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THE EUGENE GUARD taxed « J-7» By STEWART EDWARD WHITE dteor-g CON flNUED CHAPTER XXV1I1. BRING perbupa ten seconds the survivors watched tbe eml of Thorpe*» rope trailing I In the flood. Then the young S man with a deep sigh began to pull it to wa rd him. At once n hundred surmises, ques tions, ejaculations, broke out. “What happened?” cried Mmllace Carpenter. "What was that man's name?” asked the Chicago Journalist, with tlie eager instinct of bis profession. “This is terrible, terrible, terrible!” a white haired physician from Marquette kept repeatin" over aud over. A half dozen ran toward the point of the cliff to peer down stream, as though they could hope to distinguish anything in that waste of flood water. "Th" dam's gone out.” replied Thorpe. “I don't understand it. Everything was in good shape us far us 1 could see. It didn't act like an ordinary break The water came too fust. Why, IE tZZ b it« he panted. holding out a cnuris oi strangely twisted wood. "Where’d he get this?” inquired Thorpe quickly, “It's a piece of the dam,” he explained to Wallace, who had drawn near. "Picked It out of the current," re- plied the man. The foremnn and hfs boss bent ea gerly over the morsel, Then they stared with solemnity into each other’s eyes. "Dynamite!” exclaimed Shearer. CHAPTER XXIX. OR a moment the three men stared at each other without speaking. "What does It mean?” almost whispered Carpenter. “Mean? Foul play!” snarled Thorpe. “Come ou. Tim." The two struck into the brush, thread ing the paths with the ease of woods men. It was necessary to keep to the high Inland ridges. The pole fall had by now become impassable. Thorpe and his foreman talked briefly. “It's Morrison & Daly.” surmised Shearer. "1 left them 'count of a trick like that. I been suspecting some thing. They’ve been laying too low.” Thorpe answered nothing. Through the site of the old dam they found a torrent pouring from the narrowed pond, nt the end of which th-’ dilap idated wings flapping in the current at tested the former structure. Davis stood staring at the current. Thorpe strode forward and shook him violently by the shoulder. "How did this happen?” he demand ed hoarsely. The man turned to him in a daze. “I don't know," he answered. “You ought to know. How was that “They came up liehind me while I I was cooking,” he said. “Oue of 'em grubbed me. und the other oue kivereit my eyes. Tbeu 1 bears the 'shot' aud knows there'» trouble." Thorpe listened in silence. Shearer asked a few questions. After the low voiced conversation Thorpe arose ab ruptly. "Where you going?" asked Shearer. But the young man did not reply. H ■ swung, with the same long, nervous stride, into the down river trail. Uutil late that night the three men tor Ellis insisted on accompanying them —hurried through tlie forest. Thorpe walked tirelessly, upheld by his violent but repressed excitement. Shearer noted th« Ore in his eyes aud, from the coolness of Ills greater age, counseled moderation. "1 wouldn't stir the boys ud ,” lie panted, for the pace was very swift. "They’ll kill some one over there; it ’ll lie murder on both sides.” He received no uuswer. About mid night they came to tlie camp. Two great fires leaped among tlie trees, and the men were grouped be tween them, talking. Evening had brought its accumulation of slow anger against the perpetrators of the outrage. Even as the woodsmen Joined their group they had reached the intensity of execution. Across their purpose Thorpe threw violently his personality. “You must not go!” he commanded. Through their anger they looked at him askance. "I forbid it!" Thorpe cried. They shrugged their indifference and arose. This was an affair of caste brotherhood, aud the blood of their mates cried out to them. “Tlie work!” Thorpe shouted hoarse ly. "The work! We must get those logs out! We haven't time!” Then swiftly between the white, strained face of the madman trying to convince his heart that bls mind bad been right and the fanatically exalted river meu interposed tlie sanity of ltad- way. The old jobber faced til“ meu calmly, almost humorously, and some how tlie very bigness of tlie man com manded attention. “You fellows make me sick.” said he. “You haven't got the sense God gave a rooster. Don't you see you’re playing rielit in those fellows’ hands? Whs’ do you suppose they dynamited then, dams for? To kill our boys? The- never dreamed we was dry pickin’ tha dam. They sent some low lived whelj it was as dry as a bone until just as that wave came along. An ordinary break would have eaten through little by little before it burst, and Davis should have been able to stop it. This came all at once, as if tbe dam bad disappeared. 1 don't see." nis mind of the professional bad al ready begun to query causes. "How about the men?" asked Wal lace. “Isn't there something I cud do?” “You can head a hunt down the riv er." answered Thorpe. "1 think it is useless until the water goes down. Poor Jimmy! He was one of the best men I had. I wouldn't have had this happen”— Tbe horror of the scene was at last shot exploded? How did they get Tn , down there to bang our drive, and 11 beginning to filter through numbness here without your seeing them? An I looks like they was going to succeed. Into Wallace Carpenter's impressiona swer me.” | thanks to you muttou beads. ble imagination. “I don't know,” repeated the man. "S'pose you go over and take 'em “No, no!” he cried vehemently, “I jest went over in th’ bresh to kill a 1 apart. What then? Then have a scrap “There is something criminal about it few pa’tridges. and when 1 come back Probably you lick 'em. You whale day- to me! I’d rather lose every log iu the I found her this way.” I lights out of a lot of men who probably river!” “Were you hired to watch this dam. i don't know any more about this hen. Thorpe looked at him curiously. “II or weren't you? ” demanded the tense i shooting of our dams than hog doe* is one of the chances of war.” said voice of Thorpe. "Answer me. you I about a ruffled shirt. Meanwhile he. youi fool," l drive hangs. Well? Well, do you sup “I'd better divide the crew and takt “Yes, I was." returned the man. e j pose the men who were back of that In both banks of the river.” suggested shade of aggression creeping into his . shooting—de you suppose Morrison A Wallace. voice. I Daly give a tinker's dam how many “See if you can’t get volunteers from “Well, you've done it well. You've | meu of theirs you lick? What they this crowd." suggested Thorpe. “I can cost me my dam. and you ’ ve killed five j want is to hang our drive. If they let you have two men to show you trails. I need as many of tbe crew at men. If the crew finds out about you. j hang our drive, it's cheap at the price you'll go over the falls sure. You get of a few black eyes.” possible to use this flood water.” out of here! Pike! Don't you ever let The speaker paused and grinned "Oh, Harry!” cried Carpenter, shock me see yoirr face again!” good humoredly at the men's attentive ed. "You can't be going to work again The man blanched as he thus learned j faces. Then suddenly his own became today, before we have made the slight of his comrades' death. Thorpe thrust | grave. est effort to recover tbe bodies!" his face at him, lashed by clrcum "If the bodies can be recovered, they ! "Do you want to know how to get stances beyond his habitual self con shall be." replied Thorpe quietly. "But trol. even?" he asked. "Do you want to kqjiw bow to make those fellows slug tbe drive will uot wait. We have no "It's men like you who make the dams to depend ou now. you must re trouble." be stormed. “Stupid fools so small you can't bear them? 1 Well. member. and we shall have to get out who say they didn't mean to! It isn’t I'll tell you. Take out this drive! Do i ft in spite of them. Show them they’re on tlie freshet water.” enough not to mean to; they should “i'our men won't work. I’d refuse no good when they buck up against mean not to! 1 don't ask you to think just as they will!" cried Carpenter, his Thorpe's One. Our boys died doing I just want yon to do what I tell you their duty, the way a river man ought sensibilities still suffering. and you can’t even do that.” Thorpe smiled proudly. "You do not to. Now hump yourselves! Don't let He threw his shoulder into a heavy | them die In vain!” know them." blow that reached the dam watcher’s Tlie crew stirred uneasily, looking at "By Jove!” cried the journalist in face, and followed it immediately bj j each other for approval oF^he con sudden enthusiasm, "By Jove, that is version each bad experIeneeu\»Tiad- magnificent!" way turned easily toward the blaze. The men on tbe river crew had “Retter turn in. boys, aud get some crouched on their narrow footholds sleep,” he said. "We’ve got a hard while the jam went out. Each had day tomorrow.” He stooped to light clung to his peavey. as is the habit of his pipe at the tire. When he had river men. Down tbe current past again straightened bis back after rath their feet swept the debris of flood, er a prolonged interval the group had Soon logs began to swirl by—at first already disintegrated. A few minutes few. then many—from the remaining later the cookee scattered the brands rollways which tbe river bad automat of the fire from before a sleeping ically broken. In a little time the eddy camp. caught up some of these logs, and im mediately another Jam threatened. Tbe Before daylight Injun Charley drift ed Into camp to find Thorpe already river men. without hesitation, as calm out. With a curt nod the Indian seat ly as though catastrophe had not ed himself by the fire and, producing thrown the weight of its moral terror a square plug of tobacco and a knife, against their stoicism, sprang, peavey began leisurely to fill his pipe. Finally In hand, to the insistent work. Injun Charley spoke in the red man’s Thorpe's face lit with gratification. clear cut, imitative English, a pause Be turned to the young man. between each sentence. “You see,” he said in proud simplicity. “I find trail three men,' ,” said he. With the added danger of freshet wa "Both dam. three men. One man go ter, the work went on. down river. Those men have cork At this moment Tim Shearer ap boot, One inen no have cork boot He proached from inland, his clothes drip boss.” ping wet, but Ills face retaining its ha The Indian suddenly threw his chin bitual expression of iron calmness. out, his head back, and half closed his "Anybody caught?” was his first ques eyes in a cynical squint. As by a flash tion as he draw near. Dyer, the scaler, leered insolently from “Five men under the face,” replied behind the Indian's stolid mask. Thorpe briefly. "IIow do you know?” said Thorpe. Shearer cast a glance at the river. For answer the Indian threw his He needed to be told no more. shoulders forward in Dyer’s nervous “I was afraid of it,” said he. “Tbe "luu must aol he com ma ruled. fashion. railways must be all broken out. It’s another. Then Shearer caught his saved us that much, but the freshet “He make tra.l big by the toe. light arm. motioning the dazed and blocxly by the heel. He make trail big on in water won’t last long. It's going to be victim of the attack to get out of sight. side.” a close squeak to get ’em out now. Thorpe shook his foremen off with one Charley arose ami walked after L>y Don't exactly figure on wbat struck tbe Impatient me ;■ n and strode away up flam. Thought first I'd go right up th ■ river, h's ' .id erect, his eyes Uasb- eris springy fashion, illustrating hi < point ill tbe tlo.t way. but then I came down to s ■ the about tbe boys.” . Shear- iauu «ah.: •I r Thorpe lool loubtful "Where were you?” asked Thorpe ■bcr, and you ar. ..gut, < "On the pole trail. I got in a little, as you see.' two îneDi it Is rj'gt.y I! In reality the foreman had had r “I close ca!! ft r bls life. "V.* ’ '■ ■ ‘ "P a- be stt .1. "The boys fi«tl gon. lie re • II right.” Then Tbe two men turned towa brusl. comea j where.- A fot them. 4 out in ten. A ar< Ii' flO.OùO.fk» 'j feet th- ■ dome F'.urte ”Ja of Uis L.to ¿ FT -‘lghte-'u hours a day tne men or iu. driving crew worked like demons Jams hud no chance to form. Ot course under the pressure the lowei ' ini had gone out. Nothing us to lx ■ lopeni’ed on but slii-er doggisl grit Fir up river Sadler & Smith liad hum ;beir drive for tbe season, and so lia< resigned tlicmselves to a definite bu not extraordinary loss. Thorpe bad at i ’east a clear river. Wallace Carpenter could not nnd-T stand how human flesh and blood en dunal. Th«' men themselves had ton; since reached the point of practice exhaustion, but were carried tbrougl by tlie tire of their leader. Work wa- >iogge«l uutil he stormed into sight then it became frenzied, When In locked at a man from his cavernous burning eyes, that man jumped. Impossibilities wore puffed aside lik thistles. Tlie meu weut at them head long. They gave way before the rush Thorpe always led. Not for a sing!, instant of tbe day nor for many nt t night was be at rest. Instinctively la seemed to realize that u let dowi would mean collapse. After the camp had fallen asleep h< would often lie awake half of tbe fev hours of their night, every muscli tense, staring at the sky. His mind I saw definitely every detail of the sit uatlou as be bad viewed it In advance ■ his imagination stooped aud sweated I to tbe work which liis body was to ac compiisli the uext morning. Thus be did everything twice. Then nt last the tension would relax. He would fall ; Into uneasy sleep. But twice that did not follow. Through the dissolving Iron mist of his striving a sharp thought cleaved like an arrow. It was that, after all, he did uot care. Sub consciousness, the other influence, wa- growing like n weed. Perhaps then were greater things than to succeed greater things than success. And tbei the keen, poignant memory of tin dream girl stole into the young man’s nilml and hi agony was immediately thrust forth, He would not tliink o' her. He had given her up. He refus ed to believe that he had been wrong In the still darkness of the night he would rise aud steal to the edge of the - dully roaring stream. There, his eyes biiuded aud his throat choked with r longing more manly than tears, he > would reach out and smooth the round rough coats of the great logs. “We’ll do it,” he whispered to them and to himself. "We'll do it We can’t be wrong.” CONTINUED Tbe Retort Disdainful. Ellen Terry, the famous English ae- tress. In the kindness of her heart once took a girl out of the poorhouse to train as a servant. But she was altogether hopeless and was continually breaking ¡dates, dishes aud everything she laid hands ou, until Miss Terry thought that in time she might break her, so she dis missed her. But, not wishing the girl to come to any barm, when she was go lug away she asked her wbat she was goiug to do for a living. "Oh," she said disdainfully, “if the wust come to the wust, 1 can go on the stage.” The Color Violet. It is said that of all colors violet Is the one most stimulating to the eye coats and that the electric light, and more especially that given out by the large lamps used iu many public places, is rich in violet rays. It is claimed vio let dresses and draperies are responsi ble for many eye “cases" and for not a few of the skin troubles about which the dermatologist Is frequently con sulted. Look rv. The troubles of people are unneces sarily multiplied by the fact that they are forever looking down instead of up, which Is only another way of say ing that they live on a low plane in stead of on a high one; that they breathe the miasmatic airs of the swamps Instead of the pure ozone of 'he bills, ami so miss the real mennln/ of the true happiness of life. U hat lie Wauled. "A tail bride is the best looking ion't you think?” "Well,” replied the titled Englishman «bo had caught on to a little American mug, "so far us 1 am personally con erned 1 certainly am not looking fo' ne who is ‘short.’ ”—Chicago Post Blocking: Him. Carrie—I'm sure you misjudge Mr •woetaer, papa. He Is a man of great mbltious. You should bear him tell of be things be is going to do. Carrie's ■iipa—And 1 suppose I’m one of 'em ut I'll reckon he'll find it harder to uc- omplisb than lie fancies it 1:. Gworkv Friutel« Train1. Wit. One o’ George Francis Trulli's SUV rigs was. People call me Insane. I .on t worn, r. What would a village if pennuta ,v If n cocoanut rolled iti numi them?” Teeth. How fi "t e It is that you tell b horse s uge >y the horse's teeth, but ti cl iekeu’s : ge by your own!—Tow r I> r.’t T* " a man !» »hlftloss. B«- ¡ ’ it he is too contented .«lebison Globe. Fì<»f Por thr Cannibali«. ih a fair maid from 1 >»»catur . ia a r<dh»t >.Giatur. hoe, y aVI'jf-H R tur. •rr;» (IH ) Index. 1 A CONVERTED ANARCHIST (Original.) rnnetrliis «n Ctepanat. The tools for trimming elephants’ feet are a carpenter's drawknife aud a rasp for the soles aud a horseshoer's ku.fi« and sandpiqier for the toe nail*. The operator ¡duel's a beer keg or a strong box behind one huge bind foot, lightly prods the thick ankle with his elephant hook and commands the beast to "Hold up!" Up comes tile mighty foot, slowly and heavily, but obediently ns the vel vety paw of a kitten. Tin* foot is rest ed on the box or th«' keg. where it re mains while th«' expert works on It much ns a horsesho'r paras the hoof of a horse. Great silvers of the horny sole are sliced oft' until it is cut nearly to proper thickness, when the rasp is used to smooth oft'. Similarly the to«« nails are treated with the knife aud tbp sandpaper, while the big patient stands with swluglng trunk and an occasional wag of an ear, too full of satisfaction for utterance. When the turn of the forefoot cou.es, the great beast is made to lie down ou its side aud the hoofs are propp««d up ami treated.- McClure's The man who tokl me this story is dead or 1 could not tell it without al- most surely occasioning ills death: “1 was a poor man. though I belonged to a good family aud had been well ed united. At college I imbibed revolu tlonary, not to say comuiuiJritic, doc trines which Influenced me. but not so- riousiy, until on coming out of tlie uni versity I lost my father and th«« assist- iinee he had given me; then, facing th«' world with no means, 1 was drawn to embraci» anarchism. Thera was no ex cuse tor me. 1 was young, and the world was before me. I was oue of tlie impractical, theorizing kind who prefer trying to revolutionize natural laws rather than work. Added to this. I had the faculty of Inspiring others. 1 joined a band of anarchists and be came a leader among them. A Blr<l That la Feared. "My mother had a brother of whom I The eister (Pica candata) Is a bird bad never heard. He was considered the black slioep of tbe family ami was that is respected and feared through never spoken of to me, th«' only child out south Germany, it belongs to the of his only sister. He had run away raven tribe and is about the size of a ns a boy and had broken his mother’s dove, with black and white leathers heart by never writing a line. Up to and long, pointed tall. It builds its the time I became an anarchist In- had nest In orchards, and its life is ancred. never been heard from. Judge of my If it is seen three times in succession surprise one day to learn through so on the same holts«' top in a ¡'lace re Heitors that this uncle had died In mote from its home it is believed to be South America ami left a fortune of a sure sign of death in that house. If it tiles and gives its peculiar cry the $850,000 to me. sick person is sure to die. but If It "IIow quickly my theories of the I world’s wrongs vanished! I did not does uot scream the patient may re dare to break my connection with a ii- cover. It is better for the sick per archists, but gradually ceased to attend son if the bird does not come near. meetings. One day 1 was horrified at No one could be hlnai to bother these receiving an order to assassinate one birds for fear they might seek revenge, of the crowned heads of Europe. 1 and if by chance one of them should knew well that should I refuse I would die it is a sign of bad luck to the owner be myself assassinated. One advan of the property where it is found. tage I would have in disobeying tin« The bird is u valuable insect destroyer order—I was rich and could isolate my ui< in this way probably more than self from any one who might attempt compensates for the fear it occasions to kill me. I tunied my fortune into among the farmers. gold and disappeared. A tew weeks Animals Become Insane. later I turned up in one of the south Insanity in the human subject Is sup ern states. My hair, which had been a light brown, was black. My beard, posed by some to have no analogue in which liad been but a few tufts, was the lower animals. Yet many cases, now luxuriant. My name was changed. according to Dr. Sneilson, will lead to Indeed, as little of my old self re the permanent loss of self control. mained as I could help. I bought a Cattle driven from the country through small plantation and pretended to raise a crowded town will often work cotton. In its center was my house, themselves into a frenzy. Horses and no one could reach me without have gone mud on the battlefield. At passing a number ot my employi'cs, Balaklava an Arabian horse turned on whose duty it was to keep off an en its attendant, threw him down and, kneeling on him, attacked him like an emy. “I lived for several years without infuriated dog. An Instance Is related hearing from my old assoclati's, but of a docile horse suddenly going mud this only nssiirod me that at the out ou u hot day. Everything that came set I bail eluded them. I knew thnt I in its way it seized In its teeth aud had been condemned and some one had shook as a terrier does a rat. A sclen been appointed to kill me. The only tist of authority even goes so far as to question was. Would my executioner prove by what appears to be Incontest tire of the work or be withdrawn for able evidence that cats, dogs and monkeys have been observed to have lack of funds or other causes? “One day I noticed that a new candy delusions very similar to those of in store had been opened in tlie vHIajj^ sane people —London Globe I went inside and looked over the stotlr Dividing the Sexes. It was very meager, and I bought noth While worshiping In a little chapel- ing. A young woman who stood be hind the counter looked dlsappolnti'd of-ease a few miles from Ruthin, on and asked me to give an order for any the Wrexham road, the »exes are so thing I liked and she would execute it. strictly divided that they cannot even Iam fond of chocolate aud told her to see one another. The building forms a make me some chocolate creams. She right angle, in one artn of which the promised to have them ready the next nten sit and the women In the other. day and send them to me. Instead of It was built and endowed by a mi sending she brought them. When she sogynist of the Stuart period who ob was announced I told my guards to jected to buvlng bls devotions distract admit her. She was a very attractive ed by the sight of the hated sex and, looking person, und I did not desire sympathizing with mr.le posterity, to keep her away. She asked nie to stipulated expressly for this division try her chocolates and tell her wherein in bis deed of emkiwment.—London they did not please me. I ate a few of Standard. them and prououuced them excellent. The (hbnn Workman. That seemed to satisfy her, and she The Cubau workman Is a kind bus left at once, though I would have beet band and a fond father of a family glad to have her remain longer. “In u week I went by the candy shop, usually of patriarchal size. He Ilves stopped and gave her an order for some simply. At the bedega be buys his more chocolates. She told me that she taaajo (Jerked beef), rice, vegetables knew of a new kind that she was sura and cheap wine, and very savory are I bml never eaten. I gave her an or the stows his meek little wife prepares der for some of them, telling her that at the one hearty meal of the day, I would not put her to the trouble of about 5:30 p. m. The Cuban eats but sending them, but would call for them. twice dully. He Is underfed and over He has coffee nt 7 a. m., I did so. but they were not ready. 1 stimulated. 1 called again, but still they had not been a light breakfast at 11 a. m and eats made. The woman told me that cer his chief meal at twilight—Sonthern tain Ingredients were required, for, Workman. which she hud tx'en obliged to send to Ravik Trpewritln*. the city. She would bring them when An official stenographer, iteming, nt they were ready. “Meanwhile I never relaxed my vigi Albany, year, ago reported court pro on a typewriter at the rate of lance In keeping any suspicious per- ceedings 1 sou from my bouse, and both there and 150 and 170 words a rnlunte. He elim when I went out 1 was secretly armed inated the vowels, using consonant, ‘to the teeth.’ 1 only, with a dot to separate word*. typewriter was Incased In glass to “One day the candy woman was an- His ‘ nounced, and I ordered her to be nd ’ deaden the noise The ¡taper was run the machine from a roll. Lawyer, mltted. She handed me the box of Into ’ chocolates, and while I tried them she 1 could read the notes. amused herself with an Italian grey llapplH«»». hound I bad always with me. The dog “I am sometimes accused,” write* was lying on a rug at the other end of John Lubbock, “of being too op tlie raoui, and she went over to him Kir 1 But 1 have neve» i«n^« nor and patted him. On opening th«' box tfmlstle. 1 the troubles and sorrows of fife I found the chocolates In layers of denied 1 four large, flat squares. I ate two and I hsve never said that men are happy, only that they might be; that If found them delicious. The third I but 1 are not so the fault Is generally thr«'W to n.e «1,,^. Who < alight It In his they ' teeth aud swallowed It. I noticed tliut th rowri: that most of >:< throw away the woman turned pale, I was alioiit more happiness than w, enjoy" to eat the fourth when I saw th« •log Too Beaervlntf. looking at It longingly. I tOKSial It to young village maiden had obtained him. As I «fill so the woman gave a m-xlesty pri .e ■ I shriek. The dog caught It, as befor«-. There was I an exploel ión. and his fi child,” «alti a !■ - I uff her, “you ! was «¡i„‘ !■ r rd over th le room. la the pa risii?” “Tlie seem ■t ", a out. . The worn, n I been cotni'i' »«loped to murder me! : 'here Is hot t was knock.. 1 it that, nr '. m ’ by the « ¡ : I was ttnhm t shame I di It >«!’’ Paris J An nrranc it the ex-an-T' '!■ i ♦ coffin fuJ! r the man wr plantation. □ >w Him llRhM nf t! by wound « wen playing bare r« :•<■!> n two liver] I tie- hmd. i I t llK>< W U it Hr The ív. «fr ( ir h man ine laU K«, tu î>d r to *x |t TffRW â N«.-.« Vor»