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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-02-25

ct. PAU, MInn, FED. ZZ-WOrd was
received here Sunday that James S.
O'Brien, Of saltwater, well-known turf
man, had died suddenly Of heart fail.
ure at Grand Rapids, Mimi. where he
has large lumber camp.
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reckless. She met his look of inquiry
with a nod of invitation and deliber-
ately drew her skirts to one side as if
to make room for him on the divan.
The young manS accepted the I'M
spoken invitation with alacrity. He
stood before her, hat in hand.
"Awfully good of you," he said, look
ing down at her frankly. 81 didn't rec
ognize you at, first. You've changed
quite. bit since you had that last
picture taken"
Margaret gasped. She had thought
her own impertinence quite impossible,
once the die was cast, but this young
mans nerve was monumental. She
lowered her voice so that the woman
in lace net could not hear what she
said.
"Sit down, please, and I'll explain Of
course. you were not looking for me,
know that. But you-er-play the part
much better than / could. I was in
such trouble and 1 just had to speak
to you"
4. Just for an instant a puzzled express
sion passed over the mans face; then
he pulled himself together and sat
down beside her.
II am tremendously glad to be of SER
vice to any lady in distress. What par
ticular form Of distress has overtaken
your"
Margaret looked straight into his
trust-inspiring eyes, and her own
danced.
Il am victim Of woman's fnhu-
womanity' to woman. Don't you dare
to laugh when tell you this, but
every woman who was passed me for
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By Lucy Barnes

IT have already done So" said the
young man placidly, and without hest
tation he sprang into the hanson and
sat down beside her.
Margaret was speeehless. not sure
whether she was glad or sorry. Was.
the young man trying to kidnap her.
or was he mind reader2 She was GER
tain she had dropped no hint as to her
destination.
you see. knew you all the time
You are Margaret Trenton, and you
are on your way to visit Eta Wilson
at Rye Beach. saw your name on
your luggage"
Margaret looked at him IN wonder
Eyes, but Ettal How do you know
Etta?'
"Oh, she's my cousin II was you
I was looking for all the time, She
had asked me to meet you on the boat
If I happened to be coming down at
the same time from the Merriam
house party. I very nearly missed
you, because-because- pic
ture doesn't do you justice"
"Oh!" said Margaret, feeling some
how that there was nothing else to- bel
said.
IT was going on to Newport for a
week. but I think I'll stop or at
Rye" Margaret's glance fell and a
slight flush spread over her face. The
young mans lips twitched-
IT think you need me thereto let
you know whether your hat is on
straight"
rhar +be1, both 1oolad ar zach othar
and laughed. and Pedro, IN sympathy.
pounded the floor of the hanson with
his tail 1t is so good to be youngl
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of tents on the river bank. There they
hung wet clothes over a big skeleton
framework built around a monster fire,
and ate a dozen eggs apiece as a side
dish to supper and smoked pipes of
strong Peerless" tobacco and swapped
yarns and sang songs and asked ques-
tons To the latter they received no
satisfactory replies. The crew that had
been laid off knew nothing. 1t sup
posed it was to go to work after sup
per. After supper, however, Jimmy
told it to turn in and get little more
sleep. 1t did turn in and speedily for
got to puzzle.
A midnight Jimmy entered the big
tent quietly with lantern, touching
each Of the fresh men on the shoulder.
They arose without comment and fol-
lowed him outside. There they were
given tools. Then the little band defiled
silently down river under the stars.
Jimmie led them, his hands deep in his
pockets, putting white steam clouds at
regular intervals from his meerschaum
pipe After twenty minutes they struck
the water works, then the boardwalk
of Canal street. The word passed back
for silence Near theGOriole factory
their leader suddenly lodged in behind
the piles of sawed lumber, motioning
them in haste. A moment later a fat
and dignifed officer passed, swinging
his club After the policeman had gone
Jimmie again took up his march at the
head Of a crew of men now thoroughly
aroused to the fact that something I'M
usual was afoot.
Soon faint roar lifted the night 81
lence. They crossed Fairbanks street.
and a moment after stood at one end
of the power dam.
The long. smooth water shot over
like fluid steel, silent and inevitable,
mirroring distorted flashes that were
MOL, shouting defiance at the calm vel
vet rush above. Ten seconds later the
current was broken. A man, his heels
caught against the combing, midleg in
water, was braced back at the exact
angle to withstand the rush. Two other
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They extended over three mills of roll
ways. Jimmy and his crew began at
the downstream end to tumble the
big piles into the current. Sometimes
only two or three of the logs would
rattle down: at others the whole deck
would bulge outward, hover for mo-
ment and roar into the stream like
grain from an elevator.
Shortly the narrows below the roll
ways damned. Twelve men were de-
tailed as the Jam crew." Their bust
ness was to keep the stream free in
order that the constantly increasing
supply from the rollways might not
fill UP the river. It was not an easy
business, nor very safe.
AS the Jam" strung out over more
and more Of the river, the jam crew
was constantly recruited from the
men on the rollways. Thus some Of
the logs, very few, the luckiest,
drifted into the dam pond at Grand
Rapids within few days; the bulk
damned and broke, and damned again
at a point a few miles below the roll
ways, while large proportion
stranded, plugged, caught and tangled
at the very rollways themselves.
Jimmy had permitted himself two
days in which to break out Of the roll
ways. It was done in two. Then the
rear" was started. Men in the rear
crew had to see that every last log
got into the current and stayed there.
When the jam broke the middle of it
shot downstream in a most Spectac-
ular fashion, but along the banks
winged out" distressingly. Some
times the heavy sticks of timber had
been forced right out on the dry land.
The rear crew lifted them back. When
an obstinate log grounded they
jumped cheerfully into the water
with the rotten ice swirling around
them-and pried the thing off the bot
tom. Between times they stood up
right on single unstable logs and
pushed nightly with poles while the
ice water sucked in and out Of their
spiked river boots.
AS for the compensatons, natural
ly there was good dead Of rivalry
as to which wing should advance the
fastest; and one experiences a certain
physical thrill in venturing under
thirty feet of damned logs for the sole
purpose of teasing the whole mass to
cascade down on one; or of shooting
a rapid while standing upright on a
single timber. believe, too, it is con-
sidered a mighty honor to belong to
the rear crew. Still, the water is cold
and the hours long, and you have to
sleep in tents.
1t readily can be seen that the prog
ress of the rear measures the prog
ress Of the drive. Some few logs in
the Jam" may run fifty miles day
and often debut If the sacking has
gone slowly at the rear the drive may
not have gained more than a thousand
yards. Therefore Jimmy stayed at the
rear.
Jimmy was a mighty good riverman.
OF course he had nerve and could do
anything with log and a peevie and
would fight at the drop of the hat
any bully boy" would qualify there
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mething-er-tells me So"
1t may have been that Margaret
wanted to get out IN the fresh air. or
it may have been because she felt 1t
her duty to change the expression In
his eyes, which were looking at her
so eagerly. He strobe down to the
purser's room and paid the price Of
the best stateroom on the boat, which
gave them access to a tiny patch Of
deck room shut in on the other side
by a lifeboat, a stack Of life preserv-
ers and a most uncompromising rail-
ing. From this point Margaret view
ed the beautiful panorama OF the
Palisades and the young man. loyal
New Yorker that he was, insisted that
it was purely his duty to make his
State show up at its best.
The last ten or fifteen minutes OF
the trip We're uncomfortable ones for
Margaret. Mrs. Grundy whispered in
one ear that she had already been in
discreet and it was her duty to drop
the young man forever. Her sense Of
fairness whispered in the other ear
that she owed him something for his
courtesy.
AS they gathered up their traps to
disembark it was quite evident that
the young man was not giving him
self any anxiety over the situation. He
took her checks. He even accepted
Pedro as a matter of course. He led
the way to a hanson without asking
her so much as where she was going.
When she and Pedro were settled In
the vehicle the young man stood with
one foot on the step.
''Will you tell him to take me to the
Grand Central?" she asked.
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men passed down to him a short, heavy
timber. A third, plunging his arms and
shoulders into the liquid, nailed it
home with heavy, inaudible strokes. As
though by magic a second timber
braced the first, bolted solidly through
sockets already cut for it. The work
ers moved on eight feet. then another
eight, then another. More men entered
the water to pass the timbers. A row
of heavy slanted supports grew out
from the shoulder of the dam, dividing
the waters into long, arrow-shaped fur
rows Of light. At 1880 O'Clock Tom
Clute was swept over the dam into the
eddy. He swan ashore. Purdy took
his place.
When the supports had reached out
over half Of the rivers span, and the
water was dotted with the shoulders of
men gracefully slanted against the cur
rent, Jimmy gave orders to begin plac-
ing the flash boards. Heavy planks
were at once slid across the supports.
where the weight Of the racing water
at once clamped them fast. The
smooth, quiet river, interrupted at last.
murmured and snarled and eddied
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at all. and Margaret awoke with a
start to realization that, after hav-
ing made use of the young man, 1t
was not going to be as easy to get rid
of him. But what annoyed her the
worst of all was the fact nat she felt
that she was not particularly anxious
to get rid of him. He had put down
his bags and settled himself in a way
that suggested that he meant to stay
until New York was reached.
do you believe in signs and
omens?" she asked.
"Surei Something tells me this is
going to be an awfully jolly trip.
usually dread the ride into town, but
then"
well, when I go home / shall say
unpleasant things to the friends who
advised me to take the boat trip down
the Hudson. Oh, didn't mean to be
personal. 1 beg your pardon. 1 was
merely referring to the babies and the
lunch. 1 can't sit on deck because
the sight of lunch boxes and perpetual
eating makes me positively ILL.,"
Wen remedy that. know little
corner where they don't admit either
babies or lunch boxes. If you'll just
wait minute I'll fix the matter up.
1 have a little stand-in with the cap
tain of this boat"
He rose, but she laid a OBTAINING
hand on his arm. You really mustn't.
l."
Now, see here" he said frankly,
you're calling yourself all sorts of
things because we haven't been in
troduced. It's all nonsense, don't you
know. We were bound to meet after
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would not have sense enough to tell
another woman what had happened.
By the time Margaret had reached
this conclusion she was actually per-
spring with nervousness. She was
not girl whose thoughts ran entire
ly on dress and appearance, but she
viewed with scorn the ungroomed
woman. And at this moment she was
morally certain that her grooming had
slipped cog. She reviled the man
agement Of the boat line which did not
panel it's salon with mirrors, but not
for worlds would she have walked the
length of that salon to a dressing
room. She preferred to sit in the lime
light Of the restless passengers to run
ming the gauntlet Of the lounging pas
sengers.
She was ready to call herself names
for having declined, with thanks, the
vanity bag her brother Dick had want
ed to give her on her birthday. She had
taken a new collar for Pedro. Poor
Pedro, grieving in the baggage-room in
the hold at this moment. What wouldn't
she give now for the tiny mirror re-
posing in the rejected vanity bag?
Just then young man doomed I'D on
her gloomy mental horizon. The boat
had made a landing at one Of those
small towns from which tourists
reached the Catskills. The young man
looked exceedingly cheerful and harm
less. Margaret decided on this the in
slant her troubled glance met his. His
eyes were the sort to create feeling of
trust. He was good-looking, but Mar
garet instantly decided that he couldn't
be blamed for that. Anyhow. he was
looking for somebody, and she became
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tt0 BEY orders II you break own
ers," is a good motto, but a
really efficient river boss
knows a better. 1t runs,
Get the logs out; get them out peace
ably II you can. but get them out" He
needs no instructions from headquar-
tiers 10 tell him how to live up to this
rule. That might involve headquarters.
Jimmy was such a river boss. There
fore when Mr.. DAILY of the firm OF Nor
rison & Daily Unexpectedly found him
self contracted to deliver 100000 feet
Of logs at a certain date, and the logs
an impossible number Of miles up
stream, he called in Jimmy.
Jimmy was a small man, changeless
a. the Egyptian Sphinx. A number Of
years ago a French comic journal pub
Hshed a series Of sketches supposed to
represent the Shah Of Persia Influenced
by various emotions. Under each was
an appropriate label. such as surprise,
grief. anger, or establishment. The por-
traits were identically alike and uni
formly impassive.
Well. that was Jimmy. He looked al
ways the same His hair, thick and
black. grew low on HIS forehead; his
beard, thick and black, mounted over
the ridge Of his cheek bones; and his
eyebrows, thick and black, extended in
an uninterrupted straight line from one
temple 10 the other. Whatever his
small compact. muscular body might
be doing, the mask Of his black and
white imperturbability remained al
ways unchanged. Generally he sat
clasping one knee, staring directly in
front Of him, and putting regularly on a
''neerschaum" pipe he had earned by
saving the tags Of Spearhead tobacco.
Whatever you said TO him sank with
out splash into this almost primal calm
and was lost 10 view forever. Perhaps
after a time he might do something
about It, but always without explana-
ton, calmly, with the lofty Inevitable
fly Of fate. In fact, he never explained
himself even to his employers.
Daily swung his bulk back and forth
. IN the Office chair. Jimmy sat bolt up
right, his black hat pendent between
his knees.
Il want you TO take charge Of the
driving crew, Jimmy" said the big
man. Z want you to drive those logs
down TO our boom as fast as you. can.
give you about twenty days. 1t
ought 10 be done in that Sanders Will
keep time for you and Merrill will
cook You can get a crew from the
East Branch. where the drive is just
ever
When DAILY had quite finished his
remarks Jimmy got up and went out
without a word. Two days later he
and sixty men were breaking rollways
forty-f1ve miles I'D stream.
Jimmy knew as well as DAILY that
the latter had given him a hard task.
Twenty days was too brief a time.
However, that was none Of his bust
ness
The logs during the winter had
been piled in the bed Of the stream.
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if my hat was crooked or / had SCOT
on my nose or my skirt and blouse
had parted company. Will you please
tell me what Is the natter"
The young man tried not to give
way to the mirth which was yelling
up within him, and looked over her
critically.
Well" he said judiciously, II can't
see anything wrong except that the
thing you wear for a collar seems to
have slid around. Does the bow be-
long under your left carr"
Margaret clutched at the offending
bit of ribbon.
MY stock! I never thought of
that"
She pulled the bit Of embroidered
linen till the bow was poised, with
outspread, saucy wings, directly under
her chin.
Now, is that right ?" she asked,
looking up into her human mirror.
Correct and trim as you please"
he said reassuringly. and watched her
while she fastened the unruly stock
with a tiny pearl-headed pin.
you wouldn't believe what a mis-
erable half hour I have put in.
know now that odious old cat in the
patent rocker had grinned afresh each
time my stock sprung a fresh notch.
Isn't it funny that women can't show
a little Christian courtesy to each
other?"
Well" said the young chap
thoughtfully, I'm sorry I didn't get
here half an hour sooner. I might
discomfort
But that wasn't what his eyes said
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back, only to rush with increased
vehemence around the end Of the rap
idly growing obstruction.
The policeman passing back and
forth on Canal street heard no sound Of
the labor going on. If he had been an
observant policeman he would have
noted an ever-changing tone in the vol
ume Of sound roaring up from the
eddy below the dam. After a time
even he remarked on certain obvious
phenomenon.
Sure said he, now that's funny"
He listened a moment, then passed
on. The vagaries Of the river were,
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1 A sense OF the uuuLueSS Oh
things had been growing upon
her for full fifteen minutes. Seated in
the corner Of a big divan on the Albany
day boat she had gradually Weakened
10 the realization that no matter who
passed by glances furtive and open
had been cast in her direction.
Not that this was an unusual atten-
tion for Margaret TO receive. Chances
Of admiration had followed her ever
since she had passed from spindling
girlhood into glorious young woman
hood But these glances were differ
ent- The expression in the eyes of the
women said quite clearly. Thank
heavens I am not as you are" The
admiration in the eyes of men was
mixed enthusiastically with pity.
Margaret reached blindly in the d.
recticn Of her hat The little bend in
the back was sGuarely above the coil
at the naDe OF her neck Perhaps it
had slipped too far back. She raised
her hand and felt Of her pompadour.
She knew by touch that there was Just
enough hair showing In the front. 1t
might be SCOT on the tip Of her nose.
She drew forth her handkerchief and
dabbed the tip Of that member, but no
spot showed on the cambria. Then
she tried her chin and her cheek bones
with the same result.
An odious woman. lolling in a pat
ent rocker, smiled at her, but it was
a plying smile Not for the world
would Margaret have asked that wo-
man what was wrong. And a woman
who wore lace net dress TO travel In
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StOriette

,ARGARET was sure that
there was something wrong.
A sense of the unf1tness Of
things had been growing upon
The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1904-05-07
WORLDS FAIR FIRST SUNDAY.
oates Closed to All but a Favored
Few

ST Louis, May 2-Fhs nrst Sunday
Of the worlds fair found the gates
tightly closed 70 the hundreds VI PEG
pie who tnrouEsd Forest park sunday
However, nOtw.,lstaGdlns Ihe puo4le
Was barred, there were few more "a
yared who were permitted to ehlCy
the exposition grounds today IheY
we're Secretary Of War TAFT Governor
Hsrrlck u Ohio. exposition onetAIs
and the members OF the congregational
delegation Who attended the opening
and members Of tho Penhsy wanna
state commission. Who Will tomoFfo"
dedicate the Keystone state building
While work NAa generally suspended
throughou. the grounds ia The ds-efvht
exhibits. Individual exhibitors we're
buslly employed today making every
erurt 10 hasten To mpietion u Ell
AlDits
While no aEures we're glVen out as
70 tho actual number oi persons Who
paid admissions 10 tho worlds fair
yesterday. tt was Uficialy statrd JD-
Night thAt The Attendance saa less ylAn
zoe 0U0. bur anger according ~ Fgesi
dent Francis. than that A. the ~JFtl :
Columbian eGpoaltl1u a. CAtcasg ~
The Centennial A. Philadelphia ou ogen
lug day
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Wednesday's War News.

A Chefoo dispatch says the japanese
land forces have captured Newchwang,
the Russians retreating in order to
guard the railway.
The japanese send in fireships in a
desperate effort TO seal Port Arthur.
Eight freships are sunk, and the
Russians claim two torpedo boats went
down, with nearly all men on board.
The channel ia still clear.
The Russians claim the loss Of Jap
anese in the Yalu river fight was be-
tween 5000 and 1000 dead.
The Russians themselves lost hea
in men and artillery. A number Of
prominent officers were either killed or
wounded
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Suicide.

Portland. orc Nay : -D~sroud.n,
from heavy Ioases at gambling. n W
lowell ~ seattle. nua II tho pn,.s
prominent advertising men - tho Pa
etfe northwest. committed ,aietda In .
SINAI. room in lodging hnuaa a. toa
North sixth street BY turning on tbs
gas before no retired. Iis hudy ~
found about noon Monday he Isf, A.,
note addressed 10 friend stating that
no had samblsd away abautkllOo a,
various resorts in this CITY
lowell came hers from -esttl, sh,..
week ago, with drafts and cb,-L,
and, after spending those. no drs,v ~,
Seattle banks for more rauds. AZ fire.,
MA drafts were houorsd. but fgr a.,
last two days the drafts nave b..p co.,,
ing back isdnouored. Govoll s.ks ~,
gambling houses 20 rpturu hfs .tf,
$500 ot tho amount lost. 70 snsbi. -
to take mp the dishonorsd pspa, -
we'll was about Is years Of ags.