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GODERICH: A colorful figure of
schooner clays, who received a gold.
medal from former U.S. President
Arthur, for rescuing the barque Iowa
crew, died at Alexandra hospital here
Sunday night. He was . Capt. John
Mackay,fearless skipper of .a •half
.century .ago, who earns: .to Goderich
front his home at I3addeck, Cape Bret-
on 65 years ago. In November, 1883,
Capt. Mackay, sailing a small fishing
boat with James MacDonald of Bay-
'.field, sighted] the barque Iowa a -
!ground at,Grennough' Point, about 100
-miles north of Goderich. In spite of
high seas, a gale and bitter cold, the
two men succeeded in rescuing the
entire crew.
' SIAFOItTH: ' The funeral of birs,
'Sylvester Allen' took.placeon Satin: -
day from the residence
on Ghtuch
street, Seaforth. Rev. H."0 Feast, of
` Fn;st Presbyterian Church, officiated..
Interineitt was made in the Maitland
bank Cemetery. Among the relatives
Amin a distance were Mr. and Mrs.
.Fs. Williams, .Brantford; Russell Col -
'bourne, Fort Erie North; . Mr. and
.Mrs. Petts and family and Mr.' and
Mrs..' W. Tainte, 'Blyth;'' Miss Blair,
Belgrave; Mrs. F. Cook, Westfield;,
Miss May Turney, tondesboro; Mr.
and Mks. Lawrence Cunning and Mr:
.and :Mrs. T. Wheeler, Brucefield.
Rose Morris was at once the rich-
est ancl the. prettiest girl. in "Dover,
Michigan. She drove a sleek, fat
little pony hitched ., to a marvelous
wicker• dogcart, the envy of every
child in town, and to Jimmy Rowan
she represented all that was both de-
sirable and unattainable.
By the time he was fifteen he was
hopelessly in love with her and lie
carved hearts' and arrows on all the
trees in his yard and initialed them
With interlocking R's and J's. He
wrote her, passionate misspelled love,
notes and in words, of fire he told ha.
of his undying devotion 'IIe never
Sent the notes,' of course, and his
declarations were only whispered to
the empty air, for he still remained
"the Rowan Kid"; hit people were
desperately poor 'and he was cursed
with a sensitive pride..
Jim was surprised one day to hear
that Mr. Hiram Morris had "gone
out of business" and was leaving for
the West, What that meant the bey-
did
eydid not know, but he understood that
the Morrie fortune Was not what it
had been. Rose and her mother . re-
mained in Dover. They lived on \unch
as usual and they referred vaguely
to those large interests which kept
Mr. Morris away from home. But the
pony and' dog -cart were gone and so
were the high-stepping bays. It wan
while Jim was working • his way
through college that they quietly
moved away. The. Morris house sold
for barely enoughto pay the mort-
gage.
Some people endure poverty cheer;
fully, others with a grins stoicism;
the majority of people who are born
poor accept it with a fatalistic resig-
nation and never look , forward to
anything else. •
Jim Rowan was unlike any o0
these. I•Ie loathed poverty; it was
unendurable: It had . kept him from
knowing Rose Morris. He swcie he
would make himself rich for her
sake. In time this became a fixed
idea with him and he quit college
and went to work, savagely. It took
him quite a while, however, to real-
ize that riches are not come by in a
hurry and that he was getting no-
where.
He had lost track of the Mortises
completely —.there was no use 02.
keeping in touch with them—but 110
still had' his day -dreams, he still'
thought of himself as Rose's prince
who sooner or later would search her
out and seat her, upon a throne. De-
pression seized him occasionally when
he saw how hopeless was the task
he had set for himself.
At stich times he grew desperate
and he told himself that no price was
too great to pay for success; he long-
ed for some opportunity ofbecoming
suddenly rich and vowed thathe
Would sell his soul for such a chance.
The chance carte finally, or it
seemed to conte, with the news of the
Klondike discovery. Jim joined the
first rush to -the Yukon and the ar-
lived in Dawson City 'with the firm
of sensational exploits on the trail, at
the mines;:or at the gambling tables;
the one perhaps best known of all
was "The Michigan Kid." He it was
who best .typified the composure, the
Steady nerve, therecklessness- o1 his
profession:
A lnuldred stories were told about
the Michigan Did and some were not
pleasant, fief it required a ruthless
pian to hold clown the job that Jini
had taken, but most of them had ` 00
do with his luck. That luck became
a byword finally; men blessed with
some extraordinary and unexpected
good fortune were apt to boast that
they had "Michigan's luelc," ."Mich-
igan's luck" became a n Alaskan
phrase.
Vlore than once Rowan took stock
of his winnings and realized that he
had nearly attained the goal he had
set for himself, but invariably fate
inte),•vened to prevent him from quite
reaching the quitting point. Tiine
crept along. The cycle of life for
placer caarips is brief.
Dawson grew, flourished, began
to die; representatives of big coin-
panies appeared and bought up tracts
of property; they talked of huge
dredging and hydraulic projects.
Some of these 'newcomers were
possessed of the gambling fever and
they tried their luck against The
Michigan Kid's. Rumors spread .or
big games in the back rooms of the
Kiel's place, games where the sky was
the limit.. One man in particular
scoffed at "Michigan's luck" and pro-
phesied that he would "get" the Kid--
send
id-send him out of the country broke.
This was a Colonel Johnson; a great
engineer and mining promoter who
represented a London syndicate. He
and Rowan niet, finally, much as
famous duellists meet, and behind
locked doors they played for twenty
lours.
What the stakes were nobody knew, been
but they must have enormous,
run t
and luck must have ie Kick s
Colonel way, as usual, for C Johnsonlit into t
rose finally, stepped o he hall,
and killed] himself. he story
That at least was t y which
which
was made. nubile and the au-
thorities accepted.ertain spiteful-
minded
C piteful
minded persons whispered. knowingly
that this story was all a fabrication;
that `Michigan's' luck had finally de-
serted him and that the shot had been
fired inside,not outside, the room.
Ugly rumors such as these flew
through the ,streets, but whether they
peached the ears of the Kid nobody
ever knew. Perhaps they did. Per-
haps that was why lie sold his, place
two weeks later and without so much
as saying goodbye to' anybody Iie
caught the next down -river boat.
When Jim Rowan closed the door
of his steamer stateroom behind him,'
be :closed it, as 11e thought,. upon The
Michigan Kid and everything that
had to do with that notorious charac-
ter.
determination to make' a fortune i Wlien the first bend of the river
somehow, anyhow. • Here again how- . had hidden Dawson City from view
ever, he learned that money was nota he drew from his pocket a wallet; and
to be had for the asking. !from this he carefully extracted a
Places• mining was a hazardous. un -];blurry, tune -yellowed picture 'of Rose
dertaking, with the odds a thousand Morris. It was a picture he had
to one against success. Education clipped from a Dover newspaper on
counted for little in a country where, the day Rose graduated from the lo,
men were judged on spick -and -shovel cal high school and it showed her as
basis and paid for the actual work i a girl in white with a floppy hatand
they did. Jim saw that here was not a sash of ribbon about her waist.
the place, fn which to earn a fortune; It was perhaps the one and only per -
here was nothing but speculation, sonal possession that he had never
chance, a gamble either with men or risked losing at some time or other•.
with nature. IIe gazed at is now for quite a while:
In order to bear the game one had Ile wondered if Rose were still a-
live. If `:so, she must have grown
into a beautiful woman, yes, and a
good woman—here the gambler was
speaking. No doubt she was mar-
ried.' He pondered this thought de-
liberately and it awakened a feeling
of regret too indefinite to .be called
a pang, for long ago he had realized
that it as not the flesh -and -blood
Rose Morris that he worshipped; but
roulette table or dropped their an idea and an ideal. Of course he
"pokes" on the high card. There 'Proposed to find her—that was the
was this difference, too; Nature set- one thing he had in mind—but what
dont Played fairly, whereas there would happen when he had found
were many square gambling houses her was another natter.
1n Dawson. When he boarded the steamship at
Jim Rowan fitted Himself to his St. Michael he saw no familiar faces,
new surroundings and adapted him- and, inasmuch as 'his name meant
self to a new , code of morals. Ole nothing to his fellow passengers, he
played as other men played, except felt a great relief. Already he .had
in one respect; he never , played for begun to realize, as he had not real-
the excitement ori for the fun of it, izecl in Dawson, that whatever The
he played only to win. He played for. Michigan Kid may have Stood for .on
Rose Morris. He tried speculating in the upper river back home that name
claims, but he was unlucky; his only would stand for something altogether
winnings came from the manipulating different.
of Dawson, City real estate or at Back home! The words possess' a
cards and the time when he found peculiar significance for men who
himself owner of a huge Front Street have not been "outside" in more than
ealoon and gambling house, together five • years. Nobody but the home -
with -a nick -name of the Alaskan flav-
or.
' Perhaps, a score of people knew
him asi
James' Rowan, but to the
thousands that wentin and out of h,s
place he was "The Michigan Kid."
That was the way he even signed his
checks, for the name had brought hint
luck, and superstitiously, he .clung to
it
Life flowed at a furious pace in
those early days. Reputations were
made in a night; in six months they
were hallowed; in a year they had be-
come legendary. There were many
to risk all, then double his ,winnings
and risk thein again and again. '2o
gamble here was not a, sin, it was the
daily practice 'of everybody. Men
gambled with death when they hit
the trail; they gambled again when
they staked their labor and their time
against Nature's bedrock secrets, on -
is: they took longer chances than
when they heaped their chips on the
ward -bound Alaskan could in he
least appreciate diem,
At Nome the ship hove to for 24
hours, and Rowan wont ashore to
see what the place looked like hero
again he passed unnoticed, and he
was greatly cheered by that fact. If
hey could walk the Streets of an Al-
askan gold camp without .being 00-
cognized, it arguecl that he would]
have no difficulty whatever in the
big, world outside.
His attention was attracted by a
poster which advertisedan informal
rally of all the citizens of Nome who
celebrities, in the Yukon country the hailed from Michigan. The meeting
mere, mention of whom evoked'tales was to be held that night for the
purpose of general good=jl'ellowship
and with the ultimate view of or-
ganizing a Wolverine Society. Jim
decicled to go.
It turned out to be a pleasant
gathering. A 'glad-hand committee
was at the door to introduce strang-
ers around; there was a program 00
entertainment, vi t h refreshments
promised afterward:
Jim Rowan grinned. Here was olci
home stuff. Iie wondered what
these pleasant -faced Hien and women
would think if they knew that he,
the unobtrusive visitor, was • The
Michigan , Kid, the most notorious
"sporting kman" in all the north.
He heard his name mentioned dur-
ing the evening—when a judge from
Lansing delivered a speeoh eulogia-
ing the home • state and' referred to
the Kid as "that unsavory character
of the upper Yukon who has brought
odium upon the fair name of our
birthplace;" Again Jim grinned. Well,
he had the money anyhow. One has
to pay something for success.
Nowhere did he hear a name or sen
a face that he' knew; tivith perhaps
one ,exception -the face of an old
man who. sat in a quiet corner. It
was n,' bearded] face and the man was
poorly dressed: He word rubber
boots and overalls and a faded
threadbare mackinaw that hung
loosely from his stooping ,shoulders.
His hair was thin and grey and 1e
coughed a great 'deal.
Jim studied the old fellow's profile
and decided that he had probably.
seen the man across the gambling•
table or the bar -a river of 'derelicts
like this one had flowed in and out
ofhis place during these recent
years. Ile had about put him out of
his mind' when the man rose to
leave. Then Rowan started, leaned
forward; his eyes fixed themselves
upon the stranger's bearded cheek.
(Continued next week)
DOINGS IN THE SCOUT
WORLD
A Scout -Guide, Sponsored Hobby Faun
Nearly a thousand hobby exhibits
were entered by pupils of the local
and district schools for a hobby fall
held under the auspices of the Boy
Scouts and Girl Guides of Burlington,
Ont,
Why Mussolini and Hitler Against
Boy- Scouts
"Scouting was abolished hi Italy and
Germany because Scouting helps a
]boy to think for himself. Dictators
do not want people to think. The
abolition of Scouting i11 Germany and
Italy is not a setback for Scouting.
It is a proof of the value of the
training." J. S. Wilson, Camp
Chief, Gilwell Park.
The King Talks Of Scouting Ana
International Relationships
In the course of an address to o
thousand representative ,Boy Scouts
from all parts of Britain, gathered
for the third National Scout Service
!at St. George's Chapel, 'Windsor,
Ring Edward thus referred] to the
;international importance of Scouting:
i "The Scout Movement in its best and
!widest form is enternational, and
that in these days is a thing of very
great importance. I would like you
all to remember "when -you have grown
up, when your Scouting days are be-
hind you, this international as-
pect, . because this country will al-
ways have to take a leading part in
the affairsof the world".
'B. -P. Meets Scouts In Unexpected
Places
A diary was "]dept by Lord Baden-
Powell during recent tours of Africa
records meeting Scouts and > Girl
Guides of•many races acid creeds and
in many unexpected places. At Port
Said he was welcomed by Maltese,
Greek, French and English Scouts
and' Guides, "all' smartly.. turned out
and full of enthusiasm." Other mix
ed posses of welcome nice him at Is
mailia, Cairo, and Abbassieh, At
Port Sudan there were Scouts from
each troop in the Sudan, some corn-
ing 1,000 miles. At Mombassa there
were Arab, Indian, Muslin and Bri-
tish Scouts, and' at Nairobi and Kik-
uyu native boys of many tribes num-
bering over a thousand. , Budu, Ug-
anda, brought out an assembly 'of
1,1.00 native Scouts and Guides and
two troops of East' Indian lads, And
so on down the East African coast,;
with the addition of Portuguese
Scouts at Lorenco• Marquez.
Tho return of the German colon -i
ies, taken from her after the Great
War, is a question that seemingty
will not down. 16 is being talked .of
in Geneva and further developments,
aro expected. It is said that Britain
wants Germany in the League and
it may be will be induced; to offer.
strong inducements.
"EXPERIENCE' OF A SOURDOUGH" TO BE FIRST QF THREE AD-
DRESSES OVER NATIONAL NETWORK BY M. A. "MIKE" MA -
HONEY -COMMISSION RECEIVES MORE BOUQETS F'0 R
MOOSE RIVER BROADCAST.
When M. A. "Mike" Mahoney the
famous veteran of the Iilonclike gold
lush and widely known Iecturer,
broadcasts" the 'hist of his three ad-
dresses over the, national network of
the Canadian Radio Commission on
June 1, at 0.35 p.m. EST, he will
speak on "Experiences of a Sour-
dough." This address, like the othere
in the series, will be a red-blooded,
thrilling saga of one of the most bril-
liant 'achievements in the history of
the North American continent, a story
of ]tow thousands of -.men mucked and
moiled their way into. the -Yukon in
search of tho precious yellow metal
which marry died, for and but few ob-
tained: ,
Mr: Mahoney will tell of. his early
adventures in making his way to that
first great natural barrier to Dawson
City—the Chilikoot. Pass, how he ov-
ercame the difficulties that arose
and hdw, after months of packing' e-
quipment over the maintains and
piloting cargoes down the treadles,
ous. Miles Canyon and Squaw and
White Horse rapids, he filially made
Ids way into that mushroom town
which had become .the headquarters
of the sourdoughs. Mr. Mahoney,
in his, own inimitable way, will tell
of the beauties of that great country
and why even to -day, after many
years of life itthe cities, he wound
willingly leave if necessity arose to
return to the north. As a fitting
climax 'to' "Experiences of a Sou• -
dough," Mr. Mahoney will recite
portions of Robert W. Service's fam-
ous "The Trail of "98."
While this first address will last
but ten minutes, there will be pack-
ed into that period sufficient thrills
to ]hold even the most conflicting
tastes. Mo. Mahoney, whose voice Is
pleasant, clear, and well developed, Is
considered one of the most brilliant
platform speakers in Canada toady
and the manner in which he will han-
dle his assignment will elicit, your
correspondent believes, the praise of
listeners everywhere.
Terence C. E. O'Dell, or Terry, as
he is known to his friends in Wind-
sor has been coming into the studio
of CROW with:very very heavy circle;,
under his eyes.. He elaiiiis ' it isn't
because of his announcing duties' but
because of the DX bug that has
gently nipped hist,
and "A Quarter to Eight' presents
tions from the Windsor' studios, aril
locally over CRCW, will„be absent
from the airwaves for the summer
Right now, Trudy This her hands ful.
with a brand new .baby boy. I-Iei
husband waisted to call him - "Mike'
but Trudy settled ,the question bl
naming him Andrew Clyde.
COMMISSION FEATURES
DAY BY DAT.
All Trines Eastern Standard .
Thursday Ma.y� "2$: '
840 p.m.: -The Georgian sari ass -
err
More Bouquets For CRC
"The Canadian Radio Broadcasting
Commission took the leadership of
the world in broadcasting activities
.in giving prompt and accurate
information concerning the plight of
three men.. , ,et Moose River, The
Canadian Commission promptly in-
stalled broadcasting facilities at tiie
mouth of the mine and annotumed
that broadcasts would be given every
half-hour, whether there was any-
thing new to report or not. It was a
drastic change from the usual, meth-
od of saying at an' important event,
'Your announcer will return to the
microphone - again just as soon as
anything definite happens,' leaving
millions of eager listeners towait
and wait and wait, knowing that if
they left their radio for a . minute
they might miss important news
given at that time and not repeated.
Instead, untold millions were at their
radios, at,tbe minute, every half-hour
listening to the five-minute broad -
east from Moose River, and know-
ing that they need not listen any
further until the next twenty-five
minutes elapsed. And such broad-
casts! Messages straight from the
hearts of the speakers, with no
flourishes or acting or oratory....”
The Montreal studios of the Cana-
dian Radio Commission are now pre-
senting a series of song recitals by
Lionel Dannais, outstanding; . Cana-
dian baritone, who recently has been
beard from New York over the net-
work of She Columbia Broadcasting
System. ' Mr. Dannais is heard on
Friday at 0.00 p.m. EST.
Back Yard Gossip
Trudy Little, Windsor soloist, fea-
tured over the Canacliah Radio Com-
mission network on "Breezing Along"
—From Toronto.
8.30 p.m.: "Twilight" Echoes"--.
Prom Toronto.
Friday, -May 29t'
8':30 p.m.: Jack Hilton and his Or-
. chestra— .
From Chicago.
9.00. p.m.: "Musical Romances"—
From Montreal.
Saturday, May -30:
8.00 p.m.: "Let's Go to the Music
From Toronto:.
Smiday, ,Ma3' 31:
5.00 pan.: Band of H.M. Grena.I
dier Guards
From Montreal.
9.00 p.m.: "The Mirror of Melody
'Reflects'."—
From Toronto.
Monday, hue 1:
8.30 p.ni.: "'Tribute to a Song"- .
From Toronto, •
9.35 p.m.: "Experiences of a Sour-
dough"—
Acidress by M. A. "Mike" Mahoney,
veteran of the trail of '98 and pronu-
nent platform speaker—From Otta-
wa. -
Tuesday, Juno 2:
8.00 p.m.: "Mystery House"—
From Montreal.
9.00 p.m. "Sunshine and Deep
From Winnipeg.
Shade"—
•
Wednesday, June 3:
8,30 p.m.: "Wallenstein Sinfont-
etta—
From New York.
10.00 p.m.: Lloyd Huntley and his
Mount Royal Hotel Dance Orchestra
From Montreal,
NO PA\TI'ERING OF WORMS
Junior—Say, Daddy, that apple 1
just ate had a worm i11 it, and I atc
that, too.
Pasent—What ? Here, drink thl.
water and wash it down.
Junin —I will not. Let hint was
down.
—lie who asks most gets most. There is no escaping this
truth. It is something like the tortoise and the hare. The race in
'business is not to the swift, nor to the clever, nor to the brilliant
roan, but to the man who is most diligent -to the man who keeps
on doing his plain duty. •
—You are a retailer. You want to get on. You want to swell
each day's sales. Web, you will sell more each day if you askl
ask! ask! buyers to buy your goods.
You can hardly go round canvassing homes and buyers face
to face. This practice Would be too costly, though undoubtedly
would be effective. But,you can use newspaper advertising; in this
way you can do your asking for business. You are not required by
the buying public to do smart advertising. The public doesn't like
smart or clever advertising. The public just wants to be informed
about whatyou have to sell; and if you will add reasons why the
public should buy what -you offer, then you. will get more custom-
ers. The public wants . information; and it won't object to a little
urging. Spending money is for the Most persons quite a serious
business, and .so they like retailers' advertisements to be plain,
straightforward statements of fact.
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