END Or A MOUNTAIN-CLIMBER. Ala-laa Aavaalara that Canae4 lb Ialh of Pour Man. Owen Olynne Jouea. who wan killed with three guides while climbing the 'White Tooth" In the Alps three years go, was one of the greatest of moun tain climbers. The details of the ae cldwit which end.nl his life at 32 are recounted by Harold Spender In Mc Clure's Magazine. Jones was a Bafe and scientific climber, and his death was due to no fault of his own. The five 'men. la the party, tied together with a rope thirty feet between man and man, proceeded in this order: The guides, Kurrer and Zurbrlggen, first, then Glynne Jones. Vulgnler, another guide, and F. W. Hill, who was a schoolmas ter like Jones, and who, like him, pur sued mountain-climbing as a sport. Corning to a difficult buttress ten feet high. Kurrer, who was In advance, could not find a hold. It was necessary for him to mount first, and then pull the others up when he bad secured foot hold; so Zurbrlggen and Jones put an he-ax under him to stand on, and crouched down to hold It. As they could uot see what Kurrer was doing above them, they were unprepared for a sudden shock. It 1 evident that these men were de pending on Kurrer's success in getting the hand hold for which he was reach lug. Mr. Hill, who was some feet be low the group about the ice-ax, saw rnrrer slip. He feil upon the two ob livions men beneath him. All three went, striking Vulgnier, who stood be tween Hill and the three falling men. HU1 had Instinctively turned to the rock to get a firm hold, expecting to be carried away with the other men; but after a few seconds be realized that he wa safe and alone. Looking round, he aw his companions sliding at fatal speed' down the rock Into the abyss. Jietweeu him aixl the unfortunate men, w ho were being hurled to sure death, be saw thirty feet of rope danglng from bis waist. The faithful Vulgnier had fastened It to some point In the rock to protect his master. The weight of the tour bodies had broken the rope, and this caved Mr. 111118 life. After two days of hardship, climbing lone, Mr. Hill arrived at the hotel. The lesson here for nil climbers, those w ho niiike a sport of it and jest with death, und those who, In unsought predicament, need to know how to climb, Is this: Those men blundered by allowing the fate of three men to depend on one man's hnnd-hold. Again, so far ns Is possible, every man In a vllmbing party should know what the Mhers are doltig, in order not to be tak--u unawares, as were the unfortunate men who held the ax under Kurrer's feet. QUEER CASE OF HYSTERIA. Victim Wan DiM inctlr Murketl by the Oevll (She Thought f'oueaaed Her. A series of extraordinary events re oetitiy took place at Kodez, France, which have excited widespread inter est among all cIukscs. The circum stances were thoroughly investigated by a representative of a Paris Journal. The scene of the occurrence was the wphau asylum of Grease, near Ijilssac, aiu) they concerned a member of this isylum, by name Sister Saint-Fleuret. 3'lie following Is the result of the In vestigation, obtained from absolutely creditable sources and of which he guarantees the correctness. There has been at the orphan asy lum for the past twelve years a sister, originally from the Canton of Bozouls, who is afflicted with a species of mad ness which makes her believe that she is possessed by a devil; her sister su perior, the other sisters of the asylum and nearly all the ecclesiastics of the rouutry have a slmiUir Iiellcf In her miction. The diswsc, according to the physl ?iuns, Is merely a species of hysteria; natural prodlsKslti(n which became cute undT the influence of the sur rounding atmosphere. Hut the super natural features are the result of true iuto-suggotloii. In her paroxysms the tuHerer utters piercing orlcs of such In leualiy that the peasants hear them at great distance from the convent. Dur ing these attacks tlie patient believes herself to be bitten or burnt by the (evil In this or that portion of her ody. The autosuggestion Is so strong It these times that Immediately upon the disappearance of the paroxysms tlMrc is found m that iortlon of the body where the suffering la most In teuae, either a burn of tlie skin or the knprtnt of teeth. Mister Knint-Fleuret has a horror of every religious object and the nearby presence of a figure of Christ of a book af devotions, or of any sacred Image Immediately throws her into an almost rabid At. The most curious ctreum Itancc is that she need not see these bjects. she feels them, she divines them when they are brought near her rven- though carefully hidden, and she Immediately rushes at them to destroy. Further, she frequently divines the thought of persons who seak to her uid she reHnd to them in their own aiigiiage whatever this language may X. Although she Is a simple peasant vbo has never received the least edu cation, Hlster Haliit-Klciirct III her par ixyama speaks Greek, Italian, Russian, tfingllsh and (ierman. She always re raouds fluently In the language what tver it may be In which she is ad !r eased. KNEW ALL THE SYMPTOMS. Doctor Able to Make a Moat Won dcrfal Prognoala. One of the anecdote related by Dr. 8. Wlf Mitchell In his story, "Doctor Mortb and HI Friends," might well be I personal experience of the author, roe hero. Doctor North, was traveling from Marrtfbnrf by the night train, -wktok wae crowded. la one of the can lie found a man stretched across twt' eats, asleep. He wakened blra, begged pardon for disturbing him, and asked for a seat. After a little time the two! entered Into conversation. At length the man asked, "Do you know Dr. Owen North?" Itather astonished, I said, "Yes." "What kind of a man is he?" "Oh, a very good fellow." "He U like all them high-up doctors. Gets big fees, doesn't he? I want to know." "No," said I. "That is always exag gerated. Why do you ask?" "Well, I've bad a lot of doctors, and I ain't no better, and now I haven't much money left." Vpon this, my friend confided to me all his physical woes In detail. We parted before, daybre&fcu It was Ami dark in the car for either of us to see plainly the face of the other. About ten the next day the man en tered my consulting room. As I should not have known him except for a rather peculiar voice, I, too, remained uniden titied. I could not resist so excellent an opportunity. Looking at hiin, I said: "Sit down. You have a pain In your back." "That's queer! I have." "And you nre blind In the left eye, and your digestion Is bad," and so I went on. At last he said, "I never saw a doctor like you! It scares a man, 'most. Can you cure me?" I said, "Yes," and wrote out direc tions. It was really a simple case. When he produced a well-worn wallet I declined to take a fee, and said: "I owe you for the seat and the good sleep I disturbed last night." "Well, I declare! I see, now! You were the man. But law! why did you give it away? I'd have sent you tho whole township." PRALINES OF NEW ORLEANS. Delicious Candy Which la Bold on the Rtreeta of Old Town. "Among me toothsome memories of bygone years nothing in the form of sweets or candy appeals so keenly to the Ixulslanlan as the praline," says Roliert Mitchell Kloyd, according to the New York Mall and Express. "A stran ger visitiug the city and desiring to find some of this diiinty would proba bly go to the first confectioner's shop to be waved out of tlie door by the hand of the French maiden In attend ance. 'Non monsieur; on vends ca sur la rue!' (No, sir; they sell that in tlie streets!) "The manufacturing of the real pra lines seems to be tlie accepted right of the descend ants of the old Indians whose blood has been Intermingled with French negroes. The candy is always curried about in the morning, freshly made, on small neatly covered trays by men only. "In tlie making of tho praline the In dian obtains from the hogshead of mo lasses the sugar that has granulated from the liquid and been preciptated to the bottom. This is flavored more highly than the ordinary sugar-house product, ami when rebolled and cooled lms a most attractive and delicious taste of Its own. I'ecan nuts are care fully cracked and taken from their shells so that the two halves of the nut are unbroken. The boiling thick sugar Is then poured out on a flat stone In little puddles of about three Inches in diameter, Into the surface of which the pecan nut meats are carefully bunched in conical heaps, with Just enough of the hot liquid sugar added to hold them in place." Scientific Agriculture. Secretary Wilson believes that not enough attention is paid to scientific agriculture by the colleges of to-day, and he has taken up the agitation of this matter as a hobby. Wherever he makes a speech he tells his hearers that his department utilizes the services of every young man It can find who has had a thorough training In some branch of scientific agriculture. There Is a great demand for this kind of service, and the department has the utmost dif ficulty In holding on to Its experts be cause of the growing outside calls that are being made on them. There are about two thousand people In the De partment of Agriculture who are en gages! on scientific agricultural work, yet hardly one of them came Into the government service fully equipped. Sec retary Wilson calls attention to this fact to emphasize his statement that the college should give more thought and attention to the development of agricultural sciences. There are some fifty agricultural colleges In the coun try calling for competent teachers, and some sixty or seventy agricultural ex periment stations, where there Is al ways an opening for a trained scientist There is money In becoming an agricul tural expert, and Secretary Wilson thinks that our young men would do well to choose such a profession rather than the overcrowded fields of luw and medicine. Brooklyn Eagle. Coloring Preparations. The number of artificial coloring matters prepared since PerkliuV dis covery nearly fifty yturs ago of tho preparation of aniline dyes from coal tardus been enormous. It Is estimated that at the present day over 3,000,000 different Individual dyestuffs are easily accessible to our Industries, while at least ir.MK) form the subject of patent specifications. The number of color ing matters furnished by nutural agen cies is comparatively small, ami those who do not exist threaten soon to be Ignored In favor of eoMnr derivative. A woman has to ask her friends' permission to wear a new style of hat, and her husband's permission to buy It. What a struggle a lick man make for life, considering that there It lit tle In It but whlDplop. IN CHICAGO GRAIN DURING the last days of sum mer wheat and oats pour into the grain elevators of Chicago at a great rate. The grain doesn't all stay there by any means. There wouldn't be room for it. Trains are constantly lacking Into the elevators BJid boats pulling up to their side to fake on loads of tlie grain and trans port the cereals eastward. Chicago is the chief depot of the country for mak ing; thetransfer . from the producing points to those where the grains are to he prepared for consumption. Most of the great elevators of the city are located where they can be reached by both water and rail, for white the heavy receipts come by rail the most of the big shipments out of the city go by boat. If the Chicago el vators were divided Into stories, as are ordinary buildings, they would be from ten to fifteen stories In height. Most of them have narrow upper sections only about half as wide as are the main portions. These higher portions re used for machinery and grain trans ferring devices, so there Is uo need for as great width as the lower floors, where the grain Is stored In bins. When a tralnload of grain arrives at an elevator the cars to be unloaded are backed right Into the elevator on a track that runs down the center of tlie building. At frequent Intervals along the floor there are trap doors down which the grain may be emptied. The boxcar la stopped with Its side door opposite one of tlie traps. The nr door Is entered and a man with a steam shovel climbs intilde. A steam shovel is made of Itoards fastented to gether and Is about three feet wide by four in length. N-ar the top are two handles by which the workman may pull it about. On the opposite side and near the bottom of the shovel are fas tened the two ropes which by menus of steam power pull the shovel forward .neb time after the workman sinks It .lowu Into the wheat. As the shovel lowers the wheat lu the car the work man removes, one after OJiother, the Hide board which were placed one above tlie other In the car door to hold the wheat while It was being trans ported In the car. As the wheat is thus being shoveled jut of the car and down Into u re ceiving bin below the floor, the machin ery Is sturted which operates a trans fer belt that moves through tills re ceiving blu. The belt la fitted with cups which 1111 themselves as they pass through the grain. Up, up mount these cups on the belt until they reach tlie top floor of the elevator, perhaps 100 ur 170 feet above the point where they ire sturted. Here aa the belt turns lu the descent the cupa empty their loads of grain into bins which are to hold the cereal but temporarily. With hutes at their bottom these tempo ary bins are connected with the weigh ing bins on the floor Just below. The weigher, by a system of levers con trolling a cutoff, drawn Into the In- losed weighing bin as much wheat us he pleuw-s. When the yard rises In dicating that the amount of grain for which lie gauged the scales has poured into the bins he cuts off the stream -ill records the amount which has been 'i'lghid. Ity4aiiother lever the platform of the enlcs can be oH'iied and the wheat Imppcd Into a clinic which lends to he floor below. Here a unique contrlv .nee curries tlie grain to any of the toroge bins desired. Two wide rub ber belts, full three and a half feet iriMid, extend from one end of the ong building to the other. Tho chutea rom the various weighing bin depend list above one or the other of these hells. The belt are operated on roll- GRAIN CAR RECEIVING ITS CARGO. ELEVATORS.... City Has Remarkable Facilities for Handling All Cereals.... ers which curve up In such a way at their ends that the lelt is made to curve up In a corresponding way at the edges. On each side of the belt mi the surface of the floor Is the rail of a track which extends the full length of the belt. At various point along the floor are openings Into the bins below. To get the grain, which has been dropped from the weighing bin chutes to these flying belts, into the lower bins requires the use of still another unique device which runs od this track. This device is a receive for the grain, and into this receive! the grain is thrown from the belt. Long chutes lead from these storage bins te tlie places where the cars or boats come to be loaded. In an elevator vicited by a newspaper correspondent there were eight mov able chutes leading from as many bin to the pier of the ship, where the boatt came alongside to receive their car goes. The elevator hud a capacity ol almost 2,000,000 of grain, and tb eight bins for loading boats each had a capacity of 5,000 bushels. The fore man In charge of the ship loading ba! an arrangement for telling how inufl grain there was in the bin, which mad it unnecessary for anyone to visit tin bin and sec how big a supply It con. talned. A rope reached over a pulley and Into the storage bin. A heavy weight was attached to the end In tb bin. The other end of the rope reach ed to the first floor of the elevator. Various marks were on the wull and at the side of each, such and such s number of bushels of grain was mark ed down, the larger numbers being to ward the liottom. A knot was tied it the rope and when a test was made bj loosening the rope and letting down the weight to the surface of the grain the foreman could tell Just how muct remained lu the bin. By ropes th workman could also open or close 8 valve, shutting off the grain or lettlni It flow down the chute from the bit Into a bout. When being filled the boal comes alongsido the pier and bei hatches are opened and as manj chuts as can be used which Is, o) course, determined by the length ol the vessel are placed In operation The chutes can be swung about from side to side, and there have been In stances In which six of them wer employed at one time In sending grail down Into the hold of a long steamer. lkwu the center of the elevator It a second truck on which is run In tlx freight cars to be loaded with grain. Cars are filled In a way somewhat sim ilar to boats, but one double-kneed chute Is used for each car. The car li rolled under the bin which Is to b emptied. A swinging chute connectec with the bin Is pulled up to the sld of the car. At the end of tlie chut is a double spout, tlie ends being slightly turned to one side so that thej will go into the door of the car, and pointing almost In opposite directions so that they will spread the wheat af much as possible. The Largest Known Tree. What undoubtedly Is the largcsi known tree lu the world has been dls covered on the government reservatloi far up In the Sierras, lu Fresno County California. Six feet from the ground I, took a line 1M feet 8 Inches long to en circle: the tree, making It over 51 fee hi diameter. ! j i It is hard for the. men to give satis faction: When they don't taJK tin women claim they are grumpy,! ami when they do talk, the wo roc q say Some men show their arret deslrei m plalnlv that thay are fulfaj'. yfN&cience ferffvention Dr. Gibbes has succeeded In photo graphing the eruption of typhoid fever before It could either be seen or felt. II used autochromatic plates and made a number of exposures as quickly as possible. The British admiralty is testing a small boat, carrying two hundred pounds of gun cotton, which guided by wireless waves encircles a warship and can be exploded to sink an approaching submarine torpedo boat. - A new and absolutely correct raethod of determining the value of diamonds has been discovered by a French inves tigator. The brilliancy of a diamond Is shown by the degree of Its fluorescence under the violet light of an electric arc lamp. Two German investigators conclude positively that t.re Is nothing in the popular belief that hay fever is pro duced by irritating pollen from plants. The disease is evidently produced by bacteria of some sort, but bow it gets Into the system is unknown. Much attention has been attracted in England, and some apprehension arous ed, by the discovery of cracks in the walls of .St. Paul's Cathedral. Experts think that the opening of underground railways and sewers in the neighbor hood of the great structure Is respon sible for the damage. One of the sug gested methods to secure the safety of the cathedral, at a cost of about $1,000, 000, is to underpin its foundations by carrying them down about thirty-five feet to the solid blue clay which under lies London. The remarkable fact that the earliest known ancestor, or primitive type, of the modern whale bore heavy armor ;m its back, in the form of strong, bony plates, has recently lieen set forth by the German paleontologist. Dr. O. Alx'l. The plates occasionally found associated with remains of the prime val form of whale, the extinct zeuglo dou, have generally been regarded as having belonged to gigantic turtles, but Dr. Abel shows that they were part of the skeleton of the zcuglodon itself. They resemble In their character the Impenetrable bony shells of the huge glyptodonts that formerly inhabited South America. The suggestion is made that at the time when they carried ar nor whales were amphibious creatures, living on the coasts and needing special protection from breakers and from sharks. Colors are an interesting feature of bacteria lo which M. Henri Coupiu has been giving special attention. Many of the bacteria produce coloring matter, and most of these are themselves col ored, the pigment being within the or ganism, but there are colorless mi crobes, like the green-staining bacillus fluorescens, that spread color Into the surrounding medium. The colors are produced in light or darkness, oxygen being necessary and heat unfavorable. The best known of the color-forming bacilli is bacillus prodigiosus, whose beautiful red colonies often appear on foodstuffs, like bread, and form the spots of "blood" once supposed to be of uiiracul.us origin. Also familiar is the bacillus syncyauus, giving the pe culiar appearance to "blue milk." The bacillus polychromogenes of wells and conduits Is noteworthy for Its produc tion under usual conditions of blue, vio let, red, green, yellow and various spec tral shades, and, on solid media, of a beautiful indigo blue. The purple bac teria differ from others In causing tlie phenomena of assimilation, and they are all sensitive to light. SHARED FATE OF LOT'S WIFE. A Mun and His Ilurro Turned to Hock Halt In the Colorado Ueaert. George H. Tucker, a mining prospec tor, recently returned from a trip through the Mojav and Colorado des erts, tells a remarkable story of tlie discovery of a petrified man and burro In one of the large salt fields that abound there. He says: "One of the most desolate places In the Colorado desert is thirty-two miles southeast of Danby. Here is a large deposit of rock suit fifteen miles in length and from one and one-half to three miles In width. There Is ;iot a spear of grass or any kind of vegeta tion. In many places the rock salt crops out of the earth, and anywhere In this section rock salt can be obtain ed by digging ten or twelve Inches. No one knows how deep the salt goes. A number of prospect holes have been sunk, but the great amount of water encountered at a depth of twenty-five or thirty feet makes further mining Impossible without apparatus for pumping. Some ten years ago an effort was made to bring this Immense de posit of salt Into commercial use. Two railroads were built to connect the rock quarries with the Santa Fe. It was found necessary to build a house In the middle of the deposit, and for this purpose enough blocks of rock salt were cut to build a shanty 14x,'W i'eet In dimensions. A flooring and roof composed of the peculiar kind of earth that exists In that vicinity completed the building. This salt house was used for the purpose for which It was erected. But in a short time the salt mining operations were discontinued, and the salt, bouse was abandoned to the coyote and desert owl. "For at least seven years before we visited this building, about a month ngO',' It had not been Inhabited, and nrobahly very seldom seen by any one. During the snmnier months In this lo .in1lty tine saline dust Is blown In great olouds through the desert. The heat I almost unbearable. Whit water la found ! undrlokable, and woe to th prospector who finds hlmaaif la tibia aectlon with an empty canteen. A pe culiar feature of the climate If that; no matter how hot the day, the ulgbt la Invariably cool, even cold enough for forming Ice. "During the summer of 1900 a Swede named Johnson, who had been pros pecting In the vicinity, started to cross this dry lake of salt to Old Woman's Springs. When nearly half way across a terrible sandstorm blew up. He trudged on until be came to the sail house, where he and bis burro sough! shelter. Under the eaves of the houn he found a number of galvanized tanks, partly filled with rain water. He con sidered this a lucky find, for his can teen was almost empty. He drank hit fill of the water he found and per mitted his burro to do the same, Th night was cold and the storm con tinued. He determined to camp in th hut over night The dead erobera ol the fire were still to be seen when wi visited the place, evidencing the un usual severity of the weather. "When we opened tbe door to' toil desolate shack we were horrified at seeing what seemed to be a marbU statue lying on the floor. The bead was of alabaster whiteness, the hull and whiskers having fallen away. Th body was outlined under a thhi blan ket The sight was so uncanny thai we hesitated to remove the blanket but finally mustered enough eouragi to do so. The body had undergone ft singular transformation, being nothing less than complete petrification. Tb substance was of a nature of gypsum, very friable and pure white In color. The outline of the body was perfect "The darkness of the Interior at first prevented us from seeing the burro, which was standing in one corner. On of our party advanced and la Id bit band on the animal, when it fell ovel against him. The burro bad under gone the same transformation as Itf master. The body of the man wai given a decent burial near the house, and the burro will be sent to tht Smithsonian Institution. 'The explanation of this strange pbe nomenon is to be found in the kind ol water that was drunk by the man and the burro and in the kind of earth thai composed the roof and floor of the salt habitation. The water is heavily charged with chloride of sodium. Th earth that had been used for the roof ing contained chemicals which were taken in solution by the rain water aJ it dripped through the galvanised tanks. "After drinking freely of this watel the man and his beast had evidently frozen to death and were gradually petrified." The Choice or Two Kvils. An ominous silence greeted Bobbyi entrance. There was a wild look in nil eye; his clothes were disarranged, an4 there was just a suggestion of blood about his mouth. Mamma frowned se verely, and papa hid himself behind his paper. "Ahem:" began mamma. Bobbj squared his shoulders, and prepared for the coining attack. "Ahem! Don't you know, Bobby, that it's very wrong of little boys t fight?" Bobby pretended to find a point ol Interest in the pattern of the heartl rug. "Haven't I told you, Bobby, that it't very wicked to fight?'' demanded mam ma. In a tone that was meant to b sorrowful. Thus challenged Bobby fell back oi argument. "He hit me first, mamma," be plead ed. "Ah, but that doesn't make any dlf fereuce. Nobody loves little boys whi fight." Bobby pondered for a few momenta and then his face brightened. "Is that so?" be asked. "Yos, my dear, noliody will love yot if you are always fighting. And loot at your clothes!" "Well," said Bobby, with slow delib eration, "then, mamma, I finks It's bet ter to be unloved!" Something between a shriek and I laugh escaped from papa as he tlei from the room. London Judy. Didn't Mind the Cue. They were performers In some am ateur theatricals. During the progresi of the play at one time, while the presence was not needed on the stage they sat together behind the scenes She looked beautiful, Indeed, m old fashioned gown and powdered hair and he. In court costume of mere thai a century ago, was the beau Meal a cavalier. For some time he had been very at tentlve to her, and, although peopii had frequently remarked upon bis de votlon, he had not come to the point of proposing. But as they sat behtnl the scenes he felt that au opportum moment had arrived, and after eastlni his eyes In the direction of the eelllnj for Inspiration he turned to her. "Marie," he said, "you may not havi perceived my liking, but I cannot de lay. I 1 want to ask you to to lie- Just then the prompter callled tlx girl's name, but she never stirred. "That's your cue," faltered the lover, "Yes," she answered, calmly enough, laying her hand on his arm, says th Ixmdon Tlt-Blts, "but never mind the cue. You seemed very earmwt Jusl now, and 1 want you to go on. Whal were you going to Hay?" American Money In Knropo. An English writer observe that Americans are Investing an annual sum of $4rt),0.00 In Europe, mostly In English securltle. A rolling stone gathers no moss, u there are mighty few of tbcm Ufel don't turn aver very chance they get