DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD, DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA. &- ? I 8HI I? iKk 1 8 & r ikA awl $k !S fl r "CRAZY LIKE A FOX." Synopsis. Pioneer In the Califor nia redwood region, John Cardigan, at forty-soven, Is tho leading cltlren of Sequoia, owner of mills, ships, and many acres of tlmlMr, a wid ower after three years of married life, und father of two-day old llrjcu Cardigan. The redwood, with Its cousin tho sequoia, Is tho oldost and biggest thing on earth. It prows nowhere but in California. Most of the redwoods have gone; thoc remaining are apparently doomed to the ax and saw. Tho tcquoms uro safe to future gener ations In Sequoia and Voscmlto Na tional parks. The "Save the Red woods LeaKiie" has been organized with the purpose of establishing u Ki-riwoodK National park. CHAPTER II Continued. 2 Of nil tholr adventures together, howov er, those which occurred on their frequent excursions up to the Vnlley of the Giants Impressed themselves Imperlshnbly upon Bryco's memory. How well he remembered their tlrst trip, when, seated astride his father's shoulders with his sturdy little legs iirouud Cardigan's neck and his chubby little hands clasping the old man's ears, they had gone up the abandon ed skid-road and Into the seml-aark-ness of the forest, terminating sud denly In a shower of sunshine that fell In an open space where a boy could roll and play and never get dirty. Bryce looked forward with eagerness to those frequent trips with nls father "to tho place where Mother dear went to heaven." When Bryce was six years old, his father sent him to the public school In Sequoia with the children of his loggers, and . mill-hands, thus laying thii foundation for a democratic cdu ,vMion all too Infrequent with the sons of men rated as millionaires. Bryco's boyhood was much the same as that of other lads In Sequoia, save that In the matter of toys and later guns, fishing rods, dogs and ponies he was a source of envy to his fellows. After his tenth year his father placed him on the mill pay-roll, and on pay-day h was wont to line up with the mlll- h rvi rew to receive his modest stipend of ii( dollars for carrying In kindling to the cook In the mill kitchen each day after school. This otherwise needless arrangement wn old Cardigan's wny of teaching his boy financial responsibility. When Bryce Cardigan was about fourteen years old there occurred. .an Important event In his life. In a com mendable effort to Increase his Income he had laid out a small vegetable garden in the rear of his father's house, and hero on a Saturday morn ing, while down on 'his knees weeding ca'rrots, he chanced to look up and discovered a young lady gazing at him through the picket fence. She was a X 0 fa' la. Ajn Wmfo ---Lm I MiAnAftA. 'ft! WW Md 'Hello, Little Boy." iPw ycors his Junior, and a stranger .n SeqtiulK. Ensued the following (.oiii'sutloii: "Hollo, little boy." "Hello yourself! I ain't it little , llO She ignored the correction. "What nre you doing?" "WkmI'u' carrots. f'r.n't you see?" "Wl M for?" Biy.e highly Ina-nsod at having boon do-ignutod a IPile boy by this superior damsel, saw his opportunity to slieiifo her. "fat's fur for kitten Julus" h rumrted without any ".'.,.. o of originality, we must eon n.i and for the space of several niln ntfs gave all his attention to his crop. And p'oseuUy the lHltnr spoke again. "I like y-HJr hair, little boy. Itn a ro'T red." That settled the Issue between (Item. To be hulled n llttlu boy was td rnrni,"i but to be reminded of hi r"vwnli.,' uilHforlune was adding Insult o fn'rry We rose and cuutUusy ?rr",''ic.l 'to fence with the Inten V - i ' i M i ys-H By PETER B. KYNE Author of "Cappy Ricka" tion of pinching the Impudent strang er, suddenly and surreptitiously, nud sending her away weeping. As his hand crept between the pnllncs on Its wicked mission, the little nit" looi.ed at him In friendly fashion and queried : "What's your name?" Bryco's hand hesitated. "Bryco Cardigan," he answered gruffly. "I'm Shirley Sumner." she ventured. "Lot's be friends." "When did you come to live In Sequoia?" ho demnnded. "I don't live here. I'm Just visiting here with my aunt nnd uncle. We're stnylng at tho hotel, and there's no body to play with. My uncle's name Is I'enningon. So's my aunt's. He's out here buying timber, and we live In Michigan." Her gaze wandered past Bryce to where his Indian pony stood with her head out of the window of her box stall contemplating her mnster. "Oh, what a dear llttlo horse I" Shirley Sumner exclaimed. "Whose Is he?" " 'Taln't a he. It's a she. And she belongs to me." "Do you ride her?" "Not very often now. I'm getting too heavy for her. so Dad's bought me n horse that weighs nine hundred pounds. Midget only weighs live hundred." He considered her a mo ment while she gazed In awe upon this man with two horses. "Can you ride n pony?" he asked, for no reason that he was awnre of. She sighed, shaking her head re signedly. "We haven't any room to keep n pony at our house In Detroit." she explnlned, and added hopefully: "But I'd love to ride Midget. I sup pose I could learn to ride If somebody taught me how." He looked at her again. At that period of his life he was Inclined to regard girls as a necessary evil. For some Itnmutnble reason they existed, nnd perforce must be borne with, and it was his hope that he would get through life nnd see as little as possi ble of the exasperating sex. Never theless, as Bryce surveyed this win some miss through the palings, he was sensible of a sneaking desire to find favor In her eyes also equally sensi ble of the fact that the path to that desirable end Iny between himself nnd Midget. "Well, I suppose if you want a ride I'll have to give It to you," he grum bled, "although I'm pretty busy this morning." "Oh, I think you're so nice." she de clared. A thrill shot through him that was akin to pain; with difficulty did he restrain an Impulse to dnsh wildly into tho stable nnd saddle Midget In furious haste. Instead he walked to tho barn slowly nnd with extreme dignity. When he reappeared, he was leading Midget, n little sllverpolnt runt of a Klamath Indian pony, nnd Moses, a sturdy pinto cayuse from the cattle ranges over In Trinity county. "I'll have to ride with you," ho an nounced. "Can't let a tenderfoot like you go out alone on Midget." All nflutter with delightful antici pation, the young lady climbed up on the gate nnd scrambled Into the saddle when Bryce swung the pony broadside to the gate., Two hours of his valua able time did he give thnt morning before the call of duty brought hlui back to tho house and his neglected crop of carrots. When ho suggested tactfully, however, that It was now necessary that his guest and Midget Fopnrate, a difficulty arose. Shirley Sumner refused point blank to leave the premises. She liked Br.veo for his hair and because he had been so kind to her; she was a stranger In Sequoia, and now' that she had found an agree able companion, It was far lrom her Intention to desert him. So .Miss Sumner stajod m"' helped Bryce weed his carrots, and since as n voluntary laborer she was at least worth her board, at noon Bryce brought her in to Mrs. Tally with a request for luncheon. When he went to the mill to carry In the kindling for tho cook, the young lady returned rather sorrowfully to tho Hotel Sequoia, with a fervent promise to see him the next day. She did, and Bryce took her for a long llde up Into the Valley of the Giants und showed her his mothci's grao. Thej put some (lowers on tho grave, and when they returned to town and Bryco was un saddling the ponies, Shirley drew Midget's nose down to her and kissed It. Then she commenced to weep rather violently. "What are you crying about?" Bryco demanded. Girls were so hard to unduratnnd, "I'm go-going h-h-li-homu tomorrow," alio howlud. He was stricken with dlsmny and bade her (insist from her vain ropln lugft. But her heart was broken, und fcomehow Bryce appeared to act auto matical) ho hud his arm around lion. "Don't cry, Shirley," ho pleaded. "It breaks my heart to we you wj Do you want Midgut? I'll give her to juu." Botween sobs Shirley confessed that IN- prospect of parting with tilm and rmt Midget was provocative of her woe. This staggered Bryce nnd pleas ed him Immensely. And at parting she kissed Iitm good-bye, reiterating her opinion that ho wns the nicest, kindest boy she had crer met or hoped to meeL When Shirley nnd her uncle nnd aunt boarded the steamer for Snn Francisco, Bryce stood disconsolate on the dockland waved to Shirley untllvjie could uo longer discern her on tho deck. Ue thought of his eliln companion very frequently for a week, and ho lost his appetite, very much to Mrs. Tully's conccrnt Then the steolhend trout began to run In Eel river, and the sweetest event thnt can occur In any boy's existence the sud den awakening to the wonder and beauty of life so poignantly realized In his tlrst love-affair was lost sight of by Bryce. In n month he had for gotten the Incident; In six months he hud forgotten Shirley Sumner. CHAPTER III. Throughout tho hnppy years of Bryco's boyhood his father continued to enlarge and Improve his sawmill, to build more schooners, and to ac quire more redwood timber. Lands, the purchase of which by Cnrdlgnn a decade before had caused his neigh bors to Impugn his Judgment, now developed strategical Importance. As a result those lands necessary to con solidate his own holdings came to him at his own price, while his ad verse holdings that blocked 'the log ging operations of his competitors went from him also at his own price. In fnct, all well-lnid plans matured satisfactorily with the exception of one, nnd since it has n very definite benrlng on the story, the necessity for explaining It Is paramount. Contiguous to Cardigan's logging .operations to the east nnd north of Sequoln, and comparatively close In, lay a block of two thousand acres of splendid timber, the natural, feas ible, and Inexpensive outlet for which, when It should bo logged, was the Valley of the Giants. For thirty years John Cardigan had played a waiting game with the owner of that timber, for the latter wns as fully obsessed with the belief that he wns going to sell it to John Cardigan at a dollar and n half per thousand feet stumpago as Cardigan was certiiln ho was going to buy It for a dollar a thousand when he should be ready to do so nnd not one second sooner. Eventunlly the time for acquiring more timber nrrlved. John Cardigan, meeting his neighbor on tho street, accosted lilni thus: "Ixok here, Bill, Isn't It time we got together on thnt timber of yours? You know you've been holding it to block mo and force mo to buy at your figure. I'll give you a dollar a thous und stumpago for your timber, Bill." "1 want a dollar and a half." "A dollar Is my absolute limit" "Then I'll keep my timber." "And I'll keep my money. When I finish logging In my present hold ings, I'm going to pull out of that country and log twenty miles south of Sequoln. Hemcmbcr, Bill, tho mnn who buys your timber will have to log It through my Innd and I'm not go ing to log that quarter-section In the vnlley. Ilcnco thcie will bo no outlet for your timber In hack." "Not going to log It? Why, what nre you going to do with It?" "I'm Just going to let It stay there until I die. When my will Is tiled for probate, your curiosity will bo satis lied but not until then. Better take a dollar. Bill. It's a good, fair price, as the market on redwood timber is now, and you'll bo making an even hundred per cent, on your Investment Remember, Bill, If I don't buy your timber, jou'll never log It yourself nnd neither will anybody else. You'll be stuck with It for the next forty , ears and taxes aren't getting any lower." "I'll hang on a little longer, I think." "I think so, too," John Cardigan re plied. And that night, as was his wont, even though ! realized that It wns not possible i. Bryce to gain n profound understand ng of the business problems to which he was heir, John Cardigan discussed the Squaw creek timber with his son, relating to him the details of his conversation with the owner. Bryce pondered. "But Isn't It cheaper to glo him Ills price on Squaw creek timber thnn go logging in the San Hedrln and have to build twenty miles of logging railroad to get your logs to thu mill?" "It would be, sou, If I had to build the railroad. Fortunately, I do not. I'll Just shoot the logs down tho hill side to the Sun Hedrln river and dr!o them down the stream to a log boom on tldowater." Bryce looked at his fnthcr admir ingly. "I guess Dan ICoyes Is right. Dad," ho Bald. "Dan says you're crazy like u fox. Now I know why you've been picking up claims In the Sun Hedrln watershed." "No, you don't, Bryce. I've never told you, but I'll tU you now th real reason. Humboldt county ban nc Copyright tij Peter D. Itjrne rnll connection with the outside world, so we are forced to ship our lumber by water. But some dny a railroad will be built In from the south from Snn Francisco; and when It comes, the only route for It to travel Is through our timber In the San Hedrln valley. I've accumulated that ten thousand acres for you, my son, for the railroad will never be built In my day. It doesn't matter, son. You will still be logging there fifty years from now. And when the railroad people come to you for a right of way, my boy, give It to them. Don't charge them a cent. It has always been my policy to en courage the development of this county, nnd I want you to be a forward-looking, public-spirited citizen. That's why I'm sending you Knst to college. You've been born and raised in this town, and you must see more of the world. Listen to me, son. You're only n boy, and you enn't un derstand eerythlng I tell you, but "I Dinna See How I'm to Keep the Mill Runnln'l" some dny understanding will conic to you. You mustn't fall the people who work for you who are dependent upon your strength nnd brnlas and enter prise to furnish them with an oppor tunity for life, liberty, und the pursuit of happiness. When you nre the boss of Cardigan's mill, you must keep tho wheels turning; you must never shut down the mill or tho logging-camps In dull times Just to avoid a loss you can stand bettor than your employees." Ills hnrd, trembling old hand closed over the boy's. "I want you to bo a brave nnd honorable man," he con cluded. True to his word, when John Cardi gan finished his logging In his old, original holdings adjacent to Sequoia nnd Bill Henderson's Squaw creek timber, ho quietly moved south with his Squaw creek woods-gang and Join ed the crew already getting out logs in the San Iicdiin watershed. Not until then did BII Henderson realize that John Cardigan had called his bluff whereat ho cursed himself for a fool and u poor Judge of human nn tn re. He bad tried a hold-up game and had fulled; a dollar n thousand feet stumpngo wns a fair price; for years ho had needed tho money; and now, when it was too late, ho realized his error. Luck was with Henderson, liowever, for shortly thereafter there came again to .Sequoia one Colonel Bennington, a millionaire uhlte-plne operator lrom Michigan. From a chair-warmer on the porch of the Hotel Sequoln, tho Colonel hud heard the talo of how stiff-necked old John Cardigan had called I he bluff of equal ly stiff-necked BUI Henderson; so for tho next few weeks the Colonel, under pretense of going hunting or llshlng on Squaw creek, managed to make a fairly accurate cursory cruise of (he Henderson timber following which ho purchased It from the delighted Bill for a dollar and a quarter per thousand feet stumpage. No mnn Is Infallible, and In plan ning his logging operations in the Snn Hedrln watershed John Cardigan presently made tho discovery that ho had erred In judgment That season, from May to Noveml" r. his woods crow put thirty million feet of logs Into the Kan Hedrln river, while the mill sawed on a loservo supply of logs taken from tho last of the old chop pings adjacent to Squuw creek. That year, however, the rainfall In the San Hedrln country was fifty per cent, less thnn normal, and by tho llrst of May of the following year Cardigan's woods-crew hml succeeded In driving slightly less thnn half of the cut of tho preceding year to the boom on tidewater nt tho mouth of the river. "Unless the Lord'll gi' us a lot more .utter in the rTvor," tho woods-boss McTnvlsh cornpiulned, "1 dinna see how I'm to keep tho mill ninnln'." U wlh taking John Cardigan up the , riitr U.nU ud explaining the sltua tZDtr' MliWV&'il Ml tton. The nenvy butt-log" hue imnk to the bottom," he conllnued. "Wlo normal bend o' water, the lnds'll moo them, but wl' the dr.ippl'! wo havo thu noo " He threw up his hamllkd hands despairingly. Three days later a cloud-burst tilled (he river to the brim; It came at night nnd swept the river clean of Cardi gan's clear logs. An army of Jug. gernnuts, they swept down on tho boiling torrent to tidewater, renchlng the bay shortly after the tide had commenced to ebb. Now, n chain hi only as strong nn Its weakest link, and u log-boom Is a chnplet of small logs, linked end to end by means of short chains; bunco when the vnn-gunrd of logs on tho Up of that flood reached tho log boom, the Impetus of the chnrgo wns too great to he resisted. Straight tin otigh the weakest link In this boom the huge saw-logs crashed and out over Humboldt bnr to the broad Biv clflc. With the ebb title some of them came back, while others, caught in cross-currents, bobbed about the bay all night and finally beached at widely scattered points. Out of tho fifteen million feet of logs less than three million were salvaged, nnd this task In Itself was an expensive operation. John Cardigan received the news calmly. He turned from tho manager and wajked away through his logged, over lands, across the little dlvldo and down Into the quarter-section if green timber he had told McTnvlsh not to, cut. Once In the Vnlley of the Clants, he followed a well-worn foot path to the little amphitheater, and where the sunlight filtered through like n halo and fell on n plain little white marble monument, he paused and sat down on the now almost do cayod sugar-pine windfall. "I've come for a llttlo comfort, sweetheart," he murmured to her who slept beneath the stone. Then ho leaned back against a redwood tree, removed his lint, und closed his eyes, holding his great gray head tho whllo a little to one side In a listening atti tude. Long ho sat there, a grwit, time-bitten devotee at the sl'irllio of his comfort; and presently tho hat ried look left his strong, kind fnc and was replaced by a little prescient smile tho sort of smile worn by one who through bitter yenrs has sought something very, very precious and lias nt length discovered it. CHAPTER IV. It was on the dny that John Cardi gan received the telegram from Bryco saying that, following four years at l'rlnceton nnd two juarh of travel abroad, he was returning to Sequoia to tuku over his redwood heritage that ho discovered thnt a stranger and not the flesh of his flesh and the blood of his blood was to reap the rovvard of his fifty years of endeavor. For a long time ho sat there lethar gic with misery. Kventuully ho roused himself, reached for tho deal; telephone, nnd pressed a button on the offlco exchange-station. Ills man ager, one Thomas Sinclair, answered. "Thomas," ho said calmly, "you know, of course, that Bryco Is com ing home. Tell George to tnke tho big car and go over to Bed Bluff for him." George Sea Otter, son of Bryce Cardigan's old half-breed nurse, wns n person In whose nnturo struggled tho white's predilection for advertise ment and civic prldo nnd the rod tnnn's Instinct for ndorninent. For three yenrs ho had been old man Cardigan's chauffeur nnd mnn-of-ull-work about 'the Intter's old-fashioned home, and In the lormer capacity ho drove John Cardigan's slnglo evidence of extravagance a Napier car, which was very Justly iegarded by Oeorgo Sea Otter as the king of automobiles, slnco It was tho only Imported car In the county. Upon receipt of orders, therefore, from Sinclair, to drive tho Napier over to lied Bluff and meet' his future boss and one-tlmo piny fellow, George Sen Otter arrayed him self In a pair of now black corduroy trousers, yellow button shoes, a bluo woolen shirt with a large scarlet slllr handkerchief tied around the neck, a pnlr of beaded buckskin gloves with fringe dependent from tho gauntlet, nnd a broad white beaver hat with n rattlesnake-skin bund. Across tho windshield of the Napier ho fastened an orange-colored pennant bearing In bright green letters tho legend! MY CITY SEQUOIA. As a safety, llrst precaution against man and beast en route, he buckled a gun scabbard to the sparo tires on tho running-board and slipped a rlllo Into the scnbbnrd vvithlu quick nnd easy reach of his hand; nnd arrayed thus, George descended upon Bed Bluff at the helm of the king of automobiles. When tho overland train coasted Into Bed Bluff nnd slid to a grinding halt, Bryco Cardigan saw that tho Highest Living Authority had de scended from the train also. Ho hail elected to designate her thus In the absence of any Information anent her Christian and family names, and for the further reason thnt quite obvious ly she was a very RuiHirlor person, Bryce Cardigan oomes home to his blind father. (TO IHO CONTINUED.) Silk for Consistent Hindus. Muxa llk U it product of Assnn. Hrl silk comes from caterpillars which feed on the castor oil plant. It Is of great value In India, because It Is lint only silk that can bo spun from cocoonn v Hhout killing the Insects In the en ions, and It Is therefore the i .n, xf.u i .it enn be worn tj a utrUl Ulii"' o. BIO CROPS ASSURED Need of Farm Labor Urgently Required for Harvest. Itnlns of the past week which hiwo been general throughout uH portions of Western Canada, covering MANI TOBA. SASKATCHEWAN, nud AI BKHTA, have plnced licynad ufl man ner of doubt the certainty f vast grain crops throughout the onHro dis trict. Heports from nil polata Udlcnto marvelous and rapid j;rJh. Tho conditions of a week or so liV, which were decidedly less prol!4K nd led many to think that there Hit bo n partial failure, have dlsnpenrctl al together and now there Is n wate of optimism circulating throughout the entire country. In 1015 there wore enorm8 ylclda reported from all parts, t.ivd tt would appear now ns If In mnny ptoncs tho yields of 10 IB would he eiHYd If not beaten. What might appear to he a draw back, Is the apparent shortage of farm help. The Province of MnnltobL? through Its Employment Bureau In Winnipeg, Is nsklng for 10,000 harvest hands and over, offering from Jffi to $0 per dny. The Province of Sas katchewan Is asking for 15,000 extra hands to take care of tho Inimenco harvest that Is certi.in to be reaped In that Province. In Alberta the crop area Is somewhat less, the labor con ditions somewhat hotter, and Is iiuik lug a request for 5,000 extra farm bauds. Interviewing the officials of the rilf- . fcrent Governments, they arc Inclined to the opinion thnt ns tho crops In Kntisivs, Nebraska, South Dilkchi, Illi nois nnd other Central States nro hnr vested there will bo a moveniplj north ward thnt will materially help to toko care of tho labor situation. With tho low railroad rates that may be secured on t.-pplicatlon to tho Employment Of fices tvt Winnipeg and nt boundary points, or which may be secured through the Canadian Government Of fices, at Chicago, III.; Detroit, Mich.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Kansas City, Mo.; Omaha, Neb.; Dos Moines, In.; Wuter town, S. D.; SI. Paul, Minn., nnd Grand Forks, N. D will glvo to thosa seeking employment the opportunity to rench the harvest fields at a low cost. Advertisement. , t i Aesop's Fables. ." J It Is truo that some "translators" of Aesop'B Fables uso "hen" for "gooso" In tho fable about the golden egg, but the Greek of the "text" Is "chen," which looks llko somo fountntnhcad of "hen" hut ronlly means "gooso." Tho accepted translators, or rather, adapters, follow tho famlllnr word of tho vast majority, "goose." It must bo remembered thnt thero really Is no original Aesoplnn text, but only soma later transcriptions of what camo to bo regarded ns tho fables told by the old slave. Tho actual fount of tho Aesoplnn folkloro was Babrlus, n Ilel Icnlstlc fabulist of tho second century, who wroto tho fables In verse. Slnco there linvo been mnny vcrslpns nnd some years ago a bntch of TO riiSr? woro found In the Vatican library. This Greek word "chen" wns pronounced "knne," nnd henco It has no rclntloa to "hen" except Ha belonging to the fowl family. ,,! Rests With His Chief. Sir Starr Jameson, bettor known as, "Dr. Jim," tho Intrepid lender of the Transvaal Itald of 1805-0, now llos alongside his great leader and friend, Cecil Rhodes. Ills body was the other day removed from lis original resting place, to a new tomb, blasted and rhlsvlcd deep Into tho enormous mnss of granite forming the top of the World's Vlow, In tho Matoppo hills, Rhodesia, which the founder of Rho desia had chosen for his own resting place. "Doctor Jim" now lies under the shelter of, but Just outside the great bowlders each ns big as a four-roomed cottage that encircle tho grave of Cecil Rhodes. His tomb Is closed with a plain slab of granite thnt hnrr-nlready been prepared on tho spot, homing a brass plate with the words "Here Ho the remains of Leander KtnrJ Jameson." Bread Kneaded on Korean Streets. Bread Is kneaded on tho streets, nnd with nn excellent thoroughness, In Korea. After mixing, tho dough li placed on n lionrd In the road in front of the llttlo bnkeshop. Then two Htal wart Koreans proceed to pound It wltk great beetles. Tho natives do nol claim that the quality of the bread It Improved by tho addition of Impart ties In the way of Insects and dust which naturally result from the open air treatmont, says n bulletin of the Nntlonnl Geographic society. But li one objects to eating It, n nntlve will quota n proverb which, being Inter, protod, runs: "Ho who would enjoj his food should not look over tin kitchen wall." Record Gcneolojjlcal Tree. A Spanish nobleman, tho Count of Oral, has a genealogical treo complete In every branch from Noah downward, A golden ark figures In tho fnmtljr escutcheon, and tho count nmlntulrui that his tltlo commemorates tho serv ices rendered to humanity by his an cestor at tho tlmo of tho Deluge. Easily Cured. ) L'dllh Ferdlo nays he feils down In ie mouth. M 'id Tell bin. to cense cIihvIiik ology for a nuixtncho then