Told by T. J. Davis and Set Down by Ralph Stock. ) THE RIVER-DRIVER. V One hears n great deal of the dan gers of sports such as mountain climbing and big game shooting, and of trades such as that of the steeple jack, but very few Wide World read ers, I imagine, have any knowledge of what is, perhaps, the hardest and most hazardous occupation on earth "river-driving." Mr. T. J. Davis, who now resides In the Northwest Territories of Can ada, knows, perhaps, as much as any man living of the dangers and fas cinations of this trade, which should more properly be called log-driving. Born as he was on the shores of one of those vast inland seas that so belie their insignificant title of "lakes," and that, joined by rivers, form a chain across Eastern Canada, he early acquired a love of the water only known to those that have to de pend upon it for a living. Gigantic floating Islands of logs, sometimes half a mile In length, lay moored to the shore almost at the door of his home, awaiting the floating village of "river-drivers" to ' Bteer them to the mills, where they are sawn into timber. Here Is the story of Mr. Pavls' evolution as a driver, told to me by himself, It is a life that seems to get hold of one after a year or two. You are generally wet through for twelve hours out of the twenty-four; ten of you sleep in a twelve by fifteen foot chanty, you live on fried everything, black strap," treacle, and stewed tea; you go to bed at 10 and get up at 3: you are everlastingly cursed and never praised by the foreman, your life is In danger more or less all day long, and you never get more than 35 a month for work that is worth $1 00. "Then why stick at It?" you say, and all I can answer is, "Just give it a fair trial for a year and then you'll know." As children we used to run out across the booms of logs, which is a good deal harder to do than you might suppose. One of tis, perhaps, . would fall through, but such an acci dent never c-oused any comment, from our companions. They would rush on heedlessly, hopping from log to log like a lot of monkeys, and leaving the unfortunate one to link a couple of feet below the surface of the water, bob up, hit his liead against an unresisting log, and gen erally scratch and bruise himself thoroughly before scrambling like a half drowned kitten to the surface once more. That is how we learned not to mind a ducking, and also to shift for ourselves when we did get one. Hive you ever tried to stand tin- right on a log perhaps a foot nciurs the butt, out in an open lake, keep ing your balance to every roll and dip of the log? Well, if you hau you would reclize better tfcs marvellous balance of the man who not only has to do this, but also maneuvre other logs down the current with a long pike pole, chain booms together with numbed flngerr, and, in fact, do the .S-'itl? cf his work while bal ancing oa a twirling, twlstlliff, half submerged tree tr'jnk. f At the apa of t'ah lean I had t get out end er.rn my own living. Times were hard, and every cne who lias a sound pair tf arms r.ndMisa has to work for right to occupy the earth down on those Eastern lake shores. v ? One mom!-.g ulor.g came an ' alli gator boat," toeing a floating colony of river-drivers to work the boom of logs that lay moored out in the lake. Here was my chance. My brothers and sisters hai. bson packed off to school, and I vas left to chop wood. Why should I chop wood for love when I could drive logs for $35 a month? I was oft across that boom of logs like a Jack rabbit, and soon found myself surrounded by a good natured ring of grizzled faces. "How's chances of a Job?" I asked, with as much dignity as 1 could as sume. A roar of laughter floated over the lake and echoed through the maples far up the banks, but it didn't abash me in the least. "You all think you're awful smart," I remarked, scathingly, "but I'll stand on a log with any one of you for the Job. If I'm put off I'll go back home and sit down, but if yon can't put me off I want work at $12 a month for a start." There was a twinkle in the fore man's eye as he said, "Done! Jack, try him a twirl." The next minute I found myself standing on one end of a small pine log, and my adversary, a hulking "driver" with spikes half an inch in length on the bottom of his boots, on the other. Slowly at first the log began to turn in the water, in answer to the pressure of my adversary's Bplkes, then quicker and quicker, till It fair ly spun round, with my naked feet pattering -way on the hard ba.k like a woodpecker's bill. Then, sud denly, my w!iy foe would stop It al most dead, and I had to wave my arms like a windmill to keep rx; bal ance, but I kept it. All the time shouts re going up from the camp raft, "Go It, kid! Stick to him! He can't get you!" First this v-r. then that, the log twirled; next, by way of variation, the lumberman would take a play ful Jump and send me and my end f the log clean out of the water. And then well, I don't know exact ly how it happened, but there was a frantic waving of long arms, and six test- of river-driver slashed Into tb lake, to reappear more In the c:r blance of a playful hippopotamus! Roar upon roar of laughter went up from the raft, and ha'.f an hour later I found myself installed in a very smelly shack as "cook's devil" r.t $12 a month and board. I stayed with this outfit for thre years, log-driving In the spring and summer and bush-working In the winter. At the age of sixteen an opportu nity happened my way that helped me out of the beaten track of river driving. Every -log has his day, and this particular one was mine. You must know that, to get the logs over rapids, the big lumbering companl"' have to build large dams at the edge of the fall to hold tack the water, leaving a narrow passage way in the middle, through which the water rushes like a mill race, carry!- - the logs swirling r.nd tumb ling ov the rapids to the next lake, The greatest care ris to be taken in sending the logs through this chan nel, and as many as fifteen to twenty men are required to keep them from "jamming." With all our care on this particular day r. "Jam" occurred A log became wedged with one or two others right acrocs the "chute. as the passage Is called. The result was the same as invariably is. Hun dreds of logs came floating slowly but irresistibly toward the chute with the current and found a resting place behind each other, with the dam as their foundation. Hundreds more came sweeping on, and, finding the current too strong to allow them to rest behind their forerunners, piled themselves 'n a muddled heap on the top. The water began to rise, and more and yet more logs piled themselves up, till a solid wall of timber at least twelve feet high stretched across the chute be hind the dam. Meanwhile therlver-drivers bound ed from log to log, risking their lives every second in the vain attempt to disengage the Jammed logs, for If the jam had given way it would hava carried every man to almost certain death "Somebody'll have to find those jammed logs and cut them," snid the foreman, ' quietly, knowing full well that he was asking some one to tempt death. "Of course." he continued, "I can't make any of you do It; unless some one offers I'll have to do it myself, but I'm kind of heavy for the job. There's $10 in it and drinks for the crowd." Six of us stepped forward simul taneously. You're all wool, boys," said the foreman admiringly, "but I'm glad the kid offered, 'cause he's the light est of the crowd." A thick rope was promptly tied se curely round my body under the arms, by way of a belt, two longer ones fixed to It on cither side, and I .vas ready for work. Skteen of the heaviest men were picked from the gang, and eight climbed up on to the dam each sde of the Jr.m. An axe was then handed to me, and hand over hand I waa let out on one side and drawn in on the othei till I hung suspended in mid air half way across the current. Then, in answer to a st-.rp crder from the foreman, the two Elles si- muHaneously comnjenced to jia j;J N OLD TlMtR'S STORY OF A SAVAGE INDIAN BATTLE. In my thirty-four years of terrl. torial life I have seen many things to be remembered as well as things to be forgotten. First It was the naked frontier with Its Indian troubles, then the brawling mining camps and later that peace and safety of life and property Incident to the westward march of law and order. It is not of these things I care to write. Cabio Blanco has exploited nis irontler experiences most enter- taingly. Many others have furrowed the same field. Largely this has been of white man against Indian and Indian against white man, but me louowing little Btory Is of a scrap between the reds. Jt was fought somewhere near the west end of the Pima-Maricopa villages, about 175 miles, in a direct line, east of here, and much further if following the various windings of the Glln along which the attacking party marched. In 1854, when the California gold fever was at white heat, the Govern ment established Fort Yuma, the first post of its kind in the Southwest. It was located on an ingenious bluff overlooking the Colorado River. It was built for the suppression of law lessness at that particular place. It was at this point the old Yuma trail crossed the river. Robbery and murder were of common occurrence. In this work the hostile Indians had but little advantage over some of his white brethren, who infested the crossing of the Colorado Life was held lightly In those days by the men who rough-hewed the way civili zation was to follow in the Southwest. pectation of easy victory the allies lert the Colorado and followed the Gila till they reached the flrBt Mari copa village. This they believed to have been near where the Phoenix & Maricopa Railroad now crosses the river. In the gray dawn of early morn ing they struck the west end of the village with terrible shock. To their surprise they found only a few old squaws, whom they ruthlessly butchered, and Btill a few others a little further in. an additional whet tp their thirst for blood. Suddenly in front and on both sides the allies were attacked by an overwhelming force. With terrific yells they closed In on the invaders and then began one of the most desperate and bloody battles ever fought by In dians in the Southwest. Finding themselves trapped, the allies faced about and heroically struggled to ex tricate themselves.. The overlapping nanus or tne Marlcopr.B and their al lies, the Pimas and Papngoes. dark ened the way with flights of arrows, spears and stones, but In the agony of desperation the Colorado Indiana succeeded In breaking through only to be clubbed, Bpeared or shot in the running fight that followed. This is known to have continued for forty miles. Of all that left the Colorado River with such high hopes, but few lived to return, and those to die of exhaustion and wounds. They had put up a hard fight, but went down under the weight of numbers. The fatal trap had been barbarously baited with a few old squaws. The invaders unsuspectingly entered it and their doom was sealed. Quarter was neither asked nor given, and the brains of the wounded and ex- hauted were beaten out by the sav age women that followed in the line of pursuit. Never in the lives of the allied i'ope, and I began to sink Towar and lower toward the jammed log, which creaked and rasped omlnouily under the strain of the water behind them. I cannot remember any other cen sation than of suppressed excite ment as I reached the level of the water and finally stood on the trem! ling, groaning mass of logs a mas that might sink from beneath 'my feet at any moment. I was only sit teen, and $10 was a lot of money to me, apart from the glory of the achievement. Carefully I crept to the edge of the mass of logs; then I slowly slid from log to log down to the seething water below. Where were the jammed logs? That was the ques tion. Above me rose the butts and top; of innumerable logs. What if thej gave way now? I should be hurled to my death at once. Hastily put ting the thought from me, I felt be neath the surface of the water with the axe handle. Yes, there- they were, firmly wedged a foot down. Then I set to with a will, the water splashing all over me. With each stroke of the axe a tremor went through tne pile on which I stood. It seemed as if I had been chop ping an hour. My herrt was thump ing against my ribs with the exer tion, and I gasped for air between the douches of cold water that splashed me from head to foot. Sud denly, without the slightest warning, there was a report like a muffled re volver shot, a stream of water shot into my face, a hoarse cry came from somewhere above, and I feK myself Jerked from my feot high into the air, sinking, rising, and again sink ing like a bouncing ball. Then, with a roar and a mighty splash, the whole structure of piled up logs on which I had been standing three sec onds before collapsed like a house of cards, and log after log went sweeping and eddying through the chute and over the rapids to the lake below. Either the jammed log had broken or I had chopped It through; no one ever knew which. I don't quite know how they got me back on to the dam, for the first thing I remember after that was see ing a green piece of paper In my left band that I knew tcr be the promised $10 bill, and a ring of perspiring, g rioted faces close to mine, breath ing gruff congratulationa. TbeWid yorld Magazine. , Shortly after the location of the post an effort was made to chastise rluea had they lost so many of their the Indians, and thus put an end to , uest men- In anticipation of easy their continuous deviltry. The post Is on the California side of the river and the Indians to be punished were in Arizona then New Mexico. The troops crossed the river and made a campaign of five days without see ing so much as a hostile Indian, but no sooner had they returned to quarters than the Indians showed up on the opposite side of the river and went into camp in full view of their would-be pursuers. It was later learned that the hostlles had fallen In behind the troops, marched when they marched, camped when they camped, without the soldiers being aware of it. The principal .Jncheria of the Yuma Indians, then, an now, was on the Arizona side of te river, about 100 miles to the north of the post. As depredations continued to go on it became neces sary to teach them a salutary lesson in good manners. This was done at the upper rancheria in the way of Durned villages, wasted crops and dead Indians. It was hitting them where they lived and was too much for paint and feathers. A peace with the white man was made and never broken. At the time when the post was established the Yuma Indians some times known as Cuchans were under the command of a noted war chief known as Caballo v Peln (Horse and Hair). He is said to have been one of the greatest war victory and consequent plunder many of their squaws had gone far to meet them. They were frenzied with grief over the unexpected results. It is said that their waillngs and lamenta tions could be heard for miles. Among the noted Yumas killed was Francisco, a chief well known to the few whites then llvln- in the coun try. It was through his influence that the famous Olive Oatman had been given her liberty by the Mo javeB, she having been purchased by them from the Apaches. For a time it was feared that the Maricopas, emboldened by their suc cesses, would attack the Yumas on the Colorado, and all available war riors were held in readiness to meet them. The women und children were sent to the rancheria on tho California side of the river, and numerous rafts were prepared for the crossing of the warriors In case they were again beaten; but the vic tors were satisfied to let well enough alone. Beyond an occasional meet ing of a few bold spirits, this battle ended hostilities between- the two tribes, and animosities have so far been forgotten that Intermarriages have taken place between them. This has been due mostly to the schools at which the young peoplo of the different tribes are in attendance. The Maricopas had been advised of the proposed raid of the Y'umas by the Cocopqhs. These were also New York City. Here is one ot the latest and prettiest of tho over waists designed for young girls. It Is eminently youthful in effect, it is eminently graceful in line and it Is available for every seasonable ma terial. In this Instance light blue veiling is trimmed with braid and fancy banding and Is edged with a piping of velvet while there are V Bhaped pieces of embroidered muslin that give extreme daintiness and charm to the whole. The gulmpe beneath is of a simple embroidered net, but as this Is entirely separate it can be varied to suit one dress or another and can be made from any For the Dressy Woman. Heavy cluny or filet or Irish lac trims many of the handsomer' linen frocks, and, by the way, the dyers who cater to the smart trade now advertise the redyelng or dipping of colored .linen frocks which have faded or changed color In wearing or laundering. Over Blouse or Jumper. The over blouse that can be closed at the front Is a novelty and a wel come one, for no matter how charm ing the bodice may be that closes at the back it Involves more or less difficulty to the wearer, whereas this one Is simple In the extreme. In the illustration it is made of one of the novelty pongees showing lines of green on a natural colored ground, ' and is trimmed with green velvet and tiny ribbon pleating, but It can be utilized for almost every seasonable material. It is very charming la pongees of all sorts and the material is eminently fashionable,' but It also is well suited to the light weight wools and to all the so-called "sum mer ' silks," while in addition it would make up most charmingly In the Bummer materials of warm weather wear such as embroidered Swiss muslin, flowered batiste voile, plain and figured, and the like. The waist is made with front, back and sleeves. It is cut out at the shoulders to form open V-shaped por tions, while It Is laid In pleats at the shoulders that provide becoming ful ness. The sleeves are separate and seamed to the arms' eyes and the closing can be made either invisibly or with buttons and button-holes. The quantity of material required! chiefs the Yumas ever had. He died , r"er Indians, but residents of Lower In JS58 and was succeeded by Pas- California. From 'all tlnje," they tfliat. say, they have been at enmity with Ihen, as now, the Indians on the Colorado burned their dead, and with the body all personal belongings of the dead and such articles in the way of weapons, food aud finery as friends and relatives contributed to comfort the departed one In his fateful Journey to the spirit land. Horses were stolen Trom the whites, sacrificed over the ashes of tha dead chief, and then roasted and eaten. With much feasting, loud lamenta tions and wild outbursts of wild bar baric grief the assembled people re called his parting admonition to the head men of his tribe to "never make peace with the Maricopas." The upper river men were their friends, but the men of the desert were their enemies, and among them the Maricopas were never to be trusted. The dead chief had been a man of much authority In his day, and his parting Injunction sank deep into the hearts of the fighting men of his tribe. Councils of war were held, and It was decided to de stroy the Maricopas. To this end assistance was asked of the Chimo huevas, Mojave and Yavanals, friend ly tribes living to the north and northeast of the Yumas. The two former were river Indians, but tho Yavanals were one of the hill tribes that did much to make the name of Arizona a synonym for blood and murder. The most noted fighting men of these tribes offered them selves for the occasion, and to this force of several hundred men, the pick and pride of the3e several peoples, was assigned tho destruc tion of tho Maricopas. They rendez voused at the Junction of the Gila and Colorado rivers, within the limits of the present town of Yuma. From that point they began their fateful march against the Maricopas. The Pima and Maricopa Indians lived in scattered villages along the Gila River, the nearest village being distant about 175 miles east of the place of rendezvous. To the south and southeast ot them lived the Papagos, a tribe of desert Indians to whom they were-closely allied by blood and marriage: Collectively the three tribes could gather to gether a fighting force of about 1000 men, but the Yumas and their allies had no thought of meeting such a combination. The Piraa-Maricopas were to be surprised and slaughtered In full settlement of centurlt of ac cumulated grievances. Big with i- the Yumas. A strip of land twenty five miles along the river, between the two tribes, was considered neu tral ground, but between the Coco pahs and Maricopas friendly Inter course had long been kept. Coco pahs were employed on the steamers that occasionally found their way up the river with Government freight. These tho Yumas invariably killed if they were indiscreet enough to leave the protection of the white man's boat. It was while so em ployed that the Cocopahs learned of the intentions of the Yumas to raid and massacre the Maricopas. Cer tain it Is that Maricopa scouts kept their people Informed of every move made by the Invaders, for at least two days before they reached the vil lages, where they were Impatiently awaited in overpowering numbers. Correspondence in Forest and Stream. Jiqnc Wood Ties. Mahogany is often used for ties by the railroads in Cuba, as well as in other tropical countries, but Sir William Van Home has forbidden It on his road. He considers it a crime to cut small mahogany trees, as there Is plenty of other timber in the for ests suitable for construction pur poses. - Jique (pronounced hickey), acana, Jucaro negro, all hard woods which do not grow large and cannot be utllired for cabinet work, are Just as good as mahosany for ties and will outlast steel rails in this climate, because they won't rust. On the rail road between Neuvitas and Cama guey, the oldest in Cuba, which wa3 built In 1S3S, are Jique ties which have been taken out and used for fenco posts after fifty years. Some of them have been taken out and used for fence posts after thirty years In tho railroad bed. There is a tramway at Camajuey with rails of jique wood, over which tho cars have been running for more than a quarter of a century and they do not show wear any more than steel after the same service. Much of the wood is so bard and heavy that it will sink in water. Chicago Record-Herald. In the Canary Islands many build ings are constructed ot pumice stone, and In Ceylon a stone called "ca book," a species ct pumice, U em ployed (or the same purpose. suitable material. The over blouse Is sufficiently full to be extremely be coming to girlish figures and will be found available both for the entiro frock and the separate blouse. It would be very charming in pongee or any one of the lovely cotton veil ings that are shown in such pretty checked designs, while it also can be made available for the Btill thin ner materials of the summer such as the flowered mousscllnes, spider silks, the embroidered batistes, Swiss muslins and the like. The over blouse is made in one piece and is yrtd In pleats over the shoulders. Tne right front Is lapped over the left and attached to posi tion, the closing being mado In visibly at the back. The fulness at tho waist lino can be regulated by means of a tape inserted in a casing, or the waist can be gathered and stitched to a narrow belt. The V shaped portions are optional and can be used or omitted as liked. The quantity of material required for the sixteen year size is two and one-half yards twenty-one or twenty seven, one and one-quarter yards thirty-two or forty-four inches wide and three and one-half yards of band ing and one-quarter yard any width for the V-shaped portions when these are made of contrasting material. for the medium size Is two and three-quarter yards twenty-seven, two yards thirty-sit or one and three eighth yards forty-four Inches wide with sis and one-quarter yards of pleating and six and one-auarter 'yards of banding. New Gloves. A new Idea in long gloves Is to have the hand of kid and arm of silk or iace or vice versa. The effect is rather quaint, especially if the lae on the arm be fine meshed, but when the hand is of silk or lace and the arm of suede or glace kid the en semble Is good and tends to make the hand appear smr.ller. The de mand for black gloves Is on the in crease. Black for gown or hat is Increasing all the time. Not to say. of course, that 'l madame's or mademoiselle's best frocks will be in black, but a larg portion of them will bo, or else tjlored ones gener ously touched with black. Wtone of Tan Hom. t Fashionables are predicting an ap proaching decrease in the sale of brown stockings. They say that gun metal, 4 peculiar shade of dark gray, isalready usurping their place.
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