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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-09
THIS PARTICULAR BRAND

Their mode of life is absolutely with
out amusement or change except on
Sundays when they get together for
drunk or a church service, the chances
being in favor of the former, as
liquor seems to be always attainable
though the country is no-lioense.
whereas it is not once a month that
wandering preacher comes within
walking distance of the camp. In all
that settlement you will hardly find
half dozen persons who would not
be considered barbarous by the jewellers
in Cherry streets toughest tenement.
The half dozen would be made up of
the superintendent. the head foreman,
the lumber inspector, and the store
men. These are always in peril of
their lives from the jealous hatred of
the lumbermen who recognize their
superiority. But they are a fearle~s
lot-no other need apply-and on the
whole, If trouble ensues they are rather
more likely to kill than to be killed.
Where the enmity is openly avowed
they can take care of themselves but
the lumberman has a puerile habit of
fancying himself offended a some
trivial thing and of treacherously plan
ming the death of the offended. Two
years ago a mountain storekeeper told
one of his cumtOmers that he was all
out OF a certain brand of tobacco.
Later in the evening he found, on a
back shelf, some of the brand and sold
1t to another man. The first Gus
toner, finding this out, conceived the
theory that he had been insulted and
that night when the storekeeper went
out to put up his dog he was fatally
shot. This is a typical case.
The owner of a large tract of tim
Der land in that region told the writer
that one of his minor settlements was
entirely made up of fugitives from
justice. The storekeeper of the camp
entertained the writer one evening with
a running commentary on the GUS
toners who came in. 1t sounded like
a string of fancies at the time, but
later enough was verified to convince
the most skeptical that it was all
true.
Here comes Turner and his three
boys" said the store man. "All sober
tonight. I'm always glad to have my
gun in reach when they come in.
They're from Kentucky way. Got in
to trouble with some neighbOrs there
and got chased out, but not till they'd
burned the other fellows house and
the old woman in it. Evening, Sam.
Pain-killer? There you are. Can't
drink it here, you know. One dollar.
That's right) Is she sick? No more
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-09

Next morning l walked up to find
myself as you see-nothing more than
Poker, but contented to be one. L
have kept my promise with the Fairy,
and am simply the happiest thing
in the world. l don't sit down and
groan because have to poke the fire.
On the contrary, when l am doing
that I'm always thinking how nice 1t
VIII be when / get done and l lean up
against the rack and gaze on all the
beautiful things in the room. al
ways think about the pleasant things.
and if you don't know it, Dormous,
let me tell you that that's the way to
be happy and to make others happy.
Sometimes people think me vain. The
fender told me one night | was the
Nainest creature he ever knew. I'm
not really so. 1 only will not admit
that there is anything or anybody in
the world who is more favored than
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present winter no conviction for muir
der was ever obtained in that country.
The lumberman of that district is
unlike his brother Of the great North
ern woods. He has no taste for the
craft. He is an Indifferent workman
and draws Indifferent wages. Gener-
ally his apprenticeship is due to one
OF two things either he is a fugitive
from justice on account of some kill
ing. in when ne has participated IN a
neighboring state or county, or the
lumber camp has established itself so
near TO his home that he has been
drawn into il by natural tendency to
do what everybody else about him is
doing. His one idea is to get through
the week with the minimum amount
of work and blow in his accumulated
wages on a grand spree. When he is
drunk he wants to kill somebody;
mostly he succeeds, sooner or later.
In the summer the mountain lumber
camp is beautiful because lavish nature
covers everything on those verdurous
slopes with her lovely fancies of climb
ing vine and blowing flower But in
trinsically the camp is as hideous and
hopeless and bare a spot as magma
ton can picture, the true outward ex-
preston of its habitants. To see it
in its true aspect, one must go there
row gauge railway-the private trans
portation plant of the outfit-twisting
and turning trough a hilltop clearing.
At one point in it's course, there is a
little cluster of bare, one-story build
ings surrounding a larger shack. This
large building is the center of the town;
the company's store, the focal point
in the life of the place. From it, as
far as the eye can see along the track
in either direction, stretch the wretched
Ettle houses. sometimes only a few
rods apart, sometimes divided by
quarter of a mile of vacant space.
Enter one of them and you will find
two small rooms: in one a huddle of
rags for bed. in the other tumble
down stove, a table, and a few bat
tered and greasy utensils. From the
platform of the store you would guess
the population of the settlement to be
perhaps one hundred and twenty or
one hundred and twenty-five souls; in
reality it is from eight hundred to
twelve hundred. Those wooden novels
extend for five miles in both directions
and some of them harbor incredible
families The writer has seen one house
of two rooms inhabited by father
mother and eleven children of all sizes
and both sexes; not mentioning sew
eral dogs.
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No, no. no. cried. I'll be con-
tent to be anything you choose if you
will save me from them.
There she said. That's the point.
If you will keep that promise you will
finally be happy. If you will only
look on the bright side of things, re-
Numbering the pleasant and forgetting
the unpleasant, you will be happy. II
you will be satisfied with what you are
and have and not go about swelling up
with envy whenever you see anyone or
anything that has or can do things that
you have not Or cannot do you will be
happy in spite of yourself. VIII you
promise me this?
q" Indeed 1 WILL l said.
Even if I change you into so poor
thing as a Poker?
Yes, said l.
Very we'll, said she. 1T shall be
so. Good night
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-09
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Miss
Ida NJ. Snyder,
Treasurer of the BroskIvn
East End Art Club.

III women would pay more attsntio, :.
their health we would have rnors So. "
wives, mothers and daughters, and Is Ky Ky
would Use more intelligence IN the mate y
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that the doctors prescriptions do not n,-go.-.
tne many cures they are given credit for.
''My life was burden to me tbro,,ob -.
sistent indigestion; anaemia resulted aod - o.,'
friends thought | was an invalid foy H.
Bot | would not give up and when / fo,,0i
that prescriptions would not HELM me-. 80
something else. '''S
in consulting with my druggist h a.
vised McElrce's Wine Of Cardui and TbsS
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have every reason to thank him for a o.,
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-09
BY Elias Lisle.

Copyright, 1902, by Elias Lisle.)
Down the winding mountain path a
small boy. of apparently 10 years,
stepped with the briskness of one about
some important business. We were go
ing up to the lumber camp whence
the boy had come, the writer and the
superintendent of the camp, one of the
biggest camps in Clay county, West
Virginia, which is noted for its vast
timber cuttings and its murder record.
Hello, Billy Judd" the superintend-
ent hailed in friendly greeting.
"Howdy, Mistah Blair" said the
urchin, in the soft mountain drawl.
Where are you off to. Billy, this
busy time of day."
Jus down the road a piece"
What's the matter with your head?"
A neat white bandage circled Billy's
Uranium in the place where his hat
should have rested.
"sib Turley." said Billy laconically.
"You and Sib been fighting?"
Want no nghtin to it, Mistah Blair.
Sib snook" (past tense for sneaD up
benin me an beat me up right peart
with a blackjack. Ben abed foh nigh
onto d week"
You're up now. Why aren't you at
work."
Just heard that Sib was down to
the river" explained the boy. I'm
goin' 10 git him if he is.
What would your father say TO
your knocking off work like this"
"Paw? oh. he give me his gun" (here
Billy produced a revolver half as long
as his ARM an he says: If you don
git Sib Turley, I'll bust the other side
of you head in he says.
That boy was a legitimate product
of the West Virginia lumber camps.
Along the popular crested hills of the
Allegnanies' western slopes there lives
and works a barbarian race. to whom
murder is an ordinary occurrence and
vendetta the only law worth con-
sidering. Men who have been in all
parts of the country, who know the
vicious slums of the great cities and
the wild frontier towns of ''red-eye"
liquor fame. say that for sheer brutal
ity and ferocity the lumbermen of the
little mountainous state are pre-emi-
nent 1t is a fact that Clay county
the great lumber center-has a record
of more brutal murders, mile for mile,
than any other locality in the United
States. 1t is also fact that up to the
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-09

became me, and built themselves a new
house, and of course they had to have
a new Poker to go with it-so l really
live home, you see. with them"
A curious light came into Toms eyes.
Mr.. Poker" said he who was this
boy you used to be?'
Tom" said the Poker.
I'm not Rollo,' roared Tom starting
up.
Nobody said you were" retorted the
Poker. You are Dormy. Tom is Rollo
but. I say, here come the Andirons
and the Bellows"
Tom looked down from the cloud. and
sure enough the three were coming up
as fast as the wind, and in the excite
ment of the moment the little traveller
forgot all about the Poker's story. in
which he seemed himself to have fig
ured without knowing it.
CTo BE Continued)
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-09

CHAPTER V.
The Poker Concludes His story
The Poker Concludes His Story.
1T was just as l feared. said the
Poker "Rollo knew a good thing when
he had TT
I'm satisfied the way things are
now said he I wouldn't change back
and be a Scotch terrier for all the
world
Then the fairy turned to me and
said. I'm sorry, my dear, but If Rollo
won't consent to the change you'll
have to be contented to remain as you
are-unless you'd like to try being an
eagle for awhile
I'm never consent. said Rollo, sell
fishly, though l couldn't really blame
him for it.
Then make me an eagle I said.
Make me anything but what l am
Very WELL said the Fairy. Good
night
Next morning" continued the Polk
er. when l walked up L was cold and
stiff, and when l opened my eyes to
look about me 1 found myself seated
on a great ledge of rock on the side
OF a mountain. Far below me were
tops of the trees in a forest never re-
membered to have seen before, while
above me a hard block wall OF rock rose
straight up for a thousand feet. To
climb upward was impossible; to climb
down equally so.
What on earth does this mean?"
thought /; and then, in attempting to
IL I af I haA hut ttsrc
where the night before 1 had fallen
asleep with four.
"'Am l a boy again?' cried with
delight
NO said a voice from way below
me in the trees. You are now an eagle
and l hope you will be happy.
You never were an eagle, were you,
Dormy?" said the Poker gazing earn
estly into Toms face.
No" said Tom; never. I've never
been any kind of bird"
well, don't you ever be one" said
the Poker, with a knowing shake Of
the head. Its all very beautiful to
think about, but being an eagle is en-
tirely different from what thinking
about it is. / was that eagle for one
whole month, and the life of a Scotch
terrier Is bliss alongside of it. In
the first place 1t was fight, fight, fight
for food. Ut was lots of fun at first
jumping off the crag down a thousand
feet into the valley, but flying back
there to get out of the way of the
huntsmen was worse than pulling a
sled with rusty runners UP a hill a
mile long. Then, when storms came
UP l had to sit UP there on that noun
tain side and take 'em all as they
came. l hadn't any umbrella-eagles
never have-to keep off the rain; and
no walls except on one side, to keep
off the wind, and no shutters to close
up so that couldn't see the lightning.
1t was terrible. All 1 got to eat in
the whole month was a small goat
and chicken hawk, and those / had
to swallow wool, feathers and all Then
/ got into fights with other eagles, and
finally while i was looking for lunch in
the forest. I fell into a trap and was
caught by some men who put me in
a cage so that people could come and
see me-"
Ever been shut up in eager" querieo
the Poker at this point.
No" said Tom. "Only in a DARK
closet"
Never had to stay shut up. though
more than ten minutes. did your
NO" answered Tom; never"
We'll. think of me cooped up in an
old cage for two weeks" said the Pc
ker. THAT was woe enough for a life-
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and she goes about'pale-faced, hollow-eyed
and haggard, piteous contrast to the
blooming health of her former self. But
over 100000 women have found health
again by taking Wine of Cardui. As a
regulator Of the menstrual periods Wine Of
Cardui has never been known to fail. 1t
has seldom failed to restore perfect health,
even in the most persistent and aggravated
cases Of weakness.
Miss Ida NJ. Snyder, of No. 5S5 Bergen
street, Brooklyn, n Y, has used Wine of
Cardui and she says it helped her into a
new life. Health to Miss Snyder is worth
a great deal. She is an attractive young
woman with intellectual attainments and
she occupies the position of Treasurer of
the Brooklyn East End Art club. This
position marks her as person Of intellect,
culture and refinement and it speaks highly
of the respect and trust her fellow women
have in her. She writes
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am. That is ALL If 1 didn't do that 1
might sometime grow a little envious
in spite of myself. AS it is never
do and haven't had an unhappy hour
since / became a contented Poker"
Tom was silent for few minutes af-
ter the Poker had completed his story,
and then he said:
Don't you sometimes feel unhappy
because you are not the boy you used
to be?"
No" said the Poker. II am not be-
cause Rollo makes a better boy than 1
was. He is a contented boy and 1 was
not"
but don't you miss your father and
mother?" queried Tom.
"Of course not" said the Poker, "be-
cause the Fairy was good enough to
have me made into the Poker used in
their new house. My parents moved
away from the railroad just after Rollo
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I'D rather be a tree rooted to the
ground in the midst of a dense forest
than all The eagles in the world said l.
Very Well said she. 1t shall be
so. Good night
In the morning l was a tree-aad
if there is anything worse than being
dog or an eagle, it's being a tree
said the Poker Il could hear process
sions going by with fine bands of music
in the distance, but / couldn't stir a
step 20 see them. Boys would come
along and climb up into my branches
and shake me nearly to pieces. COWS
came ard chewed up my leaves, and
one day the wood-cutters came and
were just about to cut me down when
the Fairy appeared again and sent
them away.
They viii be back again to-mor-
row. she said. DO you wish to re-
main a tree?'
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WINE OF CARDUT WI =! n; 4; !: g.

a satisfied smile. Did you get Sib
Turley?" asked the superintendent.
Nav" responded the scion of the
Judd race. Il didn't git Sib, but 1 got
his brother. Old Turley shot Paws
ear off last night. Reckon we're goin'
to have a right peart feud."
THE one redeeming feature about
it, said the superintendent, sis that
the more these people git each other,
the better it is for the state of West
Virginia and civilization in general"
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time, but it wasn't half what / had
altogether. The other creatures in the
Zoo growled and shrieked all night
long; mere of us ever got a quarter
enough to eat, and several times the
monkey in the cage next to me would
reach his long arm into my prison and
yank out half dozen of my feathers
at once. In fact, l had nothing but
mishaps all the time. AS the Poet
says.
Talk about your troubles,
Talk about your woes,
Yours are only bubbles,
Sir. compared with those.
at the end of two weeks l was near
ly frantic. l don't think / could have
stood it another week-but fortunately
at the end of the month hack came
the Fairy again.
=" How do you like being an eagle?
she said.
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THE TOUGHEST WoRKMEN.
BARBARIsM THAT EXISTS IN LUM-
BIER CAMPS.

Hew the Lumbermen of West Vir-
Einis Slave and Fight and Die, for
the Nest Part, a Violent Death-A
Land of Gun Play and Family
Feuds-other Camps Like the Clay
His story to the Young Reporter.
men Are Fugifives From Justice
and Recognize No Law Save the
vendetts-Graphic Description of
a Typical Camp and Stories of the
Men.
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SAVANNAH ELECTRIC CO.
SUNDAY SCHEDULE.

FOR Isle of Hope, Thunderbolt Mont
gomery. Cattle Park and West End.
Subject to Change Without Notice.
ISLE OF HOPE AND 4OTH STREET,
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THUNDERBOLT SCHEDULE.

HUNDERBOI1T SCHEDULE.
Commencing at ZOO a. M. car leaves
Bolton street junction every 30 min
utes until 2 p. M, after which time car
leaves every 10 minutes.
Commencing at 7:30 a. M, car leaves
Thunderbolt for Bolton street junction
every 80 minutes until 2:25 D. m. after
which time car leaves every 10 min
utes The 10-minute schedule is main
tanned as long as travel warrants it.
WEST END.
The first car leaves for West End al
7;2e a. m, and every 40 minutes there
after until II a. M, after which a car
runs in each direction every 20 minutes
until midnight.
G. o. NAGLE, Manager.
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Is OuC VI the odAucSb Things IN lie
TO see a beautiful young girl Ian
- gushing on bed of sickness, when
she should be strong and healthy, filling
the home with the sunshine of her happy
face. Somehow or other as the mother is
the center of the home, the daughter seems
to be its greatest JOY or its greatest care.
A home with an invalid daughter is like a
hospital. The sufferer with her pale
blanched face calls for every ones care and
sympathy How different is the home
where healthy girl sheds her happy in
fuence and ministers to the comfort of
every one in thousand pleasant ways.
1t is remarkable that SO many women
will forfeit health and then suffer the con-
sequence of pain and sickness when it is
unnecessary. Women who enjoy this
greatest of Natures blessings are liable to
forget that health can be easily lost by neg
lect. They cannot realize that the loss Of
sleep, little cold or irregularity of habits
can result disastrously until they once suf-
fer painful menses. Menstrual troubles are
generally the beginning of women's trou-
bles. The vitality is at low ebb, the
blood weakened, the digestion disordered
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MONTGOMERY.
THUNDERBOLT AND ISLE OF
HOPE

Comrpencing at D. M, car leaves
Thunderbolt every hour for Isle of
Hope until s p. m.
Commencing at $3.50 p. M, car leaves
Isle of Hope every hour for Thunder
bolt until $3.50 p. m.
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Copyright, 1902. by John Kendrick
Bangs.