The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 14, 1905, Page 15

} Old Enoch Gray lived in the now almost forgotten town of Castaway, on the coast of Maine, and his son “Scat” lived with him. . Old Enoch a grizzled veteran of over sevent ears, a relie of the civil war, in which he had done good service as a pilot in the fleets of Du- pont and Porter, but was now badly crippled by rheumatism, and the re- sults of his fifty years’ exposure to the wind and weather in all quarters of the globe, He had long been qa widower, and the only one left of his numerous children was this son, christened Samuel Carter, now twenty-two years of age, and as long and lank and homely as could be found on the en- tire coast. Because Samuel Carter had a kind of feline expression and from his earliest babyhood could climb like a cat, anything from the old lib- erty pole on shore to the mast of a vessel at sea when the winds were blowing great guns, and because he had a habit of making a sort of pur- ding sound, when about to speak, the children had first nicknamed him “Pussy,” and then someone said “Scat,” and “Scat” it was thenceforth, Old Enoch was the captain of one of the many pleasure boats and now the most sought for, when the sum- mer boarders wanted a man in whose knowledge of seamanship they had the most implicit confidence, and whose prophecies of the winds and all possible storms were so much more to be relied upon than “Old Improba- bilities,” as they called the Weather Bureau at Washington, If the party was to be large and the trip was to be to one of the many Islands and in- cluded a clam-bake and chowder din- ner, “Scat” generally accompanied his father, and many stories were told of , his creat strength ond remarkable agility, and jokes were made at the size of his immense feet. It was said his shoes were made on a_ special “las and he always insisted on having the soles filled with great brass-headed nails, Castaway aves in those days, and may he yet, the home of many sa- loons and driuking places, and the “SCAT,” AS HE LOOKED, street bordering on the wharves was lined with them, wacve Jack when ashore was wont to leave not only all his hard-earned doll: but his manli- ness and happy disposition, and to be transformed into a fighting and quar: relsome brute. Late on an afternoon, as Captain Gray and “Scat” were nearing their anding place, with a party of young people, Captain Dick Lardaker, full of bad gin and worse temper, stag- gered down to the wharf, and with deep-muttered curses watched them as they prepared to disembark. Years before Captain Dick had been one of the town's best-trusted sailing mas- ters and most-respected representa- tatives but on an unfortunate voyage had run his ship on the rocks and lost crew and cargo. In spite of: his personal bravery and proof that the accident was unavoidable and through no fault of his, the Scotch verdict of “not proven” had been given, and he had falled to get anoth- er ship. This and the mishap itself had soured his disposition and changed him from a bluff-hearty sail- or, into a drunken, quarrelsome loafer. ‘He was a man of powerful frame, standing six feet two inches in his stocking feet, and was given a wide berth by all his quondam friends and shipmates, especially when, as was most generally the case, he was under the influence of bad liquor. The two eaptains had been old friends, and had weathered many a gale together, but now seldom spoke. That morning Captain Dick had met the pleasure _ party and offered his boat and ser- vices, but his habits were well known, and his blood-shot eyes bore proof, only too plainly, of the last night's potations, which the many morning drams had failed to rectify. When ten minutes later the party engaged old Enoch, and one of the boys flip- pantly remarked, “No Scotch verdict or bad whiskey for us,” Captain Dick turned away with an angry oath and muttered that he would take his re ~~ Wenge later. After the boat was fied up, and Enoch and his son were leaving the wharf, preceded by his party, Cap- tain Dick strode over, planted himself "directly in front of the old man, and him vile name, added: pi os know I always want to and sneaks, whenever I wat meet them.” Captain Enoch's eyes ashed—for he himself had been a fa- mous fighter in his day, and no man had ever doubted Ins courage—but he answered quicily, “Tut, tut, Captain Dick, we're too old friends to quarrel about nothing, and anyway you know my fighting days are over.” “Yes, damn you, didn't I say you were a sneaking old hypocrite, and only fit to sail a lot of dudes and school girls?” “Well, I'm going to slap that griz- zled old face of yours, and then per- haps you'll get up spunk enough to strike back, so I can have an excuse to throw you overboard.” Cries of “shame, shame,” were heard from the loungers near, for everyone loved Cap- tain Enoch—and were beginning to hate Captain Dick—and two of the bright college boys that composed the late sailing party hastened back to do what they could to prevent the threat | from being put into execution, Suddenly a sort of purring sound was heard behind them, as) “Scat's” long body pushed them aside, and in his slow, hesitating, almost girl-like voice, he said: “Captain Dick, don't | THE APPARITION, ! you strike my father.” Captain Dick {stared In stupid) amazement, “Why, | you young fool, clear out of my way, | I've half a mind to double you up and | drop you overboard, before I do the old man; get out of my way,” he} | thundered, The pupils of “Seat's” eyes nur. rowed, as do those or his feline pro- totype when cornered big dog, but he stood y un- cornered and looking as u awkward as if at a sch tion, The captain star him, with his arms ra and his powerful fist clenched, and old Enoch and hastily grabbed a club that lay on the | ¢: wharf, tut “Seat” said softly: “Never mind, Pap—fust you watch me.” Stepping rapidly backward, as the captain continued to ad deftly caleulated the distance quick as lightning threw spring. Instead of landing nee, he a on his feet, he shot out those immense hob- nailed shoes with fearful force, land- ing them both full in the captain's face, cutting it to the bone in a dozen places. Captein Dick dronped as if hit by a cannon ball, without even a groan. A week later, when he slowly dragged himself from his bed, and got the first view of his swollen eyes, his broken nose, and his — generally cut up and distorted features, he mut- tered, “What a whale of a squall must have struck v Then opened his cabin door, walked out, find the good people of the village saw him ho more, V—_—_—_ They Worked the Fraternity. The Grand Regent of the Reval Ar- eanum, of the District of Columbia, | tells a story on himself, how after pa- tiently urging, persuading and nagging, he managed to get a fellow a nt- ance to join his order. This new mem- ber,—say Mr. Smith—after joining was at first delinquent in paying his dues, and the great mogul of the fraterni hadmuch trouble in getting him to p up. After a time, much to his surpris ; Mr. Smith sent his money in promptly }on the day it was due; then he sent in {his money two months in advance. A short time after, Mrs, Smith came inio the Grand Regent's place of busines: and said, “Won't you please come around to see Mr, Smith, he is very ill.” Of course the kind-hearted Regent went. He found Smith very ill, indeed, so sick that the physician had told him his time on earth was limited, and Smith took occasion to thank the Re gent for getting him to join the order so that he might not pass away leav- ing his family unprovided for. Smith) died. His widow then beseeched the Regent to try to get her some work to do so that she might support her family. The Grand Regent was again obliging, and by hard work and an un- limited amount of red tape, got her through the civil service examination and she obtained a position in one of the Government Departments. Just be fore receiving her notice to go to work (about six months after her husband’s demise) she appeared again at the Grand Regent’s office and said: “I want to thank you for what you have done for me. I have just re- ceived my appointment, but I don't think I will take the place; I have something better. I want to ask one more favor, won't you please recom- mend this party’s admission to your order?” “Well, now, Mrs. Smith,” said the Regent, “that is something I can’t do ; without knowing the applicant.” y of DEATH IN A SNOW STORM. An Interesting Account of a Winter | come over quick Spent in the Wilds of Idaho. Eastern people, said the old miner, | let some of the women get oue of the as he deftly caught a live coal from the wood fire, around which we had gathered after our day's hunt in tie Maine woods, and thrust the it in falls of the heavy of th Reckies and the or wh | dh re is often caused from the ¢ jcumulated weight. I remember well, he added, hearing my father tell how in) York biat | back in the thirties, that the fall was once so ¢ at the men v » com snow Sie t look, from the level, into the second story window. But as I passed the first twenty years of my life in that town and witnessed nothing more remarkable than drifts over the top rails of fences and the temporary blocking of the — scarcely-traveled back roads, I conclude those — stories must have gained somewhat from the lapse of years, He smoked rapidly and quietly for |a moment, perhaps to gather his thoughts a little and resumed, ‘W the fall was so excessive and contin uous once In Idaho Territory upon the timber of 12x14 below which the en- | sine had been built, was bent almost to breaking. We feared our extra weight would surely break it, but fortunately the weather changed, the warm south wind blew up the canyon and the snow below the eaves of the building settled so that we could dig | nieht | that the space under the huge mass and by had caused a minature snow slide and relieved the strain. I believe, how- ever, the timber never regained its normal position, Lut in the mining town in the Sierras where I wintered in the early sixties, our first snow fell during October and in the morning hiy four feet on the level, The stor lasted about forty-eight hours and we then had beautiful weather for ral weeks, y melted, the gov. frame of a horse m, from which the waron ox h be crushed to splinter even es of the wheels being torn an: fed out of all recogniti From the last ef November rms were of ve we until, by ment, the snow jon the level, |whatever was of impossible, sut snow shoes, and every man, | ascent ¢ course «l is with a leather band about one-th from the tee by which the foot ly held .by its forward pressure, ve of the shoe grocefully turned upward, we learned to brag of and cherish them, as the rider does his horse, as well we might, for with- out them we were help! The hot- tom of the shoe is m: ag smooth as glass and covered ter each trip with a mixture of tallow and bees- wax. <A stout hickory pole, chosen with great care, about six feet lont and with a knob on the end, is the guiding rudder, and the expert soon the s. learns to ss near, and often be- tween, objects where the — slightest miscaleulation would mean death. As the speed, down any steep moun- tain side, often exceeds qa mile a min- ute, the modern cyclist or auto is not | « in it. Of course in these deep snows the one story cabin of the miner would soon be buried, but care is always n to shovel away as far as the accumula that ¢ with the earlier storn When t are piles everywhere and shovelling becomes usel the snow is per- niitted to lie where ft falls and in gress and egress to the cabin is made ons by way of the ¢ No fires fur h are neeced, as not a brea r ean enter the ‘in and mn are in the the fire place on a crane. n k pt free from cept such as ean be amp kettles, hung and above it, and it is absolutely « sential that between it end the roo the snow must be kept cleared aw: ranged in the chimn limbing and when the miner enters his cabin he stands his shoes in the snow bank a short way from the chimney, as otherwise his home could not readily be found. Once more he paused, refilled and lighted his pipe and said as if to him- self. And it all happened over forty years ago. The two Carlton brothers, veterans of the Civil War from Maine, where they claimed to have some snow storms of their own, lived in a cabin some little distance from the main street. The huge banks of snow had long since covered it and, like many others, for several weeks they had srawled in and out of it through their chimneys, This was their first win- ter in these mountains and they had been often warned to keep the place below the chimney clear from snow, lest the top be covered some night and they be smothered. But they had laughed good naturedly and said they were cld backwoodsmen and were not afraid. After a storm of unusual severity which had lasted several days the question was asked in the loafing room of the hotel (a “Oh, he is aii right, I can assure you,” she replied, “he's my husband.” —_—_— oS There is one pawnshop in Paris op- erated by the government, where the average number of watches pawned a day is one thousand, and where on an average one thousand wedding rings are pawned each week. ne At Rajputna, India, is one of the largest artificial lakes or reservoirs in the world. This reservoir, covering an area of 21 square miles, known as the Great Tank of Dhebar, is used for irrigating parposes, ‘ big three story building where a half hundred miners made their home), if any one had seen or heard of Alf. Cariton, his brother Jim having snow-shoed to an adjoining fown the week before. No one had, and the former spokesman added, “Well, you know he's a tenderfoot and isn’t any too careful about keeping the chim- ney open, as he should be.” A few minutes later the speaker and moving to the window (we and departed from the sec- | About bowl of his pipe, have but little idca | ling episodes, to get r ady for almost juny kind of contingency; and before the bey had stopped tal s, more ten minutes later the boy glided up to the window, opened it] and called out, “Pap says ail of you . bring lots of snow of blankets, shovels and a coupie bed rooms war und make some hot soup and coffee.” It don't take much time for us old fellows lives are full of tragedies and start- than two dozen sirong i willing men and seve of the other sex, not always the weaker 6ex in a mini up. Were gliding over the interyen- half mile. It was a beautiful rning after the storm and in the | pelled to org . isp air of that great altitude away the big drifts from many of | °"* t stood out as clear and }the houses, and that when driving | distiact all nature rejoiced, and along the streets one could almost | 20 tho tof death was possible, The sreen branches of the many Pp were heavily weighted with the late- ly fallen sno nd the level expanse of Meadow Lake with its white coy- ering glistened in the bright sunlight like an immense mirror, Not a word was spoken nor a sound heard in the still air, except the swish of our snow shoes, as we glided rapidly toward Carlton's cabin, This was built, as I have said, a lit tle distance from the more thickly settled part of the town (although how very many of the smaller cabins were buried out of sight and upon steep roof of our mill, that the large | Our arrival, nothing could be seen to distinguish its position, except a huge mound of snow and the ends of two show shoes; presumably where the chimney was, ‘Two dozen willing hands were soon hard at work, clear- Ing away the huge drifts, and as seen as the chimmey was uncovered we |} found, as we feared and expected, ‘round it) had been | permitted to He and harden. It was | but too plain that what had fallen during this previous storm had raptl- filed the small space below the ey cap, and the eahin been her- metically sealed. As soon as the opening was made, a couple. of us climbed down. Poor Carlton stood, leaning against the Ddricks of the chimney; fully clothed, even to his When tne snow had p:r-| ten- | thick with a close, foul o+ d beon removed, was found to! on his person, He had evid them, | ' | blossom, embiem of Korea, and two) pigeons, symbolic of the postal ser- vice. In 1718 a French scholar nam jold nails, bolts and the like. blue a ry overcoat, and the air was There up ly slopt 1 from and be- Were ho matches in the ea and soundly and re sitions when he aw eme par elous that he was hoing smotl! hat he had become howildered gnd had wandered aimless round the ea! 18 O41 in w dent by ticles strewn upon the floor, and he finally f athe ehinney, heen too werk to make the do had gradually fallen into when da wong nore or loss | his list sleep, of an We used the Norwegian We jad he had been dead for shoe ¢ , for with them the! forty or more, and as the ort Is nd furious, Eleven foet | s g SO Nereely at that long and about four inehes road, | t ho means certain tl he could bave been rescued, had Col on boen known, The Ledy his pped in Dlankets and tenderly earried to the hotel nd py tired at once for burial. * The grave W dug near an old pine tree through twenty-four foot of snow, and steps had to be eut to lead down to the ground, There was no minister in the camp, but one of the women brouvht ort ap sr hook and the burial service was read and probably each one of us sent up some sort of a prayer, that he might make a hap- py landing on the other shore, Over a hundred men and women on snow shoes accompanied the body from the hotel to the grave, the wind singing a soft requiem as we laid the bo wway in that great white sepul- Bricfs from Everywhere. whose } FREE! LADIES THIS Handsome Fur deatt GIVEN AWAY will send you Send us your name and address and frce aad post-paid 24 s of our je ¥ novelties to sell at 10 cents cach, Ever dy you show them to will buy them of you. Whea sold sead us the $2.40 aad we will at once send you this Handsome Fur Scarf It_is nearly 48 inches long, made from black Lyax x full, bush y latest style, and we ed with it. When you c you Will say ic is the most elegant and thoroughly rood fur you have ever seen. Nothing similar to this scarf has ever before been offered asa premium; it will give f ry wear. It gives a@ stylish, dressy effect to prearence. The only reasoa wecan oler th alarce number of them made upforus by one of the ge furrices during the summer when trade was quiet; this is the only reason we are able to offer such an expensive premium. We hope you will teke adv ge of our offer without delay. This Is ea extraordinary offer and cannot be duplicated by any other rci'able concern. We trust you with our Jewelry uatil sold, It costs you nothing to get this fur, Address, COLUMBIA NOVELTY CO., Dept. G55, East Boston, Mass- New Walk For Women, From London comes startling re- | ports of a new figure and a new pose j Which have been called into existence by the winter fashions. Women who have for the last year been lightly tripping in the short “trottoir” skirt have found that they must adapt their style of walking to the new or der of thhiuss. A slow, lan suorous movement of the limbs fs tucrefore cultivated, as being more conductive to grace when wearing the long “red- HOLIDAY PRESENTS Men’s Suspenders Arm Bands, Ladies’ Garters with the unique new fad PHOTO LOCKETBUCKLE imgote” coat and the newly intro- Anhreiboee belly) ~ aie rial : arly appropriate no duced princess style s. hich’ phomarepie can } ‘The new wa ts Just a little sug- ted, AN INEXPENSIVE GIFT, COSTINOONLY ONE DOLLAR EACH, The photo locket buckles are extra: heavy gold and silver plated, on which you can en grave initials or monograms. The web is best quality silk, in fascinating shades of Bam blue, white, and black, and they ed in anractive ve of the “Gibson ;irl, modified form, is held up- right at the r with the | slightest forward bend at the walst, the head is erect, the chin in and the legs swing from the hins, The cor- rect poise is not attained all at once— accordins to the London Express—and at the 7 nis, where | society is now graduating in the art but in a of how to walk i invote.” same | very drastic © are ven. ‘The | clice of sleeping on the back or] fone side is fatal to ‘he new poise, If the woman of fashion would look \ }tall and stately she must sleep face EWES @ POTTER jdownwartd, with a pillow tightly | uder and Belt Makers in the World, }wedged moder her chin in order to » £7 Lincoln &t,, Boston, Mase, t Looklet, oh avoid sulfo — | Climate in the Philippines, nent says © is no subject ch more nonsense has been written than that of the bad effects of the Philippine climate on the health of officers and sol 8 ee Returns from California show that the value of the orange crop shipped out of that State last season was $23,- 925,000, Of this sum the growers re- ceived $14,500,000 and the railroad and refrigerator lines $9,425,000, i =a empties aw tead of into hia fac easily an thly, mak ng very le noise, Our new recoil-oper= devi Tr The average number of hairs which grow on the head of a red-haired man is a little over 20,000 hairs. Dark 3 fare Lata b 390 te hair is three time fine and the ay- i : Seaelanes Rk a erage crop is about 105,000, while a three stamps. fair-hatred man or woman averages from 150 to 175 thousand hairs, PHOTOGRAPHERS hrow Your Bottles and Scales Away oO YOU ENOV and scales cause you trouble? put up READY TO USE. y and add the water— $s of developer No intox'e » allowed Th sian prisoners ja 12, My ve iu One ounce of 7 er enough, if lift ten thousand t oat he sina comets which \ thou- elosed for interments over a and yeurs ago. The Denver and Rio Grande Rail- road is employing Navajo Indians as section hands, finding them: better | workmen than South Europe laborers. The herring is one of the most miz- | ratury of fish. They are only caught | as a rule during the spawning mn Where they go to after that not | known. is The new pos' stamps which Ja- | pan is printing for Korea show a cliry- santhemum, emblem of Japan, a plum Henzoin published a work about ¢ beginning with A who he ¢ | was 123 feet 9 es tall, Eve being only five feet shoricr. The rail of the } serap heap country last year reached the of $1,250,000, This was the v picked-up coupling pins, wasie fF per, The dress of Persian women on thc street is so uniform that a man can- not recognize his own wife, mother or daughter and to lift the veil of a woman on the street in Persia is a capital offense. The English cottagers are the most flower-loving people in the world. Many of their flowers are descended from the gardens of the monasteries dis- established by Henry VIII. The cot- tages themselves, whether they are owned or rented, descend from genera- tion to generation and are in the true sence homes, ers you oniy make Send 25 cenis f ient for 24 ounces of devel- 1 oper for Velox, Azo, ¢ ces of Piate and | Fitm Developer—a D gere or nails, and is non-poisonous. We have a Sepia Toner for gaslight papers, 6 tubes, 25c. NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC CHEMICAL COMPANY llth St. and Pean Ave., @® £=Washington, D. Cc. Every reader of this paper should have this book. , Cut off the coupon and mail to us with $1.50. ha Illustrated by Ernest Haskell Published August st 18TH THOUSAND ALREADY All Bookstores. $1.50 rad ¥ \ Mi i | iSsourian | | The romantic adventures of John Dinwiddie Driscoll (nicknamed ‘Te Storm Centre at the Court of Maximilian in Mex ice ere his secfet mission comes [ato conflict with of he best romantic American Bovel of re- cent years. the beautiful Jacqueline, . “lias what so few of ils class possess, the elements of reality, wrought by infinite pains of detail, verisimilitude, suggestion.” —St. Louis Republic. f f “A remarkable first book, of epic breadth, carried through une £ 4 4* h swervingly. A brilliant story."—N, Y. Times Saturday Review, “There is no more dramatic period in history, and the story bears every evidence vf cureful and painstaking study.” —N. Y. Globe. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. ar . 133-137 East 26th St., New York. & a %