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"JUST SUTPOSIN,”"
A Story of' a lag Cabin Wand IV 'oil S0141111, •
IIeLt7 Cumminge, you may Emilie Ont 118"
to El
A black•eyeil girl in the third se;:t ill the
second row of the log st•hool himea (woes
promptly mod vialkial to the teaelier'e dealt,
The teacher steed up. She stepped
wround to the side of the deek thii lietter to
fix If etty e eyes wlth her own.
"Betty, what did you do 4 Anttie jou-
kins just now S" .
Before the question wait well out of her
month the iinswer flashed bitek :
" Put 1301110 W0111 11111L down lier back, I
brought it a perpose."
The teitchei '1 White fingers tielitened .111
the desk mud she opened her lips twice lie.
lore 11110 spoke,
" Oh, yon did, did you?"
She felt this to be an utterly inane re.
mark, but to save her:fell she enulil not
think of auytbing elee. No need to have
fixed thooe eyes of lietty'e--1 hey were re.
lentlesely and unliinollingly fastened en her
face. To get Omni off, ele• remarked Veit
may go to your seat and 1 will attend to
you later."
SI • t lo sosiin 0 the Lomeli redwood
flesks It WAS 11810 the close fli 1,111101, It
had been a Mirth day and Heity WAR about
the last etraw. She tried to reittion,
filially, without reasoning she breathed to
herself " 111 give it up. 1 simply can liot
etond it . "
For one moment elie sat very still, try.
ing to stop the quivering of her nerves.
taking a ;large, sheky.limaing letter
tit her hoed, she arose alai stood before the •
school. " Children, '' She hegalt, " we can
not have our pienie the th 11 ef September. ,
rec,ieed a letter from 11r telniinii Oda
morning and --1 wit'. reed yiel wiett ir soya " :
Then she read hi. letter aloud:
"I heered yon Ever 11,1111101' 110 t» my :
reservore next week to leo,: e gri0,1 ateg
an' I 'want to say the; 1 den t went 11411 .
you tribe a.. nonin thmegt. meilows,
an' seam' my tadi ,tzei set 11y stt1tW-
1011 riSS, ao 3..11;11 liev re beile aet me settle .
WC there tuna 11 .1.0. 1I. .1 1,11
SO.. .
11 MIR the horrible itakindasee :tett .'ist
phrase lon.t tie; s eem: !washer
when she received the moi 14..W 8,1101
-read it agate her lip treinioal so irtT 3411:3
COU111 340,11'011:3,t 0011t1111113 t4 •11'1,11'111, 1 10.11
•34the whit,. aneere tightened egain-.. tar' .
piente sell' 1111S" tO 1,0 given op 144,401113.4..4813
migh t find another plaee-lint I s enly
be with yott three mere day,. l'in going
-home to thit it ie."
At the weal .• " triennium:, smile
broke over her lips and ended ill a gasp. She !
sat down and laiil Iler head On her mak with
at moan of physioal pain, whi:e the sobs
came think awl fast Tiie little elock said
it WaS time to Eitsiniss school. Fer a moment
the chidren were held gaiet ipectaele
of their lea .her in tears. then. sioth Lome j
half frightened half ashamed, they ;tethered
I ' b • , .
appeaeing behind a rise in the roel. The
yo•ing teacher still sat there. 1.1very now
anil then she said ileer and neer to tiers:elf,
"I've given it up I've given it 11 "'-with
every time fresh soli. " Everybody East
said 1 would "- here a great cap -•• and I
have ! People are 40 ignoront here -stool; I
and stones, It's no use to try to do anything,
even the childrin are little brutes!"
She was half blind with tears, but she
became conscious of a reil calico dress -just
then -a skirt blowing in at the drew and
curling around the jam. It was turkey red
-yes, it *as Ifetty's drees and her freckled •
nose and great black eye% It was Hetty
Cumtnings-bold, hard, brutal little Ffett
She stood full in the door and peed at the
teacher. Her eyes were blacker than ever,
but a soft black now. The red mouth was
very gentle, and that aggravating curve
arming her nose was gone.
As the little girl met the teat:110ra glance
all the ugly lines came back. " Mean old.
thing,'"Vhe said Omagh her teeth, "191
tfix 111111."
Down the sollool.house hill Hefty flew
and out upon the main road, where she
streek into a steady and determined walk.
Her black eyes were blazing. She delivered
kicks to sundry bunches of :age:brush wi L11.
out once taking her gaze off the ilistan t read
ahead, This road stretched down the val-
ley into one of a vast sage -brush .
Where was Hetty pine? Shis evidently
knew. There W08 something to reach at
the Ond of the road. It was. IL Johnston,
the writer ef the teacher'e letter, and ie her
heart she was kicking him instead of the
sage.brush
Tide Jehnson state a man who lived a.
hermit's -TM 10 say dog"! life -hi 0 !
cabin away n th .1 f I . ' , . •
had turned a mountain atream upon his land 1
and by sixteen years nf losoli•breekieo labor '
had transtormed it into a paradise romper -
ed to the arid waste around it, He arid
foundod a reeervoir or fish-puil, and run his
domain into the cool forest.
" Oft won't I fix him, thou sh 1"
Hattie was getting tired and slie geld
I think, to keep up her indignation. She
had novet• been to H. .Tohnson'e cabin and
she didn't know how much further it might
be, but she had no iiitentiou of owning that
ehe wa$ tired.
She had walked three nillee already ; ins
here the rood turned sharply to the left Find
she began to p toword the mountain, Soon
she came in sight of the green phasant
plantation,
Now, how should 11118 proceed to " fix "
him? }Icily hail hail several horrible dark
schemes in her mind when she starteil out.
But a$ she drew nearer they all ecemed
tame and foolish.
" 1.111 just sneek up and get the lay of the
land," she said, " and then I can tell what
VII do."
She slid from one tree to another 110 she
drew nearer and nearer to the ;titian, a low
etructure near the edge nf the stream,
" If he's in tne lionise I'll lay low till dark
and then Pil do-soinething. fearful 1" gnash.
oil Hetty.
There was uo sign of life about the place ;
nothing lint Lim eiletten of the la,te
noon. The golden light lay OTT the rough
logs, 'to, low chimney, and alit tered on a
heap of tin EN1118 ill1t 0111,11410 the 41010'. T110
stream rippled seftly. The ellitilows of the
read grit,010,4 lay on the &malt ep, The
wrathful lit Ile girl et 0011 1 1101'1! tfail!i1144
with interest. ;She oopaoted ;ivory minute
to ;me the erabbiel, midah old nem emerge
from the open door. She moved slowly
toward it
There she waited. Not a mund, riot a
lireet 11.
Slowly H1113 meta thp doer aud peeped
around the jetn with eyes of startliel forte:M.-
10,8y, No 0110 WAS 114.1141.. '811,3 Ht.111411341 4111
the floor.log with an air of poeitessind emit
peed boldly info the room.
tVell 1 iihodat tint helve 1" witeliorelow
pothole/it, 11,8 1110 0011l,11111P141J1111 With 0101,13
ish iltsguat the rind confusion,
Now- was Iletty's Mance-the 014 num
gone and hie possession,' wore at her ills.
posal. She could tear, rend, destroy, burn.
ing tweedy boo the remit
Sul.lealy elle turned ar und and peed
int. the stream. fain) WIle 1//101.1011,
With
4 3 St1111,080"--8110 hegen, Thee gapped
y0, 101,1 ,31,10 WU On 1110 .1110r.
itiql With her tilde in her hand, 0 just
eupteseittg," elle began again, aud then tell
to diet:lug tha toe of her shoe iuto the Heft
tl
Soddenly she jumped up and iliiiappeared
beside . an hour missed with little more
suund than before.
Then Baty come hurriedly out with a
queer eepresmon on her face, ani it in at
flew from the cabin staaight, to her heire.
She wao heti place at school as usual
next mornine, So WAS the teaelier, The'
was a eubiftwii and paieful atmosphere in
the room. 'File classes moved to and front
their 3114401,4 seeming to keep a watehful eye
upon the t.iteher, as though she might do
senwthitie 'orange at any moment.
suddenly every heed turned at ft trauma,
dons kne •I; et the door.
Hetty Cummings' heart gave nue leap and
then she commenced to work arithmetic as
she Never worked it before.
At a book from the teeither one Of tit.
boys opened the deur. A tall 11111.11 edged
in and 011010 hie way to the desk where the
teaeller stoi,i1. He heil beet shoulders,
straggling grey whiskers, micertitin, light
yes. 1 i Hetty hail looked up she would
have 10011 it soared expression in them to
match 'bat in 113114 OW11. The 1801110 • ait•
ed, el noel ing, Tao children dropped every,
thino to Ileum.
" 31 mom" he began, one big hand on the
desk and his eyes looking out ef the
" 1 crone down t' thank ye for what
ye did to 111y 0/1,11111. 'Taint hail a wontan'e
hand fm 't since it was built, won I come
home tired plumb out 'it a Men' that
roomnaeek in' like my brother's sittiii'dmoni
at hien,. th' cupboard et raighteneil out, '11
awept up, 'it the lied made like a
Willi., 111 111'/I, 11 118 sugar.bowl elean--why,
I imit &testi:it stay in. Au' I sat down on
the tip, an' the erickets nr suthin'
Itip' a t. at,' it got to seeniin' 1110e
(tutu' on the iloorete a home al the
Sundaysasheol teecher 1 had when seas
31110 kep' merinin' np. 1111' suthin'
reit thri.igli Inv mind about emits o' fire
brill' heaped on peop'e's heads, ad' 1 says,
'It th aohnebtematel, tlatt s who it ts
alle's le en a-lempin' COAL, 4,' fire onto my
'mad.' An' then the ,olekete oi; amide'
oesmied te eay, 'Stippoolti it W118 that l'.311113
41,1y•11,1401,1 1811,11014 that was aaryin'
1,10111 'Way allt hero in the wilds Ohont no.
1oeiv te etre whether she lived ns died -
Lee: somebody emit her it letter
like that' -"tete the old man straightened
;111,1 witted a steadier rle on the teaelier-
sEE 1 thank you, young woman, 'n. the
hull of yen kin come to my ranch 'n if I
don't give you the rastliness pod time over
yoe heil then I'm not 0 better man 1'
lie turned a, the last words, and, with
two shaky strides, 3,811.9 oat of the door, lie-
foreihe astonished teaeher co01,1 say 8,
wt r 1
She Inelted dazed until her eye rested on
Hetty ettninings one look W1L8 suffieient to
toll her that with Iletty lay some part of
the mystery. Just what Hetty's look was
nke I emit I never tell yon -how aatonished
and ile'ielited, how wide-eyed and glowing
with intelligence Anyway that look en-
abled the teacher to say calmly : "The
third class iu itrithmetic will please step to
the front."
It woe head for Hotty to wait until noon.
Yet whim aeon 041,1110 /01101 S110 Wail called to
the 0011 8110 felt oncomfortable.
teacher looked iiito her flushed itt,Ce and
downcast eyes and a 11011 smile came to lter.
lips. " Flattv." she said, " what do you
know about 11r. Johnson's house?"
little touch 01 •lemand in the teacher's tone
brought He tty's tine to a glow. She threw
hick he head, " Why, I was goin' to fix
old Johnson for writin' that mean letter to
you, that's fill -and I'd a -done it, too -only
seta wasn't it funny, temeher?" Drawing
closer in an awed way-" that's juet what
I anid about him. Hie hone was
just awful, teacher, ith' so lone-
some, na I got to thinking Mow Lust sposin
it was my father ham' like that 1" an' I
Met couldn't help fixin' it up and say -you
won't tell MITI who it was, will you 1 'Cause
it will be all the amine to him. NA asn t it
funny that he sail suppoein' about yea 1'
It must be a geed thing Is suppose aboot
people, don't you think 1 'Cause I felt fear -
nil happy efterward. It must be fearful
good way." she added dreamily, remember-
ing the obi 111111'8 face es 110 went ont,
Lhe teeehee 810011 gni tu till little Is Idle.
Then she pet both hands on Het ty's should.
erg anil looke 1 down into the brave black
eyes mei said, " 'Jetty, /In not going
home ; Fin goiog to try fiuppoein' about
every oue here. geing to stay, Hetty,';
The 20%411411' 01111 J011111011 and the whole
ochino silently named in their minds on the
day ef tie, Menai thet " jnet supposite " wag ,
a " fearful g aid wayo' of looking at, things,
The Atlantic Sea Bed.
Proeureng westward from the Triall coast
the ocean bed ileepene very gradually ; 111
flea for the lirat 231 mile, the gradient is
hut a feet. to the mile. In the next On miles,
however, the fall is (wee 9,000 feet, and
so precipitoes is the sudden descent that in
nowt: peiceo dept he of 1,200 to 1,600 fath.
rona aro eimountereil in very tibiae proxim
ity to the 1 01 fathom line. With the depth
of 1,M00 2,11011 fathom; the sea bed in
this port of the Aden t bee° es a alightly
undulating plain, whese gni:clients are ao
light that they show but littIo alteration of
depth for 1,:200 miles. The extraordinary
flatness df these submarine prairies rendere
the familiar smile of the basin rather inata
proprlate, The hollow at the Atlan tie is
not ati•itilcly a basin,. whose depth inareasos
regularly steward the center zt is rather a
sander naafis-Is:like one, so even is the con -
tom of its bed.
The greateet depth in the Atlantic has
been feu 11,1 grime 101 re i lee t the northward
of the ialanil of Lit. Thomas, where sound-
ings of S1,471 fatlietns were obtained. The
seas rimed Great Britain can hardly lie re-
garded as forming port a the Atlantic
holiest:, They are rather a part of the
platiot lianka of the European continent
watel, the 114,4 01.10410W0a. An eteva.
t ion of the melt bell 100 fathoms would euf-
liee le Inv 1, me thEE greatest pal t of the
Nerth Set Mel .110111 1.111;4180,1 to Benneirk,
Hollatel, Belgium, and Eratteia A EMIT
;hawed of water winild 11111 flOW11 the weal,
mast of Norwey, itnol with this' the majority
of the fiords amnia 110 commeted, 1k great
part of tlin Bay of Ilitioay would disappear ;
but Spoin EinEl Portugal are 1111 little re-
moved from the Atlantic flepression. l'he
100 fat loon line ripproachno wry near the
mat. moot , and moldings of 1,000 fathoms
een le, made within 20 miles nf Cape tite
Vineent, and much greater depths have
hem sounded at ilielanees hut little greeter
tloot thie aeon the weatern Aimee of tlet
1 beriart Peninsultasea N/1111 teal Magazine.
g
Gateau eon Co ISIL. -Beat very light the
yolks of two 0540, ono 09)1111 of sugar and
two tablespeonfule of rich swoot cream.
Flavor with vanilla.
11' I -t USSELS P 0 S FEB. 24, 189:3
--sassessossge-agsgasete-weaseesseseee*.,
AN TAR° rig 8BAs AND LANDS.
tee lassos They sent V111,114 rood Seneen In
The, Trails :Wreath%
Tim pouthern seas have been aumbered
during the poet :season by mu moratone nine.
bee of that -topped leebere front the Mystor.
lime land whose margin in 77 ° 30" smith
lotituile, ie perhaps illumined in the
lon winter night. by lionnt Brebtas'm colinno
of 1 0111e. 11e00 imberge and fields of floe
iee were found last fall from 2150 a: 400
miles further north than the averttge north-
ern drift. liig Me islands haeo been seen al.
Mom Wi p ,
neater the southern end of Atrium than they
gave Mem 01)-301.1'041 before for fifty yeat.s.
"Muth mlar icebergs have never before been
known to impede navigation ;near the coast
of New Zealand as wattle tho past two
months. In October flame of them 200 to
3011 feet high surroanded vessel near the
ahathatn Islande, and for some time ithe
was in great peril from the floating moon.
tains around her.
This W11.0 in the South Paelfle.
naive comes from the South Atlantic.
" slimhipelagos of icehergs " have been
sighted as for north its 19 ° south latitede,
Some of these enormous 1110.01300 Were 800
feet high arid 3,000 feet loll& As only
about one-seventh of a floating iceberg op -
pears above the sea -level, the thieltness of
the greatest ot these tee masses was over
2,000 feet, One veseel, early in October,
passed 400 of them in a few dam
times twenty or thirty 0,101 1,0 munted
from the deck. Meet of them were pure
white, but others are as of a ;lark
browu eolor, which oan be explained only
by the sup osition that they were the
bearers of ebris and detritus front the
entithern lend massem whence they came.
Very little flotsam and jetsam front the
Aztartic lanils has even• been collected, and
it weuld have been interesting hail an op.
portunity Ewen:led to examine these dealt-
'colored icebergs.
The meteorologicel cenElitious last sea -
1 son, both in the Arctic iind Antarctic reg-
ions, seem to have been exeeptioual. The
extraordinary prevalence of Immense fields
of floe ice mitt icebergs far north of the
Antartic Mimic 061.11 Ile explained only by the
prevalence of 0500001 gait.% driving the
Get of Wanderers 110.11 11 Mtn the track of
; %teasels. An unusually large amount ot
drift ion and icelierge state elm semi last
1 summer in the North Atlantis.. Seine the.
1 mists might suppose that that uncommon
prevalence of medium ice south iif its iisnal
limit of drift; Ind Mated that the Arctic seas
were more than nsuelle crowded with ice
last summer, This was not the case. The
French vessel Manche, on her visit to Jan
Mayen, north of Iceland, found bonny a
coke of ice during the whole trip. The iee
had in fact been driven far sonth, leaving
more northern waters comparatively ;dear.
It is probable that lam season offered an
unusually good opportunity to prosecute
polar researches In steam veseels, both in
the Arctic mud Antarctic regions. So
favorable au oecasion mity net soon occur
agent.
These facts increase the interest in the
work of tho Dundee whaling Lioet, which
during the first week in Sentential:. sent, the
steamers 1i:010011a, Active, Diann, and Polar
Star frotn England for the purpose of who'.
ingin high southern latitudes, and perhaps
attaining regions that have not been visited
since the memorable voyage of Sir James
Ross, fifty years ago. The fleet was scien-
tifically °quipped to attend to our knowl-
edge of those regions. Two learned so-
cieties of &gland furnished the instru men ts
and °thee equipments needed and gave to
the scientific stall of the fleet instructions for
their guidanee. A competent nataralist
an experienced ithysical observer, and a
photographer wereAn the petty, and on the
Balaena, win Mr. Burn -Murdoch, apainter,
W110 hoped to obtain some characteristio
paintings of Antarctic ioeberge. The fleet
will not return home until next March, and
if fortune favors the explorers they will
have some interesting facts to tell.
While the scientific staff of the expedi-
tion are improving their opportunities, the
whalers will endeavour to take in full oftr-
goes of sperm . whales. When Sir Jetta
Ross was in the neighborhood of the Ant -
°retie continent and. could see the smoke
and flame of Mount Erebus, ninny whales
passed, close to Ms ships. It was his opinion
that very successful whole heisting might,
be carried on there. The wholes, Ile said,
were of the largest size, especially the
spermaceti, the most valuable of all. The
difficulty, Ile thought would be in push•
ing ships through the heavy, intervemng
pack ice. He was spenking of sailing ves-
sels such as these in which his party had
reached the great Antaretic hind, 'Phe
steam whalers of to -day would of course
have less diffieulty in reaching a, high south-
ern latitude.
Some very in tares:au gil trerences between
Antarctic and Arctic ice have been obset.v-
ed. Greenland is partienlarly the sourest of
all the icebergs that. drift into the North
Atlantic ; hot the inland ;ice of Greenland
finds access to the ma only through deep
fiords, down whielt move the glacial streams
that thrust their foot Mtn the sea and break
off as icebergs. No melt floras are found
along the known comets of the southern con•
'Anent,. Prof, Shelve estimiates the extent
of the glacial front of Greenland at win
mites, If this is an adequate estimate, tho
linear extent of the glacial front olong the
known coast of Victorht land in the
Antorctio is as great as Una of the whole of
Greenland, Sir James Ross, for 210 miles,
skirted the edge of the great inlitud fee cap
of that land. It comes down to the sem,
and the expedition called it the great ice
barrier. 3?tailtIng its front into tho sea, it
rises above the water tut a oolittutions per-
peedicular woll of ice varying from 1 00 to
300 foot in height. lt VMS praeldeally no•
broken as far as Ross followed the coast
line, though in two pieces he succeeded in
:setting foot on the edge of tho unknown
lond.
The inland ice, therefore, enlike that of
Greenland, is coextensive mill the con,st
itself mul sketehes along the shore line as
an enormous flat topped precipice os far as
;Mips littve traced it.
One of the meet interesting questions to
be mitli,11 is whether the mattered motets
that have boon seen Otero are peas of one
great continent or whether they ore merely
poetione of itti orchipelage• Boas inclined
to the latter view, believing that a wide
eluttmel might somewhere be folind leading
far toward the South Pole. It believed,
however, thet the immense thickness of the
ice hoarier which he tramed Mows 1.110t Vito
mitt Land mom be of ;pest exteut. T1118
Me sheet greilually itown tbe slopo to
the ma, a,seetiOn of it, itt lennt a finer ter
of mile in width, anunally brezdte off at
110 8011, 014143 411141 floats asvay as Moberg:a.
The Challeuger, bronght up Mem the bode
of the ley sive that washes Victoria Land
fragments of samistnne, slat 014, and, granite,
an well as the typical bluo innd which in.
variably fringes nontinent land and these
dim:ow:rice 010 strong evidinice that Iand of
continental proportions' is not fee away,
Hero is tho greatest ioeberg factory in
the world. Antarctic waters receive a far
greater supply of lanil Me then uorthern
halite furniall to tho ;teeth' Nowt, Ill the
neighhuthood of the small polar eirele and
far north of it vemele :ways report a emelt
greatee untidier of hielmtigs than are 80011
anywhere in oerreimendites northern Iota;
;mass, awl the 1,e:twigs therefore melt lees
rapidly, When they remelt the txmeic of
commerce they tire mill maaeive --oft.en
fiat -topped mount:tine of Me. Antarctic
temperittimes are muell haver than thooe in
the Aectie regions en Etecount of the greater
quantity of tee anti the fact that the worm
ourreute (townie into the south peter neas
are smaller and less potent thou those flow-
ing into tho Aretie basin.
111Wen on the fineat deys of the Antaretic
• manner the tempeoittnre rarely rlsea above
the freezing point, and 00 110 verdure bright,.
enit smith mine lanile, while a cousiderable
variety 0 plonts are found et en in the
highest Aretio altitudee. t fortunnte
no sueh powerful oureents flow from the
Antarctic' Ocenti north as the tabionlor and
the easc Greenland polite currents which
unto:. oar woollier watere ; for if such
north flowing eureeMs did emerge from the
:meth polar basin they winthl blot:kat-10 the
creek of ohipping with impenetrable 11111,80831
of Antarctie lee. Many explorers have been
stopped by the stout:hem ice ;souk and lee.
huge in the neighborhood of the sonth polar
circle lietween it and 70 degrees south lati.
tude, while in the northern hetnisphere the
Amite Lira e peseta ot e most pelt, as or
lona nuteses ; and along the geettter part of
the continental shore taloa there often. a
lane of navigable 508,01' while in parts of
the north polity area broad. stretches of open
sea me round.
some day we shall prolmbly learn more
of the great land mass whose ice barrier has
heen followed tor 230 \ Vhen Ross
discovered it, 11°031 It:L.0,110, rising to ttn
altitude of 1 2,400 feet above the level of tl,e
$00, was belching from its lofty crater dense
volumee of smoke intermingled with (Mines,
The volcano had the appearance of a colos•
sal pyramid of snow and ice. Separnted
from it only by a saddle of imaclail lanEl on
tile oast rose Et sister mountain to a height
or 10,900 foot. It was extinct, 1011; its
genera1 outlines were the same its those of
the other inountatn, Emil at no very 11 181010
period in the past it also Was on ftetive
volcano. it received the name of lioun t
Terror, the two mountains being chrieten-
cd with the names nf loess s vessels. Per.
lupe the fact is not genorally known that
it was theee same tier, smeeels which little
' later bore ,John Franklin's expedition
; to the Arotic regions on hie ()nest for the
horth west passage. The veisolo shared the
, fate of the expedition, and no tome ot them
hiss ever been found, though many relies of
! the illfated explorers have been recovered.
; It is to be hoped that before a great while
adequate efforts wili be made to solve the
' gengraphic and other problems which await
solution in Antarctic regione.
Equipping. Clatters on The Lakes.
A Witshington letter in The Cleveland
Leader says :-
" There isn't it city on the Northern
lakes," said Commander Evans, U. 8. N.,
that couldn't he easily and quickly de.
stroyed by English gunboats. The English
have fifty sltips which can come in from Ole
Atlantic by way of the present route. They
carry six end eight inch guns, and
could go to Cleveland, for example,
stand off six miles, or so far away
thaa only their smoke stacks would be visi-
ble, and run the town in a very, littIe while,
A six -Moll gun throws a hundred pound
projectile six miles, and pumps them out at
the rate of ten a, minute."
"But," I naked, couldn't we blow tlp the
Welland Canal, and thus prevent the Eng-
llaisklleg1rboats from getting through to the
"I don't think We coUld."
"The canal," I continued, "ie less than
twenty-seven miles long, and it has twenty-
five locks. Dynamite could be put under a
lock, couldn't it?"
" It could 0 the Canadians would let us,"
replied Evans. "There are twenty-flve
loons, that is true; but there is n, fort at
every one of thetn. Moreover, the Canadian
militia is always kept at high Ilegree of effi-
ciency. Four or five years Lug0 I examined
several of the torts on the (Velland Canal
would have men them all if my identity
hail remained unknown. they are strong
forts end would be ample protection to the
looks,"
" The big steel freighters on the lakes
eould be converted into gunboats," said
" and mold be made the equal of the ehips
t e
So I have heard," replied Commander
Evans, with a smile. " There WAS R time,"
said he, "when guns could be put en almost
any kind of a vassal, tluit WOR It long
while ago, A big t hirteenduch gun, when
fired, will lift a battle ship a foot out of the
witter. da an amazing feet, ien't it?
The recoil of the modern on is awful. A
six-ineh gun, if diseharged fi•o 11 the (Melia
of any vessel on the lakes would go over the
side rund to the bottom, and the weasel
would follow it. No, the steel freighters
ove strong and swift, lort they were not
built to stand up under the etrain which
even the smallest guns. in the TIAVy Welild
A six•inch rifle requires fifty
give them.
pounds of powder at A, charge, find 511150
which carry gong of that size must be isen.
strueted to take the recoil without damage.
Ore, coal, grain and lumber vessels can't do
it."
" The new cutters which Canada has
soid I, "are 121 feet long, merely
tugs in SIM. COUld they entry guns ?"
"Certainly, if they were designed for
gtins, A lake tug could stand 115 under a
flied:tell rifle if that Wag the purpose of its
builders."
Re Killed It.
A sioung lady who wag the proud
possessor of a pair of smolt dainty foot, 'Masi
tormented by a eora upon the little toe of
her right foot.
Chiropodists had dug into it, but had
fitil6M to remove it
One day o friend advised onninting the
(fending (torn with phosphorite, whim 110
young lady in a weak moment diEl, but for.
got to tell her husland before retiring at
night.
It Mal Met struck twelve by the
elitirch chalk whim the linsland ;melte, and
Wm et:Lytle:1 1,11 gomethIng sparkling et
the font of tho hod. IN never heard of a
firefly in that part of the globe, nor did 11,,
ever rometnher owing ouch a, ert•I ble look•
ing object ite tho toe preoenterl, reach.
ing, carefully out of bed WI lie fonnd one
of hitalutavy boote, lte raised it high the
ear, and brought it down with terrific
foreo upoo inyfitertnita liaht.
A shriek and no avitlitnehe of beil-olotheo,
tted all was over,
(Then at last be releitseil hinnii•If from
1,110 Ited.0.100108 he ilisenvereil Ids wife
groan ing the center, Ile had struck the
phosphorated too.
The Spain:ill Inquisition, with 1111 its
tortures, was nothing to tho influent" which
ornistdeitoo holds within the lioart,-48pur.
genii.
NOTES ON aOIENO E. AND INDUSTRY 1 ITEMS OE INTEREST.
Is Otilag Oa la Cho World orrhaaahl
111111,1111031.
A new method of tin mining in the 1litlay
Penineula lute tit trained no litt la at mutual,
the pemilitir feature no110101 Ng. in the in 101.
iltiotiona Eif ehort wash boxes, or, me thev
are there termed, " lanchut ka01111." The
wa,011 box lorinerly employed in tlivan oper.
wee thirty feet 1.015, end 0011141 Oilly
1/0 115,4 With a considerable head of WILI ;
9t0.1.111 Immo oeuld only lamp two
boxee going, and, es ri natured 12011110 1110000.
0111y 110111 ill 1110 neighborhood of large
mamma of water, or in which the owner8
tendil afford 5101001 os water power pumps
ouuld be worked -the till :10110010, in this
eerie, being found at a depth of 11.0111 tell 10
fifty feet below the surface, The introduc-
tion of the new method completely changes
all 41110. The box itself is but eight Mot
long and is comparatively inexpensive, and
can be put np where there its fi, poo 1 a
witter ; also instead. of V0(0111114; steam
pomp, it, eau be supplied with water hy ono
man ladling with an ordinary tin. Instead,
too, of the 'many operation of stripping the
surface soil to reach the tin, the surfnce
soil iteelf is now n.100110,1 by the latichnt
keuhil, the same tenter being ttaed repented.
Ono of the recent incinstriee addial to the
already numerous manufactures coveted on
in Chemnitz, Saxeity. is the production of
(Detains made nf Indifartibber as the mein
ingredient, 'File materiel emnloyed for this
purpoge conaists of boventy-five per cent.
of inilia rubber, five pm. cent, of wool ilnst,
five pm cent. of pulverized fruit stones, ten
per omit. of bleached amber varni011, rind
five per cent. of bleached leother waste ; to
these being also added, if deemed neceasary,
• nantity of in fasorial earth, The varione
• sistancee thus named tiro to,gether worked
ep with hisulphile of earbon in the most
perfect manner into ft thielt mass, and front
this Are 4011011 011t, 111ill leaves, whieh are
capable of beim, decorated wit', the greatest
variety of ornatnental patterma oeseral
of those leaves aro uornbined to form a cur-
tain.
.A11 improve,1 lopping machine for both
cottona all.1 woollens ia being adopted 1:y
manufacturers, the machine representing it
suecese101 attempt ta nse wile) for napping !
instead of teazle,. The distinguiehing fen -
tore iif the neppor io that. Elie impolite roll-
ers are driven ho gearing, whieh givee it ;
eharacter foe ailaptedues$ peoulifir to thie
eines of machines, and presents many ash. ;
vantages. Tile gears gives a 130,?itiVO drive ;
and permit of vero- sensitive changee in the ;
speed of the napping rolls, end it. is neces.
eery to drive the rollers only on ime red. I
Again, the use of gears secures a entform
nap end likewise a large proiluot, nor is it '
required to reduce the speed of the eloth to
set:me any desired nap upon elly kind of
goods, hence a maxim uns product is always
assured by this naives. 111 goods of every de.
seription.
A boom Lir ul process of polishing wood with
charcoal is having quite a run among. 01
furniture manufacturers of note in Paris.
Only carefully selected woods are employed
of OleSe and cempact grain, and these
are covered With a coat of camphor dis-
solveil m water, and afterward semi) another
oomposed chiefly of ouIphato of iron and
nutgall. these two compositioila, in blend-
ing, peeetrating 1110 wood and giving 11 en
indelible tinge, while at the same time they
render it impervious to the attack of in.
sects, When sufficiently dry, the surface
of the wood is rubbed at first with a hard
brush of cotich grass, and then With char-
coal substances as light and plialde as paS.
sible. Any hard grains remeining in the
charcoal seraach the surface instead of ren-
dering it perfectly smooth, Alternately
with the charcoal, the operater rube the sur.
fate with flannel soaked in linseed oil and
essence of turpentine, the flat portions hav-
ing•just previously been rubbed with natur-
al stiolt charcoal, and the indented parts
anii crevices with ollareoal powder. The
result of this treatment is a beautiful color
mid a perfect polish.
Not Alone.
He entered the room hurriedly.
The young 0400111,11 standing by the open
fire greatest hitn with a mile.
He strode up to her in frenzied baste.
She wits frightened, for he had never
acted so before.
The smile faded from her face and she
grew pale.
" Hist," he said, between his shut teeth,
" What is it dear ?" she asked tremulous.
ly.
He glanced over his shoulilers frirtively
ho peered into the corners of the great draw.
ing room like a, hunted iodine!.
"Are we aloud'!" Ire whispered, hortesely,
Theo it was the wonutn'sehatoteter in that
fair young girl grew to its fell maturity in
• inetant.
All her life she had lived in Boston, yet
no crucial test had over ;tome to her as this
had alone.
" No, dear we are not," she answered
simply, yet firmly.
The young man etartod nervously and
gnzed about him.
He wits from Chicago ond had been in
nuiny heirbreatith escapes.
" Whet; here? " lie guestionecl.
" You are," she replied,
" I know; I 11110W 1 he said impatiently.
"But who else?"
" I am," she whimpered low.
" isto one else?"
" No one."
He laughed horshly.
" (VIly rlo you 1110011 me?" lie naked "
are alone."
" Wo aye not," she insisted. " OlaGeorge,"
and hee voice took on a tender ; pleading
tone, " you see WO 11,C0 not' alone."
He looked et lier, bewildered,
" No, I Eirtnnot," he sttid.
The girl led him ont to 1110 light.
" Georee," she wilted slowly, " are you
hero 010110
"No," lie replied, " yon are with me."
" Am Mom ?"
No, I am with you,"
" Then, George," sho exelitimed triumph.
• " how is it, possible when neither Of
118 11,10110 thill both of no are 11,10110? not,
the int eimo parts the snow ns 110 N11,011000
pall 0? Is dui 011111 of t.wri pigo and two Moe
tom beano ?" told in the swirl of hi Bose
tonian "ogle itimego forget why he heti 00
hurriedly entered the room.
Ciffrototris a:am-Beat together two
onpfule of seem, and ninidialf cupful of
butter then tuld nne copful of eweet milk,
also three k upfnie dour, into which has
been stifled two tainspoontitle of lancing
powiler. fast ly mild the whittle of five eggs
bent en to a 01)11 froth. Flavor with vanilla,
( '111111/Lyre nitaNii..-11oil together two
enpitils of white singer 1011E1 twodhirde of a
impfill of meet milk or Waler, Until it, is
" ropy," l'hon remove trim the fire and
stir 00111411111 ly 11111,11 C001. T110 grated
septette of ohm:elate may he stirred through
the frostiog or :vitriol:led over each layer of
he take.
The beat butter le smile Deninisrit.
ounithusee, to run by elute rieity, aro to
lie meal in lanalon,
While struggling to don hie (deter, Mel.
Imlay, a young ineu of fitment., Me.,
Imolai hie eollar•Imite,
A eagle, in Mao and "dupe closely re.
401,0,1,05 10 sheep, wile plowed up by oter
litiehey, at I 90110101g, 11 Ich.
The Palette lintel, San -Preludes:0, is
illuminated with 8,000 hicandeecent
t lute its own electric 51ant.
'Fiburei, the notoriotes Sicilian bandit,
enjoyed the dietinction of hewing been gent.
°need 10 death thirty-eoven tenes. Ile 1ms
just ;lied ol old age.
811011,11 Porter, of Burlington, Ofe„ tried
to swe how long she could exiat without
food, f 1.y•two daps of Meting oho toolleh-
ly maimed, and then died.
An immenen fortune has been made by
Peter Muller in the propitiation end side
ef cod •Ii ver °A. He employe 70,000 miasma,
on the LoiToden Ishoulsoolf Norway,
A Feench estrouorner IS of the opinion
that 1110 red glow of the planet 1Ittes ie
eaused by crimson vegetation. He thinks
that the grass and foliage there are red, not
emelt, ws they 14re on (girth.
Sozno burglers, while exploring n. St.
Louis house, unintentionally started a
music -box, and the tune it ployed ;merit-
ed to make such a rauket that they dropped
it end fled, without any booty,
A deg in Bethlehem, Pa. is frieoilly with
every body but Simon Its dislike
for him hea existed for two years, and was
caused by Simon outting the animal's
tail. V hen ever 1 t :lees i in 11 barite at him.
Twenty thousand butterflies are in the
°Ales:Lion recently given to the California
Aenalerny Suiences, by Dr. If. Behr.
He had been forly.eight years gathering
them, and among thern Imo specimens from
all 000110110 of the worlil.
Brides 1(1'0 proverbially lovely ; but this
was not the ellee With hride reeently
espoused in Toin Green County, Team.
Sho had lost one leg in a railroad accident,
one arm in a tight with (lotnatielies.
The gamin was oleo maimed, he having lost
one firm, one leg, and one eye,
NERVY TORONTO GIRLS.
'rhea V04110 011 11 1 II.e Irrldgi, Reims. a moire
veils mid .11.0 (1111014,1311.
Thousands of visiters iron) surrounding
fittest have been hurrying to Niagera, Falls
to view the strange and wonderful spectacle
of the ice bridge. l'he bridge remains sta•
tionary for but an loner or eo at a tone, the
immense terve and weight of the rapidly me -
cumulating ice shoving it alma, from time
to hue.
When tho bridge formed the ice piled
nearly 3E1 feet high. The firet persons to
mount, the bridge were two sistero frEim To -
;onto, the 11 inn Annette and Amelia Partt-
ime), two Knox college girls, who would
have crossed the floe had it nob been for the
crintionary ativice from the olrl guide, Jack
MoCloy, The girls wont 10 the pinnacle of
the ice mountatn undeu Prospect point,
whey e inan lost his life in 1876, and Me. -
Cloy recovered his body by timnelin
through the mountain. In tact there seemer
nothing daring enough which they wmild
not attempt. The crowd cheered and cheer-
s'. the gide, and they waved back their
hands in response. At, times the mist. front
the American falls would envelop them, but
it did not dampen their ardor in the least
They made a spl end id exit ibi tion of persever-
ance, nerve and bravery.- [Buffalo Ex-
press.
Blindness in Russia.
The people ot Russia are Imre terribly
afflicted with the infirmity of blindnees than
any other rano, sect, or maim on the globe,
the proportion he' ng twentymite to every 10,-
000 population. In 1886 there was an offieial
census taken of the blInd of Europe. 9'hese
statistics show a remorkable state of affairs,
especially in European Russia, the Caneasus
and Poland. In the isountries named there
was a total of 1 89,872 persons who were en-
tirely blind. The whole of the remainder
(and mincl, this inoludea the thickly populat-
ed nountries of Germany, France, Spain,
Hollitud, Belgium, Groat Britain, etc.) only
has a blind populotion numbering 1 88,812:
while the three Americas -North, Central,
and Son th-with their islands, havo less than
23,000 persons who are totally bereft of sight.
In the Caucasus the women, especially those
of country ail:arias, me mom liable to coeity
than men, the proportion being about twen ty •
seven 10 utheteen. In Poland there are
twenty•five blind men to every fourteen
blind women, the same percentage holding
good OVer the 1110St. of RUSiia. in Eueopo.
The authority from svhich those feet are
gleaned states that there are actually many
small villages in the atoll di:Ark:Ls near
the Asiatic frentier where the blind predom-
inate ! In thie region the alkali dust eon.
stoutly fills the air, mnil them not mutually
blind:have their oyes more or less diseased.
Something to Live For.
"Yes," said the 1111111 who wns \marina the
green goggles, "I've worked 110rd all rny
lifootnal only outdo a 'oare living. My health
broke down years ago, most of my Mende
1111V0 111011 off or moved away, I've got liter-
ary and artistie tastes and. can't grata fy them,
coma:thing ondertake to de is it failure,
fuel don't stem to be of any tiee in the
world."
" Hmve you no friends with political influ-
ence enough to got 801110 11 i 1111 OF 1011 easy job
for you V enquired the man in the shaggy
ulster.
. l've tried that. Every time T got &po-
sition a, landslide comes along and I got
thrown out,"
" can't you open an intelligence offiee or
start a real estate agency ?" milted the man
in the the 01011011 hat. " That sort of thing
doesn't require any emptied."
"I've trMd that too, Got burnt onb in
one cam, and it partner ran off with the
profit in tho other. No um. "
"lioer try canvassing ?" mu:aired the man
who had his feet on the window•sill,
" Yes, Often, Hail good mit of clothes
ruined in thot, linoineari enee. Dog. 'Flu own
dowtistaies 011CC or twin. Men, No um,
I'm not in it, TAM week my pet cowl died ;
yesterday meriting I lost my knife, itnil to.
day i'vo got an min ache. Thitt's the way; it
always goes, 1i it, isn't ono isoublo au.
ahoy, There'n only one thing that imams
1110 'from committing suicide and endiug ths
who', 1111011103e.
Well?"
51114001 ty to know what blamed misfor.
tune is ;coming next.
A hiatte,t 0f Taste.
NIrs, 11, -1 eon sidor Jonson very niati
Mrs, A. -T tion't ho's not ti bib
liko men svho norm to see me,
Mra, II, -Won, that is nothing against