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VOL XIV.
A TERRIBLE NIGHT.
A story of the Michigan pineries,
There were four of ns college boys
and Raymond, the engineer of a
shingle mill at Ontanagan. Wu had
been boarding at his house. The mill
had shut down for a few weeks, and
he had gladly joined in our tramp,
eager as a boy for the free life of the
woods.
We had found an old lumber camp
for our camping place. Before it our
fire was burning. Raymond was the
only smoker in the party. He filled
his pipe and leaned back upon the
pile of hemlock boughs to watch the
moon comefclimbing over the tops of
tue trees.
It was nearly twenty years ago
boys, began Raymond, just after the
war, that I went to work in a lumber
camp on the Muskegon River. I was
a young fellow then, to light for an
axe, and they put me to driving a
tote team. It was a tiresome, lone-
life, I can tell y T o«. A fellow had to
be out in all kinds of weather with
no company but his horses. Many
times have I spent the night on the
road with the wagon stuck fast in the
mud, or with a big tree blown across
the road.
There was only one house on the
road between the town and the camp.
That was a little log cabin where old
man Billings lived with his wife and
daughter. It got so that I couldn’t
get by that place without stopping
for a drink of water or to ask themld
man some questions I made up on
the road. The horses got so they’d
stop right in front of the house every
trip.
We had the roughest crew in our
camp that you ever saw. There was
nothing mean for them to do, and
jthtfy^got the upper hand of the boss,
and'so they had things their own
way.
One morning I got up early to
feed ray horses so I could get a good
start and reach Billings in tiese for
breakfast. Four of the roughest men
in camp followed me out to the sta-
hies and asked me right out if I
would smuggle a jug of whiskev back
with my load. It was dead against
the rule, and I knew it,but when thev
told me in so many words, that I
didn't care to do it, I was foolish
enough to promise. As things hap¬
pened, it’s a good thing, perhaps,that
I did it.
I bought the whikey and started
back to camp just after dinner. I had
two passengers. I hey were the quiet-
est workmen in camp, good friends
of mine, both of them. They knew
nothing about the whisky, and I was
ashamed to tell them about it.
I he thing never would have hap-
pened anyway if ray wagon seat had
held. It broke down just as we reach-
ed the middle of the little hill in
front of old man Billings house. I
had my feet out over the wagon when
it broke, and I fell under the horses’
^ cc ^’ 1 , e y stopped as soon as they
j could 1 could trust them for that
but lH ‘ foro tho wason camo to
stlll the front wheel ran over my leg,
! anc ^ ^ cou ^ ^ ear lt sna P like a stick,
Charlie and Ben both jumped to
the ground in time to save them-
selves. I hey pulled me out from un -
der the load and laid me on some
| grain sacks at the top of the wagon,
j It was only a few rods down the hill
to the house. Charlie drove the hor
I ses on while Ben held me in the
on. We drove right into the
and I tell you I felt bad when Mary
Billings came to the door with her
big eyes wide open with fright.
Th C if 1 nas an f® in the 1,0 7
Her „ faihei f and , mother had . to
. gone
town * She was afraid to be left alone
As I lay on the bag I could see,stands
ing the corner, a bright shot gun,and
I knew she could use it if necessary,
’f| )C boys carried me into the kitch-
cn and put me down on the lounge
by the stove. Oh! jhow my’ leg hurt
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me! I began to feel faint and dizzy
as they tried to move my foot. The
awful grating of that broken bone
filled me with a terrible feeling. The
boys did their best to make me com¬
fortable. Charlie proposed taking
one of the horses to ride back to town
after a doctor.
He had even started for the door
to carry out his plan when the room
suddenly to darken , and great flakes
of snow came with a quick jgrush
against the windows. As he optrned
the door the thick blinding storm
swept in upon us with a wild fury.
The storm was a fierce as it was
sudden. We were shut up in the
midst of whirlwind or snow, that hid
even the road and passage under the
trees.
There was no help for it. The
boys drove the wagiQ_iqnder the shed
and unhitched the horses. Then they
carni back to the kitchen, where we
all sat watching the storm. It grew
darker and darker, and at last Mary
lit the lamp and put the suppe v
things on the table. I lay and watch¬
ed them with that awful faint f.e’ing
on me.
At last I spoke_ out the thought
tnat was on my mind :
T wish I had a drink of that whis¬
ky boys.’
Mary dropped the plate she was
carrying and looked at me So queerly
that I was ashamed of my self for
speaking. I wish I had bitten my
tongue oflf before I had let her know
of that part of my load.
'No, I don’t boys, I was only fool¬
ing,’ I said, as quickly as I could ;
but they looked at each other eager¬
ly and then at me. In a few minutes
they, started to feed the horses.
‘Oh, what made you tell them n-
bout it?’ Marry almost cried as
came over to where I was lying. We
were great friends, you see. It
for the old man's talk or the water/
alone that I had stopped there so fre¬
quently.
‘The}’ are good fellows—they won't
drink to much. You will bo safe with
them,’ I said but she would uot be¬
lieve me.
‘If I cant trust my own father
alone with such stuff, how can I trust
them?’ she said ; and she was right ;
for Charlie and Ben both showed by
tneir manners, when they came in,
that they had found the jug. Their
eyes were bright and voices were a
little thick. They were lavish in
their treatment to me, but J/hey
died my leg with sin^uj
and Ben nearly fell over the
After supper they made another
I trip to the barn and came back surly
j a nd ugly. They took their seats by
the stove with their hats on.
j Mary wcDt past them with a pile
dishes Ben tried to catch her by
arm. I couldn’t stand that.
• You miserable scamp !’ 7 shouted
buVmy tried to get up from the lounge,
feet gave way under me and
j j f e )| back,
‘Bring me that gun,’ 1 said to Mary
7 do believe 7 would have killed both
of them if’ 1 could got that gin in my’
ha,lds But, before she could stir,
| Ben rose with a fearful oath and
walked unsteadly to the coiner where
the gun was standing He raised the
; g un ln iq s drunken hands. 7 could
.hear the lock click as be walked up
to me and pointed the gun within six
feet 0 f m y head. 7 tell you boys,
you want to see death look into the
„nizzle of a loaded shot-gun with a
drunken man at the other end Could
this be the friend who had carried
me so tenderly but a few hours be-
fore?- What a cursed thing this
whisky must be that could change
Mm tun.!
.
, jj e held the gua in front of me for
a moment and then dropped the muz-
z j<» to the floor.
‘Come Charlie’ he said
”
‘let’s go and get another drink.’
Ho reached the door and opened
it, The wild biting storm ‘blew di-
rectlv into his face, with a snarl
rage he raised his gun and fired both
barrels at the door. Then clubbing
the weapon, he stuck desperately at
the snow, and then rushed out into
the storm as if fighting some unseen
enemy. Charlie followed him, yell¬
ing at the top of his voice, and Mary
quickly’ closed the door and bolted
it.
Charlie brought my miserable jug
with him. He put it down besides
the stove with a wild laugh; then he
glanced eagerly around him. ‘Where
is that gal?’ he demanded roughly.
He staggered to my side and repeat¬
ed the-question.
t She’s gone,’ I answered, trying to
raise myself on my elbow.
‘You lie,’ he shouted, in his thick^
brutal thick voice. ‘You lie! She’s
here. You’ve got her hid—bring her
out,
He started as if to drag me from
the lounge, when suddenly a new
thought struck him/*
Bring me the jug, Ben, and we’ll
make him drunk !’
Ben unsteadily poured out a quan¬
tity of the whiskey into a dipper and
brought it to the lounge. With a
curse he caught my arm to pour it
down my throat.
I never can tell just ho\y /did it,
but somehow I brought my sound leg
up against his breast and kicked him
as hard as I could. He staggered
back ank falling upon Charlie,carried
him to the floor.
Then thev began to fight. They
seemed to forget all about me, and
attacked each other like dogs, Over
the floor they rolled like brutes,kick¬
ing, striking, tearing and bitting,
with horrible sounds which no one
could suppose would come from any
human throat. At times they fought
against my lounge, once they fell
across my broken l:g. Then they
rolled over the floor, up against the
table where the lamp was burning.
At last they rolled up to ‘the stove
Ben lay underneath; Charlie’s hand
fell upon a stick of wood under the
stove, lie raised it and .stuck blow~
after blow at Ben’s face,till the hands
stiffened out, the nick turned up and
chin dropped down horribly’.
Charlie desisted at last and came
back to me. He staggered toward
me, muttering as he came. 1 threw
myself back till my head pressed a-
the corner of the wall. He had me
at his mercy’. He stopped within
three feet of me steadied himself and
raised an axe high above his head.
May I be killed before I ever live
another fire seconds like that again
J/ could see the axo coming nearer an*
nearer through the air 7 could hear
it cry. My head felt as though a red*
hot iron had been drawn across the
place where 7 knew the blow would
fall. 7 could not close my eyes.
The drunken arms missed their
aim. The axe swerved and plunged
into the log wall within an inch of
my head. 7 could feel its cold side
against my cheek.
Before Charles could draw it out
ont for another blow the door of the
other room flew open, and Mary
sprang like a panther to my r side.
She gave the drunken man a push
that sent him sprawling* Before he
could rise she put her little foot upon
his throat and pinned him to tne floor
till 7 could pull ont the axe and stun
him with a blow from the handle,
She turned him over on hi* face and
tied bis hands with a towel. Then
for the first time, she sereamed.threw
herselt into a chair, Govered her face
with her hands, and began to cry.
7 want you to keep in mind boys
the picture 7 looked at as 1 lay’ help*
less on that lounge. The lamp t was
bngbt and I saw it all. One man
with his still face one mass of blood
and horror, the other flat on his face
muttering and cursing in his drunk*
stupidity ; and that girl sobbing as
though her heart went out at every
sob. How do you suppose /felt when
I thought that it was that miserable
whisky that had done it all? Do you
NO. 7:
know that 1 had as soon sleep with a
mad dog in the house than to know
that a companion of mine had that
which changed my friends into mur¬
derers.
Raymond paused. The moonlight
still streamed over him. His face
was hard and stern as the ugh he had
lived again through that dreadful
toight. \Ve could say nothing in re¬
ply. Frank broke the silence at last.
‘That was a mighty plucky girl,
though; I wonder what become of
her.’
Raymond’s face grew brighter. ‘7
guess 7 can tell you about her,’ he
said with histoid laugh. ‘You see
the company made up their minds
that I needed watching, and as Mary
wanted a job, she took me in for life.
I dont know which makes me hate
whisky the most—the memory ot
that fight or the promise I made her
just before her father an l mother
came back in the morning,—Ex.
•- — ■ —---—.
A Boys Braveiy.
A story of the remarkable pres¬
ence of mind of a lijctle 9-year old
boy named Alanson Hewlett will in¬
terest you. If you have a spark of
the brave, generous soul that is in
boys and girls stingy, before looking they get old
and cross and out on¬
ly for number one and those that be¬
long to him, then the little story will
thrill your heart through and through
It will make you resolve that you,
too, will be brave and good, and
keep your wits about you, just as
Alanson Hewlett did. Then, if ever
a time of danger comes, you willin-
stantly begin to think what you can
do to help. lived with their
Four girls parents
on the shore of Long Island, near the
town of Far Rockaway. Three of
them were sistets—Amanda, Jane
and Emma Warren. Amanda was
18 years old, Jane 13 and Emma 8.
They and a little Hewlett girl, the
sister of Alanson, went into the wa¬
ter ot the ocean to bathe one after¬
noon lately. in the salt
Bathing and health, pure in water the
gives life along and the
summer many persons day.— sea
shore go into ilie surf every
The four girls were quite accustom¬
ed to doing point so. where they in
At the went
there is a deep channel, a little way
out from the shore. The tide here
is very strong. It happened to be
running out when the girls entered
the stream.
They were merry enough at first,
and laughed, splashed and ducked
one another. But in a terrible mo¬
ment the two younger Warren girls
ventured too far, and the powerful
tide carried them right out ovei the
deep channel. They felt that they
had lost their footing, and screamed
to their big sister for help. She hur¬
ried toward them, but the water was
far over her head, and she, too lost her
feet, and was carried into the chan¬
nel.
All three sisters were now scream¬
ing, and struggling helplessly in the
deep water. Only one girl was left
in safety—the Hewlett child. She
was only 8^ years old, but she was
good pluck to her last drop of blood.
She went to the assistance of her
friends. But what could a girl 8
years old do? She was as helpless
as a fly would be to stop a railway
engine. She, too, got beyond her
depth, and like the rest was carried
into the terrible channel crying for
help and getting her throat and nos¬
trils full of water.
Then it was that Alanson did the
b raV e deed which ought to gain him
renown the world over, and a gold
medal besides.
How could a toy only 9 years old
save four girls older from drowning, than two
of himself? them much and larger
A little boat was convenient on
| the shore. Alanson did not stop for
a second w hen he saw the danger.
jumped into the boat, seized the
oars and rowed out to them. In a
Zwning girTs^ He s4ed hfe "sister
j us t befoie°she wont under and drag-
g e d her into the boat, Jane Warren
[ was disappearing for the last time,
when he snatched her and held her.
He tugged at her till he .was able to
draw her into the boat, too.
‘I thought I would never get her
in, she was so heavy,’ he said,; ‘but I
did. I just could do it, and tha
was all.’
People are lighter and easier to
handle in the water than in the air*
or he never could have done it.
Next he looked for the others.
But alas! alas! By that time the
tide had carried them fat out, and the
water had closed over them. The
sea casts all things upon the shorejat
last, and the dead bodies washed up¬
on the beach were all the heart-bro¬
ken parents ever saw of their pretty
daughters Amanda and Emma. If
these girls or any one of them had
known how to swint all might have
been saved. Learn to swim and do
not put it off.
As it was* all four of the poof
girls would have been drowned, on¬
ly for the courage of one little boy,
9 years old.
WigglnS T6ld Us S3*
Ottawa, Ont., September 8.—
Prof. E. Stone Wiggins, of this city,
has submitted documentary and oth¬
er proof to the Minister of Marine
going to show that he predicted as
far back as March of iast year the
earthquake^ which are prevailing irt
the South.k^jJIe' also ^nounced in
the Ottawa Journai/eff May 13 last
the Approach 6f Yubterraneous dis¬
turbances imthe same locality. The
Proi^ss^ declares that the worst has
not yet, N been reached, and claims
that the greatest strain will be felt
between this period and the middle
of October. The Southern States
will again be visited by earthquakes,
and the disturbance will extend td
California and South America.
On being asked his reasons for*
making the predictions Wiggins
said: ‘Earthquakes are caused by
the shifting of the earth’s centre of
gravity. Suppose this centre of
gravity to be moved, say one mild
from her normal centre of gravity*
or from her centre of volume; now*
what must happen? Why, the parts
of her surface at the end of the lon¬
ger axis will be heavier and the
parts at the end of the shorter axis
will be lighter than normally. These
disks, therefore, will grind upon
each other, generating heat and lava*
Hence earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions. If our little visible satel¬
lite were brought down and slid
around the earth east to west, in
twenty-four hours earthquakes would
occur of such violence a3 to render
our globe uninhabitable.’ Professor
Wiggins claims that these forces
were in action at the end of August*
Both the earth’s satellites, two of
which he says exist, were then in
perigee. Jupiter was also near his
interior conjunction, which in a lim¬
ited degree increased the strain.
Pasteur’6 Treatment for Rattles*
The London Lancet says: Anoth¬
er victim to hydrophobia, after hav-
ing been submitted to M. Pasteur’s
anti-rabie treatment, has been re*
ported* The subject was a young
girl of eleven years of age* who was
bitten at Chassagne* in the depart*
ment of the Jura, on April 27 last*
She was taken to M. Pasteur’s labo-*
ratory nine days after. During the
fifteen days she remained in Paris
she went through the Usual inocula*
tions, with ten bouilons of progres*
sive strength; after which she was
declared cured and sent back to hef
family. On June 13 the girl pre*
sented the first symptoms of hydro*
phobia, and refused all nourishment*
She afterward presented all the oth¬
er symptoms, and died oil June 17*
in a fit of extreme violence*
And still another patient of M*
Pasteur’s is reported to haye just
died. The patient was a Russian
woman who was bitten by a wolf*
and, after having undergone the us-
ual inoculations at the laboratory*
returned to her home, where she
Soon after succumbed fourteenth to hydropho¬
bia. This death is the out
of fifty-four persons bitten by wolves
which would give an average which mor¬
tality of twenty-six per given cent., in
is about the average recent
statistics of deaths from the bites of
wolves*
Intelligence has jii9t been receiv¬
ed from St. Petersburg to the foh
owing effect: On the 3rd and 4th
if May last, seven persons (five chil-
oren and two women) were bitten by
a mad dog in the district. They
were immediately sent to Paris un¬
der the cafe of Dr. Winow, to be
treated according to Pasteur’s meth¬
od. Of the seven patients* three Rus¬
have died since their return-to
sia.