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Show 'lt s not for me to order out any ' five of you to execution,' he went on, so the fairest. way will be for you to draw for your lives.' Sergeant, do you rf)E DEATH IiOTTEHY. get twenty-tw- o pieces of paper, and mark five of them with numbers rorn one to five, leavinp: the other seventeen blank. Each' man will figure it," remarked my friend, draw, 'Lm there is just about one war with three chances to one then for' his life.' "Coming so; the order jjjat remains to be told in print." seemed horrible. no I could longer tjid what is that?" I queried, contain myself. went on, "is the story " 'Col. Mospy,' I cried, 'I protest, in und that," he me to first the time the name of (humanity and honorable ,bat happened warfare. I am an officer and a gentleme in contact with Mosby, the IS PROF. WILLIAM CROOKES HIS FAMOUS TUBE. commissary captain at the and we were located In our win- Ucamp, fur miles south of "WinchesVa. iy duties were light, and Qisted mainly of passing my train. fvagons between the town and our Ln It was only a short journey, a the thought or rear or encounter- L.any danger in it was so far from mind that half the time I went Jwut either sword or pistol. TVell. one afternoon in November, t rode in front of the wagon train iQmv orderly, I said to him:, Leonard, send the sergeant hereto charge, ana you ana i win nae uiuica cue jjjgau. iucbc winu than cold molasses.' cold-bloode- f j r and Leonard and I auuui iiaivway we saw wneu six mountea camp into the en swing out of a Wnis was done, -- 1 J 1 death-lotter- y fevjLic h by-pat- in road ahead of us. "What do you make of those fel-,ffLeonard'.'' said I. '"They are some of our boys, I reck- S, 'They've got our the venture so far inside our replied Leonard. on, and I don't believe jiform tbs would anyway.' must be nervous this afternoon,' tombed. 'Of course they wouldn't. es. 'I turned towards our camp.!' "Assured Dy tms, we Kepi on at xne ame lively pace, and soon overtook As we r to let us ranks opened they ass and we roae oeiween tnem. rWe had no sooner got by than we ieard the clicks of half a dozen pis-an- d the command, 'Halt!' We W thev fellow-traveler- s. round in blank surprise. "What does this mean r l cried. talk!' cried the big fellow In n. It rt n 4"7v.V n TiVo tit n rt roar mouths shut, and do as you are :id, or it will be the worse for you.' "Like a flash my hand went to my Ht but it was empty, and perhaps it kis well, for at that Instant we were brered by six cocked pistols. 4- - march!' the command "Forward, without delay, and away we surrounded and guarded by our !ime. kent, iDtors. quarter of a. mile along our little hTalcade swept off from the main md into a bridle path. Presently It I were and Leonard and ilted, our to Then saddles. strapped rode on in silence for about two "A se-re- ly you Yanks would to become of you?' big fellow, at last. 'Well, I'li ("Now, I suppose, He to know what's 5d the j j j w I well-know- j iced 4-- " . ap-uach- ed. Chop J ! ; -- i late you.' "Well," said Balcom, "there is little more to tell. Three or four days later I managed to make my escape, blacked up as a negro, and safely reached our own lines;. Meantime, the five unfort unate prisoners Quad been shot to death." Boston Traveler. TO MAKE BOILER PUR FIAT. Little Device to Accomplish, That nnd Also Soften Water. One of the latest devices that has come into! play in England is a curious contrivance for softening water and of "fur" in ketpreventing the growth called the "octotles and boilers. It is aeccom-plisheit what pus," and, considering simit is such an exceedingly someseem to as little apparatus ple It is briefly noththing ofa!a wonder. metallic disk surrounding but small mass of vegetable a circular ed by fibre. -The principle that governs it is simI I w is that yellow ple. "Fur," old kettles and is lines substance that in Life or Death! lumps at the botoften to be found setEH you part of iL First, yourre gour tom. Hitherto the Only method of exoff the to was send chip rid of this aUosby's eamp, but where he'll ting crescences that kept continually inpu, Lord only knows. But you'll find naturally creasing.! This chipping ji quick enough.' or Ironed The boiler Kettie, ami, he saia, "Loosen the straps, Jake,' service. for unfit it made pning to one of the men, ana we u after a t me, even worse enects hsh.on a little faster. Guess we're "Fur" has sometimes leaas 10 mo this, for lofit boilers Yankee lines.' pt"Thethe man by blocking ap the addressed unbound us, bursting Pi our horses broke into a gallop. afThe new Invention, a tiny little and In, guerillas kept us well hemmed at-, fair, is flipped into the vessel, and we saw that any in peter, some unknown power of attracr'on worse than to be would apt all the off escape j draws ' the vegetable fibressurface ,'less. of the metal inner the from fur "We traveled all that afternoon and pD'8 In the .evening. Then we ar-fe-d power t tarns as well, by the same at Mosby's headquarters, at no wniim lies tnat attraction There were five or six hun-re- d of soft byj drawing unto water into iard men gathered there, and some . carbonate of rmocin enty Yankee prisoners, captured, as .r-,.:7;v."'-'-afterwards learned, in much the VWm0 tea. INOX omy making in .V a while manner as ourselves nWafter s, d, MISS NELLIE PARKER. -- Kfl K 1- n-ici- of our fellow-prisoneulrymen, although one was "Most rs were an to be the only commissioned t, tcer, though, as I was wearing a appar-not was my rank ' 5med prl-coa- I i, 1 "- i Old. Tree Five Centarlei I . Gerickfe, the great German forester, lelL a nide supper wa3 served to writes that the greatest ages to which late comers, and then sentinels e placed bver us and we lay down trees in Germany are 'rest v , and FoMnltance, the pine in Bohemia have in! I Fall f'Up with you, Yanks Sweden m?ef and tie in Norway comes tie JUyely, thererT ' S latter age. Next lived s Bohemian order, loud and sharp, Instantly the in fir7 which looked sed tSr and we sat up and and thrived for upward uud. was has our gaze Presently S460 ytars. In Bavaria the larch 5 approacb-Of a 275 figure years. solitary was Col. John Reached the age of 3 on horseback. to have sur-nnneara It . age oxamnle a of the valley. 'Fall in! " Fall in! Again came the 11 evergreen oak at Aschoffenburg, tlS from the sergeant in charge, and yers. Shed the ageofhave410lived Bext moment we were standing In whh to Germany' before At commander, the guerilla ;f years old; froS315 to 320 189 horse had now come to a stand-- ; be th rlA beech nas . 3 -- ' - le J'!1 for-llt- ue, : r l 4. i " "How ?asked. I ... ; ". .: , .; ': you? many prisoners have -::. ' ,- JTwenty-tw- - o, In all, sir.' us with his keen eye moment, and then said: 'Men, Commander has seen fit to refuse quarter to my soldiers- when capt-- ! and hangs or shoots them on the I do Tint kind Of .ISTn nnd auu IM -I out 1 must retaliate; liI.ai are two of on your army to every is , of my command, t.hthat not balance .Trst ot nrnQPnt gainst you, and five of you must die ." looked at each other in dismay. osby fixed 1 - flTM-vrnv- -- V. flf-fW- a t- twenty-prisone- rs atoUe, yew MlSel or ljS ye. the to age rnts the highest known are: 545 t-- es to 200 years; AsTlTO years; mountain maple, 225 years; aspen, 220 1RO vears; rea aiuer, a years; kim Public Opinion. yeara- -i London A Stern Remedy. streamed his mother, on your brother's why aVe you iltaBjj -- t Yu "..K"L"nnked the urchin. A (Mass.) a ree-Adams drowneu. be man. birchV 160 it and streamers with which the room was decorated. The speeches added to her exaltation and she felt the blood of fighting sires running like fire through her veins. The woman in the stunning chinchilla cape and blue velvet gown, who really didn't "look as though she had ever had any ancestors," had discovered a friend in the dowdy woman in gray, and the outsider heard her say: "Oh, yes; I belong. My children can traoe their ancestry back through five lines to the Norman conquest." A little gasp from the recipient of this information broke the awestruck pause, and then, regainig her breath, the dowdy woman, with her nose tip tilted, said: "They are fortunate, indeed. We are proud of our two lineal tracings to the days of King Arthur, but only claim our ancestry back to the revolution, since we live in a republican country." The spirit of envy devoured the woman who was not a "Daughter." The very next day she put into effect her resolution to find out the names of her revolutionary ancestors, for she was assured she must have had them. For three days she searched records and the fourth day she searched again and "ran them to earth." "James Brown, who married Maria, daughter of Jonas and Ellen Smith," dated back to 1769 for the time of his marriage and she sighed a great sigh of relief. But alas for ambition he fought on the tbry side! The latest university to open its door to women is the one at Athens. Five women were enrolled for the winter lectures, not without violent opposition from the students, who became divided. One student finally shot another during the trouble. A century ago paper was so dear in this country that butchers used to g$ve their customers the meat wrapped up in a large vegetable leaf. flags, shields, coats-of-ar- ms -- cen-"sdnp- on ! Every day the question is asked: What will the next national conven- tions of the republican and democratic parties do with reference to silver? To , answer this question definitely now is, of course, impossible, for the situation may very , materially change during the next few months.; But it is about as certain aa any future political event can be, that both will endeavor to evade the direct Issue. With this probability strong before us, silver- - men should sleep with at least one eye open. In both parties they have been frequently deceived. The ,'f ramers of the platforms have played the part' of linguistic acrobats.; They have formulated declarations so ingeniously worded as to be acceptableto! both sides.. The pledging pf a party to "bimetallism" (without defining" it), coupled with sentimental demands for "honest money," "good money," "the best money In the world," the maintenance, of "parity," "one dollar as good as dollar in intrinsic and debt-pay- -j ing power," are expressions through which the bimetallists of the country have been frequently betrayed, and if it happens again it will be their own, fault. Those qualifications are intended simply as loopholes through which to escape and avoid doing anything No matter what proposition of silver coinage may be brought forward, It can always be antagonized upon the plea that "parity" wilLbe disturbed, and one dollar lose that "gran4" duality of be ing "equal to, every other dollar." The democratic party hasa stronger silver "wing" than has the republican party. But in view of recent events, with an administration bitterly hostile to any step toward the remonetization of silver, the press and the money power on the same side, itj is almost too much to hope that the silver men can dominate the convention. It may declare for the "equal use of both metals as standard money and the coinage of both without discrimination against either," in one clause, but there will certainly be some other clause which will qualify and destroy it. If either convention is in favor of restoring silver to the exact position it occupied prior to 1873, a declaration to that effect can be made in three lines of print that no human being capable of reading can possibly misapprehend. Perfect bimetallism can only be reached by placing both metals upon an exactly equal footing before the law in the matter of coinage and legal tender. There is a simple formula that everybody familiar with the course of this discussion perfectly understands. "The free coinage of both metals at the ratio of 16 to 1, with full legal tender functions accorded to each." That covers the ground and nothing less will satisfy any man who fully understands the question and is determined that it shall be settled. The friends of silver restoration may be certain that any ambiguity which finds a place in a political platform is "a cunning device of the enemy," and that every gold man will plant d himself upon it, while every silver man will make it an excuse for an adverse vote. Bear this in mind, and stamp anything else than a unqualified declaration for free coinage at 16 to 1 as a fraud, for you can rest, assured it will be so intended. And not only this, the candidate named must have such a past record as will make it certain that he can be relied upon to carry out the declaration in good faith nothing less will do. r flat-foote- pressure in it was only 0.4 millionth of an atmosphere. It was found that In such an extreme vacuum gases pass into an ultragaseous state, which Pro- esor Crookes described as "radiant matter." It was these vacua tnax maae possible the incandescent lamp. He has written a small library, every book of which is of value to experimental and commercial science. His name came before the general public in the 70s, when he undertook an investigation of .the physical phenomena of results and in- Bpiiltuallsm. His book on themedia 1nrIol3g o the human system,ue of the with of those experiments, ya oases make necessary was "John King" and "Katy King," ful operations 01 uiuwwj widely read on its publication. But J trity. j Straddle. half-hearte- s Itec-jrtow- n. p . any-othe- ould convince every bimetalllst In this emmtrv tnat the nniv hrmo Americans is in America. If we wait for England or Germany to save us, we will never be saved, and we do not deserve to be. In another article the same attacks Speaker Reed because ofpaper the report that he is about to propose dome sort of an international; conference as a political maneuver to help him with his "boom." The Times-Heral- d evidently Is not for Reed, but it need give Itself no particular anxiety about his candidacy so far as the silver men arei concerned,, for they are not for Reed either, and no In ternational conference " palaver can bring them to his support or the support of any other candidate. The question of the complete restora-tlb- n of silver to its former position In the monetary system of the United States will be the great issue In the campaign, of 1896, and the silver men are perfectly indifferent as to what any other nation may or may not do. There never was an international agreement on the money question until 1865. Every country on the face of the earth has always adopted a monetary system to suit Itself except the: United States, which; had the gold standard sneaked in on it in 1873, without the people being consulted at all. Silver was not demonetized by international agreement (unless it was a secret one), and no such agreement is necessary for its restoration.: No international conference or "discussion" is going to fool the silver men of this country in the campaign of 1896. National Bimetallism. out-and-o- ut j so-calle- I '' I . -- SILVER CANNOT BE EVADED, WITH SAFETY, THIS YEAR. ence at Washington or anywhere else, for that matter for she is one of the distinguished, beauties of the south, and that is saying a great deal. The story of the great favor she is held In by the administration is interesting. Some months ago the president visited At- lanta, and Miss Parker took advantage of his presence there to call upon him. He was Immediately delighted with the young lady, and gave her, as a souvenir j cent piece. of the occasion a brand-neThis he told her to guard carefully, and when she wanted entree to the White House to show this cent piece to the guards and that she would be admitted readily and: without question. Mis3 Parker treasured her cent piece with great care. Not long ago she was in Washington, and she thought she would try the talismanic effect of Mr. Cleveland's coin presenL She did, and, mirabile dictu! its glistening red color acted as an open sesame, and Miss Parker was promptly ushered into the presidential presence. Miss Parker is one of the belles of Richmond, and is noted throughout the south for her charm of person. She is a democrat and the daughter of Dr. n medical W. W. Parker, a man of Virginia's capital. ON THE WRONG SIDE. One Woman's Search, for Her Ancestors Resulted In Disappointment. She had been invited to be present at the reception of the Daughters of the American Revolution, says an exchange, and her heart glowed with patriotism as she beheld the American m f ' Miss Nellie Parker, of Richmond, Va., may not he a political boss, but she of the Executive Mansion. 1 . . - ROFESSOR WIL-liaCrookes, whose mm , scientific genius made possible the discovery- - of the wonderful light of Roentgen, has been widely known idr years. Indeed, there are few men who have achieved more brilliant and valuable results in the laboratory than the discover . of the "tube" which is now so much talked of. Professor Crookes was born in London 64 years ago, and in his boyhood became interested in photography. He .ok a course in the Royal College of Chemistry under Dr. Hoffman, and soon became assistant to his tutor. At 22 he was appointed superintendent of the Radcliffe Observatory at Oxford. In 1859 he founded the Chemical News, and in 1864 became the editor of the d J IIUUST NOT DODGE IT. : man; these nben are regularly-enlistesoldiers in the" United States army; surely, you are not going to treat them as spies or (Jogs. Whatryou propose,, sir, is assassination, not Justice.' curled. : "Mosby's lip " 'Justice!' he cried. 'What justice would be meted out to me if I fell Into the hands of your soldiers? And, look you, sir, I value the life of the poorest of my comrades more than that of twenty Yankees. Yet I only ask man for 'man, and that I will have. I was not avfare, sir, that you were an officer, but, surely, j ou can ajsk no better treatment than I give the others.' "'If my Words will not move you In behalf of all, I ask no personal favor,' I replied. "Nothing tnore was said, and presently the sergeant returned with the papers, and, that awful began. I had faced depth in battle half a dozenj times, but I Knew no suck fear as came upon me then. I don't mind confessing that, as that hat came Quarterly Journal of Science. Professor Crooked was born with a love for round for nie to draw, my limbs tremsobled that I could hardly control original search. He discovered the new them. metal thallium while examining the " 'Blank! Fall back, sir!' residues from a sulphuric acid works. "The words came from the sergeant, He was then made a fellow of the who glanced at the paper as my shak Royal Society. In 1872 he developed ing fingers; opened it; and sweeter many interesting matters in his inveswords never sounded in my ears. They tigations on "repulsion resulting from told me that I was saved. "But the lend was not yet. All of a radiation. In 1877 he invented the sudden rose the plaintive crv of the otheoscope. In a paper that year belittle drummer boy, pleading for his fore the Royal Society he said he had life. succeeded in obtaining a vacuum so " 'Sergeant, cried Mosby, 'has that nearly approaching perfection that the boy drawn one of the numbers?' " 'Yes, colonel.' " 'Senf him back to the ranks again; he is too young to die yet. And now, whom shall we choose in his stead?' "Mosby glanced along our line until his eye was fixed on me. I felt that my time had come. But I was calmer now, and jhad gained control of myself. " 'Ah,' said Mosby, with a cruel laugh, 'we! must not slight the officer. Sergeant, place in the hat two papers, one numbered and one blank, and fate shall decide between the captain and the man next him.' "In a moment that fearful drawing was made which doomed one of the two to death. Opening my paper, 1 breathed a fervent prayer, 'Thank God!' Again it was blank. "I seized the hand of the poor fellow who drewithe fatal number and wrung it in silent pity. Then, with the other four condemned, he was led away. " 'Captain,' said Mosby, 'you are an exceedingly lucky fellow. I congratu- l was SHE HAS A "PUL ioung Woman Has the Freedom has a longer and stronger "pull" with President Cleveland than most of the The Successful Party Will Have a Free "leaders" of the democratic party. Miss Coinage Plank in Its Platform Old Parties Are Uettlne Keady to Parker deserves to have much influ- He Made Possible the Discovery of the Wonderful Light Developed foy Prof. Roentgen of Vienna A Patient and J Painstaking Worker. d " AND 4 cold-bloodedl- y, We on. GIANT GENIUS. Xnls - 0fl-e- A PROF. WILLIAM CROOKES. while the scientific world placed 'the experiments in highest value on his no attention to the other lines, It paid Ms In work on the results he obtained mature. Professor of occult aid dissociated be never can name Crookes rrom Roentgen's discovery, because his "tube" was its basis. He is, perhaps, painstaking the most patient and times. ; of modern ex-rimen- ter d, DODGE GIVEN UP- International Bimetallla'm Ida Gotten Up to Deceive American Patriots. of the 22d. devotes The Times-Heral- d a good deal of space in its usual style to the matter of international agreements. One article begins as follows: "The dwindling faction of the two political parties will find it difficult hereafter to keep up any pretense of expected succor from an international conference." Then It proceeds to argue that no can international be agreement reached, and hence that, the cause of If there is a prosilver is doomed. nounced and uncompromising friend of silver restoration in the United States who has any hope of substantial results from an international conference, he has not been heard from very much of late. But, as usual, the Times-Heral- d is badly off in its conclusions. Instead of dooming the cause of silver, it will strengthen it, and rouse its friends to Some timid bimetal-list- s renewed effort. have hesitated about voting- for free coinage because their truthful goldlte friends such as the Times-Heral- d represents have been constantly free-coina- ge - proclaiming- - an international that agreement was just at hand. But now all disguise is thrown off. Leading gold standard papers not only proclaim international agreement can be obtained, but that none is desired. They want the gold standard, pure and simple. Nothing d less. And the is right that no . 1 Times-Heral- in one respect: There is no probabilan of international agreement at ity any time until the United States takes the initiative. In England and' Germany there are many able bimetallists. The great body of the toilers and producers are on that side, but the money sharks are all for goldi and they control the action. f the governments. 1 j : . . IGNORANCE. All the Gold Standard Advocates Wear Long: Cars. Senator Caffery, of Louisiana, made a speech upon the currency question in the senate, the other day. From the report in the Congressional Record we take this extract: Mr. Daniel: The senator stated that as civilization advanced silver went Will the senator please state down. how that is consistent with the fact that from 1847 to 1850, when more gold was produced, the same people who are now warring upon silver led the crusade against gold and actually demonetized it? How is that consistent with the idea of the natural law, as claimed by the senator from Louisiana, that carried silver down as civilization advanced ? Mr. Caffery: I think the senator from Virginia has not correctly stated the Gold has never been demonefacts. tized in Europe. Mr. Daniel: ' In one or two countries it has beeh. Mr. Caflfery: There is no country that I know of in Europe of course the superior information and knowledge of other senators on that point will correct me if I am wrong that ever demonetized gold. At the period of the discovery of the gold mines of California, when there was a tremendous output of gold, gold being a commodity like everything else, a noted French writer of that period, M. Chevalier, in discussing the finances of France, thought perhaps it was best to demonetize gold, but it was never done. Mr. Mitchell, of Oregon: Germany demonetized gold, I will say to the senator. Mr. Teller: And so did Holland in 1847. I stand corrected then; and the nuestion of the senator from Virginia now needs an answer. Here is a senator of the United States presuming to instruct the people upon the subject of currency, who actually did not know that two. European nations demonetized gold when gold jwaa cheap and silver was dear. If gold should now become cheap and silver dear, we would have a repetition of this performance, and nothing more would be heard of the superiority of that gold The whole purpose of men standard. who uphold the system is to make money abnormally dear, and they care Mr. Caffery: little whether they can accomplish the end by using one metal or the other. Bimetallism means money of normal value. The Manufacturer. What Demonetization Means. What do you mean by demonetizing silver in 1873? Please explain. READER. of 12th Prior to the February, 1873, any person having silver bullion ol suitable fineness could take it to the American mint and have it coined into "dollars'' at the rate of 3714 grains of Dure silver to the dollar, the gov ernment putting in enough copper aa alloy to make the weight of the dollar 412 grains. The money thus coined was full legal tender for all debts, public and private. On that date the mint law was revised, and in the revision the silvfer dollar was omitted from the list of coins, and a trade dollar of 378 grains of pure silver,' or ,420 grains of standard silver, was substituted. By the general revision of the statutes, which took place the same year the legal tender of all silver coins was fixed at $5. So that, instead of coining standard dollars of full legal tender, we went to coining trade dollars that were only available as money up to ?5. This constituted the demonetization of silver. Every dollar of our enormousat debt, once public and private, in. became, that except gold, payable exclusively of the for used payment silver could be 5. small! debts not exceeding to the Silver, in short, was reduced our standchange,, and grade of small of comprising both instead ard money, of gold alone. consisted gold and silver, the of demonework Germany began tizing silver in 1871, by stopping the coinage, and completed it by taking: away Its legal tendey in 1873, a fewr months after our act 7as passedi Nfc i |
