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i TOWSON.
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SHOE BEPAIRIHMEATLY DONE
On the Way.
(From the Atlanta Constitution.)
Christmas—its a cornin’
Hear it, hear it hummln’
Cornin’ o’er the valley an’ the hill;
All the doors unlockin’—
Hangin’ up the stockin’—
Big enough for Santa Claus to fill'.
Sich a awful worry !
Children in a flurry
Wonderin' what Old Santa Claus'il bring;
Done forgot their playtime.
Waitin’ in the daytime.
To hear the reindeer bells go “ting a-ling!”
Wish ’twas done an’ ended—
Toys broke and mended ;
Then a feller’d have a little rest.
But, bless the little faces.
An’ stockin's in their places—
An’ Santa Claus’il do his level best!
Jim, Coyote Dog.
(Adapted from Munsey’s Magazine.)
Nobody owned him 1 nobody want
ed to own him. But he had a dogged
determination to belong to some one,
and he selected Patterson.
He shadowed Patterson; slunk
along after him with nose to the
ground so completely absorbed in the
trail that occasionally he collided
with Patterson’s legs, and was prompt
ly launched through the air by Pat
terson’s boot. H e would dodge
around a pile of rock or a derrick, or
a building, and come blithely and un
expectedly out in front of Patterson,
capering a little and watching Patter
son’s feet while making his timid ap
proaches. Whenever Patterson look
ed at him, he would tumble and roll
over; whenever Patterson swore at
him, he would sit down on his stump
of a tail and howl; and whenever
Patterson threw a rock at him, he
would bound after it joyfully and
bring it back.
The foreman’s hatred for dogs
amounted to a mania. It was griev
ous enough to bear with those pedi
greed canines vouched for by the Ken
nel Club ; and as for this long, lank,
heavy-fanged, muscular mongrel, half,
Manuelto and half coyote, the very
sight of him set Patterson’s nerves on
edge-
The dog came from nowhere in par
ticular, drifting into camp out of the
wilds of the Harquahallas. At first
he was not thought worthy of a name;
later he was easually referred to as
“Jim.”
Forbearance finally ceased to be a
virtue ; Patterson borrowed a revolver
and strolled up a ravine, tagged, as
usual, by the persistent Jim, Six
distinct reports were wafted back to
camp, and it was generally conceded
that if a coyote dog had as many lives
as the proverbial cat, all but three of
Jim’s had gone glimmering. To those
three Jim clung tenaciously, for he
was back at the mine ahead of Patter
son, peering reproachfully at him
around a corner of the shaft-house.
One ear was cropped and one leg
broken. Patterson was at a loss to
account for the other four shots.
The camp arose to pursue and
stone the outcast, wishing to absolve
him from further misery; but Jim’s
three legs were equal to the task of
saving what was left of him, and he
vanished into his primal haunts.
Patterson congratulated himself that
he was rid of his bugbear.
One morning a few days later, the
foreman found on his doorstep the
remains of a woodchuck which had
been slain by Ham Blake a week be
fore. The woodchuck was first de
tected by an overpowering odor that
threw the finer sensibilities of the en
tire camp into a panic. Blake had
thrown the remains into an open cut
on the hillside ; Patterson now had
them carried up the ravine, a mile
from camp, and remarked caustically
that if the affair was a joke it was a
joke of doubtful taste- For the pres
ent Jim was not suspected, the work
having been surreptitiuously per
formed.
Another dawn found the wood
chuck back on Patterson’s doorstep.
The foreman waxed wroth, and had
the carcass buried. Even this failed
to retire it permanently, for it was
dug up and again conveyed to his
domicile.
Blake averred that Jim was the
guilty party- With Patterson’s con
sent, he added, he would attend to
the dog in such away that his part
nership with the woodchuck would be
forever dissolved- Patterson grasped
at the straw of hope, and Blake
trimmed a piece of fuse, thrust it into
a cap, and wrapped 'both up neatly
with a stick of giant powder.
The camp took note of these pro
ceedings with much interest, and was
on the qui vive from the moment
when Blake removed the woodchuck
beyond the mine buildings and went
on night watch with his infernal ma
chine.
At the hour of five, 10, there came
Jim, worrying the woodchuck back to
Patterson’s- He had but three feet
now, having amputated the useless
member with his teeth, as is the cus
tom of coyote dogs. Blake, watched
by a dozen curious ones from various
points of concealment —among them
Patterson, at his window—struck fire
to the fuse and hurled the spluttering
death at Jim.
Jim, discovered though he was, felt
that here was an invitation to fetch
and carry which was evidence of an
amicable chance in the sentiment of
of the camp. He released the wood
chuck, caught up the infernal machine,
and laid it tenderly at Patterson’s
door.
[ What might have happened is
, problematical. What really did hap
} pen left on the watchers a vivid im
‘ preesion of the celerity with which a
• man can move when his house is
* menaced. Patterson got to the door
- with a bucket of water just in time to
drench the bomb —and the astounded
Jim. The coyote dog took umbrage
at this treatment and again retired
into the hills. The woodchuck was
consigned to the depths of a six-hun
dred-foot shaft, long since abandoned,
and the incident was closed-
Although he must have been dis
couraged, Jim continued to carry out
his policy of conciliation. All sorts
of things were smuggled to Patterson’s
door—bones, baling-wire, old bits of
harness ; also a half-dead rattlesnake,
which showed enough life to strike at
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THE NEWS ESTABLISHED 19051
the foreman when discovered. But
Jim’s last three donations—especial
ly the second of the three—sent a wave
of mystery and intense excitement
throbbing through the camp.
The first was a human skull, flesh
less, bleached to a chalky white, with
an Apache arrow-point fixed in the
eye-socket.
The spell of wonder aroused by the
skull had hardly dissolved when Pat
terson opened his door to find a leath
er pouch, seemingly ancient enough
to have been carried by the Spanish
conquistadores. The pouch contained
a sample of gold ore of exceeding
richness-
The sample was of white quartz, the
size of a man’s fist, all fuzzy with yel
low wires. Virgin metal, forced
through the rock crevices in spirals,
overlaid the basic stone as with golden
filigree-work- Such ore was not
known in the Tres Alamos district,
nor could veteran prospectors remem
ber that any had been found within a
hundred miles. From whence, then,
had Jim brought this? The camp
dreamed golden dreamß, and the
crippled outcast of the hills was trans
formed into an object of universal
solicitude-
Patterson wove an ingenius theory
about the skull and the leather pouch-
He assumed that Jim had found them
in the same place, and that treacher
ous redskins had struck down a gold
hunter on the threshold of a realiza
tion of his wildest hopes-
To watch for Jim on his next night
ly visit, then to follow to his rendez
vous in the hills, was the plan- Pat
terson, Blake, and Reynolds were
chosen for the work- Arming them
selves with ropes for use in difficult
parts of the hills, they hid out in the
mesquit. A promise of storm was
gathering slowly on the horizon, but
overhead the sky was clear as a bell-
At midnight, under the full glare of
the moon, Jim was discovered hob
bling swiftly from the entrance to the
ravine- In his mouth waß a white ob
ject whose nature could not be deter*
mined. With infinite care he depos
ited his offering in the accustomed
place, after which he paid a stealthy
visit to the scrap-pile behind the kitch
en. Then he was off, a mere blot of
shadow vanishing into the blackness
of the defile.
Reynolds, mad with a thirst for
gold, led the pursuit, and often it was
necessary to hold him in check lest he
should draw too near and divert the dog
from his course. Two miles out, Jin
lank, ungainly form topped a rise.
There he stood, a silhouette against
the moon’s yellow disk, his body
hunched together and his nose raised
to sniff the air. Coyotes, half-broth
ers and would-be Cains, howled from
the dim regions around, and Jim was
seen to turn slowly, preserving silence
the while-
The quaveringyelps,fierce with a lust
for blood, drew nearer, and from the
foot of the slope the men saw a pack
of the wild hill scavengers dart clear
of the hovering shadows. The venge
ful ones leaped at the devoted Jim
with snap and snarl.
Jim was a pariah- The strain of
alien blood that had led him to hun
ger for a master among men had made
him equally an outcast among his
kind and among those whose favor he
courted. Although he fought nobly,
yet he* would have been overborne
and rent in pieces had not Patterson,
Blake and Reynolds charged to his
rescue. The pack fled helter-skelter
in every direction, Jim seizing his op
portunity and disappearing as com
pletely as the rest.
Patterson and his companions re
turned to the mine, determined to
make a fresh start with the approach
of daylight. Jim’s last offering, they
discovered, was a skeleton hand, be
longing, no doubt to the same anat
omy that had furnished the skull.
In the early morning, Patterson,
Reynolds, and Blake picked up a
trail of blood on the opposite side of
the uplift whose creßt had been the
scene of Jim’s battle and rescue.
Mile after mile to the brink of Can
yon Diablo the crimson line was fol
lowed, only to be lost in the red shale
of the gulch’s brim. The party sepa
rated for a search, Patterson going
down into the canyon, which nar
rowed, at this point, to a width of
scarce fifty feet.
The stormy portents of night had
thickened with the coming of day.
The sky was overcast, and thunder
muttered in the direction of Diablo’s
head-waters- Blake shook his head
and prophesied a cloudburst with a
tidal wave down the defile. He even
counseled a return to the mine and
another search later on.
Reynolds was obdurate. If rain
came, Jim’s blood would be washed
away and the trail lost. Blake sug
gested that Jim could be followed
again. Reynolds, brutally selfish,
declared that no crimson trail could
be left again; perhaps the coyotes
had wounded Jim to death, and the
camp would know him no more.
The wind grew into a gale during
the colloquy. Lightning zigzagged
through the rocky scarps of the hills,
and thunder boomed among the crags.
Blake descended a little down the
steep canyon-side, made a trumpet
of his hands, and shouted to Patter
son. The foreman had scaled the
tortuous steep of the opposite wall,
gaining shelf after shelf, only to hall
on his last foothold and see fifty feel
of sheer granite above him.
He waved his hand in answer to
Blake and started down, hot as he
started a roar echoed from up the
canyon, and a wall of water, churned
■to foam, rolled toward him with the
speed of an express train. In a flasl:
Diablo Creek became a torrent. Orn
great wave followed another, filling
the gulch by leaps and bounds.
Escape was cut off for Patterson ; h<
could only crouch on the uppermos
ledge and watch destruction reachini
for him with greedy arms.
“He’s done for!” groaned Blake
“Nothing can save him.”
“Look!” cried Reynolds.
Blake’s eyes swerved from the dit
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, : consolate man across the gulch to the
bruised and lacerated form of Jim.
The dog stood a dozen yards away,
trembling from weakness caused by
his wounds—stood at the edge of the
tumbling waters and looked overthem
to Patterson- An idea suggested it
self to Blake.
“The ropes! The ropes!” he
cried.
With feverish haste he removed his
own rope from his shoulder and
snatched the coil Reynolds was car
rying. Quickly he spliced the two
together and started toward Jim.
Reynolds sprang in the way.
“What are you doing?”
“Patterson is beyond human aid,”
shouted Blake. “If he is to be saved
at all the dog must do it!”
“No !” roared Reynolds. “The
dog is badly hurt; he might get over
to Patterson, but he’d never live to
get back. We need him to lead us to
that mine ”
A furious oath tore through Blake’s
lips. He struck Reynolds out of the
way with his clenched fist, sprang at
Jim, and tied one end of the spliced
rope about his neck.
“Call him, Patterson; call him!”
In the roar of the tempest the words
did not carry half way across the
gulch- Patterson, however, had seen
and understood.
“Here, Jim I Here, Jim!’’
Up to his knees in water, clinging
wildly to the face of the cliff, Patter
son, for the first time, called to the
outcast. The wind caught and scat
tered the feebled words, but brute
senses are keen. Jim heard and
dragged his maimed body into the
rushing tide. He was lifted, engulfed
and lifted again, flung against the
sharp rocks and hurled hither and
thither, yet foot by foot he fought his
way onward. The man for whose
friendship he had yearned and strug
gled was calling him, and that was
enough-
And success crowned his efforts.
He reached the foreman’s side. Pat
terson lashed the rope about his waist
took his rescuer in his arms, and to
gether they breasted the flood. Rey
nolds was now himself again, and fell
to, with Blake at the other end of the
rope.
Half dead but still clutching the
coyote dog, Patterson was dragged to
safety. When he regained his senses
his first inquiry was for Jim The
dog was barely alive. Patterson
dropped down beside him, patted his
ugly head, touched lightly the rough
scars made by the venomous pack
and the equally merciless torrent. A
litter was improvised from two sticks
and a coat, and Patterson and Blake
carried the almost martyr pariah as
tenderly as they would have handled
a sleeping infant. The miraculous
strength of the dog’s constitution
again brought him back to health,
though slowly, and he grew to a great
age in exceeding peace, the ever
honored guest of Patterson’s rough
cabin. a
Passing of the Trapper.
(Prom the Kennebec Journal.)
The forward march of civilization
has reached the wilds of the Canadian
north and trappers report that their
business is rapidly becoming unprofit
able on account of the frequency of
the settlements. That state of affairs
is to be expected and the wonder is
that the situation has not become
more acute long ago- It is remark
able that the business has continued
profitable.
History has repeated itself in this
as in all other things- The advance
guard of civilization was years behind
a class of hardy trappers who earned
their livelihood in the solitude of the
forests by taking animals for their
furs- As civilization advanced the
number of trappers became larger and
the amount of game diminished until
there was no longer a profit to be had
from the business.
It began with Maine and Massa
chusetts and continued to the west
ward until the United States was no
longer tenable for the trapper- The
Hudson Bay Company preserved the
frozen north of Canada for half a cen
tury after the United States had
’ ceased to be a profitable hunting
’ ground, but the onward march of the
railroads end the ever restless wave of
homeseekers has at last advanced to
I the very outposts of the Hudson Bay
territory. Gold and wheat have been
’ the lodestones and the trapping busi
. ness suffers.
Where will we get our furs in the
futufW We will raise them. For
[ farming, skunk farming, cat farming
and the hundred and one other kinds
of animal raising will take the place
of the trapper and his gun. Other
i fur bearing animals will soon be
. taught to eat out of the hand of
[ man just as the domestic animals of
the farm have been doing for centuries,
j Man will simply enlarge his control
1 of the lower animals, enlarge his con
-3 trol over the fur bearing as well as
the food bearing animals-
One Thousand Successful Men.
(Prom the Juvenile Court Record.)
! I have on my desk a list of 1,000
e successful men of this nation. By
t “successful,” I do not mean mere
- moneymakers, but men who have
e given us new conceptions of steam,
1, electricity, construction work, educa
t tion, art, &c. These are the men who
t influence our moral as well as physi
cal lives. They construct for better
o things. .
e How these men started in work is
e interesting. Their first foothold in
d work is a fine study
e Three hundred started as farmers’
h sons.
i 6 Two hundred started as messenger
g boys.
Two hundred were newsboys.
ie One hundred were printers’ appren
jt tices- . .
ig One hundred were apprenticed in
manufactories.
e. Fifty began at the bottom of rail
way work.
Fifty—only 50—had wealthy par
s' I ents to give them a start.