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CHAPTER III—Continued.
—12—
The rains fell unceasingly for seven
days: not a downpour but a constant
drizzle that made the dis.tant ridges
smoke. The parched earth seemed to.
smack its lips, and little rivulets be-
gan to fall and tumble over the beds
of the dry streams. All danger of for-
est fire was at once removed, and
Snowbird was no longer needed as a
lookout on old Bald mountain. She
went to her own home, her companion
back to the valley; and now that his
sister had taken his place as house-
keeper, Bill had gone down to the
lower foothills with a great part of
the live stock. Dan spent these rainy
days in toil on the hillsides, building
-himself physically, so that he might
pay his debts.
It was no great pleasure, these
rainy days. He would have greatly
liked to have lingered in the square
mountain house, listening to the quiet
murmur of the rain on the roof and
watching Snowbird at her household
-tasks. She could, as her father had
isard, make a biscuit. She could also
Toll up sleeves over trim, brown arms
•and with entire good humor do a
week’s laundry for three hard-work-
ing men. He would have liked to sit
with her, through the long afternoons,
as she knitted beside the fireplace—
to watch the play of her graceful fin-
gers and perhaps, now and then, to
touch her hands when he held the
•skeins. But none of these things tran-
spired. He drove himself from day-
light till dark, developing his body for
the tests that were sure to come.
The first few days nearly killed him.
He over-exercised in the chill rain,
and one anxious night he developed
all the symptoms of pneumonia. Such
a. sickness would have been the one
thing needed to make the doctor’s
prophecy come true. But with Snow-
tnrd’s aid, and numerous hot drinks,
lie-fought it off.
She had made him go to bed, and
no human memory could be so dull a£
to forget the little, whispered message
that she gave him with his last spoon-
ful of medicine. She said she’d pray
for him, and she meant it too—literal,
entreating prayer that could not go un-
heard. She was a mountain girl, and
her beliefs were those of her ances-
tors—simple and ■ true and wholly
without affectation. But he hadn’t
relaxed thereafter. He knew the time
had come to make the test. Night
sifter night he would go to bed half-
sick from fatigue, but the mornings
would find him frqsh. And after two
weeks, he knew he had passed, the
•crisis and was on the direct road to
complete recovery.
Sometimes he cut wood in the for-
est : first the felling of some tall pine,
then the trimming and hewing into
-two-foot lengths. The blisters came
•on his hands, broke and bled, but
finally hardened into callosities. He
learned the most effective stroke to
hurl a shower of chips from beneath
the blade. His back and limbs hard-
ened from the handling of heavy wood
—and the cough was practically gone.
His frame filled out. His face became
swarthy from constant exposure. He
gained in weight.
One cloudy afternoon in early No-
vember found Silas Lennox cutting
wood on the ridge behind his house. It
was still an open question with him
whether he and his daughter would
•attempt to winter on the Divide. Dan
•of course wanted to remain, yet there
were certain reasons, some very defi-
■jnite and others extremely vague, why
the prospect of the winter in the snow
fields did not appeal to the moun-
taineer. In the first place, all signs
pointed to a hard season. Although
the fall had come late, the snows were
•exceptionally early. The duck flight
was completed two weeks before its
-usual time, and the rodents had dug
their burrows unusually deep. Be-
sides, too many months of snow weigh
heavily upon the spirit. The wolf
packs sing endlessly on the ridges,
and many unpleasant things may hap-
pen. On previous years, some of the
cabins on the ridges below had human
•occupants; this winter the whole re-
gion, for nearly seventy miles across
the mountains to the foothills, would
be wholly deserted by human beings.
Even the ranger station, twelve miles
across a steep ridge, would soon be
empty. Of course a few' ranchers had
homes a few miles beyond the river,
but the wild cataracts did not freeze
in the coldest of seasons, and there
were no bridges. Besides, most of the
more prosperous farmers wintered in
the valleys. Only a few more days
would the road be passable for his
car; and no time must be lost in mak-
ing his decision.
Once the snows came in reality,
there was nothing to do but stay. Sev-
enty miles across the uncharted ridges
on snowshoes is an undertaking for
•which even a mountaineer has no
fondness. It might be the wisest thing,
after all, to load Snowbird and Dan
into his car and drive down to thd
valleys. The fall roundup would soon
be completed, Bill would return for a
few days from the valleys with new
equipment to replace the broken light-
ing system on the car, and they could
avoid the bitter cold and snowr that
Lennox had knowm so long. He
chopped at a great log and wondered
what would suit him better—the com-
fort and safety of the valleys or the
rugged glory of the ridges.
But at that instant, the question of
whether or not he would winter on the
Divide was decided for him. And an
instant was all that was needed. For
the period of one breath he forgot to
be wratchful—and a certain dread
Spirit that abides much in the forest
saw its chance. Perhaps he had lived
too long in the mountains and grown
careless of them: an attitude that is
usually punished with death. He had
just felled a tree, and the trunk was
still attached to the stump by a strip
of bark to which a little of the wTood
adhered. He struck a furious blow at
it -with his ax.
He hadn’t considered that the tree
lay on a steep slope. As the blade
fell, thfe great trunk simply seemed to
leap. Lennox leaped too, in a frenzied
effort to save his life; but already the
leafy bows, like the tendrils of some
great amphibian, had whipped around
his legs. He fell, struggling; and
then a curious darkness, streaked
with flame, dropped down upon him.
An hour later he found himself lying
on the still hillside, knowing only a
great wonderment. At first his only
impulse was to go back to sleep. He
didn’t understand the grayness that
m
i
, He Fell Struggling.
had come upon the mountain world,
his own strange feeling of numbness,
of endless soaring through infinite
spaces. But he was a mountain man,
and that meant he was schooled, be-
yond all things, to keep his self-con-
trol. He made himself remember. Yes
—he had been cutting wood on the
hillside, and the shadows had been
long. He had been wondering wheth-
er or not they should go down to the
valleys.
He remembered now: the last blow
and the rolling log. He tried to turn
his head to look up to the hill.
He found himself wholly unable to
do it. Something wracked him in his
neck when he tried to move. But‘he
did glance down. And yes, he could\
turn in this direction. And he saw
the great tree trunk lying twenty feet
below him, wedged in between the
young pines.
He was surrounded by broken frag-
ments of limbs, and it was evident
that the tree had not struck him a
full blow. The limbs had protected
him to sonie extent. No man is of
such mold as to be crushed under the
solid weight of the trunk and live to
remember it. He wondered if this
were the frontier of death—the gray-
ness that lingered over him. He
seemed to be soaring.
He brought himself back to earth
and tried again to remember. Of
course, the twilight had fallen. It had
been late afternoon when he had cut
the tree. His hand stole along his
body; and then, for the first time, a
hideous sickness came upon him. His
hand was wai*m and wet when he
brought it up. The other hand he
couldn’t stretch at all.
The forest was silent around him,
except a bird calling somewhere near
the house—a full voice, rich and clear,
and it seemed to him that it had a
quality of distress. Then he recognized
It. It was the voice of his own daugh-
ter, Snowbird, .calling for him. He
tried to answer her.
It was only a whisper, at first. Yet
she was coming nearer; and her own
voice sounded louder, “Here, Snow-
bird,” he called again. She heard him
then: he could tell by the startled
tone of her reply. The next instant
she was at his side, her tears drop-
ping on his face.
With a tremendous effort of will he
recalled his speeding faculties. “I
don’t think I’m badly hurt,” he told
her very quietly. “A few ribs broken
—and a leg. But we’ll have to winter
here on the Divide, Snowbird mine.”
“What does it matter, if you live?”
she cried. She crawled along the pine
needles beside him, and tore his shirt
from his breast. He was rapidly sink-
ing into unconsciousness. The thing
she dreaded most.—that his back might
be broken—was evidently not true.
There were, as he said, broken ribs
and evidently one severe fracture of
the leg bone. Whether he had sus-
tained internal injuries that would
end his life before the morning, she
had no way of knowing.
At this point, the problem of saving
her father’s life fell wholly into her
hands. His broken body could not be
carried over the mountain road to
physicians in the valleys. They must
be transported to the ranch. It would
take them a full day to make the trip,
even if she could get word to them at
once; and twenty-four hours without
medical attention would probably cost
her father his life. The nearest tele-
phone was .at the ranger station,
twelve miles distant over a mountain
trail. The telephone line to Bald
mountain, four miles off, had been dis-
connected when the rains had ended
the peril of the forest fire.
It all depended upon her. Bill was
driving cattle into the valleys, and lie
and his men had in use all the horses
on the ranch with one exception. The
remaining horse had been ridden by
Dan to some distant marshes, and as
Dan would shoot until sunset, that
meant he would not return until ten
o’clock. There was no road for a car
to the ranger station, only a rough
steep trail, and she remembered, with
a sinking heart, that one of Bill’s mis-
sions in the valley was to procure a
new lighting system. By no conceiv-
able possibility could She drive down
that mountain road in the darkness.
But she was somewhat relieved by the
thought that in all probability she
could walk twelve miles across the
mountains to the ranger station in
much less time than she could drive,
by automobile, seventy miles down to
the ranches at the foothills about the
valley.
Besides, she remembered with a
gladdening heart that Richards, one
of the rangers, had been a student at
a medical college and had taken a po-
sition with the forest service to re-
gain his health. She would cross the
ridge to the station, phone for a doc-
tor in the valleys, and would return
on horseback with Richards for such
first aid as he could give. The only
problem that remained was that of
getting her father into the house.
He was stirring a little now. Evi-
dently consciousness was returning to
him. And then she thanked heaved
for the few simple lessons in first aid
that her father had taught her in the
days before carelessness had come
upon him. One of his lessons had
been that of carrying an unconscious
human form—a method by which even
a woman may carry, for a short dis-
tance, a heavy man. It was approxi-
mately the method used in carrying
wounded in No Man’s Land: the body
thrown over the shoulders, one arm
through the fork of the legs to the
wounded man’s hand. Her father was
not a particularly heavy man, and she
was an exceptionally strong young
woman. She knew at once that this
problem was solved.
The hardest part was lifting him to
her shoulders. Only by calling upon
her last ounce of strength, and tug-
ging upward with her arms, was she
able to do it. But it was fairly easy,
in her desperation, to carry him down
the hill. What rest she got she took
by leaning against a tree, the limp
body still across her shoulders.
It was a distance of one hundred
yards in all. No muscles but those
trained by the outdoors, no lungs ex-
cept those made strong by the moun-
tain air, could have stood that test.
She laid him on his own bed, on the
lower floor, and set* his broken limbs
the best she could. She covered him
up with thick, fleecy blankets, and set
a bottle of whisky beside the bed.
Then she wrote a note to Dan and
fastened it upon one of the interior
doors.
She drew on her hob-nailed boots—
needed sorely for the steep climb—
and pocketed her pistol. She thrust a
handful of jerked venison into the
pocket of her coat and lighted the lan-
tern. The forest night had fallen, soft
and vibrant and tremulous, over the
heads of the dark trees when she
started out. ,
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 1
Proposing an amendment to Section
2, Article 6 of the Constitution of
the State of Texas by providing that
only natiye born or naturalized cit-
izens of the United States shall be
qualified electors in this State, and
permitting either the husband or
the wife to pay the poll tax of the
other and receive the receipt there-
for, and permitting the Legislature
to authorize absentee voting.
Be it resolved by the Legislature of
the State of Texas:
Section 1. That Section 2 of Article
6 of the Constitution of the State of
Texas be so amended as hereafter to
read as follows:
Section 2. Every person subject to
none of the foregoing disqualifications,
who shall have attained the age of
twenty-one years and who shall be a
citizen of the United States and who
shall have resided in this State one
year next preceding an election and
the last six months within the district
or county in which such person offers
to vote, shall be deemed a qualified
elector; provided, that electors living
in any unorganized county may vote
at any election precinct in the county
to which such county is attached for
judicial purposes; ahd provided fur-
ther, that any voter who is subject to
pay a poll tax under the laws of the
State of Texas shall have paid said
tax before offering to vote at any elec-
tion in this State and hold a receipt
showing that said poll tax was paid
before the first day of.February next
preceding such election. Or if said
voter shall have lost or misplaced said
tax receipt, he or she, as the case may
be, shall be entitled to vote upon mak-
ing affidavit before any officer author-
ized to administer oaths that such tax
receipt has been lost. Such affidavit
shall be made in writing and left with
the judge of the election. The hus-
band may pay the poll tax of his wife
and receive the receipt therefor. In
like manner the wife may pay the poll
tax of her husband and receive the re-
ceipt therefor. The Legislature may
authorize absentee voting. And this
provision of the Constitujtion shall be
self-enacting without the' necessity of
further legislation.
.Sec. 2. The foregoing constitution-
al* amendment shall be submitted to a
vote of the qualified electors of the
State at an election to be held through-
out the State on the fourth Saturday
in July, 1921, at which all voters favor-
ing said proposed amendment shall
write or have printed on their ballots
the words: “For the amendment to
Section 2 of Article 6 of the Constitu-
tion of the State of Texas providing
that only native born or naturalized
citizens of the United States shall be
qualified electors in this State and pro-
viding that either the husband or wife
may pay tlie poll tax of the other and
receive the receipt therefor, and per-
mitting the Legislature to authorize
absentee voting.” And all those op-
posed to said amendment shall write
or have printed on their ballots,
“Against the amendment to Section 2
of Article 6 of the Constitution of the
State of Texas providing that only na-
tive born or naturalized citizens of the
United States shall be qualified elect-
ors in this State, and providing that
either the husband or wife may pay
the poll tax of the other and receive
the receipt therefor, and permitting
the Legislature to authorize absentee
Sec. 3. The Governor of the State is
hereby directed to issue the necessary
proclamation for said election and
have the same published as required
by the Constitution, and existing laws
of the State.
Sec. 4. That the sum of Five Thou-
sand ($5,000) Dollars, or so_ much
thereof as may be necessary is here-
appropriated out of any funds m
the treasury of the State of Texas not
otherwise appropriated to pay the ex-
penses of such publication and elec-
tion.
S. L. STAPLES,
(A True Copy) .Secretary of State.
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION No. 11.
Remarkable Diary.
Pepys’ diary is a unique work by
Samuel Pepys (1632-1703)., giving a
curious and faithful account of the
times in England from 1659 to 1669.
It includes almost every phase of pub-'
lie and social life, from the gayeties of
the court to the pettiest detail of
.week-day existence. The book is writ-
ten in shorthand, and was not discov-
ered until a century after the author’s
death. It was deciphered and pub-
lished (although in a mutilated form)
by Lord Braybrooke in 1825.
Duty Still Is to Give.
It is another’s fault if he is ungrate-
ful, but is mine if I do not give. Tc
find one thankful man I will oblige t
great many that are not so.—Seneca
Compass at South Pole.
At the South magnetic pole, which
is a long way from the geographical
South pole, a compass needle sus-
pended so as to swing In a vertical
plane, dips until It reaches a vertical
position with the south end downward.
An ordinary compass needle suspended
so as to swing horizontally only be-
comes sluggish near the poles, the
magnetic force. of the earth tending
to pull one end of the needle down, In-
stead of making the needle swing.
The “Green Mountain Boyb."
The “Green Mountain Boys” was a
name assumed by a body of soldiers
from Vermont In the Revolutionary
war. They captured Fort Ticonderoga
at the battle of Bennington. They
were organized originally by Ethan
Allen to oppose the claims of New
York to the territory of Vermont. The
Green Mountain Boys were the first
to ask that Vermont be regarded as
a state. This was not granted until
1791, when Vermont was admitted as
the fourteenth state.
Proposing an amendment to Section
51 of Article 3 of the Constitution
of the State of Texas to provide that
the Legislature may grant pensions
to Confederate soldiers, sailors and
their widows, who have been citi-
zens of Texas si-nce prior to January
1, 1910, providing that all soldiers,
sailors and their widows eligible un-
. der the provisions hereof shall be
entitled to be placed upon the rolls
and participate in the pension fund
created hereunder; levying a tax
of seven ($.07) cents on the $100.00
valuation of property in this State
for the payment of such pension,
providing that the Legislature may
reduce the rate of pension for such
purpose, fixing a time for the elec-
tion to be held on such amendment,
and making an appropriation to pay
the expenses thereof.
Be it resolved by the Legislature of
the State of Texas:
Section 1. Section 51 of Article 3
of the Constitution of the State of
Texas shall be amended so as to here-
after read as follows:
Section 51: The Legislature shall
have no power to make any grant oi
authorize the making of any grant oi
public money to any individual, asso
ciation of individuals, municipal oi
other corporations whatsoever, pro
vided, however, the Legislature may
grant aid to, indigent or disabled Con
federate soldiers and sailors, who
came to Texas prior to January 1, 1910
and to their widows, in indigent cir-
cumstances, and who have been bona,,
fide residents of this State since Jan-
uary 1, 1910, and who were married
to such soldiers or sailors prior tc
January 1, 1910, and to indigent and
disabled soldiers who under special
laws of the State of Texas during the
war between the states served in or-
ganization for the protection of the
frontier against Indian raiders or Mex-
ican marauders and to indigent and
disabled soldiers of the militia of the
State of Texas who were in active
service during the war between the
states and to the widows of such sol-
diers who are in indigent circum-
stances and who were married to such
soldiers prior to January 1, 1910, pro-
vided that the word “widow” in the
preceding lines of this Section shall
not apply to women born since the
year 1861, and all soldiers and sailors
and widows of soldiers and sailors
eligible under the above conditions
shall be entitled to be placed upon
the pension rolls and participate in
the distribution of the pension fund
of this State under any existing law
or laws hereafter passed by the Legis-
lature, and also to grant aid for the
establishment and maintenance of a
home for said soldiers and sailors,
their wives and widows and women
who aided in the Confederacy under
such regulations and limitations as
may be provided by. law, provided the
Legislature may pflbvide for husband
and wife to remain together in the
home. There is hereby levied in ad-
dition to all other taxes heretofore
permitted by the Constitution of Tex-
as a State ad valorem tax on property
of seven ($.07) cents on the $100.00
valuation for the purpose of creating
a special fund for the payment of pen-
sions for services in the Confederate
army and navy, frontier organizations
and the militia of the State of Texas,
and for the widows, of such soldiers
serving in said armies, navies, organ-
izations or militia; provided that the
Legislature may reduce the tax rate
herein levied, and provided further
that the provisions of this Section
shall not be construed so as to pre-
vent the grant of aid in cases of pub-
lic calamity.
Sec. .2. The foregoing Constitution-
al amendment shall be submitted to
a vote of the qualified voters of this
State at an election to be held on
the fourth Saturday in July, 1921, at
which all voters shall have printed
or written on their ballots: For
amendment of Section 51 of Article 3
of the Constitution authorizing the
Legislature to grant aid to Confed-
erate ' soldiers, sailors and their
widows who have been a resident of
this State since January 1, 1910,” and
“Against amendment to Section 51 of
Article 3, of the Constitution, author^
izing the Legislature to grant
to Confederate soldiers and
widows.”
Sec. 3. The Governor is hereby di-
rected to issue the proclamation for
said election and have same published
as required by the Constitution and
laws of this State, and the sum of fiye
thousand ($5,000.00) dollars
much thereof as may be necessary is
hereby appropriated out of the general
funds of this State not ’otherwise ap-
propriated for expenses of publica-
tions and elections thereunder.
S. L. STAPLES,
(A True Copy) Secretary of State,
Motion-Picture Films.
Motion-picture films are usually de-
veloped in sections by being wound
around wooden frames and then low-
ered into slate tanks containing the
developer. Then they are taken to
the drying chamber, where they are
wound around huge wooden drums
which are made to revolve by means
of electric power. In a big film-print-
ing establishment
be dried in the
hours.
miles of films can
course of a few
“Be Sure You Are Right—•"
“Be sure you are right, then go
ahead." The foregoing was the maxim
of David Crockett, a scout of pioneer
days in America, also a soldier and
politician, unlearned but shrewd and
skillful. He was born in Limestone,
Tenn., in 1786. His training vpa
that of the wild frontier, typical of the
early Nineteenth century. At the
Alamo in 1836 he was one of the six
survivors of the siege who, upon their
surrender to General Santa Anna,
were massacred by the Mexicans.
aid
their
“Brazilian Grass."
This is a name incorrectly applied
to a substance used in the manufao-
ture of a cheap kind of hats known as
Brazilian grass hats and also known
as chip hats. It consists of strips *>f
leaves of a palm, which are Imported
to Great Britain and elsewhere for
this manufacture, chiefly from Cuba.
They Travel Fast and Long.
Every year 266,000,000,000 silkworms
produce 60,000,000 pounds of raw silk.
It has been estimated that, taken all
together, the world’s silkworms spin
every year at a velocity of about 4,700
miles a second a thread of approxi-
mately 150.000,000,000 miles In length.
Kenesaw Mountain Is In Georgia.
Kenesaw mountain Is In Cobb coun-
ty, Ga., 25 miles northwest of Atlanta.
It was the scene of fighting between
the federals under Sherman and the
Confederates under Johnston In June,
1864.
Well Covered.
“Finnegan, yez owe me $2.00.” “Oi
know It, but Oi’m goln’ to kape It as
security for the 50 cints yez borrowed
from me a year ago.”—Boston Tran-
script.
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Habermacher, J. C. & Lane, Ella E. Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. [31], Ed. 1 Thursday, May 12, 1921, newspaper, May 12, 1921; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1142253/m1/3/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shiner Public Library.