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THE SAVING WARMTH 



PARTY of Northern ex- 

 plorers were lost and dying 

 of cold, when they came 

 on an Indian camp-ground 

 that had befen abandoned shortly before. 

 These Indians had scattered the remain- 

 ing brands of their fire. Each shivering 

 explorer now sat down to warm himself 

 at the particular brand he had secured, 

 because they were of the true faith — they 

 believed in the individual and in decen- 

 tralization. But in spite of their shivering 

 efforts the brands were dying and the men 

 likely to do the same, when one man who 

 had not been trained in any school of 

 political economy, but was willing to stand 

 by results, persuaded them to pile all their 

 brands in one spot. The result was a 



