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WINGHAM ADVANCI -TIMJ S
FIRST INSTALLMENT
Fog veiled the timbers of 1 ester's
Wharf that July morning in a ghos
ly sparkle, which quivered to the ro
of trucks and freshly shod hooves a
to the skirling invisible flight of gel
around a phantom ship.
That spectre alongside was th
ghost of a ship once dead, On th
hood of one of her wheels, as it wa
ered above the stringpiece, the fade
letters "George E. Starr, Seattle,
trickled through an ancient glaze o
rust and soot. They identified all tha
was mortal of a condemned side
wheel ferry -boat, which had bee
dragged from the boneyard to mak
a first, and in a way a posthumous
voyage beyond the Sound.
But ; to the leen on the wharf, this
derelict was an argosy. Her musty
reek of cresote, bilge and old ropes
was .the aroma of romance:. The
brawl of the trucks that loaded her
ore
AUTOCAn R SERV,
tore the quick resilience of temper• ed in the West that month as ter
ed metal. Both.,were sun -tanned• ---if Corbett -Fitzsimmons fight, ,An un
e
gunman on a b.uckski
horse had ridden into a Nevada min
ing camp at night, trailing a ma
whom he seemed to have mistake
for some enemy. The mistake had
caused a blazing gine battle in the
dark street, from which he escaped.
Not long afterwards ,the buckskin re-
appeared on the Deer's Lodge trail in
Montana, where its rider bad stopped
a stage coach to search. the passeng-
ers. Strange to say, no money had
been taken, but an express messeng-
er, trying to catch him off guard; had
been
shot. Dodging'a posse of mar-
shals and heading west, he. had earn-
ed the sobriquet of."Solo" in a camp
on the Montana border, having halted
there long enough to show a gifted
the ruddy brown of a sea -sun 'can be
t-;.eoinpared to the dry bronze` of the
ar.dese'rt and the range. The boy's hair
an. Was dark and curly„ the other's of a
is sun -rusted' color, and cut close, like a
trooper's. Both had steady eyes, re
-
e fleeted a sober discipline and the pos-
e J itive clarity of youth, the other's hent
v- a shade of half -mocking tolerance, as
d if he took the world as he .found it,
" and had found. it mixed.
I
f Sante sense of this, perhaps; drew
t , the musician's eyes for a curious in-
- ;Stant on his listener. Looking away
r,
a
n a zn into the veiled ca a shimmer ovale
r
bra ro
y nd',
e ,the wharf, be began playingthe tune
t.i
,,•'of an old sea baled:
was a song of .gold.
And there was, in fact. a weaving
lilt of music in the roar. It canoe
from a quieter fog .
q 1 r.tcr eddy in the Esti where
a elan was playing an accordion, as
he leaned against an upturned bale
of hay near the ship's side. Ignored
by the crowd and ignoring therm, he
poured into the din a lazing medley
that dissolved there a, vaguely as the
Whist -so skillfully pitched that its
source was hardly noticeable. Hie
frayey, Corduroy Clothes, the boo'kl'et
leather r" hi • .rboots,
a a riding
can
rangy figure and son -browned slain,
ti - . -.rr. +i1 :..` E .n '•t' S .tea, t" - m
.did not distinguish him in that lyes-
thered company:. Clearer light might
3
In eighteen hundred and seventy-
six
n
11
n
I found myself in a hell •of a fix, . ,group of. Solo players some unexpect-
At the quick light of recognition edhas
phases of that game. When the
in the boy's face henay
masked . ked a gleam g
ass rode ode
p in,i
ar hour behind bh
d iii
m
?of amused interest• 1the ,gamblers he had entertained were
sketchy in their descri peon
1 As tae
lad changed horses the marshals had
ittle to guide them, but ,they suspect-
ed him
of being .
wn - r
a Vi E m
g � d ran�nn� ,amb-
era
nd outlaw aw known7
in the North -
Vest as "Buck Tracy". His trail lost
Zt Clark's Fork, had been picked up
"Is that a Boston song?" he asked.'
lite boy smiled. "My people used 1
to sail ships out of Boston. I've ' 1
'beard the s,n a since I was a nipper."'
er."
1p
"Figured it was a line shot'y>ou{l
Iconic ,
',t
c. tr�n a .,<:
h t]
a
said the ac:-
cordion player. �.
"Mine's Ed Maitland," the
swered, somewhat puzzled at l
estness,
Dropping his light ;pack
cleared space, the man rolled
arette, and while crimping t
of the paper, took a roving loo
the deck. Thera he made' a ba
of ,the blankets, and stretched
comfortably, relaxing as from
physical strain while he smote
watched the crowd through. ha
ed eyes—still somehow as ob
as ever of each approach,
A deep shudder ran throu
ship,' as the gates rattled shut,
ers, thrown from the bitts, sp
into the gloomy chasm betwee
and wharf, and the side-wheele
off in a ponderous churning of
water; dropping a veil between
self and the pier with a swiftnes
owed less to her pick-up than t
opaqueness P queness a# : the
fog.
As if the uncertainties of the
tore were not high enough, sh
no sooner in the channel tha
click of dice, chips and coins
to rattle a careless measure aboy
voices of the mist Embarked fo
realms of gold, the :miners here
":;hooting" their money: with an easy
mind.
Y
The Westerner shifted his attention
from the lifeboat, and sat up to roll a
fresh cigarette, Maitland noticed that
ftva men, .a little to their right, had
turned a tarpaiuined bale into a card
table, One of them looked his way,
with aninvitation •to join the gaoler
Vhen he declined the man called ov-
r Speed "Play a hand of cawrds,
eighbor?'.' ,Those oddly broadened
vowels were as clear as a state bound -
rye Utah.
"What kind- of cards?" askecl.Speed,
fila mild interest. _
"We figure they's on'y one koro
Y d.
f you kin play Solo, the tune is whur
'alta want; to set it."
A faint reserve which had shown
Speed's
face at mention of the
ame, vanished in a smile, "1 on'y
ay that game by car," he said.
"Didn't aim to scare ye none," was
e condescending answer.
"Which you gets vie wrong," am-
tded Speed, in the present tense of
lite discourse. "What I shrink from
exposin' your gifted Afornnon duet
•the cold air without its pants, coat
d vest."
"Stim'lated a heap," rejoined the
an from Utah, "we stoifles ever'
roopfe and stawrts the play, Stack:
n up, 133.11. Gent allows he's a Solo
ayes."
On. the point of rising, Speed s
Maitland in an • undertone, `"Sta
e ten dollars, Bud."
Ten dollars happened• to be h
e boy's cash, and the idea that t
boy ash-
tis earn -
in the
. a sig
lle edge
k along
ck-rest
himself
a. long
ed and
If -alas.
ser'van t
gh
the
Haws
lashed
n ship
✓ cast
white
1. her-
s that
o the
•ven-
e was
n the
began
'c the
✓ the
t ..
;. ! � .t '.••,�,z:,^ . Yom,
.,. �ti`,.$ ,� ;_:., ate," ;gen
have defined a certain ovary challenge q� ��y - �; r>�• B =
i . •:a a ate y<} :-- ..
in hisgood-humored�• .•.. _
gray eyes, or � � ��'�z`'"� � . �.. .•. , ,� � `�: =�-�1eenting his look of high temper and
a
,, m
tt J
have drawn attention to an odd scar :'�;�"`�`- � ��- "'�^ r..: yn ���
q
that cut the r_ �Ir...,, •_�
ca ver of his mot ac- � �-<��
stir r
,
+ ( + }+ p1
daring.
Gun s iElk? !y th
,cars were not special mat-
ter
at- .
ter for comment in this crowd. Un-
like
n- •"' • „ t }R` Til _ 1.
Minim. Ka Inas . i..?. i u el
Tike the varied mob that followed 47_2r^� �;rs,ltttli"` k ;!•
them later, the}+t'sy-= arn„n ,. r a po
men who blazed the f" -S-`
Yukon trails in the early7�- X4 is
fall of '9 r, -t�, • "� +�`•;.�. �°'..si . ..•.
-•t� d3' liqn. d✓1, t0
were almost all hard -living men of
an
et.
1,>•-1 . � •'�J,•Z Mt�.�'.}1.
Jtee.Y1f211F�.��il+-
a
Yec't.t;: e'l`l.'
the open; miners, cattlemen. rail-
roaders and lumberjacks from thr
Northwest and Southwest; men who
sc
knew Iittle of the sea, but every haz-
'e.
pl
Not far from him, however, stood
a younger man, solitary like himself,
whose serious eyes traced the fog
maze curiously, and seemed to find
less novelty in the ship than in his
fellow -voyagers. Some dunnage bags,
tied in sailor fashion, lay on the
-wharf at the feet of the young observ-
er. A faded reefer jacket fitted his
broad shoulders with the snug effect i ballad of Jack Donahue the Highway -
that sailors call "sea -going," and the `;man. Then it drifted into music un -
same stamp of the sea showed • in his 1 familiar to him; half -barbaric and
salt -stiffened boots, his firm poise, half -devotional melodies of the West -
and that unconscious gallantry of ern ranges, such as "I3i11 Roy" and
bearing which lends grace to old "Montana Kid."
clothes`` In the midst of this repetory the
As the fog did not hide the two ,piping• cry. of a newsboy who came
men from each others view it had 1 down the wharf shouting:
the effect of bringing them nearer,+ " x !t b
while sharpening- rbe-
: retry Yuck Solo- Makes His
p g the contrast be -'Last Stand!! fosse Surrounds Ban-'
tween them. They were stronglydit in Mountain Pass!! Extra!"
' The accordion laver lifted
steel are different. The younger player his stead
�,c man but did not pause in .his playing*, al - 1,
looked .sturdier; the man with the ac- though the newsy's cry* echoed a i
coidion concealed under his idle p,s- story which had been as keenly argu-
MI •a4' -+rivet
{p�rRt11,u1"
All hard -living men of the open from the Northwest and Southwest.
and of mountain and desert.
"I'd take you to be from the North
west," he ventured, uncertainly.
"Your eye's good, Bud," replied the
musician with a twinkle, as he im-
provised a series of chords. "slut I
been sip and down a few. Ever hear
this ...?" and he began, after a deep
intake of the accordion, the chesty
- again crossing the Cotter D'Alenes
'through Idaho, and the interest excit-
ed by the long and desperate chase
'began to close a net around him.
The boy bought a paper and read
the news bulletin. "They've got him,
cornered in the Okanagan country,"
he said to the man with the accord-
ion. "He won't escape now."
"Bind of hope he don't?" asked the
other, without looking •up from his
playing.
"I hope he gets the full penalty of
the law," was the boy's uncompro-
mising' answer. "He deserves it."
The Westerner glanced • at him
quaintly. "Full penalty of the law,
Bud, would leave ye kind of short of
lawyers, if you rammed:it home. Not
that this neaveick is worth a cuss. But
neither is the oufit that's doggin him,
and neither was the express rider he
downed. I ain't so dead set on seein'
him hanged. Hope he dies shootin'."
The fog' had lightened
built in different tyavai as nal- and'
110
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TAT
1
Take 2 Aspirin
blets.
2. Repeat treatment n of water.
hours.
3 Aspirin` tfabletsairn'a thirdcOfsa and
s Or
water and gargle. This cases thesoreness in
your throat outlast instantly.
tie, an
C oLDa gangplank now lumbered down fro
the aterinrer's goat deck As the bo
leas a sembting his dunnage bags, h
N E
y o
had
toad
to
th
aid
ke
elf
he
man called Speed had started north
with neither outfit nor money was al-
most incredible. But the request was
made so candidly that after a mo-
ment's_.hesitation he shook a gold
piece from his limp purse.
With a curious pause.before ac-
cepting it, the Westerner said, "You
figure these shorthorns can otuplay
me?"
- "I was only thinking," Maitla
said, "thatgambling an hn
b is
bala loser's 6s gam
His companion grinned. "If you
wasn't a natural-born gambler, Bud,
you wouldn't be on this ship. Watch
us lose."
The sweet singers preluded their
harmony with a considerate warning.
,h
"Remove i' gold' mines from gamblers
is our daily routine, stranger. ,We'll
set a quarter point, unless you' feel
r ihankerin's for ruin in a bigger way"
vel "Quarter suits me,", said Speed
Y modestly, and made a precarious club.
e bice which they passed with becom
gravity. On the . completion o
final trick', however, their atten
became more caet.
(Continued Next Week)
Maiden
0.
framed
found himself under the scrutin f inge
an official -looking person;who i
appeared abruptly out of the mist, and the
in it, fewtion
ayards away,
7'he officer's eyes grew less sharp on
meeting his, and turned in a nsoa-
asoal way on his companion, wit
lad closed the accordion case an
was leaning over to fasten it. eeeo
"You two 'together?"
The boy nodded. It seemed urine
essary to explain that he and. the ac
ordion player were only chance ac
uaintances. Some .official for the
company, he thought, was making a
check-up of passengers.
• With another •glance at the loan
with the accardinn, the officer pass
-
I on.
'l'he 'Westerner threw a roll of
lan!:et�,, over his arm, put his ac-
�u'dinil under it, and lifting one of
ac boy's packs with his free hand,
edged through the crowd that :was,
:.warming up the 'gangway. They
found the cabin and covered parts of
the deck already claimed, but there
was a ,sheltered space under a lifeboat
aft' of the main cabin, where the boy
stowed his burden. Noticing that his
coaiipanion still kept the blankets an
his shoulder, he pushed his stuff aside
to .make more toon•t, The other con-
sidered him 'soberly. -
"You listen tome like a good gun,
Bud, in spite of them' stern ideas
about the law," he said. "Ever hit a
boggy crossin' I'll stand by ye. My
name's Speed Malone." Ancd' he held
out his hand.
Follow Simple Directions Here 1
C
1
For Quick Relief
'When you have a cold, remember the
simple treatment pictured here .
prescribed by doctors as the quick,
safe way. c
Results are amazing. Ache and dis-
tress go immediately. Because of q
.Aspirin's quick -disintegrating prop-
erty, Aspirin "takes hold"— almost
instantly. Your cold is relieved "quick
as you caught it I"
All you do is. take Aspirin and et
drink plenty of luster. ?Do this every
2 to 4 hours the first day—less often b
afterward . , . if throat is sore; the c
Aspirin gargle will ease it in as little tl
as 2 minutes.
Ask your doctor about this. And t�
be sure you get ASPIRIN' when you
buy. It is made in Canada and all
druggists have it, Look for the name
Bayer in the form of a cross an every
Aspirin tablet. Aspirin is the trade
mark of the Bayer Company, Limited.
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DOES NOT 1-IARM'
THE HEART
E SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON 1
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PETER TEACHES GOOD CIT
IZENSHIP (TEMPERANCE
LESSON,)
Sunday, Feb. 17.-.I, Peter 2:11-17;
4:1-5, .
Golden Text.
Love worketh no ill to his neigh-
bor ':. therefore love is the fulfilling oi;.
the law. (Rom, 13:10,)
Peter learned a lesson in good citi-
zenship. 'Ile tax collectors had solve
to Peter and asked him. concerning
Christ "Doth not your master pay
tribute„ 1'eter 'promptly answered
that He dirt. When Peter and the.
Lord were .lone together, the latter
asked Peter a question: "Of •whom
do the kings of earth take custom
or tribute? Of their own children, or
of strangers," There was only one
answer, and' Peter gave it: "Of,
strangers." Christ drew the logical
conclusion: "Then are the children
free." And Christ and His disciples
were children of the Heavenly Ring,
who is above all hinds of the -earth;
why,, then, should they pay an earth -
nut they should, 35 the Lord made
ly tax?
plain to Peter, "Let we should of-
fend them," that is, cense them to'
f
Thursday, February 14, 1935
BRUTISH WARSHIP TAKES CREW OFF "SETH PARKER"
SSceth ParJJers
' ec of SAMOA
600 +rules N.W.
OF TAHITI
The British "cruiser Australia carie
alongside
side f i
a the g schooner bane -
r "Seth Park-
er" and took nine 'crew :members off
the' distressed :United States vessel on
Tuesday morning: .Phillips Lord, en-
tertainer -captain and three of the
crew remained oil the boat and it is
expected e to
1 d he
t will
be
Y taken '
seer i
11 tow
I
v
by an American vessel, Reports that
the SOS calls sent by the Seth � 1
al'i-
I,er were at first a hoax seem to be
t
ter answering.
the
first g calls started'
on her way only to steam back to aid
the Seth" Parker where other calls -
were sent out.
unfounded as the cruiser Australia af-
un ea Stan
d our . attitude and ac
tions. The Lord.: worked a miracle, a
that time, to enable :Peter to pay nth
tax fol' hilisself and his Lord. But th
principle and ditty were permanent
quite apart from miracles; and Pete
inakes this plain in one of, his Epis
tl s
e written sande thirty years later,.
This Letter is addressed 'entirely t
Christians, The apostle. discusse
both personal sin and duty, and alsc
and duty as relatcd'to society. He
pleads with God's people,. "as strang-
ers and pilgrims here in this world
of sin which knows not God, to "ab-
stain from fleshly Insts,' 'which . war
against the soul," •
Modern psychology and sociology
have little if anything to say about
sin; for the most part they do net
recognize such a thing as sin at all.
They y talk about anti -social acts,"
which they say are the result of de-
fective education or. environment,
Thus, "crime is• inherent in the social
order," and "society, and not the in-
dividual, is responsible,"
It is a pretty theory, but vastly ig-
norant and quite futile. Education has
never been able. to deal -With the sin
question and never n*i11 be. President
Theodore Roosevelt knew this when
hie said of his own alma mater, Har-
vard University, that it had "educat-
ed more crooks tllan any other uni-
versity in the country." Sin goes
deeper than education can reach.
Only on entirely new life, which
begins in .the .;new birth from above
when men are born again by faith in
Christ as Saviour, makes possible any
victory over sin, and freedom "from
fleshy lusts, which war against the
soul".
Peter makes this very plain at the
end of this lesson .chapters', when be
- shows that Christ "His own self bar
t our sins .in His own body on the tree,
e that we, being dead to sins, should
e live unto righteousness."
, Then, because Christians have been
✓ saved by ;the blood of Christ from
- both the penalty and . the power of
i
their sins, they are to live in such a
o way that the world around thein, e>-
s en though unbelieving, cannot criti-
o cize their• lives, but nhust respect
'thein. That is' the true meanie of
g
good citizenship. And true Christians
}are ,logically and inevitably, the. best
I citizens.
Peter leaves us in no doubt what
I
he means when he says;. "Submit
yourselves to your ordinan''ce of man
for the Lord's salve; whether. it be
to the king, as supreme, or unto gov-
ernors, as unto them' that are sent
by. him Y for the punishment of •evil-
doers, and for the praise of them that
do well. For so is the will .of God,.
that, with well doing'ye may put to
silence the ignorance of foolish men."
Itt other words, good Christians are
law -keepers, not law -breakers, not
"scofflaws," Lawlessness is not
Chrstian' it is anti-Chrstian. The
Gospel of Jesus Christ, really believed
and lived by men in general, would
put a speedy and complete end to the
lawlessness that is' the shame and de-
gradation of our age.
In four terse sentences, Peter gives
four inspired dicta:
Honor all men.
Love the brotherhood.
Fear God.
Honor thy king.
The truly Christian honoring of all
men recognizes the rights of all.
"The brotherhood" is .a term mean-
ing, here, the Church, All who have
received Christ as Saviour are broth -
e' ers in Christ and are children of tho -
heavenly Father. There is no teach-
ing in the Scriptures of any universal.
brotherhood of man or universal bro-
therhood of God. Such brotherhood
and fatherhood are dependent entire-
ly upon o relationship Y eaa
1 tons hrp -to Christ,as Sav-
iour. And fellow -members of the•
body of Christ, who have the unity Of
the faith in recognizing Christ as the
only begotten Son of God and the
only Saviour of mels, have a love for
one another that is impossible among
unbelievers.
We are to "fear God" because "The
fear of the Lord is the beginning of"
'wisdom". (Psa. 111:10), This is not
an abject or awakening fear: it is re-
verential fear, characteristic of true
Christians and an essential of good
citizenship.
P,ecanse "the powers that be are or-
dained of God" (Rom. 13:1), we are,
to "honor the king.""For there is no
power but of God . . . Whosoever
therefore resisteth the power, resist-
eth the' ordinance of God," True
Christians and true citizens honor the
king, the president, the ruler, whoever
he may be,'not primarily because of
the man himself but because of the
office he holds.
The closing verses of this lesson, itt
the next chapter, show the relation-
ship .of personal righteousness to so-
cial righteousness,. and the relation-
ship
elation
ship of personal sin to "anti -social"
acts. Men 'without God live "in las-
civiousness, lusts, excess of wine, re-
velling's, banquetings, and abominable -
idolatries:" They will have to "give.
account to Hini that is ready to judge.
the quick (the living) and the dead.'°
These things do not make for good
citizenship; and_they are wholly `
con-
trary to the Christian life.
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