The Forrest City times., 1904-11-25
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 II the small settlement in the heart of the mountains through an accident of fate. evidently from some large cen ter, for his knowledge of country life and ways were limited, and it took him quite number of years even to partially assimilate with the people
 Hendrick lived lonely life and was reticent as to his own affairs.
 He began by making shelves and bits of furniture out of the beautiful and varied woods of the forest to furnish the dilapidated cottage he leased from its owner, old Schencks, who had gone away, being supposed to be connected with the illicit whisky trade
 Then Hendrick gradually became a cabinet-maker of considerable renown all through that remote section of the country, for he developed wonderful skill at the work
 There was something as foreign about Hendricks air and manner as there was in the shape and eonstruc- tion of his chairs, sofas, cabinets and other pieces of furniture, which he sold readily enough to the tourists and summer visitors who came to the mountains and crowded the hotels for at least two months of the year, for Hendricks work was as strange as it was beautiful
 During the long winter months when bleak winds and snowstorms kept the people indoors, when the forests were bare, the fields brown and the trick ling mountain streams were frozen hard. Hendrick, sitting by his fire. made carvings, delicate and intricate, and did inlaid work of rare beauty for the tables and quaint cabinets, so diff ferent from anything the people who bought them could find elsewhere
 Hendriek built his workshop by the side of the main road, over which all the traffic of the mountains and ve- hicles of every description passed, and stones throw from the weather beaten cottage he renovated, and where he lived his solitary life.
 Hendricks thick and slightly curl ing hair was of dark, redsh color when he first came to the mountains but it grew quite gray during the sue ceeding years, and his strong, rugged face acquired seams and lines of care and an expression of repressed melan- choly as time went on
 That he was familiar with some other language besides the English. which he spoke we'll and fluently was evident, for he was in the habit of singing in subdued tone as he worked. and the words of the sweet, plaintive songs were incomprehensible as well as musical.
 There was much village gossip and interest when at last a letter came for Hendrick, large, square letter, with a foreign stamp. aud its address dis closed that his first name was Carl.
 It was unlocked for, evidently, for when the postmaster beckoned Hen drick as he stood in the doorway of one of the village stores. and held up the letter, Hendrick strcde forward hurriedly and the loiterers around mo- ticed that his face blanched as he thrust the letter in his pocket and went of. forgetting his package of pur- chases on old Sam Browns counter.
 The day following Hendricks shop was closed and locked, and any one peering through the window panes could see his bright, sharp-edged tools lying along the side of a half-fnished piece of work. while his blouse hung on peg by the door
 Nor did any smoke issue from She chimney of the red-roofed cottage buried among the tall chestnut and cedar trees.
 Two weeks later Hendriok reap peared. and was again hard at work planning and cutting and oiling the hard woods he so dexterously fash toned into pieces of furniture such as the Franciscan monks invented cen turies ago. or those which the cabinet makers of the old German towns of Holland and of Milan manufactured during the troublous middle ages. and