Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-04

was a need for a shore light on the
spot. the channel being frequented
and difficult. So after many negotia-
tions with the Commissioners of
Northern Lights a little secondhand
electric plant was procured, VIII CHI
threw a beam sufficiently bright to
reach the Sherry.
eve must keep a boy" said Dick
and Billy. simultaneously. Then they
added, "but where can we find one?
Boys" And with complete unanim-
ity they compared the male youth OF
the human species to the younger
angels who kept not their first estate.
Only these were not the words they
used - something shorter and brisk
er satisfied Dick and Billy.
Dick looked at Billy and Billy look
ed back at Dick.
might about, 0 and me?' 'inquir-
ed Billy.
"Till We drop" returned the faith
full Dick.
"The boy can do some cleanin' up,
with one of us to look after him, ne
added thoughtfully.
what about Emma Smith," sug
gested Billy; 81 am noways clear
!. about, havin' boys,snear the light. They
are foreverapullin' handles and trying
]. capers-" ,sfs =
+ They're not all as bad as that one
. that called you-'
t Never mind ~ + know what he
) called me- cut in Billy, whom this
E particular Renaissance aroused, as
Q Dich was perhaps aware "~red-headed
NAV he b1t ~'red-nosed' [ am not and
d never was!"
d 1t did not occur to either of them
/! that up Or the face OF the Heugh
e above the ~Portogarten they had left a
i, certain boy considerably short
a funded. In Mining, perhaps more
n than in any other human occupation,
q a comfortable bank-balance is neces-
sary to success. 1t is not like sweep
II ing a crossing, or writing books, or
1T picking up nuggets among the gravel
v of some "wash-out.' You must have
ID people to dig for you-big-boned PEG.
pie. mostly Irish, all hungry and
r thirsty-particularly thirsty, with a
II thirst that increases as payday draws
I" nearer. With such men cash down
n. is the sine qua non. No money. no
le navy!
le But the cash-figure, and particularly
IN the name of Jacob Romer at the bot
TX tom Of the cheque handed in by
in philip Calmont in person." improved
the commercial standing OF the Porto
to garten Mine wonderfully. The cashier
Ill showed the blush slip to his chief
he with immense k~nowingness, and the
vn chief gratfed him by noddn g and
smiling. Their opinion was very much
lis that Of Messrs, Hector McKill and
Is Walter Grinding. :.
lie AT it again-he can't let It alone!'
#. was their unspoken com-.ent. Ano
al next Sunday both inquired privately
ce Of Phil is a share or two could be go1
at any reasonable figure in the new
tie Portogarten Pit. Phil knew the wis
dom of gratifying such men, and he
m. spoke to hig chief on the subject. The
moment was not well chosen, n Of
the electric fittings of the mali
"heam' not having come up to time
Cd But Billy Bryan told Phil to do as hi
4. liked. not to come bothering hin
is about every little trife. Little things
,re meant things ~unconnected with thu
he lighthouse = big things the contrary
Dick Finnan was already busy paint
,es in inside = all best regulation color
and had plentifully %bedabbled his gra.
.ng whiskers and the side of his nos
,es with bright green. "Unc Barny" ha'
are connected. but all the money tina
,ad had seer sent by the New York law
NV yers was urgently needed for tn
is. new installation On the Point. Phi
IAN upon the Heush, alone with his "sini
elp ers'' and pitmen. must get along a
best he could. ct makes the boy wi
hat. his spurs said Billy, without tn
he least thought Of plagiarising the fail
er OF the Black Prince.
.wo Only one at the Cottage o. Roug
bill Island (which, by the way, was ne
ID an island. hut only a peninsula) b
hid thought herself - yes, CT course
il was a her - of Door. semi-aboneone
D. Phil Calmont. keeping his end up {
led best he could among the rough pi
Who lads and noisy %tssinkers'' On the heue
ore of Portogarten:
The little white cottage sat 10
line down in a cove where of old tin
III; they had landed many cargoes of Is
pa O. Man brandy. Hollands eau.de-v
axe and other potent waters. 1t was clos
line lv beset with high cliffs on the OF
OF side those in which Phil was sin
UP ing his name = and packed in On Il
MS ether by a Jungle of cay
be- and arches, sandy lanes and passag
in which children could play half II
a day = but through which, the gre
Atlantic water, hardly checked
lrny altered by its passage through Pa
ally dv's slan. roared and shouted. 1