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By STEWART
EDWARD
WHITE
Copyright. 1902. by -Tftmurt Edtmard Whit
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CHAPTER XXIV.
OR a moment they sat listening
to the clear staccatokhocking
of the distant ' blows and the
more forceful thuds - of the
man nearer at hand.
"What are they doing? Are they cut
ting lumber?" asked Hilda.
"No," answered Thorpe; "we do not
cut saw logs at this time of year. They
are clearing out a road."
"Where does it go tor
"Well, nowhere in particular that
is, it isNa logging road that starts at
the river and wanders up through the
woods where the pine is."
"How clear the axes sound. I would
like to know more about it," she sigh
ed, a quaint little air of childish petu
lance graving two lines between her
eyebrows. , "Do you know, Harry, you
are a singularly uncommunicative sort
of a being. I have to guess that your
lite is interesting and picturesque.
Sometimes I think you are not nearly
poet enough for the life you are liv
ing. Why, you are wonderful, you
men of the north, and you let us ordi
nary mortals who have not the gift of
divination imagine you entirely occu
pied with how many pounds of iron
chain you are going to need during the
winter." She said these things lightly,
as one who speaks things not for seri
ous belief.
"It is something that way," he
agreed, with a laugh.
"Sit there," she breathed very soft
ly, pointing to the dried needles on
which her feet rested.
He obeyed.
"Now tell me," she breathed, still in
the fascinated monotone.
"What?" he inquired.
"Your life; what you do; all about it.
You must tell me a story."
Thorpe settled;, himself more lazily
find laughed with quiet enjoyment.
"The story of the woods," he began,
lthe story of the saw log. It would take
a bigger man than I to tell it I doubt
if any one man ever would be big
enough. It is a dream, a struggle, a
battle. Those men you hear there are
only the skirmishers extending the
tiring line. in nave to nurry now to
get those roads done and a certain
areek cleared before, the snow. Then
we'll have to keep on the keen move to
finish our cutting before the deep snow,
to haul our logs before the spring
thaws, to float them down the river
while the freshet water lasts. When
we gain a day we have scored a vic
tory, when the wilderness puts us back
an hour we have suffered a defeat."
The girl placed her hand on his shoul
der. Ha covered it with his own.
"But we winl" he cried. "We winl"
"That is what I. like," she said softly,
"the strong spirit that wins." She hesi
tated, then went on gently: "I went
walking yesterday morning before you
came over, and after awhile I found
myself In the most awful place the
stumps of trees, the dead branches, the
trunks lying all about and the glaring
hot sun over everything. Harry, there
was not a single bird In all that waste,
a single green thing." She seized his
fingers in her other hand. "Harry," she
laid earnestly, "I don't believe I can
ever forget that experience any . more
than. I could have forgotten a battle
field were I to see one.'
The man twisted his shoulder uneas
ily and withdrew his hand.
"Harry," she said again after a
pause, "you must promise to leave this
woods until the very last I suppose it
must all be cut down some day, but I
do not want to be here to see after It is
all over. Men do not care much for
keepsakes, do they, Harry? But even a
man can feel the value of a great beau
tiful keepsake such as this, can't he,
dear? Our meeting place do you re
member how I found you down there
by the old pole trail staring as though
yon had seen a ghost? It must always
be our most sacred memory. Promise
me you will save It until the very, very
last"
Thorpe remained silent
In selecting the districts for the sea
son's cut he had included in his esti
mates this very grove. Other bodies of
timber promising a return of $10,000
were not to be found near the river,
and time now lacked for the cutting of
roads to more distant forties.
. "Hilda," he broke in abruptly at last
"the men you hear are clearing a road
to this very timber."
"What do you mean?" she asked, v
"This timber Is marked for cutting
tnis very winter."
- She had not a suspicion of the true
state of affairs. "Isn't it lucky I spoke
of it!" she exclaimed. "You must see
to it today, now!" -
She sprang up impulsively and stood
waiting for him. He arose more slow
ly. ; , .
"Hilda, I cannot," he said.
She stood very still for some seconds.
"Why not?" she asked quietly.
"Because I have not time to cut a
road through to another bunch of pine.
It is this or nothing."
"Why not nothing, then?" ' '
"I want the money this will bring."
His choice of a verb was unfortu
nate.
"Will you tell me for what you want
the money?" she asked.
The young man caught the note of
distrust At once, instinctively, his
own confidence vanished. He drew
within himself again the power of
justifying himself with the needed
word.
"The firm needs it in the business,"
saia ne.
Her. next question countered instan
taneously. '
"Does the firm need the money more
tnan you do me?"
They stared at each other in the si
lence of the situation that had so sud
denly developed as a dust cloud springs
up on a plain.
"You do not mean that Hilda?" said
Thorpe quietly. "It hardly comes to
tnat."
"Indeed it does," she replied, everv
nerve of her fine organization strung to
excitement. "I should be more to you
man any nrm.
sometimes it is necessary to look
after the bread and butter," Thorpe
renunaea ner gently, although he knew
tnat was- not the real reason at all.
If your firm can't suddIt it I ran."
she answered. "It seems stranee that
you won't grant my first request of
you merely because you need a little
money."
"It isn't a little money," he obiected.
catching manlike at the practical ques
tion, -xou don't realize what an
amount a clump of pine like this stands
for. Just in saw logs, before it is made
into lumber, it will be worth about
5JO,000. There's $10,000 profit in it."
The girl, exasperated by cold details
at such a time, blazed out "I never
heard anything so ridiculous in my
lifer., she cried. "Either you are not at
all the man I thought you, or you have
some better reason than you have giv
en. Tell me, Harry; tell me at once.
You don't know what you are doing."
"The firm needs it, Hilda,", said
Thorpe, "in orcier to succeea. ir ,we ao
not cut this pine we may fall."
"if I were a man," she said, and her
voice was tense "if I were a man and
loved a woman, I would be ready to
give up every thing for her. My riches,
my pride, my life, my honor, my soul
even, they would be as nothing, as less
than nothing, to me if I loved. Harry,
aon't let me think I am mistaken. Let
this miserable, firm of yours fail, if fail
it must for lack of my poor little tem
ple of dreams." She held out her hands
with a tender gesture of appeal. The
affair had gone beyond the preservation
of a few trees. It had become the ques
tion of an ideal. Gradually, in spite of
herself,, the conviction was forcing it
self upon her that the man she had
loved was so different from the rest
that the greed of the dollar had cor
rupted him too. By the mere yielding
to her wishes she wanted to prove the
suspicion wrong. ;
"I cannot, Hilda," he answered stead
ily. --: .. ' ; ' :
"You sell me for $10,000! I cannot
believe it! Harry, Harry, must I put it
to you as a choice? Don't you love me
enough to spare me that?": ,
He did not reply. As long as it re
mained a dilemma he would not reply.
He was in the right
"Do you need the money more than
you do me, more than you do love?"
she begged, her soul In her eyes, for she
was begging also for herself. "Think,
Harry.' it is the last chance!" ,
He was face to face with a vital de
cision. He experienced no conflict of
mind, no hesitation, for the moment
no regret. During, all his woods life
he had,' been following diligently the
trail he had blazed for his conduct
Now his feet carried him unconscious
ly to the same end. There was no oth
er way out In answer to Hilda's ques
tion he merely inclined his head.
"I have seen a vision," said she sim
ply, and lowered her head to conceal
her eyes. Then she looked at him
again. "There can be nothing better
than love," she said.
"Yes, one thing," said Thorpe "the
fluty of success." - : c
The . man had stated his creed, the
woman hers. . , ' j
, She left him then and did not see
him again. Four days later the camp
ing party left Thorpe sent Tim Shear
er over as his most efflcient man to see
that they got off without difficulty, but
himself retired on some excuse to
Camp Four. Three weeks gone in Oc
tober he received a marked newspaper
announcing the engagement of Miss
Hilda Farfnnd to Mr. Hiidreth Morton,
of Chicago. .
TO BR CONTINTJEIXl
all' hail the cow.
WASHINGTON CHITCHAT
Gossip About Public Men
the National Capital.
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EESTOKDfG 0EDEE IN THE HOUSE
Speaker Cannon' Novel Method of
Quieting: Noir CongrreMmen A
Sallr From Senator Hoar Why the
Landla Brother! Were Enabled to
Go to Congress Senator Pettna
Salt Pressed For the Occasion.
Representative Edward L. Hamilton
of Michigan asked unanimous consent
for the consideration of a measure pro'
viding . for the building of a road out
in Arizona and was startled by. the op
position it aroused, says the New York
Tribune's Washington correspondent,
Members gathered around his seat and
for a time questioned him on the prop
osition in such a manner as to permit
of his replying, but they finally over
whelmed the good natured . chairman
of the committee on territories, and he
appealed to the speaker, asking that
his tormentors be requested to interro
gate him singly. "They are all talking
at once, Mr. Speaker," he complained
and down came the speaker's gavel.
Order was temporarily restored, and
then the confusion became worse than
ever. There were complaints from al
parts of the chamber 'that nothing
could be heard, - and finally, the re
sounding thwacks of the gavel could
be distinguished above th 2 din. "Gen
tlemen," said Uncle Joe in a despairing
tone, "the chair recognizes . that there
is tremendous noise - in the chamber,
and the chair has been trying for some
time unsuccessfully to make as much
noise as the gentlemen, but so far the
noise of the chair seems to be very
much In the minority." Hearty laugh
ter followed, and order was restored.
Eloquent Tributes to Great Foster
Mother of the Unman Race.
The cow was the subject of enthusi
asm at the New York state dairymen's
convention held, in Ogdensburg. In his
address of welcome Mayor Hall declar
ed that butter and cheese are the con
trolling powers of the universe. All the
speakers following Mr. Hall paid trib
ute to the dairy, and ex-Governor W.
D. Hoard of Wisconsin wound up the
day's - programme with an apotheosis
of the cow. ' ; ... ,:
Said he: 4!To preach the gospel ac
cording to the cow is no small matter.
Every man must be educated to under
stand so far as he can the great pro
ducer of the country, the cow, than
which there is no deeper constructive
mystery. The cow is the great foster
mother of half the human race, and
she should be approached reverently,
lovingly, with a tender heart and . a
sympathetic mind."
He spoke eloquently on the maternity
of the cow ' and compared her to - the
-human mother. He begged his audi
tors to have greater respect for the cow
and to give her more careful treatment,
placing on one plane manhood, woman
hood, cowhood.
The retort courteous passed frequent
ly between Senator Foraker and Sen
ator. Hoar in the Panama debate the
other day, says the Washington Post
Sometimes the friendly relations seem
ed on the point of being badly strained.
Mr. Foraker did not like being in
terrupted, but Mr.' Hoar persisted in
saying that he was being badly misrep
resented. There were long colloquies.
one of which ended as follows:
"When the gentleman f rom . Massa
chusetts interrupts me," said Mr. For
aker, "I wish he would tell me where I
was." . -
"Well," said Senator Hoar, beaming
at the opportunity to "get back'? at the
Ohipan, "the gentleman was making a
misstatement of my position."
There was a roar of laughter around
the senate at this sally.
x "Farming? I know what it Is,? de
clared Representative Fred Landis of
Indiana, says the New York World,
"Father and five of us boys used to
work all the year round to raise stuff
to feed five horses. Finally two of the.
horses died, and that enabled Charley
and myself to get away from the farm
and come to congress." 1
AID FROM ROCKEFELLER.
Oil King Paid Off Mortgage on Farm
of Boyhood Playmate.
John D. Rockefeller has paid off the
mortgage on the little Nebraska farm
of Charles Austin, a boyhood friend,
vtfhom he has not seen for many years,
says a Sioux City (la.) dispatch.
Mr. Austin lives near Dakota City
pn a little place on which was a mort
gage of several hundred dollars. The
fruit crop by which he lived has been
a failure for two years, and he was in
hard straits. As a boy he was a play
mate of Rockefeller, but as young men
they drifted apart, and when Austin
learned of the financial standing of his
old friend he wrote him a letter of
.congratulation. Since then they have
exchanged one or two letters annually.
Several years ago Mr. Rockefeller's
friendship was the means of giving po
sitions to Austin's two sons in the
Standard Oil employ at Sioux City.
This year Mr. Rockefeller, learning of.
Austin's misfortunes, paid the mort
gage. Mr. Austin says he knew noth
ing of it till notified by the recorder's
office that it had been paid.
Not a Beehive.
One afternoon during a lull in the
bathing demands on a certain transat
lantic liner George, the youth who had
charge of the bathrooms used by the
saloon passengers, decided to take a
bath, so he locked himself in one of the
rooms 1 used by the men. Suddenly he
was disturbed by a rap at the door and
heard a woman's voice: "Honey! Hon
ey! Are you there?" No reply coming
from the room, the lady spoke again,
"Honey, are you there?" As an expla
nation was needed. Georze snoke?
'Beg your pardon, lady, but this ain't
no beehive. This is a bathroom"
New York Mall and Express.
-When, - a year ago', Senator - Pettus
was re-elected to the senate he cele
brated the event by purchasing a suit
of clothes. It was, he said, the first
suit he had bought in ten years. He
was like a boy with a new top-H3o
pleased, in fact, that the venerable
statesman called upon all his friends
in the Benate to examine and admire
the texture, fit and style.
A few days ago the venerable senator
from Alabama appeared in the senate
chamber looking unusually well groom
ed, says, the New York Tribune. In
the course of the "morning hour" Sen
ator Morgan announced that hi col
league wished to speak on the resolu
tion introduced by the former, apropos
of the Panama treaty. A number - of
senators sought to defer the speech. It
was the last day before the Christmas
recess, and all wanted to get away.
Quietly they appealed to Mr. : Pettus,
but he waved them away. "No, sah,"
he said, with some indignation, but
more sorrow, "I shall be deeply disap
pointed if I have to defer my speech
today. I have had my new suit press
ed for this important; occasion. Even
the trousers, sah, are creased. . It would
cause me grave disappointment, and
I hope, gentlemen, you won't press
your objection." , The objection , was
not pressed. . . ,
There are two Kitchins in congress
from North Carolina, William Walton
and Claude. They are brothers. Wil
liam Walton Kitchin received a letter
the other day addressed to William K.
Kitchin. The house postmaster thought
it might be for the younger Kitchin.
When the letter was handed to him,
William Walton Kitchin called over to
his brother:
"Good Lord, Claude! Has another of
the family broken into congress over
night?"
Malctnsr Sure of It.
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Combination Orders
by
Ahsentmlnded.
Gentleman What do you mean
putting your hand in my pocket?
J. nier Excuse me, sir. I'm so ah.
sentminded. I used to have a nnir
trousers exactly like yours.- Woman's
Home Companion.
"Hello! Where are you going with
that lantern?"
"A-courtin. sir." ' '
"Goodness! I never" used a lantern
when I went acourtin"
"That's whv Vm takin' one."
D Cherry Pectoral
It for all diseases of the throat
I aj) lungs. A doctor's medi
vvTfv. cine for 60 years. A household
. remedy everywhere. towwS?;:
Free, $5 worth, 50 green trading
stamps with the following order at
1 lb Chocolate Creams ... . . . . . .' .20c
1 lb Grapes ................... .'.15c
1 doz Oranges .30c
Free, $5 worth, 50 green trading
stamps with the above order at 65c
Free, $8 worth, SO green trading
stamps with the following order at
$1: . .
2 can's Tomatoes 25c
2 cans Peas .25c
2 cans Corn ................... ..25c
2 cans Salmon .25c
Free, $8 worth, 80 green trading
stamps with the nbove order at $1.
Free, $15 worth, 150 green trading
stamps with the following order at
$1.85: ' '
1 bag Flour ..................... 65c
1 lb Best Coffee .................85c
1 lb Best Tea .................. ..60c
f lbs Sugar ; 25c
Free, $15 worth, 150 green trading
stamps with the above order at $1.85.
Free, $10 worth, inn
stamps with the following order at
$1.25. ' t
1 lb Best Butter ........... 30c
t dozen Oranges ......,.." " 30c
1 package Cornstarch io
2 lbs Ginger snaps ......
1 3ar Jelly .i:::".'.: lBe
1 bot Country Club Catsup isG
1 Tumbler Mustard lose
Free, $10 worth, 100 green trading
stamps with the above order at $1.25.
IN INTEREST OF INFANTS.
Patterned Sells City Mills to Mothers
and Records Weight t
Their Babies.
Battersea mothers are taking a lively
interest in the weights of their babies,
A weighing machine has been added
to the municipal milk depot estab
lished by the borough council for th
better feeding of infants. The shell
shaped scales In which the Infants ar
placed are similar to those used ' by
grocers for weighing flour."
At the last fortnightly weighing daj
large numbers of proud mothers com
pared notes after the ceremony.
; One lusty infant, which kicked vig
orously, had gained nearlv two noundi
since the previous weighing day. Th
champion baby, aged eight months,
weighed 28 pounds, and the ' puniest
three-weeks-old infant turned the scal
at six pounds. '
' Municipal milk, sterilized, and human
ized, - is being served to 400 mothers
daily. It is sent, out in neat-looking
cruets, and the total cost of one child'?
daily allowance of six, eight or nine
bottles, according to age, is six cents.
The milk has worked wonders with
the infant health of the neighborhood
The death rate among Battersea infant
has. declined from 710 to 96 ner 1.00(1
since th establishment of the millj
depot. ;
The worth of a library consists iw
the use you make of it, not in the num
ber of books it contains.
There are ten people who watch for
your failures to one who glories in
your success.
Wanted in Wall
shear.
street Lambs t(
YOUNG MEN IN CONGRESS.
;, r -
Ctop of Embryo Statesmen Whos
A sea Ranee front f to S3
Coining: to the Fore.'
"The Fifty-eighth congress will be re
markable for Its membership of young
men, who are notable, not only in point '
of numbers, but conspicuous for ability.
Some 50. members of the new congress
have emerged from kilts since the last
bullet sped at Appomattox. '
"In official and congressional . life,"
Bays Mr. North Overton Messenger, ini
PearFon's, "a man at 40 years of age
is considered young, and the graybeards
look upon the fellows of 35 as mere
striplings; but here comes on a crop of
embryo , statesmen whose ages range
from 28 to '32. Who can say that . a
man who possesses ability enough to
push him through the stirring competi
tion of these times into a seat in con
gress before he is 30 years old, may not
within the next decade take his place
among the most brilliant statesmen ol
the land? 1 .
"With a president in the white house,
who, as the head of the governments .
took' the executive -chair at z
years of-age, there is a following Ol
young men In important positions
throughout the various branches leg
tslatlve, executive and Judicial which
emphatically marks this as the age of
young men. Behind this army of ag
gressive, ambitious, energetic, and com-'
petent men is a eolid backing of expe
rienced legislators, jurists and executive
officers who will furnish the fly-wheeV
the governor to the engine, so to speak.
Next Electoral Collea-e. ! '
The electoral college in 1904 will con
slst of 476 members, which makes 239
necessary to a- choice. ' ' -
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