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BY WILLIAM ME'RRIAM RAUSE.
PART II.
The winter drew on toward spring.
The snows came and piled high, and
began to inert; while lalarlc Rowland
grew inof
staten
stature amongthe m
the coir a to
countryside. ' He was about
take his plebe in that unformed but
definite group to which belonged
Alexander Peabody, the principal
storekeeper and town supervisor, the
Rev. Ellery Phinney, Dr, Shattuck
and the rest who had made places of
importance for themselves, They had
seen hint grow, and they seemed to
like the spirit with which he attacked
life,
For it was no small thing for a
young man to risk all his savings in
es venture like _building a sawmill
above the gorge. Only Mark Row-
land, the Iron Man; could make a go
of it, they said. If It succeeded as
it seemed destined to,it would succeeded,
the village and brng what was
wealth for that place to its owner.
Early in April the ice went ^out of
the river. With that event the plans
and preparations of Mark Rowland
came •to fruit. The • dam withstood
the impact of ice and the steady drive
of rushing water, and Rowiand's
faith in his works. was justified. His:
drive started back in the lumber
woods, near the headquarters of the
Dunder. His teams beganto draw in
material for the sawmill. Aaron
Hardy delivered the ironwork and
the chains, and the boom was stretch-
ed across the raver in anticipation of
the logs.
Black and glistening' they came
upon the welling breast of the Dun -
der. At ,first by ones and twos and
threes, then gathering in cluster&,
and then the gleaming, muddied
water grew dark with them and a
great raft formed behind the con-
fines of the boom—itself made of logs
-chained, end to end.
Back from it for fully a mile up
the river, which had widened its
banks because of the dam, the sticks
of timber lay level and almost mo-
tionless, with the stream driving
underneath. The spiked boots of a
driver could walk as upon a floor
from bank_tq bank of the river.
The Dunder rose swift and high
that year, on account of the heavy
avows, yet it was not worse than
elderly men could •remember having
seen before. Rowland, however,
found it necessary to trip the gate
of his dam,.by. knocking-
u
o t the'
planks, so that part of the excess of
water could go roaring through the
sluice. .Otherwise the water might
have risen above the leeway allowed
to the boom by its chains, with the
result that the logs would have float-
ed over it.
On the day when the Dander near-
ed its own high-water mark the drive'
was practically in. The gang was
tailing up along the course of the
river, and shortly they .would conte
into the village. Then the logs would
be let into the mill pond gradually,
drawn out, and piled ready for the
saw, 'Rowland considered the situs-
tion and was satisfied.
At the end of that day, which had
been lowering. and with a hint of
rain in the air, he sat upon a stump
at ono end of the boom and wondered
whether he should remain up through
the night +of rising water or go to
bed. There did not seen to be any
cause for alarm. The boom chains
• appeared to have play sufficient,
water was roaring through the sluice
.and over the dam, and unless the
river were to break all records by
many inches he had nothing to fear
in that direction.
It was more'a feeling that he was
bound up in this child, of his will
than any fear for its safety that
made him determine to remain there
until dawn. ' The danger' had been
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mainly that the dam would not stand
against the rush of ice and the later
volume of water, but it had stood, and
so far as could be seen there was
not a leak to be found in it.
Rowland brought himself blankets,
a lantern and a lunch, and settled
down, with his pipe, more comfort-
able than he had been in months. The
thing was done. Tomorrowthe men
would come in and begin to handle
the logs. In a few weeks he could
lead old Aaron forth from his shop
and point to piles of sawn lumber.
His mind leaped to Edith and June,
month of brides.
Rowland smoked and ate and eat -
!napped with his back against a log.
Therain held off, so he was dry and
warm in his blankets, and if he could
have seen the children of his dreams;
the boom and dam, he would • have
been quite happy. But he could hear
,them through the darkness—the hiss -
1 ing of water under the .logs and the
roar of the cataract that poured over
the dam and down into the gorge.
The black night wore itself out
slowly, and at length he could see a
:difference between, earth and sky.
'Tree masses grew against the lighter
heavens. The clouds broke and a
pale star looked at. him. Grayness
came over the earth and the rushing
I waters. The lantern dinuned. When
he could distinguish the logs as sep-
•arate things he put it out and: rose.
His notched stick at the water's edge
showed that the river had fallen an
:inch or more. He had seen the night
through; now he could eat and pre-
pare for the day's work that lay
ahead of hint.
Then struck that blow which had
been swinging toward him behind the
screen of his_ perceptions. The final
glance which he threw at the taut
I boom met the parting of a link in the
chain that held the log nearest the
bank to its mooring, a two -foot -thick
oak. That end of chain jerked and
fell slack. The other end disappear-
ed into the water. The log swung out.
Slowly the whole boons moved, and
I with it stirred and moved the mass
of logs behind.
A pioneer stick of timber darted
toward the freedom of the mill pond
and toward the data. Another, and
others followed. The boon swung
wider, open. The logs moved out like
a mighty host. They responded as a
whole to the sweeping current of the
river.
The boom strung itself out . along
the opposite shore. It was wide open.
now. ' Irresistible, mightier many
times than the hand of man, the log
horde gathered force. It thundered
against the darn, it clogged the sluice
its members upreared themselves and
tumbled like acrobats.
The dam went out as though it
were a toy of mud and little sticks.
It melted into the frothing log -fleck-
ed deluge that poured down the
gorge; a flood that spurned against
the rock walls and splintered the solid
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er only when it came to the low-lying,
placid course of theriver beyond. The
dam was gone, the logs were going,
the mill was useless,
Motionless, Mark Rowland watched
the physical thing happen; motion-
less he remained while home to him
came the understanding of what it
Meant. The prosperity.. thathe had
created had melted out of his grasp.
With it went the approval of Aaron
Hardy the marriage with Edith, and
beyond •that the life he had desired
and fought for. Gone in. less, than
five minutes of gray dawn:
Why? He had done everything to-
ward success that his brain could con-
ceive, and he had built with a sure
hand and the force of a great will.
With slow movements he went toward
the oak where the boom had been
moored. He followed the chain down
to the edge of the water and began to
draw it in slowly. There must be
some answer inthings themselves,
and first of all he wanted to find out
why the chain, had parted. If the
water had suddenly swept to unheard-
of heights he could have understood
it—but not the parting of the chain.
Part of .the broken link lay in his
hand. This was the link that had let
his future go down the gorge, and he
saw that it hada flaw in it.. Not a
completely hidden flaw, but one which
he thought should have shown itself
to a careful eye, which lie believed
should havegifl
gve n o a falsearing to
careful ears, Had Aaron Hardy,
then, not tested the chain that he
had sold and for which he had been
responsible? Or had he tested it and
willfully let it pass with the flawinit?
"Ho knew the boom would not hold
with a chain like than," whispered
Rowland,, "and he tookthat way of
getting rid of mel"
Now he hated Aaron Hardy. He
had that which his mind subconsci-
ously demanded—a person other than
himself to blame for his disaster. Old
Hardy became the personal devil in
his world,
`I'll crush the life out of him as
he's crushed me!" he said, with the
same determination he had brought
to the building of his dam at the head
of the gorge.
The doors of the blacksmith shop
were open to the morning. The ring
and clang of iron came out with a
sound hateful to Rowland. Into the
place of shadows, into the red glare
of the forge, he walked with a long
and steady stride. The crowlike figure
rf Hardy was blocked against the
glow. He turned with a sooty face,
and at sight of the visitor his eye-
brows twitched up and down. He
stood between the forge and the an-
vil a big hammer: in his powerful fist.
an-
vil,'
logs went down the river,"
announced Rowland, ina voice chok-
ed but clear enough, "and took the
dash with them."
"It 'was a big risk, building at the
head of the gorge," said Hardy,
without surprise,
"There was a bad link in one of
the chains you sold me—a flaw!"
"They's a flaw in mcst everything`,,
one way or another, Mark!"
If it had ,been possible Rowland -
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"I'ntgoing to take it out of your
hide and bone, you old buzzard!" lie
growled. "Piece by piece and inch by
nch!. A piece for every link in that
damned chain!"
The old man' looked at him in sil-
ence, his brows shifting slowly out
of place and back again. When lie
spoke it was with calmness..
"You do as you think best," he
said, "but first off I want you should
watch Ire a minute."
He bent swiftly and picked up a
cold bar. Rowland did a not move to
interfere. He was indifferent as to
whether his revenge begat) on the in-
stant or a minute later. Tinie no
more mattered. And. he was con-
temptuous of any defence old Aaron
could make, even with hammer or
bar.
Upon the cold iron the hammer
fell with a harsh clang -clang that
billowed and broke against the roof
am walls 't the shop. Aaron claw -
ped
ped his hammer and thrust the bar
into the white hot heart of the forge.
He jammed the bellows handle up
and down, sweating. In a nionient `
he lifted the bar out with his tongs � :--
he mean? Rowland swung a menac-
ing fiat.
What's, that got to do with the
link in the,, chain?" he demanded.
"What's that got to do with me,
damn you?"
"It's tho same with water," persist-
ed Hardy, standing still. "You got to
work with it! You got to work -with
things unless you want to get
smashed."
"With it?" Rowland stared et him.
There was an idea somewhere in that.
It glimmered, flirting with his mind,
and grew into a light. "You mean
a gristmill below the gorge would.
have been workingwith the river?"
,
"Yes,Mark,But ut you vs. always
set your: ;mind on making things do
what you wanted 'em to."
"By heavens, muttered Rowland
softly. "I'll make the river carry
those logs with it to the lake, and
P11 sell 'eni for enougb•that will pay
all my debts, anyway!"
"Thank the Lord!" The eyebrows
of Aaron Hardy jerked and trembled
"It did seem as if you never would
learn it! But I thought you'd bend
if you was real iron like they sayl"
No more did Mark Rowland have
any desire to batter or to kill. But
he had paid a price for the knowledge
of his iron obstinacy, and the rem
eminence of that price filled him with
a sadness grayer than his terrible
dawn at the boom.
'Yes,. Aaron, I guess I've learned
something," he said, "But I'm ruined
just the same." t
Ruined. snapped Hardy. You're
made in the fire! You go along over
to my house and tell Edith to get you
some hot breakfast!"
"Aaron!" cried Rowland: "Do you
mean that Edith that you—"
"You do as I told you!" answered
tho blacksmith. His eyebrows fairly
danced a jig. "I was only waiting
for you to find the flaw in yourself!'
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steam as an agent of propulsion in
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our industrial Civilization.
Fountains of Quicksilver.
During the Spenleh oecupaney of the
Arabs every rick hone bad at least one
fountain filled with quicksilver, which
rose in a stream and fell In drops on
glass. The sound of.the telling drops
was likened to fairy bells.
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Landlord—"Well, this Is it"
"I see the bed, but I Pall to see any
sitting room."
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nd:.held it to the anvil. Clink-clin)cl,.
parks red and gold broke out in!
lumes from the hammer. The end'.
f thebar was bent over in a beeuti-
11 light angle. Aaron tossed it, into
tub of water. His hands dropped
his sides, . The hammer and tongs
lumped and clattered upon the door:'
"That's all, Mank," he said. "You
atched"me! You got to work with
on -not against it, I been working
on all my life."
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at he realized that the old plan was
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A friend of mine, with about eixty
employees, pays me 4100 a year to
act as his "psyehoeloctol•." It's' not
in hie interest to have changes in hitt
staff; it upsets organization. Like
other employers, however, he has to
take some amount of risk when en-
gaging anyone. Testimonials and an
interview don't fully reveal character
or temperament. Thus it frequently
happens that an employee ddsappcints.
If something le not missing in his
"make-up," then a something is there
which ehouidn't be. And that's where
I come in.
A Morel for Parente.'
In nine cases out of ten I discover
that "over-motherIng" is the cause of
the trouble. Here is A., a young man
of twenty-two. He'lll do anything heal
told to do, but !s deflelent in selire•
lianoe and initiative. Over•mothered!
If his, mothghim sixpence, she
retained controlerave over the spending o'f
it. She still chooses his ties. He's
never walked alone --metaphorically, I
mean And that's why he is as he is.
Then 'ther+e's B. Tie's a bundle of
nerves. At a guess his mother—fath-
er, too, perhaps, said "Don't" to him
half a million or more times in his
childhood. The continual check has
wrecked his nerves—by suppression
of natural instincts..
0, has been eo sheltered and over-
protected that he is a "Molly." He
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and others, 3 do my best for. Some-
times I cure them. But the moral is
clear, and I wish parents would heed
it. "Over" -mothering is almost as bad
as "under" -mothering. It handicaps
throughout life.
Thumb Portraits.
Few people are aware of the fact
that in the thumb lies a means of per-
sonal identification that never fails. •
The picture of the fourteen -year-old
lad or lassie bears but little resemb-
lanee to the man or woman at thirty..
Features .change, hair darkens, pain
and trouble mar ita peachy smooth-
ness, and Father Time snatches the
roses from the chubby fees, till, in
after life, on • being confronted with a
picture taken in our youth, we cry in
astonishment, "Did I ever look like
that1" But a thumb -portrait never
lineages.
Now, every one knows that the inner
surfaooef the last thumb -joint is mark-
ed by thread-like concentric rings.
Round and round they curl, and if we
observe them through a good magni-
Iler, we see that they look very much
like miniature ranges of hills, parted
by deep furrows. Regard both your
thumbs and you will find that, though
In the general arrangement of the
spirals they are aloin, yet are they not
quite alike?
You remember the prettily varie-
gated Indian :grass. that ornaments our
gardens, and how diligently but fruit-
lessly you have often searched for two
blades similarlystriped? Just so it is
with the lines and curls, allowing for
growth, they precisely resemble each
other,
Purthor, the thumb -lines of diver -
gout races, of persons moving in dif-
ferent
ifferent social grades, and et people of
diverse dispositions, vary greatly. But
individually those marks never alter.
Provided the thumb is never muti-
lated, its tip will have exactly the
same lines and curls, allowing for
growth, at five years old as at fifty,
In fact, what may be called the tope-
graphy of the thumb is as unchange
able se the topography of the everlast-
ing hills.
But while the marks' on individual
thumbs are, so to speak, copyrighted,
yet there is a sarong similarity In We
respect between the members of one
fam.
Leilyt dnnpressions.ot the thumbs of a
group of brothers and sistere be taken.
and a marked likeness will be found
existing between all of them, while in
I their main characteristics they will be
totally unlike the thumb -lines of the}
boys and girls next door.
I have said that a thumb-portrald...
never changes, and this is strictly true,
A Living Dog Better Than a
Dead Lion.
•
Thero was a lion's image carved in
stone, fierce and terrible. It frowned
and looked sternly, as it crouched be-
fore the palace gate,
"18he not great, mighty and awful?"'
asked ono who stood by a poor, low -
bred dog that looked uticonee'reedity on
the image.
"He represents what is great, in-
deed," answered the dog, "and if be
were alive I should be terribly afraid
of him; .batt es he is not alive, and I
am, though I am but a poor, contempt-
ible
ontemptihle dog, I consider that I am more to
be envied andrespected of the two,
For what la a fine outside show, pray,
if it's ever so flue, without any life
within?"
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A Pocket Parachute,
A pocket-size, parachute has been in- 1
vented by an officer in the Italian
. elation forces,
Our Own Responsibility.
The future will have in store for you '
Just what you put into store for the
Futuro—just 'that, and no more --Peru I
I (Ind') Tribune, ^