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It would bo a good thing in many ways Tor the King of Slam tto visit this country. It would broaden popn'ar Intelligence and compel recognition that Siam Is entitled to something more . Jthan the mere remembrance as the country of the celebrated twins. Few people have any Idea of the juantitlee of valuable articles which annually find their way to the dead letter office In Washington: At the annual sale of deed letter goods the purchases included watches, rings, Bracelets, spoons, coins books, clothf leg, fancy work and too many other things to name.

It la asserted by the Municipal Journal of England that there Is no country to the world where the loss .of life by fire is more frequent than in the United States. Lax enforcement of fire escape and building regulations is blamed for this deplorable state of affairs. The force of the ar ''fttment la better appreciated when It la remembered that American fire departments are the best equipped and

trained to the world.

• From May to November there is to . Bo held at Cork, under the patronage of the Lord' Lieutenant of Ireland, j and under the management of many of the most influential men, an International exhibition. The project Baa already received widespread sup • port. The exhibition will occupy 40 _ acres within the Hmits of the city of i- Cork, and its aim will be to “present a full illustration of the produce a- | manufactures of the present age."

I Ground has been broken for the St Louis exposition. It was frozen ground i the air bit shrewdly. May^lll-'omenr be absent!' Philadelphia, Chicago, ! Omaha and BnBalo suffered ao serious reactions after their big fairs that many of the residents of those cities .were sorry after the ‘•booms" had ; - passed that they had ever undertaken the colossal tasks of such exhibitions. May St Louisl>e more fortunate! But It cannot be denied that after an Enormous chow a dreary reaction Is prac-

tically inevitable.

Burely this is the century of eroluj tton. According to the Butchers’ and I Packers' Gazette, a large bologna and R aansage manufacturing concern to the United States has received a consignment of the new paper envelope designed to -supersede the ordinary cash tag used for bolognas and sausages. The consignment came from Germany. It is claimed that the envelopes are preferable in every way to skins, are cheaper and much more satisfactory from a bygenlc standpoint. Black as the outlook to Germany Is, there is nothing to Justify the belief that it will terminate In X general collapse, three or six months hcncc.-Many interests have reached a point'beyond which a further decline Is Impossible. The worst feature of the situation Is that it promises to endure at least a i" year, exclaims the Berlin Zutraven.

Ifvtetchword. Loans are granted with reluctance. Operations of all kinds are Brought to a haK. Corporate and-pri-vate busineea enterprise keepe close to | shore, investing and spending bn^y

The Children s Aid society of New York has entered tta fiftieth year. This aoctoty. tg -the parent from which all kindred organizations of the country hB*a. sprang. It maintains ntnntewn f and eight night school# and has I *10,000,060 during its ca r of philanthropy. Tha society • out the children who are net atK the public schools becaasa of

• of regularity It transfers them to ■ are an e< aa industrial char- . They*have at prsasat aa eareHt of soar 1S.OOO chlldrea and aa

JOHN WINTHROP'S DEFEAT,

JEAN KATE ■EUnLURi

■si. gasxsv nomtss-f gem. wai

erel principles; ana „e that which he could not tell this worn-

to Gate I lands.

CHAPTER IX THE OCTCOKX.

‘Aleela said that the Golden might open to them pleasant and, although she could not knot

what the fnture held to store, yet tb'elr friends, new and old. said that fate waa specially good to Harold Graham, and that he waa Bolnt heir with Midas

touched

to turn to gold.

Certainly, to a worldly sense, he was wonderfully prospered. Part of Ale' da's diamonds had been adrantamaly disposed of. and tbclr clrcumices were comfortable from the start. Little of luxury. Indeed—and Harold Grabcm demanded luxury for happiness—but they wanted for noth-

ing really essential.

Nevertheless Graham was not the man to be satisfied with this. He came to build up his fallen fortunes, he told her many times as excuse for Bis speculations; and build them be would. In that be waa also prospered. They choee San Francisco at first to

geonsl stance

which to live, and rented a charming

a quiet street, but ns Harold

grew more and more successful to his Wg:lures he grew equally more restless and dissatisfied. And after a residence of four months to the city they

home and a pleasant clrwhlch Aleela drew abonl

:entog ! 1 be be

He could not meet her eloqi eyes and tell her, even soften as he would, that there conld 1

two courses for this disease, but one

or—death! been over-

taxed; bis mind' heavily shocked; his sensitive nature sorely wounded. The change of air and scene bad somewhat benefited him, bnt the end must be one of these two.

d her vet

heavily

of EcrfecL and Immediate rest and freedom from care, regular hours and cheerful company and the abandonment of all business

at once.

She waa quick to note the changes of voice or face, and there was something under this man’s quiet words that Increased her fear. The days passed into weeks—three

• * n of i

his brilliance and success.

From San Francisco they travel through California, north and soul

to places charming to see and good Jo

live to; among stretches of almond and orange orchards and *vl

royal with wealth, and slopes aUve with eheep: hospitable people everywhere, and wonderful Ufe; even the

few poor remnanta of the old Mexican

families left In the rich lands of the

th, to their tiny homes among the i, opened their doors to the beautlAmerican woman, though no othof her cbuntrywpmen were wel-

comed; and it was a wonderful life to Aleela, sad with the sorrow of a dying remnant of a great race, but sweet to know that they cared to have her go

(eg them, and would tell her

stories of the old gay life before the Americans came and 'they were

ernsbed or driven out

Even her bnsband for a time regained bis old spirit and geniality, bnt after the first Ihe old wound, unhealed. brought added restlessness and

and he would bo satisfied

.with nothing; and' from one place to '■another, from ranch to town and village and back to the city again; and still"fortone smiled upon them, and Harold Graham conld not be at

or find peace.

weeks—full of anxiety for Aleela. With her fears wakened by the physician's words, she watched Harold unobserved. She forced herself to be light of beart and brilliant as of old; she sang to him when be desired; of read as he lav boon a conch, oc was silent She had always been true to him and loving; but there came now some deeper sense of danger that made her Irresistible. Her husband watched her often to wonder. For she saw—even love could not blind her

her husband was falling.

Not rapidly; not with any horrible

ier and more

. —-—.. uever at rest

toeyards | .anywhere; his black eyes, always fev-

' * Ight now. sometimes fart-

her face with a half-vacant

stare that made her heart sink, and

sick.

Until one day when three weeks were gone. Harold Graham knew little and cared less for what was pass-

_ idly; i

disease, bnt growing weaker irritable and exacting; nevi

wanting

nothing

that a luxurious taste conld but to the new home money easily gained was as easily and recklessly spent, uutil It became a proverb among their friends that Graham’s wealth ebbed and flowed like the ocean’s tide. He seemed never to think of the f tore or of the past. The wealth Aleda had hoped would be gained to meet the demand against her husband to the old home dty he spent as quick-, ly as It came to him. yet ever renewed tt No wish of hers that she uttered ever so lightly bnt be granted—save her one great wish to return to New York and her frirads there, and to dear every claim against her husbamL- ^ThLr wish was shut to her ml no word of her. ould not ever place, her wishes before bis. But be knew that the thought was with her; be could not know Bor as be.knew her without being perfectly assurred that her heart must long for the old familiar facta and voices and love. He loved her deeply. Intensely; but even so, be felt that she must need the love of those who gave her love before he crossed her way. He spoke of It no more than she; 1 the subject fell by degrees into silence: between them—for he even came to aver that he bad no interest to the' home-letters; and she lived this toner, Ufe alone. It wore upon' her. of The old color was something ;

Hea husband’s genial nature changed perceptibly as the days went by. He was always courteous to her; nothing came near her that could annoy or give her pain, so far as lay to his power to prevent; but he grew Irrltable as his restlessness increased. Trifling things annoyed him. Some- ' Is eyes frightened her with w icverish brilliancy, and a habit had gran upon him of railing his ^ * '■ head half mechanically as pato when Be was ever ao ■lightly troubled or annoyed. < Aleela noted this as'she noted everyung relating to bis weUtos; bet she ever dared speak of It to him. She waited ahd watched, and aa this habit grew alarmingly, she want -privately to aphyslrian endqatrtlooed him as He listened to sileoov to net story. ■B^ttod It .very simply, but his quick - t was left

criahly

tog around him as he lay to a stupor iborn of the fever to bis brain. He bad no strength to resist this fever, the clan said, when summoned t^/Kthlm. They were back to Ban isco and bad the best physicians

i dty.

three days and nights

knew no one, lying to a stop

' -te pr

they

Harold

ipor most

irostratlon the scarcely had

■to the

! For three days and nl

knew no one. lying li .of the time. CompleW .physicians said, and

■need'to say it

: Then—came the end. ; To every one save Aleela this end had been expected; to her It came Uke a blow. • They told her that her husband waa very 111 at the beginning;

but when they told her that there was no longer hope of his recovery, that

irself for the

worst not a word did she utter, not

with her

she must prepare beret

cord did she ut

a cry crossed her lips; but i •yes lifted to them in a terror that

itn

; (ration of

watching, she sank at their feet to an unconsciousness as ut-

they raised

ter almost as that approaching silence

to the room above. I iWJth the tenderest her and restored her

but it

steady and twee

it pity r to cc

but It was long before she was able to go to her husband.. Her eyes wen* eet as they met his in-

f the

etantly upon entering the room. Her face J waa pale, bnt the smile that lighted It for him was the old radiant smile that had come to him like the thought of an angel across the wild Waste of waters when the demon struggled to bis beart He thought of it,'meeting her eyes, for he was thoroughly conscious, and his mind strangely clear. He thought of it but it brought no pain; for pato seemed to have gone utterly from his life, and only an unaccountable peace to have

come to him.

, Stm too weak , for independent movement he tried to stretch his band to hen. a slow, faint glimmer of smiling answering hers; and going to hit*, not a quiver of her face or voice, she knelt beside the bed, and taking one of his hands to hers, laid the other tenderly about him. her face upon the

pillow close to his.

“Harold, dearest” she said, very Sweetly, very low. “you are better now? It is good to see you yourself and ^now that you recognize Aleela ago Ut- I have been so very lonely

without yon I”

A* 'Ineffable tenderness cam* upon bis face. It was as though life, fading, proved why life was given and taken—Its pathos and trials and sweetcrowded Into one moment's space.

He was Intensely weak, but his was clear. When be spoks his voles kas so indistinct that she nestled her

rheek softly and tenderly closer to his, that she might not lose the words. The mad beating and rebellion of her

beart be did not know.

“Poor little glrir he said, faintly. “What a good, true, brave wife you have been to me when many women would hare been—different! How emu I leave yon. my dearest—here In a Mange city; with no one but strangers to comfort you! For I am not deceived. Aleela. This strange clearness of mind and the absence of pato are th* end. My Ufe might have teen braver, more in*, perhaps; bat some aray everything la faUtog into peace. f can wish nothing rare that I might

low scarce whiter than the Ugbtcd

face.

“It waa cruel to keep you here." he added presently, his voice scarcely a whisper, with the fading life. “I knew that yon-longed—for tbo old home faces, darling. Now—you will go to them. God bless you and be with you—always! And If—In that Infinite world " And then came silence unbroken; and Aleela Graham was alsne with a breaking heart, too stunned to realise what Lad fallen upon her.

CHAPTER X. “and antxil"

The light of life dying from Harold Graham's face as the lilac sunset faded from the heavens, left upon the face of his wife the leaden pallor that Is worse than death. For a half hour she remained kneeling beside the bed, unable to believe that never any more would her husband's voice or smile stir her beart; never any more would his eyes seek hers for comfort; never any more would be reach out weary arms to comfort her. Never any more! She bent above her bnsband, standing at the bedside, and searched the ■till face. -. With, onq tnamhiinf tender hand she brushed Sack the black hair from his forehead, still holding breatth as though she conld not

lleve that he were dead.

•■Harold!" she said steadily, scarcely above a whisper. "Harold, dearest!” Bnt be did not answer—she knew now that he conld not answer—and aU the pent-up sorrow and pain were for one Instant concentrated in her face, her self-command gone, a bitter cry upon her Ups as she clasped her hands convulsively, driving herself

away from him.

"Then,” she cried, sobblngly, though there were no tears In the lifted eyes; “bear witness for me that It is John Wlnthrop, in bis pride and arrogance, baa brought this sorrow upon me." Then, with a swift, bitter gesture j of the hands, as though she would I sweep away this weakness, and begin

her lonely Ufe with the old

her l belle:

LIFE IN THE SALT SEAS. HOW BIG A CROP OF FISH IT IS SAFE TO HARVEST.

Mcoplr Yegatatlnn on alrnaU Kerri — Thrta

Keaaarlag tha Mlrroeri Which Marina Sail

Arn Two Gaaeral Clauas — Moat of tha Watar'a Xtanlxan* narrlea on I’lanU. To estimate with any degreo of pre-

cision propci

year

estimate with any deg i the quantity of fish ■ ■rly be taken from the i

r appears to be no easy task. Somo rs the yield Is b but this Is largely It la only after a long series of fallores to catch the old time abundance

cerel, herr

of mackei

can tell

InuUon in the from statistics

irring or cod that c

produclloi of this 1

approximate notion can b

right «

Ion. And even kind only an be had of the

amoont to capture In a single

season.

It is believed, however, that thfre Is a much better way to get ct the result, though It Is a trifle circuitous. In the ocean, as on land, animal Ufe depends on vegetation for Its support. There are many carnivorous creature* Ir. the water, but the little fishes and anlmalculme on which they feed live on plants. And In the water, as on land, plants derive their sustenance from inorganic substances which they manufacture Into living tissue. If, therefore, such a survey were made of the seas as would show how much vegetation w«« produced there, then it might be possible to figure out the amount of animal life that could be sustained thereby. Thus, !t has been found that an acre of cultivated land in Prussia win produce about 76 pounds of beef a year. There are naturalists who hope to establish a similar ratio between the vegetable and animal life of-the ocean. Karl Brandt, In a paper which has been translated for the latest volume of Smithsonian Reports (1900). tells something about

1 prow cadlly.

>ud al-

c door, the folds of her gown trailing about her. and the flowers at her belt crushed and falling Uke her

Perfectly self-contaim

calm, steady of voice and manner as

hopes.

ly self-contained, perfectly ndy of voice and manner as

aha rejoined her waittoa frionda to the rooms below—no tears upon her-

lashes, no grief upon her face.

“She does not care!” whispered aome among her friends, eyeing her askance. “Perhaps It Is true that her husband did not make her so happy as he

should.”

But the physicians, wiser to their science than her friends to their lore, said that this calm was worse than a storm'«f tears, and unless she were roused, she, too, would die. Some days previously the physicians warned her friends to notify her relatives to the East of the approaching that would fall upon her, and to urge them, If possible, to come at once to her. FoUowing this advice, a s sent startling them Indeed. for Aleela had not mentioned her husband's Ulness—with her nsusl thoughtfulness of them—lest It cause them unhappiness to learn that other

Ing of only tom, and

e aea there of vegetath 1, kelp and o size, which art

shor.

irganlsms, «

single cell, Uke the dla-

along the shore. The other embraces microscopic organisms, each consist-

distributed all over

ocean, though not flourishing at great depths. Plants need light, whether their abode be terrestrial or marine. Herr Brandt quotes Schutt as saying: “The sailor, who fancies he kas pure water under him. really sails everyicre in the midst of a rich vegeta-

them unhappiness t

grief had come. But Aleela, movi:

Aleela. moving quietly among her friends, knew nothing of this message, and her heart was heavy with longing for some dear home face and voice and touch. For how could she know that -a westwardspeeding train was bringing to her

two from borne?

Her mother and Beatrice! AU home faces were very dear, but these two from among them bolding warmest

place to her heart

And when preparations were completed for conveying the body home, and the widow to her heavy crapestill more a woman of marble by con-trast-showed no sign of softness or

midst of the friends

gathered for farewell came these two dear faces; and Aleela. with sudden revulsion of feeling was sobbing In her mother’s arms; and Beatrice, mourning above her sister, would not be comforted to the tenderness and warmth of her young beart. }* “PooFllttfiPLecfeT" Foot little ’La-

da!” shcykept sobbing.

But the mother never said a word, ■heart went out to the sad heart her daughter—both widows—and what conld words utter more than the ■tag arms, and tender, silent car-

tes?,.

So they took her home-a rad homotomlng—and every tenderness that love could devise waa gathered around the woman who had made rr.nshlne for that to her time of need was back upon her; and the days dragged by; and never any boor the less or more because of her grief; never the shadow of one star or one sun because her Ufe was darkened; never

it to Europe," raid Mrs.

Her 1 of he:

I go to day. as they sat in convar-

Then they

Field, one

to the breakfast room, wl

were alone. “The girls are r find with their trip last fall, and It wlU be ex cell eat for yon. Alccta, dear. We can remain away as long as you team. tod Uke to the East. You need

dear." to go.

anga. my d< • v- w* i

Bon." And this microscopic vegeta-

tion It is which sustains « and which corresponds to tl

J cattle fat

mal Ufe,

tien It Is which sustains

the pastures

where sheep an J cattle fatten. The seaweed along the shore bears a lx the same relation to the fishes as I forests do to land animals, no far

furnishing food Is concerned. The growth of terrestrial facilitated by the presence cl compounds of nitrogen. These

fertilizers produce the same effect In the ocean, and owing to drainage from the land they are more abundant near shore than out In midocean; tnt that

1 plants i* of certain hese same

they s the dev

animal as well as

are intimately connected with ■velopment of animal as well as vegetable Ufe there Is easily proved. In Germany much attention has been

vho has that In s about

acre. The

the subject, says tl : ponds the yield Is of fish to the acre. Is produce from th:

six times as much, whereas still others, Into which liquid fetlllzere drain from farms, give results about 20 times larger than those first cited. Consequently, in the researches which

are now be

, the cb well as

are no# being conducted Into marine life, the chemistry of the sea water, as well aa the abundance cf microscopic vcgeUble and animal forms, is carefully considered. AUention is also given to the presence of those species of bacteria which have the power of promoting and retarding the development of nitrogen compounds. When one reads about a ' plankton" expedition, he may understand by that expression a ship which is equipped with apparatus tor bringing up samples of sea water for such an Investigation as has Just been described. A net of very fine mesh is employed in

this work, and

up i naldt

are taken to count the Various organisms fonnd in a given volnme of fluid. Owing to the Incessant stirring up of the aea, figures for. one locality are bellejpd to be fairly representative of a wide area. But an ideal survey of this kind would embrace fre-

has t the 1*

been carried on to all latitudes in last dozen years, some o< these Inquiries were only for a few months. Two results have Urns far been reached by such investigations. MlImal life is to a!

accounts for this fact by supposing that the fertilizing material from the land la leaa diluted In the former regions than In the latter. The other conclusion which has teen reached la that Ufa la more atrandaat In arctic than to tropical waters, thus reversing the situation which Mats on brad. To explain ao^strange an^anomaly, it ts abundant In coM seas than in warm one*, though Just why this i hould.be te tt la not easy to aay. Perhaps the bacteria which favor the production nitrogen compound! are more annaa la the cue teaa teas te the «r. perhaps, tha otter ktefi. hawks u» and egaUa thus* cumL la la saw la trateral e* .s.-mesrs:

PISTOL THAT KILLED LINCOLN.

Thm Weapon la In tl

W«r Zlrparlcn Col. Calhoun M. Deringer of 1619

Kith A

lowman on'the lnt< r<-»t-

m M. Deringer i

Spruce street, takes issue with Archi-

tect Gcorgo Plowi

Ing question of Mr •hip of the plsto Wilkes Booth kill

Mr. Plowman's owner-

led President coin. •

Soon after the assassination of

President McKinley Mr. Plowman was quoted In the North American a« ing that he had the Booth we* In his pot<sesslon. He said that a

the shooting of t

American a« say-

's pon after

the shooting of the president. Booth In his nervous excitement, drop)

In his nervous excitement, dropped bis pistol on the stage of Ford s the-

stage carpenter picked It up pt it for some time. Then he

irge K. Goodwin, i »yhouse. Mr. Goo<

atre, Washington.

The and gave

ager of

and Mr. Plowman were assocl

Goodwin Hated to ny years.

Iter having designed 20 theatres

f the play! r. Plowmar

the theatrical business for man;

the latter having di and owned several.

When Mr. Goodwin died Mr. Plowman acted as executor of the estate.

A* ho declined to a

lion for his service, Mrs. Goodwin

rcept compensa-

Mrs. Goode

gave Mr. Plowman the derlnger.

a plate

name: “J. Wilkes Booth." The spring of the trigger has lost much of Its strength and the portion which sets off the cap is chipped. Otherwise the

bears a plate Inscribed with this

sprini of It

sets o!

Ise th

historic weapon is in good condition. Col. Derlnger, a member of the family which for many years manufactured the famous weapons bearing the family name, rays that he once before had occasion to look Into the matter, and that when the Plowman claim was put forth again he decided to get official data to back his state-

ments.

He has Just received this letter from assistant secretary of war: “Answering your letters of l«th ultimo, and 2d instant. In which you request certain information concerning the pistol with which President Lincoln was assassinated, I beg to inform you that the weapon In question Is in the office of the Judge-advocate general of the army and has been In the custody of the war department since the proceeding* of the milftary commission which tried tl

having been found. Just after the (ion, on the floor of the box

by the pi

assasslnatioi

occupied by the president.

“It does not have the name of Booth on any part of it. but has the

he left side of the bar-

letter 'P' on the

words In the rear of the hammer on the lock plate.” Speaking of the matter. Col. Dertoger said:

“I propose now effectually to settle tls claimant's ambition by my stateent and the letter which I hand you for publication from the assistant sec-

retary of war to me, which I Just celved from him. This full and

pUcll

quletous on this claim. ‘The facts are that the spurious pistol may have been made, as claimed, at Kreider's gun shop, Second and Walnut streets, but not the genuine derlnger which shot the president, for that was made at the old factory In toe Northern Liberties, where all the Derlnger firearms were made for tie Indian and war departments and Individuals, from the year 1806 down, to the death of the ingenious Inventor of the world-renowned rifles and pistols familiarly called the derlnger. “The gun barrels are always stamped 'Derlnger, Phil*.' on the breech of the barrel, and on the side of the lock-plate, as stated by the assistant secretary of war to be on the pistol to bis department. The letter ’P' referred to on the barrel means •proved,’ and was always stamped on each barrel after they were tested and proved, w There Is a little cap box in the butt of the pistol. When I examined it there were only percussion caps in it. left there by Booth, thnt had not been used."—Philadelphia North American.

Tb« Nalara of th» Aororm BorulU It has been known for a considerable time that the cathode rays are. to a sense, material, and that they are capable of being uefltcted by a magnet. The glow rfh.cn Is visible In the Irfterior of a vacuum tote is caused by fragments of atoms impinging-qo

dty ^

that eff light. Th* X-rays • same general nature. TBeab fragments are so minute that some even make their way through the pores of the glass and come ont into the air surrounding It All hot bodies emit such rays in certain amounts, and the new substance, radium, and others ol its class emit them even when cold. The rays appear to consist of atomic fragments highly charged with electricity. and when they Impinge on air. not too dense to obstruct them nor too rarified to permit them to para entirely without obstruction, the bom herd* J air particles emu a phogjAoreaccnt light, aa can be beautifully shown by experiment. Mace all hot bodies emit such rays, the sun must necessarily asad them forth on a huge scale and aa they strike the oator layers of the earth's atmosphere they prodnra tae glow that we know as tee Aurora. Why ibosrid these phenomena appear

afilhea

a:*"

ile aa the northern and a sad not all over the The rays to queatloa are

ta dirertlea hy a maart sad a magaetfc Uaes «X tore* are id aa te deflect the Impta* •ya to teas *taate toward tea STT* 1 At*tte*ra*M*teeg!*hr »to>to. Thla .tetos.ri.a I, fla.

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