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A Coming Vengeance
CHAPTER
"Hold up! Full yourself together,
tradiY," he saki. "You've got a
ehanee of redeeming' your 0141'3.c:ter for
ehi•ewdneere nay child, gial--aYhartevea
vou are! Ymi and t have got to keep
pur heads etralate, I gueseed she ha(
genet r 'knee' he'd followed her, when
they told me at my place that you had
peen to his rooms veiling at him like a
'wild cat. ---You ton't now where they've
gone? That's bad, Bue there's just a,
etiance for s. I SaW itoehki early in
the evening; ,he wits in a little frowey
pub, he and some gentlemen of his lad-
1ioy 1watelied him go out with two
indi'veduals it would be gross flattery to
eall mem They went eastward. And
that's Where Mina le, and Clive Heave
too, Now we 11 go round to that au
TO and see whether we can hear
anything of the gentry, Go and put
year head under that tap, while I load
this revolver, white). I caua•ht up eat of
a drawer as J. was leaving',
Tibiy set her teeth, Wee oft her gro-
tesque hat, turned on the tap over the
Pink, and held her head. under the eold
'stream of water,
"You've got some sense, 'ear, Quilton."
She said, as she eame up gasping and
scrubbing her face and head with a
leak -towel. "That's put me strite. And
now, if 'you've got one of those pistols
for rne---"
Quilton shook his head as he slipped
the revolver in his pocket, "One's
nough Tibby," he said, "There's six
a:b.:embers: and. I've got an awkward
•enack of never missing, Come on!. I
demonstrate my sense of your cuteness,
'trim observe, Tibby; by regnesting your
earriPanY; and I beg you will not diem).
Point nie by screaming or equealing •or
Otherwise giving way t� that universal
curse of evonieu—the nerves," •
She looked up at him, with her eyes
flashing.. her lips drawn straight.
"If there was time, I'd teaoh you to
eauce me, you—you waxwork show'
She nasted. "But you just saveMina.
and Mr. Clive, and let you oft"
He nodded, and they went gaieltlY
downstairs, but more slowly when they
rea.ched the street, quickening their
pace again as they left the Rents be-
hind them. Quilton Ied the way down
a hideous alley, rich with fruit ripe for
the gallows, and threading their way
through the groups of drunken men and
frowsy women they reached a low -
brewed villainous public -house. As
they did so, and Quilton littered through
the half -open doorway, Tibby touched
his arm. A dirty, disreputable -looking,
fcrar-wheeler had drawn up a, few yarde
away, and two men got out. One was
Koshki, his battered face half -hidden bY
a blood-stained bandage.
They lifted out a third mane who ap-
peared to be dead or unconscious and
helped him as quickly as they could, for
Pactshki staggered as if he were weak
with loss of blood, into the public -
house. Quieten, who had drawn Tibby
aside into the dark and evil shadows
ran to the cab, and, giving the roan a
sovereign, told him to wait. Then he
went back' to Tibby.
"There's some dangerous work before
us. Tibby," he whiepered-impressively.
'Will you go back?'
• For answer she gave him a. eelance of
furious scorn; and he nodded. The pot -
man, a burly ruffian, whose nightly task
It was to fling out the majority of his
customer% came out of the vile public -
house to sir himself; and Quilton went
upto him, and said quite softie?:
.
alak MralCoshki to sten out to speak
to one of the Brotherhood, will you?"
The man glared at him ferociously
but Quilton reads- a sign, the man start-
ed, muttered something, arid went th
Mislaid came out almost immediately
At sight of Quilton he dram? back with
an oath. Quilton, who had his right
hand in his jacket pocket, smiled.
"I've got you covered through niY
pocket. Koshiti," he said, "and by my
life, I'll shoot you Hite a dog if you of-
fer to go back. He stepped up to him,
and whispered in his ear.; and _Koshki
started and swore again. Quilton said
almost sweetie". "Oh, yes; I know all
aleiut that affair. It was murder, and
I'll hang you if you don't do what I
want. Come this way; we are attract-
ing too much attention for a. modest
man."
'As he spoke. he took his hand out of
his pocket. as if he were sure of his
man; and Koshlei followed. When they
reached the cab. Quilton said quite
plea sa
"Tell the man to drive us where they
are. The horse is quite fresh, I see.
Whoa; this?" as Koshki stared at Tib -
by. "Tho sister. Yes; she Ili going with
ue: Sharp, now! T'm an impatient man,
though you wouldn't think it; and I've
got •an itch on me to ohnot -you' which.
Is.:41711ast irresistible. See?"
With a volley of muttered oaths Itosh-
kt gave the direction, then seemed about
,to draw beak: but Quilton gave him al -
meet a friendly. touch on the shoulder.
"Ip with you" he said, "T'rn hanker-
ing for your company. - You've been
bashed about a bit—I ean trace Mr.
Pfarvey's hand: be hits hard, doesn't be?
—but you are ail right; you've had a
good So of brandy; I can smell it.-
Koehki got Into the eab, and coiled
himself up into a corner like a Scotch-
ed snake. Now and again durang the
Journey Quilton said a word or two to
Tibby; but otherwise silence reigned.
It was, reehats, as awful a Journey as
that whisikx Clive had just taken. But
Quilton dieplaeged no impatience, 'whate
ever he may have felt; thev trayereed
the gout -quelling district. the earthly
inferno through which Clive had pass-
ed; and at last reached their destine -
tie% Quilton handed up some more
morrey to the cabman, and told him to
wait; then he linked his arm. in Kash. -
"Pm not fond of talking, as you
lrrlaw," 'he said sallYelY, "but I should
like to tell you exactly how this charm,
the* little ease stands; or, rather, how
you ,stand. I imagine that you have
lured Wise Mina and Mr. Harvey down
to this cherful spot, and have 'Promised
to `put them away,' and silo them into
the river—a, very old dodge, quite a
familiar one in this salubrious, bighly
morel neighborhood. And mew we may
he in time to save them., I sincerely
&list we 'may, for yam- sake. 1 see?
gur seke, because, if we should unfor-
liately be too late, I am going to
adept one of two enurses: at peeeent I
hrtve not ?mite deeided which it shall
he I shall either hand You over to the
perks. teed get a prose ileket tC wit-
-tie:4e your execution—I'm a joarnallet,
55 T())/ may know -02' T siren :afoot you.
and put you fix the river in accordanee
with the touchingly siermie tormule.
which prevails; In this aistriet, Now,
• :seeing how you stand, T think you will
agree with me that it would be well for
you to ren/kr Miss Tibby and me all
the as:A:stance of which you are eel):
TiOby tuenee her bageerd fare P11 to
(Milton with t I 0Olt ef eloquent adrolea-
, 11 On, PdininttiOn whieh watt se profound
that foe the monient it °Jam overreester-
ed. her terror end ripereingleiott
."011. you'res a.gond ein:" :she murmur-
ed. brokenly.
Qui: ton evened and preeeed her &I'M
"'Not ra ali, 1117113,-," he eel% "es ci mat-
ter: of foot, I'm a bad etta a very bad
"um When Tan ihwaeted "
Ttnelas I patartel . his blood -etni n ed head
stexoee iiie face. 'We'd better tele a
t," be falai hoe iaely, lag battered
"There's fUle down tide
p." •'
Ae they Anoka a ittilnetes Ismail, the
laegit ,one 111 or in ertirinvelen
Iri th a. by eire. row., :risme- 1 lie Aulien
l p-
11011' of the WS 1 or rot the Quilt -Ws
linen ma ella meal tnete raly.
"Quire, you dog!" he. oriod. "Thor
)ios 1.11p 1,00.1
CHAPTER XXXIV.
eicativ as (Walton' for he knew that his
lila hung by a thread and depended UP -
On the rescue of las eletirne. With 'tab-
by in the stern trembling, and yet
terise with excitement and a feta
..dawnizig ot hope,. the men ',owed .outin-
to the river. The rain had ceased, the
sky was clearing, and the Moon was
beginning to ShOW dittliy through the
drifting, clouds. ,The tiae was running
fast againet them
A scene more calculated to chill the
Soul could not be imagined; all kinds
of nameless horrors, evith Death as the
Central figure, seemed to brood over
and Tibby shuddered, and coald not
repress a faint map.
"Keep her in, keep her ini" growled
Keeled., his guttral voice searcely audi-
ble.
Quilton, who was, of course, pulling
the second oar so that he should have
Koshki in front of him, looked over
his shoulder with keen eagerness; but
he could discern pothing ter a 'time;
; presently he eave a dim light coming
through the mini: that hung about the
shore; he knew instinetieely that it was
burning at the point they were zaaking
I for, and he quickened his stroke, Both
' men were now pulling with frantic
force, with the perspiration streaming
from their face, their teeth clenched,
and 'tabby was leaning forwo.rd scan-
ning the water with fearful eag-ereess.
Suddenly, as they shot abreast of the
faint light, she sprang to her feet, and
uttered a ory, a suppeessed scream.
"There, there:" she cried, pointing to
something floating a little ahead of
hem.
Quilton saw it almost as soon as she
.did, and both men strained at the oar.
They came alongside it. and the dull
liglit of the moon revealed Mina's white
face. Both , men seized her, she was
lifted into the beat, and Tibby flung
herself beside her, panting:
"A icnifel a knife!"
In an instant the ropes were cut, and
Tibby caught the liteless form to her
bosom. "She's dead, she's dead!" she
wailed.
But Quilton, who had been feeling for
Isfina's heart, uttered a hoarse cry of
relief.
"She's not, she's not! a She's . alive!
Quiet now, Tibby! We are fighting for
her life! Be calm! She's in your
hands, remember: yours! Here's
brandy—give her a little, not too much.
Our work's not yet done; there's Har-
vey to find,"
"There he is!" said Iaoshki with an
oath, and he pointed to another dark
object just ahead of them.
They made for it with almost hmee-
dible speed, grabbed at it, and hauled
Clive aboard. His case was worse than
Mina's; and •Quilton, after severing his
bonds, bent over him for some minutes
in sileflce.
"IS he dead?" whispered Tibby hoarse-
ly. 'If he is, it won't be much use
bringing her to life"
Quilton stretched out his hand for
the brandy; presently he said:
"He's—yes, he's alive; but—we must
get ashore at once, and get a doctor.—
Pull for that 'ruined shed where the
light is," he said to Koshiti sternly.
atashki pulled, and as he 111 so, look-
ed from side to side with a cunning
gleam in his small eyes. As the boat
approaehed the opening of theshed
from which Clive a.nd rilina had been
la.unehed to death, he dropped the oars,
and leaping out of the .boat waded to
shore. (Milton sprang to the oars, and
1 as he pulled looked over his shoulder.
I Koshiti was running staggeringly up
1 the steep incline towards the lantern,
I which Quilton knew the brute intended
I to extinguish; but suddenly, Qualton
from the darkness, and confront Kash -
saw the figure of a woman glide out
141. It was Sara, her arms waving wild-
ly, her face working like a. madeiva-
: man's. '
• "Traitor!" she hissed. "You have be-
trayed nie! Tell me they are dead, that
it's not too late!"
Cara .A
A r rip Finn are!: (*mind ri Iv -4a whioli
sealed :eta les eoneasseese lea moos -
se Hese eese, termites tn. noes should
oriental there: 0 take to the :I vet?: erel
Os eel el el. 1 peed .1h tr.) the ba0± alInosi eel
Itoshla swore at her, and laughed with
lady,' he said. "They've been too shern
for us; both the gel a d that
Harvey, are alive, curse him! Get out
of my way, let me pass!"
"You shall not!" • she screamed,
etretchine out her arms. "You.have be-
trayed me! I'll keep' you 'here, and
leave him to deal with yori." •
I "Out of it!" h.e snarled. "Out of my
I way, or /11---' a
I He raised his hand to strike her; but
her hand had shot up before his, the
long knife gleamed dully in the moon -
g as she poised it for the stroke;
then the blade came down with an un-
erring aim, aincl; _flinging up his arms,
and screaming like an animal wounded
to death, Koshki swayed. from side to
Side, arid suddenly pitched downwards
on the slimy stones. Sara spurned the
body with her foot; then as QuiIton
leapt ashore and made fast the boat,
She sprang to the lantern, overturned it,
and glided away into the aarkness.
When Clive came to and, opening bis
eyes, gazecl vacantly about bim, his re-
turning consciousness told him teat he
Was lying In s own bedroom, and that
Quilton wars sitting beside him. For a
minute or two Clive could b •
nothing; then when the hideous scenes
throu.gh which he had passed. came
crowding back upon his brain, he was
convinced that he. had just awalcened
from a nightmare. He tried to move, to
raise himself, to speak; but to his
amazement he found that his limbs were
as heavy as lead, that he bad no
strength to raise himself. that his voice
came with difficulty, as 11 he had to.
fetch It from. a long Way off. It wee
Quilton who first spoke, As he gave
Clive a drink.
"Come back again then, old man?" he
said, with his old impassive manner,
but with Just a hint of tenderness and
of anxiety. "You've been a deuce of a
long while. And TIOW you have woke up,
You'd better let me do all the palaver.
—Theret drink this! ---You want to know
how she is, of course? She'e in a good
deal beter trim than you ere; in fact,
she's nearly all riglito
Clive's chest heavea evith a ,labored
sigh, and he closed his eyes that Quil-
ton might not see' the tears that Pain"
fully welled up in them; but Quilton
was staring at the wall, "
"Yes; she's had a bad iirne.'of courea;
but they hsulret treated her at; they
treeted you: you were badly baehed, olo
man; in fact, you must have the oonsti-
tetion of a rhinoeerots, or you would be
up aloft by this time, Yee; she's all
right; and I'll let. eou go to her, see
her, when you're strong enough. That's
the best kind of tonic:- can give you.
Any snore queetiops to ask? Domeris, of
cotiase. Well, I'11 relieve that too netive
brain of yourts tmewering a 'few.
Youal be altercated in hearipg that the
llonoralrie Clive Harvey is confined to
hie . bed ba xxceident—riot serioue•
qne seeideYit white deviate in a hem"-
som caW horse fell down, right. hon.
gentleman etettek bia face: absolute
quiet and repose insisted upon by hie
make' advieem 'friends will atindly
an -
00111 . on.
Clive tiled EaPestrettei Out his hand I:0
the Man WilO had been es). true a eriend
in the hour. 'of fetch terrible need; but
he bad to 110(1 0)1(41)1) with seepreeehig
hls :gratitude heee, ieoe.
'Ana the t (Martian gl y o areal tic
ruffia.nly contempt. "rqu're sold, ore
11
meow:area Itoshisi: do yori fe
eet ny in-
terest in him'? said Quieten with a
drawl and a ree0 litre a broek of woOd,
man MIA Wer171.1.; 10 hie geeereeten, or,
rather, I M1(11141 env is) wo.„,4 p1011011.
up In the raver., clown 1h.551,11E4141
1Te lata been etabbed, no deubt 141 e,
lerw-eirobtabla eatieed bj• gotne act of
tee.aelleve of Wel for he (ippon re ±
he ve been 0114) DI the gang 'ef Ana rebiet
•who ilea a en,te and plea:golf rerage
thla lend ni liberty: tree. thoete
111Y dea Tate aeje . whoa,* a:lath. 41)13'
meatus, violete. peaeniall,' !nay bn re- ,
Partied ite ftn unalloyed boon ta
rn antra ty. The pollee r Aga eft hie teat-
ime , ore sylth eon:reef:et:ay' Whifth
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ha k /JO tfert n :Or t in:1114r trot/tare
o discover i 7, r1PV:3017' (73, 1)(ipiviim who
ilroo or have voltAvorl I )'ilt`!,0s.111 In-
babitente et thie lend of liberty or!
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finest hill -grown Ceylon–in sealed lead packet.
BLACK, GREEN or MIXED
11.1r Xnenillemr all'Iliiii'd% w14)nnitynt.11•1wkr = the f°11°w334-. year he forsook the
so, tua you ever 1101100 winning peen"' ap
paging game to beconie a printer's
prentice in the'effice of the Ot-.
serve:It to Lady ante Chesteeleigh? if
liar in her manner? I ask yon because
ttilleoctimosih^ owloorniaon ahaiosnagtoir eso;ditilmo 2, rhrej. tfiaeedVgaeaCitizen, graduating as a. full-
vate lunatic asylum I--happened.-1 a ed. (mTypographical Union man
to call at Lord Ch'esteeleigh's on bus!: five years la.ter. But somehow or
ness, purely personal and private bum -
cleat; and I feund her raVing about
. other politics and journalism seem -
nese, the morning after—er—your acct.,
'spies' and 'bodies fleeting 00 the river".
ed .t° call him with an irresistible
the kind'of Stier WS used to see it, aforce, and after four years ,at the
Sur-
rey Theatre, Ah, you clon't remember!
anee, let us say 1.riend, Of Lord Ches-
them perhaps. Being an old a-cqueint- Montreal as a reporter an one of
printing besiness he went down to
blood-and-taunder play at the old terleiglaa, I took this liberty of having the bi dailies He had a, habit of
threori: matt de n eIsmplgaioaead tuondsealy,, ptxh•oapter Lord.
Lettitellag the
tehyee heefarittheofeitheifngesdittheart,
—he had been up to Scotland—quate ap- and they mons sent him to Ottawa
Chesterleigle when he returned to towni ,-
provea of the steps I had taken.'
and his eyes sought Quilton's anx41ous1J" trO record the proceedings of Perlin, -
The blood struggled :to Clive's face,
but Quiltoti stir/ stared at the wall ea' ment. from the Press Gallery, Be
was heartily welcomed by, met
hene
s'aisd;•I had a long tala with Lord
Chesterleigh about—about various mat-
ters.
"He knows?" whispered Clive.
"He knows Just as much as I chose to
tell him," said Quilton coolly.
"And. -'and ---she, Lady Edith?"
Quilton was silent while one could
count twenty; then he said slowly and
reflectively, as if they had been discuss-
ing a. debatable point:"
"I am tele of those men, my dear
Harvey, who consider, rightly or wrong-
ly, that a Foreign Secretary should not
be content with sticking at home, here
in England, and grubbing away at an
office in Whitehall', bue that he should
go abroad, and make himself acquaint-
ed with the foreign nations with which Hewent through tha fierce 011111 -
he Oas to do business. Lord Cheeter-
leigh appears to be of. my mind; for, paigrt-of 1891, and his vivid reports
things being a bit slack just now, he of some of the spectacular meetings
has started on a long political tour," He
paused for a moment. "And Lady Edith 01 that stirring political struggle
accompanies him, of course. Lord were moms of graphic and faithful
Chesterleigh has made arrangements -......
which will permit of quite a lane tour, reporting. ries work attracted such
and will be away for many months. Ire
very worst, your very 'barmiest,' and favorable attention in -deed, that he
came to see you when you were at your. ., 2
was naturally much dietressed by year rexceive,and a,cceptecl a flattering
d
England until you had taken s. decided offer or a position on the editorial
condition; indeed. he had"
not leave
turn for the better. Re left ,e, message staff of the Victoria,Colonist. That
Dfoor .ea.00uu.thYinoitu I'd
better
lirgiveketohita..tveo ,u i3t.0,—was in 1892. By 1900, S. D. Taylor
had become a foree to reckon with
,now—are you strong enough?"
(To be continued.) -
4 in the somewhat tangled political
situation on the coast, He moved
upon, an equal footing, and even
mildly eritigized at times, by the
game men for whona, not ten years
before, he meekly ran errands. It
was a' long stride upwards, but Tay-
lor had no thought of Making the
Press Gallery *his terminus, and
now recalled his page boy dreams
of some day becoming a member of
Parliament himself.
Becalm an Editor.
FROM PAGE TO LEGISLATOR. to New Westminster to become
managing editor of The Columbian,
James David Taylor, Member for and four years later he was chosen
New 'Westminster, B.O. las th.e Conservative standard-
.
A few times every generation, bearer. Taylor's party was almost
things work out almost according to annihilated, -but he himself, tri -
the novelist in his wildest flights of umphed, and three months later he
then the poor boy
fancy. Now and entered the House of Commoes to
fight with and against some of the
walks into the bank and asks for a
while, and men whose page he had been in the
job, picking up a pin the wh
thereby attracting the attenteree4, shme legislative chamber twenty -
ed boss, gets the; eight years before.
grizzly steel -heart -
job, and soon becomes president °tthere
the House of Coramons to -day
, ere is no more highly respetted
th bank.ouoappen
land conscientious member than this
still sits ',youngster is refused the job, and is for New Westminster. A thorough-
going democrat of sane conserva-
tive tendencies, his whole career
epitomizes what pluck and perse-
verance can do with the opportuni-
ties, of a. blessed dentocra.cy.—M.
Grattan O'Leary, in Toronto Star
Weekly.
44.
A. QUEER REPUBLIC.
'Accidentally Discovered in the
Czar's Dominion.
A year ago a Russian traveller,
Kashmir Veliki by name, during a
journey through Siberia, accident-
ally stumbled en • the Village of
I'm:isle containing about 1.000
houses and,many farms. The town
lies about 300 milea from Vlacliv.o-
stock, 130 is not marked on any
map.
Veliki eva,s seized and made pris-
oner. By a stroke of luck, however,
and after some exciting adventures,
Ile escaped from the village, but be-
fore doing so he learned that 'the
community claimed to be independ-
Mr. D. Taylor, M.P.
ent of both the czar and the gov-
ernment of Pekin. Over a dirt inn
.very often, of course, that the same J. D. Taylor, who still sits
rated soundly for stealing the pin,
but not always. Oecasionally the
brakeman gets to be boss of the
read, and once in a blue moon the
legislative page becomes the pow-
erful statesman in the body where
he once tan 'errands.
Nearly 40 years ago—e7 to be ex-
act — a blue-eyed blonde -haired
youngster of 13 summers who bore
the name of. lames David Taylor,
:twilled for the poSition of page in
the Canadian House of Commons.
He got the job all right; and for
the next five months of the aessien
of '76 lightly answered the beck and
oalt of Mackenzie (who was the
Prime Ministee), Maedonald, Blain.,
Thompson, 'Tupper, and incidentaV
ly Wilfrid Laurier, whose anta,go-
nist in the seine Commons in the
years to <some fate and decreed him
to be. That) was a stirring session,
as our political historians have not
neglected to note, .and the youthful
page jtabibecl'in large draughts a
leve for political eenfilet, and
dreamed of the days when per-
clianee he, -too) weuld etrike a
heroic, pose and deelaim for the
"plain people." Being a page,
lit:Milner exciting it ',lazy appear to
the juvenile, is not very lucrative
. d "Iinunie'' Taylor,
like the majority of other mortals,
needed all the loose charree 11(1
conld accumulate. A printi4 preaft
1' 1 (1 I ir n e attraction f I
s g srin
aJelt some noted mall 'al tatter:I
ssam therk it had Ler them, and
floated a flag -which resembled the
Russian tri -color, but -was embroid-
ered with a bad copy of the Chinese
dragon.
At Vladivostock, Veliki'e story
was at first not believed. After -
weed a e,ommission ,of enquiry wa,s
sent out, under an este'rt of 500
CO esa cks with three mo untain
gun's. The commission occupied the
town by surprise and returned to
V,laclivosbock with a- complete re-
port. It discovered that the repute
lie had been started first as a holy
retreat for ascetics, and that it af-
terward fell into the hands of Res-
eia.h and Chinese eonviets and pro-
ap e r ed amaze) gly.
The Russian oomniission, cave -
fully guarded by the 500 Oossacks,
set itself to examine the laws and
economic state of the republic. They
had opportemitie's to gee the law et
work, Who') they entered the vil-
lage a Meal Was being hung up by
'the heels for etealing a horse, and
not far off a eaked Chinese, wh.o
had been beaten to death, lay in
the sriow, Around his body clamed
Treamsk women, einging menacing
songs. The punished Chinese, it
appestre,_ had broken the local fish-
ing law.
In. the Era of "Social" Iiestice.
Judge --Yours ie 0 e-eey serious
crime, my man. Fifty years ago it
wee a heneme meter.
Hoe ec --1,Vell, Yeer hon
fiftynyeatee htesce it mayn'tbe a,
ita itt!.
HUGE WAR FACTORY.
Krupp's Great Works If ad i num*
ble Beginning.
Gnamany's wee factery one of
the greatest enterprises of the
world. It had a humble beginning,
..the first "factory" being really
cottage, and but six men were em-
ployed. Frederick Krupp hogan
operations with the dogged purpose
of Achieving fame, Sacrificing both
resources and health to the object
in view, he bequeathed, at his
death in 1826, nothing but it small
forge and his secret of making cm-
eible eteel to his son Alfred, then
fourteen years of ege. How this lad,
imbued by a similar spirit, convert-
ed, as if by a magician's wand, the
little forge into the huge works of
the present day, employing some-'
thing like 70,000 workmen, is a, re-
markable story of enterprise and
energy. It was the eeeret of cru-
cible Ace' bequeathed by Frederick
Krupp to his son that made the
Krupp works, and enabled succeed-
ing generatious to make it the
greatest of its kind in'theeworld.
The present' Krupp works -domi-
nate the whole of Esseu, a town of
about 300,000 inhabitants.
Sito-
ated in the 'centre close to the rail-
way, they, together, with their at-
teedant institutions, cover an a-rea,
of 500 acres.
The tentacles arms of the vast es-
tablishment stretch out octopus -
like on all side,s. Two thousand
trucks and over fifty locomotives
rush along these tracks daily, ton-
veying "Germany's gens, armor -
plates., ammunition and shells to
German garrisons, forts, ports and
harbors. Six thousand tons of coal,
coke and briquettes are poured
daily into thehuge creature's capa-
cious jaws. One and d quarter mil-
lion tons of fuel are required an-
nually to appease its insatiable ap-
petite. Twenty million cubic metres
of water, or more than the 450,000
inhabitants. of Cologne 'consume
yearly, ire used in the :works.
Krupp's is admirably organized
from a, business point of, view for
the purposes it serves. To begin
with, at is really, if mot nominally,
in the hands of a single individual.
When it was turned into a company
in 1903 the sole "vender" -eras
Fraulein Krupp, the fouuder of the
firm. The value of the entire un-
dertaki.ng was then estimated at
The Guare,nteed ,,or4a DiM for
1 Chis of Cloth.
Clean, amok). eta Chonco of Affetskos, TRY
rr I Send for Froo (..101or Co,d rind Bookl
raoet,
't.foimaon-Richardnett, Co. Limited, Damage el
$67,500,000, from which the liabilq
ties to the amohnt of $27,500,000
had to be deducted, leaving a.
dend-bearing capital of $40.000,000.
Of this, Fraulein Krupp took up all'
but $1,000, which it was necessary
to allot among the other "found -
1)
The capital was raised to $45,1
000,000 in 1906, the new millions be
ing entirely proeidecl by the Krupp -
family, There are'three loans oni
which interest must be paid at the
rate of four per. cent. The net pro-
fit of the concern in one year was
$6,250,000 in 1906-7, and this entire
sura, leas the interest on $1,000,
went into the pocket of Freldrich
Krupp's daughter.'
You soon get tired of fighting,
when you can't hit back, '
The poet Wordsworth used to
eompose in bed at night. Nudeing,.
hia wife in the small hours he would;
gay: "Maria, get up. I've thought
of a, good. word." .And Mes."Wordse
worth would rise sleepily, light a,
candle and write at her husband''s,
dictation for ten or fifteen minutes:
A eettple: of hours later Words-
worth would wake her again. "Geti
up, Maria. I've got a, good word,"!
he would repeat. But one night
Mrs. Wordsworth put a, step forever
to his nocturnal dictation. Her
husband, awakening her with the
usual, "Get up—I've :thought of a
eod word," was 'startled by her re- .
ply: .."Qh, get, up yourself/ rye
thought of a bad word.
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