what he started after; and not only does pass there is used a “submarine” | press a man till he lies down flat and FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN FARM : he take the message to Garcia, but he | cable. The cable. leaks—and what a | gets under. them ® AC wan sins tnd | — | Xorss Hurtiel Sack os BICthes the Hing 2.3 | paradtx it is a “sibwarine cable, thir- Sparks play all over the mane of a sweaty | DAILY THOUGHT. | —“Feet and legs first; feet ~~ habit with him. Like most bred ' teen thousand feet above the top of the | horse, enough static electricity is | — | lore ye me Soa drat} no J ao == SE ———— trouble-hunters, Bill is a great walker. | sea! gathered on a telephone wire to light | Never let us thinkevi of men who do not see as right on the subject "Don't oy red Bellefonte, Pa., January 10, 1913, On the lastof a three-day trip he once | Another district which makes peculiar | lamp globes, and sparks will jump to the | we do.—~Drummoned. | away at first sight by a round, sleek well ———— ene | Made through: the mountains to Denver, | difficulties for the trouble-hunter is what | lineman’s spurs as he climbs a pole. — A a mounted on and in an effort to protect his homestead from | is known as the San Juan country in Lighuing is Such a factor that barbed The little glass covered trays which are | ghelby Ey Look at the Post If THE MOO0-COW-MOO. contest, he covered sixty-six miles over | southwestern It is a mining | wire is Strang on the cross arms | so ar just now form attractive gifts, | feet and legs and 3% the ground rn the continental divide in twenty-two | district in the roughest part of the moun- | with mountain lines to el and {aad pias Just now form. at little Ut | the eh Tor iil a are accapiable My pa held 10 the _ hours, and then went to a dance in the | tains, and while eight miles separate | ground the bolts, | by the clever fingered woman. First she Ss | ue IDV thie Te0n evening. He is a little man, but he has | two of the towns, are accessible to| One power company carries one hun- | must look out for picture frames of suit. | —Always be careful of the cut or tear En I fed him dle of oi one of those jaws that is the feature of a | one another only by a climb over the | dred thousand voits on each of the three | able size and shape. These are often to | With a nail about the barn stables. The SAE ute uf times, 01 twa, face. The fact that he would take the mountains of thousands of feet, or a rail- | cables, one hundred and fifty miles over | be found in shops which deal in cheap dread tetanus lurks in every manure pile, "am 3'ra dent stages out the snows after other | road trip of about one hundred miles | the mountains to Denver. During a goods, surrounding some worthless pic- | and on the nails driven in stable boards. But if my papa goes into the house, men had a them was what round. The country is “all on end.” The | storm these cables are livid lines of blue | ture, or there may be some lurking in | Three young men in a neighborhood in En mamma, she goes in, too, brought him to the attention of the tele- | ore from the mines is handled almost en- | light streaki through the darkness. | attic or lumber room in which one’s own | recent years have died of this disease, re- 1 just keep still as a little mouse, phone company. tirely in aerial trams, because roads are one of these wires grounds, it| family have no further interest. | sulting from wounds made about manure Fer the moo-cow-moo might moo. Last winter the Denver wire chief told | impractical. The towns nestle below the | burns the sand to glass where it enters! Remove the pictures from these frames | piles. Have such a wound looked after The . tail like him that two men who had tried to | mountains. The mountains themselves the earth; and they tell of its having fall- | and fit a piece of gay cretonne or en: | immediately, 1 igs GON tes SOR 3 i a rope “shoot” some trouble from the farther | are grim and rusty with iron ore and the | en across an iron bridge near Dillon and | broidery under the glass. Replace the | _¢ is a well known fact that the best Za2 Ws raviied down Where i grown, end of the Steamboat toll line had given | timber hangs on their sides like last | burned it in two. So much leakage is | back and glue a piece of green. felt or | and most profitable. dai 3 3 4 piece of wap it up, and had been found snow-blind and | year’s fur on an old buffalo. there from this current that the trouble- | baize, which will at once make the tray | car ar meat. The NY we A) ot All-over the moo-cow’s nose. snow-bound in a cabin, burning old bed- | Those steep mountain-sides and deep | hunter's telephone line, strung about fif- neat and prevent it from scratching the Sany for milk, and relative SONS 3 En the moo-cow-moo has lots of fun steads to keep warm. canyons are a source of endless wash- ty feet from the cable-towers, induces | surfaces on which it is placed. Little covering for their own r It RE Just swinging his tail about, “I'll get it,” said Bill. . outs, snow-slides, and blockades which | enough voltage to make it dangerous. A | brass handles, which can be bought at a | grands to reason that a dai ey En he opens his mouth and then I run, Getung it meant a _ railroad trip over | isolate the towns for months at a time. | patrolman who had called up his wife on | hardware shop, will make a pretty finish | do her best as an economi Ty Sanno Cause that's where the moo comes out. the divide to the rail-head, then a morn- ! In the summer of 1909 a landslide shut | this wire to let her know was safe, | if the additional expense need not be | unless she has good EO plodnces En the , 3 hishead | IP®'S dickering for a team and sled. No | Silverton off from railroad communica- | had no more than heard her answer than | considered. be anything fancy and expensive, j Rot I on one wanted to make a trip which they | tion for more than a month. Then a| there came to him a piercing scream as| Shabby frames should be stained black | it is ie daney er ar ve, Just = Eo the ut is considered impossible. But Bill hired a | generous and accommodating washout | she was knocked senseless to the floor. or enameled white before the cretonne is | It is poor econom is 1 Pr ary. AT Lal Le THG0 SON spread | mule from one man, a horse from anoth- appeared to clean out the slide and save | In Alaska, the last of our great fron-| putin. A piece of lace mounted over an 2 on om 3 Sompei. a Calty cow er, the sled and harness from a third, and railroad about thirty thousand dol- | tiers, the signal service of the United appropriate color, or a tray in which the | ed cornstalk field ne SHOW Cover. En his feet is nothing but finger-nails persuaded man number four to drive him | lors worth of excavating. States Army maintains a telegraph line | chintz of the bed hangings and curtains | weather y ane ot En his mamma don’t keep em out, through the drifts, a plunging twelve | Telephone lines in this district are! from St. Michaels through the interior, appears, are both dainty and economical : En he gives folks milk in waller-pails miles on his way. With a fifty four pound | trouble-mongers for certain. Of the via Fairbanks to Valdez. It is the pride | to use as brush trays on a dressing table. — Ef he don't keep his handles shut. Soil of wire, So skis a ta and hie forty ess jt one toll fhe only eleven of wy men whe, know of it. The fon — WINTER SPRAYING , mbing-irons on can on A who operate and maintain it are the pic ni : ee of Youces me pulls the hanes, why. ahead on snow-shoes to Whideley’s Peak, | trouble-men are masters at using the fa- | of the army physically, mentally, and as angio Pail oBajl three large potatos ~—Spraying time has come again, and But the hired man he sits down close by where he spent the night, and got agiide mous “sky-hook.” They travel in the ore ' companions. A year’s service here counts | and mash. Add one cupful of milk, one | With it the uncertainty as to what we En squirts en squirts en squirts! and trapper to accompany him. t | buckets on the aerial trams much of the | for two years, and the men’s egponsibil. tablespoonful of butter, one tablespoon. | "USt Spray for, what materials to use and next day’s trip was on_skis -eigh- | time. There are no way stations on | ities are varied enough to make their ful of flour, one saltspoonful of baking how much of them. In spite of the fact teen miles over the Rabbit-Ears Range | these lines, and to drop off the buckets tion much like that of the Northwest | nou der. yolks of two eggs beaten in the | that 50 much has been written every THE TROUBLE-HUNTERS to the trouble—testing back to Denver | onto theice-covered towers, as they often | Mounted Police in Canada. They are potato until light. Add the beaten whites | YA about spraying, the majority of > whenever the line showed above the snow; is a ticklish bit of work. ithe hosts of the country; sometimes | face Put in the oven in a greased dish | [ArMers seem to feel that it is a job for . : ’ and for a half-mile at a time, twenty-one peculiarities of the district have speciul sheriffs for the capture of out: | until browned on top. When eggsare high | the fruit grower alone, and that they do Leaning hard over against the driving | foot poles would be entirely covered. | made an electrical power company very | laws, and, informally, they are doctors | |eave them out and you will aos the puff | 2°t need to join in the fight against the sleet and pushing against the wind as | When he had “gotten it” and found the | successful and useful. By spilling a big | for whites and Indians, and general help. | jg all eaten just the same, but of course | Cer -increasing pests. There are compar- though it were a great load, three men wire clear both ways, Bill and his guide, | head of water over the edge of one of | ers of the scattered population. the eggs add to the dish very much atively a small number of farmers who were beating their way into the teeth of , started back. the canyons and down a thousand feet| The twelve hundred miles of line trav- ahi . do any spraying, whereas every man who a blizzard, on the top of the Rocky| As night came on, the cold increased | onto water-wheels, electricity has been | erse as varied a lot of lonesome wilder- Smart Pagish grows trees, whether it be two or 2,000, Mountains. Icicles hung from their mus- | and their clothing, which had wet | generated that can supply power in the | eess as man can find, along a bleak Arctic ant a Aiionnes are 2 Sanne collar- | ought to own a suitable sprayer, know taches, and in front of their faces they | during the middle of the day, hard | mines perched away up where they are | const where fron posts are bent double | ettes 0 F Coming 3 ace or velvet. | how to use it, and spray several times a carried shovels that they might breathe. | as armor. Eating snow dries and parch- | almost inaccessible to pack-mules. The | with the sleet; th dense forests of Thess are won a. pretty and add | year. Underfoot the snows packed hard as mar- | es the throat, so Bill always carries a |company delivers to the mines power | constantly falling timber, and in parts so | just the correct touch to a gown or coat |” We have seen farmers who have a ble, and at each step the wind threaten- | flask of water on these hikes. That night | which would be the equivalent of a ton wild that moose are constantly breaking or Eitips.of £ I orchard of neglected trees make no effort ed to take their feet from under the men. | it froze solid under his coat. To climb | of coal at fifty cents a ton less than it | the wires! along the banks of the Yukor pont. taips of Jp, Just ong enough to | to control scale or any of the injurious At a distance of twelve feet they were | the icy crust that formed they tied ropes | can be bought for in the cities. It has|and Tanana Rivers and over muskegs | encircle the throat and too small to use | pests which are always multiplying, while invisible to one another, and they kept | around their feet and under the skis to | taken the transmission lines to mines all and swamps of the deadly “nigger-heads.” for aly other purpose, are lined with | across the road there isa hor who their uncertain course by following the | give a purchase, and the drag of the skis | over those mountains—up to an altitude The “nigger-head. is a sort of bunch. IBS Salil le f the is making an earnest effort to keep his tops of telephone which stuck out |drove fierce pains their hips. | of 13,280 feet, probably the highest trans- | grass w builds into humps which es Jil of lace are then stitched | trees clean. Is this fair business? Just two or three feet from the level of the | Misjudging the sl ich all seem | mission line in the world—and the patrol. | make the hardest kind of travel known. |DbY hand on both the top and bottoni. of | because you don't value your own trees, snow. : level in the moonlight. Bill followed his | man is thus led over a hundred fifty | A lineman near Talovana, in working | the fur band. Three hooks and eyes join | why make your neighbors work doubly All day they had been battling with the | partner too close, and there was a disas- | miles of the roughest travel that is ever through one of these swamps, sprained | the collarette at the side and a bow or | hard? The man who owns trees now ts to repair a few little breaks telephone wire and, having done it, t had spent an hour pushing back rosette of lace, with ends eight or ten | should do one of two things: He should inches long, conceals the fastening. either spray, or he should cut his trees i when they ran together at the | attempted in winter. It takes him over khis ankle and was unable to travel. He When they had finished the trip cliffs on his hand line, across icy crawled a mile or more over the uneven | i J back to shelter, Charley's feet were found | canyons by a single wire and a safety | ground, and then gave up and froze to| Stripsof furoneor two inches in width | down and give his neighbors a chance. half-mile against the gale. A mile to be frozen to his socks and overshoes, | belt—the most economical bridge extant. | death. 'The builders oy pretty rough | €an be used effectively to border a cen- | So lets get into that orchard this year they would reach the bunk- in one solid mass of ice. They cut them | In his work it leads him skating through | service, lived in tents through the whole | ter strip of velvet or fur. A lovely com- | and clean the scale up. You wilk find with its red-hot stove and steaming cof- | out and teased them back to life. Char- | the wooden flume to the storage reservoir | winter, and suffered much in learning | ination is ermine and sapphire-blue vel- many men who will say that you can not fee; but chests and muscles ached, and | ley has staid right there ever since—a —through flood waters in the canyon on | the ways of the country. A pair of mit. | Vet. Stitch the narrow strips of white Hd your trees of scale, just as you will the increasing gloom told of coming | pensioner of the company. Proctor is|a stolen hand-car—and skiin tenderly | tens and a sled-trail endingat a hole in | fur to the band of velvet and border it | find pessimists and cranks in every line t. still ‘broadening his experience shooting | over slopes that are dangerously steep. ~ | the shore-ice told the tale of one man’s | With knife-pleated frills of velvet or tulle. | of work. The chances are that you will uddenly one of them polled up close | trouble—and not until two months later | During the summer supplies are cach- | end, and many were the cases of freez- | USe White satin to line the collarette and | not be able to entirely clean the scale out to his companion and yelled into his ear, | did the entire soles of his feet peel off. | ed all over the system and every possible | ing which resulted from carelessness or | finish the closing with a flat bow of vel. the first year, but you can make a strong “Where's Jack?” Jack had been in the | Bill is a recognized authority on “snow- preparation made for the winter. As the neglect. But experience has taught much, | Vet: : beginning, so that next year the worl rear and, as they thought, just behind | snakes, with their pink little eyes,” and | drifts grow deep, emergency poles have | and regulations are minimizing more and |, Perhaps you have a strip of mink three | will be easier, and the followin year you them. They yelled singly and in unison, | to the uninitiated he can unfold wonderful | to be stuffed into the snow and there more the hardships and dangers. inches in width. If so, stitch it to a band will have won the fight. San Jose scale but the wind whipped the calls into miles | tales of their habits. His recipe for chil- | made to serve, for they could never be, Two signal service men and an in. | of Seal-brown satin. Make two pleated | jg a conquered pest and one which can of roaring space and howled in derision. | blains—*“one big onion ground, eight | set in the ground. Up near the tops of | fantry-man are quartered in repair cabins | frills of the satin and stitch them to the easily be controlled. The man who has Once or twice they thought they heard | ounces of arnica, two bits’ worth of sea- | the peaks the men chop footholds in the atintervals of from twenty-five to fifty | {op and bottom of the collar portion. | failed has either sprayed with the wrong an answer, but following it they found | salt, in boiling water, applied to the feet | ice-packs and work a ong them in the miles along the line. In September their | When the hooks and eyes have been at- | materials, at the wrong time, or of the nothing. Back and forth along the line | four nights running"—would cure any- | wind, tied together like Alpine guides. isolation begins, and they takein supplies | tached to the ends, finish the closing with wrong strength. Therefore the first they hunted—venturing away from the | thing. He is never at a loss for ways | Here, as always in a dangerous country, | for ten months and cache them on plat. | 2 Pleated bow of sata caught through | thing to do is to know how to do it. es into the stabbing fury of that driv- | and means. He has cashed a worthless | trouble-men never go alone, but always forme away from the reach of squirrels. | the center with a buckle of pearl, cut| For San Jose Scale, Scurfy Scale and ng white—living through ages of sus- | check for money to catch an outbound | in pairs, so as to be able to get helpwhen Besides a general equipment each sta- | Steel or jet. Oyster Shell Bark Louse the trees must Jonse when the course of the poles was | train, and then had his wire chief make | accidentsoccur. That the travel is diffi. | tion has a team of five dogs, and along | Many women possess a worn setof furs be sprayed when they are dormant; any t or they separated from one another | jt When he got to the trouble he | cult may be judged from the fact the rivers boats and canoes. Midway | Which can be cut into strips and utilized | time from now until the buds swell in in trying to pick out the pole next ahead. | did not have enough wire, so he beat his | that a repair party once spent eleven between the stations are small relief | in this manner. Small hats with puffed | the spring. The above-mentioned pests In an hour the search was abandoned | way on the trains to where he could get | days covering thirty miles of the line. cabins for emergencies, and many a time | TOWns of velvet had narrow brims of | are sucking insects, i. e, obtain their and the fight for the bunk-house resum- | it, His ignorance of obstacles is appall- | They spent nights under bridges or in has an exhausted “musher” been taken | fur are lovely when fashioned to match nourishment by sucking the sap and ed. : ing. abandoned tunnels, and lived dependent in by the service men and nursed along | the collarettes. juices of the tree. Hence poison is of no Next morning they found a wild-eyed These are fragments of one man’s | on their own cooking as they went. Snow- his way again. ee avail, since none of the po can be so wreck of a man lying, mute but conscious, | experiences—and I've detailed a few of | blindness is a constant menace, and be-| While the severity of winter makes the | The novelty of the moment in Paris is | Placed that it will reach the stomachs of under a railroad bridge. He had walked | them to try to show something of the na- | sides blackening their faces, wearing work dangerous, it is during the summer | detected in the various kinds of sleeves | the insects. Therefore the only materials all night to keep from freezing to death, | ture of a trouble-man’s work. There are | glasses and masks, the men here use that the men’s work is the hardest. Then and was wholly exhausted. Before he | hundreds of other good men whose exper- | black veils. These serve also as protec: | the gnats and mosquitoes are rife. They could be gotten to the hospital his frozen | jences and abilities are as varied, and an- | tion to the faces, for they can be terribly | drive pack-animals crazy, and mat into a face was swollen hans and he was | ecdotes are endless. Butan insight into | burnt by the glare of the sun on the man’s boots and gauntlets in thousands. And yet in| some of the conditions Mich preval snow. i : i efficient in controlling such insects are Soplenng out ae kur ped known as contact sprays, the most com- likely to spread, to make the sleeves in| mon of which are lime and sulphur, mis- a material and color different from the | cSable oils, kerosene emulsion and whale One would be inclined to believe | %il soap. Of these, ime and sulphur is by that this interesting innovation is far the best from many standpoints. It due to the gradual shortening of the ki- B and cheaply made, can be kept is : describing, and which I admire not a | the rule not the The - | stinging devils. Summer, too, means | mono sleeve. , under proper conditions, and of fight as ever li 8 s ones, like the “Sunn soaking treks the bogs of the| Some of the most clever effects are in- efficient. Oils have the ad- is a sample bit—and not an ex-| At Corona on the “Moffat line” in Col- | are well and everyone gives them | muskeg, and long of from twenty | spired from the Middle Ages van of being more t to work the life of the mountain | orado a telegraph line crosses the conti- | a wide of room. But the most of | to forty miles on the beaches of the A few of these specimens re- | With, but this is offset the fact that trouble-hunter. From the nature of his | nental divide, and is maintained during | them come all directions and follow | Yukon or Tanana. Here the river steam- cently on the stage. The alone | they are more or less injurious to any ession—and the fact that the t | the winter under conditions are as- | no rules or routes of any sort. Forty- | ers start forest fires that take out miles give the cachet to a simple dress of white | tree. storms bring down the wires and call him | tounding. Sleet-storms cover the wires | five of them have been counted in four | of line and and the trouble-man is | crepe de chine. They are fi Make your own lime and sulphur. It out in the open—the life of any trouble- | with ice to a thickness of nine inches | miles. at work while the moss is still burning. Srepe Se Sune, THEY are tigi is very easily made, and the resuit is sure, man is a hard one. But when this fellow | and the weight of ice, about twenty | In March of one year twenty-eight men | Frosts coming out of the ground bring flowers in crochet wool of polychrome | Whereas any purchased preparation is of is and trustee of wires that wan- | pounds to the foot, stretches the wires! in all loat their lives in the slides. Miners pales with thew, amd wiles of oles have Eestern design. Anotherold world touch | unknown density, and hence is apt to do der about irresponsibly through the snow- | until they sag to the ground and run were swept out of bed at the shaft-houses | to be set Bunking with the Indians | lies in the band of dark fur encircling the gone injury unless very carefully tested filled guiches of the has | from pole to pole at the base, then up | and down the mountain, over and overin | and : down the | neck and crossing to the waist at the It is made in the foliowing work cut out for him that calls for buck | the pole to the cross-arm. The the snow with flour, ginger-snaps, and | rivers with ice pulling back | side. way: Put one part of stone lime, at least man themselves stick out like huge mine machinery. Some finished on top against the current of a moonlight night SR 98 per cent pure (this is very important) The economic development which has | and to climb them the lineman clears a unhurt, but others were dug out late in | —the work of these men forces upon It is not fair to a small child for the | iPtO 2 boiler, under which there has been pushed the telephone out to the farther- Space at the bottom, raps the pole with | the next summer. It's a time for blooded | them the isolated, self-dependent life of a or nurse to be careless about the a fire started. Add enough water to start most edges of the frontier—hung it m pick-handle, and hundreds of pounds | things to hibernate—the miners cluster | wilderness man. Pte things the Saas thoughtfulness, Ygoromsiaking, Then add two parts of he Indian wigwan, the trading post, dnd of ice come crashing down. found a phonograph and forget the world An instance of the work they do is | seif.reliance and self-control in a child. (either flour or flowers,) enough isolated ranch-house —is one of the most The snow, at fifteen feet deep on the | for mon t it’s the trouble hunter's | shown in the four-days trip made in Feb- Self-control is a characteristic absolutely more water to make a thin and startling of the marvellous devel- | average, drifts into huge piles that the busy time. 1908, by Cox, in saving essential to manhood or womanhood, and stir vigorously. Itis essen that the opment of our great West. This develop- | heat of a long summer cannot melt. On| The thaws are tearing loose tons of AT tive, “Old " whose feet it is not learned in a day. It is the re. | Mixture be stirred thoroughly from start ment has taken the transmission lines | one occasion a cattle-car, which had stall- | snow at the top of a great toboggan. | where badly frozen and were mortifying sult of patient teaching and to finish. When the lime and sulphur over miles of storm-blighted wilderness, | ed near the divide, filled'so rapidly with | Away up at the top where the snow-cones | while he lay in is lone cabin thirty riley all the long. yeas Of babahunk | have mixed thoroughly, add enough which man had heretofore avoided, and it | snow that the steers, in tramping it | form, one over, and a few snow- | away. Cox started in the morning with | rc (Hi dno: water so that the amount will equal has again brought to the men who main- down, were crowded against the top of | balls start down the slope; then a | his dog team and basket th the | "a tractive personal a sense of re. | the amount of lime. In other words, if tain lines the old battle with the [the car and in danger of suffocating. cake drags loose and the slide is off. | thermometer below zero the trail | oooncibility, the care of toys, clothes | 20 8allons of the solution are wanted, the “everlasting way” of nature and the wil- | When liberated they stampeded over a ahd siealthily }f starts, gathering blown in with loose snow. By night the and so forth, should be inculcated in ear. | 2M0unts of materials will be: 50 pounds hardiel most pcturcequc. and posoaere | ocean fe ® | of the snow Changes to a maied vat | as spent Horas Hhcate ag 43 | lite. To do this time shoud he given a ons ur at 3 , snow a was on con- out-of.door types that we have to-day—a The thermometer drops away down, A er Dingte to 3 ified suit the f morning started alone | SYEFY day to teach the child to help im tially added to take the place of that type that is full of the fibre which made | the springs build huge ize-warts on the the sarface and ground) underneath; the | with the man in the sleigh for a which 8 away. frontier history. The stamping-ground | landscape, and the humming wires bor- | snow billows up in mushrooms as it is | Fairbanks. That day he the forty- Boiling continue for an hour. of the old trapper—which, by way, | der deep and treacherous chasms. But | pushed from behind, and ahead of the | seven miles to Ester Creek, uphill and | With the return of the natural waist | It is very important that the mixture be he usually vacated in winter to dropdown | in fierce determination to break men’s | avalanche rifts of snow shoot out at light down, over the divide, Shrough soit sow line, or one very little above the natural, neither under nor over boiled, or an infer- into the settlements and hibernate—is | hearts none of the elements compares | ning speed. The speed and power of it —a trip that is still talked among | detachable belts have, of course, come | jor product will result. When completed now the haunt of the line patrolman. | with the wind. For a hundred miles are titanic, but the terror of that rumble | men are accustomed to the feats of | back to us in many dainty forms. Black |it is of a rich, dark mahogany color, and When the picturesque ' cow punch,” who | “Middle Park” it gathers toward oy and noise cannot compare with the awful | strong men on the trail. velvet is the most popular material for | when poured, it runs smooth and free has into lately, is steaming | dle of the range where the wire crosses. that huge, uncanny tangle of snow | At seven next morning they woke him | these, which are in almost every case of | from yellow fumps. If any of these yel- his boots by the fire or feeding his Here it howls along, smothering the se- | and trees slugs its way to the bottom and | up to Beh he job—eight miles into | 2 style the sash. That is, | low lumps are present the boiling must from hay-ricks, the trouble-hunter is hik- yetity of the landscape in. 3 smooth, hard spreads out in a remorseless over an easy trail. They saved | although they fit around the waist, | continue for a while longer. ing off for a few days’ fight with the | blanket of white. Nothing lives its | So far the linemen here have had mar- | most of Monte’s two feet, and Cox un- Shey abe aqornel with one of two ends, | The resulting mixture is known as a storm. fury. The little dwarf cedars that grow | velously few deaths from the slides. Be- | doubtedly saved his life. or concentrated solution, and must be dilut- Occasionally there creeps into the !about timber-line are all bent over with sides crediting much to their proverbial! Cox was soon back at his station work- 3 sare Godel of tyio-inch black velvet ed before it can be used. Here is where a story of a lineman being the agony of it, and their limbs grow on- | luck, it implies a cool judgment and cau- | ing at the telegraph key. He had tele. | has a flat bow at the back, as narrow as a great many failures occur. Farmers brought in with frozen feet, or of his hav- | ly from the leeward side of the trunks. | tion in the men. They are usually pick- graphed to headquarters for permission | the belt itself, with two ends of unequal often guess at the strength, and hence ng been burnt by the current, but very | There is a government observation sta- ed men. and young, who have borne a to leave his post, and only in this way Jeagith, atid also hanging fiat, edged with either dilute it too much or not encugh. little is generally known of the hardy, | tion at the pass, and for one month, it re- | reputation for and capability | was the feat t to the attention of of black silk crochet work. Anoth- | There is only one to determine heroic work these men do in the line of corded an average wind velocity of thirty | in the country. They are all sworn as | men. of the sort are done er, of wide black watered silk, folded to | strength and that the use of a duty—of men who wander snow-blind ilesan hour, and a maximum of eighty. special deputies, go armed, and carry the | larly in the line of duty, and no ® a the convenient width, has a more fluffy, | hydrometer. These may be bought from over the mountains, are snowed up in old | four miles. Such a wind, with sleet, authority and confidence of the commu- | of is ever made—above all, these | Upright bow, with one loop UP | any firm making a of spraying abandoned cabins with the mountain rats | sandpaper paint off buildings. It will A men are modest. Ji Was with a. delight. and one lying down, over’ 2 end | materials, and cost about Ask for for bedfellows—of men who can spend a pack the snow hard enough to support an thing that should be mentioned is | ful of modesty and pride with silk Ages. » a lime and sulphur hydrometer. week of the worst winter travelling deep | ore and flatten the | the constant proximity of these men to | Cox me his certificate of meri- | The stole idea is prevalent in most of | ~ When the is to be made, snow, dependent on themselves alone. | against the windward side of a pole, or | instant death while they are working on | torious service, signed by President Roose- | them, as in a black velvet belt with two | 611 a barrel three-quarters full of The best of these men don't get snow [tear him vindictively away the | wires that carry such a current as seven. | velt. elaborately fringed and tasselled ends | water, drop in the hydrometer and then blind nor freeze their feet nor lose them- | other. Such a wind would drive a polar | teen thousand volts. It is not necessary | Of such stuff are the trouble : Ranging inimediately Oves tach other at | add the concentrate mixture until the selves—from hard experience they have | bear to cover. to come into contact with to | clear-eyed, solid-bodied men who have | the left side of the Colored elastic, | hydrometer floats at the red mark, which learned to avoid these things. Their re-| Yet here the trouble-hunters fight Old get into the field will kill a man if he is | chosen hard work in the open air; cheer. | Or petersham, belts are also very smart | indicates a density of approximately sourcefulness is unlimited. By starting | Winter to a stand-still, and when goes | grounded. When a wire goes the | fully adaptable to any circumstance, | for wear with tweeds. are fasten- | 0035, it in a hat with a match, a candle, and a | into his worst tantrums they hit a com- Srudbls can often be located uy tic troublesome or pleasant; and full of in-|d with plain silver or buckles, | There is nothing complicated about the few shavings, they can build a fire in Jromise by laying the wirss on the snow | of the arc which is thrown. It will jump and self-reliance. or with enamel done on silver and re- | procedure; anyone can do it, and when spite of any wind that blows. They can | and trusting to do the insulat- | the thirty feet from the pole to the | It is not that winter in the mountains | Peating the color of the belt exactly. these directions are Oe on rasu.class snow-shoe from | ing. Three or four men cover this line, 2 an are like that will Night up is a new phetioménion of that the pesils —-— and the trees thoroughly sprayed, the can ride skis double, or can bur- | and their chief has a pride in mountain canyons for miles of a have not been met by| Fricassee of Veal.—Wipe two ounces | scale will soon be conquered. row in the snow and keep warm where a | the with | reports come | In summer, when thunder-storms are | men before—but the spread of the iron | sliced veal, cut from loin, and cover with he spray should be put un ules bith coyote would not. There are “snow-men” | over line. Seldom does the record | rife, the lightning adds its terror to the and copper wires has taken men con- | boiling water; add one small onion, two pressure; 90 pounds at the least, and the same as there are river-men, moun- "Wires down, no report.” lines. The lightning arrestors at the sub- into the worst of these and | stalks celery and six slices of carrot. | is better. Every square inch of the tree tain-men, or sea-men,~—each at home in To several other pines tetaphone lines | anon rat ag os, mrestors at the sub. for the same gq in the | Now cook ly until meat is tender. | must be covered. If the wind is such his element, and if any man knows the cross the continental divide and test the | and now and cross-arms are burn- | trouble-hunting man that make the tales | Remove meat, sprinkle with salt and pep- | that only one side can be conveniently snow and its ways it is the trouble hunt- Jusy of the winter wind, When the poles ol of or the Migulators shattered. | of Norsemen, explorers, and pioneers so gen Wits fous and wuts in Dork ait watil the wind changes, and er. were set on Pass, the wind peaks among the clouds electric. liquor (there should cover the other side. “Bill” Proctor, the emergency man of | took out a mile of the Jelowing al storms are always Setsifving The hunters they arein every sense Supfuls), melt {our tablespoonfuls of but. 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