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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1909)
I,AKK COUNTY KXAMIXK . i.ikKVIKW OKKOON. 'IJU'IIMHA V, JAN. 7. IM. tHKKK aeeon.T flly, aun wnen no saw . at several dear llitlo round thing shaped like crrn ni colored dollli-a, which are rnlli-! pam-iikea (though they nrr-n't n hit like onrsi with some perfectly divine muir named maple Irti. lie 1.1 my taking such n fancy to American produrta wan n sign that I aliotild marry nn American. What nonsense! Aa If I would dream of marrying, especially a for truer. Hut for all (hat pancakes ami maple sirup are delirious. I've had them every day slnre for breakfast, after Mulshing n great ornnge four timed (lie natural nr.t, which Ixn't really nn orange, because It'a a KT:w frull You have It on your plate cut In two halves, with Ice In each, ami you Hcoop the Inside out of a lot of liny piM'kclH Willi a teaspoon, loll i think when you drat see It that you c ii n't rat morn t tin n half, hut Instead you eat every hit. and snmetlinra if thi morning I hot you even wish you could have more, though, of course, you wouldn't e ao greedy aa to aak. It wan on the accond day out. too, thnt all my trouble Iwgnn and In queer way which nobody could have gui'sned would lead to anything dlaii grceahle. In the afternoon I waa rending In my deck chnlr, drawn clone to Mr Ka Kay'a aide, when that Mm. Van der Wlndt whom Pally called a allly old thing, toddled up and apoke to us "Io come and watch them dancing In the steerage." aha aald. "It'a audi fun." Mra. Kaa Kay hkea sitting ait 111 on ahlphonrd hetter than anythlnir else, but It aeema that lira. Van der Wlndt la ao Important that If all the. Four Hundred Kally told me atiout were pruned away eicept about twenty-flve ahe would be among the number left. ao probnhly that la the reaaou why Mra. I jta Kav takea long walka up and down the deck with ber. though it make her giddy to walk, nnd Mra. Van der Wlndt la not In the leant en tertaining. She got up now, like a lamb about to be led to the alaughter. except thnt ahe atnlled bra rely, which the Inmh would not he able to bring itaelf to do "Come. Hetty," ahe aald to me. "It will auiuae you." "Yea, do come. I.ady Betty." repent ed Mra. Van der Wlndt. Whereupon I obeyed, little knowing what I waa laying up for myself. Our deck la amldahlpa. Aft. on a level with our, la tbe second ' class IB 4Z& 4ri elderly, pinchrtt little man wna mo nntonnuMly $crajlng a tmttcred fiddle. deck, nnd for-rard, down below, like looking Into a pit, la the ateerage. We walked to the rail, over which quite a uumlier of men were leaning, to aee what waa going on, and aeveral moved aalde to give ua room. I didn't like to tuke their place away, eapeclnlly a they were laughing nnd enjoying them aelvea, and I could hear the Bound of dunce inualc coming up from below (auch odd Bounding mtinlc!), but Mra. Exa Kay murmured to me that I niUHtn't refuae. "American men are never ao hnppy," ahe mid. "na wheu they're giving up aouiethlng for a w oiniiu. They're uaed to It." And evidently ahe, aa an American woman, waa uaed to taking It She and Mra. Van der Wlndt slipped Into the vucaut apacea with a bare "thank, you." nnd 1 hnd to follow their exam ple. Wo leered down over the rail, and there waa a Bight which would have been comical If It hadn't been pathetic. On rut her n rough looking deck, about twelve feet or mora below ua, a dciine crowd was collected around two miiiiiII aqunretf, which they pur posely left open, llealdes those little eiuiirca every Inch was occupied There wouldu't have been nn.v more room for even a hnhy to nU down than there una in the I'. aek Hole of Calcutta. In the crowd were old me.i, young iiie. i and boys, all poorly dressed, nnd old wouieu. youn wumc i and glrU. big and llttlo. They wore crude, vivid colora, and uion- tlmn half of them hud bright lutudUc rchic fx tie I over their heads. They Hcnrcely took any notice of the firwt clnsa passenger i atarlug down auercilloualy or pitying ly nt their poor amuaemeuts; they were far too much absorbed In the -dancing which waa going on busily I can't auy guyly In the two hoilow aquart-H. In one of these an elderly, pinched little man who looked almost half wltted, waa monotonously acrap lug a buttered fiddle for two aolemn couplea to dance arouud and around, alwaya ou the aame ax la. But the other "dancing Baton" waa more lively. There a man dreaaed like a buffoon, with a tall hat, a lobster claw for a noac, a uulforui with big red flaunel epaulette and paateboard. buttona cov erad with gold paper, waa pretending to conduct the band. And what a band It waal It consisted of four aailora, rather Bheep faced and aelf conacloua. One mualcul Instrument waa a wooden box rigged up with atrlugd and a long han dle, another waa formed from a cou w!t of hug roup anoonv (led tosethpr on w hich I he pmyer beat m.rtnmieai' with n sunnier apooti; the third was a lorr dangling from a atring hanged liciirlll.v wlih ao enormous mill aa It anting to and fro; the fourth waa a liiccr houietnnd drum, which looked n IT It hud liven mad out of a wooden lilltl'lliOX. H'liiiehnw Ihey i outlived to coax out inmlr of n sort, mi l u few young mm anl girls were solemnly gyrating to It In n way to unike you giddy even to watch. When a mnu thought he haul bad enough or wanted to dunce wlttt another Kiel, he dropped hla pnrtucr m 1 1 La nliiruiliig HudilciiticMK, bowed atld ly nlthont nm lli or word mid left her It miH rviili-utly clliiictte not to aeiik In J our piiiiniT. At the en I of a dunce the conduclor Willi the lolifter cluw Iiomc looked up to our deck, bowing low, with hi hit ml on hla hcurt, and then nil the inidleuie leunlng over tho Mill begun fumbling In their pocket If they were Ineij or ofiiliig their purse or gold bog If Ihey were women. Iiowu poured n shower of aunill allver ami f'ipcr, little boya scrambling to pick It up ii in I bund It to the conductor, who would, Mra. Van der Wlndt aald, dhi'le the money nmong the member of bin iiialut band. I had a few ahlllliiga with me, oud I'd been ho much unnoted thnt feit like being generoua. Luckily mother couldn't ace me and acold. 1 took half a (lore u coin -shillings and sixpences -mid, wrupilug them hurriedly up In hnlf the cover torn off u mngtir.lne I waa rending. I nlmed the little parcel to fall nt the comic conductor' feet. icncrnlly i cuu throw fairly atrnlght, for Stun took aouio pallia with thnt pint of my education when I wue u small Kill, but Jimt at that liiKtnnt Home one stumllng next me moved, k nod i-d me on the elbow and apotled iny u 1 hi. Iiixteinl of fulling In front of Mr. Iobater -Claw, the parcel lilt the ear of ii very tall young mnu nmong the crowd below, who had been atundlug with hla bnek to me. lie turned qulck ly, not knowing whnt bad hiipK-uell, glMined up nnd caught my ryca, na 1 wiim liMikliiK down (tilte dlatrcHaed. I had notlcel hla figure In the rrunb becauae ho towered nearly a head over every one elae, and I hud a dim Im precision that he had good ahouldera, but aeelng hla face gave me a great aurprlae. It waa aa different from all the real of the ateerngo face aa day la from night, and aomebow It gave me quite a ahock that aucb a man ahould be among thone othcra, aa If aomethlu roiiHt Im wrong with the world or It could uot bnppen. I had even a guilty aort of thrill, aa If I had uo light to be well drrsaed and proaperoua, ataring at him and bla companion aa though they were a ehow which we other puld to aco daring to amuse ouraelve with the hard, atrange condltlona of their Uvea. I've heard mother aay that good blood la an re to prove Itaelf, that a gen- ! Mem an can t look like a common mau man iciOi a lull hnt and a lohrtc? cluw or a noe. even In raga. Htan dlsputea that the ory with ber when be Isn't too luzy and wanta to bet he could ao disguise himself that ahe would take htm for a green grocer or a fishmonger, who have the air of being commoner than other men, I think at least lu our village at Battlemeud becnuse they wear fut tufts of curls I i-(thing out over their forehead I. j..i u ider their capa, which i.rc nl ... ys l'l.il l r.ud made of cloth. An; w;i . if mother la right this man ii Lie i. ; : must have the bluest f bUiii I l.i '...a veins, for I never bow o.ie v, iih clearer, nobler features. And .vet. he tloesi.'l j i . e the Impression of a liro .eu il iwu entlcniiiu who has K ::e the pneo nnd paid for It by atum I !i!: 1 ;tt t:u deptha. I thought, aa he !.i Ue.l i:p MrnlKht Into my face that I'.rst time (and 1 think still) that no i ice could be liner or more manly than his. I'.rowu deep brown It la, like brouzc, and clean shaved (uot rough and scrubby), with dark gruy eyes (I knew at once they were gruy because the light struck Into them) rimmed with black lashes bo long you couldn't help noticing them; black eyebrows and hair short and aleek like Stan's or any other well groomed man one knows. Besides, commonness shows In people's mouths more thuu anywhere else. It's hard to define, but It's there, and this man's mouth Is the best part of hla face, unless It'a the chin or per haps the nose, I'm uot quite sure which, though I've thought a good deal about them all, because of the inyatery of finding auch a man In such an un suitable place. It would be Just the aame If you saw a tall palm suddenly shooting up in the kitchen garden and couldn't find out bow It bad been planted there. I'm afraid I must have shown bow aunirlaed I wjib and adnjlrjngw top, A Itiiiy l.e'iliow i nn one Keep i'ohi ii.iTTjii lug wlni I h flue and noble, whether It'a a atrnnge peraon'a fnce, or the profile of a mountain agnlnat a aky at aun ret?i, for the hnndwime ateerage paa aenger lMked at me a long, long lu atiiut aa If he were aa miiih aaton lihed a I waa. and yet with auch nice look that, Inatend of being an noyed, I couldn't help being plcnaed. In the meantime the little pneket of money had fallen on the deck; bat, though It bad ati ikk bin from b- hlnd, he aeeined to reiillre exactly whnt had happened and, atooplni down, he pkked It up. Then he ruined hla blind high, ao that I could mi- he lind the crumpled bull of pnper In It. and edging hla wny determinedly, but not nt all roughly, through the crowd, he oH'tied the parcel and gave the money to the conductor. "Whnt a pplcndld looking mun!" I aald In a low voice to Mra. Khh Kay. "Isn't It extraordinary thnt ho ahould be In the steerage?" "Come awny, my dear child," ahe an swered. "I can't have you standing here to lie otnred lit by low creature like thnt. The fellow's not In the least splendid looking. 'lie's only a big. hulking animal. Iiou't take to making up romances alniut the ateerage paa-f-engera. my love. They're not worth bothlug your little head a trout, tiecause If Ihey weren't born for that aort of thing. th,v wouldn't be there, I assure you." I didn't aay anything more, though I whs vexed with her, Isith for being ao atupldly conventional and for Banking to mo in such a loud tone that ahe at tracted !eople'a attention. We went back to our deck chairs, iiml there wua nothing to remind me of the little episode except the torn cover of my magazine, on which, I now remeinliered, Sally Woodburn had scrawled my name over and over again In itenrll. Just In Idleness, while she and I had been talking that morning. If Mr. Kss Kay had known, no doubt ahe would hare leen furloua that a piece of paper with my name on It ahould have gone down Into the ateer age. Hut I didn't mind, for I remem bered that the young man had opened the parcel, given the money to the con ductor, and kept the cover, which probably he had Boon after thrown overisiara or iwiatea up to iignt a pipe. Nothing more happened that day, but there are two Dice American girls on bonrd, about my own age or a little older (they seem years older, for they are ao charming and self possessed). and Mra. Eaa Kay encourages me to like them, aa they are In Mra. Van der Wlndt'a party. 1 grew quite well ac quainted with tbem the third day out and they aaked me to go and watch the people In the steerage, who bad a trick dog which waa lots of fun. I went and aaw the bronze young man again. He waa Btandlng with bla arma folded across bla blue flannel shlrted cheat, leaning agalnat one of the euppor's of a kind of bridge, lonk- I lng up toward the first claas deck. Our eyes met as they bsd before, and i I waa so absurd that I felt myself blushing. I could have boxed my own ears, and though the trained dog really waa a pet I didn't stay long. It la atrange how certain kind of eye haunt me. You aee them In the air, aa if they were really looking at you eapeclally when you are Just dropping off to aleep. I think gray ones do this more than others. Per haps It Is because they are more pierc ing. But it was the fourth day that the climax came the climax which haa ended by upsetting me bo much and haa made everything bo uncomfort able. The weather was glorious all blue and gold after a Bulky, leaden day and there waa dancing down on the steerage deck again. Though It waa ao fine, the water was not smooth like a floor n8 it had been at first, but broken into Indigo wavea ruffled Irregularly with silver lace and edged with shim mering pearl fringe. The same performance was going on down there on the crowded deck that I'd Been the first day, and Sally Woodburn nnd I, who had beeu walking-counting the times we weut arouud to make two miles stopped to glance at the show. ."There's that good looking man Cousin K at her I tie classifies ua a hulk ing animal," said Sally. "I must really consult the dictionary for a dcflnlUou of the word 'hulking.' I don't know whether It's a verb or adjective, do you ?" "No, I dou't." said I. "But which ever It is, I'm sure be doesn't or lsu't. Ilea a geutlemun, and something strange has happened or he wouldn't be there. 1 do thluk It's a bhume. It must be horrible." "Don't you thluk Couslu Katherlue knows more about auch persona than youV" asked Sally, and there waa such a funny quaver lu her voice that 1 turned to aee what It meant. She was laughing, but whether at me or at Mrs. ICss Kay or at the mitu with the lobster cluw noso 1 couldn't tell, aud before 1 could answer her question by asking another something happened which put tho wholo conversation out of my in hid. The ship courtsled to a wave of 1 more Importance than any that bad gone before, then righted herself quickly. We slid a Utile, everybody who could catching bold of the rail or of somo friend's arm, laughing, but down ou tho steerage deck there rose a cry which wasn't laughter. "Child overboard!" some oue scream ed.' Aud I realized with a horrid feel ing like suffocation that a tluy boy down below, who hud climbed up ou the rail to watch the dancing, was missing. It waa a woman who bad screamed, and everything followed ao qulcll.v that my mind waa coufuBed, as if a Wblrlwjnd. had rushed through It unj blow n ",'t The InipreMaiiTia on top of one another In n heap. There waa a ball of voire mi the ateerage deck, more cilen nnd ahoiitM and acreama, and peo-1 pie atiri;ed In ii aolld wave toward the I rail to look oter Hut of that wave rpning one figure Hcpnrntlrig Itaelf from the oilier ni'itna. and then I heard my aelf l ive n cry. too. for the man who hud been In my Ihoughta hnd thrown off bla cont and vaulted over the rail Into tho aea. "Joval He'll N canght by the pro- i puller!" I heard aom-body near me ; gay. J turned lck. The thought of bla . f(. being cimhed out while we all looked on helplena wna awful. The sea wna terrible enough In Itself-the grent, w ide, merr lleva. blue water, which sparkled ao coldly and laughed In Ita power but to le crunched up by the Jaws of n monster I shut my eyes and couldn't open them until I heard men saying the strong wind to starboard might save him. I believe I must have U'cu unconsciously pray ing, and my hands were clasped so tightly together thst afterward my fingers ached. I'eople on our deck made a rush to ward the stern, on the port side, for the ship hud leen ateamlng so fast that already we were forging away from the child who bad fallen and the man who bad Jumped after him. Sal ly and I were carried along with the rush. She aelzed me by the band, but we didn't speak a word. If dear He trot Handing vHth hU arm folded. friends Instead of two strangers In a far remote sphere of life had been in deadly danger I don't think the sick ness at my heart could hare been worse. I would have given years If at that moment I could nave had the magical power to atop the ship in stantly with one wave of my hand. But it was being stopped by anoth er power than mine. I felt the deck shiver under my feet like a thorough bred horse pulled on Its haunches. The accident bad been seen from the bridge. An order to stop the ship had been telegraphed down to the engine room and obeyed. 8 till when Sally Woodburn and I had been carried-by the crowd far enough toward the stern to look out over the blue wilderness of water we were leaving behind the ahip'a heart hadn't ceased Its throb, throb, to which we bad all grown ao accustomed In the laat few daya. "lie's got the chlldT' exclaimed Sal- ly. "See, he's hauling the little crea- ture onto bla back with one hand and swimming with the other. Glorious fellow I" j Yes, there were two heads bobbing like black corks In the tossing waves close together. I pictured so vividly what my sensations would be If I were down there a mere speck In that vast expanse of blue that I almost tasted salt water In my mouth and felt the choking tingle of It In my -If .L ... - iuen suuaeniy id amps uean ceaa- ed to beat, and the unaccustomed still-; ness was aa startling aa an unexpect-: ed noise. A boat shot down from the davits, with several sailors on board. A few seconds later they were rowing away toward those two bobbing black corks, and I loved them aa the bent to their oars. I can t remember breathing once, or even winking, until I saw the child being lifted Into the boat and the man rllmltiiiir In flftpp Whar a aholit up from the ship! Sally clapped her " " - r pretty, dimpled bands, but I only let my breath go at last In a great sigh. There was such a crush that I couldn't see them when they came on board, but there waa more shouting and hurrahing, and men slapped each other ou the shoulders and laughed Throb, throb weut the machinery again, and there was uo sign that any- thing out of the monotonous round hud happened, except in t)u excited way i nut pt'upk t:iiUi'U. l -'vyral men w l.'.iew i.iivi a vNIt la t!u steerage ai:d t.;::ie bu. U wiin stjlU'i which flew ab; 1:1 iroiu pivup to group in the tlrst class cabin and uo doubt the second too. It sooiiiej thut the little boy who hnd fallen Into the sea was the only bou of hla mother, a widow. They were Swedes, aud the woman, who is ou her way to the States to try and timl a place as a servant, waa qu'.te prostrated with the agonizing sus pense one had suffered. Aa for the lii.le 1.v himself, he was not seriously tue w;ru fur his experience. 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