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HEARTS OF GOLD; < b OK. a u The Heiress of nflaole tB( Leaf Farm, i h ?? E GENEVIEVE ULMER. * D 4-1 .... 8 CHAPTER X"V H?Continued. a , "Shall we go to tie hotel?" queried l? .Prescott f< "What for?" demanded his companion, a harply. "To divide the money, of course." si "Eh?" frowned the other. "Oh, yes; certainly. We divide, as agreed. No, d I dm not going to venture near the ho- fl tel. I am afraid " e: "Of a woman!" sneered Prescott ti With the money gained, never fear the n rest." t< "Too don't know her!" gasped the im- P .postor, with a timid glance all about I him, as if fearful that some wraith n would suddenly block his path. "Any- n way, we will 6hake the dust of the village from our feet, sure and fast. 1 q want to meet my friend, Paul Dalton'f r, Jailer, at a cabin in the woods. Come tra. Soon as we reaph a retired spot I'll iJlvide the money." a, Ralph Prescott's heart beat high with o; hope and avarice. He had failed in most of his plans, but the very material w fact of money, at least, was tangibly in y, sight at least. ^ Just beyond the village, near a little 0, (grove, the imposter halted. "It's moonlight," he said, "and we can see to count the money. You deimand half, eh?" "We agreed on half." Je "All right." m The impostor peered sharply about a' them. He made a feint as if to take the a wallet from his pocket. ir "Here you are," he said, between Mb teeth, his breath quickening. q Ralph Prescott put forth his nanas, as w if to receive the money he had so ir icoveted. vl < CS /VI j. ne next uuuui? uucj nout w wS u, lead, he uttered a wild cry and stag- si igered back. di For, with the swiftness of lightning, w the man be bad made an accomplice si. had drawn some blunt instrument from sp hie pocket. A heavy blow on the temple repeated stretched Prescott senseless at be his feet. ec "Lie there!" he hissed malevolently, to 'Half! ha! ha! I have plotted too deep- cr ly for the fortune to give it away. No, at mine, all mine! Suoh sneaks as you th deserve a traitor's reward!" He knelt and drew Presoott's watch Co from his pocket?even his purse he took, hu . Betrayed, robbed, deserted, Ralph Pres- |8 cott would awake to find that crime had th brought him its own true recompense. to Then the shallow-hearted villain se darted through the thioket, carrying with him the results of evil scheining, aD making ofT with the booty, to obtain which be had ruthlessly trampled on 6e human lives and human hearts. < : * CHAPTER XVILL j.y ao at last. ? Lawyer Drew filed away his papers, tn closed up hiB desk and lit his pipe, ready th (or a comfortable smoke, after his two Wolnh Prp?p>ott and the im post or, had left him. ep He .felt very complacent, for the as- 0f ured heir of the Forsythe legaoy had paid him an extra large fee to expedite hii matters. wi A ring at the door-boll, followed by pr, ' the hurried parley of some new visitor 1 with the servant, interrupted the law- thi yer's pleasant reveries, however, a monaent later, and almost immediately Ye tramping footsteps down the hall pre- th< ceded a rude intrusion into the room. ba There stood a man, pale, unkempt, r0; wild-eyed?so closely the prototype of 0p the man who had juBt left that room bo with a royal fortune surrendered to his ] t charge that the lawyer Btared in amaze- bo , ment. an "Why, Mr. Dalton!" he ejaculated, ih< rising abruptly and staring wonderingly 4 at his visitor. "You have returned? hie something has happened?" pic Returned? No! exclaimed the in- 0u truder, excitedly. " I have not been flti here before to-night." bis "What! Did I not just pay you " "Too late!" gasped the new comer, coi He has been here. I feared it. Mr. las Drew, do you not know me?" luj uWhy! yes, I " stammered the j . lawyer. fro "I am Paul Dalton; not the Paul Dalton who has taken my place and repre- ma eented my identity for the past week, coi but the Paul Dalton you knew of old? "H the suDerintendent of Maple Leaf i,p Farm." an ^ "Then the other?" 0q Was an impostor." ,1 Lawyer Drew's jaws fell. The aw- ]ae ful truth suddenly dawned upon his wc astounded mind, and it paralyzed his faculties completely. co\ "Yes," went on Paul Dalton, rapidly, b0 you have been made the vlotim of a by deep plot, a scheme to wrongfully secure , the Forsythe fortune, while I have been Da * drugged, bound prisoner. To-night I de overpowered and bound my jailer and ; hurried here, but too late to prevent the f0i consummation of an iniquitous project pa betw?/en Ralph Prescott and the man 1 whft rv sembles me." i "Remarkably. He must be a brother, ra % close relative?" 1 "It matters not. I cannot expose him 1 fcere now. Quick! how much of a start ' has he got of me! Ho must be over- mi taken, he must disgorge his ill-gotten bopty, he must tell me what he has done fr< with my wife?my darling, precious th Buth!" "I can answer that question!" fn A nnnfiHent. vnir>A t.h A uri A ViVW* f WMMVIVWV .w.vw ...v ? , words. Just about to advance toward ri< the door, Paul Dalton recoiled as a <1 ark-eyed, sad-faced woman crossed its threshold. The lawyer, too, regarded ter in open-mouthed wonder. "Isabel!" exclaimed the startled and th bewildered Paul Dalton, "Isabel!" w? "Yes, Paul, the wronged, persecuted de wife of your enemy, the -woman who, at last realizing all the noble sacriflce of jje your life, has determined, be the cost what it may, that you shall wreck your happiness no further, to enrich and shield a consummate scoundrel, my husband though he be!" ^ "What does this mean?" gasped the 8*' overwhelmed lawyer. "I will tell you," rang out the woman's voice. "Isabel, I forbid you!" inteivupted Paul Dalton, sternly. * "No, I 8hall disobey you." returned j*a the woman, firmly. "Too long you have Buffered in siienc^. It means this, sir," Pe to the interested and curious lawyer, "there are two Paul Paltons?thte one, M and my husband, the man who has just swindled you out of a fortune. The one '? good, the other bad, remarkably alike in looks, but in soul?ah! this man's noble ft , sacrifices and life of sadness shall shine ^ bright In the judgment day before the (jr bJack-hearted cruelty and sin of that 0fl other Paul Dalton?my husband." "They are brothers?" to "No, cousins?the children or sisters wbo, fondly hoping to win the favor of pr rich old Paul Dalton, the banker, eaoh named a child after him. They grew ar up. My husband was the favorite. He W was the acoepted heir of his uncle, but sc be broke hlf mother's heart with his" ys X'j - . - ' vil ways. On her death-bed she made tile noble-hearted man here promise to hield his oousln from harm. Hoping e would reform, this Paul Dalton did 11 he could to help him retain his ncle's favor. But, why continue the tory? Its end tells all. My Paul Dalon was oonvicted of forgery when this 'aul Dalton was out WeBt. He served is term* but, returning home, reversed tie real position of affairs?charged this 'aul Dalton with being the convlot and e the man out West. He wedded me i a Hf? of misftrv. and for mv sake fter old Paul Dalton had died, and my usband had squandered" his * fortune, lie noble man mutely accepted the tain of a convict reputation, gave up 11 his ambitions and disappeared. That \ the etory. My husband was the jrger?this man's soul is white as now." The old lawyer 6at overcome at the trange revelation. "When Paul Dalton left Ridgeton ten ays ago," continued the woman, "to nd my husband, and demand that he xplain, at least to Ruth Elliott, the -uth which he wa6 sworn not to divulge, ly husband learned of the fortune left > him. He made a prisoner of this aul Dalton, and?the rest you knew, hurried on his track, determined that o further injury should come to this lan. I warned nim; he refused to heed le. Now he shall wjfTer the conseuences of his i>aul Dalton, I jftcne*! Vjirr wire to-day?there she is!" Ruth Dalton appeared at the library oor. There was a mutual ory of joy, ad husband and wife were reunited in ae another's arms. "Wait here!" ordered Isabel. "I know here my husband has gone. I will ad him?I will right the great wrong of 10 past?if I follow him half the world ?er!" CHAPTER XIX. IN THE WHITE MOONLIGHT. Ralph Prescott lay where he had been ft robbed and insensible in the white oonlight, while his assailant sped way from the spot with the fleetness of deer, and the guilty bearing of a crimtal escaping from the hands of justice. The false Paul Dalton's breath came uick, and his manner showed that he as not yet altogether sanguine of leavig the country without some trouble. He feared Prescott, revived and hot 1 his trail with all the vengeful perstency of a baffled accomplice; he eaded the anger of his deserted wife, hose;written warning and subsequent lence were more impressive than oken words. But he had arranged for all that. The larded man, Newcombe, whom he had aployed to act as jailer to Paul Daln, was an old-time confederate in ime, and he had arranged to meet him a dilapidated cabin a mile distant, at night. "I'll see Newcombe and we'll fly the untry together," he murmured, as he irrled over the moonlit landscape. "He too old a friend to desert, but as to at fellow Prescott, he handled edged ols and got cut?he got all he derved." The impostor threaded a forest maze, d at last came to a dismantled hut. He paused in the bushes to whistle veral times. There was no response to this evidenfcagreed-on signal, and he entered the orless structure and proceeded to ;ht a lantern, which, with a lot of other ips, lay on the floor in one corner of e gloomy place. Pmm omnnnf thaao ha aalantarl a suit. clothes, a false beard, a pair of blue ectaclcs, and other articles likely to be use in making up a disguise. When he had donned them they gave n an appearance scarcely according th the fugitive of a few minutes evious. "I fancy no one will recognize me in 1b disguise even if pursuit is made," he uckled confidently. "The money? is, that is all safe. Ah! it was worth 9 battle, and victory perches on my nner, and I have won the day. A pal fortune! With Newcombe to coerate with me, tre can double it at me foreign gambling place." He gloated over the well-fllled pocketok for some time, then, securing it in inner pocket, he paced the floor of i hut restlessly. in hour went by, and he glanced at \ watch?Ralph Presoott's?his time>ce now, he told himself, with a hilarl5 laugh, as he picture^ the discomare of the plotter when he regained ssenses. 'Strange that Newcombe does not mo!" he murmured, impatiently, at it, extinguishing the lantern, and go5 to the door of the hut. inother hour went by, and he started im the spot. 'I can't, I won't risk trouble by relining here or going in search of Newmbe," he muttered, determinedly. e had his cue to be here. He is not re, so I leave the country alone. With abundance of money I can find an ually shrewd partner in Europo." Utterly selfish and heartless to the it, the impostor hurried through the >ods. Be had his plans formed to cross the J7 railroad, take an eastund train, reach New York, and thence steamer, Europe. fust where a narrow ravine lined the th he was traversing, he paused sud U1J. Like a flashing meteor, a woman's -m crossed his vision and blocked his th. "Stop!" Clear as a clarion note the mandate og forth. "Isabel!" gasped the startled plotter. "Ye?j?I have found you." "What?what do you want?" stamped the abashed impostor. A white, shapely hand was extended >m the folds of the long, dark cloak at enveloped the woman's form. "I want the fortune you have stolen )in the man you have so cruelly onged, Paul Dalton!" was the impe>us reply. CHAPTER-XX, conclusion. The hand of the lrr """ olutched e breast pocket containing the precious tflet at the peremptory words of his serted wife. Then, with a wild glance about him, i made a movement of precipitate ght. The woman never moved. She slmy repeated the ominous mandate. "Stop! I warn you, Paul Dalton. You iow I never tell a lie. Take one more ep, and? I am prepared to prevent a iw wrong. I will kill you before you ail reap the rewara or your awiui ckednes6!" The hand under the cloak moved slgflcantly. The man shuddered; his !r crisped; his blood chilled. He tew she was a broken-hearted, desrate woman. His eyes were lurid with baffled hate he gazed at her. "Then take it!" he hissed, ab he drew rth the wallet. She reached out her hand, but uttered Btartled cry as she realized in a flash at the acquiescent words of the ecounel were omployed solely to throw her f her guard. For he gave her a violent push back ward the edge of the yawning ravine. The woman did not, however, lose her esence of mind. With one hand she olutched the wallet id tore it from her husband's grasp, ith the other ehe stayed a fatal deent into the cavernous darknesB of thi i\yuing void, three X^t ftway. Her woul<f-be executioner was less fortunate. His violent movement oaused blm to lose bis balance; bis wild struggle to gsin the ooveted pocketbook cost bim dear. He stumbled and fell. A cry of horror rent the woman's lips as his struggling form disappeared over the edge of the cliff and was swallowed up in the black darkness of the ravine. She listened with bated breath for 6ome sound or cry, but none came. Then, thrilled, appalled, she sped from the spot. Beaching the first cottage, she summoned help. An old farmer and his hired man accompanied her to the ravine.. There, lying across a mossovered rocks, they found the broken body f her husband. He was still alive, and they bore him to the village. Placed under a doctor's care, he was nursed by his wronged but fateful "nrf fck nnf.il mnrnini?. At earliest dawn, a bedraggled, limping form stole Into Ridgeton and tc Maple Leaf Farm. It was the baffled schemer, Ralph Prescott. Before noon, taking with him the entire contents of Farmer John's 6trong box, he sneaked out of the village. That village never heard of him again for two years, then it was to learn that he had died in a fight in a far "Western gambling saloon. 1 The man Newcombe, whom the real Paul Dalton had overpowered at the cabin, was brought to town by the sheriff and imprisoned. As Paul Dalton did not wish to make his own affairs public, however, he was released later, and disappeared.* But on the morrow all Ridgeton knew the story of one man's noble sacrifice and another man's vile plottings. They knew, too, that to the last Isabel had clung to the battered wreck of humanity, who died deploring, if not repentant. It was a week later, after the burial of her husband, that Isabel returned to Ridgeton. Paul Dalton and his wife welcomed her at the - old home of Geoffrey Forsythe, where they had begun life anew, as husband and wife. "I have come back to stay with you, a9 you wish," said Isabel, sadly. "I know you want me, and, with my life wasted and broken, I will feel happl ness to be near you. My father has forgiven me." "You have blessed our lives by lifting the dark veil of my past," returned Paul, affectionately. " You recovered the fortuno we would have lost. You shall have It with us here, as friend, ad[ viser, sister." "Not here," answered I??abel, softly, "but at your proner home?Maple Leal Farm. Ruth, .1 "have told your father all the story of your husband's nobleness, of the evil deeds of his favorite, Ralph Prescott, and he Is brokenhearted over the injustice he has done. He is here to ask forgiveness and take you ana your nusoana dock to juapie Leaf Farm." Rugged old Farmer John was a contrite, tearful man In that room a minute later. A happy man as, with his daughter and hef husband, he returned to the old homq that had been so cheefless without them. He knew the true from the false now, the poor metal from the dros9, and knew, too, that his future would be bright and peaceful, assured of the love and devotion of Hearte of Gold. Once more the golden grain is waving over the broad, fertile acres; once more Ruth's happy face beams from the homestead door, and once more, blessed by the love of Paul, the sisterly devotion of Isabel, and the tender care ol old Farmer John, she is tho Heiress ol Maple Leaf Farm. ' fTWW BifP.1 TEMPER AJSCE. i DRIKK. Brink! spend your bard-earned wages for Death! Drink ! for a foul, obnoxious breath! Drink! for health and morals shattered! Drink ! for raiment thread-baro, tattered! Drink! that the Publican and his wife - - - ixl I May wear rich jewels, oougnc wim youruio; Drink ! that the mob may jeer you! Drink! that the Rood may fear you! Drink! that you may be known as a fool, By the smallest tot tbat goes to school I Drink ! that men may say of you? Not your own mother could love you ! Drink ! that your days may end speedilv, And earth, for your absence, better be ! ?From the Persian of Omar, in the Voice. AK EXD OF THE 2XrE!fSE.' It would pay the Nation to buy the entire liquor product at retail prices and dump it into the two seas rather than to buy it at the retail price and swallow it. Poured into tho ocean that would be an end of the expense. Poured into the peopled stomachs that is only the beginning, for the millions for lost time, lost labor, sickness, insanity, pauper Ism and crime nave stui to De paid.?Economics of Prohibition. ALCOHOLISM IS FBANCE. Tho International Magazine says: "AloohoJism is yearly becoming more prevalent and more severo in France. French savants have most accurately described it in all its effects, but what has teen done to remedy It? During the last year the result of the discussion has been that the tax on spirits must bo considerably raised, and that wine, beer and eider must bo * entirely free from taxation. And before anyone can do anything further, it will be deemed needful to await tho result of such a measure as this. Opium intoxication has been superadded to that from alcohol, especially in Paris.'" TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Men who want the saloon to stay don't want the devil to go. When a youns? man takes his first drink he gives the devil an ironclad mortgage on himself. The people of Bowling Green, in Kentucky, vet jd by twenty-eight majority to havo no rum sold in the city for the perio.i of three years. Traders who go to Alaska ara forbidden to sell whisky to the natives. They easily evade this statute. No honest man could call the stuff they sell whisky. The saloon is called the poor man's club. Yes. it clubs him out of all his manhood, -K.i- Ui? ui? ??.ir .^anaA? Tka i;iUU? MlLll Ul UIC L11UUC> , J11D OUU-ICS^ICM. i. UV frequenter of the saloon is the worst clubbed man temporarily and spiritually known of. Mrs. 0. R. Lake, o' St. Louis, in har address on woman's part in temperance work at the World's Fair said. "We don't desire to leave our homes, but we desire, by the memory of that great Mother who followed her beloved Son to the cross ;uid saw Him sacrificed for the sins of mankind, the right and privilege of protectingtho children God luii given us from eternal damnation." riQtior. nniNKixo moncat, lands. Mrs. Mary Clement Lsavilt says of tiieuso of alcohol in tropical climates, and tho impression th*t travelers in foreign lands cannot safely drink the water: "At fifty-llve years of age, having passed most of my lite in New England u>> to that date, and having been a total abstainer all my life. I llrst entered tropical lauds. From then to the present time, soven years. I hitv.-i been the greater part of the time in tropical climates?India, Burmah. Madagascar. Wost Coast of Africa, from the Congo to Sierra Leone. Brazil are .-mioiitr the countries I have visited, and in each of which I have remained some months. It has always been safe not to touch anything alcoholic ; I have never taken a drop even as medicine. Alcoholic drinks ar^> especially deadly in hot climates. Everywhere I havo found total abstainers less liable to fevers, bowel complaints, rheumatism and other diseases than those who use alcoholics even In moderation. In one town in India. I remember. an English couple were the only white persons exempt irom malarial fevers during a three years' residence, and they were the only abstainers in the. place. Aljohol is a poison, and it acts quicker within the tropios than elsewhere." j GUNS AT THE FAIR. EXAMPLES OF ANCIENT AND MODERN ORDNANCE. Death-dealing Implements of Warfare ?Rapid Fire the Great Desideratum Nowadays?Some Marvelous Progress. fHE display of implements for causing death and destruction in time of war continues to attract great attention at the Fair, says the Chicago Herald. With the exception, perhaps, of the heavy mach f |\\/| / Jj\ inery and railway j y )Y //V exhibits, the people J ( L T8eem more interI iV, i f Hcyg ested in the mody 11 ern engines of war ( 1 \ 3 than in the more V yj industrial features \l 1 of the Fair. There f if J has never been, ( f perhaps, so interesting and varied an exhibition in modern artillery as is now on view in Jackson Park. The very latest inventions in the way of ordnance, heavy and light, in all the Nations of the earth are there to be seen and what makes the display more interesting is that each new invention or improvement is accompanied by its fintetype of many years ago. For instance, in the British display, contiguous to some ripe old smooth bores of the days of King George?guns taken from Nelson's flagship Victory?appears the first attempt in rifled artillery. The Whitworth breech loading rifle was a creation of the Crimean War. It was effective while it lasted, and for some uses waB a valuable accession to field and naval ordnance. But with the advent of steel armor plates and the introduction of heavier and powerful ordnance the old Whitworth rifle ceased to be manufactured in England. Near this obsolete specimen are several types of the Armstrong steel high power gun of to-day. The English government has ceased to manufacture any larger gun than what is known as the 65-ton Armstrong, but no gun as large as that is on exhibit. The largest is a 30-ton gun which corresponds in type with BKEACH-IiOADING APPARATUS. the American 8-inch rifle. These Armstrong guns in their various sizes and weights form the heavy batteries of England's new battle ships. There are several curious relics in the ordnance exhibit of the navy. One of them is old "Long Tom," the famous bowchaser carried by the privateer General Armstrong in the days of the Revolution. This vessel, after captnring a British frigate in the English unannej, ana suosequenuy carrying destruc'lon to the British marine, was finally wrecked on one of the Azores. The gun was subsequently fished up, and for more than eighty years has been mounted on one of the forts in the Azores islands. Not many months ago the King of Portugal, thinking it would be a graceful act to return the old gun to its native country, presented it to the United States, and last summer an American man-of-war brought it home. It is now at Jackson Park and attracts scores of visitors. It is of bronze of the old-fashioned type, has a bore of about four inches, and it threw a shot weighing eighteen pounds. In the days when such guns were built the length of the gun was the only known way to secure a long range, and so "Long Tom" as he lies there pn his back is almost as long as a modern fiveinch high-power rifle. Of the curious old Mexican fieldpieces captured in the Mexican Wbr there is an unusual display. Some of these are very interesting because of their antiquity. Many of the old brass pieces bear a date in the Seventeenth Century, and were unmistakably mounted in Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest. The most curious of all this ancient display is what is believed to be the oldest breech-loading gun ever conceived oinoD ihe> invention of rmn-nowJ er. It came from China, and for many years has been in the naval museum at the Washington Navy Yard. The breech-loading attachment consists chiefly of cutting out a section of the powder chamber, inserting a charge of powder, stuffing in a plug and letting her go. It is a curious contrivance, and shows that the principle of breech-loading guns was among the earliest ideas of civilized man. The gun is said by some to be ever so many centuries old. Contrasting this little piece with the rapid-fire ordnance of to-day displayed at Jackson Park by every Nation is well calculated to impress the human mind. Modern rapid-fire ordnance has attained its highest growth and development within the past five years. In the artillery display of every country there is something marvelous and novel. What the old thirty-two-pound cannon did to win victories for Nelson ; and tho galaxy of American commo-1 dores, who in the early part of the cen- i tury did so much to glorify the Ainer- | ican flag, the light rapid-tire artillery of to-day is able to accomplish tenfold. The proved inventions in this line of artillery are so numerous that they almost become wearisome. 'lne | Americans Lave four types of equal value. These are the Hotchkiss, the Briggs-Schroeder, another type invented by Ensign Dashiell, of the navy, and yet another whese name is not now recalled. England exhibits the Armstrong rapid-fire gun to be Been at tho Fair, which is fully the equal of any of the American type. The chief feature of the Armstrong rapid-fire is its calibre, its lightness, and the rapidity with which it can be handled. It hae a eix inch bore, weighs six and one-half tons, throws a 100-pound projectile with seventeen pounds of smokeless powder, and is fired by electricity. The best trials of this gun show a speed of five aimed shots in fifty-five seconds, four of them striking the target at a range of 900 yards. The powder used with this gun is known as cordite. It is a high power explosive. This, therefore, may be regarded as the very highest type of modern rapid-fire ordnance. The i * - :? AmencaiiH art; lmpiuviu^ mc nuw-ukiss, so that soon that gnn will equal the British. "OLD LONG TOM." In the French exhibit is shown the Canet rapid-fire gun. The largest gun of that type is five and a half inches in caliber and 11,000 pounds in weight.. It uses twenty-four pounds of smokeless powder and throws a seventypound shell. In rapidity of fire tne French are ahead of both British and Americans, for at a trial of one of these guns at exhibitions two years ago seven unaimed shots were fired in fifty-four seconds, and at another trial of a smaller one of the 6ame type five unaimed shots were fired in twenty-four seconds. The Russian naval authorities have adopted the Canet type of rapid-fire gun for their service. Then there are other types of such ordnance on display in1 their department by the different nationalities. There is a Danish gun known as the Finspong and a Dutch gun known as the Gericke, the invention of Captain Gericke of the Dutch navy. Then there is the Gruson, which is the invention of a Prussian officer. This gun is lighter than either the British or American type, but it fires an average nf +Vii-H-ooti aVinfc in f/hir+.v nprtnndH. Then there is the Kinpp rapid-fire gun on exhibition in the Krupp pavilion. This is a heavier gnn than any except the Armstrong, but it is not so rapid. Tho largest type carries seventeen ponnds of powder and a seventy-six pound shell, but its highest speed is seven aimed shots a minute. In the Transportation Building are several rapid-fire guns manufactured by private English firms. In this same exhibit is perhaps to be found the most effective machine gun of any of the smaller calibers. It ie known as the Maxim automatic gun. There are two of these guns on exhibition. One of them, which weighs only fifty pounds, has attained a rate of 60.0 shots a minute. The other is a larger piece, weighs 364 pounds, has a powder charge of three ounces and throws a little baby shell I weighing one pound, but it throws ! them at the rate of 250 a minute. Then there is a gun shown as the Skoda rapid-fire gun, which is to be seen in the Austrian exhibit. The details of I this gun's capabilities are not at hand, but it is in most respects similar to those already described. When it comes to the display of projectiles the mind becomes dozed. The I projectiles range in size from one pound to 1800 pounds. The latter is I the projectile for the big Krupp gun. It is as big as a barrel and as tall as the average man. The average service projectile, however, weighs from 100 to 250 pounds. The biggest American shell on exhibit w^ighB 1100 pounds, and is for the big twelve-inch gun on exhibit in the War Department. The ancient and obsolete projectiles are also displayed in great number. They include everything from what is known as the old "bar shot" and "chain 6hot" down to the ingenioue explosive projectiles invented during the war by the Confederates, some of which are very novel. The "bar shot" was made l>y splitting a cannon ball in two and connecting the two halves by an iron bar; their purpose woe to cut rigging and ship spars. The chain shot was on a similar principle, except EIGHT-INCH BREECH-LOADING STEEL RIFLE. that two cannon balls were connected by a long heavy chain. This was for the same purpose. When Farragut attacked the forts below NeM' Orleans, these thines were fired from the guns of the enemy in great numbers, and the horrible noise that they made was well calculated to wake the dead or turn a strong men's hair gray. They came through the air like shrieking demons, and anybody who ever heard one will cheerfully forego a repetition of the sensation. Another curious exhibit is an old-fashioned furnace for heating shot to lira at ships. These two are relics of by-goue ages. Probably the last time a red-hot shot was ever fired at a ship was at this same battle of New Orleans. Odors of Flowers. It is a remarkable fact that, although there are nearly or qtiite 100.000 flowering plant i Icnowu, the relative number having odor in wonderfully small, not more than ten psr cent., in fact. In connection with this it is i 11-.. xl_x 1 notewortuy tum, utxanac uiic uf flower is endowed with sweel odor, it does not necessarily follow that all, ot nearly all. or ev^n u. fair proportion of the other species of the same family will be us favorably endowed. An illustration of this is found in the mignonette. There are some fifty species of this genus known, and of theni all but one has any fragranoe, nor is it certain that the most insignificantlooking flower has the greatest fragrance, or the most gorgeously colored likely to be without odor, thus seemingly disproving the theory thet color and fragrance are given flowers for the purpose of attracting insects to assist in cross fertilization.?New York World. ? " - : j CURIOUS CATTLE. J P DOMESTIC ANIMALS OF ODD SE- h LECTION. Ik Sacred Bulls of the Brahmans?Coach Cattle and Horned Ponies?Tartars Milk Their Mares?Riding Tame Ostriches. g?ONPLAND, the traveler, in commenting upon the curious influence of habit, mentions the fevl * the Span\ IV ^8^*Ainerican creMa)^ oles consider broad- brimmed hats "wholly indispens- ii able for the pursuits of outdoor life in a t.Vifl IrnniM. whilfl in a ntill -crarmpr + climate the Arabs dispense with hats a altogether and have for ages contrived h to make their tnrbans compatible with f longevity and pretty keen eyesight v Bnt ench freaks of fashion are not I limited to the choice of wearing apparel, I writes Professor Oswald in the San 1 Francisco Chronicle. The Esquimaux h at the Chicago Fair are a taciturn set p of bipeds, but when urged to' state their impression of Caucasian civiliza- t tion they confessed that they consid- t ered the use of such unprofitable t animals as horses rather inconsistent d with the Yankee claim to superior in- t telligence. d "Why don't you people try reindeer d or cariboos?" 6aid their leader. "What b a waste to make pets of big brutes that n can't be milked and are unfit for food, a according to your own statement. And ii these everlasting runaways and com- e. plaints of people kicked by vicious n 1 _ _I I A a _ . ? M in uorecB: ?sv vuu uun ui um ^ country accidents of that kind never n oocur? A reindeer buck can't hurt t] you "with his flat horns and his kicking a doesn't amount to anything at alL The n deer can be milked for seven months a in the year, and if we have too many c fawns we roast a few of them, or salt g them for the next winter. And besides, v reindeer will shift with the coarsest g food, and are tough to a degree that f< would make your Canadian teamsters stare. After galloping a journey of v forty miles they will content them- t selves with an armful of frozen moss 1] WINGED STEEDS and lie down in an ice-storm cold o enough to freeze the ground twenty s feet deep. I But Yankees in their turn might ^ question the wisdom of the Hindoos 1 who share their last morsel of food a with a lazy Zebu bulL A Zebu, or ^ Brahma bull, can be used as a beast of 6 burden, but is weakkneed, stupid and v ae lazy as a Holland prize cow. Warm E weather makes him capricious, he will ? balk or turn in a circle with the per- ^ severance of an inspired dervish. The c monstrous lump of fat on his back u sometimes assumes proportions that a make every ounce of additional burden ? a grievance, and to clini^x matters,the 8 ungainly brute is holy, i. e., supposed to enjoy the special protection of ^ Brahma and his allied divinities. To s beat a Brahma bull is an indictable A offense, and to kill him a crime that v can be expiated only by life-long pen- ? ance, if, indeed, the fury of theortho- 1! dox natives should suffer the offender c to survive. * ? ; C A LONG-HORNED PONT. 8; n Should a Brahma bull enter the shop o of a green grocer and help himself left n and right the proprietor must be care- P ful to abstain from profanities of o speech. He may coax the bull to the o door and gently assist him in appre- t] ciating the necessity of departure, but a1 verbal comments have to be couched tl in the most respectful terms. On a g: crowded market place Brahma bulls m may be seen pushing their Avay through 01 the throng with sublime indifference n< to the convenience of less sacred en- m tities, and trample down scores of re- ti freshment tables to reach an assort- b{ ment of attractive vegetables. And yet that four-footed nuisance is deemed p< the pride of every Hindoo homestead, w and the proprietor of a saddle bull will w sit. patiently waiting in the rays of the pi broiling sun to give the pet of Brahma st time to get over a balking fit. d< An equally sluggieh quadruped, the m zak, or long-haired bison, is domesti- p] cated in the mountains of Thibet, and m recommends itself by its ability to w survive the winters of the icy high- wi lands, but could not compete even with a knock-kneed donkey in a coun- fo trv where time is considered an equiv- | in alent of money. A pot-bellied buffa- y< lo, slonching along with a weary at grunt, and every now and then stop- oe ping altogether to browse the wayside pc herbs, conld not try the patience of rn his driver more severely: but the vr. Buddhist Thibetans seem to have no a object in life but to reach its end with ox a minimum of trouble and are never fa in a hurry. The highland zak is' dressed in a fleece that makes it look , like a walking bale of alpaca wool,but '.r] the appearance of his foothill relative ,n is even more grotesque. From; the 901 hipe to the breast his shaggy-fljjjA J*0) angs down like a misplaced mane, bjgi amp wonld furnish hair enough for a aehawof .nine tails, but the top of; is bach is as bald as the head of ft lormon elder. THE YAK OX. With all his laziness the Thibet bull 5 subject to fits of pig-like ferocity nd will trot grunting after a stranger respassing upon his pasture grounds, nd in a rough-and-tumble straggle as an ugly trick of flinging himself orward to crush his opponent by the reight of his big-boned body. The emales of the species are less stabtorn, and a white zak cow has the onor to be ridden now and then .by 4-1*a T^olo5 T.ama fTta ,* OO Iil? IUV *U(J4| irieet of Buddhism. ; . -! But if the Thibetans ride their cow* heir neighbors, the Tartars, milk heir makes. At Kuban Heri, on the ableland of Asia, there are regnlar airies for the preparation of milk ieer, butter and cheese from the ^ lare's milk. Curds, dried and powered in a sort of meal, are carried ia iags on the long migration of the noladio Tartars and are eaten with licee of dried horseflesh, when game ^ 3 scarce. A good milch mare is ponidered worth her weight in smoked $ ieat. "When a Tartar wishes to dieose of a dairy pet he invites the eighboring stockbreeders, treats hem to samples of milk andc heese nd gets his squaws to milk the mare a their presence. Business consideTtions make it advisable to keep the onvention sober, but after the bar- ^ ain has been ratified caution givee ray to liberality, and the whole party g& eis nowiuig urauh. uu a.uoulu?, ut ermented mare's milk. Timor, the Tartar, celebrated his JM ictories with solemn barbecues of roiled horseflesh and konmiss, and r; >oth delioacies have found West Can-' of son>Asr. asian admirers. "Milk tonic," as ome of our physicians call it, can be ought by the bottle. in hundreds of ; imerican drugstores, and the Dietetic t' teform Clubs of London a few years '/) go convened a meeting at the Langiam Hotel, where horseflesh in twenty- V ight different forms of preparation ras served under all sorts of fanciful tames. In Paris, too, there are horse mtchere, and a correspondent of Le 'igaro mentions the freak of an eeentric sportsman, who got mad at the V; .ntimely restiveness of his race-horse, nd ordered him "to be taken to lontfaucon and made into hipporaphic sausages." TTie introduction of horses in South v onerica has by no means yet supereded the domesticated varieties of the Lmerican camel, the llama, alpaca and icuna. In the time of the Incaa the ncouth-looking ruminants were found a herds near every village, and often onstituted the chief wealth of the hrifty mountaineers. The SpanisB ? onquerors soon learned to appreciate heir value and used them to transport j -.ili+ofTT onrmliea ovpr t.hfl dlZZV bridle J ?.-rr / faths of the Andes, though, strange to aj, nearly all their early writers decribethemas "ovejas,"or "ovejotes," e., overgrown sheep. "In places where springs are scarce," ays Augustin de Zerate (a Spanish ommieeioner of the Sixteenth Cenixry),' 'the natives fetch water from con* iderable distances by filling it into bags lade from sheepskins and making ther living sheep carry them, for it lust be remarked that the sheep of 'eru are large enough to serve as boasts f burden. They can carry 100 pounds r more and the Spaniards used to ride lem, though they will travel only bout four or five leagues a day. When ley are weary they lie down upon the round, and as there is no means of laking them get up either by beating c coaxing them, the load must of eceesity be taken off. When there is a an on one of them, if the beast is red he turns his head around and )its in his rider's face." The Spanish hidalgo, it might be supased, would rather have dispensed ith such saddle horses, but a llama ill travel at a steady gait along preci- ^ ;ces where even a Spanish mule would H umble, and, like tno ei^g isert, the American crQ{ surviving ost miraculous faci gifting with a rotracted famines *re6}imei1ts or even inimum of fluid ry e8 as ajtali ith such queer ? **er a?(* l&ngest of all substitutes ut ^asta of burden can be seen r ?nr juthern Soudan, where the tbe jrB of tlie Donga natives trot ' J >unFa tame ostriches. A full-grown. >??t?ock can carry a load of 200 | itnc, though only" at a moderate I +u f'Peed, but with alight rider he I ? h <iwftv at a breakneck trait for m of ten or twelve miles with- M ^ ,anifeating any symptoms of tJae. For a short distance, and sh an extra-light jockey, a trained ,rich might even carry off the first ize of an African derby, though, as American wag observes, "the rider aid at beet only hope to win on 4. M