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n5e "Biased & k. IT-- By STEWAILT EDWARD WHITE Copyright, IMS, by Stewart Edward . Whit il .';7 3 3 ft CHAPTER XXXIII. f.ylHAT is It?" "What i the mat- 1 11 ter?" "What the a up?" I W U What's happened V burst on 1 1 I Wallace in a volley. "It's Dyer!" gasped the young man. "I found him on the boom! He held iae up with a gun while he filed the boom chains between Hhe center piers. They're Just ready to , go. I got away by diving. Hurry and put In a new chain. You haven't get much timer "He's a goner now, interjected Sol ly grimly. "Charley Is on his trail and he is hit? - Thorpe's intelligence leaped promptly to the practical question. "Injun Charley wliere'd be come from? I sent him up to Sadler & Smith's. It's twenty miles, even through the woods." As though by way of colossal answer the whote surface of the Jam moved Inward and upward, tbrustlhg-the logs bristling against the horizon. "She's going to fcreakr shouted Thorpe, starting on a run toward the river. "A chain, quick!" The men followed, strung high with excitement. Hamilton, the Journalist paused long enough to glance up stream. Then he, tofl, ran fter them, screaming that the rlwr above was full of logs. By that they all knew that Injun Charley's mission had failed and that something under 10,000,000 feet of logs were racing down the river like so minT battennsr rams. At the boom. the great jam was al ready a-tremble wRh eagerness to spring. Indeed a miracle alone seemed to hold the timbers is their place. "If s death, certain death, to go out on that boom," muttered Billy Mason. Tim Shearer stepped forward coolly, ready as always to assume the perilous duty. He was thrust back by Thorpey who seized the chain, cold-shut and hammer which Scotty Parsons brought and ran lightly out over the booms, shouting: "Back! Back! Don't follow me, on your lives! Keep 'em back, Tim!" The swift water boiled from under the booms. Bang! smash! bang! crash ed the logs a mile up stream, but plain ly audible above the waters and the wind. Thorpe knelt, dropped the cold- shut through on either - side of the weakened link and prepared to close it with his hammer. He Intended further to strengthen' the connection with the other chain. ' "Lemme hold her for you. Ton can't close her alone," said an unexpected voice next his elbow. Thorpe looked up in surprise and an ger. Over him leaned Big Junko. The men had been unable to prevent his following. Animated by the blind de votion of the animal for its master and further stung to action by that mas ter's doubt of his fidelity, the giant had followed to assist as $e might. : Tou fool," cried Thorpe, exasperat ed, then held the -hammer to him. "Strike while I keep the 'chain under neath P he commanded. Big Junko leaned forward to obey, kicking strongly his talks Into the barked surface of the boom log. The spikes, worn blunt by "the river work already accomplished, failed to grip. Big Junko slipped, , caught himself by aa effort, overbalanced in the other di rection, and fell into the stream. The current at once swept him away, but fortunately In such k direction that he was enabled to eaten the slanting end of a "dead head" los whose lower end was jammed in the jcrib.- The dead head was slippery, the .current strong.' Big Junko had no crevice by which to assure his hold. In . another moment he would be torn away. I. . "Let go and swimf shouted Thorpe. "I cau't swiin,' .rl5)Hed Junko in so low a voice as to be scarcely audible. , For a moment Thorpe stared at him. "Tell Carrie," said Big Junko. " Then there beneath the swirling gray sky, under the frowning Jam, in the midst of flood waters, Thorpe had his second great moment of decision. He did not pause to i-welgh reasons or chances, to discuss fcvith himself expe diency or the moralities of failure. His actions were foreordained, mechanical. All at once the great forces which the winter had been bringing to power crystallized into something bigger than himself or his ideas The trail lay be fore him; there wastno choice. Now clearly, wtjh" no shadow of doubt, he took the -mother view: There could be nothing better than love. Men, - their works, their deeds, were little things. Success was a little thing, the opinion of men a little thing. Instantly he felt the truth of it. r- - And here was love in danger. That it hett its moment's habitation In clay f the coarser moldf had nothing "to do with the great elemental truth of it For the first timefn his life Thorpe felt the full crushing power of an ab straction. Without' thought, instinc tively, he threw before the necessity of the moment all tbattwas lesser.; It was the triumph of what was eal in the man over that " which environment alienation, difficulties, had - raised up within him. 1 , .V . V 'At Big Junko's; words Thorpe raised ms nammer and with one mighty blow overea tne cnaln which bound the ends of the baomalaoross the opening. The free end; of ofce of the poles Im mediately swung down, with the - cur rent in the direction" of Til i Jnni 19 a c-t; r-'i t) tie al cf "Run" he shouted. the boom, seized the giant by tne col lar and dragged him through the wa ter to safety. ' "Run P he shouted. "Run for your lifer' The two started desperately back, skirting the edge of the logs which now the very seconds alone seemed to hold back. They were drenched and blind ed with spray, deafened with the crash of timbers settling to tne leap, xne men on shore could no longer see them for the smother. The great crush of logs had actually begun its first majes tic sliding motion when at last mey emerged to safety. At first a few of the loose timbers founT the opening, slipping quietly through with the current; then more. Finally the front of the Jam dove for- Ward, and an instant later the smooth. swift motion had gained Its Impetus and was sweeping tne enure onve down through the gap. Bank after rank, like soldiers charg ing, they ran. The great fierce wind caught them up ahead of the current In a moment the open river was full of logs Jostling eagerly onward. Then suddenly far out above the uneven tossing sky line of Superior the strange northern "loom," or mirage, threw the specters of thousands of restless tim bers rising and falling on the bosom of the lake. TO BE CONTINUED. If the Russian navy officers were bo scared tnat tney wiiaiy shot at innocent nsaerman as they passed they British Channel, what will bo their condition when they approch within firing dis tance of the Japanese. They will probably all have died with heart disease. Mr. Cleveland has taken a pot shot at the elephant and now the republican managers are protest ing that he shot before the game season was open. , . Henry Gassaway Davis has travelled 3,000 miles' on his speak ing trip in Ve9t Virgiuia. "No one takes the democrat! 3 campaign seriously" said Senator Scott of West Virginia as he jumped on a train for that state to try and put a damper on Ihe enthusiasm created : by Caudidate Davis. Anyone who would like to trade a iew reai vowt ior a large con signment of brilliant prospects should apply to Chiarman Cortel- you. , ; : Probably no one will blame Senator Morgan of Alabama for saying with regard to Panama, "I told you so." "From the present warmth of the campaign it is not likely that any candidate would not have been sufficiently roasted by election day. ."' ' . mi ' 1 i . . me repuoncans are so anxious to enact a ship subsidy bill that they cannot keep it out of their campaign literature. "General . Miles and Admiral Schley are supporting Judge Park er. Would either.of them support a demogogue? r . Chairman Taggart has collected $100,000 to carry llndiana. You have to fight fire with fire,-these days. There is increased confidence that it will - be President Parker and Vice President" Davis after March 4,-1905. . ........ .nn nAn ninVPD LANDSLIDE FOR PARKER. Postal Card Investigation by Brook: lyn Eagle. NEW YORK SAFELY DEMOCRATIC The Situation Bright Everywhere Conditions Resemble Those of 1892. New York, Oct. 30. Democratic j i..,w iAAn Aimut the Hoffman House and at other places "where the politically inclined are wont to congregate, insist, that the closing week of the campaign I looks so promising that tevery man at work for the cause - will feel impelled to do his utmost. The forecast made by several newspapers this morning were studied with decided interest and even in those prognasticatlons uemocrau riv much eneouracement. me ... .. ... or ine lax payers, 10 prevent ine iriump- Hemld believes that Roosevelt will beL ..... . - . elected, but tnat paper iooks upon ew .... . i t i York a doubtful, extremely so. The j Brooklyn Daily Eagle made a prelimin- ary postal card canvass of the.vote for r , . . . I t. ' J .1 A ..t city auu uccibics mi ujuiuiuK mi kuc result indicates a Parker landslide. Its methods of obtaining data of mak-1 log computations are exactly similar to J those In previous campaign. These canvasses predicted within a few bun- dred of the actual vote. While these newspaper forecasts were under dis- cussion today one of the Democratic leaders averred that thev had obtain- ed similar results by the canvass of a certain congressional district in this State. It wa9 desired to get at the ex- act condition of affairs and to this end several weeks were devoted to a canvass I 01 the district in question. The men employed to do the workbeing the most reliable to beJound. It was a district in which many Democrats had 1 voted against Bryan and it was hoped that a canvass would show a gain of eighteen per cent, for Democrats over the vote of last election. The appar ent gain was much greater than this and it was said to-day that if such a gain was made in every district Parker would carry the State by a very large majority. v <atia 1m Jersey. Ex -Governor Benton McMillan, of Tennessee, has completed his speaking tour in New England, and is now speak ing in New Jersey,: Governor McMillan said yesterday. . ; J-'"' .A "Everywhere I have spoken L have spoken I have had large and deeply in terested audienbea. At Elizabeth last Thursday) night, I met, and spoke from the same platform with, Mr. Black the Democratic nominee for Governor, and the Democratic candidate for Con- gress in that district, i talked with both gentlemen about the situation in New Jersey. , They . are very hopeful of fine results in that State on the na tional and local tickets. They say that the Democratic organization is very complete and active, and that all the Democratic candidate's on the State ticket are very hopeful. Judging by the enthusiasm which I have observed at the meetings I hrve addressed, there is in the State, and I will unie with the uemocraiic leaaers In forecasting vic tory all along the lino. - 1; ' Prior to going to Few Jersey, I ad dressed a series of Democratic meetings in Massachusetts. The Democrats of the old Bay State are making a great fight to elect their candidate for Gov ernor, William L. Douglas. Their hopes are high. They told me they ex pected to elect Mr. Dougles this year, and were sure that, if it were not ' a presidentall year, their candidateVould certainly; be sQccessfull. They have strong hopes indeed, of doing it this year. Mr. Douglas Is a superb candi date with a splendid record, a respon ible and conservative man, acceptable to all classes of liberty-loving people. ncMHUe 1893. : C "Speaking of the outlook of the de mocracy generally, I will say that this campaign greatly resembles that of 1892. It is more like the canvass of that year than any other national cam paign in which I ever engaged. Tn that year the Democracy defeats nn. - . . jauiiM.uaiu9uu, an fcuau ume running the me Mom democratic Coo, w f ow f7vcu .at the latter largely because Thomas B. Reedy Congress had expended more than one billion dollars in two years, and is still known in American history as the Billion Dollar Congress. Iq 1904 we have Mr." Roosevelt in the presid ency. , His administration has expend ed and squandered in one year more than 8781,000,000. At this rate in - two years it will : have expended a billion and a half dollars, or more than 50 per cent, more than was 'expended. 4 n the same period under the Harrison Nation al administration and the Reed doralna- tlon .in Congress, r The sum of $781,000.- wu expended In one year mean, $10 peV r man woman head of taxation for every and ohiM in me umk ou.tj" tbe African j-eopl. defeated the Harrison administration ana mo Congress for expending half a billion dollars in one year, what will they do to the Roosevelt administration and the Cannon Congress, which expends one and one-half times that amount in the same period of times? I look for the ti.titmnh5int election of Judge Parker to the Presidency and for a Democratic House of KepreseoiawTWi w success of democratic oovernor s in three-fourthslof the States of tbe Un ion;" 7 . t' ' -' - - . Jtlie Wgn tUf etry. The democratic State central commit tee of M ichitfan has issued a formal statement of the condition in that State. It says:, jj - We are saUafied with the situation, Mr. Ferris will be elected Governor by frnn . 40.000 to 50.0uC plurality. One thousand speakers sent out by the op- position will, not item the tide nor cnange one nvmureu yo. A, i r&nrosv&s3&9 the work of the board of food factor . inspectors, tbe tax commission slouths and State em- pioyes traveling over me dw w me "" - "w " " ,-rv j nanL election 01 Mr. r erris anu umcinir -r d 12 hi the State in the hands 0f the people and out of control of the machine." 4, r e statement says, in conclusion; " u netner we election were tuuaj, wn davs atro. 01 ten davs hence, the result " ' H ' ' xUiUA d6 Ke g-me. t u the ooinlon of the committee, based upon reports from every, county in the State, that Woodbridge N, Ferris will be elected Governor of Michigan by a very large majority. ne - Micnijran Dy very arge majority, l he Michigan btate Max committee has not a friend on earth except ine raiiroaa corporations, 11 there were 00 other issue, the machine in Micnigan would be caeieatea by a very large1 jmajorityr i: Add to this the many thousands of independent Re publican vptera, who earnestly believe in primary reform and the 40.000 Re- publicans who voted against Governor Bliss and Rlpperlsm" two years ago, and there remains not a ghost a show for the election of Mr. Warner. Whe-h- er they put in 1,000 speakers next week, 1 or 10,000, will make no difference as far as stemming the tide which has set in to rebuke ihe machine in this State." Senator Gorman intimates that the election will bring some sur- prises for- somebody, and ititi mates that they may not all be for the democrats. POSITIONS rt P- Id BANK aaaraate4 DEPOSIT RaUrowl Fair Pid 500 FREE Courses Of a fered. Board at Cost. Write Quick, Georgla-Alata BiisDiess College. Jlacoi 6a GROWTH OP TUB Waeliovia Loan and Trust Company 51NCB ITS ORGANIZATION r' . JUNE 15, i93 -J;1 '-ii- .. uArlTALi - - SGOO.000.00 DEPOSITS. DEC. 15, 1893. 37,708.93. I; ' dec. 15, 1895, $20,134.73. . DEC 15, 1897. 327,859.44. . . ' - 1 DECrlS, 1899; 781,018.11. f rt" DEC. 15. lflfllT ASSETS. 139,367.29 369,020.17 469.75L16 937,156.48 1,180,265.70 2,863,997.16 a. iwa n . 1 - 1 . DEC 15, 1903. 2,237,075.14. - April 14, 19M. $3.93693.14 $3,680,376.46 AahevlIIe Branch - 34 Pat. Ave 1 Ashevllle, N. C. YOUR BUSIN ESS SOLICITED. 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