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Show fn I DICK BRIDGE OFTBAGEDIEs AT HANDS OP REBUILDERS- - TO LOSE IDENTITY RODNEY; A Or. $ The Adventures of An Eton Boy... stowage of the mattress. Then tier ars always large and roomy, and that gives great scope for. working eut y comfortable and capacious singvw Next to draperies are usually hei and very extensive, and the upholstery followed Immediately by one of the so that Is a. r T,r need not be guards, who was permanently Injured. s larallS Dtrry Cart Itanl r.ldlii still anothervery elaborate, a chair such a .4 Herrera advantage The Insane man waa never found. B4 Mew Uras far the BmoIim possesses for the transformation conTh.ra Kays Tbs 8S4 at Cafela Mra( t I templated. This esn very easily b Vsvsl Lit rruuns SNAKE SLONQ FAST. done by arranging the arm pieces on Lilted hinges and bracket One can be changthe In Vtooi Probably no plaoe ItUa Cebr Umri EUa ed to a convenient nngle for the pillow Msw Css tsr tbs Rssatcas Riyi, Slates has been the scene of mure 1 Mouths. Aajtbluc for rest. The back It disposed of so ns railroad creek Dr. LonNeville Wood records in the crime than the Morrie All bona-fid- e lasting records have to form a continuation of tha seat, and VVa bridge, near Montgomery, been broken by La Tosa. the great don Lancet a case in which n consid- thus make the frame of the bed, while Us Identity at womon lose erable to of hair which is soon a Indian cobra at the Zoo. This Bnake an's face was the other arm Is disposed of In any the hands of bridge builders enageil has been under clobe removed by applying the manner convenient scientific observawere There ten to remodel It, and the creek which it Ufm Roentgen raya sittings all mvOIUi8 8 of were for.22 tue snana The original owners per week of ten minutes each, the face a Issll4 Dmr CrVMorris brothers, who held tbPMent "d.LUcLno'oguTrom and neck being protected with n leaa-fo- il A radical change In the character of from the state of Irgn mask, except where the rays were several medical colleges and other. the coach employed to take baby ont Intended to act After fourteen these brothers pharmactulUal concerns It was noticed that the darker for an airing has taken place within name. How many tragedies occurred representing been have to secure sped endeavoring is hairs had lost some of their luster, and the last few years, and tbs great conhere before the white man came not mens of the big snake's venom, which known, but tradition says the creek brings Instant and horrible death to in a week's time there wae an obvious venience of the Horry cart has ug was the scene of a number of conflicts all forms of animal life, but La lessening In their number. The hairs gested the possibility of constructing Tosca, became brittle and pale In color, with n folding invalid or Infant's cart on between the M Id goes and the Shxw-nee- s, In her voluntary fst of 22 months, and the quantities of arrows snd has never once opened her mouth wide atrophic bulbs. Tiers waa a slight red-- 1 the same principles. The illustration stone hatchets which oan h fosnd euough to enable these selentists to dening of the skin during this period, shows how this Idea has been worked by an inventor of Hamburg. Qer-there bear out the correctness of this secure the venom by any of the ordi- After forty-fiv- e exposures, the whole a very thick downy and hairy I niAny. There may be two wheels In At one time this creek nary methods of snake handling. The statement scenwaa one of lie prettiest hit venom-fan- g Is a long, sharp conical growth had disappeared, except nine front and two hack, as shown, or the week the but 'arrangement so popular' valley, in of Kanawha, the the tooth ery upper jaw, by means of hairs which remained at least a automobile may he taken the for have after of others. the total removal the railroads and coal mines which the poisonous fluid is injected used. for the patient la The which It readwere be support to found, however, the They much of Into beauty the away punctured wound. This fang extends from which of formed eanvas, beautiful re at the the ily bulbs, being once possessed, and separated is attached to the maxillary bone, and extenstream of water Is now but a discolmay be thrown forward or laid fiat by talned in position by a more superfi- the axle to the cross bar of tha a are handle sion used of the that cial of After the piece a ored drain for all the Impurities part peculiar mechanism by which the In bones of the upper Jaw a few for the patient's attendant A footdifferent mines along Its course. change their cessation of the treatment, only a these rest 1 provided with .mean for ad thick had promand hairs W. returned, Davis, Dr. J. relative position. This tooth or fang August. 1894, was were nail known with the removed i folded upon Itself for the couver- inent physician of Montgomery, returning from a professional visit up ance of the venom, and Is also con- process of destroying them by the electhis creek, when he waa fired upon and nected with the duct of the receptacle tric needle. Dr. Wood Is of the opinreceived wounds from which be died which contains the poisonous fluid. ion that the treatment is neither nor painful, and thinks that In a few hours. This assassination was The mechanism of the bones is such will clear the ground tor about was of the fire that twenty opened the shake's and mouth opening carefully planned, asuse electric needle, and that of the the causes Invisible the hls erection of the widely upon the doctor by sailant before he had got into danger- venom fang, and when the mouth Is between thirty or forty exposures will ous range. The doctor whipped up his closed upon the object bitten the same probably result In permanent baldness. , horses and tried to escape, and In so movement Injects the venom, and The rays also promise to be of service a treatment of doing was compelled to drive nearer death ensues forthwith. Some of the as curative agent In the to the ambush of hls foe. He drove bacteriologists seem to think that the certain diseases of the skin. It seems certain that esses of lupus are much benefited, If not cured, by being treated by periodic application! of the X raya, and the hope Is also held out that obstinate case of eczema, ringworm .etc., will prove amenable to the same treatment. At Copenhagen a number of cases of lupus have been successfully treated by exposure to sunshine, and as the Roentgen raya have an effect like sunshine on the skin. It Is thought that they may prove equally justing Its height to accommodate th length of limb of the occupant Th peculiar construction of the frame and the canvas support adapt It to told up Th Bps sf Cabla Maaascaa. Into a apace, which la. In operating long cablet very deli the eatalBstfumeets are required, and th JLtreaL.advantaie.jCompared.wlth la usuwhich Invalid's chair, ordinary currents arriving at tha receiving end cannot he ao It that ally nnwleldly Are very feeble In comparison with those employed in land line signaling. stored In a living room with Any Tb longer the cable, naturally, th feebler the Impulses arivlng at the reMoral Life Frararraa ceiving end, A short cable, a cabla of under 1,009 miles being generally An Improved or protected breeches considered a short cable, gives a speed buoy has been Invented by Llsut 0. of signaling amply sufficient for all HMcLellan, Inspector of the Ufe-sa. purposes, with a conductor weighing Ing service on the Jersey coast The about 100 pounds to the mile, sur- favorite method of landing ehlpwreck-je- d rounded by an insulating envelops of people when the wreck lies near MORRIS CREEK BRIDGE. gutta-percweighing about an equal enough to tb beach to enable the surf-me- n amount When wa com to A cable to shoot a Un over the vessel twice this length it is found from the shore is th about us of th of venom of might have some curative propthrough a hail of bullet, three a practically breeches to order in a big get necessary is which simply buoy, which took effect, wounding him mor- erties that would make It a valuable unlimited a speed, that is, a speed as cork short with fitted to on the the were materia medics, and adjunct placed tally. Bloodhound, most expert operator can j as th Th or high trunks. trousers c&dtis 0j trail of the assassin, and In a day or for that reason they are making re- reed to employ a core of 150 pounds person puts on this pro ao Bud Clendennln, a man who but a newed efforts to get some of the poisof copper to the mile, insulated with server and the buoy Is hauled back and short time before had recovered from on. . La Tosca sleeps most of the 400 pounds of gutta-percto the mile. forth from the wreck by men on th time, and pays no attention to anyan Illness through which the are the proportions of copper beach by means of tackle. All objecThese doctor had treated him free of thing that is transptrlng about her. and gutta-percIn the 1894 tions to this old buoy will b overcome He was tried, She waa brought here from Borneo charge, was captured. Atlantic cable, which la contwo about a years ago, and, after eating sidered the record Atlantic cable for by th new and protectsd preserver convicted at Charleston and given designed by Lieut McLellan, which life sentence In the penitentiary, where the three snakes that made the voyage speed of working and has been worked, will soon be Introduced all through the with refused all of her, he subsequently died, protesting hls descriptions by automatic transmission, at the rate service. breeches, Surrounding th innocence to the last The fact that food, and seems to get along very well of some forty-fiv- e words a minute. hls It waa on the eve of an election, and without it This variety of reptiles Th type of cable proposed for th through which a person thrusts aa affords This canvas Is a bag. legs. never snakea. eats anything but They Vancouver-Fannln- g that for some of the jurymen to vote section of the sea. There It would be necessary for them to dis- have been known to kill bears and British Pacific cabla, aa designed by extra protection against the Is a valve at the bottom, through pose of the case that night, saved horses, and are feared by all the na- Lord Kelvin, Is to have a core of 558 water that comes over th Clendennln from the gallows, a 11 tives of Borneo, Java and the smaller pounds of copper and 868 pounds of which any ejected. It le la automatically lalandLof buoy where East the Indies, calthey gutta-ptreh- a of the Jury were for, tanging, the to the mile and la much less hesshow women said that are 134. La Tosca is the only speci- culated to give a speed of twelve words other was not, and, declaring hi Inthemselves to th in men trusting of In un her itancy kind America, and, tention of holding the fort, the rest per minute over a length of 8,560 new-sty- le buoy than to the old on. gave In, so that they might vote. In leas aha can be Induced to eat, must, miles. It Is not considered safe to Mall and Express. York New sooner 14 measures or She die. core later, this than same months the year, and bat a few adopt a muclL heavier feet Record. In length. Philadelphia later, the body of Dr. J. C. Aultx, a lor the reason that th weight of the Thrra Hut la 0 n surgeon, waa found a lifecomplete cable with a core that ahonld to less mass under the fatal bridge. UnTh North Star has recently attract- CmIm4 m4 Wm Lrcb4, weigh more than about half a ton Charles Humphries, who entered the the nautical mile would be ao great ed much attention from the fact that known parties attempted to blow up the bridge with - dynamite daring a room of Miss McCoy, daughter of that picking It up for repair from a J jB September, 1899, Prof. W. W. Campstrike In 1894, but owing to the fact wealthy farmer near Phoenix City, depth of 8.000 fathom would be an ex- - J bell of the Lick Observatory, Mount A, m only a few months ego.- - when'en fa sane soldier from the Phlllplnes, In SCIENTIFIC TOPICS. charge of two guards, en route to one of the eastern army Infirmaries at CURRENT NOTESOF DISCOVERY night, and while the train was passing AND INVENTION. over the bridge, leaped out, apd was r.i " ' Ar - ere on the deck of good old English CHAPTER XXXV. 'Continued ) ! If This Instrument of the law wa stm- - oak aye, as much at home ply an upright wooden post rising from stood upon the chalky South Foreland, the platform. At its base was a low and saw the great hop fields of fertile etool, on which the condemned are Kent at our feet, with the gray towers eated, and about three feet above that of Dover and tha white spires of Deal utappears an Iron ring with a handle In the distance. Old Lambourne whlcu Union to a the tered of and sbout, pointed the compression and screw, by they are strangled, Instantly or Blowly Jack. One must be abroad and far away to according to sentence. The crowd was very Impatient; the feel to the full the emotions that are hour at which the grim scene was to excited, and' the confidence Which Is have taken place was now long past. inspired on seeing the old flag, that has Loud murmurs arose from the people, swept every sea andjhore, waving In k of a Britwho had heard most exaggerated Its pride from the r. stories rf Antonios stature, strength ish It Is then that we feel "what a sway and ferocity, and glances of anger and dial one little Island has exercised over at the gilt Impatience were darted of the town house, on which a black the mighty earth." high. Hislop and I dined with Capt. B , banner was hoisted but half-maWe recognized nearly all the crew of who waa anxious to hear orr story in the San Ildefonso In front of the mob; detail. Our shipmates were told off to their and there, too, were a number of British sailors of H. M.'s steam sloop of several divisions, and we were placed re war Active, which had anchored In the t In the ward room mess tor the of malnder the voyage. harbor that morning. We nailed that night, - and under, Several priests In long, gray robes steam and canvas, as we bore away to a and fro, begging were hurrying to soul the north, we soon saw the Peak of the masses for for to pay "peseta Adam 6. .king Into the dark blue sea. of the condemned man. de"Adieu to the Canaries," said Hislop, I had any As neither Hislop nor we sire to witness a scene so barbarous waving his hat; the next shore of cliffs white be see the haswill we Europe and revolting as an execution, tened to our posada to breakfast, where Old England, perhaps. But next day we sighted the great we were some time later joined by of the Salvage islands, a group Capt. Jose Estremera, who had Just pltons are claimcome from the Castle of Santa Cruz, of uninhabited rocks which no one ed the and was by Portuguese confined, (perhapd where the culprit are who j.uve us all the particulars con- else cares about them), and which One shoals. surrounded that by dangerous Antonio of cert. ing the execution of these Isles closely resembles the we eaud to know. fantastic rocks pf the Needles, at the west end of the Isle of Wight. XXXVL CHAPTER On the Salyageg the canary birds are Conclusion. so numerous that an old voyager says for to more add, little but I have it is Impossible to walk without with this last episode the course of wild adventures upon which I had crushing their eggs. We touched at Madeira, and after a been so strangely hurried, nearly delightful voyage of about sixteen days closes. ran up the Channel, and came to anA few hours after the death of AnIn the Downs on the 29th of OcLamchor tonio, when Hislop and I. with of tober. survivors other Carlton and bourne, the Eugenie were waiting In the office I had been absent from home more of the British consul, to make some ara year, when I found myself In Estrethan Jose for rewarding rangements H, us to Lcndontn ttighty London, witb its mera for his great kindness dark forests of masts .and Its dark cawe met Captain the Hon. Egerton B of her majestys ship Active, who was thedral dome, that meets the eye from m struck with our story that he offer- every point of view a wondrous and ed us all a passage to England, an of- bewildering change, after traversing so long the wide and lonely sea! fer we accepted with gratitude. .With a heart swollen by anxiety to His ship was leaving the African be to learn home tidings of my father, my mother squadron, and returning I reached the counting .sisters, qnd repaired. uncle's firm, Rodney A room of ponder-ingl- y, my said ha, "Rodney Rodney," but there waa somethe In Introduced Co., m. city, consul when the so in my aspect, which for a been peculiar have to sailor, thing ought "you to sea nor shore, and serneither In the Is well known pertained name your was unmistakably outlandish, that old vice, and his words brought the memambition John Thomas, the porter, seemed inmother's of poor my ory old clined to shut the door In my face. the of back to me, and I thought A short explanation, however, soon room In the which dining hung picture his scruples, and I was then overcame at home. After a brief conference with his admitted. My uncle wae at Eriesmere, but hi shipmates. Tattooed Tom now came clerk assured me that my family head of his fragment forward, and twirling a hat, said that "if the noble captain were all well,methough they had aslonga up for dead, kad no objection, as he, Ned Carlton, since given Probart and the other poor fellows of handsome (he asaured me It was very the Eugenie were out of a berth, and handsome) whit marble tablet erected at uncommon low water, they would to my memory in the Rectory church enremained to testify. gladly ehlp aboard the Active and had never service. My letters from Cub ter her majesty Capt B , who taw at a glance that reached home. As I had no desire to shock my parseamen, readthey were all flrst-claa sudden fcurprlse, a telegram ily accepted the offer and promised ents by them the usual bounty, for which they preceded me, and in lest than an hour train for gave three loud cheers for the queen, I was off by the express and It came from their throats not the Eriesmere. But with all its speed the less heartily that they were far away express seemed too slow for me. Mark from her and In a foreign land, all tat- Hislop accompanied me until he could tered as they were, with scarcely a get a ship, but before looking for that he meant to visit his old mother, who shirt to their hacks. "Heaven bless you, my lads, said lived somewhere in Scotland. After all that, we had undergone, Hislop; this Is the best thing you can , you all that I had to show my family were 4o; and believe me, Capt. B will find my old shipmates neither the sword and old book found In the walsters nor green hands, but thorough waterlogged brig, the creese of a mutinous Lascar, and the ring given me A. B.s. . As they all loved him, another cheer by the governor of Surabaya. V lyiri' Bflnn. for looks forcaptain went off to the Active In his Goethe's maxim: "He that one but he to sees ward pursue, way to a to we all adjourned posado gig, who looks backward sees many. have a friendly glass together. THE END. Soon after, as the war steamer was to sail that evening, a boat under a IIow Insects Maks Bolt jnldsblpman came off for Us, and then Mr. Darwin once wrote a book, whick we hade farewell to Jose Estremera, to his mate, Manuel Gautier, to Fra many readers pronounced as InterestAn eel mo, and the old governor of Sura- ing as a novel, pn earthworms and the wonderful way in a hicb they plow up, , baya. "Come, Dick, we have no time to turn over and Invigorate the soil. In lose, said Hislop; let ns.be off to the a recent address, Dr. p, O, Howard of Washington showed that many species chip while daylight lasts. I shall never forget my emotions of of insects are also important agents In They r e found beneath joy when the boat with Hislop and the rest of us came steering alongside the the ground, he says. In surprising - - Active. numbers, and they penetrate to a surShe was so clean, to trig, so square prising depth. "The minute Insects of aloft; with the bright copper gleaming the family Podurldea which are wingIn the water below; her black bulwarks less have been found ewarmlng literand red portholes, through which her ally by the million a' a depth of six to and thirty-two- s sixty-eigh- ts peered eight feet in a stiff clay subsolL the. snow-whiabove Ft the gold epaulets of Lars Tires Tsraws- - SssB Ones. .watch glittering tb Experiments made In the engineermarines at Cornell university JUte great ing department 1 ' .float- - have xhown-that.-otthing being iart equal, a bicycle runs more easily with Tow Writ report1 a large tire than with a small one. A llM Odif 6oel?tiUMHita l4Ua bf IRUlUR A BOOTH, BzelnalVft CowmlKjon toipn j m lti be4 Two-Inc- h tire, for Instance, waa block Yard. ebeep nrfcoUe ibo wr4. idedly easier to rnn than a tire of aa filer. lpch and a half diameter. ESS IS3 P.CRSE KEH, Off,, eve: 1, n ark Oil will health rarrtera. of ol4ora. . rail of wliw cut. Partlenlafo fira. AddiWflS and not e are yet so unaccustomed to the K OIL CO- iibcidh SU(RIottIU, lowih WelL oblles that on, never appears gaping crowd does not follow ltd with their eyes. . "Pigley . stand. . gaff-pea- man-of-wa- st sa g. te her SHEEPMEN? de-"B-nw !,K r 2EZEOS2EZZ2 U 1 Balt Lake No-10- .1 WOO. "Contrary? fast to get fat" IX over-grow- th - j of three-wheel- ed root-sheat- h. - very-comp- act . -- . v- ha it klnd-heart- Anglo-Americ- an well-know- explosive the force of the explosion wa unconfined, and though the bridge was somewhat weakened, comparatively little damage wa done. During all the time that the Lewis gang of robber and murderers exisW, this was .their rendezvomr. and - every move Which they, made was planned under the shadow of the old bridge. Here it was that John Cochran, miner, was coaxed one night in March and murdered, robbed and then hls lifeless body cast Into the Inky waters of the creek, and washed out into the bosom of the Kanawha river. Viers, who led the white element of this gang, made an effort to throw the responsibility for this murder upon an innocent man named Lewi.-- , who was an enemy, but on the scaffold hls nerve failed him, and he confessed that hls former statements were false, and that Lewis, had nothing to no with the murder. Back in 1S8D the first lynching that ever took place In that section occurred within a few hundred yards of this bridge. Mart Lee, whb had assaulted a white Iadywai Turned over to the Sheriff of Fayette county by the sheriff of Kanawha on this bridge, which was then, the dividing line between two The young woman recognized Humphries, and a mob immediately started in pursuit They came upon the negro about ten miles from Phoenix City. He confessed and was then strung up. Indian Chnrgnd with Mnr.ler. arrived at Vancouver, B; C., from gkagway, brought news of the arrest of nine The steamer Cutch, which has ln-dia- the perpetrators of a murder there last October. The victims were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Worthing, who were shot down over their fire at night The bodies were hidden In a cav. Trnnaranl Hare SIcknaM. Ilorse sickness has broken cut earlier than usual in South Africa, At a rule It comes In February, The Boers being entirely a mounted force,-th- e trouble 111 affect them mor than it will the Enellsrarmlesr; Klllnd Hoshnod, Rralf. Early the other morning TMr A Leonard Wagner killed her husband and then' shot herself at their home near Sandusky, O. The cause of th crime over- - Me believed to have been Jealousy. . pountlet ln VJhort thus mob Lee, taking powered the sheriff, and, swung him ovar the river from the A Qtmj. first available. tree. Edith He says If I dont marry him Many, people have fallen between h he doesnt know what hell do! , th track of this bridge, and sustained - Ethel Ah! has th poor fellow ao aerlooa Injuries. The last of these was trade? Puck." tlon. Scribners. Folding know, how Mnral really three atari, which appear as one. Even the big telescope, with Its' glass a yard across, at hls observatory could oB; U bat- taf U closely that JZ, rararan raw S n SXl marking of th sun, moon ar ets, and help as to see m!ll( stare not visible to the unaidt Prof. Campbell attached to thli scope aa instrument called th jtroscope, which analyzes the light tellr what H is made of, and star from which It come the whether Is In motion or at rest, and whether coming towards us or going away. He found by careful sturdy that Polaris is really three stars, though appearing to our eyes as only. one, and that the three are revolving around one another. and that the group is approaching the earth at the rate of about seven miles a second,, -- V jlrlMricrt 1 The British, war office haa been testfor ing a new electrical range-findthe last two years. It was invented by an Australian, who says that It will giva the range and bearing of a fixed or moving object, and at the same time will give Information to any number of fortress guns attached by wire to the instrument thus equaling loo guns, for instance, to .concentrate their Ore simultaneously on a single ship.- er colloquially spoken of as a sleepy hollow, come to formlnx 'Comfortable sleeping quarter, hut It waa the fertile Imagination of aa inventor of New York city that discovered that there lurked in it all the possibilities of the Ideal folding bed. In the first place, uch chairs are uanally heavily and Over 885,000 persons are employed1 softly padded, ao that dlpoea of the la English collieries. most troublesome feature,amely, the |