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eyes widened in wonder as he did the
work of three powerful men. When
the ship had been warped in and the
slack of the line made fast on the
bits, she said:
"Please run ford and help my
father with the bowlines. You're
worth three foremost hands. Indeed,
I didn't expect to see sailor on this
dock"
Il had to come around the Horn
to get here, Miss" he explained, "and
when man hasn't money to pay for
his passage, he needs must work it."
I'm the second. mate" she explain
ed. 1--WE had a succession Of gales
from the Falklands to the Evan
gelistas, and there the mate got her
in irons and she took three big ones
over the taffrail and cost us eight
men. Working short-handed, we
couldn't get any canvas on her to
speak of-long voyage, you know, and
the rest of the crew got scurvy."
you're brave girl" he told her.
"And you're first-class A. b." she
replied. "If you're looking for berth,
M father will be glad to ship you"
SORRY. but can't CO." he called as
he turned toward the companion lad
der. I'm Cardigan, and 1 own this
sawmill and must stay here and look
after It"
There was a light, exultant feeling
In his middleaged heart as he scamp
cred along the deck. The girl had
wonderful dark auburn hair and brown
eyes, with milk-white skin that sun
and wind had sought In vain to blem-
ish. And for all her girlhood she was
q woman-bred from race (his own
people) to whom danger and despair
merely furnished tonic for their
courage. What mate for man
And she looked at him pridefully.
They were married before the ship
was loaded, and on a knoll of the
logged-over lands back of the town
and commanding a view of the ban
with the dark-forested hills IN bark
and the title second-growlh rad
fourishing in the front var
b the finest home in
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"MovIE STUFF" IN REAL LIFE
Mountaineer Is Accused Of Killing
Father Of Girl He Wanted
to Marry.

Whitesburg, Ky.-Edith Sergent
aged seventeen, denied she had loved
the young mountaineer accused OF
Staying her father, when Uriah Bates
and his brother Bobbie went on trial
for the murder of Elijah Sergent. Ser.
gent was killed two days after Uriah
Bates was indicted on charge Of per-
jury in connection with securing mar.
riage license to wed the Sergent girl
He gave her age as twenty-five. The
father was lured to the mountains and
slain and his body was thrown into
a ravine, where it was found two
weeks later.
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Scottish Center Of industry,

Dundee ranks as one Of the leading
industrial and commercial centers in
northeastern and central Scotland.
The district Of Dundee is the center
Of the jute industry in the United
Kingdom and practically all the raw
jute imported into the country, which
averages 100000 bales annually, liz
consumed there. 1t is the staple in,
dustry of Dundee and employs nor
mally about $4,000 workers.
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CHAPTER I.

In the summer of 1850 topsail
schooner slipped into the cove under
Trinidad head and dropped anchor at
the edge of the kelp-fields. Fifteen
minutes later her small-boat deposited
on the beach a man armed with long
squirrel rifle and an axe, and carrying
food and clothing in brown canvas
pack. From the beach he watched
the boat return and saw the schooner
weigh anchor and stand out to sea
before the northwest trades. When
she had disappeared from his ken, he
swung his pack to his broad and pow
erful back and strobe resolutely into
the timber at the mouth of the river
= The man was John Cardigan; in
that lonely, hostile land he was the
first pioneer. This is the tale Of
Cardigan and Cardigan's son, for in
his chosen land the pioneer leader in
the gigantic task of hewing path
was to know the bliss of wOman's love
and of parenthood, and the sorrow
that comes of the loss of perfect
JOY OF accomplishment and worldly
success after infinite labor; and in
the sunset of life he was to know the
dull despair of failure and ruin. Be
cause of these things there is tale
to be told, the tale of Cardigan's son,
who, when his sire fell in the fray,
took up the fight to save his heritage
"a tale of life with its love and hate,
its battle, victory, defeat, labor, joy,
and sorrow, tale of that unconquer-
able spirit of youth which spurred
Bryce Cardigan to lead forlorn
hope for the sake not of wealth but
of an ideal. Hank, then, to this tale
&C Cardigan's redwoods:
Along the coast of California,
through the secret valleys and over
the tumbled foothills of the Coast
range, extends belt Of timber of
an average width Of thirty miles. In
approaching 1t from the Oregon line
the first tree looms suddenly against
the horizon-an outpost, as 1t were, of
the host of giants whose column
stretches south nearly four hundred
miles to where the last of the rear
guard maintains eternal sentry-go on
the crest of the mountains overlooking
Monterey bay. Far in the interior of
the state. beyond the fertile San
Joaquin valley. the allies of this vast
army hold small sector on the west
slope of the Sierras.
These are the redwood forests of
California, the only trees of their
kind In the world and indigenous only
TO these two areas within the state.
Notwithstanding sixty years of attri-
ton. there remain in this section of
the redwood belt thousands upon
thousands of acres of virgin timber
that had already attained a vigorous
growth when Christ was crucified.
In sizes ranging from five to twenty
feet in diameter. the brown trunks
rise perpendicularly to a height of
from ninety to a hundred and fifty
feet before putting forth single
limb. which frequently is more mas
sive than the growth which men call
& tree in the forests of Michigan.
Scattered between the giants, like
subjects arounu their king, one finds
noble iir, spruce. or pines, with some
Valparaiso live oak. black oak, pepper
wood. nadrone. yew. and cedar
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Traffic Was Completely Forgotten.

little yellow-haired neighbOr girl, by
name Bertha Borgolte, four years old
When Bertha was thirteen her IA
Their died. Bertha's mother, in order
to educate her daughter and Bertha's
little brothers, was forced to return
to Germany with her three children.
Bertha did not want to leave Amer
lea, the land of her birth. And she
cried when she left Arthur Schultz.
Private Schultz went to Germany
As a military policeman, and was as
signed to traffic duty at Moselweiss,
near Coblenz. On the third day there,
while he was directing traffic, he felt
tug at his sleeve and looked around,
to gaze into the eyes of his childhood
companion.
Traffic was completely forgotten.
Schultz pulled out his pocketbook and
produced the picture of little yellow
haired girl, all dressed up for a party.
She was woman now.
Schultz says Bertha BOrgOlte will
return to the United States as Mrs.
Schultz.
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Drought, cIoudburst and
blindness threaten to bring
to naught John Cardigan's
fifty years of endeavor.
(To BE CONTINUED
Plants Great Vitality.

There is creeping moss found in
Jamaica, ih Barbados and other
islands Of the West Indies, which is
called the 'life tree" or, more proper
~, the ''life-plant." It's powers Of VI
tally are said to be beyond those Of
any other plant. 1t is believed to be
indestructible by any means except
immersion in boiling water or the APP
plicatioa of redhot iron. 1t may be
cut up and divided in any manner
and the smallest shreds will throw
out roots, grow and bud. The leaves
of this extraordinary plant have been
planted in close, alright, dark box,
without moisture Of any sort and
still they grew.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-07-23

John Cardigan settled in Humboldt
county, where the sequoia sempervir-
ems attains the pinnacle of its glory.
and with the lust for conquest hot in
his blood, he filed upon a quarter
section Of the timber almost on the
shore Of Humboldt bay-land upon
which a city subsequently was to be
built. With his double-bitted axe and
crosscut saw John Cardigan brought
the first of the redwood giants crash
ing to the earth above which it had
lowered for twenty centuries, and in
the form of split posts, railroad ties,
pickets, and shakes, the fallen giant
was hauled to tidewater in ox-drawn
wagons and shipped to San Francisco
in the little two-masted coasting
schooners of the period. Here, by the
abominabie magic of barter and trade,
the dismembered tree was transmitted
into dollars and cents and returned
to Humboldt county to assist John
Cardigan in his task of hewing an
empire out of wilderness.
AnS paSSSu' Joun SarulSan no
longer swung an axe or dragged a
cross-cut saw through a fallen red
wood. He was an employer of labor
now, well known in San Francisco rs
a manufacturer of split-redwood prod
ucts, the purchasers sending their
own schooners for the cargo. And
presently John Cardigan mortgaged
all of his timber holdings with a San
Francisco bank, made a heap of his
winnings, and like true adventurer
staked his all on q new venture-tbe
first sawmill in Humboldt county.
The timbers for 1t were hewed out by
hand; the boards and planks were
whipsawed.
1t was tiny mill, judged by present
day standards. for in a fourteen-hour
working day John Cardigan and his
men could not cut more than twenty
thousand feet of lumber. Neverthe-
less, when Cardigan looked at his mill.
his great heart would swell with
pride.
Here" said John Cardigan to him.
self exultingly when a long-drawn
wall told him his circular saw was
biting into the first redwood log to be
milled since the world began, 81 shall
build city and call it Sequoia. By
tomorrow / shall have cut sufficient
timber to make start. First shall
build for my employees better homes
than the rude shacks and lighthouses
they now occupy: then / shall build
myself fine residence with six
rooms, and the room that faces the
bay shall be the parlor. When / can
afford it. I shall build more houses.
l shall encourage tradesmen to set I'D
liz business in Sequoia and to my city
l shall present church and a school,
house. We shall have a volunteer fire
department, and if God is good. I
shall. at later date, get out some
long-length fir-timber and build a
schooner to freight my lumber TO
market. And she shall have three
masts instead of two, and carry half
million feet OF lumber instead of
two hundred thousand First, how
ever, l must build steam tusboat TO
toy my schooner in and out over
Humboldt bar. And after that-ah.
WE'LL That is sufficient for the
present"
Thus did John Cardigan dream, and
as he dreamed he worked The city
OF Sequofa was born with the Argo-
naIt's six-room mansion Ut rough red
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ASPIRIN

Slayer Tablets Of Aspirin" is genu-
Inc Aspirin proved safe by millions
and prescribed by physicians for over
twenty years. Accept only an unbroken
Slayer package" which contains proper
directions to relieve Headache, Tooth
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Colds and Pain. Handy tin boxes of II
tablets cost few cents. Druggists also
sell larger "Bayer packages" Aspirin
Is trade mark Bayer Manufacture Mon
oaceHcacidester Of Salicylicacid.-Adv.
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Fortune in Apricot Stones.

More than $1,25OOOO is made every
year from apricot stones in California.
Nearly 1000 tons of stones are OBJ
tanned from the fruit, and from these
the chemist extracts two oils, one
known as bitter oil of almonds, the
other as new substitute for olive Oil.
A ton Of stones produces materials
worth almost 5000.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-07-23
SWEETHEARTS ARE
REUNITED BY WAR
Yank Finds Girl of Youth in CO.
bIenz and Will Bring Her
Back.

Toledo, O.-War and love com.
bined to bring about the reunion in
Germany of soldier Of the American
army of occupation and his childhood
playmate.
The story has its setting in COblenZ.
Germany. 1t began in Toledo, O.,
where Arthur Schultz, seven years
old, used to bake mud pies with a
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-07-23
On the Other Side.

Little Philip had cried all night with
toothache and upon receiving a nickel
the next morning he went as usual to
get candy again. His auntie, on com
ing home, and finding he had bought
candy with her nickel, asked him
"Why, Philip. 1 thought you weren't
ever going to eat candy againg To
which he replied: swell, auntie, I'm
not eating this candy on the toothachs
side"
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The Bitter Bit.

Harrodsburg, KY. = VIII Shirley.
while trying to play a joke on his
friend, William Shackleford, suffered
broken leg. He tried to pull Shackel-
ford backward as the latter was fixing
shoe lace, and when the two fell,
Shirley's leg snapped.
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That's AL

Busy Housewife Well. what u you
wal speak quick
Hungry Hobo-An automobile, a fly
n machine rich wife. brand new
Nivvt -eam yacht. private car,
'lwirh with cup o. cof-
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His Taste

'Tssuppose you had quite honiilJ
when your rong-winded minister dines
with you, Mrs. Muggins."
mo, we didn't; he dent eat It"
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Horse Landed First.

Greensburg, I7d.-Just as he was
preparing to hit rat with a club.
Thomas Green was kicked in the fore
head by horse. The rat escaped, but
Green will be laid up for some time.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1920-07-23

If man ever feels religion. it's
when he finds himself in tight place
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Kill All Flies! 1HB B1s sssEAD
lCuticura Soap
- SLAVES -
Without Mug|
knowledge Dearly Bought

knowledge Dearly Bought.
'Did you get anything in return for
your campaign contribution"
'Yes," answered Mr.. Dustin Stax.
81 got some information. / thought
taxicab was the most expensive We
hicle on earth until tried band
wagon"
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AYE" murmured McTavish huskily.
Il ken. Ye wouldna gle her common
or public spot in which to wait for
ye. An ven be shuttin' down the
mill an loggin'-camps an layin' off the
hands in her honor for a bit?
"Until after the funeral, McTavish.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-11-19
WANT STATE COSSACKS

Columbus, Ohio-Small town and
country newspapers in this state are
being furnished we'll written and il
lustrated stories on the efficient man
ner in which a state constabulary
protects sheep from the ravages OF
dogs. Farmers are assured that if
Ohio passes a constabulary law
chicken thievery and other robbery
will be unknown in agricultural Sec
tions.
Trade unionists show that special
interests are playing the fami'i.g
game to secure farmer support for
their pet cossacks, who will be sta
toned in Industrial centers, as is the
case in Pennsylvania.
Ohio unionists have defeated former
attempts to fasten the cossack system
on this state, and the present propa-
ganda again proves that special in
terest is ever alert.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-11-19
COAL QUESTION
NATIONAL CONTROL HINTED TO
END PROFITEERING
u, S. Senators Will Introduce Bill If
Reforms are Not Made and Prices
Cut to a Reasonable Figure
Before December 6

NewYork-If the coal owners of
this country do not stop gouging the
public, the government will have to
take control, declared United States
Senators Calder and Edge in a state
ment issued in this city. The law
makers are members of the senate
committee on reconstruction. They
give notice that "unless the coal in
dustry reforms itself and cuts prices
to a reasonable figure by December
6" bill will be introduced in the
senate which will provide for the
"most stringent regulation of every
branch of the business"
The senators make the sweeping
charge that "the coal industry as a
whole stands self-convicted of prac-
ticing gross extortion on the whole
public of the United States.
"With 46,OOO,O00 more tons of coal
produced so far in 1920 over the
same period of 1919 there is no rea-
son for high prices and coal short
age" it is stated.
"The wrongdoing has been ad-
mitted by D. B. Wentz, president of
the National Coal association; by
Commissioner Clyde B. Atchison of
the interstate commerce commission
and by Daniel Willard of the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, representing
the railroads.
eve are opposed to government
regulation as policy, but the gov
ernment must assume responsibility
for it's people, and we will recon-
mend a bill for entire control of the
industry just as far as possible under
the constitution unless prices are
materially reduced to the public by
December 6.
"The coal industry stands self-con-
victed.
"There is a general confession on
the part Of the industry, even though
guilty individuals have not been iden-
titled. The reformation of these evils
is their own concern primarily. Most
of the leading coal operators realize
that and are seeking today to clean
up their business from within. That
is their only salvation. If they can't
solve their own problem, we will have
to use drastic means to solve it."
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-11-19
EIGHT HOUR DAY
THREE-SHIFT SYSTEM "OBVI-
OUSLY COMING"
Employers Must Prepare For What
is Now General Practice of Steel
Plants of Great Britain,
France and Germany

New York-The eight-hour day,
or three-shifts in steel plants, is cob
viously coming" and it is the part of
wisdom for employers to prepare for
it, say mechanical and electrical en-
gineers in announcing their annual
meeting in this city on December 3.
The technicians include members of
the American society of mechanical
engineers and the American institute
of electrical engineers.
1t is stated that Horace B. Drury.
formerly of the economics depart
ment, Ohio state university, will dis
cuss "The three-shift system in the
steel industry"
During recent MONTHS" the an
nouncement states, "Mr. Drury has
visited practically all of the steel
plants in the United States working
under the three-shift system in an
effort to collect technical data cover
ing the details of their operation and
figures showing the results obtained.
"Mr. Drury's paper will be a gen.
eral review of his findings and will
constitute the first comprehensive
contribution on this important SUBJ
ject to American engineering litera-
ture.
Throughout industry there is a
steadily growing tendency to shorten
hours. In Great Britain, France and
Germany the three-shift day has
very largely superseded the long two
shift day in the steel industry.
Because the three-shift system is
so obviously coming in America il is
the part of conservation and wisdom
for management to prepare for it."
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-11-19
DEEPEST HELL FOR PROFITEERS
Rector of Wealthy Fifth Avenue Church Brands Them Greed
Vultures" and "Crawlng Ghous"

American profeers bstered
ivered by Herbert Shpman, of
Church of the Heavenly Rest Fifth Avenue New York He also placed
the torture brand those who exploit labor for gold
The which he for the
which placed fashionable
paTsoner to sit hushed gnash their teeth for it hit
of those He especially the patriots who
remained home during made gaining inside
information and privileged opportunities.
eff there thought which makes bitter said Dr. Ship
t against sacrifice blood coined dirty
He kene profers gredy and crawl
ing gfous"
Dr. Shpman and the church
the Armisce Day ceremonial Students of
Columbia University had with the
by special invitation.
The poem during the service the ph of the 1t
is quoted herewith as follows:
your fowsy with borrowed spendors
You have hung daughters necs with stolen pears
Have thought about the other wives, the lenders,
Or the harlots made to decorate your girls?
You have fashioned from of sick dying,
From the souls of children pleading for the right,
Ready cash today to do Christmas buying;
Ready cash to prostitute tonight
coined your filthy gold from blood and sorrow;
There soldier graves the fields of France;
Whence the death through upon tomorrow
Will rise to damn your profits with glance
deathless worth doing and worth telling,
All the things that noble men hold high and true,
All but seemed to you for buying and for selling,
All to a greedy human vulture-you
God! That better should toll labor,
Bear the and climb calvaries of pain;
that friend neghbor
Damn the world to make crucibe for gain.
in blackes hell, o Lord there be a backer;
If beneath the deepest pitt deeper pit;
Not for haro thief coward Stacker
But for these that blackes, deepest hell is fit.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-11-19
Minimum Production

New York-A minimum wage is
based on the needs of a worker to
live, and this has no relation to
minimum production.
The above summarizes a rejection
by the International Ladies' Garment
Workers union of the offer of chill
dren's dress manufacturers that they
will guarantee a minimum wage if
the union guarantees minimum
production.
These workers refused to fall into
the trap and exposed a sophistry that
is being urged at the present time.
eve cannot and will not guarantee
minimum production because such
guarantee would defeat the whole
object of establishing the minimum
wage" the unionists replied.
"a minimum wage is established
for the purpose of enabling the slow
est normal worker to make living
on the basis of his most essential pre-
vailing requirements.
"Of course, if the worker is so slow
and inefficient as to fall below nor
NAL, the employer would not be forced
to engage or retain him. But when
an alleged minimum wage is coupled
with condition for a specified mini
mum of production it, of course, fol-
lows that if production falls below
the established minimum, cores
ponding reduction will be made from
the wage rate, which thereby ceases
to be minimum wage.
"In fact, an arrangement of this
kind will change the entire system of
work into one of task"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1920-11-19
bad Order" WOrkmen

Cleveland-Because of liberal al
lowance by the government, railroads
may now pay attention to "bad order"
rolling stock, and the Locomotive En-
gineers' Journal suggests that some
attention be paid to "bad order" work
men.
A "bad order" workman, says this
publication, is more dangerous than
any other part of the train mecha-
nism.
''It is the duty of the railroads to
discard some of the practices pre-
vailing of late and adopt more COM
mon sense, more humane methods of
handling train and enginemen so in
the future they will not, as so often
in the past, due to their lack of proper
rest at the terminals, represent the
weakest link in the whole system of
train operation.
"One of the most unfair and in
human practices of the railroads in
this respect is that of taking dead
heading time of crew, relieved under
the 16-hour law, out of their rest
period at the terminal and sending
them out again, perhaps to face an
other 16-hour trip, with two or three
hours terminal rest, and may be with
none.
"'Safety first officials weep croco-
dile tears of sympathy over the risks
taken and the injuries sustained by
train and enginemen, but wink at the
practices that deny them proper rest,
the most essential thing to promote
safety and efficiency in railroad train
work.
eff the facts were known many
train accidents and cases of personal
injury could be traced to the lack of
proper rest for enginemen between
trips"