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THE CHICAGO LEDGER,
SATURDAY,
OCTOBER 10,
1903.
THEGHICAGO [EDGER
30 YEARS OLD.
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UNION) COUNCIL Ds
SS ee
Some women are not as fresh as they are
painted and some are more so,
Many things may be preserved in Blcohol,
but law and order are not on the lis
Figures may not le, but a skillful mathe-
matician may be able to juggle them to
some purpose. ,
The average woman will jump at sight of
@ mouse almost as quick as she will at an
offer of marriage.
“Know thyself,” says we phllosorer oe
how disappointed some it
they knew themsel ves
The child is father to the man; the former
builds a house of Dlocks and the latter
builds a block of hou:
Those picturesque rascals, the Humberts,
will not get any more punishment than is
coming to them.
doesn’t Sir Thomas Lipton try his
hand at buflding a ship that will sail to the
north pole’
he man who thinks spat he has trou-
bles oo ple up the newspapers and read the
account of the man wno has three wives.
=
As long as his enemies are afraid to trust
each other over night the Turk feels that
there isa ne ° Ganger of his 999- -year lease be-
ing cal
King Peter denies that his assassination
has as yet taken place. Why does he pot
issue cards for the event and so avoid wi
certainties?
The reason we do not hear directly from
Mars may be that the people on that pianet
have not got as far along as wireless teleg-
raphy yet.
Congressman Champ Clark has declared
himself out of the race for the nomination
for governor of Bissourt and fs supporting
Joe Folk. Cham still able to tell a
hearse from a band wagon.
If intellectual persons of the future are
to be bald Mr. Rockefeller has anticipated
the development of the race by several
hundred years. He has some otner points
that show it also.
A promising young mitipine pas been sent
to Fort Leavenworth to study war. If the
germ of Kansas polities ever gets into his
system he will be able to give the govern-
nt more trouble wher gets back
m he
than a@ regiment of a@ thousand “men with
bol
The
(Copyright, 1902, by the author.)
egun in No. 38, Sept. 19. Subscriptions can
begin with that Issue, or back copies can be
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or by mail from office of publication.
CHAPTER XXVI.
good thing for the
was capricious,
at the brink of
| which int was a
year’s cu’ The “season
hanging for days at a time
was terrible.
Bent
@ morrow.
was madness; but it was the madness these
men loved
For to his old religion Thorpe had
added 2 “ranaticism, and o
@ sentence he
Hilda's lips: “There can be nothing better
than love.”
His actions, his mind, his very soul vehe-
mently denied the proposition. He clu
ose. But down deep in
Ss B made
twelve million ore. The ase “promised t to
be quite an affai
"About the fifteenth of April attention be-
came strained. Every day unting
sun made heavy c on ie snow;
every night the temperature dropped below
the freezing point. ‘The river began to shi
more air holes, occasional open places.
About the center the ice looked worn and
sogsy. Some one saw a flock of geese high
in the mn came rai
One morning early, Long Jim Pine came
into the men" 's camp bearing a huge chunk
id 2gainst the hot
its surface had ned, when
e began to swab liberal quantities. of grease
n his spiked river shoes, which he fished
out from ona his bunk.
“She's ci boys,” said he.
He donned a pair of woolen trousers that
had been chopped off at in
00!
Shearer,
Similarly. attired and equipped, eappereen in
the doorway. The opening of the portal ad-
pn ted a roar of sound. The river was ris-
come on, boys, she’s on!” sald. jhe, sharp-
“Lively, boys, lively! shouted Thorpe.
“She'll be down on us before we know it!”
e the breaking of dead branches in
the wind sounded a steady roar, like the
bellowing of a w: beast lashing itself to
fury,. The freshet was abi
The men heard it and their eyes bright-
ened with the lust of battle. They cheered.
At the banks of the river, Thorpe issued
lazed Tras
Or, Struggling for Gold
BY STEWART EDWARD WHITE.
inter set in early and continued late; |.
a thaw, only to stiffen again into severe direthe ce cementing the log to-
2 jx | Sether had begun to weaken. e ice
For af each of these false alarms the six] \renched and tugged savagely at the locked
job finished. be: the break-up. ‘ag | timbers until they ha with a mighty ef-
really quite extraordinary under the nag- | fort. snapped, asunder the bonds of bie
ging eather conditions and .the } Pibernation. Now a nai lane of blaek,
cruel rowelling of Thor} shing water pierced the rollways, to
he latter had no thought beyond his and eddy in the consequent Jam three males
elow,
man’ yd phat Was the thought of a mad tig, the foremen Thorpe assigned their
enotgh beter ni ows, but now
his directions. The affair had been all pre-
ged. Immediately above the frst roll-
e with its wit
&
@
Joney,” said he to the big Irishman,
wate your crew and break that jam. Th:
scatter your men down to within a mile of
the pond at Dam Two, and see that the
river runs clear,
to sluicing them t igh the da You
won't need mor than four men ere, if
you keep a good You can keep your
hea
gates open five or ‘Six hours. Ana, Moloney.”
“[ want. you to be careful not to sluice
T just below the dam
low, you'll center and jam there, as sure as
shootin;
Bryan Motoney turned on his heel and
began to pick his way down s
solidly banked logs.
comma: lozen men followed him.
little gro! ay irregularty into
the distance, springing lightly from one
timber to the other, holding their quaintly-
fashioned peaveys in the manner of a rope
ncer’s balancing pole. At the lower-most
limit of the rollways, each man pried a lo}
into the water, and, standing gracefully
ect on this unstable craft, floate ut
jown the current to the scene of his dan-
r.
Kerlie,” went on Thorpe, “your crew can
brealk rollways with the rest until we get
the river fairly filled, and
ove on down stream as fast as you are
neede Seotty, yor e the rear. Tim
nd I will boss the
At once the signal Was given to Ellis, the
dam watche: Ellis and his assistants
thereupon began to pry twit long tron bars
é gates.
erm
inch of raise, dropping it accurately to en-
able -the men at the bars to seize a fresh
purchase, ‘iver’ ‘oar ~ deepened.
Through the le i ys torrent
ways.
Along the edge of the dark channel the face
of the logs seemed to crumble away. Far-
ther in towards the ban!
of timber
‘ager streamlets sought the inter-
stices between the logs, gurgling eacitediy.
m creaked yard groaned in response
to the pressure. e
against the tail of the
moment later they, t nd
crossed in inner as to lock the
vhole. They sought those logs.
Thirty feet above the bed of the river six
men, clamped. thelr peaveys into the
ys the practiced rivermen,
after a glance. ‘bent more eagerly to their
utlined against the sky, big Bryan M
lIoney stood 4
In
8 Ol 0 si
this manner the force of the jump rushed
the Ltie timbers end-on through & the wate
nen, maintaining mar va ter,
ihr ‘bat were thus ferried 9 “vite
Teaping stage of the other sh thin
neantime rely pei reeptible mow
tion was Communicating itself from one
ter
hen in silence 4 12°
slowly but with ue
maced
their spositions, "rang
bent-kne
galloping horses.
I at once down by the face some
oneal th
circus Tase treads his is.
thers
iS four
‘hen a
thing crashed e entire stream
‘oared, it Shricked a ar
slowly,’ then tan and
ront of the center meltey
BS
°
5
23
3
ler the
stream, ing and formidable, the ona oe
grinding savagely tozether, swept fa
“the six men and Bryan Moloney—who, it
be remembered, Were on top—worked
unt the | last moment. When the logs be.
0 rapidly that
difficulty i
e fol oreman set the ex :
“She ‘pulls’, boys,’* he’ yell
on ia manner wondertal to, enol
through «fhe smother of foam, an
the crash and ye'
was swept down-st am.
After a moment the constant acceleration
peed checked, then commenced. perce
own stream.
yeah? rest of the time they
"the logs slipped down the
ently, swiftly, yet with-
of the
moon it current,
out ste. ‘rom Sthe
river Tang the hollow boom, be
timbers striking one against the other.
rive was on.
CHAPTER XXVII.
I he meantime the main body of the
¢ ‘pe id his.foremen wert
‘Then men had continually to keep alert, for
at any moment they were called upon t
exercise their best judgment and quicknes
to keep from being carried downward wi
he rush of frequently &
frowning sheer wall of fos eet woulé
Resitat eon the ‘Ther
earer himself proved: his ‘rugnt t to the ttl
of riverman.
Shearer wore caulks nearly an inch {kt
length. He had been known to ride ter
miies without shifting ne feet, on a log st
it without. dift-
2
ee
eulty. For cool ni r
he said, quiet
When
runway, g with practiced eye
perpendicular wall of logs over hi 1
as a man pries jackstraws, -he clamped hit
y and tugged sh&rply. At once the
rollway flattened and toppled. A mighty
splash, a fluff ef flying foam and crushing
timbers, and the spot on whic
the logs should have ceased to move. H®
tory stated that Shearer had never Lost ?
man on the river, simply and solely be
cause he Invariably took the dangero®
asks upon himy
fee days the rol ways were brok
Now tt became necessary to start the ve
For this purpose Billy he
had loaded his cook-stove,
provisions, and a supply of bed
either end were lon:
ITH ns erat
broa ad
would | sulle, ehuoing to proceed:
expediency emanal led its pa
arag Billy
rope's: end,
it against successively uprooted
stumps. h t Jast the
a wh
jogs t
main drive passed. These ne co
crew were engaged in restoring te
at. o side of
rend as a man had to be able t!
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