IN THE FACE -; :of FEAR. J i 4 ! "J1 4; BY WILLIAM B. MAC HARO. M V " '""K" nn'"n" D ,. "l ""'P"" th ?- poaite Fisherman. Island, which J hoyond six hundred yards of shifting, Uj water. About the island the be, oy waves ran crosswise among half a anile of hidden reefs and shallows. everywhere along the shore stood , Ik brown cedar trunks, straight and lr, and back of them the hemlock, I and farther still, where the glacial lo. "'" '7'""- " " "" aJlla, the ash and beech and maple- all marketable timber, waiting for th. , TT. 1 " 100 CB"P Wnl " , " the passengers. They came by twos bout lumbering, and had spent 30,- and tt ,itu, of wu. 00 on thing, for which there was no , helf-dreseed. About them ITis. Tn? "UI?mJr WM !1C 7 WB th Wa-tae.. of the night, oat th. St. Clair in bringing up to Bron- of wbuh M tn, Un OI'choppy, on . great chained and timbered dock ofr.,Uor, athat and nothing the needless things Bronson had y,t had ,e,a M flmmf Up ... I kad hardly smelled the smoke. Willis Lar!,n-Shocky" Larson, 13 year, called Van a.d. to the speaking-tube. old. big l.glit-haired and clumsy, wat -WeM aflpe ew th boller- h, the porter of the St. Clair. Once on the lakes there hud been built 20 of! "Yes. sir" more boats all exactly alike-high-j ,., to run fo, Bronion.,, nadod, stubby craft, mad. to fit the Stlck to lt M , caB aB), lock of the canals and called canal re , everythin. you.Te ot boats; and they turned out to be the. "Yes air" boat rough-weather boat, the lake. Then th,- heQ(, of lh, gt culr wm, Kad ever een; puffy little boata, turned luto th, w,nd Th p8Mengf!P melling otbe galley, but iml.fferent ' ,ilent 8nd nervous, gathered on th. to wlnd or Mw or floating ice-and forward deck Xn.r, wa, no turmoil, the St. C llr was one of them. But , no confu8ion o( words. but below the Sbocky Larson laughed at the St. ' w of th, Bt Bnd shock Oalr and called her the tub." jon thenlt wet nnd Morched Shocky was driftwood. He had been and chokcd with smoke, were fighUng out to the beguiling of the St. Law-! thfl en,my m not ho OTr. ranee and west to the Mississippi; ! come. And th. St. Qair, .baking all fco had seen a little of the lakes and ow with a Bttad tremble ipllt the little of the land, and he was no ( water awa - before heP but w and more than a boy, he brnSged. He a half-hour ticked iUclf off on fhe bragged to " an Clede, a stoop-shoul- pilot-house clock. elored man with child-like eyes, who! head wlnd flame, was i chief enghieer of the St Clair; ! at.adiIy ttpoa th, f. and ho bragged to the hangers-on who englnMoom. Fifteen mlnutea more waited at table on the St. Clair, and aad the Btokert, burned and blinded, to the men upon the docks; but most wtre dr.gd through the fire to the f oil h. bragged to the men at d,ckt Thera wa lttam enough lop aU Bronson s camp, a loud-roiced, almple mnet tha4 st fjiai, wouid folk, who did their duty as they knew aTer Ulkr ttpon any waUra, It, but had seen little of the world. jn tho eagiat.Poom Vaa citf, cut--I suppose, now." suid Bronson's W4rdiy otjm, trembled Inwardly with camp boss, "you could bring the boat a itinJ cf ecstasy. A hundred times he n..Well V the ,d m1n-" lhd Presel thel engin.s-pres.ed n0t o!6 , ,e r at ever' , them notch by notch until he thought f v that th8J- wer doln t"'' utmost; All right, boy, said the camp boa. but n0Ter had h, preBied thtm M was a square, brown man, ' now, 1Ie knew them, nut and bolt, soocked in more than one place by the throu,'. M8ry fraction of their ateady return swing of the double-bitted ax revolution, but now in the .wirling -ail right, boy, we'll vote for you." j ,uloke i ;iay Meraed Uke mad giant. For what?" rushing through their movement.. -When Mthey r electing ths sham- Yet thei- -,uslc was aa even as before, "f ' and the i lirow which shook the St. Shocky saw that they were laugh- cialr wri. as regular as a pendulum. at him, but the laugnter allpped The er ,:ne-room was like a furnace; ft his shoulders like water, and he the paint dropped In scale, from the old both question and answer to wookwork, and Van Clede tore a strip Van Clede, who listened, saying noth- tnm his shirt, wet it, and tied lt tag. an ueue liked bnocky; he called i bon, v,nicn was conu-ii.ion ; Van Clede's part, but he had tried to Uke Shocky down, and had tailed. He did not try again. 'rwica 1UU called Van Clede to the .Neither Shocky Larson, nor Van .peaking tube, aedft, uor the cmnp boss, nor Capt. j "Are you there yet?" he asked. tVIllia, of the St. ( W,:; could guess -All right so far, sir," said Van that a time was coming when what Clede. was true In all ef them was to be 1 Capt. Willis fcsd begun to feel the tried out, when all the bragging that nearness of the land, although in the at quick tongue and a careless head darkness there was neither algnal r let loo.e upon the world would ( light nor .hore line to tell him where make no difference, and the manhood ( he was. A quarter of a mile one way and the strength that was in them or the other made a difference of reef wouia snow on the out.lde, and the lw- I All summer the St. Clair went up sd down the lake and In and out at uunsun , poKing ner nose inio mud Boles and losing a fender now and then in pinches where she might have oat more with small blame; all suin- v.- r-1.,.i- .....vj v: i I ui...,ru .ugmes, coming, and the red light flashed out aad Shocky looked out for baggage at tho end of the doek. The light aud silver quarters. In the very end came too late. As it met their eyes, -of ie summer there came a long hot suddenly a tremendous shock shook pell, wlicn the piled timber at Bron- the St. Clair from stem to stern; out aoo s was hot to the touch, and shin- went the lamps in the cabin, loose ylea dropped from the roofs of the furniture, loose things upon the deck waTfhojii.es. Day after day to the leaped toward the bow. From below fcorth and west the smoke of forest came the crash of shifting freight, Srv bunr like a fog over the lake. ' Bnd passenger, and crew, wherever He hot spell was broken by a wind they stood, were dashed to the deck awl t.f the east, at first dry and and hurled forward.' Vurmng from blowing over mile, of t The St. Cluir had .truck the reef; Vakeil clearing and scorched forest, Bnd as if the shock had been a signal later lap and chilly, and bringing the whole boat aft of her funnel be wtth it banks of gray and yellow came a flaming torch. The fire seemed doud ard the promise of rain. The tJ ,uovo aiong the edges of the deck wind fnund the St. Clair steaminp at fagt as a man could walk. The saonotonously through the night, and boats were gone, the funnel trembled set her to wallowing in the troughs between the loosening stays, f liUle off-shore whitecaps. ' Willis, who had been thrown from Sow, aft of th. after gangway, on feet by the shock, leaped again to tor port side of the St. Clair, was a his place, a wide gash across his fore peeiAs of cubby -hole where the stew- head where he had struck the railing, ard lived, and aft of the after gang- and signaled for reversed engines, way on the starboard side was anoth- Back in the swirl of fire which was or Juat like it, where the clerk kept aJl the after part of the St. Clair the his books, and .lept with hi. boots signal wa. heard and obeyed, but a oat aad a lead pencil behind his esr; j thousand horse-power more could not avad between the two, in a little coop, have dragged the steamer free again, slept fihoeky. j For ten seconds after the shock it was just st the change of watch- , ss that Shocky awoke with the sound of th clerk's voice in his ear, and the smowiecge tnat something was wrong. Beyond his open door the j atwn-decks of the Ht. Clair was sycay with smoke, through which men amoved Uka shadow.. - On the upper deck the seoood officer , aravsekea at tapt. vtjui. door, aad en-( without waiting for aa answer. "TVs" re ail afire, sir," said the sec- ofSorr, "for'srd of the eagine- Tts t Clair was sa her oat trip hyT So It was oa the St. Oalr. Men sat loaded full wit freight-bores! life-preservers, aad leaped mU crates aad barrels, ahlasasaU to her side wHh than waring open O aaupaar aforaa aad a aosea Lam i- ,. ... mm rmvht with ar.m r-j ssg tao ngni kOatdgt than; lyasttwteiJ tot bar ftiuM lni ! wood which for weeka had tela dry lag upon th docks until It wu take matchwood; ahe wu aa ready to bars ui powder strlag. Capt. Willis kaew peerea sown among taa freigat upon the lower deck, and saw-the curling smoke aad the little apart si a4eaa;fla,ae! h look UP thedeee: . I above, beyond which .. were the dry .... . , J. , J woodwork of the casta aad the lav flammable apper , work.;, aad ha knew that hie heat hop. was to beaeh the St CUlr bafore .the. Are U at... fcj. eBftnea. -Ap- eut froa Momr h, x0t yet. air " -J, v.n 0ed; , a .ngine-roomr "Yes, air " ., ,lrk ,. 4w. . to itlck. Fm to run for Bron- son's. We must keep it under as mu6h M . ewanJ wt tK, h mT In, knocking at the doors and calling acrOM moh and nostrils. His ne.h ached with the heat, and he ,tood stoop-.houldered and childish- eTad. and was nrtmA of hi. anrinM or beach, or safety or destruction. Aft, the flames were licking the edge. ,,f the upper deck, but Willis signaled for reduced anaeA nn.l th Rt n-ii. with two wet cautiously as cither wav. wlth two men at her wheel, came in a cat, ready to jump At I3ronson'i thev linil ni-n her . . . there had been utter silence on the vater, broken only by the dry rush of the flames, the crackling of tor- tured Dkinks snd the useless churn Bg of the screw. Now there burst torn SO throats shrill shrieks snd and frightened agony, Haya yon eTW aeea , ,B a .beater or la a mob how from on , hs)f a doxen centers of disturbance right runs like ripples on ths water, ut snd out nntil men on the farthest wdges of the crowd sre struggling Ilm mad creatures, ther know not M deadly silence for a chair, or tatt (aijff mhUk wouV1 fettj M aaaf y hands from taa" rail aad dropped Into the water, tm all. along taa aide of the Si. Clair It waa like a salU-pond whara frogs leap from a kg Into a pool. JJu there wasa few esios of womea; these, with waits fasts and wide eyes,- wars gathered is a llttla group sa the forward deck. Oat front the rushing flames, aa by a miracle, cams Vaa dado, a soat wrapped about his head. Taa firs aad toasted him. His hair aad beard wera gone, his eyes smarted with aad his left arm hung assises by aids; hut ha was aa eoUoet aa bo fore.' He patted oat Us flakes of fire apoa his clothes, then stooped, broke both shoe-laces and kicked Ids shoos from aim. As ha rose again ha saw Shocky Larsoa, clad only la under shirt aad trousers, slinging to a stan ehioa. "Get out of here, son," said Van' Clede. "We've got to swim for it." The boy did not answer, and Vaa Clede saw thst he was erased by fright. The panic had taken hold of him. Van Clede shook him by the shoulder and the boy flattened him self against the rail and shrieked. He was a pitiful thing, without mind, without forethought; and when Van Clede dragged him from the stanchion he rushed back to it and again elasped it. Through it all the boy's teeth chattered and hla lips moved, end he said over and over to himself, ss If it were a lesson that he bad learned by rote: "I can't swim! I can't swim I I esn't swim!" Van Clede tore Shocky from the rail, lifted him by mala force and threw him over the side, and leaped after him. As he came to the surface, the boy seized him and they went down together. With his good hand Vaa Clede struck him twice in the face. The blows did not stun, al though they were meant to stun, but the boy loosened his hold and went dowa. ' When again his head came free of water, Van Clede's teeth were set in his shirt collar, and with Van Clede swimming on his back, they were making slow headway from the side of the St. Oalr. The coldness of the water, the steady pull upon his shirt brought the boy to hi. senses. He told it after ward how one fnstant all was a blur of fright, filled with red flashes and voices which stopped the beating of his heart and choked his throat with terror; then, suddenly, it was aa If something cracked in his head and he saw ciearly a. in a picture, the black side of the St. Clair, and he heard and reoogniied above the turmoil the voice of Capt. Willis, on the forward deck, as he and the first officer held back the maddened men and helped the women with the life-preservers. And Shocky Larson, in a voice which was not like the voice of Shocky Lar son at all, but like the voice of some better men, said, gasping, to Van Clede: "You don't need to be afraid of me now, Van Clede." Vaa Clede loosened the collar from his teeth, still supporting the boy'. body oa his own. "i wasn t afraid of yon, son." he said. "Put your hand on my shoulder. It's better so. Then, swimming a. best they could, they struck eut for the red light on the dock. About them they could hear noises in the water which told them that others, like themselves, were strug gling. The offshore waves running on ths reef, like sea-urchins at play, slapped their faces and choked them. The way was long. It was as if for hours they had been struggling in thf vstor. Van Clede's strokes grew shorter end weaker, his face was white evon in the darkness, and his eyes stared in their sockets. "I guess we ain't got much chance, son," he said, choking, to the boy. Then to Shocky Larson, that same frightened boy who, 15 minutes be-' lore, naa ciung snr.eKing io me ran, , there came a thought grander than any he had ever had before. ) His weight dragged an Clede down Until iha atniu nne ibnin l.nn . . 1 . ... . .. ... ..,... ........ uuuua. i Together they could never reach the j snore, ine reti ngm grew no nearer; v.. ri i i v i i uut tun vicuq uiuue imgut niuite lu One not both. And something rose in Shocky Lar son which was like a thing outside of vi.w v. n r--. n iiiiiini.ii, u 1 1 ii ijc ick ii , mu wicuc shoulder, and the water closed over ' lil . V . T rl...ii. ..HrnM. i .. ii i in , uuw i tin vicuc, kutuiiig oiut wise, seizea nim again. Alien, uui v lirtrv uwujr 111 iiiu uuik- t iiran. u iuilii luuiu iu nnu a hand was stretched out. lt was Bron son's camp boss, who had crossed from the shore to the island on a lit tle raft of railroad ties. After that the St. Clair, burning like a boa of matches, burned herself out on the reef, and the wind died down, and the day grew white behind the tree-tops. But all through the dreadful night there were three men who were a tower of atrength to others; and one of these was Van Clede, lying without doctor's aid in a shanty at Bronson's camp. There were three men who, all night, risked their lives again and agaia upon the reef and the Island for ethers. One of these was Capt. Willis, of the St. Clair, with a water soaked wound upon his forehead; one of them wss the camp bos. with hand, torn sad puffed witb water, and one was Bhocky Larson, who had come into his manhood. He would never be a bragging boy again; but day by day ha would grow more Ilka Vaa Clede and the camp boss men with simple hearts and steady bands, and their first thought a thought for others. I knew ha had It In him," ssld Vsn Cled Umg afUrward, -I knew he i aad It la him, or maybe I woun't bars aotaered so much a sous aJsa. l-ontt'a Cocupaaloa. As tao TWtsj h Beat. Baeoa That fellow's mother aaya that whea he was s baby he waa al ways patting his toe in his mouth. Egbert Yes; and he's been putting hla foot la H ever since. Yoakers gtatcsssaa. ' ' ' " Yno Potlewoe ol A . Senator's Daughter Ie prayed and preyed, papa, but things only seem to grow worse with met Senator Copperas Have patience, sty child Just look at the chaplain of the hoass aad senate! Pack. ' It All Depemds." "How's business?" asked the atrsn per who bad drifted in. The shopkeeper eyed him suspicious ly for a moment before replying. "Do yoa want to buy or sell?" he inquired at last. Chicago Post. track a New Hole, Tommy Uncle Henry's got the rheu- aiatlsm In a new spot this morning. Dicky How do you know? Tommy His swearin is different from what it generally is. Chicago Tribune. Aaa rat Him la the Shade. Hewitt What became of the girl '.hat yoa used to say was the light of four life? Jewett Another fellow came be tween ma and the light. Judge. Kcs'actir. Customer How much are eggs ? Dealer Twenty-one cents. "What do you charge 21 cents for?" "For eggs" Hrlem life. Haw It Looked. Edith She ssys her face is her for tune, Ethel How unfortunate! Puck. A Miraculous Feat. "It teemed that nothing short of a miracle could save my little daughter from an untimely death," lays City Marshall A. H. Malcolm, of Cherokee.Kan. " When two yean old ihe was taken with stomach and bowel .trouble and despite the efforts of the best physicians we could procure, she grew gradually worse and was pronounced in curable. A friend advised m' Nervine and after giving it a few days she began to improve and final ly fully recovered. She is now past five years of age and the very picture of health." field br aU Drufilats.' Dr. Miles Medlesl Co.. Elkhart, Ind. The Order of Baeeeaslos. "Of course," said the bachelor, thoughtfully, "there can be no such thing as joint rule in a family. Some one must be the head." "True, but thf scepter passes from one to another." "w " at the be lnni of marrIed ,lfe the husUnnd holtl8 it. tben it gently nnd unobtrUBively pasBe8 to the wife, ,nd he never , h M , M "she keeps it forever, 0h, no; the baby , baby gets It next." chicaco Post o gii. DrattUU. (kauiat tf4 C C C Never sold In bulk, Bsasn cl tSu Mksr who tries lo sell I hist as iooi." Friendly Criticism. Clara Mr. Simpson paid you a great compliment last night. Maude Indeed! What did he say? Clara He snld you seemed to be growing more beautiful every day. Maude That was nice. Clara Yes; and I reminded him of the old adage about practice making perfect. Chicago Dally News The war tohuf PCRK WHISKEY I direct roro lh distillery. You avoid tlia poMlbilily f aduUaratlun nj nava Ihe Johliera' and email Mlers' prollt. Tbe tlnyner IHitllllns Co.. Day on, Ohio, will eend you four full quart Heven-ear-Old Rye, ezprnu prepaid, for SS 20. Bee heir announcement appearing elsewhere In this larua. The Way. "Oh! Can wa not be mated?" he cried. "Why yes," she answered deft; "We'll fix It this sy; I'll be right. . And you, sir, will be left" I -Puck. . I Sclf-Dlatrast. ' I "What you lack," said the person who reads your character, "la self-confidence." , 1 "I can't kelp It," said the young man. 'pjo, ,n the work of preparing wtath pr,dlctpns." - Washington a. ' ' !ySJ CANDY CATHARTIC iiwV. 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A copy of the pa pers in tbe possession of an English visitor in Chicago shows that if Mme. Berndardt dies M. Maurice Jean Am broise Bernhardt, her son, married and about 35, will inherit the insurance money, together with $10O,C20 worth of real estate in Paris, an estate else- MME. SARAH BERNHARDT. (Considered by Critics the Greatest Llvtni Actress.) where in France and much money, bonds and other valuables. The statement is to the effect that the divine Sarah was born on October 23, 1844, that her father died at 37 and her mother at 51. She has no brother. Of her two sisters, one died of acci dental poisoning, the other of pneu monia. The physician makes especial mention of the fact that Mme. Bern hardt submitted most affably to the physical examination, and that, all things considered, she is the best risk he has ever examined. In answer to various questions the actress said she had been ill only once in her life, when a serious surgical operation was necessary. 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