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The Spectator., 1916-04-21
SYNOPSIS.

Stanley Hargreave. millionaire. after 8 miraculous escape from the den of the gang of brilliant thieves known as the Black Hundred, lives the life of recluse for eighteen years. HargreaVe one night enters a Broadway restau- rant and there comes face to face with the gangs leader, Braine.
 After the meeting. during which nei- ther man apparently recognizes the other, Hargreave hurries to his mag nifcent RiVerdale home and lays plans for making his escape from the coun- try. He writes letter to the girls school in New Jersey where eighteen years before he had mysteriously left on the doorstep his baby daughter, Florence Gray. He also pays a visit to the hangar of daredevil aviator.
 Braine and members of his band sur round Hargreaves home at night, but as they enter the house the watchers outside see balloon leave the roof The safe is found empty-the million which Hargreave was known to have drawn that day was gone. Then some one announced the balloon had been punctured and dropped into the sea.
 Florence Hargreaves arrives from Braine's companion, visits her and claims to be a relative, Two bogus de- tectives call. but their plot Is foiled by Norton, newspaper man.
 By bribing the captain of the Orient Norton lays trap for Braine and his Orient's captain and she easily falls into the reporters snare The plan proves abortive through Braines good luck, and only hirelings fall into the hands of the police.
 After failing in their first attempt the Black Hundred trap Florence. They ask her for money, but she escapes, again foiling them.
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not have shown her the newspaper had there been any distrust on her part.
 My child, your father is alive, then?" animatedly.
 We don't know" sadly.
 Why, I should say that this proves it."
 "On the contrary. it proves nothing of the sort. since I have yet to dis cover treasure in this house. I have hunted in every nook, drawer; I've searched for panels. looked in trunks for false bottoms. Nothing, nothing! An. if l could only find it,"
 And what would you do with it?"
 Take 1t at once to some bank and offer the whole of 1t for the safe re- turn of my father, every penny of it. don't know what to do, which way to turn,' tears gathering in her eyes and they were genuine tears, too. There are millions in stocks and bonds and cannot touch penny of it because the legal documents have not been found. can't even prove that l am his daughter. except for half an old
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he Is now. Looks like an actor in u fourth act of drama Good-looking chap, though"
 Norton came in through the outer gates. He was in evening clothes, top hat. A dead cigarette dangled be- tween his lips.
 How much do you want?" asked the night city editor.
 Column and half" of with your glad rags!" Anything good?' asked the manag- ing editor.
 "The lid has been damned on tight No wine in any restaurant after one o'clock. Therell be a roundup of ev- cry gunman in town"
 Good work! Go to It."
 It was one o'clock when Norton turned in his last sheet of copy and started for home. Just outside the entrance to the building man with slouch hat drawn down over his eyes stepped forward.
 "Mr. Norton?"
 Yes" Norton stepped back sus- piciously.
 The other chuckled, raised and low cred his hat swiftly.
 Good Lord!" murmured the re- porter.
 will you take ride with me in a taxi?"
 All the way to Syracuse, if you say so. Well, I'll be tinker d-d!"
 No names, please!"
 What took place in that taxicab was never generally known. But at ten o'clock the next morning Norton sur prised the elevator boy by going out. Norton proceeded downtown to the national bank, where he deposited $5,000 in bills of large denominations. The teller had some difficulty in count ing them They stuck together and re- tained the sodden appearance Of money recently submerged in water
  Florence was delighted at the idea of coaching party. Often during her schoolgirl days she had seen the fash ionable coaches go careening along the road, with the sharp. clear note of the buge rising about the thunder of hoofs and rattling of wheels. Jones was not enthusiastic; neither was he killjoy.
 But you are to go along, too." said Florence.
 "I, Miss Florence?"
 "The countess invited you especially. You will go with hamper"
 "Ah, in my capacity as butler; very good Miss Florence" To her he gave no sign of his secret satisfaction. The hour arrived and the gay party bowled away. They wound in and out of the streets toward the country to the crack of the whip and the blare of the horr. Florence's enjoyment would have been perfect had 1t not been for the absence of Norton. Why hadn't he been invited? She did not ask be- cause she did not care to disclose to the countess her interest in the re- porter. They were nearing the limits of the city, when the coach was forced to take a sharp turn to avoid an auto mobile in trouble. The man puttering
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at the engine raised his head. It was Norton, and Florence waved her hand vigorously.
 "A coaching party" he murmured; and your Uncle James was not invit- ed! Oh, very well!" He laughed, and suddenly grew serious. It would not hurt to find out where that coach was going.
 He set to work savagely, located the trouble. righted it. and set of for the Hargreave home. He found Susan and bombarded her with questions which to Susan came with the rapidity of rain upon the roof.
 "So Jones went along?"
 Tn his capacity of butler only
 Norton smiled. Well, I'll take jaunt out there myself You are sure of the location?"
 Yes"
 Well. good-by. I'll go as waiter. one of the best little walters you ever heard of: and all things come to him who waits'
 What a pleasant. affable young man he was! thought Susan as she watched him jump into the car and go flying up the street
 Jones was good deal surprised when Norton turned up at the old Chiffon manor
 What made you come here dressed like this?" the butler demanded
 I'm suspicious duffer; maybe that's the reason"
 Do you know anything?"
 Well, no; l can't say that do. But. hang it, l just had to come out here"
 eTo BE coNTINuEpo
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mail, unless I push him off into the dark. It was accidental"
 The countess leaned forward, her hands tightly clinched.
 But the box"
 Braine made a gesture of despair.
 Leo, are you using any drug these days?"
 Don't make fun of me, Olga i'm patiently. Did you ever see me drink more than a pint of wine or smoke more than two cigars in an evening? Poor fools, What! let my brain go into the wastebasket for the sake of an hour or so of eXhilaration? No, and never will l! I'm keen about the gray matter I've got, and by the Lord Harry, I'm going to keep it. There's only one dope fiend in the Hundred. and he's one of the best decoys we have: so we let him have his coke whenever he really needs it. But this man Felton has seen my face. Some day he'll see it again, ask questions, and then v
 Then what?"
 "A burial at sea-" he laughed. The laughter died swiftly as it came. Threw it into eight hundred feet of water, on a bar where the sands are always shifting. He'll never find it, even if he took the range. He could not have got a decent one. The sun was dropping and the shadows were long. He threw the chest into the water and then began begging away at us, cool as you please, and fired our tank"
 "It looks to me as If he had wasted his time"
 That depends. Between you and me and the gate-post. I've a sneaking idea that this man Jones, whom mo- body has given any particular atten. tion, is a deep. clever man. He may have been honestly attempting to find a new hiding place; the advertisement in the newspaper may have drawn him. He may have thrown the box over in pure rage at seeing himself checkmated Again. the whole thing may have been worked up for our benefit. a blind. But if that's the case, Jones has us on the hip, for we cant tell But we can do what in all probability he expects we'll cease to do-watch him just as shrewdly as before"
 Olga caught his hand and drew him down beside her T wasn't going to bother you tonight, but 1t may mean something vital"
 "What?" alertly
 For reply she rose and walked over to the light button. She pressed 1t and the apartment became dark
 Come over to the window, quick" She dragged him across the room. over the way. the house with the marble frontage"
 man emerged. lit cigarette, and walked leisurely down the street.
 "No," she cried. as Blaine turned to make for the door, doubtless with the intention of finding out who this man was. Every night after you leave he appears"
 Does he follow me?"
 No. And that's what bothered nc
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matic upon his pursuers and succeeded in setting their boat afire.
 All this within the space of an hour. During dinner that night (there was now a cook) Jones walked about the dining table, rubbing his hands to- gether from time to time
 Jones'" said Florence, why do you rub your hands like that?"
 Was I rubbing my hands, Miss Florence?" he asked innocently.
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CHAPTER VI.

Did you get the ranger" asked the countess, when late that night Braine recounted his adventure.
 "Range!" he snarled. My girl, haven't I just told you that l had to fight for my life? My boat was in flames. We had to swim for 1t till we were picked up by Long Island barge tug l don't know what became of the motorman. He must have headed straight for shore. And I'm glad he did, Otherwise he'd be howl ing for the price of another boat. Olga, for the first time I've had to let one of the boys have a look at my face. Doesn't know the name; but one of these days he'll stumble across it, and the result will be black
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case of electricity or a bowl Of diffusing glass
ware Of the iuminant is gas), hung from the
ceiling. Or it can be accomplished with wall
lights or portable lamps shaded with greer
glassware or thick neutral coored tabrl'
through which the enclosed light source cannos
be seen.
Where wall lights or portable lamps are use'
the bed should be placed. if possible, in such
position that the eye viii not encounter the
light source.
Study lighting for children when they reach
the period of "home work. at school, presents
another important problem for mothers tC
solve 1t confines itself, however, chiefly to
question of a properly shaded table lamp.
The best test in selecting a lamp that Will
help them to see comfortably and accomplish
their tasks with the minimum Of eye fatigue
is that it shall not be possible to see the light
source under or through the shade; that the
shade shall be of a shape that spreads the light
evenly all over the study table and that, if of
glass, it shall be plain white, amber or light
green in color and of quality that will diffuse,
and not absorb, light.
An excellent example of the ideal study lamp
is illustrated here. 1t tells its own story and
is to be recommended as general reading or
working light for any one-old or young.
This brief discussion Of glare and diffusion,
of the principles of correct and incorrect arti-
fetal illumination and of the necessity for
avoiding eye strain will serve to make clearer
the reasons for the invention and general adop-
ton Of the modern lighting methods.
MODERN METHODS OF LIGHTING.
These are known as the indirect and semi
indirect systems of lighting, contrasted with
the first known method called the direct, now
adjusted to modern lighting standards so that
it may be successfully used for certain pur-
poses.
The indirect and semi or partly indirect
methods are the result of years of study by the
lighting scientists to solve the problem of the
elimination of glare and the producing of eff
Gent, we'll diffused light, shed in the proper d-
rection for the eyes and adequate for any work
they may be called upon to do.
Glare may result from looking at the light
source itself, which produces an effect similar
to looking at the sum- or it may result from
the almost equally harmful reflection Of the
light source up into the eye from white,
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By VIRGINIA CARTER LEE.

TINE BEST housekeeper ever known to the
present writer did not make one days
toll Of preserving, as so many house
wives do. Instead she put up" a can or two
Of fruit every few days. When the season
was over she had her winter supply Of deli
cious relishes and conserves with but very little
effort.
She was what is known as good provider'
and believed in her household having the best
fruit and all the fruit that could possibly be
eaten, so that both peaches and pears were
bought by the large basket about twice week.
This is an excellent plan TO follow during
the early part Of September, when the weather
is no: hot enough to make the fruit spoil
rapidly, and yet when it can be well ripened
before eating. Peaches and pears, when bought
this way in quantity, should be laid on an old
clean sheet on the attic hoor so arranging ,he
fruit that the pieces will not touch each other.
BE very careful that the fruit does not show
the slightest sign of decay. Lay aside every
peach or pear that ia at all bruised for lnme-
date use, as they are sure TO be ripe enough
either 10 be eaten raw or cooked in some way.
Every day 20 over the fruit that is ripening
on the floor and pick out the melowest for the
table; also enough to make few jars Of pre-
serves. Thus in odd moments or while a meal
is cooking the provident housewife may put
up two or three quarts Of fruit without realiz
ing the labor.
Fine, ripe perfect peaches are best when
peeled after this fashion: Put few in a bowl
and pour over them u quart Of boiling water.
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Do not allow them to stand in it for more than
two or three minutes; then plunge quickly into
cold water. BY using this method the skin
will roll off as easily as from scaded tomato
After peeing, cut each peach in two and re-
move the pits, add the cracked pits to the boil
ing syrup prepared in the proportion Of equal
parts Of sugar and water) drop in the peaches,
cook until they .ook clear and fill into the
sterilzed jars Keep the jars hot; boil the
syrup fast, skimming it carefully; fill the lars
to overlooking and run a silver knife around
the inside, between the fruit and the glass, to
release any air bubbles. Adjust the rubbers
and the hot covers, seal air-tight and there
will be no possible question Of single jar
spelling" even if kept for two or three years,
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eyes. in order to avoid the glare that would
otherwise result.
In both the newer methods the light source
is completely concealed from the eye in bowl
shaped fixture suspended from white or light
colored ceiling against which the light rays are
thrown and from which they are reflected ond
diffused without glare. The eye and nerve re-
lief and the general sense of well-being that
come from working under such lighting cond-
tons can scarcely be appreciated unless one
has tried it after having suffered under i'm
proper illumination in Office or home.
INDIRECT AND SEMI-INDIRECT SYS-
TENS.
In the wholly indirect system the bowl or
container is of metal or of opaque glassware,
lined with metal or glass refectors, in this way
forcing the ceiling and side walls of the room
to do all the work of diffusion.
In the semi-indirect the container is usually
of translucent, partly opaque glassware. Some
times it is made of fabric, lined with highly
glazed rejecting inner surface Here the cell
ing and walls do the major part of the work of
diffusing the light, yet small amount of light
is shed downward directly, but softened and
meilowed and without glare, through the bot
tom Of the bowl.
The newer methods have also been adapted
to bracket lights and portable lamps, so that it
is possible with little trouble and expense to
correct wrong direct lighting conditions. The
adjusting of the older method to the newer
standards is, indeed, largely matter Of proper
shades and globes and of correcting wrong To-
cation of fixtures and lamps.
For instance, direct, unshaded or badly
shaded light source should never be hung in
front of mirror, where the reflection multi
plies the glare. Nor should such light be
hung over a glass-topped table or desk where
its glazing image is reflected up into the eye.
Likewise, table or desk lamp, unless it hap
pens to be of the type in which the light source
is completely concealed, should never stand
upon table or desk with a rejecting sur
face. To correct such a condition cover the
table or desk with a dark material of some
kind, blotter felt or fabric, while the light is
in use.
In dining room where a dome is used it
should be hung at such a height that those
who sit around the table cannot see the light
source. Also, as further precaution against
the glare resulting from the reflection up into
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provided they are stored in COOL dry place.
When the peaches or pears are very large 1t
is always the best plan TO cut them in halves
so that they will not be crushed in forcing
them into the jars As pears are rather
tasteless when cooked alone, a few slices of
lemon, whole cloves or small pieces of ginyer
may be added to the different jars for the sake
of variety. In the same manner, bits of pine
apple placed in some of the peach jars give
very novel and pleasing flavor
No preserve closet would be quite complete
without stock of spiced or picked fruit
Fortunately these toothsome decacies as
inexpensive and easy to prepare as they are
delicious.
An excellent recipe that can be adopted for
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PRESERVING AND PICKING SEPTEMBER FRUITS

all varieties of fall fruit calls for four pounds
Of light brown sugar to seven pounds of fruit.
pint of vinegar, one ounce of stick CHINA
mon, and half an ounce of whole cloves and
allSpice, tied in small cheesecloth bag.
Peel the fruit carefully, sprinkle the sugar
over it and let stand for twenty-four hours.
At the end of that time, the sugar will be
reduced TO a syrup. Drain it off the fruit,
add the vinegar and spice bag, and let toil
for half an hour. Skim thoroughly put in the
fruit and simmer very gently until it can be
pierced with straw. Now lift the fruit out
carefully TO a stone jar; allow the syrup to
cook down until quite thick, pour over the
fruit and put away, tightly covered, in cool,
dry place.
Many recipes given for spiced fruits order
the syrup to be boiled morning after morning.
This labor may be avoided by following the
above directions, which will give equally good
results.
This formula may be used for pears, peaches.
plums, crabapples, watermelon rnd and tiny
green muskmelons, which when picked are
called sweet mangoes. Ounces also make
very finely favored sweet pickle, but they
must be steamed until tender before adding
to the spiced syrup.
II your family is small, use pint jars, rather
than quarts 1t allows of larger variety of
fruit being served without its spoiing--as
happens occasionally when quart jar stands
open for some time.
In putting up" crabapples leave the fruit
on the stems and cook very carefully in the
syrup to prevent breaking. Preserved whole
in erich, red syrup, crabappes make most
slightly and excellent preserve, as well as one
Of the cheapest.
If the lids of preserving jars are put into
boiling water, and lifted when required with
a skinner, their heat will do much in helping
to preserve the fruit. They should be so hot
when adjusted to the jars that they cannot be
handled without cloth.
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GRAPE CATSUP.

Wash and stem five pounds of ripe grapes.
Put into kettle with pint Of water and let
them melt down, then simmer until they are
cooked. Strain through PURGE sieve and add
pint of vinegar, half teaspoonful Of salt and
a teaspoon each of cinnamon. cloves. allspce
and pepper. Boil until slightly thckened, then
bottle, cork and seal.
SLICED DELIGHT.
Pare and slice thin one hundred well washed
small cucumbers and twenty white onions.
Put pint Of salt over the pickle and let stand
over night. Next morning drain thoroughly.
Add a quarter pound each Of celery and mus
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Some Pickle Recipes That cAre Worth Trying
By JEANETTE YOUNG NORTON.

tard seed, saltspoon of red and a half tea
spoon of black pepper and pint of Lucca oil.
Mix all we'll together, then put in crock and
cover with good vinegar pressing all down
with a weighted plate. Let stand one week
and they are ready for use.
PICKLED ARTICHOkES.
Wash the artichokes and let them stand in
strong salt water over night. In the morning
dry and rub off the skins with a CLOTH pack
them into IA crock and cover with vinegar that
has been boiled with n spice bag. tablespoon
of salt and piece of alum as big as filbert.
Reheat the vinegar once week for three
weeks,
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Difn5ed Light Means
Quiet NerVeS and
Strong Eyes.
Bv CLARA BROWN LYMAN.

If illumination Of the home by
artificial light-the substitution
for daylight of gas and cleo
tricitv-means something more
than the mere act of turning on
these modern "pseudo-suns,' as
Robert Louis Stevenson called
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-08-09

convenience. AS a result of the in
vention of a machine for making
matches any one of several Ameri-
can factories can make--twice-. as
many matches in a day as could be
made in a year in England in the
forties. The invention of automat-
ic boxmakers served also to reduce
the price of matches to point at
which they could be used generally.
The supplantation of hand labor
by machinery popularized matches.
There will be a continuous increase
in the cost of the materials of which
match heads are made as long as the
war continues, but the slight in
crease in the cost of the product will
not be sufficient to deter even the
very poor outside of China from us
ing matches with accustomed free
dom.-[New York Tribune.
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WHEN MATCHES WERE
RARE AND ALSO COSTLY

Less than a century ago the Gin
Simultaneous light box" containing
seven dozen Congreve matches,
which were ignited by drawing them
between folds of sandpaper, sold for
shilling box inEngland, according
to an exchange. They did not have
fYide sale because they failed to
liyht, half the time. and when they
did ignite the stencil of the chemi-
p Gals were such that the airing of the
rooqvwas necessary. Lucifer matches
were not sold generally until near
the middle of the last century. At
that time each match was a stick
whitfield by hand. and the cost Of
manufacture was such that only the
vsll-to-do svailed themselves of the
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-08-09
A MOTOR VEHICLE FOR
EVERY ~ PERSONS HERE

Washington, July 29.-Motor We
hicles registered in the United States
numbered 2,445,664 last year and
$1S,245,713 was paid by their own
ers as registration and license fees.
The Office of public roads of the De-
partment of Agriculture announced
that 80 per cent. of the fees. or &c.,
213,3S7, was spent for building and
maintenance of county and State
roads. There was an increase of
734.325 in the number of vehicles
and s5.S63.760 in fees from 1914.
Only $4,000 motors We're registered
10 1906.
The number of motor vehicles
averaged one registration for evcrv
forty-four persons in the United
States. Iowa led with one for ev4rj
sixt'een inhabitants. while in Ala
bama there was only one for every
200 persons. Registration figures
for the country rs a whole, the good
roads Office explains. do not neces-
sarily represent total number of
cars, as SOME of the States do not
require annual registration, others
group pleasure and commercial We
hicles and motorcycles in their ac-
counts, while still other States do
not require registration of mOtOrcy-
cles.
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