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ward. What do you think we had
better do, sir ?"
"Give Limming orders to sell if
they touch sixty-one ; the money
will just do for that ro.ortgage you
were talking about."
"You still approve of the invest-
3icient, sir ?"
"Of course, and so does Waldo ;
don't you agree ?"
"I do, most certainly, sir, it you
ask my opinion. Everything is in
Teeonneenini*"..4
emeein • • • • . • e r • • • • • . • • • •
4 • * 4*"e"*4 tr". "1 4'44 4'44 4":" "1":":1" t$'11":" °:* order. Clay tons hose seen tne
which perfectly satisfy them
SYNorsis FRZCEDING the other's grievauces, her loneliness. deeds'
CHAPTPARS.—Securities vanish from her. need for some strong support as to the security. The bank will re -
the strong -room Candelent. DandY and sound advice in her business, and ceive 7 per cent., and, if wo were
obliged to foreclose, the lands, when
had at once tendered her the sound- reclaimed, would fetch twice the
est advice. amount of our loan."
eh
"Madame •ould marry again," 'I think it is very clever of VOU
euci Woltio, baniters. Mr. leitelte of
Scotland, Yard is called iu to solve
the mystery. There are two keys
to the sizong-rotaue-one held by Mr. Delphine said one morning, as she
Waldo, partner, the other by Mr. returned from the Ilai/es, where she to have got us such a client. How
did you eerie across the Marts. do
Stine= chief cashier. %Ws latter had been inarieeting. "MOZ). Dieu, njo Verde, ?..
has two children. -.1-.30t) told Jos,e; what a chance !"
phiue. He reprociclics Bob, "I net him abroad. sir. Accident
wh° " sTais toi," replied Isanchette, play- first made us acquainted, and. we
an extreinagazit subaltern with as- fully, hng angiher hea,d Und: pretend- s000 becimee great friends."
piratious to the hand of Heleaa.
ing to blush ; "3, am far too old and rich, is he not ?"
ne gr'ey-haired." "He is extremely
Waldo, for tianine consumed his sie-
teen dowry to Iney Inc- "He has ei current account here
in ts. e urtees is SUSI. R.•
s ' •d
gambli-ii I. "The latter need not trouble you • ,,
• was. a deposit of never less than
•
long in such a. eleop„,as yours.." crie.d. eight or ten thousand pounds."
theft. A .search-witrrant is taken
Dr:eh:lune, . gaily ; but madame 1,,s, "lexcelli•nt ; you are e. treasure,
out against hira. Some Poetuguese
sheloolis, I fe,e,i, sure: Meggitt. But there, I am in a hurry:
bonds answering to deeciiptioe of e, o4u,nger than.
. How , do ...tun .know that . said
missing securitiee are found in his
l'a"nehette, sharply. turning on her. filiferee„ii3,. a great sale at Christio's
P ossession. He is convicted and Fen -
it . is easy to see that some ""seesse
tenced to. toveu years penal sera. One moment, sir ; I should like
tude Mra week. misses some pa,. trouble, no doubt, has turned ma-
' ' e to speak to vou about Mr. Drifileld,
Pe' -'s and eccuses Josenhine of the' i -s-e s .an. le cenno le ra .
theta $ir Richard Daunt,. in love than five-and-tweirtY. suret y, or . ,- talsiitetlic..speoel deal on such occasions
one of the clerks."
pen...gals thirty at the most. Marry _ Oh ! don't bother me with such
with Josephiae, meets tee je Ie. details. I leave all those niatters in
hies crois hien, you have but to choose.' Then the two settled down at the
de Ojo Verde to whom Bob lost
"I fear to. risk ray little fortune 7°u1. hands," and so saying. Mr. desks, and event on .with their work
motive' and sets a detective to watch . Dandy eeized his .hat and ran off to or another hour, at the end of
Lim and F.:etc/tette. Mrs. eatieois ,and my happiness. Sien are so mere SIO
d ,ceriary and cliongabhi ; you cannot ' The day's business went on Stead- fltr. 101 ni e'llt n.:t1.11.ro.ng.":allet t112,1crlialvils. allot:Mil%
..trust them all."
en.sp-rEit Xli.I. ageti man, men pose, with a than, itteemi-ey young DrultiAd eione in (*ewe into the heak parlor about
• nu Py arid without intermiesion.
-Ma li - i ' • l• • •ue
i • -
' — ' tirmilly. iilie a dog in disgruce, with Isi,veeerui;adtocsalYkirC'll‘II:rqvuoliSs tlioi 9rrfs
brougham at the door ; would air.
Meggitt so out and epee!: to hum?
The cesider oeeyed the semmons
"NVhy didnit he ?" asked Meggitt,
coolly. "It seems it rascally trans-
action."
"Baurngertners explained that it
was all a stupid mistake of one of
their clerks ; they promised the
'stop' should be at once removed,
and the goods handed over to Smith -
eon, if he would go no further."
"Did he agree ?"
"No ; it was that he came to .con-
sult me about, and, in fact, which
has brought me here."
"What shall you advise, sir ?"
"I should certainly have no more
dealings with theni. They must be
slack unbusinessliko people at best ;
but, as to our present engagements.
question much the wisdom of press -
ins matters to the bitter end. Sup-
pose the worst came to the worst,
that we ran them in, convicted them
of fraud"? What would our position
be ?"
"We shall have lost six thousand
pounds in the transaction, No, sir;
if you ask my advice, I say watch
arid wait. Let me see whether they
intend to repay their loans, and, if
there is the slightest suspicion, lay
hands on all we can."
"I dare say you are right," said
old Waldo, inusing. His recent ill-
ness had robbed him of muck of his
old, practical conunon-sense4 and. be
was inclined to vacillate and besi-
ougn
in ea oi r—Sonie•
On the third day M. aeon/ lihe my master. par exenaphe les tail between hie lege.
"Well," asked the cashier, abrupt -
'Well," mid Sir Iliehard, "what "M. Joliau is a bachelor, then ?"
Iv. "what do eou want ? I have
ti• cans V'417n 11^ • • to • •• d II'e •
. .
"Not urnieb. I fear at preterit ; eine heart. wag In big blv,,iross, au excel,. been talking, to ltfr. Dandy about
1
holy enissTS rceiliretuelits— slte tient loudness, too : iele it him- you. 'hit •,ieett might have waited till with less alacrity thee ea important
has at.01:S7 austhess, she ;
self, ic
s,raid the fortune whh leaves I sent for you. '2 012 WIll hear 37°"r pecte.d
hd.
a. client of the bank might have ex-
lenough. What brings you .,
ia art -4. Mae% eyebrowsa
, nd so eerie nanny nis ease." fete fast
, eStx:iirmir that he ner i
evr.are'llff°' I 1.141i?1" Well," asked the Marquis, eager -
with a enerned tineitiacy to eau- leen." went cm Fencliette, thoughte, "I run doingat discount clerk just IY" "what de they say ? Will tho
dead -white complexien, but, she
lt
dvance the hundred thou. ?lect
"
ne
n cer am con wits, ued
Ion:point. •fiiliei, end car:ales to the make idea- now, sir, instead of deal:ins, who is ea
a
t • ' " • '
"It is *int Fi :iellette, then. or at in Ler mind. .111 1. • ..
1.,••,:lfit not at all like. her. tnleSS, 11,1..i ••He tie,s too mach occupied. in1. "Welt. well. I know that ; ard you
Seed, she has. ptirpoieily altered her iota yot•A. alai he had no •,
near friends.' h!'cve to enter all acceptances th the
iippearanee." , 1 II b • ''• I 1 - f I t
r to put Inni in the rieht road, nut . .. • •
"Unitise wiet. nalee (1*' 9. she go ?" c now he is tirm of it. 1 imow. and he, ck) "'I'm ex"etlY tv"
I tr
oft is ran , eneeeette Dureoulin, I would glielly charge his cot Sition, if .' "y lo do my best, sir. That IN
wiey I Inlve cerne to rou Low. There
:••••0a lz1:2:1; Ill sere. The name la rel-ttlie right woman wily ceme in his
1'.1:--vc.tve Voirat. It, i'• Vai4terl up W,4F.„ 811e aienee be fit' '10 lea_ ere three, twee bilis for Se7.000 and
eenell under the n:itrie of leer predenelerne. 1 ar4Sure ;t011, who erreered so 1") acecr`te'a hs Rill bschilds.
or, ifion;„wilin, who has recentlY',IniCel:i.:11 U. 111111ti. ' 01101t. thee not to go back. to be
rieirini, mid with his envinge, bought I Thu; was the eret of Fever4a cell- veriCel and checked ?"
"Dy whom are they drawn ?"
e enia etei full; ft.; Touraine. But ,versations of tile eame character.'
wene do :icor S113r. 1111.111•4mr? ShailliMpriiiiie, quite 11,:4: aci:iilmit of course, "Y nentillgs. 01 Ar"nelwsiter.".
"Fl
we go together and ieepect the constantly threw bereelf in Vane' emings. an excellent firm, ale
though new to us. Why shoutd they
eltitte's why. .
. .'i. end Farithette was go bach 2" asked the eashier eliarp-
"'With all my Ireart. Let us start 'never tired of I
teerien whet there was
et once." Ino be said about the old gentleman 'tney not " 1
"Dori joule Inademe," said Daunt. ;,up-stith•s. and in due form. ?
"Not quite, sir. The endorsements
with elaborate civility, as he entered The attentions of M. ...Toilful were
the bop. lnot less niarkei than the pleasure ftIV not dated."
'Bon Jour, truet-ienr," replied the aith which Faucher:a. received them. "Let me look at them," went on
tote' at the counter, with equal pee It was quite it jolie in the oeighe Mr' Yeggitt' still more sharply
/hothood and in the house. Con:anon and as he spoke he looked so keenly
Her hair was gree no doubt, but. gossip declared that they were going at the young, clerk that it shrewd ob-
reeve Witri 110 old age in her rather to make it match of it, and raost4"ser enight have detected some
Lieinpitched not unpleasant voice, people were agreed that it was a :moiety hi the glance. But at that
end it, was with notch vivacity and 'very wise thing to do. Their names moment Arr. Waldo walked straight
einee pertness that she addressed were constantly todpleil together, into the parlor.
l2eent. who did riot seem in any lair- :and if any fete or function were cone- "You sir 1" cried Meggitt. "I
re' to commence the ;conversation. tug off they were both invited as a ;never hoped to see you bere to -day.
"Eh hien, niousieur. in what cani,iiitttter of course. I sincerely trust you are better, and
I oblige you ?" 1 They were thus asked to honor 1 that there is nothing rash in your
madarae, parden: X fear I:with their preeence it grand weeding coming to the office."
have made sionee iiiistahe. I was , which took piece from their house, "I ara much better, much better,
seeeing en niteemed old friend. A.1. !one of those showy ceremonies ine thank you, Mr. Meggitt • in fact, al-
Denaudin. Is he re longer here en /which the Parielan bourgeois de- most myself," replied the working
•'-hicr. monsieur : Ite is retired from lights ; whine for once iit, least, in Partner. "I could not bear to stay
affairs. and with it nice little for- , tI tier Ives. brid.. and groom, their
r away. I3esides, to -tiny 1 had par -
ten': hien enteridn."
,relatione, and all their gueets, drive ticular reasons for coming to busi-
;
"Let us hope that madame will !it; ciirrirtges to the Bois de Boulogne, ness. You know those German
rept:illy find fortune in this coquet -I to alight at the Cascade, antl peram- isharfingers
"Baumgartner and Gottlieb ? Cer-
taleaalley.:"
Well. I ani in a state of
pro_ doubt as to their—But what are
jeiring 12218 conversation Sir Bich- -the whole party rose In make it
ard had been watching her closely; j monad° through the woods. Ihin- You doing here 2"
ond now he )2nd no longer any chette, ii; course, took M. Joliauss This WaS to Mr. Driflield, who,
doubt as to her iclentitta • 2
, arm. M. Joliau took leancbette's still holding the Rothschild bills in
Ai . he thus looked hard he won- :hand, and seemed on the phis hand, had. stood there doubtingoint of
ilered whether she suspected him in ,'speaking tenderize, when hwhether to go or stay.
NVLIis coin -
any ;t% But there was not then:ellen gave a half-scream"I was speaking to Mr. Meggitt
, and al-
:iiiightest symptom of this, and he meet fainted in his arms. about two slightly irregular accept -
thought it prudent, therefore, toi "That man .1" she cried. "Come, ances which I thought ought to be
withdraw front the shop before her 2 let us go thick ; lei must not see rne,
suericions were aroused. I not for worlds, with you," she gasp -
"'That is the woman, sure enough," ed out.
Le said.
"Sionsieur wishes to know all CHAPTER XXII.
about ilea I suppose—to set it watch Waldo's was little changed since
upon her, in fact ?" we were last there. Mr. Waldo had
"Exactly. How do you think it 'been in failing health of late, and Princes of Silence was more than
tar. Leet be one?"dwas sometimes 'compelled to absent sufficient for him.
"
"1 think monsieur had better take himself for days together. Yes, yes, Driffield,- that will do,"
up residence in the sante house. There When this was the case papers went on Meggitt. "Leave the bills
is an apartment to let immediately dealing' with important questions with me. I shall probably slip over
to New Court before the day is out,
above the shop. Nyhen once installed • ", ••d t tl But,
there monsieur will be able to keep there were many mattersand I will see that tho correction is. part of the
"
eye on the lady. and by-and-by, every -day routine business, which wade.
oi. the strength of being a neighbor, would brook no delay, and which had The young clerk left the office, and
.
he may strike up a closer acquaint- to be disposed of then and there. AB MrWaldo remained alone with his
such work feel upon the shoulders of cashier.
Mr. Percy Meggitt, who, as cashier, "Baumgartner and, Gottlieb, you
stood next to the partners in the es- were saying, Mr. Walcio—" pro-
tablishment. ceeded Meggitt, after a. pause.
A considerable change had come "A very curious thing Inc occurred
over Mr. Meggitt within the last few You knotv we have made them large
in.onths. He had blossomed out and advances on dock warrants ?"
expanded in harmony with his im- "Yes ; six or seven thousand
proved fortunes. He indulged more pounds. The warrants are chiefly for
freely in his fondness for showy spelter, pig -lead, and Swedish iron,
swagger, and aspired more and more lying at the ,firm's wharf—the Provi-
to be thought a. tip-top swell, a dence 'Wharf."
fashionable man about tows. They "Precisely ; the Providence Wharf.
haatnek.dhim more than ever at the Well, myoid friend Smithson, you
b
know, the colonial broker, hearing I
"Who's here to -day ?" asked young war laid up, came to see me this
Driffield one morning when he came morning ; partly that, and partly, I
in late. "Either of the guvnors ?" think, to ask my advice. He also
"No ; only Lord Percy," that be- had some advan.ces on dock warrants
ing the name by which Meggitt now for cochineal
went in the bank. "And he has ask- "Yes," said Meggitt, showing a
ed twice already for you. You are keen interest.
to go in to him at once." "The warrants bore the stamp
"It's very surprising, Mr. Driffield" 'Providence Wharf.' Never- having
said Meggitt, severely, when the of- heard of it he sent a clerk down to
fending clerk appeared ; "most . sur- inquire about the place and inspect
prising that you cannot be up to the goods—."
time. I must bring your want of "Quite so; what then. ?" Meggitt
punctuality to the notice of the seemed more and more interested.
"The goods were there right
firm,"
"I hope you won't this time, sir ; enough ; there a.nd ili some neighbor -
it phe'n't occur again." . , mg warehonsesi Aferchisonsee foe
"So you eaid last time, and to- Which Baeungartners paid rent."
day you are later than ever. NO ;3 h I Then Why was Mr. Smith
must tell Mr. Dandy : I expect him son dissatisfied or tuma,sy ?" • •
here to -day. That will do," said "The clerk, it seems, did not con-
Mrlieggitt, coldlysider that he had done enough ; so
Mr. Dandy arrived later in the day; he went on to the dock company to
He went straight into the bank par- 'Verify the entry of the goods in
lor, where 'he found the cashier hard their books. What d'ye think he
at work. ' found a A '''stop' on them in favor of
"Well, Meggitt," said tbe senor another .party."
partner, ie. lus cheery little voice, 'Dear ine, how awkward ! And
'thow is business going to -day ?" what did Smithson do ?" •
e'Nothing could be better- sir." SYou know it was almost a Man -
tions Delphine lost no time m worm- .How about that Chilian railway sion'House,a1Tair, and he did talk•of
imp, herself into Panthette's confi- strklk, of which we hold so =arch ? having Bautagartners etie before the
There is a decided nioveraent nee etiord Mayor,"
deeeti, See lietareed attentively to
lash establish:neut. But it IS unfor-e bulate. two rind two, arm in arm,
tunate that my friend has gone:about the place.
oaav." After a touple of hom•s' feasting.
referred back."
"Whose are they 2"
"Drawn by Fleming of Manchester,
and accepted by Rothschilds. They
are not—"
Mr. Waldo waved his hand, as
though the mention of the great
"An excellent idea ! -X will carry
it out at once."
"But cautiously, monsieur, cau-
tiously. You had better pretend to
seek mada,me's advice before taking
the rooms."
Sir Richard readily assented, and
presently returned to Fanchette's
shop.
"Madame," he said, as he re-enter-
ed. "I am desolated at being so im-
portunate; but you were so obliging
just now that I venture to request
another great favor of so charming
a person."
"Ah, monsieur," said Fanchette,
simpering, "no excuses, I beg."
"I had another object, in calling
this morning, but the beaux yeux of
madame completely drove it out of
my head. My. friend, M. Itemtudin,
'told me some time ago that there
was an apartment to let in this
house."
"Yes," said Fanchette, promptly,
"and it is still vacant. We shall be
fortunate to secure so agreeable a
,persoa as a fellow -lodger."
• "Oh, madame, you are too good.
It is enough inducement to be near
you.''
Everything was speedily and satise
factorily arranged. Within a, couple
.of days M. Joliau, alias Sir. Richard
Daunt, took possession of the entre-
sol in the Rue de Bac. He, had fur-
nished it from the nearest -upholster-
eiSs end his friends at the Prefecture
had provided him with a. 'female ser-
vant, caned. Delphine, a, thoroughly
trustworthy and confidenttal woman,
who was no other than the. wife ; .of
M. Sobard.
Acting under her master's instruc-
Meggitt, sulkily.
"Valet conditions ? Are not the
title deeds en regle ? Do they wish,
for more information ? I will give
them any amount."
"They wieh this to be the last
transaction aetween you and them,"
replied hieg•gitt, looaing still, more
sullen.
"What's up? I will huow ; 1 in -
"Your aboniluable culpable ea:c-
ies:ewes has newly ruined all. But
for the merest iluhe, the chance that
I WAS the spot---"
"A chunce I always calculated
upon, mon cher."
"But for the merest fluke," went
on SIeggitt, little heediug the inter-
ruption, "and on •two separate oce
easions, all the fat would have been
in the fire."
(To Be Centinued),
A GARDEN OF MILIC.
The Milk Garden of Frankfort,
Germany, reserved for the children
of that aristoeratic city, is in itself
one of the most democratic of places.
Here rich people who wish to be re-
lieved for a time of the presence of
their children, send them, accompan-
ied by their nurses. Here, also,
P001' people, who can neither afford
to devote their own time to their
children nor hire separate nurses for
them, may bring their little ones.
certain that from the garden nurses
they will receive all the care and at-
tention necessary to safety, 'health,
and amusement. Priva,to nurses of
the rich people and public nurses of
the working people aro subject to
supervision sufficient to protect the
children of all classes front cruelty
and neglect. The only food furnished
in the garden is milk, whose fresh-
ness and purity are assured, inas-
much as it is drunk warm from the
mild -eyed cows which occupy stalls
on ono edge of tho
rc,
query column Editor—"Xere's a subscriber WW1 TralltStO know hew te cure
treone."
Snake Editer—"What ails 'ere?"
TEIIIIIBLE-OATASTROPITES.
WHOLE DISTRICTS PEAVE BEEN
WIPED OUT -
'7,000,000 People Lose Their Lives
in China, and 81,000,000,000
of Property Desthoyed,
On the eveniog of September 27,
1887. a snupiel mandarin ordered the
(Seeing of seven huge outfall flood-
gates on the southern bank of the
lJo-ang-ho river, in central China.
That order caused the lives of 7,-
000,000 of people. The imprisoned
eaters, siva en by weeks 01 ram.
burst their banks and swept aver
the country, coveriug an area balf
the size of Scotland. More 'than .1,-
600 populous towns and villages
were utterly destroyed with all their
inhabitants, and the stately city of
Chuhsien Chen narrowly escaped with
the loss of its suburbs. Tlie pro-
perty loss was estimated at over
. A I ten minutes. Anjer, with its sewn Less terrible so thr as the actual thousand inhabitants, sank bodily
Joss of lith was concerned, though.12 4) 10 so. and was
perhaps. more dranuteic, was the "
proverbial "oldest inhabitant."
Suddenly, without a. moment's warn-.
ling, on the day in question, it ex-
iplvded like a gigantic bombshell.
t Of 12.000 persons living on the is -
!land only twenty -live survived the
catastrophe. The sound of the ex-
nikesion • was distinctly heard at
!Sue:tetra, a distance of seven hun-
dred miles away, end at Ternate in
!another direction more than seven
;hundred utiles off. The ashes emitted
• from the crater were carried three
hundred miles in such quantities as
• ,t.o dui= the eir
I Even more dreadful was the terrific
,seismie upheaval which, desolated
• Ja,va, and the neighboring isles in
the summer of 188,3. This, too, was
aPPallingler sudden in its onset.
Rumbling noises were drat beard in
different parts of the island during
the night of August 25th, and by the
followiug afternoon no fewer 'than
thirty-eight out of its forty-six vol-
canoes were in full eruption. The
loss of life was appalling. Kra/rat:ea
alone slew ten thoueariel persons in
THE SIMPLON TUNNEL.
Should Italy and Switzerland fall
out, what would happen to the Sime
pion turmel ? The opening on either
side will look like the great doors
of some mediaeval fortress. And
they will be fortresses in all reality.
Suppose these two belligerents
should fall out. They would rush
like a whooping plague and invade
ench other? Indeed they would not.
in the little fortress at each end
there will be a nia.n and it button.
The man will press the button and
bring down the mountain. NVhen the
smoke lifts there will not be any
tunnel any more. Some five or six
thousand men will have worked night
and day for five years and a half at
a, cost of 70,000,000 francs—and des-
truction?
THE SALMON'S LEAP.
Norwegian,
have been
mon's leap
dards erected
have found
height of 20
"destruction of Johnstown. remisSEEN NO MORE.ed- •
,vania, during the early morning al 2 Prior to the year 1806, one of the
May 81st, 1889. The huge data of prettiest and most fertile valleys in
the South Fork reserveiy—a ;alio Switzerland was that which lay bee
• four square miles in extent and situ- twetu the Eigi and the Rossberg
ato higis up in the mountains—sox° mountains. To -day there is no such
way, allowing several million cubic valley in existeuce, neither will you
tons of water to drop into the vale find marked on even the largest scale
ley—flop. Besides Johnstown, South map any suck peak as the Rossberg.
For during tho spring of the year
above mentioned, the entire moun-
tain slid bodily down into the volley,
burying in the twinkling of an eye
801130 twenty villages with all their
inhabitants, flocks and herds, and
household effects. A few preliminary
warnings there were, but not many.
so that practically no one escaped.
Nor were any bodies recovered. Pere
haps it was as well so, for assuredly
no Menument raleed by mortal hands
cculd begin to compare in massive
gritudeur with the terrific cairn piled
up by Nature, from the centre of
which rises to this very day, stern
a.ud innnobile, a gigantic granitic
monolith—the summit peak of the
'Rossberg• itself.
Perhaps no place on earth is more
difficult of access than is the east
aonst of Greenland. Not more than
a dozen landings have been effected
'thereon during • the past hundred
years. Tho reason, for this is that
,it is fringed throughout practically
.its entire length by an ungapped bolt
• of pack -ice from twenty to fifty miles
broad, over in motion southward,
and which speedily crushes to pieces
any craft once entangled within its
grip,
VILLAGES PRESERVED IN ICE.
These peculiar condition's, however,
have not always prevailed. Up to
the winter of 1406 the east coast
was comparatively open and free
from ice. A flourishing colony had
•sprung up, with many churcbes,'
monastry, and a handsome palace for
the bishop, who was alike the spirit-
ual and secular bean of the settle -
Fork Cambria. City, Sfort•olville.
Sheridan, and many other nourishing '
towns were blotted out of existence.
Six thousand persons perished by
drowning, and about five hundred
were carried by the raging waters on
to a, mass of blazing debrie, which
had been stopped by a. stone rail-
way bridge at Johnstown, and were
there cremated.
800 DROWNED IN DItlNICING I
WA.TER.
Even in prosaic matter -of -filet Eng-
land, similar calamities have not
been wholly unknown.. One wild
March morning in 1864, for instarece,
when all the countryside slope, the
big reservoir in the hills above Brad-
field in Yorkshire, burst, and in less
than it quarter of an hour twelve '
squaxo miles of country were num- •
dated, between two and tluice hula
dred people were drowned in their
beds, and property worth millions
was wiped off the face of the earth
as a. child wipes flgures off a, slate. -
At Holmfirth, again, more than ,
twenty years earlier, the Bilberry
reservoir—which supplied threescore
towns and villoges ‚with water—
burst with like terrible results.
A. flood of water is bad enough.
A flood of fire is, of course, far
worse. During the early days of the
Pennsylvania- oil -fever, when men
bored into the earth a, dozen ertu•ds
for the liquid fortune that almost in-
variably gushed up to meet them, a
certain well did not "spout" freely
enough to please its impatient dis-
coverer. So that individual proceed'
ed to tickle up its interior by explod-
ing therein a. hundredweight or so of
nitro-glycerine. Ordinarily this was
not considered' a specially dangerous
proceeding. But this particulni• well
would seem to have been in direct
communication with a vast subter-
ranean lake of petroleum. Anyhow,
the resultafet explosion upheaved a
miniature ocean of blazing oil,
wIlich spread outwards over the sur-
rounding country in a fiery flood.
Twenty villages went up in smoke in
as many minutes, hundreds of ,peo-
ple perished miserably, and millions
of dollars worth of property was
• destroyed.
• 10,000 NILL'ED IN TEN'SISNUTES.
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ASKING HEIE .13,DESTIONS.
HOW SOMel SliNINALS ANSWEit
EXAMINATION Ihn-PERS.
The Brain Power Shown in Some
Gases is Simply Marvel -
b
us.
"How much do animals know 'P'
is a question which luta occurred to
everybody at one time 41r another.
The cleverness of e. housebold dog or
cat often attracts a great deal of
admiration, and its owner assures
every visitor that the creature
"understands what is being eaici
• well as you or I." Perbetps it does,
and perhaps it doesn't. The point is
How can we test the amount of
its brain power ?
The only way to test an aniinal's
knowledge th to set it an examina-
tion paper. That is just what it
number of French scientists are do-
lugelilowhave hired a large ci
Tliyrcus at
Longehamps. near Paris, and made
the isae
mcentr:due 0
coofit11:4.0agreiezzgleybel.
. They
can thus sit round and examine the
candidate in perfect Safety, whether
h
A. closed box, containing soMe
strongly scented meat, is placed in
• the arena, nen the doors are open,-
• ed. and it lion is allowed to enter.
The king of beasts at once smells the
food, and makes for the box. The
problem is Will he break the box to
• get ?at the meat. or will he open th114e
If he opens tlie lid be gets At g'0011
• 1111141. 111141 has passed the Arst
tion in his exam. If he smashes it
he is sent back in disgrace. Two
Bona which were tried thus opened
the lid, but a, ravenous lioness an-
grily crushed the whole affair and
munched the eneat quite unconselouS
of the disapproval of her exmieinersi
who were eagerly watching through
the bars and lotting down thole
learned theories in
1310 NOTEBOOKS.
Sportsmen often test retriever
dogs by problems even border than
this. They send the dog to retrieve
two birds at once. It cannot Carry
both, yet, it has to bring both backe
Stupid dogs pick up the merest birde
drop it, and then pick up the othr,-
ending up by ouly retrieving One et
them. The clever dog begins by
killing the Aret bird. Then he drops
it and goes and Mile tan) second one
and •carries it to We wester. Finally
he returns and fetches the first vird.
A dog which does this has earned
the highest possible number of marks
in his examination.
The big African elephant which Is
mew installed at the Zoe in London
need to be very litUth bothered by
having biscuits thrown au his cagii
by people who had a poor Olin. The ij
biUnit, if badly thrown, bit the bars
of the cage and fell down onto tho
ground between the barrier and the
cage, where neither the thrower nor
the elephant could reach it.
The wily elephant was grieved to
see the biscult wasted thus, so • ho
thought out it plan by' which he
could return the biscuits to the own-
ers so that they could have am:4W
shy. Nowadays, when it biscuitfallsnoo=
outside the bars the elephant puts,
forward his trunk and puffs through
It. This acts like a. pair of bellows,
creating a strong current of air
which blows the biscuit as far as the
barrier, where it can be picked uP
again. Needless to saY, the clever
elephant is always rewardea by
eventually
GETTING HIS BISCUIT.
.A scientist recently conducted an in.
teresting experiment with a pair of
otters. They were placed in a tank
which had a, wooden barrier half
way across it, and in the barrier
was a hole, too email for the otters
to pass through, but largo enough
for a. fish to pass. When a fish VOA
put into the tank the otters would
make it dash at it, whereupon the
fish fled through the hole.
The otters consulted each other
how to get over the difficulty. At
last they hit on a plan. One of
them climbed over the barrier alter.'
the fisk and the other put its nose"
up against the hole. Tho poor fish
was:soon caught, and it is pleasant
to know that the otters honestly •
shared it between them.
Ravens, which aro passionately
fond of stealing, have been examined
as; to their brain power, with aston-
ishing results. One of them., Naas
found which would snatch a tvath
from a man's vest Pocket as quickly
as an expert thief. Suth a creature -
would be a serious annoyance if it
took up its abode somewhere in the
neighborhood of the Strand.
fishery commissioners
measuring the sal -
by • means of stan-
below waterfalls. They
the fish can leap to a
feet.
, There have beeu many very terrible
;volcanic eruptions recorded sumo the
dawn of history, but never any to
!intensely dramatic as that • which,
on August 12th, 1815, destroyed the
• island of Sumbawa in the East • La-
dies. In the very centre of the coral -
fringed atoll rose the mountain of
Tomborow, .but it was cultivated al-
most to the summit, 'and although
it smoked iucessantly it had been
quiescent beyond the memory of the
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re
ment. But during the winter of that
year an awful thing bappened. Mil-
lions on millions of tons of ice,
which had been accumulating dur-
ing countless ages in the far frozen
north, broke bounds. and came car-
eering southward along the coast in
an endless river, cutting off all com-
munication with the open sea. and
with the world that lay beyond it.
IVIany attempts were made to reach
the imprisoned colonists, but in vain.
Years rolled on. Their very names
faded to memories. The location of
the settlement was lost. But the
main facts are historical • and we
know that sornewbere , beneath the
ice -cap which, with the lowering' of
from the interior to the coast, are
; the sea, tenmei attire, crawled down
churches and chapels, villages and
towns, and about them and within
them, stork and stiff, men, women,
and children, preserved fromdecay
by the cold that destroyed•
them,
but none of whom shalr ever again
be beheld by mortal eye. •
The first balloon ascent took place
in 1783.
Claim Thousan.ds of Scores of Young Lives Every Year—
Lives That Could as Well be Saveil.
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HAD TO PAY.
A somewhat obnoxious Englishman
recently went for his usual suraraer
holidays, and chose as his resort A
small village away among the moul
tains of Scotland. Not long -we• r
arrived at the place he was told
that there were some remarkable
echoes in the neighborhood, but he
determined that he would accept no
mere reports that were circulated in
regard to the matter.
Being exceedingly suspicious as to
the nature of these echoes, he resolr-
ed to make careful investigations and,
taking it native of the place to show
him some of the most celebrated
spots, he sallied forth, determined to
expose the scheme of trickery which
be believed was in existence. .
The "Southron" behaved.in such a ,-
dictatorial fashion to the worth,y-------
Scot, and spoke in such tones of
command, that the latter resolved to
embrace the first, opportunity of 1.;1k-
ing the straeger clown. By-ananee e
splendid chance presented itself, and
the guide conducted the liIngiishman
to a hill not very far from the door
of a wayside alehouse.
"Shout as loud as you can, Twa
pots o' beer,' " said the Scot.
Though he had been very suspicious
in regard to the echoes, the visitor
was not suspicious enough at that
moment, and he promptly did. a8 lie
was told.
"1 don't hear any echo," tld re-
mitrked, after pausing a moment.
"Nor do :$1,1ql. the gui.do, with_
the utmost c<rolnes ; "but here's the
man with the k,\er !"
, Uhe Eng1islizi:4' had, of r-ouxre,, to
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