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Best Lighted r.vn tv Tinti Avnm.n. v Prof. Rudolpli Fall Sayn the Cm oljAin AVIU Cotno Xov. in, 1S00. Exchange. The recortl3 indicate that neonle havA boen lookln- for the end of the world nt Intervals ever plnce the world began, and predictions of thi character penerjlly receive very limited credence, but vhen a scientific man of the character of Prof. Rudolph Falb. of Vienna, makes a prophecy of this sort it ia nt least vorth thinkin? about. Professor Falb ha? a reputation al over Kurope for his meteorological knowledge nd jarticularly for his extraordinary familiarity with the habits and customs of earthquakes. liis predictions of these seismic disturbances have been remarkably fulfilled. Ills frediction of the great earthquake' at Zante ast year was published in the prees dispatches all over the country the day before the earthquake occurred. Another example of his accurate foreknowledge on this subject Is shown in the fact that on March 31. UX, he wrote to the Tourist Club of Vienna accepting an invitation to lecture about earthquakes, hut adding that he would like to defer the lecture until after April 13, as an earthquake would occur by that time, which would aid him in giving them enlightenment. As a matter of fact an earthquake occurred April P. and was felt all over southern Hungary. Professor Falb'a prophecies pro back over a number of years, have usually been made from nine to twenty months in advance, and have, in almost every Instance, been correct. Now. however, the Professor's prophetic oye has shot across a space of five years, and he says that Jov. 13. 1S03, the erratic wanderer known to astronomers a3 the comet of 1SOJ will reappear and collide with our globe; then "the fireworks" and darkness. liy way of preliminary to the main event, however, it may be mentioned that, accord ing to the programme, rsew lork is to disappear under a tidal wave next July or August, while Florida and California will probably become islands as the result of a submarine earthquake. The most unpleasant feature about these prophecies is. as already intimated, the fact that thev are not prophecies at all. strictly speaking, but scientific predictions based upon scientific invest! rations into mundane anatomy. To put his theories In as simple a fashion as possible. It may be said that Professor. Falb believes, first of all, that the deep down interior of the earth Is filled with a molten mass which is subject to ebb and flow Just like the waters of the ocean. Hetween the earth and this molten sheol. which Is slowly cooling, there- Is only a shell of an average of eighteen .miles in thickness, upon which we mortals live, and love, and die. In some places the earth's crust is thicker than in others. Where it Is thinnest the confined terrible forces of the under world, chiefly in the form of gas, seek constantly to escape, and when the pressure of the atmosphere around the earth la lowest the gas finds an outlet, usually In well-defined districts, generally through the volcanic vent holes. J3ut beyond the constant pressure of cas,

Fit styles, Professor Falb has the theory that the Fheollc molten mass beneath us is subject to the influence of the moon, which produces waves, and occasionally great tidal waves, which sweep round the inner crust of the world with terrific force, shaking the earth In its passac-e. Professor Falb publishes every year a Uet of the days on which he expects Foismlc convulsions. These he calls "critical days" and these days are those when the moon approaches close to the earth. Th? critical days given byProfessor Falb for 1S04 are stated in the order of maximum disturbance as follows: Aug. 30. Sept. Z Feb. 20, March 21, Aug. 1, April G, Jan. 21. May 3 and Oct. 28. Thus the most eerlous disturbance may be looked for Aug. 30 and the slightest Oct. 23. In connection with the rrreat scientific contest between mother earth and the comet which, to use a phrase current In scientific circles, is to be "pulled off" in it is recalled that Jan. 14, 616, ten people were killed in China by the fall of a meteor. In the year 823 thirty-five villages in Saxonj were destroyed by the fall of a meteor, and many men and animals killed. Sept. 4, loll, one man and four animals were destroyed by falling meteors near .Crema. Nov. 4, 1749, a meteor struck the mast oi a snip mat was crossing tne Atlantic, killing five spamcn. Each of these cases can be regarded as the fall of a small comet upon our world. It Is a comfort to know that some of the Vienna scientists believe the comet Is going to get the worst of it, and point to the fact that the comet Lexell. when It went too near to Jupiter, was thrown off Its course and sent flying out of our planetary system. The Bor and the Postage Stamp. Harper's Weekly. The contemporary small boy considers that no parent has done his whole duty who has omitted to avail himself of the last chances, now fast slipping away, to lay in a supply of Columbian postag-e stamps for his use. The small boy feels that he is entitled to have not only all the Columbian stamps that are lacking to his personal collection, but a fund of them besides, which he can keep among his duplicates and swap in the fullness of time with lads whosi parents were not good providers. The large purchases of Columbian stamps by dealers and collectors has called attention to the very lively status of the stampcollecting mania. It certainly Is a mania of solid qualities, for cfter some twoscore years, of existence it falls to show the first symptoms of petering out. It has spread all over the civilized world, and with such increasing virulence that it is almost as hard In these days to raise a young family without postage stamps as without soap. Really. If the annual sum that contemporary collectors spend on postage stamps could be computed, it could hardly fa.ll to make a respectable showing beside th amounts that were spent for tulips by the Dutch. Never sleep, with a bright light shining directly upon the eyes. They should face the darkest and most restful corner in tne room.

CHEAPNESS IN JAPAN

How the Fall of Silver Aflects the Country and the People, Low Figures at Which Necessaries and Luxuries of Life Are Sold Labor Brings 10 to 20 Cents a Day. (Copyrighted by Frank G. Carpenter, 1894.) TOICIO, Japan, March 12. Japan Is doin all she can to keep silver in the air. She has to pay for the gxnls she imports from America In. gold, and the silver question is a far more Important one here than It has ever been in the United States, The country Is now on a silver basis, and there Is sure to be a general rise In the prices of everything. At the present writing exchange is going up every day, and a gold dollar In Toklo looks as big as the cover of, a Japanese umbrella, Such foreigners as are here who get their incomes from America are rich through the fall of silver, and they now get two dollars for every one that Is sent out to them from home. I made out a draft of $100 on my New York letter of credit at the bank this morning and got $20$ for it, and the money I have brought with me has doubled in value. . This makes traveling comparatively cheap, and though I have been paying- $4 a day. at the Grand Hotel in Yokohama, it really costs me only $2. Clothing here Is wonderfully cheap, and all English goods can be bought for the same prices they bring In London. The treaties with Japan prohibit her from charging more than: 3 per cent, duty, and labor is worth so little that one could come across the Pacific and save the expenses of the trip by laying in a stock of clothes for himself and his family. The tailors are Chinese, but they give you good cuts, and you do not need to pay if the clothes do not fit you. You can get a good business suit of English goods made to order for about ten American dollars. Patent leather shoes made to order cost J2.50, and a furlined overcoat with beaver collar and cuffs can be bought for about $30 in gold. You could not buy the cloth, to say nothing of the fur linings; for that amount in America, Ladles' dresses are equally cheap, and you get wonderfully embroidered, gowns of silk crepe for less than the ordinary street dress costs j-ou In the United States. EFFECTS OF THE FALL IN SILVER. This reduction in silver makes a wonderful profit for our missionaries and dlplomates. A missionary who Is getting a thousand dollars a year has now two thousand dollars to spend. The American minister to Japan, who receives, if my memory serves me, twelve thousand dollars annually, gets at least twenty-four thousand dollars worth of value out of it, and the salaries of our consuls are practically doubled by the change. An American family living on a fixed income at home could now come to Japan and have twice the comforts for half the money, and I am surprised at the wonderful cheapness of all sorts of eatables, from cabbage to champagne. I took an Interpreter with me to the market this mcrnlnc and spent some hours in finding out the prices of the necessaries of life. I found the articles soli fully as good and, in most cases, superior to those you find in America, and the prices were from one-twentieth to onehalf of those we pay. I have reduced them from the silver to the gold basis and give you a few of them. First, take the meats. These are very hl&h, as the Japanese do not use them, and they are chiefly demanded by foreigners. I found that fine rib roasts of beef cost 8 cents a pound, and was shown veal and bacon at 10 cents. Chickens are worth from 7 to 20 cents apiece. You buy teal ducks for 8 cents each and eggs are worth from 6 to 10 cents a dozjn. Quail cost from 6 to 7 cents. Reed birds. 15 cents a dozen, and snipe 5 cents each. Think? of it! A good snipe for a nickel. There are no better vegetables In the world than those you find here and the fish of Japan are far superior to those of America, All firh are sold when they are alive or still kicking. Lobsters run from a half cent to five cents apiec?. Fine fresh mackerel bring from 1 to 4 cents and sole from 2 to 10. You can get porch as low as 2 cents each, and tal fish, the best fish in Japan, at from 5 cents to 50 cents, according to size. Oysters are worth 12 cents a gallon, and eels bring 10 cents a pound. As to vegetables, they are sold In most cases by the pound, ranging from half a cent upwards. Cabbages bring from 1 to 3 cents each. Lettuce about a quarter of a cent a bunch and radishes about the same. You get a fine cauliflower for from 8 to 10 cents, and frejsh mushrooms cost rive cents a pound. Soft coal costs $3 a ton, and firewood, sold In little bundles about as large as a bundle of kindling, from 1 to 3 cents each. These figures, as well as those following this, are on the gold and not the silver basis. CHEAP TT-TS. AU sorts of luxuries are cheap. Yo:i can buy Mumm'3 extra dry champagne for less than a dollar and a half a quart, and good. Manilla cigars cost from 1 to 3 cents each. Cigarettes, which are now being imported by the million from the United States, and which are being introduced in large quantities amci ; both the men and women of Japan, are far cheaper than at home, and what-we pay 3 cents and 10 cents a package for fells here for from 1 to 3 cents a package. Servants are very cheap and very good. The foreign housewife has nothing to do, and she lives like a queen. The Japanese cooks are far better than ours, and $20 a month will pay the board and salaries of the help of an eight-room house. I have a friend who lives as well here as many a millionaire does in the United States, " and he does not expend more than this amount. He pays his cook $3 " a month. His butler gets $2.50, and his gardener and second girl get about the same. These servants all board themselves and the cook does the marketing. His rent costs him less than $20 a month, though he lives in one of the best ports of Japan, and he could have a coachman at $5 more. He has no trouble about getting good servants; and he tells me they watch after his Interests and see that ha Is not cheated by any one else but themselves. It Is far easier to live well here than in America, and I predict that the time will come when many American families with fixed but comparatively limited Incomes will come to Japan instead of going to Europe, as they are now doing. As to the table, they can nowhere find better eating. In some cases the cooks take contracts to do aU the marketing, cook the meals and supply the table at a fixed price per day. A well-to-do family of Kobe lives In this way, and for three yen, or about $1.50 per day, they have their meals furnished by the cook. Remember, they, pay nothing more than this and there are six in the family. Their ordinary everyday bills of fare are as follows : The breakfast, served when they rise, consists of fruit, porridge, fish, a fry or grill of mutton or beef, and warm bread or cakes. At noon they have a lunch or "tiffin," which Is served In courses, and embraces soup, fish, a warm entree, cold meats, a salad, sweets and coffee. Then there Is a tea served at 4 p. m., and at 7 o'clock there is a dinner, the menu of which consists of a soup, a fish, a roast.

some game, potatoes and two vegetables, with a dessert, coffee, cheese and nuts. HOW THE NATIVES LIVE. As to the living of the Japanese, they pay still less, and these forty millions of people could exist well on what America wastes. Only a few of the middle classes have more than one servant, and among the poorer classes the wife does the cooking and the entire work of the household. Some families have a woman to cook and do general housework, and such women are paid from one to two dollars a month and are lodged and fed. They generally .receive a present of a dress from their mistress at New Tear and In midsummer, each costing from' $1.50 to $2, and they expect to get a cent two or three time a week for bath money. Every Japanese takes a hot bath from two to twelve times a week, and where the family is too poor

to own a-bath room they go to the public , bath houses. The richer people have more servants, and a well-to-do family will generally have a man In addition to the women. They pay their men twice as much as women. Nurses are very cheap In Japan, and the common people keep the smaller, children and the old men of the family busy in taking care of babies, A child of six often has her baby brother tied to her back, and the children from nine to sixteen go about with babies so fastened upon them taking care of them. Such girls, when employed outside of their own families, get their board and clothing and a present how and then. They are often poor relatives of the family, and a woman who works In a tea factory will often pay a cent a day to have her baby thus cared for. Out In the country the wages are even lower, and there are parts of Japan where the women do not get more than 10 cents in silver a day, or about a nickel of our money. All members of a poor family work, and a man and his wife will often labor side by side in the same field. Women dig up the ground with long spade-like mattocks, and I visited a rta-firlng establishment yesterday where I saw about one hundred girls bending over hot oven-like pans and rubbing the green leaves of the tea around in them, while the perspiration rolled down their cheeks and now and then dropped into the dainty mlxture.which was being: prepared for American breakfast tables. I asked as to their hours and their wages, and I was told that they worked from daybreak to sunset, and that they got the enormous wages of from 30 to 40 cents a day in silver. I see men everywhere I go carrying loads that the ordinary American could not lift, and they do the work of both horses and men. There are few horses used and many of the carts are pushed and pulled by women and men. I saw a woman breaking stones for the roads this afternoon, and I wa3 told that she got about 10 of our ccr.ts for twelve hours' work. She sat bareheaded and barefooted on the stones and pounded away with a hammer breaking the stones into pieces. As I watched her two Japanese men in blue cotton gowns passed by carrying a stone weighing four hundred pounds, which was tied by a rope to a pole, which rested on their shoulders, and. a third man pushed past them with a load of long boards on his back. There are no such things as stone boats and lumber wagons in Japan, and human labor takes the. place of steam and horses. There are no lumber mills in the country and logs are sawed into boards by hand. A lumber yard consists of a lot of beards ti?d up Into bundles containing about five or six boards six inches wide and half an inch thick, and usually about twelve feet in length, and it is of such lumber that tho most of the Japanese houses are made. Th? heaviest of the rafters of the temples are sawed cut by hand, and it Is by men that they are carriad up and put into place. There are many queer things here in the way of building, and I understand that there are people who make a business of manufacturing roofs for buildings. Th3 roof of a Japanese house Is put on before the walls are fitted in and there is a bij scaffolding made of the height of the proposed structure and running all around it before th? work of putting up the house begins. This scaffolding is made of bamboo poles tied together with ropes of straw, and the men who put it up have nothing to do with erecting the building itself. There is a company in Yokohama which do?s nothing else but make scaffolding, and it rents it to the builders at 90 much per house. FIRE AND INSURANCE. Almost all of the Japanese houses are of wood. They are built close together in th3 towns and cities, and a. fire sometlrm-s sweeps them away by thousands. It is sail that Tokyo burns down every seven years, and fires which destroy a thousand houses are not uncommon. There are now steam fire engines In the large cities, and all of the smaller places have fire departments and hand engines. The Japanese go wild whenever there is a fire in their neighborhood. They turn out en ma?se, each carrving a paper lantern, upon which is painted the name of his house or his business place, and rush toward it. They have lanterns hung up in their houses ready to run out with them to fires, and it Is a matter of etiquette if you have a friend in the neighborhood of the conflagration to call and leave your card, and tell him that yeu came to help him, thinking the house which was burning was his, and to leave your card, with congratulations that he escaped. The firemen themselves carry lanterns, and they j'cll as they run. Each fire company has a leader who carries a larVern fastened to the top of a long pole and ornamented with streamers of papr. climbs with this to the roof cf the buIMinr which is on rire and directs the men, .ur.d he Is expected to stay at his pest, un'.l these streamers catch fire. The nremen of Yokohama have blue hats, like bat: r bowls, and on their backs are the characters which mean Yokohama fire brig.id . The country firemen tie a handkerchief c.n their heads, and are more often barefootel than otherwise. Until lately there was no such thing as a fire insurance company in Japnn. Now there art .several, and they ar? doing v.''!L There are no foreign companies, r.nd t.e inuranee companies cf other ccfuntrlvs co.-i-1 1 1 1 j men . i.Tiii in 1 c t s tit a k. iic. . c : T 4 I j night with the manarer of the Kqulta'e Life Insurance Company for Japan an 1 China, Ho tells me that thi? American institution is doing: a good business here, ar. 1 that the people are insuring more every day. The hlghett amount the Equitable injures for in Japan is $100,000. It has taken out two ruch policies latelv anl has written a number of $50,000 and $2..Cmj pollciea. The most of its business, however, ' In $5,000 risks, and it insures here at the same rate as in America. It does not try to push its busings among the Chinese, as there Is more danger of fraud from them. When a Chinaman sees he is about to die he wants to go to his ancestral home. This may be a thousand miles In the Interior of China, where there are no foreigners, and all sorts of trumped up evidence could be sent in as to the death. You could buy the testimony of the governor of a Chinese province for $100 or so, to anything, and the result would probably be that the company would be systematically defrauded. In Japan it is impossible fcr one to defraud as to a matter cf life and death. Th system of registration of births and deaths Is perfect, and the Czar of Russia, has not a better method of keeping track of his subjects. than has the Mikado. There are 30,0i.O policemen "in the empire and n. end of detectives. The secret service of Japan it said to be the most perfect In the world, and though this land has the shrewdest of criminals, there is little wickedness that is allowed to go unpunished. Every man and woman in Japan must have a passport, -and this is the case with foreigners as well as with the Japanese. In changing hl9 residence the police call upon a man as soon as he has settled and demand to know all about him. They do not take his own statement, but write to the city from which he says he came, and if his Etory is not a true one he Is arrested. He dare not leave Japan without the permission of the government, an it is almost impossible now for a Japanese woman to get away from Japan without she can prove that she Is going Into some legitimate employment abroad, and that her associations there are to be rood. - -FRANK O. CARPENTER.

LOCAL OPTION LEAGUE

A New Xational Organization to Encourage Temperance. Sam Small Tells What the Movement Is Kxpected to Accomplish Prohibitionists Will Sot Approve, Washington Post. A national movement for the organization and federation of the antl-salooa voters of the United States '.s being Inaugurated, with national headquarters hero in Washington "city, under the direction of Rev. Sam Small, of Georgia, who has become famous throughout the Union as a temperance agitator and lecturer. The new organization is to be known aj "The American Iocal Option League," and is to have for its aim the crganUatlon of State liXal option leagues in every StaXa of the Union and the Tern torus, and these to be federate! In tha national league for mutual aid and encouragsrr.tnt ia Fccurtns the widest icjsiblo adoption of local cp tlon Iliiior laws In increasingly stringent and effectual form?. Many leading men of the Republic, who are active jovt-rs in politics, in the churoij and in temperance work have approved Mr. Small's plans and encourage : him to undertake the work to whioh he will now devote his energies "It Is my purine," .aid Mr. Small last night. In an interview with the Post, "to devote every available day of my time. If life and 5trer.gta are jrtven me, for the next two years to a systematic canvass of the principal cities of America ia the Interest of the American Local Option league. The neccary litt-rature for tha full explanation of the purples and plans cf the l?ague is b Ing prepared and printed. After forming the National Central League, with headquarter.; in this city, I will proceed to the organisation of .State leagues, in association with tne National Central League, In ail of the Stated of the Union. I e,xpeet comldenty that we will have a strong anl effective State organization in every State before the end of the year. The State leagues will forward the ecganIratien of county, city and precinct leagues, as the present 5tate of IocjlI eption legislation in each State may make necessary, ar.J all these 'will be auxiliaries of the Stata league, as it will be of the national league." THE UNDERLYING THOUGHT. "Why do you think such a league an advisable combination?" "Because of many sufficient reasons that may be urged in its favor. The number off voters In the Union who are ep;o&ed to tha saloon traffic in liquor La not apprehend?J by the casual ooserver or reader, of tha isolated returns from elections. Do you know that in the elections htll la on eighteen States of th Union tho Aggregate votes for prohibition were LCTti.dl M-g-alnft l,yC0,l94 in favor of llcen?, and generally a very high Uecuse as the inducement to vote that way at all? Tnos.i votes were given upon propositions to embody prohibition in radical forms la the constitutions of trie State?, a proposition that thousands of genuine anti-liquor men do not pui'port. Hut in the record ot local option contests in the States generally the returns show a much closer division, and out or ovtr uv million vote cast In such contests the advantage hai been largely with the local optlrmista. la fact, 1 am warranted by the' litres on rile throughout the States having local option laws In saying that to-day thrvelliths of the voters in three-fourth' of the election districts of the United States at large are in favor of the locil suppression, of the saloon liquor tratfic. Those figures, we feel, can be made effective and be further largely increased by the systematlj organization and agitation thaf our new movement contemplates." "Mow many iaics now have forms of local option a3 to the liquor trulfic?" "Tnere are twenty-six States that hava weli-deilned systems of local option law whereby communities may prohibit the granting of li-iuor licenses. There ar eight .States that have constitutional or statutory prohibition covering the whole State area, and that ar more or less effective again.-t th? trafde. There are ten States in which there are no prohibitions, except for violations of the- license laws, and these operate against individuals, and not against the tratlic itself. In thu local option States the laws have local peculiarities, and these are sometimes ludierou3ly contradictor!'. At one time, I remember, In one State no drinka could be served except to jop!e seated at tables, while In another Slate no table or chairs were allowed for patrons, and they could drink legally only by standing up to the bar. One of the chief objects of our league will be to secure a practical uniformity, as tar as we can. in local option laws. We shall go to the legislatures with an afrreod form of local option statute and try to have aj many States as will adopt that uniform law." . "Do you anticipate great results from revival of local option activity" "Very grrat and good results ure sure tc follow this plan of federation. Now each local -option contest is oondurted und-r difficulties arising from a lack of reliable data and facts, from iolnts wher it baa shown Its good results, in such shape af to convince the business community. Our ilan Is to collect anl ke-p r-aJy all sucb data and be able to supply it on demand to the local cptionlsts in any part of tht Union. Take the results of local option ia the South, where It has had its lst trials and has run the saloons out of two-thirds of that section of the country. We are able to prove by the testimony of men anl the public statistics that local option Is far tb be-at way of dealing with tha problem of the barroom." "There are no political wir- to thla movement, as I understand you?" "None whatever. We want to keep tha movement wholly apart from i-ditica and center It upon economic and humanitarian principles. I'olltlcaliy, it should commend Itself to men of all parties who are not associated with slum politics. It Is the pure principle of local Eelf-governrn-r.t, s dear to American of every party, r.nJ so should bo encouraged by all. rather than discouraged. The. growing fool fanaticism for paternalism is one of the menaces to ejuable politics and Jit government in the present day. So we v.lsa to take this liquor problem out of the procession ')f those vagaries that cro;U Coxey armba and return It and all It. iueuons to the Iolltlcal units of good .v-rnnut, that is to the voters of the counties and towns cf the country. That policy, which Is agreeatle to democratic an 1 ltfoubilcan xirecedents alike, will tak tais irouo.esome problem out of the hands cf the ciass jkjpuiarly known am lonn-halrel rien an4 Fhort-halrel women, and make lv a pure nutlon of morals and economy in each fixed political subdivision of the Ftate." Tin: riiomiiiTioN PAirrc. Will not the national Prohibition partj opiose this disposition of the question?" perhaps so. They have done so ia th past and doubtless will look upon It as an obstruction to their ilans. Put the suffering millions to whom the liquor curse U the plague of the hour cannot afford to wait for the fruition cf the scheme cf national prohjbition at the hands of a Prohibition political party. I have been a national Prohibitionist, and In sentiment ara one still, but I prefer to expand my t.mi and energies hereafter in seeking immediate and certain reli.-f for saloon-curse I communities. It is rUht enough and noble enoujh to look to the millennium, but it U not Thristlike nor p ns'.Lle in doing ro to overlook and neglect the rerishlng at our doors. There are plenty of eel f-comp'o cent statesmen to attend t tho prc-raan d.vof the Prohibition larty. For my numblt nart I shall hereafter go in for ;uhk action and attainable results tht will stamp out saloons ar.d save men and homes in the present day. It is not politics, but practical prohibition that I am nachinj after " "What 1 your hope as to the ultimate result of this movement?" "I effect It to speedily put thousands of local option ccnte-ts in motion. I wouli like to see o many elections foreenst from one end of the country to the other that It VouM bankrupt the Whisky Trust to keep up with them. 1 expect the movement to result In freeing the rural districts f ll'iuor and driving th- tratflc Into the citle and larger towns. Whenever th citle have to bear the saloons and their consequences the problem cf municipal misrule will come to the front for speedy solution, and in the solution of that problem the liquor traffic Is sure to find Ut final Waterloo. The sober sens X IH