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"[f[e ^paoi: A NC 13? $3rs. (ISABELLA yCopyriKl'1,*nd iiy3, b; CHAPTER X Il.a CONTINUED. "'She might be feigning this rtcciJent.and they were notyet so far away but she could summon her subjects :o her aid if once assured that he Meant to deceive her. They were probably all asleep by this time, but In any case it was safer to return and see what had befallen her"Reluctantly, but with every appearance of affectionate solicitude, Mendoza retraced his steps, calling her softly with endearing words as he neared the prostrate figure. He found Anaoaona lying full length on the ground, stiff and rigid, her features set, her upturned eyes wide open and unwinking, and from her lips came a voice that was not hers, muttering words that caused cold chills to shake him like an ague. She had been over?aken by the mysterious trance; and, although he feared to look on her, he ?lonqf for the was 91UO iruui iiox U> oresent. But how long would it hold aer? Dare be leave her so? Would it not be far safer to "His hand sought his dagger and drow it forth. " 'The dead alone never return.' "That was the thought in his mind; that thought, in those same words, became the motto of Robespierre three centuries later; but that only proves Uow universal is the. sentiment. "No fiend of the French Revolution ever looked more devilish than Mendoza looked then, as he stood feeling the edge of his dagger, and looking down upon the rigid face of his Indian wife. " 'Pedro!' she said; but the voice was Juauita's, 'thou hast broken inj heart! Thou hast killed mc! Must she die, tou?' "With a scream of rage that was broken by superstitious fear, the man staggered back, but a mocking laugh seemed borne past him on the air. He raised the dagger and held it poised above the heart of the unconscious woman. " 'The dead return not; only the dead never return to plague us,' he *T?tanr1t T)flmnn! Pos sessed one! Die! Die!' And the dagger descended through the poor, loving, faithful heart, whoso only sin had been to love this monster, who had to her appeared divine. "Again and again, as if he thirsted to slay a hundred lives, the miscreant stabbed her, -while the crimson current flowed out till it reached his feet. Assured then that she was dead past all doubt, he wiped the dagger on her mantle, returned it to his belt and sped onward up the mountain, nor paused for breath till he had reached the spot he sought. "He did not find* the rubies on the instant, but he knew that he should find theua. The daylight was quite gone now, and at thiB altitude the air seemed to have a light of its own. It was a glorions tropical summer night, and perhaps on these mountain-tops it was never dark. Anyway, he knew he should find the rubies. He was down on bis bands and knees, feeling about for them, digging in tbe ground For tbem. Ab, yes, bo would have tbem soon! "What was tbat? "Something shook bim and flung him from tbe place just as his nam' j? had touched tbem. He rose and stag/ gering wildly wondered why he could f not Htand?why the whole placc seemed shaking and trembling. "With an oath, he rushed toward tho spot where, as he knew, tbe rubies were waiting for him. "Ah! What was that flaming, luminous cloud that rose in front ol him, causing his blood to curdle anc his teeth to chatter, while hi9 eyes seemed set and starting from theii sockets with namelees horror? The ?- - ~ i ? 1.;*. ?V * l, ? + ),? UllBVjr >vuitcuci3oux buau uuuu tuc form and outline of Anacaona's whitedraped figure, while its flaming brightnesa gathered into one dpot from which looked out the luminous brow and glowing eyes of his murdered wife. The shriek of a madman burst fronMondoza's lips; then crying out 'Ghost! Devil! Woman! I care nol what thou art! Thou canst not frighten mo! The dead do not return and th< rubies are mine!' he rushed forward and flung himself into the flaminp cloud, that now rose higher, broade^ hissing with fury and hurling forth stones, lire, steam and ashes through the air. There was a deep, rumbling noise, a hideous roar as of a worli crashiug asunder; the mountain yawned wide in its terrible awakening. and down through its open jawt Haul; I'edro Mendoza, swallowed up in darkni so bluck and horrible as his own mibcre^ut heart?" CHAPTER XIII. POI.LY'S ENGAGEMENT. T^iivmrr ilm roorlinr? firci papes of vbe manuscript, Clarence speedily reached, the conclusion thai he 'a-us to be a martyr for the next twe hours or thereabouts, and he determined to make the be6t of his position by studying the face of Dolores but from the moment when she reached tha name of Pedro Mendoza and, further on, the description of the Mendoza birthmark, his attention was powerfully arrested and held till the ' lant tragic word of tbe story. He was neither blessed or cursed with the great faculty of imagination, but ever his prosaic mind could not fail to see the threads of destiny by which the Iivirg descendants of the traitorous Spauiard and his two unhappy wives were bound forever to the victims ol that awful trage'dy of the rekindled volcano; lo the one through crime and the blackest butchery, and to the other by tbe still more awful tie of injustice and deathless ?rief reacirag out appealing hands for succor eveu beyond the grave. To him, even more than to Dolores, tbe story had peculiar significance; for by its light he could now understand all that lia.l been mysterious and inesplis II sk (reasOre. D-d ? > S-V FT v _ J? belli. Winter. CASTELAR.) f Robert Bonner's Sons.) able in the cryptograph. And be felt assured that Dolores was ignorant even of the existence of that mysterious document. Had she known of the secret hiding-place in the miniature, she "1.1 ????. V>0170 ollnwp.cl it. tn CO out of her possession. In her candid face, that was incapable of serving r.s the mask for du plicity, he saw not the faintest trace of any knowledge of the cryptograph, but tbe reading of the old story of her race, familiar though it had been to her for years, had affected her powerfully; and when she raised her eyes at the concluding word and fixed their gaze on Clarence Stanley there waa in their expression a searohing intensity that thrilled him as he ihad never yet been thrilled by the look of any woman. Dolores was not aware of this look, but in her mind was a dim, unformed desire to warn this man, whose happiness was so dear to Polly Hamilton, of a danger that might at some time overtake him with the inevitable retribution of eternal justice, as it had overtaken his prototype; and she nrrmlii hftvA been shocked and horri-. fied could she have known the interpretation, go flattering to his own wishes, that Stanley chose to put on that look from her deep, dark, lumin1 ous eyes. As for Polly Hamilton, although she declared that the Mendoza Legend was just as interesting as a printed ] story, her mind had been wholly ; given up to the happy thought that 1 she was the betrothed wife of the man she loved and that blissful idea colored everything she heard or saw J with its own rosy glow. ' "Well, he was not a pleasant per' son, that ancestor of yours, Clarence," she said. And as Stanley turned toward her-she met the triumphant fire of his glance, and naturally enough read in it the ardor of his love 1 for herself?and she colored deeply with answering love and happiness. The blush recalled to Stanley what he had already forgotten; ana ne 1 thought with visible impatience: 1 "What a fool I have been to entangle myself, worse than I already was, with Polly Hamilton. I can win this beautiful Dolores?women are all alike; and with her and the Mendoza ' treasure I shall be a second Monte Cristo." But to Polly it seemed as if her last ' words had unwittingly offended her lover; and she hastened to add: "But it is so long ago, Clarence, ' that it doesn't matter. Fancy being able to trace one's ancestry Jback for | four hundred years! Although that is nothing for you, for I suppose the Windermere ancestry is still older." | "That goes back to the Norman ; Conquest, of course?but then the Mendozas were centuries old. in noble 1 descent before Columbus was born. If that is anything to be congratulated ' on, the family on both sides iB extremelv ancient." | "Well, I don't know that it is," said j republican Mary Hamilton. "One |i must have had many queer Ancestors [ | in eight or ten centuries. And if we ' ! inherit mental peculiarities, as we do ! physical characteristics, it is no won: der that you and Rita should be tmlike p j other people." [ j "Am I so unlike other people, j Polly? In what way?", ' I "Jast in being handsomer and, i more delightful than any other man in ! j the world!" exclaimed Polly, for the moment forgetting that they were not alone. ' But thiB open admiration, coupled with a manner of having entire pos. session of him, did not suit Clarence | j Stanley at all. And he shrugged his j shoulders with a disdainful coolness ' that caused the frank and outspoken girl a feeling of keen chagrin. ! I "T hftVA shocked him!" she thought. ! "Ob, dear, if be shoald think me forward or unwomanly?what shall I do? '; I forgot " | She turned in confusion toward Dolores. "Why don't you ask me in what way 1 yon are unlike other people, Rita?" " she said hurriedly. "Because I know what you would | say," said Dolores, gently. "Your : loving heart sees only goodness and grace and beauty in all your friends, | and you are frank enough to telKthemso,.even to their faces?I know you of l; old, dear." v 1 Mary Hamilton thanked her with a [ quifk glance of gratitude. "Of pourse, I would have flattered 1 you in just the same way that I did ' j Mr. Stanley;" and she looked toward ' him with a comic emphasis on his 1 name. "But besides being lovelier 1 and sweeter than any other woman in the world, Kita, you seem to have inherited other peculiarities from that Indian princess or, perhaps, from the little Dolores whose name you bear." I "Yes, I have," answered Dolore*, ? promptly. "I have always felt as if tlicf rrirl?th? fthild crrown to woman i ! hood?had hovered about me in spirit | as a gnardian-aDgel." I "What a pretty idea!" ?aid Polly. ; j "I am felad you put it that wky. I was s half prepared, to have you inform us i that you were the re-incarnation of the s ! Srst Dolores Mendoza." i I "I have no such unlikely beliefs," s j said Dolores, gravely. i i "But I don't know why 3 may not ! ! be a reproduction of that Dolores, a i true descendant., designed by fate to s work out the just vengeance of wrong > and treachery." i "Oh, dearest Rita," exclaimed s Polly, laughing outright, "don't be t too serious about it. According to [ that story, your Indian-princess ank c.estor was a kind of possessed wdman. i like the spirit-mediums of the present *; day'.. Did you ever see a inedfum? ; There was a friend of mamma's in San i I Francisco who was half crazy on the i \ spiritualistic philosophy, as she called I i if, and she was forever consulting the ; ! mediums and the spirits. There are 1 more mediums to the square mile in j San .Francisco than in any other city J.Si in the Union, and every one of them has an Indian 'control.' I never heard of an Indian who hadn't au Indiau control, and I used to wonder greatly at the number of controlling Indian spirits. But now I see a reason for it. The mediums are all descended from that extraordinary princess. In the course of four hundred years she must have had many thousands of descendants, and she has v, /-.f 4}>em with an Tn pruViucu catu uug v/a v?v? dian control." Dolores, who bad been listening with a face of great seriousness, suddenly burst into irrepressible laughter. "I think you are perfectly ridiculous, Maruja," she said, in a provoked tone. "I don't know anything about spirit-mediums. I have heard mamma speak of them, but she had a horror of their wicked lies and cruel fraud. But I can see no reason in the world why the spirits of those who have loved us in this life should not be near us to comfort us after death has parted them from us, when our thoughts are lifted high enough to reach them. I don't like jesting about such subjects; they are toe sacred for laughter. Any way, I am not a medium and I have no Indian control." "But you have, Lorita. Either the princess or her daughter has taken you in charge. <1 would Bay the beautiful Anacaona?the Golden Flojer. Such a splendid name for a control, and very taking." "You are incorrigible!" exclaimed Dolores, as she gathered up the loose leaves of her manuscript and folded them together. "I shall be sorry ] read my little story if you are going tc turn it into ridicule." "Polly is a wicked girl," saic Stanley, quickly. "But I air grateful to you beyond words, Cousin Dolores. All we Men dozas have heard something, liov and then, of our singular ancestry, but ] have never so thoroughly understood i! as I do now. Evidently, your fathei knew more of it than the rest of us and perhaps he could have carried i even further than he has done in t&a story. Of course, it is understood tha the little Dolores, with all those won derful gems sewed up in the seams o: her garments, was carried away fron the island before the upheavel of th< earthquake and the destruction of th< Indian city in the volcanic eruption.' "Oh, yes," answered JL>oiores, care lessly. "No doubt she reached' th< Spanish ships in safety, and, haviDj been taken to Spain, it is possible thai the" sailors hunted up Pedro's othei child, Raphael. The brother an? sister must have grown to manhooc and womanhood, and among their de scendants there may be many still living besides us two; but my father wai the true heir to the great Mendozi treasure, for he alone possessed th< secret to it, whioh lie inherited fron his father." Stanley almost betrayed himself bj his quickly suppressed exclamation al these unexpected words. But Dolores who had not been looking at him, wai quite unconscious of the effect she hac produced; and, having now carefully tied up the roll of manuscript, she ros? to leave the room. "But this treasure! What was it' Where is it? Do you know anything of it?" exclaimed Stanley, with ar eagerness he vainly strove to disguise "I know nothing of it," said Dol ores, indifferently, "except tnat it i: bidden somewhere in the Santiag< Canyon, where my father died anc where he now lies buried. It is averj great treasure, I have heard mammi say, of fabulous value in gold anc precious stones, among them some ol these very gems that Pedro and th( Gold Flower sewed into the garment.' of my little namesake. But I take nc interest in it. My father lost his lift "in quest of it and died broken-heartec without finding it. My mother lies ii a nameless grave, bestowed partly b] ' charity, and I think I should be will ing to give up my claim to it for th( privilege of burying her ashes in th< grave of the husband who adored her But," she added mockingty, "this Columbian year is to be an eventfu one for Americans. Who knows but i may also reveal the hiding-place of th< Mendoza treasure. It was prophesied long ago, that it would be unearthec at the close of the four hundred years and the name of the discoverer wa: given'as-Dolores Mendoza; but in thii great country there may be many o that name, although I know of onlj one." TO BE C05TINT7ID. v A Curious Swlgi Caitom. The tenacity with which European! cling to ancient ways is seen in a curi ous custom which prevails at the pres en? day in Basel, Switzerland, a citj of nearly 100,000 inhabitants. Horsei being very expensive in this ' country, the middle classes cannot afford thi luxury, and when a young man be comes engaged to be married he levies on one of his rich neighbors for j span. Though he may not know th< rich man even by sight, he notifiei him that he wishes his carriage am footman to call at his home at a speci' -O - -3 xl TT~ lieu lime, JLLO IUOU UOCO IlUC UUU YCJ" a nee to call with his fiancee' upor everybody of their acquaintance.' A1 the marriage the same thing takes place again. It is expected that the groom will give a tip from to each coachman so employed.?Correspondence Chicago Record. WatcH I'uexrtlieil From an Indian Mound Near the village of.Delton, Wis., was recently unearthed from an Indian mound a box which contained some diet arrow heads, and brads and a watch. It is not unusual to find arrow heads, patterns and skulls in these mounds, but the finding of a watch is something new. The watch bears no date. The only lettering is N. H. C. Co. The works are in a brass open face case with a heavy crystal. It is nearly three inches in diameter and three-fourths of an inch in tH)cknfe88. it seems to be in gooa condition, and when wound shortly after it was found it began to tick of! the seconds, and has been running ev6r since. There is a locnst tree on themound fourteen inches in diameter, indicating that the tree might be at least forty or fifty; years old. The watch is evidently of recent manufacture. g Wheat Grown In the United State*. Nearly a quarter of the wheat raised in the world is grown in the United ; States. Ota. j " ' . I THE ISLAND gi i || OUR SHARE OF Th |? BY HUGH Under the new Samoan treaty the United States becomes the possessor of a small island in the South Pacific .1 i nnn I Ocean, Sltuaieu auoui MU miiea of the equator. For some fifteen years past we have had a more or less i sentimental regard for this island, be. cause it was here that our Government had acquired from a native chief a lease of part of the shore of a harbor on which to establish a coaling station. > The harbor was the only one in the ! Samoan group in which vessels could i lie safely during a hurricane, such as 1 occasionally visits the group, and its v . l N , % 4 I ^ jL ^ I ' i I. I . ' , . ./ ' \ THE SAMOi | t ? ?t 1 only drawback tu that it was almost 1 wholly, inaccessible on the landward sifle. Now and then, but at long ' intervals, an American man-of-war 1 has called at this harbor, but it . may ' be doubted whether any of the crews ' ever attempted to climb the;almost ' precipitous hills that wall the 1 placid sheet of landlocked,water which ' the natives call Pago-Pago, 4Th&isl and of Tutuila is by far the least kn'own of the three main islands'that form ' the group of Samoa. It'lief,-about, thirty miles soutfc of th^vmRM&o, on' I which alone European^ or'Americftns f have settled, either as planters or I traders, and excepting the harbor of II Pago-Pago on the southeast, >and a ' I small bay knows as Leone, near the northwest corner, it possesses no place' of anchorage or shelter even for the 3 smallest trading Teasels. ' The general appearance of Tntuila, like that of all the volcanic islands of 1 the South Pacific, is very beautifnl. As we entered the passsage, from ' twenty to thirty-five miles 'broad, between the islands, every eye scanned > the shores, under the impression that * the schooner would be found lying at I some point under the lee of the land. There waB, however, nq sign of a sail. On either sido the land rose high and broken, clothed from shore to summit in the luxuriant vegetation of the tropical islands, and as we proceeded at half-speed through the passage it became more and more evident that for some reason our tender had not arrived. We had reached the eastern end and cleared both islands before at/ solution of the difficulty presented itself, but- then a v$ry small cutter was discovered lying close inshore, at a point where a native village could be seen among the palm trees that formed a background to the silverwhite coral beach. > The cutter turned out to be a trader ' engaged in collecting a cargo of copra 1 (sun-dried cocoauut) to be taken to 1 Apia to the German company's stores. T We were told we could stay on board " if we liked, but the cutler must go to i Leone Bay, at the western end of the i island, before it would return to Apia. The prospect of staying on board was ' " - {*? i INTERIOR OF A TUTUILA CHIEF'S HOUSE. i 3 so disagreeable that several of the j party determined to try the alternal tive plan of walking overland to Leone and there awaiting the arrival of the outter. Leaving all our luggage on i board, we were landed on the beach i. * vF'""'- : V .^S*" *% a? c? '-ii.?: &<sKmc'i* v-cw#- -.-'* | PAGO-PAGO, TDTUILA, SHOWING Tt within a hundred*yards of the village, which now showed amoDp the trees like a group of overgrown beehives of the old straw material and conical shape. The natives were most frieudl j. j They invited us into the largest hut, t\ rt>?WMnitr' Sfiititt 'vt^aL / ?. OF TUTUILA. m & [E SAMOAN GROUP. |g VM H. LUSK. ^ on the floor of which we were accommodated with mats of woven grass, while two girls prepared a bowl of kava juice for our special- entertainment. Personally, I had heard enough about this famous liquor of the islands to decline it, and though my companions tasted it, they were wise enough to leave it to our hosts to paralyze themseves with the strange narcotic. In the meantime we had, / nntrivftd to make it understood that I we wanted a guide to styow as .the native path over the hills'' to Leone Bay, inhere the missionary lived, and ? 1?. < ' . < A M * . ' ? ".. HI oftlo,k'<A AMr if tau^ r ..Hc-'a6? i manua ii s svT UTU<LA ; LN ISLANDS. the offer of a dollar readily secured a guide, in the^person of a young man of magniflc&nt'bmld and appearance. The/bargain once made, we lostcno time in starting. Our guide, who waa dressed in full Dative costume, which consisted of a very large and finely powdered head of hair, and a very small cincture of some kind of native .cloth round-his loins, led us along the jbeach for a "short distance, and then faced the ^ill which rose abrupt and THE BELLE OF TUTUILA. very steep behind tile littlft village..,; The climb was so steep that but l^ir ; fbe profusion of saplings, shTnb6,f^kd climbing plants that hedged,in . the" narrow path we should*: hardly hanrafj managed it. When at lastwereJwh^Sf the top we found ourselves at "a height of perhaps eight or nine huhdreiffeel above the sea, on the top-q? ??long ridge that seemed to run .the;' whole - length of the island. The land.slopes downward from.-ffte.'' central ridge on the northern side in a succession ofrfmaro, yith deep-glene and watercourseKhetiir^; but ;on the southern coast, %pe<iiiillj near, tho eastern end of the island; the 'slopes end abruptly in cliffs and.precipitous banks that descend .to tHgSfira' It is here that Pago-Pago lies,' and trorii the top of the ridge it can j5erseen like a nearly circular basin bf* perfectly smooth water, slafl^wea by the surrounding mount^ire, and* wifch only one Harrow entranceway, which winds between two lofty woode^ bluffs. The ioland is not more tha&miles long, and nowhere, /i should; jfldge, much more than five miles^broad. From wbat I saw of the natives of. Tutuila, I should suppose t?^fe^) be they are not maoli interf^jd' with. There Lave oeen rejwiea ana somewhat saugainarj^w^^^w^.. them IE HILLS RISING FROM THE SHORE. primitive agriculture of the island could hardly be much extended, as there is scarcely an acre of level laud to be found there. Cocoaunts, indeed, grow along the shore everywhere, and even to some extent inland; orange-! * trees grow to the dimensions of forest trees; there are nutmeg-trees in the forest that clothes the slopes; and arrowroot, ginger and pineapples abound everywhere. All these things go to make America's South Sea island a delightft 1 fairy spot, but they are, and must always be, on too minute a scale to hold out any temptation to the planter and the trader. Perhaps, for the sake of the natives at least, it is well. The Navy Department has decided to assign Commander B. F. Tilley, of the collier Abarenda, as the commandant of the Paeo-Paeo coalintr station. which will place him in charge of the administrative affairs of the Samoan territory of the United States. Commander Tilley is now at Pago-Pago. The naval officers who have been on the Island of Tutuila recently in connection with the work of building the wharf and establishing a coaling station in the harbor of Pago-Pago state that there are at present about 1500 people on the Island of Tutuila, owing allegiance to about three chiefs. The principal chief is named Mangum. The people are different from the inhabitants of the other Samoa? Islands, being particularly peaceful in disposition. The population is unique in the fact that every sonHflieputed to be a devout Christian, j They are so orthodox that not one person could be induced to come aboard' one of the American ships or. Sundays xhile all of them go to church. This donation is ascribable largely to the influence of French missionaries. Nothing has been positively settled as yet aa to the government of the isl1 ? 3 At'. 11 _ ? - anas oeyona ice iaoi \nmr me principal official will be-a nival officer. The general purpose ia to have him interfere aa littfe as possible with the natives so Ioibgas they continue in their present peaceful manner to-govern themselve? without frfetion. The of tho Poiaonont It is probw^^at'not many people ever heard ol;-pj^Iin,-no-.i only one of th., iost remai:Vftfele|ttbEtances in the world,b it-one terrible poisons. And it ir'so tjm common that it can ev,erynfield and swamp in, thd^tjjptry, forphal lin is the poiagnp^wpement in, the deadly mushroom,: :t$l "deith ?npi?A as it has been mMfc?jpropriatel$ called. Not only thft^hen, phatiin was first discovered jp^??fbandJKrt it was almost identicwwith the poUg? of the rattlesnake, sa^af; death fifjm' more wonderful. Jtril? kp various bacteria p| same poison?the in-v case is ate only a ful is the phatlixi pn^n that even the baudling of the :dea&' onp and the breathing of the ^j^es:^infty prodaoe nrt^iAMo illnaoe 7 j\, ?, 0C1JIM4O iliu^og, "Trt. *. ' . ? ' ' ' The "death cap" 18 only ono of a number of poisonous plants in America, although there are not many in thie country or in Europe. The commonest of all-is-the familiar poison ivy oJ our fields and roadsides. Contrary to almost general bejief, poison ivy'is sot injurious unl&s-M^tfally touched. Its irritating power is' due to: a non-volatile oil contained in jthe.leaves, tire Effects, of whioB;-whilflr. distressing, are not deadly. _ A.:^*jrj;^6od representation of the ppi^n i^ leaves and fruit is shown iathe picture. Oncefamiliar With it.jQne ne^.neT^mistake it for anything else. Poison ivy is much ia^fogold stofl^i^ces and at the thbtpfia WeBt^^piftk, is ir?t couiih to tfec poison ivy; it i* fotuid only in th e far\ Weatern, -'States.: TIiou?an<l? of lioll-MA^er*. children in one district alone who are 'k' AvaaB< ^AIIM liAln in Be of^ various kinds of children who do this twelve years of age. t the art of dressing a erage of four. ''At the ording to the odmpnllaw, they are obliged to ten school for at least bat term 'is devoted to aaking dolls and dressing them, doing everything, in fact, except molding the Leads,..which is done by men expert at the business. S* After that the German -children jfcave three or four years of study, when tbey are allowed to go into the doll or toy factories to add to the daily income of the family to the extent of a few cents a day. The children who go to the kindergErten have lots of fan making clothes for the dollies, and so fond do they Ret of the Kttlu woatnrss thui the\ are ofteu sore at heart when the matron oomes around to collect them al: to be sent abroad. Good Coftee in Boerdom. The coffee is always good in tht Transvaal, but usually over-sweetened. When any guest is iu a Dutch house wife's good books she bIiows her appreciation of him by loading his c%> of coffee with sugar, which he must | drink, unless he desires to upset hei j easily-aroused susceptibilities. Complaints of the scarcity of coal are made all over Euroce. I i? . - . r_.. POPULAR SCIENCE. Professor Beal, in a paper to th? American Society for Promoting Agri- * cultural Science, reports that seeds of a large number of important planta will germinate after being kept fifteen^ j but not after twenty, years. An analysis has been made by M. Demoussy, of Paris, of the little shavings of clay that are baked on brick* \ and eaten by natives in some parts of Tokin. The material is like kaolin and r.nmnnsition. and | ILI L- , | contains no nutritious substance whatever. A patent was issued to Walther Wolff, of Charlottenberg, Germany, j on an apparatus for measuring the I velocity of sound waves, and more * j especially the velocity of propagation of a single shock or concussion of air : such as is caused by the report of a ; firearm or other explosions. The apparatus consists of a hollow box or receptacle closed on all sides and pro- 3 vided with a hole in its cover; this ; ! hole is closed by a rigid lid held down v-<Jj i by a spring, which lid when suddenly I raised by the action of the sound I wave causes the interruption of electrical current. A life-saving device which was ; tested recently on Lake Michigan is a gasoline engine propelled liteDoai. The self-righting properties of the boat -were not affected by the addition j of the engine, which is placed in the ! after air-tight compartment. The en- j gine is geared to twin-screws, so that V either 6crew may be started, stopped 1 or reversed independent of the other, ' and it is possible to tnrn the boat in r.: jjj a very small space. Seventy-five gal- > 'J lone of gasoline, sufficient for a ran 3f 280 miles at the maximum speed of j seven and one-half miles per hour, ' . i can be carried in a reservoir located ;n a forward compartment. Thef Medical Record says that excel(ent results are being had with surgi- '-.S 3a! dressings of common wood pulp, inch as \s-used as a base in the manu- -ffijiR facture "of paper. When macerated in water it swells up and absorbs four )r five times its weight of liquid. It retains heat for a long time and makes " a a better poultice man umsecu bread and milk. It can be infused with Emollient oils or with antiseptic? for special purposes; and it is well adapted as a substitute for splint bandages for it dries hard and rigid. t Ordinary clean paper, boiled and 'ijjjj soaked in. water till reduced to a perfedfc'pulp, or paper mache, would aonbtless answer the same purpose wjjieorq oirade wood pulp is not obtainmarvel of ingenuity is the me-, ctianicai perpeiuai uicuum v/uuBtracted ia leisure hours by M. Albert Jsgot, of Maus. It consists of but five wheels?with a total of ninety-six teeth?and nine levers or catches, yet it is designed to indicate th'e day of" the week, the date and the month, i automatically, for centuries, and to show the 29th day of February in accordance with our calendars?that is, every fourth year except the three -j century years in every four centuriea that are'*not leap years. The mechanism is operated by three weights, ol which one requires winding every fifteen days, the second ie to be wound once a year, while the third acts as a counterweight to bring the principal wheel* to its starting pom' once a month. * 'The Bayonet In Modern Warfare. The fire of the defense becomes more destructive every moment, while that of the assailants is shakeu by their losses, but at last a sufficiently thick firing line of the latter get within point blank of the defenders, and the latter see many more soldiers crowding up behind. The defender? , do not feel themselves beaten yet, but the/fcnow that their assailants' fire is again growing-equal, and more than equal, to their own. Suddenly t the enemy fixes bayonets r.nd his bugles sound the charge; the defenders have stood atill beneath his fire all day, they have seen, their comrades scat tered on all sides by the deadly bnt invisible tap of the rifle bullet, they have been strengthened by the merry xHot of their own guns against the appalling blast of the shrapnel, but now ) the.enemy liaA ceased his noise. He I is a great bully; they were not afraid 1 of his muskets and guns, they have ! not so far shrunk from him, but now \ he is coming co*knifethem where they j stand. They are but stricken game awaiting tko coup de grace. A few among the^ defenders will not flinch even now; they, too, fix their bayonets prepared with the bitter heroism of the lo3t to fight it out. But most men fear certain death worse than questionable dishonor, their nerves crack. and they fly. Tne ngn: is over, auu the bayonet, if it has cot drank a dropof blood, has not the less directly ended it. ? From "How Soldier? Fight," by F. Norreys Connell. Foreljrn Game in American Market. A correspondent inquires as to the effeot upon our domestic game supply of the sale; of foreign game. The effect of the sale of game actually imported would, of course, not effect the domestic supply in auy way whatever, unless it might be possibly if the imported stock were so plentiful and so cheap as to lessen the deinaud for native species. That is something which is not likely to happen. The actual conditions are these?that while there is in the market some actually imported foreign game, by far the greater proportion of the game labelled as foreign is American, and is sold illicitly under a foreign came. Brazil birds are American quail; French pheasants are American I ruffed grouse.?Forest and Stream. | Antediluvian Boneyaril. . I Phosphate rock is mined in Souti* * I Carolina and converted into e flour. In the mines have' been found many queer substances which give evidence of life before the delnge. These antediluvian relics have attracted the i attention of scientists of two worlds. There are monster tusks, teeth of all sizes and shapes, fish bones in great quantfly, all of which is ground up anil made to produce the great South' J ern staple?cotton. When He is at Kelt. A clever man always likes to sit next to a clever woman at dinner, because a clevar woman never expects a mao to be.?New York Press