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,.jER RALPH; BY WELDON J. COBB. TH. Urrlblo I 4Uoa «i CHAPTER XII, ran. *s be appearance of Darrel Grey at the ^ of the Indiana waa a theme of con- jible wonderment to Ranger Ralph. Ilho young scout, however. It had led moat naturally, and he waa | his evil eyes, ad and dollghtod at hla auccoaa in lpo9ltlon he had undertaken, bn bo had knocked the savage at Ivor inaonalblc, ho had boldly dctor- f<\ to aaaume hla Idontlty tompora- ' -'onetrate to the camp of hla Ine*. Tracey uttA antic, fright ened cry aa aha aaA ,. tomahawk of the Indian nptlftod ovei-Xie head of tno disguised Darrel Urey. The latter, ovorcome completely with chagrin and dismay, loomed for tho mo ment bowlldorod at tho dlaaater that had appeared at the time of apparent sue- ceaa “Spare hlmt Do not kill html Ho Ik my only protoctor—my friend!* ahe cried, wildly. Inei endoavored to apriftg forward and Intercept the blow of the Irate Trailing Wolf, but Deapard caught hor roughly. “Hal I begin to undoratand this," ho muttered, a Jealous light coming Into J are was a perilous one, but 'as If fate favored Its oxecu- ngnsolous 'savage, 1 ^lilod him to Anally present tho > of a genuine Modoc warrior. Itaggorod to a spot whore sav es were quarreling over a keg nn took®'" 1 the oxcltumont of * o one seemed to notice him h, bad soon donnod the apparel of -'ynsclnus 'savage, and his war* *, bled hi **■ of a I at <| tagge i, aad's wei t and a o one soouiod to notlco him 1 Attunes he was addressed In the sago, but ho feigned a maud* Aeess. and only responded Incoherent muttering*. Ins that ho entered the camp Btcr Ralph was a prisoner. of tho -eout has already by the reador. ^^S^ar ho. was ontiroly successful in Ills mnvouionts; but Darrul saw that his Imposture must soonor or later bo dis covered. He did not, therefore, roturn to the tame band of Indians from whom he had rescued Ranger Ralph Instead, he wanderod Into tho main ancgmpieent and determined to locate, If pbsslblo, tho tent In which InoxTrucey was held a captive. Me found that a large number of tho Indiana and two of Dospard's band had gone south on tho expedition against the emigrants. It was whan near a large tout that tho aound of familiar tonus awakonud his Immediate attention. Instantly lie recognized one voice as belonging to Dyke liospaid. He was addressing his associate Vanco, and he askud: •Then llunton and the others havo gone?* “Yes," ropllod Vance. “They will at tack the omlgrunt train, secure our share of the booty, meet the others of the band and come at onco to I.onu Canyon. "Ooyd* Now thou, aa to onr move ments?" “Well?" “We must leave hero at once.* i “For Done Canyon?* "Yes." “And tho girl?" "Oct Trailing Fox to go to tho wigwam lor her." "Then I will got the horses ready?" “At tho edge of the camp, yes. The Indians may ho suspicious If they And us leaving them, but the Fox will uld us, as he Is friendly to us " "All right" Darrel withdrew as Vance scemod about to leave the tent Me knew that If he acted It must bo at once. Ho hurried In and nut among the wig wams, and at last paused before one of them. It was where an old squaw sat before a smoldering camp Are Glancing beyond hor Darrel saw tho form of a woman lying on somo buffalo skins “It mi st be Inor," he murmured, I wonder If I can pass the old squaw un observed. " The latter was nodding drowsily as ho stepped toward the tent tSho roused In stantly at his advance. Immediately Darrol resumed hla role of drunkenness lie hud a Cask of liq uor In his peckot and this he extended toward the woman. She seized It eagerly. Darrel muttered tome Incoherent words about Shadow Snake. The squaw teamed to comprehend that tho chief had sent him to the place, and did not attempt to stop him aa ho walkod boldly Into the tent. Fpon the rude Indian couch lay Inox Tracey Her eyes were wot with tears, hor facto palu and alarmed She started to her feet with a cry of terror as the protend ed drunken Indian approached her. “Ugh! palo face come with me!" ho uttered Tho young fallow who ran away with hor, oh?" ejaculated Vauce, Despard's companion. “Yus Hold!* cried tho outlaw leador to tho savugo. “The Wolf shall have his revenge at the stako—at the torture Seize him and bring him to the chief’s tont,* ordered Despard. With a sullen, lowering brow, the In dian whose Identity Darrul had stolen cast asldo the tomahawk. At tho same moment Darrol Grey realized his position and recovered from all his bewilderment Hu comprehended that to remain In ert, to Impassively fall Into tho hands of his foes, meant certain daath amid their rovongoful numbers. Inez's frantic ondeavor to snvo him thrlllud Ills very soul with Joy and cour age aa he recognized her love and devo tion. It Inspired him to think beyond the present A prisoner, ho would tie help less to aid hor. Freo, he might yet out wit his foes. He surprised savages and renegades alike by a suddon movement They ad judged him u thoroughly baAled and de feated victim. They wero therefore tolaly unprepared for the desperate rush he abruptly made. “Courage, lnozl you shall yot bo rescued," ho shouted. Thon lie sprang forward, overturning two of the savages and darting straight In the direction of tho horses ot tho camp. Tho outlaws did not follow him, but the group of excited, yelling Indians started In hot pursuit, luuz stood clasping her hands In ter ror. “Oh! they will capture and kill him, • she cried. Despard laughed hoarsely. “Ila! In love, oh?” she Hushed In Indignant resentment at Dospard’s coarse tnnos. “Coward! Assassin!" she breathed, her eyes Hashing abhorrence and aversion upon her dreaded captor. “There will bo ono loss lovor In a few moments,” continued Despard. “Girl, you struggle vainly to escape my powor. 1 nave too many friends and alllos." “See here, Captain!" Vance hud touched the outlaw's arm. “Well?" Inquired Despard. “Wo are wasting vnluahle time hero " “That's true. lait us move at onco. We can take advantage of the confusion to leave tho camp * “Khali I got the horses?" “Yes; and bring them to the river be yond the camp. Go ahead; I'll meet you thorn. You come with mo. * Dyke Despard make no pretense of gentleness as he seized Inoz's arm roughly. Hu fori od hor to accompany him away from the .Modoc camp. At a thicket near tho river lie paused to await tho arrlvul of his accomplice, Vance. Ills oyos glowed with tho malice and triumph of a villain aa ho noted Inez's deep distress. He was angry and Jealous at his dis covery of her ovldont proforonce for a rival. “Girl," ho hissed, as he bent toward her, “If you aro listening for some token of your lover's escn|io, abandon tho thought." Inez was silent and dropped her eyes to veil their evident expression of anxiety for the fate of tho man she bad learned to love within tho past few hours. “He Is doomed,* continued tho merci less Despard. “Even If ho eluded cap ture for a brief time, ho would soon bo found. Then tho stake—the torture. ’’ Inez shuddered at Ills heart ess words. “If you want to be aonslhlo, * pursuod Despard, “you will snvo yourself and others trouble. It will bo wlso for you If ire understand oach other perfectly now. ” “I understand you only too well, mis creant," cried Inoz. “Hard words will not help your case any,” rcpllod Despard. “No name Is too hard for your cruol naturo." “You will soon change your tactics, my girl. If I’m not mistaken," romarkod Despard, menacingly. “You aro com- •AnRUke pretended Indian—tha lovor of this girl hero?" queried Dospard. “Ho is captured, and the Modooa will calsbrate their departure from the cams by horning a victim at the stake." A hollow moan Issued from Inoz. Tra cay's llpa She rode on, her head burled on hor breast, her mind agonized as sht ploturod tho sufferings of her brave res cuer. Tho heartloss Vanco had Indeed told the truth when he affirmed that Darrel Grey was again a prisoner of thsModocs. Whan tho young scout had dashed away from his tavago foot, he hurrlod toward tho horses Ha folt assured ll ho reachod thors ho could scour* a stood and escape. The warning cries of hit pnrtusrs, however, attracted the attention of oth ers In tho camp. Tho Mndocs came rushing from every direction, and ho was Anally bemmod la on all sides. Ho msdoa desperato resist ance, but was overpowerod. The triumphant savages bore blm to ward tho vory spot where tho rangor had rocontly been a prisoner. With mocking words they tore bis dis guise from him and racured him to I troe. Just then thoro was a sudden commo tion. As Vanco had stated to Despard, tho couriers from Shadow Snake had ar< rived. Soon the v amp becamo a scene ol bustle and oxcltoment Darrol obsurvod that achangoof cam| was meditated. Ho also learned that this fact would only proclpltato till doom at the bauds of his enemies. Ont of them approachud him Anally. “I’ab-face try to make Indian out ol self," lie muttered. “Ugh! Great Modoc We see If palofaco die like Modoc. ” It wai only wlion the last preparatloni to leavo tho camp had been made thal full attention was bestowed on the cap tive. homo of tho savages were already leaving the spot Several of them, how ever, held a brief consultation near the smoldering camp Aro Finally they scorned to havo decided on his fate. Tho young scout paled, but betrayed no fear as he saw them gather wood and pile it about the treo whore he was. They redoubled Ills bonds with stout thongs that would not burn easily. The wood and branches were piled high about him, the savages uttered wild, revengeful cries, and then a blaz ing faggot was placed under hla foot. A dense volume of smoko choked and bllndod Darrel, and ho closed his eyes despairingly. Ho was monaced with a horrible, lingering death. The savages left the spot and hastenod after their departing comrados. The lust to leavo, glancing back at tho burning pile at tho troe, nttorod a Horen yell of savago delight as lie saw tho (lames encircle the form of tho devoted young scout. [to na coNTiaiiXD.l flrav. Hoy. Somo years ago, says tho author of “lllg Gamo t North America,” three cblldron who ved near Olympia, Wash ington, wero returning from school, when Walter, tho eldest, a hoy of Ui, noticed what ho thought to bo a largo yellow dog trotting In tho road behind them. They paid no attention to It, as large mongrel dogs of this color abound everywhere In the vicinity of Indian camps, but wont playing leisurely along. Suddenly tho youngost, a chubby chap of A, who was behind Ills brothers, cainn runnihg to the front, anti a moment later tho animal, seen now to be a cougar, sprang ovor the heads of the two aston ished boys, seized the little follow In hit mouth, and with a spring vanished lu the bushes. The elder brother did not stop to de liberate. llo had for a woapon only an empty bottle, In which ho had curried milk for his dinner, and with this ho rushed Into tho bushos Ills little broth er was lying prostrate, grasping a small tree with both hands, and holding on with tho strongth of ddspalr, while tho cougar, his fangs luckily Imbedded only In tho child's clothing, was trying to break this dosth-llke grip. With a scream, Waltor threw hlntsolf on the animal, beat It over tho head with tho bottle until the glass was shat tered In fragments, and thon. with tho ragged edges of tho bottlo's neck, ho eo- deavorod to cut out tho cougar's oyos. At last tho cougar, with a yoll of rage, dropped Ills hold on tho child and ran up a troe near at hand, wlillo the horolo boy, lifting his brothor in Ills arms, car ried him into tho road, and foil fulutlng upon him. Meanwhile tho other brothor had Hod screaming up tho road, and fortunately met two men who had boon chopping near by. As Siam as ho had told tho cause of his fright, they rushed on, to And tho little hero sensrloss, still tight ly grusplug tho neck of tho broken bottlo. PLEASE TRY y m ihi ^ LO£ca)ieto CANDY CATHARTIC ATE THF ysM ALL druggist;;. THE "JENKIN’S EAR" ISSUE. If Retailed la a New Era ol Activity li Elf Itod. Spain claimed to I* mistress, by de cree of the pope, ot all the seas and continents covered by tfco vague title of "the Spanish Main," and ao for two centuries, whatever was the case In Europe, perpetual war raged In the tropics. By the AsBiento treaty the British were allowed to dUpatch one ahlp, not exceeding 800 tonB, to the Spanish Main each year; but what parchment Bkln of treaties could keep the volume of the world's trade flowing through such a petty squirt! Illegal tradere to the Spanish Main abounded, and Span ish guards costas were not gentle In their methods of suppressing them. Capt. Jenkins, with hla vessel, the Rebecca, sailing from Jamaica to Lon don, waa stopped and searched on th» coast of Havana by a Spanish revenue outter. Jenkins was slashed over the t d with a cutlase and hts left ear i chopped off. A Spanish officer then tore off the bleeding ear, flung It In Its owner’s face and bade him "carry It home to his king and tell him what had been done.” The story of how that little morsel of brown, withered flesh turned out a spark which kindled the Inarticulate slow burning wrath of the English nation Into a flame and swept England Itself Into war. Carlye tells: "The ‘Jenkins’ ear' question, which once looked so mad, was Bane enough, and covered tremendous Issues. Half the world lay hidden In embryo under It. ‘Colonial empire'—whose Is It to be? Shall half the world be England's for Industrial purposes, which is inno cent, laudable, conformable to the mul tiplication table, at least, and other plain laws? Or Bhall It oe Spain's, for arrogant, torpid, sham-devotional pur poses, contradictory to every law? The incalculable ‘Yankee nation’ Itself, big gest phenomenon (once thought beau- tlfulest) of these ages—this, too, little as careless readers on either side of the sea now know It, lay Involved. Shall there be a Yankee nation, shall thero not he? Shall the new world be of Spanish type, shall It be of Eng lish? Issues which we may call Im mense! Among the then extant aona of Adam, where waa he who could in the faintest degree surmise what is sues lay In the Jenkins’ ear question? And la It curloua to consider now, with what fierce, deep-breathed doggednesa, the poor English nation, drawn by their InBtlncts of simple, guileless per sona (liable to be counted stupid by tho unwary) are sometimes of prophet ic nature, and spring from the deep places of this universe.” blah. The man who wants things for nothing has withdrawn his patronage from • particular restaurant lu Dia mond street.—Pittsburg Chronlcle-Tel- apb. She followed him from the place silent- pletoly In my power. In a fow moments ly, despairingly. He led her, not toward the center of the camp, but through Its purlieus, anx ious to reach tho open country beyond. Every nerve thrilled with tho Intons- est emotion as he realized that the res cue was nearly assured. Tho Indians whom they met paid no attention to thorn. Poor Inoz, fearing we leave the Indian camp Do you know whore we aro going?” Inoz did not dolgti to reply. “I am going to take you to a retroat so safe and Isolated that no friend will ever penetrate to It—of whleh even tho savages aro In Ignorance. Uetweon It and civilization Is a safe barrier of sav age hordes, friendly to my doslgna. some new captivity, seemed about to Trusty friends and strong walls of rock fsllll M n.n «. n,, hh. .. I H'l, e , rt 1-All Iff 1 I I )|A Ini' faint away As she walkod unsteadily, Darrel ap proached her nearer. “Courage!" She started at the fervent, unexpected word. “Walk straight on," he breathed, hurriedly. “We aro not yet safe ” A half-suppressed cry of Joy broke from the girl’s lips. “Darrell—Mr. Grey,” she cried; “oh! can we escape"" “Yes, yes. Follow me faster." “StoD them! surround me. Thoro you will be my prisoner— socuro, with no hope of oscapo Thero you will bo my wife." “Nover!" Despard laughed confidently. “We shall soo," ho taunted. “Oh, yon will soon tire of playing the Indignant rolo. Do you hear that?" Yengoful, triumphant cries from tho direction of the Mo.loc camp told tho anxious Inez that her worst fears wero confirmed. They seemed to announce that hor bravo protoctor, Darrel Groy, had fallen The words came from behind them ; a prisoner Into the hands of his murder- and caused Inez to utter a starllod cry. Darrel seized her arm and mado for a near thicket Coming toward them were Despard, Vance and several savages. “Discovered!” cried Darrel, despair ingly. Instantly he was surrounded. “What are you doing with that girl?" demanded Despard, gruffly. “Ugh! Shadow Snake's orders," grunt- ad Darrel. “A lie!” shouted Despard. “Here! Where Is tho Wolf? This man Is no In dian, but & spy. He stole the Wolfs Identity, and Is spiriting tho girl away. " Angry, menacing faces confronted tho young scoot. One savage sprang before blm with an uplitted tomahawk. At a glance Darrel Grey recognized . way. ous foes. Sho burlod her face In her hands In mute anguish, while Despard peered from tho thb kot. us two savages, su perbly mounted, dashed by toward tho camp. A minute later Vanco appeared. He was rldlug a horse and loading two oth ers. “llulck! we had bettor start at once," he said. Inoz know that It was useless to strug gle against hor poworful foes, and was soon In the scdillo. Despair, retained hold of tho chock- rein of the horse she rode. Vanco kept closo to the othor sldo of the stood. “Tho camp moves south,” romarkod the latter, as they proceeded on their him. It was the Modoc warrior whoso I garb he bad stolen at the river a few I hours prevloBsly. j ’Whan?" “At once. Two mossengors from Shadow Snake Just arrived after thorn.” Get a Whole Lot lor Nothlag- The man who always wants some thing for nothing made a discovery In a Diamond street restaurant. A waiter upset a glass on the marble-topped lunch counter, breaking the edge of the glass. The waiter carelessly tossed The cougar's victim was. too much | It under the counter and got another horrified to spoak, but pointed to tho with a smooth edge for the customer savago beast, lying on a limb In full he was serving. view. One of tho men bad a pistol, and I “what do yon do with glasses thus with a few shots tho animal was killod. gUghtly damaged?" asked the customer Brayed Himecir to Death. of the restaurant proprietor, relating Henry Horen, living near Jackion, the circumstance. Tonn., lost a lino Jackass yesterday In | “Oh, we give them away; have to get a romarkablo manner, says the St. Louis rid of them; can’t endanger the' lips of Glebe-Democrat. A year or two since he ; customers by serving them Tn nicked purchased tho nnitnal for £400 in Middle * glasses. But why are you interested Tenncaseo- A fow days since he pur-1 „m ll „ T *»,«,.->»♦ <* h chased another, which ho brought home Wh , y ’ 1 l , h “" 8 ^ i yesterday It ut llrst resented tho In-, m0 a ^ ew °' d B'asses w ^ e triiaion of tho new-comer, anil as soon might use them for Jellies.’ as tho latter arrived on tho promisos be- “Give me your addresB and I’ll send came terribly enraged, and let forth a you some," volunteered the restaur- bray so loud, so long, anil so deep that ant keeper. it echoed and ro-ochoed throughout tho surrounding country, l’asslon and Joal- ousy mi ved him to the ono supremo The man for a longing for articles without price went away gleefully, cal- Tke Oldest Postil System. We And the firet recorded postal sys tem In the Persian Empire, under Cy rus the Elder; but It Is clear that Rome of all the ancient States possessed the best organized system of transmitting letters through its numerous province*. All along the great Roman roadd houses were erected at a distance of five or six miles from each other. At each of these stations forty horses ware constantly kept, and by the help of the relays It was easy to travel 100 miles in a day. These services were Intended for the State only. It being Imperative to secure the rapid Inter change of official communications. In the time of Julius Caesar the sys tem was so well organized that of two letters the great soldier wrote from Britain to Cicero at Rome, the one reached Its destination in twenty-six and the other In twenty-eight days. Private citizens had to trust to the services of slaves, and it .8 not till the end of the third century that we hear of the establishment of a postal Bys tem for private persons by the Emper or Dlocvletlan, but how long this sys tem remained history does not say.— New York World. Spanish Honor Exemplified. I see that tho Spaniards are vaunting their honor and chivalry and calling Americans -swine. Let me tell you something about Spanish honor. Pre mier Sagasta recently gave a reception to tho British Minister. During the evoalng the Minister discovered that his watch had been stolen, and he came to the reluctant conclusion that one of the grandees present waa the thief. He told Sagasta of bis Iosb. Sagasta ask ed for silence and explained the situa tion.. He said that In order to save the culprit's honor the lights would be put out and the whole company would pass by the Premier’s desk in the dark, and the culprit would redeem himself by placing the watch on the table. In darkness the company passed by the table. When the lights were turned on again not only was the watch not there, but a valuable silver Inkstand belonging to Sagasta was missing,— The Voalkfsl Aft ef Criminals. Dr. Frederick H. Wines, of Illinois, has been discussing the subject of tho youth of the prisoners In the penal In stitutions of the United States, anil his conclusions show that the convicts ot the country are a more youthful ‘set of men than It Is generally supposed they are. Of the 82,820 prisoners in this country, one-eighth are to bo found in New York, one-fourth In the three states of New York, Pennsyl vania and Massachusetts. The average age of the prisoners was under thirty- one and nearly half were under thirty, about a third under twenty-five and nearly one-eighth under twenty. The average age of the public pabper is fifty-seven years. The average ago of a colored prisoner is twenty-seven and a half years, of a native white prisoner 30' years, and of a foreign white prisoner thirty-seven years and nine months. The youth of these convicts raises the queries whether they are born criminals, and If not, what his driven them to a life of crime at so early an age? If they have be come evildoers through force of cir cumstances what proportion of them can .be saved by proper treatment, so that they will become law-abiding citi zens? At the New York State Reformatory at Elmira, the system of manual train ing has been introduced to educate the degenerates to work, it being proved that they have been led Into lives of crime through associations that have brought about a total abhorrence of honest labor. The Bystem employed tends to a cultivation of the will, as well as the education of the hand, and eo far It has been remarkably suc cessful.—Boston Transcript New British Battleships. Tha admiralty have given an order to Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth ft Co., of Elswlck, for eight seta of hy draulic mountings tor the twelve-inch forty-alx ton breech-loading guns of the new battleships Implacable and Formidable, which are to be built, the former at Davenport and the latter at Portsmouth. For these eight sots of mountings, four of which will be sup plied to each ship, the Elswlck firm will be paid over ¥500,000. These twelve-inch guns are to be distinctly of a new type, and will be provided with gear for working them by hand power In the event of the hydraulic gear giving out. The order for the Bet'S Leaf Imprisonment. mountings will Include the fitting of The wife of Dr. C. H, Emory, of Bed'- the apparatus required for working ford, Mass., a few days ago noticed a * he ' glmB ,rom , th . e ammunition room small white speck on the top of a hard ° l , he , gu “ Platform. Besides the oak centre table,, of which she has been 1 6 V f'!, n ? h f u ” 8, whlel1 are to be the owner for six years, Yesterday ' " l0unte<1 ' n ^bettea. each vessel will the speck suddenly developed Into an * e , arraed w ‘ th twelTe ab( - lnctl openlng about three-eighths of an Buna of a new type, and mounted Inch In diameter, out of which crawled In armored casements; sixteen firing a strange looking bug, gray in color. twelve-pounder boats' guns, about one Inch In length, and having .45-inch Maxim machine guns and several arms and legs. There Is much ; flv * torpedo tubes, four of speculation concerning the strange In- _ be .? U , bme r? ed '. , aild oa6 sect. Undoubtedly It wub embodied In the top ot tbat polished centre table erer since the table was made from the rough lumber by the manufacturer. Since the possession of the table by cVl abovxqpater. It U estimated that tha two Vessels wilt coat a million of money each. ThlB is not to be won dered at when It iq explained that the __ monntinga for the four big guns alone Dr. Emory there has been no break In ovf!r $250,000, the cost of the guns Its surface, for Mrs. Emory nas had it be nearly $350,000, while the arm- under her dally care. Dr. Emory still has the captive, and Is trying to Iden tify it.—New York Telegram. tain broken glassware and china of all sorts None of It could be used, not effort that cost his Ufa A blood-vos«ol cu 'ating mentally on how much he had burst* and tho blood flowed In a stream! on glasses. Two day3 from hla nose and mouth Tho crimson | later, when he went home from busi- tlde could not bo stanched, and tho un* j ness, he found thirteen barrels In his happy animal lay down and died. 1IU back yard. His wife said she supposed placo will bo filled by the now arrival, he had sent them and she paid the man but the memory of that awful bray will W 75 for rt ellvering them. When go down among tho traditions of the . . . . Touth District opened, the barrels were found to con- Th® Wonun Hlcycllat. , fi , rSt wo , m t n even for Jelly glasses. An ash hauler to ride a blcyclo In >> ashlngton and she . .. , was ridiculed and jeored by the multi- c bavgezi $2 for taking away the rub- tudo, and tho regulation anathema of “unsoxod woman” was hurled after hor by the eld foglos of conservatism. Now Mrs. Lockwood can ride tho length of Dennsylvanla avenue and not a mascu line head would bo turned. Custom makes laws as Insxorablo us those of tho Modes and Persians. A blcyclo tourna ment has Just bi on held In that city, and the wives and sweethearts of the boys rodo their blryclos beside them, and tho crowds looked on and approved. Tho world “do mo\e," and tho wheels help It along. Queer (.'untoiltan. A New Orleans man keeps a lizard aft his table to guard valuable papers. Tiik United States declared sxi against Tripoli on Juno 10, ISO*. Splitting Atoma By means of the microtome, slices of vegetable and animal tissues down to a thinness of about l-100Uth of an Inch are obtained for microscopic study. Professor Elmer Gates of Washington has now gone further, and even slices up blood cells and microbes by cement ing them In a single layer between two glass slides and cutting slides apart with a very thin blade of copper sharp ened to the highest possible degree. The cells are again cut by repeating the operation, and It Is claimed that slices have been made only l-100th as thick as the thinnest produced by the microtome.—San Francisco Chronicle. or plates to be used in the construction of the vessels will absorb another $050,000 a ship. These amounts do not even Include the cost of making and fitting in place the mountings of the six-inch and smaller types of guns, or of the torpedo armament.—Naval and Military Annual of London. The new monitors will be the most formidable vessels of that type ever built. And there are some who think that type the most formidable ever de vised. New Peril lor Firemen. Electrolysis Is said to be attacking the steel framework of the high build ings at Indianapolis, Ind., which are built on the lines of electric surface railroads. Engineering experts, It Is stated, are Investigating the matter, and will shortly make a report on the subject to the city council. It would thus seem as If a new peril were added to the manifold risks already attend ant on the life of a fireman, who, if tills Is true, may he called upon any day to enter a building, which by elec trolytic action has been rendered more liable than ever to collapse and bury all who are fighting a fire within its walls.—Fire and Water. FREE! FREE! • 1H!)H Cataloffnn, onh* firm whero you pet the Ileal Exact Valiio T* •* ‘ * — ‘Tiddler ’ 1 * Of sail*. only tlm. selling evrluftlvcly to tho general public direct, at factory coat—the .- -ir money. Thoro aro .\o .^Bent’- HPEJ’JAI^OFFER8_MlW IIKADV. 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