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BIG
TIMBER
By
BERTRAND W.
SINCLAIR
Copyright, 1916. fcy LlttW. Icm
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Gaining the beach and laying the
ilmal across a bowlder he straight
ed himself up and drew a long
oath. Then he wiped tho sweat
! his face. A sturdily built man
out thirty of Saxon fairness, with
tinge of red in the hair and a
leral display of freckles across
ross nose and cheek bones. He
is no beauty, she decided, albeit
displayed a frank and pleasing
untenance. That he was a re
irkatly strong and active man s>he
d seen for herself, and if the firm
und of his jaw counted for any
ing an individual of considerable
termination besideu. Miss Ben
ii conceived herself to be possessed
considerable skill at character
alysis.
CHAITF.It IV.
The Bignity ( '/) of Toil.
By such imperceptible degrees
lat she was scarce aware of it,
.ella took her place as a cog in
er brother's- logging machine, a
lit in the human mechanism which
i operated skillfuly and relentlessly
, top speed to achieve his desired
id 1.000.000 leet of timber in
jomsticks by Sept. 1.
From the evening that she stepped
to the breach created by a
•unken cook the kitchen burden
ttled steadily upon I'jr shoulders,
or a week Benti" .aily expected
id spoke of thr .rival of a new
>ok. Fyfe had wired a Vancouver
nplcyment agency to send one the
ly he took Jim Renfrew down. But
ther cooks were scarce or the
•der went astray, for no rough and
■ady kitchen mechanic arrived,
enton in the meantime ceased to
ok for one. He worked like a
orse, unsparing of himself, un
>arlng of others. He rose at half
ist 4, lighted the kitchen fire,
>used Stella and helped lier pre
ire breakfast, preliminary to liis
ly in the woods, I..ater he im
ressed Katy John, a half breed
iwash girl, into service to wait on
n table and wash dishes. He
bored patiently to teach Stella cer
iin simple tricks of cooking that
>e did not know.
Quick of perception, as thorough
i her brother in whatsoever she set
er hand to do. Stella was soon
lual to the job. And as the days
assed and no cainp cook came
> their relief Benton left the job
i her as a matter of course.
"You can handle that kitchen
ith Katy as well as a man," he
lid to her at last. "And it will give
9u something to occupy your time,
d have to pay a cook S7O a month,
laty draws $25. You can. credit
ourself with the balance and I'll
ay off when, the contract comes in.
iTe might as well keep the coin in
le family. I'll feel easier, because
ou won't get drtink and jump the
>b in a pinch. What do you say?"
She said the only possible thing to
ly under the circumstances. But.
le did not say it with pleasure nor
ith any feeling of gratitude. It
as hard work, and she and hard
ork "were utter strangers. Her feet
r-hed from continual standing on
lem. The heat and the smell of
:ewing meat and vegetables sick
ned her. Her hands were growing
>ugli and red from dabbling in
ater, punching bread dough, hand
ng the varied articles of food that
o to make up a meal. Upon hands
nd forearms there stung continu
ity certain small cuts and burns
lat lack of experience over a hot
inge inevitably inflicted upon her.
Whereas timo had promised to hang
eavy on her hands, now an hour
t Idleness in the day became a pre
ous boon.
Yet in her own way she was as
ill of determination as her brother,
he saw plainly enough that she
Hist leave the drone stage behind,
tie perceived that to be fed and
othed and house and to have her
lshes readily gratified was not an
iherent right; that some one must
>ot the bill; that now for all she
>ceived she must return equttablo
ilue. At home she had never
lought of It at all. Now that she
as beginning to get a glimmering
f her true economic relation to the
orld at large she had no wish to
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thereby she could have secured a
continuance of that silk lined exist
ence which had been her fortunate
lot. lier pride revoitod against
parasitism. It was therefore a cer
tain personal satisfaction to have
achieved self support at a stroke,
in so far as that in the sweat of
her brow —all too literally she
earned her bread and a compensa
tion besides. But there were times
when that solace seemed scarcely to
weigh against her growing detest
for the endless routine of her task,
the exasperating physical weariness
and irritations that it brought upon
her.
For to prepare three times daily
food for a dozen hungry men is no
mean undertaking. One cannot have
in a logging camp the conveniences
of a hotel kitchen. The water must
be carried in buckets from the creek
nearby and wood brought in arm
fuls lrom the pile of sawn blocks
outside. The low roofed kitchen
shanty was always like an oven. The
flies swarmed in their tens of
thousands. As the men sweated
with the ax and saw in the woods,
so she sweated in the kitchen. And
her work began two hours before
their day's labor and continued two
hours after they were done. She
slept like one exhausted and rose
full of sleep heaviness, full of bodily
soreness and spiritual protest when
the alarm clock raised Its din in the
cool morning.
For a week thereafter Benton de
veloped moods of sourness, periods
of scowling thought. He tried to
speed up his gang, and, having all
spring driven tlrem at top speed, the
added straw 1 roke the back of their
patience. anu Stella heard some
sharp interchanging of words. Ho
quelled one Incipient mutiny through
sheer dominance, but It left him
more short of temper, more crab
bedly inot dy than ever. Eventually
his ill nature broke out against
Stella over some trifle, and she, be
ing herself an aggrieved party to
his transactions, surprised her own
sense of fitness of things by retaliat
ing in kind.
(To he continued.)
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES"
William Yorke Stevenson, the
Philadelphia boy who succeeded to
the steering wheel of "Ambulance
No. 10," welch Leslie Buswell drove
in France, and later immortalized in
book form, has been decorated with
the Croixe de Guerre. Mr. Steven
son drove his ambulance through the
Soninie drive, in the midst of the
great fighting about Verdun, at the
battle of Souville-Trevannes, and at
other important engagements. His
diary, written offhand, Is as read
able as it is authentic, and will be
published under the title of "At the
Front in a Flivver" by Houghton
Mifflin Company, on September 15.
The news of his decoration was re
ceived by his mother, who writes to
his publishers: "My son who was
promoted to the leadership of his
section las', month, has just received
the Croix de Guerre. I received yes
terday a cablegram from Major Piatt
Andrews which reads. 'Yorke's
splendid leadership rewarded with
Croix de Guerre.' "
Owing to the extremely hot weath
er, which delayed the printing of the
liook by its effect upon the rollers of
the printing press, E. P. Dutton &
Co. announce that they had to post
pone the publication of Herman
Fcrnau's "The Coming Democracy"
until the latter part of August. The
book, which was to have bfcen issued
last week, is an appeal to Germans
by a man of German birth and train
ing to throw down their allegiance
to the present German government
and put Germany beside the demo
cratic nations of the world.
Life's Problems
Are Discussed
BY MBS. WIIiSON WOODROW
The host at our dinner party—
a very successful inventor—had fal
len to reminiscing and was giving
a broadly humorous account of some
of the shifts and subterfuges to
which he had been put in the effort
to keep up appearances before for
tune came his way.
He told, I remember, of his hor
ror on one occasion when he had
Invited a number of capitalists to
his office to discuss a proposition he
wanted them to back, and not half
an hour before the conference the
sheriff walked in and took posses-
Moil of the place uhder an execu
tion.
The inventor was nonplussed. He
paced the floor, uncertain what to
do. All tho structure of bright hopes
he had been building on the strength
of the coming interview crashed
about him; for he knew that this
exposure of his financial weakness
would scare off the support for
which he was angling.
Then he remembered a poker
game, where he had laid down a
full hand before the superb bluff
of an opponent who held absolutely
nothing, and it offered him a sug
gestion.
When the financiers arrh'ed he led
them Into his inner office. "Gentle
men," he said, "you will have to
give me an answer to my proposition
—yes or no—within five minutes.
That man outside Is a representa
tive of one of the biggest corpora
tions in the country." And so the
sheriff was—a representative of the
State of New York. "He wants to
take over this whole concern with
out delay, and unless ypu agree to
my terms, 1 am going to let them
do it."
The stratagem worked to a charm.
As one of the syndicate afterward
confessed, they had come there pre
pared to haggle and to keep him dan
gling on in uncertainty for weeks.
But the idea of competition and the
bold front he put up brought them
to time, and the deal went through
that afternoon.
"If people would only recall their
psst mistakes," the Inventor drew
his moral, "they could extrlcato
themselves from many a dilemma.
The sense of foolish ineptitude which
swept over me when 1 discovered
that I had been bluffed out In that
poker game stood me in good stead
in tills game for a vastly more im
portant stake. I simply borrowed the
tactics which had been used against
me, and played my busted straight
as if I had a royal flush."
"You evidently believe," I said,
"that we learn more from our fail
ures than from our successes?"
"More?" he spoke with an em
phasis which repudiated even the
suggestion. "No man yet ever learn
ed anything from a success. And the
proof of it Is that successes do not
often repeat.
"A person may score a success
on the first trial. Sometimes he
may follow it up with a second suc
cess. But rarely with a third. The
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reason Is that he doesn't know how
he did It. The lightning just hap
pened to strike him. It's the failures
we make that teach us, if we are
capable of being taught at all.
"The fellow who wakes up the
morning after to "the jubilant song
of the victor,' and a sheaf of glow
ing press notices is not going to
question very much how the result
was obtained. He simply ascribes
It to his own transcendent genius,
and by the time he gets ready to
start down town discovers that his
hat has suddenly grown too small
l'or htm.
"But the one who rises after a
sleepless nlglit, sore and aching in
every Joint from a drubbing at the
hands of fortune, is very apt to
study out how it all happened and
take thought to avoid a similar ex
perience the next time.
"One who has never handled a
rifle may by chance blaze away, and
hit the bull's-eye; but it's the man
who goes to the range day after day,
correcting his errors of aim and ac
quiring steadiness and poise who be
comes a sharpshooter.
" 'Beginner's luck- Is proverbial In
every sport and enterprise from
trout fishing to playing the stock
market; but it Is the old stager, with
his expert knowledge gained from
many a wearisome and empty-hand
ed day along the river, upon whom
we have to depend for our supply of
fish.
Ride with an idle whip, ride with
an unused heel;
Fashions of To-Day - By May Manton
Simple dresses are always be
coming to school girls. This one
is very pretty made of the
checked gingham shown here
and also is quite appropriate for
linen and for cotton gabardine,
\A .j . and for all those washable ma
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r r/ImT 9 ut ou cou use the model
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H use cre P e de chine or fine white
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/ [ J For the io-year 6ize will be
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/ J J / yards 44, for the skirt with sus-
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\ \ 36, 1 % yards 44 for the blouse.
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But once in a way there will come
a day.
When the colt will be taught to
feel
The lash that falls, and the curb
that galls.
And the sting of the rowelled steel.'
" 'Sweet are the uses of adver
sity,' Is no mere figure of speech,"
he continued. "Adversity is our most
valuable schoolmaster. There is not
a success in the world to-day—a real
success, 1 mean, not a more flash in
the pan—which, if the truth were
known, is not tho evolution and
flower of a long line of failures—
perhaps not always what the world
counts failures, but to the men them
selves, reckoned in that category In
which misses are as good as miles.
"Nature had to experiment a long
while the three-toed eohippuses be
fore she e\o!ved anything so perfect
as # the horse. It took thousands of
generations of ugly and misshapen
beasts to reach the stage of man.
And the process is still going on.
From failure to failure we progress
until at last we roach success." •
The Inventor paused. His wife,
I noticed, had joined only half
heartedly in our laughter at his
hard luck anecdotes, and had shown
some symptoms of impatience at his
philosophizing.
"Well," she said a little grimly,
"failure and adversity may all lie
as wonderful and desirable as you
say, but for my part I'd rather have
the peace and comfort of success.
"Those stories that my husband
lolls," she turned to the rest of us,
"are very amusing now no doubt;
but, belle\e me, they were not so
funny as pctual experiences either
to him or to myself."
"My dear," he corrected her, "I
did not claim that failures are ever
humorous or agreeable at the time.
The philosophic mind may say with
Aeneas, 'Meminlsse juvablt,' but it
is pretty cold consolation.
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CITY OF HARRTSBURG, DAUPHIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
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UNNECESSARY ADJECTIVES, OF ALL HIGH-FLOWN ENGLISH,
OF ALL ADVERTISING PHRASES.
I WISH TO SAY, SIMPLY AND BRIEFLY:
THAT IDO MY OWN BUYING, WITH OFFICES IN NEW
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THAT WE HAVE NO AUTOMOBILE DELIVERIES, (WE DE
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RENTALS, NO EXPENSIVE ELECTRICAL FRONTS; THAT
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DOWN; WHICH IN TURN MEANS LOW PRICES AND BIG '
SAVINGS WHEN MAKING YOUR PURCHASES AT ROBIN
SON'S WOMAN SHOP.
I FURTHER WISH TO SAY THAT T BUY NO JOB LOTS;
I BUY NO SECONDS; AND I NEVER BUY ANY SURPLUS
STOCKS.
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ALTERATIONS; EVEN IN CLEARANCE TIME WE NEVER
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EVERYBODY. .
Irving E. Robinson
1
COMMONWEALTH Or PENNSYLVANIA Bq . ,
COUNTY OF DAUPHIN,
BEFORE ME, THE UNDERSIGNED AUTHORITY, PERSONALLY APPEARED
IRVING E. ROBINSON, WHO. BEING DULY SWORN ACCORDING TO LAW, DE
POSES AND SAYS THAT THE FOREGOING STATEMENTS ARE TRUE.
SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED BEFORE ME THIS FIFTH DAY OF SEPTEM
BER, NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN.
©lrving E. Robinson
Thomas C. McCarrell, Jr.
NOTARY PUBLIC
My Commission Will Explrs
February 19, 1921. . ,
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SEPTEMBER 10, 1017
I "What I asserted was, that fail-
I ure is one of the most valuable
| things that can happen to a man
I or woman, provided that he or she
j has the gumption to learn from the
j experience, and the nerve to 'watch
the things that you gave life to
j broken; and stoop and build 'em up
j with worn-out tools.'
"Naturally also the more severe
i the hardships which result from the
failure or mistake, the more valu
able the experience proves; for it Is
then a spur to extra effort. One may
lament that he has to ride In a
crowded street car rather than tn>
a luxurious motor: one may com-;
plain of the little inconveniences of
life. But when one finds himself ac-.
tually in hell, one gets out. fc'or 1
where the will is strong Enough,']
there is always a way."
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