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They ch other from opposite le of them as was white - ether blushing red as a ley met, and although s were -watching them, acls other. ercely been side by side t when a man approach - re of battle in his eye. ence he raised the stick d then, oh horror, he a quick blow, and -the nt spinning several feet not heart -breaking or fl a murmur. Billiard to that: sort of thing.. T d. WITH TRACTOR gas masks!" That no the slogan of whole at least those which cribs of fanners, for farmer.. has devised a Eng rodente that beats any exterminating up his tractor to his ether day-, which was h rats that had defied 'Ettacks of dogs on the e on the exhaust. Soon barrage that Boyd mai to any put on in The rats began to the crib- and most of 1 to the fumes of gas atgot out of the crib , from inhaling the gas I. not put up much of dogs that had beea [e occasion made easy' But inside the crib dght. The dead rats the dozen, and when rathering them up he ▪ tubfult of the rodents. lds• is the quickeat and ry method of getting nd he proposes to fol - ti they are extermin- tbors /laving heard of >Ian aIso have begun beneficial results. AUGUST 29,1919 THE HURON EXPOSI+OR -•-•.**••• ••••• • g.1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111: .... . . .--: Barbara . OF .....- 1 THE Snows' i .....- .-, -., .. = by E IS I, HARRY IRVING GREENE i E - - I arose beneath the heave of the woods- shook •the other's wiry frame, "we . men, and a rush of blaek waters went have bucked each other pretty hard swirling down the chute. A triump- in snow and ice water for the past few , hant yell burst from the men of years, but seeing that Flint came out Camp 5, while back of Cardiff his , of that hellrace.alive I don't know as loggers shifteduneasily upon their ; I hate you as much. All 1 want is to feet with their eyes fastened upon carry on My business, live and let . live, but this thing bids fair to be the "Yo -heave, yo -heave," sang Flint as ruin of us both. You have got me he timed his chant to the swingof tied up and can pretty near bust me the -men, and the barrier arose in. a before I can get loose, and your stuff succession of rapid jerks. Below the is going to glory forty miles an hour. chute a surging mill -race of yellow- Do you mant to call this fight off and crested water swirled down the half Start all over again ?" i course of the river and, the first Meyer's face was uplifted and „in-. credulity filled his eyes. "How?" he asked hoarsely. t, . "Will yott have your injunction set aside and let me have all the water I need if I lower this gate and fail to prosecute you for attempted murder?" Meyer looked around. The surface of the big pond was alive with logs. They were sailing upon the gate .in raftsaein squardrons, in flotillas, in fleets; resistless in their advance and beyond the power of man to control so long as the giant clutch of the river was upon them. And beyond them were other fleets that filled. the river for miles, corning down thous- ands atrong, shouldering each other roughly aside in their eagerness for the plunge. His bosom swelled and the veins grew big and black upon his forehead. "Yes; John," he gasped. Findlay arose and his voice rang high above the voice tif the water. And at his call a dozen men leaoed forward and the gate fell with a plunge that cut the torrent half in two. The weight of the waters crush- ed it against the frame and it hung motionless, but heavy mauls fell upon it and foot by foot it cut its way downward until it rested _upon the bottom. The waves that were already below the dam rushed madly away with no other waves following, and the waters above surged back in long swells that checked the advance of the log fleets until momentum was lost and they swung listlessly at anchor, Up the bank came Flint with a great rage in his heart ashe headed for Meyer, but Findlay met him ten feet front his man and caught his arm. "It's all right, old man," he said soothingly. "Come on while I tell you about it." He linked his arm through that of the wrathful walking boss and half dragged him down the road, quieting him with rough thumps upon the chest as he talked rapidly. Gradually the rebellious balkings of Flint ceased and his first hot words degenerated into a series of sulky grunts. Then almost without resistaece he allowed himself to be shoved across the threshold of the boarding house bunk shanty where , dry clothing hung upon the walls and the heater roared. their kader. Moffat, Yard and Co. = low rumble, of the flood grew into a * = deafening roar. And to their center F........sitsviiitiumminnimmumnimE. the pent waters felt the suck and in - II al um (Continued from last week.) bored like augur holes as the under- tow tugged from shore to shore. Then But he did not see how the slowly at -first, but gathering mom - loosing of the stream could harm entum • with each yard passed, the anyone, particularly in so short a time; and as the Badger Company great log fleet swung into the cur- wererent and bore downupon the vortex, violating the law, he would order while the faces of Meyer and Cardiff them to obey it until he had heard grew ghastly with fear. Roaring like tem them. Findlay and Flint he ap- a bull, Cardiff sprkng to the shore ?scanted as special deputies to see that and with his men hard on his heels, the order was carried into effect. But went recklessly leaping from log to to the bosom oT the pond deep eddies he strove to be impartial, and he lag as with might and -main they strictly enjoined them that the dam. strove to herd the stampeding logs or gates were not to be destroyed or into shore rafts beyond the dratight. injured in any way until the other But the might of the river was .upon side had an opportunity to present them, its great hand gripping them its side of the case, and the whole from below and dragginF them leeward matter had been heard and settled fi with a power that was beyond the lially. So away went the pair with power ef man to stay. Leaping, up - permission to raise the gates, but ending, grinding against the sides of Commanded to do no violence to the the chute, the foremost logs went structure, while it also came to pass through in a great hurdle for the big that a friend of Meyer happened to river fifteen miles away, every stick be in the court room at the tune of of them lost forever to the ones who issuing of the order, and the latter by heart -breaking toil had dragged heard all about the affair over the them from the vitals of the forest. telephone within half an hour after Cardiff, his face wet with the sweat the deparluie of the two. Then with of despair, raged like a demon as he a desperate energy that could not have sought to jam them and ,stay their been surpassed by Flint himpelf, he flight. Already hundreds of good logs and Cardiff set to work to render the were lost to hs employer forever and efforts of his enemies futile until he thousands of ' others were pressing could get before Judge White and forward for the plunge, leaping the point out to him the desperate straits brink as frightened sheep- leap a the raising of the gates of the lower dam would put him in. It would only fence. take a few hours to get at White, but Along the dam four of the Badger men came struggling with the points none knew better than they what disaster a few hours of free running of their pike poles eunk deep in the thick hide of a forest giant as they water would work upon them. • • , Findlay and Flint were back in shoved it before them in a desparate Archer within three hours, and from attempt to wedge it trosswise in the afar saw a swarin of Badger men throat of the flume. Once fairly, lodg- working like beesupon the dam as, ed, the tremendous force of the waters rifles in hand, they advanced full of would hold it as in a vise and the on - wonderment at the activity a their coming trunks would jam behind A rivals at a point where they had ex- into a solid bulwark. They would pile pected inertia. But hesitating not a upon it, be pounded to the bottom step, grim of face and with jaws set, beneath it and pack in behind it in a straight through the hostile force they mighty jam practically unbreakable, thrust themselves until they stood at and the waters would again be stayed the top of the gate and there paused. and the Badger logs saved. And well For driven to its lowest notch and knowing this, from all sides came the bound to the massive timbers of the men of Camp 5, shouting and brandish- bulkheadby a tangle of heavy log ing their fists as their primordial chains that were spiked and bolted passions swelled fiercely with them into the solid wood, the gate was as and the . lust of battle filled their firmly locked to the. dam as i$ the breasts. Cardiff, adrip with ice water door of a vault to the vault itself. burst through the press and leaped Silently Findlay and Flint stood look a upon the dam. ing at the labyrinth of chains, until "Make way there," he bellowed. Meyer, edging his way to their side, "Make way there, you cursed timber stood there with a deep scowl. pirates. Wedgeher, boys—jam her." "Well, why don't you open her up?" Flint's tall forni seemed to grow even °he demanded. Findlay shot him , a taller, and his eyes blazed like a quick glance from the corner of his catamount's. eye, but said nothing, and the other "No you don't," he Yoared back. went on with his bullyings. "One log jammed in there -would block "Of course, it could be done by the stream in ten minutes so there chopping out the gate or Cowing it wouldn't be . enough water going out, but your cursed order forbids you through to drown a skunk. And this from destroying either the dam or the court order calls for an unobstructed gate—and we are here to see that flow. Back up there before I ,lburst you don't. Mind you, I am not going someone bad." to fight your court order just now, From the outskirts of the crowd a and if you can get those bolts and heady pine slab came whizzing, and. injury to my dam, you .go ahead. But striking the gun of the walking hose, clinched railroad pikes out without , sent it flying from bis hands. In an if you put the tooth of a saw or the instant the man wh-o hadthrown it edge of an adz to 'those timbers there ', . . is going to be wart and bad war at went down in a whirlwind of savage that. You can't break the chains and kieks and blows, while the OP of the 1 dam became black with struggling you couldn't saw them in two in al week, even if you had the tools—which' men, Lebeau raging among them like you haven't. And Mr tomorrow your a bull moose. And half mad with dee order won't be worth the paper it is spair and rage Meyer leaped forward on." He stopped with an justeas Fline straightened up from re- writtencovering his weapon. "You started ugly laugh and then sneered in their faces. "So what are you going to those logs down and now you go with do about it?" thein," he yellect with a swing of his fist. And Flint caught unawares and The muzzle of the walking boss' gun sunk arid the click of the hammer smitten. heavily. staggered backward to the brink with a wild up -throwing sounded ominous in the silence "Stand a headlong plunge back there and you'll see, he returned of his arms . and . . arriong the churning logs. Then from roughlyThen before even F_Indlay m and somewhere in the struggling crowd— comprehended he took quick aipulled the trigger- just where no one ever told—a shot of his heavy 405 Winchester. There was a roar from rang out and Cardiff lurched and fell the gun, a simultaneouswith horror at the double exposive ring upon the dam. and the whining sound of shattered Cold tragedy Risk - metal hurtling through space as a Findlay sprang forward. Risk - section a the chain leaped like a ing his limbs at every 'leap he went ing, fell diown the rock -backed incline of the wounded serpent, and uncoil -wi.dull rattle down the side of dam and raced with all his might th a tlie-gate. "Chain number one off and 'beside the torrent as his eyes swept -nh 'damage done the darn," said Fliet the waters for the form of the man grimly. , who had gone down that seething The logs upheaved as if malestro The silence that followed: the rra words of the walking ,boss Was the in mortal cefell upon each other rnbat; silence, of bewilderment when for the with ponderous blows; ground the . bark from their sides against the moment menknow not how to act, and stand motionless until.rage moves rocks of the narrow gut and then fell them. "Two," cried Flint as another aves of the more areart in the broader -waters below to niece of chain disolved before their v. -allow through the w eyes like a. bursting bubble. Gray of placid ,reachee be.yond. Once below face and with lips twitching, Cardiff the. gut a suiong swimmer if unhurt bore down upon the two with a heady vsould stand an excellent chance for pea in his hands, but Findlay 'net life, but that a man could go through that grinding ma.O.,s unhurt seemed him half way, equally threatening and far b • i little less --C4an a miracle. Yet as etter armed. , "None of that," he cried sternit Findlay reached the bend and ran his " e eyes over the scattered logs his heart You havgot your men -on theupper r ands aarohseiniwifth a lean that nearly suffocat- dam with instructions to shoot, ed , or far down thelriver he saw long as the law lets you - keep them there I have got to respect it. But a tall form cannecrawling out of the r it is equally true that We are acting water and drag itself up the bank dam he ran and scrambl- under authority of the courts on this Back to the. dam, and will protect ourselves at all ed up its steep abutment. The logs i were still pounding through and the ha -heels. Shoot away, Jim." Slowly, steadily the rifle lemined and roar of the waters had not lessend, soil by coil the gate's vinanacles fen. but the voices of the men were stilled( And drawn to the spot by the heavy Brought to their senses by what at bombardment there came leaping the they had drawn apart, staring first blush had eeemed a double kill - woodsmen of the different clans, the ing Badger men who were rafting . above dumbly at each other with guilty eyes, then sullenly laid down their the dam and the remnants of Find- weapons. Ttlil some went running lay's olcl woods crewrnow waiting down the bank after Flint while others around Archer for his drive to start, tore sleeves from their shirts and who. drawing themselves into light knots just beyond the danger zone, eilently watched - the freeing of the gate. Once more Flint filled the mag- azine as his cold gray eyes swept the crowd, then fired again. The last shackle fell and the walking boss let the butt of his rifle drop to the ground. "Lend a hand here, men of Camp 6," he cried. , From out of the bunch big _Joe Lebeau came swaggering with Fight- ing Foy and Welch Jimmy close ; at money loss was upon him, and he -- . "I understand perfectly_ anl I agree his heels. "We mek heem open , up buried his facein his palms as Find-- with you. But. that, is not what I panty. Through the chutes they would have matters settled no other dam queek, by gar. Is it not so, My lay's fingers. closed upon his shoulder was getting at—that part of what I plunged endlessly into theway than hers despite the honors they river below I flien's ?" grinned the Canadian as: be instead of striking him down as he was saying was merely an involun- and were whirled down stream on the 1 , -would have heaped upon her. threw Ms . two hundred pounds upon thought his rival was about to do. tary prelude. What I was about to , torrent,,while earwig along the shores The hoisting. bar, Six inches the gate "Meyer," said Findlay as a mob remark Is, this, I bung 'there in the ' the sweating crews worked like ' (Continued next week). made rude attempts to stanch the blood which flowed from a tear in Cardiff's scalp. As for Meyer, hewas was sitting upon a rock when Idindlay came up, white of face and breathing heavily. Flint had gone down among the logs to death in the melee which he had instigated, and the logs which he had won by so many long month$ of scheming and toil were lost to him forever. Black despair born of a murderous, passionate act and great CHAPTER XIV Two days later Findlay awakened Wilson at four o'clock in the morn- ing. "I've got my crew scattered all a- long the river and the driyc is about to. start All we have got ta do to get white water is sand a man tip to the dam with instructions and Meyer's man up there will open the gate There won't be anything to de in the way of work here, and I thought maybe yca weuld like to take a run up there and stand around for a few days and watch how she goes. But do just as you please about it I can send some- ene &se if you don't care to make the ip." W ascii rolled out of bed and began dresf,ing. go;'.' he rejoined. Hien rte d one foot on the window sill and began lacing his boots as he talk-, el en. "Do you know, , Mr. Findlay, if it was not tor the fact that. I earn more ney .here- at the etit.i, and that it seems io be a man's duty to earn all he -can in this world, I'd rather be out there in the open than cooped up here inside of walls! Somehow seem to hanker for the great unroofed where there is -nothing over one all day long but his hat, and where he is near enough the trees to smell them. And I even got to like the labor, hard as it was. There is something about doing the kind of work that makes your muscles swell and keeps you hungry, all the time. that makes you feel big and in,dependent and like a man. In other'words, I'd rather be cuttii3g down.. la, tree than sharpening a led pencil. Both, are - cutting-- wood, but one makes you IningrY and the other. only gets lead . on your fingers. And you can think just as well while you are doing one job as the other." He finished his boot lacing and aimed one finger out of the window. "You see that big white pine on top of that ridge over there? It. is four feet through that stick at the butt and is fifty feet to the lowest branch—but I climbed to the ton of it one day. Now how do you sUppose I did it?'' "Climbing SMITS ? " ventured the listener. • "No. '1 shinned utr a: sapling until - got into the branches of that young pine that stands close beside the big one. I got clear to the top of the slender one and then swayed h back and forth until I could grab a branch that stuck out from the big fellow. Then I let go with my feet but hung on with my hands, and for a few seconds you can emagine I was in some suspense with fifty feet _ of nothing between myself and the ground. I• threw one leg over the limb and -swung up on stop of it like I used to get on a turning pole when I was a boy, and then went on up Until I was above everything else in sight, being in the top of the tallest tree o11. the highest hill around here. And as far as the eye could reach in every direction there Was. nothing but an unbroken, heaving sea of tree tops; an ocean of green with but one blight in it. And what do you suppose that ' blight was?" • Findlay shook his head. "This .burnt -off, cut-down, shanty • and slab -haunted place- that we now -*de • in, Everything else .was clean woods." "If it wasn't for Archer you never' would - have been here to climb to the , top of that tree," grumbled the owner ,of the maligned Owe. "Quit kicking at gift ,horses. They can kick too." IIE MUST OPERATE --r- $he Took "FRUIT.A.TIVES" Instead, And Is Now in Perfect Health. MME. F. GAREAU 163 Papineau Ave., Montreal. "For three years, I suffered great pain in the lower part of iny body, with swelling or bloating. I saw a specialist, who carefully examined me and gave me several tonics to take, which did not help me. Then he told me I must undergo aid oper- . • ation. This, I refused to eeirmit. I heard about 'Fruit-a-tives' and the wonderful results it was giving because this medicine is made from fruit juices, so decided to try it. The first box gave great relief ; and I continued the treatment, taking six boxes more. Now, my health is excellent —1 am free of pain and swelling -;and I give 'Fruit -a -UT& my warmest thanks". MME. F. GARBAIT. 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size 25c. At all dealers or sent by Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. air several seconds longer than nec- essary just from -the pure pleasure of it; having a good- deal the same sensations I imagine a chimpanzee has when he swings by his hands: And I had no more fear of falling than has the ape. I don't seem to have any such things as nerves any more, and I am glad of it for I don't need 'em. When I put my •depen- derice upon my muscles now -a -days I know they are not going back on me. When I came here it was not that way by a long shot, so you can see what the woods have done for me in that respect. And I don't believe that I have degenerated mentally either. I have not read much fiction it is true but I have bent close to the ground and watched things grow out of it, and I have looked up at these gorgeous northern stars ,and, been nearer to them than I ever was before. And I have seen sunrises and sunsets that will abide with me as long as I have memory—blood-red suns hanging in skies that flamed like a fire. And only last night I saw the search light of the north pole streaming from rim to rim of the sky. AS long as I have to work with my hands for a living I am going to do it here in the woods. It is harder work and longer hours and no better pa l+ than I could get for digging sewers in a city—but where is the comparison ?' "But it' is funny that you should have to labor with your hands for a living," echoed Findlay significantly. "I've often thought of it and so has Barbara; I know that because she has spoken to me about it. You have a level head and you are an educated man. Why, you use almost as good grammar as me." "Nevertheless I have to labor with my hands, you may be very' sure. I have absolutery no money at my dis- posal except what I earn from you day by day, no profession and practically no business experience. That is why I want to see the drive. I want to learn logging from A to Izzard, for I have an idea that am going to stick to it. In the first place it is as good a business as a man can be in whether he has money or no money, and in the second it is congenial." ."I'tn glad you are interested in it and I'll push you along as fast as I can. You've got brains and education and enthusiasm, and that is the kind of a man I want," returned Findlay as the other man finished with the wash pan. And Wilson going to the board- ing house packed his stomach tightly withsolids and betook himself off on his twelve -mile tramp to the upper darn. He arrived there at nine o'clock and proceeded at once to the water's edge. As far as the eye could reach the pond was alive with logs that crowded it from shore to shore and which were backed far up on the low lands :that were over -flowed by the pent waters. And it was with these latter logs that lay in the shoal water that the main body of the upper driving ,crew were most concerned, for while the bulk of the stuff lying in the free water e±'the pond would be sucked through the chutes without causing more trouble than guiding and fending; the remain- ing "jill-pokes" back in the shoal waters where the current pulled but feebly were liable to become stranded. These, therefore, had either to be herded into the deep water or left behind and lost. The dam watcher of the Badger Company sitting idly upon the struc- ture surveyed the newcomer with curiosity. Wilson approached him. "Mr. Findlay sent me up to tell you to hoist her," he announced and the beavers as they rolled in other thous- ands from the piles that fringed the low banks or tumbled them headlong down the rollways of the bluffs. Above the dam in the overflow of the pond, often in ice water up to their waists, men forced the obdurate jill-pokes from the shoals into the clutch of the stream, while further out on the main body of the floating mass their spike - shod comrades leaped from log to log as they nursed them as Vaqueros nurse restless cattle. The light pieces that showed a tendency to wander they drove into the 'main mass with their steel gaffed poles; logs that balked and would go sideways they straight- ened head-on for the plunge through the foam and rocks. Often sinking to their knees in their flights across the shifting mass as their weight fell' upon a "stick too light to support them; occasionally losing their poise and going into their necks in waters as cold as the snows that had given them birth; recklessly they leaped onisoak- ed to the skin but with their blood rushing hotly. All day they labored savefofrora aenuopccoafsional steamingdash shoretliastheleessly coffee and a minute's bask in the heat oftthe cook's fire and when night came and the gate fell with a splash they stumbled back to camp drenched and leg weary, but beyond all things famishing for the last, the biggest and the hottest meal of the day. And having eaten ravenously as they sat or stood in steaming groups before the fires, they smoked a pipe or two, then rolled blankets about their still sodden garments and lay down for a sleep that was akin to the slumber of death. During the next three days. Wilson followed the drive down the river. Lending a hand here and there and watching everything, he saw prodigies of endurance that surpassed anything that had come under his notice in the snow -bound camps. He saw men rid- ing logs that leaped like live things when to lose balance meant a plunge into the rapids amongst death -edged rocks; riding them erect and fearlessly as bare -back performers ride horses over hurdles. He saw them after working. -for hours in .ice water up to their middles crawl numbly forth to seek a fire, only to leap frog -like into the flood again before the ragings of a drive boss He saw them threading 'jams and working doggedly beneath towering maws while they located the key log, dislodged it and dropping dant-hooks and. peavies go leaping like mountain goats for the shore with death thundering at their heels. And where can -hook and peavy would not suffice he saw them risking mutilation and death at the fickle end of a dyna- mite fuse, and he saw them die in the foam -flecked jaws of Great Bear Rapids—two of them, At the end of the third day he left the river and cutting across country over ridge and through sWarnp made his way wet and exhausted to the store. From the top of his stool he once more figured. and wrote until the last log had Veen driven and the 'paid -off men had dispersed to home or dance hall as their inetincts sled them strongest. For the tWo times id the year when the lumber jack's pocket should be lined with money are at the close of the cutting season in the woods and at the end of the drive in the spring. That same after- noon Findlay came into the little office with a contented smile and a rasping together of his rough hands. He slapped his clerk solidly upon the 'Shoulder. "Everything is all right now, boy. With my fleet anchored where nothing can harm it my work and worry for the season is over. All I have got to do for a few months now is to keep my eyes on the mill ,and the general run of things. Say, but it feels good to be a gentleman of lerSure once more and not have to get up until seden o'clohlt in the morning and be able to quit at eight at night. Nothing like it, hey?" "You have certainly earned a .rest" "That's the way to talk. There is only one thing that is worrying me just this minute S and I'm going to tell you what it is. You see Barbara and I had fixed it up to invite' you to the house for supper and a couple of hours' visit with els' this evening, and I am afraid you woncome." "But I am going to come." "Good: To tell the truth I've had Barbara kill that fabulous calf, so you had better be on hand at six - thirty, prepared to do a little fesbu- lous eating." Away went the gentle- man .of leisure on a dog trot, headed up the road for a spot a mile or two distant in order to inspect some sleds that he had stacked up and left be- side the old ice road. -while the invited guest finished his afternoon's work and began a simple toilet for the even- ing. Barbara! And he was to sit at her table and eat again of her cook- ing. Verily the gods were exceeding kind to him. And never was there a meal more wonderful. Soup—not intangible broth but real soup, rich as cream, Vodyful, soulful, satisfying. 'Radishes red as strawberries and pregnant with tingl- ing juices. A roast of veal, stnffed, garnished and spiced until one's eyes could -scarcely leave it. Tiny onion bulbs that melted in the mouth and sharpened the teeth of hunger. Baked potatoes that crumbled and fell apart like dry flour, gravy. inexpressible, Fritters light as feathers with pure maple syrup from Findlay's oSvn "back yard." Pudding that huge slices of left one as hungry for it as before the first mouthful, and tea fit -for the Milkado. And while Findlay and Wil- son were raving over each new dish ,tasted, Barbara, who had co'oked everything, sitting at the end .of the table with her sleeves tucked above woodsman tapping his pipe upon .a. her round white wrists criticized un - beam slowly arose and threw his sparingly. She could do much better weight upon the lever at one side of as a general thing. She had burned the gate as he began taking in the the soup in looking after the roast. chain over the ratchet wheel Wilson • She bad forgotten to turn the roast seizing the opposite lever did likewise in looking after the potatoes. She had and under the foot of the gate the taken out the potatoes too soon in her black water began gushing. And as anxiety over the gravy. The fritters the Badger logs a few days before had tired her to carry to the table, so had moved majestically forward to heavy were they. 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