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Show I " The Making of a Man. , 1 " I BBj ' A fnw aftornoons ago n (nil, sinewy, BBj f fine looking man of 35 or bo steppod BBj with his wife, a singularly handsome BBj J I woman, Into a bluo and rod automo- BBj j lillc In front of a great city hotel. Tho BBj ' man had an air of distinction. A BBJ , wealthy Mlchlgnn liimhurraun, hurled BBj I, deep In a leather chair at one of tho BBj ' hotel windows, nodded smilingly ln tho BBj direction of tho lino looking man, who BBJ ' had Just stopped Into tho auto along- BBj I nldo his lovely wife. BBJ j "Nifty looking hoy to'vo hrcn n cook 1 in a lumber camp, eh?" said tho lum- B hcrmnn. B "Which, of course, ho never was," m , enld tho Mlchlgnmler's companion. H "Don't you hcllovo that ho wasn't," m eald the lumberman. "I rumo pretty B ! near knowing, for 1 vrns tho furoman B of his outfit, and we lind u great talk B ', nnd laugh over tho whole business at H dinner In this hotel yesterday. I'm B rather proud of the boy, nnd I feel B i 1 Rort of Prupflotnry interest In him H i B "Hut I didn't Know nnytlilng about B lilm, much loss who ho was, when ho H 5 braced mo for a cooli's Job In Alpona, M ' Mich., twelvo enrs uro last fall. I H ' iWaR a foreman then, nnd engaged In B luring n gang to take Into tho Mlchl- B ') 4 Kan woods for tho winter's work. I'd B ,u u pretty well (Hied the crew up, but was B I Rtlll shy a cook 'ir tho outfit lumber H it ctmp cooks nre hurd to get. It wns BBBt ' pretty near time to tnl;e the gang H i Into thc ramp, and 1 was becoming H worried about my inability to snng a H rouk, when one day a young fellow m ' ! with a dissipated look about him H I jl steered In my direction anil tnckled H i , j mo for tho cook's billet. Ho was B 1 romowhat roughly dressed, but for all H j t thnt he didn't strllto mo as being nny- B thing like a lumber camp cook. lie H I ' liad a pretty good edgo on when ho B S applied for the Job, but thnt didn't BBH w toother mo any liiinbermen generally j keep their Jags ngolng pretty comfort- BBH i' ably until they make camp 'cr tho sea- BBB ' pion's work, and once In camp there Is, BflB I of course, no liquor lor any or them. BBB (', asked this ouug tellow If ho had BBB v ;! fvor cooked In a lumber camp beforo, BBB ' ' nnd ho enld no. Then I hundred what BBB 'j jinado him think he could dish up thc BBB 1 pub for a wood gathering outfit, and BBB ' io told me thnt he bad picked up tho BBB " knack of cooking In the course of n BBB number of big gauio hunting trips In BBB tho Knr West. I wasn't, however, tnk- BBB Ing his plain word for It thnt ho'd suit BBB I b a cook, and fo I led him to the BBB boarding bouse where I bad my gang BBB . phellcred nnd put him In tho l.ltchon BBB ; i J tr' him out. Despite the palpable !"" ' i uun that ho had on-whiih ho kept t , rollshed up by means of rrequent ' ; draughts from n big flask that he had f ' along with him be raada good. I smm 'ould eo at once from tho vmy he BBHJ' A young fellow with a dissipated look BBVB J tackled me for a cook's billet. BBVB.I riLssleil tho pots nnd skillets and BBBB; tackled tho Job of getting that board- BBBB ng houso dinner that lift was onto tho BBHH curves of the cook's billet, so I took BBBBJ Dim on at tUh a BBBHj "Two days later wu Htruck for tho BBBBJi tamp, uwny up near l.aU Superior. It HH'v-"' BBBBBi apBBBBbv BBHjBJ iBBMBMB BjBjBjBjBjBjBjBjBjBBj",.t ""- y- '-i&tMm, ' v inn yn-mM took us four days to mnko tho big bunk houo headquarters, and during that tlmo my cook had n pretty tough fight with tho kat.cnjnmmor. Ho looked ns If ho had been on a long spree, and ns nil boozo was forbidden from tho beginning of tho run to enmp, nnd his supply had run out, with no wa.v of replenishing It, there was no 4 ;3P Jmjfc He looked like the real merchandise, other plnu for him but to sober tip. It was plnln that tho Job wnsn't any ensy one for him, elthor. hut ho was game, not putting up any groan or grumble, but Just taking his mcdlelno like n man. I never Bnw a man pick up so fast ns that young fellow did during tho first month of his employment employ-ment ns n lumber camp cook. Ills skin cleared up, his eye brightened, and he took on flesh. "Ho turned out to ta tho best nil-around nil-around cook thnt I ever saw In n lumber lum-ber camp, and I had been going Into tho woods then for u dozen years. After about a month or so ho began to mliiRlo up with, the Indoor sports of tho men after supper, and ho won tho bunch completely by the flno nbll. ity ho displayed ns n boxor nnd wiestlor and when I got him he look-cd look-cd so run down that I doubted If ho could stand tho gan. There was n flddlo ln tho camp I hat had been left there from the previous winter, nnd tho things thnt cook could do to tho liiBtrumont were sure n henp. Tho cook nursed tho victims of the inovl-tablo inovl-tablo accidents of lumber enmps, and ho showed a surprising nmount of surgical sur-gical nnd medical skill. I lind my eyo on that young fellow, nnd I didn't want him to get awny from me. So, when April came nround nnd tho drive was ovor. and we broke camp, I horded hord-ed him up In a coiner all by hlmtalf nnd says I to him: " 'Jack, you're In too fine trim right now. after the lora let-up from tho red eyo, to tal.o and stuff your hide with It again, now that you're loose. .All of tho boys'll get b'lUug, of coutfc, aa toon as we hit the first rum shack, and I may go up against a few balls tnyolf, but we're all tough birds, nnd wo know how to handle It and get nwny with It. You'd bettor pass It up yourself ur It'll land you. Tako your dough nnd go on home to your peoplo and hnvo a decent, civilized visit with 'em. And I want ou to turn up ln Alpena again next fall nnd I'll tako you Into camp at $70 a month. How about It?' "Tho cook smiled and snld ho'd sco about it. As tho trip to tho bont that was to carry us down to Dotrolt progressed I was glad to seo that my words of ndvloo lind aparently stuck with tho cook. Ho didn't tako a drink, although all tho rest of tho boys woro, of course, spllllcatcd and rioting during dur-ing tho wholo trip. "I was puzzled, as tho vessel drew nigh to Detroit, to soo tho captain of tho boat hand my cook a flne-looklng and bulgy grip. Ilut I was not asking any questions. Half an hour after getting get-ting tho grip tho cook emerged from tho captain's loom wearing about fc svrarger nn outfit of tcBS 83 cv jT you'll see i IT of a fashion pinto. Ho looked like tho real morchnndlse, bin thc thing was still a-plenty mysterious to me. "Thc boat tied up nt her pier In Detroit, De-troit, and then my employer, one of tho richest lumbermen In Michigan, rushed up tho gangway, and tho first thing I know he had my cook In his nniis nnd was patting him on his shoulders for all ho was worth. " 'By tho Lord, son, now you look like tho man you ought to he!' tho old man was saying to my cook, nnd then tho cat was out of tho bag. My cook was my employer's scapegraco son, of whom I had often heard. The hoy had been In hot water, owing to his addiction to the old stuff, ovor slneo his early youth. Ho had been banished from Heidelberg, whore he was getting his education, for alcoholic alco-holic pranks, and upon his return to Michigan ho had embarked on a series of colossal toots that had almost driven his fnmlly to distraction. Ho had been offered tho alternative of going go-ing Into thc woods for a winter of sobering so-bering up nnd hard work or of being cast off altogether by his dad, and ho hojl tho good nonso of taking tho sobering so-bering up end of It. Tho ecamp was Just tho thing ho needed to thoroughly work the liquor out of his system and build him up, nnd ho has never taken a drink from the tlmo I saw him go through his fight with that 'after feeling' feel-ing' on our way to tho camp. His dad was so grateful for what ho foolishly Imagined I had dono for tho boy that ho mado mo general superintendent of all his lumber Interests. Tho young man you saw onterlng tho automobllo a fow moments ngo with as pretty a wlfo as Michigan has produced took charge of tho great business when his father died a fow years ago, All of which Is why I am of tho opinion thnt six months In n northern lumber camp Is better for Inebriates than nil of tho 'Jag cures' that woro over Invented." Washington Star. |