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w? i-: -' > f ' * - "ALWAYS BUNRISESOMBWHERl HThere is always sunshiue somewhere! Though the night be round thee drawn, Somewhere still the fast is bright'ning "With the rosy flush o( dawn. What though near the bat is Hitting, And the raven croaks his lair, Somewhere still the sun bird's greeting Hails the rising of the day I Let us lay to heart the comfort -In this sweet reflection found, That however dense our darknes?, Somewhere still the world uround Dews are glistening, flowers uplifting, Wild birds warbling, as re born: Lakes and streams and woods and mountai Melting in the kiss of morn! 'er was night, however dismal, But withdrew its wings of gloom; Ne er was sorrow, but a day-star Hinted of the morrow's bloom; NeV was woe, but in its bosom Was the seed of hope impearled; There is still a sunrise so nowhere Speeding, speeding round the world! ?Xathctn D. Urner. v. Romance of a Hat-Marl >& Philip Northnm, coming: hastily out < ? TJn Ann rr* rvT?ninrr in Tom EiAL'LUlLI^U Uuiiuiii^ vuv uiia "*"5 v?iu ary, slipped on some ice at thj top of tl marble steps and slid rapidly to the bo torn. On his way, however, he er.coun tered a gentleman who was leisurely di icending before him, whipped hii briskly from his feet and brought hii down by his side to the pavement belo^ This unexpected introduction was a< companied by a prompt removal of the: respective hats. Philip's rolled down t the curbitone, and the stranger's whirlc long the payement to be stopped and r< turned by an opportune bootblack. Foi tunately no bjdily damage was done t ither of the embarrassed young men who instantly picked themselves uf with mut ally unnecessary apologies Philip, perhaps, had some raison d'etre is he had been the aggressive party, bu the .'ame haste to catch a train that ha occasioned the tendering of the apolog made it naturally very brief. He barel took time to assure himself that his fe low-voyager to the sidewalk was nc hurt, then clapped his hat on his hea . . and rushed onward with the same spec that defeated itself a few seconds previ ous. We state that Philip clapped his hs on his head, but the truth is, he clappei on a hat in every way resembling it, ye as unlike it as a hat that we have neve worn is unlike the hat of our everyda; . wear. Philip had not gone a blocj when he. realized that he had made mistake, and exchanged hats with th itranccr, whom he had otherwise incorn modea by hurling him down stairs. I would ;eem that Destiny had biea gra tuitously unkind through Philip's un meant agency to this unoffensive way farer, and for no apparent reason but he own wilful fancy. However, it woul< probably be useless to return to the seen if their rencontre, even if Philip ha< had time. So he contented himself wit) xamining the hat as he sped up by thi Elevated to his train at Forty-secon< ftreet, and was glad to find in it a htoark, the initials W. W. C., neatly em broidercd on a band of dark game ilk and ornamented with sprays of floss ilk vine. No one hnd ever embroiderec hat mark for Philip, and the rightfu owner of the misappropriated head-cov ring became at once invested with -i ort of romance in Philip's mind. Thi hat of itself was anything but romantic !>eing one of those hard, stiff Derbies -that seem to have been invented for n( Other purpose than to counteract any pos ible gooa looks on the part of the owner ,4W. W. C." Philip pondered not i f; * tittle over these cabalistic signs o: feminine care and interest; he examinee them so closely, indeed, that, after thi %i~ti manner of ardent explorers, he madi v an unlooked-for discovery. Under th i IZiil. Uam/1 ii-an nnl'o/1 firtnlw < ' 41WUIU DU&CU l/auu "OO WUV/UVU u?u*ij % jL slip of folded paper. Thinking i tuight contain perhaps the full com plement of the initials, Philip opeue< and read it. A great flush passed ove Ws facc, and his heart quickened witl sympathy.. On the paper were writtei these words, in a delicately feminim band: "Will?If you care to preserve this littl souvenir, you will some time know that lore yoo; too late, perhaps, for happiness pat not too late for truth. Qod grant tha rou may safely cro3s the ocean, and cros Lack again to me." That was all. Philip's ardent sou thrilled with tenderness as he reverentl replaced the little scrap of paper in it hiaing-place, and continued to lool down at it, like one in a dream Ho^ could he put it on again, with this sail ecret hovering above his brain? I seemed a sacrilege that he, a stranget should be crowned even temporaril with this "burden of an honor int which he was not bom." Of cours necessity compelled him to wear it unti he could procure one of his own, but th pathos of those few yearning words gav aim no peace. Even when he had cease to be conscious of their actual proximit to his curly dark locks, and was agai bis own man, at least to the extent of Bew Derby, he was not rid of thei haunting spell. The advertisements h paid for in behalf of "W. W. C." woul nave purchased half a dozen hats, bu they brought him no s:gn nor toke from the missing owner; and as tim wore on, the strange hat with its patheti secret lay hidden in a box in Philip' wardrobe, and became a thing of tn past. Meanwhile Fate, spinning her web c many tissues, spun for Philip, amon other things, a hat-mark of his own. 1 was very, very 'pretty, and very, ver precious, and Philip felt like a king wh is for the first time crowncd with hi royal inheritance, when he knew tha he was adjudged worthy to wear th favor of slender lily fingers whose lighl est touch had thrilled him like a concur tration of electric batteries. Fate' name,on this occasion, was Myra Browne She was fair and light-haired, with prett gray eves, and a soft independence c mind and manner. Philip had fallen i love with her at first sight, but she ha only grown by slow degrees from indil ference to interest,from interest to friend ship, from friendship to?well, ths next step is scarcely perceptible, but he progress eventually resu'ted inagloriou attainment for Philip. He could scarcel trust himself to the contemplation of hi own bliss when he realized that the hap piness of this strong yet delicate an impassioned soul was given into his keef Ing. "I bring you the first real love of m heart," she said, looking him throug and through with her clear, sincerc gra * Byes. "Always remember this, Philip the first real love ot my neart." Philip stood abashed before the purif of her gaze, remembering how be ha Vrritten poems to this girl and that, an pressed pretty hands with a fervor ths now rose up to accuse him. Philip had been two years in possessio of the mysterious, secret-laden Derbj and five months married, before thes ! '' circumstances found any relation to ei other. He was looking through wardrobe one day, and came out to M with the hat in his hand, and sitt down, began to tell her its romantic 1 tory. Myra listened with her needle b pended and her lips apart, her face pal and flashing with warm, womanly sj pathy. Her pretty eyes tilled with te as she read the little written scrap Phi placcd in her hand. She went ovei silently two or three times, with a vi sad, compassionate glance; then, to PI ip's ama ement, tore the paper ii shrea&s and threw them from her < of the window. The wind lost no ti in carrying them away. ns "Myra!' he looked almost wildly af the flying pieces. ''What in the wo induced you to ao mat*" "It was the right thing to do, dea she answered, with quivering lips. woman should betray her heart in tl way. If I ever could be tempted to f get pride a^id dig.iity so foolishly, would be oblige i to any one who woi destroy the evidence of my folly." ' But supposing I should find t owner?the person to whom that pa] was addressed?" "That isn't likely now, Philip; [ course, if you do find him, you could t him. But, Philip," looking earnestly jf her husband, "if I were you, I woi never tell any one else. Such thic ie seem pretty and interesting; but th c are more than that. They belong to t Viaarf'o /laAn flvnOfJOnPA on/1 TFO BKAH ^ ULU1 l< O W tvu\/\.| uuv? ?? v wuy V not hold them lightly to talk of a ^ smile at. No, I think the poor girl w n wrote those impulsive words would , glad to know they aie destroyed. I ?* licve me, Philip," smiling at him gent jr "women can judge for women. I ha 0 done what is light." ^ Philip's answer was h'u usual one wh , Myra looked particularly pretty. a9 s did just now. ^ "Vou are an angel," he said, aft , ward, "and, of course, you are rigl but I am thinking of the man's sic ' don't you see? That mea age belong * to him, whoever, wherever he is, and would never think of stopping it on way. To my masculine view it seen don't you know, a little like?li v robbing the mails." ? "It isn't like that at all," said My] ^ in a millly argumentative tone. ^ wouldn't do that myself. And, besic ? if the mails are going to bring trouble : people, they ought to be robbed?t sooner the better." x 'iOh, my dear girl!'* said Phili j laughing. i. "Well, of course!" rejoined Myra, c cidedly. "But it is so hard to ma men understand things as they really ai [ Philip!" "Yes, my love." "I want you to promise me that y won't tell any one?any one?about tb t scrap of writing, unless you find the the person for whom it was intended, want you to promise this for the po foolish woman's sake. Won't you, aet ^ est?" j "I promise?for this poor fooli e woman's sake," said Philip, lookii j down with rapture at her lifted eye . and he was nearer to the truth than 1 e knew. | One bright Sunday morning not loi afte.- this, when there was a cradle i their house, and in it a little goldi head, worth all the rest of the gold [ the world, a card was brought to Mi j Northam. It bore the name of Walk W. Carroll. She passed it to her hu ~ band with a shade of annoyance on h c face"Ah, this is your old friend, Carroll, ' suppose?the one you have spoken of i J olten?" he remarked, pleasantly. "Yes. I hadn't heard that he w back from England, though." Myra w ' running a brush over her hair, and loo f ing at her face as she spoke. "I wond I if his wife is with him? But what i i hour to call! It can't be half-past nine s "Lucky we are up," said Philip, wii a laugh; or, rather, thanks to that brigar ^ and pirate in the cradle there. He nev t seems to enjoy his sleep until he h robbed us of ours. Sha'n't I go dov j and receive your friend, if you don't fe quite ready, Myra." j "I am quite ready now, thanks," sa j Myra, promptly: "and don't leave tl s baby, please, till Maggie comes up." QVkA nosaorl PVitlift in nrAQCliK* f.n tl UUV/ j/?vjgv<u A. v???0 "W ? door, turned back and kissed him, ai ? went down-stairs. . A tall, brown and bearded Strang t was standing in the parlor, looking ? the door expectantly as ehe entered, bo hands outheld in friendly welcome. .1 "Will!" Y "Myra!'' 3 "I am so glad " ^ "Such a lovely surprise " v "And how have you been ?" i "I heard you were married." t "And you never wrote.'' Who cau reproduce the first hurrii y words of greeting after a long sepai 0 tion ? Speech and smiles, and blush e and eager looks mingle inextricabl U at once. After a moment or two t e mists of feeling clear a little; it is easi 6 to speak, but not so imperative. ^ Myra sat down by her friend on a litt y so fa. The welcoming look had not qui n gone out of her face when she said, ii a pressively: 'r "Will, I must ask you something no' e Do you remember the little hat-marl ^ made you before you went away? I p & it in your hat myself the night befc Q trnti aoilorl " e "Do I remember? I should think a c But imagined what happened. There 3 next morning I lost my hat. It w e knocked oS my head and picked up 1 another man." "Yes, I kuow," said Myra, quickl S 1 'by my hu3band?by Philip Northam. "You don't say so! Your husban 7 And I got his hat in exchange. Ha! h The long-lost hat! It's about time 1 IS should return them, now." ^ But Myra was not smiling; sh? ? e clamping and unclasping her hands, ner ously. l" "Will, did you notice?did you exai 8 ine my little gift very closely?" s asked, with strange hesitancy. "Y y know, I fastened it in myself." ^ "Ye3, I know. It was awfully kii 11 of you, too. I felt so sorry to think ? couldn't have kept it!" * "And?and you are 8 ire you didi 1- ann amrfViirirr olao with if UnTthino P J 3 " lt cent the hat-mark f" r She spoke slowly, searching his fa 8 with her eyes. y "Anything else?" he repeated, wondi 's ingly. "What kind of a thing, for i ' stance? I don't understand." d She looked at him, now, with t ' brightest smile he had ever seen h wear. _ "Oh, isn't fate strange, Will? isn't k strange and good ? It won't let us ha '/ our own way; it snatches from us t ~ things we covet, but only to give something so much belter. I am gl; 7 for everything, though?everything!" d "What a remarkable state of min ^ Do you think you could explain yo meaning a little?'' "No," she said, joyously; "I ne\ can; I never will! I am too thankfi Q And then," she added, deprecating! 'i "a woman must always be mysterioi ie you know." ach "She always is, I know." his "She must be," insisted Myra, gentlv. yra "The conditions of her life are such, ing And, Will. I am going to ask you now t lis- to be a little mysterious, too." us- "But wherelore shouldst thou?" He ing gave her a comical look of dismay. rm- "That I can't tell you, either; only, if ] ars Philip?if my husband should ever show Hip you?should ever tell you his romance of r it a hat, it has nothing to do with youl ery You never had a like experience; no girl iil- ever gave you a hat-mark, or, if she did, ato you never lost it. Do you understand?" Dut "I don't, in the least; but I can follow { me instructions. Will that answer?'' "It is all I could ask," she answered,^ < ter smiling on him gracefully. "And one * rid thincr Yon will nnt mind if T rail vrm 1 Walker, instead of Will, as I used to?'] r," "Walker is a frightful name!" he said, No resignedly. "My wife calls me that when aat she wants to tease me. I suppose I can or- bear it, if I must." I "Oh, tel 1 me about your wife, Walker," lid was Myra's reply. "And to think you married an English girl! I know she ;he must be charming. And you will like ray )er dear, lovely Philip. He is so splendid and so good." of "Of course. Well, do you know, Myra, ell I often used to wonder whet soit of a at man you ever would really care for. You ild seemed so hard to suit." igs Did I?" asked Myra, with a deep, deep ' ey blush. "Philip suits me." he t tld It was rather strange, when the time J nd came for Mr. Carroll to examine his long- ] ho j lost and oft regretted Derby, to do so 1 be j with an air of ignorance, to try it on at 1 Je- the mirror, anu become aware that it [ ly, fitted him, and to further discover that ve the embroidered initials were the same as his own. And still more strange was en it, in view of these coincidences, to rehe ccive from the hand ef Mr. Northramhis own property as a gift. er? "I am pretty sure never to find the it; real owner now," Philip said, thoughtie, fully. "The hat's an excellent hat, and ?d enough in style. And as the initials be[ I long to you, why, I really think you its ought to wear it out, hat-mark and all. And especially as it fits you so well." ke "It does fit me," said Mr. Carroll, looking down confidentially at the hnt as the ra. sharer of a secret. But, for the matter "I of that, the hat had a secret of its own. le, ?Madeline S. Bridget. to 1iq How to Judge Canned Goods. ip, A hint now about tinned goods, meat especially. Note, when about to purle chase, the condition of the tin; if bulged ke outward, don't have it, even as a gift 1 re. We will explain the process of canning, to give weight to our warning. ' The meat is packed in tins while raw, ? AAAITAJ in An AllfAf> OaO. !, im bucu seaicu, uuu wva/acu ju ?u vmv* ?w i .at sel of boiliDg water, with sometimes the ? addition of a chemical, to raise the tem- i I perature. When cooked, the can is i or pierced, aad, ai soon as the air and steam tr- have been expelled, it is jo'dered. Ex- \ perts know when it is ready for solder- 1 shjing; a moment too soon, and the misig ] ch ef is done, because if air is left in, ^ is; j the tin bulges, and the meat will not be f tie , good. On tne contrary, if the tin has ^ sunk,it is an.infallible sign of gooduess; it ? proves a vacuum, whitli is natural, as ? ig the meat shrinks when no air is left in the ? in tin. f an Some may say, what matter if air be j in left in the tin? Simply this: nitrogen, \ 3. an element of air, imparts to bodies with t er which it comes in contact a tendency to j is- change and decay. f tr Often, on opening a tin of preserved c goods, people are heard to say "the air c I is escaping," instead of whTch, the g so slight hissing sound is the remit of the i air rushing in, another proof that there r as was a vacuum. Well, we go so far as to t as say that?assuming the outward sign of j k- goodness above referred to?a label bear- j er log the name of a good exporter or im- j in porter?and also a reliable vendor of the | t article?wnetner meat, nsn, miiK, soup, th or vegetable, the chances are a million to s id one against any being injured, much lew a er poi8 >ned, by tinned good-:. j. as Another caution, though: always look m out for any little globules of solder that c iel sometimes find their way inside the tin. c and take care, especially in the ease of | t id salmon and lobster, to empty the con- t lie tents, as soon as opened, into an earthen- r ware vessel. This is necessary for every- _ lie thing except milk.?CatseWs Magazine, o id ? Carts in Mexico. i er t at A letter from Mexico to the Detroit j th Free Preys says: In the distance we see ^ a long train moving across the the plateau. It is composed of cumbersome | carts, each drawn by six mules. These g carts are sometimes ten feet wide, ^ith j three shafts made of hewn timber, about j >- innkao onimrp TVia wheels are 1 * about as high as those of the old- | ^ time log cart, and are often run without j ed tires, but in this case each felloe is from t a. six to ten inches square; so tires are not j Les needed. Our form of wagon bed is uny. known here, but in place of it they build he a single room house on a balance over j [er the axle, using the rear half of the shafts for sills. It is built of square timber or { le round poles, with floor and wall made of te green cow skin. They are sometimes t n- fifteen feet high, and usually covered with a kind of coarse bagging. There a w. is no door to the structure, hence everyc I thing must be loaded in over the top, ut at the gable ends. When a long caravan j >re composed of these carts is seen moving ^ slowly over the plain, each loaded with 101 almost every class and kind of product I j tj known to the tropic, one can then form ^ as a better idea of the resources of this s by country; but when we look at the tackle of the mules and the old and ancient y; garb of their drivers and the ranchero, J ? we r-an form a still better idea of the har d? ness fashions of antiquity. Well, I hardly I s a! know how to describe this procession; ? Hre but, in the language of the Arkamaw t Traveller, everything "appears wonder- ' c lat fully out of kilter." T 7. . c Fables for the Times. 11 j" A Crow with a morsel of cheese in her t ou beak was accosted by a hungry Fox, who 1 begged her to sing, remarking that a j a(j beautiful voice must accompany so fair r j a form. The vain bird at once dropped I the cheese and the Fox hastened to seize I I it. But alast it was Limburger and one i t smell overcame the thief, whose dying | c agonies were heightened by the Crow's j L executing "In the Gloaming." | s Moral: This little Fable shows that j t ?r_ the innocenc often develop surprising i jjj* strength in unexpected quarters. ]: the two dogs. ^ ? nn T"\ ,1 i. 1: ^ ne 1 wo l^ogs UUU uiky wcui. uuu 1IUUUII-, j . ier one of them being a smart dog with a ., classical education and the other being it very ignorant and unsophisticated. Prelve ty soon they struck the track of a Lion, he and the educated Dog started off in the us direction of the royal beast, while hit ! ? ad ignorant companion, making an absurd ! mistake, took the back track and started , d! off in the opposite direction. In a few ;, <ur minutes the educated Dog was serving | 1 as an inanimate free lunch for an cnor- j rer mous lion, while the ignorant Dog es- j il! caped unhurt. ^ i ' ly, Moral: This Fable teaches that classi- | ^ is, cal lore should be plentifully sprinkled ? with practical knowledge.?Life. GREAT BEAR HUM'. ' IN EXCITING EXPERIENCE IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS. Bow the Grceljr Expedition Was Saved From Starvation?A Story Told l>y One of the Survivors. Sergeant Francis Long, of Brooklyn, a lurvivor of the Qreely Arctic expidition, 1 :ells a New York correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer the following bear story, wmcn nas uiineno uceu acatuciv nore than mentioned in the accounts of Starvation Camp. He says: ' Bacon, shrimps nnd sealskin stew, all in snail quantities, had been our fare for : )ver two weeks, and there wa3 not a full 1 round of rations left. More than half of \ he men in camp were incapable of , work, but that was little matter, foi ihere was no more to do than three could ' handle. The steady cold made us all : irowsy, and there was the worse danger in sleep. If a man wan allowed to have lis sleep out he would certainly never wake, so we had to muke a rule that no 1 )ne should sleep more than two hours at 1 i time. It began to look, with only one day ( jetween us and starvation, as if it might; j je better for us all to go to sleep tojether and die unconscious of the terri- | jle cold and the pangu of hunger. Wei lad plenty of hunting, fishing and cookng utensils, amunition and all that, bu~ ' vhat good were th>;y? There was no jame, no fish. During all our camp wu ' lAMA.Uf Anlw 4-trrr\ fiaK T VflQ t.VlA Vlimfp" * ;uu^ui/ umj inu iioi*. A ??* ? vwv >f thepa;ty, ar.d had tra-npedthe region ! >ver and over, and rnrely bad the lucl: o get a shot at anything. The day before we came to our last ( ouud of rations I hud d'scDvered th'i , racks of a bear. I !aad followed theni J ibout until I was exhausted trying to . neet the beast, but had utterly failed. )n this day a light snow fell in the norning, just enough to obscure the ( rail, but still I hunted. I gave it up , ate ;ji the afternoon and returned to the J amp. Brainerd had gone to the shrimp- 1 ng gronnd, and was absent when I laid ( >y my gun. Suddenly he appeared runling down Cemetery Ridge us fast as his . >oor, weak legs would bring him. We ill sorted up and waited his coming in he most painiul excitement. When he ( cached the camp he fell to the ground, j ,11 cut of breath. The men crawled to ( lis as iitance and two of them raised his , tead in their arms. He gasped and ooked at us wildly. ' 'Brainerd 1" exclaimed the Lieutenant, 'what is it?" I "Hear, bear!" was all he could answer n a choking whisper. "Where, man, where?" I cried, reach- j og for ray gun,all trembling and quiverng with hone and fear. j "There," he said fiiintly, pointing to- , rard the ridge; "he followed after me; . ie's coming." How can I tell the terrible excitement ( hat prevailed? The men were in a perect frenzy. Cruel suffering had made hem worse than unreasonable. Some of ( hem could think of nothing but cursing ] >ooi: Brainerd for not killing the bear, j ind were with difficuly restrained from ] ftllinrr nnon him to wreak vengeance. 1 o ~~1 Ie aad not taken his gun with h.m?no- \ >ody ever did who went shrimping?and j hey cursed and raved at that, ana burst ; nto tears at the loss ?f their last chance or life. Others, and they were the weak- 1 :st men in the party, were for starting ] ut at once for an all night hunt over the j now fields and icebergs. Nothing could < >e more foolhaidy. Ihey couldn't have fone beyond the top of the ridge without i >reuking down, to say nothing of carry- ] ng a gun and firing accurately. The j jieutenant used his authority and I my ' nflience to quiet tie men, and at last ] he plan of the hunt was arranged. It vas ^really only a few minutes, but it' i eemed an hour. Jan, the Esquimau, ; md I started up the ridge to meet the : >ear if be should continue toward us. < Hardly had we got a rod from the < :amp when a long white nose appeared^ i tver an ice-covered rock at the top of i he hill. The men set up a shout and I < Tiiulf it nnnflrverl me. but it w&9 a loner- i ange shot?nearly three hundred yarSs j -and the target was small.. I raised my i jun and taking quick aim fired. The < >all missed, but it did not go wide of 1 ts mark. The bear was otartlcd. He >aused just too short a time to give the Esquimau a chance at him, ana turned ail and ran. I heard the howls and groans of disappointment behind me. I < lelieve that some of tho3e poor, half- i tarved, half-frozen men would have shot 1 ,t me in their an^er if they had had their < ;uns at hand. 1 "Jan," I said hastily, "take the course 1 o the left and go round the ridge and ! icep well to the west, so as to get beween the bear and the water. I will go n the same way on the ea3t." i The faithful Esquimau understood the )lan at once and set out without a word. ! crawled to the top of the ridge as fast i is I could and saw the be.sr a long way >ut of range still on the run. He turned ound for a second and looked back, nnd hen, as if satisfied that ho was pursued, :ontinued his flight. I didn't go straight : tfter him, but keeping out of bis sight 19 much as possible, crawled, and ran, ind slid up and down the icy slope, mak- : ng all the time for the water. I was everish with fear. It seemed as if every jossible obstruction got in my way, and nany a time I fel\ to the ground. It vas a terrible chase. May I never have mother 1 ke it! It seems incredible now, but I actually vent ten miles out of my way to get in ront of that boar. I knew that he would iton running when he got over his scare ina saw nobody in punuit, and I had to ake this round-about course to keep out >f sight. Mighty little of that distance vas passed on the run. Most of it was irawled. But I had no thought of giving ip. I plugged on, ai^d at last, two hours ind a half after leaving camp, I gained he position I wanted. I climbed a low lill, and there was Bruin, one thousand ards away, sitting down after his hard un within thirty yards of o]>en -water. had not succeeded fully in my plan, le could still escape, but his back was oward me and I did not despair. Al- I iiost at the same moment that'l saw the 1 icar I discovered Jan the Esquimau, at I omc distance, and we both made for the i ><;ast. With the utmost care not to alarm i u'm, we crawled over the ground, ap- i iroaching nearer and nearer to our prey. 1 Ye had got, perhups, half the distance < vhen Jan raised his gua irnd fired. I ] hiuk it was bad judgmen t, for we might ] lave got much closer. But there was no ' ime for regret. Excitement gave me 1 aore strength, and I ran with all my 1 aight straight toward thi? bear. He got ] ip and looked at me and seemed not to i ;now whether to run again or stand and j aake a fight of it. I resisted the tempta- ] ion to fire at him until I was within one lundred and fifty yards. Then I stopped j unning, threw my cap down, pulled off i ay mittens, and acted as deliberately as I f I were out practicing at a target. My t xeitemcnt seemed to leave me, or rather j o make me steady. I took a long, care- j 1 ul aim and fired. The bear turned ! " slightly, but it was evident I had missed. I fired again quickly. Another miss! My heart suok low. Jan had not been able to get another shot, and was not now where he could fire with any hope of hitting. The bear began to make for the water. Ready to die with despair if I should fail again, I took another long aim. The bullet struck the bear in the head nnd hfl tumbled over instantlv. stone dead. It was half-past eight o'clock, and the place where Bruin fell was three miles in a straight line from camp. We left the four hundred pounds of food lying on the ice and returned to the anxious party to get help in bringing the carcass home. We did not sleep that night until the dead bear was brought into camp. The Lieutenant gave out extra rations to the men who assisted in the work, and made up a stew of all the scraps that were left of the regular rations. It wasn't much, but it seemed quite a feast to us. The bear saved U3, for just before it in its turn gave out, the rescuing expedition found us. A Wonderful Lake in Oregon. Vino mnmVinpa nf mir linrfTT m?dft ths , 4""V V V? J-... .j circuit of the Qike on a tour of inspection. The sccncry was grand to a degree far beyond our most sanguine expectations. Four strong oarsmen soon brought us to Llao Rock and as we gazed in silent wonder at its rugged sides, reaching nearly half a mile above us, for the first time did I realize the immensity of such a spectacle. Beyond Llao Rock we found a beautiful little bay, and beyoud this a larger one, probably one mile long by a quarter of a mile deep. Here we found a narrow bcach of small gravel running almost the entire length of the bay, while further out in the lake the bottom is comj o-sed of sand. As this point has not only never been named, but probably was never before visited by human beings, we decided to christen it Cleetwood Bay. Passing on our journey it was soon 3een that the cliffs on the north side are not so high as those to the south. In several places it appeared that good brails could easily be made to the water's sdge, over which a person might ride, and in one place without any grading whatever, a good pack train could descend with comparative ease. About two o'clock a thunder shower niiJJontn nnnn no ill of ftq t.Wrt uauxc 3UUUOU1J Uj/vu UW| juv. OT~ ...w beautiful grottoes came in view. Into one of these the ;ioat was run, where wc were entirely beyond the reach of rain, [t proved to be about thirty feet deep ana ten feet wide, with an arched roof prob.ibly eight feet above the water, while the rocky bottom could be distinctly aeen ten feet below the surface. So perfect was its form that it almost seemed the hand of man had hewn it from the solid rock. Beyond it towers an immense cliff, very high, with broken, rugged sides, picturesque and sublime, which I insist on naming Dutton Cliff, in honor of Captain Dutton, who has done and is doing so much to make Crater Lake justly famous. Immediately north of Dutton Cb'ff the slements have worn the sides of the mountain,leaving a hard substance,resembling the Mansard roof of a cottage, while m one place tall red chimneys stand aloft, making, all in all, such a scene that Cottage Rock could scarcely be improved on for a name. Lying between tne points ibove referred to a break in the walls was found that is almost perpendicular, but certainly does not exceed 400 feet in height. This is by far the lowest point in the walls. Just at the foot of Dutton Cliff an island was discovered 200 feet wide by 400 feet long, ana over iuu to the top of the rocks that stand upon it [ike great chimneys or towers, giving to it an appearance like the castles of old. We did not land, but an appropriate name would be Castle Island. Crater Lake has again risen to the oc:asion, as accurate tests will prove bejrond all question that but few bodies of water in the world equal it in depth, except the ocean, and none whatever of an jqual size, while in the western hemisphere it will stand absolutely unrivaled. Heretofore Tahoe has been considered the ieepeat lake in America, being 1,640 Feet. Oaly preliminary soundings have been made as yet, and the figures obtained ire subject to slight change. The deepest water found so far is 1,955 feet, seing 315 more than Tahoe.?Portland Oregonian. The Cochineal Cactus The true cochmeal cactus (Nopalea :ochinellifera) has little to recommend it to attention except its ueiugcmpiujcu to rear the cochineal insect (coccuscacti) 3n. The plants grow naturally ten to twelve feet high, and are much branched. The plantations are called Nopaleries, and often contain from fifty to sixty thousand plants, which are planted in rows, but are not allowed to attain their natural hight for convenience in handling. The male insect'is winged, very minute and few in numbers compared to the wingless female, which is stationary on the plant durirg the greater part of existence. The so wing, as it is termed in Mexico?that is, the placing of the female insects on the plants to produce their young?takes place in August or September, a piece of rag or soft leaf being used and fastened with a thorn if necessary. In three or four months the collecting of the insects takes place, an another is prepared for; three gatherings taking place in a year. Women are employed for this work, using a blunt knife or a squirrel's tail to remove the insects; and that it is ateu.ous task can DC reaany imagiaca, as it lam-a about 70,000 of the insects to ma^e a pound. The insects are killed either by being heated in an oven, or by imraersio . ... boiling water, and afteward dried in tho rnn. There are two kinds named, t^e 3rana-fina and the Graua-sylvestra, the former being much larger and superior ;n ecery way.?Independent. n..w}nl.mAMf Af Pnrt*lnMAa In Di IT 11111311 III CIA b VI JL ui tivkwvtf VM- ? The London and China Telegraph says: \ number of Europeans were spectato >f a horrible scene at Canton recently" tt was known that there were two murJerers to be disposed o , the murderi being of a peculiarly heinous character, iccording to Chinese justice?the criminals were parricides. Now, the punishnent for this crime is not merely decapitation as for ordinary casea of murder, but the criminal ia tied to a bamboo iross and then hacked into thirty-sir pieces; and it was the infliction of this horrible brutality that was witnessed. The two wretched men were lashed to the bamboos with barbarous cruelty, and then the executioners cut them up in approved style, commencing at the legs md traveling upwards. The coupe ao grace was given by a stab through the heart, and then decapitation finished the job. The scenc is described as horribl' beyond description, and when it is stated that one of the men lived after being terribly mutilated, shrieki: g with igony at each stroke of the sword, the feelings of the Europeans who witness d ;his disgraceful exhibition may be iralgincd. j 1 HOMING PIGEONS, i i D.< HOW THE AERIAL MESSENGERS j g"*11' ARE BRED AND REARED. Organization of the Kins* County . ^ Homing Pigeon Clnb ? Remarkable Flight* Made g0 ^ by Local Bird* 8en|; burn Brooklyn, in addition to being the Dl third city in the Union, also occupies the jor j, third place in the cultivation and breed- ^ ing of the homing pigeon. Philadelphia, j ^ a probably, contains more homing pigeons ^ave than New York and Brooklyn combined, It is only in recent years that breeding Qn(j , of these wonderful little birds was introduced in this city, and the industry, if '? uch it may be called, is but fifteen years ?laa< old in America. Belgium was the first *ori^ country to discover the many uses to v1913 which the homing pigeon might be put and the cultivation of the bird there almost equals that ef the canary. Millions airec of canaries and pigeons are bred in Ger- *lmo many yearly. Germans are fond of birds uc Ic of all sorts and take much pleasure in It rearing and attending to their wants, photi Our Teutonic neighbors have brought obje< many of the customs of the Fatherland in th with them, but none to which they stick coalc more closely than the breeding of Homing stove pigeons. it all Mr. M. B. Maguire, a member of the it fre Kings County Pigeon Club, is an enthu- cial 1 siastic breeder of homing pigeons. Mr. By Ma^uire has a loft containing thirty sink birds which are largely on the increase, most He takes great pride in keeping his loft its rt in clean condition. When visited the detei loft was closed, its inmates being inside, of tw Mr. Mnguire carries oa breeding on a sever large scale. Birds three or four weeks obsei old are called squealers. Many of these moor were to be seen in the Maguire loft, infer Young birds at first are not ?ble to use sutfic their wings. They are carefully trained at lej step by step, however until they become surfa full fledged homing pigeons. Of Last summer a dozen or more birds ^ajjbelonging to Brooklyn lofts were liber- m0Bp ated at New Orleans, a distance of 1,150 ^ey miles. None have returned and it is tbe ] thought that they have lost their bear- *tmo ings, or have been shot. c At this season of the year pigeon fan- ^ ^ ciers are troubled by sportsmen who Uppe; shoot the birds, thinking them wild. very All ratinrr hnminor niorennH have num. : **** * ""'"o ?n JT'O""" 10 mi bers and the addresses of their owners ft wo stamped on their wings. Sportsmen a who shoot them in mistake are requested ^ m, to notify their owners. Many birds, after wci?] having successfully journeyed 500 miles . or more, have been killed when within a -vj short distance of home. Homing pigeons fly high. When taken out of their cagef far from home they fly upward until ? ti nearly out of sight, when they make in natm the direction of home. The only danger man, homing pigeons experience from the * * sportsman's gu^ is when they become tired and descend to rest. s? . When in transit their flight is so high that no gun can reach them. Pigeons , have been known to fly toward home in ? the face of a strong wing, which at times ^ equaled a hurricane in velocity. They , y1 appear to ascend until a favorable air cur- . rent is reached, when their little bills are turned in the direction of the loft to nl which they belong. move It costs "little to raise and keep homing . , pigeons. They eat but little, and are dainty in their food. They live on Canada peas, wheat and small kernels of corn. The homing pigeon's chief char- Th acteristic is it? love of home. It can consi never be prevailed upon to give up its comp rest in a loft if the latter remains intact, the v It does not appear to have the affection to th for its young which is to be seen in other Yang members of the feathered family. A the A pigeon will not neglect its offspring, but watei yet it does not seem to be particularly Lake solicitous as to their welfare. Homing it the pigeons lack decision, and frequently long when first liberated take other directions gethe than the one toward home. than The service performed by homing pig- great ? 1 J I?? iV. - r eons was bo great uunug luc r mucu- inime Prussian war that birds are now trained than for military purposes in Germany. "There of w is no doubt, had not the telegraph or area i telephone been invented, but that hom- than ing pigeops would have been the me.ins river of communication between cities. Mes- worlc sages sent by pigeons are written on tis- pours sue paper of the thinnest description, the A During: the recent national yacht races a A local paper used the birds of Mr. Henry cover Rover to carry dispatches from the basin judge's boat to the newspaper office. AmaPigeons have of late years been used on been the stage to add realism to certain scenes, by wi They are also used by business and pass i professional men for various purposes, river Pigeons have been known to fly long the 0 distances at the rate of 50.4 sec- until onds to the mile. Mr. Goodman, the 1 of Brooklyn, has a bird which made the Float distance from Abingdon, Va., 508 miles, desce In a day. YY nen pigeons are seni on long ne ca distances, say from 600 to 1,000 miles, tary. they sometimes lose their reckoning and into t fail to return. Some have been given then i up as lost, but after sixty or ninety days as is i they have returned safe and sound. A over t man's statement in regard to the per- wide formance of his bird is not taken in a Agoa] race. In races each fancier has a friend Jauru watch at his rival's loft, so as to time the the ] arrival of the birds. Agoaj Races are seldom, or never, made for a mighl money consideration. Occasionally a sil- or tl ver cup is won a3 the result of a race, branc! but usually pigeons are raced by their yards, owners from simple love of the sport. But few pigeon fanciers realize anything . ?.? from the sale of their birds. Breeders are worth $3 per pair and young birds . A f< bring $ 1 per pair. Many pigeons suffer from indigestion and pills are made to *?v?! relieve their ailment. Old an dtried racers 5^*1 bring fancy prices. Some birds of this P description have sold as high as $100 J0<?~ each.?Brooklyn Eagle. path \ ?* " . rible Danger from Swordflsli, ?0me The swordfish does attack human retrae pursuers. The recent death of Captain, heard ? - ? i * ? - ? J A tpA l Frailic .Langsiora irom a wuuhu lumcicu by a swordfish recalls an icident some- trail, i what similar that occurred several year* the oj ago, but unattended by any tragic result, pushe A swordfish had been harpooned from a haps t Gloucester schooner and was attached to it ling o floating buoy. Mr. Jame? Thurston ahead went out in a dory, accompanied by a up he shipmate, to bring it in. Soon after be- glarin ginning to haul the line in the men felt beast! the dory slightly jarred. Simultaneously took the sword of the fish stuck up through killed the bottom of tLe dory, between Mr. bea^t Thurston's knees. lie instinctively threw Union Ilia Hnrlr and rsrnned with a sl'jrht icratch on his chin. With his dorymate's help a rope was fastened about the The word in such a way as to secure it, and from 1 Ihe men pulled for . the schooncr, when A \ (lie do:y was drawn on board with the brush rwordfMi attached to the bottom.?Rj?- Grand 'on Transcript. The ? remaii Senator Stanford, of California, has a pl"Dg jarrot which cost him several hundred turnec iollars, and is a wonderfully educated The j iird It speaks four languages?Eng- one-tt ish, French, German and Italian. The lazine! itrange part of it is that the parrot, as Mes oon as he hcara any one speak, knows in Bnt9> 1 j vhat language to address the person. cord News. / POPULAR SCIENCE. >mestic*tion soften* the whole or* c structure. In the feathered species eathering is not as dense nor as hard i the wila fowL r quick cure for bums is to applya of common salt ai d saturate it with anum. Hold it in place an hour or j a simple bandage. The smarting ition disappears rapidly, and the gets welL * '. C. Keller, of Zurich, finds reason relieving that spiders destroy mora. des and insect enemies of troea than II the insect-eatiag birds. His view* been verified by observations on 'erous trees, a few broad-leafed tree* apple trees. le improvements which have been i of late in the mode of discharging :does by means of electrical appara~ ave greatly conduced to a far higher ee of precision being attained, and still further development in this tion there can be little doubt that st perfect exactitude will ultimately ached. is said that with a rock salt lens ^graphs may be taken of a heated* :t (with a specially prepared plate)'. e dark. For instance, a photograph* I be made of a black-hot casting or f in a darkroom. This is because, ows artificial light to pass through' ely, while glass absorbs both artiftieat and light. observing how far the sun has to beneath tEe horizon before the topsummit of the air is cut off from iys, Mons. Bravais some years ago -mined the greatest upward limit ilight to be ?78,000 feet, or nearly ity-one miles above sea leveL By ving the earth's shadow on the l during eclipses, astronomers had red that the atmosphere must be iently dense to producc twilight for ist 340,000 feet away from the earth's ce. - ' r-rthe innumerable meteors which. v and nightly strike the earth's athere, nearly all are so small that are instantaneously consumed by '-> ; beat which this contict with the sphere evolves The product of ombustion of these small meteors slight that it is dissipated in the r regions of the atmosphere. On rare occasions only the combustion perfect and n.eteoric stones result, aid take several billion of years for verage accretion of meteoric stones ike any perceptible increase in the [it of the earth. physician, referring to the custom. iveling on sleeping-cars with the s made up with their heads toward ;ngine, said: "It is certainly bad le Drain of the sleeper, as it is not' al; and it is no wonder that so - travelers, especially those who been on the ro id extensively, exace bad effects from it. Take inin baby carriages, and no sane in will think of trundling the vehi .long so the child goes head first. always, except the voung and in- ' ienced mother, push thrm along first. Physicians invariably advise . locomotion. It is the same thing ie cars, and no one should hesitate .,, t having his berth made up so as to. i along feet first. It is much better xe brain." 7. v?..^ Facts Abont Hirers. e explorations of recent yean hare derably changed our notions of the * ar&tive rank of the great rivers of rorld. If we class risers according' eir length, both the Nile and the tse-Kiang mast be named before .mazon. The Nile's 4,000 miles of way from its headwaters south of Victoria to the Mediterranean make " largest river in the world, nearly as as the Mississippi nnd Missouri tor, and about 1,000 miles longer the Amazon. The Amazon is the est river in the world, bccause it has nse tributaries, some of them larger the Danube or the Ithine, by means hich the Amazon basin covers an iboutl,000,0(>0 square miles greater ' that of any other river. The Congo ' is the fourth longest river in the 1, but in the volume of water that it i into the ocean it is second only to mazon. very curious thing has been dised [about the three greatest river s in South Amcrica?the Orinoco, on, and the ] late basins. It has found that they are so connected iter courses that the traveler can' in steamboats or canoes from one system into another. He can ascend rinoco river for hundreds of miles he comes to the Kio Negro, one of argest tributaries of the Amazon. ing down to the Amozon, and then nding that river for some distance, a ascend the great Madeira tribuIn its upper course he can turn he Mamore, then into the Guapore, into the little Alrgre river, ftere, jften done, he can haul his canoe i low, grassy flat about two miles and launch it into the Rio pehy, and then descend by the andParaguay to Buenos Ayres and Plate River. The Alegro and jehy rivers, head streams of two ;y systemi, ?ow side by for twenty lirty miles, and many of their hes are separated by a few hundred ,?New York Sun. dnlght Battle With a Panther ew days since JohnMcAtee.aprommountaineer of West Virginia, d from a neighbor's residence at fall for his home, several miles oft. ath he followed led through thick ands. It had grown intensely and he was stumbling along the vhen his blood curdled at the horscream of a panther, apparently distance away. He hesitated to e his steps, when the scream was again, this time much closer. Mcrpftlired that the beast was on his ind drawing a la ge sheath-knife, lly weapon he carried, he boldly d forward. He had traversed per;wo hundred yaids when theorackf twigs in a low tree a few yards attracted his attention. Looking i saw two frightful balls of fire g at him. The next moment the sprang upon him. A bloody battle place, in which the panther was and the man badly wounded. The measured eight feet.?Nashville "L. V 1 C?UIA. XI1U lat'Xitau i Mexican army is largely recruited ;he criminal classes. lexican soldier who it too lazy to flies o5 will sometimes swim the le to steal a watermelon. Mexican soldier drinks enough to a on the verge of a quarrel without ing in till his opponent's back is i Mexican soldier is one-third brag, lird courage and the other third 33. ico is full of American correspondjut we do not observe that they re] the foregoing facts .?Philadelphia