The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-13
NEW BOOK NEWS
CONDUCTED BY MARTHA YOUNG

N |. f as ia and half the cannonading by big Rsans was SO furious that the people within closed rooms of the legation buildings could with difficulty made each other ! hear the small bits of conversation neces. | sary for the work in hand ''The legation bell kept up its dismal tolling all night. warning every one to be
 at his post. Trumpets and bugles were blown from time to time in giving new | directions about the work of defense. I Outside the grounds the Chinest kept up a terrific din with trunNets. gongs drums. | cannon crackers, that one would have thought they were celebrating some Joss l day. rather than trying to demolish the | walls surrounding hundreds of aliens, who. thus far. however. had been able to | defy their heavy cannon, and hold theif i thousands of troops at bay. Suddenly there was a terrific explosion, and the word was passed along that the Chinese had ruined the walls of the French legation and had succeeded in | making a breach. The runior sped | through the grounds that the loss of life | on the French wall had been very great. | some of the legations best defenders hav- | ing gone down in the debris. "But later reports showed this to be a ! mistake: the loss of life among the allies having been averted by the heroism of \ one man.
 'Just who this one man was could not ! yet be ascertained | "He had been seen to rush to the French wall. warning the marines who I were defending it to flee. shouting that he had discovered mine; he then mounted | the wall with large unlighted tofth In his hand. which. however. he lighted on gaining the top. and dropped 1t among l the Chinese. who were carrying in the powder for the mine.
 This caused the explosion before the Chinese could get away. and their mine
 proved, their own death-trap. The loss of life among them must have been ter ribly heavy.
 But who was the hero who had thus
 averted a great catastropheg His fea- ! lures could not be identified In the faring light that shone around him in the midst of the bursting shells.
 Speculation was rife the remainder of 1 the night as to the identity of this man. l whose praise was on everybody's tongue. | "All the next day the gnesses were kept | up, but it was not until night that his identity was discovered.
 "on going to the debris to examine the | extent of the damage the explosion had wrought in the wall. some of the guards | found the form of an unconscious man. { "Kneeling beside It, stroking the tenn
 ples and pushing back the matted hair | from the clamy brow, was a Chinaman. mutterfng in unfeigned anguish, ro-o-ol
 Master. Master! No savey me. Miastar9 l O-oo-or
 '"The guards carefully picked up the | sufferer and bore him tenderly to the | hospital. In the outer room 1t was found | that he was terribly burnt and mangled | about the lower extremities. Finally one of the missionary doctors | came in and as soon as he let the light | fall on the ghastly features of the un' fortunate. he exclaimed. It is Captain | Christy!'
 | Thus the bold captain, with all his | faults gave his life for others.
 Sad beyond measure Is the story of the
 martydom of young Henry Malcolm, the ' missionary, brother of the heroine. a
 story which had it's counterpart in hun | dreds of instances in that reign of terror | for the missionaries of China. l "A Lamb to the Slaughter" by Lee | Yelling Sauier; Patriot Publishing Com pany, Greenburg. Pa. Price. $l.2b.
 The Wide world.-Ginn's Youth Com
 panion Series is a fairy land of knowl-
 edge open to children.
 | This special volume of the series is a little Teacher who will give little folks lessons in so delightful a way that they
 will want to keep Teacher by them foI | frequent companionship.
 The sketches that form the book are
 all of child life In the different countries
 of the world Little American readers
 are made acquainted with the life of lit-
 tie Japs in their homes, with some little
 Egyptians. with the honor of the Turk
 in many matters, with the games of the children of South America, with the boys
 of Mexico, with child life in Sweden, Ven
 ice, in the Alps, in Alaska, in Chna, tr
 Old England.
 The pictures will delight the little ones
 There is the Lapp cradle, boat oi
 wood in which the Lapp baby. rests in
 a bedding of moss When the Lapp fam
 fly travels the cradle Is swung. with
 baby in 1t to the horns of the Reindeer
 that draws the sleigh wherein ride the
 rest of the family.
 That is even more precious burden
 than that that Santa Claus reindeer
 carry. is it not?
 Then a picture of the Russian peas-
 ant baby in his hood of fur strapped
 to it's mothers back.
 l Here Is the Indian baby's cradle oi