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The Iron-VJorltor's Daughter H V HOWARD FORRESTER, CHAPTER XVII. (Continued.) I "Pooh!" said Athertoa, "anybody wi in i half an eye could tell your business. "And you two ain't any smarter," said Jones, scornfully. "Put up them foolish things, or if you don't you'll wUh you bad. Io you think he or I cares for thenar' : "We don't," said Atherton, smiling; at the officers. "But there is no ue mak ing trouble in this man' house benlds, as soon as I know what's wanted, I'll go with you quietly. What are you arrest ing me for? What is the charge?" He glanced HcornfulTy from one to the other, holding his head well up and back. The officer who had spoken put on a magisterial air, however, swelled him self, and answered in deliberate tones. "I arrest you on the charge of murder!" "Murder!" repeated Atherlon, like one in a dream, but quickly recovering him self, he glanced at his compauiou mean ingly, then added, with a lijjbt laugh: "Nonsense. However, I'll go up the street with you and Jack, you will see my friends at oncer arid tell Irene exact ly what has happened. Now, then, I'm ready; and remember what I say all hands had best go slow in this business, for if I'm not treated right, I'll make it warm for all concerned." And the ironworker walked out of the place as proudly as though he were tak ing charge of his companion, instead of being subject to them. "You've the nerve of a regiment," said one of the officers. "Have IT' demanded the puddler quick ly. "I've the rights of a better citizen than I know you to be, to maintain, as you'll discover mighty quick if you either insult me c: lay a hand on a man who U suing quietly with you." , The officers held their peace after that broadside. CHAPTER XVIII. Mr. Gripp's fury was something fright ful to behold when he returned to hs own office with the roll of drawings Irene had given him. He flung the paper on the floor then kicked the roll across the room. "Curse him! I'll pay him off for this. Oh, he'll get pay pay. I always pay my debts don't owe any man a dollar don't owe any man an ill turn, either. And I'll pay her off won't I? Oh, no! Maybe I .won't." And so this quiet, well-dressed, proper looking person capered about his room. Tile world could not see him, and he had high jinks all alone. "And I'll swallow that story? Not much. I'll make him surrender hU whole Interest. He's got my note by this time if he gets home early that'll frighten him out of hka wits. He'll come down as gingerly as Crockett's coon. Oh, he's coming right down. And when he is on his knees to me" another vicious kick at the roll "I'll tell him when he's made his whole interest over to me I'll tell him he owes his precious neck to me." And then the most respectable looking, quietly moving man in the world struck out viciously with both hands, like a man hitting a hated object This ebullition was at its height when a light, a very light, rap sounded at Mr. Gripp's office door. Now, Mr. Gripp' office was in an out 4f -rhti-ft'ii v nla 1 u'g ces.r the wharf. in a locality rarely frequented by the , female portion of Pittsburg. So, when Mr. Gripp opened his door suddenly, and beheld a woman standing before it, he was taken somewhat by surprise. I "Weil, what is it? What do you Want?" j She was a poorly dressed woman, you may be sure, for (Jripp always deferred to well-dressed people. "If you please, you are Mr. Gripp, ain't you? My name is " "No matter what your name is. Out with your errand." The woman, whose features were par tially concealed with a large sunlionnet, that looked very odd in that place in that season, bowed her head. "My boy is worried. Ever since he carried a message for you to Allegheny he's been watched, he soys." "For me? I sent no message to any body. It's a mistake, I tell you." "I know my boy is telling the truth. He can't be mistaken. He says you've sent him errands often. Now he's afraid there's danger for him. You send him n errand to-day. Now he says there's boy haunting my house till he comes out a boy that met him and seen him de liver the message. And you told him Dobody iu the world must know ycu sent it." "See here, now," said Gripp, assuming a oily tone, "I never sent any message by any boy. I do my own errands. Your ton is lying; that' the truth. Now, you tell him not to lie any more. And don't yon worry about me. You take care of your son, or he may go to the peniten tiary tome of the daya." He tu on the point of shutting the dour 4a her face, when she put out a hand. , "Yon moat listen to me. I am an hon est woman, and I will try to save my boy. Be may be bad; bat he la not aa bad ts those who employ him." Her defiant tone amaied and angered Mr. Gripp. "8 here, my good woman " "Hilcnce! I am not your good woman, sir." "Oh," yon ain't. Then who are you 7" The woman pushed her bonnet bark, and looked him fearlessly in the face. Mr. Jackson (Jripp recoiled suddenly. He recoiled, and shrank as be recoiled. But he recovered himself instantly, aa moot brassy men do. "You are Martha Walter." "Martha Walter that was Mrs. Cole low." "Cole-Cole." OHpp atared at her, glared at her, then drew a long breath. "Yea. Now yon see I know yon. warn yon that my eoa win not lie for you. He will tell tbe trath, the whole trath. ion: nave aaa Dim ran wua mm- sag ye charged him a aaaat never reveal Ym have frightened Mm. He It watched. I know Jt If anything erll h ?, he will tell an he knew. I cwaw to vara yen nerer, arnr to ataploy Cy an ngsla. Yon know I am latitat - one teews better. Ym know I V J toS mm SttsWfs tttef . IS 1 1 1 fcsf I kw, k. C9 wU IM ' U t Jmtktl avhy. "Pooh! You and your brat must think 1 am a tool. What would 1 tell a boy? boy! He can say what he likes; you can say what you like." Aud he shut the door in her face. It was Jike Oripp, but it was the last thing he should have done. Martha Walter" enmity was not a good thing for him, and when she fanned it until it blazed out into action it boded Mr, Gripp no good. She pondered a moment, theu walked away with the farm resolve that Mr. Gripp's mysterious errands should be sift ed to the bottom, in order that her son might be exonerated in season, if any thing uulawful was afoot, and also in the hope that the experience would be a warning to him. He had not applied the pocket money he earned from Mr. Gripp to good purposes. But bin mother bad known worse boys to make excellent men. And she was determined to light for her win. So she walked direct from Mr. Gripp's office to the headquarters of the xjlice. found the chief in, and made her busiues so plain to him that he thought there must be something in it. Possibly litre was a clew to a very important matter, he said to himself as Mrs. Cole disap peared. And the sequel proved he was right. CHAPTER XIX. Martha Cole's son had reason to think he waa shadowed. From the evening of the day on which the body of the mur dered woman was found banging to a hook in her room, to the evening of the day he delivered a note from (jripp to Miss Atherton, Bob Walters had a haunt ing fear of trouble. Mr. Gripp seemed to be so resolute, so severe was his eye, aud so impressive hU charges concerning dead silence, that the boy began to think Mr. Gripp was either the master mind of some unlawful cen spiracy or scheme, or chief of a band of counterfeiters. He confessed to his mother an hour before she called on Gripp. This was the direct result of Irene Atherton's action. There was something in the manner of Gripp's messenger that excited distrust and suspicion. She hd, the moment the messenger disappeared, regretted she had not adopted some means of discovering whence he came. Accident enabled her to accomplish this object later in the day. A lad she well knew referred, in her presence, to the boy who delivered the mysterious note. Calling this boy aside, Miss Atherton said: "Do you know the name of the boy you met coming here?" "It was only Bob Walters." "Then I want you to follow Bob-find him, if you can, but don't let him see you watching him. Follow him wherever he goes. If he goes home, stay near tbe house a much as you can, until it grows dark, or you have to come home. Then see what I will give you, if you do us I tell you." This was one of Bob Walters' alarms. His sometime playfellow was more to be dreaded than a ghost. Mr. Grivp's dollar felt like a ton in his pocket. The other worse than khost was in re ality a detective. A man who had no good reason to appear ou the street, in . u - . :uv .u- l - 4 iuai uuM u.w, ttrtj jinn u.iui. man Bob Walters had accidentally dis covered was a detective on the regular po lice force. The presence of this man in the neighborhood proved too ranch for Bob. He took his mother into his confi dence in sheer misery. When Irene's trusty agent reported progress she gave bim half a dollar, whereupon be stood upon bis head. Irene was glad she had discovered the where abouts of the boy, on her father's ac count. He had betrayed such alarm end agitation, that she surmised it must be a matter of the utmost moment to him. She had washed and put the dishes away, swept the hearth, and made tbe living room tidy, when a rap at the door n unexpected visitor evidently sum moned her to the parlor. When Irene opened the doar she was surprised to find Mr. Mayberry stand ing there. She did not, however, betray surprise. She placed a seat further wa it or, made some passing remark about tbe weather, and instantly Arthur May berry felt at home. Was her father in?" No. but he would be in probably In half aa hour." Mr. Mayberry talked about the im provements in that portion of the city, of the last tragedian who visited tbe city, of the fashions, tbe pulpit orator whose name was uppermost, and sudden ly, without the slightent warning, plung ed into the subject nearest his heart. Miss Atherton" he had turned his face toward her, was gazing earnestly into her eyet "I am indebted to jou more than I can express. Mr. Mead was to impressed by your statement that he ha told me he will give me the first hear ing, in case I ever have any enterprise to suggest that promise well." Irene was silent. What could she say? She could not promise him the same her father had promised him. Nor could she refer to the unfortunate agreement. She was debating in her mind whether the should endeavor to excuse her fath er's action. Then she reflected that the advice contained In tbe old saying, "The least tald tbe soonest mended," should be her guide. So she remained silent. "If you will not be offended," said Ar thur Mayberry, "I will reciprocate; the kindness you bare shown demands some return on my part." "I think," she said, with a smile, "it It best not to endeavor to balance this ac count. One or tbe other will persist in returning the ftvor." But the was secretly gratified that the matter bad taken a less disagreeable torn. "I suppose Mr. Mead understand, and appreciate tbe value of my father's in vention T she said presently; but Mr. Mayberry evaded tbe qaeation skillfully. He btd a two-fold object. To see Atherton, possibly; bat be wna glad of the ticuaa to call on Mia Atherton, to aaa and Ulk to her. To aea If her In telligence and maaaer were aa charm- las a her feature, it was bead and koala la lev he eeaeaoed It to himself tort he tbwngM k wna abl to rastot Ik eflstts Of CnfM to UvtigJ aim be yond his depth until he was prepared t take the irrevocable plunge. j And all the while his eye were devour ing Irene. And Irene's color betrayed her as plainly. It was just as it the two had said to each other: "You know it is absurd for me to pretend you r nothing to me." The young man often avoided tbe wom an's eyes. The young woman as often averted her eyes. They caught each olh er"s glance, as it were by chance, to turn away again. Arthur Mayberry was talking of many things, subjects suggested at haphazard, and dismissed, while bis heart was throb bing with love. His eyes, his manner conveyed his feelings; but now his lips were framing- word bt bad not drsraei of uttering. He found himself suddenly looking into Irene Atherton's eyes as he said: "Miss Atherton, do not misunderstand me, or think I am simply impulsive, but ever since I first beheld you, I have been unable to dismiss you from my mind. Ever since I beheld you, as I thought doomed to instant dnttruetion, I have thought of you so much in tbe little time that has passed, that I will ask you to ptrmit me to be a friend." "I am not so rich in friends that I can refuse," said Irene modestly. His speech was a confession of love. Her answer was a tacit admission of her recognition of the real position he must occupy hereafter. The moment the wordt were uttered Irene regretted them. Who was this young mau? His friends would in all probability say he ought to bok higher. She was only a pudtiler's daughter. True she thought, as long an she did not assume anything, she was just as good as another, but she knew too well what the world said. And she knew, too, that it would be beat for him and her; if they could not command the respect of the world at the outset, if they could not begin the world indepen dent of the world, they would be sub jected to unfriendly criticism. And why place themselves in a position that would warrant that? The man thought oaly: How can I win this woman? The conversation drifted to things im material, remote; then suddenly the lover surprised the object of hi love by re ferring to a marvelous artist, one hose name was known all over the world. Would she do him the favor to accompany him? Now, the one longing Irene centered to herself was the desire to see this fam ous artist. But would It be wise to ac cept his invitation? If she did, there could be no drawing back. It would be a great pleasure but what might hap pen? or rather what might have taken place already? She bad a vague impres sion that her father was ashamed to meet Mr. Mayberry; that he was inclined to bow to wealth, spite of all bis denuncia tions of overreaching, grinding capital ists. He had labored years on h: patents he longed to see bis process in operation, not alone for the money it would bring bim; then, and not till then, could he dem onstrate his superiority over those who knew nothing, and who, spite of their ignorance, sneered at him as a vision try Yes, certainly her father would rather see her married to a man of means than any of bis own class. Irene knew this. ! And now, when a young man well rdu cated, a member of a family whose place in society had been recognized many gen erations ago, was brought near her by t strange chance, Irene somehow appre hended he would not be as cordially wel-coiiK-d as one occupying a humble sphere. "You have not answered me," said Mayberry, looking at her. "Excuse me," said Irene, with an in voluntary sigh. "I was thinking. No! J cannot go." "Cannot?" "Mr. Mayberry, I think it would hi bet not to accept your kind invitation, at least until we know each other bet ter." "You mean, until your father approvei my calling here." He was as honest as she was coura geous. "You have said the truth. We havt no callers unless I except one or two of father's old friends." "You are right," said Mayberry. "I will wait until your father knows me Bet ter. I will wait as long as Jacob served for Rachel." She blushed carnation at that, nd Mayberry, now that he had blurted out all that eye and tongue could utter in awkward confusion, suddenly reached out a hand imploringly. 'I have said it. Miss Atherton Irene, if you will not be angry with me this it something I did not dream of ssying, but I cannot help tt. I have tried to keep it back." 'I do not see what there I to ask par don for now especially, aid Irene with bright eye. "You have been making strange speeches ever since you tat down." Then he took one of ber bands. She did not withdraw it; she simply looked asi i. And at that moment when Ar thur Mayberry got hi first glimpse of the heaven of love, a loud knock came at tbe door. , (To be continued.) forgotten Lighthouse- Men. The lighthouse keepers on Percy Isl and, off tbe coast of Queensland, wero not long ago forgotten for months by (he government authorities. The food supply of Percy Island ia auppoaed to be delivered once a quarter, but no food arrived at the Island after the first week In Jane until s British sloop pass ed month later. Tbe Islands, 20 In number, and delirious from lack of food, managed to ball the vessel, which left behind an ample supply of provis ions and reminded tbe Queensland gov eminent of the lighthouse men who existence It bad forgotten. Function of the Tear. Tears have their function like every other fluid of the body, Nothing demises the eye like a good salty shower bath, ond medical art lias fol lowed nature's law In this respect, ml locating the Invigorating solution for any distressed condition of the optics, Tears do not weaken the sight, bat Im prove It They act as a tonic to the muscular vision, keeping the eye soft and limpid, and It will be noticed that those In whose eyes sympathetic tears gather quickly have brighter and more tender orbs than others. Any woman who admits that bar are too tight Is lacUaed to be DYING WORDS OF FAMOUS MEN. The Last Utterances of Some of World's Greatest Celebrities. "It Is well." Washington. "I must sleep now." Byron. "Is this your fidelity." Nero. "Then I am safe." Cromwell. "Let the light enter." Goethe. "God's will be done." Bishop Ken. "Lord; take my spirit." Edward VI. "Lord, receive tny spirit." Craniner. "Don't give up tbe ship." Lawrence. "It is the last of earth." J. Q. Adams. "I am about to die." Samuel Johnsn. "Independence forever." John Adaiua. "Hive Dayrolles a chair." Chesterfield. "I shall be happy." Archbishop Sharp. "Don't let poor Nellie starve." Charles II. "I thank God I have done my duty." Nelson. "I feel as If I were myself again." Walter Scott ' "An emperor should die standing." Vespasian. "The best of all Is, God is with us." John Wesley. "It mutters little bow the bead lieth." Raleigh. "A dying man can do nothing easy." Franklin. "Many things are becoming clearer to me." Schiller. "I feel the daisies growing over me." John Keats. "Taking a letp In the dark. O mystery." Thomas Paine. "Don't let that awkward squad fire over my grave."-Burns. "Here, veteran. If you think It right, strike." Cicero. "I thought that dying had been more difficult" Louis XIV. "Let me die to the sounds of delicious music." Mirabcau. "It Is small, very small," alluding to her nock. Anne Boleyn. "Let me bear those notes so long my solace and delight" Mozart "We are as near heaven by sea as by land." Sir Humphrey Gilbert "I do not Bleep. I wish to meet death awake." Maria Theresa. "I resign my soul to God; my daughter to my country." Jefferson. "I would not change my Joy for tbe empire of tbe world." Philip Sidney. "Farewell, Llvia. and ever remember our long union." Augustus Caesar. "I have sent for you to see bow a Christian can die." Addison to War wick. "Into thy hands, O Lord. I commend my splrif-Christopher Columbus. T want uotbiug, and I'm looking for nothing but heaven." Philip Melanctbon. "I have seen all things, aud all things are of little value." Alexander Severns. "Remorse! Remorse! Write It! Write It! Larger! Larger." John Ran dolph. "O, liberty, liberty, how many crimes are committed In tby name." Mme. Roland. "Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees." Stonewall Jackson. "Crito, wc owe a cock to Esculaplus; pay It soon, I pray you, and neglect it not." Socrates. "I am dying out of charity to tbe undertaker, who wishes to urn a lively Hood." Hood. "Throw up the window that I may pnee more sec the magnificent scene of nature." Rosseau. "I pray you see me safe up, and for my coining down, let me shift for myself." Sir Thomas More on the scaffold. "My soul I resign to God, my body to the earth, and py worldly posses sions to my relatives." Michael Angelo. "I have provided for everything In my life except death, and now, alas! I am to die, though thoroughly unprepared." Caesar Borgia. "It will not be long before God take-s me, for no mortal can live after the glories which God has manifested to my soul." Toplady. "Lord, enlighten aud soften the beans of my executioners. Adieu for ever, my dear children. I go to Join your father." Marie Antoinette. "Be of good comfort, brother, for we shall this day light such a candle in England, as, by God's grace, shall never be put out" Latimer to Ridley. "What Is the matter with ray dear children! Have I alarmed you? Oh, do not cry. Be good chHdren, and we will all meet In heaven." Andrew Jackson. "My country! O, how I love my country." William Pitt, the younger. "Here Is a book (the Bible) worth more than all others ever printed; yet It Is my misfortune never to have found time to rend It. I trust In the mercy of God. It Is now too lute." Patrick Henry. "Not one foot will I flee so long as breath bides within my breast, for He who Bhnped both sea and land th's day shall end my battle or my life. I will die King of Etigl:uid."-Itichard III. "Father In heaven, though this body Is breaking away from me and I am departing this life, yet I know I shall forever lie with Thee, for no one can pluck me out of Tby hand "Martin Luther. "I shall die regretting. I have always desired the happiness of France. I did all lu my power to contribute to It. I can say with truth that the first wife of Napoleon never caused a tear to flow." Josephine. "Loekhart, I may have but a moment to speak with you. My dear, be a good man, be virtuous, be religious, be a good, man; nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here." Walter Scott. "Tby creatures, O Ixinl, have been my books, but Thy Holy Scriptures much more. I have sought Thee In the courts, fields and gardens, but I found Thee, O God, In Thy sanctuary, Tby temple." Lord Bacon. "I have meditated upon the state of the church, the spouse of Christ I have fought against spiritual wickedness In high places, and I have pre vailed; 1 have tasted of the heavenly Joy, where presently I shall lie! Now, for tbe last time. I commit my soul, body and spirit Into His hands. Now it, has come." John Knox. THEY ARE RECONCILED. Th Henoitlnc of a Vanderbllt Scion ad HI Wife, A reconciliation has token place be tween Elliott ritcn sncparu, jr., oi New York, a grandson of the late Will iam H. Vanderbllt, and his wife, Esther W I g I n P o tter Shepard. F o r s 1 x months they were separated by rea-! son of alligations of impropriety ou r .1 his part, because or V which Mrs. Sbep l aril hrouo-ht suit for a legal separation. Tbe Influence of a. w. aiiKPAan peacemaking mem bers of the family prevailed, and, pre sumably, there will hereafter be smooth sledding. Tbe marriage of these young people waa a society sensation. Elliott Shep ard, whose father was tbe famous pub lisher, was one of the liveliest young men Yale ever turned out Ills bride was tbe daughter of a grocer who kept a small store In Greenport, L. I. Hhe was the prettiest girl, on tbe Island, could swim, ride a burse and play ten nis. Mrs. Elliott F. Hhepnrd, tbe moth er of the defendant, who was instru mental In reuniting the young people, lives at Wood lea, which Is situated at Scanborough-on-tbe-IIudnon, and I one of the Quest country estates In America. The Pompellan gardens (here are marvels of the gardener's art. VALUE OF BABY'S CRY. It Bets to Mak Healthy Pair of Laaara. The earlf cry, which I painfully try ing to some young mothers, especially te a nervous eoa, become teas distress ing If she stops tu think that tht longs, never having bean used, need exercise I I atas. tbe in order to make them strong. For thi first three months the Infant is tot weak, even with a fair amount of cry lng, to develop tbe lungs more thai one-third their normal capacity, anl that these organs cannot be considered perfect until they are Inflated to theU utmost Is enough to make ber tolerant of a fair allowance of crying. A yeai of simple breathing would not accain Ipllsb as much toward developing tht lungs as a moderate amount of crying each day for a month. It Is the deep Inhalation, such a accompanies a good cry, which alone can make the luagi strong. Healthful Infants cry normal ly, and they should be allowed to dc so a portion of each day. Whim th cry la wbluiug or continuous It la usu ally caused by overindulgence of seui kind, or by mistakes, such as handling the baby, when be la more comfortablt left alone. Too much entertaining causes nervousness and cold eitreml ties, which make necessary too many wraps or too hot a room; this results Is discomfort ahd weakness and lack of fresh air. Sleeping In a bed with old"i person Is bsd for a baby; It drawi upon tbe Vitality. Indigestion Is uevei natural; It Is caused by overfeeding oi Improper feeding. Harper's Iluzur. What (he IJuke I A tpfichcr who was showing portrait of Queen Victoria and her family held up a picture of tbe I Hike of York. No b dy In the class could tell who It wat "Well," said the teacher, "he I tht Duke of York, and flow can any of you tell me what he Is?" The band of t little girl went up a she answered quickly snd promptly: "He's tbe belt consumptive to the British throne." If a woman live In the same neigh borhood with s ftmlly of yving chll dren, tbe can become a missionary t China, by taking charge eecastoavill) while the bmUmt gets eat af )aV fcXvcience, Igjbirnvention a French nhrslcian removes moat foreign bodies from tbe ear by suck lng them Into a soft rubber tube. "Nleve. nenilentes," slightly luctlnea snow column resembling sbrauded fig ures doing penance, are a peculiar phenomenon of tbe Andes to which Sir M. Conway has given atteulon. Thv are the last remain of drifts or slides which have become hardeued In nearly vertical strata of different den sities. A plan recently employed In Franc for giving a stereoscopic effect to luaglc-lanteru pictures thrown upon a screen is to furnish each spectator with a pair of priauiB, set lu spectacle frames, through which two pictures, side by side on the screen, are viewed. The angles of the prisms are varied for widely different distances from the screen, but owing to the uaiui piwer of accommodation of the eye, the same angle serves at distances not widely variant. Two coats of hot oil. carefully ap plied after thorough cleaning of the metal, are recommended by a Cana dian artisan as an Improvement over any process now la use for preventing rust of structural iron and steel. The oil would fill crevices, cracks and holes where paint cannot enter. It would cover rough places often im perfectly coated In ordinary palming, and It would be a flue preparation for subsequent painting or covering' with cement coating. Some of tbe giant Sequoias of South ern California are estimated to lie from live thousand to eight thousand years old, having perhaps, spanned the entire period of written history. A section In the American Museum of Natural History was cut from on a of thees trees at a height of twenty feet. Is a Utile more than eighteen feet In diameter, and Its concentric rings show that It began Its growth In 5o0 A. I)., the tree reaching a diameter of thir teen feet at Columbus landing. Arsenic, the dreaded poison that Professor Armatid Gautler of Paris as serts Is essential to life, proves to be disseminated In the primitive rocks, from which sea-water derives its store. The minute quantity taken In the food becomes localized lu the skin aud Its appendages, the thyroid aud mammary glands, the brain and the bones, and It is stated to be the exciting ferment of the functions of sensation and re production, just as phosphorus Is tbe exciting element of the functions of cellular nutrition. Fresh discoveries are continually adding to the world's known stores of iron. Last summer extensive fields of Iron ore were found In U'irtherii Norway, ou the const of Sydvaranger Bay, near the Russian border. Anal yses at Cbristlaniu show that the ore tlon, because the presence of titanium which Is regarded as a good indica tion, because the presence of tiiinium In large quautlty retards the melting of ore. It is said there are good har bors near these new Iron fields, and surveys have shown that the ore cov ers a very large territory. Recent researches by Professor Mac faydeu have shown that mutiy micro organisms can be exposed to the tem perature of lhjuld air for a period of six months without any appreciable loss of vitality, although, at such a temperature, tbe ordinary chenlcal processes of the living cell must cease. Referring to Professor Mac fayden's experiments. Professor James Dewar says that the organisms lu the state Just described "cannot be said 'to be either alive or dead. In the ordi nary acceptation of these word. It Is a new and hitherto unobtalned con dition of living matter a third slate." 18 ROOSEVELT'S INTIMATE. Cheater I. Least Recently Elected Rea ltor from Kansas. Kansas has recently elected a Dalted States Senator to succeed W. T. Har ris. The chosen Individual Is Cheater I. Long, the Oou year old and la the y o u n geat (Senator gressuian, whe is 44 ever elected la the State. He Is a na tive of Peaautyt vanls, s former res ident of Missouri, snd a graduate of the law office of George R. Pack, BOW Of Calcara cuatTta i. u,o. wb0 Mwx4 ktm t0 enter politics. He I now serving his fourth term la Congress. He Is a per sonal friend of President Roosevelt What He Was Coming To. Anxious Pstleut Do you wenlly think, docSsb, thst 1 thsll have a gwecn old age? Gruff Doctor Unless you die young or acquire a little gumption, you bave before you the prospect of the greeaest old ago possible to humanity. Balti more American. Great-granildansbter or Kranklta Miss Walnwrlght and Miss Hcbroe jer, the latter a daughter of tbe Gov ruor of Guam, have Just entered Washington society. The young la dles are great granddaughter af Men. Jam la Franklin. There are people In the world whe never work and who just sort ei ab sorb living. What's tbe difference between half a loaea doeen and aU desen doaenl Lsvk Mil