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--. . .... 7' i:. :' : . iNWft Rft-m ftM mm ill i iiP W , I OBT of the- wedding iwti were fa the ' parlor, in on of t silting wra th hero and . herein. I VI eemer of .tbeValttmg room end . tow,, be weui -MM evemhlng -aid retl thorn la iwthJpg else I ear for I . I .V--'.gr t ..i. J. ;V V7. ' llllMliiTI.;-' ' . v'Of wbatt Oh. nothing much, only ot - each other. Tha room we bareiof furniture, for dancing; aha at M l '.- .. fantatoal. classing her bands around , ' her knees and looking down -at him i and ho aat on a music book, for tb sake of Ala clothes, at the heroine's feat. fo the-'-aaka- of - her.-; A-red-T-":: kadl rlrl and her eaeort were aver ' - in the apposite corner, and aha made complimentary remarks about th heroine In a atasa undertone. The re. K marks were strictly true, but the bero ' ; ina desalted the red-beaded girl and considered them Impertinent; the here considered them superfluous. f "If aha does not atop talking about me," said the heroine, "I shall ga "". V away.- ,; - ... : - .... ' , . : "And punish ma for tha sins of tha . - . red-beaded girl.' tha haro asaad. "wnen -I hare been so good all the avaalngt Thla U almost tha only tuna I hare 1 ' monopolised yaw tonight v Vr -Tea, -but iro'u ' bare been rewarded " by knowing that t wanted ta.tak With ; y.-TOU, instead of tha others." u . r -, drying . to believe that, by myMtt, ; '-Isn't oversatlafactory." 1antAla satisfactory 1" Bar area . r had a slightly hart look in them that waa rery erfeetlre. - , Ha half way reached his hand oat ta here; than . he . remembered tha red headed girl. "It la worth aires or being ; ' good, dear he added softly. "It Is . worth so much that I shan't area tease you to da something whtoa I know yo -"eaa't do which t do wlsa you eouldV "What is hatr It la ta drWe down to tha atatlon ' with ma when tha bride goea away. 1 , , know you oaa't; byt . wouldn't it be Tha heroine aat a mtnate thinking. Tea, It would. be ntoe," aha . said ".slowly, reflecting, "X don't'. suppeae J. oould go.". ' . .. "Oh, oan't your ha orlad eagerly, hope aprlnirlng np whara he had thougbt there waa no room for hope.. ,,. "I must go away , now," aha said, jumping ta her faet. Bb turned aa ah rnched the door. Til sea," she called back. i I " ' - i THM beat known of all Frenchmen Is a prophet' without' honor among hla own people. He la Jules Varna, the ' author - of "Michael Btrogoff," "Around tha World in Blgbty Deya" and "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the ea," htlMone of boys and glrla ta every land have had ' their young minds . stimulated by his healthy writing. Men and women read his book la French, English, , Oerman. . . (Span Inn, Portuguese, ' Dutch, luilan, Sssdlsh, Russian. There are eve Japan ese and Arab .translations df "Around ,s the World la Eighty Days;" and Mme. . Verne shows a vellum bound volume ' In which Persians read the adventure! . of PhUea Fogg. ;- Jule Verne is ft year old; be Is near ly totally' blind! ha' knows that he Is '', puhllahlag hla last books two this year end in spits of the immense success - he "has enjoyed th literary crow he " might reasonably have 1 hoped for has ." beea refueed him. . ..4, '.., . f Julea Verne is not a member, of! the .' French Academy. The forty Immortal i-have not admitted him to- tbelr number. although he be been, proposed fnr .-membership,,.' ; - ' At Amiens they do not speak of this '-thing to visitors. It Is too close to th - brans of the old couple. . Nor does Jules . Verne speak of th gilded Slavery In which he haa lived during the Isst 40 , ;yesr-"-e ulevery peculiarly Parlslaa , (net II t completely paralleled by that , ef th painter Roybet 80m tt years ago .Rojrbet. being young and desperate ' ly in luve, needed a tump ef money and ' a certain prominent picture dalrr hav ' ' Ing rnnndenoe In hla talent, offered him the lamp asm gad 0 much per pietur ' I t. He would Aava f ollowed bar." except that that would not have boon "good," and ha knew ha would lose everything onless he were good. Jt-wae an un fair a-ame: aha eould move , swiftly awav from' him without attracting at tention; whUa he could not" mora after her at alL thoush really a better walker thaa aha, But then, ha had so much more to gain thaa aha. - Ana oy practice he had beoom UoobIo, which la a good thing if ana becomes not so Dhlloeopblo aa to aeem inourer ant and even that haa-ita. .uses. ' " Ha wtfnt Into UK parlor and danced with tha brld. They war very good friends, and, had not his mind been filled with th hero toe. be Would have regretted that ao nioa a girl ahoukl be married. The guests dwindled away few at a time, except some of tha mora tntlmata friends who war going td stay until tha brld went to the- train at I o'clock. By and by the dancang -stopped and some on began to play ptsintlv aire from Heller- "Studies- and Itartha" and part of tha "FMhetM Sonata" which fitted In. tJTha people aat down oa tha sofa 'and- th. chairs, -then footstools, and then on tha floor. Tb brtd nestled down at her father's faet and leaoea against nia aneen, i ranging her dreaa aroand her, 1a the way glrla have to keep it trota getting soUnd, until aba appeared Ilk e fluffy nsutlhia. r "'"v ,-'V" Soma listened ta th masla and aome talked sofUr of the wadding and af th bride's ehaaoea for happlawa. they were those wba had married and lived unhap pily ever after; yet the woman who had suffered most waa tha meet optimis tic To tha bar it aeemed ft long tuna that tha heroine required him to be good. U was really mot unhappy than if ah had not given htm tha hope or driving, in with her; be kept telling uaav mat there - was . not-the faintest chance be waa Pol yc rates throwing his ring Into the sea. ;..':' At last she came and atood basMc him. "I will -com if -X cam," she said In a low tone; then moved ft tep ftway from him. and, raising her voice, spoke of other mat We, for tha room to hear. She. asked blm ana or two questions without getting aa answer; stopped, and looked Inquiringly at him. i ' . . TTou may aa wall go on talking for T fof II years t eome. " Only Hoybet must aeii him all hla product tie mart never eell a. picture to aay other person. Well. 4ale Verne hse been for more than year under a similar ironclad coo tract with the publisher HeeseL Be tween IU and lit he wrote play and libretto fof light opera that had mod erate auceese. Then, la Hetaefe htaga sine of Bducatfoa and Recreation, he ran hi "Five Weeks In a Balloon." It waa a great and immediate success. I a it Jules Verne la now recognised to have created ft new genre, the sdeotlfio and geographical romaaoer and Heteel, the pobllsber, realised It He . proposed : to Verne a contract some say for tt year! ta any ease Verne accepted It In any case be has been bound by It ever elaca And is still bound by it . This year th house Of Hetset publishes ' its annual "twe book by Jules Verne" "The Mas ter of th World" and "A Drama la L4 vonla;"'.. : -'''':. t 1 - Earh year sine lt4 th bouse of H?t-' se has published it .."two books by Jules Verne," : never more, nevo. laaa, la the publishing circles of PkrM they aay that tbey know the salary stipulated by the famous contract It Is 10,000 francs. ItOOO per year. 11 haa never drawn a dollar of copywright. Th Im menss success of 'certain works hsvs furnlsned htm no bssis fr financial cal culation. He has had hiA $4,000 per year aa his right "' ,'-.: " It is said that th lufky' publisher hne been generous with him, nevertheless. He haa mad Jules Vrn many vslusbln pressnts -among them a yacht But this doe not alter the fact that he hs held Jule Verne to hi old contract , In 'Amiens they know ,'Jul'es Verne a ft municipal coanciUor and worthy the gallery." he aaldY 1 to paying ab solutely no attention, except to what you said first; there la nothing else I car (or now If it is only true.", " v ' ' She moved ft step nearer to htm, and stooped down to examine tha feme on the mantelpiece.' "Flees don't look at m Ilka that," aha whispered, "If a soon i ufih a siv'eawav." . ., He dropped his eyes. to hot band af- Tdualy arranging tha feme. 71 muai bc-rgood with my ayes, too. mast IT But It Isn't poUte to gasa at tha ceiling while talking with new don't give tha obvious retort that la that case It would be wiser not to talk." They were stand tag .vary close to gether, aa ' people who examine ferns sometimes do, Bbe raised her eyea te bia; aba who, eould preach aa well had patter practice, for her aeul waa .in her and muck protestation would a -to unsay what her eyea ; ra - . ..... . . 1 ?i She left blm standing1 by the ferns and the candles la front of the mantalpteoa. To him all waa background to her eyea. It and the people and the lights,, and further back the muaio, and even th wedding ceremony Itself. . Us felt aa though he had .been lost and drank up in her eyea s though there remained but the husk of himself, now that hoe Next came the getting ready to drive to the train. Borne men who had waited. half aentl mentally, to ga down with the bride, Dualled about eheerrully, glad of the nearer prospect of . sleep. One of the glrla called te know la what car riage tha heroine was going, and the hero's heart .stopped aa ha waited no hear her answer, certain that aha would not dare, before them all, ta bay that aha waa going with him. But the hero ine was upstair, and the hero kept on telllns himself that at the' laat minnta something would happen to prevent. , At last she came down, 1 There waa a block of various vehicles driving ap to the door, and he asked her In a low tone If aha would baind walking up te where his horse wad Med to ft tree. "He does not stand welt" ha explained. She went With him, disbelieving the exouse, out into the dark beneath tha trees;, and tby drove- down the winding read behind a -Oarton" fun ,0r eheecful men, his horse retired cltlaen -and 'that ta alL Bla three-story, rambling brack' isanslt dominated, by ft peculiar round tower and flanked by ft model ooech boose and stable Is easy to Ond. Passing front the atreet through ft stone-paved eoartyard where two old eoUte dogs son . them selves, you enter the boose by a kind cf oonservetory. 1. .. ; '.. ' Looking st If me. Verne K Was not easy to realise that the oouple cele brated their golden wedding 10 yea ago. Jules Verne, with his careful dress and dignified manner, gives the tmprea-' sion ot ooneervatlv provincial geatle- i "To must be proud that ' many of your predictions nave been reallssd," said his questioner, by way of beginning. "Take the submarine boats , of ' ths French. navy 1 they torpedo at will th transatlantic liners entering and leaving Havre. When 1 we first read your Twenty. Thousand Xeeguea Under the Be' and Ths Mysterious I land' it waa the wildest kind of romance. Also you predicted th automobile. and the dirigi ble balloon. When moot of u were still children. Th automobile, too, la de scribed ta The Steam Horse.' ' Tat tat.t -replied the prophet, "the coincidence r much due te tb fact that when Inventing sdentlflo prodigies I always tried to make things appeer simple and true a possible. All my Hfe 1 have been a great note taker add subscriber to nrwpapers, nmgaslnee. reviews sod scientific reports. My story of 'Brrew Island' was suggested by a paragrapn in an American ftinday paper, thoush it embodied a set ef Meea I had been turning in my mind for years; T The action take place en a kind of floating Uland, an All actio liner magnified lt,-i . j- ?ri. i -,. - - - . a 1 i 1 11 1 1 mr hi t -i f ' ) ' plunging and trying io, run, " t rem " bis long wait la the cool air.. . " "It waa true, you; sea, yod boy of lit tle faith." . ; ',. ..k-'. .; ; -"And now J can look. at. you la th starlight without fear and without re proach or rather without fear, of 1 preach," ' ' '' " ". "No, you oan't. I can look. at. you In the starlight; but you, poor thing, have te be circumspect, aa though there were doaen people around, because the road la narrow and oa your, driving depends the unbrokennosa of two very nlo necks end It's ao oaromastlc te break a girl's They trotted swiftly along tha ama eos, undeleting road. On the left, the dark, wooded hiOe rose steeply from the edge ef .the , road, while en the right the meadow, three or foer feet, below them, invited en easy Upaet. The red Piedmont clay makes night driving an affair ef keen sight, not reflecting that glimmer ef light which dirt er .pavel roada da. Providence has wisely given the red reads te tha south, where such obstaeiee to social iaterooarse are not eoaaldered. " The heroin held the hero's left hand between hers. At times he had ta snatch It suddenly away to aave them from driving over the edge ef eft un protected bridge or down Into ft more than usually encroaching dltcb; for driving a not over well broken horse with one hand requires more oar thaa the bore waa willing ta give, when the heroine . waa - beside, hiss. - The ' Stars above them gave that light more clear and unearthly thaa any ssoonllght; and for ft time the her wag -oofltenL ' Wnen they got oat on th eeuntry rood be no longer had te pay ft maoh attention te the hat a He looked at her. pure, star lit face beside him, and, onoa or twice be leaned toward her Oil bla cheek touched here. . "Some one will see. she said gently. bat not too ring from Blm. ; 09 tUa, ounliif th whole popcia- -It will MPPM secae day," tnUrJected Ifm, Vera, .--'; ' '. "Round the VTotld In Eighty Day waa the result of reading a tourist ad' vertlaameht la aa Ajtsericaa paper. It meatlooed that nowadays'lt was years agoti 'one getght travel roand the world ta seeaetbing nke that abort, spao of tln)i and It at enee flaahed on me that ft traveler profiting by the difference In the meridian, ooald be made to loo or galh ft day. Polices Fogg, owing to hid oiroomstaaoe, arrived ro London la Use to win bis bet aft be had lm- aaiaed ari waa loot"' v . "I work best In my little bare room." said JTulea Verne. "I writ from Ian, until noon, when X take lunch and my day's work la finished, , I must admit that I do a lot ef my work, with tha proof, in hand thank to the klndnee of my publisher, who gives me unlimited revise. A I get up early I go to bed earty. I am asleep at p. m. . , - ... "I begin-with ft rough draft Which states what th story la to be its be ginning, middle and end. Aa I usually have twe of three stories under way at tha same time. X ean awiteh from on t anethw when I; get tired. It ia a valuable plan for aay. writer who would produoe his maximum. Sosm times I am two years ahead of my contract - -- "When the preliminary draft la done, I draw up ft plaa of chapters, naming them, and begin tha first rough copy of the book In pencil. When It Is finished I rewrite It In Ink-end then the- real work begin wltn th first revise from tb printer. Somehow I cannot get a real grip oft my subject until. I see it Ip print" , . ; , . 'k ' . 1 ' t .'. . Mlsylaesd Oeafldeae." ' t praised Jane beauty and Amanda's " wit; . -. - Cach told U other; now I'm out of It ' '' ... -'- - ( o-FTOnt "Please, tna'anv how good do you think people sight Is?" he asked. "But It urtftttlng llghterf in -protested, .-,: ..;: .-v ;"Ts, J axpect the moon la beginning te rise I shall have to drive a little more alowlyr . f : , "O-hr she laughed; 1 wlah X hadn't spoken."--: ', ..-,.,.... A long hill wss before them, and when they: got t the top they saw the wan ing moon Just rising la the east and dimming the stars. "And yea ere oomlng back with me, too, aren't yor he asked, when they were half way to town. "Why are pea never eeetntTK sh reproached him. "When you have some thing, you are always worrying ' about something else." .: - .. ' , "But you will, wtMft rear b per sisted. - . .v ... ':;. "Plsaa.dont ask met Ho. t don't be lieve I can. There -will be plenty -of rooa Is the trap, and It would be silly for yoa to drive 'way oat In tha oountry again with mm" It wee the bitter In the sweet, ' the thought of this drive back which he eould net. have. It in ft way spoiled the present for hlav and yet in a wey also it made every moment with her Inex pressibly dear.v He pleaded moot of tb rest ef the war te be allowed to drive her bomeT but she would hot promise. "It would look so, she aaid. which is ft strong argument with gtrL Just before they '. got to the station, sh yielded ft little, - "Well If t ean without its seeming funny, I will," she said re- lactaatly; and with that he bad small nope..... V' . - ' y " Tha train waa lata as in niani train In Virginia always Is when any one la 7 going sway. The bride sat on ft bench, near the stove, which tempered the chill of the October night.' The other girls clustered around ber. sitting down and getting up agaia to stray off Into the corners of .the room with the men. At TBROVAL LANDON haa shared La? with ft handf I of men a unique W axperienoe. He has seear with his "i eyes ft sight at one re remand beau tiful. The Europeaas who have vlaited Lhasa may be counted on one's lingers. and not on of them haa possessed either the observation or th tnielligenoe which might have enabled him to impart th snisndor of his vision to othsra. Here I a picture of the starting place: ," Naoll-para slowly heaves In sight Just where ft belt of trees slant Inward to the track! ft mile further on the road plunges into the great Balkuntpuaal for est A country bullock cart, wit Wbu ing wheels, jolts very slowly la front haloed in a cloud of dust - Ths driver ia asleeo. end the Also settle Spectaflle- wise around the sore eyelids . of the edau beast. ' But despite ths Wonder Of the road and the luxuriance ef Ah . Himalayan 0 ewers, there were desperate hardship which the mission had to face. Hot the least of these la mountain sickness. "It tha should eome upoa you," aay Mr. Laadon, "you, bitterest enemy w'll lend, year bores for you." The symptoms are those of habitual drunkenness. "All ths limbs shiver," again we quote, "an In the bloodless fees the syes hav that extraordinary look- of Insanity, which 1ST I. think, ruute.1 by an, Inability to f ecu - fhent. '! ?ech come with difficulty, and in en case, that t saw th mental coherence was aabvloualy at fault as th physical." - Indeed, from beginning to end, the real enemy was fTlbet not tb Tibetans. The trouble at Q urn, the intermittent defense, were s nothing compered with th bad road. tha appalling cold,- and the sever' am tod. But Mr. London, at any rate. J, -', ' V f . ' - '"f ' , f ' I , , " 1 - ' ' I , " -, tlmee couples 'went Out on the platform to see whether the train, we coonlng, and to watch the- moon and the 'long shsdpVe It eaat aeroee the oountry. - The bride and the' heroine eat all the time together,, lovlhg each1 other girls do on , mournful occasion. : The heaolne.waa the only one of the girls who didn't Waader off; and she stayed partly because, the bride eared for her more thaa she did for any of the others, but more because she had driven la with' the hero and felt as If she must do pen ance for that' The hero atood la front of them, that th electsto light might not able into their eyes. ' This .was kind of him, slnoe he wsated to eee the heroine' a eyea; but he waa willing to do anythlag to earn the drive home. . ... The three happened to be alone one and he resolved to risk everything oa on throw.. - ' "I wlah to ask you something" be leaned toward the bridge. "Mayn't I drive her homef" . l 'Obi but that's absurd," quickly In terposed the heroine, "to take yoa ell that .way out into tha oountry again, when I con Just aa welt aa not go back In tha trap with (the others." . . -' , Then the hero we a glad be bed not awaited the couree of event. He paid no ettentlon to the heroine's disclaimer: th bride wa hla frieod, and fee felt that ahe would understand. .- ;-- V' , .."Mayn't ir he asked again, "ToWre a nice married lady new. and ean say.' -rWby. yee .. Tha bride broke Offend tamed to the heroine.: "Do yoa want to go with hlmT" aha (emended. ) It waa a 'critical moment Tb hero eared, not glance at the heroine. Hla eyea would have implored too mush, and others might See the Imploring, and then ahe certainly would aay na .. .. For Just an instant h nasi ta ten Then quite ' nsturaliy b ' answered. "Tea, I think I should like to go with him." ' ' ..( ' ' U , ! '- ' always found something td amuse hla eye and . bla brain. Here ia ft typical passage which ahow ua Oy angle at midday:-) r t. 1. . Uadr foot th dwarf elematt anala In from the midday beat IU black snake head flowers, and th young shoots of the Jasmine tarn the baoka of tbelr ten dr leaflata to th sun. drooping a little as they do so. , Veronica la ' there li stunted tittle bushes: vetches, tast-hsr rows, and dwarf indigo plants swarm along the eldee of the long, dry water Channels, and here nd there, where the ditch rune steep, you may. And, along towards the southern, face, - what ' looks for, all ths world like a thickly strewn bank of vloleta. ' . r ., ... -But let It not be thought '.that It is nature elon which enchants Mr. Leu don. He haa a 'quick sense of what la gruaaom and thr wa ptenty f ma terial WBrrenn te exercise that'Oenee. Thla I What he says la th most uri- tanny thing he saw In all Tibet He wsa Visiting the sanctuary ef Nyen-de kyi-buk- abd the acolyte who attended me bddoi isppeo tpree iimee anarpiy on a stone slab. ". - - After a minute's pause, says tit. Lan- don, the stone moved, or tried te move, but It came to rest asaln. Then verr slowly and uncertainly it was pushod neck ana a black chaam was revealed. There waa again a psuse Of 10 seconds, during which Imagination ran riot but I do not think that any ether thing eould hav been as intensely pethetlo as thsc which we sctusllyasw. A hand, mufrted In a tightly-wound Piece Of dirty cloth. like the stump of an arm, wss painfully thrust up, and very weakly It felt along the slab. After a fruitless fumbling ths hand lwly quivered back Utth dark ) ,: :: . ..; : ; - r . ', t r, y. ..; ? v ffh got op. and ftood fey the stove aa some of the mooa-gasers came In. - "Then It la all settled T h said la an Himnnw. .... ... .... i She noddad. moved slightly away from htm and talked te otlera with vivacity. Th hard knew the safest way now waa to act a though there were only one oouro . open.. .He thought i the - train would never pome, and when It. came, it did not hasta away, but loitered about, puffing and panting Ilk a brokea-winded Old bore that haa been" overdriven. - When the heroine ; waa aafe ' In . : the hero's buckbord. at list, he sighed. .. "That was ucb a algh, aha aaid. : "Now "J am ; pert ocUy' happy," he aaid. v V; " ' V ': " - "Are you,; desrT" aba ang.weredVlX don't believe I have; ever seen you per-, fectly happy before. It's worth some tniflr to make you so." - "he-put out her hand nd took hla again; and he gav It, .though, there were still corner, to turn.. He was willing to drivs by faith; The trap took the other road, and for a time the heroine did not even worry lest they should not get home as soon aa iC YTbe splendor of the moon - de scended on them. , Late' as the' hour Was, there waa not yet the feel of morn ing that, earlier Id the summer, ao aoon thaeea tba eJorlou night away. 'When the road dipped into the hollows it was." cool ao cool that the hero oouoieo in rug and wrapped it all around the hero Ine'a knees end she did not protest at hla depriving himself, but leaned, a lit tle more toward blm and thanked him. The boras traveled steadily along. He aeemed to know that thla waa one of the ttmee when a horse ehould ahow hla sa gacity.; up the long bill, into the upper air, the horse walked. "We are going very slowly," ' the hero- lna aaid. ' - ,. - . . "Ye.'' h answered; and sh aaid bo more, r .i ' "" ' The moonlit landscape stretched, out at tbelr feet; It waa bard to believe that anything sordid or wicked could exist amid auoh beaut)-. The hero, turned to the herolnei . .' - ' "It aeema to me now. dear, aa It oven If We were piarrted. I should be satisfied with this. I don't suppose t ahoukl, but it seems to tonight" he did not answer) she only preoe(PM a tittle eloeer to her besom the hand she held in here.. Tha horse began of hla own accord to trot down the other aide of the hill, and the hero let the reins flap en his bsck.' . - "guch a night a thla,', dearest, la worth dying for; It would make a life worth having lived." Hi vole waa s low that ah oould hardly hear him. "Tes," she answered. . '-' . i Far below, where the two roads cams together, tbey eould hear tha trad and the hoof -beau of the boreee. ' i -- "We must hurry a little now," ahe aid, turning to him. ' Hs slsDoed the reins on the horse's back and th horse Jumped, forward and clattered down tne mu. ness. 1 . Once a day water -and an unleavened pake-of flour , la placed for ; the prisoner upon that - slab, the signal la given; and he may take it la His divers toe I over for the day. ' To be sure, it la uncanny, and an epi sode which Edgar Poa might have em broidered with a malign fancy. . , , The oilman of th narrative, of course, Is the approach to Lhasa, and Mr, Lan don doea net miss his opportunity. Ia a few pages, now eloquent now rhetori cal, be describes his ftret sight of the city which, o few tranters had aver beheld, and which had for oenturieo re mained place of dree at. 'There th greet palao f tb god-kmg waa, and ft shaft or two of light from the golden canopiee bamed whitely upon us for a; few yards aa we went" Lhasa Itself, perhaps, proved something of a dlaait- . polntmsnt Hew should tt aot, when the baffled- eyee -of -eneny- gerattona. Juvt. beea strained towards Iteelf T But from the picture which Mr.' London give of the Petal a., It must aurely be One of the most dlgnlfled buildings , la - the world. Inside It la nothing. . Outside it is eomperable with th Aero poll or th Alhambra. r - , . ' From the Chicago Journal. -The lae ot the Atlantic waves haa been carefully measured for th Wash ington nydrographm bureau. ' In heisht - the waves usually average about I feet but In rough weather they attain from 4 to 41 feet During eterma the ara of tea from (00 te 0b feet long and last 10 or 11 seconds, while the largest vet known measured half mile and 'did ' aot spend Iteelf for U eooad '," - :',' .,. .f t v.:-f
