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Show JUAB COUNTY TIMES, NEPHI, UTAH The Heart of Wind Night A STORY ByvmgieE..Roe Illustrations Ray Walters by OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST 8YNOP9I8. 2 SHets of Dally'a lumber tump dlreote stranger (o the camp. Waller Sundry Introduce himself to .John Dully, foreman, aa "the Dllllnuworth Lumber Co.. or moat of It." He mukea acquaintance with the camp and the work lie haa" come from the Kast to auperliitend and make aucceaaful. CHAPTER III lopyrial Uy lAiud. Mead ud wmnpuy to feel dimly semething or their charm. John Dally was everywhere, looking at this, lending a hand at that, shout Instruction Ing some here and there, overseeing with an eagle eye each mluute detail of the work. One of the new owner's first Impressions was that In this man he bad an object of great value. He was Just thinking this when there came one long blast from the donkey over the ridge and the men dropped their tools In their tracks, the two on the spring boards Jumped down, leaving the saw Just where the call had caught it. far out on one side, and the foreman came up to him. "Dinner time, Mr. Sandry." he said smiling. "I 'spect you're pretty hungry." "What?" cried Sandry. "why, I hadn't thought of It! Is It possible we've boon here Ave hours?" "Sure. Time goes fast In the hills." They began to climb the trail, the men straggling out ahead and behind the youngest forging forward In the eagerness of youth and healthy appetites, the older characters, all of them hardened woodsmen, taking It mora leisurely. . Before they were half way up, Sandry was breathing heavily. "Might I ask." aald Dally, "some thing about the change tn the company "Certainty. There baa almply been an outright sale of tha Intereata. all of which. or nearly all. I bought from Dllllngwortb & Frsxer. A fifth. I believe. Is still owned by a Mr. Rakehsm. who la somewhere In South America I bav come out to take absolute " charge and lesrn the timber business "I see. And you've bad no experience?" "None," aald Sandry a little shortly. "Maryanna Humphrey! but my feet la tender!" complained a voice behind. Sandry glanced quickly back. Three lumberjacks were plodding up the alope, their aeamed and weathered facea set Intently on dinner. On one, a red beaded chap of some thirty-sior eight, powerful and rugged, bo set his rharp eyes. "But I'm acquiring It." be finished, "rapidly. Discharge that man." Dally did not turn. "I can't." he said, "he's Just quit." critically at the speech and doings of many places. Also, nowhere la there a stronger prejudice against any manifestation of personal superiority, any exploitation of what may lie east of tha Cascades. To them the man and the place are one East and Easterner. They felt for hlra that contempt which only the seasoned feel for the And wltb the quickInexperienced. ness which was hla characteristic, the new owner sensed the feeling among them. It only aaded to that Jumble of sensations and Impressions which had crowded thick upon him from the first and which he had had no time to asnort and get under control. Hejiad almply laid them away for future at tentlon. In the meantime he went quickly at the work of settling hlmsolf in the new environment. A load of lumber was brought up the alough on the punt from the mill at Toledo and four men were put to building a email office. It waa aet at the edge of the , slough, a bit below the where It commanded from Ita two eastern windows and deor the track, the roadlng donkey, tba log trail and the rollway, and from the southern one tha winding alough, the rest of the track and the lower rollway, where tha donkey angina left the logs. Its duty done. After that they rolled down with much splashing to tha narrow ribbon of water which, with, every flood tide backod In from tha bay, lifted them high and trundled them, grinding and groaning, slowly down, perhaps to the mill at Toledo, perhaps to be laced together wltb mammoth chafna, built Into a great raft and towed out to tba ocean to voyage along the coast, down to southern California or up to Portland. A tiny, wheexy tug fussed about the backwa ter for the express purpose of starting the monster raft out on tba ebb. Inside the new office were Installed a roll-todesk, a case of books, a map or two and several cbalra. beside a amall stove. Here, wltb the four pine walla around blm, Walter Sandry at laat looked around and called himself at borne, Tha drawer of tha new desk were full of document and memoranda, the history, with statistics and records down to tha minutest detail, of the Diilingworth Lumber company. These be set himself to master as b' first, step toward tbe vaat golden goal of tbe dream that bad brought blm good-nature- Continued. Out of the near gloom, which was bit with dawn, the log lightening trail rose, an aggressive anakelike trough climbing uncompromisingly al an angle of 36 degrees. Its center a straight pine log sunk to Its surface, which was polished like Ivory. Its slightly curving sides the same. How many tapering trunka had gone Into Its two miles would be hard to say, for In some places they had sunk and been covered In the dip. say. over the ridge where the real mountain began, at the turn where It wound around the Shoulder. Before ten minutes 8andry was breathing heavily, though be said nothing and kept close at Daily's heels. The logger strode forward and upward with an easy, climbing lirt that rippled every muscle In his loose body, while the man from the cltlea strained and heaved In painful labor, slipping on the wet earth, floundering In the rotten bark and brush that lined the way. Tbey climbed beside the trail, not In It Ahead of them the gang of men had long lnce disappeared from sight and bearing. The forenoon that followed was the opening page In a new chapter of his life, and Sandry bent all bis faculties to a grasp of outlines. He stood silently watching the work go forward. They had reached the Here, In a wide dip high cutting. above the world. It aeemed to the Easterner, was a huge circle of activity. Cloae beside the built trail a second and donkey engine fussed creamed, reaching out uncannily on all sides for the great logs, to haul Ihem In with screech of spool and strain of cable and turn them over to the mysterious steel rope that came constantly crawling back on Its traveling line This was called the "yard tng engine" lb one at the foot of the trail beside the rollway and the track being knowo as the "roader." The monotonous song of the crosscut saws bad begun where the buck-erwere converting several hundred-enfifty foot trunks Into , handling i cook-shack- bow-ever- r . p x a CHAPTER IV. weaL Very shrewdly he decided to take and the West bad met. tt nothing out of tha capable banda of East The A little below, two foot wide planks waa apparent In every essential that bla foreman. There bad been a sort of some Ova or sii feet long bad been set had to do with Sandry and his men tense pause In the camp pending this Into a giant yellow pine about eight In common. development When tt becaase apparNet from the ground, one on either It showed when ha aat among them ent that things were to go on a . stand-InfWe, and on these two men were at the bead of tha long table. In tha usual the work want forward a if tbelr flannel shirt open at the way be used bis hands, his knife and a Una bad been loosened. threat, tbelr aleeves rolled up from his food. It glared when he spoke. It Big John Dally bad gone about durarms of steel and leather, their head In his clothes, and most of all ing tha few days of uncertainty with bare. Sandry watched the bending of paraded It stood forth pitilessly when be sat tba unruffled calm of bis quiet nature, their backa. every muscle outlined by himself at night In tha plain little though there was a small, a very smalt under the clinging shirts, the play of room under the dripping eaves. They acha somewhere inside blm. Ever their knees, the whole easy rippling since be could remember, his life had of their entire bodies with the regular lP hnma cast In Dally' lumber camp give and take of the long saw. The . $VVi when bis father, old John Dally, bad boards, known as springboards, rose logged wltb oxen on tha eastern slope and dipped with the even motion. of tbe Coast range and there wa no Old Reins In New Hands. eel Ion a. J These men were fall era. and pres ently they would lay, the towering monarch of the great woods to the fraction of an Inch In a given piece ready for the burkera. the book tender and the cable. In the meantime the logs alreadv , down were swiftly stripped of cut Into thirty and forty fuo lengths, rolled Into the (rail wit peavey and rant hook and sent up an over the ridge to the acrompanlmen of shrill tools from the whistle-boi restless cord, the straining of rigging and the squeak of flber on polished Jerkwater railroad lo to Yaqolna bay Or bad tottered out When a 2 of line and sent tba old man forever Into silence In the roaring thunder of Its fall, the boy John, at seventeen, had picked up tbe reins of government In tbe camp and carried on tbe work, abetted and aided by that efficient general, hi mother. With tha year of hi young manhood he had worked, following tbe wilderness as progress pushed It backward to the bay. seeing little of tbe outside world save perhaps for a trip, once In three years, to Port land or down to Pan Francisco, and always during tha paat It had been tba Dllllngwortb Lumber company Into whose vast holdings tha ramp bad 00-fo- tbei-limbs- Bber. The built trail ended here In the hallow bollow btween tha tlra, ridge and the great mountain beyond though Bp the face of the latl prolonged hy a cleared pat b ah.rply ! defined aiming the dense growth the tlmtwr. He was Impressed by the magnitude of the country. On every band the lifting bills were clothed In lrew close parked and of such girth and height as to Hfni si most grotesquely Impo tble. Humanity was dwarfed to In significance;, like sn ant crawling on a cathedral column. Sandry looked around. Vp to this i distance the woods were dotted with I cuttings wnere the great stump glowed white smid the vivid gren and the debris of s'ssblngs and trim tr'nt; which combined with the fern nd hazel brush and othef under rrowth to matte perfect tangle ftu beyond, 'nng the new-ru- l trail, was rat tire, dense, and untouched, wafting for the hand tit prgmy man to come nd take her la lea treasure. By nine o'clock the sun was ablnlne, hove the peaks and the fog had vsn lebed from the valleys and althotign It was late fail (here was no feeling of the death of the year On the con trary, there was a wnw of bustle and hurry and work beginning with the advent of the, rains.,. The IHewater lough wss bank full and mud brown with thick grsss and water growths alorg lis edges The stranger uoron edonsly drew great breaths of the voet air of lie bgs bills and began er.t.. Isi rt ft 7 SJK ZTTJZ f5WJ OL r7(A'' 17 " Ji 5 cut 1 rdZemAZS 5 VfX VT Cat. tj I 1 r - 2- -r SlTT-JS"1 r He stood Silently Watching the Work Go wre forward. nearly always dripping the pane behind the spotless Ctirlalns wss al ways black and glittering, there wss alienee thst nearly always the hut-Irain Imposes that dense silence, lis tenltig and lonesome. Sometime, to be sure. It wss only a tit'la Oregon mist that saddened the night ontislde, but It had the same effect on the young man from the midst of lire In New York. He wss East and he knew ft. Also, the men had known It from that first speech In the doorway of the cook hark Tbey spoke of Mm among themselves as "Diilingworth." accompanying the word with grins, tasting its flavor as dplk-alelas any be spec tarted professor of the Kast dallying with a new derivative. Nowhere In the world Is discern merit hroucht to a f ner point thsn In the lumber camps and mills of the Northwest, among that floating gentry of the pike and the knee laced boot and the "turkey." who pass here and there with tha seasons, picking I It way Always there bad been no hand of power la tbe bills save bis om. no supervision excepting tbe annual visits of some member of the flri who went over things, nodded, estimated, took figures and went awav. He had carried on his ramp himself, fought since he could remember with the Yellow Pine company, whose holdings were vast a those of tbe Diilingworth. and bad not thought of change. When Waller Sandry settled quietly down with no voice In tbe doings of the camp, bally drew a good breath and went ahwid once more. As for tbe new timber magnate, he 4l down at the new desk on the first day of bis ocrupanrf of the little offer on the slough' edge and wrote his tlrst letter. It was on a printed letterhead: fMlllntwirth t,hr fiwmrt, reo. TtlMo, f KseetstnrT I liwf t m tm vnu citi1 Wish eft In op of the world here tnf en hour's chat. The renrMrv we'll smalt rnv as It ha rrve with Ms Yew fel like is slam rniMv b'en ' erawllrg is the ere fl- like ten ersll nnt rnunt The h!l will eni1 on'r they are their i nnfcew-,panvase froti th Hr!rn.. nntol4 . . There la wealth hera. 1 t an1f vl ef in eaih and I tnten4 11 m rea'-hesmMM Tha timber l. I se a wa t e ' (imi reeereM't tm rm tree4. The nnrttv-alr1w1-In awft en rcwtie Into rstr-hnaketa. a llrr'4 eon of fieeplf. fsbe'a. The atBrnpagv fca wiact nit flahtera. tef f?a4: -r Ilre4 a4 l4. M fl- vered ber white hair exquisitely aad brought out softly tba thousand kindly crease on her ruddy face. On tha end of tbe bench drawn up to tba stand tillets wa alttlng. weav Ing a mat of long graasea. and ber linger were deft aa an Indian's. Beblnd her on tbe bench lay Coos nan, bead on paw a, eyea blinking sleepily. "Coma In, Mr. Sandry," aald the old lady In her rich voice. "Draw up a chair. We're restln'." He aat down and bent a smile as brilliant aa bla blue eye on this hardy From old mother of the wilderness the first be bad felt ber personality, no time to pay mors a woman's and a grim line aettled though be had to It. about his Hp. He knew, ou tbe word than a paasing attention need It." be think "I should you'd of the greatest specialist of two contido you manage to keep "How said. nents, that the dignified old gentleman to whom they were addressed, a white-haire- up tba stroke!" "Law bless you!" she laughed eas-- ' gentleman with tha finest bear"I ben trained to It. I've cooked lly. Irrevoand tied the gentlest heart, ing cably to an Invalid chair, bad at the moat but a scant year to live. Yet be wrote of hope and travel and returning health, wrote determinedly wltb a force that roust communicate something of Ita light to tbe lonely wreck left by the tide of life stranded at the edge of that mighty, flowing stream, the metropolis. He finished the letter with a com mendatlon ao tender, so Indicative of a great affection, that It did not sound like a man's, a son's to a father-rat- her like a daughter's to an ailing mother, algned. sealed and stamped It. and sat for many mlnutea holding It in his band, staring bard with drawn browa at the yellow pine of the new walls. Again the faint shadow of aad ness, of regret, flickered from the past across his features. Then be sighed, rose with hla graceful quickness and A be straightened his shoulders. closed the desk and stepped from the office he felt that he bad gathered up the relna of tha new life. cant. We are tha company, thourh w hava a rival, a formidable one. tha Yellow Plnea. which opera tea to tha aouth of us 1 hava mat nona of thlr people aa yat. but my foreman talla ma there la, and alwaya haa been, bad blood batwaan ua. Wall, dear old chap, 1 muat not weary you. Wrtta ma all tha happenings that concern you there. Tall Hlgglna If he neclecta one thing about you I will akin him allva when I coma home for a flying trip. I hope, air. you ara feeling comfortable and will go Into the winter In good ehape. When tha aprlng cornea on I believe wa can bring you out here with comfort tha Pullman service la smooth aa glaaa across continent. And I know tha trip would benefit you. As be wrote these words the young man' bright blue eyes softened like Not Too Early To mention DIAMONDS. April is tba birth month for Diamonds. You need not spend much to own a very good one. Our assortment will satisfy any rcqurementa. We have all sixes in the desirable grades. Our modest prices make buying easy. BOYD PARK UUNOf afOB MAKERS OF JEWELRY 166 MAIN JIMJ.I TURN OUT CITY' SALT LAKE MILLIONS OF PIPES; In tha United 8tata Manufacturer 8upply a Very Large Part of tha World'a Demand. - d 511 CHAPTER V. r Leoked Around and Called Himself at Wild Blood and Horseflesh. Th fall drew on apace. Sometimes the austere gloom of tha mighty country thrilled Sandry with a strange compelling; oftener It held him at a dripping wlndo v with a load of lead on bla heart. Ha bad no companions John Dally, easy, simple, suggesting tried force, waa hi only comfort. In him be found aometblog vaguely fine, a tha plain little ston at tha bottom of clear water take on a certain almpla beauty. Tbey spent an occasional evening together In tba little office, talking of tbe work, and tha new owner asked and learned many things Into tha ample heart of white haired Ma Dally Sandry bad atepped tbat first night, wholly without Intent. "Ha speak Ilk a man." aha opined decisively, "an' you mark my words he'll prove himself so. If hi bands ar whlta" Of tba girl Slleti ha had scarcely taken a moment' notice. Ha did not even know tbat when she served him silently at tha oilcloth covered table tba two long braid were tied together at tba nape of her neck ao tbat by no chance could they fall agalnat bis hand. Neither did be know tbat tbe dog Coosnah watched blm always wltb pale eye. Of these two he knew less than of any other tn camp with whom be bad a much to do. Aa for tba girl herself, she kept away from bis vicinity. Oftener tbey two, the gtrl and lbs dog silent wltb a common content Ilk wild thing of the wood, sought the wind swept top of tba great stump on tba western ridge. Hera Bllett looked down on tba drooping slop and wondered of tba cttlee and tbe sea. Ha bad coma from tbem both She had never seen a man Ilka him. HI clothe were different Hi speech wss untika. So were his bands, whfts and Una grained. Also there was another of hi tbat ahe knew In every line nd turn. Black Bolt, tha aplendld horse that tamped and wblnnled with Impatience In tha lean to behind the filing shed. She could no mora let him alone than ahe could refrain from lying down to drink from a mountain fill He called to ber blood wltb Irresistible force. Iay after day ahe crept shyly to tha leaoto and dreamed, watching the alope and the tog trail "Oh. you beauty!" aba whispered with a soft band oa tha arching neck "Oh. you beauty of the world! Ood made you atrorg to serve and beautiful to be loved!" And at that moment, on tbat particular day, Walter Sandry stepped Into tha doorway of tha lae to. At his foot on tha sill the girl whirled upon him. ber dark eyes wide with fright and con fusion. "11 " she stammered like a child. Sandry kroked at ber tor tbe first time keenly. "You ara fond of tha horse V he aaked. But ber tongue clove suddenly to the roof of her mouth and one of the Inherent silences that sometimes fell upon her shut ber Hps. She dropped her eyes, twisted her Angers In Klerk Bolt's mane, and then with a gliding motion, soft footed and win. went tast him. running toward It cook shack. The Incident wss nothing In Itself, but It set the man thinking of ber He had iwen artiest Ion In the eyes she bent on tbe splendid animal, beard It In tha words, stilted and Incongruous 'Queer youngster," tald Sandry to himself. Tbat night after supper be came out. contrary to his custom, from the little south room with Its pstchssorh quilts. It crocheted snat and sntlqHS lilhle. Into the big eat log room. Ha found Ma Daily rocking In the lIHIe chair, her tired 14 hsnde lying comfortably on the Tortland Weekly spread out oa br slantipg Isp. The wall lamp la their tin reflector sil poe-essto- Home. la camp, young man, for forty-tw- year straight ahead." "Then you'va aeen tba growth of th country, the coming of railroad, the making of towns." "Right from tha bottom op. Bess 'em grow from three cabin an' a covered wagon." "You'va witnessed tha Inroad of th world on this fin timber, too." "Ye, an' it hain't teched yet. I'v aeen tt cut up over tba Range an' down thla aide, an' they' double stumpage for every acra that' baa cut. between bere'n the coast." (TO BE CONTINUED.! TROUBLE FOR LOCAL EDITOR Cricketer Threatened Physical Resentment of Report of Hla Prowess In th Game. At a village cricket match tba fieldwere for a lima a man abort A farm laborer wa pressed Into service. Just before tbe team own man arrived a ball aa bit In the substitute direction. To tba surprise of the spectators generally, and himself la particular, ha made tba catch. Tba local paper tba following Saturday wa anxtoualy acanned for tbe record of tot feat, and disappointedly found It reported merely "caught sub.' "Wbafa cestui aub'T" ha aaked a friend. "Lton't the know? That meaa 'twere accidental!" waa tha reply. Next morning tba editor of tba local paper wa greatly amuaed by tha aplsile: "Deer aur Tos ay In yor pa pet a bow I cort a ma a out la Saturday' match accidental I mite summon yon for libel, but I won't, but should yoa 'appen to git a dump oa th nose on day wen wa meat yoa will know Bill Wtggin has done H. and It wont be no sub' neither." London TH Blta ing aid Over 20,000,000 pipes are manufactured annually In tha United States.. Tba wooden pipe I probably mora distinctly national than any which finds it way Into tha market. Ranging In between the aristocratic- meerschaum and th plebeian clay, It la rarely expensive, while at the earn time its manufacture calls into existence a considerable industry. Tha roota of the mountain laurel and rho-- dodendron are most generally used for pipe making, they being selected fori the purpose on account or their du-- l rablllty, hardness and the light polish. which they are capable of taking. They; ara found throughout tbe southern. states generally the beat material is said to come from North Carolina and! is sent to the market in large pieces, which vary in size from that cf aj man's fist to the dimensions of a good-alxkeg. The material costs froim, 140 to 60 per ton, tha price depending upon the quality of tha wood. In ad-dlllon to the domestic material used In pipe making, immense quantltlea of brier root blocks ara shipped Into this country annually from southern Franca and Italy. Scientific Amered ican. HOW NERVES CONTROL HABIT System Trained to Follow Motions Along a i Certain Path, Muat Be Called-Fo- r Those who think a habit is Just something you remember that la, is purely a mental proposition, ara mistaken. Habit is a question of mechanics as much as tha smooth drawing of a platon rod. Habit la tha action of nerve motions along a beaten path. A muscle somewhere in th body contract and a nerve moves because It cannot help It, and so on until tha process Is complete, and tba thing wa call habit la dona. There ara aa many of thes paths In tha nervous system as there ara habits. Tba Impression which one nerve center recelvea awakens another and the whole path of tha action la traveled over. Tha first time tba action Is per-- ; formed tha nerve centers do not awaken their successors readily. For this reason some things ara hard to leanu Everything that employs a great many nerve centers Is hard to learn, because tba path must ha worn, tha nerve centers trained to act la sequence. Onca they ara trained tha habit la formed. Tha second call upon tbem Is easier than tha first, tha third easier than tba second, etc "Uncle Sam." Tha application of tha term "Unci earn" to tha United States had its beginning In Troy, N. Y, during tha war of 1112. A commission contractor of Troy, named Elbert Anderson, had a shop In which tha stocks wrs always examined and passed by a government Inspector called Samuel Wilson, who waa generally known as "Unci Sam." When tha boxes wera pasaed tbey vara always marked with tha Inltlala of tha contractor and tha nation, Ona day tba man who was doing Wssplng Tree. Ona of tha wonder of plant life I tha marking was asked what tha Initha weeping tree of tba Canary tials stood for, and repllcsl. Jokingly, islands. It la of the laurel family, aad that they wera tha Initials of lbs con- "EA-US- ." raina down a copious sbowar of wa tractor and of "Uncle Sam." Tha Joke ter drop from Its tufted foliage. This spread among tha men, got Into print, water la often collected at th foot and long before the end of the war of tba tree and forms a kind of pond, had bom known all over the countha Inhabitant of tha try. Mr. Wilson, tha original "Uncle from whk-neighborhood raa aupply themselves 8am," died In Troy In 1854. wltb a beverage that la absolutely Divine Right of Kings. fresb and pure. Tha old Idea of monarchy th Tba water come out of th tree "divine light of kings" by Itself through Innumerable little pore Heated at tbe margin of tba leavea which tba ruler was regarded aa tha It Issuea from the plant a vapor dur- representative within hla dominions of Ood over all tblnga ing tba daytime, when tba beat I 'it of tba monarchy flclently great to preserve it la that was "shaken to lis foundations" by but In th evening, wbea tha English revolution of 16k1 and ha temperature baa lowered very "shattered" by tba French revolution to quote tba phrases used by such, a considerable quantity of It I of etaded in the form of liquid drops tha Encyclopaedia Brltannlra.. tt has tbat collect near tba edge of the not been recognised as a political leavea until these member so bend force In England sine tba expulsion down that tbe tear tumble off on of tha Stuarts. tbe ground below la a veritable Dletetl Value af Onion. bower. Pome dirt otic expert helleve that onions have a pronounced medicinal Gospel and Literature Lets. value, and that peraon who eat tbem New An Interesting memory of old ara less liable to Infection York, when church and state still had row. Is recalled disease. There Is no doubt whatever closer relation lh of tba excellent effect which onions iy the supreme ronrt' decision oa hava upon the complex ion. ochool and literature the "gospel, Iota" In tba Adirondack forest preGreat Deeds Call for Application. serve, the Springfield (Mas) Republican state. These lot were set aside tn Ha who would do some great thine this short life must apply MmeU to in varlou township by act of the work with such concentration of tba 1718 In aad be retained to legls'ature to ldl spectators, who force hla devoted to promoting tha gospel and looks llo only to amuse themselves, literature. The lot were patent ta liko Insanity Francis Park man. the Sackett IlirW it Saratoga Rail way cofnitaay la 16. and retnrsed to Vats Lacka. In 11 by the Kvertoa Lenv the Did hear about th young lady yoa ter corepsey. Tbe supreme court' has two locks of hair from o derision denies title to tha land who Talo nnlereraduato friend of hrs ? clartrM by various scatter orenpsnt she Isn't afraid of burglars nd afTrois th slats s awaersbta af Sho nays now hraese she haa Tale locks In 14. room. Isa't sba silly T Cornell Widow, h so-call- 11, reg-ular- ly bf |