Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 52, 31 December 1910 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PAlXADIl'SI AND SUX TELKGRAM, SATURDAY, DECE3IHER 31. 1910.

ASK AUTHORITY TO iiinnnmn unnTii

rniuiuiu it nniiu i hi wunomr h mumm. 160,000 Belgians' Petition to , Have Legalized the "Antoine" Religion. Brussels, Doc. 21, A petition ban teen forwarded to the Chamber of Deputies), bearing 160,000 signatures, , asking Parliament to recognlzo "Antolne Worship" as legal. Whatever answer Is given to this singular request the personality of Antolne, called The Healer," l.i very Interesting. mttii ttio tll1.4 WW! bllifllDauuo ui I glans Is a singular instance of the faith of mankind in one of their number. -, Antoine was formerly a miner. Having Inherited a little money, he aban doned bis work and devoted himself to spiritualism. He proved to be an excellent medium, and be often re ceived according to his fo.lowers visits from spirits. The spirits dictated long messages purporting to come from Heaven. One day they told him that he was ordered to exercise the gift of healing. Antolne thereupon visited the poor if his parish, spoke to them of Spiritualism, and Is said to bave effected several , cures. Antolne was soon besieged by suf ferers who begged him to relieve their Ills. He is now greatly popular In the valley of the Meusc, and especially n the neighborhood of Jeuneppe, hla Two years ago Antoine said that he was ordered to preach, and he has thus become the center of the new religion. A church was built at Jeuneppe, for which $20,000 was raised In a .week. Antolne Uvea near the church which is overcrowded every day with followers. "The Healer" refuses to accept mo ney for his services and he Is as poor today as when he began his strange missionary work. The doctrine of Antoinc's religion Is rather obscure. Te teaches that . goodness must govern the world. He believes that the human body is con- . troiiea ny nuia magnetism ana inai me mBgnPiium ui une iktbuii cu overcome the evil magnetism of another. ,The services In Antolne's church re very simple in character. The 'Healer" and his congregation concentrate ihelr thoughts and Antoine gets Into ,fhlldic, communication with the minds of the worshippers. When be feel that rood Influence predominates, he speaks under the power of the spirit. Antoinc's followers obey him un hesitatingly In everything. In appear- .,' gn.ee he is tall, rather round shouldored. with gray hair; he wears a tt1klr ffAAlr rvn t hit 4a ulwtaVM m-1 1 h rtit hat. He chews gum continually. Mrs. Austins Buckwheat Flour glvos the real genuine old time flavor. THOUSAND WORKMEN SAVEDJROM death Heroic Rescues Made When 7 Caravan of Barges Were Caught in the Ice. (American Newu Kervlc London, Dec. 31. Graphic descriptions have been received here of tho scene, at Astrakhan, when a caravan ,of barges with their tugs were stormdriven from the river bank and car rled down the Volga towards the open sea. The Volga is now ice covered and in flood. j ' . The hapless craft were smashed one against the other, and were stove in by driving ice-floes. Most of them was toon mere wrecks, to which the men clung until overcome by the cold. The thermometer stood very little . over aero Fahrenheit. ' " Splendid work was accomplished in almost pitch darkness by two ice breakers and three other steamers. VThey succeeded in rescuing over two.thirds of the 1,000 workmen, whose lives depended on heroic promptitude. There is little doubt that the remaining 300 all perished. . In the desperate chance of saving more lives the steamers have been battling day and night against the solid masses of ice which have meanwhile formed at the Volga csturay, barring access to the barges, which have partly survived their battering by ice, flood and storm. According to the latest news, three of the stesmers have forced a passage to the often sea. The whole Astrakhan coast and province have been devastated. The fish- , Ing Industry Is ruined depots, boats .aid nets are nearly all destroped. An extraordinary rescue was effected near Kamlslk. The government steamer Michael was proceeding slowly along the coast when the look-out man saw on the shore what seemed to be at block of ice from which several human heads were protruding. It tansplrtd that ten Khirglzles bad Sn sleeping in a mud hut. which was splashed with water during the ht tat a thick coating of ice pre- . vented at; egress. The Khirglsles tried to force, their way out through the roof jof the hut, and when the steamer arf rived tome of them had just made ap erture-large enough for their beads to get through. v The rescue party used hot water and steam la order to release the imprtsWeil Inmates. The Tsar has ordered that a sum of IS.000 shall be slotted from the special "emergency fund for the relief of the victims on tbe Caspian Sea. Tho Indignant Costor. v 'Ere, missus: give over plnchln" them bananas. , 'Are a go at tbe cokerj. tots Instead. London aketcb

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The flr.;l ! ri- :n Ur.K'dUTt i I urn .rd: u k s la-st oiora "Koenigskinii'-r." which mad i? ;o,e.rance at thf Motrol,i.tti i.-ra houo. N York. re-fnly. The pioture shows tho final soeno of th. tr. .ipora with the kins'M son I HTniaii JadloA k.r t ami tho Goose Girl iGor.ildir.e Far ran dad in the s-no.v. '1 hi ..ondorful example of stato raf' sorvod u ;i rtttina finish for ono of tho Ijost o poras that has boon j. rod in -d in New York and evokod round uoti round of applause from tlio t n'husiastu audi etire.

Sunday Services At the Churches Boston Univertaiitt Tlio Kov I. in tho lloston P. Jones il! pr . Ii Universalis? day at 11 a i I, tin h Now War Sunin K or y ono v. oh otn Unlversalist Church In M.isotiio 1. I' .lonos in proa h 7 p ni v i '. r m building. R v New Years at meets 6:30 p First Presbyterian H- Thomas J. Graham, pastor. Sabbath i- hool 9:15 a. m. Mornins hur h -i vioo 10:20 o'clock Xesnc-rs ." i :n I'roaohlng by the pastor I'r.iw r moo'ini; Thursday 7:"." p m A spo. ;a! wook of i service will brain Mnda niKht Jan- ( uary 9, 1911 St. Paul's Evangelic! Lutheran C. Iluber, pastor. Suml.o si hil at 9. Preaching wnur .u :.',. Vounn People's mm int; at ;-::n CvrniiiK service at 7. All tho srvicos ,uo in English. First M. E. Church Conn r Main and Fourteetith .1 l ' ll.nl' lifto. p,i tor. Sunday school 0 1'. a in I'n h ing 10:30 and 7 .". .Junior ! . c ! - p. m. Epworth loamio ; . p m Sun day is the o,l rtorlv no ttn:; ' t: n o shall have the sai ratio r.t.i! ; t n r in the morning. Tho pastnr will preach In the eveninc Tlio work ot prayer will be observed iotnnicn inn on Tip'sday night. We invito tin- n operation of the membership in iIkm niojiints Quarterly conference on M.nd i tiitht the 9th. A ordial inviiaiion to all fialuatinn Armw Ithndi ToMl:i!o. 515 N. A street. Cap'ain and Mi's lo-. i ler in charge of loial orp services Tuesday, Thuisda . and Si'urdiv at Sj p. m. Sunda 7 :'. p in Suixtav m hil ; 10:30 a. m. ttt'l. et s' r sid m o .No. 1U j S. 2nd street United Brethren Corner Klevonth and North It streets II s James, pastor. Itibb- s hool Ht fi a. fi. Preaching at I .:: a m anil m. Quartet l mumon s. t bo .11 follow the t'l'.i nuiR ei m. n M. -uboi s urged to attend, stiain:. i - and oth. is cordially inv it. d St. Andrew's Catholic --' and South C Mroot-. Mass ;,t 7 ll'cli Masa at fe Vc-i" r.-. . ; . r. tt and benodu t'..ti .it . 1 . k K- v. Frank A. K". U. i..t-i. !: . M II. Weiland, a. i -i.uit. St. Mary's Catnohc Mi.-...-, every Sunday at ;:". v:on ,,rd : ( oclok a. m. and llili Mass an i rntons at 10:30 a. ni.; '."r.p. t . and '.. :. dirtlon every Sunday at p i. i;-v. .? F. Mattingly. .-e. tor. l!.-v M T. Sh. a. assistant. South Eighth Street Fnends Ivi T. PennihK'on. l-a.-ter 1'ihlo s. hool at 9:10. John 1 1 .lohn-oii. superintendent. Start the . w Near neht b being in the Mibl.- s. li. ' M. tin? for worship at i' ;:. At tin- mo tine the matter of s. rvii . for th. wo. k of prayer will bo d.-. nt.-d !o..:i b tho congregation. Junior i- K no . tins :it 2 o'clock. Miss Ituth i . k i t . s-ipor-intendent. christian i:n.baor at 6:30: topic. ' Cntroddon l'aths. a spec ial New War' Vs.-cn Pra r nie t Ing at 7:Ci. Thursday voninn. to bo led by Kdwant r- - A!! are invit-d to all these so.i-v :.-o Special 3rv ce at St. Paul's Church At St. I'.c.l . hun-t-the Rev. M t kv, r preach a N Y.-ar' t ' : a. m . o.iell will ;-.!. and - Ministerwi l aln Co Kev. :t. ! s upon orship o:i 9: 1". a. m i bring to a . t :- d In charge of f ; read a "Fen i John S. Si-fttoi, the duties of t iJanuary : "III 1 1 'I Second Prr tyte -un Coine. of Nineteenth C. Mc.Narv -tie, Uo. ThoS. ; n sid.Mii-e ".' So :th :n.enta! .r vice a! M. .itc at T:Co; FJo;.t'. Superin- ( ""t.c: r. iotial n r.-z at t!. church. ' 1. 1. ts of the ohur li 1. o..,. C y. at 0 : I." ; pa-! 20th Stre. t s.,r: 10:S0: Now S. S. at c teadent. Q : t. cial Tuesday e. All memlx r a: d are invited ar.d Prayer nn ' Earlham S. at 2:1" ent. All are Invited pastor for t ins Tr its iv at Heights Presbyterian 5?. W Noff. f.!IpTlUteiidt:i ' the community !?tMe class tucht ly the' tr c :i First Baptist Church H. RobertSmith, pioti-r I'reacMrs? hy the j.astor at 10-4" .: m and at T:S j. r.i.; Sunday s ho. nt f: 1.' a n ; Juniors at I' I' . at 6:30 p. m. f the i.,m d's Supper 2:30 p. r.i The onlin .i.f wilt be i !. iv. .1 ; morning sen ;.- . West Richmond tV.e close of the Fr.ends At Earl- - 1 at S o'clock S; ,-eHntendenf. ; :'..:. K!tert ham college lUh'c E. P. Tru. hi.- .!. Meet in? f'-r Yi.u-h . Rttst-ell. .-! .r. IT r neetinu on Thursday tv ruins at Women's)

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Aid M.iiof. . srooin 'ittld 1','irtll '! U slirt nf tl,' ti:nlli. All UH'TOMoii ,,o llilti i to at't nd rvi i ' r ! o Second English .Lutheran Cornor I'tatl and Tltinl stroot E. Winto;-. pa-t.! I'reaohina ;:t 1 ::: a. m. S'liij' i i. ' I'liisM ratjiin." Sunday . ;,t !i 1.", a in ; "'r.ri.-t tan Kn-d.-.i , ! ;i t ' i .". p. in . I': i .i' 'lini; at 7. '"I i tit. S-tt :.).-rt. 'Two S(La in Contiavt." !;' 1,., ijy ucloomo Reid Memorial Coit.m' Klovrnth and North A snoot.- U S. R !.- onu. jiastor. l'roa hini? b tho pastor. lo.:;t a. m. and 7:J' . m Moininu subjoot: "The Ttmlo8sno ot losu Christ." Kvening sublet. "Thr Tim.' linoss of Humanil." Sabbath S hid. H I.', a in Christian 1'ninn p. in. First English Lutheran Church 'm nor 11th anil South A Mroots. K. M"aid. pastor. Mornine worship. 1 In- "'41 , iii .ii.i- Siorv li-,. l "tit T II' X'espor Service t : sermons by the Soasonablo sorinons by the pastor I Music lod by the String quartette. jsnndav school at ft: la a. in. Dr. A. h. Hramkamp. Supt. Tho week of prayer will lio observed b sorvjeos each 'evenins Jan. I S at 7::i'. The public vill lie itudially welcomed to all those i service. 1 East Main St. Friends' Meeting i Truman '. Kenw orth.v. pastor, niblo school at !:!. Mooting for worship ;at 1 :::. Chark-s K. Tebb. ts wl! atl tend this serv ice. christian lnd- avor !at K:::o i Conseerati(n service i; a full 'attendance desired. Kvoning service ' iit 7:ir.. Midweek meeting for worship Thursday morning at 1( o'clock and ! prayer and conference in thf evening I at 7 :"). A cordial inv itation is extendj ed to any of those services. South Eighth Street Friends At the mornine; meeting tomorrow, tho matter of services for tho week of prayer will be decided by the congregation. A full attendance is d. -sired. Whitewater Friends A Trneblood. pa. tor. All tho services Sahba'h will be in harmony with the beginning of th Now Year. ' !':;! r for Divine Cuid.ini ' will bo the subject of the mi iniiiK. All members iind those who attotid th" ilnuih as veil as strangers arc (opiialiy invited to be present. C. I.', led by Miss Verona. GERMANY VERY BUSY Making John Bull Feel Very Nervous. (Arrv-ri an Nows iSVrvi- o) Herlin. IVc. :tl. Germany will estahlish a r-enrd in 1 1 1 hy linnching six Iheadno'ihts. The announcement is made in the leutsche Tagoszeitur.c which points out that the Now Year wi'liK't only witness an unprecedented expenditure on the liTinan l'leet t $1 l.".rt0.o I But the floating of tho greatest number f now vessels which has ever taken the water during a single t w elve-month. Kxclusive of torpedo boats, subma- : ir.os and other minor oral, no fewer than t n ships of modern t ,.. s will be floated. During 1!'10 onh two Dreadnoughts hav. boon launched, the battleship Oldenburg and the cruiser battleship Von Moltke. In l'.M!. f:vo battleships, the Hiidetiraiiil, the H.'inidai', the Hagon. the Aegir. and the )d;n. besides the cruiser baft", -hip H will take the water. AM the n w Dread-, noughts will be fitted with turbines, j Four now armored cruisers are also to ' bo launched. All the great dokvards of the co-.,ntr. both imperial and pri- : vatc. pic represented among the : builders (.f tho vessels to be launched in American Influence In Canada. Wherever tii American c.k in for Slid ia proportion to hi sympathet l.;.!"!'.'.! e iti.rtossiou of hN vivnl ivr- ' sona.ity . l:i s. h wise he is changing t'jc slue otd maritime i rovinoes so very rapidly that you can hard;y find any difference between tbe::i and Maine or Massnhusetts. This is in td-lienee to a natural law which must briuj; about such results. His manners. his peooh. his coinage, his menus of communication, whether by land or sen. are eutirely reciprocal with Canada, but an he U inichtr and Canada i feeble numerically the jrreater. a usual. Includes tbe less. F. T. Bulleu In I-ondon Mali Low Church and Salary. "It nujt be understood." said the vestryman, who was extremely "low chiirrli. to th- new rector. that tbe rector here sh:-.!! hare no ;trptire '(IrifK'r' x claimed the Rev. Mr. Nnwrome. Tlow couM one have a mrpUce oa the salary jou efferr

AN ELECTION HELD BY TRIUMPH LODGE Whitewater Lodge to Have Roll Call-Plans of the Osceola Tribe. owners for the i nsuinc six months a or. olected at the meeting of Triamph lodto. KniKhts of I'vthias on Kridav evening. They will ho installed at tho first January mootine. The : officers include William Brown, chan-K-ellor commander: Alfred Williams, vice chancellor; Emmet Wolf, prelate; Alvin Cully, master of work; Clarence I Mote, master of exchequer; August Sehroeder, master of finances; Wil liam Bolzer, keeper of records;; Yv ill Schneider, inner guard, and Albert Graham outer guard. The roll call of the Whitewater lodee of odd Fellows will be held on January 2. Preparations for the event are now nnder way. The lodge is perhaps the largest in the city and the roll call meeting is always attended by nearly all the members and those who are unable to attend, send letters. A banquet will be served in connection with the meeting. The lod?e will begin in January to arrange its share of the work in making the G. A. K. encampment here next spring a success. At the Friday evening session Charles Muth was given the second degree. A j ublie installation of officers on next Thursday evening is the plan of Osceola tribe of Red Men. In addition to the installation a pleasing program will be given. A general invitation has been issued. MAKES HIS ESCAPE Remarkable Feat of a sian Convict. RuslAnKtiran Nows Service) St. Fctorshtirg. IVc. M. For the first time in living memory a convict has escaped from the island fortress of Si hlussrlburg in th Neva. While working in the afternoon in the open-air. the convict sealed the wall with the aid of a rope, and subsequently, though chained, walked all night, across the i of Lake Ladoga towards the Bugrovsk Lighthouse. Karly on the following morning the man was t.iscovered by some peasants and ' s seized and taken back to tho prison. Tho Sohlusselhurg fortress, rich in memories of the battles between Russians and Swedes, is seen troin the river. a place of old walls, and low round j watch towers, litical prison Among the famous pors. who spent v . ts j ho Ktnpress Anna's; . h! ;ss. Iburg prison-! .:! treated w iih no l.ttle ! The ceils are lighted and heated lo. hot-w ater i there was D; favorite. It. ers novvada; -consideration, bv elect ricitv radiators. The prisoners are s.llowod to sn;oke and there is a g'xxl library. Kvery man sciittnced to more than, eight cars' penal servitude, is, during! the first two vears, chained on the feet. The thainn are not heavy and j do not trail, being lifted up in the i middle and fixed to a strap hanging trotn a belt round the waist. Agincourt. Asineourt. from which Henry V. made his trhfmpha! entry into London. j i our Enjrlish w.jtj of spelling Azin- .. . , corrupuorj of F.imdheirj. In al-mt two . nd a ha!f HeiirT-s ,itt!e armr i s!ew p,.,,,-, rreii-Lmen. nearly twice ; as niaay a Ecglan.l kt outright ia t battle durinc the liocr war, lasting : orer two cud a half years, and ytt we i talk complacently of our "moderj arms ! of precision:' A mouumeut at Asincourt marks the cemetery of the slain. Few battlefields have ehacced their appearance so little. Tbe field may be reached within a railway hour from Iloulojme. bnt few tourists gu to the scene of England's most wonderful feat of arms. Trd.n Chronicle. Th Music Lovers. She Did you enjoy the concert last night? He Xo: I couldn't bear anything. She Why not? He Two ladies stRt in front of me and chatted the -whole evening about tow much they loved music

Ccrvrifiht. lSiu. bv America r Pr? AsocuUoa. J TINETEL1N-ELEVEN I That i l going jonv. 1 empm is tugiung. It has We spr.nt forever after days to com? Ai swiftly at the nimble jackass rabbit. 1 rf each year wn nil b ring us rortune's plum And through the Future stretch our hands to grab it. Only to find, in spite of our endravot. Next year it is as far away as ever. i TIME deals. Twelve months have i gone to the ducard i . , . v. Smce last we had to pen our ISew Year's greeting. , And now the date returns and hits us ! hard With melancholy duties of repeating. The form with fresh remarks we interlard. Like "Turn a new page here," and "Life is Geeting." The same we've said, with lame attempts to vary. Each year and wil again next January. YYITH high resolves today OUT VV hearts are warm. This is the happy season that we swear off. We are protected from Temptation' storm, At least until our resolutions weavi. Well, it is good we've one day for reform. In view of what on other days we tear off. Our vows at least may aid the paving movement In Colonel Satan's latest town improvement A' ND, speaking of improvement, here on earth Have you observed the dip we have been going Old Nineteen-ten had reason for his mirth. And Uncle Sam can be excused for crowing. Accomplishment has so increased its girth That whil this year may bring there is no knowing. In twelve months we may all of us be flying Or break our ailerons and necks in Hying. "TTS New Year's! Let us think all things are new, And so they are for us till we have won them. This moment differs from &D moments through. , i i f The paths of life are novel as werua them. Whatever are our deeds, it sbH is true This is the first time this time have done them. Nineteen-eleven wipes out last years sorrow. And Nineteen-twelve is beckoning tr morrow. THIEFS NEW YEAR GIFT A POOR ONE! I For a New Years gift. Mayor Zitamerman gave John Schneider 65 days. on a charge of petit larceny. Schneider confessed to stealing one chicken and a half bushel of corn from the farm of Abner Bulla, north of the Reid Memorial hospital. Bulla tracked the man to tbe door of bis boarding house at 1106 Xorth I street where he was found cooking chicken.

The Useless Question

J. H. ROSEBORNE.

pressed our surprise that Maniuis de Bar did not laugh like the rt's! of ua at the witty attacks upon th- f :r.:nine sex by Navere, the woman h.'t-r. but he said: ' w ,.-! nn defends her love as we defenJ honor, often with greater heroism, t . i ause the sacrifices she makes are loss apparent and very seldom un(dert.ti.od When I was still quite young 1 1 sa a .in example which forever rob-

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uncle, t-ouut ae war, nad taken mo m: son's place, after the death of hts . ife. I was a younger son. and r.. y nts saw in the Count's exwish a stroke of luck for me. lro; : tho :nt having no children of his I in the old chateaur de Barj 1 glorious to me. At times we I 1. seem r iiv .-! t or . thror. i seclusion as if in a monasother times the castle was d with a gay and brilliant iTO i I 1 tigh 1 was only seventeen 1 soon :rt l4me m' uncle's best friend and I, ul his full confidence. 1 was ,!u h;M one who fcnew tUat he wajJ Jn love w :th Jacquelin de Terrelles whom 1 e!f thought the prettiest and noblos woman I had ever met. They called me a fool because I helped to throw my chances away, but I shrugcod my shoulders. I cared for no in hern:. me but love and affection. 'The first days after the wedding were delightful. The young wife brightened our lives, being nobler and more kindhearted than either of us. The Count adored her and she seemed to love him with all her heart. "Hut after a while my uncle seemed to grow melancholy and his wife seemed to feel sad. I learned later that a life of perfect happiness is dangerous to happiness Itself, because nature craves contrast and creates contrast with the elements at its command, sometimes coarse and vulgar, sometimes subtle and indefinable. "These two had fulfilled that demand of nature. They lived in separate a; artments and sometimes did not meet tor a long time. When they did they seemed as happy as ever. "One night when I had been asleep for some hours I was suddenly awakened by my uncle. I stared at him in surprise, as he stood at' my bedside. His face was flushed and his eyes wild "t!et up, Pierre," he said. "I waat you." "I hurriedly put on my clothes without asking a single question. " 'Jacqueline is deceiving me,' he gasped. 'At first I doubted, but now I am sure.' " 'Jacqueline?' I exclaimed. 'Oh, It is impossible she could not deceive you. She loves you too much. " 'Yes, she tells you that, because you are as simple minded as I am, but you will see proofs of her unfaithful ness tonight. For some weeks this man Fernand has always been making love to her. I have grown suspicious. "With these words he pulled aside a curtain and pointed to the wing of the chateau where his wife's apartments were. It was moonlight. Suddenly I trembled for I saw a shadowy form cross the courtyard and disappear through a door in the wall. " There you see,' said ray uncle. 'That was he, Fernand de Montreaux. He left now. He has the key of the little gate. Come along with me.' "Hroken hearted I obeyed. He pick ed up a lantern and rudely entered his wife's bedroom. "She gave a cry of terror. I can fiT her still, prettier than ever in ber lace night gown, her paleface framed by her dark hair. She stared at my uncle and exclaimed: What is it? Is anybody sick?' " Yes,' he replied, 'somebody has boon poisoned.' " Who?' she cried. " You." he roared, 'you. Jacqueline the faithless, the shameless, dishonored.' "Her pale face turned even paler, but her eyes looked at him so steadfastly that for a moment he was confused. But his insane jealousy returned with double force. lie raised his arm as if to strike her. but not for a moment did she lover her beautiful eyes and in a voi. e of pain mingled with sorrow she asked calmly: 'Do you believe what you are saying?' "The Count's mad jealousy has rear hed a point w hen nothing could make any impression on his mind. " Dare you deny that Montreaux ha- just left this room?' She looked straight into his bloodshot eyes and said: 'Such a suspicion is unworthy of you. Calm yourself and remember that you befoul a sacred thing. Remember that I am your wife, your companion, your friend. Do not ask me to answer a question that is an insult. Believe me without further proof, simply because you love ! me.' j " 'Explain or you shall die, he roarcd in a paroxysm of fury. I "I felt that she would not explain, 'that she was too proud of her love to . j , , .. i i - i pieaQ oer lute a juimtauu. uiuan Mke Jacqueiilie did not explain. He ; must believe her or kill her. Her eyes j 'old bim that. Her brave unwavering i eves! How I loved her at that mo ment. " Uncle. I cried, 'you must belive I her. "1 felt them both looking at me, uncle witn a aarx expression in nis maa eyes, Jacqueline happy to find somej one who beheved her implicitly ana who would defend her memory. "At last the Count laughed and said You do not know life, Pierre. You have not met any courtesanes, who are able to lie with all the appearance of innocence. She would have given me an. explanation if she had any. She is trying to impose upon us, iu gam ' time, that is alL "His own words made him more i furious. I saw him draw a stiletto and

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threw myself upon him, fought im

with all my strength and succeeded in making him drop the weapon. A "Jacqueline had sprung from ler bed. evidently fearing that I migbti the weaker and that ber husband ia! his fury might kill me. She picked p the stiletto and burying it in her own V bottom she murmured: l will at least save him from committing a crime." She lay dead on the floor and tn Count was laughing like a madman; "The next day he learned that Fernand de Montreaux had a love affair with the Countess" chambermaid whose room was near hers. i Why did she not speak? Why did she not sneak?' he kept on repeating to mo in nameless dosnair when ha knew his w ifo had been innocent, -lie did not understand that a true woman wants Invn JinconditlonallT or not at all. Had she spoken she would have killed love, so she preferred to kill herself." i GREAT SALT LAKE Puzzling Aspects of Utah's Wonderful Saline Sea. ONE OF NATURE'S MYSTERIES Science Unable to Solve tho Problem of Its Escaping Waters and Dimin , Uhing Area Tho Mas! strom Near Antelope Island. The Great Salt lake of Utah continues to lie one of tho greatest mysteries of nature. For sixty years Its rise nnd fall hare been studied by scientists In on effort to account for the changes, but as yet they have reached no satisfactory solution of the problem as to what is the principal cans of the decrease in its depth. Those familiar with Its depth and the shrinking in its size each year assert that nt the end of twenty yeara or so the bed of the lake will bo nearly all exposed, with the possible exception of a few shallow pools of water. Then perhaps the mystery connected with It wUl be solved. . -': In its dimensions the lake is really a' sea, it being above seventy-five mile in length and fifty miles across at Its greatest width, containing, therefore, over 2,000 square miles of surface. Near the shores the water is so shallow that there are places where one may wade out from the beach for. a distance of u mile, yet will not be Immersed up to bis shoulders. The buoyancy of the water is such that it Is almost Impossible for one to remain on bis feet nt a greater depth, bis body beins lifted up as a strip of wood thrown Into the water in a vertical or oblique direction like a dart is returned to the surface in a horizontal position. Indeed, it is believed the Great Salt lake will support more , weight lo a sriven volume of water than even the ueaa sea, to wuicn in many respws; i lta it bears a striking simllaritv. 4 The large quantity of.snlt in so tion is the principal reason for buoyancy. As the lake recedes bottom is shown to be composed of a heavy cruRt. of salt, which is almost pure, lying upon a stratum! that consists chiefly of sand. In this respect the bed of the lake is similar to some of the deserts In the southwest whlcll once contained bodies of water equal in size to that in Utah or even larger. It is known that the Great Salt lake loses a large quantity of water yearly by evaporation, but estimates of this quantity indicate that it is far less than that annually poured into the lake from the liters and creeks entering It. So far as Is known no natural ontlef exists, but the lake supplies an irrigating system In the country adjacent that requires a quantity of water yearly equal to a depth of four inches of the present irea. This is n very small proportion cf the volume of water that enters it through Its feeders, so tfce scientists know thu water escapes la some other manner than by the irrigation caual or by evaporation. ' This is proved by th fact that the Increase in the quantity that enters tbe lake at a rniny season at times does not increase its depth, and tbe records show that actually It has fallen immediately after the Jordan and other streams bave contributed a larger volume tlinn usu !. Near what I called Autelope island ! Is an indication that n subterranean opening exists. Frequently tbe waters near tbe island are so violently disturbed that people in the vicinity call this place the "maelstrom and carefully avoid it when on the lake In boats. . : , . A nuaibvr cf years ago. It is said, a sailing vessel loaded with sheep chanced to approach too near tbe "maelstrom, and despite the strong breeze that was blowing the force of tbe wafer was greater than the power of the sails, tbe vessel lieing drawn into tbe midd'e f tbe disturbance and: capstzed, Although sbeep are natural' ij strong gwicnicers ana inna was DUr a few hundred feet away, not one ot i tbe nni'r.als escaped and most of tbe carcasses went uider never to appear again. . White tbe buoyancy of tbe water Is so great thst it will support a person without aid. the boats designed for ST ? upon the lake must be constructed I 11 peciany to counteract thJs feature. T ) ' ordinary wooden vessel when emprjf! .

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with safety upon it, since snch a small portion of it would be Immersed. Care must therefore be taken, especially In tbe bunding of sailboats, lest they be top heavy. For this reason navigation Is dangerous on the lake even whe there is only a moderate wind, unless tbe sailing vessel Is loaded heavily so that it sits deep enough lo the water to counteract tbe buoyant tendency riew York Press.

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