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THE MATHIS NEWS
TOBAY’S
HEALTH
COLUMN
Dr. Barton
Swollen Eyes
Occasionally
Due to Allergy
By DR. JAMES W. BARTON
/^\NE of my brothers, when
V/ quite small, would at times
appear at breakfast with his
lips swollen, sometimes his eyes
and sometimes
both lips and eyes.
The swelling was
thought due to the
bite of a spider,
but we could
never figure out why the spider
picked out only the lips and skin
around the eyes. Years later I
learned that these swellings
were not due to spider bites, but
to certain foods eaten the night
before.
Today it is known that while the
majority, of these cases of swollen
eyes and swollen
lips are due to foods
to which the individ-
ual is sensitive,
there are other sub-
stances that are fre-
quently to blame.
Dr. W. L. Crew-
son, Hamilton, in the
Canadian Medical
Association Journal,
states that the eyes
themselves and
parts adjoining the
eyes may be allergic
or sensitive to various substances
just as are the stomach, intestine,
nose and throat. These substances
may cause the symptoms by coming
in direct contact with the eyes and
their surrounding parts as from bed
clothing, cosmetics, dust, pollen,
fumes or smoke, drugs, insect bites,
light, heat, X-ray.
There are cases where the indi-
vidual is taking injections of drugs,
.vaccines, pollen, and other sub-
stances; as there are no other skin
or intestinal symptoms present these
injections are not suspected.
Tests Applied.
How can one find out whether the
swollen eyes are due to any par-
ticular substance?
One method is the patch test,
where the suspected substance is
applied to the skin and held there for
a certain time by means of adhesive
tape. Another is the scratch test,
where the skin is scratched and the
substance applied.
A third method is injecting some
of the substance under the skin.
Testing for a food suspected oi
causing the trouble may take con-
siderable time as skin testing for
food is only about 50 per cent ef-
ficient. In such cases a food diary
should be kept and the foods eaten
the night before an attack occurs
can be left out one by one until the
troublesome food is discovered.
* * *
Selecting Correct
Shoes for Children
'T'HE feet of man were meant nol
-*■ only to support the weight of his
body but to act as a sort of spring
or cushion to prevent shock to the
brain and spinal cord, and to help
send him forward with each step.
City children have not the
“springy” turf or sandy beach oi
Indians and must walk on hard side-
walks and pavements which put a
strain on the growing foot. Shoes
are thus an absolute necessity foi
city children.
In speaking of the correct shoe
for children, Drs. Frank D. Dickson
and Rex L. Dively in their book
“Functional Diseases of the Foot”
state that the shoes worn by the
growing child should do three
things: First, they should protect the
foot against injury from contact with
hard unyielding surfaces; second,
they should provide support to make
up for any insufficiency in the fool
caused by the shoe interfering with
natural development; third, they
should hold the feet in a position oi
balance so they may be relieved oi
any stresses that place feet in a
wrong position for bearing weight.
Pointers on Good Shoes.
A “correct,” not a corrective,
shoe is described, some of the points
of which are: (a) Inner side of sole
should be in a straight line right
down to end of big toe with (b) a
full round toe to allow proper spread
of tries, (c) shoe should be full
across the ball as child’s foot is
short and plump, (d) heel narrow to
grasp heel bone and hold it in posi-
tion, (e) heel should be slightly
higher on inner than on outer side,
(f) shank should not be broader than
/width of foot and molded to form a
definite arch in the shoe, (g) the in-
ner side of sole should also be slight-
/ ly higher than outer side, (h) the
shank itself should be rigid, not flex,
ible, to hold the correct balance.
* * *
QUESTION BOX
Q.—Has electricity been used suc-
cessfully in curing catarrhal deaf-
ness?
A.—X-ray treatment for catarrh
and deafness helps some cases. Ask
your physician or the superintendent
of your nearest hospital to refer you
to a specialist on this treatment.
Q.—What causes excessive per-
spiration in under-arm region?
A.—Excess perspiration in arm
pits may be due to nervousness. It
is a natural condition in some in-
dividuals.
ByALAN LE. MAY
Dusty King and Lew Gordon had built up a
vast string of ranches which stretched from
Texas to Montana. King was killed by his
powerful and unscrupulous competitor, Ben
Thorpe. Bill Roper, King’s adopted son,
undertook to break Thorpe’s' power. His
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CHAPTER X
The winter dragged out slowly.
Roper’s plans, bold as they were,
had been well laid. He had per-
ceived from the first that success or
failure depended upon# whether or
not he could make his war with
Tanner self sustaining. To gnaw
away at the Tanner herds was one
thing; to turn their captures into
cash was altogether another.
Roper had hoped that he could ini-
tiate his own drives to the north,
but he had found this out of the
question. On the other hand, the
trail drivers had found themselves
so vulnerable that none of them
wanted to buy cattle of questiona-
ble ownership.
The Thorpe-Tanner organization
did not have this problem; they took
what they wanted and drove what
they wanted, by means of their own
trail outfits. But Roper could now
only dispose of cattle for the trail
through ranchers known to be
scrupulous and established men.
This was the strategic purpose be-
hind Roper’s rehabilitation of the
eleven outfits which Tanner had orig-
inally seized, and which Roper had
now put back into the hands of their
proper owners. These re-established
ranchers had not only the sympathy
but the respect of everyone who
knew anything about Texas cattle.
Through these men Roper now had
a safe and sure outlet for the cattle
recovered by Dry Camp’s experts,
while the gunfighters under such
men as Nate Liggett, Tex Daniels,
and Hat Crick Tommy supplied a
much needed protection until they
could get on their feet.
But this method, promising as it
was, was slow. Of necessity the
men whom Roper backbd were cow-
men without assets other than their
disputed claim to their ground.
Sometimes by mortgage loans, but
principally by silent partnerships,
Roper had now obtained interests
in nearly a dozen outfits. They
should have been thriving outfits.
But Roper found his money drain-
ing away with unforeseen swiftness,
without hope of any financial re-
turn until the trail should open in
the spring. Only the • Mexican bor-
der operations, which'depended upon
Lee Harnish, continued to show a
thin trickle of income through the
winter months. As spring ap-
proached, Roper found himself near
the end of his string.
Early in February, Shoshone
Wilce came south seeking Bill Rop-
er, and found him at the Pot Hook
ranch.
“Find out anything?” Roper
asked.
Shoshone Wilce rubbed his badly
shaved chin with horny fingers. “I
don’t know as you’re going to like
this so very good, Bill.”
“Let’s have the bad news first—I
eat- it up.”
“God knows there’s enough of it;
there ain’t any other kind to be
had. What do you want to know
first?”
“How’s Thorpe making out up
above?”
“I saw him in Dodge City; he
was throwing money around with a
shovel in each hand. You know
what I think? I think he can go
away and forget Tanner, and write
everything he has in Texas right
off the books, and never know the
difference!”
Roper locked his hands behind his
head and stared at the ceiling.
Sometimes it seemed to him that
trying to break Tanner was like try-
ing to empty the Rio Grande with
a hand dipper. The apparently un-
bounded resources of Ben Thorpe in
the middle country and in the north,
out of reach of the south Texas war,
made up a vast reservoir which
Tanner could draw on without limit.
“How is Tanner himself making
out?”
“Bill, I’ve been all up and down
the north and east part of Texas;
and I can’t see where we’ve ac-
complished a damned thing.”
“You don’t know what you’re talk-
ing about!”
“You know what I think?” Wilce
persisted. “I think there’s more cat-
tle in this country than the world
has any use for. I don’t think you
can bother any man any more, just
by fooling with his cattle.”
“Never mind what you think.
Let’s have what you know.”
“I nosed around and tried to find
out what promises Tanner’s been
making for cattle on spring deliv-
eries. I didn’t learn everything. No-
body learns everything. But I got
enough to total up.”
Shoshone Wilce hesitated, and
didn’t say any more until he had
got a cigarette rolled. In the mid-
dle of rolling his cigarette he went
into a coughing fit, and spilled the
tobacco, so that he had to start over
again.
“Bill,” he said at last, “Cleve
Tanner’s going to drive more cattle
this year than he’s ever drove be-
fore. In just one bunch alone he
aims to deliver fifteen thousand head
on the banks of the Red!”
“He’s crazy!” Roper shouted. “He
can’t do it—it’s impossible!”
“Well—he thinks he can. He
INSTALLMENT 7
THE STORY SO FAR:
first step v.'as to start a cattle war In Texas.
He made this decision against the opposi-
tion of Lew Gordon and the tearful pleading
of his sweetheart, Jody Gordon. With the
aid of Dry Camp Pierce and other outlaw
gunmen, Roper conducted raid after raid
* *
knows his cattle counts better than
me. But—I’ve been all up and down
this country, and I don’t see but
what he can.”
“Well, anyway,” Roper said, “the
border gangs are going good. We’ll
go on with it, and keep going on . . .”
“Bill,” Shoshone said, “how long
can you go on, the way it’s costing
you now?”
“Not much farther, I guess.”
“You going to have to quit?”
Roper shook his head. “I’ll never
quit now, Shoshone; I can’t quit.
While I’ve got One rider left with
me, or no riders, I’ll still be work-
ing on Cleve Tanner. But I think
we’re going to beat him, Wilce. Aft-
er all, the border gangs—we can
count on them.”
Roper continued to count on his
border gangs for two weeks more.
Then, in the middle of February,
he learned that Lee Harnish was
through.
The first word of difficulty came
when Dave Shannon pushed a little
bunch of seven hundred head
through the river at Mudcat Turn,
and found no vaqueros waiting on
the other side. Shannon waited three
days before he was forced to turn
the cattle free and ride.
The complete t news of what had
happened never really came. What
Roper learned came in bit by bit,
by way of random riders who had
talked with a vaquero here, another
there.
Lee Harnish had been pressing
south with a herd of twelve hundred
head. He was two days into Mex-
ico, and supposed that he was clear;
he had never had much trouble,
once he was well below the line.
Harnish took to the brush and
the hills.
But now, one moonless night, a band
reported as of at least sixty men
struck from no place, scattering the
herd, and blazing down on Harnish’s
riders almost before they could take
to the saddle. There had been a
sharp running fight as Harnish and
his half-dozen boys took to the brush
and the hills. Unsatisfied with sei-
zure of the herd, the unknown band
had spent three days trying to hunt
down Harnish’s riders.
Lee Harnish himself, wounded in
the first skirmish, had had a hard
time getting clear; it was not known
whether or not all of his riders
were elsewhere accounted for.
After an elapse of several weeks,
an Indian-faced vaquero came hunt-
ing Bill Roper; he carried a writ-
ten message from Lee Harnish:
“This thing is finished up. Don’t
let anybody tell you it was Cleve
Tanners men busted into us. What
hes done, this Tanner has put some
bunches of Mex renegades up to
landing on us, they work with the
Yakis, and his Indian scouts have
spotted where we make our cross-
ings. Seems like theres anyway a
dozen bands of them havent got any-
thing else to do but lay watching
those crossings, and wait us out.
“About half of them is carrying
new American guns and plenty am-
munition. They got our hide nailed
to the fence all right and we are
through.”
It was a long time before Roper
saw Lee Harnish again. He did not
accept Harnish’s statements off-
hand; but when he had conferred
with Dave Shannon, and others of
the border men in whom he be-
lieved, he was forced to accede that
the border-running phase of the at-
ta.ck on Tanner was done.
As February drew to a close, the
big herds were once more being
thrown together for the trail. From
the eleven rehabilitated outfits in
which Roper was now silent part-
upon Thorpe’s herds. Cleve Tanner, man-
ager of Thorpe’s Texas holdings, seemed
helpless to stop him. In spite of his dar-
ing plans, Roper’s resources had dwindled
dangerously low by the time winter came.
And Thorpe seemed not to feel the losses.
*
ner, a little trickle of trail cattle
began to move toward the gather-
ing grounds on the Red. The in-
come from these sales helped a lit-
tle; but the proceeds were principal-
ly absorbed by debts incurred in
behalf of the individual ranches. The
improvement in his situation which
Roper had hoped for did not come.
It was deep into March when Tex
Long quit.
“Look,” Tex Long said, “look.”
He did not talk easily; whatever
he said was matter-of-fact, even
now. “I got to pull out of this
game.”
Bill Roper looked at him, without
expression. “All right. How much
you figure I owe you?”
Tex smiled. “Nothing.”
A very rare flush of anger came
into Bill Roper’s face. “Tex, what’s
the matter with you?”
Tex Long made a quick, futile
gesture with his hands. “We used
to be able to jump down on them.
We can’t do that now. The Bert
Johnson place is studded with ri-
fles until a man can’t take a step.
Every place you’ll find out it’s the
same. There isn’t, going to be any-
thing more we cah do. We went
good for a while. But they got or-
ganized, now. We’re through.”
Tex Long was only one of Bill
Roper’s picked gunfighters, but he
was one of the best. As March
drew on, Roper lost four more.
Into the Big Bend, into the valley
of the Nueces,- Cleve Tanner had
flooded such a power of gunfighters
as Bill Roper would not have be-
lieved. He had supposed that he
could outplace and outsmart Tan-
ner’s warrior outfits. But now his
raiding forces met everywhere a
stubborn resistance.
Roper had discounted the quit of
Tex Long; but now other news was
coming in. The Graham outfit—the
first of all those that the Roper men
had taken—was again in the hands
of Cleve Tanner; and Nate Liggett,
assigned to protect Graham, had
headed for the tall without even a
report. Hat Crick Tommy was three
weeks missing. The Davis outfit,
left under his protection, had gone
the way of all loose outfits, and Tan-
ner’s cowboys rode the range.
Dry Camp Pierce was almost the
last to come in—of those who came
in at all.
Pierce rode into the Pot Hook
Camp early in April. He was the
same, small wiry man he always
had been—his eyes watery, his jaws
poorly shaven.
“Bill, I can’t carry these camps
no more. God knows we strung
with you while we could. We’ve et
beef, beef, beef without salt or flour,
we’ve et bobcat meat. But Bill,
there’s no lead in our guns, and
there’s no patches in our pants,
and it’s time I got to let the boys
go, to make out any way they can.”
Bill Roper looked older than Dusty
King had ever .looked; his face was
like granite, with hard lines cut into
it by the weather.
“Okay,” he said. “I understand
how you feel, Dry Camp.”
Dry Camp’s anger was gone as
quickly as it had come. “Bill,” he
said pleadingly, “it’s only—it’s on-
ly-”
“It’s only that you’ve had a lot of
men out working for us,” Bill Roper
said more reasonably.
“Near fifty men,” Dry Camp said.
“How many you got working
now?”
Dry Camp Pierce hesitated.
“Not a damned man,” Bill Roper
said bitterly. “And now you quit
Dusty King.”
“Look you here,” Dry Camp said.
“I’ve strung with you when I
wouldn’t have strung with any other
man, let alone an upstart kid. I’ll
say this for you—you’ve made a
game fight. But kid, take my word
for it—they’re too big, and they’re
too strong.”
“You think so?” Bill Roper said.
“I know so. I don’t know what
you had, made men like Lee Har-
nish and Dave Shannon and Nate
Liggett throw in with you, but they
did—the damnedest wild bunch Tex-
as ever seen. Half the renegades of
the Long Trail, and your part of
King-Gordon, has gone into beating
Cleve Tanner. And where are we
now?”
“Well?”
“We aren’t any place! Kid, I tell
you we’re beat, and we’re long
beat!”
April melted into May, and Roper
had nothing to fight with any more.
Those units of his wild bunch that
had not quit had not been heard
from at all; he knew already that
the ones who had completely failed.
Cleve Tanner prospered, seemingly;
and all was well with Ben Thorpe.
Bill Roper waited at the Pot Hook
now, trying to think of some way
that he had missed. King-Gor-
don denied him, and Lew Gordon
expressedly would advance nothing
more against Dusty King’s share of
the partnership which had been bro-
ken by death . . .
/TO BE CONTINUED)
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By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
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BROADENING CHRISTIAN
HORIZONS: THE ANTIOCH
MOVEMENT
LESSON TEXT—Acts 11:19-30.
GOLDEN TEXT—For I am not ashamed
of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power
of God unto salvation to everyone that be-
lieveth; to the Jew first, and also to the
Greek.—Romans 1:16.
Scattered abroad! As the flying
sparks and embers from .a fire which
is wildly beaten will light many new
fires, just so persecution of the early
Christians sent them abroad and
established new centers for the
preaching of the gospel. Verse 19
of our lesson connects with Acts 8:4.
The ministry of Philip in Samaria
was paralleled by that of others in
Phenice, Cyprus, and now in Anti-
och. That great city was not far
from Jerusalem, but it was far from
God. A mighty city, rich in trade,
it was also deep in all kinds of sin;
but there it pleased God to establish
a great center of Christian testi-
mony. God loves to do new things
(see, for example, II Cor. 5:17; Isa.
43:19; Ps. 33:3; Rev. 21:5).
I. A New Church (vv. 19-21).
What a splendid church it was!
Here in the midst of the most evil
surroundings the sweet flower of
Christian faith grew, as it. so often
does.
It was a church built upon a faith-
ful testimony by God’s .chosen wit-
nesses “preaching the Lord Jesus”
(v. 20). Their names are not noted,
but their message is, and its blessed
results. It was a gathering place
for all people—Jews and Gentiles.
The disciples from Jerusalem
preached at first only to the Jews,
but God sent others (v. 20), who
preached His grace to the Gentiles.
Note also that the Antioch church
was a living witness. “The hand of
the Lord was with them”—little
wonder then that “a great number
believed and were turned to the
Lord.” Your church—and mine—
might learn much by studying the
church at Antioch.
II. A New Fellowship (w. 22-26).
The genius of Christianity is fel-
lowship. Those who have a religious
belief which makes them exclusive
—not willing to fellowship with other
Christians—do not truly represent
their Lord.
When the 'church at Jerusalem
heard the good news, they sent Bar-
nabas to help the new converts and
establish fellowship. He was the
ideal man to send, for “ ‘he was a
good man.’ It is far more impor-
tant that a man be good than that
he be brilliant if he is to edify young
converts. He was ‘full of the Holy
Ghost.’ He was also ‘full of faith,’
and no man that is not, need under-
take the work of instructing and
developing young converts, especial-
ly converts from heathenism so dark
as that in Antioch. He was free from
the love of gold (4:36, 37). He was
free from personal ambition and
jealousy in his work (vv. 25, 26). He
was very sharp-eyed to see the sin-
cerity and promise of a young con-
vert (9:27). ‘When he was come,
and had seen the grace of God, (he)
was glad’ ” (John W. Bradbury).
Into this new fellowship of life and
service the gracious and generous
Barnabas brought a new evangelist
—Saul, God’s prepared man for this
hour.
But we have another new thing
in our lesson, one of great' impor-
tance.
III. A New Name (vv. 26-30).
Christian, the beautiful name of
those who follow Christ was first
used at Antioch. It may have held
a measure of contempt (see Acts
26:28; I Pet. 4:16), but it was a
remarkably suitable name for those
who had come out of paganism now
to live, in their old surroundings, a
new life, a separated life, the Christ
life.
This name “combines Jewish
thought with Greek and Latin lan-
guage, and thus, like the inscription
on the cross, bears witness to the
universality of Christianity as a re-
ligion for the whole world. The idea
of ‘Christ’ (Messiah) is Jewish; the
substantive ‘Christ’ (Christos) is
Greek, and the adjectival termina-
tion ‘ian’ (-ianus) is Latin . .
This new name was intended to in-
troduce and mark the difference be
tween Jews and Gentiles on the one
hand, and those who, whether Jews
or Gentiles, were followers of Jesus
Christ . . '. The term ‘Christian’
evidently points to the Person of
Christ, and to those who are asso-
ciated with Him as His followers. It
implies and involves union and close
association with Christ” (W. H. Grif-
fith Thomas).
Those believers at Antioch not
only bore the name, they practiced
the life of Christ. Next Sunday we
shall study their activity for Christ,
for in that city began the great mis-
sionary movement which goes on to
our day. In our lesson today we
have another practical expression of
their faith. They gave of their
means, “every man according to his
abilities,” to meet the need of their
new-found Jewish brethren in Judea.
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