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A bjolute Zero ¿A Br Frank. Lillie Tollock ( opMrighl. UM.. by »unX LdlU PuUock E ♦ a couple of Intermediate pulleys to a small galvanized iron house litfr yards away. _ tied the borse» uuder the pines, and Gleuny led the way to the louse, There seemed «> li«ng betag about the valley, una he uulocked (fie strongly fastened ftoor The single room seemed to have been designed partly as a labonfftory and partly as a dwelling place. TtieM' was an lrou bed with other domestic ar ruugements at one side, while along the other, under three large windows, ran a long bene«littered with strange Instruments In brass and glass, quite Incomprehensible to me. Disaster fleem- ed to have been there, however. Some of the apparatus wus broken, and frag ments of glass had been actually melt ed Into little (tools ou the burned table. “Nothing here,” said Glenny impa tiently. "This la Just my workshop. Step ou here, and we’ll go below.” Then I observed that the center of the floor was a movable platform like that of a freight elevator. Glenny bad lighted a long candle and guve It to me to hold while be manipulated the rope that controlled the counterpoise, and we went down down a dark shaft twenty or thirty feet. Then the earth walls changed to stone, and in two minutes we touched the bottom. We were tn u chamber perhaps fif teen feet square, hewn and blasted from the solid rock. At one side stood a small table holding physical appa ratus, among which I noticed a num ber of delicate thermometers, An Iron shaft ran down, apparently from the room above, and connected with a small and complicated looking ma chine in a corner. Close to this was a boxlike trench, resembling a shullow grave, cut In tlie rock floor. Its mas sive metal lid wus raised, and in the cavity lay some long object covered with a blanket. “That,” said Glenny solemnly, "is my evil angel." “It looks very harmless.” I said, more carelessly than I felt, and pulled off the cloth. I shall never forget the shock. I hardly know what I had expected to find—perhaps a corpse. But there lay a marvelous statue of a man in solid gold, a little less than life size and somewhat spongy looking, but abso lutely perfect. Every hair, every thread of the clothing was duplicated In the precious metal thut glittered In the candlelight. But at the moment 1 scarcely realized the miracle of its workmanship and material, for the form and features were those of Au gustus Keurnahan. "In heaven’s name,” I ejaculated, "is this a mine? Do you mean to say that you cast that statue yourself? Do you know that it's the most wonderful thing ever done?” "1 dare say,” said Glenny. “I knew you wouldn't believe unless you saw it. But It Isn’t a statue. It can’t be called anything but a corpse—at any rate it’s all that remains of the man. Do you know him?" "I know the face,” I cried. "But this is gold.” "Yes,” he said. “I’ll tell you all about it. I wanted you to see for your self. You probably didn’t know that I was once something of a cracksman, did you?” "I certainly did not.” “It was before I was twenty, nnd I was quite a success at it. That wus how I came to know him,” pointing at the golden Image that regarded the roof with a yellow stare. "He kept a gam bling house la New Orleans then, ami one night I tried to get into his safe with some tools of my owq invention. |OR many years Mr. Augustus I Kearnahan hud been h guiding I wheel In the "I'lachlne" that ____ | misgoverned onM of tlie long suffering cities of the middle west. The jiollce department wus his, and be used It much as a German baron of old might huve used his mercenaries, but his end wus at hand. The munici pal elections were neur, and the cltl- Zi'iis' reform league wus straining every nerve to put up a decent ticket, and Incidentally (and successfully) to collect evidences of the misdoings of tlie present holders of office. It was In this latter work that I had part, uctlng as one of the league's upeclul detectives, for which I was qualified by some experience with the government secret service. It wus uot long before we found good reason to sus|H*ct a most astonishing state of tilings; Kearnuiian himself seemed to huve been in actual collusion with one or more gangs of "high class” safe blowers and counterfeiters. As yet we laud not sufficient proof to convict or even to serve as a campaign weapon, so we preserved an awful silence and had our man shadowed wherever he went I'll us, when he left town, ostensibly for St. Louis, 1 was detailed to follow him. lie spent several hours most In nocently In thut city, and then took u ticket for Denver, still in my unsus pected company. As we left the depot at the destination, however, I lost him in some unuccountable manner and could not pick up the trail. I could not well call on the local detectives for help, but I went through the city us scientifically as I knew how and after ward visited la'udvllle,Colorado Springs and Pueblo without finding any clew. It was most mortifying, for bls adroit disappearance strengthened the pre sumption that lie was engaged in shady transactions. Nearly three weeks I spent in rushing about the state and tlnally returned, discouraged and dis gusted, to Denver. At the hotel I glanced over the regis ter for some time back, as Is my habit, and found a name which interested me. though it waa not that ot the man I sought. Years ago 1 had known Curl Glenny at the University of Chicago, where he was one of the most brilliant men in physical science they ever turn ed out, a devourer of seliolurshlps. He lied made no friends, scarcely any ac quaintance«, owing to a curiously stand offish manner that be wore, it seemed to me, against his real nature. I believe I was the only man with whom he hud any lntliuuey, mid he never invited me to lila rooms and ul- ways met me with somethlng of the embarrassment of a shy lover keeping a tryst. It was not a question of pov erty. He seemed to have plenty of money. The students simply consid ered him “queer” and let him alone, us he seemed to desire. I had never beard of liiui since leuvlng college, aud here he was at the Hotel Denison. “Do you know whether Mr. Glenny is In?” I asked the clerk. “I’m pretty sure lie is,” was the re ply. "Are you n friend of bls?" look ing at me with some Interest. “Why, I used to know him pretty well,” I sahl cautiously. “We’d be glad to see any friend of Mr. Glenny's,” continued the clerk, still looking at me curiously. "He seems to be a stranger In town. He's been here for two or three weeks and, to tell the truth, we're getting a little uneasy about him—not afraid of his bill, you understand — but he don’t seem quite right somehow; hardly ever seems to eat or sleep and seldom leaves tffe house. Maybe he's sick, but he looks well enough. Anyway, some thing seems to be troubling him badly, nnd we’d hate to have anything hap pen In the house. You'd better go up and see him. Don’t tell hint that I said anything.” So I went up. A tiellboy showed me the room nnd knocked. "Who Is It? I can't see anybody, said a voice. “It’s Billy Kirkman." I said. "Don't you remember me, Glen, at varsity?" A crack was opened and an eye ap peared; then Glenny swung the door wide, dragged me in and slammed It after me. “I,ord, Kirkman, I’m glad to see you!” he cried, and repeated it. "Any triend—I never nia*d«*d one more! I swear I couldn’t think of a soul on earth to call on.” I pulled off the doth. He had changed greatly and looked older, I thought, than he should have unti ne cauie down anu caught me in done. He had been a lilg, handsomely the act. Greatly to my surprise, he did built man, but he was stooped, his head not have me arrested, but after a long showed patclics of grizzle, and his face tulk over a revolver barrel he let me go. was pitifully llneil. Moreover, Ills "That was the beginning. Nobody nerves were clearly In rags. He could can think worse of Kearnabnn than I not sit or stand stUI for a moment, and do, but he had more foresight nml it seemed to me that he was gulping shrewdness than any other man I ever down a tit of hysterics as we shook knew. I was arrested a month later for hands. I did not much wonder that another affair, and he bath'd me out the initi l people were afraid of having and then told me to Jump my bail and a suicide. go north, where he would look nfter “Y'ou look run down," I remarked. me. It seems that lie detected my sei “What’s the matter?" entitle bent before I discovered it my- "The matter? The matter?" he said, ArJmol rallier wildly.' r'Why, niaii'. Tin rejofi'- where they hammered mathematics and lng. I’m a free man, pretty nearly for elementary science Into me and finally the first time si nee-1 can remember.” matriculated me for Chicago univer "You look It,” I said. "Stop It!” sity, where you saw me. 'I don’t want He hnd burst Into 11 roar of discordant you to fall in love, take to drink, make laughter, rolling in Ills chair, and he any friends or get religion,’ he said to kept It up till I emptied the water me. 'Outside that von can do ns you pitcher over Ills head. Then he sat up, please and call on me for the price. I dripping, and looked nt me more sane know you’ve got the head for what I want.’ ly. "Thanks,” he said seriously. •That "It seemed that I had. You remem was what I needl'd. But you've no ber the way I went through practical idea how badly I've wanted help or ad and theoretical physics. I seemed to rice. I say you’ve got to come with have a peculiar knack for the work, 1111. i can t tell you here; you <1 never nnd I never was happier In my life ex believe It. Will you?** cept for his prohibition against milking Half an hour later we were on an friends. I felt too much gratitude, evening «rain for l.liiH'stone, w here we however, to disobey him In anything, sja-nt the night. Glenny was excited but I never could understand the rea and moody by turns, but he would give son for It or for his befriending me at me no hint of the cause. Next morning all—fill I graduated. we hired two saddle horse» and gxsle "Then he sent for me to his own up 11 very devious trull Into the tnoun city, where lie had Just got himself ap Inins for nearly two hours, This pointed chief of pollse. and I found brought 11s to a little valley where that he l^d been quietly collecting evi stissl the rude buildings of w hat might dence of all n< youthful mi«1<«||ls - have licen a mine. There wan an en enough to get me n°*iSMl Yw«ijy «years gine nlied with a tall smokestack and In the prisons of ¿90 o* th»«» «tnteSi un enormously long belt that ran over He said blandly «hat he sroulRn'* bgln«, _ • « o thlngicto «ght Just at present, xhouglk as lie had some work Ot want ed «ic to nnd he proposed to estab lish uw |ji a laboratory of my own In Ht Louis. ”<W •ourse f jumped at the opening. I had hoped tW spend my life in scien tific work, and I Weuld rather have '.u ffd death than twenty years of penal servitude Just then. But It wasn't loi« tiefore I discovered wliat sort of scien tific lidHirs were to lie lmisised on me. Kearnahan made no Ismes about tell ing me that he was 'interested In' the enterprises of hnlf a dozen gangs of expert safe crackers and counterfeit ers. and he wanted to apply modern science to these Industries. He never accompanied the gangs ou their raids, you uaderatnnd, but be supplied tho capital and Acted ns ’fence,’ and got hold of most of the profits. ”1 rebelled. of course, but what could 1 do? I've often wondered since what I ought to have done. The prison blocked every road but one. In short, I succumbed and went to work, and nice work it wns! There was no sort of lawless implement thnt I didn't bundle. Molds and dies for coining, chemical erasers for bunk notes nnd checks, electric drills and blowpipes for safe cracking—I had them all. I did gixal work, too, and I nm ashamed to say that It wasn't very long before the scientific side of tlie work begnn to eclipse the moral, in my mind. I had plenty ot ume tor private experiment ing besides, and Kearnahan bought the costliest apparatus for me without n kick. He said I was worth $20,000 n year to him, and In fact 1 believe thnt some of the cleverest robberies of thnt nerind owed their success to me. CHURCHES AND OUTLAWS. • % L Anelrat Ml»»» — Tlisf^.ute •Woleclton <o < ' la.lual|a. 1 • \AATER CLOCKS, ta'iloo» I.Ml Iff iB.lruui.^k I (■••4 la sffkhru Desert. WOMAN AND _ _ FASHKm • • Ar« A N»»<0 N»«ll«e«. ÔÊQUtLS TO STORIES. Aw • ISVIe A re Xul »• Gooff a« •tic Inrll«, B oo ^ b . IlaniUcerehiets ns material for gar A muii'i wealth lu the Sahara la cal ment» of Vari«»'. »orts are cout*iually The qAffflou of sequels was uuder dis culated alu|o4 entirely by the numta'r •rowing In demand, but .i*- never more cussion In a literary gathering the oth- of cumels or palm trees which he out* attractive than when made up Into a I er day. and the consensus of opinion and by the amount of water to which kimono such ns the one Illustrateli I was decidedly aifalnst them. It was he is entitled. Water in the desert is Tho»e use I for the miaiel are of white I evyn roundly maintained »that no se- so sv-ariW tiiut the owarrsliip of it 1» Japanese silk, w ith border of blue silk I quel hail ever ta*eii a success from the most JealotMly guarded. In “A Search literary point of view. Bong* one de For the Masked Tawareks" Qie author murred and suggested "Paradise Re Buys that in buying a palm grove It 1» gained.” but that suggestion, greeted always necessary to stipulate for flo with a burst 'of laughter, practically many sa’us per day or week. A sa’a, determined the argument. “Paradise literally “an hour,” la the amount of Regained” was u distinct falling off water which will flow In an hour from "Paradise Lost.” It might even through un opening the width of 11 lm declared a dignified, dismal failure. man's fist in the side of a segia. N<>; Milton's sequel wus no flxceptlon The main aegis», or channels, us a to the rule. rule- follow the roads of the oasis, If there be a rule, are there any ex forming a sort of ditch ut the side. A ceptions that prove It? Stevenson's regular time table Is kept, showing the "Catriona" was not up to the level of hours at which the owners of the dif "Kldnuped.” Mr. Anthony Hope wrote ferent plantations ure entitled to draw x better book in “The Prisoner of Zen water. da” than he did in "Rupert of Hent- The time is measured by a very curi zau.” Wise authors never undertake ous little wuter dock, consisting of a sequels. Once main a time Mr. Rider metal cup, made usually of brass or Haggard was tempted to adventure a copper, with a small hole pierced in sequel to "She,” but repented at dis tlie bottom. At tlie commencement of cretion. It is altogether a different each hour this is placed in a basin of matter when successive books Include water. The water gradually runs the same character. Thackeray used through the hole until at the expiration thnt trick In "Pendennis" and "The of the hour the cup sinks to the Ixjttom Neweotnes.” but In no sense Is the lat of the basin. It is then taken out, ter !l sequel to the farmer. In a way emptied and set again to measure >ff Thackeray's novels may be said to the next sa’a, and so the process la dotted with white, but there are In constitute a chain right down from continued throughout the twenty-four numerable oik ' s from which a choice "Esmond." The links subsist, but can be made. Those of linen, with hours. there is no of narrutlve This Instrument is usually kept in borders in color, are pretty and always which defines a continuity sequel proper. launder satisfactorily, and dealers are the village mosque. In order to pre He who will may compare the re vent all Interference with it a watch- also showing a considerable variety man Is set over it, who notifies the ex woven specially for purposes of the spective merits of Zola's “L'Assom- [TO be continued .] piration of each hour from the minaret sort. Tlie handkerchiefs are Joined on molr" and “Nana.” There does not ap indicated lines and are so adjusted ub pear to be much to choose between of the mosque. CRETAN LEPERS. At the end of the sa’a the opening In to form the deep points in fronts, back them, but undoubtedly the earlier book FATE OF A BIG OHIO TREE. the side of the segia through which the and sleeves, while the neck edges are has been more popular. Zola’s habit, Their Number« Are Swelled by The!« water flows is closed with clay, and the turned over to give a collar effect. To as Is well known, was to keep the same Food and Their Filth. Slse of Thin Great Sycamore Wan the water Is cut off and allowed to flow make the kimono for a woman of medi families In Ids various treatises, for to In the small Island of Crete leprosy Cause of Ita Destruction. down the main channel to the next um size will be required five handker hint they were specimens of natural chiefs twenty Inches square. history and mightily portentous. Con Is shockingly prevalent. The Cretans The greatest tree ever seen by white plantation. trast with Zola our immortal Fielding, have themselves to thank for this state men in Ohio is believed to have been Summer ShawlN In Favor. who began one of Ills novels by way of of affairs. The houses may be pretty the enormous sycamore, or, more prop OAK APPLES. The girl who discovers in the truqk a parody of Richardson. It would be and whitewashed on the outside, but erly. buttonwood, which stood in what of a Disease Propagated hr ■ of family heirlooms a summer shawl interesting to collect Into one volume within the tilth is fearful. And the is now Valley township. Scioto county, Minute Gallfly. of any sort may count herself in luck, the stories of the masterpiece». In food they eat is Just what encourages In the rich bottom lands of the Scioto The little brown balls popularly for this style of wrap Is enjoying a whnt circumstances were the great leprosy. The Greek forbids meat about "Ter. books of the world written? Think of 200 days out of the year, so as good It was so prodigious in bulk that as known as “oak apples,” which may of- genuine renaissance. The fad In shawls runs toward em Dumas pere and his firm of assistants! Christians they must live on salt fish, early as 1810 it was described in the ten lie seen growing In elusters upon which Is not Improved by its long Cincinnati Almanac as one of the natu oak twigs, nre not fruit, as some sup broidered crape, particularly when the Well. Pope preceded him nml farmed Journey from northern seas southern ral wonder# of Ohio. In June, 1808, ac pose, but forms of a disease which re embroidery is In self tones, For the | out his translation of Homer. That heat. The olive oil is so plentiful— cording to what seems reliable testi sults from ttie attacks of a minute girl who may own only one shawl the was a conscienceless thing to do. A they export 20,000 tons each year—that mony, a party of thirteen persons, all gallfly (cynips). This little Insect, a most desirable selection is a white work of art Is not a contractor's job. they use it to excess, even adding it to on horseback, rode into the hollow distant cousin of wasps and bees, la crape embroidered nnd fringed In But then Pope's Homer was not a the milk of a rice pudding. But the trunk of this sycamore and found that provided with a complicated piercing white. She will fold it In long, nar work of art. But Dumas! Grub street crowning evil Is pork, the favorite fare room enough remained for two more ovipositor tn her tall, by means ot row, scarf-like lines, with one row of | lies in Paris too.—London Mall, of the Cretans on days when the horses and their riders, The tree which she makes little boles In the fringe at the top, so that she may draw church allows them to eat meat. The forked about eight feet from the tender shoots of the oak, laying an egg it up over her head in the cool night PERSONAL NOMENCLATURE. leper Is not cut off here as be is In the ground, and it was hollow when first hi each, nnd at the same time Introduc air. The fringe softens a tace lm- mensely. Fiji islands or at the Cape. Outside seen by the white settlers. The clreuni ing a drop of irritant fluid. Ancient Names and the Modern Sr»- The substance of the shoot Is thus each village may be seen a little white ference of the trunk »’as about slxty- ten» of Surnames. New i*HranolN, bouse called the "leprochorion.” Here three feet at the base, and five feet stimulated to unnatural growth and Neither Hebrews, Egyptians, Assyr Some new parasols are of taffeta or the lepers live. Their estates, if they from tiie earth It was forty-two feet In produces an oak apple or “gall,” which ians. Babylonians, Persians nor Greeks louisine silk, trimmed with straps ln- limy be regarded as a sort of vegetable have any, are administered for them girth. These figures remind the reader bad surnames, and In the earliest peri by friends, and any one passing by the of the famous big trees of California. tumor and serves as a home for the stead of circular bands, That Is, the od of their history the same may be trimming appears In low relief against door may speak to them. If the suf Tin' opening Into the cavity within tho grub which batches out of the egg. said ot the Romans. In course of time, ferers be poor the state provides each trunk was ten feet wide at the bottom, This can easily be seen by cutting the cover, Instead of being stitched however, every Roman citizen had flat down. There is a thickness of open a young gall, but In an old one day a loaf of bread, nnd the charity nine and a half feet high, and the hoi- three names the praenomen, or per of passersby adds the luxuries.—New low was about fourteen feet in diame the Insect has escaped by driving a material under it to make It stnml out. sonal name; the nomen, or name of the One end of the band Is longer than tunnel to the outside. York Herald. ter. The oak Is Infested by many other enough to meet the other, and the end I K''ns or clan, and the cognomen, or The account which has been pre kinds of gall. Some are tufted, oth Is cut in a point, and it fastens over on i**uitly name, as lhibllus Cornelius Sclp- served of the fate of this enormous tree ers look like currants, nnd others again the flat end THE PRIMITIVE STAGE. I *0- Conquerors were occasionally com- I pllmented by the addition of a fourth Is very odd. It is claimed that the gi are the little brown "oak spangles" How the Drama Flourished In the ant buttonwood was kept uninjured as Feaiherhoned skirts. I name, or agnomen, commemorative of seen on the undersides of the leaves. Time of Elisabeth. The total absence of the drop skirt I their conquest, as I’ubllus Cornelius a great curiosity until the farm on The great plays of Marlowe, Shake which It stood was need as a stock Each kind of gallfly leads to the pro has been one of the absorbing ques- I Scipio Africanus. duetion of a different kind of gall. — speare and Jonson were performed by farm by one Thomas 'Dr,,.an. This lions of tho season. Need of some I It ts Impossible to state with any de actors tn Elizabethan dress In front of stock breeder turned several valuable London Answers. underbody Is very apparent In many I gree of certainty when the modern a curtain, usually In daylight, on a lit bulls into the fields where the huge Instances, and so the use of a reed or system of personal nomenclature be- tle stage partly occupied by the gal tree stood. nnd two of them fought in BOWER BUILDERS. feaUierbone inserted at the hem, and came general. It has been stated that lants of the period, with their puges side its trunk. In that small space for even several rows above, has been the practice of surnames began In Nor- For Birds That Construct Gardens and tobacco pipes. There was no fash a bull ring the victor was able to pre found very acceptable. mandy and extended to England after Their Own Enjoyment. ionable actress, no orchestra, no lime vent the escape of bls rival, and the ------------ the Norman conquest, but a document There are five different bower birds— light, yet the drama was more popu weaker was killed. This affair con General Purpose Gown. in the Cottonian MSB. quoted la Tur- lar than churchgolng and held Its own vinced Dugan that the largest tree in three in Australia, the regent, the satin Ilere Is the newest, most correct cos- tier's "History of the Anglo-Saxons’* and tlie spotted; one In the 1 ’ apuan is even with such gentle sports as bull Ohio was a menace to his stock, and tume for walking, traveling and gen- contains reference to Iiwfta Hatte, a baiting and “wiping of the blind he cut it down. Later hogs kept in the lands, the catbird, and one in New eral knockabout wear. It is made of keeper of bees In Hathfelda; to Tate beare.” The little that we know of same field were attacked by cholera, Guinea. Their brilliant plumage is a fine black and white check in silky Hatte, bls daughter, mother of Wul- the actors shows them, with the excep and the owner reasoned that their hab golden yellow, glossy black or spotted slcllienne. The Instep length skirt Is slge the Shooter, and Lulle Hatte, Bis- tion of Burbage nnd Nathaniel Field, to It of lying inside the hollow stump was brown, often with a rose tinted collar. plaited all the way around, the plaits ter of Wulslge. The date of these rec- Their bowers nre in no sense nests, stltched down for about eight inches | ords of the Ilattes Is not to be ascer have been very ordinary workaday bad for their health, and so he had the people, with empty pockets and domes stump removed. It may well be doubt but miniature gardens, adapted for en tained, but they were certainly written tic affections and other modern charac ed whether any other Immense tree joyment and courtship and set In the before the year 10<J0. So far as anti teristics. Y’et the protests of the Puri was ever destroyed because of a fight eye of the sun. A pavement of equal quarians have been able to discover, sized pebbles Is arranged, and number tans, the avaricious records of the between two bulls. Cleveland Leader Hatte Is the first surname whose exist less twigs are thrust firmly between censor and the continual erection of ence can be traced In England. It is them In two parallel rows, inclined to new theaters In spite of the solemn not Improbable that the founder of tho SENTENCE SERMONS. each other, inclosing an avenue about threats of the city fathers are evidence Hatte family was so calk'd because of a yard long and several Inches wide. enough of the marvelous popularity to some unusual or noticeable beadgear A difficulty is at the door of every To decorate this arbor gay feathers, which the nrt attained in that "spa that he was In the habit of wearing. ruddy berries, pearly shells, bleached cious time” of playhouses most re delight. Gold fetters are not more elastic bones, even watches, knives and other markable for lack of space.—London Don't Be F.nvIoB». than iron. glittering objects, are tastefully placed World. The men or women who envy those Respectability is no substitute for In and around the entrance. who happen to be able to dri'ss well repenta nee. The New Guinea bird, still more of a OIL ON THE WATER. and to enjoy the pleasures of life a It takes a great tnnn to do little gardener,constructs a miniature conical little more than those who are compel summer bouse, with Internal gallery. It. Soothing Effect Was Known ns things well. led to work continually will be misera Early a. the Sixth Century. Before this Is a meadow of moss, kept The gold of grace docs not come from ble all their days, for, no matter how- free from grass, dust and leaves, on A few gallons of oil cast upon stormy the greed of gold. high they may get. they will find oth seas moderates their violence and pre A little patient pushing is worth a which bright Cowers and fruit are dal ers still higher. Tjie envious person ly offered by the enamored male bird vents the waves from breaking with profound lot of puffing. is never satisfied and never can be. to hts mate. force. That this Is the case has long It is no use praying for your debtors Take the successful men of the city, been known. Theophylactes, the By If you won’t pay your debts. Sliuonlde«* Delay. and you will find that the majority of zantine historian of the sixth century, A man loses force as soon as be be “Why should we expect religion, them began Just where you did. Then propounded the question, “Why does gins to worry over his feelings. says Sir John Lubbock, “to solve ques why are you not in equally good cir oil calm the sea?” and answered It to cumstances? If you ran a race with You know what a man lives for when tions with reference to the origin and the effect that ns the wind la a subtle a man and lost it, you would hardly you know what he looks at when alone. destiny of the universe? We do not and delicate thing and oil Is adhesive blame your failure on the race course. Many people think they are living expect the most elaborate treatise to and unctuous the wind glides over the tell us the origin of electricity or of You started even and ran together, and surface of the water on which oil has for character who are only fighting beat. Natural history throws no light you lost because you couldn’t run as for reputation. — Chicago Tribune. been spread and cannot raise waves. fast ns he or lacked the power of en on the origin of life. Has Bibliology The wind. In fact slips over the water durance. So your failure in the race ever professed to explain existence? lloir lie Protected the Seals. without being able to obtain a grip. of life Is not due to the track, but to Some years ago a Russian warship Simonides was asked at Syracuse by In the gulf of Mexico there is a re your lack of ability an a runner. Hiero who or what God was, when be markable stretch of water about two was on special duty In Bering sea requested a day's time to think of bls guarding the seal fisheries, preventing miles long by three-quarters of a mile Pern's Whlstllnu Jara. answer. On subsequent days he al broad to which the name of “oil spot” tlie slaughter of the seals during the ways doubled the time required for de Among the ruined cltfec of Pern closed season The ndmiral of the sta has been given because la the worst of nearly fifty different kinds of musical liberation, and when Hiero Inquired storms the mnrlner finds still water tlon In the course of an Inspection of the reason he repiled that the longer Instruments have been found. Unique WALKINO COSTUMfl. the vessel Invited any of the sailors there. he considered tho subject the more ob below the waist line and then their among these are many double whis Its character as a safe harbor of ref who bad any complulnt to make to scure It appeared.” tling Jara or musical water bottles. fullness allowed to flare The bottom Kent the top'Uftth first'Or front Jar,'" uge Is said to be due to an oily proper step forward. One of the men. as of the skirt Is protected by n light «pokesman fm - the vthole crew, Com ty Oft lie mud stirred up by the storm. which Is usually surmounted by a hu Tho Seychelles Island«. plained that the "seal money" prom weight velveteen binding. The blouse The Seychelles Islands form an archi Is also plaited nnd worn with a feath man or animal figure, Is the op<inlng of lsrsl them hnd not been paid. On the Ancient Ventrlloqnfnm. the whistle. When the Jars have been pelago of 114 Islands and are situated Ventriloquism was undoubtedly astonished admiral inquiring what he about 1,400 miles east of Aden nnd erboned girdle belt of the same mate partly filled and are swung backward known both to the Jews and to the meant It came out that the ship’s com 1,000 miles from Zanzibar. They rise rial. Down the front of the blouse are and forward a number of whistling Egyptians. It was used by many per mander had been doing a lucrative steeply out of the sen, culminating In black silk embroidered circles to sim sounds are produced. As tho vessel sons for purposes of deception. The trade by killing the seals placed under the isle of Mabe, which Is about 8,000 ulate buttons. With this smart walk swings forward and upward the water wizards who employed It declared that his protection and sending the skins to feet above the level of the ocean and ing gown shiny black shoes nre worn is lowered In the first Jar and rises In their "familiar spirit" resided in the London and had tn ken the crew into Is nearly the center of the group. All nnd a tailored straw bat trimmed with the other. In the backward motion It abdomen, whence the voice was sup partnership. He was duly transferred the Islands nre of coral growth. The loops of blnck velvet ribbon. rushes back Into the first, forcing the posed to proceed. The Old Testament to Siberia. air out through the whistle. houses nre built of a species of massive The Knotted Stock. Scriptures abound with denunciations corn) hewn Into square blocks which A pretty stock of white crape has the A Hearty Farewell. Still One. both of persons who hnd these fa glisten like white marble. long front tab tied up Into little bows The old friends had enjoyed their “Hello. Bill, old man! Well, well! I miliar spirits and of those who went down Its length._________ haven’t seen you since the old days, to seek their advice nnd assistance. three days together In spite of the fact Hl« lleunon. Senin on the Water. when we us«d to run around together!" They were treated as though they were that tact was not a conspicuous qual Judge—You let tlie burglar go to ar It has been observed that Immediate “No, Jack. Ah. those old days! What In familiar Intercourse with the evil ity <5f either of them. "You have quite a pretty place here, rest an automoblllst? Policeman— ly preceding storms an unusual amount a fool I used to be then!” one nnd according to Jewish law re Yes. The automoblllst pays a fine nnd "I tell you, I'm glad to see you. You ceived no mercy. Instances, however, John,” said the guest as he took a adds to the resources of the state. The of scum appears on the surface of are very frequent In much later his final look about him on the morning of burglar goes to prison, nnd the state ponds, and In London Nature a plausi haven't changed a bit, old man."— ble explanation of this phenomenon Philadelphia Press. tory of deception being successfully his departure-“quite a pretty place, has to pay for his keep. attributes It to "change In barometric practiced by persons having this pecul though It looks a bit bare ns yet.” t’l>- Whole Story. "Oh, that's because the trees are so T»e Height of lloflftlnr». pressure. It is suggested that Ute iar gift Robert—Has your wife much curios tcum formation Is due to the rise of young,” said the h<*t <«>mfortably. “I He- After I am out of college, dar hope they’ll have grown to a good size ity? Richard—Oh. ap awful lot. If I marsh grass from the ooze at the bot ling, I may have to wait a few months Bod» A mnga«l«e writer want« t* know before }ou come again. Then you'll begnn to tell her what you told me tom of ponds following a sudden fall «fore I can make enough to sirpijort •hat a»« the four fleetest words Jn see how much Improved the place will standii||{ on this corner „she wouldn't In the barometer, preflhglng weather ,you. She It Is »0 hard io watt. He the F.ngllsh )«ngua«e. Some 'Would be” And tffey shook hands with mu- hear y word of what you said until I change, the gas carrying aloifg with (bravely)—1« knew It. Rut of bourse told her whnt corner we were standin* It some of the solid matter of the ooze, you know the world •oesu’t know any "Mere, iff«» this mMe,.”- 8om«m tun) affectioe and Sood «Ifi. on.— Indianapolis Journal. thing about me yet. Brooklyn Life. thus forming the ecu«. o Ill carly*tll(i«s. when lit». taj prO|> erty w»Te accounted in<-ap unless d«?- fended s»v>r?I “» bund, the clMi<h of tered shelter iiltd sanctuary to tho»« • had occasion to fAr the arm of 'the law. hi the middle age* Whoever crossed the threshold of a church was considered under divine protection and could not be urre«ed, while several churches and cutliedral* »till preservs the kmxJkers used by those who had fled thither for shelter and claimed ad mlttance. In some buildings the fugi tive from Justice sat upon a chair or stool, and the register of a church in Durham, England, covering a period extending from the year 1-PH to the year 1524, Included, besides other crimes, 195 murders and homicides. In which 283 persons seeking protection were concerned. To attempt to violate sanctuary by force was In those days a very serious matter, and when the outlaw decided to save bls life by leav ing the realm he did so In the follow ing manner: "When a robber, murderer or other evil doer shall fly unto any church upon his confession of felony the coroner shall cause the abjuration to be made thus: Let the felon be brought to the church door and there be assigned unto him a port, near or far off, and a time appointed to him to go out of the realm, so that in going toward that port he carry a cross In his hand, and thnt he go not out of the king's highway, neither on the right band nor on the left, but that he keep It always until he shall be gone out of the land, and that he shall not return without special grace of our lord the king.”
