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-------- 1 4 4 TOILERS op the COLUMBIA By Paul De Loney Author o f “ l o r t o f N k Desert.” ~Oregon S k c k H u ." « M other Pociftc Coast Stories CH APTER IX . Tionhle Brewing. is true, but it all counts in the end when you are not certain they consider themselves paid iq full. Beadog owned s large store. It wsa “ But I only have keep tJbjLa mat • sort of comniiM«ry wliere all tie ter off about three years more. Dsn (Lh«riuen here compelled to tisde, I-apt-am is the only heir. He is now either di-ectly or indirectly. Those nineteen. If he neglects to take action employed by Beadog hs<l to trade with for a year after he comes of age he loses him and the others had to trade with all his rights under the statute of lim him also, became be bad platted the itations.” town gnd p’aced a proviso in the deed "How about tha gillnetters, hus to all the lida which be sold to the band?” inquired Mrs, Seadog. effect that the grantee should not deal "W ell, fish are getting scarce on their in certain m« nhandier. This item side of the river. They are scarce covered about eveiv thing. Even everywhere, for that matter. But apiritoua, venous and malt liquors weie since the government jetty was built on prohibited. Bull there were nearly that side, the fish run in larger schools half e d<.aen saloons in the place, but on this aide. The gillnettters claim beedog b<Hi contracts by ahich he re that I am across the line. They are ceived. dire« tly or indirectly, the larger threatening to destroy my traps and per cent of the profits. He also owned swamp my boats. the n>cal cannery. Chinamen were "I- sent one of my trusted men among worked in the place. They lived at a them, who joined their union and he mess bouse where existence on rice informs me that they are planuing to and spoiled fish was easy, and they make a night raid in a few days. I worked for Si-adog for a few rents a have had a conference with the govern day. He had smuggled them overland or of the state and he is holding the across the Can adian boundary and they militia in readiness to come on notice believed they were compelled to re from the sheriff. I shall furnish them main in hia employ; and they were in a boat at a good ren'al in which they a measure, for Seadog was not known ! will patrol the river and keep the in the unlawful transaction ami could sonth-siders back. •— - have handed them ever to the authori "The only trouble, though, is that ties without risk to himself. He the state may take np the matter, and might have sent s one ol his hirelings to induce the United Stater government the government prison, but he did not to make a survey. This will cost me a mind this. Men were cheap and number of traps or a neat sum to the money valuable. surveyors. These two are matters of Old Stadog also owned miles of fish magnitude, but the Chinese importa traps. The ragged lines of pilii g tion trouble will be easily hand’ed. I forming wings and hearts extended up will send the half-breei and hit daugh and down the hay and to the middle of ter’s husband to the pen ami that will the river Irons Disappoint meut to Mc siop them. Gowan’s, about a dozen smiles. "And Dan Lapham—well, he is a I t is true that a few men had taken daring devil. You know ire tends a advantage ol tbeir rights under the trap alone. Although he can swim like law and had secured locations and had a trout, the single boatmen are loet constructed traps, but It was necessary sooner or later.” to guard these like treasures. If they The conversation had lasted until were left alone the “ storms” tore up long after daylight. The husband and the piling add Seadog’s traps wc^re con wife were suddenly interrupted by one structed in front and on the ‘side of ol their sons. them so that even the luckless fish “ Have you beard the news?” he found their way to the fishermens’ asked as he entered hurriedly, and then traps by the sheerest accident. without waiting for a reply, he added: One by one they had succumbed and "One fishing boat went down near sold to Beedog at his own price, except the sand spit and two fishermen were the few who preferred to work and lost. Another was seen entering the barely live than become the slaves oi breakers at Pacific Rocks. Still anoth any man. er, thought to have contained Dan It was cm the fatal morning upon Lapham, turned turtle off Chinook which Sankala and Ringwold dared Point, and old Ringwold and Sankala the storm Old Beadog was up shot behind Disppoint ment Rocks. It eefly, aa was hie custom. He superin is the worst morning of the season.” tended all of his own business. He " I t it an ill wind that blows no one left nothing of imports nos to others. good ! ” remarked old Seadog. I t wee to this fact that be attributed his success, and he admonished bis CHAPTER X . sons to follow in hia footstepe. Bitter Prospects. The storm was raging and the man of wealth did not care to atir abroad The storm had continued throughout so early. He grew confidential with the day and aroee at night with renew Mrs. Beadog. He did this occasional ed fury. It was a common thing to ly , but it w u only when matters arose have weeks of storms at this season of that closely affected hia business in the year and the sun rarely ever showed terests. He was by no means a faith itself. But every storm waa the ful husband to her, as many of the "w orst” and the oldest ind vdual fishermen knew, bat be bad great con wonld verify the fact. fidence in her good judgment, and I t only goes to show how quickly sought her adivoe in the matters that people foiget even the unpleasant weighed upon him heavily. things of life. A month of rain and Ha waa still seated at the table. sleet and snow last year, which at the Daylight had not yet begun to dawn. time waa declared unbearable, is for The storm waa raging. The mist and gotten in the spring sunshine and when rain fed upon the roof with a rasping another winter storm comes, although sound. The other members of the mild compared with former ones, it is family had left the dining room. Mrs. a record-breaker while it lasts and the Beadog did hei own dishes. She aid complaint is long and loud this from choice because she had been But such is the way of weak, frivolous brought np to work. humanity. It was sunshine yesterday; " L e t the wore go foi awhile, wile, is storming today and tomorrow will and set down,” said the husband. be whatever the temperament suggests. Mrs. Beadog obeyed the request It amounts to nothing anyway; forevei resdi'y. She knew something was complaining forgiving, expecting, be coming. She bad already seen it in ing disappoint« d and disappointing oth her husband's eyes and in his actions. ers; yesterday’s friend is today’s ene But what woman does not like to be my; in the deepest, poverty and dis taken into the confidence of her hus tress yesterday, rich and happy today. band? ' After all the mind is the weather vane "D o you know, wife, I am in more in life’s short span of time and the trouble than a trap full of fish,' said tongue the thermometer. Whatever the old Seadog when bis wife was seated. mind conceives is so, and the tongue " I thought the foolish prejudice indicates the state of the mind. Life against old Ringwold and Sankala is storm or sunshine just aa the mind waa something to worry aboot, bat makes it, and the wagging tongue re now the troubles are multiplying like cords the impression. sun fish. But whether in leality it waa the "T ha title to the townsite is threat mildest or most severe storm in the ened. The gill netters are preparing history of the fishing village on the for devilment and even the government north banks of the Columbia, in the had a secret service man here a few mind of one it was the darkest hour of y days ago trying to aewviate me with her life. The wind blew loudei, the the unlawful importation of the pig rainfall on the roof was more rasping tails who work, in my cannery.” and the night had closed in with great " I do not understand all of this, or er darkness. The fire flickered more even a pert of it,” said the anxions gloomily and the shadows flitted about wife. " I thought you had a deed to the more ghoetily. townsite property. The g llnettera I The cupboard seemed scantier, the thought had recognised your measure furniture rougher, the bed clothing ment of the river, and as to the impor lighter, the floor was more bare and tation of the Chinamen, I supposed the even the good natured house cat seemed half-breed and his son-in-law were re gloomier aa the rain and wind raged sponsible for that.” '» , « , «■ < ontside and beat npon the cabin as if it "B u t you can’t count on anything were cursed and doomed forever. these d ays," continued the fisherman Sankala was usually of a light heart king. "When old Lapham made the and spirit, but her nature was all deed to his homestead that night just crashed tonight. She sat beside the before he died in a drunken fit, there bed which was drawn near the fire. wen several present. But all of them She gased into the flames with tear- are dead from drowning or otherwise, stained eyes. She wonld look into the except one of tire witnesses that signed future, but there was nothing to see the instrument. He has got foolish Then the terrible episodes of the day religious ideas in his bead and ia try flashed through her mind like a succes ing to make trouble. I had my book sion of night-mares or hideous dreams. keeper give him $100 and send him to But she did not forget her duty. As the Hound, and that may quiet him. regular as the clock would she turn and But the transaction i« beginning to change the damp cloths npon Ring- »cost me something. Burnt*», the law wold’s head and examine thes hot yer who drew np the dee I, was stand smoothing-iron at his feet. The cloths ing in with the other fellow in a way were kept cold and the irons were kept and I had to employ him yesterday by hot. the rear. Ha doesn’ t coat much, it Ringwold barely breathed. Tha ex , citement of the day had about cut tha last thread that held his feeble old Ilf*. When the life aaveia rescued them the boat had its noaa against Destruction Rocks, which point no boar had star reached before and been eared. Ring wold knew nothing of the rescue. His last conscious momenta were to see himself and 8ankala going to destruc tion. When he saw the inevitable and the struggling frail child battling with The Man with the Hoe. the mountain* of see the feeble old man collapsed in a heap m the bottom of Bowed b.v the weight of ceuturles be leans the boat. Upon hU hoe and gases on the ground, The long houia of exposure had told The eiuidlness of ages In bis faee on him and it waa already whispered Aud on his back the burden of the world. about the village that tonight was Ring- Who made him dead to rapture and de wold’s last night on earth. But the spair, fishermen had become aioumstomed to A thing that grieves not snd that never hia sinking spells and Sadkala waa left hopes. alone with him. Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Sankala had not been afraid. She Who loosened and let «lowu this brutal Jaw? was not afraid now. It waa not be cause she was leas refined than other Whose was Ihs hand that alanted back this brow? gills or naturally braver than other Whose breath blew out the light within girls. It waa because she had oeen thia brain? schooled against fear. Her life had been her schooling ami it had been one Ia. thia the Thing the Lord God made in which all of the hardships had been and gave taught in practical lessons. Not per To have dominion over sen and land: formed and rehearsed for the occasion, To trace the stars and search tha heaf- but lessons that came with the routine • enn for power; To feel the passion of Eternity? of every day life. When a meie babe she had been cast Is this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the snns ashore like so much driftwood. And all of hex' young life she had bean And pillared the blue firmament with light? buffeted about on the bay and river In Down all the stretch of Hell to its last a small fishing boat like a cockle-shell. gulf She had become so interlinked with There is no shape more terrible than danger that it seemed her constant com this— panion and she only thought of it aa Mors tangoed with censure of the world’s such. blind greed— "T h a i kid was as calm when we More filled with signs and portents for the soul— * drew her from the jaws of death aa if she were rowing a boat on a summer’s More fraught with menace to the uni verse. «lay,” had remarked one of the life savers. What gulfs between him and the sera "The first thing she did was to bend phim! over the old man and begin rubbing hia Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him hands,’ raid another. Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades? It was not Sankala’s bad seamanship What the long reaches of the peaks of or lack of skill that led her across the song, - danger line, but it was her lack of The rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose? strength. The trap they tended lay to the west nearer the bar than others Through this dread shape' the suffering ages look; and while rounding the rocks to reach Time’s tragedy is in that aching stoop; the trap the undertow, unusually strong Through this dread shape humanity be from the all night storm, caught her trayed. and carried her boat away by sheer Plunder«*!, profaned and disinherited , fore«*. Cries protest to the Judge* of the World. She. was meditating over the day’a A protest that ia also prophecy. exciting episodes and the condition of h«*r companion. Young as she was, O masters, lords and rulers in all lands. she knew that Ringwold could not last Is this the handiwork you give to God, much longer They were reduced to This monstrous thing distorted and soul- quenched? the direst straits. Fishing was poor you ever straighten up this and wages were poorer. Ringwold waa IIow will shape; no longer useful. He was more qf a Touch it again with Immortality; hindrance as a co-Worker. His corn- Give back the upward looking and the pan onship wag all that was left her. light; They now only earned a scant living Rebuild iu it the mn«ic and the dreamr and ehonld Ringwold become bed-rid Make right the immemorial infamies. den sh« did not know what she would Perfidious, wrongs, immedicable woes? do. He had not confided fully to her the secret of her life and the mysteriee O masters, lords and rulers in all lands. the Future reckon with this of the documents concealed under the How will M«n? hearth. Would these help her? She flow answer his brute question in that made up her mind that ahonld Ring- hour would recover again sue Would breach When whirlwinds of rebellion shake the the subject to him. world ? It was not so much for her own seif How will it be with kingdoms and with kings— that she waa prompted, bat she wished to ease the old man’s life in his last With those who shaped him to the thing he is— days. He bad mads a great straggle this dnmb Terror shall reply to for her and ahe wished to repay him in When God, some way. After the silence of the centuries? While meditating over her troubles, —Edwin Markham. there came a loud, heavy knock at the The Roesnr. door. It sounded like the rap of doom. She could not tell why, but The hoars I spent with thee, desr heart, Are as a string of pearls to me; she trembled. Sankala was rot in the habit of experiening such sensations. I count them over, every one apart. My rosary. She went to the door and opened it. "Come in !” she said in a hollow Each hour a pearl, each p«jarl a prayer, tone. To still a heart in absence wrung; It waa old Seadog! What could I tell each bead unto the end, and there bring him a t, such an hohr of the A cross is hong. night. Then old Seadog always sent for his employes instead of calling Oh," memories that bless—and burn! Oh, barren gain—and bitter loss! npon them. "W ill you be seated?” asked the I kiss each bead and strive at last to learn girl. To kiss the cross. "N o. Have but a minute. How is Sweetheart, Ringwold?” To kiss the cross. " I cannot te ll," replied Sankala. —Robert Cameron Rogers. "H e is quite feeble, but he has been tbat way quite often of late. He is F R U IT 18 P A C K E D IN P EA T. getting very old, you know.” Fren ch Com pany in M exico Boives a " Y e s ,” replied Seadog. “ He is get Mont Difficult Problem . ting too old and feeble to work. He What ia considered a highly impor has become worthless to me. I ;ame to tell yon that I have had your trap tant discovery baa Juat been made In provided for. He should be taken to ! the matter of the shipment of fruits. the poor farm—and, I presume tbat is j It la believed tbat a solution has final the best place for you, Sankala—yon j ly been found of the problem of trans know you would like to be by the old I porting delicate tropical fruits long man’s side his remaining days. I will distances. The experimenta bave been made by look after the arrangements tomorrow .” Thus spoke old Seadog. Then he a French company, under the auspices turned and walked out into the gloom of the French government. The ship ments have been made from Guiana without saying good-night. and the island of Guadeloupe, In the Leaser Antilles, to France, and the (To ta continuad) outcome la declared most satisfac tory. S torm Cannon«. The aucceaa of the new system The storm cannons now In uss along means much for Mexico, as it would the southern side of the Alps, where blaze a way for a new branch of In damage from hailstorms during har dustry that must be a source of gleet vest time Is imminent, look like a huge megaphone, such as boat-crew coaches riches to the country. The secret of the new process Is the use, and they are set. With their wide envelopment of the fruit in a particu mouths gaping skywand, beside little bouses that look like sentry boxes. lar kind of peat or turf, tbat namely, When they are fired they boom like wblcb is known as yellow Dutch peat “ sure enough” cannons, and send re Pineapples, bananas, mangoes, «apo verberatlhg, echoing, boom-booms car- tas and other delicate fruits have been romlng about among the hillsides; but taken when In perfectly ripe condi instead of a ball or shell, or other sim tion, enveloped in the fibrous sub ilar projectile, they emit a ring of stance, and, after several weeks spent smoke which grows larger and larger In transportation, have arrived at as It ascends, until at last, before It their destination In a perfectly fresh breaks, It Is big enough to surround a and sóund condition. Peat, a t la known, la vegetable mat ten-acre field. What the effect of a smoke ring upon a mischievously In ter more or leas decomposed, which tent cloud is 1 cannot exactly say. but passes by Insensible degrees Into lig Instead of hall, only rain falls when nite. The less perfectly decomposed the guns are used, and damage to peat la generally of a brown color, crops Is prevented. that which la perfectly decomposed la often black. Now, moist peat. It baa Disgracing HornetI. for some time been known, possesses Mrs. Smartset—For mercy’s sake, a decided and powerful antiseptic don’t let me hear yon talk about hooks property, Tbia Is ascribed to the pres in society again. Cultured Daughter—Desr me! Why ence of gallic acid and tannin. It la manifested not only in the perfect not? Mrs. Smartset—Strangers will think preservation of ancient trees and of you havs been a cash girl in a book leaves, fruits and the like, but some- tinea even of animal bodies. Tbua In : FAVORITES ! sonta instances human bodies have been found perfectly preserved In peat, after the lapse of centuries. For the new method of shipping fruits light brown and consequently only Imperfectly decomposed, peat la taken In a certain state, of moisture,__ and the fruit la hermetically Inclosed What are your friends saying therein. A certain degree of humidity about you? That your gray la maintained until the fruit la ready for unpacking. hair make« you look o ld ? It la said that no offensive odor la And yet, you are not forty I communicated to the fruit, but it must Postpone thia looking old. be remembered that the full detail* of the process have not been made known by the French shippers, and It la i possible that there may be some ulterior treatment of the turf that prevents the -fruit from being robbed Use A yer’s H air Vigor snd of any of Its delicious savor. restore to your grsy hsir all A successful outcome In thia mat the deep, dark, rich color of ter would be of exceeding moment early jlife. Then be satisfied. The gourmets of Europe and of the United States who have never left their home country are unaware of the true flavor of the finest tropical f C . A T I * OO.. a bottls. fruits. No way had hitherto been I I-M II Sr—stoU. for Low ol I . Mass. found for shipping these fruits with their full richness of taste. In order that they may not arrive In a state of putrefaction after a Journey they have to be picked not only Immature, but before the pulp has reached Ita full How Ccllnlold la Mad«. development, and when the fruit la Celluloid, the chemical compound atlll flbry, and no artificial means la which bears so close a resemblance to known whereby a fruit plucked In Ivory, la a mixture of collodion and thia condition can ever be brought to camphor, invented In 1855 by Perk#- a condition of real maturity. Without alne, of Birmingham, whose name for maturity the full flavor does not exist a time It born The process of manu —Mexican Herald. I facture la aa follows: Cigarette paper la soaked In a mixture of nitric and S E L F -S U P P O R T IN G OLD WOMEN. sulphuric gelds until It becomes nitro G ray-H o tro d G randm others W ho F in d cellulose. After thorough washing, to free It from the adds, this cellulose la W o rk fo r T h eir Feeble Hands. dried, mixed with a certain quantity The little grandmother In clean, stiff whit« apron, and gray hair so smooth of camphor, and coloring matter If re that It seemed to be actually stretched quired, and then passed through a roll across her old brow, was more offend er mill. It is next formed Into thin ed than pleased to be told that she waa sheets hy hydraulic pressure and after attractive because she was old-fash ward broken up by toothed rollers and ioned. But old-fashioned she certain soaked for some hours -la*glcOhoL A ly was, and attractive, too, sitting In further pressure and a hot rolling proc the sunlight of a window where a few ess finish it. and results in ivory-lika brave red geraniums were growing, aa sheets half ah Inch thick. she wound ball after ball of strips of B la c k Bnakea. cloth for rag carpets. Iu the same It Is true that the rattlesnake and corner of a part of the building in the the black snake are mortal enemies, West Side district of New York where and the black snake is the victor In ths Charity Organisation Society pro their battles, breaking the neck of his vides employment for indigent women adversary before the rattler bas timo sat half a dozen others, none of them to strike. The black snakes of this as quaint nor hp “ spick and span” as country are as harmless as frogs. On the little grandmother, but all of tbem many of the large plantations In tha >ust as busy with the raw material for South they are tamed and kept as a protection from their enemy, as tha rag carpets. And out of this charity work, de werm climate prevents keeping the signed to furnish an opportunity for bouses closed so as to keep them out. earning a little money to woman not Not Up to Date. strong enough for harder labor, bas “ Mamma,” aaid the pretty fluffy- grown quite an Industry—the making of rugs. It is a curious anomaly that haired girl, “ I think I ought to go to women who are among the poorest cooking school, don’t you?" “ It Isn’t necessary, my dear,” replied and most helpless in the whole city arA the mother, “ I can teach you to cook.” Important in the making of an article “ But that would never do. mamma,” that is constantly in demand by the protested the fair daughter, “you only dealers of the very blgbest claaa who know how to cook the ordinary things handle this sort of goods. that people really eat.” Remarkably pretty and very service able are the ruga which are made by Former Senator Henry O. Davis and these old women of the West Side, but hia son-in-law. Senator Stephen B. HI- must give credit for that to M rs. kins, have contributed'$ 100,000 to tho Hinsdale, who Is manager of this part Davis and Elkins College, just opsnsd, of the establishment. The rugs made et Elkins. W. Ya. here are of the sort that are desired There are plenty of acquaintances la for the floors of summer cottages, or the World, but very few real friends.— tor rooms which are fitted with fur- J. F. Daria. ^ ' IT nittire of the mission style. They are Emperor William will not leara to play woven as rag carpets are, but are nor will he permit his ministers to more carefully designed and made of golf play. Prince Henry plays a good deal better material. The old women have only a part in the making of the rugs, Secretary of ths Navy Morton la as the cutting of the cloth and the sailor. Ho nover gota soasick. dyeing and weaving are done outside. The best biography—tho life that i—Leslie’s Weekly. writes charity la tho largest letters. la y e r s Hair Vigor D ark Hair Who makes quick use of the momenta F s h k lb ls s s s The bulldog's tenacity of grip la pro Is a genius of prudence.—Lavator. verbial, but he also possesses a grip of Tho hide of a cow makes twice as quite another sort, one which enables much leather a* that of a horse. him to stick to his oruers in spite of untoward circumstances. The Atlan ta Constitution gives an example of a dog's faithfulness. “ Stub's” master had gone away for the night and had left the dog to guard his apartments. In the evening the house caught fire, and before the fire engine arrived the blaze had gained firm hold and little could be saved. Some of the men dis I suffered for a long time with a bod covered the dog and tried to coax or drive him from the room, but Stub ease of Catarrh, and took a great deal a* held his post. His would-be rescuers medicine without any benefit I had a continual headache, my cheeks did all they could to tole him out, but had grown purple, my nose waa always be would not budge. Warning growls stopped up, my Dreath hod a sickening and showed that he would use his teeth if disgusting odor, and I coughed incessantly I heard of your S. 8. S. and wrote you. the men resorted to force, and finally, in their efforts to save the dog, the X commenced to use it, and after taking firemen turned two streams of water several bottles I waa cured and have never since had the slightest symptom of on him. Even this did not dislodge the disease. M l« M a r y L. S torm . him. ■ Cor. 7th A Felix Sts., S t Joseph, Mo. The dog’s master was found and no- Wheeling, W. Va., May ag, 1003. tilfed of the fire. When be reached hia 1 had Nasal Catarrh for years for which I home the roof had fallen in and the 8. 8. “ building was a masa of flames. He i l nse«l tri gave one clear whistle, and Stub, who and|_ _ _____ ______ bad defied fire and water and ail hu the conclusion that the seat of the trouble man Inducements, bounded out of the \ was in the blood. Knowing S. S. S. to be bouse, and the next instant was lick a good blood medicine I began its use, and after using it for some little while it ing the band which caressed him. did away entirely with the offensive mu cus in the nostrils, and I did not hare to B rill in the Fam ily. hawk and spit, especially in the morning, Tom and Frank were the only male to dislodge the catarrhal matter. youngsters In the family.. Tom, the 1637 South S t F rxd H. r elder of the two, one d*y brought home an ugly, repulsive-looking dog, The filthy secretions and fool mucus that to the great disgust of the female por are continually dropping back into the throat, find their way into the stomach tion of the household. end ere absorbed into the blood. Catarrh At length the oldest of the sisters then becomes cob - persuaded Tom to take the dog back where he found It, or give It away to some one, and offered him twopence blood. Write us If for his trouble. Tom marched off with the animal, you have Catarrh, and returned In half an hour’s time and our physici munching the Inst of the toffee he had ans will advise you bought with the money which his Ma without charge. ter had given him. The Swift Speciflo Company, Atlanta, 08. “ Well, Tom, whnt have you done with that ugly brute?” was the quory^ “ Gave It to Frank," replied Tom, with bia mouth full. SitH There are too many big mouths, aud they are overworked. < Io M m a- S g id tej a n i w l w »