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VOL. LXIII. NO 22.
LOVE IN THE WEA
Feathers and moss and a wisp of hay,
Pressed round by a soft, plump breast,
With a leaf looned'low.'gainst a rainy day
So tho bird has fashioned her nest.
"A wonder," we suv, and the wonder grows
As we study the curious thing.
'Twas love in the heart,
That prompted tho art,
And spod the untiring wing.
OF DIFFERE
NOTE .WESTON sat
looking but of
tho m?ny-p?ued,
tine-c?rtain ed win
dow upon the great
world. She tried
to think of it
stretching out far
beyond the hills
that bounded her
vision, and at length
let her eyes fall as
if they were weary
with the flight.
'Tm so glad," she
thought, "that I shall see only a little
of it at a time; for the sky'll always be
over me like'a big bell. If it wasn't
. for that I shouldn't dare breathe-I'm
so lonely."
The thought of a great, unknown
Outside made her glance hastily
about the room, as if reassuring her
self of the possession of certain ob
jects which she considered allies in
her contest with the world. There
were a stove, a few chairs, a book or
two, a table, some flowers-regal
heliotrope and bright oleander-that
had condescended to blossom from
the depths of broken jars and cracked
pitchers; some dishes which Annie
had tended so faithfully that their
every cleft aud fissure was a part of
her mental vision, and a gown or two,
rewards of much brain-and-finger ser
vice.
They were all her own, and they
summed up her wealth, supplement
ed by a pleasant presence of the
brownish order, a- capacity for work,
and a lowliness of heart that made no
exactions. She had been like a child
-satisfied with a few sticks and stones
which it conjured into treasures. The
power of comparison which makes so
much of tho light and shade of life
was still latent in Annie. She had
accepted the facts of her experience as
final, without question or reproach.
Now that she found herself alone and
penniless* staying by sufferance a few
days in the old home, she felt no re
sentment against the indolence and
selfishness that had, in truth, de
prived her of her birthright, but was
conscious of only loneliness and
dread, as she sat close to the objects
that had gained a familiarity and
friendliness through long companion
^is^?oward the unknown country
/where she must somehow find ahorne.
There was something in her face, as
the village people saw it at the win
dow, that made them think of a lost
child, and their sense of its pathos
was intensified by their knowledge of
her past.
She had turned again from recount
ing her treasures to her wide-eyed
stave upon the world, when there
came a step on the porch aud a knock
at the door. Before she could rise
her caller had opened the door and
entered. Sho recognized him as
David Bruce, a distant neighbor of
hers, a man some fifteen years older
than herselfi He was a silent man
with a great power of kindness, which
found expression in such stealthy
ways as made his favors seem moiv
like those of fairies than those of a
mortal friend. A gold piece appear
ing anonymously upon some window
sill of a house where its prononce was
sorely needed, a load of coal arriving
at some opportune moment, baskets of
fruit or flowers apparently depositing
themselves of their own free will and
accord, and au unusual shyuess and
embarrassment in David when he met
the recipients of his gifts, were the
only evidences of his generosity.
Annie, not having the slightest
kindred feeling, did not understand
his self-conscious reticence. One
day. when su^ .ras a little girl, she
had wandered up the street as far as
David's home, and after looking wist
fully a long time at his sweet peas
growing near the fence, had finally
put out her hand toward them, not
with the purpose of taking any, but to
see if she could measure the distance.
Just at that instant David had hap
pened by. Annie had attempted to
explain. He had waited until she had
quite finished; then spoke a short,
disconnected homily, not calculated
to be very effective, on thc temptation
involved in finding out what wrong
things are within a body's reach. ?
She had gone away comfortless,
but on the next morning had found a
great handful of sweet peas at her
door; nor had a summer ever passed
without like offerings. Annie had ex
pressed her pleasure with an effusive
ness that had driven him quickly
from her presence. She seemed to
havo a supply of gratitude in great
excess of the demand, and, liko the
Ancient Mariner, to be seized ever
and anon by heartburnings till she
had told her story. Annie often won
dered at his silence, and the necessity
which caused him to make such haste
to the Postoffice. She wondered once
if he could have a sweetheart to write
him letters, but put away the thought
as inappropriate.
He stood now in awkward silence,
while he stroked the head of a gray
kitten lying in his arms. At last he
found voice enough to explain the ap
pearance of the kitten.
"It followed me part way, ' he said,
"and I carried it the rest. Itv mine.
I found it, a lanky, wanderin' thing,
strayed from somewheres, and I took
it home. It tags me everywhere. "
"Yes," said Aunie. "I had one
once that used to follow me. It died
that year Bess the cow died. It was
pretty hard havin' two deaths in the
family in the same year."
She smiled with a fine attempt at
bravery, he thought, for he had a clear
notion of her loneliness and dread of
new associations. Then followed an
other silence.
"Louesome here?" he asked.
"Yes."
He paused; then braced himself for
? effort.
RT MAKES HOME.
Feathers and moss and a wisp of hay, -
But the future looks rosy and bright;
With a bit pat by for a rainy day,
Love makes every burdon light.
wonder," wo say, and the wonder grows,
Or sunshine or storms may come,
Though but twigs and moss
Are latticed across,
The love In the heart makes home.
-Julia M. Kllnck.
?fo\. e o o o a f?jp
NT SPECI?S.
"I was thinkin'," he said, "as it's
pretty quiet over to my house, now
aunt's gone and Sally's over to her
daughter's in Lynn, an' I've . sort o'
got to hankerin' for a bit of calico
round the house, that maybe you'd
like the place."
"Keep house?" asked the girl.
"Ye3. I don't mean as housekeeper
exactly. I mean get married. "
"Oh!" she cried, looking at him in
astonishment. "Who to?"
"Why, me!" he exclaimed, as if sur
prised at her dullness. "There's
enough for two, I guess, and it's kind
of quiet for a lone man over there. I'll
let you have your say about the flower
garden."
There was no affection for the girl
prompting his words. He had caught
a glimpse of her face at the window
the day before, and the same impulse
that had led him to befriend the kitten
had brought him to this larger idea of
protection.
"I never thought about getting
married," she said hesitatingly.
"It's easy clone," he said. "We'll
just step up to tne minister's.M
"But what if we should be sorry af
terwards?" she said gravely.
"Oh, no danger," he said. ?TH
give you a long tether. I'll do well by
you."
So, half in reality, half in dream,
Annie put on her precious best gown a
few days later and went with David up
the street. When they came back they
stopped at the gate.
" We must go in and got the dishes,"
sli9 said.
"Oh, I've got dishes," he said, "real
china-with sprigs on; aunt set great
store by 'em-old blue plates, too."
" "But I like these," said Annie,
drawling out the "like" pleadingly.
"Oh, we'll get 'em then," he said
smiling? "You gather 'em up while I
go after Ned and the long wagon."
In a few hours Annie found herself
and all her possessions in her new
homo, and, looking about her tried to
realize the Arabian-Nights transfor
mation that had happened-that it was
she, and no other, who was mistress
and proprietor of the pretty ingrain
carpets, the neat, cane-seated chairs,
the few treasures of curly maple and
mahogany, and the pictures of the
aunt and her sisters staring down upon
When Davideame in with the milk
he saw her standing by tho hearth,
while the kitten rubbed about her feet.
Her face was suffused with her new
happiness, and she gave him one swift,
grateful look, while she laughed softly
as if her new delight had made her
bankrupt in speech. A sense of her
sweet child-womanliness seized him
with irresistible force; He felt the
sluggish blood quicken at his heart;
and at that instant unconsciously he
had received his chrism, and had en
tered that old, old temple whose light
transmutes what have seemed common
things and dross to pearls aud gold-.
Meanwhile Annie had moved toward
him.
"I will take caro of tho milk " he
said.
"But-" she remonstrated.' fjhewas
seizec1 with misgivings lest she might
not fiud work enough to pay her way;
for tho Mosaic doctrine of something
for something had become a part of
tho grain and fiber of her thought.
He did not answer, but went on
about the task. He had no fine words
at his disposal, no poetic fancies, or
artist's skill; but ho was laying such
as ho had Upon the altar of the temple.
Annie moved away and picked up
the kitten, whose appetite for caresses
could not be appeased. She stroked
its head with nervous energy. It was
something to feel the little, dull, in
stinctive life within her hand, and feel
it reaching out in its blind way to
touch her own. She seated herself
and played with it with all the grace
and abandon of a child. The child's
spirit was still dominant in her; that
was evident.
It was still more plain in the oven
iug when, after David had given her
a half dozen packets of flower seeds,
she sat playing with them. She shuf
fled them as if they were cards, shook
them to hear the seeds rattle, looking
eagerly at the flower pictures, made
odd little exclamations of surprise and
pleasure, planned how the flowers
should be arranged, and finally open
ing one and taking out a seed of
mignonette, h sid it up between her
fingers and cried, "To think there
should be a blossom in that little
brown seed!" She fell to prattling of
the uses she should make of the flow
ers, and quieted down at last to fall a
dreaming over the prospective garden
its if there were nothing in the world
but flower stems and colors.
David watched her and understood
how this infancy of heart had stood
between her and the realization of
some of thc hard lines of her past.
He was glad that it was so; but he
hoped that, as life was showing more
happily for her now, she might put
away that childish mood for one more
womanly.
At that instant tho playfulness dis
appeared. She looked at him with a
serious, wistful face, and said simply,
"You are so kind-I love you."
David tried to speak, but his lips
closed upon the words. In his at
tempt to express his feeling he found
himself as hopelessly and helplessly
dumb as the kitten under Annie's
hand. The outspoken sentiment, the
affectionate pathos in her face was
more than his self-conscious diffidence
could bear. He rose, and with some
excuse of neglected duty went outside.
There he sat a long time, close to the
altar of the great temple, meditating
other offerings of homely service.
The little scene of the evening was
characteristic of much of their after
life. Annie's impulsiveness, that had
all the ingenuous freedom of child
hood, was always a surprise to David's
quiet dignity, and ?et protestations
of gratitude and affection were an <
barrasdnient to bim. Her easy d<
monstration Boenied to increase
weight of his own stolid silence; h
try as he would, ho could not o\
como it.
He had no medium of express
but that of doing. He applied h
self carefully to the wood and wc
basis of their housekeeping, and t<
on himself gradually many tasks s
pesed to be within tho provii ?e
womankind, Annio was inclined
first to oppose hi9 encroaching on I
domain; but, in time, she came
forget her unwillingness in th? int
est and amusement of watching
methods.
. One morning sha stood by, lani
ing at his awkwardness while he \
trying to coerce a newly-bou<
washiug machine to do its duty,
was struggling with the taeory of 1
machine, while, propped up agains
door, her hands behind her bai
stood Annie, teasing him about ]
new accomplishment .with a railW
and gayety that made him think
the bobolinks outside.
He had perhaps never been mc
keenly conscious of her dearness
him as he listened to that mei
strain; but his faco was very gra
and silent. She bent toward him sn
denly with a speech half bantorir
half kind; when, because the cr
ical faculty in her was awakening,
frdni some accident of conditions,
seemed that for the first tine she si
his face as it really was-stern ai
unresponsive She drew back wi
quick misgiving? Whatl didn't I
like her?
She slipped from the room, ran i
the stairs and sat down to think abo
it. It was her first mood of retrospe
and questioning. Strange what
rapid growth a fungus of doubt c;
make!
Yes, she remembered now-he hi
always looked like that, though som
how she had never minded! She hi
taken it for granted that ho was for
ot her because she cared for him, ai
it seemed so much easier for people I
care than not to care. She herself ht
loved all the world that she had know
-her father, the kitten, the dog, eve
the pretty sprigged china had come i
for an occasional pat and kind wor<
Had she been too sure,too though
less, too happy? She laid her hea
Upon tho table and cried. Over an
over she muttered through her teai
that it was easier to caro than not t
care-surely no one could have wor
dered that she had been so blind. Sb
remembered now that he had neve
auswered her when she had told hil
all her heart. How cold and silent h
had been! Truly sho had made a mis
take! Strange that she had not foun
it out before!
She rose and went to the window
David was outside, bending and work
ing over something in his palm. I
was a bird with a brokon wing. H
was tending it with all the gentlenes
and patience thatw could find expr?s
became a revelation to her. She knev
now why he had come to her tha
morning after her father's death, an<
had brought her to his home. He hac
somehow understood how lonely anc
wretohed she was; and just as he triec
to heal and meud and eave even
broken thing that came in his way, hs
had gone to her in her time of need
That was kind; but-she was no birt
nor dog nor kitten to receive alms o
love, a pittauce doled out to her ii
mercy; She was a woman, born to i
queen's right in her cwu home; nc
pensioner upon another's kindness.
She paced the floor restlessly a few
minutes; then glauced again toward
the wiudow, and this time her eyes
were full of the instinct of a freedom
loving creature that has been snared
.-the instinct to escape. She looked
down tho road that led away from the
village: Her fear of the world seemed
to have gone. She longed to bo far
away within it, out of eight and hear
ing, in some place where-her child
lips were tremulous at tho thought
sho might sadden and grow old with
out hi6 pity, wonder and care. It was
a proof of her childishness that sho
bad never thought how strange in it
self was her action, nor thought of tho
unpleasantness of the village gossip,
nor recalled David's face as she had
seen it one morning after an eager,
night-long, but useless, search for a
stray lamb. She was mastered by one
impulse-that of flight.
She packed a bundle of clothing,
found some food, wrote a note to
David telling him that she could not
bear to stay, because that she had just
come to know that he did not care for
her, and was soon on the way to the
nearest city. She went hurriedly,
half running at times, her heart beat
ing fast as if she were afraid of pur
suit. Occasionally some of the vii
lagers met her aud looked at her in
surprise; but she did not stop for
recognition, and after hesitating and
sometimes looking back, they went on.
It was growing dark. The city was
a hopeless distance away. There were
a few lights gleaming along the road;
but she shrunk from the thought of
asking for shelter. Tho touch of tho
darkness, loneliness and cold had
brought back to her that old senso of
being a slight, helpless creature, facing
the immeut?ty of the world. She was
alone, and night, like a great beast of
^rey, was coming on her there. With
the heart-sickness, her strength gave
way. She sauk to tho ground; then
drew herself to a tree standing near, |
wound an arm about it, and pressed
her cheek to its rough bark as if she
wero appealing to it for defense. A
rustling in the leaves made her start
to her feet; but her terror vanished,
for she recognized the man approach
ing.
"Annie," said David quietly.
Under the light of his grave, strong
face, her eyes fell, ashamed and peni
tent.
"It's all a mistake, Annie," he said.
"You don't understand."
"But I thought you didn't care. You
never said so."
"I-I-" lie stammered; but his lips
shut upon the heart-revealing words
like the tightening of a vise.
"Haven't I kept the wood box piled
to the brim?" ho said at last.
"But you never said-"
"I've kept the water pail full, " he
said, his voice falling as if ho found
his case a pitiful one.
"Brit you never spoke a word
about-"
"I've deaned carpets," he said
humbly.
"Yes, but the words 1 If you'd only
Bald, if, you'd only say just a word to
me, Payid," slie cried pleadingly. "I
do so long to hear you speak. "
He stood staring at her helplessly. I
"Do you care?" she entreated.
"Of course. I-I-" There was
a choking sound in his throat. The j
flush on his face deepened till it be
came a signal of distress. "Don't
you know," he said hurriedly, "that
I've let you set oat all the front of
the garden to marigolds, and I've
seen marigolds and smelled marigolds,
and worn marigolds all summer long
td please you; and heaven knows,"
there, was dn Odd little reverential
tone i? his\ voice; "that ?-I-loathe
marigolds:"
The bid, merry; t mischievous look
carno back td Annie's face; as sh? re
membered the occasions when she had
laughingly decked out David's coat
with the velvety yellow blossoms.
He was standing with downbent
head: . There was dd reflection of her
mirth in his -stern; sorrowful face;
"I've washed dishes," he said mis
erably.
She did not speak, though he seemed
waitiug.
"I'vo sewed on my own buttons,"
he muttered.
It was his attitude that convinced
her, the pathos of his downcast face
and shuffling feet. She was assured
that he loved her, and also that if she
ever wished to hear him "speak," she
must listen to tho filling of the wood
box and the drawing of water from
the well. She caught his hands.
"Oh, Davidl" ehe cried. "I love
you. I love you. I understand,
It'a pst because we two are different."
When they were ?eated in the caiv
riage, David put an arm about her
and drew her with a little awkward
hitch toward himself.
"Ishall get me a long rope," he
said grimly, "and tether you to the
kitchen stove, Annie."
Annie laughed in the old fashion;
but ho detected another note in
that merry sound. The girlishness
had gone from it. Tho child spirit had
forever abandoned Annie, and was lin*
gering, perhaps, about the tree to
which she had clung in that moment
of despair.-The Housewife.
SC1ENT1FIG AND INDUSTRIAL
Men are said to weigh on an average
twenty pounds more than women.
The heart beats tea strokes ? min
ute less when one is lying down than
when in an upright posture.
Microbes are so minute that 250,
000, OuO can be comfortably accommo
dated on a penny postage stamp.
Certain butterflies have Very trans
parent wings, and these are thought
by Haase to be even more effectual for
protection than conspicuous "warn
ing" stripes or other markings.
A statistician affirms that the ma
jority of people who attain old age has
kept late hours. Eight outof ten,who
reach the age of eighty have neve*.
by Sprinkling the green grapes with
c?loium carbide. M. G. Kodier, a
Frenchman, is the discoverer of this
remedy.
Iuteresting experiments have re- *
cently been made at Cornell Uni
versity by Professor Atkinson on the
effect of tho X-rays on growiug plants
and seedlings. The results showed
that even delicate seedlings, after au
exposure to tho rays of many hours,
were entirely unharmed.
lu so comparatively well known a
region as Arabia a uew species of wild
goat has been discovered by a German
collector. The wild goat of Sinai was
known to extend along the mountains
down tho castsrn side of tho Red Sea;
but this new species inhabits the
Hadramaut range on the Indian
Ocean* A new kind of wolf was also
found.
The staff of the Trinidad Botanic
Gardens has included among its curios
for some time past four or five large
boa-constrictoi-3. The reptiles were
kept in a locked cago behind the office
until recently some person broke open
tho cago and carried off its scaly in
uietes. No motive eau be assigned
for the theft except the one of pure
mischief.
An Italian named Gabellini has re
cently made a boat of cement. The
framework is of small steel bars cov
ered with a wiro netting, the latter be
ing, in turn, covered with cement.
The surface is then polished. It is
claimed that such a boat costs less
than a wooden ono and despite its ex
tra weight, glides moro smoothly
through the water.
Tho African Lion nntl the Buffalo Balli
The large horns of these buffalo are
significant of their immense strength;
their legs are very short and powerful.
Though the lions make prey of them,
it takes two or three to pull down a'
buil. The African lion of this section
is the largest species of its kind, but
unless in packs will not attack an
African buffalo bull. When fighting,
the bulls aro very quick on their feet,
and they use not only their horns,
but their front feet also, which often
prove the more daugerous weapon.
My guide, who has lived in this coun
try for tho past ten years, relates
many stories of men who have been
mauled by lions, and who have esciped
death, but he knows of no instance
where the African buffalo has left a
human being until the life was trampled
out of him.-Harper's Magazine,
Oldest Bank Note.
The oldest, bank note probably in
existence is preserved in the? Asiatic
Museum, St. Petersburg. It dates
from the year 1399 B. C., ?id bears
tho name of the Imperial Balk, date
and number of issuo, Signatare of a
mandarin, aud contains a lis of the
punishments inflicted for forgery of
notes. This relic is probably written,
for printing from wooden tablets ia
said to have been introducedin China
in the year 1 GO A. D.
For Cleaning Lenses.
For cleaning optical lenss a Ger
man technical journal re?ommeuds
vegetable pith. For this purpose the
medulla of rushes, elders ?r sunflow
ers is cut out, the pieces dried and
pasted singly alongside of me another
upon a piece of cork, wheroy a brush
like apparatus is obtaind whioh is
passed over the surface >f the lens.
For very small lenses pouted pieofs
of elder pith are euiployd.
ERRORS OF
Torpedo Boats and Tor
Ope torpedo boat the public has
? fjjly accurate notion, and knows
thaSer chief purpose is to plant one
or nre fatal stings against the sides
of aen?my, but the torpedo boat de
fitr<4r ranges,- in imagination, all the
wajfroni a counter-mining m?chine
td teething just short of d godd-sized
fcr?Br'; The torpedd bbat destroyer
is rdly ? magnificent torpedo boat cff
gre*} speed, better se?-keeping quali
ties'jndwith i brfttery of. rapid-firing
gunjof from five to eight six-p?unders;
8he)s' built purposely with an out
warj appearance closely akin to her
nattai quarry,- that she may the better
1 apppach Unsuspected within striking
disuice. She. also carries ? torpedo
?raffe and in her the battleship and
thejruiser have even a more danger
ouejnemy than in the simple torpedo
b?aj for where the small craft, by
?trcs of weather, limited speed, or
' resjicted endurauce must halt, the
desroyer may continue with all the
! mp? certainty of carrying out its
mu?erous mission.
! ? the eleven boats on which we
miaf count in a short while, two of
thea may be classed as destroyers,
theFarragut and the Kowan; two of
th?i'as thirty-knot torpedo boats, the
Crimen and the Dahlgren, and the
reaj as torpedo boats of ordinary
epe J.
Gae Farragut, Rowan, Davis and
Focare building on the Pacific coast;
thefirst by tho Union Iron Works, of
. Sat Francisco; the second by Moran
Bribers, of Seattle, and the last two
b^SVolff & Zwicker, of Portland, Ore
gon The Dahlgren and Craven are
buding at the Bath Iron Works,
Bab, Me.; the Morris, Talbot and
G wu at Herreshoffs, Bristol; the
Mckenzie at Charles Bellman's jard.
Philadelphia, and the McKee at the
Go'lambian Iron Wovks, of Baltimore;
,and it is of interest to noto that these
Issi two" boats are of the type recoui
m?nded by tho chief constructor aud
eiigineef-in-chief as the most readily
susceptible of rapid duplication in
eyent of need,
lina prolonged conflict, that type
?fljill survive that can be easiest re
placed or repaired, and from all we
know now of the complicated nature
and time demanded in building ar
mored ships, it is easy to seo the po
sition torpedo vessels of all sorts will
fill. They may be called' the mo
ment's most effective fighting machine,
but can hardly bo confuse^ with the
greater defensive 'rrjualities of the
battleship.
l^.a,jshjieheadr torpedo is no longer
vi ng": -piTOrffp*BTty-' -wm*g?
^n?ral adoption by ?early all naval
powers', and its inside workings are
commonly Understood by all .well
versed military and naval 'men. A
knowledge how to work it, though, is
another matter, and, briefly, it may be
said that every torpedo of the White
head type has its own individuality,
its own idosyncrasies; and it is the
duty of every qualified torpedo officer
to learn the characteristics of those
"steel babies" that some day may win
him glory.
The largest of our torpedoes, the
DISCHARGING A TORPEDO FROM THE BOW
OP.THE V? S. TORPEDO BOAT STILETTO.
eighteen-inch, so known because that at
its greatest diameter, is a blunt-head
ed, cigar-shaped body of steel a trifle
over sixteen feet long, propelled by
miniature engines, capable of develop
ing within the limited space of an
average-sized cheese-box, a driving
energy of thirty horse-power. With
that force turning its twin screws, the
miniature craft can be turned for a
mile and a half at the rate of thirty
five miles an hour. Compressed air
is the motive power; and it is crowded
into the ten-foot boiler of this small
boat till a pressure of ninety times
that of the air we breathe is reached.
The explosion of that boiler is a dan
gerous possibility to be guarded
against. Besides the boiler compart
ment and the engine compartment,
A TORPEDO-?
(Iho shield is a false outer steel wall and ]
dangerous and numeren
there are four other subdivisions.
One for the carriage of that murder
ous load of 220 pounds of gun cotton
at the head, and the others for regu
lating the air supply to the engines
and for maintaining tho torpedo al
any determined depth of submerg
ence.
When attacking vessels at anchoi
and likely to be protected with tor
pedo nets, th? nose of the torpedo h
fitted with a cutter; ^nd no ordinarj
fabrication of steel rope and chair
could withstand the ripping force o;
THE OCEAN.
pedo Boat Destroyers.
that instrument backed by the rush
ing force of nearly 1200 pounds. The
torpedo is ejected from the tube by
the discharge of about four ounces of
powder. In passing out, a little
trigger or clip turns on the power for
the engines, and, by the the time the
torpedo has dived, the engines, with
out jar, are running at full speed.
When clear of the boat a few yards, a
safety devide drops from the nose and
leaves the plunger bared to detonate
the fighting charge within. Striking
a ship from ten" or" fourteen feet below
the n-ater line, it will tedr d wound
with such awfdt force that the heavi
est of armor must yield.
In the hands of either the ignorant
or heedless, the modern torpedo is a
menace td friend or foe; but in tJie
hands of the skilled and resolute, it is
the wickedest implement of warfare
-wicked in threat[and wicked in deod,
It is to bear the modest burden of a
A PERFECT T?PE OF THE R
half dozen such "babies" that the
largest of our torpedo boats are built.
The torpedo boat or the destroyer is
anything but a thing of beauty. Their
sea-green hulls, the absence of bright
work, the presence of those torpedoes,
and a knowledge of their somber mis
sion of stealth aud destruction, stamp
with them the impress of something
akin to official piracy. Thero aro no
odds offered the enemy. It is not a
struggle between equal powers where
HOSPITAL SHIP SOLACE READY FOR WAR.
[She lias been painted white with a irreen
sllipo along tho water lino. Turee
largo red crosses aro on oach aldo of
the vessel.]
skill and facility of handling may win
with open honors. Instead, it is a case
of a giant and a pigmy armed alike
with one common implement capable
of ruining either. The weaker, though
many times moro agile, cannot tako
the chances of equality; but, instead,
must creep upon the adversary and
compel his surrender only when the
sense of his dying condition is borne
in upon him with the force of that one
conclusive blow. What are the chances
of succor offered in return? Tho tor
pedo boat has done her frightful work,
and now is too small to bear or save
the hundreds she has doomed. She
has not only subdued, but she has
poisoned her victory with tho venom
of desertion. In turn, she faces the
promise of absolute destruction in case
of prompt detection; but the blow
falls with a reasonable hope of relief
for the wounded and the living from
the larger craft.
Death lies precious close at all
times on board a torpedo boat in war
times. The crew must face death by
the destruction of the boat; death by
foundering; death by the bursting of
the throbbing boilers or pulsing steam
pipes; death by collision; or death by
the premature bursting of their own
petards. She must face the storm of
light projectiles every modern battle- j
ship can send from her batteries, one- j
pounders, six-pounders and gatling;
guns, all of which may bring death, j
and, with the exception of the gat
DATCHING NET.
protects tho United States warships from tho
is Spanish torpedo boats.)
lings' bullets, all of which may pierce
the sides and boilers of any of these
. boats.
When running at top speed, the
i boats quiver from stem to stern with a
; wearing vibration hard to bear in com
? pany with the nervous tension of
serious work. Down in the stoke
. hold tho firemen, before the blinding
? glare of the white-hot furnaces, feed
i the ceaseless voracity of those blis
r tered mouths with endless shovelings
i of coal, that the pressure may be kept
f J up to supply the greed of those driv
ag e?gines ?ying jttat behind in the |
ext compaTtment. The air' ia full of !
Inst and grime, and one's head swims j
lecause of the heat. In the engine
oom the roar is thrMd?ring. and the
iarts move back and forth, up and
iown with the velocity of 800 change?
- minute. A stray shot in there, well
i??c'?dy t?ay burst a cylinder teeming
rith the" pressure of moro than 200
lounds of scalding ?team or liberate
he hammering weight of a driving
liston and Settd it tearing through
?very neighboring* ptfrt with the stun
ing violence of many tons' of rending,
.ipping force. Such are th? odds
hat must be faced for the safe car
nage of those other forces she has at
1er command; and to the youngest
>fficer in the service may fall the
lonor of that accomplishment before
vhich even a battleship might besi
;ate. The work cut out for the tor
pedo boat is quite akin to that of
eading a forlorn hope; but when the
:ime comes good men and cool in
plenty will be found ready to forget
themselves aud laughat death in even
mis dread service for our flag's de
fense.
Torpedo warfare began during the
American civil war, but so crude 'were
the early torpedoes and so little op
portunity has there since been to study
the fiction of modern torpedoes in ac
tual war that naval officers all over
pRPEDO BOAT DESTROYER.
Europe have looked forward eagerly to
a war between the United States and
Spain as an object lesson. That the
torpedo years ago passed the experi
mental stage and stands to-day as the
most wonderful and terrible of mod
ern engines of war is not to be doubted,
but it has had no real test of its power.
Not one torpedo has been fired in war
fare by any of the leading naval pow
ers in more than twenty years, and so
great has been the advance in torpedo
construction within this time that the
early tests are of little value to the
present student of naval affairs.
Since the torpedo became a machine
of precision it has been used in war
fare only by insurrectionists and w?ak
Nations. Tho war beiwfeen China and
Japan three years ago-gave some, idea
of the .value of the torpedo, bufc'neither
its full valne nor its place could beef?-i
^ermined in that short and unequal
contest between two half-civilized Na
-^fonft.,,., .... -_
been made thus far, sinking a dozen
ships and damaging one other. Six,
assailant boats have been lost.
Blending Odors.
Eecent experiments have demon
strated that odors can be mixed ac
cording to the law by which colors are
blended. Ono odor completely masks
another because of its intensity, but
by reducing this intensity the other
odor can be felt. Any two odo" can
be mixed so as to produce the euect of
a simple odor.
Toor Carlotta.
The latest news which has been
given to a sympathetic world concern
tng the condition of poor, mad Car
lotta, the ex-Empress of Mexico, is
that she has never rallied from the
shock which dethroned her reason at
the time when her husband, Maximil
lian, was shot and that her health is
in such a state, she can survive but a
short time.
X-Rays in War Hospitals.
' A Milwaukee man, ono Lynde
Bradley, appears to be the first man
to use the X-ray in the war hospitals
in case of hosti i ti os with Spain. The
great ease with which a bullet or splin
ter could be found in the human
body with this strange light commends
its use at once. It would seem that
the Government officials would ap
prove of its adoption. According to
Mr. Bradley, it would be a very sim
ple matter to provide for the ray on a
war vessel, but the iutroduction of a
machine on the field would be attend
ed with considerable difficulty. For
instance, a small engine, boiler and
dynamo and the machine itself would
have to be put on wheels for field
service. This outfit, however, would
be much lighter and more easily
transported than would be imagined,
and the one Mr. Bradley has designed
could be built in a week. Mr. Brad
ley has long been an enthusiast in
the use of the X-ray and has done
some excellent work with it. In case
of war he proposes to build a machine
and offer his services to the Govern
ment.
It is estimated that two years is the
average sickness experienced by t
person before the age of seventy,
Tho wind comes riding down from heavon???
Hoi wind ot heaven, what do you bring?
Cool for the morn, dow for tho even,
And every sweet thing.
Oh, wind of oven, from pint clouds driven,
What do yon bring to me?
The low call of thy love, who waits
Under the willow tree
Whose boat upon the water waits
For me-for theo!
-Harriet Monroe, in the Century;
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
"He's rather timid, is he not?'1
"Very. Why, he's so timid that he's
scared by war-scares!"-Puck.
He-"Then I go-and for ever.*
She-"Very well! But don't call to
morrow evening; forlsha'n't bein."
Life.
"Harry, do you- love your little?
baby brother?" "What's the use?
He wouldn't know it if I did!"-Tid
Bits.
Watts-"Bixley is a sad wag."
Potts-"Especially when none will
laugh at his jokes."-Iadianapolis
Journal.
"It doesn't do any good to scold the
janitor about or.r cold rooms." "Yes,
it does. I get all warmed up when I
talk to him."-Chicago News.
She-"I like your impudenca. I
haven't reached the bargain counter
yet." He-"You would be a bargain
on any counter."-Harper's Bazaar.
^ I've heard the sweeping statement made
Thatrooney talks; 'tis funny,
For certain specie's not verboso
The kind known as hush-money.
-Puck.
Father - "Henry, have you and
your new watch parted company al
ready?" Henry (laconically) -
"Broke." IFather- "Which?"-Jew
elers' Journal.
The Uncle- ' 'Are you entirely satis
fied with your lot?" The Niece (still
angry at her grandfather's will)-"No,
I'm not. It ought to have a house ou
it."-Harlem Life.
Wiggles-"My physician has order
ed me never to take active exercise
after a hearty meal." Waggles
"Well, what of it?" Wiggles-"I
board."-Somerville Journal.
"Young Mr. Tizzens called on me
last week," said Maud. "Did he?"
replied Mamie. "He told he was go
ing to reserve ali disagreeable duties
for Lent."-Washington Star.
Mr. Hunter-"I have a speaking
acquaintance with Miss Throckmor
ton." Mr. Spatts-"You are very
lucky. All her other acquaintances
we listening acquaintances."-Judge.
'Tis not the man who really toils
That makes the greatest row;
'Tis he with notbing else to do,
Who stands around tho whole day thro*
To tell tho others how.
-Washington Star.
* Dicky Doolittle-"I feel weal devil
ish to-day! Let's do something out;
of the ordinary." Teddy Thoughtless
-"All wight; we'll have 'bweakfast
food' for dinner, doncher-know."
j adge.
The Sitting One-"Jones is so near
sighted he once took a man for a .
' ^gmiftV'' The. Standing One-"That's
"Sar#?n^ ^
Monthly.
"I tell you, he is a Spanish sympa
thizer. He must be." "But why?"
"He has three different arguments to
illustrate how the Maine affair might
have been an accident."-Philadelphia
North American.
Mrs. A.-"I think your husband is
a very quiet dresser." Mrs. B.
"H'm! You might change your opin
ion if you heard him looking for his
jlotkes some mornings. "-Browning?
King & Co. 's Monthly.
Admirer (time 2:30 a. m.)-"Has
your father any objection to my pay
ing you visits, Miss Maud?" Miss
Maud-"0, no - but-er-I think
that he'd rather you paid them in in
stallments." -Brooklyn Life.
Ethel-"Why didn't you attend
Professor Dump's lecture on 'Tho
Cycles of Timo?' It was very inter
esting." Maude-"The subject of
the lecture was embarrassing to me.
You know, dear, I bought my wheel
on the installment plan."-Pittsburg
Press.
"I want war," said Billets, face
tiously,, "because I am in hopes that
in that way some of my creditors will
be killed ,off." "I suppose," re
marked Crisp, "that you would rather
see them killed outright than have,
them starve to death."-Philadelphia
North American.
Deepest American Lake. r
Crater Lake is the deepest American
lake, and, indeed, one of the deepest
lakes in the world. It is one of the
wonders of America. Crater Lake is
on the crest of the Cascade Mountains,
about 100 miles east of Ashland, Ore
gon. It is circular in shape and about
five miles across. It lies on the very
top of Mount Mazama, and' is com
pletely surrounded by rocks rising
straight from the water. Its greatest
ascertained depth is 2000 feet, and
this depth seems to be almost the same
over the greater part of the lake.
There is no beach, the surrounding
rocky shored extending vertically be
neath the water to the depth of sev
eral hundred feet. There aro few
large fish in the lake, but much small
life in the shape of crustacea, etc
-.- j
The Balloon vs. the Ir nclad.
The use of tho balloon in warfare
will be one of the developments of the
near future. A first-class mod? rn
ironclad costs about ?$5,000,000. This
would construct and e^uip for war
purposes a great many balloons, and
it would seem as if they might be used
by the inhabitants of a besieged city
with which to sail over an invading
fleet and drop explosives upon the
warships underneath, with deadly ef
fect. They might also be utilized to
drop these explosives over the cities
occupied by an opponent. Of course,
there would be considerable risk in
such an enterprise, unless the bal
loons could be properly steered, but
the dirigible balloon is one of the in
ventions that we mrv expect to see in
the near future.-Le. lie's Weekly.
A New Carpet Fastener.
To do away with the use of taoks in
laying carpets, a new fastener ia
formed of metal blocks, which are in
serted under the edge of the carpet
and have grooved sections to support
the ends of toothed rods which hold
the carpet in place.
The Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge in London will celebrate
the 200th anniversary.
