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THE SCRAHTON TRIBIJNE WEDNESDAY MORNING-, MAY 1, 1895 .
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(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
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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.
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The Black Sea has a depth of COO fath
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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
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animal.
Over 7,000 varieties of microscopic sea
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For a long time the coral wns supposed
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The saline matter held In solution In sea
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When the Gulf Stream passes out of the
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70 degrees.
No part of the Atlantic Ocean between
Flu rope and Newfoundland exceeds 2,400
fathoms.
In a cubic foot of phosporescent sea
water there have been found 25,000 living
creatures.
The water of the Mediterranean contains
a greater portion of salt than that of the
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