THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, SATURDAY. AUGUST 1. 1896. A QUESTIOM COURAGE The third day of Ringbrand's absence ' dawned hot and clear, and when Lud Jow reached "The Laurels',' with his "nen he found the colonel and Uenry waiting impatiently. After a short consultation and the arrangement of a definite plan-j the quest began: and as soon as the men were out of sight Hester mounted and rode to Tre rrarthen. The suspense of the previous lay had been hard to endure, but it had been mixed with the hope that some of the means employed would l)ring news of a cheering nature. When her father and brother returned from their fruitless errands, and she had read Ludlow's note, the girl began to realize in dread earnest what the pro longed uncertainty meant for her, and she was glad enough to escape from the -ordeal of another lonely day of wait ing. Mrs. Ludlow saw her galloping down the road, and met her at the door. "Did the men get started before you left?" she inquired, putting her arm around the girl's waist and leading her to the cool sitting-room. 'Yes; they had planned to throw a line all the way across the mountain, moving it northward, so as to cover the -whole plateau." They can hardly fail to find him; that is, if he still on the mountain," replied Mrs. Ludlow. Oh, yes, Helen, but just think of it this is the 1 bird day ! They can scarce ly hope to find hiiu alive if any acci dent has happened." Hester's voice betrayed her emotion, and Mrs. Ludlow hastened to comfort her. "Yon mustn't be discouraged, dear; itll come out all right I just feel that it -will. All day yesterday I was just as blue as could be, but no I am sure we'll hear good news before long." "I wish I could be; but I can't; and i've tried so hard. All night long 1 was haunted by the most dreadful pictures of him lying in some desolate place. Sometimes it seemed as if he were only wounded, but at others his faee was livid and ghastly. "Poor dear!" sympathetically, ' Oil, it was terrible !" said Mrs. Ludlow, does it mean so much to you?" Hester covered her faee with her bands, and the compassionate com forter saw a tear trickle down one of the shapely fingers. "There, there, Hester, dear; don't cry: I know you can't talk about it yet, not even tome.' The jrirl looked u; with her cheeks jiflame. "And you know why I can't! It shameful to even think of such a Ibing!" "No, it isn't not from my point of view; you must remember I know some things on the other side, anil if Hugh hasn't spoken it's because he has been restrained by a nobler mot ive than most men could find a place for. Oh, you needn't hide your faee again: I'm not going to do his wooing for him; you'll trod he can do that for himself, some day, and then he'll tell you all nlxxit it.' Hester rose and crossed to the win dow, commanding the view of t lie mountain, and Mrs. Ludlow went away to attend to her household duties, When she looked in an hour later, the girl was still standing at the window. looking with wistful eyes at the forest clad slopes of the great hills, as if seek ing to read the secret of the. mystery on th'3 fair pages of the landscape. It was ii long weary day for the two wom en, and in the afternoon Hester an nounced her intention of returning to "The Laurels." "I shall hear sooner, if I go back,' she said, in reply to Mrs. Ludlow's ef fort to detain her. "and the (lelay is pitifully hard at best.' "Shan't I have John get out the phaeton, so I can drive you up?' "No," replied Hester, with her face averted. "I think it will be better for me to go by myself. If if it should turn out as I fear, I should want to be quite alone for awhile." Mrs. Ludlow understood, and did not .seek to change her plans; and after the jjirl ,had disappeared in the windings of the mountain road, the tender-hearted little woman took the vacant place at the window, watching eagerly for the .first signs of the returning search party. She was standing there yet when the sun went behind the mountain and the . irst stragglers of the party began to appear in the road; and she was try ing so earnestly to distinguish the form of her husband among the men that she did not hear him when he entered the room. A single glance at his face dis heartened her, and she could not li ml words to frame the question that found better speech in her eyes. "No, we didn't find him," said Liul- low, gravely, answering her thought. "We quartered every foot of the plateau both brows of the mountain. He's not up there, dead or alive. And that isn't all: the McNabb was blown up again last night." Mrs. Ludlow seemed not to have heard the last sentence, for she put her arms about her husband's neck and hid her face on his bosom, saying, softly: ""Oh, poor, poor Hester!" XL THE BUILDING OF A STAIB. Good resolutions, backed by whatever plea of advisability or necessity, are not always certain to bear fruit after their kind. When Ringbrand flung himself down beside the log to wait for the dawn, he fully intended keeping awake in order to take ad vantage of the earliest light for the beginning of the new en deavor. So ran the alert determination; hut he who watches maynot lie quietly with closed eyes, and when Kmgbrand sprang to his feet out of a sound sleep the morning was far advanced. . Reproaching himself remorsefully for his want of vigilance, he recalled the details of the plan which had suggested itself in the night, and went immediate ly to 'work. He first ascertained half he length of the log by measuring it with the: rope, and with the dimension thus obtained he gauged the varying width of the cavern until he found a point where the walls approached each other so nearly as to make the interven ing space correspond exactly with his measurement. .,- The next step was to cut the log into two pieces of equal length, and, drag ging it out into the better light under the aperture, he narrowly missed throw ing it down upon another package of food similar to the one found in the same spot on the previous morning. It was a welcome surprise, and he stopped work long enough to devour the hard corn-bread and greasy bacon, thinking 1 hat the daintiest breakfast) ever brought him by the well-trained waiter in the grill-room of his New York club had not been eaten with a keener relish. "It must be the woman," he solilo quized; "it can't be anyone else; and if obese fellows have put their devilish plot in motion I'll get no more rations from .that source, because they were to send her away to-day. After all, though, I don't know as it makes much differ- He hoisted the other piece of wood after him. ence;. if another night finds me still in this hole I shan't care much what be comes of me." Putting the shadow of despondency inlo words had the effect of defining it, and he shook it off resolutely. "That'll never do; there must be no ifsandands about it: I've just got to get out of here while this daylight lasts." lie swallowed the last mouthful of bread and fell to work again, beginning to cut a groove around the middle of the log by incessant und careful strokes of the pick. In turning the piece of timber, lie saw where the mountaineer's shot had plowed a deep furrow in it, and he knew then that the bruise on his arm had been made by the glancing- and hai f-spent bullet. He scarcely heeded the grim reminder, and as he bent pati ently to his work bethought how quick ly the school of privation and hardship begins to impress its lessons of indiffer ence upon the mind. There are many things easier of ac complishment than the cutting in two of a six-inch stick of tough oak with the dull j;oint of a pick as a substitute for an sin; and the muscles of Ringbrand's back and arms were in painful rebellion, and his. hands were sore and biistered, long before the thing was done. As a college man, he had been rather fond af athletics, and the training of . the university gymnasium, reaching up through the overlying years of se dentary habit, gave him the power of endurance and enabled him to keep steadily at work in spite of the protests of back and arms and hands; but this did not lessen the acuteness of the pain. nor did it dull the keen agony of appre hension that seized upon him as he saw how slowly the cutting progressed. Notwithstanding his preseverance and the feverish energy with which he worked, the hands of his watch marked the hour of noon when the last remain ing fibers of the wood gave way under the blows of the pick, and, stopping only long enough to get a drink of water from the pool, ha carried the pieces to the point determined by the measure ment with the rope, and began to fit one of them breast-high between the vert ical walls as the first round of his ladder. "By Jove! talk about special provi- aence what chance would I have if this bit of timber hadn't tumbled down here?" It was a comfort to think aloud in the dead silence of the place. "Now, if 1 can wedge this so it will hold me " A half-dozen trials went for nothing, and he sat down to worry it out in theory. "It's too long that's what's the matter with i; but if I cut it off it may be too short for the next place, and that won't do. Let me see ; I wonder if I couldn't dig a little step for the lower end." He was on his feet again in a moment, picking a shallow hole in the soft sand stone. The expedient answered ; the purpose, and when the log was adjusted he tried it, first by littles and then bv climbing up and jumping upon it. It held, and he forgot his aches and pains, in the exultant joy of success. "That demonstrates it: if I can fit one, can fit the others. And I'll get the hang of it presently, 'so I can work faster. It oughtn't to take more than six of these to carry me to the top; six. or possibly seven" scanning the cleft above him "and I've got five hours or such a matter to do it in. At that rate it'll be dark when I get back to Lud low's; but that won't matter. ' An hour will give me all the time Jwantat Tom's . and we can figure safely up to tei o'elock." Then the folly of planning so far ahead while he was still in prison that for two days and a half hot resisted all his efforte to break i struck him like the rebuke of a task master, and he slid down from the loj. with a mild impieeatioii pointed at his own vagaries. . "That's just like me," he muttered, "sending my imagin ation across the river before the bridge is even planned. Work is the word, you speculative, idiot! Do you hear that? Work!" To be continued. PERSONAL MENTION. Wednesday. Mrs. Horton left for Portland this afternoon. Judge Bradshaw returned this after noon to the sea coast. Mr. J. R. Warner of White Salmon left for his home this morning. M. T. Nolan left on the afternoon train for Portland on business. Mr. Balch, the tailor, returned from a 3hort trip to Hood River today. Juage Blakeley left this afternoon lor the coast. He is not in the beet of health. County Judge Robt. Mays is in the city on business connected with probate court. Mre. T. C. Donnell left this morning for White Salmon, wheie she will visit Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Warner. The FitzGerald Bros., Eugene Looney and McMein of McMein & Morrow, sheep growers of the Mitchell country, are in the city. Mrs. Laura B. Logan, Miss Laura Knowles and Ray Logan, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. is. Crossen left this morning for. Portland. Thursday. ' Mr. T. A. VarfNorden left this after noon for Newport. Mrs. Win. Michell And Miss Miehell left for Long Beach today. Ad. Kellar returned today from the Red Men's state council at Portland. Mr. Troy Shellev returned home this morning, having finished his labors be fore the institnte. Mrs. Feeney of Portland,.a sister of Mr. R. H. Darnielle, arrived today on a visit to the latter and his family. Attorney John H. Hall, a partner of F. T. Hume, was in town today on legal business and left for Portland on the afternoon train. Rev. I. N. Hazel and wife left on the Regulator this morning for Caiifornia. ! They were accompanied to tbe landing by numerous friends and members 01 the congregation to bid them goodbye. Friday. Rev. W. C. Curti9 went to Hood River this morning. Mrs. Hal French left for Hood River on the Regulator this morning. Mrs. A. C. Phelps and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Phelps lett this morning for Ste venson on a camping trip- Mr. S. L. Brooks left for Sherman county this morning. Messrs. H. C. Howe and R. S. An drews of Hood River, who have been attending tbe institnte, returned home today. Messrs. Liebe, Hilton, Gibons, Schan no, Mvers and Montgomery left on the afternoon train for Hood River and will institute a decree of Royal Arch Ma sons there this evening. A Keportd Battle of Sheepmen. The Fossil Journal says : J. M. South brings word to town ot a desperate battle between sheepmen and cattlemen on Snow mountain, feouth west of Canyon City, which took place about a week ago. Mr. South was at Muddy Station Thursday, when the Mitchell-Antelope stage driver bronght word to O'Neill, manager of the Prine ville Sheep & Land Co., that Mr. Kitch en, one of tbe company's employes, was one of three sheepmen killed, two cat tlemen being also slain. Another of the sheepmen killed was Earnest Sberar, a nephew of Jos. Sherar, the well-known woolgrower and buyer. Young Sherar was known to a number of our people as the pitcher of the Antelope baseball club. For several years he has been buying and shipping sheep for his uncle, and on the occasion of the battle he, with several others, including Mr. Kitchen, was driving a band of sheep across the country to the railroad, pre sumably to Huntington, for shipment. There have been so many fake "sheep fights" in Grant county this year that this may be like the others, simply made np in order to ecare sheepmen from going into the mountains with their flocks, but this story, in that it gives the names of some of tbe killed and was accepted as trne by Mr. O'Neil, has symptoms of truth in it. A reporter of The Chronicle en deavored to find out whether there was any truth in the above story or not. From Mr. Wiseman it is learned that be has letters from Earnest Sherar of date since tbe event spoken of, which would show that there is no foundation for the sensational story in the Fossil paper. - ' KtberOne-81ded. ' v . New York World, Dem. Not ft single Democratic newspaper of consequence in Aew jtork, acw land, Pennsylvania, Maryland or Dela ware supports the ticket thus far. Of 700 German papers that discuss politics, only 31 approve tbe platform. There are 1,200,000 German-American voters throughout the Union, mostly in close states. :.' ' : ' ... -. t- T here' a no clav, flour, starch or other worthless filling in "Hoe Cake" and nc free alkali to burn the hands. jly24-ii Oregon Press Association. On August 20th and 21st the Oregon Press Association will meet at Astoria. The program is as follows: ... Address of welcome; reepongp; presi dent's annual address; reports of officers ; "The Editor and the Pablic Schools," D. M. C. Gauit; "Newspaper Legislation," M. L. Pipes. x-president ; "A Subscription "List in Oregjn," C. S. Jackson, East Oregonian; "Personal Reminiscences," Dr. J. N. R. Bell, ex president; "The Local Press;" C. B. Irvine, Salem Statesman ; "National Editorial Association," Cnaries Nickell, Jacksonville Times; "The Specialty Press," Frank Lee, Pacific Farmer; "Junketing," J. R. Bjegle, St. Helens Mist, ex-president; "Normal Schools," A. Noltner, Dispatch ; "Observations of the Oregon Press," J. B. Eddy, ex-president; "The Daily Press." John Gratke, Astoria Budget; "Western Editorial Federation," E. J. Kaiser. Record, Ash land; "Newspaper Hypnotism," Ira L. Campbell, Eugene Guard ; "Newspaper Fakes and Fakers,' L. Samuel, ex-president; also Mrs. O. S. England of Salem and Mrs. A. S. Duniwsy of Portland have been . assigned places on the pro gram : Editors A. W. Patterson. George B. Small, S. S. Train. Professor F. R. Blochberger, F. J. Nutting, E. B. Piper, Hon. S. L. Moorhead, Rjbert Johnson and V. P. Fiske wi'l pive five-minute talks on subjects yet to. be assigned them. A Boom f.ir Copper. Ohic8fi Post. If the 53-cent silver dollar wiil bring prosperity and give money to all the peo ple, the 3-cent copper dollar will bring those blessings in greater measure. If the debtor can save 47 cents on every dollar under free silver, he can save 97 cents on every dollar by paying with a 3-cent copper dollar. The copper bag certainly has a better scheme than the silver bug. If the arguments of the sil ver bug are sonnd, those of tbe copper bug are sounder. Bat let us suspend judgment, brethren, until we hear from the man with tbe leather dollar. Tbe Isaac is 1'ore Silver. New York Sun. Stop bothering yonr head about the figures 16 to 1 ; leave the gold standard out of the question, for there is no di rect issue noon it, and consider tbe real issue, silver.. A lump of Bilverof a certain size, 371J-4 grains in weight, is today worth 53 cents. Tbe Bryan proposition is that the gov ernment shall stamp it a dollar. That wonld be fiat money-making of the same sort as the government setting its print ine presses to work arid turning out without limit dollars of paper. It is fiat dishonesty. It is pregnant with tronble for every man, laborer or capitalist, who lives by industry, and it would leave to the United States the bnrt of lasting mistrust in the mind of every industrial . investor and leader, American and foreign. . A Martyr Turned Down. New York Mail and Express. Ex-President St. John, of the Mer cantile National bank, is a wiser if not a sadder man than when be resigned his position in preference to his free-silver convictions and hastened to Chicago to become a national figure. Every plat form suggestion he made to tbe men who bad been patting him on the back was turned down unmercifully. Democratle Sarcasm. Chicago Chronicle. The Kid candidate favors "carrying the war into Africa." 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