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CHAPTER VIL
^ CONTINUED.
The opera was now coming to an
end, and as Madame Celestine ana
her hasband rose hastily and were
soon lost in the crowd the moment the
curtain fell, Miss Olive Gaye had no
further opportunity then for observation
of the life-dramu which, in its
first stages, she had found so inter-'
nesting. But she didn't dismiss it
from her mind; on the contrary, it
oocupied her every thought, and her
first act, when she reached home, was
to write the following letter toa friend
in England:
"Dearest Toddlekinb:
"What was that story you once began to
tell me, ftnd never bad an opportunity to
finish, about the Stanley family?do you
remember, dear??and the quarrel of the
Hon. Clarence with his papa? And how
are poor, dear Lord Appleby and his most
interesting little boy? If my memory
-doesn't make me mistake, you began to
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tell me about tne cause 01 i;iiireuce oiauv
ley's finally quarreling with Ui9 father in
^ such a serious manner that tbey parted for
?yer?and the earl ieeuch a perfect gentle
man! It is hard for me to imagine anyone
Laving such a serious quarrel with him.
"You spoke, too, of the Mendoza branch of
the family, and of a young lady to whom
Clarenoe was engaged, and with whom he
?eemed deeply in love. I am interested in
this, becfluse there is a young lady here
whose name is Mendoza?not a common
same, you know; and it has occurred to me
that she may be in some way related to
the Stanley. Mendozas. That photograph
of the Hob. Clarence that you once showed
me was very handsome?I never dared
apeak of him to the earl, It was such a
sore subject; otherwise I would have asked
for a picture of him. I have pictures of
Lord Appleby and his wife and also of the
little boy1?the dear litttle fellowl Now,
Toddie, dear,, couldn't you send me a
photo of Clarenoe? If that is impossible,
nave a copy made from your own, and let
me bear the expense. Won't you do this
for your own, dear, naugbty, willful
"nollikejjs?"
Having carefully sealed and stamped
this letter, Olive Gaye rang for a servant.
The servants and others of the
/Intra famiW Viad Inner pinftA fleasedtobe
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imposed on by the childlike ingenuousness
and sweetness of this young
person. She therefore wasted no infantine
smiles on the messenger into
whose ha^nds she gave .her letter.
* 'Stephen, see that this letter gets
into the mail that leaves for Queenstown
to-morrow morning. Let there
be no mistake. The Servia sails at
eight o'clock."
"Yes, miss," answered Stephen.
chapter vnr.
THE SECRET OP THE MINIATURE.
When Polly Hamilton reached hof
home after the opera on the night that
was to be memorable in her life she
felt that she was a very happy girl.
No words of love, nothing that could
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one hand or an acceptance on the
other,, bad passed between ber and
Olarence Stanley, bat she knew that
she toved him, and she felt that she
need never again doubt his love for ber.
The only thought that troubled her
was that "Rita! Dear, darling Rita!"
would not be equally happy in this
knowledge.
"And, oh, I do btepe that I didn't
seem cross and heartless towards her.
I must see ber for a minute before I
can sleep to-night, and she must know
that I love her now and always the
same as ever," she thought, as she
hurried toward her own room, pausing
a moment at the door leading into
that of Dolores.
"Come in," said an eager voice,
when she tapped on the door; and entering,
ehe was met by Dolores, who
came toward her with outstretched
i arms.
"Thanks, Maruja, for coming in to
say "'Good-night.' I couldn't have
lept if you hadn't. I have been so
vexed to think I might have wounded
you."
"Ton couldn't have wounded me on
purpose, Rita. And do you think I
would have allowed myself to feel hurt
so long as 1 knew that? Besides, it
is all a mistake?a mere, unreasonable
fancy on your part, dear. Clarence is
*11 that is fine and noble; and when
you know him better, I am sure you
will think so, too."
"I'm sure I hope so, Maruja; and I
have been taking myself to taRk all
the evening for allowing myself to
eem 4 harsh and unjust toward any
one whom you care for. Since you
love him, he must be good and worthy.
You could not throw your heart's best
love away on a bad man. '
"Oh, as to that, Eita, I have no
judgment about men; always remem
ber that, my dear;but this isn't a mat-:
ter of judgment. I love Clarence and
he loves me; and, as you say, that is
k proof enough that he is worthy. And
\ lie is bo interested in you, Rita; we
\ talked about you all the evening. His
\ mother's father was directly descended
\ from a branch of the Mendoza family,
Vud hifl name was Raphael Felix Menv
<hoza Stanhope. I don't know how
Cmrence remembers all his relations,
theke are so many of them. And now,
if it Vurns out that you are a far-off
cousiny he will have one more to remetnbelr.
Oh, Rita, dear, do let us
set a daVfor reading that wonderful
msuuscriVt of yours; and let Clarence
bo present on that occasion, will
1 you?" \
Dolores shrank instinctively from
this proposition, and she answered
coldly: \
"I hardly think I can do that. The
?tory is a singular one, and the ancestor
whose exploits it celebrates was
by no meaus a person to be proud of.
I don't mind talking over my family
affairs with you, Maruja; but with a
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that would be."
"But if he isn't a stranger?at least,
in that neuee?' If Clarence really, on
- Lis mother's side, belongs to the
Mendoza family? And I feel sure it
is the same branch of the family, for
there are legends of Indian ancestors
Among these English Mendozas, too,
nd I am getting wildly excited, about
his story. Now, when will yoh let
us hare the reading of it, Lorita?"
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ful air of mystery, "but not quite
yet."
"And you will let Clarence be present,
to please me?"
"I wduld do a great aeai to piease
yon, Maruja," answered Doiores, with
the indulgent manner of an elder sister?a
manner that had already become
very dear to Polly Hamilton?
"and I suppose I shall do this."
"Oh, you sweet thing!" exclaimed
the happy girl, with the effusiveness
of her sex and age. "And now goodnight.
Not for the world would I be
the cause of dark rings about those
lovely eyes of yours to-morrow?goodnight
and happy dreams to yoU, my
Rita!"
Dolores sighed deeply as the door
closed after Polly, and she murmured
sadly:
"And yet something tells me she
will never?never be happy with that
man, even if he loves her, and I don't
think that he does. 1 wish irom my
heart that she had never seen his false
and cruel face!"
It was now after midnight, and a
brilliant sky, starred with myriad
points of diamond light, was. visible
through the window from which the
shade had been accidentally pushed
aside. Dolores, with a quick impulse
to breathe in the beauty of the midnight
liour, turned out the artificial
glare of the gas, drew up the windowshade,
and stood gazing out at the
| sky. The silvery radiance of the stars
mingled with the moonlike light of the
electric lamps, and touched with
beauty all the commonplace and often
repulsive objects that spoil the view
by day-light; bufr though she was
vaguely conscious of this, Dolores was
looking straight into the stars overhead,
and the calmness and restful
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joy which that spectacle uaa aiwuju
brought to her now stole gently into
her troubled mind. The soul seemed
to float away through the depths of
space; visions of celestial repose and
loveliness stretched out before her
inward sight; the rhythm and harmony
of the spheres, ciroling forever
in their millions of orbits, seemed like
unknown but heavenly music wafted
to some secret sense of hearing deep
within her inmost being. And then,
as it had been always from her earliest
childhood, she was suddenly
conscious of a Presence?nothing
tangible and nothing in the least degree
terrifying. It was an atmosphere
of something exquisitely pure and
spiritual, the tremulous, pulsating
breath of a guardian angel. A feeling
of great content and happiness took
possession of her; and gently draw
ing down the shade, she turned away
from the window and began her preparations
for bed, and hex- one thought
wuo.
"Everything will be well and as it
shonld be if we will bnt wait and be
patient. Ah, if I could only remember
that, bnt I am so prone to doubt
and to fear and to anticipate the
worst. Perhaps the many disappointments
and sorrows of life have made
me so; but I must strive against that
tendency; the bright beings of a
higher life can only come close to ug
when we are at our beat. Let me try
always to remember that "
As she placed her head on the
downy pillow, Dolores was already almost
in a dream, out of which a
radiant face seemed to smile upon her,
and across her brow and cheek she
felt a touch as soft and sweet as the
dropping of rose leaves.
"Mamma, deadest," she murmured.
"isitvou? Ah, yes, my. own
mamma, it must be you, for nothing
can keep our mother from us. Nothing?not
even death!"
And then Dolores slept, tranquilly,
happily; and such uleep might well
have drawn the angels to look on it
and bless it.
Determined that nothing merely
fanciful should cause her to bring
sorrow to the girl who had rescued
her from loneliness and poverty, Dolores
set herself the task of looking
for every good quality in the character
of Clarence Stanley, with the necessary
accompaniment to such a
search, of being as blind as possible
to his defects; and, looked at from
this point of view, she was surprised
to find how pleasing a person that
gentleman all at once became. As to
whether this was a right or a wise
thing to do, she did not yet pause to
ask herself. She was so foud of
Polly, and grateful affection went so
far beyond anything 61se, that her im.
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pulse was XO WlUJt uuunug uuu icei
nothing except what were calculated
to make Polly liappy.
And Polly wns happy. Her pretty
face beamed -with joy when she saw
bow entirely her new sister seemed to
have changed her views in regard
to Clarence.
Mr. Stanley, according to his almost
invariable custom, called to see
Polly about the middle of the afteruoou
on the day succeeding their
evening at the .opera, and he was
affreeablv surprised to find himself
very cordially received by Dolores. L
The possibility of their relationship j
to each other formed a subject of engrossing
interest to Polly; and it was,
also, very interesting to themselves,
although, at first, such a supposition
was/ar from attractive to the young
Spanish girl. Eut the thought grew
upon her; and as she saw Mary Hamilton's
pleasure in the idea, and as she
reflected that, if related to this handsome
young Englishman, she was also
related to his whole family, a sudden
desire awoke in her heart that the
surmise might prove a correct one.
It was very sad to stand all alone in
a groat wide world where all others?
the poorest, the most wretched?had
brothers and ''sisters or other relatives.
She had never felt it while
her mother still lived, for in the pasI
sionate devotion that embraced all
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kindre.'l in tnat one rejauousuip, uw
lores bad never felt the want of any
other love. But all was different
now; even her affection for Mary
j would be increased, if possible, by
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knowing that-she would become the
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wlie OI A man wuu wan JU reaiiigr luc
lelative and cousin be declared him*
self to be.
And what a handsome fellow be
was, tbis Clarence Stanley, and
bright and charming, too; and, yes,
no doubt lovable and noble, for the
man who smiled that way into the
sweet upturned face of Polly Hamil*
ton must be worthy of regard andad?
miration.
"Without doubt you two are of the
same race," said Polly, triumphantly,
"I can now trace a personal resem
blance between you~in fact, I hav?
been aware of it from the first,
though I didn't know just what ii
was. But, Rita, dear, yoar face was
like a face that I had seen beforelike
one with which I was familiar,
from the moment I first saw you. All
faces we really love are like that,]
think; and I explained it that way to
myself. But now I know there was
even more in it in that; it was the resemblance
to Clarence."
Dolores listened to these words with
an indescribable feeling made up of
many different emotions; there was a
sudden overwhelming return of bet
first antagonism toward Stanley; and
as she glanced at him there
was a startled terror in the conviction
that^they did look alike; though it
would have been difficult to say just
where the resemblance was; and yet
there was that "family likeness," as
it is called, so quickly recognized and
yet so difficult to describe; but stronger
than all else, she was conscious of
Polly Hamilton's love for this man,
of whom a day or two before, she had
said that she was afraid she "liked
him."
"Liked him," thought Dolores, with
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a bliivei Ui UppiCUOUOiUll, aa uuu
watched her friend's beaming face, her
flushed cheek, her eloquent, glowing
eyes, and the glances she bestowed on
the object of her regard, "that 'liking'
has now passed into something
little short of adoration!"
Ignorabt as she was of the passion
of loTe, and all unlearned as to girlish
fancies, Dolores knew quite well that
Polly Hamilton's heart was thoroughly
awakened, and that she had, at one
plunge, precipitated heriself into the
depths of this wildest sea of emotion.
That thought recalled her to her former
intention to see only what was
pleasant in Clarence Stanley, and again
she repressed tho feeling of ^repulsion
against him that had almost overcome
her.
"Yes," she said, glancing at him,
"we are alike, somewhat, and as I remember
my poor father, though I was
very young when he died, Mr. Stanley
looks even like bim. I am more like
mamma, Maruja, thought she was so
lovely that it seemu vanity in me to
say so "
"Lovely! Yes, indeed! Ob, Clarence,
you never saw such a beautiful
face! Eita, will you let us look atthe
picture? Dear, where is it? Can I
*4-0"
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Dolores drew the miniature from her
pocket and, opening the case, handed
it to Polly, who in turn gave it to
Stanley; at leaBt she hold out the oase
to him and, as he took hold of it, their
bands were pressed against each other,
and they stood gazing on the fair face
of her who had been Alice Lindsay,
and who now lay in a nameless grave,
among strangers, forgotten by all the
world save one slight girl to whom
that thought was now so bitterly present
that she turned away from
the sight of these lovers who were look*
ing at her mother's picture.
As Dolores walked to the other side
of the room, a servant announced the
arrival of callers; and Polly, with a
bright blush, started away from Stanley,
leaving the miniature in his hand.
"Oh, Bertha," exclaimed Polly, "I
am delighted to see you! How you
have neglected me! Miss Gaye, I am
so glad! How sweet of jou to bring
your frierd to see me, Bertha! She
bas spoken of you so often, Miss
Gaye, I don't feel at all that you are a
stranger. Pray allow me: Miss Gaye,
Mr. Stanley; Miss Sefton, Mr. Stanley."
"I am particularly glad to meet Mr.
Stanley," said Olive Gaye, extending
her hand, "because I had the pleasure
of meeting his family when I was
abroad."
"Indeed?" exclaimed Clarence, as
he touched the extended hand.
And perhaps he was the first young
man in all her experience of them who
felt it necessary, on first meeting her,
ho nn bin ffnard acainst the intrena
ous Olive Gaye.
TO BE CONTINUED.
A Purely Perional Fire.
There was a smell of fire in the
house, the deep gray odot of burning
cloth. * The man of the house began
nosing about to find out what caused
it. He prides himself upon his keenness
of scent. He .went across the
room.
"Hum! It grows stronger," he
said. When he had his nose fiat up
against a brick and plaster wall it was
stronger than ever. He backed off.
"No, it's somewhere over here." At
the door to the hall the odor was very
pronounced. He rushed downstairs
into tho dining room. The odor was
there too. He hurried down cellar. It
was overpowering.
He put his hand into his coat pocket
for a match. He found tho fire by hia
sense of touch and went upstairs and
poured a glass of water into bis pocket.
Since then he carries his matchos in a
bo'x, and is disposed to be incredulous
when stories of incendiaries are narrated.
He says conflagration, liko
charity, begins at home.?New York
Commercial Advertiser.
The Antic* of a Woman's Drcamn.
The women are telling of an Atchison
man who treated his wife with indifference
and cruelty in their curly
married life. They say he is now down
on his knees blowing into tho 'lead
ashes of her love trying to revive a
spark of affection for him. How worn**? ?
UxfA ni/ifnvo n mmi in snch r.n
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attitude! It is probably the dream of
every neglected wife that eoino day
ber husband will try 1o wairn bis
bands like a frozen Cupid nt tbe Hies
of ber love, and will find only dead
ashes there. Tbere is enough dead
ashes in the average woman's dreams
to macadamize a road.?Atchison
Globe.
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ui an urieniai peopieo mo mucuians
are said to be the most devoted
to journalism. Their political, literary
and mercantile papers are read ae
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I LIFE IN A_COAL MINE. ;
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THE accompanying illustration
give a fair idea of the meihoi
of living and working in i
Pennsylvania coal mine
thousand of feet from pure air ani
sunshine. The human workers a
least got a small share of both thesi
requisites, but the mine mules havi
no such breathing spells. The ani
mal shown in one of the' illustration
has not been in the open air for fiv<
.years, and he has not been a prisone:
nearly so long as many of his fellows
The life of a coal miner has improvet
vastly of recent years. Many of thi
features that used to shorten his lift
and make it one of extreme hazar<
have been eliminated, or at least greatly
reduced in danger. The air is purer
the danger of that greatest of terror:
?fire damp?has been reduced to i
minimum through more intelligen
methods than those of former dayi
and the introduction of improved ma
chinery, the greatest factor in thi
workman's safety being the non-ex
plosive Davy lamp, with which a minei
may fearlessly enter a pocKet iuii o
explosive gas.
Bat with all these new safeguard!
THE OLD AND THE NEW DAVY .LAMPS.
IN IJSB IN THE PENNSYLVANIA COAI
MINES.
the life is not an alluring one. Th<
pay is small, the work hard and th<
dangers still many. The only reallj
pleasant way to be connected with t
coal mine is as the owner of one.
Our Appalachian coal fields alone
could supply the world with fuel foi
centuries. They are the largest and
riohest <known, and they are bo situ'
ated that the coal can be shipped from
them long distances by water. From
Pittsburg coal *an be carried for
eighteen thonsand miles on navigable
streams, and the grate fires of the
South blaze with the rays from the
black diamonds from Pennsylvania.
The Ohio River is the great coal chute
for the Mississippi vailey. The coal
is carried down it in great barges,
pushed by little steamers, and sofastpn#?d
tntrether that a flincle steamer
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will push acres of coal.' Loads .of
twenty thousand tons are taken. A
vast amount of coal is carried on the
canals and the great lakes from one of
the chief highways of the coal traffic.
The amount of coal carried on the
railroads it almost beyond conception.
The Philadelphia and Beading has
more than fifty thousand coal cars,
which are dragged by nine hundred
coal locomotives. These cars are kepi
busy in carrying anthracite coaL kThe
Pennsylvania Railroad employs more
fhaii ooTflntv fchnTisiind cars for the
movement of its coal and coke trade,
and.the Central Railroad of New Jer
Bey carries about five million tons ol
anthracite coal every year. Morecoa
is handled at New York than at anj
other place in the world except Lon
don, more than fifteen million *ton:
being used or transshipped at thai
point annually.
The coal miners live as poorly ai
any other class of workmen in th<
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THE ELEVATOR
(The mule in the pliotograpb h?
country, For the most part they art
in flirty villages, with narrow streets,
their houses blackened by coal smoke.
In many mining districts the houses
belong to the company owning the
mines, and the miners pay rent foi
them, so that wb?o a strike c&f
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" orders to leave. Many of the houses
have nothing more than two rooms
and a kitchen, and in some places tne
only stores at which the miners can
trade are the company's stores. With
J all this the American miners are far
S better off than the miners of other
conntries.
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3 THE "FIRE B0S8'S" OFI
(The position of the kneellDg miner is
p
{ mine? If so, you can appreciate some
of the dangerb of mining. A coal mine
3 is like a great catacomb. It is a city
- underground, the walls of which in
many cases are upheld by timbers.
Now and then you come to rooms out
of which the coal has been cut. The
coal is taken down with blasting powder,
and there is danger of the wall j
falling and of the miners being i
crushed.
There is also danger from fire damp,
or the union of the'gases of the mine
brought together by the light from a
lamp or candle. This causes a great
explosion. It-comes like a stroke of
lightning, and with a clap of thunder.
As the explosion occurs a roaring
. whirlwind of flame goes through the
tunnels, palling down the timbers and
caving in the walls. It burns everything
within reach. Miners are
blinded, scorched^ and sometimes
burned to cinders. Hundreds have
often been killed at a time bj such
explosions, and by the flood of cur- '
bonic acid and gas which follows them. 1
The statistics show that even in the
United States one miner is killed for i
every hundred thousand tons of coal
mined, and those who are injured :
number many times this proportion.
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TESTING A MINE FOB COAL GAS WITH A <
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The first coal found in America was 1
near Ottawa, Illinois. It is mentioned 1
by Father Hennepin, a French ex- <
plorer, who visited there in 1679. 1
The first mines worked were about i
Richmond, Va. This coal wa9 dis- covered
by a boy while out ftohing.
He was hunting for crabs for bait*
in a small creek, and thus stumbled
nnnn nnt/i?nnr\inoo nf tVlfi .TftmPfl
i upv.ii rr?o- --
I River coal bed. Our anthracite coal :
r fields have .perhaps paid better than ,
any other coal fields of the world, j
3 They were discovered by a hunter <
t named Nicho Allen, when George ,
Washington was President. Allen (
i encamped one night in the Schuylkill
i regions, kindling his fire upon some
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is been in tbe mine for five j*enr6.) 1
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? black stones. He awoke to find him- '
, self almost roasted. The stones were ?
on fire, anil anthracite was burning
i for the fir6t time. Shortly after this
> a company was organized to sell an- <
thracite coal. It wp.s taken around to <
! tbe blftckenitlis. but thei didn't know 1
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how to use it, and it tu very unpopular.
Some of it was shipped to Philadelphia
by a Colonel Shoemaker and
Bold there. It was not at all satisfactory,
and a writ was gotten out from
the city authorities, denouncing the
colonel as a knave and scoundrel for
trying to impose rooks upon them as
coal. Still Philadelphia has largely
been built up by anthracite coal, and
50,000,000 tons of this coal were taken
out of the Pennsylvania fields in 1896.
Since then sotte of these coal lands
have been sold as hicrh as ?1200 an
acre, and the Philadelphia and Beading
Company, in 1871, paid $40,000,*"
000 for 100,000 acres of coal land in
this region.
It is hard to estimate the enormous
amount of money the United States
makes ont of its coal. We get more
than three times as pinch ont of onr
I coal mines as ont of onr gold mines,
and the silver metal is not in it with
the black diamonds. There is a little
region in eastern Pennsylvania, abont
a hundred and twenty-five miles from
Philadelphia, and not more than two
hundred miles from New York, which
prodnces every year coal to a greater
value than all the gold mines of the
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the one usually taken when resting.)
Bockies, Canada and Alaska. It is
our anthracite coal fields whioh tnrn
ont between 50,000,000 and 60,000,000
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ions 01 antnracue every jpur. nu
have in addition to this a hundred and
thirty odd million tons of bituminous
coal annually. We have, in short, the
biggest and best coal measures on the
globe. It is estimated that our coal
east of the Rocky Mountains covers
192,000 square miles, and within the
past few years coal /has been fonnd in
many parts of the Far West. Colorado
will eventually be a great .manufacturing
State on account of its coal.
A Marriage Made In Heaven.
At a recent wedding all went merrily
until the bridegroom was called
upon to prodnce the wedding-ring.
In vain he felt in his newly-creased
trousers pocket for the indispensable
trifle. Nothing could be found ezoept
a hole through which the ring had
evidently fallen. What was he to do?
Suddenly a happy thought struok the
parson.
"Take your shoe off," he said.
The suspense and silenoe was painful.
The organist, at tbe clergyman's
bidding, stiuck up a voluntary.
The young man removed his shoe.
The ring was found, also a hole in his
stocking, and the worthy minister remarked,
evidently with more than the
delay of the ceremony on his mind:
"Xoung man, it s nign ume you
were married."
Svrl?a Schools of Agriculture.
Switzerland wad tbe home of the
philanthropist and edaoator Fellenbnrg.
His school, established in Hopyl
in 1806, was a philanthropy in aid
of the peasantry, concerning whom
be said that, possessing nothing, bnt
bodies and minds, the cultivation of
these was the only antidote for their |
poverty. At least three thousand pupils
received their education in agriculture
here. The Federal Polytechnic
School at Zurich is the nation's j
pride. Opt of six courses of superior |
training which it provides for its one j
thousand students, forestry and agri- j
/innnt o <j fwn PlTfl TinivArfli* I
ties and numerous special schools
furnish aid to agricultural education.
?W. E. De Riemer, in Appletons* I
Popular Science Monthly. i
Man'* Inhumanity to Alan. 1
Are the men as considerate of the 1
men as women are of women? When
an engagement is announced the girl's 1
friends give her doilies, linen, lace i
things, teaoups, etc., but does any 1
one give the man anything? On the '
contrary, his creditors become par- 1
ticularly active, knowing that his expenses
-will soon be larger, when it 1
will be harder to collect from him. 1
No engaged man was ever called upon i
by other men and presented with \
socks tied with light blue ribbon or a p
pair of new suspenders with pint '
bows on. All the attention he pets '
from tho men consists of guying.?
Atchison Globe. . 1
Japanese Women Direr*.
Over one hundred Japanese women,
following the hazardous profession of |
divers, are found along the copst of
the peninsula. They are divided into
four batches, and their ages range
from seventeen to thirty. They come
almost exclusively from Shima, Miye
ken, a noted fishery centre in Japan.
Their earnings ate, of course;
uot uniform, as they are paid according
to the amount of their work, which
[jousists in diving for agar-agar seaweed,
sea-ear, sea-cccumber and so
forth.?Japanese Weekly News.
Method of Strengthening the Lnngi.
Strengthening the lungs, especially j
the apexes, may be done by blowing
through a small pipestem or tube that
will allow the breath to pass out slow- !
ly. First fill the lungs with good air, ,
" "? -ai.
Lnen DIOW Wll>u nicau* luito fi^uiuuo*
ly but not violently. A tew times (
Jaily will he sufficient.?Ladies' Home ,
Journal.
There are a thousand vessels which j
:ross the Atlantic Ocean regularly ^
jvery month, some of them twice a j
nontli. ? i I j
t
' .
DON'T LIKE BRITISH BALLETS.
Mew ZarlUh M)??lle Said to B? Qnite a^ :
Bad u the Dnm-0?n> J
It is asserted in France that the *^||
British are riolating one of the p*0
visions of The Hague conference bj f:$
their nse in the Transvaal of a bollei
almost, if not anite. as bar baron si J
destructive as the famous dum-dmnf
bullet. The conference decreed tbif?.;>f
only those bullets should be
which are completely covered by ?
hard envelope or case, the objection* v
able feature about the dum-dum but* !M
let being its jagged nickel envelope.
The new British bullet has a copper
socket, which contains a charge
emokeless powder, and at the end ia
laorl VVAII inji1/%aii^ in A n AWAI Anwnl^nA
Itou ynu mviv/ocu im QUib^Ci
THE NEW BOTLET.
Toward the head of the gullet there J
is a small opening in this envelope.' /
Frenchmen say that when this bullet
touches a soft substance the openings vig
is compressed and the projectile is iwgra
enlarged that at assumes the foni^gj ?|
a mushroom. As a result, they main*
tain, fearful wounds are caused. Bttllets
of small,caliber, they point out* I
are intended to put men hors du com'
bat without making them undergw- W
needless suffering. *' '
Dr. Brans, Inspector-General of th*r^B
military hospital at Wurtercburg, "-I jH
cently made some experiments with) :
bullets of this type, and pointed, out
that a bullet with a cavity in its head: '4^:
and "having greater penetration than) ? .,J
the dum-dum bullet reaches a soft or;
liquid body without changing its form, V f .,
and then bursts." Illustrations, made*
durioig these experiments show wounds '< p
so frightful that they seem to. have'" ;
be9n caused by some yery powerful; ;;
explosives, but, according to English ' .';
experts, we ought to remember whiles '
studying these illustration^ that the*'
doctor's experiments consisted mainly' \ ^
of shots fired from a Lee-Metford riflj* ^
POWDRK T8ED IS NEW ENGLISH BITLLIT. >
at short ranges into dead bodies and > fcy
results thus obtained are aljrays un~?
A similar charge against Great- ! ;
Britain has been made in Holland ; /I
ever since the Transvaal war started^/'-'ij
and there are few continental papers
which have not refeired to the subject - ?
in one way or another. Many
ments have also been made' as to the*
effect of nickel-coated bullets with*; j'
objectionable cavities, but, as Britiahr
experts pertinently point oat, thjfMfe^ftjg
experiments hare been made on .dead,
animals, and the conclusions drawn ' k
therefrom are of littl? value. ,
Electrified Stocking*.
Robert Sjmmer, in 1759, da^ibed"., ^
some most-entertaining experiments,;
making use of the opposite electrificar^^
tions of superposed stockings of dif-- \ '$%
ferent materials or merely of different-/,*
colors '(the dye matters in the l*ttifrpra|
case causing differentiation). lf, ia
dry atmosphere, a silk stocking bedrawn
over the leg and a woolen onfr" -' ; J
pulled over it, the two will-be fonndji
upon being removed, to be \erj pow--^^'
erfulJy electrified in opposite sen'eefc?raj3
If the four stockings of two such pairsbe
used and then suspended together,, , :*
they will indulge in remarka ble antic*
due to. each of the silk stockings
ing to attract both of the woolen onesj
and vice versa, and, on the other
band, each of eachkind repelling the
other. The amount of electrical attraotion
and repulsion produced in'.^J?
this simple tAj in a [dry atmosphere- ^
is remarkable. The experiment 'may -^J
also be performed with all silk~stockings,
one pair white and the other
black.?Appletons' Popular Science-, ^
Monthly.^
A New Style'of Foe Horn. -v^s!
How to render navigation safe inr'J'?|*
thick weather is a question ifhich hasengaged
the attention of many in- -vj|j
ventors and,experimentalists withoutany
very satisfactory result at the> V|
present day. ^
There are now in use several instrn- ments,
modifications of the nysgaphone,
which are intended to be car-' ' ^
ried on vessels for the purpose of lo-* ^
eating fog signals, be they on ship or . ;sS
shore. All such inventions are in- %
tended for the listener. It occurred ^
to JR. F. Foster that this was workings t''M
J -* "
at trie wrong euu oi wa puuigu,
that the proper place to locate a fog v
signal was in the signal itself, so that >' "\:if
a person heard it at *11 he could be
certain of its direction, without being
compelled to use any instrument.
On this theory a signal was built ..oji
and installed at Falkner's Island, in :-'i.
FOSTER FOG SIGNAL, FALKNEB'S IS3> \
AND. CONN. ! Xffl
Long Island Sound, under the supervision
of the United States Lighthouse
Board. The apparatus consists ii^ '
brief of an immense megaphone,!
mounted on a circular table. . Br, I
changing tbe position ol tne 'pftone j
toward each of the principal points of" {
the compass in tnrn, and by blowing' j
a different signal at each point, thai 1
compass bearing is given to pase''ng| if
eessels. ' ]
The apparatus works automatically, '+
i three-horse power gas engine being |
sufficient to pump all the air required
for. blowing the signals and to tura vthe
worm ijear tbat moires the men* h
phone, ? J