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The g.rl looked him full In the face, fully Injured and worse consequence« aud read the truth In a moment with might ensue. The experimenter must Within her fond, encircling arm * the God-glVeu intuition of her sex. I have perfect knowledge and control of Safe slept her little child— "There goes your dance with Miss the machine. He must also have ac A helpless weight, sweet-breathed, and Clark,” she broke in. "You must not PASSES 600,000 VOLTS OF ELEC customed himself to electric currents, warm! keep her waiting.” for there would be great shock to one TRICITY THROUGH HIS BODY. Iler eager look down-bent, to scan ’■’But 1 can’t leave you, Virginia, ail j unused to it upon getting Into the cir That face, all lovely innocence, alone here.” cuit of an X-ray stream. These two The features ot the full-grown man She seized on with prophetic sense— “Please do. Then come back to me Before a Bothering of Medical Men u conditions compiled with. I see no ren- Ht. Louie Doctor Proves that High son why anybody should not perform Foresaw the hero that should be after the uumlM-r. I want to be alone Clothed in his manhood's majesty. Voltage Currents Are Not Necessa this feat.” for awhile." And seeing, smiled. rily Death Dealing. And Fairfield reluctantly left her sit There were other Interesting experi ting on tlie farthest corner of the broad ments performed by Dr. Roberts along Relaxed in every massive limb, Dr. Heber Roberts, of St. Louis, be- the same line. In one of these he piazza, which laid been made gay for The man, sore wearied, sleeps; the party by long festoons of colored f ire a gathering of medical men in Unit placed a patient on a table set on legs His bearded cheek is rough and grim. paper and a multitude of candles In city recently, proved that tlOO.tMSl volts of the purest electrical glass. Running She, hovering near him wistfully, And gazing long, is fain to trace fantastic paper eases. Virginia sat in of electricity could lie passed through from the electrodes on the front of the One line of childhood's purity a brown study. The bandmaster, witu the human body without Injury to it. machine was a copper bar, four feet In that toil-marred, world-hardened an ingenuity nearly akin to sacrilege and that tbe popular belief that high long. Due end of It rested ou the wood face. voltage currents were death dealing en floor of the table upon which the had made the Intermezzo from “Caval Now once again she feels and sees is a fallacy. According to Dr, Roberts, patient sits. The patient then placed leria Rusticiina ” Into a waltz. The girl Her nursling warm upon her knees, knew that the music told of a mail’s the Injurious possibilities of a current his foot upon tlie end of the bar aud And seeing, weeps. love for a woman, of the great joy that depends upon its amperage, and the held it there, making tlie connection for —New York Independent. voltage when properly handled is with the current. It was not necessary for had come into her own life. A solitary breath of wind stirred the out the power to kill or even injure him to remove his shoos or any part ot festoons along tlie front of tlie piazza. any one. The experimenter attracted ills clothing. When the current was Tlie coasting sailors knew a storm was miK'b iuterest among professional men turned into him the only sensation lie brewing. A sharper breath of wind came and swung the festoons near where Virginia sat. Tlie candle In one of the paper lanterns toppled over. In ICK, wlint chance have I for suc a second the tissue paper case was all cess? What opportunity to do a 11 re. The girl saw the accident. In a sec one brave thing?" The girl spoke without a tone of resentment in her ond she realized the danger to the great voice. The young man, whose name hotel. Its wooden frame as dry as tin was upon the lips of every one in his der. Virginia saw the peril of the hun city as the rising young lawyer of dreds of men and women it held. Then she realized her own helplessness. Dick Iowa, looked down at her. “One never knows the coming oppor had taken her crutches and placed tunity until it presents Itself. To each them in a corner of the building beyond one of us there comes a chance for sue her reach. While she thought with tlie cess. But no preaching to-night. This full rapidity of her active mind tlie tire Is Florida, and a Florida sunset is uu spread to the festoons. Then she con ceived her plan. Inspiration In Itself.’’ In a second she was upon her knees. But Virginia was not satisfied. The red ami yellow splendor of the sun as She half-crawled across the piazza floor he sank over the waters of the grent until her outstretched hand could reach gulf and reflected liis brilliancy on the her crutches. She slipped them under thick foliage of the park and the gray, her shoulders and swung back across wooden walls of the hotel did not in the piazza. Not a soul was near to help terest her to-night. She was a mere her, and her quick Instinct told the girl slip of a woman. But there was a that a scream would create a panic in strange beauty in her dark, oval face, the crowded ballroom. The tire danced reminiscent of old Spanish paintings, along the paper festoon. How she ever did It she could never which was Intensified by the simple white dinner gown which she wore. nfterward tell, but it seemed a divine As she passed along the piazza the strength aided her strong arms as she loungers, who sat In groups of twos ami climbed upon the piazza rail. With one threes In the wicker chairs, saw that arm grasping tlie pillar for support, she DR. ROBERTS RECEIVES GOO,000 VOLTS OF ELECTRICITY. stretched the other toward tlie blazing decorations. She thought she caught in that city and will no doubt create had consisted in the hair becoming tlie sound of hurried footsteps along widespread iuterest throughout the erect and rigid. This was caused by the piazzl. She could not reach the fes country among students of electrical the exit of tlie current which, passing toon by several inches. In a moment therapeutics, lu the course of these through the cells of the hair and tilling the dry dead vine along tlie eaves experiments Dr. Roberts sent a cur them, stiffens them until they looked would be alilaze and it would be too rent through his body and thence to x like tiny bars of iron. In the case of late. But Virginia bad kept her head. Crooks tube. In this lie created an a woman tier hair would have stood She coolly reached down, and, grasping X ray by means of which a photograph straight out after this fashion, even one of her crutches by the arm rest, I of a hand was tazeti, showing perfect though it be four feet In length. “I stretched It up and twisted it in tlie ly its skeleton. The X-ray was of rare made a photograph the other day of a blazing paper decoration. A sharp, brilliancy and penetrating power. But womau whose hair is twenty inches quick pull something broke, and in a even were this uot true the feat would long while she was sitting in this cur moment the whole blazing mass lay be remarkable in that he is the first rent,” said Dr. Roberts. "If the hair is burning it out In the grass far from [ man to ever make himself the con wet while the patient is In the pool, and harm. ductor of a current of electricity of the room is darkened, it will glow with She turned and saw Dick standing i great power enough to create an X-ray. a brilliant blue flame. The other day betide her. He gravely helped her The secret of Dr. Roberts’ success in 1 placed a man on the table and turned down and carried her to a chair. Ids experiments is that lie employed the current into him. He had previous "Your opportunity came quicker than what is known to be a static current ly stripped to the waist, and wet the we expected. You did a very brave through his body. Tbe static-current hair upon his face, head and chest. and a very gallant thing." She heard lias no volume, but great power. It is When the current began its passage Dick’s voice speaking in her ear, and not the potential energy that kills, but through him he became ghostly in ap she turned and gave him her hand the volume. This may be Illustrated pearance. His beard, head and chest by an analogy. A needle might be were wreathed In blue flame. Yet lie without spying a word. •'A SHAKP, yUICt PU1.I..” It is needless to tell what followed passed through the body with great did uot feel the slightest disagreeable she walked w ith dillleully on a pair of Virginia llowper found her popularity rapidity and power, but it would not sensation. Another peculiar feature black crutches. had swept into fame. People called be as harmful as a thousand needles about this static current is that when "What can I ever do?” the girl asked, her Hie heroine of the hotel, aud new passed through slowly and with little ever it finds a point for exit it becomes anxiously. “Fate Ims decreed that 1 nrivnls 1 »egged to lie presented. Sun power. In other words, the power, tlie a blue flame, one-half inch in length, shall spend my life half helpless. I day newspapers sent for her photo voltage, lias nothing whatever to do It has heat, yet It does not burn the can't walk a step, Dick. without these graphs, aud the tales of her achieve with the physiological effect. It Is tbe person from whom it passes." The crutches of mine. It’s Just as If 1 had ment went far ami wide. Vlrgiuia number of needles, the amperage. Still discovery of Dr. Roberts should be a millstone hung around my slmul laughed lit It and took it most, good- the experiment is not without danger. It very valuable in the application of elec ders.” naturedly. To her the praise of a cer requires a nice adjusment of machin tricity to therapeutics. Dick Fairfield was rarely at n loss tain westerner was Infinitely more de ery to produce the proper kind of cur Herb Farms. for n ready reply. He looked out at sirable than the entire loud-voiced rent. It requires a thorough knowledge There are several kinds of farms, the sea so vast and imperious, ami lie plaudits of the eastern contingent of cf certain conditions to apply the cur 1 bought of how the In me girl at Ills side the hotel. rent perfectly. It requires a familiar profitable ones, too. of which little bad come Into Ids life. Richard Fairfield returned to Cor ity with electric currents to prevent meutiou is made to the public, Many "You are doing much, Virginia.” he delia, Iowa, lifter Ills fortnight's rest shock. To Dr. Roberts It had little or herbs are grown on farms devoted to answered, after a moment. "You are in the south. To certain of Ills friends no danger. "Tlie Idea of passing an them, and they are a product not over bringing happiness Into many of our he gave confidences. He hinted very X-ray current through my body was done by growers. In New York are lives. What more can you want to vaguely of a general dislike for tlie conceived,” Dr. Roberts explained, acres devoted to the growth of pepper do?" easterners he bad met nt the Florida "while 1 was making experiments In mint. In Illinois are farms where the The girl turned her face and an resort, lie deserils'd them vigorously electrical therapeutics. I became con castor bean is raised for the castor oil swered not at all. as cold-blooded and disagreeable. Then vinced that it could be done if the cur that It contains. Many farms which Tlie orchestra was playing In the long lie would lower Ills voice and hint that rent were produced by a static ma have lost their productiveness could be ballroom. It was one of the stirring there was one exception to the rule. chine, and I immediately proceeded to made to grow sage, catnip, thorough- marches that a great bandmaster had Two months later when lie returned do It. Static currents have no volume wort. and the other vegetable necessl- given as Ids tribute to Ids fellow men from a flying trip to Baltimore that anil therefore do not kill. The only tlesofthe pharmacopoeia. The business and women. It had been dedicated to seemed strangely suspicious In view effect they can produce Is that of a Is one of the few that are not ruined by the national colors, and the swinging of Ills previous opinions, lie gave more slight burning. I was used to this sen competition. Rose farms are to be cadences and clear rhythm told of the confidences. This time lie allowed that sation from handling the machine in found in different sections of the coun waving (lag of the free. Dick Fairfield lie would make no exceptions In the my practice, and consequently the pow try, aud there Is a sweetness In this thought of what It had meant. He future. The only exception In the east erful X-ray stream did not give me the method of eartilng a livelihood, al though that Is not all there Is in it by heard It as a marching chorus, and he was going to move into the west. New slightest pain. "lu the static current the medical a good deal. In California some rose had but to close Ids eyes ngain to see York Evening Sun. profession has exactly what It needs farms are carried on to raise roses for Hie long tiles of dust-covered men who to balance. Tlie static curreut Is elec rose Jelly. had left the dock In front of the hotel Th > Duty of the Rich, twelve months ago to tight beneath Its "The rich man has no more right to tricity restrained In a condition of high The Whale's Vitality. folds. He naw* carried and waving repose than the poor. He Is ns much tension. It Is sometimes called Frank- Some light was thrown a few years tiefore the trendies In the swamps Isiund to labor as the poor; not to labor llnlc because Franklin demonstrated its where disease, the deadliest form of In the same way. but to labor as real Identity with terrestrial electricity. It ago upon tlie subject of the vitality of hidden foe, was lurking. He thought ly. as efficiently. ns intensely. I ant Is electrical pressure without volume. w hales by finding oue of these animals of his own town In the west; how, tempted to say more Intensely, because It Is almost free from amperage and In Bering Sea in 1890 with a "toggle" when at the convention which had he has a sphere so much wider aud consists almost wholly of voltage. Poet harpoon head in Its body bearing the nominated him for mayor, the local tire nobler opened to him. No man has a ically. It Is the great Invisible messen mark of the American whaler Montezu department band played the song of right to seek property In order that he ger for light, heat and electricity from ma. That vessel was engaged In whal the flag and every single man In the may enjoy, may lead a life of Indulg the tangible storehouse of nature. The ing In Bering Sea about ten years, but rink had risen ami shouted wildly. ence, may throw all toll on another class generating of the static current Is sim not later than 1854. She was after These easterners were content to crit of society. This world was not made ple. An Initial charge of electricity ward sold to the government and was icise. They wondered why the hotel for ease. Its grent law Is action, and must be Imparted to the armature or sunk in Charleston harbor during the receiving part of the machine. The civil war to serve as an obstruction. bandmaster didn't get new selections. action for the good of others still more plates are set In motion with artificial Hence. It Is estimated the whale must New selections? Why, a march song than for our own. This is Its law. and power. About the revolving plates a like that had no age; It was superior to we violate It only to our own misery certain multiplication of the certain have carried the liarpoon uot less than time Itself. He had little use for these and guilt."—William Ellery Chauulug. electricities takes place by the influence thirty six years. eastern men and women. They were of qne charged body upon another, with Just as Uff ctlvr. too languid, too contented. It Wasn’t Encouragement. the resulting output of static currents 'There is uothing like being In love "1 doubt If your thoughts are worth "But you must have given liim en depending upon speed, number of and to make a man gentle and thoughtful the fixed price," said a voice nt his side. courngement, Nell." diameter of plates aud atmospheric In nil bls actions." "Won't you give them to me?" "Why. my dear, how foolish! Of conditions. This machine, which Is not "No—except a touch of rheumatism And Dick realised that It was a man's course. I used to take walks with him mon« than live feet long, six feet high l»etween the shoulder blades.”—Har occasional privilege to change tils mind. almost every afternoon, aud often go ami three feet wide, is capable of gen per's Bazar. For Virginia llowper was another kind to the theater anti skating rink with erating 10.000,090 volts of electricity. of easterner. During the ten days lie . him. and have him for dinner at tile Anybody could do the same thing uu- Hr Believed ft. had already spent of Ills fortnight's [ house, and go to church with him. and der the same conditions. This machine ' They say there Is arsenic In playing vacation the girl had come to mean I most always danced with him at the while throwing off a pnsllglous amount cards." more to him each day. Her restless ' class, but really never gave him auy of energy, is much like a serpent whose "Well. 1 thought I’d been bolding spirit, her ambition to succeed, he encouragement,”— Brooklyn IJfe. fangs have been removed. The major some mighty ’plzon' hands lately.”— thought a wonderful contrast to the portion of Its destructive force Is sub Cleveland Plain Dealer. splendidly built eastern women, who dued because Its amperage Is small, A girl preparing to get married at Every railroad man's wife joshes her preferred to let others talk and thluk taches a great deal of lmportnn<-e to owing to Its peculiar construction. Of course. It would be dangerous for a husband a good deal about some wom her new ixvsltlon, considering flint sin and act for them. novice to attempt to perform this ex an where be gets bls tueals at tbe other "I should have been thinking of you, will get uotblug but her board am ueriiuent. ile would probably be pain- evd of bis run. Virginia,” be flually auswered. clvtbetk MARVEL AMONG MEN. HIS MOTHER. % HER OPPOR! UNITY. J NEW TERROR OF SEAS 1HE GATHMANN WARSHIP MAY WRECK ALL NAVIF6. Has No Armor Plate, la Low in Water und la Almost Invisible to the Enemy —Mounted with Guns Firing Terrible Explosives, Louis Gathmann. the Chicago invent or of tbe Gathmaun gun aud tbe terri ble guu-cottou explosive, bas invented a battleship which lie believes is capa ble of carrying the Gathmaun gun aud wrecking auy warship afloat with a single shot. Should It prove practica ble It will revolutionize sea fighting. -Gathmann lias proceeded upou the the ory that a fighting boat is merely a gun carriage. Tbe gun’s the thing, after all, aud auy contrivance which will transport one of these destroyers most quickly aud effectively is the battle ship of the future. Gathmaiiu's invention is a ship with out armor, with wide sailiug radius and extravagant speed, mounting huge guns aud a few rapid-firers to ward off torpedo-boats. It is designed to hurl gun-cotton at the enemy, aud relies on a single well-placed projectile to put any ship afloat out of action. Tlie new ship has the strict monitor type forward for about one-third its statements, each perfectly true In do tail, made a whopping big He In th« aggregate. It happened like this: 1 went Into a Jewelry store yesterday aud asked to Bee a cheap watch. - Th* clerk showed me a tlnclad affair at J1.50. It came in a small pasteboard box, on the lid of which 1 noticed tlie statement that it was tbe equal of auy $5 watch in the world. ’Have you a watch at $5?’ I asked. 'Yes, sir,’ said tbe clerk, and lie handed me a very neat timepiece cased in oxidized steel. ‘You will tiud that just as good as any thing you can get for five times the amount,’ lie remarked, opening the back and showing me the works. ’It looks all right,’ I said, 'but ou second thought I believe I’d like something better.’ ’Well, here are some tilled case watches,' he replied, ‘that we sell with a tliirty-year guarantee. The case can't be distinguished from solid gold, and the movement Is fully standarized and tested for lieat and cold. It is a watch we consider very cheap at $25.’ I pried open the back case and out dropped a little disk of paper, on which the tliirty-year guarantee was printed. ‘This watch is as well made in every particular,' it said In preamble, ’as the average $100 chronometer.’ “ ‘What kind of a chronometer can a man get for $100?’ I asked. ‘The best In tbe world,’ replied the clerk, enthusi astically. ‘Here is one now. You ob serve Its thinness and general elegance. As far as the movement is concerned it GATHMAN’N’S NEW WARSHI P ON THE MONITOR PLAN. is simply impossible to produce any thing better.’ “ ‘AU right,’ I said; ‘I’ll invest on that assurance,’ and I picked up the tinclad machine and laid down $1.50. T have your word,’ I added, ‘that this is the best watch on earth.’ ‘No, you haven't!’ lie exclaimed; ‘I didn’t say anything of the kind!’ ‘Don’t you claim that it is as good as any $5 watch going?’ I asked, pointing to the state ment on the box lid. ‘Yes—but----- ’ ‘And you just assured me.’ I continued, ‘that the $5 watch was the equal of anything at five times tbe price. That gets us to $25, and the tilled case guar antee states specifically that the $25 watch is as well made as a $100 chrono meter.’ He stuck out firmly that each of the four assertions was gospel truth. "But he wouldn't stand for that logi cal conclusion. I told him be ought to be arrested for asking $100 for a watch which I could prove by his own admis sions was no better than one valued at $1.50. That tangled his brains in a hard knot, and I escaped while he was Speed of Thirty Knots. She Is of light steel construction, fol still dazed." lowing tlie modern method of using Joking I'n ler Difficulties. thin metal in preference to heavy tim “Tlie revenue cutters of the United ber. But her sides are not protected States, as you may know,” said an offi against an ordinary field rifle of to-day. cer of one of them, who likes ills little She could be hulled if broadside on by joke, “confine their services, which are an old-time muzzle-loading, smooth really invaluable to tlie government, to bore. Her speed is to be uot under the coast, and it is a rare thing indeed twenty-three, und in forced draught for any one of them, except those of may run up to thirty knots. Speed and tlie Bering Sea patrol, to venture any the low freeboard are her strong distance out to sea. Nor is this rule points. She presents almost no target, an unsatisfactory one, for, say what and is so swift as to be able to choose you please about It. sea service Is not as her own position for attack. pleasant as tlie nevelists and other ro The main dependence of the Gath mancers would have you believe. In mann warship is, of course, its battery. deed. tlie sailor who prefers the bound Baek of one single plate oParmor will ing billows, a wet sheet and a flowing be mounted a gun which will throw sea and all the rest of it to a calm and 600 pounds of gun-cotton at the enemy peaceful shore snap is the exception. a-: each tire. The shell will leave tlie But I am getting off of my story, which muzzle at the rate of 2,000 feet a sec applies to the cutter Grant, when she ond. A single discharge of this gun was doing duty in New York bay and will be equal to a broadside from the vicinity. Something had happened to Oregon, or about 25.000 foot tons. One call tier out down tlie shore somewhere, shot well directed. Mr. Gathmann be and she left the bay one afternoon, and lieves, will wreck the most formidable early tlie next morning, while she was armored warship ever constructed. bowling along at about seven knots an Two or three guns will be mounted on hour, she bailed a big four-master. the main battery, each with a bore of “’What ship is that?’ came the cry sixteen incites. from the Grant One of the peculiar features of the “ ’Tlie Royal Bengal Tiger, 243 days Gathmann ship Is its so-calhd armor out from Calcutta,’ came the reply. belt. Tbe vessel has no armor proper, ‘What ship is that?’ but a part of it is protected by an ar “ ‘Revenue cutter Grant,’ was the mor belt. This belt rises to a point a plaintive answer, ‘and we've been out trifle above the roof of the after portion all night.’ ”—Washington Star. of the ship. It is placed on at an acute New Wood for Railroad Ties. angle with the lateral diameter of the A new and thoroughly suitable wood ship. The angle is placed farthest for ward. with the two arms extended aft for railroad ties lias been found in the and to the sides of the ship. The belt forests in the northern part of the Ar also curves from the deck plane back gentine Republic. It is the red cue- ward to its highest extremity. Thus bracho. It is an exceedingly tiard wood any shot not delivered squarely at right and in its interior, not alone in the angles to the arm of tbe belt, and with bark, is 15 to 20 per cent of tannin, a plunge sufficient to overcome the which keeps the wood from rotting, no backward slope, no matter how fiercely matter in what substance it is burled. delivered, will not even start a rivet. The wood has been used in Europe It will inevitably glance off. because for tanning, but outside of the Argen full Impact is relatively impossible. tine Republic Its utility to railroads. It Tlie belt being placed far enough aft seems, is yet to be discovered and ap to pass tbe polut of equilibrium may be preciated. Posts made of this wood made as heavy and as impenetrable as which have been burled fifty years in science can devise. land furrowed and gullied by the tor The vessel lies so low In tbe water rential rains of summer have been that with an ordinary sea on she would found to be in as good condition as if be practically Invlsble a great poit on they had been felled recently. In the of the time in action. Its superior Argentine Republic ballasts for rail si»eed—ns great ns that of any torpedo road beds is unknown, and the ties boat afloat—would enable this ship to are laid in the ground, which frequent choose its own position in a fight ly Is sandy and exposed to heavy rains against any heavy, unwieldy warship and dried by intense heat. So Iron cross of to-day. She could sail all aroun 1 ties were used until It was found that such a fort on water, and could always the red cuebracbo was undeniably the present her bows to the enemy, thus ! best wood that could be used for the materially reducing target surface, and | purpose. It not only Is so hard a wood also presenting ber protected deck that It has to !>e bored before spikes alone to attack. and bolts can be driven Into It, but It is unusually heavy. It does not split NOT LOGIC OF THE TRADE. or become compressed with blows. length. That is, it is sharp-prowed, and the freeboard, or the distance from the sheathed deck to the water line, is very slight. It is almost awash, as they say at sea. When in motion this forward deck is usually under water. If the vessel picks a bone in her teeth It would certainly be washed by tbe waves caused by swift motion. Tlie vessel lias dimensions approxi mating those of the warship of the Texas type. She is about 350 feet over al, with about forty feet beam. The warship has a proportion of one in five between length aud beam. Thus the Wisconsin, with a trifle under 400 feet in length, would have some sixty-five feet in width. Gathmann’s ship lias tills proportion extended to about one in seven. Tlie reason for this is to in crease tlie speed capacity. She is con structed aft of the armor belt and gun station much like the torpedo-boat of to-day, with a curved deck reaching down to tbe water line and curved stern. Her propeller wells are covered. A woman should be perfectly willing to let ber busband manage tbe piling "Strange," said a talkative man. In up of treasures in this world, consider the hotel lobby, to the New Orleans ing that he Is willing to let b<r pile up Times-Democrat reporter, "but four , thwea in the uexL The Jewelry Salesman Whose Arjn- ments Proved Too Much.