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THE RUIN OI Behind the hills the wind is like a hound That whines and whimpers at his master's door Against him..barred; there is a solemn sound Where murmured mirth and melody before Amid the trectops: music mounts no more Down shady lanes thai; part the meadow tartd * Above, the .reaches of the sky are spanned By swirling vapors ominous and drear; Veiled are the hyaline heavens blue and bland: Around us lies the ruin p$ ?hc year! Within the girdle of the garden ground? That fragrant Indies?fupst' has filched the ore ^ The summer spread so royadiy around r Ooid of tue marigold; the princely store . v Of radiant, roses lavish, yith ^their lore Of sweet 'endearment ftwsfim lily band," Chaliced of snow and amber, that expand What time the sun is a benignant snhere? All these have bowed before death's dark demand; *- "v s*- >" ' . * ' -:-How I Foun< V%'. c* ' -C- * \f. fiy CABIA iMQMm. BOUT the middle of March, jTjf 1S70, our cavalry troop was y ? A. ?"se't oui *rom *,ort Riel1* ^ ^ ardson, Texas, to scout for u few weeks tnrougii imr i country west of that and .1' look for Indians. I found there the Indians. We had with us as a guest an English tourist, who was anxious to see all this country: he saw some of it.before we returned. "When I saw him ready to start I thought that about a week of k .N this trip would be all he would need of it; but he roughed it with the rest of us and I never heard him complain. He messed with the Captain, a brevetmajor, the only officer we had with us. When he was, in the field the Captain lived exactly as we did; he carried no % canned goods, but ate what we did? :y bacqn and bread, black coffee and bean soup and what game we could kill; buffalo were still very plentiful. The Captain carried no canvas, but slept as we did under the saddle blanket. This would be no picnic, looking at it from an English point of view, I thought. We had been out a week when one # afternoon we went into camp on a small creek that ran north and soutif. and across it to the west about a mile x fand a Jialf away a low ouue muuu uuh on the prairie, and beyond it u mile ?ti!l to the west was a rather high roll jii the prairie that ran north and south. Before we had taken our saddles off ' ' ? the Captain told me to ride over to the butte, stake my horse out at it; then stop 011 top of the butte until sundown and keep a good outlook for Iudiniis. "We have seen no signs of them as " yet," he said, "but this is about where I expect to 'see them, if we see them at all." I started, and found the ground between the camp and the butte to be badly cut up with narrow ravines, which the water in the wet season had made oil its way to the creek; and on getting to the foot of the butte I found another ravine here. It seemed to head at this ridge west of me and f. * run straight to the creek. Crossing it, I staked out my horse here, leaving on the saddle and bridle. I rode'with a snaffle bit. that would not prevent the horse to graze; I might need him in a hurry. I had a short, heavy Marlin rifle, that I carried instead of the Spencers we were armed with. Climbing up on * " -1 tne Dutte, l iouna a nat piace ui .uwm two acres that had a high coat of last year's dry grass on it. I could lie down in it and not be seen. There was not a breath of air stirring and the afternoon was warm for this time in the year. I had been lying here about half an hour watching that ridge?it would be on it that I would first see the Indians if I saw any? , when a buck and a doe climbed up the butte and began to graze not 100 yards from where I lay. They never noticed me at all. I had hard work to keep from shooting the buck; but dared not fire a shot here, for it would notify any Indians who might be in tbe country just where I was. So raising my head above the grass I spoke to ihe deer. They gave me one frightened look, then left in about two jumps. I lay for another hour; then just after I had look at my watch to note the time passing. I gave the ridge another look, and saw a man on a pony ride up on top of it from behind it and stop. In a moment another man joined him, then a third one, and they .. kept on coming until there were five of them.- They sat on their ponies there, and seemed to be watching our camp, which was in plain sight over twn milps nw.ov. f!r:iwlili2 throilffll tile grass and hugging the ground. I made my way to the edge of the butte, then slid down it in a hurry, got my rope tied to the saddle, an J mounted; and now I was struck witu an idea. The Major wanted Indians, but there were not enough of them here to bother file troop with. I would fight these myself. With this rifle of mine and the horse 1 had under me, 1 did not think it a big contract to shoot the whole of them or try to. I got my horse down In the ravine, then rode up it. I meant to keep in it if it headed up at the ridge. as I thought it did; then when I isid got close enough turn the rifle loose. I had gone up the ravine </H) yards or more and had left the butte behind me, when I noticed that the ravine ahead of me was about running out. If I kept on I would soon have to ride out in plain sight of the Indians. They were still where I had first seen , * THE YEAR. Around us lies the ri.in of the year! Thick are the orchard leases on moss-^nd mound; ... - ? The Hesperidian fruit. of juicy core, ? Is harvested or stilled: in icy swound The river that complaineth to the sltore Will soon be bound in fetters firm-and i'rore: Like tepees tall and tenantless now stand The stocks , of corn that once waved pennons grand ' % Ere 'neath the noon was husked the ruddy car. And young love's lips fond hearts to .trdor fanned: ? j ... JirOUUU US JltTfc tllC tuiu ui %uc J cat. ENVOY. V*. Masters, the spring -mvaits. with kindUpg . ^ brand. To quicken life where life to-day is banned? ?? To wake to bud and bloom the sad an i sere; This faith have we albeit on every hand Around us lies the ruin of the yearL-. ?Clinton Scollard, in the New York Sunu j the Indians BLANCO. nKHB them. I could still see them; but they evidently had not seen me yet. I turned now, and going back at a gallop, passed the butte, then kept on down in tbe ravine to where it entered the small timber that fringes the bank of the creek,, then got into the timber and kept on to camp; but before I had got there I una to viae out into toe open again in order to cross a ravine that I could not cross at the creek. Going into camp I found every one at supper, or dinner rather?we only ate twice a day when on the march this way. I told the Captain I had his Indians out here waiting for him. "Are you sure now that they are Indians, and not buffalo?" he asked. "You remember that stampede we had after the buffalo last fall?" "Yes, sir; but I did not send you after the buffalo. I know an Indian when I see one." This was a slap at the Sergeant, who had sent, him after the buffalo. The Indians were not in sight from here, but picking up his field glass he and I went up on higher ground and I pointed the Indians out to him. He just leveled his gkiss at them, then called out, "Saddle up, and pack up! Do it in a hurry, now!", The saddles were on in i hurry, the men having to leave the rest of their dinner here on the grass. Then leaving the pack train to follow up, we started. I told the Captain that the column could not take the route I had taken, the ground was too much broken, so he bore off to. the left through a lot of chaparral on our side of the creek, going through at as fast a gallop as the bushes would let lis. Then after going a mile we turned to the right, and after crossing the creek, he put us Qn front into line and we went to the ridge at a fast gallop; but the Indians had left. It was nearly dark, but a few of us scouted to tbe front but could see nothing of the Indians. Then going hack to the nearest point on the creek, we went into camp again for the night, the. Major saying that he would hunt up uiose ienows to-morrow; ue b.ut:? uuw where to look for them. The men were in a bad humor. They had lost half their supper. I had lost all of mine or thought I had; but the Major sent orders down to the cook to get me mine right away; and while I was eating it the men kept up their growling?they knew what was going to happen when they saw me leave camp to-day. I never was sent anywhere but I found Indians, or their trail, or some other blanked thing. Why did I not fire a shot at the Indians when I saw them, then let them go to Hades and not get the troop, out after them? We have not lost any Iudians; we lost our supper, all right, though. I let lliem keep at this for a while, then said, "That will do now. Adjourn this debate and hunt your saddles for the night. I don't want to have to hunt si' rope and a tree for any of you. I found those Indians because I was sent to find them, and had I not found them when I did tliev would have found you to-niglit, and you would have lost part of your horses, if you have not lost any Indians.*' This settled it; I could run one of those men up to the nearest tree, tie liira up to it by the wrists, then report it to the Major when I had go ready to do it. I was Senior Corporal then, but did far less of this tying-up than any non-com. we bad did, and these men would obey me far quicker than they would some of the others who were continually tyiug them up for anything or nothing. Next morning, while we remained in camp here, the Major sent a sergeant and detail over to examine the place where the Indians had been. They came back in an hour and reported that there must have been at least thirty Indians there, judging from the trail tlier had made when leaving, and the men brought back an old broken rawhide lariat and a worn-out pistol holster. These the Indians had thrown away; but the sergeant bad a new butcher knife and its sheath that had been lost by some or tnem. me troop going over now started to follow the trail, but after a few miles it ran out, the Indians having split up. They were going in every direction now except toward us. This was done to prevent us following them; might have followed any single pony track, of course, but it would not lead us anywhere. We scouted through that country for, the next few days, but did not find -their en mrr^thrm^-rrs-theirebfef'toW nie years after this, the camp was only forty miles away. T - "> I tlfdn.aht at t?Le time that those Indians' were the'-Cohatti Comnneiies. They were about the only Indians'that ran loose at all times then, and" these had never been on a reservation and did not ?0 on one until two years after f iliis. when this troop of ours shot about one-half of them and drove the rest on a reservation. T Several years after this, when I had become well acquainted with the Co mnnches ami was Hiring with "them part of the time, I tcrtd the Cobattie chief about this affai'f^and'TTSked him "If he knew "any tiling about It. Yes, he knew all .About it. -It was he who had been there. He had atfjout thirty of his men out hunting, when one of his scouts saw us going into camp,"and ilSugTaci fo'iiim toldhim'oi\t (5Mlng in his men. he brought them behind thaf xidge, meaning to stop,tJ\ere dnfll after dark, then jump- our camp 'and run off our horses, if he could do nothing else. } "If you had jumped.that camp, you I would have found a hornets' rest- in it," I told him. "We had men enough there to eat you up." ' "You had about fifty men," he replied. "1 counted you- before I left, 'while.'you whre..mosnnting; rtntf^lf^T had had as many of iny"men there cs i*ou had I would have waited for you behind that ridge, then let you do the charging. But when I saw you start ihnd knew that I had been seen out ihere, I left. My camp was only two sleeps -away, and yoO'tnight find and destroy i 7 . ' *- %, p " ? ' /TwT /lAct^AV H tlln nltifif 'TT'flC vy uen ? c uiu ucouu.t ii iut i.uii.1 ii ? / away on another hunt; that is what saved him. ... . . .. ... I told the chief where I had been when I first saw him, and asked him if he' had seen me while I fooling around that ravine trying to get a shot at him. Xo, the first he saw of me was when I rQde out into the open near my camp. Then he waited to see if I had seen him, and seeing ns get ready to leave, he concluded I had seen him. So he left then; he could not surprise ! us now. and had not men enough to fight us.?Forest and Stream. TO CURE INSOMNIA. Lying Awake in a Habit?Yon Can Break > It Up Yourself. Lying awake is often a habit. It is worth almost any effort to break up such a habit. Insomnia is usually the result of one of three things?poor circulation, indigestion or mental distress. T^ie person who studies himself carefully will be able to locate the difficulty and treat himself accordingly. For poor circulation try warm baths, warm-water bottles, brisk rubbing, soaking the feet and deep breathing. For indigestion take a warm drink before retiring or when sleepless. Drink warm water, warm milk, weak tea or cocoa and breathe deeply. For mental distress mere will power is the best. Close the eyes and as fast as the thoughts conhe drive them out. Carry on in the mind a house-cleaning process. Sweet sleep and plenty of it will go a great way toward keeping women young. When sleep departs wrinkles come. . It is by sleep that we gain strength for another day. Sleep is to the brain and nerves what food is to the body. Here are a few simple tried rules for driving away insomnia: Go to bed warm. Never go to bed with cold feet. If the events of the day have been trying, read a short, light story before retiring. Leave the window down at the top and protect the bed from draughts. As soon as the body touches the bed relax the muscles, shut the eyes and make ready to sleep. Nothing drives away sleep more quickly than the thought that one can't sleep.?Phila delphia Inquirer. The Ka?le?t W#v. Sleeper, the Santa Fe stage driver, answers questions freely and gives the passengers a good deal of information that is not called for by their tickle \ nprvons old ladv was riding down a dangerous looking trail with him,once, when she noticed a liatchet lying in the bottom of the stage and inquired why he carried it. "I use the hatchet to knock injured passengers in the head," replied Mr. Sleeper. The old lady gasped with astonishment and drew away from him to the other end of the sear. Sleeper leaned over toward her, and in a confidential whisper explained: "We have a good many accidents on this here line. The stage's alius tippin' over and rollin' down precipices, and every time a passenger gits hurt he sues the company for damages. These here damage suits uses up all the profits of stagin*, and we've had to stop 'em. so every driver carries a hatchet. When a passenger gits hnrt we simply knock 'em on the head and throw the body over a precipice, and then .there ain't no law suit. See?"? Chicago Herald. Krok?n and Memied. | On swept the little red automobile (hat was built lor two. j "You?you seem so quiet," whispered the beautiful girl anxiously. "Is there anything about this machine that is brokenV" "Yes." whispered the tall man at lier side, bitterly. "My heart." Feeling remorseful at having jilted him so cruelly, the beautiful girl leaned, over and added: "Cheer up, George! If your heart is really broken we can stop at a repair shop." "Nonsense! What kind of a repair shop could mend-a broken hear'.?" "Why, the parsonage, George!" Twenty minutes later the "repaif shop" was r^aebfcd.?Chicago New3, . : PalmettoStafeNewsI J L rffv?? Well known Carolinian Dead. ' I Dr. L./v!Wv Taylor, weil known . throughout "South Carolina, died at Columbia a few days ago of pneumonia, aged 72 years. His grandfather was +a. colonel" in the revolution. Dr. Taylor was. a.*e#lcnel in the confederate 1 / ' -?~v? : army on Geieral Hampton's stall', and r the chief surgeon in Charleston hari .bor at the fall ct Fort Sumter. ^ > * , *- ? Edward. Rice a Suicide. ~ - -Ala., states -that Edward Carets Rice, 3d 'Vjgarfe cfld, .{Tcsfl representative of the Virginia Carolina Chemical company, < * ?-i A nrAminr.rkt nlnkmori woo fmiTl.'i tlllU a |/1 I \A V LXJi. fctJLl y II U*J dead in his office with a bullet through.his IrsAn^ .He left-a telegram ?' and letter on his desk,- showing that the act was' a deliberate one. He came from Ninety-Six, S. C., and the body will be shipped to that jpoint. The 'j'suiefda was the .of; James Henry Hice, df-^Iiaety^Six, formerly state superintendent of education, and a brother of,James Henry Rice, Jr., editor of The Carolina Field of Georgetown. * * i SoutKjjjtrolina Tea Tatflefs. A Washington -dfepeteh The . latest- experiment to be. made by the _ department of agriculture t"is that of compressing tea into tablets, one of which-will makeva^delicious cup of ten/ -As a rfesialt of what would ordinarily make a big package of tea can by this new and nnique .method be placed in a.{space about the size of a safety matchbox.' The tea is grown at the department's experimental tea gardens at Summerville, S. C. Each little L-c>: of compressed tea contains twenty tablets about the size of a penny, but about twice as thick. They are dark green. Dr. Galloway states that the mcst favorable reports have been made by those who'have tried the tablets. * * Seek to Join in Proceedings. In the United States district court at Charleston a few days ago, the Union Cotton Mills company of Maine filed a petition asking to be allowed to intervene in the bankruptcy proings against the Union Gotten Mills of this state. It is alleged in the petition that the Maine company is a creditor of the Scuth Carolina corporation, having probable claims aggre?gating a sum exceeding $2,000,000. . The nature and amount of the claims ara enumerated, the first mentioned being a note for $5,000, dated June 23, 1905, and due three months from date, "executed for value received." The following is a list of other notes: | The petitioners allege that on Octo her 3, 1905, the Chesapeake Shoe company. the Snellenburg Clothing company, the Aiwa Furniture company and the Spool Cotton company filed a petition alleging the insolvency or the Union Cotton Mills of South Carolina and praying that the mills be adjudged bankrupt, that this petition was amended November -4/1905, and the petitioners now ask to intervene and join, in with them, asking for a decree in bankruptcy against the Union Cotton Mills of South Carolina. J * * * New Connection for Coal Fields. The Atlanta Constitution prints -the following: Reports of the' ^building of a branch road that will run from Lake Toxaway to Walhalla, and from here to connect with the main line of the Southern railway at Seneca, S. C., above Toccoa, is of special interest to the Atlanta railroad circles just at present. The line is said to have revealed only a 1 per cent grade in the survey that has been made, and as the distance is only some 26 miles, the work could be "completed in a short time. The advantages to Atlantans and all those living in this section would be obvious. Vast amounts of money have been spent by the Southern railway in making Lake Toxaway and the Sapphire country among the most beautiful and famous resorts in the entire country. Just now the traveler must go to Spartanburg Junction, and from there to Hendersonville, N. C., and then go up the Transylvania road through Brevhrd to Toxaway. j Bat the greatest advantage to At; lanta and this entire section would j be the adding of ^noth'erroute to the KnoxviUe coal region from Atlanta. A road to. Maryville, in the rich coal region below Kncxvilie, to Dillsboro, almost a straight line to the main line of the Southern at Seneca, would be the result, and in this way Atlanta would tap the coal region by a new and practically direct line. N ?. - Policy Holders Called to Meet. A meeting of the policy holders in the New York Life and the Mutual Life in South Carolina will be held in Columbia January is, under a call iua fotxr rtnvs aeo bv several nroln inent policy holders in these companies. As many persons have policies in both companies, it is deemed wise t j to have ihc meetings at the same f Quj'e- - . -? It is- likely tturt a' permanent or: ganization will be formed for the pro | tection of the policy holders end that j delegations wfll be named.to. represent ! the South Carolina policy holders at i the annual meeting of each "of the ! +vur\ ^nrmic 11 !oc tr-hl/iVi n'Hl )>a in i the spring. The call is as follows: < *Tn view of. the widespread interest ! in life insurance and the efforts that may be made at the approaching annual meeting to obtain control of the companies, it ,has been xleemed wise j by some of the South Carolina policy : holders in the New York life and | the Mutual Life to hold a meeting .of | the policy holders in South Carolina i for the ^purpose of organizing an as[ sociation and to secufe proper repfre' sentation of the policy holders at the ! annual meetings of the companies, which will be held in the spring. The object of this meeting will be to secure the policy holders In their rights and it is not the purpose to involve the companies in litigation or take any other action which might tend to impair the value cf the .coMcica.. There will be no cost upon any policy holder who participates in this meet* ing. "All policy holders who are in sym ! pathy with these purposes as outlined | above are requested to notify the comj mlttee named below or any one of | them, whether it will be agreeable to I attend either in person or by proxy | the meeting to be held in the city of j Columbia on the ISth day of January N | at neon in the city council chamber." j The call is signed by policy holders in all parts of the state. OCCUPATION TAX IS DUE. New Georgia .Law Affecting Corpora' tions Goes into Effect. The new Georgia .law imposing an occupation tax upon all corporations incorporated under the laws of the state and the agents of all foreign corporations having a place of business in this state is now in effect. On the first day of the year 1906 the payment of this tax was due. The new law under which this tax is Deing collected reads as fololws: . Upon all corporations incorporated under the laws of Georgia shall, in addition to all other taxes now required of them by law be, and they are hereby required to pay each year an annual license or occupation tax as specified in the following scale: Corporations with a capital steel? net exceeding f^GCK) . . . .?5 Coipcraticns with a capital stock ci over $25,000 and not over $10j,oou .$10 Corporations with a capital stock or over ?ltO,uuu ana not over $300,UU0 *?25 Corporations with a capital stock or over $JuO,uuO anu not over $500,Uoo ?50 Corporations with a capital stock or over ?500,000 and not over $l,GOu,tfOO . .$75 Corporations with a capital stock of over $1,000,000 ?105 The law also provides that* the same rates- shall apply to the treats of all ^foreign corporations, having a place of business in Georgia. This tax is imposed in addition to all the ether taxes already required under the laws. The payment of this tax in any one county relieves the corporations from the -payment of the said tax in any other county in which it does business. , _ Failure to pay this tax readers the corporation liable to the issuance of fi. fas., and subject to indietment and to double taxes. . s STEVENS A COMMITTEE OF ONE / To Investigate Complaints Lodged With Georgia R. R. Commission. The Georgia railroad commission has determined to make personal investigation of all manner of complaints which are brought to its attention, and to that end one of the members of that body, Hon. O. B. Sevens, has been designated a committee of one to look into and report upon such complaints of a local nature as are brought to the commission's attention. FEW CREDITORS SHOW UP. Rich Bankrupt Estat; in Alabama to Be Sold Soon. It is quite likely that a sale of the assets of the bankrupted estate of F. M. Billing will take place about the last cf January. As soon as an appraisement is made Referee in Bankruptcy Asa Stratton will advertise and get in shape for the sale. . It is remarkable that of 712 creditors only 240 have filed proved claims. These represent about $375,000. JELKS DEPLORES LYNCH INC. Writes Sheriff to Make Investigation and Promises State Aid. Governor Jelks of Alabama has set on foot an investigation of the lynching a few nights ago in Limestone county. It was the only one of the year 1905, and is designated by the governor as a disgrace to the state. He writes SherifT Puryear to make an investigation and that the state will aid. GAPITALfOR S8WH .. Moneyed Men HurrvtO Invest f. Coin in Dixie. * AGENTS ARE KEPT BUSY , : |9 General Prosperity, Cotton Prices and ' v Wide-Spread'Advertising. Prove to Be Drawing Factors as Never Before. ^ With the' wonderful increase in the - "ffij business of both freight- and passenger departments of southern railways* industrial agents are responsible for V the'statement that never was there . 'J such a time as the present, so far as . investors and homeseekers it the '''30. south are concerned.. These officials . i|h' say that the advertising which the south enjoyed the past year in newspapers all over the country on ac- ( MjM count of the high prices paid for cotton has been attracting the attention. ||J of capitalists and investors as never before. ; Never in history have the agents i:i| received so many queries as to con- * ditions and favorable opportunities. etc. And the number of persons who 'jlji are coming south?at this time for the? purpose of looking over the ground personally is quite in keeping wild -yM the heavy volume of coriespondence^ rap Winter is always the time when the ' land and industrial agents are busiest,. for it is at this season that men of the north, east and west come down. to Dixie both for the purpose of gettine awav from the bitter cold and. iiSl at the same time to get in touch with. ; i|S| chances for investing their money *6> .j the best advantage. 'AfFor the last few years this num- V M P ber has b^en growing very rapidly fj|? because of the wonderful resources. ,. >l|| of the south and the marvelous developmcnt made possible by the grow-f j^H ing prosperity of the farmers, planters and people generally of this Sec- +A tion. These investors have not on.y 'A made "money in the southT but .they?-V<^^? have gone to their old homes and. AJi told their friends and neighbors of the exceptional opportunities ofleredL.: . ^ to small or large capital in Dixie. %; To a man railroad officials are- f f| agreed that the wholesale .advertising I " resulting from the great profits de- - j?| rived from cotton this year is sponsible and also the fact that the :.J|| many banks which are springing :|^8 I in the south in agricultural districts- >:? ! everywhere are responsible for tfcia | influx of millionaire immigrants and others who have plenty of money'for ^|1 investment, even if they have net. *' reached the seven figures stage wealth. The stories of southern banhshaving been forced to send their money east and west to secure inter- . 'A? - est on loans because of the citizens^- fxl&l of the south having ready money of their own and more on deposit with \ no occasion for borrowing; have crept.-'' ?-*? tiAmcrwnarfl nf the. entire?: -'-"A>*vi 1UIU UlC uvnsifM^viw w* ?^ ^ ^ *rjn. _ . country, and spread abroad the con v ditions existing below the Potomac:' and Ohio rivers. Industrial agents of southern rail- / ^SH ways say that it is not so long ag? . ' that they had the hardest kind of a. time getting anything of the true sto- * ries of southern conditions in the northern newspapers, because of the- . prejudice. This prejudice was not because of the civil war, but of the. reputation which the south and south- ' erners had had this long time, because of the debts and the hard times '> which had existed for years. V : DRY DOCK BEGINS JOURNEY. VfsB The' Dewey Started for Philippine* jd-ji at Rate of Two Miles an Hour. " : The floating dry dock Dewey started from Solomon's Island Friday on { her long voyage to the Philippine Islands. The Dewey only travels some 25 miles In eleven hours. She has over 14,000 miles to travel, and at the i rate of two miles an hour, it will take her upward of nine months to> make the voyage, with smooth weather. . GAMBLING JOINTS WIDE OPEN, ||| District Attorney Jerome Biffs Pdlftsvcal Leaders in New York. That gambling houses and pool. ^ rooms in New York are as wide opea as ever and that many of the em- ijif ployes in these places are given po sitions Dy pouucai ieauers as a yax u ^ of the patronage of their district was <-4$> charged by District Attorney Jerome ' Qjlij in the court of general sessions Fri- ' aJs day. There were a large number of pool room and gambling house case?: on the calendar and Mr. Jerome appeared in person as the prosecutor. COOL NERVE OF NOROICA. ' 3 Actress Stamps Out Incipient Blaze on Stage of Theater. Nordica, the actress, won the en- . ">J thusiastic plaudits of a matinee aual- Jjp ence at the Metropolitan opera houise Vv in New York Friday when she quite coolly stamped out a blaze on the ' ;2|| stage near the footlights caused by 43 fire dropping from a torch carried by ' 4|? a chorus woman