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Show Far out at aea, thirty miles away, 1 great tongue of fire darted up fro the bosom of Krakatoa! a a e ' - the heart of Conrad Dunlow, hell burned In the bosom of If beaven waa In Antonio Menzada, the In vain the girl assured Spaniard. him that she could never love him be would not be denied. With frenzied jealousy be watched her growing Interest in the young officer, and warned her, in noteafter note, that he would brook no rivalry. Sht scorned to answer, and bade the serWhen vants refuse blm admittance. she told Conrad, he laughed, as he laughed at everything. That very morning Antonios worst fears hsd been confirmed. A malicious servant from the villa told him of Vivien's betrothal to the English man, and then fled for life before the demon he had aroused. There was nothing generous or great in Antonio at any time, and now hit whole being wae concentrated upon one idea revenge! Antonio's stiletto glittered as he let tho sunlight tall upon It H was the only eon of a rich coffee planter, and had never known a wish To be foiled in the suungratifled. preme desire of his life was more than he could beer. To tear the girl from her lover waa now hla one thought and U possessed his soul like a devil. The bearer of evil tidings wae gone. alone.-- A He stood upon the-shLttle boat rocked Idly on the waves. He untied it jumped in. and seized the oars. A few minutes brought him to a vantage point, whence he might survey the Americans Villa. It waa M old trick of hla With the aid of a small glass, he singled them out in tie little group upon the veranda. Tie over, he saw the youig couple wander away, through the tt&n garden out into the screening foliage of the woods. With clenched teeth and muttered curses, he turned (he boat toward shore, conscious of pe keen stiletto by his side as of a llvg presence. He had nearly gained the shore.! A few more strokes and he would be within reach of vengeance. What vns the matter with his arms! Strive sad strain as he might, he could sot one inch. His muscles stood out like knotted iron, but their strength was useless now. Slowly, the boat was dragged backward as by an unseen cable. A greet hissing roar became audible, and looking up at last he saw a long Una d fire rising from the very bosom of the sea and extending even to Krakatoa Itself! The ocean was pouring ltd whole volume Into the, abysmal fires that yet were not extinguished, and on th crest of that awful and majestic cataract Ms little boat whirled on to doom. The cowering wretch sank down and bid his face. The tremendous roar of the waters drowned out hit Re frenzied prayers and curses. strove to make the sign of the cross in the cold sweat on bis brow. f la that' inferno of" waters, hla now senseless body was drowned ant crushed, beaten and burned. Into its ( elemental atoms. dark-brow- Oxmi Safari P 'PW H3H 2 nui to Him. Out of Hi multitude of light "Wilt leave the gloria of Mr throne MMlnt.hlr ft 16117 - y known youth to ace With yonder human from heritage? To rm ir" fr warfare ahalt thou go know year aonowa. foeareetlng and fear " wil.iroil,h ortl th With .C To etna T'L ., hih ath my i per!! a therempriae. eje' proudly pact 8haU crown me victor at the iaat' soul, one raldn,ht late. humbly at th heaven gate. klm and broken VV downcaat head before theaword Lord "'ked .ln,d "Throuchmlat and atorm. Thy will Wltneaa my wound that I have fought: trt nerco Alu I bring no triumph ong!and long. Nor wiles I hsd nor countermines Against ths cunning Fos s designs wors-sn- y can strength U epenW Bid me, disgraced, to banishment Then did the Lord upon Hm breast soul to rest. T.I Thou strlyest bleeding well, roy child." said He i pake not aught of victory!" I LifidO PT eJ ore ng Crashing, a Scorpion. BY REBECCA L. FRIPP. (Copyright, 1900, by Dally Story Pub Co ) It was the year 1883, that memorable year which did more to change the geography of the South Sea archipelago than ever Napoleon did to change the map of Europe. At the time of which I write, the city of Anjer, with lta 60,000 souls, still rested in fancied security upon the shores of the Java. For three months the solid earth had been trembling and Krakatoa had set aglow a lamp which went out neither night nor day. The people bad grown used to it They did not shriek now, nor start up in terror when the rhythmic tremor of the earthquake set the windows rattling. Bah! It was As for nothing a mere undulation. Krakatoa the - old -- mountain - would burn Itself out, and then there would he an end of all this. The ordinary avocations of life were resumed-r- at morn the fishing boats set sail, at eve - they anchored In the bay. . On the hlUaldg, g jnile pr two inland,! number (Europeans had set their beautiful and comfortable villas, thus escaping the Intense heat and deadly malaria of the lowlands. Here they lived sumptuously In the midst of a cosmopolitan civilisation with all that wealth could lend to mitigate, the pangs of exile. They, too, had grown heedless of the unnatural conditions Krakatoa had broken out In May. It and all that time was now the warning had not ceased to be heard In the dull rumble of the earthquake. It was the morning of the 12th of August, a glowing, Sabbath morning. The foreigners were sipping early tea on their verandas. Gorgeous, bewildering In it lavish profusion of beauty, the tropical landscape lay before them, the dew still glittering on the rich and varied foliage of the undergrowth. Great tropical flowers glowed like many colored lamps In shadowy recesses under giant palms. A young girl and a young man came strolling leisurely down a little path almost hidden In the dense shrubbery. of Anglo-Saxo- n They were unmistakably blood. The girl was very beautiful, with the pallid, fragile beauty of ne who had long languished under the influence of an enervating climate. There was no healthy color In her lovely, pval face, though sometimes It flushed like a June rose as her companion whispered something for her ear alone. The man was of a different typerhiswas a mature youlE He mid-Augu- st, ng girl and 1 young man. baps thirty years of age, tail, He ned and sturdily built and respon-th- at ilr of sat well upon Mm a ian in every way ha seemed. of Irl was the eldest daughter merlcan merchant whose Palis dominated the height above rbe man was a member of the present Geological Survey, at lnvestl-i I In Java In order to recent seismic disturbances. self-relian- I It was but natural that he should spend much of his spare time at the Americans hospitable home, To a man wearied with wandering in many lands, it was like a bit of Eden. It waa but natural, too, that be should lose his heart to the loveliest of tha lovely daughters of that Eden, although to her It Beemed a strange and wonderful thing. It was a short wooing, whose end was from the beginning. The glory of first love lay around the girl; her footsteps trod in an enchanted land. As for him, no one else, he told himself, had ever filled his i ce HOW ASTRONOMERS . . . or MEASURE STARLIGHT (Cambridge, Mass , Letter.) , of the most important and Interring departments of astronomy a n as one of the least known the measurement and recording of the comparative magnitude of (he stare a task which has been carried on, doubtless, since the beginning t astronomical science. In this reck-ala- g of magnitude, which is known photometry the measurement, that A of starlight it ts interesting to ( that an American astronomical CktblUhment stands among the first. If sot as the very first In the world, photometry having been for years one Qt ths principal subjects taken up by the Harvard Observatory, both tn Csmbridge and at Arequlpa, Peru,. and ths results of the work which it has Accomplished having been accepted as pttodard all over the world. ' Jha drat star catalogue, giving 1,080 was published by Hipparchus In Hjtfear 125 B. C. It has come down this through Ptolemy of Alexandria, nearly 300 years later, in1' 140 A. B.( produced hla "Megale Syntaxla th Almagest" of the Arabian - and Hrtah astronomers which, either fllrwtly or through the corrected catalogue that was based on it by the Perries astronomer, the world's standard until Hluih Bletgh brought out a new catalogs? at Samaracand about 1450 A. D. famous catalogue of Tycho Brahe -- tlie hut of the mediaeval or the first of ths modern astronomers in 1580, with the Meridian Photometer During 2 the Years a massive volume giving a list of 4260 atari in the northern eky visible to the naked eye in the latitude of Cambridge, and Intended to Include all stare pot fainter than the sixth magnitude between the North Pole and thirty degrees south of the celestial equator. To this original list another. Volume XXIV. of the Annala, has aince been added. Technically such a piece of work la called a Uranometrla or catalogue of "naked-ey- e stars. The similar work produced by Professor Pritchard at Oxford, for example, containing the magnitudes of 1784 stars thus observed, was entitled Uranometrla, Nova Oxonlen-si- s. The Harvard Uranometrla waa so elaborate and so accurately done that It has been practically accepted everywhere, and the magnitude of all new stars given on the Harvard scale. A striking illustration of the use to which It is now put occurred last spring when the new star appeared tn the constellation Perseus. Among the observers who gave their results on tha Harvard scale were Ntjland and Gyttentrkold of SwedenPerelra of tbs Portuguese observatory In ths A sores, the staffs of tbs British Astronomical Association and the Astronomical Society of France and the officers of ths Radcllffe Observatory at Oxford, as well as practically all American astronomers. . As would be supposed. It takes a trained eye to notice ths finer differences in star magnitudes. On the modern scale a first magnitude star would be expressed aa ranging from 0.50 to 1 60, a second magnitude star from 1.50 to 2 50, and bo on. For Castor, which was measured as 156 In the H. P.. would be called of ths second magnitude, while Its twin star, Pollux, the brighter of ths Gemini, is a first magnitude star, measured as 1.12. The Pole Star Itself Is a star of the second magnitude, its measurement being 2.15. Tbe six brighter stars in the Pleiades are all of the second and third magnitudes, as One popu-Urlr-- 1879-188- U (, al-W- as last important cataogue product without the aid of the telescope. ICjparchus and Ptolemy arranged the itars in six classes, the first class comjrlslng the brightest about twenty li all while the sixth class those which could just be made out the naked eye After the came into general use magnitude! were , extended downward , as fainter stars were brought into view Was ths coa-ta!- ne tele-pco-ps by ths Increasing power of the Instrument! employed. For many years bach astronomer used his own scale, Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope ea- - n indicated by a couple of anecdotes. A ' money lender once advanced blm for which, first and last, be paid 1 1,000, This person, he says, became so lyueh attached to him as to pay a daily vfilt at hia office and exhort Mm to Jf punctual, "These visits were very terrible and can hardly have been of service tp me In the office. This mild remark applies also to tbe visits from the mother of a young woman in ths country who had fallen in love with blm. and to wrbom he "lacked the pluck to give s decided negative." The mother used to appear with a basket on her arm and an immense bonnet upon her head, and inquire In a loud voice, before all hla companions, HAnthony Trollope, when are you going to marry my daughter?" No wonder that he waa miserable; he waa hopelessly In debt, and often unable to pay for a dinner; he hated hia work, he says, and hs hated his idleness; he quarreled with hia aDpertors, who thought him hopelessly incapable, and felt that he waa sinking "to the lowest pUa," At last he heard of a plaes la ths Irish postoffice, which everybody despised, and was successful on applying for It. because his masters were so glad to get rid of him. At ths asm time, they informed his new superior that he would probably have to be dismissed on the first opportunity. Na- 0. tional Review. HOW THE CHINESE GET RAIN. Practice la Vogee Cclmllet Kingdom. la Ike tt la one of tbe peculiarities of the Chinese that, while they have developed elaborate philosophies, nous of them has led to any confidence In the uniformity of nature. Neither the people nor thelf rulers have any fixed opinion aa to tbe causes of raln-fat- l. The plan In some provinces when the need of rain is felt is to borrow a god from a neighboring district and petition Mm tor the desired result If hia answer is unsatisfactory he la returned e w From the commanding height above supporting the fainting girl in his arms, Conrad Dunlow watched wHh fascinated horror the scene below He saw the fishing boats drawn one by one into the fiery whirlpool, and knew not that in one of them, a scorpion lay A long line of fire, crushed. heart before no one else had realized There came a mighty roar, a univerthe ideal of his dreams. He was as In sal crash at of a world In dissolution. toxicated with her beauty and grace as The air grew black around him. He any boy might have been. To find her closed bis eyes for one instant, and here, in this out of the world place, it when he looked again, the city of Anwas like the fairy stories of his almost jer, with its 60,000 souls, was gone, and torgotten childhood. She was like a the hungry waves of ocean bellowed rare songbird that had flown out of at Ms feet , this little world of flowers to blossom in his heart. He laughed at himself The Orara of Colombo. he had a trick of laughing when he Christopher Columbus, tbe discoverer did not care to analyze a thought too of America, died at Valladolid, Spain, deeply. He did not want to go beyond May 20, 1506, and was burled there; hut his love and happiness today. He in 1513 his remains were removed 'to would let no vision of his haughty Seville, whence, in 1536, with those of English mother disturb him; nor did his son , Diego, they were taken to he pause to consider the difficulties of Santo Domingo, In Hispaniola, now his chosen career today here, tomorknown as the Island of Hay-t- l. commonly row at the other end of the world. In 1796 they were, it ia stated, What business had he with a. wife! transferred to the Cathedral at HaLove paused. not at such questions. but there la some reason to bevana; Family pride, interest, ambition, were lieve that by mistake it waa the bones meaningless words before the deeper of the son Diego and not those of his reality of this. Love alone was life. Sud- father which were removed on that denly, across the path, a little reptile occasion. At present dthLHavana- darted. The girl sprang hack Santa claim his ashes Domingo and lng, "A scorpion!" she cried. treasure. their Her lover laughed, and aimed a careless blow with the knotted stick he . Raflactioa tawelrona carried, but before it could descend Clara Well, aunt, have your photoa great atone, loosened perhaps by ah earthquake tremor, went rolling down graphs come from Mr. Snappeschottes? Miss Maydeval (angrily) Ye, and and crushed the creature to atoms. It was a trifling incident, unworthy they went back, too, with a note exof mention, but the girl waa strangely pressing my opinion of his Impudence. Clara Gracious 1 What was It? Miss shaken. "It meant to sting you," she declared Maydeval Why, on the back of every with trembling lips picture were these words; "The orig"Even so. Sweetheart, he answered inal of this ia carefully preserved." lightly, ' Indulgently. "Yon see the Stray Stories. devil takes care of bia own." "How can you!" she protested, the Death la a Moaqulto'a SUng. A mosquito caused the death of Mrs. Indignant color flashing In her face. "It is a poor subject for a Jest The Anna Lawler of Elizabeth, N. J. A sting of the scorpion is death." few weeks ago she waa stung by the I know I know; but .Vivian, insect on the ankle and blood poisonSweetheart, I am too happy to be se- ing followed. On a recent Tuesday abe rious about life or death. ' Let me waa burled. laugh while I can. When- I get yon . ever-- la England, away from this sad of Gold. Imports Exports beastly malaria, you'll laugh, too. I In 1696 we sent abroad t79,000,00 want to show you to my cousins. Yon more of gold than we received; In 1898 will be like a lily among red rotes." we received 3104,000,000 more than we Ske shivered in the warm air and In 1899, 151,000,000 more; last sent; drew closer to him. excess of exports waa 33,633,-67- 5. "Let ne go back, she said, abrupt- year the ly; "it la growing hot, and the for Btamga ground, how it is shaking! . Will these awful earthquakes never end!" Flat dweller Say, we had a robbery Below them the city of Anjer lay In our hotel last nlgbt Detective So la its Sabbath rtpose. In the bay, the I've been told. I am working on it empty fishing boats were anchored. nohr. Flat dweller Say! Ill giro yea ld It was all very beeutlful and peaceful. (10 if you'll arrest tbe Janitor. "Look!" cried the geologist. Journal. bir Som-arrll- OBSERVING END OF HARVARDS LARGEST PHOTOMETER. SHOWIN G THE HOOD FOR THE OBSERVER 1 AND THE TABLE AT WHICH THE ASSISTANT TAKES DOWN THE M EASUREMENTS. peclaly using very high numbers a tsndeicy that baa been so reduced since lie time that his twentieth magnitude la very nearly the fourteenth on the scale now generally employed. This sale more closely, corresponds sith thd of Argelander, the great German aifhor of the "Durchmusterung" Tjnactahgueftbtrstarz ftrthr northera hexvens, which enumerates over 324,000 itars, the largest number yet catalogued. Each nagnltude, of course, has Its typical stars to which the others piay he convteiStly referred. -- The stars which do not exactly correspond in magnitude with a typical star are ex pressed in fractional terra of being nearest magnitudes, decimal imually employed, although Ptolemy and even Argelander used thirds. Employing the decimal system, a star of 5.4 magnitude will be a shade brighter than a star of 5.6 and so on. An exception is that certain start, such as A return and Sirius, and the planet Jupiter when at it brightest, are more than a magnitude brighterthMr stars of the first magnitude, Aldebar-afor example, and are therefore expressed in negative magnitudes, that to T, thfT are preceded by the minus sign. Jupiter, for instance, approaches almost the second negative magnitude minus 2 or Is sixteen time brighter than a star of th first magnitude. It 1 significant o'yfthe great accomplishment of American astronomy that there was no ttnWersally accepted system of photometry until the publication of whst is now known as th Harvard Photometry th "H. p. , as It Is familiarly called by astronomers This was contained in volume XTV. of the Annals of the Harvard Observatory, under the title of "Obaervatlona n, I, V are those In the Dipper. The upper star of th two "polntera In th Dipper that is to say the star on the lip the 'hanopposite dle has a measurement of 1.96 In tbq Harvard Photometry. The pointer below has a measurement of 2 60, which would carry It Into the third magni- lar tud?rThe-hlhfF"bottoiakof the Dipper has a measurement of 2.56, and the star st the junction of tbe handle approaches the fourth magnitude, having a measurement of only 3.41, while the star next to It draws near the first magnitude, with s measurement of 1.85. The next star in the Dipper, the second from the end, is really a double star, but the measurement of tbe two together gives 2.38, while the end star of all is almost a typical second magnitude star, having a measurement of 2.02. v ' ANTH0NY Hia TROLLOPE'S YOUTH. Outlook While oa a foatofllco Clerk, Id promlalnf Work-la- g Anthony Trollopesstart In Ilfs was unpromising. As he knew no languages, ancient or modern, he became classical usher st a school In Brussels, with tbs promise At a commission la the Austrian army. Then he was suddenly transferred to a clerkship in the London postoffice. He was disqualified for the new position by general Ignorance and special lncs parity for A vague the simplest arithmltlc. threat that he must pass an examination waa forgotten before It was put Into execution, and Trollope characteristically takes occasion to denounce the system of competitive examination by which he would have been excluded. Meanwhile he was turned loose tn London, and attempted to live a gentleman on 450 ayearv The result! are to hla home with every mark of honor; otherwise he may be put out la the sun, as a hint to wake up and do his duty. A bunch of willow is usually Ahrust Into his hand aa will he sensitive to moisture Another plan In extensive - use ia th building, of special temple la which are well containing several Iron tablets. When (bore Is a scarcity of rain a messenger starts out with a tablet, marked with the date of the journey and the name of the district making the petition. Arriving at another city he paya a sum of money and is allowed to draw a new tablet from the well, throwing in Ms own by way of exchange. Oa thf return Journey he is supposed to eat only bran and travel at top speed day and night Prayers are usually made lu the fifth and sixth month when the rainfall is always due, and a limit of ten days Is set for their effective operation. Under such condition rain usually Jails during the prescribed time. When prayers are la progress the umbrella, among other objects, comes under the ban. In some provinces foreigners are mobbed for carrying this harmless article at that time. Detroit Free Press. V lcion Politic Affect the School. tn th large cities of this country there are more than 10,000 children who cannot receive tbe benefits of th public schools because there are sot Even Boston, tha enough buildings best equipped of American cities, needs 27 more buildings. The showing in all cities this fall is worss than evtr. Tbe accommodations hare not kept pace with the increase In population. It Is a disgrace to us all, and, a usual, It has Its explanation in poliWhat our cities need is fewer tics. officeholders and more school teachers, Saturday Evening Post. -- |
