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WHIRL ASUNDER,” Gertrude Atherton’s latest , has ous pointed refer- toms and manners. d to some months Atherton had com- was refer: T Mrs. shmean, named Cline, and a Helena Belmont, are the ne comes out from marry a Miss Gordon, who is He reaches the 1eying along by a wood to- cted by some »ve hard by. He low of the trees, Iy lit up by a . Atherton tell, of a strange comfortable as an eaves- and who is a | s Gordon’s hotel at night, | 1 helped hermount and watched her dash t a stupid ass I am,” he thought. on earth didn’t I kiss that woman?” Mary Gordon goes to San Francisco to | have her wedding dress made, and in her | absence Helena seeks to win Clive for her- E s with him, plays with him alks w im alone into the forest. down,” she said, arranging herself on a | pine and leaning aganst a redwood. | nade himself as comfortable as he could | e gave him permission to light his pipe. | ce mantilla, in spite of brush and | iclung to her he; shoulders. | ed very womenly and lovely. { “Why did you bring me here? he asked. *‘You fold mé the other night that you would st yourself alone with me. This is t to saying that you want me to make Iam quite réady.”| brupt you are. Tdon’t want tome. Imeant to tell you re_we started that Idid not expect it. Most women do, I know, and it must be such & | relief to a man to be let off oceasionally.” She | opened and closed her large fan with a grace- ful 1a0tion of the wrist, and then turned and | looked straight et him.’ I have never walked alone with a man in _this forest before,” she “neither at night nor in the daytime. It would have been spoiled for me if 1 had.” ““You are a very brave woman. If what you | say whatis your reason for bringing me her e ? | “I felt a desire todoso, and I always obey | % | ganda there has been issued a small vol- | artistic efforts of Charles Dana Gibson, can people always protect the country from a recurrenceof distrustand rebellion. Half the volume is devoted to prose descriptive chapters of battles, the anthor detailing, among other things, his ex- periences and the facts that came under his notice while he was performing the duties of an army surgeon at Antietam and Gettysburg. In justice to the author it should be sdid that he is far more suc- cessful as a writer of prose than heisasa writer of verse. Bad poetry is less excus- able than bad prose, while ordinary prose is preferable to ordinary poetry. CONTRIBUTIONS TO BIOLOGY. David Starr Jordan and Edwin Chapin are the authors of a paper on ““The Fishes of Puget Sound,” which has just been pub- iished by the Stanford University. The | gentlemen spent a portion of the summer | of 1895 pursuing their investigations in the waters about Seattle and at Neah Bay, near Cape Flattery, in the Straits of Juan de Fuca. They found many species of fish that were new to science, and deposited types of them all in the museum at Stan- ford University. The paper records 141 species in Puget Sound. In 1892 Dr. Carl H. Eigenmann recorded 106 species, and | in 1880 Messrs. Jordan and Gilbert men- tioned on their list 90 species of the finny inhabitants of Puget Sound. The memoir is edited by Charles H. Gilbert and Oliver P, Jenks, and is the third of a series de- signed to illustrate the investigations and explorations of the Hopkins Seaside La- ute paid—all too late, it is true—to a big- hearted though worldly journalist, who served others far more than he did him- seif; and those who knew Eoor Sala, or of him, can with truth echo the words of the writer in Scribner’s that the deceased jour- nalist would have done far better to have “husbanded his strength, bis money and his liver better.” 2 Among the principal articles in Godey’s Magazine there is one by Cleveland Mof- fett entitled “O Rare 'Gene Field.” This is a well-written sketch showing the au- thor as he really was. In introducing the subject-matter of his contribution’ Mr, Moffett says: Think of the tribute paid to Eugene Field— newspapers pausing in_their rush after sensa- tion to tell the story of his life, giving pages gladly to him where they would have grudged columns to statesmen ; OTALOTs in many eities rising on_ platiorm and pulpit to sound his praises; children holding out their pennies for & monument to him; committees busy with plans to do him honor; messages with the right ring of feeling pouring in from all kinds ofmen; sctors and authors arganizing Field benefits; rich men drawing checks for a Fiela 1und; projects on foot for & Field library and museum; tablets erected here; resolutions drawn there; printers turning over dustheaps for fragments of his manuscript; publishers and photographers vying ith each other to supply the demand for memories of him. Who was this man? What was he? The other features of ‘‘Godey’s” for this month include “Great Sing- ers _of the Century” by Albert L. Parkes, “What the Bicycle Does for the Muscle” by Horace E. Morrow, “Music in America” by Rupert Hughes, three “lives” of the *Maid of Orleans,” a book of her times and people; and she will be made the subject of the next yolume in the “Story of the Nations” series of the Putnams.” In addition to this, three lecturers are 1n the field with her as their subject. The Godey Company offers a vprize of $50 for the best bicycle story received be- fore February 1, 1896. The theme of the story mast be the bicycle. It may be tragedy, comedy, love story or farce, but its main incidents should be cqnnected with the use of “the wheel.” No other conditions are imposed except those named above, which must be closely ob- served. The saddest failure in subscription books was that of Dubois’ ‘‘Plutarch,” in twenty- eight large quarto volumes, says ‘‘Book Lovers” in the New York Times. Begun in 1830, the publication of this work was not finished in 1842; the subscribers had al- ready paid 9000 francs each, and there were vet twelve ‘“‘lives’’ to be printed, at a cost 10 each subscriber of 4000 francs. Every book lover knows the fate of that ‘‘moles indigesta.” Booksellers call the volumes simply “plugs.” : “Stonepastures,” by Eleanor Stuart, is the quaint title of a story by a new Ameri- can author, which is to” be published im- mediately by D. Appleton & Co. It be- longs to the class of specialized American fiction which bas been headed by the work of Miss Wilkins, Mr. Cable, Colonel Johnston, Mr. Garland and others. The author describes the peculiar and almost boratory, an adjunct of the biological laboratories of the Stanford University. Numercus plates, drawn by Miss Anna L. Brown, artist of the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory, illustrate the paper, which also forms a part of the proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. UP TO DATE PRIMER. In the interest of the single-tax propa- ume bearing the title “The Up to Date Primer,” which is announced as “the first book of lessons for little political econo- mists, in words of one syllable with pic- tures.”” Rent is pictured as a ratand the single tax as a cat, the one consuming the weaker of men and the other seeking to save it by destroying the enemy. In a similar simple form of allegory other doc- trines of the single tax advocates are taught, and to persons who are pleased with the primer style of literature the work may be found interesting, though it can hardly be called instructive to any:. body. [““The UQKO Date Primer,” by J. | W. Bengough. New York: Funk & Wag- nalls Company.] THE BURNSIDE BRIDGE OV THE FEBRUARY MAGAZINES. [Reproduced from * ER THE ANTIETAM CREEK. ‘Echoes of Battle,”] St. Nicholas for February is full of good e (e things suitable for juvenile readers, both | There is also the usual fApeo in prose and verse. Among other notable | devoted to verse and fiction, as well as to i “ i ” - | book reviews and fashion notes. articles are: “The Gibson Boy,” which | Do Cosmopolitan Magazine is well up purports to be some account of the earlier | in literary features and is a marvel of goo: value for the price at which it is sold—10 cents. There are numerous well-written mainly in the line of silhouette cutting, t £l articles in the February number. An in- while he was yet a child of eight years. “The Tower Playmates” is a well-written piece of poetry by A'nna Robeson Brown on an English theme. It is illustrated by R. B. Birch in a striking manner. A further installment of Robert Louis Ste | son’s ‘‘Letters to a Boy” is given, with | notes supplied by Lloyd Osborne. The usual departmental section of the St. Nicholas is well sustained in the articles | department to which_such literary lights as Andrew Lang and Israel Zangwill con- tribute essays. The frontispiece, “‘Exam- ining the Wedding Cards,” is a charming piece of color work. NOTES. Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's new novel isto be entitled ““A Lady of Quality.” CWHY DY [Reproduced from A Whirl Asunder,” by Gertrude Atherton.) / e D YOU BRING ME HERE?” H It is said that 10,000 copies of George | Henty’s books for boys are sold in this | country each year. A second series of Charles G. Leland’s interesting ““Legends of Florence' is now in course of preparation. It is reported that the opening chapters of Du Maurier’s new novel wiil be brought |out in Harper's Magazine for October, | | 1896. The forthcoming new edition of George Borrow’s “Bible in Spain’’ is to be brought | out in two volumes, iilustrated with a map and some etchings by M. Manesse. The first volume in the new series of “Foreign Statesmen,” published by Mac- millan & Co., will be “Richelien,” by Pro- fessor Lodge of Glasgow. “A Few Memories’’ is to be the title of Mrs. Mary Anderson de Navarro’s book of reminiscences, The work, which is to ap- pear soon, will have several portraits. Steele is said to have written the ‘“Con- scious Lovers’’ in seven weeks, and after- ward spent as much more time in recast- ing the play, the better to adapt it to the stage. Watts required but a few minutes, as a general thing, to producea hymn. His | paraphrases of the Psalms were done at | odd moments and in the intervals of other | business. “The West Indies and the Spanish Main” is the title of a forthcoming volume | in which James Rodway will set forth the | history of the European settlements in those regions. The Putnams will bring out the book. The concluding volumes of the Barras E ASKED. ut too fascinated to retreat, rge redwood. With his e; scene he did not pie tep, still suddenly in contact with a ¢ nearly knocked it over. Th was & smothered s . followed by a sup pressed b -1 pardon,” he said, addressing a was partly concealed by ; “I hope I have not hurt not so easily hurt,” said the lad ne man never lived who did.not a feminine woman in whatever in the radius of her magnetism. Cline at iness. The ally cut, but very back her head and iful throat. The loose concealed her figure, ons she had made re- rader inter: zarette. She accepted hdrawing s much as possible in face with her h against a tree and li He leaned his back cigar. “What On eartn is the meaning of this scene?” he asked. “That is great midsummer jinks ceremony of the Bohemian Club. They have it every year, and never invite outsiders. So I was ound I’d see it anyhow.’ 1 wonder you don’t become a member.” I'm too young,” promptly. me more about it. What'do these cere- monies mean?"’ “Oh, they put all sorts of thing caldron—the liver of a grasshopper with one of Harry Armstrong’s jokes; the wasted paint on somebody’s last picture with the misshapen feetof somebody else’s latest verse. The corpse is an effigy of Care, and they are cremating him. Now they'll be happy, that is to say, drunk, till morning, for Care is dead. I'm going to stop and see it out.” Clive insists that the Bohemian lark is no scene for & woman to witness, and th if Mi five minutes he will carry her to her horse, and, moreover, take the liberty to kiss her. The girl’s face reddens; her nostrils dilate. She declares that “an Englishman’s only idea of wit is impertinence.” Finally he grasps her in his arms, and carries her to- ward her steed. As to the threatened kiss, Miss Belmont cries: “I have sat up all night with men and the: bave never dared to kiss me, however muc nay have wanted to." en’they were rotters, and you can tell iein 80, with my compiiments. If Isatup all i ith you I anouln kiss you, and several into that times, .‘Well, you never wiil."” X Ihey reached the road. She stiffened sud- Cenly and tried to spring out of his arms. He Plased her on her feet, and grasped her by shoulders. Now,” he said, “kiss me, and don’t be silly ebout it. If you go in for larks of this sort you must take thie consequences.”” She wrenched egain. He caught and held her so firmly that she could not struggle. ‘You brute of an Englishman,” she gasped. Clive clasped his hand abont the lower part of her face and lfited it gently. As he did so he shifted his position and the light for the first time shone full on his face. The girl became suddenly quiet. Something leaped into her eyes, which his own answered. But #s he bent his face she moved her own back- 'ward along his shoulder, “‘Please, please don't,” she said, beseechingly. “Oh, pleasé don’t.”” Cilve let her go. He walked with her to the | his | seative. Cline mechanic- | and shielding_ her | Belmont doesn’t leave the place in | d | my whims. Tdon’t wantyou to makelove to | marked “For Very Little Folks” and the | me to-night.” “Which means that I may later.” | _“I don’tknow. That will depend on a g many things, one of which is whether I break | | my éngagement with Schuyler Van Rhuys or | not. I have some slight sense of honor.” | e you thinking of breaking it off 7" | Somewhat.” | | (ds i true that you have been exgaged fiftcen | times?” | | “No; only eight. Ihave not yet discovered | that there are fifteen interesting men in the | | world. I have met only nine.” { “You can flatter charmingly. But you say | | you have a sense of honor. What would you | think of & man who had deceived and jiited | eignt girls?” | . During the same conversation the twain alk of literature, and Helena advances | this idea: { | Hasit ever occurred to you that no Ameri. | canauthor has ever written agenuineall-round | love scene? They are either thin or sensual, | almost invariably the former. The soul and | | passion of the older races they have never de- veloped. If & woman writer breaks out wildly sometimes, she merely voices the lack we ail | feel in this part of the world—in life as well as in literature. That explains why I have tried to care for eignt clever and inieresting men, | and turned away chilled. “You must love an Englishman,” said Clive, | smiling. *“Ifyou notice, a good many American | women do. An_English woman never marries | an American. It goes to prove that leisure is | | needed for development; consequently the | women of America have developed far more | rapidly than the men.” “If we Californians,” declares Helena, | *"::ave a stronger fiber and richer blood in | ws than other Americans, it is because we =re cruder, savager, closer to nature.’” Mrs. Atherton pays her campliments to the general appearance of San Francisco | men as foliows: | “Like 21l San Francisco men, he looked | carelessly dressed, although in evening clothes, ‘and carried himselt badly; but | his face was clear and refined, his hair and beard trimly cut.” Finally Clive reluctantly tears himself away from Helena, after confessing that | be ioves her, and 'Mary Gordon wins no victory, for Clive is killed in a raiiroad disaster an hour after bidding farewell to the California beauty. This wind-up of the affair the Western girl ‘“‘regards with indifference.” ECHOES OF BATTLE. | Bushrod Washington Jamesistheauthor of a book of verse and prose, recently pub- lished by Henry T. Coates & Co. of Phira- delphia. The book is very handsome in appearance, being finely printed and ele- gantly bound. Its illustrations, of which there are many, have artistic merit as well as historic interest. Mr. James means well with his verses, but they prove his lack of the divine afflatus. In his preface to “Echoes of Battle’”” Mr. James says he “trusts that some of his verses may cail to | mind the unselfish patriotism of the brave men who were ready and willing to sacrince much, even life itself, for the cause of liberty and union.” He believes that the more fully we realize at what fearfnl cost the independence of the United States and | the preservation of the whole Union were | attained, the more surely will jthe Ameri- i Memoirs will appear in the early spring. They are more personal than the volumes which have already appeared, and they cover the period between the return of Napoleon from Italy to the Restoration. ‘When photography was discovered peo- le said, “‘It will kill the art of painting.” t has killed nothing at all.” “Photo- engraving will ruin the art of engraving,” peovle are saying. Why should it? Photo- engraving is to engraving as a wax figure is to a statute. Captain Alfred T. Mahan will bave a paper in the February number of the Century on ‘“Nelson at Cape St. Vincent.”” This is the first of four articles which Cap- tain Mahan will write on the naval en- gagements that gave Admiral Neison his fame. Macmillan & Co. have in press a volume of essays by Professor J. Shield Nichoison of the University of Edinburgh, and author of an important work on monetar; problems. In this work he discusses suc! practical social problems as strikes, labor “Letter’” and “Riddle Box.” The Overland Monthly for February is up to its usual standard. “‘The Taxation of Churches” is discussed by Rev. F. D. Bovard, and a description of “The Court of Jobore’ is supplied by Editor Rounse- velle Wildman, with appropriate illustra- tions. *‘An Egyptian Slave,” from the painting by Sichel, forms the frontispiece of the monthly. Scribner’s is a good number. It con- tains as a frontispiece “The Bull Fight,” a striking picture, reminiscent of the torea- dors in Seville. ' “The Hermit and the Pil- grim’’ is the title of a pretty piece of verse by Clifford Howard. “The Colorado Health Plateau’is one of a series of de- scriptive write-ups by L. M. 1ddings. Pro- fessor E. Benjamin Andrews of Brown University continues his “History of the Last Quarter Century in the United States,” discussing the neo-Republican as- cendency. In “The Point of View’’ there is quite a | combinations and comnvetitions, profit- vleasing little resume of the life and work | sharing, etc. of the late George Augustus Sala. It is| Not less than five books about Joan of gratifying to the reader to notice the trib- | Arc will be issued within the next month, novation is noticed in the book reviewing ] unknown life of the iaborers in a Pennsyl- vania mining.and manufacturing town. Henry M. Stanley, in an article on the “Development of Africa,”” which is to ap- | pear in the February Century, recalls the fact that troubles with the Boers in South- | ern Africa first induced David Livingstone | | to travel to the north. and so led the way | to the opening of Equatorial Africa. Liv- ingstone, who was a missionary at Kolobeng, accused his Boer neighbors of cruelty to the natives. They resented his interference, and threatened to drive him from the country. He published their | misdeeds in the Cape newspapers, and his house was burned in revenge, This led to his leaving Southern Africa and going to a region where he could follow in peace his vocation as a missionary unmolested by the Boer farmers. THE PUNCH CARTOONS. They Are Selected at a Weekly Dinner | During Smoking Interval. It is generally known that the cartoons in Punch are decided upon at a weekly dinner, but the process of selecting the subject is not quite so well known. Mr., M. H. Spielmann gave recently in the Magazine of Arta description of the pro- | cess: ‘When dinner is over and coffee finished, the cloth removed and paper and pens brought in—at 8:30 as near as may be—the cigars come on and the waiters go off (in- cluding at one time the crusted Burnap, an original worthy of *“Robert” himself); and not more rigidly was the press ex- cluded from the Ministerial Whitebait dinner, in the good old times, than are Cabinet Ministers interdicted from the | dinner of Mr. Punch to-day. Then the editor, who has been presiding, invites ideas and discussions on the sub- ject of the “‘big cut,” as the carto i commonly called, and no two men more eagerly to the replies—suggestions that may be bazarded or proposals dogmati- | cally slapped down—than Mr. Burnand, | who is responsiole for the subject, and Sir | John Tenniel (their beloved "*“Jackides”) whose duty it will be to realize the con- cedtion. The latter makes few remarks, he waits, reflects and weighs, thinking not so much, perhaps, of the political or social as of the | artistic possibilities of the subjects as they | are brought up, and other points that rec- ommend themselves both to the artistic and literary members of the staff. All the while, perhaps, the editor bas a fine sub- ject up his sieeve, and only brings it forth when the discussion has begun to wane. Or a proposal may be made at first by one member of the staff that is accepted at once by acclamation—an event of the ut- most rarity; or, again, as is usually the case, the final decision may be gradually and almost painfully evolved from the symposium of professional wits and liter- ary politicians. This is the time when the men are apt to lay bare their political be- liefs (if any such they have) or their lack of them; and I wager that if poor Keene could once more be present ata Punch dinner, he would no longer chnr,;e it against the staff that it is “Museo” to a man. e There are upward of 80,000 inhabitants on the slopes and skirts of Vesuvius., Ifit were not for the fertiiizing effett of the volcanic products not more than one-tenth of that number would be ableto find means of subsistence there. L i » A BOOK OF VERSES UNDERNEATH THE BOUGH, A JUG OF WINE, A LOAF OF BREAD, AND THOU BESIDE ME SINGING IN THE WILDERNESS; OH, WILDERNESS WERE PARADISE ENOW. OMAR KHAYYAM, 1 would rather be loved by you, sweet, Than by all of the world beside; 1 would rather one day with you, swest, On the brink of a summer tide, With a song we could sing together, And a crystal of ruddy wine, Than a century’s summer weather And another love than thine. 1 would rather be crowned with you, sweet, Than to king with the fairest queen. 1 would rather be poor with you, sweet, ‘Neath the shadowy beechen green, With your cheek on my own cheek dreaming And your kisses upon my face, Than to lie amid treasures gleaming In another fove’s embrace. 1 would rather be near to you, sweet, Than to win an immortal name. 1 would rather be dear to you, sweet,. Than to leave an undying fame In the minds of a mighty throng, sweet, For man’s memory fades away, And there's nothing that lasts so long, sweet, As the love of a summer day. * JOHN BENNETT, in the Chap Book, IS DREAM OF EMPIRE, G. Polletiere’s Story of the Pres- ent Ambition of France. WANTS COLONIES EVERYWHERE Working Hard to Extend Them in Africa, Tonquin, Indo-China, Mada- gascar and Elsewhere. G. Polletiere, a wealthy resident of Paris, who has been visiting the large cities of America, is atthe California. He says the great ambition of Franceis to extend her colonies, and special attention is now be- ing turned to this. He was recently in Algeria, where there is a thriving colony, and he says that throughout Africa, and in Tonquin, Indo-China and other places, she is bend- ing every energy to build up colonies and thus extend her sway. “Since we lost Alsace and Lorraine,”’ said Le, “we have felt more and more the need of extending our country. We would like to have Alsace and Lorraine back again, and expect to some day, and we don’t care if in doing it our governmentis changed from a republican form to a monarchy. ‘We want our country back. “Republicanism received a sad setback at the time of the exposure of the Panama frauds, and since then each administration has, unfortunately; always had some one in it to give discredit to the Government. 1 was anardent republican for a time, but now I am not. Others are like me. There has been a good deal of change in the sentiment of f'rance in the last year or two. I was struck with the need of our ex- tending our colonies more than ever be- fore when I rode day after day and night after night for well on to a week before I had crossed your continent from New York. It seemed an enormous country, while France was so very small. There- fore the greatest bequest the people of France can make to their little children is the right of extended empire as seen now in our infant colonies. “In Madagascar, Tonquin, West Africa, Indo-China and in the Niger our colonies are flourishing. It is the intention to foster and maintain them. It will be the only way that the greatness of France will be perpetuated. ‘“‘When I was In Algeria last winter the Marquis de Mores, who, as you will re- member, once lived in Dakota, where he had a stock range, was making speeches of a socialistic character. Though Ido not agree with him I believe he is sincere. *‘Marquis de Mores is now in Paris, I do not know whether he has lost all his money or not.” Mr. Polletiere will stay a few days in this City, and will then visit Southern California. He will return home by way of New Orleans, which city he has long | been anxious to see. President Faure, he says, now sees the need as much as any one of the extension of French territory. A RAILROAD UNDER THE SEA. A Novel Plan to Be Put in Operation at Brighton. A railway which gives practically a sea voyage without the discomforts attending seasickness is a decided novelty. Such an attraction is now in operation at Brighton. The line is to be called the Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Tramroad. The idea of runninga seli-propelling car on a railway submerged in the sea origin- ated, it is said, with Magnus Volk ot the electric railway, Brighton, and is believed to be unique, although there is at St. Malo, France, a structure pulled across the har- bor by means of a chain a distance of about 110 yards. Commencing at the eastern end of the electric railway at Brighton, says the Phil- adelphia Record, the line extends a dis- tance of three miles to the village of Rot- tingdean, a well-known resort. Here a small iron pier has been erected for the cars to run alongside, the pier being also available for steamer traffic and promen- ading. At the Brigton end of the line an iron jetty has been erected, on which have been built commodious waiting-rooms and offices. The rails are laid on concrete blocks, spaced about three feet apart, and mortised into the sound rock, the height of the blocks varying with the irregular- ities of the shore. The line consists of four rails, laid as two tracks, of two feet eight and a half inches in guage, spaced about ei&hteen feet, outer rails, thus giv'mg an eifective guage of eighteen feet, this being necessary to give the re- quired stability to the cars. At high tide the depth of water over the rails is fif- teen feet. Although the most violent gales experienced for many years occurred in the winter of 1894-95 no damage whatever was done to the permanent way, so the fact that it posses ample strength to resist the force of the sea has been demonstrated in a satisfactory manner. The liné is now nearly complete, but the work being tidal has been greatly delayed by bad weather. The car is a structure on sixteen wheels, thirty-thsge inches in diameter, carrying the passengers at a height of twenty-four feet above the level of the rails. The four main legs are tubes of drawn steel, eleven inches in diameter. Atthe bottom of each leg is placed a bogie truck, having four wheels, the outside of the bogie being shaped like a double-ended boat to facili- tate its passage through the water and also remeve any obstructions from the rails. The four bogies are firmly held together by steel tubular thrusts. The wheel base is about twenty-eight feet and the effective auge eighteen feet, giving great stability. he tops of the main legs are firmly built into lattie girder work, carrying the deck, and the whole structure is firmly secured by cross ties, and is of great strength although offering but a small surface to the force of the waves. The main deck is carried out exactly as if for a steam yacht and measures fifty feet long and twenty-two feet wide. The center space of the deck is’ occupied by the sa- loon and the decorations are carried out in a simple but effectivelmanner. The roof of the saloon is railed round and forms a promenade deck, seats being placed over the glass dome and over the center of the saloon. On this upper deck are placed the controlling apparatus for driving and stopping the cars. The total accommoda- tion is for 100 to 150 passengers. As the journey wiil be undertaken more for the sea air than for making the trip quickly, the speed will be kept between six and eight miles an hour. The driving ma- chinery consists of two 30 horsepower electric-motors, placed vertically imme- diately over two of the main legs, one on each side of the car, the shafting being carried down inside and communicating with tooth-gearing which actuates the wheels. The brakes are worked by rods assing down the remaining two legs. he current at 500 volts will be conveyed to the car by means of a trolley-pole and overhead wire. ——————— A Long Time Between Naps. David Jones, Elwood's sleepless man, who three yearsago went ninety-one nights and days without sleep, and” who broke his own record lastdyeur by remaining awake 131 nights and days, has entered upon another Yeriod of sleeplessness which romises to eclipse all former efforts. His ealth does not suffer and his appetite is always good. Heis unable to reach any satisfactory conclusions relative to his strange affliction. He has now gone twenty-one days and nights without sieep, and he says that he feels asif he wourd never sleep any more, He is serving asa Circnit Court juror.—Rochester (Ind. | Sentinel. NEW TO-DAY, B U NOLAN BROS. SHOE Co. FOURTH AND LAST WEEK OF OUR GCGREAT CLEARANGE SALE We have putthe balance of our SALE STOCK ——ON— BARGAIN TABLES And Will Close Them Out at About 2% ON THE DOLLAR. LOTS OF SHOES THAT COST $4, $5 AND $6 PER PAIR WILL BE CLOSED OUT AT $1 AND $1.50 PER PAIR. OUR OWN MAKE—Ladies’ extra quality fine Paris Kid; button, cloth or kid tops, pointed and narrow, square toes, diamond patent- leather tips .- $1 75 per pair OUR OWN MAKE—Ladies’ extra quality French Kid Button. seamless foxed, kid or cloth tops, satin finished, pointed or narrow square toes, diamond patent-leather tips, flexible soles.... -.-At $32 50 per palr OUR LIFE-SAVING SHOES Are all the ra?e. Every lady should have a pair for winter wear. Made in all the latest styles, prices $3 and 84 per pair. We will also close out 600 pairs of Ladies’ Fine Kid Button, pointed and square toes, patent-leather tips, at $1 25 per pair, which Is less than cost. LADIES’ SPRING-HEEL SHOES, ‘We will close out 500 pairs of Ladies’ Fine Parls Kid Button, square toes and patent-leather tips, spring heels, at $1 25 per pair. Widths A, B, C, D, E and EE. close out full lines o? Ladi KID OXFORDS aud SOUT. all all widths ‘We _will also FRENCH ERD .. At § palr Regular price $2 50 per pair. CHILDREN’S AND MISSES’ Fine Paris Kid Button, kid or cloth tops, square toes, patent-leather Lips, spring heels. Sizes 5 t0 8.. 800 Sizes 814 to 1 21 00 Bizes 1135 to 2 $125 CHILDREN’S AND MISSES’ Heavy Pebble Goat Button, solid double soles, siandard screwed, cannot 1ip, sole-leathor tips. Sizes 5 to Tl5. Sizes 8 to 1014, Sizes 11102, INFANTS’ SHOE Infants’ French Kid Button, sizes 1 to 514 50¢ THIS BEING STORMY WEATHER and MEN’S HEAVY SHOES being in demand, we will ciose out all our MEN’S, BOYS’ AND YOUTHS’ Heavy and Double Sole Shoes at an enormously low price. Sena us your address and we will send you & souvenir and catalogue, showing all the latest siyle shoes and prices. WE HAVE NO BRANCH STORES ON MARKET STREET. DON'T BE MISLED BY MIS- LEADING SIGNS. Mail orders will receive prompt at- tention. NOLAN BROS. SHOE CO. 812814 MARKET STREET 9 and 11 O'Farrell §t., PHELAN BUILDING. Long Distance Telephone 5527. FURNITURE = CYER-—— 4 ROOMS $so. Parlor — Slik Brocatelle, trimmed. Bedroom-—7-Peice Elegant Suit, bed, burean, washstand, two chairs, rocker and table; pile lows, woven wire and top mattress. Dining-Room—6-Foor Extension Table, four Solid Oak Chairs. Kitchen—Range, Patent Kitchen Table and twe Jhairs. 5-Pelce Suit, plush EASY PAYMENTS. Houses furnished complete, city or country, any- where on the Coast. Open evenings. M. FRIEDMAN & CO., 224 to 230 and 306 Stockton and 237 Post Street. @ Free packing and delivery across the bay. GRATEFUESCOMEORTING. EPPS’S COCOA BREARFAST-SUPPER. IBY A THOROUGH ENOWLEDGE OF T' natural laws which govern the operationsef digestion and nutrition, and by a careful applica- io= of the fine properties of well:selected Cocon. Mr. Epps has provided for our breakfast and supper a dellcately flavored beverage, which may save us many heavy doctors’ bills. It s by the judicious use of such articles of diei that a constitution msy be gradually built up until sirong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladles are fioating eround us, ready to attack ‘wherever there i8 a weak point. We may escape many o fatal shaft by keepiag ourselves well fortt- fled with pure blood and @ properly mourished frame."—Civil Service Gasotte. Mdde simply with boiling water or milk. Sold v C0., Lid., Hommopathic Ohemists, Lendon, Engiand. 7. STHEVERY BEST ONE TO EXAMINE YOUR eyes and fit them to Spectaciesor Eyeglasses ith instruments of his own invention, whoss periority has not been equaled. 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