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lance into the wind-ridden deluge
ahead and the soaking road-bed was
none too good; but it was a race be-
tween Shelburn and the food and the
stake was great. Oliver took chances
he never took before. He prayed to
the saints that Vinson, in the des-
patcher's chair, had wire with which
to clear the way for him and strove
intently to see further into the lumi-
nous wall of gray that steadily re-
treated before him. For the rest he
could only trust blindly to the stand
ing luck of an Irishman." Ninety
minutes the three men in the cab
rode through the storm with death
never far away, but the wires and the
luck and the rails held, and as they
rounded curve the first signs of the
struggle lay before them.
For long distance back from the
bridge the tracks were congested with
stalled trains, while on the sidings of
the little storage yard their engines
had been pressed into service to han
die material cars. Atlantics, Pacifics,
moguls, consolidateds, and little four
wheeler from a local, worked impair
TALLY at their lowly task.
Carried along almost without effort
by the gale at his back, Shelburn
walked rapidly past freight train,
then the local passenger, another
freight, train Of frightened bawling
cattle, and long string of sober-hued
Pullmans Just back of these last was
the private car of a great singer. Art
lists, passengers, brutes, and freight
awaited alike the mad will Of the river
that would not let them across. AS
Shelburn hurried down the tracks he
caught above the roar of the gale and
the angry waters the wonderful voice
of the singer in her car. Something
of the spirit of the night was in her
soul as she sang. die Walkire' on
the river-bank in the storm where men
and Nature fought in primeval rage
for the possession of a bridge! The
engineers head went up as though he
heard call to battle and, half believ-
ing, his eyes swept the inky clouds
for sight of the Valkyries riding in
thunder.
In sheltered spots ahead fires
cleaned where kettles of coffee for the
workers were kept boiling. Swirling
smoke from the engines drove hori-
zontally from their stack through the
deluge. Men hurried to and fro,
breathless. tense-faced. mud-spattered
from head to foot, their eyes red from
loss of sleep and burning with the
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The Durham dam gone! The chief
groaned. Sixty-one miles above the
bridge it had held back the waters of
the North Fork. Now in two hours
the crest of the greater flood would be
upon the scene of the battle where
already there was scant seven feet
between the muddy foam-crested
waves and the ties.
Could he come? For ten minutes
he fought 1t out with himself. Hol-
comb was already on the way. Down
there at the river they needed him.
His bridge needed him. Yet dearer to
him than all his beloved bridges were
the little lad overhead and his mother.
He owed them more than he did the
road. Then for one illuminated in
slant he saw with clearness the con-
sequences to thousands of others, the
suffering bodily and mentally that would
follow the breaking of the railroads
line. He recognized the immutable
law of the rails, that come what may
they must be kept open; only to feel
anew that he could not leave at such
a time. Don't go away, Daddy. I'm
afraid" were the child's words when
he had left him few moments before,
and now his brain was filled with
their piteous appeal.
Back and forth he wrested for lit
tie space and then he mounted the
stairs. OF railroad stock for two gen.
erations was the woman who met him
at their head. Bred in her was all the
quiet heroism of the women whose
men are the servants of the Traffic.
She knew something of the havoc be-
ing wrought, and in his grave eyes she
read the answer to the question in her
own.
Tell the despatcher's onice every
hour how he is" he said, "and they
will let me know If the worst should
: come can get back in an hour or two.
Goodbye. little girl" And in a great
rush of tenderness he bent oyer her.
To the very fullest she understood
For one passionate moment she chung
to him, then she looked up into his
fine strong face. "I'm proud of you,
my own big man." she said softly.
Now go. Laddie and I will come
through beautifully" Then she
helped him into his greae> rubber coat
and he was out in the night
Limbs torn from trees by the gale
impeded his progress: street1amps
were out, their wires down in the gen
eral wreckage. Climbing over OBJ
stacles, bending his head against the
driving rain, stumbling and cropping in
the darkness, he reached the station
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was carried far out over the river by
the gale. Immediately men appeared
fighting rneir way back into the teeth
of the storm to regain the shore A
sound like the soughing of the wind
through a thousand, thousand pines,
not loud yet seeming to dominate all
others, grew and grew. Another light
ming flash revealed the peril. Just
above the bridge, stretching from bank
to bank, great wave bore down on it,
The Durham food had come
Clean and bare it swept the bridge.
The heavily loaded cars were whirled
and tumbled about and smashed
against the Orders. The water poured
over the embanFment, tore resistlessly
at the earthwork and flooded the rails
far back from the bridge. Fires were
put out and the men driven to the
higher ground. The previous flood
stage had been as a spring freshet to
and flowing three feet above the tracks
on the bridge, the Crazy made its
final assault upon the thing 1t hated
Grim and awful was the struggle now
in which the human allies of the
bridge could only watch and wait It
must make it's fight alone and the
worn-out men slept wherever they
dropped down on the rain-soaked
ground, sprawling grotesquely like the
dead on a battlefield. Against the
fast-graying sky in the east Shelburn
doomed large as he waited for an en-
CINE to be sent down to bear him
home. The downpour had ceased and
the wind was dying away. New fires
blazed and smoked feebly because of
wet fuel. The Chief found his mus
cles rigid and his jaw aching with
his sympathetic tension at the strain
he knew the bridge was enduring. 1t
was as though he beheld the agony of
WEAKNESS of some vast dumb animate
Thing.
Relentlessly the swollen river hurled
itself against the structure Never a
seconds rest did it get as the swirling
waters strove to overwhelm and rend
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Noticed into backing over on it to help
hold it down while Fifty-four was
crossing; was hurrying back to safer
ground. The workers on the tracks
scattered again before the approach of
the cars of stone that shot through the
light Of the fires and out on to the
bridge, and the scarce-interrupted
fight was in progress once more.
On the storm-swept bank Shelburn,
with anxiety for his little lad gnawing
increasingly at his soul, set his face
like a mask to hide his suffering and
watched the Sbattle, directing the re-
pulse of the enemy. More cars of
broken stone were pushed out on the
embankment where muddy, half
drowned men fought the raging stream
desperately with earth and rock and
huge mattresses of brush.
A hurrying, anxious figure struggled
through the press, seeking the Chief.
1t was the operator, with news that
the wires were gone to the south.
Message coming for you when they
failed" he added. 81 only got two
words of it. Laddie u.s. before they
were lost"
Better no word at all than those two
which meant the scales had turned,
but gave no hint of whether they
stood for life or death. Everything
faded from the big engineers vision
except woman who was needing him
as she bent over child in whom
their very heart-strings were bound up.
Allah, be merciful to me a coward"
he groaned. 81 can't stand this. I've
got to go back to them and know"
Heaven and earth careened and
rocked and were split asunder by a
bolt of lightning that made all things
lighter than day. Balls of blue fire
skipped over the wind-lashed waters
and from point to point Of the steel
work Of the bridge. For one little
moment the wind died and great
far-off murmur was heard that carried
monstrous nameless menace in its
sound. Then came the thunder, peal
on peal, booming, echoing, rumbling,
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beneath the yellow river. A tremen
dous wave spread out over it and, as
though in mockery, its edge Tapped the
boots of the man whom the water had
beaten. His head and shoulders bowed
beneath the bitterness Of the blow. In
addition to his benumbing WEAKNESS
there settled upon him like leaden
cloud the conviction that down under
the flood lay part of his best work and
of a still more priceless thing, his
reputation. Only an engineer can
know in the fullest the heartsickness
of such loss. Instinctively the others
drew back from him as though it were
indecent to look boldly upon the
strong mans helplessness and defeat.
The Crazy swept on through the
great gap in the rails. The sun burst
through the clouds and the crests of
the river hills were touched with
glory, but Shelburn did not see His
face was gray beneath the CRIME as
he swung UP into the cab Of McCul-
lough's engine and the little engineer
peering into it, knew how he would
look when he was old. Oliver said
nothing-there was absolutely nothing
to say-and he reached for throttle
and sand-rod. Twice the steam had
shot kissing out through the cylinder
cocks when the mud-covered, unkempt
figure of the operator bore down on
the engine, leaping the PROSTATE, forms
of the weary sleepers as he ran. Mes
sage for Mr.. Shelburn!" he called as
he grasped the hand-hold on the
tender.
Eyes, know" said the Chief DULY
as he took it. "The boys dead He
couldn't have lived through the night
/ knew that when came"
The telegrapher gave him a curious,
searching glance as he dropped Of
Better read it," he suggested
When Shelburn looked up from the
paper he discovered that It was the
most beautiful day since the world
began. For the first time he noticed
that oliver and his fireman we're the
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men. Landslides threatened where
they did not fall, washouts came with
out warning. Boyd, of the Mantle
nance of Way, had slept four hours in
seventy-two; Shelburn, Chief Engineer.
not at all. At his great bridge over
the Crazy, Mahoney, his young assist
ant, had been working and watching
for two days.
Three other bridges had the river
wreeted from the railroad. With the
loss Of the third Holcomb had brought
from the west tall bronzed man who
had tunnelled the Rockies, spanned
mountain streams in the Himalayas,
and put q pair of rails through the
desert past the cataracts of the Nile.
This was Shelburn, and he had held
the river bound and helpless between
the piers of the bridge he had thrown
across 1t. Spring after spring Il had
gone stark raving crazy, tearing tooth
and claw at abutment and pier, foam
ing, frenzied. swirling, yellow demon
of a stream gone utterly mad. But
never in the memory of the Oldest
crossing 1agman had there been a
week like the past one. Never had the
big bridge battled for its existence as
it was doing now. And the reports
from the upper reaches Of the river
foreboded ominous things.
The chief himself should be there;
only one thing could keep him away.
But overhead was that one thing
the tiny son whom Gods finger was
almost touching. The crisis would
probably come this night the doctors
said, so the Chief Engineer was re-
AZ he -4f
alton by wire, torn by varying anxi-
cites, yet outwardly calm, master of
himself and his emotions. Every few
minutes there came to him echoes of
the fight with the elements without
and OF that with q greater enemy in
the room above. Again the bell rang.
"Six-thirty. 35.4. Still rising. Ma
honey" was the message. Scarcely
had the door. closed before the tele-
phone was calling him. 1t was Nc
Kelly with word that in Pine Creek
gorge six miles Of track that had been
under water all day had gone out
:, along with high wooden trestle.
That meant that the Mineral division
was cut in two for a week to come.
But II Shelburn's bridge held the main
line would be kept open.
At seven o'clock came the news,
"S6 feet. Still rising. Have ordered
more men and twelve cars Of stone
from Pilot Junction" Along with it
was a note from Bancroft saying that
the wires were still good as far as the
bridge, but were gone beyond Pilot
Junction, north OF there. Outside the
rain fell' ceaselessly, dripping, splash
ing, driven against the window-panes
by furious gusts Of wind. The wet
branches Of tree creaked and beat
against the house as though in agony.
Overhead were soft footballs and an
occasional little cry Of pain that cut
the man like knife.
Hourly the river rose and the fury
Of the wind and rain increased. Every
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"Six P. M. S4.6 feet. Still rising"
read the brief report that was handed
to Shelburn by q dripping messenger
from headquarters. 1t was the night
Of the seventh day of almost unremit-
tent rain, the night of the Storm on
the Blue Ridge division. Since noon
the Crazy River had been justifying
its name, rising in leaps and bounds,
fed by raging tributaries in the hills.
There was gloom in the sky, gloom in
the hearts Of the bridge and roadway
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Here the big passenger engine that he
had asked Bancroft for was waiting
to take him to the bridge.
Praise the Virgin, the winds be-
hind US on this rum" said the why
little engineer, Oliver Mccullough, as
they sped out through the great yard
that covered dripping and almost de-
serted in the storm. The headlight
only sent its ray half the usual dis
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train possible was annulled and the
sidings began to fill to overlooking. At
eleven o'clock Mahoney's report read,
"43.6. Rising faster. Am putting
steam-shoyel to work at Monica get
ting out rock. Need more men. Looks
bad"
On, its heels came another: Durham
reports dam just gone out on head
waters. Can you possibly come? Ma
honey"
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shaking the solid ground beneath it.
But in that moments comparative
calm Shelburn caught the significance
Of the mufled roafing.
Whistle the men OF the bridge!"
he yelled &c the engineer of a passing
locomotive, and. as other engines
joined III, a wild chorus of warning
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limb from limb this man-made Great
ure that ventured to oppose them.
Down beneath the surface there was a
mighty trembling Of truss and beam.
Like an artillery fusillade came the
swapping of bolts and rods. The su-
perstructure parted from the piers,
poised for a moment, and slid slowly
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handsomest men he had ever beheld
and that the big engines thunderous
exhaust were singing exultantly, Lad
die is safe, Lad-die is safe!"
God! What hideous nightmare
it all was" he said to himself as they
fed homeward through the glorious
freshness Of that summers morning.
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BY AUTHORITY.
NOTICE OF SALE or PUBLIC
LANDS. J,

The following lands situated on
School street, Honolulu, and at Olaa,
Puma, Hawaii, will be offered for sale
at public auction at the following up
set prices. at IL o'clock noon. Satur-
day, August 10, 1912, at the front door
to the Capitol Building. Honolulu:
(1) Remnant at School street, con-
tanning an area of 1850 square feet,
more or less. Upset price. $125.
t2) Remnant on makai lire of
School street, containing an area of
Il, 900 square feet Upset price, $3.50,
(3) Lots Alb and 7B, Block "a"
Olaa, Puma, Hawaii, containing an area
of 4.S4 acres. Upset price, $145.2o. The
same being sold as a railroad right
of-way and not for residence purposes.
Terms of sale: Cash.
Purchaser to pay cost Of patent and
stamp. 4..rt@+ rsss--es,. 49,
For maps and further particulars,
apply at the office of the Commissioner
of Public Lands, Capitol Building, Ho-
nolulu. --><'t -E-
JOSHUA D. TUCKER,
Commissioner of Public Lands.
Dated at Honolulu June 6, 1912.
5257-June 6, Is, 20, 81; July s, II, IS,
rs; Aug /, 9
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REcoR1tIN

Complete returns are now at hand
of our foreign commerce for the fiscal
year ending June 80. Our total for
eign trade amounted to $31, 1851, 000, 900
which was $2S0e00,0O0 in t..cess of
the previous veal, and mu the larg-
est on record. Our exports in that
period were $2,;O4 900 900, also a re.
cord-breaking total, and $154,00o,0 900
in excess of last year. Importations
broke the record reaching 1853 ,00O,-
600, or s126,0OOp0O in excess of last
year. These fiafres leave an excess
of exports over imports amour ing to
S550,0O0,OOO, which was only surpass-
ed once, in 1908. when the excess was
$3.50, 00,000.-Henry Clews.
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LEGAL NOTICES.
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT. FIRST

IN THE CIRCUIT. COURT, FIRST
Circuit, of the Territory OF Hawaii
AT Chambers. Jennie Lopes VS.. Al
.exander Antoine Lopes. Notice of PEN
deney of Libel. Upon reading and FL
ing Iibellant's motion and affidavit
showing that the address or residence
of said libellee is not known and that
libellant has been unable to ascertain
the same after reasonable inquiry or
search for more than six months af-
ter the fling of the hhellant's libel;
1t is hereby Ordered. that notice be
given to the libellee to appear before
the Hon VIM. L. Whitney. Second
Judge, at his chambers in the court
room of this Court in the old Y M.
G. A Building in Honolulu on Satur-
day, October 5, 1912, at 8 o'clock a. m.
of said day, and show cause why the
prayer of libellant for decree of di-
vorce may not be granted. Honolulu,
T. H. July g. 1912 BY the Court
j. A DOMINIS, Clerk
5297-July %; Aug I, s. Is. %. 80
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SEALED TENDERS.

Sealed Tenders will be received by
the Superintendent of Public Works
up to II m. of Tuesday, August 90,
1912, for constructing a Water Reser-
-voir for the Honolulu Water Works
on Rocky Hill, Honolulu.
Plans. specifications and blank forms
of proposal are on file in the office of
the Superintendent of Public Works.
The Superintendent of Public Works
reserves the right to reject any and all
tenders.
MARSTON CAMPBELL,
Superintendent of Public Works.
Honolulu, July 81, 1912.
5302-10t
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REPORTED TWO AMERICANS
MURDERED 6Y OROzCC

B, MEXICO CITY, July 31.Two
Americans have beln murdered by the
Mexican bandits, Rder the direct or
ders, it is alleged lof General Orozco.
It is not known hire what the names
of the unfortunatSs were, and few de
tails of the affair3hav become known
at the government offices here. tits
the rebels in AM effort to force the
United States I'd intervene at once
and SO. stop the conflict, which has
now grown hopeless.
From Juarez DIMES. the news that
orozco, when notified by Consul Ed
wards that SECRETARY Knox had for,
warded note d protest against the
treatment of Americans in Chihua-
hua, declined toIreceive the commun-
ication, deelaring that he did not
recognize the Tilted States"
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lna: area 2zz7 acres more or less !.
being the Moo Alma or Puhalohua
at Kapahdlu. PaIolo.
IL. L c. A. 1865. r. p. 347s to Kali
Iauapule, APPS. / and 2 in Kappa
huiu. PaIolo; area 1898 acres more
or less. .
rs. l.. c. A. 1853, r. r. 1910 to Ke-
= aka, APPS. and 2; area $40 acre
more or less in PaloIo.
10. L. c. A. 2524B, r. p. 5643, Ap. TO
heirs Of Peter Anderson; land
known as Keoululoa in PaIoIo;
area 3 acres more or less
20. l.. C. A. 1897, r. l.. sos to Ohule,
APPS. and 2 at Palolo; area 1872
acre more or less.
p. All that piece or parcel of land
situate between APPS. and OF r.
p. 1910, L. G. A. 1853 to Keaka,
and described as follows: Com
mencing at the north corner of APP.
Of said patent and running along
Kuauna along Kaululoa to the west
corner of Ap. 2 of said patent:
thence along Kuaura along Ap. 2
= TO the south corner of same: thence
along Waiamao to the east corner
Of said Ap. J.; thence along said
APP. / to place of commencement,
comprising two ,kalo patches. the
above mentioned and described
premises being the same that were
conveyed to Bruce Cartwright by
S. Kauai by deed dated March %,
1896, and recorded in the Office Of
the Registrar Of conveyances,
=. Book 15S, pages 1S2-184. -
r.. A parcel in Kapahulu and Waia-
lae-iki, consisting OF Lot SO of the
! survey of the Rapahulu Lots, as
shown on Registered Map No. 1902,
on file with the Government Sur
vey Office; being part of the iii of
Kapahulu; L. C. A S559B, Apana
3, to w. c. Lunalilo, and part of
the land OF WaiaIae- Xxi, L. c.. A.
10613, r. p. 3578 to A. Paki; area
=, 1885 acres more or less.
9. L. C. A. 1858, R. P. 374o to Ka-.
t1akauila, Apanas and 2; area
las acres more or less ~. !. d.
a. L. C. A. 1915. r. p. 2556 to Lioe at
Pukele. PaIolo; area EGG acre more
! or less.
5. L. @. A. s415B. R. P. 1852 to Kaa :
hui, at Palolo; area 2.4acres more
or less :. W
6. I. c. A. S559B to VIC. Lunalilo,
Apana 2. Section /; a portion of
Kapahulu; area 36.93 acres more
or less: being the same land con-
veyed by the trustees under the
Will of w c. LunaIilo to Kaua
(w) and Naiwi her husband. re-
corded in the Register of Convey
ances, Book 20, page 403.
Also such rights as the said Com
any may have in and to any water
rays in Palolo Valley, including the
Mahoe Auwai; Kahamanu
Iuwai; Pukele Stream; Humu Auwai;
vailupe Ditch; Waiomao Stream; La
uli Auwai; Kaulu Auwai; Piilani Au-
raj; Kaneohoku Auwai; Auwai from
lam No. i; Kapuhi Auwai; Kukelia
luwai: Hapuna AuWai; Keaunaia Au--
raj; Kaauwaeloa Auwai.
(Seal)
And have you then there this Writ
18th full return of your proceedings
hereon.
WITNESS the Honorable Presiding
Judge of the Circuit Court of the First
'ircuit at Honolulu aforesaid, this nth
ay OF May. a. ID. 1912.
tSgd.) ]. A. DoMINIs.
216-3Y11 80 Clerk
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SEALED TENDERS.

r Sealed Tenders will be received by
the Board of Harbor Commissioners
up until 2 p. m. of Wednesday, Au-
gust Z, 1912, for the construction of
sidewalk in front of the Alakea street
slip and Richards street wharf, Homo
lulu. --z=-.. S.
Specifications and blank forms of
tender are on file in the office of the
Department of Public Works, Capitol
Building.
The Board of Harbor Commissioners
reserves the right to reject any or all
tenders
MARSTON CAMPBELL,
Chairman, Board of Harbor Commits
SiOnerS.
Honolulu, July %, 1912. 5294-10t