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Exeter Times, 1898-7-14, Page 2Good for the Soul a the unit tato the universe, is like the subsidence of mime little whirling It was Meant twelve or tlairteen years gust of wind tbat for an lustunt catch - before Dr. La,vendae was discovered es up etraers and dust and. thee drops to have outlived les uthfulness that, lie night, in the parsonage study,with only Mary, and. his brother, Joey Lav- , mien as witnesses, he married Pet- er Day, Peter, with a, pretty girt on bis arm, drifted be out a tho windy and rainy darkness, with a license from the Maym's °Mee in Upper Chea. ter, and a demand that Dr. Lavender nerforra the marriage service. Both the man ancl woman were strangers to him and the little old minister looked at tleene sharply for a minute or two - ' be had misgivings, soraeb.ow. But the girl was old entangle and looked per- feotly satisfied and intelligent, and the roan's face was simple and honest - besides, the license was all right. So the asked ope or two grave and kindly questions: "You've thouglat this well over it You know whet a solemn thieg marriage is, my friends? Yoa are well assured that you are acting soberle, discreetly, and in fear of God?" , "Yes, sir," said Peter Day; and the girl, a pretty, sick -looking creature, opened, her big brown eyes with a glimmer a interest in them, end said, also, "Yes, sir," So Dr. Lavender did his date-, and found a. surprisingly large fee in his hand, and went back to smoke bis pipe and write at least a. page of his great work, The History of Precioue Stones. That was the last he saw of the 'un- known bride and. groom for many a long year. Once he heard. of a. new thresbing rmehine that was being tried at the Day farm, in the next county, and was interesting two or three farmers in his own parish; but be did not connect the rich and suc- cessful farmer of Grafton, a, village near Upper Chester, with the naan lia had married that stormy anue So, tboiegh his neighbors had. found them interesting. enough, Peter Day's affairs had never come to Dr. Lav- ender's ears. Peter had been commiserated for forty years. His farm was prosper - me; it kept pace with all the new ma- chinery, fertilizers were not despised, and there was no waste; the Day beifers land a. name all through the State; and a thousand acres of hay- ing -land. meant a capital as reliable as government bonds. "I guess he's was dead, thinking about heaven -for worth $75,000 if he's worth a cent," his he was a religious man -and saying to neighbors said, "but the cad lady, she theeself that she was "far better off." won't let on but what. they're as poor cf•Ifef.?rier lug that he was "far bet- as poverty." There was no doubt that Of mime, aa the weeks passed, he ad- justed himself to the difference in his condition; he grew accustomed to cer- tain reliefs. Yet he did not realize that he was free. He was like a horse wbo slips his halter in a tread -mill, but goes on and on and on. Be was not that's another question." haeessed by the goad of the strident "He may not keep the farm up but • voica, but he did the same work, in he can let himself aown," Henry Die I the same way, in the same harsh and vie, who was the blacksmith, declared; unlovely surroundings; -and he did not "and. I'll be glad of it! Before Peter I bring Jim into the b.ottiee for company! Day goes to heaven -I gees, there's no I He spent his,money on certain meagre doubt of Peter's going there in duel essentale of food and fuel, and on ne- time ?-he ought to knotv something , cessary ireprovements of the farm; a but he missed his mother's judgment bout the earth. Ile's acquainted with and her shrewd foresight in melt. mat - the Other Place, dear knows, with the , old woman I -not that Pd say anything terse He veent to church, and slept against her now she's on her death- heavily during the service; but he nev- bed." Henry pet a hand on the ben er went to the church sociables. His mother hed despised them, and he was lows, and a roar of blue flame burst too old. to acquire social habits. He through Lhe heap of black fuel on the forge. "Don't you let on to anybody, made no effort to be intimate with his but I doubt if Peter'll ever be raore 'an three years old. His mother's boss- ed him every breath he breathed since lie was born, and. he'll be just real Mis- erable learning to walk alone at forty." It must be admitted that .here was cause for commiseration: All his forty years Mrs. Day had dorainated her eon's lifeshe had ectana.ged his farm, into deed wine Iliereiste sense of peace about it that is not exactly h.a- man; it is organic, perbane; it only coneee when there is na grief. They felt it, these people who stooa watch- ing, silently, unbealeving in their hearts that they too would, some time go beck into sun and siaaele and roll- ing world. There was no grief, only euriceity and interest and the seem of peace, When it was over, they 'walked slowly bank again, pausing for some low -voiced talk at the Day doorway, and. then leaving Peter, and drawing a longer breath perhaps, and raising their -voices to °hatter together of the dead woraann temper and. meanness and the money she had left. The little 'whirl of shrewish wind had. fallen into calm; it was "all over," as the sa.ying is -and so much greater is Life than living- that it was as thought it, never had been, Except to Peter Day. The house had the stillness of that grave he heal left up in the pas- ture. Be beard same one raove about out in tee kitchen, en& the clock dole - Mg in the hail. Rut there was no strident old voice to bid him do this or that; no orders to obey, no fierce and insane fault-finding. The silence was deafening. He set down, in the parlor -the occasion seemed to de- mand the dignity of the parlor. The chairs had been put back in their places, but the open space in front of the &apiece struck him like a. blew; and the lingering scent of the flow- ers merle him feel sick. He was e short, sturdy-looeing man, with a soft black beard, and kind, quiet, near-sighted eyes, which bis rowed speetaeles magnified. into lam- bent moons. Tbere was no weakness in his face; but there was patience in every line; just now there was be- wilderment. "Dead?" Be was trying, durably, to adjust himself to the fact; to under- standiit, or at least to believe it. He felt something swell in his throat, and very likely be thought it was grid. Habit does much for us in this way; a carping, uncomfortable companion- ship of forty years is yet a. compan- ionship. Life runs in rough grooves, but they are grooves, and when it lea- ves them there is a wrench and jolt, and. perbaps even a crash -and very often it is all mistaken for grief. Pet- er, in his simple wa.y, called it grief. As he sat there in his black clothes looking at that open space where the coffin had stood, he was vaguely con- scious that he wished he had his dog Jim beside him; bat after forty years a being told. that he "could not bring dogs and cattle into the house," and that "he was a. fool to want to," he would have found. the effort of free- dom ansoluts pain. So he sat still until it grew dusk, trying to believe that she Peter Day was prosperons; but, never- theless, he was caniraiserated:-he bad a mother. "The farm is the best farm in 'West- moreland County, but whether Peter can keep it lin '4% hen the old, lady goes, N C4 'VVATSON, HIS FLAGSHIP AND HIS META A despatch from Washington, says: -Commodore Jahn Crittenden Watson, wee has been ordered to take a fleet of six fighting ships a,oross the Atlan- tic. to meet the Spesaisia on their home coasts, is one of the youngest cone - menders of the navy. It is within tete possibilities that another Manila meg be seen nt Cadiz, but, however that may be, Commodore Watson will beve no lack of good. ships and big guns with *hide to do battle. The most important of the six fighting vessels in the Watson fleet are les own flag- ship, the Newark, and the big battle ships Iowa and. Oregon. The three others are the Yosemite, Yankee and Dixie. They are auxiliary cruisers purchased by the United States after thexi war began. The Die was for- merly El Rio. She has e displacement of 4,664 tons, is 380 feet long, is mounted with twenty-two guns, and. has a crew of 350 men, The Yankee was formerly El Norte. She is of the same tonnage, gun power and. man power as the Dixie, and the Yosemite, which was formerly El Sud, is a sister ship of the other two, with the same men and arms The flagship Newark is a • noble protected ()raiser of 4,098 tons displacement. She is 310 feet long, 49 feet two Indies in the beam, and steams at the rate of nineteen knots an hour. Her main battery consiste of twelve 6-incle lereeobeloading rifles and her secondary battery of four 6 -pound- ers, four 3 -pounders and two 1 -pounder meek firers, four 37 -nun., Rotalakiss re. volvitig cannon and. four Gatlings, She has a complement oe 854 men. The commodore himself, althougb still in his fifties, served on Ferragues flag- ship all through ther civil war. He was born in Frankfort, Ky., and. was gradu- ated with honors from the navel aca- demy at Annapolis. After making a tour of the world he was assigned to Farragut's ship, and did not leave the hero till peace was declared. Commo- dore Watson is a grandson of John J. Crittenden, who was once attorney general of the United States and. who wrote the famous Crittenden come m proise bill. He is a nephew of Gen- eral George B. Cribtenaen and Thomas L. Crittenden, who were laeroes of the civil war. Commodore Watson's wife was a bliss Thornton of San Francis- co. He has two sons; one Edward H. Watson, is an ensign on the cruiser Detroit, and the other Thornton L. is now a private inthe Seventh cav- alry. "Well, whose time are you. wastine" the smith insisted, good -mat tiredly. "It's your own, ain't it? I guess you got a. right to loaf. There's no one to say You nay," he ended. " That's so," said Peter. But be still tramped back and forth, until the sraitb, turning tbe bar about on bis an.viI, cried: "For the Lord's sake, Peter Day, get out i Go on up to Main Street and. get a. shave. Get out o' here, anyhow." Peter laughed, and went, saying that he'd be bade in ten minutes. "And mind. you have that done I"° He loitered along, looking at his watch more than once, and. coming to a standstill before the window of a gro- cery -store. He did not go in. All these years the curb of his mother's will had held him away- from the shiftless and. friendly gatherings about the stove or around the baak taunter, and he seemed. to feel it yet. So he only look- ed into the -dusty window. There were wooden rakes stacked up at one side, andboxesof cotton lace, and. two jars of red and white stioks of candy, and fly -specked cups and saucers in thick white earthen -wear there were some advertisements of poultry fend past- ed against the glass, and a print of a new mower. He took these in absent- ly, looking at his watch, and wonder- ing if the bar was nearly done. And then his eye caught a colored litho- graph propped up against some tin- ware. A row of girls, smiling, coquet- tish, marching each with slippered feet well advanced, holding out a. gay skirt with the thumb and forefinger of one neighbors. Mrs. Day had quarrelled hand, and flirting with the other a with them, and would not have their , huge feather fan across arch ana laugh - names spoken in her presence if she ; bag eyes. The flatter of the pink and celled help it, so, if Peter had a cepa- , blue and white skirts, the slender =- city for friendship, these speechless; Ides, the invitation and. cballenge and years had made it dumb. Hence he as impertinence of the upward. kick, seem - singularly isolated, untouched by the ed to Peter Day perfectly beautifuL interest or the gossip or the know.; Re gazed at the picture, absorbed and ledge of the life about him. He spent entranced. The owner of the shop, his days as he, bad always spent•them, standing in his doorway, watched him improved according to her very excel - following the, lines his mother had laid grinning. lent judgment. She had formed. hism. e en roug, e You be ter go see em, - Y. et nem1 round of daily work In the ev- They're to be here to -night The par- exiings he read. his agricultural paper sons mad, I tell you." opinions -or rather, she had given him her opinions; she had directed his an - tions, she had. bought his clothes, she bad doled out every dollar he spent, and taken scrupulous account, of the spending; she had crushed, long ago, any vague thought of marriage he may have had, and she had assured him ov- er and over that he was a fool. A hard, shrewish, hideously plain, mar- vellously capable old woman, with a temper which in her later yeses drew very near the line of insanity. Then she died. The Anguet afternoon that the lit - train of silent people carried her out of her own door im to the family burying -ground in the pasture (the Days were of New England stock, and bad tete feeling of race permanence in their blood, which shows itself in this idea of a burying -ground on their own land) -that August afternoon was sun- ny and still, except for the au,dden song of a locust in the stubble, stab- bing the silence end melting into it egain. Some sumacs were reddening on the opposite hill -side; and the blossoming bucktvlaeitt in ethe next field wee full of the raurraur of bees; its hot fragranee lifted and drifted on any wandering breath of wind. Peter Day walked behind the coffin in his best Week elothes, with his hat in his hand; then came the friends and nei- ghbors, two by two, A. path had been mowe(1 through the thin second crop of grass; but the women's skirts brush- ed tbe early golden -rod growing in 'the tangle of briars in the angles of the snake fence. Up in the pasture, where the burial -lot, erielosed by it prim, white paling, lay under a.greet dile it bird, belareibig on 0. Teaming sloth headstone, burst into a gurgling laugh oe song, The oak drepped leg ebedows back and forth en the armee of men and women who stood. eatening silently that solemn tnerge big of livitig into Life -of conscioue- tiess and knowledge and bitterness end mete, ofhuman nature, into Nature. Tbis ending of the meen rola pitiful tumult which is so often OM that in- dividualiey teeetile to be, this sinking ; or an old, book on sermons. There was peter come to himself with a, start, genic Ideas for the goad Builders of Our no one to tell bira to go to lied, and an& read the announcement of the pro- own eines, once he fell asleep, bis arms stretched duction in the town -hall, on such a, date ' on the table in front of hien; and wale- and at such an hoar, of Sweet Rosy.' An authority on road construetion ened in the cold early light, stiff and The notice -below the picture set forth: saYs that the Romans made their bewildered, an heavy with fatigue. The Four Montague Sisters will Per- main roads to last forever. They were Bat there was one point an which form. their Charming, Refined. and Side - Peter Day was perfectly clear; he splitting Farce, with all Acc.essories composed. of siliceous and calcareous might, through stupidity or dulness, of Magnificent Scenery, Exquisite materials, and were far superior to the go on in the tread -mill now that the Music, and Elaborate Costumes. The highest type of modern work. The large halter was slipped, but, -he was glad Ballet is proneunced to be the most roads averaged 4 to 4 3-4 meters, the to mies the goad I _ Beautiful in Loveliness of Form, and smaller ones 3 to 3 1-2 meters. In The fleet awakening to a knowledge Perfection of Grace, ever seen in Ara- that he was free (erne some ten months erica- mountain regions the road was narrow - later, It was in june; tt hot, spark- YOUTH, GRACE, EFATJTY. i, ed down to a single carriageway, 1 3-4 had twice as much as he could do. Adcoaission, 35 Cents. , meters. The sidewalks were larger ling day, when every hand on the lama Something had gone wrong about. the " We've never had. one of these here near the cities, but redeced to six - mower; and Peter, with Jim at his shows up here," said the storekeeper; tenths of a rn.eter in the outer districts. heels, went into the village to get the :,,,hunetteeie eeneesee Ive eegn 'em. leeelways They were built of cut stone, at least blacksraith to weld a. broken rod to. 6" '''''''' '''" '''' the re"Y' eeeeeee mY on the border. At every twelve paces example can't injure nobod.y there. mounting stones were placed, and at gether. It was a loss of tirae, this hanging about the blacksmith's shop iniLere,,it:Is_s_diff,rerenAt,.. Thisone.hisn,l'i as _ „ every 1000 paces nailestones. Some of waiting for the work to be done, and ""' ee '''''''"e' e linu'rs"n".. —37 "'"'''' the bests roads, were paved with mar - the old honit of 'uneasiness, beeause of you go and see elm, Mr. Day ?" ea ble. The minor or secondary roads Why didn't he 1 Pater Day went hae'e were not so carefully naade, though of his mother's rage at: any delay, made to him tramp anom, frowning and press -and the blacksniith's shop for his rod, a solidity with which few modern roads ing his lips toget her, and looking ele walked home "studying." Wh can coinpere. A ditch was dug to the the road as though fearing some '831°111619; he go to see the show? Et -Ye solid earthwhich was ,stamped, rolled messenger, sent to bid hire hasten. did not ask himself whether there was „ staked; then on a hoor 01 sand, 10 The shop was dark, except for the anything wrong in such shows -he nev- or 15 centimeters thiek. a layer of mor. red flicker when the math thrust bis er had asked hienself smile questions, pincers into the heap of ashes with There was nothing abstract a,bout Pet. tar was spread. This formed the basis af the four courses, which conetituted on.e hand end started the bellows with or. Be had simply ducked and winced the road. The first was it course of the °then, Than a shower of sparks flew under bis mother's tongue, and .acacet" several layers of flat stones, bound. by up the great black cone of the chimney, ea her decisions of 'whet was right or herd cement or day. This layer was and. Peter could see his piece of brok- wrong, avoiding by a, sort of instinct, ening- y 80 eentimeters thick, and en iron white rx in the flames. Ile; look- the things that roused the. farious tena- twice that in bad lines. On this rams ed at his watch- festlessly and walked per which ley always ready to flash concrete of pebbles, tortes and. brok- to the door and. bade. and roar and shake the house down at an bricks, strongly rammed with bon- e, e " Ain't you 'meet clone ?" any most trivial. manse, In ten raonths "I ain't, And 1 won't, be for &half- he ha,d. gotten more or lese used to I sheathed rammer% The ordinary thiekness of ilia layer wee 26 centime - hoer,' enary Donis aid,o wawa the peace, even if he had. not taken advan. tees. '6:event:let of it e In the; absence of mortar, loam mattee with ,you, Peeler, anyway g tap 9./ it, But why shouldn't he take Whetee •yout huffy t It wouldn't kill was used. I Superimposed on tbis was anybody if you didn't get back till 40- He looked through his tonna specta. a layer of 30 to 50 centimeters of gre, morrow. Your other meetermee going. des at The jogging along in the dab vel or coarse send, carefully rolled. The top layer, or rtist, was convex, end There ain't no dyke need of this here in hiont of hive with a. sort of absent ran to a tiaiekness of 20 to 80 centi- a one, anyhow." Well, I ain't one to waste time," Peter said, mu yewned. end stretch.ed himself on the bare black earth of the floor, Ile, at least, was 40 110 hurry. DISAPPEARING GUN CARRIAGES. ••••••••• Thee Are Tery Hard to Strike During a Bombardment. The disappearing carriages are built in accordanoe with any one of a num- ber of mechanical principles; but, whatever system be employed, the practical operation is the same. In front of the gun is an immense shield of sand and concrete presenting no projection or angles which would re- veal. its 'edition. Behind this the gun lies bid. It is loaded, given the proper elevation and direction, rises, discharges its projectile, and the re- coil returns it th its hidden position. To teat the value of such mountings the English conducted experiments at Portland in 1885. A pit was dug in the natural slope of a bill and in this pit e wooden model of a large gun was mounted upon a disappearing carriage. It was arranged to appear for half a minute at intervals of three minutes, emit it puff of smoke and disappear. The Hercules are 800 yards in ten min- utes, 6,910 rounds from the machine guns and '29 rounds from its 6 -pounders. The gun struck at the seventh minute ahd cou.ld not be hauled down. In spite of this it was struck only sixteen times, and had it been steel the effect would bave been simply to scratch the paint. Besides this, 28 10 -inch shells were fir- ed at it from a distance of 2,500 yards and. no bits were made the shell strik- ing from soa yards slaort to 300 yards over, and from 120 yards left to 130 yards right This was under eirewm- stanes unfavorable to the gun, since it did not return the fire. A fixed gun subjected to a similar test was struck over 203 times. and he had fetched and carried and HOW THE ROMANS BUILT ROADS. 11•111,••••• Intentness"X'm going to see them, he said 40 hireeelf."Why met?" So he want. lie %refit that very night, ' To ire Continued. ARUM EXIT:NH PATL ANDREWS START FOR THE NORTH POLE IN JULY, 1897. 1Yollerious limiscoPearance of Um lialloou ToPlgers-IBlitY Expeditions Bare Sal!. ed to rigid Them, Out None Wee Been Successful, On July 11, 1897, Salomon August Andree started for tne North Pole in a balloon, Ile took with bina two 00131^ [Anions, Nils Strindberg and „guilt Iljahnar Fordina nd Prakel, It was the most daring exploit in the history of Arctic adventure. For years Andree had been known es a balloonest and. a student of tb,e Two years before he had notified King Oscar of Sweden that with the proper facilities he could reach the North Pole in a balloon, ma after investiga. teen King Oscar donated 5,000 arenas to the enterprise, and. the Swedish Geo - militate' Society made up tbe rest. The start was made from Dane's Is- land, near Spitzbergen, which is a rocky island in the Arctic drele. It took place Only 11, 1897, or just ,a year ago. A large number of balloon enteusiaets made a eceerney froro. Eur- ope to see the 'Allem atart on its voy- age. Herr Andrea had personally super- intended the transportation of the bal- loon, and lead atored. it tvith provisions to last 11 days, His plan was to reaoh the pole wiehin 21 hours make observa- tions and return the next day, getting back to Dane's Island within three days. In case a westerly wind continued to blow he would continue west and would cross the pole and, com.e; down to San Francisco, landing there IN THREE DAYS. When Andrea was ready. to start he shook hands with bis friends and step- ped into the car. His companions step- ped bi after hien The great sphere was loosened, the ballast thrown out, and the balloon started. upward. As it shot into the air Andrea shouted, "In the name of my eolleagues I send you our warmest greeting to our country and friends." That was the bet seen; of lam. Al- though many expeditions hone sailed to find him none have been successful. If he readied the pole he found itt im- I surprising, therefore, that the lines. possible to return. Or did he fail to men is strongly inclined to connect the reach the pole at all? Did. the balloon increase in wages with the increase in collapse and precipitate him in the ice the price of articles of clothing sup - floes of the Arctic Sea? Dia lee cross plied lune by Government, and to say the leas, as many have deemed, sue- with a wink that he "reckons the Society of Denmark. This station An- drea intended to make ope of Lis land- ings, but though the peninsula wee thoroughly Sean:bed, there watt no Proof or eUggestion that be had ever been there. Andrees balloon, wig& was named La Pole Nord, was made of varnished silk. The sack was 75 feet in height and the car and observation platforne gave it 14 additional feet below. The basket was made of wicker work, lined with vendee:led, silk to keep out the wind and was 5 feet deep and ti feet in diameter. It was to serve as An. dree's bedroom while he was at the pole. POOR TOMMY ATKINS. mg ray cm% I,p But so Does the Price. Id Ills Clothes. 1Vhen, with much parade in Parlia- ment, and army orders, dee British soldier was greeted his "rise" a few weeks since, tee patriotie shock hands with himself, smiled in a self-satisfied way, and sat down to await expectantly the wild rush to the eolors of thousands of hitherto reluct- ant "recrooties," says the London Daily Mail. Perhaps his complacency was not altogetlier justified. A con- siderate proportion of privates in most line regiments, at any rate. are at the present moment poorer tban they were before the inerease of eaY was granted. The full is per day is only given to men who have readied the piaysical pro- portions fixed as the standard for infantry. Tins is as it should be. The taxpayer .would be entitled to object were he paying full wages to men who are not up to the standard. But, by a curious coincidence, with- in a few days of the array order grant- ing an increase of pay from the first day of April, an alteration was made in the price list of military clothing. Nearly every article now costs the sol- dier more than formerly. Thus trousers, whicla occasionally heve to be replaced by Tommy at his own ex - pease, having risen from 7s ild to 8s 11d, socks have gone up 1-4d a pair, and similar trifling advances have been made all along the line. To the efficient, who gets bis full is a day, this inerease is not, perhaps of such great moment. But to the non - efficient, with his 8 1 -2d -and a man is sometimes several months before drill and exercise produce the desired effect -this alteration is it hardship. When a man's Rocket money is reek- aned by half pennies, a small reduction makes a lot of difference. It is hard- cessfully, and, starting on his west- ward journey, intending to encirale the earth, fail to find land again? What became of him? Is Jae alive, and if so, where is he? Did he die, and if he did, WHERE IS HIS BODY Previous to 'his attempt to reach the pole Andrea had made so many ascen- sions that he was by no means a novice in the air. He was at one time Chief Engineer of the Royal Patent Office in Sweden and was elected to the Geographical Con- gress in London, july, 1895. Here he wa,s subjected to the most rigid cross- examination concerning his balloon scheme, one of the chief inquisitors be- ing General A. W. Greely. All had to own that Andree's idea was a level- headed. one, if it could barnacle to work. The whole thing hung upon the extent to which the balloon making had been carried The order for tbe balloon in which Andree was to start for the pole was finally lodged with Lachambre, of Par- is, in 1896, and. the maker kindly con- sented to allow 20 men of science to advise him in the construction. On July 4, 1896, tee balloon was ready, but Andrea PREFERRED TO WAIT. Until the next year, owing to certain arctic calculations he wished to per-. 'teen Tb.us it was not until July 11, 1897, that he set out. Simultaneously with his start eirculars advising people how to capture the balloon in case it got, away were printed in four language 'and were distributed throughout Scan- dinavia, Norway', Sweden, Finland, 'Russia, Siberia and British America. After the balloon sailed away people were on the lookout for it for days as a large reward was offered for its rescue and a very substantial sum was put up for proof that it had been seen. Andree told his friends that, if per- fectly successful and if he found agood ;nation near the North Pole, he might remain away from three, to five years. All would depend upon his ability to get supplies. If, as, h.e hoped, be could find an Eskimo village near the IVELT331 regions of the open pole, he would ve- rmin there until be bad, completed his fuli geographied survey. A year has passed away, however, and as no news has been heard of him, it is feared that he is dead. The other alternative is most; interesting. Ile may be away and living in the beauti- ful region which is said to exist around. the pole. If so, he must be in a tropi- cal eountry for scientists agree that there is 4 AN OPEN POLAR SEA. Numerous other expeditions have steeled out after him. A ugust 'Band - roe, it hardy Norwegian sea Captain, took a boat several hundred miles north of Date's Island, looking right and loft for Aintree; Bussed, the Russian explorer, penetrated to the extrunts point of the Tichoolecbee Peninsula off Northeastern Siberia., looking for hien but without result. ling Oscar equipped. a royal Swedish expedition last September, which weet further north thee arly other expedi- tion had ever done at that time of. the year; but still no trece of Andrea! ttileBOennr Lftiol ns2trati flitonr°1hteilha:r vd:itmolei :met: ayi iaogIorucaalianidi: Barrow. He got the pigeon, arid found thee the message It bore evas UNDOUBTEDLY FROM ANtatn. Many have been the futile supposi- tions 'regarding hini, A ehoet time ago isa was located 40 Alaska, and again it carrier pigeon tirrivea from him in meters or mote. It was made differ- British America,, ently, acnording to the materials at The Samozeridend Peninsula 40 tete- land. It even either peered with out tilde 70 degrees torth and lotestitucle stone or laid vvith pebble and greeite, dogrees oaEit, entertained 0, Dollish or meta led, expeditioe sent oat by the lloyal bloomire War Office knows a thing or two," CRUELTY FOR FASHION'S SAKE. Another form of cruelty, which is profitably praetioed for the sake of fashion, Is nothing more or leas than the manufacture of real kid gloves, the skins of which came from France, Italy, Spain, Mexico and South America. In France the cruelty is revolting. Great care is taken in raising the kids, and they are sewed in a cover to keep their skin in a perfeete condition of softness. The kid. grows, but the cover is not damaged- Untold pain is inflicted on the little a.nioxials, till they writhe in the tortare of the unyielding jacket. France alone makes more than twenty - our million pairs of kid gloves a year. But, terrible as this is, and abomin- able as are all of the many revolting cruelties practiced to satisfy buraan vanity and human desires, calling at- tention to any one of them or to ell doss not lessen the shame of the slaugb- ter af birds. Not in any sense as an excause for the kid. glove cruelty, but rather to show the more forcibly the wrong in the aigrette traffic, inight be pointed out that the kids thus tor- tured and Milled at least never knew freedom as does the heron, Each kid is tortured and dies, and his skin is used and sold. The herein is shot, and a small part a its feathers utilized. A. whole family of young ones gasp for foocl untie the breath nf life goes out. Added to this the herons are ea,pidly becoming exterrainated, are many other birds whose feethers please wo- man's refilled taste Victor Hugo once said., in a letter to his wife: "I for my pare think that pity is a law as much as justice, that goodness is a, duty as much as probity. 'Whatever is weak has a deem on the goodness and pity of whatever is strong. The animal is weak because it lacks intelligence. Let us, therefore, be kind end pitiful to- ward it. Daulitlass it was the first duty to civilize man on the side of mare The task is already far advanc- ed, and makes advances every day. But man must be civilized also on the side of nature. Here everything is to be done." AN IRISH LOVE -LETTER. We find it 40 an excluinge and have no doubt it will stir the readex's sym- pathies: My 'Arlin' Peggy met you last night and you never camel I'll meet you again to -night, whether you'll come or whether you'll stop away. If I'm there firet, sure r11 write my name on tho gate to tell you of it, and if it's you that's first, why rub it nut, darnel!, and no one wilt 40 the wiser, el1 never fail to be at the trysthe place, Peggy, for faith, I can't keep away from the spot -where you are, whet her yoiere there or whether you're not. Your own, PADDY. TOO HASTY. Coal Dealer, anxiously --Hold on! That loed hesn't been weighed. It, looks to me lather large for it ton. Driver-ertin't intended for a ton. It's two tons. Dealer -Beg pardon, Go ahead. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Capt Cutt-Who 13 that clrunkeri non- rommissioned man staggering down the etreet with oar orderly sergeant Lieut. Slash. -That's ons disorderly sergeant,' ITEMS OE INTEREST. A Few loartograploi Which May lie Pound. Worth Reading. Tlae Suez canal yields an annual, profit of 013,769,000. 'The cultivation of the caraphor•tree' bee proved a great success in Florida,. In Boston it man who is suffering from "swelled head" is said to be et, Meted with "eelebral tumefa,otion." Aleobol is being used with maxitle Lamps to illuminate parte of Berne's, Park, the Thiennerten, 3c40 Philips, of Long Island MY, N.Y., has four sons all under thirty yeae.s of age in the' Sixty-ninth N. Y. regiment. In the main bell of the Sbah's pal - line at Teheran, there is a =pet wee - en in one piece, which has been; in user for two hundred years. Mr. and. Mrs. E. Maynard, of Log Oleo, recently celebrated the seventieth, anniversary of their marriages, His age is 94 years and hers is 91. Frame= Cunign, a resident oi New York city, became so merry at a. Parte in a friend'a house, thae in an uproarous fit of laughter es bit bee tongue, Maria Christina, Regeat of Spain, has a pale, stern faee, oom and change.. less as marble. She possesses a. grace- ful figure and patrician hands, wriate and feet. „ There are no dogs 40Pisek, Bobeme ia. A recent case of eydropbobia in the town caueed the authorities to ban- ish every dog, and prohibit the en- trance of any other% All the flags used. by the United States Navy are xxtadeatt the Breolelyn Navy Yard. The work is meetly don by women. Bade flag has ninety stars, forty-five on each side. A monster petition signed. by thou- sands of women of Concord, N.H., beg- ged. the War Department not to enlist married men. The answer to the peti- tion was: "We prefer them; they are used to fighting," A drunkard was innoculated at the Pasteur Institute for rabies, at the. same time that a child, who bad been bitten by the same dog, was under treatment. The man used. iatoxicanta all through the, period of his treatment. He died of rubies, but the child recov- ered. The Society for the Prevent:doe of Cruelty to Animals once proposed to establish a branch of the organize, don in Bareelone, Spain. The muni- cipal authorities aourteously Exempted the proposal, and offered to bold a. grand bull fight at once to furnish the funds. The royal palace in Meade is one ofr' the most beautiful structures in the world. It was built in the early part of the last century, of wlaite inarble, by an Italian architeot. It cost $5,- on,o0o. It measures 470x470 feet,with an exterior court 240 feet square, roof- ed with glass. Something -mimic in the way of a. monument has been devised by a wid- ow of Bolivar Mass., wbo bas survived seven busbands. The chief feature of tbe monument is FL marble band, the index finger of which points to the sky. Under this, instead of names, dates, etc., are the suggestive words, "Seven Up." subterannean city exists in Gal- icia, Austrian Poland, ivied' contains a population of over 1,000 men, women and children, many of whom leave ne- ver seen the light of day. It is called the City of the Salt Mines, and hoe Salt town hall, a church, a theatre, eta. The oleurch has several statutes, all (served from solid salt, Seven fireneen, in Williamsburg, N. Y., becanie strangely overcome at it fire they were endeavoring to subdue. TM fire was in a paint factory, rime in the course of their work they tile. set and bursted some barrels contain -- ing paris green. The dry powder se- tered their lungs and caused alarming symptoms of arsenical poisoning. It was several hours before they could even walk. 'After a three dens' service in the U. S. Army, Private Wm. H. Hook, of Company F., Second Wisconsin Volun- teers, died of stomach trouble. His widow, a resident of Oshkosh, is the first person to anply for a pension since the beginning of the present war. She will receive $12 per month. The husband was mustered in on Friday May 13, became ill the oext day, and died on Sunday, May 15. Mike Brophy, a, Cincinnati toper, eves as hill as a tick when he eras brought on it streteher to a, hospital in that city. He seemed to be uncon- scious, but he was quickly brought te his senses by an electrical "hannniele, bird," whie)a was placed on his bare Mese This "bird" was a metallic, contrivance attached to an elentria wire. As soon as it touebed him, Mike bounded to his feet with a war -eel -100P. An incendiary fire ceused great damage to a farm in Gippsland, Aus- tralia. Tbe fanner offered a, large reward for the diseovery of the cul- prit. A native detective made this report; "No man; it woman's treas." Ile diecovered the boots which matte Live tracks, and they belonged to the farm- er's seventeen -year-old daughter. She started the fire "because the loved to see the people excited," Reports have been received from Re - bah, the Arab eonqueror of the ceet- tral Soudan, who seems to be alive again, After his conquest of Baghile e ini and Borneu hea invaded the Faultily Stetenf Sokoto, was at thet defeated badly, when the report of hie death arose, but got, his forces togetber, ov- erpowered the Suiten of Sokoto, and captured lean°, the metropolis of the west (Antral Soudan. Ile le now re- Ilitt:oget inzsreuidas tl itisis ilgigeenr°gr leLoainntoph'itenbyypicttvshiLeu804- 4qeralndrldned cotmoiltihiceallornistisibn, Foonseth atiptd* triiiiimso. mores preve true a mu- element.