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nw,SfcwH. ,rt Ji --' i" f " wreflsss irfwaiHWS im. abAMWWM Jm . -e DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD. DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA. Ijm m i iww 'ii"H ui MHnfnWHROfW DO ALL MY . 1 iiKi' fir s , ' rS "i- ,0' if . . ) h "- i -" '-. THE VALLEY of the GIANTS MODERN LIFE AMONG THE OLD, OLD REDWOODS Here's good reading a stirring tale by an able author about red-blooded people in an unique environment. Peter B. Kyne is as indigenous as the redwoods of which he writes with loving appreciation. Nevertheless, he has sailed the Pacific, been a soldier-in the Philippines, and has served as a captain in France with the A. E. F. And the sheer merit of his literary workmanship has given this clerk in a California country store deserved nation-wide popularity as a short story writer and novelist. The characters in "The Valley of the Giants" are flesh-and-blood people Americansthe sort we know our kind: John Cardigan, pioneer lumberman among the redwoods, a strong man with a great heart, the soul of a dreamer and the unshaken faith of the frontiersman; he loves his redwoods even while he cuts his way to fortune through them. Colonel Pennington, the modern captain of industry, with no more con science than a circular saw, no bowelsof compassion, and contempt for the law except as a means of camouflage. Bryce Cardigan, present-generation American of the right kind, ' who takes up the fight when his father falls in the fray and successfully battles against odds to save his heritage, even white his heart is divided between his blind sire and his dear est tnemy. Shirley Sumner, niece of Colonel Pennington, a first-class American girl, with a mind of her own, a heart, red Woo and good sportsmanship. And. the storv is as timely as its environment is unique. There is only one redwood country, and when the California redwoods are gone the redwoods are gone from the earth. John Cardigan and his like have laid most of them low, and threaten these that remain. So it is that a great cry has lone up from the people to save for future generations some ef those forest giants that were full-grown when Christ was born with their cousins the sequoias they are the oldest and biggest living things of earth. So it is that the "Save the Red weeds" league has sprung into existence. So it is that con tuses is investigating the conditions preparatory to legisla tion for the. establishment of a Redwoods national park. , "The American of the 'future will be able to see the Big "Trees (Sequoia gigantea) in all their glory; Yosemite, Sequoia and General ,Grant national parks assure that. But unless money is provided for the purchase of a great grove of red weeds (Sequoia sempervirens) by congress, California or public subscription the redwoods are doomed to the ax and saw, with the exception of a few small and inadequate pre serves.' And among these same redwoods lies "The Valley ef the Giants." B CHAPTER I. la the trammer of 1850 a topsail schooner dipped Into tho cove under Trteteed head and dropped anchor at Mw edge of Uie kelp-fields. Fifteen ariaston later her small-boat deposited a the beach a man armed with long aftiiiel rifle and an axe, and carrying jfeel and clothing ft a brown canvas Mick." From , the, beech he watched Mw beat return and oaw the schdoner waif aa'chor and' stand oat .to sea isfsire the northwest trades. When lit aad disappeared from hit ken, he tortac tMt pack' to his broad and pow arfat back and strode resolutely into Mm tosher at the' mouth of the river. Tht iaaa was John' Cardigan;' In feat leswly, hostile land he was the tat ytoaeer.' This' Is the tale of OunMcKit and' Cardigan's pon, for In Ma chosen land the pioneer leader In taa gigantic task of hewing a path u t know the bliss of. woman's Jovo aai of parenthood, and the sorrow ttttt cornea of tho loss of a perfect Mate; he was to know the tremendous 3y ef accomplishment and worldly imeems after Infinite labor; and In Ik mmsct of Hfo ie was to know tho eR despair of failure and ruin. Be mvm of these things (hero Is a tnlo Is fee told, tho tnlo of Cardigan's sun, wfca, when his slro fell In the, fray, lack p the fight to sayo his heritage a tale of life wlUi Its lovo and hate, Ms battle, victory, defeat, labor, Joy, mm) sorrow, a tale of that unconquer tMt spirit of youth whlcli spurred Btrae Cardigan to lead n forlorn feepe tor the sake not of wealth Jbut f at Ideal. Hark, then, to this talo f Cardigan's redwoods: Along the coast of California, HaitMj.fi the secret valleys nnd over th tamblcd foothills of the Coast .waje, extends n belt of timber of aw average width of thirty miles. In approaching it from tho Oregon lino At ftrst tree looms suddenly against ltaa bwlzon nn outpost, as it wero, of Mat1 boat of giants whoso column south nearly four hundred to where the Jog? of the renr- HMtintatns eternal, sentry-go on of the mountains overlooking 1 bay, Far In the interior of Mm state, bey end the fertile San as ji.. ! ..a .it ., M VBIHf, Utt HIIIL'H in IIJIO VKSl heM a small sector on Uie wit tif' the eitirrai.- ; TbMi are the redwood forests of OaMftrata. the ouly trees of their Ma4 hi tlMt wbrlti M Indigenous only It Mtete fyo , areti's wlthU the state. Mt4wMbttaaiHf xt Tttrt Wftttrl MM'Mtere j-eauilit-'ifPUtls seoUon of. Mm i4 wood belt tbtwsaaia tipoa thousands pf acres of virgin timber that had already attained n vigorous growth when Christ wns crucified. In sizes ranging from flveto twenty feet in diameter, tho brown trunks .rise perpendicularly to a height of "from ninety to a hundred and fifty feet before putting forth a single limb, 'which frequently is more mas slyo than the growth which men call a iree in uio lorosis ot xuicnigan. Scattered between, the giants, like subjects around their king, ono finds rioble flr, spruce, or pines, with some Valparaiso live oak, black gpak,,peppor wood, madrono, yew, and 'cedar. John .Cardigan settled in Humboldt county, where the sequoia sempervir ens attains the plnnacto of Its glory, and with the lust for conquest hot In his blood, ho Oiled upon a quurter sectlon of the timber almost on the shore of, Humboldt bay land upon which a city subsequently was to be built. With his double-bltt6d axe and crosscut saw John Cardigan brought tho first of tho redwood giants crash ing to tho earth abovo which It had towered for twenty centuries, and In tho form of split posts, railroad ties, pickets, and shakes, tho fallen giant was hauled to tidewater In ox-drawn wagons, and shipped to San Francisco In tho llttlo two-masted coasting schooners of tho period. Here, by tho abominable magic of barter und trade, tho dismembered tree was transmuted Into dollars and conts and returned to Humboldt county to nsslnt John Cardigan In his task of howlug of emplro out of a wlldcrnoss. xirao passcu. Jonn cardigan no longer swung an nxo or dragged n crosscut saw through a, f,lhu red wood. Ho was nn employer 'of labor now, well known In San Francisco as n manufacturer of split-redwood prod ucts, tho purchasers sending their own schooners for tho cargo. And presently John Cardigan mortgaged all of his timber holdings with a San Francisco hank, made a heap of his winnings, and like a truo adventurer staked his nil on a now venture tho first sawmill In numbpldt 'county. The timbers for It wero hewed out by hand; tho boards nnd planks wero whlpsawed. It was a tiny mill, Judtred by Drcsent- day standards, for In a fourteen-hour working day John Cardigan and his men coald not cut moro ihon twenty thousand feet of lumber. Neverthe less, when Cardigan looked at his mill, Ids great heart would -well with pride. "Jlere," said John Cardigan to him self exultlngly when- a long-draws wall bjd hlra his circular saw was biting into the first redwood leg to be Authcr of "Cappy Ricks1 -1 milled since the world began, ."1 shall build a city nnd call It Sequoia. By to-morrow I shall have cut (sufficient timber to mako a start First I shall build for my employees better homes than tho rude shncks and tcnt-houes they now occupy; then I shall build myself a flno residence with six rooms, nnd tho room that faces tho bay shall be the parlor. When I can afford it, I shall build moro houses. I shall encourage tradesmen to set up In business In Sequoia nnd to my city I shall present a church and a school house. We shnll have a volunteer flro department, and If God is good, I shall, nt a later date, get out somo long-length flr-tlmbcr nnd build a schooner to freight my lumber to market, And she shall have thrco masts Instead of two, nnd carry half n million feet of lumber instead of two hundred thousand. First, how ever, I must build a steam tugboat to tow my schooner In and out over Humboldt bar. And nftor that ah, well I That Is sufficient for tho present" Thus did jTohn Cardigan dream, and as ho dreamed ho worked, The city of Sequoia was born with the Argo naut's six-room mansion of rough red wood boards nnd a dozen three-room cabins with lean-to kitchens; and tho tradespeople camo when John Cnrdl gnn, with something of tho largeness of his 'own redwood trees, gavo them ground and lumber In order to en courage the building of their enter prises. Also the' dream of the school noufio and the church came true, ns did the steam tugboat nnd tho schooner with thrco masts. At forty John Cardigan wns younger than most men nt thirty, albeit he worked fourteen hours n day, slept eight, and consumed tho remaining two nt ids meals. But through all those fruitful years of toll ho had still found tlmo to dream, and the spell of tho redwoods bud lost none of its potency. At forty-two Cardigan wns tho first mayor pf Sequoia. At forty-four he was standing on ills dock ono day, .watching his tug kck Into her berth tho first squaro-rlgged ship that had ever como to Humboldt bay to load a cargo of clear redwood for foreign delivery, She wns a big Bath-built clipper, nnd her master a lusty down Easter, a widower with one daughtel Who had come with him around th Horn. John Cardigan saw this glr como up on the quarter-deck anA stand by with a hcaving-llne in her hand; calmly Bho fixed her glnncfc upon him, and as, the ship was shunted Jn closer to tho dock, she roado tho cast to Cardigan. He caught -the Hcht heav!nr-l!ne, liatilt-d'lii "thlh hortvy ' Manila stern-line to w'hlch It was attached, and. slipped tho loop of tho mooring-cnblo over tho dolphin at tho end of tho dock. "Some men wanted aft hero to take up the' slack of the stern-lino on the windlass, sir," he shouted to tho skipper, who was walking around on top of the house. '"That girl can't haul hor in alone." 'Can't I'm 'short-handed," he skipper replied. "Jump aboard and help her." ' Cardigan made, a lqhg leap from the dock to tho ship's rail, balanced there lightly a moment, and sprang to the deck. He inserted a- bclnylng-pln In tho windlass, paused and looked at .the girl. "Raise a chantey," ho sug gested. Instantly sno iirtcu a sweet contralto In that rollicking old ballad of tho sea "Blow tho Men Down." Bound tho wlndlnss Cardigan walk ed, steadily nnd easily, and tho girl's eyes widened In wonder ns ho did tho work of throo powerful men. When tho ship had been warped In nnd tho slack of tho lino made fast on tho bltts, sho said: "rienso run for'd and help my father with tho bowlines. You're worth threjj forcmnst hands. Indeed, I didn't expect to seo a Bailor on this, dock." "I had to como around the Horn to got .hero, Miss," ho oxplslncd, "nnd when a man hnBn't money to pay for his passage ho needs must work It." "I'm tho second mate," sho explain ed. "Wo had n succession of gales frpm. the Falklands .to the Evan-, gcllstas, and there tho roato got her In irons nnd she took thrco big ones over tho taffrnll and cost us eight men. Working short-handed, wo couldn't got any canvas on her to Bpenk of -long voyago, y6u know, and tho rest of the crew got scurvy." "you're a bravo girl," ho told her. "And you're a first-class A. B.," she replied, "If you're looking for n berth, my father will be glad to ship you." "Sorry, but I can't go," ho called as he turned toward the companion lad der. "I'm Cardigan, and I own this Eawtnllt and must stay hero and look n.fter It" There was a light, exultant feeling In his middle-aged heart rb he scamp ered along the, deck. vThe girl had wonderful dark auburn hair and brown byes, with a milk-white skin that sun and wind had sought In vain to blem ish. Atl for all her clrlhood aha was a woraaa bred from a race (bis own people) to who danger and 4aplr jBy merely furnished n tonic for their courage. What a mate for n man I And sho looked at him prldcfully. They wore married before tho ship was loaded, and on n knoll of the logged-over Innds back of tho town nnd commanding a view of tho bay, with tho dark-forested hills In back nnd the lI(,tlo second-growth redwoods flourishing In the front yard, he built hor the finest home In Sequoia. Here his son Bryce wns born, nnd here, two days later, the new-made mother made the supreme sacrlflco of maternity. For half n day following the de struction of his Eden John Cardigan snt dumbly besldo his wife, his great, bard hand caresslug the nuburn head whose every thought fOr thrco yenrs had been his hnpplncss nnd comfort. Then the doctor enmo to him nnd men tioned the matter of funeral arrange ments. Cardigan looked up nt him blankly. "Funeral arrangements?" He passed his gnarled hand over his leonine head. "Ah, yes, I suppose so. I shall attend to It." He rose and left the house, walking with bowed head out of Sequoia, up the abandoned and decaying skid road through tho second-growth red woods to the dark green blur thnt marked the old timber, up the skid road recently swamped from the land ing to the down timber where the crosscut men nnd barkpcelers wero at work, on Into the green timber where the woods-boss and his men were chopping. "Como with me, McTavlsh," ho said to his woods-boss, They passed through a narrbw gap between two low hljls and emerged In n long nnr row valley where tho redwoods grew thickly nnd where tho smallest tree was not less than fifteen feet In diam eter and two hundred nnd fifty feet tall. McTavlsh followed at his master's heels as they penetrated this grove, making their way with diffi culty through the underbrush until They Came at Length to a Little Am phitheater. they came at length to a little amphi theater, a clearing perhaps a hundred feet in diameter, oval-shaped and snrrounded by a wall of redwoods of such dimensions that even McTavlsh, who was no stranger to these natural marvels, was struck with wonder. "McTavlsh," Curdlgan said, "she died this morning." Tin soro distressed for you, sir," tho woods-boss answered. "We'd a whisper In tho camp yesterday that the lass was Ilko to bo in a bad way." Cardigan scuffed wUh his foot n clear spaco In tho brown litter. "Tako two men from tho section-gang, McTavlsh," ho ordered, "nnd hnvo them dig hor grave here; then swamp a trail through tho underbrush and out to tho donkey-landing, so wo can carry hor in. Tho funeral will be private." McTavlsh nodded. "Any further orders, slr7" "Yes. When you como to that llttlo gap In tho hills, censo your logging and bear oft yonder." He waved his hand. "I'm not going to cut the tim ber in this volley. You see, McTavlsh, what it Is. Tho trees here nh, man, I haven't tho heart to destroy God's mast wonderful handiwork. Besides, sho loved this spot, McTavlsh, and sho called tho valley her Valley of tho Giants. I I gave it to her for, a wed ding present because she had a bit of a dream that somo day tho town I started would grow up to yonder gap, and when that tlmo camo and wo could afford It, 'was In her mind to give her Valley of the Giants to Sequoia for a 'city park, all hidden away here and unsuspected. "She loved' it McTavlsh, 'twas our playhouse, McTavlsh, and I who hni no longer young I who never played un til I met her II'm n bit foolish, I fenr, but I, found rest and comforl here, McTavlsh, evea before I net PETER B. KYNE I , Copyright by Peter t. Kyns her, and I'm thinking I'll have to come here often for the same. She was like tills sunbenm, McTavlsh. She Biie " "Aye," murmured McTavlsh huskily. "1 ken. ,Ye wouldna gle her a common or a public spot In which to wait for ye. An ye'll bo shuttln' down the mill an' ioggln'-cnmps nn' lnyln' off tho hands In her honor for a bit?' "Until after the funeral, McTavlsh. And tell your men they'll be paid for tho lost time. That will bo nil, lad." When McT'uvisIi wu3 gone, John Cardigan sat, down on a small sugar plno windfall, his head held slightly to one side while he listened to that which In tho redwoods Is not sound but rather tho absence of It And as he listened, h,e nbsorbed n subtle com fort from those huge brown trees, so emblematic of Immortality; In tho thought ho grew close to his Maker, arid presently found that peace which ho sought. Love such ns theirs could never die. . . i Tho tears came nt last. At sundown he wnlked homo bear ing an armful of rhododendrons and dogwood blossoms, which he nrrnnged In the room where she lay. Then he sought the nurso who hnd attended her. "I'd' like to hold my son," he said genii.'. "May IT She brought t him the baby and placed It In his great arms thnt trembled so; he sat down nnd gazed long and enrnestly nt this flesh of his flesh and blood of his blood. "You'll hnvo her hnlr nnd skin and eyes," he murmured. "My son, my son, I shall love you so, for now I must lovo for two. Sorrow I shall keep from you, please God, and happiness and worldly comfort shall I leave you when I go to her." .He nuzzled his grizzled cheek against the, baby's face. "Just you and my 4 trees," he whispered, "Just you nnd my trees to help me to hang on to n plucky finish." For love and paternity had come to hlra late in life, and so had his first great sorrow ; wherefore, since ho was not accustomed to these heritages of all flesh, he would have to adjust him self to the change. But his son and his trees ah, yes jthey would holp. And he would gather more redwoods nowl CHAPTER II. A young half-breed Digger 'woman who had suffered the loss of tho latest of her numerous progeny two days prior to Mrs. Cardigan's death, was Installed in the house as nurse to John Cardigan's son, whom, he called Bryce, tho family name of his mother's peo ple. A Mrs. Tully, widow of Cardi gan's first engineer In the mill, wns engaged ns housekeeper nnd cook; and with' his domestic establishment re organized along these simple lines, Johh Cardigan turned with added eagerness to his business nftalrs, hop ing between them nnd his boy to salvage as much as possible from what seemed to him, in the first pangs of his loneliness nnd desolation, the f wreckage of his life. , While Bryco was in swaddling clothes he was known only to. those females of Sequoia to whom his half breed foster mother proudly exhibited him when taking him abroad for an .airing In bis perambulator. With his advent Into rompers, however, and the assumption of his American preroga tive of. free speech, his father develop ed tho habit of bringing the child down to the mill office, to which he added a playroom that connected with his prlvnte office. Hence, prior to his second blrthdny, Bryce divined that his father was closer to him than motherly Mrs. Tully or the half-breed girl. Moreover, his father took him on wonderful Journeys which no other member of the household had even suggested. Drought, cloudburst and blindness threaten to bring to naught John Cardigan's fifty years of endeavor. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Scottish Center of Industry. Dundee ranks as one of tho leading Industrial and commercial centers In northeastern nnd central Scotland. Tho district of'Dundeo Is tho center of tho Jute Industry In tho United Kingdom and practically all the raw Juto Imported Into the country, which averages 1,200,000 bales annually, Is consumed there. 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