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THE OONSTITDTION-THE ONION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE UW8.
F. SCHWEIEK,
VOL. U.
MIFFLINTOWN . JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY AUGUST 25. 1S97.
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CHAPTER VII.
From the very first step ha made Insldt
the outer ball, with Its oaken nail-studded
door, tesaelated pavement and diamond
paned windows, Armathwaite felt that th
atmosphere of this spick and spaa man
sion was as different from that of ths
desolate-looking, rambling old boas In
which he had passed the preTious nlghl
as light from darkness. A great fir
burned In a high tiled fireplace, square
brass lanterns hung from the roof, and
the sunlight streamed through stained
glass, and made the armor shine and tha
tiles of the fireplace glitter, until the In
comer wax dazzled whichever way be
looked.
Lady KUdonan darted through the
Marie Antoinette cnrtains with the grace
ful agility which recalled to Arma
thwaite's mind the movements of a grey
hound, and leading him along a passage
which was evidently a reproduction of a
convent cloister, opened the door of one
of the rooms with an arch pout of peni
tential demurenefis.
"For what we are about to receive
she whispered, and sprang Into the room
like a ray of sunshine.
It was the morning room, entirely In the
taste of a fashionable Loudon room, with
bent-wood furniture and plush-betasseled
cushions. Japanese vanes and Japanese
screens, reed curtains nnd dried bulrushes,
with an "antique" cabinet, and a lot of
little tiresome tables, laden with objects
of no value to the owner or to anybody
else. Hnlf a dozen figures sprang up like
jacks In the box from different parts of
the room as Lady Kildonan came in, and
Armathwaite recognized each Individual
by a hasty sketch he had received from
his hostess on their way hither. Lady Kil
donan, after a few words to everybody,
and a glance rouud the room in apparent
search for some one who was not there,
weut to take her hat off. leaving Arma
thwaite to the tender mercies of a circle
whose powers of entertainment his hos
tess had not maligned. He passed the
t. 1.1- ..,n t',,i rc-ii, !-..,.
entered the room and carried them off to
tennis in a covered court at the end of
the cloister. This was a spacious place,
sufficiently warmed by hot pipes, with a
high glass roof and a carpeted gallery at
one end, from which the non-players could
r-t watch the players luxuriously in kranginf
C ehat - .
' v -wiiftv are vrorking tbiho was a far betto
-On -"cxtco for all it in .present except Anna-
- girls, as tbel looked Ul-ahapeo and chin- I
sy beside ber. ran 'op Into the gallery to
' rest after half an hour's play, and calling
the young doctor to her, was chatting
merrily with him when they both caught
sight of a man standing half-hidden by
the plants In the conservatory.
"Ned!" cried Lady Kildonau, springing
op with a flash of excitement.
Edwin Crosmont came forward, sullen
and silent. She stood looking at him for
one moment: then, with a hasty apology
to Armathwaite and an anxious expres
sion In her eyes, she joined the agent,
and they walked away together, affecting
to stop from time to time to gather a leaf
or smell a flower, but evidently intent on
some exciting subject of talk. Arma
thwaite, who was sitting at one corner
of the gallery where he could look both
Into the conservatory and into the court
below, saw them disappear together be
hind the central grove of camellias and
other tall plants, and tried to Interest
himself In the game going on below. Just
as a little excitement was caused In the
court below by the entrance of a tall roan,
very much wrapped up, and wearing blue
spectacles, whom the rest greeted aa
"Lord Kildonan," be suddenly heard the
voice of Lady Kildonan In tones of pas
sionate excitement.
"I tell yon you must Insist upon her
staying. Use any means yon like, but
make her stay. Am I nobody? Are my
wishes, le my life, nothing to you?"
Into Armathwaite's miud rushed the re
membra nee of the poor lady who had ear
ed his life, as It seemed miraculously, the
previous night; and even before he could
argue with himself whether or not be
ahould listen to this talk, which might
prove to throw some light on the mystery
of the unhappy wife's position, be heard,
after a whispered answer In the man's
Tolce, the ludy's clearer, shriller tones.
"If you are tired of doing my pleas
ore, I can soon find somebody else tor
Another short, angry. Inaudible speech.
Then Lady Klldonun'a voice again.
"Well, and haven't I made use of doc
tors before now? Answer me that!"
Croemont said something, to which she
replied In a whisper, having apparently
been warned that she might be overheard;
and Armathwaite caught no word more,
though faint tones of their voices enme to
him from time to time for the next few
minutes. Presently they both joined him
where he still sat watching the group be
low, and lady Kildonan, who seemed al
ready to have recovered her usual man
ner, told the young doctor that he must
come down nnd be introduced to her hus
band, lie followed her down the narrow
Iron staircase Into the tennis court, where,
breaking up the group which surrounded
her husband, she tripped gaily to him, and
tapping her arm within his, told him she
had brought a visitor to see him, who was
almost as learned as himself, and intro
duced Armathwaite, who was stupefied
with surprise, both at the appearance of
his host and the manner in which the lat
ter received hill).
Instead of the cro-grained, withereiV
louking person he had been led by descrip
tion to expect, he saw a tall, broad-shouldered,
fresh-colored man. with scant
candy hair and plain Scotch features that
seemed to shine with an expression of
mingled shrewdness and kindliness which
made the whole face Irresistibly attrac
tive. When luncheon was over, Ird Kil
donan affectionately asked his wife how
she was grtiug to ninnse herself during the
afternoon, and whether she would drive
him as far as I'lasmcre, where he had
some business.
"Oh, Archibald. I simply can't!" Hhean
snered ot oncv. "I am expecting the tan
rorns, and IT I were to be nut when they
rouie, Mrs. Stanford vould cut me for
mer. Take Iidy Cr.-yd.Mi or Aunt The
resa n ml liertie South to talk to you,"
ihe added in a low voice.
"No; If you can't come with me, I'll
put it off until to-morrow," replied ber
husband. "It's not a very urgent matter.
Ao1 I will show Dr. Aruiathwuite my
books," he ml. led, evidently finding con-
.. Hint ion in that prospect.
'lie lia.l lei I the way across the mediae-
rnl ball and uf. two steps Into a narrow
massage, at ihe end of which he opened a
tuor on '.he right nnd invited Arinathwallf
n'u a large and lofty ro. in. On every side
plain shelves, filled with bonks, readied
'rout the ctlliiiu to the lloor: the furniture
WH'of theTTrrSt1no simplest ainm a
rouple of tables piled with books ami pa
pers, two or three step ladders for reach
ing the hooks, and six library chairs.
"Here," said Ird Kildonan, looking
round him in the gloom with a loving
mile, "I spend nearly all my time now.
Very ofteu I sit up half the night with
tny work. I am certain," said Lord Kil
lonnn, looking at Armathwaite with much
Interest in the gloom, "that Jou are the
roung fellow lr. 1'eele once spoke to me
about, as showing a perfect genius for In
vestigation, so that when any malady was
brought under your notice you never rest
ed until you had found out not only
Reuse for it, but the right cause."
"I wonder Dr. Feele spoke so strongly
is that," said the young doctor modestly.
"Well, that Is Just what I want a doe
tor to do, but it Is just what I can't get
lr. l'eelo to do. I wish you were staying
in this neighborhood; I should consul!
ron, and put your talents to the test."
"About yourself, Ij-rd Kildonau?"
"Xo, about my wife."
Aroiarlivvuite felt a shock, and held hh
breath; not indeed that he had the least
idea of whut the facts might be upon
which Lord KiMoiian wished to consult
him, but he knew at once that the case
would be a dillicult and delicate one.
"On two occasions lately," Lord Kildo
nan continued gravely, "I have been taken,
suddenly 111 from too close application to
my studies. On each of these occasions
Lady Kildonan has been entirely pros
trated for a collide of days by her anxiety
on my account, prostrated both in body
and mind, and rendered so nervous and
lifeless that I have felt the gravest appre
hensions for her. Yon, who know what
high spirits she generally has, can under
stand how great the change must be. Now
It seems to me, although I am touched by
- l Amt "!e.re hing gravely wrong
: w ,en bright young creature like that.
uu seems iuii 01 neaicn ana lire, can tie
suddenly reduced to the Inanimation of a
statue by what most wives would only
consider a trifling matter the temporary
Indisposition of not very lively hus
band."' Armathwaite assented. Tien waa,
(omething gravely wrong, certainly.
sonmn voice Degan
to tremble "that
there have been cases In her family, re
mote certainly, but none the less real, of
k malady which seems to me to correspond
terribly well with the symptoms I have
noticed In her; it la heart disease." His
voice broke on the last word; the peril It
uiupcted was too horrible for calm con
iduiation. After a pause be cleared his
throat and went on ngr'n. "Now If this
Is so, the system I go upon with her of
allowing her every Innocent excitement
she loves Is not only vvrong. but danger
ous. A trifling accldeut to the ponies she
drives, a little over-exertion at tennis, or
a burst of excitement If she wins a game
at billiards any one of thtwe things might
be fatal to her. Now, on the face of this
iwful fear. Is It possible for me to rest
contented with Dr. I'eele's assurances
that it Is all right, that there Is no cause
for alarm, that the cases of heart disease
in her family are remote, and so on? He
has not even seen her at the times I speak
of, for she, with a natural and brave de
sire not to make what she calls 'a fuss
about nothing,' refused absolutely to see
htm on both those occasions. But I can'
not rest upon that. I" lie stopped, a
gleam of gentle pleasure came into his
face he had laid down his glasses on en
tcring tho darkened room; going to the
door, with a nod of caution to the yonng
doctor, he opened It and admitted Lady
Kildonan, who glanced from the one to
the other with a quick perception of the
fact that they had been talking about her.
"Well, what have you been conspiring
about so long l she asbed aa ber husband
patter ber affectionately on the ahoulder.
"Von have been talking about me, I'm
certain, and I will find out what the con
spiracy Is, or perish In the attempt. In
the meantime I have come to ask you,"
and ahe turned to Dr. Armathwaite, "II
you will go on to Dr. Peele's now with
Ned Crosmont, who has his gig at the
door to go to Branksome, or whether yon
will wait an hour till these people are
gone, when I shall be able to drive yon
over myself."
Lord Kildonan langhed good-humoredly.
"See, Dr. Armathwaite, yon are more
honored than I. Her Imperial majesty
would not condescend to drive me to Plas
mere this afternoon."
"Well, 1 wasn't going that way, sho
said with a pretty pout.
"It ls very good Indeed of yon. Lady
Kildonan," said Armathwaite. "But I
am sorry to say I shall not be able to avail
myself of your kind offer to drive me, aa
1 really must not delay one moment long
er. I will ask Mr. Crosmont if he will
oke me."
He added his warm thanks to both, at
they accompanied him to the hall, where
Ned Crosmont was getting ready to start.
The strongest impression left upon Arma
thwaite's mind, as, after shaking hands
with both host and hostess and receiving
their assurances that they expected to see
him again before long, he got into the gig
beside the agent, was that Lady Kildonan
was greatly annoyed by his choosing to go
now rather than wait to be driven by her,
and that she would take some wicked little
feminine veugeance upon him for thwart
ing her hospitable j-prlce, If ever sh
should have the opportunity
CHArTEK VIII.
The way to lironksome, when the dan
herons junction of the higher and lower
roads into Mcresido was passed, was level
ind good, and they reached the little town
licforc the Inst glow of the sunset had
faded behind the hills. They took a turn
ing to the left out of the town, and pass
mi n number of pretty little villas, detach
ed and semi-detached, on their way to thr
doctor's.
"We shall be there In two minutes now,"
said Crosmont, who bad been morosely Bl
ent for sumo time. "I'll put you down
just this side of the house, if you don't
nitud, for I don t want to see any of them.
The doctor bores one with his physical
research, his wife Is too dictatorial to be
borne, and his duughter Is ngly enough to
iniike one sick. On second thoughts.
though," lie went on, dubiously, "I sup
pose I'd better call and leave inquiries."
He drew up at the garden gate of a
ratber pret'r little semi-detached house,
'lie 'chelated pathway of whlcn had been
carefully cleared of snow. ,On the gate
was a brass plate with the nunie "Dr.
1'eele." There was a fernery in the lower
window and a bird cage hanging above it,
Crosmont remained with his horse as Ar
mathwaite went up to the door, which
was oien In spite of the weather, and
rang the bell. In a few momenta the door
nf th itu ball w.s f-"""m and. Anna
hwnrte round" hTmselffoftfrdnrea by tno
uliiiiietJt feminine person be remembered
to have seen. She was very short, and of
ivliat may be Irreverently termed a
"squab" figure, with a round back and a
head held too. far forward. She bad a
bulging forehead, small round eyes, a nose
that turned up so much that It seemed to
draw her upper Hp with It, exposing to
constant view a row of prominent and on
even teeth; and her complexion waa of
that sallow kind to which no exercise
brings a becoming flush. In spit of all
these disadvantages, Armathwaite, who
guessed the was the nrly duughter refer
red to, felt tha he should like the girl.
"Is Dr. reels at homer asked he, rais
ing his bat,
"Yea. bnt ha'a 10. and can't aee any one,
I'm afralA, Isn't that Ned Crosmont out
there?" aha asked. In a louder voice, com
ing a step forward.
"Yea. How do, Nellie? How'a the doe
tor? Dr. Armathwaite has come all tha
way from London to see him."
"Really!" said she, leoking op In sur
prise at the young fellow., who seemed a
giant beside ber. "Are you coming In,
too, Ned?"
"Thanks, noj 1 can't leave the mnre.
Just give them both my kind regards and
Alma's love, and toll the doctor I hope wt
shall see him again soon."
"Hut when is Alma coming to see ns?
Papa's always asking after her, and can't
understand why she doesn't come."
"Oh, she's got a cold, and a bad sort
throat, and I don't dare let her come so
far this weather," said Crosmont, taking
up the reins to start.
Armathwaite beard this explanation
with attention and surprise.
"Well, then, I suppose we shan't sec
ach other again?" sold Crosmont, turning
to him. "Yon can join the main liue from
here aa well aa from Conlsinere, you
know. If you're anxious to get on to Scot
land without delay."
"Yes, that ls what X had better do."
'said Armathwaite, as, after apologizing
to Miss 1'eele, he ran back to shake hands
with him. "Thank you again for your
kind hospitality. I shall never forget-;1)
way In which I have been received -here."
Miss Peele led the way Into the house,
and passing through a narrow little hall,
nshered him Into a small, simply furnish
ed, but coey looking sitting room, with
closed folding doors at one end. A lamp
stood on the table, and by Ita light the
visitor saw a lady of fifty, of matronly
figure. Bitting by the fire engaged In nee
dlework of the plain and domestic kind.
looVed np and displayed a face which
might have been handsome In the majes
tic style before long years of dictatorship
had made eagle eyes, booked nose and
closely shnt month so overpoweringly
fierce that Armathwaite almost blinked,
and glanced In a meek and childlike way
at little His PeeJe for protection. . .
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wants to aee prp. xxu; Borne 1i Ur. Ar
mathwaite, and htfhsarcome all the way
from London," said Millie, looking good
humoredly np at ber big companion as if
she understood his trepidation and enjoy
ed the joke of It.
"Dr. Peele Is much too ill to see any
body at present," said Mrs. Peele, In the
voice, with which she routed little boys
liko a clap of thunder.
"Well, mamma, let me go np and see
what be says himself," suggested Millia
(To be continued.)
MONKEY HAS THE MEASLES
Ailment Peculiar to Hnitinrilty At
tacks a Blmlnn at a Pari. Mmrnm,
So far as the members of the Frencl
Academy of Medicine have been ablo
to ascertain, Cynocephalus ls the first
monkey that ever bad the measles,
Zanzibar was his birthplace. He was
brought to Madagascar, where be was
sold to a superior officer In the French
army. As a companion for him, the
officer brought another monkey, a
vagabond, who had no name, and
whose birthplace was unknown. The
weather being cold, the pets were
placed In a warm house. P , a pri
vate la the Zouaves, who was serving
trie officer, attended to their wants, and
often frolicked with them. One day
P went to the doctor, complaining
of an eruption on bis body. The doc
tor saw at once that be had measlet
and hurried him off to bed.
X , another soldier, was put In
charge of the officer's garden and mon
keys. Four days later be noticed that
Cynocephalus kept to the corner of bis
cage and refused to eat. The same
doctor who treated the zouave was
called In. An examination showed an
eruption on Cynocephalua body and
all the other symptoms of nieaslea.
The same treatment was given to him
as to the zouave.
The other monkey waa In no wise
ttfllicted. To begin with. It Is reported,
he was not so Intelligent or so human
ns Cynocephalus, who seems to biive
lived up to bis fine name and his place
In the Zanzibar peerage, and then the
two were of different trlln-s. "That
uiH! contract! the (Iis-!ise, while the
other didn't," say the nciideniians, "Is
nut nt 21 II reiiini IviiMe, for of two per
sons exposed In the same way It ofteu
happens that one escapes and the ntlu-l
.loos not." - I'nris Ix-tu-r to the New
York 1'ress.
A Miiticic (hid.) parrot cruM "fife!
fill'!" and uoLc up her owner who found
his house in llamcs.
Sydney, A nsl raliii. has a flushlii;tit
town clock, so that the correct time may
! seen miles away.
i Yocod i les, like itstl'ichcs, swallow eb-bh-s
and small stones for the piirHiseof
grinding their food.
The gossamer iron made at Swansea
Wales. is so thin Ihat 4!m plates arc n-ed-e.l
o make an inch in thickness.
A New York man was arrested the
other d ly for stealing a stolo.
Ihn coiwse gohl lciosits of Ihe Aztecs
arc llicvfd to have been found where
the Acapulco railway crosses Ihe Italsas
ri ver.
Iron has for ages lseti a favorite
medicine. Nearly 1IKI different prepara
tioiLs of iron are now known to Ihe medi
cal chemists.
Norway is the only country in the
world which is not increasing its annual
yield of cereals. The reason is found in
climatic conditions.
tiernian agricultural p;iei-s say the
imMirls of American apples into crinany
last year were twenty times ns large as in
any previous season.
At the last congress of (icmian vino-
vardists, Professor Wortinami reiMirted
that he had found living Ik-i leria in wine
which had len bottled twenty-dve to
thirty years.
An Ottawa (III.) youth who was
struck by lightning is shedding bis skin.
xntrxy-one years ago tns town ot
Dickson, Tenn., was a village of eler
rn houses, with a population of thlrty
leven whites and fourteen negroes. It
waa Just such a hamlet as can yet be
found along the rapidly extending
branch lines of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad system; rough
board houses, rail fences around small
garden spots, an 8x12 depot and post
office nnd the Inevitable tavern a log
structure containing two rooms aud
sn attic, presided over by Old Squire
Jim Dickson, whose wife furnished ac
commodations to the few travelers who
by chance came that way. "Squire
Jim," ns he Is yet called, was the origi
nal settler, the leading man ofthe set
tlement, nnd denlt out such justice and
legal opinions as were necessary for
the maintenance of the peace of the
village he had founded and which was
named for him.
Threv times a week a train would
come out from Nashville, forty miles
east of Dickson, aud go down the
crooked tracks of the Nashville, Chat
tanooga and St. Louis Railroad to
JolmsoiivHle, oil the Tennessee Ulver.
The arrival of a train (by no means a
certainty on any particular day) was
a signal for Dickson's entire popula
tion to gather at the little depot and
postotlb'o to await the opening of the
ninll. The train usually consisted of
three freight cars and the still fn miliar
caboose, with its rough wooden seats,
cook stove aud lumks for the crew. In
this passengers were hauled, and ninny
were the jars they received.
It was seldom that a stranger stop,
ped in Dickson, and the advent of one
always created excitement. But one
day a man stepped off the Nashville
train and Inquired for C tavern. He
apMnrcd to be aliout 40 years of agi1,
was neatly dressed and was peculiar
In that he talked only when It was un
avoidable, brought with him no bag
gage and carried a cane nearly two
Inches In diameter and apparently very
heavy. "Squire Jim" answered the
rtranger's query and led him to the
Snvem. where be rave his name ns
r ranK rung, pant m advance tor a stay
of three months, and requested that la
be left i bis own devices and not ask
ft t-1 In any of the convivial af
'SSm9w which the Squire's hostelry
V a ue hrr c' y f a noos. . ' . .
; ix.w-V Vat is now a thlcely pop
ulated residence district there Is a
spring 'that furnishes water for balf a
dozen factories and their employes. At
that time It was surrounded by a dense
growth of underbrush, and was a fa
vorite spot for hunters, game of all
kinds abounding. To this spring Frank
King would go every morning, rarely
returning for dinner, and frequently
staying there all night. He carried
with him nothing except his cane,
which. Indeed, was never out of bis
reach. Squire Dickson spent ninny
hours guessing what might lie the busi
ness of his reticent guest. At last, con.
vlnced that It was his duty to Investi
gate, be snld one evening:
"Mr. King, we want to know wh.it
brings you to Dickson and why you go
so frequently to McFnrland's spring."
"Well, lr," replied King, "I'm go
ing to build the biggest flour-mill this
side of New York.
He said no more, but began writing
lettprs to lumber and machinery houses
In the Fast, the destination of which
"Squire Jim" shrewdly guessed at tho
postofflce. In a few days workmen ap
peared from Nashville and began the
laying of a foundation that covered
balf an acre. King directed operations,
knew just what he wanted and bow be
wanted It done. Car loads of lumber
and machinery began to arrive, and
every man and team for miles around
was engaged to help build the mam
moth mill. Even "Squire Jim" left his
tavern to the care of Mrs. Jim and ac
cepted a situation as boss carpenter
on the new mill. It was a big under
taking, and attracted attention from
all the papers of the State. Men be
gan flocking to Dickson, and other
smaller Industries were commenced.
Meanwhile King remained . non-committal.
He had no friends, no visitors,
told his business to no one and said
nothing of his former life. His work
nun were paid weekly, and his supply
of money seemed Inexhaustible. No
one could tell where It came from, and
finally It was accepted as a mattar of
course, though one or two detectives
came rroni the cHy to iu.e it look at
the man whose past was so well con
cealed. In December. 1SG7, the mill
was completed. By this time Dickson
could boast of a population of uearly
800, with a brick church nnd school,
all the result of King's mill. No sooner
was the final touch of the painter's
brush applied to the huge sign that
covered the entire four-story front of
the building than King gave up his
room nt the Dickson Inn and moved
Into Iris big creation. It was not known
TWISTED AROUND TB PISTON, HIS HAND STILL QBASFLsTO TBS
YALTJB."
when the mill would start Everything
was In readiness with the exception
of engaging help and obtaining pro
duct to grind. Men had asked King
for work and had leen told that he had
sufficient help. One venturesome far
mer offered to sell hi in wheat, and was
told that none was required.
!It was three days before Christmas,
1867, that King moved Into his mill.
: He barred the doors and until New
' Y'ear's eve was not seen or heard. At
Just 12 o'clock New Year's the town
was startled by prolonged whistling
from the mill. Running to the scene
the astonished natives saw great vol
umes of smoke pouring from the chim
neys and heard the rumble of machin
ery, although not a light appeared. The
great mass of machinery continued to
run until morning. This was repeated
every night for a week, and still no
door was opened.
Then one night all was quiet. The
next day "Squire Jim" got together a
crowd of men and broke down tho
door of the mill. In the engine room
they found the lifeless body of poor
King, twisted around the piston, torn
nnd maimed, bis band still grasping
the valve, where he had bravely shut
off steam after being caught. On the
floor lay the familiar cane. In his
pocket -no letters were found, nnd in
the mill he Had created he had died, a
mystery to the world, perhaps a mys
tery to himself. At the Inquest the
cane was examined. It was hollow,
and in it was found $0,000 In United
States government bonds. This was
evidently where his money bad been
taaeu rroni to erect the mill. The Jtirj
gave a verdict of accidental death, an
at the head of his grave yet stands
rough stone, upon which are cut thes
wora: .
- .
"FRANK KINO.
.
A mystery in life;
Brave in death."
Under direction of "Squire Jim" th
mill was closed and the money retain
ed to pay taxes until eons heir cami
tor claim it. u. ,
.Last week . naJB-faced woman
-wmwa every movement spoke of long-
endured and great sorrow, registered
at the now metropolitan Anderson
House, which stands on the same spot
once occupied by "Squire Jim's" prlml
tlve tavern. She Is perhaps CO years
old. though her silvery hnlr and care
worn expression gave the Impression
of 70. On the register she inscribed:
"Mrs. Annie Welland, Northampton,
Mass." While curiously enough the
old mill sign Is plain: "Annie Welland
Mills." Mrs. Welland tells her story
this way:
"Just after the close of the war,
while IIvlDg In Boston, I met and was
married to Frank Welland, a Lieuten
ant in the Federal army. His home j
was at Northampton, where we at
once moved. He had been wounded
during the war. nnd had Just recovered
after a long attack of brain fever.. He
was he-r to a large fortune, a portion
of which he insisted upon making over
to me. The rest he converted Into gov
ernment bonds and carried In a large
cane made for that purpose. We had
lived together but a few months when
Frank was again afflicted with brain
trouble. One of his hallucinations was
that he had charge of a large mill
which he must run without help. On
day he disappeared, and though I have
spent thousands of dollars and travel
ed all over the country, I could find no
trace of him. In June of this year I
rame to the Tennessee centennial.
While In machinery hall one day I
heard two men who were looking at
the milling machinery exhibits talking
of the old Annie Welland mill I ask
ed them where the mill was located,
nnd they told me the story of Its build
ing. I hastened to Dickson, and am
now satisfied that my husband and
Frank King are one and the same.
How he got to Dickson I will, perhaps,
never know. I shall not do anything
with the mill. He must have named It
from the memory of his love for me,
and it shall stand as he left it until
time or accident has worked Its de
struction." Mrs. Welland has gone home, after
ordering a monument placed at the
head of her husband's grave. Mean
while, the old mill stands bleak and
bare. Its timbers falling away. Its doors
and windows gone, a habitation for
rats and mice, bats and owls, a ghost
ly, weird skeleton, rising high In the
midst of progress. Itself an echo of the
mysterious man who bullded to his
own death, and the life-long heart sick,
ncss of a loving woman.
REV. DH. MAGE
Tb Eaalnent Dlvtna'a Suaatajr
DktcsMsrsav
The Many Temptations Which Rtwm
Young; Men Kvlls ICettultlng Fronr
fiettinic Into IcttAn Irrellitoua I-lf
Always Ietroyn Young Men's Morals
Text: "As Bn ox to tho slaughter."
Troverhs vll., 22.
There Is nothing In the voleo or mannei
of tho lu teller to indicate to tho ox thai
there ls- death nhead. Tho ox thinks ho ti
going on to a rich pasture field of clovei
where all day long he will revel In the herb
aceous luxuriance, but after awhile th
men and the boys close In upon him witt
sticks and stones and shouting and drlvt
him through bars and Into a doorway, when
he is fastened, and with well aimed stroke
tho ax felU him, and so the anticipation ol
the redolent pasture field ls completely dis
appointed. Ho many a young man has been
driven on by temptation to what he thought
would tie paradisiacal enjoyment, hut after
awhile inlluenceg with darker hue and
swarthier arm close In upon him, and lu
llnds that instead ot making an excursion
Into a garden he has been driven "as an ox
to the slaughter."
We are apt to blame young men for bo
tng destroyed when we ought to blame the
Inniiences that destroy them. Society
slaughters a great many young men by the
behest: "You must keep up appearances.
Whatever lie your salary, you must dress
ns wen as oiners, you must give wine and
brandy to ns many friends, you must
smoke as costly cigars, vou must irive
expensive entertainments ami you must
livo in as fashionable n boarding house. If
you haven't the money, borrow. If you
can't borrow, make a false entry or sub
tract here and there a bill from a bundle of
bank bills. You will only have to. make
the deception- n little while. In a few
in -tilths or in a y.wir or two you can make
it nil right. Nobody will I h-hurt by it. no
body will be the wiser. You yourself will
not b damaged." Ily that awful process
1IMI 000 men have been slaughtered for time
and slaughtered for eternity.
Suppose you borrow. There, is nothing
wrong about borrowing money. There ls
bar Ily a man who has not sometimes bor
rowed money. Vast estates have been built
on a borrowed dollar. l!ut there urn two
kinds of borrowed money, money borrowed
for the purpose of stinting or keeping up
legitimate enterprise nnd expense aud
money borrowed to get that which von can
do without. The tlrst is right, the other Is
wrong. If you have money enough of your
own to buy a coat, however plain, and then
you borrow money for a dandy's outllt, you
have taken the llrst revolution of the wheel
down grade, liorrow for necessities; that
may lie well, borrow for the luxuries; that
tis your prospects over in the wrong di
rection. The Uible distinctly snvs the borrower If
servant of the lender. It is a bad state of
things when yon have to go down some
other street to escajie meeting some one
2-hom you owe. If young men knew what
Is thedfpol' fc'Hr belug in dbt, morn of
them would keep out of it. w'iat did debt
do for Lord Iln.-ou, with a mind toworiu'if
aoove the centuries? It Induced, him to
take bribes and eouviet himself as a crim
inal before all ags. What did debt do for
Walter Scott, broken hearted at Abbots
ford? Kept him writing until his hand
gave out in paralysis to keep the sheriff
away from his pictures and statuary. But
ter for him If he had minded the maxim
which he had chiseled over the fl replace at
AMiotsford. "Waste not. want not." .
The tmable is. mv triends.Xhat neoola da
'BWfHlWB?nI the eflir'-s of going In uobt,
aim hum, ii vuu purounse goous wicu no ex
pectation ot paying for them, or go into
debts which you cannot meet, you steal
just so much money. If I go into a grocer's
store and I buy sugars and cjfTees and
meats with no capacity to pay for them,
end 1 intention of paying for them, I nm
more dishonest than If 1 go into the store,
and when the grocer's face is turned the
other way I till mv pockets with tho arti
cles of nierchnudisu and carry olT n ham.
In the one ease I take the merchant's time,
and I take the time of his messenger to
transfer the giK,Is to my house, while fn
the other case I take none of thetimo ofthe
merchant, and I wait upon myselr, nnd I
transfer the goods without any trouble to
him. In other words, a sneak thief Is not
so bail as a man who contracts debts he
never expects to pay.
Yet in all our cltii-s there are familie-
who move every May day to get into prox
hni'y to other grocers nnd mcntshops and
apothecaries. They owe everybody within
half a mile of where they now live. and next
May they will move into a distant part of
the city, finding a new lot of victims.
Meanwhile you, the honest family in the
new house, are bothered day by day by the
knocking at the door of disappointed bakers
and butchers ami dry goods dealers and
newspiicr carriers, uud you are asked
where your predecessor Is. You do not
know. It w;is arranged you should not
know. Meanwhile your predecessor has
gone to some distant part of the city, and
the people who have anything to S--II have
sent their wagons ami stopped there to so
licit the "valuable" custom of tho new
neighbor, and he, the new neighbor,
with great complacency and an nir of afflu
ence, orders the finest steaks anil the high
est priciHl sugnrs and the best of the canned
fruits and perhaps all the newspapers. Ami
the debts will keep on accumulating until
ho gets his goods on the 30th of next April
in the furniture cart.
N wonder that so many of our mer
chants fall In business. They are swindled
Into bankruptcy by these wandering Arabs,
these nomads of elty life. They cheat the
grocer out of the green apples which make
them sick, the physician who attonds them
during their distress aud tho undertaker
who tits them out for departure from the
neighlMirhood where they owe everybody
when they pay the debt of natum, the only
debt they ever do pay.
Now our young men are coming up In
this depraved state of commercial cthb-s,
and I am solicitous about them. I want to
warn them agalust tieiug slaughtered on
the sharp edges of debt. You want many
things you have uot, my young friends.
You shall have them If you have patience
an I honesty ami Industry. tVrtain Hues of
conduct always lead out to certain successes.
There Is a law which controls even those
things that seem haphazard. I have been
told by those w'tio have observed that it is
possible to calculate just how many letters
will be sent to the dead letter oWe-. every
year through misdirection; that it is possi
ble to calculate just how many letters wi'l
lie detained for lack of postage stnmps
through tho forgetfulness of the senders,
nr.d that it is possible to tell just how many
people will tall in the streets by slipping on
nn orange peel. In other words, there lire,
no accidents. The most insigniilcniit event
yon ever heard of Is the link between two
eternities the eternity of the past and the
eternity of the future. Head the right way,
young man, and you will come out at tti.
rb;ht goal.
tiring me a young man and tell me w'int
his physical health is and whut his mental
cailher and what his habits, and I will tell
you what will be his destiny for this world
uud his destiny for tho world to come, and
I will not make live inaccurate prophecies
out of the 500. All this makes me soib-itous
in regard to young men, and I WAnt tc
make them nervous In regnrd to tho con
traction of unpayable debts.
When a young iiinn willfully nnd ol
choice, having the comforts of life, goes
into the contraction of unpayable debts, he
knows not into whathegoes. The credl tors
get after the debtor, the mck of hounds in
full cry, and nlos for the reindeer. They
jingle his doorbell before he gets up in the
morning, they jingle his doorEwll after hf
has gone to lcd at night. They meet him
ns ho comes off his front stes. They gf nd
him a postal card or n letter in curtest
style, telling Mm to pay up. They attach
his goods. They want e:ish or a note at
thirty i rtys or a note on demand. They
call him a knave. They say ho lies. They
want him disciplined in the church. They
want him turned out of tho bauk. They
come at him fr nn this side and from that
side and from before and from Iveliltid and
from above nnd from beneath, and he Is
insulted and gibbeted an t sued am)
dunned aud sworn at until he gets the
nervous dyspepsia, gets neuralgia, gets livei
complaint, gets heart disease, gets con
vulsive diee- "tag consumption, -
Now he is dead, and vou snv. "tlfcouist
j
hrv will let him alone." Oh. not Now
they are watchful to see whether there nre
nnv unnecessary expenses at the olwcquies
to see whether there Ls any useless handle
on tho casket, to see whether there is any
surplus plait on tne snroud, to see whet hei
the hearse is costly or cheap, to se
whether tho flowers sent to the casket
have been bought by the family oi
donated, to see in whose name the d"oed tt
the grave is made out. Then they ransack
the bcr,-ft household, the books, thf
pictures, the carpets, the chairs, the sofa
the piano, the mattresses, the pillow or
which he died. Cursed lie debt I For the
sake of your own happiness, for tho sakt
ot good morals, for the sake of your Im
"nortal son!, for Ood'ssake, young man, as
far as possible koep out of It!
But I think more young men ar
slaughtered through irrel'igion. Takeaway
a young man's religion and you make
him the prey of evil. We all know that
tho Itible is the ouly perfect svstem ol
morals. Now, if you want to destroy a
?ung man's morals, take his liible away,
low will you do that? Well, you will carl
?aturo his reverence for the Scriptures,
you will take all those incidents of the
Bible which can lie made mirth of -Jonah's
whale, Sampson's foxes, Adam's rib. Then
you will caricature eccentric Christians or
inconsistent Christians. Then you will
pass ofT ns your own nil those hackneyed
arguments against Christianity which nre
IS old as Tom Paine, as old as Voltaire,
s old as sin. Now you hove captured his
Bible, nnd you have taken his strongest
fortress. The way is comparatively clear,
itnd all the gates of his soul are set opeu
In Invitation to the sins of earth and the
sorrows of d-ath, that they may come In
and drive the stake for their encampment.
A steamer i.toii miles Irom shore, with
hroken rudder and bwt compass, and hulk
J leaking llfty gallons the hour. Is better off
nn n young man when vou have robbed
film of his liible. Have you ever noticed
tiow despicably mean it Is to take nwav the
world s Bible without proposing n subst I
:ute? It is meaner thnu coining to a sick
nan ana steal ins medicine, meaner ttiau
:o come to a cripple and steal his crutch.
nenncr than to come to a pauper and steal
his crust, meaner than to como to a poor
man nnd burn his house down. It Is the
worst of nil larcenies to steal tho Bible
which has been crutch nnd medicine and
food and eternal homo to so mnny. What
l generous and magnanimous business ln
Idelity lias gone into this splitting up of
lifehonts and taking away of lire escapes
inu extinguisning oi llgutnouses! 1 come
Mit nnd I sny to such people, "What are
fou doing all this for?" "Oh," they say.
'just for fun. It is such fun to see Chris
iinns try to hold on to their Bibles! Munv
of thcin have lost loved ones and have
jeen told that there Is a resurrection, and
t Ls such fun to tell them there will lie no
resurrection! Many of them have believed
:hat Christ enme to carry tho burdens nnd
.0 heal the wounds of the world, and It Is
mch fun to t'-ll them they will have to lie
heir own savior! Think of tho meanest
.hing you ever heard of, then go down 1000
'eet underneath It, and you will find your
iclf at the top of a stairs 100 miles long; go
o the bottom of the stairs, and you will
Ind a ladder 1000 mill's long; then go to
Jie foot of the ladder and look off a preci
pice hnlf ns (ar as from here to China, and
rou will find the headqnnrtersof the mean
less that would rob this world of Its only
Hunfort in life, its only peace In death and
ts only hope for immortality. Slaughter a
touts mau's faith in God, and there is not
nuch more-i'-ft to slaughter.
Now what hil? become of the slaugh
:ered? Well, some ol'-them are In their
'ather's or mother's hoii."; broken down
n health, waiting to die; others sro in tho
josptinl, others nre in the cemetery, or.
rather, their bodies are, for their souls"
lave- gone on to retribution. Not much
prospect for a young man who started life
run ovhT nvai.l'h 'aniitirood education and
i Christian example set him, and oppor
:unlty of usefulness, who gathered all his
:reasures and put them in one box, and
;hen dropped it into tho sen.
Now, how is this wholesale slaughter to
e stopped? There is uot a person who is
lot interested iu that question. The ob
cct of my sermon is to put a weapon In
neh of your li'inds for your own defense.
.Vait not for Young Men's Christian Asso
ciations to protect you or churches to pro
ject you. Appealing to God for help, take
rare of vourself.
First, have a room somewhero thnt you
ian call your own. Whether It lo the
Kick parlor of a fashionable boarding
muse or a room in tho fourth story of a
dienp lodging I care uot. Only hnve that
mo room your fortress. Let not tho dissi
i.iteror unclean stop over the threshold.
If tln-y e me- up the long flight of stairs ond
fiioek at t:e- iloor, meet theni face to face
ind kimllv yet llrmly refuse them ndmit
ance. Hav a few family portraits on the
tvall, if vou brought them with you from
four country home. Have a Bible on the
itand. If vou can afford it and can play
n one, have an instrument of music harp
)r flute or cornet or melodeon or violin or
piano. Every morning before you leave
that room pray. Every night nfter you
5ome homo in thnt room pray. Make that
room your dihraltnr, your Sevastopol,
your Mount Ziou. Let no bad book or
newspaper come Into that room anymore
'ban you would allow a cobra to coll on
your table.
lake can ot yourself. Nobody else will
take care of you. Your help will not come
up two or three or four flights of stairs;
your help will come through the roof, down
from heaven, from that God who In the
5000 years of the world's history never be
trayed a young mall who tried to lie good
nut a Christian. Let me sny in regard to
youradverse worldly circumstances. In pass
ing, that you are on a level now with those
who are finally tosueceed. Mark my words,
young man, acd think of it thirty years
from now. You will And that those who
thirty years from now nre the millionaires
Dl tuts country, who nre the orators ofthe
country, who are the poets ofthe country,
who are the st rong merchants of the coun
try, who are the great philanthropists of
the country- mightiest in church uud
state nre this morning on a level w'lth you,
not an inch above, aud tu straitened cir-
ii instances now.
There Is no elass of persons that so stir
mv syiiipnthit-s as young men In great
itis. Not ouite enongti salary to live on.
and nil tin temptations that come from
that dell. -it. Invited on all hands to drink,
and their exhausted nervous system seem-
ng to demand .stimulus. Their religion
caricatured by the most of theclerks in the
store ami most of the operatives In the
factory. the rapids of temptation and
Icath rustling against that young man
forty miles the hour, ami he in a frail boat
leaded up stream, with nothing but a
broken oar to wori with. Unless Almighty
God help them they will go under.
Ah. when 1 told you to take care of your
self you misunderstood me if you thought
I meant you are to depend upon human
resolution, which may te dissolved in the
foam of the wine cup or may be blown out
with tho tlrst gust of temptation. Here is
the helmet, the sword of the Lord God
Almigbtv. Clothe yourself In that panoply.
and you shall not be put to confusion. Sin
pays well neither in tills world nor the next,
hut right thinking and right believing nnd
right acting will take you in safety through
this life mi l in transport through the next.
I never shall forget u prayr I heard n
young man make some tlftcn years ago.
It was a very short prayer, but it was n
tremendous prayer: "O Lord, help us! Wt
And it so very easy to do wrong uud s.
liard to do right! Lord, help us!" 'i lial
prayer. I warrant you, reached the ear ol
ilod nnd reached His heart. And there nre
100 men who have foand out 1000 young
men, perhaps, who have found out that
very thing. It is so very easy to do wrong
ind so hard to do right.
I got a letter one day, only one para
graph, which I shall rend:
"Having moved around somewhat, 1
have run a-ross many yonng men of Intel
ligence ardent strivers after that wlll-o'-
the-wlsp fortune nnd of one of these I
would spenk. He was n young Englishman
of twenty-three or twenty-four years, who
came to New York, where he had no ac
quaintances, with barely sufficient to keep
him a couple of weeks. He had been ten
derly reared, perhaps I should say too ten
derly, and was not used to earning his
living and found it extremely difficult to
get any posit ion that he was capable of Ail
ing. After many vain efforts Inthisdlreetlon
he found himself on n Sunday evening In
Brooklyn, near yourchurch, with about t3
left of his small capital. Frovidenoe seemed
to lead him to your door, and he determined
to co In and hear yon. He told me his
going to hear you that night was undoubt
edly tho turning point in his life, for when
he went into your church he felt desper
ate, but whilo listening to your discourse
his bettor nature got the mastery. I truly
believe from what this young man told me
that your sounding the depths of his heni t
that night alone brought him ba -k to his
God whom he was so near leaving."
That Is the echo of multitudes. I am
not preaching nn abstraction, but a great
reality. O friendless young man, tt
prodigal young man, ) broken hearted
young man, discouraged young man.
wounded young ninn, I commend to you
Christ this day, the best friend a man ever
bad. He meets you this morning. le
spise not that emotion rising in your soul:
it Is divinely lifted. Look Into the face of
Christ. Lift one prayer to your father's
God, to your mother's God, and this morn
ing get the pardoning blessing. Now,
while I speak, you nre at the forks of the
road, and this is the right rond, and that is
the wrong road, and I see you start on the
right road.
One Sabbath morningat the close of the
service I saw a gold watch of the world
renowned anil deeply lamented violinist.
Ole Hull. You remember he died In hH
Island homo off the coast of Norway. That
gold watch he had kept wound up day
after day through his last illness, and then
husald to his companion, "Now, I want to
wind this watch ns long as I can, ami then
when I am gone I want you to keep tt
wound up until it goes to my friend. I'r.
Doremus, in New York, and then he will
keep It wound up until his life Is done, and
then I want the watch to go to his youti-
son, my especial favorite."
The great musician who more tha.n any
other artist had made the violin speak, and
sing, and weep, ami laugh, and triumph
for It seemed when he drew the how across
tho strings as If all earth and heaven shiv
ered in delighted sympatliy-the great
musician, lu a room looking ofT upon th'i
sen, nnd surrounded by his favorite Instru
ments of music, closed his eves ill death.
While all the world was mourning at Ills
departure sixteen crowded steamers fell
into line of funeral procession to carry his
body to the mainland. There w"re ,'iO.noO ol
his countrymen gathered In nn amphithea
ter of the hills waiting to hear the
eulogium, and It was said wle-n tli.
great orator of the day with sten
torian voice began to speak the fiO,
000 people on the hillsides burst into
tears, oh, that was the close of a l!f
that hnd done sotmi"h to ma'ie tie- w i I 1
happy! lint I have to tell you. young arm.
If you live right and die right, that wa i a
tamcsnene compared with that which will
greet you when from the galleries of heaven
the 144.00(1 shall n-cr 1 with Christ in cry
ing. "Well dole', thou good and faithful
servant!" And the iullucin-cs that on earth
you put in motion will go down from g 'u
erntion to gem-ration, the influences you
wound up handed to your children, and
their influences wound up and handed to
their children, until watch nnd clock nr-1
no more needed to mark the progress. I
cause time Itself shall h- no long r.
Labor Notes.
Russia's railroads stretch 2fi,(iOC miles
America has I !i,ihki,imni cotton spindles.
Gotham's dwellings urn -.-r;li $l,.'vrr,-
tKHI.UOII.
Over 2,rIKI,nnii acres of land arc irri
gated by fat niei-s in Colorado.
Seventeen cotton mills arc in course ol
construction in North Carolina.
American machinery makers projs.se
to oiM-ii a big show room in London.
At u steiiui shearing plant in Wyomine
recently : men sheared .'Slim sheep in one
Ju'- , I
Over 400 mining companies were T 1
ce'Jisied to mine gold iu the, Kosslniir"
gionACayea , f ,. ;
Several su... i a "iilou'T are-to m
tablishcd by .MajWfi'MichcIl si the Salva
tion Army on land iu California donated
bv Clans Sprei-kels.
The force of car huiMei-s of ,
of labor at tiie Wis onsiu Cent'-:
Stevens 1'oiiit. Wis., will be no
the addition of Htfi men.
Citv Collector Marl in of
V I :.lt'
-hu- Jit
..M-d by
hi.
holds that u depart inenl store is u. t run
tied to a liccn-e for ihe sale of nieai . and
referred the liia(l(-r to the Cot ho at -on
Counsel.
One of the ls-st known loan him-iiK in
the state is authority for tie- stall nu-nl
that the -ople of Sunt b I '..kola iu the last
four years have paid oil .toIU.i.ii.Oiio of
their obligations.
A statistical tiond has figured that the
t.foll.lice.tlill ri!.'aM-ttcs iiialiulartiiK'd illil
ing lM'li Would leach IMI.I2I miles if Ihey
were pla i-il end to end in liue, or would
Lilclle th nth li. ore than seven times.
A company has Is-eu organized ai Seat
tic. Wash., to develop the coal and oil
fields recently disco ered in A las.a ,;t."tu
tulles West ot .Iuii -air .t u i leet id i-iih- has
been ordered for the purpoe from this
list rid.
Ground has been broken for a new shoe
factory for Nashville. The pronioteis of
he plant are .1. W. Carter ami .1. II. l ull
ton, of the wholesale shin- tiriu of .1. W.
Cartel A Co., who will do business under
the I inn name ef Cartel , Full ton ,v Co.
the wholesale butchfi's of Itutle haie
foriucd a trust to uiiiintuiii prices and thei
inly In in not in the combine has brought
-uit imainst it for tf lo.teo damaues, claim
ing that the trust has prevented letallels
from buying meut from the plainlill.
A proclauiat ion has l-e-n issued bv the
iovcrnor of Tcxus culling u convent ion
it UofkMit't, August 2't and 2fi, ts!ir, for
Ihe puriK-se of considering the iiiiiuiiiaut
-ubject of a'iiiug to navigation the chain
)f bays, lakes and bayous along the t'ulf
.-oast, I nun ihe Kio iiiaude to the Mi-i.
sippi aiitl flu- mouths of tl:e tributary riv
ers, and devising ways ami means lor its
of c-oin pi islinif nt.
Ihe exports of yarn from l.ii-jl.nel din
ing -Ihe month of .lime were fs.it.;o,so
pounds, which is nearly Ihree millions of
IMiunds less than in. I line of last year. In
.he six months of lJ-iTi there were sent
way lJ!t,i:tJ.liMi -oiiinls; in imh;, r.'.i.ii'Mi,.
!'Hl -M-mids, and this year 1 l!i..VIn. mmi
IMiunds. 'I his shows a steady contraction
in f XM,rts tim ing the three yeais, the di -urease
Is-ing about t s-r cent.
A cliani'i- tin the part of the Western
railroads iu their mode of fixing rates on
the -!ijpmciil of live stuck, for which
;-li:iiice the stock yards here and nt olher
imHrf ant c t-ut res ami the stot-kinen of tho
I'l alls M issouri country have been plead
ilig for several years, is about to Is made,
liicie will Is- all abolition of tie; present
prat lice of f h.-ii iiug Ihe shipment of I i v..
stock at hi many dollars s-r carload and
i conversion to the more tliirahlc cus
tom of making rale at so many cents for
evt-iy ind jHiiiutls of live stock ships-tl.
Ship-rs iu Chit-ago arc actually send
ing frt-iL'hl from that fily to this by way
d ial yeslon, as u matter id' cfouomy.
That is tosay,they arc having this freit'lif
hauled by rail a greater distance than
from Chicago to New York, anil carrii-d
by sea three times that distance, in onler
to rt-at-h this i-ity. hen nn-u still liiut
worc born it would have taken lie- hi-ttcr
pait of a yeas to haul freit'lil from Chi
:'mi to Galveston, even if Indian and
other tlepretlattirs had H-r-mittcd it to
pass. Moreover, there was no Chicaifo
then, where a primely city now stands,
ind there was no Galveston.
t present it is estimated that there
are in the world's oceans 7,imki,iiiiii cubic
miles of salt, and the most astonishing
thing aliout it is that if all this salt could
be taken out iu a moment the level of the
water would not drop.
The small British torpctlo lsat Tur
bina attained ass-eilof lhirly-three..knoi
an hour near Spilhead, Lngland.
fulgurite has Is-en found in lioine,
N. Y-, which extends to a vertical hcieht
of'fortv-live feet. A fulgurite is a vill i
tied tills; caiiscil by liulilning sli iking
sand.
When the electric railway in South
London was constriiclcil.thc delicate cein
p'asscss in Grccnwifli ol-servatoiy, eiuh
iii i les oil', were ulicctcil and had to Is- ad
ail justed.
Lord Kelvin says the earlh has l-ceii
habitable for thirty mill ions of yi-am.
He does not Isdieve that it is so incon
ceivably old as tho earlier scientists de
clared. Silver horseshoes are made in Vienna,
Austria.
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-Isaiah