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+ + + + + + + + t * + + + + + + * + + + + * + + + + ! + + + + Yoio Can Select Gifts Qyockly Here All Week, E have the promptest ami most efficient store service. Store OPEN" EVENINGS until Xmas. ' Furniture Gifts need cost but a few dollars and they will last for years. Here arc a few selections from our enormous stock: Mission Library Table, $ 11 <DoSO For a library furnished in mis sion this table is indispensable. It is unusual in design and com bines utility with substantial beauty; finished richly in early English: shelf bookrack at each end, and a large drawer. < )ur very* low price, $10.50. Another Library Table. Don't you know somebody who would like such a Library Table for Xmas? It is a useful size, 24x36 in.; has convenient drawer and lower shelf: in either quartered golden oak or mahogany finish; one of Santa Claus' best suggestions, and onlv + + + + + + + + + ?f Pretty Japanese Vases $2.25 Japanese Floral Japanese Talzan Japanese Satsuma Vases Japanese Floral Vases t Useful Umbrella Stands 95c $1.45 $1.30 Umbrella Stands. $2.50 Umbrella Stands. + * * >lany beautiful and artistic ODD PIECES which are just the thing for small gifts costing only a few dollar?. + + + + + + + + * + * + + + + + X This Sollld jmg Chair, 98c Strong and well constructed. Worth ?1.50. A bargain. A very large assortment of well designed and finished Dining Chair# with wood, cane and leather seats. + + When iri Doubt, Buy of HOUSE & HERRMANN, Seventh and I (Eye) Streets N.W. CONVENIENT CREDIT TERMS. + * + * i * + * -JL + * + ?>11111111111 1IU1 I 1 11111 1 1 II 1.1. 11 mill DOITT GBOW OLD. How to Keep Always Young-?Never Let Trouble Make Yon Bine. From Loudon Tit-Bits. Somfe people keep young to middle age and long after. They don't grow gray till long after numbers of people their own age. or. if they do. their gray hairs be come them so well that you wouldn't like to think of them anyhow else. "Where do wrinkles and gray hairs come from?" "How can they be avoided?" Here are several answers to these ques tions from many points of view. "If you want to keep evergreen," says a popular doctor, "don't take things too seriously. A sense of humor is a splen did thing. Making mountains out of molehills ages one almost quicker than anything. People who take things too much to heart grow old before their time. Don't meet trouble half way. Don't worry. The small boy who said that wrinkles were 'fretwork' wasn't far wrong. Take life easily. Cultivate a cheerful frame of mind. It is the peo ple wito look on the bright side of things who keep evergreen." ? Overwork ages many people. Industry's a fine thing, but a virtus may easily be run to seed and become a fault. No hu man being was ever meant to work on and on without a rest. Many doctors insist that every one should, whenever possible, take a nap In the afternoon. And don't work too fast. Don't rush. Take things quietly and steadily. Don't excite yourself over every little trifle. Don't be restless and impatient. It 1.x the mean and petty traits of character very often that bring lines and wrinkles to the most open face?the small spites, the petty jealousies. They have a knack of steadily and surely rating up all that is sound and wholesome iu tiie character. And as moral ills react physlmlly, premature age comes on with all its undesirable signs. Keep your emper under control. A burst of pas -jon often does one incalculable harm, it jars the nerves and upsets the whole . onstitution. Very hysterical people are frequently quite prostrate for days after a hurst of temper. Wrinkles are often caused by facial contortions?mannerisms, like constantly lifting the eyebrows when talking, frown ing when in thought, twisting the mouth up. and that sort of thing. Try to culti vate the reposeful face. It need not be wooden or expressionless. Not a, bit of it. But talk with your mouth, not with every muscle of your face. If you want to keep young don't try to keep up an appearance beyond your means. The continued strain and wort y soon to do their work. An inactive, aim less life, on the other hand. rich, heavy diet, all bring wrinkles and gray hairs. Be open-hearted. The oldest people at heart?whatever their years?as e those who go about with a suspicious feeling that every laugh or joke is against them, and that every little kindness, however well meant, is actuated by some secret motive. Oversecretlve people, too. often turn gray early In life. CLEVER BLIND MUSICIANS. Sightless Men Who Perforin Won ders on the Organ. From Lojxlou Xit-Blta. Long before Sir Edward Elgar became famous he helped another man to fame, and that man was blind, and is today one of the most gifted organists in the world?Mr. William Wolstenholme. Sir Edward taught Wolstenholme the violin at Worcester, a strong friendship spring ing up between master and pupil, and when the latter decided to work for hia musical degree at Oxford Elgar offered to.be hit* amanuensis. Today Wolsten holme greatly cherishes the rough sketches, reminiscent of "tobacco reek." which the Worcester violin teacher made of his exercises. Nor was this all, foi when the blind musician went up to Ox ford for tlie examination El gar went with him, and was as pleased as the candidate himself when his pupil became the first blind person to take the Oxford degree. Wolstenholme always spent Saturday afternoons with Rlgar. and the latter would often say. "Willie. I have a tune to play to you," and he would imme diately play over one of the beautiful melodies which have since made his fame and have entered into such immortal works as "The Dream of Gerontius" and "The Disciples." For his degree Wol stenholme was required to show an inti mate knowledge of Beetnoven's "Fidelio." and he transcribed the full score into Braille and committed the opera to memory! Mr. Wolstenholme is a composer him self of very great talent, and is not only a magnificent solo-organist, but gives re citals all over the world, being also a fine violinist and pianist. lie has a marvel ous memory, and his improvisations on the organ are little short of miraculous. Another wonderful blind musician is Al I fred Hoilins, who played before Queen Victoria at Windsor Castle when he was but sixteen. He has also played before the King of the Belgians at Brussels and the Empress Frederick at Berlin. These performances were upon the pianoforte, but It is as an organjst that Alfred Hoi lins Is known to all lovers of music. He was trained at the Royal Normal School for the Blind at Norwood, the principal of which. Dr. Campbell, has lately been knighted by the king. Mr. Hoilins goes all over the world giving organ recitals, and It is truly marvelous how he man ages, almost Instantly, to find his way about an entirely strange organ, master ing all the mechanical accessories as though hlB eyesight were perfect, where as he is stone-blind. In playing, how ever high he lifts his hands, they al ways come down on the right place, and he gives his audience the feeling that he could not make a mistake. Tie also has a marvelous tfft of extemporization, and. as he is obliged to memorize evervthlng and plays the most difficult music in ex istence, his memory must needs be pro digious. Animal Ornament Fads. From Iiomlon Tit-Bit*. It seems as if the women were over coming some of their little cherished fears ana superstitions, or perhaps they are only being martyrs to fashion and assuming their brave appearance, for we see them wearing, with most perfect non chalance, bracelets of round gold woven wire in exact imitation of a snake that coils about the arm most fearfully, and some even wear them about the neck! Then there are necklaces of the most delicate wire representing spider webs, with a great ugly black silver spider with glittering eyes and a thousand legs, and all sorts of creepy insects caught in his web. Beetles crawl at random, or, at least, they seem to, as bracelets, brooches, hat pins and rings, and a darning needle perches airily on the collar, threatening at any minute to sew one's mouth up. Yet snakes with scaly, spangled bodies and uplifted heads, terrifying in their reality, twine about the crowns of hat-*. In calm indifference to all one has ever heard about ill-luck following peacock feathers, are not they flaunted from the most fashionable chapeaux, and used in embroidery on the loveliest Of chiffon gowns, and the colors of the peacock lead the grand march of style? It will only take some ingenious manu i facturer to make a gun metal mouse for a necklace pendant to break the spell and call forth the natural and truly lemlnlne scream that will be such a relief to the ' pent-up feelings. Unpardonable Omission. [ From Pack. ( Deacon "Beegosh (to country editor)? I I've a great notion to tell ye to stop my ? paper! Here, in this week's issue, ye give i two columns on the front page to the ' Baptist fair and never once say that ( the church wa? transformed into a ver ? itable fairyland! No Friends of Proposed Meas ure Appear to Advocate It. ATTITUDE OF THE BAKERS No Legislation Needed, as Campeti tion Determines Practice. PUBLIC REAPS NO BENEFIT Board of Trade and Chamber of Com merce Present Similar Views at Hearing Before Commissioners. Determined opposition against and lutjk of support for the proposed bread law for the District developed at a hearing before the board of District Commissioners today. The subject of the hearing was the bill defining the standard weight of a loaf of bread, a measure prepared by the sealer of weights and measures of the District. Appearing before the Commissioners were representatives of the Washing ton Merchant Bakers' Association, the Washington Board of Trade and the Washington Chamber of Commerce. All opposed the bill. In effect, the bill prepared by Sealer Haskell provides that the standard loaf of bread shall weigh one pound, but that loaves may be made in "half, three quarter. double, triple, quadruple, quin tuple or sextuple loaves and in no other way"; that each loaf ?hall bear a label setting forth its weight and the name of its manufacturer; that bread shall be known as stale eight hours after it leaves the oven, and that dealers in bread shall weigh the bread in the presence of pur chasers whenever desired. The bill also contains the usual provisions for Inspec tion, penalties, etc. Leary Presents Baker's Case. The spokesman for the opposition at today's hearing was Harry B. Leary of the Boston Baking Company, president of the Bakers' Association. Mr. Leary read a carefully prepared statement of the at titude of the association respecting bread laws for Washington. The principal arguments presented by him tended t<f show there was no neces sity for a bread law. Such laws, Mr. Leary said, existed in few cities in the country. It was his opinion and that or bakers in general that they effected merely an inconvenience to bakers vinn out being of any benefit to the public. The baking business, he declared, is a private business, in nowise a public or even quasi-public matter. Bakers pos sess no monopoly, but are always ca led on to meet keen and active competition. The bakers of Washington, Mr. Leary urged, had done nothing to warrant their being singled out and held up to the pub lic gai3 as swindlers?which the enact ment of the Haskell bill would do?while butchers, grocers and other tradesmen were left free to market their wares in any shape they wished. That the bakers could take no liberties with the public was shown several years ago Mr. Leary reminded his hearers, when the bakers tried to increase the cost of loaves from 5 to 6 cents each. The result was that people either stopped eating bread or made it at home, and nearly put the bakere out of business. The matter of weight in bread. Mr. Leary said, had lKtle or nothing to do with the welfare of the customer. The average consumer figured more on the dimensions of the loaf, how many slices it would make, etc. Weight No Measure of Quality. ''The weight of the loaf," said Mr. Leary, "furnishes no evidence of its qual ity or health containirg and health giving properties, its money value or the cost to produce it, for it is well known that a small loaf may not only be worth and cost more, but may also contain more substantial nutriment than a loaf of double the size. "These values depend on the constitu ent parts, and the care exercised In its making and baking and weight is an ele ment which does not at all figure. It may be answered that the law A>es have some relation to the considerations which enter Into aw making and that its pur pose is to prevent fraud being practiced on the public." Business Men Acquiesce. At the conclusion of Mr. Leary's formal statement of the case, Thomas C. Noyes, representing the special committee ap pointed by the Washington Board of Trade to consider the bread question, stated to the Commissioners that the committee, after careful consideration, had concluded that there was no need for a bread law in the District. Arthur C. Moses, representing a similar committee of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, stated to the Commission ers that the committee had found that no law was needed, thai the natural compe tition among bakers was sufficient to safeguard the public, and that it would be unjust discrimination to select a sin gle trade for -restraint. When the Commissioners called for the supporters of the bill none appeared After a short discussion with the bakers concerning details or' their business, the board adjourned with the announcement that it would take the matter under ad visement and forward its findings to | Congress. Millions of Nickels. Froiu ?tu<'cem. This last summer seven million to eight million people made twenty thousaifaf trips to Coney Island. They spen there $40,000,000, mostly in nickels and dimes, and the total sum* was three times what this nation paid to Napoleon for Louisi ana, or six times what we paid Russia j for Alaska. ! There are Coney Island peanut I stands the size of a broad top desk which rent for $l,ri00 a season. The men who sell frankfurters pay enormous sums for the right to stand where they do. and get their money back in the nick els of twenty millions. On week days the attendance la large, but on Sundays and holidays it rises to a point where each visitor has room only to be happy standing still. On the Fourth of July 400,000 people crowded into the little island, bathed, shot the chutes, were photographed and ate "red-hots." It was believed then that Coney would not hold a single additional visitor, but August 15 a new 100,000 came, making .jOO.OOO in one day. It is a wonderful business?this Coney Island?'but a very risky one. The 90.). ooo.ooo nickels depend upon the weather. When the mercury drops, profits fall to nothing. Pear Grafted on Apple. From tlie Field. , We are asked if fruit experts have ever tried the apple as a slock on which to graft the pear, and if so with what re sults. Although members of the same genus (Pyrus), they belong to quite dis tinct species, and they have not been known to hybridise. The stocks used gen erally for pears are either the quince or the seeding pear, prefecably of the wild type. Fruit tree nurserymen do not appear to have ever tried grafting the pear on the apple, althoug* some of them declare that it would not answer. - We are. however, assured by an amateur that he not only successfully worked a pear on an apple, but that he has now a large tree which was obtained in this way. and that the effect of the stock is shown in the late ripening of pear fruit and in a distinct change in its flavor. \ PTHilimimiimimHHmmmiimmmnnilllimi"11" mfiiinmmnin * * niiniiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniminmiininiiinrmiiiiiiniiiiiii Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Special Christinas Offerings of Good Things to Eat 4^ The goods advertised here are on sale at our Alexandria store as well as each of our Washington stores and market stands. Let us have your orders early to avoid the final rush. Cape Cod Cranberries, 3 Quarts for - 25c i Best Elgin Butter, Pound - ----- 37c Thas Week, Regular 25c Dozen Florida Oranges, IS for 25c. CHRISTMAS NUTS AND FRUITS. SPACES. Ground or Whole. Cloves Allspice..." Red Pepper White Pepper Black Pepper Sage * Pickling (mixed)... Caraway Seed Celery Seed Ground Cinnamon.^ Mace, oz 5c Nutmeg, oz 5c COFFEE. Senate Coffee (5 lbs. for $1.15). lb 25c Congressional Coffee (3 lbs. for $1.00), lb 35c Our Special Blend, lb..... .30c Other Good Grades, lb., 15c, 20c, 38c and 40c All A. & P. Coffees have the attractive sparkle and delicious aroma which come only with the freshly roasted, well select ed and ripe berrv. DRIED FRUITS. California Prunes, 95 to a lb.; per lb 5C California Prunes, 65 to a lb.; per lb 8c Fancy Oregon Prunes, 45 to a lb.; per lb 10c Evap. Apples, lb 12c Evap. Peaches, lb 10c Evap. Apricots, lb 10c Sultana Raisins, package... 15c Seedless Raisins, package. .10c NUTS. Brazil Nuts, lb 10c Tarragona Almonds, lb... .18c Paper Shell Almonds, lb. . .22c Filberts, lb 13c Grenoble Walnuts, lb 18c French Walnuts, lb 13c Black Walnut Meats, lb....30c Jordan Shelled Almonds, lb.. (10c French Walnut Meats, lb., 45c Smyrna Figs, box. 10c Layer Figs, lb ? ???????????I 2C Washed Figs, basket 20c Pulled Figs, in jars........25c Indian River Oranges, large, 15 for 25c Fancy Apples, Y\ pk 15c Florida Grapefruit, each. .. .5c California Lemons, doz... .20c M8LK. Eagle Milk, can 15c Evap. Milk. can... .5c and 10c OLIVES. Manzanilla, bottle 10c Queen, bottle 15c and 25c Stuffed, bottle 10c and 25c SEASONING. Celery Salt, bottle 10c Curry Powder, bottle 10c Bell's Poultry Seasoning, box. IOC Thyme. Sage, Marjoram and Savon*, package, each.... k. 2c PEELS. Best Citron, lb 20c Orange or Lemon, lb 15c Crystallized Ginger, box..ioc DATES. Sair Dates, package 5c Pitted Dates, package 10c CHEESE. Full Cream, lb 20c Royal Luncheon, small jar. 10c Royal Luncheon, rned. jar, 15c Royal Luncheon, large jar, 25c Potted Cheese, pkg 10c Leaders for This Week, Seeded Raisins, 3 pkgs... .25c Cleaned Currants, 3 pkgs., 25c Pumpkin, can 10c Malaga Grapes, lb 15c Nonesuch Mincemeat, large pkg. (equal to 29c pkgs.), 20c A & P Mincemeat (extra spe cial), pkg yy2C Atmore's Celebrated Mince meat, lb 12c Ileinz's Best Quality Mince meat 20c R. & R. Plum Pudding, cans, 23c and 45c Cluster Raisins (Basket Brand), 2 carrons 25c Mixed Nuts, lb 15c MAPLE SYRUP AND BUCKWHEAT Makes a delicious combination at breakfast these cold morn ings?or possibly you should prefer a Louisiana Cane Syrup for yours. We have the genu ine articles in both, and either plain or leavened buckwheat. Pure Maple Syrup, bottle. 15c and 35c Plain Buckwheat. 10-lb. bag, 35c A. & P. Self-Raising Buck wheat, pkg 10c Pure Maple, in gallon cans, $1.50 A & P Molasses, can, . 15c and .20c Louisiana Cane Syrup, can, ioc, 15c, 20c, 35c and 65c Hornby's (H-O) Buckwheat, Pkg 17c Hecker's Buckwheat, pkg., ioc and 15c Gold Leaf Blend Maple Syrup, bot ioc and 25c B. & O. Molasses, can, ioc and 15c FLAVORING EXTRACTS. XXXX Sugar, lb 7c Granulated Sugar 5y2c Cut Loaf Sugar, lb 6j^c Lemon or \ anilla Flavoring, ioc, 25c Corby's Bread 5c Main Store=6?7 Seventh St. N.W. POTATOES. Fine Potatoes, pk 20c Sweet Eastern Shore, pk...25c Branch Stores: '3187th St. N.W. 1620 14 th St. N.W, 3077 M St. N.W. 815 H St. N.E. MIASM' Telephone Connections at All Stores. Market Stands: 21st & K Sts. Mkt Center Market 5th & K Sts. Mkt. Eastern Mkt. S.E. EGGS. Famous Brook field, doz 35c (Guaranteed Quality.) Good Eggs, doz 28c I'mitmtt Old Florentine Baptismal Font. From the Youth's Companion. In the old baptistry at Florence?the baptistry with the wonderful bronze doors which Michael Angelo called "so beautiful that they were worthy to be the gates of paradise"?most of the babies of Florence have been baptized for many hundred years. At almost any hour of any day one will find baptismal parties waiting before the ; i font, with babies of every rank in life j Crom the princely heir of a great house nearly smothered in costly laces and at- j tended by a small army of friends and relatives, to the little creature decked out in gaudy cotton and held in the arms of a solitary old peasant woman. ! No register of baptisms was kept in the ' very early days. The first record was, made in this wise: A certain priest took it into his head to keep account of the num ber of children he baptized. Accordlngly he put a white bean into a box for every boy and a black bean for every girl. L<ater on records were carefully kept, and if one could look them over it would be a fascinating study, for probably the greater part of the painters, scholars, poets and soldiers who have made Flor ence famous received their names at the font of "my dear little St. John"?as Dante called it. , Trapping in Wabash Valley. Carml Correspondence Indianapolis Xptv*. Trapping is good in the Wabash bot toms this year and several fine* catches have been made. Irwin Williams brought to this city $100 worth of furs, which lie had trapped in three days. His finest catch consisted of seven minks. The traps were set near a brush heap, where the animals were seen at play one day, and the next morning the seven were found fast in the traps. The seven mink hides brought $32. Thousands of muskrats have been caught and opos sums are also falling prey to the traps of the fur hunters. The industry is a lu crative one. and many trappers are mak ing $10 each night. The Shah's Highway. From llarper'i Weekly. It is true we have some bad roads, but .most of our highways compared with those of' Persia would be as a paved street to a plowed field. You would think that the keeping of the shah's highway would be one of the first cares of a state, yet so little atten tion has been given to this subject by the Persian government that there are not a dozen good wagon roads through out the whole country. The. caravan routes are, except in a very few cases, merely trails. Not only are the wagon roads bad as well as scarce, but It is an astonishing fact that although Persia Is one of the oldest of civilized states, a country comprising an area of 628,000 square miles and a popu lation of 9^000,000, she has but six miles of railway. Irish Surnames. From the London Chronicle. A "Special Report on Surnames in Ire land" is one of those solemn official blue books that have their novel interest. Sir Robert Matlieson, LL. D.. registrar general <for Ireland, puts it forth. Aim, working through all the figures, th* of ficial finds that Murphy is the strongest family in Ireland. One Irishman in eight is surnamed Murphy. But he is rivaled by the Smiths, who take the first place, not only In England, but in Scotland, and even in Wales beat the Joneses. If you are not a Murphy In Ireland you will have another seventeen to two chances against being called Kelly. English names have spattered Ireland. We have thrust our Bakers. Coopers. Fivhers, Longs, Smalls, Shorts, Turners and Wrights upon the country, feut the Irish keep their names, in spite of a Welsh Incursion of Joneses Into Wex ford. The Aherns, Rlordans, Spillanes, Fagmns, Tallons, Moynihans, and, above all, the Murphys, who remember with pride that their name is a concession (to? England) of the form of MacMur rough, the old regal family of L>elnster. Dermot was the last acknowledged king, but Dermot's descendants still hold lands In Wexiford. So you may realize how aristocratic the majority of Irishmen are, being an ei'ghth of them Murphys. It pays to read the want columns of The Star. Hundreds of situations are filled through them. THE HAN IN LOWER TEN % BY MARY ROBERTS RINEHART. * (Oopyrirht, 1809. Tkt Sobte-Mcrrill Orapaoy.) CHAPTER Vm. The Second Section. Have you ever been picked up out of your three-meals-a-day life, whirled around in a tornado of events, and landed in a situation so grotesque and yet so horrible that you laugh even while you are groaning and straining at its hopelessness? McK night says that is hysteria, and that no man worthy of the name ever admits to it. Also, as McKnlght says, it sounds like a tank drama. Just as the revolving saw is about to cut the hero into stove lengths, the second villain blows up the sawmill. The hero goes up through the roof and alights on the bank of a stream at the feet of his lady love, who is mak ing daisy chains. Nevertheless, when I was safely home again, with Mrs. Klopton brewing strange drinks that came in paper packets from the pharmacy, and that smelled to heaven, I remember staggering to the door and closing it. and then going back to bed and howling out the absurdity and the madness of the whole thing. And while I laughed, my very soul was sick, for the girl was gone by that time, and I knew t>y all the loyalty that answers l?etween men for honor that I would have to put her out of my mind. And yet. all the night that followed, filled as it was with the shrieking de mons of pain. I saw her as I had seen her last, in the queer hat with green rib bons. I told the doctor this, guardedly, the next morning, and he said it was the morphia, and that I was lucky not to have seen a row of devils with green tails. 1 don't know anything about the wreck of September 9 last. You who swallowed the details with your coffee and digested the horrors with your chop probably know a great deal more than I do. I remember very distinctly that the jump ing and throbbing in my arm brought me back to a world that at first was nothing, but sky, a heap of clouds that I thought hazily were the meringue on a blue charlotte russe. As the sense of hearing was slowly added to vision, I heard a woman near me sobbing that she had lost her hat pin and she couldn't keep her hat on. 1 think I dropped back into uncon sciousness again, for the next thing I re member was of my blue patch of sky clouded with smpke, of a strange roar ing and crackling, of a rain of fiery sparks on my face and of somebody beating at me with feeble hands. I opened my eyes and closed them again; the girl in blue was bending over me. With that imperviousness to big things and keenness to small that is the first effect of shock, I tried to be facetious, when a spark stung my cheek. "You will have to rouse yourself!" the girl was repeating, desperately. "You've been on fire twice already." A piece of striped ticking floated slowly over my head. As the wind caught it its charring edges leaped Into flame." "Looks like a kite, doesn't it?" I re marked, cheerfully. And then, as my arm gave an excruciating throb?"Jove, how my arm hurts!" The girl bent over and spoke slowly, distinctly, as one might speak to a deaf person or a child. "Listen. Mr. Blakeley," she said, earn estly. "You must rouse yourself. There has been a terrible accident. The second section ran into us. The wreck Is burn ing now, and if we don't move we will catch fire. Do you hear?" Her voice and my arm were bringing me to my senses. "I hear," I said. "I? I'll sit up In a second. Are you hurt?" "No, only bruised. Do you think you can walk?" I drew up one foot after another, gin gerly. . "They seem to move all right," I re marked, dubiously. "Would you mind telling? me where the back of my head has gone. I can't help thinking it isn't there."' She made a quick examination. "It's pretty badly bumped." she said. ".You must have fallen en it." I had got up on my uninjured elbow by that time, but the pain threw me back. "Don't look at the wreck." I en treated her. "It's no sight for a woman. If?if there is any way to tie up this arm, I might be able to do something. There may be people under those cars!" "Then It is too late to help." she re plied, solemnly. A little shower of feath ers, each carrying its fiery lamp, blew over us from some burning pillow. A part of the wreck collapsed with a crash. In a resolute endeavor to play a man's part in the tragedy going on all around. I got to my knees. Then I realized what I had not noticed before?the hand and wrist of the broken left arm were jammed through the handle of the seal skin grip. I gasped and sat down sud denly. "You must not do that." the girl in sisted. I noticed now that she kept her back to the wreck, her eyes averted. "The weight of the traveling bag must be agony. Let me support the valise un til we get back a few yards. Then you must lie down until we can get it cut off." "Will -it have to be cut off?" I asked, as calmly as possible. There were red hot stabs of agony clear to my neck, but we were moving slowly away from the track. "Yes." she replied, with dumfounding coolness. "If I had a knife I could do it myself. You might sit here and lean against this fence." Bv that time my returning faculties had' realized that she was going to cut off the satchel, not the arm. The dizzi- : ness was leaving and I was gradually ; becoming myself. "If you pull it might come." I sug gested. "And with that weight gone I think I will cease to be five feet eleven inches of baby." She tried gently to loosen the handle, but it would not move, and at last, with great drops of cold perspiration over me. I had to give up. "I'm afraid I can't stand it." I said. "But there's a knife somewhere around these clothes, and if I can find it, per Jiaps you~can cut the leather." As I gave her the knife she turned it over, examining it with a peculiar ex pression, bewilderment rather than sur prise. But she said nothing. She set. to work deftly, and in a few minutes the bag dropped free. "That's better," I declared, sitting up. "Now. if you ran pin my sleeve to my coat, it will support the arm so we can get away from here." "The pin might give," she objected, "and the jerk would be terrible." She looked around, puzzled; then she got up. coming back in a minute with a drag gled. partly scorched sheet. This she i tore into a large square, and after shej had -folded it, she slipped it under the broken arm and tied it securely at the back of my neck. The relief was immediate and, picking up the sealskin bag. I walked slowly be side her. away from the track. The first act was over; the curtain fallen. The scene was "struck." CHAPTER IX. The Halcyon Breakfast. We were still dazed, I think, for we wandered like two troubled children, our one idea at first to get as far away as we could from the horror behind us. We were both bareheaded, grimy, pallid through the grit. Now and then we met little groups of country folk hurrying to the track; they stared at us curiously, and some wished to question us. But we hurried past them; we had put the wreck behind us. That way lay madness. Only once the girl turned and looked behind her. The wreck was hidden, but the smoke cloud hung heavy and dense. For the first time I remembered that my companion had not been alone on the train. "It is quiet here." I suggested. "If you will sit down on the bank I will go back and make some Inquiries. I've been criminally thoughtless. Tour?traveling companion " She interrupted me, and something of her splendid poise was gone. "Pleaso don't go back," she said. "I?am afraid it would be of no use. And?1 don't waut to be left alone." Heaven knows I did not want her to be alone. I was more than content to walk along beside her aimlessly, for any length of time. Gradually, as she lost the exaltation of the moment, I was gaining my normul condition of mind. I was beginning to realise that I had lacked the morning grace of a shave, that I looked like some lost hope of yes* terday, and that my left shoe pinched outrageously. A man does not rise tri umphant above such handicaps. The girl, for ail her disordered hair and the crum pled linen of her waist, in spite of her missing hat and the small gold bag that hung forlornly from a broken chain, looked exceedingly lovely. "Then I won't leave you alone." I said, manfully, and we stumbled on together. Thus far we had seen nobody from the wreck, but well up the lane we came across the tall dark woman who had oc cupied lower eleven. She was half crouch ing beside the road, her black hair about her shoulders and an ugly bruise over her eye. She did not seem to know us and refused to accompany us. We left her there at last, babbling incoherently and rolling in her hands a dozen pebbles she had gathered In the road. The girl shuddered as we went 011. Once she turned and glanced at my band ' age. "Does It hurt very much?" she asked. "It's growing rather numb. But It might be worse." I answered, menda ciously. If anything in this world could be worse I had never experienced it. And so we trudged on. I>arehead4?l under the summer sun, growing parched and dusty and weary, doggedly leaving behind us the pillar of smoke. I thought I knew of a trolley line somewhere In the direction we were going, or perhaps we could find a horse and trap to tuke us Into Baltimore. The girl smiled when L suggested it. "We will create a sensation, won't we?" she asked. "Isn't it queer?or perhaps It's my state of mind?but# I keep wishing for a pair of gloves, when I haven't eveu a hat!" (.To be continued tomorrow.) BIO COLORADO WOLVES. Ranchmen Complain They Are Kill ing Off the Cattle. From the Denver Republican. Big gray wolves, bigger than any moun tain Hons ever seen in this region. are making life interesting for the cattle men In the neighborhood of Sweetwater ' lake, in Grand county, these days. According to a report received In the of fice of the state game and fish commis sioner yesterday from the ranch* north of Gypsum, owned by the Stevens broth ers. the wolves have become so bold that they are entering the corrals there and killing yearling colts and calves within easy gunshot of the ranch houses. Tne tracks of one of these marauders are said to lie so big that it is estimated he must weigh in the neighborhood of 2**t pounds. It Is difficult to kill any of the wolves for the reason that they are as particular as a tiger about their food and having once killed a colt or a calf and eaten their fill, they do not return again to that particular spot in search of fresh victims. It does the cattlemen no good to sit up waiting for a second visit in the hopes of killing the destroyer of hi* herds, because the second visit seldom oc curs until a long time afterward. The Taste of Pike. From the !,ondon Chronicle. Pike? I've eaten dozens of them in the course of years, writes a Windemere cor respondent. These fresh-water sharks In. fest our largest lake in shoals and de vour the small fry of bass (perch) and char?the special fish of Windermere, a choice specimen resembling salmon and salmon-trout combined. The flesh of lake land pike Is heavy and the flavor rather coarse, but as food it is highly nutritious. Many people aoarn to eat so common a < fish. In this it resembles coA?being goat and cheap.