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The old farmer was deaf and did not
hear the steam whistle on the big tour
Ing car 1t struck him. The chauffeur
paled and the woman shrieked.
"Thanks, mister" chuckled the old
man as he picked himself up out of the
dust, "Come around again sometime"
But aren't you hurr" gasped the
chauffeur.
mot tall"
"But why do you say 'ThanksY"
Because, mister. that thar jolt I'M
loosened mustard plaster on my shoul-
der that have been trying to get oT
for the last week"
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CHAPTER XvI.-(Continued.)

CHAPTER XVI.-(Continued.)
AND so, her story ended, the brave girl
iassed into the house, while we dashed
away in pursuit. My cousin stuck to his
work most manfully; but age will tell,
and l was minute to the good when
stumbled into the parlor of the inn. They
had not seen Mr.. Hermann, they told
me, since lunch-time; perhaps he was
down at his boat.
'Boat-what boat" gasped.
why, zur, said the landlords wife,
grinning at my eagerness, ''the guild gen
tleman be mighty vond O. Failing, an he
hath hired Mark Pennyfold's moo trawl-
er, the Agnes Jane, for a matter O. two
months. And now l comes to think on
it, did hear Mary zay as how he an his
zun were going out with Master Her
mann betwixt dree an your o'clock"
ran down the narrow street towards
the quay, between the quaint old cot
tages, with their fish stretched out to dry,
and their nets, fishing boots, and gear
tumbled before the dOorsills. AS l
reached the little breakwater the sun,
low on the west horizon, was throwing
great golden streamers through gaps in
the purple clouds that were piled as high
as If q catqclysm of Nature had set the
Andes on the Himalayas. From their
feet came gusts of wind, fierce and icy
cold. Even to my shore-going eyes it
threatened dirty weather.
But l had not time for cloud effects.
There, fair in the glittering path that
the sun had daubed upon the waters,
red-sailed ishing-boat was running close
hauled to the SOU westward.
"What boat is thatT l asked a lad
who lounged against a mooring-post at
my elbow.
THAT, maister-whoi, it be Mark Pen
nyfold's Agnes Jane, 'er as was 'ired by
the stranger from Lunnon, 'Ermann by
name"
A hand fell on my shoulder. 1t was
Graden's. He had heard and understood
And so we two stood together watching
the red sails fade slowly into the gilt
terng haze of the night and the storm
V.-THE AMMONIA CYLINDER.
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'' ~ DullucT SOio
owner Of the Argentine Central Rail-
way, In Colorado, and he has display
ed his courage by not permitting a
train to run over his road on Sunday.
Neither will he permit the insertion of
a line Of advertising concerning his
railroad or other business interests in
the Sunday issue newspaper although
great believer In advertising and
spending liberal allowance with the
dailies of Denver every other day in
the week.
The Argentine Central Railway cost
Mr.. Wilcox more than $450,000, and
he built 1t entirely with his own
money. Yet he believes that no man
should do business on Sunday, and he
insists that his road will pay expenses
and be winner in due time If he
strictly observes the Sabbath.
Strict adherence to religious and
business principles has marked the ca
reer of Mr.. Wilcox, who went to Colo
RADIO pennlless and Is now reckoned
Millionaire, his fortune being es-
timated at about $5,000,00O. He was
born in CreedmOre, Ont, Canada, and
when 81 years Of age went to Colo
RADIO, with no advantages to place him
at the top rung of the ladder Of finan-
cial success beyond the possession Of
good health and strong pair Of arms.
He became q mining engineer and saw
ing as much of his salary as possible.
invested 1t wisely.
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pended over his
tomb in st. Helen's
Church, Bishops
gate. He was an
eminent merchant
Of London ; but Is
represented upon
his tomb in q full
suit of armor. He
died in 1475. The
extreme height of
the crown Of the
helmet resembles
that on the tomb
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important benefits a ruler could confer
on his country. There was one erected
at Rimlni in honor Of an important
restoration of the Flamlnlan Way by
Augustus another at Susa In Pied
mont, to commemorate similar act Of
the same Emperor. Trajan built one
on the pier at Ancona, when he re-
stored that harbor, and another at
Beneventum, when he repaired the Via
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CHAPTER XVII.

The sail crept forward down the river
of sunset gold that streamed in wild
splendor from a crevass in the ranges
of cloudland. The light that FURNISHED
the sea glowed upon the Polleven cliffs,
tinging with fire the breakers at their
feet; it threw fierce shadows amongst the
clustered cottages of the Cornish fisher
folk, and painted richer scarlet on the
sails of the trawlers huddled beneath
the sheltering arm of the little quay. 1t
was a scene that rises before me, as l
write, with a curious detail, though, in
deed, at the time l took no pains to OBJ
serve it. For on that departing vessel
was he whom we had chased across
Europe, madman as we supposed, muir
derer as we knew him to be. We had
saved an innocent girl from his vendetta,
and in my heart l thanked Providence
for that mercy; but Rudolf Marnac, the
Heidelberg professor, was still free, free
with fresh schemes of vengeance against
his scientific opponents Matching in his
twisted brain, and with all the wisdom of
his great learning to help him in his
deadly purposes.
so this is the end of your clever
burly cousin. "he has escaped again,
got clear away. What are you going to
do? Shall we follow him?"
"In the face of the storm?"
"Why motif tAat is the best you can
suggest|
"You have changed, my little cousin"
said he, regarding me with a kindly look,
though, indeed my words had been un-
mannerly. "The Fates have played the
very deuce with the sedate student at
Heidelberg just twelve days ago. How
that youngster grumbled at prospective
discomforts How he shrank from the
business that was better left to the po-
lice! Do you remember"
Don't we waste time?" said I.
perhaps. All! here she comes-just
the thing for which l was hoping"
Running down the village street came
Miss Weston, with three or four men
behind her. We met her at the entrance
to the quay.
"Well! have you caught him?" she
painted.
"No; there he goes" My cousin point
ed an arm at the distant sail.
"Oh, thank Godw she exclaimed earn
estly. 81 knew he was armed, and
was so afraid for the brave men who had
saved my father and me-"
She looked from one to the other of
as with an honest gratitude in her eyes
that to me seemed worth the risk of all
the dangers in the world.
"And DR.. WestonT" asked my cousin.
"My father is no worse; but of course
did not tell him all. He imagines that
I was annoyed by some tramp, and de-
rlares he will have a man about the
rottage in the future. You and your
friend must come back with me, Sir
Henry. want to introduce you to him."
''Some other time, l hope. At pres
ent this young firebrand here insists that
we should follow Marnac by sea-"
"That is quite impossible, sir" she
said, turning upon me with an anxious
look. II have enough experience of the
weather to know that storm is coming.
I am certain that Sir Henry Graden will
help me to dissuade you."
81 am afraid not, Miss Weston" broke
b my cousin before could reply. ave
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garments seriously alarmed me. 1t was,
therefore, with a sense of relief that 1
observed Isaac produce some oilskins,
and boots happily lined with flannel.
The seafaring appearance which l as
sumed did not, however, allay my in
ternal sufferings, which soon became
acute. Huddled on the leeward side of
the boat l watched the chase with an
appearance of interest which was mere
hypocrisy. To be sincere, / regarded my
cousin, who was enjoying a pipe of
strong-smelling tobacco on the windward
side of me, with a more immediate en-
nifty than l felt towards Marnac himself.
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Warwick, in the Beauchamp Chapel at
Warwick; and was intended to support
the crest of the wearer, the holes for
affixing 1t being still visible.
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he still ho | d 8
steadfastly to his
principles, in spite
of the fact that
his friends have
warned him that
the pursuance OF
his policy will in
jure him financial.
ly.
The man Is Ed
ward j. Wilcox,
builInr onI cAIn
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Wakikuyu Akkyu and they nhat
of fertile economically Important
British Africa Poorae not far from Narob SIT
intelligent and fairly Industrious and live
they clearing IN the ores
cultivate AS as the soil shows any
another
almost comparative recent
be derived which means ng
fig of abundant In the country
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A woman's Idea of something par
ticuarly good to eat Is any old thing
served on tray.
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Marvellous, = =
Quaint and Curious.
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Helmet of Crosby.
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We here present our readers with
sketch of the helmet Of Sir John Cros-
by, as it originally appeared when sus-
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PIETY HAS COST HIM $500, 900.

But Wilcox still Refuses to Run His
Railroad on Sunday.
Denver Is the home of man the
courage of whose convictions has been
tested to the extent Of $500,000. And
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Tho old Lenox house on lower Fifth ave.
nue. has since last October been turned
into an Institute Of Musical Art, and here
DR.. Frank Damrosch performs the double
task Of teaching some people how to pro-
duce music and other people how snjoy
music.
-Four things said Mr.. Damrosch to a
Sun reporter, "are essential to a sch1o o
music which has for its aim the uplifting Of
artistic standards. Thu faculty must con-
sist Of teachers Of the highest ability and
sincerity, each a specialist in his DEPART
ment; every student must pursue a course
OF study irtelligeutly designed ard adapted
20 his needs; founders, directors and teach
en- must be beyond the sway Of merely
msrcenary considerations: the environment
OF the school must be such as to afford con-
tact with high mani ~estatioI 8 of the art,
ID that ambition may be stimulated, judg-
ment directed ard steadied. good taste
cult and industry ipsr ired.
HStarting with Il hall million dollar en-
dowment from James Loeb, the institute
can accomplish what another school, de-
pendent on tuition fees and occasional
endowments, could not attempt. 1t differs,
for instance, from the usual conservatory,
for Instruction is individual. and each one
Of the 500 pupils now enrolled has hat
personal privilege,
NSIt il oren to students OF both sexes. ir-
respective Of creed, and provision has been
made to. give those students the advantages
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, will notice their delight when they begin
to recognize the themes.
Take the musical art and Oratorto
societies. The audiences are made up OF
people of all ages. Old folks are there In
large numbers.
Musical culture has made enormous
strides in America during the last quarter
of a century, especially In the larger cities
and opportunities for study have grown
extensively, but there is constant need OF
the kind Of instruction and influence which
looks to the production of true m~usicianship
comprehensive in scope, thorough In
character, high in aim. 1t 10 the type OF
music lover who takes advantage of In
struction such as is afforded In New York
by these societies, upon whom depends
ultimately public musical culture with its
refining influence and the advancement Of
lefty ar istio ideals.
There is no question but that the Ameri
can child is just as susceptible to music as
the child OF any other nationality. MY
experience in the public schools, where I
have taught thousands Of children, has
emphasized the belief I started with that
childhood naturally turns toward music.
There is, however. a difference in the
family lif.. for the American mother does
not sing 30 much to her children as the
German or the Italian, and the children Of
the latter in consequences have the advan-
tage OF ezra instruction. Even when a
Child Of foreign ~parentage hears only Eng
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lish spoken in his hone, he will know the
folk songs in their proper languase 2, for he
learns them at his mothers knee.
"A surprising feature Of my work in the
schools has been the thousands of letters
that cone from all over the country asking
my advic, on special subjects, asking what
l am doing in the schools, how the work
is progressing. As musical education ad-
vances, these letters cone with greater
frequency aad in grslter numbers, as II
the pulse of II is life was sending its force to
the most remote points.
"a great deal has b,en done to overfeed
the people who have reached a certain
point in musical culture. Scarcely any
thing in co nparison has bssn done for the
musical student or for the great mass Of
the people.
by overfee1ing ! mean hat with the
greatest anolnt OF appreciation AMI under
standing, a Id sympathy, it is hardly pos
sib,e for any ons TO attend without safety
all the musical feasts that for four months
In the year ara o1erei, There are some
thing like in that time a hundred operatio
Performance, from $50 to 200 symphony
concerts and hundreds OF smaller ~recitals,
oratorios, dc; all these crowded into such
a small space OF tine undt Ihero LhueI oo d
surfeit. Most Of these wonderful musical
treats are beyond the purses OF all but the
wealthy classes, While the masses are hun
gering for them.
Think yourself what music means to
the poor man and woman whose lives are
hanpered by the material questions Of
existence, whose DAYS ase spent in miserable
tenenents, to nave that wonderful refining
influence brought to them in such a way
that they can forget for a while the practical
questions and lose themselves in a spiritual
realm.
1T was this contrast between the wealthy
who nave more muec offered to them than
they can digest and the poor who have SO
little lone for them, and who need 1t so ire
mendeusly, that induced me, fourteen years
ago, to start the Peoples Choral Glasses.
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work on, more enthusiasm and greater
qualification at the results.
sThe students are taught to sing from
note, and the instruction, beginning with
that elementary principle, is given by
teachers who do not accept any compen-
sation for the work. Every member Of
the union has to pay 10 cents a lesson,
and that covers the expenses OF rental and
i~ncidenta,s.
Now from the specific to the general.
Everything in my experience tends to
show that people of the poorer classes
are looking more and more to music for
the identifying of their lives; that they
are doing 80 more than they have ever
done before.
The time has passed when people will
go to a cheap mrsic hall and make believe
that they are having a good time, when
they are merely disguised. 1t is evident
that the old order OF things is passing away
with the growth of opportunity for the
better. 1t is true that l I'M only speaking
from the standpoint Of one who comes
music-wise in touch with from $4,000 to
50, 900 people every year; they are only a
drop in the bucket, but the radiating In
fuence Of that number, as in the case of
the students of the schools, is considerable.
sOne OF the signs Of this is found at the
evenings given by the Musical Art Society,
where seats in the parquet cost $3.50. max
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BUILDING DOLL HOUSES.
A window Demonstration That Attracted
md Pleased Many Beholders.

There goes the chimney! wish l could
build chimney like that"
So exclaimed a man, one Of a group Of
spectators, mostly women and children,
standing outside a store window watching
the deft manipulations OF a demonstrator
building dolls houses within.
1t was a young woman. the demonstration
scarcely more than a girl, and she handled
her materials with quiet, steady skill, Draw
ing toward her, on a table at her side, a
Eat cardboard box about as big as an atlas
but a little thicker, she removed the cover,
revealing inside the parts of which the
house was to be built, and all now lying fiat,
like a portable house packed for trans
portation, and then, upon a table In front
OF her, in view Of all, she proceeded to set
up this house.
Into a cardboard base. made with slots
to receive them, she first set the sides Of
the house, these nicely painted, and with
windows glazed with isinglass and rising
to the height Of two stories, Then from
the parts Of the box she drew angled oorner
pieces which she set up at the corners Of
the house, to bind the sides together and
give them a finish there. Then, the struc-
ture now standing firmly, she put in the
floors Of cardboard.
And now she was ready to put on the roof,
which was fat as she drew 1t from the box,
but which was in two parts, so that II could
be peaked up properly along the ridge;
but before putting this in place she put in
the chimney, which she took from the box
in its perfect form and simply thrust
through an opening in one side Of the roof
made to receive It, from which it rose ,
thus suddenly, in regular chimney form
and look. IL was this operation that drew
from among the spectators the eSclsma-
ton from the man watching her.
And then she set the roof in place, where
II was held securely by the corner pieces
of the house. Then she slid into its place
along the ridge Of the roof an angling strip
that bound the two parts Of the roof to-
gether and gave it the proper finish there,
and then she put on, outside, two pieces
that closed the roof in and finished ii at it's
gable ends, and now the house seemed
finished. But 1t wasn't; there yet remained
20 be built its porch.
OF this she fitted on, Upon the OUTSIDE OF
the house at the front the floor in q moments
time. and In as short a space she put in
place the roof, and then between floor and
roof she set up thrOa pasteboarc columns,
aud almost before o knew it the porch
was finished, and now there stood before
you the completed house.
And when the builder had let the people
look at !his house for a minute or two she
lifted it end set 1t ovOr On a stack Of similar
houses which che had already built, and
then drew toward her, on the side table
another box and set about building another
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which constitute the atmosphere SO widely
and properly urged as precious in the music
schools Of Europe"
b. Perhaps one of the most interesting classes
10 the average visitor is that designed for
PERSONS who do not play upon any instru-
ment, sing or compose, but who are lovers
of music and wish to enhance their enjoy
ment OF it by learning to listen with dis
elimination. n his many years of ex-
perience DR.. Damrosch has discovered
tuch Instruction to be a great need of mod
srn Ii e.
There are few people, outside Of pro-
tessional musicians, DR.. Damrosch went on,
who know how to listen to music intelli-
gently. How often you hear g7owl-ups
gay 1 love music, but / never had the OPP
portunity when I was young to study it
and now it is too late The CLASSES in the
institute as well "a those in the outside
societies where | have taught prove the
fallaey OF this assertion, for there is no age
limit and consequently no tims when the
lack ii tn, youthful education cannot be
r latle up. some of the most interested and
Intelligent students in the Peoples Choral
Society are many years past middle age.
. There is a sens 10 is attraction IN music
and that is what most people enjoy who go
to concerts and musical gatherings Lecause
they are fashionable, or for so ne such rea-
son. That is the very lowest basis on which
10 accept music ana it mas been an ilter-
essing AMI s:i n Hating study for me to
note ths aw l'5ene1 appreciation felt wh,p
this kind of enjoyment is replaced by the
inte!lev'' al.
"rnis is brought about by the simplest
methods OF instruction. For ~instcnce, I
havs the orchestra in the beginning play
a simple tune, then l explLin the poetic
meaning OF that thsne.
u describe want the composer has tried
to cypress, the methods he has employed.
After a while you will notice that these
people are beginning TO put themselves in
the mood Of the composition and In oonse-
auence they become more receptive: you
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o point whore they know how to enjoy
music. There Is ready for them In that
case an open door into the regions Of the
imagination, OF memory, thought, intelli-
gent enjoyment. The man who can read
music as he can read q book need never be
lonely. He Is placing near his hand the
key TO an enjoyment just as keen as II he
could put on his evening clothes and go to
the Metropolitan to hear Sembrich.
Il want to illustrate what I have said on
this subject, which comes very near my
heart, by a few stories that occur to me
while ] am talking.
"A few years ago I was coming down
town in an elevated train and q young man
opposite me bowed when ! came In, I
returned his salute, although I did not
recognize his face. He came over, took the
seat next me and called me by name.
I am a member of the Peoples Choral
Union, DR.. Damrosch,' he said, and / want
TO thank you for what you have done for
me-. The Sunday afternoon classes have
put new meaning In my life.
81 an O plasterer by trade, but as soon
as I get home at night my wife and children
make me take the singing book and we all
sing the lessons we have been taught. No
matter how hard the days work may be,
there is always that thought with me OF
the evenings pleasure. 1t has changed
my life completely by bringing something
beautiful and worth while into it.
Incidental to the Individual good that
music does it has always seemed to me to
be one Of the most potent factors in the har-
mony and beauty of family life, and this
little talk with the plasterer emphasized
that to my delight.
Another incident happened a few days
ago. One of my pupils, a violin student,
told me that while he was practising a young
man who was working on a neighboring
roof came forward so he could listen. After
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a while he leaned but and said to him:
Well. my good fellow, you won't get
along with your work very fast at that
rate
And he laughed and said:
but ] love music, so / couldn't help
listening. / love 1t better than anything
else in the world, especially the three Bs,'
and at the others look of asst orishment he
repeated 1.-THE three Bs, Bach, Beethoven
md Brahms
Further questioning revealed the fact
that he was a member Of the Choral Union
had attended a number of the symphony
cor certs and had learned to use his voice
properly. Perhaps that roof worker did
not have the quality Of tone that would
make him a singer of note, but think OF the
ideal element he had put into what most
Of US would consider a limited life!
Then, again, | was at Atlantic City, and
the darky l had hired to push my chair on
the Boardwalk turned out to be another
one of this same type.
He lived in New Rochelle all the time he
attended the Sunday afternoon classes and
had to pay about 70 cents for the round
trip every time he came in. He earned a
living during the week as a ianitor in a
public school. experimenting this with
work Of the same character Sunday morn
ing at the post Office, and he set up tenpins