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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1911-1-5, Page 308•11111•0110,0•1000•11111411,001111 "Don't be unestey. PreVeeted II 0front writing. Nothing serious." • Reward ; • • sho Showed it to Lawrence Elton Thc Re • • hesitatingly. "So you were right, you eee. 13ut when one's eo fai oway, and 0,n't tell what may be happening----" It was an awkward, moment for him, but he managed to smile, tel- ling her not to worry any more. Fieshfield's next letter, reaching him after some little interval, brought information that astoun- ded him. Promo had started in a new line of business; had made a very lucky speculation; was work- ing hard, tme, and, in Freshfield's words, "absolutely coining mea- • . • •••••••••••••••••e•••• It wee the first letter for three months tlIt Lawrence Elton had received from Arthur Feeshfield at Singapeee. He opened it interest- edly, eager to learn how his friend was progreesing. Tidings on this point were :Atlas fiectory. Soon he came, however, • to a paragraph at vvhieh he, drew •ei quick breath of dismay. "• . , By the way, you know tiney Frome, I think? Well, he's Ito ss from Bangkok, and abaolutely on the rocks. Got.into trouble of • son e kind with his firm, and was dizentisset without notice. I'm afrafil it's a bad case, .and his re- putalon gone.In a month he's grown shabby and disreputable . I 'suppose it's the same man?" Lawrence Elton made a queer •eaund in his throat, Yes, it wasthe same man. Ile had no doubt of that. Yet the report staggered him. A year ago Sidney Frome had left England with a good position, amid the congratulations of his friends. • Elton recollected the date well. It was exactly, a month a,fter one that he „had good cause to remember- -when he had asked Barbara Cal- throp to be his wife, only to learn that she had accepted Sidney Frome that very day. And now, the raan who had fore- stalled litin was diegramed and pen- niless ! After two years Frome was o have returned to claim his fi- ancee. That had been generally understood. This departure from the programme was simply amaz- ing. Was there still hope for hins, then? The thought leapt to his mind. Next moment he thrust it aside. This feeling of satiefaction •was despicable, considering that Barbara Calthrop was surely grief- stricken by the news. He wonder - eel how long ago she had heard. He had not seen her for a few weeks, for he seldom called at the house. Now, however, it was the leaet he -could do. *The only question was whether he plonk' wait awhile be- fore offering sympathy and encour- agement. In the end he let a fort- night pass. Barbara Calthrop showed no con- fusion or distress as she greeted lista, and Sidney Froine was not mentioned, until Elton caught sight of an envelope on the writ- "So you know Freshfield, then; ing-table. • She noticed his glance. and he sent it, at your advice? I yes, that's from Mr. Fromeought to be very grateful to you .It came yesterday. He's in Singe,- both, Elton. He's helped me a lot. .pore now. I was in diffsculties at the time, "And doing well, I hope?" an4s. he came to my rescue. • The "Why, of course! You didn't ex- fact is, I ha,dn't, the courage to pect anything else?" write any more, even to give Bar- ite stammered a confused dis- bare her freedom. I'd lost hope, .claimer. and I was letting everything slide." "$idneyesays he finds far better Frome.shook,his hand warmly. ,eliances there than at Bangkok. "No; I' won't menti -on it to any - He's been very successful lately, one, if you'd rather not. But you're • and the firm have congratelated a brick, Elton, and I sha'n't for - Inn several times." get it! You Call guess why I've "Glad to hear it! That's great!" 00'110 home again. It's to settle .said Elton, with an effort. He was things," seined and bewildered. But he told himself that be could not pos- eibly undeceive her. That was .Frome's affair. She had the letter new, and was ;pointing out and quoting various ,paragra,phs. Elton heard himself :making appropriate comments; but his brain was confused. ' Be could not think clearly. He left as soon as possible, and waked slowly and ehoughtfully towards a post -office. So Sidney Frome was deliberate- ' :ly concealing his misfortunes. He rhad even the courage to lie, send- ing specious accounts of imeginary -successes. Eltou hardly knew whe- ther to 'blame or admire. At any .rate, it was clear that he must :keep silent. He must give Sidney .Frome a chance to recover, to fight, ;to make a fresh start. "Tell me further developments should trouble to set me on my feet :about Frome " he cabled to A r- 1 again.' But the week before I left I found him writing to you. Then I guessed the truth. He wouldn't admit it; but I was certain." Elton stood awkwardly silent. 'I inay be a bad lot, but I'm nob ungrateful. I'm not worthy of her, either; and we've been talking it over. I've discovered that she never loved nice No, , the didn't, really 1 I asked at the right mo- ment, lese was all. Besides - though it sounds conceited and boastful, and pethips you'll dos - m, for saying it -women like That was Elton's bitterest. hour. The not inconsiderable loan --ar- ranged anonymously.through Fresh, neld-hael been, in reality, his of- fering to Barbara Calthrop. For her sake, he had resolved that Franc must be given a helping ha,nd. But he had never'dreamed that it would lead to a financial tri- umph. ' Apparently, Frame's posi- tion would ultimately be equal, if not superior, to his old ate. Pre- sently, Freshfield FlOnt word •that he had repaid half the limount, and was prospering apace. " . . It was 'Telly awfully de- cent of you to help him, old man. He thanks me often, and I'en soh- . mg to tell him it was all your do- ing. But I won't, of course until you give inc leave . . . Elton sighed. There might have been a chance for him with Bar- bara Calthrop, had he only left things to take their course. Yet, after a few despondent days, he he found himself almost glad in pie- turing her future happiness, even if it included marriage with Sidney Frome. Months went by. He was pre- pared at, last for her announcement of Frome's triumphant eturn, hav- ing news of it already from Fresh field. His congratulations, , too, were sincere enough. He had fought his regretful jealousy with that much specess. It was the girl who seemed embarrassed as he took her hands , • "This is sooner than he expected, isn't it?" ' • "Yes, a little." Then she turned away, and began to talk of other things. Her slight illness, preventingher from meeting the incoming liner, eeerned to 'hire providential. He was able to see Frome before she did. Awkwardly, • he confessed about the cable. Elton escaped as soon as he could, mentally remarking that Frome's manner was constrained. It was not until ..a week afterwards that he understood its significance. He had arranged to go away for a time. It seemed the best plan. His luggage was packed. He enearit to leave town in the evening. Then Frome called upon him, plungMg without preamble into the object of his visit. "I've wronged you, Elton, I must ask your pardon. I find that, when you helped me, it wasn't to fluthey your own cause --to win Barbara from me! , No; please let me finish! I know it was you who sent me that money. I knew the other day, though I purposely didn't mention it then. It had puz- zled me why rreshfield a stranger, thur Froshfie'ld; "but don't let folks 'snow on this side." That, he decided was all he could do for the time being. He went to :See Miss Calthrop mote frequent- ly now. Two or three further let- ters she shelved. hirrin all in the .same confident,. enthusiastic tone, 'Then several mail days passed with, . eont a word, He guessed the piti- 'eful reason, -but could say nothing. The gel began' to show appethen- 'He's Me' perhaps," she Math- emmered-"ill there, among strati- me, you know." :gers 1 He-etees written every week ryes," Elton managed to answer, up to :Sow." , I in suve of than You're good - "If there had been danger," El!! ! looking and tall, and broad," ton assured her hurricely, ''you Sidney Evome smiled queerly. eseepilel eertainly bane heard." And "Admitted, very' ; but she seeSucd partly coin:sated. you're wotth a theesand of me, El - But when, in due course, e fur- !ten!" Ho peuscd a momeet. "No ; tlier• rePort, cerne, Eronl FreThrleld, Barbara shoed never have taken it seemed internment teem him to ! me. She didn't know *her own nehd. Stile 1 could hold her to her promise, if I cared to." Elton sta rted. take additienal steps. Though 'Bar- bara Ceethrop nrigat not be int hini, he could at least servo her as a erierith , "If -if you cared to?" .Sidne,y Freese ought to cable a i "But rtn,going to stand aside. reassuring message, that was cei- I'm going to give her up. 011, yea, i :seemed spiritless and apathetic, de- • did, to. I euesse'd it long ago ; dent. But Freshinald etated that he she made a mistake and possibly I elating that people in England i and that -well, that's why 1 carne svollki haa s nO1r5 of him soon 1 home. ,To settle thing,e,' I told enough, from outseic sourcesvett so, didn't I? Go and see her, 1 Yet one day ;1 telegtem arrived Elton. You'd like to, I thin's? GO for lla:bere CalLeSep, It was en- !new ; Geed -eye e# eigned. -14 - had come. Ten minutes later found Ti,ad poured upon them to ceel and Elton still deeed and half irtcredu- tranquillize 'them, were crewling bus, It sees not until he stood at airaleesly about over the theet Barbara Calthrop's door that he While Mr. Middlerib wen' feeliag roused himself from whet appear- 1 aromed for it, his eers were pudden- ed to be is dream. ly thrilled, and his heart frozen by znered, when she eame to him, "and 1 bin wire. I understand that he -that you-" 'Murder !" eho screamed, "Yea," the girl murmured; "it's der. Oh, help cue! Help! help!" tree." Mr. Middlerib sat bolt upright ip They seemed to sey no more than bed. His hair Stood oe end, The that till his arms were about her, night wns wnrrn, but he turned te and her head lay on his shoulder. i°7renineaegillitthunder," he saki e'' "I had to defene him. I couldn't pe,seey paagiaa that you'd heard with pallid lips, as he felt all over ot,f.arlitei.stroubles, could IT We were ibtnheees^thih,ea,dadlnerafrenrtth ed h.rater te-ia"fwlIneraei deceiving one another, all the . "I've juet left Pronto " he stem- a wild, piercing ocreare from his , And a large bumble, with a sting "Why," Elton °lied', "you don,:e. as pitiless as the finger of scorn, mean to say----" just then climbed up the inside of "Mr. Freshfield wrote 1. v : end I -I, too, had a. f rind Mr. Mk:idler/his nightgown, until it got squarely, betweee his shoulders, apore-a girl who's married, and and then it felt for hi marrow, and went out last year. 8° knew er- he said cal:ally, "Here is one of trything, you see. I knew from the first.'' • thAemnd."Mrs. Middlerib felt 'ashamed "I did what I thought was best." ef her feeble screams when Mr. He would not face her. Middlerib threw up both arms with "No one else would have done a howl that made both windows half as much," she whispered, rattle roared: Elton looked down. at her at last. "Tale him ' off I Ole land ,of Her e3'es were shining. Scott somebody taker him off !" "At any rate, there a was no " he declared rather no THOUGHT HOUSE BEWITCHED .steadily, "that 'deserved so great a And when a little honey -bee be - reward." -London Answera. gan tickling the sole of Mrs Middle- * rib's foot, she so shriek,ed that the house was ,bewitched, .and im- MR NIDDLERIB'S 'CURE nsecliately svent into spasms. The household were oroueed by • this time, Miss Middlerib and BEE STING A SURE FOR Master Middlerib and the seryants CURE were pouring into the room, adding RHEUMATISM. to the general confusion of howling — at random and asking questions, Householder Who Tried It Got while they gazed at the figure of a Money's Worth and Then raan a little on sn years, arrayed in O long night thief", pawing fiercely Some. at the unattainable spot in the mid- dle a his back, while he danced an unnatural, weird, wicked -looking jig by the dim, religious light of the night lamp. And While he dazeced and howled, and while • , they gazed and shouted, a navy- Irish Jury Said "Guilty" on Gen - blue wasp that Master Afiddlerib eral Principles. had put in the bottle for, good measurement and variety and to keep the menagerie ,stirred up, had dried his legs and wings with a cor- ner of the sheet, and, after a pre- liminary circle or two around the bed to get up his motion and settle down to a working gait, he fired himself across the room, and to his dying day Mr. Middlerib will al- ways believe that one of the ser- vants mistook him for a burglar and shot bins. No one, not even Mr. Middlerib himself, could doubt that he was, at least for the time; most thor- oughly cured of rheurnatisna. But his bon -could not have carried him- self more lightly, or with greater agility, But the cure was not per- manent, and Mr. Middlerib does not like to talk about it. Bob Burdette. One day last summer Mr. Middle - rib 'Tailing in his favorite paper a periteraph Stating that the sting of a hee is a sure cure for rheumatiem decided to try the new remedy. He contracted with Master Mid- dlerib for a limited supply of bees. For the small sure of one clime Master'Middlerib agreed to pro- cure several, to wit, six bees, sex and age not specified; but Mr. M. did not tell his on what he wanted those bees for, and the boy went off on ,his mission with his head so full of astonishment that it fairly whirl- ed, Evening brings all honie, and the last rays of the declining sun fell upon Master Middlerib with a short wide-mouthed Bottle com- • fortably populated with hot, ill- natured bees, and Mr. Middlerib And a dime. The dime and the bot- tle changed hands. • • PUT BOTTLE IN POCKET. • Mr. Middlerib put the bottle in his coat pocket and went into the house, eyeing everybody he met very suspiciously, as though he had made up his mind to sting to death the first person who said "bee to him. He confided his guilty secret to none of the family. He hid his bees in his bedroom, and -as he look- ed at them just before putting them 7 MODERN WONDER WORKS. away he half wished the experi- ment was safely over. • SLOWLY DISROBED. • BIG NEW CUNARDER. Not to be Pacd, But to be Feenouss join of Intel. The Cunard Line's order to a Scottish shipyard for a new seem - moth liner --to be Of about the same length as the White Star &earners, g°ri.eaYmtPeri° b :e1,1111 aTelltalu'air°g' t e rbuteenewgiteh, and of about the , game *Reed - shows that the Mauretania, type of ocean, carrier has not proved en- tirely, suoceesful, despite the heavy bookirigs lpf pessengers beth the Mauretania and the Lusitania, have attracted throughout the year. It is said that her, coatnensump- tion is too big an dem for p`iofit in the case of tlie Mauretania, and al- so in that of the Lusitania. Each burns at to speed about 1,200 tons of coal every twenty-four hours. The greatest secrecy is being ob- served respecting the machinery of the new craft, but, according to re- porefroralthe Clyde, phe will de- velop her speed through a new method of fuel consumption, which shows an astonishing saving of ex- pense. The system to be adopted has been worked out successfully through a series of experiments, demonstrating its economy. Whether it is a scheme of oil fuel or internal combustion with a sparker has not yet been revealed. The design ie of the newest type, also the - result of experiment, de- veloranent, and the avoidance of mistakes made in the planning of previous ships7 will enable the new Cunarder-which may be named the America -to carry &larger num- ber of passengers than any other vessel that floats. By giving less spac,e to machinery and fuel she is being arranged for carrying and encouraging the shipping of large quantities of express.. freight, pre- vious big passenger liners having been deficient in cargo space. STORY DAN MADE FAMOUS. Bedtime at last and the night was warm and sultry.- Under various false pretences, Mr. Middlerib strolled about the house until everybody else was in bed, and then he sought his recipe He turned the lamp down until its feeble ray shone as a death -light. Mr. Middlerih slowly disrobed-. very slowly. It is not an easy thing to do to pick one bee out of the bottleful with his fingers and not get into trouble. ,The first bee Mr, Middle - rib got was a little brown honey bee that would& weigh half an ounce if you picked him up by the ears, hut if you lifted him' by the hind leg would weigh as much as the last end of a bay mule. Mi. Middlerib could not repress a groan. "What's the matte/ with you?" sleepily asked his wife. It was very hard for Mr. Mickilerib to say he only felt hot, but, he did it. He didrt't have to lie about it either. He did feel very hot indeed, about 86 all over and 197 on the end of his thumb. He reversed • the bee and pressed the waelilse terminus of at firmly against the rheumatic knee. It didn't hurt so ' badly as he though it would, It didn't hurt at all. COULDN'T FIND BOTTLE. Then Mr, Middlerib r,emembered that when the honey bec stabs s human foe it geseevally leaves its harpoon in the wound, end the in- valid knew, filet the only thing this bee had to sting with was doing its work at the end of his thumb. He 01 Utilitarian Works Suez Canal Comes First. Of the. sevesi modern wonder works of the world, not 0110 is Am- erican. One of then, 400 years old, has its inspiration in religion -St. Peter's at Rome, the largest church ever built; the ,second, 100 years old, is the greatest triumphal arch ever erected, commemorating the victories of the conqueror Napole- on I.; the other five are modern en- gineering works. It is typical of the changed ideal of the ages that only one of the aliment wonders was utilitarian, and only one of the miTsheecareseftsreinfewEerranbcreeatchhanoinf pro- was s- xnodern wonders, is religious, five other country. The French law re - being very distinctly utilitarian, Yet quires the plaintiff to prove in noble ideals gave them ael birth. want that a pecuniary loss has Of the utilitarian works the Canal easily comes first. It those - SU" been suffered by the fiance's change ets the sea 'route front norther lei mind ; Throughout France a bride al - Europe to the Orient -by 8,000 miles, most invariably has a dowry, large between certain porta more than or !smile and the fact is likely to half. The canal was begun in 1859, h weaken her case. The same law as estimated to -cost $30,090,000, and been adopted in Austria and Hol - to be finished hs 1864. Its acteal .cost was $80,000,000, and it waS land, where the number ..1 such opened in 1869. 'Dee next great en- oases is proportionately very small, gin.eering work was also French, In Germany an elaborate method, the Eiffel tower, rising 1,000 feet in- .on announcing the betrothal prac- tically puts at end to ll breach of i to the air, at once the largest 8true- ture ereeted by man and the proto- promise cases. As .seom as 11 couple 'type of modern American steel con- strection, which an a matter of tevonmhealelnagnadgediecthieePtallierirvsvisillitithges course followed n nese to marry, and sign with wit - when passenger Ci or lifts wer° mad° Prae" render aa esehrainagaefofclansaarndeatearnwiltteh tieal, The third great wonder is the Firth of Forth bridge; cantilev-linatn:tlePaa. 11) Practieall..Y out of th° ers ; similar to thrtie ,paire of great When either party wishes to with - Eiffel towers, each pair joined at its draw from this agreement the pair base, each half stretching out hori- gain visits the town hall and ad- zontaily 900 feet without end sup- port, The fourth modern. evonder litional• documents .a.re formally signed, witnessed and sealed. The authorities then determine tho ,question of Compensation for injur- ed feelings, etc. Daniel O'Connell, the Irish Lib- erator, used to tell this story near- ly a century ago: A man was charged with wilful murder in Tipperary, a,n,d the evi- dence see,mecl perfectly clear. The prisoner and the man he was accuse,d of killing were old enemies, and they were known to have fought on the night of the murder. After the fight a dead body was found with the face so battered that it was unrecognizable. But it was identi- fied by the clothes worn. The trial of the man charged with murder duly came off, and the pris- oner was formally aslced if he had any witneases to call. He prompt- ly called the murdered -man, who appeared in the box! It seemed that he, was "wanted"e- by the pol- ice and had disappeared, but, hear- ing that his old enemy wa,s in clan- ger of being hanged for killing him, had come to SIM him. That seem - to finish the case, but it clidssft. The issue paper was banded to the jury, who solemnly retired, and returned to the court with a ver- dict of guilty. "Good Heavens," cried the judge, "surely the pris- oner Can't be found guilty of mur- der I" "We know that," said the foreman, "but he stole nay grey mare three years. ago." LESS BREACH OF PROMISE. Enna Law Requires Plaintiff to Prove Fact of Pecuniary Loss. is the St. Gotthard tunnel, 12 miles reached his arm out from under the 'wig, under the Alps, There waS sheets end dropped this disabled la Brenner Railroad route (wet the atom ef rheumatism liniment on Austrian Alps; a Mt. (Denis tennel the etterlet. Then after a, second of under the French Alps; but Italy, blank wonder, he began to feel Switzerland and Germany cembin- aroand for the bottle, and he wish- cd to divert the centuey-old trade ed he kiiew what he did with it, between south and northeo a short- ie the meantime strange things er new route, the key to the sitta- had been going on. When he tion being the lelag tunnel, mote caught hold of the first be, Mr. than twice as lorig as any American Middlerib, for reasons, drew it out I.:Wrote:1 tunnel. The seventh and with such haste that for the time he /est of the modern wonders are forgot all a..bout the bottle and its tWin oousin Alps, . the Litsitania remedial eemsenen, and left it lying acted the Mauretania, eubeidized uncorlsed in the bed, between him- and designed to restore to Great, self and his intmeent wife, In 010 Britain the Mut ribbon of the sea. darkness there leaf been a quiet Of flee* estmon eronelerte ono be but general emigration from that lenge to Italiy, one jointly to Italy bottle. The bona, their wings clog and Ovriliaerlando three belong to An was gone at abrupt* as he gad Notr,h the witter Mr MlldltjlA Finoktot gni ix. Se (hripilb Some men never amount to any- thing until they gel, zimeried-then they have e geed eghtiug el -tante, They had reached the outer pee- tals of the front door, and were there going through the process of patting, very lingeringly. "When I say good -night to yoil thie even- ing," gurgled Mr. Youngskte, "do you think it tvostid be peopev fot me to placo ote tevereet his ep- on. your fair hand?" "Well," site sighed, softly, as elle laid her head quietly ot Me shoulder, "1 should consider it * decidedly out of late ADIEUX OF THE I3RAVE DARING LAST DEEDS OF DYING HEROES. Ron and Women Who Saerifieed Their Lives in Order to Save Others, Brave deeds are, often done op the brink of death. Only the other day the newspapers were full of the dramatic, story a the loss of a, Jap- anese submarine, an accident which in manoeuvres off Port Kure sent three officers and eleven men to their doons. But before he had been finally overcome by asphyxia- tion, the lieutenant ie comreend of the ill-fated beat had succeeded in pennieg a detailed account et the, accident, describing its cause, the steps taken to endeavor to raise the submarine to the eurface, the heroism of the crew, and cons eluding with a touching recptest that the Emperor might euccor the families of the officers and men. It was the last log -entry of a gallant commander, says Pearson's Week- ly. THE STOKER'S LAST ACT. The Paris to Bordeaux express is one of the fastest trains in the world the night ef March eth last, 1C 11"414 roaring along the fiat straight stretch which runs for seven miles from Sainte Maure Poictiers at the rate of sixty- five Miles an hour, when the stoker opened the door of the furnace, and turned to fill his shovel with 0001 from the tender. Suddenly, some of the ba,ck stud - bolts gave way. There followed a blast of steam and flame, and driv- er and stoker both were hurled to th.e floor of the cab. Horribly burned, the stoker turned a,nd 611nr the driver lying apparently dead, while the train rushed on uncon- trolled. With a last effort he struggled to his knees, crawled to the throttle, and stopped the train hat as it was entering Poictiers station. They found him lying in- sensible. He rallied sufficiently to -tell what happened, and then pass- ed away. One day towards the end of Aug- ust, 1906, two German school- masters, named Overbeck and Kueppers, set out to climb the Weizeezpetze. no ascent is not amounted a dangerous one, and the two Germans took no guides. All went well until, near the Summit, they came to an icy bridge. Rieep- pars got across safely, but just as Overbook reached the center the treacherous ice gave way, and he dropped into the crevasse, and hung there dangling over the dark some depths, suspended by tie rope which was attached to his saved. friend's waist. THE ROPE OF DEATH. Out of the chasm below came Overbecknf voice, "There is only one thingto do. Out the rope. I may survive the fall." For a long time leueepers resisted. But he was growing weak, and was numb- ed with the cold. In a short time the weight of Overbeck would pull him, too, over the brink. At last he was forced to obey his friend's order. He cut the rope, and, Deese dead than alive, hurried away for help. Alas! when the relief ex- pedition arrived it was only to find the heroic Overbecic lying dead in his icy grave. e The industrivil roll of boner is a long one, and its heroes are found both on land and sea. On a bitter winter night in December, 1906, the Canadian vessel Stratheona, was steaming south from' Halifax, Nova Scotia, with 880 passengers aboard. Suddenly there was a dry of "Fire!" and as flames burst through the hatches the passen- gers came rushing, -screaming, on deck, and made for the boats. But the sea was to rough for small boats to live, asad the, crew held them off, while the captain ordered the vessel to be headed for Port Dpecezin, the nearest landing - Fell snood was put on, but this, naturally, eervecl to fan the flames, and soon the whole after -part of the ship was a rearing furnaxe. Down below the firemen toiled like heroes; amid seffocatisig heat and smoke -Thin; their danger was hot So terrible as that of tho lean at the wheel, In spite of all that could be done, the wheethouse was soon a mass of flames, the ropes end lash- ings crumbled to tinder, anel before the mouth of the harbor was teach,- es.1 the hero's clothes were burning. Feb he stuck to hie post until the vessel was beached, then he stag- gered ecross the charred planks, and fell dying. The stoey of Alice Ayres is Worth recalling, Ono night, in thc win- ter of 1a85, a helm in 'Onion Street ettught fire, aed vt nurse - girl -Aline Ayres by neme-whe was sleeping with her charges in the top storey, awoke to find the staircase in flames, and esettne Mit off. FOR SAKE OE PRE ORIVOREN. Slits rushed to the window, flung It Optn and the eresed ontside ihattted to bar to jumps Inetead they saw hot distsenear, and preg. ently cense beck, lugging a srge mattress, whielt she Inlahed With difficulty throtteh the Window,' and 4S it fell ealleel to those below to speead it cos tbe pavement, Neste minute 5110 Mae back with a child, which she 'dropped ineafety ou to the eat 'bed. By I,bis time the floor of the roorrs was burning, but elle seized anoth- er child and earefully ,dreppect that! one, too. Like the first, it was un- • hurt, The state of tbe room may be judged from the fact that the third child which she dropped died, not from the fall, but from burns, Having got ail three .ehildrep out, Alice Ayes was seen by bun - deeds of horrined eyes to climb te the sill, and stand there blackened and blistered, and witll her clotheee a MASA of fiames. "Jump !" they. screamed. She obeyed; but exs hausted and blinded, missed the mattress, and, falling on the hard' pavement, was killed, "TRAPPED IN -- We turn to the sea again for another record of heroism in deaths rn Auguat last, the wirelese opera- tor at Ketchikan, Alaska, as well as those in the two steamers Huse- . boklt .and Rupert City caught si- multaneously the distress signal "0.Q,D." It was followed by this message: "Ohio struck roche Sinking. Send aid immediately or am lost." There followed the lati- tude and longitude of the scene of ese the• disaster. Both vessels turned and raced to the rescue, and the Humboldt ar- rived in time to find nearly 200 poo, pie in the ship'e beats, while the Ohio herself had one to the bot- tom. Only five lives were bit - these of the captain, three ef the crew, 8,nd the wireless -opeurtar himself. His fate is known rent his last message, wiaich was caelnitte by the Ketchikan citation. It vsae as follows: "Passengers all off. Adrift in small boats. Captain and crew are going off, last boat now, I am trapped 111-7--" There the messane broke off. Un- able to commuaith:le further, the man on chore knew that George Eccles had gone down with the ehip whose human freight his pluck heel AS STRONG AS AN EARWIG. If Nan Were as Rushy Re Could Pull Forty Tons The humble bee, Or as we WV him the bumble bee, is so stron that he makes a man or a hos. seem 14 weak brether in compan son. Prof. Jetta J. Ward has de inonstrated this by experimen which he relates in tho Strand. H used a miniature coach a,nd true weighing 435 grains. The bee easily pulled both, so ti. latter was then loaded with pl ticine until an additional weight 166 grains had been reached. The total weight of coach, truck and load was then 601 grains. The weight of the bee was exactly two grains, so that it was pulling a load slightly over three hundred times its awn weight. It may therefore be said that th* pulling powers of a humble bee are proportionately thirty times aa' great as those of the horse or man, even when both the latter are es- timated at their maximum strength. But even the extraordinary strength of the humble bee becomes insignificant when compared with that of the earwig, the next insect experimented upon, "I am inclined to think," says Prof. Ward, "that in proportion te its size the earwig would prove on of the strongest if net the mos powerfel of insects in all roles. strength, though Of course to• ebt anitaillenneats?). ramolouutes pnriounolzroulodf erexqpiersitio; "If an earwig is held lightly be- tween the fingers its great strength • can readily be felt as it struggles to escape yet.as full grown specimen that 1 weighee barely turned the bala.nee at half a grain, but !wiled; that half a grain of active life could perform wars it revelation indeed. - "The earwig, like the ground beetle, prefera the darkness rather than the light, and is likewise al- ways in a great beery to get unsler cover. It did not, howeyese, at- tempt to hide beneath'the cettah had to pull, but aeemed beet on es- caping by sheer pulling. The empty truck of 170 .grains weight it could drag about le a ver n active mall - nes, end the uncovered coach '6 could else move readily. ''When, however, the roof was placed on the eoaell the limit of he strength woe reached and it could then only move slowly, with fro ! quent stops to rest. The weiglit se the covered coach wag 265 graine tied that of the earwig half a gram, so that the load it was pulling wee 680 Ones its own wetiO4 • "Es,en the proeligtees street of the humble bee is rinteelle evliesed by this extraordinery perinsinteme, for it is obvious that aliening foe the difference in seem the cerwie pesseeses stretigth equivalent to ak least fifty-three titnea filet of flu, greatesti effort that ceei b exceted by risen or by loran," 41 ,A nate who gets s hhsyc eyst rally earns it. Poverty wean blunt the ante) li shatpene the eieleetetee.