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The Wingham Advance Times, 1935-11-14, Page 6AGE SIX W INGH AM: ADVANC -TIMES SYNOPSIS ... Jininiy Rowan was hopelessly in love with Rose Morris, the prettiest ,girl in Dover, Michigan. Of course, that was years ago, in ear- ly school days .' but it was hope- less for Jimmy because he was just "that Rowan kid," desperately poor, while Rose's family was rich. While Jimmy was working his way through college, Rose Morris moved away and the home sold for barely enough to pay the mortgage. . . Jimmy vowed to himself he'd get rich , .. and find Rose. Easier vowed than done .and years passed before Jim Rowan finally landed in the Klondike . . there to gain wide reputation as a gambler, known ase"Tlie Michigan Kid." . . . An ugly story of a 20 -hour card game with Col. Campbell, engineer, with stakes no limit . . . and suicide of Campbell at the end ... caused The Michigan Kid . to sell his saloon and start "out." , At Ndme, Rowan came upon a meeting of Michigan folks scheduled so he attended. As an old man was leaving the meeting Jim started, leaned forward, his eyes fixed upon the stranger's bearded cheek .. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY. hungry! Hungry in Alaska! Nobody edl with. a. tremulous smile; "it takes had ever gone hungry on the Yukon. time to develop a placer property What kind of camp was this? when• you have no capital, But 1 Holding his voice to a casual tone, have a splendid claim and one of he said: "Excuse zee, but I'm looking these days I'll land in the pay." for . a clean cafe. Can you tell rne The two men chatted on until their where the gamblers eat?" foods was served,and, inasmuch as "Right here, I believe. It is the the host had not seen fit to intro- most expensive place in town." The duce himself, the guest did not make speaker's gaze remained fixed upon himself known. It was not until the thew indow. latter had eaten ravenously, to his . "Il'urastranger here and I don't' complete satisfaction, and :lighted an know a soul. Won't you join me?" expensive cigar of Jini's selection, Mr, Morris looked up now, swiftly: that the younger man said; in his eyes was a glitter that Rowan "Perhaps you'd like to hear about had seen in the eyes of famished trail that old friend I niet. He was a big- dogs. igdogs. "Why, you don't know me! Be- man in our town and I was a poor sides --I'm not dressed for a place like kid, but he gave me some advice that this. I thank you but—" I've tried to live up to. It came about "Come on. You' -ll be doing me a like this: one morning we were hay - held the door open and, :in a snowball fight . in front of the favor." Jim g waited for the ragged figure to pre- his cutter." cede him,then he selected a table in school -house when he drove past in one of the booths and ordered a meal Mr. Morris peered cautiously at the for two which caused his guest to say: speaker. "My dear sir, you can't be familiar "I don't know . what -possessed me, with Nome prices. A T-bone steak is but I threw a ball at him. It was ice. seven dollars and—those fresh veget- It hit him, hurt him like the devil. I'd have been fired from school only for him, He—" • "Where was this?' "It was in Dover. You took me to the principal and-" "Why, this is extraordinary! Then your name is—Rowan. You're Jim Rowan's boy. And you recognized.me after all these years!" Mr. Morris was deeply moved. "I couldn't fail to recognize that scar on your cheek, .sir, inasmuch as I put it there." "My dear boy!" The old roan took Jim's hand in both of his. "How strange that we should meet like this! And how you fooled me! You had your little joke, didn't you?" "Merely because 1 wasn't sure you would accept my invitation to dine if you knew who I was." Mr. Morris confessed. reluctantly: "I—I'm not sure that I would have accepted, Jim. You see, times have changed; things haven't gone well with me and it hurts a man's pride to acknowledge failure to his friends. I have some pride left. That's why I'm not going back until I land in the pay. Now •'that'you know every= thing, I'm going to make a confes- sion: I was—actually hungry when you invited me in!" "Hell of a camp, to let a roan go hungry!" Rowan exclaimed harshly. "You see, I'm pretty old and I'm not very strong. It's hard for me to get work. However, a little pov- erty ,a little hardship, doesn't hurt anybody. It makes one enjoy good fortune when it comes., But, Jim, niy. boy, tell me about yourself. -How did 1 ever help you? You must have struck it rich to be able to afford an extravagance like this—this banquet?" Rowan shrugged. "I've made a lit- tle and I've spent a little. You made situtrtiprt keenly,-^ "You don't mean she's: -here," THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON "Wily, yes! Where else would slre be? She's all I have," Rowan felt himself grow dizzy, ill. THE RETURN FROM CAPTIV- Mese here! Dependent upon this 'TY' poor, feeble old man whom he had Sunday, Nov. 17,•--, ererniah 29: d- surprised staring at a .cafe window 1d Ezra x: 1-11; Psalm 126: '1 1-6, like a famished wolf! It was a ino- Golden Text; meet before he could trust himself The Lord hath clone great things to inquire: "Where is she? What is she doing?" for us; whereof we are glad (Psalm "She's out on the creek, I came in 126:3), look for' a ma'n, a helper, but—I is thing in prophey, toSinTherece the world began,new amen hacve can't pay wages and nobody cares to claimed to be prophets and have at - prospect a 'claim for an interest in tered man and various propapaies. it when there are so many claims to y for the` staking, onto be jump- Many such prophecies have failed to be had materialize. The rerriarkable 'thing ed. We've about reached the 'endof our rope. 'I saw the notice of_ that about' the prophecies that God gave Michigan meeting and I thought I to men is that they have always come . might find somebody there," true just when God said they would, g Our lesson gives us one of the most "You dil,,, said Rowan. When Morris looked at him uncomprehend- remarkable prophecies in all history, d: "You found me." and one of the most "remarkable Jul -- "Oh, he explained: "Ol myboy, you don't ander-: fillments of 'such prophecy. t' stand --1," We have learned to know Jeremiah, "I understand perfectly. You want the courageous, uncompromising pro a workingpartner and you'll give him phet, who told the truth to Judah, the an interest. All right, how much of southern part of the kingdom of Is- rael,get?" and was hated for it. , an interest half—He told them that unless they turn- ed awY "Why;" I was going to offer a a : from their false gods` and "That's s for pick and cameck to God in repentence, faith ba too - much, justobedience, their Kingdom would shovel. stiff. I'll put up the grub and and obed ' be taken into cap - 'Nonsense! You've done we11—" hands." fall and they would outfit for n all tivity by Babylon and its King, Neb- "Not well enough so ,that I can af- ucbadnezzar. Judah ignored Jeremiah ford to turn downa good ood offer like and the prophet's prediction of judg- this. You've been here two years and meet and captivity carne to pass, as you haven't struck pay; I spent five years on the Yukon and never made a dollar out of mining. I left to look for something. Well, I've found it." The next next morning Jim Rowan put a pack on his back and hit the trail. It was the first time in. nearly five years that he had felt pack straps for The Michigan Kid had taken his SECOND INSTALMENT Nowhere did he hear a name or. see a face that he knew, with perhaps one exception—the face an old man who sat in a quiet corner. It was a bearded face and the man was poorly dressed. He wore rubber boots and overalls and a faded threadbare mack- inaw that hung loosely from his stooping shoulders. His hair was thin and gray and he coughed a good deal. Jim studied the old fellow's profile and decided that he had probably seen the man across the gambling ta- ble er the bar—a river of derelicts like this one had flowed in and out of his place during these recent years. He 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. Jim Rose and followed the man out of the building. Hiram Morris here! In Alaska! It was incredible, More. incredible still was it to recognize in this bent little figure of discourage- ment the once mighty man of Mich- igan, the colossus of Jim's youth. Mr, Morris shuffled along the street, shaking his head and mutter- ing to himself. As he passed the ent- rance to a bakery whence issued the savory odors of fresh bread, pies, and spicy cakes he paused, lifted his face, and breathed deeply. He halted again show before e a restaurant insidethe e window of which were displayed raw steaks and chops and cold -storage chickens upon 'a bed of .cracked ice. Jim recognized the expression in that thin, eager face and he experienc- ed a shock. Good God1 the man was =ma (I Mr. Morris peered cautiously at the speaker. Thurs., November 14, 1915 will visit you, and perform My good wordtoward you, in causing you to return to this, place. For I know the thoughts that T' think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an ex- pected end." Then Jeremiah's prophecy looks clown the ages far beyond the seven- ty years, even to the day in which we are living in A.D. 1935, and beyond this, There is that amazing prophecy, beginning to be fulfilled in our own generation; ables! Why, you've ordered a mill- ionaire's banquet." "Well, it is a sort of banquet with me. It celebrates an occasion." "Indeed?" • , "I inet an old friend to -night: a man from my home town." Mr. Morris was ready and willing to talk about Nome. He had failed greatly and he was at a garrulous age, but about himself he had little to say and it was some time before Jim managed to discover that he had been here for two years, reining, but without success. "You know how it is," he explain URGED TO SING ONLY IN GERMANY "They suggested that an artist such as :I roust' surely regard:; it as au ob- vious duty to sing only in Germany," says Lotte Lehmann, famous German. star of the Metropolitan Opera of New York who sang iii Toronto re- cently, explaining why she had not ere promise to fight fair and never hit a fellow when he wasn't looking. I could have made more if I hadn't lived up to that promise; but—" "Never mind. Crooked money isn't worth haying and money of any sort isn't worth too high a pride. This is a cruel country and it's hard to get ahead. But you're young and you've taken , good care of yourself." Mr.. Morris's failing eYes did not see that Jim's flesh was flabby and that the bleach in his cheeks was from lack of sunlight, "That's your early train- ing. I've no sympathy for these wast- ers who squander their money over bars and gambling tables." Rowan nodded gravely; he spoke the literal truth when he said: "Nei- ther have it." "I'rn out of date, perhaps, but I still retain my old-fashioned ideas. I daresay I don't belong here." "Why don't you leave?" "How can I?" The question was accompanied by a crooked smile and a regretful shake of the gray bead. "But your family--?" With .a gambler's caution Jun was leading up to the question that had trembled up- on his lips from the moment he had first recognized Rose's father. "Mrs. Morris died several years ago." "I'm sorry, I haven't heard from home in ages." There was a moment of silence, then with averted eyes and in a tone of indifference the younger, man said, "Your daughter Rose must be a woman now." Hiram Morris looked tip eagerly. "Yes. Yes, indeed! A lovely, sweet girt" "Married, to doubt?" Ilat "Of course you realize the supplies came just in time?" "Then shall 'ye call upon Me, and ye shall go and pray unto Me, and I will hearken unto you. "And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will turn away your captivity, and I. will gather you from all the nations, and from all the plac- es whither I have driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you again into the place when.I caused you to be carriedaway captive." "Zionism" is the beginning of the fulfillment of this end -of -the -age pro- phecy, , The Jews are returning to God's covenanted land, Palestine, as never before since Jeremiah this prophecy 2,500 years ago, They are, as yet, returning in unbelief; but the time is coming, and soon, when they will, turn to God and their Mes- siah, Jesus Christ, as their King Jesus returns to reign over, there and over the whole world. But before that far-flungprophecy could be fulfilled, what about the prophecy of the Jew's return from we saw two weeks ago. Babylon to Palestine after seventy Now the prophet has a still more lyears of their captivity? remaikable prophecy 4o deliver. Toi Our lesson shows us the startling, his people in captivity he gives God's convincing fulfillment of that .proph- ecy in minutest detail. We turn from Jeremiah to the book of Ezra, and read: • "Now in the first year of Cyprus, King of Persia, that the word of the Lord by themouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, King of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his Kingdom,, and put it also in writing, saying, thus saith Cyrus, King of Persia, the, Lord God of Hea- ven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and He hath charged me to build Him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all His people? His God be with him, and let him go up -to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of. the Lord God of Israel (He is the God), which is in command and God's prediction. It was the divine will that they should settle down peaceably in their captiv- ity, build houses, plant gardens and. eat the fruit, take wives, beget sons and daughters, "that ye may be in- creased there, and not diminished, And seek the peace of the city whith- er I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto' the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace." The Jews .in exile and captivity were to be good citizens, • in other words,, and help in the prosperity of the land to which they had been car- ried. But that was not all. "For thus saith the Lord, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon .1 exercise by proxy, and he was t dis- mayed to discov er low soft and how short of breath he had become. He felt a pang when he heard the siren of his steamer giving the signal to weigh anchor, for he was heartily sick of the northland and hungry for the world outside. He had worked long for this hour; he felt now as if,. some one had offered him a drink and then snatched it away. And the worst of it all was that he had ne doubt made a fool of himself! Rose would—could not be the girl he had known; nor could the faint spark of ,a boyhood infatuation be fanned into the flame of a real man's love, for men's tastes change without their knowing it. He knew without asking that Rose shared all of her fa- ther's scruples and prejudices. Lucky for him that lie had buried The Mich- igan Kid. Rose had bloomed into exactly the sort of woman that Jim had expected,. thereby disproving the cynical state- ment that our realizations never equal our anticipations. She, was .a little more fragile that he had pictured her but the reason for that was evident and it wrung his heart. Ten minutes after he saw her, heard her voice, looked into;her eyes, he had ceased all regrets about that departed steamship. She was delighted to see the boy she had known, and with her own hands she ''prepared the simple sup- per for three, Later she sought out. Jim as he was strolling about the c1a"int: "Father tells me that you have bought a complete outfit of supplies, and lumber for another cabin." "Yes. They'll be out to -morrow." The girl dowered her .eyes -and said. with difficulty: "Of course you ,real ize that they, came just itt time, It's almost easier to take charity from strangers `than from old friends. I'm sorry you made the sacrifice:' 'Charity'? 'Sacrifice'? What sac- rifice?" ,!`Father says you were on your Way 'outside' after five years. I know what that means," (Contin ued Next Week) sung in 'Germany for two years. S he was not forbidden to sing abroad, she said, but I have always felt that 1 be- longed to the world and the world to ere, 'and that I would never let myself be permanently tied to arty .one place. "No. But some day I hope her Prince Charruiing will come along. Poor hose, she deserves a prince! She'd love to see you, I know, but I'm afraid her pride is stiffer than trine, You understand. She feels our ONTARIO INSURANCE HEAD, Hartley Dewart McNairn, Toronto barrister, successor to R. Leighton, Foster, who was sworn in as new sup- erintendent of insurance for the pro- vince of Ontario. - - W.A. CRAWFORD, M.D. Physician and Surgeon Located at the office of the late. Dr. J. P. Kennedy. Phone 150 Wingham. Cyrus commanded that Jews who might not accept his permission and return to their own land should help those who were returning,'by giving, them silver, and gold, and goods, and beasts of burden, and a "free-will of- fering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem." Godly Jews of, the tribes of Judah and Benjamin rose up with thanks- giving to obey the command and ac- cept the royal permission of King Cy-. - rus. Other Jews loaded them with silver and < gold, and all that they needed for their journey and their great undertaking. Cyrus sent with them the vessels of gold and silver that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the Temple in Jersualem long before. And so the "more sure word of prophecy" was fulfilled in infallible and detailed accuracy: It had to be, for it had come from the lips of "God. Jerusalem." We know from the Scriptures that God moves Kings to do His will, whether or not they know Him or. recognize Him. More than a century before' Jeremiah's prophecy, and be- fore Cyrus was born, Isaiah predicted that God was going to use Cyrus for His purposes of blessing'. to His- peo- ple. (Isa. 45: 1-6.) Football Player (after missing a -•`'l kick"I could kick myself .for miss- ing that shot." Captain: "You'd better let me do it.. 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