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1THE HOUSE OF A I
THOUSAND CANDLES |
By Meredith Nicholson. C
Copyright )(K)5 ByiiloM-s •,Merrill Co. f
(Continued from last week.)
But the light led me. I remembered
with bitterness that I had always fol
lowed her,—whether as Olivia, trail
ing In her girlish grace across the
now, or as the girl In gray, whom I
had followed on that night Journey at
Christmas eve; and I followed now.
The distrust, my shattered faith, my
utter loneliness, could not weigh
against the joy of hearing that laugh
of hers breaking mellowly on the
night.
1 paused to allow the two figures to
widen the distance between us as they
traversed the path that curved away
toward the chapel. I could still hear
their voices, and s< < the lantern flash
and disappear. 1 It an imi ulse to
turn bark, or plunge 'Into the wood
land; hut I was carried on uncontroll
ably. The light glimmered and her
voice still boated back to me. It stole
through the keen winter dark like r.
memory of spring; and so her voice
and the light led me
Then I heard an exclamation of ells
may followed by laughter, In which
my grandfather joined merrily.
“Oh, never mind; we’re not afraid!"
she exclaimed.
I had rotinded the curve in the path
where 1 should have seen the light;
but the'darkness was unbroken. There
was silence for a moment, in which 1
drew quite near to them.
Then my grandfather^ voice broke
out cheerily.
“Now I must go hack with you! A
fine person you are .to guide an old
man! A foolish virgin, Indeed, with
no oil in her lamp!”
“Plea -e do not! Of course I’m go
ing to see you quit, to your own door!
I don't intend to put my hand to the
lantern and then turn back!”
“This walk isn’t what It should be,”
said my grandfather, ’’we'll have to
make a better one In the spring.”
Then they we silent and 1 heard
him futilely striking a match, when
suddenly the lantern fell, its wires
rattling as it struck the ground, and
the two exclaimed with renewed mer
riment upon their misfortune.
“If you will allow me!” I called out,
fumbling in my pocket for my own
matchbox. - •*-.■ . .
1 have sometimes thought that^
there is really some sort of decent
courtesy to me. An old man caught in
a rough path that was none too good
at best! And a girl, even though my
enemy! Hut these were not, 1 fancy,
the reflections that crossed my mind
at the moment.
“Ah, it’s .lack,” exclaimed my grand
father. "Marian was showing me the
the way to the gate and our light went
out."
“Miss Devereux,” I murmured. I
have, 1 hope, an icy tone for persons
who have incurred my displeasure,
and 1 employed It then and there with,
no doubt, its fullest value.
She and my grandfather were grop
ing in the dark for the lost lantern,
“I Wanted You to Come. Squire
Glenarm?”
and i, putting oat my hand, touched
her ungloved fingers.
"I beg your pardon," she murmured
frostily.
„ Then I found and grasped the lan
tern —.
“One moment,” 1 said, “and I’ll see
what’s the trouble.”
1 thought my grandfather took it,
but the flame of my wax match showed
her fingers Clasping the wire frame.
The cloak slipped away, showing her
arm’s soft curve, the blue and white
of her bodice, the purple blur of vio
lets; and for a second I saw her face,
with a smile quivering about her lips
My grandfather was beating the
ground impatiently with his stick, urg
ing us to leave the lantern and go on.
"Let it alone,” he said. "I’ll go
down through the chapel; there’s a
lantern in there somewhere."
“I’m awfully sorry,” she said, “but
I recently lost my best lantern!”
To be sure she had! 1 was angry
that she should so brazenly recall the
night 1 found her looking for Picker
tag’s notes in the passage at the Door
of Bewilderment!
She had lifted the lantern now, and
I was striving to touch the wax taper
to the wick, with imminent danger to
my bare fingers. *
“They don’t really light well when
the oil’s out,” she observed, with an
exasperating air of wisdom.
I took it from her hand and shook
• ft close to my ear.
I "Yes; of course, it’s empty," 1 mut
tered '’isdaiufully. and th-*-w it from
me
-
"Oh, Mr. Glenarm!" she cried, turn*
Inr away toward my grandfather.
I heard his stick beating the rough
path several vajyls away. He waa
hastening toward Olenarm House,
i “I think Mr. Olenarm has gone
home."
"Oh, that Is too had!” shf* ex
i claimed.
Thank you! He's probably at. the
c-lmpel by this time. If you will per
i mit me—”
"Not at all!"
A man in the “ixnes should not
tax his arteries tjn severely. I was
quite sure that my giandfather ran
i up the chapel steps; I could hear his
stick beating hurriedly ©n the stones.
"If you wish to go larther"—I be
gan.
I was Indignant at my grandfather’s
conduct; he had deliberately run off,
leaving me alone with a young woman
whom I had resolved never to see
again.
‘ Thank you; I shall go hack now I
was merely walking to the gate with
Mr Olenarm. It is so tine to have him
back again, so unbelievable!”
It was just such a polite murmur as
one might employ in speaking to an
old foe at a friend's table.
She listened a moment for his step;
then, apparently satisfied, turned back
toward St. Agatha's I followed, un
icrtain, hesitating, m; rkin • h' r defin
ite onward Eight Kic:u the fol-Js of
•
her cloak stole the faint perfume ol
violets. The sight of her, the sound
of her voice, combined-to create- and
to destroy!—a uiood with every sfi p.
I was seeking s .rue colorless thing
to say when she spoke over her shoul
der:
"You are very kind, hut I nm not
tie least afraid Mi. Ole arm.”
But there is i i.vitalng I wish to
say to you, now that we have met. I
should like—”
She slackened her step.
"Yes.”
"I am going away.”
"Yes; of course; you are going
away.”
Her tone implied that this was sorrte
thlng that had been ordained from the
beginning of time, and did not mat
ter. —- -*-•»—
"And I wish to say a word about
Mr. Pickering," I added.
She paused and faced me abruptly.
We were at the edge of the wood,
and the school lay quite near. She
caught the cloak closer about her and
gave her head a little toss I remem
bered well, as a trick compelled by
the vagaries of woman’s headdress.
“I can't talk to you here, Mr. Glen
arm; I had no intention of ever see
ing you again; but I must say this to
you—”
"Those notes of Pickering’s—I shall
ask Mr. Glenarm to give them to you
•—as a mark of esteem from me.”
She stepped backward as though I
had struck her.
"You risked much for them—and
for him-—” I went on.
“Mr. Glenarm, l have no intention
of discussing that, or any other mat
ter with you—”
"It is better so—”
"But your accusations, the things
you Imply, are unjust, Infamous!"
The quaver In her voice shook my
resolution to deal harshly with her.
“If I had not myself been a wit
ness—” I began.
“Yes; you have the conceit of your
own wisdom, I dare say.”
“But that challenge to follow you,
to break my pledge; my running away,
only to find that Pickering was close
at my heels; your visit to the tunnel
In search of those notes—don’t you
know that those things were a blow
that hurt? You had been the spirit
of this woodland to me. Through all
these months, from the hour I watch
ed you paddle off into the suhset in
your canoe, the thought of you made
the days brighter—steadied and cheer
ed me. and awakened ambitions that I
had forgotten--abandoned—long ago.
And this hideous struggle here—it
seems so idle, so worse than useless
now! But I'm glad I followed you—
; I’m glad neither fortune nor'duty kept
me hack. And now 1 want you to
I know that Pickering shall not suffer
for anything that has happened. I
, shall not punish him; for your sake
i he shall go free ”
A sigh Su deep that it was like a sob
broke front her. She thrust forth her
hand entreattngly.
"Why don’t you go to him with your
1 generosity? You are so ready to be
lieve ill of rnc! And 'l shall not de
fend myself; but 1 will say these
things to you. Mr. Glenarm: I had no
Idea, no thought of seeing him at the
i Armstrong's. It was a surprise to me
—and to them—when ho telegraphed
he was coming And when I went in
to the tunnel there under, the wall
that night, I had a purpose—a pur
i pose—”
"Yes?" She paused and I bent for
ward, earnestly waiting for her words,
knowing that here lay her groat of
; fending.
"I was afraid- 1 was a»frald that
Mr Glenarm might not come In time;
that you might be dispossessed —lose
the fight, and I came back with Mr.
Pickering because—thpt was the
easiest and quickest way—and I
thought some dreadful tiling might
happen here—to you—”
She turned and ran from me with
(fie speed ofW^ndV
feting out darkly about her. At the
door, under the light of the lamp, 1
was close upon her. Her hand was on
the vestibule latch.
"But how should I have known-7” T
cried, "when you had taunted me with
my Imprisonment at Glenarm: you
had dared me to follow you. If you
can tell me—If there Is an answer to
that—77
“I shall never tell you anything—
more! You were so eager to tflink 111
of me—to accuse me!"
"It was because I love you; It was
my jealousy of that man, my boyhood
•nemy, that, made me catch at any
doubt!. Yon are so beautiful you
are so much a part of the peace, the
charm of all this' I had hoped for
spring—for you and the sprlr:'; to
gether!”
"Oh, please—!”
Her flight had* shaken the toque to
an unwonted angle; her breath came
quick and hard as she tugged at the
latch eagerly. The light, from over
head was full upon us. hut I could
pet ::o with hope and belief struggling
unsatisfied In my heart. I seized her
hands and sought to look Into her
ayes
"Hut you challenged me—to follow
you! 1 want to know why you did
'hat!”
She drew away, struggling to free
herself.
“Why was it, Marian?”
"Because I wanted—”
•'Yes'.’
“I wanted you to come. Squire Olen
arm!”
My history of the affair at Glenarm
has overrun the bounds I had set for
it, and these, I submit, are not days
for the desk and pen. Marian is
turning over the sheets of manuscript
that, lie at my left elbow and demand
ing that I quit work for a walk abroad.
My grandfather is pacing the terrace
outside, planning, no doubt, those
changes, in the grounds that are his
constant delight.
Of some of the persons concerned in
this winter's tale let me say a word
more. The prisoner whom Larry left
behind we discharged after several
days with all- the honors of war, and
(I may add without breach of confi
dence) a comfortable indemnity. Lar
ry has made a reputation by his book
on Russia—a searching study into the
conditions of the Czar's empire, and,
having squeezed that lemon, he is now
in Tibet. His father has secured from
the Rritish government a promise of
immunity for Larry, so long as that
amiable adventurer keeps away from
Ireland. My friend’s latest letters to
me contain, I note, no reference to
The Sod.
Rates is In California conducting a
fruit ranch, and when he visited us
last Christmas he bore all the marks
of a gentleman whom the world uses
well. Stoddard’s life has known many
remarkable changes in the three years
that have passed, but they must wait
for another day. and, perhaps, another
historian. Suffice it to say that it
was he who married us—Marian ind
me—in the little chapel by the wall,
and that when he comes now and then
to visit us, we renew our impression
of him as a man large of body and of
soul. Sister Theresa continues at the
head of St. Agatha’s, and she and the
other Sisters of her brown-clad com
pany are delightful neighbors. Bick
ering's failure and subsequent disap
pearance were described sufficiently
in the newspapers, and his name is
never mentioned at Glenarm.
As for myself—Marian is tapping
the floor restlessly with her boot and
I must hasten—I may say that. I am
no idler. It was ^ who carried on the
work of finishing f Glenarm House,
and I manage the farms which my
grandfather has lately acquired in tills
neighborhood. But better still, from
my own point, of view, I maintain in
Chicago an office as oonsulting engi
neer, and I have already had several
Important commissions.
Glenarm House is now what my
grandfather had wished to make it, a
beautiful and dignified mansion. He
.insisted on filling up the tunnel, so
that the Door of Bewilderment is no
more. The passage in the wall and
the strong box in the paneling of the
chimney-breast remain, though the lat
ter we use now as a hiding place for
certain prized bottles of rare whisky
which John Marshall Glenarm ordains
shall be taken down only on Christ
mas Eves, to drink the health of
Olivia Gladys Armstrong. That young
woman, 1 may add, is now a belle In
her own city, and of the scores of
youngsters all the way from Pittsburg
to Ne# Orleans who lay siege to her
heart, my word 's, may the be3t man
win!
Marian—the most patient of women
—is walking toward the door, eager
for the sunshine, the free airs of
spring, the bine vistas lakeward, and
at last 1 am ready to go.
The End.
THE MARTINSBURG BUSINESS
COLLEGE
Announces that in addition to the
courses now offered, commenci ig
April 29th, 1907, and continuing for
12 weeks, it will offer to teachers and
to those who contemplate taking the
state examination, a normal course.
Tuition for the course $15,00.
Boarding place® will be secured for
out-of-town teachers. The regular fae
tilty will be assisted by other teachers,
for further information address,
K. M. CHAPMAN, PRINCIPAL,
J-29-0t Martlnsburg, W. Va.
Now is the time to advertise.
OTTO STELZNER WRITES
1 f OF AMERICAN PEOPLE
Otto Helmuth Stelzner writes inter
estingly for,The World his impressions
j of the characteristics of the German
| and Ame.ican people, Mr. Stelzner is
a student who is acquiring a mastery
of the English language by hard and
pattent ’fork. Aside from the theme
ifsel the paper is of interest because
[ it shows the difficulty a foreigner has
in translating his own tongue into
English because of the necessity of
distinguishing between many words
which ’ apparently mean the same
thing, hut are really different. Mr.
Stelzner writes as follows:
Without, doubt there ia^i great dif
ference between characters of differ
ent nations, which Jias the source par
ticularly in diversity of education* A
principal part besides education takes
usage and custom, which both together
are again basis to the education.
If Is left undisputed that every hu
man character Is in itself different.
When the theme is brought up of di
versity in the characters of nations, it
is understood that I am going to try
to compare these both nations in
their differences and peculiarities of
types, all in all—and I add, in the gol
den medium. .
The equality of the American peo
ple Is called in Germany and other
culture states a healthy curiosity. A
man who had a small position in his
native country welcomes it, but he
who had been respected in the old
country does/ not like such “familiari
ties,” he wants respect again. (Every
healthy thinking person is -rery fond of
this organization).
Ilul, as everything has more than
one characteristic quality the effect of
the equality influences the human '■
character ideally but unhealthy, too.
However, equality Is a body in the
United States. Only to the doors of
the society extends the equal; it also
expresses particularly when business
brings people of different classes,
heights in profession and manner to-!
gether. But, as it. is known, this loyal
custom does not exist neither in Ger-'
many nor in another culture state. All
these countries are succeeded more or
less from the spirit of caste.
Money, the principal factor of get
ting social communication in America
compares particularly to the highest of1
profession and manner in Germany.
Without regard to the language, many
characteristic qualities of a German
wfTrt just canto over to Uncle Sam's
country will strike the American as
strange.
The German is< still under the con
trol of the customs of his town coun
try. Thirst for honor and mark of es
teem, two things which And the source
into the spirit of caste) he snows and
uses often.
Now he starts to work and that
which see m3 to an American unintelli
gible is that fact:
He often takes up a work which is
subordinated to his capacity. But,
however, it is to take into account
that he is not able to receive just now
a better paid position (because he is
not a master of the English language,1
it can be asserted that he would not
accept a momentary better position, if
somebody won’t offer him more than
momentary advantages from a pecun
iary point of view. /
His thoughts look forv^rd to the fu
ture. But, such an action arises from
a certain force in things of moral, en
ergy and character. How could he ap
propriate them. In the period of
youth the German learns in hfs native
country the notion of compulsion.
Vie has to go to school, he has to re
spect teacher and the elder one; he
has to suffer an apprenticeship for
yc%rs, in order to learn a certain pro
fession. He gets a very little amount
of money from his parents and as
long as he learns (3 to 5 y^ars) a pro
fession he does not earn more than he
needs to pay his tobacco. Then he
has to serve in the army and here he
learns obedience in a very high de
gree.
He steps now into the life and soon
it is clear for him how difficult it is
to force the way through the tight of
people crowded native country. In all
this strive and struggle and necessity,
He learns the idea of all these mention
ed factors.
He has neither title nor reference,
neither money nor a better school ed
ucation and with the certainty in the
impossibility of struggling till a bet
ter paid and him contenting position—
he sees his future.
It's not hard for him to see the point
in America that the field of action has
no limits and is open for an endeavor
ing man with his heart in the right
place.
The obedience under which he has
been ail his poor (in a certain opin
ion) life, puts him in the possibility to
keep on it in the following time, too.
And thp American? j
Just he has past his youth, the life
begins for him without any transition
period. In this time he learns a very
small part of respect and obedience.
I because master and scholar are stand
ing under the influence of equality of
the nation.
He takes up a work with which he
is able to earn a good money, regard
ing the want of working hands.
But, because aim and duty of hu
man existence are only bright in him
from the religious point of view (than
he is too young %o have appropriated
the earthly ideas of human life) he j
forgets to learn them all. The money ;
which he earns gives him a certain
selfrespect; he wants that he i? left, j
for himself and teacher and parents
accommodate themselves to this usage
and custom. He does not learn a fight
for the daily bread, has no external;
trouble—these both .great teachers and
moralists of the youthful character.
. Without doubt the path of life to the
aim, which is worth to strive for. losesj
itself; it has never showed itself in a!
distinctly way.
The external necessity (an almost;
unknown factor in the American life)
has always been a very rough but
beneficent teacher. Where it is ruling
it will be worked the most, industrious,;
there will be learned more and more!
done. The hard examinations of life
will be a way of purification the hu
man character and will educate him to
the self-help. It prostrates the spirit,
and body when the mission in life un- j
roll mechanical. Ai\d is it not true!
that courage to energy and strive will
be mortified without knowledge of in- J
telleetual power of these missions?
The human person receives two edu
cations. The first one is taught to
him from other persons and experi- j
ences of life; the second one and the|
more important ohe does he give him-'
self.
In the difference of the first edu
cation of these two nations—America
and German"—the characteristic dis- *
tinction has its source.
-. .
TALK OF CURTAILMENT
BECAUSE OF THE NEW TWO-CENT
FARE BILL.
B. & O. Will Do Nothing If the T -af
fic Continues to Hold Up to
Present Standard.
There' is still considerable specula
tion as to whether the Baltimore &
Ohio will cut down its passenger ser
vice through West Virginia on account
of the new two-cent fare law going
into effect the latter part of next
month, and there is a great deal of
publicity being given the matter,
throughout the state. An official of j
the passenger department of the road j
in speaking of the matter made the
statement that there was little likeli
hood ofj the company curtailing their
passenger service until after the new
law went into effect and then not
until after there had been a thorough
trial and it was shown that the service I
was not paying.
When the new law went into effect >
in Ohio there was the same talk about
the passenger service being curtailed,
but nothing ever came of it. In fact.)
on the other hand the railroads were
not only compelled to put on addi
tional cars on some of the local trains,
but in a number of Instances it was
absolutely necesary to put on addi
tional trains. It is clear to one with
common sense that the railroads are
not going to cut down their passenger
service until they find that the new
law In West Virginia has done them l
some harm and that the trains which
they are running are not bringing in
a sufficient amount of revenue to make
them show up a balance on the right
side of the ledger, and with the excep
tion of a few places in the state where
the population is very sparse, it is not
likely t^hat. there will be any decrease
in traffic, hut on the other hand that
it will increase to a considerable ex
tent.
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HOLDS UP B. & O. PLANS.
Brunswick Orders It Not To Lay
Tracks Across Three Streets.
The mayor and council of Bruns- j
wick have restrained the Baltimore & j
Ohio Railroad company from laying
tracks across three streets of the j
town, which the company desires to
do to connect its freight yards.
The council, supported by citizens of
the town, claimed that the route of
the railroad encroaches too much upon
the public drivewSy to the bridge over
the Potomac river, and asked the com.
panv to open up another approach to
the liri'’ge. The company refused,
hence the restraint.
Horse Deals.
Grove & Henshaw have sold to Mr
Kown and Deneen. at Berkeley
Springs, two horses. They will be
sent to Paw Paw. Roy Grove has pur
chased six horses In Winchester. They
will be brought here tomorrow.
NEW USE FOR COAL ASHES
Scientists Says Formula of Elmore
is No Good.
LOCAL MAN TRIES EXPERIMENT
Dr. Minghini Applies Compound In
vented by Altoona Druggists to
Ashes—Valuable Discovery.
Since the discovery by John Ell
more, of Altoona, Fa., that coal ashes
can be utilized as fuel if treated
chemically, lav- tiive minds have
been turning their thoughts into that'
channel to discover the secret. The
report comes from Altoona that some
druggists; in that city have discovered
the secret. They have given it to the
world as containing the following in
gredients:
Common salt, one pound.
Oxalic acid, two ounces.
Water, one gallon. h
It is said that coal ashes treated
with this compound will produce heat
and light. New York chemists have
experimented with the ingredients and
have decided that there is nothing in
it.
It would seem that their conclusions
are incorrect, for Dr. Minghini, of
this city, who is interested in anything
that promises to reduce the expense
of running an automobile, has used
the compound as suggested and be
lieves there is some value in it.
In his first experiment he placed
some of the compound over the end of
a clay pipe and immersed the whole
in water with the stem projecting. He
found that the water failed to produce
gas as it would have done had the
bowl of the pipe contained carbon.
He then lit the material itself and
found that it would burn. It did more.
It threw out a gas very similar in
odor to acetylene gas. He found that
the gas would burn. He considers the
discovery’ of value and says that if
the gas can he confined in some way
that it will do away with acetylene
gas as a means for furnishing light
for automobile lamps since it will be
much less expensive. He proposes to
conduct experiments to ascertain some
way in which to confine the gas.
CHANGE IN B. & O. PLANS
Will Not Use the New Station Until
Next October.
For the second time,the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad has changed its plan
to occupy the new union station. Last
summer it was announced that the
company would begin using the sta
tion in October, but this was not done,
and about a month ago it was stated
officially that the Baltimore & Ohio
trains would enter and 1 ave the new
station on May 1. Commissioner Mac
farland has received a letter from
President Oscar Murray in which he
says: i
"On further consideration, in view
of the inconvience to patrons of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, it is con
cluded undesirable for this company
to undertake the contemplated tem
porary occupation of the terminal sta
tion, and the present intention is to
delay until it is sufficiently complet
ed to permit the entrance of all the
companies. The expectation now is
that this can be accomplished by Octo
ber next.”
While the station itself will undoubt
edly be practically ready for use by
all the railroads next October the *
street car facilities to the depot will
still be very crude. Congress, at Its
last session refused to enact any leg
islation authorizing the street railway
companies to extend their lines to the
depot, and if the necessary authority
is given as soon as congress meets
next December it will be probably
some time In the spring before the
car lines can be extended
FINISH JOB TODAY.
Water Famine on John Street Will
Cease Today.
The residents of John btreet are still
carrying water in pails from nearby
streets. The placing of the new pipes
has not been completed. It is thought
that the work will be finished by 6
o’clock. One thing which has retard
ed the work in addition to the inclem
ent weather has been the readjustment
Burglars Get $5,000.
Peoria, 111., April 19.—A band of rob- *
bers entered the Weston banking es
tablishment at Weston. They blew
open the safe and secured $r>,000. The
sheriff and a large posse followed the
bandits and when the robbers were
cornered they bpened fire on the posse
and won out in the battle, making
good their escape.
Self Evident Fact.
Editor (severely)—Do you want me
to believe this joke of yours !s orig
inal?
•Tokesmith (nonchalantly)—Certain
ly: it must have been at some time or
other.