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And She Called Him
"The Lump."
BI' VIRGIE E. ROE.'
PART IL
To Chad, Rose turned new side..
She met 'him WithWitha coquette's smiles,
the luring flash of eyes that went to
his head like wine. With a consume
mate guile she drew him to her until
he was helpless in his blind adoration,
and 'neither man knew, ever knew,
that what he got was meant for the
other, for that was the mystery of
woman, and it has bewildered men
since vain and headstrong Eve went
doggedly from the garden at Adam's
side and stuck by him to life's end,
start •proceedings to take out same of
the stumps on the upper flat, Look
'erra, over and ace how much powder
they'll take," Than he swung away
with the rest, and the lumberjack: felt
his ears grow bot. This was .a pointed
insult: The stumps were in no one's
way, ,And he had tacitly been oaken
from ° his job. He wanted to do the
thing with as Iittle stir as +possible—
just be gone in the Morning. . So be
went on and inrade a pretense of look-
ing at the great stumps` )scattered on
the upper fiat while his senses seemed
dulled by his tragedy. And presently
he looked up and saw Rose,. a charm-
ing figure in her gay garments, com-
ing up the slope.
"Why, ' Chad, she 'said, ' confused,
"I thought you were behind the
yarder?"
The confession of his removal was
the last bitter drop, but he made it
doggedly.
"I was," he said ,quietly; "bu Car-
son put me here."
"What for?"
"Nothing," said Harkness, d to
save his life ,he could not he the
bitterness that erept into his vo 'e
But, high on the crest, ('xson
knew. He stood at the trail's oath
with his hands in bis sweater p ekets
and looked far down at the flat there
the tiny -figures staid out bei the'
trail and knew why he ,had eked
Rose to come on thework that fter-
noon, had taken her man- frac - the
real activity.
the other foram weak
with hunger for you! Don't you know my shoulder. It was for the subtle psychology of
' disparagement. Harkness mooning
me. yetP Have you forgotten our first' among the stumps=himself the •head
meeting? One look from your cold and front of the work above.. He knew
eyes. me take you then, even at his little vain Rose, had decided to.
made
the risk of a long -odds scrap. What finish her with the big simp.
do you think will stop me now?e Yes, Harkness down and out ,and
And he gathered her into his arms Rose would turn before long. He
with a sweeping force that would not would offer her a trip to Portland and
be denied. a long, gray racing car -the %nkey
led, bringing up the backing'
When it seemed he meant to forgo squealog.
her lips he drew down nearer and • i
Hevis
oned her in gray furs—motif-
nearer, smiling holden her close,his non or silver squirrel—with a touch of;
I
slow repression admirable, the tesion old rose somewhereand her gray
Row ..could a man understand these of- expectancy mounting until the wo- eyes shining beneath: the golden' flair.
complex creatures? man cried out and hid . her face The thought was entrancing and his
So by her coldness Carson was lur-
ed to desire, and by her light and
warmth Harkness was bound in ever-
lasting fetters, when she felt in the -
former anew tingling interest and to
the.. latter the old repugnance made
sharper by contrast.
against hint. But he raised it again v no1, e on
e gay
figure. ,of the
with that iron hand—and kissed her. v , grew intraspeerive
When he lifted his face he was smil- Yes, he believed he'd marry; her when
ing-but Rose was completely con -
she had divorced Harkness -and end-
weep- denly the donkey coughed and strain-
quered, trembling, flushed, half
ing. , He loosed her, picked up her lit- ed, the cable tautened, the backer
nosed the
tle yarn cap, and pulled it gently on butt of the head log, already
her head. near the toppling .point, and pushed
Then Rose took to wandering a bit ,,.Go home," he said, "my darling— it forward.
about the !fills, clad in a bright sweat -,for that's what you are from this day:
er and short skirt she had got through I think Pll have you yet froth Hark-
the catalogues. Not that she was evil, ness. At least, I'll see."
mind you, for` she was not. But rom- From that day Rose lost her grip of
ance had her by the throat, and she the situation. It was no longer hers,
was delighted with its grasp.- ' but Carson's. Like many a woman
It was not long before Carson noted before her, she. had loosed blindly beside him, moved; his foot caught in
these artless pilgrimages and thought great forcs and found herself swept that small loose root, his' other ° orae
a lot. And hewas bold as a lion, full away by the flood. slipped and tossed him sidewise
of self-confidence. So on a day when ,AA d Harkness'was beginning to straight across the log. He fell on his i
high white clouds sailed in a sky of watch. • Th`coquette's gayety gthat back,. with his threshing' arms out,
blue and all the slopes were green as had marked Rose's behaviour a month spread, and all the horror in ; the
emerald, he, too, struck away from ago and had so piteously ensnared hi World pressed . down upon - him as he]
camp, though in a different direction, heart and soul was dead as "'a quench-' felt the monster tip. It rolled :him'
and came upon the woman an hour ed.liht. The girl had lot her over on his stomach, and with tin+des-;
later as she rested on •a fallen log, subtlety. g perate instinct of self-preservation!
her red cap in her lap and her fair H ll ' the •ld d t to h` l fingers d i t th 'h k'
b'
No one had noticed the boss' fatal
nearness to the header until that 'mo-
ment As they turned to watch the
drop, always . of interest, they yelled
in unison, but it was too late..
Carson, feeling the. urge ofthe "tons
fluff standing out a million ways from
her little head.
"After a month!" said Carson bold-
ly, "a whole month of endeavor!"
"Yes?" said Rose,"and now what?'
She was as colas a north wind
as impersonal.
Canon dropped teethe log and 4u
'err•hand in a grip of iron.
"What do you suppose? ".:That red
mouth of yours; that has blurred my
vision every time I've seen it. This
little 'head that has kept me sleepless
many a night! The one for my lips,
grid give gyour
stomach a 1111.
Provfldes "the ..lit of
sweet" In berieftdiaf
form;
Helps to cleanse
the teeth and keep
them healthy.
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e was sti in is be ere s a' is c awing users ug in o e ar
when Carson decided suddenly that he and held. With one slow heave the
did want Rose—was .ready for ;the great log slanted into the built trail,
open break. The' foreman went about `shivered, and was away with the man
it with the bold dash and verve which in the bright sweater prone acrese it.
had characterized `all his life. • He - Down on the flat below as
began to make open love for her for • watchingthe start, „':a..' ,:dt
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"r b on, •s
.. a b
alltened :i' _
to' see.ose .was fn h ,
this- time to the faun tion s. ,af . her was watching' her) ': ith piteou, hue
nature, but s.e'ir ie; was also :far lost in ger in his haggard face:.; And sud-
the excitement of thegame.: denly he• saw, the pretty month fall
"My God, Harkness," said Smith, open, the gray eyes bulge with a slow
the hook tender, "why don't 'you do and unbelieving horror, saw the rose
something?" pink literally drainfrom her chee1:s,
But Chad looked down and fiddled for the woman had recognized the'
with his cap. He knew that with the' crimson splotch on' the sinister thing
coming of Carson the desperate drear-that was s'rooting down the first slope,
iness had gone from Rose's eyes, that He -flung around and granced , up.
she had begun to live again. Chad Harkness had spent his life, ap-
The next day was bright and clear, the lumber
the man-size labor of,'
with high clouds again and a thin. camps. Mind e.nd sight
gold sunlight awepii g down the rain and instinct were lightning quick. 'In
damp slopes.. Chad Went out with the that one instant he gathered the whole
tragi
crew, as usual, for he wanted to finish•c circumstance, clear as an et
`'�Ir-
up this week. As he climbed the moan- ing. He knees that the log was a. big
fain beside the familiar trail where
one. and rode fairly steady. Re Lnow
the sinister cable lay his heart was
sick, sick.
The trail, a deep and narrow
groove in the mountain's breast, lined would slow 'a bit as i't truck slid;
with logs which shone white with the glided,aeross the flat where he stood;
burning friction of those which' came
shooting down, went steeply up from.
the hill's foot, where the railway lay
beside the river, bent over the shelf.
of the `little flat that cut the slope,
' crossed this, and went sharply up to
that the man upon it had a ' chance-
a fighting chance -to cling to its deep,
corrugated bark. He. -,knew that , it
that its last plume over and down
would be at sickening speed:
He tore off his mackinaw, knocked
the cap from his head, set his legs
apart and crouched, elbows crooked,
fingers spread.
!the crest. Here there was a broad As the flying log• thundered down
tableland covered with yellow pine, eon them the muscles under his blue
+fine as one could wish—great trees shirt rose in ridges, his legs worked
a
up and down like springs, and as It
passed he leaped for it, high, with his
feet spread wide. It was a desperate
feat, something no man in the lumber
country bad ever done before, but love
was behind it and utter indifference to
the life beyond.
And he landed like a cat, astride
the log, close in front of the ounce -
m :
scions figure of the forean, his bae,
to the head end. He.had barely ti e.
to fling himself face down across Ca
ster lay ready the choicer was removed, son and dig his fingers into the de'
and set to another behind, the engine bark with a death grip, when the 1
screamed, pulled and the log behind tipped over the edge and started o
pushed the one at the edge .into the the last lap of its journey.
trail, out till it toppled, tipped, settled) After that he had no clear conce
into the huge i tion of that monstrous ride. He on
groove and started.
From that moment tie brown log
ceasedto seem a log and became some-
thing alive, shooting down the first
incline, faintly hazed with the blue
smoke of its own friction,' slowing as
it struck the little flat, but sailing -on
across, tipping over the second crest
with its own momentum, and, fine ly,
two hundred feet tall and six and
seven feet through.
On the edge of the crest the yard-
ing donkey stood, precariouslye an-
chored to its standing pines, a fussy,
screaming little giant of an engine
that had pulled its own self up the
slope by cables.' Here it reached back
with these. same cables and, picking
up the trimmed logs, one by one,
brought them to the edge and ''the
trail's mouth When one brown mon
knew that the slopes shot upward be-
side him, that his fingers bit the bare
to the raw, that all the pressure in
the world seemed tearing his legs
from their hold, and that above ail
else he was pressing down on Carson's
sliding body. The vast roar sank to
peace.' A great hush held him and all
shootingswiftly down to the at the world. And Canon's inanimate
above te rollway and the river, where body was still pressed under him, etre
it slowed and sto ped majestically, to booted feet han.ging within ten inches
of thetrails edge!
Then, as he rolled stiffly from hit.
place, there came tin' the thin air the
wild; high keening of a 'woman's'
screams, and he looked up to see the
little bright figure of Rose flying down
beside the trail itspigm
a myy
stretched high above it n arba•ndotf
of anguish, its bright hair shining
afar in the light.
"Give me a hand, boys," lie,,eaiii
be peeked up by the cable of ,the lower
'donkey again and pulled on to the
roliway which sent it .gently to the
waiting water. .
To -day Chad stopped 'at the moult-
tain's foot and watched the cable'
trembling in the trail as the engineer
tested his spools. Perhaps the thing
`might break and and him into etern-
ity if he stood long eiiiough beside it
1—he had 'Oen the like, Btit he was a
1 faller, and his work lay far from the
'cables,
.As he stood thinking dully a group
of men went by, the eiggieg slingors,
nd in their midst Was Carson. The
boss Were a brilliant• crimson sweater.
Byer. his, flaaneshirt, and he was
handeome with his clear 'skin and his
len *blue eyes. He stopped and spoke.
to . hal, '
,
r „
ess he said, . Iwish
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A blue foulard, with er white coin
spot makes this pretty slaefeless
frock. Note the simplicity of the
lines, and the drooping side panels.
The model's hair is, eiresised in the last
word in- the Egyptian mode.
dully. "We must show her'he ain't
dead."
Harkness stood up and watched her
come.
"God!" he said aloud, unconsciously,
"How she can love 1"
Fleet as a deer, unconsciously
graceful in herr aliandon,.the woman'
ran on. She neared the group, and
her wide eyes were staring, the rain
of tears blurring their vision.
"Chad!" she screamed. "Chad!
Chad! Oh, Chad!"
And without a look'at Carson, be-
ginning to stir on the rough couch
which'had se nearly been his bier; she
leaped toward Harkness and flung
herself on his breast. Her wild arms
went round his neck, her eyes. strained
on his face with the unbelieving won-
der of him who has looked upon the
dead, and seezi it live.
"I didn't know," she panted. "I
•lidn't know! Not until I saw you go
rot me into e th sella..Qh Clead 1-.
d a..._ l ,« µ
eou••for ter:me Will` you :ever
fir...
"
give • me?
She was whimpering.like a child,
clinging to him, piercing his face with
her tear blurred eyes.
e"Please, please,,. Chad! Give me one
more chance'to' love you!"
Stupidly, Harkness stared at her.
For a long time he stood inert, un-
responsive, a veritable lump, while he
strove desperately to understand.
Then a slow ensile began to break
round his lips, a light to shine in his
haggard face and he took her wrists
and held them.
fAre you sure, Honey?" he asked.
"Sure?"
"Dead sure," whimpered Rose.
"What about him?" and he jerked
his head'toward the foreman, sitting
up in bewildered•' silence.
"Nothing," she answered; "nothing
in this world! Is he alive?" And
with a look like nothing so much as a
conquering king's, . the' lumberjack
folded hie' wife` to his heart.
(The End.)
Like Some Other Art.
"She's as pretty as a picture."
"Can't agree with' .you in ,that -but
she has a fine frame." -
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Minard's Linlmenf for Coughs & Golds
Words Unnecessary.
"Is the bass in?" asked the visitor.
"Tire office boy, with hie chair .tilt-
ed back and his legs stretched out on
a desk, made no reply.
'I asked it the boss was' in," said
the visitor.
::The office' boy glanced at him, btlt 1
remained silent. "Didn't yon hear me?"
snapped the visitor,
1 hear
Ot 6%1'03 du answered
d
the boy, S'cornf`ully,
41110:
Then why the dickons didn't you
tell me if the boss's fat?"
"Now, 1 ask yea," retorted the boy,
as he crossed hie legs. en the desk,
"does it look .like
UP in the Air,
Mrs, Newlywed—"Oh, Jack, you left
the kitchen doer'open, and the dra-tight
has shut my cookery book to that how -
1 haven't the faintest idea what it is
Z'nt Cooking."
Just to wash your face and:
hands in Lifebuoy is to be
refreshed,
The big creamy lather of
Lifebuoy thoroughly cleans
yollr skm.
The daily use of f ifebuoy is
the simple sure way to skin
health.
LB6O
About the House
THE -SILVER WEDDING. -
Twenty or -forty or sixty years old.
It conies to the same when the tale is
is all told!
Her eyes are the brightest,
Her kisses most sweet,
Her touch .is the lightest,
Her waist the most neat—
Twenty or forty 'or ,sixty years old,
msame when the
It conies to the tale
is all told!
Eyes blue or -hazel coy, winsome or
bold,`
It Comes to tie same when the tale
is. -all told!
She likes pretty dresses,.
She likes to - he shy,
She likes your ;caresses "
When no oneis;.by--
Twenty or forty or ;sixty years old,
It comes to the same when ; the tale
is all told!
Hair brown or silver,hblack, auburir,
or gold,
It comes to the same when the tale
is all told!
Her love 'is your treasure,
Her beauty your pride,
Her will is your pleasure,
Her judgment your guide—
Twenty or forty or sixty- years old',.
It comes . to the same when the tale
is,.all told!
CANNING AND PRESERVING.
GOOSEBERRY CONSERVi7, requires four
pints -of gooseberries, three pints of
sugar, one cupful of seeded raisins
and one orange. Make a heavy esirup
of the sugar and a little water, cook-
ing until the syrup will spin a thread;
add the gooseberries, raisins) the pulp
and juice of the orange and the skin,
finely chopped. Cook until thick, pour
into hot glasses and seal.
CerERRY AND GOOSEBERRY' PRESERVES:
Use equal quantities of • cherries
(which have been pitted) and goose-
berries and, to each pound of fruit use
three-quarters of a pound of sugar.
Make a thick syrup by adding a sinall
quantity of water to the sugar, cook
the gooseberries in the syrup until
they are clear, then' add the cherries
and cook twenty minutes longer.
CHERRY CONSERVE Is made of the
red sour cherries thus: Cook three
and one-half pounds of cherries (pit-
ted) for fifteen minutes, then add two
and one-half pounds of sugar 'which
has been heated in the oven, one-
quarter pound of seeded raisins,: and
the juice and pulp of three oranges.,
Cook until the mixture is as thick ae
marmalade, pour into glasses and
seal.
ASPARAc us should be canned as soon
as possible after gathering. If allow-
ed to stand for more than a few hours
after being cut, the delicate flavor is
destroyed and it is more difficult to
WHEN RHUBARB IS CANNED by the
cold -water process, the success of this
method, it is claimed, depends not
alone ; upon .. careful -work in canning,
but in the storage. The jars should
be wrapped in paper in order to keep
out the' light, then placed on shelves :far
a dark, cool place and "'left-undisturb
ed until used: The cold -water pro-'.
cess of canning rhubarb consists ` in
filling sterilized' cans with the fresh.
fruit, cut in cubes, • then pouring he
fresh, cold water until every particle
of air is excluded.. The cans may
then be sealed. ,For the filling •pl o=..'•
cess some housewives •.set the cans
under the faucet, allowing ;tthe `water
•
to run' in until its •own wept expels;;; ,.
all air bubbles, while: others prefer to
plunge the can in a pail,of water for::;
a short; time. Whichever method is.
used, every crevice should be filled .
with water, with no . room ` for 'the
tiniest air -bubble.
To PRESERVE STRAV1BIERRIES, make a
syrup of one-quarter of water :laid
-seven pounds of sugar and cook.in"an
'open kettle until a candy thermometer -"•.
registers 266 deg. F. Add eight
pounds of berries (washed and stein-
med) and cook slowly, just at the
boiling point. Stop :the cooking when,
the thermometer registers 210 deg '
pour •into shallow pans to cool and: ••,
skim while cooling. + When cold pack
into jars and allow to stand unsealed,
but covered with a cloth, for dfpur,
days. I'ut rubber and lid in position,
not tight. If ; using a hot-water bath
outfit, sterilize twenty minutes; if use
ing a water -seal outfit, or a -five;
pound' steam -pressure outfit, or a
pressure -cooker outfit, sterilize for
fifteen minutes. Remove jars, tighten
covers, invert . to cool and test foe,
leaks., Wrap jars with paper to pre,
vent bleaching and store in a cool„
dark place.
Minard'sLiniment for Corns and Warts,
YOUR 'WINTER -FURS..
If you have only one or two pieces,
of fur to pack away, and have nq,
provision' for takingcare, of these, get
a clean pasteboard suit box, You can,
set one of these in a good heavy 'qua1-
ty at a store or a tailoring establish-
ment for five or ten cents, Clean your
furs. Lay into the box; sprinkle with
powdered tobacco. Put the cover on
the boat and paste a strip' of paper
tightly over the opening. • This will
prevent any wandering insect. crawl;,
ing up :'under, and feeditlg on your.
valuables. -
When you want to use the articles
Inthe fall, all you have to' do is to
break the seal, shake out the futs,
hang them in the open air for a little'.
rvliile, and they are ready for use,
keels.' The stalks should be cleat•aed. ROSEBUSHE
andeany hard portions sh removed, rite '
may be canned whole or cut
into half -
.inch leoes, dependinh upon the form'
which
the vegetable is to he served.
Blanoiio the prepared asparagus in!
boiling water for' throe of fon min-
utes, cold dip, then pack in jars, rover
With water, and add onoteaspoonful
of -salt to each quart jar, Then adjust
covers loosely, !platen a water..;tath
and bail two hours or In a steaan,pres-
sure soaker (ten pounds pressttre)
for oneyhalf hour:. 11,0111ove and tighten
the covers while tidy are hot,
Flowering a n d Decorative
Shrubs, Boxwoods, Ever
'greens, Climbing Vines, etc.
All imported Stork.
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