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i V A WARRIOR BOLD By ST GEORGE RATHBORNE dutliircf Little Mitt JtUUoni Tht Spidirt Tftb Dr Jacks Widow Miti Capric tta Gwrlght 1601 Streot and Smith New York CHAPTEK XII Continued We must have another deal thats all Perhaps a better and more gen erous lover will appear the next time one who will appreciate little favors at their true value You can consider yourself dismissed with a wave of the hand that should have struck dumb terror into the heart of the other but which on the contrary only excited his secret mirth Thanks but I shall take my dis charge only from the proper author ity and in this case that does not happen to be ahem Cap t Brand Very good Remember I am her father and the rightful custodian of our family honor Perhaps I may re sort to other and more drastic meas ures should you continue to force your unwelcome attentions upon my daughter You would find me ready and will- ing to give you back as good as you send sir Why you young scamp I could break every bone in your body if I chose almost frothing at the mourh with rage Better not try it captain In Ngw York state they electrocute for mur der and its a worse fate than hang ing which you know has terror enough never to be forgotten Charlie acting upon the spur of the moment could not help giving him this little thrust It was a keen one The others jaw dropped his eyes momentarily rolled in a spasm of agony and the sweat seemed to break out upon his brow Charlie saw and was satisfied He had given the conscienceless wretch a body blow in return for his vile threats Capt Brands spasm lasted but a brief space of time and then he re covered his self possession There was a peculiarity about the captain that seemed very marked when in a rage his eyes became quite bloodshot and glowed like the orbs of a hyena upon the deserts of which he loved to talk And just now they were fiery in deed The look he gave Stuart had mur der in it though Charlie showed no sign of alarm Here in this public place the man would never dare assault him Besides Charlie possessed the idea that he could hold his own at any time against the fellow True he was smaller than the captain but a life devoted to occasional dissipation must have sapped some of the aston ishing powers which a generous na ture had originally bestowed upon the worthy man of many faces But Capt Brand restrained himself reason had not quite deserted him He smiled grimly and there was a world of meaning in his sardonic look Very good my hearty You have chosen to throw down the glove and from this hour its war to the knife between us You may live to rue the day you made an enemy out of one who held out the olive branch De pend upon it Arline Brand is not for you A fond parent must guard the interests of his sweet child Go your way young sir and when next me meet it will be as foes to the death I wash my hands of you i CHAPTER XIII The Fateful Hour Charlie looked after the retreating figure of Capt Brand and was in doubt whether to take him seriously or consider his threat a huge joke He soon resolved to dismiss from his mind Capt Brand and all he typified and seek repose He gained the sanctity of his room and lighting the gas sat down to have a last deliberation ere retiring All seemed capable of running in a smooth groove but the best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley Bobby Burns tells us and who has not found it true in his own ex perience Charlie retired Whether he slept soundly or not concerns us little but under the circumstances it is hardly probable that his slumber was very refreshing There was too great a load on his mind He felt very much as a man might who stands upon the brink of a preci pice Success or failure his whole fu ture depended upon one little word was balanced in the hollow of a girls hand Charlies previous bitter experience had caused him to feel more or less caution with a shade of distrust to waiS the gentle sex and against this he had to fight Could he have known what lay be fore him under what fearful condi tions he was fated to win his sweet heart even his bold warrior spirit might have quailed a little It is just as well perhaps that these things are mercifully hidden from our view just as well that we need only grapple with each difficulty as it ap pears in view instead of crossing bridges before we come to them The day dawned There was more or less or a bustle in the air New York contains more sons of Erin than probably any Irish city out side of Dublin And these patriotic exiles never neglect to fittingly celebrate St Pat 3S2Basai ricks day no matter what the weather may be Charlie felt he must have something to distract his attention Artemus was not in sight the daily paper had been exhausted and as a last resort he sauntered out to watch the crowds Never once did he wander far from the hotel which fact later on he was inclined to believe was a special dis pensation of Providence The magnet was there that held him He smoked and walked and so the time dragged by until the hour of fate arrived Charlie the better to see and be out of the anticipated jam had mounted a convenient carriage stone standing in front of a dwelling house half a block from the hotel Great as was the excitement around him it seemed to be doubly intensi fied further along the line of march especially in front of the hotel He saw the procession break at this point melt away as it were Men ran toward the hotel in squads waving their arms wildly Was it an opportunity to quench the thirst that frequently burns Irish throats on this glorious holiday Charlie knew of yore all about the battle of the Boyne and how an orange flag arouses the hatred of a St Patricks day parader even as the red flag stirs the maddened bull to frenzy Had some bold and incautious soul dared to invite immolation by thus Haunting in their faces the color they despised He supposed this must be the case To his surprise however tho ex citement spread the crowd pressed madly forward mounted officers came galloping back shouting out some thing that at first he could not catch Never to his dying day would Char lie Stuart forget the intense anxiety of that moment when he seemed to feel as though the fate of empires was at stake and then he heard distinctly above the roar the stentorian voice of a leathern lunged officer Turn out The avenue is impass able The Windsor hotel is on fire Turn out Doubtless that stentorian shout sent a shuddering chill to many a heart when those who heard it glanc ed up at the massive pile and compre hended the hundreds of precious lives that wore endangered To none could it appeal with more irresistible force than to Charlie Stuart All his hopes and ambitions on earth were centered there the girl he loved with heart and soul was far up in the doomed structure perhaps asleep under the influence of an opiate after a wakeful night with an aching brow At first his blood seemed congeal ed into ice Then it leaped through his veins like boiling lava fresh from the throat of Vesuvius Charlie did not waste time in re flection Time was worth more than money now worth all the world to him He had leaped to the pavement like a deerhound and dashed toward the hotel in great bounds Some men would have lost their wits but it seemed that the greater the emergency the keener became his mind Even as he ran and elbowed his way through the excited crowd with irresistible force he was mapping out a plan of campaign Really there seems no limit to the human mind its capacity is astonish ing it rises to meet the emergency regardless of what is needed Now even when thus fighting his way through the crowd Charlie saw the hopelessness of attempting to reach the main entrance on the ave nue The space for half a block was densely packed with a whooping mass of humanity partly imbued with the eager curiosity that always distin guishes crowds the world over and at the same time a chivalrous desire to be of use somehow If he desired to reach that door he must perforce walk over the heads of the packed crowd A better plan suggested itself He remembered a side entrance which would admit him much more easily Now he was at the corner He took one look up and around The picture was impressed upon the tablets of his memory forever No longer were handkerchiefs and green ribbons waving from the numerous windows of the hotel in stead panic stricken girls threw out their arms appealingly and shrieked in terror The wand of an evil magician had touched the scene and transformed it in a twinkling Smoke already oozed from several openings proving to Charlie that his hopes of the fire being trifling were groundless It was most serious The holocaust of the Parisian Charite Bazar was about to be repeat ed in New York and that St Pat ricks day would be marked as the most grewsome Gotham had ever known Charlie now had a better chance to push ahead Already he feared he had delayed too long There were many people and much excitement in the side street but it was of course not to be compared with the avenue where the crowds had gathered to witness the parade Straight to the door Charlie dashed A man stood there endeavoring to keep out those who had no business inside for it is well known that dar ing thieves will take advantage of such occasions to ply their nefarious trade even if they do not at times even create the opportunity Ten men could not have kept our Charlie from pushing in He shouted that he was a guest and then rushed inside nor did the man after one look at his haggard face attempt to say him nay Charlie avoided the office where men swarmed and orders were shout ed that could never be obeyed His business was aloft She was there exposed to a fright ful death and he felt that he lived but to save her So up he bounded three steps at a time One thing he must remember--the Windsor was famous as a caravan sary where a stranger might easily lose himself in the many passages To do so now would be indeed fatal to all his hopes He found smoke everywhere and even fancied he could hear the crack ling of flames though the whole place was in such a turmoil that one could not be sure of this He also met numerous persons fly ing this way and that maddened with fear Soine hardly knew whither they went and appealed frantically to this cool headed man beseeching him for heavens sake to tell them where the stairs could be found Nor did he fail to direct them every one even while he pushed on to the next flight Up up he went still finding smoke circling along the halls through which women staggered shrieking their appalling distress It was a terrifying picture There were comical elements In jected into it of course but no one had the heart to laugh Charlie knew in his heart a dread ful calamity was impending nothing short of a miracle could save the great structure now and the days of miracles appear to be past Perhaps scores of human lives would be sacrificed to the demon of fire mostly helpless women em ployes or guests who had been view ing the parade from the upper win dows The mere fact that such a draught passed through the halls from these open windows would hasten the total demolition of the whole structure and make it more certain Had Charlie no sacred duty of his own to perform he would have gladly devoted all of his time toward effect ing the rescue of these terrified girls As it was he could only think of Arline Her lovely face was before his eyes and seemed to plead with him to make haste The smoke was growing even more dense and he had to push close to the doors to distinguish the numbers in order to make sure that he was on the right floor At last this knowledge came to him The opportunity was in his grasp Here the same conditions seemed to abound there was smoke in plenty frenzied maids and flying figures darting through it all like spectres Charlie was somewhat out of breath as a result of his steady climb but otherwise in good physical condition He had the number of Arlines rooms well in his mind the house had been crowded and these were the best at her service though the clerk had promised her a suite near the McKinleys after that day What if he could have made a mis take in any way The wretched con sequences almost paralyzed him to even think of it Eagerly he had scanned each flying or crouching female figure he met in the hope that he might thus discover the one he sought But as yet he had not found her Even in that smoke laden atmos phere he knew he could not mistake her figure while one note from her voice must have thrilled him through and through To be continued The Talk of Children It has been said that children speak the best English in the world in that their idea is expressed in the fewest words and to the point Mr Andrew Simonds of Charleston is convinced that their powers of vernacular are superior to his talent for intelligible description He was one day trying to interest his little girl nearly 3 years old by telling her stories of the circus She loved horses and was particularly impressed by the feats of the bare back riders Now he said taking a chair by way of illustration this is a horse A man comes in on him and rides him all round the ring standing up with out any saddle or bridle Then di rectly another horse comes in bare back putting another chair by the first and the man rides him too just in the same way until at last there are four horses and he ridej them all round the ring at the same time And a row of four chairs rep resent the four horses Now wasnt that fine The little one looked up very grave her eyes full of the doubt and credulity that so often puzzle us Yes he had many legs that man And I had to go all over that story again said Mr Simonds True Greatness True greatness first of all Is a thing of the heart It is all alive witfc robust and generous sympathies It is neither behinfi its age nor too far be fore it It is up with its age and ahead of it only just so far as to be able to lead its march It cannot slumber for tctivity is a necessity of its existence It is no reservoir but s fountain Roswell D Hitchcoci zaessa SHOULD KECAIL 1892 THE FOLLY OF ENCOURAGING TARIFF REVISION Republicans Warned Against Playing Into the Hand3 of Their Adversa ries by Tinkering the Tariff Under the Pretext of Hitting the Monopo lies For forty years the free trade ques ion has been the main hope of the lemocracy The great campaign of 1892 was won on the tariff or free rade issue under conditions much esembling those of the present time ft will be recalled that the country was in a condition of prosperity in 1892 that up to that time had not been equaled The country is in a greater condition of prosperity at the present time Some people are seemingly anxious to make some sort of tariff revolution As in 1892 all are doing well but there are jealousies arising between various interests each seem ingly willing to take its chances of self destruction by attempting to des troy somebody else In Iowa men are anchoring them selves on present prosperity to de mand a change in the schedules that have brought this prosperity The proposition is made in the interest of tariff reform as it was made in 1892 for the purpose of hitting the mon opolies In 1892 the blow was aim ed at Carnegie In 1902 It is aimed at Pierpont Morgan It did not hit Car negie In 1892 but hit nearly everybody else It may not hit Morgan in 1902 but it may hit nearly every one else Some of the men in Iowa who have made hundreds of thousands of dol lars in increased values of real estate are the chief agitators for the present disturbance of the tariff They think everything is so securely established that congress could go pell mell into the tariff question without hurting anything or anybody There is dan ger to the country and to the Repub lican party in this agitation which seemingly has its home in Iowa Re publicans are every day heard rav ing against the tariff just as they did in 1S92 when people scarcely had time to add up their profits It is a cute piece of politics that the Democrats or mugwumps are playing in Iowa rock ribbed Repub lican state as she is If a tariff re form plank can be put into the Re publican platform of Iowa it will be a greater victory for mugwumpism Iowa has the speaker of the house the leader of the senate and two members of the cabinet A voice It is perfectly evident that Cuba is to be exploited by tho Sugar and To bacco trusts and it is these which will chiefly profit from any tariff con cession on Cuban products Tho peo ple of Cuba would bo benefited very little if at all by tho proposed 20 per cent reduction Omaha Boo Beet Sugar There was a period when the pro duction of beet sugar in this country received the warmest attention of protectionists Through tho Dingley tariff beet sugar received an impetus that has rooted beet sugar factories in a number of states and enhanced the production to such an extent that in large stretches of territory the Sugar trust has cut tho price of its sugar below cost that thereby it may force the beet made sugar out of tho market It is claimed that in the last reduction made by the trust to three and a half cents a pound for granulated sugar at Missouri river points the price named was below the cost of raw sugar on the Atlantic coast It is intimated if the plans of the trust succeed in forcing tho beet sugar factories of Nebraska Kansas and other western points and the Pacific coast out of joint it will then turn its attention to the eastwards and give the people cheaper sugar for a period so that the beet sugar factories of Michigan and some other beet sec tions will be forced to lay down But it is a singular thing that protection ists wno originally contended lor a good tariff rate upon sugar to protect American industries should now be found attacking tho beet sugar inter ests If one American industry is worthy of protection so aro every one of the others Protection cannot be twisted around to convey the idea fhat beet sugar people are monopolists for most surely if the growing industry of beet sugar is fostered monopoly what are all the other industries built up in this country through the operations of protective tariffs Racine Wis Journal Coming to Their Senses The Republican majority in Con gress is beginning to come to its senses and shows a disposition to listen to those who advocate tho let ting of well enough alone For a while past men posing as protectionists have been doing all in their power to con tribute to the gratification of those anxious to strike down the Dingley act but as the closing days of the ses sion approach they are growing more considerate of the platform upon which they were elected The pros pect of meeting their constituents face THE WRONG MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE jyggssgz m 7r o innr Hx awA trxrzj 71Vr VWVr3affSMfifeAci rwfwi m rmmim 1 u VciUEXAEjmzM mSBiimi VSESSK mmmifA in1 i rtzfio hsdF Vf r 3K uy r a wnsvrT 3 7 aimJzM fAWiu 5 xi i 1 iijnl JilJSSl f 1033 rer gfooo gf ssj pjssmam from Iowa would sounJ like the voice of authority coming directly from the administration The Republicans of Iowa might well stop and think and also analyze the source from which emanates the attempt to put a tariff reform plank into the Iowa Republican platform a plank that might be measurably right in itself but one that would be construed as a letting down of old time principles and be re garded away from home as giving aid and comfort to the enemy Remember the ides of 92 Des Moines Capital Who Would Benefit A few days ago a statement was made to the senate committee by a gentleman who had investigated con ditions in Cuba that a large number of sugar plantations in the island are owned by Americans It is highly probable that officials of the Sugar trust are among these owners in fact constitute a majority of them The president of the trust has admitted that he invested in Cuban sugar lands and it is altogether likely that others in the trust have done so These men would get a share of the 8000000 which Mr McCall says the 20 per cent tariff reduction would give Cuba That all of it would not go to the island is absolutely certain We think there is no doubt that the sugar crop of Cuba is very largely controlled by the trust and that the corporation has put it self In position to practically control In the future the Cuban sugar indus try In regard to the islands other staple product tobacco there has just been incorporated in New Jersey a 35000000 company to take over sev eral important tobacco interests in Cuba The new company is organ ized in the interest of the Consolidated Tobacco company commonly known as the trust which now controls most of the tobacco manufacturing business of the United States and is preparing to control a large part of the Cuban tobacco industry miER smash 3 o 0000 Amm0 wyCt Vfc vv CAR StT i4 gQOQOf to face has a great deal to do with their accession of reasonableness San Francisco Chronicle Tariff and Trust Issue In respect to a revival of the tariff issue it may be assumed that the American people know a good thing when they have it in hand They will not soon forget the paralysis of American industries caused by the tariff the Democrats formulated when they last had the opportunity It re quired some years even after the Cleveland Wilson tariff was abolished for the countrys industries to rally from its blighting effects But gradu ally under the revivifying influence of a Republican tariff normal condi tions were restored and as a conse quence we to day see the era of great est prosperity ever enjoyed by the American people It is equivalent to an intimation that the people have gone daft to assume that they would be willing to exchange present tariff conditions for the paralyzing system that wrought disaster before So far as the trust issue is con cerned it would be a lucky thought but for one fundamental drawback That issue was promptly pre empted by the Republican party at a time when the Democrats spurned it The anti trust measure known as the Sherman act was passed by a Repub lican congress was totally ignored by a subsequent Democratic administra tion and now it is being vigorously enforced by the Roosevelt administra tion Los Angeles Herald That Generous Trust The Sugar trust doesnt see how it can be justly accused of a selfish in terest in the bill to lower the tariff on Cuban sugar as it owns only a lit tle over 99 per cent of the sugar Salt Lake City Tribune Men and roosters sometimes loss their heads by crowing too soon niwijluiwfcili I iMiiiMlitnHWiHJMm1m rOUND AN ANCIENT SEPULCKRE Expedition Organizing to Explore Sup posed Relic of the Stone Ago A remarkable discovery has been mado on the shores of Prince William Sound While a prospector named Leeds was out with a party of natives looking for mineral he ciitno to tho entrance of a largo cave nlmost con cealed from view Leeds entered tho cavern and was astonished to find there fourteen wooden canoes each containing a mummified corpse Stone Implements were found beside the bodies and stone slabs covered the canoes ev erything indicating that the bodies had been placed there during the stone age Tho find was as big a mystery to the natives as to the white man Their tribe has been on tho shores of Prince William Sound from a period so re mote that their traditions do not run back to the time of its advent there yet they havo had no knowledge of the cave or of tho character of people who are interred there Nor do the present natives use stone implements Leeds did not disturb the bodies but carefully marked the site of the cave and after prospecting returned to Valdoz An expedition Is being or ganized headed by Capt Story of the Alaska Packers Association to make a thorough exploration of the cavern and the remains that repose therein PAYS THE FARMERS WELL Importance of Fruit and Vegetable Raising Is Increasing Rapidly Gardeners and fruit growers es pecially those residing near the larger cities of the country have been en joying a profitable business of late years and the demand for their prod ucts is still on the increase Tho handling of these articles too lias de veloped and is a great business enter prise commanding millions of dollars of capital Already North America Is the greatest fruit growing country in the world practicing the most scien tific and progressive methods The flower growing interest is itself an im portant source of national wealth Where once wo grew tomatoes in an amateurish way as a garden product we now grow them in blocks of hun dreds of acres So great have become thehorticultural interests in this coun try that departments of horticulture have been established even in many small as well as tho large schools The generation to come will see the different branches of horticulture each in itself a department of the in stitution The extent to which these special industries are singled out and emphasized measures the increasing importance of agriculture as a whole Made a Serious Mistake Ex Speaker Thomas B Reed was a victim of mistaken identity the other morning according to a yarn told at the Lawyers Club The portly states man was walking down Broadway when he was accosted by a Wall street operator who is fond of other games of chance besides those played on tho Stock Exchange and who is wont to confuses faces Hello Pat was the operators greeting Sir exclaimed the ex Speaker You look as fresh as a daisy old boy SirV repeated Mr Reed with ris ing inflection You must have won a pile last night Sir thundered the man from Maine Oh come off Pat Dont you rec ognize your friends when you are down here You have made a mistake sir Well if you are not Pat Sheedy Ill eat my hat Do so then said the ex Speaker curtly I am Thomas B Reed New York Times In the Time to Come Prof Jacques Loebs theory that electricity is the staff of life has been perfected and methods have been arranged in accordance with the idea that the body is nothing but a human battery Nevertheless science has not yet reached the point of eliminating all the ills to which flesh is heir and with regret a mother notes that one of the children is ailing What seems to be the matter asks the father I cant quite make out replies the anxious mother but I am inclined to think that his voltage is low Possibly suggests the father he needs to be jarred to the extent of a few amperes It may be the mother admits and yet I am not at all certain that the trouble is not due to the fact that his voltage is too high Have you tried the ohm ammeter asks the father Where Men Hibernate To accustom themselves to hunger and to the absence of food the Rus sian peasant practices a sort of hiber nation says a curious mot in LAn thropologie As soon as the head of the house discovers that the quantity of rye on hand is not sufficient to last out the winter he arranges to limit its consumption The whole family goes to bed and sleeps for the greater part of the next four or five months In order to economize the animal heat and to limit as much a possible the necessity for food all movement is restricted to what is ab solutely necessary The custom is called liojka and is practiced by whole districts Only the most im perative want is permitted to disturb the slumber and immediate ill is dUent again or votj