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Show Far out at sea, thirty miles away, a great tongue of fire darted up from the bosom of Krakatua! If heaven was in the heart of Conrad ht'l burned in the bosom of Antonio Meuzuda, the In vain the girl assured Spaniard. him that she could never love him he would not be denied. With fren(Cambridge, Mass., totter.) zied Jealousy he watched ber growing One of tbe most Important and InterInterest in the young officer, and warned her, in note after note, that esting departments of astronomy as he would brook no rivalry. She well os one of the least known popucorned to answer, and bade the ser- larly Is tbe measurement and recordvants refuse him admittance. When ing of tbe comparative magnitude of he told Conrad, he laughed, as he the stare a task which has been carried on, doubtless, since tbe beginning laughed at everything. That very morning Antonloe worst of astronomical science. In this reckDuniour, dark-brow- dhmSxiffan? T&e Cod callad llttl muI to Him, Fortti from Hla qulrlnf seraphim, A UltJo aulrll, spoil khlu, Out of hit multitude of Unlit. "Wilt lev tho nlorloo of My thron. And venture the In way unknown. To acquaint thyaalf. from youtli to With yonder human heritage? (, "WVaponed for warfare ahalt thou go. In armor such aa nwriala know. To wrratla tlirough the uni eating yaara With a) no and sorrow, fora and frara.' "O gallant queat! 0 high omprlao, To light beneath my Father' eye! Thou, Lord, my peril proudly pa at, bhall crown nia victor at the laal!'' oaf weary aoul, one midnight lata. gate, humbly at the With dinted helm and broken aword Lord. head before the And downraat A Knm-ke- n "Through nilat and atorm. Thy will I Bought; my wounda that I have fought; The unequal at rife waa flaree and long, Alaa! I bring no triumph eong! "Nor wllea I had nor countermine Againat the cunning Foe' deelgne; I can no more my atrength le ientr to banlahinent!" liid ma, Then did the Ird upon file breeat Fold that poor bleeding aoul to real; "Thou atriveat well, my rhlld, aaid He. I apake nut aught of vlctury! Wltm-a- a XScJSi. Crushing a Scorpioa. It was but natural that he should pend much of his spare time at the American's hospitable home. To a DY REBECCA U EMIT. man wearied with wandering in many (Copyright, 19u0, by Dully Siory pub. Co.) lands, it was like a bit of Eden. It but nutural, too, that he should It wag the ycur 1883, that memorable was lose his heart to the loveliest of the year which did more to change the of that Eden, algeography of the South Sea urrhipel-gg- o lovely daughters to a strange and seemed her it though to titan ever Napoleon did change the map of Europe. At tho time of wonderful thing. It was a short woowhich 1 write, the city of Anjur, with ing, whose end was from the beginits CO, (WO sou Id, mill rested in fancied ning. The glory of first love lay around the girl; her footsteps trod In an ensecurity upou the slums of the Java, chanted land. As for him, no one else, had for three monllia the solid earth been trembling mid Krakaloa had let be told himself, hud ever filled bis aglow a lamp which went out neither night nor day. The pi opto had grown used to it. They diJ not shriek now, nor start up in terror when the rhythmic tremor of the earthquake set the windows rattling. Hah! It was As for nothing a mere undulutlou. Krakatou the old mountain would burn Itself out, and then there would be an end of all this. The ordinary avocations of life were resumed at morn the flthlng boats set sail, at eve they anchored In the bay. On the hillside, a mile or two inland, a number of Europeans had set their beautiful and comfortable villas, thus escaping the Intense heat and deadly malaria of the lowlands. Here they lived sumptuously In the midst of a cosmopolitan clvlilialiou with all that wealth could lead to mitigate the pangs of exile. They, too, had grown heedless of the unnatural conditions. Krakatna had broken out in May. It aud all that time was now A long line of lire. the warning hud not ceased to be heard heart before no one else had realized In tho dull rumble ol the enrthnuako. the ideal of his dreams. He was as inIt was tho morning of the 12th of toxicated with her beauty and grace as August, n glowing, Sabbnlh morning. any hoy might have been. To find ber The foreigners were sipping early tea here, In this out of the world place. It on their verandas. Gorgeous, bewild- was like the fairy stories of h4s almost ering In Its lavish profusion of beauty, forgotten childhood. She was like a the tropical landscape lay before them, rare songbird that had flown out of the dew still glittering on the rich aud this little world of flowers to blossom varied foliage of the undergrowth. In his heart. He laughed at himself Great tropical flowers glowed like he had a trick of laughing when he many colored lamps In shadowy re- did not care to analyze a thought too cesses under giant palms. deeply. He did not want to go beyond A young girl and a young man came hia love and happiness today. He trolling leisurely down a little path would let no vision of his haughty almost hidden tn the dense shrubbery. English mother disturb him; nor did of Anglo-Saxo- n he pause to consider the difllcultles of They were unmistakably blood. The girl was very beauhie chosen career today here, tomortiful, with the pallid, fragile beauty of row at the other end of the world. one v.'hc had king languished under What business had he with a wife! the influence of an enervating climate. Love paused not at such questions. There was no healthy color In her Family pride. Interest, ambition, were lovely, oval face, though sometimes It meaningless words before the deeper flushed like a June rose ns her com- reality of this, tom alone was life. Sudpanion whispered something for her denly, across the path, a little reptile ear alone. The man was of a different darted. The girl sprang back, ecream-In- g, llo A scorpion! she cried. type; hla was a mature youth, Her lover lnugbed, and aimed a careless blow with the knotted stick ho carried, hut before It could descend a great stone, loosened perhaps by an earthquake tremor, went rolling down aud rrushed the creature to atoms. It waa a trifling Incident, unworthy of mention, but the girl was strangely mid-Augu- A young girl and n young man. waa perhaps thirty years of age. tall, He unbrowned and sturdily built. and responbed an air of self-relian- sibility that sat well upon him a strong man In every way he seemed. The girl was the eldest daughter of a rich American merchant, whose palatial villa dominated the height above them. The man was a member of the British Geological Survey, at present stationed in Java In order to lnvesil- gate the i event seismic disturbances. eJ fears had been confirmed. malicious servant from the villa told him of Viviens betrothal to tho Englishman, and then fled for life before the demon he bad aroused. There was nothing generous or great In Antonio at any time, and now hla whole being waa concentrated upon one Idea revenge! Antonloe stiletto glittered as ha let tho sunlight fall upon It He waa the only son of a rich coffee planter, and had never known a wish To be foiled In the suungratifled. preme desire of his life was mora than ha could bear. To tear the girl from her lover waa now hla one thought, and it possessed hie soul like a devil. The bearer of evil tidings waa gone. He stood upon the shore alone. A l.ttle boat roeked Idly on the waves. He untied it. Jumped in, and seized the oars. A few minutes brought him to a vantage point, whence he might survey the American's villa. It was an old trick of his. With the aid of a small glam, he singled them out in the little group upon the veranda. The over, he saw the young couple wander away, through the trim garden out Into the screening foliage of the woods. With clenched teeth and muttered curses, he turned the boat toward shore, conscious of the keen stiletto by his side aa of a living presence. He had nearly gained the shore. A few more strokes and he would he within reach of vengeance. What waa the matter with his anus! Strive and strain as he might, he could not advance one inch. His muscles stood out like knotted Iron, but their strength was useless now. Slowly, the boat waa dragged backward as by an unseen cable. A great hissing roar became audible, and looking up at last be saw a long line of fire rising from the very bosom of the sea and extending even to Krakatoa Itself! The ocean was pouring Its whole volume Into the abysmal Area that yet were not extinguished, and on the crest of that awful and majestic cataract his little boat whirled on to doom. The cowering wretch sank down and hid his face. The tremendous roar of the waters drowned out hla He frenzied prayers and curses. strove to make the sign of the cross in the cold sweat on bis brow. In that Inferno of waters, his now senseless body was drowned and crushed, beaten and burned, into Its elemental atoms. wlth the Meridian Photometer During the Years a massive volume giving a list of 4260 stars in the northern aky visible to the naked eye in tbe latitude of Cambridge, and intended to include all atari not fainter than the sixth magnitude between the North Pole and thirty degrees south of the celestial equator. To this original list another, Volume XXIV, of the Annals, has since been added. Technically such a piece of work la called a Uranometrla or catalogue of "naked-ey- e start. The similar work produced by Professor Pritchard at Oxford, for example, containing the magnitudes of 2,784 stars thus observed, was entitled Uranometrla Nova Oxonlen-is.- " The Harvard Uranometrla waa so elaborate and so accurately done that it baa been practically accepted everywhere, and the magnitude of all new tara given on the Harvard scale: A striking Illustration of the use to which It is now put occurred last spring when the new star appeared In the constellation Perseus. Among the observers who gave their results on the Harvard scale were Nljland and Gyllenskold of Sweden, Pereira of the Portuguese observatory In the Azores, the staffs of the British Astronomical Association and the Astronomical Society of France and the officers of the Radcliffe Observatory at Oxford, as well as practically all American astronomers. As would be supposed, It takes a trained eye to notice the liner differences in star magnitudes On the modern scale a first magnitude star would be expressed as ranging from 0.50 to 1.50, a second magnitude star from 1.50 to 2.50, and so on. For Instance, Castor, which was measured as 1.56 In the "II. P., would be called of the second magnitude, while Its twin star, Pollux, the' brighter of the Gemini, is a first magnitude star, measured as 1.12. The Pole Star itself Is a star of the second magnitude, its measurement bring 2.15. Tbe six brighter stars in tbe Pleiades are all of the second and third magnitudes, as 1879-158- oning of magnitude, which Is known as photometry the measurement, that Is, of starlight it Is Interesting to note that an American astronomical establishment stands among the first. If not si the very first in the world, photometry having been for years one of the principal subjects taken up by tbe Harvard Observatory, both in Cambridge and at Arequlpa, Peru, and tbe results of tbe work which it baa accomplished having been accepted aa standard all over the world. Tbe first star catalogue, giving 1,080 stars, waa published by Hipparchus In the year 125 B. C. It has come down to ua through Itolemy of Alexandria, who nearly 800 years later, in 140 A. D., produced his Megale Syntaxls the "Almagest of the Arabian and Moorish astronomers which, either directly or through the correctea catalogue that was based on It by the Persian astronomer, was the world's standard until Ulugh Bleigh brought out a new catalogue at Samaracand about 1450 A. D. The famous catalogue of Tycho Brahe the last of the mediaeval or tbe first of the modern astronomers in 1580, was the last Important catalogue produced without the aid of tbe telescope. Hipparchus and Ptolemy arrangeu the stars In six classes, the first class comprising the brightest about twenty In all while the sixth class contained those which could Just be made out by the naked eye. After the telescope came Into general use magnias tudes were extended downward fainter stars were brought into view by the Increasing power of the Instruments employed. For many years each astronomer used his own scale, Hcrschel at the Cape of Good Hope es- an fl, 2'' indicated by a couple of anecdotes. A money lender once advanced him $20, for which, first and last, be paid $1,000. This person, he saya, became so muoh attached to him as to pay a daily visit at hla office and exhort him to b punctual. "These visits were very terrible and can hardly have been of service to me In the office. This mild remark applies also to the visits from the mother of a young woman In the country who bad fallen In love with him, and to whom he "lacked the pluck to give a decided negative. Tbe mother used to appear with a basket on her arm and an Immense bonnet upon her head, and Inquire In a loud voice, before all hla companions, Anthony Trollope, wben are you going to marry my daughter?" No wonder that he was miserable; be waa hopelessly In debt, and often unable to pay for a dinner; he hated hia work, he aays, and he hated hia idleness; ha quarreled with his superiors, who thought him hopelessly incapable, and felt that he was sinking "to the lowest At last be heard of a place In pits. the Irish postofflee, which everybody despised, and was successful on applying for it, because bis masters were so glad to get rid of blm. At the earn time, they Informed hia new superior that he would probably bave to be dismissed on the first opportunity. National Review. HOW THE CHINESE GET RAIN. Peculiar In Yoga CclMtlal Kingdom. Practice la th It Is one of tbe peculiarities of the Chinese that, while they have developed elaborate philosophies, none of them has led to any confidence In tho uniformity of nature. Neither the people nor their rulers have any fixed opinion ae to the causes of rain-fal- l. The plan In some provinces when the need of rain Is felt is lo borrow a god from a neighboring district and petition him for the desired result. If hla answer Is unsatisfactory he Is returned From tbe commanding height abova supporting the fainting girl In hia arms, Conrad Dunlow watched with fascinated horror the scene below. He aw the fishing bonts drawn one by one into the fiery whirlpool, and knew not that In one of them, a scorpion lay crushed. There came a mighty roar, a universal crash as of a world in dissolution. The air grew black around him. He closed his eyes for one Instant, and when he looked again, the city of An-Je- r, with its 60,000 souls, was gone, and the hungry waves of ocean bellowed at his feet Tli Gran of Colombo. Christopher Columbus, the discoverer of America, died at Valladolid, Spain, May 20, 1306, and was burled there; but in 1513 his remains were removed to Seville, a hence. In 1536, with those of his sun Diego, they were taken to Santo Domingo, In Hispaniola, now commonly known as the Island of Hay-t- l. In 1796 they were, it Is stated, transferred to the Cathedral at Havana; but there Is some reason to believe that by mistake it was the bones of the son Diego and not those of his father which were removed on that At present both Havana occasion. and Santa Domingo claim his ashes as their treasure. KrAwllim Cd welcome. Clara Well. aunt, have yonr photographs come from Mr. Snappeschottes? Miss Maytleval (angrily) Yes, and they went back, too, with a note expressing my opinion of his Impudence. Clara Gracioiui! What waa It? Miss shaken. "It meant to sting you," she declared Maytleval Why. on the back of every with trembling lips. picture were these words; "The origFt on so. Sweetheart. he answered inal of this Is carefully preserved. lightly, indulgently. "You see the Stray Stories. devil lakes care of his own. How can you!" she protested, the Death In a Mosquito Sting: A mosquito taused the death of Mrs. Indignant color flashing in her face. "It is a poor subject for a Jest. The Anna towler of Elizabeth, N. J, A sting of the ai.orpinn Is dcstl.t' few weeks ngo she was stung by the "I know I know; but Vivien, insert on the ankle aud blood poisonSweel heart, lam too hnppy to be se-- ing followed. On a recent Tuesday she rious about life or death, tot me was hurled. laugh while 1 can. When I get you over in England, away from this Kiport and Import of Gold. beastly malaria, you'll laugh, too. I lS'Jti ws sent abroad 679,000,000 In want to show you to my cousins. You more or gold than we received; in 1898 will be liko a lily among red roses." $104,000,000 more than wo received we She shivered in the warm air and 1899. $51,000,000 more; last in sent; drew closer to him. tot us go hack, she said, abrupt- year the excess of exports was $3,693,-67- 5. ly; "It Is growing bet, and tbs ground, bow It Is shaking! Will these KSe for Keagb awful earthquakes never end! Fiat dweller Say, we had a robbery Itelow them the city of Anjer lay In our hotel last night Detective So In Its Sabbath repose. In the bay, the I've been told. I am working on U empty Ashing boats were anchored. now. Flat dweller Say! Ill give you It' was all very beautiful and peaceful, $10 If you'll arrest the Jattor. Somerville Journal. "took! cried the geologist OBSERVING END OF HARVARD'S LARGEST PHOTOMETER, SHOWING AND THE TABLE AT WHICH THE ASSISTANT TAKES DOWN a are those In the Dipper. The upper peclally using very high numbers star of the two "pointers In the reduced so been has that tendency to s.ty the star since his time that hla twentieth mag- Dippcrthat is hanthe opposite nitude Is very nearly the fourteenth on the lip 1.96 of dle has measurement the a in now employed seale generally on the Harvard Photometry. The pointer beThis scale more closely correspond low has a measurement of 2.60, which with that of Argclander, the great author of the "Durchmusterung" would carry it Into the third magnitude. The other bottom star of the or catalogue of the stars in the northern heavens, which enumerates over Dipper has a measurement of 2.56, and 324,000 stars, the largest number yet the star nt the Junction of the handle approaches the fourth magnitude, havcatalogued. ing a measurement of only 3.41. while Each magnitude, of course, has Its the star next to it draws near the first others may the which to typical atari wirh ;i measurement of magnitude, stars be conveniently referred. The 1.85. The next star in the Dipper, the In correspond not exactly which do second from the end, is really a double exmagnitude with a typical star are of the star, hut the measurement of the two terms fractional in pressed gives 2.38, while the end star nearest magnitudes, decimals being together of all is almost a typical second magPtolemy although employed, usually nitude star, having n measurement of Emand even Argelander used thirds. 2.02. of a star ploying the decimal system, shade he a will brighter 5.4 magnitude ANTHONY TROLLOFE'S YOUTH. than a star of 5.5 and so on. An exsuch t certain stars, that is ception !!l (.'iiprmnMiig Onll'Hik While WorkArcturus and Sirius, and the planet IVuliiltlr ( lerk. ing as are Jupiter when at Its brightest, thar. start in life was Trollope's Anthony niasninde a brighter more than As he knew no lanstars of the tir?t magnitude. Aldebar-a- unpromising. or rootVn. he became for example, and are therefore ex- guages, ancient a school in Brussels, classical at usher that pressed In "negative magnitudes." with the promi.-- e of a coinmUslon in the are by to preceded is say. they minus sign. Jupiter, for instance, ap- the Austrian army. Then he was sudtransfected to a cl:l.-:,!in the proaches almost tho second negative denly tondnn or postuttli e. lie w:s disqualisixteen is minii magnitude iu-position by general times brighter than a star of tho first fied for the Fpe.-i.iand ignorance incapacity for magnitude. arithmetic. A vague the simplest accomof Is the great It significant lie must that examinaan threat pass plishment of American astronomy that tion was forgotten before it was put there was no universally accepted sysand Trdopo characterinto execution, n publico-tlotem of photometry until the of what is now known ns ths istically takes occasion to denounce the system of competitive examination Harvard Photometry the "H. P.," would have b en excluded. it is familiarly called by astronomer by which he he was turned loose tn This was contained In volume XIV. of Meanwhile to live a genand London, attempted Observathe Annals of the Harvard tory, under the title of Observations tleman on $450 a year. The results are Ge-m- an n, l u THE HOOD FOR THE OBSERVER THE M EA3I7REMENTS. to his home with every mark of honor; otherwise he may be put out in tho sun. as a hint to wake up and do bis duty. A bunch of willow la usually thrust Into liia hand as will be sensitive to moisture. Another plan In extensive use is the building of special temples In which are wells containing several iron tablets. When there is a scarcity of min a messenger starts out with a tablet, marked with the date of the journey and the name of the district making the petition. Arriving at another city he pays a sum of money anil is allowed to draw a new tablet from the well, tb: owing in his own by way of exchange. On the return journey he is supposed to cat only bran and travel at top speed day and night. lrsyers are usually made In the fifth and sixth months when the rainfall is always due, and limit of ten (lays Is sit for their effective operation. Under such condition t rain usually falls during the prescribed time. When prayers are In progress the umbrella, among other objects, coups under tie ban. In some provinces furcignciR are muhbed for carrying this harmless article at that time. Detroit tr. e Fives. Virions INilltlrn Affect tlie flchnoU. In the large cities of this country there arc mure than 10,000 children who cannot receive tire benefits of the public schools because there are not enough buildings. Even Boston, tbe best equipped of American cities, needs 27 more buildings. The showing In all cities this fall is worse than ever. The accommodations have not kept pace with the Increase in population. It Is a disgrace to us all, and, as usual, it has its explanation in poliWhat our cities need la fewer tics. and more school teachers. Saturday Evening Post. |