Why Tom, a big, brutal lumberman, desired to marry Mamie, no longer young, never pretty, penniless, and admittedly fond of Dennis, must remain a mystery.

That was too ridiculous a condition to consider, so Minna disguised as a peasant woman, and a friendly lumberman took her across the border as his wife.

She released Crossman's arm with a jerk, and snapped the fingers that had just caressed him in the face of the furious lumberman.

The driver said: "It's them gallus lumbermen from some o' the Maine regiments clearing the ground.

Waco, to keep up appearances, said that he was a cook; that he had lost his job in the Northern camps on account of trouble between the independent lumbermen and the I.W.W. It happened that there had been some trouble of that kind recently, so his word was taken at its face value.

Some years before he had been known as a timber-cruiserthat is to say, a man who "locates," during his wanderings through forests primeval, belts of timber which will be likely to allure the speculative lumberman.

To-night the stout lumbermen of Maine are encamped under their own fragrant pines.

The sturdy lumbermen at last gain the advantage over him.

Thoughtless lumbermen have pillaged millions of acres of our most productive forests.