Show LUMBER CAMP VISTAS strange who drift into the maine wooda strange characters horo hero well I 1 should say so ba says fays the fowlston journal you see fieo an avera average o sort of a man dont take to life in ao tho bno bac woods va tory ry kindly binco anco S abo ti of tills ill is ell camp mp in D tho the foil fall it has bus sheltered some strange logo individuals will I 1 toll ou some something about them certainly the thore was wild liver john the boys boy got down on him the tha very forat thing thine la lulo in the fall tho water in wild arver WB was low you ought to sto so W id river thero there never was wa a stream more inore appropriately named now it Is a fo foaming aminiz razing torrent wh it swept opt away tho the first brido bridge tho the work men built as easily as atwould a haytack tack une one night wild river john was cireo directed od to load ono one of the horses across tho the river and soo see that tho the animal was properly cared lor for intond of 0 leai leading lne her john allowed to jog a ong one by his hl side alda suddenly Bud donly rho eho turned and quietly walked up stream str etim and john joba rather than wot wet his foet feet by going after her loft left her and to lo surely aurely homo home while the poor an animal was shivering to in the cold water he ato his and took his 0 as if nothing and happened finally somebody remembered the horse had not been seen boon on that side ido of df the river and asked john ohn about it then halt bait dead with tho the cold tho the poor beast was brought to shore shora but wild river john had fallon fallen into everlasting disfavor everybody agreed with the little chap who said A man as will do such a thing as aa that ain aint no kind of a man this wild river john had been school teacher clerk postmaster and I 1 dont know what not and hud bad served according to his toll a number of 0 years in all of those capac wea one night one of the boys reckoned up and according to his meats he must havo been years old at the very least I 1 fortunately just before tho the men became so disgusted thoy they resolved to make the camp too hot to hold him wild river elver john left of 0 his own accord jack now was altogether deltor ent cut everybody liked his honest fri glist ways jack hud had boon been nearly all over the world ho he Is a great reader readar and a man likus eo U talk with him too loo jack had bad plenty of spirit why ono one evening when all the man assembled in the mens room and a sober nan man makled to girled and mauled hauled a drunken chap who Is as peaceful its as a lamb when suber sober jack alone and unaided sought to defend his rum comra comrada oom dc and only stood bock back when resistance was useless jack comes of a good english family his father la is considered q quito it 0 a flue classical olas scholar la in his native ind ailts but judik from tho the days or rathor rather nig nights when ho he used to crawl into lied bed with his boots on about halt hall a minute before pa paternal tornal steps were hoard heard on tho the stair has always boon been an adventurous youth and probably will never settle down long in an any av place at once the plaything and the torment tort in ont of tho the camp was joe tho the little italian t alian kid whose father died when he be was a baby and whose mother was so BO cruel and beat him so BO severely orely that at the tender age of eight joe rin ran away from now new york and his bis mother and ever since has taken care of himself that Is all the care he bo has had although joo joe know how old ho he was he be have boon been more than fourteen ile ho had traveled from dan to beersheba A full account of all his adventures would fill a rood good sized book sometimes the follows fellows would joe until they got him mad at such times it did not need the swarthy skin or the eye too to proc proclaim bairn his italian Paren parentage tag a poor joe he has found life rough indeed be 60 far after tho the covolt no volt wears off 0 lifo life becomes dull aull from 5 EL the time a fellow is awakened by the whizzing ol of the log train which whirls up tho the mountain and makes no stay for passengers by the way till tho hoot ot of the owl with its final tremors or perchance tho the distant deep voiced baying of a hound broke the midnight slumber life runs along monotonously ne near this camp of ours are seve several iral french canadian camps in one of them a girl of fifteen years oared for a family of eight children for a long iong time until her mother recovered from a severe illness the |