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(Continued froin last week.)
"What do you want?" •
"Me go to work now,"
"What can you do?"
"Saw down tree like loup garote
Critically Flint,surVeyed him up and
down, through. and across, with eyes
long accustomed to judge of the brawn
of man or beast, noting the set of the
thick neck on the powerful. shoulders,.
the depth of the chest and the bowed,
muscled legs. 'Looks fit, .but I never
saw an Injun, yet .that could Iliad up
his end with a good, white man," he
thought, and at another time weld
have given a curt negative and gone
ais wave But since the accident to
Jimmy Hard Boots, Big Ben had been
in a black sulk because of the feeble-
ness. of his DOW sawing partnee, and
• Flint, eager te'humor the giant itsathe
best sawyer in the woods, was at his
wits' end to find him a fitting mate,
It is a bitter thing for adman to see,
a fiercely -Won and long -gloried -in
championship wrested from him, and
Big Ben's fame had been sung in every
lumber camp, smoky dance hall and
log saloon of the pineries. Yet that
was just what', this mighty sawyer was'
witnessing now, for Lebeau and
Amereaux, greatly heartened by the
disabling of Jimmy, were (hiving their
whining ribbon of steel back and forth
with the frenzy of whipped devils,
awl the nightly scores upon the buck-
ing board were as wormwood and gall
• to the long victorious Bee. With all
this in mind Flint pondered while one
might have counted- ten, then jerked
out his answer. "Come with
• Quickly he turned away, the- Indian
' stepping in his tracks.
Over the summit 'of the hill a black
mass crawled, seemed to poise for an
instant on the apex and then, tilting;
come -thundering down upon them. A
- leap to one side and they were in safe-
ty among the brush. The next MOM-
ent a huge swaying load roared past,
the teamster as tense- arid, alert as a
• charioteer of Rome as with wild yells
he urged the leaping. beasts on. Flint,
his mouth bound shut by tight lines,
-watched the mass until with a lurch to
the side it ground around a curve and
disappeared. Then he faced his com-
panion. '
,"Lost two horses and a man on that
devil's slide last winter. Straw got
iced over in 'the night and the sled
raced like that one just now. Horses
slipped and went dawn and the driver
was yanked off. Five thousana feet
of logs went over them in the tenth of
a second You can imagine the shape
they were in when we gathered them
up. But the- stuff has to go down all
the same.' Grimmer of countenance
than he had been the Moment before
he once more led the way up the hill.
• Big Ben accepted his new mate with
• a scowl of disapproval. "Injun of
white man, Swede or Canuck is all
• the same to me so long as he can dee
• the work," he growled. "But whoever
he may be I'll make ,hini sweat blood
before three hours have come and
gone. Hear that, you savage a I'm
going to tame you." '
"Mebbyso."
"Then take hold of that saw." De-
spite *e bitterness of the air Big Ben.
threw his heavy blanketcoat aside and
.stood before them frowning and huge
in the first daylight as the Indian
silently picked up his and of the thin
blade. Aid Flint, seeing the light of
rivalry that already burned in 'their
eyes left them with a "go to it" and
an inward grin. . For rivalry between
a pair like this meant inany tags cut
for the drive to come, and many logs
for' the drive meant an and,
of
wages fOr the foreman.
Back and forth, back and forth
at they swayed until the red sawdust
spurted in streams from the .heart ef
the wounded tree. ; Deftly the wedge -
was driven?, thefinal ax cut imule and
far up in the air the heal of the
Norway nodded. Then. with a sicken-
ed shudder, a groan and a drunken
sway it roared down through the
• branches of its lesser kind, stripping
them as by a thunderbolt, hurling the
dismembered limbs javelina.ike through
the air, then with a •rebounding back
• leap and the rending of 'tough fibers
lay inert at full length upon the snow.
From the place of safety where they
• had withdrawn at the begitming of
the downrush Big Ben and his _dash!'
partner emerged to seek another vice
tiM.
But though lie worked with more
than his usual might through the
day, when night came and theyi wend-
ed their way campwaxd the white man
was forced to inwardly confess that\
his new partner had driven him as no
man ever had before. But the figures
upon the board that night told another
tale, the old familiar ones of Big Ben
and his mate leading:in the cat of the
•day, and for the first time since the
passing of Jimmy Hard Boots the
voices of the Frenchmen were sub-
dued. But instead of rejoicing that he
had again found a partner against
whom he could pit his full strength
to the vanquishment of his rivals, petty
jealously and selfish rage filled Big
Ben's soul that another man dared be
• as mighty as himself. However, he
would teach him his lesson yet. To-
morrow be would drive bini until the
world swain in a sea of blood, and.
Yitt on through that sea a blood to
a sea of night where all things spun
oiddily and the roar of cataracts filled
his ears. And then haying driven him
to a lax -down in the snow and taught
him his place, he wopld ease up on.
• him a bit and together they would
• overhaul the .spurting, Frenchmen or
leave their own skins 'hanging in the
woods, •comforted somewhat by
thoughts like these he crept early to
bed for the long slumber which' would
bring him triumph on: the morraw.
The moon sailed high and the eainp
lay hushed in death -like • slumber.
door stepped out into the moonlight of
the clearing. Long it -stood there in
the stinging cold:, intense, snuffing the
air, listening, its eyes bent steadily
Upon, the north. And though the
watcher 'mew it not, at this same.
moment half a dozen leagues further •
on towards the pole star a young
• Indian woman from her knees wee
praying that O-no-ka,, the guardian
Big Ben'arose to his feet and stood 1
glowerinupon the circle. `That In- ,
jun is the, best man iff the woods and
I'd like to hear someone saY different," SUFFERED*
g
he said threateningly. "He is the I
only man thet ever beat me, but by
the eternal him and me are going to
saw them Canadians out of their hides
before the winter is oyer, Shake
hands, partner."
spirit of lovers e might again guide
her steps to 'the lost trail of her
husband. For unless she could find
him and, by, throwingherself before
him gain forgivenees for her hot Words
°and senseless jealously, then the gawk
wolf that had followed her for so
many weary miles might do his worst,
CHAPTER "X •
• Findlay came jingling into camp be-
hind a pair of. half -galloping -broncos,
fur -coated ! to ° his heel, land Wilson
saw him and Flint .talking, earnestly
for his worst was better than the together in .front of the oflice. Pres -
Ione tepee far back upon the turtle ently they signaled aint, and he went
waters.
to where they BOA wondering what
Six o'clock coming again found -Big was in store for him. The eitinp
Ben stripped to his shirt sleeves upon owner took the waiver's hand' with
the hillside and ticowling at the man the gala of a blaeksmith and then told
whom he had sworn should this day what had brought him there, in about
fall gasping before him, in the dirk- el dozen
ness of departing senees and the bit-
terness of defeat. With an expression=
• less face the swarthy one picked up
one end of the shining _steel band
and the long finish fight was on. And
although Big. Ben bad done Trojan
labors on the day, before, his previous
efforts were bat .child's play besides
his struggles now •as he sought to
wear down the silent man whose black
eyes ever gazed deep into his own from
the far end of the rushing saw. Three
o eloca found the giant gaspnig for The bookkeeping is easy the way it
breathl and staggering as he fought has been handled heretofore, and any -
another tree and with defeat grin..., body with a head on him can make
another
• at him. through a dizzy world that it easier yet- Ill hold on to you un-
sWain in a sea of blood he gritted his, tillogru. get so you can ride your own
teeth as. he settled himself for his and after that it will be as simple,
last great effort. An hour later Mint, as Simon, You'll have a little cave
of your own to sleep in . over the.
who happened to be passing, leaped
forward with a shout, for Big Ben store and I'll sky , your tune -check to
fifty dollars a month. Want it?" .
-tottering like a pine -dropped his arms
and felleforward upon his face in a Wilson leaned back against the logs
Shapeless ena,ss upon the sawdust -lit- and gazed thoughtfully at his feet..
tered snow. The Indian dropping the The work that he was now doing was
a -1,rong man's work and despite the
saw staggered to as nearby trunk and long hours, the severity of the toil and
-sat down upon it; covering. his face the occasional hardships he bad_ grown
with hishands.
Like a forest fire the news swept to rather enjoy it than'otherwise. The
reasterious enchantress of the 'woods
the camp. Big Ben, the idolized, the had thrown her first mesh about hini.
invincible, the champion sawyer of the lander these great trees he had been
world had been whipped, done up, *bre at peace than he could hope to
beaten to a lay -down --and by an In- be elsewhere .• From the chilled wine
dim]' Wonders would never ceaseof the north, ' he had drawn deep
The loggers scowled and swore when, draughts which lied flushed his cheeks
they heard the news. But there Was and sent the blood tinglieg through
one consolation back of it all. There his veinlike the wine made by man,
wouldtnessb.. e_ a fight worth going miles to
- tat unlike the wine of- man 5t had
brOught him the flush of health in -
And that night in camp the chal- sts,ad of the flush of fever, end had
lenge was hurled. Big Ben striding left his haat; as clear as a bell, ft
had been here in this waderne” thst
he had become filled with an abhor-
rence unspeakable for his follies of
the past, rejoicing silently as 'he had
felt his swelling -muscle drive the ex
to the eye in solid wood, arid it. was
here that he had also grown etrongei
of heart, stronger of hope, stronger
in faith. And now the 'thought of
bartering all this free play of his
body for work that • a frail woman
Might do as well or better than he
could was the antonym of tempting.
Still, it was a distinet advance in the
social and fanancial scale,- and/socially
and financiall he now stood almost
upop, the botti Looking at it from
that angle it an opportunity not
to bedisreg ed. He had started
his new life amidst -new surroundings
with nothing ;butt awkwerdnessee-a-
weakened will ad a saPtied"Strength
"Chir bookkeeper. at Archer was
holed -up in town. Want the open- '
ing?"
• The new woodsman whistled softly.
"Think- I'm big enough tie fill it?" he
asked somewhat dubiously. '
"You'll crowd it. Anybody can tell
in five minutes that you've got brains,
and -after the Way you stuck to your
1feet when you toted my girl in, your
grit ain't a matter of speculation'.
before his conqueror glared fiercely
upon. him. "You—. I'll break every
bone in your carcass." With aa grunt
and a shrug of the shoulders the cold
answer came.
• "Mebbyso."
"When will you fight?"
"No care Sunday good 'nuf for
This was Friday night and the time
set was not unreasonably* distant. and
the white 'man lurched away with an
angry growl. • For the first time dux-
ing the season silence that night held
the camp, the ominetis silence which
foreshadows Titanic contests and deeds
of blood when lesser men are awed by
the very contemplation 'of the struggle
to come. Into their bunks they went
.a full half hour earlier than: was their
wont; but no sooner had their 'breathing.
grown regular and deep than a dark
form once more came creeping forth
to stand erect in the Moonlight with-
out And as it ,stood and listened,'
-there came to its ear a faint quaver -
mg -howl that caused the listener to
start as though stung by a lash. Then
passing to the wall of the bunkhouse
he teak from the logs a pair of snow-
shoes, swiftly adjusted them and with
head and sboulders held low went
swinging into the blackness of the
forest along his half -obliterated -trail
pf two nights !adore. J. • •
Kenn, a hostler, saw- bira as he
vanished among the shadows and hur-
ried to the bunkhouse with the news.
"The Injun has- puckache-ecl, skipped
out, dead scairt to fight," said he dis-
gustedly. . And Big Ben, hearing the
words, sat up,in Iiia .bunk and roared
in bis disappointment` and rage. ,
Back along the spine a the ridge
the runaway sped until he reached the
summit, then slid and zig-zagged clown
the- steep descent until the glistening
• incline was beneath his feet. A mile
ahead of him was a promontory, low
and heavily wooded, lying like some
monster across his wAy, and presently
rounding it be stopped with an un-
intelligible grunt and a screening of
his eyes from the- white glare. For
a hundred yards ahead of him there
Jay upon the shimmering way a black
object. where no black object Should
have been. Witha lynx -like quickriess
he approached it, bent over it and then
fell upen his knees beside it as his
-hand darting- beneath the enshrouding
blankets sought the bosom to see if
the heart' still throbbed. Lightning
quick he recoiled, .atarted, then bent
still closer. For hugged to the breast
of the black-eyed senseless woman was
a tiny, helpless thing that shivered
and mewed in. the cut of the zero air
arid he stared at it uncomprehending-
ly* Then with a swift sweep, of his
arm he wrapped the blanket closely
once more.
"Live," he gasped as he's -Tung his
burden upward. "Live, and I will al-
ways work and hunt for you. And
may 0 -no -lea lend me his strength once
more, for the way is long, and I must
travel swittly." Bent like a horse-shoe
'beneath Ills burden he shambled a-
cro* the ice, floundered up the hill-
side, reeled along the ridge as Wilson
had done, burst open the door and fell
• at full leagth upon the floor of the
bunkhouse:.
• Bewildered and. rubbing their blurr-
ed eyes the crew sat up in their bunks
as they stared at the gasping form as
he lay beside his burden. Then one
by. one they came crawling from their
blankets and bent over them. Little
we' said, but muscle -knotted arms laid
them an a bunk and hard palms chafed
thewoman's wrists with rough tender-
ness as they gazed at the marvel. The
girl's eyes opened and for a moment
she stared about uncomprehendingly,
then her eyes fell upon the' heavily
breathing form by her side, and with
a cry she threw herself upon it. The
man sat up.
•"Xour tongue was long and my
temper short, yet you are my squaw
and our trails should run side by side,"
he said as his hand closed. over hers.
"There wasno' War between us and it
is the wish of 0-noeka that we be Dot
arted One tepee 111 big, enough for
P •
f nd one blanket shall cover skyscraper. He's taller than the he told. 'her earnestly, : spliindor.
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the shoulders. 1 guess he could cut
off one hand and then'whipanybody
around these woods that ever jabbed
pike, pole into a jill-poke.
looking, too, in a roundabout, devilish
way. Got a tongue set on ball -bear-
ings and can talk you into a trance if
he feels_ good-natured, or -he can curse
you into insensibility with words that
smell like a dead language. Got.some
education too. Some say he is a col-
lege graduate and the ex -son of a
preacher and that he got into grief
and came up here to bury himself,
under the snow banks Nobody around
.here knows, though. BY the way, you
are no fungus yourself., I take it.
• Never struck me that you were in-
digenous to this soil. Git 'ap, Jack."
Findlay's slash dropped as lightly
as a fly upon the ear of me of the
ponies and he 'bent his glance scrutin-
izingly upon the one at his side. Not
caring to meet the quasi-questim fair-
ly, Wilson -dodged it. "So I have been
told. I wish you Would tell me a-
bout the square deal you would like
to get from the Badger company. I
may need the information some-
time."
. Findlay nodded. "Good idea. You
see the story starts off something
like this. That ground hog odtfit over
there managed to hook or °rook—
mostly crook—to illegally get legal
control of the dams above here and
at Archer so that they could regulate
the height of the water in the streams
to suit themselves.,• R,esult is when
they want a fined to float their logs
down they open the gates and get a
deluge!, but when need water for
my stuff they hand it to me in a spoon.
By the time the -break-up cdmes I will
have half my cut lia,uled in over the
• ice, •road, but the other half will be
high and dry back there in the woods.
It -will take -them about thirty days
'after the ice starts to drive the logs
down the river inte *g pond at Archer
-and the head of my *tuff ought to go
down with the tail 'of theirs. If I
to compete daily with those whose floated my loge down with theirs it
only jewels were tap very ones he would be an endless job to f sort them,
lacked. •tt-Yet , he had nearly held- his
own wit lv them, and now opportunity
was pasging them by to knock at his
door. Manifestly he must embrace it
as well as all others which might fol-
low, or else be content to forever re-
main a- whittler of wood for the mere
bleasure of whittling. And. were he
to carry out his vow to make the most
of himself through life and 'repay to
the uttermost his social debt, he must stranded along the, stream where they
now throw down the thick handle �f are liable to be burned up by forest
his ax ahd pick up a thin pen with fires—twenl, I'll,- try to make him
fingers- stiffened almost beyond the squeal. And after the way I bluffed
power to grasp so small a thing. Then him out of that tie contract I am
all of a second he thought of Barbara figuring that he is stacking the cards
Findlay. to deal 'himself high, law, jack and
A feeling almost of pain filled his the game But I guess I won't worry
breast and far an instant his reply much about him •flanless he gets to be
lay upon the tip of his tongue,; a a common nuisance—then I'll take him
short, dogg.ed refusal with perfunctory out in the woods and abate ham Git
thanks that would bury him for all 'ea, Jack. Hello! There's the metro -
time in e the snows and mould of the polis."
forest With nothing but health-aesur- They stopped in ,front of the store
ing toil 'as the panacea for his ex- at Archer much as a -door drawn shut
istence, and with nothilig but thoughts by a heavy' spring strikes are air
for his pleasures and pains. For should cushion in the last two inches of its
he go to Archer -he would of i necessity. flight and closes getitly after all, the
see the girl- much, and hii fear of broncos sading. the anal ten feet al -
seeing her much was the. feavof one most upon their haunches. Blanket
who would put a great temptation roll under his arm 'Wilson descended
behind him. Still, his dread of her and entered his new home. Andethe
was but folly after all. It was a first face he saw was that of Barabara
thousand chances against one that she Findlay looking 'dawn. upon him from
would ever feel more than grateful the top of the tall stool where it de -
towards him, and that he with an un- lighted her ta perch:. He had more
cleitnea,ble blood stain upon his hand than once wondered how he should
and the shadow' of prison walls al- address her when they next met,
ways upon him could ever forget the 'whether with the frank cordiality
gulf between them, was unthinkable. that was his by right of the happen -
After all he Might as well fight the ings of fate, or with a aubtle form -
fates at their own door as. in the fast- • akity which her sensitive' nature would
nesses of a wood. "I'll go," he said at once detect and shrink from. The
quietly. latter seethed the safer way, for it
Findlay's hand dropped -upon hie would at once put a barrier between
shoulder -with' the dead weight of a them. For first of all Barbara's
maul'. "Good. Hustle your pack out nature was responsive. • Smile at her
and throw it in the sled." Off Wilson and a smile was your reply; frown
went with quick step and ten min- and you would see it faintly mirored
utes tater had bidden Flint good -by in,• her face. Should he approach her
and was upon the seat beside the with frank pleashre at the•meeting he
logger as the sled aped along the ice felt sure her greeting would be in
road, the shrill whistle of the wind in kind; but a look eskance, an indiffer-
their ears. The gray eyes of the ent inflection of the voice or a flabby
elder Man were steeeping the opposits toucA of the hand and she would draw
bank of the stream where great heaps herself a shell of reserve from.
of log lay close ter the brink and which it would not be easy to coax her
there waa a trace of worerecnt in his in the future And not halting fully
v9ice a:g he waved his, Land comrre- determined what his couraa sheuld be
hensivelv towards the meet and now eonfrenting heitmexpectedly;
.. "All that stuff piled up along there he greeted her not at all, standing
'belongs to the Badger crowd, and silently. before her as -his thoughts
there' going to be wailing and gnash- ran ,back .t.O that day in the forest
ing of teeth on the part of somebody wheii the had held her so long end. so
wheiatbe break-up comes unless they closely. Arid she, thinking that which
give me- a' square dr on the -water none bat herself knew, etloeirig with
proposition, And,. i'ii tell you hew a flush that came, endured and passed
it is liable to come to pass. ?nu in the twinkling' of' an eye. left her
see old Israel Meyer is the principal
old be -coon of that neck of the woods Perch With a movement that was
yonder, and. if he ever gave woman,
man or child a square deal it was be-
cause they gat the drop on him first.
but having 'half of my cut already on
the ground, brought in by the ice road,
I can wait for the rest of it. Now
if they are white and will give me
enough water for the last of my cut,
old Meyer and I will get along haPPY.
as two bugs in a rug: But if he shifts
the water down when. he is through
-
driving, as I have heard it talked he
• is likely to do, and leaves my logs
neither a slide nor a leap but rather
a fluttering clown .that landed her
upon the floor without effOrt or sound.
And there She stood before him with
i ing audibly now. aI should tla you
would be if you stop to think icd the
trouble I am always making yoke The
first time I saw you I broke my eggs
and you carried them up the . hill;
the next time I ,broke yoer back as
you carried me down. I wonder what
I am going, to do to you next.'
He laughed too, almost as ightly
as she. • "1 woulchat worry a out it
if L were you. You will pr bably
think up something before long" And
with his anewer his last thou ht of
reserve vanished aud in an i staiit
j they were chatting more like c ildren
who ineet and become friend upon
the instant than Etit a man and a wo-
man who laid lived in the h rt of
the world and knew it well. &Fit
it had been in the begamin with
thein, and such it now pronn ed to
be to the end. Ile had alwairsIspcat-
. en to -her with the careless freedm of
di
one who, had .known her since child -
fearing not in the least that she would ,
misinterpert him; knowing well that
' she felt the abiding respect that lay
back of his each word no matte i how
lightly voiced. Just 'why tbi had
been he did not. himself quite
stand. Perhaus itt was beat e of
the manner of their meeting; pe haps
it was because of where they met,
.for the ways a men and w men
t urn together upon seas that eeem
as road as the heavens themselves;
upon 'prairies that eye -leap after i eye -
leap do not span,. in forests that each
on an a on until one wonders that here
can still be room for broad seas and
s-vveening plains are not the wa s of
men and women who crowd tog ther
in rooms where toes meet ever be on
the alert for other toes The h man
instinct swells or shrinks, broade s or
narrows, advances or recedes t the
eircumference. of its environment And
then again perhaps it was that s btle
--abut who knows! Who cares!
Findlay, 'entering, took her in ,his
arms for a bear -like hug and a lasty,
smacking kiss that brought tvate to
the mouth of the displaced wa er,
ending his greeting. by pulling sps
of bright hair from place and kl- '
ing ern her 'hose with his thumb til
she finally managed. to tread upo his,
toe and ,so rout him limping.
Over at the boarding . house thei;
supper horn blew and 'Wilson *th }
hasty 'ablutions tan the, corner • an
started for the table with consider: e
• zeal. Barbara had left the office and
was Already half way up the hill plat
led to, the cottage and Findlay was
watching her through the•windowiArith
the eyes of the 'fondest of fathers.
"Wilson," he said seriouslq as • the
latter was about to pass, "this ii a
ull
.1••••••••••••••••.;
Incorporated in 1855
CAPITAL AND RESERVE $8,400,000
OVER, 100 BRANCHES
Offers good banking facilities to
Merchants, - Manufacturers and Farm-
ers who require credit to extend their.
operations. •
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
Oonducted, on up-tio-date System.
• BRANCHES IN THIS DISTRICT
Bracefield St. Marys lairkton
Exeter Clinton • Hensel' 'Zurieh
nder•
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rough country and it is middling
of tolerable rough men. • And whil on
general' principles I'd rather trus a
woman who respects herself in a
camp of lumber jacks than in a clr w-
ing -room -packed with dukes, still ou
can never tell what the other fel ow
is going to do when you turn your
head to order him a drink. There-
fore, if I have to leave the teble I
always like to take' my. chips with
me or else let someone whom I 4rx
trust play ma- band while I am goee.
Now that girl is my only flesh and
blood and I wouldn't have anything
bad happen to her for a chattel mo g-
age on Heaven. This is no place or,
her, up here in the tall timber,' nd
tried. to -keep her in, the aity e
she could have society end all he
things- that 'most girls Of educat on
and refinement want, but .aftea y
wife died she would not listen to ;it...
Said that any, place where her Old
daddy was grubbing. out money was
good enough fotaher, and tbat if he
couldn't come up here and'keep ho se
for him she'd like to lomat the rea
why. So what in the name of he
lessness could I do ? , You carat bl
her a foot and she is too big ta spa k,
so I just naturally had to knock un er.
Besides it was an awful temptation to
have her here, and rn admit t1at
much. But I am obliged to be g ne
a good deal and I am alWays a lit le
°worried about her those times, es e-
cially since that time when ou
brought her in and probably saved er
from freezing. Now, Willson, I don't
know, mud' aboet your "antecedents,
and probably some of them got h ng
the same as mine did, but I'd bet y
stake that you, personally, ate a im. n.
'And as a ,man I want you to do e
a big favor, I want you to keep y ur
eye upoii her, and I hereby deleg te
you full guardianship authority olar
her to keep her out of trouble and keep
trouble away from her in my abse ae.
Will you do that much for me?"
Keep his eye upon )3arbara Findl
And with guardiarishat powers thro
in! Wilson cpined that he would
(Continued Next Week)
on
P -
COPENHAGEN.
Capital of Denreark Is Very Plea nt
City.
"Copenhagen is a very pleas nt
town, and almost all its chef
buildings exemplify • the arehit
tural ideals of the • Rennaissan e.
Street upon street of houses, wh te
stucco or red brick; adOrned W1 h
pilaster and pediment and corni e,
covered with tall pantiled roo B; -
many bearing the dates of th Ir
birth -years two or three centur es
ego; these give the capital an o d -
world, most attractive look, a • ic-
turesqueness that is sternly den ed
to most so modern towns. Steep
of character to match, frequen
tower above the roefs, while v
constant parks and squares, loi
avenues of broad-leaved trees a
i cool -looking fountains, some of th
real works of art, do much .to ma
this town a very delightful plac
Ian C. Hannah says in "Capitals
the Northlands."
"Copenhagen is an epitome
Denmark herself, the prosperous
-tropolis of an extremely industri
and well -ordered community
likes to be ,amused. Though fal
from possessing the widest empire
the north to the limits ot a m
province, she yet thrills with -171
ous life, an object lesson on m
pointe that, no land can afford to
•M itIcenth equipped
Neither am I over -fond of Cardiff, Ids!• her hand extended and a light of . .
walldng 'boss, although I must confess', pleasure in her eyes that. there was. boulevards, sgalaces and parks,
througla by fine waterways and r
I haven't anything against him ex- I no misreading. Her smile, also, was . way% the city rather strangely 1
cept that I don't like hirs. Ever meet I a welcome itself, for Barbara . Find- any consaicuoui central point.
Cardiff?". • I lay's. smile was as sweet as women's Dans boast that their large buil
"No. Of course I know of him smiles are made, honest and generous are I
Pehools, while those of Engl
though!' . I too, and at the sight of it and the eye
"Well; . if you ever do meet him light his reserve went a -begging and are ilbarracks, • but the headquart
are 'factories, and those of
you'll ha-ve to look up about three 1 his fingers engulfed the white ones of OM* . et Ube dad universities
times to see the top of him. He's a before him. "I am glad to see,you,' earth possegs litala
From out of a berth a form came both o us a
creeping and stealthily opening the I us when we are old." statue of Liberty' and twice as big in She took a backward step, laugh -
es
ly
rY
id
ke
of
of
e-
at
en
of
; "The site of the city, like its name,
Copenhagen or Amain/tilts' harboy, is
not romantic, though extremely con-
venient for travel and trade. It looks
-
straight over the Sound to Sweden..
and the entrance to the Baltic; the
arm of the sea, that divides Zealand
from the small island -of Amager also
penetrates the town and adds to the
water front available for 'wharvea.
f
It was on a little backw . r of. this
channel that in the twel h eenturY
Bishop Axel (Absalon) raised on
church lands a castle,' whieh was
called by his own. name, to protect
the merchants from th•e pirates in-
festing the Sound. Little' he Sus-
pected that round it would grow up'
a town to supplant his cathedral altar.
enpenhagen was made the capital In
1443 by Christopher, the Bavarian,
just atter he had bean recegnized as
Ring in Swedeneand Norway_ as well
as in Deninark Itlielf."
aThus, Copenliagee is a medieval
town, but it -has no buildings earlier
than the creations of -that:most ac-
complished soVereign. Chriatian IV,
who could sail a ship and navigatft
the fjords and swim and leap and
fight and ride and drive and .Spealt
many languages and ' explain., the
.course of the stars. If ,he really, de.f
signed the buildings that he raised,
as it seems he truly.did, he ,Was also
an architect of no mean power,
"The Bourse, which he erected
about 1624, presents a long, low
facade to one Of the quays, and ita
high roof is relieved by Jame' gabled
dormer wiadowS. Prom the top of the
tower in the centre four *dragons
look down and coil their tails heaven -
Ward' together to _form a spire about a
hundred and fifty feet high. Another
of his works ii the Round Tower,
originally used as an observatory. It
is entirely felled by a brick slope up
which one may walk with ease to
the top, corkscrewing round a pillar.
Over the metal parapet that bears
the date of 1643, there is a splendid
view, across wide miles of steep roofs
covered) with curving tiles, relieved
by many a tree and the tall -mnSta of
many a ship. And the other spirts
and towers and domes of the city
make a really splendid array, wive -
daily the quant steeple of Vor Frei -
ser 4firkerround. whose .ontside,an.
oPen stairway ,Winds to the golden
balk at the top. Across the Sound
loom lip low- Swedish hills, but the
city is too 'vast to allow a view of
Danish country of any decipherable
sort Over thirteen miles of 'choppy
sea appears the small isle of Ilveen,
now famous for itshares, where in
1680 Tycho Brahe built his observa-
tory and 'wielded the sword, not to
smite, flesh and blo6d, but to, strike
•out a clearer path ali to the stare of
heaven'." • -
.0,e00.44.40:44444*w0.0044#440,6441
Will Seek for Treasure
Buried by Francis Drake •
• In the Pacific Islands
aate:e:easteastaaleaapiaaaeasaaeaaeleleletetea
HE very mention of an island
- of the Pacific and you have
a name to conjure withat
may be the halo that has
surrounded Robinson Crusee' since
palm childhood days, but Whatever
the reason there is something myster-
ious, romantic about islands. Hence,i'
when suit was started in the Supealok
Court of Sante Barbara, California, a
few days ago by one of the seven.
holders of title 'a) Santa Cruz island
for the partition of that little sun -
kissed empire of 30,000 acres among
the .individual owners, imaginatien
was at once kindled anew, says an
exchange. The ostensible purpose of
the partition 113 to, give the Federal
Government an opportunity to ac-
quire suplareservations as may be re-
quired for the defensive fortifications
of the channel and mainland against
the invaSion of the "United States via
California by enemy troops. The
general plan Is to mount long-range
guns captured from Germany and
thus be in a position to sweep the
paths of the Pacitio for niiiea..
Buried treasure! That, deelares
the students of island lore, is the
great‘desideratum, for be it known
in the -yearsof long ago when the
British pirates, headed by Sir Fran-
cis Drake„ ploughed . the main, they
despoiled the Spanish galleons of
many million dollars' worth of gold.
and silver coin and plate, gems of
rare price, bullion fold doubloons.
Only a small fraction of Drake's ill-
-gotten gains ,was •ever recorded as
.aaaing reached England, and it is
known that upon at least one occa-
sion,' when the buccaneer was hard
Pressed by the Spanish armada, after
he had despoiled a. treasure squadron
on its way from Manila and the Spite
islands, .he sought refuge in , a se-
cluded harbor of Santa Cruz. Tons
of his loot were lightered ashore and
buried on the islaud, so the story
runs. Having eluded his pursuers,
a siorta coming up rrom the west,
Drake was compelled t� set Slat with-
out having recovered hie hidden
treasure. The voyage to England was
inade in safety, but there is no evi-
dence that either, Drake or his sec-
ecesors or agents returned to Santa
Cruz The navy of (tpair. °tiered pro-
tection to her islauci, coinrorrce to
such an extent that lpiraey became
taboo. Tkie present ownee.: of the
:slaud—one factien or the holders—
• s said to have made a discovery
bearing upon the location of the pi-
rate's caehe; but the owners are in-'
olved in quarrels, and no expler-
%Von -under present conditions ie
either possibleor permitted. Thosq-
who think they know where the
wealth Iles hidden are unwilling thet
the other faction of the syndicate
shalt prat by the, knowledge, and
rely upoh partition' by the coert to
awerd the eoveted holdings.
- Santa Cruz and the other islantle
Iving just off the California toast
wcre not always the barren, deserted
and desolate wa.sti.,s the fisherman,
sees to -day. Juan Rodrigues Ca-
brilla, the daring Portuguese nevi- .1
edor--the first white man 10 view
California — discovered them when
passing up the coast in 1542. He
found them densely peopled by tithes
of industrious Intliane. Next came
Sebaetian Viscaino m 1602, and,ho
tells the same story a Indians and
attivity.• Sixty years later Portole,
found them the same. But during the.
• next century- when Pallier 3-U111p-era
Serra and the padres arrived they
discovered that the ielands were all
but deserted. The heavy timber
spoken of by those who had preceded
them had dwindled to mere shrubs,
'while at least one of the islands --
San Nicolas --had been eonverted in-
to rivers of sand drifting hetet the sea..
"I Great mounds of Indian ,poles tell -,
where the Indians went; but there is
nothing to indicate whether they
Were overpowered by a superior rate -
or wiped from the face of the earth
Ly the Ittissians •descending upon
them from Alaska. That they were
transported to the mainland by boate
is not probable, as the (eery Lats.\
they possessed weresach as they
could- manufacture ilrith primitive
awls. They had no edged tooh3
et-
cept 01 ftint, and the only method
they had of, holding the planks' to-
• gether was Iv boting bole S through.
the boards and securing them by
means of rawhide. '
• With the division ot theislande
into individual holdings it is beliesii-:
ed extensive explorations will be'
undertaken, when it is expected the',
Indian mounds will be excavated 1.
,the hope of reading the story of the,
!oat tribe. But the exploration that
brads the greater interest is tteet
whith has for its object the uncover-
ing of the Spanish treasure buried
securely by Sir Francis Drake and
believed to be still reposing in its
hiding place. n
. deeper interest to scientists
however, than the sear -1h for burial
treasure are the possibilities that the
exploration ok the islands may open
to archeologists an paleeontoi teats..
In the past the surface of this pos-
sessions has received only •super-
• dela' _ scratching. However, Abut
scratching has yielded tons of inter,-
osting relics of an earlier civilization.
•
- Labor. In feassia.
The Czar's; Government withheld
from Russian workmen the right to
strike by reguiring them to give
their employer two weeks' notiee be- •
fore quitting his employ. •
Going Down.
Passenger—James, I didn't, know
his plane could make one-Afty •att
lour. •
Chauffeur—Well, sir, you see we
Lre headed down.
• ; The First American Cent.
Vermont was the first f3tate to
!ssue copper cents. In June 1785,
Ate ranted the authority to Reuben
Amnion, jr.,, to make money for Ow
state for two years. In October of the
31111W year, Connecticut grantegZ the
right to coin. 10,000 pounds in'eop-
per cents, known as the Connecticut
eent of 1/135, Massachusetts, in 17136,
established a mint and coined $60,-
000 in cents and half cents. Tlit the
-awe year, New Jersey granted the,
right to coin -$10,000 at fifteen cop -
pees to the shilling. In 1781 the eon-
, Inental congress directed Robert
..Iorris to investigate the matter of
;overnmental coinage. He proposed.
4, standard based on the Spanish dol-
.ar, consisting of 10 -0 -units, eaeh unit
• to be called a cent. His plan. was
Irejected. In 1784, Jefferson proposed
to Congress that the smallest coin
should be of copper, and that 200 of
them should pass for one della.e. The
plan was adopted, but in. 1786, 160
was substituted. In 1792 the -coinage
of copper cents, containing 264
grains, and half eents in proportion,
was authorized; their weight was
• subsequently reduced. In 1853, the
nickel cent -was substituted and the
• half • cent discontinued, - and in 1864
the bronze eent was introduced,
weighing forty-eight grains and con-
sisting of 95 per cent. of copper, and
the remainder of tin and ,zinc.
Count von Zeppelin.
Count von Zeppelin, neventor of.
the airship which bears his name,
was not killed in the war, but died
of pneumonia at Charlattenburg,
•near Berlin, on March 8, 1917, He
was born in 1838 and was a lieu-
tenant of gavalry at the age of 25,
when; in, April, 1963, he was sent to
the United States as Prussian mili-
tary attache of the Union array In
he civil war, being attached to the
Army of the Mississippi, in which
.en. Carl Schurz cot:mai:Wed a bri-
eade. It was at that time teat Count
von Zeppelin had his first experience
is an aeronaut, gottet up in a caPtive
alloon belonging to the corpeto
which he was attached. •
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