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JiSmi! 0 0 CHAPTER V. 6 TUSAITFTi? ""What will Raymond think??wha< J i will Raymond say?" j o That was the burden of anxious j a Edna Deane'3 heart, as tfce carriage ; f that conveyed her from her school life t into a new and unknown existence sped j v across the country. | f( Ormosite to her sat her srim compan- i v Ion. motionless, erect, forbidding. Be* ^ epeet without severity had attended his j j, every movement since leaving Hope- | dale, but he persisted in that weird, op- i pressive silence that chilled, almosl | ? alarmed the warm, childish heart oi j P ?dna. She had comforted herself with the ? resolve to write to Marshall as soon at she reached her new home, ana had J. then ventured to address her sombei companion. ^ "Won't you please tell me something d about my 'father?-the place I am going , to?" she spoke in accents of tremulous J* pleading. j1 The man hesitated. Then, with evi? lc 1 * dent reluctance, he said: ? JS^-- "You are going to your father?the ri I lather who loves you, who will make B Hr your life one of joy, wealth, and happiY ness." " "But-, why all this mystery?" His brow clouded. " c "He will tell you. Believe me, it i; e lor tho best. He has been under a n cloud for years; his life has been nearly K*? wlnVoflnncc nf nth^rft. !Go to him with a free, fearless heart, I willing to forget all th~ world save | : him, and add something of joy to his j last days." | j* Edna chilled at the gruesome hinl | . that the words contained. Forget all the world save her father? Did that in- .' elude Raymond? j. What could the dark mystery be? Her companion's lip6 were sealed on the . theme alter they had reached the train. He provided her with every 1 comfort in the drawing-room section secured for her, and left her to hei thoughts, telling her that they would *{ not leave ttie train until aner aayuguu i , Then a fwift spin across the country, I a confused sleep, and morning, struggling lin the embrace of a blinding 6now- r; storm, the cars passing through a bleak, ;* unfamiliar section. Toward evening they alighted at 8 ^ little village. It was still snowing, and, leaving her in the cheerless depot, her companion vent to the stores aboul the place, returning with a frowning [ anxious face. "I am sorry," he said; "but can yot , stand a short walk in the storm?" * "1 am not afraid of the storm; I rathei ,t enjoy It;" responded Edna, cheerily "Are we near?home?" "Yes; that is, we cross two miles to another railroad. Then a brief ride, and your journey is ended. I cannot obtain a single vehicle to drive us over, anil thp train is due in two hours." They started forth. Edna was brave " and disdainful of the snow at first, 1 ut clogged footsteps, an occasional deep drift and blinding flakes soon made her breath come quicker, and her companion was compelled to aid her with the help " of his arm. C( Th(.v had cnt rast the limits of the town now. Edna shuddered at the cueerlessness of the twilight-darkening 0 landscape. k "AVc have not got far to go now," encouraged her companion. "This must be the bridge we cross. Courage, my child! Only half a mile more, aid " "Oh! come back! come back! Look! Vi That sign!" 03 Ednn, following in the footsteps ol 8 her guide, who now went in advance to clear a path for her more dainty feet, f8 had noticed the dashing torrent of water below the frail bridge spanning ? it, and, half-obliterated by the snow, a rudely painted sign nailed to one of the G1 bridge supports. "What is it?" spo^ie her guide, half- , v-* - hi way across me unuse. "There is a sign. 'Danger!' Mercy!" b A wild, frantic Fcream completed the sentence. Appalled, Edna Deane shrunk back at a spectacle that froze her hearl ~ with terror. At her very word, her companion, tak- ni lng a step to one side, disappeared. The r< warning of danger had come too late. m Through fome snow-povered hole in the , unstable bridge structure he went. v] Splash! With strained eyes the agon- r| Ized girl saw his body 6trike the foaming water torrent. There was a cry for hflp, she saw his 8( white face appear once, twice, in the ol turbulent flood, and thtn?the might; stream dashed on, leaving her alone, B; unprotected, In the weird arms of th? w storm and the night. Alone, sick at heart, hopeless, she 11 continued to stare vaguely at the circling eddies that had engulfed her w one protector in the world. P: Alone on that dreary landscape, Edna ^ Dearie realized that she was penniless, homeless, hundreds of miles from friends, and the mystery of her life o a. mystery still. sl p; CHAPTER VI. i ( LOST 111 "Hear that?look there!" n One of two men bound villngeward? w uttered the words in a startled, excited u: gasp, just as the unfortunate man who had been Edna lieane's companion and f\ guide gave expression to his cry for aid. h They had just passed the somber- i( faced man and his glrjish companion tl straggling through the >now. and, supposing th?*y were| bent down the river _ shore instead of across the unsafe h bridge, ha<l passed on without uttering 61 a warning. >"ow coming to the river path beyond ? a c.irnp of trees, that wild cry had ti rea-lied'the ears of the younger of the twain. u "Help! help!" h Looking quickly back and down the l; stream, he cauu'ht a giim:>*e of a fonc d struggling in the wild waters of the b tov'ont. t< They were strangers!" he eJacuTated. E j"The bridge! They've tried to cross it, And have fallen through " It took them ten minutes fully to re- -n "traco their steps, running around the ii [bluffy timber stretch. They reached d the bridge. Horror-eyed, appalled, they r( hlnnl^" fit tho tr/v1r?r*n C2r\r\xi* ?rwl _i , v.w ..V.UVU Bl the gaping hol<\ through whicn the 0 darkling waters showed twenty feet d fcelow. j, "He went down?I paw him in the b, 'water," muttered one of the men. "But the other.'" "What other.'" "The c r "Ah. yts! I forgot. There was a 'girl witn him. Jnu, they're gone! 11 .Man and woman Loth, sure as fate!". _ ? % 5^EJ They glanced far oown the nvex >anks. They even lined the stream for omo distance, but found no trace of he supposed victims of a terrible misake. Thus it was that rumor, speculation ,nd honor were rife at the little raiload settlement that evening, when the wo men returned thither and told their rauic story. This man remembered seeing the two rrive on the late afternoon train?that ne described the gaunt, solemn-facod tranger seeking a conveyance to take hem acro?6 country. A party was nade up to make search for some trace if the bodies of the unfortunates, but, fter lining the bleak shores of the river or hours, they returned bootless from heir task at midnight, the swirling raters and increasing etorm bidding air to sweep away or cover up foreverjore the identity of the man and the girl ho had seemingly met death at the ridge. As the render ksowg, Edna Deana's uide alone had sunk through the broken lanking. Edna herself, frozen with orror. had remained for a moment billed to helplessness by the sudden isaster. Then, frantic with terror, aguely hoping to reach some habitaon and summon Its denizens to at?mpt the rescue of her guide, she ashed blindly from the 6cene. Through the heavy snow she ran, the arkening landscape showing a distant ght. Ipwards it she bent her steps, >st it as a copse intervened, struggled n again, crossed a gully, reached a ise in the ground, and then leaned gainst a tree, panting for breath, and taring wild-eyed and alarmed oil about er. Her bedraggled dress, soaked shoes, hilled frame and anguished heart drove very sense to vivid suffering. With a loan of distress 6he realized that her ompanion was past earthly help, that le river had swept him away. The intinct of self-preservation, the fright of ,ie moment dulled her memory or tnat .Trible scene at the bridge; for utter >neliness and desolation 6pread before er; not a habitation, human being or ght showed. She might have been a aousand miles from civilization for all s evidences that existed in her immeiate proximity. "Oh! where shall I go?which way. hall I turn? I am lost!" Her tones were hollow, the utterance espairing, affrighted. Nurtured amid elicate care, scarcely clothed to endure le rigors of 6uch exposure, she felt lat her strength and her will were fast esertlng her. She tried to summon all her fortitude nd calmness. She decided that the >wn they had left an hour previous lust lie beyond a level waste bounded o its farther edge with a ridge of trees rwl Tn 4Kof /^ironflAn cKa LiU UUrUCOt Ail LiiUU Uli VVMVU CUV Girted. Knee-deep in a drift, swaying like a ?ed in the wind, she wavered, fairly i the center of the vast meadow. Snow was all about her?earth and ir seemed full of It. It dazzled her ision, it penetrated sleeve and hood, choked and blinded her. A fearful night, truly! The noise of 10 rising tempest rang out like the aves of angry sea. The storm had apped out the baleful light of moon tid stars. In the strength or a mighty lee, the wind raved and roared, sweepig the drifting snow about her like a hroud. "I?can?go?no?further!" "With a moan that was a prayer, the elicate girl sank down. Her strength ad given out completely. The 6now ime thicker, tho winds blew faster, le gliastly white stretch before her 9gan to be flecked with fire, as her verstrained nerves drove the feverlood from heart to brain. "Oh! the rest?the quiet!" she murmred, as she closed her eyes in that ital delight 'which cold and exnustion bring, to lure the deluded ictim to the last long sleep. "Kaylond?Beatrice?father! good-night,? ood night!" A rare, ecstatic smilo stole over her ice. The suffering of life was mergig into the delirium of dreamland, he had lain down to die?so young, so lir. so little realizing how near death razed her bonny heart! "Oh! let me rest; I am so weary!" A rough contact, a blast of warm reath sweeping her face roused the ecumbed girl to look udThen, with a frantic scream, she :rugtrled to her feet and stood troralingly staring at an intruder, the shock appily dissipating the lethargy that bounibed her senses, and bringing her a >alization anew of the perils that enaeed her. The hideous form that her uncertain ision had exaggerated into some terbie creation of her fancy, brushed ose against her, its rough head swept c?r hands and face, thrilling them to a ?nse of feeling with the animal warmth f it? rough care6S. A great homely faced horse, lost oi rayed from home, like a puzzled anderer over the black expanse, seekig shelter, the animal hud saved hex 1 (5. "I was going to sleep!" panted Edna, ith an affrighted shudde., "Oh! ] lust struggle on, for Raymond's sako. leaven help and guide me, I cannot dif ere alone!" She grasped the horse's mane as the nimal neigneu uneas;iy. uiinging 10 n :ie walked?was dragged along. Tht atient horse plodded forward. Thej ;ached a road. Minutes teemed ai our. Edna was conscious of relaxing cr hold on her dumb guide from she*': eakncss, of sinking helpless to th? round. Was that a light shining near?grat?? illy near? She trk-d to cry out, but er utterance seemed choked and hol>w, and its faint echo died in her own iroat. Surely, there was a house before her! ; -an open shed, too, beneath which the i orse stood panting, but safe lrom the j tor in. If she would only drag herself therel lut it was not to be. Exhausted najro could endure no more. She closed hrr eyes w;ih a moan of tter weariness and despair. Again er senses elided into that fata! dream- I \nd of unreality. The snow seemoil j estined to finish a dark night's work ; y burying Edna l>eane and the mys?ry or her fair young life beneath its aantle alike. Ghostly fell the snow! Fiercer rose the wild winds, mor? eird becamo tho clocked, misshapen mdscape; daruer grew mo nignt. jho | ainty form was outlined, first in a royal sl?e of ermine, then a little mound bowed, then a greater one, and then? nly a bleak, level expanse?the wanerer completely obliterated, as if a art of the great spreading meadow it*lf. And ghostly fell the sdow! CHAPTER VII. TOO late! Raymond Marshall had swept from ie presence of Beatrice Mercer with le jpy of q, men suddenly eputched 1 irom thfe darkest depths 01 grief and despair. In a flash had come a full realization of the true Btatus of affairs. He had been grossly deceived ? his bright, bonny Edna was not faithless! The letters he had received were forgeries, and the plotful Beatrice Mercer, inspired by love and jealousy, had wrought all the misery 60 happily averted by his accidental discovery of her duplicity. "I will find her if I 6earch the world Vv n A orHonflr Viimr uvm; lie avvtuu muvuu.j, ??wjant, exultant In his faith regained and the power of a love able to battle the mobt subtle foe. "With calmness, however, while his overpowering love sustained him fully, Raymond Marshall realized that he was at a terrible disadvantage, in the dark, with not a single clew as to the motive of Edna Deane's strange disappearance or her possible whereabouts. A seconcj visit to Miss Chandler, the lady principal of the seminary, resulted in tne acquirement of very little additional information. lidna's father had sent a trusted friend or servant to take her home. He had made it an express request that the location of that home, the mystery of Edna's life, her true name should not be made known. Edna must abandon all her old friends. A new life opened for her of wealth and comfort, but apuarentiv weighted down, or at least affected, by some dread mystery that involved the utmost secrecy. Reasoning all this out, Raymond Marshall decided that he could do but little except to await developments. His anxiety for Edna's welfare, however, hi6 impetuous, impatient spirit, drove him to endeavor to learn what course Edna's mysterious companion had taken In so swittly spiriting her away to her friends. He traced the carriage to the railroad town fifteen miles distant, but there the trail ended. Distance or direction taken by the fugitive there became involved points of speculation. For a week he hung around Hopedale. His painting was neglected. His father was involved iu deep business difficulties. which at any other time would huve commanded his attention, but just now he could think of nothing but Edna. He grew moody and taciturn, anxious and then alarmed. No letter arrived from Edna. He haunted the woods, spots endeared to him by their past meetings, but his anxious heart drove hitn to distraction as the fear grew upon him that his love was lost to him, that either the mandate of a 6tern father or the plots of the siren-hearted Beatrice were operating to rob him of the bonny bride to whom his troth was plighted. What did this girl know? Evidently everything there was to know. With subtle craftiness 6he had woven her Boft wiles about the innocent and trustful Edna, until the latter had made of her a bosom friend?an exclusive confidante. She had tacitly acknowledged to Marshall that 6he knew where Edna had gone, but boldly, angrily, she had re!used to tell him what he wished to know. Fully comprehending the girl's resolute nature, Marshall gloomily decided that if she alone held the fate of orroln TY1 onf I Tl Ct h!o lnVOH ftnH UiO C?Ci a^U^U 4-l_l V'V fcMig *Vf VV. ??V? lost one that event would never transpire. Wrought up to a maddening pitch of frenzy by the uncertainty and suspense of the hour, as well as by a sense of deep wrong and injustice, one evening Raymond Marshall went straight to the seminary. "Beatrice Mercer snail tell me all she knows." he uttered fiercely. "I wili plead, I will frighten her, but her secret shall be mine!" The crowning surprise and disaster /Milmirmtinrf trnilhlftR of thft hour was announced at the very portals of the seminary. Miss Mercer was gone! Blankly and dolefully Miss Chandler imparted the bewildering information. Gone? When?where? Beatrice Mercer, poor, friendless, dependent entirely on Miss Chandler's bounty and the meager means that her position as subteacher awarded her, gone? Abandoning a position which seemed to be a life-lease for her? Yes, 6he had made the sudden announcement that morning. Thoroughly amazing her friends, she had packed up. demanding her salary, and had leit without a word of explanation concerning either her motives in resigning her position or her future intentions. To the dumfounded and suspenseful Eaymond Marshall this seemed the last and most cruel blow of fate. His final reliance was swept away. He felt assured that Beatrice Mercer knew of the whereabouts of Edna. Now, she, too, had disappeared?there was not a clue in sight! Would she join Edna in her new home, and by forgery and misreprenentetion wreck her l'aith in her lover, and work out her plots of jealousy and revenue? Oppressed by this torturing thought, Raymond Marshall left Hopedale that) night on a blind, hopeless quest for some trace of the woman he loved and the woman he dreaded. Too late! The woman whose cruel hand was twisting his heart-strings with torture, because in her wild, erratio way. she loved him, had twenty-four hours' start in a plot so subtle and bold that his spirit would have quailed had he even so much as jessed its sinister motives! |T0 BE CONTIM7fctt| PUZZLED THE PHYSICIANS. Eight Months Old Baby In St. Louis Dies of Senile Debility Physicians of St. Louis, Mo.. have discovered a remarkable phenomenon in tbe person of a child eight months old. which died of senile debility. The child was Her man Robert Burcb. tho son of a lisnerman who lives in a cabin on the bank of the Mis-issippi River. The child was brought to Dr. Randall, of the North Side Dispensary, two weeks ago. for treatment. It was a monstrosity. Its boiiy had c#asod to grow after birtb. but the head was fully developed, the face beariug all the marks of an old man. The head was covered with coarse hair, and on tho faco wa3 a strangling beard. Dr. Randall states that the babe's head was perfectly developed iu every way, even to the bones, which were hard aud briitie, as with the case of people of advanced years. He did not have ngreat opportunity ;ostudy tho case, as his attention had not b::en called to it until the evolution was complete. During the time he was watching it, however, he searched in vain for a parallel aso. All th? medical works ho could find gave him nbioiutelv nothing of a similar nature, and the pbysic'an has merely let the mutter pass as one'o: the in:tu?' strange freaks ot nature. FOUND A WONDERFUL CAVi. C.m-ern After Cavern Explored and the End Not Yet neacheil. There has been great cxeitoment at Mans " . Id, Mo., over the ropurted discovery of the Irrgest cavo in the world near 1 ho new town of Hudson, on th? St. Louis, Mansfield iiad A.v.1 Southern Railroad. For two or three years the earth has been sinking to such an extent as to cause no little uneasiness, and the other day a very no- 1 ticeablo depression in the earth* was discovered some miles north of Hartville. TTpon investigation an opening to what is said to be the larg?* cavo in the world wns found. UilVClU ftUWi Ul.Ull, Mini f/M.w ?/M^? and traversed by subterranean streams, have been explored without finding au end. Portions of the stalactite.? founa in one of the cuvcrns were found m contain :;old. A Large nog Cron Probable. It is now very certain that another large corn crop will bo gathered this year. As last year's crop was the largest ever grown, it means cheap hogs and beef cattlo for a year tj come. , ? ? ~NAVAL CADET& 1 WORK WHICH SOME OF THEM DO ON A CRUISE. They Go Through Warship Drudgery by Way oi' Education?Routine ot Duties at the Anaapo/ lis Academy, TT NEW departure has been / \ made in the -work of turning f^\ out young Faraguts for Uncle Sam's fine Davy. The little 800 ton ennboat. Bancroft has been at the Brooklyn Navy Yard with thirty cadets on board, and the boys have been put through a 6y6tem of schooling which should be of immense value to them when they are commissioned officers on some of the great warships of the Nation. The Bancroft also went cruising along New England, stopping at different points before it returned to Annapolis. The thirty cadets on the Bancroft are greatly envied by the hundreds left at the academy, but the thirty do not know whether they are fit subjects for envy or not. When they arc on board the veesel they would be willing to 6wap places with those left behind. Bnt when the Bancroft is in some port, they wouldn't make the exchange \^>llVRl w . NAVAL CADETS A] for half a dozen worlds. Summed up, this cruise is the stiffest and hardest work they have ever done, and it ia also the finest holiday they have ever enjoyed. This paradox is easily explained. The Bancroft now carries but half of | her regular crew, and all the drudgery j of running a warship falls upon the cadets. This means that the boys have to take their turns in the stokehole ' ehoveling coal on the farnuce fires, * raking over emokinjz'ash pits, going aloft to furl sail in blustery weather, oiling machinery, rowing heavy boats, j doing guard duty at night, swabbing the decks and a host of other menial tasks which are not over-pleasant in a summer temperature of ninety degrees. ' These thirty young men expect to become engineers on the great war- j ships, a position of vast importance Tinner the changed conditions of ma-' rine warfare. Fifteen of them belong to the first class and fifteen to the second. As it is not probable that all j of the thirty will become engineers, the work on the Bancroft has been ; arranged to fit them for the "line" division, that they may become familiar I | ^ , IS THE .STOKEHOLE. n7,'+h nil fhftwnrk c.fruniiinera warship outside of the engine-rooms. The main object of the Bancroft's cruise was to give the young men a chance to see tbe great shipbuilding ! plants alc.ug the Atlantic seaboard, where they could learn something of the practical side of naval construction. The first place visited was the immense yards at Newport Xewp, where throe gunboats and two battleships are be- j ing built. A week was spent there,and ; another week was spent in the yards of ' 1 n IJl.ilorl/ilnln'Q wliprfl f! ' I He crumps, m iuuauvi^uiu, .. number ot ehips are bein<j|constrncted. i { rolliuf; milJs, foundries tnd other (' large mechanical places in Philadelphia were also visited. Elizabetbport, N. J., where a gunboat if being built in the Nixon shipyard, waB visited, and then the Bancroft came to New York, where many vessels of the North Atlantic squadron were, including the monster Indiana, the giant monitor Amphitrfte and innumable cruisers of all types. At the Brooklyn Navy Yard many boats are undergoing reftflfnrdpd nnlended ?7 a xx ) auu uuuow ?L ? chances for observing the details of warship construction. The torpepo station and the War College at Newport have been visited, and after stopping at all the principal manufacturing towns along the New England coast as far north as Bath, Me., the return voyage to Annapolis was begun. All over the land there are boys between the ages of fourteen and eighteen who hope to win admission to the Annapolis Academy, but these boys should realize that life there is net a continual round of pleasure. It means four long years of hard work, with study, study, study a continual diet. New aDDointees are admitted in Sep tember. It ie a difficult matter to gain admission to the academy and a harder thing to stay there. The young man who fails to maintain the high standard set is dropped with alarming suddenness. Briefly stated, life at Annapolis LOFT IN A GALE. means eight honrs of sleep, five and a half hours of study, three hours of recitation?, two hours for drills and four hours for recreation, leaving one hour and a half for meals. Practically there are ten hours and a half of work each day except Saturday, which is a half holiday. In the four hours of recreation ine cauec ;c uui um uw?i master by any means. He can only enjoy certain forms of amneement within certain limits, and is under a system of strict surveillance all the time. Beveille arouses the cadet at 6 o'clock every morning in the year. He can take his time dressing if ho desires, as the roll call does not take place until 6.45. Then he marches to breakfast, and at 7.55 the studies of the day begin. There is a recess from 10.10 to 10.20 o'clock and another at 12.35 for dinner. The afternoon studies begin at 1.50 *Dd last until 3.55. At 4.05 there is a drill or exercise which lasts until 5.30. These drills ore pretty to look at, but are not much fun for the cadets. They include the general branches of seamanship, gunnery, infantry drill, naval taccice, small arms, signaling, navigation, surveying and physical exercises, incluaing boxing, swimming, rowing, fencing and dancing. The schoolroom wirk is arduous. Id tho first yeir the cadet studies algebra, geometry, Snglish, history, rhetoric and French; second year, trigonometry, descriptive geometry, analytical geometry, English, history, the Constitution, elementary physics, chemistry, French, and mechanical drawing; third year, marine engines and boilers, sound, light and ueat, electricity, magnetism, calculus, mechanics and international law; an.l fourth year, 6C-amansbip, naval construction, naval tactics, ordnance, gunnery, astronomy, navigation, 6ur-1 veying and physiolocy and hygiene. i When the afternoon drills are over j the cadet roes as ho pleases until G.30, when supper is served, and he has unother short rest until 7.30,when he is supposed to put in two hours of study. From 0.30 until 10.10 he can ' tinkle a baujo or siug songs, but ho must stop every thing when taps sound, jiut out the ligiat and go to bed. I Seeking Revenge. A notorious counterfeiter im- j prisoned at Columbus, Ohio, has oljered to disclose the hiding place of .9100,000 of counterfeits and the location of ten counterfeiting plants if the Government will discharge the Secret Service agent who brought about his arrest. Upholstered Seats ia Parks, One of the city parks of Memphis, Tc-nn., which is described as having tinhnlttorstilts VifiR nroved SO in vitiug 11 lounging place for vagabonds that the '.keeper is kept busy arresting tramps for sleeping or lying down there. / n * , t ? * MOYED BT AIB CUBRE5T8. Pneumatic Tubes Used for Filling and Emptying Steel Grain Tanks. Steel storage tanks for grain are rapidly taking the place throughout the country of the old wooden elevators, and pneumatic tubes are used to convey the grain from the place of storage to the mill, whereas formerly it was wheeled in barrows over jbridges between the buildings or through underground tunnels. The erection of air-tight steel storage tanks or bins for grain in place of the old wooden structures not only does away with the danger from fire, but it is claimed that it preserves the grain for an indefinite period of time and also makes impossible the presence of weevils or other vermin so destructive to grain storage. There being no inflammable material used in the construction of these steel tanks there is no need for insurance and mill men claim that within six or seven years the saving on insurance alone will STEEL TANKS FOR STORAGE OF GRAIN. more than pay for the first cost of construction. Two of these steel storage tanks are now in operation at Toledo, Ohio, where they have proved even a greater success than was anticipated. With the air-tight 6teel tank taking the place of the old-fashioned elevator, comes the new method of handling the grain. The steel bins are connected with the mill by immense steel tubes and air pressure moves the grain, as it is needed, from the storage tank to the mill. The syBtem could not fce put in operation with the old style elevator, but the tubes are now in practical operation at Con'nersville, Ind. ^he machinery used in this pneumatic system is extremely simple in construction and requires very little power to operate it. By a system of air currents, the grain is taken from the storage tanks on a current of aii exactly as a chip of wood is carried bj a stream of water. The air current ii changed by manipulating two valves, one causing the blast, the other a sue ^ -I4ny?Tr ia nnanoJ I IUli* YtiiYO iU IIUC IUUM Vj^/WMW allowing the grain to enter the pip4 or tube. "When that valve is closed another at the end of the tube withir the mill is opened and the grain falli into a receiver. Exactlv the reverse operation ie gone through in putting the grain int<! the air tight storage tanks. It is firs! taken into the mill, then put in the receiving bins and by pneumatic pres sure forced through the tubes intc t.hfl tanks. The introduction of air tight storage tanks and the pneumatic system of transferring the grain, practically revolutionize? the manner o 1 storage and milling, and ere long will probably be introduced into the big grain depotB throughout the country. Care lor Sunburn. Sunburn sometimes causes intense suffering. Among all the remedies the following is one o? the best: As eoon as you get indoors order a pitcher of boiling water. Fold to half a dozen thicknesses a cloth large enough to cover the whole of your face. Pour over this enough of the hot water to wet it through. Wring it lightly?it mnst be hot enough to make this a painful process?and lie down with it pressed over your face, leaving space for your mouth. Let the cloth remain till cooi. .Then dip again, keeping the Water hot all tha time. After half an hour of . this dip the cloth in cool water, not ice cold, two or three times; then rub the face gently with white vaseline. Rub off with a clean, solt cloth and put on iresh vaseline; then lie down for an hour's sleep. Unless the sunburn is bone deep there will be small trace of the painfulnese left after two hoars of this treatment. ?Washington Star. Paid No Attention to the Cell. Sheep, so 1 am told, are just ai ?-,J -1 i I,; oq iVvcxr arp bl-upiu ttU'JUt UIWJ'VitD ao vuvj ? ? about everything else that goes on wheels. A young lady in Devonshire, riding down a grass elope, came acrosr a sheep which was lying down exactly in her way. Much to the consterna tion of her friends, who -were patching the performance, she apparently attempted to jump the animal. Ovei rolled the trio, with the result that the bicycle was more or les3 damaged, the sheep's leelings were hurt and the lady got a black eye. "But why did you do it?" they asked her. "1 do it!" was the indignant reply; "I rang my ceil as loud as 1 could, but the silly creature would not get out of the way."?Blackwood's Magazine. I Tlie Hlud-SJiaksug' Tau in the Uesert n First Elephant?"Aw, Reggie, horc d'ye do?" Second Elephant?"Put it there, old man." The Japanese Government has or dered f^ur iron clads and four first class and two second-class cruisers from British ship builders. . LIFE-SATING STATION AFLOAt Boats to Be Launched From an Artificial Harbor Oft Shore. Boston's floating life-saving statioi has been completed. It is to be sta tioned about a mile off shore in Dor V . .ft FLOATING IilFE-SAVING STATION. 1 Chester Harbor, between City Poinl and Thompson's Island. According td the Boston Globe this is a picture of the new station boat, which is the onll one in use in seacoast waters. tTher^ is one similar to this in use on th< Missouri Biver. ^ The new station is a boat 100 feet j loner, thirtv- three feet beam and J twelve feet from keel to apper deck. It draws very little water and has no propelling power, being towed to it* location and anchored there. There is an opening about nineteen feet ill width which extends about one-third the length of the hall and through the center from the stern. From this opening the lifeboats will be launched. The boat will swing always on a free cable, and being anohored from the bow the life-savers will always have " the lee of the boat in which to launch their lifeboats. ' ?i The new boat nan been lying at a City Point shipyard, where the Government fitted her out with lifeboats, launches, bedding, furniture, stores, anchors, chains and the necessary supplies. She was bnilt in Noank, Conn., under specifications furnished by Superintendent Eimball of the United States Life-saving Service, and has been in charge of Lieutenant F. H. Newcomb, Inspector of Life-saving Stations for Maine, New Hampshire1 and Massachusetts. Lieutenant Newcomb will appoint the captain of the station on recommendation of the yachtsmen and sailormen interested.' The captain will command a crew of eight men of his own selection. SMALLEST HORSE IS THE WORLD. Dot Bat a Mere Midget of the H Equine Species. H A pony born on the farm of Israel H Hnnton, hi Orange Coanty, Ohio, is H regarded as one of the most remarks* B ble freaks of the world. ?Wf/Mw/x\ 1 I a -?-r/-\-r?nT? A\T T7 TU rrTTTPV TV PIT 175 TTTH J!1 I1UA3A U.^UX While dow aboat two years old, interesting bit of horseflesh is onl^^f thirteen inches high, and is ucdoubt^Q edly the smallest equine specimen oi^H earth. "Dot," as this midget is callec^^f has a remarkable history; for, 'nnlikflfl other dwarfs of her race, she was tb^^H product of an ancestry of ordinar^^Hj everyday horses. Both her dam and sire were of th^^H usual 8iZ3 and appearance, and so faHB as is known there is no reason for heflfl remarkably diminutive form. She I therefore purely a freak. When borflH " * - ? ~ ikon A vlf f I sue WHS UUL UJUUU buaua and bad to be fed by her owner frooHfl the beginning. Great, care was give^^f the tiny colt in the effort to raise her^^H and now 6he is fall grown, almo^H| perfectly formed and vigorous health. Many offers of large sums havebee^^B made Mr. Huntun by museam an^HB circas managers for "Dot," who is, course, much wanted for exhibitio^^H purposes. Thesehave all been refuse<flH : hai?ftnsfl Mr. Hunton has two litt^^H daughters who are so much attacbe^^B to the family pet that he has not bee^^H able to secure their consent. BeinHfl wealthy himself, it is probable th^HB those who wish to see the tiniest hor^^H ou tbe globe will have to see it on tt^HB fnrm of its owner. 98 raving Prices in Pittsburg. According to City Government, th^^H recent drop in paving prices in Pitt^^H burg and Allegheny have caused ofi^HBH cials of other cities to write for pa^^H ticulars. Pittsburg has just let coifm tracts for paving sixty-lour street^Mfl No. 2 asphalt pavement, which hasHH foundation stone of six inches, a^^H inch and a half binder and the sam^^H thicKness oi top coat, was reauce^BS from $2.50 to S1.S5 per square yaro^^H The favorite asphalt pavement Pittsburg is No. 7, which has seve^^J inches of concrete and two inches o^H| top coat. It now costs $1.87 peflH square yard. In all of these contruci^^H Trinidad asphalt is specified, that b^JH ing the only asphalt in the Easter^HJ market which is not regarded oy th^H| PittBhnrfr ntiieiftls as an exneriment^^H - Fruit promises to replace flower^^B for early autumn wear, and red i^HI likely to be a most popular color^^H combined with either cherries or curflH I