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Show V KOHiM'E OK JIOlNTTUOSlJ IIOMXII LIFE IS 'WAMIlSCrrOf. jrattma, Dri.S. Uisrlia I- .Me Ktn'j L uursicj; i brnV.eii lr; at tbe Fanny raJdtck bo- Hal nfer na lliil!liut;nn mlvcnturc a LTt-r eni-Miblitd eni-Miblitd the bi-tt-rj of .ii.mt-rl if. He was at-ciilrnt lij, hot outLf momluj; of OuoUr IS, ami cttr blng alone iu the wiMerLr-3 fur 'hhty tix hour)', uhlle hbcomron Iciuwrot tor he'pi lie was rrnuwl, ami fteTij tjayg latt r rracbrtl Taco nia anU a Furrfcon, b ivln Uvuxar rlwl on the clioulltr- of Vtlvrart tltlflu raon- Hi ii ,eriity in trr A Riot it nf tin uaj y tl touwt. forttt to 'erm. Ilut a rl It ti I cut hi Hut th- rude htter 01. i kit he lay mtj,ht htve room to it. What lit-H.ilVitM mt-3iitm t ml ml auu h-nlj, tin w hi o iutvf had IroLen luuta or wlio liave irlt them-elvea IiopcItM.1 Ict, or Loth, CM Ut gut. Ina verj mbdr.t ay he mj s of II: "Tlie worst w at while I a lying alone iu 'he rain. I hadn't utn marriol loig ami I wiltttrrininetl t llv-im llv-im mj wife ami luly aiialf I rtuld, l4it I had tuo cattiiit.t viMdtiiitoiutani-iid to It all If I THSti't re-cueJ witbiu twtuti-fuur hours.' .li Kran N a tyj loal jiloi r. He KSlurn nrcr Mftntervllte, h.t-h mllrs frum ,'o.lr,0, thirty-iiiin-Ji-ar ajro. ri nre Uien he ha hvw in Mh hlgau, "Ui jt-ota, ai il varl ouiart of Ilrltls'1 LVIumhu. A lltle over two j ears a.rj he wa. marrk-J. He and liNhrutherowm-d farms nrarcach other In the IX minion, tut they didn't like it vtr wt'iovtr there acd concludnl to i-o jje lack under the t!J Hag Thei heard cf the farms of ut-ttm Washington's ilrh vadejf, ard rcncluded aa fconas the year's crop a satin ml to hunt a new loca tlonon one of the rlvero which have "heir riv? In Muiiut Taroraa Karl In OetoUr. in compan with ano! . man named Ogle and his ton. U!-anl. U!-anl. they lift the railroal at ( hihallssleutflxtj miles iuth ol here, and (truck out for theupner waters of the Cowlitz Klver. Wlkn 'heyn-id-nl that river they follow il It for a wayaud then struck ui theTilion, which U Its priiull ranch, comine In from the noith up near It rourre On the map i enmtiitouchthegrii)dvilIeyi ff-e Nc-iiually. TJiey found sorae- liliig that suited tin in, sumethine xrilli eurugli of the condition.', that harm the adMiituroa plonter t nialteitlooU homelike and attract- Ue. Ilai many milr from -jut other Inln! Itant It was tioIutel lid a id apArenlly ntvr Ufoa irrJdcnhy the foot of while mill The P.reftt ww raden at ilmost to hut out tlie sun. excep just a'org 'he Inrder of the s'renm, whtn here wx I-- I Ig timber and more junele of stout vim. wilJ bbek- errie,and vine nnple. betokening k soil of inexhaustible richrr The land wan unurveyeil. but ench mile t chlm. tlie upiied corner- f which tlnj ruirkeI by bbzlng a fewtrt-e. Then they built n shark ind begin to make some Improvement" Improve-ment" enough to give notice- to other prnspeitori. that the land had etn chlmtl When tliee were Iniie they pLtnne'l to nturn fur their fmille. Oh S-ttunliy morning Charles tnd young Ogle resolveil to go on an -xphiringexitilitloii n little forther over Uiwinl the Xtrually than they had heretofore cone. After -atirg i light lm-ikftr, they starts tit i soon n it w held enoush tr hl on uMhe Tilloit.whl ! ia I hire dln.ll-i to amerebmk fter a time t'tey Itt ttiestrem indstnuk into the tang'eii trim1' Infirlng olT townl II e left, an-', as 'hej suppnsril toTird the lirtr Hvrr The were UtJIljj the Inse of ntint T-iTima. rnil-M 1iHnr I KM fit alv v the sei level. Tin n unit win hillv. 1011 they woui lut among the MIN soin timeo tn ik limbing their rugged 'Me? Finally nlut 9 o'clock they tllmUd t fjllen treetoget a belter view of tin Ir surroundings. As they were celling down Ogle "lipped and fell. His Wiiichcterlnimevay hit the log so as to dl'charge It. and the hall rri'hed thmiigh JlcICean'e right 'g bilf wnv lietween the knee tnd ankle, shattering loth lorn into splinters. Thoush the pain of the wnun I vrt gre-tt SrcKenn at once realizeil tint pain was I lie lea't of !il troubles. He was mau miles aw ay from i surgeon If he ever reached one he mh-t be carriiif to him. He wtlghed over 3S) liounds and tin re pmlnbly wen not men enrugh within thirty miles to cirry him. Hut whether there w re or not. ml whether they could be found or not, anotbtrmit- terof even greater Importance had to l attt pded to atonce. IIli leg was so badly shattered fiat it hung limp if he attcmtcd to Miove IL Pieces of the shlveretl bone protnid-nl protnid-nl through the fleh. Hewasorae miles, how many he did not know, from his cabin, w hire lm brother was, where temporary help was. and to which be mu't send worda soon as potll le. How he wa to ilo this seemed doubtful. Oglewa. nearly frantic with what lie had done, nltht ugh he had done it accl dentally. He didn't l-elleve ho cruld find the cabin, JlclCenn for a time thought it very Joubtful if he could Rutthetflbrt must be nude, and it mut l made soon. It wia mining ind the only shel ter th"t crnld lie found was the log on which the accident had occurred. He had Ogle move him into i's eliec rli s shelter. Then he told him how to cut away his lioot and hi-clothing hi-clothing -o they might In same way Iwndape the wound lmiiriillj. This ira done and then he took tlie wood'man'ii compass and gTe Ojle ho direction of the river, finding which he would be able to follow it totheshaik ind bring nlltf. Not at all confident that he would U al le to find it. Ogle started out and Mche-in was lelt ilont. Had I e known how long he wis to watch and wait before help could come, his he-irt wculd possibly have filled him tat happily lie didn't, Frr the first hrur or two he I us-le-d himself trying to dress hie wound. 8 me sj linters of lione protruded, and with ids iocke.1 knife he plckdl them out. Then he tlet. Itupas well as he could. It was a bilious wait; he was wet to the "kin. and tin rain, from ihlch he coul I not protect hlmclf, continued tnfall. Tlielogatrcnleilotilyaior-tlal Tlielogatrcnleilotilyaior-tlal shelter from the wet, and none from the wind. He was soon chilled t the marrow. There was no wiy to make a fin. Hours went by and still no relle f came. A chtt.-mtink chtt.-mtink scamrcred along a dead limb nesrhim, Insnriliof food, stped in J longed at him curiously. It disappeared, returned, and teemtd to wonder who he wa, and why he emaim-d there. At lasthe fancied It seemed to pity him. He and it setraed to be tlit'only living cren tures on the earth, and cacliwae powerlevs tohelp or hurt the other. Xi on came and afternoon begiu to wearaway and 'till nohelpcanie. He liegan to wonder If Ogle tiaJ lost hU way Then Te began to Attidv his situation more carefully, and lt thoniughly desperate nature gn.lu.lly unfolded lUelf. Ogle might find the shack. He could not mls It after he struck the river. Rut how was he to find him again. He was a mtrespeck In the vast wllderucs-. There was no river to follow to where be. lay. lie had taken the direction from him to the river, but he had neglected to su,j Eet to him that lie mark the fV" he could follow It lack. In his state of mind he had every reason to beVeve Ogle had net . en-so en-so How wouU he aLd tits faUier and George &. to find the pre-ciso It of wlhler-De wlhler-De on which he lay. which roust be found liefore hecould Iw rescued. His rifle lay near. He might pe.r-haV" pe.r-haV" u It to attract their attention An v way. he would try, and he did; I ut his shots brought no rrstn. Nlghtwmeson a.,J his situation becomes even more niUerable. lie wasso cold thai he cctild hardly use 1,1. nil- ethekntw the search for htawM going on. If Ogle bad not hlreKgot lct, and that help might VBBftaaBiaaxaaxMaai 1 hot pas3 within a few yards of him at any moment and ml shim unless he did spmelhlng to attract It to him. no, thruugh the lung watt lit-. of the night, hs- kej t up hi fu- hde, without with-out result. I Jlatujng came at Ia,t, and he still H'eiJ,His hg now i-blnid blm terribly. If he moved he could feel the fthillervd em' cf the bores grale cgvln'Seach other. His fu t wa SAolieunud wis black fp miheculd. IuspitLof paiuaudauxlttj lie U-(.at. U-(.at. to lie bunr. he bad shot a grome the diy before just lie fore Le was woundrd, but be Had droplil Ii when he fell from tie lug. lt Iiy teind his reach, ile Legan to wonder if he could reach iter if he could ''matiage to mal e a fire ami cook a part of it if he could get it, or if he could e-tt It n.w, If he could lot. Jim eof ilie ta-bes nnnilnl hliu were t v red mlli Isrrrles low iu that sllilUde ts-ilitillig Ti Hike a rhiivrlbd iu, e, I-urtitr cown a feWiiaie luihehai noli tu that the hucklrlieiry Ui-lit- crn Mill IiaiVl with excellent fruit, aud he Is-gsti to w ish he ould reach some-of some-of those als-ut Ifini, but he coulc ni L riie ehiimui k came i,raln and. he faucleel. Itied him In lib-almost lib-almost hope less m Jeri . At 9 o'clock he had lain there heipha-s for twenty four hi ur. IIV loi k hbi gun and I'rvtl es-c-nslun-ul idiot, but his ammunition Isgau to run low, and he was rtuiiudeu that the time Wf near whci. he ccuM do nothing to attract lu-btothcr, lu-btothcr, whom he knew must now te ailxiuu-Jj scire lung for him. If evera m in'.i situ tiluti u as thon uglily ugli-ly deej crate lit- was. It wis then, hesas. Ihat he remenilered tbil Ile had been inarrieelju.t two jeaT and six months to a 1.33, aid he resolved to live to see his wife aud tkiby once more if such a thing was losMble. A the day ad vaticed he got a little warmer, lut hbt situation wsscheerltf s. It still niued. He w is wet as when he fell. Not a sound broke the eternal stillntssi I the fcri-st save the (otter of the rain ou the sodden ground The chhvnunk was lU only com panlou. Finally, after all these seemingly unendurable hours of waltiiiL, night hec.au to close In again, ai d (til the itherlng gloom lib s Irils began tot II him. He. was starving, chijletl, and djing byluche. Only a few, 1 verj few, cartridges remained re-mained to cill help wi'U or de'end him against a n-ll !r attack of wild animals. When they were gone what then? 0"nl3 one grim resource rem lined. He placed tw cartridges in the lireat of bis "hlrt tn be u-srd Lit. hen the-e were reached one of them would nut an end to nln, to ho e. an I to despair The second diy of his m'se ry had gone by nnd the second night had well started. Cartridges were running run-ning low, nnd ct they mut lie iiKd. Al)0Ut9-aj o'clock he tlreil one of the few rem lining, and It brought an aiisweringslioL "clxlj who lias not been to the very lutlom of the depths of tleitilr will ever know the muticof that answering -hot ts Charles JUKean's ear. He fireil agiln, aud again the tnswer came, ind iu 1 few minute, his Irotlier stooel before him in time, yi t none too soon b save the little life that remained. Tlie.nni-ting of the brcthersuiider -mil clrnim-tances was doubtless 11 lulling enough, but no time was wastsl In congratulations A lire whs made and k leg of the gmu-e was roasted, the fir-t food Charles had Li-ted since he had left tuc rabin at daj light the day Ufore. The rest of the oird was set to cook for fie-orges suiter, but he never got It. The w elceme fire soon grew loo welcome for (. hirbV chilleii iml uns thonuglih num'-etl linilx His 'othes took fi e, and Jn tbe tlutryof saving him Iro'n btiru'iig, afir nwu'ng him fnmi i-ri-hitii. with cold thesupju-r was left 1 1 burn to cinders. Wanned and fed, Chaibs Mc-K Mc-K in and his I rutin r liegan t reil ize that a great iri.ll-m still ivu-rontesl ivu-rontesl Hum. The uuiindul leg now sw lien to Immcu-esize im! I tenst Ij lalnful, more linn ever prevented Cliar!.1' from doing the ia-t thing to help him-elf. It was evenly miles to Tacorm, w hither, ne mti-t be carrieil in some way to a surgeon through a forest, such as isf iuuI only In western Washington. Washing-ton. It would require several men to carry him, auu for a I nig wiy a trail must le cut to l-ermlt the litter tn pass. The men to carry jt must bo hunted uii, and all tlil would take time, as tbe set-lb set-lb re in this region were few nudjjianl to find. Nevertheless, ol I man Oclt and his son were hurried hur-ried cfl to find them, while Gciirze 'gan the work of making a tiller. IllankeU I ad lieen brought and a temiorary shelter nrrangetl, so lint the wounded man was now comfortable. comfort-able. In a few hours enough help was secured to cut k trail leit k to the hack and I far the rude litter thither. The patient Iwre the trip heroically. It was a rough one for n man in his redicituent. Kkerj time one of the carriers stumbled or trljredover a tough vine or fallen limb he felt the broken bones of his w ound grateagiiust each it her, giving giv-ing him intense pain, tat he was lielter oil than w hen alone and desperate des-perate in the woods. Hewasrnhls way lack to life and to his wife and Mhy, ind he was even happy in his pain. At the sltack the Irty re-ted over night, anil hid supis r and a breik-fast breik-fast 011 baked tatoes. They hid now len too busy for neirly three elajs to think cf looking forgroue, an I tatoeswereall they had. They abo nude some splints by Chirle's direction, and by dint of much whltlllng and adjusting rnanageel to tie up the broken number so It would ls less affected by the vlcl--sittiilesof tnve Inacourtry where there were no roads nnd si-ircely a trail that would allow the litter and Its beirersto s. A rubber blinket was also securetkand with It fc cover was made for the Utter to protect it from the rain, which at times continued. con-tinued. Ily this time, also, more help hnd arrived. The settlers for miles down the river, as soon as they heard what had hapi-ened, hurried up to lend assistance. At tlniu'ilurlrg the march there were as many as twenty-five either helping help-ing to cirry the litter, cut-tfrg cut-tfrg I rush out of the trail, or building little bridges where nee virj over the roughi r places attd nirrowTunfordalle streams. Soraocf them came for more than forty mlhs to assl-t in this charitable charit-able work, th is showing the devotion devo-tion of the settlers to a fellow mortal iu distress. Generally elfht of tit m bt re the litter on their shoulder, while the others workesl ahead ire-pnring ire-pnring the way fur them. Hy the 2-ItIi they reached the -ettlemcnts nearTacoma. and 1 rogrcss was easier. easi-er. On the 25th they struck one of the suburban motor lints to the south of the city and that day, u-t a week from the day he was hurt, he r-achei! the linsi it.il, a surgeon, a nurse and a bed. His leg was set at once, and he Is now dong nicely. Dr. Hicks, the house surgeon, says the breik w a lad one, I ut will heal all right, and somedav lie is good as new . Charles rcKeaitlsas grateful forhlsdeliv eryasanyman could lie. He tell-uli tell-uli storysjmj lit "I wv just 1, ,-rwk In the -great woodr." I e says "anJ Hrsa wonder, when y u tl Ink of It that I was found at all." A I 5ttn |
