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beyond all the rest, thai gives us con-
fdence. During the whole period of re-
corded history, from the building of the
pyramids to the building of the East Riv-
err bridge, in spite of all this waste there
has been no p%erceptible change. The
sun is just as warm for us as it was for
Abraham; in view of which circumstance
Messrs. Barkendal and Mohn will not
easily persuade us, even with several
states full of figures, that our %grandchil-
dren will see the end of it.
But what is the source of this heat
that flows into space as the Gulf str5am
yours into the Atlantic, warming the
earth and other planets like little stands
in it's course? What keeps up the sup
ply?
If the sun were merely a white-hot
ball gradually cooling, our %grandchil-
dren would indeed get a chill. Or rath-
err, neither they nor we would ever have
seen the sun. The final frost would have
fallen long ago.
Nor can the heat be maintained by
fire, as we understand the word-such
fire as warns and now and then con-
sumes our houses. If it We're a globe Of
flaming coal it would have lasted but a
few thousand years; it would AVE been
burned to ashes long before we We're
born. All the coal on the earth would
hardly keep the sun going for one-tenth
of a second.
A falling meteor gives out great heat,
just as a bullet is heated when it strikes
the target. Some ave conjectured that
a vast stream Of these little hailstones
! raining upon the sun, supply it's fuel.
But if the whole mass of the moon were
put into a stone crusher, broken up and
thrown against the sun it would barely
I furnish heat for a single year. And no
such weight could possibly approach the
sun without our knowledge.
Yet in it's own chosen way the sun real
ly has it's fires. With proper instru-
ments WE may see the red flames spout
ing from it's edge, sometimes to a height
of 40O, COO ~miles-higher than the moon
floats above the earth. To some of them
our world would be no more than a
water drop falling from a fountain.
i To gain any idea of the almost mex
haustible reservoir from which the sun
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Of THE SUN COMING SHORTLY

Science, speaking through the lips of
d certain Prof. Barkendal, has sounded
an alarm. A cold wave is c~oming-one
That will beat all records since the world
began.
According to this Norwegian investiga-
ton 1t were better for our grandchildren
never to see the light of day-so brief
will be their chance of seeing 1t. For
he points to a blackboard full of figures
and declares that the u is but a burned
out candle. which, though likely to out
sure$ to sputter out by the third genera
ton. Mathematician Mohn, also of
Norway, has carefully verified Mr.. Bark
endal's calculations, we are told, and
finds them correct"
Now this announcement, if we are to
take it seriously, is like the ~soundin
of the last trump so far as the earth
is concerned. For with the extinction OF
the sun would come a chill which it is
a nightmare even to think about.
Fires and furs would help our grand
children very little in such a situation.
They would burrow deep in the earth
and freeze there. The ocean would soon
become an arctic Sahara of drifting ice
dust; at last the very air would mist
and fall-and freeze. Then all would
lie still and dark, while the unimagin-
able cold of outer space descended to
earth's. center, cracking it's very mar
row. The frozen mummies of our race
would out-last the balsamed Pharaohs;
there would be nothing to disturb their
quiet. And each rigid shape would be its
own alabaster monument.
To this, doubtless, it will come at last
Astronomers maintain hat the heavens
are full of just such black ghosts of suns
and worlds. They fit through space un-
seen. They outnumber the stars.
To this it will come-but when? Car
| any mans figures convince us hat suct
| is the inheritance Of our children's chill.
dren?
Figures sometimes lie; and sometimes
also, figures disclose unwelcome truths
| 1t is useless to juggle here with mathe.
| matics which only professional expert:
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OF hdstrtonic art. Colonel Bolger. who
was a passenger on the same liner, de-
clares he ~gallantly came to the rescue
with an offer to bride the customs ON.
GERS, but it was found more advisable to
let a steward smuggle the manuscripts
ashore on a melOdramatic night some.
where off Aurora Borealis lightship,
where a trusty yawl was in waiting.
Colonel Boyer says he saw the whole
adventure through, ais he was the only
man aboard the ship. He.
therefore, claims credit for the discovery
of the I.ondon-M elbourne star.
Colonel Mosby. the eminent .urf writer,
bitterly protested THAT The whole story
a fiction-a trivial fiction, sah!-in
his piot uresque southern way: while his
confrere, Colonel Ford wished to make
tn, dispute "a little affair of honor. my
son."
Colonel Bopger thereupon challenged
Colonel Ford. the colonel naming Colonel
DeeMing as his second.
but first" said Colonel Deering, my
old friend, Colonel Ford, will make mat
tiers even and apology ~imposstble!"
Colonel Bblger squared himself for the
expected glove.
Colonel Ford gracefully asked II any
one were wounded, his friends and ene~
mics alike should give their orders to the
physician.
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commerce than Belgium. Antwerp,
which has a most excellent harbor, was
formerly one of the greatest ommer-
cial cities of Europe, and the trade of the
country has never ceased to be pros
porous, n it is promoted by numerous
canals and railroads.
Today the chief articles Of export
are the coa and iron, the linen goods,
wooden cloth, cotton stuffs, flax, lace,
paper, glass, firearms, hides, raw sugar,
zinc and grain. In amount, however, the
exports and imports are nearly equal,
each averaging about $500, 000, 900 a year.
In prosperous times as many as seven
thousand vessels with a tonnage of 3, 00O.-
600, enter n cave the ports during the
year. and there is always an extensive
rad to and from Germany and the 9TH
er countries of Europe. The articles that
are imported consist chiefly of WOOL cot
ton, cereals, hides, coffee. timber, cope
sugar. silk goods, leather and petroleum.
SUCH is the country that is attempting
to lead the way to the realization of uni
versal peace based upon the highest form
Of commercial interests. The scheme is
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cam understand. Plain common sense Is
often better han a slate. Let us glance
a. a few of the established facts. to which
all theories must conform. They may
prove reassuring; anyhow. they are ex-
friendly interesting.
The first fact we meet, however, is
the reverse of reassuring. The sun is
for the most part simply wasting his
heat-finging away the golden rays that
are the lifes of the world with a reck-
lessness beside which all human waste
is mere parsimony. 1t Is almost be-
yond belief. Scarcely one sunbeam In
two thousand million alights upon the
earth; and allowing for the whole solar
system, not more than one in a hundred
million ever hits anything. so far as we
q ascertain.
And here is Sir Robert Balls illustra-
ton of the same amazing fact: Sup
nose a man with an income of a million
dollars a year,. He spends for useful
purposes one cent n throws the rest
than that which this old prodigal, the
sun, has practiced for untold age
The total amount of heat which thus
leaks away through the cracks in the
sky cannot be expressed by figures. 1t
is only by considering what it might do
that we can get any conception of 1t.
This is probably the most striking Illus
~tration, and is given by an eminent as
tronomer:
= Suppose a solid shaft OF Ice two miles
square to be extended like a bridge across
the gulf which separates the earth from
the sun. If a track were laid on it's sur
face an express tra6n running at full
speed would require more than $50 years
tc traverse it. YeYt If the whole heat Of
the sun were turned upon 1t for a single
second 1t would be melted, n in a few
seconds more al, even to the railroad iron
would drift away as vapor.
But there is one great fact. convincing
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things and applied themselves industri-
ously to aower-making. They succeed
ed pretty well, but the first consignment
they sent on was promptly returned with
a notification that it had been rejected
by the forewoman.' At the same time
it was suggested that they, secure differ
ent material. 1t was N Old story, and,
TO cut it short, they had. invested Sc in
n several weeks time before it
dawned on them that they were being
systematically swindled. They never
sold one penny's worth of work. 1 took
hold of the matter for them n tried
to bluff the sharpers into returning the
money. They a swered my letter with
a circular advising me to get my wife 20
try artificial flower making. and after
that I gave them up. 1t is a pretty
cruel game, as l said before. because it
preys on poor women and girls. Bunko
steering is g~entlemanly by comparison"
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BEEFSTEAK AS A CIVILIZER.

By Henry. Clews: l believe in the twill.
izing power of beafsteak and potatoes: in
The ms ration of baked beans and pump
kin pie; in the %elevating effect of good
wheat bread and biscuit; in the moral in
tluence of the bathtub. They are quicker
and more radical than prayer-books and
preachers. They reach the blood, and
degeneracy is a blood disease. AS soon
as the east comes a market for the
west the pigtail is doomed. When they
take oMr merchandise they must also
take our civilization. When they eat as
we.eat thzy VIII begin 10 feel as we feel.
to look as we look, to talk as we talk, to
pray as we pray. Little by little, year
by year they will change. And from our
standpoint the tremendous value of this
market it is not possible to overtstimate.
gate of the taGt we shall soon BE- buying
and selling with it's 400, 900, 600 people, and
the brotherhood of man shall come in
~cO1nparably nearer, and even those o.
little faith see great things in the COM
ing century.
American besfsteak. wheat and corn
are the sword of the future.
The edge Of the sword in the hands Of
the heather Chinese, who feed ON rice,
is dull as compared with that of the ene-
my who stocks up on Yankee products.
The Oriental can become manly and
courag GUS by eating III food. and then
can soon learn to handle the implements
OF both peace n war with the vim thai
we do.
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CRUEL GAME.

New Orleans 'rimes-D Democrat: "About
the cruelest fraud I know off, said a
prominent New Orleans lawyer, lis the
'work-at-home' swfndle. The thing has
been exposed over and over again and
has been holly pursued by the postoffice
authorities, but as soon as it Is SUPPRESS
ed in one shape it hobs up serenely in
another n it seems utterly impossible
to get rid of it altogether. MY atten-
ton was called to the subject lately by
the experience of a couple of young wo-
men in our neighborhood. They earn
their own living and have rather a lard
time making both ends meet. Some
ago they saw an advertisement
in a northern paper stating that any In
telligent person could earn from 81 to
$25 a week by work at home and invit-
ing investigation. They wrote and were
informed that the work consisted of maxi
ing artificial flowers. for which an outfit
costing $3.50 M a book of Instructions
at 70 cents were absolutely necessary.
The circular went on to say that any one
could become expert in a weeks practice
and that the firm would then purchase
all he flowers that could be turned out
at a liberal scale of prices, which was
given. The two girls sent for the
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in Belgium IL the mineral products, Of
which there are so many in the king
DOM. Coal. iron, zinc, manganese and
marble are found in abundance, and
there are many quarries of limestone,
granite, slate and sandstone. There are
IN the kingdom no less than $50 coal
mines, producing more than twenty mill
lion tons annually, which gives employ
ment to more than a hundred thousand
workmen. The richest of these mines are
located at Hainaut, while iron abounds
chiefly in the province of Namur.
It is not to the mineral products Of
the kingdom that Belgium looks for her
prosperity, however. Already she has a
market for all the iron. coal, lead and
similar material that she can supply;
but what she hopes to be able to do il
to find new markets for the goods that
she manufactures SO extensively.
These articles consist chiefly of cot
ton, linen, cutlery, carpets, machinery.
paper, wooden cloth, etc. The fine linens
of Flanders, as we'll as the laces Of
Brabant, have a worldwide reputation.
There are few countries in Europe
that are more favorably situated for
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AN AFFAIR OF THE Colonies.
A violent al

A violent DISPUTE arose in the cafe
of the Hotel Rivers last evening over
the honor of discovering a celebrated
English actress and playwright, Miss Lii
liam Beddard, who drifted to America
quite by accident while reading one Of
her plays to some frs nds in a deck cabin
of the st. Paul. 1t lis generally UNDER
stood that Mss Be1dard was a passenger
bound for New York almost before she
had finished the first act. This did not
alarm any one of her audience, as there
happened to be a sort Of seaweed setting
about the piece, and then she had other
plays in her head, committed to memory
from the manuscripts left ehind in her
apartments at the Cecil.
But at least two days before Sandy
Hook was sighted a troublesome ques-
ton arose as to the duty on these gems
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a novel one, SO unique in its conception
that the nations of the world are doubt
full as to its effect. But there is no doubt
that it's progress will be watched with
interest and its success will result in the
establishment OF such peaceful a
fleets by other nations that are more
anxious to extend their trade than they
are to go to war.
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HOME.

Longwood, Bonaparte's house at 81.
Helena. is now a barn: the room in which
he died is a stable; on the site Of his
grave Is a machine for grinding corn.
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SALT I INDIFFERENT WATERS.

A ton Of Atlantic water yields. after
evaporation. 81 pounds Of salt: of the Pa
cific, 70: of the Arctic and Antarctic. IS:
of the Dead Sea, 1877.
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A MEXICAN JURY.

A jury in Mexico consists Of nine men. A
majority makes the verdict. If the nine
are unanimous there is no appeal.
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civil Service Rules.

Washington, March 31.-The president
has amended the civil service law as to
authorize the civil service commission
acting in accord with the heads Of the
departments interested to fix the maxi
mum age limitations with respect to en-
trance to positions for which such maxi
mum age limitations are not now fixed
by the civil service rules; and, in addition
to the age limits already fixed in that
section of the rule. he has fixed the age
limits for apprentices in mints and as
say Offices at 18 to "a years; for "keeper,
assistant keeper and officers of lightships
In the lighthouse at 1S to so years; for
"matron and assistant matron" in the In
dian service at Is to IS years and for "ob-
server in the weather bureau service" at
Is to 30 years.
Soldiers and sailors who were granted
preference. under section 1854 revised
statutes are already exempted from all
age limitations as such.
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Japan Will Oppose II.

London, March s1.-The Times has the
following from Seoul, capital of Korea:
M. Pavloff, the Russian minister, recently
demanded from Korea the cession of a
coaling station to q Russian steamship
company at Atkinson point. commanding
Mesampho harbor, and, to prevent q
counter-claim by Japan of the neighbor-
ing area, he demanded that Korea should
not ALLEVIATE in any form any portion of
Kojedo island to any other power. Yes
terday. at an imperial audience, for rea-
sons not given but surmised, Mr.. Pavloff
modified his original demand, asking in
stead of Atkinson point another site with
In the treaty limits of Mesampho. This
demand Is unobjectionable. At the same
time, however, he insisted on the nom
alienation of Kotedo. His action indi-
Gates that Russia claims the reversion of
this island, which is Of high strategical
value as commanding the Korea straits
and 1t Is bound to provoke japanese op-
position,
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Is White Slaverv.

New York, March 31.-The Herald
says: Demands will be made on the
state board Of charities for an investi-
CATION Of the New York juvenile asy-
lums methods Of indenturing children,
left temporarily in its charge. Three
cases have been discovered where chill
dren, who had been surrendered to the
asylum for two years, have BEEN inderl-
tured to western farmers for the entire
period of their minority.
white slavery. that is what it
amounts to-" declared Michael j. Scan
Ian, counsel for the Society of St. Vim
cent de Paul, who is Investigating the
case of Joseph Billotti, whose three chill
-dren, two boys and girl, have been ap-
prenticed in Illinois until they became
Of age, despite the fathers protests. Mr..
Scanlan says he has learned it is a COM
mon thing for the asylum authorities to
disregard the temporary surrenders and
the protests of parents In sending chill
dren out Of the state to work until they
become of age.
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WORK OF THE SENATE.

Washington March 31.-In the senate
Foster Washington offered and had
passed a resolution directing the secre-
tary of the navy to report what surveys
had, been made in the islands recently
occupied by the United States.
Consideration of the Puerto Rican bill
being resumed, Bacon of Georgia, made
a statement concerning the substitute he
offered yesterday for pending unfinished
business. He desired. he said, no credit
for the substitute as it. was the meas.
reaoriginally prepared by Faulkner,
amended Slightly. 1t presented. he
thought, the best proposition yet made
al to Puerto Rico inasmuch as it pro-
vided free territorial government of the
United States.
The pending question was an amend
ment offered by Allen providing the bill!
should designate Puerto Rico as terri
tory of the United States.
When the section of the bill relating to
the esexecutive assembly of Puerto Rico
was reached. Pettus offered this amend
ment:
.'That the executive assembly of Puer-
to Rico shall have no power or authority
to enact any laws im conflict with the
constitution of the United States"
The amendment was lost Is to 81.
Fairbanks then addressed the senate in
support of the pending measure.
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MONTANA MAN
IS ARRESTED

San Francisco, March 31.-Robert
Bradley alias Barclay, would-be coun-
terfeiter, has been arrested in this city
by United States Secret Service Agent
Hazen. The man was apprehended in
a room at 622 Clay street and a display
of revolvers was necessary to induce him
to surrender. Bradley was armed and
told the officers frankly that they were
lucky in having secured the drop" on
him. Agent Hazen captured with his
prisoner complete outfit for the manu-
facture of counterfeit dollars. The dies
were of steel and are pronounced by Ha-
zen to be among the best he has ever
seen. He was well supplied with metal
including Mexican dollars which he had
intended to melt and transform into coin
of the United States. At the time of the
arrest Bradley had fire in full blast
and had his crucibles and metals in
readiness to proceed with the process OF
manufacture. The prisoner came here
from Montana, where he is said to have
an interest in several silver mines.
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Harvard Won Debate.

New Haven. Comm. March s1.-Har-
ward won the annual debate with Yale
last night, the question being, Resolved.
That Porto Rico should be included in
the customs boundaries of the United
States" Harvard had the affirmative
side of the question. Harvard was rep
resented by Wilbur Morse of Philadel-
phia, Elias Mayer of Chicago and Harry
A. Yeomans of Spokane, Wash. Yale's
speakers were Mason Trowbridge of Chi
cago. Ashley D. Leavitt Of Melrose,
Mass. and Ferdinand Blanchard of New
tom Mass
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To Receive Extra Pay.

New York, March 31.-A special to the
Herald from Washington says: Men
who served in the Twenty-second New
York regiment and in Roosevelt's rough
riders. will receive two months extra
pay from the government, as the result
of an amendment which Representative
Clayton of New York was instrumental
in adding to the army appropriation bill.
These two regiments and two Iowa bat
teries Were mustered out of service be-
fore the general law went into effect,
giving the volunteers extra pay. The
amendment will place those organiza-
tions on the same footing as all other
volunteers in the Spanish war
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HURST'S LAST LETTER

who know testified falsely agair st me.
and they know the truth is tha- they
were talked to, and asked, and bribed, to
do so. Frank Gilmore and Nell Ward
are the two. Put them both together
and what have you got, l.. r. p. H., you
can make it out yourself If you know
them. As for other witnesses, two of
them were mistaken about my clothes,
Mr.. Moede and Mrs. Hunt, as I haven't
had canvas coat for over year, and
I didn't have on my overcoat the night
Mr.. Moede thought did. AS for others
think they told the truth as near as
they could remember. This is surely a
mysterious murder, but it will all be
plain some day, and it will be known who
killed Dominick Cavanaugh. and that
know nothing about it. Judge Loud has
done me a great wrong and injustice
when he passed sentence upon me, but he
was msled by the false witnesses and
untrue stories told about town. Mr..
Cavanaugh never spoke harsh word to
me in his life, NOR to him. We were
always good friends and how any one
can say or think in their heart that I
committed this awful crime is more than
can understand. We have had consid-
cradle business together, and never had
a bit of trouble. He always spoke a good
word for me during our campaign and I
done the same for him, and no one can
truthfully say different. Oh, where is
their chain of evidence? / have failed
to see one link connecting me with this
dreadful crime.
might stand and talk for three hours
on this terrible injustice that has been
placed upon me, but that would not sat
isfy the wicked people who have done
everything possible to injure me and
my family. My wife and I and cal
mighty God'' know I am not a criminal.
but an innocent man. I did not kill poor
Dominick Cavanaugh or know anything
about his killing. had no desire to get
him out of the world, as old Tom Holmes
has told you, and would have had moth
ing to gain, but everything to lose.
have a loving wife and two little ones
to shelter and protect, and had good
home and business, and was happy, but
they have placed this awful crime upon
me by false Testimony, but God will
have revenge. 1 would If it could be,
that God would open and read my heart
to the people and show them that am
an 4nnocent man. l have lived in Glen
dive. ever since was 10 years old, and
have always tried to live and be an
honest, upright man, and no one can
truthfully say that / ever done any
one a wrong or unjust deed knowingly
I have always tried to live right. and had
a wsrm place in my heart for the town
was raised in, but my heart Is almost
broken, since have been taken away
from my home, and put in this cold and
dreary place for nothing God only knows
the feeling of 81 man to be taken away
from his happy home and family, and be