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THiS HOMO or XUE S?A. 1 BT ?. LLKWA3,D BUCCE. 1 Dark the ttorm-clouds lowered < O'er the tossing, restless eea, j And the troubled watero strangely ^ ? Whispered peace and rest to me. 1 For my heart -was wildly throbbing, And my life was full of grief, j And tbo music of rolling waters Seemed to bring me sweet relief. Seemed to bring mo consolation, i Seemed to tell me o'er and o'er again k-. That mire -was a common sorrow, 1 L That trouble was the lot of men. < And bo my heart was comforted 1 By this moaning song of the sea, 'Jk\ I, at last, am quieted, I Bo shalt thou from care be freo.* DESPAIR. ( BY JENNIE C. ALLPOna Despair! Ah, whyis it so? My soul gropes in "darkest night, L My heeit beats in sadness, p- And I ofttirnos wish that there was t No despair. But despairing tho'ta t Will coine as night follows day, Yet the sun still shineB. 1 , -toy and Borrow in quick Succession doth mako my heart sick, And I look o'er head at the J Evercbanging 6kies and bow ; My head once more in darkest night; , But daylight and gladnest Soon must, come, and I hope again. CHICAGO, 111. < A. i TIE MYSTERIOUS GUNNER i f1 . JOCSCCCCC 1 An Exciting Story of the War ; of 1812. . ' BY JOHN It, MCSICK. ? ^ CHAPTER II.?(Continued). ] 9 Ola Gatrell was a beautiful girl, with large dark eyeB, raven-black hair, and ] I cheeks like the full ripe peach. She was < i as good as pretty, and loved by all who 'i I knew'her. Her sunny smiles and light ? heart won fcer way wherever 6he went. I r She talked hopefully to her lover as she 1 conducted him to the east parlor, where ? s her father sat in the preat bay window, BmOJtllig aim fjaiiug uumi vuciuiuiupucc j "Hey, lad, ye hove into port, eh?" cried tiie old tar with a heartiness which assured < our hero that he wn/ welcome. "Well, > {ust cast your anchor ?e:e along side o' J * me, for I am right down glad ye come. 1 Fact is, boy, I'm not feelin' very well, 1 and, thoiiRh Ola won't believe me, I've i got the idea in my top riggin'that I'm Booked for Davy Jolues. Oh, now, Ola, don't ye go to tuikin'. Let yer father do all the talkin' to-night. But Bay, lad, hev ye taken anything aboard since ye t ? got in, or hev they let ye starve?" t Griffith, who comprehended the sea ? jargon of the old sailor, answered, "I < have had 6upper, Captain." I All right, then. Come alongside, 1 both o' you children, fur I've got a big ? t cargo o' mystery aboard to-night. Ye { . needn't hev any fears o'that man-o'-war ] roomin' into port this nifiht. She's too ] \ tharp for that, bo rest easy. I've got a < ' ?to*y to tell ye." , Both Griffith and Ola stared in amazek xnent at the old sailor. Capt. Gatreil, } JHLnnliko most of Dis calling, had never been Vff%ixaikla~gtory telling, and this announcet ment was an astonishment. But no old professional sea-dog yarn-spinner ever Hiet about his work more deliberately j^BHhan Capt. Gatrell. As if to whet their W-cariosity he refilled his pipe, and lighting Bat for a few moments puffing in ' alienee, while he gazed from one to the ether of the lovers. "D'ye hear that old ocean beginning t o ' roar? he at last asked. m. "Yes, Capt. Gatrell," Griffith answered, "and I think we are going to have a Sir.: itorm." "E ght ye are, my lad. I never hear a ^ etovm that it don't put me in mind o' that night" "What night?" "The night I'm goin'to tell ye about. The yarn oegins with tnat night. When the sua went down- it settled behind a tank o' -olouds which seemed to get ? darker and redder until it looked like a longbelt o' blood stretched across the sky. They got blacker and blacker till they Just blotted out the bud, an' I could have iwore it never set at all. I was just off the Azores when I saw that dark clwid Become up; the barometer indicated hifch l Tviad, and I stood out to Bea. * 1 I "I^ever saw a blacker, night; I never ] I taw keener lightning nor heard louder t I thunder, while the wind blew a hurricane. > I I got ready for the squall and took in all t I bnil, except barely enough to manage the i ft chip, and remained on deck myself, al- ( R though I was almoBt worn out. 8 "Suddenly, as we came to the top after' ] I ahippin' a heavy sea, the lookout cried: I 1 *'Sail, hoi' t I "A flash o' lightin' showed at the same j | moment a ship which didn't carry a rag j p? a' canvas, and in a much worse condition i I than our own, plunging and staggering i I through the water. I knowcd at once c I that she was water-logged. By her mukd \ m~. I thought she was an American ship, but I didn't know to a certainty. They fired a lr signal gun o' distress, but we couldn't | help 'em; we had nil we could do that f mglit u> seep uurbeivus uuuui. t ( "The next flnsh that come the ship was E nowhere to be seen. " 'Johnson,' I called to the lookout through my trumpet. "Aye, aye, sir," he answered. "What become o' the shipV" "I don't know. Guess she's gone td Davy Jones'," he answered. "We spent that night in doin' every; thing we could to weather the storm, and I thonght sometimes that we must gc to the bottom in spite o' nil we could doj "It must a been two or three o'clock iii the mornin' when I saw a flash o' light-! ning and heard a report like a tremendous ?splosion. The sailors were now al} f (grouped about me, all o* 'em seemin' to think their last minute had como. 'What was that, Mr. Smart?' I asked - tr fryy jn"4^ " 'I don't know, Cap'n but it sounds very much like a ship blowod up.' The roar o' waves on our larboard tola us thai > there were breakers there, and we kept a^ well to leeward as we could. I needn't tell you how we beat about that night( and seemed at every moment to be run- 5 i ninr? dnun intothfl bottom of the oceanj How wo shipped sea after 6ea. until our Upper ca"blfi~and foot-OeCK were washed away, with three o* my bravest sailors. ? I "But morn in' come at last. The wind I Abated, though the sea run high. In the! 3 middle of the afternoon onr lockout dis-'. B covered a wreck lyin' up in the rockB and B sand of a small, desert island, which is! ^^^west of the Azores twenty leagues. We ^^^best about several hours, and at last come E up near enough to lower a boat and go ' to it. V- "Such a sight as was there I never saw H before an' never want to again. It seemed I that there had been an explosion, which I had torn the stern to atoms, and on the I*'; bow deck, which was driven high up onto ifjj the rooks from the explosion, lay four jt dead bodies, three sailors and one worn| *n. Whether it was the lightning, the ] 9 yxpft>sion, or both that killed them, we By. tould not tell." H The lovers were horrified and mystified ^^St the tragio turn of the story, but the had by no means reached its clirriK TVa a1/1 man r\nncOfl ff\T fl ffeU I IV ? J.UO Viu U4MU - ? - ? " HX momenta ?q if he woa puzzled as to the Jy iwurse he Bhouifl pursue, and then began: ""Well, as ye do^'t ask if there was any ?ody alive on that Yewel, I tell ye there 1 ^ #as." 1 . ""Who? "Who?" both asked in a breath. "A baby, a little girl baby, that h*y- bj sue side o its mother, hardly alive it- ; 35 telf. I took it aboard on* ship and had ,jt keored fur beBt I conld. its little * K' vera torn, blackened, and faded ' but I kept 'em hopin* that" some day 1 they'd tell who the little baby was. There ' was nothin' left o' the ship by which we jould tell what it was, except a part o' 1 the bow board. We buried the dead decently. " The old Captain now stopped as if he bardly dared finish his story. His daughter. lavina her hand on his arm. asked. "Father^ what became of the baby?" Dio it die?" "No, it's alive yet," answered the old sailor, while his ej'es beamed with tenderness on his beautiful daughter. A ? '" a *Vir\on rtlrl a-OftfhA?. I LLIUI^LUIU CU1UU 1UIV luwav v*?.? i? Vm??v. beaten eyes, btit the Bailor brushed it away with his hand and sighed. A terrible feeling seized the fair girl, and she trembled. She realized that she was oh the threshold of some" wonderful revelation, and knew not whether it would increase her misery or happiness. "Father," she said, her voice betraying her agitation, "where is that child now?"" Fixing his tear-dimmed eyes on the pale face at his 6ide, Captain Gatrell said: "Forgive me, Ola. 1 should have told you all before, but it was because ] loved you I did not." "Oh, father," she cried, burying he\ face in her bauds. "It is true, 01a,"tho old Captain Baid gently, "yon are that baby, and though you are not my child, I love you the same as if you were. I had buried my own wife and child a few weeks before I found you, and thought God must have intended vou to fill the place o' my own Kahv " Tin TO" w iiu aui jl i "I don't know. On the bow was only bhree letters o' the ship's name left?0L-A?and I give yon those fer yer name, Ola." The 6tupefied girl turned to her lover md said: "Do yon hear this?" "I do, dearest Ola," said Griffith, rising md placing an arm about her waist, "and [ love you more than ever, that you are in orphan." "She's not?I'm her father. Everything [ have is hers," cried the old sailor in ex:itement. "My name is hers till she narries and takes your own." At this moment high above the raging storm camo the discharge of musketry from the hills above, and shouts of Harm. "What means that?" asked Capt. Gatrell, in amazement. "Stay?we must be attacked," cried Sriffith, going to the south window, from *hich he had a view of the village lxjlow. K flash of lightning showed him that the aw recruits were running hither and :hither in the rain and darkness, and the vhole village was in a state of confusion. CHAPTER ID. THE DESERTION. We now invite the reader to accompany is to the deck of the British man-of-war hat for several weeks had been craising ibout the eastern coast of the United States, driving away Yankee sloops and bombarding small seaport towns. This ressel had hove to near a long stretch of landy beach, fifteen or twenty miles' ibove Manoa, and sent ashore several mndred British soldiers, under MajoiJ Bridges, who was to proceed by land to he village, while the war vessel was to :o-operate with the troops by sea. The Xenophon was one of his British Majesty's stanchest crafts. While, not :arrying heavy guns nor as many as other j ressels, she was tongh and trim from item to stern, and from the bottom of her ' teel to the tip of her maintop mast there vas not a single flaw discernible, even to ( he eye of a sailor. The Xenophon was excellently manned.; Dfticers and crew were all trained and isperienced seamen. Captain Montietl* , requently boasted that he had not a man n his crew who was not capable of com-' nanding & vessel. Captain Montieth was a man who possessed that tyrannical, overbearing disposition so common among naval officer^ >f the past. He seemed to noia nis crew )ut little above dogs. Discipline with { lim bad been converted into despotism, md bis sailors were treated as slaves. ] Disgraceful flogging scenes for even be most trivial offense were common, ind if a 6ailor attempted to desert be was < ;itber sbot or Strang up to the yardarm be moment be was cangbt. It was late in tbe afternoon, and two lailors, both finely formed men, past niddle age, having been relieved from Juty, were slowly walking aft. Tbero *as a quiet, sullen air about tbem wbicb jecomee habitual lo men who have long :>een accustomed to strict discipline. Neither spoke a word, and from beneath heir lowering eyebrows fiery glances fere occasionally cast at Captain Monietn. who 6tood near the mizzen deck n all the gaudy uniform and pompons lignity of a tyrant. The sun was descending beneath thef horizon, and the two sailors had long >een sitting on the gun carriage. Each : ras lost in thought, and seemed to know { ust what the other w::s thinking about, it last, when the sun had dipped beneath he o?ean, and the stars began to appear n_sight. the oldest and most mtelksaafc' >f the sailors, in a voice"6Farce above a vhisper, said: "Dawes, I know the coast well." "Ah!" "Yes, and we are only a few hours' sail ! rom Monoa. We will reach the harbor J ind be warping in by daylight if the wind ' ;hould be fair." "Do.you suppose the soldiers we landed j rill be there by that time?" The first speaker reflected a moment i ind then answered: "I hadn't thought | )f that, Dawes. It may be Capt. Mon- | ieth will beat about a day or two yet, to j ;ive them time, but every moment we de- ! ay increases our danger of escape." He 6poke in a very cautious whisper. Duwes trembled, bat was 6i!ent. There vas a look of the firmest determination >n the faces of these men, and one could lave told at that moment that they had esolved on something desperate. The lentry who was pacing this part of the ieck come bo near that there was danger )f being heard, so they remained silent intil he wheeled and started to the other i . ;nd of his beat. Then the first speaker, ilasping his messmate's arm, said: Ml)awes, will you go with me?" "Yes." MVe must do it to-night." 1 jjawes noaaeci. "I will not raise my hand against my j lative country," tho first speaker de- j ! :lared. "The British have impressed me i ' ind male me their Blnve. For fifteen ' j loug yenrs I have been a slave, bnt with ! heaven's help I will be a free man." His Toioe tras low and deep, but had he ;poken in trumpet tones of thunder it ( :ould not have been more earnest. "I Din with ye, Burnett," his messmate j responded. "Whatever port ye steer fur, pe can count on me bein in yer wake." "We are Americans, Dawes, and 'tis snough that we reef and trim the sails for i British man-o'-war without shedding the blood of our countrymen." "You're right, shipmate. I've jest sailed as long under % British Hag as I want to, and though there are ten ihauces of our bein' shot to one of our eBcapin', I'll desert." The last of the sentence was ia a very low whisper, and both bec.ime silent, for again the sentry was near. When he wheeled about and returned, Dawes grasped Burnett's arm and asked: "What time, shipmate?" "Midnight iratch." was the answer. "TLe boat's ready?" "Yes." Then they 6at in the increasing darkness until the shr ll sound of the boatswain's whisilj piped all hands below to , supper. Wheu the f-ailors, Dawes and Burnett, met the gther members of their tness, there was nothing in their domean[>r which would betray their thoughts. Bach had control over his leelinga and imotious, and though they were a?;oufc to sngage in an adventure which might_coBi N. / / tcrai tneiT nves, tney were as smien, calm, and dogged as usual. Captain Montieth required the strictest discipline. Like many other petty tyrants, he covered his tyranny with discipline. But few words were spoken by the sailors during their repast. When supper was over and the sailors dispersed, many retired to their quarters, others to the upper deck, to lie beneath the bulwarks or under the gun carriages and spin yarns. There rvere two who were silent. Burnett and Dawes were in the morning watch, but neither retired to their hammocks that night. The night was warm, and the weather being fair a great many , of the sailors were permitted to be on the gun deck. Wfeit have I to gain by going to my native lsurnett aSEea Wmseir asTTe paced the deck, his head bowed in deep thought. "Nothing?I will be an unknown, uncared-for sailor; but then I shall have the glorious consciousness of knowing that I am not fighting my own countrymen. I might have served Johnny U,,ii vonw vof nnt. fnrrArt u uj i hi auj jwuio j v w, ~ _ - ? me to raise my hands asainst America." Buruett, rb the reader has doubtless observed, was superior to the common class of sailors. He was not only a fine seaman but a fine physical and intellect* nal man. He was nn American, who years before had been impressed into the British service, and although he had Lorne every insult a petty tyrant could heap upon a subject, was so thoroughly schooled in discipline inai na never tnougnt ot aeser. tion until h? was required to take a pari in besieging an Amerioan sea-nort town. When Capt. Montieth informea him that he was to oommand tho long-tom he determined to desert. It lacked but an hour of the appointed time when these two Americans were to make a bold strike for liberty. The sailors, one by one, had gone to their hammocks, and all save a few restless spirits f nd the watch were asleep. Burnett had not seen Dawes for two -Va an? 4V? of Via aati 1 r? 1 a UUUIS, tuuu^u liO ikuon kuni aa\j v.wuiu depended on when the timacame. They were not many ioagues from the chore, and he was satisfied that two good oarsmen conld reach it by daylight. A dark form suddenly glided forward to the sa'lor's side, ana the low voice of Dawea whispered: "I've been over the top rail to see the boat." "Is all right?" "Yes." "Pulleys, ropes, and rigging safe?" "Everything safe and tant. "Dawes, do you think they suspect?" "No." The sentry was coming that way, and the sailors separated. When the sentry came along each was stand at the rail, though some distance apart, gazing down into the water. The 6entry eyed them somewhat suspiciously, and then resumed his beat. "When he next came that way both had disappeared. "Guess they nro gone below." the sentry said to nimseir, ana resumed his "beut. Anotner nour wore 6iow.iy ay. xjub watch felt glad that they would soon b? relieved, and allowed to turn in and rest. The night had grown intensely dark. There were tew stars in the heavens, and a light vapor-like cloud obscured the light of even those. A dark form might have been seen gliding along the larboard side of the vessel, from gun carriage to gun carriage, eluding the sentries until at last a point near the top rail was gained, where it disappeared Dehind a sternehaser. The sailor named Dawes was standing leaning over the toprail gazing down into the water. The sentry was coming down Dn.his boat when Dawes suddenly said: t-oitie nere, Jacit, come "bore.* "What yer want?" the sentry d?manded "Come, sue wkftt this iB." "Where?" "Here." The sentry looked over hin shoulder t? oee if any of the officers of the watcb were in sight, and stepped quickly to th? rail. "Look'ee there; there's a fish?whew." No one would have thought that whis tie a signal. It seemed nothing more than a surprise, but as it sounded over the dock, the dark form rose from behind the gun carriage, Bprang lightly forward, and as the sentry leaned over the toprail, lifted his heels into the air and hurled him headlong into the water. His cry was accompanied by shouts from fcoth Dawes and Burnett. "Man oveiboard?man overboard," the? shouted lastly. Almost instantly the wildest excite* ment prevailed. The officer of the watch ordered a boat lowered and sail shortened. Down went Bjirnett and Dawes, and iD a jifl'y tne boat which swung over th? stern was lowered, and they in, row. ing straight out from the ship, paying no heed to the marine, who was struggling in the water. Captain Montieth rushed np from the cabin, and was soon on the poop denlt with forty or fifty others. "Bung lantern's," he cried. Lanterns were brought, and their light fell on the deserters not a cable's length awny "Hey, back, you rascals! Where are you going?" But they kept on, and the Captain in a fury shouted: "I understand it now. The infernal Americans are desert, ing. Hare, marines, bring your musketi to bear; you can hit them. Firel" CHATTISn IV. THE 8KXBMISH AT BELFAST. Griffith Alton felt a email band presi his arm. and turning from thd window sau his betrothed at his side. Her face was de ithly pale and she was trembling violently. In a hoarse whisper she asked: "What is it?" "I don't know, Ola, dearest. I hope it is nothing of any consequence. Remain here with yourfather. You will be safe, I think; if not I will have yon taken to a place of safety." "lint yon, yon, Griffith?" sne cnea, !rantically. "I must go," he said, in tones firm yet I ender. "My duty calls me there. My j ove for you demands that I should go j md defend vou." "Yes child," 6i:id the old sailor, whom ihe had long loved and looked upon is her father, "don't be a drag on his luty. The port is in danger rand it's hia place to set all sail and scud afore the wind till he reaches the land sharks who threaten the trouble." "But Griffith, Griffith," Bbe paia speaa. ing very quick nnd seeming almost suffocated. "There is something about which I wanted to speak. I did not know?I never knew until I heard to-night " "Never mind the revelation, dearest," said the joung American, quickly. "It shall in no way affect our letrothnl. What care I if you are a sea waif, yon are ns lovely to me as ever. I cannot be bnppy without you; you shall yet be my wife." lie clasped her but a single moment and was gone. Down that hills de, now grown slippery from the rain which 6till fell in toneuts, he hurried. Ola stood at the window trying to catch ajglimpse of her lover as .he.hastened down to Wbere a great crowd or tlie Villagers stood. For a few moments all was pitchy darkness, and the driving storm aud roar of the oc?an prevented her hearing his retreating footsteps. Then a flash of lightning illumined the entire billside with the light of day, and she saw the form of the young officer as he ran sword in hand down the hill. Our hero reached the excited group of villagers, and their flaming torches and lanterns revealed standing in their midst, two men who wore the uniform of British sailors. Simon was doing all ne could to keep down excitement, and beyond p douDi u was ma coomess mm buycu iub j lives of the sailors. "What (Joee all this ?e.-n, .Hatchet?" 1 rue captain aemanaea 01 toe DiaCksm'ffij who was the first man he chanced to meet. "W'y, Griff, yer here, old boy; well, I'm glad ye come," said the blacksmith in an excited manner, beating the breach of his mnsket npon the well-soaked earth. "What is it, speak out?" ^ "D'ye see them two Bailors?" the smith asked. "Yes. Where did they come from?" j "I brought 'emin," said Hatchet, boastfully. "Me 'n Si Cole were on picket out thar on the hill'n all was dark as a stack o' black cats?couldn't see nothing, when nil of a sudden thar come a flash o' lightniDg. "We shot at 'em but missed, an' then charged 'em an' they surrendered an' come in wi' ub." p "Where are they from?" S "Dun know. S'pec they're spies, an' we D orter hang 'em right up." "Don't they give any account of theirselves?" ^ "YeB," said Hatchet, still greatly ex- ? cuea. Aney Buy mey uru us??icig nuu (hat ship called the Tenny-stone or Jenny tl Stone or some sich name." tl "Oh, the man-of-war, the Xenophon. I S( will eeo them; they may be all right," . said the young officer, elbowing his waj tnrongn 'tne crowa to wnere tne sailors c< stood, calmly gazing on the crowd of ex- w cited villagers, farmers and impromptu tl soldiers. The Captain knew that a great e1 many American siilors who had been im- s; pressed into the British service were deserting and coming over into the American " army and navy. These might be trying 01 to do the same. "Who are you?" he asked, approaching w the oldest and tallest of the sailors, who b stood calmly among the almost furious ^ Americans with his arms folded across his breast. "I am James Burnett, a deserter from ai his Britannio Majesty's man-o'-war, the pi Xenophon," was the answerin a clear, distinct voice. * is 4-V\i e man TrtH!" OfllrArl fVlA TXilU. ' J Q1 young American, favorably impressed M with the honest, candid manner and tone ai of the 6tranger. "He is my shipmate, Henry Dawes, of Bangor, Maine. "Why did you desert the Xenophon?" "Because we did not wish to fight onr own country." "Then you are Americans?" "We are,"* was the answer, with no little At Captain Alton's requoBt Burn*:: gave ^ an account of hie esoape and its cause. He stated that he had been for fifteen years in the British navy, having been impressed into it, and never able to make his escape. That Henry Dawes had been impressed four years before. That they st had become almost reconciled to their fc fate, when war with America was declared, and they resolved the first oppor- , tunity to desert. The opportunity came D< four nights ago. During the midwatch m they had thrown the sentry overboard, lo and, on pretext of trying to lower a boat tl and rescue him, had escaped under a fire p( of musketry from the marines. j It was near noon when they landed on a . long stretch of sandy beach. Twice that '? day they had almost run into Major nr Bridge's troops, who had been landed the b( day before their desertion, and after nu- tb merous adventures had reached Manoa an hour ago. The story was reasonable and was told in a straightforward way which carried , conviction with it, and yet, while there susitt?* ? fzvH pa WHS ti pussiuintjf' Ui a uisufc/v, uiiaiiu *v*v that he could not give entire credence to b; it. The lives and liberties of these peo- er Ele whom he had come to protect were In 0I is hand, and demanded the utmost care, "^our story is very reasonable," he Baid to the sailor, "and I am inclined to C1 believe it, but for the nresent you must sh consider yourselves prisoners. You shall gi be prisoners of war and treated well, until we are convinced beyond a doubt that you are really deserters." . The sailors looked a little disappointed cl for a moment, ond then the man called ^ Burnet said: e\ "When the man-o'-war heaves to to i0 bombard you wo want to Jend a hand in w dofonoo Tf vnn tftlrAti nrifionera you will be treated bb prisoners o' war, if we are taken we will be hung at the yard arm." The prisoners were taken to the gtnrd house under a strong guard, and our hero p( went with Simon to his headquarters. Griffith knew the Yankee to be shrewd ^ and far seeing, and regarded his opinion as safer than any other man's in the village. w "Simon, what do you think ofthdM b] "Wa-n'. Cap'enr* answered the Yar.kee, P. scratching his head in a puzzled sort of P1 a way, "I doan't eggsactly kneow 'bout that. They seem to be all right neow, pi but then there's no knowin' how it may bi nil turn eout. Better treat them well, ^ an' keep a sharp look out on 'em, too." t "I thought I would. But what think s" you of the man-o'-war?" ec "Guess they're abeout right, Capen. F Doan't think she'll get in sooner'n tboy fr said. Its been blowin' groat guns, an'll m keep *er up 'till mornia'. . j The Yankee wa*> right in his predic- , tions. The storm raged nearly all night, a' but the wind waB hushed to sleep with tr the rise of the 6un, though large waves, ui rolling and hashing in foam-crested fury c( against the rock-bound shore, attested the C( fact that the sea still run high." g, [TO BE CONTINUED.] TOPULAR SCIENCE. The sun 13 equal to 1,300,000 earths, Compressed carbonic acid promises to nj revolutionize warfare. George Breed, of the United States f( Navy, has succeeded iu getting musical n< tones of different pitch from an clectric current. Dr. Russell, senior pathologist at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, claims that he has discovered the cancer parasite, which he maintains lie has traced to a , fungus of tho yeast type. Breathing rapidly as possible during ? -..?loni niioMtmn TV Yntfis aavs he OUl5IV,,W' ?/|/V?MV*V?, " * ? ./ " 'heard the knife rip through the flesh, like the sound produced in cutting leather, but felt no p:iiu." Tables of the density of the atmosphere calculated from telegraphic weather reports have been found to give a better clue to the movements and origin of cyclones than the usual method of a comparison of the isobars and isotherme3 alone. Nature produces the light given by the firefly at about one four hundredth part of the cost of the euergy which is expended in the candle flame, and at an ^ insignificant fraction of the cost of elec- Q] trie light or the most economical light ^ which has yet been devised. ^ In the electric gyroscope for use in cor- c] recting the error of*a compass neither fj ** ' 1 ? * r ?3 Tl rolling nor pitctung neea De iearea. it jr is said to bo adapted to correct the com- ai pass with certainty, as its axis of rota- ff tion remained fixed as long as it is a necessary to prolong the observation. o: The largest plant fossil in Europe was b in 1 fifi-l in Prtftl minf>3 of d Piesberg, and is now in a Berlin museum, c Thfj fossil is a piecc of a gigantic an- c; cestor of the ordinary lycopodium, and tl consists of a trunk about a yard in j< diameter, which divides at the bottom ai into several fork-like roots. j< Professor T. Russell defines a cold " wave as a twenty decrees fall in tempera- ^ ture in twenty-four hours over an area of 50,000 square inile3, the temperature in some parts of this area descending to \ fe thirty-six degrees. Daring the past ten rf years there have been no less than 691 0j cold. waves in the United States. ^ ij-r.. \ . v m TRAVEL IN JAPAN. l PEOPLE WHO KNOW THEIR COUNTRY WELL. tich and Poor Alike Make Long and Freqnent Pilgrimages Afoot or by Rail ? Cheap Modes of Travel. ^ "Were I to attempt a classification of eople as travelers, * writes Frederick tearns in the Detroit Free Frets, I should lace the English first. They are the? olnhft trotters." rvir f>Yr?r>ll#>npf> fl-o 'here you will, over the -world, you will", nd plenty of Englishmen. The English-! ian,with a growing family of sons,starts; aem in the world by sending them to< ie four quarters of the earth, there to :ek find build their fortunes; to return i later life, may be, to the mother 3untry to live and die. Those English, ith youth, time and money, enjoying! avel, hunting and sailing, are seen: eery where, active, aggressive, per-; stent, pushing their way to obscurei leasures through physical hardships no' ther people could endure. Next I would place the American,who,; ith less knowledge of the world, and ut little time, is trying the Nellie Blyl usiness. He wants to "git" round the' orld f.nd beat the record. But the! /erage American traveler confine^ his athway to Europe mostly. Next, you will find the German, who; now thirsting for more worlds to Conner; somewhat arrogant and conceited' id surely brusque in manner. The French and other Romance neonle - r?r? 1?OROUP OF JAPAXE8E TRAVELERS. , ay at home. -There are no other worlds ir such other tMan their own homes. But of all people to travel -within the jrders of our own country, commend e to the Japanese. Their passionate ve for nature is an instinct inherent in ie race, and belongs as strongly to the )or farmer and laboring coolie as it jes to the rich and great. Fortunately. r him, the means and modes of travel e cheap and easy, and it was so even. fnre the railwav svsteui be^an to bind' le empire together in closer bands. j The empire is full of beautifui scenery' -mountain and valley, river and stream, 1 aterfalls and springs, sacred spots and . ibitations of the devils. Holy temples' cred to some bero warrior or sage are. p thousands scattered over the land,! abowered in solemn groves and planted. 1 beautiful hilltops or crowning the. uinded mountain peaks. Ancient ties, once capitals, now rice fields, iow as the only evidences of their once eat extent the sbinto or Buddhist irines, still perfect on foundations over thousand years old. Round them uster the historic lore of Japan's gods, arricrs and wise men, with which i rery boy, even, is familiar. Passionate ve of country is an abiding force ith these people; Japan is the center ' the earth; the Emperor is sacrec'.?a irect descendant of the gods. Japan has never been conquered or ren successfully invaded by fortign )wer. It cannot, therefore, be strange trn.1; le Japanese are familiar with their own mntry. The great, high roads which, inding along the sea shores, climbing j well-paved pathways the mountain isses, are wide and well shaded with nes. Inns (yadoyas), suiting all classes and .lrposes, are frequent, the cost of travel it little, so one meets everywhere on ic high roads, in the city or village reet, groups of pilgrim travelers band1 together on some sight-seeing tour, ig. 1 shows such a group, making om the north a pilgrimage to the sacred ountain, Fuji-yami, to see and to worlip. This groun is" in bad weather ress?that is, the rain'coat of straw; ic shallow, broad hat which serves as aibrella and sun shade; straw sandals >stinrr about one cent a pair; neat blue )ttou clothes costing not over seventyre cents a suit; extra baggage, rood, c., carried over the shoulder on a bamdo pole. They carry long bamboo affs in their hands, aud go talking, ughing, wondering aud enjoying, ost of them being country people, who, uybe, have never been in a large city ifore, when they happen to meet a reigner like myself the expression of jtonishment on their faces is something ;mical. Figure 2 shows how a fairly prosper 2?A TJiP>N?8J5 FA?JILT TRAVELING, as young larmer, during tlic seasoD of irly winter, when his home labore are ver, will start off with his wife and abies for a tour of weeks, to visit friends r noted places long distances apart. he shoulder pole gives baggage room >r from one to three babies, for extra lothes and for rice. They will walk! om twenty-five to forty miles a day. our and a half cents will pay for lodging t an inn (Kichin Yado) for the whole imily, including fuel to heat and cook little rice. In good weather one pair f sandals will do for two days, but in r%A wfinfliir fwill nco im tarn mirs ft "V?V.?W ..... -( , ay. When it raius they tuck up their lothes above the knee, put on a rain, loak or oil-paper cape and do not mind ae wet. The ever-ready pipe is en-, jyed at frequent intervals by both mam ad wife. Contented and happy, the jurney is full of pleasure. The Govern > lent posts notices on the public road t irecting travelers to special, near-by its of tine scenery, etc. After seeing lese happy family groups traveling, it oes not seem as if "marriage was a lilurc," in Japan at least. Sincc the lilways have been completed the rush f Japanese travel is to me something itoniahing. Go where you will the '"r&o--. - < v *" v~::* . V" - J-rtrains are frequent. Long trains of j are made up with one first-class car ait L foreigners, generally empty; two or threat 9 second-class, and from six to ten third^ I class cars, and these are longer than the! 1 first or second-class cars. The third-; t class fare is very low, about one-half i cent per mile, the second double, and j the first-class treble. These- long trains! of third-class cars seem always crowded,; so that not onlj the seats are occupied, but many passengers stand. Many of these people travel on pil-: grimages, taken to fulfill a vow, made: during sickness or in some affliction, to' cue lavorite cuvinuy, mac u reuevea or helped, the maker of the vow will visit or pray at a certain number of shrines of the god, which maybe hundreds of miles apart. Often the pilgrims are by poverty reduced to begging their entire way, tvhen traveling, but as it is a pious act to aid such pilgrims, they do not suffer. Figure 3 shows such. A man, a worjhirier of the Nichiren sect of Buddhists, 1 3 ?BEGGING PILGRIM. he is fulfilling a vow to visit the Sen- , jpji, or three temples of greatest holiness I ?Honmonji, near Omori; Koshell, on | Mount Minobu, and Horioouchi, ia i Tokyo. He carries his baggage on his i 5 back, and begs for money by striking on i i hand drum in time with the prayer, j "Namu-mio-horen-ge-kio" (honor to the ! jalvaUon bringing book of the law). "Hamlet" Illustrated. "Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell."?Life. Frozen in a Red Hot Yessel. Water can be frozen in a red hot vessel. If water or any other volatile Hquid is dropped upon red hot nntal it assumes a spheroidal form and rotates rapidly. The globule does not reaHy touch the metal, but rests on a cushion of its own vapor. A peculiarity of this condition is that the globule evaporates slowly and its temperature is always below its boiling point. If liquid sulphurous onid frohiph hoils at fourteen decrees. Fahrenheit) be placed in a red hot vessel along with a few drops of water, both liquids assume the spheroidal state and the intense cold of the sulphurous acid (which, in this condition, is below fourteen degrees Fahrenheit) immediately turns the water into ice. By a similar process, with a mixture of solid carbonic acid- and ether, Faraday succeeded in freezing mercury in a red hot crucible. Mercury freezes at thirtynine degrees below zero, Fahrenheit.? Courier-Journal. How Oil Meal is Prepared. Oil meal is the ground cake3 left after j the oil has been pressed out of the vari. out seeds which are grown for the oil J they contain. The seeds are ground into meal, which is put into hair cioth bags, and is then pressed between hot iron plates in a powerful hydraulic press. The meal is then in the form of thin cakes about two feet long ana eight inches wide, which are broken up aud ground. Linseed meal of the new process is treated with benzine, by which all the oil is extracted, and this meal is not so valuable for feeding fattening cattle or for dairy cows as the pressed meals. These contain fiom fourteen to eighteen per cent, of oil, which makes them very rich food. The various oil meals are cottonseed meal, linseed, rapeseed, peanut, palm nut, and some other meal. All these meals arc usually fed with bran and in small quantities, not more than from two to four pounds per day.?New York Times. Staffed Owls Fashionable. Stuffed owls are still fashionable for decorative purposes, and the taxidermists etili charge high prices for them. Among the most costly are specimens of the great white owl, which is really a pretty 1 bird. Ex-Assemblyman William Wain| right gives me information which leads ' mc to think that specimens of this kind should become cheaper. "Some time ' ago, "he says, "central Rockaway Beach was visited by an immense flock of great white owls. Scores of them have been shot and sold to New York taxidermists. These birds were never known to visit Vionrli hnfore. and it is a mvsterv where tbey came from and how.theycame to alight on the Rockawav sands."? New York Star. Mrs. Kendall, the English emotional actress, has invented a wonderful fan which carries a number of little toilet requisites in small apertures ingeniously contrived for the purpose. At the handle there is a silver box of the tiniest dimensions, which contains a minute powder puff, and a small adjacent I clasp is intended to hold the handker! chief. The fan is a crreat success. . | rt ea$ sM , A ITonderfal Exhibition of Boils, j ^ A Doll Show for charitable purposes,1 s Mflitt the Jt%ge Building in New York UNtui; Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper} gBpoven a great success. Wt quote SQJ^Loar philanthropic contemporary's iil lTUfttiif the Show, and give pictures o^jevil^B^the handsomest dolls, with the names of the ladies by whom they "14 TOSCA," BT MM. IAIST VWthlT. Two grand and spacious apartments,.; one on the ground floor and the other o?j ;he second floor in the Judge Building,; were specially and elaborately, decorated i and arranged for the exhibition of nearly! three thousand beautifully dressed dolls, i rhe attendance was large, and both old Mjd young were .delighted by the eur-j j" "XtfE TEEITT " DRESSED B7 MBS. 1US6S 7 XXRPAL. passing beauty of the srtne. Both sides of the rooms, and tables extending from end to end of the'ap&Vtmenfi," were crowded with beautifully dressed dolb,' some of them in most magnificent cos-: tumes, and all of them attired with exceeding taste and care. DHISSTO BT IlUUJf RUFSEtX. Some of tbe dolls were disposed of at good prices on the first evening. The remainder of the choice specimens were % ouiu. nt auuvxvuf uuu together with the dolls expressly dressed for that purpose, will be distributed among the unfortunate children in the various hospitals, infirmaries, nurseries and other deserving institutions. * '? [fl II V " *' '4 * . V/'W The bold project of a ship railway,1 in lieu of a ship canal, to connect the waters of Lake Huron with 'those of Lake Ontario is now being agitated. The distance between those two lakes is sixty-seven miles by the proposed route from Georgian bay to ihe mouth of the Humber River, west of Toronto, and it has been calculated that a railway, with three tracks of the standard gauge, but with rails weighing from 100 to 110 pounds per yard, could bo built for $12,000,000, or about half the coat of a ship canal of the same capacity. The land along the route reaches a height of 664 feet about Lake Huron, bo that there would be some heavy grades or else some expensive work necessary. The propo-ed route would save 428 miles of lake navigation and twenty-eight miles of canal between Chicago and Montreal, and would enable a propeller to reach Montreal from Quebec in less time than it can reaoh. Buffalo. The expected saving, three days, in the time between Chicago and the seaboard is a consideration which would warrant a large expenditure if the project is feasible from an engineering standpoint. Terr' oTiHinritiflfl of the Government of Taurida, Russia, have issued an order that women bathing in free waters shall wear bathiDg suits. The women of Yalteeu protest against this ordei ' with an euergy and unanimity worthy ^ of a better cause; they are preparing a M petition to the general government urging the repeal of the order and declar-^^ ing that tue ourative powera oi-tiw water have no effect upon thoae thaf bathein clothes. ^ .a- ^