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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1927-03-17, Page 7'!W!!WW Terrible Dawn BY WILLIAM MERRIAM ROUSE. T73 k=2| PART II. The waiter drew on toward spring. The shows came and piled high, and began to melt^ white Mark Rowland grew in' stature among the men of the countryside. He was about to take his place in that unformed but definite fiV'dup to which belonged Alexander Peabody, the principal Key. Ellery Phinney, Dr, Shattuck, and the rest who had made places of importance for themselves. They had A Wonderful Story. ‘’Scaramouche” is the hero of the greatest historical ro­ mance written in ten years! A man’s man, a-woman’s hero— __ ____ ____,, __ he lives, loves, fights and wins «th« frenvzi^' days of | the french Revolution, You 11 live, love, fight and win with like the spirit with which he attacked , as y^u read Rarael »Saba- tini s wonderful story which w uso starts in this paper next week, a venture like building a sawmill Watch.for the first chapter of above the gorge, Only Mark Row- •»land, th© iron Man, could make a go« ^caramouche. of it,, they ©aid. If it succeeded, as it seemed destined to. it would help the vjllage and bring what was wealth for 'that place to its owner. Early in April the ice went out of the river. With that event the plans .and preparations of Mark Rowland came to. fruit. Th© dam withstood ‘ the impact’pf ice and the steady drive, of rushing water,. and Rowland’s faith in his works was justified, His driye started back in the lumber woods, near. the headquarters of the Dunder. His teams began to draw in material for the sawmill. Aaron Hardy delivered the ironwork and the chains,;and the boom was stretch­ ed across tire river in anticipation of the logs, life. For it was no small thing for a young man to risk all his savings in u, tuuiu Hiauv a If it succeeded, as F inhere is far i^ore MAGIC BAKING POWDER used i bi Canada than of all other brands combined MADE IN CANADA -NO ALUM k E.W.GILLETT CO, LTD. TORONTO, CAN#.............. ' ! ......'• ■ .................... mainly that the dam would not stand against the rush of ice and the later volume of water, but it had stood, and so far as could be seen there was not a leak to be found in it. Rowland brought himself blankets, uouisw or me river oeyonci. xne a lantern and a lunch, and settled dam was gone, the logs were going, down with his pip©, more comfort- the mill was useless, able than ho had been in months. The .......................“ thing was done. T. _ ___ would come in and begin to handle tho logs. In a few weeks he could lead old Aaron forth from his shop and point to piles of sawn, lumber. His mind leaped to Edith and June, month of brides, Rowland smoked and ate and cat- r», . ,, .napped with his back against a log.Black and glistening they cam©.‘The rain held off, so he was dry and upon the welling breast of the Dun- • warm in his blankets, anil if he could der. At first by ones and twos and, have seen the children of his dreams, threes, then gathering in clusters, tho boom and dam, he would have and then the gleaming’, muddied been quite happy. But he could hear water grew dark with them and a, them through the darkness—the hiss­ great raft' formed behind the con-ling of water under the logs and the fines of thb boom—itself made of logs ; ■----• *’ ■ chained end to end. Back from’-it for fully a mil© up the river. butts of timber and would grow calm­ er only when it came to the low-lying, placid course of the river beyond. Tho Motionless, Mark Rowland watched Tomorrow the men the physical thing happen; motion- ad begin to handle less he remained while home to him roar, of the cataract that poured over the dam and down into the gorge. Tho black night wore itself outthe riyciy which had widened its siowiy . and at length h© could see a banks beedpse of the dam, the sticks difference between earth and sky. of timber -lay level,, and almost mo- j Tree masses grew against the lighter tionless, with the stream driving; heavena. The clouds broke and a underneath The spiked boots of a palo star looked at him. Grayness driver couH walk as upon a floor iCamo over the earth and the rushing from bank to bank of the river . (waters. The lantern dimmed. When The D under r.ose swift and high he couid distinguish the logs as sep­ that year, on account of the heavy arato things he ‘put it out and rose, snows, yet it was not worse than Hi8 notched stick at the water’s edge elderly men. could remember having showed that the river had fallen an seen before. Rowland, however, jinch or more. He had seen the night found it necessary to trip the gate through; now ho could eat and pro­ of his dam, by. knocking out the pare jjor the day’s work that lay pl-anks, so that part of the excess of ahead of him.' water could .go roaring through th© Then struck that blow which had sluice. t Otherwise the water might swinging toward him behind the have risen above th© leeway allowed • screen of his perceptions. The final to the boom by its chains, with the giaiicc which he threw at the taut result that the logs would have- float- boom met the parting of a link in the ed ovrnr it. chain that held the log nearest the On tho day when the Dunder near- bank to its mooring, a two-foot-thick cd it:: cwr. high v.mt......—................................................................. was practically in. „ „ tailing-up along the course of the !ed into the water. The log swung’out. river, and shortly they would come Slowly the whole boom moved into the village. Then the logs would. with it stirred and moved the b© let into the null pond gradually,- ' . . . - drawn out, and piled ready for the _ WJ. uaxueu saw. Rowland considered the situa- toward tho freedom of the mill pond, . At the end of that day, which had i ’ / „ ■ . - „ ... ............................................. rain in the air, he sat upon a stump a mighty host. They responded as a rJ — 3 ° 1 ; ; jh! ___• .... whether he should remain up through the night of rising water or go to bod. There did not seem to be any cause for alarm. The boom chains appeared to have play sufficient, water was roaring through the sluice • and over the dam, and unless the river were to break all records by many inches he had nothing to fear in that direction. It was more a feeling that he was bound up in this child of his will than any fe&r for its safety that made him determine to remain there until dawn. The danger had been chain that held the log nearest the ed its own high-water mark the - drive i Oak. That end of chain jerked and was practically in. Th© gang was .fell slack. The other end disappear- tailing^up along the course of the • ej into the water. The log swung’out. come Slowly the whole boom moved, and i mwi sv ouucu aim iiiuvuu mt1 mass I or logs behind. I A pioneer stick of timber darted and toward the dam. Another, and . urr- I?###* vi viiav u«^, wluvu nuu.; others followed. The boom swung been lowering and with a hint of • wider,open. ’ Thejogs moved out like . A -. - ------—-- ----v__~~ a at one end of the boom and wondered whole to the sweeping current of the —...u ----— x,...........river. The boom strung itself out along the opposite shore. It was wide open now. Irresistible, mightier many times than the hand of man, the log horde gathered force. It thundered against the dam, it clogged the sluice, its members upreared themselves and tumbled like acrobats. The dam went out as though it were a toy of mud and little sticks. It melted into the frothing log-fleck­ ed deluge, that poured downz th© gorge; a flood that spumed against th© rock walls and splintered the solid Examining Board Formed Canada Essay Contest . Professor Wallace Chairman Many Boys and Girls in Town and Country Districts Out to Win Honor and Cash. Parents and teachers are urged to encourage the b,oys and girls to enter this con­ test so that this community will be well and worthily represented by the essays sent in to the editor. The winning of a place in this Province-wide contest is no mean honour to which to aspire and the prizes are well worth earning. Professor Malcolm W. Wallace, B.A., Ph.D., Professor of English and head of the Department of English at the University of Toronto, will c_a.ct as Chairman of the Examining0 Board which will select the winners of the various prizes. Essays should be sent in to the editor of this paper as ex­ plained in th® large announcement, and not to Professor Wallace direct. tThe editor will see that all essays sent in safely reach the Examining Board." commenced the preparation of an essay should do so at once so as to take advantage of the full time before the contest expires in order that the essay Will represent the very best effort of the contestant. A . 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He had done everything to- , ward success that his brain could con- i ceive, and h© had built with-a sure - hand and th© force of a great will. ■ With glow movements he went toward > th© oak where the boom had been ■ moored. He followed the chain down to the edge of the water and began to ; draw it in slowly. -There must be , some answer in things themselves, and first of all he wanted to find out ■ why the chain had parted. If the . water had suddenly swept to unheard- Cf heights he could have understood - it—-but not the parting of the chain. Part- of the broken jink lay in his . hand. This was th© link that had let his future go down the gorge, and he > saw that it had a flaw in it. Not a completely hidden flaw, but one which ■ he thought should hay© shown itself . to a careful eye, which he believed should have given off a false ring to careful ears. Had Aaron Hardy, then, not tested the chain that he , had sold and for which he had been responsible? Or had he tested it and , willfully let it pass with" the flawinit? “Ho knew the boom would not hold ■ with a chain like than,” whispered : Rowland, “and he took that way of getting rid of me!" Now he hated Aaron Hardy. H© had that which his mind subconsci­ ously demanded—a person other than , himself to blame for his disaster. Old Hardy became the personal devil in his world. “I’ll crush the life out of him as he’s crushed me!” he said, with the ■ same determination he had brought t to the building of his dam at the head of the gorge. The doors of th© blacksmith shop , were open to the morning. The ring and clang of iron came out with a sound hateful to Rowland. Into the place of shadows, into the red glare of the forge, he walked with a long and steady stride. The crowlike figure cf Hardy was blocked against th© glow. He turned with a sooty face, and at sight of the visitor his eye­ brows twitched up and down. He stood between the forge and th© an­ vil, a big hammer in his powerful fist. “The logs went down the river," announced Rowland, in a voice chok­ ed but clear enough, “and took the dam with them.” “It was a big risk, building at the head of the gorge,” said Hardy, without surprise. “There was a bad link in one of the chains you sold me—a flaw!” “They’s a flaw in most everything, one way or another, Mark!" If it had been possible Rowland would have hated him more for that. He took a step nearer. “I’m' going to take it out of'your hide and bone,' you old buzzard!’’ he growled. “Piece by piece and i'nch by inch! A piece for every link in that damned chain!" The old man looked at him in sil­ ence, his brows shifting slowly out of place and back again. When he spoke it was with calmness. “You do as you think best," ho said, “but first off I want you should; watch me' a minute." He bent swiftly and picked up a cold bar. Rowland did not move to interfere. ( He was indifferent as to whether his revenge began on the in­ stant or a minute later, more mattered, x__ _ . .... temptuous of any defence old Aaron could make, bar. Upon the fell with a billowed and an:’ ped . . ___ ... ......... .....__ into the white hot heart of the forge. ‘ He jammed the bellows handle up' and down, sweating. In p moment j he lifted the bar out with his tongs j and held it to the'anvil. Clink-clink!; Sparks red and gold broke out ‘ in plumes from the hammer. The end: of the bar was bent over ifi a beauti-, ful right angle. Aaron tossed it into; a tub of water. His hands dropped: to his sides. The hammer and tongs thumped and clattered upon the floor. ’ “That’s all, Mark,” he said. “You watched me! You got to work with' iron—not against it, I been working1' iron ' all my life." The strangeness of tho thing stay­ ed Rowland’s hand long enough so that he realized that the old man was standing defenceless before him. Why didn’t the old fool fight? What did Mlnard’6—th® dependable liniment. ’ he mean? Rowland swung a menaC’ ing fist. “What's that got to do with the link in the chain?" he demanded, “What's that got to do with me* damn you?” “It's the same with water,” persist­ ed Hardy, standing still. “You got to work with it! You got to work with things unless you want to get , smashed,” j “With it?” Rowland stared at him. There was an idea somewhere in that. It glimmered, flirting with his mind, and grew into a light. “You mean a gristihill below the gorge would have been working with the river?" “Yes, Mark. Rut you've always set your mind on making things do what you wanted ’em to.” “By heavens," muttered Rowland softly. “I'll t make the river carry those logs with it to the lake, and I’ll sell ’em for enough that will pay all my debts, anyway!" “Thank the Lord!" The eyebrows of Aaron Hardy jerked and trembled. “It did seem as if you never would learn it! But I thought you’d bend, if you was real iron like they say!” No more did Mark Rowland have any. desire to hatter or to kill. But he had paid a price for the knowledge of his iron obstinacy, and the rem­ embrance of that price filled him with a sadness grayer than his terrible dawn at'the boom. “Yes, Aaron, I guess I’ve learned something,” he said. “But I'm ruined just the same.” “Ruined?',’ snapped Hardy, “You’re made in the fire! You go along over to my house and tell Edith to get vou .some hot breakfast!" * “Aaron!" cried Rowland. “Do you mean that Edith—that you-----" “You do as I told you!" answered the blacksmith. His eyebrows fairly danced a jig. “I was only waiting for you to find the flaw in yourself!" (The End.) ■-------—-------- MANY POOR TEAS NOW SOLD. A lot of very cheap tea has recently been placed on the market. This is mostly very Inferior in quality. ARE MOTHERS A HANDICAP? A Doctor's Warning 4 tea The Electrification of Britain# Hugh Quigley in the London Review of Reviews: In th© early nineteenth century Britain was converted, ap­ parently for all time, tq the use of steam as an agent of propulsion In manufacture—without any conscious principle o-r policy being involved; and now, a century (later, a decision has been taken, op th© basis of deliberate Investigation and scientific and eco- ! nomlc discussion, to go over to elec­ tricity, Previous legislation, in 1919 and 19?2, aimed at improvement in or­ ganization of electricity supply as one self-contained industry among other industries; the new legislation sets out specifically to -creat© condition© favor­ able to electrification of Industry and transport throughout the whole coun­ try. That, in itself, is a tremendous fact which we would do well to jion- der, since it may decide the future of our industrial civilization. Too Deep! Pat had joined the Navy ,and was being drilled with his- shipmates on a Pier. “Fall in!" came the order. Immedi­ ately Pat fell into the water. “Two deep!" was til© next order, Pat (spluttering in the water)—“Bad scran to ye! Why didn’t yez tell mo it was too deep before Oi fell in?” Fortunate people have one weak­ ness which they seldom correct. They think that unfortunate people are al­ ways so through their own fault. Good Enough. Farmer—“My darter, she’s all smokin’ those wretched cigarettes, but I won’t ’ave it!" Visitor—“You don’t agree with the habit, then?” Farmere-“No, sir, I don’t! A corn­ cob pipe was good enough for 'er mother, an’ it’s got to he good enough for ’er!” Kill warts with Minard's’Llhiir, ","t. 4= for Fountains of Quicksilver. During the Spanish occupancy of the Arabs every rich home had at least one fountain Ailed with quicksilver, which rose in a stream and fell In drops on glass. The sound of the falling drops was likened to fairy bells. i • Tr,uth In Advertising. Prospective Tenant—“But your ad­ vertisement stated that you had a bed­ sitting room." Landlord—“Well, this is it.” “I see the bed, but I fail to see any sitting room.” * “Oh, that’® on the bed.’? To Boys and Girls for Essays on Canada ~ Time no; And he was con-. . ' ■ - - —xj even with hammer or: cold iron th® hammer! harsh clang-clang that ■ broke against the roof tho shop. Aaron dro’-Jwalls r\t A ______ . his hammer and thrust the bar jammed the bellows handle up' down,, sweating. In p moment j Clink-clink!; z ' While you are enjoying Wrigley’s, you are getting well benefit as After every meal CX-I21 An English physician gives a w&rii* Ing regarding (tli© result* of “ovex'- mothering.” He»ays: A friend of mine, with about sixty employees, pays me 4JW0 a year id act as hl® “psycho-doctor." It’s poll In his interest to have changes in his staff; it upsets organization. Like tytlier employer®, however, ho has to take some amount of risk when en­ gaging anyone, Testimonials and an interview don’t fully reveal character or temperament. Thus it frequently happens that an employee disappoints, If something i® not missing in his “make-up,” then a something is there which shouldn’t be. And thafe where I com© in, A Moral for Parents. In nine case® out of ten I discover that “ovef^mothering” i» the causo of the trouble. Here is A., a young man of twenty-two. He’ll do anything he’4 told to do, but is deficient in selfre­ liance and initiatives. Over-mothered! If his mother gave him sixpence, she retained control ovex’ th© spending of it. She still chooses his ties. He^s never walked alone—metaphorically, I mean. And that’s why he is a® he is. Then there’s B. He’s a bundle of nerves. At a guess hte mother—fath­ er, too, perhaps, said “Don’t” to him half a million or more times in hi» childhood. Th© continual check lias wrecked his nerve®—by suppressioiv of natural- instinct®. C, has been so sheltered and over- protheted that he is a “Molly," He can’t talk to men as a man. All these, and others, I do my best for. Some­ times I-cure them. But th© moral is clear, and I wish parent® would heed it. “Over"-mothering is almost as bad as “under”-mothering. It handicaps throughout life. Thumb Portraits. Few people ar© aware of th$ fact that in the thumb lie® a means of per­ sonal identification that never fails. The picture of the fourteen-year-old lad or lassie bears but little resemb­ lance to the man or woman at thirty. Features change, hair darkens, pain and trouble mar its peachy smooth­ ness, and Father Tim© snatches the roses from the chubby face, till, in after life, on being confronted with a .pjetup© taken -in our youth, w© cry in astonishment,•■•1‘pid. I ever look like that?” But a tlnu»>p.orH’ait never changes. ’ Now, every on© knows that the inner surface of the last thumb-joint is mark­ ed by threadlike concentric, rings. Round and round they curl, and i£ wo^..,_ observe them through a goqd magni­ fier, we see that they look v-ary much like miniature ranges of hills, parted by deep furrows. Regard both your thumbs and you will find that,’ though in the general arrangement of tho spirals they are akin, yet are they not quite alike? You remember ilm prettily varie­ gated Indian -grass that 'ornaments oui* gardens, and how diligently but fruit­ lessly you have often searched foi' two blades similarly striped? Just so it is with the lines and curls, allowing for growth, they precisely resemble each I other. Further, tho thumb-lines -of divei?- ■ gent races, of persons moving in dif­ ferent social grades, and of people of diverse dispositions, vary greatly. But . individually these marks never alter, j Provided the thumb is never mutl- , lated, its tip will have exactly the 1 same line® and curls, allowing for growth, at five years old as at fifty. i In fact, what may be called the topo- ■ graphy of the thumb is as uhchange- | able as the topography of the everlast- ! ing hills.j But while the marks on individual ‘ thumbs are, so to speak, copyrighted, | yot there is a strong similarity in this ! respect between the members of on© ' family. j Let impressions of tho thumbs of a j group of brothers and sisters be taken, and a marked likeness will be found existing between all of them, while ia ■their main characteristics they will b& totally unlike the thumb-lines of th«| boys and girls next door. I have said that a thumb-portrait ’ never changes-, and this is strictly true# i 1 5 i I Basf Yor You and Baby too Babij’s Own Soap Made only from hard Western wheats, Purity Flour is rich in gluten — the energy giving and body, building food. 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The object of this con­ tests to stimulate interest in this wonderful country of ours, and to help the boys and girls of to-day, the citizens and leaders of to-morrow, to appreciate better the tre­ mendous potentialities of Canada and to get some vision of that future greatness which fortune has undoubtedly marked out for this the most important dominion in the British Empire. The Prizes will be as follows: ; Next Three $5.00 each. Next Ten $2.00 each. ' Next Twenty $1.00 each. Every boy and girl who reads this paper has a chance to win one of these prizes. Read all you can about Canada, her early history, both French and Bri­ tish; study her progress from a Crown colony to her present position of political equality with the Mother-, land; visualize her future. Then decide from what angle you will deal with your subject and write your essay in 1,000 words or less. (Contest Closes April 16, 1927) First Prize $20.00. Second Prize $15.00. Third Prize $10.00. 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There was a lion’s image carved In stone, fieroe and.' terrible. It frowned and looked sternly, as it crouched be­ fore the palace gate. j “Is he not great, mighty and awful?" ' asked one who stood by a poor, low­ bred dog that looked unconcernedly on the image. j “He represents what is great, in­ deed," answered the dog, “and if ho were alive I should be terribly afraid of him; but as he is not alive, and I am, though I am but a poor, contempt- ible dog, I consider that I am more to ■ be envied and respected of the two. For what is a fine outside jshow, pray, if it’s ever so fine, without any life within?" A Pocket Parachute. A pocket-slzo parachute has been In­ vented by an ofilcoP in the Italiaft aviation forces. ---- -—---------- , Our Own Responsibility. Tho future •will have ltt stern foi‘ yen just what you put into stoivP for lh^ (future—just that, and. I (Ind.) Witnifc