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i It & Trait Mr ' EDWATLD . - WHITE Copyright, by Stewart Edward . .-.f - WWW V1 V1 V' t V t T CHAPTEU VII. lADWAY returned to camp by the 6tn of January. He went, on snowsaoe; over the entire job an& their tat silently in the of fice smoking. The jobber looked older. The lines of dry good humor about his eyes had subtly changed to an expres- eo. blame to anybody, but rose the next corning at.norn: oiow,. ana tne. men round tnat tbey. nad a new master over them: y-rzrSi mqit luueqiue necessary 10 pui xue . the blacksmith-had occupied his time in urany m iron: won on eigne log irrca BoiKi sucks or umDer.-xney were tremendous affairs, with runners six feet'apart and bunks nine feet in width for the reception of logs. -' .'. fftL . a ; a " . . a j . ' - nrpcum uia aiso auiu two uu menus tunbfr An rttnnr hnlrilnir oanh some seventy barrels of water and with holes iso arranged that on the with '-. -M m . mm a . erawai or piugs tue water-wouia;nooa the entire width of '' the ' road.' The A ehain running' through blocks at itached. to a solid upper framework. ue ue own -oeirrr- or -an lrmian mnn Ml II - ' ' m 1- . .. astery, dragged a barrel up a wooden rraV fmm w atari linla tn m niunlna a. in the sprinkler. When in" action this formidable machine weighed nearly two tons and" resembled a moving fcoasa. Other men had felled two big hemlocks, : front which they bad hewed ; - beiDi for V nfnw ' " "1" , Tha V plow was now put in action. Ox horses drew It down the road, each pair superintended by a driver The OMphlnA xrmm wAlvHtawl 1avti v num. Der of toss laid across the armi. : lien graded It by tevera and by throwing their weight ajalnat the fans "of the this, full of the tnlrit of winter tho plodding, stralninjt horses, the brilliant ij dressed, struUng men, the sullen yielding snow thrown to either side, ; the shoots, warnings and commands. Ta rtvht nH left ma vku. hsnV. . path In which a scant Inch hid the bare For Some dljtanOA tha Wir Ud alnntr wuiparauvcij iugn grouna. xnen, Mironf xne eage ox a iaae, it pittngeo lnto;a deep creek bottom between hills. Here earlier, in the year eleven bridges a m uau ueea consrrucrea, ana pernaps as C5BT iwimn nlioM hi1 lui duroyed" by carpeting them with long parallel poles. Now the first difficulty '' began?, v-; - V..-:. Comer 6f the . bridges had sunk below the level, and : the ..approaches had to : be corduroyed", to a practicable grade. i wtuuysu &ts IUUJ vaf anf had 4Va iv u (ruiicu nyart en- Still that sort of thing war to be ex pected. A gang of men who followed the plow carried axes and cant hooka for the purpose -of repairing extern- ECraneOUalV : 1mf e-nrh Aefarm wtifV. . ; m w wv4i,via niuui never would have been discovered oth erwise than1 bv -fhA nrarHol eace. Bad way - himself accompanied th fl0W. r-TTlAtTk wlin wan one or tne -"roaa monkeys," saw now ; ouvu vmiTr uiu ocen requirea or " .-wiuiuj ius rrj ui II UPS, knots and hummocks. , TThen :the road bad been rjartlv ctanea Radway ; started one of his. iinicr uuiea or Bulla 019 tlzz had been blown In the creek bank. r were filled. t rat ton attached his horse w . viwui aau.uniTo mm dsck ana rsrtn. nauiins tha barrel nn ond iIawh Cs slide way. At the bottom it was capsized and filled by means of a long p3-aekled teita bottom and manlp Xlated by old man Heath. At the top It tcrned over by its own weight Thus csveaty odd times. - : uw reu uiwb micnea nis team vj bu ins lour norses crew the tareak tz z cumbrous vehicle spouting down Ce road. Water gushed -in fans from tie cpenlngs on either side and beneath tzi la atreama from two holes "behind. TT"t f ?! an Inatana 1A "j.a . ' Jk Am St XI A " wui, o.a iuu( as IBS now cc-tlnqed dared the teamsters breathe tlcJr torses, for a pause would freeze tla mnners tight to the ground. A tzzzz at either end obviated the ca czzzitf ot turning aronndC v ' xut That night It turned warmer. The cLaEi was neraidSd by lshlftdf "Che's goin to inaald old' Jack i :a. The air la kind holler.' . -ncliowf . eaid? Tnorpe, laughlaj. "irowia thatr. :: . 7 "I don' know," confessed ninesri'but : 1 2 lx Che just f eels that way." la the morningfthe icicles dripped :::zz the roof, and the snowtbecac . - barked on the suffstf Zziway was dowi -looking at? the . - f , -.. " v- ;" -i. ,'r.- - vi "--a't toJ63iierl tTft1,ny '' outilna mow ..r on ner. tae awrt . tretnm a 1 3.- W1I plow ner out - 4 v r y thty finished .ihsx ob and plowed out, leaTing I .exposed the , wet, -7 sur'ce or ttacreek. bottom, a i at night a. tin 'crust formed. ; 3'U frees;k UtUe"tonlsht,'Vld Tsy hopjBfuiJy ,,.;iou ;:'tprinkier' , C-t at her andrwvt her down." T--2 o'clock iuihe !mon(hg:the "SQ? abd" the x, men creaked i .ad tortb spilling hardly gath- -iu.' iiwD iner crent 1ft mnA ...'.Cj.. ate - eieepuy me rood that a sleepy cookee set outrfor them.: By morning the mere surface of the tprinkled water had frozen. Radway looked in despair at the sky. Dimly through the gray he caught the tint of blue.;. . - -- The sun,.came out. Nuthatches and woodpeckers ranr gayly up the. warm ing trunks of the trees; blue' jays fluff ed and perked and screamed in the hardwood tops; a covey of grouse ven tured from the wmd and strutted vainly, a wpause". o? contemplation be tween each step. Radway, walking out on the tramped road Of the marsh, cracked the artificial skin and thrust his foot throusrh inlo lev water. That night the sprinklers stayed in. . The devil seemed In It - Alen were lying Idle; teams were doing the same- Nothing went on but, thef days of the year, and four of them - had already ticked off the calendar; -The deep snow of the unusually cold autumn had now disappeared from the tops of the stumps. It even stopped freezing dur ing the night At times Dyer's little thermometer marked'as high as 40 de grees, y"- ;. : "I often heard this was a sort v summer . resort" observed Tom Broad- hMd. "hilt hancred if I knew It was a summer resort all the year round!" By and-by it got to be a case of look- in ir on the bright side of the affair from pure reaction, v T don't know,'! said Radway; "it won't be so bad, after all. A couple of days of zero weather, with all this wa ter lying around, would fix things up in pretty good shape. . If she only freezes tight we'll have a good solid bottom to build on." - The inscrutable , goddess of the wll" derness smlled,and calmly, relentlessly, moved her next pawn. It was all so unutterably simple and yet so effective. It snowed. All night and all day the great flakes zigzagged softly down through the air. Radway plowed away two feet of it The surface was promptly covered by a- second storm. Radway doggedly plowed it out again. ' ' This time the goddess seemed to re lent -The ground froze solid. The sprinklers became assiduous in their labor. .Two days later the road was ready for the first sleigh, its surface of thick, glassy ice beautiful to be; Hold, the ruts cut deep and .true, the glades sanded or sprinkled with re tarding hay on the descents. At the river the banking ground proved 6olld. Radway breathed again, then sighed. Spring was eight days nearer. lie was eight daya more behind. As soon as loading began the cook K served breakfast at 3 o'clock." The men worked by the light of torches, which were often merely catchup jugs with wlcklng in the necks. Nothing could be more picturesque than a teamster conducting one of his great pyramid lcal toads over the little inequalities of the road, in the ticklish places stand ing atop with the bent knee of the Ro man charioteer, spying and forestall ing the chances of the way with a fixed eye and an intense concentration that relaxed not one Inch in the miles of the haul. Thorpe bad become a full fledged cant hook man. He liked the work. There is about it a skill that fascinates. A man grips suddenly with the hook of his strong Instrument, stopping one end that the other may slide. He thrusts the short strong stock between the log and the aldd, allowing it to be. overrun. - He stops the roll with a sudden sure grasp applied at just the right moment to be effective. Sometimes he allows himself to be carried up bodily, clinging to the cant hook like an acrobat to a bar, un til the. log has rolled once? when, his weapon loosened, he drops lightly, eas ily to the ground. And it is exciting to pile the logs on the sleigh, first a layer of five, say; then one of four smaller, of but three, of two, until ; at; the , very apex the last is dragged slowly up the skids, poised and just as it is about to plunge down the other jside-is gripped and .held-inexorably by the little men In blue flannel shirts.- , f -" Chains bind the loads. And If' ever during the loading or .afterward when the sleigh Is in motion -the weight of the logs causes the pyramid to break down and sqvash out, then woe to the driver or whoever happens to be near. For this reason the loaders are picked and careful men. v ; At the banking grounds, which lie in and about the bed of the river, the logs are piled Into a gigantic skid way to await the spring .freshets,-which : will carry them down, stream to the "boom." In that inclosure they remain until sawed in the mill. - . - Thorpe, in common -with the other men, -had thought , Radway's vacation at Christmas time a mistake. He could not but admire the feverish 'animation tCat now characterized the jobber. Ev ery .mischance was as quickly repaired as aroused ' expedient could lo the work, i "-- " ; . - ;:. Esprit de corps awoke; The men sprang to their tasks with - alacrity emm more tnan an nours exertion to each of the twenty-four, ; took a pride In ; repulsing assaults of the ' greatl en emy whom they personified under tlft .generic-, wSheJV -.r 4; 0 ';.t-: , One morning 'in February Thorpe was helping load a big butt Jog: He was one of the two men who stand at either end of the skids to help the as cending: log. keep straight jand, true to Ita hed on the? pile..; His assistant's end caqght on a sliver, ground , for a second and slipped back. Then the log : ran slanting .across the skids in stead of perpendicular to : them " To rectify the fault Thorpe dug. his cant hook-into the timber and threw hla weight on the stock. He hoped in : tmv manner, to check correspondingly thr ascnt of his end?- In other worda h took, the place "onhls . side of the pre Venting sliver soequalizlngr the- pres sure and forcing' the' timber to its, prop er, posltlQn.V Instead of rolling, the lof Ud. ; The. stock, of the cant hook- was? ana tne cant nw -.esnuas uc a moment to the rough bark, snapped down and hit him a crushing blow, on the ton of the. head. . v - ; They took Thorpe up "and carried him :in, just as they had carried Hank Paul before.- Men who had not spoken a AMon wnrris to him in' as many days gathered his few belongings and stuff avT.tttPm'nwkwnrdlv Into his satchel. Jackson HInes prepared , the bed of .,,.ottt anA wflpnt hlankets In the bot tom of the sleigh that was to take him out. ' " ' "He would have made a good boss, said the old fellow. "He's a hard man to nick." ' ' s TO BE CONTINUED. " ., ' Gen. Kuropatkin Telis of the Conn Jo Battle. Contintledrom page 1. said: - - -Russ3au troops have been coining south for a long time, and it is ; evident that a o jnfljct must result. ' As matters have turned out, it wou,d have been belter if the war had occurred when the Russians i firsts oscupied MaLchuria, because ever since they have been strengthening their position in;taat iTrovince. . Our sutesmen, however w iohed to preserve peace as long as possi ble. It is difficult to say where the first big land battle will take- place. .The Rus sians seem to be in force, between Dian Tang and Kaiping, on the Manchuria rail road. They mav cross the mountains and possibly meet us at the Yalu. , ::', J- tfcatcral KHrplki Telia f the Battle. General Knropatkin's report is as follows: "I nave the houor to respectfully communi cate to your majesty the report of General Mishtchenko, dated March 28, at 1 p. m., which says: . " 'For three consecutive days small out posts attempted to draw the Japanese cav alry iota actiJu, but thar 'patrol,' after con tact was esa jlUied, retired behind . Cong Ju, about fifty n.iles northwest of ling Yang. , : , ' , 44 'Having learned that four squadrons of the enemy posted five ve sts beyond Cbong Jo on March 27, six companies marched toward Kasan and "on March 28 reached Chong Ju at 10:SOa.:m. As soon as our scoul s apprpacl.ed the town the ene, my opened fire from lehind the wall.' Two squadrons promptly dismounted and occu pied the heights six hunured yards drstaaL An engagemssnt ensued. h ' 'la tue town a company of infantry and a squadron of cavalry were ; lying in ambush. Our : men wei e re-mforced bv hrce companies and attacked the Japanese with a cross fire. Notwithstanding this, and our command! og position, - the Japan ese gallantly bekl their groui.d, an J it was only after a fierce fight of a half. bout's du ration that the Japanese ceased firing and sought reiuge ioibe hciise.C The Japanese hoisted the Kl jprnss flag at two points. Russian troops jhi : northern Korea are re-. portelto be fleeiujr tcfore the advanced he Japanese army. Another Lombarbment of. Port Arthur by the Japanese is rt ported, but no details is received. . ' ' -The Cossacks, who are . retreating . in northern Korea, are reported In great dis tress. VTheir horses are dvinc for lack of food, and they are using" telegraph poles for fuel. -n s Brigadier General Allen, United States army, who is with, the Japanese army in Korea," reports-that "the Japanese have thown more mi Hilary foresight than the Russians, ; ' Tnrdaj at a Glaace. . The Japauesc have defeated the Russians in a i bloody engagement at Chong rju;- in norther Korea.' VTbe, Russians admit being def eatedand forced to retreat, but do not state their losses. . , ' - The action of Russia in declaring Ninch wang. a Chinese treaty port, under martial law is causing much comment at the various capitals of Europe. It is not expected that the neutral powers will protest REPUBLICANS TO MEET. - Chairman Rollins' Call forthe i State r Convention. - 7- . ,"Mr. T,,S. Rollins, "chairman of the Republican t State Committee, sends usrwith the request for publication, the following call for "the State convent tion, winch will be held In Greensboro May 18th: . -. Asheville, N. C March 29, 1904. " At a meeting of the Republican state executive committee, held in the it.v of Greensboro, N. C, on February 5tb, xjtv. state convention of the Repub lican party was called to meet at Greens boro, N. C., on May 18tbl904' af noon, d 1 nominate . candidates for governor and other state officers, two; associate justices oi tne supreme' court and two hu0uUw tJiecr-ora at : large, and to elect four delegates and four alternates at largete the national republican con vention, be held in Chicago Jne 21st, rlQo',-and to -transact : anrh mk. businesses may properly come vbefora saia convetion. " ; jr, v " : The publican luganizations of "the, various counties are requested to .cal a convention of. the'Republ leans of their respective counties (if they have not already done so,) and elect delegates and alternates to the said said state mnve. tlony in accordance with the plan of or- ionization adopted by. the', last .state F? convention. Eachr county isentitled' to :.:DOB 9Sr t. 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NORTH CAROLINA: : one y aeigraie ana one ai ternate lor every one hundred voters or fractional parts thereof cast for the" candidate of i "''' . . a. the Republican party for . governor "at tlje last general: election. By order of the executive committee. " :;3'.' f . ? Thomas S. Rollins, : t'.:':-: Chairman. Robert H. M 'Neill, : ' xi Secretary. ; ; ..' - BUI Against Finch and McBee. ,:; 1 - Raleigh, March 30. The grand jury htre this afternoon re turned a true bill against. K. S. Finch and V. E. McBee for conspiracy, against- the State In thejappointmcnt of a receiver for the Atlantic & North Carolina Rail waf. l he bLM as returned has four couuts, the first. charging ti.em with coufpiracy to in jure the property r.f the railway aud otv struct U officers; second, to deprive its offi cers of possession of the road; third; in having a receiver appointed: -fourth, in at tempting' to. force a lease o f the road , Each count recites f that Ihey v 'did" un!aw f ully , f rudulentlyr rnalicioasly and felon iously conspire, combine, unite, confederate and agree among themeselves by unlawful and indirect means and divers acts, devic.es and-' practices" . do the . various things charged. " Argo & Shaffer and F, H. Bus bee haT? beeu employed to aid. the defense. Can Act Without Bias. - - TJje Democratic party is in position to act independently of any "one .-indi- viflual and to nomioato a candidate and formulate a platform as the work of "its chosen representative, from all sections. If the St. Louis conveution acts sanely and conservatively and independently of . . . ........ , -C a auy odo man power jc ougut to do aoie to nominate the next president of the United States.-r-Ex. . - K l Cleveland Says His No Is Final Kichard Watsou Gider, editor of The Century, is in receipt of a letter from Gro- ver. Cleveland which, after howing:niuch interest in Mr. Glider's convaloscence, men tions the taiK - of uominatmg hixix for pres. T jMr. Gilder is conflued to his cottage at West Falm Beach, and Mrs. ' Gilder ; de clined to quote directlj; fron text of the letter. 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