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
