A WARRIOR BOLD.
By ST. GEORGE RATHBORNK,
AW kero/ "Little Miee Uillione." "The 9pide“d
Web," ' Dr. Jack'd Widow',’’ "Mite Caprice," eta
CAP/rlfht 1001. Street end Smith. New Yprlk
CHAPTER XV.—(Contlnned.)
The Idea which he had conceived to
the effect that the chances might be
better in the reor of tho hotel as com
pared with the Bides facing upon the
thoroughfares was at least reason
able.
He believed some unseen hand guid
ed him, and there was a certain bold
confidence in his intrepid heart that
all would yet be well—all must be
well, since Arline loved him. Heaven
could not be so cruel as to give him
this fleeting glimpse into paradise,
just as Moses was allowed to look
over into the Promised Land, and
then snatch him away forever.
It was this positive belief in ulti
mate escape that bore him up so well,
that kept his brain as clear as a bell,
and prevented a confusion of ideas
such as must have proven fatal to
his chances.
The two fugitives ran the gauntlet
in safety, although there was a time
when Charlie began to fear their prog
ress would be cut off, so fiercely did
the savage flames roll along.
Luckily an opening occurred,
through which he rushed, half bearing
Arline.
To retreat meant destruction, a3
he well knew, and their only hope
now was to push grimly on.
One thing favored them—close to
the fire the smoke was not so suffo
cating—in some of the corridors it
was so dense that many poor, bewil
dered, wandering souls must have
been asphyxiated long before the fire
reached them.
Charlie's first hope was to find some
stairway designed for the help, if such
existed, through which the fiery
streamers had not been drawn.
He saw many roofs here and there,
some towering buildings, and a thou
sand heads in places of vantage, where
the whole dread spectacle could be ob
served.
He saw where a chance offered, if
one could but reach the next*lower
floor, but it was not open to them
here.
Quick as a flash he darted into an
adjoining room; it had two beds in
It, and from these he whipped the
sheets.
The sheets, torn lengthwise and
knotted together, would serve the pur
pose he had in view.
Even while he was ripping them In
broad strips and knotting them to
gether, Stuart kept watch and ward
over the flames.
Again he looked down; everything
appeared favorable—at least, there was
as yet no sign of flames bursting out
below him.
How furiouslyneworked!—how with
clinched teeth he tested each knot!
That rude rope was to bear a burden
that was very precious to him, and he
did not mean it should betray him.
It was all done in an incredibly
short time, though doubtless under
such a fearful strain it seemed hours
to those whose lives and future happi
ness hung by a thread, as It were.
Charlie knotted one end around Ar
line, while her eyes looked into his
with a bravery he would never, never
forget.
She knew this desperate move of
his was the only hope they had.
So she shut her teeth hard together
and crushed down the wail that flut
tered in her throat—the womanly fear
of facing peril, such as men can hard
ly appreciate.
While he worked in this way Charlie
was busy explaining to Arline, as sim
ply as words could do, what her part
was to be.
Never to his dying day would Char
lie forget how she looked into his eyes
as she crouched there on the broad
sill of the window, and gave him even
a piteous smile meant to be encour
aging.
Then she was gone!
He thought his heart had broken,
such was the wrench it received when
she passed from his sight, and he re
alized that she hung there in midair
with only a frail sheeted rope between
herself and eternity.
Then elapsed a few seconds that
seemed years.
Never had he experienced a more
radical sensation of extreme joy than
when there came three quick tugs at
the rope, the signal she was to give
when she had secured a lodgment on
the window sill below, and desired
more line in order to enter.
Quickly he allowed it to slip through
his fingers so that she might release
herself from the noose ere he made the
attempt to descend.
The flames were now driving along
the corridor, and it seemed as though
they would reach the open window ere
another minute had elapsed.
To a man of Stuart's build and ath
letic qualities it was a mere bagatelle
to accomplish this feat; his only dan
ger seemed to lie in a fracture of the
rope.
Like magic he dropped down and
arrived opposite the window.
A pair of arms shot out and seized
him; Arline was on the watch and
much distressed lest something should
happen to him.
And Charlie was thankful enough to
Crawl in through that blessed window;
his first act was to take her to his
heart and exclaim:
“God bless you for a brave girl!
Keep up your spirits and we will
cheat the old monster yet!”
She answered him with a rare look
of confidence and trust that made him
stronger than ever in the resolution
to dare all for her sake.
What advantage had been gained?
They were one flight nearer th*
earth, but the danger attll menaced;
this floor, like all others, was given
over to the riotous flames, and to halt
here meant the same inevitable end.
Charlie did not mean to stay.
Given time, he might have found or
constructed a rope by means of which
he would have lowered Arline to the
ground.
That would have been glorious, but
the seconds were too few; and, be
sides, on looking down he saw the old
enemy bursting out from the windows
near the basement.
Some other plan, then, was needed.
CHATTER XVI.
At Last.
Charlie had conceived a plan which,
while it offered certain chances of suc
cess, at the same time entailed con
tinued risk.
There was a wing where the fire did
not as yet appear to have secured a
foothold.
If they could but reach that section,
which would be the last to feed the
flames, apparently, their escape was
almost a certainty.
Accordingly Charlie’s first action,
after taking Arline in his arms, was
to ascertain whether his surmise were
correct, or if he had deceived himself.
There was great relief when he
found that a passage led off directly
toward the quarter where relief
seemed to hold out hope.
The smoke filled it almost to suffo
cation, and his heart misgave him as
he caught a fleeting glimpse of a lurid
glow through the haze, that warned
him the fire demon was working even
in this quarter, sparing nothing.
The smoke grew more dense—it
seemed to almost paralyze his very
brain; his eyes smarted and burned
as though seared with red-hot irons;
his senses reeled, yet, with the indom
itable pluck of a true soldier, he
pressed grimly on, sheltering Arline
as well as ho could with the cloak she
wore, and which proved a blessing in
more ways than had entered into his
reasoning at the time he first clasped
it about her.
n,very yara wmcn mey covered
brought them closer to their goal,
where doubtless friendly hands waited
to bear them down to safety.
This was the hope that sustained
Charlie in the midst of all this des
perate ordeal—that an oasis lay be
yond. the pure air of heaven awaited
them, once they passed the barrier.
He was weak and tottering himself,
from the effect of his exertions and
the pungent smoke, that many times
overcomes daring fire laddies as they
venture a trifle too far—and yet he
thought only of Arllne, thought she
must be in a condition of collapse.
Nothing else could have possessed
him to suddenly snatch her up in his
arms and stagger on through the
blinding, choking smoke.
At first she struggled, but when
he pressed her more fiercely to his
heart she lay passive.
Staggering alone like a drunken
man, Charlie endeavored to pass the
Rubicon—that spot where the sullen
glow was now continuous, and in
whch he was presently to be engulfed.
Just at the critical spot, where the
flames were bearing down along an
other passage^ he sank heavily to the
floor.
Was this the end?
Had his brave fight come to naught?
In that dread moment, when defeat
stared him in the face, his heart al
most broke.
Arline had meanwhile struggled out
of his arms, for she had gone down
with him.
“Oh, Charlie, what shall I do?” she
cried, in her wild alarm and distress,
for the sea of flame appeared so very
close that it seemed as though the
dread crisis were upon them.
“Fly! fly! Yonder lies safety!” he
cried, trying to get upon his knees,
only to fall back. He had sheltered
her at the expense of his own strength,
and now must puy the penalty.
“But you—I can’t leave you here!”
she soDDea, Denuing aown 10 pui ner
arms about his neck.
“You must! There is no hope for
me! If I can I will crawl on; but you
—must—go! God forbid we should
both perish here! Kiss me, Arline,
and go!”
“No, no—I could not! Do not ask
me!”
"It is my desire; make haste or
Oh, Heaven! it is even now too late!”
as a tongue of flame shot across the
passage beyond.
Arline gave a shriek.
She tightened her hold upon him;
desperation gave her strength, for she
dragged the almost senseless man
along toward safety.
Guardian angels must have held
back those cruel fangs until they had
passed the fatal place, for hardly were
they beyond than, with a rush and a
roar, the abyss of fire swallowed up
the spot where Charlie had been over
come.
Still she dragged him along. Love
gave her a power she had never known
before; under its magical influence
weaklings become strong as lions and
perform prodigies of valor.
Through the smoke, almost over
powered by its awful fumes, she went.
Ah! were those shouts just ahead?
She shrieked aloud, and heard answer
ing cries, cheery cries that gave her
newr hope, new ambition.
Then gigantic figures loomed up be
yond, and Arline swooned at the feet
of the firemen, who picked both of
them up in kindly arms and bore
them into the fresh air.
Two hours later Charlie, sadly de
moralized so far as looks went, with
bloodshot eyes, singed mustache, sans
a portion of Lis eyebrows, and with
sundry burns upon face and hands,
yet bearing a grim look of happiness
upon his countenance, knocked at the
door of a room in a neighboring hotel,
and was admitted by Arllne's compan
Inn, whose temporary absence fronj
the Windsor hotel at the time of lLt«
fire had possibly saved her Ufa.
Arllno lay upon a lounge.
She. too, had Buffered somewhat
from the terrible experience, although
not so severely as her lover, but to
Charlie's ravished eyes she had never
looked so charming as when .she held
out both hands to him, while blushes
chased each other over face and neck.
"God was indeed good to us, Charlie,'
she said, after he had hent down and
deliberately kissed her with the air of
one who holds a proprietary right.
"I echo your words, my darling;
and I venture to say I am the only
man fn New York to whom that fear
ful fire brought good luck."
“Ah! but you richly earned all that
and more—you who fought so des
perately to save me. Where would I
be now only for you? Oh, Charlie!”
bursting into a flood of tears, as she
remembered how he had swept into
her room and taken possession of her,
leading her through devious ways at
last to safety and life.
"And who was it dragged me away
from the hungry maw of the flames
when they seemed sure of their prey?
Ah, my dear girl, the honors are pret
ty nearly even, it seems to me! Wo
belong to each other, and Heaven give
me the power to make your life hap
py!”
"Oh, Charlie! doubt can never enter
into my soul. After what has occurred
I could not live without your love! I
am only contented with you.”
They spent a happy half hour.
Then Charlie remembered that he
bore a message.
"Aleck and your father are below.
They met In the strangest way during
the fire; it certainly looks as though
the hand of fate was in it. At any
rate, they are both anxious to see you,”
ho said.
Capt. Brand claimed his daughter,
and this time there could be no mis
taking the genuine thrill that awoke
In Arline’s heart when she saw his ge
nial face and heard his voice, which
at once aroused memories of long ago.
While the great metropolis was
wrapped in mourning on that sad St.
Patrick’s evening, a happy group dined
in the other hotel.
Capt. Brand related many of his ad
ventures in a modest way, entirely dif
ferent from the braggadocio of the im
postor.
Again and again his eyes rested
tenderly and proudly on his lovely
daughter; she had been in his thoughts
for years while he scoured the deserts
with the wild Arab tribe with whom
he had been associated; and ho had
hard work indeed to believe it was not
a dream.
Aleck, too, seemed to grow more
manly, and Charlie felt sure he had a
grand future before him. The follies
of the past would serve as guideposts,
directing him to the straight and nar
row road that leads to happiness
As for Charlie, a peace had come
upon him such as only the mariner
knows when at last his storm-tossed
barque slips into a safe harbor, where
love and home await his coming.
He looked into her beautiful face,
where the lovelight and glow of happi
ness dwelt forever more, and thanked
Heaven for the bountiful mercies that
had carried them through the perils
of fire to such peace and hope.
No cloud dimmed their joy on this
night of thanksgiving, save the pity
they felt for those who had lost loved
ones in the awful calamity.
The shock must for a long time hang
upon them—it could hardly be other
wise; but young hearts recover from
such things by and by, and at length
it would only be a sad memory, to
arouse a sigh or a pitying tear.
Through Arline’s ready hand a num
ber of those who suffered in the fire
found temporary relief; her purse was
open to any reasonable demand; and
when, some months later, she sailed
for England with her husband, many
a grateful heart breathed prayers for
her safety upon the deep.
THE END.
RARE COLLECTION OF BIBLES.
Dean Hoffman’s Costly Gift to the
General Theological Seminary.
One of the many gifts of the late
Rev. Eugene A. Hoffman to the Gen
eral Theological Seminary, of which
Institution he was head, was the spe
cial collection of rare old Latin Bi
bles. This collection is said to be
the rarest in the world, surpassing in
number of editions even that of thu
British museum in London and the
Blbliotheque Nationals in Paris. Thu
collection was started by Cornelius
Vanderbilt about eight years ago.
when he donated the splendid Copin
ger library. Since then Dean Hoff
man has added from time to time
many rare and valuable additions,
spending many thousands of dollars
in his efTorts to make the library the
most complete in existence. By all
odds the most important book In the
great library of the seminary is the
Gutenberg Bible. It was sold in 1881
for $19,500 in London to Quaritch,
who sold it in turn to the Rev. Wil
liam Mackellar of Edinburgh. In 1898
it again fell into the possession oi
Quaritch, who paid for it at that time
$14,750. Later he sold it to Dean
Hoffman for $15,000, who presented j
it to the General Theological Sem
lnary.
For Quarrelsome Women.
The mayor of Steubenville, Ohio,
has hit upon a novel plan to settle
petty “clothesline” quarrels between
women. He, it is said, has establish
ed a "fighting room,” in which he
locks the women who quarrel over
back yard fences. After an hour'*1
abuse of each other they run down
like clocks. Then they become recon
ciled.
If a man gets too fresh he deserve*
to find himself in a pickle.
WAGES AND EXPENSES
SOME INCREASE OF THE PRICES
OF NECESSARIES.
Along With the Greater Cor sumption,
Resulting from Prosperous Condi
tions, the Cost of Living >3 Some
what Higher Than During Free
Trado Time's.
With what marvelous regularity do
freetrade writers seize the wrong
horn of the dilemma, ami ye! how se
renely they bob up after the most
disastrous fall. Tnere seems to be
an utter lack of discernment among
these foes of the nation, especially
wnen it comes to distinguish between
cause and effect. This peculiarity
has manifested itself to a striking de
gree in numerous editorial comments
on “Dun’s” index number, which
showed the cost of living to be at
the highest point of the decade. Im
mediately these pretended friends of
the downtrodden wage earner rush
forward with the cry tiiat prices have
been advanced by the tariff and the
trusts until starvation threatens the
I eople, lor with the use in expenses
there has been no equivalent gain in
wages.
As a matter of fact, it must be
clear to any man of intelligence that
it is due to the unprecedentedly high
wages and full employment of all la
bor that prices advance. Commod
ities would not long show a high lev
el of values if no one purchased. This
point is clearly shown whenever a
"corner” is attempted. With the in
flated price there comes restricted
buying until the normal position is re
gained. During the years 1893 to
1897 prices fell to the lowest point on
record because there was no demand
and the articles unaffected by any
change in tariff were as badly de
pressed as those from which the duty
had been removed, since the buying
power weakened by idle workmen.
The flood of imports that came in at
that time has just been absorbed.
Wool is conspicuous in this class, for
it is only within a month that re
vival from low prices lias appeared.
To quote the non-partisan "Dun's
Review" on its own index number:
"The cost of living has now reached
the highest point cf the decade, not
withstanding the cheapening of many
manufactured goods through im
proved processes, and the absence of
undue inflation in various classes of
Bteel products which was conspicuous
in the spring of 1900 and brought
about the subsequent severe reaction.
No artificial stimulus is responsible
for the present high level of manu
factured products, and, aside from
some rise in food products due to
short crops, the present position of
the index number may be attributed
to sound business conditions and fuil
employment of labor at high wages.
In attaining the highest point for
over ten years, the index number
truly gives an index of national con
ditions. The oost of the necessities
of life naturally tends to advance Just
in proportion to the ability of the
people to conlume."
Moreover, In its detailed compari
son of price*, the same authority
shows that boots and shoes now sell
at about 90 per cent of the price in
1888, finished products of iron and
steel at <3 per cent of the prices pre
vailing in 1887, woolen goods 59 per
cent of the prices of 1860, and cotton
goods 62 per cent of the level 11
years ago. In other words, while
the active demand sustains the gen
eral level of quotations at a high
point, the very products of industries
that have been developed by the ini
quitous tarin are oniainea ai sinning
concessions. The late William Mc
Kinley promised that a protected in
dustry would not only provide work
at good wages for an army of men,
bat that in a few years the prices oi
the articles produced would be put
belowr the level prevailing before the
enactment of such helpful legislation.
Records prove that these predictions
have been most wonderfully fulfilled,
and with true American energy not
only the home market, but foreign
markets are now supplied. In some
cases the development has been
slower than in others, and in the
w'eaker industries it would be easy
to precipitate disaster by adverse leg
islation this winter. But unfortun
ately the foreign sympathizers in this
country are not taking a prominent
past in the government, except from
the editorial canctum.
One point in the discussion of
wages and prices is of considerable
sociological and economic importance,
yet it is generally ignored in discus
sions. Among a largo number of
American people there is a certain
feeling that office work is more dig
nified than manual labor and socially
superior. This is most noticeable in
the families of artisans whore the
children have received a common
school education. Their mothers ad
vocate the boys accepting positions
in hanks, mercantile houses, etc.,
where the opportunity for advance
ment is slow owing to the enormous
force employed. Bookkeepers and
men in similar positions work all
their lives at the same desk, never
earning more than $15 or $20 a week,
whereas in the lines of productive la
bor they might easiiy secure $4 or
$5 a day, besides the healthful advan
tages of physical activity, i’et this
matter of social position puls up an
obstacle wffiich is becoming more se
rious every day, tending to overcrowd
the cities even when all productive
Industries are handicapped by lack
of men. It is no more difficult to be
come a skilled laborer than to learn
bookkeeping and other office duties,
and the difference In return should
outweigh any mistaken notion of so
c!al equality. If free-trade writers
are arguinx the question of political
economy from the standpoint of the
an-rage office clerk they are work
ing on a line that is most compli
cated, but while the rate of wages
In this cane does not respond as
j quickly to industrial activity. It !s
ueverthelei s true that the size of the
ortice force is quickly reduced when
general buoiness is poor, and these
young men are too proud to work at
manual occupations are not too proud
to go home anil ltve on the monej
earned or sa^ed by their fathers In
the obnoxious carpenter shops or iron
mills.
“JIM” HILL AND TARIFF.
Mistaken Presumption that Protec
tion's Usefulness Has Been
Exhausted.
In his speech to the Illinois Manu
facturers' association in Chicago, Mr.
James J. Hill, president of the Great
Northern Hallway company, expressed
himself as follows regarding the prac
tical operation of the policy of pro
tection:
“We have enjoyed all the benefits
of a protective tariff for many years,
and whatever good it can do In the
way of building up Infant industries
has already been accomplished. The
growth of cur enormous iron and steel
industries, which are pointed out as
the result of our protective tariff,
can be more surely traced to our
enormous resources In the iron
mines of Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota than to all other sources.”
It would seem that the free-trade
microbe has not been wholly driven
out of Mr. Hill’s system. It was in
great measure dislodged by the events
of 1893-1897. Prior to that time he
was a Democrat and a free-trader.
The experiment of the second Cleve
land regim? opened his eyes, and ho
is understood to have supported Mc
Kinley, both in 1896 and 1900. In
1893 Mr. Hill found it necessary to
put in force a sweeping reduction in
wages throughout, the Great Northern
system, and it was not until after Mc
Kinley’s inauguration, in 1897, that
the former rate of wages was restored.
Our enormous resources in the iron
mines of Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota did not prevent Mr. Hill
irom cutting wages, nor did they en
able him to restore wages until after
a protective tariff regime had been
installed. Protection created the
iron and steel industries of the United
States by securing to them a sure
market and defending them against
injurious foreign competition. The
iron mines of Michigan, Wisconsin
and Minnesota would have lain dor
mant for another fifty years if Great
Britain had been permitted to continue
her monopoly of supplying the United
States with Iron and steel products.
Iron or steel mines do not open or
develop themselves. They await a de
mand. Protection created and still
maintains that demand.
In saying that protection has done
all it can do in building up infant in
dustries Mr. Hill seems to suggest the
conclusion that in his opinion the time
has arrived when we can profitably
abandon protection and open our doors
to unrestricted foreign competition.
We do not believe that Mr. Hill thinks
or meant to say anything of the sort.
We do not believe that he would wel
come free-trade. As an investor in
great railroad properties, no man is
more dependent than he is upon a
condition of general prosperity. No
man knows bettor than he that we
cannot have free trade and prosperity
at the same time. Mr. Hill knows a
great many things and knows them
extremely well. He knows too much
to bo a free-trader.
A Farmer’s Tariff.
There w.u a time when Senato*
Morgan advocated a protective duty
lor coal and iron, in which his state
was so largely interested. The result
of that protection inured not to the
manufacturers, but to the landowners,
the miners, the transporters and the
farmers who supplied with food the
new cities like Birmingham, Anniston,
Sheffield, Bessemer and a host of
others which sprang up from the de>
velopment of the mineral region.
The protective duty on cotton goods
has kept the home market free from
the competition of Great Britain and
Germany, and has built up factories
all over the South. These mills have
added one-half a cent to the price of
cotton, being able to pay that much
more than the Northern mills. This
addition means two and a half dollars
a bale, or twenty-five millions on the
total annuai crop. This money goes
to the cotton planter; and the mills,
besides creating this new fund, are
creating cities in every Southern
state, giving new and valuable em.
ploment to labor and affording new
markets for fa^m produce.
The protective duty on sugar is re
storing and expanding the farming
lands of Louisiana and building up
factories throughout the West, prom
ising at no distant day to retain
among our farmers the hundred mil
lions now paid annually for foreign
sugar.
The protective duty is not, as Sena
tor Morgan suggests, a manufacturers
tariff. It i'i just as much a farmers'
tariff. There may he, and no doubl
should be, neadjuntments of the tarifl
to meet changed conditions, but when
the issue is raised against protection
as a principle, the senator will find
that the people of his own state will
be slow to follow his leadership.—
New Orleans Item.
Discouraging Russian Students.
Tw'o Russian studeats have bee*
hanged at Poltava for posting forged
proclamations, apparently signed b>
the czar,urging the peasants tc rise in
revolt.
Witty Retort Pleased Keene.
I.Ike all men nromit >nt in Wall
street. James R. Keene la continually
being asked for tips on the matke..
The other day an impecunious friend
said to him insinuatingly: “Are you
a bull or a bear. Mr. Kocne?” Rather
curtly came the reply, “I’m nothing.”
“But maybe you'll recover: maybe
you're not incurable," was his caller's
droll remark. It tickled Mr. Keene,
who said, with a grim smile, “Come
in and see mo to-morrow," and they
do say that the impecunious man's
quick retort was worth money to him.
An Episode in the Zoo.
One of the most interesting authen
tic anecdotes showing tho influence of
captivity on wild animals comes from
the English Zoological Society’s d<>
mesne. A couple of wolves recently
contrived, after a long period of cap
tivity, to get loose, to the alarm of
the visitors. So completely, however,
had their recently experiences molded
and modified their habits that, instead
of running away in a straight line for
the wilder parts of the park, they
must needs run up and dowm, just as
they had done behind the bars of their
cage, and they were without difficulty
retaken.
After Her Perquisites.
The wife of a new congressman,
says the Washington correspondent of
tho New York Tribune, is invariably
careful In looking after her perqui
sites, and sometimes makes herself
ridiculous by over-reaching. A cer
tain Mrs. M. hearing, not long ago,
that it was tho custom of the fish
commissioner to distribute fish to re|>
resentatives in Congress if they cared
to have them, telephoned to the com
mission that she was giving a dinner
party the next day and would be much
obliged if he would send up three
large or six small lobsters. A polite
reply, to tbe effect that the fish com
mission was not a market, but that
she could have a dozen goldfish for
her aquarium, if that would in any
way contribute to the success of the
feast, was sent in reply to this re
quest.
Fatal Prank of Students.
A legend of Aberdeen university
tells of a college servant, by name
Downie, who, having rendered him
self obnoxious to the undergraduates,
was one evening forcibly conducted
by a party of students into one of the
college rooms, and after a mock trial
sentenced to death. He was then led
into another room, draped with black,
and containing a block and masked ex
ecutioner with an ax. Downie was
blindfolded and made to kneel at the
block. After an interval, the execu
tioner struck his neck with a wet
towel. The farce was at an end, but
Downie was found to be dead. The
terrified students sw’ore a solemn oath
to secrecy, and the real circumstances
of the death were revealed only after
many years by one of the participators
on his deathbed. This story, told with
much circumstantial and picturesque
detail, appears for the first time in
print in a curious book, “Things in
General,’’ published anonymously ,\n
London in 1824, but now known to
have been written by Robert Mudie.
Not Mere Ornaments.
Whenever there is a flood, earth
quake, storm or other disaster in a
city the horror of the situation is add
ed to by lack of light. Either the elec
tric light wires and poles will be
blown down, connections or machin
ery stopped, power house flooded, or
In some way the gas or electric light
is cut off.
For some purposes, such as carry
ing from one room to another and
keeping in a bedroom to make a quick
light in case of sudden emergency
candles are safe, clean, convenient
and cheap, says the Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger. Any one who once adopts
the good English custom of keeping a
candlestick in each bedroom will
never abandon it. Have low, plain
candlesticks, easy to keep clean, not
easily broken, and with a saucer
shaped base, broad enough to catch
all the drips and impossible to upset
and you will be glad a dozen times a
year that you have them, and if you
never allow a lamp carried from one
room fo another you will be less apt
to collect your insurance.
The
Klondyke
Gold
Mystery
--_—---- ---
I’
A THRILLING story of
the far North, will fol
low “A Warrior Bold,"
which comes to a conclusion
next week. “The Klondyke .
Cold Mystery" is a well-told
story of adventure and suf- \
fering in the search for
wealth. It is from the pen j
of John R. Mustek,author
of “Mysterious Mr. Howard,”
“The Dark Stranger,"
“Charlie Allendale’s
Double,” etc. Don’t miss
the opening chapters.
Iw i