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footballs departing.
Show bit o. that jibi
The words were now blurred by the
greater. distance. Saul listened Tor the
creak and rattle of the sail running up
the stays, but heard nothing.
"Sau-au-l-I"
The long cry c1rne as from far on
beating it's way against the Wlho'
muffied by the snow between
That was the last.
Now. the man was stripped to his
strength-to his naked strength: 10 MS
present store of vigor and heat ana
nutrirnent, plenteous or depleted, as
might be- He was stripped of rudder
and sail. 1t was a barehanded fight
strength to strength. Escape was by
endurance-by enduring the wind ana
the waves and the cold until such time
as the seas passion wasted Itself ana
she fell into that ripping, sunny mood
In which she gathers strength for new
assault. Even now it was as though the
fragments of ice over which he was
aimlessly leaping tried to elude him.
to throw him Off. So he cast about for
better position-for place on some pan
which would be like wall to the back
of an outnum bered man. After time
he found pan, to which three men had
already fed. He had to swim part way;
but they helped him up, for the pan
was thirty ISel Squdiei dAiu thS4S W Wac
room for him.
BE it you, Samuel?" said Saul.
'Iss, tits Ian Matthew Weather and
Andrew Butts"
Saul took his jacket to wiring it out.
Were it you, Matthew. by" he said,
making ready to put 1t on again, were
it you Jumped on me back-out there?''
Sure, an doan't know, Saul. Maybe
'twere. 1 forgets. 'Twere terrible-out
there"
..Iss. ,twere, by. were just avon
derin'"
They sat down-huddled in the mid
die of the pan: the snow eddied over
and about them and left drifts behind.
Soon the pack vanished over the short
circumference of the sight. Then small
waves began to break over the pan to
windward. The water rolled to SauPs
shoes and Tapped them.
How many does you leave Z hoame,
Matthew" said Saul.
Nine, Saul"
Sure by" Matthew's brother, Sam
uel, cried, impatiently. you forgets the
baby 'Tis ten, by, countin' the baby"
''Oh. iss-'tis true!" said Matthew.
"Countin' the last baby an little Billy
Tuft, tits ten. were q foster father t
little Billy. Iss-'tis ten l left. 'Tis
quare / forgot the baby"
1t was queer, for he loved them all.
and he had a doctor from Tilt Cove for
the last baby. Maybe the cold was to
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AN HEgHZZL
HIS 4 ShAION

She was scraping through the ice, leav-
ing it behind her, faster and faster yet.
The blind crowd amidshiDs plunged
along with her, all the while losing
something of their position.
Steady, John, by" said Saul. For
ard, there-underl the quarter
Iss, Saul Oh, make haste!"
In moment they were under the
forward quarter, standing firm on a
narrow pan of ice, waiting for the
drift OF the schooner TO bring the rail
within reach When that time came
saul caught up the lad and lifted him
nigh. But she was dragging the men
who clung to her. They were now
within arms reach OF John. Even as
ne drew himself up a hand was raised
10 catch his foot. Saul struck at the
arm. Then he felt a clutch at his own
ankle-a grip that frightened. He look
ed down. His foot was released. He
saw hand stretched up and stopped
to grasp it; 1t was suddenly with
drawn. The face of a man wavered
in the black water and disappeared.
was as near as oil Bill Anderson had
come to salvation.
Then the fight was upon him. A
man clambered upon his back. He felt
his foothold inking-tipping sinking.
But he wriggled away, turned in a
rush OF terror to defend himself and
grappled with this man. They fell to
the ice. each trying to free himself
from the other: their weight was dis
tributed over a wider surface of frag-
ments, so they were borne up while
they fought. The rest trampled over
them. Before they could recover and
make good their footing the ship had
drifted past. They were cut on from
her by the open water in her wake.
She slipped away like a shadow,
wagner grew, and vanished in the
swirling snow. But a picture remain
ed with Saul-that of lad, in a cloud
Of snow, leaning over the rail, which
was shadow. with his mouth wide
open in a cry, which was lost in the
tumult of wind and hoarse voices, and
with his hand stretched out; and he
knew that John was aboard and
would come safe to Ragged Harbor.
"For'ard, there - stand by. some o.
youi"
1t was the skipper's voice. ringing in
the white night beyond. There was an
answering trample, like the sound Of
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blame for that forgetfulness.
You leaves mOare'n me, Matthew,
said Saul Il leaves oan'y one.
The snow cloud darkened. Night had
crept near. The shadow overhung the
pan. More. the wind had a sweep over
open water, for the pack was now
widely distributed. Larger waves ran
at the pan. momentarily increasing in
number and height. One swept it-a
thin sheet of water. curling from end
to end. Then another; then three in
quick succession, each rising higher.
'Iss-a lass, bent she?" said Matthey,
taking UP the talk again.
"A girl. Matthew" said Saul. "A
girl" he repeated, after a moments
silence, Just wee bit of a girl 'Tis
like John1I look after she"
"Oh, sure. b'y-sure! 'Tis like John
will"
'1rhat Iass,r said Saul. Does you
think he'll give she music lessons-that
wee thing?"
in the church [ Hagged Harbor-when
they gets one. She'll be growed up
then
'Iss, maybe" said Saul.
There was a long time in which no
word was spoken. A wave broke near
and rose to the waists of the men. No
one stirred.
Does they Farn you about-about-
how t goa about eatin' t Saint
John's?" said Saul. "All about-knives
an forks?"
"Eh, b'y?" said Matthew, spurring
himself TO attend.
II always thought I'd like she Z know
about they things-when she grows w"
said Saul.
Soon he stood up, for the waves
were rising higher. In the words OF
the Newfoundlander. he stood up to
face the seas. The others had so far
succumbed to cold and despair that
they sat where they were. though the
waves, which continuously ran over
the pan, rose, from time TO time, to
their waists. 1t was night; the man s
world was then no more than frozen
shadow, pitching in space all black
and writhing; and from the depths Of
this darkness great waves ran at him
to sweep him off-increasing in might.
innumerable, extending infinitely into
the night.
Then a giant wave delivered its as
sault; II came ponderously-lifted itself
high above his head, broke above him,
fell, beat him down; II swept him back,
rolling him over and over, but he
caught a ridge of ice with his fingers.
and he held his place. though the wa
ters tugged at him nightly. He recov-
cred his first position, and again he
was beaten down; but again he rose to
face the sea, and again a weight Of wa
ter crushed him to his knees. Thus
three more times without pause; then
a respite. in which II was made known
to him that one other had survived.
BE 1t you, Matthew" said Saul
"Noa-'tis Andrew Butts. 1 be fair
done out, Saul"
Saul gathered his strength to con-
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Back, men! She'll goa clear O. The
shoal!"
That was the skipper. They could
see him standing with his back to the
gale and his hands in his mouth.
Beyond, in the mist of snow, the
schooner lay tossing; her ropes and
spars were a web and her hull was a
shadow.
Back! Back"
There was zigzag, plunging race for
the schooner = for more life for the
hearth fires of Ragged Harbor and the
lips of wixes and the clinging fingers
of babies which swan, as in a golden
cloud, in the snow the wind was
driving over the deck. The ice went
abroad. The pack thirined and fell
away into it's fragments, which then
f1oated free in widening gaps of sea-
The way back was vanishing-even the
sinking way over which they had come.
Old James Moth, the father Of eight,
mischose the path; when he came to
the end he teetered for a space on two
small cakes, neither of which would
bear him, and when his feet had
forced them wide he fell back and
was drowned. Ezra Bull, he who had
married pretty Mary O. Brunt Cove
that winter, missed his leap and fell
between two pans, which swung to-
getter with crushing force in the
trough of the lop; he sank without
cry when they went aboard.
1t was then perceived that the
schooner had gathered way and was
drifting faster than the pack through
which she was pushing. AS the ice
fell away before her her speed in
creased. The crew swerved to head
her off, 1t was now a race without
mercy or reproach. AS the men con-
verged upon the schooner's side their
paths merged into one-a narrow,
shifting way to the ice in her Leland
1t was in the encounters Of that place
that three men lost their lives. Two
Of them tumbled to their death locked
in each others arms, and one was best
ed and flung down.
When Saul and John. the last Of all,
came to that one patch of loose ice
where the rail was within reach
crowd of seven was congested there,
and, with brute unreason, they were
fighting for the first grip. So fast was
the schooner slipping away there was
time left for four, at most, to Chamber
aboard.
Saul! Saul! She'll slip away from
we"
She was drifting faster The. loos-
ened pack divided before her prows.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-28
CREATED WEALTH.

Something from nothing-a garden
from a desert. Such is the history of ir-
rigated sections. Take land that sells for
fifty cents an acre, put water on it, and
it sells for-what? There are quarters of
land in irrigated sections of Colorado
that cannot be purchased for $50, 900 90
and which earn a numerative interest on
that valuation.
And yet you can purchase irrigated
lands where the soil is perfect beyond
belief where the water supply is plenti-
ful and inexhaustible, where climatic
conditions are healthful and exhilarat-
ing, where fuel is abundant and cheap,
for from SIS an acre up.
THE REASONS.
The North Platte Valley, extending
from Bridgeport, Nebraska, to Guernsey,
Wyo., and the Big Horn Basin, Wyo.,
have been but recently made available
for settlement b. the extension of the
Burlington Railroad into those sections.
The Irrigation Companies must have
settlers along their bitches and they offer
substantial inducements in the shape OF
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-28
NEBRASKA'S HISTORY

in
spton Nebraska regular So Write
Worlds St
3H4s Howard ST., Omaha Nebraska,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-28
Attention
FarmerS-,.--,,.

Why remain in the North
and stay in doors six months in
the year consuming what you
raise during the other six
months?
Go South where you can work
out doors every month i'll the
year, and where you are pro-
ducing something the year
round. If you are a stock raiser
You know your stock are now
eating their heads off" and,
besides, have to be protected
from the rigors of winter by
expensive shelter.
Economical stock feeding re.
quires the combination of both
flesh-forning and fat-forming
foods in certain proportions.
Alabama and Florida produce
i'll abundance the velvet bean
and cassava, the first flesh
producer, and the latter a fat
producer, and they are the
cheapest and best fattening ma
terials known to the world.
More money can be made and
with less labor, in general farm,
ing, fruit and berry growing
and truck gardening along our
road in the South than in any
other section of the Union.
If you are interested and de
sire further information on the
subject, address
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-28

they looked about like 80 cents
and felt like they had had a
dollars worth of ride. They
were taken to the next station by
the man who received them and
was forwarded to Canada while
their hunters were barking at
the wrong hole.
There was a dakie in our coun-
ty who had escaped from bond
age by some means and settled
down a few miles from Winches-
ter. He was in the habit Of
taking a little huge" now and
then during which he abused his
family quite a good deal. He
was kind of a doless fellow but
managed to have little for his
family to eat and such clothes as
most people would not wear even
in those days. People generally
went to mill then on horseback
taking their "grists" and waiting
till it was ground, and ifait was
wheat they would take an empty
sack along to get the bran. One
day this Mig" briddled his old
gray mare and putting on ri
bushels of wheat he went to tue
mill at Winchester. While wait
ing for his grinding he got pretty
we'll "shot" and returning to the
mill began to find fault with the
miller for not giving him enough
of bran, so the miller filled his
sack full and told him if he
would pull off his breeches he
would fill them too with bran.
The fellow was just drunk enough
to think he was getting the best
end of the bargain, hauled off
his pants, tied the bottom of the
legs and had them filled up.
When he got home he was just
little chilly as it was a little be-
low the freezing point and his
whiskey had about died in him.
Not long after this he was advised
that it might be better to leave
that neighborhood as his old mast
er might come after him he would
not have had much if he had got
him. While this advice was
given him by some of the officers
of the Underground Railroad,
they did not offer him transport
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-28
The Revival Meetings.

Meetings continue at the M. E.
church. A number have been
converted and several added to
the church. Prof. C. S. Colburn
is with us and is adding greatly
to the interest and helpfulness of
the meetings. am told that
there never has been a finer in
depreciation of gospel song in
the city than he is giving. Sum
day at 3 p. IN. he will conduct a
parents meeting. Meetings will
probably continue next week.
We urge you to come to these
meetings and to Christ.
GEO. p. TRITEs, Pastor.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-28

r. ]. Chambers, Ed. Vindica-
tor, Liberty, Texas, writes Dec,
Is, 1902: with pleasure and
unsolicited by you, bear testi-
mony to the curative power of
Billiards. Horehound Syrup.
have used it in my family and
can cheerfully affirm it is the
most effective and pleasantest
remedy for coughs and colds
have ever used" Csc, soc and
S1.0O. Sold by Ed. McComas,
Broken Bow and Merna.
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and perhaps so miles long and
was noted for the richness of its
soil and its heavy coat of timber.
These sturdy darkies were at
tracted to this part of the coun-
try on account of the cheaper
land and they settled in the
thick woods and in a few years
the country where they were
blossomed like the rose. The
older ones were not educated and
the way they did bring their
southern language or brouge in
to use was a fright. One old
fellow would say to his son,
"Dick did you carry dat boss
down to water" another would
say when they were going to
haul big log lit jist aint with
while to carry two bosses to dat
log" There were two brothers
of the older set who were Baptist
preachers but they did mighty
like a little of what we would
call North Carolina "moon-shine"
or Kentucky "overjoyful, y which
one Of the ministers declared
made him feel so "storng in de
land" but with all that they were
for education and several of the
younger ones became eloquent
preachers and lawyers who did
not need any of the spirit spoken
of above. They were friends of
their enslaved brethren and at
one time when a runaway came
along and took shelter with one
OF the old preachers, who know
ing that the pursvrers were near
took the black fellow and put
him in a large barrel and headed
him up and when the hunter
made his appearance to look in
to the preachers house for his
slave the old man said, Eyes hunt
all you want to" and turning to
his boy about II years old who
was onto his job, ''Dick you take
that barrel out there and roll it
TO the barn and when you get it
there take the head out and set
it up for the old Charly boss to
eat hay out OF" The boy went
rolling the barrel along but he
was not in a hurry to take the
woody head out of it, so when the
other fellow was gone the old
man went to the barn opened the
barrel and said to the darkie,
you look like a boss, the drake
said why" Because l see you
have been rolling, now shake
yourself aud I'll think you are a
hoss." So he crawled out shook
himself to the entire satisfaction
of all concerned, went to the
house, was fed and clothed and
sent on to Canada without any
suspicion that he was a boss,
mule or jack or even that he
was runaway niger, so well
was he dressed and behaved.
Of course when he was placed at
the disposal of the officers and
operators of the Underground
his idenity was known or they
knew at sight what species he
belonged to.
(TO RE CONTINITED. J
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-28
Mems Meeting.

The mems meeting at the
Gymnasium Sunday afternoon
will be addressed by H. Lomax.
The song service begins at 3:45.
Men only.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-28

Her marvellous growth in
fifty years from first settle
ment, A true and interest
ing book of I44 pages and
over 200 illustrations of
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-28
G. A. PARK,

Oen'l, immigration and In
dustriai Agent, L oulsVlll9
& Nashville r, r, Co..
Louisville, Ky.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-28
low priced water rights and lands.

HOW LONG WILL THIS CONDITION
CONTINUE?
None may say surely, but it won't be
for long, and the sooner you invest the
cheaper will you be able to do so, for the
advance is Just as sure as has been the
advance in the price of similar lands in
other sections.
For further information write to
J. Francis,
General Passenger Agent,
Burlington Route,
33-36 Omaha, Nebr.
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boge til Eripatlipet og np6e 6rugter>
nc al fit Mr6ei6e, og / Sen Mnleoning
fiebte ban set gamle Sbott'ife @erre=
lnoe GbQrlottcnllt110 pes Oito6, me1t
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lcr mes Nnglt % @rpen poo 0e11l1e
@cillttning.
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Gjen9jalb al Sen spiritus, iom ipen,
oable, 'urge, blegfe6e @jeiter .pil ofre
pna Sfignbe0e1ns Mlter.
De fjebenbopnif : omerifanlfe
"Sor"s 'berer til set ufruot, ser gror
I Ell ltor 8p, og iom 6esperre er pon=
ifeligt at l11ge bort.
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