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The Wingham Advance Times, 1935-11-07, Page 6FIRST INSTALMENT Rose. Morris was at once the rich- est and the prettiest girl in Dover, Michigan. She drove a sleek, fat lit- tle pony, hitched to a marvelous wick- er dogcart, and to Jimmy Rowan she represented all that was bothdesir- able and. unattainable. By the time he was fifteen he was hopelessly in lave with her and be carved hearts and arrows on allthe 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 her of his undying devotio `i. He never sent the notes,of course, and his dec- larations were only whispered to the empty air, for he still remained 'the Rowan kid"; .his people were desper- ately 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 bay did not know, but he understood that the Morris fortune was not what it had been. Rose and her mother remained in Dover. They lived on much as us - nal and they referred vaguely to those targe interests which kept Mr. Mor- ris away from home. But the pony and dogcart were gone and so were the high-stepping bays. It was while Jim was working his way through college that they quietly moved away, The Morris house sold for barely en- ough to pay the mortgage. Some people endure poverty cheer- fully, others with a grim stoicism: the majority of people who are born poor accept it with a fatalistic resignation and never look forward to anything else. Jim Rowan was unlike any of these. He loathed poverty; it was unendur- able. It had kept him from -knowing Rose Morris. He swore 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 realize that riches are not come by in a hurry and that `he was getting nowhere. He had lost track of the Morrises completely—there was no use of keep- ing in touch with them—but he still had his day -dreams, he still thought of himself as Rose's prince who soon- er Q; later would search her out and set her upon a throne. Depression seized him occasionally when he saw how hopeless was the task he had set for himself. At such tunes he grew desperate and he told himself that no price -was too great to pay for success; he long- ed for some opportunity of becoming suddenly rich and vowed that he'd sell his soul for such a chance. The chance carne finally, or it seem- ed to come, with the news of the Klondike discovery. Jim joined the first rush to the Yukon and he arrived in Dawson City with the firm deter- mination to make a fortune somehow, anyhow. Here again however, he learned that money was not to be had for the asking. Placer raining was a hazardous un- dertaking, with the odds a thousand to one against success. Education counted for little in a country where men' were judged on a pick -and -shov- el basis and paid for the actual work profession, they did. Jim saw that here was not the place in which to earn a fortune; here was nothing but speoulatiori, chalice, a gamble either with men or with nature. . in order to beat the game one had to risk all, then double his winnings and risk thein again and again. To gamble here was not a sin, it was the daily practice .of ` everybody. Men gambled withdeath, when they hit the trail; they gambled again when they staked their labor and their time against Nature's bedrock secrets, on- ly they took longer chahnces than when they heaped their chips on the roulette table or dropped their pokes on the high card. There was this diff- erence, too; Nature seldom played> fairly, whereas there -were many square gambling houses in Dawson. Jini Rowan fitted himself to his new surroundings and adapted himself to a. new code of morals. He played as other men played, except in one res- pect; he never played for the excite- ment or for the fun of it, he played only to win. He played for Rose WINCH Am ADVANCE -TIMES A hundred stories were told about the Michigan.• Kid and some were not pleasant, for it required a ruthless pian to hold down the job that Jim had taken, but most of them had to do with his hick. That luck became. a byword, finally: Wren blessed with some extraordinary and unexpected good fortune were 'apt to boast that they had "Michigan's luck." "Michi- gan's luck" became an Alaskan phrase. More 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 in- tervened to prevent him from quite reaching the quitting point. Time. crept along, The cycle of life for plac- er camps is brief. Dawson grew, flourished, began to die; representatives of big companies appeared and bought up tracts of pro- perty; they talked of huge dredging and hydraulic projects. Some ofthese newcomers were possessed of the gambling fever and they tried their luck against The Michigan Kid's. Rumors spread of Behind locked doors they played for twenty hours. Morris. He tried speculating in claims but he was unlucky; his only winnings came from the manipulating of Daw- son City real estate or at cards, and the time when he found himself the owner of a huge Front Street saloon and gambling house, together with a nickname of the Alaskan flavor. Perhaps a score of people knew him as James Rowan, but to the thousands that went in and out of his place he "TheKid." Afichigan That was the way he even signed his checks, for the name had brought him 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 become legendary. There were many celebrities'in the Yukon country the mere mention of whom evoked tales 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, the recklessness of his big games in the back rooms of the Kid's place, games where the sky was the limit. One man in particular scoffed at "Michigan's luck" and pro- phesied he would "get" the Kid—send him out of the country broke. This was a Colonel Johnson, ;a great en- gineer and mining promoter who re- presented, a London syndicate. He and Rowan met, finally, much as fa- mous duellists meet, and behind lock- ed doors they played for twenty y hours. What the stakes were nobody ever knew, but they must have been enor- mous, and luck must have run the Kid's way, as usual, for Colonel John- son rose finally, stepped out into the hall, and killed himself. That at least was the story which was made public and which the au- thorities accepted. Certain spiteful - minded persons whispered knowingly that this story was all a fabrication: that `Michigan's luck had finallyde- serted him and that the shot had been fired inside, not outside, the room, Ugly rumors such as these flew FUNERAL OF BRITAIN'S EX -FOREIGN MINISTER The funeral of Arthur Henderson, former foieign minister and renown - ,d at one of the world's most trier. gene workers itx the cause of peace and disarmament, at Golders Green don.' Before the were held at the took place recently Crematorium, Lon - cremation ser 'ees iodford Roast Y e through the streets, but., whether they reached the ears of the Kid nobody ,ever knew. Perhaps they did. Per- Ilapa'tha:t was why he sold his place two weeks later and without so much ' as saying good-bye to anybody he caught the next, down -river boat. , * te When Jiin Rowan .closed the door of his steamer stateroom behind him, he closed it, as he thought, upon, The Michigan Kid and everything that had to do with that notorious character. When the first bend„ of the river had hidden Dawson City from view ,he drew from his pocket a wallet, and from this he carefully extracted a blurry, time -yellowed picture of Rose Morris. It was a picture he had clip- ped frorn a Dover newspaper on the day Rose graduated from the local high school and it showed her as a girl in white with a:floppy fiat and a sash of ribbons about her waist. It was perhaps the one and only pos- session that he had never risked los- ing at some time or other. He gazed at it now fo.r, quite a while. He wondered if Rose were still alive. If so,. she must have 'grown. in- to a beautiful.woinan, yes, and a good woman—here the gambler was speak- ing. No 'doubt she was married. He pondered this thought deliberately and it awakened' a feeling of. regret too indefinite to be called a pang, for long, ago he had realized that: it was not the flesh -and -blood Rose Morris that he, worshipped, but an idea and an ideal. Of course he proposed to find her—that was the one thing he had in mind—but what would happen when he had found her was another matter. When he boarded the steamship at St. Michael he saw no familiar faces, and, inasmuch as his name meant no- thing to his fellow passengers, he felt a great relief. Already he had begun to realize, as he had not realized in Dawson, that whatever The Michigan Kid niay have stood for on the upper river, back hone that name would stand forsomething different. Back home!' The words possess a peculiar significance for men who have not been "outside" in more than five years. Nobody but the home- ward -bound Alaskan could in the least the sins that the father has' refused to commit: idolatrous, adulterous, financ- appreciate them. At Norne the ship hove to for sally corrupt, oppressing the poor and needy, not putting God first or trust - twenty -four hours, and Rowan went I . ing or obeying God, what then? Shall ashore to see what the place looked like. Here again he passed unnoticed, and he was greatly cheered by that fact. If he could walk the streets of an Alaskan gold camp without being recognized, it argued that he would have no difficulty whatever in the big world outside. His attention was attracted by a poster which advertised an informal rally of all the citizens of Nome who hailed from Michigan. The meeting was to be held that night for the pur- pose of general "goodfellowship and acquaintanceship and with the ulti- mate view of organizing a Wolver- ine Society. Jim decided to go. It turned out to be a pleasant ga- ng. was Comm thering. Ar glad-hand at the door to introduce strangers around; there was a program .of en- tertainment, with refreshments prom- ised afterward. Jim Rowan grinned. Here was old home stuff, He wondered what these pleasant -faced men and women would thinkif they knew that he, the unob- trusive visitor, was The Michigan Kid, the most notorious "sporting man" in all the north. He heard his name mentioned dur- ing the evening—when a judge from Lansing delivered a speech eulogizing the home state and referred to the Kid as "that unsavory character of the upper Yukon who, has brought od- ium dium upon the fair name of our birth- place," Again Jim grinned. Well, he had the money anyhow. One has to pay something for success. Continued Next Week) an earlier generation .had done. If a mall had a bad father, there was no hope for that man—he must suffer becuse of his father's wrongdoing. Was this fair? Was this just? God makes this answer."As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel," Then God goes on to ex- plain exactly .what He means, and in luminously clear words: "Behold all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so .also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth it shall die," That is, the child will not be held responsible for the father's sin. The father must face God on his own re- cord; the son must face God on his ownrecord; and "the soul .that sin- neth, it shall die"—but no soul shall die because its father sinned. God goes on to explain in a detail- ed and unmistakable way the person- al application. If a man lives a just and righteous life, then "he is just, he shall surely live, saith, the, Lord God." A long passage explains what God means by a just and righteous life: first of all, the man keeps the First Command- ment, and has no other gods before God; he worships no idols. He does riot live a life of immorality and adul- tery; he is not .financially corrupt; he does not go in for. "crooked deals," nor does he take advantage of the hungry and the poor; he deals fairly and honorably with his fellow -men, he keeps God's statutes and judg- ments. We must be careful to remember that there is only one way by which any human being can live . such a life as this, and that way isby faith in God. Then, -whether in Old Testa- ment.times or New, whether before or after the death of Christ as the Sav- iour of men, such a true believer is divinely and supernaturally empower- ed of God to live righteously, as no man could live merely in human strength. . God's 'comment upon this man is that "he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord God." But suppose this man has a thor- oughly bad' son, one who commits all thodist church. The ABOVE photo shows the coffin leaving the Church of the Creniatoriurrt. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON EZEKIEL TEACHES PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Sunday, Nov, 10 -Ezekiel 18: 1-32; 33: 1-20. ••••••• Ipsziamcwomommomaaaosocesamiessmiamocr W. A. CRAW FORD, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Located at the office of the late Dr. J. P. Kennedy. Wingham Phone 150 Thursday, November 7, 1935 the bad son of a good father be clear- ed because of his father's righteous- ness? "Shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abonr- inationse he shall surely die; his blood. shall be upon hila," Then God, to -make plain I -lis own perfect justice, passes on to the next generation. Suppose this thoroughly bad, unbelieving son has. a son of his own. "Now, lo, if he beget a son, that seeth all his father's sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth., not such 'like," shall he die because of the sins of his father? God an- swers: "He shall not die for the .in- iquity of his father, he shall surely live." God sums up the matter in this ver- dict and declaration: "The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son '.shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the in- iquity of athe son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him." In the other lesson chapter in Ez- ekiel God deals with the responsibil- ities of the watchman, and of those. for whom the watchman is respons- ible. In time of war a watchman, or sen- try, is charged with the grave res- ponsibility of notifying his people or his army of any impending attack by the enemy. If he sounds the alarm, and his warning is ignored,•those who ignored the warning are responsible for their own death, but the watch- man's conscience and record are clear. But if the watchman, seeling the attack corning, does not sound the warning, and people therefore are not warned, the watchman is responsible for the death that may come upon them; they do not escape, and their blood •will be required' at the watch- man's hand. God tells Ezekiel that He has set him the prophet, as such a watchman for the house of 'Israel. Every Chris- tian is commissioned of God to be. such a watchman before the world today, warning those about him of the certain disaster and death of sin, and showing the way of escape in Christ as Saviour and Lord. A .final warning is in this lesson. If a man lives righteously, and then turns away from his righteousness and lives in sin, can he hope to es- cape the penalty of his sin by count- ing on his earlier righteousness? God answers: "The righteousness of the righteous shall; not deliver him in the day of his transgression." Andif a man live sinfully, and then turns front his sin to God, what shall be the re- sult? 'As for the wickedness, of the wicked, lie shall not fall thereby in the day that ` he turneth from his wickedness." God is love, and He loves to show mercy and forgiveness whenever man • ind ut From Your Doctor if the "Pain" Remedy You Take Is Safe. 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