6 THE SCRAHTON TRIBIJNE WEDNESDAY MORNING-, MAY 1, 1895 . ' .' i (These short serial stories are copyrighted by Bachcllcr, Johnson & Bach. Her, and are printed in'J'hcTribunc Jy special arrangement, simultaneous wltn their appearance in the leading dally journals of the large cities). On a certain hot clay In AuKust, 18, the time ball on the Western Union Telc ftraph building, In the city of New York, dropped precisely at noon. In stantly thereafter there was a chorus of steam whistles, and then silence. The t whistles attracted nn particular attention; the' alienee did. People gradually became conscious of it. They missed something.,- They stopped and thought ubout It, and looked nt one an other Inquiringly, and, presently, the great tide of humanity which Is always moving In one way or the other on l'.roadway ceased its How; little groups gathered on the street corners nml In vaded the roadway, just as If some procession 'were expected to pass. The great thoroughfare presented an odd appearance. Vehicles there wore, es usual, of all sorts street cars and trucks and cars nml coaches but all were standing FtilJ. The drivers were unhitching their horses and leading them away. On the elevated railways, the trains had ceased running. Pas sengers from those which had Btoppcd 7f? Via Want Jfo Misunderstanding About .This. between stations,, were alighting and walking along the' .fracture or clam bering down from it on ladders. On the river fronts the ferryboats re mained in their slips; Hie busy tugs were moored td toelr piers. Only a few sailing craft drifted lazily about the harbor. The silence continued perhaps for half an hour. Then there came a dull roar; not the muffled din always aris ing from the strets, but that of es caping eteam, great clouds of 'Which could be seen rising oyer the city. In fact, every boiler was 'blowing off; for, as if by common consent, every escape -valve liad leen Jiftirtl, a.nd every lire had been hauled. At. the gas works the furnace door stood npcn, and the retorts empty. In the telegraph olllces the instruments clicked away, but no one heeded them. In the p.istoflloe and at the stations, and In the street boxes the letters accumulated, for the mall wagons had no drivers. The machinery in all the factories of New York stood idle. No conveyances moved, and upon every industry a sudden stroke of paralysis had Mien. And tnis was the cause of It: Michael aioCarthy, vender of "grow ing shamrock plants, bog oak orna ments, end shlllelahs. In Queenstown Harbor, having engaged in too pro longed chaff erinsr on board the Teu tonic, suddenly discovered, at the close of his bargaining, that the green hills of his native land were fading In the dim distance at the rate of twenty knots per hour. 8Ie arrived in New York, on the eve of a close election, and, without knowing exactly -why, he was conveyed from Ellis Island to a naturalization bureau, and there put In a fair way to aid us in settling our tariff and other questions, before the Emerald soil had left his brogans. In order to retain this valuable assistance work was found for Michael as a cob blera trade he had once followed in the old country In the establishment of Mrs. Helnrich Shoeffel, in Avenue A; and there he was manfully stitching and hammering away when a visitor entering the Bhop, announced himself as a "walking delegate." This Infor mation: Imparted to Mrs. Shoeffel, was not disagreeable, inasmuch as It sug gested extensive need of shoe leather; but when she discovered that the visi tor said nothing about the purchase of . boots, .but simply demanded the out casting of Michael McCarthy fo$ fail ure to Join United Cobblers' Union No. 64, she pSacldly resumed pier Inter rupted occupation of binding one of those coliosal carpet slippers so dear to the east side German heart, and ig nored him, unjil the sharp slam of the shop doof brought from the depths of her capaclbu-'bosom a long-drawn sigh of "Ach so!" Thereupon Mrs. Shoef fel was boyicotted and the ban was ex tended to the merchants who furnished her little supplies. And thus it worked backward jto a great leather dealer In the Swamp, who, being contumacious, found himselfj without truckmen and handlers. And, the strike ramified and spread, and finjally the result which has already been noted came about, and the l J;4 fr J King Christian v. - HAVE noticed' the beneficial action of Johann Hoff's Malt S Extract on myself, as well uo vu utiici ot aim am 5 to Acknowledge this. " Beware of imlistif utes. . Thi il genuine ii Jottann Hoffs Mall fxtfflrtW this signature 3f J on neck label. All others are imitations. Z Eisner & Mexdelson Co.. sole agents. N. Y. Industries and the conveyances of the metropolis were brought to a standstill. Now, the most singular thing about this strike was its remarkably order ly character. There were no indigna tion meetings, no denunciations of "capital," no breaches of the peace, no mobs; -but in place of these accompani ments of the old-fashioned struggle there was simple stagnation. Labor, as r.uch, effaced Itself. It announced tin new doctrine that Its natural an tithesis was not "capital,'' but Idleness. It would enforce Its Just demands, not by warfare or capital, but by stopping work. Socl.'ty might try how It liked being made up entirely of leisure classes". And society did not like it. Matters were. Indeed, bad when the Harlem paterfamilias had to walk to his Wall Btreet olllee, but when it came to send ing the whole household scurrying about after milk, and meat, and ice nay, when he himself nad to play chari oteer to the coal cart things were clearly getting serious. The city of New York confronted a great public benefactor. But the man to deal with It was at hand. And the evening of the fourth day after thts general stoppage began found him calmly smoking a cigarette upon one of the benches In T.ryant square. "I tell you. Smith," remarked this man of destiny to his companion, who v.:s lazily staring up at the stars, "there is only one way out of this trou ble. Something has got to happen in this town which will Interest everybody so tremendously which must Just grip everybody's nttentlon so closely that when It happens this strike business will be suddenly forgotten." The person nildressed yawned care lessly. In fact, he did not seem par ticularly Impressed by the Idea sug gested to him, for his answer was Irrel evant. "Say, Julius, what are you striking for. anyhow?" "Me? I'm not." "Can't you get anything to do?" "Pet-haps so don't know." "How did you get out of work?" "City editor bounced me." "What for?" "Sent me to Interview the Corcan am bassadors. Couldn't speak Coiiean, so I gi,t a man to come along, who said he could interpret. Brought back two col umns of first-class matter. Next day, the ambassadors sent a note to the managing editor that they would be along to dinner at 6: and before he had half got it through his head, down they came to the office In two four-horse stages, all rigged up In rainbow clothes. Said I had Invited them; and when they found there wasn't any meal, there was a row, and diplomatic representations In Washington, and the deuce to pay. I left." "You might have practised then what you preach now," laughed Smith, "and given them something else to think about, so that" the dinner would be for gotten." "Couldn't think of anything." "Well It Isn't so easy, of course. Still I might have helped you. There's my balloon. You might have astonished them with It somehow, I dare say." "What sort of a baloon?" "Elg one. Kind you go up In." "What on earth are you doing with It?" "Sleeping on It after having loaned a man flO on It and foreclosed the mortgage. Come along, I'm going home." Smith stretched himself, got upon his feet and walked on. The man called Julius sat thinking. Finally he rose, and both men strolled leisurely across the Inciosure. "Where did you get It, Smith," said Julius, finally. "What! Oh, the balloon! That's quite a story. There was an old chap This tlio Superintendent of Police Dead at 10 n. in. came to board In the house I lived in, who was the wildest sort of an Inven ton. One thing he tried to get up was a telegraph which would send smells, an other was an explosive safe, but he couldn't get any one to go Into either, though he spent pretty much all his own money In trying experiments. Fi nally, he braced up for one last great effort, and concocted a balloon which i he was going to steer like a boat. May be ho didn't work over it. Borrowed money from everybody he knew to buy silk and cords and things. But he didn't go up. In fact, he went down. They fished htm out somewhere by Hell Gate. I took his traps for what he owed me." Julius asked no further questions, and the two walked on In silence, until his companion stopped near the corner of Forty-fourth street and Third ave nue. "See here," he said, "are you walking In your sleep?" "No," said Julius, slowly, "I was Just thinking. Do you know that I think I've got it?" "Cot What?" 'I think I can end this strike busi ness, and In the way I said, if I can have your balloon." "If you can tell me where you live, I'll promise to take you there safely," said Smith, bantertngly. "I'm in earnest," replied the other, soberly. "I should like to go with you to where thnt balloon Is, and talk about It." Smith looked at him, rather keenly this time perhaps a little suspiciously and then with a light laugh shrugged his shoulders and led the way to a shabby brick dwelling in East Forty fourth street, the door of which he opened with his latchkey and motioned Jullutt to enter. The hall hnd that pe culiar combined odor of cabbage and washing soda which characterizes a boarding house of the cheapest class, and was pitch dark. Smith led the way upstairs by the flickering light of a mulch, until the front attic room was reached. There they lit their pipes and began talking. Daylight was stream ing in at the windows, but there was nothing about the two men to show their loss of sleep. They were sitting Smith on a trunk which he had dragged out of the closet face to face, with both feet on the floor, ns men al ways do when they talk of Important things. The balloon had been hauled off the bed, spread out on the floor and examined. An old safe near the win dow had been cleared of the mass of clothes and odds and ends which cov ered It, and Its door stood open, reveal ing some rusty mechanism. A huge roll of cotton-covered wire had evident ly been exhumed from under the bed, ami Inside the safe had been found what Julius first thought were preserve Jars, but which turned out to be the cells of a voltaic battery dry ns to con tents but needing only to be filled with water and acid to make them give a strong current of electricity. A floor board had been lifted In the middle of the room. Just over the place where ran the gas pipes which supplied the fixture belonging to the room be low. At length, Julius arose, and said emphasizing his words by tapping the rickety table with his finger: "We want no misunderstanding about this, and I think so far there Is none. You will surrender this room to morrow as It Is, and I will hire It. At the agreed time you will come back. I will admit you, so that no one will know of your presence here. I will then grt out openly. While I am tem porarily absent from the house, you will do as we have settled. Y'ou will then leave the house and disappear. You will not reveal the part you have taken In this, no matter what may happen. And of whatever is gained I agree to give you half." On the early morning of the eleventh day after the great strike had begun, any one' passing through the uptown streets of New York might have seen groups of people at every corner, In tently staring at something In the sky. Before noon, these groups had in creased to crowds, and the numbers of the gazers were reinforced by people at windows and people on the house tops, all gazing skyward, The object of their attention was a balloon, which floated gracefully at an elevation of perhaps five hundred feet, but was held by a slender wire which led to a point somewhere In the vicinity of the Grand Cenrtnl depot. The balloon bore no sign; hence It was not Intended as an advertisement. In fact, It was of the dull brownish hue of the well-varnished Bilk used In making air ships for actual aeronautic use.' In the small basket which served as a car there was no one, but beneath it .was suspended an ob ject suspiciously like a large crockery water pitcher. Now, a balloon hover ing over New York, even If It be only one of the miniature red globes made for children's playthings, Is always Bure to attract abundant attention; but here was not only a balloon, but a large one, sent aloft apparently for no other pur pose than to carry a water pitcher. Nothing better calculated to arouse the always poignant curiosity of the aver age New Yorker could have been Im agined. So the crowds grew larger and larger, until nightfall, rendering the balloon Invisible, compelled them to dis perse. But next morning the big globe be lng still there, the popular Interest per ceptibly increased, and people began to move in masses toward East Forty- fourth street.tosomehouselnwhlch thor oughfare It was clear that the confining wire of the balloon led; but Just which house it was difficult to determine from the roadway. Numerous Inquirers rang the door bells of all the houses in con secutive order, but as most of these residences were flats and the parties whose bells were rung were Invariably the occupants of the basement floor, answers of an Intemperate character only were elicited. As for' the bouse to which the wire actually led, the abode of Smith the landlady wns too weli accustomed to hitter complaints concerning the per formances of her ' former inventive lodger to pay any attention to sugges tions or Inquiries from her callers; and, In fact, the Instant she discovered that the hiring of, rooms was not In ques tion, a sudden Blam of the front door constituted her sole response. Meanwhile Certain reporters, having ferreted out some little Information, kept It to themselves until the follow ing startling headlines appeared In an extra of an afternoon paper: HOHROIt!!!! DESTRUCTION AT HAND!! New York About (to ibe Laid , In Ashes A Terrible Explosive Suspended Over the City, and to be Dropped Automat ically if There was no evidence given to sup port this, but supposition and sugges tion was so artfully blended through out a column , of double-leaded, big type that the ordinarily careless reader would at once Jump to the conclusion that all thedetallsof the impending dan ger were definitely known. The crowds about East Forty-fourth street now be came so dense and unruly that collis ions with the pojlce were frequent. The detectives meanwhile had followed the balloon wire Into the front attic room where the all-nlghtt conversation be tween Julius and Smith had occurred. There the wire appeared to be wound around the outside of a large iron safe, but Its end, or rather ends, for' nearer inspection showed it to be double, en- tered a hole drilled in the safe' door, which was locked. On the wall above the safe was tacked the following no tice: To the Mayor: In this safe Is a voltaic batitery which sends a current of electricity along these wires to the balloon. The big pitcher Is large enough to hold sufficient dynamite to throw down a block of buildings. The pitcher Is supported by an electro-magnetic device, so that It will not drop as long as the strength of the electrical current remains the same. But If the current Is weakened or stops, or tho pitcher fastening Is In any wise tampered with, the pitcher will certainly fall. Clockwork in the safe will break the current in Just fifty eight hours. The slightest attempt to open the safe door will blow up a tor pedo within. August 23, 3 o'clock p. m. This the superintendent of police read at Just 10 a. m. on the 5. "Time's up at 1 o'clock tonight," he said quietly. The Inmates of the house had already been placed under survlel lance. He now gave orders for the ar rest of all of them, and for the vacat ing of all houses endangered by the balloon. - (To be Continued.) CHAT ABOUT WRITERS. Whereabouts of tho Jnnvlcrs Steven win'j llnnnting Thought. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Janvier, eays a New York World writer, are spendln the spring In tho south of France In Provence Mr. Janvier's favorite hunt ing ground when he is not writing up the history of old New York on the spot. I consider the Janvlurs a most-to-be-envled couple. They Bre In such a position thnt they can always do as they please. There Is nothing to keep them In any one place, If they take a fancy for another. Their work Is their pleasure, and they find material wher everthey pitch their tent, whether In the wilds of Mexico, the effete civilization of Narrangansett Pier, the Bohemia of "Greenwich Village" or poetic Prov ence. (Mr. Janvier writes on pads of a certain size with a fountain pen. The pen holds Ink enough fur 10,000 words. When tho pen is empty the story is completed. .Mrs. Janvier Is a painter an art student she would call herself and she is never at a loss for a place to set up her easel. Mr. Andrew Lang received from R. L. Stevenson, a week before the novel ist's death, a letter In which the latter showed for the first time a certain anxiety about himself. He said that he wao haunted by a dread of paralysis, of a lingering mental malady, of living on, no longer himself, like Swift. This most unhappy fate for a man of genius, it Is good to know that Stevenson escaped. Mr. Lang notes that his friend took a boyish and exuberant delight In the success of the new Edinburgh edition of his works. He was busy with many plans for new books. One of these con cerned a romance on the unknown, mysterious years of Prince Charles Edward, for which, only a month ago, manuscript materials were sent out to him. Mrs. Robert Louis Stenvenson's maiden name was Fannie Vandegrlft. On Dec. 23, 18!7, she was married In In dianapolis, her father's home, to Sam uel Osborne. Mrs. Osborne was a beautiful, high-spirited girl, bright and clever. Her husband was a dashing, well-bred fellow, of good family, and at the time the match was considered a happy one. But Osborne could not make a living for his family, even In California, whither he drifted. So Mrs. Osborne took to her pen and wrote ar ticles which her daughter, Belle, cleverly Illustrated. After Mrs. Osborne had been divorced from her husband six months, she married Mr. Stevenson. According to the New York Tribune Mrs. R. U. Johnson Is preparing for The Century a series of paraphrases from the verse of the Servian poet, Zmat Iovan Iovanovlch. He Is assisted by Nikola Tesla, the electrician, who furnishes the literal translations from his mother-tongue. The author of '"Ideala" and "The Heavenly Twins" Is seriously 111 so Ml that her dootors say that nothing but complete rest and change will do her good. She has been ordered to give up all work and to travel, and It Is pos sible that she may turn in this direc tion. Daudet's income from his writings, we are told by his recent biographer, R. H. Sherard, was 1,000 ir 1872. Today It Is $20,000. . I'.xpnnsive. From Atlanta Constitution. "And Just to think," exclaimed the un sophisticated maiden from the Empire state, as she watched the breakers beat on Coney Island, "that this ocean we're lookln' at hero cars clear to Georgy." Ships That Never Como In. Oh, wondrously fair are the Islands of Rest Those Islands we never have seen But we know they ere smiling out there In the west. Their valleys are glowing In green. No cloud ever crosses this tropical sky. And there Is no sorrow for sin, And snug in their harbors all peacefully He Our ships that never oome In. There dwell the fair faces our fancy may see. With eyes of the tenderest blue. That come In our slumbers to you and to met In dreams that never can come true. We joyfully greet them, nor wish they were here 'Mid all the danger and din; They are blissfully guarding the hopes we hold dear Our ships that never come In. Nixon Waterman. wiMDawuiNUTMatK'jiiiiimii-Ra MlkO fcUTf. r INC ABSOLUTELY PURE THE OLD RELIABLE SWEET CAFORAL CIGARETTE Hat ttted In Test tl Tins : v MORE SOLD THAN ALL OTHER BRANDS COMBINED WHAT TO DO A Texas Florist Discovered What Scientists Could Not. DISEASE IS FERMENTATION. Microbes the Cause, and to Care All Diseases Yon Must Kill (be Germs. RADAM RIVALS PASTEUR. An Antisoptio Gas Harmless to Human Life, but Death to Microbes. DISCOVERED AMID FLOWERS. The Uaa Saved the Life of the Inventor. Now It Is Saving tho Livos of Thousands. Twenty-five years ago William Radam, a young man then twenty-live years old, lauded In New York. He was a German mid could not speuk KiiKlish. Ho hud buun a Holdiur In .tho Uurman army and later had been In ttio employ of Kmperor Wil liam In the Imperial trardtns, Hellevue. Tlieru hu hud learned, as only Germans can leurn, liuw to euro for flowers and trees. When he landed In America It was natural tliut he Bhould take up the culti vation of llowers and trees as u buulntuB. Ho beKun In Austin, Texas, and In a few years beeHme one of the leading flortflts ami nurserymen of th West. Wealth came to him but did not bring him hap piness becuiiHo, as his material possessions jrrew, his health failed. To the original complaint of miliaria hud been added rheumatism, then catarrh and finally con sumption. After belli treated by the most skillful physiuluns for several years Mr. Ku'Jiim found himself seven yeurs uko vlrtuuu.lly at the point of death. It was at this Juncture that he thought of apply ing the knowledge ho had gained in the treatment of disease In plants to the treat ment of his own serious maladies. He had discovered that all the diseases of plants are caused by a sort of ferment ation, and that wherever this ferment ation appeared there were also uerms or microbes. Following his researches he discovered that these microbes were not WM. RADAM. only nt the point of annarent disease, but had iermeuted the very huart of the plant and were In every drop of the sap. He hud discovered a combination of antiseptic di'UKs that would kill these microbes and so bring the plants back to healthful growth. This point was reached aftur many experiments, during wnicn Mr. Kiulam experienced a certain feeling of ex hilaration. Later he found thut, after ap plying his remedy to his plants, he n I in- self wns In better health. As the plants gained In strength so did ho, and it wan but natural thut this coincidence should cause him to. turn his attention from the health of the plants to his own health. He found that the theory he knew to be correct in the casu of the plants seemed to be equally reasonable when applied to himself. The result was more and more careful experiments, which Anally led to tho discovery or Invention of his now celebrated "Microbe Killer." All pro gresslve physicians admit the correctness ot tne germ tneory ot disease. They know that all diseases are caused by germs or microbes, which lodge In some organ, get Into the blood and multiply as If by magic. A weak spot In the body of fers a place for the lodgment of a germ, and It Is the propagation of germs and the consequent fermentation In this snot that makes the many so-called diseases. If the microbes settle In a weak spot In tho lungs the disease Is called consumption. If they settle in tho digestive organs and cause fermentation the disease Is called dyspepsia. Differing locations and different ntnges of development cause varying symutons. which nre called by many different names.' Hack or all these names and symptoms Is the one reason the real cause of all dis ease microbes. These may be entirely ex terminated by the use of William Hadam's "Microbe Killer." As soon as they are rompletnly eradicated from the blood and from the spot where the fermentation Is the disease will disappear. There Is no possibility of it lasting after the microbes are gone, because they, and they alone, create tt. Hadam's Microbe Killer should be taken three or four times a day In wine glass doses. It Is not a strong medicine, and Is made by Impregnating pure water with various gases. It In pleasant to the taste. Perfectly harmless, and a positive and cer tain euro for al blood and chronic dltteases. A fifty page book, giving full particulars regarding this wonderful medicine, also testimonials of cures, mailed free. Ad dress, The Wm. Radam Microbe Killer Co., 7 Lalght St.. New York City, or MATTHEW BROS. Scranton. Pa, A SMART EMPLOYER. Ho Wouldn't I.ct the Tyrannical Office Boy Huldozo Hlin. It isn't every offlce boy that tyran nizes over his employer. One of these despots at $3 per week approached his boss the other day with a demand for more pay. "What do you get?" asked the boss. "Three dollars per," answered the boy saucily. "Well, Isn't that enough for the work you do?" "No, It ain't. I have to be here from 6 In the morning till 6 at night. Twelve hours a day for $3 a week ain't enough ?" "Ain't enough what? Work?" and the boss smiled grimly. "No. Enough' pay." "But you work only half the time." "Come off; I work all the time." "I guess not," smiled the boss again. "Aren't there twenty-four hours in a day?" and the boy saw that in the boss' ey which made him pause ere he went too far. A WOMAN HERMIT. Her Only Companions Are Five Dogs and a Cow. At Lookout Pass, on the Onoqul Range, about WO miles from Salt Lake City, and thirty miles from the nearest ranch, w.here no one save a stray miner ever passes her cabin, lives Elizabeth Rockwell, widow of Horace Rockwell, a brother of Porter Rockwell, who achieved fame by leading Brigham Young's band of Destroying Angels, or Danltes. Aunt Lib is the name by which she is known. Her only compan ions are a quintet of snarling cur dogs and a lonesome cow. For nearly fif teen years the old woman has lived there. She is extremely averse to hav ing any one Inside her door, refusing- to furnish travelers with food, and charg ing them with the water their cattle drink at the rate of IP cents a drink, says the Saginaw Courier-Herald, She is. well-to-do, her husband having left her a comfortable property. One story told of her is that on one occasion, when one of the pups was 111, she managed ta get a message to a physician living eighty miles away that he was wanted at once. He came post haste, thinking that It was herself who was ill, and was so disgusted when he learned that he had been called to pre scribe for tho dog that ho charged her WOO. For this act he never received her forgiveness, although she paid the bill. About ten days ago Aunt Lib had an adventure which plainly demonstrated her ability to take care of herself, although about 75 years of age. The impression has prevailed that she has been hoarding money somewhere about her cabin. Two would-be bandits en deavored to force the secret of her treasure from her about a week ago, and the result Is that one was so badly wounded that It Is a ten to one shot that he 1b now dead. COOKS ARE CONSERVATIVE. Otherwise Edward Atkinson's Aladdin Oven Would Soon Prevail. From the Reading Herald. Edward Atkinson has for many years been combating the enormous waste of food which he claims Is the result of our present methods of cooking. He has Invented new methods which not only reduce the trouble and labor of cooking very largely, but which render palatable, tender and nourishing por tions of meat which have heretofore been regarded as comparatively worth less. At the same time he effects a large saving In the cost of fuel. These Improvements are all embodied In what he calls his Aladdin oven In which, the principle of slow cooking with low and regular heat Is carried out. Ho gave a demonstration of Its capa bilities a few days ago by giving a din ner In Washington to a number of members of the cabinet. They had a plain dinner of seven courses, very pal atablu and most excellently cooked at a total cost of fifteen cents to each diner. The heat was furnished from an ordin ary lamp. The cooking, however, In stead of taking from half an hour to an hour, required four or five hours. Mr. Atkinson has demonstrated again and again the enormous saving that could be effected by his methods, but cooks are exceedingly conservative and It is probable that it will take a gener ation at least before the revolution he is trying to bring about takes place. WONDERS OF THE SEA. The Black Sea has a depth of COO fath oms. The Qorgonla, or fan corals, are fcftind In every sea. The Atlantic ocean takes Its name from Mount Atlas. The water In the Strait of Gibraltar Is 150 fathoms deep. The polar current contains less salt than those from the equator. The sea Is estimated to contain 2,250,000, 000 cubic miles of water. One very common species of ocean In fusoria is shaped like a bell. In a cubic meter of limestone Orblgny found 3,000,000,000 sea shells. The Gulf stream is 100 miles wide and from 400 to 6U0 fathoms deep. An echinoderm that Inhabits the West Indian seas has over 10,000 arms. Dr. Young estimates the mean depth of the Atlantic at about 10,000 feet. The tlrst author to attempt an explana tion of ocean currents was Kepler. The sea cucumber is nothing but a thin skin and a very capacious stomach. Sea water is said to contain all the solu ble substances that exist on the earth. The average depth of all oceans Is sup posed to be between 2,000 and 3,000 fath oms. The sea-nettle stings Its prey to death by means of a poison secreted In its ten tacles. The water of the Dead Sea yields about two pounds to the gallon of saline sub stances. Naturalists are still In doubt as to whether the sponge Is a plant or an animal. Over 7,000 varieties of microscopic sea shells have been enumerated by natur alists. There are springs of fresh water In the Persian Gulf that furnishes supplies to vessels. For a long time the coral wns supposed to be a plant. Even Reamur treats It as such. The saline matter held In solution In sea water comprises one-thirtieth of Its weight. 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It not only cures by starting at the snat of disease, but Is a great nerve tonic and blood builder, bring lng back the pink plow to pale cheeks and re storing the Are of youth. It ward off Insanity and Consumption. Insist on having nKVIVO.no other. It can be carried la Test pocket. By mtil 91.00 per packago.or all for SSOOt with a posl tfvo written guarantee to core or relonti tho money Circular free. Address ROYAL MEDICINE CO.. 63 River St.. CHICAGO. ILL rot aala by Matthews Bros., DrvrcU fierantoa . Fa. French Injection Compound Cnree positively, quirk ly. (not merely check. ) liunrantevd or money refunded. Avoid dangerous remedies. rricoBOcroin per tattle, ttlx Bottles (will cure severest rase) sent riald, secure fnmi observation, with only scieu lineally made syrlugu, to any address for Mh. er -gilt t lw IS V J -av W -.'X!T av'SS'- i ' - . DR. E. GREWER, The Philadelphia Specialist, and hi as so elated itaff ot EnUh and German yhy.iclana, are now parman.nUy located at Old Poatoffle Building, Corner Penn Avenue and Spruce Street. The doctor la a iraduao of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania, formerly demon, atrator of phyalolocy and surgery at the Medico-Chlrurcical college of Philadel phia. HU specialties are Chronic, Ner. voub, ctaun, ueari, womo ana tilooa dls. eaHes. DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM The symptoms of which are disslness.lack of confidence, sexual weakness in men ana women, ball rlnlng lit throat, spots floating before the eyes, loss of memory, unable to concentrate the mind on one subject, eanlly startled when suddenly spoken to. and dull distressed mind, which unfits them for performing tho actual du ties of life, making happiness Impossible, distressing the action of the heart, caus ing flush of heat, depression of splrlts.ovll foreboding", cowardlco, fear, dreams.mol ancholy, tire eay of company, feeling ae tired In the morning as when retiring, lack of energy, nervousness, trembling, confusion of thought, digression, constipa tion, weakness of the limbs, etc. Those so affected should consult us Immediately ard be restored to perfect health. Lost Manhood . Restored. Weakneas of Young Men Cured. It you have been given up by your phy sician call upon the doctor and be exam d. He cures the worst cases of Ncr ous Debility, Scrofula, Old Bores, Ca tarrh, Piles, Female Weakness, Affec tions of the Eye, Ear, Nose und Throat, Asthma, Doafness, Tumors, Cancers and Cripples of every description. Consultations free and strictly sacred and confldonlb. Office hours daily frem t a.m. to p.m. Sunday, 9 to 2. Enclose five 2-cent stamps for symtpom blanks and my book called "Now Life." I will pay one thousand dollars in gold to anyone whom I cannot cure of EPI LEPTIC CONVULSIONS or FITS. DR. E. GREWER. Old Pont Offlce Building, corner Pensj avenue and Spruce street SCRANTON. PA. Moosic Powder Co Booms 1 and 2 Commowealtti Bld'g, SCRANTON, PA. MINING and BLASTING POWDER MADE AT MOOSIC AND HUSH DALE WORKS. Lafflin & Rand Powder Co.'o Orange Gun Powder Electric Batteries, Fnse.i for explod ing blasts. Safety Fuse and RepannoCutmical Co.'s High ExpIosiYM LOST MANHOOD ad all atteudlnir aflim nti both cf youu? and middlo agl m?n and women. Ihe awful ctTeetaut YOUTIIKtr. kmltof trcAtrrcnt. EUKOR3, producing weak lirtn, Nervous Debility, Nightly EnibloriB,CoDfuinptkn, Insanity, Cxhaustm? rtnuo and lot of power of tlte Gea eraUreuiyanpunflitlnir onefcraturiy, fcuslneai and niar rfatroinquiefclycuredby Dr. itedrlracsenaUh trve t. rai it a. The j not only cure by stnrtintf at tiw twat of dfa rise, but are a emu NKKVK TiN lCJ end ULOiiD Itl U.UKIt. brlng-inff back the pink low to pale chrrka and rwtturm tho FIKE Of Vol Til to the patient Ity mail, I.oo prrbix or 6 for with writ icn fii arti n lr t curt or refund tho money. Book fro. bFaaUarvt t.rolnCn..IJuiU00l),Niiwlaflu For sale by JOHN H. I'HELl'S. Drufi Gist, Wyoming ave. and Spruce street. FOP" M-rf.anlflT. . 1 Bare ron Bore Throat. Plmcle. Conner-Colored Spou, Aobes, Old Soru.Clccrt In Mouth, nair Kalllng? Write Cook Krmrdy Co, SOT Mav MeleTeoiple.rhicao.Ill..forproofaof en res. Capital SOOlOOO. f atlenucuted alne rears ajjOaonndnrwenOgnBjooWW HE TRIZE of two thousand dollars offered by this and other newspapers for the best short detective story sub mitted before May i, has brought thousands of manu scripts from all parts of the world. This handsome offer, the largest ever made for a short story, has en listed the interest of some of the greatest authors living, who are writing stories for the prize. It will be a bat tle of the imagination between giants of contemporary literature. The stories to which the first prize of f2,ooo and the prize of 500 are to be awarded, will appear in a re raarkab'c series of short stories to run In the daily issues of this paper in instalments of about two thousand words per day, from the first ot May to the first of October. The most distinguished authors of the age will be represented in this series, such as : A. (ON AN DOYLE, FRANK B. STOCKTON, BRET II ARTE, ANNA KATHERINE GREEN. STANLEY J. WEI MAN, MARK TWAIN, THE DUCHESS, MARY E. WILKINS. BRAXDER MATTHEWS, MARTIN HEWITT, L
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