The courier., 1896-08-15

be allowed TO yield. The English fian-
Gee must be brought TO the island In
company with a man whom she wishes
to marry. Then wheatley will be made
to seem to give her up with reluctance
and consent to be happy. 1t Is hard
lines to be one of Anthony Hopes he
roes. though there Is much glory in 1t
at the last IL his conduct comes up
to the mark he is dramatized, he has
a dozen suits of clothes in one even
ing and a dozen girls in different parts
of the house in love with each suit
and that equals IA hearts beating
wildly, twice the usual number OF
times for one man. But to secure all
this Hopes hero must have SUPER
natural sense of honor something that
nothing on the earth or in the waters,
or. that drops from above can tarnish.
Think of the training the most spotless
citizen of Lincoln must subject his
honor to before il would pass one OF
Anthony Hopes examinations 1t would
take months and months of Sc
we're pulling and swinging exercises be-
fore any honor i know Of would walk
alone. Even then it would be danger
Gus to take il out when the sun Is
shining. To be sure. an English lords
homer can be kept inviolate. He does
not have to earn living-a labor
which is accomplished best by those
who know how to manipulate the
truth. The peer of England has time
and money in which and by which to
cultivate fancy stock of integrity.
faith and charity. But We have no
leisure class hereabouts.
The prize story in the Chicago Rec
ord. called 1.-The Incendiary," has come
TO an end. About thirty thousand peo-
ple have written a solution and sent
If to the prize mystery story editor.
The company has employed thirty peo-
ple to read the solutions. Their labors
can be family imagined as well as the
threatening letters the editor will re-
ceive. after the prize has been awarded,
from surprized and indignant entries.
A solution has been handed in to
The Courier. which is published here
with in advance of the official solution
in order that those who have written
answers may compare it with the ofn-
ciaI one. which appears today and
which, of course, the writer has not
seen.
"The sun set fire to the black papers
in the waste-paper basket. The pro-
fessor's glasses were lying on the edge
Of the table and the late afternoon sun
shone through the glasses and focused
it's rays on the black paper in the
basket The professor was interested
in optics and his glasses were very
strong. The elderly gentleman VINO
who sat by Emily Barlow on the last
day of the trial was the optician who
made the glasses for Professor Arnold
and who afterwards testified In re-
gard to the unusual strength of the
glasses and the probability OF their
setting fire to paper IL the sun should
shine through them as II did on tnat
afternoon Bertha had raised the cur
tain and the basket was just in the
line of ray from the sun through the
glasses. This was Emily Barlow
theory of the origin of the fire and
the opticians testimony established it.
The testimony showed that Harry
Arnold and Robert Floyd left the house
at 3:25 p. m. the former by the area
door. the latter by the front door.
Robert was standing by the CRATE in
the study in which he had thrown
his article on anarchy after tearing IL
ND. He lit the paper with a match
and stood there till it burned up, put
ting the match in his pocket. so care
fuI was he in regard to fire and hav-
ing in mind the exhibition bomb whicf
he had made and put under the iron