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Beau BrummeI.s Consulate.

The last days Of Beau BTumnleI as consul
Of Caen are described IN an interesting AZ
tiCle in the December CornhiI The ap-
pointmcnt Of the consulate Of Caen at a
salary Of $4,000. was a sad descent for the
ariStocrdt, whom Byron had linked with
Napoleon and himself as the three greatest
men Of his day. BTUmmel'S creditors OBJ
tained an assignment of Sl,T0O Of his sal
aTy. leaving him with an actual annuity OF
$500 From the public pOinr OF view
SJys the article, no appointment could
have, been u ore absurd. and the old hahiTsIt.
of Carlton House must have felt a sad de
scent To be supposed To wiser tine pasSpur-S
of vuIgaria rs and look into bills OF ladia--
lie did his best To save his seIr-rtspect, and
so far succeeded. He fulfilled his part Of
the contract ny showing the English ct,lorS
over his door, leaving details OF duty 10 a
deputy. AT Caen the absolute stoppagt or
supplies put check on his aesthetic intIiS-
Creti0nS. but although even compelled To
economic on his clothes. ne would Stil
make any sacrifice for the intiiSpenSableS
of the toilet As at CIeu, he spent a small
fortune in oils, pOmadeS and perfumes. he
devoted many hours daily 20 dressing, and,
like Mr CrummieS' CONSCIENTIOUS artist,
who BACKED himself all over to play
.'Otheilo." even the SOlcS of BTummell'S
boots were polished with patent bIacking.
1t is said to have been a sight worth the
crossing Of the channel to see him picking
u way through the ill-paved streets. for
there We're no trOttOirS, emerging SpcckIes5
and sCdthlCSS out of the muddy ORDEAL
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cied myself to the situation. When you
are separated from your own country and
all your accustomed surroundings and
thrown into the air, even with one OF these
marvellous foats to float you, there is "a
sense Of dcf Olation in your grandeur which
induces an unexpected humility and makes
ii very comforting to have near you the
woman yoa loved long ago, even If you
have decided that you 10 longer love her.
AS the days went on and we were held
together in this close neighborlineSs, l
became more and more conscious of some
thing in Eva that sCothed me and sus-
tained my cheerfulncss.
She was SO quiet, SO resigned, So friendly,
that began to like her companionship cx-
ceedingly. In some way, also, which il is
hard to define, 1 could understand her and
she could understand me better than the
new woman, Electra and the Mars mission
airy, ZOrlin. We all, however seemed To be
placed in new relation which was much
more satisfactory than the relations OF
people in the old, noisy, restless nine
teenth century. The was no effort among
us To keep up conversation, or, as the an
cient phrase put it, to ''cnte rtain'' one an
other. Each OF us occupied and amused
himself or herself Independently When
conversation became natural or useful we
conversed. But there was no occasion for
the two women to be silly or vain in
order to attract the attention OF
the two men, ZOrlin and myself; and on
the other hand, he and l did not .eel
called upon to put ourselves into an arti-
fetal mood Iii order To suit some fantastic
requirement on their part as to what we
ought tc do for the purpose of pleasing
them.
For the first time in my experience
forced intercourse with other beings of
my own kind and with guest from Mars
who was so nearly like US
Just as we came over Cape Hatteras
We saw, by the aid of strong field glass,
that Graemantle and Hammerfleet Were
following in our track; and almost at the
same moment a threatening cyclone rose
from the South, over the Gulf stream
Our navigator avoided the cyclone with
great skill. AS everyone knows storms
of this kind born OF the wild union of cold
air currents with tropc heat and moisture
rising from the Gulf stream. pass inward
TO the United States. and follow a long
para bOlic curve through that country,
darting out seaward again at some far
northeastward point Weturned our rudder
and flew east over the sea, SO as to keep
clear OF the edge of the enormous tempest
as il whirled in over the land
To Be Concluded
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CHAPTER VI.
IMPROVED CONDITIONS


From the moment Of my fortunate es-
cape Zorlin was my close friend. II was
he who. by the extraordinary power #
mi8d-readiEG and the perception Of dis
tant unseen things, which his people the
KurolS possess had divinedthe plot against
me and the peril ] was in. He had turned
the rest OF the party back from their
journey to find me, and Electra had
caused the machinery TO bc stopped just
IN time
To Zurlin, OF course ! told the whole
story, ana when we reached Gracmantlc'S
house near Ithaca, now one oft suburbs
OF New York, mat wise man was taken
into confidence. Tie result was a re-
consideration on his part as to the pro
pTcty of letting Hammcrfl Get marry
Electra. They We're both Children of
the state, az ali persons Of unusual ph ysi-
cal and mental cndowmcntS We're per
milted to become at the age of forty,
after passing through examinations and
inspection and having their internal con
dition carefully ascertaincd by X-rays.
They We're then suitably mated in mar
riage TO some Of equal standard, with a
view TO perpetuating and increasing the
best elements Of the race
AL dcecncrates were kept in asylumS,
calico museums, where they were per
mitted to have their own literature, music
and amusements under state supervision.
with an attempt at gradual reformat alton,
ana were not permitted 10 marry So. too.
criminals were segregated in special dis
uicts-the men and the women apHrt-an
were not allowed TO marry; in short, We're
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erihe their surprise, the warders mickiy
surrounded and strove To eject him. b,is
ne broke away and raised his voice in
appeal 20 the jurors
Z Ihis man is innocenti You dare not
cohdemn hun. Stop, l say, hear mer'
Inc condemned man fell forward and
swo9ned apgn the rails of the dock. ana
with that rxcitement IevcIeG all bo,n,s
Inc walls OF tire old courthouse rang with
the tumult OF voices. Men cried aloud on
1Nery nand, first TO The judge and then TO
'ie Warders. dema nding TO hear the man.
iiis iordsfip was agitated and perplexed
peyohd anything he mad encountered in his
t'ireer, Inc sentence. but half pronounced.
ne could not finish Twice he rose m bis
Ieet nd essa yed to De heard. but his voice
was lost III the deafening Uproar. Counsel
anu Jury stood nOnplussed till at Ienyth
the Judge signed 10 the clerk 20 give the
oruer 10 clear the court They raised the
man ana were bearing him away. I strain
eu forward to catch a glimpse as they
passed IL was the passenger from North
Heath
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3 eliminated from the human family and pre-
vented from menacing posterity; all with
out cruelty or capital punishment,
Now, Hammerrleet had CLEARLY ' been guilty
of an intended crime. He was therefore
dismissed from the company of children
of the State, but not yet condemned to
imprisonment.
on the other ha nd, though, L did not come
UP TO the required standard. Besides, L
had been only twenty-eight when / was
vivificated, and was considered altogether
too young TO marry Electra, who was
forty-favc and in the first bloom of won an
hood. This made the situation very
puZzling. Zorlin, however, recommended
that I should not think OF marrying any
one.
"In Kuro," lie said one day, at break
fast, I'VE do not marry"
"Ah, then, Mars must be something like
Heaven" l commented, turning to Eva,
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lived, or within easy reach of his home by

lived, or within easy reach OF his home by
walking balloon or electric bicycle.
Gas was used, almost exclusively, ToI
heat; and electricity for lighting. Elcc'
tric lighting had been brought to "A point
of perfection that made its radiance soft,
diffused and clear, without undue sharp
ness; and the cycsight of human beings
had greatly improved in consequence;
nearsght and blindness having been much
diminished.
Starch, sugar and protein substances
were made in immense quantities by fac
tories on the Amazon, in India and in
Africa, from wood fiber. by chemical trans
formatons-the construction OF the mole
cules Of carbohydrates and methods of re-
arranging this construction having been
discovered, so that no energy was alb
sorbed or given out in the transformation
Thus, food OF simple kind was amazing
ly abundant and cheap. Artificial wood,
also, was made from compressed chlorO
celluose and tale, with a solvent, and
dsintegrated by water under pressure.
Artificial leather was produced by the
electrical fixture of nitrogen in carbohy-
drates. Shoes were nodded directly from
this material, one machine making 300
pairs OF shoes in an hour. They were after
wards passed through another process, To
make them flexible, and the porosity OF the
leather was varied TO suit different eli
mates; shoes for damp climates having
large pores, and those for dry regions hav-
ing pores that were infinilesimal
Food ard clothing provision, therefore,
and wood for building were as abundant
as could be. Forest preservation was also
carefully attended TO, with the best ef
fectS en- climate and water supply. Bricks
were made SIX times as large as the old
style and dried in roomy iron chambers,
with % per cent OF sand To prevent shrink
age. They were then hoistcd into place in
large quantities by machine, and LAID
several courses at a time-with q ceiirnt
mixed OF lime, clay and nitre, which pro
duced intense heat and fused the masonry
into solid permanent mass, SO that or
dinary house building WIS very easy
Then, III respect of health and bodily
comfort, method had been perfected Of
causing new teeth TO grow, by means Of
calcareous, anti -septiciZcd haHdages.
the wise men OF the race had determined
that the white corpuscles of the blood are
the policeren OF organized beings against
microbes. By the education of these cor
puScleS, and inuring them to microbes Of
every kind, they were made capable of ! e.
SiSting the attacks OF the enemy and even
chemical poisOnS were rendered harmless
by the training of the white corpuscleS
compound virus had likewise been dis
covered ana brought into use, consisting of
the weakened cultures of raties, consump-
ton, diphtheria, cholera, spIcnic fever,
erysipelaS, typhoid, yellow, scarlet and
malarial fever and several other diseases
Of microbic origin. Children received an
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cline and encourage than this earth's.
Then, too, n spite Of all obstacles and OPP
position, could not give up the hope Of
winning Electra.
/ had talked with Zorln about it, and
while, as a kurol, he could not quite APP
prove my marrying, he at last consented
to accompany me if l could induce Electra
10 leave the country; in brief to elope
with me.
Going to her | used all my faculties of
persuasion; hut she would agree to nothing
more than to make a brief tour around
the earth with ne, on condition that Zor-
lin should go with us as counsellor, COM
panion and friend. 1t must be done, how
ever, told her, without the knowledge of
Graemantle; and especially without that Of
Hammerflect, who was still at large, al
though he had been excluded from the
house and was not allowed to see her.
This was how l came to make my trip
to Europe and other parts of the globe,
and to observe tie new state of things
everywhere, and wonderfully interesting
and delightful trip it was. But several
things pre- vented it from becoming a gen
uine elopement.
In the first place Electra held to her idea
that she ought not to marry me- In the
next place, Zorlm, being with us, was sim
ilarly inclined to prevent my marrying
Electra. And, finally, just after we had
embarked in the commodious airshp
which l had engaged for the journey
found that Eva Pryor had been smugglcd
aboard by Electra, and was to be one OF
our party.
The noble Electra fairly laughed in my
face when Eva appeared from the cabin.
though she laughed with such good hulnor
and grace that I)could not possibly take Of
fense or do anything else but admire her
What impressed me also very favorably
was that Eva had abandoned her dreadful
nineteenth century costume and was dressed
in the peaceful and becoming robes of
the new day. This / took-perhaps conceit-
edly-as evidence of gentle and womanly
desire to give pleasure to me.
There was soon very exciting flight
and chase, for 10th GraemantIe and Ham
merfleet, on learning of our departure, fol
lowed us, in different arbodts.
1t was q wild career, indeed, high in air
above the whirling globe, but j shall never
regret the impulse which led me into it,
because we had so many adventures and
such charming talks-Electra, Eva and L
with the missionary from Mars, and be-
cause l learned so many things about the
temporal advancement of men in this new
age.
Ascending from Fire Island at dawn, we
swept southwark along the Atlantic coast
line, our ship flying through the atmos-
pheric expanses like a huge bird, without
effort. Never shall / forget the exhilara-
tion OF that moment, and of the next few
hours. After the first surprise and disap-
pointment of finding that Eva was with
us. it was astonishing how soon recon-
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las1 Copyright, 1860 o4ss.
Confined From Last sunday.)
SYNOPSIS.


The story, as told by the author is the
result of conversations with Thomas 4.
Edison, the substance OF which Mr.. Edison
afterwards put into the form of notes
written for the authors use. Mr. Edison's
suggestions as TO inventions, etc, are TN
derstood to be simply hints as To what
might possibly tie accomplished. For the
story itself the author is responsible.
Gerald Bemis, at the end of the nine.
teenth century. having been unsuccessful
in his suit for the hand Of Eva Pryor, al
lows himself To be 'yiviiicated'' by the So
ciety OF Futurity. By "a newly discovered
process animation is suspended ami Bcmis
is placed in Il hCrmctically scaled cylinder.
Three centuries later the cylinder is open
ed by the chiefs of the Society then in
control and Bemis is revived. Among
many wonderful discoveries be finds tLat
telcgraphic communication with the planet
Mars has been established. Word cones
from Mars that che Bronson, who had
started for that planet in IN anti gravity
machine, has not arrived there, and .atcr
that messenger from Mars is on his way
10 the earth Meanwhile Bcmis CiScpscrs
that Eva Pryor, who really loycd him. was
also "reviviflcatcd" He meets her and
finds that his love for her has vanished.
lie falls in love with Electra. beautiful
twenty-second century girl, who is ia turn
loved by Hamn-rflect, a man of her own
period. The messenger from Mars, Inrlin.
arrives with Bronson. and an travel ia an
airship TO Chicago. There Bcns proposes
10 Electra She explains lhat She is a
"clhld CT the State and has been af-
famed 10 Hammcrflcct. The latter over
hears The conversation, but rcpr's>"s his
jealousy He invites Bcms to make sT
excursion with him 70 see The country and
lures him into a vast plant of moving ma
C@nery near Buffalo. Hanmcrflcct then
escapes. leaving Bemis in great danger in
tie midst of a network Of wheels, levers
and CIdnks.
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drop to the rear of the procession, and
there are always passionate and criminal
impulses.
CHAPTER VII
THE sun TELEPHONE; AND DEPART


Graema ntle' sIthacan villa was a vast es-
tablshment, adorned with all the nagnifi-
cence now SO easy diamonds. emeralds
and rubies set in the walls for decoration;
beautiful wall paintings, tapestries with
amusement rcoms for theatrical perform
ances, and an Odorfer and Coloriscope
These contrivances were something like
church-organs, but filled with clever mechan-
ism that produced new effects, The Color
iScope had innumcrable opening and closing
shutters that revealed different colors, in
pleasing succession or in union like that of
musical chords; ana the Odorifer was pro-
vided with Il great number of tubes that
sent forth delicious and varying perfumes,
either singly or in harmonious combina-
tion. But | was still more Interested in
the Sun Telephone far away from the
house which was u scheme originated by
Gladwin The Society of FuUurity Lad
kept il up, but had never got any definite
results from it.
1t was rigged some what like the Mars
Magnetograph, with poles and wires around
Il large circle, but had a telephone Ie-
ceiver attached To it,
Through this receiver we could hear
strange and awful meanings; but no one
had ever been able to get a definite mes
sage from it, Zorlin insisted that, accord
ing To Kurol philosophy, the sun WAS the
abode of lost souls.
'Do you mean TO say" asked, that
what we regard as the main physical force
OF light, warmth, life and heat, is Hell?''
Yes" he affirmed. why should there
he any question about it: You earthlinss
debate as To the existence or non-cXist-
encc of He'll nd there 1t is, staring yoI in
the face allthe time. OF course, 1t warns
and cheers you when { shines moderately.
But you cannot look at it with the naked
eye without suffering a horrible shock,
or even blindness. ISnot its effect in sum
lner fiendsh and intoleratjle: and when it
shines too intensely does it not drive peo-
pie mad and cause cpidcInics of wrath
and suicide? Also it seems quite reason
able that malcfaCtorS, lost souls from This
earth should be utilized by being contrib
uted To that immense combustion which
gives useful heat and comfort to You here.
I hat WOULD be sort of compensation for
the evil they did willie on this pla net
1t was curious notion, not entirely
new to some readers ana thinkers; yet It
caused much dispute among the people
he met.
After that | never could listen to the
drcary rroanings OF III" Sun Telephone
without thinking of what he said Per
rising in me to get away 10 some sercner
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PART III
CHAPTER lCnntinnedl

Suddenly ] thought the end had ccmr
Everything seemed 10 step. stopped
Had I really been struck. and was ! ,lca I"
or was this merely imagination? Certain
~ the great moving wilderness II metal
had come to a StandStii. The next mo
ment ! heard an enormous. ringing voice
sounding toward me from the farther
border. a loud hail: "Bemi>. We are D, ,r"
You are Savcdt'
II was the voice of ZCr!iu: and im:ne-
diatcly following il came the rich cun-
tralto of Electra: This way. this way,
Come to u, Bemis.
The bright glare Of ,carchlight swept
through the darksome tanGle. like n ray
direct from heaven, aud by IT I was cu-
abled 10 see my path clear. In few
minutes / had joined my rcScuers. and
Hamm crflect came after me. with
Gcccitful AIR OF Sulcitudc relieved
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BURNED TO DEATH.
Terrible Tragedy at Jermyn--'Mrs.
Robert Cox The Victim of Fire.
Julia Hendricks Injured.
pecial to the Scranton Tribune.

Special to the Scranton Tribune.
Jermyn, Sept, 10.--A most distressing
accident occurred at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Cox, on Second street.
shortly after Z o'clock, Wednesday
evening, through the upSetting and
explosion of lighted lamp. As re-
suit. Mrs. Cox was so severely burned
that death relieved her of her sufferings
shortly after IL o'clock, Wednesday
evening, and Julia. the bright little
fOur-year-old daughter of Postmaster
f. \. Hendricks, was severely burned
about the face and hands. The dwell
ing was also set on fire and but for the
timely arrival of Crystal Fire company
would have been destroyed. The little
Hendrick girl Is frequent visitor at
the Cox family's residence. Mr.. and
Mrs. Hendricks being near neighbors.
Wednesday evening, Mrs. Cox and the
little girl We're upstairs In one of the
bedrooms, when in some uneXplainable
manner the lamp was overturned, fall
ing from the table to the floor. I'm
mediately upon striking the floor it eX-
ploded, throwing the burning oil
around the. room. The little ones
clothes were soon a mass of flames.
Mrs. Cox rushed to the assistance Of
the child and it is supposed carried her
down stairs.
In the excitement of the moment and
peril of the child, Mrs. Cox rushed from
one room to another. thus tanning her
clothes, which had been ignited. A mo-
ment later she ran out into the street.
her clothing by this time being a mass
of flames. Several near neighbors,
Johnson Bennett. Harry Smith and
John Robinson, who were near at the
time. saw Mrs. Cox's condition and
rushed to her aid, but by this time her
entire clothing was destroyed. She
frantically appealed to the men to
Save julia evidently forgetting that
she had brought the little one down.
While she was being carried to a neigh
bor's home, willing hands rushed into
the burning house to find the little girl.
They were unable. however. to dis
cover her and to the crowd that had
arrived the news that little child was
in the burning building created intense
excitement. Subsequently she was
found at her parents home. The little
ones hands and arms and a portion of
her face were found to be painfully
burned, but her injuries are not con-
sidered fatal. Mrs. CoX's condition was
more serious. however, as she was ter
ribly burned from head to foot. Doc
tors Peter c. Manly and NJ. j. Shields
attended the two sufferers and did
everything in their power to alleviate
their sufferings. Mrs. Cox's injuries.
however. proved fatal and she died
Wednesday evening at 11.3o o'clock.
The funeral will take place at Tamau-
qua today. Crystal Fire company sub
dued the flames. which were confined
chiefly to the one room. The damage
to the contents of the house is princi-
pally by water and is only slight.