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The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1935-05-02, Page 2THE EXETER TIMES-ADVQCATETHURSDAY, MAY 2nd, 1935 SECOND INSTALMENT SYNOPSIS: Strange friends they were—young Ed. Maitland, whose fathers had followed the sea from New England, but who had start­ ed north to make his fortune when the first news of the Yukon gold find in ’97 found him strand­ ed on the Pacific eeast; and Speed Malone, who told little enough of his past but admitted to a knowledge of all the gold camps. With ten dollars—half of Mait­ land’s total wealth—Speed gets into a game -of Solo, and seems to be winning, Maitland knew nothing of the game hut was fascinated . by the movement of his companion’s hands while dealing. The fingers that moved so supplely over the keys of an accordion, seemed to lure music of another kind from the smooth cards, as he riffled and snapped them into place and shot them out with clean precision, dropping the last of the round and the three cards of the widow almost in one gesture. He won the next bid with a heart solo. This time his opponents did not conceal their conviction that the game was unsound. But before they had recovered .from that certainty, he had made his point by a shrewd handling of low cards. The sweet singers took a firmer grip on their cigars and settled into the game. Stakes began to climb. Frog bids vanished. Onlookers edged in from other groups to watch the play— among them a burly red-faced man who stood obscurely at the rim of the circle with his eyes fixed intent­ ly on .Speed’s face and hands. The gambler remained calm and compos­ ed as a deacon, playing good hands and bad with equal devoutness—or lather making bad ones good, for the cards were running hard against him. "Wouldn’t surprise me a whole lot to hear you’d played this game afore,” the man declared, as he lit a cigar before picking up a new hand 'Speed was busy arranging his cards and did not answer. When he raised his eyes it was in a preoccu­ pied way in Maitland’s direction, but they rested on someone else in the crowd. One of his eyes flickered slightly, as 'if to evade a wreath of cigarette smoke. From the gold he had 'collected, he transferred two handfuls to hi® pockets. The remain­ der of the pile he pushed out to the centre. "This stack says I don’t take a trick,” he observed. "I’m going* ‘mi- sere. ’ ” .Had Maitland been watching close­ ly, he would have noticed a slight shifting on the part of the red-faced man among the spectators. He might ■have remembered that skill in this game was one of the few identifying trait® of the bandit Buck Solo—if he had not' believed the bandit to be a captive in the Okanagas. He might have noticed, too, that in a lazy ■upward glance that seemed to take cognizance of nothing, this fact had been caught and registered by the man under observance. But no one’s attention is sharpened by watching a game he -doe® not understand, and Maitland’s interest had begun to stray. He elbowed hs way out of the circle to ramble over the ship. Most of the passenger® having chosen a position amidships, he found that the crowd thinned as he went forward of the main cabin. At the forward rail a lookout stood alone, peering into the blanket of mist ahead. They were now in the outer waters of the (Sound; the traf­ fic had .dwindled and the hooting of sirens was muffled in far distance. "How does she lie?” he a®ked the lookout. “Off Port Townsend,” the- man said, without turning. iThe’ boy stood by the rail awhile, eyeing the dim froth of water below, and that gray essence of things un­ seen and unforeseen through which the steamer was cleaving her blind­ ed course. He was not conscious of a contra­ diction in his advice to the West­ erner about gambling, though it ran deeper than hi® mere presence on the "George E. .Starr.” Men o<f his name and blood had raced for car­ goes in the 'days of the clipper ships, and later plunged the winnings in­ to deep-bottomed carriers—to lose them finally in wilder games of i chance with the sea. His father had gone down in a storm with two of their ships. This tragedy had ■caused his mother’s death when he was horn. The remnant of the ori­ ginal stakes left in play had been in­ volved by a defect in the underwrit­ ing of the lost cargoes. His earliest memory was of a small schooner which his grand­ father had managed to salvage out of the general wreck. From the old I man he had learned, along with a | knowledge of ships and water. After his grandfather’s death, he had I found employment with a firm of | underwriters’ agents, reporting on wrecks and salvage. It had led him into the study of admiralty law—a vocation his sea-going fathers would not have admired. He was sent west to investigate a wreck of the Farrallones, near San Francisco-—his first important com­ mission. But he had found the owners in a position rather like that of his own people when they crash­ ed. His sympathy and the rights of the case were with the stranded adventurers as against the bankers. He had wired a report as fair to both sides as he could make it. The return wire had virtually ac­ cused him of being bought by the owners. In a gust -of anger he had'of boyhood things long i__. resigned, though the whole, structure!and he sank 'into a billowing of his plans went floundering on that reef. He was unwilling to re­ turn home till he had regained his footing, but his career was not an easy wreck to salvage. Jobless, and with his small capital dwindling, he had been roving the wharves of that misty western port of adventure when the news of the> gold strike on Bonanza Creek burst on the would like a rocket—promis­ ing him a means of recovering more than he lost. "If you wasn’t a gambler, Bufl . . . . ” Something the Westerner had said recurred to him now. He had been careful in buying his outfit, weighing the value of every purchase against his resources. His having drawn a passage on this derelict side-wheeler was but he believed little stauncher Whether it was pended rather, he thought, on him­ self. The pistol shot that cut the thread of his revery came from the region of the ship where he had left his pack. As he turned, he obtained a sheer view of the ship’s side, and saw, sharply outlined in the fog, the figure of a bu!?'ly, red-faced man who was peering over the rail with a smoking revolver In his hand. Someone touched his shoulder. "Man shot your pardner,” a voice said. "He’s overboard.” He picked up the words on wing and shredded them A handful of cards held the watchers at the rail the inkling of an answer, bier’s quarrel—quick fingers i quick enough—a shot, a rush . . He had often seen men take that plunge for much less, but this man— Heads were craned back toward the blank space the ship was leaving. “Wounded? Probably not much of a swimmer, if he-came from inland. The boats would be slow ...” Maitland’s leap from the rail was so swift that the engines were not' reversed for a minute after he dived. When he came to the surface, hard­ ly knowing in that grey murk whether he was breathing fog or sea, the steamer was out of sight'. Unable to see through the blur of spray and fog, he paused to listen for a cry. Relaxing was an effort; the cold br'ine had teeth of fire. Soon he caught a splashing soun'd not far ahead. Swiftly as he went', the sound receded. He stopped again. Hearing a sound once more, he shouted. There was no answer, and he kept on, losing count of the space he was putting between himself and the steamer. The gambler, if the sound he heard was his swimming, might either be trying ashore, or might ings 'in the fag. probable that he He halted to tread water in the icy swell and shouted. The cry rasp­ ed in his throat. This time he seem­ ed to hear an answer, but in the same instant his body was pierced by a searing stab. The muscles of his back twisted in a paralyzing knot that stopped his breath. Though the cramp was unbreakable, he fought it with every reserve of will, as it dragged him 'down, impotent, into shadowed, swirling, freezing depths. His lungs heaved; drums roared in his ears; his heart seemed to wedge in his throat. -Shadows dissolved around him in­ to misty daylight. . Something was supporting him, choked and numb, on the summit of a swaying world of waters, and he heard a voice say­ ing between breaths: "Well, I’ll be doggoned. So it’s* you . . . you ornery young son of a sea dog. Last dive most got me . . winded . . . Reckoned you was the deputy,” Even the sight of the gambler’s 'dripping aice failed to Anake this clear. "Don’t (figure I could swim ye ashore,” the voice continued. "And I’m locoed if I call that boat.” Yet this was exactly what Maitland heard him do a few moments later, but there was no answer. Maitland knew too well the dis­ advantage of a buoy as a refuge for drowning »men in a fog. Passing ships give it as wide a berth as pos­ sible. With his thought he realized the full irony of what had happened. His attempted rescue was worse than useless; he was actually down That fair. He But though the gambler’s hold wav­ ered, he could not loosen it. When he struggled to speak the arm only gripped him tighter. Then every­ thing was drenched in a fantastic ether through which floated images forgotten, ; haze d ragging the man he had tried to save, final detail struck him as un- tried to wrench himself free. Hie on this a queer mischance, the old tub was a than she looked, a wild gamble de- the for sense, by one of gave him A gam- no t .? to make his way- have lost his bear- It seemed more had drowned. Do Not Allow Your Bowels To Become Constipated Wlion the bowels are not kept regular they become clogged up with waste and poisonous matter thus u causing constipation,’biliousness, siek headache and other forms of liver trouble. Keep your bowels regular by the use Of Milburn’s Laxa-Livor Pills. They stimulate the sluggish liver, and regulatd the flow of bile so that it will act properly on the bowels. They are small and easy to take, and do not gripe, weaken or sicken. of darkness. He was recalled to semi-conscious­ ness for the last time by what sound­ ed like a cry from the other; then he heard waves slapping against the hollow prow of a small boat and the familiar creak and thump of oar­ locks. When he opened his eyes, the gambler was sitting at a table with a steamng cup in one hand and a cigarette in the other, watching him. He found himself swathed in blank­ ets in a dim enclosure. The floor rolled slightly and at first he did not know whether he was dizzy 'or at sea. Before he had time to observe more, the gambler was handing him a cupful of hot wine with the cheer­ ful suggestion. “Ho'ist yourself around this.” The drink helped clear his head. "Where’s the steamer?” he asked. "Hell and gone by now,” said Speed, watching the boy’s face 'dark­ en and then light again with an il­ lusory hope. Maitland stretched himself pain­ fully. "Whose boat is this?” ".'Some frog fisherman from Se­ attle was headin’ for the halibut hanks when the fog stopped h'im. He pulled in close to the buoy to be clear of the shippin’ track. Now he says he’ll take us ashore when he gets a wind. Don’t reckon he’ll get one or a piece, but' it won’t hurt ye none to thaw a while.” A dark wavering in a shaft of light that fell into the cabin from the cockpit caused him to look up. Thro the aperture two heavy sea boots came into view, followed by a pa'ir of corduroy trousers, a blue, close­ fitting jersey with shrunken sleeves and a .plump and swarthy ace, blu­ ish around the chin where the beard was shaven and topped by a black cap with a shining visor. "How does she block, Boss?” ask­ ed Speed, as the man entered. "Ze win’ die draw ver’ slow. I tek you as'hore, feefteen dollar. Non? "No,” was the gambler’s dry com­ ment', in’ up where The "C’est “With the price of wind go- th'is way I reckon we’ll stay we set.” fisherman splayed his- hands, la blague, quoi? I mek ze feeshen’ one, two, tree, day. B’en” he added in a quieter tone. "I tek you back to Seattle, feefty dollar.” “Go on, you 'horse-thief,” Speed answered good-humoredly. “You’ve got chuck enough in this wagon to ride up to the fishbanks and back, and it wouldn’t cost you five dollars. How’ver, we ain’t goin’ to Seattle, or fishin’ neither.” (Continued next week) PLUNGES 30 FEET INTO RIVER A 11-year-old boy who some time ago fell five feet and broke an arm, fell 30 feet into a foot of was not injured. The unusual occurrence at the Saltford bridge Maitland river at the outskirts Goderich. |The boy, Sammy Mabon, was cycling down the steep approach to the 'bridge when his bicycle got out of control and crashed the guard rail. He hurtled from his bicycle over the edge of the bridge and fell 30 feet to the water, a foot deep at that point. 'Sammy landed flat on his back, stood up in the knee deep water, then scrambled back up the river bank and walked home, leaving the wreck­ ed machine. After relating his ex­ perience to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Mabon, he was taken to a doc­ tor. who pronounced him without in­ jury. Sammy went out to play on leaving the doctor’s office. water and topk place over the of In it® attitude towards blind people the sighted world is divided into two groups, one which clings to the su­ perstition that a person deprived of his sight is utterly helpless, and ones which hold an equally exagger­ ated and opposite view to the effect that there is nothing which cannot be done by the blind. The common expression amongst those who work for the welfare of sightless people— the most common expression is "handicapped”, and when it is ad­ mitted that a blind man is handi­ capped, it is the same thing as say­ ing that there are certain things be­ yond his powers of accomplishment. In listing some things that the blind can do and cannot do, it must be remembered that there may be odd exceptions to many of the statements made. For instance, I would say that a blind person .cannot shoot. 'That does not mean that he cannot load a gun and pull the trigger, but that his aiming must, of necessity, be so erractic, that it would be next to impossible for him to bag any game.' Yet my friend Leslie Ross, of Kin­ ley, Saskatchewan, was returning to his home one evening with a neigh­ bor whom he had accompanied on a goose-hunt. Darkness was falling when the whirring noise made by the appoach of a small flock geese was heard. Ross’s compan­ ion deplored the fact that it was too dark for him to get a shot. "Give me the gun,” said Ross, and as the flock flew .close over their heads in the gathering dusk, Roes let fly .both barrels and a plump honker fell into the grass a few rods away. Blind men can (fish, but they can’t bunt, they can swim, but they can­ not navigate a ship. They can climb mountains, but if they have any sense, they will refrain from making an occupation of it. They can light a fire, but they cannot join a fire- brigade. They can run a flat race with the aid of certain appliances, but the high jump and pole vault are too much for them. They cannot drive a car, but they can look after a ifurnace. They can operate a type­ writer, but they cannot keep a set a books. Sometimes one hears of a blind man who can tell the different de­ nominations of bank-notes, by the feel of them. As a matter 'of fact, there is a slight difference in the. size o'f some bank-bills, and if a slightless man is very adept with his touch, he can sometimes put on what looks like quite a remarkable .per­ formance. He .cannot, of course, feel the printed figures on the bills, If he could, he would have- no diffi­ culty whatever in reading an Ordin­ ary newspaper, for the print on a news sheet is many times coarser than the fine engraving on a bill. Dark hair is generally coarser than light hair, and so it is possible, at times, ifor a blind man to tell the color of a horse. If he knows the kind of horse bred in the part of the country he is in, he might be gen­ erally successful in guessing the color. The legend that blind men can feel colors is quite common in some parts of the world. A blind man cannot play cricket, baseball, football, tennis or billardis but he can play cribbage, golif, bridge, dominoes, who’s got, poker, and one or two instances of blind men playing chess and checkers have been know'n. There is no musical instrument a blind man cannot play if he has the aptitude and the training. He can dance and sing and whistle, but he cannot walk the elack-wire, land an aeroplane, perform an operation for appendicitis or find fleas on a dog. He can cook a meal out he cannot carve a duck. He can tune a piano, but he is never employed as a line­ man on a line. He not box. he cannot _ ideal .prisoner but a poor guard. He can hammer nails, but he cannot fill teeth. He can scrub the floor but cannot paint the coiling. He can sense a solid object before he strikes it, but iif the object is a flying brick, 'he is out' of luck a® the warning bense does not reach him until he is too late to do anything about it. Althogether the blind man can lead a fairly interesting and pleas­ ant existence as long as he is reliev­ ed from the menace of poverty. The activities of the Canadian Institute for the Blind are aimed at making blind people self-supporting. In this endeavor the Institute require gen­ erous public support. You will be given an 'opportunity to lend your support when the Wo­ men's Institute of Exeter conducts its first Annual Appeal in aid of the Blind early in May. of high-tension transmission can wrestle, but he can- He can preach peace, but go to war. He intakes an PRESENTING FIRST OF THE SILVER DOLLARS Canada’s first silver dollar was minted by Finance Minister Edgar N, Rhodes, and carefully preserved for1 transmission to King George whose twenty-five year® of reign it commemorates. In the presence of J. H. Campbell master of the Royal Canadian mint, and other officials and some specta­ tors, Mr. Rhode® lifted the lever on the huge stamping machine and thus was created the beautiful silver piece that is to be known as the "George Dollar After several other pieces had been singly stamped to go as souvenirs to the archives and to the minister himself, the machine was turned on full ispeed, throwing out 33 or 40 coins per minute. The first issue will total 100,000 it rains on my head. How long is this and by May 1, they will be if’ the going to continue? I hands of banks throughout the Do- Landlord"—What do you think I minion for general Issue to the pub- am, a weather prophet? ijCr Beginning May 1, the magistrate's court, Goderich will be conducted in new offices. The new rooms were chosen at a meeting of the property committee of Huron County Council It will be a short trip for the mov­ ing man, as the new site is directly across the treet from the present one on North street. 'The purchasing of filing equipment for the registry office was referred to the June session oif county council All committee members were pres­ ent, Reeve Elliott, Warden M. Sweit­ zer and Reeves Mellick, McNall, Cro­ sier and Archibald. Dame Nature Knows Tenant—The roof is so bad that HURON ORCHARDS HAVE COME THROUGH WJNTER VERY WELL CLINTON—Huron County Agri cultural Representative Ian McLeod reporting on the condition of fruit orchards throughout the county, the prospects for a fruit crop 1935 contributes the following formation; Apple trees wintered well, majority of growers rep-ort orchards in good shape, with very little dam­ age from frost. Some of the trees damaged a year ago but not com­ pletely destroyed may have suffered some additional injury during the past winter extensive. Growers report a- promising showing of fruit particularly in the Fall apple eties. A strong sucker growth eating a healthy condition of trees is noticeable in some orchards. Pruning of trees is pretty well completed, many orchards having been pruned during the past two months. Many apple trees which were killed with the frost a year ago have been cut out during the winter. In the matter of fertilizer Huron County growers do not use a great deal of commerical varieties in their orchards, relying mainly on generous applications of barnyard manure. J. R. ’Stirling one of the more ex­ tensive growers in Goderich town­ ship, questioned by the Beacon-Her­ ald representative regarding the condition of his own orchard stated that the prospects for the leading Fall varieties such as Blenheims, North Star and Mackintoshes never was better. He could not however forecast yet with a, degree of accur­ acy regarding the later winter var- ities. Questioned with reference to the number of trees killed in his orchard a year ago Mr. Stirling stated that the clean up of these during the past winter produced upward of 75 cord of stove wood, and that in the Sloan orchard in the concession op­ posite some five-hundred cords were cut up. This clean-up in the chards is noticeable throughout county and it' is estimated that total cut amounts to thousands cords. 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