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v, - * 5." - ' .ys£ ': * W* ^ + S ^ K ^ s e%«,| J ** *7 "<|l'fi\'\| SPENDERS A Tale of the Third Generation By HARRY LEON WILSON Copyright, by Lothrop Publishing Company. , £e CHAPTER XVII. ^ HOT DAY IN NEW YORK. WITH , , .• NEWS OF AN INTEREST­ ING MARRIAGE. J&t Are o'clock that day the prow of <$i Viluca cut the waters of Newport harbor around Goat' Island, and pointed for New York. "Now is your time;'* said Mrs. Drel­ mer to Mauburn. "I'm sure the girl likes .you, and this row with the Mil- 4>reys has cut off any chance that cub tiad. Why not propose to her to­ night?" "I have seemei) to be getting on," answered Mauburn. "But wait a bit There's that confounded girl over there. No telling what she'll do. She "might knock things on the head any mo­ ment." "All the more reason for prompt action, and there couldn't very well be Anything to hurt yon." "By Jove! that's so; there couldn't, very well, eould there? I'll take your •advice." And so it befell that Mauburn and Ifiss Bines sat late on deck that night, and under the witchery of a moon that tnust long since have become hardened to the spectacle, the old, old story was told, to the accompaniment of the en­ gine's muffled throb, and the soft purring of the silver waters as they slipped by the boat and blended with the creamy track astern. So little variation was there in the' time-worn tale» and in the maid's reception of it, <hacneither seed here be told of in de­ tail. Nor were the proceedings next morn­ ing less tamely orthodox. Mrs. Bines managed to forget her relationship of elder sister to the poor long enough to behave as a mother ought when the Sieart of her daughter had been given Into a true lover's keeping. Percivjtl deported himself cordially. "I'm really glad to hear it," he said to Mauburn.v "I'm sure you'll make sis as good a husband as she'll make you a wife; and that's very good, in­ deed. Let's fracture a cold quart to the future Lady Casselthorpe." vAnd to the future 'Lord Cassel- thorpe!" added Mrs. Drelmer, who was warmly enthusiastic. "Such a brilliant match," she mur­ mured to Percival, when they had touched glasses in the after-cabin. "I know more .than one New York girl who'd have jumped at the chance." "We'll try to bear our honors mod­ estly," he answered her. ° The yacht lay at her anchorage in the East river. Percival made prepar­ ations to gq ashore with his mother. "Stay here with the turtle doves," he said to Mrs. Drelmer, "far enough off, of course,' to let them coo, and I'll be back with any people I can piek up for a cruise." At five in the afternoon Percival had gathered his party. Percival, Arledge and his lively wife, Yelverton, who en­ joyed the rare distinction of having lost money to Percival, and Burman. East they drove through the street where less fortunate mortals panted in the dead afternoon shade, and out on to the dock, whence the Viluca's naph­ tha launch presently put them aboard that sumptuous craft. A little breeze there made the heat less oppressive. "We'll be under way as soon as they *'etch that luggage out," Percival as­ sured his guests. % "It's been frightfully oppressive all day, even out here," said Mrs. Drel­ mer, "bat the engaged ones haven't ost their tempers once, even if the day was trying. And really they're the most unemotional and matter-of-fact couple I ever saw. Oh! do give >me hat stack of papers until I catch up with the news again." Percival relinquished to her the evening papers he had bought before f "Lendon, July 30.--Lord Cassel- thorpe to-day wed Miss "Connie* Burke, the music hall singer who has been ap­ pearing at the Alhambra. The mar­ riage was performed, by special li­ cense, at St. Michael's church, Chester square, London, the Rev. Canon Meck- lin, sub-dean of the Chapel Royal, offi­ ciating. The honeymoon will be spent at the town house of the groom, in York terrace. Lord Casselt^orpe has long been known as the blackest sheep of the British peerage, being called the 'Coster Peer' on account of his uncon­ ventional language, his coarse man­ ner and slovenly attire. Two years ago he was warned off Newmarket Heath and the British turf by the Jockey ClHb. He is 88 years old. The bride, like some other lights of the music hall who have become the con­ sorts of Britain's hereditary legisla­ tors, has enjoyed considerable ante­ nuptial celebrity among -the gilded youth of the metropolis, and is said to. have been especially admired at one time by the next in line of this illus­ trious family, the Hon. Cecil G. H. Mauburn. "The Hon. Cecil G. H. Mauburn, mentioned in the above cable dispatch, has been rather well' known in New York society for two years past. His engagement to the daughter of a Mon­ tana mining magnate, not long de­ ceased, has been persistently rumored." Mauburn was pale under his freckles. "Have they seen it yet?" MI don't think so," she answered. "We might drop these papers over the rail here." "That's rot, Mrs. Drelmer; it's sure to be talked of, and anyway I don't want to be sneaky, you know." Percival came up from the cabin with a paper in his hand. "I see you have it, too," he said, smiling. "Burman just handed me this." "Isn't it perfectly disreputable!" ex­ claimed Mrs. Drelmer. ' "Why? I only hope I'll have as much interest in life by the time I'm that age." "But how will your sister take it?" asked Mauburn; "she may be afraid this will knocK my title on the head, you know." "Oh, I see,'* said Percival; "I hadn't thought of that." "Only it can't," continued Mauburn. "Hang it all, that blasted old beggar will be 89, you know, in a fortnight. There simply can't be any issue of the marriage, and that--^hat blasted--" "Better not try to describe her-- while I'm by, you know," said Mrs. Drelmer, sympathetically. "Well--his wife--you know, will sim­ ply worry him into the grave a bit sooner, I fancy--that's all can possibly come of it." "Well, old man," said Percival, don't pretend to know the workings of my sister's mind, but you ought to be able to win a girl on your own merits, title or no title." "Awfully good of you, old chap. I'm sure she does care for me." "But of course it will be only fair to sis to lay the matter before her just as it is." "To be sure!" Mauburn assented. "And now, thank the Lord, we're un­ der way. Doesn't that breeze save your life, though? We'll eat here on deck." The Viluca swung into mid-stream, and was soon racing to the north with a crowded Fall river boat. "But anyway," concluded Percival, after he had explained Mauburn's po­ sition to his sister, "he's a good fellow, and if you suit each other even the un­ expected wouldn't, make any differ­ ence." "Of course not," she assented, " 'the rank is but the guinea's stamp,' I know --but I wasn't meaning to be married for quite a time yet, anyway--it's such fun just being engaged." "A mint julep?" Mauburn was in­ quiring of one who had proposed it. "Does it have whisky in it?" "It does," replied Percival, overhear­ ing the question; "whisky may be said to pervade, even to infest it. Try five or six, old man; that many make a great one-night trouble cure. And I can't have anyone with troubles on this Cunarder--not for the next 30 days. I need cheerfulness and rest for a long time after this day in town. Ah! Gen. Hemingway says that din­ ner is served; let's be at it before the things get all hot!" THE OLD, OLD STORY. tearing the hotel, and Mrs. Drelmer la the awnlnged shade at the stern of the boat was soon running through them. The others had gone below, where Percival was allotting staterooms, and urging every one to "order whatever oold stuff you like and get into as few things as the law allows. Fpr my part, I'd like to wear nothing but a cold bath." Mrs, Drelmer suddenly betrayed signs of excitement. She sat up straight in the wicker deck chair, glanced down a column, of her newspaper, and then looked up. Mauburn's head appeared out of the cabin's gloom. He was still speaking to some one below. Mrs. Drelmer rat­ tled the paper and waved it at him. He came up the stairs. "What's the row?" "Read it!" He took the paper and glanced at the headlines. "I knew she'd do it. A chap always comes up with something of that sort, and I was beginning to feel ao chippy!" He read: CHAPTER XVIII. A SENSATIONAL TURN IN THE MIL- BREY FORTUNES. It was a morning early in Novem­ ber. In the sedate Milbrey dining-room a brisk wood fire dulled the edge of the first autumn chill. At the breakfast table, comfortably near the hearth, sat Horace Milbrey. With pointed spoon he had daintily scooped the golden pulp from a Florida orange, touched the tips of his slender white fingers to the surface of the water in the bowl, and was now glancing leisureljr at the headlines of his paper, while his break­ fast appetite gained agreeable zest from the acid fruit. On the second page of the paper the names in a brief item arrested his er­ rant glance. It.disclosed that Mr. Per­ cival Bines had left New York the day before with a party of guests on his special car, to shoot quail in North Cafolina. Mr. Milbrey glanced at the two shells of the orange which the butler was then removing. "What a hopeless brute that fellow was!" he reflected. He was recalling a dictum once pronounced by Mr. Bines. "Oranges should never be eaten in public," he had said with that lord­ ly air of dogmatism characteristic of him. "The only right way to eat a juicy orange is to disrobe, grasp the fruit firmly in both hands and climb into a bathtub half full of water." The finished epicure shuddered at the recollection, poignantly, quite as if a saw were being filed in the next room. Mrs. Milbrey entered, news of im­ portance visibly animating her. Her husband arose mechanically, placed the chair for her, and resumed his fork in an ecstasy of concentration. "You really must talk to Avice," his wife said. Mr. Milbrey sighed, deprecatlngly. He could remember no time within five years when that necessity had not weighed upon his father's sense of duty like a vast bowlder of granite. He turned to welcome the diversion pro­ vided by the rognons sautees which Jarvls at that moment uncovered be­ fore him with a discreet flourish. "Now yon really must," con tinned his wife, "and you'll agree with me when I tell you why." "But, my dear, I've already talked to the girl exhaustively. I've pointed out that her treatment of Mrs. Wyhert --her perverse refusal to meet the lady at all. is quite as absurd as it is rude, and that if Fred chooses to marry Mrs. Wybert it is her duty to act the part of a sister even if she cannot bring herself to feel It. I've assured her that Mrs. Wybert's antecedents are all they should be; not illustrious, perhaps, but eminently respectable. Indeed, I quite approve of the southern aristocracy. But she constantly recalls what that snobbish Bines was unfair enough to tell her. I've done my utmost to con­ vince her that Bines spoke in the way he did about Mrs. Wybert because he knew she was aware of those ridicu­ lous tales of his mother's illiteracy. But Avice is--er--my dear, she is like her mother in more ways than one. Assuredly she doesn't take it from me." He became interested in the kidneys. "If Marie had been a man," he re­ marked, feelingly, "I often suspect that her fame afc, a chef would have been second to none. Really, the suavity of her sauces is a never-ending delight to me." "I haven't told you yet the reason--- a new reason--why you must talk to Avice." "The money--yes, yes, my dear, I kno#, we all know. Indeed, I've put it to h^sr plainly. She knows how sorely Fred needs it She knows how that beast of a tailor is threatening to be nasty--and I've explained how inval­ uable Mrs. Wybert would be, remind­ ing her of that lady's generous hint about the rise in Federal Steel, which enabled me to net the neat little profit of $10,000 a month ago, and how, but for that, we might have been acutely distressed. Yet she stubbornly clings to the notion that this marriage would be a mesalliance for the Milbreys." "I agree with her," replied his wife, tersely. Mr. Milbrey looked perplexed, but polite. # "I quite agree with ^vice," continued the lady. "That woman hasn't been right, Horace, and she isn't right. Young Bines knew what he was talk­ ing about. I haven't lived my years without being able to tell that after five minutes with her, clever as she is. I can read her. Like so many of those women, she has an intense passion to be thought respectable, and she's come into money enough--God only knows how--to gratify it. I could tell It, if nothing else showed it, by the way itt which she overdoes respectability. - She has the thousand and one artificial little rules for propriety that one never does have when one has been bred to it. That kind of woman is certain to lapse sooner or later. She would mar­ ry Fred" because of his standing, be­ cause he's a favorite with the smart people she thinks she'd like to be pally with. Then, after a little she'd run off with a German dialect comedian or something, like that appalling person Normie Whitmund married." "But the desire to be respectable, my dear--and you say this woman has it --is a mighty lever. I'm no cynic about your sex, but I shudder to think of their--ah--eccentricities if it should cease to be a factor in the feminine equation." "It's nothing more than a passing fad with this person--besides, that's not what I've to tell you." "But you, yourself, were not averse to Fred's marrying her, in spite of these opinions you must secretly have held." "Not while it seemed absolutely nec­ essary--not while the case was so brutally desperate, when we were actually pressed--" "Remember, my dear, there's noth­ ing magic in those $10,000. They're winged dollars like all their mates, and most of them, I'm sorry to say. have already flown to places where they'd long been expected." Mrs. Milbrey's sensation was no longer to be repressed. She had toyed with the situation sufficiently. Her husband was now skillfully dissecting the deviled thighs of an immature chicken. "Horace," said his wife, impressive­ ly, "Avice has had an offer of marriage --from--" He looked up with new. interest. "From Rulon Shepler." He dropped knife and fork. Shepler, the man of mighty millions! The un­ disputed monarch of finance! The cold-blooded, calculating sybarite in his lighter moments, but a man whose values as a son-in-law were so ideally superb that the Milbrey ambition had never vaulted high enough even to overlook them for one daring mom%t! Shepler, whom he had known so long and so intimately, with never the audacious thought of a union so Stu­ pendously glorious! "Margaret, you're jesting!" Mrs. Milbrey scorned to be dazzled by her triumph. "Nonsense! Shepler asked her last night to marry him." "It's bewildering! I never dreamed--" "I've expected it for months. I could tell you the very moment when the idea first seized the man--on the yacht last summer. I was sure she Interested him, even before his wife died two years ago." "Margaret, it's too good to be true!" "If you think it is, I'll tell you some­ thing that isn't: Avice practically re- fused him." Her husband pushed away his plate; the omission of even one regretful glance at its treasures betrayed the strong emotion under which he la* bored. "This is serious," he said, quietly. "Let us get at it. Tell me, if you please!" 1 "She came to me and cried half the night. She refused him, definitely at first, but he begged her to consider, to takft month to think it over--" AN ELECTRIC BLEACHEft. NEW PLANT LIFE FOUND. ""I 4 ^ I, ..A', if nftj».it * ihii. ,• - DR. %iJCCEEDS IN ORIGINATING NEW 8PECIES. Marvels in Botanical Science Which the director of the Carnegie Insti- ffcite at Washington Is Ac­ complishing. ing enl s been •pecies of plants has been accom­ plished, and Dr. Daniel Trembly Mac- Dougal, for years assistant director of the New York botanical garden, sev­ eral months ago appointed director of botanical research at the Carnegie institution, in Washington, claims the honor of the discovery. In his investigations on the orlgtn of species Dr. MacDougal has pursued lines similar to those followed by Prpf. Jacques Loeb, of the University of California, in his investigation of the origin of animal life, but Dr. Mac- Dougal's experiments have been more radical and his success is established. It mayv. be explained, so that the process of plant birth may easily be understood, that the ovaries of all evening primroses, for instance, the subjects of Dr. MacDoiigal's tests, con­ tain 200 or 300 ovules, each of which includes one egg cell. Pollen cells from the anther of ,the flower are car­ ried to its stigma by insects or by direct contact of the stamens and stig­ ma. Then the pollen cells germinate and send 'out a long, slender tube which penetrates the stigma and fol­ lows down the style to the ovary, where the nucleus carried by the. tube unites with the egg cell to form the fertilized egg. It is before the tube reaches the ovary that the injection is administered by Dr. MacDougal by means of a very fine hypodermic syringe. In Dr. MacDougal's flower tests the action of the solutions on the egg cells was such that new qualities were add­ ed and some existing qualities de­ stroyed or thrown into a latent condi­ tion, fertilization taking place in the usual manner, and the individual pro­ duced by these altered eggs differed, notably from ' the parent that is to" say, changes in the heridlty of the organism were induced. The diverg­ ent individuals resulting from such •experiments were healthy, reached maturity, bloomed, produced seed, and are perpetuating themselves. They are dwarf plants, about ope-quarter the size of the parent. It is believed to be the first conclu­ sive proof yet obtained that agencies external to the cell may induce muta­ tions, and consequently exert a pro­ found influence upon heredity. Dr. MacDougal attends to the cult!- «V" < vation of his plants tiimself, allowing no one to touch them. As the plant- lets appear he watches them carefully If the leaves of a plantlet are similar to those of its parent that plantlet is pulled up and destroyed. Should the leaves show any variation it is al- FLOWER WITH PETALS REMOVED. (Pollen From the Anther (A) are Car­ ried to the Stigma (B), Where the Pollen Cells Germinate and Send Out a long, Slender Tube, Which Penetrates the Stigma and Fol­ lows Down the Style. (C) to the Ovary-(D). scientist is able to satisfy himself be­ yond doubt that it is a new type. Then the plant is potted, ticketed and pre­ served for the purpose of continued ob­ servation and experiment. In this way he is able to keep track of thousands of plantlets, and aside from the re­ sults obtained by treating ovaries with Injections,, has procured a dozen dis­ tinct species. THE CARMELITE NUNS. WILL SOON LOSE THEIR CONVENT IN CITY OF PARIS. VT 8tory of This Order Whioh Is Noted for the Rigors of Its Discipline and Simplicity of Life. Another religious order is soon to feel the rigors of the French civil law separating church and state. The Carmelites, and. convents who refuse to comply with the law are to be driv­ en out, and the home in Paris is soon to be closed. The story of this order of Catholic sisters is an interesting one. The Religious Freedom. It Is stated that ten persons have left the orthodox church of Russia ajpd united with the Swedish Lutheran St. Catharine's congregation in St. Peters* burg. When the new members wars received by the pastor of the congre­ gation, the church was filled to its utmost capacity. These ten persons were the first who took advantage of the czar's late ukase giving reUgtou* freedom. * A Long Prayer. Carmelite 'sisters planted in France the severe discipline Imparted by St. Theresa of Spain to their order. As if attracted by the sharpness of the con­ trast between their life and that of the pleasure loving court, it became the fashion for women of the aristocracy to make a retreat In the little convent in the picturesque Rue Notre Dame des Champs. The tDucb^« de Longue- vllle was one of the first, and it was she who took steps to obtain funds for the little community she had brought Into the city. The rule of the order forbade the sisters to accumulate money; poverty was obligatory. But a few rich novices were received, and the sisters seemed to have found all they wanted for their daily sustenance. The wealthy and noble women who from time to time occupied cells in the convent were obliged to conform to the rule of the house, and very Spartan they fecund the fare. . Mortification of the flesh was the keynote of the order. Every sister wore a hair shirt, to irritate and wound the tender skin. Twice a week they were severely flogged with small whips, one sister performing the office for another. Their gowns were of the coarsest serge, apd their bare feet were thrust into dandals. They slept on hard straw mattresses in small, single cells, and through the greater part of the day the strictest silence was observed. 9* Every day was exactly like the last, except that fast days Introduced a yet sterner note into the day's work. This severity has been somewhat modified in Paris and in the other French houses of the Carmelites. But the routine remains practically the same. A great deal of time is neces­ sarily spent in the gardens, which are usually fine. Herbs, lettuce, vegetables of all kinds, fruit and a few dowers are carefully cultivate^. The quiet house in the Rue Notre Dame des Champs received an Ulus- trious penitent in 1676, when the beautiful and unhappy Louise de la Valliere renounced the world and Its pleasures and took the vows of the Carmelite order. During the revolution, the convent doors were burst In, the sisters scat­ tered and persecuted, and their chapel partly destroyed. Not till 1808 did they venture to rebuild the chapel and restore their home. Since then the vast convent, such as it is to-day, has known little change. Now Carmelites and convents, too, that refuse to comply with the civil laws are prohibited in France. Most of the Carmelite congregations are scattered once more. The beautiful old garden, the joy of those few who have been permitted of recent years to make a short stay in the visitors' rooms of the convent, has been se­ questered and built over, until to-day, when the fine new boulevard Raspail, which is to be the main artery of the quarter; is being completed, the win­ dows of the convent are all exposed, and the building is waiting the on­ slaught of the housebreakers. Thus Paris will lose an ancient landmark and a historic house. LIGHTNING'8 FREAK. Curious Accident to Water Pipe Dur­ ing Thunderstorm. As a matter of interest and instruc­ tive value to your many readers, I am reporting an unusual and significant incident that occurred at the branch office of the Scientific American at Washington, D. C., during a thunder­ storm on the llth day of July, 1906, writes a correspondent of that jour­ nal. ^ During the progress of the storm, lightning struck the electric wires that supply the office with light and power. The fuses of the various lights and fans were instantly burned out, and simultaneously therewith a tor­ rent of water poured from the floor of the building where the wires en­ tered, evidently flowing from the water pipe supplying the various radiators of the water-heating system which, as is usual, had not been cut off for the summer months, since it is not generally considered neces­ sary or even desirable to do so. Careful Inspection disclosed the fact that the electric wiring was close enough to the water circulation pipe to permit electricity of high voltage to jump to the fine ground connection which the water pipe afforded, and in doing so it burned a hole fully Apparatus by Which Flour Is Whttttis# as It Passes Through Chamber. 1 Hole Burned In a Water Pips By Lightning. three-eighths of an inch in the water pipe, with the result above noted. I am inclosing you a section of the pipe showing the holes of which there are two, a large and a small one, and also a piece of the wire. The torrent of water which immediately followed the discharge shows that the larger hole was the result of the discharge. The smaller one may have been produced by a ground during the removal of the pipe, as the water-heating en­ gineer states that a flash occurred as the pipe was unscrewed preparatory to removing it, he having undertaken the work' without opening the electric switch. The lesson which" the incident teaches is, first, the value of adequate lightning arresters; and second) the importance of keeping all electric wiring away from water and gas pipes. The electric wires were prop­ erly insulated, and carried by porce­ lain sleeves through the wooden joists of the building, but the light­ ning's voltage was heavy qpough and the ground connection so good as to make the jump possible. If the pipe had been a gas instead of a water pipe, needless to say a fire would havn occurred, which would have been dif­ ficult to control in daytime, and dis­ astrous at night. A form of apparatus for whiteningf flour by means of products of th# electric discharge is described- in} Electrochemical and Metallurgical In«j J dustry. Says the writer: . . j 1 "A current of air is passed through^ '\ a chamber containing a long, high-; j voltage continuous current arc, an# f|;; jj this air is then used for treating flousL/" ^ J in an agitator. The result of thM . „ ? j treatment is that the flour emerges. . \ "As to the rationale of this prfc^esa' ^ 1 from the agitator with a considerably < | whiter color." ^ With the largest sixe, about 3<J» ^ | sacks of flour can be treated per *. * 3 hour. In the type of machine shown ^ ^ in the illustration a double-acting ' _""4 pump draws air through a chamber in which there is an electric arc. As * m If the air flows through, the upper eleo " \ trode rises, gradually lengthening th9 J arc until it goes out, when the operaiK*'n;||pi;.| tion is repeated. The bleaching ao ^ ^ tion is thus explained: . "£j[, it is to be remarked that in this cas* j arc discharges are employed so that",.. probably compounds of nitrogen and '% oxygen are formed in the air and th« \ bleaching effect is due to these com* J ^ pounds. Essentially different front this method are those processes (pro* posed by others) in which ozone i# - used as bleaching agent and 1b pro-, • | duced by.the silent electric discharge f; through air. S. Letham claims that ! j the» best results are obtained bjT • < ^ treating the air successively first b# ;* sf J the silent electric discharge and then - by an arc discharge. Methods of < this kind for whitening flour are re* . jjj 1 ported to be in commercial use to *|j m some extent in the middle west and "4 1 south, but no exact information is rx ] available.". ELECTRIC ELEVATORS. WARNS OF FIRE. DETROIT HAS ARMLESS DOG. Canine Freak Looks arid Acts More Like a Kangaroo. Detroit, Mich.--Mrs. Ettie Rowe, who lives on Randolph street, has a curiosity in the shape of an "armless" dog. .Gertie, as the dog is named, al­ though Mrs. Rowe generally calls her "Baby," is a little more than two years old, and is one of litter of five, two of which were born with no fore legs. The . mate died of distemper In her youthful days, but Gertie is as healthy as any dog can be and more palyful than most of the canine species. She is continually on the romp, hopping around on her hind legs like a kanga­ roo. When she is in a real big hurry she tries to run like the other dogs, and goes bumping along on her hind legs and breast in a most comical manner. Gertie's mother was a pup, and her sire "a terrier, but the terrier pre­ dominates in her disposition as well as her appearance. She was exhibited last fall at the Fenton and Pontiac fairs, and brought her owner a clear $250. She is said to be the only freak of the kind in the country. Ingenious Fire Alarm Device for Grain .> Elevators. A choke in the elevator head which stops the belt while the head pulley keeps revclving is frequently the cause of fires In grain elevators, says the Grain Dealers' Journal. The pul­ ley rubbing against the belt soon gen­ erates sufficient heat to start a blaze. An alarm to warn the operator when the elevator head is becoming over­ heated has been devised. A round hole is bored in the middle of the strut board for the insertion of the device, which consists Of a metal plug, shown in Fig. 1. The upper stopper of the plug fits loosely and rests against the pulley. The lower electrode, H, is Design by Which All Driving Mechan* ism is Bolted to Under Side of Car. A new and extremely simple design of electric elevator has beeen recently called to the attention of the public^ and the new system is said to combind absolute safety, economy of power; and economy of space, s&ys the Scien­ tific American. In the-latter particu­ lar at least it represents a great ad<! vance over the present types. All thf^ driving mechanism in this case is bolt* ed to the underside of the car plat­ form, and consists entirely of a hori-' zontal drum revolved by an electrio motor. On the periphery of the drum is fitted a spiral track, which engages and travels in two series of rollers set in the guide posts supporting the car. - The motor being started, the drum revolves, and the car ascends or de* scends as desired. As to its economy,, this system has the advantage en*/ joyed by all electrically-driven machine ery, in that it consumes power onljr when in actual use, and another rec­ ommendation is that all the machin* ery being contained in the elevato# shaft,, much Valuable floor space i» saved. It is claimed to be absolutely safe, and requires no safety devices ot any character. The electric elevator , of this design is particularly valuable' where there Is an intermittent demand^ for Its use and where great speed is not required. PIONE-R IN FLA8H SIGNALS. M Preparing for Action. He--What did your father say when you informed him that I was going to ask him for ypur hand in marriage to-night? She--Oh, he didn't say much. He--He didn't? ' She--No; but he asked mamma where his heavy-soled shoes were.-- Chicago Daily News. Lucky at That. "During the* first year of our mar­ ried life my husband would call me up by long-distance 'phone every day when he had to be away from home." "Doesn't he do so any more?" "Mercy, no! The only means I have of hearing from him is through the picture postal cards he sends the chil­ dren."--Judge. The Market. First Citizen--How's the market? Second Citizen--Summer resort men. preferred, 98 bid and 102 asked; common, 87 bid. Brisk trade in Sum- mer girls, but market flooded--77 bill] Young widows lively at 3&*--fuck. . -**• .V*. •• •' •••' .' 'i* auLSusJs ' Alarm for Grain Elevator Head. firmly set while the upper electrode. G, is drawn up by a cord, J, held in place by wax. Overher.ting of the alarm melts the wax, releases the cord, permitting the coil spring to draw the upper electrode down into contact with the electrode, H. The closing of the circuit rings a bell placed In any" convenient location. Fig. 2 shows the head with alarm in place, and Fig. 3 a clamp for holding the device in position. Pennsylvania's Educational Novelty. State Zoologist Surface is prepar­ ing, to send to each county in the state a collection of snakes found in Pennsylvania, with a chart showing the food of the various serpents, the ramifications of the snake family and the geographical situation of the va­ rious species. The snakes will be used for educa­ tional purposes, so that the teachers and pupils may be able to recognize the varieties from their appearance and know whether they are poisonous or not.--Philadelphia Record. Chicken Gold Mine. Mrs. Spencer Morris, of Atlantic Highlands. N, J., was dressing a chick­ en one day last week, when she dis­ covered that it had been of a miserly disposition and had heen hoarding up gold in its crop. There were three small pieces of gold there, the largest resembling a tooth. Mrs- Morris,, in buying the chicken, did not pay flo* It by troy weight. Antelope of the Plains the First Use the Heliograph. A remarkable detail of the ante- r- lope's anatomy is the white area on each buttock. Although it seems att first like the rest of his spots, a mera patch of white coat, it 1b found to bei: specialized for an important service. - It is composed of hair graded from short in the center to long at the out­ er edges. Under the skin of the parti: is a circular muscle, by means of? which the hair can in a moment bef raised and spread radically into two' great blooming twin chrysanthemums, more or less flattened at the center. When this is done in bright sunlight v they shine like tin pans, giving flashes f of light that c.n be seen further than the animal itself, affording a conspic­ uous identification mark that must be of great service to the species. As soon, therefore, as antelope sees some strange or thrilling object this muscle acts and the rump patch is instantly changed into a great double disk of white that shines afar like a patch of snow, and by its flash-,. ing spreads the alarm. This, it will be seen, is simply a heliograph. Man flatters himself that he was the in­ ventor of flash communications, but he Is wrong; the antelope had it first. They used It thousands oi generations before man ever dreamed of it. '( _________________ ' •?>' ' Elixir of Youth. . In former times this year's* fusion of elder flowers would have been welcomed not only by lovers of hedgerow beauty but by those who desired to preserve their own beauty and youth, says the London Chron­ icle. According to the seventeenth century prescription the elder flowers were to be gathered on midsummer day, powdered and put into borage water, which was to be drunk daily for a month, the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night. This was a much-prized elixir of youth. By common consent there has always been something supernatural about the eld#r tree. In Denmark it is protected by the "elder mother," without whose leave it is dangerous to pluck the flower. In Germany the hat should be taken off to it. And in England it has been variously con­ sidered the tree of the cross and the tree upon which Judas hanged him­ self, to be treated with reverence or fear accordingly. Larceny of Lingerie. Breaking and entering finely fufc nished residences of Toledo, O., with diamonds and jewels of great value easily accessible, Enii! Tauchard dis­ dained to touch the valuable, but in­ stead stole all the lingerie in sight.4 Chemises, corset covers with fine laces, muslins and hosiery of every kind and class fell prey to his mania, while gold and sparkling gems wire unmolested. This has been going on for months, and detect!res Anally traced part of the stolen stuff to Tau­ chard, who has confessed. He says he is the victim of a man with » spiked beard who has hypnotized mow , -i .,.j» • J..