Nature. Clinging with all four feet and his funny little tail to the tree which he had climbed, Runty, the smallest of the twelve little Possums, looked down at his father, Unc' Billy Pos- sum, as he lay on the ground ap- parently dead, Flip the Terrier had c.aght Unc' Billy and right before Runty's terrified eyes had shaken im to death. Anyway, he thought he had and Runty thought he had. Do yow,wonder that Runty was as badly frightened a small Possum as ever was? He didn't dare come down from that tree lest Flip the Terrier be somewhere near, so al) he could do was to cling where he was and whimper as he looked down at Unc' Billy lying there where Flip had thrown him. "Ah didn't suppose anything could happen to him," whimpered Runtv. "No, suh, he was so smart Ah didn't reckon anything ever could happen to him. Ah didn't suppose the Great World was such a terrible place. Ah want mah Mammy and Ah don't know how to find her." Runty began to cry. You know he was, after all, a very little fellow and frightened and alone, Suddenly he stopped crying. He st red long and hard at Unc' Billy, He let go of the tree with one hand and rubbed his eyes. Then he look- ed again. He was sure, absolutely sure, that Unc' Billy's eyes had been closed all the time, and now one of them was open. What was more, one of Unc' Billy's mouth closed and his lips drew back over his teeth, Runty's eyes looked as if they might pop right out of his head, Slowly, very slowly and cautious- ly Unc' Billy raised his head and looked all around. Then he scram- bled to his feet. shook himself and looked up at Runty and grinned. "Ah reckon it is safe fo' yo' to come down now," said he. Runty lost no time in scrambling down. He was still having hard work to believe his own eyes, He was almost afraid to approach Une' Billy. He couldn't find his tongue, Unc' Billy knew just how he felt and grinned again. ; "Ah done fool that Dog," said he. "Did yo' see me?" "Ah saw him kill yo'" replied Runty, "Anyway, Ah thought Ah did." Unc' Billy chuckled "So Ah fool- ed yo' as well as the Dog," said he. "Yo' have had one of the most im- portant - lessons a Possum can learn." Runty looked the surprise'he felt, "What lesson"? he demanded. Again Unc' Billy grinned. "The lesson of using wits," said he promptly. "Ah didn't have a chance to run, did Ah?" "No," replied Runty. "Ah didn't have a chance to climb a tree, did Ah?" demanded Unc' Billy. "No," replied Runty, : "Ah couldn't fight because that Dog was too big and strong fo' me's Unc' Billy continued. "So Ah just fooled him. Ah made him think Ah was daid. That's an old trick of the Possum family. Ah done saved mah lite many times that way, Yo' DODD'S KIDNEY mammy done saved her life the same way mo' times than she can remember. When there is no chance fo' vo' to run or climb or hide just pretend that yo' are daid, and stay that way until yo' are sure the danger is over." ; "Didn't that Dog hurt yo' when he shook you ?" Runty wanted to know. : "It wasn't just comfortable," grin- ned Unc' Billy, "but what does that amount to when it is matter of sav- ing yo' life? Just nothin" at all." (Conyright, 1931, by T. W. Burgess) The next story: "How to Play Dead." SELL EVERYTHING IN HARDWARE Completeness of Stock a Feature of R. S. 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It neutralizes mouth acids, which eat through the tooth enamel, Your dentist will tel) you he knows of nothing better for keeping the teeth and mouth in a fine, healthy condition, (Made in Canada.) ' ' Co % 3 lity has no substitute "rest from the gardens" Tea Festi from the 4 TAIRD INSTALMENT The Kid's neon was Beb Reeves, but back bome on the Brazos thev called him Tiger Eve. becanse ene eye was vellow-- the eve with which he sighted down a gunbarrel. His father was "Killer" Reeves bov did not want to kill. Jf be stayed home he would bave to curv on his father's feuds sn he headed his horse, Pecos, northward aad encountered Nate Wheeler, who drew his 45 avd fired just as Tiger Eye did. The Kid didn't want to kill Nate, onlv to cripple him, but his aim must have been wild, for Wheeler dropped from his horse. Babe Garmer came riding up, Wheeler-was a "nester," he said, and had it coming to him. Tiger Eye rode to Wheeler's cabin to notify the dead man's widow, The Kid breaks the news of Nate's death to his widow and then goes out and brings in-his body, discovering he had not missed his shot to disable Wheeler but had broken his arm, while another shot had killed the man. A gang of strangers rides up. One of them insults Mrs. heeler by couplin her name with the stranger. The Kid shoots a hole in each of the ears of Pete Gorham, who hurled the insu) making his escape 'in the confusion, He lays in wait for the party and finally sees the men drive off with Wheeler's widow and child. He trails them silently. NOW GO ON WITH THe STORY He followed the wagon to Beck er's ranch and saw the men gath- ered there, and knowing the signal, he softly whistled the first two bars of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," and so got by the man on guard at the gate, The room would not hold all the men gathered there, and some stood outside in the dark and talked and smoked, Drank, too, from bottles that went from hand to hand until they were emp tied and thrown away, The kid did not talk. He kept his mouth shut and his ears open, like old Killer Reeves always had ad- vised. When the gathering showed signs of breaking up, he melted into the shadows so quietly he never was missed, and presently he rode past the unsuspecting guard at the gate and went his way, The kid unsaddled Pecos, rubbed him dry and went whistling up the path to the cabin. It was warm and reeked with the smell of coal oil fumes and stale cigarette smoke. Babe's paper novel lay open, face down on the table, only two or three pages left unread at the back. "I damn' near saddled up and took out after yuh, Tiger Eye," he sald querulously. "These are shore bad times to be ridin' around alone. Nester see yuh--well, you oughta know." "Shoah do, Babe." "Have any trouble? If it's a fair question." "Not to call trouble. Trailed some nestahs to Sam Becker's ranch. Had a meetin' theah, Right smaht gatherin', They aim to call the Poole men into a trap. Some talk of drivin' cattle into Oxbow Bend. Poole men"ll go theah and half the nestahs will be cached in the pass--" "Yeah?" Babe looked startled. "Say, that might'a'drawed the Poole riders out, at that, if they didn't know it was a frame-up, We been watchin' our chance to get 'em in the act, the damn' cow thieves! Say, you got no call to take a chance like that," Babe frowned as the kid's exploit recur red to him, "'PF they'd'a caught yuh there, they'd 'a' strung yuh up in a holy minute. Don't yuh take another chance like that, Tiger ye. The kid did not say anything to that, "Say, you goin' to promise me yuh won't take no more chances like that?" Babe pressed the point. "You got something more under your hat than what you teld me. Damn you, Tiger Eye, what more you been doin' tonight?" The kid turned and looked long at Babe over his cup. His yellow eye was curiously softened. "I been hearin' talk about Nate Wheeler," he said , and blinked when he saw how Babe failed to repress a start. "I been findin' out I didn't shoot so wide. I aimed to hit his bullet hit him in the haid," the kid drawled softly. "I reckon yo'all I shoah am much obleeged to yo'all, Babe." "Just lay wheah yo'all feels the best, Babe," grinned the kid, swal lowing the last of the coffee. "I'm sleepin' sound to-night, no mattah wheah I lay my haid." The kid was scouting along the rim of the Big Bench a day or two later, playing his mouth organ as he rode. Softly, because yo'all had to be mighty careful nobody down in the valley noticed and took a long shot at you, just for luck. But shucks! Yo'all couldn't hear that mouth organ any farther'n you could flip a rock with your thumb and finger. Bad country up this way. Nice country, but plumb full of ornery no-acecount cow thieves that would n't wait to see if a fellow was all right but would holler, "Draw, you coyote!" and come a-shooting, plumb crazy like. Funny, though. If Nate Wheeler hadn't come riding and shooting that-a-way, the kid wouldn't have met up with Babe Garner. It shoah was worth riding all the way up from Texas to Montana, just to meet up with a fellow as nice and friendly as Babe Garner was. Shoah was a snaky kinda country, though. The kid didn't know just all the ins and outs of the fuss The way Babe told it, cow thieves, that let on like they were nesters, had banded together to wipe out the Poole, which was a big Eastern outfit. Babe said the nesters were stealing the Poole blind and the bosses back East wanted it stopped. Babe said the Poole wouldn't stand for no more, and they now looked on all cow thieves game as they did on wolves,--varmints to be got rid of. Nate Wheeler was gunning for Poole riders, Babe said, and that was why he rode at the kid that-a- way. He played absently, his thoughts dwelling on what Babe had said. Babe seemed to think Poole riders had to be fighters, Reckon he ought to tell Babe he wouldn't kill a man for nobody; he'd seen too much of that back home. Anyway Babe never asked him a word about that part. If he did, the kid would tell him straight out where he stood. Poole riders kinda expected to down a man for keeps if it came to gun play between them and nest- ers, the kid reckoned. Babe said the Poole had tried the law and it wouldn't work, because the Poole was an Eastern firm and all the nesters and town folks hung to- gether, No jury in the country woula convict a cow thief, Babe said, So.the Poole was going to shoot it out with the gang. The kid's job was to ride, along up here on the rim, jugt lazy like, and watch through fleld glasses for any bunch of cattle being rounded up or driven along in the nester country below. Anything, that looked like a round-up down there, or even a bunch of riders going anywhere, the kid was to ride to the top of a small pinnacle, stand- ing back from the rim of the bench, and signal with a little, round looking-glass Babe Garner had given him. It wasn't much of a job. The kid would rather ride with Babe, wherever it was he had struck out for at daylight. But Babe didn't act llke he wanted anybody along. The kid watched faithfully for awhile, halting Pecos behind bowld: ers while he got off and focused the glasses on this ranch and that ranch and the tranquil range land in between, Quiet as Sunday after Hoon in a Quaker village, down ere, The kid swung the glasses farther into the coulee and along the trail to the gate, and on up to Wheeler's he No wonder the valley was empty and no nesters were stirring! Having a funeral for Nate Wheeler, that was why, Yard of wagons and saddle horses, men standing around outside the house, not talking but just stand. ing there, looking sour. "Every one arpened the focus a little, still gazing with hia forehead wrinkled, trying to figure out what was wrong. Now the men were ng back from the door--plain as if he stood in the yard with | see all they did; at a play on the stage. Fetching the coffin out now. Just a board box with strap handles thought he was goin' to shoot me. | packi; nailed on, nesters all stretching their necks like turkeys in a grain field, minding their manners but wanting to see it all. Something mighty strange, though. And then the kid knew what it was. There weren't any women at that funeral. Nate Wheeler had a wife and baby, but they weren't there, either. Just men, not dressed up in their Sunday clothes, but wearing colored shirts and overalls, Not shaved, efther Looked like they had just stopped by from their work. Plenty of guns, though, and belts full of shells. The kid stared for two seconds longer and took the field glasses from his eyes. Instantly that grim gathering in the coulee receded into the slight movement of vague dots three miles and more away, The scene was gone, wiped out by the distance. In- stead, the kid was staring down off the hill at a wagon that came rattl ing down a long slope directly to- ward him. The driver was stand. ing up, lashing the horses into a run, with the long ends of the lines which he swung like a flail upon their backs, The wagon was jounc- ing along over hummocks and a woman with her bonnet off, and her hair flying straight out behind her like the tail of a running horse, was hanging to the seat like grim death. A man on horseback came tear- ing up over the top of the little ridge, He started shooting, but he didn't hit anything at first and the team came on, leaving the road at the first turn and galloped straight down the slope. The horseman spurred closer, still shooting, and at the third shot the driver made a sudden dive down on one of the horses, rolled off onto the ground and lay still. The team shied violently aside and snagged the front wheels in a big ¢lump of buckbush which they tried to straddle, The girl jumped out and started running for the hill, the man taking after her, yelling at her to stop. But she didn't do it, though, She was a girl, all right. The kid knew that as soon as she jumped out and started running. She didn't run like a woman. This one legged it for the hill like a boy, her hair loose and waving out behind her like a yellow flag, The fellow after the girl was try- ing to catch her before she got in | among the rocks where he conldn't ride, It kinda looked as if she | might make it all right, especially when she went over that wash in one long jump like a deer and the fellow's horse balked and r k back on the edge. The man yelled again, pulled down with his gun | and sent a bullet kicking up the dust right in front of her, That scared her so she stopped, mob | knowing which way to turn, fellow didn't shoot again but % down his rope and jumped off his horse, : The kid was waiting, with his blue left eye squinted nearly shug and his yellow right eye open and staring like a tiger. They kept coming closer and closer, and the kid's gun barrel jabbed forward and spat, The man was widening his loop as he ran, but he dropped it as his" arm jerked down to his side. He wore two guns, though. He started | to draw a second gun with his left" hand, but the kid fired another shot The man gave a lurch and £ fell, Suddenly he sat down X where he was and leaned over sides wise, acting kinda sick. 5 1 1 When the kid took another Jook™ at the girl, she was lying on the ground all in a heap, like she'd fainted or been shot or som oy He watched her for a minute, saw she didn't move, so he 9 5 jumping down the bluff like a loose ened bowlder, y 1 He was plumb sorry for her' a he hoped she wasn't hurt, but hung back and didn't want to to % her or turn her over to see if she' was dead, Her hair was all down | over her face, and it was the longs est, yellowest hair he had ever ; in his life. She gave a deep, gasps ing sigh and he stepped back a little farther. She had just fain She'd be coming to in a minute, and she wouldn't thank him for standing there gawping at her thats a-way, ; The kid walked over and stood looking down at the fellow on the ground. The man glared up at like a trapped wolf, Both ears swollen and red, a puckery hole showing in the ou shell of each. : "When I plugged them eahs" drawled contemptuously, "I she thought yo"all was just plain I wisht I'd known then yo'all half skunk and half Sidewin (To Be Continued) "Why is your wife in such bad temper today?" W "She was annoyed by the m and then she became an with me because I was not oyed with the maid, and th he was annoyed with herself f being annoyed with me because I was not annoyed with the maid.* "EATIGUE ? I just postpone if! "No, I don't have 'nerves.' You can't have hold this sort of position. around three o'clock, an 'others, My h used contain days; of \ "Then I learned to rely on Aspirin," 'The sure cure for any headache is rest. Bu times we must postpone it. That's when saves the day. ¢ pain Ris € Two tablets, and the p foneuntii u are home. And once you are cox dom returns! pn be de in Canada. not act the same. Aspirin is ma