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V K KJ 1 MMUMMe iimwwuww THAT GIRL of JOHNSONS Hy JEAJT KATE LWDLVM Author of At e Girlt Mtro Etc Entered According to Act of Coperess in the Year 1890 br Street Smith In the Office of tho Librarian of Concress at Wasbinston D C Jhrwiwow xxwtfMwwKM nwwm hw CHAPTER X The Rescue The arms of the men were brawny and strong Green was light In weight and lithe as a tiger the rope ran out sloly and steadily slid out and down over the sharp edge of the chasm where the grasses were long and bid the sharp cut into emptiness making a treacherous foothold Suddenly the rope stopped running grew slack and Greens voice came up in a shout Thus silence reigned again save for the rain and wind Moments passed to the girl stand ing back motionless the moments seemed like hours Her eyes did not move from the edge where the rope ran over Green called again and they began to pull the rope Dolores eyes widened as she watched them her lips were apart a flush on her cheeks The mist grew more thick and dense stealing up and up until It reached the edge of the chasm It stole about the men at work at the rope and enveloped them silently through its gray folds they looked like specters at work for all eternity with set faces pulling the rope In and in The rope came up steadily and slow and sure then Green spoke from just below the surface Stop some of you give me a hand Here Careful Ho is insensible They obeyed him without a word A termor was on Dolores face she did not move her fingers were twisted tightly together her lips were com pressed in a straight red line The men were slow and careful it was no light thing to lean over the edge of the chasm the treacherous edge hidden in sedge might give way at any moment but the hands of the men were slow and steady they obeyed Greens commands as though they were powerless of self thought They had Johnson up on firm ground and Green after him they laid the insensible man on the ground with coats for pillows they forced some cider between his teeth and chafed his brawny hands tenderly as a wo man would Two of them cut down a couple of saplings and lopped off the branches making the body smooth these they bound together with two cross pieces they crossed the rope in a network back and forth No words were uttered they worked in silence with a grimness that was al most terrible to the watching girl The rain was falling steadily now and dripped through the branches falling onsTohnsons face His hands moved gropingly a moment he opened his eyes and looked vacantly about him they were hollow eyes and hungry he recognized no one Dolo res came up shyly offering no word of sympathy and with a moan John Bon closed his eyes again We must get him home as soon as iWA Laid him on the Ground possible Green said gravely his eyes on the face of the girl standing silently beside her father He has been without food since the day be fore yesterday He lost his way and fell in the night when he was trying to find his way back after hunting the cow He has been lying there on that ledge ever since too weak to make any effort to save himself thereby doubtless saving his life for the ledge would stand little motion He did not add that Johnson had broken both of his legs in the fall and doubtless received internal in juries that must prove serious if not fatal Dolores eyes were on his and he could not tell the whole of what might come When they had placed Johnson on the litter as comfortably as possible Lodie offered his coat to Dolores in a short word or two and no change of face but the girl shook her head without speaking though she gave him one of her rare smiles and walked steadily down tho path tangled m the treacherous bushes half hidden in mist and rain with Green at her -side buried in thought though his hand was ready to reach out for her assistance whenever it was needed and his face was almost sweet with a new touch upon it Dolores stood listlessly at one of the kitchen windows she was looking out at the storm bytphe did not see it her eafrs were strsnea to cat tife sound of voices in her fathers rocto WEWrtWWAIWWUWIIWIM Earnest voices they were and full of a meaning she could not catch The road was deserted the men had straggled up to Johnsons house when first he was brought home but as soon as the messenger sent by Green brought the doctors from the town they ordered perfect quiet and tho men were sent away without be ing allowed to enter They turned away in silence and went down the road to tho tavern with its welcome fire its cider and comrades The women were forced to remain at home they gossiped with their daughters or their kinsfolk around the great hearth fires Their needles were busy their spinning wheels hummed their lives were narrow but there was work to be done as well as food for gossip Only Dolores was idle She stood at window staring with un seeing eyes at the storm outside straining her ears in vain to catch the hum of voices in her fathers room Young Green was there and two doc tors and a woman they said was a nurse What need was there of a nurse she asked herself She could nurse her father And what were the doctors doing there If her father was only ex hausted from exposure and lack of food why should he need two doctors Men had been lost on the mountain before they never needed nurses when they were brought home their own women cared for them she could care for her father When he was well enough they would send for him at the town they were only waiting for him to prove their suspicions The case had been adjourned It was a pretty clear case of malice folks said but they were waiting for her father to prove it The door of the bedroom opened and the nurse came out She wag an elderly woman with a grave face She brought several parcels from the town Young Green sent her a note by the man who went to fetch the doc tors and she knew what to bring One or two of these she opened and pre pared beef and broth She spoke quietly and pleasantly to Dolores but she found her own way about the house and seemed to fit into every thing A sudden fear took possession of Dolores It was sharp and appalling and she straightened up under it as though she had received a blow It was no exhaustion from want of food and shelter that ailed her father some thing more than that brought this woman and the doctors caused this hush of voice and footsteps shut her from her fathers presence She spoke and her voice was low The woman turned quietly toward the girl You spoke Miss Johnson What ails my father - He will be better by and by We could not expect him to recover at once Do not be alarmed Dolores repeated her question in the same low yet perfectly distinct voice her eyes looked steadily at the wom an What ails my father The nurse was annoyed She did not like to be questioned so pointed ly she had studied to keep her own counsel and use few words Your father had a heavy fall Miss Johnson only the ledge saved him His right leg was broken above the knee the doctors have set that now It will be better soon Like young Green she would not tell the full truth How could she tell the girl the extent of the injuries and the possible end That one of his legs would have to be amputated that his whole system was so shat tered It would be a miracle if he lived and though he should live he would be a cripple always She dared not say this she dared not look at the girl at first Presently Dolores spoke again and her voice was perfectly even and slow How long before he will be well Impossible to tell the woman re plied gravely Such cases are uncer tain But he will get well Why not We will take good care of him Do you think Dolores eyes grew dark as night do you think they will send for him before he can go They are waiting for him to go to the town for him to go to prove I know the woman said quietly with perfect control over the muscles of her face I have heard No they will not send for him until he can go You must not worry Miss Johnson Dolores turned back to the window with no further remark and silence fell over the room save for the wom ans soft movements and a hushed sound from the bedroom now and then CHAPTER XI The Nurses Story Tihe doctors remained in that hushed room the whdle of the long night through the aurse said that they would go presently but they did not As daukness settled down heavUy one of them came out and spoke to the nurse Then the nurse went into the bedroom with the doctors and the door was shut Once or twice young Green came out io speak a pleasant word to her of encouragement or a message as to her fathers condition ho was mdre quiet now the doctors ha4 given Mm a narcotic Later he was sleeping quietly sleep wa3 what he needed I is tco bad It is so stormy he said and there was an Indescribable kindness In his voice as be stood be side her at the window while the dark ness was enveloping the world I would so like to see the stars from your windows Dolores Can you see Venus above the mountains when It is clear and the moon sot in the young moons arms She lifted her true eyes to his face and a flush was coming into the pure pale face There are few I can place in the heavens she said slowly but those I know are like friends to me 1 have no friends you know And my mother is near me vhen the stars are in the sky My mother is dead You knew my mother is dead Yes he made answer smiling into the lifted face so near his own I would so like you to see my moth er Dolores You could not fail to love her The girl shook her head There was no deepening of the soft coloring of her face no tremor of the proudly 4H A I J t V yllinl WM VJ All I SSHrWSf She lifted her eyes to his face curved red lips no drooping of the silken lashes over the dark eyes I know nothing about love she said quietly I have only my father and my mothers books His eyes darkened suddenly a strange tenderness came over the fair kindly face After all there is a sadness about love perhaps it is as well Dolores He turned swiftly from her and crossing the room lighted only by the flickering fire his figure defined in grotesque shapes upon the walls her entered the room beyond leaving her motionless at the darkened window her eyes following him Presently she left the window also and crossing to a shelf at the other end took down the last book he had brought her and opened it to her favorite reading of the fables of the stars Her eyes bent over the pages were luminous her cheeks flushed softly She was out of her narrowed life with the infinite range of the heavens spread before her the mill ions and millions of miles of space carried her mind with the thoughts far far above the shut in life of her mountain home and the stolid settle ment that had no life but the tavern and the gossip As young Green entered the bed room the nurse was setting things to rights for the night she smiled at him as he entered the two doctors were talking together in an under tone Take good care of her Mrs Allen he said earnestly and see that she sleeps She is completely worn out with this strain I leave it with you to see that she is interested in things outside of this room I will stop at the tavern to night and be up early in the morning Everything all right Harry To be continued READY WITH HjS ANSWER How Sir Harry Keppel Staggered the Governor of Algiers There are not many men in the British navy who were promoted more quickly than Sir Harry Keppel He was a commodore at twenty four and at this early age was sent to the gov ernor of Algiers to demand an apol ogy from that monarch for an insult to the British flag Naturally the gold braid of the commodore fired the youth to deeds of daring and perhaps a little bit of -side and the high tone which he arrogated to himself upset hia majesty of Algiers to such an extent that that dusky potentate cried oul against the insolence of the British queen for sending a beardless boy with such a message to him But young Keppel was prepared Were my queen he replied wont to take length of beard for a test ol wisdom she would have sent youi highness a he goat Sentiment vs Fact That the advance preparation c speeches will not always conform tc circumstances was made evident dur ing a resent flag raising at an uptowr public school The young orator hac been speaking for several mkautes when he advanced to the front of th platform raised his hand with a dra matic gesture to the flag on the staff afcove him and shouted- See yon flag throwing its protect Kig folds to the breeze of freedom It was a pretty sentiment but the breeze didnt bear out the picture The flagto which ail eyes were turned immediately turned hung as limp as if It fiadbeeii dippett in water PhUa delphia Press SALE1 CEMTUJRY AGO CONVINCING ARGUMENTS IN SUP PORT OF PROTECTION rree Trade Newspaper of To Day Was at That Time Strongly In Favor of Legislating for the Best Interests of Our Own People Curious relics of the past when sane md sound Americanism characterized he columns of a newspaper which in ecent years has turned much of Its alents and energies in a contrary di rection are found in the flies of the Springfield Republican of nearly fifty years ago In the edition of that pa per of the date of Jan 12 1855 ap pears an editorial on The Tariff which shows the then editor Samuel Bowles senior as one of the ablest md clearest sighted protectionists of that period No one has ever pre sented more effective argument in fa vor of the policy which looks after our own country and our own people and leaves foreigners to look after them selves than is contained in this urgent appeal to congress to lose no time in enacting a strictly protective tariff Business conditions in 1855 were simi lar to those which prevailed forty years later under a Democratic-free-trade tariff Franklin Pierce a New England freetrader was president of the United States Free trade was the order of the day and the customary free trade conditions prevailed With a tariff for revenue only in full force revenue was falling off atthe rate of 2000000 a month Said the Spring field Republican of that period Away with merely revenue tariffs They are destroying American inde pendence They are transplanting our workshops to Europe They are carry ing off our gold as fast as it can be dug in California They are obliging us to wear German and French broad eloths by forbidding the manufacture of American They are shutting up factories reducing the rates of labor impoverishing the country Away with them That is exactly what a Democratic tariff was doing in 1895 forty years la ter In the winter of 1S55 as the Re publican narrates the unemployed la borers of New York to the number of 60000 men 50000 women and 10000 1 UNWISE POLICY Republicans Should Wot Side With Democrats There Is no substantial reason to bo advanced why Republicans of olthor state should attempt to play Into tho hands of their political enemies by changing front on the tariff question The tariff law as It stands is admit- tedly a good measure If tho whole question were reopened it is more than doubtful whether any better law could bo framed and to reopen the tarrff question In part is to reopen It In whole I imperfections exist in the law as it stands there has been a dis tinct lack of any specific pointing out of those defects When It is pr cltlvely shown that some Injury Is worked through them it will be timcenough to proceed to remedy those defects either by raising duties If they have proved tco low or lowering them if they have proved too high In the meantime and until some de fects do appear and are specifically pointed out It Is decidedly advisable both from the standpoint of politics and from regard for the interests of the country to let the tariff alone and to refrain from aiding the Demo cratic campaign for revision The Republican party does not have to apologize for the Dinglcy law its workings or its results Considering the present condition of business in the United States the development of Industry the growth of our domestic and our foreign trade and the splen did financial condition of the treasury all due in great measure at least to the present tariff law it is difficult to see why any Republican should favor tampering with that law in the direc tion which the Democrats desire to see it amended As a matter of fact there are very few Republicans who do want to see it tampered with even in Iowa as the Republican convention there has just shown Seattle Protection Wins by 300 Per Cent The product of pig iron in this coun try the present year will exceed twen ty million tons That of Great Britain and Germany combined will be consid erably below this and the pre-eminence of the United States in iron and steel is growing more pronounced year by year under the influence of the be nign policy of protection which the TRYING TO RAISE A DEAD ISSUE children were holding mass meetings and petitioning the city government for work on city improvements and were threatening anarchy unless their wants should be in some way provided for In Boston the souphouse system was in full blast excepting on Sun days when the unemployed had to go hungry Regular Democratic tariff times The Springfield Republican demanded a return to protection as a means of allaying distress and restor ing prosperity just as the Republican newspapers were doing in 1896 after three years of free trade domination The Springfield paper appealed for Preference for American labor for American goods for American men over the labor the goods and the men of other countries Precisely what the protectionists of to day are insisting upon Forty eight years ago the Springfield Republican was saying Free trade is correct in theory and correct in practice if we are legisla ting for the benefit of the whole world But if we are to legislate for America let us legislate for Americans by pro tecting their interests and their labor against the interests of the uneduca ted and impoverished labor of Europe To day the Springfield Republican is diametrically opposed to the doctrine which it so ably advocated in 1855 Either it was wrong then or it is wrong now It could not have been wrong in 1855 judging from the terri ble conditions of want and ruin which then existed as the direct result of legislating for the benefit of foreign ers Is there any more reason now than there was then why we should legislate against our own people and in faver of foreigners Is there any reason to suppose that the conditions of 1855 and 1895 would not return if we should abandto protection and in vite the competition of the under paid labor in Europe They certainly would and- must return in such an event the only difference being that the damage and loss would now be ten times greater because the aggregate of la bor and production is now ten times greater Heing climbed so high we sheukl fall so much further It would sSem that all that was negded to re cenvert the Springfield Republican to profeculoxfsm wbld be a perusal of its owe file3 ol forty ergkt jears ago Republican party has conferred upon the country Our present rate of pro duction is a remarkable contrast to the production in this country nine years ago the boss Cleveland year when the pig Iron produced in the Uni ted States was but 6757248 tons or about one third of the present rate In that year Great Britains production considerably exceeded ours while Ger manys didnt lag far behind The showing is a remarkable object lesson in the comparative advantages to the country of free trade vs protection and protection wins by three hundred per cent Salt Lake Tribune Iowas Free Trade Radicals The tariff plank of the Iowa Demo crats is sufficiently radical to please the Cleveland contingent for it not only calls for a removal of the tariff from all trust made goods but it de clares that all tariff schedules should be adjusted with a view to tariff-for-revenue-only This proposition it is to be hoped will be as squarely met by tne national Democratic conven tion since it raises the issue between the British free trade policy which Colonial Britain is giving evidence of being tired of and the American economic programme which has been embodied in the most successful in dustrial experience ever shared by any nation in human history Boston Jour nal No Assault on the Tariff The convention of 1904 will make no demand for any tariff revision It will suit the Republicans to make a fight on the tariff if the Democrats can be inveigled into cssailing the protective policy next year The chances are however that Gorman and the rest of the shrewd leaders of the Democracy will prevent their party from making any assault on the tariff that can arouse Republican opposition St Louis Globe Democrftt A Sure Cure Says the Chicago Record Herald The only cure for the surplus is a re vision of the tariff Very true indeed Tariff revision downward has never faited to cHre a Snrplus either in the national treasury or in the pockets of the people As a surplus curer tariff revision belongs in the category oi death on rats GREAT POETS POOR HAND Shakespeares Writing Not Hlo Chief Claim to Fame W Carow HazJItt in a recent artlclo on Shakespeares handwriting says Wo have to bear distinctly In mind whe wo seek to crltlclso those some what umclerkly examples of penman ship that tho great dramatist used the court not like Jonaon and Bacon the Italian hand and that in the caso ol his contemporary and countryman Michael Drayton tho characters of the signature are equally distant from ful filling technical postulates and If pos sible still less elegant Tho question of handwriting is of course independ ent of that of educational acquire ments as wo may satisfy ourselves from Innumerable Instances ancient and modern but if Shakespeare was less happy in his calligraphy than In other directions the circumstance does not affect as some have sought to demonstrate his general learning and was his personal Idiosyncrasy rather than the blame of the excellent provincial school which had the unique honor of being his alma mater THE BLESSINGS OF HUMOR Moral Drawn From Career of the Late Max ORell If there Is a moral to be drawn from the career of Max ORell It con cerns the practical value of a sense of humor In promoting tho comity of nations The satirist sets people by the ears but the humorist by teach ing them to smile at each others amiable weaknesses predisposes them to friendship Wo and the French are undoubtedly tho hotter friends and the more conscious of our common humanity for the genial manner in which M Paul Blouet al ternately chaffed John Bull and Jac ques Bonhomme As the merry mu tual friend of tho middle classes of the two countries he rondered a ser vice to which they may now join in paying tribute and one wonders without feeling unduly sanguine whether there will ever arise among our foreign language masters a Ger man Max ORell whose kindly jests will have an equally salutary effect upon our relations with our Teuton kinsmen London Graphic The Man Behind the Fire A worker at the Sailors Mission in East Boston has a story of heroism to tell One night in January a fire man on one of the ocean steamers walked in the darkness down an open hatchway He fell to the hold broke his leg and received other Injuries His outcry brought a group of tev dores to his help and they were ex citedly discussing what to do for him when it became evident that he was trying to speak Be quiet boys said one of the men Maybe Jakes wanting to send a word home But it was not of home poor Jake was thinking even in that moment of agonizing pain Tell the fifth engineer to look after the boiler he whispered That is the sort of fidelity and cour age to put to shame the theorists who would have us believe that self-interest is the only motive that rules men in the workaday world Youths Companion Women in South Africa Openings for women in South Afri ca appear to be many and varied A woman writing on this subject says the peculiarity of this country is its unfamiliar conditions of life Lux uries are more in demand than neces sities The range of employment open to women is a wide one vary ing from domestic service to beauty doctor but everything is much more expensive in this newly opened land Living in the Transvaal is at least 100 per cent dearer than in London Laundresses are scarce and the call ing in small favor among the women at the Cape who fear social ostracism if they turn to the washtub This and the fact that dollies are being sent out to some of the houses need ing decent furniture throws a curious side light on this country There are chanGes for much money to be made by clever women caterers at railway stations These are few and far be tween and the rentals enormous The Silent Little Prayer My little boy knelt at my knee last nfeht And said the prayer my mother taught mo long ago Then for awhile was silent with his head still bowed And when at last ho rose to give the kiss For which I waited and withdrew his arms I asked hhn why he had kept kneeling when His Now I lay me down to sleep was done Grave faced he said In Sunday school they asked The children all when they have said their prayers To whisper asking God up there to bless Tho little ones in China and to put The love of Jesus in their hearts I one True tender little prayer like that were said For me each night Id ask no more and claim The richest blessing God may sen1 as mine Why He Didnt Call Henry Taylor Gray of Bradstreets has just come back from a trip around the world On the return voyage he fell into conversation with a purse proud New Yorker who had made the same trip I suppose you visited the Pyre nees said Mr Gray in the course of the talk No blyfced the other They wanted us to spend a week with them but they got measles in the family at the last moment and had to reca 11 the invitation New York Evening erld - - -