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CHAfUtK I.
, I?OVE'6 YOUNG DREAM.
; The sky was a vault of fleckless blue,
the eun a great gleaming 6apphire, thf
air bracing as pure wine, and the rai?
autumnal day was drawing to a clo6e.
Hopedale was a peaceful hamlet, bui
beyond its kind in certainly one progressive
point?it had a young ladies'
seminary of unusual excellence, and a
young man of more than usual acumer
Was enjoying the beautiful day and taking
In the distant turrets and peaks ol
the institute of learning in question at
that eventful hour, for him, when oui
story opens.
He had the look of an artist, and the
equipment of an artist surronnded him.
He had chosen the slope of a woodeci
grove for his camp-stool, and had sel
Els easel facing the village. The flaming
leaves of a broad-6preading tree
sheltered him. Air, earth and sky were
jln harmony with the artistic impulse,
fcut just now he seemed in a thougntru)
rather than an active mood.
i His brush had fallen to hl6 side, and
the canvas 6hovred only a few lazj
fatches of color. It 6eemed as if he
ad oome out to paint Nature and had
been shamed from feeble effort by the
glorious brush of Nature itself. The
Bun, which dashed the -white villas with
pale gold, made the sumacs a great
ensanguined blur of crimson, and,
mingling with the vari-colored treetops,
produced those exquisite shades
and alternations of color and beautiful
effects which no pen has ever yet described,
no brush ever yet delineated.
"I tvish she would come," he murmured.
"I wonder if she will come?"
His words were a sigh of longing and
anxiety, and he continued to gaze at the
distant turrets as if "the" was a fairy,
with power to fly straight through the
air to his side.
There was a rustling among the dry
twigs back of him, but he did not heed
it. Then there was a quiver of branches
overhead, and down came a hundred
fluttering leaves.
"Caught in a shower, Mr. Dreamer!"
1ntinVio/1 n Virifrht holl.likfi Voice. "Is
iOUJUVU
this the way you work at" the great pioture
that is to charm the world?"
. "Edna!"
! Over went stool and easel as the
young man sprang to his feet, as if from
an electric shock. Red as the red, red
leaves strewn about him flushed the
handsome face, and brighter than the
crystal rays of sunshine glowed hie
proud-looking eyes down into responsive
ones brighter yet, while he clasped the
hands, both hands, that had shaken the
bough overhead, sending earthward the
fluttering messengers of mischief.
"I so wanted to see you!" he breathed,
thrilling at the trustful glance of those
pure eyes.
"And I so wanted to see you, but?
Baymond!"
He was a privileged character, thie
athletic, handsome-faced young fellow,
all soul, all art, all love, for they were
affianced, yet her tones ^ ere a tendei
reproach, a mock serious mandate, as
his eager lips came a trifle dangerously
near sweeping her velvety cheek. She
had managed to shrink back and disengage
her hand, and with the tip of
one pearly pink finger she pointed back
the way she had come.
There was a roguish twinkle In her
eye, as Raymond Marshall stole a quick
trlance in the direction indicated. He
frowned and groaned, dolefully but
submissively.
His visitor had not come unattended.
Back in the grove, a girl of her own age
was toying with the rattling tops of the
blanched golden rod.
"Was it necessary," he began, and
then he uttered, quite testily: "Always
that girl!"
"Raymond! how dare you'" came the
spirited interpolation, and Miss Edna
De?ne showed the fire of her quick nature
in a sudden, indignant flash of those
captivating eyes. "Beatrice Mercer is
my friend."
"I wish she wasn't. Of all your associates
1 oi6trust her the most,* ventured
Raymond Marshall.
"You ought to be ashamed!" commented
Miss Tyrant, severely, "and
you ought to feel grateful to ner, instead
of otherwise."
"Grateful?"
"Yes; that is if you ree.liv care aboul
seeing me. You know the rules of the
seminary. No young lady may leave
its sacred precincts unless accompanied
by one of the teachers. Poor Beatrice
has to teach for her tuition, and they invest
her with the dignity and judgmenl
of a duenna. So, when I told Miss
Chandler, the principal, that I had th(
headache, that I thought I spied you sc
lonesome and industrious over here, anc
felt that the encouragement of mj
criticism on your beautiful pictur<
might hurry up its completion, she reluctantly
admitted that such a proceeding
would be quite proper if Beatrict
accompanied me."
Raymond Marshall winced at th<
thrust at his indolence. He brightenec
up, however, as he paid:
"Nevermind. All that will soon end
and soon we shaJJ^Uswr-no friend, chap
eron or duenna~to mar the comple'ene&i
of happiness. Eh, my little love?"
Edna's head had dropped on hei
breast, and she shook her head slowly
"If only?if only Miss Chandler woul(
ipcak "
"Yes," interrupted I{ayn:ond, excited
ly; "if she would only speak. Just loot
at it! Here we are, two loving, harmonious
souls. I think the world ol
you, and you take pity on me, and hop*
to make me famous soruo day by mar
ryin^ me and securing the right to ordei
me to work. My family are delighte*
with you. Even prim Miss. Chandle
acknowledged it would be cruel to par
ub, but?that dreadful mystery! Shi
cannot consent because she is not a rel
ative. She cannot secure a relative'
consent, because she does not know an;
such. Was there ever such a stickle
fo?" propriety?was there ever such
maddeninc muddle?"
r.ana s nana jvsteT consolingly on
her lover s arm, a? his face clouded.
"Oh! it is not quite desperate," ehe
spoke cheerily. "Let us go over the
renl facts oi the case, Raymond, and be
patient. Here I am, a nobody, a girl
from novrhere. I seem t have been
nlo/io/1 fit- tho cnmiriorr Hnra nt If) vafiro
o! age, without a memory of e:;rly
chiliihood. Miss Chandler eays a mysterious
gentleman brought mo here,
paid ten years' tuition and board in advance
for me, and?that's all."
"Not a lette." since?not a visit since?"
"Not even a hint. Here I was left.
"Was 1 an orphan, was I abandoned here,
or was the mysterious gentleman my
fa:her, who, for lack of a dead mother's
^arejg.asei^ me licre ios ketiPiuBj
r
ana going out into the world to forzet
his sorrows or win a fortune, died with
the secret of my identity locked in his
own bosom?"
"And now?" murmured Raymond, his
loval heart beating with renewed sympathy
for the friendless girl who seemed
to deserve all the love and care ne had
vowed to her.
"Now, Miss Chandler eays we must
wait. I am virtually her ward. She dare
not sanction our union. Any day my
father, or whoever my mysterious relative
may be, might appear to claim me.
"What would he fray if he found me married
to a painter who won't paint, an
nrtiBt who talis mere loyfi than art?""Wait!"
ejaculated Raymond, 1m
x: -*U *4 IT/ ,r? ? ?r\xr? Innrt^ TK^a*I
I |UIU*'IJ VIJ, X V/i *?vn iVUfst uu VT3A4
I years have two to run yet."
"Yee, but I am eighteen to-day?of
legal age. Miss Chandler says she
verily believes that some word or direction
will come soon."
It was an old story gone over now for
the hundredth time,t but there was new
interest in discussing it. They talked
of their plans, of their hopes, of the
golden future life seemed to presage.
"I must go now," spoke Edna at last.
"Why! I have been here nearly half an
hDur. I wanted to tell you about the
reception to-morrow evening. Mr.
Brinsloy is to take me. He is Miss
Chandler's cousin, and I want to please
her."
Raymond's eyes showed a rising token
of jealousy, but he was prudently silent.
"If he does not go I 6hall write you,
find you must be my knight-errant. I
hope tie does not. Good-by. No! Beatrice
is looking this way. ' Be patient,
Raymond, and above all, do make some
progress on that tiresome, never-to-be
finished picture."
She was gone as she had come, like
a flashing, dainty sprite. Raymond
Marshall followed her with his eyes,
until the bushes shut out the remotest
view of her pretty, nodding cap.
"Picture!" he murmured, with a sigh,
as be packed up stool and easel. "Who
could paint with 6uch a face haunting
every glance and thought? And she
bids me wait! Wait, to be tortured
every time I see her in the company of
that fellow Brinsley, or making a confidante
of Beatrice Mercer. How I distrust
her!"
Yes, Miss Beatrice Mercer was a
t!jorn in the artist's side. Why, he
could scarcely explain. She was pretty,
young, apparently,devoted tojhis fiancee,
but more than once he had caught her
eyes fixed on Edna with a latent, baleful
light, upon himself with a passionate,
pleading expression that mystified,
repuiseu lulu, xi? nucw uuu ?ujr.
But all this would soon end; ah, yes!
it must soon end. The mystery of his
fiancee must some time cease to be a
mystery. It was not an unusual case.
It would probably have a very prosaic
conclusion, with the long-lost father
returning, and explaining that, he had
placed his daughter in Miss Chandler's
charge because she was motherless.
Then they would marry, and life
would be worth living, and all the distressing
trifles of the present would
vanish. It must be so. Edna had predicted
that word must 6oon come from
her mysterious relative.
Her faith as hopeful as his own, Edna
locked her arm through tnat of her companion,
and did most of the chattering
the way back to the seminary.
Miss Mercer went straight to her own
room. If Edna had seen her as she
threw herself on her bed and lay convulsed
in a paroxysm of tears, rage, and
emotion for over an hour, she might not
vainly have guessed at the cause of the
vArvinff moo;is of this stranee creature.
As to Edna, she studied for an hour
and started to find her friend again,
thinking of Raymond's handsome face
despite herself, and Raymond's anxious
wish that the obstacles to their union
were removed?that "word would come,"
and the suspense of waiting be alleviated.
"Oh, Edna! Miss Chandler wishes to
see you at once," spoke a fellow-student,
as Edna crossed the hall.
"Particularly?" murmured Edna, with
a smile.
"Very much so. She sent me for you,
and seemed greatly excited. Something
has happened; I don't know what, but
6he acted very much agitated."
? Yea* "something" laa iiaDDenea. ana
Edna Deane knew what, a few minutes
later.
Something had happened in a way directly
in accordance with her thoughts
and Kaymond Marshall's impatient desires.
"Word" had come!
CHAPTER II.
FROM THE PAST.
Edna Deane's heart quickened its
i pulsations as she started for the recep|
tion room. The m ssage brought her
bore a token of excitement. Her mind
upon her lover, upon the mystery of hei
fair young life, she vaguely dreaded to
take the step across the threshold that
might portend revelations that would
distress her.
A glance through the vestibule doors
showed a close carriage with two reeking
hors? s, a driver on the box. Had
this unusual spectacle someth ng to do
with the summons of the moment?
"You sent for me, Miss Chandler,*
spoke Edna, inquiringly, as she entered
tho reception room, and then paused
abruptly.
The face of tho lady principal wa9
pale, her manner agitated. She hall
arose, as if moved by a sudden impulse,
to greet her favorite warmly, sympathetically.
Then, checking herself, she
1 sa d, in a iuuflled, indistinct tone of
, voice:
"Yes. Edna. This crentleman has come
for you."
At tho gentleman in question the wondering,
perturbed Edna was staring.
I He made a slight obeisanr-e as she appeared.
Now. stiff, prim, severe, his
sallow face and nervous eyes rather de!
pressed her.
"It is?it is about " otammered
, Edna.
"Your past? your friends?" murmored
, the principal, brokenly. "Yes, Edna, I
am very sorry, but your schooldays are
, over."
"Oh! Miss Chandler, don't say that!"
' Edna gasped tho words. She corn(
prehended that the consummation so
devoutly desired by her mystified, impatient
lover and herself had arrived.
But the shock of the announcement, a
realfzalion of how sunny ah3 "happy"had
been her life under the tender care of
the school guardians sent tho quick
tears to her eyes and the warm color
from her face.
, Then eagerly, longingly, plteously,
! ehe glanced at the man before her.
Was he the relative she had 60 often
dreamed of?the mysterious censor of
her fate?
"You are not?my father?" she began,
twisting h<-r hands in nervous confuBlon.
The strange, mobile features never
changed. Staring straight ahead of
, him iike some automaton, his face most
, resemtling that of a ra;in in ill-htal h,
^uffer.ng but silent, schooled _nga:net
A ~ W
the "betrayal of the least emotion, he
answered solemnly, but not unplea6infily:
"I? no. I am only your father's
friend?his servant?his messenger."
"And?he has sent for me"" 1
Every word was a throb of suspense
and painful uncertainty. A father!
Then she was not utterly friendless? A
father! But why had he left her loveless,
neglected, all those years?
"Miss Chandler will tell you," answered
the stranger. "She recognizes
the authority by which I appear."
"Dear Edna, Jet it be smiles rather
than tears," spoke Miss Chandler, coming
to Edna's side and placing a caressing
arm about her. "It is all quickly
told. You have a father, and he has
Dfuu iui ;vu.
-But "
"I cannot tell you more. This gentleman
not only binds me to secrecy, or,
rather, leaves me In complete ignorance
of the motive for ail this mystery,
but insists that you shall leave at
once. Of one thing be assured, however.
I am satisfied that you are going
into kind hands. All will be well. This
letter will convince you. It is from
your father." And Miss Chandler nodded
to the stranger, who handed Edna a
sealed missive.
8he barely glanced at it through her
blinding tears. She read only the first
lines, beginning:
sMy child, there have been vital reasons
for my seeming neglect of you,
there are still vital reasons why suddenly,
abruptly, you must sever your
connection with your dearest friends
and hasten to me. When I explain you
will know why no one must know "
^ +V\ a iniaoitTA
JDUIltt UA um^icu i<uo wuiiujouvu iuioot?o
into her pocket at this stage, for Miss
Chandler was giving her directions to
go to her room and pack up hurriedly.
In that apartment Beatrice Mercer
Joined her. With a strange, wondering
light in her eyes, she listened to Edna's
etory of the sudden summons.
"Oh! 1 shall surely be allowed to
write to you, to explain everything
when I find my father," sobbed Edna,
as she clung to Beatrice in a fervent
embrace. "Beatrice?Baymond?"
The scintillating eyes of the dark
beauty flashed wickedly, but the expression
was veiled from noor Edna's tear
blinded sight.
"I shall tell him "
"That I could Dot bid him good-by;
they would not let me. Tell him I will
get him word as soon as I can. Oh,
this mysterious haste unnerves me! I
do not even know where I am going.
Good-by, dear friend. Good-by, goodby."
A clinging kiss emphasized every
word. The tearful Miss Chandler waved
her a last adieu from the door. Her
somber companion helped her Into the
carriage, and the wheels grinding down
the soft road seemed to be tearing her
very heart-strings, as Hopedale faded
from view In tho distance and the vehicle
bounded forward, carrying innocent
Ldna Deane to meet a strange,
solemn mystery.
Twilight closed In a'lout the landFcape,
as the carriage dashed across the
country for the nearest railway station.
Twilight, toiding its mystic snroua
about the old seminary structure, waa
shut out securely from one room at
least.
With locked doors and shades drawn,
Beatrice Mercer sat at a table In her
apartment, poring over a letter, studying
it. analyzing it, re-reading It.
It was the crumpled missive, half
read by the distressed Edna. How had
it come into her possession? By design,
the gleaming, calculating eyes
told, for those eyes had the mask down
new, all alone by herself.
[to be continued.j
Franklin's Grave.
Two men, both on the shady side of
seventy, stopped at Fifth and Arch
3treets the other day to peer in
through the iron grating at the neglected
grave of Benjamin Franklin.
A.fter looking a moment in silence at
the flat 6tone which covers the last
resting place of the statesman, philosopher
and patriot, one of the old men
said to his companion, "I don't think
Philadelphia fully appreciates the
honor that attaches to having within
its precincts the sepulcher of that
great man. It seems to me if it did it
would take better care of his grave.
The fact is. that so far as I kao v, the
memory of Franklin is nowhere as
generally perpetuated as it ought to
be outside the State of Tennessee. I
guess if Franklin was buried down
there they'd have a big monument
over him. You know when the prejent
State of Tennessee was first organized
it was known as Franklin. It
bore that name for a long whilo until
superseded by Tennessee, which is an
Indian word, meaning 'the river of the
big bend.' For my part, 1 think the
State would hare done better to stick
to its original name."?Philadelphia
Call.
How Nature Makes Silver.
The process by which Nature forma
ber silver mines is very mieresuu^.
It must be remembered that the
earth's crust is full of water, which
percolates everywhere through the
rocks, making solutions of elements
obtained from them. These solutions
take up small particles of precious
metal whioh they find here and there.
Sometimes the solutions in question
are hot, the water having got so far
down as to bo set boiling by the internal
heat of the globe. I hen they rush
upward, picking up the bits of metal
as they go. Naturullv heat, assists the
performance of this operation.
Now and then the streams thus
- ' ?i? m v.:li 1
tormea, perpetually uowiag uuucr Jtuu
thither below tho ground, pass
through cracks or caviiies in the rocks,
where they deposit their lodes of
silver. This is kept up fur a great
length of tirno?perhaps thousands of
years?until the pocket is fille 1 up.
Crannies permeating the stony mass
in every direction may become filled
with the precious metal, or occasionally
a chamber may be stored full of
it as if 1,000,000 handles were fetching
the treasures from all sides and
hiding away a mine for some iucky
prospector to discover in another age.
v* ir t f
?xors. mercurv.
For Early llisin?.
The lark was up to meet tbe sun r\nd
enrol for his lay; tho farmer's f-.on
took down bis gun and at him blazed
away. The busy bee arose r.t 5 and
buzzed the meadows o'er; the farmer's
wife went for his hive anil robbed him
of his (-tore. The ant rose early, his
labors to begin; the greedy swallows
flew that way and took his lordship in.
Ob, bee, birds and ants, be wise; in
proverbs take no stock. Like me, refuse
to rise until half-past S o'clock.?
Athens (On.) Banner.
WAVE OF DEATH. :
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DETAILS OF THE TIDE THAT ^
SWEPT NORTHERN JAPAN. *
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Some 27,000 Persona Were Killed 1
and 5000 Injured?Whcl?
Towns and Villages
Swept Away.
Y"T THE story of the tremendous
I tidal wave that swept the
| northern shoreu of Japan and
caused the loss of some 27,000
lives on June 15 is tuld in full detail in
the adviceR recently received at San
Francisco by the Pacific Mail steamer
China. The first reports were not exaggerated,
and in addition to the loss
of life there were over 5000 persons
eeriously wounded and in bad condi- i
tion owing to the destruction of hos- 1
pital facilities and medical stores. !
The damage to property is enormous, i
and is roughly estimated in the offi- <
cial report at nearly 1,000,000 yen.
DIGGING IN THE RU
Thomas D. McKay, for two years \
paBt General Passenger Agent of the ]
Central and Union Pacific Railroads
fit, Yokohama, arrived on the steamer l
China for a short vacation trip. He
has traveled on three different occasions
this year through that portion
of Japan recently devastated, and in
talking about the remarkable seismic
disaster he said:
"The earthquake affected fully 250
miles of the coast line. A great wave
rolled inland and wrought havoc to
many villages and their ithabitante.
Fishermen five miles out at sea were
unharmed and returned at nipht to
find their towns destroyed and homes
wiped out of existence. The great
loss was in the Miyagi, Iwate and
Aomori prefectures. In the Aomori
country eight towns were badly ruined,
with great loss of life. In the Iwate
section fully thirty-one towns were
devastated, and in the Prefecture of
Miyagi almost eighteen towns or
hamlets.
"Of course, the survivors all have
strange and interesting 6torics to relate.
One man I heard say that he
saved his life by running up to the
top oi a mm. ma menus were en
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P.CINS IN THE VILLAGE OF ODACHI. I
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gulfed by running in their fright to- i
wards the beach. He says the first ]
shock he felt was slight and he paid 1
put little attention to it. Then a big i
wave started to come inland. In half ]
an hour the damage was done and the t
waters were back to their usual level <
again. He thinks the big rush of water 1
proper did not last over five or six '
minutes, and it was accompanied by a <
terrific noise. Following the first big 1
wave there was a second one not 60 <
large, but he thinks it made fully as <
much noise." I
Mr. Sakai, an assisstant expert of j
the Iwate Local Office, was one of i
thoBe saved. A report submitted by !
him to the local Governor graphically
describes what he had to endure. On 1
the fateful evening he was lodging in 1
an inn at Kuji. He felt a number of <
earthquake shocks while sitting in a '
room of the inn, and observed with 1
surprise that though objects suspended <
?as lamps?did not oscilliate much, :
the shock he himself experienced was 1
quite considerable. At abont ten ]
minutes past 8 p. m. he heard a noise 1
outside like the crack of a pistol, 1
which was followed five minutes later <
by a rumbling sound, resembling the i
explosion of a Bteam boiler. The lat- :
ter sound came evidently from the !
direction of the eea. At trie Fame time <
an up and down motion of the ground i
was felt, at first somewhat feebly, but i
gradually growing in intensity. Con- i
cludiDg that something extraordinary <
was about to happen, he rose hastily
and prepared to leave the house.
Just at this moment a number of sheds '
SHIZUKAW AFTER THE V
on the beach were struck by the waves,
and amid an appalling din their ruins
were swept forward into the street.
Mr. Sakai rushed from the house, but
the night waB so dark that he could
not decidc whither to Hy, During a
~j. *.?oitoHnn }inc/ll billoWR
Hi U 111 U11 (/ SJL Uboiiovivu
overtook Lim and swept him away.
As he wab being swept on his head
etrnck against what lie supposed to
be a storehouse floating among the
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?aves, and his body was tumbled over 01
.nd over three or four times. He at- b?
empted to reach the surface of the gi
yater, but lumber and debris kept th
)im down. He concluded, therefore, ci
hat his only chance was to keep as si
lonoposed as possible, and holding his et
.nmainod nn-^pr the water In
JXCniJJ L U i. UUJwmvvt
'or what seemed a space of five yf
ninutes. After that he was able to si
;et hia head over the surface and Ii
areathe three or four times. Again a m
3ip building drifted toward him, but fr
is he had no power to buffet with the al
waveshe addressed himself to husband- re
ing what was left of his strength. At si
,ast he .could no longer hold his w
breath, and had to swallow the salt w
water. The act was followed by loss p:
af consciousness. The next thing he h
knew was that people were talking in o:
his vicinity, and opening nis eyes he tc
round himself in a temple of Kuji,
ibout two and a half miles away from p
the inn whence he had been swept, ei
Tcao tnl/1 Kim* liin Virwlv had been B
found amongst a mass of lumber, and
extricated with difficulty.
An official report of the effects of
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"On the 15th inst. the weather was a
misty from morning and the ther- tl
nometer fluctuated between eighty hi
md ninety degrees Fahrenheit, about hi
:en degrees higher than in ordinary ct
pears. People suffered much from ;his
unusual heat, but did not think it
particularly strange, the weather be*
ng generally fickle in the Bain (spring
rain) season. The 15th, coinciding
ffith the May festival,' according to
:he old calendar, a feast was held in
jvery family, and the hours were passng
merrily, when, at dusk, repeated
shocks of earthquake were felt, and
it about 8 o'clock in the evening a
sound as if made by the firing of big
jannon was heard from the direction
>f the sea, off the coast of Higashi Hei
district. Such a sound from the sea
lot being uncommon, the inhabitants
lid not pay much attention to it,
;hinking that it might be caused by .
nen-of-war practicing gunnery. Only
\ few minutes hai elapsed when a |
seismic wave suddenly rolled in with
terrible force, and towns and villages
along the coaet, through a distance of (
175 miles, were inundated. In a mo- 1
ment men, cattle, buildinge, ships,
etc., were almost entirely swept away,
so that towns which had been thickly ,
populated only the day before were
burned into sandy wastes. Corpses
were piled in heaps, houses were com- ~
pletely wreckcd and the whole scene
presented the most ghastly and heartrending
aspect, impossible to describe. ?
It is reported that the wave was as t]
high as eighty feet, and that, though P
more or less variation occurred ac- 3
jording to locality, the devastation
md damage inflicted by the wave were &
zioat serious in places facing the *
southwest. Strange to say, fishermen
plying their trade about five miles off
the coast noticed merely a slight swell
ina naa no suspicion ui iur uwuc u
rence of euch a catastrophe. .Sfc soon o
is reports of the calamity were re- 0
jeived steps were at once taken to ex- E
tend succor to the sufferers, a:
rhe local Chief of Police was direct- n
3d to visit the scene of the disaster, li
the Secretary ox the Prefu ture was 4'
dispatched to Higashi Hei, the Coun- ei
jilor to Risen and Minanmi Hei and w
/"'Vi.if To, P<-vllo/?t/->r t.n Tvnnnhft. A
liiU Vyj-iltl. JLUA WW * ?....?,
A.t the same time thirty-three clerks 0
uid police inspectors, together witfc ?
L13 police constables and 450 coolies, o
wore sent to various afflicted districts, si
to succor the survivors, to dispose of ai
the remains of the killed and to re- p
store order. Neighboring towns and w
tillages that escaped unhurt offered
the services of their fire brigades and
coolies, and the number of workingtngmen
available altogether amounted c<
to above 4000. The disaster having tl
proved fatal to many medical prao- t<
titioners living along tbe coast, and o
the survivors having lost their supply ci
of drugs and instruments, the greatest n
difficulty was experienced in extend- ci
ing efficient aid to the sufferers. A tl
large quantity of carbolic acid, ban- t<
dages and such things was quickly w
sent, and at the same time fifteen doc- fi
tors and fifteen nurses were expressly w
engaged and dispatched to the scene si
of disaster. Even this proved insuf- e
" - -C i.
Qcient, in consequence ui uk mum
tude of sufferers, but iiow to meet the t<
urgent need of the moment was a per- c
*
J
fAVE TASSED OVER IT. h
p
plexing problem, the number of medical
practitioners in this prefecture
being from the first comparatively
small. At this juncture twelve sur- Ii
r/pons from the Second Military Di- g
vision and seven doctors, two ph?r- si
maceutists and twenty-eight nurses w
from the Red Cross Society arrived, a!
and were forwarded to one or other of a
the afflicted districts, But the ambu- h
lance stuff st'll proved inadequate, and ii
l the arrival of a party of troops
ilonging to the Sendai Enneering
Corps one surgeon from
e same division and five physians
and one nurse from the Fukuuma
branch of the Red Cross Sociy,
the detachment from the Sendai
irracbs was hurried forward to Miiko,
find the physicians from Fukulima
were distiibutedto otherplaces.
1 addition to the above a number of
edical men have been requisitioned
om towns and villages adjoining the
Bicted districts, and drugs, in3truientB
and other matters needed in
lrgical operations are being forarded
to places where they are
anted. Further, in ofcder to jjive
rompt relief to survivors suffering
om starvation, more than 1000 koko
f rice have been sent with all speed
) the scene of the disaster.
"According to the latest official reorts
the casualties .to life and proprty
in the afflicted districts, including
iokkaido, stand as follows:
Houses
Washed
Awa? or
- .v. TT7 ? J-J TT.aa1.A4
i> eat oh. rruuuueu. moun-u.
rate 23,309 11 4.396 7.429
iyagi 3,314 776 1,396
omorl 346 218 465
okltaido... 6 5 25
Total..., 26,975 5.390 9,313
The damage to boats and fishing
ear, that were washed away or de;royei
by the big wave, is estimated
t 250,000 yen in Miyagi, 540,000
en in Iwate and 90,000 yen in
omori, all in ronnd numbers. If to
ieee figures be added the damage to
lltivated fields, to houses and the
>8s of o'her valuables as well as cash,
le whole must reach a very large
gure. The fishing industry alone in
ich of the three districts produced
vet 1,500,000 yen a year on the averse,
and this has been seriously cripled,
especially in Iwate, owing to the
sstruction of the fishermen and their
apiements."
A "Winsome Welsh Mayoress.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
ttely made a tour of their anoient
rincipality, and at Aberystwith were
le central figuree in an important
inction. The Prince was installed
hancellor of the Welsh University,
ad the Princess was given the degree
[ Doctor of Music. The Princess of
rales wore the hood, oap and gown of
Doctor of Musio of the university,
le rich scarlet of the robe, the outer
Dod of indigo blue, and the inner
ood of puce being particularly be)ming.
Mr. Gladstone, who, with
THE MAY0BES8 OP ABEBTSTWTTH.
is wife, attended, was enveloped in
tie ample scarlet folds and pace hood
f an LL.D., his grandson bearing the
rain of the Chancellor. A less imosing
figure than the big folks, bnt
nite as winsome, was the Mayoress of
ie town in her quaint, National
arb. She received the Prince and
rincess of Wales at the station.
London an Overcrowded City
Arthur Clayden, lecturing in Lonon,
stated, as a "startling fact," that
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I me OOU,UUU,UUU luuttuitauig ui n,00,000
square miles of the British
!mpire, no fewer than 340,000,000
re crowded upon the 121,000 square
riles of the United Kingdom and the
mited area of British India. Nearly
0,000,000 people are packed like
irdines on 121,000 square miles,
hile on the 3,000,000 square miles of
ustralasia there are fewer that 4,000,00
inhabitants. On the area which
onstitutes the Metropolis, although
nly a four-thousandth part of the
ze of the seven colonies of Australia,
there are over a million more
eople than are to be found in the
hole of those vast areas.
A Curious Test of Coins.
In America an alloy of one-tenth
Dpper is used in coins to harden
i i .i i? *; ui?
aem anci maKe mem less uustc^uuic
3 abrasion. In England the amount
f alloy is less? otily one-twelfth. Reently
a controversy arose among the
lint officials of London as to which
oins, English or American, would last
ae longer. In order to put the mat;r
to a test two small steel cylinders
ere fiied on a revolving rod and one
ilea with United States and the other
ith British coins." It is needless to
iv that all of tne letters, milling,
tc., were worn from the English coins
welve hours before they were finally
Dtally effaced from the American
oins.
OJd Shaped Spiders.
Tbo most peculiar spiders in thf
rorld, as well as the largest ones, inabit
the island of Sumatra. They art
f all conceivable forms and colors,
nd f-omo of thein spin threads almost
9 large and strong as the grocer't
tvine. Some queerly shaped 6piden
ave square bodies poised on long red
;gs, and others have crooked green
nd yellow lepjs which support heart
baped bodies. One of the very oddat
of the lot has a body that looks
ke that of a young turtle, the "shell"
aving round knobs and pear shaped
rojections all over it.
Remarkable Cabbages.
A favorite industry of the Channel
I._J. iU. ? ?r
SiHIJUS IS LUU iniBJU^ Ul uovua^co VJ |
reat heights to make canes of their |
talks. These readily sell to visitors,
ho buy them aB mementoes, paying
11 the way from tweive cents to ?1.22
piece. Some of them are twelve feet
igh, and have a diameter of su
iches at the base.
BICYCLE yKATE,
Vri English Invention for Fast Road
TraveliDa;. ? '*
Inventive genins in England has
inroed its attention to the perfection
of a road skate,an adaptation of the con?
PNEUMATIC-TIBED WHEEL OK A ROLLEB- M
SKATE F3UME. 3|
ventional roller skate, which will en-;
able the skater to skim along over any fifl
road smooth enongh for a bicycle.
Two years ago the "skaycycle," as it
is called, made its appearance. It IS
had a pneumatic tire. The original
pattern was introduced in the United' Bj
States, but has never been popular,! ^9
probably on acooaut of its high price) H
?$25. There is too much ice skating; IH
in the United States to admit of the uH
permanency of the popularity of any
form of roller skates.
Not so, however, in England, where MB
the inventor of the skate claims that: ^Bj
"a skate whiohis independent alike of
the tickteness of the climate and the Hfl
more or less intermittent enterprise of
the skating-rink promotor is a long* H
felt want. The new appliance, which H
is really an adaptation of the princi-: B
pie of the cycle to the old*fashioned
roiier egaies, is iurmsuuu wim jjucumatic
tires and ball bearings, and it
will not be long in all probability be- I
fore the Blight exertion of energy on
them over a rea3onably smooth and
solid road is still further reduced by
the introduction of the principle of
geared action.
The skates are held to the soles of Mb
the shoe by the ordinary elamp in use U
on ioe skates of the club pattern, bat iHj
have an ankle support, which is kept Hm|
in position by a leather braoe lined ^Hl
lamb's wool and which fits about the HHI
calves of the legs. jnU
It is claimed that the skates may be HmI
safely used in both up ?nd down
grades, and that with practice a speed
of ten to twelve miles may be reached
on a fairly good road. Several of the
English papers are enthusiastic over hH[
the future of the road skate, pointing
oat that in its use every muscle of the
lege, back, neok and arms is brought ^^B
into play. This is true also of sawing ^^B
wood, an exercise which has never be- HH
come a National fad. BH
The English road skat9 is a cumber* ^BBj
some thing. The wheels are about
four inches in diameter. The skate ^H|
may be folded np for traveling.
Fishing lor Lost Anchors. ^29
One of the queer occupations of
mankind is that of dragging for lost
anchors. It is carried on in bays and B^H
rivers, and even in the open sea along
the coast. Several sloops and schooners
are engaged almost exclusively ia^^^B
this pursuit. The hunters are as fa
miliar with the ground where anchors
are to be found as fishermen are with^^^B
the favorite haunts of the living in*^^HB
habitants of the sea. The manner
fishing for lost anchors is most sim-^HH
-. Hj
A chain is let down in a loop long^^^H
enough to drag along the bottom, and^HH
the vessel goes on her way with all^BH
hands on board alert for a bite, and aHHR
bite usually ends in a catch. The re^^^B
covered anchors are generally sold^^^H
again at a price of abont twopence
pound, which is a halfpenny under th^^^^J
market price for new anchors. A
anohor will weigh 6000 pounds, ec^^HI
that the fishermen make $259 out o^^Bh
it. More often however, the anchor^^^H|
fished up weigh from 1000 to 200^^^U
pounds, and there is a pretty profit i^H^H
the business even then.?Tit-Bits.
A Human-Faced Hen.
One of the strangest freaks of natn^^^^f
has been unearthed by a New Yoi^^^H|
resident in a New York market.
consists of a human-faced hen, whi<^^D^H
he found in a lot of 10,000 chicke^H^^fl
winch naa ueen orougni 10 new
from Michigan. The hen is a Pl^Hjm
month Book. Its eyes are set
beetling brows. The chin is doub^^^^^X
and the nose resembles that of a ma^^^HH
Its tongue also resembles that of
man being. Several of the claws
fingernails.
The fowl is said to be a decided
cure, spurning the corn which
ations of its ancestors have conside^HB|M
wholesome, preferring moiste^HH^H
bread and cake. The present
of this strange freak intends keeJHKHfl
There is some talk in
building a memorial to the
Augustus^Harrie, the great
and theatrical manage;.