THE SCRANTON TBDJtji-S-ATirRbAT MOEIirnSG . JANTTABY - 25, .1890.
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-.-Twenty-third Letter 'of Northwestern Trave!.
. Puget Sound and Its Adjacent Timbef Land.
By (or the most Interesting feature of
the Pacific coast to me Is 'the match
less inland sea, Puget Souud, and the
Stupendous forest which surrounds Its
shores. This archipelago extends from
Olympla in the south to British Colum
bia in the north, one immense harbor
--.running; into the very heart of the
state, the basin covering an area of 100
by 150 miles In extent, with innumer
able bays, inlets and canals, their com
bined areas having a shore line with-
- .'. in the state of about 1,600 miles and a
surface of about 2,000 square miles,
washed by the ebb and flow of the tides,
which rise 'and fall here twice a day
"J. from twelve to twenty feet. Puget
, . Bound includes the straight of Juan
de Fuca, the gateway to the Paclflc
ocean, which Is ninety-five miles long
and about eleven miles wide, and In
many places of almost unfathomable
depth. The shores are usually so bold
that a Bhlp's bow can strike shore be
fore' the keel touches the bottom.
, Nature has indeed been lavish to this
favored region. Here are nearly 6.000.-
000 acres of the finest fir, cedar, spruce,
hemlock and. other varieties of timber
growing "upon boIIs of the greatest
depth and richness in the known world.
1 repeat, there Is nothing on this earth
like Puget Sound. On either side of
this beautiful -sheet of water are per
ennial snow-capped mountains the
serrated ridge of the unexplored Olym
pic range on the peninsula to the west
ward, on the opposite Bide, eastward,
'"' the Cascades, stretching north and
. south like two great guardians of the
Sound basin, its waters ebbing and
flowing between them, each lifting their
snow-capped peaks to the clouds and
presenting views ever changing, ever
.leasing, . sublime and unexcelled.
.. Its Wonderful Rssonrsss. i
y Just thlnkof these Islands, bays and
Inlets being lined with the native giants
of these evergreen forests, whose tim
bered ' spires are lost In the snow
crowned peaks above and surrounding
them. The average traveler has but a
'"faint idea of the wonderful resources
or this great Inland sea. As a harbor,
when compared with San Francisco,
New Tork or any found on the Atlan
tic coast, it is far more commodious.
.'. In mid-channel it has an average
depth of 100 fathom. . This extraordin
ary depth of water Is maintained in all
the channels and branches, enabling
,the largest vessels of any nation to ride
safely and anchor most anywhere along
Its shores. The combined fleets of all
the nations of the world, I might say,
-xan cast anchor here, and not one of
them be In sight of the other. The
. . depth of water over Sandy Hook en
trance Into New York harbor at low
water Is only twenty-one feet in the
South channel and twenty-two feet In
the Qedney channel. Unlike thut of
. .New- York, or the Columbia river, the
entrance to Puget Sound Is without a
bar, the strait la a magnificent gate
way from the Pacific ocean to the
Sound, 100 fathoms deep, . where no
pilot Is required and no danger to ship
ping Is found. Admiral Wllkeson says:
''On the Atlantic slope, where It was
4 Jny jnisfqrtuna. to ba born, and ftvhere
' , for fifty-seven years! have been cheat
ed by circumstances out of a sight of
the real America, there are no woods.
East of the Rocky mountains trees are
brush. They may do for brooms; pieces
for, ships .are got out of them and
' splinters for bouses, but the Atlantic
slope, soil and climate eould
not In .ages' produce a continu
ous . plank .which would reach
from stem to stern of a thousand ton
clipper ship. ' Puget Sound, -anywhere
. . and everywhere, will give you for the
cutting (If you are equal to such a
crime with an axe) trees that will He
straight on the ground and cover 230
feet of length, and measure 25 feet
around above two men's height from
; the ground, (they are cut from stag-
." ings) and that will yield ISO lineal feet
of clear solid wood below the branches.
They are monarchs, to whom all wor
shipful men Inevitably lift their hats."
' It la easy to share the enthusiasm of
,f the writer, who says: "Puget Sound
- scenery is the grandest scenery on
earth. One has here in combination
the sublimity, of Switzerland, the pic
turesqueness of the Rhine, the rugged
beauty of Norway, .the breezy variety
of the Thousand Islands of the St -Law-
; rence, or the Hebrides of the North
Ben, the' soft rich-toned skies of Italy,
" the pastoral landscape of England
with velvet meadows and magnificent
groves, massed with floral bloom and
, the blending tints and bold cojor of the
New England Indian summer.' Fea
tures with which nothing within the
Vision of another city can be placed in
comparison are the Olympic range of
mountains in frorit of Seattle, and the
v sublime snow peaks of. the Rainier,
Baker, Adams and St. Helen's, : with
7'., their glaciers, and robes of eternal
ir-.,'. white.? ' , ,
. American MedtWrsasso.
" ' Paget' Sound is called the "American
,j Mediterranean." A ride over Its placid
Vr . waters In and out, around rocky .head
lands, among woody mountains, along
Its beauUlful beaches and velyety mea-
- dows, atl beneath the shadows of tower
. t. . ' ing snow-clad peaks Is a delight worth
f days of travel and much expense to ex
perlence. It Is no exaggeration to say
rthat justice can never be done In de
j, ' scribing Its scenic glories particularly
! '- the "Great White Throne," that Chris
tians have dubbed Mount Rainier, but
more melodious is its Indian name,
vVTfMwm.a,'; to. me. . So much has al
,' J81 been said lit this and former let
;..' tot this ."King of Peaks" that it
. . ' .TPM eem that the subject might be
( : - somewhat overdone, but I am sure our
- 7: readers will bear another reference to
f thin "royal gem."
-v ' LTh Vlfw of lhl nlthty monaVch as
..... , seen Srom the steamer In crossing the
.' .' Sound from. different points impresses
' ?ou " mnTe torclMy with its sublime
grandeur, than from any position on
. land. Rising grandly and alone, as
from the level of the Sound, to a ner
. pendteular height of nearly three miles
fiv Pact- ".444 feet From its tow
, ,-?; rbiT , summit, where, the steam of a
alum be ring volcano hovers aver the
tfV crown, forming what is called "Liberty
Cap," down for nearly two miles or
, . 10,009 feet) It Is covered with a com
,J., Jlet robe of perpetual snow, even down
thelitis of the green foothills. Think
f It! - This scenery is an every day af
''; fair with the eltlsens of Tacoma and
; ' Seattle, who may look from his door
r , r or window upon an expanse of water,
if" Itf-strrfap covered with steam and
, sailing vessels that traverse the waters
of Mm globe and at the same moment
feast his eyes upon the regions of eter-
al snow. It Is a favored moment In
, our live when we- can witness these
great sights In "this my own, my na
tive land."
Prior to the purchase ot Alaska, Id
1867, Washington was the extreme
northwest territory of the United
States, although now comparatively a
new state, it has already achieved a
prominence throughout the world that
many of the older states envy. The
chief Industry of Washington is lum
bering. Statistics show this to be the
greatest lumber section on earth. The
Puget Sound Lumberman Journal says:
"This immense forest belt comprises
133,089.142 acres of timber land, the. most
remarkable timber body in existence.
The government estimates the standing
timber In Western Washington alone
at 303,303,294,000 feet on 11,971,192 acres,
while Eastern Washington has 11.618.
720 acres, with 100.878.041,000 feet, a total
of 410.333,335.000 feet of standing timber,
35.339 feet on an average to an acre,
valued at $269,561.3:9. No estimate has
ever been made of the standing timber
of British Columbia, but as the timber
area is larger than Washington and
Oregon, the amount must be still larger.
Add to this the forests of Alaska, those
of Montana, Idaho, Utah, Nevada and
the red wood forests of California, and
It aan readily be seen that the most
valuable heritage a bounteous Provi
dence has bestowed upon the Pacific
coast, consists of her timber wealth."
When compared with Washington
the nine Southern timber states are not
to be mentioned. The census reports
give them only 280,000,000,000 feet.
Neither are the White Pine states of
Michigan. Minnesota and Wisconsin,
which contain, according to the same
report, less than 75,000.000.000 feet of
stumpage. Oh; hat timber! These
forests are so vast that although the
saw mills have been ripping from
4,000,00,000 to 6,000,000,000 feet of lum
ber, out of them every year for the last
fifteen or more years, the space made
by these inroads seems no more than
garden patches, and there is left a
thousand years' supply, even at the
enormous rate tha timber is now being
felled. No one who has not seen a
primeval forest, where trees of gigantic
size have grown and fallen undisturbed
for ages, can form any Idea of the col
lection of timber, or the, impenetrable
character of such a region. This local
ity, so Inexhaustibly rich In lumber and
coal. Is called the Pennsylvania of the
Paclflc coast.
Some Big Western Trees.
- The trees on Puget Sound are noted
not only for size, but strength. They are
mainly fir-spruce and cedar the latter
'produces the best shingles In the world,
that will outlast pine two to one under
any and all circumstances. The bulk
of the fir is red Douglass, though yellow,
noble and white fir is found on higher
ground and in the mountains. The pro
portion of fir Is about flve-elgths of the
forest growth of Western Washington
and grows on low lands jften to the
height of 300 feet. It is, quite equal to
the white pine of Michigan and Penn
sylvania for ease of working, yet
stronger In grain than oak and. ex
ceedingly rich in grain and finish.
The Puget Sound Lumberman says:
"In 'order to grasp the magnitude of
these figures, 'let the reader, in his
mind's eye, imagine a solid train, 15,000
feet ot lumber to the car, stretching
164,000 miles, or six times around the
earth, and then enough cars left to
make a train stretching from Puget
Sound across the continent to the middle
of the Atlantic. Or, taking twenty-five
cars for a train, it would take 1,085.600
trains to transport the standing timber
of Washington alone. Out of the Stan
Ing timber In Washington, 41,300,000 cot
tages could be erected. Say every cot
tage occupied a frontage of twenty
five feet, the cottages would make a
street 97,500 miles, both sides ot which
would be a solid row of cottages."
Hon. S. Garflelde, of Washington,
says: "The size of the fir tree and the
number growing upon given areas, in
good lumber districts, are almost incred
ible to residents upon the Atlantic
slope. Here trees often measure 320
feet In length, and more than three
fourths of which are free from limbs.
Fifty, sixty and sometimes eighty of
these great timber trees grow on an acre
of ground."" One "berth"' of timber, so
called, covering about 3,000 acres, was
carefully examined, and found to con
tain on an average eighty such trees
to the acre throughout this berth. Our
loggers work no berth of timber pro
ducing less than 30,000 feet to the acre;
from 60,000 to 120,000 feet being the
common yield,, and over 'hundreds of
square miles of area does this un
cqualed timber exist." , ,
" On tha British Boundary.
Through the courtesy of the general
passenger agent of the Seattle, Lake
Shore and Eastern. railroad, a branch
of tha Northern Pacific we took a ride
up the coast to Sumas, at the British
Columbian boundary line, a distance of
115 miles. . The route la not much more
than an iron'trall cut through the for
est, but it gives one a Just apprecia
tion of the extensive area of" tree land
on the -coast -line. - What we see in our
wanderings through these dense and
almost unbroken forests may be If In
terest to our readers, especially those
who are acquainted with and Interest
ed In timber. The railroad. Instead of
a logging road that we expected to
And, was first-class In all respects, and
as we whirled- through small clearings
and many little parks, and around love
ly lakes and the dense forests of these
giant trees, standing In their grandeur
to the height often of 300 feet, waiting
for the harvester; also through miles
of stumps and fallen rfibnsters going to
decay, which, the ruthless lumberman
had left behind, our appreciation of
these wonders of the forest can be bet
ter Imagined than described; and to see
them fall under blows of steel or under
the ravages of fire, Is to experience" a
pang of sorrow.
After a fifty-mile run. Mount Baker
looms up to the height of 10,850 feet and
- Is kept in view more or less during the
balance of the trip. Not so prodigious
a piece of mountain chiseling, not so
overpowering to the senses as old Ta-
coma, yet there is a charm to Baker
that la all Ita own; It seems .to get
closer to us, as if on the same planet
withourselves than does tha King of
Peak Tacoma.
MssMoth Giants of the Forest.. -'
Think of what was said to us: "Fre
quently a single tree Is fallen here,
which Is worth alongside of the vessel,
ready for shipment as much money as
would pay for two hundred acres of the
governmnt land on which. It grew," "A
cub was cut from one of tha these Or
trees that measured eight feet and nine
Inches each . way."- From that stump
yonder, six saw logs were taken, each
thirty feet long;" this tree was five feat
In diameter at the bass and the Drat
limb, was on hundred and seventy
feet 170 feet.), from the ground." "Here
is a taw log forty inches in diameter
and on , hundred feet lopg." "Th
average. saw-ioga range, though,, from
two to ten feet through." "A tree was
cut the other day from which seven
logs were taken, without a knot, their
combined length being (179) one hun
dred and seventy-nin feet" "This
tree scaled 48,000 feet" "A hollow ce
dar tree near this lake (Sumas) Is
twenty-three feet In the clear on the
ground and fifteen feet In diameter,
ten feet above the ground." "In one
of the Seattle lumber yards, there were
recently several sawed sticks two by
two feet and one hundred feet long."
We also saw and photographed a
spruce tree growing over a cedar log,
six feet In diameter and 200 feet high;
also a cedar stump, 60 feet In circumfer
ence 10 feet above the ground; . a photo
graph of this we have also. . Near
Ocosta, the southern extremity ot the
Sound, an enormous cedar was felled
that was 467 feet high and 70 feet In cir
cumference at the base. 1 confess it is
painful to see thes mighty monarchs
of the forest so ruthlessly laid low, and
we shore the feelings, of the Scientlflo
American of July, 1S95, where it says:
"It Is a pity that aH such great giants
of the forest, whose age Is counted by
centuries, cannot be preserved from
destruction." - .
Nor Is this all for In company with
Colonel Charles W. Saunders, of Se
attlea recent visitor In Honesdale
w visited the famous Port Blakeley
lumber mills, located twelve miles
across the Sound from Seattle, and wlt
nesesd there what would astound an
ordinary Eastern lumberman. In the
tnaner of handling lumber for shipment.
This is one of the largest lumber mills
In the world, none exceeding It in ca
pacity, which is over (600.000 feet) six
hundred thousand feet of lumber, and
(200,000) two hundred thousand' lath
per day. It gives employment directly
to four hundred and fifty men and In
directly to hundreds of others. The
area covered by this plant exceeds ten
acres and fourteen ships can be loaded
at once. The saw-mill proper . Is a
mammoth two-story building 450 by 100
feet in size, filled with the latest im
proved machinery. This plant was
erected In 1888 and cost $300,000. It is a
most Interesting sight, to witness the
plant In operation.
Statistics fall to convey an adequate
account of the magnitude of the work
carried on. We see carload after car
load of finished lumber, fresh from the
saws, dumped from the elevated railway
tracks upon a chute Inclined towarus
the waiting ships. Into whose .gap
ing portholes these timbers are rolled
by an array of longshoremen, bounu
for foreign ports. These sticks, many
of them were 100 feet long 18 by 18
Inches and 24 by 24 inches square, with
out a particle of. sap, a rent or check,
perfectly sotind and straight Often
these timbers are 150 feet long and 2 to
3 feet square. . This plant Is run night
and day, being Illuminated by 450 in
candescent, electric, lamps. This com
pany Is adding 62,000 square feet of new
wharfing ..and 1,400 feet of elevated
double track railway.-' Much more can
be said of .this monster mill,. Its big
logs, Its Immense saws, fuvnaces, boil
ers, etc., would time and space permit,
which Is only one of' a dozen large mills
the tourist can see. - What would these
old eastern sawyers think of" a mill that
turns out material, enough In . one day
to build forty houses, or. enough in one
year for 8,200 , cottages, more than
enough : to build a cltyi. which this
Blakely plant does? ..Ot a. shingle mill
capable of turning out enough shingles
In a yar tb s.hlhgle 6,700. houses as the
Stimson mill does? , .
Shipments Of Spsrs.
They claim the red and yellow fir Is
In greater lemand for ship timber,
bridges, trestles, etc.. owing to Its
strength, flexibility, lightness, tenacity
and evenness of fibre, nall-holdlng
qualities and freedom from knots and
defects than any in the world. The
whole world Is drawing Its supply of
ship masts and spars from here. It Is
here the Great Eastern came for her
masts, and later the Puritan, Defender,
Valkyrie, Thistle, Mayflower, Volunteer,
and Vigilant. On Windsor castle Is a
flagstaff brought from Puget Sound.
Many cargoes of spars for UBe In the
French, navy have been sent from here.
The standard size for that market is
120 feet In length and four feet In di
ameter, one-third of the distance up
from the foot all this after being hewn
Into octagonal shape. Vast quantities
of lumber and shingles are sent to, for
eign lands thirty different countries
from Australia In the' far South to Eng
land in the North. The monste ship
Oltve Bank took last summer a cargo of
lumber from Hastings' mills' for South
Africa of large and heavy timbers com
prising over two million feet, to be ex
act, 2,323.624 feet, and had she taken
smaller timbers she. could have carried
a half million more. This Is the largest
vessel ever loaded with lumber from
Puget Bound. ' ,
' An official report says! There ore 250
saw mills In the state, with a combined
capacity of over 10,000,000 feet per day.
There are. 234 shingle' mills on Puget
Sound that produced 12,000,000 shlngjes
per day; think of It. a yearly output of
3,000,000,000 cedar shingles. The capital
Invested In lumbering and woodwork
ing plants Is over $30,000,000; the num
TIMOTHY" HEALY, BRILLIAnY
frost tt Chisago Ttinea-HtriJoV .
fey thi Courtesy of H. H. Kobltsat)
ber of men employed! 11000, and the
wasjes paid yearly, $7,000.000. , .
. ' J. E, Richmond.
- THE FETE CHAllPETBE.
Sosnathttr orth Oaaees and Daaaers to
B Prtssnud' Ktxt 'Month ta the
Ps-othlsgbaa Tbcstsr. . - . ,
.Preparations and rehearsals fof the
Fete Champetr to be given . next
month ta th Frothlngham. theater for
the benefit of the Home for the Friend
less are progressing with an earnest
ness and smoothness which argues well
that' the promises of the managers
will be fulfilled. In that the affair will
eclipse dven last year's Klrmess.
The list of ,dances, tableaux, chaper
ones and dancers is as follows; where
the names of dancers do not appear, the
list Is not complete, but may bo ex
pec ted to be made public within a few
days. : . .
Troubadour dance Chaperones, Mrs. H.
J. Anderson. Mrs. C. It. Welles and Mrs.
W., T. emith: dancers. Misses Frcderlka
Derman, Helen Stevens, Qraee.and Anna
Roae.. Ruth Dale, Margaret Turrey ana
Adda.. Bane,, and Mesam. .Dunn, Burson
Sevan, Arthur Thompson, Jennings, Har
ry Fterce and Dr. Peel. -
Qrand tableaux of Napoleon and court. '
Tyrolean (Swiss) dance Chaperones,
Mrs. F. Vt. Ounster and. Mrs. Emanuel
Zttselman; dancers. Mines lizzie Hlltz.
Emma Koch, Josephine Rohrwasser, Ls
vlna. Schnell,' Una Slsienberger, Mamie
Fenner. Uinnle Woelkers. Louise Echlot-
terbach, Jennie Noth, Aseline, Rosa Rnhr-
waaaervnd Lydla Flchsl, and.uessrs. ku
ward : Klssle, - William WtiJchel. Charles
Center,. Emtl -Schimpff,. Peter Zurnun,
John Scheuer, Leo Sohlmpft. John Shoti.
George DeWilde, Worth, Nelson Teets ana
Louis Lange.
The Court Minuet.
Court minuet Chaperones, Mrs. H. M.
Boles. Mrs. F;. N. Wlllard. Mrs.- N. Y.
Leet and Mrs. T. II. Watkins.
The SaltoreilaJ-Chapetones, 'Mrs. E. h.
Fuller nd Airs. F. ,H. Jermyn; dancer,
Misses Alice Matthews, Florence Voor
hees. Oraoe Spencer, Louise Seybolt, Mary
Blssell, Annie Buck.' Lillian Oenrhart.
Caroline Bourdman. Mary Foster,- Torrey
and Phillips, and Messrs. W. W. Wharton,
Campbell, Be van, Dlckhard, ' Gearhart,
Wolfe. Nettleton, Robert Snyder, George
Dtmmlck, Harry Klrkpatrlck, Wallace
Ruth,.-Sharps, Percy Mott.
Tambourine dance--Chaperorieg, Mrs. L.
R. Marcki and Mrs. J. K. Cohen.
Gondolier dance Chaperones, Mrs. Hen
ry Melin, jr., and Mrs, James ArchbaM;
dancers, Misses ArchbaM, Augusta Archibald.-AUIs
Dale, Flora Matthews, Frances
Win ton, Clara Simpson, Lulu Welles,
Skinner, Jessie Coursen, francos Hunt,
Susan Jermyn, Alice Belln", and. Messrs.
Frank, Thoodore and Lawrence Fuller,
Hunt. . K. Chase, Merrill, James Blnlr,
Jr.,- John Brooks, J. H. S. Lynde, Bliss,
Russell Dlmmlck, B. E. Watson.
Folly dance Chaperones, .Mrs. H. 51.
Streeter and Mrs. C. H. Shryer.
Military danoe Chaperones, Mrs. J. A.
Fritz, Mrs. Schuyler Gernon and Mrs. L. 8.
Barnes. . ' ; .
Spanish dance Chaperones, Mrs. R. W.
Arc ribald and) Mrs. . M. W. Lowry.
Napoleon Guards Chaperones, Mrs. Lu
ther -Keller, Mrs. T. F. Penman and Miss
Lizzie Howell.
Will lie Seen in Hornpipe Dnnce.
' liornblue dancer-Mrs. W. W Scranton,
Mrs. C. S. Weston and Miss Anna
Matthews; dancers. Katie - Steele, - May
nianchard. Mary and Kllzabeth Dickson,
Ruth Archbald,t Qertrudo Coursen, .Anna
McAnulty, Laura urown' Heien roweii,
Helen Jones, Eleanor Moffat, Klolse
Phelps, Hugh Archbald, Walter Stevens.
DoukIoss, Moffat, Harry ' Jones, Paul
Welles; Walter Coursen, Frank McOowan,
Majc Jessup, Harry Williams, Harold Nor
jon." X.awrence Watres, Randolph Froth
lngham. . .
Flowers and Bees Chaperones, Mrs. V.
M. Spencer and Mrs. George M. Hallstead;
dancers, Annie Henwood, Beatrice Morris,
Cora Noyba. Myrtle Williams, Trystlne
Morris, Jennie Donegan, Helen Simpson,
Annie Archers-Edna CaVyl, Vivian Bur
nett. JWody Moir, "Mary Hallstead, Joseph
Brovyo, Wllford Moir, William Vernoy,
Taylor Foster, Bert Mercereau, " Ortn
Christian, Rodney Theiss. Joseph Alexan
der, Franklin Vernoy. Glenwood Pierce,
John. Burnett. 'Reyburn Watres.
Japanese dance Chaperones,- Mrs. J. X
Connell and Mrs. 8. H. Stevens.
Skirt dance Chaperone, Mrs. Wlllard
Matthews! dancers. Freda Kann, Kittle
Pratt, Mamie' Gearhart, Annie Edwards,
Louise Davenport. Jessie Peck, Candace
Watson, Mabel Fritz, Annie Henwood,
Mary Greeley.
Carnival dance-Chaperones, Mrs. R. M.
Scranton, Mrs. C. R. Parke.
Rehearsals for the fete champetre will
be held, beginning Monday, In the Scran
ton Bicycle club house instead of .In the
W. "W. Scranton house, corner of Mon
roe avenue and Linden street. The
rooms of the latter have been found too
small to'nronerly drill the larger classes,
A souv.enlr programme of the fote Is
beln ft prepared, the profit of which will
go to the -Home.- Business men are
urged to give -it to their patronage.
. .
ThsTainple.
From the Detroit Tribune. ...
The queen of Sheba was deeply Im
pressed. . ,
"Or eat head," she exclaimed, In admira
tion. ' ,
' "Ah; 'yes," rejoined th'e wise monarch,
"the temple of Solomon is not unjustly
celebrated, If 1 do say it myself.". ,
With which he touched his brow. signi
ficantly. -
Orrapes fur Coughs and for Singers. ' .
Auntie Ra,chei; a Hollnnd hurse, has
discovered a novel and effective way of
using- grapes in combination with Ele
campane Hoot and-Horehound for the
purpose of ' curing coughs, colds and
sore, throat It is called Aunt Rachel's
Elecampane and Horehound Cordial
and it is said that physicians are rec
ommending it freely In the Kast.. Sing
ers anil lecturers carry a. bottle with
thorn. ' '
IRISH , PARUAMENTARIAN,
Welsh jWipIog
v.;.;-.
Written for The Tribune.
Of course, It was a foolhardy thing to
uo, out times were hard. Four hundred
men had been temporarily discharged
from the Victoria pit, pending more
raers ior coal. . Managers Edwards &
Thomas, of the Caegarw and Onohoi
Gwmpo Pits, had taken in as many of
the men as they could, especially those
who were known- as good workmen, for
whom shrewd managers are always on
the lookout ...
To make room for these men some
or the stalls were worked on-the double
strt plan; and in this way'Will Acha
Wew, '. whose name In Glamorgan
Welsh was descriptive of his chief per
sonal mark,, a wabbling gait, secured
the night shift in the stall of Dal
Selthws ''l Oot' (David Who Shot His
Coat in mistake for a . burglar), off
Cardl. Mawr's "heading."
Will was not allowed a partner, as
Dal objected to the breaking of the
alignment of the stalls, which would re
sult from overdoing, the doublershlf t
plan, for,, as -miners know, the stalls
are worked very much like a piece of
painting no single part Is to -be de
veloped very far In advance of all the
other parts.
The fool-hardiness of Will's action
on that Sunday night appears from the
rapt that, the people of Cwmcoed were
as strict Sabbatarians oa South Wales
mining villagers could be. Every ap
parent breach of the fourth command
ment, committed under the cognisance
of the cojllery managers, who were
themselves respected office bearers In
the churches of the village, was covered
by the saying olause of necessity.
The night shift colliers respected the
Puduo sentiment, and abstained from
work on Sunday nights, though many
of them held no decided opinion on the
matter. ;io increase the output of coal
when the market was already clutted
could not by any means be construed
as necessary. , ' ,
But Will was hard up. He had been
Idle for some weeks, and had at home
eight mouths to feed. There was no
difficulty, he thought. In applying the
rule of necessity to his case, and that
Sunday night he went down the pit
with the repairers.
Around the ' little' Punch-and-Judy
structure at ' the bottom of the pit,
where the fireman sat In state to lock
the lamps and Issue orders, jokes, and
cautions', and where smokers puffed
complacently before separating for re
gions where pipes were more strictly
prohibited than In the 'Women's Chris
tian' Temperance .Union; the men llng-
gered longer than usual that night.
talking in-a quiet Sabbath manner as
the day of rest drew' to a peaceful
close. ; -
Though- warned by the fireman that
no human being would be within half-
a-mlle of Kim that night. Will wabbled
alone to his distant stall. But he felt
uneasy all the way. He would now
and then stop and listen, thinking that
the echoes of his footsteps proceeded
from feet other than his own. The
glimmerings, ot rotten timber In the
darkness ahead of him were Strikingly
"suggestive of Jacks-wtth-a-lantern and
corpse-candles. , ,
After finding some empty trams In
the heading: he reached the stall, and
began a hard night's work. After pound
ing away at the stubborn. two-feet-nine
seam with Indifferent success for some
hours, he sat down to rest and to munch
some crusts from his food-box. He be
gan to feel ' dreadfully lonesome. He
was growing unusually sensitive to the
creaking of timber, the crunching of the
side-walls, and the falling of stones In
distant stalls. The far-away reports
of the coal fell on his ears as If a Ro
man legion 'had brought Its famous
ramS to bear on the other side. He
felt strangely Indisposed to start work
again. The coal had stubbornly resisted
his attacks. - There was a spell of
"cussedness," as he would say, resting
on everything. ' He began to look Into
himself for the cause of his failure. His
mind, agatnst hlo will, reverted to the
Sunday question, a sense of the super
natural and of duty neglected came
upon him, for Will was religious in a
way. '
Prom the point where the stall parted
from the heading, sixty yards away
from Will, came the sound of a horse's
feet. Probably a syslaror passing by
with his horse, thought Will, though
he thought it Btrange, after the warn
ing the fireman had given him, that he
would have no neighbors that night.
His first Intention was to hail the
passer-by, but he noticed the sound
coming nearer.- Soon the braddish door
would open and disclose the visitor's
light.- But Will missed the sound and
the slight concussion of the air which
wotild accompany the closing of the
do'or. Neither could he see any light,
but the sound came nearer and more
distinct, clatter-chatter, thurrtp-a-thump,
until at length he descried the
form of a man, a very strange-looking
man, the like of whom ho had never
seen. Will blinked and stared. -
"Surely," he thought, "I must be oft
the rails tonight. The sound of horse's
feet, dopr unopened, no light, and a
strange man standing before me, wait
ing for me. to talk."
But before Will would utter any of
his thoughts, the stranger rpoke to him.
M've come to see you."
"Yes?" answered Will, with blinking
eyes and mouth a-gape;
"You are alone."
"Yes.". ' ' ' '
' "May I help you?" ' '
"Thank you very much, sir. Indeed;
but you are a stranger here, are you
not?"
"No,-1 know every place here."
'iWelL let us sit down for a while."
Uoib .sat down on' their .heels for a
time, the stranger doing most of the,
talking.' Just as Will was revolving In
his mind a few leading questions to put
to the stranger, the latter said:
"Now,, then, let me. have a pull at
your coal. We'll push this full tram
out and fetch an empty one, and you
may cart the coal Into it." . .
When they had exchanged the trams,
the stranger made for the "face" of th
coal. . ,
' "What Shall we do about light?"
asked. Will. r . ,
"Never mind me. Keep your lamp
with you. 1 can manage all right."
More mystified than eyer. Will be
gan to cart' Into the tram' some coal he
had piled together before the coming
of the stranger. Soon he heard the
pleasant falling and rolling of coal, and
muttered to himself with a smile that
the stranger could work as well as talk.
In a very short time the space between
Will and the stranger was piled up with
coal, completely hiding the latter. Will
heard the Incessant roiling of coal, but
not a sound of a tool could be heard
more than.. at -.toe building jot .Solomon's
temple. Shovels, mandrels, crow-bars,
Life,
Will Acha Wew's
Ghostly Partner,
wedges, hammers were to this work
man either unknown or obsolete Inven
tions; In any case, unnecessary.
In spite ot his bewilderment, how
ever, Will kept his eye on the main
chance of things, and cartes' the coal
without asking any questions.. It was
the bread and raiment of his wife and
children, and he felt It criminal to look
on idly like a dolt.
After he had piled a ton of coal on
the train, he resolved before doing any
thing further to take a peep at his
mate.who was on such good terms with
the stubborn team. Veteran as he was
In coal-breaking his mate had evident
ly a thing or two to teach him.
At first there was no possible Ingress
to the - stranger In sight, but after
some scraping Will made an air-hole
along the top. and thrust himself head
foremost In quest of his 'mute. To his
great horror, he soon placed his tiands
on an unshod pair ot hoots. He stood
stock-still. ..-."''' ,
"Hello! are you there?" remarked
his mate pleasantly
"Yes, I have fitted the train, and I
wanted to take a Bqulnt at you work
ing. How do you do It?"
"Oh, just like this," and his hoofed
mate thrust his hands into the solid
"face" and drew forth a solid block ot
coal, almost square, like the pieces pre
served in' museums.' ' ' '
"That's all,", sold he, "And now I
think we had better cart all this coal
and clear the. stall for Dal Selthews '1
Got the rodneyt I 'know Dal well. He
tried to shoot me one night, and shot
his coa instead." ' '
Both squeezed themselves back over
the pile' of coal. ; The full train was
pushed out of the stall and an empty
one was brought In. The operation was
repeated several times before the stall
was clear.
In pushing the last tram, the strang
er's hand, or whatever it was, came into
contact with Will's, and made a gash
on the back of his hand. Another thing
puzaled Will. The stranger not only
avoided every took but was particularly
careful In placing his hands on the coal
while pushing a full tram, and suffered
Will to push back the empty Iron ones.
Though the "turn" was scarcely half
over, the stranger suggested to strike
work, asked "Win ; not to tell anyone
who had helped hlrri,, and said he would
help him again the following night.
Will reached his home with the early
dawn, with a crazed look; but he held
his peace, 'and had no difficulty In ex
plaining to his wife the cause of his
early -return. ' .
During the day Will did a deal of
thinking about his ministering angel.
There was now little doubt In his mind
that the subject of many a tale he had
heard, when a boy at the foot of Plln
Ummon, had materialised before his
sight, and had rendered him material
service.. Had he riot. heard how pros
pectors for lead-ore were attracted to
certain anotS on' -the hillsides by loud
kn'ocklngs heard under the turs, and
how, after a little digging, they struck
veritable bonanzas? Had he not heard
how two brothers were guided by a
dream to the ruins ot Gwrnerth castle
in quest of hidden treasures? ' After
rolling aside a pile 6f stones one of the
brothers struck an Iron chest with his
pick, when the other brother shouted,
"Two hundred pounds for the chance,
Tom!" whereupon they set to hlrgllnff
arid quarreling over the price, and were
on the point of fighting, when they
heard a noise underneath,' and caught'
a glimpse ot the chest disappearing
Into the ruins. They worked for hours
In sullen silence, but could find no trace
of 'the chest.' Then they fought each
other black and blue in rifrht earnest..
But why should he. Will Acha Wew,
of all hls'fello'w-workmen, he skcted
for the special favor of this berioflcent
being? could It be horrible thought!-
nis t-aDDam-Dreaklng? No, he could
not entertain It. A good week's earn
ings In a single night wis not the kind
of favors usually bestowed on the
wicked. . ' '
Had he better seek the spiritual ad
vice of Rev. James Hughes, minister
of Calvary Uuptlst chapel? No, he was
In Mr. Hughes' black book. He dis
approved of his method of forcing peo
ple to become members of hts church
by the scruff of their necks, and Mr.
Hughes knew it. Besides, he had
failed to pay his yearly subscription
towards clearing the chapel debt. Mr,
Hughes, also, was hard on people who
believed In' ghosts. No, he would keep
tryst with his hoofed friend.
He went to work again that night,
and his hoofed friend clattered up to
him. Night after night 'they met and
worked together. . , ,
The men of the day shift could not
understand how Will had so many full
trains to his account every morning.
There was no way apparent by which
he might put his chalk-marks on-other
people's trains, even If he was thought
capable ot such exceptional sneakish
ness. Dal Seithws'i Got's stall had
Btolen a march on the' neighbors, and
Dal swore loud and. long In English
that-his coal was dead-locked.
At the end of a fortnight, Wlll ex
tracted a promise from his partner to
meet him at the top of the pit on pay
flay. His friend kept to his promise,
and met Will as he came from the ofttre,
clad In a decent suit of clothes, with
his hands In his trowser's pockr-ts. a
felt hat pressed over his ears, and his
feet enclosed hi shoes of a strange
make.
They walked together to the village
and entered the Black Lion to divide
their earnings over a quart of beer. Will
threw the money on the table and pro
ceeded to divide it into two piles. An
equal division was made, but a six
pence stood over which Will could not
break. He tossed It to his friend's pile.
"What Is that you are doing?" ex
claimed his partner. " :
"I can t divide It. You take, ft. Ton
ougnt to' take much more.'"' "
'' "Not a penny will I take over my
share. Change It at the bar."
.'.'Nonsense, you must take It."
"And I say I won't take It." : 1 -
"By G you must."
His partner rose, trembling 'through
his whole body.
"Good-bye Will. Yon should not'Ua.ve
mentioned that nam here." ' ". .
Then with an unearthly shrle.k and fl
hdlse like a clap of thunder, he disap
peared through the open window.
The Inrriates of the Block Lirm rushed
Into the room nnd found .Wilt, staring
at tho piles of money. He got up a
dazed-man, pocketed the money, paid
for the beer, and went home-w-lthout
offering a word of explanation to the
startled people. '
.The following week work resumed at
the Victoria Pit, and Will secured his
old-stall; ' -, .
He was truly .a "sadder" min after
his experience wltlr-ttr-BrfoStty "paTt
ner, and possibly he became a "wiser"
man, for whenever he met a rcklss
youngster, 'he had a Strang advlc ta
give him:
. "Never offer the devil more than his
due." n Rhys Wynne.
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ven tvd the-btcycle to Increase his pow
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am confident that a machine could be
built whereby the horse could be taken -off
the ETound and used as a motor
power. With a proper system of gear
ing great speed could In this why ba
attained." -
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