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second time.
The girl swung her chair so that it
faced in towards the side of the car
a little more. placed two very pretty,
big-bowed feet up on the mopboard,
and shut her eyes. She hadn't know
she-was-so-s sleepy.
Morton soon discovered that she had
become practically invisible and
guessed the cause. He redoubled his
attention on his book, but concentrate
his mind as he would upon its pages,
the more vivid memory pictures Of the
morning made them dim. Mere prose
was out Of the question, and he closed
the book to dream Of gray eyes. Five
minutes later a porter passing through
the care picked up a book which had
fallen in the aisle and placed it gem
thy in Morton's lap without disturbing
him i'm the least.
In the meantime momentous things
had been happening across the aisle.
The train had already carried the own
er of the gray eyes some hundreds of
miles beyond the borders of dream
land and as frequently happens to one
travelling I'm that topsy-turvy realm,
she had decided that her avowed des-
tination was the last place to which
she wished to go. IL would be much
nicer to get off at Mattawamkeag and
'udlbe lutIe LOT iNd0Beieyt where bne
had had such good time i'm June,
when she had gone up for the spring
fly-fishing with her father. There were
few things she would need, but she
could get them at Mattawamkeag, on
which euphonious village her mind
dwelt lovingly.
A moment later the whistle sounded.
The train rolled into a palatial edifice,
duly labelled with the name Of her
alighting place In large, gilded letters.
A porter took her various belongings
out on the platform while she followed,
the dcs tugging at his leash at the
prospect Of fresh air and freedom. The
very nice-lOoking young man who had
been sitting across the aisle leaped
down from an express wagon standing
near, seized her baggage and instant
ly disappeared through door marked
Restaurant" She stopped to unleash
the dog and started on her errands.
As she came out on the street she saw
an iron staircase, similar TO those
which lead 10 the stations on the ele-
waited railroad. The shops were UNI
questionaby up there.
She had not definitely made up her
mind what she needed for her fishing
trip, but she knew she wanted a new
hat. She always did. The very nice
looking young man opened the door Of
a shop for her and disappeared again
as suddenly as before. A tall, young
woman In a riding habit approached
from the rear Of the store, smiling
pleasantly. Il suppose you wish to buy
a hat"
you are quite right" said the girl.
II always wish to buy a hat. but there
are times when / refrain from doing
So"
II am glad this is not one Of them"
said the head Of the hat department.
"rhe price Of the hat will be forty
three dollars. It Is not yet created
but / think II will be ready by the
time we have finished luncheon. The
luncheon department is this way"
The head Of the hat department
showed her customer into large
room, decorated in Oriental style. and
led the way 10 a dainuly appointed
table.
This Is delightful" said the girl.
drawing or her gloves. II had a very
early breakfast and ! am really quite
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ed to ring in his ears the name by
which his friends best knew him.
With one leap he was on his feet in
the aisle, ready to tackle whatever it
was that had brought fear to the two
gray eyes.
The colored porter. who had just
come through the rear door of the car,
was somewhat surprised to see the two
young people, whom he had left sleep
ing peacefully, suddenly jump to their
feet and stand staring at each other IN
the middle of the aisle. He happened
to observe that there were tears on the
girls cheeks, and that the young man,
who was blinking rather rapidly. was
standing with his two strong arms out
stretched towards her, which proved
to be rather fortunate, for just at that
moment the car gave an unexpected
swing and she might otherwise have
fallen.
They stood there for moment. and
then the girl dropped into her chair
again with a little laugh. The dog
raised himself up from the chair where
he had been sleeping, yawned, and
hoped down to the floor. where he
stretched himself with snorts of lazy
satisfaction.
The girl looked up at the man still
standing I'm the aisle, and he saw that
the gray eyes were laughing again.
Ills VOW ndd not Deen IN vain.
1T was Billy" she said. Il dreamed
that had lost him."
Mr.. William Schuyler Morton sat
down in the chair the dog had left.
mo, you have found him." said he.
Some weeks later the private Sec
rotary of the magnate on Frenchman's
Bay was walking along the shore path
with his hosts youngest daughter.
They stopped for a moment to look
out across the blue water at a fleet
OF white-sailed yachts that was beat
ing up into the harbor. The mingled
sounds Of scurrying feet and threat
ened asphyxiation caused them to turn
as a brindle terrier came bounding up
TO them.
where have you been, sir?' said
the girl. you must not sun away like
this I'll lose you again" The dog
waived the question and pursued a
chattering chfpmunk through a patch
OF ferns. Morton watched the dog a
moment and then turned to the girl
beside him. He took one of her hands
In his, and as 1t was rather small, he
decided that he needed the other to
go with II.
Il knew one Billy you will never
be able TO lose" he said, smiling down
at her
She turned her head away for an in
slant. 81 don't know what / should
do without him." she answered de-
murely. Then she raised the gray
eyes TO his and he saw something
there that made them seem more
beautiful than ever.
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or coat-tail vigorously, and gruffly
command him to "sit down" The un-
expected order may bring back his
fleeing reason: at the least, it will
give him and those about you a mo-
ment's respite from brute force that
may mean the ultimate salvation of all
of you
Don't follow the mob and rush to
and block up the exits. Let the wave
of panic sweep by you. Then, using
your reason, pick out the way that
it tells you permits of probable
escape. Let reason guide you
there; and if you find more diff
ficulty than you looked for, still keep
cool. Perhaps you have reached a
window on the upper part of a fire
escape, the lower part of which is
licked by flames. Don't jump. Com
of the firemen. 1t will keep you safe
until the firemen can reach you. which
will be in a minute or less.
AS you kept your nighbors quiet
until the time came for you to effect
escape, so you can lead them to a
place of safety, for once you have es-
tablished respect in them for you by
making them obey your first COM
mand, they are too human not to fol-
low like sheep where the stronger
mind leads. This is the only efIica-
cious method I know of to help others
out of a panic.
Panic on the Water.
A panic among a crowd on water
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always a possible thing in summer
with so many excursion boats plying
around the majority of our larger
cities-should be handled in much the
same fashion.
The tendency is for all the passen-
gers to rush to one side of the boat.
If such a thing occurs the rail will
speedily be under water. But you OF
the cool head should not permit this
listing of human cargo. Urge-nay
command-as many of your fellow pas
Sengers as you come in contact with
to make for the opposite rail- Point out
that there they will be dry at least and
farther away from the water which
they fear.
If no one will follow you, go there
alone. Stay there until the brutal
fight for possession of the lifeboats is
over. Stay there even when the over
loaded lifeboats leave the ships side,
to sink, perhaps. with too great weight
before they are out of your sight. You
will be safer by the rail.
Stick to the vessel as long as com
mon sense tells you is proper. Then,
if you have no life-preserver, remem-
Der that any frail object-a fragment
of board, q piece of the ships rail
an oar, a chair-will support you for
hours in the water. All you have to
dc is to grasp it lightly with your
hands, and you will float in ordinary
cases until help comes.
You can do more. If any one is de-
pendent on you in the emergency, you
can provide him with the means of
keeping afioat. Or, if you deem it bet
ter to keep your companion-perhaps
your wife or your daughter-with you,
then have her lightly place a hand on
your shoulder while you grasp the
float. Thus both of you will stand
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3 | LILY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
BY RICHARD D. WARE.
Copyright, 1904, by Richard D. Ware.

Six fifteen on a misty. moist morn
ing was certainly a beastly time to
take train, but the market had been
wobbly the last few days. and the
absent magnate at the villa on French
mans Bay had made it known that
it was the duty of Mr.. William Schuy-
Ter Morton, his private secretary, TO
get there just little quicker than
possible.
There were still few minutes be-
fore starting, and Morton stood on
the platform near his Pullman. smok-
ing a cigarette and watching a newly
arrived trainload of sleepy-eyed su-
burbanites plodding towards their
days work in the city.
For a time it seemed as if he We're
to be the only occupant of the car in
which he had already deposited his
bags and baggage, but two men with
rod cases appeared after awhile and
slowed themselves away in the smok-
ing room. while a portly. elderly
couple took their places in the front
of the car. Morton had paced up
towards the engine, and was on the
point of turning to go aboard the
train. when a succession of shrill
canine yelps resounded behind him.
He turned quickly to see a heavily
laden colored porter just completing
some impromptu cake-walk steps
down the platform. with a sturdy
brindle terrier tugging at his leash
and nipping at the mans heels. A
second glance and Morton was filled
with the conviction that the person
who held the other end of the leash
was the prettiest girl he had ever Neen
in his whole and somewhat observant
life. Her face was alight with smiles.
and her merriment over the situation
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himself in his chair. The dog curled
up on the seat facing the girl, with
eyes shut and his nose on his paws.
He had opened one eye as he heard
approaching footsteps, and watched
the newcomer intently. His observa-
tions were satisfactory, and he shut
it again with a deep-drawn snore, and
returned to his meditations.
1T was some time before Morton
ventured to look across the aisle and
discover the contrast to his own tum-
ultuous emotions which prevailed
there. He, too, had promptly buried
himself in his newspaper. Then he
began to feel that he was making
himself ridiculous hiding there ostrich
fashion. This argument was conclu-
sive. He lowered the paper and
emerged.
The girl across the aisle had taken
off her hat and was lying back in her
chair with her face turned partly from
him, watching the swiftly changing
scenes outside. Her hair, now free
from milliner's restraints, waved en-
trancingly all over her dainty head,
from the white forehead it Swallowed
to the back of the graceful neck Her
profile in repose seemed even more
beautiful than the laughing face on
the platform. He knew it was She.
Possibly the intensity of his
thoughts and gaze may have speeded
some distributing wave across the
aisle, for the girl changed her posi-
ton, and leaning forward. took up a
book from the chair on which the dog
was lying asleep. AS she touched him,
one brown eye opened. and then, see
ing the cause of the disturbance. wink
ed sleepily at her and closed again
with another resonant snore of content
ment.
At the sound, Morton. who had dis
creetly turned away at the first move
ment of her chair. instinctly looked
across the aisle again and blessed the
sleeper who let his eyes meet hers a
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hungry. hope you do not object
to my dog being in the ROOM"
The young woman looked up in
surprise. your dog?" she asked, Il
did not see that you had a dog"
The girls face paled and fright
eRed look came into her eyes as she
looked vainly about the room.
Il have lost HIM" she cried. He
was with me when l came to the
staircase and thought he followed
right behind me. He always does"
"Ah, now l understand" said the
head of the hat department. That Is
a patent staircase. When you came
up, the steps folded up behind you,
and the dog must have been left below.
chases you are entitled to return
check, which you will sive to the
man at the gate, who will let down the
stairs for you"
GIVE me my check then. please.
Oh, please hurry. It is almost train
time and 1 must find him. Poor old
dear. He has probably been waiting
for me down there all this time"
How she descended she never knew,
such was her anxiety of mind, but no
faithful companion was awaiting her.
The street seemed absolutely clear Of
pedestrians, so that there was no one
of whom she could make inquiries.
She ran around the corner of the rail-
road station. whistling as best she
could in her breathless state, but there
was no answering bark. She rushed
across the track and gazed down the
road on the other side of the station.
Two great tears appeared in the gray
eyes and rolled slowly down to the
corners of the quivering mouth, and
just then the whistle of the Air Line
train for Rangeley sounded.
He must come if she called him once
more. He must! She mastered her Sob
bling for the effort, and pathetic lit
tie voice called forth the lost ones
name.
Billy" she cried. "Billy!'
Mr.. William Schuyler Morton's US
ually clear and active mind had been
in somewhat perturbed condition
ever since the porter had picked UP his
book from the floor. The gray eyes
were still before him, but their ex-
preston seemed to have changed. A
frightened look had come into them.
A crisis was evidently approaching. for
the expression became more and more
appealing. when suddenly there SEEM
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Drive it home hard that the seat must
be kept by all means during the first
mad rush and until the crush has
swept past.
BY that time your wife. or son, or
daughter will have had to think out
coolly a means of escape, and will un-
doubtedly effect it, if you have also
insisted upon the pleasuregoer becom-
ing familiar with the location of the
different exits as soon as possible
after entering the building.
In case of a theater. or other public
meeting place. this can be very well
done by studying the diagrams of the
place. which are required to be ex-
hibited upon the programmes and in
the lobby. These diagrams mark the
fire escapes and the exits. Men, in this
matter, can equip themselves more
fully than women. For example, If
they are attending theater, before
the play begins they can walk around
back of the seats. locating by eye the
various ways of escape. OF course,
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such method is hard for women to
pursue. But a close study of the dia-
drains will be extremely effective, de-
pend on that.
When Panic STROKES.
This, then, is the first thing to do
to combat panic-to be prepared for
it. Then when it comes, keep cool.
If you can do that, more than likely
you can keep those around you cool.
Speak to them in quiet, even, COM
handing tone. Keep COOL" tell them.
Keep your seats. Stay out of the
crush. You'll get hurt. Keep your
seats, l say. Don't you see that Wen
get out all right if you'll just keep
your seat and keep cool. "
Your words will undoubtedly have
the desired effect on the majority of
those who hear them But if any one
shows a tendency toward panic, which
may be communicated to his neigh
bors, don't hesitate to pull his sleeve
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What to Do When
in Danger From Panic
Mans Greatest Enemy and Destroyer Boas Ordinary Into Great
asers and Turns Even Brave Men Into Anan Cowads
Chief of the Fire Department of New York City

Panic is mans greatest enemy and
5esfroyer. 1t bloats ordinary accidents
INTO great disasters. 1t is the ami
,,uator of common sense and the last
vestige of reason. In the twinkling of
an eve it turns men into brutes, MAX
ing them mad with unreasoning terror.
II evens transforms brave men into the
most arrant of towards.
Panic. according to dictionary def
milton, is "a sudden fright; especially
sudden fright without real cause, or
terror inspired by trihing cause or
Ynisapprehension of danger"
Fear causes it's victim to reason out
ways of escape from the impending
danger. IF 1 don't find way out of
mis-" says the man caught in burn
ing building, Il fear 1 will be burned
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By EDWARD CROKER.

which firemen, policemen and other
It is the most difficult thing with
civic regulators of order have to cope.
There is apparatus aplenty with
which to fight fire. But there is only
one thing to pit against panic. That
is a cool head, and it's efficaciousness
is limited. 1t can at best save only it's
owner and those in the immediate
vicinity. 1t can reduce the death list,
but 1t cannot prevent it, Therefore,
no general rule can be laid down
against it. Only guidance for the in
dividual is possible of outline.
The Great Precautionary Rule.
The great precautionary rule is this:
If any member of your family is going
to the theater, a musicale, or any
sort of public gathering, take particu-
lar pains to impress upon him the
supreme Importance of keeping his
seat in case anything causes the audi
ence to rush pell nell for the exits.
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to death" Reason still guides the man
VINO fears, and usually guides him to
safety.
How Panic Operates.
But panic is infinitely worse. All
barriers go down before it.
little puff of smoke, and a whole
audience is madly scrambling for the
exits OF the theater. the weakest being
hnocked down and trampled under foot
ana Killed, the dead and injured piled
III heaps at the choked-up exits that,
hsd the crowd been orderly, would
nave permitted of the passage of all to
SAFETY before real danger threatened
nose IN the rear. What killed the ma
gTUrlly of the victims in the Iroquois
Iheater horror last December? Some
oI me occupants of the upper gallery
we're suffocated by the heat, but as for
.ue rest the heaps of bodies before the
eAlJs and the bruises on the corpses
showed that not fire or smoke or heat,
Dut panic claimed their lives
girl In tobacco factory in Phila-
sseiPnla runs a needle into her finger.
one screams from the pain. Instantly
.lle 200 workers on her floor spring up
az one girl, rush madly down the
.,als ana jump from the third-story
NlHaoWs, and a half dozen lives are
injured.
steamship meets with an accident,
1s.haps slight. perhaps serious, but
NOT SO serious that the passengers can
, ,, De got off in safety in plenty Of
ppIne' provided order is maintained
nul woman swoons, n man grows
N'lied over some unusual happening
WI me deck, he rushes wildly at the
mWering lifeboats, and the useless sac
ny. Of life has begun
iHIoW back your mind to past dis
qS'ers Of recent years-include the
iails Bazaar fire horror where strong
n.h IN their panic, beat women back
,l'o the fiames-and ] daresay you will
.1Il wildly the fact that the word
r'nIc occurred again and again in the
.ouhts-that panic, according to eye
Illnesses and the authorities, caused
u'e greater part OF the loss of life:
,. Way without panic the majority Of the
o.tlms would surely have escaped
In their lives. And you can hard
'edd or small accidents without run
1Hs across panic" "Fierce Drug
~. Blaze in Store Starts Panic on
w. Floors Above" KILLED in Blow
Panic in Dye Works" Panic is
small. e'o"'
""ic Possibility Everywhere.
Fanic is a possibility everywhere at
N TIME where two or three are gath
80 together for any purpose whatso-
I. And because Il feeds on moth
&c or a triviality. because II robs fear
'edsoh where fear is well founded.
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infinitely better chance of rescue than
If. fighting, you had plunged headlong
into the overcrOwded lifeboats.
When Panic Works in individuals.
Panic not only seizes hold of gath
erings. 1t works i'm individuals. 1t is
panic that causes this woman or that
man to jump from the upper windows
OF burning house, or to run Shrek
ing through smoke and heat-filled
halls, inviting suffocation when the
only reasonable thing to do, if other
escape is cut off. is to stand at a
window where fresh air can be had
and wait for the firemen to reach you,
which they generally manage to do,
since that is part of their life work
Panic, operating in individuals, is
largely responsible for hotel holo-
causts. OF course. carelessness on the
part of guests is also somewhat to
blame, for how many guests of a
hotel are ever aware of the means
provided for their escape? But igno-
rance does not preclude, all hope Of
escape by any means, while panic
practically seals its victims DOOM
Panic--unreasoning terror; terror
inspired by a trihing cause or misap-
prehenSion of danger" You saw.
fire like the one in the Iroquois thea
ter was not misapprehension of dan
ger? IL certainly was. in that the au-
dience forgot completely that fire has
to burn uD before ii can spread out
That takes time, and in that time. If
only the audience had not been pos
sessed of a sudden fright that the fire
would come out on them Immediately.
believe, and others who know the
circumstances fully believe. that prob
ably every occupant of the parouet
would have escaped, and many in the
gallery also.
Panic Prevents Escape.
Unless the whole place blazes up in
stantly, which Is a very remote possi-
bility, a theater or other public place
with the escapes provided according
TO law, can surely be emptied when a
fire is discovered without loss of life
before the flames become really mem
acing. If only the audience can be
made to keep its head. Any theater in
New York can be emptied I'm three 10
four minutes-ample time, for a fire
cannot reach out over the audience in
less time than that. If the Iroauois
theater audience had only recognized
this fact, and not blocked the exits
there would have been a far less grue-
some tale to tell to the world lust
entering on its Christmas festival
Your only weapon when panic
surges around you is a cool head
Keep It, and the odds are largely I'm
your favor that you will reach "a place
Of safety. Lose it, and YOU throw your
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The nest nenIth culture.

No poor man can afford 10 bother
with any of the experimental health
fads. He is too busy making a living
for himself and family, and when he Is
afflicted with a bad cough or cold. or
develops catarrh as the direct result o.
"A cold, he simply takes a few doses OF
DR.. Bosebee's German Syrup. And II
something more serious. say coneump-
ticn, prostrates him or any rsember ~
his family, German Syrup can again
BE- relied on to effect a cure. Trial bot
tie. 25c. Biz bottle. 75c. At all drug
gists. knights Pharmacy.
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"A dog II years old. fast, intelligent
and affectlonate, was seized for the
first time with commissions. without
loss OF consciousness. when sharply
reprimanded by his master After this
the animal was taken with similar
attack whenever his master entered
the house. the convulsion taking the
place Of his customary manifestations
ct ~.
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"A dog II wears old fact intott,..o,

Copyright, 1904. by Guy II. Visk-
niskki.)
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r"hic n Possibility Everywhere.

anlc is possibility everywhere at
any, Time where two or three are gath
s,..i together for any purpose whatso-
lr. ana because Il feeds on moth
90 or triviality because It robs fear
reason where fear is well founded.
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A panic among crowd on water