LIVES ARE LOST IN A FIRE Big Sugar Relinery Destroyed in Half An Hoar in Chicago. A WILD LEAP TO THE STREET. rloyee la the Bulldlof. Were Caught. Almost Without Winilng, by the Rapid Sweep ol the Flame Two Men Leap Irom the StTeath Floor and Fall Into Mss of Seethifli Flamea. Chicago (Special). By a fire which broke out shortly before midnight in lhe plant of the Glucose Sugar Refin ery, situated at Taylor street and the Chicago river, that factory was almost destroyed, and it is said that IS :ncn lost their lives. The number of dead has not been established a yet. hut it is known tn.it at least IS were working on the seventh floor. The flames spread so rapidly that a man who was working on tlie Ibird floor had barely time to escape with his liie. It is not thought by the emtdoves of the concern t by the fire men that the men in the upper story oiild have avoided death. The plant of the refining company consisted of three buildings a drying house, seven stories in height, the main refinery. M stories high, and another .structure of four stories. The tire Marted in the drying house. being caused bv an explosion. It spread with almost incredible rapidity, and by the time the first of the Fire Depart ment had arrived the building was ablaze from foundation to root. It was impossible for the firemen to make anv effective tight against the flames, and in a short time all the walls were down. The building within a halt hour from the time of the explosion was a mass of debris. The firemen bent every effort toward wing the 14-story building of the re finery, but so inten-e were the flames that "it caught fire in several places, and at 12. iO a. m. it was evident that, even it it could be saved at all, " would be badlv damaged. 'lhe men emploved in the three lower floors of the drying house ran for the doors anil windows as soon as they hail linowlrdec of the fire, and all i f them succeeded in reaching the open air. On the third floor one man was at work. He was cut off by the dcnc cloui.s cf smoke that poured through the build ng and was compelled to make a run for fiis life down stairs. Hie man burst through a mass of flames w hen he reach- - I .1.- I .. ArrM nn.1 wns badlv ru me ii'nci vim", ...ij burned. Two minutes later would Have made it impossible for him to escape. LIFE INSURANCE FRAUDS. The Graveyard Plan Being Worked in New Orleans. Xcw Orleans 1 Special ). Life insur ance frauds of a sensational character are said to have been discovered in the New Orleans district. The officials and detectives of some oi the large Eastern companies believe they have clues to at leat a half dozen of the boldest graveyard schemes. Attorney MacBride. general solicitor for the American Adjustment Company nf New York, reached this city, the ad vance guard of a corps of secret work ers. So far six of the graveyard cases are said to have been unearthed. Twenty-two fraudulent policies have been traced down. The companies pay ing the risks have lost between $75,000 and $100,000. The full extent oi the business is not yet known. The frauds appear to have turned up in extensive form. The officers on the trail do not even conjecture to what extent it has gone. '1 he scheme that has been worked in New Orleans and within a radius of 150 miles of this city in the adjoining parishes is this: A man would apply for the agency, of a life insurance com pany. He would produce recommenda tions of an apparently satisfactory na ture, and be appointed to do business for the company. At his suggestion a physician would be named as the ex aminer for the company, whose duty it was to pass upon all applicants for pol icies. The physician and the agent un derstood each other and the deal that was to be worked. A graveyard case was run in. That was a policyholder who would soon die. The physician passed him and he took out the policy. As a matter of fact, the agent and the doctor paid the premiums, and the principal was pay able to them or to some interested friends. In a few months the policy holder died, and the proper death cer tificate was sent to the company and the policy paid. A number oi detectives arrived irom New V'ork and began an investigation. Congressman Russell Dead. Killingly, Conn. ( Special J. The con dition of Congressman Clwnrlcs Addison Russell, who has been ill for several weeks, has become critical, and his re covery is not expected. Mr. Russell suf lered two severe sinking spells, from which he was unable to rally, owing to lis weakened condition. Fire in a Palatial Home. Wellsburg, V. Va. (Special). Fire partially destroyed the palatial summer home of J. B. Vandergrift, a prominent Pittsburger, entailing a loss o. about $100,000. The fire started in the laundry and it is lielicved to have been caused lv the overheating of the natural gas pipes. Killed by Lightning. Erie, Pa. ( Special). The resilience of Mrs. Nanc- Sewell, of Gospel Hill, near this city was struck and almost totally destroyed by lightning. Mrs. Sewell was instantly killed and her daughter Josephine seriously injured. Nine Bodies Petrified. New York (Special;. Nine petrified hodies have been found in the cemetery attached to the New York Infant Asy lum at Mount Vernon. The asylum was closed recently, and it became necessary to remove the bodies in the cemetery While the work was going on the work men excavated nine bodies Coafcsses Killing Aged Woman. Houston, Tex. ( Special). Jim Wes ley and Reddick Barton, negroes, con fessed to the murder of Mrs. Lewis, mi aged white woman, shot to death (t Hempstead. The negroes were brought here for safekeeping. Secretary Moody may decide the question about the building of cruisers which has been raised by a division in the Hoard of Construction of the Navy Department. Some of the interested parties in the Pioeu Fund case would like it reopen rd because part of the award is to be jaid in Mexican currency. SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS. Domestic. After hovering between life and death since last December Mrs. Ada G. Den nis. the victim of one of the most mvs terious assaults in the history of the District of Columbia, died from the effects of her injuries. In an address before the American I -Missionary .Association rtev. uwigni -M. Iratt said the Indian can never be fitted for the responsibilities of citi zenship by the government. The V. C. T. I". at their convention in Portland. Me., discussed the question of the teaching of the effect of alcohol in the schools and the progress of the antmarcotic movement. 1 he greatest gas well ever struck in Armstrong county if not in Pennsyl vania, is sending forth millions of cubic feet of gas every 24 hours. lien. J "nomas J. Slew-art, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Re public, has made a number of appoint ments to his statT. The I'nited States Philippine Commis sion decided to enact a land registry bill drafted bv Commissioner lde. The first session of the convention of the American Missionary Association be gan at New London, Ct. The first general missionary cuivcn tn n of the Methodist Episcopal Church Lcunn at Cleveland, O. I lit missionary council of the Protest- 1 ant Episcopal Church began in Philadel phia The jury in Pittsburg brought in a verdict oi involuntary manslaughter in the case of Mrs. l,!a Wilkins, who shot her husband while trying to commit suicide. ' The iurv for the trial of Roland Mol- iueux ior the murder of Mrs. Adams in New York was completed and the taking of evidence was begun. President J. J. Hill, oi the Northern Securities Company, testified in St. Paul in the big merger case before Special Examiner E. G. Ingersoll. Col. Edward Butler, a St. Louis poli tician and millionaire, was indicted for being implicated in the municipal brib ery scandal. Foreign. There were lively discussions in the Britisli House oi Commons following the reiu-al of Mr. Balfour to grant a day ior debate on the Irish question and the Speaker's refusal to allow President Roosevelt's letter to the United Irish League Convention in Boston to be read. Preparations are' being made in India to send a whole brigade of troops to Sotnalilaiid to tight the Mad Mullah. It is proposed to ask the Abyssinians to hem in the Mad Mullah from the south while the British attack him from the north. The Lamlsthing rejected the second reading of the bill providing for the ratification of the treaty between Den mark and the United States in regard to the cession oi the Danish West In dies to the latter country. The German government was defeated in the Reichstag in test votes on the tariff bill. The ministry will now either dis solve the Reichstag, negotiate for a com promise or let the majority pass the bill in any form it chooses and suppress it in the Bundesrath. The Morgan scheme of transportation in London received a hard blow when th,. announcement was made that Spcyer Ero'.hcrs, who are financing Charles T. irkes' plans, had bought control of a large company hitherto allied with the former interests. John Morlcy has presented the library of the late Lord Acton, which was given him by Andrew Carnegie, to Cambridge University. The murderer of an English mission ary was shot in front of the mosque at Tangier, Morocco, by order of the Sul Un. The International Tuberculosis Con gress will meet in Berlin to-day, and Dr. Koch's theories will be discussed. The aniversary of the battle of Trafal gar was appropriately celebrated in Lon don. The British government lias inform ed Russia in connection with the lat ter's proposal that direct relations be established between Russia and Afghan istan that it was impossible to consider any change in the existing arrange ments without more precise informa tion regarding' the proposed relations. Ernest Roche, Nationalist, introduc ed a bill in the Erench Chamber oi Deputies providing for the separation of church and state, the bill being intended as a challenge to the govern ment to carry out the Radical pro gram. The Chamber rejected an ur gency motion. Killed In Row Over Coal Strike. Chicago ( Special). A political quar rel beginning with an argument on the coal strike and ending in an attack upon Socialism resulted in the death of Chas. Wulff and the injury of George Bowes and David Sculfz in the saloon of James Wallace, .113 Eulton street. During the discussion some one made an uncompli mentary remark about Socialists. Bowes, who is a Socialist, was offended. Some one burled an empty bottle and that was the signal for a general fight. Three Children Burned. New Haven, Conn. (Special). While playing near a house on Hamil ton street three children, Charles, Fran cis and Mary Ceccarelli, aged, respec tively. ), 6 and 2 years, were burned probably fatally by blazing oil. Mrs. l-'lorinda Jado, who lives on the sec ond floor oi the house, was cooking on an oil stove, when she attempted to refill the stove with oil while it Was burning. The oil in the can took fire and the woman threw it out of the win dow, the blazing liquid scattering over the children, who were playing beneath. Crushed by Steel Girders. Harrisburg, Pa. (Special). Two men were killed, one fatally injured and two seriously injured in the bridge and construction department of the Penn sylvania Steel Works, at Steelton, near this city. The men were painters and were working on a row of .steel girders weighing about 10 tons apiece. The girder on which they were working fell with them and the others piled on top of it. Eetteroff was crushed to death and Hirt died soon alter being taken out of the mass of steel. ' Looking After Revolution. Washington, D. C. ( Special). By order of the navy department the cruis er Montgomery sailed from Colon for Cape llaiticn. Haiti. On the way she will stop at San Domingo city, as it has been reported that a revolutionary movement has developed in that neigh borhood which may involve American interests. The British Art U, eas . Simla, India (Special). The military authorities now anticipate that a whole brigade of troops will be required to cope with the Sotnalilaiid difficulty. The regiments are preparing Ior eventualities. Four maxim guns will accompany the troops. THIS COUNTRY IS LOSER Decision in Samoan Case Said to Be , Against America. WOULD RESTRICT AMERICAN RIGHTS Swedish Ruler at Arbitrator ol the Issues Be tween the United Stales, Germany and Great Brltalt Growing Out ol the Samoan Rebellion ol 1899, Holds We Are Liable In Damages. Y.'ashington, D. C. (Special). An in timation has been received here that King Oscar of Sweden, who is aetin as the arbitrator of the issues between the United States, Germany and Great Britain growing out of the Samoan re bellion of iftw. will decide that the facts presented to him in the briefs of coun sel, which have beeir pending for nearly a year, warrant hint in proceeding to assess the damages sustained by foreign residents of Samoa as a result of the landing of a combined force of American and British sailors and marines, and the destruction of property incident to the ensuing fight with the revolutionists. By the tonus of the treaty under which the three powers agreed to submit these claims to arbitration, the arbitrator was first to declare whether or not the Amer ican and British were at all liable for damages, and. if so, then he was to de termine the amount of that liability. He has, it is understood, concluded to decide the first question in the affirmative, though it is stated here that no official tice to that effect has yet been con veyed to this government. The next sten is to fix the amount of damages, and this must be done by King Oscar upon the basis of the facts now to be "resented bv the representatives of the Governments concerned. It is not the amount of money involved in the decision that concerns tlie iiovcrn mcnt of the I'nited States, but rather the nunciation of a principle which, if ac ented as a nrecedent, would be most un palatable, and would so seriously restrict the assertion of American rights in for eign countries in case of revolution or rioting, jcooardizing the lives and prop erty of our citizens, that it would amount to the total withdrawal of protection. 1 his can never be admitted, and so it mav be Positively stated that, wnnc uie I'nited States Government will accept the .arbitration and pay any damages as sessed against it. it will utterly refuse to be bound by such a principle or to recognize it as establishing a precedent. Otherwise the United States Government could be held liable for enormous dam ages in cases where it lands troons upon the Isthmus of Panama resulting in a col lision with rioters or rebels even though the Government is solemnly hound by treaty to preserve free traffic, across the isthmus; for it is pointed out that simi larly the I'nited States was bound by a treaty in the case of Samoa to preserve the integrity of the titular government, and it was in the course of an effort to discharge this duty that the claims-were orignated. A MILLIONAIRE INDICTED. Colonel Butler Implicated in the St. Louis Bribery Scandal. St. Louis. Mo. (Special)"! The Oc tober grand jury returned an indict ment charging Col. Edward Butler, a prominent local politician and million- lire, with bribery in connection with the city lighting deal, in which $47,500 is said to have been disbursed among members oi the House of Delegates combine. Butler's arrest was ordered immedi ately. When the last grand jury ad journed its report contained the state ment that Edward Butler was tho man who paid the $47,500 to 10 members of the House of DcWatcs to secure the passage of the City Lighting Bill. The monev was said to have been distributed at the house of Julius Lehmann, each member of the combine receiving $2,500. Delegate Charles E. Kelly a fugitive from justice, is charged in an inc.ctment with bcin'r the distributor. Warnings to Missionaries. Tekin (Rv Cable). The new viceroy of Sze Chuen province, Tscn Chun Suan, reports that the Boxers have not been suppressed at Chen Tu and two other centers and lie asks the ministers and missionaries to refrain from traveling in Central Sze Chun at present. The Emper or's reception at the summer palace was attended by the diplomatic corps and the commanders of the legation -uards, ex cept In the case of t.ie -iri .sh minister, Sir Ernest Satow, he having declined all social intercourse on account of the mis carriage 01 justice in the case of the mur dered English missionaries. Another Railroad Consolidated. New York ( Special). It was an nounced here that at a meeting of the stockholders of the Pittsburg, Lisbon and Western Railway Company, held in Lisbon, O., the plan for consolida tion was approved. The consolidated road will be known as the Pittsburg, Lisbon and Western Railroad. Presi dent Billingsley reported that surveys are nearly computed lor tlie new ex tensions which are to be built ill Ohio and Pennsylvania. Quarrel Ends Fatally. Paint Lick. Ky. ( Special). As the result of .a pistol duel here, Dr. Ed Poyntz is dying at his boarding house and John C. Siler is dangerously wounded at his hotel. Poyntz has five wounds, while Siler has three. They quarreled when Dr. Poyntz moved from the hotel a few days ago. and the quar rel was renewed. Dr. Poyntz is the son of Dr. I.. M. Poyntz. oi Richmond, prominent in the organization of the Kentucky Confederate Association. A Great Bug Collectlo.i. Chicago (Special). A collection of 50,000 insects has just been purchased by the department of zoology of the University of Chicago. This great number of "bugs" was collected from all parts of the world by the late John Akhurst, a noted entomologist of Brooklyn, N. Y. The collection is un usually valuable on account of its com pleteness, and represents a large amount of careful work, extending over many years. Not a Work ol Necessity. Lacrosse, Wis. (Special). A Sunday shave is not a necessary preliminary to attending church, according to a deci sion announced by Judge Fruit in the Circuit Court. The defendant, a bar ber, had shaved a man on Sunday, al though there is a st;.t liw ,1. clares none but necessary work shall be none on tne sabbath. Counsel for the defense argued that it was necessary for a man to li ahavnA n 1... presentable at church. COMMERCIAL REVIEW. fjeneral Trade Conditions, R. G. Dun & Co.'s "Weekly Review of Trade" says: "Settlement of the coal strike re moves the only serious handicap to in dustrial progress. F'ivc months ol re stricted fuel production had begun to check the wheels at many manufactur ing centers, while there was a percept ible diminution in consumptive de mands at the purchasing power of the wage-earners steadily decreased. Trans portation is now the worst feature, and threatens to continue disturbing. That the railways are well oc.npied is evi denced by earnings for the first week of October, 3.5 per cent, larger than last year, and to.g per cent above 1900. "Inadequate supplies of fuel caused further banking of furnaces, but the effect ol a decreased output of domestic pic; iron lias been partially neutralized by larger arrivals from abroad. Prac tically no price can be named for imr mediate delivery of home iron, ami there is no disposition to make conces sions on distant contracts owirfg to the ibnormal coke situation. Fortunate!"?, '.here has been little interruption at fur nishing mills, nnd the output of rails, structural material and kindred lines is well maintained. Orders come' forward 'reely for the heavier lines, numerous rontracts being offered for steel rails or next year's delivery, and the plans tor buildings and bridges keep a lot of business in sight in beams, channels tnd angles. "Footwear shops re actively engag ed. Prices arc easily maintained. Leather is slightly weaker. Large im ports have weakened dry hides. "In cotton goods the feature was a purchase of about 250.000 pieces of print cloths. While quotations were not altered, the tone became decidedly firmer. In other divisions of the mar ket buyers arc only interested in meet ing current demands, future require ments being held back by evidences of weakness in the raw material. "Failures for the week numbered 206 'ii the United States, against 209 last year, and twenty-four in Canada, com pared with thirty-one. LATEST QUOTATIONS. Flour Spring clear, fj.10u3.30; bost Patent, $4.:0; choioo family, $3.7o. AVheat New York Nr.. 2. 75c; Philadelphia No 2, 71Vu"5.'tfc; Baltimore No 2, 72c Corn-New York Xo. 2, 69c; Phila delphia No. 2. ullaOOM; Baltimore No. 2, 4d'ic. Oats New York No. 2.33"foj Phlla dolphin No. 2, 31c; Baltimore No 2, 3on. liny Xo. 1 timothv, f 17.0017.50; No. 2 timothy. fl('...")0ai7.U0; No. 3 tim otbyfl3.(H)alG.OO Ureen Fruits nnd Vegetables Apples perbrl, fancy f 1 OO'Jl 25; fair to good per brl, 7;cSf 1 00; Boets, native, per bunch lcaTJic; Cabbages, native, flat Jittch.per 100, 75c $1 25; Celery, per ioz. 2,re40c; Eggplunts, nutivo, per 100, $1 OOal 25; Grapes, Rappahannock, per 10-lb basket, 12cSl4o, do, Western Maryland, por 5-Ib basket, 12Cal4c; Lettuce, native, per bu bos, 25c235o. Limn beans, native, per bu box, BO'S) ilOcj Onions, Maryland and Pennsylva nia yellow, por bu, 70c&75c; Pumpkins, antivo, each. 4c5c; Squash, Anno Aiundol, por basket, 10caT5c; String beans, native, per bu, greon, 25c&30c; Tomatoes, Potomac, per peach basket, 20c32o, Rappahannock, bor bu box, V)eii.r)")c; Potatoes, White, per bu 45u53c; Mary '.and nnd Pennsylvania, per bu &0n.03o; Now York, per bii 0ua3: sweets, per brl 1 20a?l 25. Butter, Separator, 25a2ro; bothered ?riam,22u23o; prints, 1-lb 25a2Go; Rolls, Mb, 25a2G; Dairy pts. Md., Pa., Va., 23o24o. Eggs, Fresh-laid eggs, por dozen, 2o23o Cheeso, Largo, 60-Ib, 12,Val2Xc; ids. iium, 30-lb, 12,al2,H: picnics, 234b 13b13,Yo. Lire Poultry, Hons, Hal Wo; old roosters, each 25a30c; spring chickens, llftlic, young stags, llallHo. Ducks Hailed. Hides, Heavy steers, association and miters, late kill, tiO-lbs and up, close se. lection, 12Xul3,'ic; cows and light steers ViaKWo. Provisions and Hog Products. Bulk clear rib aides, 12c; bulk shoulders, 12"io; bulk bellies, 13c; bulk ham butts. 10-e; bacon clear rib aides, 13c: bacon shoulders, 12c; sugar-cured breasts, loJi'c; sugar-cured sbouldors, 12c; lugur-cured California hums, lOo; bums canvused or uncanvased, 13 lbs. and over, 14c; refinod lard tierces, brls and 5(1 lb cans, gross, 113'j'c; refinod lard, socond-hund tubs, ll.'io; refined lurd, half-burrcU and new tubs, 11 Ho. Live Stock. Chicago, Cattlo, Mostly 10al5o lo?nr, good to primo steers f 7 40a3 50; medium t'.i 75a7 25; stackers and feeders f2 2.') u5 00; cows, f I 25a4 75; heifors f 2 2.Vv 5 50; Texas-fed steers f :J (KM 00. Hog, Mixed and butchers f(j !M)u7 40; good to choice, heavy f 7 40u7 47; Sheep, shoop u nil lambs slow to lower; good to choice wbethurs f:l 25u3 75; Westeru shoep 13 50a5 50. Last Liberty, Cattlo steady; choice tu B0u7 00; prime fli OOuG 50. Hogs, prime heavy f7 f0a7 65, mediums f7 45; heavy Voikens f 7 34u7 40. Sheep stoady, Best wethers f3 75u4 00 culls uud coin moo f 1 50u2 00; choice Iambs $5 505 75. . IAB0R AND INDUSTRY Carpenters at Guelph, Can., have or ganized. A union of the newspaper mailers has been organized at Indianapolis. I nd. Farmers in the Indian Territory a.re badly in need of men for cotton pick ing. City firemen at Hartford, Conn., have petitioned Council for an increase ol wages. At San Jose, Cab, the strike of tlje hod-carriers and stonemasons' helpers has been settled. A settlement of the trouble in the molders' shops has been reached at Guelph, Canada. The annup.l convention of loom-fixeri of America was recently held at Woon sockct, Khodc Island. The Tacoma (Wash) Trades Coun cil has declared in favoi of trade un ionists for political office, regardless of party affiliation. Glass workers at Pendleton, Ind., are on strike for an increase of 12 per cent, in wages. Every gold-leaf manufacturer in the country, except one, has adopted the new union scale. Steps have been taken to form a union by the journeymen barbers at Cambridge, Massachusetts. ' Five hundred and seventy-six firemen cost London $400,000 a year. Paris has 1 .74 J firemen, but spends a total of $500,000 on them. Among 600,000 laborers in Belgium there are 85.000 men, aj.ooo women and 15,000 children under 16 who work JAPANESE SYMBOLISM. Elilborat Rvatam Which Conveys Special Meanings. The Anglo-Saxon, in his self-asstn-nnre, tlilnlts that his plctorlnl symbol ism, which he linn borrowed chiefly from the Greek and Hebrew, is the only one contained In decorative art.' The anchor as representing- hope, the wlngg for aspiration, the crown for power, the sceptre for authority, the scroll or open volume for wisdom nrc the nmln features in bis little system. He seldom realizes that the Japanese have developed symbolism Into n sys tem ao extensive ns to make that of his own art-world clumsy and rldcu lous in comparison. To the brown men of Dal Nippon, Western symbol Ism Is puerile and ridiculous. Theirs represetitB the united labor of the poet, painter, sculptor and embroiderer. A thousand objects, nil attractive and a mnjority beautiful per se, represent spiritual counterparts. The system Is applied to kakainonns or wall banners, fans, garments and screens. If you wish to convey to a friend the senti ment of good luck, you send him a screen on which are painted or em broidered storks flying toward the sun. If the friend be aged the storks should be flying toward the nest, nnd if very iiged, the storks should be alighting. Where, on the other hand, deoth has occurred In some family to which you are attached, the symbol which ex presses the fact Is the cobweb with ot without the spkler. Here the Japan ese artists are divided. The realistic school introduces the spider to suggest the voracity and destructlveuess of Az. rnel; the Idealistic school omits the spider, nnd uses the web to express the thought that where the web Is there is no longer nuy human activity, nnd that even the spider which made the web has shnred a similar fate. Where, for example, n house Is in mourning, the Inmates should be sheltered with screens 011 which appear the graceful but sombre lines" of the cobweb. At least twenty birds are used to repre sent the different emotions, and three score of leaves, flowers nnd trees have these secondary meanings. Not nlone dots each leaf hare a meaning per se, but this Is varied again by juxtaposition with one or two other leaves. Tlw combining or grouplug Is a positive science in Itself. Most prom inent of all the symbols is the sacred mountain Fujiyama. Doubtless the ma jestic beauty and extraordinary isola tion of that world-famous peak Im pressed the people of the islands from the very first. By degrees it became n symbol of their own country to which all souls yearn. It was n mountain nnd also a door Into heaven. As n symbol it expresses patriotism, the hearth spiritual, and aspiration. When, therefore, you desire to present n screen to a friend let It contain storks, swallows and sparrows, bamboos, oak leaves, fishes, the Temple of Nlkko and Fujiyama, hut do not send one with a cobweb unless there be donth in the family, or one with the dragon of ra pacity unless you desire to insult hlm. Stars by llayllKlit. "Arc the stars visible to ordinary sight In the daytime?" asks E. Walter Maunder in Knowledge. "There is a widespread tradition that they nre; that if nn observer places himself ot the bottom of any deep shaft as of 0 mine, a well or n factory chimney which may shut off scattered light and reduce the area of sky ilhiminntiou act ing on the retina he will be able to dis cern the brighter stars without difficul ty. Of course, every one knows that Venus from time to time may be seen even at high noon, but then Venus at her brightest Is many times over brighter than Slrlus. Then, again, the assistance of a telescope enables the brighter stars to be discerned at mid day, but the telescope not only directs th eye mid greatly limits the area from which the sky light reaches the observer, but It enormously increases the brightness of the star relative to that sky illumination. Tho observation of true stars In full sun light stands in quite a different cate gory, Humboldt, who was much inter ested in the question, repeatedly tried the experiment In mines, both In Sibe ria ana in America, and not only failed himself ever to detect a star. Inn never came across nuy one who had sucaeeued. Much more recently an American astronomer set up" a tube for the express purpose of seeing the Pleiades by da.vlicbt. also with nn i.f. feet." An Knd to Footblndlus; In China. Soon after a Chinese cirl Is h feet are tightly bound tin in order te prevent them from. growing. The re sult is that when she becomes a wom an, Indeed long before this nevlml l reached, she cannot walk,- but only waddles awkwardly. At last, however, n goon time seems to be coming for these babies. During the Boxer dls turbances it was found t hat esr-nnp from the rebels was impossible for most or the women, for the simple rea son that they were unable to run. It Is believed that hundreds of tho pool creatures who would otherwise hnvt been alive at the nrcscnt moment wr killed by those ruflians (and afterward by many European soldiers, too). The Chinamen are said to have been so shocked that they luteud to put a stop to the cruel and absurd practice of footblndlug. So this Is one benefit that will come to the Chinese babies out of warfare. Sometimes it does look as if good could come out of evil. The Cause of lieribarl. v It has long been known that unliy glenlc conditions fuvor the occurrence of tlie disease known as beriberi, so prevalent In the Philippines and In other countries of tho EHst. It Is gen erally believed that its direct cause Is to be found In defective food. Major Post, of the British Imperial Medical Service, claim to have discovered n bacillus in fermented rice and rice liquor which he concludes Is the specific cause of the disease. . It pro duces In fowls many of the symptoms resembling those of beriberi in man. Moreover, fowls feeding upon ferment ed rice develop similar symptoms, lie ascribes the disease, then, to the use of fermenting rlee and especially the rice-liquor, to the use of which bever age the coolies are especially addicted, Children never, and women rarely, drink rlce-liqnor, and ueuce the Infre fluency of tlie disease lu uch subjects. I MOLASSES AS CATTLE FOOD. Horses and Males Hare Thrlred oil It lo Louisiana For Two Tears, Molasses has for two years been In general use In Louisiana for the feed ing of horses, mules nnd nil stock, and probably nine-tenths of the draught animals In the sugar district get this food, either alone or mixed with oats or coin. The animals like It, nnd are kept In splendid, condition by It. "Sugar mules," which are fed on molasses mainly, are worth from twenty to twenty-flve per cent, more than the mules on cotton plantations, which are fed generally on cottonseed and cot tonseed inenl. Molasses has been a waste product In Louisiana ever since the Improved processes In the manufacture of sugar have extracted more of the saccharine from It than formerly. It has been a problem how to get rid of It. The dis covery therefore that it could be used as a food for stock was of double value. Six months ago a factory was erected for the manufacture of cattle food from molasses. The process is very simple. The molasses Is mixed with corn or oats In nearly equal proportions. The mixture Is pressed into a solid mass and dried and then ground Into a fine powder. It Is like the cottonseed meal with which cattle nnd horses nre fed throughout the world. The horses, mules nnd cnttle are very fond of the molasses, and they do better on it than on any other food fed to them. They keep fat and are cnpable of ex traordinary work in hauling heavy loads. This one factory turns out 130 tons of molasses preparation a day; and the stuff is being rapidly substituted on the plantations for the raw molasses, not because It Is any better, but be cause It Is more conveniently bandied. So far the use of molasses for feed ing horses has been confined to Jsow Orleans nnd the sugar districts, but by this process, which enables It to be handled easily. It Is likely to be shipped elsewhere. Only a small part of the Louisiana molasses crop, which runs to from 30,000,000 to 50,000,000 gallons a year. Is used for horse and cattle food or in any other way; and a large proportion of it Is thrown away or burned in the furnnce with the bagasse and other waste and refuse. New York Sun. Cnild and the Coat Famine. Tlowevcr loving ami trusting two young hearts mav be. savs the Phiin. delpbia Saturday Evening Post, It is n foregone conclusion that they can in no way affect the price of "coal this winter, and it Is a brave young man who would take his fair young bride byihe hand and face the whole world with coal at $20 a ton. Therefore the weddings are being postponed by hun dreds of thousands until more auspi cious times, and everybody knows what that means. That there Is many n slip is nowhere more truly spoken than in reference to engaged couples, and n wedding postponed has but one chance in five of ever coming off. Worse than that, the coal strike and the consequent boosting of prices are going to have n similar blighting effect upon next spring's crop of engage ments nnd weddings, 'since only the fabulously wealthy can afford this winter to allow Cholly and Arnmlnta to hold down the sofa in the warm and cosy parlor until all hours of the night. Stern papas will enforce the early clos ing rules with unheard of rigidity when $20 coal Is being consumed In the fur nace. Parlor duets will become an un known quantity, Impecunious young men will have to go to bed Immediate ly after dinner In order to keep warm, and there will be no engagements fol lowing the winter season of tete a eteg. New Money For Old. There Is an unprecedented demand for new money. In reuchlng out for the evidence of wealth aesthetic tuste is asserting Itself In th? choice of the tokens of prosperty. New. clean, crisp notes are in demand, and persons do not hesitate to ask for them, There is a strongly asserted objection to receiving old, dirty, crumpled paper money that looks ns though It might be a vehicle for all sorts of disease germs. This fact is In evidence at the win dow of every bank paying teller in the land aud at the cash counter of every store. "Please give me new money," and "Will you give me a cleaner bill In pluce of this one?" are requests heard thousands of times every day. These requests are having their effect so far that there Is a growing tendency to pay out only the clean, unobjection able money. It is an Illustration, of the old truth that people get what they want and Insist on having. Every bimk will verify this fact." Old and objectionable bills go Into them, nut they do not go out to their cus tomers. They go to the redemption division of the National Treasury, where they are exchanged for new money nnd then destroyed. That de partment reports an Immense Increase In this branch of Its business. New York Herald. The Fay Authors lteueWe lu Japan, Japanese authors receive so little pay for work In, their own country that a native writer snys there Is no hope for any remarkable Japant'se work to be produced. A Japanese man of let ters, In order to live in bmi comfort, bus to produce nt least four "or live long volumes a year, and It is seldom ho lvcelveg as much as two hundred dollars for a voluminous novel,. In or. tier to llvo decently he must earn at least seven hundred dollars u year. It will be seen from these figures that he enn scarcely bo expected to do any tine work at that rato of .production. The only professional Japanese authoi In America at present is Onoto Wa tanna. Miss Watnnnn's striking sue cess in this country ought to eucourage other Jupnnese novelists to learn Eng lish and come to America. Harper'. Monotonous Poverty, Poverty would become monotonous If one didn't huve to stop hustling for bread and nient occasionally in order to hustle for a few other things. New Xorls Herald. POPULAR SCIENCE. Is It merely electrified matter, askt the London Electrician, or Is It some thing essentially different irom orl. nary matter nnd of a sennrnte nmt i dependent substance from atomic sub stnnces? Are we In the electron, face to fnce with electricity Itself as a thins npnrt from nintter (thnt Is, Is nn ei,t.. Iron Hlniply an ntom of electricity), or have we therein simply a minute, m,. terlal chip off an ntom, electrified to so enormous degree In proportion to ltt mass? When these questions are an swered they will solve ninny funds., mental problems In dynamical science, fnertln may be discovered to be eleetr). rnl in its essentlnl nnture, nnd eveg uintter Itself may provo to be nothing but electric whorls. Pr. Beslnndres. of Paris, has applied s fertile spectroscopic method to the determination of the rotation times of the superior planets. As the planet ro tntes one end of Its equatorial dlnmetet moves toward us, the other away from' us. The rotation will produce. Instead of n clrculnr Imnge of the planet Id the spectroscope, an elliptical one. Dr. Deslandres uses a spectroscope of mod erate dispersion with n wide slit and therefore employs a great part of the light of the planet. The method hat been applied to Uranus, regarding whose rotation little Is known, nud the observntlons show thnt the rotntlon is retrogrnde, as was to be expected. Iti velocity will be determined by later observations. The velocity of Jupl. tor's rotation agrees with the results from observation by other methods, The possibility of melting carbon and maintaining it In the liquid condition has been demonstrated by Dr. A. Linl wig. The hi'iitlnir was effected tindei great pressure in tlie electric furnnce, and a curious plienoiiemon noticed at 1500 atmospheres was a very brief full- . ure of the electric arc, the current re fusing to pass, even when the voltage wns much increased. It Is supposed that ns the carbon nassed into the liquid and transparent state it assumed n rare aiiotropic rorni. necomlng a non conductor. The exiierlment wns ton brief for a study of this condition, but was made to Include a sudden cooling of the molten carbon by a flooding wltb water of the Interior of tho nressnre vessel. Though niliiute diamonds were rei-uguiiH'u 111 Tlie gray powoer mus De tained, the result was not wholly satls factory. Sir Joseph Hooker, the famous bot anist and director of Kcw Oardens. has devised an ingenious and useful new pocket micrometer. By the sim ple adjustment of a scale to one arm or tne micrometer tlie length of an ob ject is recorded up to a fraction, and can be read off at leisure. One side of the scale Is graduated to inches, the other to millimeters. For microscopic work there is obviously great advan tage In the use of such an Instrument, ns a measurement can bo made with out moving the specimen or removing the eye from the eye-piece. The length of the arm of the micrometer Is exactly four Inches, and this Is graduated to tenths of inches nnd can therefore be used for larger measurements. The Instrument, says Nature, from which the foregoing' description Is taken, 1? small and handy, nnd can be easily carried In the waistcoat pocket. 'A dispatch from Geneva to the Lon don Chronicle says: A Swiss amateui photographer, M. Adolphe Gartner, re siding at Berne, has, It is said, discov ered the secret of color photography after a number of yenrs of experi ments. The inventor tnkes his photo graphs on glass, porcclnln and paper, and In any cojor, the best results, how ever, being obtained from blue, red and yellow. Hlg productions on glass nre veritable pictures, being true to nature In every detail. Even the shades of coloring In a -rose are easily distin guished in the photograph. The photo graph of a landscape, viewed from a distance, resembles a painting. Some of the bolder colors give better results than the quieter ones, and M. Gartner Is at present occupied in remedying this partial defect. The secret lies In the "bath" and In the developing pro cess, for the photos, It Is stated, are taken with nn ordinary camera. Many Continental firms are taking a great in terest In the discovery. A Tranereasor Hard Way. In 1804 a fugitive from Vienna with $250,000 in trust funds. In 1002 a slowly perishing pauper on Blaekwell's Island, New York his wife dragged with him down to the public almshouse In a foreign land. Such Is the suramins up of eight years in the life of Adolp'( Bettclhelm, alius Boedesch, Crime doesn't pay. Or when it does It is in ail exceptional case that proves thq rule. In Brooklyn borough this very year there was the case of a man who had been a thief nil his life. Ho had stolen $1790 and served eighteen years In prison. Results of his efforts, State board nnd $00.44 ner year aver age plunder. In Bettelhelm's case fright nnd con science opened a pnth to blackmail. His dollars went chiefly to buy the si lence of one who luiew where they enmo from. Sin worked a third degree of its own, nnd hns eclipsed the punish ment possible under the law. If men would learn some things as eusily ns they do others a very few such exam ples ns the Bettelhoim Incident afford would keep ninny from roguery. New York World. 1'arli Cnder Anns. One night last week there were font organized battles lu the streets of Paris, where the revolver was used and the pavements littered with empty car tridge cases. No value was set on the life of a passer-by. The roving bands of scoundrels had Issued challenges and come Into the very heart of the city, within sight of the Comedle Fran caise. TIn consternation thut prevails In Paris Is noticeable, and to this is added the fact that the street lumps are turned out a little after 1 o'clock. There Is not a soul on tho terraces ot the cafes after midnight, and people walk home lu the middle of the streets. The leaders of the different bauds, who bear the most fantastic names, kindly assure the. public that they have noth lug to fear, that tho warfare Is purely between one clan and another, and all they have to do Is to keep out of the line of flre.-EketcU,
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