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3VX DAT 140SKIKG. 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. _ ernel © © © © /\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. _ jT.\ sX) 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. %swsm^ 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 JM M \\ l J n _/f^2—. —iwf: §pS.~- M;v c*- —-I# -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 BOXING GIRG ! s 3.J J., 50. 4** ■' "■"iLwm'as'Tr'w *-""""T —'——■— % TIB k4 ®fT BArJ;© S t\hmn P^jpL. 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 A CZEZ3- l\, w v vy „ V// Fo sit icn / / | 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. DECEMBER 7 csftsreia^iciir’! I 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.