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T5heBtti.xedQ t -? v w.: e ! 11 i' ft S0 BySTEWAICT EDWARD - WHITE ft A, 31 "Copyright, 1908," tf Stewart; Edward- s none jjp White' CHAPTER XXV. ued late, whkh in the end was a good Jthlng for ttid yearVcut.' i TJe neasou was capricious, hanging for days at a' time at the brin of a thaw, only .to stiffen again iutO" severe; weather. - This - was try' ing ou the nerves, for aj each of these false alarms the six camps fell Into a fejerish haste, to get the Job finished before the breakup. It was really quite extraordinary bow" much was accom plished .under the , nagging spur of weather conditions and the cruel rowel Ing of, Thorpe.. '4 ; i X. '3 ' The latter, had now, no thought be "1 hj work; and that was the thougnt of a mauuimx: stern and unyielding; enough before, goodness knows, but now he was terri ble tfot for ah instant was there a resting "spell. ; "The Y veriest ' chore boy talked, thought, dreamed, of nothing but saw logs. Men, whispered vaguely of a record cut. . 'The difficulties of suow,. accident, topography, were swept aside like'straws. Little time was wasted and nop opportunities. It did not matter how smoothly affairs happened to be running for-the mo ment; every advantage, even the small eat, was eagerly seized to advance the work. A drop of five degrees during the frequent warm spells brought out the sprinklers even in the dead of night. At night the men fell Into their bunks 'like sand bags, and their last conscious thought, if- indeed they bad any at all. was of .eagerness for the morrow. It was madness, but It was the madness these men loved. For now to his old religion Thorpe had'added a fanaticism, and over the fanaticism was gradually creeping a film of doubt. To the conscientious energy which a sense of duty supplied was - added the tremendous kinetic force of a love turned into other chan nels. And in. the wild nights while the other men slept Thorpe's half crazed brain was revolving over and over again the words of the sentence be had heard from Hilda's Hps, "There can be nothing better than love. His actions, his mind, his very soul, vehemently denied the proposition. He clung as ever to his high Puritanic idea of man's purpose. But down deep . in a very tiny, sacred corner of his heart a ! very small plce sometimes hxade itself heard when other more militant ; voices were still: It may be. It may be." The last month of hauling was also one of snow. Each day a little fell. By and by , the accumulation amounted to much. In the woods where the wind could not get at It it lay deep and soft above the tops of bushes. On either side of the logging roads the snow piled so high as to form a kind of rampart. When all this water in suspense should begin to flow and to seek its level i& the water courses of the district the logs would" have "plenty to float them at least. So late did the cold weather last that, even with the; added plowing to do, the six camps beat all records. On the banks' at Camp On were 9,000,000 feet The totals of all five amounted to 33.000,000. About 10,000,000 of this was 'on French trreek,- the - remainder on the main bank of the Ossawina makee. Besides this,' the firm up river, Sadler & Smith, had put up some 12, 000.000 more., The drive promised to be quite an affair. f f y T About the 15th of April attention be came strained. Every day the mount " made heavy attacks on the snow; every night tne tempenmrre dropped below the freezing point The river began to show more air holes, oc casional open places. About the cen-, ter ' the ice looked worn and soggy." Some one saw a flock of geese high in the air. Then came rain. One morning early Long Jim Pine came Into the men's camp bearing a huge chunk of tallow. This he held against the hot stove until Its surface had softened, when he began to swab liberal quantities of . grease on -Ms spiked river shoes, which he fished out from under his bunk. , y- .;' : "She's comin', boys," he said. He donned a pair of woolen trousers that had been chopped off at the knee, thick ' woolen stockings andjthe river shoes. Tbn he tightened his broad leather belt about his heavy shirt, cocked his little bat orer, bis ear and walked over In the corner to select a peavey from the lot the blacksmith had Just put in shape. A peavey is like a cant hook except that It Is pointed at the end. Thus it can be used either as a hook or a pike. At the same moment Shearer, similarly attired and equipped, appeared in the doorway. The opening of the portal admitted m roar of sound " The'tTver'wtis g-- "Come boys; 4sho'ssohr said he shrfrpry.V . . .--.-. "Lively boy: ullveljK , shouted Thorpe, -"She'll be down on us. before we know it!", ... ' Above the creaking of dead branches - to the wind sounded a. steady roar like the bellowing' Of a h wild beast lashing Itself tor fury. ',he.fresbet,,was abroad. The f men: heard it. and their eyes ,. brightened with 'I the. lust of.-battle. They ;chff red. ' -vi: At; the banks of the river Thorpe is sued ; ms directions. The affair had -beerf "-all "prearranged, ."immediately ttL-v t (i tUe 4lrst volhvav wa' ...nam -i ' i. J- J inree, wun us two wide sluices through which a veritable flood could be i loosened at will: then four miles far ther lay the rollway .of Sadler & Smith, the up river firm, and above them tum bled over a forty-five foot ledge the beautiful Slscoe falls. These first roll ways of Thorpe's, spread in the broad marsh flat below the dam, contained about 8,000,000. The rest of the sea son's cut was scattered for thirty miles along the bed of the river. Already ; the ice cementing the lasts togetner tfaa oegun to weaken. The ice .had wrenched and tugged savagely at the locked timbers until they had, with a mighty effort, snapped asunder the bonds of their "hibernation. Now a nar row, lane of black rushing water pierced the rollways to boil and eddy In the consequent Jam three miles below. To the foremen Thorpe assigned their tastes: ; : "Moloney," said he to the big Irish man, "take your crew and break that Jam. Then scatter your men down to within a mile of the pond at Dam Two and see that the river runs clear. You Can tent for a day or so at West Bend or some other point about .half way Sprang boldly and confidently ten jeet nraigni aownwnra. down, and after that you had better camp at the dam. Just as soon as you get logs enough In the pond start to sluicing them through the dam. You won't need more than four men there If you keep a good bead. -You can keep your gates open five or six hours. And, Moloney" "Yes, sir." "I want you to be careful not to sluice too long. There is a bar Just below the dam, and if you try to sluice with the water too low you'll center and Jam there as sure as shoot ing." Bryan Moloney turned on his heel and began to pick his way down stream over the solidly banked logs. Without waiting the command a dozen men followed him. The little group bobbed away Irregularly into the dis tance, springing lightly from one tim ber to the other, holding their quaintly fashioned peaveys In the manner of a ropedancer's balancing pole. At the lowermost limit of the rollways each man pried a log into the water and, standing gracefully erect on this un stable craft floated out dowu the cur rent to the scene of his dangerous la bor. Kerlle," i went on Thorpe, "your crew can break rollways with the rest until we get the river fairly filled, and then you can move on down stream as fast as you are needed., Scotty, you will have the rear. Tim and I will boss the river." At once the signal was given to El lis, the dam watcher. ' Ellis and his assistants thereupon began to pry with long iron bars at the ratchets of the heavy gates. The chore boy bent at tentively over the ratchet pin, lifting It delicately to permit another Inch of raise, dropping it accurately to enable the men at the bars to seize a fresh purchase. The river's roar deepened. Through the wide sluiceways a torrent foamed and tumbled. Immediately it spread through the brush on either side to the limits of the freshet banks and then, gathered for its leap against the uneasy rollways. Along the edge of the dark channel' the face of the Jogs seemed to crumble away. Farther in toward ' the banks where the weight of timber still outbalanced the, weight of the flood the tiers grumbled and stirred. : Far down the river, where Bryan Moloney and his crew were picking at the Jam, the water in eager streamlets sought the interstices be tween the logs, gurgling excitedly. The Jam creaked and groaned In re sponse to the pressure. From Its face a hundred Jets of water spouted Into the lower stream. Logs up-ended here and there, rising from the bristling surface slowly like so many arms from the roll ways, paused at the slack eddied back f oaniing. Logs shot down from the rollways, paused at the slack water and finally hlt-wlth a hollow and resound ing boom against the tall of the jam. A moment later they,- too up-ended. The crew were working desperately. pown In the heap, somewhere two logs were crossed in such a manner as to ock the whole. They sought those logs Thirty feet above the bed of the river tlx men clamped their peaveys into the soft pine, jerking, pulling, lifting, slid lng the great Jogs from their places. Thirty feet below, under the threaten ing face, six other men coolly picked ui puu v auini, uue uy oue, me uiu bers not Inextricably Imbedded. From time to time the mass creakedsettled, perhaps even moved a foot or two, but always the. practiced , river men after a glance bent more eagerly to their Outlined against the sky. big Bryan Moloney stood directing the work. He knew by the tenseuess of the log he stood on that behind the Jam- power had gathered sufficient to whole tanele down stream. Now beitort Arthur was offering it the chance. , Suddenly the six men below tne jam scattered.; Four of them jumpea ugui- ly from one floating log to another in the zigzag to shore. The other two ran the length of their footing ana. over leaping an open of water, landed beav ily and firmly on the very ends of two small floating logs. In this manner the force of the Jump rushed the little tim bers end on through the .water. The two men. maintaining marvelously, their balance, . were ; thus ferried to within leaping distance of the otuer shore. In the meantime a barely perceptiDie motion was communicating itself from one particle to another through the cen ter of the Jam. The men redoubled their exertions. A sham cracK exnuxieu im mediately unaerneaiu. xuere cuuiu nu longer exist any doubt as to the motion, althoueh it was as yet sluggish, glacial. Then in silence a log shifted in silence and slowly, "but with Irresistible force. Jimmy Powers quietly stepped over It Just as it menaced his leg. Other logs In all directions up-ended. The jam crew were forced continually to alter their positions, riding the changing tim bers bent kneed, as a circus rider treads his four galloping horses. i Then all at once down by the face j something crashed. The entire stream becaniealive. It hissed and roared; it j shrieked and grumbled. At first slow ly, then more rapidly, the very fore front of the center melted inward and ! forward and downward until it caught the fierce rush of the freshet and shot out from under the jam. Far up stream, bristling and formidable, the tons of logs, grinding savagely to gether, swept forward. . The six meu and Bryan Moloney, who. It will be remembered, were on top, worked until the last moment When the logs began to cave under them so rapidly that even the expert river men found difficulty in "staying on top" the foreman set the example of hunting safety. "She pulls boysr he yelled. Then In a manner wonderful to be hold, through the smother of foam and spray, through the crash and yell of timbers, through the leap of destruc tion, the drivers zigzagged calmly and surely to the shore. All but Jimmy Powers. He poised tense and eager on the crumbling face of the jam. Almost immediately he saw what he wanted and without pause sprang boldly and confidently ten feet straight downward, to aligb' wlth accuracy ou a single log floatlne free in the curreut And then In the very glory and chaos of the jam itself he was swept down stream. After a moment the constant accel eration in ypeed checked, then com menced perceptibly to slacken. At once the rest of the crew began to ride down stream. Each struck the calks of his river boots strougly into a log and on such unstable vehicles floated miles with the .current From time to time, as Bryan Moloney Indicated, one of tbem went ashore There, usually at a bend of the stream where the likelihood of jamming was great, they took their stands. When necessary they ran out over the face of the river to separate n congestion likely to cause trouble. The rest of the time they smoked their pipes. All nl;zht long the logs slipped down the moonlit current, silently, swiftly. yet without haste. From the whole length of the river rang the hollow boom. boom. toom. of timbers striking one against the other. The drive was on. TO BE CONTINUED. . ' Habits of Russell Sage. "Great fun is being raae of the way in which Russell Sage celebrated his eighty ' eighth birthday treating himself to a drive on thj Riverside boulevard. One writer docl ires that in itiltntr 0d his fortuue M 70 ,C00')0 or $800,000,000 the old man has tiir ed himself into a human cash regis ter. He travels on a pass every day to ssv 5 cents; never fails t. attend a directors' meeting for the gold piece he receives on eMch occasion; wears a spit of clothes ten years; buys one hit every year; never pay's io nave ins snces sinned: eats 10 oi ts worth of crackvrs and milk for his lun cheon, and when away from bis office',"' a he was on his eighty-eighth birthday, com- ppls his clerks to paj for. the whole quart nii'c t ut n mi l n l y . . i thftm." Conner Journal CHARLES C. LESLIE WHOLESALE DEALEd IN ' I Fish and Oysters : 8 & 2 MARKET ST., CHARLESTON, S C. Consisrninents of Country Produce are Respectful lvrSoHcited. Poultrv. Itc. " Fish packed in barrel 4 and hn country trade a specialty. , "ao" . Dixie Planer and MmtnU -.w . nwuwi , Manufacturcf) hy sAiECiinorjivonus.- Japs Rout Russians Army Cut In Twain. teotbin of the fleet aain to sally from N8t. Petersburg, Aug. 2b-A dispatch from Liao Yang under date of August 25, says the Japanese eastern forces be gan a forward movement August. 24, eight companies going, ; on the main Liao Yang road, in the direction of Liandianalan. . The : Russian v outposts held their positions, the fight continu ing yesterday. The result is not stated but It is understood tne 6econa ana Twelfth Japanese guards divisions are participating . Liao Vang, Aug. 24. (Delayed ) A bir battle commenced : today twenty miles east of Liao Yang. The Russian front from the Taltse river south was engaged. Liao Yang, Aug. 25. The fighttnar which began yesterday continues today at Liandiansian, twenty three miles east of liao Yang.- The Japanese are attacking. St. Petersburg, Aug. 27.--Russian casualties are placed at over 1,000 in the report of General Kuropatkm relative to the fighting around Liao Yang yes terday. The Japanese- also sustained serious losses while twenty-four of their eunsare reported to have been put out of action. Gen. ; Kuropatkin reports that the fighting of Aug. 25, wat in all part, of the theater of operat ions, the heaviest being east and nout heast. of Liao Yang in the vicinitv.of the Lan river and at Liandiausian. Field Headquarters of the second Jap anese Army,, via Fusan, August 2T.' Part of General Kuroki's army advanc ed against the Russians beyond Yushi pass early this morning. There was heavy artillery firing for several hours, which finally ceased before nooo. It is believed that the Russians are retiring toward An ping. Tokio, Aug 27. It is reported here that General Oku commenced the at tack upon the llussinns at Anshanshan yes.etlay. at the same time that Gen eral Kuroki commeuced in attack them at Anping. ; - . " Anshanshan is mid way b-tvreeu Hal Cheng and Uao Yai g and Anping is thirteen miles southeast of Liao Yang. St. Petersburg, Aug. 27. The rumor that the Japanese hod effected an en trance into Port Arthur does not obtain credence at the war office, although it admitted that no news has been re ceived from General Stoessel since Au gust 22. Though possibly a telegram reached the emperor just before he siarted-for the Don this afternoon. It is pointed out that if the rumor is true it would signify the capture of the for tress, which would be unable to holdout against the superior numbers of the be siegers if any portion of the permanent defenses is lost. . London, Aug. 28. Accord ing to a dis patch of today's date to the Central Mews from Liao Yang an artillery battle has been in progress. since eight oVl ck this morning near Liao Yang. The Russian main ixisition, tbedispatch av, is what was formerly the out Mst lino of the Liao Yang garrison. Liao ang, Aug. 28. The Italians retired from Atuhanbhan yesterday af ter a light which commenced' on the morning of August 26th and continued in a desultory manner all day and night. Arrangements for a battle bad been completed by night time when the or der to retire was given on account of the situation to the east. 1 he order was received with disap pointment by the troops." The retirement was wade in an orderly manner. me plain between Anshanshan - and Hal Chenj? was covered with Japanese troops who burued the bridge and shell rd the railway station' after the Rus sian retirement, -The Russian losses amount to 300. The Japanese are advanciog with reat rapidity. 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