Republican-Freeman, The (Newspaper) - August 28, 1888, Waukesha, Wisconsin A FAMILY AFFAIR Dally night ne played our parts Or lover and ot maid The I scarcely but Pierced toy a pair of Cupid's on all undismayed And what a varied lot Ills We haJ Our parent's which seldom yearly three acts of woe i But as the play approached Its end Ail evil turned to Each enemy became a Our hearts were then allowed to blend AS at the first they should And took our stand Well forward to the right With lover's clasp I her With lover's breath her I And gazed with keen Within those eyes whose perfect blue Seemed purer blue for Upon whose golden hue Had almost made me miss my And whispered let's make earnest of this A from fiction Let 6 put love truly to the I said much but all the In the strain softly and turned her head A little more am so then she sa you I'm soon to wed My the Bad luck wai the pet superstition on Which John mid all his urea misfortunes For years fie drifted about the Searching for good but losing it ia the His broken had died the winter worn out by the hardships been compelled to But before her death she Had extracted from him a promise of reform When his father had become lost to sight around a bend Bat entered tbe swept and dusted washed trie breakfast dishes and put HE HiS SIGHT LUCK His Miraculous Escape and What It Did for Tor This I HE few rough ins constituting the camp at ers Point could be plainly seen through the oaths of smoke that over them like avail of although they were five miles away as the crow and double that dis- tance by rail There had been a blight flurry of snow tho day and drifting particles of frost glinted in the early morning sunshine like bits of silver The on the ains had been piling higher und and the leadon that hung about the peaks gave promise of storm Old John grizzled and Un- came out of little set in the nido of tho giving himself a ut tho sky and then at tho distant hov tor woik in the tunnel to-day by I'm bound tei go to camp fer some It's sillers my kick to git out o when a storm in tho Bat Barnacle stopped in his work of snow and looked anxiously up at Vis father to me you're out most day ho protested You some day before Tho of an emotion akm to over John face Ho drew his eyes away from tho gazo of his son and thorn to wander hesitatingly over adjacent mountains low 1 do go tor tho too a Bui it's backy thib shore They was most out day I got a piece It's an I'm mornin thout it thet 1 don't b I no- how the feel o a blizzard in the urged boon bout you o blidos at Aspon The caps on ole Buldy looks powerful las Eft come like thot git it won't bo any storm till replied the elder again surveying tho louden and tho sky bo homo foro an eft to bliz I git lot it bliz I reckon tho biggest slide thet over slid couldn't hurt this lie whistled to tho clog and walked rapidly down leaving Bat in utter loneliness Bartholomew Barnacle or as his father called was perhaps teen It was difficult to judge of his for hard work and anxiety had stunted his body while ageing his face His father had come to Bald ain the spring before Mounted on an blind with Bat perched be- hind he had set out intending to cross the divide Near the point where now the horse had slipped and dislodging a great quantity of earth in his efforts to regain hii feet and revealing a very promising streak of Barnacle went no but set his stakes and named it the Blind Horse chum the first good luck I've bed in fifteen years he an the blind hoss brung it to us We must take good keer of But the old horse died in the course of a month and about the same time there came a in the Barnacle started a hoping to strike it again further in the but the death of the horse weighed on him The old craving for which the excitement had for a time came back in all its and the work dragged The saw him more frequently than the and the tle labor that was performed fell on the stunted shoulders of his son Bat leaned the shovel against the front of the and sorrowfully watched his father out of eight ft good thing he a8 a tear trickled down his face It'd break her heart ef she pap hed commenced drinkin agin Nobody kin hev any luck ef they hang that the wind might not it he pointing to le door The dog seemed to understand what Was intended and ran cowering into the corner Bat him out and had just placed his hand on the a rumbling sound caught his oar and arrested him An instant later the mountain seemed to tremble to its base It's the he cowering to the floor in with a mighty the avalanche passed over the The room at once began to fill with smoke The chimney Had swept tail hei jes came an pap git home nail a day Shep wallowed heavily down the sustained by followed briskly T before Shep darted oii in advance and soon Bat heard him barking furiously When he came the dog commenced ging into the whining anxiously and occasionally looking into his young master's face Bat turned deathly pale and fell upon his knees buried under he cried know he is Thar's whar Shop's loft im an it's twenty feet to the generally to rights Then he look the pick and shovel and Went to work in tbe funnel His father had firod ft blast the day and the tunnel was half choked with earth and fragments of rock To clear this mass away was work for a but Bat and by nightfall had accomplished a large of the task As the sun went down a somber line ol cloud crept up from tbo and tho wind shifted Into that quarter after dark it increased in and going out hoping for the sound of footsteps that would an- his father's found the air filled with particles of Hunting liis stung and cut of broken glass Chilled and sick at he crept back into the piled the fuel higher in tbe little sheet iron stove and endeavored to his His realized The had come What if bis intoxicated and should be caught in He tried to persuade himself that his father bnd at the camp He Was an old Bat ar- would not be to start for home with the signs of a so plainly discernible But a drunken man lacks judgment a fact Bdt well and then lie might have set out early tho overcome by fallen by the side of the trail Again and again Bat opened the door and his eyes through the pitchy darkness Each time the snow whirled in in blinding drifts and tbe extinguished the lamp that he had placed in front of the pane of glass which served for a 111 the hopo that it might guide his home should ho be wandering on the mountain side When the supper was in- stead of eating it he sot it away He hud been ravenously hungry on but the coffee had lost ita appetizing the steaming seemed flat and heavy and the crisp bits of bacon reminded him of chips Suddenly there came a light tap on tho followed by a low Had he not been listening go intently the howling winds would have boine sounds away sprang Lo the door and throw it opon who had followed his that camo in with the whirling his shaggy coat as white as liio drifts outside Bat held the door heedless of the smiting shading his endeavored to pierce the thick darkness He called again and but the thunder of the storm drowned his calls Then he remembered the old musket that was always kept loaded in tho and left the door to get it The door swung then banged to and the sputtering lamp went ing the room in except whore the fire from the o sent a glow across the earthen Paying no hoed to this Bat dragged the gun from its corner aud again pulled the door open A moment later he pressed the trigger The gloom was pierced for an instant by that leaped from the of the musket But the muffled of the explosion was swallowed up in the roaring of the winds Bat listened anxiously for several then closed the shoved tbe bolt into place and again lighted tbe lamp The room was intensely cold and he crammed more wood into the stove Tbe shaking in every crept closer to him as if for companionship 1 you leave im ole Bat patting his bead Tho dog whined and crept still looking straight into tho fire if he Pap mus be clost laym in the snow not ten feet from the as a thought struck reckon you take me to That's a good Where is Shep looked into his young master's then at the and whined anxiously 111 do the dog find him It's jest awful to he's ter death right by the Then his face lighted with stern de- termination try any how I don't I'd git the an I km come back ter tho ef I don't find any He searched about until he came upon a cord This he tied about dog's neck Then he put on bis heavy ooat and and fastened end pf away and the packing in a great drift drove the smoke back into the Bat realized the Hanger and quickly extinguished the fire To effect this he poured a bucket of water upon the live and for a little while was most suffocated by the steam and ashes The light still burned and on the spur of tho moment he also put that thinking its flame might vitiate the air confined in the He was so by the of the that he scarcely knew what he did as darkness en- and the dog Crept to his pushing his cold nose his Bat realized that something must be done He could nbt live forever cooped up in there The prospect of aid from the outside was extremely small He was forced to admit that his father must be dead It did not seem possible that he could have survived that avalanche if he was anywhere On the trail The tunnel would afford a secure but Bat knew his fathei was not in the tunnel ing the importance of haste he again lighted the lamp The door had been warped by the outside and he could scarcely get it open No whirling column of air now tossed the flame of the for the was filled AV ith A mass of packed almost as hard as ice This Bat attacked with the energy of digging it loose with the pick and shoveling it back into the out It took nearly an hour to enlarge a space sufficient to turn around in But at this point the snow was not packed so and his progress be- came more The exorcise warmed his which would have become chilled by It also gave direction to his thoughts Youth is proverbially as he down his pick alter two hours he found his appetite returning He drew on his and placing the now cold per on tho little ate with con- generously dividing who crouched and shivered at his feet He returned to work and with the confidence in his ability to escape remarkably inci eased Straight out toward the open air he pushed the little working with scarcely a rest It an inter- minable but ho never s went by unnoted Again hunger drove him to the cupboard It was impossible to cook any thing But there were a few hard crackers on the shelves and an abundance of salt and these he devoured not forgetting the dogi Then he again into tbe low tunnel and attacked the drift An- other possibly by Then his pick bi oke through tho crust and a of cold by a bath of poured in on him It was and storm had cleared away ho seizing the shovel and enlarging tho hole to his Shop bounded after him and about in glee Tbe of desolation that greeted Lat caused bis spirits to sink again Tho canyons and trails were obliterated The grove of pines had disappeared Hero and there a tered trunk from tho drifts vi as all that served to point out the place where the stately trees had so recently lifted their kingly ci osts He looked across Hunter's Point Tho cabins were still but the intervening valley was one vast wide-reaching and desolate A of smoke one of the cabins showed that the or at least some of were yet aud the sight recalled him to his own situation He crawled back through the put on bis warmest filled one of the capacious pockets with crackers He knew that should he dig the re- mainder of the day he could not reach the earth The smoke at Hunter's Point again caught his eye He threw down pick and shovel and started across the two- mile level at as brisk a run as possible He never slackened his pace until he reached the panting and reeled into the nearest cabin His story was quickly told and a cuing party of twenty men speedily organized notwithstanding his insisted on returning With them Shep was still away in the snow when they reached the place where Bat h ad left him The men worked in and two hours labor brought them to the earth below There a ledge was discovered and beneath it a cavity Into this Shep returning at and by a vigorous wagging of his tail evidently inviting the men to Follow they and in the cavity found John but by no means dead He was taken to the where he was restored to and in a few days was able to walk about He had left the camp in an condition Of how he managed to find the cavity and crawl into it he has no knowledge When questioned on the subject he shakes his head and simply says that hand must have guided him The claim on Bald erly has yielded and John Barnacle is now prosperous and thoroughly temperate Bat Barnacle is a splendid specimen of sturdy young and he keeps as one of his sacred days the anniversary of the great elide on Bald which led his father to trust in and lean on the strong arm of an overruling Providence in- stead of following the chimera of luck H THE ONLY HOUSE IN THE TRADE ALWAYS THE LEAD FASHIONABLE SUITED TO SEASON AT UNDER THE LOWEST FOR BEST AT If it is a good shoe that will fit get PERSONAL 1 that Longfellow was born al now capital of Stuart Phelps ary venture was a story written she was thirteen years and in the Companion sister of the poet living in and K good health She is trying to from the English Court of Chanci fortune which belonged to hei mother Gladstone says that he re- should like to live a while two great settle and to convince my meri of the substantial identity betw the theology of Homer and that of Old T In his says that Byron's teacher told him that Byron ah had four books lying on his no matter how many others came or w taken away His curiosity prompted him to look at and lie found they were the velli and Alfieri's tragedies Martha A These gooda in Women s Misses elected deacon in the McKeesport and Children and then his Men B Reformed Presbyterian but tne to ordain her BEHIND THE TIMES the THE DOG COMMENCED DIGGING INTO THE SNOW hind the and salt dragging his shoes after again emerged into tho outer air Here he strapped the to his feet placing the shovel and pick on his began his way toward the valley Ho still had some hope that he might find his father at Hunter's Point The hope was rather but it served to cheer and he endeavored to strengthen it The Klud of Shops from Young Men Should Away Nearly every industry lias been Im- proved Better methods of working have been and time and labor has been saved thereby Some branches of business have been left be- hind The uses the same kind of machinery that was in use years ago The still ties a wad of tow about his waist and paces backward his feet is he lays up spun yarn arid marline It is stated that no wooden ships are at present being yet five or six are in of construction in ton and a single firm in Maine builds many wooden vessels each year In framing these wooden it is most distressing to the progressive mechanic to see a dozen men hewing out ribs and planking that could be much quicker done by a machine It is still to see two mon wrestle with the old up and down whip in sawing out planking for a vessel The saw pit was once a necessary adjunct to but it or should a for- gotten art Is it surprising that en has declined from a high when such crude manship is ISTot alone is this thing practiced in and working In some ing a reputation for an excellent out- the most unmechanical methods are practiced In these like the are yet in the chalk of and their future is one of decline unless a reform be speedily instituted Fancy in this age of advancement sewing machines constructed on Nobody use sewing and few would be made Why is it not equally lete to use the old other branches of When plans and drawings are made it is supposed that each part can be finished when will fit ex- in their places Instead of this the mournful cle of one man waiting for as he works by rule of upon the is not up to the to say the least Such methods are only found lu old shops where the tools and products have all grown old together Such a shop is no place for a progressive mechanic It is living upon its acquired in the past Such a shop must die with its present or new blood must be the old management totally dropped and a new shop made out of the old one Only a perpetual struggle for the improved in every shape will keep men and shops from being Budget presbytery to ordain was no precedent for such action and referred the matter to the aj nod The synod turned the question to the Committee on w hich re- ported in favor of ordaining women at deacons have been published thirty j cai a after his but in 1868 III obtained from the hens a postponement of twenty-two jears more This term will expire in 1890 The manuscript is in the of the de second son of the Duke de gi son of the Prince de Talleyrand Lewis G the Harris of Tom's was not long since on exhibition at a museum at Minn ing of the author who made him famous he 1844 I went to and it was there that I met Mrs Stowe She would talk to me for hours about life among tho and each day she would write down what I had told her Then she had never been and I can without vanity that had it not been for me Undo Tom's Cabin would never have been written Nearly all the incidents in the book I told her author of and other lurid Southern ranks with Browning in at one will not contribute to periodicals She has repeatedly re- fused the most tempting offers to con- tribute to magazines and on one occasion she was asked bj tbe proprietors of Magazine to name her own price for a but the offer was promptly as well another from a wealthy firm of a for for the privilege of issuing a cheap edition of her the game not to interfere at all with the bound edition She received a check fbr for her before it went to press in Reynold's hand and ma chine sewed Here ire thing it is a- FRENCH KID hand turn leather It takes and with the much attention as they company here they are i Thei dealer i A n why mth 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