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Evening star., 1902-01-04

persons. The man Pinder, / doubt not, Is
one of the conspirators Your husband can
not, by himself, spread abroad the story.
He Is, however, an instrument They Keep
him in their tavern under their eyes-he Is
not allowed to go anywhere-so as to make
show of buying his silence. If he were to
speak there would be no possible pretext
for money. He cannot speak, so you say.
Then they must pretend that he can. If I
refuse the money they ask they would first
make pretenSe that your husband was
desperate. If that failed, out of revenge
they would probably spread abroad the
story. They would then turn your husband
into the street"
''Alas, madam, 1t is a very wicked world. -
'It is indeed. Mrs. Fulton. You yourself
have not found it a world of flowers and
music and soft things. You were only
poor and you were therefore left alone.
1t is better to be poor than rich.''
''Nay, madam, but to be miserably poor,
and If one is rich, one can make other peo-
pie happy"
but you are the prey of every adven-
turer. of every rogue. Of every person who
would get your money If he could" Isabel
sighed. And if they find handle they
You know what l did. Mrs. Fulton. The
sin Is on my conscience. / would make
atonement If I could; ! would pay that
debt over and over again If that would suf-
flee. But it will not These men will not
allow it to suffice. The story which would
willingly forget and-oh! SO willingly cause
to be forgotten, if could-these men will
keep alive If they can. Oh! sometimes I
declare to myself that 1 will dare anything
anything that their malice can devise but
that will give them nothing. And at other
times | feel as If no price could be paid too
high for silence, and I pray-oh! 1 pray,
Lord, remember not past years.
SIZE buried her face in her hands.
Madam" said Mrs. Fulton. lit is not
good for a woman to stand alone in the
world. Lay the case before someone, some
good lawyer-if you know such a one
Evening star., 1902-01-04

streak of water. a black dead-line. opened
between them and the shore and the wind
pounded their brittle ice raft to fragments.
Some of the bodies were found, others were
never discovered.
At Dunkirk fifty miles west of Buffalo,
eleven men were similarly caught. A man
residing the shore sighted them, and
after a number of trips with a boat all
were brought safely to land.
At Silver Creek, a village between Buff
falo and Dunkirk, thirty fishermen were A
mile from shore when they suddenly made
the discovery that they were afioat and
were being driven out into the lake. They,
too, were discovered by persons on shore.
A rescuing party was formed, but after
thirteen of the men had been safely landed
the boat met with an accident in the float
ing ice Before the repairs could be made
the darkness of cloudy winter night had
settled upon the water. Thirteen more
men reached shore in the early evening
without aid.
Terrible Suffering.
Word was sent I'm all directions and bon
fires were lighted at different points to
guide the lost in their efforts to make the
land At midnight the remaining four. by
jumping from cake to cake reached the
shore, where they fell exhausted. When
able to speak they told a story of suffering
seldom equaled. After hours of extreme
eXertion one became so weak that he lay
down and told his companions to leave him
to die They dragged him to his feet and
forced him to keep going. Another, in at
tempting to leap a stretch of open water,
fell in, and was pulled out by the others
His clothes soon became so stiff that they
cracked and ratified as he walked. A third
was wearing felt boots, which became so
saturated with water that he was forced
to abandon them and proceed i'm his stock
ing feet. At length all found themselves
completely isolated on a piece of ice not
more than fifteen feet square. As they
watched the widening of the watery bar
Evening star., 1902-01-04

drink himself silly and forget his inten-
tion. Besides, he is too great coward"
IF could believe this of him
Madam tomorrow morning I will speak
to him. ] will tell him that he is living
this moment on your bounty. He is too far
gone IN drink to be grateful-no one, to be
sure, ever saw gratitude and tipsiness to-
gether-but he can understand where his
shilling a day comes from.
With this assurance Isabel had to go
away. 1t was not much comfort, because
she had little faith in the influence of his
wife-who can influence a man always in
liquor? A drunkard is beyond the power
of reason and common sense, still it was a
great relief to be told that it not by
her own misdoing that this family fell into
failure and ruin.
The wife had no influence; reason and
common sense were powerless as you shall
hear.
In the morning the man awoke with the
customary thirst upon hinl--a colossal, in
vincible, impenetrabie, overwhelming, ire
Sistible thirst; his mouth was flied with
dust and ashes; his lips trembled, his hand
shook The symptoms were of daily oc-
currence; they vanished with the first draft
of small ale, for which. as rule, he had
to wait until, with his shilling. he could get
out into the street. This morning, how
ever, he was astonished to find that tank
ard-a large brown george-awaited him,
full of the liquor for which he was faint
ing and suffering. He seized the mug, and
with an eager grasp drank off about pint
at draft, setting 1t down and looking
around with sigh of relief inexpressibIe.
Husband said his wife, you are better
for your drink. Very well. There is
something | have to say. Listen, now, be-
fore you drink any more. The first draft
clears your brain, l suppose; the next
makes it muddy.
Go on, them he listened. but he grasped
the jug and looked longingly into the cool
and brown contents. Go on, quick;
want mora
Il hav. low la~-ned the name of the lady
Evening star., 1902-01-04

puts up square of sail-cloth which he has
brought along fastening it to two poles set
in the ice. This is his camp. In the lee of
it the dogs crouch, nesting close together.
Their work is over for the time: the mans
has just begun. With his steel-cIad pole he
chops row of holes in the ice, and lets a
line attached to the end of one of two
crossed sticks down through each hole.
This device is known as tip-up." the
term appropriately describing its action
/. when a fish is caught. The inducement to
the fish is minnow-frozen perhaps-but
food is scarce In winter and there is con-
siderable competition among the pike at
breakfast time. Before he gets the third
line down the first stick waggieS and then
stands upright.
"Yip zip, yap!" bark the dogs that being
their way of announcing You've got a
fish, They are interested because an oc-
casional bit falls to their lot
Removing squirming fish from an ice
incrusted hook when the fingers are so
numb that they couldn't pick up twenty
dollar gold piece is no pleasant sport, but
it must be accomplished. Hardly is this
one Hopping In the box sled when another
tip-up performs after its kind. If the
angler has had the luck to strike a school
of fish, he will be kept warm-an but his
Misunderstanding from one line to another.
The gulis Will give him some occasion, also.
ETnboldened by hunger they swoop down
upon the little encampmeQt and snatch
fish almost from the hand of the fisher
man, unless they are closely watched.
cases nave oeeI known WneTe tne uraugnt
dogs have caught and killed these graceful
robbers. A hundred fish in half days
work is considered good luck. and the man
who makes the catch may pack up and go
home In high spirits. Then how the pIucky
dogs speed over the smooth stretchesi I'm
less checked they will take hummock ice
and snow drifts In their eagerness to get
home, and the hard-won load win be scat
tered for the gulls to pick up
Told of Had Catch.
Not always has the fisherman a load to
bring home Sometimes he may fish all
day and take nothing but q wriggiing red
lizard. edible only for the winged thieves.
Or he may have just begun his catch when
blue gray haze appears far away toward
the horizon and he must upstakes ana flee
before the blizzard that, at one swoop.
may wipe away the trail and leave him
Evening star., 1902-01-04

lost In the Sahara Of snow and Ice II
the storm be wind alone, Il may be n boon
instead of a danger to the outfit. for the
shelter cloth Is converted into a sail and
the sled. now become an icerboat. scuds
swiftly along, while the dogs rush barking
with the joy of freedom beside Il.
Blizzards are the terror OF fishermen.
who VIII tell you stories OF terrible suf-
ferine and hopeless wanderings through
the binding storm, stories Of wonderful
rescues and tales OF men who went out
and never came back. OF how the instinct
of the dogs has been resorted 10 as the
last means of finding the way home: OF
how this, too, has sometimes proved un-
aNailing and the dogs have crouched whin-
ing ana shtvering I'm the drifts. refusing
to move. You will hardly find an old fsh-
erman but has some such tale to tell usu-
ally about one OF his own family.
You mind my nephew. Charley? Fine.
big. strong feller he was, but he was
young an he thought he knew IL all
Wouldn't put back. last year when
the big Febooary blizzard come up.
Luck, Luck was too good. he said. lie
ter. They ran away an got home alive.
We didn't find Charley that winter. but
when the ice broke up two of the boys
found man an a sled frozen in a big
piece. From the clothes we thought 1t
was Charley. You couldn't tell by the
face. count OF the gulls. He must have
got muddled and wandered way out be-
yond the furthest fishing posts"
Tells Way by Compass.
The wise man always carries a compass
in his pocket, but there are many careless
and improvident ones who do not think
of it until the time when they would ex-
change everything they possess for a wob-
bly,. nervous little needle IN a brass box
There a March night last year when
the weather-wfse among the Buffalo fish
ermen looked out over the wind-swept ice,
shook their heads pulled their caps down
tight and then sought shelter indoors.
Those who did go out kept close to the
breakwater. At various points along the
south coast, some, more Nenturesome,
less experienced, braved the storm and
went out among the white swirls that
sprang up suddenly here and there, spin
ming about like whirling deryishes and then
darting off in binding columns before tho
whip Of the wind. Ere night one OF these
parties was caught like fish in a net. A
Evening star., 1902-01-04
Comments on Cider

ffom the spectator.
good deal has been said of late in the
English press in regard to the question of
cider. For ourselves, we believe that an
increased consumption Of cider in substitu-
ton for that Of beer, cheap wines and spir-
its would be most beneficial to the commu-
nifty. But, as was pointed out by one of
the writers, cider is of many kinds and
there is. bad as well as good cider. When
men drink bad wine and are made i'll. they
do not say that wine does not suit them.
but that sour wine, or sweet wine or some
particular brand of wine is poison to them.
In the case of "apple wine,' man who
has blindly taken bottle of badly made
or adulterated cider, when he Is made III
condemns all cider as poison to him. What
Is wanted Is classification in elders as In
wines. People should distinguish between
the makers Of cider and the kinds of cider.
as they do between champagne and claret,
or, again, Perrier-Jouet and Mumm 1t is
a pity there are not cider merchants as
there are wine merchants, who would sse-
lect the best brands. and deal with all the
makers and growers so as to be able to
match exactly their customers require
ments. Another matter of great import
ance Is the need of attending to our
orchards. Unless we do that 1t is useless
to think of making really good cider.
dirty process will make bad cider out of
good apples, but the cleanest and most
scientific methods will not make really fine
cider out of poor and badly grown apples.
Evening star., 1902-01-04
Hard Lives Of the Lake Erie Fisher
men,
LONG SLED RIDES TO FISHING BANKS
Grisly Experiences Told by Vet
eran Hands.
GOOD LUCK SOMETIME S

Written for The Evening Star.
When winter seals the streams and lakes
the follower of old Isaak Walton puts away
his tackle and sighs regretfully because
his season of sport is over. But for the
lake fishermen. who follow angling not as
a sport, but as livelihood the period OF
bitter labor and hardship sets in when the
ice forms :hick from shore to shore. Peo-
pie must have their fish In winter in
summer, and SO the winter fishermen of
Lake Erie, hardy Bedouins of the white
desert. face constant suffering and the i'm
minent peril of life and limb to fill their
little dog sleds for the market. The lake
ports are fun of men who lack an ear. a
few fingers, or a foot. The explanation is
simple. Lost on the ice over night"
Sometimes it is more grisly fate, and the
victim is not discovered untn the ice breaks
up in the spring. and some floating island
touches the shore with its ghastly freight.
They must needs be brave men as well as
hardy who handle the frozen line on Lake
Erie's surface.
1t is 5 oclock of a still January morning
The therm"mets' marks seven below Zero
Evening star., 1902-01-04

riers around them hope fled, and the men
looked into each others faces. as they
waited for death. While they waited the
wind yeered around and set In more toward
land, the open space was closed up and by
one last, almost superhuman. effort the
sick, stiff and shivering group staggered to
shore. Two died from the effects of the
exposure and suffering.
And what is the compensation for such
hardship?
1t varies from a few cents to as high as
six and even seven dollars per day. Or,
mayhap, il is nothing but bad cold and a
frozen ear. There are two fish companies in
Buffalo which handle the bulk of the catch
Each concern handles about a ton OF fish
every day. They pay cents per pound
and take all that is offered. Some of the
men have customers in the city from whom
they get the retail rate OF 12 and IA cents,
but the time spent in peddling them about
OFFSETS the difference i'm price, so that most
OF the catch is turned over TO the dealers
These companies also furnish bait con-
sisting of minnows at 10 cents per pint.
The bait question is sometimes a problem.
especially on Sundays and holidays. when
over a thousand men go out The compa-
nies get the minnows in bushei baskets,
and the source of supply is. as far as pos
sibie, kept secret.
just Dogs Generally.
The most important part of the fisher
mans outfit is his dog team. Dogs of every
size. style and description are used; some
are fine fellows and well mated. The great
majority, however, are just dogs. There
are no adjectives to describe them tech
nically, for the clairvoyant does not live
who could trace the pedigree or name the
breed. Shaggy. disreputable-looking brutes
these are. There Is little style or attempt
at matching of yoke-fellows. either as to
size or color. Anything with hair on that
can bark and pull is acceptable.
As the mercury falls the dog market
rises. and in February shows q strong,
bullish tendency. A dog sale Is q remark
able sight The merchants are sharp fell
lows and clever jockeyers. and their re-
marks regarding the pulling qualities ana
sprinting propensitfes Of some hulkinx
homely brute OF uncertain extraction and
ownership which they are trying to sell to
the fishermen would make horse trader
feel like kindergartener.
Evening star., 1902-01-04
synopsIs Of Preceding Chapters.

Mrs. Isabel Weyland. widow. Is threatened With
the debtors prison. Her chief creditor, Mrs.
BTymer. suggests way out Of the difficulty
marriage with imprisoned debtor, who for
psltry will assume Mrs Weyland's debts
also. He proves to be a Young lawyer, Mac
nanara, who, through no fault OF his own. mas
fallen into dire straits. Mrs. Weyland. In pity
pays his small debt sets him free and agrees
TO marry a negro condemned TO die In three
days. She then retires In poverty to country
life. but later falls heiress to large fortune
and becomes a social queen in London Here
she meets Mcnamara. hourishing bar
rster, who pledges himself TO her service anu
is most attentive to her. to the anger OF her
brother-in-law. Lord StTatherrick. Mrs "ey-
land takes as secretary Alice Fulton. daughter
Of a former creditor. Stratherrick learns OF
her marriage to the negro through Miss Fulton S
father a worthless specimen. He then caiis
upon his sster-inlaw and attempts blackmah'
proposing that she pay 500 to him to keep tho
former creditor oIiet.
Evening star., 1902-01-04

If know such an one But 1 am
ashamed"
"Yes-but lawyers do not talk. Find such
; an one, madam, entreat you, and lay the
whole case before him. You will be sup
ported; you will be relieved; Oh! you will
be so much happier. Find such a man and
tell him all'
Evening star., 1902-01-04
Not There.

From the Catholic Standard and Times.
ITS the old. old story" said Kwoter.
Truth lies at the bottom OF a well, you
know"
Yes: unless It happens to be an oil well"
Evening star., 1902-01-04
EARLY to Bed, Early to Rise.


Frum the Brooklyn Eagle.
Mr.. Gotham-"i suppose you suburban.
ties get up with the lark?"
Mr.. Easypayments (of LonelyvilIe)
We not only get up with the lark, but we
60 to bed with the lark"
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1902-11-27
The Heppner Gazette
IRRIGATION CONVENTION.


ventjon closed it's two days session
Wednesday afternoon. The conven-
ton laid the foundation for Oregon
securing its portion of the National irrf-
CATION fund. 1t brought together repre-
sentative men from all parts of the
state; men engaged in rival pursuits,
antagonistic in political feuds, and
opposed in every possible way to each
other, yet the common cause for irrga-
ton not only prompted them 10 bury
whatever animosi'ies that may have
been felt, but has succeeded in creating
more friendly feeling and erased many
of the old prejudices of one class aga nst
the other.
For one thing, the cattlemen of Cen
trail and Eastern Oreson, who have been
represented as being bitterly opposed to
the settlement Of vacant lands, as it cut
short their ranges, dispelled that long
standing idea by clasping hands with
the other delegates and taking a leading
and active part IN proceedings that MI
result in settling and irrigating the lands
over which their herds now range. 1t
was supposed they would almost oppose
the settlement of these lands at the
point of the gun. On the contrary, they
invite the settler; they need him,
They want him to raise fodder plants on
the arid lands, 50 that their herds can
be fed and fattened at home for the
market.
Another courlons fact was to see the
sheepmen and cattemen who are at
swords points on the ranges, working
side bv side on the most friendly terms
in the convention. Men, too, of radical
political beliefs, who have knitted each
other upon every possible occasion,
worked together, carefully avoiding
those things that might arouse personal
preiudices. Several times the slumber-
ing fires seemed likely TO burst forth
but the good sense of ihe convention
always quickly turned the tide at the
critical point
Thus it is that the cause OF irrigation
has made the different classes better
acquainted. engendered more friendly
feelings. and crystalized Influences that
will increase Oregon's population and
wealth in rapid manner.
The labors of the convention resulted
in a legislative committee being ap
pointed to frame better law, perma
uent organization that will present the
claims of the different counties anC
secure Government aid, and that, too
without in any way interfering will
private companies already in the field
The next semi-aunual meeting will b
held in Baker City the first Monday 1
June. 1908. and TIE next annual neetin
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1902-11-27

A nugget valued at 5000 was
displayed at Sumpter Saturday by
Jack Hazelwood. a well known
mining man. He stated that it
came from the Silver creek placers,
about seven miles from Sumpter.
Its shape is that OF a cobble stone
worn smooth by contact with flow
ing water. Some quartz was mixed
with the gold.
Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1902-11-27

in Pendleton the second Monday of No
vember, 1902.
The full list of officers and committees
are as follows:
Presidential. II. Devers, Multnomah.
Vice e.President-W. r. King, NAL
heur.
Second Vice e-President-H. f. Ank-
eny, Lane.
observation-disclosures NJ Moore, Multno-
nah.
Assistant Secretary e. p. Dodd,
Umatila.
Executive Committee-A Fl. Devers,
Multnomah; w. Il. King, Malheur; ii.
f. Ankeny, Lane; Henry Hahn, Mutt
nomah; George Chandler, Baker; |. w.
Hope, Malheur; M f. Brink, Crook
f. NJ. Brannick, Multnomah; f. J. Fra
zier. Lane; Samuel Connell. Multnomah.
Committee on Press and Publicity
Ernest Bross, Multnomah; L. n. Ligget
Crook; w. C. Cowgirl, Baker; w. B.
Sargent, Union; w. A. Laidlaw, Multi
nomsh.
Committee on Legislation = Ssm
White, Baker; T. II LafolIe,te, Crook ;
f. NJ. Metcalfe, Malheur +. J. Frazier,
Lane; f. s. Bramwell, Union; w. d.
Moore, Sherman; Milo P. Ward, jack
son :; c. s. smith. Umaiilla; f. H. John
son, Wasco; J. A. Johnson, Wheeler ;
&. f Jones, Lincoln; r. Scott, Clacka
mas; NJ. Fitzgerald, Harney; A. c..
Masters, Douglas; Frank Davev Mar
ion; f. S. Phillips, Klamath; Seneca
Smith, Mutnomah.
The meeting of the legislative commit
tee was short, leaving the work to the
working committee of three that was ap.
poioted. The minutes IF the meeting
as taken by +. j. Frazier as secretary
were as follows:
"Pursuant to call, the legislative com
mittee of the Oregon Irrigation Assocla
ton met at the Imperial Hotel Novem
Der 10, 1902, for the purpose OF organlz
inc. On motion Nr. Samuel White, o
Baker Comfy. was elected chairman
and f. J. Frazier, OF Lane County, sec
reta,y. On motion the following sub
committee was unanimously elected tC
formulate legislation for the promotion
of irrigation development in Oregon
Samuel White, Of Baker; Milo 2. Ware
Of Jackson. and f. J. Frazer, of Lane
It was moved and carried that when the
committee adjourned it would be t
meet again at the call OF the chairman
either as whole or as subcommittee
The minutes were read and adopted
On motion the committee adjourned.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-18
LEcTURED TO LADIES.
Miss Monasmith Entertained Large
Audience at G. l.. A. Hall.

Miss Monasmith Entertained Large
Audience at C. l.. A. Hall.
Miss Monasmith of Chicago, repre-
senting the viavi Company of that city.
delivered the first of her public lectures
in the Catholic Library Hall yesterday
afternoon. There was large attend
ance of ladies, who constituted the en-
tire audience. as the lectures are de-
livered only to women.
This afternoon at o'clock the sec
ond and concluding lecture will be de-
livered at the same hall. So greatly
enjoyed was that of yesterday that 1t is
certain that to-day's will secure a large
attendance. No admission charge is
made, though the interest is such as
would seem to warrant it. The lee
lures are designed to influence women
toward the perfection of physical life.
Pharmaceutical supplies are sold by
the company Miss Monasmith repre-
sents, and arrangements will be made
by her for their disposition in Sa-
vannah by some lady whom she will
interest in the work.
Several private lectures have been
delivered by Miss Monasmith to the
Kings Daughters. At the meeting of
the union yesterday, so pleased have
the Kings Daughters been with the
lectures, a plan was formed to have
Miss Monasmith lecture Thursday af-
ternoon at Westminster Church, when
a percentage of the proceeds will 60
to the union.