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There is published as coming- by wire from Havana on Saturday, what pur ports to be a letter from Gomez to Blanco rejecting the proposition of the latter offering Gomez safety and money for desertion of his cause. If the text of the letter is verity, if there is no de ception in this matter, then the response of the aged insurgent chief is one of the most remarkable, courageous and spir ited replies ever made by one chieftain From this letter it would seem that Gomez had agreed to meet Blanco to confer upon ways and plans for bringing the bloodshed era in Cuba to an end. But w hen Blanco departed to meet Go mez, or at least to draw near enough to him to enable communications to pass rapidiy between them, the Captain- General sent to the insurgent chief a proposition that Spain would send a ship to any point on the Cuban coast that Gomez might name to receive him and his family and convey them wherever away from Cuba they might wish to go and that Spain would furnish the In surgent with all needful money for his easy support for the remaining years of his life. This offer to desert his cause and fol lowers appears not only to have as tounded but to have deeply grieved Go mez. It seems to have shocked him wi;h the knowledge that a soldier he had held to be a gentleman should make so base a proposal to him. In his indigna tion he notifies the Captain-General that the latter is far more in need of a ship to carry him away from Cuba than is the hunted chieftain Gomez. He bursts forth in these eloquent strains ■which no characterization can adequate ly describe: I felt so much astounded when 1 learned all this, I felt so ashamed, more for you, General Blanco, than for my self, that in the nrst moments I was be numbed, not knowing whether such a heinous proposal could be a reality or a l. ghtmare. Have I reached my present &ge, fighting, as I have done for thirteen > ears in the field for the Independence of and for thirty years cherishing that ideal as the greatest in my life, only that you or any one should believe that at the end of my journey I should cover myself with ignominy by accept ing the base reward of money from a Spanish Captain-General for the cow ardly abandonment of my army. you sane. General Bianco? Do you not remember that blow of a ma chete which the hand of a Spanish as sassin Inflicted at Punta Brava, near the spot where Maceo died, upon that soul of my soul, young and brave Franc,s o Gomez? Do you think I can forgive that? Have you ever been a father? Be sides these considerations, which ought to have checked you in your shame ful project, there Is another that is no less clear. lam not in a position. Gen eral Blanco, which requires I should be looking for a steamer to take me from this island. You had tetter look for a steamer yourself, for of the two you need it most. Up to the present day lam on the winner's side. I represent a revolu tion that is stronger than ever after three years of war. You represent Spain, weaker than ever, humiliated by the American Government, with only a limited time .before you in which to end this war. There is no pressure weighing upon me from abroad. The days to come are not full of threaten ings for me. but they are full of hope; and furthermore, while your cause has prejudice and tradition as its only sup port, the cause of Cuba has the full sympathy, the world over, of every lover of justice and liberty. There lives no man with heart that beats warm with manly impulses, who can read that defiance and not feel re spect and pride for the grizzled old Cuban, tottering on the verge of the giave, but battling still as if the red blood of youth coursed in his veins. It Spain cannot conquer her rebels save by buying their chiefs with gold to prove themselves traitors, poltroons and de spicable rascals, her cause is weak md * c ' The veiw offer made to Gomez is a confession of weakness. It much as says that without bribery Spain is harm less against the insurgents, that ihe latter cannot be taken by force, dis lodged by shot or shell or conquered in field or brush, and therefore by corrup tion, deceit and treachery alone can the haughty nation gain advantage Tver the ragged islanders of Cuba. THE STAGE AND PERSONAL MOR ALS. The debate now going on in the writ ing, reading ami theatrical world con cerning the- temptations of the stage and the morals of its men and women sprang out of a bitter assault upon both by a dramatic critic writing from Lon don to a New York paper something like four weeks ago. Since then the hot shot has been flying and the read ing public has been given the opinions of both critics, stage people, managers and theater goers. It is perhaps not too much to say that the subject is un worthy all the chatter. The truth/seems to be and it Will set tle down to that, that on the whole there are more temptations assailing women of the stage, and men, too, for the matter of that, than women and men off of the stage since it is a small and cramped and close-contact sphere. But it is true also that the really virtu ous person is not much more likely to go wrong because of adopting acting as a calling, than if any other of a bus iness or artistic character is selected. Taken as a whole, the number being considered relatively to the whole num ber of people in all other callings, we are of the opinion that the men and women of the stage will average up fairly weii as to virtue, honesty, square dealing, respect for human rights and generally for manly and womanly con duct, charity, good heart and virtue, with the people in most other callings that bring them into contact with the world. The truth is, we expect and exact more of people of the stage than of others. They are before the world con stantly subject to keenest scrutiny as well as great temptations, and when one of them goes amiss the whole world knows of and comments upon it since all these people are constantly in the public eye and on the public tongue. We have known so many charming families among actor folk, so many lov ing wives and true husbands among them, so many noble maids and straight to the rule gentlemen, so much of charity, good heart and loveliness of Character on the stage, that we are not willing to believe they have all moved in an atmosphere of necessity corrupt ing or corrupt, or that they are but the few who have passed through fire unscathed. But in saying this we are referring distinctly to the operatic and dramatic stage, not to the concert hall or the variety stage, which more properly fall under the classification of "shows." Our idea is that the person who goes upon the stage does so with quite as much knowledge of what is right and what is wrong, as it is possible for a person to have who has arrived at years of responsibility. If they are morally weak, they will not, we apprehend, be more likely to be corrupted there than elsewhere in business and the world. The person well grounded morally and in self respect will not find, we ap prehend, the stage a greatly more diffi cult path to tread with cleanliness, than most others that lead along public ways. Nevertheless this is by no means saying that the stage is what it should be, nor that it is not invaded by a senti mentalism, and a looseness of doctrine and habit and by plays and devices that are worthy of all reproach. But these make manifest their evil influence more among auditors than actors. It is the effect of the doubtful, the untrue and the demoralizing in the drama upon the spectator, the witness, that most concerns thoughtful people. In truth it has never been noted that the lines of the play, however cruel their philospohy, false their doctrine or damnable their teaching and exhibit, has ever made much, if any impression upon the lives or morals of the people who read them as a matter of business or art to audiences. It appears that Colonel Aranguren was betrayed to his death by the Spaniards who bribed a negro to tell them when the Colonel went to visit his fiancee to whom he was presently to be united in marriage and to guide them to the spot. The house was sur rounded, and not only was the gallant Colonel shot and wounded but the wom en and children of the household were killed. The soldiery then entered the house and bayoneted Aranguren to The Spanish defend their act on the ground that Aranguren executed Ruiz, an aid de camp of General Blan co's, who went to him with offers of autonomy. But it must not be forgot ten that Arenguren distinctly warned Ruiz not to come, that the latter well knew w hat might be his fate, but trust ed to the friendship of youth between himself and Aranguren; whereas the action of the Spanish was from ambush. They laid a trap and caught the Col onel in it, and then butchered him when they might easily have taken him prisoner. He had a guard of two men, the Spanish had a troop of 1,000 sol di- rs While it is possible that under the rules of war or "butchery" as ob §d. on both sides in Cuba, the Span ish may justify with some show of rea son, the civilized world will form the correct Judgment; namely that tiie ac tion of the Spanish soldiers was cow ardly. The story comes by wire that Spain is much disturbed by the presence of the United States ship Maine in Hava na harbor, but why. none of the dis l atches indicate or give the slightest hint of. If Spain has not wronged American citizens; if she affords them the protection that is their due under ihe treaty we have with her, and which her subjects enjoy in the United States, the Maine will prove as harmless in Havana as a dove. It is said that the Spanish fleet has been ordered to Ha vana, save one battle ship which will i d arrfve in an American harbor. That is a matter no one can or will raise any objection to outside of insurgent ranks. Spain has the right, if she chooses to exercise it, to send her en SACRAMENTO PALLY BfIUORD-ITiaoy. MQyPAY, JANUARY 31, 1595. lire fleet into a harbor of the United States. Such action would not make a ripple upon the surface of politics, bus iness or social content in this country. GEORGE B. WELLINGTON. Republican Senator From the State of Maryland. The sensational contest in Maryland directs attention to Senator George B Wellington, the Republican Senator from that State, who has been verj actively engaged in selecting his col league, who is to be. the successor of Arthur P. Gorman. The closeness Of the Legislature has made the tight a very interesting one. Mr. Welllngt' n is popular aud efficient as a politician. He has been a leader in the party when it was in the hope less minority in Maryland. He is of I Serman parentage and was born in Cumberland, lid., in 1852. For a brief period he attended a German school, otherwise he is self-educated. At the age of 18 he became clerk in the Second National Rank of Cumberland; in a few years later he became teller. His first political victory was at the age of *tO, when he was made Treasurer of his native county. In 1880 President Har rison made him Assistant Treasurer of the United States at Baltimore. In 1894 he was elected to Congress and in 1896 was chosen Senator. BUNCOED HIM. An Injured Husband Tells a Story of Feminine Trickery. "A man can live with a woman ten years and then not know all her tricky little ways," an injured-looking hus band remarked at a neighborhood par ty the other night. "I have just dis covered to-day that for about five years I have been the victim of an outrage ous scheme on the part of my wife—l just grit my teeth when I think how I've been imposed upon. This is the way of it: My wife has a. very, very intimate friend—Kate—and we all think a good deal of Kate. Every Christmas my wife has agonized over what we shall give Kate more than she lias over what she gives me, 1 know. Yes, and every year after we have had our presents at home my wife has made me rig up, with a holly sprig in my buttonhole and my best Christmas manners on, and go over to Kate's to present our present to Kat.;, With a sweet little note. Kate, of course, always has received me with a joyous, delighted air—acted so sur prised—praised our present up to the skies, and then she dispatches me back to my wife with another parcel—her present to my wife —and another sweet little note. Everything lovely, of course—my wife so surprised, and the. present just what she had wanted — dear Kate —so clever —always gives just the right thing. "This has beejl going on for five years—yes, sir—five years I have been jumping back and forth on Christmas morning between, these two women, and to-day, by a mere accident, I found out that the two wretches —for five years—had gone shopping together the week before Christmas and had each picked out her own present—yes, sir—each told the other in cold blood what she wanted her to give. Just think how they must have chuckled to see me trotting back and forth with their dear little bundles and their sweet little notes! It's an outrage—a bold-faced outrage!"— Detroit Free Press. Animals on the Stage. The number of animals who make a living on the theatrical stage is very large indeed. Just now eight English fox terriers are delighting all Paris with the part they take in "La Jeunesse de Louis XIV.," and there is no doubt that they are the "men of the moment." Dogs, it seems, are the best animal actors, and cats are the worst. Only last year a St. Bernard died, for whom an American theatrical manager had paid £64200, solely because he was so splendid in melodrama. Lions, bears and elephants have done well on the stage; lizards and serpents (vide Mme. Sarah Bernhardt!) have also been cov ered with stage glory, and mice nave come to the fore, with great credit to themselves and their trainer. But, while so many "dumb things" have been excellent actors, one of their number at least has been through failure. Moliere himself was the actor who brought about the unre hearsed scene between himself and his ass. The play was "Don Quixote," and Molie-re played Sancho. Some minutes before he had to appear on the stage he was waiting in the wings, mounted on his ass. But the latter suddenly for got his part, and insisted upon appear ing on the scene without delay". Nor was it of any avail that half-a-dozen as sistants hung around his head and clung desperately to his tail. • The ass, with Moliere on his back, dashed wildly among the actors on the scene, and the SCO would have been complete had not Moliere saved the situation by shout ing to the audience, while jogging along, "Pardon, gentlemen! pardon, ladies! out this confounded beast has come on against my wishes!" The public re sponded at once with roars of laughter and applause, but Moliere never again mounted an ass.—Westminster Gazette. The Diet of Ostriches. The omnivorous dualities of the os trich have hardly been exaggerated, li swallows oranges, small turtles, fowls, kittens and bones. Mr. Schreitter tells of one swallowing also a box of peaches, tennis balls, several yards of fencing wire, and half a dozen cartridges. One fdllowed the workmen and picked up the wire as they cut it. Most frequently the ostrich does not foilow each dainty sep arately, but collects several in its throat and then swallows them all at once. Sometimes it is strangled. Tts windpipe is then cut, the obstacle taken out, and the wound sewed up, when all gees well again.—Household Words. Music. Hark, to the music stealing! Ah, yts. a song is being murdered! That la to say, while the music is unquestionably stealing, it is neverthe less nore sinned against than sinning.— Dertcdt cjurnal. Try McMorry's Blend Coffee, 35c • INDUSTRIAL STRIKES. A SOCIALfSTTC SCHEME TO PREVENT THEM. Folly of the Plan Shown Up by a Southern California Editor. (From the Los Angeles "Times.") R. A. Dague of Ventura, Cai., sends to the "Times" the details of a scheme which in his opinion would, if adopted, prevent industrial strikes, with their train of attendant evils, supply the national Treasury in a few years with billions of dollars, solve the tramp problem, greatly diminish crime, avert "threatened revolution and anarchy," and would, in short, bring about a lim ited millennium, with the more or less complete regeneration of the human race, or that part of the race residing within the limits of the United States. Mr. Dague of Ventura sums up his philanthropic scheme as follows: "First- Let the Government, by pur chase or other legitimate methods, gradually become the owner of the railroads, the telegraph. the coal mines, and other great industries of a public nature requiring the services of large numbers of laborers, and operate them at actual cost. This would furnish employment to several miliums of working men, and the profit arising from the prosecution of the business would be shared by the seventy millions of people, instead of by a few individual monopolists, as now. "Second—The Secretary of W.u should be authorized to organize an industrial army from the ranks of the unemployed, who shall make oath that they are in immediate need ot food, clothing and lodging, and that they will, if permitted to join such in dustrial army, be loyal to the Govern ment railroads, forts, harbors, and other public works; the term of enlist ment to be three months, with the right to re-enlist if given an honorable discharge for honorable service dered; the wages to be reasonable; the discipline to be as nearly like that in force in the regular army as prac- ticable; on application being made by the State officers, the Secretary of War to be permitted to detail detachments of said army to perform labor on the State and county highways and other State works. "Third —Congress should enact a graduated income and inheritance tax law, the funds thus raised to be used in paying the wages of the industrial army, this to be, not in the nature of a penalty for exercising great busi ness capacity, but as a 'safety valve* to Keep the industrial machine from bursting up, for the tax would be paid by the multi-millionaires and'the great soulless corporations." Mr. Dague says in his communica tion that he has drawn up a bill em bodying the above suggestions, which has bean tinroduced into Congress by Representative Barlow. ThereJta little probability that the measure will ever be acted upon by Congress, or ev<?n brought up for discussion. The idea that Government owner ship of railways, telephones, telegraphs and other great public utilities is a panacea for all industrial and social ills, is by no means new. Socialistic would-be reformers have urged it in season and out of season for year*, and measures have frequently been in troduced in Congress eml»odying this and other paternalistic ideas, Which in the opinions of their champions would solve the great problems 01 cue day without difficulty if enacted into law. But, somehow, the originators of these schemes have never been able to 1 convince Congress that their nos trums were the universal cure-alls which they were represented to be. and Congress has wisely refrained from entering upon these impracticable and visionary plans of regeneration. It is not the purpose of this article to discuss in detail the merits and de merits of the scheme proposed by Mr. Dague's bill, but rather, in a general way, and briefly, to point out some of its more obvious features of imprac ticability. He assumes, in the first place, that Government ownership of the railroads, the telegraphs, the coal mines, and other great industrial prop erties, would give employment to "sev eral millions of workingmen" in excess of those at present* employed in the in dustries named; such, at least, is ob viously the right interpretation of his words. But he apparently takes no account of the many thousands of men now employed in those industries, who would be deprived of work if places were to be made for several millions of additional workmen. In most of the great industries, production keeps well ahead of consumption 1 under the pres ent system. The employment of sev eral millions of men in excess of those now engaged in these lines of produc tion would mean the still further glut ting of an already glutted market. The Government would soon find itself in possession of a surplus, not of money, but of coal and other products of in dustry, for which no market could be found. With its army of laborers con stantly producing more than could be consumed, the industrial problem would soon take on a phase not con templated by Mr. Dague and other so cialistic would-be reformers. Another objection to Government ownership and operation of railways, coal mines, etc., lies in the greatly enlarged opportunities which it would offer to spoilsmen and political mer cenaries of every description. The spoils of office are an all-too-important factor under the present system, and the office-holding ( lass, by concentrat ing their forces, are able to exert a tremendous influence upon any elec tion, if not to control it. Government ownership of railways, coal mines, etc., would give to the party in power a vast army of voters, who could, by united action, exert a controlling in fluence in elections, and render the tenure of the party in power virtually p rp.-tual, thus substituting for gov ernment by the people government by a political oligarchy. The power of the "pull" would be enormously en hanced, and the corruptions of politics would be greatly increased. The proposed organization of an "industrial army" under direction of the Secretary of War seems wholly im practicable. If this army were em ployed, as suggested, on Government work now done by contract, an in dividual laborer would be displaced for each member of the industrial army given employment on such work, and there would be no benefit to labor in the abstract and the aggregate. Xlnety-nine out of every hundred self respecting wage-earners would much rather work Independently, by private contract with their employers, than to be herded into an "army" and worked under rigid discipline, like convicts in the chain-gang. The imposition of an income tax would be class legislation, and a tax upon enterprise and success, no mat ter by what name it might be called. It undoubtedly would be highly pop ular with the shiftless and the thrift less members of society, but it would be condemned by industrious aad prudent people in all lines of indus try. Tiie honest and equitable collec tion of an income tax, moreover, is attended by almost insuperable diffi culties, which reJider the just enforce ment of such a law practically im possible. There are no radical objec tions to a reasonable inheritance tax, and the statute books of several of the. States contain laws of this kind, whh v are giving results more or less satis factory. Finally, the body politic is by no means in so bad a condition as Mr. Dague of Ventura and other theorists and would-be reformers would have us believe. Industrial methods, it is quite true, have undergone important Changes during the past few years, and are still in a transition stage. There have been strikes, riots an 1 lockouts within the las: decade, but these are nothing new. Such things have happened with more or less fre quency since the early beginnings of the industrial system. They do not necessarily indicate destitution and misery on the part of the strikers. On the contrary, a iabor strike is usually an indication that the industry in which the strikers are employed is prosperous. The strike is, as a rule, an organized effort by the strikers to obtain an increased proportion of the profits of industry. When business is dull, prices low-, and the markets weak, the chances of successful strikes are at a minimum, and they occur with comparative infrequency. As a matter of actual truth, the condition of wage-earners is much better to-day than ever before in the world's history. A day's wages will buy more commodities of almost any kind than ever before. Labor-saving machinery has enormously cheapened nearly all classes of commodities. While it undoubtedly has inflicted hardships in individual cases, labor saving machinery has been of great benefit to wage-earners in cheapening the necessaries of life. And in the ag gregate, labor-saving machinery has Without much doubt given employment to as many persons as it has deprived of It has opened new avenues of activity, and in many in dustries has actually increased in stead of diminishing, the number of hands employed. The country is not threatened with revolution and anarchy. A few noisy demagogues and visionaries make it part of their profession to paint weird and dreadful word pictures, represent ing the nation to be on the verge of disintegration. But these pictures are falsely and needlessly alarming. The people of the United States know whtVt they arc about, and can get along a great deal better without the advice of these alarmists than with it. AIRSHIPS TO EUROPE. They May be a Fact of the Very Near Future. It is not improbable that in the near future we may see the present ocean liners crossing the Atlantic Ocean with in three days. The present form of steamship and motive power has ar rived at a stage of perfection that can hardly be excelled unless there is some radical change made, both in the form of steamship and the type of motive power. As the matter now stands, a vessel making twenty knots to twenty-one knots p€-r hour can only accomplish an extra knot by almost doubling the power of boiler and engines. In order to cut the present time of a little less than sSx days from Queens town to New Yodk down to three days, marine architects must abandon the i ■ sent style of engines and radically change the form of the vessels' hulls. In view of the millions of dollars in* vested in the North American freight and passenger steamers it is hard to see how the companies can do this. The latest advices from the continent, however, give some hope that this may be accomplished without change of the present type of vessels or motive power. The French and German army officers and engineering corps have for a num ber of years been experimenting with different types of airships and balloons their object being to get a balloon or airship that would sustain a double weight and be perfectly manageable in any kind of weather. They have been more or less successful, but a resent German invention —the details of which have been kept secret —has more nearly succeeded than any of the others. This airship consists of an aiumin* ated balloon, fdled with very light gas and carrying a car containing gas en gines and motors, and has a remarka bly swift pace. It has been found per fectly manageable and apparently there is nothing to Ik- desired. It is under stood that negotiations for the manu facture of a series of large machines of this type have been opened with a prominent trans-Atlantic line of pas senger and freight steamers, the idea being that by using one or more of these airships . and having them connected with a passenger steamer by set tow lines, they can so assist in speed as to render the passage across the Atlantic in three days extremely probable. By the proper system of fastening the tow-lines, the balloon or airship will exert a lifting power as well as a for ward motion on the ships, and practi cally give them less displacement or cause them to force aside less water in their n>ovement through it, and will not decrease the power of the propel lers. Of course, there is a great deal of cu riosity about the nature of this airship. It is believed by scientists who are in terested in airships that the apparatus is very sdmilar to the one tried by Pro fessor Langley on the recent occasion when he moved a hand-car up grade against the wind. Behind the fans of the "windmill" was a small gasoline engine on a rough timber frame. A long iron shaft con nected the frame with the curved blades. These blades were made of can vas. The propellers or fans were con nected with the engine. They evolved slowly at first, then faster and faster they went, until they were whirling at the rate of 850 revolutions a minute. The machine moved along with fright ful rapidity. The Hiram Maxim Company is also supposed to be experimenting with work of the same kind with the $200,000 worth of aluminum received by them recently for the Atlantic and Pacific Aerial Navigation Company. The Langley airship only pulled about 8,000 pounds, but, with the air ship built larger and the power in creased by various appliances this could be trebled many times. Much depends upon the lifting power of the airship as well as upon its drag ging power. And this, reinforced by the natural speed of the engines, should shorten the journey to Europe by at least one-half. McMorry sells groceries. Agent for Coronado water and Stockton sarsa parilla and iron. 531 M street. * TOUGH SEEDS AND MICROBES. WITHSTAND MARVELOUSLY LOW TEMPERATURES. Experiments That Bear on the Na ture and Origin of Lite, as Well as Disease Germs. Some experiments undertaken to as certain the intluence of very low tem peratures on the gcrminative powei o! seeds, described at a meeting of the Royal Society in England last m Bth possess a doubJe interest. The matte; has its purely practical side, in the-tirst piace. Inasmuch as giain and Bower seeds are not likely, in the ordinary course of events, to be subjected to any such intense cold as was employed in these tests, the farmer and horticultur ist may not find the latter particularly instructive. But bacteria also belong to the vegetable world, and some spec lea of these minute organisms are cap able of making a good deal of mischief with our health. It is desirable, there fore, to know how low a temperature these disease germs can endure with out being killed. To a large class of people, however, a very different phase of the subject will make the strongest appeal. These ex periments are thought to have some bearing on that profound problem, the origin of life on our globe. As long ago as 1871, very soon after Charles Darwin taught that man and the high er animals were descended from a few exceedingly low forms of life, Lord Kelvin threw out the suggestion, in his Presidential address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, that life may have had an ex tra-terrestrial origin, and may have come to our planet in "moss-grown fragments from the ruins of another world" which reached the earth as me teorites. But these bodies, astrono mers believe, have been exposed for years, not to say incalculable ages, to the cold of inter-stellar space, which has been put, approximately, at "abso lute zero," or 27." degrees below zero Centigrade. If, then, it should be as certained that all seeds and microbes lose their vitality after a short exposure to the most extreme cold that we can produce artificially, Lord Kelvin's sug gestion would seem incredible. But if, on the other hand, some seeds and some microbes are able to withstand the low est temperature of which we have act ual knowledge, then that theory re mains tenable, even though it may seem improbable for other reasons. Well, up to date, it has not been pos sible to exterminate life altogether by freezing. Hence the investigators who addressed the Royal Society on this subject last month (Horace T. Brown and F. Eseombe) were moved to say: "That such (meteoric) fragments might circulate in the intense cold of space for a perfectly indefinite period without prejudice to their freight of seeds or spores is almost certain from the facts we know about the maintenance of life by Testing' protoplasm. The difficul ties in the way of accepting such an hypothesis certainly do not lie in this direction." These experiments, moreover, throw a little light on the nature of life itself. Herbert Spencer, for instance, has given a definition of life which implies a con stant, though possibly a very low, de gree of internal activity in the pro toplasm in which life resides. For this and for other reasons a good many bi ologists hold that during the period of I set d's inertness its vital part undetr ejpea very feeble and imperceptible al terations, accompanied by an exchange of gases with the surrounding atmos phere: a sort of respiration, as it were. On the other hand, there are scientists who think that there is not merely a slowing down" of vital processes dur ing the dormant stage, but a complete suspension of chemical activity, and that the protoplasm "loses, for the time being, all power of adjustment to ex ternal conditions." Now, five or six years ago, the late G. J. Romanes experimented with seeds, some of which he exposed to a vacuum of an exceedingly high degree for fifteen months, and then immersed them in va rious gases and vapors for several months more. The power of germina tion was not destroyed thereby. These results were adverse to the respiration theory. Pictet, a famous Swiss chem ist, about the same time found that seeds and microbes could withstand a temperature of over 100 degrees below zero C. Messrs. Brown and Escomhe had the assistance of Professor Dewar in their work. The cold required in their tests was obtained by the slow evaporation of liquid air. Temperatures as low as 188 and 192 below zero C. were secured. The seeds with which they experiment ed represented several different orders of vegetation, like grasses, lilies, beans, morning-glories and geraniums. The exposures lasted 110 consecutive hours. And yet the seeds afterward sprouted, and most of them grew to maturity. The plants thsu obtained were apparently as healthy as those grown from other specimens of seed taken from the same lots before the freezing began. In connection with this Messrs. Brown and Escombe say: "In 1802 Professor Dewar and Professor McKendrick found that a temperature of 182 degrees below zero C. continued for one hour is sufficient to sterilize putrescent sub stances, such as blood, milk and flesh, and that seeds would germinate after the action of a similar temperature for the same period of time." Since com pleting their tests the English investi gators have learned that Pictet also subjected some seeds and microbes to a temperature of nearly 200 degrees below zero without killing them." —New York Tribune Delicate children! What a source of anxiety they are! The parents wish them hearty and strong, but they keep thin and pale. To all these delicate chil dren Scott's Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil with Hypo phosphites comes with the best of news. It brings rich blood, strong bones, healthy nerves, and sound digestion. It is growth and prosperity to them. No matter how delicate the child, it is readily taken. 50c. and $1.00, all druggists. 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