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jj^fwEST t/^^ncis fentiman. ,<^OR nearly three days the VfcRv blizzard had raged against the rude log shanty, which stood on a rising piece or Sfcr ground amid a sea of dead- t white snow. Through the a.v ui >no move-pipe, wdicd lurust its snd above the level of the roof top, It shrieked all sorts of menaces to the man and the boy who sat huddled round the Are, their feet In the oven with the idea of extracting the last particle of warmth from the rapidly dlriirishlng embers. Even If the blizzard was balked of Its desire to wreck the shanty it was not wholly to be denied, but drove In between the ill-joined logs and bellied / A J Both Were Reflective. out the sacks and blankets which hat been hung against them for protection, . s while the in-driven snow lay in. oddly assorted mounds on the floor. Both were reflective, the man because he realized the gravity of the situation, the boy because he had so recently left a home in the east. It was the first day of the new year, and possibly he was picturing to himself what they were doing at that identical time. Presently the man looked up. "Did you hear that?" he said. "No," replied the boy. "What was It?the waits?" "Listen again," said the mau, and Just then above the shriek of the blizzard wps heard a muffled chorus 01 deep bellows. r^, "If those catt'e don't have water \ -"ttayHHW the stable to pieces. They get extra thirsty feeding on straw, and it's three days since they had a drop. Why In h? that well wanted to give out I can't think." "Yes," said the boy, "thirst's a shock1 Incr fhlner T Tn?/1 " . .ue vu*i<5. uocu iu uttvtj uue ray sen ^ In days gone by. Now, if we could only do the widow's cruse of oil business ; we might make this lot go round," indicating a pot which stood on the stove. "Can't you ever be serious?" protested the man. "We've got to fetch some water." "By all means," replied the boy. "Just touch the bell for the waiter." "Don't be a fool," retorted the man. "If you'd been in this country three years, instead of three months, you'd know what a blizzard means, and wouldn't be so mighty cheerful over "Aren't you a fool to suggest fetching water?" said the boy. "Why, you got lost walking to the stable not an hour ago." fj' The man did not reply until the boy asked him whether he really considered his suggestion possible. "Yes," said the man slowly, "it Is? possible." "I suppose," remarked the boy. "you are aware It will take four barrels at least, that the nearest well is old man Reld's, which is three miles away, . and that you can't see six feet in front of you?" "I know all that," said the man, j {. "and more. I can tell you that the Ejh horses will go like the wind, and when they have had their fill of cold 9&Z water there'll be no holdina them ^ while the barrels are filled. Of course ! the trail's obliterated, but they'll find j their way like a blue streak." "Sounds Inviting," said the boy with his ridiculous laugh. "I'd offer to toes as to who goes if I had a coin, but as I haven't (more Injustice), we'll draw straws." "It's the only way," replied the man. "Those cattle are our all. If they w break loose they'll be frozen stiff. The one that wins harnesses the horse, and BBp divides the water round when the loser jMaSJ^ts back. Is it a bargain?" boy cut two straws of unequal [ th, pm thom In :i basin, covered it j^JP^witlt a cloth and shook it about. "Ton draw first," said be. "Long one (ats the water, short one hitches the horeee." ^jk. When they cams to meesurs the (^drawn the ion# one. "lly loek word the man pesaed j J| but not quickly enough to tflRud of RVO-w which twirled J 'Jr^om. Silently he pulled on |Nyh*\<108 11041 trapped himself elothee ea he poeeeeeed, thet he bed ae toTEe Bo551?3, on which four empty barrels could dimly bo dlscornod. "Have you put the pall and rope laf* asked the boy. The man nodded as they solemnly shook hands, while the boy shielded his eyes with the crook of his arm and gave the horses their heads. He tried from time to time to peer into the storm, but the snow made wraiths round him and froze his eyelashes together. How the horses got there the boy never knew, but get there they did, and whilst the icy blast probed remorselessly amongst his clothes for the flesh beneath, and poured the powdered snow down his neck. The maddened animals charged him as he lowered the bucket Into the well, and spilled the water all over him as they (ought for the first drink. It was a slow process at best, and his clothes and mittens crackled with the congealed ice as he hauled up each pall. When they had drunk their fill they quivered with the cold, and plunged to get back, but the boy bound the reins round the runners of the foremost bob. They bucked as the frozen bits galled them, causing him to spill as much as he put in the barrels, and to slither about on the rapidly forming ice, rendering a foothold almost impossible. In between times the boy rubbed his eyes and the frozen places. It was a slow and tedious task, and he soon was fagged, because at 19 the muscles are not hardened. The horses knocked him over and the sleigh ran over his legs, but, being light, only bruised him. In his puny rage he slashed them with the pail rope, and it warmed him until one of the horses ; trod on the bucket and bent it flat. Foolishly he took off his mittens to straighten it, and only learned sense wKnn Ka #AH t- ~ ? nu<;u UC n:il IUC SKUUailUIl OI 1113IIV needles piercing his hands and the skin on his Angers adhered to the metal. It was a painfully slow job; tolirta filled pail shoulder high and empty It ; Fought for the First Drink. in a barrel mounted on a sleigh requires strength, and his was fast leaving him. Moreover, the water ran up 1,1a # ? u<D Dimes tiuu iiu^e, until oe was J1K6 ail automatic block of ice, if such a thing can be conceived. He became such an embodiment of misery that he no longer troubled about anything, but occasionally buried his head in his arms to rest, and had only sufficient strength left when at last it was finished to put the reins behind his back and brace his feet against the hindmost barrel before returning, and in this position the water slopped over him and played its sweet will unchecked. Where the horses went he knew not, and if they tipped the lot over again he cared not. He was past caring. With what little sense remaining him he rather hoped they would, and so end it. He believed they stopped, but couldn't be quite sure. It seemed hours after in a dream that he fancied he heard the man's voice: "My God, I thought you were never coming back," and in the same dream he heard himself saying: "Neither did I." I knew the boy in those long years ago. I see him and it is in day dreams myself sometimes even now, especially on New Year's day, as I sit round the fireside here at home. It is incongruous that pictures should appear in the embers, but so they do, or else one's fancy paints them there. Then a coal drops out, and I wake up to the remembrance that I was once that oy. 8. C. REPUBLICANS IN WASHINTOON. Capers National Committee Man until Convention. Washington, Dec. 16. ? In the lobby of the Willard hotel, where accommodations are sold at the rate of flO a day and upward, Aaron Prioleau, the South Carolina negro who runs for Congress in the Charleston district every election year, was a conspicuous member of the Republican contingent who were in Washington this week, incident to the meeting of the Republican national committee. Prioleau was not "stopping" at the Willard, except between meals, and during his waking hours. But the ' committee was holding its meet- < ing there, and those who were mere j spectators epent msot of their , time in the lobby. Aaron seemed 1 to be proud of his rank, although \ It is a question -whether he Is any- , thing more than a private in the 1 ranks of the South Carolina Re- J publican party. There are two < State committees 1n South Carolina, 1 one headed by one of the Tolbrts, j of Ninety-Six, and the other by < L. W. C. Blalock, of Goldvllle. ; Each claims to be "regular," and \ each was represented here during < tbe aossion of the committee. Bla- j lock Is a supporter of the Capers \ leadership, and Tolbert claims that fapers is not the real Republican ' of the State, because?well, ( 4 \ \ i ? - .uiii 111 i. iB?na the affair U so mixed up last there isn't much because to it. But at any rate Capers is national committeeman until the convention meets in Juhe, in Chicago, and Blalock is chairman of the State committee until that time. It will then be decided by the national committee which of the contending State organizations in South Carolina is "regular," and may be admitted to representation in the convention. Prioleau's Pet Industry. Aaron Prtoleau runs for Ciongross every time there is an election, and poll* a few votes. Then he files a vvuvcov, auc^iii^ vanuufi irrwgu mi 1ties in the conduct of the election in the Charleston district, and his contest conies before the election committee of the House. He has been allowed, as all contestants have been allowed, $2,000 attorney' fee to prosecute his contest in each instance. Of course Prioleau has never expected favorable action on hie contents, but the $2,000 attorney's fee is enough to keep him in the race. There She liloavs! After a whaling skipper has been out on a cruise for several months without killing a whale, his displeasure at his continued ill luck begins to manifest itself in his habit of taking out his grouch on the crew. Eventually this frame of mind gives way to a mood of deep melancholia, during which he shuts himself up in his cabin and "tanks up." This melancholy mood is in turn, replaced by an extremely religious fervor. Nobody knows what comes after this, because a whnle is usually sighted about this time and there is no extreme cases on record. A certain skipper, having arrived I" Are Yoii What makes you nervoi I womanly constitution, which I hard work you do. As a re I your entire nervous system | Cardui, the woman's tonic. I vegetable ingredients. It act I and helps them to do their I and restore* health, in a nal I source of the trouble and bi TAKE I Cardui Mrs. Grace Fortner, ol I This is what she says al I nervous, I could not bear to I fainting spells, and I lost fl I of Cardui helped me. Now, I fainting spells, and 1 cannot I know it saved my life." It i Do you suffer from any I Take Cardui. It will help y Write to: Ladles' Advisory Dept. C I for Special Instructions, and 64-page book. STALK You need weight in a Stalk Cutter to with weight you get strength. The P. & light, flimsy stalk cutters?you will rue life-time. What do the manufacturers t unqualified guarantee." That is putting PsfcOPsfcO CANTON FLOWS CANTON PLOWS W. J. Phcne Address DILLON. 7 !Ie*dqu All Kinds of Up-to-! i ?ii r ? s(s ?{s aga ?S? > ? ? ?!? ?!? t QUALITY IN FLO\ : FOA? THE S f We have the cl J In Houth Carol! decorating force * artistic achieve) Jj Write, wire or promptly and ci CONNE 394 KINO > at the religious state, was delighted one morning to ascertain that dUr- * nig the night the colored cook had ' > passed away. The untimely removal of the cook offered a tempting op- ! portunity for a nice, sad, weepy ! funeral; and in due course the corpse of the cook, sewed in a ham- j mock and draped with the Stars | and Stripes, was brought up and i laid out on deck. The skipper read the burial service in a sepulchral voice and started in at once on the > carefully prepared funeral oration. "We are gathered here to-day my dear brethren," he began, addressing the assembled crew, "to pay tue met bhq uiuuic 01 iove 10 u ; mighty good cook. Though his hide was black, his immortal so?l was white us alabaster; and during i the time he was with us we learned to love him. Let us pray?" A voice from the crow's-nest: "There she blows!" "Where away?" bellowed the skipper; and, without waiting for a moment for the answer, he sprang forward to see for himself, forgot all about the corpse and stumbled over it. As he scrambled to his feet he yelled: "Chuck the carcass of this black ' scoundrel overboard, you lubbers, and clear away the boats!" Her Pistol Kills Woman. Keeping a loaded pistol in o bureau drawer with her false hair 1 proved to be a fatal mistake for Mrs. Celia Maslan, of Kansas City, Mo. The weapon became entangled with her switch and while trying to disengage the revolver it was discharged. She was shot in the head and almost instantly killed. 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