The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1878-08-27
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DANDY FERGUSON;
Or the Hero OF the Chaparrai Shaft

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Or the Here OF the Chaparral Shaft.
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a,,d nv oSr;os;,u n raaar5 70 h;u was
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"Don't Won know him p. answered tho
man "vhv that's dandy Feronson 7
thouoh ev;rvbodv. knew ,Dandv Feron-
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.,Wbv do Won call him Dandy Ferou.
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aBecans,e- wen. becanse be used n he
4 dandv-a I regular 'ont.a,n' ont snort =
When Dandy Feronson frat came to
this ca,nn he vas . oilt edoed oentleman,
and no mistake. He wore a pluo. an
flashed d spark on his billed shirt front az
bio as a peanut He uut ON more doo'n
a mine Superintendent. an most all the
bows was down on him from the start.
That was about three wears 400. an he
come up here from the Bay to eit Whit
O. fresh air. an make nature an tbe mines
Give him back what he'd lost spreein'
'round with them stock sbarns an vauno
Hoods o. Frisco. No. bedon't look like
he. was morp'n half human, that's fact :
but I'd rather hev them scars O. his than
wear the clothes of the richest man IN
CaIiforny-,het is. eff I'd gone through
what he has an suffered what he did =
Proud of EN-? Mister. thar amt a man
in this yer country-no. sir. nor in this
yer State--as is prouder'n Dandy Fer.
o ouson of what other men might prieye
over an sigh about. an, no mans got a
better right to be proud, either.
3 "When he fust came to Quartz Noun,
tain he used to parade the streets with
his nose cooked up-so he'd hydraulic
himself with pa,chouly an smell.water
till YOU couldn't get within a mile of him
he was delicate looking cuss, an his
hands were as soft as a barber's. The
bovs used to bet that if bio Bridget
Sullivan-our washer.womanSwas to
take it into her head to Jump BIN, she'd
knock spots out o. him in derned short
order. Thet was our opinion of him
when he PLAYED his small cards in :his
yer camp-but he showed down both
bowers an the ace before he quit the
game, you bet yer life,
"D'ye see thet uuartz mill over thar
on the side hill? That's the Chaparral
mine. We know. an it's thar thet Dandy
Ferguson showed us what sand was
One nioht. about a month after Ferpu.
son GOT here. somebody ont there yelled
.F;re = an' the camp turned ont The
histin, works was in light blaze. an
the flames SHOOTING bioh no in the dark
We all rusbed to the snot like a mack O.
mad animals-you know how fire stirs
mon nm an, exc;tes 'em or conrse M.
hodv knew what to do. an, for minnie
we al, stood ,ronnd lookin' At the fire
crssn;n alon o {he caves AN, The h,,rn;nS
shin nrlee dronnin. down tbe shaft Pnrtv
soon some one saws aWhatr kinder
sharn anT aerce like- 3 T6en there was a
l;,,,a movement in tho crowd an, man
With a face as nala as death snringa
. NO, frayn tbe man,h of tbe shaft veIl;S,
fron,;c sWateri water For the love
q, Cod tnrn on the water-the n;oht
sb;ft,s 4, the ;lower drift -There ysas an
awfnl AGONY in that mans voice . he he'd
dc, ronaD barad tbet hia brother vas
down there an' that the fire nnder the
h;ior of tbe a,o;na waa hanked that tho
CAGE was tho heavy 10 work bv hard.
an5 the timbers In, the shaft pitch nine
an, dry as a hone. with great sparks
dronn;n, down like fakes in a snow
storm Yon've heard how fast q man
thinks in times of danger. Jim SEocum
thought of his brother the dry timbers
the ENGINE. the cage. an and water. all in 8
second. but that was all. He didn't hey
time to think of the fact that there wasn'l
a bar,l OF water within a mile of the
mine. Somebody rushed to the tank
there was about tubful of water there
The fire was playin' round the biler, an
the engineer had turned the safety cocks
To LET that ont. We all rushed every
which way yellin' fur ropes. ladders
awnings if ladders could reacl
down two hundred feet to where th,
men was. They was clean gone will
excitement, an didn't know what to do
am the fire roarin' an crackIin' like th,
devils own blaze.
"Some rushed one way an some an
other. while some of them stood starin.
into the hot. black smoke an WALLER fire
dazpd scared helpless Ouicker.n !
takes me to tell It, a man jumped througl
tbe door of the histin' works an caueh
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