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ORIENTAL SERENADES.
st cnyrox frsixisD.
The flush has faded from the mountain*
brow;
P. •'.irteu. Zu’.clßi. to my true-love vow!
The evenings violet vesture fold* the vale;
Hearken, Zuictk*, to mv true-love tale!
There burns the lover * passionate star
above;
.Hearken, ptleik*, hearken unto lov*
Itose of the fair rose garden, 0 my Rose.
Answer. J pray thee, for my heart’s re-
Dies on the air the lad muezzin call,
And khan-war.! t.-v .he weary pilgrim
goes.
The fountain murmurs; soft the south
{,, wind blows;
It i* love's hour, nr every lover knows;
1 cry to thee; cry thou antopbona),
Hose of the fair rose gir.ien. 0 my Hose!
—The Criterion.
Told in the Dark
Tat Old Story, With a Thread of
Crime.
T |~y HE clock in the bull had
Bkv chimed -a. m.. luit Janet
; Kluibniton k;ill lingered by
"Is the dying lire in tile great,
lonely drawing room, absorbed in the
memory of a long-Jesd past,
tea’ll 1”
She started violently. Had she heard
It or only dreamed ItV Dreamed Unit
tithled, stricken whisper? Only one
human being ever called her that, and
ft was twenty years
At that moment th* electric light
was switched off, and a curt. Incisive
voice came lo her out of the darkness.
"Don’t scream. You needn’t be
afraid. I swear not to harm you.”
Then Janet Kimkolton realized the
situation. She had drAamed It, of
course—dreamed time ‘whisper. But
she vras no coward, though her brav
ery was of the kind that comes when
life has lost Its savor, the bravery that
fears nothing because It hopes r.olli
.
"I mn not fcfrnld," she answered,
composedly, and waited.
For a few moments only the faint
tinkle of gems striking against a pol
ished surface broke the stillness, for
the man was struggling hard for self
control.
* "Yon are a brave woman,” lie said
-at last, with genuine admiration.
“1 tun not going to take yonr jewels,"
he went cm “wli'm 1 have gone you
will And tluit they arc nil here."
’’Are they —not worth the taking?"
she questioned, with a tone!) of the
humor that never deserted her.
‘'They’re worth just about fid.ooo."
he answered quietly. “Thai’s not much
to too. You see.” and his volte look
cat a certain note of pride, "1 urn tile
nuni they call Dandy Dick."
’ ’’Oh'" And a little ripple of laughter
came to him out of the darkness.
"Then I have the honor of conversing
with the most notorious burglar In
Ohrlstendon—the man who spirits
away the Jewels of duehe-sos— the
bonds of stockbrokers—the moneybags
of bonks, awl the treasures of
JWiOt.es?”
"You hare heard of C.arshallon. the
Au: lean. the King of Millionaires, as
they call him? Well. I am he."
A sudden horror seized her. Was
she shut up alone witli’a madman, and
hot ti mere burglar, as she lmd been
anpi, - :;g?
"Oh, I am not mad.” lie told her. re
jissuringl.v, his quick intuition divin
ing her thoughts. “When 1 am sup
posed to be in the Hotkies, in llussla.
irk Italy, ttn here, or in Paris, or Vien
na, anywhere there happens to lie any
thing worth taking.”
•“It's dangerous.” she hazarded, at a
loss what to say in a situation so
bizarre.
lie laughed Joyously.
"Dangerous? 1 live for danger, lib
®fte sap of life. If it weren’t for that,
I should he a respectable citizen to
morrow."
Kite listened, amused, perplexed.
*orry, f:
"Of course, I have realised before
Ibis that you are what (ho world call-:
a gentleman. Why. thou, do you
this horrible thing?”
Tfis race fell, and his voice took >m
. humbler tone.
. t "May 1 tell you why?"
"Yes." she said, "do. II Is all very
mid It's a long while situ e
1 have been really Interested."
“And you’re not afraid?’’ be qiu -
Honed.
“Ypii have given mo your word." -be
answered with quit ! serenity.
’Thank yon ’
In the darkness she ot-silrt -,v t;. ■
flush that dyed the mail's fnee
Tlidtt she sal down (-n ft:,- cushioned
window seat and a ray of moonlight
stealing through a crack in tin- stmt
tors fell upon iiic stiver gray of her
hair. The man entile unite close, and
fttood looking down ai her. then sud
denly he bent and tutu hod hov arm .\
■curious magnetic thrill seemed to pa
through her and she leaped to tier feet.
“Who are you'/" sin- demanded, "in
lie’iveh's name, who are you'/"
He stepped swiftly liaek. and fen
■trolling himself ),y a supreme effort,
answered in u doll and. measured mot*,
otone:
•'Dandy Dick, buraiai. I'rane:* Oar
ebalton. millionaire.”
Thew was a short .-donee, then h->
began to apeak.
. “I was born too hue. I ought m
bate come into this world aoo years
•. 0e world of Drake anil t-'robisfcer
end ltateigh, tile world when men lived
and dared, not the no id today,
when they'Magnate and exist. Tlie
curse of some bygone ern e-tor eras in
my biooil. the curse of resUvs-noss, of
btwifseneßs. of untamed ambition.
I‘tmn m.v very babyhood 1 wa- a rebel,
are! rebellion grew on me. 1 could
never be ns Others were, could never
bear the shackles and trammels and
the emptiness of civilized life. Tor
long, long hour* I would vit and pon
der on a way out. There were things
—the exploration of wild and savage
lands, for Instance, but they were for
the rich, and 1 was poor. So the years
drugged by and I tried many tilings,
and iny lawlessness grew and grew,
and then—"
’’Yes?" She leaned forward, forget
ful of the hour, the circumstance*, of
everything hot the quiet, monotonous
voice, with its ring of absolute truth,
rho voice that seemed to be giving her
kaleidoscopic glimpses of a strong soul,
hopelessly hampered; a soul that had
somehow lost its way in time aud
space, and strayed Into a wrong een
tury.
“And then—l met a woman and
loved her, loved her as such a man
would, hut I left liev. I was an ele
mental pertton: she the product of an
overripe civilization.”
He paused, but she sat silent, spell
bound.
“Finally I took to burglary, because
for me it was the one way out. II
responded to Ihe two strongest chords
hi my nature, lawlessness and love of
danger. Oh! I don’t say it was the
best, but It was the second best, and
otto mostly has to be content with that.
I soon became a power, and for twenty
years now t have planned and helped
to carry out all the most daring rob
beries that have startled the social
worlds of Europe. For the wealth it
brings I care nothing—for the danger
and excitement, everything. When I
ant Carsbalton, I am bored to death.
That gives me the stimulus for devis
ing new schemes. And the end? Well,
I have a plan for that, too.”
“And the woman?" asked his listener,
quietly.
There was n just perceptible pause.
Then he said slowly, hesitatingly;
"I don’t know. Yet to stay meant
Inevitably to break her heart. And shy
was young. I hope, I have always
hoped, that she learned to forget. You
are a woman—do you think she has for
gotten ?” „
“I pray she may
KlmlioHon softly. “Y'et—nftg iTo not
forget—easily. I could tcSyon a tale
of a woman who tried ham to forget
-for twenty years. But she didn’t
succeed.”
“Tell me," lie whispered.
“He bad the double curse—ambition
and poverty. So lie left her. And a
week later she came into a fortune.
But it was too late. He had gone,
why or where she never knew.”
"And the end?" queried the burglar
huskily.
"There Is no end. She Is Just going
on loving him. That is all.”
The man turned and moved unstead
ily to the door.
"Good-by,” lie said, "your jewels are
there,"
As he stepped outside tile street door
he turned and taking her hand rever
ently in his, kissed it. At "the sane
moment a ray of moonlight fell across
his face.
"Dick!"
Ho dropped her lityid and tied down
the broad, Alow steps.
"Too late!" lie groaned. "Good-by.
little Jean, good-by!"
"Come hark! Come back!" she
so tilled, stretching out her arms to
him.
lie turned a white and haggard face
to her.
“I can’t.”
The words floated back to her in a
stifled cry as lie fled through the
square. ,
And she understood, tie had gone
back lo his life. Sim must go back
to hers. - New York News.
llrltUli Columbia.
A few months ago, the Provincial
Government placed an export duty
on logs sent, from British Columbia
to the L'nited States; tills applies only
to logs cut from Government lands.
Lands in the hands of private owners,
or crown-granted lauds, are not affected
by tiiis regulation. Nevertheless, the
plating of tills export duty on logs
has increased the number of mills
here very considerably, especially
soirgle mills. One mill cuts 1,250,000
shingles daily. These are red cedar
shingles, and a large portion of the
output is shipped to Ibe United States.
One of the lumber mills has orders
booked that will take eighteen months
to till. There is a great lack of men;
5000 or 6000 men could find employ
ment In the lumber and shingle mills
and in the logging camps. The wages
are probably lower aud the cost of
living higher than In tile adjoiuiug
State of Washington; still, if men ac
customed to lumbering work are out
of crnplovmeiy. there is little doubt
they can find ft hero. Of course, there
is a contract-labor law,ns in the United
Suites, and it will lie impossible for
p en to make contracts in advance; but
uo doubt competent lumbermen, able
to handle mill machinery or to do good
work In the woods, can find employ
ment. The destruction of timber in
Washington and Oregon by recent tires
causes tile British Columbians to hope
that they may liud a larger market
than heretofore for their timber in tlie
Slates, notwithstanding the expori
duty.
111a <>luncc \Va V iilorf umlc.
A story is told of a certain English
clergyman who had for his curate a
Tall, cadaverous looking individual.
One Sunday, according to custom, the
vicar made an appeal for the curate’s
stipend fund, but, unfortuuately
glaneed over at bis co-worker as he
concluded with these words: "The col
lection will now be taken for that ob
ject."
lion to ltutton YOuv Cool.
Most people start buttoning (licit
coats from the top. which is quite the
wrong way. and must more or less pui:
the coat out of shape. The majority
of women, too, don’t know that anew
coat should always Ist worn, buttoned
(he first few times of wearing, so that
the collar may “set" properly. _
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© © /\dVerdure.
Confederal* fated 11U Life.
r f TTT HERE'S one old Confed
| 1 crate l love," said Dr. .T.
J. Purtnan, a Pcnnsyl
vaninn now employed in
the Pension Office. Washington. "I
love him because lie saved my life,
and he did it at the risk of being shot
into kingdom come, too. The man who
did this for me is Thomas P. Oliver,
now living at Athens. Ga.
"I was First Lieutenant of Company
A, One Hundred and Fortieth Penn
sylvania Infantry, nud on .July 2 at
Gettysburg f received a shot in my left
leg below the knee, bringing me down
wilh both bones crushed. My regiment
was falling back over the ‘whontfield,’
anil I halted lo assist a comrade who
was badly wounded. The enemy was
dosing in o;i me, and I was in point
blank range of their fire. After plac
ing mv comrade between two rocks,
where I thought lie would lie shielded
from tile enemy’s fire, 1 started after
my retreating comrade*. 1 was com
manded to halt, which I refused to do,
and i had not gone far before l was
hit. The regiment charged over me,
and as I was unable to crawl off tin*
Held, I lay there all nigh!.
"The next morning the battle was re
newed, ihe Pennsylvania reserves be
ing on one side of the ‘wheatfleld’ and
tlie Twenty-fourth Georgia on the
other. The whole day a desultory tire
was kept up, and about the middle of
the afternoon a bail flying low passed
through my right leg. I lost a great
deal of blood, and 1 began to think my
chances for life wor growing slim,
very slim. After receiving this second
wound and being completely done for.
as to ‘proppera.’ £ .concluded that it was
of no use making any further efforts
to get out of the trouble. However,
just about the time when the last ray
of hope was waning, I saw a Confed
erate out in front of their lines, and 1
called to him, saying that I was dying
from loss of blood and thirst, anti ask
ing hint to bring me it canteen of
water. . While lie appeared willing'to
do as requested, he said if he came
out there our met; would see hint, and,
thinking lie was trying to rob me,
would concentrate their (ire upon hint.
I begged him to lake the chance, anti
be said lie would.
“Ho crawled through the tangled
standing wheat, and cut tin- to trie, bring
ing a canteen of water—about the best
I over tasted - which I drank. After
drinking and having some poured oil
m.v wounds, I said to the Confederate,
‘Won’t you carry tile into the shade
Within your tines?’ At first he said
that he could not—that if he attempted
that we would both bo shot, i toon
suggested that he let me get ott his
back and that he crawl out with me
ns lie had crawled in. After some ar
gument lie agreed to this. I Itsstuag-'d
to get on Ills back, tic holding up try
wounded legs, and this good fellow
crawled off Into the field of wheat.
Once I fainted and fell off his bark.
Ho left me and went back- into the
woods to Plum Run. whet* he refilled
ills canteen and canto back to me.
dashed water In my face and restored
me tn conacmfisnesr.
"Again getting me on his back, lie
crawled away and wo managed to
reach the strip of woods in which the
Twenty-fourth Georgia was posted.
When safely there, lie put me on a rab
bet' blanket under a tree, gave me a
canteen of water and some bread
such as the Confederates bad and
wrote my name and regiment, in hi*
-book. I handed him my hunting ease
silver watch, and with a few wort's
Stood wishes We parted. That evening
tile Pennsylvania reserves took posses
sion of tin* ground occupied by the
Georgia regiment, aud 1 tel! into the
hands of my own people.
"tt was not limit the year ;S7! that
I succeeded in locating my friend who
had saved my life. Through Georgia
.Senators 1 ascertained that lie was
living in Gainesville. n ; . ha* sitt.e
moved to Alliens, and 1 have kept up
a pretty regular (orrespondrttee with
hint ever since. Of course. 1 love him
for his brave and generous act." Now
York Tribune.
Washed Ovet board.
'Captain John Hudson, a night in -;u
tor In the Honolulu customs force! has
apparently led a charmed life. When
:t boy of sixteen years he left his home
1u Norway, throwing away his chances
of following in his father’s footstep*
as an officer in the Norwegian Army
for a life on the sea. Since that time
he lias sailed all over tile watery globe,
and only a few years ago quit the
•sea after having been in many disas
ters. He was, wrecked in the South
Sea Islands, aud only by a miracle es
caped with his life, but the most re
markable experience he had was while
captain of a schooner trading between
the sound and California ports - .
On one occasion he took a cargo of
lumber front tin* sound to San Pedro.
Before leaving tile sound tlie ship’s
carpenter made some repairs to the
hull of the vessel, and during his work
the chips from a piece of lumber lie
was hewing fell into the hull of the
vessel between the lumber aud its
sides. Shortly after leaving port the
vessel encountered a heavy gale, and
the ship commenced to leak. The
schooner’s pumps were started, but the
chips which the carpenter had dropped
into her hold dogged thorn up. The
captain put his vessel right before the
wind ar.d ordered his men to take out
the pump and clear out the chips.
.While this was being done he stood
with the man at the wheel to see that
the schooner was kept right ahead of
the wind. Waves of enormous height
were chasing the schooner, aud one of
these washed over the vessel from
stern to how, throwing the man at the
THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NSWS.
I wheel flat on his face and tossing the
• captain overboard.
As Captain Godson was swept over
the side into die foaming water the
ropes holding a boom broke and it
dropped to the deck with one et-J
hanging out over the side of the
schooner. A broken rope dangling
front tills hit the captain on the
and with the wild energy of it drown
ing man lie caught hold of it. The
vessel gave a tremendous lurch and her
bulwark. - ? were again under the water,
while the speed of the vessel dragged
the matt hi tin - “water who was holding
on to the rope along and finally tossed
him cu deck again. He was at the
wheel as soon as the schooner righted,
aud nearly frightened the life out of
the sailor standing there. This man
thought he had seen a ghost and
promptly ran front the wheel. Captain
ilOdsoh seized it, put the vessel ahead
of the wind again, and later weathered
the storm.
"It’s the only time I have ever known
of a man to have been washed over
board and then washed back again,"
says the captain, who now declares
that lie has left the sea for good and
is content to live on land.—Honolulu
Commercial Advertiser.
A Dangerous Denrent.
Ilecklc; ; daring Is so often displayed
by workmen whose daily labors place
them in positions of danger that those
who have to deal with them are aston
ished nt no f.-ui of bravado. Mr. Frank
Skinner gives McClure's Magazine an
instance of this daring on the part of
men who were engaged in replacing
tie - Niagara suspension bridge.
It happened that so tunny valuable
tools were dropped front the Bridge
that spun - of the more careless losers
were discharged. Consequently, when
one day a man dropped a wrench 200
f - fl“t to the water's edge, he foolishly
started to recover It by descending
hand over hand on n steeply inclined,
thin wire cable nearly 500 feet long.
He had no sooner started on his in
sane exploit than a rival, out of sheet
bravado, essayed to descend on au ad
jacent rope. After going a few feet
they hoi It realized the almost impossi
ble nature of the journey they had un
dertaken. and tried to return. It could
not he done, aud the only chance of
safety lay in continuing their descent.
It seemed to their horrified com
panions that human muscles could not
endure the increasing strain of that
long passage downward. The foreman
shouted Instruct ions. Interspersed with
violent abuse, the object of which was
to divert litem front the fright that
added to ( heir danger.
B.v what seemed almost a miracle
both men field on until they had
crossed the water. Then one of them
dropped safely ittio tt tree-top. The
other finally gave out. aud fell a con
sider:;’!' • distance >o the ground. Both,
however, escaped practically unhurt.
'•A Montana Bluff.**
Vi hat is regarded as one of tiv* tall
est "hlnifs" (sn record furnished Cap
tain Milg-r iiu-vtd, chW signal officer
in the Philippines the insurrec
tion. with a story, which he tells tts an
exarun’c ol Western nerve.
"ViY were outside of Manila in some
mu- :era;i.’’ said the Captain, "and
ahnci seventy-five natives were lying in
a trench ahead of us, shooting away
merrily,, but not hitting anybody. By
and by t noticed a little disturbance
iu our front. Presently four Montana
troopers trotted out of our litres and
started straight for the Filipinos. Ev
erybody looked at them with wonder,
ami Waited to see them all killed. Bul
lets whistled all around them, but they
never halted. Slowly, just at a trot,
they jogged on toward tlia enemy.
The natives fired and fired, but for
settle unknown reason did not hit. On
and ott went the quarto:, disdaining
cover. At iu.-t there was a shout, and.
to our utter astonishment, we beheld
tlie seventy-five Filipinos suddenly
jump out of their trenches and take
to t heir heels iu mad flight. Tito nerve
u:' Fie Montana troopers was too much
for them. When they had all tied,
throwing their rifles away as they ran.
tlie troopers eatne bark, their arms
full oi guns. That is what the Army
has conic to call ‘a Montana bluff.’ It's
tile sort of nerve that lets a man open
a jackpot ott a pair of deuces."
Heroic T'cgtne Mart.
As the day shift was descending the
Boiirinyallt•colliery, Ystrad. Übonuda,
a fire broke out in the engine house.
Witch was . oinpletely gutted. One of
the w.re rod.; attached to the cage
snapped, and the cage descended the
-dial' , injur'.itg a man named Thomas.
I hi* disablement of the shaft prevented
hts immediate removal, and workmen
had to enter the pit of the Forndale
and vv: |'v:th an ambulance for two
miles un" - ! - ground to reach Thomas.
When rite outbreak occurred I'.ngine
mau Evan Lloyd was iu the act cf
lowering eleven men. Although sur
rounded by flames, he stuck gamely to
his level. His face was badly scorched,
but liis heroism averted a great fn
tality. Five hundred men were drawn
from the pit by way of Forndale. The
fire has temporarily thrown out SOO
men. Loudon News.
Koy* Presence of Mind.
While a party of children were fish
ing front a boat off Parengo. says a
Trieste telegram to the WestnUnstcr
Gazette. two huge sharks. approached
the boat. One of the pair made a fierce
attack on the rope by which the boat
was anchored, aud seizing it iu its
mouth, pulled the boat to and fro, evi
dently trying to upset it. while tin
other swam round and round the boat
and its terrified occupants. One boy,
more brave than tlie rest, had the pres
ence of mind to cut the rope, aud seiz
ing the oars, rowed for dear life to
the shore, the sharks following uutjl
the water became to shallow for them,
when they turned back’and swam to
and fro some distance off. _
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The Two Foad.
Oh, th n road to healthy wealthy ami
wise
Ilans by night through the gates of
sleep.
Straight over the ammberiand beach it lies,
Where the sandman gathers the sand for
your eyes.
That he shakes when the sun has leh the
skies
And the gray evening shadows creep.
But to reach this land by the road of
morn,
You must rub the sand from your eye *.
When you leave the country of <lrow*y
yawn,
Just follow the path that the sun lias
gone,
And paw through the gateway oi early
dawn
Into healthy, wealthy and wise.
-Youth’s Companion.
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MB9 HOODIE
Ml** .Morale Go herself;: “Dear me I
I dt,n’; like the looks of‘tilings at all.
’Come and play puss in the corner and
sfay to tea,’ they said. Hu: I’m afraid
they mean me to be the ten, and I’d
rather not. I know wliat I will do.
(Aloud): I’i ..- *, Miss Puss, may my
three fat littie brothers come and play,
too. and may I go and fetch them?”
“Certainly, my dear,” Mrs. Puss said,
"ottiy be quiet as you can. We should
like you ail to be here for tea. (Then
there will be one apiece,"she whispered
to the others). “Hooray 1”
"Which would you rather—have tqn
now or wait till you get it?" Miss
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-Morale inquired as she vanished into a
hole.
“Now. what could site have fueen; by
that?" they asked each other, hue no
body knew. And they waited that
afternoon aud evening, getting htiti
grier and hungrier, but Miss Motssie
nud her fat little brothers never came.
“She must: have remembered she had
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This athletic girl has two boxing instructor?. FiaU them.
another engagement." they said to caolt
other as they went sadly off to lied.
The way Miss Mousie got out of her
scrape was very clever—Chicago IBv
ord-Herald.
Tim l.lttte Stickleback.
It seems as though the littie stickle
back often suggested for aquariums
was really created for that purpose
only. 1; is not good tor food. Even
the other and larger iunabitants of
the water do not relish it. as. unless
they happen to catch it at just the
right angle, the little spur with which
its back is armed, and front which it
take’s Its name, catches in their throats
and, being exactly perpendicular and
very hard, quite takes away their ap
petite for tlie nex: stickleback they
see. The bones and prickles with which
most fish are armed nil slant back
ward. and that is why big fish swallow
their prey head foremost. But the
stickleback found in salt water, where
its enemies are most numerous, has
developed the straight, stiff spur. It
loses much cf its hardness if its owner
is kept in an aquarium, where he grad
ually forgets his fear of attack.
Stickleback* make unusually enter- '
taining pet*. Those brought front '
Lower California build nests. They ’
are also pugnacious and will try to j
tight their own reflection in a taiiTo: - !
held near the side of the aquarium. One !
doughty little fellow was allowed to
view himself in a concave mirror,
where he appeared many times his real
size. But ho ".-as not daunted, and
made straight -"or the eyes of the !>•<
fish lie thought he saw coming to de
vour him. Atlantic sticklebacks are
smaller, nut just as interesting v as pets.
They are also easier to feed than their
Western cousins, enjoying eornmeal
mush, house Hies—indeed, almost any
thing seems to agree vritU them.
How to Muk a tVliiplxrw.
This graceful and powerful weapon
is like an ordinary longbow, with the
exception that The bowstring is made
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fasi to only one end. after the manner
of the whiplash; where the whiplash
terminates iu a "snapper" ihe bow
string ends in it hard, round knot. The
arrow is made like any other arrow,
fit he: - with a blunt: end or tt pointed
spearpoltit. lit one side of the arrow a
notch is cut; the bowstring being
slipped into this notch, the knot, at the
end of the string prevents tlie string
from slipping off until thrown by .he
archer, who. taking the butt of the
whipbow lit his right hand, holds thv
nr.ow ;tr th: - notch with his left hand;
then, so ayiug his body ironside to
side, he suddenly lets go with his left
hand, at tin* saint - time extending his
right arm to its full length from his
sid This not only gives the arrow all
the velocity it would acquire from the
bow. but adds the additional force of
a sling, thus sending tin* projectile a
greater distance, tn some sections of
the conn try the whipbow is a great
favorite among the boys, who throw
arrows up ati amusing distance. Ar
rows ran be bought in any city, inu
mo bay s prefer to make their own,
leal lug the "store arrows" for the girls
to use with their pretty “Store bows."
A simple whipbow is made by au.v
boy in a few minute* out of an elastic
sa.piing or branch, and the arrow cm
ott; ;>:::.* shlu?ie with a pocket
knife. This can !*e improved upon as
ranch as may be desired by substitut
ing a piece of straight grained, well
seas..mat wood for the green branch
aud regular!;. - made Indian arrows for
the cade pine ones.—New York
Tribune.
Field of Saif.
I" the tniddh - of the Colorado des
ert. a littie to tit - . - north of the Mexi
can border, and 264 feet below the
level of the tea. lies a field of crystai
ised salt more than 1000 acres in ex
ifnt. presenting a surface a* white as
snow, and beneath the noonday glare
of the sun so dazzling that the naked
eye cannot stand its radiance. It
stretches away for miles and miles
about Salton. Col., an ocean of blazing,
blistering white.
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An English company lias per cried
a kerosene burner for bteam vesicles,
which, in experimental trials covering
over 1000 miles, with, four p t-s utters
in the carriage, shewed a:t average
cost for fuel of but oue'tu.li of a cent
a mile, ns compared with two aud a
half cents a mile when gasolene was
used and but two passengers carried.
Full steam pressure was kept up con
stantly. regardless of tlie demands of
the engine.
~ There is at least one lighthouse in
the world that ht no 4 marked on any
mariner’s chart. It is away out in the
Arizona Desert, and marks the spot
where a well supplies pure, fresh ♦al
ter to travelers. It is’the only place
where water he had for forty-five
miles to the eastward and for pi least
thirty miles in any other direction.
The "house” consists of a tali cotton
wood pele, to the top of which a lan
tern is hoisted every night. Tin: light
can be seen for miles across the plain
in every direction.
A writer on nature toils how oats
help the growth of red clover. The
tube of the blossom is too long for the
honey bee to get at the nectar at the
base of the flower, so it is left to tlie
buinble-bee to do this, and tints fertil
ize the plants by carrying the pollen
from one to another. But 1 In* field
tuicc destroy the homes of the bumble
bee and cat their stored-up honey, and
if left to do this unchecked would soon
by destroying the bee* deprive the
clover of its means of fertilization.
The farmers’ cats, however, caich the
field mice, and thus kelp to save the
clover.
It is said that hundred* of people
gain a livelihood in the volcanic dis
trict of Middle Italy by digging up
pumice stone, which is ft volcanic
produet. Volcanoes furnish many
products that are of value in art. archi
tecture and commerce. Among them
are gypsum, or plaster of paris: basalt,
chalcedony, porphyry, jffsper, feldspar
and rock crystal. The diamond, as is
well known, is of. volcanic origin. The
various hot springs, where sufferers
from disease find relief, me produced
by the stjme natural agencies that
cause volcanic eruptions. Scientists
say that they occupy the sites of au
eieut volcanoes. _
A promising method of reducing
bearing friction is the use ; of' some
form of a roller bearing. One of the
latest types, the Hyatt, says the Iron
Age. has, instead of solid rolls, a series
of coil springs. These are so flexible
irt use that a slight derangement of
the axis of the shaft will not throw
the journal upon one edge of (he roll
ers. as is the case when they are
solid: but tlie springs will retain con
tact along the entire length, thus mini
mizing wear on both journal and bear
ing. Another advantage lies in flu*
fact that the roller acts as an oil reser
voir. while roller aud spiral together
perform the function of au oil carrier.
This makes perfect lubrication auto
matic and largely diminishes the
amount of attention required by the
bearing.
Two plumb-lines, of No. 2-t piano
wire and 4250 feet in length, were re
cently suspended in the Tamarack
Mine, at Calumet. Michigan. Tlte lines
each carried a fifty-pound iron boh.
and were hung twelve feet apart.
Measurement showed that the lower
ends of the lines diverged about three
quarters of an inch. Various reasons
were suggested for this, but none of
them were wholly satisfactory. To
aroiil possible magnetic repulsion,
bronze wires carrying sixty-pound
lead bobs, and 4440 feet in length,
were suspended in another shaft of tits
mine, and they showed a slight con
vergence at the bottom: but whe;t the
same wires were suspended in the
original shaft they diverged as tlie
steel wires had done. The conclusion
reached is that the divergence was
due, neither to gravitation not- magnet
ism. but to the Influence of almost im
perceptible air-currents in the shafts.
Ants on Hor*t>uck.
M. Charles Meissen, a French ex
plorer, in traveling through Siam, ob
served a species of small gray ants
which were new to him, says the Lon
don Express. These ant*, says the
Kobe Herald, were much engaged in
traveling. They lived in damp places
and went in troops. To his surprise itc
noticed among them, from time to
time, au occasional ant which was
/tuch larger than the others and
loved at a much swifter pace, ami
each of these larger ants. If. Meissen
saw. always carried one of the gray
ants on its hack. While the main body
of gray ants were always on foot, they
were accompanied by at least one of
their own sort mounted ett one of the
larger ants. It mounted and detached
itself now and then from the line, rode
rapidly to the bead, came swiftly back
to the rear, and seemed to be the com
mander of the expedition. The ex
plorer was satisfied that this species
of ant employs a larger ant—poaslbly
a drone of the same species just as we
-mploy horses to ride upou. though
scarcely more than one ant in each
colony seems to be provided with a
mount.
A Strenuous Young Women.
A thief snatched a purse from the
hand of Miss Mary Cull in State street.
Chicago, the other afternoon and made
off with it. Miss Cull followed him for
.wo blocks and. finally overtaking him,
knocked him flat with one blow if ber
fist. Then she took her purse and
turned the thief over to a breathless
policeman who had been following the
chase.