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Show -a r Uui t C th be sot to to avI os 1 ' ! V' if i s 6B INDEPENDENT. D. JOHN MUX, FabUaaa 8PRINQVILLB. UTAH Rock Sand won the English Derby Hia American Jockey also had plenty ot grit. It la easier to get married than divorced. That Is one reason way there are more marriages. The shipbuilding trust seems t9 hare run on the rocks, althougn it drew a great deal of water. Mr. Chamberlain seems to have come out of the misup with his monocle on straight, at all events. Automobilists are protesting against critics running down the sport. But the public also has that rundown feeling. feel-ing. One New York bank has paid a dividend divi-dend of 125 per cent. This must make the average loan shark green with envy. - A Richmond newspaper suggests that the name be changed to slaugh-tomobile. slaugh-tomobile. What's the matter with autogoslower? , Rea&Bg-fchft nfe-wa' from1 Ocrvla, the Sultan of Turkey is suddenly reminded of something he Las for years been trying to forget. Hetty Green has had her permit to carry a revolver renewed. She is still as. firmly determined as ever not to give up any of it. Speaking of Boston and Emerson, we never could understand how so heavy a diet as beans Is conducive to transcendentalism. Occasionally you know a man you can't help admiring, but who is such a fool that you want to beat him to death. Atchison Globe. Max O'Rell's disinclination to exchange ex-change his hat for a halo is one that is shared by a grea- many people much more religious, ostensibly, than he was. The botanist who has discovered a new kind of rubber makes his announcement an-nouncement in the nick of time. The old kind is about played out, even as a joke. That alliance of South American republics re-publics will do a grand work if it can evolye a "Monroe doctrine" that will keep out the South American revolutionist. revo-lutionist. A newspaper epigrammatist says: "Every wife is the architect of her own husband." Then she shouldn't be too severe on the edifice when she botches the job. The six girls who rushed at Koclan, the violinist, just before his steamer sailed from New York, and lavished kisses on him, did not faze the violinist. violin-ist. He assisted. Stojan Protics is Servia's new minister minis-ter of the interior. The supposition "it he" 3. a new kind of breakfast excellence. Just say "Thrftrefore, to haveffbeen grocer man auu ue u give juu j sella. - ' " It Is estimated by experts that John W. Gates ia worth only $25,000,000. This will come as a complete surprise to the public. It was generally supposed sup-posed that Gates was rich. Of his own recent lllnes3 Mark Twain blithely says: "Oh, that was a pleasant adventure, a sort of vacation, that gave me a legitimate excuse for ,spending five weeks in bed." The Los Angeles Times feels hurt because the navy department has giv en the name California "to a mere cruiser." And California has mora than a thousand miles of coast line, too. Andy Carnegie has denied that he is a member of the "smart set." Well, we don't know. Andy was smart enough to get $300,000,000 worth ol gold-plated steel bonds. That wasn't so slow. According to Prof. Fitzsimmons, the accomplished connoisseur in slat-hlt "ting, the greatest strike of the yeai will be that which will take place when Jeffries connects with Corbett in the near future. When Gov. Bailey says that he . never read the 1,500 letters addressed to him by women all over the country, coun-try, proposing marriage, he taxes thr credulity of inquisitive people away beyond the limit. A TJtlca, N. Y., man has gone crazy because a report that he was heir to a fortune proves to have been false. It Is always well to refrain from getting get-ting worked up over such stories until one can put his hands on the money. The scientists are right. This is the time of year to be specially careful what the children have to eat and drink. Their elders, of course, will continue the customary diet of beer , and frankfurters. Philadelphia . In-' In-' qulrer. Announcement is made that Olga Nethersole will star as an "independent" "independ-ent" actress next season, which will cause some to wonder what new law, conventionality or whatever it may be she has now discovered that she may ignore it. Now a French theologian tells us that old-fashioned truthfulness is out of date. This may go into the box with the criticism that our Sunday schools are not swift enough. Once more we have an opportunity to refresh our memories by running over the list of assassinations of rulers, beginning with Mr. Caesar. Perhaps Joseph Chamberlain would see things more clearly if he would exchange his single eyeglass for a pair of gold-bowed spectacles. King Peier of Servia will no doubt be harassed by many troubles and anxieties, but he will be free, from at least one annoyance. The life insurance insur-ance agents won't bother him. . If the average man had the same success with his business as with his summer garden, his permanent address would be the poorhouse. Another fond illusion banished. The Pall Mall Gazette says that the dogskin dog-skin glove is made of nothing but the skin ot the Cane goat. 1 ycj!E7W: Improvement in Miners' Lamps. One of the most practical Inventions &f the last century was , the miners' Jamp, with Its sheet of gauze surrounding surround-ing the flame, enabling the miner to work In coal mines where gas was liable to be found without danger of causing an explosion with his light One objection to such a lamp'is that the gas might increase in volume in the chamber so gradually that the miner would not be aware of its pres-" ence, continuing to work with the assurance as-surance that there was no danger of an explosion and not detecting any thing wrong in the atmosphere. As an improvement over this lamp a Pennsylvania inventor has suspended Gas Detecting Attachment Above the Flame. above the flame a series of wire which become heated and become red In proportion to their distance from the blaze, and also in ratio to the quantity of gas mixed with the atmosphere. at-mosphere. The operation of . the de vise is apparent. The sensitive wires are adjusted on the harp to positions determined by ' experiment, in which they represent percentages of , gas present by becoming reddened with the heat of the flame. The user of the lamp will, of course, be informed of the danger limit, and when the strands are heated to an unusual or dangerous height will abstain from working in such gaseous quarters. It is stated that this gas detector may be easily attached to the lamps now in use, and it should prove a very practical arrangement for men who are compelled to labor in the mines. The Law of Gravitation. Newton's law of universal gravita tion announces that two bodies attract each other with a force inversely proportional to the square of their distance (their masses being equal). Half the distance the force Is in creased four times; increase it tenfold ten-fold the force is diminished 100 times. As the positions of heavenly bodies become known with greater accuracy ac-curacy the test that can be put upon this law becomes more severe. Prof. E. W. Brown of Haverford college, an authority on the theory cf the moon's motion, announces that his calculations calcula-tions show that Newton's law repre sents the motion of our satellite to within one one-millionth of one per cent, and that no other physical law lias been exDreseed with ata v thin a- V the precision of its simple statement Temporarily Blinds Horse. ' It has been knowq and put to practical test time after time that to get a horse out of a fire the best plan is to blindfold him and many an animal has been saved in this way which it was impossible to remove from the burning stable in any other manner.- It is now proposed by a Nebraska Inventor to apply practically the same principle to control fractious or vicious horses and to stop runaways runa-ways which are caused by the animal taking fright at some object on the street or road. While the blinder in common use on bridles prevents the horse from seeing objects on either side, there is nothing to shut out the view of anything any-thing approaching which might tend to frighten the animal, and it can also turn its head if it hears a noise; but with this new device the driver or rider has only to pull a cord lying parrallel to the reins and a bellows-like bellows-like curtain is drawn over both eyes to shut out the sight completely, in this condition the animal can only stand and tremble until the object Design to Prevent Runaways. causing the fright has passed, when the curtain is lifted by releasing the cord and the horse travels on as before. be-fore. The curtain is housed" in a small semicircular leather casing passing over the animal's forehead just above the eyes and the operating cords are inserted in the bit rings before passing back with the reins. Power Station Up to Date. There is now in course of construction construc-tion for the district railway system of London, a great power station that is remarkable for being the first large electrical power station to be operated operat-ed entirely by steam turbines. There will be ten turbines, each of 7,500 horse power. Only four field-magnet poles are' employed, and the generators genera-tors run at 1,000 revolutions per minute. min-ute. In consequence of the rapid revolution and the small number ' of poles, the diameter "cf the dynamos is only nine feet, whereas It would have to be more than thirty feet, with reciprocating engines running at seventy-five revolutions per minute, min-ute, as at the metropolitan power station sta-tion in New York.' Place of Man In the Universe. The ideas of Alfred Russel Wallace upon the place of man in the universe were set forth in The Sun for March 8 with a commentary which showed that they were, in the main, untenable. unten-able. The same questions have been widely discussed in England. Mr. Wallace's original paper In the Fortnightly Fort-nightly Review for March set forth that the universe was finite; that the solar . system was situated at its centre; and that consequently conditions con-ditions for the favorable development of the human race were presented on the earth not to be found elsewhere. One of the most complete rejoinders to these theses is bv Prnf Tn mo? v Oxford, who points out (also , In the fortnightly) that it Is not yet proved that the universe is. in fact, finite: that there is nronerlv RnpnlMnc Tin physical centre to the universe; even u it be limited; that even if the solar system occupied its geometric centre at a certain Instant it would not long remain there, since the sun and the whole solar system is in rapid motion; and, finally, that there is no good reason why life may not be developed at one as well as at another situation within the universe as we know it The controversy- is probably ended and should never have been begun. New York Sun. Wave Motors. There have been' in' the United States over one hundred and fifty patents allowed for wave-motors. That each of these was in itself novel, embodying em-bodying an original idea, was a mattei necessarily precedent to the granting of the patent. Of these patents upward up-ward of ninety are accredited to the Atlantic seaboard and nearly sixty to the Pacific coast. While a greater number of the inventions have been produced on the Atlantic side where, of course, there is greater population-yet population-yet nearly all of these seem to hav proceeded no farther in practical ap plication than the most tentativ stages. Those of the Pacific, however have nearly all been actually and experimentally ex-perimentally tried, and " in most In stances the faith of the Inventor ha? remained unshaken In his novelty un til the novelty itself was not onlj shaken, but utterly deracinated and aestroyed by the plunging billows oi the surf which rolled and roared against it. Lippincott's Magazine. Automatic .Picture Machine. The nickel-in-the-slot idea has been applied to almost everything under the sun until you can pay your money and get anything from a stick ot candy to a square meal. Now an Ohio man has made an automatic photographic photo-graphic apparatus, which will take your - picture and finish it while you wait. The only portion of the process which depends on the person to be photographed is the dropping of the money in the proper slot and then locating lo-cating himself in a position before the lens. "With the devices provided it is' an easy matter to place the face at the proper height to make the exposure. All that is necessary to take a seat Seat Yourself and Push the Button. on the stool in 'front of the machine and adjust the body until the head and shoulders are visible in the mirror above the lens. Then a slight pressure on the button of the circuit-closer, circuit-closer, which' is held in the hand, makes the exposure and starts the machinery whicn develops the negative nega-tive and finally completes the picture and delivers it to the waiting customer. cus-tomer. To insure a proper exposure an artificial light should be provided, which is automatically turned on during dur-ing the time the shutter is open, as the varying degrees pf daylight would render correct timing 'of the length of exposure almost impossible. Learned by Science. Research in the chemical laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania shows clearly that whisky and other alcoholics increase the bacteria destroying des-troying power of the blood. The Duke of Abruzzi has prepared suits, for use in the next polar excursion, ex-cursion, which are heated by electricity elec-tricity through a network of asbestos covered copper wire in their linings. Suppose one should hold a crystal of radium in his hand with his face turned to the east. Suppose that one of the electrons were a leaden bullet circling the earth to its starting point. He would be shot in the back from the westward five times before he could fall to the ground, so rapid is the movement of the electrons. Of Value in the Sick Room. Ozonizing apparatus for vitalizing the atmosphere of the sick chamber may become a necessary part of the physican's outfit. Dr. J. E. S. Barnes, an English' medical man, reports having hav-ing used the ozonizer in a severe case of pneumania complicated with pleurisy, pleur-isy, and the result was an immediate and important change in the air of the room, which was followed by rapid improvement im-provement of the patient's condition. Ozonizers are being used also for bettering bet-tering the air of factories. Sea Water in Burning Mine. Sea water has just been used to extinguish the burning colliery of the Dominion Coal Company, Nova Scotia. Through a sluice cut- from a dam on the shore of the ocean, sea water was poured in at the rate of some 3,500,000 gallons an hour. The pit was flooded up to the eleventh level before the fire could be extinguished. ,To subdue the flames about 450,000,000 gallons of water were needed and six days' time required. Hybrid Plant Developed. Attorney General Douglas, of St. Paul, has in his "office a hybrid plant which at the roots is putting forth potatoes and above the ground several well developed tomatoes. It was produced pro-duced at the State Experiment station by grafting a tomato vine to a potato plant. Dictionary for the Blind. ' The Maryland School for the Blind has issued the first general dictionary ever published for the use of the blind. The" work comprises eighteen volumes and ' contains dentitions of 40.000 words. 4 " BUT SLIGHT lULLING OFF IN AMERICAN BIRTH RATE t iNoi tne om-iasnioned board, at he head of which sat the father anrjat the foot of which sat the mother, vith the sugar bowl In her lap to pretent incursions from childish fingers, flanked on either side by a row of children chil-dren with shining faces and eager appetites; ap-petites; not the family table f 3m which the children took turns in "waiting" when the grandparents c me to occupy seats temporarily at H&e board or when other "company" came; not the table at which a "blessing" was asked three times, daily for "5G5 days in each year, at which children were taught to mind their manners and wait until their elders were served. f The family table, popular at tlis time, i3 one of figures compiled by the careful statistician. It concerns the alleged decreasing size of families is spread in this wise: Avera; of New England.". . . . New York ........ Pennsylvania South Atlantic States Ohio Indiana ... .. . Illinois Michigan 4.9 Wisconsin 5.2 Minnesota . 5.2 Iowa ' 5.2 Missouri .....5.4 North Dakota :...'4.3 South Dakota 4.3 Nebraska ." 5.1 Kansas .....5.0 There is a scanting of averages In S 1 V J U4.7 4.9 4.8 4.8 4.6 I PAUL DV CHAILLU'S FIRST MEETING WITH A GORILLA Paul du Chaillu, the noted African explorer who recently died, thus describes de-scribes in his "Adventures in Equatorial Equato-rial Africa" his first meeting with a gorilla: Suddenly, he says, an-rim-mense gorilla advanced out of the woods straight toward us, and gave vent, as he came up, to a terrible howl of rage, as much as to say, "I am tired of being pursued and will faceiyou." It was a lone male, the kind kvlhich are always the most ferocious. This fellow made the woods resound with his roar, which Is really an awful sound, resembling the rolling and mut tering of distant thunder. He was about twenty yards off when we first saw him. We at once gathered together, to-gether, and I was about to take aim and bring him down where he stood when my most trusted man, Malao- nen, stopped me, saying, in a whisper, "Not time yet." We stood, therefore, In silencej gun in hand. The gorilla looked at us for a minute or so out ef his evil grayeyes, then beat his breast with his gigantic arms and what arms he had! then gave another howl of defiance asJ advanced ad-vanced upon us. How horribsT he. InrAz&A ' T chnTl Tim'Oi' f , away. Still Malaonen 4aid, "NWyet.' Good gracious! what is to become of GREAT MEN KNOWN ONLY AS MASTERS OF HUMOR. Thomas Corwin, who died in 1865 was one of the most famous statesmen states-men of his day. For more than thirty years he occupied prominent official positions, having been governor of Ohio, member of both houses of congress, con-gress, secretary of the treasury and minister to Mexico. On his deathbed he said pathetically: "After all the public honors I have received and all that I have done in the world, I shall be remembered only as "Tom Corwin, the joker.' " He was like our Chauncey Depew, a funny man, whose witty sayings, more spontaneous than those of Chauncey, were quoted far and wide. No matter how high and dignified were the places to be occupied, he was always called by the undignified name of "Tom." Another instance in which a funny man has failed to receive re-ceive his full meed of fame is that of the late Charles Godfrey Leland, a great philologist and a scholar versed ki many languages and literatures. Le- EDUCATION IN THE EAST. Woman Question Is Agitating Our Brothers in India. The woman question is agitating the far East. , A new book by Kasem Ameen, a learned Mohammedan jurist, is the subject of spirited discussion in Mnhammedan circles. The author ad vocates giving girls a fair elementary education; he would protect ci hpinsr divorced by her b l fo slight causes, or no CJW-V he would check poly gamy ;fiTe wSadJabol-ish wSadJabol-ish the veil, not all at once, but gradually, gradu-ally, and would bring women in contact con-tact with the outside world. Ameen's book is violently opposed by the conservative con-servative element, which includes tie majority of the women themselves. Certain matrons have been reported as declaring that they would commit suicide sui-cide rather than have the degradation of an education thrust upon them, and the few bold spirits" among, the women who have dared to express themselves in favor of the reforms have been denounced de-nounced in strorgest terms. As for the men, they are able to sit back and exclaim triumphantly : "When the majority ma-jority of women want to learn to read, they will do it- The few have no right to thrust these unheard-of Innovations on the representative members of their sex. Civic Pride. "I don't know what we're goin' to do about them two leadin' citizens," said Bronco Bob. "They're lookin' fur one another with six shooters from morrin' till right." "Has an insult passed?" "No, it wasn't any Insult, but some doubt ariz as to which was the oldest inhabitant, an' they're both determined to settle the question fur good' an all." Wife Gives Him Pie. - "I rather enjoy being without a hired girl." "Why so?" "Because I can always coax my wife to gie me pie for breakiast." Philadelphia Plain Dealer. this, it is true, but It is not very seri ous. Not so serious, maeea, Dut mdi any one holding this table in his hand and watching the children pour out of any one of a number of school-houses school-houses in any city in the land is able to subdue his apprehension that the race, from lack of recruiting agencies, is likely to run out. According to this table, New England, does not show either the largest decrease In ten years nor the smallest average size of families. In. point of fact, this decrease de-crease in New England is but two-thirds two-thirds of one per cent a decrease in quantity that, if it is not made up. In quality, much educational effort has been wasted in the past decade. In New York the decrease is five-tenths ot one per cent, in Pennsylvania three-tenths, three-tenths, in Ohio six-tenths, in Indiana seven-tenths, in Michigan five-tenths, tn Wisconsin three-tenths, in Iowa six-tenths, six-tenths, 'in Missouri seven-tenths, in Kansas four-tenths. 1 That is to say, the average size of families in New England is larger than in New York, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, and equal to that in Iowa and Kansas. This reckoning repre sents apabored process, butIt is relatively rela-tively (Valueless.- It includes all races nd conditions," and has no bearing 'i?Gn the relative size of famine's of kmg establishment in the country and those of later immigration. It is a modern family table, nothing more. Any one good at figures and diligent in delving into census returns can spread it, and all who are curious or apprehensive in the matter can come to it and go away satisfied that the American family is not rapidly dying out. Portland Oregonian. us if our guns miss fire, or if we only wound the great beast? Again the gorilla made an advance upon us. Now he was not twelve wards off. I could see plainly his ferocious face. It was distorted with rage; his huge teeth were ground against each other, so that we could hear the sound; the skin of the forehead was drawn forward and back rapidly, which made his hair move up and down and gave a truly devilish expression ex-pression to his hideous face. Once more the most horrible monster ever created by Almighty God gave a roar, which seemed to shake the woods like thunder. I could really feel the earth trembling under my feet. The gorilla, looking us in the eye, and beating his breast, advanced again. "Don't fire too soon," said , Malaonen; Malao-nen; "if you don't kill him he will kill you." This time he came within eight yards of us before he stopped. I was breathing fast with excitement as I watched the huge beast. Malaonen only said, "Steady," as the gorilla came up. When he stopped Malaonen said. "Now!" And before he could in his body. He fell dead almost with out a struggle. land translated much from foreign tongues, and was especially happy in versions of Heine's poems, which in his hands retained the strength, grace and beauty of the originals. But he was chiefly known as the author of the "Hans Breitmann Ballads," written writ-ten in Pennsylvania Dutch, a performance per-formance which gave him world-wide fame and is a masterpiece of grotesque gro-tesque humor. Leland's other books, "Poetry and Mystery of Dreams," "Minor Arts," "The Gypsies," "Practical "Practi-cal Education," etc., are comparatively but little known. John Hay, our secretary of state, is better known by his humorous "Little Breeches" than by his elaborate state papers. Thomas Dunn English, after all his years in congress, could never escape being chiefly known as the author of "Ben Bolt," a sentimental ditty of his callow youth, the very mention of which in later years raised his ire to such a degree that his fellow fel-low congressmen took great delight in quoting from it just to tease him. HAD A PRACTICAL PROOF. Natives Convinced That Spaniards Could Be Killed. Early in the sixteenth century the natives of Porto Rico plotted to kill the Spaniards on the island. There was much doubt, however, as to whether 'or not it was possible to kill a Spaniard. Many of the natives insisted in-sisted that it was not. Finally it was cided to make an experiment. A j-nng Spaniard who was passing though the Indian village was hospitably hos-pitably received and fed an then a number of natives accompanied him on his journey. When he arrived at a river his companions offered to carry him across. The young man accepted and was taken up by two men and carried into the' water on their shoulders. Arriving near the middle of the river they threw him in and held him down until he ceased to struggle. Then they carried him ashore with profuse apologies, loudly proclaiming that they stumbled by accident and calling upon him to arise and continue his journey. But tne young man did not move and firally the natives were convinced that he was actually dead. Having secured the proof they wanted the leaders of the rebellion at once began be-gan a general attack upon the Spaniards. Span-iards. Took It Back. "I don't believe in bleaching the hair," remarked Mrs. Oldfashion. "I think God gave us just the sort of hair he wanted us to have." "Perhaps so," softly replied Mr. Baldhead, "but In my case he seems to have been a sort of Indian giver." Sign Wasn't Right. He I wonder why Miss Elderly never married? She Oh, I suppose she was born in the wrong time of the moon. He The wrong time of the moon. She Yes, when there wasn't any man in it. ' rr s vx . international press association. BY PERMISSION Of RAND.MSNALLY & COL . CHAPTER VII. HE COLONEL IN-formed IN-formed his sister-in-law the same evening of the success suc-cess of his expedition expedi-tion to Limehouse. He described his interview in-terview with John-stone John-stone at some length, and with a good deal 'of dramatic dra-matic skill. "Then you- entrapped en-trapped the man rather than persuaded him?" she asked. "I certainly did not intrust him with our secret," he replied. "That can ue easily explained at any time before reach St. Helena." , "And you have no fear'that he will draw back when he finds oUt the real nature of the service required from him?" "He's not that kind of man. Besides, whatever he may be, let me once get him on board, and I'll answer for his going through with the affair." Camilla looked as if this remark was less unexpected than unwelcome. "With with any one else," she said, "whom you might wish to engage in a higher capacity, you would of course proceed openly?" The colonel saw the point of this question at once, and felt himself in a difficulty. He had as yet come to no definite idea of how Dick was to be gained; he glanced at his sister-in-law and saw an indignant resolve foreshadowed fore-shadowed on her face. If he hesitated he was lost; she would resume her right of interference, and warn Est-court. Est-court. All this flashed through his mind In an instant. "Let us be quite oandid with one another," an-other," he said. "If you will promise to leave me a free hand, I will undertake to write a plain, straightforward letter to Captain Estcourt, simply setting out our design, and asking him to join us." "Very well," she said, coldly. "You promise, then?" he asked. "Of course," she said; "but in any casex he needs no warning against an open attempt." The colonel was Inclined to think so too, but he said nothing, and retired to eonsiaer the matter more attentively in the diplomatic atmosphere of his own room. During the next few' days nothing more vas h:ard of the subject. Dick callad several times, and the colonel noted with satisfaction his growing intimacy in-timacy with Camilla. The end of the week the last before the start was now drawing near. The time h3d come for the colonel to spread his net, and he was ready in his place, waiting only for the favorable moment. It wa4 not long delayed. On the Fri-dav Fri-dav aAernoon Camilla asked him he expected to be much oc-4 replied; "I have no engage- hatever." i told," she said, "that there are ine Claudes and Watteaus at No. 8 Grea't Russell Street. The house is to be let furnished, and they allow one to walk in and see the pictures." He bowed, to hide the cat-like eagerness eager-ness of his eyes. "I thought," she continued, "that it would be an agreeable way of passing the morning; and if you can come too, we might Invite Captain Estcourt to accompany ac-company us. He said something about calling, and there's nothing to amuse him here. Then will you invite him?" she asked, after a pause. , , "With pleasure," said the colonel, in his most formal and indifferent tone; and the subject dropped. After dinner the same evening he appeared ap-peared in the drawing room with a sheet of paper in his hand. "This," he said,' holding it out to Camilla, Ca-milla, "is a rough draft of the letter I propose writing to Estcourt, in accordance accord-ance with our agreement of a few days ago." She took it and read as follows: "My Dear Captain Estcourt: My sister-in-law and I have more than once hinted to you how deeply we are devoted devot-ed to the service of the Emperor Napoleon, Na-poleon, and how cruelly we have felt his exile. A favorable opportunity has now presented itself for attempting his liberation, and we are to start almost immediately for our base of operations. From what you have already told us of your views on his majesty's imprisonment, im-prisonment, and from the cordial and intimate friendship with which you have honored us, I am induced to hope that you will give us your loyal assistance assist-ance in this expedition. If we may rely on you for this Important service, will you be good enough .to meet us at the time and place mentioned below, when I shall have the pleasure of introducing to you M. Carnac and M. le Comte de Rabodanges, two of our most trusted confederates. In case, however, you should unhappily feel unable to join us, may I ask you to destroy this letter at once, and not refer to it again? We shall understand your silence as a refusal." re-fusal." She weighed every phase and every word with painful care, then tossed the paper back to him without comment. "That meets with your approval, then?' 'he asked. "On the contrary," she replied, "the whole thing is a folly, and meets with my disapproval; but if a letter must go, by all means let that be the form of it.". "You think it well calculated to achieve Its object?" asked the colonel, with a pretense of anxiety. She laughed sarcastically. He put on a look of dismay and disappoint- i ment. " "If you think it will fail," he said, : "perhaps it would be better not to uo f It by writing at all." I Camilla smiled, but made no answer Hevnfl a ch.ii.T .1 : j - u, I'll! lA f-y l lllUlUClClltX. j "I might put it to him in words of j the same plain fashion." he susre-ested ' i "I have made an appointment with him for 11 o'clock tomorrow nmrnin? at "1 I he laientVl I Some A Great Russell street; at least, I left a ' letI them upstairs. Their voices, as verbal message asking him to meet us, thev approached, startled Dick and Ca-and Ca-and I've no doubt that he'll be there." j milla In their seclusion, and the faces She looked up as though she did not j of both clouded at once, quite follow him. . "This is too bad!" he exclaimed, lm- "I could ask Carnac and Rabodanees patiently. to come too," he explained, "and then take the opportunity to bring the scheme before him while we are all together." to-gether." " She was upon the point of vehemently rejecting this proposal, but two considerations consid-erations made her pause. She could not but long to witness such a scene as the confused route of her brother-in-law and his allies, and she foresaw. In the second place, that she might be able, if present at the Interview, to show Dick afterward tbft po fbamfyl r.r PoaI had n..t been made to him by any wish of hers. - At 10 the nf-xt morning the colonel slipped from the house unobserved, and by 10:30 he was posted at the northern end of the street in which Dick was lodging; his eyes were fixed on the door BY ffNRYE.WeOLi: of the latter's house, but he kept him self completely out of sight. He had not been watching three min utes when the door opened, Dick came out, and turned down the street In the opposite direction. "I thought he'd be early," murmured the colonel to "himself; "and I don't think there's much fear of his coming back!" He waited until hia unconscious quarry had disappeared round the southern corner, and then hastened to the house. He rang the bell and a servant serv-ant appeared. "Is Captain Estcourt In?" "No, sir; he's just gone out." "Do you suppose he'll be long?" "I shouldn't think so, sir; but he didn't say." The colonel looked troubled. "Will you leave your name, sir?" inquired in-quired the maid. "I think," replied the visitor, "that I had better go to Captain Estcourtjs room and write a note for him. My business busi-ness is rather - important, and I can'it very well call again." ' The girl opened the door wider and showed him upstairs; placed paper and ink before him, and waited by the door. The colonel wrote an exact copy of the letter he had shown to Camilla, on,ly adding as the place of rendezvous "No. 9 Great Russell street," and "11 o'clock on Saturday morning, March 24th," as the time. Then he asked for sealing-wax sealing-wax and a taper, fastened up the letter let-ter with elaborate care, and handed it to the attendant maid. She placed it on the mantelpiece and went toward the door to show him down the stairs out of the house. He followed her down a few steps, and then stopped, with an exclamation. "I have left, my gloves behind!" and he ran back before she could offer to go for him. He returned in an Instant, but in that instant he had broken the newly' made seal, opened the letter, folded It simply without fastening, and tossed it carelessly down again upon the mantel-piece. "Be sure," he said, as he passed outr "that Captain Estcourt reads my note directly he comes home. I think you said that would not be long?" , "No, sir, not long, I expect." And she closed the door behind him. He hurried to his own house, to find Camilla waiting for him and the carriage car-riage at the door. "We are late," she said; "it Is just upon 11 now." "I am sorry," he replied; "I have been round to Estcourt's rooms; he might as well have driven down with us; but he was not In, and I could not wait any longer." She made no further remark, and they started at once. On arriving at the house they found Dick upon the doorstep. door-step. Camilla, who was dreading fiie decisive moment more and more, took comfort at the sight of his open smile and frank eyes, and unconsciously put more warmth than usual Into her welcome. wel-come. The colonel, too, greeted him with effusive cordiality, and seemed to take his presence as a personal favor. "We are so very glad," he said, as they entered the house together, J'that you have been able to join us. I thought you would myself, and, indeed, in-deed, I said so to Madame de Montaut, but she seemed uncertain about it." "How could you doubt it?" said Dick, turning 10 tarauid with tender re- froraeh. And he, added, lowering his voice: "Surely youknow that"! would give up anything to go with you anywhere?" any-where?" The colonel laughed softly to himself, and examined a picture with great attention. at-tention. The other two passed into the dining room. He did not follow them, but stayed behind to receive MM. Carnac Car-nac and Rabodanges, whom he was momently expecting. Dick was in his happiest mood, and if he did not care much about the pictures, pic-tures, at any rate he thoroughly enjoyed en-joyed the privilege of looking at them. He noted, with a lover's keenness, that Camilla's manner to him was changed and seemed to imply a new kind of relationship re-lationship between them. What it meant he could not even guess, but certainly cer-tainly she was now quite a different being be-ing from the imperious beauty, whose wit had stricken him dumb on the night of the ball so long ago. She had a wistful wist-ful look in her eyes, as though she would have asked something of him if she dared, and her air was almost that of one who clings to some one stronger for protection or support. . , . - He was raised out of his natural diffi dence by this delicate, unspoken flattery, flat-tery, and set high on . pinnacle of exalted ex-alted hope, from which he now and again shot swift glances far into a gleaming future. And all the time, in the room beneath, the colonel was relentlessly planning his downfall. For no sooner had Dick and Camilla passed upstairs into the drawing room, which contained the more valuable paintings, than M. Carnac and the count arrived almost together. The colonel took them into the dining din-ing room and closed the door. "You will remember," he said, "our last meeting, and the resolutions then arrived at." They bowed. "I am happy," he continued, "to be i able to report that my efforts have been crowned with complete success. I have engaged a daring and competent seaman sea-man to work my submarine boat, and I have secured an officer to command our vessel who is personally known to and esteemed by the admiral commanding command-ing at St. Helena." M. Carnac looked flustered; this news had quite taken away the poor old gentleman's gen-tleman's breath. But the count was enthusiastic, and warmly congratulated congratulat-ed the colonel, plying him with strings of eager questions. M. de Montaut stopped him with a smile. "Not so fast, my friend," he said; "the gentleman is in the house at this moment, and I shall have the pleasure of presenting him to you immediately. Of one thing, however," he continued, "I must warn you beforehand. He has given, so far, no more than a tacit assent to my invitation to join us, and it will therefore be as well to make no reference to the matter at present, be- j yond, of course, giving a cordial greet-i greet-i ing to so invaluable an accomplice." M. Carnac started; the word "accomplice" "accom-plice" appeared to disagree with him ! unpleasantly But both he and the ' count acquiesced, and M. de Montaut She looked troubled, and said in an anxicus and deprecating tone: "It Is only some friends whom we asked to meet us here." "Oh!" he replied, "that's all right; your friends are mine." And the three gentlemen tntered. The formal introduction took place, and Camilla, seeing the dreaded ordeal close' at hand, felt as though she must flee, or fall where she stood. Her evident nervousness touched Dick, who naturally enough thought himself the cause of it. "She's afraid I resent their interruption," he said to himself; "I'll foon put that straight." So he replied to the compliments of the two strangers ivith a cordiality even more marked than their own. "I look forward," he said, "to our becoming UP -u will at- . my power." ? any servlc In Camilla's heart fa-w v seemed like A sound like a chuckle w.a from the colonel. hetr aJked" "e youlaS atr Dick "Nothing." he replied- "but t Sner f Helea l7ev: Camilla turned deadly white Unwe11- my head aches," Bhe said. "Let us go home." She took Dick's arm and he led her from the room. (TO BE COSTIXCED.) KITCHEN CLEANSERS. How to Keep rots. Pans and So Forth Xeat and Bright. If any substance has remained attached at-tached to a utensil (and this, by the way, is generally the result of bad management man-agement or careless cooking), do not attempt at-tempt to scour it off, but pour some water into the vessel, and place it over the fire, when it will soon be possible to remove all the adhesive matter without with-out scratching or injuring the pan. The cleanliness of all the kitchen furniture Is of the greatest importance; more than in any other part of the house freedom from dust, etc., becomes an absolute ab-solute necessity for the "welfare of the family, and the wholesomeness of the food; the larder, cupboards, and re-! eeptacles generally should be regularly and frequently attended to, with meth. od and conscientiousness. Copper uten sils are by many deemed a source of much extra work, but that cai'only be the case in kitchens wherethe different vessels are not thoroughly cleaned after each time of using; procrastination is an old-time enemy, and will not spare the cook or scullery-maid any more than anyone else. If copper and other shining metals were properly dealt with very time they are washed up, the labor would not be worth mentioning. A mix-eure mix-eure of bran, salt and vinegar is excellent ex-cellent for brightening copper. It is especially es-pecially the bottoms of cooking uten sils that are often allowed to become quite black; on the strange principle, perhaps, that as they have to be placed on the fire repeatedly, it is not necessary to clean them every time. Nothing hin ders the proceedings more than the burnt substance in question; it is a non-duction non-duction of heat, and should be carefully removed. The aluminum articles, which are gaining ground in a good many places, are delightful in many ways; though their price is at present still somewhat prohibitive for many, they are very bright, durable, and decidedly an improvement to the appearance of ' the shelves or pot-board; hot water and soap are the best cleansers for that metal. THE WATERMELON NET. A Convenient Contrivance for Carrying Home the Massive Fruit. The Invention of the watermelon net was due primarily to a change In the shape of watermelons, says the New York Sun. Years ago the great majority ma-jority of watermelons were much longer than they were thick. Then when a man carried home the watermelon, which he had bought the dealer took a turn around one end of it with a stout cord, carried the cord along to the other end and took another turn there, and the connecting length of cord between the loops served as a handle, while the shape of the melon kept th iiom slipping off. But with the change of the melon to the shorter, chubbier shape now prevailing this plan was no longer possible, and so the net came in Six or eight years ago. The watermelon nets are made of a Jute twine called melon twine. They are of one size. They are big enough for any melon, and with a small melon in the net it is easy to take Up the slack. They are made altogethcr-by altogethcr-by hand, at odd times, by people accustomed ac-customed to net making. They are sold at wholesale at $2 a hundred. The melon dealer used to charge 5 cents for a net, but now most dealers give the nets away. Notwithstanding their bulk many melons are carried home by the purchaser. The suburban resident may spot a particularly fine melon and take it right along with him in a net; a man living in the city may do the same thing. Whatever the circumstances under which a man wants to take a melon with him the net Is a great convenience; con-venience; it beats carrying the watermelon water-melon under the arm out of sight. But while many melons are thus carried in the course of the season, still the great majority of watermelons are sent home just like other things, and so after all the sale of watermelon nets amounts to only a few thousand annually. A Wonderful Organ. The electric organ has been developed into a marvelous instrument. Its distinguishing dis-tinguishing feature is that by using the "console," a keyboard on a movable stand, the organ can be played from any point, or several organs can be played at the same moment, and by the same touch of the keys. So that, if the service of half a dozen or more churches could be so tinied as to exactly correspond corres-pond ?n the length of the respective parts of their ritual, one organist would suffice for them all. He would sit at the keyboard and perform his offertory, anthem, or hymn, as the case might be, and the pressure on the keys would make the electric contact, which would open the pneumatic valves in the pipes of all the instruments connected up by wires. The largest organ is controlled electrically with a simplicity, ease and and absolute command of all its resources re-sources that is simply astounding. The organist touches a button, and the electric elec-tric motors start the blowers, which are operated automatically, and which will continue to supply all the wind needed until they are stopped. At one time, organ playing was apt to be an exhausting ex-hausting gymnastic exercise, now the player actuates any or all of the stops by "stop keys," little ivory levers just over the keyboard, which are moved by a light touch of the finger, even without raising the hand from the keys. Heretofore, the organ had had its limitations lim-itations of touch effects; the latest electric organ has what is termed a "double touch," an action of the keys which is so quick and elastic that pianoforte music can be played by It effectively ef-fectively and so delicate that it is capable cap-able of the finest "expression." The wires connecting the keyboard with the orgn are run in a cable, and 2,000 are Keld in a conductor of 1 inches diameter. diam-eter. Could Xot Make Thibet, jlr. Wilson relates an amusing story of an officer who determined to enter Chinese Thibet by stratagem. This officer managed to cross the frontier at night and so escaped the frontier guard. Next day, however, while he was journeying jour-neying deeper into Thibet, the Thibetan soldiers overtook him and Informed him that, as the country was unsafe because of robbers, they would go with him in-order in-order to protect him, to which arrangement arrange-ment the traveler was compelled to agree. In a few hours they came to a river, which was crossed by a rope bridge. The Thibetans passed over first, in order.to show that the bridge was safe, and then the officer got Into the basket and was pulled along by the Thibetans. Suddenly, however, they ceased pulling and left the Englishman hanging in midair above the rushing . torrent. In vain the traveler shouted to th Thibetans to pull: they merely smoked and nodded their heads. The hours passed and still the officer hung above the torrent. At last the Thibetans agreed to pull him back if he would promise to leave Thibet immediately. This, of course, he was compelled to do and took his departure from the forbidden for-bidden land. Gentleman's Magazine, it:. . f V f |