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Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1904-11-11
was branded as belonging t o them. He

was branded as belonging o them. He
swarmed over the skidway, rapid and
absorbed, in strange activity to the
slower power of the actual skidding.
In moment he moved on to the next
scene of operations without having
said 4 word to any of the men.
"a fine ting said Mike. splitting.
So day after day the work went on.
Railway spent his time trampng
through the woods. figuring on new
work. showing the men how to do
things better or differently, discussing
minute eXpcdients with the blacksmith
the carpenter, the cook
He was not without his troubles.
First he had not enough men. the snow
lacked and then came too a6undantly.
horses tell sick of colc or calked
themselves. supplies ran low uneXpect
edly. trees turned out punk Ger.
tain bit Of ground proved soft for ira.
vOying, and so on. At election time, Of
course. number of the men went
out
And one evening, two days after cleo
ton time. another and important char.
acter entered the North woods and
our story.
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1904-11-11

/ the top of the pile. He did so by jam.
ming into another log the steel swamp
/ hook with which tie chain was armed.
When all was made fast the horse
! started.
Shes bumser," said Bob "i-scS
out, Ms:c!
ihe log slid to the fcot of the tao
parallel poles la!d slanting up To- face
of the pile. Thea 1t trembled on ..,a
ascent But one aRi stuck for NJ IN
slant, and at onte the 10; took on Il
dangerous Slast Quick as light Bob
and Mike sprang forward gripped tn"
hooks of the cant hooks like great
thumbs and forcii.gerS, and, while one
hcld with all his power, the other
gave n shart twist npw~rd Til" log
Strengthened. 1t w.S :. iIastcr feat !f
power and the knack of applying
strength justly.
AT the top cf the little incline the
timber hOver.d for II second
"One more" sang out Jim to the
driver He poised, stepped lightly up
and over and avoided by the safe
hnirbrendth being crushed when the
log rolled But it did not lie quite
straight or even So Mike cut n short
thick block and all three stirred the
heavy timber sufficiently to admit of
the billet's insertion.
Then the chain was thrown down for
another
nnt fn chn npf
straight bar with a hook in 1t. leaned
to her collar and dug her hoofs at tn"
word of command The driver, close
to her tail, held fast the slender steel
chain of an ingenious hitch about the
ever useful swamp hook. When Jim
shouted Whoa" from the top of the
skidway the driver did not trouble to
stop the horse; he merely let 90 the
hook. So the power was shut Off sud.
denly. as is meet and proper in such
ticklish business He turned and walk.
ed back, and Jenny, like a dog without
the necessity of command followed
him In slow patience.
Now came Dyer. a scaer rapidly
down the logging road, q small. slender
man with little. turned mp muStache
The men disIikcd him because of his
aiTectation of Il city smartness and be.
cause he never ate With them even
when there was plenty CO room The
scaier's duty 2t present was TO measure
the diameter Of the logs in each skid
way and so compute the number of
board feet. At the office he tended van.
kcct the books and looked after sup.
plies
He approached the skdway rapidly.
laid his flexible rule across the face
Of each log. made mark on his pine
tablets in the column to which the log
belonged thrust the tablet in the pock-
Ell of his coat, seized blue crayon, in
long holder. With which lie lladc an
8 as Indication that the log had been
scaled. and finally tapped several
times strongly with s.edge hammer
On the face of the hammer in relief
was an VI inside of n delta. This was
tho ccmpauv's brand and so thr log
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who, with the brakeman and Lagga "a
master was seated in the bag. ge van,
heard the jingle of glass. He arose,
Guess I'll take up tickets" be re-
marked. Perhaps it will quiet the
boys down little"
The conductor was big man, raw.
boned and broad, with hawk face
His every motion showed lean, quick.
pantherlike power.
Let her went" replied the brake
man. rising as matter Of course to
follow his chief.
The brakeman was stocky, short and
long armed In the old fighting days
Michigan railroads chose their train
officials with an eye to their superior
deltods. The two men loomed on the
noisy smoking compartment.
Tickets, please" clicked the con-
ductor sharply.
Most of the men began to tumble
about In their pockets, but the three
singers and the man who had been Of
fering the quart bottle did not stir
Ticket, jack repeated the con-
ductor Come on. now"'
The big bearded man leaned uncer.
tainly against the seat.
Nov, look here, Bud" he urged In
wheedling tones, II amt got 10 ticket.
You know how it is, Bud. | blows my
stakes" He fshed unCertainly In bis
pocket and produced the quart bottle.
nearly empty. Have drink p
NO." said the conductor sharply
~ right" replied Jack amiGbly.
Take one myself" He tipped the bot
tie. emptied it and hurled it through a
window. The conductor paid no APP
parent attention to the breaking Of the
glass.
IF you haven't any ticket, you'u
have to get off " said he.
The big man Strengthened Up
You 90 to blazes!" he sNorted. aud
with the sole of his spiked boot detiv.
cred mighty kick at the conductors
thigh.
The official, agile as wildcat. leap
ed back then forward and Knocked the
man half the length of the car You
Stt. uc WIS uScu ~ IL. islb-E jain
could regain his feet the Official stood
over him
The three nen in the corner had also
risen and were staggering down the
aisle intent on battle. The conductor
took in the chances with professional
rapidity.
/ Get at 'em. jimmy said b.
And us the big man finally swayed
to his feet he was sC,zed by the collar
and trousers in the grip known TO
''bouncers" everywhere. hustled 10 the
door which some one obligiugly open
ed anu hurled from the moving train
; into the snow. The conductor did not
care a s.aw whether the obstreperous
Jack lit on his head or his feet, hit a
snow bank or pile of ties
The conductor returned 10 find a rolf
ing, kicking, goaging mass OF kinetie
energy knocking the varnlsh OF all one
Continucd on 18th pRg
Canyon City news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1903-1908, 1904-11-11
CHAPTER II.

TIN the evening IL question some
thirty OF forty miles southeast
MI Of Radwoy's camp a train was
" crawling over a badly laid
track that led toward the Saginaw
valley The whole affair was very
crude. 70 the edge Of the right Of
way pushed the dense swamp. like a
black curtain shutting the virgin coun.
try from the view OF civilization
Across the snow were tracks OF an
imaIS
The train consisted Of string of
freight cars, one coach divided half and
half between baggage and smoker. and
day car occupied by two silent, awk
ward women and a child In the smok.
or lounScd u dozen men They were Of
various sizes and descriptions but they
all wore heavy blanket mackina W
coats. rubber shoes and thick German
socks tied at the knee The air was
so thick with smoke that the men had
difficulty in distinguishing objects
across the length of the car.
The passengers sprawled in various
attitudes. and their occupa tons were
diverse. Three nearest the baggage
room door attempted TO sing. but with
out much success. \ man in tue cor.
ner breathed softly through a mouth
organ. TO the music of which his seat
mate, leaning his head sideways, gave
close attention. One big fellow With a
square beard staggered back aud
forth down the aisle offering TO every
one refr.shment from quart bottle
1t was rarely refused. CT the dozen
probably three-quarters were more or
less drunk.
After Il time the smoke became too
dense. \ short, thickset fellow with
an evil. dark face cooly thrust his heel
through window. The conductor,
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Ak work. The branches had to be
shaved close and clear, and at the
same time the trunk must not 10
gashod, And often man was forced
to WELD his instrument from a con
strained position
The chopped branches and ir.bs hard
now to be dragged clear and piled
While this was being finished Tom and
Hank marked off and sawed the log
lengths. paying due attention to the
necessity Of avoiding knots, forks and
rotten places Thus some Of til. logs
teen and some only twelve feet in
length.
Next appeared the teamstcrs with
their little wooden slcdges. their steel
chains and their tOngs They had been
helping the skiddcrs to place the par.
allel and level beams. or skids on
which ;he logs were to be piled by the
side of the road The tree which Tom
and Hank had Just felled lay ur gen.
tie slope from the new travoy road. so
little Fabian Laveque. the teamstcr,
clamped the bite Of his tongs to the
end Of the largest or butt log.
"Allez, Molly" he cried.
A horse, huge. elephantine, her head
down, nose close to her chest. intelli
gently spying her steps, moved. Tno
log half rolled over, slid three feet and
menaced stump.
"Geew cried Laveque.
Molly stepped twice directly side
wise. planted her forefoot on a root
she had seen and pulled sharply. The
end of the log slid around the stump.
"AIleZ." commanded Laveque.
And Molly started glngerly down the
hill She pulled the timber. heavy as
an iron safe. here and there through
the brush, missing no steps, making
no false moves, backing and finally
pcCtpd roll with the ease and intelli
gpnce of Lavequr himself. In five
minutes the burden lay by the travoy
road In Two minutes more one end
of it had been rolled on the little fiat
wooden SlpGGc and the other end drag
ging, it was winding majestically down
through the ancient forest.
When Molly and Fabian had travoy-
ed the log to tie skidWay they drew
it with bump acrOSs the two parallel
skids and left it there TO be rolled to
the top of the pile
Thnn Mike Mcsiovern and Bob STRAIT
ton and Jim Gladys took charge of it.
alike AMI Bob were running the cant
hoGks, while Jim stood on top Of the
great pile Of logs already dsrsed \
S:cador, pliaec stocl cl:.iH like a gray
srake ran over the top vi the pile and
di..ppear.i through a pulley to an
iDvHible GorS..-Jenns, the mate Of
Moi. Jn thriw t:e end of this
cl.a;s tsow.. Bch passed it over and
uIri.r the 10. ans returned i: to ,Em.
who rssckc} ctcHn sStyr it with the
hook of his Implement Thus the
stick of timber rested in a long loop.
one end of which led to the invisible
horse, and the other lin made fast 10
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[rontinucd on 18th pig
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CHAPTER I.

n IN the network of streams drain
ing the eastern portion Of Mich
igan and known as the Sag
. innW MntnrS the rreat firm nf
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-08-12

Softly she slept In the night-her new
born babe at her breast,
With tiny dimpling hand to the yield
ing bosom pressed
As I rose from her side to go-though
sore was my heart to stay
To the case of the laboring ewes that
else would have died ere day.
Banking the peats on the hearth,
reached from the rafter-hook
The lanthorn and kindled the flame, and,
taking my plaid and crook,
I lifted the latch, and turned once more
to see If she slept;
And looked on the slumber of peace;
then into the night I stepped
Into the swirling dark of the driving,
binding sleet.
And a world that seemed to sway and
slip from under my feet,
AS if rocked by the wind that swept the
roaring, starless night,
Yet fumed in a fury vain at my Ian
thorns shielded light
Clean-drenched in the first wild gust, I
battled across the garth,
And passed through the clashing gate
And the peace of love in my breast the
craven voices to quell-
AS 7 set my teeth to the wind and turn
ed to the open fell.
Over the tussocks of bent ! strove till
NV brow like ice. and my hands so
numbed that they scarce could hold
NV staff or loosen the pen; but l heard
a lambs weak cries
As the CLEAN of my lanthorn lit the
night of its newborn eyes.
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Name of Famous Street

skirt house Of the suburbs that way"
Others say the name is taken from
the fact that lone Higgins who built
it (the house, got most of his estate
from the sale of piccadillas," but the
name occurs many years earlier than
the mention Of the first house, thus
Gerard, in his Herbal 1896, states
that "the small wild bee-giosse
groves upon the drie-ditch bankes
about Pickadilla." The road is re-
ferred to in Slows narrative of Sir
Thomas Wyatts rebellion in 1854
as "the highway on the hill over
against st. James," and in Aggas'
map (1560) it is lettered 1.-THE way
to Redinge." The upper part of the
Haymarket and the fields adjoining
to the north and west were the Pick
adilly" of the Restoration. Evelyn
quotes the commissioners orders,
July 10, 1862, to pave "the Haymar-
ct about Pigudello," and tradesmen's
tokens of that date bear "Pickadilla"
and "Pickadilly."
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The busy thoroughfare which we
know as "Piccadilly" is far removed
from anything rural as it is possible
to imagine, and it can hardly be real
lied that there was time when mere
ly one or two houses stood on what is
now one of the finest and richest OF
the worlds streets, says the Liver.
pool Post. The name "Piccadilly" ap-
pears to be derived from the ruffs,
pickadils or piccadilloes, worn by the
gallants of the time Of James /. and
Charles l., the stiffening points OF
which resembled spear heads, or
picardills, minutive Of "pica,' from
the Spanish and Italian. Blount, in
his Glossographia (1656), interprets it
as the edge or skirt of a garment,
and stiff collar or band for the
neck and shoulders, whence the
wooden piccadilloes (the pillory) in
Hudibras. Thus the finest house
built in the road may have been SO
named from its being the utmost or
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-08-12

R. H. Plant, a Macon (Ga.) banker
who wrecked his health and his bust
ness by overwork, finally settled mat
ters with his numerous creditors by
committing suicide, the insurance on
his life aggregating $1,O15,O00. A dis
patch says that the bitter feeling
against him on the part of the pub
lie has subsidized since his death. but
it is safe to say that the insurance
companies do not share in this sym
pathetic forgiveness.
However, insurance companies that
take such great risks on single life
necessarily have to consider the posi-
bility of suicide. Life insurance re-
verses the old injunction Of the law.
The seller, not the buyer, must be-
ware, and singularly enough the ten
dency is toward the elimination OF all
restriction on the conduct of the in
sured.
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The Hand of Death

sorely labored, and watched each
Fighting till dawn for my flock with the
ancient shepherd-Death;
And glad was my heart when at last
the stackyard again I crossed,
And thought Of the strife well DER With
never yeanling lost
But ere came to the door of my home,
drawing YEARLY nigh,
heard with a boding heart feeble,
querulous cry,
Like motherless yeanling's bleat: and
I stood in the dawns gray light,
with the toll of the night
Then. setting quaking hand to the
latch. I opened the door;
And, shaking the cold from my heart, I
stumbled across the floor
Unto the bed where she lay, caim-bos-
omed. in dreamless rest;
And the wailing baby clutched in vain
at the lfeless breast.
looked on the cold. white face; them
sank with a cry by the bed,
And thought how the hand Of Death
had stricken my whole JOY dead,
NV flock, my world and my heart-with
nv love, at single blow;
And | cried: II, too, will die!' and 1t
seemed that life ebbed low
felt the touch on my cheek
OF little warm hand outthrust, and
heard that wailing weak.
And knowing that not for s3r,f me yet was
I caught the babe to my. breast and
looked in the eyes Of life.
-Wilfrid Wilson Gibson in London
Spectator
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The Baby Turtle.

Turtles, you know, lay their eggs
in the sand and let the sun hatch them
out. They do not lay them all in one
place, probably because they think it
safe to scatter them. Then, even
though one be stolen or broken, the
Others may escape. The mother tur-
tie covers them all carefully up, one
after another, with a thin sprinkling
of sand, and then apparently never
gives them another thought, consid-
ering her maternal duty done. Ger
tain it is that she has never been dis
covered going near these egg babies
again, and when they hatch at last the
tiny, soft-backed creatures at once be-
gin crawling aroud in search of flies
and other food as independently as il
there were no such thing as mother
in the world. A little girl who found
one of these odd, oblong eggs on a
sandy river bank in Louisiana took it
home and put it in teacup on the
table for safekeeping. A few hours
later slight noise was noticed in
that direction, and on looking in the
cup she found a baby turtle, s'full
fledged," but tiny, scrambling about
among the bits of it's broken eggshell
cradle.
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Hidden kilograms.

In this game you are to imagine
you have a distant friend with whom
you have an understanding about an
expected message. It might be that
there are two or three contestants
for a certain prize of honor. The
name of one might be Jenkins, that of
another Harrison, and that Of the
third Sheldon. Suppose Jenkins is
the successful contestant, and that
you wish to telegraph to your friend
simply the name of Jenkins. How
ever, you wish to conceal the message
as much as possible, so that the un-
derstanding is that the first letters OF
the words you telegraph will spell the
name.
With this explanation each player
sets to work to write clever SEN
tence in which the first letters will
spell Jenkins. The various players
may get sentences like these:
Judge Engles never knew I noticed
Sally.
Julia's elbow next knocked Irish
Norah silly.
Jack expects no kiss in Nova SEQ
tia.
Jam eating nearly killed Ikey Ma
than Saturday.
1t is impossible that there will be
any two alike, and the game is to
see who can write the cleverest.
The kilograms are read aloud, and
the players vote to see whose is best.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1904-08-12

Does the devil enjoy seeing us
make mistakes? Systematic fore
thought is an enemy of mistakes.
Amos r. Wells tells the following In
the Young Peoples Weekly:
There was sold not long ago in New
York city what is probably the most
expensive land ever sold anywhere !;
certainly the most expensive ever sold
in New York.
1t was tiny strip of land, and, in
it's widest part, it measured only
seven-eighths of an inch. 1t was forty
feet long. 1t contained, in all, only
seventeen and half square inches.
1t couldn't be seen on the map except
with microscope.
Yet it was undoubtedly there. 1t
lay alongside an expensive plot OF
ground that was to be used for a
dwelling. BY some error in calcula-
ton it had not been included in the
purchase, and it had to be bought
why must it be bought" you ask.
"No one could do anything with so
small a piece of land"
Indeed, you are wrong. An evil
minded man could do much mischief
with it. That seventeen and half
square inches, you must remember,
reaches up into the air as high as the
sky. He could raise on it an iron plate
that would cut off air and light and
view from the forty feet on both sides
of it, and utterly ruin the finest
houses that might be built there.
Just such abominable things have been
done So the land had to be bought.
Fifty dollars was the price decided
upon as fair, and it was promptly paid.
That was at the rate of 1886 square
inch. At this rate the average city
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S E + j 5 e Sc Z &
By Earl M. Pratt. Oak Park, Illinois.

lot 25x10O feet, would cost the tre~
mendous sum of $1,029,et0. Rather
costly dirt.
Two years ago little, triangular bit
of land was sold in New York for 5000,
which was at the rate of $500 square
foot, of s3.47 a square inch. This, how
ever, was not really as expensive land
as the piece | have been describing
because it was larger-a man Gould
stand upon it-and it was in a bust
ness section and so was actually more
valuable.
My purpose in relating these real
estate transactions is to warn who
ever may be reading this against leav-
ing any strip of territory in the city
of his soul to be occupied by the Evil
One.
This fault is so very slight. This
sin is such little one. 1t really is
microscopic 1t isn't worth bothering
about"
Listen!
There isn't in all New 1orK Guy q.
business man half as shrewd as your
adversary, the devil. Let sin have
any territory in the city of your SOUL
though it be a strip less than an inch
wide, and he will build on it a struc-
ture that will shut out your pure air
and your CHEEKY sunshine and your
view of heaven.
Buy him out! Buy him out!
1t may take all you can raise OF
resolution and strength and courage
and persistence. But remember, you
can draw on the bank Of heaven
There are endless resources up above.
At any rate-a million for a square
inch, if necessary-buy him out! Yot
must own all the land in the city OF
your soul.
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knees, and each holding his left ankle
with his right hand, and his right an.
kle with his left hand. This is q
very difficult position to keep. At .
given signal the turtles start for 4
goal short distance away.
1t is the object of the game for the
turtles to waddle to the goal and
back to the starting point without re.
moving their hands from their feet.
Many let go before the proper mo-
ment, the others shout dead turtle"
and keep on, leaving their unfortu.
nate companion in the background.
The rules of the game demand that he
wait there until the first successful
racer reaches him on his way back.
and touches him with his elbow, by
which he is supposed to instill new
life into the poor dead turtle. The
latter Immediately starts out again.
and finishes in the best style he can.
AS there are always several dead tur.
ties, he is never lonely in his effort
to succeed. The winner is, Of course,
the one who returns to the starting
place first.
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One Millionaire.

One Miillonaire.
"He's a millionaire, that boy is"
The boy was walking with looked
across the way at the lad of whom
my words were spoken. There was
certainly nothing about the latter to
suggest his wealth.
"You don't say SO! It can't really
be so, he looks almost shabby"
mo matter for that, live in the
same block, and I know. But did
not say that was worth million of
money"
"Oh!"
The boy who was listening looked
rather disappointed. Still, he was
anxious to know what the other one
might have, anyhow, so he asked,
What, then?"
"He is what is called a millionaire
of cheerfulness He is merry and
bright the whole day long, not alone
when all Is sweetness and light, but
when it isn't. He has such pluck and
spirit, and such unfailing good ma
lure, LudL uc LuuSL nave uHlIOA w
draw upon, though he pays no taxes
upon his capital. You never see him
scowling or hear him whining. So
he scatters his fortune all about and
is blessing to the neighborhood. I
wish there were more millionaires Of
cheerfulness. There might be, If
everybody gathered UP all the sun.
shine to be had and gave 1t out as
royalty as Rob. who goes whistling
yonder."
Then I went on, leaving Dick to
wonder whether he we're as rich rs
Rob, and If not, why not.
A Bees Eye.
Did you ever look at bees eye
through very strong magnifying
glass.
1t is made up of lots of little eyes