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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-08

Hey! Fitz Patrick! Come here. you
BANKED BANKED blank of blank,
Come herei'
The scaIer swung leisurely down the
travoy trail and fronted the other with
level eyes.
"Well?'' said he.
why amt that log marked p"
Il culled it
Amt it sound and good? Is there a
mark on it? A streak of punk or rot d?
Amt it good timber? What tn blanks
tn matter With it? You, tried TO do me
out of that, you blank skunk"
a log is culled, or thrown out when
for any reason it will not make good
timber.
TN tell you. Jimmy Bourke" re-
piled F'itz Patrick calmly. 9TH stick
is sound and good, or was before your
murderin' crew got hold of it, but if
yen take squint at the butt of it, yen
see that your gang has sawed her on a
siX-inch slant. They've wasted a good
lot of tn log. 1 spoke of that afore
an now 1 give We warnin' that | Gull
every log. big or little, punk or sound.
that amt sawed square and true across
tn butt"
TIL log is sound an good. an yeIl
scale it. or I'll know tn reason Why"
Il viii not" replied Fitz Patrick
The following day he culled a log in
z
butt showed a slant of "A good six
inches. The day following he culIed
another of the same sort on still an
other skidway. He examined it close
ly. then sought the Rough Red
1t is useless. Jimmy Bourke.' said
he, ito be haulin' of that same poor log
! from slSidway to skidMay. You can
shift her to every tfavoy trail in tn
Crother's tract. but il will do We little
good. I'll Gull il wherever 7 find II
and never viii ye get tn scale Of that
log"
The Rough Red raised his hand, then
dropped it again. whirled away with a
curse, whiried back with another, and
spat out:
By -, Fitz Patrick. ye go too far,
we've bounded me and harried me
through tn woods all tn year, BY -
tbs good stick, an We shall scale it,
''Yo' an yore old fellows is robbers
alike!" cried one of the men.
Fitz Patrick turned on his heel and
resumed his work. The men ceased
theirs and began to talk.
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Rourke's natural enemy, and so of
every man in the crew with the posi-
BILE exception of the cook.
Fitz Patrick scaled honestly, for he
was Just man. but exactftude and OPP
timism of estimate never have approx
mated, and they did not in this case
I he Rough Red grumbled, accused.
swOre. threatened Fitz Patrick
smoked Peerless" and said nothing.
still. il was not pleasant for him alone
there in the dark wilderness fifty miles
from the nearest settlement, without
a human being with whom to exchange
friendly word.
The two men early came to a clash
over the methods of cutting The
Rough Red and his crew cut anywhere,
everywhere, anyhow. The easiest way
was theirs. Small timber they skipped.
large timber they sawed high, tops they
left rather than trim them into logs
Fitz Patrick would not have the pine
slaughtered
YEN bend your backs a little. Jim
my Bourke," said he, AN cut tn
stumps lower to tn ground. There's
a bunch of shingles at least in every
stump we've left. An YOU must saw
straighter- An tn contract calsl for
eight inches and over. mind We that
Don't go to skipping tn little ones be-
cause they won't scale ye high. It's
in the contract so. And I won't have
tn tops left. There's many a good log
in them, an ye trim them fair and
clean"
Go to hill, you shouted the
Rough Red Where the blazes did We
learn so much of loggin? I log tn way
me father logged, an I'm not to be
taught by high-banker from tn Mus
kegoni"
Never would he acknowledge the
wrong nor promise the imDrovement
but both were there. and both he and
Fitz Patrick knew it. The Rough Red
chafed frightfully, but In a way his
hands were tied He could do nothing
without the report: and it was too far
out 70 send for another scaler. even if
Daily would have given him one.
Finally, in looking over a skidway
he noticed that one log had not been
blue-penciled across the end. That
meant that it had not been scaled and
that in turn meant that he the Rough
Red, would not be paid for his labor
in cutting and banking it. At once he
began TO below through the woods
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Romantic Story of The Beers Buried Treasure

Each member took different direction.
with the understanding that if any found
the treasure 1t was to be split up into
equal proportions Only one member.
however, found the burial place. and he
was eX-General Celliers- The site was
between two peculiar trees. A red flag,
a sign, was stuck UP on one of the
trees, with a carcass of a mule In be-
tween one or the ribs of the mule being
imbedded in the ground where the gold
was buried. On returning to Petersburg
eX-General Celliers was Frustrated with
malarial fever in the hospital, and while
he was lowering between life and death
he divulged part of his secret TO the
other members of the syndicate. who,
however. after repeated searchings, failed
to find the spot. Some differences of
opinion followed, and ultimately the syn
dictate broke up. deciding severaily to go
their own way.
The government authorities, getting
wind of the whole affair. approached an
eX-state official residing at krukersdorp
and he supplied them with certain infor-
nation and a plan of the supposed site
While the government was acting on this
information. S. j. Kemp. cousin of the
ex-gcnerai. had revived a systematic
search. with the result Of the discovery.
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On Mrs. ChadwiCk's Mistake

has the lady done? AS understand it
she has negotiated a lot of worthless
securities. She has dumped a lot of
Carnegie notes that Mr. Carnegie never
saw on the market ard she has made
a pile of money out of them
Precisely said old Redface.
SIN other words she has got some
thing for nothing by the exercise OF
her wits and being a woman is now in
Jail for it," said the KnOcker- $50 fa-
so good Now Lev us look at the maScu-
line side of IL. Four years ago the
Hon. j. w. Bolivar. the Hot Air King
of the World. decided that he was get
ting too old to work eight hours a day,
so he gathered all his Hot Air plants
together and had 'em appraised They
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-01-08
By John KendriCk Bangs

fAN ES, SIX, said the KnoCker. set
Ting back in his chair and ours
ing his cigar because il had
dropped ashes all over his vest. ..yes
sir / am for Mrs. Chadwick ever.,,
time There's a woman, by lingo. that
i approve of. You don't catch her sit
ting home all day embroidering mot
toes on perforated cardboard with mink
and yellow floss requesting the Lord 10
pless NO. 81 Euclid avenue, Cleveland.
putting up nineteen different kinds of
raspberry jam from receipts in the Ia
oles Home Journal, and Worrying ber-
SER into nervous fit because some
astigmatic hen has laid an egg in her
husDands new silk hat. Shes not the
KIND or woman that makes her lord md
master slave nineteen hours = da1~ 70
keep her IN sable boas and marines
tickets. and IL she ever lost a rnfnIIte,s
sleep because the cook after drinking
= quart OF cooking sherry scrambIes
the SQUAD, and broils the French coffee
pot for her little luncheon to the Dor
cas- society of Colonel RockefeIler's lit
tie Standard Oil chapel she has suc
cesStuHy kept that moment of weak
ness from the public. When she needed
SS.OOo,0O0 pin money to keep herself i'm
tiaraS or TO buy ham sandwiches for
the poor Of Cleveland, she wouldn't get
up IN the dead OF night and go through
her sleeping husbands pocket to get il
but she put on her hat, went out 10
Oberlin on the first train and scooped
IN any little old national bank she
could find Strolling about the campus
II her butchers bill was a trife larger
than she expected il to be, did she com
pei the doctor to go out and cut off
somebody's leg in a quest for funds to
meet the deficit? Not on your life. She
bought a return ticket from Cleveland
10 Brookline, Mass, and borrowed all
terest. II a dOwntrodden cabman
charged her $3.50 for a 5O-cent drive
from the Grand Central station, New
York, 10 the Holland House did she
write 10 the mayor and have that poor
laDOrefS license revoked Never. She
paid UP and TO make good the over
charge she appointed Andrew Carnegie
trustee OF her sinking fund of $4,000
Oto drew sight drafts on il for s.. $50. 0OO
and issued these to holders of other
Carnegie securities for cash at par In
every way she has shown herself a re-
sOurcefui woman and SO considerable of
the wage earners of her household as
to become one Of the nineteen thou
sand wonders Of the world. I'm a sim
gle man myself. but I think il [ could
find a sweet young girl who would have
some Of that kindly consideration for
her husband that this woman has
shown for hers, I might be induced 10
risk my neck in the matrimonial
moose.
And a pretty pass she has come to-
calculated old Redface. with all her
consideration for her family, and with
all her resourcefulness amounting TO
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Behold in me a Christian martyr said
the late Sir William Vernon HarcourL.
when medical advice some years ago
he gave up smoking for a time. He was
previously one of the greatest lovers of
the weed in the house Of commons The
one thing which annoyed Mr. Gladstone
sometimes was the smoking of his col
leagues When his throat was giving him
self TO abstention from smoking. Former
" he would smoke ten 10 fifteen strong
cigars a day, and il was a hard fight for
him to give up the habit at his time of
life
Any violation of the regulation against
smoking by midshipmen at the United
States naval academy viii, in the future.
be treated with the utmost severity. The
navy department has announced in an
official communication to Captain Brown
son. superintendent of the naval academy.
that midshfpmen who violate this regUla-
ton will be dismissed There seems 10
have been a misunderstanding on the part
of midshipmen in regard TO this matter.
many of them acted under the assunnp-
ton that dismissal would only follow
repeated violation in one year OF the
smoking regulation.
silver tobacco pipe with stem TEN
inches long IS used by the Empress Of ia
pan The bowl is small-in fact only a
quantity Of tobacco sufficient to give the
smoker two three Whiffs can be put
into it. Then the ashes are knocked out
and the pipe is carefully cleaned before It
is refilled-a process gone through many
times in the course Of an afternoon
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We're found to worth about $3.50 coo, 900.
Then he calls in Mr.. j. Hammersley
Workbench the great reOrSanizer, and
between them they cook UP a scheme
to sell these Hot Air plants to the pub
lie. They get out first, second and
third mortgage bonds to the value Of
$3.50 coo, 900. These Bolivar and Work
emOff divide between themselves Then
they issue two grades Of stock. $780,
600 600 worth Of preferred shares, $780,
O00 600 worth of common shares. max
ing the total liability OF the Hot Air
plants 81 ,O50. 00O, 600. The shares both
common and preferred they sell to the
public at prices ranging from 40 to 81
in other words using the exact value
of the plants as an Offset to the bonded
Indebtedness which they keep for
themselves, they coin 80, O09, 600 worth
Of stock into $493. SOC, 900 good hard
round American dollars In still further
other words for nothing they get
nearly half a million. And what hap
penS2 Does Bolivar go to Jail? No,
sir, ne is made an LID. by all the col
leges in the land that need funds. He
goes to public dinners and airs his
views on the Simple Life. He presents
medical schools to the Zulus, and en-
dows chairs in Applied Christianity IN
the Universities Of Thfbet, Greenland
and Madagascar, and has TO employ
nineteen secretaries working six hours
a day to decline the invitations he re-
ceives to address religious Organiza-
lions all over the country And Mr.
J. Hammersley Workemoff-does he
sleep on a folding bed in a Cleveland
jail because he has pocketed the pro
ceeds of his share in the Hot Air
transaction? Not he, He takes
luncheon with the leading statesmen of
the day, plays pinOehIe with the King
Of England whenever he goes to Lon
don, is a patron of science and like
the Hon Bolivar. holds enough honor
airy degrees from needy colleges to
paper the walls of the pyramids inside
and out"
"H'm-well you're sore because you
were bitten, 1 guess" laughed old Red
face.
"Hm-yes. I am retorted the
| Knocker. 4 am just as sore against
Bolivar and Workemoff because they
have come into possession of my saw
ings as Mrs. Chadwicks creditors are
from her enterprises was their own
usuriOus interest charges
"Oh, We'll" said Redlace, rising.
you can talk as much as you please.
Knocker. 1 guess time Will show that
this Chadwick woman has made a bad
mistake"
She's made two of EN- said the
( Knocker. The first was in being born
a woman, and the second
''She stole?" said Redface.
NO" said the Knocker. she tried
to play the game of high finance with
ont knowing now
: copyrighted, 1904, BY X. H. Holmss.)
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greater portion Of the gold. which was
extracted from the Robinson. Rose Deep.
rerreira, and other mines. to a secluded
spot in the bushveld, beyond Peters
burg
1t was known by the old Transvaal Of
ficials that a wagon. with four mules,
accompanied by six specially selected
burghers, left Pretoria at midnight with
the gold. and vanished into the weld.
The ex-pOiiceman. Swartz. and the man
whom he murdered. and for which he
suffered the last penalty. were among
the party After burying the gold four
of the wardens of the treasure rejoined
the commanders; but luckleSs fate seem
ed 10 have pursued them. and they were
all killed shortly afterward. For some
time the search appeared to have died
out and IL was only through second or
third hand knowledge that a krugers-
dorp syndicate of six, including ex-Gen-
erals Kemp and Celliers, ex-Police Lieu
Tenant Van Zyl. w. d. Smith and 5. j.
Kemp cousin of the ex-general. found
out that there was state treasure buried
in the bushveld.
The party made repeated exploring
trips into the low country in the bad
season to escape observa ton. and most of
them were stricken with malarial fever.
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fort if women were permitted to de-
velop their Intelligence 70 the full. and
were fitted by education to get into
competition with us lords of creation.
When we see a cheap little Wilieboy
smoking cigarettes and drinking
cocktails we tell him what a fine man
he is and make him "A director of a
bank, and mention his name for the
legislature, but if we see a woman do
ing the same thing we hold up our
hands in holy horror and ask our
selves what the world is coming to.
When man has learned how TO use
all the cusS words i'm creation. to talk
loud, TO wear big diamond i'm his
shirt front, and to keep his right hand
from knowing what his left hand does
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SECTION THREE

They've kicked over tn stove
again, said Fitz Patrick, seating him
self on a stump. His eyes biazed with
wrath and bitterness.
cook.
'-sit here" replied Fitz Patrick, grim
The cook started forward.
StoP." shouted the scaler. fierceIy.
If you move a step, III break your
The cook stared at him through
saucer eyes.
But they'd be burnt aIive," he OBJ
Jected, wildly.
They ought TO be-" snarled the
scaler. 1T amt their fault I'm here TO
help them. It's not their own deed that
m not lying beyant there in tn forest,
unable 10 help myself. Do you under
stand? I'm yet out there in tn woodsl''
All. wirra. wirrai' walled the cook
wringing lis hands TIL poor Iads!''
He began to weep.
Fitz Patrick stared straight In front
of him for moment Then he struck
his forehead. and with wonderful aEil-
ity. considering his injuries he had but
just received. tore down the hill in the
direction of the smolderinE cabin The
cook followed him joyfully. Togsther
they put out the fire. The men snored
like beasts. undisturbed by all the tn
multi.
It's tn SOLE heart We have, AFTER
all, Fitz," said the cook, delightedly, as
the two washed their hands in Drepara-
ton for q. lunch. ''Ye could not bear
t see tn lads burn
Fitz Patrick glowered at him for an
instant from beneath his square broWs.
They can 20 to he'll for all Of me-
he answered finally. but my people
want these logs put in this winter. an
there's nobody else to put them in"
lC,.;l+ - G. {. NTc,1r,r, ca
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in this way for a moment, he sinks
down TO the ground, curled up with the
tip of his nose near the root of the tall
and with HIS thick brush covering his
feet and face. / have seen foxes lying
thus i'm the early morning, sometimes
with little but their black ear tips
sticking out above the snow which had
fallen since they lay down. And ] have
seen them get up, yawn and stretch
themselves with their hind feet, and
trot off, possibly in search of some
partridge imprisoned in a snow bank
Then 1 turned and followed the trail
straight TO the spruces. through it and
down to the valley Here il was Joined
by another trail. also fox's. but some
what smaller, probably that of a vixen.
At the point where the trails met. the
snow was much cut up. showing per-
maps where the foxes had romped to-
gether when they met. have seen two
foxes at the moment OF meeting. romp
together like kittens. whining and smil-
ing with evident delight. Sometimes
one will lie down. and survey the other,
meanwhile wagging his brush in a way
which leaves no doubt of his pleasure.
From this point the two foxes had gone
off together. for the two trails led
away, side by side. sometimes coming
together, and sometimes separating for
stretches of varying length.
The next trail came across was of
a very curious pattern. and looked as
though it might have been made by
plunging a dumbbell into the snow
lengthwise every two feet. AS matter
of fact. ii had been made by an elk.
Every time this great heavy beast had
taken a stride. his foot had broken
through the crust, making a round hole
then, as he leaned forward before
taking the next stride, his comparative
~ narrow shin had cut a narrow chan
mel through the crust. and then. as he
drew the foot out, he made another
round hole, the two holes, OF course, be-
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with the campaign funds we me'-
a governor, or a senator, OF member
of congress. but if his wife joins a
woman'S club and tries to do some
thing to make the railway companies
supply their motOrmen with ear tabs
during the winter season there isn't Il
tupDenny joker in the land who doeSn'
feel that he is entitled to write funny
para graphs about her and to make her
name part OF his stock in trade"
Your persistent knocking destroys
your point of view said OLD Redface.
Has or has not this woman COM
mitted a crime -
That's just the question" retOrted
the KnOckeT. HAS SheZ Is there a
sex ,ine in crime?'' Well lets see. What
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A Tramp i'm The Snow.

T HAD showed hard, thawed. frozen
and showed again. and for the trav-
eler unprepared the walking was
about as bad as it could be The snow
was deep, and just beneath the soft up
per coverings there was a crust which
would hold you-almost 1t was the
kind Of crust which supports you until
you put the very last ounce of your
weight upon the forward foot. and then
let's you down with a thump. and cuts
your knee as you bend forward for the
next stride. But the snow shoeing was
perfect. so I donned a pair of snow
shoes and got out into the Blue noun
tain forest
The first thing to attract my atten-
ton was the trail of a fox. which ran
from ledge of rocks on a hillside. and.
extending across stretch of open pas
ture land disappeared in d thicket of
spruCes. The track was very much like
that OF small dog, and the differences
were easier to see than TO describe
Perhaps the footprints were a trifie
longer and narrower. for their size, than
those OF most dogs would be. and per
haps they were arranged more nearly
IN a straight line. But as HINTON the
guide. would say. they didn't look just
l.74tS AoA a uoss diln perhaps, dIleT ALL
that's as much of a comparison as most
OF us could give ! followed the back
track as far as the ledge and there
near the edge of the rocks, and at a
point commanding a good view of the
country below, was a round depression
in the snow, where the fox had lately
curled himself up for a nap. When a
fox = going to lie down to sleep. he
usually walks around in a little circle
having a diameter Shorter than his own
length. since he half eurls himself up
while still on his feet. After pivoting
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sight. Result she was put in Jail and
burned at the stake. Mrs. Chadwick
turns herself into captain Of finance
loads her notebook to the muzzlc.
sharpens UP her wits and goes out into
the field and puts all the national banks
in Ohio to flight, casts the steel trust
into the shade. and gives the leading
money kings of the hour pain in the
back that utterly destroys all their
powers of lOcomotion. Result. she. too.
is cast into prison and roasted by the
press from one end of the country to
the other. It's all because she is a wo-
man and because we Of today like the
men of old want TO keep the sex in sub
lection. Maybe its wise on our part.
but its wrong just the same 1t would
interfere materially with mans COM
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From sonth Africal

G'rom South Africa)
News was received at Krugersdurp
recently of the discovery in the bushveld
beyond Louis Trichardts Drift and the
Spelonken of the famous buried treasure
which was secretly removed from the
Pretoria mint just before Lord Roberts 5
forces entered the capital. and which
formed the romantic issue in the tragedy
eliminating in the execution of expo
hceman Swartz. The treasure which
consists of bar gold and coin approx
mately. amounts TO 10000 ounces and is
valued at quarter of a million sterling
The story of it's burial and recovery is
sensational in the extreme. 1t is a his
tory of blood and crime. no less than six
men having lost their lives in the burial
and the subsequent search for the gold
wh oh has lasted since the declaration
of peace. OF the original party which was
patched 10 hide the gold, not single
soul is alive today 1t appears that some
twenty-four hours before the occupation
OF Pretoria by the imperial forces or
ders were received at the mint from
The late President Kruger and Mr. Reitz
the then state secretary. TO remove the
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The Reflections of q KnOCker

millions of dollars. where is she? In
jan. hnOcker. my boy. and likely to
remain there for some time to come"
on, tush, Redface,' retorted the
knocker. "A man # your usual good
sense doesn't blame the woman for
that, hope. 1t isn't her fault that she
is in Jail. It's the fault of this rotten
system of ours which frowns upon
every woman who goes out into the
world and tries to do something for
herself. From the DAYS Of Joan of Arc
down to this moment it has been the
same What happened to the lovely
Joan is now happening to Mrs. Chad
Wick. Joan put on a major generals
uniform and loaded her Mauser. sharp
ened up her sword and went out into
the field and walloped everything in
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By Ernest Harold BayneS

ing. The wind was in my favor so,
under cover of the trees. / approached
him, making as little noise as l could.
He was a fine stag. with one large six
pointed antler. IT is not yet time for
the elk to shed their horns. so perhaps
he had lost his other weapon in combat
with some rival. for male elk often fight
furiCusly in the autumn. Suddenly,
from not far distant hillside came a
loud. startling waugh" and looking. I
saw band of about twenty elk, stand
ing deep in the snow, and watching me
intently. There were two or three
young stays among them, but most of
them were docs and large faMns. a