The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-11
AN ODD cANoLEsTIcK.
With a Curious Reach Of the Long
Arm Of coine scrcs.

Arm Of coine ecres.
Historical students when called uno1
70 crltlclse relations OF events. especial
ly those that seem Ia themselves un-
nkely. that are recorded to have hap.
pened In the lives Of persons whose
careers are separated BY long period
OF time when the said events haze
very striking similarity between them
are wopt 10 regard the first narrative
as the prototype and the latter as a
case Of transference. Sometimes this
may be the correct view to take. but
II II commonly dangerous proceeding
to insist upon. An example has oc-
Cured to me which illustrates this.
AT East ButterwIck. village on the
banks OF the Trent. there lived In the
middle OF the nineteenth century a
shopkeeper named Marshall. He was
a general dealer. supplying nearly all
the wants Of his nelghbors. Above
this mans shop and adjoining out.
houses was a long chamber open to the
roof in which 10 kept such stores as
he had not room for In bis somewhat
small shop. Among other things. this
room contained a mangle, which was
at the service Of such Of the women Of
the town as made him a small pay.
ment.
One winter evening several women
were engaged In mangling when one
Of them knocked down their solitary
candlestlck. and. being probably Of
earthenwarc. Il was broken. Work
for the night was nearly over. II did
not seem worth while to fetch another.
so one OF the women took the still
burning candle-happily 1t was not a
very short one-and stuck II into some
black. dusty looking stun which she
had noticed In a barrel standing near.
Soon. however. one Of these good
danes had occasion to descend into
the shop and, eneountering Marshall
there, naturally began to apologize for
the eandlestick having suffered.
We may conceive what was the shop
keepers horror when he heard what
was the substitute that had been found.
for he knew at once that the candle |
was standing In cask of gunpowder. |
He rushed upstairs and was just In
time. He made "a cup with his two |
hands," as he said. 80 that no sparks
could get to the powder" and drew |
the candle calmly out without uttering |
q sound. His words afterward when |
all danger was over were, | have been
told, OF kind not uncommonly heard i
on board OF keels and coal barges ON |
our rivers, but such as are discouraged |
In the year 1861 'The Dispositions
From the Castle of York In the Seven
eenth Century" was published by the
Surtees society. In note In this work
~ Its editor Canon Raine. the follow
ng passage occurs. The parallelism
between the two narratives as to the
way the candle was removed from dan
ger is very striking:
Newcastle had very narrow escape
.bout 1854 An apprentice going up
With candle into loft which con-
aimed many barrels of gunpowder and
much combustible material thought
essly stuck the candle into barrel, of
which the head had been knocked of.
o serve for q candlestick. He saw the
langer and fled. A laborer ran into
he loft and, joining both his hands to-
,ether, drew the candle softly up be
ween his middlemost fingers. so that
any SNUFF had dropped II must have
allen into the hollow OF the mans
Notes and Queries.