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Show Hi THE RULE OF THREE. Biffis 'rhe Men Who Work on Skyscrapers H'lff ' Are a Generous Lot. BB' " These airy crows are a generous HB , crowd. They earn high pay. When R working full tlmo they mako $27 a HHk-"' week, and, like tbelr rough brothers BBHk V out on tho plains, they nro quick to KHyf" gtvo of their earnings. On Saturday HBKi , Afternoons when they llnu up nt tho BBSS ""''"i pay window, tho Slater of Charity HHk ' 1 , alwAva thero. and quarters nnd r dimes jingle merrily Into their llttlo till llOTKH llehlnd this generous giving Is a su poiBililous belief that amid risk like thne it la well to propltluto Fnte nil you can. For Fate Js a relentless old machine, and when onco Its wheels, "lwgln grinding, no power on earth can stop them. Tho "KulB of Tbtco" Is Ceiiturloe old. You may hear ot It out on the ocean. In the steel milts, in tho railroad camps, and down In tho mlnoa. And you find It up lido on the Jobs In the skies. 'nellevo it?' said an old foromnn. "You bet, thoy bellovo It." "Well," ho snld, "all I can say Is this: It may be n spell or It may be becauto of thq way ho whole crow Is oxpnctlng Jt, Hut anyhow, when two accidents come cJoso together, you can bp sure that tho third Isn't very far off." Kmost Poole, in Everybody's. |