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CHAPTF•R XVIII.—(Cont'd.)
as to the plane for Prickly,
'Each, of the eighteen members of the
Council is supposed to pass the word
on to certain leaders te have his gang
posted downtown to start a riot
promptly at more The wowing of the
factory whistles is the signal. A d•ozen
big ;buildings are Marked for dynamit-
ing, ono ittteranother, in ordo to
scare the peeple. Here is a listof
them." She passed over a slip of
paper. "I was made secretary of the
meeting, SQ it wasn't very hard to ,
get"- she .explained, then resumed her '
story. "All of no have orders to tell
our people to stay eway from the
neighborhood when the time conies for .
the :bombs to go of You bet our pre
-
dons brethren and sisters haven't anYi
intention of risking their own necks,'
even if they dont care how many.
others are killed or hurt." 1
Graham shuddered. "How ean you
it there and tel such horrible de-
tails so calmly?" he asked. "My very,
blood -runs cold at the thought of what
these devils are Willing to do:.
•
"Because that's as far as it's going,"
replied the girl. "I've sat around. that
table .and, planned murder and hoinb-'
Mg and seeing places an fire so much
lately that I'm quite hardened. But
with all their plane known in -advance,
they won't be able to do a thing, will
they, Ralph? Oh," as she realized her
slip in calling Charlton by his first
name. 1
"Er—er-eno, they won't, Miss La-
throp," he replied as stiffly and form-,
ally as he could. Not even Graham
had been taken into their confidence.'
But that clever young man was not,
overlooking anything. Efe jammed.;
on the brakes with a suddenness that
almost jolted them out of their seats.'
Very gravely he turned so as to face'
-them, and he was removing the glose
front his right hand.
'Children, you are holding out on
re," he accused them. "Now, dad and;
I had it all.fixed up that Miss Lathropl
was coming to live at our house andl
that I was going to be her big,
brother, you know. Charlton, what,
the dickens are you so flustered/
about? And Miss Lathrop, you are',
bluehing furiously. Now, there's my
hand rig -ht in front of you, Charlton.
I dare, you to refuse to take it and say
that congratulations are not in order.
Ah, 1 thougat so. (sod bless you both
and may you be happy forever and
ever. But it's going to be a hard blow
for dad at that."
So they had to tell him all about it
before he would let Stella resume her
story.
"At the same time that the luild-
ings are dynamited a committee is to
call on the mayor and demand that he
turn the city government over to it
or he -sail' have to take the responsi-
bility- for what will follow, according
to the way they have framed it up.
That's about all. Oh, yes, 1 Was about
to forget the most important thing.
Every one who is in on the play is
to wear one of these things so that
there will be no mistaking who is
who." She produced a little rosette
of red ribbon. "Here is the list of
those I am to pass orders on to.
Twenty of them, all the leaders of
gangs of crooks. Some of them I
know, some I don't. But they are all
bought up to do as they are told.
. They'll start the ball rolling and every
thug and thief and ;a -unman in the
, city wiR follow suit, and by nightfall,
Friday, the city will he a veritable
hell 'unless we block them."
"Where are you to meet them to
pass on these orders?" asked Cheri-
, ten quickly. "We've got to move fast.
II. think the chief has thousands of
men where he can mobilize them on an
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hour's notiee, but I vant to g•et tine
information to him ,at once. Graham
start the cae .and drive to where Stella
is to quit is Then we'll start fo •
the city at once."
"I'm to meet them one at a tune
M the back room of `Silver Danny's'
saloon," she explained, as the ear
gathered momentum. "Pli be there
Tharsday night at 8 o'clock. Then
every ten minutes a man will come
into the place, walk through the bar-
room to the baek roan, get his orders
and leave by the biseic way."
"And we'll have the men outside to
nail them just as fast as they come
out promised Charlton. "Now, quick,
do you know where the °thee members
of the Council are to meet the per-
sons on their lists ?''
"No. But you know who all the
others are and where they live. Can't
some one trail them Thursday night to
the place and then arrange to arrest
those to whom the orders have been
given?''
"Yee, that's a good plan. Here is
where you get out, Stella. Graham, I
think you ought to look at your back
tires and see if they are all right"
With a grin the other got out and
walked around behind the car. Quickly
Charlton's arms went aeound the girl
and their lips met.
"Good-bye, dear," she said.
be careful, won't you? I won't see
you again until this is all over unless
someIhing very important comes up.
But Friday night, if all goes well,
come to the hotel for me, and I'll be
leaving it forever."
"Please God, Pll be there," he re-
plied huskily. "And you, darling,
keep a stiff upper lip for a day or two
longer and don't lose your nerve. You
have done great work so far, girl of
mine. And don't be alarmed when you
meet these men Thursday night. Pass
on the word to thern just as the Inner
Council has directed. The orders will
never be carried out. And now, good-
bye."
He helped her out of the car, and,
hats in hand, both men stood watching
her for a moment ad she walked up
the road. Then she turned, waved a
hand at them, and was gone around a
bend.
"Now, Graham,' said Charlton, and
they leaped into the car. "Turn around
and drive for the city. Drive, man, as
if all the imps of hell were after you.
Every minute is precious. We have
but three d'aya left in which to balk
the most desperate thing which has
struck at ourcountry since Germany
embroiled the world in war."
CHAPTER XIX.
The Government Acts.
Thursday night. A gentle rain was
falling. In "Silver Danny's" saloorc
the usual motley crowd was assem-
bled. Those who were drinking luicd
the bar, two deep. Those who werel
merely whiling the time away sat at
some of the tables playing pitch, or
seven-up, or pinochle, just as they
usually sat and played six nights a
week. There was nothing in the air
to indicate that this was one of twenty
places in the city where plotters had
chosen to dispense instructions which
within a few hours would turn a great
American city into a shambles.
In the very back room where "The
Gray Wolf" had hired "Big Louie"
Vogel to kidnap Judge Graham and
thus hadstarted the train of events
which led to the death of both of them
and the nullifying of plans which Le-
brune had spent months in perfecting,
sat Stella Lathrop. A little pale of
face' perhaps; a little fearful. of a slip
thatmight permit the monster to
carry out its plans after all, but com-
forted in the knowledge that almost
at her elbow, separated from her by
only a wall, stood the mighty arm of
the Government as represented by
half a 'dozen operatives of the De-
partment of Justice.
Charlton had hoped that he would
be aseigned to this place that he
might he near, the woman he loved,
but Chief Milton had decreed: that he
should do more important work.
Into "Silver Danny's" strolled
Leary, "the Rat," leader of as des-
pe•rate a band of cutthroats e„s ever
preyed upon a community. Well
dressed, debonair, easy speaking, no
one would have suspected that this
gentlemanly looking chap would kill
as easily as he would toss off a drink.
He nodded to one or two acquain-
tances, swelled visibly at the awed
looks of others and strolled across the
floor to the room in back.
Five minutes later,with a type-
written ehect of instructions in his
pocket—evidenco that was to send him
to Federal prison for a long term, had
he but known it—he bowed punctil-
iously to Stella, opened the door into
the alley and stepped into the arms
of the waiting Government officers,
Handcuffs upon his wrists, a gag in
his mouth, he was hustled down the
alley to a waiting closed car which
whirleci him away to a place of safe-
keeping. It was not the usual police
station, but a grim, forbidding loolcing
strueture of stone that once had been
a hospital for the insane.
The very grounds in which the
btulding stood were literally encireled
by troops, infantrymen armed with
loaded rifles, machine gunners piaeed
so as to command every avenue of
approach, yet all of them sd hidden
that a spOoning couple, strolling pat
on the eld.ewalk, did not notice any-
thing unusual, '
Loner, "the Rat," unceremoniously
bundled put el the car, ibooked at a
(leek ;met inside the building, found
filmset! thrust into it room where
others of his like were also held. Dere
other soldiers, rifles and bayonets
ready for action% stood on guard.
"No talking, no y.ciling, nethieg but
silence out of you,' crisply spoke a»
n'tri
1 The Toronto no5pttal for I2222.02'-
alees, in Ftettliation with Delloviie and
44.121od Ilopitals, New York City,
ofeors a three years' Course Qf Train,
inr, to y9ung W(,11.,.()T1., )1pr ing the re-
quired education, and ilesiroun of be.
, corriing riers,Lls. 'rine lioseitor has
acloptcsa the eight-hour svstein, The
pupils receive uniforms eV 01,1 SC11001,
a monthly allowance sna travelliwr
oxreinqes to and LI 222 New York, loor
further Juror toatieu 1.1.rrly tcX the
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the sergeant who turned the key iinthea
door and admitted Leary. "One crack
of any, kind .andit's either a bayonet
between year ribs or a bullet through
your heart. The men have meters."
,And 'Leary, looking into the stern
faces of these men in khaki. Shrugged
hia shoulders) picked out a corner of
the Walls and sat down. He knew what
all this portended and he knew that
the game .was up,
h
And wat hapnened to Leary
hap-
pened to nineteen others Who entered
"Silver Danny's" by. the front door
and ernerged by the rear. Some 'of
them wereetakcin SO by SUT1YriSO that
they wergeirisoners and on their way
in the closed car which 'always was
waiting near the mouth of the'a.11ey
before they realized just what had
happened. ,
What happened at "Silver Danny's"
happened at other places in the city
at the same time. And sd qiiietly Was,
it all dope that not one breath of what
was happening lealclecl out into the
underworld or reached the ears of
the human wolves who sat gloating in -
artily over the smooth manner in
which they had schemed and how the
entire world would know within forty-
eight hours that a big American city
had at last been placed under the red
banner of anarchy ancl Bolshevism.
For when Charlton had told Stella
that Chief Milton had at his command
thousands of men, tested and found
of pure gold, he knew whereof he
spoke. •
With the end of the war the Amer-
ican 'Protective League, the volunteer
organization which had provedof in
help to the Department of
Justice during those trying days of
191.7 and 1918, -hact disbanded as an
organization and. its members had re-
turned to their usual lives, their duty
well done.
But their inspectors, their captains,
their lieutenants had learned the
names and addresses and telephone
numbers of all their men. It had
required' but one request from Chief
Milton to the former chief of this
great organization to have all its ma-
chinery in motion immediately. The
chief had notified the inspectors i the
inspectors had notified the captains
and they, in turn, had passed the word
on to their operatives through the
lieutenants and all as the city the
members of the League began holding
themselves in readiness for whatever
might Cane. '
It was these men who had so quiet -
113r and so expeditiously taken into eu.s-
tody the men upon -whom the Bolshe-
vists depe.nded for the, execution of
their,. nefarious/plans. And, theirwork
completed,: they had nuelted away,
singly and in pairs, and sought their
hoir_es for a few hours of rest before
the morrow should bring . to them
other and even greater duties to per-
form.
Meanwhile the members of the In-
ner Council, wholly, unaware of the
fact that their moSt secret plans had
been made an open, book to the Gov-
ernment, were gathering H3 their
meeting, place in the cellar of the radi-
cal book store; gathering to report to
the fat president that his orders- had
been obeyed, that the word had gone
forth to the anarchists, the I.W.W ,
the radical Socialists, the denizens of
the underworld, that on the morrow,
shortly at noon, . their hour would
strike.and they would ,be turned loose
upon a defenseless and unprepared
city to W'reak their will.
' "It's good, very good," exclaimed
the fat man as he checked off the
names of each of them as he or she
carne forward and reported. He rub-
bed his pudgy hands together and
licked his chops in anticipation, while
the rolls of fat under his chin quiver-
ed with suppressed excitement. ,,"To-
morrow we will strike. To-niorrow it
is the day. `Der tag,' we call it in the
language of My country. 'Der tag' it
was to have been with Germany. But
Germany failed. We shall ndt fail!
The whole world shall hearof us to-
morrow and where we lead. others will
follow, and we shall coine into our
own."
.1-le,..hoisted.hirnself out of his chair,
his heels. clicked together and he•sal-
uted stiffly in the manner of those
who salute in the German. army.
Stella, watching him narrowly, could
almost picture him in the uniform of
the Prussian army he had once worn.
"It is best that we now go home and
rest,'' he concluded. "To-morrow,we
meet again, just within the doors df
the city hall, at 11.45: In a body we
shall proceed to the office of the mayor
and demand that he turn over to us
the reins of government,. , He will hear
the roar of big buildings crashing to
the ground, he will hear the bullets of
our reen whistling through the air and
he will not dare to refuse."
He bowed all around and left the
room. At intervals they followed him
and none of them sensed the fact that
as they proceeded to their homes they
would not abandon them until 'the
knell of their catise had been sounded.
All but Stella. For she left the
book store last, happy in the knowl-
edge that this was ha last night of
anxiety- and worry, that the sun of
to-niorrow would rise for her upon the
beight,est day of her life.
: Net Fit for-Compariy.,
Jane --"Please, maaane, I'Ve broken
eon-teling,"
, f
MIS, tees-- Well, Jane, What Is it?
Sang (crying)-- I m verY. sorry, I
, • ; if
0
.MIStre'igm'''''"150'1111/ be silly, J-anS;
tell inc What it is
)ane—`'Ob, Ma'am, the cucumber
was croaked, end se,eing you 'had Ootn-
pany I tided, te bend it straight."
filinard'e Liniment for Dandruff.
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Don't give the baby anything but
the'best in food and drink, graduated
in amount according, to age.
Don't clothe or cover the baby too
heavily.
The baby should sleep /done.
Don't &ill to give the baby a tub
bnatditiodnai.lY and saveral sP"gillgs in
ad
bugs
t
ori'ob
t tiitileythe_b
otflies, mosquitoes or
Don't ,give the baby medicine, except
on advice of a PhYeician.
If the baby is sick send for your,
d.octor. '
Don't forget' that the baby gets
thirsty. Give him a, little is sev-
eral times a day.
Don't •tv,ear he,avy clothing yourself.
Bathe frequently and change your,
clothes as often as possible.
1VIDoank'6t Iro-aviee/r1:vvoi.1.7' Obveeiraela.atget.ar over-
Don't allow flies or other insects in
the house around -your food. ,
Keep the baby's food in the icebox'
and covered.
'Don't fail to clean thoroughly and
frequently all artiClee used in feeding
the baby. •
Don't doctor yourself—if ill C0/1Slilt
IL physician:
Pin Money Methods.
When a city girl feels the need of
money—her „own money, to pay for
the things girls imagine they must
have these days—she goes to work in
an offiee, a store, or a factory, accord-
ing to her education and opportunity.
In the country 'a girl, with much the
same' longings for nice things and
"good times," looks to the poultry
yard, the milk- house, or the garden
for her spending' money. If her par-
ents' are the right leind, if they are
intelligent enough to help her and en-
courage her in her work, she will soon
establish herself as a semi -dependent
member of the If, as often
happens, the parents are not disposedi
to have such goings-on, and there is I
no home clemenstri 'Lion agent, no
girls' club, no extension work of any
kind in the community, the country:
girl goes to the city and the farming.,
regions have lost one more potential
home and family.'
Many girls have made, as well as
saved, money, layebalcing, ciressemak-
ing and millinery Work. Home -baked
bread. is always in demand if it is.
good and in several cases girls have/
worked up a good trade supplying I
bread to town people.
Popcorn culture and canned goods,
have helped one girl to get started
in college, and she has gone ,bacic to
the farm this summer to rely on these
two things again. In addition she
will have a pickle Patch to help the
finances out. ,
In another district a kirls' canning
"Club started a 'contest to determine
which of the menibers could produce
the most tomatees at ,the least ex-
pense, and with the lo -west perCentage
of waste. ' One girlgrew 3,140 pounds
of torrtatoes on oneatenth of an acre
at a cost of $31.40. a'nd net returns of
$109.. With the same expense her
sister 'grew .3,020 'pound g anci had a
net return of al.07,§§.. A third girl
grew e 2,80a pe.lindi,-7,ebsting $27.42,
with a neta ee,turnasef $76.66 and a
fourth had 3,070 pounds costing $29.91
with net returns of $68.
Wanted—Experience.
In.the course 91 seventeen months
Rena Stone had held fourteen different
positions. They were good positions,
too. Rena was triumphant, °
"You're all . moss -grown round
here," she declared,' paying a flyin,g
visit to the crowd in Arnold & Yet-
man"s. "Look at you, plodding on at
the same old work Month in and month
out. I don't see ,how you stand it.
Why, I've been in an automobile office,
said stock for an ice cognpanynhad a
look -in at the real-estate business, re-
ceived the patients of the famous Dr.
Roscoe and been at the complaints
desk in Morris & Phelp's, to say no-
thing of other .kinds of offices. Io
living. One of there "days I'll decide
what I like best, and then I'll settle
down and make a run for tare top.
But now I'm after experience!"
"Experience and experiences . are
not always the same thing, Rena,"
Marcia Stevens 'reminded her.
"Indeed they are not," R,eria re
torted. "It's like the difference be-
tween .being the native of a two -penny
tewn arid being it citizen of the world,"
of.."aYuo_oblcieqrf,e,15,1 a proverb about Jack -
"You make me tired," Rena retorted
goodena,turedly. She could ,afford to
1.? good -nri.twed, for she hacl just ob-
tained a Positjen the pay .of
exceeded by five :hundred dollars a
year the pay -o! any k`i'ri in Arnold
Yetruan's „`/You're efreicl to leave
• • .
Yoer litOe doeryards,,
cam. .and see me sometime; my
.
dress Tbe -World "
etenographer. Tho salary was un-
usual, and the, applicants were flumes. -
one. Among, them "WaseReha•
Rena met Mr. Harrow confidently;
she knew that her "approach" and ap-
pearance Were exceptional. She smiled
to herself when she saw among the/
applicants several of the girls whom
she had known. She was sure that
they had no chance at all.
And for a moment it seemed so;
she clearly mad:e .a good impression.
But Mr. Harrow was shrewd; 'before
ena allied: it bie hacb learned mo,o
of her varied career than she had
over told any pther employer. In five
minutes he „shook his head. "I am
sorry, Miss Stone, but I think you mis-
understood our need. What we are
looking for is a...capable young wo-
man who has had experience, not ex-
periences. I feel that your career, al
though 'doubtless interesting, could
hardly have equipped you with those
qualities of faithfulness, leyalty and
thoroughness which are fundamental
to any real and lasLing success."
Stunned and bewildered, Rena left
the, office. She did not realize that
Mr. Harrow and Marcia Steven-e'had
said the same thing.
The islander.
By Gra-ce Agnes ,.Timnimenan
Pagan, untamable, no hand could rule,
No love could win him. In the nlission
school
No other lad. so` savage, so perverse,
Perpeexed the Bishop, while from bad'
to worse
His heathen madness grew; he turned
Upon the ,Bi,shop, striltiug with full
strength
The kindly face!. The Bishop turned
away
In hopeless grief that had. no word to
say.
Still patiently the teachers did their
part
As time went by to change ttat stub-
born heart
With wise endeavor; every day grow
less
Their fading vision of a late success,
Ten vanished, and the boy was. sent
away.;
And ,oh, how biter their defeat that
day!
Years came and went; slow miracles
of grace
Drought strange new beauty to the
lightened face
Of many a convert', many a heathen
child
From savagery redeemed. The Bishop
smled
Upon the nine -and -ninety; mine the
less
He prayed for one sheep in the wilder-
ness.
(The youth, to vile barbaric life re-
turned,
At times recalled some truth that he
lead learned).
The river of the years had borne away
A generation, and. the Bishop, gray
And worn, had entea•ed. into rest with
one
Whose miesionary work was but begal
In tha.1 far isband of the southern sea
Where, once the boy liatl dwelt was
urgently
Entreated by a messenger to go
To one whom wasting illness had
brought low • • -
And near to death. The pastor with
due haSte
Accompanied the imam as he retraced
Iles journey, finding in the' man they
sought
A native who atesome time had been
taught
Our speech and our religion. He had
turned • 7
To seek at last a boon he once had
spurned
And. pleadecl for baptism! It was best,
The pastor thought, to grant him his
request,
And that without delay; so after prayer
And earnest converse gutted to pre-
pare
lite eager convert, whose repentant
soul"
Now led him freelyeeto disclose the
whole
Of hie dark life, lie questioned, ``By
' what name -
VV5.11 you be called?", Humility and
shame
Spoke in the voice, and grateful pas
sion shone
In earnest eyes tha,t eisswered to his
own,
"Give me the name John Selwyn! It
was lie
Who when I struc,k him ehowed -the
Christ to me!"
Kinard s Limmene. for Burns, oto.
'
Good Fruit.
Healey spent all his time talking
about his health. Fie WEIS always ill,
peually wIlea aetycne weee to See
him he was in lied with a heaclache, oe
rheumtism, or soiled, ung
, •
One clay Healey tva,s teiterrig mieer-
ably down the read, when lie fell in
w)th. butly friend. of liis nateccl Jen-
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Jeekins, cited, i cl give an
There were times in the next yeari
or two when some; of the girls won-)
! dared wietfully whether Rene were;
Met eight. It rinse be wontieeful tn
have eo many ekreriences ane meet so
many direrent'sinds of peepe, Then
seinething hapnened. Mr. Harrow of'
Harrow & Daily wanted a private
thing to be etrone led healthy iikc
1-c uWht c' o you • 1S
•
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I lai 0 ., satel IlealeY
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6t to dellyery up to 300' Miles,,br, toot
run Of eagledistance if eau masa. in ao
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.1nopeetion., Very large eta& always on
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litreakey*, Uced Car Market
Yong.* Street. %es:roma/4
riff Prob.
!ern 'Puzzles Professors.
Mine. Curie, the discoverer of radi-
um, believes that the earth, instead of
cooling, is steadily, getting hotter as
the e.esult of its store of rad/hi-active'
substances, and a F'renell colleagne
has calculated that if the fhassi of.the
earth .contains two parts of radium,
in every billion, this Would increase
the temperature of the:interior by
1,800 degrees _centigrade in a hundred
year, '
Very little_ of this heat can escape
itrotigh the earth's solid chest, so one
day or other there will be an exPle-
sT1cii1°.iins—israaiiiie,nwl_ owill blow thteheela:orlt:Ig 1111811t1
of ways in which the en -d cit the world
will arrive. •
The meat popular theory seems, to'
be that a 001110t will 'HMV Into US Said
send. us to destruction. As a matter
of fact, although some comets occupy
more space than the sun, and possess
tails which stream for millions of
miles 'behind them, they are exceed-
ingly light.in composition. A collision
with a comet, even if it occurred,
would not be attended' with fatal rd"--
sultsx..
oi
the other hand, Professor Flind-
ers Petrie, the eminent Eg,yptologist,
prophesies that the end of the world
will 'come about 200,000 years hence,
by reason of the .disappearance from
the atahosphere of the last traces of
ea,rhonic acic1 gas, which:the-ugh form-
ing only 0.020per cent. of the atmos-
phere, plays an important part in tho
operations of Nature, and provides tho
wliole' of the vegetable world with car-
bon; its essential food.
If, lloWever, M. Martel, the well-
known French scientist, is right, we
need not worry about the nature of
the atmosphere • 200,000 years- from
now, for his investigations into the
eroolon and corrosion of the earth's
surface have led him to predict the
end of the -human race in a few gene -
"The water level of the earth," M.
Martel tells us, "Is being lowered con-
tinually, and unless we cau discover
how to prevent this the human race
will perish from lack of ;water in a
few centuries."
In direct contradiction is the pro-
phecy of Sir Archibald Gelkie. "De-
cay of the land is going on at such a
rate,' he said a few years ago, "that a
compa..retively short period will suf.-
fice to reduce most of the dry land, to
the level of the sea, and bring, about
a second deluge:' -
Thcise who believe that tho earth to
flat have a theory equally 'fantastic.
They declare that the portion of the
world Which we occupy is b01/11(led by
great icefields, which form a barrier
between us and vast oce'ans. The ice
barrier is being pressed continually by
these oceans, and our end will occur
when the enveloping waters burst
through and flood the land to its high-
est peaks.
- Another adea is that the, sun is a
bright light towards which the e,arth.-
moth, flits to its dbam. As we circle
round and round it, we are supposed
to be decreasing the distance between
the two bodies, till eventually we shall
be so close that there will be no re-
sisting the sun's attraction, eThon it
*ill wallow useup,
.Rainbow ileVelat10118.
An arched rainbow is a Pretty sight,
but it may be assumed that few of us
'are learned in rainbow lore, Here,
then, are some interesting _rainbow
revelations. .
To produce a rainbow there must
be falling rain, bright sun, and dark
clouds—the latter always opposite the
sun. Tho sun't rays are then divided
into colors by the raindrops, which
act in exaetly the same way as a
prism, or triangular piece of glass,
The continued span of a rainbow Ls
caused by billions of raindrops split-
tifig the' sun's. rays into colors, and
making a band or series of them.
A double rainbow IS .not, as some
think, the shadow or reflection,of the
first. Bach rainbow is •diotheet,In
one we see the sun -rays entering–the
raindrops at the top, and reflecting the
colors,to the -eye from the bottom. In
the second rainbow the sun's rays en-
ter the drops at the bottom, and re-
flect the colors from the top
And who has noticed that the colors
of the eecopese bow are,' 'when compare
11; Wli a.,§1.7.el
the 41
as,that 3,vhic,1i maker; the co).ors of the
secondary 1.30w weaker; T9 g,otr.,t4e
latter there ha,s hem} two reflections—
on5 more et the, last than is the case
with
afAn go.yrip;r,ili irlg pleellwiip JILThe ue o 01 cors are, t: js
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sln pr fine leeather. Tie eem-cleticia,
wiefell generally come to us on west
and south-west winds, are passillis
away.
71 10 iseti enou,g.h, to die happy, but
itis far better to live that way.
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Newly Discovered Oilfields of
Northern Canada Are Most
Extensive Yet Found.
Sixty years ago petroleum, or mineroiI, was unknown except as a little -
used drug in a liniment; no one even
thought of 'burning it, or of employing
It to drive ihternal combustion engines,
Now we are using it to do all the 'Work
which, was once the sole prertiglitive
of coal:.
Every part of the world is being ran.
Sacked far oil Already the're 111'e 11151
oilftelde in the United State's, Trini-
dad, Russia and Japan, not to speak or
the newly-:diseovered fields of Not th-
ern Canada which are probably the,
greatest in existence;
John D. Roolrefeller began as it poor-
ly -Paid 'Clerk; thanks to oil he is. now
a multamillionalre.
Directly the news is heard that oil
has been found in an:ed./strict, a stam-
pede ensues. Men rust wildly to stake,
claims. Great derriuks: are erected,
and the drills eat their way steadily
through earth, sancl, rock, and shale.
Down goes, the drill, whilst day after
day men, wait and hope andedespaire,
aetheru.sand feet, two thousand feet—
still no result. Then suddenly there
comes a roariug, rushing mass of gas,
whose 'first blast often destroys the
derrick. For days, the gas may con-
tinue to rush forth with a noise" so
deafening that not a 'worti eaa be beard
two hundred yards from the new well.
400,000 Gallons a Day.
Then, instead of gas, a mighty foue-
tain of oil shoots into tile air. The
well must now be capped; a top fitted
with a valve must be placed over the
Parc tube so that' the supply can be,
regulated. The well may be. a giant,
giving 10,000 barrels -400,000 gallons
----a day, or it may he a mere pigmy
supplying perhaps five hundred bar-
rels. In any case, it will make its
owners rich for life, if there is no nits -
hap.
There are two great risks dreaded
by oil -seekers. The first is fire, the
second salt water. lany a well has
been fired by carelessnees, and once
it is alight nothing cae put it out.
There are wells in America that have
been Shooting torrents of flaming oil
high into the air for years. Occasion-
ally it happens that the oil is a mere
thia tattier floating upon a subterran:-'N,-,
ean fake, of salt water. or the first
few days, or elre'll months. all gees
well; then suddenly,. the epouting oil
changes to brine. and the workers
know that the well is dead,
To -day everyone is speaking oE oil
as the fuel of the future. A. ton or oil
costs about twenty dollars, but it does
twice the work of a ton of coal and
thus is cheaper. When tee Aquitania
was converted from a coal-burnor to
an oil -burner, tanks were made to eon -
lain eight thousand tons of oil. Miles
of piping lead from these to tho hun-
dred and more furnaces that heat her
boilers. On her first voyage across
the Atlantic as an oll-fired ship she
made a speed nearly a knot an hour
faster than she 'had done with coal.
Sailors Will Smile.
Oil furnaces need'no cleaning out
and no stoking, All that is necessary
•
is to regulate the valves that control
thq oil supply, The whole filthy bus).
ness of coaling ship is done away with,
at tho quayside oil is pumped into the
tanks' through big, flexible pipe's. To
fill a liner's bunkerswith coal takes
at least four days; she can take in a
supply eg oU :dufliclent for a double
yo-yage across the Atlantic in six or
eight hears.
Oil ie cheaper, cleaner, and more
easily handled than coal. It takes up
less 'room and saves labor, There can
be no doubt 'that Queen 011 will soon
sParc King Coal's throne.
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•Many Pants Aid Industry.
Ofthe forty-two hundred species of
plants gathered in various parts of
Europe , 420 have a fragrance that is
Pleasing and -enter largely into' the „.4100
manufacture of perfumery, soaps and •"7.1-....
powders. There aro more species of
white- flowers than of any other colce:,
U.112e3"-,0.1 and'ct
the'Se 187 ah'agirciciablq soent,
Next in- order come yellow blossoms
wLe° ti9y51p0.fu
, ,srevmenea,Rciflow
t,v-fivoo'ofthegMr il
being
se
her 828, of which eighty-four ere fra,g1
rant. The hlue Ile*ere are of 594
v11 rl.e..141,U'i11111119111 0137
I frsem m111 swot; smelling eectractg be
obtained. There are 308 different
blp,ssoins of violet htie thirteen of
tyatelf ere pleesetntly odoriferous.
As their eeveral colora carmo`t be
drained from the flowers and used
commercially, as
niall 10 1191-'1,112.211q! to look O'q11.11,e.cre
for his paints and dyes,
have come to know so evc.>.11 225 Ithalti
originates from matter auppliecl by the
C1 lefish. li`roni this fish we also get
sepia.
Prussian blue is made by fusing
horses' hoofs and other refuse animal
matter with impure potaiselum carbo-
nate. Turkey red is made from the
ft -Ladder piamt, which grows in India;
yellow comes from the camel;
Caernine, crimson, Scarlet end crina
son lake are anions the fine Colors fer-
e:jolted 1)y the cooliNeal .insects.
yellotv, sap of a tre fan :slam produce$
gamboge.