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Clang - clang - clang -a-lang-a-lang-a'
iuig: uown the broad, brilliantly
iigmea avenue swept a heavy fire
...ui,, u nve aappiea horses united
jn a maa gallop. Ten-year-old Teddy
iicni, western union messenger
boy, cut suddenly Into the avenue
from a side street and circled on his
wneei hko an eagle. His eyes fol
lowed the truck with longing. It was
, a struggle 'twixt duty and pleasure.
Then an engine dashed Into sight. It
was drawn by three magnificent
uih.i;hs, ana m tne darkness it gleamed
like a demon, spitting fire and smoke.
Teddy gave a howl of enthusiasm and
followed In itB wake.
For block after block he trailed the
wheel of the engine, bending low over
his handle bars. Something of the
spirit of the fire-fighters of old was In
his blood, and though his little heart
was pounding with sudden stress he
held the pace, his short legs dancing
mechanically with the pedals.
At th cross street a trolley car
blocked the way. A collision seemed
inevitable. The driver rose in his
Beat, jammed the brake down, and
drew with all his strength on the
lines. The blacks came down on their
haunches and with stiffened forelegs
slid on the smooth pavement. Just
in time ths heavy engine came to a
stop.
But Teddy, pedaling as though for
a record, with his eyes to the ground,
knew not of the obstruction.
Suddenly the shining engine loomed
before him. He threw un his arma
and with a little cry dashed into the
heavy steel-shod wheels.
A crowd gathered quickly. Gentle
hands bore the limp and mangled body
to a nearby hospital.
When Teddy awoke he lay In a white
Iron bed, in a long room, with many
other beds on each side of him. He
tried hard to remember. What did it
all mean? And what made the pain
in his head, his chest, his legs? He
gave a little groan.
A woman came to the bed and
leaned over him. Tears afterward lie
THE SPIRIT OF THE FIRE FIGHTERS OF OLD WAS IN HIS BLOOD.
recalled that vision the sweet, serious
face, the white uniform, the pretty cap
resting on waves of brown hair. She
smothed his hot brow and gave him
cool water. Then delirium seized him,
and for weeks he hovered between life
and death, while Amy Norton, the head
nurse, watched him as though he were
her very own
In those endlesB days and nights of
physical anguish, when he could com
prehend only two conditions pain and
the absence of pain Amy seemed to
him a brooding Spirit of Deliverance
Always there, when he needed her,
divining the cause of his discomfort
and quick with measures of relief, she
became in the highest sense a mother
to this motherless waif.
So the days passed, and gradually
Teddy responded to the care of nurse
and doctor and awoke to conscious
ness of things about him. His twisted
arm was almost restored to use; his
cru3hed leg, though in a heavy piaster
cast was mending rapidly; but he
complained of pain in his chest, where
the engine wheels had broken the
ribs It hurt him to breathe, he said
Now and then a spell of coughing
shook his little frame and left him
panting tor breath. Then, recovering,
he would watch Amy at her work, his
eyes following her up and 'own the
room. He was disinclined to eat, and
daily his face became whiter and thin
ner, and his eyes bigger and blacker.
It was Dr. Stone's custom to meet
Amy In the operating room several
times a week for consultation. One
evening they talked of Teddy, the
doctor shook his head gravely. He
was a handsome, young man. wan
close-cut, dark beard. In their common
purpose-the rescue of this dying cr-phanchild-their
hearts beat together
"Can yon not stimulate him some
how'" he asked. "He is very low. Any
little complication-a fever. ven a
cold-might end It all. He la too pas
aive. He does not care. He seems to
be merely awaiting the end. Ve can
not get results under such conditions
It is not now a case for medicine. There
Is nothing in all the pharmacopoeia
that I can think of to awaken him.
For some minutes they sat in s11nce
All the mother love in Amy's heart
was stirred. Poor little waif no par
ents no home, and Christmas close at
hand. A great light dawned within her
Christmas the day of days for chil
dren all over the world! She turned
her deep, thoughtful eyes upon the
doctor "Let me take the case, Bbt
Jbk JtjizJMjlegijMD.MiaMLL.
said gently. "As you say," he needs
something beyond drugs." .
So they separated, and the doctor
went to his room to study. But his
mind was not content with books. It
dwelt upon Amy, as she appeared but
a short time before. It occurred to him
that ho had thought of her many times
in the past few weeks. But then it was
purely professional their common in
terest in the medical aspect of theii
work. She was a very competent nurse
and very attractive. Her eyes and
her mouth and that little wisp of hail
that always curled over her ear stood
before him. But pshaw, it meant noth
ing. Thus he tried to trick his con
science, deceiving himself and saying
it was not so, when, in some deeper
ptib-consciousness he knew that it was
so and really could not be otherwise,
and that he was hopelessly in the tolls.
This is love's alchemy.
in tne dimly lighted ward Amy was
at Teddy's bedside. The boy was wake-
iui and restless. He -wanted comnany.
Though her duty was over Ehe stayed
with him, talking in a whisper.
JJit iy bit she drew from him the
story of iis brief, hard life. He had
no memory of father or mother. He
had lived with an aunt, who beat him;
so ne ran away and finally graduated
from newsboy to telegraph messenger.
He was a doubter. Even Santa Claus.
that patron saint of the children, was
to him a myth "only for rich folks'
kils," he said.
But when 6he told him how Santa
Claus would come to all children, rich
and poor, if he only knew where they
lived, his eyes grew big with interest.
"Teddy," she said, "if Santa Claus
will come here on Christmas day and
bring you lots of presents and a
Christmas tree -will you try to get
welir
Teddy thought hard. "Guess that
might be worth gettin' well for," he
said with a sigh. "But he won't come.
I hung up my stockin' onct, an' they
wasnt nothin In it" It must have
been a hitter disappointment, for the
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"Yes he will, Teddy. I'll send him
word. I know he'll come Teddy, if
youll only get well. You know the
doctor and I are trying so hard to
make you Btrong, but you must help.
Medicine won't do it all. You must
think about getting better, and try to
eat and laugh and be happy. And the
first thing you know all the pain will
go away and you will be just as well
as I am."
It was a large idea, and his little
mind could not take it in easily.
"How can you tell him where I am?"
He was suspicious.
"Why, I'll send him a letter.
"Couldn't yon send him a telegram?
It'd get there lot3 quicker. An' tell
him to answer paid." He was on fa
miliar ground now.
She thought it over a little before
she replied. "All right, Teddy, I'll
send him a telegram. And if he says
he'll come will yon try real hard,
dearie?" Tears of hope stood in her
eyes.
"Yes," he said finally. "If ho says
he'll bring me a tree with lots of red
an' blue an' green an' yellow things
on It, an' some candy, an' an' a lo
comotive ingyne what'll run all by it
self." She drew the covers around his neck
and tucked him in snugly. "I'll tell
him, dearie," she said. "And I just
know he'll bring the Ingyne'. Now go
to sleep and youH wa':e up In the
morning lota better." She stroked the
little head gently. Slowly his eyes
closed and he slept
Amy went to her room. At her desk
she wrote a note to the manager of
the telegraph company, and taking it
to the front door dropped it In the let
ter box with a little prayer.
Teddy's first words the next morn
ing were full of anticipation. 'Gat
that wire yet?" Amy smiled reassur
ingly. "Oh, It's too early. Wait till
this afternoon."
He ate his breakfast with rerlsh. and
there was a new rote in his voice
when the doctor came in. But It was
a part of their plan that the doctor
should not know, and though Teddy
was on the peak of expectancy he
kept the secret.
At three o'clock a messenger
brought Amy a yellow envelope, and
she took it straight to Teddy's bed.
He reached for it eagerly, tore it open,
and with shining eyes read the mes
sage: Win stop fcy Bomo time Christmas
HI
morning. Too busy to see you, but
will leave a few reminders. Hang up
stocking. Santa Claus.
He looked up into her face with an
expression of rapture. "That's straight
goods," he said. "It's the real thing,
even to the press copy." Then his
thoughts took a long jump. "How
long before Christmas?" he asked.
During the next three weeks Amy
was very busy. She had to calculate
closely for the money. Her salary .was
small, and there was her widowed
mother to care for. But her anxiety
was unnecessary. One day a note
carne from the manager of the tele
graph company. The boys in the office
had taken us a little collection foi
Teddy's Christmas, he said, and it was
his pleasure to send her tne casn ten
dollars and eighty-seven cent's. What
a God-send! Teddy should have a
royal Christmas even to the "ingyne"
that would go by itself.
There was now no doubt that Teddy
was improving. Day by day the thin
face filled out. His color returned.
He was eating regularly, sleeping
soundly, and the spells of coughing
were less frequent. The doctor spoke
of the change, but Amy was uncom
municative.
"Some new influence is at work," he
said to her one. day. It was just a
week before Christmas. "The gain is
most remarkable. Tell me, Miss Nor
ton, what wonderful elixir have you
given him? I may need It myself be
fore long. I, too, have a malady that
denes drugs.
She looked at him in sudden fear
then flushed before his strong, tender
gaze. "I cannot tell you now." Her
eyes were turned away. Her face was
bright with pleasure.
"But can't I know soon?" he asked,
with an almost boyish pleading in his
voice. "Name a day when I may ask
and be answered.
She turned to him with a new light
in her eyes. Something told her that
his interest was not In Teddy alone.
"Ask me Christmas morning," she
whispered, "and I will tell you; not. a
day before." And try as he might he
could get no more from her,
Christmas eve arrived, with wind
and snow and bitter cold. Teddy
feared the weather would keep Santa
Claus away. But Amy reassured him. .
"Oh, Santa Claus likes the snow. He
rides in a big sleigh with a iong team
of reindeers. He's sure to get here
some time in the night. We'll hang
u your stocking right here on the
bedpost And then you must go to
sleep early."
At eight o'clock she went off duty.
Teddy didn't get to Bleep as directed,
for excitement, but finally he fell into
a deep slumber. His telegram in his
hand, and his long black stocking
hung In plain sight on the bedpost
All over the city, fathers and mothers
were commencing their work of love,
and Amy, tired though she was, began
her own.
In a private room stood the tree.
The floor was strewn with packages.
She had no assistance, hut she worked
on, with strings of popcorn and cran
berries, fancy bags of candy, brilliant
glass balls, and showers -of tinsel
Near midnight four strong men came
from the lower ward, and Toddy's lit
tle Iron bed, with Teddy sound asleep,
was carried gently into the private
room. Then she slipped away to hei
rest.
It seemed to Amy that but a few
minutes had elapsed when she was
awakened by the alarm clock on her
bureau. She arose, made a light, and
bathed her face afrain and ajrain in the
cold water until she .felt able to keep
her eyes open. It was five o'clock
still dark.
She entered Teddy's room and
turned on the electric light. Ho was
sleeping quietly. There was a step In
the hall and the door opened. It was
the doctor his face a study. She held
up a warning finger, then turned to the
bed and reaching down took the boj
in her arms and kissed him. "Teddy,'
she cried, a little sob in her voice
"Teddy, Merry Christmas! Merry
Christmas! Teddy."
Teddy woke suddenly and eat bolt
upright. He gave a shout of joy.
"Oh-h-h," he cried, In a long, echoing
gasp. "Oh, Jimmmy WhilliiUns,
ain't that great." Then words failed
him, and he could only look and look,
his eyes feasting on wonders that his
tongue could not describe.
They put a warm bathrobe aronnd
him and placed him on the floor, foi
he was not yet able to walk. By his
side Amy laid the stocking, now
bulging with treasures. In front oi
him stood the "ingyne" and many
other things dear to boyish hearts
lie handled them one after another in
silent awe. Then he took the stock
ing and with delicious deliberation
poured from it a wealth of treasures.
He was dazed by his sudden accumu
lation of riches. He looked up at
them with a smile. "That's a bulb
Santa Claus," he said. "He done his
part nobly. I'm goin' to get well ali
right"
After a while they nut him back to
bed, with his gifts spread around him,
and together left the room. The dawn
was breaking. The busy world was
waking. From without came the toot
ing of horns. Bells were ringing all
over the great city. It was Christmas
morning.
The doctor went with her to her
door. Even in the dim lisht of the
hall he could see the drawn lines
about her mouth and eyes, her trem
ulous lips. "You must go hack to
bed," he said anxiously. "I will see
that you are not disturbed until noon.
You are tired out"
Fhe did not try to speak, fearing
that she would cry Instead.
"You have won a preat victory over
death," he 6aid. "The injuries are
nothing now; he will recover. It is
the desire to live that you have Im
planted 1n him that is the triumph."
Then, cm sudden impulse, he Tint his
arms about her. "Oh, Amy, Amy," he
said brokenly. "Yon have saved his
lifp; will you not save mine, dear?
Will you say yes? I cannot live with
out you."
Then he was irone. on Tipr trpm
Wing litis h's V's burned I'Ve sweet
Are. Half fainting, her heart going
li're a trip-hammer, she closed the door
and sank upon the bed. Gradually
iwace came to her, and slnmber. In
her dreams she heard him calling
"Amy, Amy, I cannot live without
you." And suddenly she awoke. In the
broad sunlight, smiling, and whisper
ing tc b"self: "Herbert, 'Herbert,
yes, with an my soul,"
CLEYER WOMAN DETECTIVE.
MISS ADELAIDE C. RUSSELL
AMOSG MOST SUCCESSFUL
OF MODERN SLEUTHS.
Assumes Many Peculiar Disgalses
and Visits Little Known Sections
Is iaienied Musician and Accom
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Equipped with a personality as
charming as it is distinctive Miss Ade
laide C. Ru3sell has joined the army
of women workers, but in such a unique
way that her accomplishments cannot
fail to interest other women through
out the entire country.
Miss Russell is a detective, but the
many disagreeable attributes which are
commonly supposed to go hand in hand
with this profession are wanting In
the case of this interesting young
woman wno follows it rather from a
love of its adventures than for the
results which it brings about
faix years service in connection with
the New York Pinkerton forces and on
private work have given to Miss Rus
sell a fund of interesting experiences
MISS ADELAIDE C EL'SSELL
which have made her life a encces
sion of incidents well calculated to
weave themselves into a score of melo
dramas if she would only relate them.
Miss Russell is still in her twenties
but during the six years she has beet
a detective; she has b:en all around
the world and has adopted many dif
ferent disguises. She never works
through her own personality, but adopts
the various disguises as the occasion
warrants. Further than this she ha
the remarkable record of never having
known failure. Of the hundreds ol
cases on which she has worked she has
obtained the results for which she
started and to-day her Tecord Is one
of continual successes.
Has figured In Famous Cases.
If one were given a thousand chances
to name Miss ItusseJ's profession, thai
of detective would never figure on the
list. One might take her for a singer,
probably for an actress, maybe for a
newspaper woman, but never class hei
as a clever sleuth who has figured in
some of the most famous cases in this
country and Europe.
During the Paris Exposition Miss
Russell worked on several forgery
cases which had their locale in Paris.
In order to gain knowledge to be used
as evidence in these cases Miss Rus
sell, who is a talented musician and
plays the harp skillfully, dressed as a
street musician, again as a newsboy
and still again as a hotel waitress.
One of the most celebrated divorce
cases this country has ever known was
brought to a elimax through evidence
secured by Miss Russell. The husband
was the offender and went to Mexico.
Miss Russell followed him there, hired
herself as a maid and traveled with
the people all over Europe. She was
gone eight months and when the case
finally came to trial and the man found
that he had been paying the expenses
of a detective for nearly a year he at
tempted to kill MIbs Russell. Her
ready use of a email pistol which she
always carried saved her life. Miss
Russell admits that for once her heart
was in her mouth, although the fright
was only momentary.
Disguised is a Newsboy.
In New York Miss Russell has Bold
dozens of newspapers among the crowd
of "newsies" about Wall street
She acknowledges that in nearly all
the divorce, cases which fall to hei
share her sympathy is with the wife
Recently she had such a case to follow
np and having located her people in
the -outskirts of a certain large city
Miss Russell visited the house nearly
every day, but always in a different
disguise. First she went as a man,
wearing a little light mustache; again
she went as a little old German woman
selling herbs. Her accent was so
broken that she could hardly be un
derstood and ehe put up such a story
of hard luck that she was invited to
come again, which of course, she did.
The lady has a particularly charm
ing personality. Her voice Is soft and
cultivated, but can be made to change
almost instantly. She is handsome and
has a most striking Individuality. She
speaks a half dozen languages fluently,
is a gifted musician, and has a keen
sense of a clue which would do honor
to the best men detectives In the busi
ness. On one occasion when she was on
the scent of a forcer In New York, she
was obliged to follow him from the
house in which they were both stop
ping to a railroad station. H took
the train for Philadelphia; and al-
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though MIbs Russell had not time tc
put on her hat and coat she, too
jumped on the train. Her badge car
ried her, but when she got to Phil
adelphia ehe gave the tip to a depot
detective to watch the man while she
hurried into the ladies' waiting room
and paid the maid two dollars for th
latter's hat. Miss Eussell declares 11
was not the most modish hat she
ever known, but it covered her head
and gave her an opportunity to con
tinue "shadowing" her man, whom she
finally ran to cover, and made her
case.
Free Training otllarses.
An excellent work has been under
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The young women will be provided
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thef conveniences of a well-appointed
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years of training. In nursing the ick
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In adtLUon to regular nursing, the
young -women are taught bow to pre
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and how to establish and maintain
perfect sanitary conditions about the
home.
An Appeal.
My hand Is lonely for your clasping, dear.
Sly ar is tired, -waning for your call;
I want your otrexigta to help, your smile
is tiieer;
Heart, soul and senses, need you, one
and all.
I droop without yontr full, frank sym
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We ouht to be together, you and I.
We want nch ether bo to comnrehend
uie dream, the hope, tluiiiT planned or
seen ar wro-nfrht.
Companion, comforter, and guide and
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As much ns love asks love, does thought
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fly,
We ought to be together, you and I.
Cut It Out.
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