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K CHAPTER Till. j, ON THE THRESHOLD. ]( I One thought had been dominant in c the heart of Beatrioe Mercer since the n tmoment that Raymond Marshall's dis- y joovery of her duplicity had crushed her a rwith humiliation. A bitter, cruel re- s Solve that, come what might, he should ij tnever again eee the face of the woman She loved! , , 1? (im'M hpflrt had nl rauouvo: uui ?v? w Srobbed out. "He loves her .vet; he a owe her to be true. He despises mo, ej bat?he shall yet love me. I cannot loso l>im He 6hall never find or wed Edna IJDeano." e, j Then, calming her fierce, resolute jj nature to subtle, sinister regard of all y fhe issues in the case in which mingled cj love and jealousy involved her, Beatrice y JMercer fell to studying the chances in tier favor. g Ijj&L- 'I She knew where Edna had gone; the Br letter that Edna had only half read, Y femid her excitement and anxiety, had e. Bp T>een conned over and over again by the Dl plotting Beatrice. p Tto fnnt^nta anve her nn insiffht of tha j character of the father who had sent ilor his beloved child, into his secrets as je Well, and she knew that one of two ithings would happen when Edna reached a Ihome?her father would order her to lorget all friends of the past, or, if any 8j lletter or word was sent to Raymond a] 'Marshall, it would be through her w friends. o] J As the days passed by, however, and no word was received, 6be grew puz- w izled, disturbed, and finally anxious m The evening preceding that upon which ei iRaymond Marshall appeared at the jBeminary to find her gone, however, she fKof ctorHorl V?or mtrt KZittuo a uidwvwj cuau uvu ^ & new train of thought and action, unexpected, vivid, exciting. ! A 6tudent living at quite a distance received regularly the -weekly paper published at her home, and glancing ja ?ver this, Beatrice felt the blood rush ^ (from her heart through icy channels, as ^ she noted an item that told her intui- jQ (tively that she hai found a traoe of the missing Edna at last. I It wa^ the record of the death by T( k 'drowning of a man and a girl; tht> ack joount of the scene at that broken L (bridge, where the two villagers had Iseen Edna Deane's companion plunge or Em jto his death, and had accredited Edna {herself with falling & victim to the e(j [A tame fate. cc j Within an hour, from a careful study g, {of the item and from a knowledge of pj |the route taken by Edna and her guide, ^ Beatrice knew that 6he no longer had a w HSn^Ajxival. Edna Deane was dead! p{ She knew something more. She knew HBDH^Kiat with the death of these two had Bt A *Mt/?V4TT rArtrnf fKof CHmO. . ^ /JMJIIBUCU a uugutj ooviuv?vuuv BV^V where?and she knew where, an anx- Bjj ious father wa? awaiting the return of j?( hie beloved daughter, to lay at her feet, as Cn atonement for the forced neglect br of years, a royal fortune. llt The next morning Beatrice Mercer's p? jmind was made up. All night long she jhad plotted and planned. The jealous- jn Rinded school girl of the night previous jhad become in a few brief hours a will- ^ Jul, wicked siren, imbued with schemes ^ as bold and cruel as the hardest heart ot lever yet designed. j She went straight to the town where ;Edna and her companion had disap- ^ ;peared. Within twenty-four hours she ge ^as satisfied that both had met their w fate in the turbulent torrent that flowed ^ beneath the bioken rustic bridge. ^ j "Forwealth?for Raymond Marshall's gt 'lovo!" she murmured resolutely, as. a j few hours later, she took a train far the (next station. i Evening shadows were creeping over ^ ;the autumnal landscape as Beatrice Vj jMercer left the littie depot and walked fr ytowards the outskirts of the village. I DI In the dim lij-ht she made out an | v.. antique but magnificent mansion, occu- | ^ pying elaborate grounds, but surround- j ^ jed by great, high walls. j0 L "So near to home and then to lose 1 a life, fortune, and love!" murmured the ' teely hearted siren. "Poor Edna! but j I cannot miss this royal chance." Her eyes sparkled as she drew from { :ber pocket a little chain and locket that iEdna had worn at school and which she ^ had leit behind her in her hurry to go to seek her father. She calmed herself, as if for a mighty j ordeal, as she seized the bell-knob at .the iron gate and soundedone resonant, j .'discordant peal through the gloomy w structure beyond. "P'airly on the threshold!" she breathed j wildly, yet exultantly, a6 6he awaited a I ^ reply to her fourumon'ti?"one bold stroke, | * a single resolute assumption, and I eh all be mistress of wealth untold, to pave the way to the heart of the man 1 love?Raymond Marshall!" tj. CHAPTER IX. ir SUCCESS. 1 * * -? Jl - I ffl A craboed-iaceu man answered me *ring at the iron gate after a lapse of 111 jseveral minutes, stared at the veiled w figure without, lirst penetratingly and ni ;thcn w.'thout suspicion, and asked, unceremoniously: 11 ; "Who are you?what do you want?" rt Beatrice Mercer was an actress. She had come prepared to feign a part, and P1 8be did it well. s< All the fire and impetuosity of her P passionate nature was subdued to the " ieeermngly shrinking timidity of a shy iroun^ Kiri. rt She stammered out a frightened apology and clung to the iron gate as if weary and weak. "I iiav?.' comn a long ways," she mur mured, "and I must make no mistake. a| [The gentleman who lives here?Mr. ?j 'Caleb Marston." c The servant or helper uttered a sharp ejaculation of surprise and renewed e< suspicion. a "Who told you that Mr Caleb Marston lived here?" he demanded. ^ "I?I?does he not? Then I will co, r( if I am in error," and Beatrice re- ^ treated. 1 Quick as a Hash the man unlocked the ? r .... a frate, seized her arm, dragged her inside tl the overgrown, ill-kept garden, and re- ti jjarded her much with the angry glare d Of an enemy. , "No, you don't!" he said. "Where did o frou get that name?Marston? Who told h frou? Speak! Have they guessed hi9 ri niding-place again?" the man half mut- a *ereu 10 ruinseu. tl : "I got the name from a letter?a let ter from Mr. Marston himself," explain- h led Beatrice. J "Oh!" muttered the.man. "I'll guarantee ho never tuld you to use that rr name hereabouts, all the same. Eals- b to?.giil! Do you understand? Never ? ~wh. sper Marston again, if you're friends I: of ours." a v.- .w. . . - y 'v _ t *k\' ; / &Z2Xi?pJ< : "Can I see him?" ^ ? ^ w t^un you bee wuor "Mr. Mar?Mr. Ealston? He sent or me." "He did?" "Y?s. Take me to him. He will tell rou it is ail right." The man studied a bit. He reiocked he gate and made sure that no one was urking about the place. Then taking ji enormous bunch of keys from his locket, he led the way to the house. A massive, gloomy structure, the care ie manifested in penetrating the doubly ocked portals, indicated a jail or a astle of defense. It was richly furlished within, but the closed and barred rindows and chill pervading eacb partment made the antiquated manion seem somber, gloomy, and uninvitig in the extreme. J4. n JLuu noil ncio. Beatrice's guide pointed surlily to a hair in a Bmall waiting-room, and disppeared through a door at its other ad. There was the low hum of conversaon in the adjoining apartment. Her yes glowing like two sinister stare of Rht, Beatrice glided noiselessly to the ireshold of the door" that had just osed noiselessly on ner companion. !er ear bent, she 6trove to translate le gruff, explanatory accents of the iah," the &harp, querulous, excited >nes of his companion. When the door again opened, howcer, with the grace and agility of a anther she had regained the chair. "Go in," nodded the keeper, and the Dor opened and closed after her, usherig her into a roomy apartment, and javlng her face to face with her fate ilair reclining In an invalid ctialr was thin, white-haired man. She studied is working face from beneath her veil; le noted the nervous tension of brain id body, for he was almost panting ith excitement, his eyes were keenly live with unconcealed suspense. "My steward tells me you come here ith a letter," spoke the master of the ansion, in tones scarcely audible from notion. "Yes," murmured Beatrice. "I have written but one letter?it was > one I have not seen for years." "Your daughter, Alice Edna Ralston? am she. Father!" The plot, the fraud, the false assumpon of the fair 6chemerwas revealed at st. She had determined to personate er dead friend and sohoolmate; and Le 6tolen letter had well equipped her r the cruel imposture. "My child!" She had 6prung forward at that wild, earning cry. Not a heart-throb of ty for the fond, deluded old man, soulrngry for the love and sympathy of hie ng-absent child stirred her heart? ily fierce, covetous joy and triumph. His real daughter was dead, a knowlIge of that fact, in his evident critical mdition of health, might kill him. arely, it was a mercy to step into her ace, to solace the last days of a dying an, to benefit by a fortune that, else, ould go to strangers or sordid cominions in his inexplicable exile. She knew she was safe In telling the ory Ghe had framed, and that circumances would carry out her claims. She lowed the letter she had stolen from -It* a* aKn V?r*txr cV?? onH hor orniHa id been overtaken by the storm at the oken bridge. He had perished, she id escaped, and she showed the neweiper containing the account of the >uble tragedy, unconsciously portrayg what had really transpired, little earning that Edna Deane of the pa6t, e real Alice Edna Marston, or Ealston, id not gone down in that weird swirl waters. But there was much to learn. Her ith was yet one of pitfalls, and she ust be secretive, ana yet draw out the crets of the unsuspecting old man ho accepted her unreservedly as his vn child, blinded by clever falsehoods, e changes of years, and hor circuraantial narration of events he knew to ivo happened as she related them. "When you enter this house," he said, ou close a door on the past never to 5 opened. lJooi liodney.'.he died in iriging you to mo. He was my best iend. All those years, amid my im isonment, my fugitive wanderings, he t9 been true to me. He alone knew here you had been placed. Now, un :i cl Uf? uamo, juu u'uic IU ouai u u JJ> ncliness. Fear not! it will only be ior few brief years. Then, mistress of y lortune, you can go Torth into xtoa orid and enjoy the liberty denied me." "Father, I do not understand," murured the false daughter. "Do not try to. An innocent man, I ivo yet been called upon to suffer tho ?nalty of a crime unjustly laid to my' large. Even now, I aiu a fugitive ora justice. Hunted down, a reward pon my recapturo. I 6ought this seuded spot to die in peace. Here we ill live in quiet contentment, your love ~ sxf .loAllninn iU v;u>l V U11U DUi (IUC \/A 111 J UCVllllliiH i*ars. Are you not content with that, lice, my child?" "Yes." murmured Beatrice, ?since you ill It 60." "Why not? Life here, surrounded by /cry luxury, would not be so arduous lat she could not find some enjoyment i it, and later on!?her eyes glowed ith sinister triumph,?there was a irther plot to carry out, there was Kayond Marshall to think qf, the man she as determined to win, come what l?ht. Imperfectly understanding the vague tystery surrounding Ralston, she yet ;alize<i that he was in danger of apprepnsion for some entanglement of the ast. Some day she must posses-; that ?eret in full. It would give her added nw<>r to RWiiv him to her will if ever er imposture wore discovered. 8ho could scarcely comprehend th? ire success of her imposture as, later lat evening, oho sat in the boudoir of 10 suite of rooms apportioned to her In le old mansion. Not a breath of suspicion had been roused. Placidly, unequivocally had Id Mr. Ralston accepted her as the hild he had not seen since infanoy. Her past, like his own, he would never 3ek to probe or revive. Yesterday was 5 dead and gono as the ages past, iere she could change her own identl ,* in the undisputed possession of a >yal fortune, ltalston dead, that Torino acquired, and with her youth, eautj' and intelligence, she could go ut into the world and become a queen rnong women, tread a velvet path urough life?she, the poor, obscure jaeher on half-pay, the friendless rudge of Hopedalo Seminary. Yet there was a canker at the heart f the rose. Conscience did not trouble er. She even justified her fraudulent jnresentations. No. all she thought of, 11 that disturbed her was a memory of :ie man she loved. How she loved him still! How the andsomc, animated face of liaymond larshall haunted her. "J-"or his sake I did it all!" she murium!, tuinultuously. "lie must benefit y it all. How.' Ah! patience, my a?er hear! I hold the strings of destiny! f J mako no misstep, fortune and love re both mine in the end." ? > / Her rooms had been papered for her with infinite care. They were more than luxurious, they were elegant. The steward and a housekeeper were the sole servants, but they attended like route slaves to her every caprice as the days went by. Ralston was not exacting. He asked an hour or two of her time each day to read to him in the garden, or play for him in the great, somber drawing-room on the piano. Ever under the 6hadow of some great fear, he never leit the walled grounds of the estate, and requested her to confine her long drives to the unfrequented roads leading away from the village. A week passed thus, then the novelty of her new life began to wear away. The false Alice Ralston, the real Bea trice Mercer, oegan 10 grow reBixess, anxious, moody. Then 6he fell to plotting. If she could only drag from that paBt life the object of her love. Raymond Marshall, 6he would be content. "You are getting wearied of the loneliness here, I fear," spoke Ralston, anxiously, one evening. "No, father." "You are deceiving me. I can read It in your face. I caught you crying yesterday. Speak, my child, if you have any secret sorrow." The veiled eyes of the siren glowed uiumphantly. Tne hour had come for a master-stroke of finesse. "Shall I tell you the truth, even if it riietnrho vnn'" n_Rkf>d Beatrice, in a low. purring tone. "Always, my dear." "I am happy here, only there Is a chapter in my past that haunts me," pursued the false-hearted Beatrice. "I have rrienas wnom i love, wnorn i ieii; in poverty, trouble. Father, if I had the means to visit them, to place them in a position beyond want, I would return here satisfied, never to leave you again." ''You mean this, my daughter?" "I mean it, father." "As I understand it, you wish to go to these friends?to bid them a final farewell, and to enrich them?" "Yes." He led her to a room guarded with an iron door. With a key he unlocked a cabinet. It was stored with money? coin, bank notes, bonds. "Yours," he sad generously; "all yours. . Take what you want. I shall never ask how much, nor care. Deal as liberally with your iriend6 as you like, only?must you go to them?" "I must, father." "Alone?" "I will be careful?nothing will happen to me." ' "I shall worry?your absence will torture me." "Not for long. Oh! dear father, you make me happy in enabling me to make my dearest friends happy. Let me go at once?to-night, to-morrow. In a week?two, at the farthest, I shall return. Then I shall forget them?all the world save you." She had carried her point. The flint important step in the plot of her life was accompubneu. As the next morning, a little moneyfilled sachel in her hand, she left the mansion bound for Hopedale, her confident heart told her that she would never return until she had won the man she loved. | TO BE OONTINCEtt | COTTONMN CHINA. A New Industry Introduced In the Celestial Empire. <nHr?atrv fit ShatlC? XJQe pruspouiuo ui a uw ? . o hai is made the subject of a report to the State ^Department by Cozural-General Jernigan at tbat place. It ie called the Shanghai Oil Mill Company, which proposes to manu? facture oil from cotton seed. It is, the Consul-General suys, the logical result; of the cotton mills at Shanhal, and the consequent stimulus given to the cultivation of cotton in China. Since 1890 there have been fortyfive new cotton manufacturing establishments erected in-8hanjfhaUand these are now in successful operation. The belief of those starting the proposed new Industry is that oil can be extracted at a saving of fifteen per cent over the native system. In this con flection Mr. jerniguu givca the fact that in China the subject of labor saving has received practical attention, and this proves, he.says, ftiat the conservotive oppositiou to improvement is not so firmly grounded and can be overcome by well-directed efforts. As the area suitable for the cultivation of cotton in China is almost as limitless as the supply of labor, and labor being very cheap, there can be, Mr. Jernigan says, no doubt that China will soon be one of the great cotton-producing countries in the world, and this product will command serious consideration in all calculations with reference to the cotton market. There is needed in Shanghai, the report concludes, a more distinctive American business. There is too much commercial mixing and partnership with other Nationalities, and, as these generally predominate, American identity is too often lost. MENACED BY MOSQUITOES. Misfortune Follows the Dwellers Along the Frnaer River. The Fraser Valley farmers occupying mo low-lying lands in British Columbia, are asKIng the question can fate send them aUf more misfortune before their meager crop3 are harvested. First came ruinous floods which were followed by a scorching drought which burned up the veg6tation not ruined by water. The drought was followed or acoompanied by forest flres, burning up many homes and forolng the ranchers to abandon their settlements. The farmers are now factng another difficulty. which is a grave one. Mosquietoes have been driven to the river by the forest flres and are hovering over the fields not burned or swamped, in some localities so dense that men cannot be hired at $5 a day to harvest. In some localities in Chilliwack District farmers have been actually driven from their homes by an aggressive attack of mvriads of mosquitoes. Farmers in the valley have called a meeting iu uccmo whether they should ask the Federal Government to Improve the rivsr at a Dig cost. If the river is not made flood-proof, many farms will be abandoned. British Columbia is a mining province, not a farmers' paradise, and the gold of any one of 500 prominent mines could repay 100 times over the heavy losses sustained'by the farmers. WATER PIPES TO HOLD CONVICTS, When They Cat the Pipe?, the Water Escapes, and the Jailer ig Notified. A new idea in jail construotion has recently been succeesslully tested in Boston. Mass. Tn brief, the scheme is to construct the cells of hollow pipes and fill them with water. When a pipe is severed the water escapes, and by a system of registers in the office of the jail the fact is made known, as well as the particular ceil where the pipes have been attacked. No attempt is made to have the pipes particularly hard. Common gas pipe is as cood as any, and will answer every purpose. "The water is kept under a high pressure so that it will be sure to give the alarm when the pipe is severed. Under the usual system of jail construction it is aimed to make the bars so hard that saws will not efTe2t them; or, at best, so biirii that cutting would be a slow process. But convicts in jail aro as clever as the men who construct jail cells, and methods have been discovered for taking the temper out of the hardest steel. Nitric acid will do it, and so will common candle. If the flame of the latter is kept for several days close against a bar of chilled steel it will tie mado so soft that n common steel saw will cut it. Solid steel plates have been eaten with acids and escape made possible. The filling of ;hollow pipes with water seems to be a good idea. Fire Lobs for July. The fire loss of the United State9 and Canada for the month of July amounts to 89.033.250, as compared with $9,085,000 for Ju iy, 1895. Tho loss since January 1 has been $72,992,800 against $75,5S2,6U0 for the seven months last year. .. * CRETE'S UPRISING, STORY OF THE REVOLUTION j AGAINST TURKEY. Christians Have an Army of 33,00C 31en and Seek Independence ?Great Suffering In the Island. PILLAGE, murder, massacre, starvation and general desti tution are words which rough ly describe the conditions tha' :L J.-L.. i - -t n prevail IU mo preu^r IBJC UI Wicked as are the ways of the Spanist in Cuba, the balmy island of the Medi terranean is even in sorer straits, foi both oppressor and oppressed are then the snfferers. Revolution with nc semblance of system prevails, anc privation from natrral causes is aug mented by the desuetude in thing! commercial and agricultural that evei GROUP OF CHRISTIAi accompanies the violent overthrow ol rale. This Cretan revolution is not toe well understood by Americans. People in tho United States think that Chris' tian Cretans are daily butchered bj the atrocious Turks, who outnumber them largely. This is nut true. The Christian revolutionists have a pretty well organized army of about 35,00C men, while the Turkish forces do ^nol A CRETAN IN NATIVE COSTUME. count up more than half that number, The Christians batcher the Turks af often as they nre butchered by th< Tnrke, and the Sultan realizes tbathii reign in the island is not powerful, He has sent to Crete provisions anc money to be divided evenly betweei Christians and Turks. Bat the Cre tans want independence, and are de / ? y CANEA, THE CI termined to have it at all hazards, They demand autonomy or annexatior to the Kingdom of Grece. A clear statement of the status ol the revolution and the history thai led up to it may serve to clear up the confusion of ideas concerning the movement that prevails in the minde of Americans. The population of Crete is about onn nr\i\ \i .). UUUjUUU~".UUODUIUIHliO iVUW VUliQbtHUCi Civilization -was there first introduced into Europe by the Phoenicians and Egyptians. From ancient times the island has been inhabited by Greek?, and for upward of (>00 years it hat been under the domination of the Turks. The proximate cause of the A i? *U.. , ^>1 present revoiuuuLi was mc umcnj m Abdullah Pasha, the Turkish Governor, who persecuted the Christians and Killed them without the shadow oi justification. In 1889 a treaty wue signed by the Cretans and the Sultan of Turkey after one year of revolution. This treaty has been violated I time and again by tne rorte. OMuaing I that peaceable means were of no avail with the throne at Constantinople, I d~\ i. -1??. ,T..A ftUnt i? me vsreuiu* ucciuiu iu?v *l* * alone lay any hope of not only freedom but of even security in their lives and homes. They determined to throw jfT the Turkish yoke and to place nc I l -Jtfj V . more ftfith in any treaty with th< the Tnrks, unlepB it were guaranteed by the Powers of Enrope. r This revolution was organized bj Johannie Petropoulaki, the Spartar representative at the Athens Parlia I ment. His farher was a General ir the Cretan revolution of 1869. Tc his aid came Johannis Koundouraki, t scion of one of the best families ic Asphykoe, a oity in Crete. Eoundour aki was educated at the University ol , Athens, where he was given the degre< of LL. D. in 1892. The Turkish Gov ernment had made him a Judge in hii b own city, and be had served in thai . capacity for year?. The oppoBitioi 1 of his conntrymen induced him t< resign his post and begin the work o r liberating his people from the oppres i sion of the Mussulman. > The first duty of the patriot was t( I collect fundc with which to carry 01 the war. Committees were appointee s in all the cities of the world in whicl lived Greeks in any large numbers ? I INSURGENi'S IN CRETE. f In Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt, $10, 000 was raised in one day, and jt ii > said that the committees inEgypi i have succeeded in collecting as mucl as 35000 a day ever since. Contri p butionB poured in from all quarters o: the world. In the United States citiei ) like New York, Boston, Chicago anc San Francisco gave liberally, and the sinews of war were furnished for th< ; patriots. Greeks from all parte o the world are flocking to the standard of the revolution, and soon the num bers of patriots in the island will b< bo great and the revolutionists will b< so powerful as to force the Sublim< Porte into making such concessions ai will satisfy the people or into relin quishing its hold upon the island and giving the people their liberty. The first fighting came about in thie way: In the city of A9phykos s Greek policeman, Dimitri Theodoa ius offended two Turks. They lay ir wait for him that night and murdered him. The assassination was so wau ton that the people of the city arose and marched against a Turkish garrl eon of 1200 in the vicinity of the town, Surprising the Turks, the Cretani killed 200 of them, drove cat the oth' ers and capturcd the fortification, iti supplies and ammunition. Rapidly did the revolution spread, and sooi two Cretan States, Sphakia and Apo korona, were in the hands of the in surgents. At the present time the Cretan army numbers about 35,000 They are pretty well equipped, anc are under the command of General Hatzi, MichalJis and Kozanis. Thi Turkish army is less than one-half th< . size of that of the insurgents, Th I Tcn.rffl.rfl is on the enerrilla order 3 The insurgents refuse to tight in thi j open country, contenting themselve 3 with harassing the Tarks from am , bush. That is the reason why, in th> i actions already reported, the Turkisl i losses have always exceeded those o the Cretans. Often the Turks los - scores of men, while the insurgent LPITAL OF CRETE. , escape with only a few wounded. Thii i sort of thing naturally exasperates th< Mussulmans, who whenever they ar< f given an opportunity, mutilate th< ; bodies of the Christians they kill i pillage churches, desecrate graves i maltreat women and childreu, buri i houses and indulge in other atrocitiei calculated to incite the wrath o ; neutral-peoples and to put the Turkisl I authorities in an unfavorable light? ' ' /->f (twee nnt mores are doD< 1 IU1 iUHU.T w. ? [ by no order, or against the orders o: the Sultan's officer?. On the last Friday in May the Mus ; sulmans in Canea, the capital, as ! sembled and demanded that the Gov i ernor arm them to avenge theraselve; ' on the Cretans. The Governor refused, and the mob took possession of tht i city. Many Christians were killei ami mutilated, and the Turks slew i Christians wherever found, sometimes entering the nouses of the Cretans foi their victims. The Sultan has dont all in his power to bring about peace. r A Vwlnllah t>,( ' I JUULi!^ JLit; UCj-JUCCV* UUUI1M4J, . ' cruel Governor, and appointed Gcorg: | Berovitch, the Prince of Samoa and > . Christian, iu his stead. This actioi , has done much to quiet the disorder but the solution is far from having been reached as yet. > All the people in the island, Chris ./ " a" ? . j i tian and Mohammedan, are suffering t from laok of food. The crop of olives, the chief staple raised on the island, ' iB ready for garnering, but the trees i are bending under their burden, with no hands to relieve them of their pret cious fruit. If the revolution could > ho doloTTo^ Inrifr cnnnrrh tn CfttVlflr fhfl vv, wv* ivug, O ? i olive crop the people of the island i could breath once more.?Chicago - Times-Herald. I =? 5 A White Fro?? Fouud at Bedrock. Well diggers made a peculiar find 9 on the timnertv of W "R. Hartley in Duluth, Minn. They were down fif1 teen feet below the surface in an ex' cavntion for a well, and had blasted through six feet of solid rook, when they struck a spring gushing up through a crevice. Gaily disporting ) itself at the mouth of the spring was 0 1 uniqne member of the frog species, 1 about an inch long in body and three 1 inches long from tip pf outspread fere' foot to tip of its hind feet. The frog - is of a white and light brown color, and apparently has no mouth, al* though it is possessed of bright blacb eyes. It climbs up and down the Bmooth sides of the glass jar in whicli j it is confined with as much ease at along the bottom. Its color provef j that it has been long since it has sees j daylight, and in all probability if came up into its secluded retreat ir the bed of rock by way of the hidder spring.?Chicago Times-Herald. Microscopical Wonders. A specimen of a beautiful species ol alga, found in the fresh waters of the San Diego flume, has been made the subjeot of investigation and study by the Sac Diego Microscopical Society. A finely prepared and mounted specimen of oyclops, a minute fresh water copepod of the genus cyclopidae, tak? 1 IV. a ?L en iroLU iiic iiuuio wuieio, wao ciiuuited by Dr. Gamber. This carious form of life, os observed through the splendid instrument at the rooms of the society, does not fail to command the attention of all present at the meetings of the society. Its kite* shaped body and tail, cumbersonm antennae, and one eye, makes it as formidable an object among microscopical life as were the one-eyed giants to the races of men described in the Homeric legend. A cyclops is said to produce four and one-half billion offspring annaally.?San Diego (CaL) Union. A Seventh Ere Muscle. TTnr?on Vioinrro V> own m?Pa uuuiau uoiugo umw baa mammwaw ? . each eye, that tbey may move it on g either side, bat horses, oows, sheep t and other quadrupeds, whioh habitut ally incline their heads to the earth io . search of food, have a muscle bj f which their eyelids are suspended and j supported, and which we do not need. 1 This is a wonderful adaptation to , the circumstance in which the crea2 ture is placed. For example, the eyes \ of amphibious animals partly agree [ with those of fish and quadrupeds. . The cat and tiger, which prowl by j night, have a peculiar power of exnundiiiff t.h? nnnil. 3 x o ?- x?x 3 The eye is adapted to the properj ties of light, so that it reflects light . and brings it to a focus on the retina. [ Our best and most perfeot glases are by no meanB equal to the human eye. A Chair That Co9t Over $90,000,000. By long odds the most costly piece of furniture in the world is the jeweled throne of the Shah of Persia. 0 COSTLIEST CHAIR IN THE WORIiD. _ { The late Shah had his picture takei e in this most remarkable chair only f e few days before his death. It is mad? largely of gold, beautifully wroughi ana sei wun a vunuvjr ui pcuuuc Btones. Some idea of the splendor of this regal seat may be gained from the fact that the jewels in it alone have been estimated to be worth fully four million pounds, or twenty million dollars. Occasionally when this chair was formerly at Delhi stones of great > value were missed and supposed tc have been stolen, but now that it occupies a carefully-guarded place in the palace at Teheran no trouble of this kind is experienced. At His Mercy. m 5 The Villain?"Swear to marry me, ' or I'll uDBet the machine!"?Truth. , HOUSEHOLD H1TTEBS. 9 LEMONADE STAINS BEHOVED To take out lemonade stains black dress U6e ammonia dilnted witbH one-half water. Tonch the stains withH a glass rod dipped in the ammonia.H Care mast- be taken not to drop theH *? A. ?11 ammonia on tne aress or it wiu mwu. A KITCHEN CONVENIENCE. A small table not more than a yard or so across and supplied with strong castors is cf great convenience in a kitchen. It can be rolled everywhere, and it eaves many steps. When a person is frying crullers or cooking griddle cakes, the table can be put near the range, holding all the articles required. During the preserving season such a table will be invaluable. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. K If yon are doubtful about a piece or I meat being tender, especially if & steak, brush it oyer night with Tine-1 gar and butter, equal parts, and itfl will coot tender next morning. 0 There are two ways of avoiding the! +T/-ITKT nilnr nrViinti nnmaa frnm AnoV?l ing cabbage, and so unpleasantly permeates the whole house. One is to give it a hard five minntes boil, then take it from the water and place in a pot fall of fresh boiling water. An other way is to place a crnst of brea< about the size of an egg in the po while cooking. Yoar bread jars should be scaldec twice a week to keep mold away ef fectually. The following items of cook's meas orement are always handy: One pint of liquid equals one pound Two gills of liquid make one capful Four teaepoonfuls make one tableau spoonful. Two round tablespoonfuls of flou^f will make one ounce. |H Half a pound of butter will makH| one cup. ffl Four cups of flour will make onB| pound. jjj Two cups of granulated sugar wi^B make a pound. Hfl Two cups and a half of powdere^M sugar will make a pound. SB ^ V* KEEP THE OIL-STOVE BEIGHT, 91 It is important to keep the oil-sto^B bright and cleaD, then it will do iefactory work and not offend t^^J nose of onr neighbor. Truly, one the worst nuisances in summer is a bflH smelling stove. |H| Keeping it filled and trimmed bat a small part of the care. Doi^H allow the wicks to become black bH stiff with sediment. Wash them -on^H in a while to keep them soft a AM white. While the wicks are drji^B the tank may be emptied of o^Hj washed out, scalded, wiped dry aflH set out in the sun. The earieBt wflH| to clean the upper portion is "ooii it one. ' 11 tne store is larg^H 086 a wash boiler for the procei^H Pat in enongh cold water to cover t^H pieces, then stir in a liberal supply good soap powder and one teaspoo^H fnl of ammonia to eaoh pail of wa^Hj nsed. Pat the pieoes in while tHH water is cold, let them boil stead^^H fifteen minntes, then take them oJ^B rinse in clear water and if there any obstinate stains, nse sand eosHH A ffA* fVlAW 6?A Oil* fV?ft?ATlr*Vllr Do not fill the stove too full,HH when the wicks are pat back the HBE may ran over. Be sare the wioks ^Kj perfectly dry, else they will sput^^K when lighted It is a bad plan to fill the stove while it is lighted. S<^HH who have done so have foand it a dangerous experiment. Never set^^H stove where a draft will strike it wind will cause the flames to flare HH smoke up the ceilings. Keep stove out of the roach of little dren. When the wicks become shj^^H they may be lengthened very econ^HH ically by sewing strips of thick nel or cotton to them, and used there remains but an inch or tw^^MI the original wick. It is a safe pre^^B fcion to cook cereals, custards rice, in a double boiler,as these foods scflflH eo easily.?New England Homest^^M RECIPES. j^HE uneese uracners?auow a toasted cracker for each pei^^HH Slightly batter it, pat it ia the and lightly brown; pat on a layeflflH any grated cheese, and season th^HBn with salt and cayenne. Do not^^^B much salt, as both batter and c^f^H will contain some. Fat back^HH crackers in the uvea to lightly b^^HH and melt the cheese. Serve very^HH This is a nice and simply made sa^BjH Smothered Beef?In a closely^^H| ered bean pot pat one poand of Use ao water. Cook in a very erate oven for two hoars, then incfl^H the heat until the meat is easily pi^^HH by a fork. Pour off gravy, and^H^B to it as much water; season with^^^H and pepper and a little vinegar ASH thicken with a little flour and b^HH rubbed together. Serve the mea^^HHj t IIJ JU Dlltco. kjhqiur,u vvuawvv added instead of water. Fish Salad?Make a custard of^HH yoik of four eggs aud a generous pint of milk. When it is cold^H^H into it one teaBpoonful dry three to four tabiespoonfuls of vin^^HH a dash of cayenne pepper and taste. In this 6auce mix a large plate full of cold, flaked fish and ounces of maccaroni, cut in Hm pieces, and broil till tender. ItM^H be nicer if permitted to stand couple of hours before serving. Veal Roll? rlave one large veal^^HJ let cut as evenly as possible, so^^^H it may be evenly thick at all p^H^B finely then a of monds a teaspoo^^^^^^^J^^^J tie so wilB^^H^^HB Fat ia a stewing a sliced carrot and Steam one hour away to and prepared the Jay bef<^^H?B^fl|BH Southern Peach peaches, a preserving ket^BH^MBHHf tender. Add one to quart peacc^Hj^^^^^HHBj mer the sirup is olinrf ViicrMiif. flnnnh a cHBH|i pouches on one half, shape of a half moon; tightly together. frying pan, nearly fall drop the pies in and fry^Hj^Hfl^HB Take up on a skimmer, and dredge with sugar.