OREGON CITY" ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1908.
RAILROAD VISIONS
PLEASE WILLAMETTE
OREQON IRON & 8TEEL COMPANY
io KLATTINQ 3000 ACRES
TUALATIN RIVER.
ON
Tim people (,f Willamette urn again
Heclng vImIimim of ii cornliiK railroad
mill o'"iily ilxclmu Unit A. H, I'nliillo,
mi ollleer (.f tlui OrcKoirirou & Htoel
Company, Iuih stilted tlmt . m only n
in'Htlim of tlinit when tt rnllroml will
bn constructed to Wllliunetlu, Hthor
from tlui I'mllund Hulcm lino of Urn
Oregon rciimirio ('omiinny, or
from
some other Noiiorci. Tlirt pxiiiM tiilloiiH ' !'""l'lii IiiihIf) to lliuiiiiin mid BIiihIi,
of ii railroad lire heightened by n party ! but In executing tint Instrument tlio
of surveyors who nro now engiiKeil In I mi mo of Slush appeared tin Hhlnh. Mr.
platting tlm 1 in in - n m IioIiIIiikh of tlui Slush requested Recorder of Convey
Oregon Iron & Steel Compiiny near I aiices Cbouncey Ramsby to miiko an
WllliimeitH, hound tlm Tualatin River. 1 iiltcratloii tin ullow bin niiiiio to no-
mo company hitH about 3000 acreM
tilers mid thu Imiil Im being plntfed In
to hiiiuII trnctM of 2, r and 10 acre,
The property J partially covered with
timber tit tlm present time, but Ih
easily cleared and Ih suitable for fruit
nild vegetable growing, tiH well 11 hit
lux adapted to dairying. The hoII In
and about VVIIInmeltu Ih uniiHiially fer
tile,. DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS.
Lucy May Sargent of Portland, 8uei
Draper C. Sargent for Divorce.
Divorce proceeding worn started
about November 15. 11107, In thin city
by M m. May Sargent, of Portland,
ngultiHt Uriiper ('. Hiii ni't. a well
known prospector and mining man
from Alaska, the euuse alleged being
on the ground of ilenertlon.
The defendant enters a geiiorul de
nial to the lxv charges. To a re
porter ho Mutes that he ban been mar
ried to the plaintiff for 15 yearn, dur
ing ntun of which they lived happily
together at Durnngo, (.'oyo. In 1H00
the defendant went lu Nome to prim
ped, leaviiiK IiIh wlfu lu comfortable
cln:uinnluiicen In the home j. Durnngo.
Returning In 1901, be clnluiH thut Mra. '
Sargent had Niicrlflced IiIh home for a .
Hiiuill amount to go on the stage, fol-.
lowing t hiit life for Heveral yenrM.
Finding bliiini If iiliiiudoui'd and unnblo
to locate IiIh wife, he went North In i
KMC. and remained four yearn. In j
the fall of RioO he again returned; IiIh
wlfu wiih located lu 1'ortlnud and they
lived together uh unit) and wife In Jan
uary, I'JU", uhe receiving llnnnclul aid
from him, an hiwas situated In a posl
tlon to help her, huvlug been success
fill durliiK IiIh absence. Shortly after
he ngnln went to look after IiIh Inter
ests In Alnxl-a, and at thu time of "bin
departure mat tern were apparently
Kiiinothed over and their relailonH wore
as happy bh formerly, but upon return
ItiK In the full of 1IIU7 he found that IiIh
wife bud turned against him and bis
hopcH f their living happily together I
were dunned to the ground, doing I
Kant, bo wnH still further surprised
when, at Washington, I). ('., he was
served with pupers In which thu plain
tiff sued for divorce on the grounds
before Htutud. f
These are thu facts In the case.
The plaintiff In the case Is a sten
ographer for Ilauer & Creene, lawyers,
of Portland, who has been going under
the tianin of Miss May Sargent, while
nil the times ho bus been a married
woman, bringing her suit In Oregon
City to conceal this fact. Thu defend
ant Is a reputable prospector und min
ing man, connected with II. C. Unit
milier, the mining expert, formerly of
Trliico, but now In Tncomn, and tho
CuggcnhclniH.
POSSESSION IN DISPUTE.
D. Rltter Flies Suit to Prevent Sale
of Strip of Land.
J. D. Hitter has filed a suit nKulnst
Samuel Wolfer and Sheriff Flcutie. to
restrain the latter from Isulng nn ex
ecution against a strip of land In the
.lame Shirley Donation Land Cluim.
which wuh owned, way back In Decem
ber, 1SK1. by thu plaintiff and defend
ant and several others. Tho owners
were deslrloim of segregating their In
dividual Interests according to their
respective shares and agreed that
John Wolfer's shnro should be 72.811
ucren, which was divided. This prop
erty adjoined the land of tho defend-
MAYBE ?QV
Will be the lcky winner of the fine diamond
ring which will be given away March 1st.
Remember that every dollar's worth of work or a 50c
extraction entitles you ( to a chance at a $165 stone.
If you don't care for diamonds remember there are
many pretty girls who will only be glad to have such
a present made them
The quality of our work is testified to by many
pleased patrons and the satisfaction we have given
customers, who had never before been satisfied, has
been very gratifying.
OUR FEATURES
Ten year guarantee
Plate
Crown's
Goldfillings -Silver
fillings
Painless extraction
OREGON DENTAL PARLORS
Over Harding's Drug Store. Main St, Oregon City,
ant, who hullt a fonco thut waH lo
cated on links from the true iIIvIhIoii
II no, Hitter purchased tlm land, In
Including tho strip but lu Pubruury, 'UH,
Wolfer liiHtltuleil an action against
him for ejectment and obtained n
JiiilK'tient agnlnnt Hitter, who had no
legal (lefeiid). It Ih for the purpose,
of rendering ttilx Judgment void, and
preventing II execution that Hitter
bus commenced milt,
8HI3H 13 NOW 8LU8H.
Judge McBrlde Compel Timber Comp
any to Corroct Deed.
Judge Mrllrldo had hIuhIi to deal
with Saturday afternoon, and dimmed
of a cane thut wn rather iiniiHual.
A few tnonthH ago the N'ehaleni Tlm-
i her Company filed a deed convoying
pear n the deed recordH an BIuhIi,
and not HIiIhIi. Of course, Mr. UnmHby
acted well within IiIh ofllcliil rlKhtM.
"Oh, Slush," Huld ho, "I can't do
It."
Ho Mr. KIiihIi and Mr. Ilannan sought
the legal services of I'latt & I'lutt of
I'ortland, and brought .mill nguliiKt Mr.
Itamnby to cx.mp-1 , to have the
tiiiino of S i kIi appear an 8 ush n the
deed record. IIi'.Ikch & Orlfljth wero
retained by the Itecorder, und on Sat
urday, after a hearltiR of the canu,
.Indue Mcllrlde iHiiued un orded dlrect-
ItiK the Nehalem Timber Company to;
reform the deed, making the name or
KIuhIi uppeur uh It Khould be, and not
KIiIhIi. When thlH Ih done, Mr. KaniH
by will make thi record right.
SHAKE WELL
IN BOTTLE
HOW TO PREPARE MIXTURE TO
CURE RHEUMATI8M.
THIS IS VERY GOOD
Thla Town Haa Ita. Share of Dread
Dlaeaie, Which It Said to Yield
to Simple Home Recipe.
To relievo the wornt form of Itbeu
mutlHin, take a teiiHpoonful of the fol
lowing mixture after meal and at bed
time: Fluid Kxtract of Dandelion, one half
ounce; Cotnound Kargon. one ounce;
Compound Syrup Samupurllla, three
onnceH.
Thene harmless Ingredients can bo
obtained from our homo druggists, and
are easily mixed by Hhuklng thorn well
In a bottle. Relief Is generally folt
from the first few doses.
This prescription, states a well
known authority In a Cleveland morn
ing pnper, forces the clogged-up. In
active kidneys to .(liter and strain
from the hliKid tho poisonous waste
matter and uric acid, which causes
Rheumatism.
As Rheumatism Ih not only tho most
painful and torturous disease, but dan
gerous to life, this simple recipe will
no doubt be greatly valued by many
sufferers here at home, who should at
once prepare the mixture to get this
relief.
It Is said that a person who would
take this prescription regularly, a dose
or two dally, or even a few times a
week, would never have serious kid
ney or I'rlnary disorders or Rheuma
tism. Cut this out and preserve It. Good
Rheumatism prescript lonswhlch real
ly relieve are senrce, indeed, and when
you need It, you want It badly. Our
druggists here say they will either
supply these Ingredients or make tho
mixture ready to take, If any of our
readers so prefer.
Multnomah Lodge, No. 1, A. F. &
A. M., held Its first meeting In Its new
temple lust Saturday night, although
tho mnln hall Is not yet ready for the
reception of the lodge. The Cole build
ing, adjoining tho Masonic Temple,
will bo completed In a few days.
$5.00 f
5.00 VyWy-" Tffw4 J
THE "TUPPENCE" HABIT.
It Ha a Firm Grip on London and
Itt Inhabitant!.
Tuppnnco meiinliiK. of courno, two
penco nml juul to the mini of 4 conta
in L'nllod HtnteH currciicy-lH the dom
luutlnK Hum In Ioiidoii. It Ih uh mucn
an liiHtltiitlou ii h thu war debt, beer or
the Ktno of crlckut, Wherever you
go, whatever you do, whatovor you
Hell or whenever you open your- mouth
11 Ih tuppence or n mcHi-h of that hum
that Ih extracted from you. It mor
than taken tho place of the Ave cent
piece In America or tho.threepcnny
bit III till I'.rlllHll poHMCMHlotlH.
Tujipenco Ih uh much uh a fairly well
to do worker can afford for IiIh incul
at midday. In thu poorer rcHtuuruuti
thut Hum kcIh him two hiIcch and a
bK uwn, or three hIIcch and u little
nniK, or a portion of cuke and u drluk,
or a fried ckk. hIIco and hiiiuII iiiub. or
a autiHiiKe with iiiiihIi or bread, or u
rnHher of bacon. In the next higher
cIiihh everything drinkable Ih twopence
per cup, while pantry, pies, etc., nro
(lie Hflme Hum per head. At the'
"popular"-!, c, "no KrutultleH"-rcH-taiinintH
the waiter expect a tuppen
ny tip (though It Ih udvertlKud othor-
wIhu by thu proprit-toiK), und the Don-
r L,m , , (; A,
,. ., . ., ,
,H ""' 1 MU,,,1 1,ln'
At in out cafe
and tup-
peiicu Ih expected and In accepted with
the Mervlle bow mid pletmed exproHHlon
that dlHtlngulKh the KngllHh und con-
tlncntiil waiter upon hiicIi occasion
The tuppenny tube Ih well known.
You ilepimi; that mini, and you get In
anywhere and get out anywhere elne
you pleune. On trolley curs and buses
thut amount w ill curry you for an hour
or two very often, usually to the ter
minus. The nil I pond porter who car
ries your rug a few yards or who says
"Vuh" when you OHk If the' train has ,
atopped alwayn has bin hand out for
tho uhiiiiI fee, thyugh he will carry
your two lurge bugs und whutcverelHo
you have for half a mile over high
Rtulrs and low lines and accept the
Hiimo amount with the same nutlHfuc
Hon. The cabby to whom you give coppers
over the legal fare salutes you respect
fully, but If you pay double fare In a
lordly manner he wants more and Is
apt to make disparaging remarks about
your breeding, ns inny the bootblack
to whom you give 1 Inwtead of 2 pen
nies. The cabby Is the surer of the
two, however, for disparaging re
marks, to which characteristic. I real
ly believe, can be traced thu advent of
the taximeter. New York I'oBt.
THE ART OF JUGGLING.
It Damande Much Hard Work and Un
limitid Patiencj.
"To be n successf ul Jugsler It Is neces
sary to possess lullnlie patience. Koine
tricks require such Un;i nml continuous
practice that unless n man possessed
great patience nud unlimited powers ef
pcinevernm e be would despair of everi
beliis nlile t. perform them." snys Taul
Clnijuevnlll l:i the St. Louis Post-Dls-pntih.
"Taken trick, for example, like
balancing a tall ghiss on four straws
placed on the forehead., It looks easy
enough, but It tool; me years of prac
tice U'fore I could do It. While I am
balancing thp glass I also Juggle with
five huts nt the same time. I never, as
a matter of fact, we the hats. They
are handed to me by my assistant, and
I then set them going, but the whole
time my eyes ure flxed on the straws
upon which the glass Is balanced. If
I took my eyes from the straws for a
hundredth part of a second their bal
ance would le upset. 1 know Instinc
tively where the hats are nil the time
and know exactly where each hat Is
when I put out my hand to catch It.
"It took me close on eight years'
practice before I was able to balance
two billiard balls on top of each other
and then balance the two on n billiard
cue. I started practicing It nn hour
n day, ns a rule. After a couple of
years' practice one night I woke up,
having dreamed that I had performed
It. I got up. rushed downstairs und be
gan to practice with my cue and two
Millard balls, and ut the first attempt I
balanced them. About five years later
I performed the feat In public.
"For the ennnon ball trick I first used
a wooden ball weighing Just one pound.
I caught It on the wrong place and was
knocked senseless, but I kept on prac
ticing until I found out how to do It.
Now I use nn lrou ball weighing sixty
pounds. If I didn't cntch the ball on
the right place on the bnek of my neck
It would kill me, but there Is no chance
of my making a mistake."
Surfacing Natural Wood.
White pine, birch, cherry, whltewood,
maple, sycamore, gum and hemlock
need no filling at nil. They are clussed
I as the close grained woods, nud their
surface presents no pores or cellular
tissue to be filled. Still the surface
needs to be senled up so the wood will
not suck the oil out of the vjirnlsh.
This "Is called surfacing. It consists
of coating the surfnee with shellac
and theu sandpapering down to a
smooth finish. When thus treated the
wood Is ready for the varnish.
Riding the Rail.
A Georgia paper lays. "lie who rides
an the rail courts death."
It was nn Irishman, ridden on a rail,
who said that except for the honor of
the thing he would just as soon walk.
Houston Post.
It Was There.
Composer Did you bear the torment
and despnlr In my tone poem, "Tan
talus." that I just played you? . Lis
tener No. but I noticed tlipni on tha
faces of the audlence.-Fllegende Blat-,
ger i
When a man can tell his principles
from his prejudices be Is tolerably ed
ucated. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Cbe Hcw
Boss
By FRANK H. SWEET.
Copyrbfht. 1IM7, by Krank II. BwreL
"itOU can't always tell what's In
a bundle by the look of the
y wrapper."
Thu old man hud found a
icut upon n fallen tree that lay upon
a sunuy hillside and was carefully
smoothing iiml'Miaplng a cane he had
cut near by. He held It up as ho
spoke und let his eye run along lu
length as If to discover Its Irregulari
ties, but bis gaze wandered quite be
yond the stleii to the valley and river
below, where stood the great mill, with
Its tall, blackened chimneys and mass
ive walls.
"No, sir, you can't nlwayg toll by the
looks of n bundle what's Inside of It,"
he repeuted more emphatically. "And
If folks would only understand It and
atop tryln' 'twould suve a deal of trou
ble. Now there's the Dnrlln'" I
"Dnrlin'5" the visitor repeuted un
certainly. "Oh, 'taln't the name of any kind of j
workman like the puddler or nailer or
such; It's just a name thafv his. We
give It when he first come here, twelve
years and more ugo. Things had been
grln' pretty bud ut the mill then and
stops anfl hitches of one kind or 'uoth
cr und times gettln' worse for the men
all the while.
"Mismanagement most of It was, or,
leastways, we thought so. .Old Kes
wick he wns the overseer here was
one of the shortsighted, savin' kind
that would lose a dollar In tryln' to
keep a penny. He'd plncb and screw
and 'conomlze, as he called It, and let
things go that ought to be 'tended to
till at last some big break would
sweep off In a day all his stinginess
had saved In a year. Then he'd think
expenses was so high that wages ought
to be cut a little lower.
"I don't need to tell you that there
wasn't any love wasted between hlni
and the men. They'd got discouraged
aud bitter and sort of reckless-like,
when all of a sudden Keswick dropped
down In a dead faint In the mill and
bad to be curried home. That was the
begiunln' of a long sickness that end
ed bis work at the mill. ,
"The rett of the company bought out
bis Interest, and he went off to Eu
rope. We illdn't know who would be
sent to take charge then, but we sort
of hoped 'twould be left In Jim Bryce's
hands
"There wasn't much reason to ex
pect It, of course, but be was the man
we wanted, juturally after the way
things had been goln' we thought one
of ourselves, who'd feel some Interest
In his old mutes, would be un Improve
ment. Then one day down In the
mornln' train comes one of the com
pany, brlngln' with blm a young feller
looked younger than he Vns, with his
white skin, blue eyes and light curly
"SUPEBINTKNDENT!' SATS TOM CLARK
SON." hair like,, a girl's; that kind always
does that he said was the new super
intendent. " 'Superintendent!' says Tom Clark
son as they passed by where he was
workln'. That chap never superin
tended nothlii heftier than a bandbox
lu his born days.'
'Well, he dldu't look like It. that's a
fact But the compauy owued the mill,
you see, und this feller was oue of
their soct. and so Into the place be
goes, fine clo'es, curly hair, white
hands and all. I b'lleve them white
hands made the boys madder than
anything else They was strong enough
lookln', too, but white ns a lady's.
"'Look at 'em!" snys Tom. holdin'
up hu own rough, black paws to
show the difference. 'If the company's
bound to clve him soiuethln' to do.
why don't they buy htm a pretty little
planner and set him Syto phiyiu' it?
That's all he's fit for. He ought to be
safe at home, mammy's darlln'.' ,
"So that was the mime "we got to
cnllln' him, 'the Dnrlln'.' Not to his
face, bless you. no! Thein blue eyes
t,ould turn 8tpel bIup now aml thtM'
mm hush on i Kiiurp in n nuuuen nue a
Knife tiiaue.
"After awhile we found there were
some experiments to be made tame
Invention of his--and that was one
: reason w Vy he'd come here. We didn't
! like him any letter after we heard
tlmt, I cuu tell you. for we thought
the company 'd sink n lot more money
In such nonsense. 'Twnsn't our mon
ey, and su we hadn't uo runnon to
grumble, yon say? Well, there's two
sides to that. Thereof two sides to
most things If a body 'II only take the
trouble to look for 'em.
"Did you ever thliilrhow you'd feel
to look down ut your . hands big.
I strong and wlllln'. but helpless to pro
vide for them dependln' on you and
then see n pair of soft white hands
carelessly wnstlu' what would be life I
to you and yours?
"That's how It looked to uh. Vor
times bad been hard with us, and. us
I told you, old Keswick had always
calculated that the losnes must be
evened up on wages somehow.
" 'And this feller. I'll lie bound he's
never Invented nothln' ior useful
than a new tie to bis cravat!' snys Jim
Bryce. 'He'll fool away no end of
money, aud then either the mill will
''nve to go down or wages will, and
mine has got about to the foot of the
ladder now.'
" 'Oh, there's no doubt we'll go down
unless some of his experiments blows
him up. Wish they would!' answers
Tom. only he put It rather uglier than
that. . i,
"Of course 'twas only talk, but the
feelln' was under It, and after awhile
from boplu' somethln' would happen
the boys went a little further and got
to plannln' bow to make It happen.
"I nln't goln' to tell much about any
plot. I took care not to know much
about It for- fear I'd run across some
thln' I'd feel bound to hemic, and 1
didn't want to bender nothln', that's
the fact Only there was no murder
nor nothln' like that In It; the men
wasn't that kind leastways, most of
'em wasn't.
"'No, we ain't a-goln" to hurt mam
my's darlln' bless his pretty little
heart! not 'less he gits In the way
when he'd better be out of It' says
Tom. with a grin. 'But, If the play
thing e's so 'tickled over Jest files to
flinders some day and the noise scares
him so that he gives up and runs home
lfll be the best thing for him and all
the rest of us.'
"Seemed like nobody doubted he'd be
easy scared, and so the whlsperln' and
black looks and secret meetin's went
on.
"One day In summer a box was
brought Into the room where we work
ed. I shall always remember that
day. Just how everything looked. It
had been a bright, warm mornln', but
about noon it clouded up slowly, and
every breath of wind died away. Not
a leaf moved on the trees.
"Inside the mill everything looked
darker and gloomier than usual In that
queer gray light. Grat plies of cast
ln's throwed black shadows over the
slippery floor; the long Iron shafts was
like hungry arms forever reachln'
down and drawln' back empty, and
from under the .brick archway the
round door of the furnace seemed glar
ln' out like a big red eye.
"Nothln' seemed to go that day the
way folks had calculated. That mls
er"ble little box had no sooner been set
down In the room than somebody cr-ll-ed:
Tllst! Look out!" And there was
Boss Darlln". coniin' back from his din
ner at an onartbly hour when he's
never been known, to come before.
He had a rose stuck in his buttonhole
and 'looked like a dancln' master goln'
to a party,' as I heard Bob mutter as
he slipped the box out of sight under
a pile of stuff at the end of the room.
They couldn't carry out their plan
then, so there wasn't nothln' left for
'em but to hide it.
"The boss looked round kind of
smllln' and pleasant-like. He'd got
that model he was busy with about
Into workln' order, and he was wonder
ful pleased over it And what did he
do that day but have it brought into
our room, because the weather bavin'
turned gloomy-like there was better
light hy a big window there. So there
he stayed, fussln' over It Just as if he
was ou guard.
"Theu It began to thunder, and there
was a sudden dash of rain, so that Jim
Bryce's little girl who had come down
with his lunch basket wouldn't go
home. Jim was a pieceworker and al
ways said be could do twice as much
work In an afternoon l he had a
snack 'bout 3 o'clock.
"Jim looked sort of uneasy now and
then when little Jluny 'd get off to the
hack part of the room anyways nigh
where that box was. But he couldn't
say nothln", and maybe there wasn't
any danger, only I was sure he didn't
like her round there aud was glad
wheu she wandered off Into the room
beyond a storeroom, where she was
let stay, sometimes while she waited
for her father's basket.
"The storm grew heavier Instead of
lighter till we could hardly see to
work. All at once there was a bllndlu'
flash of light and a crash as If the
whole earth was teurlu' to 'pieces, and
we all started aud tumbled In every
direction. The minute we could get
our souses und look round we found
that the whole eud of the room was
blowed off and a gully plowed way
down to the foundations like as If a
bombshell hud tore through.
"Beyoud thut 'ragged openiu' the
great brick wall was still standln', but
we could see that It was swayln' and
wavlu' just ready to fall. I've uever
seen auythiug look so awful ns that
tremblin' .wall did. for over on the
other side of It run another tmlldln'
where the flnishin' rooms was and all
bunds at work.
"I s'pose the same thought struck us
all nt once that the only hope for 'em
was a peal of the bell that would send
'em all fiyln' to the entrance at the far
end of the bulldln". 'Tvas In the old
days, you see. liefore the new part of
the mill wns built or we had any
alarm connection with a l the rooms.
There was only the b'g bell, and the
rope to it was dungllu bealdo the u
twin' wall. i. , ! J
"You can't tell about such things as
quick ns they are In huppeuln'. ' '
"The bell!' snys somebody, but
there wasn't a chance to say any more,
for the bos sprang pnst us with Just a
word or two, short and quick, as he
pushed ns right and left.
"'Back. men. back! That Is my
place." You have families.' ' "
"In a minute he wns leapln' down
over the piles of rubbish, and almost
before we was sure what he wns aim
In' for he had reached tho place, and
the white hands, strong and steady,
had hold of the rope and wnsnakln'
the old bell shout danger If ever a
hell did.
"We hardly stirred or breathed while
we watched him, till be started toward
us again. Then a long, sblverln
brentb ran round the crowd.
"I b'lleve he'd have made It to get
ont then If It hadn't been for little Jin
ny Bryce. That youngster was nat-
"THX MOVEMENT VAPE HTM tOSX HIS
FOOTIN',"
urally scared nlgb to death at the up
roar, and, instead of stay In' where she
was safe, what does she do but come
creepin' out of the storeroom It was
off to the right you understand, and
considerable tore up, like ours and
try to make her way over the ruins to
her father. '
"The boss heard her cry, turned back
like a flash and. catchln' ber In bis
arms, began to climb over the rubbish
piles again.
"Catch berP be called the mlnnte he
was near enough and tossed her over
Into ber father's arms. But the move
ment made him lose his footln', and,
though a dozen of us had our bands
stretched out to catch him.-tre slipped
and rolled back down among the dirt
and stones. i
"I s'pose At hadn't needed but the
least little jar or, maybe, It wasn't the
Jar at all but anyway, the next tnin
ote there was a crash, and the stout
est of us shut our eyes to keep out the
sight. The wall was down, and be
was under It
"He was the only man about the mill
that was hurt badly, that Is. Of
course a few was struck with fiyln'
Btones and hurt In the crowd. But
they'd got out alive, and the one that
bad saved 'em was burled under the
mins. .
"That was a queer night. 1 don't re
member when or how the storm stop
ped.' but I shall always remember what
a clear, starry night It was and how
the fires that was kindled to light the
workers flamed arid danced, while the
shadows, lay black In the corners ot
the mill.'
"How we worked at that pile of
brick and mortar, one set takln' the
place of another as soon as they was
tired and as many wftrkfn' at once as
the space would allow.
"Once goln' back to the mill to rest
a bit I found Jim Bryce and Tom
Clarkson a-carryln' that model that
boss had been workln' over back into
the office, where it would be safe, and
they was Ilftln' It as tender as if 'twas
a baby, and the tears runnin' over
Jim's brown face all the while.
"'I'd give anything If I could jest
git back to this morula' again!' says
Jim. with a groan. "To tbink'-
"But he couldn't finish sayln' It and
it was best not Most Tolks thought It
was the lightnln" that had done all the
damage, and the rest of us didn't know
but the lightnln might 'a' done it all.
tttid that not beln' sure was the only
comfortin' thing about it
"No. he- wasn't killed, after all.
Darlln wasn't. The piles of rubbish
he had fallen between mostly saved
him from beln' crushed. Everybody
thought he was dead. and. even after
we found blm alive. It seemed for a
long time as if he couldn't live. But
he come round again at last und got
back to the mill to finish up bis in
vention. - '
; "It was a success too.8 Yes. sir. that's
what built up these mills the way tbey
are now the most flourlsbln' ones In
this part of the country and brought
better times to every one workln' In
'em. That was what be was aimin'
for all the time, only we didn't know
it. and that was why he come here.
' "That's his house over there, the big
one on the hillside. He brought his
wife here when he married and set
tled down among his mill folks.
"Should think he'd be considerable
"used up by such an accident? Well,
sir, I don't s'pose anybody can' go
through that sort of thing and com
out Jest exactly as they was when
tbey went into It But if you happen
to meet Boss Darlln' and don't think
he's good lookln' now. why. this valley
wouldn't be a healthy place for you to
mention It in."