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Every woman likes to know that her jewelry is solid and perfect---just what' she paid for. Every woman likes to save money, Every woman ought to patronize us--it means safety, satisfaction and economy. ac- e vetG9PRE pTOEToS CONDENSED CLASSICS THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII By EDWARD BULWER LYTrON Condensauen By Prof. Wilifaoa. Femedk Hnarr of Cambridge. Aman. hEdward George RarIo Lytton llul-I wer more famnil larly known to novel readers as B1 u I wer - Iytton, was lorn in Ion flon, Mlay 25. 1803. -o was more of a lprodigy in his youth anl hadl a much inore pul1l)1 career than most Men wio have achieved fame as I \ -novelis. At thet :ge of 15,l he dis Stinguished himself by publishing a volttime' of pocms and bl falling so violently in loVe that he hecaer. hiI g h1 y morbid when his; proposal of marriage was not tuken beriously i' the father of the girl lie loved. She( died a few years later and Bulwer said that the (is.9ap Poiltnent finbitterld his whole life. At Cambridge, he won a medal for the excellence of a poem and published another book of verse In 1827, lie had sufficiently recovered from his premature love affair to marry, against his mother's wishes, a brilliant beauty of society. The match was fore-doomed to be unhappy, for both Blulwer and his wife were too unrestrained to live together. They quarreled, were legally separated and continued to quarrel in print for years. Bulwer was rapidly winning renown. His first novels were successes' but it was not until "The Last Days of Pom peil" (1834) that his fame was assured. Nine years later appeared "The Yast of th.e Barons." which many good judges have considered his best work. He wroto numerous other stories. novels of society, of crime, of mys teries, of family life. He was the most successful dramatist of his time. He dabbled in journalism. For 10 years he was a member of parliament, was later secretary for the colonies, and in 1866 was raised to the peerage an Baron Lytton. He died on January 18, 1878. LAUCUS the Athenlan, thy time has come,' said aloud and clear voice; 'the lions await thee.' "'I am ready,' said the Athenian. He had bent ills limb11)s so as to give htft self the firmest posture at the expect ed rilsh of the 1li, with his siall and shining weapons raised oi high, in the faint hope that one well-directed thrust might penetrate through theeye to the brain of his grim foe. "But to the unutterahle aston ish nlent of all, the )ea1st seemted not even aware of the presence af the crint inal. At tihe first moment of its re lease it 11111tel llruptly in the arenat, raised itself half onl en1d, snulling tile upward air with Impatient sighs; then stiuddenly it sprang forward, but not on the Athenian. At half-speed it elreied round and rounld the spico turning its vast head front side.to side with an1 aniiious$ and lierturbed gaze, as if seeking only sonme avenue of es cape ; once or twice it endleavoredl to ilap tip tihe parapet thant d1iv4ded It fronm tile aud(ienice, anmi, on failing, lut tered'( rather a hullied hiowi tihan its dee(p-toned 11nd( kingly roar. It evinced no signl e'iher of wrath or hunliger ; 11s tail dlroopmed aiontg thle sandii, insteaid (of aigitsiii11 gaunt side(s ; and1( its eye, though it wnnldered( at times to 011au ('ns, roll agatin ilistlessly from him. At length, aa if tired of attempting to escape, it cr'pt with aI 1m1an1 into uts cage. andi once more laid1 itself down to rest. "The first sutrprise of the assemlniy at thei apiathly of the lion s0o1n grew'~ into resenttment at its cowariie ;ahid thie populal(ce aileady moerged th'it' pity for the fate of GIlaucuis into anigry compassion for their ownt disappioint manw't. The mtanager called to the keeper: "'Iiowv is this? T1ake a goadn, and prick him11 forth,, alnd thteit close thte donor of the dlen.' "An the keeper, with someW fear,' but more' maston11ishinient, was11 ipparinlg to obe'y, a loud1( cry wa's heurdl at one of the enltran~ces of' tile a1iirn; t here w~as a confusion, a ihustie, voico's of remtonstrian'e suddeny1i3 btreakling forth, and1( suddlen silence ait tile r'eply. AllI ('y(e turnued in wontder' toward tire quarIteor (If the (listurbanit lce ; t he crowd gave way, aind Sldenly Sallust ap pearedl on thte Sena1tor'ial bhm(lIe's, his hir d(isheveled, bre'athless, hier~ted, haltf e'xhauisted. ie cast hIs eyesC hais tily around tile ring. 'IRemove thie A thienian,' hte eried; 'haste, he is in nlocent I Arrest Arhaces the( Egyp tihn; lie in the muirde(rer of Apse' eldes!l' " Alrt thou mad5(, O Satlust !' said I th praetor', rIsing from his seat. 'What meanis th1is raving?' "'Rermove the Athenian I Quick !or his bilood bie on your1 head5. Pra'etoi', idelay, and1( you answer'1 with y'ourI own life to the empileror ! I biing wSith me1 the eye'-witness. to) the death of the priest Apaccides. Room thei'e! standi hack I (Jive way ! People of' Pomipel. fix every eye upion Arbarues; thter'e he sits. Room the(re for the priest Cale "Panle, hnsggarld, fresh fiomi the jaws oif faminre end of death, his fatce fallen, hIs er i't G'ull as a1 vuitutre's, is broud franme ;'aunt as a1 skelet on, Calien'is was support ed into tha veryv mo in whinb Arbaces sat. ills releasers had given him slaringly of food; but the chief sustenance that nerved his feeble limbs was reven'ge ! "'Tie pries; Calenusa Calenus I' cried the rob. 'Is it lie? No, it is a dead man i!' "'It is the priest Calenuu,' said the practor, bravely. 'What hast thou to say?' "'Arbaces of Igypt is thie murderer of Apaccides, the ,priest of Isis; these eyes saw hini' deal the blow. It is from the dungeon into which he plunged me, it is from the dlarkness aind horror of ai death by famine, that the gods have raised ine to proclaim his crime! Release the Athenian-he is Innocent 1' "'It is for this, then, that the lion spared lin, A miracleI a miracle!' cried Pana. "'A miracle ! a miracle !' shouted the peol 1o; 'remo111eV tle Athonlan Arbaces to (Ihe lIlon ' "The power of the prietor wa"s as a reed bvenealh the \vl1rlwind; still, at his word tho guards had drawn thliein Felves along the lower hiencles, oil whIh le upper classes sat separat1e from the vulglar. ''hepy 1111de but a feeble barier; Ihe vaves of .the hu 111an1 soa ha111ted for a morn1blienit, to en abhle A ri, 'es to count the exact Io ment ofI hIs doo ! Inl despiir, and n rt terror. whleh heat downi evenl frid, hIe ghtnie1 his eyes; over the rollin" rInd rushing crowd, wh'iien, right above theini, thbroligh tihe vide chasm which had been1 left in 11he velaria, he behoeld a strange anld awful apparition; he beheld, andl(] his craft restored his cour age! "I To stretched his hand on high; over his lofty brow and royal features there (1ame an expression of unutter able solemniity aind comm-iland. " 'Behold !' he shouted with i a voice of thundier whlich stlilled the roar of the growd ; 'hehold how the godls pro teet.. the guiltless! The fires of the avenging Orcus burst forth against the fals witness of my accusers!'" The fires of the "a'venging Orcus" were those of the great rup~tion of Vesuvius lin 70 A. ). Toward such a melodramatic climax, furnished hini by Nature, the author had been spin ning the lives of his characters in the little city which nestled under the shadow of the volcano. The converging threads of the story are many, giving in the final weaving a complete picture of the life of Pomt pell-Its shops, tiny palaces, baths, forum, theater, circus, and all that daily took place in the energetie life of this toy copy of Rome at the begin ning of the Christian era. The story centers around Ilaucus the Athenian, brilliant, gay, witty. descendant of a nobler race frivolling himself away ami1d the courser pleasures of the Ro man11s, until finally aill that was1. fineo lin hii wvas brought forth by his love for Ione of Naples, who, lIke hinielf, was a (li1d of Greece. And alongside t his tale of love runis the pathetic story of Nydia, the blind slave girl, Who centers all lier hopes of. hatippi ness in vinfiing the affection of (flau etts. To tiis end she ga ins iossessioln of ii love potion1 whleh the opu1lenlt J.ulin has had prepared in the belief tilat it will bring to her the much-de sh-ird i'ilauits. Inl r'eality tile poItion is 1 ploisotn vhich will drive th' unl1 fortunate driniker mad. It is designed by the sinister Egyptian Arbaiices to clear ils pathI to lon f'14romi his rivalI ( ;auicus. Ini his raVing, Olanen 41( ornes14 uponIl Arhaces just as. the lattecr has killed lone's brot her Apoecides, a y'ounug priest of Isis, who, much 14) the annoyance of Arbaces, has1 enmbratced the new Christian11 faith. A rbaces lthrows the guilt upon41 1"oor 1 ltucus with ai1!tuppret sutcces. Hut the4 liriest 'alenuis was a hidden wittness, wvith the final1 result shown in the great epi to'de of the4'nook. As the crowd. in the c' icu tuhrnedl lhir eyes toward1.Vesu-t vmus, they iheheld "ai fire thmt shifltd rind waveredl in its liues withI everyv rnioment, nlow fliry lut ninuous, no4w oif a doll and1( dyinig red, that1 a~galin blazed0 I errl i(ially3 for'th with intIoleraible ginare. Then t here arose54 on Ihighi the 11n1iversal shrieks of womtuen; thle men sariedl ait ('14(1 oither, but were dinnh11. At thait mom'nent they felt 11hed~ iarthI shaki e b1eeat h lhir feet ; lie wails of the theter ' (tembled. and1 be'yond( In 11he (liSta nce they heard t4 Ihe crashl 44f failing roof1s ; 1an listnt morel'( and1 thei mouniitiln-cloud~ se'emed to roll to walrds thI(m~, darkt~ and1 rapid, like ai 4orrent ; at t he soame time it ('ast foirthb from its 1bo(somi a shower of ashes4' miixed with vasot fragmientIs of liurnin lg stone' ! (Over the cralshling vines, over' 111e desola to stree'ts, over 1144 amlphitheaterI is(lf, far and widle, with maniiy ai mighty 51plash ini the aigi ta ted4 sea, fell that awv.fiti shiower!I No longer thought the4 c'rowd of Junst be or oft Arbaces; soafety for themselves wvas their 5(ole' thoought. Eahl turned t44 fly--'Iich da:shinig, pressinig, crash I ng, aigainlst the (ither.'' It was save himself who11( could1 in tatnIghit o'f horrors. O f th 11'14Iy 4'p)sod4es s'en in 11he' lashels of 1lighit was that oif hiind14 Nyd Ia guiding Gilaucust to 144n1, andit then' leadinig bothii to4 sa1fety, 44he the only (one4 at home in the datrk. ness in which she had4 alvays lived(. Anid then'l, w en4'1 the4y hod gained a ship and4 put to sea and ail 1)ut Nydiai 1had fallen into exlhau4sted4 silber, 'Many the godls bless you, Athe'nian !" 44he4 miurmure41d, "may)) you lbe hiappy wvith your heloved once; may13 you4 somie times remlembiler Nydia !" A sailor, half dozing oin the deck. heard a~ slight splash on the wvaters. Drowsily he lookced up, and4( helievedl hR thel ve'0sl juerrily bottoded on, lit fanciedl he~ 5aw somletingI whiite above the 1. aives Copyright, 19194, by the Post l'ubllshing C' (Tho fllOsn Poset Al riget ,;, rnenoe., f after usinz entire contents of can of Luzianne co ee ac cording to directions you are not satisfied in every.respect, our grocer wil refun the mon yu paid r it. WRITE FOR CATALOG Goo (old? 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