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Show - ' 4 - . ' t 1 'MID DASHING WAVES Is Matter DENIAL THAT THE 9J& Tmk f Mlwft U4( iM Took Fir INORGANIC U tt IS DEAD. jjjjrjsrfmvm' 1 j t , t. f Bjk Special Letter. Color photo sraphy ha led French ctaiUeta to doubt tbat matter ta really dead. The doubt would seem to be at flrat eight an absurdity, when It la oonaldered that one of the most usual OeCnlUons of Inorganic matter states tt to be that which is deprived ot Ute. In a recent number ot the Archives das Sciences physiques et Natural-de- e M. Guillaume tries to show In an article entitled La Vie de la Mali ere," that what Is usually regarded as dead matter really possesses an elementary form of life ot Its own closely resembling that form of life which Is described by biologists and .which Is usually regarded as the only ifonm of Ufa possible ta matter. He ahowa that eertala physiological processes have their close parallels In certain physical and chemical tacts. The (power of adapting Itself to external conditions Is hsually regarded as peculiar to Uvlng beings, and yet M. iGulIlanme gives several Instances in "dead" matter shows a power Chlch to Impressed forces. His (most striking Instance is taken from ?lhe Beeqnerel process of color photog-jraphIf the gray Iodide or chloride fof silver Is exposed for a short time, say, to red light, it becomes red. If it la then exposed, say, to green light. It changes Its tint, and passing through several phases of dull colors, ends by What Is becoming Uniformly green. most remarkable about these chameleonlike changes Is that they take plaee ta order to prevent the silver salt from being decomposed by the light Tie color of a body tells us the nature jof the light which It redacts, and which consequently Is not absorbed by the 'body. The silver salt assumes tbs color ot the light which Impinges upon jit, and thus enables Itself to reflect lit It tt did not do that It would have jto absorb the light, and the energy wo absorbed would have the effect of (reducing the silver salt, It this change (occurred la a living organism It would She cited by biologists as a case ot. The silver (protective modification. (Chloride defends .and transforms in order the better to protect Light Is the enemy which It has constantly to repulse. Just as a living organism repels Its enemies. Another - 9 Duln( i.l(t)t of Moa Wko UaUt th UkUuMbb ! y. elt lf. a dark night the Atlantic coast In example cited by M- Guillaume from Maine to North Carolina i senswhich Inorganic matter shows marked with lights like a city treeL itiveness Is this: If a bar of steel be the ahore line of the southern Along sufllc.ent submitted to a traction force auo up the PacJle ccaii. and dates to break it there will appear at the tbe lights a.e not so numerous but take to point where rupture is going every bar end reef has Its waralwf traction the if a constriction, place light The go 'cmmentmaloUmi more force be stopped before the rupture Is than 1,100 lighthouses and lighted be- complete it can be shown that at tils cons, 88 light vessels and lantern buoys point of Impending rupture the metal and nearly 1,800 post lights, mod, of baa become harder. From this It must which mark the shores of navigable be concluded that at tbe place where rivers. In addition to tiers are these, metal the feeble the bar became too siren signals, whistling buoys, bell Upon - hardened Itself in order to resist Its own destruction. This again, if It occurred In living matter, would be classed by biologists as s case of proAlthough none tective modification. but the boldest minds would conclude from these esamplea and experiment that a real continuity has been established between the phenomena of Inlivorganic matter and those of the a M. Guillaume expresses ing cell, yet hope thst the bridge befween the two Besides may soma day be crossed. these Instances mentioned by M. Gull- lsume, several facts of physics known to engineers have s bearing on th theory. Lord Kelvin first called attention to the strange phenomenon of tbe on fatigue of tbe metal. In a the "Elasticity and Viscosity of Meyears ago to the tals" retd u.rty-flv- e Lord Kelvin London, of society Royal remarked that when the students In the physical laboratory of the Unlver- slty of Glasgow were performing exmetals of the on elasticity perlments some remarkable and interesting re- were obtained which could only be explained by supposing that the fa-elasticity of metals was subject to 1 of muscular case In the fatigue tlgue. rest la required not only to enable the wasted tissues to get fresh material from tbe blood and have the waste material carried away but also ta afford an opportunity for the strained molecules to recover a state of repose. In Iron or steel which has been strained a more rapid restoration ot the molecules to a state ot repose is effected by heating to redness and coolThis process Is term el ing slowly. annealing, and is regularly adopted to taks the fatigue out of chains ths strength of which has been taxed. Chicago Tribune. . ti arm thamaelves and drive the herd w peatedly Into the sea. Owing t the difficulty In making landings moat of tbe workmen were sent to the rock In a breeches buoy. Onlymen of seasoned pluck could he persuaded to make the trip. A large crew were finally landed, with supplies enough to last them several months, and at the coming of winter and rough weather the ahlp was compelled to leave them to their fate. One nlgbt In January a tor-- ( nado drove tbe waves enUrely over th crushing tbe tent in which th mea lePL d washing away moat M the,r Provisions and nearly all of their tools, clothing and equipment, 1 time, in the coldest ;For wettler ot northern winter, they ere comPclled to lie clinging to the allPPery rock, drenched with Icy wate, LeIP081 10 succeeding storms 0 ,now and leet and cut by tbe sharp ,,ea wlnda- - During all this time they sd no sufficient means of warming themselves, practically no fresh water t0 drlnk anl nothing to eat but hard- tack and bacon, soaked in sea water. Few arctl? explorers have had to suffer the perils and privations to which these lighthouse builders were subject- a yet thejr ,lved and lighthouse on the summit of the rock. f i i warn the buoys and shoal buoys nen at sea of dangerous po'nts alorf tbe shore. The cost of maintenance annually exceeds 93,000,000, Few persons have any idea of th drugers entunlred by the t.oa who build tbe oftsbore lights which are put up in the most difficult and danger mis places that can be selecu4 lno Wild liue says a writer m M.igaxJne, speaks with -- 030sea-bulld- v u shore lights. He must have tides, breakers, wrecks, peret torrents and wind storms to test his metal. Such a man was Capt. Alexander, who built the famous Minor's ledge Msssathu-- ! ,lgbt' near lh entraBC setts bay, 15 miles southeast of Boston. Ibis was in 1855. A bold, back rock lay out in tbs sea, which the waters it high tide covered entirely, its place being Indicated by a few restless breakers. or, If the water was calm, by s At amootj,( 0lly, tuacherou eddy. lowest tide a glistening head, laced aroun(j with a collar of surf, protrad-sult- s a(j a pew feet noove the aurltce of the uater jg wtu g0 slippery with eea das'ied over it 0 g,,, anj thea waves man cojll not maintain fiercely that s footing on it. Beros attempting to build, Capt. Alexander sent a crew cf to the rock to scrape It clear of weeds and to cut level steps on which they could matjtaln a fool'ng. When a great wavs came rolling in the foie-tes- n shouted and the men tell on their races, clinging together and bolding tlelr breatmmUl the roei was bars again. Woiklug thus la lnnU.it .peril ot their lives and continually drenched and suffering from the smarting of salt water sores, the men cut only four footholes In the rock during the The second year ice-pac- BASTS IN INDIA. Ailuli Kill Many Riui Balags The women of Chins are said to favor the Boxers because, like tbe women of most other lands, they are the religious sex. Looking at foreigners, whether they be engaged In evangelising or commerce, as tbe enemies of tbelr religion, they a ant them driven out of the country. They look to the Boxers to accomplish this. Women In China, have In several Instances shown themselves capable of sets of great heroism, measured by tho standards of their own country. The great LI Hung Chang petitioned the empress to reward two women of position for set wihch would never have been selected here for particular distinction. One of these was a daughter of the Chinese minister to London, who mar-.rie- d at a very early age a man who she had scarcely known, for, in accordance with the Chinese custom she had no hand la the selection of her husband. Her family looked after that and she married him at the appointed time. It Is a lucky thing tor the women of a country that has such customs that they are sometimes able to fall in love with their husbands after This seventeen-year-ol- d marriage. bride was able to do that and her devotion to this husband took a form that seems remarkable to western Ideas. When he was 111 and could eat nothing she cut off a slice of her arm and put it In the broth prepared for him. Whether she thought this treatment would cure him or not, he died. Then she took poison and when the physicians saved her life against her will she refused to eat aod starved to death. LI Hung Chang petitioned the empress for some mark of the esteem In which such a faithful wfte should be held and It wa3 granted to th womans family and also to her sister-in-lawho was sister to no less a person than the Marquis Tseng. Th'a over, she tried to kill herself after her husbands death, but yielded, alter several unsuccessful attempts to the persuasion of her relatives and consented to live on condition that she be allowed to devote her time to managing the estate of her husband's father, who .was at the time Chinese ambassador 'ta London. This privilege was granted to her and she felt that by dedicating her life to the material good of her husbands family she had ta That laud. It Is sometimes remarked thst death due to snake bite forms a convenient and not unusual description for numbers of deaths by foul means, but the annus) report on the measures for the extermination of wild beasts and venomous snakes adopted In the central provinces does not support the suggestion. No less than 1,132 persons came by death In this terrible manner, says the Bombay Gaxette, but the number la not abnormal. In the Damoh district a examination was made on the bodies of all persons reported to have died from snake bite, but no case was detected in which death was apparently due to some other cause. Wild beasts killed 282 human being3, and the mortality among cattle ascribed to injuries ot a like nature amounted to 11,689. Sheonath river. In the Raipur district, should become a popular resort for In addition to adundance shikaris. of sport with wolves, they would also be assisting the officials to destroy these animals, whose depredations on .the bank of tbe river are growing into a serious evlL In Nljnar .district these animals are steadily Increasing in number, and they have done considerable damage. There were 233 tigers and 593 panthera killed, the reward for slaying which amounted to Rs.17,759. There are many man-eatitigers in Balashat, and . although several persona each claim to have killed' th "Adegaon man eater which has carried off eight men. It ia pot certain K& whether It Is still alive or dead. Golfers will learn with Interest ' that. In addition to the nsusi excitements and difficulties of the game, players occasionally have to encounter a tiger on the Juhbulpore links. Dne was shot In the golf links of that sUtion during qgj ths year, which was a successful one so far as the destrnction ot wild beasts is concerned. It Is probable the unNew Tork has been waging war on usual dryness of the season contributawful noise for many monthB, and ed something toward making them a result it Is difficult to teU, with what to their purmore easy prey than usual for ungodly sounds still prevail In that suers. But now Boston seems metropolis. rto be in the same plight, and it would Gurdtolnf m DlTtnloa very much like to know if the nerves One of the great advantages of a of that larger city hare been benefited love nf gardening is the break U makes by those demands of the newspapers on the continuous strain of buslness tor less noise In the conduct of affairs. thought No real lover and possessor Where to begin, or what to do to mitiof a garden ever died of Insomnia. This gate the affliction, is a problem for inla a disease .which follows those by dividuals to consider In all its aspects. night who cannot throw off thto Whether the crash and bellow of thoughU of dally life. They retire steam locomotives, the clang of electhink. Instead of to sleep, and the dark- tric gongs, the shrieks of steam whisness and quietness of the night favor tles, and the shouts of hoodlums, are the thought To leave behind the busi- responsible fgr th present condition ness of we city tor thr pleasures of of the nervous system, or whether the tree and flowers of the suburb humanity in its superfine civilisation, has saved numerous lives that would has become oversensitive, must be dehave otherwise been broken down. termined by stndy and Investigation of This seems better understood In the cause .end effect A Cambridge man, The famous eld world than with us of this increase of noise take tomplainisg Jurist Lord Penxanee, did nothomes. the qtner day, said he had observed a hla law studies to his country difference between motormen In his There he thought only of his garden, daily travel to town, for some rang the and the floral treasures it contained. gong Incessantly, where there was One f his hobbles In the garden was really no need to sound it while others the Improvement of th sweet briar, keenly on the alert, pressed the butand the man beautiful varieties he ton when some object appeared In raised obtained as much fame for sight or a street was to be crossed. himself as did his legal opinions, to say nothing of the pleasure the flowTh IJots of LaNrso ers. brought him. Meehans Monthwho go to Lucerne are alTravelers ly. ways Interested to see the Lion of . Straw Thmn Off Etslhk LmhL Lucerne, a figure of a lion hewn out of a rock on the elde of a high cliff By the death of the duke of Wellington the English pension list will be which borders a small park. Beneath eased by 820.000 a year. The sum In- is a sheet of water In which tbe lion cluded two separate pensions granted Is mirrored as In a glass. It Is of coto th Iron Duke. The first was In lossal slse, a spear In Its side showing 1810. A pension of $10,000 A year on acwhere it la wounded, yet with death count of the brilliant and decisive vic- so near it strives to protect a shield, on of the Bourthe fleur-de-ltory obtained" by blm at Talavera was given to "Lleut-Ge- n. bearing and 11 1809, It bolds in its paw. which bons, July Lord Viscount Wellington" by Thorw&ldscn was the scnlptor and the Lion ot Lucerne" Is a monument to George III. The second pension 'or 810,000 also was granted In 1812 on the brave Swiss guard which perished Viscount Wellington advancement to at Fam'ATigriO. 1792,' In defense of an earldom. the Tnllleriee. Louis XVI. had forbidden the Swiss guard to fire upon EsrO. wwteNl Tata qf the mob. but 900 men composing It There was recently discovered near dared to do so in defense of the palthe Ocklockonne river, Florida, what ace. The Infuriated mob massacred Is believed by experts to be the most every one ot them. Upon the shield wonderful pure vela ot fullers earth which the lion holds are the names ever discovered. This vein la said to of the brave men who were officers ' yield Immense quantities1 of this pe- of th guard. 100 test which stand the earth, culiar . ' Ctauew l th Mtk that la .to s7. that it la absolutely ot this all mines the man the can Nearly young If pure. escape the althe valu-tb- !e lurements of Idleness, he can find In kind of earth eontaln, besides J commodity, rock, flint, ' gravel, Tahiti and her hundred sister Islands sand. etc., bat this depoelt is entirely the foundation for a stupendous fortune. The soil ot all the Islands Is free ot each substances. post-morte- m accomplished Wcr Ofl memory. Explanation of the ease with which women may fall in love with husbands they have never known before marriage may be found In the Chines system ot education for women. From their earliest youth they sre taught to do tbelr duty as daughters, wires and mothers. That Is demanded . of them before everything else and is even the most important feature ot tbelr education in schools. At th age of 12 they are Isolated from companionship to await tbe time of their The advent of a girl is marriages. never looked upon with delight In a Chinese family. They are usually dearest to their famil'es on the day they leave the home as brides. The Chinese woman is taught to In a three fold obedience. She must obey her father In the first Instance, and after tbat her husband and her son. These rules of life prepare her to accept with gratitude say marks of favor from the second man she is to obey, if she would follow If he Is what she has been taught gentle and kind she Is likely to tall in love with him when her own Ideal of a huBband are merely that he la As one of the men she must obey. Chinese husbands are likely to be good in certain particulars to thehr wives the women are often able to fall In love with them. Even foreign women who marry Chinamen praise them as husbands. Londbn has a Chinatown and a number of its merchants have married wpmen of that quarter of London,, and tbe women who have tried thp experiment have fared so well that their friends followed their example until a large colony of English wlree live in the London Chinatown. They are all contented with their lot. although their affection does not seem wholly unsellfish, when one reads that they can especially recommend their husbands because tbe average Chinaman would rather do his own cooking than Intrust it to his wife, and would also prefer to clean upthe house and take care of the baby. In spite of their emphasis of these qualities, th English wives are said to live happily with their Chinese husbands and th same thing is true of the rare Instance of the same sort of marriage here. -- I Cyl ! Wet XodlM. About 88 yer cent of the west Indies , cyclone occur in August. September 'and JOctober. Fortunately njost of -- if ttbem are sot eery destructive In char- iacter. Th records In th Island of St. Thomas, for example, show that In the (century and a half preceding 1897 that cy, Island suffered from devastating clones only seven time though It la Ah hurt urn and eastern Islands, such as St Thomas, Porto Rico, Cuba and ths Baha-- a, that are most frequently in the pathway of the severest cy' clones. i f 1 i I I Ill-us- ed - t r r ItollrooA vtoe TtltaTM to Village moving Is an order of things la South Dakota now. Work . the moving of the villages of Old Vtte, Old Selby. Castilla, Bloomington and Edgertoa to points on tho 116 n kt ballt by th Chicago, Milwaukee St Piobcompaay between Flatt PL1and Napa, a distance nf lghty-i)jr- ? Is being carried on. Two or three of (the villages are four or five mile from the new line. Tbe house are placed on skids and hauled over to th railroad by traction engines. be-li- ng Mobility mt 4 0, Breech ef Freatee Ceeee. .Should breech of promise esses be encouraged T On the one hand there la sometimes cruel hesrtlessneea displayed by mea, la which cases a verdict ot thumping money payments la the greatest punishment to the on the other hand. It Is not necessarily the most Innocent or the most deserving who choose to go Into court. The woman who trusts her fair tame to the tender mercies of j her lover knows pretty well the consequences ot her act, while the really unhappy and woman who has suffered most, and whose life is completely shattered, shrinks from dragging her woes Into th lurid glare of th law courts. Pecuniary payments can, after all, only soothe outraged feelings, very often the least desirable feelings, those ot rage and anger. Tbe tender, confiding female loves on Id spit ot everything and Is probably the last to bear witness against ths msn-wh- n has ruined her prospects. No doubt, ample dam- ages help a future marriage, tor, such la th strange irony oft fate, an acquitted murderess, or a fUr woman In a breach of promise case, promptly find numerous applicants anxious to claim her hand. London Graphlo. Aitnt If there be no nobility ot descent, all iths wore Indispensable 1a tt that there Topulatlofe of CklM, mhould he nobility of ascent a charTh population of China used to he acter tn them that bear rule so fine estimated at 400,060,000 and npward. lead high end pure, that as mea come mad by careful traveler Estimates this the circle ot Its influence they in Ute put It much lower about Elvoluntarily years pay homaga to that nrhlch la tbo one the royalty ot virtue. nt art MOL dlstlne-itlo- John Stu- n. 200,000.000. Blessed are the horny hands Lowell. . et toll! w be-lei- - i Boston Citizen Take 'Steps to 3 WAVE-SWEP- T TILLAMOOK. they built an iron platfo-i- u 20 feet above lew water, Ropea were stretched between the piles on whies tt rested and when the waves were high the men clung to them to prevent being washed Into the sea. The net winter a big coastwise vesect swept in from the sea. carried off lha platform. crushed the face of tbe rock and ruined the result of two years work. It took all tbe next year to repair the damage and It was not until five years had been spent at the work tbat It via completed. The work nf fi.ting the stones In place was full of excitement. Stout bags ot sand were swung on a crane from a boat to tbe rock. Virile they were- - pitching and tossing 4a the air, the men caught them, and piled them up tn the form of a small pen, and rammed them firmly together. Sometimes It took three or four staggering men. each clinging with one hand to the llferopes, to handle tingle bag. The Inside of this primitive coffer dam was then bailed out and wiped dry with a sponge. Meantime the men on the boat had prepared tho stone by laying it on a piece of thin jnuaUn covored with mortar. Ilk mustard plaster. The edges of tt Jhualln were then drawn up around the top ot the stone and it was lowered into the coffer dam. Each store Into the next one. Tbo was dove-taile- d difficulty of fitting a stone held aloft on a swinging crane, with the waves dashing around the workmen s leg can well be imagined. Not luirequemd the men were swept into the sea, Thl lighthouse cost the government 5300,-00- 0. ' Equally formidable difficulties trer encountered In building Tillamook lighthouse, off the coast of Oregon. The Island rock on which It rest rise A sheer 80 feet above the brawling sea. It is only a mile from the mainland, but the nearest harbor, owing to the precipitous shores, is 20 miles away at the mouth of the Columbia river 80 violent are the waves that break around th ragged edges of the Island, that It was only with ths utmost difficulty that the surveyors mad their first One ot them was drowned landing. In th attempt Another dann kad to contend with was an immens herd ot sea lions, which defended theif ancient citadel with great valor Before th workmen were showed undisputed possession they were obliged to -- i is , Wlrt ft Protect Their J&Jtyoise - greatly chanced, but even now I see every day members of tbe bouse of commons who must have been there tor tbe eame twenty yean as myself, and not only have 1 never spoken to them, but I do not know some ot them by name. Amid all Its gregariousness tbe house ot commona has Its Isolation.' Memben retain there tbe eccentricity or the love of solitude which are characteristic of certain temperaments. Mr. Charrlngton, the member for Mile- -' End, for Instance, who ta one of the most universally generous men in the house, and who Is never deaf to a true tale of undeserved suffering, has rarely been seen to talk to a single human being. The same instinct, perhaps, which made him refuse both a baronetcy and peerage keeps him apart from his fellows. He dines alone, he takes hla single cigar in the smokeroom alone, he sits on a back bench In the house, still sad ever alone, than of hi ng IWWWWWWWVVWWWWWWWWVWVWVWWWWWWWVW lh congress of th United States Jts a sociable, amiable, story-tellin- g body of men, as well as fcjgroup of trong and brainy statesmen. If we tan Judge of them from tbe reports thst com from their assembly balls and the cloak room. There Is also a freedom of personal Intercourse which soon makes all the members friends, or at least acquaintances. According to T. F. O'Connor In th London Mall there Is very Tittle sociability In the British parliament He says that there Is probably no assembly In the world where so little social and personal Intercourse takes place. I wag, for five yean In the house of commons without knowing half dosen men outside to forty the. small body of thirty-fiv- e members With whom I acted.' These were, of course, stormy times, and It was difficult to say whether an Irishman In the epoch between 1880 and 1885 bad a fiercer hatred lor Liberals f Tories.' Thifis,' of course,' have something better committing suicide in honor Nerves. Discretion and vigilance are virtues to be cultivated by whoever fills the responsible position of running an eleo-tr-ic car. Newsboys burst like cyclones into these same public conveyances, shouting their papers In tones that mignt startle the dead, when it is all sufficient for the youngsters to show themselves to be patronized. Tet these are minor grievances to the rattle and whirl of elevators, and the cries of those who have to run them. Goodness knows the monotonous fate of the elevator boy is not to be envied, bui all these conveniences and modern improvements have brought in their train a heap of woes for mankind. If something is not doe to lessen the storm and stress of this mechanical, electrical age, the world will be peopled with gibbering idiots. For there is one palmul fact staring us in th face. With all our Inventions and marvels for labor saving, no1 one baa been equal to inventing a sound rae of men. anthology has discovered how to remotelyarlous organs not actually required for living purposes, but It has not yet arrived at the acme ot science wnere nerves can he given protection against the dire enemy of crucifying noises. Boston Herald. ot the most productive quality, and Is especially adapted to the cultivation Of coffee and vanilla, neither ot which has been grown to Its fullest extent, in this group. The peculiar soli gives the coffee a flavor unknown In Amerloa, and I venture to say that the enterprising American who takes Tahiti coffee to a foreign market will reap a bounteous reward. There Is a coffee bean of inferior quality that grows wild, and th listless native would rather use the poor wild berry than work to cultivate a superior kind. Or, give him a cheap American bean already roasted, and he is Infinitely more happr. -- Anyth tag that saver th native Tahitian labor, that he will bless. Vanilla flourishes in the South Sea Island soil and climate, and spice would thrive If properly cultivated Here, also, grows the cocoanut. - for which a hundred uses have been found. Success, SmOMt Strt f Great City - u Berlin boasts that "Unter den Lftor den" la the broadest street of any groat It Is 215 feet wide. Tbe "Ring-strassIn Vienna Is 188 feet; - th Paris Grand Boulevards" 122 feet, end the "Andrassy strasse at Budapest 158 city feet wide e" 1 4 |