The Beaverton review., August 17, 1934, Image 2

TU Beaverton Review
I S S U E D E V E R T F R ID A Y AT B E A ­
VERTON, O REGON
CODE OF THE NORTH
. . . S, HAROLD TITUS . . .
Editor
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C H A P T E R X I I I —Continued
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“Thing* a re all Jimmied up,“ ho
co nfrased. “Of course. I romeml>er
Rotting shot at.
Was th a t right
here? Was. eh? . . . And I re ­
call about P ra n a trying to get away
and knifing me and then drowning
Hut a f t e r th a t It's . . . It’s kind
of like a photograph out of focus.
Fussy. Mow'd Mary get here, for
Instance?“
T h e girl sat cross legged beside
him and told all th a t had trim s
plred during his period of uncon­
sciousness.
"A nd you all alon e!" he m u r ­
mured. “ Holding tny life Inside iny
body with your hands." He looked
at her hands. " T h e y 're so small,"
he said. . . . “I . . . I've w on­
dered a lot about you. Why. a girl
like you all alone and thinking you
had a dying s t r a n g e r along!"
“ Not a s tran g er,“ she said gently
“ It w as hard, but chiefly because I
felt I owed so much to you."
He experienced an odd e m b a r r a s s ­
ment a t such pointedly personal
talk, li e w as not strong enough for
th a t yet, he found.
"Nobody showed up. I’ll bet they
went down river. 1 was so .
so
up In th e a ir th a t 1 never left any
w arnin g at th e landing."
She told him of her futile a t ­
tem p ts to send up smokes.
“ ltaln. eh?
T h a t explains It!
C hances are some of 'em went right
by us yesterd ay an d never guessed
we were so near. It's clear as a be!
now- and th ere's no wind.
H adn 't
we b etter try th e smoke signal
again?"
" C e r t a i n l y ! I'll get th e tires go
Ing. now."
“Wish I could help.
You’re no
girl to he lugging tire wood for a
big hulk like me."
“ If you never help an o th er p e r­
son in y ou r life, an d If you live to
be older th an th e hills, you've done
yo ur share." she said soberly a n d
tu rn ed away to hide the emotion in
her eyes.
When th e fires were going sho
return ed to his side. Por an in­
terval she spoke no word and then,
when he smiled Inquiringly, she
WHV NrrtM
I* ? inuniinr^
co u rse: twice site made him stop
and sip food an d s t iu i u ln u t
“ Well, th a t 's It," he Anally ended.
• T v s been an luitioster, but It
seemed to be th e only way. if you'd
have known about th e kid before
he got straig hten ed out. you'd have
tier'll fr a n tic ; if the tuen realized 1
was a s tran g er, they never would
have stuck to the Job Now. If Mary
gets to th e Baird's on time, w e're
set. If not . ,
"If not, th e n It never cau be said
th a t a b rave light w asn't m ade!
1 . . . W hat can 1 say to you. Steve
D rake? Words a re so empty. All
And so a larg er lent w as brought
in before night and more blankets
and a u a b u n d an ce of food.
U l l the next day the doctor a p ­
peared. Ho looked Steve over c a re ­
fully, r e d r e s s e d th e wound and
questioned an d prodded.
“ In a day or two," he said. "You
keep quiet h e re for a day or two
and then you can go out safely."
"Good l o r d ! You mean I’ve got
to lie balded and waited on when I
fool fit as a fid dle'''
a
"S a f e r th a t way," the doctor a s ­
sert ed.
Ml F an e stepp ed close to the lied,
(lien, l i e had brought the doctor
and curried news of Mary as well.
She had m ade the trip through the
tim ber successfully and with half
an hou r to s p a r s had reached
MiieDonald's. T he old Soot, having
no o th er course, had signed the re­
ceipt and accepted the money.
"Hut he didn't wan! to do It," f a -
P a n e added. "H e's pretty mad. lie
says you're a good flshermau ami a
good liar
If Mary h a d n 't gotten
th ere on tim e he'd never have gone
through with the deal."
•Til have to m ake my peace with
him when I'm |>erniltted to do as 1
please again I lie 's a nice old
codger and I'd h a te to leave the
country with him feeling this way."
I si F an e and th e doctor moved
down to the beach, leaving Young
Jiui and K ate In Steve's t e n t
"l.eave the country ?" the girl
asked.
"W hat do you mean by
that ?"
Her brother looked sharply at her.
d u e llin g a repressed quality lu the
tono.
"Why. w hal'd I stay hero for?"
Steve countered. “T h e actual, real.
Certllbal Young Jlui's ull set to go
1 don't aim to stick iirotmd here
an d usk the P lynns to m ake room
for me."
"Ask th em ?" sh e cried. "W hy . . .
when . . . Don't you see . .
Her voice choked up au d her eyes
misted.
Steve looked at Young Jlin anil
at the girl, aud then tu rn ed his head
aw ay.
"Goah." the boy said, “we'll be
needing you. now that It's going to
be such a whale of an operation.
T h a t Is, If we could gel you to
stay."
“ Well th a t 's flue of you. , . .
I haven't any thing lu p a rtic u la r to
do. T h e re a r e thing* . . . reasons
,
that Is—" He cleared his th roat
ns be felt color mounting Into hi*
check*. "W hat I'm trying to »ay Is
th is : If you've a Job of work that
I can do 1 sure'll welcome a -chance
at It."
"Oh. ye*: th e r e ’ll be work, nil
right," suld K ate a* If her mind
were on o th e r matters. ''Besides
, . . you see . .
She, In her turn, wa* stam m ering
an d Young Jim. uncoiling his long
legs, grinned as he runs.
"W here you going?" Steve a*ked.
“ Mostly out of the way until you
two can say some of the things th at
seem to be on your mtuds,” he
chuckled.
[ T H E END]
The making of maple syrup is
always an exciting event in the
life of a boy. And when the boy
is so young that he does not re­
member having helped with other
sugar bushes, it is doubiy so. 1
remember the troughs that were
hewed out of split portions of logs
and hollowed out something on the
same order the Red Man gouges out
the hollow in his dug out canoe,
only the canoe is a big log, some­
times
twenty, thirty, and even
fifty feet long. But the sap trough
is only about thirty inches long,
and from three to five or six in­
ches deep.
The spring I remember first
•'helping" with the sugar bush F a­
ther had purchased a hundred tin
•'buskets,'' much like the light tin
pails that are familiar to every
l ' Ô*
farm child, only instead of a bail
to handle the bucket with, there
was only a hole in the side at the
top with which to hang the bucket
to a spile, providing you used an
auger to tap the maples. Besides
the tin buckets there were about
a hundred pails, the old fashioned
wood pails holding about ten or
twelve quarts, just about the same
These." He S.i'd, "Are the Sweet
»s the tin buckets.
•st Words I’ve Ever Heard."
These buckets and pails all had
to be gotten out from storage and
I can say. 1 giien*. I* to echo the
hauled or carried to the sugar
words of Mary Wolf: You a re uiy
bush which lay north of the house
friend."
some sixty or seventy rods, which
“Those," he said, “a re the sweet
reduced to yards means about three
est words I've ever heard."
hundred fifty to four hundred yards.
She surrend ered her bnnd when
The clearing, 0r field that was
he reached for It and he gripped it
cultivated comprised about three-
dose.
fourths of the distance, the bal­
ance being through the woods. At
C H A P T E R X IV
the sugar camp there was an arch
which comprised about the whole
T WAS Young Jim him self who
of the regular camp though during
i
sighted th e three smokes, lie
as.
e
J
:
sugar-making season there were
and McNally hastened tow ard the
“ Who a re you?"
plenty of things strewed about
“ I'm Steve Drake. I knew y ou r Island and withlD minutes of th eir
these things were all removed
dad
when I was a kid. . . . Kind arrival th e older man was on his
once the season was over.
of a rotten deal, pulling wool over way down th e lake wKh plenty of
The tin buckets sometimes stuck
your eyes the way I did. But . . . ord ers for the detachm ent of men
together as though they had been
he would surely find there.
I'll tell you how it was."
glued fast. You see, there were no
"D o cto r!" Steve snorted when
He went back to that day when
metal paints or oils that were
Old Jim Plynn saved him and his K ate gave her first Instruction. “ 1
procurable for preserving the tin
fa t h e r from perishing la a blizzard should say no t) Why. Ml he good
and they were dipped in thick sy­
l i e told it all. Just as It had hap- as new tomorrow. I’ll ta k e It easy
rup before putting them away to
period, from th at Lime on. K ate did and go out with the boys."
keep the oxygen of the air from
He would do no such thing, Knte
not I n t e r r u p t
When he n a rr a te d
attacking the metal.
Sometimes
how I.aP an e had handled Young Jitn insisted firmly. He would stay In
they were dented in before they
this very spot until a doctor gave
te a r s m ine into her eyes.
were loosened and the pails whicn
B re a k s m arked th e story, of him perm ission to move.
had been treated to the same syrup
had to be rolled about, often for
minutes at a time. The sack, sev­
en, eight, ten or more were laid will begin to thaw before summer 1 into the bucket or pail or trough by placing a barrel on a bob sled
flat on the ground and rolled can come. If the buds start, the as the case may be-
and drawing that around to the
pressing on the ends of the stack, sap is spoiled, “buddy” they say,
Getting the buckets to sit firm ­ trees where . the buckets arc emp­
then rolling it partly over and a- and not fit for use excepting to ly, straight, and in position to tied into the barrel but that in­
ga:n press.ng down on the ends make into vinegar.
hold the sap until they are full volves quite a job getting tno full
of the stack, finally gave way and
Finally there comes a warm day is no small task for the novice. barrel off the sled by p lu g g i n g it
the single pails or buckets were and Father takes his ax and starts I can well imagine a boy tapping qnd rolling it up skids, ana just
set around in rows.
the real work of tapping the trees. a tree, getting the notch cu» ac­ awkward lifting it uround are some
Washing both buckets and pails A gash is cut into the outer wood, curately, the spile set firmly, the of the ways practiced.
in a hot bath was the next pro­ just about as long as the bit of sap dripping off the end of the
That first spring that I can
cedure, and it was some job. The an a*- This gash must be of such spout only to drop on the side of remember father had fashioned a
wash boiler was brought into use a nature that all the sap that an over-turned bucket! But you sort of tool which fitted over his
and the buckets rolled and scrubbed flows into it may be led to one can bet your bottom dollar that shoulders nicely when he stood e
in the hot suds until they were end of the gash. The gash slants not
every boy can tap a maple rect. From the ends which extend­
positively clean. All this cleaning towards the one end and also the tree and get the sap into any ed out from either shoulder about u
w ag done e t the house, at our place, bottom part of the cut slants to­ sort of a utensil. It is quite a job foot there were hung hooks by
though some preferred to do the wards the tree for otherwise the even with the most modern tools means of short ropes. These hooks
washing at the arch. Still others sap would all run out without hut when I remember going to he hooked into the bails of two
made a sort of permanent camp at anyone being able to get it into that first sugar bush, there were home-made
“gathering
buckets” .
the place where the sap was to the buckets.
none of them in that country and These buckets held about six gal­
be boiled down, kept their buckets
The gash cut in the side of the the method I have described was lons, twenty four quarts each, and
or troughs there and did all the tree which seems to promise the used in tapping the trees.
with both suspended from one’s
work appertaining to the making best flow of sap, bursts forth with
A day when sap is flowing read­ shoulders one knew there was a
of the syrup or sugar there
the colorless, sweet fluid which ily is usually chosen to tap the load. Add to that the slumping,
After the buckets were washed runs out the corner of the notch. bush By the time one man has
they had to be “scattered" to the Then the tapper takes his ax and tapped a hundred or a hundred uncertain foothold and the deep
side of the different trees that smooths off the outer bark of the fifty trees he knows he hae been snow—well, just try it in the mud
were going to be tapped. This dis­ tree over which the sap runs in working, but there is the sap that sometime and carry two five-gal­
lon milk cans half a mile and re­
tribution took some time for the a stream. Then with the gouge he has
to lie gathered, an arch that turn for the next ones as qu.ckly
one doing the distributing had to makes a cut in the inner bark by has
to be put in shape, the wood
size up his tree, determine wheth­ driving the sharp instrument with cut and split, the vats or barrels as those brought in can be emp­
er it was of suitable size and if a curved cutting edge into the tree where the s«p is stored until time tied into a barrel and you will un­
ijt would give a good flow of sap, at right angles to the line of the for it to go into the pan, have derstand some of the fun the su­
pr be of the dry kind. This wash­ tree trunk, which makes the spout to be cleansed. Take it all around, gar bush affords
ing, scattering, tapping,
¡s done or spile stand out at a sharp an­ making maple sugar js a busy
Rebuilding the arch is quite a
in the spring, a t the time when gle to the tree. Into the cut made time. Usually men, boys, girls, knack in itself. Usually the arch,
the weather gets warm enough so by the gouge the spile ig driven women, everyone rallies round for or fireplace, ia located on a gentle
that the days are warm enough firmly. The sap runs down from though there is much work to be slope. This allows the front end
to thaw but the nights are still the gash or top into the spile which done, there is also much merriment to be built up above the surface
of the ground while the back end
cold enough to freeze.
carries it out from the tree so going on.
Sometimes the sap is gathered is dug into the bank, making much
Quite a knack in itself is the that the precious fluid can fall
making of the spiles or spouts that
carry the sap out away from the
AFTER THE HONEYMOON
tree and allow it to drop into the
buckets. First there must be select­
ed an easy splitting block, some
ten, twelve, or fourteen inches long.
YER H0N0R-HE CALLED
I WU2 TALKIN'
This is carefully split into planks,
TO MY DOG -
1
A LADY sweetheart ;
two and a half inches thi<k and
AND HE DIDN’T
IT 'S NAME IS
as wride as possible. Then a gougr
EVEN KNOW HER
is used to split out thin pieces off
the edge of the plank. These thin
pieces are carefully sharpened o
that they may be driven into the
cut made by driving the gouge
into the tree below the tap.
By the time this preliminary
may have changed and the snow
that before there is any sep gath-
Tn either case it is just too l ad
than
the former,
of the recurring
for though it
seasons
that
it (
leas w o rk t h a n it would ta k e to I Hugh MoCsIluin, minister of the
build
one o u t on
th e level ami C o u rt St. C h r is ti a n C h u rch ol Ma
m uch tian dier th a n d ig g in g down tlcm will speak a t both th e m o r n ­
f o r all o f
the big openin g
Into ing and ev en in g ch u reh sei vices.
which the
big log* a r e placed to T he evenin g service will be ol ape
boil down th e sap. T h e re m u s t he cial in te re st in th a t Mr. Met allum
a level to p to hold the pan fo r w ill tell o f h is e x p e rie n c e s in
thia big t h i n g la shallow, only a- S o u th A frica. No on# c a n a ff o rd
bout six inches d e e p b u t iron» to n»is« th is service,
t h i r t y six 'inches to fo r ty tw o i n ­ fi--------- * ------------------------ ----- - l«j
Methodist Church
ches wide a n d six, seven or even
up to te n fe e t long. T he one we |Rev. Bruce B. Orosseclose, | ‘a s to r|
used w ould
hold
m ore th a n 70 m
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gallo n s o f sa p when firs t filled.
110:00 a.in. C h u rc h school.
11:00 a-m. M o rning service. T o ­
U sually f a t h e r would find u d iy
beech s t u b w hich m ade a good hut pic. “ Such a s I Have, I Give."
No ev en in g service.
I blaze, w a s n o t h a rd to chop,
split
E veryon e welcome.
r a t h e r ea sy a n d m ude q u ite s a t i s ­
f a c t o r y fu el fo r boiling down the
sa p
T h a t f i r s t y e a r I re m e m b e r I ('on«; relational Church |
tr y i n g to c a r r y one of the s m a ll­ |
C h a rle s F . C lark e, 1‘a s t o r
|
e r stick s he had c u t to th e arch, mu ----------------------------------------------------a
but g o t only a b o u t h a lf w a y when
Mr. C lark e will con du ct the *er-
I fell dow n in th e snow an d
hol­ vlce n e x t Humtay m orning and will
lered fo r help. I don 't r e n u m b e r p re a c h on th e su bject, " T h e S h a ­
who helped me to the arch. I m u st dow s We C a s t ’’. T he Bible School
h ave got th e re .
m e e ts a t 8:45. T h e r e will b t no
Once th e sa p is put Into the ev en in g service. E v e ry one is i n ­
pan and th e fire s t a r t e d , it m u s t vited to o u r services.
be k e p t g o in g until the s a p is
sy ru p . One can add m ore nap if
HINTON C1IUKCH
th e fire is k e p t going an d it is
Rev. W. K. S im pson, P a s t o r
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o fte n the policy to keep the pan w ----------------------------------a
well filled u n til abo ut tim e to sy
S ervices a t th e ch u rch fo r th is
ru p down. O th e r s s t a r ti s l boiling S u n d a y a r e a* follow s: p reach in g
each m o r n in g and s y r u p e d down by the p a s to r, Rev. W. K. S im p so n
each evening. We ho w ev er usu ally s t 8:46, followed by Bible school
k e p t the fire g o in g over one night a t 10:16, in tb e m orn in g. E v e r)
W e would go to the house, do the one is in vited
to a t t e n d
th ese
chores, milk, feed the c a tt le and services.
h o rs e s and pigs an d c h i c k e n s —t h a t
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w-
w as the v a r i e ty f a t h e r kept then
Church of the Na/.arene
a f t e r s u p p e r we would go hack to
1 Rev, W illard P. Aadtrion, Pastor I
th e s u g a r bush and s t a y
th ere
ja
j|
u n til m id n ig h t. By skilful m a m p u
Don’t fo r g e t th e T E N T M E E T
lation of th e fuel one w as side
to build up a big bed »f coals. ! IN G s t a r t s W ednesday , A u g u s t thn
T h e n filling th e a rc h chock full, j 22nd a t 8:00 p m . I t will be lo­
placing « s o r t of cheek d r a f t over c ate d in th e block acro s s fro m the
th e f r o n t of th e arch, and p a rtly p o s t office. You c a n 't help h u t like
closing
th e stove pipe we would th e e v a n g e list, Rev. J . G. B rin g
Come th e f i r s t n ig h t, and
leave and be s u r e t h a t a hot fire dale.
would »till be b u rn in g in the m o r ­ you will w a n t to a t t e n d e v ery s e r ­
vice. Special s in g in g an d an in ­
nin g.
terestin g
program
T his m eetin g
Is fo r you, plan to a tt e n d .
O u r re g u l a r serv ices p e x t S u n ­
day :—Sunday
school,
8:45
a.m.
M o rn in g w orship, 11:00 a m . N Y .
P.S., 7:00 p.m.
E v e n in g
service,
8:00 p.m.
E very b o d y welcome.
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