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Show vent tn New York was signalized by a mark.-- t movement not yet forgotten. Mr. Biako's guests were General Marshall Carden, Miss Jessie Cardeu and Miss Kill ih ' Hancock, of Cohasset. 1 Massachusetts. Miss Carden returned i a week ego from a two. years sojourn abroad, where her musical and artistic talents attracted nearly as much attention as her rare beauty." "My God! this is awful awful awful!" groaned Blake. "Get out of here!" he shouted to his man. What the devil do you mean, standing there kv A gaping at me? Bring me a glass of brandy, and be quick about It!" He hurled the paper from him and An Early Lesson, Th Magle Lamp. Being under water, choking will enMr dad ha says. ha says to ma sank hack into a chair. sue. and the rescuer will gain com- , The magic lamp trick require that I ve got to realise The door bell rang, and at the That work must never disagree you shut out all the light from a room plete control. "JV ttks that want a prise sound every nerve tingled with terone ray. You can do this by Should the rescuer be clutched except In this here life. But goodness land ror. Was it John Burt? James It strikes me as a rule round the body and arms, or round the closing all the shutters except one, Blake was not a coward as he had inert) ain't enough o circus and body only a rather Improbable posi- and covering that window with severThere's too blame much o' school. proved a score of times when his tion, but one which may occur he al newspapers or with wrapping paper mettle was put to the test but from It'sTo mighty try In' In the spring should lean well over the drowning In which a hole has been cut to admit have settle down, the moment he went down to defeat Im thinkln' to'bout the sawdust ring person, take a breath, and either the ray. An' wlshln' fur the clown. beneath sturdy blows he had respectWith a mirror reflect this ray down withdraw both arms in an upward diI long to hear the big brass hand ed his boyhood conqueror. An see the tricky mule, rection In front of his body, or act In Into a glass in which you have mixed The valet opened the door and There aint enough o' circus and accordance with the instructions for pure water and a few teaspoonfuls There's too blame much o' school. Blake heard the piping voice of a telreleasing oneself if held round the of milk. The milk will shine with so dad. he aavs I might as well brilliant a white light that It will illuneck. egraph messenger. He drew a long But Cit used to reelin' so. breath and tore open the envelope. He says, the In either case the rescuer should place minate the whole room. honest truth to tell He ,1 like to go The message was from John HawSome pretty experiments may be the one hand on the drowning man's A iLshln',sharely or with gun lit hand, Oi hintin' where Its cool. kins, and stated that he would arshoulder and the palm of the other made with mirrors. Stand between rive in New York on the following He says twotfld be a circus, and two same face at the each his that other hand chin, directly, and against I'lalu duty's wuss than school. morning. time bringing the knee up against you will see a long line of Images of An so Ill strive an stand the stress The little clock spasmodically the lower part of his chest, and then, yourself, so many that you can hardly An cheerful seek to be, jingled the hour of noon. In four What's good enough tor dad, I guess. by means of a strong and sudden push, count them, and they will vanish in Is good enough fur me. short hours he would face John Burt! If you hold a lighted But when I think how things are planned stretch the arms and leg straight out. the distance. lie drank tiie brandy at a gulp, and It does seem downright crook and throw the whole weight of the candle in your hand you will be able and to count more of them. plunged into a cool bath. He glared There ain't enough o' circus school. body backward. There's too blame much o' at the tempting breakfast, but could This action will break the clutch and Blare (wo small mirrors with their Washington Star. not taste it. leave the rescuer free. edges together 0 that they will open Some Clever Trick. "Take that stuff away and bring me Many a gallant person has lost bis and close like a book, having the reThe funnel trick Is very clever and life through lack of knowledge of more brandy, he ordered. flecting surface facing each other. Again he read the dreaded para- you can easily perform it if you will these simple and effective methods of Put between them a lighted candle, or graph. It had a fascination he could have two thin funnels soldered to- releasing oneself from the drowning; other bright object, and the linages not resist, lie sent for all the Sungether one Inside the other so that yet with a little study and frequent will increase in number a you shut scanned they appear as one funnel on top. Be- practlre In the water even a moderate the mirrors together, and less as you day journals and eagerly them for mention of the theater par- fore you are to pertorm the trick swimmer can go out fearlessly to aid open them. ty, but to his great relief found that pour some water luto the bottom end others. Cut a design out of thick paper, and it appeared only in the one paper. between the two funnels and let it reTrick. Card to the main in that upside down position unAgain he helped himself Below Is shown how to tell the coltil you are ready. brandy. on the face of cards from looking or Now bring a glass of fresh water "Come to think of it, John don't backs. This is one of the simat the read that cursed he ex paper! of tricks, but if neatly done will plest claimed halt aloud. "Its only an ac appear very marvelous to the uninoident that I happened to see it. If I itiated. Take from the pack about hadn't been there last night 1 never twenty cards, Including reds and would have glanced below the headthat Is, hearts, diamonds, blacks, line. What chance is there for John spades and clubs; privately separate to see it? Not one in a million!" the blacks and reds Into two parcels. He paced up and down the room, cards slightly Bend the black-faceand paused to survey his reflection in convex, so that if put on the table a mirror. His face was drawn, and faces down the ends will appear a dark circles showed under his eyes. little turned up. Similarly bend the The decanter was his only friend. ' iia cards slightly concave, so . I.'.'. The grave face of the valet did not of middle laid the If faces that down, disclose the astonishment he felt the cards will be raised somewhat over the conduct of his employer. front the level of the table. When Blake was almost abstemious in his you have done this, throw the cards habits, and his sideboard was more carelessly on the table, faces down; In of an ornament than a utility. The Magic Lamp Alight ask one of the company to shuffle this he had wisely patterned himself them in any way, and then, by ob- paste it on a small mirror. Hold the af'er John Burt. serving whether a card is concave or mirror In tiie sunlight so that the re"Shall I serve breakfast now, sir?" convex that is bent up or down at flection will bo thrown on a shaded asked Roberts. the ends you can name its color to wall, and the design will appear on the Blake answered with a sullen negabe black or red. wall very dark, with a light backoff his fourth brandy. tive and tossed It sounded a new note in the scale of ground. 8parrow Fed Canary. stimulation. Ere those that Porous substance to the loudness of Its song, Owing "I dont see why I should go into of full are holps. Nearly everytiny to in the a lady used hang up canary the Three Tricks. such a beastly funk over this affair! in the trees in her garden. thing is porous, though the hole canits cage he muttered. "It's no crime to be in and putting your finger over the tube She noticed one day a sparrow fly to not be seen with the unaided eye. turn the funnel over and pour the love with a woman. She doesn't beand standing on the top of You may make an experiment to show the cage, water from the glass into it. Instantwalong to him. Theyre not even enit, began twittering to tiie canary. By this by filling a glass with boiling gaged. Suppose he does love her? ly drink off this fresh water, turn the and by it flew away, but promptly ter, and placing over It a piece of So do I. What if he did meet her funnel upside down to show your audwith a worm, which It pasteboard. On top of the pasteboard returned first? A woman is not something to ience that it is empty, rapidly turn the dropped through the wires for Its new- invert a dry glass, and the vapor from like a funnel upright, letting the water bewater will pass through be discovered and ly found friend. It continued to be the boiling tween run out into a dish. gold mine. tints civil day by day until the canary the pores of the pasteboard and show As the hours sped by and the dark Every one will be amazed at this would receive the worm directly from Itself as moisture on the Inside of the trick, but you must refuse to repeat the red line in the decanter dropped lowsparrowa bill. The lady's neigh- glass. er and lower, Blakes courage aroused it and must put the funnel away be- bors observing this interesting display Make the same experiments with to such a pilch that he welcomed the fore it can be examined. various substances, such as cloth, also their the of up cages, hung courtesy, Another good trick is to make n coming of John Burt. were gratified to see the spar- wool, rubber, wood, glass, or paper, and of of a a Get pot. piece "By God, well settle this matter stick leap out row attend to their birds too, but it and you will find that some are porous now and here!" he exclaimed as he stiff whalebone, about three Inches always made a point of ministering to (nought to let tips water vapor pass lurched unsteadily alwuit the room. long, and a stiff card. Fold the card the wants of Its earliest churn first. through, while others are not. "John Burt nor any other man shall down the middle and make a slit in stand between me and Jessie Car- both folds half an inch from each end. den! Ill meet him face to face! Slip ar end of the whalebone Into each of these slits so that the bon? will be I'll The hall bell rang with that clear lent upward like a bow. Have a pot in which stands a cup precision which comes from the and on It fasten the car. pressure of an insistent hand. At the upside down, No one must come near your table to same Instant the little clock hamBetter than any printed instruction, windows and doors. see this. Pour water Into the pot tu. mered th hour of four. The roof Is constructed In the same Illustration accompanying this arthe whalebone it is full, leaving the tit (To be continued.) of a manner, the branches, of course, being work how shows the frame ticle about two Inches under th water. and ready house in the woods longer and running from the front to Then take a lightweight stick, or a rough Record Locomotive Building. can be constructed by a few bandy the back, the large end of the branch The Stratford works of the Great piece of very stiff eardbonrd, and boys. being at the front and the tip at the an end the In highest the have against pressing England, Eastern Railway, S feet 6 inches back. It will be well to lay another front should The be In whalebone the water, record of a locomotive engine built In point of the 6 feet. The house should row of branches across In the opioslte back the and ten hours a large freighter with a iet go, and the stick will fly out of the be 10x12 feet. To make the cross direction, to assure a waterproof roof. tender. Before the actual construc- pot. should be tied with By selecting four branches an Inch A third trick is to construct a bridge pieces secure, they tion was begun the various parts were or so In diameter, with a crotch top, of bark. strips with no knives toof three except support laid close at hand, ready for fitting Tho sides and roof are made from the supports of a good ramp bed are three tumblers under tho hant gether. The workmen began early in thr rf branches of the pine or other at hand. Bury the end of the croiched small turn-tier- s the morning and continued until the dies of the knives. Arrange the close-leafetree, as shown. When tho branch In the ground at least six form a and of in the triangle, breakfast beii rnjg. Then the partly-bis completed to satisfacinches, and in the crotches lay long, work frame uilt engine was photographed. place the three1 knives so that the tion, tho sides are put in place. straight branches, free from protuber2 No. No. on and rests of blade After a half hour's rest the workmen ances. branch end the the large o( Taking 2 No. on No. 3, and the returned to the task and continued the blade of These make the side of the bed In one hand, with the other weave the 3 No. on hanthe No. with 1, of blade till the dinner hour, when another aron one This goblet. Thus the dle of each photograph was taken. led till the engine was rangement will complete your bridge. work completed, with the exception of a To Save Drowning Person. eoat of paint. Tills was quickly laid "Now that the bathing for boy It on by a spraying machine, and in less Is the swimming season, is near at than half an hour was perfectly dry. a few practical suggestion Tiie locomotive was then sent on a hand, tiie rescuing of drowning pertrial Journey a few miles up the line about sons help to save lives. may and all provtd satisfactory, so it was If the rescuer be hold by the wrists, It has train. a with baggage sent he must turn both of hi arms simullieeii in in tlvo service ever since. taneously against the drowning perA Prophet Without Honor. son's thumbs and bring hla arms at The late Hugh Stowell Scott, fa- right angles to the body, thus dislomous as Henry Seton Merrlman, au- cating the thumbs of the drowning thor of "Tiie Sowers," "The Vultures" person if he does not let go. You can try this on land or In the and other novels, was a nmn of extraand and you will find It Impossible reserve water, ordinary told him: of Is for any one to hold you; but take care The following' story His father, who was a director of to learn It properly before you start Th House, th Bed and th Thatching. the Imdon Graphic, had an unac- challenging. If the rescuer be clutched round the countable objection to his sons folIn and out between the frame. Across these at each end lay lowing a literary career, and tried to neck, he should take a deep breath small end cross well over the Hi him. nmn of perdrowning and lean business piece. It will he well to place end pieces and at Interval from the make a left the first layer, beginning at the third head to the floor lay others, tying son wrote in secret under a pseudo- son; at the same time place the , sucrow of cross pieces from the Isittom, them In place with piece of bark. hand in the small part of nym. and. although his work was If camping in a pine wood, gather In arm with line the and finishing one side in this way behis literary raise the right cessful. lie never betrayed lot of small branches and pile them side higher. tiie over his It fore and covering father. to shoulder his pass arm, Identity Tho second layer should lie accom- upon the frame work to tho depth of On one occasion his tatlier placed then pinch the nostril close with th fingers, and at the name time place panied at the fourth cross piece, pass- 12 Incite or more. Over this lay your before hint one of the young author' rubber blanket or a piece of canvas, own stories, saying. "Now, If you could th palm of the hand on the chin and ing the end Inside the third and outand then cover the whole with your ansecond of with force. would be the all side bar, overlapping possible push away write a book like this, it woolen blankets. .Tills tnnke sn exso on and the will until nose the first make of the layer The holding altogether." other thing mata wi'h bed, that induce thick rovered cellent, mouth man are his for healthy wall silence. son the drowning open And still the kept ting. Open places must be left for peaceful slumber. breathing. m XXIV Continued. the conservatory. Into strolled .They the first time he was alone with Jessie Carden, and a sense of exalted over him. happiness surged Blake had formulated no plan of of Jessie eampalsn for the conquest The light of her eyes and Carden. of her beauty were to the radiance and drew him on. him as ignes fatul, and of He talked of California Rocky Woods, but his eyes spoke his deep rich voice was jove and tender. Fair woman 3 seldom blind to the spell cast by her charms, and Jessie was aware It is probable that 0f BlakVs admiration; but she neithnor took advantage er recognized CHAPTER of it. 2 iVgerr 'u did. Miss Car- MrrlS t0 BUch lmnlssioi). e? Mr- - You have," laughed eura Carden s face Jessie, was a nnttMuIT ,e S Was study, ,)0 dumfounded lake's words bad th" n,sht he v2n' magnate from f to remind- - fir8t met California. He nau only one card to play. !'LnCf 0Ilt Vmir "Kcr," he said. When I was a In boy I lived Rocky Woods," began Blake. "Miss an en probably has told you that she spent the summers with Mr. and rs' i'shf)P. who still have a country Place near there. Miss Cardn was then a little girl, but I remember her 1 he knew that the odds distinctly. That's all. If demand overwhelmingly against him, evidence, I have not you the slightest that one false step meant Irret- doubt that Miss Carden or the genrievable defeat, he shut his eyes to eral will furnish it. the perils which encompassed him. To Jessie's amusement and GenerHe knew the risk he ran In appearial Carden's relief Morris declared ng, in public with Jessie Carden, but that he did not doubt Blake's word. he did not hesitate to secure a box The fires of jealousy burned fiercely for the Booth performance. In him, but he concealed his rage. There were four In the theater "I admit myself done, old chap, he Edith, Blake partythe general andBlake "We shall have a Jolty declared. escorted and Jessie Carden. dinner honor of my defeat. in Say of box front the to the and Jessie at Sherry's? Will that be by her side. The Tuesday, took his place Good! convenient, Miss Carden? boxes were thronged with fair womcurtain." There the goes en, but all eyes were turned on JesMorris smiled gaily and excused sie Carden and her handsome escort, and Blake and Jessie rehimself, ighe had been absent from New York their sumed places. for two years, and only a few recogYou have a wonderful memory, James Blake was even nized her. said Jessie, behind her less known, though his name had Mr. Blake, "I could not help thinking, been made familiar by the name of fan. while you were enlightening Mr. MorWall street achievements with which ris, that perhaps you had unconhe was publicly identified. The first act was nearly over when sciously confused your Rocky Mounyoung man, with a soft, tain career with that of your a thick-se- t friend, John Hurt." florid face, sauntered Into the box The smile on Blakes lips died and directly across the orchestra from Both recognized the color mounted to his temples. Blake and Jessie. "Perhaps perhaps I did," he said, the newcomer as Arthur Morris, and both felt a secret joy that he was after an awkward pause. A thousand Like a flash the thought thoughts and fears came to him. He present. came to Blake that, by means of his dared not lift his eyes for fear of Though efte READ OHG J lla've1 iMl8S Cardon before mT (a sfeTF were nd boy-hwo- d ' red-face- d w m. P 1 Fr yiy'S 77777Y m.r J7ZKXJJD 77m CQ'JZSZPK-lTn- rival, he could enhant.3 the chances of a speedy success with the woman by his side. Do yon notice the gentleman sithe ting alone in the box opposite? taked as the curtain fell. "Yes," answered Jessie, raising her eyes and looking at Blake with a puzzled smile. "Why do you ask?" "That's Arthur Morris, the banker. Would you like to meet him?" "I shall be delighted! exclaimed Jessie, who could not resist the temptation. At that Instant Morris directed his for the first time at the opera-glas- Biake box. The smile of Joy when be recognized Jessie turned to one of blank amazement when he saw Jam-- s Blake. In response to Blake's signal the dazed Morris was picking bis way through the crush. Blake, led Jessie to the rear of the box. "Miss Carden, permit me to present tuy friend, Mr. Arthur Morris. Jessie smiled and offered her band. 'Tin glad to meet any Irlend of Mr Blake's," she said. By Jove, old man, this is a Joke on you, or me or both of us! stain-niereMorris. "Charmed to meet Jou again, Miss Carden! llow are you. General Carden? This is a k sid one on you, Blake! I've been Miss Carden for acquainted with years-fi- ve years, is it not, Miss Cardan?" Jessie's laughing eyes admitted the truth and Blake looked properly confused, "I shall have said to Jessie, an unfair erner." ' You to forgive you, Blake "but you are taking advantage of a wild West- have the reputation of being said Morris, laying his hand familiarly on Blake'a shoulder, "but I didn't know that your good fortune extended to an acquaintance with Miss Carden." There was a shade of insolence In bU tone, and an air which did not cape any of hi three listener. It hinted that he wa General Carden' employer; that the latter wa under obligation to him, and that Jessie 'as pledged to pay the debt. But Btnke was a good actor in the little comedy between the acts. He held the key to the solution. Of all the figures in this complicated drama, he alone knew the motive which Influenced the other player. "I might say the same to you, my uoar Morris said Blnke with airy Confidence. "Were It In good form I oubi willinfcly wager a supper that lucky." t encouraging the gaze of the man he had wronged. The voices on the stage sounded far away. Jessies innocent words, "your boyhood friend, John Burt," had hurled nim for the moment from the heaven of bliss to the nadir of remorse. Opportunely for his confusion, Edith called Jessie's attention to some trifling matter, and in the interval he regained his composure. The play ended, and Arthur Morris again Joined the Blake party as they waited for the crowd to leave. He declined Blake'a invitation to supper, pleading a previous engagement. "I am chaperoning the governor," he laughed, pointing to his father, whose ponderous bulk blocked an adBlake, jacent aisle. "By the way, did vou follow my tip on L. & O.? Bought a little, did you? Thats right; keep on buying It. YouIt's going needn't up. as I said it would. be afraid of it." -- CHAPTER XXV. The Mantle of Chanty. It was late on Sunday morning when Blake awoke. For years he and John had dined at four o clock on Sundays, and they had continued the custom in New York.Bail Blake ever looked forward to what not been n pleasure, with an aversion fear. with tin mixd reHe rang a bell and his valet sponded. me at "Mr. Burton will dine with he n'll "I said. lie four o'clock, to iitiyont. Imme leaves I'm not at Bober s. Make no mistake about lids, bieakfast." I want a light over a Blake carelessly glanced he was a yawn With newspaper. about to lay the paper th noticed a headline dcscrlptiu of ho Booth performance . bwt evening. It was a longIn its read ng Blnke was so engrossed o the that he paid no attention announcement that his bath ctU-U- vabt's "ttthe 'abject astonishment of that ' his-back- " Among the box lu.M.-- t '.table B,ake. the famous wIum u mr and financier, . j Harper'. - |