Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-04

| will WEI be dom! We can't niver maui
them two horses on the ice"
.'Tak' de log chain" said Fabian to
Henrys, IAN tie him around de neck of
| Jenny"
Henrys after much difficulty and
nervous fumbling managed to loosen
| the swamp hook and after much more
| difficulty succeeded in making 1t fast
about the gray mares neck. Fabian
| Intended with this to choke the animal
to that peculiar state when she would
float Ike q balloon on the water and
two men could with ease draw her over
| the edge Of the ice. Then the unexpect-
ed happened.
| The instant Henrys had passed the
end Of the chain through the knot Pat,
possessed by some Hibernian notion
that now all was fast, let 60 Of the bit
Jenny's head at once went under. and
| the end of the logging chain glided
over and fell plump In the hole.
| Immediately all was confusion. Jen-
| ny kicked and struggled, churned the
water, throwing 1t about, kicking out
in every direction. Once. . horses
head dips strongly the game 10 over.
No animal browns more quickly. The
| two young boys scrambled away, and
| French oaths could not induce them to
approach Molly, still upheld by Fa-
bian, looked at him piteously with her
strange. intelligent eyes, holding her.
self motionIess and rigid with COM
Il ~, u II
| never failed her before. Fabian dug
| his heels into the ice but could not
! hang on. The drowning horse was
more than dead weight. Presently it
became Il question OF letting go or be-
ing dragged into the laso OH top or the
animals. With sob tie little French;
man ralinqrished his held. Ille wa'ar
seemed ~ TO rise a,nl orerliiln the
troubled look OF pleading III Mosiy's
eyes.
.Assaasins." Kissed F.avcqae nj the
two unfortunate youtl.s. that Nas :,'i.
81 sr6rnse ii M.;,s J, poesi deal my
fault" cjs,ninentaG Roadway. aoubtftil!y
shaking his llestl after l.as"at.e lad
left tie Gs.i;s.. i ,is,i.i 20 have been
s,arcg alieut ;Aie ic.'.'
Railway w:.s ~ confirmed in his be-
lief us to his oWi. reliability that he
quite ovel-loohet f'abiaii's Just conten-
ton that the mere tlinneSs OF the ice
was in reality no excuse for the losing
of the horses; So Pat aud Henrys were
not discharged: were not Instructed to
"get their time. Fabian Laveque
promptly demanded bis.
~ no work wild dat fool dat no tink
wit hees haid.'
This deprived the camp at once OF
teamster and q team. When you re-
fleet that one pair of horses takes care
Of the exertions of crew of sawyers,
several swampers and three or four
cant hook men you will readily see
what serious arrangement their loss
would cause.
Railway did his best. He took three
days TO search out big team of farm
horses. Then it became necessary to
find driver. After some deliberation
he decided to advance Bob Stratton to
the post, that decker having had
more or less experience the year before.
Erickson, the Swede, while not a star
cant hook man, was nevertheless sure
and reliable. Railway placed him in
STATIONS place. He remembered
Thorpe.
So the young man received his first
promotion toward the ranks OF skilled
labor He gained at last field OF APP
plication for the accuracy he had so in
diligently acquired while roadmaking,
for now false stroke marred saw
log; and besides, what was more to his
taste, he found himself near the actual
scene Of operation-at the front, as It
were.
Here he learned why and when the
sawyers threw tree up or down hill,
and how small standing timber they
tried to fell 1t through. what consider
alton held for the cutting Of different
lengths of log. how the timber was
skillfully decked on the skids In such a
manner that the pile should not bulge
or fall and SO that the scaler could
easily determine the opposite ends of
the same log--in short, a thousand and
one little details which ordinarily
man learns only as the exigencies arise
to call in experience. Here, too. he first
realized he was in the firing line.
Thorpe had assigned him as bunk
mate the young fellow who assisted
Tom Broadhead in the Telling. Henry
Paul was fresh complexioned, clear
eyed. quick hammered young fellow,
with an air of steady responsibility
about him. He came from the southern
part of the state, where during the
summer he worked on little home
stead farm of his own. After few /
days he told Thorpe that he was mar
ried, and after few days more he
showed his bunk mate the photograph I
Of sweet faced young woman who
looked trustingly out of the picture.
'She's waiting down there for me.
and it ain't SO very long till spring"
said Paul wistfulIy. "She's the best lit |
tie woman man ever had, and there
amt nothing too good for her. chum I
my"
Thorpe, soul sick after his recent ex-
periences with the charity Of the world.
discovered real pleasure in this fresh,
clear passion.
Three days after the newcomer had
started in at the swapping Paul, dur
ing their early morning walk from